Blowing Rock Chamber Says
Membership Sets Record
The Board of Director* of the
Blowing Rock Chamber of Com
merce held their regular month
ly meeting Saturday afternoon.
The Membership Committee
reported an increase in member
ship over the year 1901. The
membership has now reached an
all-time high.
The Budget Committee re
ported a sound fiscal position,
with sufficient funds on hand
to meet all obligations.
The Advertising Committee
reported progress was being
made on the design on a new
map of the Town of Blowing
Bock and surrounding area;
that the contract had been let
for a new folder, with drawings
by professional artists depicting
all phases of activity throughout
the area, including winter
sports.
The Conventions Committee
reported many conventions had
been booked for the 1962 sea
son, and arrangements were
made to cooperate with all
facilities engaged in convention
activities.
The Chamber of Commerce
will be host to AAA Travel
Councilors of about forty-one
persons who will spend April
23 in Blowing Bock. An after
noon reception will be given by
Blowing Bock Ski Lodge at the
new lodge building.
The Chamber of . Commerce
will cooperate with the Com
munity Club and the Garden
Club in beautifying the Town
Lake near the playground, and
in the clearing off and marking
of the Glen Burney Scenic
Trail.
Mrs. Margaret Relneking,
operator of Springhaven Inn,
was appointed chairman of a
committee to write news stories
about interesting people, places
and points of interest in Blow
ing Rock and immediate vicin
ity. This is a new phase of the
Chamber of Commerce promo
tional activities^
The directors were advised
that the ski slopes ha4 been
opened on ? limited basis and
the lodge was practically com
pleted. Blowing Rock Ski Lodge
payroll for the past few months
has been over $29,000, exclusive
of the sums paid by sub-contrac
tors for labor and material. All
of this waa during the months
which have heretofore offered
little or no, opportunity (or
employment.
Directors were also advised
that the ski slope project had
received full coop-.ttion of the
Blue Ridge Electric Member
ship Corporation, Southern Bell
Telephone Company, the State
Highway Commission, Mr. Lloyd
Bobbins, the contractor, at well
as all of the men connected
with the construction.
Financial Statement, Blowing Rock Chamber Commerce ? 1061
Balance January 1, 1801 $ 4,626.72
Receipts, January 1 to December 31, 1861
Town Advertising Fund $5,687.50
Membership Fee* ? 5,270.00
Proceeds, Tel. Booth and Pr. Per
sonal Tel". Calls 113.03
Listings, 1861 Print. Blowing Rock
Boone Area Folder 1,168.85
Receipts 1861 ,._?12^38.48
Total Funds 1861 1 $16,866.20
Disbursements, January 1 to December Si, 1861
Advertising, Publicity, Public relations:
Newspaper, Magazine and Other Ads $ 536.20
Road Signs - 182.50
Blowing Rock Folders * 788.38
Blowing Rock-Boone Area Folders 866.70
Blowing Rock Ouides 220.00
Window Display New York Bank, and
New York Travel Show . _ 58 43
Ohio Valley Sports and Travel Show 63.20
Miscellaneous 1,174.56 4,088.87*
Administration:
Salaries ' $3,288.81
F. I. C. Tax _ 87.18
Office Equipment and Supplies 486.73**
Office Maintenance 37.53
Telephone 188.86 .
Miscellaneous 65.26 4,185.47
Total Disbursements 8,215.44
Balance December 31, 1861 8,650.76
Total Funds 1861 $16,866.20
?1861 Advertising expenditure curtailed in anticipation of ex
traordinary expenditure for entirely new Blowing Rock Folder
in i$62. "Includes non-recurring expenditures.
MAYBE ? -No one needed to be reminded last week that it was winter time. It was still the
same winter that's been around for several months now, but another1 eight to ten inches of snow
did fall on Boone and gave the advertising panel an a Miller Industries truck an abbreviated slogan.
43rd Birthday
To Be Observed
By Legion Post
Watauga Pott 130, American
Legion and Auxiliary will have
their 43rd birthday supper at
the Legion Hut in Boone Fri
day night, March 16, at 0
o'clock.
All members of the Legion
and Auxiliary are invited to be
present, and bring a covered
dish for the supper. Gold Star
Mothers are also invited. After
supper there will be some
speaking and other entertain
ment. 7*V ;
Livestock and poultry feed
sale* in the Southeast have in
creased 13 per cent or more in
five of the 13 years prior to
1962. This is a faster gain, per
centagewise, than for apy other
area. '
Chester Davis Gets Wildlife Position
Chester Davis, special writer
for the Winston-Salem Journal
and Sentinel, was appointed to
the North Carolina Wildlife Re
sources Commission Thursday
by Gov. Terry Sanford.
V
Davis 'succeeds R. Floyd
Crouse of Sparta, who resigned.
The term expires June 30, 1082.
Crouse has been on the com
mission since its inception in
1047.
Davis, 46, is a former vice
president and former director
of the North Carolina Wildlife
Federation, a past president of
the Forsyth County Wildlife
Club and past president of the
North Carolina Outdoor Writers
Association.
Davis will represent District
7, comprised of Forsyth, Surry,
Stokes, Davie, Yadkin, Iredell,
Alexander, Wilkes, Ashe, Alle
ghany and Watauga counties.
The commission consists of
11 appointed members, one for
each of nine districts plus two
at-large appointees, for the East
and the West.
The commission Is the policy
making body in matters con
cerning fish and game.
In I960, a total of 1S.19S.510
pounds of North' Carolina eggs
were hauled in interstate com
merce.
Potato Hearing T?
Be Held April 17th
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A bearing on a proposed Na
tional Marketing Agreement
and order for potatoes has been
called by the U. S. Department
of Agriculture, according to in
formation received by the Wa
tauga ASCS office. The hearing
for this area will be held at At
lanta, Georgia beginning on
Approximately 75 growers in
Watauga c&unty grew over 2
acres of potatoes in one or more
of the S year*, 1990, 1880 and
1961. These are the base years
proposed for the marketing or
proposed and approved by the
National Potato Advisory Com
mittee at January and Febru
ary meetings in Washington.
The Advisory Committee was
called by Secretary of Agricul
ture Orville L. Freeman at the
request ef industry representa
tives to study marketing pro
blems facing the potato indus
try and to recommend plans for
market stabilization. The nation
al marketing order was one of
its proposals.
The committee recommended
that Congress be. asked to ap
prove acreage allotments for
potato growers, with penalties
for growers who plant more
than their allotments permit.
The proposal does not Include
a recommendation for price
support for potatoes.
In Its recommendation, the
Committee proposed that indi
vidual allotments be based up
on historical record, and that
farms producing two acres or
less ef potatoes be exempt. It
was proposed that acreage al
lotments in the program be es
tubliahed on a
men broken
county ana
committee
not oe used
proposed
uuters.
'lb* proposed national
keting agreement and order
committee would Include pro-,
visions lor quality and volume
regulation*, and provisions lor
marketing research and deve
lopment projects.
The Committee proposed that
the order be administered by a
40-member National Potato Ad
ministrative board. Members of
the Board would be named by
the secretary of Agriculture
from nominees selected by the
potato indwgMfcra
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Mrs. Linney Is
Ga. Choral Judge
Mrs. Virginia W. Linney left
last Thursday for Atlanta, Ga.
where she served as a judge
for the choral festival o I the
fifth district under the auspices
of the Georgia Music Educators
Association.
The two-day festival of high
school choruses gave an over all
picture of the high standard of
work being done musically in
that area. Of the 62 choruses
that participated a major por
tion received ratings of excel
lent and superior.
Other judges for the festival
were Mr. Herman Gunter of
Florida State University, Tal
lahassee, Florida, and Mr. John
Butler of Clemson College,
Clemson, S. C.
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K. C. Rivera Vice-President
Jamea Marah -
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