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Tational FFA Week week of February 16th - 28rd haa been designated as National FFA .ftk -JJ The Future Farmers of America organization is playing an outstand ing role in assuring the future pro gress and pro4>erity of our county, state, and nation. It is vital to our well-being that we train skilled farmers and ranch ers to provide a plentiful supply of fgbd products in years to come and to train those who will provide ser vices to the farmer and process and distribute farm products. The FFA is composed of students who are studying vocational agricul ture in the public schools in prepara tion for careers in farming, ranch ing, and related fields. In studying the science of agriculture, these Fu ture Farmers are striving to contin uously improve this great industry for the welfare of all citizens. The FFA has performed the valu able service of developing leader ship, teaching sound methods of farming, and inspiring patriotism among its members. The 109 FFA members at Brevard High School are doing a number of things to promote the FFA during this week. ; . _ ^ On Thursday, February 13th, the Parliamintary Procedure team be gan their observance with a radio program concerning FFA Public Relations. FFA Week was em phasized as a time for promoting the FFA and its activities. Two bulletin boards ' have been placed in the office lobby so that other students, faculty members, and visitors might become aware of Activities concerning the organiza tion. A regular bi-monthly meeting of the chapter was held Wednesday morning, February 20th as part of the observance and throughout the week all members are encoi.raged to wear official FFA clothing. During this special observance, we proudly salute all FFA members in Transylvania county on the fine job they are doing. Jury Reform Imminent As more and longer court trials become commonplace, many jurors are calling for reforms, and with just cause. The U. S. judicial system has served the people admirably for nearly 200 years, and it would be) hard to find anything better. But Hke anything else, it has its flaws. So present methods of choosing jurors, their salaries, the number of members required on a jury and the mechanics of assigning them to trials are being examined. From all of this should come a more equit able and less expensive form of jury usage. Rectification of existing jury in adequacies would help renew faith in the judicial process and make jury service not a dreaded task, but the duty and privilege our forefath ers had in mind when they conceived of such a system. MimUHIIHIIIll ^ •tINIIIIIHIIIIIIIMIIlIHIIHIinilllllllil The Children Write A Mother’s Worries I wonder what a mother thinks, as her children go to school, “Have I done my best to raise them, or have I been a fool? Are they independent now, or have I spott ed them blind, And when .they go to bed ad night, are problems on their mind?” I don’t know any of these things, I’ll only have to guess, For you see, and luckily, I’m not a mother yet by: Genevieve Calore 6th grade student T. C. Henderson Elemen tary School : : Sometime Sometime when you’re quite alone, Think about your earth, How lucky you’ve been to have a home, From the time of birth. Sometime when you think of that, I guess you 11 plainly see, The world is a true, true fact, Cold reality. How you think what you should know, I think that you will find, The world will be there when you go, Always, not just sometime. by - Genevieve Calore 6th Grade T. C. Henderson Elementary t The Transylvania Times 100 Broad Street Brevard, N. C. 28712 The Transylvania Pioneer, established 1887; The French Broad Voice, established 1888; The . Brevard Hustler, established 1891; The Sylvan Valley News (later Brevard News), established 1896; The Times, established 1931; Consolidated 1932. A STATE AND NATIONAL PRIZE - WINNING NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY m ED M. ANDERSON — Publisher — 1941 - 1968 MRS. ED M. ANDERSON, Publisher Editor-Gen. Mgr. Advertising Mgr. Office Mgr. ■ Proofreader ftOtor HENRY HENDERSON, Mechanical Supt. ESTON PHILLIPS, Printing Dept Head GORDON BYRD, Compositor D. C. WILSON, Printer DAVID METCALF, Printer Apprentice -- Members of the staff of the Committee on Rules and Ad ministration are working dili gently every day with staff members of the Government Operations Committee and oth er committees and joint com mittees which have an interest in this important bill. I am as sured that excellent progress is being made toward resolving questions that various Senators have raised about S. 1541 as it was reported by the Committee on Government Operations on November 8, 1973. WASHINGTON —The Senate has extended the time given to the Committee on Rules and Administration to report S. 1541, the budget control bill. The bill is to be reported to the Senate not later than Feb ruary 25, 1974, and be auto matically placed on the calendar at that time. This is a very complex bill that will have a far-reaching ef fect on how the Senate and the House of Representatives con trols authorisation and ap propriation measures in order to devise a Congressional budget. The Government Operations Committee and its Subcommit tee on Budgeting, Management, and Expenditures spent ten months developing the hill as it was reported last session. There is still a monumental task to be performed by the Committee on Rules and Ad ministration in drafting a bill that can win Senate approval. In my judgment, the 93rd Congress can make no more im portant contribution than en actment of legislation that en ables the nation to get a handle on the Federal budget. For de cades, Congress has operated under a haphazard system of dealing with Federal expendi lures, revenues, and deficits. If a business or an individual con ducted affairs on a similar bas is, the result would be bank ruptcy. It is only due to the groat productive capacity of our people and our resources that weyhavC avoided such a situa tion in respect to our national affairs. l\'.. We desperately need to de vise a method of overall control of the federal budget. We can do this while maintaining the viable roles played by the ex isting committees of the Sen ate and House. This legislation is an essential step toward re dressing the constitutional bal ance of power between the exe cutive and legislative depart ments of our Government. Cost of Living — On Febru ary 4th, 1 cosponsored legis lation to improve the fairness of the Government’s wage-price program by guaranteeing busi ness and the people the right to obtain information about the Cost of Living Council rulings. The public has experienced much difficulty in obtaining basic information about de cisions and guidelines from the Cost of Living Council. Such information is necessary to in dividuals and businesses so they will know whether rules apply to them and under what condi tions they can seek exceptions. Basically, the bill sets a time limit under which the Cost of Living Council would have to take action on requests for in terpretations or modifications of rules or for exceptions to rules. Its purpose is to make the program, if it is to con tinue, fairer to those regulat ed. Congress must also make a determination soon as to wheth er wage-price controls will be extended beyond April 30th. THE EVERYDAY COUNSELOR BY DR. HERBERT SPAUGH Are you tangled up in “the stuff?” Most of us are at times. A letter from a reader of this column raises the problem: “1 am writing you asking that you please pray for my daugh ter wso is in college. She is having trouble with “the stuff.” Please ask God to step in and make every thing right for her.” This reader evidently has read in the Everyday Counselor column my frequent reference to being “lost in the stuff.” The phrase comes from the Old Testament account of the crowning of King Saul described in I Samuel 10. Briefly stated, the account reveals that after Saul had been anointed by the prophet Samuel to be the first King of Israel, his inauguration day was set When the time arrived for this important event Saul couldn’t be found. Samuel offered prayer and asked God to reveal the whereabouts of the missing king-elect The King James transla tion puts God’s reply as “He had hid among the stuff.” Other translations use other words, but the meaning is the same in all, that Saul was not performing the most important task, his corona tion as king but was involved with lesser and trival things. I find myself often involved in what could be called "the stuff.” It is dfhcult to know how to spend one’s time wisely and fully. Decisions must be made as to what is most important, then do these things first This matter of making decisions is diffi cult Here the Christian has an advantage. He earn ask the Lord to guide him in his work program and his choices. The reason .we have so many frustrated and disturbed people today living under extreme tension is because they haven’t learned hew to live on good terms with their Lord. It’s just that simple. Jesus said In Matthew 11.28, “Come unto fee, s laden, and 1 will give you rest Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me-For my yoke is L •/’ y*: » .. ^W® lww to .Vania times Route 2, Box 778 Brevard, N. C. February 16, 1174 Mr. Join L Anderson, Editor The Transylvania Times Brevard, N. C. 28712 Dear Mr. Anderson: Through special request I have obtain ed a release from Liberty Lobby, of 380 In dependence Ave., Washington, D. C. for republication of the following congressional voting record. Since this record should be of interest to all U.S. citixens, I would hope that you will permit it to be published In your newspaper, The Transylvania Times. "The record, called Liberty Ledger, covers the First Session of the 93rd Con gress. According to Lafayette A. Hooser, the chief compiler of the votes, ten key issues have been selected for the House of Repre sentatives and ten for the Senate, or a total of 5350 votes, each of which has been triple checked for accuracy. Each lawmaker is scored plus or minus according to whether his vote was in the interest of the taxpayers and the national welfare or instead was cast at the direction of various minority, special-interest pressure groups. ;4 Hooser listed the 10 issues on which all House members were judged as Atlantic Union, New Contribution to the UN, Right to Own Gold, HEW Appropriations Bill for Fiscal 1974, Cut Budget by 2%, Foreign Aid, Dollar Devaluation Subsidy to the Interna tional Bankers, Debt Ceiling Hike, Aid to Israel and Busing & Fuel Shortage. He named as the 10 issues tabulated for the Senate: Crime Control, Right to Own Gold, Reduction of Arts Grants, Post Card Voter Registration, Federal Land Use, Hen ry Kissinger Confirmation, Foreign Aid, Busing & Fuel Shortage, Rhodesian'Chrome and Aid to Israel. “ j Hooser says that only 10 members of •cored t perfect 100%: John l (R-Calif.), William M. Ketcfanm _ __ Steven D. Symms (R-Idaho), Sul T. Landgrebe (RJnd.), H. R. Gmas (Rrlra ho), William J. Scherie (R-Iowo), John B. Ranch (D-La.), Walter E. Powell (R-Ohio), S. G. Shunter (B-Pa.), and George A. Good, ling (R-Pa.). yisl In the Senate, only one has a perfect score of supporting the taxpayers and the national interest, Jesse Helms (R-N.C.); two have a 90%, Carl T. Curtis (R-Nezr.), WO, liam Lloyd Scoot (R-Va.), and five 80%, Herman E. Talmadge (D-Ga.), John L. Mc Clellan (D-Ark.), Dewey F. Bartlett (R, Okla.), Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.), Harry F. Byrd, Jr. (Ind.-Va.). All others voted at least three times out of 10 for minority special interests.” ■. Sincerely, Emmett E. Owen February 12, 1974 Dear Editor, .aJJIB The students that attended the dance at the Union Hall, February 2, 1974, would like to express their gratitude to the Tran sylvania Youth Association for sponsoring it The youth Association served as chap erones, provided a variety of refreshments and featured a good band. , i In the future, if more of the young peo ple would plan to attend, I’m sure that the Youth Association of Transylvania County could provide larger and better known bands for our enjoyment , j If enough support is given by the stud ents to the Youth Association, a good recrea tional program could be started. Again I would like to express thanks to the Youth Association for taking time to be concerned with the youth of Transylvania County. I Sincerely yours, Beth Neal Guest Column A Canadian’s Defense Of America ‘Let’s Hear It For The U.S.’ The following article, entitled “Let’s Hear It For U. S.,” appeared in the Decem ber issue of “The Shelby Legionnaire” print ed by Warren F. Hoyle Post 82 and was forwarded to the N. C. Legion News by Wayne D. Miller, Jr. In these days of unrelieved foreboding and gloomy news, all of us in this country could do w|th a little bucking up. It isn’t often that we get a chance to see ourselves as a neighbor sees us — and be cheered by.the image. Some time ago Gordon Sinclair, the Canadian radio and TV commentator, broad cast an editorial from Toronto. Any num ber of people in this country heard it or have since read it, as it has been widely re printed in newspapers in the U. S. It was inserted in the “Congressional Record” and became the subject of many editorials. Sinclair’s commentary makes especially heartening reading right now. For the bene fit of those who have missed it, excerpts are presented here. — (Howard Flieger, editor.) This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous lars into discouraged countries. Now news papers in those countries are writing about the decedent, warmongering Americans. I’d like to see just one of those coun tries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplanes. Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tristar or the Douglas 10? If so, why don’t fly them? Why do all the international lines except Rus-fia fly American planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy, and you get automobiles. You talk about Amercan technocracy, and you find men on the moon — not once but several times — and safely home again. You talk about scandals and-the Amer icans put theirs right into the store win dow for everybody to look at ~ Even their draft-dodgers*are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, tag Canadian laws —- are dollars from the Ma and spend here ...
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