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flonsewifeWritffljSyitem Pays Off: Her First Nowi Hits Hage Jwkpot "If yaw wait until Inspiration strike*, you'd never get a book <mM tffk'j says Mildred Savage.' ga about writing systematlc ? Cvm with the systematic ap pgfeee* it took rive years of daily to produce Mrs. Savage's IM novel. Bui the system appar ently works: "Parrlsh," the result, Was picked by a book elub tar dia frfbutioa te Its membership and wan bought before pubUcatien by Hall y wood where it will be made by Nashua Logan. And Mrs. Savage will profit fey a sum close to WOO. MO tar her effort, which even after tJncle Sam takes his cut makes ifcvel-writtng a profitable occupa tion. Wife of a Connecticut business man (lumber). Mrs. Savage is the mother of two children, a house wife by primary occupation and a writer ip hours when her family does not have first call on her ser vices. That makes her writing day ytart at 5 a.m. (which Is fine be cause she Is at ber best early in the day) and she has one day a week which she takes off from family chores. "the book started with one sing le idea." explained the author. "That was the conviction that al most every person has some per son or thing that he leans upon. And to grow up? to mature? 1 feel one must be a free soul.". . With her theme set, she then looked for a background in which tp set her characters. She found it close to home: the shade farms Of the Connecticut Valley which pro duce the high grade tobacco wrap pers?outside coverings? for the best cigars. "Then I had to do lots of re search," said Mrs. Savage. "One day ? week I'd vtalt the tobacco farms, talking to the planteri, to the workers, walking through the ?he#*. I visited libraries and uni versities and read up on tobacco and tobacco growing. At this point | know Just about everything about cigars except how they taste: I've yet to smoke one." Meanwhile, aa a preliminary to writing. Aa was getting to know her characters. "I made notes about every one 0( them." she continued. "I had to know each one intimately? just who they teft and how they reacted to eachother. things which would not necessarily be written into the book especially, but all important 11 they were to be real people." And finally after that, came the first outline of the plot and the action, chapter by chapter. Mrs. Savage worked this out In such de tail It was almost as long as the manuscript itself. And finally she started to write. Then she rewrote, cut, pruned, expanded. "I tackled It Uke a Job, which Is what It was." she explained. uAnc I Just don't see how anybody can work on q .thing lUte that without some sort it ? system." Hard work. yes. but apparently satisfying, too. Mrs. Savage is now in the preli?iitp?V Abases of a sec ond novel this one concerned with pharmaceutical business? its scientists, research personnel and its business heads. Her attention was caught when sip readthe auto giography of Dr. Selman Waksman. "The setting Will be . different," she said, "but I suspect the phi losophy of the book will be the same. I think most authors have only one important idea, and we should keep hammering at it." \ prevent big loss at little east To? may not be able to "stop thief," bat 70a CAN protect yourself against finaneal loss, sheuM he steal your valuables. Burglary Insurance costs so lit tle, means so much! Call us. CITIZENS BANK and TRUST CO. INSURANCE DEPARTMENT VErnom 7-2141 Murphy Aadrews ? J/ I [Soil Conservation] I News I by John Smith ISflnMM*tRNNMNNNMM The cold weather and the rain we have gotten lately has just about itopp*- 1 all (arming opera tions. Practically all the pastures In the county are dormant, and the farmers are feeding their stock on hay. In the climate which we have here, this is normal for the weather is too severe to allow for year-round ^raing. Much caa be done to lengthen the grazing per iod, However. By use of the im proved varieties of grass and by using mixed small grain, weeks caa be added to the period which cattle can have plenty to graze jn the pastures. These same grasses will help the farmer fill his hay loft with hay to tide the stock over the non-grazing period of the win ter. Now is the time to be plann ing fo the seeding of new pastures and meadows in the spring so there will be an abundance of grass to take care of your stock next winter. . Many farmers have shown an In terest in taking better care of their 'orests lands in recent months. The larger part of practically etery farm in Cherokee County is wood land, and in all too many instances, the woodland is producing nothing or very little in the way of income fdr the farmer. With proper care, these wooded acres could be pro ducing income, but they cannot do it without help from you, Mr. Farmer.T here are many stands of young pine which to all appear ances are growing fine, when actu ally they are. not adding any growth at all. Trees, just like corn or tobacco, will become stunted when the plants are too crowded. When trees cease to grow, the farmer is losing money by not cut ting out some of the trees. If left alone, part of the trees will die, but this will not put any money in the farmers pocket. By practic ing selective cutting, the farmer is able to get out pulp wood worth about fourteen dollars a cord. At the same time, he is allowing the trees which remain to grow rapid ly again. When followed from plant ing to maturity, selective cutting gives the farmer three or four cut tings of pulp, and mature stand of saw timber. According to a repo.-t from Mr. Fred Claridge. State Forester, there are still plenty of tree seedlings available of all the varieties which are adapted to Western North Car olina. Anyone who still wants pine or yellow poplar seedlings should contact any of the state and federal agricultural agencies for informa tion and order blanks. T V A To Train In Case Of Atomic Attack Under guidance of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization TVA has embarked on a training program to provide a corps of about 1,000 employees prepared to not promptly in event of a nuclear : attack. The plan got under way recently when 36 TVA employees were giv en an intensive 40-hour instructors j course by officials of the OCDM's radiological defense school, Dr. Warren Abercrombie, George W. Blincoe, and David McLoughlin from OCDM's principal office in Battle Creek, Michigan, and James Miller of regional ofice in Thomas VUle, Ga. IMPORTANT NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS Unpaid Taxes For 1*58 Will He Liable For PeaaHy After Fahwmry lit. v ? . ? . . ? ? > * ? 4 Pay Your City taxes Aid Avoid 11>e Penalty. C E. Johnson <"? i - Tax Collector <= < Tow* Of Murphy ? ? ? V * # k ?? com* tha Doattorli tttm t? sop* with ?m*r fancy ooadlBot. Tndalaf of the** employee* wOl ?tart toon attar receipt of TOO *ur vey meter*. 1*00 doatanetara. and about m dosimeter* charges Some of tiie survey meter* are geiger counter*; other* are Ioniza tion chambers and will be of eary ing sensitivity, capable of meas uring small, intermediate, and high intensities of raliatio*. Th dosime ters look somewhat like fountain pens and are capable of measuring total dosages. The charges are used to activate the dosimeters. The l,00(r-man corfs will be selec ted from the Offices of Power, Engineering, and Chemical Engi neering. Division of Reservoir Pro pehties. and the Division of Health and Safety. A staff member of the latter di vision will head up each of the five instructor teams which will be formed from the 36 employees tak ing the initial instructor course from OCDM. Health Insurance Expands ; During 1958 Health insurance in the United States expanded on many levels in 1958 to continue the steady growth it has maintained for the last 20 years, the Health Insurance Institute reported recently. Despite the general adjustment that took place in the national economy, a new record was reached when an estimated $4.8 billion in health care benefits were paid by all insuring organi zations during 1958 to help the public meet the cost of accident and sickness. This surpassed the 1957 benefit payment figure of cent, the Institute noted $4.2 billion by more than 14 per At the same time, the number of Americans protected against the cost of hospital and doctor bills, through insurance company programs. Blue Cross-Blue Shield and other health care plans, was estimated at 121 miUion at the end of 1958. Some 70 per cent of the nation's population now have health insurance. "While health insurance record ed consistent growth and devel opment over the last two decad ' es," declared the Institute, "1958 stands out stronger than other years because of the ad vancement in so many different areas by all health insurance or ganizations. "Substantial progress was made last year in providing sound programs for persons over age 65 through employer-sponsored group plans as well as individual health policies. Health insurance protection for elderly retired persons is fast becoming as pre valent as it is for the employed population, shown by the fact that the growth of coverage for the aged population has, in large measure, come about in the last years alone. "Gains in coverage also were noted for the individual and fam ily policyholder, employees of small business firms and for peo ple living in rural areas," the In stitution added. ?'A definite trend in health in surance is toward developing coverages that are of a more per manent nature, as greater ex perience is gained with this rel atively new form of protection. Actions taken by insurance busi ness leaders late in the year pres age still further improvement in programs to help provide increas ingly effective health insurance plans in the years to come." Benefit payments by insurance companies alone continued an un interrupted upward trend, exceed ing $2 billion during the first nine months of 1958, the Institute re ported. This represents an in crease of better than 10 per cent over the same period in 1957. It was estimated that the total amount of benefits paid by in surance companies through the end of 1958 rose to an unpreced ented $2.6 biilior., a rate of more than 17 million a day for the en tire year. Although these bene fits increased by mora th?n 10 per cent, the Consumer Price In dex of the V. S- Dept. of Labor showed tjiat the cost of medical care i|i the country had risen by no mare &an 4.5 per cent over the same period in 1957. urovftn tn ue number of par sons covered by insurance comp any policies continued op mpst levels In 19S8. the Institute found. Rfporti from the TOO insurance companies hxncHing health insur ance 1$ the U. S- shewed that the number of persons jrovered far major medical expenses climbed from )S,3 million to 181 million, an incfease of nearly 25 par cent Another increase was shown in r*fulat medical expensfc insur sons covered grew by an estimat ed half-million over the 1937 fig I urt o i K i million. The munbtr of pawn covered for surgical ?x pensas remained constant at' 67.5 million. Of the estimated 111 million per son* protected by all insuring or ganizations against hospital ex penses, some 701 million were covered under insurance company poltciM. Soffit 12 million employ ed persons were covered by loei of income policies. ' A 1988 study by the U. S Dept. o t Health, Education and Wel fare revealed progress in provid ing persons 65 years of age and older with health insurance. The study showed that the number of older age p*?aq? with health in surance w?? growing at a much faster rata than the tenior citi zen population itself- The govern ment report disclosed that the number of Americans 65 and over increased by 13 per cent from March 1952 to September 1*6, while the number at Malar eiO zeni covered by health Insuraeoe went up 56 per cent. The Institu te estimated that 40 per cent at the persons in this age category i now have health insurance. 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