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f7T -J 1 I wl i I PAGE TWO (Second Section) THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER V .1 1 f t r. ', i;'"'- v ' : f The Mountaineer Published By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. Main Street Phone i:n Waynesville, North Carolina The County Seat of Haywood founty W. CURTIS RUSS Editor MRS. HILDA WAY GWYN Associate Editor W. Curtis Russ and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In Haywood County $2 00 Six Months, In Haywood County 11'..") One Year, Outside Haywood County 2 r0 Six Months, Outside Haywood County 1 f.U All Subscriptions Payable In Advance Entered ut the post offirp at Va rifsvill, N. C, at Sfr.,i,,l Class Mail Mattel. u i,roudil unjer u,t- A, t ut U .r- li l-.'y, Nuiembvr l, lull. Obituary iiutues, resolutions of rpsj, t. riml ut tlunns, ar,,l all nodes i'f ntertaiiliiiem for ti f 1 1 , U- ti-aiy-d (r at the rate of on cent per wuid. NATIONAL DITORIAL Mfcflar Si? Nonh Corolina "i ASSOCIAT1 THURSDAY, APRIL 2.1, 19 -HI Taking Advantage Often we fali to take advantage of things because they are near at hanil. We congrat ulate the county farm agents on their latest 4-H club activity. that is taking all the members to the State Test Farm for tours of inspection and study. These same theories which are being put into practice might be studied thoroughly in text books, but they would not be so clearly demonstrated as they are in actual practice. We feel sure that these tours of observation will result in proving a great stimulus to the members of the 4-H clubs in the county. Encouraging We have heard much during the war years of the shortage of nurses. We have only to visit the Haywood County hospital to realize what a hardship it is on the superintendent and the nurses to give the proper care to the patients, to know that registered nurses are needed in increasing numbers. In view of this shortage we note with in terest that 236 graduates of nursing school ', took examinations given by the North Caro lina Board of Nurse Examiners in Raleigh last week. It was said to have been the largest class to ever take the state exams. Surely out of this large group, Haywood county will become the professional horn-- of at least one or two. Starting On Time With Canton taking charge of Labor Day in a big way attracting people from all over the county, it is a fine thing for this section to also have an annual celebration of county wide interest. We are glad to know that plans are start ing on time for the big day to b,' observed at Hazelwood for all of Haywood county on July 4th. We understand that the committee in charge, which was appointed last fall in time to give its members a chance to think their plans over, is taking its duties in a serious manner, and are making extensive plans for a gala day. Coming at the opening of the summer season, it should start things off with a bang not only for the local people but also for the summer visitors who will be arriving in large numbers by the first of Julv. Time To Help We congratulate the Chamber of Com merce in securing former Governor Brough ton for their speaker at the annual banquet to be held Friday of next week. We feel that the banquet will attract a larger crowd this year than in any years past. This year is the starting point back from the war years that demanded such concen tration on the essential activities pertaining to winning the war. vnv we are finding more time to look closel. it nome. Our vision was of necesstiy directed on affairs far awuy from home, and our part in them. The citizens of this community look to the .officers of the Chamber of Commerce for leadership. We all know that the Chamber of Commerce is not a rich organization, for it is utterly dependent on the annual contribu tions made to it by our citizens, but it can Offer leadership that spurs and stimulates worthwhile trvic movements. It is time now for the citizens of this area :to pick up On their responsibilities to their own civic.ffroups and lend a helping hand to those who have been designated to erve as leaders in this central community wide or .gaUization. - ' A New Era Last week . e read where the Southeastern North Carolina strawberry growers are con templating transporting their berries by air. It seems that berries can be brought to the airport in Wilmington in two or three hours and within six hours could be served in Chk-ago, St. Louis, and other mid-western citi. s. While it may be too late, according to the growers to ship them by air this year, they art' expecting to do so in 1947. This is a fast moving world, and straw berries by air we supjMise is a natural rest.lt of this air-minded age in which we live. OTHER CHEEK (t W.temtlt 7 if! BYGONES BE BYGONE' A Surprise North Carolina Revenue Department offi cials were a bit dubious what the end of the war would do to income tax collections. They felt sure that the collections would decrease from that of last year. Actually they had a big surprise in store for them. The income tax is reported to be running far ahead of figures for the past year, when collections reached the highest peak ever on record. Instead of there being a decrease there has been an increase of $ 1 .42 1,40 1 for the same period last year. Which set us wondering about next year. Will we still find the incomes running higher or will there be a slump? mm. "tf" yip 4 IS fi'A'-M ' it if) j f -J "pitftfA ay-' 2M" ' ! Voice OF THE People Do you think that radio stations should charee professional evan Kelists for the time on the air, or ration "free time to all reHslous S roups?" HERE and THERE Bj HILDA WAY GWYN A Weak Spot We see that President Truman's famine emergency committee has recommended a seven-point program for channelling more American food to overseas starving areas. The President is also asking that we tighten our belts, so that we can "save more lives" in starvation areas. Among other means of raising food is the President's endorsement of a two-day-a-week national diet. Now for those of us on the plum)) side this will be a help as far as our weight is concerned, but those on the skinny side may find it a real hardship. We approve of any measure by which we can meet our obligation to our starving neighbors across the sea, but while we are doing this, and at the same time asked to grow more food, should the draft still be taking our young boys from the farms. If our food production is to be greater than ever in our history, it seems to us at such a critical time, that the man on the farm regardless of age should not be drafted at this time for service in the armed forces. Their Turn Regardless of how many improvements or how much construction some of we civilians had planned "when the war was over" we should all feel that the step taken by the gov ernment in the nation-wide clamping on non essential building is only fair. None of us should complain when we know that the drastic step was taken to fulfill our obliga tions to the millions of veterans who are faced with no place to live. Of course we realize and grant that there will be some hardships on the rest of us, for in many cases homes are needing repairs, but we must take it on the chin, for the housing of the veterans is a national problem as well as obligation. It is said that prior to the clamping down more than $f0, 000,000 a week in scarce labor and niaterial has been going into non residential building. We like to see new buildings going up. We take pride in improvements in our com munity, but if a choice had to be made be tween the veteran and the civilian needs, we will have to cast our vote with the former. These men who have braved the hardships of winters in Germany, of the tropics and the jungles in the Pacific have earned a decent place to live back home. We step aside. It is their turn. In the meantime maybe some of us can profit by the delay. Maybe we will know more about what we want to build and will have time to plan and change our plans and revise them ere our turn comes to build. It's been a long time since we read about an old-fashioned case of arson. Which proves there's no need to burn goods when you can sell anything and we mean anything. The United States Mint turned out four bil lion brand new coins last year, and, as we have said before, one of the greatest prob lems of the day is the matter of faulty distribution. President Truman drove the engine on the special train taking him to Missouri with Winston Churchill. Even in this land of equal opportunity, not every man lives long enough to realize his boyhood ambitions of growing up to be both President of the United States and a locomotive engineer. Dallas (Tex.) Times-Herald. The atomic bomb has been like n huge shadow lying over the world since that eventful day in 1945 when its destruction brought terror to the Japs -anil to the rest of the world. We have all lived with a kind of dread for what might hap pen next and well we might. Yet as we listened to the Easter morn ing service conducted by our pas tor Rev. Paul Townsend at the First Methodist who said if he had one sermon to preach he would take as his subject, the resurrec tion, we thought how despite the invention of the bomb, life goes on as before and the fundamentals remain the same. While it does seem that the atomic bomb pos sesses greater potential destructive powers, than any other invention of man, we wonder if every great change of discovery of damage to life has not been hailed with ter ror and misgivings. Hut as Mr. Town:;r"d pointed :'jt, the biggest things that matter are eternal. The sun continues to shine and nature goes merrily on her way. Changes by man are signs of growth and development on this earth but after all man made things are "sur face things" trimmings on life and never alter the fundamentals. The atomic bomb in ils infancy of development is geared for destruc tion. Maybe as the future unfolds its peacetime potentialities will bring about more complete and easier living. In the meantime faith, and working for peace must be forever heartened by Hie prom ise of eternal life. We read in Time Magazine this week where Dorothy Dix had turned SO years of age, while Mrs. Gilmer, who started signing her writings thus was a lively 75. We doubt if there is airy newspaper woman who is a greater inspiration to those of her sex as to what a woman, with no special journalistic training can accomplish when she is forced to earn her living. Starl ing her career at the age of 2f, with a sick husband to support, she was paid $5.00 a week by a New Orleans newspaper, while to day her income annually reaches over $75,000. We will always cher ish an interview we had with her a few years hack when she was a guest at Grove Park Inn. Not par ticularly for the printed account of our interview, but for the conver sation w;hich followed off the rec ord. We recall how she said, "My, dear I have done thousands of these. Let's get through with it in a hurry. You ask me some questions quickly and I'll answer them then let's just talk" . . . and we did. We remember how she said the questions had changed with the times what would be a matter of no question today would have been a scandalous thing to put in print, much less ask forty years ago. But most of all we re member how she received an un known country newspaper reporter with just as much respect and gra ciousness, we feel sure, as she would have bestowed on a high rating daily reporter. Among our prized papers is a letter in her own handwriting thanking us for the interview. Speaking of prized letters, Aleen Williams, 12 year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. II. Williams, of Waynesville, is a collector of auto graphs and insignias. She is writ ing some of the high officials in the army for both. Before Chiist mas she wrote and asked Gen. Eighelberger for his and the in Bignia of his division. She had given up hope, but recently it came, the answer from Yokahama. She Is overjoyed with this new signature to add to her collection. The army insignia collection is also becoming a most interesting fea ture, with a history of the various military units. We are not only glad for the visi tors, who have business with the Chamber of Commerce, but also for our efficient secretary. Miss S. A. Jones, that the offices f the C. of C. will be Just a step off Main street with not one single stair to climb. Now in case you have not visited the top floor of the Reinertson building, you cannot imagine the feeling behind the: statement. We are confident that in the routine transaction of her business in a ordinary day. that S. A. Jones has "stepped up" enough to have climbed Old Bald or Mt. Pisgah. t We would like to page the vet erans who are being and have been and who are about to be discharged from the American Air Forces, to ask them to start the ball rolling toward an airport for Haywood county. We hear that Murphy is about to have an airport and Sylva, down the road a short ways, has a landing field with a run way to take off from and land. About the time the war was started things looketl a bit hopeful lor us here in Haywood, but the project was dropped for urgent matters. Now with all the air minded citi zens, many of whom are learning to fly, plus the arriving daily of discharged veterans it is time to take action. How about it boys, you who flew the long distances out in the Pacific and you who drop ped bombs over Germany'.' If you start the movement, we feel sure you will get response. We see that the fence across the Stovall property on Main street which was excavated sometime ago, is getting a coat of green paint, which is helping the appearance of this informal enclosure very much. But while the paint is going on, we would like to make a sugges tion Either to the owners or to the Town Officials After the paint is dry, please see to it that the barrela and barrels of waste paper Dr. R. Stuart Robinson "Yes, I think a reasonable length of time should be rationed free to relig ious groups. " Prof. Chas. K. Owens "I think they should ration free time to preachers." Edna McCracken think so." "I do not Mrs. Sam Queen "There are two sides to the question, ' but 1 guess that ministers should be given some time without pay on the radio.'' It. T. Messer "I think that preachers should he given some lime without pay on the radio." Mrs. G. V. Boston -' 1 think they hoiilil pay for lime on radio just as amonc else." Mrs. J. W. Killian "No, 1 do not 1 1 1 1 1 1 k they should charge ministers. 1 feel that we do not have enough religious programs on the air, es pecially on Sunday." Mrs. S. K. Crockett "It seems to me that they should give some tree time, for we need all the religious influence that we can get today.'' Thro. McCracken "Not general ly speaking as a regular practice.' Mrs. VV. T. Crawford "I think they should be given some free time, but this should be restricted of course." and trash of every known size are removed from the bottom. Unless this is done, the new paint only calls more attention to the unsight ly debris. We hope it is removed before Carl Goerch gets here for his Rotary speech. He might start regrading the towns of the state for cleanliness and in the revision of giades, Waynesville might not rate so high. SAtLY'S SALLIES IHIII "If ihe table holds up, we'll have a good game of tennis." THE OLD HOME TOWN - .u,. By STANLEY , mui.rc v J wn cM IWiH AL vTeY WALKE OFFERED TO F SCOOT TM1 aiw. MILLINER FK?OM TMPBUS STOP To THE SHOP TKr? wasZiT l KD.0 rttn-KU tTNPICATfc h. IBM, RSSntlVD SCOTT'S SCRAP BOOK Red Balloom ort-ftlE 'fHROA.-f 0FHE MAM-O-WAR BIRD IS BLOWK UP puRitk; Titi MA.'flMQ 4a fRA4 female's rVffEH'fioM By RJ. SCOTT MAM an . FlRSf WOMAN o SWlM-fltE EHCLI&H triANHEL MAKE-ffltBESf-flME? ffa flftSf WOM.AH CALtS ARFIS MA,Kt tfODEftHIS"fiC JEWELRY AHP, MOVEtfiES ' A.IRPLANES oF 1908 HAD PROPELLERS wrfrt Four POINTED paragTJ WALTER ALLISON I'm only a tin can! Some months ago I was shipped from a large can com pany. Was I glad to gel away from all that noise! After several (lays on the road, me and my tin can pals landed in a California warehouse. We were so tired from the trip we went to sleep with out lids on. The nest morning a fellow mark ed our carton with a piece ol chalk, and 1 thought we were be ing pinched for over-parking. However, we had nothing to fear, because tb:t afternoon we left by truck lor a well known tannins factory. When we reached our destina tion night was falling, and our driver gut out and picked it up. Folks, I never saw such a live wire canning factory in all my life! There was so much food that me and my pals soon got our fill. The next day we were packed and sealed. As to w here we were noing, we were lelt in the dark. But that night we felt soine think moving underneath us, and two of my pals sang while the engine whistled. Eastward we rolled! One of the firemen lost his watch out the cab window and hours flew by. After days and nights on the road we arrived in Waynes ville. Boy, just smell that pure mountain air! Packed ..' . USC- K v.. ..j ilf I ' ""-em m. Jiid iifM We ..!.. IS I "Ol ol I slai -. "II,. '' I'l-op, L I. Willi .. . 1 III. I,. ahu... all ,;, SI Ki. CAN- SALLY'S "When your father's u:- uuy. iriend mua litkMt.' YOU'RE TELLING By WILLIAM RITT- Central Press Writer THE AVERAGE sports fan doesn't .mind discussing the in ternational situation and the food shortages these days. It's a good way to kill time until the baseball season starts. ! ! ! A fellow set a record eating two dozen oranges at one sit ting. The miracle is wAere did he get 'em.' i i i Now we are promised sphere ahaped ice cubes. This should give Junior an endless supply of marbles. ! ! ! The average gardener wouldn't have such high hopes if those seed catalogs mi by artists lookiij vegetable modeli magnifying glaa ! I ! There are in id mats and no crie. silk hats would M those new hair-in ! ! ! Grandpoppy Jul those poit-war do something star the strawberry tkt ! ! I In Samoa, UMt tographs, only pen feet in height in S that's where tblljl inated "You tudrji WASHING Congress May Take Six-Month As Summer 51 .Recess Beginning Mid-Summer Rayon Moy Oinlt Special to Central Press WASHINGTON Congress is tentatively shootiaf summer recess to carry Into January, 1947 when' calls it back. It will be the first long recess, virtusllj' ginning of the great depression and Franklin D W inauguration The prolonged absence will give Capitol architect! Hf force the ceilings of House and Senate charmers, - from the reverberations of congressional oratory WJ members time to go home ana mwj may need it badly with the first M tion In the offing Estimates of the time requirrt roofs is six months. Some contract M..t4l sis I in HlfP Some members fear remalntn( . a . imllnrt,ni nnfll-ww long, in event niip""0'" r in nthara faar FfU'V 1 J llliv". I up. VI IV 1 t -- J less than six months - if at all '! I rive for oM'H 811 siens indlcate he - leasi lor mens sunn"" The Capitol temperatures rise A n present ported this outlook jTroplcal worsteds will be scarce w hile cotton J 7 .. i. -., ,if;iclurers W -w Ai me same nine, ne sum. m.." j ... .. . heinl n ward tne manufacture of rayon suns "' hampered by price ceilings. trt! m . nf all lJr ine same spoKesman aaid mat nunc Mi"- - on the market In the next six weeks than vere !j n i... ... ... ...oi I,. alil(W1 wjirc MIDI. yemr. DUL Uiey Bllll will n". a while. THE JAPANESE MANDATED ISLANDS my ... . ... ... j,., ,r, pspeciallJ vi an miernauonai aipiornu- tomb tests this sorine. ...!( Leaders of the Army-Navy Joint task for ' -J moil, wnere me atom Domo lesis l- n0CpB; aome time to prevent other nations from 5 gainer facts about the tests. h t t " s nus. America will be telling me w ,,.., . ... L siiies have'. vinueo siates properly, annougn ui- the problem of dividing the Islands which " Trouble Is also seen brewing with Ausirn . desire to hold tiny Manu's island, north of f for possible use in any future war Russia has been more realistic about the pounced n Japan In the closing days of th had a aecret agreement riving her the Kuril WINSTON CTURCHXIA recently visu - (f the Colonial capital of the Old Dominion n from Torktown where another Britisher ms" tory and changed the course of the world- . Williamsburg waa restored through funds o by John D. Rockefeller II. While in th- 01 , one of Churchill's aides, mindful of Hot K t eneroaity. handed the chubby ex-prime m'm f John D. Rockefeller II. , tfes Churchill tnnk th. volume looked at it ut . , KWT w-w la Britain we. number our George Rockefrtiertv:;..:- V tier I I
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