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Tourist attraction would include scenes from past?
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(Continued from p. l) visual support to provide a captivating display.
?Recreated scenes,? Cooper said, -?would include soap making, horse shoeing, oxen teams, quilt making, charcoal kilns turpentine dipping, horse and buggy rides, smokehouse meat curing, a grist mill and an old time logging camp These and other activities would constitute the ?yesterday? portion of tne attraction.
A ride from ?yesterday? would be aboard an old time Shav engine, now on display at the Chamber of Commerce. Open excursion type railroad passenger cars would be pulled by the Shay from the Nicholson area to NSTL and along the way forestry and wildlife exhibits would be explained along with the history, growth and future of NSTL.
* "A f^e?f'tom?irow' wou!d iiven by exhibits and a and exhibit would be as complete as the NSTL family would like to make it. We believe this part of the proposed attraction would be continously updated through new
projects new ideas and the continuing effort of the NSTL family Swrw?	aJways	** 83 ?modern? and the elusive
Coo-Kr continued, ?we would like to consider if possible, the extension of the rail line from NSTL to MO
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Cooper admits th3 project is ?something of a dream,? but
3 v rfow!of 7)0 other area anywhere capable of putting a package like this together.?	^	*
He says talks with officials at NSTL and Southern Railway are essential, recognizes refurbishment of the Shay is a major
E bUt- ?ayS ?Southern has 3 steam repair shop and could help us so it s not inconceiveable that we can really put this thing together.?
Cooper also points to the uniqueness of Picayune?s Shay engine as a focal point, noting only four other Shay engines are still operational and none are the particular mode! of our own
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i ' fTJ3rt ,historica! standpoint there, our Shay would at least be the fifth oldest in the country and probably older than that. Sure, we ve run into some skeptics, but for the most part we re encouraged aqd plan to proceed."
Buzzy Grice, president of the Chamber, offered the group?s help in future contacts, said ?the idea is an interesting one and we look forward to hearing continued reports of your progress."
In other action, the Chamber:
-	okayed purchased of a $7o purchase award for the local arts league;
-	set Feb. 15 as the date for a meeting of the retail merchants committee;
-	learned work on the Chamber?s new residents? handbook is
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