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thm Om-&jivfikr RSmST i'mi"1 01 Little Mia. M.rjorie, daughter <t Mr. and Mxi. Jeaae T. Robbins, after a sever* attack of pneu monia, is now improving, and bar early recovery ia expected. Mra. llartha Gentry of Jeffer son, to visiting her daughfer, Mr* 2. G. Hortoo in Boone. She w m accompanied here by her son. Rev. A. H. Gentry. Mr*. Rachel Coffey, widow of the late Thomas Coffey of Cald well county, died at her home near Patterson last Thursday. Her brother and sister. Miss Jen nie and Mr. W. C. Coffey attend ed the funeral, returning to their home last Monday. Deceased was a good, kind. Christian lady, and waa well known to many in Wa tauga who will hear of her death BENEFIT POLIO FUND NOW Through Feb. 12th We Will Donate 5% of ALL Sales to MARCH OF DIMES Economy Shoe and Ready-T o- Wear Store with genuine sorrow. The mail carrier from Blowing Rock to Boone is grumbling, and justly too, we think, from the fact that road overseen allow snow drifts to remain in the highway until the traveling pub lic is forced to move them to make travel possible. He says it was with the greatest difficulty that he got through with the mail on Tuesday, owing to the terrible snow drifts in the road. Mrs. Thomas Hopkins, after an illness of more than thirteen months, died at her home in Elk Park on last Thursday, leaving a husband and two children. The remains, accompanied by 'her im mediate family and a few friends, passed through the villiage Fri day, en route to Stony Fork, where they were laid to rest in the family graveyard. Mrs. Stonewall Jackson of Charlotte, widow of the old general, . has been a ' visitor in Washington. One day last week she was in the Senate gallery, and at the President's request, occupied his reserved seat in the executive gallery. Mrs. Jackson was also a dinner guest at the White House while away. Mr. William Randolph Hearst enjoyed a long flight in an air plane. "MARKET BASKET" The Agriculture Department reports a drop of slightly more than five per cent in the retail cost of the family "market bas ket" of farm products in the last six months. By "market basket" is meant an amount of farm food products equal to the average an nual purchases by a family of three average consumers in the 1935-39 period. The average re tail cost of the "market basket" was $708 in July, highest on re cord. The cost was reported less than $675, by Dec. 31. The price received by the farmer for the "market basket" was estimated at $343 late in the year, as compared with a record $382 last January. HOW MILD CAN acimreitebe ? Make the Camel 30-Day "Test and see ! ?me tc-ow ' CONVINCED ME. CAMUS ARE SO , AMD TH?y HAVE SUCH WONDERFUL HAVOK y} AMO THE ' IMXA WV SMOKE CAMELS THE MOKE HML *Pf*tUATt that a/cm, full \-rri OAtAT! In a recent test of hundreds of people who smoked only Camels for 30 days, noted throat specialists,' making weekly examinations, reported NOT ONE SINGLE CASE OF THROAT INRITATION duo to smoking CAMELS A/\i TOPS FOR YOUR HOME AND YOUR BARN Now . . . the popular 5-V Crimp roof ing in genuine Reynolds Lifetime Aluminum! Never will rust. Never needs painting. Never costs another cent after erected. So easy to put up ...6-foot length weighs less than 5 lbs. Yet it's extra-sturdy . . 53% thicker than old-fashioned 28-gauge galvan ized! It's wonderful insulation, too... reflects the sun away, keeps the in terior much cooler in summer. Equally good for siding. A top-efficiency build ing material for homes, factories, warehouses, commercial buildings. In 6, 8, 10 and 12-foot lengths, 24" cover age. AVAILABLE NO*! REYNOLDS lifetime ALUMINUM 5-V CRIMP ROOFING AND SIDING Now Being Sold at Wholesale Warehouse Prices LOWE'S NORTH WILKESBORO HARDWARE CO. Oypwltii Post Office Phone 389 ? ' North Wilkes boro, N. C. THIS WEEK IN WASHINGTON Outstanding during the past weeks in congressional circle* was the vote by which Dean Acheson was confirmed by the ?enate as secretary of state ? tt to 6. Facts are that every senator was anxious to disassociate him self with the public hearing on the Acheson nomination which broke a precedent of more than 160 years in the government Of thoae six senators who voted against him. Homer Cape hart and William E. Jenner of Indiana had not an yet apparently weigh ed the Indiana vote on last Nov ember 2. For that vote swept in a Democratic governor and an entire Democratic state ticket and came within something like 15,000 votes of sweeping the state for Truman ? a state which had been doped as 190,000 for the Re publican ticket. So Capehart and Jenner just cannot read the figures on the score board, according to observ ers here, in Washington. Lan/jer of North Dakota, of course**" is against any Ameican foreign policy and his vote was not un anticipated. The two votes which could not be tabulated to any degree of certainty were those of Sen. Wil liam F. Knowland of California and Styles Bridges of New Hampshire. Knowland followed the line of several influential newspapers in his state ? influen tial insofar as Knowland is con cerned but not otherwise ? and of course Bridges has always been unpredictable. Sen. Kenneth Wherry has been consistently wrong on foreign policy ever since he has been in the senate. His vote against Acheson followed his vote against Acheson when he came up for approval as under-secretary of state in the 80th congress. At least Wherry is consistent. In a reshuffling of committee assignments as radical as possible within the seniority system. Dem ocrats in house and senate have picked committees which will put through the Truman pro gram. Where the rub may come, insofar as the adminstration is concerned, is in the senate and house appropriations and finance committees which must furnish the money to carry out the pro gram enacted by the congress. For instance, on the senate financt committee there are two new members, Clyde R. Hoey of North Carolina and J. Howard McGrath, the Democratic na tional 'committee chairman. Be sides these two, the committee includes Scott W. Lucas of Illi nois, ' the Democratic floor lead er. Then there are Walter George of Georgia, Tom Connally of Texas and Harry Byrd of Vir ginia, plus Edwin C. Johnson of Colorado. This trio. George, Bjrrd and Johnson consistently voted against the administration in the last congress. The party ratio on the agricul ture committee has gone from 7 to 6 up to 8 to 8. In other words there art eight Democrats and live Republicans on the new com mittee. The geographic represen tation has been somewhat broad ened by the addition of freshman Sen. Clinton Anderson of New Mexico, former secretary of agri culture. Iowa continues on the committee with Guy M Gillette, Democrat, taking over the post of George A. Wilson whom Gil lette defeated in November. Chairman Elmer Thomas of Okla homa says he favors a frigid 90 per cent of parity program in stead of the present sliding scale as posed by tHe 'Hope-Akin long range farm act. Others may change their minds as did Tho mas who during the last session voted for the flexible parity price program. ? ? ? Sen. Margaret Chase Smith of Maine, a Republican o^ course, has a refreshing and probably new concept of Democrats and Republicans. Says Senator Smith: "Basically there is no difference between the rank and file of tbe Democrats and the rank 'and file of the Republicans of this coun try. Equally there is no diffef ence between the consciences and morals of the big labor and those of big business. Control of a political party by. either big labor or big business is equally wrong and should be opposed by the people. The political parties be long to all the people, not just to the more articulate pressure groups." The present rent control law expires March 31. Sen. Francis J. Myers of Pennsylvania, the Dem ocratic senate whip, has introduc ed a bill which would put new construction under rent control, establish control over converted housing units and permanent hotel accommodations including apartment hotels, prohibit new leases providing higher rent, give the government the right to reulate evictions and restore to the housing expediter the right to sue violators for triple dama ges and on criminal grounds. SOFT COAL Soft-coal operators have re ported a fifty-day coal supply on hand. Their above-ground stock piles total 70,000,000 tons, the highest in nearly ten years, due in part to the mild Eastern win ter which has cut coal demands. Boone Flower ?hop Cut Flowers, Corsages and Funeral Designs GIFT ITEMS PhotM 214-J E. King Street County Agent See* Need for Safe Farm Driveway* The farmer who condemn* cities because of narrow streets and blind alleys may have a similar traffic hazards right in his own front yard, says L. E. Tuckwiller, county agent for the State College extension service. Mr. Tuckwiller refers to the farm driveway, which be says, is a. blind alley of weeds on many farms. "More than one third of our farm accident victims are from motor vehicle mishaps," he adds. The National Safety Council recommends the following proce dure in building a safe driveway: 1. Park the car in the driveway with the front bumper ten feet from the nearest edge of the pavement or traveled portion of the highway. 2. Measure a distance of about 700 feet or 290 paces along the highway to the left and place a' marker at th? edge of the pave ment on the side nearest the driveway entrance. 3. In the same manner set another marker 700 feet in the opposite direction but this sec ond marker should be on the side of the highway opposite the driveway entrance. 4. Sit in the driver's seat of the car. If the markers can be seen, the sight distances are proper if the traffic going by the farm does not exceed 60 miles per hour. If the markers cannot he seen, to make the driveway safe. If a heavy, slow-starting truck will be using the driveway, the markers should be set 830 feet away in each direction instead of 700 feet. Mr. Tuckwiller called attention to the fact that a highway right of-way is usually 64 feet in width. If it is necessary to trim bushes or remove obstructions on this right-of-way, the matter should be taken up with the high way official under whose juris diction it falls, he said. , ? m ?? ~ ' Chance To Travel ! There's a place for you in a career that commands respect the world over. Yes, and it of fer* you a chance to see that world, this fascinating globe on which we live. If you're an adventurous young man who likes to move around and see all there is to see, look no farther than the new U. S. Air Force. Enlist now. Here is an organization made to order for you. It offers good jobs, in interesting work, with good pay. Ladies, too, have opportunity in the AAC and WAT. See your recruiter to day. He's at U. S. Army and 'U. S. Air Force Recruiting Station at the Post Office in Lenoir, N. C. Besides a chance to travel, there are such bene fits as free retirement plan, low-coat insurance, and 20 percent more pay for foreign service. Here's exceptional ed ucational advantages for you. Enlist now for a real future! TIME TO PUCE ORDERS FOR FERTILIZER Again This Year We Will Be Glad To Furnish You With That GOOD RED STEER Let Us Know Your Requirements Early in Order That You Won t Come Up Short We Also Have Vigro for Plant Beds, Flowers, Lawns 9 and Gardens Drop In and See Us FARMERS HARDWARE AND SUPPLY CO. BOONE. NORTH CAROLINA Oldsmobile Means More Car For Your Money ? Futuramic Design, Hydra-Matic Drive, and High-Compression "Rocket" Engine! ff hat you #Pt fo* uhm you pay . . . that's the big thing in buying a car. And witk a Futuramic Oftdamobile, yon |et more of everything that oounU. More performance- ? with the high -oompremop "Rocket" Engine. More driving eat* ? with llydra>Matic Drive. More safety ? with the extra acceleration of Whirlaway. More smartnes* and Uyle ? wW Futuramic deaign. It'? SMAHT to Own an Old*! C?**. 7c zfo Tic&co We will die earlieat poMihle MICH ? We will diirai price* suggested bv ( Mdi Motors. nnjKr will receive TIAOI-INS Wr will take vour car without rrquirng a trade-in. However, we Dave manv \ alur.l used car customers we would like Oldsmo biles at with production, an the delivered Division of (rcneral Ifiiwd bill of sale, order aad deliver to supply, and we will give you a fair snd reasonable allowance on your present car. FfNAMCIMO ? You may pay cash for your new Olds mobile or finance it wherever you wish. We will be glad to furnish low coat finance and insurance terms. ACCKSSOftltS ? All cars are delivered with accessories as ordered, and prices are figured to cover thMr. We will add no "extras" except those customer orders. YOUR OLDSMOBILE DEALER At These Boone Delivered Prices! Price* Include raido. Condition Air heater, defroster. re?r fen der panels, turn signal, de luxe ?teerlng wheel, horn button, electric clock, automatic f lovr bo* light ? and. on Series "9t", Hydra Matlc Drive and oil filter. SERIES "71" Club Coupe (2.087. 15 De Luxe Club Coupe ? <2.1 SB 80 Club Sedan ? ? ? ? 82,113 15 De Luxe Club^edan t2.196.80 Town Sedan -W? 82,177 18 De Luxe Town Sedan --88,280 80 Sedan 88.187 15 De Luxe Sedan IUNJ0 Convertible Coupe 82.503.15 De Luxe Station Wagon 0.181.80 SERIES "tt" Club Sedan ? ? ? - 82.781 30 De Luxe Club Sedan 82.86S 20 Sedan 82.85S.30 De Luxe Sedan f2.m.20 De Luxe Convertible Coupe hjnS State and city extra Hydra Matlc Drive and city taxes. If any. __ -iydra-Matlc Drive optkm ?I.at extra cost on the Series "78." White sldewall tires opt ional at extra cost on all modete All prices subject to change without notice. Prices may vary slightly in adjoining communl ties because of transportation charges. BLUE RIDGE MOTORS 179lW N.C i 1
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