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Monday Afternoon. September 4
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Monday Afternoon, September 4, 1950
A Tough Competitor
; Lighting engineers have perhaps made as
ipuch progress, and as many drastic changes
in perfecting light equipment as any group
of engineers. Millions have been spent in re
search in an effort to get better and more ef
ficient lighting. Every effort has been made to
(duplicate natural daylight, and the strides
rjave been astounding,
I in u.,v i. ,
" uiinys us in uiu mciaem, wncre
rhoonlight was competing with a colorful dis
play of commercial lighting or perhaps we
iiiould say, the commercial lights were try
ing desperately to hold a small glow to the
lijjht of the moon.
J The cascading beams from the full moon
glistened on the nearby body of water, turn
ed the Tipples into gleaming watery dia
monds. On the shore was a display of brilliant
lights as near perfect as man has yet devised,
there was everything from pastel neons, to
penetrating ' searchlights. Yet with all this,
the moon beams continued to steal the show.
As man became tired, turned off the lights,
pnd,nlnftfi HPihnsinUnu-ac night, the tire
less beams from the moon continued their
dance of brilliance on the water.
Man has become a good imitator of Mother
$ature, but somehow, has not quite achieved
perfect results.
i i .
Zoning Plan Well Received
J The reaction to the recommendations of the
Zoning Commission were just as we had ex
pectedall favorable.
The commission in their public meeting
JrVednesday night began work of establishing
restricted areas in the community, and will
submit their formal report and recommenda
tions to the board of aldermen for formal ap
proval. .
! The board will no doubt enthusiastically
pass the report thus making it a town ordin
ance. iJU
1 There are many indications that Waynes
ville is late in having strict zoning ordinances,
but then we should be thankful that the
groundwork has begun, and very soon, this
tbwn will be well on the way for practical
growth and expansion for the future.
One of our summer visitors, in an effort to
impress us with his town and we will not
say where pointed out that his community
naa an problems solved, and were free of such
worries.
Diplomacy prevented us from saying what
we thought, but we have no desire to visit his
town. We have never been there, and have no
desire to go to the town, because we presume
it is a dead town.
A community that is awake, progressive,
and going places will always have problems,
and of necessity prepare and continually
build for the present and future.
This week, our board of aldermen are work
ing out details with experts on reservoir im
provements; the zoning commission held a
long session last night; the street department
is completing plans for paving some addition
al streets, and so it goes, on and on, but that
is progress.
We know of one coastal town that is spend
ing a large sum revamping their entire sew
erage system, fn order to take raw sewage out
of a natural lake. The new plans call for
pumping stations, and thousands of feet of ad
ditional lines to make the change, but in the
years to come, the community will be a much
better place in which to live. It has not been
too many years ago that we here in this com
munity experienced a similar change of in
stalling a modern system for taking all raw
sewage and piping it for some five miles to
Pigeon river, That is progress. Up here in
this country we use gravity, instead of ex
pensive pumping stations. But that is merely
a mechanical means. The idea and the ulti
mate goal is the same.
We are glad we have a progressive town,
and that we have men who have vision, and
determination to overcome temporary prob
lems, which in the end makes it a good place
in which to live.
The Scptober Season
Civic tedders at Carolina Beach have start
ed a unique promotional campaign, which
they are calling the "Septober Season."
The campaign is being pushed hard with a
lot of "come-on" push to spend the next two
months, or any part of them, at Carolina
Beach.
This is similar in scope to what we have ofr
ten called to the attention of local citizens.
We chop our tourist season right off at Labor
Day, and consequently, the business in this
field shows a decided drop.
The next two months are the choice months
in the mountains, and two months which we
seem to do less in the way of selling the world
at large.
If the beaches can muster up enough en
thusiasm to stage a two-month program in the
fall, it certainly looks like those of us here in
the very center of Nature's color garden of
fall foilage could do much more.
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They'll Do It Every Time
By Jimmy Hatlo
Boyf AMD HOW'S
430UT TH5 ROLLER
SKATERS? ITS A
WONCER SOME OF
TWEM. VOH'T
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A LITTLE BiT"lr
WE DOtf'T D:Z Or CLQ
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SUFFOCATE"
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'TUEYfiOTTHEiR MITTS
OUT, I1L GIVE 'EM AN
OLD TV PROGRAM
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-Bits Of Unman
By Frances G
Interest News
ilbert Frazicr
Rush hour small
TALK-TWEy'LL PO
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TKAMX TO
RjMSCM (?pvRUMSON,H.J.
Looking BackOver The Years
IT YEARS AGO
Bi'twcen 15.000 and 20.000 dpo.
pie altciHl Labor Day Celebration
in Canton,
J. Z. Cleveland wins sween-
slakes at The Dahlia Show, snon-
sored by the Woman's Club.
W. P. A. projects costina 3 mil
lion dollars are bcine soueht in
his diotritt.
The local KKA offien !.
liquidated on November 1.
to be
10 YEARS AGO
President Hooscvelt will dedicate
the (ileal Smokv Mounlnitis Na
tional Park at ceremonies at New-' 5 YEARS AGO
found Gap. Canton will have combined Labor
i r)ay and Victory celebration for
Company "H" under the com--rdl Haywood County.
mand of Capt. Gemgc Plolt re-
turns from camp for a few week ; T5 Rufus Ratcliffe sees tough
before being inducted into Federal
service.
service with 7th Armored Division.
Dr. Grover M. Davis, dentist, is
located in new offices in Ilaii-wood.
Mrs. John Queen and Mrs. James
I3'iyd ive garden party in the gar
ttt. ii of Hie latter.
Mrs, Oscar Knit-lit uives -urpri-e
birthday parly for her (!;iut;hli'i',
Miss Mildred Knight.
Mark Kirkpatrick, senior in the
Fines Creek hifih school, is clccird
president of the Smoky Mount air, ,
Federation of FFA,
Mrs. Theodore Davis of Hazel
wood hrs seven sons and one grand
on in tiie service.
11 pairs of nylons yearly
promised American women.
are
S'.'.l. Fred Crawford is discharge
'1 from the Air Forces.
Capital Letters
By TOM OUTLAW
It Must Have Been Big
Headline writers are perhaps more con
. scious of the peculiar twists, and queer situa
tions in which mere words can place a person
than any other one group. Often, in an effort
to get the exact number of letters to a line,
the meaning is sometimes distorted almost
beyond clear reading.
Not so was the case in The Smoky Mount
ain Times in Bryson City last week, when the
' paper reported a huge party given at Fontana
Dam. The headline for the article read:
"North Carolina Folk Given Dam Big Recep
tion." .
Whether it was technically correct or not,
the headline attracted attention.
IRRIGATION FARM? The
L .'M't' f'll Ull'H I'lUll' llllMl mm;
has test farms in all sections of
the State at Waynesville. Ply
mouth, Oxford, Wallace, Raleigh,
in Ashe County, and other areas.
The soils are studied. Various
crops are xrown irt widely varying
experiments. These farms pave the
way for new practices and new
crops.
Droughts and ln" spells of wet
weather harass the-farmer.- There
is some demand for a farm to study
Irrigation problems. This would re
duce to some extent the gamble
which now exists in farming upcr
ations. Agriculture Commissioner
L. Y. Ballon! iiu isn'i saying much
about it, but he is thought to he
N.did not have enough stall in go in'o
the technical details of uiiliiies
matters, provided fund, to broad
en its personnel.
So, you may be sure that the ap
peals f Carolina Telephone Com
pany and Bell will he gone over
with the proverbial "fine-toothed
comb" lief ore' the hearing.
A case apart, however, seems to
bp that of Tidewater Light and
Power in Wilmington whose. efforts
to step up its rates is meeting with
serious objections throughout its
entire area.
Voice
of the
People
If your house was burning, but
your family and pels were safe,
what is the first thing you'd grab?
William G. Berry: Clothes, if
udn't have any on, of course.
NOTEvS Charlie Justice cell
make $18,000 during the next 12
months if he will play a little fool-
ball each weekend during the win-
...,,., ,c , esiaonsmng, u,r months wj(h ,he Hl(.hm(llul ,,,.
a arm where experiments in irrl-j fcssiona, dub . . Tnu ((1;n hns
Ration would be the principal iiro.lii,.,i i,i, cm mm .
"'"'"i Mini DLt, "WW illtU Hit JIALU
ject.
'MIRROR OB YOUR MIND
By LAWRENCE GOULD
Consulting Psychologist,
tng in rctailins was tested by a
comprehensive examination of
four groups of workers which
showed that trained workers not
only thought more clearly, but had
the advantage of superior knowl
edge of the facts of consumer-retailer
relations. The test even
showed that workers with four
years of college excelled those
with but two.
Can love survive prolonged separation?
.j. H
Answer: Yes, but it's a matter
if "surviving" absence never
eally ''makes the heart grow
'onder." When even a husband
md wife are apart for a long time.
jtheir dpvotion to each other either
weakens gradually or concen
trates on a mental picture which
!tends to become more hhd rfiore
(unreal and "idealized," the longer
the separation is protracted. This
'explains the disillusionment of
jpnany married couples when the
husband got back after years of
military service. Separations are
a threat to love, not a way to en
baxket it.
ITS 4fSh
coward
' Is protf ica! experience bolter
' ; than schooling? -
Answer: No, reports Donald K.
Bcckley of Simmons College, Bos-:
ton, in the Journal of Educational
Psychology. The comparative ef
fectiveness of practical work ex
perience and formal school train-
Arc harsh judgments typical
of youth?
Answer: They mark inner in
security, and since young people
usually feel less secure than their
eldersi. they are characteristically
merciless in judging anyone who
differs from them or behaves in
wpys they disapprove of. This is
true particularly of their altitude
toward older pcopleabove all,
their parents. Superficially their
harshness is revenge for all the
criticism they have had to endure,
but benesth this is the panic feel
ing that if Dad and Mom show
' signs of human frailly, there's no
one left to depend on.
SFFD TIME- Farmers do not
know too much about irrigation,
but they plant from year to year
hoping tin- season will he favor
able. John Charles McNeill, the Scot
land County singer, is noted for
his poems. He also wrote some won
derful fables which aro scarcely
known at all. One concerns the
faith and optimism of the farmer.
It see'lns that a quail met an
other quail under a brush pile.
Said he, "How come you back here
this spring? The year before last
the early rains drowned the most
part of your brood and last year
the drought parched your food
supply of grass and made your life
lean."
"True," said (he other quail;
"but i is about time for a good
year tu fall, and I who have suf
fered untoward seasons am fain to
enjoy a bountiful one."
Moral: The farmer finds fault
from harvest to harvest, but at
seed lime he sows again.
HEARING The State Utilities
Commission has announced inform
ally that it does not plan to con
duct a further public hearing on
attempts by Bell Telephone Com
pany to increase rates until about
the middle of October. It promises
to be a dilly, for a number of
cities are protesting.
Special experts on utilities rates
are making a thorough Study of the
situation and their reports will
play an important role in the delib
erations of the Utilities body. The
last Legislature, realizing that
Chairman Stanley Winborne and
his assistants in the stately-offices
of the old Supreme Court Building
Republican Solon
Praises Graham
Republican Senato r Wayne
Mursc-in.a Senate speech last week
termed Senator Frank P. Graham
of North Carolina "one of the
greatest living Americans," and a
written copy of Dr. Graham's
speech "Great American Litera
ture". ,
it so that it will not interfere With
his regular duties with the Medi
cal Care Commission and its co
hort the Medical Foundation . . .
Frank Leahy, Notre Dame coach,
has placed the Tar Heels an.l
Army as the two best teams ui
the Nation with his "pore little
boys" somewhere down the list ,
Ho hum ...
. . . The N. C. Motor .Carrier.
Association is now running adver
tisements in various newspapers
throughout the State showing what
trucking means to the average
farmer in North Carolina. This
public relations program is being
supplemented by nine billboards
placed at strategic spots in Tu
heclia , , . and may be broadened
later. By the way, N. C. soent last
year $24,000,000 on the construc
tion of new primary roads . . .
That was in 1948-49. Truckers last
year paid into N. C. Treasury more
than $20,000.00 in gasoline and li
cense taxes alone.
Miss Fdna McCracken: As many
clothes as I could carry out.
Mrs, HiiKh A. I.nve: The tele
phone, and call the fire department.
Mrs. (inrdon Schcnrk: lyjy family
pictures and my fire insurance
policy.
Virginia MafFayden: My purse.
It has everything in the world in it!
Charles Whitman: My clothes.
Warren Whitman: My fishing
rod and tackle, if my clothes were
sale.
I). F. Whitman: The door knob.
Mrs. If. W. Burnette: Me
Woman Drives Off
Cross Burners
Mrs. Helen RatclifT of Charlotte
one ni-iht last week drove a group
of cross-burning men away from
her yard with a volley of pistol
hiillets. It was the second time in
three months that a groim had
hurncd a cross in front 0f her
h.Miie, Police believe it's the vork
of a neighbor who has tried un-.-ucees.sfully
to buy Mrs. Ratcliff's
home.
LABOR DAY! Parades, ball
games, conventions, band concerts
and a general gathering together
of congenial groups. A sort of fare
well party to summer as well as a
debut party for the coming glori
ous fall season and its attendant
festivities. The reluctant putting
away of summer clothes and the
equally reluctant unpacking and
airing of winter ones. The time
when the tingle and tang of fall
seeps injo your blood and it's sin
ply wonderful to be alive. Labor
Day! The opening door for Au
tumn's grand entrance.'
If people really wore their
"hearts on their sleeves," and
"carried chips on thrlr shoul
ders," wouldn't they look silly?
The lady was trying to enter
traffic from her parking place but
the car just ahead of her was block
ing the way. Its driver had con
ceived the brilliant (?) idea of
slipping back into the vacancy as
she drove out, and he steadfastly
held his position. He probably ex
pected her to jump over his car
for there was no other means of
going forward. To add insult to
injury, he began to blow his horn
vigorously and signal for her to get
out. Exasperated, the lady slid her
car back into her parking space,
cut off the motor and then thor
oughly enjoyed the man's anger
as he finally had to drive on in
search of a place in an already
crowded parka
Tl. -i j " "'"
- -a savin?
ways eoni i,,. . val(W
that h,y
ens we'd lii ... , ' J
SOMCT.UX(; v.
SEE: Benches ,,,, J
' "i me m.iiti,. .
honse lawn. i:w,ntlv
visitor trying wrv - hJ,"
inscription on the pl
marker aH .., . i
" '"" Will!
cessful as she stnry T
the words he.wet,ulHi;j
bench and the 1,; of ,
youngsters. The
makes the plat,,,,
valueless but the u-ofl
destroys the ?nKs in
marker.
uthrir
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We honor mm who do
tlnna
V linn II .. . I
Lab J
And pray for Peafe m3
will.
Auto Accident
Kills Two Men
An auto aceuiuit near B.
sonvine last week i,Hk..
t an ims. and TonimvT'
son. both of Henderson' Cd
mey were latallv injury
llieir car turned m'ic ... u.
C4, five miles e.-Nl m' uJ.
vine.
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MARCH OF EVENTS
IS I UI
t'. S., Britain Want Turkey
In North Atlantic Alliance
Slress Turkey's Key ttm
In Defense of Mcdifenantt'
TTrASHINCTON Look for the United States ar,l r.i rlain to k
manJ lat Turkey be admitted to minibei.-l.ni in l!ic V
Atlantic Alliance.
Some countries are opposing the action, contending tint Turkey
''at the head of the Soviet powder barrel" and liltt!'. I t.
in incidents which could lead to all-out war with Kir ia.
However, American and British diplomats nlrea-lv v ' .irsaisj
If "" w-HtaM No'way Is just as much of a war ivk'iTa!
! 'i' 1 and that when Russia decides oh r...Vn ajP
i f i Wil1 atUck on a" fro's-
V 1 The quick Turkish decision to s
P V-.J tiained troons tn inin TTnitrd Na
A5i?v-- ' i-iit.- ttuiniaiiun ui mi.-
A omciais.
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rpu- . . ... i .
tofcrf,r, me" Plnt out lflat IllrKC"
rfL$; P ltion in the defense of the Medit
imi that t0 'eave her out of the
;y a;srt
:;tir;
l.'r::tfd SU
will tscoH?
Finicttcr
result of
1.4!'"! t0 l"olt the open gap
Ufjya-i t,The mcials also say that the
j-ubl wouiu oe encouraged if Turr.i
Woshingion tcntial were bolstered by her adi
Atlantic Pact group.
AIR POWER The GO-groupAir Force to which l!v
ftrikw aSP""LS WUWn the next 30 months actually
Po liev V VCr the 70"6roup PrSrai" advanced bv th
ForcTrh, S10"- The added Pr come., as the
c tnanEes in the number nf
For Instance, the comn,iin.i L--!.7,l.iL' m
hat tT Vy bomber groups were composed of I"1"
that time, there were 3ft ninm,. i- . -J!..tl.u.
Now the Air Force has fixed the size of heavv bombm Irr.ontp1
at an average of 30 planes-12 mn th ,w me Finle'Wr
eept Medium bomber groups todav flrA rnmnnsrd of 40
Th.- St f from 10 t0 25 planes
lSA? W ribbon soon will
n ..-ii i J un"orms.
It will be the Korean campaign tadee
PeXTandVu has sbmltted to top effioia
It fpected t0 be made public shortly,
bek to the umtetT SCOrpS of ndedUier
throughout the nati0nate3 f0r e and treatmeT,t at AmJ' " '
camSteSrf,1 eir aggressive desigr.-. tl:
War ill. aUon could become the first theater nbben of V.
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it is in the watt!t
Talkan'v
to t S!..!:!ii
sity for ta;k. Ut curbir'S tha Wnators' propen-
8 P-'-.m. sessions 8essis Select about 4:30 p. m.l
that if he COUId ar,no t0 ""usual. One senator declared 1
the Senate's Ume C flVC Mnatfsw could save SO per
anythihg a'hout'lrni they ma? be ftrlvatelyl senafera wil
he world', only fr70 r thl bW that the Senate
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