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fODATS BIBLE VERSE tn ,th# Psalmist was richt?"It is a-good thing to thrf thaata onto Uio Lord." ?Psalms 92:1. s, j - ? % Editorial Page of the Mountaineer ??? ? TODAY'S QUOTATION "In the midst of a deep sorrow I prayed but the darkness did not vanish. It only deep ened until the day when I saw on the wall of the mission home in an island Station these words?TRY THANKSGIVING'." , * ?Rev. Henry Frost. ?' ? ? ? ? Haywood Library 1; ack In The News There has b$en a long silence relative to the propq^al to modernize the \V. B. Fergu ? n homte Tor the flnywood County Library. ?? e\ erthelesa. the hoard of trustees of the. I. hrary, and the architect have been putting i' soibe lohg hours on the project, and today ei.pect the blueprints back from Raleigh, where thejt have been sent for the State Li t iiry Board to check. The bo*n^ explained their silence simply fcv saying; "We wanted to have everything ii readlneaa, and approved before we started t Iking about the project in public." Their explanation is accepted, and we ex f et from the tone of their voices, and de t rmination which gleamed in their eyes, t at the public will be hearing a lot about t <? new building for the Library before long. It was In the fall of 1954 that Mrs. Maude V'atson ami Mrs. Marjorie Blaylock, daugh t rs of the late W. B. Ferguson, deeded the 5 acre tract and house to the Haywood Li b ftry Board. Alex Shuford, a son of Mrs. V'atson later gave f 10,000 to apply on the r novation of the home into a modern library. The time is near when you'll be hearing a 1< t about a bigger and better home for the 1 aywood County Library. Well Qualified For Leadership The unnnimous action of the executive committee of the Board of Trustees of the Consolidated University of North Carolina In recommending William Clyde Friday for the presidency of the institution warrants the assumption that his election will be a mere formality when the full boftrd meets r"\t week. It would be well-nigh impossible to find in one individual all of the attribute? needed to hnad this great institution of learning in the period ahead, which should be marked by renaissance as well as continued growth. It v ould be absurd to contend that Mr. Friday c- any other young man has all of the capa I lities which might be desired in a univer s ty president. The thing which is most impressive about ViWans Wday, however, is that, at the age er 36, he has demonstrated a remarkable ca pncity for growth. There is every reason to b dieve that his growth will continue and will b ? stimulated by the greater responsibility h'> will bear from now on. Two other things should be said about the r an. He has a clear conception of the true f 'nction or the University and the rcsponsi b'lit.v of the man who heads it to see to it fiat the function is performed. He also un d rsands fully that the University now con s'sts of three units, not ode. For generations the people of North Caro li in have looked to the University not only t" educate the youth but to furnish moral, i' tellectual, cultural and civic leadership for a 1 the people of the State. Most of the time t" at leadership has been forthcoming. All of t' e people of the State will join those con p cted directly with the University in the h pe that under the presidency of Mr. Friday t' e days of the University's greatest lead e ship will lie in the future?not in the past. ?Raleigh News and Observer. Let Us Give Thanks Thursday will mark the annual observance of Thanksgiving Day. Since the Pilgrims first began the custom of taking time to give thanks, the American people have placed varied and wide-flung ideas about the observance of the day. The observance of Thanksgiving is some thing akin to religion ? it should be done in the way the individual feels it is his duty, and according to the dictates of his sincere feelings and conscience. We have our own ideas on the matter, and certainly have no quarrel with those who view the matter differently. However, we feel that for a fuller life, every individual should meditate, and give serious thoughts to the meaning of Thanksgiving, and to take time to count the blessings enjoyed in the past years. We here in America have our problems, to be sure, but they are so minor as compar ed to what so many people of other lands are having to endure. This Thanksgiving, some time during the day, take time to think it over and lift your face towards heaven and utter a prayer of thanks for the many, many things you have been taking for granted. ? and once started, it would be fitting, and timely to do this daily. I)o you know of any people, anywhere in the world that should be more thankful than those of us who live right here in Haywood county ? Vandalism Will Not Be Tolerated We are unable to understand what frame of mind a person would have to be in to go to a cemetery and turn over the tombstones. Officers say 13 have been turned over since Halloween?five on Halloween. The police have issued a warninR that such vandalism would not be tolerated, and the person or persons convicted of such an act has been promised the full penalty as pro vided by law. Several reports have come to the police lately of a group of teen-age boys who have pulled several dangerous so-called "pranks." in what the young boys perhaps termed fun. The officers differ as to what conaitutes fyp. and hope to bring the guilty ones to the bar of justice ere long. For the sake of the boys, and their par ents, we trust they will stop their foolishness before it is too late. Haywood Cattle Are Tops Haywood cattle ran true to form last week at the Fat Calf khow and sale. The young men who entered cattle came out on top as to quality, and prices paid for the animals,. Haywood is still a cattle county, and the reputation of this being the home of quality cattle is still known far and wide. The young men Are to be congratulated on their success, and their ability to grow and show such fine cattle. The Mountaineer had arrangements made for a group of pictures of the winners, and as sometimes happens, the best of plans fail to work out satisfactorily. Anyway, we trust such luck will not be ours next year. > fFW?5 OF OTHER EDITORS Trail Of Tears Turned To Gold One of North Carolina's most exciting do-it-your sc'f Cinderella stories of home industry has hap pr ned at Cherokee, the Indian town up in the \V -stern Carolina mountains. Ten years ago the tr vn had only a few wooden structures, and the C' erokee Indians were making a precarious living ovt of their mountain acres. They had never re ordered. in spirit or In Initiative, from the sorrows of their "trail of tears" back in the 1830's, when tf? U. S government had seized most of their lands at a pitifully small price and sent most of tlx- Cher okee* off to reservations in Oklahoma Then leaders of the Western North Carolina As sociated Communities decided to do something about Cherokee and its Indians They established the Cherokee Historical Association; they brought in Playwright Hermit Hunter to write an outdoor drama about the Cherokee*. "Unto These Hills" and they started a self-improvement community move ment that has worked wonders for the whole area John Parris, Western Carolina newsman always interested in Cherokee events, reported the other day some of the accomplishments of the Cherokee Historical Association since 1950; payment of more than $500,0ft0 In salaries to the Cherokee Indians, purchase of more than $20,000 in materials from the Cherokees, payment of about $50,000 Into the Cherokee Community Services treasury, expenditure of $25,000 in the Cherokee development program, college scholarships of $15,000 for Indian boys and girls, construction of a curb market for Cherokee farmers, and construction of bus waiting stations for Cherokee children. In addition, nearly a million tourists have been brought to Cherokee to see the play and have re mained to shop at the Indian craft shops along the village street, buying souvenirs to take home and leaving their money t<f raise the Cherokee income. "What has happened here," concludes Mr. Par ris. "stapda as a symbol of the American way of life and a monument to community enterprise and effort."* Mr. Parris might have added that the achieve menta of the Cherokee community also stand as an example to other North Carolina communities which need to Inject new life blood Into their own area. ?The Smithfield Herald THE MOUNTAINEER WinuiTlUf, North Carolina Main Street Dial GL 6-5301 The Omtf Seat at Haywood County Published By T-e WAYNB8VILLE MOUNTAINEER, Inc. W CURTIS BUSS .... - ~>L 1... _ Editor W Curtis Kw dud Marion T. Bridges. Publishers PI BLIBHEK KVERV MONDAY AND THURSDAY BY MAIL IN HAYWOOD COUNTY Oi e Year JZIEL - ?. $8.50 Si ? months ? - 2.00 BY MAIL IN NORTH CAROLINA O e Year ?.? 4.50 Sir' months ? 150 OUTSIDE NORTH CAROLINA O' e Year . 5.00 SI - months 8.00 LOCAL CARRIER DELIVERY P?- month ,iJ. I- .40 O'"(co-paid for carrier delivery 4.50 Second CSa* maflprtvlllgaa authorised at Weynes vf a. R C. , ' member or tub abbociatto press mmmrnmmm *76c 'pmpumc Thanksgiving day dates from 1621 when the PiI ffrimt, who had tailed to America teeking religiont freedom in the good ship May flower the year before, tet aside a day of prayerful thanksgiving and feasting in celebration of their first har vest in the new land. Presi dent Lincoln, in It64, named the last Thursday in November for general observance of Thanksgiving in the United States. ? r m x\,u g-n 3 My Favorite Stories Br CARL GOEBCH During ti c war we had some mighty vigilant soldiers in North Carolina and any time you did something that was the least sus picious. chances were that one of them was going to follow it up Which was a mighty tine thing, hut sometimes led to embarrass ing circumstances. Like Mr William G. Robert son's experience, for example. Mr Robertson is a highly res pected Wilmington citizen of long standing and unquestioned loyal ty. lie's also an organist of rare talent. He and Mrs. Robertson spend their summers at Lake Kanuga, but at this particular time he had been called back to Wilmington to play for a wedding But we'll let Mr. Robertson tell the story himself. It was on n Sunday afternoon ?says Mr. Rol>ertson ?and I was riding Ihe bus from Wilmington to Charlotte. I thought that I could use the time to write some poetry which I planned to enter in Ihe Annual Poetry Contest at Kanuga Lake Inn. I had a maga zine with me and found in it a page of advertising matter that had a great deal of white space in it 1 started writing quatrains in verses wherever 1 could find space, and finally put the last verse on the margin of the op posite page. This poem was in tended to be semi-humorous? which is as close as I can ever get to writing anything funny. Then 1 turned to a page furth er back in the magazine and start ed a blank-verse poem,- Intended to be serious, with the protected title: "Would You See God'.'" I started alt this writing at about Lumberton. and 1 finished before we reached Laurinburg where the bus makes a short stop. The bus was crowded. I noticed a soldier standing in the aisle opposite my seat, but I didn't pay any particular attention to him. He l^ft the bus when he reached Laurinburg. In a few minutes, while still at the bus stop, a Laurinburg police man came Inside the bus. while another police officer accompan ied by aiv M. P. stood waiting outside. When the inside man got to me he regarded me care fully and then asked: "Where Is the man who was writing in the magazine?" In some surprise I answered that I had been doing it. He then asked to see it and. taking it into his hands, regarded each and every page with the utmost care. He stopped and paid par ticular attention to nvy writing, which was rather difficult to read, inaemucb as it had baaa done while the bus had bean In motion Tfe turned over the pages and stopped at a cartoon to ask me v hat tlie marking at the bottom of the picture meant. I told him that it was the signature of the man who had drawn the cartoon, which is exactly what it was. I then asked the policeman on the outside if he would mind telling rne what it was all about; He hesitated a moment and then said: "You are under suspicion of hav ing made notes or plans of the new airfields between here and Lumberton." You can imagine how that startled me. 1 tried to tell him that it was simply poetry, hut he said that poetry could cover up a lot of things. 1 had to agree with him that that undoubtedly was true. The upshot of the whole busi ness was that they instructed me to get my hag and raincoat and come along with them, which I did without protest. Flanked on either side by a city policeman, and with the M. P. trailing along behind. I was marched to a po lice var and taken to the home of the chief of police. I had mean while shown all my identification cards to the policemen, and now had to show them to the chief, who had at first shaken hands with me in order to show them that there was nothing personal on his part about the affair. After questioning me for a while, he turned to the patrolman and said: "You haven't anything to hold this man on." Nevertheless, while the police man did take me back to the bus station, they refused to let me have the magazine with the poet ry I "hStf so* dangerously written in it. and I got the impression that they were going to have it examined, presumably by the F.B.I, to see if it were not some from of cryptogram or map? which will take up a lot of the F.B.l.'s valuable time for noth ing. ? . I must say, however, that the patrolmen were not discourteous, even though one of them did turn around in the car and ask. "Have sou got a gun or knife on you?" I told him that I did not; that the only thing I had on me was a pencil?which seemed to be res ponsible for all my trouble. The feature about the whole thing that was most unpleasant came from the somewhat dark looks I got from the crowd around us, who evidently had been in formed what my offense was sup posed to be. They continued to regard me with suspicion as long as I remained there. 1 was permitted to catch a later bus. Although I had been put to considerable inconvenience, I was offered no indignity such as a search of my person, and I don't blame the officers, for they were men with a duty to perform, and they performed it according to their light. It did seem rather funny, however, to be suspected of espionage of air fields when our son is wearing wings in the service of the Unfted States and when writing poetry is the only dangerous thing I have done. I have always known that my .poet ry is none too good, but I had never expected to write any that would throw me into the "Held for-questioning" category. SCOTT S SCRAP BOOK By R. J. SCOM ( MARABOU, ' A. LAHCt MARABOU, _ A KiHt) of ^*6wK SAW S'LKl ALSO, A V . ^ HV H MAM ?jV- V fS-OM yf. r>Vt^ r AUOWID -<? ?a*l HUl -61 HISS 60* HI rius HIS MAft iy WlOHUlAi HOOD ViHicH 5tt ofcteS OH <? Wi*4r XCOAPC 'jmr- W" ' -ifo CIWUMHMHO. * Ax lUPtOkM-IS fooC will Bi rtKUu*ranr? u&m*. 9 "* . . ... L A.M -(ill UUkC.lM' < LlVlKC KA.H6UMM IK *US<*Aa.iA SHMXUL '* *IA?K UMltl*. HUlKlVfc^iC *?ii<o?Li *? Rambling 'Round By Frances Gilbert Frazier THAVKSGIVING 1956 We come to Thee, dear Lord, with heads bowed in gratitude and hearts filled with thanks for the mercies and blessings Thou hast bestowed upon us. We thank Thee for Thy patience. Our many acts of omission must have tried Thee sorely, but Thou hast never failed to let us know that Thou art ever understanding and realize we all have weaknesses Thy compassion spurs us on to better thoughts and acts. Thy protecting hands spare us the pressure of over-burdening loads and help us over the rough places in our daily travel. We thank Thee, dear Lord, for all those little things that, add.-d together, make li{? so wonderful, little things that seem so trifling until we find ourselves denied them. The song of the birds, the cool pink of the eastern sky at sunrise and the warm, golden glow of its last glimpse' as it sets. Then the soft, sweet sanctity of twilight that lulls us into the peace and serenity of dusk. We thank Thee, too. for our friends and their ever present will ingness to help us in time of stress, and their comfort in time of sorrow. Dear Lord, accept our humility and gratitude in deep applica tion for Thy manifold gifts to us, gifts that may not be pres^B.o the eye but make themselves manifest in countless ways. Hold our hands, dear Lord, so that not only on this day set aside for thanksgiving, we will feel Thy kindly guidance and presence at all times and we can send out our deep and heartfelt gratitude for Thy gracious gift of well being and happiness. Qn this Thanksgiving Day, accept these prayers for a proper way in which we can show our thanks to The. dear Lord. Looking Back Over The Years 20 years ago Miss Elizabeth Ray goes to New York to spend a fortnight with relatives. < Mrs. William T. Hannah and two small sons are among those attending the Carolina-Duke game in Chapel Hill. Mrs. Grover Davis succeeds Mrs. Rufus Siler as president of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Church. Miss Nell Campbell gives birth day dinner. 10 years ago Motorcade, parade, formal pro gram, and barbecue are Included in events planned for Homer Fer guson Day. Drive for band uniforms goes over the top. Miss Laura Mae Clauson and William Shelton Ray are married in the First Methodist Church. Mrs. Rufus Siler and Mrs. Hugh Massie honor their mother. Mrs. J K Boone, on the latter's 88th birthday. 5 YEARS AGO Mauriehe Carver is crowned 1951 Tobacco Queen. Santa Claus arrives: gets big welcome from children. Mr, and Mrs. Archie Craft of Wilmington visit the latter's mother. Mrs. Troy Wyche. William Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Ray. gets battlefield promotion to first lieutenant. Waynesville Homemakers win first place in the home club ex hibits at the Armory. 4*<?&WASHINGT0N ' MARCH OF EVENTS Red China Nonrecognition I U. S.?Chinese Negotiations Becoming a 'Legal Fiction' | Continue for Over a Year Special to Central Press Association WASHINGTON?The refusal by the United States to recognize Communist China is becoming more and more "legalistic fic tion." The shooting down of an American Navy plane off the Chi nese coast provides the most recent example of this. Since this government does not recognize the Chinese Reds, the British, who do, were asked to obtain information about the plane shooting, which they did. However, while this diplomatic maneuvering was going on, the Washington U. S. and Red China were continuing to hold negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland. There, American emmissaries have been talking with Communists Chinese representatives for more than a year over U. S.-Chinese relations. JPrior to that, we negotiated directly with the Red Chinese at Panmonjom in settling the Kufe rean war. However, officially, the U. S. gove^SJ ment won't admit the existence of the Commit nist Chinese regime?not diplomatically, that is. ? ? ? * ? FITNESS?A medical paper by a New York physician has got the United States government up in arms about the relative physical fitness of American kids as compared with European boys and girls. Dr. Hans Kraus presented results of a series of physical testa given to American and European children at the American Medical association meeting last year. The furor over the results led to a special White House confer ence called by President Eisenhower to focus attention to the im portance of keeping American youth physically fit. What is not very widely known is that the results of Dr. Kraus' teats showed that schoolbus-riding, TV-watching U. S. youth scored lower physically than their hiking European brothers. ? ? ? ? ? SENATE SLEUTHS?Senate investigators plan to focus a pierc ing Spotlight on racketeers who may have been collecting taxpayers" money on military uniform contracts grabbed from legitimate oper ators. Top name in the inquiry so far is Johnny Dio, New York gangland figure indicated as the "mastermind" in the acid blinding of labor columnist Victor Riesel. Since Dio, whose real name is Dioguardi* already has trouble enough of his own, he may be spared further questioning by the investigations subcommittee headed by Senator John L. McClellan (D), Arkansas. Dio was quifzed by the group last spring. It was not announced whether his own activities were under investigation or whether he was being questioned about underworld friends. However, the Senate group recently seised records of a Yonkers, N. Y., Teamsters Union local in which the name of "Johnny D" ap pears. They are trying to see whether Dio is connected with the union now and, if so, how. ? ? ? ? ? WARREN'S TRIP?State department officials are admittedly? though privately?unhappy about one particular aspect of Chief Justice Ear! Warren's recent visit' to India. What upsets them was the timing of the visit. Warren was receiving only a comparatively lukewarm reception from Indian officials and people until he made a speech pointing out that it was Warren's under him that the Supreme Court outlawed segre gation in U. S. public schools. Popularity ' Prom then on, however, the chief justice wss Up. Then Dewn treated royally by a people whose friendship for the United States has always seemed to depend on how well American minorities are treated. However, while Warren was talking in India, the school year & opened in the U. S. and anti-integration demonstrations in southern states broke out. These incidents were headlined in the Indian news papers and Warren's stock dropped sharply m India. Rate department officials admit they should have realized there was this danger and that Warren's visit should have been timed so It Wbutt net have coincided with the new U. S. school term.
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