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Ir’n.Msday, June 13, 1946 Goodrich Store H opened Last Saturday HI ne w Goodrich store opened |H i'„rt last Saturday. Harold . lIK who. with his wife will HLnite the new store. |H Many new and “hard-to-get” ~u k - will soon be available to ", I * Short and Sweet B \ Telephone lines have never B I \ been busier, and you’ll help ■ ||| g us give you better service if ■ H" you keep phone conversa- B SUI tions pleasantly brief. ■ Kl ■ 1: : I OLD FORT I I TELEPHONE CO. s I \ Old Fort. N. C. ! |> Si” ■ ■i High Grade Monuments For Sale j 8I! Come select your monument off the yard or i 8 , write for information to S. B. Moore i ■I McDowell Memorial Works j Hj Marion, N. C. Phone 232-L | | GRADE “A” HI Is Our Rating H A First Class Case II For High Class Meals I j BRING THE FAMILY TO DINNER. I EXCELLENT FOOD AND THE BEST OF ■ SERVICE || CRYSTAL CAFE H AUTO PAINTING I II BODY AND FENDER WORK I I I IT MUST LOOK LIKE NEW 1 IH 0 I I I AUTO REPAIRING OF ALL KINDS | I | Expert Mechanics Only- Will Work On Your Carl | I IT WILL BE SOME TIME YET | ■I, —Before you will be able to get a new car 1 | | —So let us make your old car run like NEW 1 I[ —1 II GULF GAS AND GOODYEAR TIRES I || ROCKETT MOTORS I II CHRYSLER AND PLYMOUTH I I Sales and Service 1 I OLD FORT N. C. the public says, Mr. Dysart. Mr. Dysart is a world war II veteran and was recently discharg ed from the service. We, the News welcome the new store to Old Fort. \ V Last Two Schools In Marion Close For Season X Marion high school and West Marion elementary school closed June 19, according to H. F. Beam, superintendent of city schools of Mario’v All other schools in the city system have already closed. Commencement exercises began with the bacccalaureate sermon last Sunday night, when Dr Carl W. McMurray, pastor of the First Presbyterian church at Marion, delivered the sermon. Graduate excercises were held Tuesday evening with Dr. D. E. Camak, pastor of the First Metho dist church of Marion gave the literary address- Due to the reorganization which was necessary when the twelfth grade was added to the high schools of North Carolina, only pupils who were taking special courses will make up the graduating class. Con sequently, only four seniors will be eligible for graduation at the close of this school term. Lithium is the lightest of all solid elements. o The first rowing race held in the United States was in 1811. o Peppermint is a herbaceous pe rennial plant. OLD FORT NEWS BY Mrs. D. T. ROUGHTON x Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bradley of Old Fort spent the week end at Newberry and Columbia where they were called on account of the ill ness of Mrs. Bradley’s brother at the hospital in Columbia. Mrs. L. N. Saunders has return ed to her home at Charlotte after a visit at the home of her mother, Mrs. Sallie Sabom in Old Fort. x The Rev. B. F. Livingstone who was called to the pastorate of the Old Fort Presbyterian church sev -1 eral weeks ago has moved his resi dence here- Mrs. Livingstone, their daughter Rachel and son, Ben, arrived last week. The family is occupying the Presbyterian manse. x Ashby Robinson of Old Fort is spending this week in Birming ham on a business trip. x Col. D. W. Adams has returned ot his home at Old Fort after spending the past several months in Texas. Col. Adams owns oil properties in and near Texarkana, Texas. o Mr. W. D. Nichols of Old Fort, is confined in the Duke Hospital at Durham, N. C. where he had a very serious operation on laist Monday. At the latest report, the operation appeared to be success ful. o Mrs. Mary Ewell of Halwood, Va., arrived on Friday for a visit at the home of her sister and bro ther-in-law Dr. and Mrs- D. Mc- Intosh at Old Fort. o Mr. and Mrs- W. C. Macon of Old Fort had as their house guests, for the opening of Mr. Macon’s new theatre, on Tuesday their brother, H. H. Macon of Statesboro, Ga., another brother Arthur Macon, his wife and two daughters, of Atlanta; Mrs. J. E. Forbes and son, Arthur of States boro. They expect to arrive in Old Fort on Sunday. o Complementing her husband, Colonel Edson Duncan Raff who is spending a twenty-day leave with his family at Old Fort, Mrs. Raff will entertain at a six o’clock dinner party on Sunday evening at her home here. Included in Mrs. Raff’s hospitality will be Mr. and Mrs. Sam Yancey of Marion, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Fullerton, Mr and Mrs. John T. Roughton and Mrs. Madeline Taylor of Old Fort and Mrs. J- S. Styles of Asheville and Marion. x Mr and Mrs. Thomas Grimes arrived Monday to be guests of their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Macon for the opening of the new theatre in Old Fort last Tuesday. o Mrs- George Morrison of Old Fort attended the wedding of Betty Knowles and Buddy Regans at the Chapel of the University of South Carolina. Miss Sandy Morrison, Mrs. Morrison’s daugh ter, who is a student at the Uni versity was a bridesmaid. This is the first wedding to be held on the campus of the University. o Miss Sandy Morrison, who was in OUt Fort this week, visiting her mother is going to a camp in Maine where she will be a swimming and tennis instructor for the summer. o R. J. Metcalf, owner and opera tor of the Old Fort Feed Store, was confined to his home this week due to a bad case of poison oak. Mr. and Mrs. Otis Grant and THE BLACK MOUNTAIN NEWS children, Jerry and Judy, have re turned to Newport News, Va after a visit with relatives in Old Fort. o Mrs. Viola G. Nesbit will com pliment her neice, Jeanne Grant who is spending several weeks in Old Fort, with a party on Tues day afternoon. The affair will be in celebration of the eleventh birthday of the honoree. Laßue and Naomi White, Mary Ann Early, Margaret E. Burgin, Charles Hend ley and Gayden Jr. Swann have been invited to share in the cour tesy. Mrs. Lester McCauley will assist the hostess. o The Gleaners class of the Old Fort Baptist Sunday School will entertain with a picnic at the Old Fort park, on Friday evening. Members of the young men’s class have been invirted to join the group. Mrs. W. C. Wesson is teacher of the former. I L. Caplan, of the latter o The T. E. L. Class of the Old Fort Baptist church will hold the regular meeting on Friday evening in the basement of the church. Miss Ruth Hughes is leader of the group. Following the meeting Mrs. R. T. Pyatte and Miss Bertha Greene will serve as hostesses for the social hour. o Beggining Sunday June 23, A Sunday School Enlargement Cam paign will be launched by the Old Fort Baptist church, meetings in connection with the work will be held each evening in the auditorium of the church at 8 o’clock. An ex tension worker will come from Raleigh to assist with the cam paign. The Rev. D. C. Wesson is pastor of the church. I L. Caplan is church superintendent. Old Fort Rotary Received Charter X The Old Fort Rotary club was host on Friday evening, June 14, at a dinner which was served at the community building. Rotarians throughout the district were pre sent. Presentation of charter to the Old Fort club was made by Stanley E. Black, district governor of Ro tary. Albert Hewitt, president of Marion Rotary Club presided over the meeting and acted as master of ceremonies for the banquet... Dinner was served by memebers of the Old Fort Order of Eastern Star. Approximately one hundred guests were present. The address of the evening was made by Hoyt McPherson, editor of the Shelby Star, incoming dis trict governor. Mr. McPherson re turned recently from a meeting of Rotary International at Atlantic City the last week of May. $6,000 HOUSE PLAN IS COLDLY RECEIVED X Miami architects gave a cold reception Monday to the proposal of Housing Administrator W. Wy att to channel all building ma terials into veteran’s homes cost ing $6,000 or less. One architect said that building costs here have gone so high that even the cheapest two-bedroom bungalow would cost $7,000 to SB,- 000. A family with two children would need at least $9,000 to build a home, another estimated. Paul O’Connor, head of local FHA office, and Eugene Gearing, his priorities expert, agreed with the architects. Futhermore, O’Connor warned, not only would a house worth $4,000, for example, before the war probably cost $12,000 to build now, but within two or three years it might be worth only $6,000. Fishing Record Broken In Pisgah Forest Streams 0 The record number of fish caught last year in Pisgah National forest streams will soon be brok en, Ranger W. W. Huber prophe sied last week. Already more than 4,000 fisher- men have hooked over 18,000 rain bow and brook trout, while for the entire season last year, 5,092 sportsmen caught approximately 23,000 fish. Graham House To Go Modern One of the oldest and most sub stantially built houses in Old Fort, known as the Graham house, is be ing converted by its present own er, I. L. Caplan, into a modem duplex apartment house. The building is located on a nice lot fronting Spring and Academy Streets. Mr. and Mrs. Marley Caplan, son and daughter-in-law of the ow ner, will occupy one of the apart ments. Mr. Caplan a veteran of World War 11, is associated with his father in the drug business in Old Fort. FARM MACHINERY HARD TO OBTAIN DUE TO STRIKES o Due to strikes in the steel mills, in various plants of farm machin ery manufacturers, and in the coal mines, the 300,000 farmers of North Carolina have little more machinery than was available to them last fall. It is true that the number of various machines manufactured has increased to some extent, but the big import tant, labor saving implements us ed in seeding, tilling, and harvest ing are still unavailable in any quanity. Like the automobile dealers, farm machinery merchants can sell everything they can find— —and they have taken orders for delivery for months and months ahead. When the shooting portion of the war ended last summer, far mers were rather sure that ma chines could be bought this spring. Due to good farm prices which were in effect all during the war years, they had the mo ney— in cold cash— with which to purchase these machines. But then as industry attempted to swing from war to peace, con verting swords into plowshares, and enabling American agricul ture to produce food for a famine stricken world, serious strikes oc curred in some of the outstanding farm machinery plants. FIRST SILK HOSE SALE IN PALM BEACH X Many barelegged, others wear ing rayon stockings or cotton bob by socks, some 75 negroes lined up last Thursday before the opening of a sale of real silk stockings, the OPA fixed ceiling price of $3.50, more than double that on nylons. The sale was understood to be the first of genuine silk hose in this country since early war years. White customers also appeared, including men buying hose for wives or daughters as well as wom en shoppers, but the great pre dominance of the early crowd was negro. Montgomery Ward, which de layed sale of the shipment for three weeks, pending OPA ap proval of the price which was re ceived Wednesday, said that reg ular shipments of the hose are ex pected from now on, with no change in the price expected. While some of the negroes walk ed away without making a pur chase when they learned the price, others bought the limit of three pairs, while they were numerous sales of two pairs. Some thirty minutes after the doors opened those in the initial line had been served, but business continued brisk. The first bananas to arrive in New York were brought from Cuba in 1804. THE CURRANT AND GOOSEBERRY ARE INJURIOUS TO PINE The Currant and Gooseberry Industry must be considered in con nection with the preservation of our valuable white pine timber. The white pines are a great na tional asset, essential to forestry developement in this country White pine blister rust threat ens to destroy these forests. This disease is caused by a de structive fungus of foreign origin introduced here between 1898 and 1910. It must first grow on the leaves of currant or gooseberry bushes before it can attact and kill the pines. The pines in an in fested area can be protected from futher damage from the rust only by removing all currant and gooseberry bushes from the area. Because of the blister rust, the culture of currant and gooseberries is restricted or prohibited in re gions where the eastern and west ern whit pines, sugar pine, and other fSvemeedle (white) pines are important. Cultivated black currants, some times called the European or English black currant (Ribes nigrum L.), are more susceptable to white pine blister rust than any other kind of currant or gooseberry. This species is the most active agent concerned in the long-distance spread and estab lishment of the disease. That is, Ipultivat.ed black currant plants become heavily infected at great distances from diseased pines, and J because of their extreme suscep tibility to the rust they establish centers of infection from which the disease spreads rapidly to other kinds of currants, goose berries, and white pines. The United States Department of Agriculture recognizes the culti vated black currant as a distinct menace to the white pine timber supply of the country. It is a menace not only to the thousands of farm owners who grow white pine in their wood lots or in their shelter belts and dooryards but also to all citizens, since all use white pine lumber directly or in directly. The cultivated black currant is so serious a danger to B. F. GOODRICH SILVERTOWN You Want Them! We Have Them! 9.00 - 20 6.50 -16 6.00 -16 BUTYL— INNER TUBES Bicycle Tires RADIO REPAIR SERVICE HAROLD DYSART CO. OLD FORT , N. C. STEP OUT WITH CONFIDENCE in clothes that are spic and span, fresh as a daisy in June! We’ll dry-clean and press your clothes make them new -looking again. Send your clothes to us. You’ll be satisfied OLD FORT DRY CLEANERS OLD FORT, N. C Page Three the production of white pine tim ber as to make this currant a public nuisance in all States where whit (five-needle) pines grow- The Department is opposed to the' growing of this species of currant (Ribes nigrum) and reccomenda that State authorities, nursery men, and growers take active steps to accomplish its elimination from white pine regions, because of the great importance of the white pines and the i<elatively stnall value of the black currants. Haynes Adds New Front To Building On Main SI. J. B. Haynes, of Old Fort, wha for the past 26 years has been, in the evergreen business in Old Fort, recently remodeled his place of business. A new concrete block front haw been added to the structure and is quite an improvement. The office has been made smaller in order ts make more room in the packing* department. Linoleum has bees laid on the office floor and an e lectric fan installed. -Xbh 'JJM o2e sjboX mes started in the evergreen busi ness, mostly with Galax leaves and ferns for funeral wreaths and from cutomers from most every state in the union. Send in YOUR NEWS *★★★***★★★★ *********** *■#, *" ■ I fPraM V | FOOD SAVER * Perishable foods won’t go »; * to waste in hot weather, if j > £ you protect them with enough j, J ice refrigeration. Daily de- ] ‘ -K livery clean and in drip-free J [ * containers. $ We sell all kinds of j; t wood for your stove »; t or fireplace. [ | GRINDSTAFF ICE j; * AND COAL CO. !: i Old Fort, N. C. \ : t i
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