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" Aatum (rTON COMMENT Says Nixon ’68 Choice Of Most Republicans •- Washington, D. C. — Former Vice President Richard Nixon has hit hard at the Johnson Administration in recent speeches, leading political ob servers . to conclude that Nixan had launched bis Campaign for the GOP 'nomination two years hence. - Among other things, Nixon charged that President John son’s 1 role in the recent New York City transit strike was that of a “two-bit politician with a billion-dollar strike.” He lashed out at the poverty pro gram as a political one, in which the anti-poverty director in some states received a larger salary than the Governor of the state. Add he said that seventy per cent of the anti - poverty budget was not going to pov erty stricken but to administra tion and into salaries. Nixon Criticised the budget as a political One, in which the coming year’s receipts had been overestimated while ex penditures had been under estimated. Already leading in nationwide public opinion polls as the choice of a vast majority of Republicans for the 1968 GOP nomination, Nixon’s free-swing ing attack on the President does nothing to lessen his chances. It is in keeping with his reputa tion and record as a tireless campaigner for Republicans everywhere, in every election year. In his current speeches, Nix on is predicting GOP gains in this fall’s congressional elec tions. Although it would be im possible for the GOP to gain a majority in the Senate, and highly unlikely in the House, Nixon feels substantial gains can be registered in the lower house in November. If this happens, and he has played a leading role in attack ing the Administration and cam paigning for individual Republi Billy-Henson Makes Honor Roll At State Billy Henson, a sophomore at the University of North Carp lina at Raleigh, has made the honor roll for the first semester. Billy is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Henson of Sherwood. Your house has gone up in value... has yonr INSURANCE kept pace? Better make sure it has! Policies you bought a few years back may not to adequate to cover replacement cost of tome and furnishtngs pt present prices. Let us look your policies over and brta£ then up to date. Do it today—for your own mwL Davit Spalnhour NSURANCE FOE TOUB EVERY NEED BOONE Insurance Agency Professional Budding Boone, N. C.—Zt+47tZ can Candidates, he will have, strengthened his band as a like ly nominee in 1968. t The Johnson Administration budget is a peacetime whopper but it bas been carefully con structed so as to be deflation ary so far as is possible, spend ing 112.8 billions. While spending is up, the government is taking some three or four billions out of consumers’ pockets with higher social security taxes and re imposed taxes. Some tax collec tions are being speeded up. Some spending programs have been designed to create their greatest impact in 1967. This may soften the effect of the government’s borrowing of some three billions during the fiscal year. It may hold back inflationary pressures to a de gree. Yet only a reduction in defense spending could ap parently bait the pressure al together. Meanwhile, it has been re vealed that the gold reserves of the United States dropped 1.6 billion dollars in 1965, the third largest loss in the past eight years of consecutive losses. The official forecast is for a loss of half that amount in 1966. Prance, which charged over half a billion dollars to gold during the year, was the primary harm ful Influence. The gold reserves of the country have now fallen from almost 23 billions in 1957 to 13.8 billions today. * « ~«AJ3 For five and a half years, Mrs. Cecil Aldridge, the former Lois Dancey, has been a bookkeeper at Southern Agricultural Insecticides in Boone. She and her husband, an employee of Rivers Printing Company, were married in 1961. They have a son, Barry Dean, who is two and a half years old, and reside at Foscoe on Highway 105. Mrs. Aldridge, who makes most of her clothes, enjoys sewing, and is now working on a duster for spring. Originally from Silverstone, she is pianist at the Wa tauga Baptist Church, of which she is a member . (Staff photo) Carolina Vacation Points To Be Described In Ohio State and regional exhibits will describe North Carolina’s Variety Vacationland attractions at the Sports, Vacation and Travel Show in Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 12-20. The State Department of Con servation- and Development, through its Travel and Promo tion Division, has sent its color ful 40-foot “Variety Vacation land Showcase” to Columbus. The exhibit features lighted transparencies of scenic, recrea tional and historical features in every section of North Caro lina. Personnel of the Division will staff the exhibit to answer Inquiries aad distribute vaca tion literature. The Champers of Commerce of Wilmington and Winston Salem, the Dare County Tourist Jureau, and Fontana Village tesort are sponsoring and staff ng adjacent exhibits in the ravel section of the Columbus how. “The combination of our Kate display and the area ex libits has a fine potential for ittracting the attention of the show patrons and giving them irst-hand information about vhat North Carolina has to of fer travelers," points out Bill L,. Hensley, director of the Tra vel and Promotion Division. ‘From past experience at shows >f this type, we know that they xeduce increased travel busi ness for our State." This will be the first time hat North Carolina displays lave been sent to Columbus. For several years, the State ari3 a number of Chambers of Com merce and resorts have success fully participated in travel and sports shows in Cincinnati and Cleveland. The Columbus show is being held in the Ohio State Exposi tion Center and is sponsored by the Columbus Dispatch through its Dispatch Charities, Inc. Co lumbus, Ohio’s capital and sec ond largest city in population, is within the center of a market area of 3,500,000 people. On Beautification The White House has announ ced its first Federal grants un der the urban beautification program. A total of $1.3 million will go to Pittsburgh, New Ha ven and Washington. Save Up to One Half on aiuminumware req.J1.29 to 51.79 • 4-Qt Covered Sauce Pan • Dish Pan • 3-Pc. Sauce Pan Set • 9-Cup Percolator • 3-Qt, Covered Sauce Pet • See *N Take Pan Ideal Gift for a Bride— $5.28 far ti># Complete Srt Tow Dollar Bqi Mon U Tour Creat-Bcn Franklin Mm ♦ Pigeon Roost News ... ,:f %'mm^ • ■ Im Of Water ' ■ I ,< -j> ■ :: * rt*i ■; - ■ ;v" if - > > jyj >;v;. BY HARVEY J. MILLER Rt. 1, Relief, N. C. I have received several letters from my readers wanting to know about R. L. James of Mountain Home, Tenn., from whom I printed several of his letters last year in my column telling about his trips to the local mountains. I have received two letters from him lately and in one of' these letters he said that he made his last all-day trip in 1965 on November 27, and that he didn’t expect to make any more trips before March 19 or maybe later depending on the weather and how he felt. He said that he made 37 all-day trips in 1965 which was usually more than he made in a year. He said that he knows that the mountains are lovely in the win ter season but for several rea sons he just can’t very well get to them now. But he said that if it is so that he can make trips to them again this coming spring, summer and fall that he would try to send some ac counts of them to us. I received another interest ing letter from Mr. James writ ten on February 7, and he said that he didn’t think that the groundhog could have seen his shadow around Mountain Home on the 2nd day of February. He said that they certainly have had bad weather and lots of snow since January 15. But one good thing he said we have not had much cold wind. If we had, it would have been far more disagreeable. He said that he knows that it sounds unbelievable, but ac cording to his home paper the temperature at his home town, Russellville, Ala., registered 24 degrees below zero there on Sunday morning, January 30th! The paper said there were no human tragedies, but pets out doors froze and birds were found hard frozen to limbs. I just can’t understand why such an extreme cold spell could have occurred in Alabama. In regard to birds at Moun tain Home, he said that they have had robins ever since Christmas. But last Thursday, February 3rd, there appeared to be hundreds of them and on the same day there was a size able flock of cedar waxwings. Both the robins and the wax wing were eating holly berries. We have a good many holly trees at Mountain Home and the female trees produced a good crop of berries in 1965. But Mr. James went on to relate in his letter that the robins and wax wings, with a few other birds, had already stripped these trees of their pretty red berries. He said that he doubts that a single berry can now be found on any of the holly trees. He also said that he saw quite a lot of pine siskins feed ing from Canada hemlock cones. I didnt’ see a one of these little birds of the North here last winter, but there were multitudes of them there two years ago. Here we quote the last lines of his letter that said: The redheaded woodpecker is also spending the winter at Mountain Home. He was not here last winter but remained with us winter before last. As I write this snow is still on the ground, but there ap pears much relief in sight and all roads in this area is in very good shape and schools in Mit chell County opened again on February 8th, after being closed due to bad weather ever since January 15th. Even the old-timers will agree that it was the worst winter spell that there had been in a long, long time. But the biggest news at this time is of so many frozen and bursted water pipes and some have not yet got their water pipes repaired and they have been without water in the house for several days. The Toe River was complete ly frozen over in several places in this lower end of Mitchell County section for the first time within many years. One old timer said that he had seen Residents Of This Area May Enter Night School Residents of the Boone area can still enroll in the night course on basic economics which will open Monday, Feb. 21, on the campus of Wake Forest College, Winston-Salem. The course is being sponsored by the Management Institute of the School of Business Ad ministration of Wake Forest College in conjunction with the Industrial Relations Center of the University of Chicago. Dr. Ralph C. Heath, institute director, said openings still re main for the economics course which will meet at 7 p.m. Mon days and Wednesdays through April 6. It will be taught by J. Van Wagestaff and Hugh K. Hi man, both assistant professors of economics at Wake Forest. The class will be limited to 30 students and will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Tuition is $70. Enroll ment can be completed through the institute at Wake Forest at Box 7285, Winston-Salem. Hershey issues guidance on student deferments. about 48 yean. U.. Ed Bennett, Sr., reported that he observed three foxes fighting Sunday in the deep «£■ snow far up a mountainside. the other two was red foxes. He said there was the most sign of foxes in the mountains dur ing this snowy weather than he had seen in many years. It is thought that the foxes kill a lot of cotton tail1 rabbits. But de- fc spite this report there is gett ing to be a lot of rabbits every where in this hilly country. One outdoor sportsman said you •' never know what kind of wild animals inhabit the mountain county until there comes a tracking snow and you can dis cover all kinds of the wild ani mals in the snow. It also seems that you can see more different kinds of birds when there is a snow on the ground than of any other time. Also there certainly is seen a lot of snow birds this winter, especially just before it went to snowing. He said one was a grey fox and SKY-VU DRIVE-IN THEATRE Saturday and Sunday Feb. 19 & 20 WINTER A GO GO James Stacy AUTHORIZED DEALERS f 2 CHRYSLER MOTORS CORPORATION "p io «Zrw' wa*•« }r meet the movers... * the men who make it easy «*» «V5/er I
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