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Policeman's Job Become More And Mere Dangerous Because Of Drugs ' ttmtto MhU of gunfire echo the ground of an El Put* drtow-ta theater. Startled movie taut Jetted their eyes away from the large outdoor sceen Just in to see me last spurts of flame Pi*c? the darkness near a police P*trol car and a Cadillac sedan. Sprawled on the back seat of the Cadillac and the ground nearby are the bodies at three men. Two are Ixwds wanted for a downtown stick up. The other is a detective. Inside the polic car, a critically wounded patri^man frantically radios tor help. But by toe time an ambulance arrives, the gunmen and detective are dead. And the patrolman has collapsed with thpee bullet holes in his body. Violent tragedies like this happ en much too often these days to suit officials of the National Police Officers Association, a nationwide, 13.000 member organization ded icated to promoting the welfare of the country's lawmen. The west Texas drive-in shooting took place early last December. Since then, NPOA headquarters in Chicago report, about 32 officers have been killed in the line of duty, an average of almost one violent Police death per week. Several were fatally shot in des. Perate gun battles with criminals, others died after being overpowered by escaping prisoners and some J were killed In auto crashes white ohashig speeders. NPOA officials foresee no reduction in the num ber of these tragedies as long as the nation's crime statistics con tinue to climb. FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover pre dict* an all time high for the nation crime rate this year if the present lawbreaking trend continues. NPOA officials agree that the risks tvave always been great in police work. But Frank Shira, an investigator for the Illinois Attorney General's Office and NPOA Pres ident, declares. "Because of the increasing crime rate you might say that a police man's Job is more dangerous to day than it ever was before. Oops put much of the blame for the hazard boost on the Illicit ni cotics traffic. They explain that narcotics offenses have jumped 100 per cent in recent years. "A guy under the influence of dope often becwnes a dangerous holdup or strongarm man in order to get money to buy more narcotics, one policeman explains. Wild drivers are also blamed for reducing the life expectancy of to day's police officers. Recent statist ics show tljat one out of every seven motorcycle cops who chases speed Thrilling, Picturesque Drama if THE CHEROKEES Unto Than k History mold under the f ? start ... in emotional ex perience vividly portrayed, keel Cherokee Indians In en experienced cut of 130. Perfect acoustics amidst f natural beauty of Mountaln . aMe Theatre, Cherokee, N. C. ? SSmSU^SSS r iSl WtRni.ih JJaT A k ? iWw Z9 tnrougn Mpt. o. r fttsarvtd silts available at k SI. 50. $1.80, $2.40, $3.00. For rtwffttioflt, call or UNTO THESE HIUT 4 k Clulw, fi C, P * PIwm HYett 7<2lt1 era and otter type* of wito olfea der? will be killed before Hiey reach retirement age. ' But what gripes NPOA member most to the public apathy they re ceive in return for protecting lives and property. Gerald Arenberg NPOA Executive Secretary, says: "A citiaen will rarely help a polic eman. A cop can be fighting for his life on the street and everybody will walk right by without making any effort to come to his assistance." That's why the NPOA considers the promotion of public recogni tion for police bravery as one of its main goals. It has set up a special awards program to hpnor police men who have shown heroism while performing their Jobs. At its recent national convention in Washington, NPIA awarded medals for valor to tfye families of 27 dead poheempn This year state governors joined with NPOA in naming September 24 as Police Memorial Day. This date will be reserved each year for states to honor their cops who were killed in the line of duty. TV A Awards Contracts For Insulators TVA said recently it has awarded contracts for 33,000 transmission line insulators on which seven com panies submitted identical bids. Four separate requests for bids were issued by TVA. Two called for bids on 3,000 insulators, one on 12, 000 insulators, and one on 15,000 insulators. Invitations were sent to eight companies, and seven re sponded, submitting identical bids on each of the four requests. The seven companies are: A. B. Chance Co., General Electric Co., Josyln Manufacturing and Supply Co., Lapp Insulator Co., Ohio Brass Co., H. K. Porter Co., and the Vic tor Insulator Division of I-T-E Cir cuit Breaiker Co. Three bidders were in labor sur plus areas. The plant of one of the fhree, however, was down because of a strike, and its bid was not considered. The remaining two Lapp Insulator Co., Inc. LeRoy, New York, and. General Electric dm. Baltimore, Maryland were a\? warded the four contracts. Under an Executive order plants in labor surplus areas are given preference, other considerations being equal. lAn effort was made to award the contracts to Lapp Insulator Co., and General Electric as equally as pos sible. The Lapp company was aw ared the contract for 15,000 insula tors at a cost of $51,000. and Gener al Electric received the contracts for 3.000 and 12.000 insulators at a total cost of $51,000. The recipient of the remaining contract for 3,000 insulators at cost of $10,200 was determined in a drawing, and the Lapp Co. was successful. In 1900, North Carolina's popula tion was 90 per cent rural. By 1955, it was estimated that less than 30 per cent of all Tar Heels were farm residents. It Ijas been estimated that less than 10 per cent of North Carolina's labor force will be required for agricultural production in 1975. In 1954, about 58 per cent of North Carolina was in farm lands. This year will be the 17th time in the last 120 years that a farm cen sus has been taken. Czechs Real Fans Of American Jazz Each day voice of America fani in Czechoslovakia eagerly listen to one of their favorite radio actresses speak from a radio con. troi room in Washington. But the words they hear from Libessa Kop- j fstein-Penk have no resemblance to her dramatic lines which once in the theaters of Prague. They are words like "down-beat" "Count Basie" and "hi-fi" the syn tnyms of American jazz. Preferring freedom to fame, Libu ssa she's known to her VOA pals as Libby-fled to the U. S. after the Communist took over Czechos lovakia. Today, she's considered one of the pretty hep gal when it rimes to explaining jazz to foreign ers. Libby runs a 10 minute jazz ? news show each day which is beam ed to countries behind the Iron Curtain, "My Main Interest is to give in. formation concerning everything about jazz," she explains in an ent. husiastic voice which handles English with both charm and ease. "People know quite a lot about jazz all over Europe and are especially interested in it in Czechoslovakia." She was bom in Yugoslavia, but her father moved the family to Prague a few years later. Libby, her blue eyes alart and sparkling, insists that she is no ex pert on the subject. But friends, who have seen the stacks of LP jazz records in her home find this hard to beliove. Even Libby, herself doe sn't know how many records she owns. She can only say that they would provide "hours and hours of music." Libby explains that she became interested in jazz while she was in Austria, her first stop after fleeing the Czech Communist. "I was surp rised that I hadn't heard more jazz progams she explains. "I got so Interested that I started to study the history of the music and listen to it much more frequently." But a few years earlier, the blond trim beauty would have been amaz ed if someone had suggested that she could be interested in anything but the theater. For almost 10 years it had brought fame and the admiration of thousands of Eur opean theater-goers. Libby explains that her stage career was completely unexpected Although her father was an establi shed actor and director, she didn't care anything about the theater as a child and wanted to be a doctor.. But soon after she was graduated from high school, the Germans in vaded Czechoslovakia and the universities closed down. Libby ref used to go to a Nazi school. She explains that during her last year of high school she had won a nationwide speech contest. So she decided to try acting since her chan ces of becoming a doctor were ru ined. Her father helped to get her a part in a play which opened in Prague. A few months later the lead ing actress quit the stage company to have a baby and Libby was given her part. From then on, she expla. ins that she always seemed to be | able to land starring roles. The end of her acting career be gan when the Communists took over Czechoslovakia and started in filtrating into theater groups. "Dur ing the Nazi occupation," she ex plains, "actors knew who was a spy and who wasn't. But you never knew under the Communist regime. The uncertainty was terribly de moralizing." She explains that the theater suddenly turned into just I another organ for promoting C'om | munist propaganda. Soil Conservation NEWS JOHN a m i th Judd Si iles has established about eight acres of new pasture on the Bourne farm near Appalachia Lake that * about as good as any pas ture I have seen lately. The ground was cleared up last winter and this spring and the grass and clover were seeded in the late spring. Two tons of lime and 1000 pounds of 2-12-112 fertilizer were applied per acre. The grass and clover are now more than a foot high. Proper lim ing and fertilizer application is the secret of obtaining a good stand of grass. In contrast to this excellent pas ture, I recently saw another field which was seeded to grass and and clover this spring but on which there was a complete failure. This was alsw on land which was cleared up during the winter and early spring . No lime and no fertilizer was applied to this pasture and no grass or clover is there. Roy Wells has made a different looking farm out of his farm sear Ebenezer. 'Last year the farm was wet and practically grow up in weeds and bushes, but since Koy bought it, he has dug two canals and installed several hundred feet of tile ditches. The whole place has been dried out and is grow, ing excellent grass. More than six hundred bales of hay have been cut off the place this year. Noah Hembree has had the timb er on his farm at Peachtree mark ed for thinning. There Is an excel lent stand of shortleaf and Virginia pine on his place and it is begin ning to slow down its rate of grown becausc the stand is becoming crowded. A pulp cutting will re lease the stand for faster growth and will put money in the bank too. John Wiggins, the Soil Conser vation Forester, told of a wood lot he recently helped .mark and cut in eastern North Carolina which produced .twenty cords of pulp to the acre. In addition to that, he estimated that there were enough dead trees lying on the ground to produce eleven more cords. If those eleven cords had been cut at the proper time, the farmer would have been better off. Thirty-seven per cent of the DHAI herds in North Carolina are now enrolled in the central process ing system at N. C. State College. Good grass silage can be a milk maker. Let cows graze at night during hot weather. Last year poultry enterprises in North Carolina brought in over $162 million. But what cinched her decision to leave Prague was her unwillingness to have her small son grow up un der a Communist dictatorship. Libby won't talk much about her escape. The most that she will ever say is that she made it, and that she's glad she did. SPECIAL NOTICE To City Tax Payers Take Advantage Of The Discount By Pre-paying YOUR CITY TAXES NOW TOWN OF MURPHY C. E. Johnson, City Clerk Tide pifg. 34c pig. 81c HSf $1.35 Cheer pke. 34c & 81 c i Dreft T ft. 34c Joy LIQUID DETERRENT ^ 40c ^ 71c Spic b Span pg. 29c n -k. B9c r i ? in i n i ? ? ? Cascade St 43c : TJti Dash DETERGENT Large.39c Package ? Comet jlOLSEHOI.lt CLE ANSI, K 2 is.wc. 31 c 2 Ct. Ctns. 47c Lux Flakes Large 3L -, Package Lux Soap Bath 1 Bar I DC Lux Soap 2 Reg. 71 Bars ? I C Lifebuoy TE Med. (OAP Bar fHIJE Med. J 1 Lifebuoy ris Lg. fcOAP Bar PTOTE Lg. 1 gc Wisk ! SS 40c & 73c Condensed all i Zi-Or 3Q ! Package J/v. 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