The Joaratl - Patriot
INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS'
Published Mondays and Thursdays at
North Wilkesboro, North Carolina
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JULIUS C. HUBBARD—MRS. D. J. CARTER
Publisher*
1982—DANIEL J. CARTER—IMS
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Entered at the postoffice at North Wilkes
boro. North Carolina, as Second-Clase matter
under Act of March 4, 18T9.
Thursday, June 2, 1949
People Should Use
The Cancer Center
The cancer detection center has been in
operation in Wilkesboro for two weeks,
and 46 people have received examination
to find out whether or not they have can
cer.
Response has been very favorable, bnt
there are numerous people who have rea
son to take advantage of the services of
fered.
The cancer detection clinic is a public
health service, operated by the health de
partment in cooperation with the Medical
Society. The physicians donate their serv
ices and no charge is made to those ex
amined.
Cancer remains one of the deadly kill
•ers, and remains unconquered as far as
definite cures for advanced cancer are
concerned.
But enough is known about cancer to
know that cancer can be stopped in early
stages and that many people who die of
cancer could be saved if cancers are dis
covered and treated in time.
That is what makes the cancer detec
tion center so important. The center is set
up to help people find out they have can
cer. The only possible cure is early treat
ment. If a person does not know he or she
has cancer there can, of course, be no
treatment.
If you are over 40 you are in the age
group where cancer strikes most, and you
should be on the alert for any symptoms
which may indicate cancer. If you are
under 40 and have any symptoms of can
cer, you should be examined at once.
Good Roads an Aid to Farm and City—
FROM FIFTH TO FIRST
AGRICULTURALLY IF RURAL
ROADS ARE HARDSURFACED?
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(The Twin City Sentinel)
Lobbyists for oil companies arrived in
North Carolina last week to wage a state
wide campaign to convince the voters they
should cast their ballots against Governor
Scott's $200,000,000 roads program.
If the representatives of the oil com
panies are successful and people vote on
June 4th against the rural roads plai^ the
oil companies will have blocked North
Carolina's efforts to enter into a new era
of muscle flexing and growing pains.
Good rural roads, connecting farms and
cities and speeding produce to market,
promises indeed to inaugurate a new per
iod of growth in agriculture.
Increased Production, Lower Costs for
Food.
A much-needed diversification of crops
will assure regular and rapid transit of
perishable vegetables to cities and to pro
cessing points for shipment to other
states.
Farmers invariably devote time and ef
fort to one crop because they are so fre
quently isolated in the country, either be
cause of the impassability of rural roads in
bad weather or because of the trouble it
takes to go over the roads even in good
weather. With one cash crop they have to
go into town only two or three times in
a season. But by growing diversified crops,
and shipping produce to market over
paved roads, farmers win make money
truck farming; the former cash crop will
still be the nest egg; greater abundanee
of food Will cause prices to come down
for the worker in the city; farm people
come -into the towns more frequently to
shop; North Carolinians will import lest
food and live-at-home at less cost.
We Did It Before—
The rosy picture above is not paintec
extravagantly. North Carolina has already
experienced a growing and diversified
trade in profitable perishables. The 1021
to 1930 highway building program in
North Carolina and the state construction
and maintenance of rural roads after 1931
afforded a farm-to-market pattern which
not only facilitated the marketing of the
traditional farm products, but also broke
the chains which bound the farmer to a
restricted crop system. Truck crops of
all-kinds plus fruits, flowers, berries, eggs
and poultry were sped to market over
paved roads.
With improved secondary roads thu
speeding of farm products to markets anc
widening diversification of crops will bt
increased and enhanced. The distance
from farm to market will be less and pro
duction will be greater and closer to th<
home market.
Oil Opposition—
Why would the oil companies wish to
block such progress for North Carolina?
Because North Carolina proposes to pay
for much of the road building program by
means of a 1 cent per gallon increase in
the gasoline tax. Oil companies don't like
to see the price of gas go up—unless they
are the ones pushing up the price.
North Carolinians who aspire to another
era of agricultural expansion will vote on
June 4th for the $200,000,000 rural roads
program.
Look what we have done with our past
highway building program: ■
North Carolina is the 11th most popul
ous state in the nation and 28th in size,
but Tar Heel farms products rank 5th in
the Nation, x with a per acre value of
$72.50. With a good system of hard-sur
faced rural roads, North Carolina coull
conceivably rise to third, second or firit
place in farm production among the states
of the Nation.
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EVERYDAY
COUNSELOR
By Rev. Herbert
Spaugh, D. D.
"You can't run with the goats all week
and expect to smell like a sheep on Sun
day." These lines given me by a correspon
dent, are so evident in their meaning that
it is hardly necessary to add any comment.
Bdt so few of us have apparently learned
this truth.
Most of us are inconsistent according
to the standards of others. We criticize
their conduct often, saying that it is in
consistent with what they claim to believe
and be. Yet these same friends look at lis
and think that we are inconsistent.
Bight conduct is not determined by
measuring ours with that of other peo
ple. St. Paul wrote, "But, they, measur
ing themselves by themselves, and com
paring themselves among themselves, aite
not wise." Read what he has to say about
it in the tenth chapter of II Corinthians.
Many great writers throughout the
ages proclaimed the same truth, that wh^,t
we do sounds so loud that people can't
hear what we say.
He who professes to hold to the tenants
of any religion must be prepared to prac
tice them, or he loses the respect of his
fellows. This is true whether he be Pro
testant, Roman Catholic, Jew, or any oth
er faith.
I can't help but think of that when I
hear the language used by some people
whom I know to be members of churches.
Blasphemy, profanity, off-colored and
filthy conversation is denounced by all re
ligions as offensive to God and in violation
of His commandments. Some of you wfyo
read this may be guilty. If you are, you
should be ashamed of yourself. You re
flect no credit on the God whom you pro
fess to serve, and the church of which
you are a member. '
There are other habits of personal con
duct which are equally inconsistent with
any religious profession. Dishonesty in
our business dealings is bad enough and
certainly to be condemned. But dishonesty
in our speech is even more common and
detestable. Yet how many men and wom
en, members of churches are guilty of it,
when they pass on by word of mouth or
telephone, that which they would not dare
put down in writing—hearsay, gossip
which is unfavorable to friends and ac
quaintances.
Brief Notes On
Fiesta Players
Doug Shores, North "Wilkes
boro third baseman, and Mike
Brellch, here last year and now
at Wytheville, are both gunning
for league hitting honors this
year. At this time they are run
ning close. . . . Bill Weston, who
won three and lost none for
North Wilkesboro in early sea
son, has gone home* for two
weeks and treatment of a back
injury. He hopes to have his fast
one back in the game after his re
turn. . . . Arnold Davis' three
drives at Galax Sunday broke his
batting slump and he is ready to
get into the consistent hitting
column . .•. Jack Cooper is also
finding the range.
The double play combination
of Bob Winkelspect and Pat Pes
citelli is the talk of the Blue
Ridge circuit. They don't make
double plays with greater speed
in any league, and both are good
hitters. There is plenty of room
on up in baseball for boys with
so m^ich hustle. Fans here like
Tom Daddino's calm attitude as
manager and his good play day
in and day out.
Extent of Johnny Mercak's in
jury was bad news. Tendons were
torn from his foot and he had a
leg fracture sliding into third in
a game against Elkin here. Jim
Siceloff, who has been catching
recently, found his batting eye
this week and has been banging
them out regularly. He was with
Athletics teams at Martinsville in
the Carolina and Lexington in
the North State last year.
Troy Stanley s hitting has im
proved recently. He packs as
much power as any player in the
league . . . Infield play had
been so good this season that
something had to blow up and
it happened against Mount Airy
here Monday night in the first
game when five of Mount Airy's
runa were unearned. The Grani
teers didn't get an extra base
blow off Worth Cuthbertson's
mixture of everything . . . Lee
Bentley has some of the meanest
curves thrown at batters this
year. When he gets his control'
down pat he'll be hard to beat
. . . Leslie Rhoades is a. control
artist. He dldnt walk "a man at
Mount Airy Tuesday night . . .
Dick Long has been bothered
with an ailing right shoulder . . .
Bob Thompson, the Greensboro
youth, tips the scales at 135
but has an amazingly fast pitch.
. . . Bob Lehman pitched a mas
terful game at Galax Sunday
after a shaky first inning.
The best support you can give
your home team is attendance at
the games, and the second best
is to refrain from boos when a
player makes an error or fails to
hit.
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Before World War II, the
Philippines supplied about 90
per cent of the manila hemp en
tering world trade.
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Harvesting of the commercial
tomato crop in North Carolina Is
expected to begin about the mid
dle of June.
James Philo Hill
Taken By Death
James Philo Hall, 66, well
known citizen of the Pair plains
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community, died early Wednes
day.
Funeral Bervice was held to
day, four p. m., at Fairplains
Baptist church. Rev. Clate Brown
and Rev. Troy Bltfrlns conducted
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the service. Burial was In Mount
Lawn Memorial Park north of
this city.
Surviving Mr. Hall are his
wife, Mrs. Cora Hall; four sons
and three daughters, Vernon
Hall, o'f Winston-Salem, Bruce i
Hall, of North Wilkesboro, Gra
dy Hall, of Norfolk, Va., Rich
ard Hall, of North Wilkesboro,
Mrs. Sherman Dillard, of Lex
ington, Mrs. N. M. Johnson, of
North Wilkesboro, Mrs. Nick De
voles, of Norfolk, Va.; tw
brother*, John Hall, of lirorth
Wilkesboro, and C. D. HaUrfWjfc
Martinsville, Ya., and three sis
ters, Mra. Minnie Johnson, of
Lexington, Mrs. R. G. Brewer, of
Wellsville, Va., Mrs. Robert
Miles, of Dehari; also seven
grandchildren.
Mr. kali was a ton of the late
William and Katherine McGrady
Hall.
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