Population
Watauga County 22,660
10 Year Gain 29.27%
i Boone 8,566
10 Year Gain 132.39%
1970 Preliminary Census Report
83rd YEAR—NO. 18
WATAUGA DEMOCRAT
An Independent Newspaper Serving The Northwest Carolina Mountain Area
BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C. THURSDAY NOVEMBER 5, 1970
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A surprise presentation of a plaque was made to W. Ralph Winkler, chairman
of the Democratic Executive Committee of the county, by Watauga YDC
president Ralph Yates (right). At left, emcee Glenn Hodges joins the crowd in
applauding. (Staff photos)
Democrat Dinner
C ampaign W indup
With only four days
remaining before Tuesday’s
General Election, some 483
Democrats turned out for the
windup campaign dinner-rally
at the Appalachian Elemen
tary School.
Democrats early in the
campaign held a free luncheon
rally which attracted about 325
persons. Their last pre-election
rally, held last Thursday night,
was for 35 per ticket with
dinner being served by Frank
Norris and members of his
staff.
Moon Rock To
Be Displayed
North Carolina'• aecood moon rock, a aample gathered by
the crew of Apollo XI, has a Nov. 8-11 date on the Appalachian
8tate University campna.
The gray, porous specimen, slightly larger than the one
displayed last summer at the Morehead Planetarium, will be
flown by courier from Washington to Boone for public display In
Rankin Science Hall here.
The exhibit, said ASU geology professor John Callahan, will
open at 1 p. m. Sunday, if weather conditions do not slow the
rock’s delivery schedule.
It will remain open until 8 p. m. Sunday through Tuesday
nights and until 5 p. m. on Wednesday. Doors will open for the
display Monday through Wednesday mornings at 18.
The lunar sample, which will be protected by guards while
here, weighs just under one ounce and measures one and half
Inches at Its longest .dimension. Callahan gives its age as Z.58
billion years.
Appalachian expects as many as 8,808 off-campus visitors to
view the rock during its four-day stay. The display is being sent
through NASA and the Goddard Space Center in Washington.
A highlight of the program
emceed by Glenn Hodges was
the presentation of a plaque
given on behalf of the Watauga
YDC county Democrats and
friends by YDC president
Ralph Yates to W. R. Winkler,
chairman of the county
Democratic Executive
Committee.
The surprise presentation to
Winkler was for his
distinguished service to the
party this year.
■No Worse’
Since State Agriculture
Commissioner Jim Graham
was unable to come, the
program moved through to a
feature talk by Congressman
Basil Whitener, candidate in
the Tenth District.
A 12-year veteran of
Congress, Whitener reiterated
the pressures of an inflationary
economy on the District, in
which he noted some 10,700
textile jobs have been wiped
out.
During the talk he received a
note which he said informed
him that 93 people have been
laid off at IRC, Boone Division
of TRW, Inc.
In conclusion, Whitener gave
an admonishment he had of
fered elsewhere in the District,
to the effect: If you believe I
have been efficient, go out and
tell your friends and ask them
to vote for me. If you believe I
have not been efficient, go out
and tell your friends and ask
them to vote for me anyway, he
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In Watauga County
GOP Wins Board, Clerk;
Democrats Keep Sheriff
New Plant
Is Coming
To Boone
Neil Paries was named
Friday morning as president of
Mills, Inc., an Industry com
mittee which organised
primarily in connection with
the financing of an industrial
building here.
According to Stanley Harris
Sr. no public subscriptions will
be taken, as the project for the
lace-making Hanna
Manufacturing Company, Inc.,
“will stand on its own.”
Hanna Manufacturing is to
be built on a portion of the old
Jones Hollar farm recently
auctioned off.
Vice-president of Mills, Inc.
is G. R. Andrews with Fred
McNeal serving as secretary
treasurer.
Weed Mart
Will Open
Sales 23rd
The barley tobacco market
In Boone and other plaees In
the belt will open the 1S7S-71
sales season on the 23rd of
November, pursuant to a
resolution of the Burley Sales
Committee.
Sales will be held November
B, 24. 25 and 21th, with tales
thereafter on the first four days
of each week.
A market recess will begin at
the close of the auctions
December 17th and Im
mediately thereafter, the
Committee will determine the
reopening date.
Warehouses
Open Friday
Tobacco warehouses here
will open Friday, Nov. IS, to
start receiving the crops of
hurley.
Sales will be held in the Big
Burley, Farmers and Mountain
warehouses and will be held
four days a week.
Farm-City Event On 12th
Watauga County Farm-City
Week ia aet for «:» p. m.
Thursday, Nov. 12, at the
Appalachian Elementary
School.
Chairman L. E. Tuckwiller
aaya the theme will be
"Tomorrow's Food and Fiber:
Everybody’i Busineu”.
The address Is to be given by
Dr. Herbert Wey, president of
Appalachian State University
and he will be introduced to the
diners by A. T. Adams.
A signal .part of Farm-City
Week is when awards are made
for community Improvements.
This will be done by ASCS
Manager Roy Isley.
The Trailway Quartet will
perform and others par
ticipating are Bob Snead,
emcee; the Rev. J. Richard
Holshouser, invocation; Bert
Research Program To Deal
With Student Housing
A research program by
Appalachian State'* Office of
Student Housing is attempting
to determine what the
ladTereity can do to help
landlcrda who rent to nearly
1,000 ASU students, and rice
_ housing office,
heretofore concerned
primarily with Appalachian’s
dormitory students, has
qpned Its doors to cesnmmri^r
landlords who have complaints
or suggestions about student
renters.
Hie program also includes
extensive work away from the
campus by Ron Covington,
assistant housing director, who
goes to people in the com
munity to talk about bousing
situations.
"We are doing everything we
can that trill help bring about
better understanding of tbs
landlord-student tenant
relationship,” Covington said,
“and we would like to visit with
anyone renting to university
affiliated persons who may be
interested in discussing a
program at this kind with us.”
Richard Tickle, housing
director, said that the intent at
his office is to assist students,
faculty and staff members of
the university in obtaining
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Mast, who will give the
welcome; Harold Rice, who
will recognize guests; and H.
W. Mast Jr. who will conduct
the drawing for door prizes.
The Rev. Harold King will
pronounce the benediction.
Tickets are $2 each and are
available from the Boone Area
Chamber of Commerce, the
County Agents' office, The
Northwestern Bank, the ASCS
office, Grant Ayers and Bob
Snead.
Driving Course
Will Be Offered
A new class in defensive
driving will be offered Nov. S,
12 and 19 in the basement of the
courthouse in Boone.
Beginning st 7:15 each
Thursday evening, the sessions
to be offered are as follows:
tetfinna I and 11, Nov. 5;
flrmminrm m, IV and V, Nov. 11;
and sessions VI, VH and VIII,
Nor. I*.
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Jane Fonda Coming
Crusading actrap Jane . Fonda will lecture t(
students on the Appalachian State University
campus at 8 p. m., Thursday (Nov. 5). Her topic is
“Alternatives.” As coordinator of Vietnam
Veterans Against the War, she will donate the fe«
for her appearance to the G. I. Office in Washington
D. C. Free tickets for the Artist and Lecture Series
program are available in advance from ASU’s
Department of Public Affairs or at the ticket gate*
of Varsity Gymnasium on Nov. 5. Capacity seating
for the lecture is 9,500.
Voters in Tuesday’s General
Election returned all in
cumbent candidates to office,
except for one member of the
Board of Education.
Sheriff Ward G. Carroll, a
Democrat, drew 4,104 votes,
spreading a 1,291-vote margin
between himself and
Republican candidate Ralph
Hayes. This margin was ter
med by J. D. Winebarger,
chairman of die county Board
of Elections, as “the biggest
majority any Democrat's been
elected by locally.”
Carroll returns to office for
four years, as does O. H.
Foster, the Clerk of Superior
Court. Foster received 4,009
compared to 3,112 cast for
Democratic challenger G. C.
Norris.
The Republican Board of
County Commissioners con
tinues for another two-year
term with chairman Perry
Greene getting 3,789 votes,
Kenneth Wilcox 3,070 and Gene
Wilson 3,584.
Forty-six votes behind Gene
Wilson was Democrat Jack
Williams with 3,538 votes.
Democrats J. D. Shoemake
and Hayden Pitts earned 3,247
and 3,227 votes respectively in
their trys for seats on the
Commission. _ •...
It was a light vote said
Winebarger and election of
ficials Stacy Eggers Jr. and
Dallas Hodges as they took
down the unofficial tabulations
from the 18 precincts. Thurs
day morning they win derive
the omciai figures and these,
including the vote on amend
ments to the State Constitution
will be published next week.
A veteran in political circles,
S. C. Eggers Sr. was only 133
votes away from winning beck
his seat on the Board of
Education. Five men were
elected from aeven listed on a
non-partisan ballot.
The two top vote letters will
serve four-year terms on the
education board with the
remainder coming up for
election in two years, It is
reported. Jim Marsh got 5,174
votes, and Hugh Hagaman got
4,787.
To serve two-year terms are
John H. Hollar, supported by
4,402 voters; Edsel Cook,
having won 4,112 votes; and
challenger Joe Hartley, whose
3.4M votes displaced Mr.
Eggers. Candidate John H.
Williams had 2.263 votes.
And three Republicans
unopposed In their bids for
office were elected as follows:
Clyde M. Roberts, Solicitor
24th Judicial District; Donald
W. Bingham, ‘ State Senator,
25th District; and James E.
Holahouser Jr., Boone attorney
re-elected to the 44th House
District, who also Is State
Republican Chairman.
Republican Congressman
Jim Broyhill was sent back to
Washington by the counties of
the Tenth District with
Wataugans casting 4,127
ballots for him as compared to
3,078. for Jlemocrat Basil
Whltener.'
In other Congressional races
Representative Roy Taylor
won handily while Clifton Blue
was ahead in a tight race for
the seat of Representative
Ruth. Congressman Jonas held
his seat easily.
In Watauga the vote will be
canvassed today (Thursday)
and the official returns
determined.
Northwest Counties To
Get Law And Order Cash
Nine Northwest North
Carolina counties will receive
almost $300,000 of the $6.9
million in federal law and
order funds the state received
yesterday.
The counties are Alleghany,
Ashe, Avery, Mitchell, Surry,
Watauga, Wilkes, Yadkin and
Yancey.
With the exception of Yadkin
and Surry, the counties are
part of the Northwest Regional
Council for Crime Deterrence,
which has its headquarters in
Boone.
Yadkin and Surry were
separated from the region
several months ago when the
state established a network of
planning districts. But ap
plications involving the two
counties had already been
submitted.
Awards Listed
Kramer Jackson, planning
director for the Northwesl
Council, announced the
following awards in the regior
Friday:
—$101,730 for a tri-county Jail
to serve Ashe, Watauga and
Avery counties. This Is only
half the amount requested, but
the remainder it expected in
next year's appropriation.
—$107,000 for a com
munications system to serve
seven of the counties (Yancey
and Mitchell were not in the
region when the application
was submitted). This Is the
second grant of $107,000
received for the project and,
when added to the funds for the
counties are contributing, il
brings to the halfway mark the
total available for the $600,000
project. General Motors,
Motorola and RCA are each
designing a system and will
submit bids Nov. 13. Unless
there is a hangup, tye equip
ment, which will be paid for
over lour years, will start
going into place in December.
—»32,6S8 for Watauga County
to add six men and three
automobiles to Its sheriff’s
department. The total also
Includes money for additional
training and equipment.
—$6,000 for Banner Elk to
operate its new police
department for another year.
The town received $7,000 last
WHS Students
Asking For Old
Newspapers
A group of Watauga High
Schoolers is asking the public
to save their newspapers for
their paper club.
The project is being un
dertaken by the Ecological
Action Society of WHS and
according to David Williams,
the group will have a telephone
number by next week so that
donors can give them a ring
and tell them where to come
for old newspapers.
The newsprint will be taken
to an outlet In Granite Falls.
year to hire a policeman, set up
the department and operate It
for a year.
—*9,364 for the Alleghany
sheriff’s department to hire
two deputies, pay their salaries
and buy them automobiles. The
county now has only one part
time deputy to assist its sheriff.
—$1,800 for North Wilkes boro
to use to organise its town
ordinances. There is no
complete copy at present and
finding a particular ordinance
Involves going from book to
book.
—14,174 to Sparta to provide
salary supplements and a new
office for its police depart
ment. The department, which
now shares a tiny office with
the town clerk, will move Into a
building about a block from the
courthouse that has been oc
cupied by an ABC store.
—18,720 for Mitchell County
to buy automobiles and to
increase salaries for its sheriff
and his deputies.
—$600 to Bakersville to in
crease the salaries of its two
policemen.
—81,320 to Yancey County to
upgrade the sheriff’s salary.
—810,736 for small amounts
of standard operational
equipment for 10 law en
forcement departments in the
region.
Most of the grants amount to
80 per cent of the total project
cost. The counties or
municipalities have agreed to
provide the remaining 40 par
cent.
The federal funds came
through the 1M8 Omnibus
Crime and Safe Streets Act
which was designed to improve
criminal justice on the local
level.
Brown Bros
Low Bidder
Road Work
Brown Brothers Con
struction Co. of Ziooville Is
spparent low bidder on 6.77
miles of bituminous concrete
resurfacing of roads in this
immediate area.
A bid of *65,990 was received
by the State Highway Com
mission in Raleigh last weak
covering the resurfacing of S
sections of primary roads and 7
sections of secondary roads la
or near Banner Elk, Blowing
Rock and Boone on US 28, 221
and 421, NC 184 (part).
The Brown Brothers bid and
all other apparent low bids are
to be reviewed by the Highway
ftjffwmiMiwi in Raleigh today.
Bonds Sold
One million, four hundred
thousand dollars of Watauga
County school building bonds
were sold last week at a net
interest coat of 5.614% having
an average maturity of I years.
The bonds were sold by the
Local Government Com