>' 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- 4<ut of er*ry-*?y Me.
<*??r?ed fr? Mt?? ??in U:M. . - ?Aaerhaeh.
Livestock Show
Stimulates Interest
According to The Smithfield Herald, a live
stock show and sale has stimulated much
Interest in Johnston County. The "new era"
is reflected on every hand, the editorial writ
er painted out, as he discussed the "new day"
bocaose of the stimulated Interest.
The editorial, which is timely for Hay
wood, reads as foiiows:
Take a Sunday afternoon drive through
tha Johnston County countryside and you'll
get fc good idea of just what the annual
- Livestock Show and Sale has meant to the
county's farming operation. For one thing,
' Tt has done much to dispel the "one-crop
thinking" that used to hamstring the entire
South.
Hdi the Livestock Show and Sale has
worftd greater wonders in another sense. It
has fired the imagination of the county
farnjer; but even more, it has fired the
imagination and whetted the interest of
those' most important to the Johnston Coun
ty f^m picture?the youngsters in 4-H and
FF?wlubs who this week in Smithfield will
panAe the results of their year's work.
No one will deny that all great men, all
stroqg nations in history, have had the
imaginative trait. It-is one of the facts of
lifwnat "Where there is no vision, the peo
ple perish." For a good many years John
ston County and the South faced the dead
end of a one-crop economy. There were, of
course, dreamers looking for other means of
'a livelihood, the forerunners of diversified
farming as we know it today, the planners
and visionaries who are at the base of every
move, agrarian or otherwise. Our Livestock
SW6w and Sale is a continuing arm of the
movement that began years ago, the move
ment aimed at lifting the bonds of one-crop
agriculture.
Ten years ago when the Livestock Show
and Sale was first conceived there were few
cattle in Johnston County, there were few
regifered swine, but vforse, there were few
er Jm-mers even concerned with the possi
bles of good strains of stock. Ten years
later you can hardly find a farmer who isn't
interested in the near miracles that have
beenoaccopiplished, and the gratifying fact
is and n>ore 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. Land
measure
5. Cloaca
?. Satisfied
7. Impel
8. Small
valley
8. Uncooked
11. Man'a
nickname
13. A channel
marker
13. A corn
bread
17. Accident
18. Network
19. A win;
22. Gold (Her.)
23. Letter V
24. Beard of rye
26. Bone
(anat)
27. Baeka in '
solar rays
29. Sand dun*
(En*.)
22. Burrowing
Animals
23. A dressing
for meat
34. Linen
Vestment
(Eccl.)
33. Pitch
around a
castle
36. Measure
of land
?Am tree
38'. Uberate
39. Man's
nickname
41. Loiter
43. Field officer
(abbr.)
-==-pi:===
Wii??
r-Pi
3 ^ ?
pp?~--p;pp
<?