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Busy Year Ahead I
Looms For Haywood
With Christmas over. it is that time of
year when business people take their annual
inventory. Many firms take an inventory of
their stock more than once a year, in order
to be sure of their financial status.
Perhaps it would be well for th<? individual,
as well as the community to take an Inven
tory of their assets and liabilities, in an ef
fort to determine their standing in the
world.
Here in Haywood county, there have al
ready been launched some programs which
we feel will "bear fruit" during 1967. The
agriculture program for an increased farm
income is on the list in that phase of bur
economy.
From the angle of tourists, the group that
caters to them are already at work, and the
outlook for another good season is in pro
spect. l^ake Junaluska has another banner
urogram in the making, which is destined to
bring in many thousands, perhaps even
breaking the new high set in 1966.
In the industrial field, 1957 will see in a
short time the new Unagusta Manufactur
ing Company plant in full production, as well
as the other plants which have for the most
part, made additions to their operations.
Construction is slated on the Pigeon Riv
er Road, and the now Ralsam-Sylva highway
should be opened in 1957.
A Ilavwood citizens committee is giving
serious thought to an expanded school pro
gram. while officials of Waynesville, Hazel
wood and Iaike Junaluska are having an en
gineering survey made of the 5-mile trunk
sewer line, with the ultimate idea of building
a modern sewage disposal plant.
These are among the many events which
are now on the agenda for 1957, and from
here, it looks like an interesting, active and
certainly prosperous year for this vicinity.
Sri^ntjfic Research
All Around Us
The State Board of Conservation an<l I >e
velooment recently published a booklet, cit
ing the growth of scientific iiulpstrial re
search in the State, and carried three pic
tures of the Dayton Rubber Plant to help il
lustrate the book.
Champion Paper and Fibre Company.
Fnka and Oneral Fleetric of Henderson-?
ville. each had a picture, which shows that
this area is well represented in that "scien
tific group" which each year spends untold
amounts on research.
And right along that line, the State Col
lege. in their Industrial News Bulletin, said:
"Industry in North Carolina will need 5,400
technicians per year for the next five years."
according to a recent committee report.
The bulletin continues with the thought:
"For high school graduates who want more
training but do not desire to enter four-year
college. the community college can provide a
two-vear terminal program for would-be
technicians and engineering aides. Is your
town considering the establishment of either
type of school as a community project?
We recommend it as an opportunity for your
young citizens and a* a stimulus for your
local business."
There seems to be some solid food for
thought in this suggestion, and being right
here in a "natural research center" where
so much industrial research Is already estab
lished. it certainly would not hurt to give
the matter much attention.
Collards Coming
Into Their Own
Many folks go almost through life with
out realizing just what they miss in not fat
ing collards.
Collards were once considered an exclusive
South Carolina, and F.astern North Carolina
dish, hut with the arrival of fru/,?-n foods,
the delicious col lard has spread to other
parts of the country, and now more and more
I>eop!c are enjoying the dish.
Few dishes can match well-cooked col
lards, buttered muffins, and cold buttermilk
or coffee.
And we agree with the Goldsboro News
Argus. when it said editorially, "What col
lards need today is a good publicity agent."
The fact remains that the large percent
age of those who try properly cooked col
lards are from that time on, among the grow
ing group who are spreading the good word.
The Goldsboro paper, right down in the
heart of the collard country, went on editor
ially to say:
"In the 19:tt)'s his sturdy winter green had
such an agent in the late Rabc Ruth. The
King of Swat annually made a trip to Camp
Bryan, below New Bern, to hunt and fish.
The Negro cook, a man trained from boy
hood as a cook, introduced the Babe to col
lards. He could go rhapsodic over them.
"On his trips to and from Camp Bryan.
Ruth would spend a few hours in Goldsboro
and if he were headed for camp he was talk
ing about the collards he would eat. If he
were headed back to New York, he, explain
ed that he was taking back a large container
of greens, collard variety.
"1 !???!! urn f/Miii/l niii lioi 1 ni* tlin f Kniinrkf
V-IIIII i wuiiu uuv v> c in' 'ii 11 v
that collards weren't 'fitten to eat until the
frost had bit them.' In recent years we have
learned better. We know that collards are
good in the summer, in the fall and in the
winter. Even the frozen food people are be
ginning to find out about this marvelous
vegetable.
"A friend now living in Roanoke relates
how her neighbor came out and was telling
with delight how she had found a marvelous
new green in the frozen food department,
'It is something called collards.' she said.
'You just ought to get some and try them.'
"Our friend felt superior as she recalled
she learned to eat collards out of her moth
er's garden when a very small girl.
- "It could be that the interest of the frozen
food people will give the collards the general
ismularity they deserve.
"And there has been a change in the dis
tribution of the vegetable through the stores.
Once the grower brought in the collard as
one big head, the leaves spreading two or
three feet in a circle. Now the leaves, the
firm and tender ones, are picked off and tied
in attractive bunches for those not so for
tunate as to have back yard gardens.
"With these new trends for collards, they
could go places if they had a good publicity
agent."
Need For Nifht Schools
N'-jht schools for adults have been gain
ing in popularity and perhaps in the not too
distant ftfture there will be one on fractions.
Come the first of the year, the social se
curity deduction goes up another fraction
figure. 2'i'i.
Let's see now if you want to divide frac
tions, you multiply or do you reverse the de
nominator and the numerator. Oh gosh, get
ahold of an enrollment blank for us will you?
Scranton (Iowa) Journal.
VIEWS OF OTHER EDITORS
Changing View Of Debt
Perhaps you consider the laws of the economists
as immutable things, solid and unchanging. Rome
of them are. certainly Supply and demand, for
example. But then you recall the depression of
1929 and the great outcry that installment buying
or consumer credit was a major cause. Total con
sumer debt was 6.5 billion, half of it in installment
bills. Certainly reckless buying must have hastened
trouble, some said
But look at today: Total private and public debt
past 700 billion, consumer credit of 37 billion and
installment credit of 20 billion ? Few persons look
unon the situation as immediately dangerous. The
philosophy of busing now, paying later, becomes a
part of our thinking
And you have to reatire that had It been otherwise
America simply could not have reached its great
ievei of prosperity Cash buying is ideal, of course
But how many people would hayv had to wait years
for a new car or television set"
Naturally it would be possible to over-expand our
debt That's whv the Federal Beserve has tighten
ed things up a bit And. at the President's reouest
is studvinc the whole credit picture Nevertheless
there is a rcli/ation that the man who dors the buy
ing is a man of common sense and knows how far
he ran go l.ook at the remarkably low record of
pavment default and vou see evidence enough
But even bevond that, there is the fact that us
ereat a? our debt ha? become it has not grown as
fast as the hla^k-ink side of the economy. Otm debts
in 1945 eoualted about 75 per cent of our tangible
wealth Todav they are onlv half as big As as
f->milv economics bureau of Northwestern National
Life Insurance Company points out we are actually
pledging a smaller percentage of our national in
come than at the end of World War TT.
All this seems to add up to the conclusion that
the average consumer at ease under a sound gov
ernment monetary noliev. is not likelv to borrow
himself into trouble So credit buying becomes
not a national curse hut an asset which has helped
make great prosperity possible. We've learned a
lot slacc 1W wKhih City (*?J atar.
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Looking
Back Over
The Years
?'.? YEARS AGO
Roger llabson nay* J937 will be
first year of real prosperity <ln< ??
1929
Mr and Mr* Fred Ferguson of
Raleigh are vDlting the former *
mother, Mr* Miwrav Ferguson on
the Dellwood Road
Little Theresa Alley is fea
tured in a rental given hy Sher
rill Dancing School at Battery
Park Motel
10 YEARS AGO
Dr J. R. McCracken i* select ?(!
"Shriner of the Month."
M D Wat It in* lead* polio drive
here.
Dr. J. L. Reeves of Canton is
named president of the Haywood
Medical Society.
Mis* Ida Lou Gibson, student
m Montreal College, arrives for
holidays
Fred Martin, Jr., student at
Arizona State College, arrives for
holiday*
5 YEARS AGO
Major Fannie Johnson Rey
nolds arrives front Washington to
spend Christmas with her broth
er and sister-in-law. Mr and Mrs.
John N. Johnson
W'elteo Shoe Corp has party
for .700 employees.
Mrs. Robert Osborne is re
elected president of the Rector's
Guild of Grace Episcopal Church.
Dr. and Mrs. Jam"* K. StrinR
ficld are spending the holidays
with their mothers, Mrs. Sam
Stringfield and Mrs. L. M Riche
son.
Mr and Mrs. Gostin Woiiin of
New York are visiting the latterN
mother, Mrs. Mabel Brown Abel.
Views Of Other
Editors
SEE THE CHILI) HE WAS
By SYDNEY HARRIS
See him as the child ho was.
Those seven simple one-syllable
words have taken me half a life
time to learn. But it has been
worth the hard-fought lesson
For these are magic words:
with them, you can rise above pet
tiness and spite, cruelty and arro
gance and greed
When you confront a man who
shows these unattractive traits?
see him as the child lv.< was.
Remember that he began his
life with laughing expectancy,
with trust, with warmth, desiring
to give love and to take love
And then remember that some
thing happened to hint ? some
thiryj that he is not aware of?
to turn the trust into suspicion,
the warmth into wariness, the
give-and-take into all-take and no
give
See him as the child Ive was.
Behind the pomp or the rude
ness .beneath the crust of mean
ness or coldness begin to perceive
the wistful little boy (or girl) who
is hurt "id disappointed and de
termined to strike back at the
world
Or the little boy who is fright
ened. and tightens his jaw and
rlenches his fist to ward off some
overwhelming fear that hovers
deep in the dark past
Or the little boy who was given
too much too soon ? and given
things instead of feelings and
now can chiteh his power or his
purse the way he used to clutch
his teddybear because there is
nothing else he feels is really
his for keeps. ,
See him as the child he was
Regard the faces as they pass
you on the street: adult faces on
the surface but the child is lurk
ing not too far beneath the skin
the child who eats too much be
cause Ire craves the sweetness of
affection, the child who drinks too
much because he cannot face a
motherless world the child who
brags and lies and cheats to wTcst
rovenre for some huee indignity
that is gnawing at his heart
And then look a"aln closely
and you will see what the Book
means when it calls all of us
"Cod's children"?you will see a
glimmer of hone behind the
harshness a touch of tenderness
that no defensive wall can whol
ly obliterate
Only in this way can we guard
ourselves against responding in
kind aga|n?t reluming pettiness
to the nrettv and cruelty to the
cruel And onlv in this way ran
w find the path to the green pla
teau ?f adiUtheefi. whore we tan
THE AMERICAN WAY
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That ought
to stop it' ?
Jk
Best Idea Yet!
Views of Other Editors
LIQUOR'S ROLE
Many law enforcement officials
believe that liquor is a far great
er factor in traffic accldAts than
the hare statistics show. Results
of a new procedure being usxhI
in Delaware should strengthen
that belief.
Data based on 91 fatal crashes
show that 57 of them included
some degree of alcohol involve
ment, either with drivers or
pedestrians Thus, in neatly 63
per cent of the accidents, some
one had been drinking.
Twenty-eight (31 per cent" of
the accidents involved either a
driver or pedestrian with blood
alcohol content of .15 per rent
or above. The laws of Virginia
and 21 other states provide that
readings of .15 per cent above
furnish a presumption that the
person is under the influence
So it was gratifying to see
Judge Car let on E. Jewett giving
the maximum penalty -a year in
jail and a $1,000 fine?to a man
convicted last week for the fifth
time for drunk driving.
Under the drunk driving and
another charge heard at the same
time, the man's driving privilege
was revoked for four years Vir
ginia law provides an automatic
revocation for one year on the
first drunk driving conviction and
for three years on tile second An
addition should be made to the
law to provide a lifetime revoca
tion for any driver convicted of
thLs serious offense a third time
?Richmond (Va ? Times-Dispatch
of them during the three years.
Rut the people who are most in
need of a pay increase from the
state are not the departmental
employees. They are the public
school teachers.
Their salary levels are shame
fully low when their responsibili
ties and qualifications are taken
into account The same cannot be
said of the average state em
ployee. however deserving his
case may be.
The 1957 General Assembly
must take thK difference into ac
count if it is to distribute its
money according to need.
There will be a strong tenden
cy toward an "across the board"
raise that will benefit all alike. It
will be the easy thing to do. but
it will not do much justice to the
facts.
The state saary seal' for "A"
certificate teachers now ranges
from $2,450 to $3,420. climbing
to $3 907 for those with gradu
ate degrees who have taught 12
years.
The State Board of Education
has asked that the scale be in
creased an average of 19.31 per
cent. It would start an "A" cer
tificate teacher at $2,900 and in
crease the figure UP to $4,500 for
those with graduate certificates
and 14 years of experience.
The Assembly's first duty on
the salary front is to go as far as
possible toward meeting these re
quests.
It may take a matching plan, as
Gov. Ilodgj-- lias suggested. For
instance, the state might put up
10 per cent and add another five
per cent if the local school unit
agrees to match th ? fiye per cent.
In this way the slate could com
pine a substantial increase with a
challenge to the local units to
help it do even more.
The important thing is that the
Assembly not forget where its
first obligation lies.
?The Charlotte Observer.
TEACHERS IIAVF. FIRST CALL
Most people will agree with
Gov. Hodges that the state em
ployees need and deserve a pay
increase
They have not had a general
raise since 1953, and the rising
cost of living has outflanked many
look down upon God's children
with a sad but loving glance.
? Richm ogd News-Leader
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Rambling 'Round
By Frances Gilbert Fraxier
My, but it's wonderful not to feel the galloping feet of time
pressing on our neck' Why. we fan even pick up the latest maga
zine today and not have our conscience poke us in the ribs and say:
?'Hev, cut that out. Don't you know there's work to be done?"
But wasn't it grand? And right here let us say a heartfelt
thank you to the friends who were so generous In their gifts and
kind wishes
Were you amongst those who fell to the charms of glitter
wrappings, so beautiful and irresistible? And are you still brushing
off said aJittcr from every thing around? Ribbon ends, paper scraps
and all the other accessories of Christmas preparations are safely
deposited in the waste paper basket, and now comes the problem of
finding locations for the gifis. The edibles are well taken cate of
by this time, but where, oh where to find an unoccupied niche!
Anyway, it was wonderful and well worth all the stress and
strain that went before.
Classified ad:-"NOTICE! I will not be responsible for
any debts incurred by my son, my daughter, my wife nor
any of her relatives. It's about time I bought something for
tnyself. (Signed) Hen Peck. c
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Now with Christmas in the background, we turn our thoughts
to opening up the new book of 19S7 and carefully reading the twelve
chapters therein contained. Each chapter has its own title and
should furnish some interesting and entertaining reading matter.
Some of these chapters have thirty pages, some thirty-one and the
shortest has only twenty-eight. Each page contains twenty-four para
graphs, 1440 lines and 80,400 words. Study all of these carefully
and wisely so that when the book is closed at midnight, December
thirty-first, the Master can say: "Well done, thou good and faithful
servant."
The pendulum swings to and fro.
As it has done for many years.
It clicks away each passing hour.
That's built of hope, and also fear
So ev'ry morn when we awake.
And start the day afresh, anew,
I.et's start it off with firm resolve.
To make the best of what we do.
We cannot stop this pendulum.
As long as life is. ever ours.
But we can swing along with it,
* And make the most of precious hours.
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4*(?feWASHINGT0N
? MARCH OF FVENTS
Ik* Seeks to Check Slowup on Pay, Prico
Inflationary Pressures j Boosts Will be Sought
Special to Central Press Association
WASHINGTON*?President Eisenhower has ordered a quiet, un
publicized, but vigorous drive to check the inflationary pres
sures which are worrying some of his ablest economic advisers.
Though the chief executive and Vice President Richard M. Nixon
pointed with pride during the political campaign to the fact that
the overall price rise.has been less than three per cent since Mr.
Eisenhower took office, there is alarm in administration circles.
? ? jSfr'n ? Inflationary influences include money, labor
ana material snoriages pius a ouying spree
caused by the war scare resulting from the Mid
dle East crisis.
Labor Secretary James Mitchell and Commerce
Secretary Sinclair Weeks have been instructed
to urge both unions and management to exercise
the utmost restraint in seeking wage increases
or boosting prices.
Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve system is ex
peoted to act soon to raise the discount rate?
the price charged for loans from Federal Reserve
banks?from three per cent, the current^ '.re,
to three and one-quarter per cent. 14
This would be the third such increase icvVsfl,
frankly aimed at tightening anti-inflation brakes.
? * * ?
? MIDDLE EAST CONCERN?Administration policy makers take
a much more serious view of the crisis in the Middle East than
has been reflected in public opinion thus far.
There are growing doubts and mounting indications that the Rus
sians are not "bluffing" in their threats to send "volunteers" to aid
Egypt. * ?
Secret United States government conferences and military and
naval "readiness" maneuvers serve to emphasize this as the gravest
crisis since President Eisenhower entered the White House.
Potentially, the Middle East has most of the elements of a new
"Korea" but there are some added elements. Foremost of these are
the overriding strategic importance of the Middle East and the his
toric aspirations of Russia to penetrate the area.
What has the West so disturbed is the comparative ease with
which Communists can obtain their objectives, and the difficulty
the western powers face in trying to deflect the Russian power
play. For the West to retrieve its position, it is essential to stabilize
the Middle East to the point where the flow of oil resumes at a
normal rate.
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? LABOR AND THE ELECTIONS ? Although Organized Labor
took a beating in the presidential contest, since it supported the
Stevenson-Kefauver ticket, it says it will have more friends in
the new 85th Congress than in the 84th. ,
The AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education, the federation s
political arm. makes this claim on the basis of the defeat of certain
GOP senators and congressmen and the election of a number of men
in both houses friendly to labor.
COPE takes credit for a part of this result. It says its new policy
placing the voting records of all members of Congress in the
homes of union members, inaugurated in 1954. had
something to do with the defeat of GOP conserva- labor's
tivoe and the election of more liberal-minded persons
Among the triumphs of labor, pointed to by COPE Triumphs
are these: The election of Democrats Frank Church Cked
in Idaho. John Carroll in Colorado and Joe Clark
tn Pennsylvania, to the Senate. Church defeated GOP Senator Her
man Welker. Clark beat Republican Senator James Duff and Carroll
licked Gov. Dan Thornton. President Eisenhower's friend.
eOOPE points to four GOP candidates for the Senate strongly
endorsed by the President and remarks they all lost. Arthur B.
Thornton. Duff. Douglas McKay in Oregon and Gov. Arthur B.
Laaglie in Washington. COrE cited a number of Labor victories in
con tests for House seats, among them the defeat of GOP Rep.
Dewey Short in Missouri by Democrat Charles Brown.
Secretary Mitchell