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Advantages of Having Art Explained in Essay mMmr J?y?* Teague, rtd i, Boone, student in Appalachian Bamentary school, seventh grade plast. won $3ft from the Wildlife Chib for her essay on "Advan tages of Having a Wildlife Pro Cram and What it Will Mean to He." The prize-winning essay is published her with: I think wildlife conservation is very necessary to farmers and also to sportsman. If a sportsman would pratice the rule to let a Hew animals get away on pur pose each time be hunts. This would help to restock the wood lands. It would not only mean better hunting days ahead for the Sportsman but would be lending a helping hand to the farmer. Tor lots of the wild animals and birds are the farmers best friend. The farmer has an important part in helping to conserve wild life by providing necessary food 1q winter for birds and animals. They can have certain feeding places for the birds and they will soon take to It. The time tha fanners spend in caring for the birds is wisely spent. Because they destroy millions of insects that would almost destroy the farmers crop if it wasn't for them. Then what could be sweet er than the song of a bird in early tpriagtime as thay ac too the "Song* of Heaven". So by having a wildlife program the farmer and sportsman know exactly how to cooperate to keep wildlife in our woodlands and streams. This is an important step in building up our country. It not only provides sport for our neigh bors and food and fufs for the market but it brings other sportsman from other states to our country who in turn boost our state and our wildlife pro gram to many others. This gives us a lot of tourist and hunters that otherwise we would not have unless we each cooperate in the wildlife program. JAPAN WANTS TOURISTS Tokyo? The Japanese govern ment wants to lure tourists back to Japan ? particularly free spend ing Americans. It is considering a program to spend 3,000,000,000 yen rebuild ing and modernizing hotels and the transportation system to draw the tourists, who once pro vided Japan with a major source of revenue. Officials hope 200,000 tourists a year can be attracted and be lieve closer relations with the United States as a result of the occupation will help to draw Americans. The first synthetic dye of com mercial importance was produced lin 1856. ? WATAUGA INSURANCE AGENCY CASUALTY DEPARTMENT Including . . . Automobile, Public Liability, Work men's Condensation, Personal Liability, Glass, Boiler, etc. ? AUTO LOANS ? E. F. (Jerry) Coe Gordon H. Winkler Phone 64 Box 12 Boone, N. C. "wASfflHGTOH PMiHik^aSESfftrtS With the Congress in recess un til the members come back to ad journ January 3 and then to open the second session of the 80th congress January 8, Washington was comparatively quiet, but still confused over events in Europe and the failure of the congress to do anything contsructive about combatting high prices here at home. , In the midst of this, lull the fish and wildlife service of the depart ment of the interior took advan tage of the comparative hush to launch two drives . . . one is to eat fish instead of meat as a way of saving meat and grain to com bat high living cots. They suggest eels as particularly nutritive and tasty. They neglect to point out at least on the seaboard, fish costs just about as much as meat in the retail markets. Of course fish do not eat grain. Another drive by the depart ment is to send "reserve troops" in the form of experienced rat control experts into the critical grain p reducing areas to open a warfare on the rodents which an nually steal millions of bushels of grain from the farms and the granaries. County agricultural agents and home demonstration agents are being enlisted in all sections of the country to coop erate in the intensified warfare on rats "to save as much as 200 million bushels of grain ixmually destroyed by these rodents." The rat exterminators don't hope to win, however. Said Dorr D. Green, chief of the fish and wildlife service, "rats have been fighting mankind too long to be defeated by an emergency pro gram lasting only a few months. All we hope to do in the present campaign is to send in shock fountain Burley Warehouse Go. BOONE, N. C. MOUNTAIN BURLEY WAREHOUSE NO. 1 MOUNTAIN BURLEY WAREHOUSE NO. 2 and FARMERS BURLEY WAREHOUSE Will Resume their Auction Sales I Monday Jan. 5 1948 PLENTY OF FLOOR SPACE ... NO WAITING TO UNLOAD ... GET IMMEDIATE SALES AT TOP MARKET PRICES ... CAREFUL, COURTEOUS TREATMENT OF THE GROWERS AT ALL TIMES MOUNTAIN BURLEY WAREHOUSE CO. o R. C. Coleman, Mgr. Harriett L. Sikes, Asst. Mgr. o troops to aet rata back on their Mels during -the present grain conservation drive. Rats never take vacations, nor do they re cognize the 8-hour day. If the present winter's campaign should reduce their numbers by 90 per cent in a few of the critical pro ducing areas, the rapid natural increase would make up for that reduction in a lew months unless permanent control on a large scale is made possible." The federal government is now spending approximately 35 mil lion dollars a year in grants to the states for furthering the gen* eral public health. These grants, however, have been made in most instances for particular diseases such as tuberculosis, venereal dis eases, etc. Experts in public health have impressed on con gress the fact that <ii?? it materially ?> slowing down the maximum production of industry in the fields and factories, and so it is an economic problem as well as a humanitarian problem to save lives, and keep people healthy. With these facts in mind, the second session of congress will early consider several bills, which are already in the hopper, for public health. One is the Taft bill which proposes an annual grant of 200 million dollars to provide adequate hospital, medical and dental services, on a state match ing basis, to those not able to pay the full costs. Another is the Murray bill which would set up a system of national health in surance to cover medicafr and dental costs for about 85 percent of the population. It would authorize guaranteeing a mini mum income for doctors in rural areas and its sponsors say thfet patients would choose their own doctors. Another bill is the national school health service bill, in troduced by a group headed by Senator Baldwin of Connecticut, which would authorize federal grants up to 18 million dollars a year for the prevention and cure of children's ailments. Money would be alloted to the states on a basis of population and incom^ but rural areas and those suffer ing from economic distress would get more. Health officers of the various states have a bill of their own which they propose to introduce. It is called the local health of ficer unit act of 1948 and proposes 1200 local health units through out the country with the states putting up two dollars for every dollar out of Washington except in low income areas. EstimatesI ar the program would cost aboutl1 220 million dollars a year, I The Department of Agricul-I ture says that farm income for 1947 will total approximately 34 million dollars gross which is the highest in history and which will give farmers the highest net in come, approximately 19 million dollars, in their history. Kenya estimates its 1947 tea production will be over 5,500 tons. f RY POST- WAR "FASTER as. , . . 666 ? - ? ? - -- * ?! - 4-t-t ? |M, ? ? 1 - W Cat* We Are Flittered That So Many Imitations I live Appeared On The Market When You Want Ham Insurance ' Be Sure With Chambers' Anti- ? Skipper Compound N. J. BODDIE Tlx Kta InMrwca Mas ?OX 4ts DURHAM. N.C. DEATH CAB DRIVER'S OWH CHILD WTTT-^T> Webbers Falls, Okla. ? Sixteen days after a 9-year-old girl stepped from behind a school bus into the path of a truck i driven by James B. Sheffield, farmer of Webber* Falls, and was instantly killed, Sheffield's 2-year-old son, Robert, playing in a ditch besides his home, ran in front at the automobile driven by their family doctor, Lyttehon M. Thomas, 64, and was instantly killed. Police said both accidents were unavoidable and absolved both drivers. ' I The l"*5* D?o48 of lanuary l"4? and we look back over the year 1 947, contemplating the i many courtesies extended us during the twelve months, we desire to thank each one who contributed to our busi ness accomplishments. We appreciate more than this, the good will which has been manifested toward us, and in a spirit of genuine friendliness, desire to wish for each one of our friends and customers a HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR HUNTS DEPARTMENT STORE and employees BOONE, N. C. At this season we are balancing our books to determine what we have accomplished during the year that has just passed. Along with the figures on our ledger which in dicate our financial achievement, we should also ask our selves some questions, which are just as important in the successful Operation of a business as the facts revealed by our ledger accounts. Have we rendered every service to our friends and cus tomers we could? . . . Have we always been courteous and considerate of their needs and requests? . . . Have we al ways tried to be fair with our customers and our compe tition . . . Perhaps there have been times when we fail ed in some of these details, for we are only human, but ^e enter the New Year with a resolution: 1 . To improve our service wherever possible, to our friends and cutomers who have made our success possi ble. 2. To always be courteous and considerate of our cus tomers' needs. O 3. To render a better and more complete service than ever before. ? Wishing each and every one of our friends a^l customers a very Happy and Prosperous New Year WATAUGA HARDWARE, INC ' The Friendly Store
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