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I Published Every Wednesday in Tabor City, North Carolina By The Atlantic Publishing Co. Taher City—A Town With A City' Future J «ORAci: CART.ER ... .....Editor & Gen. Mgr. ί ρίτρή WICKER Associate Editor LESTER F. KUDlSILL Busincs^ Manager ^· ®; SELLERS Asst. Associate Editor BRENDA STOCKS Woman's Editor ι Cartel's |ϊ Column ι SICKNESS? Last week when I liaJ a st. ne t\ 11 ν Li from my right kidney and \\ s told that four >ther stones wore in the left kidney in sue > . position that it was impractical to operate, I probably reached a low ebb in my life in so fur as attituri«. j and the future is concerned. Indent it might b·· s.dd that I be gan feeling sorry for myself. But after the full i'npaet sank in j and I started looking .11 about me. there dawned, a brighter, day. I didn't have to look far to set· ι great number of lolks j with much greater reason fur feeling so ry I'm themselves than I did. There was the little girl in the third grade at the lot\d school with incurable Brignt's Disease who had little- h< pe <■'·' surviving until Christmas Day. There was the 25 year old gii! mangled in an auto wreck who would never w:i5k again and indeed had great difficulty in ew.i sitting in .it: ardinary chair because of the freakish manner in which her '··«.< and arms were now all out of shape for lite. Theto was the man with two heart attacks already on his record w.o would never ι •mow when the next and lat 1 .me might oecttr. Yes. all about ! us every day we ι. η find great :.:.·ι y peopV with much heav ier burdens to bear than we have. Perhaps what brings lull realization Ί our affliction to mind almost by the hour is the diet that the d etovs have us on now. All my life 1 have eaten mythiug md everything with out reservation and with .vpp<«r ·'>· no ill ef sects IVrhap. foremost among these food, hi . · uc and in:lk product.·. , Now we can dring n<> milk. ' u ·.*. no cheese and no seafoods. We have always dt-ai ·.· :· "ds o· every kind along with the dairy products Ί ■ ι;>ί ·ά^·: : λι'-ιοιι' theoi now ^ gives me a lost feeling lik·· w ikiag arouiul without my pants j CHRISTMAS: Thus with problem · all around us. ve reach an other December 25—Christmas. It doesn't take a gri at deal of searching to enumerate a.long ι ist of lit n*!s for which every individual can be most thankful, grateful, appr liativ. Some times it t..kes . lu ltctay reason md .. few <ia>s el leisure t ■ fully appreciate how goi d the w >tid has tje··-ti »o us Γ is is a good time for pels.ma! inventory to consider just how fortun ate we are. INDUSTRY: Kol months now, tili 1 >e.l Merchant' Association has worked l<.ng nd liar ) to oi <n ure ι.< λ i.-vi'istrv. At lasi officials believe a buuang cotitr et !.·■ just a Γ···.ν day- off. If' this negotiation continues satis&n'lt r.ly ι· ι the tr \t week cr so. we expect t(» be able to aniV»unee with eonnlcte doiinite ncss tiie coining ■ i tin. new ,>!< ut. And .1 it com . it will bring to Tabor City a payroll <if t.i< re th.-n half a n. llion dollars a year and perhaps eventually s«a ·ι .iI timet, t .t much. We are. enthusiastic over this new prospect . nd belie v they will be a reai asset to our community MAY YOUR j HOUDAY GLOW WiTH PEACE AND l-IAPPINESS PRINCE BROTHERS FURNITURE CO. ψ* f./ < ■ MERRY U CHRISTMAS — " to our many customers and friend«· G. GARLAND FOWLER LIFE INSURANCE - / .i. Editorials ... IS THERE A SANTA CLAUS? (Editor's note: Ueprinted below is the most widely known editorial ever written for a United States news paper. The classic "Is There A Santa Claus" was written by Francis P. Church in the New York Sun in an swer to a letter from an eight year Id girl. It appeared on September 21, 18i)7. , We take pleasure in answering at once and thus prominently the* com munication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun. Dear Editor: 1 am eight years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, "If you see it in The Sun it's so." Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus? Virginia O'llanlon 11*» West !>5th Stret Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except what they soe. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehended by their littic minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or chldren's, are little. In this great universe of «•ins man is a mere insect, an ant, in l:is intellect, as compared with the in-κml less world about him, as meas ured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Clans, lie exists ;ts certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give our life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary won 1*1 be the world if ther i'we re no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no Vir ginias. There would '>e no ehildish t'aith then, no poetry, 11«) romance, to make tolerable this existence. We should hve no enjoyment, except in sense an dsiul.t. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be tyctinguished. Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimney« on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody see* Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is 110 Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those neither children nor men can see .Did you ever see l'airies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. No body can conceive or imagine all the wonders there· are unseen and unsee able in the world. You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which the strongest men. nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only fancy, poetry, love, romance can push asile that cur tain and view and picture the super nal beauty and glory behind. Is it all real? Ah. Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else, real and abiding. No Santa Claus! Thank God! he Ives and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten thousand years from now. he will con tinue to make glad the heart of child hood. Williams Schoo! ι Principal Gives Exam Schedule t· ι st seiiH-s' ■· · x.'uiiinptk'n. will., bi· given t.. Williams Township Sc''.n ! pupilg in ·γ;κΚ- ϊ-12 «»ii .? Ttiarv 4 au-l 1963, Clnyt· ;i l.« wie. prin ."!> aniKumco.l tins vvivk. "Students in cr-rlw 7-12 ah nt from η χ imiiuitinn nui>; witn t'r.o subject teacher > Uten >tatunn-ii' t'xp!aini:i;. '■u absence. Π ihe ri-'^iir · - ! ι·;,·, ι x> stuc'i-it is u:\ - «ι. η opportunity t. i .k· ih < xamin:ition. "Λ iOC t ί >! :>') f. ;· r"< 'i .·■· η {»tic η ι : .·· · ill g:üHos V-'.L who .1.1 ι!»··ι.' \·. il be r.iveit :ι'1· scvo! ι.·' Mtirfon·.:· will be ι sponsil»!· toi the ir tr ·η$ρ<>'·ι.ition. "The subject teacher wi'l l-eeij fifty e<i.!.» il l turn fi't\ cents in tn tl'.o rrhool treasuv er \v!yi will put t in the ich«·»· —U . Mippl.v fund." Lev i: .said. E\;.minat ίοη» ti<>t takcM ν hi·! schfdi:i; I and without :'-1 < !· !>· ! i·,:». !i for bt-in. Mlis.nt will b<. lowoml ow !«1U i* er.id«. illi· it is !ik<· tin· »it mi,! Ii:I arxuin·» for tin· pi in' iff m I n n· of · decision whk-h tho rii-fvT.diiiit kiv v. v.il' hi· tu.tn:1 .:··;. in·;' hinvi'lf —λ!. ι\ Baki'r Ed h O. what a tangled web w* v. ·;ινι·. \ν1κ·η fir.st \νι· practice •ο ckivivo. Fill In Veterans Questionnaires Now Says Nance Area veterans in id widows receiving non-se> vice connect ed pension from the Veterans Administration are cautioned t\v Mr. H. Hush Nance, Co lumbus County Veterans Ser \ ice Officer, thri the Annual Income Qestiomnires receivc·:! with their December check must be completed and return ee to the Veterans Adminis tration before January 31. 1 083. to avoid suspension of payment. Mr. Nance said that income !o|K>rts are required on all in come outside of pension pay ments, «inly by all persons re ceiving pension Γ··οιη the Vc - eians Administration. Ser\ic connected disability. deaf· compensation, or Dependency . in! Indemnity recipients nee· ι «-t file Annual Income Ques i.' iiiiaires. The questionnaires are us. 1 to determine j-.ititlement to future payments and to inaki . justments in payments wher· a Ί-oiue requires ·' income lim it; tu.ns under the old pension law are $1,400 «'.0 for single persons or widows without children and $2.700.00 for mar ried veterans or widows with children. Under l *e law wliie!· began July 1. iDOO. income '•in'aticus are 5!,POO.00 ar.d $3.000.00 with graduated pav -l.i nts based on need and the level of inci'iiiv· oelow th·· jea.ximunii. Assistance in completing th·.· Annual Income (ji:e.- tioiinair; : in .y be obtained from the Co it·!!.bus C< ui.tv Veterans Ser vice Officer, who i-· located r> Courther .· \Viiite\ ι lie, or M>" i K" riuy-D.i,· ι'. District Of • 'cer. North C:i-.>nna Yeterai ; Ccmmission, 4! ι Murchh'.o liiiildiiiK· \ViIm::iEti n. North Carolina. Tin t;Ue. t en·! -.f li'e is t·· knew th·· ) 111 that never *»i-<5 — Wiili.'im IVnn IK who stops iiein^ bette" stops being *,"···■ —Oliver Cromwell You :<i t l)iu ;·ν a part in herent in a greater whole. — Marcus An;· -.i:;.· ΛI ΗΚΪΤΤΚΝ REKRV ίΊ.ΛΝ' —Kirs' year plan's fn-r Payn«>r Brothers. Slo per thousand. Call Watson Shel ley. Loris '!~>7 -H031J. Dec.26—Jan.2.9,16.26pd ■ wont settle for HALF the fun of Christmas! See WACCAMAW for the money you need to rr.oke your Christrr.ss complete. Wc make form and home loans, home im provement loans, auto loans, and many, many ethers. And our bank rates are low. QJouVc got it made aficn jjouVc got it Qavedl Deposits In Waccamaw Bank Arc Insured Up To $10,000 By Federn 1 Deposit Insurance Corporation Ray s Ramblin s By Ray W'ickci Walnut Warf are · My first encounter with the black walnut was far from a pleasant meeting. This little black nut tried my patience, challenged my ingenuity, anil almost unlocked my happy wedlock. It happened like this. A couple of days before Christmas last year, 1 had just settled down for a long winter's eve of watching TV, when out in the kit hen there arose such a clatter that 1 got up from my chair to see what was the matter. Getting ιφ ' was my first fatal mistake. There was my dear wife in the midst of preparing the Christmas goodies. "Honey, would you mimt cracking two clips of Black V\ alnuts? They're in the cabinet." "Not at all,*' 1 replied. This was mistake number two . Now, everyone is familiar with the English wal- j nut. If appears in all those Christmas assorted nut packages. It is easy to crack and delicious to eat. However, the black walnut is a nut of a diffej-ei* ( color. It is common enough in its cracked state, ap pearing in candies, cookies, and ice cream, but 1, for one, was not famiiar with this member of the nut family in its natural state. Reaching in the kitchen cabinet. 1 found a large box of little, round black objects. Walnuts, 1 presum ed. Next. I headed for the nut cracker, a bowl, and my TV easy chair. Taking a walnut, I gave it a firm squeeze with a nutcracker. The nutcracker gave; the walnut idn't. My wife entered the living roonv too late to catch me cramming the busted nutcracker in my back pocket. "Von can't crack those· in here. You'll have them all over the place and besides they're hard to crack," she remarked. Tlie latter part of this statement was my wife's understatemont for the year. 1 didn't want to appear stupid, so I didn't ask the obvious; Just how in the devil do you crack them? Instead. 1 gathered up the i>«»\ of little nutcracker breaker·*, and headed for the back porch, disc recti.Φ hiding the broken cracker in the bottom of a trash can. I looked around for a suitable weapon. 1 had just begun to fight. The black walnut may be the plant's world's answer to a diamond, but nothing u as 11·«» hard for me to crack, if I used my head. The first thing 1 tried was my faithful vise. ltd id did too good a job; ail that remained of the walnut was a greasy spot and a few pulverized fragments o^ hell. This is not a recommended method. Next, ® tried a very foolish thing. Placing a walnut on the floor, I descended upon it with all 1(55 of my pounds. The pain was terrible, and 1 cussed walnuts, my wife, and the world. This method is ;»lso not recommended, for 1 limped around for a week. The idea was slow coming, hut I finally thought of nsing a hammer. The first blow sent the nut sailing into the darkness of the back yard, and the second missed the nut but not my finger. After ten minuter of meditation and sucking on my damaged finge rife I finally devised a plan of attack which finally con quered my hard, back adversary. I now modestly consider myself an expert in the art of cracking walnuts. If any reader is faced with the problem of extracting walnuts from their pro tective coating, cenie see nie, or better yet, take the walnuts; hide them in the nearust trash Can, and sneak down to the nearest grocery store. Packaged walnut meats are rather expensive, but bolieve me they are worth every penny of the price. (i ι I SHOP GORE'S QUALITY SHOP For After Christmas Specials GORE'S QUALITY SHOP YULETIDE CHEER May your holiday be bright with warmth and cheer. GRAINGER BLOCK CO.
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