Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1957-03-13

Ashcboro, RamSeur and Hot
snrings have been named first
Oi.ce winners in the 1856 Fin
o. Carolina" contest sponsored
4 Carolina Power & Light
Company.
"scrapbooks submitted to the
fdrcs reflect a gratifying urge
Tor civic improvements" CON-
men,ed Louis v. Sutton, presi-
den, of Carolina Power & Light
company. Because we feel
that our contest has played some
mart In stimulating this competi-
tive spirit for local betterment,
" are now sponsoring the Fill
Carolina" contest for the sixth
consecutive season"
For Asheboro this is the
fourth consecutive win. 1t is the
third Finer Carolina" honor for
Rlmseur, which was first las:
year. and second the year be-
fore.
For Hot Springs, community
Of 800 in Madison CoAnty, the
first prize is its first. Hot
Mornings won by establishing a
i2-room medical clinic and pro-
curing practicing physician,
the community's first in several
years.
These three towns will receive
a $1,000 cash prize each for out
standing community develop
mcnt and improvement during
the past year. Twenty-Five other
towns in North and South Car
alma share cash prizes and hon
fablc mention awards in the
contest.
Winning Second-place prizes
Of $500 in the 1856 contest are
Harrells, Spruce Pine and Rox-
boro. Third-place winners, re-
cciving $3.50 each, are Norlina
Wallace and Sanford.
FirSt-place winners IN the
new, special project class ar:
Swannanoa, its neighborine
community of Black Mountain
and Clinton. They will receive
$3.50 each. Second-place project
winners are Farmer, Rowland
and Wadesboro. Two South Car
DINA towns, Pagcland anc
Dillon. won third place in thu
projects competition, rs die
WrightSville Beach, N. c. The,
will receive 500 each.
Plaques for honorable mentio:
will be given 10 towns in tn,
cylrcc population claSsifications
naySville. Wagram, Clio, S. G.
SwanSboro and Aurora in tn,
l-l.O00 class; Burgaw, PittsborC
and Troy in the l,00l-3,0 90;
class: and Huntsville, S. c., ant
Rockingham in the 800 and ovel
class.
Prize money totals S6,750, anC
contest rules require that it b:
put back into community i'm
Srovements.
Judges for the fifth annua
Finer Carolina" contest were
Or. S. II. Hobbs, head of the De.
partmcnt of Sociology, U. N. e.
W. +. Cole, head of the Dcpar.
mcnt of Sociology at the Uni,
vvrSitv Of Tennessee: and G.. S
Dunn. public relations directo
for Appalachian Electric Com
pany, Roanoke, Va.
ASheboro'S domination o
RrSt-place position in the large,
population class came through 1
long-range continuing pro
gresS" program. Identification
and Improvement was a decid.
ing factor in the 1855 judging
Also included in its program
were industrial expansion, edu
catIonal improvements, recrea,
;ional improvements and cultur.
al development.
. Ramseur conducted an out
0tanding community improve
ment program to take first plac,
IN its class, this program in
Guiding a home Of the month
cIean-up campaign, teacher ap.
probation day, "litterbug" cam
paign and others.
Hot Springs medical clinit
efforts won it first place.
In the special projects recog
milton. Black Mountains Jaycee
Hon praise for their recreationa
program. Clinton, which VOL
third place in 1855, was give,
The special projects nod for it