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From ALMAR FARM In Transylvania! J I BY CAL CARPENTER i wuwwnffwoDowooocmoowra The ALMAR Farm folks went over to Asheville the other morning. We had business uptown, and af terwards we did some shop ping along Haywood Road. Thif is a section of Asheville that used to be the busiest part ofjown, but we found it prafiMoaUy deserted. •iiU ? Jt.aras a weekday morning, admitted; but it was not early —;■about 10 o’clock. Twenty years, ago the streets would have been crowded with bustling shoppers, but this time, you could count the pocplC on your fingers. It caused me to begin thinking again* about something that has been in my mind off and on for the last several years — the decline of cities in this coUhtry. •.'.'si fes are declining. Stores moving to shopping srs and shoppers are ; where the stores are. £]-cities are becoming If anything could verify reports that this is taking placefill over the country, this is it'Tior it is clearly evident even in Asheville, a small city in the hills of Western North Carolina where more populous area trends are slow in showing. Empty stores once-busy street, automobile traffic and shoppers cannot be igno proolM? CCS to shopping shoppers are - stores are. becoming to ^administrative and banks, and even banks have found it to have branch in the shopping cen ; is not publicized, for it to admit by central businesses and property But decentralization social tact of life in this • third of the 20th century. Commercial interests are, pi probably will continue ‘- ^T-ing politicians to ate huge sums of ilic money for urban Insurance Agency *x-x-x-x*xvx-x«-x*x*>x*x*x renewal, urban transit and “civic centers,” but I’m afraid it is a lost cause. For cities, if we think about them logically, are anachronisms. They are needs of the past that a modern, highly mobile society has outgrown. They are now largely slum-makers and crime-breeders and will continue to be so no matter how much money is poured down the rat hole. There was once a good reason and a need for cities. When they began, thousands of years ago, they were the cultural centers that brought men closer where human beings could learn and practice the arts of living together; where humanity could progress from the narrow family circle that began in the caves. During this period, and the later middle ages, cities became centers of defense where men could band together; first against dangerous animals of the wild and later, in walled towns, against each other. With the growth of nationalism and stronger governments, the walls became unnecessary and the cities spread. Then the cities became necessary for the jobs and livlihoods they offered, for the factories and market places were there. But before the middle of this century, the factories began moving out. Space became too dear and the vertical development of cities became more practical for offices and management centers than heavy machinery. The tall, red brick sweatshops of the early 20th century gave way to the one-story, air conditioned exurban plants we see today. The cause of the decline in cities is, of course, the great mobility of the present time for which the automobile is largely responsible. With easy transportation, people at first moved out of the crowded cities and drove back to their jobs. Later, after the jobs moved out, they only visited the cities for shopping and, perhaps, entertainment. Now, with shopping centers and “industrial park” developments — centers where homes, jobs, shopping facilities and entertainment places are all grouped together out in the open — there is little reason to come to the city at all except as an infrequent visitor. With science and technology in their present states of advancement, it is not difficult to imagine a time when cheap, foolproof personal air tran sportation will result in better mobility and even less reason for cities than there is now. Cities have been a part of Friends Of Handicapped Will Meet The Friend* of the Han dicapped will hold their regular meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 38, at 7:30 p.m. at Silvermont. At the last meeting the following were elected officers for the year 1975: Chairman, Mildred Tawney; vice chairman, Ruby Chapman; secretary treasurer, Ms. John Huggins; program, Carolyn O’Shield; membership, Dora Lanning; finance, Erika Shriner. This meeting will be im portant according to Tom Vincent, group spokesman, and all officers are urged to attend. Anyone interested in working with the handicapped is welcome, Mr. Vincent said. human life so long, it is not pleasant to contemplate their total abandonment ; to picture great, decaying concrete jungles where New York, Chicago, Los Angeles once stood; to envision haunted ruins, home only to vagrants, criminals, and die leavings of society. But this would seem to be their destiny. They must serve a progressive need if they are to survive and they are steadily failing in that function. Informed taxpayers will not long impoversih themselves to support cities that are becoming burdens on society, that serve few if any other purposes than that of providing fashionable, ex pensive addresses for a "jet set” or whatever its equivalent may be called in the future. When anything people need and want is available in the less-crowded, more convenient, and easily reached open country, the cities are doomed. Perhaps I shall not live to see it, but it looks as if that time is nearer than we.think. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF TRANSYLANIA tXECUTRIX Having qualified as the Executrix of the estate of George Dewey Gravely, deceased, late of the county of Transylvania, North Carolina, this is to give notice that all persons having claims against the estate of the deceased to present them to the un dersigned Executrix at 104 Franklin Ave., Brevard, N. C.28712 on or before the 18th day of May, 1975 or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to the said estate will please make immediate settlement. This the 18th day of November, 1974. Nancy M. 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