'uesday Is Election Day
vote In Tuesday's election
* more significant than your
the national election a year
* There are alwayB fewer votes
"Vast in off-year elections, so each
.vote cast fs more important mathe
matically. Second, most of us are af
fected more directly by the actions
’•**©f local officials. Third, the feder
al government has not proved itself
very effective in dealing with local
concerns. 1 i
State and local governments
ahonld, separately or in cooperation
: ^ith each other, find the means to
■"Carry greater responsibility for the
planning, support and performance
of public services. And where fed
eral funds Are involved, they should
be handled responsibly for construc
tive programs and not relegated to
the maintenance of unproductive ov
erhead at the state or local level
Support should be given to candi
dates who support programs which
contribute to more effective and
self - sufficient state and loval gov
ernment without encroaching on ac
tivities which should be left to the
the private initiative.
The choice is yours. You can help
assure good government here at
home with your vote!
True Control Of Crime
Since antigun advocates insist
—that every firearm is inherently evil
and must therefore be under gov
ernment control, maybe we should
• go one step further and begin the
methodical tracking down and reg
istering of every knife, ice pick,
hammer, rock and rope — in short,
every object that has been used to
•kin and could logically be used to
'kill again.
“ That suggestion is no more ridicu
culous than the idea that crime can
be stopped by wrenching guns from
file hands of lawabiding citizens.
To follow the teachings of the anti
gaa proponents, we would have to
.pretend history lies when it shows
that criminals have always been
able to obtain guns illegally, and
we would also have to ignore the
fact that possession of a firearm
has saved many innocent lives. The
antigi’n philosophy finally boils
do " ‘o the belief that “Big Broth
er Knows best,” and therefore we
citizens are asked to cheerfully sub
mit to government regulations, turn
ing our backs on our heritage of free
dom, including the right to own fire
arms for the defense of our homes
and businesses and for sport.
The true control of crime will
come not in the form of restrictive
antigun legislation, but in forceful,
no-nonsense laws which punish the
criminal —• not his weapon.
Saving Nature’s arrest
When forests were not harvested
by roan they were harvested by na
ture — by fire, wind and lightning.
Billions of dollars worth of wood
went up in smoke, and millions of
^/animals perished to clear the way
for new forests* The necord of for
est fires and their deslfludion illus
trates the wishful thinking of th6se
who feel they can lock up forests in
perpetuity for the pleasure of man
and the benefit of wildlife.
1 Consider the figures on some of
the great forest fires. The Mirami
chi wildlife of 1825 charred 3 mil
lion acres of Main and New Bruns
wick. In 1846, in only a few days,
the Yaquina burn in western Ore
gon backened 450,000 acres and de
stroyed 25 billion board feet of tim
ber ws equal to what is harvested in
Oregon in 8 years today. The great
fire ef 1853 in Canada’s Quebec
province burned 1.6 million acres of
forest land. The Peshtigo wildfire in
Wisconsin swept through 1.28 mil
lion acres and 40 towns in 1871. The
Bitterroots fire on the Idaho-Mon
tana border in 1910 seared 2 million
acres and cost 85 lives. Tillamook
barns ef western Oregon in 1933,
1939 and 1945 devastated 354,936
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acres and destroyed over 13 billion
board feet of timber. As late as 1970,
1.825 million acres of timber went
up in smoke in 16 southeastern
states.
Timber losses from the ravages
of nature have diminished as forest
harvesting practices have advanced.
As one timber company declares,
“ .... we harvest timber before it
becomes overripe and falls prey to
disease, rot, insects, lightning, and
wind. The animals are unharmed
and are actually aided by our har
vesting practices.” Modem timber
companies, strange as it may sound
to the skeptics, have become the true
conservationists. They have learn
ed to work with the processes of
nature.
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, “If our car gets much older,” one
motorist declared, “it will need
upper and lower plates.”
This world is full of checks and
balances. Just when you get to
where menu prices don’t matter,
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WASHINGTON—The ominous
shadow of a major energy cris
is hangs over the nation. It now
is clear that the Arabs intend
to curb the flow of oil to the
United States as a strategic
move in the Arab-Israeli war.
The implications of this de
cision compound an already
serious situation for our coun
try which consumes about one
third of the oil in production.
Last week, Presidential Counse
lor Melvin Laird warned ev
eryone to “buy a sweater and
prepare for rationing.” Conser
vation of fuel is being suggest
ed at all levels of government.
Three major airlines agreed a
few days ago to eliminate 44
daily flights to conserve 6.6 mil
lion gallons of fuel a month.
Governors and mayors are set
ting in motion plans to cut
back consumption of electricity
and fuel in public buildings.
The White House is ordering
lower heat levels for all Fed
eral buildings.
The latest Middle East de
velopments come at a time
when the outlook is already
bleak for Americans getting
enough fuel for winter. For
months now, industries have
been scrambling for fuel sup
plies — storing what they
could — and hoping for the
best. Even so, many individuals
are unconvinced that we have
a real energy shortage. The
problem is so immense and so
complicated that it defies un
derstanding on the part of
millions of citizens used to
turning on a switch^and having
all of the power, heat, or driv
ing pleasure they want
The heart of the problem is
that oil has been called upon
to take up the burden for lag
ging production of natural gas,
coal and nuclear energy. Nor
mally these other sources would
insure a balanced energy sup
ply. Because of the difficulty
of getting environmentally ac
ceptable sources of coal, elec
tric power companies are using
vast amounts of oil that they
did not require even two years
ago. The curtailment of natr
ural gas for consumers adds a
new and possibly unfulfilled
burden on oil supplies. Cur
rently, the United States is
consuming about 17 million
barrels of oil a day, but more
importantly that consumption is
rising at an estimated rate of
6.4 percent while domestic pro
duction is falling at an estimat
ed rate of 5 percent per annum.
Despilte Administration ef
forts to minimize the effect on
Americans of the Arab oil cut
off, the facts are otherwise.
The United States is importing
about one million barrels of oil
daily from eight Arab coun
tries — Saudi Arabia, Kuwait,
Libya, Alegria, Iraqu, Tunisia,
Oman, and the United Arab
principalities. Another one
half million barrels of oil come
daily from Arab wells through
refineries in Europe and the
Carribean. Both sources will be
affected if the Arabs .carry out
and effective cutoff. '■
Other immediate sources of
oil are difficult to find. Cahada,
Nigeria, Venezuela, Iran, and
non-Arab producers, we are
old, cannot increase production
on the spur of the moment in
sufficient quantities to by-pass
Arab oil, and substantial do
mestic increases here at home
are hard to achieve. Saudi Ara
bia is the key to the situation
because it has the oil we need.
It also has the capablity of
greatly increasing production
for a sustained period of time.
Indeed, much of our oil policy
has been based upon the as
sumption that the Saudi would
boost United States supplies
over the next seven years. This
is the cruicial period until we
can tap Alaskan reserves.
The hard realities are that it
will take more than “a sweat
er” and “conservation” to get
us through anything but a warm
winter.
Transylvania
4-H Clubs
(From Front Page, Second Sec.)
Way; 1971 4-H Bridges the
Gap; 1970 - 4-H Is For Us. Pos
ters must be no smaller than
8% x 11 or larger than 14 x 22.
Name, address and age of the
4-H member must be clearly
written on the back of each
poster. Please make sure that
this includes state and zip
code.
Delegates to the 1974 Nation
al 4-H Conference will judge
the poster art entries All se
t lected for top honors will be
come the property of the Exten
sion Service, USDA.
Coats and Clark, Inc., spon
sor of the National 4-H Poster,
will award cameras for the best
10 entries and one camera for
the best poster with 4-H Com
munity Development emphasis.
(For a winning group entry,
only on camera would be giv
en).
THE EVERYDAY
COUNSELOR
BY
DR. HERBERT SPAUGH
How many of the readers of this column have any kind of morn
ing prayer? Particularly I want to raise the question as to how
many have morning prayer as a family? Although I do not ex
pect the readers of this column to write me their reply to these
questions, yet it enables me to bring up the subject and discuss
it a bit
1 have just been reading a biographical sketch of the great mu
sician, organist and composer, Johann Sebastian Bach (168B-1730)
whose name is known throughout the music world.
The biographical sketch commences as follows: “The question
of physical and mental heredity is one which not only challenges
investigation of the learned, but is actively discussed in the wider
circles of cultivated society. No better example can be cited in
support of the affirmative side of this question than the family of
Johann Sebastian Bach, in which, for the space of not less than
250 years, musical talent of a high order was transmitted from
one generation to the other." ’
Apparently the tradition of music and religion was transmit
ted in this family together as one of the illustrations in the sketch
was a picture of “morning prayers in the Bach family." And from
the picture seven children appear to be gathered around the piano
as Father Johann himself leads the singing.
There are no two finer family traditions to be cultivated by
any family then religion and music.
There is still something fine i
er, plays together, and sing
cult for the modern family
but it can be accomplished
morning prayers as a first
THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES
PAGE SIX .f|P ' November 1, 1973
(Editor's Note: Letters most
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
shonid be received by The Times
by Monday mornings.)
October 20, 1073
The Transylvania Times
Brevard, N. C.
Dear Sir:
I am in hopes you may be of help to
me. I am trying to locate a lady — A Miss or
Mrs. Powell of Rosman, N. C. I have been
told this lady could supply the information
we are in need of, the name and location of
the cemetery where William S. Bowen —
died March 2, 1875 and Mary E. Bowen —
died Feb. 1, 1882 are buried. Will you
please print this in your Reader’s column?
I would be glad, if anyone having this In
formation would write me.
Thanking you for your effort, I am
Yours sincerely, £3
Mrs. Jessie Soloman
Jessie Solomon
49 W. Commerce St.
Chambersburg, Pa.
17201
October 22, 1973
An Open Letter to the Citizens
of Transylvania County:
It sounds as if I’m a chronic complainer.
I am not, but recently two incidents occured
that I think should be made public.
One is in regard to the street recently
paved in the city; Verdia Street to be exact.
It is a street with a 30 foot right of way. The
city paved 16 feet of it. Heretofore, the traf
fic has edged on our side of the road, taking
in some of our garden. The city machines,
in scraping the road, have scraped part of
our garden. When they started to pave the
street, since this would be permanent, we
asked the Aldermen to pave it in the center.
They gave us their word that they would do
it right. Rather than pave it in the center,
the street is paved 17 inches from our line
and 12 feet from the line across the street.
The other incident occured when our
dog got out of his lot. We reported it to
the dog catcher and described the collar the
deg was wearing. The dog was turned in
to the dog catcher, who Said he tried to call
us and when he didn’t get an answer, he
took the dog to the pound. The same night
he called again and told us we could get
the dog out for $7.00. We feel this is a very
unfair thing the commissioners do. We pay
taxes on the dog and we keep him up, he
just happened to get out . We did report it
and the whole county is full of dogs running
loose.
We feel these are very unjust acts im
posed on the citizens by the officials of this
town and county.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Blanton Ashv.orth
Route 1, Box 95A
Brevard, N. C. 28712
Oct. 26, 1973
Mr. John Anderson, Editor
Transylvania Times
Brevard, N. C. 28712
Dear Mr. Anderson,
First, I would like to thank the staff of
WPNF for reminding the citizens of Tran
sylvania County to drive with their head
lights on in the early morning fog.
The Transylvania County school bus
drivers say THANK YOU!
Now, a word or two to the “adult” driv
ers who do not use their headlights in the
fog.
I am an adult. I have two children ages
13 and 9. Also I drive a school bus. I
start my route at 7:30 a.m. Most of the traf
fic 1 meet at that time in the morning are
adults who are on their way to work.
My route is down the four-lane highway,
to the Pisgah Fish Camp, back through town
to the Middle School, then down CahtyieU
Street to King Street, up Whitmire to Tins
ley Road and around Tinsley Road to Mc
Lean Road.
When I arrive at the stop sign at the
end of McLean Road, it is 8 a. m. or a few
minutes after. There I have four lanes of
traffic to watch. The fog is so thick you can
hardly see the signal lights at the college.
All the students on my bus at that time
are first through sixth grades. Also some
of the traffic coming toward town are work
ers from Olin who have just started home
from work. At that point, I must go across
two lanes to get to the third or fourth lane.
According to the Handbook of School Bus
Drivers, “it requires approximately six sec
onds for a school bus, after coming to a
complete stop, to completely cross an aver
age two-lane highway. Also the slogan for
school bus drivers is he “never has the right
away.”
So, I must wait until I can safely cross.
I look to my right and to my left. I see noth
ing coming so I go across two lanes. I hap
pen to glance t o my right — there comes a
car, no lights of any kind on, out of the fog.
If the car had hit the bus in the side,
the accident would have been charged to
me, not the adult driver who is driving in
the fog with his lights off because he is
afraid he might leave the lights on when he
parks his car and comes back to find he
has a dead battery.
Is a child’s life not worth more than
$20 or $30? I value my childrens’ lives
more than the cost of a dead battery.
As you know, most of the school bus
drivers are students. I have met most of
the student drivers at Brevard High. These
students take their driving and the respon
sibility of the students on their buses serious
ly. No one likes to hear about a wreck in
volving a school bus. But when one hap
pens, the first to get blamed is the student
driver.
So, adult drivers, those who drive with
your lights off in the fog, please turn them
on. It helps us.
Also, adult drivers, remember your child
might be on the bus.
To those adult drivers who do drive
with your head lights on, we thank you. Help
us to keep your children safe and alive.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Kenneth Landreth
School Bus Driver for
Transylvania County
P.S. Not only I have this problem, but
all the bus drivers have this problem with
the adult drivers.
Tribute To A Brother
Yesterday I took a trip that I have
taken many times through our North Caro
lina mountains. I drove from Asheville,
over the Blue Ridge Parkway to the Beech
Gap turn-off that takes you to US Highway
64.
My thoughts were wandering as I look
ed out over surely the most beautiful scen
ery in these United States. I played a little
game of trying to think of as many adjec
tives as I knew to describe the panorama
before me. The game bebcame dull as I
realized there were not words to really de
scribe the beauty of the October colors.
Without a doubt, the people who are privi
leged to see our mountains when they are
ablaze with color can truthfully say they
have seen God’s work at His very bebst.
When I came to the Beech Gap turn
off, I left the Parkway and started the des
cent from the crest of the Blue Ridge down
to the little community of Balsam Grove.
It was here hi this mountain community that
Legette Blythe wrote the story of Dr. E.
Gaine Cannon. Dr. Cannon came to Balsam
Grove for his health and stayed to serve
the residents. Dr. Cannon’s idol was Dr.
Albert Schweitzer, and he was building a
hospital as a memorial to Dr. Schweitzer.
Dr. Cannon did not live to realize his dream
come true but the hospital is continuing as
a memorial to both Dr. Cannon and Dr.
Schweitzer.
Sad memories pushed all of natures
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The Children Write.
1
Halloween is scary,
Halloween is fun,
Halloween is candy,
Halloween is spooky, j
When all those witches go flying by.
Yea better run,
You better hide.
But when the witches leave, <„■
Then the ghosts come out.
Maybe, just maybe, just this time
Halloween
When you go outside on Halloween,
Maybe witches can be seen.
Or goblins and ghosts,
Ooooh! What hosts!
When you go outside on Halloween.