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"Like a snowball rolling downhilt, gath
et ing momentum and sue, Oil Progress
V eel: gets bigger and bigger and bigger
v th each passing year," reports the. Ameri
c; n Petroleum Institute. The 1966 observ
a ce ? October 14-20 ? will outdistance Its
p edecessor in scope, size and. impact.
The Week is not designed to sell a mater
is commodity. It is designed to sell an idea
- by showing the American people how the
o industry operates, all the way from the
f 'Ids where the crude oil is produced to the;
c? mer service station, and by giving them a
L tter idea of the benefits that flow from
f) >e, competitive enterprise.
Leaders of the industry will take to the
s imp, and talk about oil and oil progress.
L splays, special events and exhibits will
r ach virtually every community in this vast
c< untry ? these activities wil be carried out
b - local oil men In their own towns and
c< unties. A full color motion picture will be
si own in theatres, schools, on TV, and at
vi rious public gatherings. In many com
m inities service station dealers will be
si luted as "Ambassadors of good will" by
C( mmunity organizations. There'll also be
si ?h attractions as parades, beauty queens,
o' en houses, speeches and rallies, and so on
ai d so on.
This is a big job. It has to be, for it deals
w th one of the biggest and most important
n sources of our country?oil.
First National Expands
The First National Rank is offering 2.000
s1 ares of stork for sale, which when sold
w'll make 12.000 shares outstanding. The
p' og^am is one which was worked out in or
d' r to increase the capital stock of the 54
y- ar-old institution.
The sale of the stock will enable the bank
tr make more and larger loans, because un
d- r hanking regulations. the amount of loans
is determined bv a number of factors, in
c' 'ding amount of naid in canital stock, plus
r? serves, and denosits of the bank.
The program is definitely a sten forward,
n'd the offio'a's of the hank are following
a pattern of takinor care of the banking needs
o< this trading area.
T r#*a Trrrtrol gurvov
Value Of Piaeon River Road
An Associated Press disnatch from
P le'eh noints out that the imnortance of
t*?* P'eeon River road was stressed by
J mes S. Rurch. engineer of the statistics
:>? d planning department for the Highway
C mmi?sion in a renort he iust made.
Access to the eastern part of the nark is
(1 ^endent unon the completion of the Pigeon
P ver Road. This fact, has been pointed out
t: ne and time again bv nark officials, as well
a' others, and all planning for the full de
v 'onment of the nark in that area has been
c ntingent unon the interstate highway.
We shall await w'th interest the full re
p' "t of Engineer Rurch and his staff who
w -rked in and around the park this nast
si mmer. interviewing the motorists who
u nd hiehwavs in this section. From them
ti ? staF received a vast amount of valu
a' le information.
Perhaos some of the skeptics ? outside of
F iywood ? will begin to take note of the
f? *ts as gathered by engineer Rurch as be
ir x authentic, and realize that the construc
t; n of the Pigeon River Road is a regional
p oject. and not a local one.
* TFWC OF OTTIFR FDfTORS
The Walls Of Ivy
That rustling sound you hear is the trembling
? nay the shaking ? of leaves on the ivy vines.
"Ivy" college Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, etc.,
hr ve been tenderly "segregating" their women
a; ilnst the men for 95 years; "ivy" colleges Har
v* d, Yale, Princeton, etc., have been doughtily
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Mooter Afternoon, October IS. USI
Livestock-Home Arts Project
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Besides voting for Candida ten for office on
November 6, Haywood voters will decide
whether they want the county commission
era to proceed with ? program, of developing
a livestock and home arts show. In order to
develop the proposed center for educational,
recreational and sales purposes, the citizens
will have to approve a tax levy not to ex
ceed three rents per $100 valuation.
The program began in the General Assem
bly of 1953, when a bill was passed setting
up a tax levy for the project.
The commissioners at that time made the
levy, and collected a little over $1,800, be
fore the attorney general ruled that "in his
opinion" the levy was not constitutional, be
cause the people had not voted on the tax.
The levy was discontinued after the first
year, and has not been added since.
T>if? nnm mi us ion on* in .Tulv 19RS nnrrhnspd
a 13-acre site between here and Lake Juna
luHka for $15,000 on which to construct the
livestock and home arts show buildings. A
contribution of $6,000 from Champion Pap
er and Fibre Company was made to the
building proiect. and another contribution of
$500 from Carolina Power and Light Com
pany. Today, the fund, including the tax
levy collected, totals $7,353.
In the meantime, the 1955 General As
sembly passed a bill making it mandatory
for the voters of Haywood to exnress their
views on the matter in the general election?
November 6. And that is where the mat
ter now stands.
The rural women of Haywood have for a
long time been wanting a curb market, and
since the matter of an election has come up
on the livestock-home arts show, it has been
suggested in son>e quarters that a curb mar
ket be built in the proposed home arts build
ing.
An election is the only wav to get the true
feelings of the people on such a matter. Thus
far. there has not developed anv campaign
for the project, and as far as we know, none
against.
There remains onlv 22 davs before the
voters will express themselves through their
ballots.
The Life Of A Politician
The life of n politician, esnecialv during a
camnatirn. is much harder than most people
micht realize.
We were amused at the incident which
hannened to Senator W. Kerr Scott last week,
near his Haw River home. An elderlv oouole
?both 82-r-nei<rhbors of Senator and Mrs.
Scott, invited the former governor to have
breakfast with them.
He accented.'and went?at 4 a.m. The
oounle exnlained thev went to bed at sun
down. and alwavs had breakfast at 4 a.m.
Senator Scott promised he would be there,
and was. He had toast, oatmeal and fig pre
serves.
Fire Prevention W*ek Again
This is Fire Prevention Week ? coming
when furnaces and other heating units are
put into use. after beinar idle all summer.
There is very little firemen can do about
fire prevention other than to warn property
owners that douhle-checkinv as to safety
cannot he carried too far. Firemen can check
premises, but thev cannot be there to see
that safetv precautions are followed day in
and day out.
"segregating" their men against the women aince
1638
Now yale's dean of admissions. Arthur Howe.
Jr.. promptly seconded by Its dean of the college
William C. Dcvane. Is ursine the Yale Corporation
to break down its 2S0-vear-old wall of separation
and admit women undergraduates.
Says Dean Howe: Women would raise the col
lege's scholastic averages (that for the men!); and
they might keep the men on the campus weekends
instead of gallivanting to New York or Boston.
The "old grads" haven't bean heard from yet.
Doubtless there will be some bass growls from the
male ranks and soprano gasps from the ladles. As
a matter-of fact, both advocates of coeducation and
of separate education can cite solid arguments be
halves
But the walls behind the ivy leaves are tremb
ling, too, Particularly the men's. Harvard breached
Its walls some time ago by way of opening a gate to
YUdctlffe. Yale alwuuiy admits women to its gradu
ate schools The Anal capitulation of tradition won't
be in sight, however, until hRC bears the shouts of
the meedames deans of Vassar. Smith, et al, march
ing seven times around their ivied walla.
?The Christian Science Monitor.
Somebody at Chapal Hill sent out a story
about the Davis Poplar being able to talk.
That may be *>?, but the office Duke man
noted with a grin that the old tree didn't
have anything to.lap about fooball in re
citing Carolina history.
Looking
Back Over
i
The Years
21 YEARS AGO
Mark Ferguson heads Young
Democratic Club organized at
Fines Creek.
Mrs. I. J. Brown returns from
extended visit with her daughter
in Roanoke, Va. and her son at
Port Bragg.
Dr. Jack Turbhll of Asheville.
formerly of Waynoeville, goes to
Chicago for special work in den
tal surgery.
Mrs John K. Boone has as her
guest her daughter, Mrs. C L.
Dickson of Durham.
Miss Martha Mock and Miss
Margaret Ashton spend day in
Asheville.
10 YEARS AGO
Town officials pass ordinance
establishing building lines on
four streets in Waynesville busi
ness section.
Major Fannie Johnson Reyn
olds. WAC, is serving as director
of Civilian Porsonnel in the China
Service Command.
Mr, and Mrs Carl Hill move to
Enka to make their home.
Miss Vera Hosaflook is bride of
Richard Miller Moore.
Mr. and Mrs. Eric Clauson and
their daughter, MLss Laura Mae
Clauson. visit Curtis Clauson at
the University of North Carolina.
5 YEARS AGO
Mrs. Hueh A. Love retires as
town clerk Mrs. P. H. Gentry is
appointed.
David Noland is new president
of Waynesville High 4-H Club.
Capt end Mrs. Bill Milner and
little daughter return to Camp
LeJewne after a visit here.
Mies Braxtnn Crockpr. student
at Rerea College, spends week
end at home
Mrs Henrv Corner attends
Stat* Fair in Raleigh.
Letters To Editor
APPRECIATION
Editor The Mountaineer
On behalf of the Havwood
Countv Council of Homr Dem
onstration clubs we would 1<W? to
thenk vou for votir ooot>er?Hnn in
hclninp to ?non?or our IQid Home
Demoostrotlon Achievement Ex
po?'*lon which l? an annual event.
From the remark* of the hun
dred* 0f neonlp who vi?'tcd the
pyblhUs dnrlne the 2 dav nertod.
We feel our effort* were annrecl
ated hv the peroral nuhlie and
we ?ineeretv hone we m?v con
tinue to work elo?e'v toppther for
the prowlh and progress of our
count v
We th?nl? vou.
Sincerely,
Mrs fJeoree Fradv Chairman
Havwood County Achieve
nten' Fvnocttion
Mrs R J Fowler. President
Havwood Countv Council
of Home Demonstration
Clubs
Mary Cornwell
Home Agent
Haywood County.
Defense "Thinking
Machine"
SAN DIFC.O, Calif (API?The
Naval Electronics Laboratory here
is working, along with private re
search organizations, on electronic
computers for shipboard operation
op all combatant ships.
The "thinking machines" would
be used to proress the vast amount
of data which are required for
accurate fire control, guided-mts
sUe control, and anti-aircraft de
fense in the atom-jet-missile age
at sea.
Capt. Gould Hunter, former com
irvnder of the laboratory, said the
object of the computer project is
to adapt electronically-operated
"thinking machines" to the pecul
iar needs of naval warfare.
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THE AMERICAN WAY
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BIBLE WEEK (?
4i OCTOBER 15-21 p* 1?J,
LATMKH? IUHOMAL COMM*T?f
The Bible - Timeless and Eternal
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My Favorite Stories
B7 CARL GOERCH
There were five of them playing
together at the Carolina Country
Club Course in Raleigh: Roland
Mumford, George White, Dr.
Strickland, Ralph Gibson, and
Bernie Barrow. All of them well
known citizens.
"Hurry up. White!" said Mr.
Mumford as George got ready to
tee off "We don't want to stay
here all day."
"Shut up!" said George terse
ly.
He took his stance, drew back
carefully and drove.
"If that's the best you can do.
you'd better quit playing golf,"
said Mr. Mumford sarcastically.
"You 'tend to your own game
and I'll 'tend to mine," said Mr.
White.
The other four players took
their drives and the five of them
proceeded down the fairway of
No 1 hole.
It was a beautiful afternoon;
the kind of a day that promotes
peace, harmony and mutual un
derstandings and good feeling.
But. somehow or other, that
wasn't exactlv the kind of atmos
phere in which these players were
finding themselves. ,
Perhan.s it was Mr. Mumford's
fault He wouldn't lav off of Mr.
White htit kent naegine at him
continuously. For th** first three
or four holes, the latter didn't
seem to nav verv much attention
to it and answered Mr Mumford
in kind Then he made two or
three rather sorrv shots in a row
and when Roland increased the
Intensity of his kidding. George
lapsed into silence.
"What's the matter*" jeered
Roland "You ain't getting sore,
are you?"
No answer.
Ttv? game continued Bv the
time the flvn nlavers reached the
seventh hole it was nlain to see
that thty situation held no humor
or nleasantness for Mr. White.
The lines about his mouth had
tightened and a frown sat unon
his usually olacid countenance.
Mr. Farrow took Mr Mumford
to one side.
"Roland." said Mr. Barrow, "if
I were you I'd quit raeeing
George. I believe he's getting
sore.
"Let him e?t sore if he wants
to." said Mr Mumford "He's kid
ded m? nlentv: why shouldn't he
be made to stand a little of the
same kind of medicine?"
The further they went, the sor
rier Mr. 'White's game became,
the more Roland joshed him and
the madder George got. At the
tenth hole he could stand it no
longer. Walking up to Roland he
said: "Listen, Mumford; I've tak
en just about all from you that
I'm going to take. Now I'm giv
ing you fair warning. Lay off!"
"Aw, don't be a fool. Go ahead
and play."
They finished the tenth hole
and went to the eleventh tee. Bar
row drove first and got off to a
good drive. So did Dr. Strickland.
Then White drove. He topped hits
ball and it rolled about fifty yards
down the fairway.
"Haw. haw!" yelled Roland.
"Anybody drives like that has got
as much business playing golf as
a cat has teaching geometry. Foo
ey on such a drive!"
It was his turn to tee up. He
put his ball in position, took his
stance, waggled three or four
times and then drew back. He
started his forward swine. Down
came the head of the club. And
then, a split second before it
came in contact with the ball?
BANG!!!
A pistol shot. And mighty close
too
The head of Roland's club hit
the hall and-bingo! It sailed into
the lake
Mr. Mumford iumned straight
un into the air about two feet.
He let out a yell that could be
heard a ouarter of a mile away.
The veil and the iumo were sim
ultaneous A big tree stood a
short distance awav In about four
jumns Mr Mumford reached it
and slid behind it for protection.
Never had anv of the four seen
such intense activity on his part.
Cautiously Roland peered
around the tree. He realized that
he had driven Mr White too far
and that the latter had broken
under tfv. strain. But he had ho
idea that George would go so far
as to take a shot at him.
The sjoht that erected his eves
was a bewildering one Mr. Bar
row was rolling down the slope
of the fairway, shrieking as
though he had suddenly gone
wild. Dr Strickland and Mr. Gib
son had also collapsed on the
turf Mr. White alone was stand
ing erect, with a pistol in his
hand and a wide grin upon his
face.
"Mavbe vou'll ouit your fool
ishness now." said George "Come
out from behind that tree."
Mr Mumford came ? cussing.
Too late he realized that the
whole thing had been framed up
among the other four. They had
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Rambling 'Round,
By Frances Gilbert Frailer
Just before the ,uirt of the last game of the World Series Mel
Allen, the announcer, made a remark that has stuck in our mind
ever since, deep an impression did it make. Of course, Mel was re
ferring to the importance of this last game but its significance had
a far deepar meaning to us. His remark was; "It's got to be today.
There is so tomorrow".
"It's got to be today. There is no tomorrow". What a terrible
world this would bo if that applied to the material things of lite'
What chance would any of us have if there were no tomorrow in
which to rectify the mistakes we have mode today! What incentive
would we have to make tomorrow a better day than this one had
been: why not throw all decency to the wind and enjoy today know
ing no tomorrow would be there for remorse!
The thought that there is a tomorrow is like a lodestar that
guides us to higher and better efforts to improve ourselves: to find
new friends, new ideas, new thoughts, new accomplishments, and
that wo can make a brand new start to offset the errors we made to
day.
Yes, Mr. Allen, that last game had no tomorrow but the future
of all mankind lies in its tomorrows.
?J" m*m
Heard in passing: "They were sitting on a bench in the warm
sunshine and she said: 'You know, I ain't seen her in forty years.'
And he said: 'I betcha she's changed a heap.'"
With the promise of widening and extending Wall there
come , to the mind of every pedestrian the sincere hope \ Jit relief
will be given at streets intersecting Main street. The mystery of life
is why there has not been a series of accidents on the two entrances
at the Pure Oil station and Rogers Electric Co.'s corner. Cars dash
around these two corners at breakneck speed, making the sidewalks
hazardous. As cars approach Main street from Wall, the slight rise
maloes it almost a necessity to slow down, then they straddle the
sidewalk awaiting a chance to turn right or left into Main street.
But cars going into these side streets take it at full speed regard
less of sidewalk traffic.
Perhaps if Wall street is made a thoroughfare, one-way regu
lations will be instituted which will certainly be gratefully received
by the walking public.
Isn't it a blessing that memory holds tighter to pleasant
things than to the other kind?
It seems unbelievable that there is any kind of sickness in the
world. Just listen to the radio, or television for that matter, and
you will be commercialized for every ill imaginable . . . and all
curable if you use the article that the announcer is being sponsored
by. And as for smokers, there never should be a cough in a com
mercial cigarette. But we will say one thing for the products thusly
advertised: they can put on some of the cleverest commercial shin
digs ever devised for eye and ear consumption.
If Peace were only a reality instead of an issue!
planned it just before the start of
the mtach and had phoned George
to bring a pistol along with him,
loaded with blanks. George had
fired it at exactly the right mo
ment.
From then on the game con
tinued in somewhat erratic fash
ion, because every few minutes
one of the four would have to sit
down and laugh.
"I don't see a damned thing
funny about it," said Mr. Mum
ford in a dignified and austere
manner, as he proceeded to drive
his ball into the rough. And from
then On he put up the worst ex
hibition of golf that has ever been
seen on the course of the Caro
lina Country Club.
jk^WASHINGTON
1 MARCH OF EVENTS
The Presidential Office;
Why Do Men Seek It?
Many Chief Executives
Found Job Unhappy On*
Special to Central Press Association
WASHINGTON?Being President of the United States is an hon
or to which many men have aspired, yet the post has been de
nounced by most chief executives and has brought tragedy to many
of them.
As late as 1952, Adlai Stevenson remarked that he'd shoot him
self if drafted for the Democratic nomination. Yet today he is glad
ly running again.
.. Dwieht D. Eisenhower at first repulsed those
who asked him to run in 1952. He said he had no
desire to be President. Now he is seeking a sec
ond term, knowing th^t he will be the oldest
President ever to serve it he survives another
four years.
What impels a man to run for President? The
desire for honor, power, a sense of duty?
George Washington once cried when beset by
calumny and threats of impeachment while serv
ing that "I'd rather be in my grave tham* the
presidency." %
Earlier, just before taking the oath for his first
term, he remarked: "My movements to the chair
of government will be accompanied by feelings
President not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the
Eisenhower place of execution." , ,
* ? ? ?
JOHN ADAMS WROTE shortly after his own term ended: "If I
were to go over my life again, I would be a shoemaker rather than
an American statesman."
Years later, when he was advised that his son, John Quincy, had
won the presidency, the elder Adams said: "No man who ever held
the office of President would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.
He will make one man ungrateful and a hundred men his enemies
for every office he can bestow."
John Quincy Adams lived to agree with his father. Upon com
pleting his term, he remarked that he had spent "the unhappiest
four years of my life" in the White House.
Thomas Jefferson, when vice president, wrote: "The second office
of the government is honorable and easy. The first is but a splendid
misery." As he neared completion of his second terra as President,
Jefferson commented: "Never did a prisoner, released from his
chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of
power."
? ? * ?
JAMES K. POLK COMPLAINED that he was "the hardest work
ing man in the country" and added, "I shall be a happier man in my
retirement." He died three months after he loft the White House.
James Buchanan warned Abraham Lincoln of what lay ahead. He
said: "If you are as happy, dear sir, on entering this house as I am
in leaving it, you aye the happiest man. in this country."
? Lincoln lived to ponder Buchanan's warning. He called the execu
tive mansion "this dammed old house." Civil war broke out soon af
ter his inauguration, his son Tad died, and Lincoln was assassinated
shortly after beginning a second term.
Lincoln, once asked how it felt to be President, remarked: "I feel
like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town
on a rail. To the man who asked him how he liked it, he said, 'If It
wasn't for the honor of the thing, I'd rather walk."
James A. Garfield, shortly after he moved into Presidency
the White House, demanded to know, "My God,
what is there in this place that a man should ever . mnitled
wanf to get into it." He died less than nine months Penance"!
later at the hands of an assassin.
Grover Cleveland wrote, upon beginning his second term, "I look
upon the next four years to come as a self-inflicted penanoe for the
good of the country. I see no pleasure In 1L"
>The presidency brought Wood row Wilson only grief. A man of
peace, he served through a world war and left the White House
broken in health and spirit.