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Conditions In Post Texas, Not Same As Reported In Local "Booklet" City Of Post POST, TEXAS June 20, 1967 Mayor Raymond F. Bennett 201 South Caldwell Street Brevard, North Carolina 28712 Dear Mayor Bennett: It is with much displeasure and regret that we review the bro chure, “Facts About an ABC Store in Brevard,” which we re ceived from your C»ty. We find t it to be similar to the same type of “hog wash” distributed here prior to our local option election, and the same, using Post as a pic ture of crime, in all other pam phlets distributed throughout the entire south prior to all liquor elections. While we will not attempt to go through the dockets of Justice of Peace, Corporation, and County Courts to dig up the statistics on ar rests and conviction since we have had legalized liquor sales, we are sure that the enclosed editorial, which appeared in our county news paper March 10, 1966, points out clearly the causes and wherefores , on increased arrests and convic | tions. The City of Pdst, Federal cen sus 4,645, is not the crime center of Texas. It is a fine little city, filled with fine churches, schools, beautiful homes and many fine citizens, some of whom have liv ed here for more than half a cen tury and who continue to reside here in contentment, even though we have the so-called curse of le galized beverages. At present time we have "hree package stores and not more than half dozen taverns, where “on premises” sales of beer and wine are legal. These places are rigidly controlled by officers of the State Liquor Control Board. Each pack age store and tavern is licensed by the State, County of Garza and City of Post. Our city employs only three policemen to provide us with ade quate all-around law enforce ment. You have my permission to use this letter for publication to re fute what we term misrepresen tations of truth and also you of course, may use the editorial or any part of it, with due credit to the Post Dispatch. Very truly yours, John N. 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Tracts going from 40 to 100 acres. 300 ACRE TRACT IDEAL FOR GOLF COURSE GOING— Cater to all the duffers in the growing Piedmont area with an 18-hole golf course in the heart of the mountains. Plans for the course included! 160 LOTS — MTN. LAKE ESTATES — Prize sites for permanent or leisure living! Beauty, convenience, privacy. Rich soil, level wooded ter rain. two lakes. Build the home of vour dreams in this beautiful loca tion! Builders - get land for use now and in the future, while you can set the price! EASY TERMS: 25% Down Auction Day. Balance over 3 years at 6% interest. An nual payments on land; monthly on lots. (INSPECT NOW! See for yourself the promise this type land holds. It’s all in a growing' area where property costs will rise steadily. Call our office if you need more information. BROCHURE Full details ~ and pictures Call or write for your copy. FREE Bring the fam ily. Fun for all Let Us Do Your Job Printing The Transylvania Times NOTICE State of North Carolina County of Transylvania The undersigned, having quali fied as Executor of the Estate of Flora W. Barclay, deceased, late of Transylvania County, this is to notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to the undersign ed on or before the 22nd day of December, 1967, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payments to the un dersigned. This the 20th day of June, 1967. THOMAS BARCLAY Executor Estate of Flora W. Barclay c/o Ramsey, Hill & Smart, Attorneys The Legal Building Brevard, North Caro lina 6-22-4tc ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE State of North Carolina County of Transylvania Having qualified as the Ad ministratrix of the estate of Blake McCall, deceased, late of the county of Transylvania, North Carolina, this is to give notice that all persons having claims against the estate of the deceased to present them to the undersigned Administratrix at Rt. 2, Box 295, Brevard, N. C. on or before the 29th day of December, 1967 or this notice wlil please make immediate settlement. This the 29th day of June, 1967. VELMA McCALL, Ad ministratrix Estate of Blake McCall deceased. 6-29-4tc NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF D. H. COSBY, INC. Notice is hereby given that Articles of Dissolution of D. H. COSBY, INC., a North Carolina Corporation, were filed in the office of the Secretary of State on the 27th day of June, 1967, and that all creditors of and claimants against the Corpora tion are required to present their respective claims and de mands immediately in writing to the Corporation so that it can proceed to collect its as sets, convey and dispose of its properties, pay, satisfy and dis charge its liabilities and obliga tions and do all other acts re quired to liquidate its business and affairs. This the 29th day of June, 1967. D. H. COSBY, INC. Brevard ' North Carolina 7-6-4tc Y TIMES CLASSIFIED ADS FOR RESULTS J Mayor Bennett Receives Letter, A Newspaper Editorial Brevard’s Mayor Raymond F. Bennett issues a statement in which he says there is much mislead* ing information in a booklet being circulated in Bre vard and Transylvania entitled, “Facts About An ABC Store in Brevard.” Moyor Bennett says that it is disturbing since the booklet has the endorsement of some ministers and is being distributed at several churches. A portion of the booklet is entitled “Crime,” and it tells of conditions in the Town of Post, Texas. Mayor Bennett has contacted the Mayor of Post, who has written the letter adjacent to this story. An editorial from the newspaper at Post is also carried on this page, and it tells of present condi tions in an accurate and unbiased manner. Readers of The Times will find the letter and the editorial interesting reading. These Days Or - Behind The News From Washington BY JOHN CHAMBERLAIN - - When the cat’s away, the mice will play. The cat, In this instance, is Dick Nixon, who has been traveling in Af frica and the Middle East. The mice are those unnamed Nixon ‘‘associates” and “ad visers” who leaked a story the other day to the New York Times that Nixon was cozying up to New York City's Mayor Lindsay and V. S. Sen ator Jake Javits in hopes of luring some of the New York State delegates away from Rockefeller control at the 1968 Republican convention. According to the leaked ac count, Nixon “might” look with favor on “pessuading Mr. Lindsay to be his running mate in 1968.” If Nixon has “advisers” who can talk this way, he had bet ter come home fast and watch some of the mice who are play ing with his reputation. For the immediate impact of the Times story on New York State con servatives, who are the only ones who could guarantee him any convention delegates, was to raise a lot of hackles. Lucki ly there were other Nixon “ad visers” who said the story was implausible on its face, for it would be unconstitutional for the electors from New York State to deliver their electoral college ballets to two inhabitants of the same state as themselves. With Lindsay as his Vice Presi dential running mate, Nixon would have to move to Con necticut or back to California <to derive the expected benefit from a New York vote. Such a move would repel so many New York conservatives • (who, after all, hold the bal ance of power in state Re publican circles) that New York would be lost anyway. The fact is that Mayor Lindsay ha« very little hold on Re publicans outside of Manhat tan island; he couldn’t even take control of his party or ganization in the Bronx. The idea that Nixon has any thing to gain by “courting” Lindsay and Javits is so fantas tic that one suspects it was an enemy, and not an “adviser,” who floated the story in ques tion. (Could it have been a Javits man trying to warn Rockefeller against deserting Javits as a “favorite son”?) The first effect of the report was to set things up for some mut ed sarcasms by Senator Javits who, though he professed to “entirely friendly” relations with Nixon, said it would be wise for Dick to abandon any hope of capturing the New York t delegation. Javits chided Nix on for failure to take a role hi Manhattan organizational poli tics, which is about as absurd as you can get How would Nixou crack the gates? Kosygin would have a better chance at this point of taking out membership in the B*Nai BTtith. Javits also .invited Nixon to Join him tad Governor Rockefeller in sup porting a “moderate, progres sive candidate" for President such as Governor Romney. In other words, Nixon should deny his own candidacy. It has taken Nixon seven years to overcome the sus picions of conservative Repub licans who resented his so called “Treaty of Fifth Ave nue” with Nelson Rockefeller in 1960. The conservatives do not object when Nixon com munes with Senator Javits on foreign policy matters. Bat the very idea that he might accept John Lindsay as a Vice Presidential running mate would send them rushing to endorse Ronald Reagan of Cal ifornia for the Presidential Damnation. Lindsay, though a most like able fellow, figures as the off stage villain in an American Conservative Union report on “DMV” — or Democratic Margin of Victory — that has recently been masterminded by Repre sentative John Ashbrook of Ohio. The “Democratic Margin of Victory” in many House of Representatives votes consists of super-liberal Republicans who belong to the group called “the Wednesday Club.” When he was in Congress John Lind say was the leader of this group. The great rank and file of Re publicans beyond the Allegheny Mountains would hardly wel come a former Wednesday Club leader as the second man on their ticket. To combat the Wednesday Club, Representative Ash brook is forming a separate caucus of the more conserva tive Republicans in the House. If, as seems likely, Ashbrook attracts a majority of the Re publican membership, it will have an impact on the 1968 convention. The Republicans in 1968 will certainly present a balanced ticket, but it won’t be a balance of widely separat ed ideological extremes. Ques tions of geography will play a good part in it Nixon is too shrewd a politician not to realize the facts of life, which is the main reason for sup posing that when the cat re turns from his African tour he will put those trouble-mak ing mice in their place. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE State of North Carolina County of Transylvania Having qualified as the Ad ministratrix of the estate of Bill T. Elliott, deceased, late of the county of Transylvania, North Carolina, this is to give notice that all persons having claims against the estate of the deceased to present them to the undersigned Administratrix at Rf. 2 Box 252, Brevard on or before the 22nd day of Decem ber, 1967 or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to the U' Dispatch Editorials POST, TEXAS Look What They're Doing To Post A four-page pamphlet that is be ing circulated every time there is a local option liquor election any where in Texas is doing Post more harm than a dozen chambers of commerce could do it good, as far as 'presenting its image to the rest of the state is concerned. What the circulation of this “dry” pamphlet amounts to is “community assassination,” and the Post citizens whose testimonials ap pear on it haven’t much to be proud of as far as boosting their commun ity is concerned. “The Painful Cost for a Commun ity Gone ‘Wet’ ” is the title of the pamphlet, and it holds Post up to other Texans as a town over-run by drunks, dead-beats and prostitutes, where driving while intoxicated is the rule rather than the exception, and where murders and deaths on the highway have jumped sky-high since one precinct voted “wet” some six years ago. Do you believe all that? Well, the “drys” are trying to cram it down the throats of people in other towns every time a local option li quor election is held. The latest one of these pieces of “dry” propaganda we’ve seen comes from Coleman, Tex., where they’re getting ready to hold a local option election. Not long ago we saw one from Corsicana, and we’re sure there have been any number of oth ers read by thousands of people in other parts of Texas. Post is the “whipping boy” in these pamphlets. No other Texas community in which the sale of beer and liquor has been legalized is mentioned in the Coleman pam phlet nor in any of the others we’ve seen. Whether you are for or against the legal sale of beer and liquor, let’s look at this matter of “dry” propaganda sensibly. The “drys” have misused the usually reliable yardstick of com parisons in presenting their “facts and figures” on “what ac tually happened to this city,” as they put it in their pamphlet. In showing a big increase in the number of arrests and convictions since Precinct 3 voted “wet,” the pamphleteers fail to mention that shortly before or at about the same time the precinct went “wet”, two state highway patrolmen were sta tioned in Post for the first time, and the size of both the city police de partment and sheriff’s department were increased. More law enforcement officer." on the job naturally means more ar rests, and the number of arrests for violations not involving drinking have increased at the same ratio. The figures on the pamphlet are sadly out of date—about six years out of date. The one we’ve just re ceived from Coleman lists a total of 15 package stores, 17 taverns and five off-premises outlets in Post. Have you counted them lately? But the “drys” aren’t interest ed in anything as solid as up-to date facts and figures. What they’re mainly interested in is over-riding the right of a political subdivision to decide whether <P not it wants to legalize the sale of alcoholic beverages. And theyA apparently don’t care how black^ an eye they give this community in trying to get their message across. Nor does the pamphlet put out by the opponents of legalized beer and liquor make any mentioa about what went on in Post before the cit izens of Precinct 3 exercised their constitutional rights and voted it “wet.” No mention is made of the bootlegging that went on virtually unchecked and of outright sale of whiskey and beer to minors. Like most other pieces of propa ganda, these pamphlets do not car ry the name of the organization or group which compiled the “facts and figures” contained therein, or which distributes the literature. But, whoever thev are, we think they should be called upon to give good reason why they shouldn’t stop singling out this community to hold up to the rest of the state as a “bad example.” Which is just a nice way of sa.v^. ing that we think every civic-min» ed citizen of Post should be inteiV ested in seeing to it that a screechy ing stop is put to further distribiPr tion of any pamphlets of this nature —JC and CD. Homecoming Slated At Rocky Bottom Homecoming will be observed at Rocky Bottom Baptist church on Sunday, July 9th. Services will begin at 10:00 o’clock and will continue throughout the day. The public is invited to come, bringing lunch, and spend the day. Special singers will be the True Gospel Quartet, George Shelton Children, Rhymes Trio, Roy Shelton, Clarence Shelton, Spurgeon Shelton and the old original Shelton Quartet. The church is located ten miles South of Rosman in Rocky Bottom, S. C. The Reverend Her mit Reece is pastor. Hamilton Declares Dividend The Board of Directors of Hamilton Funds, Inc. has declar ed a quarterly dividend of 2 Vi said estate will please make im mediate settlement This the 22nd day of June, 1987. MARIE G. ELLIOTT Administratrix Estate of Bill T. Elliott, de ceased. 6-22-4tc WEEKLY CROSSWORD ACROSS 1. Trance 6. Shawl 10. Anti install* ment , plan: 4 wds. 12. Greedy 13. Ejected 15. Shade of , brown 16. Cattail 17. Toward 18. A division , of the United Kingdom ■20. Exclama tion ’21. Unit of i work :22. Anneal ; 23. Reaches ; across *26. Consecrate '27. Footed l 28. Chinese pagoda 29. Deity 30. Apartment . houses kj Without elevators 34. Close to 35. Sham 36. Rodent 37. Entertain 39. Girl’s name 40. Inflam matory ' 42. Pecans, ‘ walnuts; almonds, 43. Wastes time DOWN 1. Freshet 2. Stately old dance . 3. Ogling jSjj 4. Youth l 6. Roman w5 : 50’s ( 6. Auxiliary verb | 7. Trick i 8. Consignee: i abbr. ( S. Elizabeth . Barrett ’ Browning; for one « 11. Not old Jg | 14. Treats Sw With ^ Fp" drugs: sL 16. Sailors fl—ITITT 19. Camera part 20. Shade 22. Burst* in g shells of anti air craft i artil I lery 23. Sucrose 24. Organic nitrogenous compound 25. Conjunction 26. Large r bundle 28. Reserved SO. See IS across re vsA/m spibpiii eniBEi OSBDEIIBIHHSSD □SDH BHBSfclS B0P1 tlBlOP BQ apiHEiHara s®0 □on Msasffl SSEHS HSSQgia E1HHE BPtH 0BE1 SEEBBSSSE ■ n fclHIDB ESQO sbbwwk sinssa BBHEIBgBBEiei PIBEE1 BBSS' I Auawci: 31. Wild shedA of India W 32. Priest /! 33. Remains ’ t 35. Datum J '■ 38. African | i antelopa i 39. Cover 4 41. Twofold} I 'h prefix 41 " ia1 V77i cents per share from net undis tributed income, payable July 17, 1967, to shareholders of rec ord June 30, 1967. Nearly $2.5 million will be distributed to some 300,000 Hamilton shareholders all over the world, k was announced by Hamilton President A. R. Ty rone. This will be the 78th consec utive quarterly dividend of the common stock mutual fund, whose investment objectives are long-term growth of principal and reasonable income. Hamil ton shares are distributed in 48 states and 22 foreign areas.
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