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Page Four lf=-‘ T7T 1 THE BLACK MOUNTAIN XEM S Member of North Carolina Press Association PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY IN BLACK MOUNTAIN N.C "Key City In The I-and Cf The Sky” TELEPHONE 4101 J. C. CORNELIUS, Editor and Publisher Entered as Second Class Matter Sept. 13, 1945, at the Post Office at Black Mountain, N. C., under the Act of March 3, 1879 SUBSCRIPTION RATE ONE YEAR $ 2 -°° SIX MONTHS ?1 ' 25 No subscription taken for less than six months. STRICTLY IN ADVANCE A THOUGHT FOR THE DAY Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so unto them: for this is the law and the prophets—Matthew 7 12. RECORD BREAKER TOURIST YEAR FORSEEN During the last normal tourist year, 1941, an esti mated $175,000,000 was spent in North Carolina by tourists. A much larger amount is expected in the coming months of 1946, according to a survey recent ly taken by the State Advertising Division. Many inquiries have been received by the mountain resorts throughout the Western part of North Caro lina, as to reservations, and many resorts report that complete sell-outs for July and August. Black Mountain has many things to offer for va cationalists —a recreational area that affords Golf, Fishing, Tennis, and above all, good fresh mountain air. Some of the most beautiful scenery of Western North Carolina is found in and around Black Moun tain. The largest assembly grounds in the South are lo cated in Black Mountain. The recreation park here is making big plans for the summer, much more will be printed as the project progresses. With all the fine things we have to offer tourists there is no reason whatsoever that Black Mountain should not share a part of the large amount of money spent by tourists this year. The one and only drawback being the critical short age of housing. 500 more houses in and around Black Mountain would be filled this coming season if they were avail able. Not only for the season but throughout the whole year, we cannot expect tourists if we haven’t a place for them to live. The city would benefit by thousands of dollars if the housing question was settled. We can help this situation some by all those hav ing a spare room to fix it up for tourists. They all would be paid well for their trouble and inconven ience. A local hospital would be Black Mountain’s ‘‘Big gest” asset. Many cities no larger than ours have a hospital. Let’s all get together and give this some serious thought. DRASTIC CUT IN POULTRY PRODUCTION IN 1946 SEEN Assistant, Agriculture Commis .ioner D. S. Coltrane estimated re cently that poultry production in North Carolina this year will be cut from 25 to 40 per cent as the result of the scarcity of grain and protein feeds. “Feed manufacturers are find ing it extremely difficult to pur chase corn, wheat, oats, and bar ley,” said Coltrane, adding that “they consider themselves very fortunate when they can obtain a car of oate.” The feed division of the U. S. department of agriculture in formed Coltrane that North Caro lina is being allotted 916 tons of protein meal. “Although we are naturally pleased to receive this meal, it is not more than 25 per cent of the amount we were obtaining at this time last year,” said Coltrane. He reported that tax tag sale from last July 1 to February 1 in dicate that only 53,000 tons of cot tonseed meal were sold during this seven-month period, as com pared with 93,000 tons for the same period a year earlier. He said that the government has promised to send about 200,-! REG’LAR FELLERS—Going Up! By QENE BYRNES / CH’Y TtALL "wEYrI yANDl\^lMn^ ( .SOMETHING I THERE Vp] I & N . '(?&) ll J• • y-yj « • DOO ** COST" ' ■ j 000,000 bushels of wheat to Eur • | ope, “preferring to help keep alive i starving human beings there i rather than to feed this wheat to ; poultry and livestock here in Am i erica.” He said that since Canada and ■ Argentina are also aiding Europe • to the extent of about 350,000,000 ■ bushels of wheat, there is little ; need to look to their granaries r for assistance. l Meantime, Marion Dilday, poul | try marketing specialist with the . department, declared that the • 1 poultry industry is suffering from ■ declining prices and decreased de ■ mands for fryers, broilers, and j eggs. Dilday asserted that prices for : fryers and broilers have dropped within the past two weeks to as low as 20 cents per pound, with | prices in general running from 20 to 22 cents. Read The Ads. | READ THE AD$ j Along With the Newt Japanese Primer PATIENTS PLAY GAMES TO SPEED MEDICAL TREATMENT “All treatment and no play” not only makes Jack a dull boy, it also retards recovery of patients in military hospitals. Injured per sons do not necessarily get well by medical and nursing care alone; they frequently need to play to learn how to be well again. One soldier, leaning heavily on a cane, came into the woodcraft room operated by Red Cross rec reation workers. His doctor had told him his limp was mainly “in his head,” ahd the patient so lost himself in woodcarving, substi tuting activity for boredom, that he rejoicingly cut up his cane for checkers. Wounded and disabled service men coming into strange military, hospitlas far from home need friendly human contact. Often they must resign themselves to long months of hospitalization. Red Cross recreation workers in hospitals try to get the patients to have fun together. Band Started One drummer from a name band was bored with the usual enter tainment and asked the Red Cross for drums and a cymbal. When a complete percussion set was loan ed from the nearby town he went into an ecstasy of work. Daily the roof resounded to cymbals | bells, snare and bass drums. ■ Someone joined in with a piano 1 part, then a horn—and presto! a real jam session was under way. 1 Sometimes military patients can get the misery out of their systems by poking fun at them- j selves. In one hospital specializ ing in tropical skin diseases the theme song of a skit they pre- 1 sented was “I’ve Got You Under My Skin.” Birthday Party Red Cross recreation workers must be ready for anything. A sailor, suffering a long illness in curred in a prison camp, dejected ly told a Red Cross worker that it was his twenty-first birthday, ! and he wished he could have a party. The worker found a huge cake with 21 candles, procured a local marionette show, and lined up patient musicians for singing 1 and jive—and the sailor had his birthday party right then. An absorbing hobby can make j a patient forget a sore back or a! grueling day. All sorts of hob- ! hies are sponsored by the Red Cross—even a complicated chess game to be played by bed patients! THE BLACK MOUNTAIN NEWS in different wards .through the public address system. Fly ty ing has become a most popular craft and hobby. Many dates have been made for fishing trips to the mountains after discharge- Aids Blind For patients who must learn to talk again self-recording disks are furnished by a commercial company, and the Red Cross as sists patients in using them. Many men enjoy “talking a let ter” home. Play is important to the newly blind who are lonely, afraid, and self-conscious. .On a tandem bike with a sighted patient, or with a roller skating partner, they learn a new sense of movement and balance. Through music and danc ing they find a social world. It is impossible to recount all the active and spectator projects of the Red Cross hospital recrea tion program. The recreation workers have taken the great re sponsibility of trying to help make life meaningful and pleas ant during each patient’s stay in the hospital. Special Gifts Workers Named For Henderson 0 Organization of the special gifts committee to work in the ap proaching Red Cross drive in Henderson County has been com pleted and the group, under the chairmanship of W. S. Lockman, Jr., is ready to get down to brass tacks in an effort to do its part in the canvassing of the county for funds, officials said. The drive this year will get un der way March 1 and continue through March 9. A special of fice opened Monday mroning in the west side branch bank build ing and will be open each week day throughout the campaign, of ficials said. This year the amount sought by the Henderson county chapter amounts to $9,050, of which $5,- 500 will be spent in the county. Members of the committee on special gifts include Bruce Drys dale, Steve Porter, A. J. Brown ing, Jr., F. V. Hunter, FYank Ed bank, Harry Crowder, Thomas H. Franks, Harry Buchanna, James Duff, Thomas D. Clark, Pete Youngblood, B. B. Massagee, J. H. Lampley, Jonathan Jackson, Boyce Whitmire and E. A. Smyth- |"- - | ECHOES FROM THE MOUNTAINS H. Grady Hardin. "were asked to name the people of the earth who worship idols, you would think immediate ly or primitive tribes scattered over the earth who have their fetishes and totem poles. Idola | try may be defined as the worship or adoration of things that we be lieve to have special power. Thus we can rightly say that the back ward and ignorant people of the world are idolatrous. By looking upon these people with pity and interest we often do our best to lift them from the level of their low religion to our own standards. But in our sympathy for those : who worship at useless shrines, let us now become blind to our own idols. We have set up our | own lesser-gods to blot out our vision of the Creator of all men. We worship at our own shrines until we are often unaware of our I Heavenly Father. We sometimes exhaust our adoration on demi gods and know nothing of the love for and of God. What is your idol What is that part of your life that gets the most attention? What commands your greatest trust It may be popularity or wealth or social po- I sition. Sometimes it is your club or church or home. If we have not 1 yet learned of our ability to know i God and worship him as person I to Person; if we do not know that ' nothing is to stand between our lives and Him, then we are wor shiping idols. Upon finding God we find adequate personal and social expressions of this faith in every area of life. But let any area of life become more import ant than or stand in the way of our relation to God and we have given our lives to idols. God’s Promise God hath not promised Skies always blue, Flower-strewn pathways All our lives through; God hath not promised Sun without rain, Joy without sorrow, Peace without pain. But God hath promised Strength for the days, Rest for the labor, Light for the way. Grace for the trials, Help from above, Unfailing sympathy Undying love . . . —Wm. Buden. NE W RECORDS IN STOCK ■ ,3, Ocean-You Are Too Beautiful.. Dick Hay mes How deep is tu , m . e a nd Fortitude Andrew Sisters Red River ? ,1 * Ocean Eastre Parade Guy Lombardo How Deep b the Oce Jubalaires Get Together Vitl Blng Personality-VouU ue Tonight _i Wish I Had Never Silver l)e» >' ■ , r)av ; son a nd his Range Riders Met Sunshine.... " ,l(l , „. nlllHer _ You C,„ Cry On *'«« ch , rUe The Belis "jXsittin’and A-Rockin’. Delta Rhythm Boys Don’t Rnock Pork . West Virginia.... Louis Jordan Better Go Now Biliie Hoii day r Me. Little - Oh, Y> hat t e simply Won’t Love Back When the One You Love Simply E-Bob-o-Lee-Bob ••••• 1 Can’t Believe That You re In Love tt.th Me- I Can’t Begin To Tell R ."f Crosby McNamara’s Band-Dear Old Donegal Bing Crosby Maybe You Will Miss Me When I m Gone- Don’t Sweet Talk Me ... Tear Stains On Your Letter-Last Night Hank Penny What Does It Matter To You— You Wouldn’t Understand Carlisle THE HOME STORE Phone 2751 Black Mountain, N. C. We carry a complete I q*»c*** line of I FANCY AND I tSg STAPLE I GROCERIES LnHHHHMHaiSi —and— FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES FROZEN FOODS WE DELIVER BLACK MOUNTAIN GRO. CO. L. BLAIR and R. T. 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