>' k'K ' - ? - _j . . * ' : s V * - TODAY'S BIDI.E YEBSZ . . TODAY'S QUOTATION ' Editorial Page of the Mountaineer ? ?*? ?. -?. KfrwW, nd waa well, ami the evil %?lrit ^ * ' g TT- 4ore fanners are actiyejy ^ iitSCpart in stock programs. ? It would be impossible to give all credit where it iB due, but a visit to the festivities thupcoming Wednesday and Thursday will shJw you where much of the applause for the success of the program goes. The*4-H and FFA members are vitally interested in their beef cattle and their hogs. Theirs is a continuing, an ever growing concern about the future of agriculture and the part they must play in that future. Their eyes shine, they are radiant with pride when they ex hibit the results of their year of labor. And don't think that some of their interest hasn't ri|bbed off on their parents and their friends. It has, and to them we owe a debt of grati tude for their efforts to better the lot of the farmer, to improve the life we all live, ?So next time you see a fat steer grazing ih a green pasture, next time you see a prime looking swine, pause long enough to think hew far the Livestock Show and Sale has come in 10 years and what a tremendous ef fect it has had for the betterment of our Ratcliffe Cove Shows More Leadership Ratcliffe Cove, long known for its prog ressive spirit, has led off in establishing a garbage collection system. Garbage disposal is becoming ? major problem for town and rural communities. The Steps just taken by Ratcliffe Cove show VIEWS OF OTHER EDITORS DA't Let Kids See This Kause spinach has always impressed us as one THE MOUNTAINEER WayMrrtBe, Nertfc Caretbsa Main Stmt Dial GL 6-6801 The Om+? feyi m hy?? Cs?? T^WAYNESVILLK MOUNTAIN KEfc, fee. PCpLiSHaD sTsaT MowpaT KHu twWwPwT ,rt by mail in haywood county OlW Year tS BO Six nionths a oo jby mail in north cabouna ^J^^outsidi NOHA dUbdNl Six months ~ ~ BjB local carricr delitkiy Per month Of flee-paid for ~rrw~iuisw)l AM -bimhmwspmi Thursday Afternoon, May 17, 1956 i * J Hazelwood Of! To Good Start On Playground The thinking of recreational programs seems contagious in this community. Within 24 hours after the announcement was made of the purchase of the Horse Show property, actual work began on a $3,500 project in Hazelwood on the school playground. The Hazelwood project includes a large concrete area for various uses, such a skat ing, basketball, volley ball, and tennis courts. The Hazelwood PTA is to be congratulated for having the initiative to go forward with such a project. We are interested in seeing that they are building something perma nent, and something that will be utilized by a large group of people of all ages. It will not Be too long before this commun ity "can point with pride" to the various rec reational facilities of this immediate section. And now that the start has been made, just watch it develop even faster as our interest increases. One completed project in this field, will be the means of stimulating many other projects. We see a birghter day for recrea tional programs in this community. A Lot Of Red Safety Stickers More than half of the registered vehicles in Haywood are now sporting a flashy red safety sticker in the lower right hand cor ner of the windshield. Of the 14,000 vehicles in the county, more than 7,127 went through the safety check lanes last week. This snows a lot of interest,x and indicates that perhaps motorists are not as opposed to the program as was manifest ed against the state law several years ago. The compulsory check-up was not opposed in principle, but only in the manner in which it was executed. Some of the lanes were un der-staffed, and in some instances the staff members failed to realize that they were there to serve the public and did not have a license to issue stinging insults. Certainly no motorist would want to oper ate a vehicle that he knew was unsafe. And we have the proof from last week's valun tary check-up. I 1 | Ysw Qpvd Health A child born in this country in 1900 had a life expectancy of less than 50 years. A child born today will live, on the average, for a bout 70 years. This means that life expectancy has in creased by some 40 per cent in a little more than half a century. That is a development of almost incredible magnitude. What has made such unprecedented progress possible? Obviously it wasn't just magical good luck. It was the result of many factors. And one of those factors ? possibly the over riding one ? in found in medical progress. Disease after disease has been conquer ed. Infant mortality has been reduced and reduced. Frontiers of medical knowledge have been pushed back and back. Our medi cal schools produce more and more physic ians ? and better prepared physicians. The standards of hospital care have been con stantly raised. In every phase and facet of the healing arts there has been outstanding achievement. We live longer lives and healthier lives than our forefathers did. Each day some new contribution is made to the vast body of medical knowledge. Thus do free men achieve in an atmosphere of freedom. that a program can be worked out, and the coat to the fcitizens is rather small ? fifty cents for each pick-up period. We expect other communities will soon be following the example of Ratcliffe Cove in this garbage disposal program. i ? of the most Over-rated of all the foods which have crossed our palate, rating a poor third even to tur nip greens aid collards (which we've never exact ly considered our favorite dishes), an tern from Pete Ivey at the University of North Carolina news tureau arouses a measure of flee ? Pope ye, the Sailor, reports Pete, is the man moat likely to get kidney stoftee. The fondness of Popeye for spinach is well known. After downing a mess of spinach' he can dhlp his weight in battleships. But two doctors at UNC recently showed that apinach Isn't all It has been cooked up to be. Dr. Claude 1* Yarboro and Dr. James C. Andrews, blo-chemists, said their tests have proved that too much oxalic acid Is what causes kidney stones. Spinach has plasty of oxalic acid. North Carolina ia a "kidney stone area"?so called because there are so many cases of kidney gtoiks occurring ia this state. It ISnt known whether We eat aiare apinach than ppopte in Other states he not. theft art ether reasons why people get the it name, and pedicel science will have to dtf farther to lad eat more a boat it. It's Just one of bits of ?Morganton News-Herald. / s 1 A PAGE FROM THE PAST jmafe.ruv.vOM> . va*. tu ir"? 'i - Ii . ^g .>J $ V ' My Favorite Stories Br CARL GOERCH There are really several chap ters to this story; also several widely separated characters. The first character.we'11 present is Annie Jane McCrlmmon, col ored nurse, who works for Mr. and Mrs. Roy Bostic of Laurin burg Mrs, Bostic drove down to Fay etteville a number of years ago to do some shopping. Annie Jane and the baby remained in the car. Annie Jane gazed at the well dressed women walking along the street and riding by in cars "Lawsy me." said Annie Jane "some folks in this world has all the luck! Wish I. had me a nice new hat like some of them ladies has got!" No sobner had she given birth to this perfectly natural wish than a hat, sailed through the window of tlUrcar and slapped her square ly In the face. Annie Jane blinked. Then she picked up the hat and gazed at it rapturously. It was a new spring model of very attractive appear ance. "De Lawd looks out for His Chillutl!" muttered Annie Jane piously. When Mrs. Bostic returned to the car, Annie Jane explained what had happened. Mrs. Bostic waited a while to see if anybody, would come along to claim the hat, but as no one did. and as Annie Jane insisted that it was a gift from heaven, Mrs. Bostic fin ally started the motor and head ed back, home to Laurinburg. That same day. a man whose identity we do not know was driv ing down Hav Street in Fayette ville. A stiff breeze was blowing. People on the street suddenly saw a woman's hat go sailing through the air. It caught on the bumper of the green car. The driver ap parently didn't see it, because he kept right on driving, circled around Market Square and dis appeared from view. That's all we know about the green car and its driver; so we'll have to dismiss them with that brief reference. Also that same day, Mrs. W. H. Cox. of Laurinburg. was in Fay etteville. visiting friends and do ing some shopping. She had on a new spring hat. The wind was quite strong. An extra severe gust swept across the street, lift ed Mrs. Cox's hat from her head, sent it spinning through the air and Anally deposited it on the bumper of a green car. Mrs. R E. Young, who was ?c companying Mrs. Cox, ran down the sidewalk, hoping to catch up with the green car at the next stop light, but the light changed just as she got there and all she could do was to stand there and watch the bat wobbling wildly on its precarious' perch on the bump er of the car. "Well, it's just too bad. but t reckon there's nothing can be done about tt," said Mrs. Cox when Mrs young told iter of her inability to catch up with the car. The next day Mr. Cox, of Lau rinburg, wag talking to a group of frelnds and. aa Is usually the case when severe! folks gst tagiiksej some mention was made of the weather. "Certainly has been windy dur ng the last day or two," some tody remarked. ' "Certainly has," someone else i greed. "An expensive wind for me," ?ommented Mr. Cox. "/low do you mean?" "Well, my wife went over -to Fayetteville yesterday, and when the was walking down the street, 9 gust of wind lifted her hat from iff ner head. It landed on tile bumper of a green car, and that's the last she saw of It. So far as we know it's still there." "No;" it Isn't," said Mr. Roy Bostic, who happened to be in the crowd. "Howtlo you know it isn't?" in quired Mr. Cox. "Because Annie Jane wished lor a new hat," said Mr. Bostic. "What hi the world did Annie lane's wishes have to do with my wife's hat?" demanded Mr. Cox. "More than you might think," said Mr. Bostic. "My wife and Annie Jane were in Fayetteville yesterday too. Annie Jane was sitting in the car. wishing for a new hat. At that very moment, a gust of wind swept into the car ind delivered a first class new bat right on her bead. It must bave been that a few minutes af ter your wife lost her hat. It was blown off the bumper in response to Annie Jane's wishes, and that's ill there Is to it." Mr. Cox woludn't believe him it first He described Mrs. Cox's tat. "That's the very same hat that knnie Jane has got," said Mr. Jostle "If your wife wants her tat back, she'd better phone my vife about it because I think that innie Jane is going to a big dance onight." Mr. Cox immediately phoned irs. Cox. Mrs. Cox phoned Mrs. lostic. Mrs. Bostic told Annie EASTERN COFFEE BREAK You hear it said often that the reason Eastern North Caro lina is low in per capita income is that we have it too easy. When Ben Douglas was direc tor of the Department of Con servation and Development he said often and emphatically if Easterners had as much blood, sweat and tears to dig a living from their soil as Piedmonters do that things would have been different in the East. Our soil is so rich, our seasons so long and luxuriant, we can eat our cake and have it too. We ean give a third of our time to at tention of our farms and the rest to taxing our ease, to hunt ing and fishing and visiting and relaxing. That is what they say. That is stretching the truth to make a point, no doubt. But it is a point. In town we are equally relaxed. We go to work at 9 o'clock in the morning and at 9:49 we take a coffee break. Some of us salve our consci ences in the coffee break by picking a seat at the counter * rather than in the booth. By preferring the counter, we give the impression of hustle, bustle and rush. We save our face and make pretense that the visiting with friends we actually come in to do was not the real' reason we came. ? Goldsboro News Argus. Dr. Ernest Jones, British psy choanalyst: "The best cure for juvenile delinquency is a happy marriage." Jane, and Annie Jane ruefully and sadly returned the hat to its original owner, and everybody was satisfied, except possibly Annie Jane. BETTER ROAD PROGRAM I Rambling 'Round By Frances Gilbert Frazier . t - We have always had a heartfelt sympathy for the team, the Indi vidual or any one connected with the loss of the game. This Is espe cially true of those Interested in amateur sports. Theae youngsters haven't yet felt the heavy hand of adversity and what may seem like a minor thing to others, is a tragedy to the losers. No one likes to lose; that is only human. But, be they young or old. It is an inevitable detail in life. If no errors were ever made, this world would suffocate from over-perfection. But to the youth ful pitcher in the baseball game who is "pulled" out, or to the center fielder who lets the ball drop and allows the winning run to come in, the universe goes into a tall spin. Or the track runner who falls down, or the pole vault junfiper who kicks the eross bar. These are ail part of the game to the seasoned athlete but to the youngster, they are calamities that pull the sun out of is orbit. 9o, let's be a bit charitable to the loser. He feels bad enough without adding to his misery. Classified ad- "Wanted: Baby sitter for eight year old boy. Applicant must have good disposition, and a strong right arm." ??? Perhaps we are all a bit too complacent and sit smugly back saying to ourselves that no invasion can possibly come to us where we are. We pray to a kindly Protector that this is true, and we hope that the daily warnings we read and hear are only false rumors. A great many blame the "higher ups" that we are kept In too much ignorance as to present conditions; then in the next breath, condemn the press, radio and television for acquainting the public with our innermost war secrets. They read headlines hastily, skip the material matter and merrily turn to the conjics. Personally, we are bitterly opposed, to jumping into a fanatical frenzy and leap to the conclusion that we are on the brink of war. But we do think that a bit of judicial perusal of daily events and a calm appraisal would do no harm. True, we are blessed beyond measure here snuggled cosily In the arms of the mountains, but it Isn't a bad idea to locate the "EXIT" sign in case of an emergency. If all our wishes were piled in a heap, we'd probably pull the whole thing down trying to add another one. Remember Andy Griffith's famous "Baseball" record? Well, get a slant on his new one on "Carmen". It's a riot. Andy, as you well know, is a North Carolina product and is doing very well, thank you. on Broadway In the lead of "No Time for Sergeants". ? * Television was created a long time after conversation and conversation will outlive television. Looking Back Over The Years ? 20 YEARS AGO Building activity reaches new high peak with at least 12 new houses under construction. Miss Mary Wood, granddaugh ter of Mrs. John N. Shoolbred, is valedictorian of the senior class of Elteabethton, Tenft. Joe Rose, popularly known in radio circles as Joe Emerson, spends time with his wife and daughter here. Emily Siler and Haseltine Swift < are visiting the former's aunt, Mrs. C. L. Dickson, in Durham. 1? years ago A ton of canned goods is ship ped from here to hungry nations abroad. First National Bank holds form al opening in new banking house. The Rev. Everette Murray re signs as pastor of the Hazeiwood Baptist Church, Haywood farmers receive $1, 196,284 for 1944 tobacco crop. Mrs. R. L. Holt of Edensburg. Pa. is here for an extended visit with her sisters and brothers. 5 TEARS AGO Dr. Boyd Owen is elected presi dent of the Lions Club. Jerry Alexander of Canton Is installed as president of the Hay wood Methodist Youth Fellow ship. Mrs. Jack Messer goes to New York to attend a ceremony re commissioning the United States Ship Corregidor. to which her husband is assigned. Kenneth Grasty goes to Chi cago as winner of a chain-wide contest for market managers of Dixie Home Stores. . Views Of Other Editors CONNECTED DEVELOPMENTS One of the most significant characteristics of scientific ex ploration is the way discovery in one area leads to new develop ments in another. Radio led us into television. Not until scien tists were able to produce ger manium and silicon of extreme purity was it possible for the electronics industry to come out with the transistor. Tetraethyl lead and catalytic cracking gave us high octane gasoline, and that made it practical to build higher compression engines. ? Samuel Linker of the du Pont Co.? Chapel Hill News Leader. CROSSWORD ACROSS 1. Father 8. Run before the wind ?. Sharp ' cutting Implement 18. Hourly 12. Poker (take 13. Perform clumaily ?4. Tiny 15 Leather iciBSt" 1A West Africa * JT:' 31. A star 23 Run away ?.sar ? Owing * ?8. Half an em Jl. Corrects 34. Ancient female - waniora ?7. Astern *0. Locality 41. An artificial bait 4tCUy(V?, ^Ooaftwrted grass to dry 4A 8-ahaped a.ekiing DOWN I Part or t Umgui A America? P?et 4. 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