OSWEGO VALLEY NEWS MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1958 "Th» th«t'» lro» vnwr to cow " SKI CENTERS GROW IN NEW ai'v. Slopes (also open Saturday tel at Rosendale; and Your.gs Mr. and Mrs. Philip Malone YORK STATE; CONTINUE TO At Silver,mine Ski Center in nights), and Holiday Valley near Club at Grossinger; Shavnes at and Mr. and Mrs. William Dingle MAKE IMPROVEMENTS he Palisades Interstate Park, Ellicottville. Highmount; Williams Lake Ho- of the Ware Road, Mr. and Mrs. Albany, N.Y.,...Expansion of nother slope has been cleared Centers operating week-ends Gap Hotel at Liberty. v Wayne Arnold of West First St., skiing facilities continues in or beginners and a new tow in- only in the Adirondack section Complete information on the South, Mr. and Mrs. Newell Bar- New York State, Commerce Com- tailed, bringing the number of are Hickory Hill, west of War- ski centers is given in "Where nard of Atlantic Avenue, and missioner Edward T. Dickinson ows to four. rensburg, Marble Moutnain at to Ski in New York Stite." Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Grey of reported today. A survey by the Another Hudson River Valley Wilmington, and Sugar Loaf which may be obtained without Pierce Drive were guests of Mrs. Department shows that of the inter, Birch Hill Ski Area, nine Mountain at Tupper Lake; in the charge from th» State Dpnart- Farron Cooper, the Ware Road, forty-one centers that will be in miles north of Brewster, is also Catskills: Bearpen Mountain at ment of Commerce. 112 State last Sunday evening. operation this coming winter, a repared for a big season. The Prattsville, Highmount, Simpson Street, Albany 7, N. Y. number have added new facilit- moden Austrian system of skiing Memorial Slopes at Phoenicia, ies. nstruction will be given to all and Roxbury at Vega;' in the In the Central Adirondacks, rades of skiers. The capacity of Hudson Valley: Catamount near an $85,000 ski center on Mc- as been increased and the ski Hillsdale, Fahnestock State Park, Do You Want Your Cauley Mountain at Old Forge chool will offer pre-season ski- and Silvermine at Palisades In- ns; on a plastic ski-mat surface terstate Park; in Central New expects to open December 20. It York: Cooperstown, Labrador Ski ROOF SHOVELED OFF will have a network of trails, 'hich covers a considerable area, Center at Tully (also open Mon- a T-bar lift, and a novice and now Valley at Fishkill ooens day, Wednesday and Friday If You Do - Call beginners' slope. The center will his winter with some new feat- nights), and Toggenburg near operate daily. res. Fabius (also open Wednesday, PHOENIX OW 5-4017 Snow Ridge at Turin, in the Among other centers are: in Thursday and Friday afternoons) western Adirondacks, has in- he Adirondack region: Fawn Land at East Berne, and Snowy - free estimates - stalled a second T-bar and plac- =Udge and Kobl Mountain at Acres at Cobleskill; in the west- ed a Poma lift in its expanded -ake Placid, Mt. Pisgah at Sar- ern part of the state: Allegheny beginner's area, as part of a nac Lake, (also open nights); in State Park (Big Basin area); $50,000 expansion program. Total he Catskills area: Belleayre "he Saratoga-Lake George are" • capacity of the three lifts is more fountain at Highmount and Alpine Meadows near South Cor- Order Your . . . than 3,000 skiers per hour. Holiday Mountain near Monti- inth; and in the Mohawk Val- The state-owned Whiteface ello; in the Hudson Valley: ley: Royal Mountain near Johns- CHRISTMAS AFRICAN VIOLETS Mountain Ski Center at Wil- 3irch Hill at Patterson; in Cen- town (also open Wednesday mington has graded thousands ral New York: Hickory Ridge nights.) . . . Early of feet of ski trails and slopes. near Pittsford (might skiing WE HAVE ABOUT 200 IN BLOOM RIGHT NOW Extra T-bar assemblies at ilso), and Swain near Nunda; Resort hotels with skiing fa- Oak Mountain Ski Center, Spscu- n the Capital District: Willard cilities include the Mirror Lake $1.00 and $1.50 lator, will increase uphill capa- Mountain at Easton (also open Inn at Lake Placid; the Con- city twenty-five percent. The nights); in Western New York: cord Hotel at Kiamesha Lake; MRS. HAROLD A. BLAKE SR. center has undergone consider- Allegany State Park's Bova Grossinger Hotel and Country 316 Walradt St. Fulton, N.Y. Phone LY 2-2055 able face lifting. An extensive rock removal job followed by seeding, ditching and grooming has been done on the Sacand- aga Trail. The warming hut and the auto parking areas have been enlarged and rest room facilities added. A new center, Willard Moun- tain Ski Area, has opened at North Easton, eighteen mile; north of Troy in the Capital District. It has a T-bar lift which can transport 1,200 skiers OPEN EN per hour, a number of rope tows and a snow-making machine. In addition to its slopes, it has CHARMETTE SHOPPE. . has the lovely intimate gifts that are four trails. Royal Mountain Ski Center at Johnstown in the Mohawk Val- ley has a new Constam T-bar lift, which will serve its expert intermediate and novice trails. In the Catskill region, the state-owned Belleayre Mountain Ski Center has painted and re- .»r<-*ad 1^3 buildings and seedec jr \ new 3,000-foot T- "#• t into operation las' iV cut down the wait- for uphill transpor- ur new trails con- year ago have addec lety of skiing terrain _„ jnt Ski Center, nex elleayre, has acquirec property and thus en- . parking area. It ha the slope to the top •st lift and widened thi Winkle trail. The be area has also been en ly Mountain Ski Area a ;llo, Sulivan County, ha 1 and cleared air trail jpes; graded and bulldoz the top of the Poma lif expanded the beginners Blouses and more blouses—thousands a approximately thre ' the former size; installed to choose from. Cotton nylons, all *" school rope tow and ex styles, all cute. $2.99 up I ed the chalet. J e Concord Hotel at Kia la Lake is putting in a new ple-maier ski lift with a icity of 560 persons per hour s will make two rope tow I two ski lifts at the center CAR and WEATHER COATS — wide assortment, s center is also buying a new season's latest styles and colors. jw-cat. $10.95 up jSrossinger's Hotel, one of th st resorts to install a snow aker, has improved its machine he eighth annual world Barre Orion, Luxura & Banlon SWEATERS, limping Championships will b all sizes, colors, styles. $3.98 up. leld here Saturday, January 10 shile the Eastern Olympic speed jkating trials for the 1960 worl games are set for Saturday an Sunday, January 24 and 25. In the Central New York area Greek, Peak at Cortland wi operate seven days a week. ] has cut two new trails, the Stoi Way and the Olympian. The late has a thirty-two degree slope the topside and is about 3,500 feet long. This raises the total t HOLIDAY five trails. Two rope tows hav been installed and a new builc ing erected for the National Sk DRESSES Patrol unit. Toggenburg Ski Center, a Fabius, twenty miles south o $10.98 up Syracuse, has added seventy-tw feet of floor space to its presen lodge. A small rope tow for be New Fall Gloves ... see the new ginners and a ski school hav styles and fabrics. $2 .00 up. been added. The cafeteria ha been enlarged. A new operation, Labrador Sk Center at Tully, is centrall located for skiers from Syracus Ithaca and Cortland. It has tw rope tows and a chalet. It is ope weekends and holidays, an CHARMETTE SHOPPE Monday, Wednesday and Frida 105 East Broadway Free Parking in rear (acrosss fromm P.. O.O ) LY 2-5133 nights. Swain, near Rochester, ha installed a snow-making ma chine. The center will opera