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g Voice of the Community 0 SERVING WATAUGA COUNTY 'The Blue Ridge Mountains | e 6 — Number 25 HI The Boone-Blowing Rock I JOURNAL Blowing Rock, N.C. — Friday, June 19, 1964 — Boone, N.C. 10 Cents Per Copy ||WVW«W*WWM1|V^^ WWJWWj^^j^^^^^^ V AVWWWWW^ Timmy Of Lassie's TV Program Io Appear AI Tweetsie June 20-27 ( Of C Directors Horn In The West Theatre Renovated Hold Meeting Hi! The Road, You'll Love It By Jack Bell Miami Herald Town Crier Early this season there appeared in the Miami Herald a column by Jack Bell, the Herald Town Crier, about our fair state North Caro lina. With his permission we are publishing it in this issue of Blow ing Rock’s JOURNAL. We thor oughly enjoyed the lavish praises about our state by this well-known columnist and want to share it with our readers. The Bells, of Miami, Fla., have a home in Blowing Rock where they have I like to roam North Carolina easy-like. I realize they’ve increas ed tourist business three-fold in 15 years. But I didn’t realize all this popularity just might change the whole texture and charm and legend of No’th Ca’lina. Yeah, we’ve been telling about our mountains, our flowers, our georgeous gorges, our gardens fashioned by loving hands of early pioneers who England. But summer you No’th Ca’lina came straight from I do know that this can motor through and engage in just about anything you desire. Board of Directors of the Blowing Rock Chamber of Com merce held their regular monthly meeting at seven thirty the eve ning of June 12th, at which time routine business matters were dis posed of. Mrs. H. P. Holshouser and Mrs. Mae Coffey are repre senting the Blowing Rock Cham ber of Commerce participating in the 30th Anniversary of the Dedi cation of the Great Smoky Moun tains National Park. TOW Workshop In Moorehead City The North Carolina Federation of Republican Women will convene June 26 and 27 in Moorehead City for the organization’s third annual Mid-Year ters will Hotel. Panels, Workshop. Headquar- be the Biltmore Motor scheduled for 10 and 11 o’clock Saturday morning, will be discussions of campaign activities. been spending their summers a number of years. This is column, as it appeared in Miami Herald. for the the Try Blue Ridge Congressman Page Belcher, Re publican of Oklahoma, is to be guest speaker at the banquet Fri day evening at 7 o’clock. ,n Provost, “Timmy” of the ous CBS series “Lassie”, will Bar in person at Tweetsie road. Blowing Rock, North olina. June 20-27. “Timmy” meet and talk with boys and ( visiting Tweetsie and will I his picture made with them, hen blond-thatched, gamin- id Jon Provost stepped into the of Timmy on "Lassie on the ; Television Network back in ' he was not aware that a nendous weight of responsibil- was being placed on his alders. jn then seven years old, was ing over a major role in a .es that had become a national itution. He was the first new- ler in the show’s cast. Frank- the producers had their fingers ssed. he fingers have long since uncrossed, however, for Jon :ompiished this difficult task I ease-a tribute to his acting lily and a commentary on the ability of small boys, lemorization of pages of dia- ue comes easily for him and he |vers the lines as naturally as they were his own words. Although “Lassie”, now in its ithlseason, is Jon’s most im- |aht acting assignment, it is this first. His career began at ’age of three. He has appeared such films as “So Big”,, with lelWyman; “Country Girl”, :hBing Crosby; “He Who ughs Last”, with Frankie Laine ■Escapade in Japan”, with resa Wright and Cameron tchell. Ion Provost was born in Los igeles March 12, 1950. He lives with his parents, Bion and Cecile Provost; his brother, Bill, 18, and his sister, Francile, 17 in Beverly Hills, Calif. The family also has a 160-acre farm in the Ozarks, where they as possible. At home, likes to do spend as much time Jon is all boy and the things boys enjoy. He rates baseball as his. favorite sport. He is a whiz on his bicycle and a good swimmer. Jons schooling is gained mostly on the set, four hours forward to “Lassie” is where he must study each day. He looks these periods when not shooting so he can attend his regular school in Bev erly Hills. Jon’s father is an aeronautical engineer who takes a calm and somewhat detached view of Jon’s acting success. His older brother and sister also act as stabilizers in.case he should ignore the fact that he is the junior member of a family as well as a television star. Like all boys, Jon changes his mind from month to month re garding what he would like to be when he grows up. He has already discarded a multitude of future occupaitons which include test pilot deep-sea diver, rocket en gineer, dog trainer, bus driver and railroad switchman. Whether not he will continue acting as adult career will be left to judgment, but for now acting or an his re- Mrs. Ann Johnson, vice chair man of the Goldwater-for-Presi- dent Committee, is the featured speaker at the Saturday break- fast, and Robert L. Gavin, the Republican candidate for gover nor of North Carolina, will address the Saturday luncheon which is scheduled for 12:30. Mrs. Frances Yow, president of the state federation, board meeting for 4 evening. All state club presidents are present. has called a p.m. Friday officers and urged to be Did You Ge! A Questionnaire? Congressman James T. Broyhill has mailed out a questionnaire to residents of the Ninth District in an effort to get the opinions of the people. The questions listed— twenty-six in all—cover the major issues confronting Congress. mains great fun. And why not? Not every boy can romp all day with a big, intelligent dog, involve himself in great adventures and mi-adventures—and get paid for it. ■ A,WJW%iWAWW»W^AV.WAV^ 1 w= Among the questions listed on the opinion poll are: foreign policy matters, foreign aid, medical care for the aged, the President’s pro gram to combat poverty, pensions for World War I veterans, federal control of farm production. These and many others are listed in the poll. Copies of the questionnaire are available upon request. Re plies should be made by July 15, at which time the results, based upon answers given on the forms received, will be tabulated and made public as quickly as possi ble. To our out of town subscribers Broyhill urges each family re- ceiving a copy to take the time to complete it and return it to his Please office in Washington, D.C. Stop in at our office or drop us a line when you return to the mountains and give us your 5 Summer Address It will help us get your paper to you without missing an issue. The Journal 1 Next To The Post Office CY 5-7589 Officials of the '‘Horn in the West” outdoor drama at Boone inspect the Daniel Boone Theatre which is undergoing a $2 5,000 renovation. The 1963 North Carolina Legislature appropriated $22,500 toward im proving the mountain theater originally built in 1952. Left to right, H. Grady Farthing, finance committee chairman; Jacob V. Caudill, vice president; W. R. Winkler, maintenance chairman; Herman W. Wilcox, executive vice president; and Wade Brown, mayor of Boone and legal advisor. Mb Annual Membership Meet Of Blue Ridge Was Largest More than 4,000 were in attend ance at the 28th annual Member ship Meeting of Blue Ridge Elec tric Membership Corporation on Saturday, June 13. The cooperat ive’s consumer-owners met at Ashe Central High School near Jeffer son, N.C. As members registered for the meeting they received thir capital credits checks which totaled nearly $115,000. This is a savings that is returned to members as a result of their cooperating to provide themselves with electric service. The keynote speaker for the oc casion was Mrs. Harry B. Cald well, Master North Carolina State Grange. Mrs. Caldwell told the group that farm contributed much progress of North “As agriculture programs have to the economic Carolina. has been faced with problems and developed pro grams to meet the problem areas, great progress has been made,” she declared. “Education, research, road im provement, conservation of natu ral resources and price support programs have made a great im pact on the entire economy,” she said. “It is imperative that agri cultural programs be strengthened if the standard of living and level of farm income are brought more nearly in line with those of farm people,” she stated. non ¬ “No program, in my opinion has made for greater agricultural pro- Sixth Annual Tour Of Homes Set For Friday, July 31s! The sixth annual tour of homes, sponsored by the Women of the Church at St. Mary’s of the Hills Episcopal Church, Blowing Rock, has been scheduled for Friday, July 31, starting at 2 p.m. Mrs. Charles Sykes, this year’s general chairman, announces that tickets and publicity will be handled by Mrs. George Holt and Mrs. Paul Taylor; Mrs. C. Strad- ley Kipp and Mrs. T. Harry Fleming are chairmen in charge of cars and drivers, and Mrs. Charles C. Smoot is chairman of the luncheon committee. Four local homes will be opened for the tour. These homes and owners will be announced in an early issue of The Journal. North Carolina is a clean state with 72,000 miles of paved, toll-less roads, and countless miles of side roads for shunpikers. A shunpiker is a crazy galoot who hitches two farm horses to an antique sheltered wagon, drags a resigned but obedient wife from her comfortable home, and takes her down narrow trails seldom navigated by man, at .003 mph, excusin’ rain. Now, that may be great fun. But I prefer those 72,000 miles of well- piked, well-marked trails. I like to zoom' up a hill roll over the top —and right thar’s a mighty hunk of North Carolina spread out just as the gods planned it. I like to pause in quiet towns, talk to my fellow-Tarheels, learn the weather has been bad (that’s basic), then drive on to where the highway meets the mountain and the sun set’s golden, and blue and pure shy—way yonder in the west. gress and satisfaction than the Rural Electrification and Rural Telephone programs. These servic es, long denied farm families, have revolutionized the farm and home,” she said. Mrs. Caldwell praised the Blue Ridge Electric Membershp Corpo ration for the contribution made toward developing and improving Northwestern North Carolina. W. B. Austin, President of the Corporation, reported to the mem bers their business had completed another good year. He cited the growth and progress of the eight- county Northwest North Carolina area the cooperative serves. Charles A. Suddreth, Assistant Treasurer, stated the business now has $12,400,000 invested in its plant facilities. Members were in formed as to the amount of their actual ownership, indebtedness to the Rural Electrification Adminis- tration, and the amount of business’ operating capital. “Planning Ahead” was theme of this year’s meeting. the the C. The tour of homes is the major fund-raising project of the Church. All be used to further the church. of the Women proceeds will the work of As in the start at the or more cars past, the tour will church. Twenty-five will be available and each will have Persons taking quested to use not attempt to There will refreshments tour. Also, a nominal cost, an official driver. . the tour are re- these cars and do drive their own. be free afternoon at the end of the light lunch, at a will be available from 12 noon until 2 p.m. Both will be served at the Parish House of the church. Ski? Why sure—if you visit Carolina in the winter. What has Lake Placid or Sun Valley on us? The first ski resort came in my summer town, Blowing Rock 1962. Then Grover Robbins opened Hound Ears Golf and Ski Club at Banner Elk. There’s a third at Cataloochee, near Maggie’s Happy Valley. Ah, how quiet and beautiful Maggie’s Happy Valley was before progress! Now they over the place to ski, up the mountainside, that’s a twin-sister of Blowin’ Rock. swarm all ride buckets ride a train Tweetsie in All of these crazy attractions— plus Indians in Cherokee who’ll pose with your children for a dollar, plus “authentic” Cherokee merchandise made in New Jersey; plus a rather gaudy scene—leaves this writer cold. You can avoid them, though it’s not easy. The Blue Ridge Park way, America’s most beautiful, goes from Roanoke, Va., through Carolina’s highest mountains, over and beyond Mt. Pisgah and down Continued on page 8 Old Model Cars Visit Blowing Rock E. Viverette, General Manager, related the theme to the Cooper ative’s future plans for the phys ical plant expansion which is pro jected to be $23.5 million by 1973 and $30 million by 1983, expanded community service, and a broaded scope of activities in area devel opment. Four $600 college scholarships were awarded to Janice Marie An derson of Caldwell County, Albert Coffey of Watauga County, Wayne Miller of Alleghany County and Richard Shepherd of Ashe County. The scholarships were awarded on the basis ness and cation. Service of ability, need, willing- desire for a higher edu- awards were made to The Roanoke Valley Region Club a group of people who col lect and restore old model cars, made a tour last weekend from Roanoke, Virginia, to Blowing Rock, stopping here to visit the Antique Auto Museum located be tween Blowing Rock and Boone. There were eleven cars in the group: Ford, Ford, two 1915 Fords, one 1923 one 1930 Packard, one 1935 and five Model-A cars. The tour started at seven o’clock Fri day of last week and returned to Virginia last Sunday. Participat ing in the tour are twelve families from various parts of Virginia, including Galax Roanoke, Floyd, and Bedford. The club has been established about ten years; its purpose being to restore, as well as to enjoy, old model cars. It has approximately ninety members. Singing On The Mountain Program Set For June 28 Mr. D. R. Moore, director from Caldwell District, for twenty-five years of service on the Board and to Mr. Dennis Franklin of Alle ghany District, for five years service. Honored guests at the meeting were National Congressional can didates, North Carolina Legislative candidates, members of the staff of the Statewide Electric Cooper ative organization, Tarheel Elec tric Membership Association; Gwyn B. Price, Chairman, North Carolina Rural Electric Authority; Mangus Hoye and Marvin Marsh all of the Federal Rural Electrifi cation Administration. Gospel singing by the famous Chuck Wagon Gang of Dallas, Texas, as well as by noted North Carolina groups like The Harvest ers and Arthur Smith’s Cross- roads Quartet, will highlight the 1964 “Singing on the Mountain” on Sunday, June 28. The 40th annual staging of the colorful mountain religious singing convention will also feature as its principal speaker, Governor of North Carolina Terry Sanford, ac cording to the announcement by J. L. Hartley, founder and Chair man of the “sing”. Always held the fourth Sunday in June “Singing on the Moun tain” serves as a Christmas home- coming in the summertime for many residents of the mountains of the South, with dozens of fam ily reunions scheduled to coincide with the event. If this year’s program follows the customs of the past, scores of preachers of different denomina tions will deliver sermons in locat ions dotted around the spacious singing grounds, and evangelist Reverend Mack Hodge will give the featured sermon. Estimates by the State Highway Patrol of attendance in former years, when speakers such as Dr. Billy Graham, Governor Luther Hodges, and others have been heard, has ranged as high as 100,- 000 persons. J. L. Hartley has served as Chairman of “Singing on the Mountain” for the entire 40 years of its existence. He is now 93 years old, but extremely active for his years. “Singing on the Mountain” is open to the public and no admis sion is charged. The site is the broad meadow on U.S. 221 at the base of Grandfather Mountain two miles east of Linville. The “sing” is an all-day pro gram which begins in the early daylight hours on Sunday and lasts until late afternoon, and in recent years as many as 10,000 persons have arrived on the after noon before to spend Saturday- evening singing and camping on the grounds. Officials of “Singing on the Mountain” include Chairman Hart ley and Secretary. Jack Cook of Linville, and Charlotte television star Arthur Smith as Music Mas ter.
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