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Psalm* 14S.2. O J refo*> to us: ? .s to w o-^wlwle l^tn the
mm iuht of Cod: and seeing this. jo ?>?*?? Him,
-jjg. adore Him and glorify Him.?Manning.
R. Getty Browning's
Work Will Live Forever
Th? retirement of R. Getty Browning,
chi*f locating engineer of the State Highway
Department, is of much interest in Haywood
County.
We feel that the citizens of Haywood
share the sentiments of Chairman A. H.
Graham, who recently said about Mr. Brown
ing: "No man who has lived in North Caro
lina for the past 50 years will leave more
lasting monuments to his ? industry, skill
and ability than R Getty Browning."
Here in Haywood, no matter in which di
rection we turn, we can see one of these
"lasting monuments" of Mr. Browning. He
was instrumental in bringing the Blue Ridge
Parkway through North Carolina ? and the
Pnrttway rims Haywood to the east and
south and extends into the Smokies.
He built a road across Soco; across Wagon
Road Gap; from l^ake Junnluska to Canton;
and an appropriate title, as far as we are con
cerned. would be "Mr. Pigeon River." No one
person presented more facts nnd was more
consistent in his presentation of the need
of a modern highway down Pigeon River
than R. Getty Browning.
We ure happy that he is going to remain
with the department in an advisory capacity
and will continue to be available to give of
his wise counsel on modern road-building.
We feel that when the Pigeon River is
completed, a suitable marker should be built
somewhere along that highway showing that
he was chief locating engineer and designed
that important link of North Carolina's high
way system.
This marker would supplement the pres
ent peak in the Beech Gap area that has al
ready been named for him in recognition of
his work on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Sounds Like Old Times ?
Hazelwood Team Champs
The Hazelwood Lions baseball team, Man
ager "Rock" Powers, and the sponsoring
Hazelwood Lions Club are to be commended
for their efforts this summer which resulted
in v.inning the championship of the WNC
Junior Industrial League.
Durfnft the season, the Hazelwood base
ballers won 12 games and drop])ed only two
?both by one-run margins.
When the senior Hazelwood team drop
ped out of the WNC Industrial League this
year, the junior team ? sponsored by the
1 ions of Hazelwood ? stepped into the gap
and gave this area some good baseball.
Although the regular season is over, the
four top teams in the league will be in ac
tion today and Tuesday on the Waynesville
diamond in playoff games.
Fortunately, most members of the Hazel
wood Lions squad are still in school at Way
nesville High and will be back next spring to
give the WTHS team added punch.
Too Much Publicity
Last April a certain marriage in a little
country on the Mediterranean was the high
mark of modern paganism.
Now the announcement comes that more
news can l>e expected from the marriage this
February.
It is hard to understand why the public
has gone to such extremes and is so concern
ed about the private life of two individuals.
Pulp wood Production Is Up
Here in ^Haywood County, when-tha word
pulpwood in used, we lend an attentive ean
And the news that production of pulpwood
reached an all-time high in North Carolina
last year is an interesting fact to us. The
news comes from the Department of Con
servation and Development, which point out
that production in 1955 was 6? ,000 cords
above that of the previous year, making a
total of 1,573,972 cords.
The survey was made by the .Southeastern
Forest Experiment Station, Asheville, in
cooperation with the Southern Pulpwood
Conservation Association, Atlanta. In. the
survey, State Forester Fred Claridge point
ed out that the growing of pulpwood is be
coming more and more profitable in North
Carolina.
The production, of pulpwood, based on
standard cords, in this particular area last
year is shown in the report to include: Hay
wood 33,100, Henderson 33,406. Jackson
30,654, Buncombe 77,103, Transylvania 13.
223, Madison 11,389.
This factual report proves beyond any
doubt the importance of our forests,-and the
potential future incomes our farmers can
derive from well planned timber stands.
More Trout For
Western Carolina
Congress has just appropriated $285,000
for the establishment of a trout hatchery
on Davidson River in Pisgah Forest.
Plans are to get started on construction
this fall of the hatchery, which will supply
trout for a large area.
The original request was for $375000 for
the project.
With the proposed trout lake (Balsam
Lake) on the Blue Ridge Parkway near
Beech Cap and the increased interest in trout
fishing in Western North Carolina, it ap
pears that this new hatchery will be the
nucleus of this area becoming one of the
best known trout fishing areas in America?
the Colorado streams made famous by Presi
dent Ike notwithstanding!
Waynesville Can Soon
Sponsor Swimming
Out in Emporia. Kan., the town through
civic groups is urging more young people to
learn how to swim. They base their problem
on their alarm over the physical fitness rec
ord in the United States, and the Mayor of
Emporia, according to the Gazette, said
"Swimming beats hot-rodding 40 ways from
Sunday."
Waynesville might soon inaugurate a sim
ilar campaign, as it now appears that the
swimming pool will he ready before too long
unless held up by unforseen circumstances.
The example set by Emporia is worthy of
oifr consideration here in this community.
SIMON PERES. WE CALL THEM
Most women either have a secret, or oft
expressed, craving to go on the stage or get
into the movies ? but most men are content
to be merely bad actors around home.
?Cincinnati Enquirer.
REAL NEWS
Fed up on marvels, n chemist friend
claims to have developed the real wonder
drug. Doesn't cure anything?Denver Post.
VIEWS OF OTHER EDITORS
Accommodations, Not Resistance
(Editor's Note: The following editorial was writ
ten and published in The Christian Science Monitor
While the North Carolina General Assembly was (n
session, hence the tense of the editorial. The paints
brought out are significant, and just as worthy of
publication, even though the Tar Hael lawmakers
? have adjourned.)
The legislature of North Carolina is meeting to
ronsider the recommendations of the "Hodges board"
tthe North Carolina Advisory Committee on Edu
cation.)
In the context of the South the Hodges plan
should bo called "moderate" by its own definition:
It disagrees with the Supreme Court decision on
segregation ("We think that the decision was er
roneous"). But it recognises that since "the
Supreme Court is the court of last resort in this
country, what it has said must stand until thene is
a correcting constitutional amendment or until the
court corrects its own error." And it sets out to find
a way by which the state can "live and act now under
the decision of that court."
The report points out that no decision by any
court "has said that a child must go to school with
children of another race," only that "children have
the right not to b? barred from any public school
because of color."
The essence of the plan, the Asheville Times em
phasizes. is the voluntary approach, district by dis
trict. It would permit school boards to assign each
pupil, not by color alone but In accordance with
hts best interests and those of the school in the
light of local conditions. That assignment tna.v be
challenged in public hearings.
And the report recommends state constitution
al amendments which would permit payment of tui
tion for children to attend nonsectarian, noninteg
rated, nonpublic schools where parent* so wish,
and which would suspend the requirement that
school district* must maintain public schools. The
Hodges committee offers this proposal simply as
one method of "escape from intolerable situations"
which might arise under a prevailing loeal senti
ment.
Not aa the answer to the desegregation problem
but aa an endeavor, to map out a program of accom
modation ratbeg then resistance, the Hedges plan
warrants serious attention.
THE MOUNTAINEER
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Views of Other
Editors
CIRCUS SUCCEEDS
AS A CIRCUS
When the last colossus of the
circus business cried quits for its
current season, crept back t0 its
winter quarters, and announced
that in future seasons, if any, it
would play the air-conditioned
arenas, old-time performers and
old-time fans began to proclaim
in chorus what was wrong: The
biggest "big top" had become
more of a night club extravaganza
and less of a circus. Restore what
has made the circus 4 beloved tra
dition throughout two centuries
on two continents, said they, and
even Ringling Bros, and Barnum
& Bailey could go back under
canvas and venture beyond the
great metropolises.
V\ e would n t presume to answer
for R B. and B A B. But the
Hunt Brothers Circus, said now
to be the oldest on the road,
stands (or, rather, moves by
truck and trailer) as living testi
mony that it can be done?and
can be done profitably, too.
? The three-ring Hunt Brothers
spectacle has been making one
day stands from N-cw York to
Maine since 1892-and from Flor
ida north in more recent years
according to the New York Times
Thig year, says its founder and
president, will set a record for
the 63 seasons be and his family
have operated it. The show boasts
a respectable menagerie, trained
animal acta, and the time-honored
pre-performance parade: it shuns
tawdry sideshows, "shell games "
and gambling, and it give.s part
of each day 's receipts to some lo
cal charity.
That such a formula keeps this
? 8 ?ono>maker pays tribute
to the ability of its owners. But it
also suggests that it is meeting a
demand ? a demand, we would
venture, which is no, limited lo
just towns between Maine and
r lorida.
?Christian Science Monitor.
reducing crime
The Federal Bureau of Investi
gation attributes a 17 per cent
nSrV,? ? bank robbciies in
lWd (the first reduction in 10
years) to a series of 178 confer
ences the bureau held through
our tho country.
The purpose of the conferences
was to inform bankers of the
best means of preventing rob
beries and the proper procedure
to bo followed in case a robbery
occurred.
Something of the same sort is
needed to reduce traffic accidents
Th? trouble is in finding the right
people with whom to confer
There is no difficulty in convinc
ing a banker that he is a poten
tial victim of a bank robber. It
is hard to convince motorists gen
erally. and those who sit on juries
particularly, that they are poten
tial victims of druuken and reck
less drivers.
However, until law enforce
ment officials can secure full co
operation from the public and
the courts the task of reducing *
traffic accidents will remain a
difficult one.
Raleigh News and Observer.
individual freedom
in the south
The South has always been a
frustrated section of the country
It was here that the Democratic
party was born under the great
Virginia statesman Thomas Jef
ferson.
Foe years the South was a
strong believer in the individual
sovereignty of states, known as
states' rights, for It felt that the
Federal government was created
by original colonies which assign
ed certain national responsibili
ties to the central government
and reserved other rights to
themselves.
Over the years the Democratic
party has repudiated some of its
principles because the nation has
been growing beyond expecta
tions. In fact, the Republican
party has absorbed many philos
ophies of government held only
by the Democratic party.
But the old South believes in
individual freedom. As Thurman
Sensing, executive vice president
of the Southern States Executive
Council points out, the South be
lieves in local self - government
rather than in centralized govern
ment. Says he, it believes in in
dividual initiative rather than a
planned economy. It believes in
individual incentive and oppor
tunity rather than in government
doles and controls.
Whether the South will retain
this philosophy in the future
under all the pressure and the
high court decisions that have
been handed down, remains to be
seen.
This philosophy of the South
ern people not to accept compul
sion is misunderstood by many of ?
our Northern friends but we be
lieve they are beginning to under
stand more clearly as they see the
right of all individual states and
of individuals gradually removed
by a growing centralization of
power in Washington
?The Shelby Star.
EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS
"We should never take our gov
ernment for granted . . . Good
government is everybody's busi
ness, Every Smith. Jones, and
Brown should at least be some
what interested in who spends
his tax dollar and how it is
spent,''
"Next thing, we suppose fisher
men will be asking the govern
ment for a guaranteed annual
catch." . . . London. Ohio. Press.
? Hamlin (W. Va.) Republican.
HORRIFIED
"Aroused and horrified at the
Senate revelations of the black
market in babies, the American
public may be expected to de
mand federal intervention. But
the people should consider well
whether Washington bureaucrats
can or should replace the devoted,
long-experienced workers of our
religious groups, local organiza
tions and the state and local judi
ciary in this specially individual
ized field of human welfare."
?Pine Bluff. (Ark.) Commercial.
Looking
Back Over
The Years
20 YEARS AGO
Miss Mary Emma Massie and
Frank Massie return from a
month's motor trip to Mexico,
Texas, and points in the West.
Mrs. Felix Stovall returns V
from visit to Virginia Beach.
Washington. Annapolis, and Bal
timore.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. F. Millar
and sons of Chicago, 111., are the
guests of Mrs. Floyd G. Rippetoe.
10 YEARS AGO
Haywood County's bean crop
exceeds a million pounds.
H. R. Caldwell of Route 2.
Waynesville. and Hugh Poston of
Route 2. Canton, are among 50
youths selected from North Car
olina to attend Forestry Camp at
Singleterry Lake
Aaron Prevost heads rules com
mittee for first annual Waynes
ville Country Club Golf Tourna
ment
5 YEARS AGO
Miss Rette Hannah is invited to
make debut in Raleigh this fall.
Marguerite Russ and Jeanne
Bradley return from Transylvania
Music Camp.
Miss Jinsie Underwood com
pletes six-weeks course at Yale
University.
Lt. Paul McElroy reports for
duty with Air Transport Group at
Camp Stoneman, Calif.
George Dewey Stovall. Jr.
heads Youth Fellowship of First
Methodist Church.
It's sort of embarrassing to con
front the 17-year locusts once
again. Last time we saw them we
had our hair, a promising future
and $738 in the bank.
?Florida Times-Union
'iews Of Other Editors
PROGRESS: ZERO
In 1903 there were 466 fire
works deaths in the United
States. Last year there was only
one. Quite a record of progress.
Back in 1903 a rather ridicu
lous looking machine was just
sputtering into being. Last year
(hat machine?evolving from the
ungainly horseless carriage into
the sleek and powerful modern
automobile ? claimed 407 lives
during the Fourth of July holi
day. ? ? "
Thus the net gain in our ef
forts to avoid holiday self-de
struction seems to be about zero.
?Englewood, Colo.. Herald.
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Rambling Round
By Frances Gilbert Frailer
The game of politics is one of the greatest gambles on earth, yet
men of mental stature ^io not hesitate to stake their future and for
tune on. the turn of a"political card.
One of the newest forms of this national game of chance is be
ing played by Mr. Stassen on his spin of the roulette wheel
that carries the little ball marked "Vice President". We cannot help
but marvel at the extreme and unusual m> .sures to which Mr, Stas
sen is exerting hitpself. We cannot remember another occasion in
which, a cabinet member has taken leave of his office to try and
oust a fellow cabinet member from a prospective poet. It's all a bit
unusual but it certainly will add greatly to the Republican meeting
in August. Almost every one took it for granted that the nomination
would be a cut-and-<lried affair and over within a few days, but ihis
inclusion of a free-for-all nomination has certainly changed the as
pects of the case. Well, we shall see what we shall see!
A red geranium, even if growing in a tin can, proclaims that
fact that a flower lover is nearby.
TEACHER: "Be seated, children. Our lesson today isabout
politics, a subject that is very much in evidence this raoii|A|ow,
Johnny, what is a person called who is holding office"
JOHNNY: "An incumbent."
TEACHER: "Correct. Mary, suppose this office holder runs for
re-election and is defeated, what then?"
MARY: "Income bent."
TEACHER: "You are so right Willie, tell me what does the
Speaker of the House do?"
WILLIE: "He pounds on the desk with a hammer and hollers
'Order'."
TEACHER: "All right. Jenny, what f* the difference between
the Republican and Democratic parties?"
JENNY: "About a million votes last time."
TEACHER: "Jessie, why was inauguration day changed from
March 4th to a date in January?" \
JESSIE: "Because there were too many lame ducks."
TEACHER: "And what will be the state of the nation on No
vember seventh this year. Tommy?"
TOMMY: "An awful lot of sick ducks."
TEACHER: "Class is now dismissed."
Heard in passing: "He's the kind of a voter who marks his
ballot with a dollar mark."
&44&WASHINGT0N
MARCH OF EVENTS
Queen Elizabeth, Churchill | Jamestown Festival to Be
May Visit U. S. Next Year I Big Anniversary in 1957
Special to Central Press Association
WASHINGTON?Queen Elizabeth and Winston Churchill may
come to the United States next year to help celebrate the
350th anniversary of the birth of this nation.
And the president of France may also attend in recognition of
the major role his country played in freeing the English colonies
in America from British rule.
The occasion will be the Jamestown Festival of
1957, which will commemorate the first success*
ful and permanent English colony in the new
world. When English colonists landed at James
town, Va., in 1607, it marked the beginning of
what was to become the United States of
America.
The festival, which will continue from April
through November, will also feature an Inter
national Naval Review in June in Hampton
Roads in which the warships of 30 nations will
participate. Among them may be a Ruuian
vessel. Dossiblv the (immn emim
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which carried Bulganin and Khrushchev toWk
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at Jamastown
-? PRESIDENT'S INVITATION?Next Sept. 29, Gov. Thomas
Stanley of Virginia will sail from Hampton Roads aboard the liner
Noordam for England with a party of state and national ofHcials.
Stanley will bear with him an invitation from President Eisen
hower to Queen Elizabeth to participate in the festival. At the
same time invitations will be extended to Churchill and to Virginia
born Lady Nancy Astor and to the president of France.
Mr. Eisenhower has endorsed the proposal and plans to attend
the festival also. Negotiations are now underway with British Am
bassador Sir Roger Makins. The queen would attend the Royal
Dominion celebration on June 16. This will commemorate the dis
solution of the London company in 1624 and the establishment of
Virginia as a Royal Dominion.
Churchill and Lady Astor are being Invited to attend the General
Assembly celebration July 30. On that date the General Assembly
of the Commonwealth of Virginia will convene in the old church
at Jamestown, built in 1639, to commemorate its first session in
1619. Next to the British parliament, the Virginia general assembly
is the oldest legislative body in the English-speaking world.
The president of France is being invited to attend Yorktown Day
on Oct. 19. This will commemorate the winning of independence in
the last major battle of the war in which Lord Cornwallis and his
British surrendered to George Washington's American and French
forces.
President Eisenhower is expected to be present for the Jamestown
Settlement celebration May 13 which will commemorate the found
ing of the Virginia Commonwealth and the birth of this nation at
Jamestown in 1607.
The President will also formally dedicate the 23-mile Colonial
Parkway which will connect historic Williamsburg with Jamestown
and the Yorktown battlefield, three of the nation's most historic
shrines./
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0 CAPITAL FOR 92 TEARS?Jamestown served as capital of the
colony of Virginia for 92 years, from 1607 to 1699. Williamsburg,
10 miles from Jamestown, served as capital from 1699 to 1779.
Today there is no town of Jamestown. Only the old brick church,
ruins, foundations and monuments remain of the
site used by the early settlers. The fort in which Ruin* ?f
the settlers lived in 1607 is being reconstructed and
full-scale replicas of the three ships which brought Capitol
them to America are being built and will be moored Still There
In the James river.
The Glasshouse of 1606, the first highly skilled industry In Eng
lish America, is alse being reproduced and blowers will fashion
glass souvenirs for visitors. The British government plans an elab
orate exhibition at the festival and nearby will also be an Indian
exhibit, Powhatan's lodge.
MHMons are expected to attend the festival during the eight
month gala celebration,.'