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Letter To
The Edtor
It seems that every time a
town puts up a shopping
center in the surrounding
countryside, the town begins
to die..downtown.
The idea that business will
be enhanced, or that local
people will benefit by the
new businesses that come
in, should be countered by
the thought that folks will
forsake the in-town
businesses for the newer,
bigger ones in the shopping
mall, and downtown will
suffer.
How many times do
people shop in downtown
Elisabeth City, as long as
Southgate Mall is there?
How many stores are
shuttered up in downtown
Elizabeth City? Look at
Raleigh. Look at Norfolk.
Look at most of the cities
and towns where shopping
centers have surrounded
them. No one shops
downtown anymore. It is the
same way in many other
cities..ask anyone if they
shop downtown!
Please don’t let this
happen to Edenton. It is
such a dear little town, and
its beauty is in its sim
plicity. Don’t make it plastic
with all the “fringe been
fits” with a shopping mall.
If it is progress that is
needed or wanted, then
spend whatever money is to
be used for a shopping mall,
and improve what we
already have. Let there be a
smaller K-Mart in the
Rose’s building..a block
long building isn’t
necessary! Let a restaurant
be constructed in part of the
Barker House...that’s where
the tourists would like to see
one. .on the water, down
town. We have heard
numerous requests for just
such a facility. Also, these
same tourists which this
town depends on for its
summer livlihood, have said
many times, that this is such
a place where they would
like to come to
retire...because it is a
simple sweet friendly little
town, away from the
stresses and tensions of
lgrge cities, and none of the
“shopping mall’’ at
mosphere.
If there is money to be
obtained, let a group of local
businessmen form a
coalition to take over the
Coach House and bring it
back up to standard so that
Edenton can benefit from
the tourists who do not stay
there now. We are grateful
for those of you who
recommend people to come
to our place, and we do all
we can to see that they have
a clean comfortable place to
sleep...but we do not have
the money to make it any
bigger or do much on the
outside...and we are sure we
haven’t had many com
plaints on our service.
However, a motel up on the
by-pass would never survive
in the winter time, any more
than the rest of us do...the
business is just not there to
fill us all.
We have Edenton’s in
terests at heart.believe me
we are two of your better
advocates for selling
Edenton to each and
everyone who passes our
doors.
Truly, and faithfully
Roger & Peggy Leeper
Mr. Owen
Is Named
To Board
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. -
Bruce A. Owen of Carolina
Block has been named to the
board of directors of the N.
C. Concrete Masonry
Association. Officers were
named during the summer
meeting here July 19-22.
Owen’s firm has plants in
Durham and Edenton.
Fred 'H. Adams of
Raleigh, executive vice
president of Adams Con
crete Products, was picked
as the association’s in
coming president. He
succeeds Ray L. Ratchford
of Boren Brick and Block
Company in Burlington.
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