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* That the price of coffee is supposed to drop » mite in lite next lew days m «t least i solid rumor, and brings more ttn passing interest to those Who linger over the steaming Java, and who have found during the days of continuing inflation that the east of the dark brew represents a considerable sum in the weekly grocery bUi Some time ago the National Geographic Society told us that Americans consume 00 per cent of the world export of coffee, and interestingly enough, it was also pointed out that our coffee drinking habits are rarely imitated in any other countries. It would appear that coffee sipping car ries its own wealth of custom and tradi tion. The Frenchman still hies every morning to a sidewalk cafe far his cup of cafe au I ait—coffee mixed with hot milk. In Arabia, where the coffee plant was first cultivated, the beans are roasted, pulverized and boiled for each brew. No business desl is complete without coffee. It is served before any bargaining begim —generally without milk or sugar, though sometimes with cardamon seeds. An Arab takes a sip of water before his coffee, but considers an aqua chaser a breach of etlquet. Uganda mHw» concoct • drink of ba nana ami coffee and in between oat raw naif#.... I..H i ma A UanaHl U/kn Ai4dina4a^ coxier wpiticb. rtig€,iT.«iiBf ,w'io originaien a sweetened cold coffee mixture, maza gran thus fathered iced coffee. In aouth ern France, mazagran ia diluted with aeh er water. In Ethiopia, where coffee grew wild, Gal la trfbeamen make ratkma of ground coffee which ia high in protein and (at. One ball of thia mixture, about the rite of a billiard ball, auriaina a warrior for a full day's marching. Strangely enough, coffee was first re garded aa a food, later aa a wine and med icine, but for the pari 700 years as a beverage. Originally the drink Incited trouble, coffee was banned and speak-eas ies sprang up. By the 18th century, a Turk, when he married, had to promise to keep his wife in coffee. Failure to do so was grounds for divorce. Anyway, whether one likes the brew bilin' hot or Icy cold, it's part and parcel of human existence, and whatever the price, there's no chance of it's losing Ha standing as the universal beverage. Self-Help Program Farm communities In the Asheville, N. C. area have revitalized themselves through an organized development pro gram that is attracting international at tention. The seven-year self-improvement effort of more than 100 communities in the 16 couaty area-around Asheville is describ ed in a December Reader's "When the Whole Town Pul£5#6geffi*r," by John Strohm. The article was con densed from the Farm Journal. "These communities have rediscovered a grass-roots weapon as old as barn-rais • ings and box suppers," says the writer. "Their secret is the organized community, mobilizing the collective energies of every rum, woman and child to raise the neigh borhood by fts bootstraps." The record ahowi that as a result of the drive to improve, these fanners raised their income from 02% million dollars to U2 million dollars at a time when national farm Income was steadily going down. BroHar income haa Jumped from ♦«&, 000 to IMOO.OOO. Dairy income haa creased more than two million dollar* and beef-cattle marketing has risen from 43,000 to 100,000 in four years. Better health, higher civic spirit, better farming practices, Improved youth pro grams, and more personal happiness are all cited as products of the redevelopment program. Throttle, Bottle Deadly "A loaded gun It no more dsngerouj than a half-loaded driver," Ned H. Dear born, president of the National Safety Council, taya. "For one thing, the driver isn't recognized as a lethel weapon." Mr. Deraborn, appealing to civic organ izations and enforcement officials to "Back the Attack" against traffic accidents, point ed out that drinking driven and drink ing pedestrians are more prevalent during the Christmas holidays than at any other time of the year. Because of the emergency traffic situ ation, with Its rising toll, Mr. Dearborn said a year-round "Back the Attack on Traffic Accidents" campaign is being launched this December and'wiil continue throughout 1957. The purpose of the campaign is, first, to encourage public officials to step up the attack and, second, to stimulate citi zens to baok the attack on traffic acci dents The throttle and the bottle were the Mg reasons why a record 009 persons were killed in traffic accidents last Christmas, according to a study made by the National Safety Council. Drinking drivers were ihvolved in 55 (per cent of the falal mishaps, although normally they are involved in around 20 per cant, the study showed. Speed was a factor in 86 par cant, compared with an annual average of 35 per cant The most common driver action contri buting to fatal accidents was driving on the wrong side of the road or in the center of the road- Failure to observe a signal or stop sign was second. Mechan ical failure or tire blowouts ware respon sible for only four of the fatal accidents - * - " - • stuaiea. • Seventy-five per cent of the accidents happened during dark hour*, between S p. m. and 7 p. m. One-third of the pedestrian victims were crossing between intersections, stepping from behind a parked car or walking on a toadway. ifrere «rp so-cauea sportsmen wno, when going forth to hunt qusil and othsr game, have been responsible for (he num erous "posted" areas In rural sections. Fortunately, these are a minority, but their unsportsmanlike activity has been re pos sible for damaged fences, gates left open, shooting toward a dwelling, leaving litter scattered about and other unthinking treatment of another's property which has penalized the true sportsman as farmers, in self-defense, have put up "No Tree signs on their property. Wildlife and other sportmen's groups have been fighting Che irresponsible hunter for quite some time. Now com the Christmas seas as, and a new type of unsportsmanlike conduct imy oe expected irom otncrwise coniiaeT ate lndftridojU who sal^Tarth to ibe rural oth« nmwmm «0k wfcfch to decorate uieir uuum ui uu» vcmwi w» uwu «tm* toward man." Eaoh y«ar there am many instances of unthinking people invading private prop erty and chopping down evergreen tree*, and cutting holly, ignoring the tact they may be damagthg and defacing another person's property. There have even been tartar** of traepaasing dtteens ratting evergreen trees practically t» "the front yard ef « rural home of which the owner happened to be away tram at the moment. Of «oum it's ton to go Ih search of a ChrUtmas ttee, tout reason should prevail and the rights of others considered. And with as many pltoaa available where trees may be purahaeed (or a nominal m*i, there's no excuse lor H irt the fir* piece lYwpass notlcf i are not sftraj* effec tive. But a shotgun loaded with rack salt might he helpful in helping eotae the rural aaqhirta , <; > . . . Stretch's Sketches By "STRETCH" ROLLINS Tongue-Twittort Trip Top TaHcert TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS in newipaperi have long ilnee eft»bll»hed themielvei »« l«»d ing mirth-provokeri, many of them nuking grotesque sense entirely foreign to their in tended meaning. And in the words of Omar Khayyam in hU immortal Rubyaiat (Mm spelling 1* pure guesswork), "The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on, nor all your piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor ill your icar* wain oui a wuru in ». Still, a newspaper ha* one advantage over moat other operation! in the matter of making mistake*. It can always print a correction in the next issue. • Radio and television, too, have produced their quota of ludicrous *lip* of the tongue in the form of misplaced letters, transposed syllables, as well as lust plain mental la pee*. The Saturday Cveninc Post once printed some of them, and I placed it in the Useless Information file. • -Hark! I bear a white horse coming," "We presented the newted noee analyst," "It's smlpe poking time," and "The urge is needent" are Just run-of-the-mike miscues. Fred Uttall offered aa extraordinary pros pect on one occasion. "I am here," he stated stoutly, "to introduce Buppert's Rear!" Hearing him, M>mc listener* were reminded of the an nouncer who un| the virtue* of "Hand's Hind Craam." Sterling North, literary critic, bade his audi ence farewell with "Thia is Stirling Night*saying good north and pleaaant reading." A sportscaster watched a long fly soar into left field. "The fielder la backing up," he re ported, "back, way back—he hits his head against the wall, picks It up and pag» U tenia." He -ae- - glected to MX whether the outfielder's bead reached tha plate oa the fly or first bounce. Another announcer put a colleague on the air with "And now we bring you Hie dope from the ball parks, Doug Arthur!" At a Red Croas luncheon broadcast from Wash ington several years ago, an article reported, the master of ceremonies illustrated the unself ishness of Genera] George C. Marshall, then Secretary of State, by telling bow the general, between an exhausting trip to China and an impending one to Europe, had taken time to address the meeting, although he had long been looking forward to "a week end in the country with Mrs. Eisenhower." But it remained for veteran announcer Andre Baruch to tangle a line worse than my novice fisherman. He opened a program with "Good ladies, evening and gentlemen of the audio rgfl lance." . That one I don't believe. From Early Democrat Files Sixty Yeart Ago December !, UN. lllii Mary Cole Boyden It visiting friends in Ashe «ounty. Many of tbe colored people are taking leave of our county and going to Jellico. tbe haven of peace and plenty for the colored race. There la a general ruah for the fourth class poetoffice by the Republicans. It seems strange to us that men are so anxious for an office that only pays a few dollars per year, but such la life ki politics. Messrs T. T. Coffey and 0. W. Counclll have purchased a heavy steam sawmill which Will *be delivered here this week, and located In the fine forest of Rev. J. 0. Pullism on Howard's Creek. Mr. J. R. Hacaman, an experienced sawyer, will ruq the mill. Mr. A. T Davis died at his home near Todd Monday afternoon. . . . The United States has discovered a vast gold belt In Alaska that Is BOO miles long and from SO to 100 mUes wide. ... It had been generally supposed that Alaska was not fit tor anything when it was purchased by the United State* The building of a railroad from Cranberry to Linville has been postponed, neither will the Cranberry Works reopen ss reported. President Cleveland has purchased a house in Princeton, N. J, and win make his future home there. Mark Hanna will go into the McKlnley cabinet. •• ? Thirty-Nine Yemrt Ago December «, Mil. Mrs. N. t Salmons at Hawks 1 b now at the hone Of Wr son, Dr. S. 0. Salmons of Boone, and WlB Temato hM during Ms whiter. Mr. Carender. aa aged, well-known and isapnted cttiaen of Matney. was found dead la hla bwd last —«md^ morktag. The old WMM had tM to Ma a*Ml <#0od health and had eaten k hearty sapper the tight before emption Board by the resolution of Attorney John H. Bingham, which was promptly filled by the appointment of Mr. J. D. Counclll. . . The three gentlemen now composing the board are Messrs John Lewis, J. D. Counclll, with Dr. II. B. Perry examining physician. Appalachian Training School Items: Capt. Lovtll has presented to the Museum two valu able old relics, a powder horn which his great grandfather John D. Reeves carried in the Revo lutionary War, he being in the 10th Continental Line; the other, a large will-preserved Indian axe. Rev. Mr. Powell, with his wife and^ltttle children, arrived In the village yesterdsy^even iag. TIM parsonage not being In readiness they ■topped at the Blackburn Hotel, but will move as soon aa their household effects arrive and a little more work can be done on the building. Born to Mr. and Mrs. R. K Bingham a baby boy. Fifteen Yean Af» December 4, 1*41. Funeral services for William Bingham, well known tanner of Vila*, were conducted last Fri dty afternoon M 2:80 o'clock from the IMuten's Chapel ttafliodtrt Church. The pastor. Rev. S. A. Osborne, was in charge of the rites, and interment waa hi the nearby cemetery. ... Mr. Btqftato (lied riaort suddenly Wednesday after noon Duke University will 'meet Oregon State Col lege In the Rose Bowl football game New Tear's day. The last general assembly enacted a law which provided that trucks owned and operated by farmers may be licensed for one-half (he regis tration fee when the tracks are uaed for trans porting farm products sad farm tomrties. A. Loven, representative of the Metro PuMl- £ city Service, who Is said to have swtndlad a number Of local merchants recently an a JflVb awiy advertising plan, htt been apprehended **d la now feeing MM la *oxboro for trial there oh sftnlhtr charges. It Is Mpaetifl that M '•III Di rwtdnMM w BOODC 1W trill ill uM near future. $-»» |W:,- • fxi*. * The lights along the streets are prettier this year than i and supply a colorful note to the holiday shopping teut Atop the post office is a handsome addition to the festive —heme ■« but SunU'Ciaus, oa which beams a floodlight i expertly cot from a piece of plywood, and gaily painted by Cecil Farthing, peiftoffice employee, fests agahist the sotilh sMe of the cupola, atod the Postmaster. Mr . Farthing and others dentally this roay-cheekdfe Sanlta leaning against the little tower, reminds us that one time we had a movement promotil lb place a four-faced dock in the cupola so strike tiie hour and let all and sundry know the time. . . As we recall it, permission was secured from the post office department for the Installa tion of • timepiece at community expense, but money being short in most pants pockets along the street, at the time, the thing was dropped. THE GYP GAME . . MAYBE JIEABED 'UGLY HEAD And there ware still recollections of (hfc guy who come to torn owl swindled all and sundry on a super clock deal. This likely had to do with oar gotag sot of ey wa a bit tight, bat the fpilars id left with their fifty-do Bar en pasaftlbed sum was raised wtth psat vanished, the money went with dock down on the corner failed to So This Is New York ByHOkTHCAtLAHAH fl MmJr . A GAY SANTA TIME HEALS .. ITS STILL A GOOD NOTION And sir^ce time has healed the wounds caused by the clevef crook a long time ago, we kill think it's a fine idea, if the government is yet willing, to place a clock m the postoffice cupola. The thing actually looks like ft was built for something other than a base for a set of directional pointers, and if tire Post Office Department would add its blessing ajuin, we'd still like to subscribe to the public clock fund. .. . Sura an instru ment, we know, "would" add nothing to the progress and <de» velopment of he community, but we Think "tt would be kind ol •nice. • ODDS AND ENDS . . KANDOM THOUGHTS Herb Shriser's December 1 telecast winds up With wishing alt the dtwas a happy Thanksgiving Day, ten days aftsr the turkey had been carved and the football games played.... Most of the programs we see during the summer, that Is the dramatic presentations, had been seen year after year, reminding of the oM saw about the country newspaper publisher who ran last week's forms Mais when the printer "blew the town ever the week —d. . . . But he couldn't hope to get by with it now.,.. Only television eon survive the like. . . . The gooey stickers they put on one's auto mobile are next to impossible to remove, and there are a lot of folks who dent want to use their private auto mobile lor a billboard. It's sort of like tolerating a circus poster on the front doer. . . . The glitter of the stores the baby dolls, coaster wagons, Mhos, and the happy-faced children making the rounds of (he shop ping section. . . . Paul Began, 4, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Bagan, of Butherwood, crying for lack of snow and givng his parents a hard thne, because they "went move, to Boone so Til have somefing to make a snow ' About half a block iy front of m« on 42nd Street, I could Me that a crowd had fatharad on the sidewalk Pedestrians who wanted to pass had to walk out in the street, and thoae at (he edge of the crowd war* trying to push their way lawahl. Wondering what the excitement was. I hurried my step* and as I came closer aaw some smoke arising from (he midst of the human congestion. It Was at least a good firs. 1 thought, the reporter's instinct being fed by this never-failing fascination. Edg ing and elbowing my way to, not too rudely I trusted. 1 came Upon the cause ef the crowd: it was a new hamburger stand With a beaming colored cook inside (he window blithely cooking (he meat morsels and realising that he WJs the center of the excited attention. Progress has been made in rais ing the pay of teasher* but a look at the local situation, hi which the highest salaries In the United States are paid to eddfeators. indi cates that thai* fc still Mfcrtathil* to be desired: for example, a bus boy at fbe «1 Jtorocco ntghtelnb «e«s too a week lot carrying dMb es back and forth to (he kitchen; while a teacher In the New York City schools starts at $72 a WW*. 4—- *.;! New York has 73 foreign langu age newspapers besides at Dial which rtriVs to 6o a fcfb in EB» lish this Ik Vhrlffljr brot>eht"«M In a new bodk entitled "NWr Bort **». XJSA" Which Kn Amerhrsn World Atrwhvt has Jo* hrtrorfht otrt Mid which h dMftWd tb to rn** the «MN).nnn.0M whieh fOr cfkh vtsiwra ipcnd touMbny to this ViMUift. *tr HWanee. the ers, Baton Rouge. La. Creole food, Mexican food in Tttta, and South ern combread as well aa Middle Western vegetables. Hotel aceoao modationi, local history, restaur anta, ihopa. schools etc, art hand ily aet forth. The only thing which seems lacking la thM some «f the timll ■ A local publisher reports that "sBcleht cavemen chiselled their literary efforts with a cdaple of (tones. Elizabethan poets wrote their soiuiett with quill pens. Tile typewriter is the standard tool Of modem authors. Ml Noel Loomia of Wisconsin does it the easy way: he write* his book* on a Model 15 Linotype machine right In his own basement " Apparently this writ er finds It easier to concentrate on the Lino and turn out sotae 3.100.000 words a day In this man ner, usualfe aaatoiu stories. IKK to please the publishers, hie has this copy typed IbAm 'ft is sent in. Chrre Booths who <a said to lm Men to ill for setae that. One thy she tap ped at an Italian hotel udtnaat ctartt to gri. her name off ton M retired to hafr 1
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