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A spokesman far the Beech
Mono taiti Development Com
patry, tec., stated yesteiJay
that two slopes have bsen clear
ed at the site of the future ski
are* near Banner ETtc. Wh?"
completed, the ski slopes will
be one of three sueh ventures
in NOrthr Carolina.
Promoter Jack Williams o S
Boone reported that ten men
and a bulldozer and operator
are working full time clearing
tht land. In addition to the two
main runs of 2,500 and 3200
linear feet each, the ski* com
pany plans to construct a $150,
000 ski lodge.
The entire project will cost
an estimated $810,060, of which
local sources most rafee ten
percent or $8,100, in keeping
with an A&A requirement, Wil
liams related. - M'
A kick-off campaign for the
raising of money will be held
in Boone on January 22. Time
and place will be announced in
next week's edition of the Wa
tauga Democrat. Organizers for
the meeting are Stanley Harris
and Alfred Adams.
Williams also reported that
the Beech Mountain Develop
moat Company has been issued
a registration certilieato by U>?
see. Securities will be ready
for sale by April 1, ha remark
ed.
According to an earlier re
port (Watauga Democrat, Sept
ember 6, 196 1), plans also call
for the building of an ice ikat
ing rink and a- toboggan ran
during the first year of opera
tion-.
The two main trails will be
served by double chair lifts
which will have a capacity of
800 skiiers per honr. Artificial
snow machines will be installed
"early hi !??."
Architect for the ski area is
Frit* Woehie of Birmingham,
Alabama, Engineer is Thoodore
F. Randolph of the Harbert
Ceastruction Corporation, Birm
ingham.
Promoters, in addition to
Williams, arc Thomas Brigham
and John Greainer of Birming
ham and Donald B. Williams of
Boone.
Williams also stated yester
day that progress on the ski
slopes show* the rapid growth.
in summer and winter tourist
attractions in Watauga and
Avery counties. He quoted the
CUTTING TIMBER ALONG ONE OF THE SKI SLOPES
Motels Are Outstripping
Hotels In ^orth Carolina
Motel* are grabbing the lion's
share of the tourist trade in
North Carolina. Their number
(1,0M) is double the total of
ton years ago and three times
as great as at the end of World
War n. Since 1948, North Caro
lina's motel business has in
creased 70?%, which is almost
double the national increase.
Now the State is receiving
2.84% of all the motel business
in the nation as compared with
only .09% of the hotel business.
The rapid rise of the motel
basfciess, which took in nearly
$S3 million in 1961 as compared
with Ira than 84 in 1948, is
part of the story to be told at
the ninth annual meeting of the
Travel Council of North Caro
lina in Durham, January 27-28,
when the detailed economic s?r
vey of the State's multi-million
travel industry will be released.
Hie survey was made by Dr.
Lewis Cope lan dof the Depart
ment of Statistics of the Univer
sity of Tennessee and will show
that traveler* spent *423 mil
lion in North Carolina in 1961,
up 4% over 1960.
The report will show there
are 390 hotels, and despite the
sensational increase in motels,
that they have managed to hold
their own by providing facilities
for conventions and things other
than lodging. Hotel revenue in
the State was $29 million ia
1901, up 4% over 1900, bat only
97 million greater than total
hotel income in 1948.
The report will also show that
gasoline service stations are
multiplying faster in North
Carolina than in the nation aa
a whole. The 8,490 gas stations
in 1981 had sales of $999 mil
lion, up 4% over 1980, and three
times as much as 1948. It took
a lot of gas for tourists to travel
over four and a half billion
miles ever North Carolina high
ways in 1981. Tourist travel
was approximately one-fifth of
intercity paswnger mileage, ac
cording to the Copeland survey.
CARP OF THANKS
We wish to express our
heartfelt thanks and apprecia
tion to the many friends and
neighbors who contributed so
many expressions of sympathy
and acts ?f kindness at the ill
ness and death of our husband
and father. ? Family of Henry
A. Greene.
Scenes at Future She of Beeeh Mountain Ski Area
following from the Overall Eco
nomic Development Program
for Avery County;
"Possibly thje greatest poten
tial (or substantial economic
growth in Avery County ia in
the field of tourist and resort
development. Natural scenic
beauty of the region already
has world renown; the summer
cllihate has inspired the slo
gan, 'Air conditioned by na
ture'1, (he winter cttmate If not
extreme, main highways rare
ly being rendered impassable
by snow and other weather con
ditions.
"Many of the higher moun
tain slope*, however, are ao lo
cated as to indicate great pot
ential, with the aid of snow
Saaly'a purchasing powar and
atapped-up production for thla
aale bringa tha prica down to
$39.86 ? with no raduction la
quality. Saa It todayl
making machines for ski runs
and winter sports develop
ments."
The report further says: "If
the economy of- Arery County
r
it to give tourism a substantial
rule in its growth, there must
be other tourist attractions de
veloped such as a champion
ship golf course, ski run and
lodge. A ski lift could be used
in both summer and winter.
Along with these would be faci
lities for eating and lodging to
accommodate visitors."
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Notice of Shareholders' Meeting
Watauga Savings &
Loan Association
Tou are hereby notified that the annual meeting of the
Shareholders of the Watauga Savings and Loan Association
will be held in the Secretary and Treasurer's Office in
Boone, N. C., an
Thursday, January 24
At 2:00 O'CIock P. M.
for the purpose of electing a Board of Directors for the
ensuing year and for the transaction of such other business
as may properly come before the meeting.
In case yon cannot attend this meeting, please fill out and
return proxy blanh at once- It is very important that you
comply with this request, as we cannot hold the meeting
unless a majority of the stock is represented.
Yours very truly,
JAMES P. MARSH
SECRETARY-TREASURER
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