Scott Dam Has More Than 20,000
Visitors During Off-Season Month
North Wllkesboro ? Novem
ber was not the season for wat
er sports, but W. Kerr Scott
Dam and Reservoir continued
to attract many visitors.
The month-end report of
James E. Mason, reservoir
manager, listed 20,002 visitors
for November, bringing the to
tal for the year to date to 47#,
914. ?
The year's total ii expected
to be near one-halt million
people. The original estimate
wa* 140,000 which ?u project
ed before the reaervoir waa es
tablished.
Maaon's November report
said 8,932 vehicle* were counted
at entrance points around the
dam and reaervoir. This la con
sidered a high rate of visitation
Washington Report
?* CONGaMWAN
JAMBS T. MtOYHILL
As this reaches you, the haw
?ssi?n of Querent that has
^?w*l across the entire year
wM he in its foail hours A short
Christmas adjournment will be
only pause between drat Bad
second session of the 87th Coo
ares.
AMta. we enter that season of
our most reverent and our moat
joyous hohtfay. With our Um? I
lies drawn arund us, the meaning
of Cfcristmas the year win be
more deeply feik by Americano
than ever before. Peace and nod
toward man was praefcantad
tram ?4fcs ???Ky 2.000 years
B80 -to the atM privacy of our
own conscience, the clarity of
that message resounds today As
we pats beyond this Merry
Christmas, may the message not
be toot hi the new year to foNow.
Manpower 1,,
I -ast week the priuuiiri fcaueo
were mwm fataadod to meet
the problem of chronic unenvdoy
whWi pfagueo the country
today.
Twh years ago, the Ctawwao
passed a manpower retaining pro
gram with strong M-partBan sm> 1
t*wt. It was not a welfare pro
gram. Instead, it wah to finish
Hie means to add to private ef
forts lor training unemployed
l?reon? so (hey can tind produc
ts Jobs. K has hew an expeo
stve program, but it is taraued
that it has contributed to outta?
one mpdoy ment compeosatmn 1
??ts and reffief f^MtTaTit
has W?*d people become self- 1
m iorta?.
Experience with the program
now prints to deeper problems
that the level of basic
of mm* unemployed persons pre
vente them from henefitWng from
retrafa6,? "MiotoooBL The re
quirement of skills m leavinj be
hind many pnopte who proviuaty
able to eam a hvtog by
Ptysiaal endurance and manual
tobor Much of <be
employment stems from this
h??ic feet, and we are going to
have to few up to this problem
Ab-hon* the biH contains ele
ments which 1 dtoapprove, it
?)es rooogwoe the trouble and
makeo an eftort to deal with it
I feel, however, that *3 levefis
?rf edud?Cion must make a ?raater
effort Ibt this field and that ic
Iiance on the Federal govern
ment mot not be aUowed to re
P*a? local inittejrve. Ooriafcfr,
total! anitiative must be encour
aged iwhene it does not exist now
* augmented where it does
We have now 15 good Used
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entat Otherwise, we ?Hl, indeed,
create, las one member put ft in
debate, "? generation burn in
poverty, -reared on charity, and
Vocational Maiallis
Just as the problems of adudt
unemployment ooninooU ut. the
need far vocational |?
acute (among younger people. Hie
high school dropout today often
becomea the marginally empioy
afcte man and the welfare caae
tomorrow.
EMMar tM? year the House
which I Mt mm a step in the
right direction toward offering
training to young people to de
velop skills to till the Jote the
American economy will offer. It
uaed a formula that proved suc
cessful in reflated programs tor
many yean.
Unfortunately, the Senate
scuttled the text of the House
bill land wrote ata own version,
flying funds new concepts
that hove not been m carefully
studied as they daiftl have been.
In addition, the Senate included
unrelated measures that should
have been considered on their
own merit. B, then, demanded ac
ceptance of hs version with an
implied threat of no bM at 41
Strang efforts which 1 Mvported
ware made to restore this legisla
tion to aomathing closer to the
House version Whan these efforts
toiled, it was a hand choice for
many tnamhere, mast of whom
accepted the Senate's ftfiay
with great reluctance in order to
see. the vocato?t education pro
gram put into effect sHUjU fur
ther delay.
In view of the fact that the sea
ion for such outdoor activities
tl swimming, camping, water
akiing and picnics had ended
for the year.
Other than sight-aeelng, fish
ing was the principal activity
in November, there being 4,379
who tried their luck at that
sport. Boating had 1,430 parti
cipants in November, and there
were 1,982 picnicking in four
areas.
In view of the much larger
number visiting public - use
areas than originally estimated,
the Army Corps of Engineers,
which constructed the project
and operates it, has proposed
plans for enlarging public-use
areas by 790 acres.
A hearing recently was held
on the proposal to acquire '.hat
much additional land, and the
plan was given widespread tup
port by civic, business and
agricultural leaders of this
area.
The plan calls for enlarging
three present public-use areas
and adding another area on the
north side of the reservoir next
to the dam.
Marriage
Licenses
Marriage licenses have been
issued to the following couples:
Cluuftat Douglas Carson, RFD
9, Kingsport, and Sarah Avalynn
Boyd, P. 0. Box 1791, Johnson
City; James Donald Henson, Jr.,
of Vilas, and Sandra Gale Hod
ges, of Sugar Grove; Robert Lee
Church, of Vilas, and Nettie
Eleanor Kimberlin, Grove
Street, Boone; Therin James
Crain, and Brenda Sue Shipley,
both of Johnson City, Tenn.;
Paul Edward Ford, RFD 8, Le
noir, and Mamie Lois Hayes,
RFD 3, Boone; Edmond H. Tex
ier, and Florence W. Barnes,
both of New Jersey; Ronald
Allen Younkin and Janice Lynn
Mitchell, both of Columbus,
Ohio.
United States suggests flu shots
be hated.
Washington iSews
Washington, D. C. ? The 1964
political pot is already bailing,
even though the Republican Na
taoad Chairman ha dectered
something of a truce unti the
end of the year? in deference to
the abtyt'ng of the late President
Jciho F Kennedy.
The conviction is groujjg a'i
over the country that Richard
Nixon will be a nomination can
didate. The word k out that
former President Dwight ID.
Eisenhower it actively behind
him But more impurtent than
that ii the transformation which
has come about to perineal out
look y'nty the rttnlh of PtwidwMl
KcaMfer.
Nixon m mow from the Boat.
That is where Rneaident Ljwkm
Johnson, a Southerner, misht be
expected to be weakest, if the
Republican candidate coUld oarry
much of the popular East agacrat
Johnson, the Democratic Presi
rent imight be ki trouble. ^Ken
nedy tost moat of the West in
1960.)
Gtfdwiater is not particularly
strong in the Bast. He is Strang
in the South ? but that is now
the tame of the President! It is
* completely different political
problem and the strategy to meet
this problem adequately wiM not
be the same n ft would have
Ogata* Mr. Kennedy, who mas
immensely strong in the Bast,
week in 'toe South and in between
*1 the Midwest and West.
Senator Barry Gnidwtstor, of
Arizona, the leading GOP can
didate up to this time, fa now
being considered by some as a
second man an the GOP tucket
? possibly with Nuxnn. This, of
aaunse, wiill not be of interest to
GokJwater or even Goidwater
supporters tat the moment.
Governor (Nelson Rockefeller
sees hfa chances greatly improv
ed, also, since he fa an easterner
who might be wfcle to whip the
Texas President in New York and
other key eastern states. ('Here
tofore, Goidvuater was a sure
shot to take Texas, which now
becomes the home of the Presi
dent!! arid Rockefeller men re
dutt Nixon lost ma* of the Bast
m I960.
inside political experts say
President Johnson wOSl do every
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thing within Ms power to demon
strate he is not ? reactionary?
Something he has already done
on mauty occasions. Hut they be
lieve he is enough of a iwUttcai
smrcicgt* to realize sentiment hi
the eowrtry is not superstore! at
the moment.
k> fact, .insidens point to the
success President Eisenfoovrer
bad as a moderate, or middle
of-the-rwider. He woo by far
'greater marges than did Ken
nedy, who wi?s himself trying to
Seal the rjjtion in something of
? Kteiial crusade. But although
Kennedy was personally popular,
fc.' j program w?3 not equaffy pop
u'ar. It was stalled on deadeeo
ter when the President met tragic
1Mb.
If Johnson passes ? civ* rights
bill, and goes along with the Ken
nedy pncaram in general, but
does cot alienate too many voters
or a'i of the South, he could
win a ?wioder victory at the polls
than did Kennedy in 19S0. For
moderate sentiment seems to be
the majority serJtiment of the
country, and has been ever since
the earty fifties.
Yet Jfahnsoo laces am specie*
prqjudtee, as dM Kennedy He is
from tin South. 7M? has been
enough, for to hundred yeans, t?
ttiwmrt ? candidate's chance. N?
mm who *v?d in the South at
the time has wan a Presidential
nomination or election euxt the
Civil War. This geographical Mg
o'jry h sometimes not admitted
But Johnson fa up against it and
knows M; it? phis the orgaoiaa
tiou) and resources of the Ken
ned)*? eoat ham the nomination
in IttW.
The latest Lou Harris poll,
however, showed Johnson might
be lidding this old bugaboo. It
found Mm stronger than aM Re
publican candidates. If be doas
not 'move too tar to the left, to
woo sod prove himself with the
super-liberate, the new Fmidwt
may run more like Eisenhower
than Kennedy and could win by
a much trigger margin than did
Kennedy.
But that is an if. end mean
while Republicans know their
pjospecta tare more promising as
of the moment than they win
With Knoe# ftvrtdml. Tor the
Ant time in yeisrs, son* ltepub
lictns who guieHy doubted
utetfier the GOP amine* could
wto in 19M, ?* smeUir* Uw
tmril of hope ?ri I1"
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