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BY
JOHN CHAMBERLAIN
Are things simmering down
in Africa?
Since the African missions
to the UN keep up a drumfire
against Rhodesia, South Africa,
and the Portuguese “colonial
ists” in Angola and Mozambique,
it may seem foolish to ask such
a question. Then, too, the civil
war in Nigeria drags on, and
the white mercenaries in the
Congo don’t know whether they
will be permitted a choice be
tween execution and repatria
tion to their own countries. But
the verbal guerilla sniping in
the UN corridors seems to have
lost some of its zing. When
Black Power advocates such as
Stokely Carmichael and Rap
Brown are busy urging separa
tion of the races in the United
States, it’s hard to quarrel ov
er white South Africa’s policy
of providing for seven so-call
ed Bantustans (such as the
Transkei and Zululand) where
the Bantu tribesmen will be
self-governing in everything
save foreign policy matters af
fecting the South Africans and
the outside world.
The illusion of a developing
calm inside the old Dark Con
tinent is sustained by a lot of
things.
h There la the recent eco
nomic union between Kenya,
Tanzania, and Uganda. The
currencies of the three East
African countries have al
ways been more or less in
terchangeable, but new they
are going to have a common
market, with uniform tariffs.
Politically, Kenya and Tanz
ania have been on divergent
courses. President Nyerere
of Tanzania has welcomed the
Red Chinese into his coun
try where President Kenyat
ta of Kenya has been giving
them the old yo-heave-ho for'
trying to corrupt the text
books in his schools. Tan
zania is openly socialistic
where Kenya follows the
Mexican policy of allowing a
good deal of free enterprise
in the name of the “revolu
tion.” But the two nations are
not permitting ideology to
stand in the way of follow
ing common trade policies,
which could mean that ide
ology is ceasing to be a life
and-death matter on the Af
rican East Coast.
2. Some of the West Coast
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Dr. Roland
To Attend
Conference
Dr. E. 0. Roland, of Brevard,
is among those registered for
the 45th Annual Southeastern
Educational Congress of Op
tometry to be held, February
10 -13, 1968, at the Marriott Mo
tor Hotel in Atlanta.
The event, one of the largest
of its type in the Nation, is
expected to attract some 2,000
persons from 25 states. It will
include 73 hours of lectures as
well as meetings of 12 affiliat
ed groups.
Nationally - prominent lec
turers will speak on such top
ics as ocular pathology, child
vision, contact lenses, practice
pianagement, and current
health care trends.
The meeting is sponsored by
the Southern Council of Op
tometrists which consists of
some 2,400 members in 12
states. The Council carries on
a program of upgrading op
tometric professional compe
tence through educational sem
inars and congresses as well as
educating the public on proper
care of vision.
African nations are quietly
giving up on old feuds. Guinea
and the Ivory Coast have stop
ped seizing and detaining each
other’s nationals, and have
actually exchanged some po
litical prisoners whom they had
vowed “never” to release until
“national honor” had been sat
isfied. The propaganda which
the more “revolutionary” Afri
can countries used to direct
against President Hbupouet
Boigny of the Ivory Coast for
giving French free enterprisers
a free rein in his markets has
subsided. And most of the Af
rican nations that have accept
ed the help of agricultural mis
sions from the Free Chinese in
Taiwan refused to go along
with the “Afro-Asian bloc” in
the UN when the question of
seating Red China came up in
November.
3. The campaign to pro
mote bloody civil war be
tween blacks and whites
low the Zambezi and Limpdptf
rivers has been dwindling.
The effort to infiltrate Rho
desia and Southwest Africa
with “freedom fighters” train
ed in Tanzania has been re
pulsed by prompt action on
the part of the Ian Smith gov
ernment in Salisbury and the
South African police in their
mandated Southwest African
territory. Guerillas still in
fest the northern forest re
gions of Portuguese Mozambi
que, but they aren’t doing
much to subvert the govern
ment in Portuguese Angola.
And Rhodesia seems to he
surviving the Uhl economic
blockade.
4. There is a slow but pre
ceptiible thawing in the rela
tions between . black govern
nents and the White South Af
ricans. Malawi’s President, Dr.
Hastings Banda, broke the
>lack African front when he
tedded to allow a full diplo
matic exchange with the South
\frican government in Pretoria.
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JANUARY 1.968
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January 1, 1902 _ The first
Rose Bowl football game re
sulted in University of Mich
igan defeating Stanford, 49-0.
However, this classic did not
become a regular New Year’s
Day event until 1918.
January 5, 1914 — The Ford
Motor Company announced that
it was doubling its current
wage scale, inaugurating a bas
ic $5 minimum wage, and re
ducing the workday from nine
to eight hours.
January 10, 1945 — General
MacArthur’s promise “I shall
return” was fulfilled as 88,000
American soldiers successfully
invaded Luzon in the Philip
pine Islands.
January 15, 1831 — The first
railroad honeymoon trip was
made by Mr. and Mrs. Henry
L. Pierson of Ramapo, N. Y.,
who rode on the South Caro
lina Railroad from Charleston,
S. C., to Hamburg, S. C., six
miles away.
January 17, 1955—The USS
Nautilus was the first ship
underway on nuclear power.
January 27, 1880 — Thomas
Alva Edison patented the elec
tric incandescent lamp.
January 30, 1862 — The
“Monitor,” first iron-clad tur
reted vessel of the U. S. Navy,
was launched at Greenpoint,
Garren Attends
Special Seminar
Jack S. Garren, of the Olin
Mathieson Chemical Corpora
tion, Pisgah Horest, has re
cently returned from Cleveland,
Ohio, where he participated in
a week long seminar with 40
other designers, engineers and
architects from all sections of
the United States to study new
structural design techniques.
. «<The seminar was sponsored
and conducted by The Lincoln
Electric Company of Cleveland,
the world’s largest manufactur
er of arc welding equipment. It
was one of a continuing series
of seminars Lincoln has been
conducting for over 30 years to
help keep designers and en
gineers up to date with new de
velopments in the application
of welded design for the im
provement and cost reduction
of buildings, bridges and struc
tures of other types.
The small black African coun
tries of Botswana, Lesotho,
and Swaziland “get along” with
their giant pro-apartheid neigh
bors on the South African “in
candescent" tip. And South
Africa under Prime Minister
Vorster is now willing to let
South Africa athletes compete
against black athletes in mix
ed sports events, including the
Olympics if the Olympic com
mittee will permit it.
5. The revelopment of the
Tkanskei ‘Ttantustan” under its
own black leadership is still
regarded with a cynical eye by
those who question South Af
rica’s sincerity in providing for
free black republics. But when
South Africa offered territor
ial freedom to the Ovambos of
the mandated territory of South
west Africa, a few people around
the UN in New York admitted
that maybe, perhaps, and possi
bly, the South African govern
ment could be sincere about
•separate freedoms.
So Is Africa “simmering
down”? The answer must be
a qualified “yes,” even though
an hell could break loose in
the Congo tomorrow for all
anyone actually knows.
Thanks Expressed To Public By Postmaster C. Y. Patton
Heartfelt thanks from Post
master Charlie Patton, Jr., and
his staff were expressed to the
public today.
"We couldn’t have done the
job alone,” the postmaster said.
Everyone cooperated beau
tifully and we were able to de
liver all the holiday mail reach
ing the Brevard Post Office in
time for the last delivery and
postal employees were able to
spend Christmas with their
families, the postal official
said.
“If people had waited for the
last minute to mail their gifts
and greetings we would have
been working throughout the
holiday,” he said.
No backlogs were noted in
post offices throughout the area.
Another significant factor was
the use of ZIP Code on a great
volume of the mail passing
through the Brevard Post Of
fice. This meant more efficient
handling of the mail than in
pervious years.
Rising Fire Losses
Property losses caused by
fire in the United States rose
from $161 million in 1900 to
$1.5 billion in 1936, the Insur
ance Information Institute re
ports. The 1986 losses were
more than double the $649 mil
lion in losses in 1950.
When vou think of prescrip
tions. think of VARNER'S, adv
NOTICE OF
ANNUAL MEETING
The annual membership
meeting in the Brevard Federal
Savings and Loan Association
will be held on Wednesday,
January, 17, I960, in the office
on South Caldwell Street, be
ginning promptly at 2:00 p. m.
Jerry Jerome
President
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FOR THE YEAR 1968
In The Various Townships Of Transylvania County
BEANS JANUARY 3,1968
All County Taxes And Farm
Reports Must Be Made
Listed In January
PENALTY FOR FAILURE TO DO SO IS REQUIRED BY LAW
Books Will Be In Townships Thru January 12th
ALL LISTING BOOKS WILL BE IN TAX SUPERVISORS OFFICE
THRU REMAINDER OF LISTING TIME.
Boyd Township
Lister: MRS. VIRGINIA PITILLO
Mehaf fey’s Store
Worley’s Store_
Blantyre Supply_
Penrose Grocery __
Bill Owenby’s Store
Penrose School_
January 3-4-5
— January 6
— January 8
January 9-10
January 11
.. January 12
Brevard Township
TAX SUPERVISORS OFFICE
Cathey's Creek Inside
(ROSMAN)
Lister: MICKLER LUCK
Books At Gloucester Lumber Co. Store
January 3-4-5-6-8-9
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Cathey's Creek Township
Lister: MRS. FRANCES WHITMIRE
Gloucester Lumber Co. Store January 3-4
Hardin’s Store-January 5-6
McKinney’s Store_January 8-9-10
McCall’s Grocery-January 11-12
Dunn's Rock Township
Lister: MRS. NANCY GILLESPIE
Gillespie Residence_January 3-4-5
Roy Compton’s Store-January 6-8-9
Gillespie Residence_January 10-11-12
Eastatoe Township
Lister: MRS. LAWRENCE WHITMIRE
Gloucester Lumber Co. Store __ January 3-4
Whitmire’s Residence_January 5
Burton’s Store-January 6-8-9
Morgan’s Store-January 10-11
Whitmire’s Residence_January 12
Gloucester Township
Lister: MRS. NOLA MAE McCALL
Albert Schweitzer Hospital_January 3
Balsam Grove School House __ January 4-5
Hogsed Garage_--January 6-8-9-10
Mrs. McCall’s Residence-January 11-12
Hogback Township
Lister: JOE BREEDLOVE
Sapphire Post Office_January 3
Sapphire Section A. M.-January 4
Whitewater Section P. M._January 4
Lake Toxaway Community Center
January S-6-8-9
Wilson Grocery-January 10-11
Joe Breedlove’s Residence_January 12
Little River Township
Lister: MRS. GRACE PONDER
W. R. Merrell’s Store-January 3-4
Hamilton’s Store_January 5-6
Cedar Mountain Post Office -- January 8-9
Nicholson’s Store-January 10-11
Ponder’s Residence-January 12
Last Listing Day 3 February 1968 (from 9 to 12)
TAX SUPERVISOR’S OFFICE HAS A STANDARD INVENTORY
FORM AVAILABLE FOR STOCKS AND MERCHANDISE
WHICH IS REQUIRED AT LISTING TIME
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY