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PAGE THREE (Third Section J
DECEMBER 10, 1948
THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER
Christmas Warning
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n vjn iramc aatety
I Heath take your holi
fhristmas warning by
jent of Motor Vehicles
)ff slogan of the De
fjc safety program that
appier holiday season
vv ith fewer traffic
d deaths.
jfom motor vehicle ac
i on Christmas Eve and
Jay are usually two or J
the annual aauy aver
Bosscr. Motor Vehicles
,er. said today.
fe December holiday
pointed out, "traffic
jally reach the highest
te year. The national
! fen" December of last
lilt). In North Carolina
Bisons lost their lives in
ing December of last
jjoner liosser said that
factors which combine
this high death loll in-
I
iced visibility because of
jit fail and more hours
jquate traction because
(trier, ice and snow.
drinking during the
.holidays.
said that while no spe
jes are available on al
jlation to Christmas holi
Jnts, the 1947 state re
jfignificanl. They showed
i 19 per cent of the driv
d in fatal accidents had
jting. and so had 24 per
I adult pedestrians killed
chicle accidents.
to the severe weather
I often encountered dur
ioliday season, Commis-
jsser urged motorists to
ir windshield wipers, de
Uid lights to be sine they
jd working order. He also
aded using tire chains
I streets are snowy and
jcial emphasis program on
?SITic accidents during De
I a part of the continuing
ticational program toord:
the Department of Motor
'and sponsored nationally
ational Safety Council.
Motorist Urged
To Get Licenses
By December 31
The time is last running out for
f,' J' and dliv(,rs 'he Motor
vehicle Department
- """im i i vj-
day.
All drivers with last names be
ginning with either K
required to take an examination for
a new driver's license by Decem
ber 31, as a part of the Hiphivav
omeiy aci passed by the
General Assenibl'
ment
Gob Says Destroyer i
Was Jinxed Ship
SPENCER. Ia. (UP. The acci
dental firing of a torpedo at a bat
tleship carrying the late President
Roosevelt was only one of the
"jinx" incidents that plagued the
destro.ver William O. Porter, a
former sailor here recalls.
Jim Smith, a Navy torpedoman,
said he was assigned to the ship a
few days after the torpedo inci
dent described in a magazine arti
cle by Robert E Sherwood. Sher
wood did not identify the William
D Porter.
It seldom was smooth sailing for
the Porter, Smith said. On her
maiden voyage, she was tossed by
a hurricane into several smaller
craft.
Two of her seamen were lost at
sea. Japanese snipers killed sev
eral members of a Porter beach
party on a pleasure Jaunt ashore.
Smith said a Japane.se suicide
pilot sank the destroyer June 10,
1945, in the Okinawa harbor.
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drivers had been very slow to re
port, and that ir thev
ated much longer
I hey would h
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AnheviUe, N. C.
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58 Broadway
procrast in-
it would mean ;
laVf tit Uait in l.uin i
lines to take their tests during the I
last few days of December. !
Department officials also an- !
nouiued that the 100 examining
stations located throughout the!
State would be closed several days '
around Christmas, and that motor-!
ists who put off their tests might i
find it impossible to get them later. !
There will b(. absolutely no ex- !
tension to the deadline, the De
partment said, for E, F, and C.
motorists have had since last July !
to get these examinations. i
Beginning January 1, 1949. per
sons wilh last names beginning j
with II. I. .J. and K will begin tak- i
ing their tests, j
Taking drivers, in alphabetical
groups, the re-examination pro-1
gram will be completed June 30. !
1951.
The Department reported that
any F,. F, or G driver caught driv-j
ing on an old license after January I
1 will he found guilty of a misde
meanor and will be subject to a
fine of not less than $2!, or 30 days
imprisonment, or both, in the dis
cretion -of the court.
Much Beer, Little Milk
In Crowded Area
CLEVELAND ( U.P.I A survey
by 50 sociology students here dis
closed thai there are 327 beer par
lors in downtown Cleveland and
13,000 children in the area suffer
ing health disorders from lack of
milk.
More than one-third of the bars
are within 1.000 feet of a public
school, the Fenn College sociology
department showed.
The area surveyed is a six square
mile segment enclosing the city's
heavily-populated near-downtown
region. Church attendance at the
115 places of worship within the
area was found to be irregular,
but more than 82 per cent of the
children attend one or more motion
pictures a weA.
Onc-Armed Man Builds
Own Complete House
TACOMA. Wash. ( U.P.) Oscar
Sundin, 55, built his own house
with one hand. Sundin lost his
left arm in an industrial accident
in 1941.
The hardest part of building his
house was handling 45-pound ce
ment blocks wilh just one arm. But
he handled nails and a saw with
surprising ease.
He did all the work himself ex
cept putting up rafters and install
ing some of the plumbing. His
son-in-law and neighbors pitched
in and gave him a hand 1here.
The house has four rooms, bath
and an unfinished attic.
Rome had sewers in the Sixth
Century B. C.
barber's
appues
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DOKKJG - CANNING
Including
Grimes Golden
Starks Delicious
Golden Delicious
Stayman Winesap
V 1 Fancy Apples now available for shipment in
bushels and Vz bushel quantities
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Rock Apple Service
Station
' AT BARBER'S ORCHARD
Highway 19A-23
P. Hubcr llanes of Winston
Salem has the foundation of one of
the top herds of Polled Hereford
beef cattle east of the Mississippi
River, according to L. I. Case of
the State College Extension Service.
HIS NAME'S HIS AT LAST
ALBANY, N. y. (UP) William
Ladislaus Thomas Wisniewski told
the judge it took registration for
the World War I draft for him to
learn that his real name was not
Waller DeBerry. The judge grant
ed his plea for a change of name
when he explained that his parents
had intended to name him Walter
and he had been known as DeBerry
all his life except on two occasions
when he signed up ior the 1917
draft and in 1925 when he was
married.
Bad Luck Ranch Becomes
U. S. Bird Sanctuary
ALAMO. Tex. i UP.) The old
Santa Ana ranch, reportedly Jinx
ed, is now a bird refuge, maintain
ed by the U. S. Fish and wuame
Service.
According to legend, it oice was
sold for a fiddle and a new suit of
clothes.
Until Uncle Sam took it over in
1943, it brought only bad luck to
its owners.
Thp metal osmium is 22.5 as
heavy as water while lithium is
about half the weight of water.
Sylva Newsman Begins
Research On New Book
John Parris, Sylva newspaper
man and former United Press
staffer, began research Thursday
on a novel set in the Charleston of
1879-86 and Western worth Caro
lina, according to a recent dispatch.
Featuring the life of a country
doctor in the Carolina mountains,
Parris said the book will be titled
How Far The Stars".
Starch was made commercially
from corn for the first time in this
country In 1842.
About 99 per cent of the earths
atmosDhere is nitrogen and oxy
gen.
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ahmit Kortk Carolina; . ,
such as: outstanding ce trie attrac
tions, bunting and flsfting, jewq j
place to eat, odd facta about N. CU
educational progresa, population 1
figures, the textile industry. " odd
names of towna and cities, etc. ,
In lots of ten or niore r
virtually get it wholesale Wcarjf
per copy. Goerch has been referred , ;
. .o -r'!rniina Chatterer." aviators :
general gadalxMiter, and what have
you. Most of ail. however, h seem
to be an A-l salesman.
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Let ,.- friendly Ster-chi-salesman
help you
this year with your gift
list . . . and you'll be
amazed how it will
simplify your prob
lems. Our store is jam
full of fine gifts loo
numerous to advertise
here some big, some
small. There's nothing
like giving or recci ing
fine, wanted, useful,
durable gift from Stei-ctn's.
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