SEVENTH GRADE
TEACHERS HOLD
DINNER MEETING
Dr. Lee Reynolds, Professor
At Appalachian State Col,
lege, Is Speaker Here.
The seventh grade teachers of
the Burke county schools with in
vited guests held a professional
dinner meeting recently at the
Rainbow Grill. ,
Dr. Lee Reynolds, head of the
educational department, Appala
chian State Teachers College,
Boone, was the guest speaker. He
discussed “Newer Aims in Educa
tion and More Efficient Skills and
Teacher Techniques in Dealing
With the Whole Child in the
Learning Situation”
After the discussion, the teachers
had an open period of discussing
their respective problems and ask
ing Dr. Reynolds to help direct
their activities toward better
teacher-pupil situations. Teachers
were especially directed to see
every learning situation in light of
“the whole child”.
The meeting proved to be very
informational. It gave the teach
ers a new concept of education
in our times and challenged them
to a better rapport between their
students.
Another professional meeting
has been planned for the spring
term with another outstanding
authority in the field of education
as guest speaker.
SWISS SLEDDING ON AGAIN
St. Moritz, Switzerland—(A5)—
Crest Run, one of the world’s fast
est winter sports tracks, will be
open again this winter after a
lapse of two years due to lack of
funds.
The Swiss government has off
ered to contribute 30,000 francs
($6,000) per season to the ice and
snow toboggan track. Fred Mac
Carthy, captain of the United
• States skeleton team in the Olym
pic games here in 1948, will act as
secretary of the St. Moritz Tobog
ganing Clubs this season. Lord
Brabazon of Tara is president.
A two-day derby for skeleton
racers will be held on the Cresta
Run Jan. 19 and 20. Riders on
these small, steel skeletons some
times achieve a speed of 80 miles
per hour.
The vacuum bottle was invented
by Sir James Dewar about 1892.
DRIVE-IN-CHURCH—Rev. Norman Hammer delivers a sermon
to his drive-in congregation at the Emmanuel Lutheran church,
North Hollywood, Calif. The Reverend Hammer, a transplanted
Kansan, installed the parking area pulpit to spur lagging attendance
at his church. So far, the minister says, it has worked successfully.
Cripples and sick persons now find going to church much easier.
Needless to say, he got his idea from drive-in movies.
Pedestrian Deaths By Autos
Double Last Year’s Number
Pedestrian fatalities showed a
100 per cent increase in September
this year as compared with the
same month last year, a report
released by the Department of Mo
tor Vehicles revealed.
Twenty-two pedestrians, seven
of whom were children, were
struck down on the streets and
highways of the State as compared
with 11 last year. The 22 brought
fatalities for the month to 80, an
increase of 18 per cent over the
68 persons who died last year.
Deaths through September total
ed 600.
Injuries numbered 876, repre
senting an increase of 22 per
cent over the 720 injured during
the same month of last year and
bringing to 6,928 the total per
sonal injuries this year.
Although September fatalities
were on the increase over those
in the low fatality year of 1948,
they were still below several pre
vious years, when travel was much
less than this year. In September
10 years ago, 91 persons were kill
ed; in 1940, 113; in 1941, 112; 1945,
B2; 1947, 87. War years dropped
below this year’s total with 70 in
1942; 50 in 1943; 65 in 1944. In
1947, 79 were killed.
Personal injuries, however,
Hadacol Helps
Textile Workers
Stay On The Job
The great textile mills of the
Carolinas are booming again with
shifts working day and night to
turn out the nation’s finest mate
rials, and HADACOL is doing its
part to keep folks on the job.
Many textile workers have re
ported the wonderful relief which
has been brought them by
HADACOL with its five B vita
mins and four important minerals.
Two of these workers, a young
father employed by the great
Cannon Mills at Kannapolis, N.C.,
and a mother,
working at a
mill in nearby
Salisbury,
N. C., recently
told how HAD
A C O L had
helped keep
them on the
job.
Jay W. Barn
hardt. Route 3,
Box 343. Kan
nannlis. N. C._
is 30 years old Mr. Barnhardt
and the proud father of two chil
dren. His work in the Cannon
Mills calls for a great deal of
standing up.
“I had been ill for several
years,” said Mr. Barnhardt as he
explained how close he came to
having to give up his work. “I
suffered with a weak stomach.
It became worse and worse with
gastric disturbances. I just could
not hold food and no food agreed
with me. I could not sleep and
finally I became so sick that my
legs got weak as I worked in
the mill each day.”
Mr. Barnhardt, like so many
sufferers, had tried many prepa
rations without relief, when he
heard about HADACOL.
“After the second bottle of
HADACOL I began to feel better
and to regain the weight I had
lost,” said Mr. Barnhardt. “My
digestion became normal again
and today I am as well as ever.
My legs no longer bother me.
I eat and enjoy my food. I sleep
well and have plenty of energy.”
Mr. Barnhardt has taken sev
eral bottles of HADACOL and
now takes the famous vitamin
and mineral preparation to help
stay welL He has had his wife
take it with wonderful results
and has recommended it to his
friends in the mill.
Mrs. Maggie H. Poole, 1503
Caroline Avenue, in Salisbury.
N. C., had become so ill that she
was forced to give up her work
but soon after hearing the won
derful news about HADACOL she
was back on the job and has beer
doing swell ever since.
“I was tired, weak and nerv
ous,” said Mrs. Poole. “I suffered
indigestion and food didn’t agree
with me. I also had headaches
After taking five bottles of HAD
ACOL I felt good and was back
on the job at the mill. I had tried
so many things that the HADA
COL news was a real blessing tc
me. I have more appetite and
eat what I want to. I feel better
than I have in a long time.”
Mr. Barnhardt and Mrs. Poole
were both suffering from a lack
of B vitamins and the minerals
which HADACOL contains.
HADACOL comes to you in liquid
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. . . You will |
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if you suffer from such a defi
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It is easy to understand, there
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Insist on the genuine HADA
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druggist does r^ot handle HADA
COL, order direct from The Le
Blanc Corporation, Lafayette, La.,
and when the postman brings
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plus the c. o. d. and postage.
If you remit with the order we
will pay the postage.
Then, if you don’t feel perfectly
satisfied after using HADACOL
as directed, just return the empty
carton and your money will be
cheerfully re funded. Nothing
could be fairer.
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reached an all-time high for Sep
tember. A check of injuries during
Septembers of the past 10 years
showed: 1939, 614; 1940, 542; 1941,
641; 142, 374; 1943, 292; 1944, 309;
1945, 486; 1946, 488; 1947, 544;
1948,720; 1949, 876.
Accidents in September also
topped those of previous Septem
bers. The number in September
mounted to 1, 911 as compared
with 625 in 1939; 891 in 1940; 1,
040 in 1941; 484 in 1942; 497 in
1943; 545 in 1944; 813 in 1945;
897 in 1946; 1,050 in 1947; and
1,491 in 1948.
In addition to the 22 pedestrians
killed, 93 were injured, 45 of whom
were children. Mecklenburg, Per
son. Wilkes and Craven Counties
reported two pedestrians each kill
ed; Alamance, Bladen, Buncombe,
Cherokee, Cleveland, Cumberland,
Durham, Gaston, Halifax, Hay
wood, Henderson, McDowell, Ro
beson and Wayne, one each. Meck
lenburg’s fatalities were both in
Charlotte. Waynesville, Mt. Olive,
Wilkesboro and Marion had one
each.
Collisions Kill 21
Collisions of motor vehicles took
the lives of 21 persons during Sep-'
tember. One person was killed in
a collision of a motor vehicle and
animal-drawn vehicle and one in
a collision with an animal. Only
one bicylist met his death. Three
deaths occureu when motor ve
hicles struck fixed objects. Twenty
five persons died when their ve
hicles overturned or ran off the
road.
A total of 3,223 drivers were in
volved in traffic accidents, with
the 35 to 44 age bracket leading
the group. Drivers from 25 to 34
were in more fatal accidents, how
ever. Four hundred and seventy
nine drivers were speeding when
they were involved in accidents, 14
of which were fatal. A total of 379
drivers did not have the right of
way when crashes occurred, seven
of which were fatal. Other drivers
in violation were as follows: 358
driving on wrong side of road, 12
of whom were in fatal mishaps;
191 following too closely; 131 driv
ing intoxicated, seven of whom
were in fatal crashes.
Vehicles involved in accidents
w’ere as follows: passenger cars, 2,
554, with 65 fatal accidents;
trucks, 567, with 19 fatal acci
dents; military vehicles, one; oil
transports, two; taxicabs, 47;
buses, 31; school buses, 29; and
motorcycles, 27. Sixty-four acci
dents were caused from defective
brakes, one of which was fatal.
Six accidents involved vehicles
with both headlights out, 10 with
insufficient lights, and 10 with de
fective steering mechanisms.
Mecklenburg led the State in
fatalities during September with
five deaths. Burke had one.
FRENCH vs. U. S. WINES
Hollywood—(/P)—There is room
for both French and California
wines on America’s dinner tables,
says Earnest Des Baillets, a vin
tage connoisseur. France has yet
to be surpassed in making “really
fine” wines, but it can’t compete
with lower cost wines produced
in the U. S. ,
Des Baillets expressed these
views after returning from a 23
day tom’ of such French vineyard
areas as Anjou, Touraine, Borde
aux, Cotes-du-Rhone, Alsace,
Champagne and Cognac. Fine
French wines are tops, he said, be
cause of differences in climate and
soil and the more personal super
vision of the product. Des Baillets
added that contrary to some re
ports, the Germans did not take
the best wines out of France.
GOOD DUCK SEASON
Vallejo, Calif.—(A5)—Ed Case’s
son skipped school a day to go duck
hunting with Ed. They took a
couple of dressed ducks over to the
boy’s teacher and on the way back
something hit the car.
They got out, and found a duck.
It had been shot, but had flown far
enough to collapse on the Case car.
At holiday times turkey may
mean, a big meal, but in racfco slang
it’s a program that has been a
complete failure. .»til ,
Christmas Cards Have
Warm And Friendly Air
The 1949 Christmas cards prom
ise a gay Yuletide.
Scenes of holiday skating, sled
ding, and juvenile pranks bedeck
the sprightly greetings. A Santa
with feathery beard comes bear
ing “A wish so old .... it has
WHISKERS!”
Publishers estimate that 1,600,
000,000 Christmas cards will
brighten the nation’s holiday mail
— about 1,000,000,000 more good
wishes than last year.
Religious designs have come to
the fore in popularity. Madonna
and Child portraits, in soft pastel
hues, lead the Holy Land scenes.
Chiming bells, midnight church
goers and surpliced choirs ex
press the modern reverent attitude
toward Christmastide.
On the whimiscal side, the
“three little kittens” of nursery
rhyme fame have hung their mit
tens on the fireplace, drowsily
awaiting Santa. One card’s in the
shape of a barrel—to wear after
you pay your Christmas bills.
Verses have a warm, straight
forward friendliness—
If me ’n Santa were in cahoots—
By gosh you’d hafta hang HIP
BOOTS!
Novelty Yule cards are in heavy
demand. The angels and snow
men pop out on tiny watch
springs. Several greetings con
tain cardboard ornaments for dec
orating your Christmas tree. Oth
er Christmas cards are guaranteed
against getting dog-eared in holi
day mail rush—they’re stamped
from sheet aluminum!
Incidentally, the Post Office De
partment asks that your out-of
state cards be mailed by December
15 and local cards a week before
Christmas.
“Special title” Christmas cards
have multiplied, with affectionate
individual verses for loved ones
and valued friends. Whatever
your taste, you’ll have no trouble
finding a Christmas card this Yule
—publishers say 25,000 different
designs are available.
FRATERNITY ri^EDGE
H. Preston Pitts, Jr., son of Mr.
and Mrs. H. Preston Pitts, Sr., of
Morganton, has recently been
pledged to the Theta Delta Chi
fraternity at Cornell University,
it was learned here last week.
Mrs. Pitts spent the Thanksgiv
ing holidays with her son in New
York and attended the Cornell
Pennsylvania football game in
Philadelphia on Thanksgiving Day.
N. C. SQUARE DANCES
GAINING WORLD FAME
The State Advertising Division
has received a copy of the English
Speaking World, published in Lon
don, with a story on North Caro
lina square dancing and folk
music. The story is built around
the Asheville Mountain Dance Fes
tival, now in its 22nd year,,
England heard more aoout North
Carolina folk lore when Bascom
Lamar Lunsford of South Turkey
Creek, Buncombe County, visited
London on his return from Venice,
where he attended the Congress of
International Folklorists this sum
mer, and lectured at Cecil Sharp
House.
The Soco Gap Square Dance
team, featured in the British mag
azine, is in heavy demand for ex
hibitions as interest in square
dancing continues to mount
throughout the nation. It now
How Christmas
Cards Began
William Maw Eglpv
16-yearold engraver's’ T °S
designed the worlds ar?‘oS
mas card in 1842 in a Cl%
garret in London. En,1? ?
Kis quaintiy-clutteS '
pictured a stately ho” gree%
outdoor skating, and 6 Pa^
Punch-and-Judy show* ,hol%j
engraved 100 copies, sent ^
his friends. " 1
Christmas cards
popular use in the 1860\ ~ ^
less than a century iatM
have become synonymous tte
Tosa,
Al anonymous
Christmas Spirit. Morpn4
600,000,000 will carry thP ^ ’
traditional good wishes
and loved ones throughout
S. this Yuletide. Utth«t
holds high 1'ank~as~a~touri7>
traction. mik[ at
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When God said “Let there be light,” He
created the conditions under which life
could exist on the earth. Without light,
the earth would become a frozen ball,
barren, desolate, and lifeless.
It was a great day for the human race
when man learned to draw the imprisoned
sun-rays from the elements and convert
them into heat and light. It marked the
beginning of human progress.
Step by step he has advanced from the
brush fire to the marvels of electricity.
With more light he has increased his
knowledge, added to his safety, and im
proved his living standard.
Religion is the light of the spiritual
world, and is essential to the growth and
well-being of the soul. The Psalmist said,
“The Lord is my light and my salvation,”
and the teachings of Jesus are the “true
light” for all who will heed them.
Wherever the Bible is accepted as
the guide of life, darkness disappears
and the light of faith shines in the
hearts of men.
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