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! TODAY'S HTHTJ5 VKgig _ TODAY'S QUOTATION i Editorial Page of the Mountaineer -/si/sac~ "1",' dip.?foaians 1:12. ^ ? *h I ,T. ? T 1 ? Haywood Baptists Show Much Growth The other day wo failed to give the FTny woocl Baptists credit for all thi membership ot the denomination in llaywfid. We said about 10,006, but according to the litest fe port just made, the figure W rtow 11,267, with the membership of three chmwhes not included. The Association is made up of 54 elurches, who last year, gave over $488,00f> for all work. That is about $70,000 more than Ifljst year which, according to financial standaitls, is a sizeabje increase. At the same time, and this the most important phase of the work, there were 500 baptisms reported for the year Which ended June 80. The records of progress sjieak for them selves. REA Meet Will Be Near Birthplace ? Woodrow It iV reasonable to believe that the 17th annual RKA meeting at Bethel will attract a large crowd on Saturday. ThB feet that the annual meeting will be held \t?thin a few hundred yards of where the 17-year-old cooperative began is signifi cant. J.1 might be well for the officers to lead the i^Nflfe group to the little wooden office whicnV ?rved as headquarters when the pro gram began in Haywood. The little office was the size of a one-car garage right on tM'fcighway at Woodrow. Now the Cooperative has spread to seven counties in two states and is housed in as fine # "founding as can be found anywhere. Thaff consistent growth. Litterbugs Are In Fof^rouble nepiagts coming in from down, at Raleigh show that the State Highway Commission is cracking down on litterbugs ? those people whq A?tter trash along North Carolina roadsides. Sign! are being erected throughout the State warning all: "Unlawful to throw trash on highway. Fine up to $50." Th^law which makes the signs possible has betfc on the books but only recently have highway officials he on able, to ge^Jtie strong public support they must have to enforce it. Not too long ago. it was a raw judge and juryniag who would have taken seriously a casw Mfrolving such a law. Now. however, many* Communities are cooperating, many civic cribs are waging roadside clean-up cam paigns and the Highway Patrol has been in structed to arrest litterbugs whenever they are tpotted. % Sodifcdhere will be at least 200 of the signs in eachlof the 11 highway divisions on both primary and secondary roads, and many of the divisions will have far more. Thii fact remnins. motorists will now have to watch their driving as well as where they tosa their trash. CHIDES ' . An elderly lady from Boston who drove down to visit Washington said she had no objection to the American habit of littering the highways with beer cans pitched from car windows. "It helps me drive at night," she explain ed. "All those things shining in the car lights show tfie where the edge of the road is." ?Minneapolis Tribune. MINORITY REPORT Some women are attractive in slacks, but that does not go for the bulk of them. ?The U. S. Coast Guard News. Outstanding Speakers In Our Community ?0 Few communities hnve had the jjood for tune to have a man termed "the world's best preacher" in their community for a week, as we have here, with Dr. William F.. Sanjr ster of London preach inf twice daily at Lake Junaluska. In addition to I)r. Sanjrster, there is ap pearing on the projrram Dr. Frank C. Daubach, recojrnized international author ity on many subjects, who speaks once daily. Fortunate are those Who avail themselves of the opportunity of hearing such famous men. Miss Childers Has Been Great Asset In Haywood Miss Jean Childers leaves Haywood after seven years of successful work here as as sistant home demonstration aarent. She has received a promotion to become home dem onstration a^ent of Watauga county, -with Boone the county seat. Miss Childers has worked closely with 4-H Club jrroups, and has been a main stay in the work on a state level, and in promoting the exchange program between Haywood clubs and those of other states. In addition to her duties in the Extension Department, she has been active in church and civic affairs. She is a quiet and friendly younf? lady, business-like, who is destined to jco far in her field of endeavor. While we hate to see Miss Childers leave Haywood, we can rejoice in the deserved promotion, and wish her continued success as she takes on more responsibilities in WatauRn county. Mowing Roadsides Is Great Improvement Few things have helped the looks of high way rondsides as much as to have the mow ers cut down high grass and tall weeds. And while on the subject of weeds, we fail to understand why individuals or firms will go to the expense of erecting expensive road signs and then let weeds grow an tall in front of them that the lower part of the sign can not be read. OR RAINBOWS The German Opel car has made its ap pearance in Chapel Hill and while apparent ly chinless. or hoodless, (the engine is in the back), looks neat and efficient. Its chief virtue is that it has just one model and makes no change in style from year to year. This is no doubt shocking to American manu facturers who think their cars should look like Argyle sox.?Chapel Hill News Leader. FCRNITITRE PERIOD A very chic young lady walked into the furniture store and sought out one of its decorators. She wanted advice on how to aug ment her present furnishings. "What." asked the decorator, "is the motif ? Modern, Oriental, Provencal, F.arly American?" "Well," was the frnnk reply, "we were mnrried only recently. So the style of our furniture is sort of Early Matrimony ? some of his mother's and some of my moth er's."?Capper's Weekly. ODD FELLOW Men are peculiar, just as women have long suspected. For instance, a fellow who hadn't kissed his wife in five years, shot a fellow who did.?Gosport, Pensacola, Fla. Every dog has a lot of sense unless he be longs to a neighbor. VIEWS OF OTHER EDITORS Pcror Dad Will Have To Pay The prediction by Chancellor House that the Uni versity of North Carolina's enrollment will almost double during the next ten years poses a much bur ner problem than that of Just finding enough faculty, housing and classrooms The real problems confront the parents of those students who are now in high school and elementary school. It's going to cost more money for. these young sters to get an education. Then too, the student who doesn't make the grade seholastically will find it hard to get a second chance because all institutions, large and small, are going to have tremendous waiting lists. Leading educators predict that the increased costs will amount to approximately 25 per cent dur ing the next ten years. At the present tin* the aver age cost in our state colleges and universities for state residents is $805 and for non-residents $1,050. Private colleges and universities in the U. S. average $1,485 This means that dad is going to have to find from $200 to $400 more per year to send his child to college. Along with increased costs all along the line, it would seem to indicate that more and more students will be forced to work part of their way through college. While the national average for the U. S. for atate residents for state universities is $90(1. the' average in the South is $715. This Includes tuition, board and room, and fees. Nothing is allowed for spending money, joining a fraternity or owning a car. ?The Chapet Hill Weekly. ? a THE MOUNTAINEER Wayneaville, North Carolina Main Street Dial GL 6-5301 Tkr County Seat of Haywood County Published By Ths WiAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER. Inc. W. CmiTIS RUSS Editor W. Curtis Russ and Marion T. Bridges. Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY BY MAIL IN HAYWOOD COUNTY One Year $3 50 Isix months 2.00 BY MAIL IN NORTH CAROLINA One Year '? . 4 30 Six months .. 2.50 OUTSIDE NORTH CAROLINA One Year ? ? 5.00 Six iponths ? - 3.00 LOCAL CARRIER DELIVERY Per month - . 40 Office-paid for carrier delivery -?-?? 4.50 Second Class mail privlUfes authorized at Waynes NC . , ? ? ? MEMBER or THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Pram la aotttled exclusively to the uae Thnrmhiy Afternoon, Augwt 23, 1956 i * LOW ON GAS Back Over The Years 20 YEARS AGO Frank M. Davis heads Haywood Soil Conservation and I.and Use Association ju* organized. The Rev. Frank Leatherwood is named moderator of the Haywood Baptist Association. Dr. and Mrs. Robert Stretcher entertain at large dinner and bridge party at the Hotel Gordon. Miss Martha Mock returns from a visit with friends in New York and Philadelphia. 10 YEARS AGO Bruce T, Smith, S 2/c. spends leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John B. Smith. Mrs. Fred Brown, Mrs. Ruby Lee Williams, and Mrs. Ora Lee Presslgy, sisters, meet in Waynes ville for the first time in 18 years. Highway engineer recommends early paving of Highway 284. Cpl. Wayne Moore of Fines Creek receives discharge from the service. Plans are complete for Canton's 40th annual Fall Festival and Labor Day celebration. 5 YEARS AGO Attendance at Lake Junaluskn this season totals 50,000 to set a new record high. J. W. Killian is superintendent of school buildings and grounds. Mrs. DeVoe Medford wins sweepstakes in the Clyde Flower Show. Ann Cathey. 11. wins junior division of talent contest at West ern Carolina College. Mr. and Mrs James A. Gwyn honor Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lee of Birmingham at a barbecue supper at their home on Country Club Drive Letter To Editor UNITED FUND IMPORTANT TO BAND Editor, The Mountaineer: On the eve of another drive by the United Fund I would like to express niy appreciation for what this organization meant tast year to our High School Band. Many people over our state have been surprised when I have told them that our band has been completely equipped without the aid of any tax money from opr eounty or state. They have won dered how it could be that a band as large as ours could be so well uniformed and equipped with no tax money to help As most people here realize, it has been only through the gener ous donations of our townspeople and civic clubs that we have been able to build our band. Of course, band uniforms and ? music instruments and music wear out, even with good care; so wp are always In the act of re placing some old equipment at even greater cost today than when previously bought. Last year the United Fund 0AV? tKo Kne/1 #OCArt ,,. I. 1 .. V- ????'? *,???*- wir uaiiu ^Ainnf niuvu w?l^> used to reptace two bass horns bought in 1939 and used for 16 years. It was used to buy the very (lrst new piano that our High ?School has ever owned. It was used to patch and repair our 110 uniforms which are now ten years old. Within the next two or three years we will have to replace our uniforms?perhaps a new style and color. This will be a cost of $6,000 or more, and we plan to begin saving all the money we can get toward this. It is our hope that through the successful continuation of the lTnited Fund we will be able to secure this money with the same generous community support that we have had in years past Yours truly. C. L Isley. Jr. Director. IJKFS HUMANE SOC1FTY Editor. The Mountaineer Waynesville is a beautiful city where we come to enjoy your climate and nature in all of its glory. It is gratifying to know that you now have a group of people who feel that some provision should be made for our animal friends?especially cats and does. Congratulations to those who has* organized a Humane Society in this area We wish to become members of this league and to sav thank you on behalf of all of the homeless and abandoned pets. Your tourist friends. Mra. E. S Washburn (Member of the Animal Res cue League of the Palm Beaches! | , Mrs. Russell Hudoall Alta V. Stevens C R Hallman Mrs. Haley ? Views of Other Editors THE BUSHEL MEASURE IS EXPENSIVE The bushel basket, which has served long and well as a method Of measuring grain on farms where no scales were available, is now recognized as a nuisance which should be abolished. Since the use of the bushel measure was prevalent on farms, it was car l ied over into commerce although the more accurate measures of pounds or hundredweights were readily at hand. The result has been the prac tice of calculating the price of grain by the bushel on the basis of an average number of pounds per bushel for each grain. Wheat is figured at 60 pounds to the bushel, although actual experi ence shows it runs from 57 to 63 pounds. There are similar vari ations for other grains, including oats and corn. The National Livestock Produc er points out that there is a great waste of time in converting weights into bushels and back, whereas it would be simpler and more accurate to figure the mat ter in pounds or hundredweights. \ When a farmer says he harvested 20 bushels of wheat to the acre, he means he got 1.200 pounds, or 12 hundredweight. Why con vert this into bushels to deter mine the price? Furthermore, it Is confusing to the farmer, the magazine points out. to be comparing the feed value of 70 cents per bushel oats with $1.30 per bushel corn, when on a hundredweight basis it would be $2 10 for oats and $2.32 for corn. The bushel measure is. just an expensive habit. ?Appleton Post-Crescent. A. ( Growing Importance of Women Workers Percent 1940-1956 IN 1956 40 r yf Clerical 32% kyh' A n 35 - I I Factory 20% J S/^s,rvi" I'3* 1 "SnnnA ^ Workers 11 ^ // J 35 I I 1 1 jlll ' 40 50 56 tO 20 30 I Prepared by NAM from Govt Statistics J One Out of Three Workers Are Women One-third of all the people holding jobs outside of the agri cultural field are women?more than 19 million of them. The num ber of women working as a percentage of total workers has shown an almost continuous uptrend. The chart depicts that trend since 1940 ( The bulge in the trend line in the early Forties was primarily the result of the great influx of women into industrial jobs dur ing the war The total number of people at work changed little in that period, but as men were inducted into the services, women re placed them to produce military goods. It is interesting to note that after the war the percentage of women workers to the total did not decline to the pre-war level. Morever. since then the per centage has grown. Figures for the current year 1956 show that nearly 32 per cent of the women employees are engaged in clerical work and about 20 per cent are operatives, craftsmen, foremen, etc. Better than 13 per cent are service workers outside the home and 11 per cent are employed in private households Professional and techni cal women also total 11 per cent Less than 8 per cent are engaged in sales. Almost 5 per cent are managers, officials, proprietors and the like, while at the other extreme, less than half-of-one per cent are classified as laborers The high proportion of employed women has an Important bearing oil various problems such as family income, personnel policies, pensions and social security, 'i Rambling 'Round By Frances Gilbert Frailer ? Mr. Chairman and fellow sufferers, we rise to second the mo tion of endorsement for the writer who complains that there is entire ly too much unnecessary noise in Waynesville. . Noise is a distortioner of dispositions, a frayer of nerves and a nuisance of the worst kind. Motorists are the worst offenders, al though door slammers run them a close second. And don't overlook the loud talkers! The dictionary gives this definition for noise: "Sound especially when discordant, confused or disagreeable: clamor: outcry". The entire world is begging for peace. Let s start the ball rolling here in Waynesville by cutting down on squealing tires, howling horns, heavy-handed door-shutters and raucous voices. You'd be surprised how much it would help. Heard in passing: "How on earth do politicians find out so much about their opponents in so short a time?and all bad?" ? There is an old saying that "Comparisons are odious," and we'd like to add ... so are some children. Recently while eating break fast we had an opportunity to study two groups of adults and chil dren. The families were about the same, father, mother and three youngsters. The ages of the latter seemed to be on an equal level. But there the comparison came to an abrupt end. One family sat quietly, the children exchanging occasional remarks in low tones and were seemingly content that their breakfasts were ^^fenute, albeit slightly detoured. The other group evidently didn't the delay either, as they were too busily engaged trying to keep the two younger fry from tearing up the patch . . . and each other. The parents were as much to blame as their offspring, as they applauded and laughed at every kick, slap, scream and racket of the two spoiled children. Being an only child and only grandchild until we were sixteen, wo often took advantage and kicked over the traces but we were quickly brought to taw by two pairs of strict English grandparental hands. If there was such a thing as inhibition in our younger days, it certainly was carefully kept hidden from our view and that of our grandparents. The sad part of today's freedom of speech and action on the part of the very younger generation is that they will find, as the years accumulate, the world does not look on their misconduct with the same kindly eyes as tlieir parents, and the going can be pretty rough. JVlany a youngster who has held the whiphand at homo may find the handle in less sympathetic hands in school and society. A narrow mind is usually accompanied by a small body. Left-over definitions: DEMOPUBLICAN: A bird who sits on the fence. MIDDLE-OF-THE-ROADER: One who thinks the white line is put there to point out the way. CAUCUS: A breathing spell. PARTY LEADER: The one who gives the party away. GAVEL: A mallet silencer. TELEVISION: An instrument of torture to those not interested in politics. No one walks alone who has faith in bis heart. /iews Of Other Editors IT S NONSENSE ? SENDING DRUNKS TO THE ROADS Jurge Susie Sharp is a credit to the Superior Court bench, not be cause she is a woman who has succeeded in a "man's job" but because she is a judge who has a habit of speaking common sense when she comments on courts and crimes and civilization in general. A speech she delivered last week before a church group in Aberdeen contained a number of sensible observations and wise suggestions. Especially pertinent to the times was her observation that North Carolina needs an in stitution where courts can send drunks. Sending drunks to the roads doesn't make sense, Judge Susie said. Road sentences are supposed to discourage offenses against soci ety. But does fear of serving time on the roads turn an alcoholic away from the bottle? Does ac tual service on the roads so pun ish a drunk that he will not like ly again drink to excess? One doesn't have to be an expert in criminology to know that the an swer to both questions is no. Habitual drunks don't need punishment so much as they need treatment. Excessive drinking is a violation of the moral code on which the legal code Is based. But alcoholism, the result of con tinued excessive drinking, is a disease. 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