Population
Watauga County 22,660
10 Year Gain 29.27%
Boone 8.566
K> Year Gain 132.39%
1970 Preliminary Census Report
83rd YEAR—NO. 19
WATAUGA DEMOCRAT
An Independent Newspaper Serving The Northwest Carolina Mountain Area
I BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C. THURSDAY NOVEMBER 12, 1970
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26 PAGES—2 SECTIONS
Condensed Local
News Items
Atomic Attack
At 4 Thursday (today) there
will be a simulated atomic
attack—carried out by the
County Civil Defense Agency to
test the efficient interaction of
police, firemen and other
emergency and health ser
vices.
Some 44 persons are ex
pected to be involved in the
three-hour exercise. Personnel
from UNC and the State Civil
Defense Agency are helping
with it.
Warehouse Opens
Farmers are reminded that
the Big Burley, Farmers and
Mountain warehouses open
Friday to receive crops of
hurley.
Veterans Day
American Legion and
Auxiliary members, their
families and friends, will have
a covered dish supper at 7:00
Wednesday evening, Nov. 11, in
honor of Veterans Day.
An interesting musical
program is planned.
Old Newspapers
The Ecological Action
Society of Watauga High
School has received permission
from the Town of Boone to use
Lieut. Barnes
Is Killed In
Plane Crash
Lieut. Ray Barnes of Durham, ,
husband of' the former Miss
Barbara Matheson of Boone
lost his life Saturday in a jet
trainer over the ocean near
Monterey, Calif.
The body was recovered
Monday and the Coast Guard
was continuing its search for
Lt. Comdr. John M. Stump who
was piloting the plane and who
was a son of Admiral Felix B.
Stump, who commanded an
aircraft carrier division in the
last world war and later the
Pacific fleet.
Dr. and Mrs. W. M.
Matheson of Boone, parents of
Mrs. Barnes, went Sunday to
Salinas, Calif, where the
Bameses were living.
There is no information as to
funeral arrangements.
NAZI EMBLEM
Nazi Emblem
Or Design
For Peace?'
BY RACHEL R. COFFEY
Somebody has confused the
peace symbol with what ap
pears to be a Nazi emblem that
emerged during World War II.
Time Magazine, in its first
November issue, says ‘The
peace design was devised in
Britain for the first Ban-the
Bomb Aldermaston march in
IKS. The lines inside the circle
stand for “nuclear disar
mament." They are a stylized
combination of the semaphore
signal for N (flags in an up
sidedown V) and D (flags held
vertically, one above the
signaler’s head and the other at
Ms feet).”
What all this has to do with
Boone is that the disputed
symbol has been seen on one
local business bouse and in at
least another. It has created
quite a stir, In which no one is
exactly sure whether the use of
Me symbol is in error or is a
political statement.
The peace symbol seen here
Mmws all the straight lines
joined to a solid black cir
cle—no ribbon or laurel effect
at the bottom.
its warehouse (across from the
bus terminal) to collect old
newspapers.
David Williams says the
drive will last until Saturday
the 21st. Donors may call 264
3905, 264-2958 or (after 5) 264
2679 to arrange for pickup of
paper. Those who ca - are
asked to take their papers to
the warehouse. They are being
stacked just to the left inside
the front entrance.
EAS plans to earn $13 a ton
for the papers.
In Raleigh November 24th
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Commission To Get Bids
On 5-Lane Link 221, 321
Fonda Tells Her Audience, “President Nixon Should Be Impeached.”
Jane Fonda Lashes System,
President In Address At ASU
BY RACHEL R. COFFEY
If you dare speak out "about
the war and other issues," you
may be stripped and searched
at customs stations and
harrassed by the FBI, says
Jane Fonda.
AUSTIN ADAMS
Austin Adams
Heads Bank In
Greeneville
The Board of Director* of
The First National Bank of
Greeneville, Tenn., announce
the promotion of Austin A.
Adams from assistant cashier
to vice-president and cashier.
Adams received his B. S. and
M. A. degrees from Ap
palachian State University and
for three years was assistant
professor of business ad
ministration at Tusculum
College, Greeneville, Tenn.
Active in Jaycees and other
civic organizations, Austin and
his wife June live at 405 Oak
Grove Ave., Greeneville.
Austin is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Alfred Adams of Blowing
Rock Road, Boooa. -
i
Thursday at Appalachian
State University, she told some
3,500 listeners she learned in
jail that there are political
prisoners, “people who want
nothing more than for America
to represent what it set out to
represent, which is freedom
and democracy.”
She drew scattered applause
and muffled booing when she
said Vice President Agnew
should be indicted for crossing
state lines to incite to riot and
President Nixon should be
impeached—“There is a law
which says the United States
cannot invade a country
without a declaration of war
from Congress ... he who
came in on a platform of law
and order.”
Later she said “Hitler came
into power on a platform of law
and order.”
And “While everyone is
scrambling for a better seat on
the ship, the ship is sinking.
American institutions are
collapsing—the things upon
which they are based don’t
work anymore.
“They’re trying to cover
up,” said the actress-turned
activist.
Those who continue within
the establishment, she
charged, will become en
meshed in “the scramble for
success and money .. . you will
become eligible to partake in
the high level corruption of
this country.”
And she charged that youth
is being overlaid with a myth
“about how this is the best of
all possible systems. The
prisons are reserved for all
those who don’t buy the myth.”
Miss Fonda, who earlier said
"I had never been harrassed
until I started to talk about the
war and other issues,”
described her arrest two days
before in Cleveland as a hoax.
What she “smuggled” she
said were “organic vitamin
health foods labeled B, L, and
D—breakfast, lunch and
dinner. “I also have personally
prescribed medicines. The
charge of assault on an officer,
according to Miss Fonda, came
when she had to go to the
bathroom and was blocked “by
a great, bully FBI chap” who
she pushed aside.
”1 am now accused of
assaulting an officer and
kicking a policeman. I've
never kicked anyone in my
life.”
•Terrible Threat'
Presented under the
auspices of the ASU Artist and
Lecture Series, the speaker
said Nixon and Mitchell and
Agnew are bent on winning
students over. because
“students of America are more
and more beginning to reject
the principles upon which the
American way of life is
based—the principles of male
supremacy, racial superiority,
the success-oriented, op
portunistic, individualistic
principles. Students are
beginning to realize that these
things don’t work anymore.
“Now you pose a terrible
threat to the establishment.
Even the way you look is a
threat to the American way of
life.”
She said the number of
college and university students
in the country equals the Ar
med Forces plus the three
largest unions, and high
schoolers number even more.
Waging a war of coun
terinsurgency, the Ad
ministration has a pacification
program “made up of the
Community Concert To Be
Staged By ASU Musicians
A free Sunday afternoon
Nov. IS concert with selections
chosen to appeal to the total
community, has been set for S
p. m. in Greer Auditorium on
the Appalachian State
University campus.
A combined effort by the
University Orchestra and the
Hen’s and Women’s Glee
Clubs, the concert will feature
light and varied compositions.
Orchestra director Jim
Dellinger commented that
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"But they’re ehort, lively
once,” he said.
The orchestra, during the
first half of the program, will
perform January, February
and March by G llis, LaFolia
by Corelli, “Polka" from The
Golden Age Ballet by
Shostakovich, Rondo for Flute
and String Orchestra by
Siennicki (Carmella McAbee,
soloist), “Elsa’s Procession to
the Cathedral" from Wagner's
Lohengrin, “Hoe-Down" from
Rodeo by Copeland and
"Egmoi.t Overture” by
Beethoven.
After an intermission the two
choirs and the orchestra will
present Vivaldi’s Gloria, a type
of oratorio with chamber
music accompaniment,
Dellinger said.
The Men's Glee Club is
directed by Phillip Paul. Joyce
Tallant directs the women’s
choir.
Soloists for Gloria will be
Anne Dellinger, soprano, Joyce
Tallant, soprano, and Judy
Rogers, contralto.
students, the Army and the
prisons,” she declared.
She feels:
—The system is closed to
anyone "trying to create some
viable, important, profound
change in this country”;
—That young people came to
Chicago only to demonstrate
and protest that "they had
absolutely no influence on the
Democratic process” and “The
police beat people into bloody
pulps”;
—"The Supreme Court over
the years has never taken any
steps to enforce the U. S. treaty
obligations which make the
Vietnam war illegal and un
constitutional”;
—‘‘Public opinion in
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Rotary
Auction
Friday
The fifth annual Rotary
Auction will be held Friday,
Nov. 20, in the gymnasium of
Watauga High School.
Auctionering will be the
ever-popular Cottrell twins and
further entertainment will be
provided by the Trailway
Quartet
Funds from the auction will
be used to finance parts of the
club’s many civic projects,
including the program to help
handicapped children,
scholarships at Appalachian
State University, camping for
crippled children, par
ticipation in the Dr. J. B.
Hagaman Jr. Cardiac Care
Unit, and other activities
designed for the development
of the community and its young
people.
The public is cordially in
vited to attend the auction
which will get under way at 7 p.
m.
Project To Ease
City Traffic
At its November 24th meeting the State High
way Commission will ask for bids on the con
struction of the five-lane link of US 221 and 321 from
the vicinity of 105 to a point near the Boone Golf
Club.
The project which is expected to cost something
like $800,000 is designed to relieve the massive
congestion which has developed on this section of
Blowing Rock road. A series of motels, industrial
plants, restaurants, service stations and other
establishments bring bumper to bumper traffic
during rush periods.
The project will consist of 1.383 miles of
grading, coarse aggregate base course, bituminous
concrete binder, surface and structures for the
improvement of the artery from about 450 feet
northwest of 105 in Boone, southeasterly to about 70
feet northwest of the Boone city limits.
Governor Moore appropriated $450,000 for the
construction and the Scott administration has
provided a $350,000 supplement considered
necessary due to added costs of the work.
A 100-foot right of way is required for the five
lane stretch of highway, including curb and gutter.
Bids will also be asked for a culvert on US 421
between SR 1500 and the Wilkes County Line.
Secondary Road Project Funded
The State Highway Commission has allocated
$15,525 for grading, draining and stabilizing SR 1563
from US 221 to the Caldwell County line. The road
leaves 221 at a point near Coffey’s Gap and is known
as the old John’s River Road.
Roy Edward Furr, Jr.
Is Morehead Nominee
Roy Edward Furr, Jr., a
senior at Watauga High School,
has been named the 1971
candidate from Watauga
County for the Morehead
Scholarship to the University
of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill.
Announcement was made
last week by Dr. Gene Reese,
chairman of the Watauga
County Selection Committee.
The Morehead Award,
provided by the John Motley
Morehead Foundation,
amounts to $2,250 for each of
four years at the University in
a study leading to the bac
calaureate degree. Ap
plications for the scholarship
were filed by four young men in
ROY EDWARD FURR, JR.
the senior clan who were
nominated by the school's
scholarship committee.
Candidates this year were
Edward Furr, Phil Ginn,
Ronald Perry, and Ben
Thalheimer.
The four candidates ap
peared before the school’s
scholarship committee for
interviews prior to their
meeting the County Selection
Committee on November 3.
Selection of the winning can
didate for the county was made
by the County Selection
Committee on the basis of
scholastic ability and at
tainment, outstanding personal
qualities, good moral
character, and physical vigor.
As the candidate from
Watauga, Edward will appear
for personal interviews before
the District Committee in
January. Winners in district
competition will go before the
Central Selection Committee in
Chapel Hill later in the year.
Edward is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Roy E. Furr, Sr., Deep
Gap. School activities include
presidency of the Debate Club,
vice-presidency of the Latin
Club, membership In the
National Beta Club, the
Spanish Honor Society, and the
French Club.
During his junior year he
served as co-chief junior
marshal. He has received
recognition as a semi-finalist in
National Merit Scholarship
competition as a result of
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