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ISYlllX, N. C. TRVTSZtAX, MAT 13 1954 panding nec ;s of e: .Mg l. Jast- quantity desired by new industries. ries whenever such needs arise coming into the area." " . and it must be re,'y in whatever CFi.L has maintained a depart- "Pksss MaEe.lt Vcik for Olh:r Kids" I V." 4 r J l t - . it V. V ' -112 DUPLIN TIMES, . J eada Thursday fa Eenansville, N. C Contj Seat if -DUPLIN COTOTT ." ' 5- 'orlal, amines tfflo asd printing pUat, Kenaattllle. N. C ' . ' J. KCTTIJtT GRADT. EDITOB OWNKR ' Catered. At The Fnst Offfe. Kenensvllle, N C - attar. ' " TTXtPTIOKg -KBwarin Day tSft-SVlvM t IS-! rrr-trKIPTlOW RATES: IS.S per rr ho Daplla. Lea air. . nstaw, Trader. Sampson, Ww naaavar -md Ways raqeaT M atr ?ear atsJda thla areata Nrta Carallaa M - par year aiaewbera. . .'. i Advertising rata furnbbe ea raajamt DoH Caamty Jrrantal. derated to the retls-lnna. material. aAsmatlmsl taawaiiita and agricultural dwloiMn r rtnvtla C a iU. , , MAIIONAt tOUO'W1 , IN MEMORIAL This little story is not strickly editorial material, but it is human and gave me a funny feeling when I read it. ; I read it in a newspaper while scanning for material suitable for my News Notes. Other stores on the same page tell about the Indochina War, about the Geneva Conference, about a child killed in a traffic accident about a man being indicted for the slaying of his wife, and about the McCarthy squabble. 5 But this little story is different. It may not be of any importance at all to you. It may mean very little in this age of Wars, human mean ness and dirty politics. But it gave me a peculiar feeling at first and then after considering it for a few moments it gave me a tremendous lift It cave me that lift because it prove thet there are still some people with love with sentiment, with faith in this callous world. ? And maybe, too, because the main character in the story is just an average person. There are many more like him, millions just as good, just as line, just as decent as Walter Small of New York State. Walter Small lived in a little town in up state New York, and worked in a little restaurant in the little town. It must have been a soft-lighted, romantic restaur ant, with intimate booths and plenty of atomosphere, for Walter Small and Annie Fortune did their courting there. The day they got married they had their wedd ine dinner in that same little restaurant. But a few months later Annie died, a victim of cancer, and Walter Joined the Navy. Recently Walter wrote the little restaurant from New York City, enclosing a ten-dollar bill. He said his chin would nut out to sea m the morning, out tnat 'Saturday was to be their wedding anniversary Annie's and his. Would old Joe please reserve their old table for them for that night? He hoped the ten-dollar bill would cover the expense. That Saturday night their table was reserved and the candles lighted. Old Joe drank a silent toast to Annie and Walter whereevery they might be that night. The ten-dollar bill which Walter Small sent was given to the Cancer Crusade. There isn't much to this story in these times of world upheaval - just a little human oddity. Yet, I wonder whether it is not much more sign ificant than an editorial about politics. I certainly like it better. Here is another toast to Walter Small and to his Annie, where very they may be! Rebel Revelations Should you read of a strange monster swimming around in the waters of Lough Leane or even the River Shannon, you would probably put it down to a vivid Irish imagination ora drop too much ot Jameson's potent brew. Even the famed monster of Loch Ness has its doubters, and the Scotch are notoriously more factual than the Irish. But if you were to hear of a sea serpent swimming in a Meine river, you might really pause and wonder. There are tall tales in maine to be sure, but most of them are told by out-of Staters, and are given little Ordence by a matter-of-fact, down-to-earth Mainlac. I can't think of a place more hostile to the whimsical or the fey than Maine. Event if a good Maine housewife were to see a leprechaum.she would first have her glasses changed. And if her husband came home ot Hay evening and told her he had seen a sea serpent in a Maine river she would be sure he had stopped by somewhere for a glass of that strong and unpalatable liquid called orchard tea. It's actually only hard eider, and it tastes far more like vinegar. Its acidity has undoubtedly soured many a good disposition and taken away what little sense- of humor the people did possess. No, Maine people Just don't have truck with such foolishness. Life is real and earnest, and the grave is but the goald, so there isnt much sense laughing or smiling for that matter Even to, there have been stories for several weeks of a sea serpent, and sometimes of two such audacious creatures who were swimming undaunted by Maine scepticism right up the Penobscot river. They had dared venture aa far aa that most reactionary of all American cities, Bangor And they had been by far too many people to discredit the tale. Many years ago before man in his greed had ruined the rivers of Maine the kennebec and the penobscot had some of the best salmon . pool in the world. Come spring, the salmon came up the rivers to spawn. ' Those who were fortunate enough to eat one say they were unequalled. The pulp and paper and saw mills along the rivers soon made them poison . oos to fish, and they sough cleaner waters in New Brunswick: Waster was dumped into the Maine rivers without consideration of pollution, is still dumped into them. As rapacius timer Interest have spoiled many of the navigable streans in Maine by careless disposal of slash and stumps, so the mills in Maine have cause desolation and destruction. The Penobscot which Champlain visited in 1809 is being slowly reclaimed and its waters are again visited by Atlantic Salmon. Above Bangor lies one of the best pools left in the United States, a pool from which a salmon is sent yearly to the White-House In Washington. But was no Sainton inese responsible witnesses saw in the Penobscot. It was alleged to be at least eighteen feet long, and puffed water like a porpoise. Several Penobscot Indiana from the Reservation at Old Town aaw the creatures from their canoe. Now, all Maine Indians are sober by law, and not given to exaggeration as a race. But maby the spring sun had affected their reason. . J.fi.i.-.-ri; -v.;: IU Just would never do for such a story to come out of Maine. It wasn't in character. Something would have to be done one and for all t rrove that the waters of the Penobscot held no such fantastic crea-t-ie Maine people would Jose their reputation for being hard-headed and practical, and who knew what that would lead te? The tourists might even try to take advantage of them if they thought the natives were so naive as all that. There would just have to be scientific proof that no such things existed in Maine waters. And so scientists were called in, reputable biologists of the Fish and Game department. Thousands of Maine people came, too, and caused a traffic jam along the river.They diden t expect to see anything, of course, there weren't such things. But they most awfully wanted to be in on the unmasking of whatever hoax it was that was being perpetrated. The idea of a tale's being spread all over that would make outsiders question traditional Maine Veracity. And I am certain that the good Maine people lining the banks of the Penobscot were truly shocked when they did see something in the water. It must have been a terrific experience. For there were not one but two sea serpents. And these couldn't have come from the headwaters, from Chesuncook Lake or Ripegenus Dam or from in Pemadumcook Lake. They could only have come up the Penobscot, swimming in by Isle Au Haut, perhaps, by Islesboro and Castine and Belfast. Shades of Moby Dick! These two fierce sea monsters turned out to be two white whales, playing and spouting around in the river no doubt making many a good meal from the delicious melts or even the sacred Penobscot salmon. There were going to organize a harpooning party on the Penobscot over the week-end. We just can't allow such sportive creatures in Maine waters. It is too great a task for the imagination to believe they would dare venture up our streams. But you know they might prove quite a tourist attraction at that! HELEN C. ALDWELL CUSHMAN F, S!;::lFcr $333 . . -r CHEROKEE, N-, C May 10 Thenaypn's press , photographers ftiU -bej stooting for $300 in cash iwsids ek the; annual Press Photo-fraphr'a-PKvieW. ol "Unto These tttJJs" ;he. Cherokee Indian drama, at Mountainside Theatre here June 24th. ' '' v ' Drama officials, in making the announcement, pointed out that the photographers . will get the first look at the 1954 "production of the nationally-acclaimed drama which officially will begin its fifth season on Saturday, June 26, at 8:19 p. m. The Press Photographer's Preview will begin at 8 p. m. - Awards will be given for the best published pictures. There will be two grand prises of (100 each, a second prize of $50, and two others of $23 each. Winners in the 1953 competition will be announced at the time of this year's preview. The competition is limited to news paper and magazine photographers. Officials also extended an invlta. tion to the photographers to visit Oconaluftee Indian Village, the re production of a 200-year-old Chero kee community, while they are here. ment to help promote new industry since luzts, he saw. He also iota of supporting community develop ment through the "Finer Carolina" contest and his company's agricult ural development department. Ac cording to the U. S. Department of Agriculture, electric service is available to 96.1 per cent of North Carolina's farmers, compared with 90.8 per cent across the nation. Private companies serve almost twice as many Tar Heel farmers as do rural cooperatives, he added. Nationally, Sutton noted, no in dustry every has undertaken an expansion program comparable with that of investor-owned electricity utilities since. VJ Day. That ex pansion, through 1953, has cost six teen billion dollars. I Talking on "Partners in Progress," he said that to keep pace with state growth CP&L would invest $200, 030,000 in post-war expansion by the end of 1957. New construction form VJ Day through 1953 cost $11T,000. 000, he said. All taxes levied against Duke Power and CP&L last year totaled more than $34, 000,000, Sutton said; with more than $11,000,000 going to state and local taxing bodies in North Carolina alone. . . .a Pine Kurst, May 10 Industrial growth-' and new uses tor 'electric ity present a challenge to power companies which always has and will . be i met in North Carolina, Louis V. Sutton ' told the N. C Bankers Association here today. . "A power company's expansion is in fact a forerunner of progress," said Sutton, president of Carolina Power aV Light Co, "Electric power must be available to meet the . ex L 1 ' - ' ' Aucl.-a Lircry ;y Telephone 31S1 - C171 7tIIac3, N. C. T.istpn tnr t.- i ho rrirre. parTi v vwr f"!!rf in ', Crc "castin Clation about 12:15 asd Wallace "V' ; ' aaW a F) n n ALL THE SAVINGS GOES TO THE CUSTOMER Now You Can Call ' .Jl, Long Distance More Often.-. Talk Longer For The " Same Money. , - . ",r ' cARCuriA teljef::2::e , telec?.afh" c:::?Any 6 News For Veterans NEWS FOR VETERANS 1 Santa Claus has become potent "medicine" in helping to heal the sidk and the maimed in Veterans Administration hospitals. And, in the bargain, thousands of needy or orphaned children, who otherwise mightbe forgotten at Christmas time, are now on Santa's toy list. This double dose, good medicine .'or sick veterans and good cheer for needy children, comes from a toy making program in the manual arts and occupational therapy clinics of VA hospitals that started a few years ago on a small scale. Most of the patients participat ing in the program are long term mental, tubercular or other chronic cases. Today, the project is one of the most promising therapeutic aids in 26 VA hospitals, with more than 3,100 patients turning out some 30, 000 toys for distribution at Christ mas to more than 24,000 needy and orphaned children who otherwise would not be remembered. More than that, hundre of local organizations are cooperating by providing discarded toys for repair or the materials for making new toys and then distributing the finish ed toys at Christmas time to the needy and orphaned children in their communities. VA said the beneficial program is operated at no increased cost to the agency, yet its effect as a medical tool in the treatment of the seriously siqk is of incalculable value. VA said this is particularly true of mental and tuberculous patients. A typical mental case, reported by a VA neuropsychiatry hospital, involved a World War One veteran who has been hospitalized for more than 10 years. The hospital said he has begun to feel he was a burden on society with little or nothing to offer in return. His condition wor- senea noticeably. Then, as a part oi nia medical rehabilitation treat ment, he was induced to participate in the toy program. The change for the better was almost immediate, because.for the first time, he real ized he would bring happiness to someone else and, therefore, was wanted after alt It was Just the "medicine" he needed to snaD out of his lethargy, the hospital said. Among the tubercular patients. me project is equally rewarding VA said. aam avw m m BEST 1L1ER uuse its A mencas Ford has pioneered in bringing the most , , worth-while things to the most people . .' . and more and more people are now buying Fords ' - Fob a long time, people have recognized that Ford is the "Worth More" car. And they have been expressing their preference in a great and growing volume of purchases. The reason is simple. More and more people have found in Ford everything they want and need. They have found that Ford offers exterior beauty that has set the trend for the industry . . . interiors that are so colorful and in such good taste that just sitting in a Ford is fun. 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