AFROTC Call W ill Drati
8,000 Into Seri'ico Soon
About 8,000 Air Force Reserve
Officer Training Corps students,
. who will receive their commis
sions between next May 1st and
I Aprii 30, 1954. can expect a quick
|| call from Uncle Sam. The Air
■ Force has announced that the 8.
aOOO AFROTC men. to get their
(•orders withir. four months after
they are commissioned, will all
be non-veterans or students not
deferred for graduate study
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Cadet Major In
Raleigh School
The North Carolina State Col
lege of A & E. Air Force ROTC
Headquarters a t Raleigh, a n
nounces the appointment of cadet
Richard Ivor Levin as cadet Ma.j
| or in its corps of cadets number
ing some (5)00) students at North
Carolina State College.
Cadet Levin is the son -t Mr.
; and Mrs Mev-i M Levin of 601
I N. Smith wick St. Willimston.
! North Carolina
i Carjet Levin is majoring in in
ing a course of communications
in the Air Force ROTC program
and upon graduation in June
1953 (masters degree), \vitl be
be commissioned in the United
States Air Force Reserve as a
second lieutenant.
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Mistletoe Bestows Good Fortune
VERY lew people don't kno\<r what
a sprig of mistletoe means at
Christmas time—especially when
there's a pretty girl standing be
neath it! But few people realize that
this very pleasant custom has its
root in age-old superstitions.
The lore of primitive days con
tains many references to mistletoe.
According to an ancient Norse leg
end, the sun gcd was slain by an
arrow fashioned from the mistletoe
I'Uht. He w*3 resurrected by his
mother’s tears, which falling ijpon
the plant, were crystallized into
pearly berries. Because ot this mag
ical healing, it was ordained that
tween. That is the reason, runs
the ifgend, that mistletoe is found
growing on trees.
Mistletoe was of tpecial lignifi
cance to the Druids, ancient pagan
priests of England, who cut it off
trees with a golden knife used only
for that purpose. They believed it
possessed wonderful powers of heal
ing and acted as a protection from
witchcraft. During the December
religious rites, it was bestowed upon
individuals as a special mark of
honor.
Because of its supposed salutary
properties, mistletoe was often hung
over the doors of primitive houses
afe a sign of good-will. Belief in
magic has disappeared, but this
:ri s', i" ■MRiaie*. And a.. .Kiss
Vne nUnircoa *
cent effects. Try it and see for your
self!
TIME FOR CAROLS . . . Men, women and children front Prot
estant churches blend their voices in carol sin|ln{ before the
blazing Yule log. This Christmas Eve custom Is becoming in
creasingly popular throughout the country.
! Allegorical Parades
; Mark Mexican Yule
True Christmas Spirit
Is Found in Sharing
Tilt- PEOPLE in Mexico build
i elaborate float* for allegorical
I parades during the holiday season.
I 1 For eight evenings before Christ
1 mas there is a religious procession
at the head of which the figures of
Joseph and Mary are borne.
On the ninth evening entrance la
I permitted and a religious ceremony
conducted about the straw-filled
I ’ manger of the Babe.
FOK a HE ALLY satisfying and
meaningful Christmas, share
yours with the old and feeble, the
ill and shut-in, the bereaved whose
sorrows you might lighten.
Unfortunately, all the flurry and
preparation associated with Christ
mas are apt to make parents as
well as children overlook the real
significance of the coining birthday
of Christ.
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FUKS HOiVIK
J
Haves Student Council participat
ed in the conference of North Car
olina Student Council Association
held at Hillside High School.
Durham, North Carolina, Decem
ber 4-5. Mrs. N. C. Slade chaper
oned the! group Representatives
from Hales attending the con
ference /were Thaddeus Jones,
Shirley ' James, Robert Council,
Randolph Bunch, and Lula Spen
cor. Making th“ir reports to the
student body in a chapel program
last Tuesday, these young people
showed much interest and cnthu
siam for the work of the student
council.
Last Wednesday during the as
sembly Mrs. O. Peek* Fields’ 5B
grade entertained the student
body with a skit., “Man on tin
Street Interviews Christmas
Shoppers."
Answering the call of the
chairman of the P T A Com
mittee, F. L Blount, the grade
mothers of the school met in the
home of Mr.-.. N C. Slade and
,ue as follows: Mrs, Cleo Finch,
president; Mrs Waddell Brown,
vice president; Mrs Olivia Lamb
son, secretary; Mrs. Ernestine
Coffield, assistant secretary; Mrs
Rosas Wooden, treasurer This
group will collect from the fam
ilies of the school community the
assessment made and accepted by
the parent group Equipping tin
first aid room will be the first
project of the club.
\ Marlin I uunty man was ,
arhong til members of tlie 48th
I Fighter-Bomber Wing flying
home from Europe for Christ
mas on a chartered Air j
I France airliner.
I lie is Sergeant Marvin T.
; Winberry of RFI) 2, Rober
sonvillc, who arrived home
Iasi week to spend Christmas
w iih his wile and baby daugh
ter he had never seen.
The idea lor (he chartered
trip came from Corporal Win
fred M. lVWT-croy of llearne,
Tex., who was eager to get
home to be married. He ne
gotiated with Air France to
charter the plane for $21,000,
then sold tickets to till friends
at the Chaumont Air Base in
France where lie is stationed j
Seven North Carolinians
were among the passengers.
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News Notes From
The Hayes School
j Grade (>B, with Mrs. C. R
! Owens as teacher, recently elect
ed officers These officers are
George While, president: William
Roberson, vice president; Jerome
Brown, secretary; Leyoria Jones,
assistant secretary Rosa Thump
son, chairman of the program
committee The two major pro- j
jects of this group are centered j
around good health habits and
better personal relations. The !
motto is: "A good American cnri
This class with Mrs. L S. j
Jones's BA pjesented "Thanksgiv j
mg through the Ages’’
The representatives of the
organized a rlub. Officers elected
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In Heeling Here
Directed by Miss Mary Wallace
Foy, music teacher, the three
fifth grades of Williamston pre- j
sented a program of. Christmas1
music for the Parent-Teachers j
Association m the high school
auditorium Monday right.
William Griffin fifth grade stu
dent, acted as master of cere
monies and introduced each of
the songs the group sang. The1
music was representative of |
Christmas around the world and
included Silent Nighi, Germany.
"Film, Fum, Fum." Spain; and,
"Kolyada, Kolyada," Russia
The final number on the pro- |
gram "Angels We've Heard on
High", a French carol, was sung
by Caroline Coltrain, Polly Bunt- !
ing. Lei a Harrell, Stewart Davis,
Ralph Yates, and Nat Meek ins.
The Rev. R. E. Walters, Meth
odist minister, gave the devotion
al.
No business sessions were held
by the PTA, the executive council
or the Band Parents.
Asa Crawford, vice-president
who presided, announced that the
next meeting will be held Jan
uary 2ti.
Overcomes Unmlicup
Of Lii'inp in Iron Lnn#
Van Nuvs. Cal. Although Mrs
Mary Ann Huff, a polio victim,
is confined to an icon lung, she
is rearing her children and run
ning her houshold—via telephone
She has been in the respirator for
three years, totally paralyzed ex
cept that she can move her head
from side to side.
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II omen II or kern Total
19,000.000 In ISation
About 19,000,000 women are
I gainfully employed today, accord
ing to the Women's Bureau of the
Labor Department. This is an in
crease of half a million since 1951,
according to the Bureau,
— _ i
In 1951, $1,719 was the average
net income per farm worker while
$3,410 was the average net in
come of the industrial worker.
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December 22, Through 28 \
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Planning Special
Farmers' School
There will be short courses held
at State College, January 5 to 30th
on the following subjects: Dairy
mg, beef cattle and field crops.
These courses will be taught in
dividually, that is. one person can
only take one of the three courses
at this time.
The dairy short course is a very
practical one and much ( 1' the in
struction is given at the college
dairy farm Subjects included are
dairy cattle feeding, dairy herd
cattle, artificial breeding, nuns
sanitation, calf raising and many
other things connected with run
ning a dairy farm
The beef cattle short enure will
include such subjects as soil
starting a beef cattle held en
terprise, beef cattle feeding and
management, diseases and para :
sites and marketing beef cattle
The field crop short course will
include such subjects as stoil j
management, pasture and forage
crops, tobacco production, cotton
small grain and weed control.
Anyone interested in attending
ope of the short courses should
report to the county agent's of
fice at once, D W. Brady, assistant
county agent, announced
Coal is Russia’s most precious
commodity, vet her stepped up
schedules arc producing no more
in a year than u normal 7-month
output for U. S mines.
Gypsies Holding
To Way Of Life
Regular Dam e In The
Legion Hut Fridmy
The American Legion Post will
sponsor a dance in the hut. here
on Watts Street Friday evening,
beginning at 8:30 o’clcok. John
Piland and his orchestra will play
for the event it was announced.
A recent study in Great Britain
showed that, in the last 4:)0 years,
little change has occurred in Bri
tain's gypsy population. The re
port showed that gypsies still re
tain their own language, continu
ed a nomadic life in caravans and
settled down only In the winter,
Further, -gypsies continued to
earn their living by lortune-teil
ing. part-time farm work, trading
and hawking and remained large
ly illiteiate and ignorani of the
markable record, in one way,
since the gypsies semi to be delv
ing the progress of the ages.
Yet the gypsies, it is said, re
main extremely proud of their
race and their language and are
sensitive to prejudice against
them. With all due respects to the
gypsies, whom we have nothing
against, we suggest, they fall in
step with the times and get with
:t. so to speak.
Though tin- gypsies have def’ed
modern civilization successfully
tin' many centuries they ate fight
ing fc losing battle, are sure to
Iom (nit in the end, despite the
predictions of gypsy forturie-tell
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mas bills and obligations.
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