An irrepressible as the nation it
represents, the American bald eagle
J making a comeback from near
extinction.
Although the bird has been pro
tected by federal law in recent years,
illegal thinning of the eagle popula
tion persisted until that species was
brought dangerously> close to ob
literation. However, with public ed
ucation efforts underway and con
servation groups taking steps to pro
tect eagle nesting and roosting areas,
the eegle is not only holding his
own, but his ranks should fill out in
the years to come. As one expert
notes, “The status of the bald eagle
is far more incouraging today than
at anytime in the last decade.
'T'Ma incident should serve as a re
minder that, like the eagle symbol
ef the United States, it will take
more than hard times and predic
tions of doom to defeat us. Despite
what critics may say, this nation can
ba counted upon to unite and sur
mount any difficulty to survive and
spread the good news of individual
opportunity, justice and liberty un
der law —• a message that still holds
promise of a life worth living to all
who will heed it.
Scuttling The Free Press
Hie lead article of the January,
1974, Reader’s Digest deals with a
matter of bread-and-butter concern
to ovary newspaper and magazine
poblisher in the nation and their
Modem. Last September, the U. S.
Postal Service announced its inten
tion to more than double in three
join second-cl is postal rates ap
plying to both magazines and news
papers. Many people believe the
(acnoees will go higher — perhaps
to >09 percent or more.
Hits could mean the end of the
lino for thousands of magazines and
hometown newspapers whose role in
adore ting and informing the Ameri
can people is more crucial to the
maintenance of liberty than ever be
fore la the history of our nation. As
an adaratinnal service. Congress has,
atom 1782, maintained special low
raise for magazines and newspapers
which permitted them to be mailed
at leas than coot and thus be avail
ahla to the rant majority of our peo
ple la 1972, this support totaled
•198 arffta lees than $1 per capita.
Bat aaw, andor the Portal Reorgani
aattoa Act af 1970. the Postal Ser
ytea fti reqaired to charge rates that
will, in its opinion, make nearly all
classes of mail pay their own way by
1976. It is obvious that Congress did
Bat foresee in 1970 that this would
mean that second-class rates would
be tripled in a five-year period. The
nation’s magazines and newspapers
cannot absorb these increases. If
they pass them on, the very people
who most need continuing education
will be deprived of it.
To ease the immediate financial
jolt, the Digest article recommends
that legislation be passed phasing in
the payment by magazines and news
papers of their full postal cost over
a period of eight years instead of
three. Bills to accomplish this have
been introduced in both houses of
Congress by Senator Gale McGee
(Wyo.) and Representative James
Hanley (N. Y.). For the longer run,
Congress should review its basic de
cision to make the nation’s newspa
pers and periodicals pay full mail
ing costs. It is difficult to see how
anyone can stand by a decision al
most certain to kill off a major seg
ment of the free press in America.
Write your Congressmen — let them
know what you think.
Paragraphics...
Medical doctors measure physical
ImMi hjr tow the tongue looks. The
Great Divideian measures spiritual
hsallh hy tow the tongue acts.
Oar victories always are won hour
hy hoar, not la touches. We have to
play only one game at a time and
handle only our own spot in the line.
An hoar conquered with courage
aai faith a a victory won.
M Is much hotter to sit tight than
to attempt to drive in that condition.
Igstism is the world’s most poor
Those who complain about the
way the hall haoaees are often the
People who give up smoking
usually substitute something for it
—like bragging.
Sign in the window of marriage
license office — Out to lunch . . .
think it over!
A wise man disagrees with his
wife, but only a fool will let her find
it out.
Worry is the interest paid by
those who borrow trouble.
One of the things that seldom
turns out as it should is the car just
ahead.
Those who complain about the
way the ball bounces are often the
ones who dropped it.
The Transylvania Times
m Bread Street Brevard, N. C. 28718
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MB; IBs Brevard MaeMir. eetahtished 1881; The Sylvan Valley News (later Brevard
■sm), mMUM MM; no Am, eetahllshed 1881; Consolidated 1832.
A STATE AND NATIONAL PRIZE - WINNING NEWSPAPER
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
ED M. ANDERSON, Publisher
HENRY HENDERSON, Mechanical Supt
ESTON PHILLIPS, Printing Dept Head
GORDON BYRD, Compositor
D. C. WILSON, Printer f
DAVID METCALF, Printer Apprentice
[ON RATES PER YEAR
Outside the County $7,50
$4.50 Six Months
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WASHINGTON — The U. S.
Department of Agriculture’s
proposed rule to increase or
terminate the national market
ing quota and acreage allot
ment for flue-cured tobacco
for the 1974 - 1975 marketing
year has caused great conster
nation among North Carolina
farmers.
I have advised Agriculture
Secretary Earl L. But* that I
am unalterably opposed to any
change in our tobacco program
and believe that any suspension
of flue - cured tobacco quotes
would lead to an economic dis
aster.
The changes being consider
ed b? the Department ignore
the essential fact that the level
of prices is based upon the
quota system and is necessary
in order for fanners to pro
duce this commodity. Farmers
are already suffering from sky
rocketing costs for fuel and
fertilizer, and have enough
problems without the addition
al worry over the future of the
acreage - poundage tobacco
control program.
There is considerable specu
lation that the Department is
threatening to terminate na
tional marketing and acreage
allotment for flue - cured to
bacco in the hope of getting
agreement to increase the
quota. Some segments of the
tobacco industry have been ad
vocating an increase in the
quota for 1974. Such action,
however, would be a serious
mistake and could have a far
reaching effect upon the en
tire tobacco industry.
The 1974 marketing quota
for flue-cured tobacco was set
last July at 1,179 million
pounds, the same as in 1973.
and ten percent above 1972. It
appears though that there may
be a carry over of about 50
million pounds from 1973 and
that this would provide an ef
fective quota of about 1,22b
million pounds for 1974. The
law permits an excess of 10
percent of quotas to be mar
keted without penalty. So there
is already the possibility of
marketings of 1,347 million
pounds in 1974 under the ex
isting quota. If there is another
ten percent increase in the
quota, that would add the pos
sibility of 118 million pounds
of marketings for a grand to
tal of 1,465 mllion pounds in
1974. It is this latter ten per
cent increase in the quota that
could have severe consequences
if it is approved by the De
partment.
Marketings of this amount
would greatly depress tobacco
prices. This comes at a time
when interest rates, taxes, and
wages are jumping to all
time highs. Furhermore, there
is no indication that inflation
will abate. Indeed the prices
of farming machinery, equip
ment, and supplies are increas
ing faster than farmers can fi
nance them.
Farmers and other interested
persons should transmit their
views on this vital issue to the
Director, Tobacco and Peanut
Division, Agricultural Stab;li
zation and Conservation Service,
U. S. Department of Agrieul
ture. Washington, D. C. 20250,
no later than January 10th.
The tobacco program has
meant much to North Carolina
and the 115,000 quota all allot
ment holders in our State. The
program in its present form has
widespread support. I am of
the opinion that it would be
tragic if the Secretary of Ag
riculture seeks to implement
any proposal which would
weaken or destroy a program
that has worked so well and
has continuously strengthened
rural America.
THE EVERYDAY
COUNSELOR
BY
DR. HERBERT SPAUGH
Prayer power brings into our hearts and homes God’s love
power. How I wish I could write this in flaming letters in the sky!
This is prompted by a letter on my desk from a mother with
a large family: “I am writing to ask that you place my loved ones
on your prayer list, two sisters, two brothers, two daughters, a
son-in-law and my husband. We all need God.
“I have been a Christian for many years and I know that God
answers prayer. There are many problems in the family includ
ing alcohol. Three mornings a week, my mother, a neighbor and
I have prayer together. I feel that God is going to answer our
prayers. Please help us.”
I have been writing this column for some 40 years and find
the same problems today as there were when I commenced. There
are just more of them. The causes are usually the same - turning
away from God.
There is a mounting divorce list — homes breaking up. Two
thirds of my correspondence comes from unhappy and broken
homes. Of course, I realize that the happy ones don’t write me
for help. They have learned as the Psalmist puts it, “My help
cometh from the Lord.” (Psalm 121:2)
Those with domestic problems ought to read the 127th Psalm,
“Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build
it” The Psalmist means more than a literal house. Actually he
means the marriage and the home. Let me quote from the mar
riage service which I use, "Marriage was ordained by God in the
time of man’s innocency, approved by Lord Jesus Christ, as hon
orable for alL”
In reading the story of Adam and Eve, you will find that
their marriage was good until sin entered In the next generation
it was worse when one of their sons killed his brother.
Love should be the corherstoi
marriage. Let it be understood tl
of spiritual love, sacrificial love,
mote the happiness and welfare o
tice. It
which mi
THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES
PAGE TWO January 17, 1974
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The Monitor
Liberty, S. C.
Many people have spent countless hours
working and searching for the Liberty
youth, Tammy Denice Haynes, since she
was reported missing in December.
Liberty police, sheriffs deputies, SLED
and FBI investigator*, as well as officers of
other law enforcement agencies, have work
ed at times ‘around the clock’ in an effort
to locate the young girl.
All these people are performing their
duty. That’s their job.
But, while praise is being “dished out”
tor service above and beyond the call of
duly, one group that definitely deserves
much more than they get is the various
rescue squads and Civil Defense personnel
throughout the county and surrounding
counties.
These people volunteer their services
and the only reward they get is the satisfac
tion of knowing that they've helped their
fellow mao. ’1 If
The search operation for Tammy
Haynes, however, is but one of the many
services performed by rescue units.
It is wily because of the publicity of
this particular task that the squads get
their rightful share of attention. During
normal operations, they are hardly heard of
—until someone needs them.
These men (and sometimes women) do
nate many of their non-working hours into
helping make communities safe and to help
those who need help.
The task requires persons who will
make a sacrifice of their own time, and
devote it to their neighbors — be they nest
door or in distant places.
Mansion Make Of Garbage
(Greensboro Daily News)
There’s something new in Richmond, Va.
both in the sense that it wasn’t there before
and that it’s the first of its kind in the
world. It’s a four-bedroom house made of
garbage. Practically all the materials in it
were recycled. The listed price is $60,705.
The Reynolds Metal Co. coordinated the
job to prove that “there are today practical
uses for recycled materials.” The builder
used aluminum instead of wood for the
framing, joists, trusses, and siding. Reynolds
estimates the recycled aluminum (from bev
erage cans) saved 95 percent of the energy
needed to make primary aluminum from
bauxite. Instead of plywood, the builder
used a board made from recycled newspap
ers. ; j j
In fact, about the only materials in the
house that are not made with recycled
wastes are the window glass, hardwood steps
and trim, and plaster board. The costs are
said to be competitive with houses made of
conventional, virgin materials. Evidently the
house also is competitive in looks. It’s in a
fashion surburb and not a single neighbor
has complained about its presence.
Reynolds and the other companies that
joined it in supplying the recycled materi
als are to be commended for experimenting
in this field. Everybody knows we’re drown
ing in our own garbage (our per capita
daily production is roughly 10 pounds). A
housing shortage has been with us for
some time and now we seem to be facing a
widespread shortage of energy. This experi
ment, if it is continued, might help allievatt
all three of those woes.
Paragraphics...
Nonchalance is the ability to look
like an owl when you’ve acted like a
jackass.
An optimist is a person who starts
it to' come out at the estimated cost.
Secretary on phone: “He’s out to
lunch now but he won’t be gone very
long. Nobody took him.”
It’s a sign of advancing age when
you enjoy a fixed routine.
Patience is the art of solving prob
lems by letting them alone.
A little girl described her first ex
perience in an elevator: We got into
a little room, and then the upstairs
came down.
Guest Column
‘Darndest Mess You Ever
Saw’ Is Nothing New
oats and too much wheat,
corn and too much meat,
cotton and too much oil,
hours that Hire don’t toil,
highways, too many can,
people behind the bars.
Too Jpuch poverty, too much wealth,
Too ipany people in ill health,
Too many politics, too much booee,
Too many wearing high-heeled shoes,
Too many loafing, tub many bets,
Too many failing to pay their debts.
By - PETE HULTH
Sanford Herald
L. 6. Scott of Smithfield brought a yel
lowed clipping by the Herald office. He
got-it from Mrs. Clyde Smith, who had seen
it years ago in the Valdosta, Ga. Times.
Judging from the color of the clipping and
an advertisement on the back of it, the ar
ticle must have appeared in the mid 1900s.
(The ad said you coujd buy a memorial
stone for $9 up.) But, somehow, the article
seems sort of current. Entitled “Cause of
Our Present Day His,” here it is:
Too much
Too much
Too much
Too many
Too many
Too many
j The Children Write.
The Boredom Hump
Here I sit wondering what to do,
Because I don’t want to play with you.
Nor do I want to roller skate -
Not for my poor body’s sake.
I don’t think I should play outside
Or even take a ride.
Though I would like to jump,
Jump, jump, jump all the way OVER THE
Hump.
Diana Day (6th grade)
A Mystery fa My Mind
Oh, what is it? Wliat can it be?
I see something behind the tree.
(I snuck back of that tree -
Nothing was there,
Not a thing
I wonder what it is?
What
, Nothing.)
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