Xpt JfeigblanDer i i' t Devoted to Promotion of the Highlands Area j Thursday, August 6, 1970 H41en Hopper...... ..Editor W|n. F. Harris.Advertising Salesman Subscription Rates Outside Macon - Jackson { Highlands Area Counties Onjp yea? S4 00 Six months $2 50 One year.$7.00 Six Months.4.00 Add -r tax for N. C. subscriptions _ Second Class Postage Paid at Highlands. N C. '* Published by Community Newspapers, Inc. BLOCKING FREEDOM OF CHOICE J CLOSE THE LOOPHOLES As a tonsiimer, do you like to be told where you can shop? How do you react when an aggressive picket tries to tell you, “Don’t buy here!”? As a businessman would you like to be barred from de livering; goods to a customer? This'type of disruptive activity is prohibited in theZnatfogj’s labor laws, but the National Labor Re lations Board and some courts have punched large loopholes in these laws. Iw Example, it's an unfair labor practice under the Taft-Hartley Act to force a store or a company to stop selling the products of a company that’s in volved in a labor-management dispute. When union - pickets try to do this, it’s called an “illegal second ary boycott.” Yet, through tortured reasoning, the NLRB and even the Supreme Court have ruled that certain types of picketing and boycotts — intended to be : barred by the law — are either merely “informa tional ’ or for what the unions call “work preserva tion,” and are therefore, protected actions. Oil occasion, this has meant that picketing be yond the limits specified by Congress has actually been permitted by the Board and courts, thus inter fering with peaceful shopping. Also employers not involved in a labor dispute have been denied access to a building site. Sometimes even newspapers have conie under attack because they carried the adver tising of a struck company. Abo, the NLRB and the Supreme Court have ruled that a union can refuse to install cost-saving materials on a construction job. Such a decision directly contributes to inflation and affects the pockjetbooks of all of us. Since these misrepresen tations of the law consistently ignore the intent of Congress, the only recourse left to preserve realistic laboc-management relations is to pass new laws. ... Tte Iivo Aronj Us ^HE EAT /S MAM'S MOST PAMGEKOUS BHEMY - - SCIENTISTS ESTIMATE THE DISEASES THAT RATS CARRY TO HUflANS HAVE CAUSED MORE DEATH THAN ALL WARS COMBINED. IN ADDITION TO TRANSMITTING SUCH DISEASES AS TYPHUS AND SO SONIC PLAGUE, RATS DESTROY FOODSTUFFS EAOl YEAR, EQUALING THE TOTAL PRODUCTION of lOdjOOO AVERAGE FARMS.' 0 SINGLE NAT CAN CARRY UNTO 10,000 LICE- pLus, FLEfS AMP MITES.RATS HAVE &E6M KNOWN TO GNAW AT FURNITURE, EAT THROUGH THE INFLATION IN ELECTRICAL WIRING--CAUSING FIRES EVEiJI TO SITE SLEEPING PEOPLE! Cn recent year*, CHEMICAL WEAPONS AbA!NET RAT5 TMAT ARE COMPLETELY SAFE AMP EFFECTIVE HAVE 0EEN PEVELOPEP AMP PUT ON THE MARKET. THIS IS JUST ONE OF THE PE VELOPMENTS IN CHEMICAL PESTICIPES THAT ARE HELPING TO PROTECT MANKIND AGAINST— THE SCOURGE Of PEST? Of AUTYPES.[ The People Speak August 3, 1970 To The Editor The Highlander Highlands, N. C. Following are some comments from our campers follow ing a week at Camp Living Waters, July 27 - August 1, This is a grateful "thank you” for all the generous support we received through “Charlie” from the merchants and kind re sidents of Highlands i "I am going to learn to flot and the bed’s are soft and hard. Dianne Beck, age 9” “Best of ail is the food and 1 like the people. And it is fun. . . Peggy Henry, Age 12” “Swimming is the most fun to me. Mrs. Harris is learning me to swim. I all ready know a little. Mary Lue Railey, age 13” “I like the pool, but I was afraid of it one time. Mrs. Harris is going to teach me how to float. Debbie Green, Age 10” “I like the pool the best of all. Mrs. Harris is learning me to flot. I have learned a hole lot at camp. Sheila Barnes, Age 11” “1 like the camp and I like my counselor and the girls in my cabin and I like to swim. I like to sing. Betty Jane Wood, Age 9” “I like this camp we go to church every night and sing. Lillian Speed, Age 8” “Best of all the things that I liked at camp, was swimming. I always looked forward to our swim period. Everyone and everything was just great. Betty Sue Railey, Age 16” “Best of all I liked to swimmed. 1 look forward to our swim period. Everyone thank you very much. Charles Hensley, Age 12” “Best of all I like is camp and swimming. . . Roberta Beck, Age 11” “1 liked the swimming, and the people. (Dictated) Donna Sue Speed, Age 7 “I like camp very much. I loved swimming. I entered in every activity. I’ve been to other camps before but never as much fun as this one. Willy Brooks. Age 13” Again, a heartfelt “thank you” to all who made this mem orable week possible. Sincerely, Mrs. W. F. Harris Director, Community Children’s Choir July 29, 1970 The Editor The Highlander Highlands, North Carolina Dear Editor: l Last Thursday evening we stood helplessly by watching our car go up in flames. This was just ten miles down the road from Highlands in Rabun County, Georgia. We wish to express our appreciation to all the local people as well as the travellers who had their plans and aflairs so abruptly interrupted because of our misfortune. Traffic could not move either up nor down the mountain for about two hours. There was not one disgruntl ed soul. It takes such an experience for us to realize how truly wonderful people are. There were so many instances of fine character displayed that we want to express our gratitude to all those who helped and yet continued on their way without our noting their names. There were the young men who cut down trees with which to remove the charred body from the roadway as it stood a terrible hazard in the line of traffic; the two gentlemen from First Union National Bank, Charlotte, who transported some members of our group with the luggage to King’s Inn and Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Doughty of Augusta, Georgia who likewise volunteered to do the same for others. There were so many offering their assistance to be of any help possible. And when all the immediate danger was gone and the matter of public safety precautions had to be met and handled, a special note of appreciation goes to Mr. Fred Bowers, Clayton, Georgia and Mr. Bradford Picklesimer, Highlands. One can meaningly say that this unpleasant experience yet proved rewarding in bringing into realization the genuine worth of man in these materialistic times in which we live. Though we may never and certainly we would not want of need to re ciprocate in a like situation — let our reward be one remem bered that to another in need we can extend our hand. Sincerely, (Miss) M. Mellanay Delhom, Curator Delhom Gallery and Institute Charlotte. N. C. r . —- — ■■ ■ ■■ ■ i The Logic of Investing No formula yet devised has been a!)It* to tu n the stock market into a neat package of logic. The reason is simply that conditions affecting the economy, ind idual com panies and stock values generally, are in a constant state of flux. Just to stay abreast of these changes requires broad facilities, numerous sources of reliable information, the ability to evaluate the effects of change and. of course, the time necessary to give to the job. For instance, in a single week recently, there were headlines regarding the gold situation. federal budget cuts, dollar deficits, a tax increase, and peace negoti ations vs. escalation. The-, average reader barely has the'time to rend.aid the news; let alone the experience to determine the impact of each new development upon the market and the securities traded there. That may be why over four million investors today have chosen mutual funds; Mutual funds, which have been a part of the American investment scene since 1924, provide a pooled, long term, diversified investment account under the constant supervision of professionals. Thus, with an investment of, let’s say, SI 00 in one popular mutual fund, the* in vestor receives a piece of as many as a hundred or more securities, or as many of the stocks and bonds rep resented in the fund’s, port folio at the time. Mutual lun*i nmn;i'»cr.< as •'unui the task of selecting individual securities, keep ing up-to-date on changes in the status of these se curities. and handling all the details of buying and selling, collecting and dis tributing income, tax .anal ysis. and so on. According to the Invest ment Company Institute, the fund shareholder bust year bought nearly So billion worth of mutual fund shares, and today has some SIJ bil lion at work for him in the stock market. We Are Young i By Jimmy Valentine We are on a journey, sensing and discovering pristine nature on a wilderness trail of silence. We are inwardly shroud by nature’s great storehouse of intrinsic values that move us ever deeper and more rev erently into Mother Earth’s womb. At least we are one with the Life Force, onward into a pri meval glen jeweled with an in finite and harmonious tapestry of light, enveloping trees, and rich, balmy earth. The air that reaches every cell in our body has been filtered through a multi-green blanket overhead. The newance of air seemingly breathes by itself. The water that quenches our thirst in a crystalline brook soon is off, tumbling freely downward, to form the headwaters of the Tal lulah River. The sustenance that is har vested from the forest floor and walls of green is fresh, pure, and completely sustaining to all men and beasts. Man’s contem porary noises are left far behind in his cities. WE ARE WHOLE AGAIN. ies, we are one wiui me yuuui of America celebrating the joys of winderness camping, explor ing and nature study within one of the most diverse natural areas left in the Southeastern United States -- the Standing Indian Natural Area. This natural area was estab lished in 1961 by the Dorothy Thomas Foundation and includ ed in a nationwide system of natural areas. The rugged 1500 acre tract in Clay County, North Carolina, just 2 miles north of the Georgia State line (acces sible only from Georgia) is pro grammed for educational ex periences in field biology, geo logy and the ecology of" man ana nature in me souinern Ap palachians. The area and the Tallulah headwaters are en closed by an especially scenic loop of the Appalachian Trail. AH of the Tallulah Valley ex cept about 600 acres adjacent to the natural area have been logged within recent years. The Forest Service now proposes to log the wild buffer zone around the natural area, (in cluding pockets untouched by an ax) and building roads (two of them new crossings of the Ap palachian Trail) in the face of a program which depends upon the wild and roadless character of this enclosing terrain. The roads, with the possibility of a later thoroughfare between US 64 anlf 76, will <£stroy the mag nificent setting, the safety and control necessary for the area’s quality experience provided Girl Scouts, school and other groups, both young and adult. In this steep, highly scenic terrain, the water, soil, wild life, recreational and edu cational values should take pre cedence over timber yield, if the Forest Service multiple use policy is to fulfill the need for providing a quality life exper ience for present and future generations. The MULTIPLE USE SUSTAINED YIELD ACT OF 1960 directs that the nation al forests “shall be administer ed for outdoor recreation, range, timber, watershed, wild life and fish purposes,” with “due consideration given to the relative values of the various resources in a particular area.” The Forest Service contends that this area has very little “multiple use factor” and is determined to sacrifice “for a few thousand board feet” the wise use of the other resources. The Girl Scouts of America are prepared to take legal ac tion against the Forest Service in the event they decide to follow the single usage factor of “tim ber management only.” As usual, time is of the es sence in this age of environ mental crisis. The final de cision will be forthcoming at the Atlanta Regional Forest Service office Tuesday, August 11, after two fact-finding teams together explore the area this week, one from the Forest Ser vice and one from the Girl Scout, scientific and conser vation communities. It is suggested that in the name of YOUNG AMERICA the Forest Service withdraw from public sale all Comparment 118 units of the Tusquitee Ranger District in Clay County, N.C. so that this small tip of valley and its enclosing segment of Appalachian Trail can be set aside as a special management area. Immediate and direct action is needed before August 11. riea&e leiegrapu aiiu call your Congressman and Senators PLUS immediately notify Mr. Edward P. Cliff, Chief, United States Forest Service, Depart ment of Agriculture, South Building, 12th and independent Ave., SW, Washington, D. C.‘ 20250; Mr. T. A. Schlapfer, Regional Forester, United States Forest Service, 1720 Peachtree Rd. NW, Altanta, Ga. 30309. May the immense potential of the Tallulah watershed be so recognized so that it may con tinue to provide an environ mental experience of quality that will in future years be seldom equalled. MAY WE SEE THE FOREST FOR THE TREES. (Editor’s Note: Mr. Valen tin^, of Highlands, is an in ternational conservationist and photographer. His book “Gaule-the Golden Coast of Georgia’’ with conservation text and illustrations of photo graphic art is expected to be off the press in March, 1971.) Hitchhiking,Too,Has Its Hazards For traveling long distances in a short time, nothing is cheaper than hitchhiking. Few other modes of transportation are as risky, either, as both hitchhikers and drivers often discover. A year-long study of hitchhikers on the New Jersey Turn pike turned up 162 runaways, 98 military men absent without leave, seven escapees from mental institutions, five escaped convicts, and 501 people with criminal fingerprint records. The upraised thumb appears beside the highway in profusion as soon as the weather invites casual travel, and to many motorists it works as well as a stop sign. Capt. J. L. Lance, commander of State High Patrol Troop F at Asheville, said that a man reported stopping for a middle aged white woman on 1-40 west of Canton. Hardly had she gotten in the car than she told him she had a gun and was going to rob him. He stopped the car and managed to push her out. Another man called the SHP to report that a young woman he had picked up at KnoxvUle refused to get out of his car in AshevUle. He was afraid to try to force her out. By the time a patrolman arrived, however, she had departed. A motorist recently stopped to help two men who seemed to be having car trouble on 1-26, near HendersonviUe. For his thoughtfulness he was robbed and beaten. One souvenir of the occasion was a broken nose. There is no law forbidding hitchhiking in North Carolina, only a prohibition against standing on the traveled portion of the highway, although interstate highways are marked with signs saying pedestrians and hitchhikers are not allowed. Most hitchhikers, of course, are college youths or service men or simply adventurous young men out to cover the country on a dime. But motorists should remember they are finan cially liable for all their passengers in case of injury or death. And anyone thinking of traveling by thumb ought to realize that there are probably as many criminals or psychos driving cars or trucks as there are standing beside the highway. An honest hitchhiker is sticking his neck out as well as his thumb. -The Asheville Citizen Those Chain Letters Again As if the Post Office Department doesn’t have enough troubles these days, it now has to pause and issue another warning about chain letters. It appears the public will never learn that there is no such thing as getting rich overnight. The chain letters are cir culating again. One that has been widely circulated offers a reward of $8,000, an indication of these inflationary times. Back during earlier recessions the promise of $500 or $600 was enough to get the letters flitting around over the country. — Chief Postal Inspector William J. Cotter said the Post Office Department has recorded a 476 per cent increase in these chain letters. > A letter requiring a purchaser to sell, or mail, six copies, more or less, with each of these selling six or more, would theoretically reach the entire literate population on the earth if it were followed through only to the 11th level, he says. Chain letters are a .violation of the federal lottery and fraud laws, the postal officials warn. Besides being a violation of the law, there is a risk involved in falling for this gimmick. . .the risk of losing a dollar, or whatever remittance it sought. It is best to recall that no acquaintance of yours who has fallen for the chain letter idea has ever gotten rich. -Anderson Independent Education Board Meets The meeting of the Macon County Board of Education Tuesday morning was unique in several respects. First, the meeting was at tended by the Macon County Board of Commissioners and the County Manager in a group. They gave as their express purpose in attending the meet ing the welcoming of the new County Superintendent of Public Schools. Mr. Kenneth Barker, and to pledge their whole hearted cooperation in working with the Superintendent and the Board of Education for thegood of Macon County. Secondly, this was the first regular monthly Board of Edu cation covered by the news media in sometime. The Board accepted a bid by Greenville Roofing Company for the roofing of the Highlands School. The bid was in the amount of $14,605. The Sup erintendent was instructed to set up a meeting at which the final details would be worked out. After some discussion the Board set Friday as a time to meet a group of citizens from Highlands who are consider ing the possibilities of merg ing the Highlands High School with the one at Cashiers. Discussion revealed that the new Vocational Industrial Arts Building was still in the plan ning stages. F ollowing the regular meet ing the Board went into execu tive session. VETERANS NEWS. EDITOR’S NOTE: Below are authoritative answers by the Veterans Administration to some of the many current ques tions from former servicemen and their families. Further information on veterans bene fits may be obtained at any VA office. Q - Following dlschargefrom the Armed Forces, I received dental treatment from the VA. Later, I needed further treat ment, but was denied. Why? A - A veteran is entitled to one-time dental treatment if he applies within one year of dis charge. If he applies within six months, it is presumed that certain of his dental conditions are service connected, and may be treated without a review of service records. The following categories of veterans are entitled to repeat dental treatment: those whose service-connected noncompen sable dental conditions or dis abilities resulted from combat wounds or service Injuries {for mer prisoners of war with ser vice - connected noncompen sable dental conditions may have repeat treatment for the service-connected dental con dition; veterans receiving com pensation for a service-con nected condition or disability may receive treatment for those dental conditions which the VA finds directly related to ag gravating the service-con nected condition or disability; disabled veterans receiving training under the Vocational Rehabilitation Act who need dental treatment to prevent in terruption of their training. Thoughts Before Breakfast Or From Bed To Verse By - S. T. Capps Now the young men who have been at camp with the army reserves are coming home, and getting the royal welcome they deserve. They have really had it rough, as army training is getting to be more and more sophisticated: Hush, little fellow, don’t you cry - Daddy’s in the calvarye. i (Or the great big bang artillery, or the slide-rule engineers, Or the weary footsore infantry with the dirt behind their ears; But whatever branch he’s serving in this military spasm, He served with great distinction and with much enthusiasm) He climbs the mountains, swims the lakes, And checks the lining in the brakes, Teaches his troops to swim and dive And operate the four-wheel drive, And when to shoot, or hold their fire, ; And with dispatch to change a tire, And late at night when he needs sleep Waxes the saddle for his jeep. When he returns he well deserves Hot biscuits spread with plum preserves, And mamma, too, will proudly bake A large and luscious layer cake. Found: The Missing Day Did you know that the space program is busy proving that what has been called “myth” in the Bible is true? Mr. Harold Hill, president of the Curtis Engine Company in Baltimore, Maryland, and a consultant in the space program, relates the • following development: I think the most amazing thing that God has for us today hap pened recently to our astronauts and space scientists at Green Belt, Maryland. ' They were checking the position of the sun, moon, and planets out in space as to where they would be 100 and 1000 years from now. We have to know this so we don’t send up a satellite and have it bump into something later on in its orbit. We have to lay out the orbit in terms of the life of the satellite, and where the planets will be so the whole thing wiU not bog down! They ran the computer measurements back and forth over the centuries and it came to a halt. The computer stopped and put up a red signal, which meant that something was' wrong either with the information fed into it or with the results as compared to the standards. They called in the service department to check it out and they said, “It’s perfect.” The IBM head of operations said, “What’s wrong?” “Well, . we have found there is a day missing in space in elapsed time.” . They scratched their heads and tore their hair. There was no answer! Then a religious fellow on the team said, “You know, one time I was in Sunday School and they talked about the sun stand ing still.” They didn’t believe him, but they didn’t have any other answer so they said, “Show us." So he got a Bible and went back to the book of Joshua where they found a pretty ridiculous statement for anybody who has “good common sense.” There they found the Lord saying to Joshua, “Fear them not, I have delivered them into thy hand, . there shall not a man of them stand before thee” (Josh. 10: 12-14). Joshua was concerned because he was surrounded by the enemy and if darkness fell they would overpower them, so Joshua asked the Lord to make the sun stand still! -That’s right! The sun stood stiU and the moon stayed and did not go down for about a day. ) The space men said, “There is the missing day!” Well, they checked the computer going back into time to the time it was written and found it was close but not close enough. The , elapsed time that was missing back in Joshua’s day was 23 hours and 20 minutes, not a whole day. They read the Bible and there it was, about (approximately) a day. These little words in the Bible are important, but they were still in trouble because if you cannot account for 40 minutes you’ll be in trouble 1000 years from now. Forty minutes had to be found because it can be multiplied many times over in orbits. WeU, this religious fellow also remembered somewhere in the Bible where it said the sun went backwards. The space men told him he was out of his mind. But they got out the Book and read these words in U Kings 20: 8-10. Hezekiah, on his death bed, was visited by the prophet Isaiah who told him that he was not going to die. Hezekiah did not believe him and asked for a sign as proof. Isaiah said, “Do you want the sun to go ahead ten degrees?” Hezekiah said, “It is nothing for the sun to go ahead ten degrees, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.” Ten degrees is actly 40 minutes. Twenty-three hours and 20 minutes in Joshua plus 40 minutes in II Kings make the missing twenty-four hours the space travelers had to log in the log book as the missing day in the universe. Isn’t it amazing how our God reveals His truths through modern man? — An editorial in The Evening World, Spencer, Ind. SENATOR WASHINGTON - - There has been increased public concern over the wisdom and legality of some of the data banks which are being constructed by Fed eral departments and agencies. On the basis of a study which the Constitutional Rights Sub committee has undertaken, I am convinced that this public concern is caused by the fail ure of some agencies to limit their information activities to those reasonably necessary for administration of the laws they are charged by Congress with administering. It is also caused by the failure of responsible officials to inform the public and Congress honestly and squ arely just why the information is needed and what will be done with it, and it is caused by their frequent failure to assure due process to indivi duals who might be involved with the program or placed in a data bank. Consequently, many wothwhile data programs which are necessary for good govern ment come under criticism for lack of public information and for lack of government candor. One of the Federal depart ments which has recently been guilty of incursions into die con stitutionally protected san ctuaries of individual rights is the Department of Defense. A branch of this mammoth De partment, the Army, has ad mittedly engaged in the collect SAM ERVIN ion and data banking of per sonal information about civil ians who are active in politics or who belong to organizations which are or might be active. In response to public reaction to this program, the Army pleaded that it needed to do these things in the interest of being prepared to deal with civil disturbances. It finally agreed to cut back on its pro gram. However,from thelatest policy statement which I have received, it is clear that the Army has maintained its de terrent power over the indivi dual rights of American citi zens. When I first learned about these activities, I asked the Secretary of the Army for a full report because I thought the Army has no business med dling in civilian politics, or conducting surveillance of law abiding American citizens or maintaining data banks on civil ians who had no business with the Department of Defense. Moreover, the Army’s data banks appear to be a part of a vast network of intelligence oriented systems which are being developed willy-nilly throughout our land, by gov ernment and by private indus tries. I believe that in these systems, where they contain the record of the individual’s thoughts, beliefs, habits, atti tudes, and personal activities, there may well rest a potential for political control and for intimidation which is '.alien to a society of free men. : In March 1970,1 was informed that the Army had unplugged one. of its computerized data banks on civilians which it maintained at Fort Holabird and that it would discontinue a blacklist of citizens which it distributed widely. However, my Concern about the Army's surveillance of civilian programs has been renewed following the publica tion of an article in the: July issue of the Washington Mcftthly of Christopher Pyle,; a layyer I and former Army intelligence : officer. Mr. Pyle concludes that the Army has resumed this surveillance program Jin some quarters and h4s con tinued it In others. Since the courts have not yet provided a remedy for cit- . izen complaints about sudisur- - veillance programs >nd- there : are many questions about'the constitutionality of such prac tices, I have invited the Sec retary of the Army to. appear as one of the witnesses before the Constitutional Rights Sub committee, of which I am Chair man, at its forthcoming hear ings on Federal data banks and ; constitutional rights.;' 1 am • hopeful that his testimony will • answer the questions which have been raised in tbe Con gress relative to surveillance of our citizens and Federal data banks, and the needs'of our: Government for such informa tion.