Wataugans At Work
J. C. Downs of Route 3, Boone, has been employed by the Town
House Restaurant for four years. He and Mrs. Downs have one
son, Jimmy, who is 9 years old and in the fourth grade. A
veteran of World War II, during which he served in the Pacific
Theater, Downs is retired from the U. S. Navy, having served
21 years in that branch of the service. (Staff photo)
On Teaching Staff Of
Art School In Chicago
James Moretz, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph Moretz of Boone,
has been appointed to the teach
ing staff of the American Floral
Art School, Chicago. He assis
ted at the school eight years ago
and has returned as a full-time
teacher after gaining more
training and experience.
He graduated from the Ohio
State University where he
majored in floriculture and bus
iness administration, aided by a
scholarship awarded by the
Florists* Transworld Delivery
Association. He was a special
student teaching-assistant and
was elected to Pi Alpha Xi and
Gamma £igma Delta, national
hdt)offary ‘fraternities hr'flori
cifttifire and in science. He also
JAMES MORETZ
Medicare Facts
Under Medicare you can re
ceive help in paying your doctor
bills regardless of where you
are treated—at home in your
doctor's office, or in the hos
pital. ...
A Medicare insurance claim
must include your itemized re
ceipted bills. These bills should
show the dates of treatment,
type erf treatment and the charge
for the particular treatment.
•••
If you work and cannot get to
the Hickory Social Security Dis
trict Office to file a Medicare
claim or application to become
eligible for Medicare, the office
has special hours until 7 P.M.
every Friday night.
WHY?
GERMANS
TRAVELERS
OUTSOLD
At Recent Charlotte
Shotc—
Because—
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Travel Trailers
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and
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A Quarter
attended the University erf the
Americas in Mexico City.
In addition to attending the
Chicago school several years
ago, Jim took lessons in Jap
anese Ikebana from Mrs. Hoga
Fujiwara, leading teacher of the
Ohara Center in Tokyo. Coming
from an ambitious and hard
working family of 16, he has
accomplished much to his cred
it and is favorably known among
leaders erf the floral industry.
His published articles on floral
designing have had wide circu
lation.
His practical experience in
cludes 10 years of floral design
ing in leading, shops , in sm&U
towns and larger cities. For the
past two years, he has worked in
the shop of the Plaza Hotel in
New York.
Farmers Asked
To Take Note
Of Labor Laws
Farmers are reminded by the
UJS. Department of Labor that
youngsters under 16 when school
is in session, may work only
outside school hours as the new
school year starts. The remind
er is in accordance with die
child labor provisions of the
Fair Labor Standards Act.
Labor F. Chappell, field of
fice supervisor of the Wage and
Hour and Public Contracts Div
isions observed, “ayoimgster’s
future success depends on the
education he obtains today.” He
added that the “law helps the
migrant youngster as well as the
local child” and urged the pub
lic’s cooperation in encouraging
young people to return to and
stay in school.
The need for continued vigi
lance is reflected by the Divi
sions’findings that children who
work on farms during school
hours in violation of the law are
the “ones who really suffer the
most.” In emphasizing the sit
uation, Chappell pointed out that
almost half of the young farm
workers were in grades well be
low the norm for their ages and
cited the example that at the age
of 15, almost 7 outof 10 of the lo
cal youth and 9 out of 10 of the
migrants were behind in school
grade attainment.
“One cannot remove some of
the obstacles of poverty without
attaining a modicum of educa
tion. That minimum should be at
least a high school diploma—
without it many of today's op
portunities will be closed to our
young people,’* he continued.
Chappell also noted that when
state and federal child labor
standards differ, the higher
standards apply. “The local of
fice of the Wage and Hour and
Public Contracts Divisions in
the Federal Building, 324 Mar
ket Street, Greensboro, N. C.
27402, is ready to assist any
one seeking information about
the Fair Labor Standards Act,*’
he added.
AM A ON MEDICARE FEES
The American Medical Asso
ciation has opposed any move
to set up a standard fee sched
ule for physicianss’ services in
the Medicare program. A
spokesman.for the A^IAsaidthe
association favors the us^iaiand
customary fee concept under
which doctors now bill medicare
patients.
CAPITAL CLIPBOARD
State Office Seekers Are
Asking Promises Support
BY: EULA N. GREENWOOD
ALREADY COMMITTED.
Those people entertaining
ideas of running for office next
year—be it local or Statewide
have one thing in common.
They are all working now for
commitments promises of
support.
“I would really like to be for
John Doe—now that he is out—
but I am already committed to
Richard Roe. I have told John
this; and he understands my po
sition.”
Hundreds of times the fore
going will be repeated here,
there, and everywhere within
the next 12 months. And, strange
to say, most of the time the per
son saying it is actually telling
the truth.
This is only one of the things
anybody planning to oppose Lt.
Gov. Bob Scott for Governor in
the Democratic Primary must
contend with. He has important
people in all walks of life already
committed to him. This also
goes for GOP Gubernatorial
John Stickley of Charlotte.
AWAY DOWN ...The N.C.
Good Neighbor Council, recent
ly tremendously strengthened
by the Moore Administration,
will use part of the new funds
to get at the bedrock of possible
trouble next summer in North
Carolina.
And, furthermore, something
they obviously failed to do in
Detroit, Newark, and in some
other riot areas . . .this bed
rock business.
Virtually all of the groups set
to promote racial harmony
have strong, prominent, out
standing Negroes on these com
mittees. But evidence now com
ing out of some Northern cities
shows that they are just as much
out of touch—sometimes act
ually more so—with the lower
class Negro as some of the
whites. They have made good.
Most of them ^re financially
well-to-do. By/and large, they
are well educated . . . but fre
quently far, far away—phys
ically and mentally—from Real
Scene.
The Good Neighbor Council
plans to employ at a good sal
ary a Negro who hRa i^ready
demonstrated his ability to min
gle with the type erf persons
which started the riots this
SOME PEOPLE DON’T BORROW MONEY.
We’re not suggesting that you need a new car. As long as you're
satisfied with the one you have, keep it and enjoy it. But when
it’s time to look for something else and money help is needed,
remember that The Northwestern Bank offers the most reasonable
new car loan in town.
Northwestern’s rock bottom interest rate and the easy
payment plans are so popular that even old time non-borrowers
are slowing down when they drive by.
)' THE NORTHWESTERN BANK
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summer. He will get away down
with the masses—his work
takes him there now—when he
goes with the Good Neighbor
Council. He will find what they
are thinking, what their gripes
are, and what—if anything—can
be done to provide them with
sirfficient peace of mind to nip
blossoming .. . germs of trou
ble. Good idea!
REMOVAL?. . A lot os so
called liberals (frequently they
are nothing more than vote
seekers) are now at cross-pur
poses with Negro leaders. You
know who they are. . . in Wash
ington and elsewhere.
Here is one example of how
they stumbled into trouble with
the colored people. They talked
of ghettos and urban renewal
projects. This has usually
meant—as it has right here in
Raleigh—tearing asunder and
literally leveling—slum areas.
These districts are usually 90
per cent Negro. But in their
eagerness to destroy the so
called ghettos, these do
gooders—impractical as us
ual—forgot to come along with
the other solution: provide more
places for the uprooted slum
dwellers to go. Moreover, a
large percentage of those in the
so-called slums loved their lit
tle homes, had lived there for
generations. It was humble, but
it was home. There is—as the
song says—no place like home.
The Negro housing situation
in many cities of North Carolina
is critical. Plans for big con
ference in Charlotte on Sept. 27.
The subject—Housing Problems.
NEWS BACKGROUND . . .As
of this past Friday (Sept. 8)
noon, Downtown Raleigh was a
twitter with two news morsels
just received:
1. Former State Sen. Irwin
Belk, regarded as a certain can
didate for Lt. Gov. on the Demo
cratic ticket, had announced he
would not seek the office.
2. The Hotel Sir Walter,
known as the center of gravity
for political North Carolina,
was being given to N.C. State
University Foundation.
Everybody was asking what
was back of the two moves. The
Sir Walter seemed the easier of
the two. Velvet Cloak and Voy
ager Inn—both new and beautiful
hotels—are out near State Uni
versity. Consequently, they—
and not the Hotel Sir Waiter
have been getting State Uni
versity visitors.
Being new and in a strategic
location, they are getting big
day-to-day business. The Sir
Walter, deeply down town, has
had to depend more and more on
conventions — has upwards of
lOObig meetings of various kinds
already lined up for 1968. This—
plus certain tax gimmicks—will
be seen as the main reasons for
the transfer of ownership. And
no change in the management.
Irwin Belk just didn't want to
go through with all the trouble
necessary to become Lieuten
ant Governor of this State in
1968! That's it.
Chrysler Corp. ready to build
first 1968 models.
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