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TODAY'S BIBI.E VERSE , - TODAY'S QUOTATION . .as Its, ? Editorial Page of the Mountaineer ^^sJr.-ra-sj^r v? Egg Survey Shows Some Interesting Facts The survey of egg consumption in Hay wood revealed some startling figure* of what is being lost by Haywood farmers in not taking care of the local demand Some $400,000 per year is going out of,the county each year just for eggs, the survey showed., If through some regulation, farmers were told they would have to reduce a certain crop by $400,000 next year, there would be something stirring. Now we find that the same situation exists, in not producing all the eggs which are consumed in the county. From-what we can learn, the demand for eggs is rather steady throughout the year, increasing in the summer with the influx of summer visitors. The surve/ shows a lot ? it shows there is a lot of yellow to the egg business besides the yolk 1? some gold, too, for the producers. Some Headlines 25 Years Ago Were Not So Good The Raleigh News and Observer in their "25 Years Ago" column,, uncovered some news that most of us had just as soon forget. But thei* are many readers today who never saw such headlines as made page one back in 1931U. ^ '? Along this same line of thinking, the edi tor of the Raleigh newspaper said: Mayhe city people don't have to worry about falling farm income. But it might be well for town and country people both to re read the two first items in the "25 Years Ago" column on this page recently: Twelve North Carolina banks failed today: The Gastonia National Bank, Clayton Bank ing Company, Bank of Aulander, Citiaens Bank of Yancey, Swannanoa Bank and Trust Company, Bank of Franklin, Bank of Fletch er, Bank of Clyde, Gaston Ix>an and Trust Company, People's Rank, Gastonia, Bank of Dallas, People's Bank of Waco. - The SAW Cafeteria In Raleigh reduced prices on food. Peas and beans were reduced to 5 cents, two eggs, any style, cost 10 cents, and other items were reduced 10, 20 and 25 per cent. It would be nice to be able to buy two eggs, i any s^y)^, at the SAW, for 10 cents, but it would not be much fun to eat them to the 'disfnal music of crashing banks. LIKE MODERN TIMES In the Bible there is a passage that reads. "The Chariots shall rage in the streets, they .shall juatle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings." Bill Crowell, down at the State Depart ment of Motor Vehicles in Raleigh, thinks this sounds suspiciously like an ordinary Tar 'Heel highway.?Morganton News Herald. By the time most men learn to behave themselves they're too old to do anything else. * 1 Re sure brain is engaged before putting mouth in gear.' A recAit survey shows that four out of five women haters are women. Garbage Disposal Presents Real Problem For Many In hi* charge to the Grand Jury, Judge J. Will Pie** pointed out that h.e had had com plaint* of garbage being dumped in rural area* of Haywood, and especially along the bank* of .streams. Some of the streams are serving a* source* of water supplies and have been found to be littered with garbage. Haywood is not alone in being faced with this problem, but that does not Mean the potential breeding of diseases and flies is in any way reduced. Judge Pie** warned that those who were guilty of such h practice should stop, and added that citizens who saw people dump ing garbage in places other than those sites designated for such, should report it to the proper authorities. We feel that the practice is the result of housewives that have a garbage problem, and throwing it out on the roadside seemed the easiest way to get rid of it. We cannot feel that any person who had given the mat ter any thought would do it again. Certain ly this is hoped to be the case. The problem goes back to the discussion of ""some months ago of a county garbage dis posal ground, or grounds. The situation is far more serious than it might appear on the surface. Divorce Is Never A Laughing Matter Some reporters seem to take a great deal of pleasure in writing funny stories about divorce, usually based on some bit of testi mony given by one of the participants such as "He would set up beer cans in the living room and use a golf ball to bowl" or "She put too much starch in my shirts" or some similar bit. The national wire services, such as the United Press and Associated Press, appear fond of carrying such stories, and many daily papers publish them. We don't approve of this, generally speak ing. Usually there is an element of truth in the story, we will admit. Usually one of the people involved will, during the course of cou?*t testimony, say something that is funny. But quite often this is not the real reason behind the tragic situation that has brought two people into court. Sometimes a frivolous reason will be given when the correct summary is that both marital partners have decided they would rather be separate than together. Every newspaper reporter who has covered civil actions in court has heard some of these. We believe that some of the celebrities from the entertainment world often give statements to the press, even in their fre quent divorce actions, that are designed simply to give them some front page space. But most people who go into divorce court are quite serious in their purposes, and are there because some serious trouble (like alcoholism or infidelity) has caused a rift in their marriage. Since this is the case, we don't find very much humor in most of the divorce cases "brights" as newspaper folk call stories on the light side of life. We don't think they should be published. ?Forest City Courier. VIEWS OF OTHER EDITORS A Shocking Trend In Government Buying In a nation which has frown great under a com petitive enterprise system, the largest single cus tomer. the United States Government, is doing most of its contracting by negotiation This is the startling report which comes from U.S. Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee who has been investigating the laA of uniformity in the govern ment's procurement policies. Senator Gore recently told the N. C. Press Asso ciation that during the fiscal year 1955 about 8? per cent of the government's contracts were by negotiation, rather than on a basis of competitive bidding. The Defend* Department's record was 84 per cent by negotiation. How did the Federal government remove Itself so far from the advantages of competitive bidding, long recognised as "good business" In private enter prise? The explanation is simple. Not all government procurement can be handled on competitive bids. Many contracts are let for essential items never produced before, and Arm bidding would be diffi cult. Defense items In which security considerations are Important would make It inadvisable to release Information necessary for competitive bids Certain exceptions .therefore, are understand able and necessary, but the growing use of excep tions and the lark of anything like a uniform pro curement policy lead to disturbing Inconsistencies "The National Emergency Exception" is most frequently used and permits negotiated contracts tf "determined to be necessary In the public interest during the period of a national emergency declared by the President or by the Congress." Because the National Emergency proclaimed by President Truman during the Korean War is still technically in effect, this authority to negotiate con tracts without competitive bids is still available to the head of any agency who decides "it is necessary In the public Interest". Bat the average American will find K difficult ' to understand how the "national emergency" can j Justify the purchase of goods in ordinary trade without competitive bidding and how. as Senator Gore cited, one procurement officer can be nego tiating a contract without regard to price while an other In the same agency will be seeking to purchase on the basis of low price . , Procurement by negotiations opens the way for | ? variety of abuaes, including exposure to the temp- , tattaaa sf aarahption. One Tennessee concern. Sen- , ator Gore discovered, was operating on negotiated government contracts and was making more in profits per year than the entire investment in the corporation. v It will, of course, continue to be necessary to handle some buying by negotiated contract, but it shouldn't be necessary for Uncle Sam to spend four dollars out of five with out regard to competitive bidding. This isn't a partisan matter, since the mounting problem has flourished under administrations of both major parties It is simply a question of checking a trend away from a "good business" practice. Taxpayers have much at stake, and should insist that something be done to see to it that a uniform pattern of fairness be adopted in government buying. It would be shocking irony for Uncle Sam to continue to turn hit back on the competitive principle which is the sinew of the nation's rconomy. ?Morganton News-Herald. THE MOUNTAINEER Wamesvllle. North Carolina Main Street Dial GL 6-5301 TOk County Seat of Hurwuod County Published Mr Hie WATNBSVILLE MOUNTAINEER, Inc. W. CURTIS RUSS _ Editor W. Curtia Ruaa and Marion T. Brideea. Publisher* PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AMD THURSDAY BT MAIL IN HAYWOOD COUNTY One YeaP - . i $3 SO Six montui - ... .P 00 BY MAIL IN NORTH CAROLINA One Year * 90 Six months . . m 2.50 OUTSIDE NORTH" CAROLitA One Year .. ? 5.00 Six monRu ; 3.00 LOCAL CARRIER DELIVERY I*r month - ^ - 40c 1 Office-paid for carrier delivery *.N> Entoari at tha post office at WhynaavtDa. N. C . aa second Dan Mail Matter, an peaatdad under tha Act of March tgh NMaifibar M. lit '* Monday Afternoon. February 13. 1956 ? 25 ' ? . 3* FALLING BAROMETER I ?n?^??????? Looking Back Over The Years 20 YEARS AGO Haynes Warren of Cecil is bit ten by mad cat. Mrs. Jack Messer and Miss Josehine Davis open the fashion Shoppe in the lobby of the Per sonality BCItity Shop. Hugh Massie returns from buy ing trip to St. Louis. Joe Sloan, Billie Prevost, and James Rose spend Sunday with friends in Greenville, S. C. 10 years ago Haywood has more than 3 inches of rain over weekend. Annual silver tea at Library realizes $50.00 Sgt. Victor Nobeck receives his discharge from the army. Miss Mary Edith Long becomes bride of Russell Edwin Fultz. Miss Mary Quintan is serving with the American Red Cross Re lief in Western Europe. Pfc Bill S. Queen is discharg ed at Fort Bragg. 5 years ago George A. BlschofT is officially elected Hazelwood Fire Chief. Miss Thelma Ann Jones be comes bride of Hugh Garey Potts. Mrs. Ernest Hyatt is honored at surprise birthday luncheon Riv en by her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Howard Hyatt. Mrs Sam Queen heads Hay wood Tourist Association. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Ray go to Daytona Beach for a vacation. Carol Grahl returns to duty with the Navy. Letter To Editor CUTTING OF TREES PROTESTED BY GARDEN CLUB Editor The Mountaineer: The Mountain View Garden Club wishes to protest the rank destruction of some 26 trees on the new Public Library Grounds, the old Ferguson homestead. As of last Friday approximate ly 26 trees had been destroyed, with numerous of the remaining trees marked for future chopping. It is with the deepest concern that our members and many of our friends have watched the de struction cf our town's natural beauty, first in the Cemetery, then in the so-called City Park on East Street, later the Court House lawn, and the old Central School property. Even the trees of llaxelwood School have been butchered with cropping. And now the God-given. 100 year-old beauty of the future Li brary has been ruined where a natural park already existed, needing only care, proper prun ing and thinning, general beauti fication to be put to immediate use. If the defense is that some of the trees were rotten or diseased ?as they no doubt were?it is in defensible that 26 should be re moved at one time instead of over a period of years, some of them fine, good trees. This is doubly indefensible in the light of the fact that, since the Ferguson home was donated to the Library Board, no effort has been made to board up and preserve the house from the van dalism which must amount to hundreds of dollars in value to date. The same money and ef fort now going Into baring this property could have been put to better use. In all probability the local garden clubs will want and be expected to landscape these grounds. Trees are a basic neces sity of good landscaping. The old Ferguson home had a distinction and charm of its own. It is now just a barren pub lic building, with its every de fect or weakness of i.^hitecture made blatant. ? Very truly yours. The Mountain View Garden Club By Mrs. Walter Baermann. Voice of the People Some people welcome snow be cause of its beauty: others dread it because snow makes traveling " difficult. How do you feel about snow? Frances Deal ? "I think it's beautiful. I like to sit here by the window and look at the snow on the trees. 1 hope it snows once more before spring. Mrs. J. M. Long?"I like to see it coming down, but I'm glad to see it go. We did need the last snow we had." Joe Turner?"I'm in favor of snow at any time." Lynwood McElroy?"I'm highly in favor of it. It's a great aid to farmers and fishermen." Dr. L. B. Hayes?" 'Have you entered into the treasures of the snow?' is a question asked in the Bible. I think that snow crystals are the most beautiful things in the world. Each one is different." What Is About Her? Funny, we remember the names of none of the ten best-dressed women picked a week ago or so, but can always recall Dorothy Lamour.?Detroit News. snappy finish When Frank Knox was Secre tary of the Navy, an old friend asked him about ship movements. Which were a military secret. Knox did not want to reply. "Can you keep a secref" he asked his friend. "I certainly can!" the man declared. "Well," said Knox, "So can I." ?Milwaukee Journal. SCOTT'S SCRAP BOOK KERCHIEF, A. CLoAt WORM ?V # ^ WOMLK ' AS k ? ^ COVlA.lM<V ? -i ?o?-fm HIM>. KERCHIEF 3 oh * ku r fcAJm.ft.OUS A.M1VU.L I* At qtlAC 1 SMOKY ViOUMCMHS *1 At HOftA dJMtrkk--ftVHl?tt BoftOtR. If COftHtRLD oft WIOOHDt* If IS Ky. PAwCtftouS AAHA. AMU. ' 1 ' "IT"* By R. J. SCOn Oehlrsoh nickel K?*4 MilCNXD 1/ HW* IOOM, A , ItMlrt. of CUKAJli i , VAU/cAntn 1MM' MAK <iaii filLWd M?*lt I1LMUS ^ ^ Uoc* ftotw Po-fA?IUM. Rambling 'Round By Frances Gilbert Frailer it The more one reads the daily papers, the more confused one gets on current events. One day the headlines proclaim an investi gation into this or thart; then a few days later the investigation has been postponed, set aside or not even mentioned. At least, Senator McCarthy kept his high jinks on the move. 'Vtay, 'way back when we first learned to read the papers (Ph. happy day!) we didnt seem to have scare lines. We often wonder now what they DID use for headline stulT. We must have had sen ators. congressmen and other high dignitaries but, as far as we htvew\ they were highly decorous gentlemen who went to Washington or the state capitol and attended strictly to the business for which the voters had elected them. There were no mink coats, deep freezers, pedigreed heifers, atomic controversies, jet plane arguments, no in ternational squabbles and very little scandal in the upper brackets. Then suddenly we were brought to the realization of trouble. The papers blazoned out: "Battleship Maine Sunk," and we were in troduced to our first war extras. When we thiltk of the millions of words used in war news since that fateful day, we get a bit heart sick and wish the newspapers could again have a little of the peace of those long-ago days. Heard in passing: "I'd sure like to tell her what I think of her but if I did, she'd get ma*dand I couldn't borrow her pres sure cooker on Sunday." The ladies looked at each other apprehensively as they gathered at Mrs. Abee's for the monthly Circle meeting, and they gave one collective gulp as Little Mary opened the door and ushered them in. They laid aside their wraps but kept a convulsive grip on their purses remembering only too well the last visit to Mrs. Abee's when little Mary emptied their purses into one pile and then thoroughly scrambled it into a hopeless confusion. But the meeting went along peacefully this time and the ladies relaxed. But It just had to happen. Mrs. Jayjay, noted for her thrifty plus habits was getting into her coat when Little Mary came up to her, handing out a five-cent piece. "Let me see you do it," she said in her politest manner. Mrs. Jayjay looked surprised but asked: "What do you want me to do?" The little girl cocked her head to one side as she again proffered the nickel. "My Mommie said you squeezed a nickel so hard when you got hold of it that you choked off the wind of both the Indian and the buffalo." Dan Cupid with his mighty bow. That shoots an arrow straight and true, Into the hearts of maids and men. Is aiming one right now at you. He picked you out from all the rest. Because you are so sweet and fine. With lacy frills and rosebuds pink. Yon make a perfect Valentine. It Isn't Done Someone might also hint that hoting-out on the last green dar ing an important tournament with an unbuttoned overcoat flapping in the breeze is not generally con sidered the height of good taste in this county.?London Sketch. Progress To Now The typical father chosen on a radio program proved to be a postoffice employee from Mis souri. We have now reached the point wh^e the typical father draws his sustenance from the Government.?New Yorker. AfcUt&WASHINGTON " ?' ' MARCH OF EVENTS 1 1 YA/ -i ^ . ?? ?_ I . I ? ? ? ? ? t. II. . ??A Alii* noitr woniumpnon to increase I Vastly in the Next Two Docados < txpecr u. to use jjvj Billion Gallons Doily 20 Yean Hence Special to Central Press Association . WASHINGTON^ Americans are using water in such increasing quantities that by 1875 they are expected to need 350 billion gallons a day, compared to 185 billion gallons they used daily in 1950. Practical effects of this unprecedented use of water on an average city of 10.000 is summed up in the Department of Agriculture's new yearbook, entitled Wafer, in these words: ' The city of 10,000 in 1950 will be a city of 13,300 in 1975; the average daily consumption of water In that city in i?ou was i.eou.uou gallons, in 1975 k win De 2,067.000 gallons. "In other words, any city in the United States can expect by 1975 a growth in population and an increase in the rate of water use of such size that the city will have to provide 142 per cent of today's supply for tomorrow's city. That is an average day. "Assuming that the peak demand in 1975 will correspond to the 1953 record, we can compute that the average city will need to provide facilities to meet a 1975 peak day reaching 235 per cent of ita 1952 average day." Ancient civilization developed in areas where good water was available, and some of them dis Secretary Benton Integrated and disappeared because they allowed silt and pollution to contaminate their water supply. ? ? ? ? WATER WAS A FIRST consideration among early settlers in this country. Most homes were built near a spring or stream. Our largest cities developed along navigable water, for this vital substance has long provided the easiest mode of transportation. Water has played a vital role in the religions, literature and indus trial development of mankind. And today's civilization uses more water in industry and in the home than ever before. Pulpmills that make newsprint for your newspaper and other paper products use enormous quantities of water. Steel mills normally have a 65,600-gallon intake of water for every ton of steel. Industrial use of water that was 80 billion gallons a day in X9S0 in this country is expected to increase to 215 billion daily by 1975. American homes are using more and more water for each person as home laundry machines, air-conditioning apparatus, automatic dishwashers, garbage grinders, lawn sprinklers, and two-bathroom homes equipped with showers grow In popularity. ? ? ? ? "I HAVE LITTLE NEED to remind you that water has become one of our major national concerns." Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson asserted in a foreword to Water. "We have ta stop wasting water We have to use it more efficiently in industry. In towns, in general farming, and in irrigation, which is destined to be adopted in all parts of the nation. "We need an increased awareness among all Americana of the one ness of our physical resources. Just as many lives make up our one national life, so our agricuilture has many parts of a single whole. Water, land and people are inseparable components of one thing, our welfare." Despite alarming facts on constantly increasing demands for water in every part of the nation, optimism prevails in the USDA's Water. Intensive research is being devoted to every facet of the sources, uses, distribution and conservation of water. Many industries are re-using water efficiently. Mounting Floods, droughts and other water proWems% have VVofer awakened more people to an awareness of the mount ing water problem. Problem ??planning for the maximum development of our water resources for the longtime benefit of all of our people, when properly conceived, can bind together individual and the community, farmer and urbanite, as few other conservation activities can do." said one writer in the "51-page yearbook. "Conservation has received perhaps its greatest impetus since our dralH^s with soil, forests, wildlife, recreation, community betterment and Industrial development have come to be viewed in terms of their Interrelationships with water"
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