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I--mSmm at ■* . ■■ i *1 mi;. >, North Carolina D. J. CARTEF 1932—DANIEL J. CARTER—iM* JRIPTION RATES: One Year f *2.00 (In WUkes and Adjoining Coantiea) One Year $3.00 (Outside WHkes and And Adjoining Counties) Rates To Those In Service: One Year (anywhere) $2.00 Entered at the postoffice at North WTO, North Carolina, as Second-Class Act of March 4, 1879 Thursday, Jan. 29, 1948' Community Growth Reflected In Receipts Postal receipts at the North Wilkesboro postoffice showed an' increase of about $2,000 in 1947 over 1946. That within itself is not remarkable news, because there have been many years when receipts increased by that amount. But it irf" very interesting to note that the substantial gain was made at the North Wilkesboro postoffice while receipt totals were lower at many postoffices, including some of the nearby towns. The increase here reflects growth of the community and the trend of business conditions. While some towns had a leveling off from the high totals of 1946, this community has continued to grow and expand its business interests. Over $1,000 of the increase here was during the month of December, indicating a higher volume of holiday mail than ever before. o False Sense Of Security May Result It is readily admitted that the rigid auto inspection to be carried out in North Carolina will eliminate numerous accident causes from the highways. Inspection will lower the number who operate with inadequate brakes and faulty lights. Steering mechanisms may also be in better condition on the average. But the inspection will give reckless drivers a false sense of security. The speeder and reckless driver whose car has just passed inspection will step on the gas heavier with the belief that because his car is o. k. nothing will happen to him. Had you ever given a thought to the number of tragic accidents which occur on straight roads with perfect pavements? When you lower one hazard you raise another hazard, which is the false sense of security which originates in the driver's mind and which cannot be controlled by any inspection or examination. And all mechanical faults cannot be found by an inspection. A tire which is apparently good may be the first to burst and send a car into a smashup. Brakes which are good today may be out of order tomorrow. The lights which illuminate i perfectly tonight may be out tomorrow night. Yes, the inspection of automobiles will remove many traffic hazards from the highways. But the method will not solve our accident problem, which must be solved by every individual who sits behind a steering wheel. The examinations being given drivers may remove some of the dangerous ones from the highways, but no examination has ever been devised which will tell whether or not that driver will take a reckless and unnecessary chance and send some•one to an accident victim's grave., • Roll of Honor Each year the National Board of Fire Underwriters and the National Fire Protection Association make awards to communities and industrial organizations for outstanding achievements during Fire Prevention Week. The 1947 wanner was Oak Ridge, Tfennessee, home of atomic energy plants, followed in order by Chicago; New York; Jersey City; Memphis; Louisville; Fort Collins, Colorado; Cincinnati; Atlanta; and Anderson, Indiana. The states of Illinois, Kentucky and Con —1 ~ . necticut were also cited for outstanding work, as were twelve industrial firms, and several Armed Forces installations. These winners deserve widespread recognition for what they have done. The year which just closed was among the worst in history from the standpoint of fire waste—both in property loss, and the destruction of human life. It was marked by several terrible conflagrations. It created, in effect, one more inexcusable mon-, ument of disaster to carelessness, ignorance, inertia. Now we have a new year in which every town and city and state has a chance to show that fire can be licked. Next October we will have another Fire Prevention Week, and all communities and industries will have the opportunity to earn one of.the 1948 awards. Let's do it. |. — o' What is this new Southeastern Conference commissionership one hears is being tendered Colonel Wallace Wade? We had 'lowed, all things being considered, he was glad to get shed of Alabama.— Greensboro Daily News. o -THEEVERYDAY COUNSELOR By Rev. Herbert Sp&ugh, D. D. Polio or infantile paralysis is the bugaboo of every child and parent. But thanks to the National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis, now ten years old, with local chapters all over the country serving the nation's 3,007 counties, much of the terror has been removed. Fifty per cent of the money raised through the annual March of Dimes is retained by the local chapters "to provide the aid required by the polio victims regardless of age, race, creed or color. Assistance includes payment of hospitalization, medical, nursing and physical therapy service, orthopedic appliances and transportation to and from hospitals and i clinics." The other 50 per cent of the money raised is used for research, epidemic aid and education. It evaluates new methods of treatment and makes such knowledge available to everyone. It provides funds for training physicians, nurses, and physical therapists in modern methods of treatment. These are only a few of the services provided by The National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis to which you contribute in the annual March of Dimes which this year takes place January 15th to 30th. The National Foundation is leading the most comprehensive and the most intensive people's attack on record against one of the most dreaded and most expensive ills to which mankind is heir. Treatment for polio is expensive, beyond the limits of the average American budget, but the local chapters make available financial help to those in their area according to need. This is not to be construed as charity, and those who seek it are not made to feel that it is such. "The'i money raised by the March of Dimes is considered a trust fund to bring back health, strength and usefulness to those stricken by polio." The Foundation reports that in an average group of 100 cases of polio: 50 will recover completely; 25 to 30 will show slight'after-effects; 15 to 20 will be seriously crippled; 5 to 10 will die. The battle continues to isolate the virus which causes polio, and to eventually provide effective innoculation against it. Free literature on infantile paralysis can be hed by writing The National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis, 120 Broadway, New York 5, N. Y. Polio is no respecter of persons or classI es. When you contribute to the March of i Dimes, you may be contributing to the future welfare of a member of your own family; if not, certainly to the welfare of another's family. One group of high school students, in the annual March of Dimes campaign, when confronted by an appeal -to hire a physical therapist in their hospital, decided to do something about it. They voted to give up candy during the March of Dimes campaign, as part of their effort. Their slogan as, "I can do so much—for so many—for so little!" What are you going to do about it this year? ABNORMAL ABSURDITIES By D WIGHT NICHOIfi et a) NEEDLESS CHATTER— Leap Year note: The girl who can marry anyone she please may not please anyone . . . Reason married men are better Informed than bachelors Is that what they don't know their wires tell them. . . . The amount spent for liquor in this country (twice as much a8 for education) indicates that people are not earing as much for rainy days as wet nights. . . . A girdle has been described as a garment which prevents a lot of loose walk . . *■ And someone said that supersede means the only kind of seed which seed Jiouses sell . . . Mayfbe we burn too mlUiy ibrtdges behind us that should have been S timed before we reached them. SECRET OF JOT— "A poverty-stricken woman, dressed fn ragged clothes, - "Was passing along a street in-a French town, holding her" Tittle son by the hand. Suddenly she stopped and picked up an object from the street, tucking it within the folds of her garmeSt. A policeman standing nearby was attracted 'by the woman's act, and his suspicions were aroused. He demanded that she produce the object which she had concealed, whereupon, with downcast eyes, she revealed a jagged fragment of broken glass. (She said to the policeman: ''I was thinking only of the barefoot children." A writer in the Rotarian relates thi8 incident, and comments: "Each one of us can go a step out of our way to aid in some small way an aged or blind person, or a frightened child wishing to cross a busy street. All of us can go through life picking \ i up the bits of glass that might Injure u . „ — that our own feet mayf shod." r - o — hes Taken f Wounded Marlon, ^an. 15. •*- Lester Brown was free under $4,000 (bond today on a charge of a»sault with a deadly weapon with Intent to kill and another man, George Morgan, was alive, thanks? to the skill of three doctors, according to McDowell County Sheriff C. M. pool. Morgan was shot with a .22 rifle at Brown's home in the Moorehead Eldge section of Westf Marlon (by Brown, the sheriff j said. He gave this version of the ; affair: Morgan came to Brown's home' in a drunken condition and start-, ed using profane language In the presence of Brown's wife and. child. Brown ordered him to leave and he refused, Brown shot Morgan. EXECUTOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as Executor ef the will of Leonard Vyne, late ef North Wilketboro, North Carolina, this i* to notify all persons holding claims against said estate te present same to the undersigned on or before the 81st day of December, 1948, or this notice will be pleaded In bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate settlement. This 19th day of December, 1947.I WACHOVIA BANK & TRUST CO., Winston-Salem, N. C., Executor of >he Will of Leonard! Vyne, deceased, North Wilkesboro, N. C. l-2#-«tT I The bullet entered the heart In the left ventricle, causing a one and one-half inch gash. Morgan was taken to c Marion hospital where he was operated on by Dr. Paul McBee. Dr. McBee took eight stitches in the heart, after cutting through the muscular covering of the organ. Assisting Dr. McBee were Dr. L. W. Magna and Dr. George 0. Rowe. m ■ i Meat production under Federal inspection for the week ended December It, totaled 418 million pounds. Sam P. Civil Sr* cm AND FARM PROFIRTY PLATS • Office 2nd Floor B»k ®f M< Wilkosboro BoUdiaf Office Ptione 721 Residence 566
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