ST* , ' ~ todays quotation * J f TODAY'S BIBLE VkkSE ^ m ?? mr m ? TruiL i? juMi,,', iul,jlll4l(l 1 *ili, whom took he W,u..>cl, and *ho in- PjflltCbf*?ll P(M??G O f the fy?t)U F in ttt atepa. vtcto?^Sfo?outn,'nnitH>|V MllJ riiwM klm in the path of judgment. and ? Vf* -* ^ the brightest emanation from ."n >'? taught him knowledge, and shewed to him is the attribute ol God.? Sydney K0-SBff **m s ~ ? The People Who Made Christmas The story of Christ, from his birth to his ascension, "was the story of people. His was not an impersonal life, it touched the lowly and the mighty, even in its humble start. Dr. J. Carter Swaim, director of the De partment of the English Bible of the Na tional Council of Churches has written a series of four articles telling how the miracle of Christ's birth affected those who shared in the experience. The first appears today on ' this page. The other three will appear in subsequent issues of The Mountaineer. The wicked King Herod, the innkeeper, the shepherds, the wise men, Mary, Joseph, Jesus himself. These are the characters Dr. Swaim has dramatized in his series, graph ically illustrated. The True Christmas Spirit Prevails Here In Haywood In the 24, Christmas seasons we have spent in Waynesville, have, wc ever seen the true spirit of the season as pronounced as this year. On every hand, there seems to exist a spirit of "brotherly love" ? and it is so gepuin& People of all walks of life seem more in terested than ever in the welfare of their feHowman. Much of it has been the direct result of the disaster which hit this community on December 1, when the devastating fire de stroyed Plant No. 2 at Unagusta. However, had not the deep-rooted feeling and spirit been thoroughly embedded in the hearts of the people, nothing could have brought it to the surface. The feeling of kindness towards one another has always been a well-known characteristic of the people of Haywood, and it is clearly proven time and time again this season. Somehow the Christmas lights, decora tions and eevrything connected with the season seems a little brighter. Materially we knpw they are the same, but when seen through the eyes that have looked into the faces of some less fortunate and seen the gleam therein, then everything else appears britrhtor. This week the Lions will clothe needy chil dren. Ending some $1,500 on the project. WhefTa mtTthw*ne?h* vt wwyto-get-H sick ?" child some 250 miles to a hospital, a way is readily provided ? When a worker finds the pay envelope stopped, he and his family are cared for through the liberal contributions of friends? When a home was destroyed by fire, friends stepped in and made life happy for those who lost much. ,And so the list goes on and on. It can be truly said that the true spirit of Christmas prevails in Haywood. THE MOUNTAINEER Wayneavllla, Nertb Carolina Wain Street Dial GL 6-5301 The County Real of Haywood County Published By The WAYNESV1LLE MOUNTAINEER, Inc. TV. CURTIS RUSS Editor ff Curtla Ruaa and Marlon T. Brldgca, Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY BY MAIL IN HAYWOOD COUNTY One Year $3.50 SI* month* . 1.00 BY MAIL IN NORTH CAROLINA Dne Year 4.80 Six month* 1.50 OUTSIDE NORTH CAROLINA One Year 5.00 Six month* 1.0C LOCAL CARRIER DELIVERY Per month 40c Office-paid for carrier delivery 4.90 Entered at the poet office at Wayneevina. N. C.. a* Sac end Clue Mall Matter, aa provided under the Act of March 1. 4S7*. November *0. 1914. MEMBER or THE ASSOCIATED PftfiS The Aa*edated Preee 1* entitled exclusively to the uae * re-publication of all the local news printed In this twapaper, aa well a* all AP newa dispatches Monday Afternoon. December 12, 1955 Haywoodfs Loss The $750,000 fire, destroying a big section of Unagusta Furniture Manufacturing Plant at Hazelwood last Wednesday afternoon, was not only a huge loss to Hazelwood and Haywood County, but to all Western North Carolina. A plant of this nature, using wood as its main raw material, naturally draws from a iarge territory. A number of Jackson County people were employed in the plant and many more received employment in get ting out timber, sawing and shipping it .to the plant. Jackson County has furnished many thousands of feet of lumber to this plant over the years it has operated. The fact that some 400 people were thrown out of employment just before the Christ mas holidays makes the situation acute in that these people and their families not only have lost their regular income but must de pend on help from their neighbors to tide them over. This is being taken care of in a big way by a Haywood County Disaster Re lief Committee, out to raise,$25,000 for this purpose. Knowing our Haywood neighbors as we do, we are confident that the amount will be raised and more if needed. It is heartening to know that the owners are making plans to rebuild the plant, which has long been one of the leading manufact uring plants in Western North Carolina. But this will take some time, as buildings and equipment are costly and sometimes slow in coming.?The Sylva Herald. Madison Wants A Congressional Probe A group of Madison county citizens, through a resolution, are demanding a Con gressional investigation of the proposed routes for the interstate highway connecting Western North Carolina and Eastern Ten nessee. The resolution, according to a news report, points out that the Highway Commission's comparison of the two routes ? French Broad and Pigeon River ? "are misleading and without basis." That is pretty strong language. Nothing To Warm Us On This t)own at NorthwesTMiss!5sippi Junior IfSf lege, in Senatobia, there is a sophomore by the name of Bobby Cole, who has a six-foot king snake that coils around his feet at night to keep them warm. A news dispatch says that Cole's family, and dormitory friends wish he would get something else rather than a snake for warmth. The very thought of the idea makes cold chills run up and down our spine./ Strong Protests From This Area The State Highway Commission will hold a special hearing January 26th to hear pro testa to drop alternate designations from many of the state's presently "A" numbered primary routes. x This area has made protests to dropping the "A" from 19, which runs from the inter section at Lake Junaluska to Ela. This would mean a change in the number, which is now well known and firmly fixed in the minds of the traveling public. We understand the protests from this area on the change will be very, very strong. There is only one discordant note in South Carolina's booming economy. It appeared An a truck passing through Greenville. The sijgn said: "Crime Don't Pay. Neither Do Truck ing."?Greenville (S.C.) Piedmont. [ They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo j ^ m K <\ // /Jt II Wall right, \J / GIRLS-NUMBER \ I 28 ? VERY SOFT? } v VERy PUNlSSIMO"/ \ ONE?TWO? / Q^THREE? ALL is snu-";jjf CMOlB COMMENCES 1 4NDC4SEVJOMS STARTS MIS TRAlM wistleseremade MEASURING UP WEdU5 N QROWEO^ lAv ft K I ir 1 lLooking Back W The Years\ 20 YEARS AGO Haywood County bank is organ ized from the Bank of Clyde. R. N. Barber returns from ex tended business trip to Texas and Oklahoma. Miss Mary E. Webster and Miss Stacy Wilburn win essay contest on "Why It Is Good Business to Trade At Home". Waynesville Choral Club plans Candlelight qervife. t j- 1 10 years ago Vivian Watkins, Laura Woody, Julia Ann Stovall, Lane Prevost, 1 and Joan Morris are winners in a j >? Book Character contest sponsored I c by the county library. The Rev. Paul W. Townsend ar- \ rives to begin duties as pastor of it the First Methodist Church. Thomas Stringfield, U. S. Navy . Medical Corps, is promoted to rank t 9f Lieutenant Commander. : < 5 YEARS AGO Haywood Lions entertain 22 )lind people of the county at a special party at the Clyde Metho list Church. William R. MeCIure of Waynes rillf becomes State Highway Pa rol man. Bess Francis and Catherine lames, Meredith College students, akc part in Physical Education Conference at Chapel Hill. THEY MADE CHRISTMAS By DR. J. CARTER SWAIM Director. Department of the English Bible, National Council of Churches PniTnD'K MnTr Tki. 1. tk.i ^,u n.:u iu. ?: i ..i,~ HEROD?Roman puppet. ul'i m. kj t* v/ * * IH3 13 Hir first of a series of four stories on the people in the Biblical report on the birth of Christ, written by a leading authority on the English Bibl*. * * * AP Newsfeatures KING HEROD The ancient world had no better way. of fixing time than by refer ence to the reigning monarch. Luke (1:5) dates the birth of Jesus "in the days of Herod, king of Judea." In a frantic effort to get rid of any who might take his throne. King Herod "killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were .two years old or under" (Matt. 2:16). But that was not an un precedented example of his cruel ty: he han Jerusalem, and the erec tion of the luxurious quarters for Ms wives, of whom there were ten all told ? nine at one time. He decreed that on the day he himself died, all the leading citizens should be put to death. This was to in sure that there would be mourning in the land! Augustus said he would rather be Herod's pig than his son. All that Herod did was done with an eye to perpetuating his sovereignty. It was to make his throne secure that Herod slew the infants. But what a strange reversal is here! History has put I ill' VxiUJU di inc ^luuatic. liUivc dates the birth of Jesus- "In the days of Herod, king of Judea" (Luke 1:5). .Now there is another point of reference?and one that does not change. Everything now is dated before and after Christ. The reference .books even say that Herod became king in 37 B.C.! i Voice of the People What Christmas traditions do you observe in your home? T Mrs. Irving Leatherwood: "The usual Christmas tree and hanging of stockings?and then on Christ mas Day, we always join the Leath erwood family at "grandma's" for an old-fashioned family dinner and exchange of gifts." Mrs. J. H. Howell, Jr.: "On Christmas morning we have break fast first and then Daddy reads the Christmas story from the Bible be fore we open our packages. We have Christinas dinner with 'grand mother' and another tree at her house." Mrs. J. H. Kirkpatrfrk. Jr.: "Of course we always have the stock ings and Christmas tree?the chil dren always go Into the woods with their Daddy to find the tree. About a week before Christmas we play a recording of Dlcken's Christmas Carol over and over?the children (Coutteord on Page 3) 0 THE INNKEEPER "No Vacancy." Who has traveled much and not seen such a sign? And always at the worst time! A man must reach his destination as soon as he can. and so he will press on 50 miles further tonight. But the endless journey cannot be broken here. There is "No Vacan cy." 4 When the government decreed that all should return to the an cestral home to be registered in the tax rolls, a Galilean peasant went toward Bethlehem, "to be en rolled with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child" (Luke 2:5). The journey had been long?and now the birthpangs seized the ex pectant mother. Accommodations must be found at once. But every where they turned the sign said: "No Vacancy". "There was no .place for them in the inn." (Luke 2:7). This ? was a wayside stopping place for caravans. Camels and donkeys would not be stabled at a distance, but in the lean-to's adjoin ing the inn proper, and the smell ;v THE INNKEEPER ? There wet no room at the law. >V .' iSnT 1 \ Rambling 'RounJ By Frances Gilbert Frazier I "rhrlstmas mean# manv different things to many people 1 ? inx W Rollman, Christmas means the melons sift ?t 1 and of a |M that may mean many years of happs living for ?ifl ChUd? ntlv a fire completely destroyed the home and nuul ?' nf the Louis Gibson family. Then their little sivtS ^ssessions^a^y ^ m Doctors advised the little child be1 month ol hospital in Winston-Salem tor treatment, 1 en i?,se?trio bv bus would be too long and inconvenient I S* xn, Waynesville Mountaineer made a plea that anv one A 1 Winston-Salem would be doing a kindly act if they A iur 10 the sick child. As soon as Mr. KollmanB arrange to notifted the Mountaineer that his sJ the item he and a bed in the station wagon for th, ? wagon, a chau ^ ^ Glbson So, Mr KoUmlnl WCr' hTony Christmas knowing that he has provided the I f.miWwith transportation and all the rest of us will knonl Mr" RoTman s creed is that it is more blessed to give than ree| Definitions Mr. Webster never thought of: "Straight and narrow" ... A sheath skin "In i .1 from garter top to toe. "The Nick of time" Santa'Clata. Thl of Tomorrow" . . . Bills and bills. "Uneasy lies the head" . I no foam pillow" "Poinsettia" . . . Potted Christmas "For art* bell tolls" ? Telephone booth. "Charge ol th< I ht Brigidfl Kilowatt Hours. "When all is said and done Midni t Ctofl eve. "Exchange column" ... the day after Christmas "Trade-Id? One week's complete rest. g A Christmas gift for three cents. Write a cheery letter to s one you once knew but haven't written Jo in a long time It be the resuming \>f a beautiful friendship. Uncle Mose was practicing, and of all things. diction. Do the corner of the lawn, the old colored man was making a pr of raking leaves but he was repeating over and over just two With each repetition he brought into play a different tonal A Finally he seemed quite satisfied with the result ut his latest so he parked the rake carefully in the tool house and ambled ward the Big House, then proceeded to make his way up thi steps and on to the threshold of the kitchen There'he stoppe lifting his head high sniffed in delight and inhaled deeply.; smile spreading over his face.. Fruit cake in the making filled t He softly opened the kitchen door and tiptoed in. Mammy1 singing (most inappropriately) "When the Saints come ntarchi and was unaware of her visitor. Then came Uncle Mose's bj ment. In a bellow that rattled the windows, he let out his achievement. "Chris'mus Giff", he shouted and it came like a der blast in the sweet scented kitchen. Mammy Jo left her stranded in their march and dropped a pan in her fright. Th turned and let her fury fly. "You great big ole lum'bring fool Ah diden have work to do, Ah'd lambast the hide offen your 1 back." She paused for breath. "Get out ana sta\ out, you hea She drew down the corners of her mouth as she continued. " a hunk of tastin' cake. Now scoot'." As the old man, grinning, 1 for the "tastin' cake," Mammy Jo concluded. "An Ah hopes you Paradoxical as it sounds the last week before Christmas M longest in the year (for the youngsters) and the shortest ifoifl parents). bfrthe*sTalbles would reach into the guest chambers. It is likely that the hosteler owned the inn and that he and the family did all the Work. No powerful landowner he, bu< a small business man try make an honest livine. and< ent upon the patronage o who passed along the road, not dispossess the Holy Fa: (Continued on Page 3 jfcjA&WASHINGTd MARCH OF EVENTS = 'Geneva Spirit* Neither Dead | West and East Both Reeo Or Dying, Say Top Officials j Hazard of Atom Bomb Wc ? Special to Central Press Association WASHINGTON?Top United States officials insist the "Spi Geneva" is neither dead or dying. Eisenhower administration policy-makers profess to be neithe heartened nor disappointed at failure of the Big Four foreign isters to reach agreement on German reunification and the I problem of disarmament. It is the contention of these experts that neither the w powers nor the Soviet Union rould have m this time, the sweeping concessions such ments would have required. In the view of many administration ma big achievement at Geneva was the tacit nition by all parties concerned that the worii not risk the mass suicide an atomic-hydrop would mean. t The argument is that this recognition ? perforce, a willingness to settle disputes be great powers by diplomacy rattier than by of arms. Privately, some western diplomats art pleased than otherwise that Russia's tacti Geneva were less than conciliatory. This, the ,f \< Mi and hi? ifrar?t'. v Prevented Soviet Foreign Minister v ?? ? Wing a propaganda "ictory!m anythin& even remott' ' CHFCK?Look for the nation 's commercial air * of the sabotag^^n C|le^ks on Passengers and baggage as a persons. United Airlines plane which blew up. kill* that 'the Snnhi crjmes fortunately are extremely rare, the airline verse affect n,lC' 'V *urrounDo??l ! l "uffered by the CIO in Ohio, where f labor group. 8** In state law strongly endorsed V I unemploynj^ff 'lav* *"owed industrial workers to collect I I their employers. ns*tion even while receiving layoff p*f I I yery Uttle H>ilth2!i "y the vofe in Ohio proves that the CIO J I eral or with union Wlth the electorate in gen- I I the OOP bigwlea th "m * in P*rticular- Thl,s expected endonJr^-!.? *,no r*Mon to tear the CIOs H rtl P^ntlai^SSS.1 " next year's Democratic ^ J I *t>out the^oer.jlV!.8 ?'*" say there was one other thing J I W<^ the voter*. ?n* ,n