North Carolina Newspapers

FRIDAY r PAtiE TWO (First SertioflJ THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER CI THE MOUNTAINEER Published By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO Main Street Phone 137 Waynesville, North Carulina The County Seat of Haywood County W. CURTIS RUSS Editor MRS. HILDA WAY GWYN Associate Editor W. Curtis Russ and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY HAYWOOD COUNTY AND SERVICE MEN One Year $30 Six Months 1-75 NORTH CAROLINA One Year $4.00 Six Months . 2.25 OUTSIDE NORTH CAROLINA One Year Six Months 2.50 l.iil. i. :il tl.K ..HI. lit W'ji ii. -m!:.'. N ('.. an Si-, .mil OlIM. Mill Milter, Am pi.m.lr.l UI..I1T ll.r A.I "I M -I I ll '-' , l.li'J, ol.ilu.iiy ii..li -. rt-s IiiIimiis nf ri-s..i I. r:ir.l nf t h..iih -. aril nil iioIi.'.b .7 ni.-ji.iiiiiii.-Nl fnr jnufit. .i!l lie baiKf.l f..r at the ,i,. j I, .11I . m,i Hr -nl. .i t 1 I NATIONAL DITORIAL ASSOCIATION SHunb Carolina i riday, si:rn;iviBi;it 20, ijic False Impressions Readers of newspapers throughout the country served by certain news sources would have had quite a shock could they have seen the Haywood county courthouse building and grounds with their own eyes and not through a news story after Paul Dorsey, Jackson county prisoner, was brought here fur safe-keeping. The "men marching on Waynesville" from Jackson never arrived. The extra law en forcements here in Haywood county never showed up and the peaceful courthouse shrouded in darkness except the routine lights burning in the sheriff's department ami the jail, would not have fitted into the written story as it was flashed over the country. We like a good exciting story as much as the next one, a story that has meat in it, and gives one something to write about, but m the first place the Dorsey tale is not a pleasurable one to record and certainly the facts were bad enough without trying to urge on another crime by anticiapting what might have happened, not what did take place. Where there is an element of mob force it seems to us the duty of the press not to fan the flame which may lead to additional crime. Such "rumors" may bring untold troubles. (living out news and is a serious and re sponsible trust and anyone who assumes such responsibility should bend every effort to get the facts and not trust to their imagination, for too often stories do not end as we think they might. The turning out of such stories hurts not only the community, but also the person who is guilty of giving out such false information, as the latter cannot expect to maintain the confidence of the readers. Along this same line of thought The Ashe vi lie Citizen said editorially: "Published and radio broadcast reports of imminent mob action in and around Waynes ville Monday night apparently were untrue. Sheriff R. V. Welch of Haywood county has given the lie to these rumors, which he prop erly calls "foolish and without foundation." The Citizen accepts him confidently at his word. "Authors of these reports and those who spread them have done a great disservice to Western North Carolina. There had been a killing, involving race, the details of which are not yet clear. There was an apparent effort on the part of persons in one commun ity to take the law into their own hands. The accused was rescued by Sylva police and taken to another city for safe-keeping. At that point the rumor spread (we recite one version) that "men are marching on Wavnes ville." "The easy credit given to such reports when they circulate under impassioned circum stances is not difficult to understand. That they are capable of doing great mischief, however, is beyond argument. Mob action or mass vengeance of any sort is repugnant to the law-abiding mountain community. The law will take its course, undeterred by mis chievous rumor or irresponsible report. Of that, too, we are confident." The wise wife never keeps her husband in hot water. That's the way to get him hard boiled, not tender. Some drivers on the highway today still cpnsider the automobile a great sporting machine. The fact that most travelers are on their way to some business appointment and are not in a mood for a good competitive fling doesn't seem to occur to them. Orchids For Home Folks We felt very proud of the manner in which our own home folks co-operated in the enter tainment of the members of the Press last Friday night. To have definite plans to stage a supper in one place and then to have to make a change in plans is likely to throw things out of gear which will be reflected in the final event. It was intcrestine to hear the editors say, "Why I thought you were going to have this barbecue at the Piedmont Hotel, please tell us how did you make such a quick change?". Then frequently l""ard was, "You must have a mighty fine community to have such co-operation as we have seen here tonight. It looks like the whole town is' helping out. You are mighty lucky to live in such a town, for you couldn't do what you have done here tonight in a lot of North Carolina towns." While we appreciated all the nice things that the guests had to say about the party, just between us, we got an extra big kick out of their appreciation of our own home folks. It made us proud that we lived in such a com munity. We like to keep some of the orchids for our own home folks. IB VOICE OF THE PEOPLE no vnu think that Secretary of ! State Byrnes" policy of attempting to make Russia live up to the Pots dam treaty terms, or Secretary of Commerce Wallace's idea that we should rjt interfere with Russia's domination of its neighboring countries is the best long-range foreign policy? Relief In Sight Fred Campbell "I think the Russians ought to live up to Byrnes' proposition. Seems like they want to ho too far." J. W. Patton "I think Wallace is Koini; too far in getting alons with the Russians." Sam L. Inman "I'd rather hold the line against the Russians than mvo in to them." V. (',. Moody "I look for the biggest war jvt to start, with Rus sia and Germany together." W. C. Medford "I think Byrnes' idea is absolutely right. We've con ceded to Russia too much already." HERE and THERE Since 1939 the cost of food has been mount ing higher and higher until it reached a peak in mid-August where it represented an in crease that would have been undreamed of in the beginning of the rise. We are told by authorities that in the month of September we may look for a 6 per cent drop in food costs. This will be welcome news to all fami lies no matter what their incomes may be. It is said that a market basket of 15 foods that a housewife might buy on any shopping trip in mid-August of 1946, cost $7.95, while the same quantities of the same foods back in August, 1939, on the basis of official figures, sold at $3.95. In the nearly seven years ending June, 1946, the food basket increase represented a 68 per cent, and after two weeks of the price control holiday that began July 1, the basket cost $7.61, or 92 per cent more than in 1939. By mid-August, we are told, the price was up to 101 per cent from 1939. The increase dur ing two months, without food-price controls was one fifth, 12 times as rapid as the rise of the preceding seven years.. We have been moving fast in America along lines of the high cost of living, but it is comforting to, learn that things will start downward at least on our dinner tables. This is said to be the outcome of the rollback in prices of meats and table fats, following re control of those items. Then, the effect of record grain harvests is expected to hold clown or reduce the cost of foods. Thus the post-war peak of our eating seems to have been passed. During the rising tide of prices it has been interesting to listen to the remarks at meat and food counters here as the local customers waited their turn to part with their money for food. The higher the costs, apparently the more philosophical they became. They took it as a matter over which they had no control and if they had the money to buy they bought. . If not, they left the counters for sub stitutesbut often returned and paid the once considered prohibitive price. They had to have a session with their own pocketbook and ideas of thrift, whetted by their appetite to hand over 90 cents for a pound of butter on first thought. We know their line of thinking and argument from sad experience. By HILDA WAY GWYN Husbands Aplenty We often heard it said that it was "gener ally believed that by the time he was dis charged from the service every man in uni form would have marired," but the following from the Reidsville Review would indicate that a good many of them resisted the lure of matrimony during their period in the armed forces. "There are still more single men of mar riageable age in this country than women of like situation. In the age group 20-30 alone there is a surplus of a million and a half men." "The reporter who obtained this informa tion from the Census Bureau must have been a man. In his presentation it is easy to de tect a feeling that he is bringing good news to the nation's maidenhood which, he as sumes, has been worrying over a presumed shortage of husband material." "Maybe he's right. If so, we ought to move (says the Reidsville writer). No one of the gals for whom we'd make a play (conditions permitting) have seemed to have troublbe finding plenty of substitutes," If a woman had to live with an "ideal husband" for a week she'd get a divorce and marry a human being. The reason why so many milkmen are ' bachelors is that they see too many women I early in the morning. We have always enjoyed meeting Josh Horn ai the N. C. I'ress gath erings, for he is the life of the party in any group, lucky enough to have him in their midst. Mr. Horn, publisher and editor of the Rocky Mount Telegram, has ser ved as chairman of the North Carolina Advertising ISttrenu since it was established ten years ago. lie is a director of the Associated Press and served for many years as a member of the State Board of Development and Conservation. He is always on hand at the N. C. I'ress meetings, ready with his wit and wisdom. In other words, Mr. Horn has an ear and eye for what makes news in the big, broad sense of the word and he knows North Carolina like your grandmother knew her old blue speller. He has the assets of every section at his finger tips. "Now that was a fine pro gram we had from the In dians," he said to us following the barbecue last week in the armory, "what you need up here is a presentation of the story of the Cherokees, just as they have down in Manteo about The Lost Colony," be continued. Having touched one of our pel projects about which from time to time we have to let off steam in this column, we listened with the keenest interest to what he had to say. "Now take that small commun - ity . . . Why there are not over ten thousand people living in the coun ty, and yet this summer, 54,000 persons visited Manteo and saw "The Lost Colony." Thai play down there is doing more than preserv ing North Carolina history, it is giving the present generation a break. Think of how rich in color and drama the Cherokee story is and what its portrayal could mean to you people right here. You have something, but I am afraid that you lack vision. Why don't you folks get behind this and start it going " Then we told him of Miss Margaret Stringfield's operetta and he was much impressed. We told him that we had un derstood that Paul Green had been up here with the idea of doing something on the Chero kees, but we had heard he fell that our climate was not adapt ed to an outdoor theater--too much rain. Mr. Horn rode down that obstacle in a hurry. He said we could have a tent affair and when it rained open it up like an umbrella. We suggest that we invite Mr. Horn up and let him tell us just how to go about getting the Indians dramatized for the full benefit of them and our section. We were not surprised when our phone rang this week and we jWWASMlNGTO R No Ceilings Expected On Tobacco, Eggs, Etc. Decontrol ;B o a r dWill Act Onlyjf bPAs!stf i? S i E. & -JET Special to Central Press WASHINGTON The Price Decontrol Board plans "nonaction''' to restore ceilings on tobacco, tobacco products. 'petroleum products,' poultry and eggs unless the OPA demands that controls go back on these commodities. Under the new price control law'these'eommodities" remain free of ceilings unless the board rules that they should be recontrolled. A spokesman for the board revealed that the group will act only If Price Administrator Porter asks for restoration of controls. S In. such event the board probably will .hold public hearings on the question and listen to arguments in favor of continued decontrol. Porter recently stated that OP AT would watch the prices of those commodities and If it noted any "unreasonable" price rise would request the reimposition of ceilings. He said that already there' had been some slight jump in fuel oil prices, but that other petroleum nrii-pe u'prii rpmnlnino. ntflVifliTori at thli nmapnt t- ?S r.w.. A level -ZWv sr't Ao fnr tnha rrn tnhnren nrnrtiirfa ' nnnltrv onil' " ' I t " eggs, the OPA chief reported that to date there had been no substantial gain in prices that would OPA'S Paul Porter justify rccontrol of , these commodities. Un's there is a change in present price'and' supply conditions, there i3 little chance that any of these commodi ties will go back under ceilings' WHILE WASHINGTON WORRIES "aboutT what the Soviet' 'master plan" may be. nothing In current circulation is more serenely suggestive of peace than the "Soviet Information Bulletin." During the war it carried the writings of some of the best of the Russian authors. Often it gave hints of the Soviet political views on current questions in a warring world. Material for the bulletin is supplied through short wave trans mitter which in war-time carried in code special instructions of a technical nature for its supply and military missions in the United States. Now it deals primarily In cultural relations with the United States and developments in the Soviet Union of a strjetly npn-political nature. , A recent issue, for example, devotes 'itself largely to a forth coming international chess match between a Soviet team of cham pions and some American expert. The bulletin recalls that the Russians beat the Americans last year and Invited them to come to a return match. No implication that Foreign Secretary Viacheslav Molotov and his team has beaten other powers or been beaten by them at the international chess board of diplomacy Is mentioned nor is there any sug gestion of return matches to come. For the rest of the recent Issue, it discusses collective fnrming, the five-year plan for power plants, restoration of health resorts! many of which were closed during the war, and the development of river transportation. Of possible political significance were two articles on the oil fields ef Baku and the Soviet Republic ofAzerjalJan, both possible centers ?f jifeUonwlthJheBritltfwj Russian Seek Another Win at Chen heard a voice saying . . . "Mrs. Gwyn, I think I have one of those old beds you wrote about Hiram McCracken having made for his daughters-in-law back in the 1880's . . "It is one of my prized posses sions, just as you suggested, and is a spool bed, with the slats made of walnut, and put together with pegs. It was given to me when I -.tailed housekeeping in 1919 by my father, the late M. J. Mc Cracken and had been given to his mot her by her father-in-law," said Mrs. Frank Williams J ALONG BROAD By Walter Wjnch John Boles, ex-screen star, has come back as a floorshow singer His click at the Arrowhead Inn brought him a string of cabaret of fers . . . Lew Lehr, the comical clown, bought the 68-acre Colonial mansion of the late Col. E. H Hrad ley a tNew Canaan, Conn. . June Havoc is in again lor a plastic her third, or is it fourth? This one is a dilly, I hear to remove rings from under her eyes! . . . Three months ago, James Barry, barken ing at the Havana-Madrid, ran an elevator in the Paramount Hklg Bee Palmer, All Siegel's first wife and first star, after a 20-year chill, came to him to say she would stand by him in any threatened litigation. . . . The Tommy Farrells i he's Glenda's actor son) have their final decree. Jerome Wildberg, producer, has never tasted liquor in his life. He had to make a phoneeall and had nothing smaller than a $5 bill. He went into a cheap groggery, order ed whiskey which he didn't touch, handed over the bill. As he wait ed for the change, a lush put his arm on his shoulder and hoarsed: "You know, we're a couple ' damned fools!" (And with that he passed out.) Sen. James Mead is in for a de- ii........ -'""nor (Xot "U f""'-'T Ml, !"'IJOr'u to OKI. J scarcK IHT. Hugh M'"n m .,0I1;K n in in....... vicKinltt when ij a k,.:...l Ameiiian uar er he ha . difficult ,,. .' , 'q , ., Hi CUlCt uiwdual -hiding) Barbara SUnwv llir have apthed fu ms.is in sis'-r. Himnif Lai ni'Aui ensemble David Brunks: j imcrophiitie at c Wmn a nil k . , L.CIJ "Three Broadway current cemtendt il I hi. -'Tl. . i. 1 iiet-l lor It." It tt-j, , 1 '.ulh lna t';d;ri. J .Madge K.uh ;c We don't mean to worry you, but we read the following startling information yester day, "Christmas may we re mind you is only 14 weeks away Plenty of time, you sniff Not if you want to send packages overseas to military personnel. Christmas packages should be mailed for these destinations between Oct. 15 and Nov. 15, according to army announcements." Which brings hack memories of two years ago, when the peak of Christ mas giving to our men over seas reached its height. We have an idea that the contents of a peacetime package will be a bit different from that we sent to the men on the front lines. In fact just what would a man on occupation duty want at this stage Will some Vet eran give us some first hand information, please? Capital Lett By THOMPSON GREENWOOD We have it through the grape vine route, that the Jim Longs may come back here to live and that is glad news to us here, for they (Continued on page 3) AIR vs RAIL vs BUS Your old side-kick decided to go to Asheville last week to attend the annual con vention of the N. C. Press Asso ciation. It cost a little more to fly, but he flew and saved time. Here is why: He left Raleigh Wednesday morn ing at 8:33, stopped for six min utes in Greensboro, arrived at Asheville at 10:29 or in a little less than two hours. The fare, lax free, was for the round-trip $20.i)U Hy train, he would have left Raleigh by pullman Wednesday night at 11:05, slept as best he could, arriving at Asheville the next morning at 9:15 some 10 hours later. The round-trip cost, minus lax, would have been $20 95 if he had taken lower berth if he could have got il plus the cost of breakfast, plus red cap tips. By bus, he would have left here at 6 o'clock, arriving in Asheville the next morning at 4 o'clock 10 hours. The round-trip cost, tax free, would have been $7 .41). Taxi fares to and from the air ports ran the cost up a little but there is no comparison in comfort and time saved. FM STATIONS An outstanding radio engineer sai week tlvt there I 40 I'M stations North Carolina at cars -and seien the year. Incidentally. thJ KM applications as a wholei befd Communicalionj G UK. A TEST A, ham said a few d to Agriculture Cu Scott, that the Stal mission "should bi time and location the greatest servid number uf people. week this sialraiii highway folks alloj a new road down from Avon to Hall Only a handful i served, ol course. thing, for these cj oven as hundreds rural humtlul- nta market roads WAIT' AND St ing Democrat rem that there is go;l (Continued Our Membership In The F. D. I. C. What does that now-familiar phrase "Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation" mean to you? It means that your bank is one of of the country's 15,000 banks which have qualitie:! for F.D.I.C. membership. Each depositor in an insured bank is protected against loss to a maxi mum of $5,000 of his total deposits. The federal government itself docs not piarantec bank deposits. The government contributed $150,000,000 to the capital of the F.D.I.C. but is not under agreement or obligation to contribute any thing further. The banks themselves pay iw entire cost of deposit insurance, beinu assess one-twelfth of one per cent of their average toM deposits each year. Deposit insurance does not make all banks eflu3 safe. Sound management will always be a n. important factor. THE First National Ba ORGANIZED 1902 Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ' Member Federal H