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Christmas Cards Have Warm, Friendly Air cards ,.f j949 Christmas nnise i say Yuletide. ;e3 of holiday skating, sled *and juvenile pranks bedeck uprightly greetings. A Santa ii feathery beard comes bear ..A wish so old . . . it lias USKERS!” ’ublisliers estimate that 1,600, 1.000 Christmas c a r d s will sbten the nation's holiday mail [tout 100.000.000 more good shes than last year. ^eh-ious designs have come to > fore in popularity. Madonna (j Child portraits, in soft pastel es. iea;l the Holy Land scenes, in; bells, midnight ehurch »r> and surpltced choirs express ?* mcciern reverent attitude to rd christmastide. 3n the whimsical side, the tree little kittens" of nursery rnief.uue have hung their mit i. on the fireplace, drowsily oiting Santa. One card’s in the p of a barrel—to wqar after i pay your Christmas bills. Verses have a warm, straight ward friendliness— If me n' Santa were in cahoots— By gash you’d hafta hang HIP BOOTS! Novelty Yule cams are in heavy demand. Tiny angels and snow men pop out of tiny watch springs. Several greetings contain card board ornaments for decorating your Christmas tree. Other Christ mas cards are guaranteed against getting dog-eared in the holiday 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 affection ate individual verses for loved ones and valued friends. Whatever your taste, you’ll have no trouble find ing a Christmas card this Yule— publishers say 25.000 different de signs are available! A “sponge” is the cleaned skel eton of a creature which lives at the bottom of the sea. Our best wishes for a Merry thristmas < • • • <r • > <K#* ? Oar sincerest hopes * for a Happy New Year m BENLEE'S In Valdese STATE TO ADD PENNY TO GAS TAX JANUARY I Extra Money To Be Used Only j For Helping Pay Rural Road Program. Raleigh — (/P) — When North Carolina adds another penny to its gasoline tax Jan. 1, the money must be used exclusively to help pay for the rural road program. So ruled Attorney General Harry McMullan in a special opinion handed down recently. The extra cent tax—which will raise the state's gas tax to seven cents a gallon—automatically goes into effect the first of the new year. It was contingent upon the $200,000,000 rural road bond issue approved last summer. If the bond issue were approved —which it was—the gas tax rate was to automatically go up one cent Jan. 1. If an opinion prepared for the revenue department, the highway commission, and the state treasur er’s office, McMullan said all in come from the tax increase must be deposited in a secondary, road bond fund. ^ ! He pointed out that the fund was created in a provision of the act authorizing the $200,000,000 j bond program and that its purpose, i as outlined in the act, is to repay the principal and inqterest on the bonds. The additional one-cent tax is expected to bring the state an ex tra $6,000,000 annually. PLANES SPOT POACHERS Federal game officials are urging aerial photographs as evidence against commercialT fishermen op erating illegally in certain waters. The. idea is showing special promise in Alaska, where rough waters sometimes make it impos sible for a patrol plane to land. Albert M. Day, director of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, says the plane has replaced the dog sled in Alaskan patrols to the extent that only 13 miles were covered by sled last year, against 134,329 by plane, 300 by helicop ter and about 100,000 by other means. BELK-BROOMECO. VALDESE ' “Home of Better Values” Your Name Smith? G. K. Chesterton Said It's Sacred Although one in every hundred Americans is named Smith, there’s no good reason "why anyone so named should feel that the com monness of his name cannotes commonness in himself. Such a person may be impressed by Oliver Wendell Holmes’ line: “Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith’’, but he hasn’t heard all until he hears these words from Gilbert K. Chesterton: “In the case of Smith, the name is so poetical that it must be an arduous and heroic matter to live up to it ... . This sacred name of Smith—this name of iron and flame. It would be very natural if a certain hauteur, a cer tain carriage of the head,, a cer tain curl of the lip, distinguished everyone whose name is Smith. . . From the darkest dawn off history this clan has gone forth to battle; ... its name is everywhere; it is older than the nations.” More information about the name of Smith and some of the most prominent people who .bear it is contained in an article in the October issue oi cosmopolitan magazine. The author? A Smith, of course—H. Allen Smith, who has also written of such things as Totem Poles, Horse Latitudes a*nd Putty-Knife Factories. Valdese Hardware Company r BEST HUSHES? We offer our most sincere greetings to friends and patrons for‘a Joyful Christmas Holiday and a Happy New Year, too! City Radio & Tire Co. Try a WANT AD for Quick Results (jtftMmM As joyful voices herald the ap proach of another Christmas y ■ . season, we are grateful for the friendships and close associations it has been our privilege to enjoy. /S' I At no other time of the year do warm feelings and fond words seem more fitting and sincere and so, in humble appreciation of our good fortune, and from the bottom of our hearts we say, "A Joyous Christmas To All”. 1 ( , \ Valdese Furniture Co.
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