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and liiglilanite UJarmtian WEIMJ11 .Jo.Y/:s Editorial /'a or Editor ria'SSDAV, A I'd ST ".0. -|?;3 TflK KKAMiX'S WIIV: Quality And Economy A hi<( cil like New York hires t !i ?? bcs| neerinj; brains m<iric\ ran buy. A'ml NViv V')rk, though there are some half . a do'/sej-i m vlmr . by Irani which it could obtain the l.'KH) million yal-' Ions oi water it' nee'ls dailv. u*" - a 1 1 the.wav to the < at -kill .\!o- i ; ' a : ! i ?' >r , v. it : ? We '.vi/ndci'i -i 5 u h An ' .. to t'ind out v a-. 1 1 ' ask. Tile ; ; i i s. . i-r i, :e ! a ; . I >*A:;u. !: . New < \i\ .. sttl^ily. . : n L vied l i> ?' >. . lie rites t . > > rc;i >' * ' ? ? ferred : . : I: \ ; i : ? ! i it .i fr. ' ? . , i . ? jiojicr i '{ \\ a i e r v. atei'diiMis a IV pi c 1. iieraliSi- v. ater ii ?na watersheds i> '; i t ' h ? -f. fit i v M ?? i ". " 2. Because I lie walcr.van' he i !. gravity, "t hereliy ' el i ii i in /it in;; I he rii.lv', Mr. I J'Ati^eh/-. left or. which i- .'oimmIc at The I'rtss, follows: This is in reply to your letter of Julv 1(>, 1939, inquiring whether New York City obtains its water supply from watersheds in the Catskills," and if so, why the watershed system is preferred. The major watersheds for the New York City supply are located in the Catskill Mountains. We prefer securing water from mountainous areas, since the waters from these areas are inherently gc-o-if (the popu lation densities are low, thereby contributing very, little pollution to the streams and creeks from which the waters are taken) and do inot require filtration. Natural purification takes place as the streams and creeks course through the mountains and in the large storage reservoirs formed1 by impoundment. Consequently, the major treatment required by the waters is disinfection with chlorine. Occasionally, when the waters become tur bid "due to very heavy run-off, they are treated with alum. Another advantage of upland sources of supply is that the waters can he delivered to the City by gravity, thereby eliminating pumping costs. For your information, there is being sent to you, under separate cover, a copy of our pamphlet, "A Description of the Water .Supply System of the City of New York." We Congratulate . ^ . We congratulate Jackson County that plans ha\?e been m dMi" to preserve its Jtrlaculla Rock, soap stone boulder, 15 miles Ironi Svlva, covered with pictograph symbols that, after many years, still de fy translation. W e congratulate that county's hoard of commis sioners for so recognizing the value of this relic from a long-forgotten past as to use public money to buy it ; that investment could - ? and probably will ? pay handsome dividends, even ? measured solely in dollars. Most of all, we congratulate Board. Chairman Jennings Rryson on the insight and wisdom that prompted this statement : "Too many 61' our native landmarks are disap pearing because of indifference to our heritage, it is only after they, have vanished or been torn down that we realize we have lost something, precious, something that can't be replaced or brought back." Mr. Rryson can say that again". . . and again . . . and again. Predicts Bitter Fight Due to a remarkable continuation of extraordi nary circumstances, a little more than a year ago the little collnties of Southwestern North Carolina were able to name the district's , congressman. It was the first, time in history a man from west of the Balsams had been sent to Congress. What will happen i-n next year's elections? Already this district's political pot gives evi , dence of boiling over, and Lynn Xisbet, Raleigh correspondent' of X. C. afternoon dailies, flatly pre dict^ a b-tter fight for the Democratic nomination in the l,' 7/) primary. "The 12th district offers Virtual certainly", re ports Mr. N'isbet,."of a knock down drag-out fight for the Democratic nomination for (. ongfess". , i Mi*. ,\'i bet first recall- last year's events and then looks to I'M): liicuml>ent David M. Hall sot the nomination ? and was elected ? last year through combination of "small counties ajrainst Buncombe when the district committee had to re place George Shuford. who had been nominated fen the primary and resigned from the ticket because of health. HaTI is the first congressman in history to come from west of Ifaywoorf. the first in a generation to come from west of Luncombe. Buncombe casts about one-third of the total votes in the 10-county district and quite understandably demands recognition. Haywood is next biggest voter and resents beinj; ignored. Lik?fv candidate* from Haywood include Heinz 'tollman, who ran second but far behind Shuforu in the 1958 pri mary; William Medford, veteran State senator; Oral Yates, several times representative, and Jonathan Woody, Way nesville hanker. Buncombe prospects have been reduced to a contest between Lamar fiudger, former legislator and solicitor, and Roy Taylor, former legislator and lung time county attorney. Consensus among those in the know is that if Buncombe can get together and give all out support to one candidate, Have Hall will have an awfully hard time hofu'ing his seat in Congress. If factional fights in Buncombe and Haywood split his cpposition.v he has better than even chance to stay on . / Grounds For Fear? 1 11 1 1 1 <_? ' . i : ? - iv w ?,*il battle tiv t labor 1 ??? ; i s!;i then has !><.v:i rather obvious <_-\ :den o. oi fear. : I"! >1}' 1 *. r i . , ;t<I i i i i 1 1 ? ? 1 "I;il >< ? r Ic'iis'r.tif.n v.'- 1 1 ?"??.??!< ? : . i'ii 'it",' roil';]-..- - 'H-,n i. ? 'Hyial' ?m :i' hi " " 'in ! lie hivhlv organi/<-! ' i i< Vii -tr 'n! ;.a hi' 1?- n afraid i ft ? v< ?? e f? #r legisiat ion v ?!i'< ! > labor <-N<"cs.>es and a'r is, The have ' ? 1 1 ? i i , r \ . !i;i't labor ntiybt do t > tin .i ii; '!'i tit- el- ?. ' ;ii 'i? ... . V.'.' < i . till I ii ! Mc 1 1 . i -? an-,' real 'Vic-. i*?n ? ? ?I' ll \\ ?? tii ii." ill'1 icar itself ???? !>-??? I." i -^ch it ? - ? ! >1 ? i'-.r t-f.-aliny ? '? ' > >an. \V MSin?ct th ? r 1 " - s -> n a- n 1 1 a \ ;,????? ' i.-i |>.vat'-. . :n 1 lie r Ih-'MM- th<-v (lo mil. ? b '/ '???v ? in th orn- ihin;;' that makes re pre si i r;overninen't work the character and . ^Ood sr. an<J fairness of i lie a\ erag'e cit izen. And tve do' not -believe the average laboring man ' as distinguished front some of the labor bosses? is nnpalrioth- or unfair or unreasonable. He wants legislation that i-. fair to labor, of. course; who doesn't? Hut we refuse to believe the average man who labors is a worse citizen than the average man who manages' industry or practices law or medi cine or engages in any other avocation; And. while we know there are men who are moti vated solely by personal or group or class selfish ness, we also ,knuw they are a tiny minority. We believe the vast majority of average Amer icans?whether laborers or executives or profes sional men or whatnot - ? are disgusted by govern ment sell-outs to pressure groups ? even to the groups that purport to represent them. We believe a, congressman who boldly' put first the good of America as a whole, with everything else inciden tal. would become a national hero, almost over night. If we <li<l not hcliC'Vc these things, then wc could no longer believe ill representative government. As between water, obtained from a watershed and water pumped out of a creek, there's one long range difference that sometimes escapes attention. The purity of waiter from a controlled watershed would remain about the same, year after year. Be ause Macon County is growing, that is not true of water from an open creek. For as we grow, more and more people will live above the spot where the water is pumped out of the creek. That means iftbre and more pollution (and more and more chlorine to counteract it). The quality of water taken from an open creek, that is, instead of remaining con stant, is likely to get poorer and .poorer. Ouch! Somebody Fumbled (Highlands Highlander) Highlanders didn't like this one . . . From the Asheville Citi zen, under the caption "Nature Wilderness Opened To The Public" . . quote from the last paragraph . . . "The one-day trip continues thro' Waynesville over Balsam Gap with unsur passed views westward of the Nantahala range, and into Frankljn? the highest incorporated town in the Eastern U. S."!H Perhaps it was a "printer's mistake" ... if not, some pne should become better informed, for everyone knows that the highest incorporated town in the Eastern U. S. is HIGH GROWING PAINS \ WON'T HELP WITM TME OlSHES. I WONT, I WON' ~Zlr r >N'T J w v ( - .*iiyr cmcut mutual Lirr insurancf co. Siltlo.'.n s trike V : ? R;t?v. '-vas an angel. She* couldn't' do enough to ! !-.c. T.vay it's iinother story. Mother is frantic, i; ;t behaviour may be just a sign of her ilg?. I ? : irs she is buffeted by many bewildering i \n hich he r m< . licr should try to understand. It i , ? : calm, yet firm, these squalls will soon >' llu\v over. > ' LANDS, backed up by the U. S. Geodetic Survey. No eagle flying over our loity peaks guards Its nest and young more fiercely than we Highlanders treasure and guard our claims to the beauty and rare forest-clad altitudes surrounding High lands ? THE HIGHEST INCORPORATED TOWN IN THE EAST ERN U. S.!!! Iron Curtain In Washington (Milford, Conn., Citizen i A strange battle is going on in Washington, one that would make the founders of the United States think it was all a tad dream. The executive branch of the government is quietly trying to take the government away from the people. Attorney General Rogers has conjured up something he calls "executive privilege" which is a polite way of telling the American people it is none of their business what their hired servants are doing. The battle is centered right now on the foreign aid author ization bill, into which Congress found it necessary to write a requirement that tli^ International Cooperation Adminis tration must furnish Congress or the General Accounting Of fice whatever informaton either requests in connection with the aid program. Puzzled admirers of President Eisenhower must have been shockcd to find h mi vigorously opposed to this portion of the bill. Difficult as it may be to believe, President Eismhcwer and many of his staff seriously believe that not oiiiy Congress, cut the American taxpayer who is providing the money, have no right to know' how foreign aid mon'.y is being, spent. We are sure Presdent Eisenhower has no wish to see a dii - tutorship' develop in this country. Eut the course he is pur uing in shutting off sources of information about what the peopl's government is doing can lead only to confusion and i n' ranee under which the people might unknowingly sur render their government to a supreme executive. If this were the- only instance of executive insistence -on secrecy, it would be bad enough, but it isn't. It is just one of hundreds of steps that have been taken to hide the truth from the American people. It will be stopped only by the American people insisting tl:ut they have a right to know. DO YOU REMEMBER? Looking Backward Through the Flies ol Xhe Press frrrrmaBririTrrmT?i?r - ? 65 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (1894)' Grover Cleveland is not expected to do his shopping irl Franklin, but there are many people in Macon County and elsewhere who can make dollars buying their clothing, dry goods, boots, shoes, hats, groceries, hardware, etc., of Mr. John C. Wright. ? Adv. ? Editor Boone, of the Waynesville Courier, came over Friday to attend the Association, and gave us a pop call Saturday evening. The Siler Family Meeting will be held this year at the resi dence of Mr W. B. Lenoir on the first Wednesday in Sep tember. 35 YEARS AGO (1924) Mr. N. H. Stiles, of Haines City, Fla., is spending a week here, visiting relatives and friends. Mr. H. Sloan Kinnebrew, of Asheville, spent a short time with relatives here last week. Mr. E. H. Parrish, of Etna, was here last Friday on busi ness. 15 YEARS AGO (1944) Miss Bessie Hinson Hines, daughter of Mrs. J. A. Hines, of Highlands, and the late Mr. Hines, was married to Butler Sterling Harkins, of San Diego, Calif., July 29 at Gtendale, Calif. Pvt. Carl E. Ledford has notified friends he has arrived safely in Norway. 5 YEARS AGO (1954) The past week has been hot: The mercury rose to 89 on Saturday and again on Tuesday; it hit 91 on Sunday, and went up to 94 on Monday, the 16th. STRICTLY ' PERSONAL By WEIMAR JONES Things I like about mid Twentieth Century living: Drip-dry clothes. What a con venience not to have to wait a whole week for the laundry to come back or a whole day for something to dry on the line ? ar.d stUl have to be ironed ! < Takes fewer ' clothes, too; and that's something when there never seems to be enough money to go around, i Ball-point pens. (You can't write everything on the typewriter, though some of my friends, with lack of tact plainly showing be neath their skirt of politeness, have often said they wished I could. i With a pencil, I always managed to break the point right after I got it sharp; with a dip in pen, I always dribbled the ink over everything, including myself. Automobiles. They can be, and scmctiir.es av, a curse. But they fie a b!e::cd cjnvenience. too, ret to mention luxury. , i Think oack to the time it took seven hours to reach Sylva, now a scant half-hour away!) Electric shavers. Ah! now there really is a boon to mankind ? and I mean MANkind. (I've heard of women using them, though, to shave their legs.) Automatic .refrigeration. I su spect that achievement has contributed more to "health, con venience, and food economy than all the other developments of medicine, engineering, and eco nomics, combined. (But it's a ter ribly dangerous thing. How tempt ing a serpent it can be when there comes that urge for not just an apple, but a substantial bed time snack!) Telephones. For all my frustra tions with it, this thing I some times call an instrument of the devil is fearfully and wonderfully made. (How'd you like to have to go to see, or write a letter to, everybody you now communicate with by phone?) Modern sanitation. (There are women alive today who can re member the time when, no mat ter how hard and how long they smelled something in the grocery store, they sometimes got home to find it was spoiled.) When have you known of a case of food poinsoning? The new techniques in home building. Today's homes are so well designed for compactness, comfort, convenience, they make a house built even 20 years ago seem hopelessly out-of-date. (Yes, I know: some of the exteriors are architectural monstrosities. ' But that is a passing phase. > < The perfection of modern > record-players. To sit at home, in an easy chair, and hear the world's great music, performed for you by the world's great musicians, right in your own living room! Who says theie's no such thing as a miracle? ( I'm not the only man, I'll bet. who was grown before he ever heard an 'orches tra.) AH the things that make up present-day travel; the comfort and remarkable accuracy of schedule of ships and trains and planes, and even buses. And don't forget the Twentieth Century inn, the motel. ? These things, in my case, have a moral value, too. The;, prove tho truth of the Biblical observation that money is the root of all evil. If I hart ? the money. I'd travel all the time, and never work. That way, I'd bj useless, worthless, and probably bored. > The frankness of today's world. (Remember when no woman ever had legs? If you couldn't possi bly find any way to avoid mention ing them, they were "limbs'".) Sometimes, maybe, we're so frank as to be a bit crude. But that's more honest and healthy than the old prudery. Youth. 1959 model. They're the finest ever! (Compare the poise, the good sense, the directness, .tl*; mental agility of today's youn,V people with your own, when you were that age.) * * * There are plenty of things wrong with the world today. It would take a column just to list em all. And some of. them are big things, frightening things. Only a fool would pretend other wise. But, for all that, what a wonder ful time to be alive! WHV TAXES HIGH No Single Factor To Blame Recently we heard a supposedly responsible Albemarle man make the statement that benefits paid to veterans are to blame for the high tax' rate now being paid to the federal government. It is very easy, when a person is opposed to some phase of gov ernmental operations, to blame that particular bureau or depart ment for our high taxes. Pacts in the case are these : this fiscal year the Federal government ?will have a budget; in excess of $70 billion. Its total expenditures may be nearer $100 billion. Of the budget, roughly $7 billion will go for financing the Veterans Administration and all its pen sions, benefits, hospitalization, aind service. That is less than one tenth. The farm program will take some $8 billion or $9 billion. Again, in the neighborhood of 10 per cent of the budget. National defense ? military BOARD IjY DILEMMA School Integration Row At Chapel Hill C HAVEL HILL WEEKLY The great sadness of the South today ? a region that has not been able to deliver itself completely -from sadness for almost a hun dred years ? is that which comes from communities being torn apart, being split into factions for and against school integration. Little Rock stands as the classic result.. Now the problem of school inte gration has come to Chapel Hill. The problem is not of the dimension of the one that faced Little Rock. But its ultimate solu tion is one that could have wide influence throughout North Caro lina ? merely because Chapel Hill's influence goes beyond the town limits. The Chapel Hill School Board last Monday rejected the appli cation of a 10-year-old Negro boy for transfer . to a white school. There is considerable doubt there was any legal basis for the re jection. The school board happened to be caught in a dilemma. The ap plication for transfer was to a white School in Carrboro, which was incorporated in the Chapel Hill School District only last month. There are 110 Negroes in Clfrtpcl Hill's white schools. If the' trans fer of the Negro youth to a white school, in Carrboro had b^en ap proved. angry cries of discrimina tion would have resulted: The board already stands ac c-i. L't'. pf discrimination for refus ing to approve the transfer. So the board found Itself in the position of being totally un tible to provide a satisfactory solution. Dean Henry Brandis first offer ed a motion to send thfc youth to the Franklin Street Elementary School in Chapel Hill, where it was felt that integration might be accepted more gracefully than in Carrboro. A majority of the board rejected this motion on grounds that it would be re-writing the application for transfer and possibly could be construed as taking up the cudgel for inte gration. Dean Brandis' second motion, 'to assign the youth to the white school in Carrboro, was rejected on grounds of a potentially volatile situation in Carrboro and for rea sons of the youth's welfare. The board did indicate that it would consider a program of limited integration beginning in September, 1960. This was not' satisfactory to Dean Brandis. He Charged that the board's action' on the appli cation at hand was indefensible and then resigned, thereby create ing an open split. There is still time for the split to be repaired. Dean Brandis' resignation will not be' acted upon until the board's September meet itm. Dean Brandis says ie is Vil'inc to reconsider if the board wiil re consider its rejection of the np-f plication to transfer. Without debating the merits of Dean Brandis' Views on integra tion, it would seem that his position in this regard is indefensi ble. If his concern about integra tion is as deep as it seems to be, then his place is on the boaru where he can be most effective even if his views do not hold1 sway. To make his resignation contingent on the action in a single case is beneath the measure of the man and grossly unfafi to a board which values his mem bership highly and deeply regrets his decision to quit. Dean Brandis says there is nothing personal in his action. But the fact remains unaltered that school integration and the attitudes it creates are charged with emotion. It will be no differ ent in the case of Dean Brandis. Considered as a part of the whole integration problem in the South, what happened in Chapel Hill last Monday night is a micro-' cosm. I It is merely a start toward facing the integration problem locally ? and apparently a start in the wrong direction. We do not presume to have the answer to the problem of school integration. We are not certain if anyone has. ' But we are convinced that p. satisfactory answer will never b ? found in a situation vo>d of mutu al understanding and a respect or gpposing views. STANLEY NEWS AND PRESS spending, if you please ? will j take in excess of $40 billion. That is well above half the total bud get for the fiscal year. It is easy? to see from those figures why our taxes are high. The high taxes come from the high cost of national security. It would be just as easy to blame the tax rate on the farmers, or any or.e of several other groups as on the veterans. .To blame it on any single factor is to be in accurate. All the components of government and all the services we are demanding in increasing volume contribute to the raising of the costs of government and tk\p corresponding increase in the tax rate. This does not mean to infer that we believe government branches and bureaus are being run as economically and efficiently as they should be. Any student of our government can point out numerous ways in which costs could be curtailed. Former President Herbert Hoover and his studjr group madt some outstanding suggestions afte1 being given the responsibility foi making such a study. Few of their were ever adopted. The high tax rate and the diffi culty in keeping the national bucS get balanced emphasize the neei for increased economy in govern ment. ( Only efficiency of governme::H operation, plus world securit H which will allow us to curtaB military spending, can give il real tax relief. ? And even then we need to paH off substantial portions of oifl national debt before we low\B taxes. It isn't the veterans, or ti-fl farmers, or any other single fufl tor which is responsible for 01H high tax rate. It is our securitH and our demand for increasa H services ? which we feel are firH so long as we can make our chH dren bear the expense or somH one else pay for them in taxe-j H which have caused our <^>reseil high tax rate. THAT FISH STORY TELLING SCALE! In reference to a man thought one of the biggest lir in Washington, Abraham Lincc satd, "He reminds me of an ( fisherman I used to know w got such a reputation for stret ing the truth that he bough' pair of scales and insisted weighing every fish in '?'?? pr< < - of .witnesses. One day a baby . born next door, and the c or borrowed the fisherman's -cf to wti h the baby. It weigh j :;ood 47, pounds ? Birmli.gh i Dijiest, Philadelphia.
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