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Open Forum
COLUMN
FOR THE VOICE OF THE
PEOPLE
JNOW IS THE TIME TO BUILD
‘ ROADS
• -
We have read the newpapers
•sand listened to our good friend,
<Srady Cole, broadcast relative to
aroad conditions witl\ great inter
nes*. Having lived, arid still liv
ing in an area where the small
-amount of money that has been
for roads has come in what
3may be described in “capsule”
•Storm, naturally, I can’t help but
"’“continue” to be interested in
<<he road question.
We believe all whd think
'-'Straight should favor this pro
gram’s being carried out. Mr.
’Cole points out that the Eastern
■part of the state has received the
larger part of the road funds,
"which I suppose is true. But, be
>t remembered that the farther
'west the smaller the amount
'-spent. We believe that when this
money is to be allocated that our
road authorities will consider
that in the mountains (and we
-have no apologies for living in
•the -mountains), that they will
■realize lhat in addition to the
wud—which is “universal” —the
Chills add to the transportation
. troubles in the west.
We -resent the epithet that is
‘ □ften -used to describe the moun
/Jtams as being -the “Lost Prov
ince.” But IF i this were true, it
would be only -Scriptural for
-some means- to toe used to “find”
Mhis lost -arsa. Many actually
Sigood- folks- have the same opin
ion of the mouritains and the
Presidents 'of -the same as a
Northern lady who moved from
- Pennsylvania to-our section told
’ me relative to what many folks
'ptfho, like in the North, think of
* the South. She -said that she had
that the Southerners
tare “back numbers” and were
non-progressive. She said that
•'she was never more surprised in
3ier life to find it to be totally
’untrue.
-As a further evidence of mis
understandings even among well
informed men, when I was su
jperantendent of Schools of Ashe
.County (please pardon reference
''Hum^yself—J want no glory nor
*• utfiebtaar tho time that the con-
- acuxdaxidr program of schools be-
- gaiunip-a'meeting of school offi-
• -cials, our then State Superin
tendent (now gone to his reward)
mnade the statement that any
• county superintendent who does
not put *ras many as ten schools
together as “sleeping on his job.”
L. merely asked the question if
had ever been to Ashe Coun
ty. '“No,” was his reply. I sta
ted further that until the good
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Lord levels the mountains and
changes the course of the streams
‘that this is not only impractical,
'tout impossible. I also told him
that in certain sections that it is
easier to consolidate Id schools
in the Piedmont or the Tide wa
ter section than it is to consoli
date two some mountain sec
tions of the state. I merely men
tion these things to show that in
the allocation of funds that it
FARMERS:
Your 1946 AAA Program Offers $97,771.00
For Improved Farm Practices!
Your Farm Plan Must Be Made Before March 15, 1946, If You Are To Get
Your Share In The Allotment
REMEMBER-
No Plan—No Payments
Your AAA Committee, With Other Agricultural Leaders, Have Selected 10 Os The Most
Important Practices For Soil Conservation:
1- Liming Material. 7-- Pasture Improvement
2 - Prosphate. 5 - Small Grains. 8 - Contour Strip Cropping
3 - Potash. 6-- Permanent Pastures. 9-- Sericea
4 - Winter Cover Crops. 10 - Forest Planting
CONSULT YOUR COMMITTEE ABOUT THESE FARM PRACTICES NOW.
County And Community AAA Committeemen:
J. W. GAMBILL, County Chairman; T. J. GRAYBEAL, Vice-Chairman; H. H. BURGESS, V. C. LILLARD, A, J, BLEVINS.
Ashland: Frank Pierce, Carl Crumpler: A. J. Blevins, Herb Horse Creek: Edward Goss, Obids: C. T. McNeill, J. C. Wagoner: F M Allen C B
Hartsoe, J. Roy Graybeal. B. Francis, J. E. Fender. John Goss, John Eldreth. Crawford, Weldon Bare. Colvard Earl Sheets
Baldwin: G. W. Edwards, J. R. Elk: J. T. Brown, Clyde Houck, Hurricane: Fred Blevins, A. A.
Grubb, Will Baldwin. D. R. Jones. * Perry, Gilliam Weaver. Peak Creek: F. T. Miller, R. L. Warrensville: S W James
Austin, L. S. Richardson. R ~ . *
Buffalo: Coy Rash, W. L. Per- Fleetwood: Kendrick Waugh, Idlewild: Worth Phillips, L. H. Ralph Miller, Q. H. Ashley.
ry, James Harless. Herman Gentry, H. H. Lemly. Miller, A. H. Church. Piney Creek . Howard Reeves>
Chestnut Hill: Ralph Marsh, Glendale Springs: L. F. Wood- Jefferson: David Burkett, J. M. Lester Jones, Glenn Baldwin. wtb erS ° n le Y Harless,
Wm. Phipps, Robert Murry. ie, Delmar Rose, Robert Woodie. Little, Oscar Badger. Oy 1 ers P° on » C. J. Calio-
Clifton: R. C. Hartsoe, B. F. Grassy Creek: E. H. Handy, R. Laurel: C. G. Robinson, Q. E. T V ?Jtherland
Little, Edd H. Little. L. Hanes, Garvey Blevins. Osborne, L. H. Perry. ’ White Oak: ? E. W Stansberry
Creston: Joe Robinson, W. M. Helton: Bradford Waddell, R. Nathan’s Creek: R. C. Rich- Silas Creek: Roscoe Oliver, E. R. Stansberry, J. W. Stans-
Lewis, John Knox. M. Sexton, Vinson McClure. ardson, Rex Jones, Wiley Blevins. Roscoe Neaves, W. E. Denny. berry.
Sponsored By The Following In The Interest Os Better Farming:
Todd Drug Co. Ashe Hardware Co. Ray Hardware Co.
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SOIL CONSERVATION DISTRICT
Kraft Foods Co. ashe county farm agents Carolina Briar Corp.
FARM SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
should be done fairly and equit- from 45 degrees on down,
ably. I would not attempt to Within the memory of the
suggest, to road men, but it is present generation, this winter
common knowledge that many has been “unique” for rain and
miles of expensive. roads have mud, but it is no uncommon
been torn up and “paralleled” thing in the past for school buses
with more expensive roads to to stand for a week; for mails to
take out a little crook when have to stop, or carry it into the
numbers of farmers in the office part of the time, and for
mountains have had to push and doctors to have to be pulled out
pull their “Tin Lizzies” through of the mud at night in this sec
mud to the axle and at a slant of tion. But let’s revert to Grady
fHE SKYLAND POST. WEST JEFFERSON, N. C.
Cole's suggestion ( that the farm
ers aid in the construction of
these roads. A good road
through any section is an invest
ment and not a liability.
As an incentive to those who
may think this is a burden, I will
say that I distinctly remember
(and I am by no means claiming
to be old) when beginning at 18
years old, all able-bodied men
had to put in 10 days “free” la-
bor on the road, and in cases
where a new road had to be
built they, had to walk as far as
five miles to do a part of this.
We are all proud that North
Carolina was first at Bethel;
farthest at Gettysburg; last at
Appomattox, and that she gave
the first hero in the Spanish-
American War.
Now, let’s forget about war
and pursue this road-building
THURSDAY, FEB. 21. 1946
program until Ashe shakes
hands with Brunswick; Cherokee
with Currituck and connect all
the main highways so that we
may all march into “Mudling
burg” County and give Grady
Cole such a serenade that it will
make him feel young again.
C. M. DICKSON,
Silas Creek, N. C.
Ashe County.
February 14, 1946.