Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1961-11-29
Community
Face-Lifting
BY TOM WOOD
y. &. State C0llere

For the record, the approach
Is community and area dcvC-
lopment." This concept of pro-
2reSS was put To work in 1850,
officially. As u chief result. to-
day there are GIT organized
communities and ten organized
areas in North Carolina.
But these warm statistics
give only bare hint of ach-
icVcmcntS in North Cardinals
people-to-pcoplc program uf
progress.
The real story can be seen
IN slip cover, Il country ham,
Il cobblerS bench and place
mat
Mrs. Charles Graham of Liz
wood Davidson County, tells
about tie slip cover. She i.
chairman Of the Communi;,
Development Division OF N,
Northern Piedmont Area De-
vc."pnCn; Association.
You start out making a slip
cover for chair. and before
YOU know il you've rcmudelcd
your h"uSc-and your pocket q.
book" she SAYS.
The idcc-iiitins spirit is very
contiguous III Il COnIinurity
says MIS-. Graham. Mr.. Jones
orlShtcnS his home inside and
Out. and his ncighborS soon
follow suit. The whole COM
munliy becomes Il better place
To live as It's citizens work to-
gcther on improvements f..
IN" benefit of everybody.
The country ham. produced
by Coke Marion of Sparta al
lcShHny County,, is a faSt-sell-
NJ item in the Trading Post
at Glendale Springs on the
Blue Ridge Parkway. Marion
sells hundreds of hams each
year AT this country store" Il
project of the Northwest North
Carolina Development ASsoci-
alton.
Eishty-siX per cent of the
Trading Post income goes back
10 IN" people OF the II North
west counties who sell their
homemade articles there
Maylcck Industries in VIM
gate tUnion County, produces
the cubblcr'S bench. along with
100 other decorative pine items
for the home.
We're doing a business Of
Sl.5OO.OO0 year and we're
S3OO.0OO behind in orders"
says Bernard Helms. an offici-
al of this cight-ycar-uld firm.
Helms says that anyone
who lives in this community
and asks Tor a job gets it. If he
can't do the first Job we give
nm, we find one he can do"
The restaurant place mat is
one facet of the Northern Pied
mont Associations Campaipn
l" ehtlce tourists Ito spend an
DINER night" in the area. On
the mat is a map of the seven
county area. with places high
lighted of interest To tourists.
Tourists spend $50 day.
on the average" says John
Gaddy, chairman of the asso-
cations Travel ana Recreation
Division. The longer we can
get them To stay i'm North Car
DINA. the more North Caro-
lima benefits"
Community Drvclo y mcnt
Agriculture. Industry. Travel
and Recreation. These are the
loolS of progress in the Area
Development Program.
The neighbors are WATCHING
me JoncScS with high interest
moi Just To see whether thnv
nave new car or a color tee
wee. They're looking in a spirit
u tflendllnrSS and cooperation
lor the community'S sake
And the JuneScS are watch
ing the JunCSCS in other corr
muniticS and counties and
areas. where there NAV be
!6eaS at work for progress that
ould work just as well back
home
Greensboro leaders realized
few years ago that bank de-
)oSits were bigger and per
'apltd income higher in North
vest North Carolina than in
he Northern Piedmont. THO
northwest record in area de-
elopmcnt convinced Green's
poro leaders that they. too.
'"cdcd an area prog Css pro-
ram.
Bland WOrlcy. chairman Of
he board of the Northern
I"dmunt Association. believes
he people of his area learned
great lesson from Other
areas.
We no longer feel that an
nduS'ry must come to Green's
'o"o for our city To realize
."ncfitS from it," he saws. "No
i'y or county can 60 il alone.
r prospective industries look
adjoining counties where
Nuch of thcir labor force may
ONE from
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