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OlSfej; gfl.-. * _ ? - ?5,<. Vi- / .11J Ji V>12HCY a'. <iAi. S /? -/? ' ?*1m? ? '? ' ,, ? v ? * MM TODAY'S BIBLE VFRSZ < TODAY'S QUOTATION Editoriml Page of the^dountaimeer ' ? V ??* ?*?". # < i K .? * f U-<ltW4.. r" . ? . Pigeon River Road Gets Top Priority It ^gratifying to note that State High way engineers are giving a top priority to coaMfeiof the Pigeon River Road under the reqhiral aid bill. This priority shown the impoMRee which State officials attach to the rflBgnd the esteem in which they hold As lisrcHult of this rating Haywood County and thRpntire surrounding area will watch with more than usual interest the progress of the Federal bill toward its final passage. The road would be part of a 40,000-mile network of interstate highways linking most of the arvuar centers of the United States. North Carolina's share of the Federal ap propriaapn would be about 688 million dol lars. 1 The Saiate okayed the plan last week, fol- 1 lowing-Mouse approval in April. There are | some differences between the Senate and Houw bills, mostly on how to allocate the authMfnd 25 billion dollars among the statd*. However, a Senate-House Conference 1 Committee is expected to iron out the wrinkled Without too much debate, since the two branches are in agreement on the major issues, 'it Tax increases on gasoline, tires, and other automotive equipment have already been ap provvdr^he Bureau of Public Roads has esti mated that these rises would amount to $8.60 a year for the average car owner On the local level, the Pigeon road project ds well along The engineering survey from the Twmessee-North Carolina line to the mouth Of Jonathan Creek at the Pigeon Riv er i5j^been completed. Engineers say that ?I>ecK!fc$$i(>ns for bids can in a short time be prepHWrfor the stretch from Cold Springs to Fines-Creek, From Cold Springs Creek to the State line the route has already been graded. From the State line to Fines Creek the rights of access, as well as the right of way have been secured. Passage of the Federal highway aid bill will bring Haywood County's opportunity to embark on the final adventure of coopera tion -which will make a reality of the long enviskjQed Pigeon River Road. <1 .fjm Box Tops Boxtops A box for the ears isn't necessarily what it ifsed to be. Boxes now are expected to do , much more than momentarily correct a little I boy's notions. Tfcey are also expected to do more than contain things. They must catch the customer and hold him ? or her. This is the, (box) top secret the Package Design ers Council has just let out of its bag. To do this boxes are now designed not only to draw the customer to them in the vast mazes of Supermarkets but even to say something pertinent. Box designers nowa days can't depend on printed words to sell tho prodpct in the box. Pictures help. But An uneAected color, or a color that stands out agdwt the colors of surrounding boxes ?this is what the impersonal supermarket demands. And a box with a tape which, when rub bed with the finger, tells the customer the brand name of the product within ? well, this is the last word. So civilization goes, ever onward toward the kind of daily living which seems a little like a spaceman's Utopia. The pleasant fellow 'who used to cut you a pound of cheese is now a blue symbol on a whitf box front. The little lady who always asked you how your grandmother was is now a magnetic tape. IT you start nodding or raising your hat to box fronts in the near future, maybe no one will think you are strange. ?Christian Science Monitor. Heintooga Opening Welcome News Closed since lost summer for resurfacing, the Heintooga Road is again open for travel. That is welcome news. Heintooga Overlook in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is reached over this 11-mile road. The motorist goes from Soco Gap to Wolf Laurel Gap where he takes a spur road lead ing via Black Camp Gap to Heintooga. The scenery is sweeping and impressive. Meanwhile, work goes forward on con- . struction of a highly important link of the Blue Ridge Parkway between Wolf Laurel Gap and a point near Cherokee on U. S. Highway 441.?Asheville Citizen. Supreme Court Assuming Control Of U. S. Government Little by little and step by step, the , United States Supreme Court is taking over control of the nation. Minds having a grasp of the legal aspects of the situation pointed out that when the court gave its "segregation decision" in May,. 1964, reversing the stand taken by the Supreme Court in previous cases and making untenable the positions under which many states had been operating their school sys tems, almost the last vestige of state's rights had gone. The court, by its decision, had assigned to the constitution powers and meanings here tofore reserved to the states and exercised by them. Last week another decision, this time up holding the theory that in the rail industry an employee can be required to belong to a union in order to hold his job, made inoper ative laws enacted by states giving every "" person the "right to work' 'whether in a union or not. While this decision applied only to the rail unions, it is entirely within the bounds of reason that the court can extend it to in clude other industries at any time it chooses. Although the federal government is the oretically made up of three major divisions, each with checks upon the others, the right of the Supreme Court to legislate by means of its decisions has given it so much control that it appears to he rather rapidly taking ? over far reaching powers formerly delegated to the states or to other branches of the fed eral government. It is exteremely doubtful that the writers of the constitution intended this wide use of power on the part of the court. ?Stanly News and Press. In A Sentence Governor Elmo Smith of Oregon, in dis cussing a proposed tax program, covered a problem of national scope in this single sent ence: "Too many people think, in the back of their minds, that a tax is something some one else should pay, and a service is some thing they should receive." Individuals and groups and organizations of every kind are trying to pay as little in taxes as possible?and, at the same time, try ing to get as much special privilege from government as possible. The fellow moved up to a new acquaint ance at a party, and said, "Say, have I told you about my grandchildren." "No," said the man, "and I certainly do appreciate it."? High Point Enterprise. 11 ? ? ? 1 ? What a women admires in a man depends on whether she is married or single. ?Today's Woman. VIEWS OF OTHER EDITORS Mot Weather Session Governor Hodges has expressed the hope that I the special session he has called for Monday, July 21, to consider sleeping changes In the State's pub- I lie school system will end the same week It begins. I If that happens, it will be contrary to the usual | history of hot-weather legislative sessions in North i Carolina. And, if such speed could be obtsfaed. 1 ? * 1 j h'V the wisdom of acting to rapidly U most doubtful. Proposals to alter the Constitutional provision requiring the State to maintain public schools throughout the State and to authorize the State to pay tuition to students in private schools should not be passed upon hurriedly or perfunctorily. There ihouM be ample opporuntty for interested persons aad groups to be heard before committees and there should be thorough study and full debate in both the House and the Senate. Even the form of the proposals will call for care ful attention. The Pearsall Committee recommended submiaaion of an "amendment or amendments" to the Constitution to accomplish the two objectives. An amendment la clearly necessary to enable local units to suspend operation ad public schools, but lawyers are divided as to whether an amendment would he required for tuition grants. Moat North Carolina governors have avoided special sessions ai the Legislature, particularly ia hot weather. Hot wouthor sessions have nsuslty pro duced heated debate, two notable examples having been the 1030 session on woman suffrage and the 1034 session on port terminals. Since 1084 there have been only two special sessions, both having been called to match federal funds which would have lapsed without State action. The last special ?eaalan of any hind was in 1038. Urn wisdom of a special aessioa at this time ia highly debatable. But, a perfunctory session to cban?jlrssUcaUyjlyt fuftjUmanUi Mw with ruggd lb Its JPRBlC school vpHs would la rttuTTy unwise.?Raleigh News and Observer. THE MOUNTAINEER WitbmtUK N*rtk Cftrottia Main Street Dial GL 6-5301 Hi* WAYNESVILLK MOUNTAINEER, Inc. 1L CURTIS RUSS Miter , Onrtk Rw and Mrlon T. Brldaw. PuhlUhert published kvkht monday and THURSDAY w itoa m ratwood court* ?x ? by mail w mori carolina _ n<3sm carolina &Z5krz=zz- *3 loom, carrifr delivery Monday Aftamooa, Jane 4, lfM THUMB NAIL SKETCH OF THINGS TO COME My Favorite Stories By CARL GOEBCH Rev. W. A. Stanbury and Rev. W. A. Lambeth were In a peck of trouble some years ago. They're preachers: Methodist preachers. The Stanburys were serving in Asheville but at the annual conference their new ap pointment was Winston-Salem. When they got ready to leave Asheville. they loaded their household possessions on a truck and prepared to depart for their new hotaie. At the last mbment, Mr. Stanbury suddenly recalled that Dusty, the cat. was some vyjjere arpund thR .house. He call,. ed and called, but it didn't do any good; so Anally he gave up. Shortly after arriving in Win ston-Salem. Mr. Stanbury sat down and wrote a letter to Mr. Lambeth, his successor at the Asheville church. He explained how he had been forced to teave Dusty behind and requested Mr. Lambeth to keep an eye out for the cat. and, if he saw it around anywhere, to ship it to Winston. Mr. Lambeth is an accommo dating gentleman. He enlisted the assistance of Doss, the church Janitor, and Anally the cat was located. Both Mr. Lambeth and Doss were very much pleased. They put the cat in a box and shipped it to Winston-Salem. In a few days. Mr. Lambeth got Letter To Editor PLEADS FOR PARTY UNITY Editor, The Mountaineer: I put on an aggreeaive cam paign. I was defeated overwhelm ingly. The small vote T received was disappointing and humiliat ing, but my interest in the Dem ocratic Party remains keen as it was. and mv ardor for the success of the party has not cooled one lota. I hereby pledge my unquali fied support of my opponent who shall be named the nominee of the party in general election thU fall, and to all other candidates whose names appear on the bal lots. May I, Mr. Editor, offer some words of advice to my fellow Democrats in Haywood County? As we enter the campaign for the general election this fall, we ahould keep In nalnd that we will have to meet a reorganized and revitalized Republican Party. That being the case, the members of the Democratic Party should proceed at once to set their own house in order and solidify the segments of voters into one solid phalanx for the light In the gen eral election against our common enemy this fall. It appears to me. Mr Mltor. that the voters in the Democratic Party In Haywood are syphoned off into many groups, and we fre quently hear in our conversations something about what certain family groups have done or are ?ear doing. Why not atop talking about what family and other groups have done and from now on concentrate upon what the greet Democratic family has done and what it will do for the people If it Is continued in power in the nation, the state and the coun ty. Let's talk democracy, and not groups or families. N?w. (Ollow Democrat*, M no all join together lB a team and pull Haywood County further out then K has ever been heieiofort It B. Sen telle. jf a letter from Mr. Stanbury in which he expressed his apprecia tion for what Mr. Lambeth had done but aded that a slight mis take had been made. The cat wasn't Dusty and would Mr. Lam beth please keep looking? , In order that there might be no further mistake, Mr. Stanbury sent along a detailed description of Dusty. . Ail of thi* wouldn't have been so bad, but a reporter for one of the Asheville papers got wind of the epiSMe and promptly wrote it up. And 'thatt when things really began to Happen. A member of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Ahimals telephoned Mr. Lambeth and said he had ae*d?? cat. presumably Mr. StanlMlfy'a pet, who appeared quite hungry iand lonesome. He said that everyone in the entire neighborhoodwas trying to catch and feed the cat. ' A young gfrl, living a couple of blocks away from the Lambeths, read the story and immediately called up Mr. Stanbury in Win ston-Salem. It seemed that she had lost a cat a few days before and thought that perhaps it was her cat that Mr. Lambeth had shipped away. She gave a thor ough description of the animal. Mr. Stanbury told her to hold the wire a minute. He compared the description with the cat, but it didn't lit. The litie girl was very much disappointed. So was Mr. Stanbury. He want ed to get rid of the cat but, at the tame time, hesitated to turn it loose for fear is owner might turn up at any moment. Mr. Lambeth, ln*the meantime, continued to get telephone calls. People wanted to know exactly what kind of cat it was that he sent to Winston-Salem. They would tell him that they had lost their cat and wondered if. by any chanep, it was their pet which was shipped away. These calls usually resulted in lengthy conversations. The folks gave minute details in describing their cats and Mr. Lambeth had to go into the same minute details describing the cat he Stnt to Mr. Stanbury. Those Individuals who didn't call Mr. Lambeth wrote Mr. Stan bury. This entailed a, lot of cor respondence on the latier's part. Looking Back Over The Years :? years ago Tom Lee opens motor service business in building formerly oc cupied by Davis-Boyd Company. Mrs. Adora' Smathers Rayne gives luncheon honoring her mother, Mrs. B. E. Smathers, on the latter's eighty-second birth day. Mrs. Marion Bridges has as her guest her sister, Miss Katherlne Chambers of Clyde. Betty Francis has party in ob servance of her birthday. 1? YEARS AGO Harry Evans, Jr., is discharged from the Navy. Mrs. Wallace Marley, native of Hull, Yorkshire, England, joins her husband, who formerly serv ed with the AAR in England. Mrs. Edith Alley leaves U. S. Employment Service Office to as sume duties as director of j>tr sonnel for Slack's Union Stores. 5 YEARS AGO Philip Ray Sutton completes high school car^r with perfect attendance record. The Rev. Jackson Huneycutt is speaker at annual Haywood Coun ty Day at Junaluska. Bess Franc la and Catherine James are among Meredith Col lege Students awarded mono grams for athletic participation. Miss Jackie Sue Messer is graduating from Agnes Scott Col lege, Decatur, Ga. Both Mr. Lambeth and Mr. Stan bury are busy men and they had other things to do besides talk and write about cats. The whereabouts of Dusty is still a mystery. He hasat been seen or heard of since the Stan burys left Asheville and they've just about given up hope of ever getting him back. Rambling 'Round Mr. Bowman had been proudly showing off hi* vegetable garden to a group of friends, and Uncle Mose had been eagrely drinking in he complimentary remarks. After the party had returned to the Big House, Uncle Mose resumed his hoeing only to stop suddenly, stoop ind pick up a small object. Ho scrutinized it very carefully, then dropped his hoe and raced up to the house. He burst unceremonious ly into Mammy Jo's kitchen and asked breathlessly: "Whar's Mr. Bossman?" Then without waiting for a reply, he continued: "One Df them gentlemens dropped his pocket book an' Ah wants to give It to him." Mammy Jo looked at the object Uncle Mose held in his hand, and then asked: "You aint opened it. is you, Mose?" "No m'am." The old colored man was not only emphatic but a trifle indig nant. "You knows Ah aint." Mammy Jo lifted one eyebrow a bit quis sically but said: "All right. Let's go tq Mr. Bossman. Come on." ts Uncle Mose hesitated, she demanded: "What's you waltin' on?" Uncle Mose grinned sheepishly, then leaned over and whispered: "Is you got five orife that you could change that five dollar bill so's the gentlemens could give me a dollar for finding the pocketbook?" A second look is often better than a first impression. With vacation time coming in a hurry, the average person's thoughts turn to vacations and the many enjoyable things to be done when summer sun comes down and cool evenings lure the world. There are motor trips, picnics, hikes, summer clothes, moonlight nights and seashore frolics. Then, too. there Is the just-stay-at-home and-loll-around type. V Vacation here means meeting old friends who are vacationing too; enjoying with them the scenic beauty with which we are sur rounded. The roaring streams that rush madly along bumping them selves into ecstasies of bubbly froth, then tumbling and splashing their happy way onward. There's the stately, majestic mountains clothed in their regalia of greens; the deep solemness of twilight and the joyous escape of morning breaking through the pink ribbons of the eastern sky; the trill of birds welcoming a new day or twit tering their farewell to the one just ending. Have you ever seen that mischievous pop with which the sun suddenly drops into the valley of tomorrow, wearing a scarlet and gold scarf wound around its head? Oh yes, it's wonderful to be alive and taking a vacation in Western North Carolina! Heard in the movie: "I bet Daddy is blowing his top. Mom's got the car and we've sat through this picture twice." If you can answer these, give yourself 100: Why is it so much easier to park a car across the sidewalk? Why do people scatter pages of a newspaper when reading it? Why do some people get irritated if they have to repeat a re mark? Why is It that a telephone seems to reach out and grab some people? Why is It that a simple remark can so suddenly grow into gossip? Why did you read this anyway? Of thanksgiving is juat as- important as one of entreaty. Dr. Wendell M. Stanley, Nobel prize-winning scientist of the Uni versity of California: "It used to be that we'd have a disease con fronting us. and then we'd go looking for the organism that caused it. Now, we have hun dreds of new viruses?viruses in search 8i a disease." UNDISPUTED FIRST As has often been noted here, our neighbors in North Carolina are due one undisputed first: They" holler louder from their vale of humility than any other people not excepting Texans? can from their mountain peaks.? Danville Register. ^xWeWASHINGTON - 1 MARCH OF EVENTS Both Convention Koynoto I Govt. Stratton or Craig Jobi Soon Up for Grab* I May bo GOP's Choice Special to Central Pre**- Association WASHINGTON?Both the Republicans and Democrats are still mulling over the selection of men to keynote their 1996 con ventions. The OOP may lean toward a midwestemer inasmuch as Republi can strategists are anxious to woo the farm vote this year. Gov. William Stratton of Illinois or Gov. George Craig of Indiana are ?ov ?.or,. C?ri? ,, llKCiy pOSSlDUllISB. Before hi* death, Senator Aiken W. Berkley of Kentucky was Viewed as the top Democratic choice, particularly because of his long service to the party and the fact that he was liked by almost every segment. Now the job is wide open. Liberal Democrats will ask that Senator Hubert Humphrey of Min nesota be assigned the job of setting the opening tenor of the convention, but it is doubtful he will t be chosen. A more likely choice is Gov. Prank Clement of Tennessee, who has two points in his favor. First, he is a southerner, and second, he is recog nised as one of the party's most effective orators. * * ? ? A VIA S1BV CSif'tmc ? .4? ar;?., ?? w v u iwiui -oiji * aou ? uviawr mine mans* field (D), Montana, it speaking up for American foreign service officers who have a hard time doing their regular work ia late summer and autumn bocduse of the steady stream of junketing con gri semen they have to meet. Mansfield said that figures supplied by the State department re veal that no less than 1,440 congressional and 1,840 administration visitors received special attention last year from American agents In feur European cities. They were Paris. Roma, Bonn and Madrid. Mansfield said that the special treatment means greeting the visitor at the airport, escorting him to his hotel, where a reservation had been made for him, assisting him to meet local officials, helping him obtain infor mation he seeks and finally putting him on board the plane for travel to his next step. e . ? ? e ? COMMUNIST CHUCKLE?Washington diplomats are chuckling over the latest "Quids story" on the Russian denunciation of Josef During the recent Communist congress, the story goes, party boas Ntklta Khrushchev was condemning Stalls in violent terms whan a note mas paased up to the speaker's rostrum. Khrushchev allegedly stopped and read the note akmd. It sMd: "And where were you. Comrade Khrushchev, when all these horrible dlp^ wart taking place?" The party hoes swept the hugs auditorium with Khrush's Ms eyes, and demanded that the delegate who had _, sent the note stand un and identify himself. No One Qvkk Milled. Reterl Khrushchev broke the silence. 1," he said, "was Is the same place as the comrade who sent this little message." e e e e ? MATURITY?As far as the Labor department Is concerned. "oldM women" just don't exist any mm. Labor Secretary Jamas ? f1commltu. Uut '-ws call Hum am aunt of oldw persons la AaasrieaabSaatiy. The study^emn ^OT^CRAP BOOI^ By R. J. 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