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BREMCO Directors, Employees Meet For Annual Awards Dinner The directors and employees of Blue Ridge Electric Member ship Corporation gathered in Boone Elementary School Fri day evening, November 22, for their annual awards dinner. Some 200 persons, including directors, their wives, employ ees, their wives and husbands, and a number of special guests were on hand for the event Turkey dinner was served by the staff of the school cafeteria. The highlight of the meeting was the recognition of employ ees with five, ten, fifteen and twenty years of service with the cooperative. Those receiving five year awards were Colonel Blevins and Gene B levins ef Ashe District, and Mrs. Louise Soots of Caldwell District. Ten year awards and pen and pencil sets went to Vernon Lyall and Earl Taylor, both from Ashe District. Fifteen year awards, along with silver trays went to LeWis Anderson and Ford Hollars of Watauga District, Claude Ed wards, Alleghany District, R. R. Riddle, Roby Swift, and Wayne Weaver of Ashe District and C. E. Viverette, General Manager. Twenty year award pins and beautiful gold wrist watches went to Mrs. Mae Brown of Ashe District and R. S. Berry of Watauga District. A safety contest for children of employees was recently con ducted in which the children told in an essay "Why My Dad Should Have Safe Working Hab its." The winners of this con test and their awards were: Susan Bard, second place and $15; Eddie Rader, third place and $10; and Howard Anderson, first place and a $29 savings bond. Rodker Stallings of the Engineering Department pre sented the awards. Susan is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. K. Bard of Ashe District, Eddie is the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Rader of Lenoir, and Howard is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Andreson of Wa tauga District. Following the awards dinner, C. E. Viverette, his wife and daughter, Edith, presented a program on their South Ameri can adventures .in helping to establish an electric cooperative in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. The group also viewed the James Foster Dies Friday James Marshall Foster, 81, of Blowing Rock died Friday morning at Blowing Rock Com munity Hospital after a long period of declining health. He was born in Wilkes Coun ty to James M. and Mary Ad kins Foster. He bad lived in Watauga County for the past 75 years. He was a retired stonemason. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Mary Baldwin Foster; a son, Randall Foster of Blowing Rock; four daughters, Mrs. Clayton Hayes and Mrs. Tommy Poplin, both of Blowing Rock, Mrs. Howard Mauney Jr. of Lincolnton and Mrs. Claude Andrews of Statesville; two foster daughters, Mrs. Harlin Greene of Blowing Rock and Mrs. Neal Black of Pinehurit; a sister, Mrs. R. E. Lee of Greenville, S. C.; 19 grandchil ren; and eight great-grandchil dren. The funeral was conducted at 1:30 p. m. Sunday at St. Mary of the Hills Episcopal Church at Blowing Rock by the Rev. Ward Courtney and the Rev. Alfred Pitts. Burial was in Blowing Rock cemetery. new motion picture, "On The Line." Much of this picture ?u produced in Blue Ridge Elec tric's service area. This new film is narrated by Chet Hunt ley, NBC New?. It telli vividly how rural electric cooperative! are contributing to the economy and development of our country and to our democratic way of life. The film and Mr. Huntley point out what the rural electric cooperatives have done, and more important, what they are doing, for the development of the areas they aerve. It shows the changes that have taken place in our rural areas, and Chet Huntley points out the challenges facing electric co operatives today. This film is available for showing to community and civic groups by contacting the local office of Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation. Doctor Talk By JOHN B. RBMBERT, M. D. It has been stressed time and again in this column that all adults should have at least a good general physical check-up yearly by their family physici an ? in this way any abnormali ties found can be worked out and if treatment is necessary < this can be instituted. This pre ventive practice of medicine is what all physicians hope for, not the type so often seen in which the disease process has advanced beyond the point of cure or arrest. In the past it has been the common practice to omit the examination for cancer smear in the younger female patients, rather examining completely those women in the age group having the highest prevalence of cercival cancer. With the finding of early preinvasive cancer in these yqung women it must be concluded that if the truly early cases of cervical cancer, and these have a per manent cure rate of practically 100 per cent, are to be found then a complete pelvic examin nation must be done on all fe males. The only limitation that the pa'lent is old enough to have such an examination. House Trailers Turned Over By Heavy Winds A house trailer located at 104tt Delmar Street in Perkins ville and belonging to Bill An drews was severely damaged Friday night about 7:45 p. m. when high winds blew it onto its side. Four persons were in the ' trailer at the time. All escap ed uninjured, though all were slightly bruised and shaken up. Another trailer, belonging to an unidentified couple former ly of Mount Airy, was also blown over by gusts of wind which reached speeds of SO m.pJi. Friday night; but dam age to the second trailer was comparatively slight. In the first trailer when the accident occurred were Mrs. Bill Andrews and the three An drews children ? Libby, 7; Lin da, 4; and Stephen, 9 weeks. Mr. Andrews was in Fort Pierce, Fla. at the time. Mrs. Andrews said that her legs were caught between two beds when the trailer overturn ed, pinning her against one walL She yelled for help for about twenty minutes, but her cries were apparently smother ed by the high winds. Finally, some neighbors discovered what had happened and manag ed to extricate Mrs. Andrews and her children from the wreckage. "The baby went to sleep right away, as though nothing had happened," Mrs. Andrews said. Damage estimates have not yet been made on the trailer it self; but Mrs. Andrews report ed that practically everything inside the trailer was broken or damaged in some way. It bat been revealed that eight or nine out of ten Ameri cans totally ignore the danger signal* suggesting the possibi lity of cancer. The complaint of blood in the urine caused only 19 per cent of men recent ly questioned and 27.3 per cent Df the women to see their fam ily physician. The answer to this problem ? public apathy regarding can cer's danger signals ? is being aeriously studied by all con cerned with the fight against cancer. The idea has been expresed that the publicity efforts of the American Cancer Society and government agencies may have called "wolf too often" ? and, perhaps too many danger sig nals have been promoted result ing in the public ignoring them all. We must all remember that much research is now going on in an attempt to discover the cause of cancer, if this is known then possibly it can be pre vented from occuring in the first place. But in the mean time we all must remember that most all cancers of the body can be cured if discovered early!
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