Biggest Season
Of Tourist Travel
. Expected In *50
The National Park Service
again opens the Recreational Facilities
ot the Bine Ridge Parkway
tor the nse and enjoyment of the
public on April 15th.
The Blue Ridge Park, at top
of the ridge road through Virginia
and North Carolina, has been designed
to permit the visitor a leisurely
trip along the high country.
Here you will not contend
with the truck and bus raffle, or
the scurring taxi for your place
on the road. You win meet and see
others Intent on drinking tn the
beauties of our southern highlands.
Here you will move along
through the forested mountain,
catch glimpses of the "Hill Culture"
see the herds of dairy and
beef cattle that are becoming a
RALEIGH ROUNDUP
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By BULA NIXON GBHHNWOOD
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Cleveland County native, a tew
weeks ago resigned "
of the Dairy Foundatlon at State
College to become head of the
First Federal Savings and Lo»
Association here. Prior tofoin*
with the Foundation, he> held a
responsible position « with the
Wachovia Bank & Trust Co. He
went to the Wachovia from an
executive position with State
School CommmissiOn.
He will likely be replaced by
I* L. Ray, Alamance County native
who for .the Past several
years has done a wonderful job
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big Influence in the local manner
of living. Your Journey may be
broken by frequent stops at the
many scenic overlooks along the
motor road. Here one may look
out over the frams, patches of
woodland, roads and streams to
the cities lying in the valleys below.
The views from many of the
overloks are outstanding, their
beauty is such that the visitor
has that longing to return and
visit the Parkway again.
If you have succumbed to that
old southern custom of carrying
a picnic lunch you will wish to
make a longer stop at one of the
Recreational Areas provided for
your use and comfort. In Virginia
you will find Smart View and
Rocky Knob Parks, In North
Carolina the Areas at Cumberland
Knob, The Bluffs, and Crabtree
.Meadows wll be found at
convenient locations. All of these
areas are provided with picnic
tables, fire places, water fountains,
trash receptacles, and comfort
stations. (Please use the trash
receptacles and help us keep the
area clean for the party using
It after you leave.)
None of the eating facilities at
these areas will open this early,
and it is suggested that you plan
on a picnic lunch or that you make
use of the many facilities adjacent
to the Parkway.
For "the person who wishes to
camp overnight or for a longer
period, the Rocky Knob and Bluffs
Areas have adequate facilities.
Here you find trailer sites and
campgrounds, no camping supplies
are avilable, however.
{Trout fishing in waters of the
Blue Ridge Parkway opens in
North Carolina April 15th. State
licenses are required to fish these
waters. In Gully Creek at Cumberland
Knob and In Basin and
Cove Creeks at the Bluffs no bait
fish live or dead may be used.
Persons desiring more detailed
Information on National Park Service
Regulations are invited to
contact members of the Ranger
Force on duty at the above locations.
Your Parkway Rangers invite
you to visit them on the Parkway,
call on them for assistance or Just
visit awhile. L<et them assist you
to have a good time and help
them keep your Parkway clean
and attractive.
How Are Your Floors?
FREE ESTIMATES ON
Inlaid Linoloum
Asphalt & Rubber Tils
or
Wall Linoleum
WILKESBORO, N. C.
with "the N. O. Dairy Products
Association. It is known that Ray
has been offered the Job with the
Dairy Foundation. He Is expected
to take it. Ton should see an announcement
about this in the papars
very shortly, If you haven't
already. Before going with the
Dairy Products ' folks (Coble,
Southern Dairies, Biltmore, etc.)
Bay was with the Duke Power Co.
COLLEGE BOTS • . . Last Friday
afternoon as.Uhlverslty Chanvellor
Bob House and Acting President
Billy Carmichael were Introducing
new School of Administration
Dean Tom Carroll to
directors of the N. 0. Business
Foundation and to officials of the
State Merchants Association, Len
Broughton Smlthey — from a
good Wilkes County family —
walked into George L. Bennett's
room two blocks off the campus
and shot Bennett, killing him. A
few minutes later Smlthey, 80year-old
war veteran, killed himSefl
with the same pistol he had
used to end the life of the 22year-old
Wadesboro senior. Meantime,
students were scattering
from the campus for an Easter
week-end at home. The killing in
Chapel Hill came as the trial of
23-year-old Raymond D. Hair of
Fayettevllle, up for first degree
murder in the death of Roy
Coble, another Wake Forest student,
last December, was coming
to a conclusion In Raleigh
Neither Coble nor Smlthey was an
enrolled student.
Just as President Thurman Kitchen's
Christmas was ruined by a
campus murder on the eve of the
holidays, so was Easter a black
day this year for Chancellor House
and Aeting President Carmichael.
College officials are constantly
working to improve not only their
physical plants, but the mental attitudes
Of the students, and the
Christmas and Easter killings at
Wake Forest and Carolina will
cause them to devote even more
attention to the mental habits of
their flock. Parents can help.
WAR TALK . . . Visitors from
North Carolina in the Nation's
capital last week were astounded
at the amount of war talk heard
in Washington. While we get good
dosee of this type of conservation
via the press and radio here in
the Old North 'State, it certainly
isn't the main topic of conversation.
We still hare the weather,
Kerr
what
day. In
thing else
hear It from
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