Page Eight ST. MARGARET MARA CATHOLIC CHURCH. REV. MICHAEL A. CAREY, PASTOR SUNDAY MASS 9:00 A. M. followed by benediction OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT GROVEMONT REV. MICHAEL A. CAREY SWANNANOA, N, C. BOX 35 THE CHURCH OF GOD Lakey St. Black Mountai n DIXIE CHAMBLK:— PASTOR Services each Sunday- Sunday School 10:00 A. M. Preaching at 11:00 A. M. and 7:00 P. M. 7:00 .P. M. .Thursday night Y.P .E. WELCOME TO ALL VISITORS Don’t Let Your Chicks or Stock Starve ~ . GET YOUR FEED at PATE’S SERVICE STATION 4 WOOD FOR SALE Near Swannanoa School SSHOE SPECIALISTS NOW SUING YOU Shoes unlauely designed. I scientifically engineered, and Personally Fitted to your own foot structure— fiving you an utterly new idea of how Comfort can iw Ifc Cradle your t cot on *i»y air bub 6/es, in Velvet- Eez Air-Gab ion Shoes. No charge for Personal Fitting Service—right in your own home or office—offered yon ONLY by our trained Direct-To-You Shoe Specialist in your community. Drop us a post* card and we'll have him demonstrate how you can get Luxury Shoes, accurately fitted, at prices. 250 Styles, $4.95 to $10.95 E. W, STEPHENS Black Mountain, N. C. Phone 3571 Box 666 Authorized Salesman “FLY” Says Bill O Familiarization With The Airplane Now just sit in the plane and familiarize yourself with every thing’ around you- Notice the po sition of the throttle and the switches. In most planes, they are to your left. Rest your feet on the rudder pedals and experi ment with their action. Get the feel of the stick. Don’t hesitate to sit there for 10 o 15 minutes. The inside of the plane should become as familiar to you as the inside of your car. Locate the in struments in their various posi tions on the instrument panel: The tachometer (R.P.M.’s), air speed indicator, oil temperature, etc. Note the full ‘ON’ and ‘OFF’ position of the Fuel Shut-Off Valve and Carburetor Heat Con trols. Your instructor will point them out to you and explain their functions. Don’t be afraid to ask questions- It would be a good idea to try to draw from memory, later, the various instruments in their correct positions. Starting The Engine This is the procedure that you must always follow when you start the engine on your plane. 1. Make sure that your plane is clear of other planes. Head it so that it won’t blow dust on spectators, other planes, or into the hangar. The dust and dirt raised by your propeller blast can damage other planes. 2. Place blocks under the wheels. It is dangerous for the plane to start moving when you are unprepared. Remember, too, that someone has to spin the pro peller to start the engine for you, and that he will be in the path j of the plane when the engine j starts. Spinning the propeller by j hand is called “propping”. Al- j ways make sure that your plane I is blocked ( or “chocked”) secure- j ly before starang the engine and I also when you leave it after ai flight. 3. Run a line inspection of the airplane. A line inspection is an inspection of the plane to see that it is airworthy. There are avail able printed check sheets (Form ACA 526) that list all points to be inspected (control cables, landing gear, spark plug connec tions, etc.) Your instructor will explain this in more detail. Even though a line inspection may have already been run by someone else, do it yourself. You can’t always count on having someone else do it for you—and he may not be as care- ; ful as you in checking, since he is 1 not going to fly the plane. • 4. Check the gas and oil supply, j Never rely on the gas gages; they I can, and often will, register in correctly. Look in the tanks yourself. Replace gas and oil tank caps securely. An empty gas or oil tank is a miserable ex cuse for a forced landing—and it’s a frequent reason. 5 Fasten your safety belt as soon as you get in the plane. Make this a firm habit, even if you’re just going to warm up the engine. On the few occasions when you really need a belt, you don’t have time to fasten it. 6. Next, see that the Gas Shut- Off Valve is in the full ON posi tion, that both the ignition switches are in the full OFF po sition, and that the throttle is ful ly closed (Pulled All the Way Back). 7. Never try to “prop” the en gine yourself while attempting to handle the throttle at the same time. Have some competent per son, such as a mechanic, “prop” it for you. You can’t be in two places at once, and you certainly can’t do a good job of both things. Civil Air Regulations require that a competent person must be in the plane at all times while the engine is running! Don’t violate a civil air regulation. 8. Keep the stick back, so that when the engine starts, the air plane’s tail will stay on the ground. Holding the stick back keeps the elevators- raised, and the air stream from the propeller will force the tail down. (Continued next week) : * 1 Who’s cutting a ! cord for YOUR j boy? We can’t !if Hay Tear Down Fuehrer s Lair Fear Retreat Might Become Symbol of Nazi Spirit That Ruined Reich. By PAULINE FREDERICK (WNU Staff Correspondent) If you have been to Berchtesgaden since the war ended, you will under stand why there is talk of destroying Hitler’s eagle’s nest perched atop the highest alp in that area, as his house and that of Goering and Bor mann farther down the mountain side were levelled. Only it will be a much harder job. I have just been to the eagle’s nest and I can tell you at first hand why there is some apprehension about it. The eagle’s nest is the retreat der fuehrer had built for himself on a point 5,000 feet high. It is made of the solid stone of the Bavarian moun tain on which it is anchored. To reach it, you go up a precipitous winding road. Himmler’s Mercedes, with its five speeds forward, in which I was traveling, gave out and spurted steam and water a third of the way up. .A jeep that picked me up at that point stopped, too, a little later, but we finally arrived at our destination with the aid of a sec ond .ieep. Tunnel Solid Rock. You first reach a tunnel more than a hundred feet deep into the solid rock and guarded by huge bronze doors. It leads to a double-decker elevator that rises 500 feet through a shaft bored through the rock to the eagle’s nest. The top cage of the elevator—a bronze section with a circular mirror on the back wall and leather-cushioned bench around the walls —was foi Hitler. A trap door in the right hand corner as you enter was for the SS'men to drop down into their cage below, which was white-washed like a cell. When the elevator reached its destination at the top of the mountain —the SS got out on the ground floor and Hitler entered his living quarters on the first floor. From the view you get at this height, despite the fact that the house itself and the furnishings— what have been , left by the G.I. souvenir hunters —are unattractive —is enough to give anyone delusions of grandeur. I stood on the narrow terrace look j ing out over the breath-taking scene talking with one of the American j guards. It was what he told me that made me realize that some day the I eagle’s nest might have to be de | stroyed. Hitlerism Not Dead. The guard told me that two SS j men had just been arrested up there. That surprised me very much, and I remarked that they might have known there was a good chance of being caught if they came around a place like that. “Why would they do it?’’ I asked the guard. His answer startled me. “This is still a shrine to many Germans,” he said very seriously. Then he pointed down the hill to Hitler’s guest house just back of his house that had been bombed, too. Germans were repairing it for a barracks for occupation forces. “The Germans we put to work down there, work as they work no place else —they never lose a sec ond,” the guard said. “Why—be cause they can see the eagle’s nest from there.” It is true that it is almost impos- I sible to find a German in Germany I who ever admits being a Nazi. From I these two incidents, it would seem ! to be true also that the spirit of j Hitlerism is not dead in Germany. That is why the things that remind the people of Hitlerism at the height of the fuehrer’s glory may have to be destroyed so they will not become symbols of that spirit which has to be done away with if a new Ger- I many is to come out of the war. Fire Fighters Are Just That and Nothing More ST. LOUIS. Mrs. Ralph Crowd i er almost solved the problem of getting in the fruit crop. A large and productive tree in her back yard was laden with apricots. Unable to cope with the harvest her self, she called the fire department. “There’s an apricot tree in my back yard—” she told the fireman who answered the telephone. But the connection was cut off and a few moments later Mrs. Crowder was startled by the arrival of a ladder truck, which roared to a stop in front of her home. “Where is that tree?” one of the firemen asked breathlessly. When he was told that Mrs. Crowder was of fering to let the firemen pick fruit, he shook his head. “We have no time to pick apri cots,” he explained. “There might be a fire somewhere and it would not look well for the fire depart ment to be up in a tree picking fruit.” 1,345 Calories New Diet Fixed for Reich WIESBADEN, GERMANY. The American military govern ment trimmed the average Ger man civilian ration for the next tour weeks to 1,345 calories. The average civilian ration in Septem ber was 1,480 to 1.800 calories | daily. Normal minimum health requirements are 2,000 calories a day. THE BLACK MOUNTAIN NEWS OUR CLASSIFIED AD DEPARTMENT TEN CENTS A LINE FOR FIRSI INSERTION EIGHT CENTS A LINE EACH SUBSEQUENT INSERTION NO AD ACCEPTED FOR LESS THAN 50 CENTS WANTED—Boy to sell The Black Mountain News. Call at office, or phone 4101. FOR SALE One Oil Circula tor, good condition. Geo. McAfee, Montreat Road. 16-2 t FOUND—Pair of green wool gloves on street in Black Moun tain. Owner can have same by identifying same and paying for this advertisement. Call at The Black Mountain News. ********** * * * MERRY CHRISTMAS * * * * A * * tiny * * seedling * * nestled warm * * and cozy in its * little bed. It lay all * safe from any harm, and * * sleepily the seedling said: * * “Some day I’m going to be a * * tree just keep a watchful eye * * on me!” And so the tiny seed- * * ling grew. The falling rain- l; ' * drops helped it so; the sun * * shone down and warmed * it, too, and made it * grow and grow and * grow * * and grow * till * * tiny ■children cried with glee, “Oh! see the pretty Christmas Tree.” * * * * AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR * *********** OVER ( new YEAR’S N. SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY INCORPORATED VALUABLE COUPON This Coupon is worth Fifty Cents (50c) On A Year’s Subscription if mailed or brought in to The Black Mountain News Office Before February 1, 1946. I«2 SUBSCRIBE NOW For || THE BLACK MOUNTAIN NEWS jg Use Coupon Below || Send Money Order or Check J| Do not send money % Enclosed find $ for which enter my|| subscription for one year to the Black Mountain || g*-News. ft RATES—S2.SO in the County f| || $3.00 outside of County || $3.50 outside of State jk §jj?Name % MAddress—Box No R.R it | City 1 Posts Corner My Little Policeman Listen be quite, I hear my baby boy playing po liceman tonight. Yes there he goes with his little gun, Pretending there’s a burglar un der the lounge. Bang, a waisted shot. The burglar escaped to another spot. A call for help, his big brother joins the fun. They soon had the burglar on the run. Where he escaped to I know not, But I’m not afraid, oh! gee there’s another shot. As I lay there so still and quite, I wondered if the burglar got away in fright. Soon they were coming back up the stairs, I heard them laughing they had caught a pair. No, now I’m not afraid to go to sleep, Because my little policeman is on his beat. —Mrs. Ernest Camp. Bermuda has about 30,000 in habitants. Among the thousands of new synthetic chemicals from petro leum is one that pineapples ripen faster. In a raid against ihe Japanese homeland, it is estimated a B-29 operating from an island in the Marianas consumed about 6,000 gallons of 100-octane aviation gasoline on a single mission. i Oil fields of the world actually are graveyards of animals and plants which have been subjected | to millions of years of heat and pressure beneath the earth’s sur face. Almost three-quarters of Penn sylvania-grade crude oil, source of high quality lubricating oil, to day is coming by secondary re j eovery from areas only recently j regarded as practically depleted. GOODWILL I TOWARD AI.L |l THE LIONS CLUB fl WISHES YOU A |l HAPPY NEW YEAR !| I MORGAN MEG. COMPANY I MAKERS OF FINE FURNITURE I ASHEVILLE. N. C. I BLACK MOUNTAIN, N. C. 1 1 I % FLOWERS FOR tl I qjl every occasion 11 I Flowers Wired .*1 | : Anywhere i Mrs. F. S. Cunningham, 11 I Agent—Phone 110 111 I —‘/\ Black Mountain, N. C. | I l WHITEHEAD’S FLOWERS I t Asheville. N. C. 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