North Carolina Newspapers

NCEA Holds Dinner Meeting Thursday Tto Murpttx City Uait ?: the North Caroina Education Associ ation held a di.ioer meeting at tbe Henrv House an Thursilat evening. February jsth President. Mr*. Robert S Bault presided over the business session and heard cummittee reports The tollowtag officers were ejected lor the coming year President. Miss Leila Hayes: Vice - Presi dent. Mr. Felix Palmer: Secre tary. Mrs Martha Hatchett : Trea ?crer, Mr. Randall Shields. Incoming officers were named delegates to the State Meeting ot N.C.E.A. in Asheville. Holland D. M. REESE AccMMtoirt Income Tax Returns DIAL VE 7-2424 Tennessee Street MURPHY, N. C. MrSwmn. Walter Puett and Johi Jordan will also represent thi Mi :ph> I'ity Unit at tbe meetuig Superintendent McSwain pr? sented the speaker for the even ing. Mr. Clyde A Erwin. Jr. ? Kaieiiih . National Education A* social ton representative. wh< <poke on "Federal Aid To Kduc jtioo". Plans lor the meeting weri made by Mr. Jordan, chairmar it the arrangements commute* and Mrs. Jerry Davidson. chair nan of the public relations com ?nittee. Poland To Build 122 Vessels WARSAW. Poland < AP -Poland \ ill buikl 122 ocean going vesnels otaling 830 two tons for the Soviet ,'nion by mss. the official news igency report?. They will include ?argo vessels, tankers, timber ransports. fishing boats, and fish ng (actor> vessels. 3-T TIRE VALUES... sweeping reductions still fra effect! TURNPIKE-PROVED TIRES! <3T> Nylon Safety All-Weirtnr Superiority is built-in with Goodyear's ex clusive 3-T Nylon ( Cord and the toughest ^ tread rubbers ever. Don't miss this great value! 16 ? Sin 6.70 ill ? bU tub*-(rpt 3-T NYLON SAFETY ALL-WEATHER TTT 1 TUBE-TYPE SIZE 7.10 x 15 7.60 x 15 TUBELESS SIZE 7.50 x 14 8.00 x 14 8.50 x 14 Now! Value Priced* $20.85 22.80 Now! Value Priced* $20.95 23.35 25.55 'plus tax and recappable tire ? FREE INSTALLATION ? TERMS AS LOW AS $ 1.25 A WEEK I J. H. DUNCAN TIRE CO. Peachtree Street VE 7-2666 Murphy, N. C. ! Everybody Soys Brand X Not The Best ?I '' _v ? ? - ' tSV i-' : ?' ? By BEN PHLKGAR * AP AiImmKtc Writer DKTROIT i AP '?An aula deal 1 er is always happy when he sells ~ you a car and he i apt l? be even 1 happier if he has persuaded you - to trade in "Brand" X (or his par ticular make. ' T'iet,e are called conquest sales 1 and tor years they 've been highly ' prized in the trade. Now one of the biggest selling nukes in effect is telling its deal ers "conquest sales are fine Keep it up. But let's give some thought ? to tu own owners." This is the essence of the new owner relations program which Chevrolet started last fall under its new general sales manager. K. K. 'Gene1 Stuley. Staley set up an owner rela tions department headed by Mack \V. Worden. who had been nation. Ial business manager lor Chevro let. You'd have to go a long way! to find two more enthusiastic men. I AMONG THE ! SICK Patients admitted to Provi dence Hospi'ai: J. E Farmer, Rt. J. Murpn; : Sam Baker. Mur phy: C. rover \!?uney. Rt. 1. Mur phy: Mrs N?tie Wright, Rt. 4. Murphy: Miss Sarah Breed love. Rt. 1. Murphy: Mrs. Cordell Rad ford. Rt. 3. Murphy: Alexander Shook. Young Harris. Ga.: Jay! Stroud. Rt. 3. Flayesville: Olen McDonald. Murphy: Mrs. Laura i Barker. Rt. 1. Murphy: Mrs. tMary Lou Wueen. Rt. 1. Mur phv: William C. Hayes. Rt. 3. Murphy. Patients admitted to Murphy General Hospital: Mrs. Charles Bates. I'naka: Mrs. Eloise Dil lars. Rt. 2. Cluberson : Judson Pinkerton. Rt. 4. Murphy: Ben Dalrympie. Rt. 2. Murphy : Mrs. Martha Fain. Copperhill. Tenn. : Albert lfuison. Blairsville. Ga.: Mrs. Maurine Bryant. Murphv: William H. Taylor. Murphv: Mrs. Jessie Hibberts, Suit and John Owenb.v, Turtletown, Tenn. Patients dismissed from Mur phy General Hospital: Mrs. John Cearley Rt. 2. Culberson. i "This iiKKi complaint depart ment," Stale; declares emphatic - all; "We've already got one ol those. This department * job is to beep our old customers happy from the day they first enter a dealer's showroom through the lite of the car." Chevrolet says it has more than i 16 million cars and trucks on the road, several million more than I an; bod; else Thus it is a prime t-rget for dealers of other mahaa who are lookirg for new businesi. Stale; and Worden organised a seiies of what they called forv ? r a development boards. Informal seminars between selected deal ers and Chevrolet sales officials to thresh out problems in some particular field, such as service. Worden is setting up a panel of Chevrolet owners chosen at random. Kach is asked to serve as an owner-counselor, "one who would feel free at an; time to ad vise us of your opinion about any uha.^e of Chevrolet's current prod ucts. its .services, or needs ol owners, which Chevrolet should consider in luture product plan ning." With the start of the 1960 mod el year every 20th buyer of a Cor vair and every 30th buyer of a standard Chevrolet received a comprehensive booklet to fill out about their reactions to the car, to the dealer, to service practices and to their car shopping meth. ods. Starling in March Worden plans to hold a series of informal lunch eons where selected owners will be invited to make suggestions, contribute kleas. air their gripes. "So often." said Worden. "it's 'lie little things that bother the owners and they put up their guard. Mayb- it's just the atti tude of a telephone operator at the dealer's." One suggestion made to dealers is to consider operating their serv ice departments on two shifts. "Why should our owners be serv ice orphans alter 6 p.m.?" asks Stale; . Dealers also have been remind ed of the importance of treatine new owners properly when they lake delivery of their cars, to make sure they are familiar with all the controis and accessories Sometimes Good Things Happen To The Taxpayers WASHINGTON (AP)? Good things happen to tax payers, sometimes. Take the case of the New York Central Railroad. ? The Internal Revenue Service ( concluded some time back that the railroad had overpaid its 1S41- , 44 taxes by more than 85'; mil- i lion dollars. As a result, the New ( York Central got refunds, credits and interest payments totaling ( more than 86 million dollars. This whopping transaction came to light today in a list ot big re funds approved in 1958 by the Senate-House Committee on Inter nal Revenue Taxation. The com- ? mittee has to approve all refunds 1 of more than 8100,000. The New York Central item was the biggest on the list. IRS said it could not discuss details of the ' case becarse of legal prohibition* against disclosing the affair? ol ' taxpayers. Many of the listed reiunds ; stemmed Irom tax court cases. IRS collected what it claimed was 1 due from some taxpayers, then had to settle for less and refund 1 the difference. In other cases, taxpayers were ' able to convince the agency that they had paid more than was due. While corporations accounted j for most ol the 280 big rclunds in ' the tabulation for the 12 months which ended June 30. 1958. some went to individuals. New York gambler Frank Eric _ son and his wife, for instance, got WELCOME , NEW NEIGHBORS , 7"0 OL/R STREET . . . DR. GEO. L. DYER DR. Wm. R. GOSSETT McKEEVER & EDWARDS, Attorneys At Law HERMAN H. WEST Construction Co. i' All Murphy Is Proud Of Your Beautiful New Building. We Want You To Know We Are Glad To Have You Near Us. W. D. TOWNSON TOWNSON FUNERAL HOME PEACHTREE STREET MURPHY, N. C. credits, refunds and interest pay ments totaling $2,230,775. This re sulted from settlement of a tax court case. The settlement was disclosed at the time. In addition to the New York L'entral. nine corporations got re lunds, credits, abatements and intere.st payments of more than Ihree million dollars each. The companies, and t h e amounts, were: Westinghouse Klectric Corp.. Pittsburgh. $8,043. 739: General Dynamics Corp.. San Diego. Calif.. S7.7W.2H4: Beech Aircraft Corp.. Wichita. Kan.. (7.39U.203: C.N.I. Liquidating Co. 'formerly Clinton Foods', St. Louis. $3,192,046. Celanese Corp.. New York City. S4.8I5.353: Seatrain Line.--. New Vork City. $4.59fl.3W): Barber Oil L'orp.. New York City. $3,812,843: Motor Products Corp.. Detroit. 53.431.242. and Standard Oil Co. 'New Jersey", New York City. (3.393,273. it SUCCESSFUL An Air Farce MACE tactical surfarr-to-uirfacr rnbuilr floats earthward alter a aucceaafol flight at tW lloHamaa Air Form Ban la New Mrxiro A similar MACE reeeatly set a retard far this modal irrapaa Irv complet ing It* faarth aacctrnfal rece* rry flight. A parachate recee trj Ut aarrtad la ptaea al a war bead permits the mat at the Li'l Tigers of Korea Th?* ire the L'il Tit*" of Korea? * remarkable group of newsboys , telling the newspaper "Pacific Star* and Stripe*" to the U.S. Army In < Korea? from the Port of Puean to the foxholes on the truce line. The Li'l Tiger* are mostly orphans in their early teen* whose parents died of hardship or wounds received during the war. Smartly outfitted by I dp I'trinc .\?w Agency, tney help support their home orphanages by selling the paper. The U.S. Army and the Amer ican-Korean Foundation are spon soring a content to select the two most efficient Li't Tigers. The two winners will be aeal on a two-week tour of the U.S. Dr. Howard A. Rusk, chairman of the board of American- Korean Foundation describe! the tour of ithe two Li'l Tigers aa typifying President Eisenhower's People-to People Program. "It i? not only heartwarming," Dr. Rusk wrote Gen. White, Commander-in-Chiel I U.S. Army i Pacific i "but ran con- I tribute greatly to increased under- < standing by the American people of the important role which tht i U.S. Army atill plays in Korea and the contribution which the freedom- ' loving people of Korea continues to main to the defense of democracy."' I The Li'l Tigers on tour in th< I U.S. will be gueats of the American- ] Korean Foundation, a non-profit permanent organization founded in . 1952 to help the Korean* help . themselves. First Postal Museum Opened The Nation's first premanent i Postal History Museum ? vividly portraying American postal de velopment from Colonial days to the present ? was officially open-; ed today Tuesday. Feb. 23. 11160', Hie Postal History Museum, is located at the Post Oflice Depart ment Building at 12th and Penn sylvania Avenue. N. \V? will be open to the public permanently without charge. The Museum portrays (he pro gress of the Unitde States Post Oflice from the early post riders of several centuries ago to the recent experiment with Missile Mail. The visitor first sees a Wells i Fargo stage coach model, one coaches which carried the mails between the remote western settle ments in the latter half of the 19th century. In 1&58. for example, the first transcontinental stage line? j "Butterfield Overland Mail Co." 1 ? ran from Tipton. Missouri to San Francisco. California on a; twenty - five day schedule. Some of the early stage lines were in existence as late as 1913. The Wells Fargo model, used by Col. William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, one of the original Pony i Express riders, in his Wild West Show, sets the scene for a tour through a chronological historic display of panels and cases de picting more than a century and' a hall ol American Postal Service. A Colonial postmaster's desk used to soil and dispatch mail in. tlie carlv period ot Americn his- 1 tory is of interest. It is signifi-l cant that the pigeonhole case used] for sorting letters then is basically; the same a* currently used in all past oil ices until recently wheni modern mechanized letter sorters' were introduced as part of the Department's mechanization pro gram. A pictorial display of I lie era, 17.i0 through the early IHOU's shows a milestone" from the okl Bos ton Post Road telling the distance to New York and has a picture of a mail sack used by Benjamin Franklin. In display cases are pen hold er,*. quills, actually early letters; and other products and tools used in Colonial Days. In a section of the Museum the development of river transporta tion for movement of the U. S. . | Mails is portrayed. Included in a i handsome model of an 1850 Mis- i sissippi steamboat, with the typi-i cal "U. S. Mail" printed on the side near the paddlewheel ? signi fying it was one of many mail carrying ships ot the period. The story of the Overland Ex press Stages and the Pony Ex press is shown on panels. .Ad jacent to the panel* are a strong box. a Pony Express "mochilla" ' a leather saddle cover with mail containers' and scores of other ar ticles used by postal pioneers to help win the west. The Pony Express era ? April 3. 1860 ? October. 1881 ? opened a notable Century of progress in the American Postal Service and electrified the Nation by carying letters 2.000 miles across the trackless American wilderness in ten da>s time. Following the Pony Express, the Exhibition shows the advent of Railway Mail Service, followed by a view of the first official test of a railroad post office car in 1864. Later advancements of the i"Iron Horse" and the role it play ed in speeding mail services are also related through pictures and ! artifacts. The birth of Rural Free De livery in MM. a Major set in rend ering postal service to over 22.000 families living in sparselv populat ed areas of the Nation, is a fea ture of the Museum At present. 8,188.231 families are receiving rural service. The development at airmail starting la 1(18 whan mail was firsl officially flown from \Va.4i- , inglon lo New York is shown. In < its initial year 17.831 pounds of i mail were carried by air: last ' l year the total was 115.207.000 I pounds. I A linal exhibit tells the story' of the first official mail deliver) j| by guided missile on June 6. open i a path for turther exploration otji a new technique of communica- I tion ? "Missile Mail." II Library Week ! To Be April 3-9 Plans for National Library Week j{ot underway at a meeting Monday at 3:30 at the Murphy Public Library. Library Week will be April 3 through 9. This is the third year that Libr ary Week has been nationally observed. Emphasis this year is on the value of reading. Members of the planning com mittee are Mrs. Robert Weaver. Mrs. George Size, Miss Thelma Wheeler. Mrs. Harold Wells. Mrs. Robert Minor and Mrs. Foster] Bruner. Also Mrs. Tom Case, Miss. Josephine Weighway. Mrs. Jerry Davidson. Mrs. Jerue Babb, Mrs. Felix Palmer and Mi.ss Alice Porter. Planned activities for the week will be announced later. Hotel Plans Solar Heating PKRPIGNAN. France (AP)-Aj hoiel here plan* to lap the heat j of the sun by special mirrors ami: distribute it throughout its into- i rior. The hotel's water also will be solar heated. Experts say the method should cut the hotel's heating bill 80 per cent. Birds nests arc sometimes found in Hawaii made from threads of spun volcano grass which birds pluck from droplets of lava Patience Needed in Tree Forming - * * ? J RALEIGH 'APi - Ann what plant* trees must be patient and i madfish I Since it will be 1J te ? yean ( wlore tHe flret trae* can be cut or Mia, be cannot plant (er a < Huck return Looking to tbe final harvaat? j ? to 50 yaar* after piutint-tt I ? unlikely be even pilot* (or him- 1 ?If His children, or someone riae who coma* altar, will bene- i it Thousand* of landowner* with | hi* kind of foresight must be l bund, if timber aeed* are ta be icsured lor a future of vastly in- | Teased population. In North Carolina last year. , tome 8.000 of them planted 100 nillion forest tree seedlings pro-' iuced in four state nurseries. If this is repeated thi* \ ear? as >fficials expect? hall a billion seedlings will have been grown ind distributed lor planting since he program started in 1927. That's enough, .-aid Asst. Slate! forester P. A. Griffiths, to plant! lalf a million acres? figuring 1.000 seedlings to the acre. Yet. he went on. North Cam illa has another million acres nhich should be planted to trees. He hopes this can be accom ilished by the planting of 100 mil ion trees each vear over the next 10 \ears. me latest c.a. forest service survey and report showed North Carolina's limber is growing fast-i ?r than it is being cut. For the i rear 1955. growth added over 871 1 11 1 1 1 i on cubic leet to the growing! ;tock inventory volume, while 526 niltion cubic feet were cut. "We're keeping up." Griffiths] igrced. "The replacement is ibout equal to the drain." Even so. there is the continuing' >roblem of declining timber qua!-1 ity due to early cutting. The sur-1 fey noted that the state's forests! still do no provide enough large ? te. high quality timber to meet he demands of sawmills and the urniture industry for clear lum ber. face veneer, the structural imbers. Too many landowners lack the; patience to wait until trees reach) iull maturity. Forestry experts recommended selective cutting, nit the owner may accept the ligher olfer from a sawmill to :ut the land clear. "It's very hard to get them to told off cutting because of the >rice." explained Griffiths. This illustrates the need for. xoper forestry management, a* >reached by the 13 district forest-1 prs under the Conservation and I Development Department's fores :ry division. Present growth exceeds present use. but what ot the future Since it takes 40 to 50 years to ^ produce top quality .saw timber, the trees must be growing now lo supply the needs tor the year 2000. Based on estimated population increases, maintaining present rates of wood use per person would demand a 33 per cent rise in current timber cut hy 1975, and a 71 per cent jump by 2000. .North Carolina is a .supplier of timber to the nation. Recent fig ures ranked it fourth as a timber producer. Depletion of virgin timber re PLYMOUTH, England (AP> - Four hoys, aned 4 to 6. drowned^ in the Royal Plymouth Carinthian Vacht Club pool, which opens into [he sea. The bodies were found! by police Friday morning. T'ne ihildren. Robert Landicrome. 6.1 and his brother. Alan. 5. Melvin Medway. 6 and his brother Da vid. 4. vanished Thursday. World Assembly BUENOS AIRES i.fi - Alt et fcutive committee has set Nov. 18-25. 1961, in New Delhi. India, j for the Third World assembly of1 (he World Council of Churches, with the theme "Jesus Christ ? i the Light of the World." Pre vious assemblies were in Amster dam in 1948. and in Evanston. 111., in 1954 Drown larvos ia the Pacific MftkvMt rill iacr? ao the pimwi of naad oo states audi as North .'arolina These are the roaaoos Griffiths >ad hla men work to persuade [armers and other landowners to plant iraaa. and to flvt a holping Mod to naturally seeded wood laadt. The pitch must ha made to the small landowner. Pulp companies and other cor porate holders of large timber tracts give their woodlands pro (essiooal care. It's good business for them to do this They represent only a fraction of the total woodlands picture. Seventy per cent of North Caro lina's It million forest acres i nearly two-thirds total land area > is jn the hands of more than 220 000 farmers. Average woodland ownership is about 40 acres. Tree planting is good business for them. too. but sometimes they have to be convinced. It is a practical proposition. Griffiths maintained. "The acres planted to trees are not in competition for crop use,'' he explained. "It is submarginal land, not good for any other use. It automatically increases in value as soon as trees are planted n j." uvtniiuicin aiu ui #?< an nviv, usually enough to cov?r planting costs, is available to farmers un der the conservation program car ried on by the Agricultural Sta bilization and Conservation office. After the trees are -planted, the farmer doe.s nothing but watch them grow, and protect them from fire. Some of the first trees might be cut for pulpwood after 15 to 20 years. Then, selective harvesting will continue at inter vals until the trees reach full ma turity. The acre that had 1.000 seed lings at the start will have about 150 trees at maturity. The Sandhills and the Piedmont have the major share of the one million acres which should b* planted to trees These are worn out farms, abandoned fields grown up in broomsedge. cut-over land with no mature trees left to pro vide seed naturally, woodland dominated by scrub oak and un desirable hardwoods. Now is the time to plant. Dur ing the December-March planting season, seedlings are delivered from the nurseries at Morganton, Clayton, (loldsboro. and at Pen rose near Hendersonville. They out in quantities ranging from 1. (too up to half a million. "We met the demand last year for the first time." said Griffiths, speaking of the leaps and bounds by which the program has grown in recent years. Two nurseries have been added since 1954 "We hope to meet the demand again this year, and see it sta bilize at aroutd 100 million seed lings each year." he added Ralph Edwards Nursery at Mor ganton produces white pine and yellow popular. The furniture in dustry favors the popular. The Cla.uon Nursery grows lob lolly pine and yellow popular, and also the red cedar, used as a Christmas tree in the eastern part of the state. I U*1a Ditrci* Ctala FamuI uiliir uiivi ? wivji ?'*" sery at Goldsboro has loblolly and slash pine. Holmes Nursery at Penrose is growing balsam fir, a higher ele vation tree being promoted for Christmas use. The nurseries are self-support ing, but non profit-making, with prices pegged to recover the cost of production. For the pines, ex cept lor white pine, this means $3.75 per 1.000. For an extra 50 cents per 1.000. the nursery will deliver them to the landowner. While pine, a slow grower which is not planted until two or three years old. costs $5.25 per 1.000 for two-year-old plants; $6 for three-year-olds. Red cedar bring* in $6.50 per 1.000, while yellow popular costs $6. Forestry personnel will give art vice on planting methods. They also are available for help in for est management problems. N sweet iW an four wheel*? The Plymouth XNR, latest of America'* "idee caa^" features an entirely new departure in automobile styling, when vtaMd from any angle. A (ingle fin, iq the form of ? graduated plane, n*s he length of the car. It la off-center to concentrate styling around tha driver of this low, lean roadster. Frame for the front grille and the arttstMeOy modern "X" in the rear era actually the bumpan. Car was ha/4 M* in Italy to Plymouth specifications.