? 4" v it j" . '? pi' . TOpATS BTBtF VEB$E . TODAY'S QUOTATION Editorial Page of the Mountaineer ??"?*" ^ ^ . i".' _ *Q A B&y Fruitful Year The ^tturaal report of the Chamber of Com merce;^? been published The facts, activ ities, and accomplishments speak for them selves. ? Neediest to say, it has been a busy year ' for thb organisation. It has been a year of re-organization, so to speak, of several agen cies df the community into the one parent civic group. While much time was spent in 1955 get ting organized, end the foundation of the group set up for action, it is encouraging to note that many projects were started and completed during the calendar year. With the organizational work behind them, the officers and directors are now in a posi tion to devote all of their time to projects ? and endeavors which are designed to make this a hotter place in which to live. The Chamber of Commerce here is working on a budget much smaller than that of most areas this size. In fact, the budget, according , to some, is trimmed down just to the bare essentials. The Officials in setting up the $19,625 bud ? get felt that with that sum a good job could be done, and by going forward steadily, much - more could be accomplished in the long rUn. The Chamber of Commerce is an essential organisation in the economic welfare of any comiplipity, and the interest shown in such an organization reflects itself right back to the ecopomy of those who live in the com munity Rising Out Of The Ashes Another chapter was written in the indus trial development of this community today as the formal ground-breaking ceietnonies were staged on the 25-acre site for the new Unagusta furniture plant. It wa? just 89 days ago today, that a stun ? ned populance stood in the cold wind of that late afternoon, November ,30, and watched Plant No. 2 of Unagusta go up in rolling clouds of thick, black, and sickening smoke. During the past 89 days there have been countless conferences, and engineering meet ings relative to completing plans for the large and modern plant of the fir no. This modern plant .for which ground was broken today will be among the latest in industrial design in the Country. > SuchiB plant is a tribute to the owners and the coanmunity, because it clearly shows the faith and confidence which they have in each other and the future of this area. Needless to say, the New Unagusta, wiB add materially to the industrial wealth * this county, and prdMde jobs for many scores - Of families. It is with a prayer of thanksgiving that we see the beginning of another era for a New Unagusta. And as we hopefully predicted the day after the devestatlng fire, "out of the ashes will rise a greater Unagusta plant." Ittia a source of gratitude that the rise of this modern plant for the New Unagusta should come so soon after the destructive fire. Certainly this phase of the industrial chapter of local hiatory sets our eyes to the future with more hope and even -greater de j termination than ever. DEFINITION Prehistoric, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum.?Devil's Dictionary. to Dayton Rubber Co. Steadily Growing Last October A. L. Freed lander, president and general manager of The Dayton Rubber Company, announced a substantial expan sion of facilities of the Waynesville plant. No figures of cost were given, other than to say "a substantial sum." Incorporated in the statement was the promise that the expansion program would begin at once, and be pushed as rapidly as possible. Over the weekend office personnel of The Dayton Rubber plant here moved into mod ern office quarters, which are a part of the expansion program announced last October by Mr. Freedlander. Space formerly used for offices will be devoted to production departments. Other phases of the expansion program are being -pushed just as fast as feasible, which is encouraging news of the growth of this industrial firm which is such an impor tant part of our community. A Civic Stimulant We were among the some 300 who re ceived a civic stimulant Thursday night at the annual Chamber of Commerce banquet, as Joe S. Stone came here from Charlotte and told us anew of the many things which we already knew about Haywood, but per haps had temporarily forgotten in our daily rush of activities. What he told us was not altogether new, but certainly refreshing, and we must admit, it was good to hear, especially in the manner which Mr. Stone so capably presented the story of Haywood's progressive growth over - the recent years. The North Carolina manager of Southern Bell is charged with the responsibility of managing the $150,000,000 investment his company has in this state. He is a mastei; at presenting facts, and for that reason was able to tell us in cold factual figures that Hay wood is steadily growing, and our per capi ta income and effective purchasing power has increased 39 per cent in the past six years as compared with the 22 per cent increase in the state. Mr; Stone held up the mirror for us to re-see ourselves, and from what we saw, we should have renewed enthusiasm, renewed spirit, and more determination than ever to keep going forward here in Haywood county. FASHION REFLECTS ITS PERIOD Molyneux likes the redingote movement and goes to great lengths to cut the coats so as to accentuate that slimness of wast line that is a sign of the times.?Fashion Dis patch from France. ' ' v WHERE'S SUSIE? A police sUrgeon in Philadelohia says one is sober if he is able to say "Susie Sat in the souo." The one we wonder about is Susie. ?Portland Oregonian. THE FUN-LOVING POINSETTIA Be careful handling a poinsettia received at Christmas, if growing well and in its prime, will last for quite a while. It must be kept out of drafts; it must be kept moist always but never soaked; it must have moist air to keep leaves from dropping; it must have some fun?Fayetteville (N. C.) Observer. VIEWS OF OTHER EDITORS The Odds On The Ides, In Advance It U established eastern in the trade we follow to dramatise the seasons and hall the paasing months with appropriate encomiums. Spring Is a maiden, tongue-tied but wanton, masking a vague regret with a frantic promise. August hobbled in tike an old man, puffing a little, wiping the sweat from his wrinkled brow, resigned to a moist senility. ? No harm to It And somehow the space must ? v. .m - be tiled. The trouble Is, at our house, the months pile up unseasonably fast and the seasons get lost in clockbeat*. Just when we're settled to bang out a tribute to May, the telephone rings. It is often a constant critic, deploring our April errors. Before we know it, it's June. Not this time. Though the deadline has passed for a February welcome, we mean to be nothing if not premature. Hence, in a hurry. March. March is a month of "maybes". It whispers of violets and screams of remembered thistle, Its midday mood is mostly gentle but woefully unreliable. By nightfall. March can get mad. Wind is relative. We remember a March that. offered no breeze worth a kite's Indulgence The bulbs sprouted In their marginal beds and a blue bird strutted in prttehtl advertisement. Tile ides passed without fateful incident; here and there a man among us announced the arrival of Mdli*. The mood was mudness. On Msreh twenty-seven It snowed like the Man On Cloud Nine had a stockpile surplus: the bulbs desprSuted and died; the warmer prophets crept back to their caves. There were kites, belatedly. But some of us ww too Old to fly them and most of us were too cold to care March Is a mouth in deceptive dress, be It lamb lah or Ilonish. Always beneath the girdle, surprises strain at the seams. ? March can be vicious, like stored-up wrath? or March ran to foaiotently pious, like an apostate. But. March ia a month to beware of, ready or not. Xtant aay nobody woraed you. ?Charlotte Observer. MtoWadW nrf -- ? TEE MOUNTAINEER Mum StPe5"mWUfe' ?I?8lW*?01 ** Ce^r2L2JtS7ee* hn?? WAYNWrvnTinSoiJVrAmEER, Inc. ?W. CURTIS RUBS _ Editor W. CurtUTBtts $3.50 51* months 100 BY MAIL IN NORTH CAROLINA STJS55- r- 4? ~ OUTSIDE NORTH CAROLINA OneY** 8.00 Sis tnontfes . .??*- ' kw ^local carrier delivery ^ offiee-JSS for eorrtor~i?|i?ory~ . mSo jHHmggg? f rftattMnn, 'hbrMy ft, 1*64 rf* ? E*- *? % ?r WISHFUL THINKING HOPEFUll CMTTAit 1 RlDZR ? f to.fish i [poukaii fflgfflhre ^ '/ \ v Looking Back Over The Years ?? TEAKS AGO Miss Frances Flncher of Clyde Is member of cast of play at Woman's College. George MofTitt is elected presi dent of Citizen's Bible Class taught by J. R Morgan. Mrs. Nana Shankle gives din ner party at Rirchwood Hall. Little Miss Margaret Atkinson presents framed picture of George Washington to Cwitral Elementary school. 1? YEARS AGO Aaron Hyatt wins DAR medal in 38th annual declamation con test. Mr. and Mrs. John H. Rath bone of Crabtree are first Hay wood couple to pay, off FSA loan. Miss Janette Burgin becomes bplde of R. G. Goldsworthy. S/Sgt. Howard Hyatt receives discharge from Army at Fort Meade. J. H. Howell, Jr. attends in come tax course at Chapel Hill. 5 YEARS AGO Miss Jean Ann Bradley Is en gaged to Carey T. Wells. Mrs. Ralph Prevost gives buf fet supper announcing the en gagement of her coustn. Miss Bar bara Ann Boyd, to Erwin Burgin. Fines Creek girls. Canton boys win Gold Medal Cage Tourney. Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Best and children are named as typical Beaverdam family. Cruso citizens are hopeful of Retting telephones. Th e Ten Confmandments The Boston School Committee has adonted what it calls ten commandments for teen ? agers ffom the seventh grade through high school, to be read biweekly to all pupils and posted in each classroom. 1. Don't let your parents down. They've brought you up. 2. Stop Aid think before you drink S. Be smart, obey. You'll give orders vourself some day. 4. Ditch dirty thoughts fast or they'll ditch you. 5. Show-off driving Is Juve nile. Don't act your age. 8. Pick the right friends to be picked for a friend. 7. Choose a date flt for a mate. 8. Don't go steady unless you're ready. 8. Love God and neiehbdr. 10. Ltvg cmsfljTIy. The soul you save mav be your own ?Columbia <&C.) State Just Looking Around Br W. CURTIS BUSS Sometimes, curiosity can be rewarding. At other times it can get one into trouble. My curiosity Thursday night paid off a handsome dividend. Telephone officials, being keen observeras, sensed I wanted more information about how quickly a call had just been made from the WTHS cafeteria to San Francisco ? during the Chamber of Com merce banquet. Joe S. Stone. Carolina's man-, ager and Nick Posey, plant fore man of Canton, took me In hand, and gave me ten digits to dial. I spun the dial quickly and in eight seconds flat from the time I stuck my finger in the first dial hole, a voice was saying: "San Franclsto Time Service. It is 7:38." That was 10:38 here?but no matter what the actual time. It meant we were living in a fast age. Then Nick stepped up. and handed me a number of five digits. ' j , "Dial this and see what you get." I figured It was a number in Asheville?perhaps a time signal station there, so I dialed as in structed. Hardly had the dial gotten around to normal when the ring ing signal could be heard, and I saw a smile come across Nick's face. I suspected he had me dialing some prison warden, or some such place, when a pleasant voice said: "This is Denver." Nick quickly replied: "Just test ing, thank yon." That call was so fast I did not get to clock It. Then the telephone officials ex plained that perhaps the call to San Francisco went out via At lanta, and the familiar southern route, while the Denver call a few minutes later might have tak en a loop via Chicago and out the central route. I don't know which way they traveled to get there, but I do know they were not long on the way. The cafeteria was never more beautiful than Thursday night. And the many hours of prep aration it took for the Job will never be known. The set-up and tear-down was much like a circus schedule. The cafeteria was not available until 2 p.m. It had to be cleared Thursday night for the school schedule Fri day. / Hardly before all the 300 peo ple had left, some of the decora tions were coming down, and countless thousands of feet of wiring were being rolled up and tables cleared. But that is just part of the story. Friday morning a file was be ing prepared of what took place, how it happened, and suggestions for the annual event for next ? year. A11 known mistakes, time lags, etc., were noted in prepara tion for next year. That is hew things are improv ed from year to year. In the terms of the circus, the 1957 banquet will be back "bigger and better than ever". That is what is commonly known as everyday progress. The little second grade school girl asked her cynical and world ly uncle if m-i-r-a-g-e spelled "marriage". "Yes, my dear. It does," said the uncle, a bachelor. ?Lamar (Mo.) Democrat. There is a pleasure which is born of pain. ?E. R. Bulwer-Lytton. f WAGES OUTSTRIP PROFITS ^ 1950-1955 HUMNt OF * S ~ DOUAM ^ o ?50 135 100 ?r *5 to ? P * 0 F I T S ' I ' I* mo mi mi mi m* toss ^ FWMW *? m? WHFFO WW WO? SOV* QtlgllO ^ Total wages and Mlarles in 1955. except for those on govern ment payrolls, were 39 per eent above those of Ave years ago. The total climbed from 124 billions of dollars in 1950 to 173 billions last year. This was a record high level, tt was the result of the greatest number of people working at the highest pay rates in history. Average hourly wages in manufacturing, for instance, were 38 per cent higher than during 1960. Total corporate profits, en the other hand, were about the same as In 1950. In that year profile were 32.1 billions of dollars, somewhat higher than the 21.8 billions estimated for 1995. Despite the sreete* production and sales year ever, a larger humbCr of cos pes allows earned wo snore than they did five yeersego. ? - r ' I Rambling 'Round . By Frances Gilbert Krazier The subject has come up so many times that it has become al most bahal. and the enormity of it has been lost in the mad stam pede of everyday life. We are deferring to juvenile' delinquency, and its unbelievable growth. To us, one of the most tappalling and atrocious aspects of this was the wanton murder of a little nine-year-old Cub Scout by a fourteen-year-old boy. It is inconceivable that a child of fourteen could have acquired in those few years such degradation of mind that he could have committed this crime. This brings up the question that has baffled so many who are striving to combat this growing fiendishness: is it ancestry or en vironment that molds one's life? Isn't there some cure for this terrible epidemic of lawlessness . . . murder, vandalism, robbery, assault? "A new broom sweeps clean" .. . but an old one lasts longer. Personally, we are far from being a devotee of the so-called "comics", but we must confess that we are a puslv-over for "Henry" and "Dennis, the menace". Without a word being inserted, Henry can express his story in pantomlne most conclusively. And when he "washes his hands" of the whole' affair, you feel a satisfaction that the job has been well done. Dennis is so perfect a replica of the boy next door, down the street or #ven your own progeny. You feel as though you know exactly the dizxy of apprehension his parents go through every minute. "The early bird catches the warm" . . . but we've never had a report from the worm. After all, he was the first one out. You always see in the advertisements how many miles a oar can travel on a gallon of gasoline; it is their Stock talking point. But have YOU ever tried to figure out how far you can travel on a train of thought? How many blissful miles you can get away from everything by just watching a white fluffy cloud go slowly drifting away into eternity? How many happy hours you can spend listening to a gurgling little stream as it swings you into a wide open sea of contentment? How many important cities you can visit of your own choosing by closing your eyes and putting your head back on a cushion? How many beautiful thoughts you can collect for future treasuring by reading a good book or interesting short story? How many wonderful friends you can gather around you by remember ing the many little things people have done for you? Or, just board that train of thought with no special destination and listen to the wheels go clickety-click as you travel into day dream-land, that Paradise of Perfection. When angry coPot ten, is sage advice. When really mad, just count five twice. It must have been when Christ mas bills began flooding in that Dulles coined the phrase, agoniz ing reappraisal.?St. Louis Globe Democrat. A court has 'ruled that calling a man a communist is libelous. To be one, it should add. is trait orous?Laurel (Miss.) Leader-Call. Lots of fellows pretend they are coming to you for advice, when really they're just hoping you will approve what they are planning to do. ? Bartow (Ga.) Herald. Pain wastes the body; pleas ures the understanding. ?Benjamin Franklin. jWeWASHINGTOH MARCH OF EVENTS Don't Expect Any Changes In Cabinet at This Time Kennedy Looks Good 'Vee^' Bet to Some Oemo Leaders Special to,Central Press Association WASHINGTON?Do not look for any change in President Eisen hower's CaMnet despite the recent furore raised over Agricul ture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Insiders say that both men have the fall support of the Presi dent and can stay on just as long as they like. Furthermore, from a political standpoint, it is highly unlikely that either Cabinet member would quit or be fired in an election year, thna giving the Democrat! campaign ammunition. Do not forget that Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson at one time was in Just as much hot water as Dulles and Benson because of public statements he made, and no effort was ever made to remove him. The White House feels that both Dulles and Benson may have spoken out of turn in the past but they are working hard at their jobs to achieve administration goals. ? ? ? ? ? VICE PRESIDENT KENNEDY ??Democratic leaders are saying that Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts looks more and more like a good bet for the party's vice presidential nomination. They point to these factors: S?fUJtor Kennedy Adlai E. Stevenson is reported favorably inclined toward Kennedy as a possible running mate. Kennedy would be geographically "right" on the ticket. He has an excellent war record?to balance Adlai'a World War II civilian status. He is a Roman Catholic?and the Democrats want to lure back the Catholic voters who voted for Ike in 1952. He is also only 38 now. ? ? ? ? ? AIR FORCE?The Air Force is admittedly finding it difficult to swallow the fact that Mr. Eisenhower's budget provides for only 1,900 new planes during the year beginning July 1, as compared to more than 2,300 during the current fiscal year. However, the word has gone around that Gen. Nathan F. Twining, Air chief of staff, will be "looking for a job" if he doesn't consistently support Ike's program during Us tortuous course through Congress. Twining has never been given to unorthodoxy, and It seems likely that air enthusiasts in Congress will have to take the initiative frith out his help if the aircraft budget is to be revised upward. ? * ? ? ? NAVY?Rep. Carl Vinson (D), Georgia, says the Navy has 085 vessels and 16,000 planes in operation. The chairman of the House armed services committee has furnished a breakdown of the a ice of the United States Navy. Of the 985 ships, 404 are "warships." Also there are 26 aircraft carriers in commission. In addition, there are 1,800 ships in the mothball fleet. Seventy-three ships are now under construction and contracts will be signed soon for another 15, at a total cost of 92,785,000,000. This doesn't Include landing craft New legislation will authorise the construction Of another 23 (hips, including the world's first atomic-powered surface vessel?a guided missile light cruiser?and the modernization of 23 existing vessels. This new program will cost 31.129,000,000. sees ? RELIGION AND TREATIES?Two treaties of friendship with other nations soon to come before the Senate for ratification threaten to stir up some controversy in religious circles. These are treaties of friendship, commerce and navigation with Haiti and Spain. Usually, these treaties contain a clause that citizens of one country shall have the Protestant* liberty, while residing in the other country, to hold ., , religious services, both public and private, in places 1 of their choice. Omission This clause is absent in the pending treaty with Haiti. This has caused some concern among Protestant church lead ers. They are hot concerned so much about the absence of the clause In the treaty with Haiti, since this nation is tolerant toward all creeds. They am afraid, however, that the clause also will be sheen t in the treaty with Spala whan it comes along. Spain, they remark, is no tably leas friendly than Haiti toward non-Catholics.