Times Wins Press Award
Of the many non-daily newspapers
in North Carolina, only a handful
won prizes in the annual Press con
test of the North Carolina Press As
sociation during 1971. The Transyl
vania Times was awarded third
prize for spot News reporting, and
we made good showings in the other
divisions.
The awards were made last
Thursday night by Governor Bob
Scott at the annual Awards Banquet
at Chapel Hill.
The Times has now won 41 top
awards, both state and national,
during the pant 29 years.
We are especially happy to win
prizes in news reporting.
The first responsibility of a news
paper is to gather, prepare and dis
seminate all the news on and un
biased, accurate basis, without fear
or favor.
While each member of the staff of
The Transylvania Times is naturally
quite gratified that we are again
recognized by outside judges as
producers of a top-flight newspaper,
we feel no sense of gloating nor any
tendency to complacency.
Rather do we consider the latest
award as a challenge to continue to
publish the' best and most - modern
weekly newspaper possible.
The award received by The
Times is a compliment to the staff,
and more particularly, it is a result
of the fine cooperation and support
of our readers, our advertisers, our
correspondents and the citizens gen
erally of Brevard and Transylvania
county.
Groundhog Day
For those who are not ready to ac
cept the judgment of weather satel
lites and all the other scientific para
phernalia of projecting the weather,
that time-honored prophet of the
elements —the groundhog — will
soon make his appearance. .Febru
ary 2nd is the critical day.
If the old fellow sees his shadow,
he goes underground for six more
weeks of winter. Whether the
groundhog’s performance has ever
been studied officially by a govern
ment body is unknown, and it would
probably make very little difference
to the groundhog and his faithful
followers if it had.
Groundhog Day is one of those
rites that demonstrate the essential
simplicity of human nature — a sim
plicity that instinctively rebels when
confronted with the enigma of the
scientific answer. Most of us are
happy with the groundhog’s way of
doing business, but somehow we
have to find room in our minds to ac
commodate knowledge that will for
ever be beyond the reach of the poor
old groundhog.
Just as a precaution, however, it
might be a good idea to see how the
groundhog fares with his shadow on
February 2nd. It always pays to be
on the safe side.
An Illogical Tax Measurement
There has appeared in the Con
gressional Record some figures from
a report by the Legislative Refer
ence Service of the Library of Con
gress showing that some oil com
panies spend more on national ad
vertising than they do on federal in
come taxes.
The companies listed spent $600,
347,000 on taxes and $48,119,199 on
national advertising. Twoi of the
companies, spent $9,728,000 on
taxes and $22,021,841 on advertis
ing. The implication is that those
spending more on advertising than
taxes were somehow guilty of
wrongdoing—which is silly.
It is a logical supposition that cer
tain companies, in seeking to build
up sales in a highly competitive
enterprise, would spend more for
adversing than they pay in federal
taxes. It is not yet unlawful for the
management and stockholders to
spend more to build business than
the enterprise pays in taxes, even at
the risk of loss. The oil industry is
one of the nation's heaviest taxpay
ers, in some states up to 60 per cent
of the retail price of gasoline is
taken in taxes by government.
Let us hope there is no new plkh
to limit advertising expenditures of
free enterprise that could conceiv
ably dry up profits, jobs and income
taxes to support government.
Paragraphics...
The fellow said his wife is an
angel — always up in the air about
something.
A baby girl is a frail craft on the
sea of life—and the older she gets,
the craftier she becomes.
There is no such thing as an un
happy marriage — it’s the living to
gether afterward that causes the
trouble,
Matrimony was probably the first
union to defy management.
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** SAYS *
WASHINGTON — The 92nd
Congress, which convened for
the second session last week
will consider many of the old
issues in a variety of new
forms. Much of the unfinished
business as usual* relates to
proposals to expand the pow
ers of the Federal Government
and most of these measures
would also require some in
crease in funds to finance the
new programs.
At least three of President
Nixon’s top priority legislative
goals — welfare assistance
guarantees, revenue sharing,
and a modified national health
insurance plan — would chan
nel large sums of Federal mon
ies in new directions. Whatever
the fate of these bills, and each
of them encountered opposi
tion at the last session, it is
already clear that social - wel
fare constitutes the most ex
pansive segment of the Feder
al budget. It is not very like
ly that there will be any
change in this trend at this
session of the Congress.
Moreover, there is much evi
dence that Congress will devote
a major share of its energies to
the consideration of bills which
will, if adopted, expand the
powers of the Federal Govern
ment. Measures incorporating a
variety of consumer protections,
a comprehensive plan to shift
the insurance industry over to
national no-fault coverage of
automobile damage claims, and
legislation to expand the pow
ers of the Equal Employment
Opportunities Commission sug
gest the range of resolutions of
this nature.
Almost at the cutset of this
session, the Senate will consider
the proposal to grant the EEOC
the power to issue “cease and
desist” decrees against busi
nesses who are alleged to hire
or fire employees on account
of racial bias. 1 oppose this
bill because I think that when
we lessen the ability of an em
ployer to choose his employees
we also lessen his ability to
make the decisions which will
enable him to compete in an
intensely competitive world
market. Our industrial base is
under serious challenge and
last year for the first time since
1803 this nation incurred an ov
erall trade deficit (exports ver
sus Imports). When we delve
into causes, we find that vir
tually every busineas in our
land now receives a vast
amount of unsolicited advice
from Federal bureaucrats, and,
in my judgment^ laws which
rob businessmen of their de
cision - making power are al
ready having a serious effect
upon the vitality of many Amer
ican firms.
Congress is also likely to get
new requests for Federal mon
ies to bolster various industries
such as our railroads. The Na
tional Railroad Passenger Cor
poration, a Federal agency, is
expected to ask for new moneys
to keep the AMTRAK system
alive. A major bill to aid the
entire transportation industry
with Federal financing is being
studies in the House Interstate
and Foreign Commerce Com
mittee.
The water-pollution control
bill which won Senate passage
at the last session has yet to
receive House approval. The
Administration is seeking some
changes in that measure, but
the prospect is that some new
legislation clamping down on
water pollution will be approv
ed before the year ends.
Inflation and unemployment
will continue to be issues, buit
it is uncertain as to what spec
ific legislation they will trig
ger. Congress with its last ses
sion approval of Presidential
authority to control wages and
prices may let the matter rest
with that effort. However since
this is a Presidential election
year, there may be a push to
bring out a minimum wage bill.
Congress, will also wrestle
with another increase in Fed
eral expenditures, and there is
already the prospect that the
President will propose new
taxes to provide additional
revenues, .. _ a
All this adds up to the pros
pect of a busy session.
THE EVERYDAY
COUNSELOR
BY
DR. HERBERT SPAUGH
My wife is of great assistance to me in writing this column.
A careful reader of newspaper’s and magazines, she clips stories
for me which she thinks will offer the basis for a column. She
understands my thinking processes and keeps me well supplied
with clippings, many of which appear in this column.
I have before me now a newspaper clipping of an Associated
Press dispatch from Omaha, about the relative value of shower
baths and tub baths. She received considerable satisfaction in
placing this story on my desk, as she is a devotee of tub baths,
while 1 prefer showers.
Sometime ago, Dr. Howard A Busk, chairman of the depart
ment of physical medicine and rehabilitation at New York Uni
versity, told a University of Nebraska Medical College audience
that it takes four times as much energy to take a shower as a
bath. He also confirmed something many a bed-ridden patient has
suspected: It requires twice as much energy to use a bed pan as
it does to waft to a bathroom.
Dr. Rusk told his audience that one way the two million Amer
icans crippled by heart disease can conserve their over-taxed hearts
is by taking a bath Instead of a shower.
All of this has to do with conserving physical energy. But far
more of us get into trouble by extensive use of nervous energy
than Wf do with physical energy. Excessive worry incapacitates far
more, people than excessive physical work. Nervous exhaustion
is far more dangerous than physical exhaustion. Nature has a
way of compensating far physical overwork by natural sleep. But
the victim of nervous exhaustion finds sleep very difficult and
usually has to call in the services of a physician in order to be
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If it is important for one suffering frees heart disease to con
serve his energy by changing from a shower to a tubs hew much
EDITORIAL PAGE
THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES
PAGE TWO Thursday, January 27, 1972
(Editor’s Note: Letters mast
be brief, signed, typed or writ
ten legibly on one side of pa
per. We reserve the right to re
ject, edit, or condense. Letters
should be received by The limes
by Monday mornings.)
January 20, 1072
Mr. John Anderson, Editor
The Transylvania Times
Broad St.
Brevard, N. C. 28712
Dear Mr. Anderson,
We the residents of See Off Communi
ty are concerned about the overcrowded
bus situation, also with Mrs. Jane Evett's
letter recently. It seems the solution to
this problem is taking students off of one
bus and putting them on another. This has
happened to us. We have 42 students in
the community who ride our bus. This does
not include students outside of our com
munity. Now it seems that we have 15 more
riders which brings the total on our 14 year
old bus to 90.
If any of our readers have driven on
highway 276 between 7 and 8 in the morn
ing they know the driving condition: Fog,
plant workers, transfer trucks, curves with
gullies on one side and banks on the other,
to name just a few. With that many chel
den on the bus, 1 wonder how many read
ers will feel as we do? That IS something
to worry about
The school day is a long day for chil
dren, especially those in the lower grades.
All of us realize this, but what about when
you have to get your child up to catch the
bus on half hour earlier in order to get a
seat. Some parents do this now so the
child won’t have to stand 7 to 10 miles to
school, holding on to books, lunch and try
ing to keep from falling. I wonder if you
can imagine what happens sometimes?
We agree with the Cedar Mtn. Com
munity that something needs to be done
about the overcrowded busses of our area.
But not the solution that has been
by those in authority.
Sincerely.
Mrs. Melvin Tinsley
Route # 1
Brevard, N. C.
January 19, 1972
Mr. John Anderson, Editor
The Transylvania Times.
Broad Street ti
Brevard, North Carolina 28712
Dear Mr. Anderson:
Before I get to my subject matter, I
would like to thank Mrs. Jape Evett for ex
pressing her opinion about the school bus
situation and about busing in general. I
agree with her very much, because while I
was going to school I road the bus many
times and know what it’s like. My parents
felt the same way when we rode the bus.
I’m sure that you and all of the citizens
of Transylvania County are aware of the beer
commercials on television and radio, and
that the Scouts and their leaders go around
and pick up trash — including beer cans
for roadside judging. Think of how that’s
influencing the people — including the
children!
Beer commercials should be “cut out”
completely, except those that show the harm
ful effects of drinking and the consequences
involved.
The Bible says: "Wine is a mocker,
strong drink is raging: and whosoever is
deceived .thereby is not wise.” — Proverbs
20:1.
Jesus said: “Who then is a faithful and
wise servant, whom his lord hath made
ruler over his household, to give them meat
in due season? Blessed is that servant, whom
his lord when he cometh shall find so do
ing. Verily I say unto you, That he shall
make him ruler over all his goods. But
and if that evil servant shall say in his
heart, My lord delayeth his coming: And
shall begin to fight his fellow-servants, and
to eat and drink with the drunken; The
lord of that servant shall come in a day
when he looketh not for him, and in an
hour that he is not aware of, And shall cut
him asunder, and appoint him his portion
with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping
and gnashing of teeth.” — Matthew 24:54-51.
I Thessalonians 5:6.7 says: “Therefore
let us not sleep, as do others; but let us
watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep
in the night; and they that be drunken are
drunken in the night.”
I believe in participating in the com
munity, but, I don’t believe that we should
put the Scouts and Scout leaders out to
pick up beer cans. If they do, they ought
to dump them out in front of those peo
ples’ yards and in front of those stores that
I mentioned before, or, why don’t we get
those welfare people out to pick up trash
instead of the Scouts?
v You know that commercial that says,
“Let Dumps Be Eliminated”? There should
be several that says, “Drinking Is Immoral”,
“Tune Off Drinking — Tune In To dlrist”,
or, "Keep America Beautiful — Let Drink
ing Be Eliminated!”.
Sincerely yours,
(Miss) Mary Beth Blythe
P.O. Box 32
Cedar Mountain, N. C.
28718
Guest Column
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You Can't Beat Five Of A Kind
By ■ LARRY SMITH
La Folktte Press
La Follette, Tenn.
Our household increased by another
beautiful, healthy baby girl in the wee hours
Wednesday morning.
Her name is Heather Allison, and she
was born at 1:49 a.m. in Fort Sanders Pres
byterian Hospital, Knoxville. Weight was
7 pounds 7 ounces, making her the largest
baby among our five girls.
Both mother and daughter are doing
great. And given time and tender loving
care, dad no doubt will recover, too.
The old axiom that experience makes a
task easier just doesn’t apply to having
children. For despite the best of care and
facilities, there always is apprehension as
the hours drag by slowly.
It is an intensely personal time. Then
comes news that it’s over . .. both are Am
.... it’s another daughter, chubby, black
haired, pink, sucking mightily on her right
fist.
How do you describe the emotions tkat
corns a time like that: joy, relief, pride
. . . they’re all there, and more, mixed in a
recipe that must be experienced to be ful
ly understood. They’re what make up a
deep-rooted love for wife and children that
has grown in strength and intensity through
years of ups and downs.
There’s concern, too. What kind of
mark will this new life make on her world?
What will her world be like when she’s old
enough to make her own decisions? What am
I — what are you — doing to make our
world a fit place for this child and for
your children to grow up in.
Those are serious thoughts that sur
face in the early hours’ silence. They are
hard questions that have no easy answers.
But the answers must come.
Above all, though, there is hope . . .
and faith ... that come what may there is
more good than bad in our world, that we
and our children and their children will
rise to meet each new challenge, that the
human character is strongest when put to
Certainly, but aren’t new beginnings the
time for idealism.
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The Old Mansion
daily traffic rush in going to work from a
secluded residence in some fringe area of
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L. Perry observed in an
News and Observer, the
can be brought