Til Journal - Patriot
INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS
Published Mondays and Thursdays at
North Wilkesboro, North Carolina
JULIUS C. HUBBARD?1CBS. D. J. CASTER
Publishers
1932?DANIEL J. CARTER?10*5
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One Year $2.60
(In Wilkes and Adjoining Counties)
One Year $3.00
(Outside .Wilkes and Adjoining Counties)
Rates to Those in Service:
One Year (anywhere) $2.00
Entered at the postoffiee at Nsrth Wilkes
boro, North Carolina, as Second-Class matter
under Act of March 4, 1897.
Thursday, February 2, 1950
Accidents Caused By
Violations Of Law
Through January 26 this year 57 peo
ple were killed on the highways in North
Carolina.
Practically every one of the deaths were
preventable.
During that period there were 3,909
drivers involved in highway accidents re
ported. Ninety-three drivers were involv
ed in fatal accidents.
There are laws governing motor traffic
on the highways.
If drivers had not been violating laws
there would have been but few accidents
and number of deaths and injuries would
have been drastically lower.
Here is the story on the 3,909 drivers
in accidents in the 26-day period this
year: 338 were speeding; 510 did not have
right of way; 319 were on the wrong side
of the road; 179 were following vehicles
too closely; 187 were driving drunk.
Five hundred and forty commercial
drivers, 530 farmers and farm laborers
and 432 professional and business men
were involved in accidents.
Rural areas continued to lead the State
in highway deaths, injuries and accidents.
Sixty-one of the 77 persons who died on
the highways last month were killed in
rural sections, while 700 of the 919 in
juries and 1,309 of the 2,292 reported
accidents were in the country.
The 77 killed in December represented
a seven per cent increase in fatalities over
the 72 killed in December of 1948 and
brought to 843 the total killed in 1949.
Injuries were up 192 or 26 per cent over
December, 1948, while accidents increas
ed 500 or 28 per cent. Total injuries for
1949 were 9,721, and accidents numbered
21,202. '
Pedestrian fatalities in December show
ed a drop of one in comparison with the
same month of the previous year. Twenty
three pedestrians were killed as compared
with 24 in 1948. Ninety-one were injured
in comparison with 88 during December
of the previous year. Heaviest fatality toll
was in the five to nine and 35 to 44 age
brackets.
Collisions of motor vehicles accounted
for the largest number of deaths in De
cember?26, the same number killed in
this type accident in 1948. Twenty-one
persons met death when their vehicles ran
off the road, an increase of seven over the
previous year. Three were killed in motor
vehicle-train accidents. Collision of ani
mal-drawn and motor vehicles accounted
for one fatality. One bicyclist was killed
and one person was killed when his ve
hicle overturned in the roadway.
September and October topped other
months of the year in fatalities with 83
each. July had 82. The lowest fatality
month was May with 48. October also led
other months in injuries with 980. De
cember was second with 919.
December led in accidents with 2,292,
while October was a close second with
2,287.
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Governmental Trend
In xcise Taxes
The terrible trend toward big govern
ment taking an alarming percentage of
the national income in taxes is reflected
in war-time excise taxes which plague the
American people over four years after the
war ended.
The taxes on various commodities, also
rail, bus and plane tickets, was put on
during the war for two reasons: to dis
courage the production, sale and use of
certain unessential commodities, and to
get tax money to prosecute the war
against the nazifc and Japs.
But the taxes net the money-hungry
government about a billion dollars per
year in this peace-time economy, and it is
hard to see a monstrous spending machine
letting go of that much income. Many of
the items bearing a 20 per cent tax are by
no means luxury. It is not luxury to make
a necessary long distance telephone call,
or to have a telephone in your home. It is
not luxury to ride on a train, bus or plane
when you have to get some place. Many
of the things which are taxed are no more
in the luxury class than a lowly loaf of
bread, which often is very necessary to
sustain life itself.
But the government is running in the
red. The budget makers say it is because
we have to spend multiplied billions for
.defense and on the international scene to
prevent another war. It is true that the
greater portion of governmental expense
goes to finance those things so vital to
world peace, but the budget makers make
no attempt to cut expenses among the
numerous bureaus which are in competi
tion with each other to see which can
spend the most money and wield the most
power and influence in the maze of gov
ernment organizations.
-TH E
EVERYDAY
COUNSELOR
By Rer. Herbert
Spaugh, D. D.
The most effective way to become fire
conscious and to learn how to take steps
to prevent fire is to experience one. But
that's a very expensive way. Anyone who
has lived through a fire has learned to be
careful. By like token, it can be said that
the best way to become conscious of one of
mankind's worst scourages, polio, is to ex
perience it. But that's an awful way to
learn.
The year 1949 was a tragic year for po
lio in the nation. More than 40,000 people
were stricken?a tragic'new record in the.
history of the disease in this country. The'
grim specter of infantile paralysis haunt
ed American homes from early May to
the year's end. Weekly new cases reached
staggering proportions for ten consecutive
weeks, smashing any previous record.
Never before has a severe epidemic been
so wide spread. Never before were ap
peals for help so urgent.
The National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis estimates that 80 per cent of all
their patients afflicted in 1949 were as
sisted in whole or in part by the March of
Dimes Funds. The high cost of patient
care wiped out treasuries of National
Foundation Chapters in 43 states, and Na
tional Headquarters was deluged with ap
peals for emergency aid. All these de
mands were met. By late October more
than 714 million had been sent into the
field. Highest single item of expense was
the payment of hospital bills for thous
ands of families who could not carry the
financial load involved in this high cost
disease. A single case may cost as much as
$10,000 a year. Help was given to all who
needed it, without regard to age, race,
creed, or color.
The March of Dimes Funds go to help
pay for this treatment which is made avail
able at your local National Foundation
Chapter.
There is as yet no preventative for polio
and no absolute cure. But modern treat
ment methods have minimized crippling
and are effective in preventing deformi
ties that were common a decade or more
ago. The National Foundation is conduct
ing extensive research in polio, and we
can look forward to the time when this
dread disease will be banished as have
other scourages which particularly attack
children.
We urge every reader of this column to
contribute liberally to the March of Dimes
Campaign this year and help control, al
leviate and eventually banish this scourage
which may strike your own family circle.
Give the March of Dimes your support.
Editor's Note: The third edition of Dr.
Spaugh's little book on successful living
"The Pathway to Contentment" is now
'available. Orders may be sent to The
Everyday Counselor, Box 6036, Charlotte
7, N. C. The price" is $1.00 postpaid.
Singing Held At.
Fairpbius Church
Stone MounUin Union Singing
Association held a very succei
fnl singing Sunday afternoon at
Palrpialns Baptist church.
Arthur Warren, chairman, pre
sided* and many groupe delight
ed a large audience with singing
throughout the afternoon.
Singers who participated were
as follows: Fairplalns choir, Ar
thur Warren, leader; Fishing
Creek quartet, C. B. Mayberry,
leader; Maple Grove choir, Clar
ence Blevins, leader, also Maple
Grove quartet; Higgins Family,
of Oak Ridge; Margaret Wyatt,
soloists; Glenna Higgins, soloist;
Whitley Sisters, of Maple Grove;
Stony Ridge choir, Fred Cothren,
leader; Goodwill quartet, Doro
thy Billings, leader; Oak Grove
choir, Grover Tharpe, leader;
Oak Ridge choir, C. W. Wiles,"
leader.
Congregational singing was led
by Earl Wiles and John Mc
Grady, with Miss Ruby Brown,
Fairplains choir pianist, at the
piano. Various groups of the
Fairplains choir also participated
as follows: junior choir led by
Cary Johnston; Rev. Clate
Brown, Mrs. Cary Johnston and
Earl Anderson; junior quartet of
eight to ten years of age, Brenda
Brookshire, Kay Beamon, Elaine
Anderson and Roena Hayes, with
Dorothy Beamon pianist.
J. A. Gilliam, who was forced
to give up the position as chair
man of the organization because
of illness, was present to greet'
old friends and enjoy the singing.
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CARD OF THANKS
We acknowledge with sincere
thanks the many acts of kindness
shown to us during the illness and
death of our beloved wife and j
mother.
S. M. SHUMATE
and Children
Support the Scouts]
C. G. Jackson, 67,
Funeral On Tuesday
Charlie Gentry Jackson, 67,
died 8nnday night at his home in
North Elkin following a two
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to
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week Illness. He was a member
of Bbeneser Methodist Chnrch
and of EHkin Masonic Order. He
was an employee of Chatham
Manufacturing company 14 years.
Surviving are his wife, the for
mer Nina Steel whom he married
in April, 1910; two children, Mrs.
Charles Wampler and Dewitt
Jackson of State Road; five
grandchildren; one half brother,
John Layne of Pilot Mountain.
Funeral was held Tuesday at 2
p. m. at Bbeneser Methodist
Church. Burial was in the church
cemetery.
Recreation leaders of senior 4
and home demonstration clnbs
16 eastern counties will be yiv
i special training at workshops
be conducted early in FWbru
y.
About 50 p?r coat more troll-_
ere are moring to market noW*
than a rear ago. State College
authorities urge homemakers to
use more poultry In their menus
during the next few week*.
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HERE'S THE NEW 1950 BUICK SUPER 126, companion body-type to the
equally new Roadmaster 130. Both are shorter than last year's 4-door
Sedans ?yet 4 inches longer in wheelbase. In both, the difference is used
to give you real stretch-out room in the rear seat.
Wfc
'hat the boys did here really
calls for some medals.
We gave them the job of coming up
with something that was bigger
inside?for room and comfort
longer in wheelbase ? always im
portant to good riding qualities
yet unbulky and easy-handling in
over-all dimensions.
Just look how well this tidy num
ber meets these' 'impossible'' speci
fications!
Item one?rear-seat cushions are
a full foot wider than last year's
Supers and Roadmasters.
Item two?in every dimension?
leg-room, head-room, hip-room,
shoulder-room?this rear-seat com
partment is bigger than previous
models?and nearly four inches
longer, fore and aft, than other
1950 Buick interiors.
Item three ? wheelbases are the
longest of our 1950 line. On the
SUPER, it is 12SW instead of
\2\W? on the ROADMASTER130K"
instead of 126W.
"Yet ? and here's where the magic I
comes in ? the whole car is shorter *
over-all. Actually less from bumper
to bumper than previous Buicks
in these series.
That means easier parking, easier
tucking away in family garages
easier maneuvering in crowded
traffic.
There are some other things too.
An extra rear-quarter window not
found in standard 4-door Sedans. A
different upperstructure styling that
makes this body-type stand out as
something pretty special.
Even special names that let you
say, "l drive a SUPER 126" or
"Mine's a ROADMASTER 130,"
just by way of being different.
Tes, we think we hit on a happy
idea in the "Longfellows," as
they're coming to be known. They
are not longer, on the outside, but
there's ft two-way stretch?in width
and length?in the rear compart
ment.
You're going to like that?as you'll
see by calling on your own Buick
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dealer. If he doesn't have one on
hand, he can get it pretty promptly
?and at a price and on a deal you'll
have trouble matching, much less,
beating, anywhere else. f ?
See him now, will you?about plac
ing an order?
Features like these mesa
BUICK'S THE BUY
MGHER - COMPRESSION Fireball valve-in-head
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NEW-PATTERN STYUNG, with bumper guard grides,
taper-through fenders, "double bubble" taillights.
WIDE-ANGLE VISIBILITY, close-up rood view both
forward and back.
TRAFFIC-HANDY SIZE, less over-all length for easier
parking and garaging, short turning radius.
EXTRA-WIDE SEATS cradled between the axles.
SOFT BUICK RIDE, from all-coll springing, Safety
Ride rims, low-pressure tires, ride-eteadying torque
tube.
DYNAFLOW DRIVE standard on oil ROADMASTERS,
optional at extra cost on SUPER and SPECIAL series.
NINETEEN MODELS with Body by Fisher.
WIDE CHOICE OF EQUIPMENT adding flexibility
to prices that bracket every price range above the
lowest.
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North Wilkesboro, N. C.
Phone 112