ThfSavrnal - Patriot
independent in politics
Published Mondays and Thursdays at
North Wilkesboro, North Carolina
JTJLIUS C. HUBBARD?MRS. D. J. CARTER
Publishers
1932?DANIEL J. CARTER?1945
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Entered at the postoffice at Nerth Wilkes
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under Act of March 4, 1897.
Monday, January 2, 1950
City Makes Effort To
Protect Pedestrians
North Wilkesboro police department
has put into effect a "No Left Turn"
regulation on the corner of B and Ninth
streets.
Under the old system of turning either
right or left on the city's busiest corner,
pedestrians had little chance, especially
with the discourteous driving of numerous
motorists who cursed pedestrians who
didn't jump out of the way fast enough
to suit them while they were making
turns over the right of way of the walk
ers.
Under the old system pedestrians often
chose to "jay walk" between corners for
the sake of safety as well as to save time.
Crossing the street between corners en
abled pedestrians to know which way
cars were coming, and they could avoid
the cars. At the corner they had to watch
three sides and jump in several directions
at the same time, which is a task, even
for a contortionist.
The elimination of left turns at the
corner of B and Ninth may be the fore
runner of eliminating ay turn at that
corner, because pedestrians still will have
to watch for motorists making right turns
and who are liable to run them down
from behind.
It has long been a mystery to us why
automobile and truck drivers ever got the
notion that they had the right of way to
run over pedestrians while making turns
at traffic lights. The only right of way
that a driver or pedestrian has is straight
ahead on a green light. To turn means
that you must avoid hitting pedestrians
who have the right of way with the green
light.
To improve the situation, police may
expedite traffic on some of the other
corners by making it legal to turn right
on a red light where pedestrian traffic
is light.
During the heavy traffic here during
the holidays it was not unusual to see
dozens of pedestrians waiting to cross on
a green light, and when the light turned
green a stream of cars would rush
through making a left turn, with no re
gard for the pedestrians, and the walk
ers would not get a chance to cross, even
when they had the right of way.
Eliminating left turns at the corner of
B and Ninth will provide some protection
for those who must cross the streets on
foot, but a more considerate attitude on
the part of drivers is necessary to make
safe pedestrian traffic.
Pqlice are going to try'to eliminate
"jay walking," which is crossing the
streets between lights, and it necessary
follows that if walkers are going to cross
at the corners they must have protection
from being run over.
Safety Resolutions Are
Suggested For Year 1950
"If you would be thrifty, practice saf
ety in 1950," is a New Year's Resolution
suggested this week by Paul Choplin,
county agent for the State College Exten
sion Service.
Such a resolution, the county agent
pointed out, can be carried out by the
whole family to the benefit of all. Furth
ermore, it is thoroughly practical, and can
mean the difference between profit and
loss for the new year.
Making and keeping New Year's safety
resolutions is much more than a pastime;
it is a means of assuring the happiness
and well-being of farm families every
where. The National Safety Council sug
gests that if each member of every farm
family makes and keeps one good safety
resolution in 1950, noticeable progress
will be made toward reducing the tre
mendous toll that accidents take in agri
culture.
Following are a few suggested resolu
tions for farm families to make for 1950:
1. We will contfnually check the farm
to locate and remove hazards.
2. We will at all times observe all saf
ety rules in the operation of machines.
3. We will encourage our friends to
work, play, and drive safely.
4. Regardless of the emergency, we
will not permit young children to ope
rate or ride upon farm machinery.
5. We will observe due caution when
working with or around animals.
6. We will keep guns unloaded and out
of reach of children.
7. We will handle poisons and explos
ives carefully and keep them labeled and
out of reach of children.
8. We will encourage year-round par
:icipation in farm safety activities by the
organizations to which we belong.
Persistent hoarseness, an unexplained
continued cough or difficulty in swallow
ng is one of the "danger signs" of can
cer. A physician should be consulted.
What do you know about cancer?
Write for free informational booklet to
^our nearest American Cancer Society of
?ice or ACS, 47 Beaver Street, New York
1, N. Y.
When Infinite Wisdom established the
-ule of right and honesty, he saw to it
;hat Justice should be always the high
est expediency.?Wendell Phillips.
LIFE'S BETTER WAY
WALTER E. I5ENHOUR
High Point, N. C., Route -?
WORTHLESS EXCUSES
There are multitudes of p?o])le toWa^
who have so many worthless excuses for
doing wrong, serving the devil and fail
ing to give their hearts and lives to God.
Perhaps one of the main excuses that the
masses hold up before them is the failure
of church members all about us who live
such worldly lives, many of whom are
quite sinful and wicked. The outside
world will tell us that there are so many
hypocrites in the churches, and that they
are just as good as they are, and better
too, since they do not profess only to be
sinners, while the hypocrites say they are
Christians. ! [f|*fI
Well, dear soul, just remember one
thing?you can't go to heaven following
along with hypocrites. This is a very
worthless excuse for you serving the devil
and sin. Such an excuse won't get you
anywhere toward God, but it will sink
you into hell. Yes, we realize this is one
of the general excuses'the outside sinful
world puts up continually, and all about
us. I would hate very much to live on no
higher level in life than that of a hypo
crite, and then go to meet God under such
a circumstance. Why not pick out the
very best people in the church as an ex
ample and try to measure up to them?
Indeed there is genuine gold among the
counterfeit. Hunt for the gold and not
the dross, or the counterfeit. Why throw
away the church entirely because there
are some who do not measure up to their
profession, or that are hypocrites? Isn't
it using just as much common sense to
throw away all good money because there
happens sometimes a little counterfeit to
be in circulation? Certainly, but you don't
refuse money because you get a counter
feit dollar.
People have many excuses for staying
away from the church and Sunday school,
but when we sum the excuses all up, with
but very few exceptions, the one out
standing reason is because they don't
want to go. I'm convinced of this fact the
longer I live. People absent themselves
from church because they don't want to
go. They stay away from God because
they want to live for the devil. Of course
they have their excuses, but all excuses
for living in sin and going hellward, and
staying away from God and out of sal
vation^- are absolutely worthless. God
won't take excuses at the great and final
day of reckoning.'
NEW YORK GROCER FOUND DEAD I
?in STREAM NEAR STATESVILLE
Statesville.?"Foul Play" is
uspected In the death of a weal
thy Brooklyn, N. Y., grocer
tvhose expensively clothed but
shoeless body was discovered in
i shallow stream near here
Monday, Iredell County Coroner
lames Meacham said yesterday.
The coroner identified the man
is J. Seigel, that being the name
inscribed on a key chain. He
lad apparently been dead seven
o 10 days. The body was sent
to the Bowman Gray School of
Medicine in Winston-Salem for
in autopsy.
Officers were also investigat
ng the discovery of an expensive
topcoat found near the spot a
>out a week ago. Underbrush
vas trampled down around the
ioat. No outward sounds of vio
ence had been discovered, but
he absence of a wallet and per
sonal papers prompted the su
spicion that robbery was a mo
ive for the death.
A hunter discovered the body
>f the 7 5-year-old man lying face
lown in about 12 inches of wat
ir, at the bottom of a 12-foot
iitch. Firemen with grappling
looks lifted it out.
The coroner said that a Brook
yn und ' taker had said the man
vas to spend the Winter in
Florida and had been missing
'or 12 days. New York police
aid the elderly man, a native oi
tuss'u who had been in this
ountry for 57 years, left home
)ec. 13 after expressing a wish
o go to Florida to visit a neph
iw. His wife, Fannie, 72, died
hree days earlier.
Efforts to reach the man in
Florida were futile, and two
laughters with whom he lived
eported him missing. They said
hey thought he planned the
rip by bus. Officers said he was
lelieved to have had about $100
vith him, but no clothing ex
:ept what he wore. The shoes
ind necktie were missing.
Seigel retired about six year?
igo. He had operated grocery
tores in New Jersey and Brook
yn. Survivors include a son, Dr.
Victor Seigel of Red Bank, N.
I., and three daughters. Mem
iers of the family were en route
iere to identify the body
39-Year-Old Woman
Bears 16th Child
Woodbury, Conn.?Mrs. Nor
man Cole, who is 39, gave birth
to her 16th child, a daughter, at
her home last night.
Thirteen of the children have
been born here and all but one
are living.
The proud fathy, a scrap met
al dealer, doesn't believe large
families are unusual.
He has 14 brothers and sisters
himself.
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Vacuum cooling offers an ex
tremely promising method for
conditioning certain vegetables
tor shipment, recent tests by
plant scientists of the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture show.
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