THE TOT DAILY WILLETI
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Seth M. Vining, Editor
Vol- 24—No. 349 TRYQN, N. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 22. 1952
Published, Daily Except
(Est. 1-31-28)Saturday and Sunday 6c Per Copy
ENTERED AS SECOND CLASS MATTER AUGUST 20, 1928, AT THE POSTOFFICE
_AT TRYON, N. C. UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3, 1879
Weather Monday: High 60, low
40, Rel. Hum. 32. . . President
Truman asks Congress for $85,
444,000,000 to run the government.
Many congressmen say the budget
w:ll be cut several billions ....
Blizzards still hitting the Midwest.
Colder weather expected here Wed
nesday .... Reuben H. Staton,
80, native of Saluda, WNC Repub
lican leader, former Hendersonville
postmaster and county judge, died
M'onday afternoon .... The Ashe
ville Qitizen shows picture of Car
roll P. Rogers Sr., and Mrs. Carroll
Rogers Jr., among a group of
Yancey County citizens fighting to |
the railroad line between
and Burnsville, which the
r^Wroad company wants to discon
tinue because it is .losing: money, i
Mr. Rogers’ company ships over I
500 carloads of felspar over the <
railroad each year . . . Columbus
Capitol girls defeated Whitney 36
to 8 at Whitney Monday night. . . .
Mrs. Wesley Gpsnell of Tryon was
admitted to St. Luke’s Hospital
Monday .... Tryon Kiwanis meets
tp_day at 1 p. m., and the Lions at
7:30 p. m., both at Oak Hall. The
Congregational Women’s Society
meets at 3:30 today . . . Public is
invited to the remote control broad
cast Thursday 12:30-1 p. m., at
Pierce-Wilson Motor Co., over
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Lions Ladies Program
Tonight At Oak Hall
The Tryon Lions Club will hold
a Ladies Night tonight at 7:30
at Oak Hall. Entertainment will
be provided by Alex Houston,
ventriloquist, from Hendersonville.
HERO’S RETURN
Henrick Kurt Carlsen has fin
ally arrived home in this country
and been met with the kind of
public enthusiasm which was in
spired by Charles A. Lindbergh
in 1927. Like Lindbergh’s, Captain
Carlsen’s courage and determina
tion have captured the people’s
imagination, and the people have
rewarded him. He has received
the welcome due a hero back from
the wars.
But what of the heroes actually
back from the wars? As remark
able as Captain Carlsen’s accomp
lishment is, it is matched and bet
tered day after day by thousands
of American fighting men on
the hills and plains of Korea.
It speaks well for the American
soldier’s heroism that it has be
come a commonplace almost to
De ignored by the populace. But
does it not speak ill of our sense
of proportion that thousands of
worn and - wounded service men
can slip into our ports with no
more than a single military band
and a mean public turnout, if
that, to greet them?
Have ten years of war stories
so jaded the public’s appetite
that it can respond only to a
uniquely dramatic show of valor?
Captain Carlsen has proved him
self a brave, unselfish and noble
hearted man. He deserves every
ipch of ticker tape that descended
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