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I THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER ?? I lying RKLIGIOUS FAITH to pemonal and community prob will help to bring those problems to a successful solution Penney tells Mountaineer staff writer Agnes Fitzhugh ShaD Nr. Penney visited Waynesville Ust week as the guest of his md daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Roswell Penny (Staff Photo) rm Lad J. C. Penny ids 'Do Unto Others' aciieal Success Rule an who was raised on a farm >d into the Mountaineer of st week. The only difference ?n him and most other people nswer that description was e has more millions of dol ian most farm boys grown isuming and considerate, J. tney might be taken for one ir neighbors. Despite his ice as founder and chairman board of the J. C. Penney ment store chain, and as chairman of the National il for Community Impsove Mr. Penney chats as easily man across the way. is tremendously interested progress of the Community ipment programs in this I don't know of any section country," he said, "?and I oured in every state?where is being done here is done 1 as it is in this section." i businessman and a farmer iwns ten farms in his native iri?Mr. Penney was amazed volume of business done in ?ea. "Your farms are not but they are well managed," llaimed. "If a job like this eing done all over the coun ere would be a good era for lion." Penney is a firm believer in iluntary cooperation of in ds and groups. "The pur our council," he explained, ilert people to the necessity i? their job themselves, lo ather than going to Wash for a 'hand-out!'" 'g the farmer the benefit of t possible advice is a sound 'e magnate feels. "The uni s in agricultural states have great job in advocating ractices as control of soil ? crop rotation, fertilizing ludy of the soil itself. Good akes good people; but poor 'kes people poor." '?ong the line Mr. Penney is belief in cooperation the practical, day after day bo" of the Golden Rule. * my first store the 'Gold Store' not as just a nice "ame, but as a principle ?ed "P to." he said, "and I ?n.e my best to live up to ' o?y of my life." enne> started his career osmessman" at the age of *n hls father told him he c resPonsibility for buy ?wn clothes. The family from the farm where rn into the neighboring Wnr"?"-about the size Irm ri lad' Wls^ in the _J?rai life, invested in one pig which he kept in his back yard. Collecting the neighbors" garbage, picking up the scattered harvest gleanings, he fattened his piglet until he was able to sell it for enough cash to buy several more. He repeated the process until his herd reached an even dozen. At that point the neighbors had had enough. Pigs in the open spaces of a farm were all right, but 12 pigs practically under your windows seemed cause for com plaint. Young James Penney had to go out of the pig business for keeps, (he favors Guernseys now) but he had made a profit and he had learned a lesson. "That taught me," he said, "to think about the rights of others. A business that was good for me and bad for some body else was not going to be my business." Not long after that the boy turned watermelon /grower. His father let him use four acres for his project. When the big fair opened, he hired a wagon and team and parked his load of mel ons just outside the fair grounds. His father, a Baptist, preacher, put a stop to that venture. He point ed out that the boy was able to undersell the melon peddlers in side the grounds only because they had cooperate^ by buying vending licenses. "I realized that it was un ethical," said Mr. Penney, "to make my profit out of another fellow's loss . . . And that was my second lesson in considering the rights of others." Mr. Penney, who has been nam ed one of the ten men to receive the Horatio Alger award this year, summed up his philosophy of life: "I have always been thankful that I was brought up in a strict reli gious way. To paraphrase Abe Lin coln, 'AH that I am I owe to my early training.' As a corollary of that, I have always tried to apply the ideals of the Golden Rule to human relationships." Mr. Penney was in Waynesville as the weekend guest at the sum mer home of his son and daughter in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Roswell Pen ney. State Employees Ass'n. To Have Area Meeting The 1953-54 annual convention of Area I of the North Carolina State Employees Association will be held in the Club Room at the S & W Cafeteria in Asheville, Sat urday, August 1. The purpose of the meeting is to elect area officers for the next fis cal year and to appoint delegates to the State Convention. The business meeting will con vene promptly at 1:00 p.m. btw HOIUJ'I W#ltt 1 |f you rite major II Whs are probably ? liferent from those ^k\ let bv other families. Pu can trust us to I lart insurance to ^11 |ur needs. 1 Wt phone .. i fATRICK ? FELMET I I W.AL ESTATE 1 gl ( . mi I ^Shopping The Tow^ Got You Down?... St?ps, Timt, | Tok* a look J 1 in rii* YELLOW PAGES 94 Your T?l?pkoM Dir?c*ry ? Page, District Highway Engineer, Has Had Wide Experience With Roads As Division Engineer of the new ly - created Fourteenth Highway Division, G. G. Page will supervise all road work on the State system in Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Hay-' wood, Henderson,' Jackson, Macon, Polk, Swain, and Transylvania counties. His many years of expe rience in the construction Aeld amply qualify him to guide the roadbuilding in these ten moun tainous counties. In May, when the State Highway Commission was expanded frqm ten to 14 divisions. Page was pro moted from senior construction engineer to Division Engineer of the Fourteenth. Harry Buchanan of Hendersonville was appointed com missioner of the Fourteenth; divi sion headquarters will be in Sylva. Page was first employed by the State Highway Commission as a rodman and instrumentmao in 1926. The following six years, he worked on road projects near Wins ton-Salem, Boone, Franklin, and Sylva. In 1932, he was promoted to res ident engineer. He was in charge of various highway construction jobs near Roxboro, Mebane, Bak ersville. Spruce Pine, Newland. Sylva, Brevard and Asheville. For two years, 1942-44, he was em ployed as an engineer on railroad and airport construction in Vir ginia and Kentucky by the con tractor. W. E. Graham and Sons? Next, Page went with Myron A. Sturgeon in Norfolk, Va., as a hyd rographic engineer. In 1946, he returned to North Carolina as a roadway construction engineer for the State Highway Commission He made all final inspections on con tract work in' the old Eighth, G. C. PAGE, division engineer of this district for the State High way Department. Ninth and Tenth Highway Divi sions. His headquarters were in Asheville.. April, 11, 1936, Page was married to Elizabeth March in Greenville, S. C. They have one daughter, Mary Frances Page. They are Pres byterians. A member of the N. C. Society of Engineers and the Western Caro lina Engineers Club, Page is also a member of the Masons and Elks. He was born February 6, 1909, in Cheraw, S. C. He is the son of Billy Gaddy Tops State-Wide 4-H Beef Rating Meet Billy Gaddy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Turner Gaddy of Ratcliffe Cove, made the highest score on beef cattle judging of the 96 4-H boys competing in the stock judg ing and beef judging contest held in Raleigh July 14, it was an nounced today. His total was 143 points out of a possible ISO. The Haywood County beef judg ing team, of which Billy is a mem ber placed fourth in the state competition. In livestock judging, which in cluded beef, swine and hogs, the team placed 13th. Lowest score was on hogs which, Assistant Coun ty Agent Cecil Wells pointed out, are relatively scarce in the county. Wtells coached the team. The dairy judging team, coached by Aslstant County Agent Homer Sink, placed 19th in the ratings. Members of the livestock team were Keith Leatherwood, Jackie Felmet, Billy Gaddy and Dale ( Medford. ? The dairy judging team was com- i posed of James Mease, Frances ' Emma Yates, Mack RatclilT and Doug Christopher. Pvt. Frank Woody With < 25th Inf. In Korea ' ' i Pvt. Frank W. Woody, son of Carl Woody, Route 3, Canton, re- ] cently joined the 2Sth Infantry t Division in Korea. I Pvt. Woody, a rifleman, entered i the Army in December, 1952, and < received basic training at Fort ( Jackson, S. C. He was a plumber j in civilian life. j Lillifc H. Pa|te and George P. ! Page, In 1924, he was graduated ^ from Guilford High School. The ' following two years, he studied at ( Guilford College. J BISHOP W. EARL LEDDEN, Syracuse, N. will be the plat form speaker at > o'clock tonic hi at the Lake Junaluaka Methodist ' Assembly. The bishop cave the first In a series of addresses Sunday nicht, and spoke acaln this moraine. He will speak Tuesday at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. A PROMINENT MINISTER of Birmingham, Ala., Dr. Paul Hardin, Jr., pastor of the First Methodist Church, will be the platform speaker at 8 p.m. Wed nesday, Thursday and Friday at the Lake Junaluska Methodist Assembly. His subjects will be: "Man's Highest Hour," "Teach Us to Pray," and "In His Image". 2nd Lt. James Goodin [s In Training At Camp Lejeune Marine Second Lieutenant James C. Goodin, son of Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Gentry, Is having instruction in marksmanship procedures at the Riflf> Range at Camp LeJeune. Lt. Goodin is one of over 120 Vaval Reserve Training Officers -eceiving the instruction. Follow ing the course in marksmanship, he ivill attend the Non-Commissloned Officers Leadership School at 2amp LeJeune prior to being as signed to the Officers Basic School ( it Quanttco, Va. Lt. Goodin received his commis ilon upon graduation from the Uni versity of North Carolina. He is narried to the former Miss Jo Gro ;an of Chapel Hill and they have i son, David, 11 months old. Robert C. Sheehan Gets Promotion In Korea Robert C. Sheehan, who is serv ing with the 45th Infantry Division in Korea, was recently promoted to Private First Class. Pfc. Sheehan, a truck mechanic in Service Company of the 279th Regiment, arrived in Korea in March and holds the Korean and UN Service Ribbons. Before enter ing the Army in September, 1952, he was employed by the Newport News Dry Dock Company. The 45th Infantry Division, or iginally an Oklahoma National Cuard unit, has been in Korea since December 1951. Pfe. Sheehan is the son of Mrs. Hobert Sheehan of Killian Street, Waynesville. Use the Want Ads for results Two Churches Will Have Joint Homecoming Day The Missionary Baptist Church ar.d the Peachtree Methodist Church on the Black Camp Gap Road will observe a joint Home coming Day, Sunday, Auguat 2. The public is invited to attend the all-day program. A picnic lunch will be served at noon. * Pvt. Donald Browning Is Serving In Korea Pvt. Donald B Browning, son of Mrs. Nola Browning of Route 3. Canton, recently arrived in Korea for duty with the 45th Infantry Division. Pvt. Browning, an aidmap, enter ed the Army last year and was sta tioned at Camp Pickett, Va. before his Korean assignment. Fred E. Coward, Jr. On Training Cruise Fred E. Coward, Jr., seaman, USN, is aboard the small aircraft carrier, USS Saipan, with the 1053 Midshipman Practice Squadron now on its last four weeks of training operations. The ship will return to Norfolk, Va. in August. Before returning the practice squadron will have visited ports in South America and the West Indies. ? Coward is the son of Fred E. Coward of Route 1, Waynesville. AN EYE FOR TROUBLE SAN ANSELMO, Calif. <AP>?As a police car hove into sight recent ly, several motorists quickly pull ed to the side of the highway. Drivers, traveling too fast, slow ed down and fell in behind the police car. The police car led the caravan along sedately until the driver, a young garage attendant, turned in suddenly at the police station to return it after an overhaul job. NOW-MORE THAN EVERJT PAYS TO MAKE UP YOUR MIND ON THE ROAD I You'll find a fresh new design note in Mefcury's beauty?inside and out. But the real thrill comes when you get behind the wheel and head her for the open road. Here's surging V-8 power combined with a nimble handling ease that makes other cars seem stodgy. Here's V-8 performance you can count on in every driving situation ?for Mercury is no newcomer V-8, no old fashioned straight eight. V-8 engines are the only kind that have ever been good enough for Merctiry?and this is the greatest yet. After you've driven a Mercury, come back and get the facts about its proved high trade-in value. Year after year, Mercury is consistently tops in its field! Now?more than ever?it pays to drive a Mercury! Drive one today. WAYNESVILLE MOTOR SALES 1 j .1 ' ( Main Street 1 Waynesville ? i ? ? ? ' 1 11 ? . mPRHIRY WITH III LULU II I MONEY Symbofixing fh? Progress of ford Motor Compony'i JOfb Annivonory ? V ' / "40 Yeort forward on Iho American Road" v
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