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rmmucp sym tsvwdat tx wvrai narrow company JiSTZSSSL 1 bullish* I* im Pvtfisbcd tor W year, by tb«4nU m*e»tC. ton, Sr. H »"w™ M". $ U> County: On* yoar, (100; «U north*. *1.8* (oar month*, >1 00. OuuUte W»t*ug. Com*9 r, WJO; Us MtU »1.7»; tour month*, »1J». portico »t « C, u «*pn4 (<M pull matter, under thr »ct of Ctmgrmm at TO SUBSCRIBERS—ta change of addroea, It it InportMt to mention tk« OLD, >NE, NORTH CAWUMA, THURSDAY. HJ*E 20. 1*57 Post-Election Reflections The election is now over and some good men have settled down to the Job of con victing the affairs of the town tor the qext two peam. ^ As this is written, we do not know, for a certainty, who will held forth down at tfce city hall in the days ahead, but which ever four of the good men who were voted qp are inducted, we shall look forward tf a continuation of the tort of good gov ernment which has contributed W mjich to t>e growth of the community in the past. At this distance we do not think that, generally speaking, enough heat has de veloped ever the elsdiM to leave appre ciable scars, and that the overwhelming majority of the people will settle down in a spirit of cooperation to help the new Wtntfniltrptjon make a success from the word 40. The business of governing the city, as *e have mentioned before, it a sacrificial sort of thing. There is no appreciable monetary reward, and thar« if a vast amount of ttmf consumed in trying to take care of tfce business of running a town, which i| growing by leapt and feounda, with new civic problems being created almost daily. So it behoove* us to offer our congraula tions to the people who are willing to un dertake the governing job, and to go along with them in a spirit of helpfulneae and friendliness as they strive to create for us a better place in which to live. It is heartening that there are still many citizens of such patriotic tendencies that they are willing to take over this time consuming, almost payleu public service. We hope antf believe that our newly elected officials will carry on acceptably in the days ahead, and contribute fully to the further development of our city. Politeness On Highway Asked Col. James E. Smith, commander of the State Highway Patrol, this week adviaed Tar Heel motorists planning a vacation trip to other states to sharpen up their driving and highway manners. "People in the places you risit," Col. Smith said, "will judge North Carolina largely by your behavior. We're depending •n you to give the right impression." The patrol chief said that motorists will do a good public relations job if they re member that they are guests in other states and will observe the same courtesies they Observe when they are guests in a friend's home. "Remember." he ca'^ "beinfl a tourist gives you no special privileges, you are expected to obey all traffic laws and regu lations and to behave courteously on the road." The colonel advised motorists to ob serve the following points if they want to be welcome guests in other states: 1. Know and obey to the letter all traf fic laws. 2. Remember courtesy pays off in safety. Be ready to yield the right of way or to make other concessions in the interest of safety. 3. The state through which you are traveling is happy to have you admire its scenery, historic sights, and public build ings—but not when you are driving. Pull off the road and stop for a good look. 4. No host loves a tipsy guest. Don't drive after you have been drinking. 5. Show the same concern for pedes trians you would expect other drivers to show you if you were walking. General Store On Way Back p Old time merchant! like M- B. Black burn, R. M. Greene, and D. Jo net Cottrell, lad the right notion, it seems, in having everything in one spot— chewing gum |nd kerosene, hair ribbons and ammuni tion, piece goods and pickles, mowing ma chines, axle grease, sardines and dried tpples. At least, modern merchandising is following their lead, even if the goods are being stocked and stored with more rhyme and reason. Commenting op this trend the freenville (Miss.) Delta-Democrat-Times Mad this to say: Everything goes la eyelet, so they lay, and • aecent survey ihowi we are In the middle of a aeturn from what wai nottagirally termed "the d days." Remember the general (tore where yon once eould buy everything from a bustle to a ham Mock, and old timers sat arouad on cracker barrels munching abeeae and ewapplng y*m*? Well, the general store disappeared and the •specialty" store became vogue, even in small towns where the old-time (tore was the mar eantlle center ft the community. But the general store idea gradually began to come back—first In drug stroes. After a while you could buy anything In a grug store from a bath mat to a cafe meal. Then the supermarket! began, ftrit with a special counter for gadgets which included such items as skillets, egg sep arators and choese slices, then expanding Into tablecloths, cosmetics and Jewelry. (It is re ported that drug stores, resulting this "inva sion' of their domain countered by placing bread, pastry and other foods near tfeelr check out counters.) Today, a current, survey show*, every fourth item sold in a supermarket cannot be eaten. Items now sold include shirts, umbrellas, dishes, dolls, bicycles, saws drills, ad Infinitum. The goal of the supermarket, says one observer. Is to arrange it so that mother can pick up diapers for baby, an end table for the living room and a dozen eggs that she came in to buy in the first place, before she leaves. There's no cracker barrel or hoops of cheese In sight, of course; all is behind the gleaming glass or stacked on chrome-edged shelves, pack aged for visual attraction that the strands of sausages and hooked rugs hung from the rafters never had in the old-time establishment, but how ever modern the presentation. It's still tke old general store in principle. Fishing Henderson (Ky.) Gleaner and Journal.) Ladies have many erroneous idea* con cerning men's leisure time activities, and lenge of a cock pheasant's crow from finue. Psychologists incline to the belief there is a fundareeital #i/fercnce between the feminine and masculine approach to fiany problems. They say that a woman's ftervous system is different from a man's. Of course, any husband and father could iave told the psychologist and psychiatrists this; but it seems More authoritative if the •1st" boys mn complex experiments and devise complicated charts to illustrate what everyone knows before they start. Fishing is an apt illustration of diver lent viewpoints. A woman judges fishing fry the results in the creel. She 0oesa't understand that when Spring works along to a certain height, • man needs to go fish The fact that flehing requires fifty ars worth of equipment and may re sult In a dolUw'i worth of fUh U jwt a burden that a fkheman must earry. Fishing isn't catching fish. Fishing is feel the sun and wind and the rain on his face. It is getting off by oneself on Mm edge of a meadow creek; it is following a ciean-water, singing brook through a quiet woodland; it ia sitting In a boat on • peaceful tree-circled pond. Fishing is the chance to get away from the pressures of office and factory; it is a time to watch the sky and clouda, the red-winged blackbirds and a woodchuck poking in the clover patch. In beehives of population, one forgets the sound of a staging stream, the serenity and faith-re storing steadfastness of friendly trees, the green of new grass, the blue of violets' faces along the brook edge and the chal we suppose the erroneous ideas will con woodland edge. Fifhtnf gives a man a chance to get caitfht up with himself and when he comes home, a bit tired physically but refueled in heart and mind, he knows that a day's ftahing has done something for Mm. And of course, there ia always the chance that he will bring home a good m- -m ISBBfi Stretch's Sketches By "STRETCH" ROLLINS Greatest Act l» Performed Off Stage THEY SHOT UP the Horn in the West theater plenty Saturday night, but no damage was done, beeauae what it was they were uaing was cameras. It was a great night for the flash bulb industry. Hugh Morton brought his Carolina Press Photo graphers Clinic over here to lay down a bar rage of small arms fire from the parapets, while the heavy artillery was supplied by the Sylvania Corporation in the form of a couple at "mam math flash shots," each one the equivalent of tlx thousand COwatt House hold bulb*, according to Horn'* head drum beater, Leo Derrick. (Or did he say six hundred thousand?) A lot of people were on hand for the event and to enjoy a show by Cecil Camp bell's boys and the Jolly Sis ters, but not enough to fill the 2400 seats. So after a cer tain amount of cajoling, they goi em an 10 move 10 me center ana one siae section lor the big picture. Meanwhile, Ed Loeisin, capable and hard working Horn director, waa lining up a scene from the play on stage. This was intermission, and they were going to take another big one at the end of the hillbilly show. Everything went off fine, and when everybody had recovered their eyesight after the blinding flash, Ed issued the following instructions to the Hern cast: "Now go off stage, divide yourselves in half, and be ready to came back far the flmal shot." That's what he aald. Seamed a mite drastic, Just to create the illu sion of more people in the theater. But at least he should have had 'em do it on stage. It would have been the greatest act since Mickey Rooney played Hamlet. HOW TIMES DON'T CHANGE Dept.—"A real old timer remember*," says a writer, "when they solved the parking problem by driving another bitching post into the ground." Only difference today, the hitching post is now a parking meter. AND DON'T LOOK NOW. but we're about to be deprived of one of life's little triumphs. The feeling of satisfaction ia far greater than the amount of tnoaey saved when one pulls into a parking place aad finds some time left on the meter. But some soulless fiend has invented a photo-electric eye that raises the violation flag when the parked car leaves the space, so the next arrival can't free-load. Somebody's always taking the joy out of life. FLIP-TOP CAR—Within ten years, says an automotive engineer, cars will be only 92 inches high and will be entered by sliding roofs instead of doors. Which will no doubt make it easier to lift the body from the wreckage. From Early Democrat Files Sixty Year$ Ago June 17, IS*? On Friday of last week the 15-year-old ion of Webiter Davis, of Meat Camp, was caught under a falling tree and received injuries that may prove fatal. Dr. Blackburn was summoned, and on examination, found that the skull was fractured, and some other bones of the body were broken. He was still living at last account. Mr. W. C. Coffey has recently had a very fine headstone put to the head of his wife's grave. The stone was furnished and erected by Mr. Harris, of Hickory. Mr. Harris is doing a good buaiaess in this Una, being an hoaest upright man. Success to him. You cannot always tell whether your goods are all wool or mixed goods. It makes no differ ence if you use Putnam Fadeless Pyes. They odor everything. Sold by J. A. Ed mis ten, Blow ing Rock. We are informed that Franklin and wife, who were charged with poisoning Fog Brown in Qlofee, have bam sent to the penitentiary for 10 years each. Times are hard—money scarce but Blackburn will give you more good goods for your money than you can buy elsewhere in the county. Pcnley, who killed Clarke at Collettsville. a short time ago, had his preliminary trial before Judge Bollew, and was bound over to Lenoir Superior CotuT Mrs. J. M. Mo rati was very unwell on last Sunday and Monday, but we are very much pleaaed to state that she is better. Littlo Walker, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Williams, who has been seriously II for some time, ia now slowly improving. Simon drug, convicted of murder at the last term of the Leaolr court, has been U*en to New ton Jaa.pP . Thirty-Nine Yearn Ago Jnne M. MM Alex Seed, who will be remembeaad by many of our oMrr people, who left Watauga some 30 years ago, is now in from hia K>nsas home wtiarp ho has succeeded well. Read was borp a ad rOared In Boone, to early manhood, ang was a playmate Of ours in happy boyhood day«, and oft have wo felt the birchen rod la the hapdp of M irate parent a* a penalty for leaving hon* without permission and i#ing along the streams In quest of fish or climbing those Bountatn*-* Just anywhere, to be in his compaar. Ho waa our ideal as a tap. and wkite-a 4|it tinea of colored blood course* through his veins, to us bis big kind heart was white as snow, and after this lapse of years, we are glad to see him again, and to know that be has accumulated considerable property is indeed a pleasure to his playmates of happy days long gone. A fine Kentucky saddle mare owned by Mr. B. J. Councill, strayed from her mountain pas ture on last Thursday, and was missed by Mr. Councill the following day, who decided that the animal had been stolen. However, on Sat urday he found trace of her in the woods on the north side of Howard's Knob, and after fol lowing it some distance, found her dead in the entanglement of a wire fence she attempted to cross on the steep mountain side. The mare was considered one of the very best in this part of the county and the loss Is quite considerable. The family of Dr. Anders has joined him, and they an now at home in the Judge Council! residence, the same they occupied last year. Their many friends here are indeed glad to have them back. Fiftmen Yeara Ago Jane 18, IMS Large numbers of home canners are registering this week for allotments of sugar with which to take care of their fruits aad vegetables during the current earning season, present allowances under the ration plan being one pound of sugar for each four quarts of finished food. An addi tional one pound of sugar per year will be allot ted each person for preserves and jellies. Mrs. Julia Abernethy, mother of Mil. J. D. Rankin of Boone_wss fatally Injured Monday morning, when th™car in which she was riding, and which was driven by a daughter, Mrs. Me G. Anders, collided with a bus at a street inter section in Cast on is Mrs. Anders died Tuesday in a Gaston la hospital, probably from the two severe scalp wounds suffered. Funeral services for Edgar H. Tufts, head of the foundation which operates Lees-McRae jun ior college, Grace Hospital and the Grandfather Home^ for Children, all of Banner Elk, who died in the hospital early Monday, was conducted Tuesday afternoon in the Banner Hlk Presbyter ian Church. Aa unusually heavy rainfall at nvvrgl day,1 duration reached it* crest in <Ms area last Tfcara day sad Friday aJteroooaa, whan practically as MM* C*M fell in the immediate environs of Boone as was the case In the devastating flood of 1M0. • KING STREETgp By ROB RIVERS SAUTE TO TABMEELIA .. WITH LOVE We've filled this corner from week to week with something like dock-like regularity, but on those rare occasions when we must leave our desk and look out over the country at least for a long week-end, it's sometimes a problem to dish up a column, while we're trying to attend to a hundred and one small things which we must always do before our leave-taking. ... At such times we are glad for folks like Julian Scheer, of the Charlotte News, who recently wrote a column about North Carolina, and aome of the things he likes about the land of the tar, the pitch, the peaches, the mills, the plains and mountains. . . . His remarks are fittin' right at this time when the tourists are beginning to show when we're trying to sell folks on the wbolesomeness of Carolina, which is yet largely unspoiled, culturally at least, in the mad iparch of material progress. ... So, since Mr. Scheer does his job so very well, and since we are In a mortal bind, we're going to let him finish out for us. He says: Nobody asked me . . . But ... the things I like best about North Carolina include: Names like Chunky Gal, Why-not, Saxapahaw. Ham gravy at Henry Franklin's near Linville Falls and bar becue from anywhere. The glow of fires in tobacco barns. A hundred fishing holes in a hundred counties. Lighthouses on the coast. The brilliance of mountain color in the fall. Sunrise over the Atlantic near Wilmington. Christmas lights in Charlotte. An air drop at Ft. Bragg. Wide highways like US 29. Carnivals and fairs—anywhere. Blue windows on textile mills. Black bears in the Smokies. High Point furniture. Chimes at Chapel Hill after a football game. Country schools and yellow buses. Damp caverns like Linville. Stately architecture of Duke. Scottish plaids of Laurinburg. Impressive Fontana Dam. Charlotte's Coliseum, Raleigh's Cow Palace. Monuments to Confederate soldiers. Tom Wolfe, Proff Koch, Hugh Lefler, Frank Graham, Olla Ray Boyd. Red clay, green fields, orange sunsets. Tobacco fields, cotton harvest, strawberry patches. Shrimp and menhaden boats. Hot sausage, persimmon pudding, homemade liquor. Arthur Smith, N. C. Symphony, Wake Forest drum majorettes. Winston-Salem, Asheville, Tryon, Elizabeth City. Smell of cigarette plants, Cannon towels, Drexel tables, Jug town. Duke-Carolina football, semi-pro baseball, Dixie Classic basket ball. Blowing Rock, Grandfather Mountain, Cape Hatteras, Lake James. Pinehiirst, Edenton, MSttarriuskeet. Ava Gardner. The Houses of Biltmore, Marsh, Bellamy. Sir Walter Hotel when General Assembly is in session. Square dancing, folk music. Crooked country roads. Picnic tables. White frame churches. So This Is New York By NORTH CALLAHAN At a birthday party for George G. Allen, venerable but chipper chairman of the Duke Endowment. I waa impressed by the presence ' ol a Yankee named Robert E. Lee Howe, and of a former Southerner named Alexander Hamilton Sands, genial vice chairman of the En dowment. Across from me sat Charles E. Wilson, retired head of General Electric and holder of many distinguished government positions. He had one of the heart iest laughs I have heard. Mr. Wil son told of once when he was in Williamsburg, Virginia to deliver the commencement address at William and Mary College, he was being escorted around by the charming granddaughter of a Confederate general. They came to a little grassy mound on the campus and he asked what that was. Drawing herself up proudly, the young lady replied, "That, suh, is a sacred spot. It is stafoed by the blood of several noble Confederate aoldiers, blood shed by some of your damned Yank ees!" An interesting place here Is the Museum of the City of New York which is located at 8th Avenue and 104th Street. The last time I visited it. an exhibit of two rooms of the John D. Rockefeller home as It waa la the lttO's proved to be an absorbing spectacle. Ele gantly panelled and elaborately decorated in the Victorian motif of that day, the rooms looked somewhat inviting but do not com pare with the modern comfort and uaefulneaa of rooms ia an ordin ary house of today. An exhibit in • lighter vein waa that of several doll houses of an earlier period, which must also have been from the homes of millionaires, for they had more accommodations— If miniature—than some homes for humans. A lulpljfttT BmMW IplalkMAfll i. * -'WIMP' up in court here chanted with hitting a friend in the face. The judge looked at him sternly and said. "You call yourself a peace loving mm, yet you admit that you slugged Casey on the chin." The culprit shook his head and re plied, "But your honor, you your self would have loved the peaceful look on Casey's face after I hit him!" Just after World War II, I had an important matter to discuss with Department of the Army of ficials in Washington, so through a mutual friend, I got an appoint ment with Frank Pace, Jr., then Secretary of the Army. It was on a Saturday morning and Pice did not ordinarily make appointments on this day. So I appreciated his consideration, his friendliness and the way he handled the matter we discussed. It was not surprising, therefore, the other day when it was announced here that Frank Pace had just been made presi dent of one of the nation's big gest manufacturing companies, with back-orders for some 2H bil lion dollars worth of goods. He is not yet 48, is democratic and in dependent—and will go far. Mcst unusual graduation pre sent I have heard of was that asked for by a young high school senior here who had been rather expensive to his dad. The father came home and wn met by the mother who smiled and said that their son was at last really learn ing to be economical. The father was delighted. "And what does he want for graduation?" he asked. The mother besmed. "It will only coat 75 cents," she saM. "He just wants his own set of key* to the car." iPcl Gotham Gatherings: overheard: "Marriage was the first union to defy management" . . , twenty years ago, it took two people to carry $10 worth of groceries. To day a child can do it" . . . "Two rival newspaper carriers had a bicycle cod talon. One waa knocked speechless, the other apokeleas" . . . "Our dear brother," said the minister preaching the funeral, "was not $ dedicated Christian, but he was what you might call a respected sinner."
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