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r PAGE TWO (Second Section) FRIDAY THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER THE MOUNTAINEER Published By THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO Main Street Phone 137 Waynesville, North Carolina The County Seat of Haywood County W. CURTIS RUSS Editor MRS. HILDA WAY GWYN Associate Kditor W. Curtis Russ and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY HAYWOOD COUNTY AND SERVICE MEN One Year Six Months One Year Six Months NORTH CAROLINA OUTSIDE NORTH CAROLINA One Year Six Months S3.00 1.75 $4.00 2.25 $4.50 2.50 , Entered at llif w,t ..Ifi. r 4t W.n i.t'-vill.-, . (',, CluM Mail M.illcr, a-, .r..i i.l. .1 iin.l.r tla- V ! tit l..e KmruiU'r all, 1914. I 7 :i , Oliitlliiry lni'iies, r,-s!ill iul.t ft rr.t,. c:ir,l ,,f OiHil,.-. At,''. all llotlc-es tit ' -I l.ili.llteiil f,,r J-n.tit. will J,'' ,i.i'ei f,,r -it l.'ir rale lit one anil a half ,,-n!. . i u..,l. NATIONAL DITORiAL flLASSOCIATION 1 i sSHonh Carolina LA VtSS ASSOC I AT1CJ5J Friday, jtly i(t. line. What's In A Name? It seems riht now in Haywood County that a well worded slogan is worth $J0 that is, if it is a better one than the other fellow submits. The new slogan which will he used in all publicity for the Haywood Livestock and Home Arts Show will be chosen in a contest sponsored by the county farm agent's office. It must convey the idea of Haywood's leader ship in the cattle industry. The contest offers an opportunity to aid in advertising Haywood and a neat bit of change for your originality. What do you suggest as a slogan? Don't tell us, but write into the county agent's office. Punishment Too Light It seems to us that there were a good many fines collected for driving drunk during the current term of superior court here, but that ti might have been more effective to have had a few more jail sentences for this offense. If the man driving drunk on the highway was the only consideration in dealing out justice, his money and revoking his license might be sufficient punishment, but when such cases are considered in the light of safety on the highways for countless others it is another story. We understand that what happens in our courts here is universal in North Carolina, and that this crime of driving drunk is not taken as seriously as it should be for safety measures. During the month of June there were 159-1 convictions of drunken driving in this state, and in practically all cases fines were paid anil licenses revoked, with few jail sentences given. Business Foundation We are sure that there is interest all over the state in the establishment of the Ilusiness FiHindation at the University of North Caro lina's Commerce School. By virtue of the w prestige of the 250 names signed to the foun dation's charter confidence is assured throughout the state. We are signally hon ored in Haywood County with the naming of Mr. Reuben Robertson, of Canton, as vice president of the foundation, which locally gives us an added interest. We are told that the organization is unique in its vision of service and is an epoch making post-war group. President Haynes stressed the view that "our most priceless resources are our human power and that the Founda tion will be in position to provide the power to develop and direct those resources." President Graham declared "that produc tion was the greatest economic factor in winding the war and saving human freedom and that this production was made possible by the cooperation of capital, labor, manage ment and the colleges and universities." He further pointed out that "a continuation of such cooperation in the post-war era will prevent great losses through such threats as inflation, fear and poverty and the industrial statesmanship that was so decisive in win ning1 the war is indispensable in winning the peace." Every thinking person knows that the next few years will be as much of a challenge as the war period. The combined forces that are making up the new organization should help us steer clear of many pitfalls as time goes on, and aid in solving many problems tlia.t Will ineyitaWy have to be met. Farmers And Planes We were astonished to read during the week that farmers are expected to buy sixty per cent of the light airplanes in the future, the percent especially applicable to those liv ing on the big farms in the Middle West. , It seems that when it comes to checking fences and locating lost cattle that nothing is better or quicker than the use of a plane. This gives rise to the thought will Haywood farmers ever discard the faithful Ford for speedier service. . j The thought may seem assured at this time, yet the Ford supplanted the horse and bug pies and the mules and the wagon, and back ' in the days when this trnsition took place, we are sure it was just as strange as the possibility of the plane versus the car era. SCOH'S SCRAP BOOK by R. J.SCOTT 2i0 Sore Subject In a recent daily newspaper printed in the North we read a most enlightening story about the Park. It was titled "Primeval Wilderness Beauty Bids Come to Great Smokies." It gave a wonderful description of the beauty of the area and would certainly inspire anyone seeking a vacation to investi gate train or plane schedules. The article gave an excellent idea of the great highways that go through the Park, and of the great variety of trees and flowers and the 147 species of plants growing in the Park. It referred to mountain grendeur, and how the Srriokies had an annual allure. They were wonderful at any season. There was only one objection. The story bore the date line of Knoxville, which is right, except that it happens too often. Most people reading it would have gotten the impression that the Park was entirely in the state of Tennessee, unless they read very carefully, for there was only one reference to North Carolina. We do not want to claim the whole Park, but we would like to share it with Tennessee. But all this comes back to our own front door and we find that maybe it is our fault. We have not been working on this job as much as our neighbors, so we have to fall back second in line. JflvX AND i"fJUSl 1 SnSA .been amalYZEd VOICE OF THE PEOPLE What kind of movie do you prefer? LOl'ISE QAPPIS "I like the upe of picture that Bette Davis plays in. Ones with a good plot. 1 also like mystery pictures." .fill C0C BENNI-ff, AN AUSTRALIAN PAB.B.O-T, LIVED IN CAP-TW 17 0 1t. ac;e Of II9 YEARS 7Wotr o BE A RECORP FOR LONCEVI-fy Fok PARROS WrlAf IS A U.VE,R-FISH f An insec-I' "WAf makes rfs Home. BETWEEN LEAVES OF BOOK6 fl& WAS -frlE ONLY CYLINDRICAL SHIP EVER 0 SAIL- i SHE WAS BUILT j AROUND ONE OF -TktE- I TWO CLEOPA1RAS NEEDL11 AT ALEXANDRIA , EVPT, IN &n-'l& , ROLLED To THE SEA AND TRANSPORTED THE NEE.BLE TO ENGLAND, ToWtD BY trlE. A.N4LIA, A LONDON TdQ C. E. ALEXANDER "I like the musical comedies". I don't care for the serious type there's enough serious things outside. I like the news, too" ViRS. R. L. Burgln "I like musi cal comedies with romance." JIMMY WILLIAMS "Musical comedies. Anything but war pictures." IXSIE GREEN "Just any kind except westerns, action pictures." almost I like HERE and THERE J. V. QUEEN "1 like westerns.' By HILDA WAY GWYN Framework Set The Paris Foreign Ministers Conference has ended a four-weeks meeting in which the big powers hesitated on the brink of dividing the world, turned back and decided to give international co-operation another chance ac cording to press reports from Paris. It is encouraging to us here in Haywood County as it is throughout the world that the deadlocks of 10 months standing have been broken. There is still much to do 'on many problems, but the start is made. We are told that there is only a compro mise on frontiers but that there has been a "victory for fundamentals of international ism." If neither side can trust the other then there shall and must be a joint control. To us here at home watching the working of the conference Russia seemed to be holding out for everything she wanted regardless of what effect it might bring on the world at large. Russia's Mr. Molotov seemed determ ined to have things entirely his own way and we fear that mutual suspicions are still hid den, and that Russia will have to unbend some more before the other nations have "all doubts erased." We here in America should be consumed with admiration at the manner in which our own Mr. Byrnes held his own with Mr. Molotov. Tomorrow's Schools Along with the teacher shortage we have read this week of the vast changes that will be made in the school rooms of tomorrow how they will be modernistic, air-conditioned buildings with plastic floors easy to clean, pale green or yellow walls, white blackboards, bright, yet glareless lights. It sounds very fine and colorful, ouit.e n contrast to the crb.ll, dingy walls of most school rooms, in which the three "R's" have been taught in this country. We highly approved of this for the future and we would like to see them come as soon as possible, but in the meantime we have the feeling that the NEA who are planning such might spend' its time a bit more profitably at this stage of the game Far more urgent than the renovated streamlined school room today is the high grade teacher to man that school. With every educational group from the National, State, County and our township groups trying to fill vacancies, the teacher shortage is of greater concern just now than plastic floors for school rooms. Such thincs as the latter may wait, but the fact that right in our own state there will be 2,000 teachers employed this fall who would not even be considered except in an emergency, the vital issue today is teachers, not build ings. Proper training for our teachers will count more than plastic features for our schoolrooms. After Mrs. Medford's suggestions regarding a filling memorial to our World War heroes a number of other people have come forth with their ideas regarding the most suitable and appropriate way in which to honor these men. Miss Sylla Davis came in with an article about the erection of a memorial in Huxley, Ohio, which had been sponsored and unveiled by the I. ion, club of that community. Miss Davis is a strong advocate of a tone with die names of the heroes on a lironzo laDle. I lie memorial she liked in Ohio was a shaft of stone with a six-foot base and a main shaft of ten feet in height with a four-foot square at the bot tom and three and one-hall-foot square at the top with a belfry which brought up the height an other four and one-half feet, mak ing it overall sixteen feet high with almost a thousand names in scribed. Soon after Miss Davis gave her views, Commander Henry Lee, vet eran of World War 1, father of a casualty of World War 2, came in with a new idea. He would ap prove a clock tower on the court house grounds, with an amplifying attachment that would peal forth the hours of the day as far as llazelwood and Lake Junaluska, if so desired, lie suggests inai me old clock formerly on the top of the brick courthouse torn down and replaced by present structure, be utilized for this purpose and on the tower at a convenient reading height, the names of the Haywood heroes inscribed as Mrs. Modlnrd suggested "to be a daily reminder of those of us who beneliled by! ti,,,;. i-.,..;fw.,.. " f'...,,,!.- i .... i,-,,i I CIJll Ottll t IllliVli . nun little idea at the time, we feel sure, of what he was stalling, for since his suggestion we have spent much time in trying to find out the date the clock was placed on the court house. We put several lawyers to work at the courthouse as well as the clerk of the court, but the re search was not completed before the linotype operators were calling for this column, so we will give you that information at a later date or perhaps some of our readers can supply the information. faces that was enjoyed by the pub lic and could be seen for great dis tances in all directions. In fact the community literally lived toy i,e courthouse clock, in the same manner that many villages live by the whistle of some industrial plant. At any rate we did find out that the late W. T. Lee, many years corporation commissioner of North Carolina, and representative from Haywood several terms in the Leg islature, passed an act providing for the placing of the clock in the courthouse. It was at the sugges tion of Dr. Tom Slringficld. The latter was serving as inspector of the National Guard in the stale and had been through a tour of Eastern Carolina, where he bad been great ly impressed with the number of towns that had clocks. He stopped over in Raleigh en route home to have a look in at the legislature, and advised Mr. Lee to pass an act providing for the purchase of the clock by Haywood county. The act was passed and in due time the J county commissioners bought and i installed the clock, with its four 88 jWeWASMIMGTON Reclaimed American'Acreagej I '(New Adams Irrigation Tunnel Now Helping Feed Europeans! , To Serve Vast Colorado Area Special to Central Press . WASHINGTON One of the big reasons why America' has been able to contribute so generously to world food consumption is the fact that thousands of acres of heretofore barren, western land has been made prolific. . .. Under the supervision of the United States Bureau of Reclama tion, government-irrigated lands, last year, produced food, feed and fibre crops valued at more than $424,000,000. And will in the future produce even more because of the added impetus given to food production by the completion of the lining of the Alva B. Adams tunnel, the longest irrigation bore in the world. Tart of the Colorado-Big Thompson project, the tunnel is designed, to divert surplus water from the western slope of the Rockies to dry areas on the eastern slope. And when finished will provide a supplemental water supply for more than 600,000 acres of land in northeastern Colorado land which, because of water short ages prior to project construction, sustained an ft BHw'Wili cstimated annual loss of $4,700,000. ,u. ,,,. uiL nuunij vuuuci uiiiiging in OIU.UOO Washington acre-feet of water each year, it is expected that the 175,000 people living in the territory will increase their crop production, at present prices, fully seven mil lion dollars annually. At the instigation of the late Senator Alva B. Adams, after whom the tunnel was named, the bore was started In 1940, and after many var-timc stops and difficulties, was finally holed through four years later. It was begun simultaneously by two contracting companies on cither side of the Continental Divide. When the two-way bores mot. miles underground, they were within a fraction of an inch of each other truly a great engineering feat. S. S. Magoffin, Inc., of Englcwood. Col., was the contractor for the eastern half and Stiers Brothers Construction Co. of St. Louis, Mo., for the western half. The two outfits met at a point approximately eight miles in from the east portal and five miles from the west portal. For a number of days before holing through, the advancing crews could hear each other drilling and shouting and. on the morning of June 7, 1944,. drilling was discontinued in the west heading for reasons of safety, and the east side forces holed through. . Besides helping set the record for the longest tunnel ever exca vated from two faces, the Magoffin forces established a new mark for the greatest advance at one heading. They drilled SO far. In fact, that work-crews were allowed travel One of one hour after the bore had been advanced 18,000 feet. This time was later increased to two and one-half hours as the 35,000-foot mark was reached. The slower progress made by thfl crews from the west can easily be explained by the fact that the tunnel sloped from west to east to provide for gravity flow of water. ThU slant not only made it necessary for the western forces to haul ah muck uphill but In cluded the added difficulty of water at the face which, at times, was waist deep at the head of Tunnel the shaft.' ' ' I Starting at the center and working outward, the lining contracting companies have now completed the Finished cement lining of the 10-foot-ln-diameter tunnel w hich will soon be bringing life to thousand of tons of potatoes, sugar beets, vegetables and feed for beef, and dairy cattle. This land, reclaimed from desert and sagebrush wastes, will soon rank among the highest food producing areas In the United States. And will do its part in adding to the food piles of America and In ; bringing salvation to the starving peoples of the world Now back to the memorial . . . Clover Davis wants a bill passed by the coming Legislature taxing the people of the county for the erection of a memorial on the courthouse grounds Ithey all seem ed to agree on the location). He feels th.t it is a matter of public interest and that as a people we should feel pride in our heroes and take this step at once, as soon as legislation can be passed. He also favors a stone memorial with the names inscribed. He points out that many counties in the state, lacking ijaywood's financial rating have already so honored their sons. In fact Grover went so far as to confess ... "I have thought so strongly on the subject that I really wanted to bring it up during the primary, but was afraid that if agitated, somebody might get beaten, so I was quiet about it, but now I want to put myself on record, I want either Glenn Palmer or Bill Medford to pass such an act in the coming Legislature . Look at our neighbors over in Jackson what they have done. We have two markers, but the county didn't give I hem, it was the women's organiza tions. AoJier thing, I want the memorial to honor the heroes of both World War I and II." The foregoing shows that the people are thinking about some way to honor our heroes and (hat they are only waiting for the move ment to get going, which we trust will seriously start when the Leg islature convenes. ALONG BROAD liy Walter Winer, A group of Soviet engineers have arrived in the U. S. "to study public works systems," under the tutelage of the Federal Works Agency They'll visit Chi, San Francisco Los Angeles and San Diego. Thc are "interested" in bridges stieels and highways ... .Is dot zoh ' If the Army-Navy merger gut through (which insiders believe n won'ti, Stuart Symington will u Secy of Nat'l Defense . . Lots of big shots are reported loaded with Mexican gold. They keep it t circumvent the ruling about posses sing American gold coins . . .You'd be amazed at the number of big shot American writers and others who pay no taxes by living in Cuba and continue selling pieces up here. And for good reason, too Au thors often use four years to write a book, and if it's any good, it a best-seller. Then they are taxed heavily the year they are paid not the four years devoted to doiic the work. ''"''"'Ml S. i aim..,,,,, 111111,11-, . 1 v., ',J"l"'H,ld-U.ie Silhouettes About Town: Admiral Halsey, in mufti, at the Stork with his daughter, Mrs Lee Spruam c confirming that it is pronounced Hirrah-shim-inah not Hiro-shcc-mer . . . When we reported that months ago a Navy lad "corrected." Ill:' lli.lni I SilUli le-t hill,., pait. I-,. J. I I.. : ..!! ,. II.. ir i,.., Ii'nl.r. lMll I'M' N'll ! W III I II .1 'i I'.M, I,,: i-j ''i :!i,i, l"HK ,j '"" 'ML 'I'll 1 1,, t Capital Lettf By THOMPSON GREENWOOD BIG TIME Since the newspapers in Washington are having such a delightful time writing about our fine old Southern gentleman. Sena for Clyde It. Hoey. it seems ap propriate that the people of his home State should know what tlnw are saying about him in the big city. So this week the column is being devoted to an article written by Robert C. Albright, and printed last week in the Washington Post Heading the article is a photo ol Our Clyde drinking a coco-cola Title of the piece is "Clyde Iloey's The Man Who Set Down The Man! Here it goes It FAVORITE A white-haired, frock coated Tarheel, who might have stepped out of a gay nineties tin type is teaching the Senate a thing or two about how to run a modern shop. North Carolina's 68-year-old Clyde Roark Hoey is fatherly and gentle, but look out! The Senate still isn't over the shock of his tryout as presiding officer, lie zip ped legislation through with a speed that hasn't been equaled this season. NOW HE'S THE FAVORITE PINCH HITTER IN THE SENATE CHAIR! Whenever legislation gets badly jammed up, the leaders page II i I i .,',.. ,1 ! 'I"" kcl I!,,,,' , s, ! The l'"i..!,., I '"h "a- .' ii.i'iuj! It gill Ml.lllli'i in j !(- qimk!'. tout I CHAHCK (in,. Idaho's j milling take Ins mjI !ur Senate ,i- iii,J ,, lure the Sciutr ,i to a Mile tin- a. had been filibustiJ New Mi'Mcu's Ci eil up uilli a hot prartin'". Hum'. Iv i Diilnl thi' won lie uas Miiipi;. , he expLunrd "I ill' Hat dill" ot Pic pirMilmi: hacked all I ;i: made tlir decisioiJ right". Ql ( iltl'M QI. A1 mi h.iiiih uith l reci nl l he Sum. with a i-vi U it (S I liri'i Tlic Senate the 1'ii'Mcli'iit's ,11'ike lull a.' m: l.nia'. .1 K Mar: ( Dllllllli' ll HAYWOOD NEEDS AN ABATTOIR Progressive development of Ilnywiioil County's livestock industry calls IoimciHv for establishment of an abattoir in tin1 Waynesville area. It is soniethiiii'. wv must have and fully support--1 1 H.tv wood is to maintain its place as IckIhi" livestock county of the state. A well-managed abattoir whore shn "Jit ering and processing can be done uvM completely sanitary conditions would W .i boon to both the public and the liwst.vk industry. Such a project, if put forili 1,v ;1 group of able, responsible business me would have every possible nssislanre n this bank. THE First National Ba ORGANIZEP 1902 Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation We Have Lock Boxes To Rent Member rfderl ,lH
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