"Whauuny" No
HireatTo
Lawful Driver
Some tourists and some natives
com pi air; that it Isn't cricket for
patrolmen to hide their electric
tattle tales In North Carolina state
law permits troopers to conceal
the devices from public view. But
their furtlveness Is easily explain
ed Patrol officials say knowing
ly that if Whammy stations are
pin pointed, 70nwti speeders would
haye only kfcJffTthelr foot a mile j
ewt iy aiu^gude smutty across at
legal spifcl The law abiding mo- (
tori at, they say, gives not a hoot
wttere the wham ml es are, or may I
be.
The hidden ball tactics occasion- ?
MEET Mr. Civil Defense, > spry
Utile fellow with a serious mis
sion. He was drawn by cartoonist
Al Capp, crea'or of U'l Abner,
to be used as a symbol of the
coordinated civil defense effort
throughout the United States.
ally bring on speed trap com
plain La too, moatly from out of state
motorclub patrons Speed trap, a
phrase abhored by enforcement
officials, seems a matter of defini
tion to Tar Heel Motor Vehicles
Commissioner Ed Scheldt. "It la
not a speed trap," says Ex-FBI
agent Scheldt, "unless an officer
intentionally lures a motorist Into
a violtalon and then arrests him."
In the Tar Heel State no road
even lightly traveled ones ? could
be considered lures All are con
spicuously posted with caution j
signs reading "SPEED ELEC
TRICALLY TIMED." And few Tar
Heel troopera have the time or the
Inclination to goad travelers into
a violation. Charges of "arrest
quotas" are complete fiction says ?
patrol headquarters.
And that would seem to suggest
some formula to avoid arrtat ? or
losing face. Tar Heel safety au
thorities, to man, suggest : "Al
ways drive at legal ? and com
mon sense ? speeds."
The first sign of a whammy Is a
quarter-Inch black rubber cable
stretched across the highway and
shored at each end by a slab of
. uviil. One hundred and thirty two
tjet down the highway (1/40 of a
mile) Is an identical cable. Link
in the two is an electric cord
attached thrcwgh mercury switch
es to a recording head located
some distance from the set up. A
black box, about the site of two
cigar boxes, contains the wham
my's brain. 8et in the middle of
the box is a stop watch and a
tound the perimeter of the watch
are gradations in miles per hour.
An approaching vehicle striking
the first cable starts the watch
ticking. When the vehicle strikes
the second cable the watch Is stop
ped. Its hand points to 50 mph. '
63 mph, 90 mph or what have yoi 1
The NEWTOWN GAZETTE w*? ?mo?
H-Bomb Wipes Out Newtown
Radioactive Fallout Drifts East jjj? "? sSn< jJJ"
DISASTER NEWSPAPER pnt oot by the Charlotte (Mich.) Re
publican-Tribune and the Federal Civil Defense Administration was
designed to test the ability ?f a small town newspaper plant to put
out an emergency edition of a metropolitan daily if the city were
destroyed., A number of such tests have been conducted around
the nation, '> ut this was the first to feature the danger of radio
active fallout to rural areas and small towns. iFCDA Photo) I
'and troopers go Into action If the
jhand Is over 00 mph, the State's
legal speed limit.
The watch's accuracy Is unaf
fected by the weather. Where
manufacturers permit variances
of seven to 10 per cent In auto
speedometers, the whammy Is call
brated to within a fraction over
one per cent accuracy. The stop
watch Is Inspected, cleaned and
J regulated once a month by a rail
road watch Inspector. Periodical
ly, It is further checked by radio
with the Bureau of Standards Mas
ter Time signal in Washington, D.
C.
!
Ritter Gets
fires Creek Sale
By Transfer
Transfer of the Fires Creek tim
ber sale to W M. Ritter Lumber
Company of Hayesville was ap
proved by the U. S. Forest Service
on May 2, Ranger W E Howell
announced.
The transfer was made by the
E. L. Welssinger Lumber Co. to
Ritter, the Ranger, said.
Ritter has begun repair work on
their Hayesville band mill and
plan to begin full scale operations
about the middle of June, Mr.
SCIENCE IN
YOUR LIFE h
Spring Housecleaning
| Now that spring cleaning time is
here, families all over the nation
are breaking out lighter clothes, and
putting their winter clothing away
I in moth balls or crystals.
While this cheerful process is go- i
ing on, however, it is a good idea to l
keep the moth balls and the children
strictly apart ? for naphthalene, the
substance from which most moth re
pellerits are made, j
is a dangerous ,
poison.
Over 400 death?
a year occur in thu
United States ii
children unv'ei
five as a result i>
jvcciiiental poison
irtr, according t
Pfizer Spectrum
the medical magazine.
Naphthalene or moth ball poijor
ing is especially important becaus
the toxicity of the chemical is n<
widely appreciated; instead of see
ing that it is always out of reaci.
parents often leave it around an<
infant'? or small children pick it Uj
in the belief that it is candy.
The result can be a severe ant
rapidly worsening anemia causcd by
destruction of the red blood cells. By
the tine the child can be rushed to
the hospital, it is usually so acutely
ill as to be put at once on the emer
gency status.
Since the alarming symptoms do
not occur ur.til three to seven days
after the moth balls have been eaten,
the parents may have no idea what
the cause of the trouble is. and ever
the doctor may be baffled. T reatmcr..
consists of repeated transfusions o 1
whole Mood.
So, for safety's sake, put those
noth baiis on a high shelf wher
you're through with them ? am
when you're using them, d :r*t k
them out of your A 1 ..e alterna
tive may Le t^ugic.
PURINA
grows
big pullets,
gets lots
of
big eggs
Here's why you can expect
an extra basket of eggs
per week from each 100 htnt,
compared to U.S. Average.
How'd you like to get an extra basket of eggs
per jveek this fall from each 100 layers?
That's what a nationwide survey indicates
you can expect if you feed your pullets on a
Purina Growing plan. And remember, that's
during the fall and early winter when prices
are usually moet favorable.
Records from 1,033 farmers showed that
each hundred pullets grown out on a Purina
I
fbeding program laid nearly 20 dozen extra
eggs per week over the U. S. Average flocks
during the four fall months ? September to
December.
Feed Growena in the new feed-saving Bite
Size checkers. Or, if you have grain, your
Purina Dealer can show you how to feed a
ration that's largely your own grain? with
just enough Purina to make pullets grow right.
GRAND OLE OPRY 0 N ? t v
Don't mi* the next big Grand Ole Opry TV show. Grand Ole 0|iry was^recendy vot/i
Americifo amdber one farm entertainment program. See and hear youi favorite Opry regulars
STILES PRODUCE
PHOIB 14*
MU&PHT, N. a
Civic Clubs To
Sponsor Pig Raising
Lions, CI vi lan tuid Klwania
clubs of Murphy will sponsor the
raising of 10 to 12 pigs tor the new
type ham being sponsored by the
agriculture council of the Murphy
Chamber of Commerce.
The pigs will be placed with
Four-H Club members and the
hams will be cured according to
specifications from the N C. ex
tension service hog specialist. The
hams, when cured according to
these specifications, will compete
in flavor with the famous Smith
field hams of Virginia.
The pigs will be exhibited at the
Chrerokee County Fair in the fall
and prizes will be offered.
Wayne Holland is chairman of
the agriculture council with Paul
Nave as co-chairman.
Next year Sears and Roebuck
will sponsor dams for breeding
the pigs, it was announced
Six New Films
Are Available
The six new films available from
the Murphy Library May 21 to
June 8 are:
Man and His Culture, Peru, Pos
ter Making-Design and Technique,
President, Romance of Transpor
tation and Snakes are Interesting.
Howell said.
The opening of the sawmill will
employ about 100 workers In the
mill and woods operations, the
Ranger asserted.
It is expected that Ritter will
cut some 4,500,000 board feet of
timber per year on Fires Creek.
At this rate of cutting, the sale
will te completed in from four to
five years, the Ranger concluded.
Adanu M SUtioa
Opeu la Aadrews
Allison and Duncan Oil Company'
of Murphy and Wayneavllle this
week announced the opening of a
new Phillips 66 service station,
Adams 66 Station, on Main Street
in Andrews.
Gudger Adams, who formerly
operated filling stations In Ashe
ville, is owner of the station. John
Raxetr is employed with the new
service station. |
The new station is one of the i
most modern service stations in
Western North Carolina and is
equipped with all new 'tools and
oth^r equipment, tile restrooms,
and central heating, a spokesman
said.
The new building is on the lot
formerly used by Reece Motor
Company for their used cars.
The opening of this station marks
the third new station opened by
Allison and Duncan since they be
gan handling Phillips 66 products.
Three other stations ? at Mur
phy, Frankljn and Soco Gap ? are
now under construction. .
Mrs. Almond Installs
K'ville PTA Officers
Mrs. Gerald Almond, president
of the Andrews PTSA was the In
stalling officer for the new slate
of officers of the Robbinsville PTA
at the final meeting held Monday
May 14, In the new Robbinsville
High School.
Officers Installed were: Dr. Net
tie Parrette, president; Mra L.
W. Wilson, vice president; Mrs.
J. B Crisp secretary and Mrs.
Joe Carver, treasurer. Guy Sut
ton is principal of the school.
Mrs. Almond was presented a
corsage.
I Yeaeh-NayWIlsoii
Is High Bidder
' Veach-May-WUaon, Inc., was
successful bidder for Oie boundary
of Umber located In the Western
end of Cherokee County on Nation
al Forest land, Ranger, W E.
Howell said today.
The company, with a bid of $60,
800, submitted the higher of the
two bids received, the Ranger
said.
J The boundary, containing about
two million board feet of timber,
is located on Brush Creek and
Shuler Creek drainages near the
Tennessee State line.
The sale contains 16,852 marked
trees and is divided Into 10 pay
ments units.
I
The operator is required to build
3\ miles of road on Forest Service
location and the road through the
middle of the sale area wiil con
nect with state roads on both
ends, Mr Howell said.
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FOUR MONTHS. SO, If YOU'RE
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INSURANCE, YOU MUST APPLY
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AFTER SEPARATION ,
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