section b WATAUGA DEMOCRAT VOLUME UXV1-N0. t? |j " BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1?t ^ PRICK TEN CENT! Zoning Is Topic At C. of C. Meet Proposed new toning recula tiona were Among the chief topics tor viae and aeeea aary." ' Wilcox appointed a committee consisting of Clyde R. Greene, Stanley A. Harris, and Lee Reyn olds to meet with the County Commissioners and request that immediate step* be taken to pro tact properties in Boone. A Merchants Association com mittee also was named at the meettag. sae W the first acts s< which was to work oat pUu tor the decoration of Klnf Street far the Christmas bsMays. The committee is composed of Dennis Greene, chairman; Phil ?Vance, Glenn R. Andrews, S. M. Ayers, A. E. McCreary, O. K. Richardson, Ned Trivtette and Vaughn Roten. A third important action was taken ? to raoammend to the members of the Merchants As sociation that thajr work towards welcoming customers from out | side Boooe and to aid them in parking problem*. Toward this workers at a^^l^^'ntMCaa Says County Jail Is Safe The Witaua County Jail may need a few repairs, but It's certainly secure enough. This was proved a couple of weeks ago when Dr. Carter Pate, Assistant Professor in sociology and anthropology at Appalach ian State Teachers College, and some two dozen of his students in a criminology class came at the invitation of Sheriff Dallas Cheek to tour the facilities of the Jail and interview county ltw enforcement officers. f Led upstairs by Deputy Smith Brown, the students entered the cells and had a thorough look at the 21-bed establishment, making several comments on the seeming sturdiness and In escapability of the structure be fore filing out and returning downstairs to question the Sher iff. One of the first questions was, "Has anyone ever escaped from this jail?" "Well?" Cheek began hi* re ply, when he was interrupted by the noise of indignant shout ing and foot-stomping frem up stairs, and Brown scurried up stairs to investigate. Pate be gan counting noses. It seems that two students, who had carried their search ill to the farthest cell, had been locked in. Saturday ? Sunday November 16-17 ? i -;4 J THE BIRDS ! ROD TAYLOR CtUor should not part their own on on (One Street, leaving it open far their customers. WUr?x uid, b alt* "pnmtiac Ike idea of aayone everparkinc SMI receiving a ticket to preaeai tke ticket te aay memfcet mer chant (ram whom the, had made a pintail er wish ta make a parekase. aad **e baslaeas place ??ald Mr Ike flae." A test period, frono November 29 to December 24, has been set tor tots unusual proposal Mem bership cards ?wiM be distributed to all members of toe Merchants Association so they may be placed in the windows tar immediate identification by customers. Mrs. Harrison Dies In Idaho Poet Falls, Idaho, Nov. 8.? lira Emma C. Harrison, 88, Port Falls resident since 1906, died at a local nursing home yesterday, a week following the death of her husband, James A. Harrison, 94. Mrs. Harrison, the former Em ma Jones, was born in Watauga County, N. C., and was mar ried to Luther Eggers in 1887 in North Carolina. He died in 1M6 and his widow married Mr. Harrison ta 1092. Mrs. Harrison was a long time resident of the Zionville community snd was s daughter of the Rev. E. F. Jones. She was the last member of his family. Mrs. Harrison was a member of the Baptist church. Survivors are three sons, Qpie L. Eggers, Spokane, Rondy F. Eggers, Orovllle, Calif., and Everett E. Eggers, Opportunity, WsSh.; two daughters, Mrs. Nons Lutes, Post Falls, and Mrs. Beulah Hodge, Spokane, 17 grandchildren and several great grandchildren and great great naadchildrw Indecision is costly and hasty action sometimes costs more. New Ski Slope To Open Shown is a portion of the ski slope area at the Hound Ears Golf and Ski Club which will open for its first season this year. If the weather cooperates there may be skiing by . mid-December, it is laid. The new develop ment is a Tweetsie Railroad enterprise, and is being constructed by the Robbins Brothers in the Shulls Hills neighborhood. To Head Drive For Preyer Votes Greensboro? A member of one of North Carolina's most dis tinguished families has been named Campaign Manager for Richardson Preyer, candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor. He is Newman A. (Nat) Towns end, Jr., a native of Dunn, N. C., and now a promi nent tax lawyer in Raleigh. Pray er, in announcing the appoint ment this past week, paid high tribute to Tewnsend'i wide knowl edge of public affairs and to the career he he* made as a lawyer. "I am proud to have him run my campaign," he aaid. NEWMAN A. TOWNSENO, JR. When frontier folks had work to be done, it often turned out to be an opportunity for a community get-together. Such an occasion was the apple-bee. In the fall, after apples had been gathered, neighboring women would spend an evening peeling, quartering, and coring the fruit. Far from being a chore, though it was, in the words of a writer of the day, an occasion for "convivial merriment, cheerfulness and song." Today, when there's work to be done, neighbors still find that many jobs are best done together. From the volunteer fire department to the corporation ? democratic cooperation is a sound American tradition. The members of your local Electric Membership Corporation are neigh bors ? working together to achieve a common goal : the supply of low coat electric power to themselves. They are engaged in democratic co operative action. The system is owned, operated, and paid for by the members it serves. In the words of the President of the United States: "This is self-help at its best." Blue Ridge Electric Membership #' > Corporation .. Senior Citizens Meet Has Been Postponed Hie Senior Citizens Club will not meet Friday, November 16. Watch the Democrat (or possible meeting next week. Area Ski Boom Is Seen Within Next Few Years The "ski boom" Is expected to hit this section of North Carolina with Kill force within the next few years, according to ? fea tured article in last week's State Magazine. Watauga County, the article pointed out, already has one of the two North Carolina ski lodges now in operation, with at least two more in the construction or tote planning stages. Business at the Slewing Rock ski slopes last year was fair, amounting to ever 6,000 skUers and some 9,000 other visitors, ac cording to BUI Thalhelmer, ope rator of the establishment. Bat week-day attendance was said te be disappointing, and operating expense* ? especially the cost of "making" snow?were unexpect edly Ugh. This year the Blowing Rook company will reportedly double the supply of rental equipment and *dd another ski slope. The Lodge restaurant is even now open on weekends, and basic ski ing lessons are being given on straw. The Beech Mountain Develop ment Company. lac.. meanwhile. Is working on two main ski slopes of t,SM and S.500 feet to run down the mountain on the north sMe, opposite Banner Elk. The project will cost an estimated $810,000, of which 10 per cent Is being raised locally and the rest is to come In the form ot a government Inaa. The Beech Mountain resort will include a double chair lift with a capacity of 800 skiers per hour, artificial snow machines, a to baggan run, an ice skating rink, and ? $150,000 lodge. According to Jack William of Boone, the resort would have several summer recreation fea tures as well, including swim ming, fishing, canning, and horseback riding. Ai the same time as the Beech Mountain project Is gathering ?team, the Hound Ear* Gall and SU Club Is due to be partly open by December IS. This club wil be a subsidiary of Tweetsie Rail road, and will be a private dub open only to members and guests. The Robbinses, owners of Tweetsie, spent $274,000 for land in the Shulls Mills section, where they are building a &u If course which will be open next May. The ski run will be located on a na tural slc^ie. where a chair lift is to be installed. The clubhouse will include a swimming pool, and there will be stables for members' horses. Around the knoll overlooking the lodge wiH be six "Swiss cha lets," each with five bedrooms and five baths. The Hound Bars Golf and Ski Club ks, needless to say, one of the most lavish of all the ski projects presently taking place in Western North Carolina, and sounds like the most fantastic business establishment to hit Wa tauga County in a long time. NDA Judges Visit Watauga On Tuesday Three teams of judges met for ? briefing session at tihe Me morial Coliseum at Winston- Sa lem Monday morning before en tering upon their annual four-day job of scoring accomplishments by county winners in this area in the Northwest Development As sociation community judging pro gram, announced Neil Bollon, NDA Secretary. The judges ?re scheduled to re turn to Winston - Salem this (Thursday) afternoon to leave their reports, which will remain sealed until the December 5 Awards Banquet in Elkin. At that time, it will be learned which communities have been judged winners in the various categories of farming communities, rural non-farm communities, new com munities, and smaM towns and villages. Judges far the two categories in which Watauga County has a special interest include: Flarmkig? A. Maynard Deekins of N. C. State of the University of North Carolina at Raleigh; George Whitaker of R. J. Reyn old Tobacco Co. in Winston Salem; Harold Beach of Blue Ri