(One Day Nearer Victory) THURSDAY, May
THE WAYNESTTIXE MOUNTAINEER
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Capital Letters
By THOMPSON GREENWOOD
BLIND The shortage of cap
able office help is extremely criti
cal in Raleigh, foot it is having
its good effect, too, for employees
who would normally have a diffi
cult time of it to find decent posi
tions are now holding down good
jobs. Around a score of blind men
and women are working in Stale
offices, and they are doing well,
too. The stenographers are more
thorough than many those who
can see.
CJo down the halls of State
buildings and you will find the
"Seeing eye" dogs patiently wait
ing for their bosses. The blind
workers do not want sympathy
or pity, they just want to be
Remarkable Treatment fur
Stomach Distress
From Too Much Stomach Acid
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Ml ma. h ai i'l 'iii. I"", sli.nilil try V. i.'s
..r .i.Miil ii'litl rit'lil at In. tin-
il,..ul riiri.l I I il"' Uel $125 Timl
Size. Also available $2.00. $3.50 sizes. At
SMITH S CUT RATE DRUG STOUE anil
uttier flood drug stores.
pl'iina'li
nmlit iiiik
treated as nearly as possible like
everybody else, and that's the gen
eral attitude which prevails in
the places wtieje they are em
ployed. TO UK Members of the State
Hoard of Agriculture. Kred E.
Miller, director ol test farms, and
Agriculture Commissioner Kerr
Scott, let! Kaleigh Monday morn
ing for :i lour of the farms in the
western part of the State. They
are especially interested in to
bacco and cattle projects at the ex
periment stations in Ashe and Hay
wood counties.
CHANCK There is a good
chance that one ol the State's best
county supcrintcudcints who was
recently tired from his position
may go to Wilson as county su
perinlendcyt there. Incidentally,
it is aboul the best school job ill
the Stale
NOTt: Aside to I.. A Martin,
executive director ol the Allied
Church League. You are right in
thinking the letter from Wineman
John C'all'ey In Cttv. R Gregg
Cherry appeared in this column
before lindiug its way into other
public print. Yes. it's the lull
letter Hut don't think lor a
minute that anybody, except Sec
retary John Harden, and we are
not always sine even of him. has
entree mlo the files of fiov. Cher
ry's mail The letter, however.
whs worded exactly as it was wril-
r; T D friends that I am earnestly and
OSrVinCJ ill rGCHlC enthusiastically going down the
line lor the teachers in this
tight."
! AGAINST The above wolds are
from the man whom teachers
voted against by the thousands in
the primary of lSiH, proving once
again that we all make mistakes
nuvv and then . . .
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THE OLD HOME TOWN
By STANLEY
TELL. ME WHEN THAT
DUOAN KIpCOMESTOBAl-
THEY SAY HE KILLS EM j
WHEN THEY COME
WAIST HIGH.' ,
K
ONLY HALF WON
To heat llic .(tips I'rixlmi ion in list
keep rolling!
K AVON WORKKRS
are needed
Tor Vital War Work A I The
AMKRK'AN KNKA ( Oltl'OlC.Vi ION
VI KN AND WOMKN
COOl) PAY!
no m;e limit:
Apply
I'. S. KMPLOY.MKNT SKKVK'K
COMUH. CHARLES L. FERGU
SON, medical officer, son of Mrs.
Dollie Ferguson and the late II.
C Ferguson, is serving aboard a
new U. S cruiser somewhere in
the I'acilic. according to itil'orni.v
tiiiu received from the fleet home
town distributing center of the
Navy He was serving on hoanl
the first time the new ship went
into battle against the Japanese on
March If)
The guns of the ship sent two
Japanese bombers crashing into the
sea no! lar from Japan, anil the
carriers she defended so well are
tree to launch their planes
Comdi' Ferguson graduated from
the Wayncsville high school and
University of North Carolina, and
Harvard University, receiving his
commission soon alter his gradua
tion in Hie medical school at Har
vard At Hie lime he entered the
navy he received the highest grade
out of 1, 200 faking the Naval ex
aminations, lie also graduated
from the University of North Caro
lina with the highest scholastic rat
ing in his class
His wife is the former Miss
( . 1 1 n 1 1 1 1 ('omaii. daughter ol l.n
ve (' ( 1 1 1 1 i;i ll and the late Mrs
l oiiiaii of Lake Junaliislia
tin
A Mill I Fit As said sometime
bark Senator Clyde It. Ilooy who
as Governor was mil nearly as
bad for nliu-.it ici 1 1 as Dr. Ralph
Mehonald early in I 'XUi -promised
lie uoold be, is for Federal aid
lor schools Here is another let
ter you teachers and school sym
pathizers land aren't we all'.'i may
be interested in reading: " . . I
am strongly supporting the bill
providing Federal aid to educa
tion I have made a strong state
ment in behalf of the bill, and 1
am actively contacting the various
members of the committee and
urging their support of it
"You may advise my iiiiuiiiug
j NOTHING There is less than
notion lu uiiil lain ai-ri'ui uri iiici
Governor J M. Hroughton's be
coming your next Secretary of Ag
riculture. However, he does stand
in well with the national adminis
tration. His strength under Roose
velt was through Josephus Daniels,
and his strength under Truman is
through his very good friend,
Senator .1. W. Bailey.
2114 The N. C. Agricultural F.x
tension Sei vice has just issued the
finest book fur agricultural work
ers ever put out in this State
at least of its kind. It has 204
I pages containing such information
as how to measure lumber, general
information on the construction of
farm buildings, methods of irri
gation, determining the age of
hoics by looking at their teeth i it
can be donei. and other similar
dou n-to-cart li facts
These fertilizer companies who
put oul these little packet booklets
will have to gel a real move on
if they want to come up to this
I () Scliatib publication But give
Fdiloi I' II Jeter most of the
credit, leaving goodly poll inns to
assistants II T Maddux and 1..
P Watson.
CHANGFS Speaking? of agri
culture, you may expeel some
changes in Hie Stale Department
of Agriculture personnel There
will he two big changes, and (hey
will ifVolvr Western North Caro
lina men No. they can't be an
nounced yet. You will have to
win! until about July I
UNION John I.. Lewis, who is
going bin k with the AF of L. be
lieve il or not. is even now lay
ing plans to organize office work
ers in Southern states, figuring
that I hey may be ready to join
some organization as war-end cuts
in salaries begin. The CIO has
a fund of $5.1)0(1.000 set aside to
begin unionizing Southern farms
as soon as price cuts on various
agricultural commodities begin
making the farmer dissatisfied.
if you want fads on these as
sertions they can be supplied you.
G.AKDKN One of the best Vic-
j lory Gardens in North Carolina is
in the yard of Josephus Daniels,
j who Wiis H:t years old a lew days
; ago. The garden covers about a
j half-acre. However. Mr. Daniels
I doesn't work it. He doesn't believe
in exercise, has never taken any.
and gives this habit much of the
, credit for his old-age Vigor.
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SHOKTMEWS AT THE CL ARnOAl - RflSHT Off
Eye Examined
Glasses fitted
CONSULT
DR. R. KING llARPi
OPTOMETRIST
125 Main Street Wells Bld.
Cpl. Leon E. Wold.
IGiiidiiatcs From
Army Air Field
I Corporal Leon K. Webb, sun of
Mr. and Mrs. Monroe (' Webb
of Wayncsville. I! I' D No I was
graduated last week at Boca
Raton Army Air Fold. Fla . a
technical school of the AAF Train
ing Command, from an advanced
coiniiiiiiucal ions course
Cpl Webb lias a brother. Neal
Webb, who is also scrum; in Un
armed forces.
S,l. Charlie Clemen!
In Texas Hospital
McK IM.KY. TF.XAS Sgl ( bar
lie .1 ('lenient. Maggie, has .jus!
arrived at the Army's Ashbiirn
General Hospital. McKinlcy Texas
from overseas.
Before being returned In this
country. Sgt Clement served in
Hie Pacific Theater of operations,
fie has been presented three lironz
Star Medals.
His mother. Mrs. Fannie Cle
ment, resides in Maggie
PI'c. Robert Brown
Serving With Marines
Private First Class 'Robert
i Mrown. sou ol Fletcher Itrovvu. of
Fines Creek. I'orinei ly of Lake
Juualuska. has arrived in Oki
nawa. PI'c. Brown is attached to
the U. S. Marines. He entered
the service in li(4:i and took his
training at San Diego. Calif. Up
on completion of boot training he
was sent to the South Pacific the
atre and then to Palau. From the
latter he was transferred to his
present station.
SSgt. Lane Arlington
Serving With 8th
Air Forces In Europe
Among the 1 B5.000 men and
women of the Kighth Air Force
congratulated on VF-I)ay by Lt
Gen. James 11. Doolittle. who as
sumed command in January,
1!)44. is SSgl. Lane Arringtoii, Jr..
of Wayncsville. II. F.I). No. I.
Since August, 1942. when com
bat operations began. Liberators
anil Flying Fortresses of the
Kighth dropped more than 7(H).
OOt) tons of bombs on enemy tar
gets. Fighter pilots shot down
5 250 Nazi planes and destroyed
4.250 others on the ground. Bomb
er gunners shot (i.t)OO Gorman in
terceptors out of the air.
As the Kighth grew ill strength,
il was assigned the powerful Lult
wall'e. and proved the feasibility of
an American ideaprecision day
lit'lit bombing over the Reich.
After healing the Luftwaffe in
fo relative inipotcncy. the Kighth
threw its growing weight against
Germany's rail system and vital
sources of oil. Those campaigns,
in conjunction with British Royal
Air Force and the U S. 15th Air
Force disorganized all transports
in Germany, restricted German
military operation in the air. on
the ground, and paved the way
for the march of Allied armies
across Europe. 1
Many Hard of Hearing
Can Hear Tomorrow
ivith Ourine1 drops ued with a wimplp syringe. If
,'Uii are deafened, bothered by rintjiiiK buzzing head
lniwHdiic to hardrntMl or coagulated wax (eorumen),
jy tlit Ourine Hmm Method test that ho many
;ay lias enabled them to hear well again. You must
tear better alter making thin Hiruple test or you get
oui money buck at once. We recommend Oiuiae.
Smith's Cut-Kate Drug Store
William O. Franklin
Radio Service and Supplies
Nexl Door To Hazelwood Cai-age
Hazel wood, N. ( .
Reasonable Rate? Work .u:n ,,.!ee,
Have In Slock Tubes .Suitable For the si.Ut,
Following Tillies:
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I'ick I'M and Delivery s i i. ,
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, Expert
Polishing - Washing
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T-1 T 1 TV
E.very jod jriven rersonj
Supervision
All Experienced Men
Complete Auto Service
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high SCHOOL BAND
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TODAY