Thursday, September 26, 1974
SNOWSHOE
Saltyfork – There is a call for neighborly assistance going out from here these days. Probably nowhere in a five-state area will the housing shortage be so acute as it will be this winter at Snowshoe, the large ski and year-round resort under development here.
Dr. Tom Brigham, president of the development and a veteran of two other similar ski operations, says it will be a few years before commercial lodging facilities can possibly catch up with the mountain’s capacity for skiers.
With the type of skiing Snowshoe will offer, those skiers are expected to number nearly 60,000 before the end of the season.
The solution, Dr. Brigham thinks, might be to take a page out of his own New England note book. He relates that in the late 40s and 50s, the skiing industry in Vermont expanded so rapidly that the overnight housing facilities were left behind.
With typical Yankee ingenuity and enthusiasm, the local farmers and residents of the small villages surrounding the new ski areas opened their doors to tourists. Bedrooms and parlors long in disuse since the kids had left home, were fixed up for the overnight skiers. The idea caught on so fast, the skiers themselves, even later, opted for the family style lodging…
WEDDINGS
The Marlinton Presbyterian Church was the setting at two o’clock p.m. Sunday, September 8, 1974, for the marriage of Miss Anne Winters Mallow to William Thomas Workman.
The Rev. Richard New-kirk performed the ceremony.
Mrs. Workman is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. John M. Mallow, of Marlinton. Her husband is the son of William D. Workman, of Hillsboro, and the late Grace Rogers Workman.
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Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Hodge, of Marlinton, wish to announce the marriage of her daughter, Sandra Lee Watson, to Melvin Lee Anderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin C. Anderson, of Marlinton.
The Open Church Wedding will take place at Marlinton Presbyterian Church Saturday afternoon, October 12, 1974, at four o’clock.
DEATHS
Mrs. Allie F. Burgess, 95, of Marlinton, widow of James A. Burgess. Born at Woodrow, a daughter of the late John W. and Margaret Moore Burgess.
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Woodrow Franklin Johnson, 40, of Seebert. Born in Sophia, a son of Wayman and Effie Morton Johnson. Funeral service in the Rose and Quesenberry Peace Chapel with burial in Blue Ridge Memorial Garden at Prosperity.
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Henry W. Shaver, 88, of Slatyfork; funeral from the Slatyfork United Methodist Church with burial in the Gibson Cemetery.
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Mrs. Bessie McCarty, 82, of Huntersville; service will be held Friday afternoon at the Huntersville United Methodist Church with burial in the Mountain View Cemetery.
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Kenneth H. Nicholas, 41, of Staunton, Virginia, formerly of Elkins, was found dead in Staunton two weeks ago. He had been reported missing several weeks before. Born in Frank, he was a son of the late Alfred Fenton and Minnie M. Jackson Nicholas. Funeral service in Elkins.
A BIT OF HUMOR
Who says executives don’t get enough exercise? They jump to conclusions, dodge questions, hit the ceiling and swing their weight around.
Ordinarily, we wouldn’t want to be president, but around the first of the month, it would be nice to veto a few bills.
The world seems to have forgotten, in its concern with left and right, that there’s an above and below.
