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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER Page 2 The Mountain eer Published By THE WAYNESVILLE. PRINTING 00. Main Street Phona 137 Waynesville. North Carolina The County Seat of Haywood County W. CURTIS RUSS Editor MRS HILDA WAY GWYN . . Associate Editor W. Curtia Rubs and Marion T. Bridges, Publiahera PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In Haywood County Six Months, In Haywood County One Year, Outside Haywood County All Subscriptions Payable in Advance .11.50 76c 2.00 En tared t fba port office at WrnriU, N. 0., u txm& OUm Mail Matur, i prorldd ondr tha Act of Maiafe S, 187. MonmbOT 10, . .. : Obituary noMcaa, naolutlona of napact, eardi of thanka, and all nottcaa of ntrtlrunnU for profit, will be eharga for at tha rata of ona cmt par word. North Carolina i ij association; NATIONAL EDITORIAL- MO W-SSQCATION THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1941 The Gas Shortage It would now appear from all reports that Secretary Icke3 got all excited about a gas shortage on the Eastern seaboard without really investigating the possibilities of the situation. It might have saved some un necessary alarm if Mr. ickes had only look ed into the matter before taking such def inite actions. It seems that there is plenty of oil in the country and sufficient refinery capacity to handle it. J. J. Pelley, president of the Association of Railroad Presidents, gives testimony that the carriers have facilities in the way of tank cars to haul and properly distribute the oil. However Mr. Pelley does state that the use of 20,000 idle tank cars while available for the purpose may add a bit to the cost of gasoline. This is good news, for most people felt that they would be restricted beyond the point of convenience and even at that have to pay a much higher rate per gallon. Now we learn that if properly handled there will be plenty of gasoline. Certainly there are enough genuine prob lems for this country to solve without being scared into a panic oyer gasoline, so we hope Mr. Ickes will know the true conditions the next-time he wants to impress the American people with his foresight. Welcome New Arrivals Haywood County kept pace with the state - in its records of new birth? from January 1 'to June 1, for in both there was a decided increase. '' In North Carolina there were 1,973 more babies arriving during the same period than in 1940, and 40 more births in Haywood Pnnntv ncrnrAmv to the State Board of Health reports. In 1940 there were 32,571 births in the state, in the five months period from Janti- uary to June, and in the current year there were 34,444. In Haywood County in the same period in 1940 there were 400 births, while in 1941 there were 440. There is an increase in the birth rate, but the mounting toll of deaths from prevent able accidents shows an alarming increase in the state. From January through May vital statistics figures show that 709 per sons in North Carolina were accidentally killed as compared with 543 for the same period a year ago an increase of 166. Most of these deaths resulted from traffic acci dents. However in Haywood County, ac cording to the state records, shows an in crease of only one fatal accident, six in 1941 and five in 1940 in the period under consid eration. There were during the period of compila tion, 104 fewer deaths from pneumonia in the state than occurred a year ago, 39 fewer deaths from tuberculosis and 23 fewer from diphtheria. Up to June 1, there had been only 28 diphtheria deaths in the state. Last year there were 51 during the first five months, 27 of these occurring in January alone, as compared with nine in January this year. Hot More Park Highways Needed The American public's appreciation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is growing more rapidly than the National Park Service and its related agencies can build highways into the park and provide adequate accommodations for visitors. This fact was impressively presented at the Chamber of Commerce dinner at which Ashe ville and Western North Carolina honored Newton B. Drury, Director of the NatSonal Park Service. Mr. Drury said that more than a milHon visitors already this year have made the park journey 43 percent above the record this time last year and the travel year has another month to go. The successor of thv late Arno B. Cammerer expressed the hop that protection of the great park will gradu ally assume as much importance in the peo ple's minds as access to the park possesses; On the North Carolina side of the divide,, the main highway to Newfound Gap can no longer meet the traffic demands, Park' Superintendent J. Ross Eakin reported. On. the Tennessee, side, he said that additional tourist accommodations are needed. . Mr. Eakin's proposal of another park en trance through the Pigeon River Valley in stantly impressed the conference as of first rank importance; and President Don E. Elias. jf the Chamber of Commerce appointed a. committee to work with the Park Service onr the problem of highways and tourist ac commodations. As the meeting was in session, dispatches carried the reports on the park's travel rec ords for August, and they break all the rec ords of all the parks up to this time. All these reports on the popularity of the park doubtless surpass the expectations of the most optimistic among those who years ago set for themselves the goal of a great national Park in this region. And the meet ing can be expected to mobilize public and official action for making the park accessible in every way not contrary to the equally im 4T55rtant interest of protecting the reservation . for the benefit of future generations Ashe ville Times. IS WHy no vou PUREBRED MEN TAKE SUCH GREW PRIDE IN PRODUONCS GOOD MEAT? BKCAUCEL WH AAEATONLVrHE BEST PEOPLE : i mil mamm m Void OF THE j PeopU Awakening To Opportunities We have noticed that since the announce ment of the 1,000,000 record of visitors in the Park that the towns in this section of the state through the press are showing distinct signs of waking up to their potential opportunities. i In fact we have heard for the past two decades of the "returns" from the Park, but even so the possibilities matured before most of us realized, and in spite of all our anticipation it found us without the proper facilities for accommodations. Another feature that the towns are wak ing up to is the benefit of through traffic. If a town looks attractive to motorists, even though they plan to spend the night else where along the route will stop and spend some money, and might be so impressed that they decided to change their plans. There has been a lot of talk on this sub ject before the possibilities became realities, now it's time to put our words into action. There is one town in Western North Caro lina that did not especially want an overload of traffic through their main thoroughfare. Now they are planning to bend every effort to get this travel which was more or less diverted by an addition of another highway, back into the old route. They are doing this because of the profit they feel they are miss ing through the casual motorist just "pass ing through town." We were told a few years back unofficial ly, by an official that the government or perhaps we should be more definite, the Park Service was going to watch and see develop ments outside the area of the Park before making plans to offer extensive accommo dations in the Park. In other words we are to be given our opportunity and it remains up to us whether or not we profit by it. It is not too soon right now for every hotel, guest house, shop or business that contacts the tourists to plan for an improvement based on the needs of the season just passing. It is poor business not to do otherwise. HER E and THERE By , HILDA WAY GWYN Henry Troutman, Jr. . . senior I there are only 40 miles of paved hio-h school student ... of Atlanta, roads . . . Henry incidentally son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Trout man . . ... who is now the guest of his aunt, Mrs. Jonathan Woody, . . . is destined to be somewhat of a hero . . . we believe . . ... when school opens this fall in Atlanta ...... and he joins his classmates .. i at least in history we can pre dict that he will prove an authority on current events . , . for Henry saw one of the most dramatic scenes in American and English history enacted in the North At lantic waters somewhere near New foundland ... this summer ... . while in regular line of duty in his work with a construction com pany on the U. S. naval base at Argentine, Newfoundland . . . in fact Henry had what you might call a box seat for the perform ance . . just imagine causually looking up from your work ... . and gazing out on international history in the making . . . through the telescope used ' in their sur veying . . . the Crew saw me naroor filled with ships . . . gold braid and colorful uniforms moving about on deck '.: . . the great lead ers of two great nations . . . . . meeting on the seas to discuss prob lems of world wide gravity . . . all surrounded with great secre cy and protection . . rumors Of what might be taking place .... and what might happen any minute spreading like wild fire about the island . .. . many of them back and discounted before they had barely started. . , is very entertaining ... and being a good American citizen naa to cross off the record of the things about the event that he felt Uncle Sam would not like to see in print. We had a perfect example dur ing the week of the old adgage . . . "Keep a thing 7 years . . and you'll be sure to find it useful" . . . we were making jelly . . . we had to have a good strong stick on which to bang a bag of fruit for the dripping process . .. . we sent to the basement . .. and you would never guess what was brought to us . , . a walking stick . . - a good strong- one . . that would be very useful in holding the bag of fruit , . . and on the stick . . "Stick to our Bob" ... we smiled as we recoernized it . . a campaign of Bob Reynolds for the U- S. Senate . . , we well recalled that; at the time we had wondered what good the thing would ever be . ... . we suggested to the head of the house that he might use it for a cattle stick . . . but he said no . .. . it was to short . . . none us were old enough for a stick or sporty enough to adopt a cane for walking . . so we agreed that it would make an excellent piece of kindling . . . the years passed and it was tucked away in a corner . . . you can count them since he ran against Governor Morrison . . . (and now the blooming thing was serving Why Uncle Sam Needs To Keep Eye On Dakar By CHARLES P. STiEWART Central Press Columnist. ALTHOUGH Dakar isn't in Lat in America, it's about as important to the western hemisphere as if it were on pur side of the Atlantic, so strategists are saying, not only in Washington but in the capitals of most of our southerly neighbors. Diplomats and visiting military men, in this country from the La tin new world's direction, stress the situation emphatically. Dakar, they point out, is a spot on the map that it behooves Uncle Sam to keep 'a sharp eye on, with a view to his own good, and to their own republics' good also the latter consideration perhaps being what they have in mind principally. Well, Uncle Samuel has Ms bi noculars turned Dakarward, all right. Presumably it was one of relic ol the prime Minister Churchdll discussed Henrv arrived in Newfoundland on June 14th and was there until August the Ifth ... he was a rod man with a surveying crew . . . . of a construction company ... . working on one of the naval bases . made possible for the United States through an agreement with Great Britain . . . in exchange for 50 destroyers . . ; for ten days the island of Newfoundland was cut off from the outside world . , . no mail . . . no radio communication . switchboards closed . . . no one allowed to leave the island . . . U. S. Marines everywhere . . . . the waters filled with ships . , . coming and going . . . battleships crowding the sea . . i airplanes constantly buzzing overhead . . . protection Of every description. . . Sounds Like War . From the casualties on the streets and highways of North Carolina the state might have been in a warring district during the month of July, according to the Highway Safety Division. There was a toll of 84 lives in accidents during the month. The number included 27 pedestrians, 25 killed in collisions of two motor vehicles, 17 killed in cars that ran off the highways, five' riding bicycles, and three killed in cars that overturned. Wisdom has the habit of developing in a person at the time of life when it is not needed. Consider the flea all it does is jump around and it goes to the dogs. In a dramatic course across the harbor ; . . four impressive de stroyers steadily plowing their way . . . making a pattern of an X , . protecting the waters from any submarines that might De lurking ; ... about . . . . no one knowing just what was taking place , . sailors coming ashore mat mg stories , . . that were later denied . . . word went the rounds that President Roosevelt would come ashore from his ship out at sea . . . then denial . . . . and what young Troutman and his fellow workmen witnessed . . . even they did not quite understand until af terward ... when they had the privilege of reading the newspa pers . . . then the details flashed back to them of what they had seen ... the signficance of the launches plying their way back and forth between the Tuscolusa and the Prince of Wales. . . . a purpose v . , as far as" we were concerned) . . . the stick is just an ordinary piece of soft wood in natural finish ... and' after the juice "dripped" we seriously con sidered sending it to the Senator as a bit of amunition to start his next fight with . . . but then we suddenly realized that in all pos sibility he would have no use in the next conflict for such a homely article . . . Our Bob should hand out nothing less than gold-headed canes in the coming campagin . under the circumstances. . , YOU'RE TELLING ME! -By WILLIAM RITT Central Press Writer GRANDPAPPY JENKINS be lieves a fellow's embarrassment when he first appeara in his first pair of long pants, is almost equal to that when,, years later, he appears In his first pair of shorts.- f'.' A real old-timer a a fellow who can remtHnber when movie newsreels talked to you instead of blowing up- is your face, t f A small town t m group of buildings surrounded by empty space. A Kg city Is another group of moldings surrounding empty space downtown park ing lots. t t f -The circus tight rope walking act appears tame stuff to us who now for two years have watched Switzerland maintain her neutrality. : i ' I t y ;.V A medical article says hay fever sufferers should avoid "disturbances." O. Kbut wha ever heard of a silent sneeze? . I I 1 Mussolini once worked as movie extra for $2 a day. Bet he sometimes now wishes he'd kept that good job when be had it, i r .!' )'. Shirley Temple emerges from retirement to return to movie work. Gosh, she must be having a grand time at the studio, chat ting about the good old days. Who ... . 0I n toreadm,,,;;,'! Edwin PoteTieTfJ lines first j lret funnie ""U W ' H Mrs P I 7 T regular news morernf7UI I other kinH nti the tim, t" " T 68 . M " l ail.)" Mrs. J r ' of people, though I ll hu "nrst thing. Mrs. Chas. M. FrierJ Tu V ,y lnat leaves aJ V to read of crime and abnormal thig; T. J Cathey-0rdinarili more attpnt rn ,7 than anything else, but J am rOQrl.'v, 1U '"'I ...... unicr leature.' Miss Dphrn vlo r: L 11 - .-i- 1 ianer-1 ally read the headlines, J wucu uusy 1 get no further, Walter FrarrHsM J read more war news thai type. James S. Queen-"I pi read stories of human inter Mrs. Claude C. Haynes the local news stm-io. ;. . that deal with the people a J iney are aoing." S. J. MoHv"l liu about improvements that u made in a locality, k to read about the war lik 01 people. UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT FOR THE DURATION Henry did not know the great sympathy he aroused with us when he told us how the village editor bemoaned his fate . . . that he had the biggest scoop in all the world and couldn't print it. . . . Henry says Newfoundland is just too cold for his Southern blood but we think he feels that his summer's work was well worth wearing a couple of sweaters and knee high boots . . one thing be sides the weather we found to be a disappointment was the fact that on the island of Newfoundland at their recent ocean ronfi I don't think the avetagl kee ever heard of Dakar ur.rl the nresent war started. South American east coasl all about it. because it's so that waterfront. Today w Americans know about it, i figured so much, at least tj m the news lately. However, maybe, a hn eoncernine it wouldn't be rri pos, for the benefit of tl readers who. nosslblv. haven ered to locate it on their i It's a Tjort on French soil in Africa, iust where tn Continent bulges farthest westward into the Atlantic western hemisphere and ablv south, the South Al continent bulges to the ea At its extreme bulge is tte ian port of Permambuco, cnllpH Recife. Tt.'s 'a comnartivelv shorl onal hop from Dakar to r buco about as far as fro Vni-lr tn Omaha. By Plane and Pancnj Now. it's no news that thl want to horn into Latin .J Not having much sea si thev need a narrow sua nopnn to rross. to land H Tlnrlcar-Permambuco IS 11. even be done by plane anj Chute. And if Herr Hitler! French navy, he might Del make himself pretty trou on the watery surface 01 tleneck- True, we and w have navies of our own, W ticvaKTTr hnsv elsewhere. UVlVlHu.j . Auuu a ic r rtrinnpstionably C0U1 over a large scale invasionj America at the presem " The Fuehrer's evw though, is to precede W' -t iWeIm bv stimw epidemic of Lat.n-Amerj rations, gciui.s .j i,,,; The exisW American bv . ,j don't fancy being revoht the discard, Unde ed to observe that they" drastic steps to prevent au aiong, out j.v -- . think the southern folk" ... . T,,rlrmore) 11KM us. ." - .l. tid blame 'em. Many's W been very tactless -of T?nt apparently ler wouia on, headed on. , And Dakar's the , he'slikliestto ounce That nas - the first, .""V r"'ttaB ei acute considerate S3 Dakar is Vichy T"J Adolf will makingitallthe-uJ Those su" .-el t-. ,...nr Lape v rJ Azores Islands or X ho as sat'"" Ewhor as Dakar, nlnres for 1 as tj1 Ttin A"1! I JiL if the trouble .. ...t M his standpoinc, hiJ ISLANDS, and, s4 the French i-a mean joo i"1 ut he can ach D overland. ' .ff?. tr'il have to .- (Continued K
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