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EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION
PRESS ASSOCIATION
CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1961
Homecoming Days
The outstanding event of the atitumn
in Boone continues to be homecoming
at the College.
Thia year the two-day event will be
held Friday and Saturday and a full
round of activities will be provided for
the enjoyment of the old grads, who
come to the campus thia year at the
time their Alma Mater la experiencing
its greatest physical growth in history.
While the absence of a football stad
ium takes the homecoming game to Le
noir, where the Mountaineers tangle
with Carson-Newman, the grid game
will provide a fitting climax to a full
round pf social activities which begin
Friday with the homecoming dance.
There will be a campus open house,
the colorful King Street Parade, lunch
eon, coffee hour, dinner before the foot
ball game and a touchdown social there
after.
It is likely that a record number of
old grads will return to the campus to
marvel at the expansion of the college
plant, and to greet acquaintances of oth
er days. While those who attended Ap
palachian a long time ago will be hard
put to find anything to which to anchor
their pleasant memories, they will ac
commodate their thinking to the chang
ed campus pattern, and share the joy
of the admiinstration and the people of
the town in the burgeoning of the
school from a few buildings to a sprawl
ing college plant, with a record enroll
ment, and with an unprecedented build
ing program in progress and on the
drafting boards !}
It is a happy thing for us and for
the community to join in welcoming
former students and teachers and other
friends of the college. We shall wish
for you a happy time as you re-live old
achool days and share in the joyful
knowledge that Appalachian is justifying
your fondest hopes for her.
The Points Will Get You
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gram for errant drivers will mark Its
second anniversary next month.
Thus tar, according to records of the
State Department of Motor Vehicles,
over 750 drivers have lost their license
on points, a not sensational total per
haps, yet revelatory of the program's
objective to protect safe drivers and
correct unsafe drivers.
The point system was devised to
reach dangerous drivers and stop acci
dents before they happen. And It it
working. In August, for example,- 114
unsafe drivers were banned from the
highways because infractions of the law
had swollen their points to 12.
The program is becoming increasing
ly effective, authorities feel. Drivers
who cannot or will not keep points off
their record soon feel the full effects
of the system. It's stern enforcement, to
be sure, for it hits where it hurts the
nost ? forfeiture of driving privileges,
fiut It's not persecution ? it's protect
1VII.
The system is geared to warnings and
conferences. To refresh memories (if
necessary) remember drivers are free
of department action under the point
system until their records shows four
points. Then a warning letter is sent
out.
At the seven point level, errant driv
ers are called in for a troubleshooting
conference with licensing officials. Such
drivers are allowed to attend one of the
vehicle agency's driver improvement
clinics and earn the removal of three
points if they wish. If he doesn't, if
he continues to collect points, his license
is suspended when the point total
reaches 12.
Last month 90 Tar Heel drivers felt
the string of excessive points ? they're
walking or hiring rides.
As the system goes into its third year,
more and more drivers are growing
aware that points shape their driving
future.
Plant A Hedge
The plank fences which used to sur
round the homes on the street gave way
to painted pickets, some of them to
hedges and of late the trend has been
against either form of enclosure.
Now comes word from Changing
Times that we ought to plant a hedge
again. A variety of problems may be
overcome by a hedge, it is written,
and householders are asked to look over
their home grounds to find out just
where a purposeful hedge might work
in. Some of their purposes:
To mark the bounds of property so
that it comes to a definite stop instead
of merging vaguely with whatever lies
next door.
To keep children, dogs, neighbors,
milkmen and other heedless trespassers
from blazing trails across the turf.
To form a windscreen against' a stiff
breeze across the patio.
To provide a high background to show
off annuals or low flowering shrubs.
To furnish a low foreground planting
to separate a flower bed from a walkway
or grass area.
To cut down an oversized or poorly
proportioned yard.
"The hedge does not have to be a
privet," the editors point out. As alter
natives they suggest abelia the box,
holly and barberry families a wide va
riety of conifers ? Canada hemlock,
American arborvitae, juniper, yew, pine,
spruce and red-cedar.
"Other giants are oontent to look
pretty," the article concludes. "The
hedge plants are lovely to look at, too,
but they don't stop there. They also
work."
Mail Service Is Lousy
( Advertiaing Afr)
wny aoes one near so mucn aDoui me
dreadful deficit of the postal service,
and so little about plans tor improving
the service? Why can't you depend
on one-day service between New York
and Chicago, or between Chicago and
Washington? Why can't you be sure
that a letter mailed at 42nd St. and
Madison will reach 34th and Fifth any
time the next day? What happened to
Special delivery? and if the Post Office
no longer offers the service, why is it
charging tor it? Wv
Some tine ago our Washington editor
reported that a high postal official ex
pressed the view that the mail was no
longer ail express service. In other
wotds, if you are tn a hurry te com
municate with someone, you either call
by telephone or send a telegram,
mail will be ? secondary service.
It will coattaue to look a* it did when
it wai a quick mean* of communipauon,
and it will coat more, but It will defi
nitely be a service for those who can
wait while the mail makes its way
through the vast bureaucratic empire
that the postal service now represents.
This view was highly unofficial, and
is interesting only because It Illuminates
the area of official thinking In the Post
Office. As an approach, it would do
credit to the manager of the Phillies.
To settle back and say, "Sure, the mail
is slow, and pttoplri who want anything
better will have to use other services,"
is a confession of apathy and Inepti
tude. It may be an overstatement of
the department's present policy, but it's
fairly clear Out the Post Office Depart
ment is not terribly exercised about
getting the postal service back to where
it ought to be.
She's Grown, Or The Door Has 3brunk
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From Early Democrat Files
Sixty Years Ago
October 17, 1901
Born to Mr. and Mr?. W. R.
Green on Monday night a baby.
Solicitor Harshaw spent Satur
day night in town on his way to
Jefferson court.
Miss Emma Winkler, who has
been with /her sister, Mrs. R. B.
Estes, at Wynona, Washington, for
the past ten months, returned to
her home on New River this week.
J. S. Culler, who has been work
ing at the carpenter trade at Lin
ville for some months, has return
ed, the work having been prac
tically suspended for the winter.
The Rev. Sam P. Jones will
lecture at North Wilkesboro on
the 30th of this month at 8 p. m.
Mrs. Maggie F. Boyden was tak
en seriously ill on Friday night
of last week and up to Tuesday
her case was oonsidered quite crit
ical, but at this writing we are
told that she is somewhat better.
We are indeed sorry to note that
our old friend, D. B. Dougherty,
has not been so well for a few days,
but we trust that the venerable
gentleman may soon be out again.
Mr. Roy Norris, brother of Mrs.
M. B. Blackburn, died at his home
on Meat Camp last week.
W. R. Green has received the
sad news that his brother James
has been sentenced to death for
the murde* of one Benjamin, in
the State of Washington. Efforts
for an appeal or a commutation
to life imprisonment are being
made by his attorneys, but his
chances, from the letter received
by Mr. Green, are very meagre,
as a large sum of money is need
ed which we fear cannot be raised
by his friends here.
We are sorry to learn that Mrs.
J. F. McGhee is quite sick.
Thirty-Nine Years Ago
October 19, lOtt
I. S. Watson of Stony Fork and
one of his aons from Hackett were
business callers at our shop yes
terday.
Mrs. Butler, wife of Dr. Butler,
has Joined her husband in Boone
and will spend some time at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. J. A.
Sprolea.
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Stanbury an
nounce the engagement of their
daughter, Esther, to Mr. J. A.
Boone of Frankllnton, N. C. The
marriage will take place October
SI.
Mr. H. Walter Horton and fam
ily are preparing to hie away to
their Florida home for the winter,
but with the return of the spring
birds next year they may be ex
pected back.
Mrs. Austin, relict of the late
Samuel Austin, died at the home
of her daughter, Mrs B. J. Green,
?t Blowing Rock last Monday and
iaterment was made beside her
husband in the Winkler burying
ground near Boone the following
day.
At the PTA meeting October 11
plana were made for ? community
fair which will be held at the pub
lic school houae November 8.
The protracted services at the
Baptist Church by Evangelist Ste
phens continue with increaaing In
terest, and it haa not yet been
given out just when the great
meeting will cloae.
Rev*. Brltlkman and Downum
of Boone; Mrs N. L Mast of Maat;
Mian Almeda Bingham of Ruther
wood; Mrs L. U Bingham of
Boone and perhaps others left
Twaday morning for Menroe to
attend the annual wahi'MW of
the H. E. Church, South.
Mr. Singleterry, one of our bur
iness men, *a* taken violently ill
last Saturday. Dr. Bingham was
called and diagnosed the case as
gall stones, and rushed him to the
Shuford Sanitorium for treatment.
if
Miss Nannie Rivers is teaching
at Penley, the term beginning last
Monday.
Fifteen Years Ago
October 17, 1946
Representative Robert L. Dough
ton, chairman of the house ways
and (neans committee, in a state
ment issued through his office
here today, said he believed meat
should be decontrolled at the ear
liest practical moment. Dough
ton's office said he had held tele
phone conversations with the sec
retary of agriculture at the White
House several times during the
past ten days urging the Secre
atry and President Truman to take
sound and immediate action to end
the meat situation.
Trans-World Airlines claimed a
new coast-to-coast flight record of
7 hours and 39 minutes for a four
engine Constellation that arrived
in New York from Burbank, Calif.
Carrying SI passengers, the plane
reached Kansas City in 4 hours,
30 minutei, and covered the second
leg in 3 hours and 9 minutes.
All children under 16 years of
age are legally required to attend
school and may not work at gain
ful occupations during school
hours, it was pointed out in a
statement issued by Clyde A. Er
win, state superintendent of pub
lic instruction, and Forest H. Shu
ford, labor commissioner.
The ashes of General Joseph W.
Stilweli, hero of the 1942 retreat
from Burma and the hard fight
back to victory over Japan, will
be strewn over the Pacific Ocean
Wednesday, west of his home at
Carmel, Calif. The gruff, plain
spoken "Vinegar Joe" died in Let
term an GeneraUiospiUl, yesterday
ef.a liver ailment at 63.
sritt
Cordell Hull, who suffered a
stroke September 30, has been
pronounced "out of danger."
The White House assured the
atomic-worried world today that
this country has sent no atom
bombs to England or any other
place abroad.
Just One Thing
By CARL GOEBCH AFTER ANOTHER
Some time ago we received a
letter from Bill Reeves, of Weav
erville (Buncombe County) in
which he toM about an interring
peculiarity that had manifeated
Itself In the houaehold cat. Bill
said that whenever we started
broadcasting Sunday evenings, the
cat would immediately get up from
it* comfortable chair and would
run over to the door, asking to
be let oat.
We didn't believe it.
A few weeks after the letter ar
rived, we happened to be up in
that section of the State so we
drove out to the Reeves' home.
Bill's father answered the door
bell and, without bothering to toll
him who we were, we aaked if we
might see his eat.
He seemed quite surprised at
the request but, after a moment's
hesitation, said that he reckoned
so. He led us through the house,
out the back door and showed us
the cat, sleeping in the bright sun.
"There she la." he said, still
looking at us in a suspicious man
ner. It probably was the first
time an utter stranger had come
to his front door and asked to see
his cat.
We cleared our throat and then
started in: "Thank you. Tommy,
and good evening, ladies and gen
tlemen. Well, here we are up in
the fine i town of Weaverville,
Buncombe County, and I want to
tell you that it is a real pleasure
to?"
111 give you my woM of honor;
that's as far as I got That blamed
cat sprang up, looked around hi
trtld fashion and then shot under
neath the house as though seven
teen docs were after her.
"Well, well." said Mr. Reeves
"I know who you at* now."
He seemed somewhat relieved.
We used to put on a man-on
the-street broadcast In which we
Mkcd passers by to answer ques
tions tor a dollar. Our listeners
were evafy helpful, sending in
questions from time to time. The
following are some of the qaea
tkwia we received and did not use.
Q Why Is a perse*, who listens
to a bass-drum, a good Judge?
A. Because he listens to both
(Ides.
Q. What is the smallest room in
the world?
A. A mushroom.
Q. All of our Presidents have
followed the same trade. What is
that trade?
A. Cabinet-makers.
Q. What turns and yet does not
move?
A. Milk.
? Q. What has eighteen legs and
catches flies?
A. A baseball team.
Q. How are a colt and an egg
alike?
A. They both have to be broken
before they can be used.
It's absolutely amazing how ig
norant we are of the important
things of life. For instance, it
wasn't until last week, when we
received a letter from Mrs. 1. F.
Burton, of Norlina, that we knew
to which aide a pig curls its tail.
Mrs. Burton informed us that
the tail of a female pig curls to
the left and that of a male pig
curls to the right.
Speaking of animals, we were In
Mr. C. E. Quinn's store down In
Kenansville not long ago. There
was a Mr. Sykes present and he
asked another man in the group
how his cow was getting along.
"Hollow horn," said the other
man.
First time we ever heard that
expression, so when the group
broke up, we asked Mr. Sykes
about It He seemed mightily sur
prised at our ignorance and pro
ceded to pump the facta to us.
Cows suffer from hollow horn
and aluo from hollow tail. If it's
the first ailment, the thiag to do
is to bore holes In the horn and
Nil 'em. up with oil. If it's hollow
tall that is causing them to look
poorly, you split the tall, pack in
some salt and thm wrap H up.
Whenever we gat tired of the
magazine publishing business, we
believe we'll take up the vetri
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KING STREET 1
By ROB RlFEful
Across The Hllk . . Color Marches I
October's bright blue weather has brought dry, chill nights I
to the countryside, has frosted the pumpkins, and started the I
fall parade of color along the Blue Ridge and in the valleys 1
and the draws. . . . The week end brought lots of visitors to
Boone, Blowing Rock and the Parkway to take a look at the
gaudy, crazy-quilt of lavish color which is unfolding in the
high hills. . . . Many of the motels had no vacancy signs out
Saturday night, and the peak of the color should be reached
during the week end, and continue to attract visitors for a
good many days after that. f & ?
The beeches, the birches and the poplars are beginning to
show their golden colors, the more subdued reds and russets
of the oaks are lending variety to nature's vivid panorama;
the deep reds of the dogwoods are fringing the forests where
the frost flowers are growing in wild profusion, and the maples
are adding spectacular variety to the autumn's brilliant wel
come to wintertime. . . . The maple, perhaps the favorite shade
tree of the mountain man, is a standout when frost has come.
. . . Colors often range from faded green through the pastel
yellows, to gold, flaming orange and crimson, as the maple
changes from its summer greenery, and dons every shade
in its bright fall wardrobe, to splash the forests with rioutous
hues, and to edge the street and the highways with its abund
ances of burnished gold and fiery brightness.
The last word is that the frost has nothing to do with
the fronds of the forests being turned into a showcase of
russets and brown, and yellows and reds, and of bluish and
purplish shades ? th*t they get that way through the chemist
ries of the ripening processes. ... We haven't been strong
on protesting the new discoveries and findings, but we're not
in the mind of giving up Jack Frost as the agent who pretties
up things, to bring us a spell of glowing happiness and
wonderment before we settle down to the ice and the snow
and the chilling winds of wintertime. . . . Many of us have
held toddlers on an aching knee, and widened out on the
story of how a gay little elf, with a paint pot of many colors,
flashes over the hills on a chill night and paints every single
leaf, in a flash, never putting the wrong color on a single
bough and seeing that all are brightened according to the
eternal scheme of things. . . . And we can see the wide-eyed
wonder of a little child in the bushes and in the tall trees in
the middle of the great forest. ... If we turn down Jack
Frost as the great painter, and magician of fall splendor, the
position of the blue fairy who buys the baby teeth would
be threatened, and apt as not Santa Claus' hold might be
weakened. ... That we couldn't abide.
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Great Age . . Reasons Are Assigned
When a man grows old ? that is old, like in the nineties
or so, he invariably makes the papers with his notions of
how come he lived so long. . . . The man who has lived
sensibly, who has had exemplary habits, and who has shunned
whiskey and tobacco, and lavish evening dinners and has
abided the home pasture, will cite his general rectitude, apt
as not, as the reason why he's been arpund so, long.
On the other hand one sometimes finds a man like Uncle
Bill Keller of Spruce Pine, who says he came to be 106 last
Sunday. ... He isn't quoted as believing that smoking and
chewing and dipping made him stay around through a century
and more, but admits that he's always been convivial with
dame nicotine. ... He says he drinks a mite too, of a morning,
and doesn't think that has hurt him. . . . Rather, he voices
a simple faith when he says, "If the Old Master hadn't wanted
me to live this long, I wouldn't have." . . . And summing
up his explanation for longevity and good health, we like
what he said: "God bears with a /nan."
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Of People And Things . . Odds And Ends
Thanks to Mrs. M. J. Williams, one of our good friends,
for a gient size pumpkin, big enough to make pie fillin' for
a long time.
John Hollar, puffing his cigar with pleasure, acknowl
edges our greeting and says he feels good and is happy.
"Nobody likes a sad man," he says. . . . Spoken like a*
philosopher.
Lorn Harrison of Boone keeps four Democrat subscrip
tions running. One for himself, and one each for three chil
dren: Mrs. John Presnell, Elizabethton; Mrs. Martha Davis,
Boone, and John Harrison, Spokane, Wash.
Uncle Pinkney
(Mac Knight Syndicate) fff? PALAVERWS
DEAR MISTER EDITOR:
I we by the papers where them
Englishmen is complaining pritty
loud over this new "austerity"
program their government has ar
ranged fer evertody except the
Royal family. I reckon "auster
ity" is a $10 word meaning the
folks has got to tighten their
belt*.
England has been gitting In n
bad way ever since right after
World War n when they started
that Socialism business and put
the railroad*, electric power,
health and all such things under
Guvernment control.
Ed Doolittle's grandson was
stationed over there in the Air
Force last year and he sent Ed
? batch of their Guvernment
pamphlets. On account of me be
ing a authority on Guvernment
pamphlets, Ed give 'em to me. I
got 'em down off the shelf this
morning and I discovered right
off why things ia so bad in Eng
land. It's hard to believe, Mister
Editor, but people has to pay
fer them pearls of wisdom over
there.
I ain't shore but I think Tho
mas Jefferson put it in the Decla
ration of Independence that we
waa to git these masterpieces
free in this country. I not* here
where one of the pamphlets Ed's
grandson sent him Is entitled,
"Calf Rearing" and U put out
by the Ministry of Agriculture
and coat* 99 cents. It says that
"Research on the physiology of
the calf shows it can be reared
on diets previously considered
unsuitable."
And here's one that ought to
be agin the law and might be
the one that's causing a heap of
their troubles. It's entitled "Wo
men, Wife and Worker" and sells
fer 89 cents. It is put out by
the Ministry of Industrial Re
search and starts out, "Married
women's employment is often cit
ed as the cause of separation, di
vorce and Juvenile delinquency."
How do you like that fer 38
cent?
A note on the front of each
pamphlet says they is printed by
"Her Majesty's Stationery Off
ice." It also says people in the
United States can git 'em fer
the proper fees from the British
Government Publications offices
at Rockefeller Plaia in New York.
No country can prosper where
they aint got free pamphlet*
from the Cuvmuneat. I estimate
that ahovt half our prosperity I*
due to them free pamphlets we
git ever day from the various
agencies.