New Discount Store Will Locate In Citv
Better Life Discount Store
will open in Boone by Thanks
giving according to Mack Brown
of Brown and Graham Motor
Company, who will build the
building the new establish
ment will occupy.
A chain store owned by G. D.
Reddick Inc. of Greensboro,
it will deal in wholesale general
merchandise, Brown said.
The new store in Boone will
be 80* x 100’ and according to
Brown will cost around $50,000.
Construction is scheduled to
begin in a few days.
Brown said that the corpora
tion indicated that a local mana
ger will be employed as well
as six to eight other employees.
Other stores in the chain are
located in Lenoir, West Jeffer
son, Mount Airy and North
Wilkes boro along with 10 other
stores in North Carolina. The
Reddick Corporation has been
in existence since 1945 and
began operations in Greens
boro.
Construction of a Better Life Discount store on East King Street is in progress. The $50,000
structure will measure 80’ x 100’ and is expected to be in operation by Thanksgivir^. (Staff photo)
Shortage Of Blood Has
Been Tolerable In Town
The Charlotte Observer re
ported last week that the blood
supply of the Piedmont-Caro
linas Blood Bank, which serves
89 hospitals including Watauga
County Hospital, was “facii^j
a potentially dangerous short
age of blood supplies. “Asked
about the situation, Mrs. Vir
ginia Groce, administrator of
the local health facility, said
that the shortage has not been
felt here more than usual.*’
She also indicated that she
did not expect any problems to
be experienced locally. Mrs.
Groce said that the local hos
pital is not always able to get
the type or the amount of blood
needed, but that it is able to
get legal blood to fill the need.
She said that the hospital
maintains a “walking blood
bank” which is a file of donors
whose blood has been typed and
from whom blood can be
obtained if necessary. The hos
pital is experiencing no more
difficulty maintaining its supply
of blood than usual, she said.
The Observer article in
dicated that the supply in Char
lotte had not yet reached a dan
ger point. It said thatthe supply
is 400 pints below the normal
operating level and credited this
to an accident filled Labor Day
weekend and poor blood collec
tions during the recent August
heat wave.
Dr. Inez Elrod, director of
the blood bank in Charlotte
said the public shouldn’t be
frightened. “The hospitals have
N. C. Is Second Most
Papular Travel Area
i ^Carolina is the second
most popular travel destination
for subscribers of Southern Liv
ing magazine, according to a
survey of the publication's read
The State trailed only Flori
da as the place most Southern
Living families spent their last
vacation and as the state they
intend to visit next.
Nearly nine per cent of the
readers surveyed said they
spent ^heir last vacation in North
Carolina, while 8.5 per cent
said they intend to visit the
Tar Heel State next. Among
tfie states, Hawaii received the
fewest number of visitors from
the magazine's subscription
area.
The ten leading vacation areas
shown, with the per centage of
readers who spent their last
vacation there, are:
Florida, 18.9 per cent; North
Carolina, 8.6 per cent; Ten
nessee, 6.8 per cent; South
Carolina, 6.3 per cent; Geor
gia, 5.9 per cent; Texas, 5.5
per cent; California, 4.9 per
cent; Virginia, 4.8 per cent;
Canada, 4.2 per cent; and Ala
bama, 3.8 per cent.
blood supplies/’
Mrs. Groce said that above
normal blood requirments of the
larger hospitals, particularly in
Charlotte, may account for the
low supply.
Charlotte experienced sev
eral automobile wrecks last
week resulting in two cases of
excessive hemorrhaging which
combined with the shooting of
a policeman, required large
amounts of blood for treatment.
Ralph Beshears Gets
Degree At WF
Winston-Salem—Ralph Lane
Beshears Jr.f son of Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph Beshears of Boone,
recently was graduated from
Wake Forest University.
Beshears majored in English
and received the bachelor of
arts degree. He was a member
of the university choir and of
the Young Democrats Club.
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