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PAGE EIGHT THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES, BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1953 DOWN YOUR ALLEY By IRA B. ARMFIELD Im my installment last week I said I would relate this week how I won a woman champion. Inciden tally, before I converted her, she was by far the most obstreperous patron with whom I ever tangled. One recess a grubby-looking lit tle brat came to me and told me that another little fellow had curs ed him. I escorted the little fellow in, satisfied myself he was guilty and knocked a little dust out of his pants. About a half hour later while I was teaching a class, I looked out a rear window of the school house to see an elderly woman prancing back and forth and calling a little brother of the boy I had punished and a sister, named Sis, to come on •ut. While they gathered up their books, the old lady proceeded to the world what she thought about school teachers that brutally beat little boys. I’ll have to admit she did a pretty good job of it for she had a vocabulary like that of a mule-skinner. I deeply resented what the old woman was doing, but I said noth ing so they galloped off together. That afternoon while I was on •my way to the home in which I boarded an old gentleman who stayed there called me off and told me Mrs. M. wanted to see me. I ttianked him and told him I would go. When I got to the house, a son of the lady with whom I board ed gave me the same information and when I told him I would step over to see her, he exploded, “You don’t mean to say you’re going!” He told me that would be a very serious mistake and he then gave me chilling story of that old lady’s do ings. Still, I felt that I should go and a few minutes later I set out. I approached her house from the rear and when I was some 500 or €00 yards away, I saw something in her back yard that staggered me. There she was, loping back and forth, wringing her hands and stop ping now and then to gaze in the Star Drive-In THEATRE Presents The Following Attractions Grand Opening of the Star Drive-In Theatre Will Be May 1. Free Balloons For The Children direction she expected me to come. Then I happened to notice that sev eral of her neighbors were sitting out on their front porches. I felt mighty skittish, to say the least, but I had to go on. By the time I had gotten around to the front of the house, the old lady had seated herself on the front porch and the instant I stepped in to the yard, she pounced on For about ten minutes she proceed ed to skin me with great vigor. Among other things, she allowed that I was a heartless brute that beat up helpless little boys whose maw was dead. When I decided the old lady had covered the ground thoroughly, pointed my finger so close to her face that she had to snatch her head back to keep from getting poked in the eye. That startled her and then I jolt- i her with the statement that had no apologies to offer. I in formed her that I didn’t allow pu pils to use profanity in my school, but it appeared she permitted it and other evil things in her home that destroyed the character of lit tle boys. She looked startled and I asked her if she had heard about the trou ble I had had with Eddie, a grand son whom I spoke of last week, Then I asked her if she had heard that Eddie stole eggs from her hens' nests, sold them and used the pro ceeds to shoot craps with colored boys. She hadn’t. I then asked her if she had heard the report that this Eddie, whom she was rearing, was just about ripe for the chain- gang, there to wear stripes to dis honor the dead whom she professed to love. The old lady was squirming by this time but I decided she needed the full treatment. “Mrs. M.,” I said, “maybe you will tell me whether or not it is true that this same Ed die has sat at your table in your presence and thrown biscuits at lit tle Sis and you dared not rebuke him. And perhaps you will also tell me whether not over a week ago Eddie threatened to brain you with a chair when you crossed him, She sat silent and I eyed her for moment. “I am trying to keep those little grandchildren of yours from being the kind of characters that Eddie already is, and for that you heap all manner of abuse me,” I told her. The old lady remained silent and dropped her head. I was ready for the final stroke. When she looked up, her nose wasn’t more than a foot from mine, and I told her very earnestly: “Look at your neighbors sitting out on their porches. Do you wonder why? I’ll tell you. You went gadding about over this com munity lying about how I beat up that little boy and vowing that you would give me a drubbing if I had the gall to face you. Well, I had. What do you reckon those people are saying about you, even as talk? Just what sort of place do you think you deserve in this commu nity, anyway?” Heath Aboard A Mine Sweeper In UN Escort Force Friday & Saturday A Great Picture In Technicolor “THEHAIFBREED” Robert Young and Janice Carter Two Cojor Cartoons There Will Be No Show On Sundays Of This Year Monday & Tuesday “CARIBBEAN" .In Color John Payne, Arlene Dahl Color Cartoon Wednesday & Thurs. A Picture That Will Give All A Great Thrill. Don’t Miss It! “FLYING LEATHERNECKS" John Wayne and Robert Ryan This picture is all about our Inlying Marines. A great out fit. Don’t forget FREE balloons for the kiddies. Come as .you are in the family car and enjoy these ^and shows under the stars at the Star Drive-In. I quit talking and looked stead ily at the floor. After a few mo ments the old lady spoke in a chang ed tone of voice—and changed the subject! When I looked up she was smiling. Then I almost keeled over! After a bit, I asked her to have the children back in school on Mon day (this was on Friday). She flatly refused, although she admitted there might be just a wee trace of rightness in what I had done. Then I stepped up on the porch, sat down and changed the subject We gabbed away and got real chum my. Finally I remarked to her that I felt sure, loving them as she did, she would not deny to her grand children the limited schooling they could get in that community jurt because she hated me. “Why take it out on them?” I asked. The old lady looked at me with eyes that said all too plainly that she didn’t hate me any more, but she wouldn’t give in. Finally, I told her I’d just stick around until she did agree. After some more spar ring she agreed and on Monday morning those two little boys and the little girl were back in school as blithe and frisky as spaniel pups A few weeks before school was out, my landlady informed me that Mrs. M., learning that I would not be re-elected, had mounted a one- woman campaign in my behalf. She intended to visit each of the trus tees and all of the school patrons and insist that I be re-hired. But, Mrs. M. didn’t know, I suspect, that, for a school teacher, I had committed the grievous sin of court ing the wrong girl, a cousin rather than a daughter of one of the trus tees, and at the appointed time 1 walked the plank. Still maybe there was a purpose in my appearing in that school when I did. Maybe I kept a couple of little shavers off the chain gang. Next week we will take a look at the figures which tell the alarm ing story of the exodus here in North Carolina of qualified people from the teaching profession. (To Be Continued) Among the members of the UN blockade and escort force serving aboard the high speed mine sweep er USS Endicott is Thomas A. Heath, sonarman seaman, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. William M. Heath of Brevard. The three ships, the minesweep ers USS Endicott and Kite and the destroyer USS Maddox are part of task force 95. The force is com posed of ships from Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Thailand, Colum bia, and the Republic of Korea. This international force has blockaded and bombarded the North Korean coast since Sept., 1950. To Observe Golden Wedding Anniversary Automatic Washer T o Be Awarded Here A Frigidaire automatic washing machine will be awarded .May 9th at 2:00 p. m. at Abercrombie’s store. This machine is being offered by the Transylvania community coun cil and the proceeds will be used to buy kitchen equipment for the community center. Rockefeller Kil gore is chairman of the ticket com mittee. The machine will be on display in the business section of town Sat urday and tickets may be purchased at that time. SAY—I SAW IT IN THE TIMES Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Morgan will observe their Golden Wedding anniversary on Sunday, May 3, at their home in the Calvert section of 'Transylvania. Relatives will hold open house during the after noon. The Morgans have three daughters—Mrs; L. M. McCall, of Balsam Grove, Mrs. Joe Dickson, of Horse Shoe, and Mrs. J. L. Hunt er, of RFD 1, Brevard; and two sons—Edwin Morgan, of RFD 2, Bre vard, and Gaston Morgan, of the home. (Photo by Austin’s) TRY THE TIMES WANT ADS Plea Is Made For Funds For Links Of Blue Ridge Parkway Highway Chairman Urges Public To Write Senators And Congressmen The State Highway commission this week urges North Carolina’s senators and congressmen to pro tect federal appropriations needed for North Carolina sections of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Highway Chairman Henry Jor dan sent the plea for help after learning that the appropriations bill for the Interior Department had passed the house without in cluding an appropriation for three new links which had been recom mended by the National Park Ser vice. Mr. Jordan pointed out that an appropriation of $6,000,000 “would insure the completion of three very important links in the Parkway, making it much more useful to the traveling public.” The links would be built between Blowing Rock and Linville, a dis tance of 12 miles; between Balsam and Soco Gap, a distance of 12 miles; and between Beech Gap and Wagon Road Gap, a distance of tliree miles. The surveys on Beech Gap-Wag on Road section has been made and the grading has started. “In view of the great popularity of the Parkway and the immense value of the tourist business which Methodist Youth To Hold Rally Saturday The youth rally for Methodist young people in the Asheville dis trict will be held this Saturday night at 7:30 o’clock in the Centrd Methodist church. Dr. A. E. Acey, of Danville, Va., will be the guest speaker at the meeting. This youth rally is a part of the United Methodist Evangelistic Mis sion of the Western North Carolina conference which begins May 2 continues through May 8. AU local MYF members are urg ed to meet at the First Methodist church not later than 6:15, and transportation to Asheville will be furnished. it attracts,” Jordan wrote, “I feel that any reasonable appropriation for the continuation of this work should be approved without ques tion.” The completion of the three links would make about 90 per cent of the Parkway open to public use. The balance of the work could be completed later. When complete, the Parkway will have an overall length of about 500 miles. It will connect the Shenan doah park in Virginia and the Great Smoky Mountains national park in North Carolina and Ten nessee. SUPER 10 PIECE BEDROOM GROUP Save *40®® Exactly As Illustrated 95 Pay Only $2.00 Weekly • Large Vanity and Mirror ® 2 Vanity Lamps • Comfortable Coil • Big Poster Bed • Large Chest of Drawers • A Pretty Vanity Bench Spring A Nationall;^_ Known Mattress 2 Bed Size Pillows Trade at Pearlmaii's-Yl#EAlN! (Unfinished) Full Panel BABY BED Drop down sides, 3-position spring adjustment and a genu ine wet-proof innerspring mat tress, $44.95 value. $Z4.9S We have in stock a most complete line of strong, safe PLAY GROUND EQUIPMENT We Have Complete GYM SETS $29.95 EASY TERMS 9 X 12 Heavy Weight Linoleum $10.95 Value $7.95 Pearlman’s “You’ll Get Lots More at the Good Value Store” EAST MAIN ST, DIAL 3-1921 Opposite Belk’s
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