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But They Won’t Pay Many an investor is fooled by appar¬ ent market for expensive food and entertainment. «!/ OM> TltUIIGE In going into a town after a long absence, it often is necessary to ask a lot of fool questions to strike the trail of what's been happening. One question we ask is "How do the people around here make a living?" and we ask it whether we know the answer or not. In Rowland the other day the boy gassing up my car re¬ plied: "We have just one crop around here." “What's that?" "Farming," he replied. SPECIAL WINTER RATES Make Reservations Now PfneMeedles Lodges 5*fe=and Counfrtj Club **c SOUTHERN PINTS. N. C. NOVEMBER 20 THRU FEBRUARY 17 516.00 — PER PERSON. PER DAY Include* Room— Meal* — Green Fee 15 Rate— U Weather Declared Unplayable Another good conversation starter is "Where can I get a good meal here?" and “What do you folks do for fun?" Strangely enough, hardly anyone will give an answer reflecting credit on their town. It doesn't matter whether the town is large or small, most peo¬ ple will say apologetically: "You know, we need a good place to cat around here," and "There’s nothing to do in this burg." And nine times out of ten they arc wrong. People apparently get tired of the local fare, and think the place in the next town has better food. But to a visitor, the local restaurant usually is pretty good: sometimes exceptional. As to recreation, there often is "more to do" than the citizens can af¬ ford or get around to. Of course, they have in mind metropolitan attractions, like zoos, museums, athletic contests, dramatic productions. But it is our ob¬ servation that people living in New LOTS— ONLY $995 and UP on Beautiful WILMINGTON BEACH Lights, water, paved streets. These lots arc unrestricted, except to moving in old buildings. Trailers of modern construction and shell homes are welcomed. Buy one of these lots, and YOU own it — every foot of it. • TERMS: $10 DOWN AND $10 PER MONTH CONTACT: GLENN M. TUCKER. REALTOR P. O. BOX 661-Л. PHONE OL 826Я1 CAROLINA BEACH. N. C. Our Motto: “Honesty Pays' " York, for example, spend little or no time in such places, and they think out-of-towners who "go out" on Broad¬ way are boobs and suckers, which they arc. In the second place, the majority of people won’t support the type recrea¬ tion they seem to yearn for. Promoters who have been misled by grumbling arc painfully aware of this. The citizens say that a high-class restaurant would pay in Hometown, but after eating there once or twice, they arc back at the Main Street Grill. They can’t afford to pay S4 to S6 a plate for meals. And they can’t afford to go regularly to some place of amuse¬ ments where admission is charged. They can't afford it in New York and they can’t afford it in Durham. They wouldn’t go even if they could afford it, for most people have family and or¬ ganization duties and pleasures to oc¬ cupy them. It is only on a vacation or holiday jaunt that the average American family says "hang the cost." The success of re¬ sort enterprises is what deceives the ob¬ server. and even business set up to catch the away-from-home tripper isn’t always successful. But the fiction that pleasure estab¬ lishments or high-priced eating places will draw immense local crowds per¬ sists and it will continue to trap en¬ thusiastic people into making foolish investments. MOTEL CENTER Statesville is getting to be the center of fine motels. Latest is the 36-unit Statesville Motor Lodge, a de luxe es¬ tablishment at corner of Interstate 40 and U.S. 21. It has a distinction we hadn't heard of before. Core of the court arc pre¬ fabricated units, built in F.lkhart, Ind. The units arrived in half-room sec¬ tions complete inside except for car¬ pets. TV sets and air conditioners. The new motel, owned by local in¬ vestors, will be managed by Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Duke, who also manage the Howard Johnson Restaurant next door. DRAMA REPORT All three of North Carolina's out¬ door dramas showed increased attend¬ ance in 1961 — and this in a year when tourist spending generally was more modest. Unto These Hills, the Cherokee show, again led all the nation’s out- 36 THE STATE. NOVEMBER 25. 1961