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TODAY'S RIDI.E VFRSR
For I know not to dvf flattering titles;
In so doing my maker would soon take me
away.?Job 32:22. .
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TonxY'sonvr^B
FUttefj corrupts t.nth it,B
thr giver; and i<lul.itiun t,
vice to the i>ci tli.in v,>
Gifts To Library Will Be
Beneficial For Generations
Education is the indispensable basis of
progress. /
And that must be part of the thinking of
those who are contributing so generously to
the building fund of the Haywood County
Library.
Last Thursday this newspaper carried the
happy announcement that three individuals
and one civic club had contributed more than
$10,000 in cash to the building fund of the
Library.
The plan is to modernize the' Ferguson
home place which was donated to the Library
last fall by two daughters of the late Burder
Ferguson *? Mrs. Maude Watson and Mrs.
Marjorfe Blaylock. ?
In keeping with the generosity of the
family, two other members of the Ferguson
family, Mrs. Homer Ferguson gave $3,000
and the top gift of $5,000 was given by Alex
Shuford. son of Mrs. Watson.
I)r. John Smathers here gave $1,000 while
the Woman's Club added $l,0d7 which they
raised for the special fund.
According to the Library trustees, about
$75,000 will be needed to modernize the Fer
guson Home for the new Library building.
That would give this community a library
that will prove adequate for many years,
and prove beneficial for all who used the fa
cilities.
Those who have made generous gifts, plus
those who will make other gifts in the fu
ture, are making an investment in education
which will be something that will prove
valuable now, and for the many generations
to come.
The Perfect Cook
Has Been Found
* Robots are getting better and better. For
quite a while these mechanical marvels have
been able to figure mathematical problems,
and now one has been invented that can bake
a cake.
This latest example of man making him
self obsolete was on display in New York.
The cake recipe was recorded on ,tape and
then run through the electronic marvel.
The result was cake after cake, ^ich alike
and each perffect.
The uses of the mechanical brain hereto
fore'Tiave teen confined to industry, research
and spectacular pieces of showmanship such
as televised election returns.
The thought of robots for the kitchen
opens many a lovely vista. Here, perhaps, is
the answer to the servant problem; the im
peccable cook with never a day off, absolute
ly non-alcoholic, and once the final install
ment is met, one who works for free.
?The Atlanta Constitution.
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Monday Afternoon, March 28, 1955
Closing The County Home
A Wise Decision
"The Old Giveth Way To The New."
And so it is with the Haywood County
Home.
The institution has stood through the
years, sheltering the aged, and those who
had no other home.
But as a new era of economic.4, and new
standards were adopted by the American
jieople, the county home system became ob
solete, as it gave way to nursing homes, op
erated by individuals.
Throughout North Carolina, county after
county found it economically sound to aban
don their county home in favor of the nurs
ing home system.
There has not been a single instance where
a county has reverted to the old system after
trying out the nursing home plan.
, Several months ago the board of commis
sioners began a study of the proposal, and
consulted at length With Welfare officials of
both the state and local offices. The commis
sioner's decision was that the people in the
county home would be happier in a modern
nursing home, and the Haywood taxpayers
would be about $10,000 better off each year.
Those two facts made the decision over
whelming and the transfer was started.
The 13 people then at the county home
were moved to nursing homes best suited for
their individual needs. And since the folk'
have gone to a nursing home, they are now
eligible for funds for their support, contrib
uted jointly by the State, County and Fed
eral Governments. The people get $55 a
month, of which the county pays $9. Some
of the folk are being taken care of in a mod
ern nursing home for $44 a month, which
means there is $11 left for their clothes,
medicine and other incidentals. If the cost
of medicine is more, then the county supple
ments the additional need.
Mrs. Sam Queen, superintendent of Public
Welfare, said a periodic visit will be made to
each person in the various nursing homes,
and reports made as to their needs, as well
as to the satisfaction they are deriving from
staying at the home.
Mrs. Queen quoted two of the people who
were at the county home, as saying only a
few days after being transferred to a nurs
ing home: "Mrs. Queen, we never realized
anything could be so fine. We like this place
fine."
The county officials visited the nursing |
homes, and .found them well suited, and
equinned to take care of the folk.
"We found the places with steam heat,
single beds with new springs and mattresses,
everything clean as a pin, and the food was
excellent," one official said, in telling of his
visit to a licensed nursing home.
The commissioners took the position that
in closing the county home they would be do
ing those people at the home a distinct favor
by providing better facilities, and at a sav
ing of some $10,000 a year to the taxpayer^.
Their decision seems to be the only practi
cal course to take in view of such convincing
?facts.
Unwilling Gladiator
After 20 years of bickering the couple fin
ally landed in the divorce court.
"This always grieves me," said the kindly,
judge, "After so many years of married life
you now want to quit. Now, let's talk it over.
You, Mrs. Hardley, have filed the suit and j
your husband is fully agreeable. Can't this
case be settled out of court?"
"Huh, I've tried to settle things out of
court, but this husband of mine is a coward.
He just won't fight!"
. ?Wall Street Journal.
| Voice of the
People
Do you think North Carolina
should have a bompulsory auto
inspection law instead of the pres
ent voluntary one? (A bill is now
before the (Jeneral Assembly to
re-institute a voluntary inspection
program, but to have the inspec
tion done by commercial garages
instead of by the state.*
W. R. McOracken ? "1 think it
would be a pood idea to have such
an inspection law."
Mrs. Jerome Boyd ? "It would
help us women drivers know when
there's something wrong with our
cars."
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llye Sheptowitch ? "Inspection
in official garages is as important ;
as any other safety measure."
Kenneth Parrott ? "I think a
compulsory inspection program
would be a good thing if the state
didn't try to handle it, but would i
leave it up to local garages."
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Miss Edna Summerrow?"Yes. 1
think it would be a good idea."
COW PALACE THAT REALLY HAS THE GOP WORRIED
V T?I5 IS,
J THE LIFE! \
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Looking Back Through The Years
20 YEARS AGO
Mrs. R. L. Prevost entertains
Monday Afternoon Contract Club.
Joe Jack Atkins returns to his
studies at the University of North
Carolina.
Miss Hester Ann Withers, stu
dent at Agnes Scott College, is
spending the spring holidays at
home.
Harry Lee Liner gets award for
best acting in operetta "Lucky
Jade". ?
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10 years ago
Edith Noland wins war bond in .
4-H district contest.
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Pfc. Herman Fie is wounded in
action in Germany.
Staff Sergeant Joseph n. Tate,
Jr. is awarded the Air Medal for
"Meritorious Achievement",
T. Hunter Worsham. Jr. is pro
moted to technician fifth grade
with the first army in Germany.
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Noel Phillips is reported prison- i
er of Nazis.
5 YEARS AGO
Dale Ratcliffe is Haywood Stu
dent of the Week.
WTHS Concert Band and indiv
idual musicians gain Jive superior
ratings in Asheville district music
contest.
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High winds blow out two plate
glass windows of Davis-Liner Mot
or Co.
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Miss Betty Biadley is engaged
to Joe C. Cline.
Miss Edna Summerrow heads
Beta Sigma Phi sorority.
Washington
Report
By BILL WHITLEY
TRADE. The old question of
what to do about foreign trade is
one of the toughest and most con
troversial issues facing this ses
sion of Congress.
A general tightening of the do
mestic economy has thrown con
siderable support behind the high
tariff school of thought. The so
called "protectionists' 'argue that
high tariffs are needed to keep
cheap, foreign-produced products
off the American market at a time
when competition is keen among
domestic producers.
STOCKS. The argument over
trade policy is taking place under
unique circumstances,. Sentiment
for high tariffs is increasing at a
time when surpluses are piling up
in all agricultural products - - - at
a time when increased exports are
sorely needed to reduce the back
log of commodities now stored In
warehouses.
NEW APPROACH. In an effort
to break the logjam now choking
world trade. Senator W. Kerr Scott
has proposed what he calls a plan
for a "World Food Bank."
Under his plan, free countries of
the world would set up a food bank
along the lines of the International
Bank for Reconstruction and De
velopment.
Under Senator Scott's plan,
countries with abundances of food,
fiber and other agricultural prod
ucts would loan needy countries,
through the world food bank, food
and other raw material to fight
hunger and famine.
Such a plan, Scott said, would
ocrmit countries with over sup
plies of food to get it to areas
where hunger is running rampant.
'And it wouldn't be a give-away
orogram," he said. "That's what I
like about the bank approach to
the problem. It would be a busi
ness-like way of getting wider dis
tribution of the world's food and
fiber production. The same ap
proach is working very well as te
financial needs through the inter
national bank. If it can work with
dollars, it can work with food."
Scott said world food banks
would go a long wav toward turn
ing back the tide of communism.
"Communism spreads like wildfire
In areas where people are hunfy.
Asia is a perfect example. A world
food bank would provide the ma
chinery for helping feed millions
of hunrry people and give coun
tries with broken economies a real
shot in the arm," he said.
Impartial Justice
BALTIMORE (APl-Jadge'Satia
B. Centrum cautioned members of
the grand Jury to be completely
impartial.
To Illustrate, the judge recalled
an incident when, as a young
lawyer, he rested a case. The
presiding judge said he would gte#
the verdict the next day "because
I'll have to talk It over first with
Ma and the glris " I
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Just Looking Around
By W. CURTIS RUSS
D. Reeves Loland is a consistent
reader of want ads, no matter what
newspaper he has, he always en
joys reading the "for $ale" column.
He gets a lot of enjoyment from
reading the want? ads, just as he
did last week as he read:
"For Sale, good power lawn
mower. Only reason for selling it
is too heavy for my wife. Call?<"
"Now there is an nonest man
trying to sell a lawn mower," Mr.
Noland commented.
This was handed us, as an in
tercepted high school note:
"My Dearest Darling ? Since
our first day in class together, my
feelings for you have grown into
something beautiful and sincere.
And a question has arisen in my
heart. I don't know whether it's
proper or fair that I should ask
vou this question now. I've fought
for courage to ask it, and I know
your answer will be from your
heart.
"Do you think the Lone Ranger
will sell his horse if he's drafted?"
We foi^nd this in a magazine the
other day, and it reminded us of
our last horseback ride:
By HOR8F. INTO
GRAND CANYON
When going
down you
ride like
this '
for one
entire
day
and corning
back
it is
the same
except
you lean
the other
way.
And after that you are so sore
You stay like this a week or more.
Leo Aikman in the Atlanta Jour
nal tells this one:
"As the policeman neared the
street corner, the little man who
had been standing there a long
time called to him timidly, "Excuse
me, officer, but 1 have been wait
ing here for my wife for more
than an hour. Would you be so kind
as to order me to move on'?"
Someone suggested that an ap
propriate sign for a florist truck
might be: "Drive carefully or our
next load may be for you."
A group were standing around
looking at a wrecked car, when
someone spoke up: "How can you
estimate damages like that- It was
a total loss before it was wrecked."
Kidd Brewer, former football
star and coach, now writing a pop
ular column from Raleigh, carried
the following paragraph in his
column recently:
PASSING THOUGHT ... Has
ap.vone else noftcbd that William
Medford. the able and handsome
senator from Waynesville, re
sembles Gary Cooper? Incident
ally, Bill's beautiful wife is a
strong supporter for Duke Uni
versity, while Bill is a loyal Caro
lina man. This is accounted for by
the fact that Bill went to Carolina,
Mrs. Medford to Duke.
Well, one thing for sure, at least
Bill found one thing attractive at
Duke University.
The hornbill, an African bird
has nesting habits in which the
female walls herself up in a hollow
tree and her mate feeds her and
the young until the little birds are
ready to fly.
Research indicates that drafla
chilling, wetting and other discom
forts have little effect on common
cold infections..
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Rambling R0|
By Frances Cilhcrf Fra,ier I
We have just had the pleasure w-"i a^|
spent the past two years in Juneau, v.. ,
very interesting to hear about the ?? J
the impression of being a land of ire and snow, but frjfl
tion we received the climate there is \
Japanese gulf stream affording ii ,/?
our friend left Juneau, February fir-: temperate,*
lower than 28 degrees above.
But the prices \frould raise ' , ?
A roast beef sandwich which would H
would call for a dollar bill up there \n 1 when \outJ
speak in whispers (probably becau ,
breath) but it IS a steak. And a mu
furnished) is $83.50 a month, plus uti F.verythi,*
to the nth degree and the home
States. ?
What intrigued our friend more'than any thing else
the midnight sun in summer, when ti . daylight aov J
around the clock. Altogether, we got .. = ^J
There is nothing that can boomn .m . 1'jstfr ilmB
remark. ?
Already we are having the
through Waynesvllle from Florida on ti.eir way- bad
ern homes. We are getting our first
accessories and they are all Very p ?
some opinions thrown at us. One grou . , five
ing their views very volubly, about tl -J
of the shops. It seems they had < I ?
that had a succession of half-day : *
luck, to hit each of them on that sp< I - J
town, all set to do their shopping hoi J
rived' at twelve-thirty on Wednesday. I
I wish I were a crescent moon,
Just hanging by a silver thread
Against a sky of purple hue
From which all signs of day have fid,
I'd proudly gaze on earth below.
And envy not Ms lonely life: 1
While I moved on mv lively way,
Far from a world of war ,yid strife. <
I'd gather in a quarter new.
For weekly wage as I rode high.
At the month's end I'd have enough
To get quite full and r.-'e the skv.
I'd shed my light w here it would fail
On mountains steep and restless ser
On weary men who toil bv night.
On those whose hearts are light and fr
At the month's end. I'd start again ..
A crescent moon in purple skv ...
A million stars for compan
And all the world to wutih pass by.
Say I Saw It In The Mount J
ItuideWASHING]
MARCH OF EVENTS 3
Standby Controls Bill
Passage Soon Pr.obable
Temporary IH
Very MS
Special to Central I're S3
Y?/WASHINGTON?There is widespread support oaQfl
W granting President Eisenhower standby power
wage aad other controls on the economy, but only
safeguards. I
Indications are a standby controls bill probably dH
only granted the President authority to clamp eaH
United States or one of its possessions were attacbli^H
power probably would be given for only 90 day?-tbdj
time to enable Congress to iddw
and pass a specific bill.
Powerful GOP leaders as well bU
reluctant to give the President
cept in cue of an extreme
out any such legislation aimed ?
war emergency stemming from tla^B
4 The plan is to meet any situsties?
the Formosa question as it comes ^
ministration decides to request dfl
power, tt will be in connection wttj
of the Defense Production Act, wlnH
30. The President wants the Act
****** ? WILL HE OR W ONT HE M*
?nn*w#r hower is proving: himself just u ??
the nuhiio - , Truman ?r the late FDR in ke^Wfl
the pubhc gues^nj: about whether hg wjn 8eek ,
and tv footwork was demonstrated anew at t!?B
tmDmmnt rre8P?ndenta' dinner at which he was
Pair of r" TPf*0*1' Eisenhower rose to thank tMI?
Pa., farm hom 'antern* to be bung: on the porch cflfl
hima recaUe<' that last year the same otfM
terns JOT ? th* fftrm The President said he
1 -na ,ZV?t? ght hi" w?y to the farm and the sua
*<" ?vaJ !iuie4ets there' He Ieft the audience {osv*m
? ? ? ?
I *r?luVinmrRCSSrn D?mocratic leaders of the
I Ltader "y th* press corpa covering their adj?
I when he >nlir " Johnaon- of Texas, showed the MB
elevator* AtJ *W*y 'roni newsmen the privilege 6?
rZStfV*** exclusively for senator*
* * memiur ' *f 'Johnson, both elevators would he *?
]tiMr , .. Senate, leaving tmlv one elevaht?
uewsmen .ii* I*ar 01 Ulat wing of the Capitol, for "?
I He oCuwi ? ^ va'e citizens traveling from one He*?
of renort.r- u r*cong,der when a petition wai dradjW
had Kami *"* &d*d by foot-weary lady journalfl
Then ?k nv*n to uaa the stairs on particularly
Senator Car?0"gT*",o,ul committee on punting,
riven VaaT "*ydsn. announced that newsmen n? *
I want th*> ?' Congressional Dm '"rfl
f^ dSuJT*UtiVe hereafter they will-J
savin* t? ,L Indexed and two dollars for un-iw^B
A com^Luf* *overn?nt 16.200 a year. M
Preaa^T *1<J* that "no one was picking <* *?
of a rvsii-^*. ^ w*? merely a contim?at* ?
?a*. *2?- . require everyone but members of 0* ?
they i?nt employes to purchase the Director/ ? ?
Other originated two years ago. *'I*J I
w?T ??? ?5W** ww* refused free cop** * f
they would have to buy them instead- ?
Hill souiraj
labor eJL *** the legislation ft wants Theyrl
*?d ioT^2Lw1th iu ynB >*bor "Wj?r,tv <2?
orrani**<i lJt! ?' Influential wUon-mmded senfw*
1m*or * lift. ?
Ljsm??Z?th*nlator passage of Jabor-spon*o?**B