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Bower Bi'oaddus I iv I'll when the ot (I id ere nl declared ill ur support part of a 1 Texas woman Oklahoma ranch- 1 i IS YOU WOCfR ton PLANNING TO EXPLORE remote and unmapped Central Western China, an expedition sponsored by Milton Reynolds. Chicago businessman, and the Boston Museum, prepares to take oil from Chicago in a converted Army B-24 plane. Front, left to right, are pilot Capt Bill Odom, Milton Reynolds, Carol Sollee and Richard Goldwaith Rear, left to right, ara Grant Ross, Proi. Walter McKay and Edward Lear. (International) D.A.R. Resents Decision To Discredit Mecklenberg Declaration In Schools Library Notes By MARGARET JOHNSTON County Librarian Libraries Art- Not Made, They Grow" That quotation has been running i through my mind for the past week or two as our uooKmoniie luno grows. It is gratifying to see and hear of the many people in Hay wood County who are interested in seeing our Library service de velop. Yes, it grows every month! Would you believe we circulated more books from the Waynesville headquarters in February than we did last July and August'.1 Well, we did! Just 3,296. This doesn't count any stations or the hospital Com pared with the 773 ol February 1944, it shows an increase in read ing. Each of the past lew Satur days the circulation has been hov ering around 300 books and maga zines checked out. To help you in finding suitable books for your varying needs is our job. Ol course, our honk col lection is small and limited but have you ever taken tune to browse among the books.' Even you will be surprised at some of the many titles. Take some of the new hooks wt have ready for I he shelves; Lane World's Great Lakes. Mullet Thomas Wolfe Spears Painting Patterns lor Home Decorators. Zim Plants. White--Treasury of American -A-DAY t5W V WTV C - . X II; V" H tv 1 in 1 1 1 . i 1 ! " . I some of those jelly beans you won't have I gonna give you if you don't!" Humor. Morrison Admiral of the Sea. Betz Betty Betz' Party Book. Craven Treasury of Art Master pieces Smith Flags of All Nations. Anderson Romping Through Mathematics. Boni Fireside Book of Folk Songs. Brown Treasury of Religious Plays. Chamberlain Behold Williams burg. Think of that book you want and stop in at your Library. PDY1P!LES DON'T SQUEEZt THCMI Instead Irak KLEEREX and bow amazraaly last it hidw ugly pimple as it driei tlm uftea aa firt trial. Not a irasy ale tfcat pimnlaa thrive on, but a aoothink medicated liquid that relieve! itching drivet redneM out. A.k for KLEENEX at all druui.fi. MQf Doubl your mantr fcac if it iaifm. I Smith's Cut Rate Drue Star Revives Art Of Making Hooked Rugs EXETER, N. H. A ministers widow who learned about hooked rugs from his parishioners now teaches the old-time handicraft in three New England states. Mrs. Elvin James Prescott has classes in Exeter, Dover, Ports mouth, Newton, Rochester and Hampton, in her home state. And she commutes to groups in Lynn, Haverhill and Newburyport, Mass. and South Berwick, Maine. At a recent exhibition in Haver hill, 230 hooked rugs were di;- Slight Correction In Ambulance Report HOUSTON, Tex. (UP) The ambulance report read: "Man found dead in railroad car." In vestigating police looked the sit uation over and corrected the re port so that it said: "Man found dead drunk in railroad car." About 534.000 business concerns in the United States deal 111 motor vehicles or services for motor vehicles. played. Mrs. Prescott 's oarsot. -husband was an authority on New Eng land antiquities j U. S. Candy Lovers Eat 18 Pounds Each a Year CHICAGO (UP) It takes 18 pounds of candy a year to fill the ' sweet tooth of every man, woman j and child in the United States, ac- coraing 10 a survey conducted Dy the National Confectioners' Asso ciation. That nickel candy bar on the counter, which now sells in most cities for six cents, has grown into a $930,000,000 business each year and is still growing. Last year, for example, it took 284.000,000 pounds of sugar, 792, 000,000 pounds of corn products, end about 223,000,000 pounds of peanuts to satisfy Americans hun ger for sweets. Students To Grade Their Professors BETHLEHEM, Pa UPt The students are now going to grade the professors at Lehigh Univer sity. The idea was started by Arcadia, the student council The instruc tors served notice they could "take il" by approving the plan for stu dent appraisal of courses and in structors. Each student will be asked to grade his instructor "above aver age," "average," or "unsatisfac-1 tory." The grades arc to be based on 10 factors, including clarity of j presentation and interpretation,! preparation for class meetings, ef fectiveness in arousing interest and response, and friendliness to ward students. And the students will have the last word. Faculty members are not to call their own "Anal grades" until after they have submitted students' final marks. The only natural nitrate min erals are found in a single deposit in northern Chile. rftM To relieveniser- 1 .U. a. U a. ICo, IUU UirvHL, a m . - - chit and back 1ICK5 with comforting IVinRui 'i he Daughters of the American Involution of North Carolina, at a leunt meeting in High Point, comii in ned the State Board of Education lor its decision lo au ihn: ie I lie leaching to eighth grade history students of books winch discredit the authenticity of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. H tracing on the list of free books tvvo histories which chal- lenge the story of the Mecklen I burg Declaration and not listing any histories which tells the story of the convention in Charlotte or declares authentic the date May 20. 1775 states a D. A, R. reso lution - the youth ol the state do not have "a fair opportunity to adjudge the truth of the question" and to learn the glorious history ol North Carolina and the strug gles and triumphs of its people." During the last session of the General Assembly a bill was in troduced to reaffirm the law Of 1830-31. certifying the truth of May 20. 1775. as the date of the Mecklenburg Declaration. The bill was defeated; a decision which the D. A. R. views "with much con cern.'' The D. A. R decided to petition the State Hoard of Education to rescind its action "at the earliest opportunity," and place on its list of hooks some North Carolina his tory which tells the true story of the Mecklenburg Declaration. Other resolutions passed by thej group outline the following objec-l lives: To offer assistance in reforesta-' Hon of national forests, similar tol ,1 project carried out several years ago in the Pisgah forest; to en- courage the state to establish state forests; to petition congress to make authorized improvements to Moore's Creek National Military Park To commend theater owners of the Carolinas for their stand against immoral scenes in movies; lo approve the American Legion "freedom booklet" program; to further the campaign of teaching students to appreciate the demo cratic ay of life; to explain the difference between world organi zation which the D. A. R. sup ports -and world government which it opposes: to have the Com munist party outlawed in America; to favor the establishment of uni versal nilitary training; to rush passage of the Marshall Plan for European relief. To extend the boundaries of Guilford Courthouse National Mil itary Park; to start immediate re construction of the Edenton Tea Party House; and to feature in chapter programs this year studies of the War of the Regulation. rfeaM Follow The Throngs To The nd HOME lane how March 19&20 AT trIE Wayoiisviill(S oTOwy ENTERTAINING G DAYS EDUCATIONAL FUEL PROGRAM I MANY VALPM.E PRIZES Bring The Entire Family No Admission Charges Plan To Come Both Days MUSIC REFRESHMENTS POIZES Sponsored By County Farm and Home Agent's Offices - Chamber of Commerce - RE A - Appliance Dealers of Haywood County 7
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