TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
*
For I came down from Hmvhi. not to do
mint own will, but thr will of him that srnt
mr.?John 6:38.
Further Proof Of The Need n
Of Improving Highway 441
A careful study of the travel statistics for
the Park of 1054. prove.-*, we feel, the urgent
need of improving Highway 441 from Chero
kee to Newfound Gap.
The figures just released by the Park of
ficials show that 47.5 per cent of all travel
in the Park for last year were Tennessee ve
hicles. Of the 2,526.879 persons entering the
Park, 44.1 per cent entered via Gatlmburg,
while 32.4 per cent went in* by Oconaluftee
on the North Carolina side*
The survey further shows that just as
many vehicles from other states enter from
the North Carolina as from the Tennessee
side. In fact Georgia had half as many cars
enter the Park as did North Carolina.
Tennessee led the parade through the
Park with 47.5 per cent, followed by North
Carolina's 12.2 per cent, then came Georgia
with 6.6 per cent, and then in the following
order with percentages as follows: Ohio 4.6;
South Carolina 4.4; Illinois 2.7; Indiana,2.4:
Kentucky 2.4; Michigan 2.3; Florida 2.">;
Alabama 1.8: and Virginia 1.5.
The growth of travel through the Park
has been steady since the Park was dedi
cated in 1941, when more than a million en
tered the area. Then came the four war
years, when travel was curbed, and in 1946
travel began to show an increase with 1,157,
930. The rate of increase each year has been
steady and the 1951 figure hit an all-time
high with 2,526,879.
There is one thing certain, the potential
travel is unlimited, and it is to our advantage
to have the worn-out highway on the North
Carolina side repaired or relocated in order
to take care of the increase in travel which
is due to come this year, and for all the years
to follow.
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Kan't Be Done, Kan.
Kansas editors, an independent crew, have
rejected the customary abbreviation of Kan.
for their home state in favor of Kas. "By
what right," one of them demanded at an
Associated Press meeting in Hutchison, "do
these other states tell us we are out of step?"
Here in Missouri we have had enough
trouble with Kansas, historically shaking,
without implying that Kansas editors are
out of step. We only wish to inquire what
step, in what direction ?
Kansas is celebrating its one-hundredth
anniversary of territorial settlement this
year, and in all its 100 years has not been
able to agree on how to abbreviate itself:
tas., Kan. and Kans., and even Kn. and Ks.
? -?Thf- St. Louis Post-I)ispatch.
THE MOUNTAINEER
Waynrsville, North Carolina
Main Street Dial GL 6-5301
The County Seat of flavwood County
Published By
The WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER, Inc.
W. CURTIS RUSS Editor
W. Curtis Russ and Marlon T. Bridges, Publishers
PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY
BY MAIL IN HAYWOOD COUNTY
Onp Year _ SO
Six months _ 2 00
BY MAIL IN NORTH CAROLINA
One Year _? ? 4 50
Six months .. 2.50
OUTSIDE NORTH CAROLINA
One Year .. 5 CH"
Six months ? - ? R.M
LOCAL CARRIER DELIVERY
Per month . 40e
Offiee-paid for carrier delivery _ 4 50
Entered at the post office at Waynesvtlle. N C . as Sec
ond Class Mail Matter, as provided under the Act of
Mafrh 2, HIT), November 20, 1014.
MEMBER OT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the use
for re-publication of all Ihe local news printed In this
newspaper, as well as all AP news dispatches.
Thursday Afternoon. January 6, 19">
The Park Service Toll Plan
Still Impractical
We have known .since 1942 that the Na
tional-Park Service had a schedule and plans
for a toll charge on the Blue Ridge Parkway, h
but we thought they had pigeonholed the pro- s
|K?sal once and for all time, because it was ?
pointed out to the officials back during the r
wtjr years the plan was impractical. J
Now, 12 years later, apparently someone ^
in cleaning up, ran across the plan stuffed
in the pigeonhole and brought it to light,
thinking that what was termed impractical
in 11) 12 might not find so much opposition
among the citizens in 1955. Like a bolt from s
a clear sky, the Park Service announced the \
toll would begin May first of this year, v
Immediately, officials, civic leaders, or- *
ganizations and individuals began a series ^
of protests against the impractical plan. l
The Parkway officials jwiint out they need B
the money for maintenance purposes. Yet
what they fail to say is that the money will
go into the general fund of the U. S. Treasury c
and there be allocated again?maybe going ?
to the Parkway, and perhaps not. Certainly ^
there is no guarantee that any of the toll J
money would go towards Parkway mainte- c
nance. _
And once the toll is put on the Blue Ridge .
Parkway, we might as well make up our
minds to look for similar action of a toll for I
entering the Smokies. One will follow the oth
er just as certain as day follows night.
Perhaps the National Park Service has for
gotten from whence cometh the right-of
ways for the Parkway. Perhaps they have ^
forgotten what groups have worked in their | p
behalf with Congress for appropriations all >
these years. bi
Perhaps they had rather have the small ^
pittance of toll fees (if they can get them
back from the treasury) than the coopera
tion and support of all groups who have
helped carry on the program these many
years.
Their plan, and attitude reminds us of the
well-known comic paper character who was
always inviting his friends to come to his
home for a duck dinner, and quickly added,
"you bring the duck." The Park Service, it
seems, has gone the comic character one bet
ter?they infer, "Come to our house for a
duck dinner?you bring the duck?and a dol
lar toll fee." '
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Worthy Of A Trial e
As plans are being made for Community ?
Development projects for 1955, it might bel0]
worthy of the leaders giving consideration to t?
a program which has proven successful in *!
Forsyth County. ti
In fact, the project was so successful there w
for a community, that the Grange won a D
$15,000 top prize for the year. Among their w
projects carried out successfully was a pro- a
gram of inspection of all community homes *
for fire hazards. p
This need not be an expensive project, but b
one which can have untold value in that it Sl
could be the means of saving valuable prop- E
erty from burning. k
The suggested proposal goes right along *
with the plan which we have felt was sorely v
needed in rural Haywood for many years ?
adequate fire protection. *
Perhaps this inspection plan would be the j,
first step towards getting the modern fire t
protection system. It could be that after the n
complete inspection of property, that those -jj
in authority would be shown the urgent need a
of a rural fire protection program.
Anyway, other communities are finding 4
a similar program o finspecting homes and
buildings for fire hazards, and it could jusf e
as well pay similar dividends here in llay
wood. At least the trial would be inexpensive. v
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Editorial Page of The Mountaineer
Bookmobile
Schedule
Friday, Jan. 7
CRL'SO
;obert Freeman 9:30- 9.45
am Freeman 10:00-10:15
'ruso Grocery 10:30-11:00
'ruso School 11:15-12:30
>ois Rogers . 1:00- 1:15
. S. Williams 1:30-1:45
im' Clark ... 2:00- 2:30
lurnett Cash Groceiy 2:45- 3:15
.Monday. Jan. 10
MAGGIE - JONATHAN CKKFK
?ave Plott 9:15- 9:30
lobart White 9:45-10:00
uioky Mt. Gift Sliop 10:15-10:30
laggie School 10:45-11:45
^av Fisher 12:00-12:15
'. F. Kennedy - 12:30-12:45
W. Howell 1:00- 1:15
lock Hill School 1:30- 2:15
Irs. Ethel Boyd 2:30- 2:45 j
ursin's Store 3:00- 3:15
Tuesday. Jan. 11
CLYDE
lyde School / 9:15-11:15 |
rank Stamey 11:30-12:00 j
am Jackson 12:15-12:30
1. W. Dotson 12:45- 1:00
aek Belcher 1:15- 1:30
lyde Town Hall 1:45- 2:45
nnie Long 3:00- 3:15 |
LAND OF THE RE-RISING SUN] ?!
" CHEAP
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PRODOCTIOK
Sir
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Rambling 'Roun
Hv Frances CIilbert Fra/.ier
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A.s we open up the brand new 365-page 1955 ledger. ]
ly get statistic-minded. It was with keen amusement th 3
article given us by Mr Russ. and we are passing it on U
SUBTRACTION BLUES '
Americans are peculiarly impressed with statistics
statistics are peculiarly impres.-ivo. They w.-re -'Irani j
Lake City Tribune, which i:i turn credits an Ogden Sn
for them. . t
Population of the United States loot:,. f
People 60 years or older til! iji,<
Balance left lo do the work SHutx ?
- People 21 years or younger '
Balance left to do the work 44 Oyii
People working for the government 21 ?
Balance left to do the work 2 ! 1 <
People in the Armed Forces It
Balance left to do the work 13 >> ,
People in slate and city offices 12:;or
Balance left to do the work '.20ti.nl
People in hospitals, insane asylums I26t|
Balance left to do the work 7.4J
Bums and others who won't work i;24
Balance left to do the work 124
Persons in Jail nj
Balance left to do the work
TWO ? you and 1 ?and you'd better get a wi V
I'm tired of running this country alone!!
Ancnt the above, as you well know, there are a 11.
"itizens who think it their bounden duty to criticize
ment, and who do an excellent (?) job of arm-chair sup<
here's their opportunity to come to the aid of their count)
Clipped from another newspaper: "Florida peopl,. si
CALIF, means Come And Live In Florida."
All-of-a-sudden happenings: At midnight, the holiday lis
beaming their merriest on Main street and on Sunday atir:
street was absolutely bare of colored lights: winter was l ay
old time snowing itself into a dizzy whirlagig and then spri
in its two-bits to make Christmas week one to remember i
the mail stopped its Christmas-card avalanche to make way
sorts of greetings; winter coats and chapeaux look and feel f
worn as the windows and magazines display spring and Floi
fairy prospects: dark, brown sod suddenly showing a tell \i',i
of green: the reappearance of tissues in other colors i n
green, the completely vacant look of corners where C'1 4
have been waiting to be put away; and the absolutely sudc
into consciousness that the long envelope contains the IT
Tax return, to be lilled out.
Design for Living: A circle of friends, three sou.ire
and an upright life.
.ooking Back Through The Years
20 YEARS AGO
Dr. Tom Stringfield is named
esident of the Haywood County
edical Society.
Fred Crawford takes part of an
iator in Shirley Temple's new
cture. "Bright Eyes".
Miss Eunice Simons of Colerain
?comes bride of Dr. R. Stuart
oberson.
10 YEARS AGO
Pvt. Roy Swanger receives hon
orable discharge after serving
four years in the army.
Jimmy Albright spends leave
with his parents. Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Albright.
Miss Rosemary Herman returns
to Woman's College after spending
the holidays at home.
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Dwight Williams Is deelare<
North Carolina's champion cori
grower for 1949.
C F. Kirkpalrick resumes activ<
management of the Hotel LeFaine
Mr. and Airs. W. Curtis Rust
and daughter. Marguerite, returi
from a week's stay in New Yorl
City.
Library Notes
Margaret Johnston
County Librarian
Good Books ? Good Reading
UVENILE
Lewis ? The Lion, the Witch
nd the Wardrobe ? Peter, Susan,
dmund and Lucy while spending
holiday on an old English estate
nd their way through the back
f a huge wardrobe into a land of
liking animals, giants, satyrs, and
tuns, ruled by Asian, a lion and
wicked queen. Here they help
ie lion destroy the spell of the
hite Witch.
Mace ? Chief Dooley's Busy
lay ? A small town police chief
rho wanted to be a policeman In
big city took some time off to see
bout it. When he came back to
is own job he found out how im
ortant his own job really was
olh to his community and him
elf.
Lewis ? Prince Caspian?"Four
Inglish children revisit a magic
ingdom and lenjl their aid to a
ood Prince Caspian. A sequel to
The Lion, the Witch and the
Vardrobe."
Baumann ? Caves of the Great
funters ? In 1940 four teen-age
ioys discovered the Lascaux Cave
a France dating bark to the Ice
ige. The cave paintings showed
nany huge animals hunted by
irehistoric man. A visiting scholar
ixplained to the boys how these
nd similar paintings in the near
ly Altnmira Cave told the story of
ife in the glacial epoch.
tnt'LT
Schweitzer ? Quest of llistori
al Jesus ? A study of the slrug
;le which the best equipped intel
ects of the modern world have
vaged , in trying to realize fot
hemselves the historical personal
ty of our Lord. It considers the
ife of Christ from the 17th to the
9th centuries.
Literary Market Place, 19t0 ?
\ classified list of practical use
o the publishing and literary
rades. It gives addresses, name;
if directors, officials or editors anc
lometimes brief informative
lotes."
Corbet t ? We Chose Cape Coe
? The author and his family mov
?d to East Dennis so that he eoule
have a quiet place in which t<
write. His book about his com
mmity covers the local mores. <
{rent deal of folklore and history
Wright ? The Gentle House ?
'Story of a Latvian waif, Tinehy
whom the author took into he
home. He was decidedly a prob
cm but worth saving ''
Hagerdorn?The Roosevelt Fam
ly of Sagamore Hill ? "An ae
?ount of the home life of the Theo
lore Roosevelt family from th?
ime of Roosevelt's second marri
age to his death.
All plants may be raised fron
seed although some may be propa
gated more easily in other ways.
Temples of Saturn which wer
medical scWmWMt* known to hav
pxistcd at least 4.000 years B C.
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The Younger
Set
By PEGGY REEVES
And SUZANNE CURRY
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Hollo folks! Now that school is
under way again and mid-term ?
exams are coming up. 1 guess
jou're happy! Whoops. I must have
said the wrong thing < but don't
think I don't know it. >
Su/anne is still bathing in tfiat
Florida sun hut we're expecting
her back today. Florida had a lot
of Waynesville visitors during the
holidays. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh
Sloan, Pan Parkman. Pauline In
man and Patsy Gibson had a swell
time taking in all that wonderful
weather With everyone gone back
from the holdavs everything's
quiet again.
These next five months of school
will probably go by fast and sum
mer will be here before we know
it. The seniors are talking about
graduation and what careers they
will be choosing, and I am sure
the right career will be followed
for everv member of the class of
1955!
Our orchestra is working very
hard now getting ready for the
New Orleans trip sometime in
March The orchestra has done a
tremendous amount of hard work
this year (nardon me. 1954). and
now in 1955 we find them prac
ticing even harder! We are all
proud of our "young orchestra"
and the fine job each member has
done to get this honor!
The basketball teams have got
ten back into the swing of things
by beating Mars Hill Tuesday night
in our g\m. Every member of the
two teams played a fine game af
ter a two-week vacation. Tomor
row night we play iyes, you guess
ed it1 our old rivals from the F'ap
or Town! Their team has had some
fine games this year but we still
have faith in our good old Moun
taineers. who have won every game
so fart Let's all turn out and sup
port our teams tomorrow night.
"This is a home game ana it starts
at 7:30.
The Sub-Deb Club held a New
Year's dance New Year's night at
the Elk's Club. The room was
beautifully decorated with Christ
mas decorations with pine-covered
snow and randies on the tables.
The dance lasted from 8:30 till
11:30 and we all had a grand time.
The Tally-Ho Club has planned
to go to Asheville tonight for sup
per and then see the movie "White
Christmas". The group will leave
by ears at 5 p.m. and arrive hack
in Wavnesville about 11:30.
Because "Christmas Carol" by
Dickens was credited with reviv
ing the Christmas spirt, the authcr
has sometmes been called the fath
er of modern Christmas.
Canton High |
Campus CuffnotejJ
By LINDA BRIGGS -
In spite of all attempts to pro
Ion? the date. Monday came and
back to school. Students complain
ed they had forgotten where their
lockers were, and how it felt to
do homework, but things are be
ginning to get underway again, j
and talk of mid-term examinations ?
is already in the air. Exams start
January 20th, and quite a bit of I
reviewing and cramming is plan- '
ned before then! j r
Holiday dances and festivities
were wound no last week with a i
final formal dance given by the
Canton Saddle and Bridle Club.
The dance was held in the
Y.M.C.A. gvm with a large num
ber of vouth and adults attending.
Several parties and church ser- I
vices were held. Friday night, in
connection with New Year's. These
included parties and watch night
services, and a party for grammar
school and Junior High folks at
the Y.M.C.A. Several private par
ties were held also, and most Can
I
>n High students Usfu red **
ith a big celebration ^
On Thursday and Kr'
ist week, two repii-?
rom Canton High at ten;
lethodist Youth Council
if the Western North cj
'onference which was '3
'heifTer College. Linda ?
'(inference Chairman of C
Pitizenship. and Darrell 1?
Preasurer of the Hav\v<KKji
y Sub-District, represent?
rood County at this plantC
'ion.
Keeping vour New Yin' i
utions, vet? I know .1 ? *
vhich all of us at Cant ,
hould. Attend all Bjau'l
laskethall games anil J
tur bovs and girls Dr.o.ti""
luring Christmas and it yosB
iver to the gvm even ?
irul Frdav nights, youllB
?rand team playing. Jiet fll
Friday night when tlwB
Bears face Bethel, at thtB
High School, and see'
They'll Do It l?vcry Time ?? y 1 9*l? By Jimmy Hatlo | J
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*CROSS
1 Out. of date'
f Smoked
pig side
11 Bay window
11 Maxim
11 Kind of race
1< Garments
1 "? Pancer's
cymbals
1" Roman
money
1" Sweet
potato
?n River (Pol )
?' Exclamation
21 Picture of
a person
T? Caress
20 Sjign of the
zodiac
21 French coin
27 Quakes
32 Guide s
lowest note
30 Speak
37 Mother
(affection
a te term)
Sf> Beast of
burden
4t A wing
I 41 Simpletons
47 City
magistrate
4? Of an area
60. Visitors'
book
51 Craxily
52 Bamboo-like
grasses
HOW V
1 Harbor
2 Region
3 Inane
4 Body of
salt water
5. Cathedral
city
(Eng )
6 Stripe
7 Fuss
8 Bathhouses
9. S-shapod
molding
10 Headland
18 April
(abbr )
19 Covered
with molJ
20. Attack
suddenly
(Mil. I
21. Land
measure
22. Italian
ROddesa
23. Exclamation
25. Shore bird
26 Symbol of
indebtedness*
27. Exclamation
29. Wrestled
33. District
Attorney
(abbr )
34. Thus
.38. Perhaps
39 First man
40 Snort
billed rail
42. Nois/
43. Fortifies
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45 Dancr'iB
cymbal I
46 Cunn.ns I
47. Diaflgpir'l
48. Malt ^
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TODAY'S OrOTATIOY i
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j The human body of Christ is ??
which hides the tetory of God. 011 Jfl
could not look with unveiled face
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