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 Boone Weather ► Mi Lo Prec. Nov. 24 31 Nov. 25 39 Nov. 24 30 NOV, 27 57 Nov. 29 61 Nov. 29 59 Nov. 30 62 4 17 26 40 40 .03 '49 HI LO 54 40 . 54 24 51 36 5i If 41 32 51 32 36 22 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. (Continued on page two) 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 • ‘ • - ' -‘V.' - ' £ 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 (Continued on page two) 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. nuioca auu ucauuuaua wcoi 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 (Continued on page two) 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, (Continued on page two) 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*

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