Show real boom Boorn towa rises in wasteland HOLLY RIDGE N C four months ago you could have bought all al the land you wanted around here for three or tour four dollars an acre unless you happened to be dealing deallan with a native whose conscience would not allow him to accept such an price today this aa same being sold in 20 foot lots and for serious money too no nobody has discovered oil in thise these parts this just happens to be thi the place the federal government picked forthe for th ardys ne new wanti anti air craft training camp now under construction st there ts ii good farm land both to the north and south of holly ridge but the real estate in this immediate vicinity is little more than a scrub timbered waste but the U S army had other ideas the section is not only easily accessible by highway and railroad but offers an ideal spot over which to shoot anti air ci craft ift j guns j without danger of hitting iyone anyone on land or sea the shape of the coast and the lay of the land is 13 well suited to the ardys purpose guns Gun swill will fire out into onslow bay wide coastal indenture many miles from the lanes of coastwise shipping naturally the government did wt suffer from holly ridges new land boom in the first place the price rise until the army had acted and in the second the government h has as the right of condemnation so its two mile frontage on U S highway no 17 and all the territory between here and the ocean came cam cheap biltl ita i heland adjacent to the reservation re ion suddenly become so valuable in november the entire population of the crossroads cross roads of f holly ridge and for a mile in every direction totaled 28 this summer according to government plans there willbe troops stationed here already there are several thousand men building the camp and the trailer camps in which many of them live stretch up and down the highway for miles pine plank stores and bunk houses spring up over night and business is booming on every kand how long it all will wili last labod nobody y knows |