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Page 12 THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER TTITTTCr l ir . luviwuAl, WAY Voice of the People (Continued from page 8) good water, and the people being so friendly, but it's the grandest place in the world to live in." Miss Mary Mock "I like to live here because it's 'God's Country.' " Charlie Davis "The climate is the best in the world and the wa ter is the best in Western North Carolina, and I like the people, good business and it's just a good place to live in." Clayton Walker"! like the scenery, climate, and I think we have the grandest climate in the world." Marcus Rose "I don't think that one could find a more beautiful spot anywhere in which to live; also I think that the tourist and manufacturing future of the com munity is very bright." Darling of the Finest Mr. Gunn "I have lived in a number of important cities through the South and North for 18 years. I recently selected Waynesville for my home and business. I hope for all time. I like the people and I like the climate and I like the business atmosphere and I think that this is as good or better place as I have ever visited or lived in." Paul Davis "It's just the place I know of to live in. I've traveled all over North Carolina and South Carolina and I don't know of any community that compares with ours in hospitality and business opportunities.'' V I I I i! ( ' 1 This Week Dn Defense OPM Associate Director Hillman told hi press conference he was drafting plans with the AFL and CIO for a four-shift day, 160-hour week for all defense industries able to use extra labor. Mr. Hill' man said the plun provided a shut down of production only on Sun days from 7 a. m. to 3 p. m, to repair machines. He recommend ed that defense industries pay a bonus to workers who voluntarily forego vacations. said, "Let's forget everything ex cept the welfare of the country." i r A I I Ann Schumacher, 6, smiles her appreciation as two ef her policemen ' friends present a doll to her at her New York home. The 2,000 cops of Queens Borough are chipping in a dime each to boy her an artificial foot to replace the one sheared off by hit-ran driver. Roy Moseman "I like the open friendliness of the people and I like the climate and the scenery.'' G. L. Campbell "I like the good people and I think that this is the nicest and cleanest and most pro gressive town I know of any where and I like the wonderful climate." Charles Lance "There's just something about it that makes you want to stay here, everyone is so friendly, and I think that it is really building into a town to offer limitless opportunities to every one.'' : D. Feldman "After covering everything in the United States for the last 20 years, outside, of the Pacific Coast, I find that the climate here is the best in the United States.'' 0 Mf GOOD Y5V m U f PLACE A M?l S. . NAY WOO COUtsTV . Ott Ledbetter "The climnt anA hospitality are about the two best reasons I know of and because we have real Americans here." Jack Nichols "It's about the best community I've even been in. I don't only like it here, I love it! !" KOHTH (IMUW VXJT We make it easy to oper ate your car by 'our easy budget plan. Western Auto Associate Store J. C. Galusha, owner Phone 106 Main St. Frank M. Davis "I like this community because of the climate and the people and the opportu nities the community offers them. No honest man could hope to get rich, but every one who works can have the necessities of life." John Davis "I like the people, think this Community has the brightest prospects of any com munity I know of." J. C. Patrick "I like the people and I like the all year round cli mate. I've lived here for 17 years, but I like it more here than any where else." J. Lloyd Kirkpatrick "I like the wonderful climate, mountain scenery, and the best people in the world are right here. I think this is 'God's Country.'" Mrs. W. T. Hannah " I think our community is full of hospita ble people,, wonderful climate, love- yTf7 to uve 7 4 V ox"" fit and our large stock of garden fresh fruits and vegetables makes living worthwhile. FARMERS EXCHANGE C. D. KETNER, Owner Phone 130-M Asheville Road u y good v w v- Jb place C TO LIVE vVS XfhixHuium emV HAVWQO COUNTY if VyiSv NQATH CAAOUKA y6y and this is a good place to get your car properly WASHED GREASED POLISHED SEE US TODAY PURE OIL STATION CHARLES GARRISON, Owner ly scenery and I have the love for a small town and a cosmopolitan town and Waynesville is both and it is a community of diversified people. Mrs. G. F. Boston "I like to live here because of the SDlendid atmosphere good people and the lovely scenery. Mrs; E. J. Hyatt "I like to live here because it's the most wonder ful community in the world." Walter Francis -"I like to live here because of the good people were have in this section and the good climate, and I think we have the most pleasant people to work with as anywhere else in Western North Carolina." Oliver Shelton "I like to live here because of the healthy cli mate, good water, beautiful scen ery and the biggest reason is that I think it's a "poor man's coun try, " , ; Y;;,;; . Dr. Tom Stringfield, Sr"I like to live here because I think it's 'Goal's Country' and the climate is so healthy and the people are so good." :". C. A. George "About 25 years ago when I came to this country from Greece, 1 had been in most of the states of the Union, Then af ter staying here a little while I found that the best people were in this community and I like the climate and the scenery which re minds me of my home town in Greece and I decided to make my home and spend the rest of my life in Waynesville with my friends. Homer Henry "I was born here and all my relatives and friends are here and I like the year round climate. Beatty Coalson "I like the cli mate and the people and the scenery." LABOR DISPUTES The War Department announced that only three one-hundreths of one per cent of the total time work ed has been lost because. of labor troubles on its $1,200,000,000 con struction program. Administra tor Straus, of the U. S. Housing Authority reported "work has ot been delayed by a single hour by a single strike on any defense hous ing built by USHA. AID TO DEMOCRACIES President Rooseveltdirecting "Whatever action is needed" to speed the production 5f heavy bombers, said in a letter to War Secretary Stimson that command of the air by the democracies must be achieved even if it means "a great strain on our oroduction efforts." The President, requesting the Department of Agriculture to establish an office of Agricultural Defense Relations, wrote Secreta ry Wickard that "the most vital operating functions of agriculture in the defense p roe-ram are. first. the guarantee of an adequate sup ply ol food for . . . this nation and ... those nations whose de fense is essential to the defense of this country ; second, the pro vision ol sufficient agriculture raw materials for expanded defense production." reserve for training as officers. PRODUCTION PROGRAM Speaking in Detroit, Mr. Glancy, OPM Ordnance Director, said the military plane program is on sched ule with "our combat planes sur passed by none;" the naval pro gram is "generally.ahead otsched-1 mig8ioM and to see that no doctor SELECTIVE SERVICE Selective Service Headquarters announced that registrants who cannot pass fourth grade reading and writing tests will be declar ed unfit for military duty.! Head quarters also advised local boards to defer medical students "who give reasonable promise" of be coming doctors, to encourage doc tors and internes to apply for Army Medical Reserve Corps com ule,' and many army and navy air fields and bases are "well ahead of schedule." OPM reported 1,427 military planes manufactured in April a new record. Major General Wesson, Army Chief of Ordnance, speaking in Rochester, N. Y., reported U. S. armament to be of latest type and "thoroughly effective."- He said we are "on the threshold of mass production." Weri CABINET OFFICERS SPEAK Secretary of War Stimson in a radio speech that American freedom will not be saved "unless we are ready to sacrifice, and if need be, die. . . . It is within our power to turn the tide of darkness back" by using the 'Navy to "se cure the seas for the delivery of our munitions to Great Britain . and . . . hold in check tha nn. ward rush of the tide of Naziiam until the other defense forces ot all the democracies are completed." Mr. Stimson said "nf . V w niook c year will pass before we can have an army ana an air force adequate to meet the air and ground forces which could be brought against us if the control of the seas passes into Axis hands. . . . If allow the present strategic moment to pass until the power of the British Navy is gone, pur Navy would become merely a secondarv power instead of the decisive and winning power.": Secretary of Agriculture WiVV ard said at Charlotte, N. C, "I see no course for the U. S. that gives any real Promise of keeninir us from becoming deeply involved in tins worm conflict. . . . Any course we take involves risks.'? The U. S. has two cftoices hfi said: either to support England or to let Hitler take England and "prepare for the richest conminst. of all the U. S." He said "we had better take risks on getting aid to Ens-land than to risk hnmh. ing raids and tanks attacks on our own fields." "Miss Margaret Terrell "I like the friendly people and the wonder ful climate and the good water and the beautiful scenery." George A. Brown, Jr. "There are many- reasons, in fact too num erous to mention." J. J. Ferguson "I like to live in Waynesville, because it has good climate, water and scenery, and good people all of which makes it the best place in the world to live." C. b. Atkinson "Because it is the best place on earth to live;" Jack Messer "1 like to liv in Wajmesville because it is a nice town clean town good climate, ana populated with god people. What more could you ask of anv place?" : Dr. C. N. Sisk "I like to Uve in Waynesville because there is no better climate in the world and no better water sunnlv Reiner reared in Western North Carolina I prefer being in the mountains, and there is no prettier place in the U. S. A. than Havwood countv. I like to live in Waynesville be cause it is the size town I like and it is made up of as fine a group of people as you can find anywhere." J. L. Reitiel "I like to live in Waynesville because of its congen ial people and the opportunity it offers to render a service to agri culture in this section. There re many other reasons, 'but these are the major ones." J. E. Ferguson "There are so many reasons why I like to live in this community, that the paper couldn't hold them. I'd say some of the biggest are as follows: the best water, best air, best climate, and the best folks in the world." PRODUCTION EFFORT Production Director John D. Big gers, speaking in Philadelphia, said defense contractors must ap ply "every known technique, every practical pressure for speeding production." Defense Purchase Director Donald M. Nelson, speak ing in Washington, said "we have got to begin to realize once for all that we are in a real life-or-death emergency not just a make believe one." OPM Director Knudson, in a letter to all machine tool builders The Amazing NEW .Defense-Time WILLYS AMERICAR Has a get-away and pick-up that will make their eyes pop! You can't tell a thing about this new-type car until you se it and try it It's defense-time engineering marvel designed to beat the high cost of defense-time- motoring. Sim plified to the last detail. Trimmed for action and what action. It's pure quality the biggest dollar's worth of motor car on the market today. Saves up to $20 a month in complete operating cost as com pared to the average cost of the five cars next highest in price -the very first year l Powered with the sensational new Defense-Time - Go-Devil Engine 30-35 miles iur ml t . - 2,000 miles between oil changesl Lowest priced full-family-size 4 door sedan in the world. Don't Fafl To See This Amazing New Defense-Time Car GREEN AUTO CO. Phone 2220 , Ashv. Rd. CANTON, N. C. necessary to his called for service. community is DEFENSE FINANCING President Roosevelt asked Con gress for a tax bill "which will convince the country the national defense program. . . . is not going to make the rich richer and the poor poorer." The President ask ed for legislation "aimed at mak ing the Federal revenue system evasion-proof and so devised that every individual and every corpor ation will bear its fair share." Treasury Secretary Morgenthau reported defense savings stamps and bonds are selling so fast the Bureau of Engraving has to work Saturday and Sunday to keep up with demands. MARR1AGI LL Giles Milton EllJ Fort Brae? and t,., i to Miss Mary Lou Reed, J Of th 1 QAJ Ann land in continental IT Census reported l,0C0,5fl farms. Crops were harvJ 321,757,900 acres. ARMY-NAVY The War Department announced the Army's largest peace-time maneuvers will begin May 24 in California and continue throughout the summer and fall in various parts of the nation until regulars and trainees are schooled in the most advanced methods of modern warfare. ' The Army opened its fifth recrea tional camp. It announced that Ed Wynn will appear in the first of a nation-wide series of entertain ments at army and navy posts featuring the donated services of screen, stage and radio stars. The Interstate Commerce Com mission granted railroads permis sion to reduce rates to 1.25 cents per mile for personnel of the armed services. ' The Navy Department announced 4,900 college graduates would be Misery doesn't love company that enustea in Uass V-7 of the naval stays for dinnen CONSUMERS AND DEFENSE Defense Purchaser Director Nel son, speaking in Cincinnati, called on consumers to aid in keeping prices down by refraining from "scare buying" and hoarding beT cause of rumors of shortages. He also advised consumers to be sus picious of price increases, to find out if price increases are really necessary, and "exercise your nat ural right to say 'no" once in ft while." uODvj PLACE Y We are Communf Boosters PRESCRIPTION! A LEX AN DEI noiif ctaI Phone 53 Ma Iodized Free Running Mortons Salt 2 boxes 150 All Kinds Seed Beans lb. 150 Domino Shortening 4-lb.ctn.39c 8-lb.ctn.75c MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE lb. 270 LIGHT WHITE FLOUR 24-lbs. 770 DELMAR OLEO lb.pkg 120 Wesson Oil qt. size 390 ERNST Corn Flakes 8-oz. pkg. 50 N . B . C. Ritz Crackers lb. 190 yheJforld'sJinestQualitu 25l LIBBY'S ' s '. Pineapple Juice 2 250 Medium Size With Exceptions ' Heinz Soups 2 for 250 Garden Fresh FRUITS - VEGETABLES Yellow Squash 2 lbs. 15d Green Cabbage 4 lb. 100 lb. 60 Mustard qt. size 1 WILSON'S CERTIFIED Tripe 24-oz. can 1 Kraft Cheese lb.pkg 2 C. and E. Grape Juice qt. size 2 STRONGHEART Dog Food can Clo-White Bleach qt. 1 Small Size Scot Towels 3 rolls 2 r CONCENTRATED SUPER SUDS m THE BlUE BOX) Jk Large Size 2 33 OCTAGON Soap or Powder 6 for 2 i.vsuuuwaw.. urk's a vr. 2 Lb. Pkjr. 270 Golden Ripe Bananas IRISH Potatoes lQ lbs. 170 Lemons doz. 201 Specials From Our GRADE "A" MARKET Sliced Bologna lb. 1 Dressed and Drawn Hens Ih. 1 22 Club Steak lb. 2? SWISS or AMERICA V Sliced Cheese lb. 2 Picnic Hams lb. l Ray! s, Super Marke
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