Population
Watanga County 22,660
10 Year Gain 29.27%
H®00* 8,566
10 Year Gain 132.39%
1970 Preliminary Census Report
83rd YEAR—NO. 22
WATAUGA DEMOCRAT
An Independent Newspaper Serving The Northwest Carolina Mountain Area
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BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C. THURSDAY DECEMBER 3, 1970
36 PAGES—3 SECTIONS
10 CENTS
Here Comes Santa Claus
Christmas Lighting
Contest Launched
An outdoor Christmas Yard
lighting contest is being held
for residents of Watauga
County by Blue Ridge Electric
Membership Corporation. The
contest is open to any
residential member of Blue
Ridge Electric, and interested
parties may enter by calling,
or going to the Blue Ridge
office in Boone and filling out a
Christmas Lighting Contest
entry form. The deadline date
for entries is December 11.
Forms may also be obtained
from any of the BREMCO
Memberplan Dealers in the
county.
Contest judging will be based
on originality, artistic merit,
lighting techniques and how
well entrants use the structure
of their houses and the
surroundings in creating
displays.
There will be four categories,
including first prize, the best
overall lighted lawn—different
types of lighting integrated to
give one overall com
position—$50. Second prize,
storybook creations such as
elves, snowmen, toy soldiers,
candles and Santa and his
reindeer—$35; third prize,
religious scenes—$25; and
fourth prize, Christmas tree
lighting—$15.
Judging will be held nightly
December 14 through
December 19. Lights should be
kept on from dusk until 10:00 p.
m. in order to give the judges
time to cover the entire county.
Call the district office of Blue
Ridge Electric and enter the
contest today. Each entrant
will have a good chance to win
and in addition to having
beautiful season’s decorations
may win a cash prize for your
creations.
Fatally Hurt
By Auto
LENOIR, Nov. 23—Mrs.
Mattie Alice Church, 85, Route
5, Lenoir, died Saturday af
ternoon from injuries she
received when struck by an
automobile on N. C. 268, one
mile south of Patterson.
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On-Campus Student
Registration 6,500
Appalachian State
University students ended
their Thanksgiving holidays
Monday and Tuesday with
what was apparently a
smoothly operating winter
quarter registration.
Registrar Dean Meredith,
with 114 employees working
nine-hour shifts, enrolled an
estimated 6,500 on-campus
students. Others will enroll in
Appalachian's Extension
Division through the first week
of December. . .
Lines were kept a mlmlmum
by dividing the students into 33
different groups, each of which
filed through the registration
stations during a specific half
hour period.
Tuition was paid in advance
by mail and meal books were
distributed before registration
in further efforts to minimize
congestion at the registration
center.
Classes begin on the campus
at t Wednesday morning (Dec.
2) and will adjourn for
Christinas holidays from Dec.
18 to Jan. 4.
In Shopping Center Of The Northwest
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It’s Beginning To Look J
A Lot Like Christmas
School
Bonds
Sold
The $1,400,000 in school bonds
approved last year at the polls
in Watauga have been sold,
says Tax Supervisor J. C.
(Red) Lyons.
Purchaser is Manufacturers
Hanover Trust Company of
New York City and the selling
of the bonds was handled by the
Local Government Com
mission in Raleigh.
The money was deposited in
The Northwestern Bank of
Boone.
Early construction costs at
the site of Hardin Park
Elementary School says
Superintendent of Schools
Swanson Richards, were
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Fire Dept.
Needs Six
More Men
The Deep Gap Volunteer
Fire Department has vacan
cies for six firemen and anyone
in the community who is in
terested is asked to contact
Fire Chief James Watson or
any of the members.
Training programs are
available for new men. Also,
the 1971 dues are now payable
and may be mailed or given to
any fire department member.
At the department’s annual
meeting held Saturday night,
Charles F. Watson, Joel L.
Coffey Jr., D. Grady Moretz
Jr., Stewart Rymer, Scott
Moretz, James C. Watson,
Jack Wellborn and William C.
Moretz were elected directors.
Officers of the fire depart
ment are . Wade Moretz,
president; Stewart Rymer,
vice-president; and Charles F.
Watson, secretary-treasurer.
James C. Watson remains
chief.
Woods Afire
Mid-afternoon slants of sun cast an eerie gloom in the smokey woods above the
home of Dr. Herbert Wey, president of Appalachian. The Boone Volunteer Fire
Department was alerted at 2:49 p. m. Saturday to extinguish a brush fire of
unknown origin. Boone Fireman Cecil Farthing holds a water hose against a
steaming dead tree. Representatives of the N. C. Forest Service were there
also.
BY RACHEL R. COFFEY
Every day sees more
shoppers with their arms piled
high with gifts. And the mer
chants of Boone are supremely
prepared to serve the people
who come to “The Shopping
Center of the Northwest.”
After reviewing the mer
chandise here, there is no way
to run out of gift suggestions.
Shirts and ties—the old gift
ideas for hard-to-buy-for
men—are a whole new world of
color combinations. Striped
shirts with solid ties, stripes on
stripes, colored shirts with ties
that bear one hue to blend with
the shirt and the other to match
it to the suit.
The fashion world of women,
which is now riding the fence
between the mini and the midi
lengths, features a sure-fire
pleaser in the pantsuit. The
wide cuffed pants with tunic
tops, as well as the jumpsuits,
are seen everywhere these
days.
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them, saleswomen do: Just
about everybody is getting in
the habit, and local shops have
a bounty of good-looking
clothes of all kinds to suit the
most discerning buyer.
Maybe one of the kids wants
a new pair of boots; there’s a
skier in the family who could
use equipment and fashionable
new coat; or it’s blouses for the
women and sweaters for the
men.
How to keep all the sizes
straight? You might ask a
saleswoman if she knows your
prospective gift-getter, who
you will explain is about so
high, weighs so much and is
conservative.
But a good way to get it
straight—not only for
Christmas, but for bir
thdays—is to get everyone in
the family to fill out a size card.
Then you have something to go
on in any season.
Tobacco Money
The tobacco season is
zooming along and releasing
money into local pockets.
Christmas savings accounts
are being emptied, rainy day
money is being drawn upon,
check books and credit cards
are flashing at cash registers,
and gifts are being laid away
until pay day.
The family that is budgeting
around car payments, house
payments, school tuition and
related costs often finds that
established SDending limits
Boone One Of Eight To Get
Carolina Governor’s Award
Eight Northwest North
Carolina communities will be
honored Wednesday,
December 9, by Governor
Robert W. Scott in the
auditorium of the Archives and
History Building in Raleigh.
The communities sre Sparta,
West Jefferson. Boone, Lenoir,
Hudson. Granite Falls,
Wllkesboro and North
Wilkes boro.
Governor Scott will present
the North Carolina Governor’s
Awards to officials of the
communities in ceremonies
beginning at 11:15 a. m. in the
Archives and History Building.
Each of the communities has
earned the Governor's Award
ter having suecessfnlly
completed a five-point
program designed by Governor
Scott to place each community
In a stranger competitive
position lor the attraction of
Indnstry and for general
economic growth.
Governor Scott will present a
beautiful plaque to community
officials designating their town
a "Governor’s Award Com
munity." In so designating
each community. Governor
Scott will tell the town leaders
that by accomplishing the
goals of the Governor's Award
Program their communities
are now “better prepared for
industrial development.”
"By completing each project
required ts receive the
Governor's Award, your
community will/have greatly
strengthened Its ability to
attract new industry. I
congratulate your community
for its participation in this
program and I will follow your
progress with great interest,"
he said in acknowledging each
community’s entry into the
program.
The goals each community
accomplished were to (1)
establish a promotional and
financial organization to assist
in plant location; (2) complete
an audit on their community;
(3) develop a specified number
of industrial sites; (4) publish
an up-to-date brochure; and
(5) conduct a cleanup-fixup
campaign.
After completing the
requirements, each com
munity was visited by a team
of Judges from the Commerce
and Industry Division of the
State Department of Con
servation and Development
from Raleigh. The judges went
over the requirements with
community leaders and were
then taken on a tour of the
community, shown results of
the cleanup-fixup campaign,
inspected industrial sites, and
reviewed the community
audits and brochures.
Periodically, while achieving
the five goals set by Governor
Scott, each community was
visited by Regional
Representatives Jim Epting
and Larry Windley of the
Commerce and Industry’s
Regional Office in Salisbury.
Each category was reviewed in
preparation for the visit by the
judges.
The Judges reported their
findings to Governor Scott last
week and each community
received a letter of
congratulations from the
Governor in which he stated to
each chairman. “My
congratulations to you and
your fellow citizens for suc
cessfully completing the
requirements for this Award. It
is my pleasure to designate
your community a North
Carolina Governor’s Award
winning community."
Officials from each of the
eight Northwest North
Carolina communities will
journey to Raleigh on
December 9 to receive their
award from Governor Scott.
Receiving the award for
Boone will be Mr. Alfred T.
Adams, chairman of the
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providing • ut dollar amount'
for each family member win
avoid the clash of overspending
and underspending when the
gifts are unwrapped.
Others will want to make
room for the needy in their
Christmas budgets, allowing
for fund-raising projects in
behalf of the needy, and for
special considerations, such as
a basket of fruit or a potted
plant for an aged and infirm
friend or relative.
Maybe along with the one
large gift you plan for the
spouse, you might want to
wrap several small "Stocking
stuffers” such as cologne,
earrings, cufflinks, a check for
a visit with the hairdresser or
for a post-Christmas dinner
out.
Dolls, toy cars, games such
as checkers, jewelry, china,
kitchen appliances, records,
furniture, rugs and carpets,
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BETTY FRIEDAN
Feminist
Leader To
Lecture
Feminist leader Betty
Friedan, the lady who created
women’s liberation with her
book, The Feminine Mystique
(1963), will lecture to students
at Appalachian State
University next Tuesday.
The 49-year-old Mrs.
Friedan, president of the
National Organization of
Women (NOW), will appear
under the sponsorship of Ap
palachian’s Artists and Lec
ture Series.
An advocate of equal roles
for women in business, Betty
Friedan disagrees with the
“pseudo-radicals”, as she calls
them, who advocate test-tube
babies and a one-sex society.
She describes herself as a
not-so-radical who has been
superseded by followers with
ideas far more radical than her
own.
Through NOW, she is at
tacking job discrimination and
other alleged inequities
through court action. Con
trasting her group to the
radical liberationists, she says,
‘‘We’re changing things.”
She speaks here at 8 p. m. in
Greer Auditorium. Admission
is free.
Auction Sale
Will Aid Fire
Department
The Cove Creek Volunteer
Kire Department will hold a
auction at 7 Friday night in the
gymnasium of Cove Creek
Elementary School.
Fire Chief Bud Greene aaya
new and uaed items will be
auctioned off and proceeds will
benefit the department’s
building fund.
Music will be provided and
prises win be given away*