Wilcox Stresses
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As program speaker for the
April meeting of the Boone
Chamber of Commerce, Herman
W. Wilcox Tuesday stressed the
importance of County-wide co
operation in planning a sound
and substantial progress in
Boone and Watauga County.
Wilcox, manager of “Horn in
the West”, outlined promotion
as seen through the eyes of the
drama. He said, in part:
“Our County needs to gear
toward 1975, when Boone’s pop
ulation will be about 15,000.
Ten years from now, if the sur
veys and forecasts are any indi
cation. the time will be too late
to get aboard the fast-moving
national economy express.”
Wilcox asked whether Wa
tauga will get her share of the
tourist business, the state’s third
largest industry, which, he said,
is expected to increase seven
per cent in 1965, and go up
another seven to eight per cent
in 1966, and go up another
seven or eight per cent in 1067.
“The location of Watauga
County is our first selling point.
We are within 600 miles of half
the population of the United
States. We have three Federal
hi^iways flowing in every di
rection (221, 321 and 421, E.
and W.); we have four rivers
heading in the County, flowing
in every direction of the com
pass.
“Plus the best educational
systems in America—the fast
est growing state teachers col
lege anywhere;” Wilcox said
ASTC is “our gold bond” for
continued prosperity, provided
citizens do their part.
He reviewed the consolidation
of the high schools, excellent
elementary schools; a first-class
hospital in Blowing Kock; a new
hospital soon to be completed
in Boone; “climate, scenery, un
polluted air and water; the best
weekly newspaper in the State,
the Watauga Democrat; and an
excellent radio station.
“These have long drawn tour
ists to our mountains, especially
people with the skills and quali
ties needed to help build the
wonderland of the future.” He
added that industries have a
fine labor force and more are I
to come later, as are additional
recreational facilities.
What To Da?
In order to fully use leader
ship and talents here, Wilcox
suggested that a strong County
wide Chamber of Commerce be
organized with offices in Boone
and Blowing Rock, and officers
and directors elected at large.
"We should make every cit
izen of our County feel part of
the great economy. By such a
move we would pool our talents,
leadership, assets and influence,
and many overlapping programs
would be avoided.
'We should set up a research
program to assess the assets of
the County . . . experts in pub
lic relations and advertising
should be consulted and super
vised by local talent. Hie role
of the research program should
be to identify and evalute alter
native courses of action for
puMic and private sections of
the County economy.”
Wilcox suggested a county
wide zoning system: “The prev
ious mentioned research would
specifically point up the needs
of the County. Among these
would be a searching look at
transportation so that the iso
lation of the mountains would
be eliminated forever as a bar
rier to progress.
“Airport facilities should ex
pand to accommodate small bus
iness and pleasure planes, with
a view to commercial passenger
service into Boons. Wo must
rebuild our Federal highways
into and through the County,
and we need a good by-pass
around Beene, to take heavy
commercial traffic from our
streets.”
Wilcox suggested such a pro
gram be developed through a
co-ordinating committee, guid
ance of experts in the research
field and implementation under
a well-qualified consulting or
ganization.
Promotion Flaws
He said that “Horn in the
West” will again be at work,
not only far her own interests
alone, but to draw Increasing
numbers into this mountain
ares.
Wilcox said “Horn in the
West" hss been included in
three movies (Paramount Pic
tures, Ford Motor Company and
American Oil Company prodne
tlona) to be shown in America
The Southern Appalachian
Historical Association, comp
trolling board, will spend more
than $7,000 promoting the
drama and area.
The drama has printed 212,
000 full color brochures and
will require more shortly.
More than 10,000 pieces of pro
motional material hare been cir
culated sinee the drama’s first I
year, and there is a constant
flow of news releases and pic
lures hr all news media.
At least 12 lire television1
programs for cast members an
planned, and a “Daniel Boone”,
booth trill be maintained at
Tweetsie Railroad this season..
The Roving Quartet Will visit1
Julian Price Memorial Park1
several times a'week to distri
bute programs and other in
formation;
Wilcox said an exchange pro- ]
gram has been arranged with
motel* uu) hotels in the South,
to better promote the drama,
and cast members are already
passing out brochures in their
home towns.
He said the State and Fed*
eral governments are doing a
great deal to promote the drama
and area and pointed to “a
wonderful working arrange
ment with our area motels, ho
tels and business establish
ments to promote the drama.”
Many Vacation Features
Are Available In Spring
April and May add seasonal
attractions and accommodations
to the array of year around va
cation features along North Car
olina's ocean beaches and in
the Great Smoky and Blue
Ridge Mountains.
Dogwood, azaleas and other
spring flowers are blooming
across the Eastern and Pied
mont regions of the Variety Va
cationland State, and are ex
pected to be at peak beauty by
mid-April. The North Carolina
Azalea Festival at the historic
port city of Wilmington on the
southeastern coast is April 14
17. The mountain floral dis
play in Western North Carolina
begins in April with small
ground flowers and shadblow,
and is most spectacular in late
May and the first three weeks
of June when native azaleas,
laurel, and crimson rhododen
dron decorate the highlands.
Most seaside and mountain
motor lodges and hotels reopen
by Easter for a top travel sea
son lasting throough October
At the Sandhills golf and rid
ing resorts of Pinehurst and
Southern Pines, where the top
season is from autumn through
spring, April is one of the most
popular months of the year.
Some 30 ocean fishing piers
at coastal resorts are open from
April through autumn, which is
also the period of greatestjjac
tivity at fishing centers-where
charter craft are available for
sound, inlet and deep sea fish
ing. The mountain trout sea
son reopened April 2.
Mount Mitchell State Park,
atop Eastern America’s highest
mountain, is open from April
until November. All other State
parks, plus historic sites and
National Parks and forests, can
be visited: an; time during the
year.
Grandfather Mountain, high
est peak in the Blue Ridge
range, is open daily from April
1 through October. Tweetsie
Railroad at Blowing Roek oper
ates from May 1 through Oc
tober, and Ghost Mountain
Theme Park overlooking Maggie
Valley in the Great Smoldes is
open from April 30 through Oc
tober.
April is the month of peak j
bloom in the gardens of coastal
and Piedmont North Carolina: i
Greenfield,. Air lie and Orton inJ
the Wilmington area: Clarendon:
at Pine hurst; the Elizabethan
Garden near Manteo on Roanoke
Island; the Sarah P. Duke Me-,
mortal Gardens: .at Duke Uni
versity, Durham; Laurel Lake at.
Salemburg; Reynolds Gardens
in Winston-Salgm; and the for-,
mal gardens surrounding Tryon
Palace at New Bern. ,
Spring increases visitation to;
year - around attractions like
Tryon Palace Restoration; Old
Salem in Winston-Salem; the
U. S. S- North Carolina Battle
ship Memorial at Wilmington;
Chimney Rock near Asheville;
and Linville Caverns. The
sound and light spectacular
“Immortal Showboat" at the
1L S. 6. North Carolina will be
produced on Saturday nights
from April IS through MajLjA,
and nightly from
through September 5.
The Cape Hattems National
Seashore on the Outer Banks,
the Great Smoky Mountains Na
tional Park, and most sections
of the Blue Ridge Parkway are
open all year. High altitude
sections of the Parkway near
Mount Mitchell and between
Asheville and Cherokee are
open April 15 until early No
vember. Parkway recreation
areas and visitor centers are
open May 1 through October.
At Cherokee, largest com
munity on the Indian Reserva
tion adjoining the Great Smoky
Mountains National Park, Ocon
ahiftee Indian Village Is open
from late May through Labor
Day. Many Cherokee craft
centers and accommodations
are open all year, and all are
in operation between spring and
late autumn.
Biltmore House and its elab
orate gardens near Asheville
are open from February 1
through mid-December, with the
gardens especially lovely in May
and June.
Summer theatres and outdoor
dramas in North Carolina open
in June.
Recent Births
Mr. and Mrs. William Miller,1
Deep Gap, boy, April 9.
Mr. and Mrs. Dickie Miller,
Triplett, boy, April 10.
Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Glenn,
Route 2, Vilas, boy, April 11.
Separated By War
— St. Paid—Voldemars Krinte
kissed his wife shyly at the air
port? because he had not seen
her in 28 years. The Krintes
lost contact during World War
II when he was sent to a Si
berian prison camp. After his
release, he was refused a visa
until recently, to come to Amer
ica where his family had settled
as misplaced persons.
News Of Our
Servicemen
Blowing Rock Man
Given Hero's Badge
Over one thousand Patrick
Air Force Base officers and air
men stood at attention last1
week to honor 13 men receiving
hick Air Force decorations far
heroism. Eleven awards were
earned while serving with the
U. S. Armed Forces in the Re
public ef South Vietnam, the1
other in Hawaii.
Among the recipients of the
awards was John Tester, son of
Gladys Tester ef Blowing Bock,
who has recently returned from
14 months service in Vietnam.
John wat me of eight per
sonnel who received the Air
Force Medal Oak Leaf Cluster
for meritorious achievement
while participating in sustained
aerial fHghta aa eemhat crew
members in Southeast Asia.
They were cited far outstand
ing airmanship and (courage in
the successful accomplishment
of important missions under ex
tremely hazardous conditions in
cluding the continuous possi
bility of hostile ground fire.
The formal parade was also
attended by scores of friends
and many of the families of the
men being honored while CoL
Elmer W. Richardson, vice com
mander of Hie Air Force East
ern Test Range, made the
awards. After the presentation
by Col. JUchardaon, the award
winners formed a special fern
nation in front of the reviews
ing stand and shared in accept
ing the salutes of units passing
in review.
Airman First Class Teeter re
sides on the base at Patrick
with his wife and small son.
ASTC Student Given
Speech Tourney Rate
James Norwig of Appalach
ian State received a rating of
Superior in the Oral Interpre
tation division of the annual
Forensic Tournament of the
Southern Speech Association,
held this year in Miami, Flor
ida. 322 students from high
schools and colleges and uni
versities throughout the South
participated in the tournament
which include&lcqintests iajjp
bate, entertainment and eygjfr
poraneoua speaking, j&hT The
oral interpretation of litera
ture. At the Awards Banquet,
held Wednesday evening, win
ning contestants received eith
er a trophy or a certificate to
be displayed in their home
school.
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.SEALS CAMPAIGN IN FULL SWING—As
- the Easter Season approached last week, con-.
tributions began flowing in from across the
-County. Dr. James Greene was organizing '
Coffee Day in-Boone and volunteers from
Boy'Scout Troop 12 were readying for.the
annual lily sale. Members of the Appa
lachian Wesley Foundation,' the Methodist ..
student organization of ASTC, are pictured
stuffing, sealing and -sorting 4,800 enve
lopes to be mailed to area homes. They
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spent several hours at this at the Methodist
Student Center, and their contribution to the
drive was most important The Rev. Maurice
Ritchie, chairman of the County drive, said
that many persons have been good enough to
mall in their contributions promptly. He
and Dr. Greene saj^ that response to the drive
is extremely gratifying,, and {remind citizens
that theit contributions are Weleome'any time
' this Week or next.. (Flowers' photo.
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