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The Waynes ville Mountaineer SECOND SECTION PAGE V. IS - I ' f . mil RlL z. Of Fifth Grade Geography Ridicules This Area LbIOGRAPHY r hGE C. MARSHALL Soldier, Secretary 01 Maie This is the first of raphies that will be be feature page of L each Friday. ,e Associated Press lineer. modest Marshall was 1 soldier of World , .in5 Chief of Staff ofessional head of jtar establishment 'of the field forces. S Truman ranked i of the great corn Dry." icl chaise of the rganization. equip j,g oi the greatest in history and he all strategy against iccompanied Pesi n. Hoosevelt to all fcrences where he jitimately the vari itary leaders and lers. ph Stalin was so leral of the Army iran that he advo itment as Supreme he Western forces of Europe, that several years Ell Harriman said Winston Churchill Marshall for the Snian attended the fcce while Ambas- Battte Tactics it meeting in 1943 Allies agreed on trican invasion of fcwing spring, with fcporting the oper E attack from the weighed all fac- f concluded that kll could not be post of Chief of irriman said. He in word that Gen. tnhower had been iireme Commander fitish and Russian they "warmly ijbpointment. lis career. General preeminently the ; he had few peers S battle tactics, and his staff service small measure to heart he was an commander of tioilL'ht jiiu icauues ratn- k theory. d Chief oi Staff woa. over the hearts jeers. At that time insisted of 174.000 . IH4 cnmhut obsolescent, much jWar I model. The fress allowed the E. new planes. Tful Army his other duties, had the respon ding from an I Congress the Ian Army and Air pt a modern war. fr correspondent, J General's success ropriations, wrote unmistakable air the truth." f Germany's sur jjof 1945, General f force of 1939 1 ,2a0,000 men, i'nd 69,000 planes, after Japan's de arshall retired as Post he had held no was succeeded If If . mm. vmiwaF ' --t Kir-:' I Library Notes By MARGARET JOHNSTON County Librarian GEORGE C. MARSHAll by General of the Army Eisen hower. In recognition of his services, President Truman personally pre sented to General Marshall an Oak Leaf Cluster to the Distin guished Service Medal he , had won in World War I. The accom panying citation said that Mar shall gave the nation victory in World War II. It credited him with: Got Funds for A-Bomb "The vision that brought into being the greatest military force in history." "Greater influence than any other man on the strategy of vic tory" because he could make the Allies understand this country's true potentiality in personnel and matBriel. Being "the master proponent of a ground assault across the Eng lish Channel into the plains of single Supreme Allied Com mander." Preventing the Japanese from "becoming entrenched in their Stolen empire" by insisting on maintaining unremitting .pressure against them. Obtaining from Congress "the stupendous sums that made pos sible the atomic bomb, well knowing that failure would be his full responsibility." The citation concluded: "Statesman and soldier, he had courage, fortitude and vision, and best of all a rare self-effacement. He has been a tower of strength as counsellor to two Commanders in Chief. His standards of char acter, conduct and efficiency in spired the entire Army, the nation and the world. To him, as much as to any individual, the United States owes its future. He takes his place at the head of the great commanders of history." Made Secretary of State General Marshall's hopes of re tiring to his home at Leesburg, Va., after the hard war years were short lived. A few months after his retirement, President Truman sent him as his personal envoy to China, with the rank of ambassa dor, to "offer" his services as a "mediator" in the civil strife. Marshall labored for 12 months in a vain attempt to settle the differences between the Central Government and the Chinese Communists, a problem that all classes of Chinese agreed was un solvable. Early in 1947 President Truman appointed General Marshall as Secretary of State, giving the na tion's foremost soldier the pri mary role in solving the problems (Continued on Page Three) BETTER LIVING Fur Better Homes Spears Painting Patterns for Home Decorators. Terhune Decorating For You. Burns - Meyer Decorating Liv able Homes. Hardy How To Make Your House a Home. Wills Belter Houses for Bud geteers. Williams Small Home of To morrow. Good Housekeeping Housekeep ing book. For Better Gardens Foley Vegetable Gardening In Color. Jenkins Enjoy Your House Plants. Cha hot Greenhouse Gardening for Everyone. Jenkins Annual Flowers. Hedrick Fruits for the Home Garden. Middle Flower Arrangement. Westcott Gardener's hug Book. For Better Entertainment Sprackling Setting Your Table. Gardner Happy Birthdav to You. File Cokesbury Shower Book. Bcls Betty Betz Party Book. Powers Party Tables. Allen Table Service. Betlcr Kitchens Wallace Just for Two. Bookmeyer Candy and Candy making. Farmer Boston Cooking School Cook Book. Bradley Menu-Cook-Book. Good Housekeeping Cook Book. Schools Using A Book That Shows Author Unfamiliar With This Section Even Spelling In Book Is Wrong; Teachers And Pupils Confused Over Text The fifth grades of North Car olina are using a geography book that not only misrepresents the facts but cannot even spell simple words. These facts were ascer tained this week after a careful study of the section pertaining to the Appalachian area. The text of the book leaves the students and teachers in a bewil dered frame of mind, because both know better than what is present ed in the book. The geography gives the impres sion that Western North Carolina is still a wilderness, with the peo ple living in small two room log cabins. The book says in this con nection, "many of the newer homes are being built of lumber instead of logs." i The text pertaining to this entire area is being published here in full in order that our readers may know just what is being taught in the fifth grades of North Carolina. f Your New Home!! S MAN VILLE ROOFING ASBESTOS SIDING INSULATION FELTS STIC- ASH DOORS DAMPERS FLUE CLEANOUTS IN- flSHING BUILDERS HARDWARE NT&KURFEES- PUTSIDE AND INSIDE PAINT hland Supply Co: At the Depot Buried Five Months, Turtle Gets Reprieve SOUTH BEND, Ind. (UP) A pet turtle, buried for five months in a two-foot grave, was dug up and found to be very much alive. Told to get rid of the turtle, eight-year-old Skipper, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Copenhaver, dug a hole, deposited the turtle, and put a marker over the spot for future exploration. Five months passed and Skipper began digging under the marker. He found the turtle still blinking. The turtle was allowed to return to the Copenhaver home. AFPLE DAY PERPETUATED SALEM, Oreg. (UP) A Wash ington's birthday tradition started by Salem's late mayor, Joseph Swartz. was observed for the 49th time this year. Mayor Schwartz started in 1899, giving each school child in town a red apple on Feb ruary 22. His daughter, Mrs. Christine Delinck, has carried on the custom since his death in 1946. hi the region of the Appalachi ans, there is a long bell of lower j country extending northeast and , southwest which, because it is in ; general lower than the land on , cither side, is called the "Appala chian Valley ". The pari of this great "Trough" in Tennessee is called the Valley of Kast Tennessee, j and the part in Virginia is called ! the Shenandoah Valley . The Ap- : palaeliian Valley really is not a single valley at all. It consists in places of many northeast -southwest mountain ridges separate from one another by valleys. In other places it is a jumble of hills and valleys. There are farm lands in the valley bottoms and on Hie gentler slopes, and there are forests, pastures, and here anil there small patches of tilled land on the higher hills and ridges. Few places in the "val ley" are out of sight of wooded hills, and from many of the higher points you could see to the west ward the forested edge of the great plateau, and to the eastward the upper slopes of the forested moun tains, half-hidden perhaps in the lovely blue haze which suggested the name of Blue Kidge. Travel "up and down" the "valley." that is. to the northeast or southwest, is in most sections made easy by good roads. On the other hand. I rave! "across" it is in many cases diffi cult, for in that direction the roads are fewer, poorer, and in many places steep. If you were to travel through the Appalachian Valley you would find more cultivated land in corn than in any other crop. Some of the corn is used as food by the people. On the farms that are far from railroad shipping points, much is used to fatten hogs and cattle which are to be "sold on the hoof ". Along the railroads and some of the better wagon roads, much corn is shelled and market ed. More and more land is being used for hay and forage crops. Smoky FFA Chapter To Hold Father Son Banquet Waynesville High FFA Boys To Hold Annual Banquet Tonight Smoky Mountain chapter of Fu ture Farmers of America will hold the annual father and son banquet at 7 o'clock tonight in the Hazel wood school cafeteria, it is an nounced by John Nesbitt. agricul ture teacher at Wsynesville high school. The FFA boys, their fath ers, business men and agricultural leaders will be present. The meal will be prepared under the supervision of Mrs. Rufus Siler and Mrs. Herbert Buchanan, and served by the Home Economics girls. Opening the program will be the group singing of "God Bless Am erica." after which Rev. L. Young will speak the invocation. Wade F. Francis will extend the welcome, and Mr. Charlie Francis will make the response. Accomplishments during the last year will be reported by Mark Hol lingswortii, and Pink Francis will speak on, what vocational agricul ture has meant to me. Mr. Nesbitt will introduce guests, and Supt. Jack Messer will make the prin cipal address. A movie will be shown at the close of the program. Much land is so sleep that it is hard lo keep the soil from wash ing away if the fields are tilled. Hay and forage crops require lit tle tillage, and their tangled roots i help to hold the soil on the hill sides. Some of them, for example alfalfa and sweet clover, can send ! their roots deep into the ground to gel the moisture they need. The growing of the two hay crops men tioned also tends to increase the fertility of the soil. Many farmers ums part ttt their land to grow WHCC Radio Programs STUDIOS OVER PARK THEATRE FRIOAY, APRIL 2 ij.m-xiigu On ti U(t IKjwii uii tlif Kdi Hi 7 oo Town Jrlr r:00 News Briefs B : 0 o tHflif Sli liat b:30 10 mi iu ol AIJ Ayei S; 40 Meet the fetnd If : 00 Frunt l'uge Ktiitiun i. 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It-.i .Mm- 0(1 Sigii "If In !(' Ill in 11 11: 11 U U It u i 1 1 I t s i t i 9 .1 S fi Haganah Trains For Arab War 111 ' 4 ffim. AimmM - L S -. A.:.. . irtiMii USING THE RUINS of a.bombed building in Jerusalem as a shelter, members of the, Palmach, striking, force of the Haganah, train for the major Arab attack, which appears to be getting under wsiy. rt wheat, IhouKli in gL'iii'ral the yields which they obtain are not high. Some of the soils are not good for wheat, and when the grain is ripen ing the weather, especially toward the south, is likely to be too moist and too warm for it. A little cotton is grown us a "money crop" in the southern part of the Valley of East Tennessee, though the growing season there is almost too short for it. It must be planted early in order to ma ture, and ii a spring is lale and wet, many farmers grow some other crop in its place that year. Early frosts may greatly reduce the yield of cotton, and for the most part it is grown on the higher, better-drained fields, where it ma tures more rapidly than it would on the moist bottom lands, and where there is less danger of early frosts. Most of the cotton pro duced in the "valley" is grown in districts where the roads are poor. It may pay to haul cotton rather long distances over rough roads to a market when it would not pay lo haul cheaper and bulkier crop, such s corn or hay. This district is of course outside of the cot ton belt". Here and there throughout the Appalachian Valley tobacco is (Continued on P8e Four) ATTENTION FARMERS ! ! ! THE CANNER Y In Hazelwood Will Be Open This Year The Cannery will be open for business this year under new man agement and will operate under the personal supervision of the owner, Mr. Ogal P. Crews, an experienced cannery operator. The cannery desires to contract several hundred acres of snap beans, and advises all farmers interested in growing beans to get in touch with one of their representatives as soon as pos sible. The office will be located at the canning plant. For detailed information and contracts CONTACT OGAL P. CREWS At Cannery BILL HYATT Field Manager In the Land of the Sky Office Over the First National Bank On Saturdays Only From 8 A. M. to 3:30 P. M. GOOD SEED WILL BE FURNISHED AT .COST! We Will Pay TOP CANNERY PRICES I,