ESTABLISHED JULY, 1996
3BENA P. FOX, EDITOR 9 PUBLISHER
MISS. ZOE YOUNG, ASSOCIATE EDITOR
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THURSDAY, MAY JS, 1967 NUMBER THIRTY-NINE
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Scene From Top O’ The Hill
By: Jack Ke'lv
How come the good things
pass so quick? Like our vacat.on
down in Burnsville? Here we are
back in Washington and I am
gett'ng ready to make a tour of
seme dozen or so States and I
won’t be able to get back down
home until late July. I assure
you I wouldn’t do it for anything
except money. But, the Good
Lord willing, and the creek don’t
r'se, Blanche and I can retire
next year and forget about all
of th : s foolishness and just live
in Burnsville.
We have to get there so that
we can keep up with the chang
es. Driving into Town, on our
last arrival, we were amazed
to see that a road 'had been
made up the yonder side rs our
meunta'n. Seems that my neigh
bor, Earl Boyle, up and decided
that he was being selfish by
keeping all of that gorgeous
vew to h'mself, so, he dragged
in a circuitous road and set up
some of the most gorgeous
home-sites you could hope to see.
Maybe seme areas of Colorado
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ing, and I’m not too certain of
that. Paul B ggerstaff took the
first cne and is building h'mself
a lovely home. I ne’ther know
nrr care what Paul paid for the
beautiful lot but I do know that
when he gets moved onto the
H 11, he will have bought a bar
gain. Just wait, until the "Sum
mer People” and “touristers”
see that area now! From lsten
ing to gossip around Town, I
gather that Boyle won’t be the
last person to start sub-d viding
mounta'n land up here.
You know, it takes people
from out of Town to appreciate
what people born and raised in
a Town take for granted. Bur
nsville is no different from
ngton, D. C„ in that way.
When I was a kid, there were
farms surrounding Wash ngton.
These farms are now the highest
priced real estate in the world,
I guess, excepting for busness
property. However, to make this
ceme about, someone has to
rsk venture money. Someone
has to make the gambl ng in
vestment. And those are the two
words that keep th ngs fr m get
ting started "risk,” and
"gambling”. Since "risk and
gambl ng” are things that every
farmer does every year that he
plants a crop, I don’t think Bur
nsville will pass this opportunity
by. I th nk that, in the not too
distant future, our hillsides are
going to be dotted with fine
homes, both summer and per
manent. If my fellow Burns
villites don’t do it, Lien, outsid
ers will.
Blanche and I have been com
ing to BumsvJle since 1951 and
we knew then that it was a
beautiful community full of peo
ple that anybody would be proud
to list as fr ends. We remem
ber when the people decided to
get the hospital. Once they made
up their collective mind the
hospital was established and
made a going concern. It was a
necessary adjunct to the Town.
People who opposed the idea
then, well, they wouldn’t be
without it now. They proudly re
fer to it as "our” hoapital.
Burnsville has to much to of
fer. Primarily, it haa a Bank
that any reasonable person can
do business with. It has super
markets that may be equalled
but certainly not surpassed in
any of the larger cities. Burns
ville hardware stores are defi
nitely first-class. The gift shops
and florists can’t be beaten any
where. The various Churches
can surely take care of a per
son’s Religious persuasion.
The friendly nature of the peo
ple themselves motivates its ows
entertainment, but besides that,
there are in-door and outdoor
motion pictures. For livo enter
ta nment, there is the University
of North Carolina Summer Thea
tre. If more is needed, it would
n’t be too much trouble to start
a Little Theatre for the autumn
and winter months.
The only problem left to cen
ter is the eating-problem.
Now, in Burnsville, that is so
pivniHu n an. u «n> . naivu,,
cr res dent, wants to go out for
a sumptuous home-cooked meal,
he can go to the Nu-Wray Inn,
where no less an authority that
Duncan Hines guaranteed satis
faction in gustatory dei ghts. For
a quick meal, there is the Hill
top in Town, Peterson’s and a
cafeteria. Right outside we have
Little Smokey for a roadside
snack. A l'ttle further aLng you
can visit in the Amberjack for
as nice a meal as you could
want. Good eating places arise
when the occasion demands. As
soon as the necessity shows a
different type of place will suc
ceed, someone w : ll establish It.
Finally, we have politics. That
is the subject that everyone
loves, but I am not about to get
involved in such a discussion
until I become a permanent re
sident. However, I can and do as
sure one and all that our Burns
ville brand of both Republican
and Democratic politics is of
sufficient divergence to satisfy
any and all who move into the
Community on a permanent
basis.
Is It A Vim
Or Germ?
Is it a virus? Is it a germ?
Where does it come from? What
does it do, and to whom? What
can be done to it?
Quiz games have been high on
the Ist of American Folkways
for umpty-odd years (some say
even longer). ’ Some quizes are
for fun, some are for prizes to
the lucky or smart. But here’s
one where everybody wins—it
brings you, if not instant health
and happ ness, at least an Im
proved chance of ga : ring those
sough after commodities.
As a matter of fact, the sub
ject of this particular qu'z game
is health in an area where
On Memorial Day, we pay tribute, I I i
with pride and gratitude, to those noble \ I I 1
heroes who have so bravely given so much I ■ I I
to protect and preserve our country and \ ■ M Ilf
our freedom. To them, we pledge our own \ B Jm .
daily devotion and dedication to the prin- \ k
ciples of liberty. I k ll
RALEIGH
REPORT
By: Ernest Messer
Beginning January 1, 1968 all
persons getting or renewing
dr : vers licenses will have to
have a colored picture rn trs
licen-e. This picture will cost
each person an extra (0.75) sev
enty-five cents.
Proponents cf the bill con-
W e&'ferSn, “SS*
of age to identify themselves in
order to buy whisky, and that
it would give a person identifi
cat'on who needed to cash a
check.
I opposed this bill on the
gsounds that the motives behnd
it had noth ng to do with operat
ing an automobile and that this
extra c"st is not a
resp nsib lity of the driver.
Rep. L ston Ramsey voted
against the bill.
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The House passed and sent to
the Senate a bill to require ABC
stores to sell whiskey in half
pints.
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popular knowledge has always
been long on fancy and short on
fact.
It’s a quiz about tuberculos’s
the disease whose disappearan
ce is calmly assumed as an ac
complished fact by large num
bers of people, but not by tha
almost f sty thousand who come
down with it each year.
Do you know how TB is cau
ght? Who is most apt to get it?
How anybody can tell whether
he has it? How it can be stop
ped? How many people in the
U S. are directly affected by it
right now?
At last count, tuberculosis
germs had installed themselves
in the bodies of some 30 million
Americans, most of whom fortu
nately will never become ac
tually sick with the disease. On
the other hand, any of them
could. TB rema'ns a menace;
its prevention, detection, treat
ment, and efforts to eradicate
it, still cost America a billion
dollars each year.
Something worth finding out
about. A-k your Christmas Seal
organ zat ! on for the new leaf
let. "TB Quiz." published by
the National Tuberculosis Asso
ciation It's free.
LEAD, S. D., CALL-PIONEER
TIMES: “There’s a certain un
•, DAiuilttP nib nut
puters. But it isn’t because peo
ple are afraid they will s.meday
be automated out of their jobs.
It’s just a feeling that machines
are becoming too humanlike.
This was revealed in a study
based on interviews with 3,000
persons, reported in Datamation
magazine. It was found that
many people believe wrongly
—that the computer is infallible
and that it is a ‘kind of super
brain whch thinks as humans
do and which can provide in
•tant solutions to highly com
plicated problems that the ordi
nary man cannot even begin to
understand.* As more and more
people come into dally contact
The bill to permit the Highway
Patrol to use planes to enforce
traffic laws passed the House
but in very limited form. Neith
er the pilot, nor the observer
can test fy in cases concerning
speed, but may do so in connec
tion with other violations.
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A pubi c hearing was held on
a cosmetology bill which, if \
passed, would ultimately close
all cosmetology classes in our
Hgh Schools. Dr. Charles Car
roll appeared before the Educa
tion Committee in opposition to
the b ! U.
I introduced a bill which ought
to be passed. It levies a one
cent tax on beer, the proceeds
to be distributed to the H ghway
Commission and to municipali
ties for the purpose of pay'ng
for cleaning and beautifying the
streets and highways.
This places the cost of picking
up beer cans exactly where it
belongs on those persons who
drink beer and throw the cans
away.
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Tre House has already passed
a bill to place drivers license
exam hers under the same disa
b lity provisions which cover
hghway patrolmen.
fwimm
OPINION
•
with computers, however, this
modern-day myth is expected to
loac its force, familiarity In
this case will breed not con
tempt but better understanding
of think ng machines’ true capa
city to think—which is no more
than men give them.”
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FORT GIBSON, MISS., RE
VEILLE: “In our vast space
program it is possible we may
in not many years put a man
on the moon—but here on earth,
with so many strikes, and
threats of strikes, it seems very
difficult to keep one on the job."
BEDFORD, IND., TIMES
MAIL: “Fndings of a national
public opinion poll on reduction
of federal spending in prefer
ence to a tax increase are hard
ly surprising. In the first na
tionwide poll taken since Presi
dent Johnson’s State of the Un
ion Message, the public favored
reduced spending and no tax
increase by a 13-1 margin ....
(ths) would leave little doubt,
it seems to us, that congressmen
and senators would be Aiing
the popular thing in vot’ng for
reduction in expenditures and
aga nst any tax increases at
this time.”
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PLATTEVILLE, COLO., HER
ALD: “District Judge Lester H.
Loble of Helena, Montana, says
publication of the names of ju
venile offenders, and their par
ents, has been d : rectly respon
sible for cutting the crime inci
dence in his are»-in half."
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