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Crowds Of People—Income On The Rise Attractive merchandising in Boone attracts growing crowds of shoppers—this picture captured on King Street Saturday. In the five-years preceding 1966, employment in three of Boone’s four industrial plants has increased 182 per cent; motels in creased 31 per cent; revenue increased 75 per cent (from $8 million to $14 million); power company customers in two years went up 21 per cent; while telephone customers increased 16 per cent from 1964 to 1965; and agricultural products in Wa tauga increased 3 per cent in dollar value. Taxes (income, sales, intangibles and local property taxes) have increased 60 per cent to $1,267,398. Boone becomes increasingly attractive as part of a year-round resort area, as an educational and mer chandising center, and as a mecca for speculative investment. (Staff photo) Chamber Roads Group To Request More State Work The Chamber of Commerce Roads Committee, headed by Col Clyde Miller, has been circulating in Ashe and Wa tauga counties a two-page re commendation which will be mailed to the North Carolina Highway Commission some time this week. The resolution cites area progress over a five-year per iod and stresses the desire of undersigned citizens for relo cation and connection of 221 in the east with 1-77, which runs from Cleveland to Char lotte, and in the west with I 40 at Marion; for improve ments on routes 21, 16, 421 and 321, up the mountains. Beaver Grafters Join Guild The Beaver Crafters, a quilt ing group of nine women of the Beaver Dam Community, has been accepted for mem bership in the Southern High lands Handicraft Guild. Membership in the Guild is one of the highest honors open to local craftsmen, and carries with it the right to sell products in the Guild’s four craft shops, including the Cone Craft Center near Blowing Rock. The group applied for mem bership in September, submit ting five quilts to the Guild’s Jury of Standards. Three of the five quilts were judged up to Guild Standards, and, and the group was accepted with the understanding that they will work to improve the de sign and color combinations of their quilts. The women organized the Beaver Crafters in June, elect ing Mrs. Clyde Reese, presi dent; Mrs. Dean Reese, vice president; Mrs. Asa Reese, sec retary; Mrs. Thomas Arnett, treasurer; and Mrs. Ruth Math eson, reporter. Although all the women have been quilting most of their lives, this is the first time they have made an organized effort to sell their products. They are now working on de veloping more modern designs and color combinations in their quilts to make their products more attractive in area crafts' markets. The nine members of the Beaver Crafters are Mrs. Clyde Reese. Mrs. Asa Reese, Mrs. Thomas Arnette, Miss Laura Hagaman, Mrs. Carter Matheson, Mrs. Dean Reese. Miss Vera Hagaman, Mrs. Bonnie Cornett and Mrs. Sus an Warren. “so that it may be possible to pass slow-moving traffic.” Heading a delegation of citi zens in June, Col. Miller ad dressed the Commission at its meeting in Asheville. Although no information was available from Alleghany and Avery counties when the resolution was drawn up, statistics on Watauga show payroll, population, ' utilities, agricultural and tax increases in relation, over the same five years, to only a four per cent increase in roads. The economic development study was made by the New River Valley Development Association, which was found ed by the Alleghany, Ashe and Watauga chambers of com merce. Ruritans Set Turkey Shoot The Mountaineer Ruritan Club is sponsoring a turkey shoot Saturday, Nov. 12. The shoot, which will begin at 10 a.m., will be held next to the Main Center at Vilas, about five miles west of Boone on Highway 421. Shotguns and rifles will be used, and every one is invited to attend. Jobless rate shows a sharp rise in Britain. Dan’l Boone Inn V: in pleased to welcome back to Boone this week (1-r) Iris Norris, Blanche Jones. Moselle Nichols, Liza McGuire, and Ann Whitaker. They—and Mr. and Mrs. Adam Townsend, who were not available when the picture was made—were guests of the INN for a week’s vacation in Miami Beach, Fla. They were pictured before departing for the trip. All have been employed by the INN for one ■ year - or more. The management entertained all the other employees with a ham dinner Thursday evening, Nov. 3, at the Chalet Restaurant (Flowers photo) ' " (Advertisement) "1 . ... Defense Spending The Vietnam war hiked mil itary spending to almost $63 billion, at an annual rate, for the first three months of the current fiscal year. The Treasury Department’s state ment is 10 per cent higher than anticipated last January. ft* 109 E. King Street Broyhill Expands Lenoir Facilities Lenoir—Broyhill Furniture Industries Monday disclosed plans for development of a new site for future industrial ‘ expansion in the Lenoir area. The site is a 175-acre tract just south of the N. C. 18 Morganton bypass, and grading already is underway. In addi tion, 4,000 feet of railroad siding is being built into the property and a service <road will be constructed to connect the property with N. C. 18. "Due to the rapid expansion of our Lenoir plants, there is now not sufficient room for further growth at existing lo cations,’ commented Paul Broyhill, company president. "This new property will en able us to grow and expand in the Lenoir area.” The first project planned for the development is a cen tral lumber yard for four of Broyhill's Lenoir plants. Some 30 acres of land will be used for the lumber yard, Court finds Verwoerd’s assassin insane. and a 30,000-square-foot build ing will be constructed to house automatic lumber pro cessing equipment. Around 30 persons will be employed initially at the cen tral lumber facility, which is scheduled to be completed by next spring. Plants whose lumber yards will be centralized are Harper Furniture Co., Lenoir Furni ture Corp., Lenoir Chair Co. No. 1 and Lenoir Chair Co. No. 4. When lumber is shifted to the central facility, additional areas for expansion also will become available at these plants. “Other than the lumber yard, we do not have any def inite plans at this time,” said Broyhill. “However, the land will gradually be developed for manufacturing purposes and will be of major signifi cance to the future economy of this area.” Ninety-eight embassies get USIA film on Johnson. PRE ELECTION LITTERING—Excitement began to mount last week, as day by day. election drew nearer. As downtown Boone was “dosed” with campaign leaflets, a few were swept to the sidewalk. Traffic picked up at political headquarters in Boone, and what had started out to be an inordinately quiet election prelude, started bui’ding up steam. (Staff photo) 'Twas The "Knight" Before Christmas... Obviously Santa is dreaming of himself as a befriender of fair damsels . . . with visions of “tomatoes” rather than sugar plums dancing in his head. Actually, we doubt that Santa is such a “gay old dog” . . . but we think YOU are, and this is just our way of remind ing you how to easily be the charming “knight” before Christmas, and sweep your fair damsel right off her feet! First Payment NOVEMBER 18th JUST JOIN FIRST NATIONAL'S 1967 CHRISTMAS CLUB First National Bank ' BOONE, n. c. Member FD1C — Member Federal Reserve System
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