A!
forms
;ode
i .
.Margaret
d world fame
,ne With tin'
ote an impor
whcn she was
speeding auto-
!
beloved author
inn:; il tu adopt
pc safety code,
tdcalhs and hi
lts on Atlanta's
c engineer was
-member traf
I given broad
fetter
d'ety de
Je w
nt into ef-
sK-ps was lo
ol all drivers
and to revoke
.0sc with exces
lolations. (Miss
by an oiT-duty
jjl a Ion,-! trall'ic
i
fs also were re-
a city permit
j be issued until
been finger-
ck Will
lizuis, a
ick with police
ippointcd
ye mi the traffic
,ve i : t oil icials.
i-.aoul lily meet -
suggestions ami
might prevent
CAL
ANNELL
actor St
tel.
Avn, How
I arrange
finances
that you
re able
i retire on j
constant
Monthly
1 Income?
.
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mm
1 killed.
i
Ie im
We Bldg.
Jrnoon, December 8, 1919
Spreads 4-H Idea To British'
On Push-Bution Farming
READING,
4 11 L;irl,
tclliiio 1 ',; ;;.s
f-;l;;- - Pretty
-:aret Slate
fanners that
la k i.l inisii-!
! ' 1
in America i
"People must 1
-Hilton t'arir.n
all nonsense,
ive gotten such.
ideas from the movies
says. 1 on many think Am
(ri
ea is a push-butti
ll country
vh(T. c ver '.!
is done bv
macliiiio.
Mat -a let. 2-ye.u -fiau-hter
..!' a Hernanlst
Mass.. f'ai'im i'. is vising )
tsn iarms on a 4-H club
spon-
ion. ;-ities not
lust
-io,;i!i'.
she s pitchim; m
what makes Hi
irmn
(is
barnvai (Is
When si
L,'oin:; to
Peppy
.' returns home -
be a 4-H
Mui'Ltaret
or:;
. in 1
in 1 e
fgdtiv.s am
ber jacket
ombroi'lcri
urn-
is
makiiic
m! ml!
!)
Hritish country Inlk
-' ner com'ui.n sensi
Thev 1
(lid ';e;-up-and-:;o.
Volunteered Farmer R
h)(l!;e, of Berkshire: "Shi.
loesn't just watch us work-
ie rolls up I
tier
ieces and
18,000 Tar Heels Alive
Today; Would Have Died
1920 Conditions
Dayton Almost
Wins A
Stamp Dispute
I) A Y T ( ) . ). I P' II Hie
i;.'li! hoil lici-s had Imitihl the way
the cilv o! I)atin and the Post
Oilier Department have been
lii.'hl iiiL'. Ilu-re pidliahl wouldn't
har hr 'ii an airplane to coin
inemoi'ale. The l)alon philatelic society
a-lvi'd the I'ioI Oll'iee Depart ment
to make the oriuinal sales of a
W'l hiotiici s commemorat ive
si. m,i al Da.Mon. The Post Ollice
D. I a; ! mi i.l -aid. ' no ".
I). i.Moii hiMisii'i-. and thi' stai)i)
etnb wondered why. since the
Wii;:li1 brothers lived and worked
most of 1 heir lives in Dayton.
The fo -I Ollice Department said
the si a i n o is i o commemorate not
on l 1 1 .i V.' i mla brut hers, hut a No
the lii-l he.n ier-t han-air lliuhl at
Kitty llav k in North Carolina. Dec.
17. 1!m:I. Thrielore Hie lirst stamps
w ill re on sale at Kilty Haw k.
The D.oloii groups were leallv
osi re.
Miss
their lives in
Mitchell was
tint
Ira. uWXJ
ve on fuel! Stop thin licat loss!
th efficient, fireproof Eitf-'lo-rielier In
flation installed in sideivalls and ceilincs
al is kept uithin the house. As a res-tilt
ns are warmer and easier to heat . .
H you'll save as much as 40 of scarce
Ask ahout the Certified In
sulation Joh . . . I ag'c
Picher exclusive.
FOR FREE SURVEY CALL
Asheville 3-0916. Canton 2263
----s rT.J
ULAIIHG CO
Robert F. Wilson
ASHEVILLE. N..C.
is th
ifM, )rm
few ! -
M mm wr
111 sv Jnnti I
:im.. '
joins in. She says that's th.e
va
I
liy WILLI'
V ( .
Tiiere are
cay 17.94H
'03 liable
would haw
(rude deal I
l at i s 1 1 or i
i ases w hi. h
i onl ioui (!.
;.h nt lo 111,
l II I! H II A HI )S( )
le P'oard of Health
in Ninth Carolina to
pe! sens, including 5.
eiil .'1122 mothers, who
il ii d last y ear, if the
rale and the death
i el lain s pecilied dis
pre ailed in 1920. had
his number is e(piiv
i'opnialioii of a small
( its
deal I
t bos.
now
.'Vniei icau
The gie.'iesl reduction ill I to devote more attention lo roads
i rales, ui course, have been i in the undeveloped sections of
resulting fioin diseases which North Carolina. The growing de
are either preventable or em- inands for belter farm-to-inaikel
able No one would be prcsumptu-1 roads increased after two hard
ins to -,, that the reduction in j winteis left most of the unpavod
our crude death rate and the death j mileage of the (i3.00()-mile road
i ales Irnin vai urns specihe diseases! system virtually impassable. North
have lesiilna exclusively from the Carolina had assumed rcsponsibil
cllnrls.it public Health or prevent-j ity lor its 4:.)0 miles of county
iw n.eiiieiiie. This would not he
true. Curative medicine has made
hs coiil : i 1 1 1 1 1 lulls also.
Throughout North Carolina,
iheie aie 5.403 infants safely cud
dled in i heir mothers' arms who
would h . i i ' .In ;l last y ear. if I he
same iiilanl death rale whjch pre
vailed in lIK'i) had coiilinued. Dur
ing 1920. w I. .-ii Ni.rlb Carolina's
iiilanl di ,dli i .ile was H4 9 per
1 .0110 li e hull.- t bei e were 0.909
a Ii . n Ii. ilees under a war
old.
thcr
fant
wei ,
cue.
A
ha-,
Ill .1 . . I , h i, ,'l 1 I I I I I I I I f 'I I
would have been 9.240 in-
de.'illls in I
9111
w h
ad, there
, a diller-
one
ol 5
3.P.37
403.
I,
I he ma! ' Mi d rale. I hat is
i tin number of mothers
who (In as the i . nil of each 1 .000
li e bin !e II Hie rale of ten. which
picvaile.l in 1920. had continued,
there would haw been 1 .038 ma
ternal death'- last year. Actually,
there vM'ie only 20li.
Let ie con iih r now Hie number
ol people living today who would
have died l.i-i y ar. had the 1920
rates ,n cell, on diseases con
tinued Tin re aie, scattered over
the Stale 3.501 persons who would
ha(' died ol tuberculosis last year,
i ft he rate bad not been so ma
terially 1 1 duced There were 3,004
tuberculosis deal lis in North Caro
lina in 1920 and I here would have
hi en 4 4o!l last y ear, bad no pro
giess belli made. As it was. there
j wi re oiilv !'!)!!.
j Huiiiiim; Ihinugh the list of cer
llani pi e i ; d .able and controllable
!di ea--is. w find that the number
i ol 1 ho-e I
nig today who would
e( year under the 1920
h.ni filed
rale nun
he div ided as follows: ty
I paratyphoid fever. 405:
il. old
whooping cough. 479: diphtheria.
413. dy s.nlery. 4dl: malaria. 308;
influenza. 4.219: pallagra. 430: and
i lie pneumonias. 2.590. We see in
this
Il I the ( Heels of the newer
-. hitler sanitation, jmmuniza
and. as in the case of tuber-
drugs
lion.
CUhlsi
irh detection and treat-
inert .
riled over that. They bombarded
Hie Post Oil ice Department w ith
letters and arguments, but to no
avai I .
Now the Dayton group is taking
second best but good enough. They
have arranged for a local flying
service to be in Kilty Hawk on
Dec 1. the service will pick up
I he Wriiihl slamns and fly them to
Dayton, where the philatelic soci
ety w ill be holding its 23rd annual
display .
The Dayton collectors will have
specially cachreted envelopes on
which the Wright stamps will be
placed and then delivered to the
Dayton post ofTice for cancella
tion with Dayton's postmark on the
first dav of the sale.
THE WAYNESVILLE
MORE ABOUT
Roads
(Continued from Face 1)
its t fleets are still being felt sharp
ly almost 2d years later. Inability
of the counties to fulfill road ob
ligations for rural people during
the depression years and general I
sentiment tavorins; more centralized
control of county roadbuildiim
played r part in this chantre. It
' save Hie Hihwa Connisison a
' 54.000-mi!e instead of a 8.798-nule ,
road sytseni. and it laid the feun
; dation for the philosophy that th-.1 j
I State is obliged to furnish all
' weatlur roads for all of its citizens,
not jun certain groups
At Hie same time the Legislature '
authorized the use of county priso
ners on the road system and raised
the fv.s'olir.e tax from live to six
i cents, stin:. latin;; that the fi'tli
rcr.t. whh h had been allocated to
' con illy Governments, be allocated
! to the Commission. 1
In 1933 the Lesislature placed ,
the entire State Prison System;
I i.ndei control of the Highway Com- 1
mission and gave it authority to
use the labor of 3.(150 prisoners .
on the roads. This made North
', Carolina one of the very few states ;
in the Union whose state prison
system was directly linked with its
toad system, and it posed problems
i of administration and discipline
which have not been solved to
eve! bod 's satisfaction to this day
! 1'Yonomic conditions limited the .
activities of the Commission from i
1'iHl to 1935 Dui'inn the years
l!:t4-l!:!7 the Legislature diverted
S4.OII0.OOO from the Hie.hway Fund
to the General Fund to help the
Slate throueh the economic crises
of those years. In 1947 the Legis
lature banned any further diver
sions of this nature.
The decade from 1931 until the
j beginning of World War II saw the
I State's highway system steadily ex
panding as increased use of roads
brought more gasoline tax income.
The war years brought highway
construction to a virtual
standstill !
and helped build up the pressure
on the Highway Commission which
ultimately culminated in the Uelter
Schools and Roads campaign of
19411
Better Rural Koads Demanded
As far back as 1941 it was ob
served that the excellent system of
Stale highways built with bond
funds in the Twenties would need
ovci hauling at the end of the war.
At Hie same time the Commission
realized there was growing need
( roads in 1931 Hural people were j
I now demanding something more
than token maintenance for this.
road sy stem.
Governor P. Gregg Cherry's ad
ministration launched an ambitious
I arm-to-mai ket road program just ;
i after the war ended. More than I
j 3.000 nnlos of secondary roads were
! paved from 1945 to 1949. but this i
i merely scratched the surface AN'
I though highway revenue had con-
tinned to rise as automobile use in- I
. i .,.' in, ami.,., ,.,,-
lll'l'l", IIISIS, ,JI llllllll'UIHIII I'Ml
even higher, funds were nisuiii
cient to launch an intensive coun
ty road improvement program and
at the same time meet the de
mands of the primary road system.
The only answer to this prob
lem, in the opinion of newly-in-auguralcd
Governor W, Kerr Scott
(1949-52i. was another road bond
issue like 1ho.se of the Twenties
this time aimed at building and im
proving the secondary road system
exclusively. In a special message
to the 1949 Legislataure Governor
Scott proposed a $200,000,000 rural
road bond issue which would help
herd-surface 12.000 miles and im
prove another 35.000 miles of sec
ondary roads. The Legislataure
passed Senate Bill No. 52 provid
ing for such a bond issue if ap
proved by a vote of the people.
Following a spirited State-wide
campaign spearhead by' the Gover
nor, the bond issue carried in a
special election on June 4, 1949
The bill provided that the
State's six-cent gasoline tax should
be raised to seven cents on January
1. 1950, and that the proceeds form
Ibis cxlra cent be used to help pay
interest on the money borrowed.
The first $50,000,000 segment of
bonds were sold by the State on
September 28. 1949. at an everage
interest rate of 1 57 per cent. Im
mediately the Highway Commis
sion launched its secondary road
building program in every section
of the State.
The Road Bond Act authorized
specific allotments of the $200,000.
000 for each of the State's 100
counties based on population, area
and road mileage. Ten per cent of
the total amount may be used by
the Commission for equalization
purposes anywhere in the state,
and a portion of the fund has al
ready been earmarked for pur
chasing roadbuilding machinery.
As of December 1, 1949, nine of
the ten division commissioners had ;
announced specific roads to be im- l
proved with the first segment of j
the bond money. Some 1,141 miles
of secondary roads had already
been hardsurfaced and work was
ready to begin on one-third of the
12,000 miles Governor Scott set as
his paving goal.
teanwhile, the commission con
tinued its primary road improve
ment program with regular high-1
way funds, finally freed from the '
pressure of county road demands.
The Commission also went on re-
MOUNTAINEER
How'd You Like Porky
To Get In Your Hair?
AP Newsfealures
A SIIAK1' I'KT is the porcupine, but Mr. and Mrs. Bennett Niel
sen of 1-pliraiin. I'tah. have lun with theirs. Here Bennett shows
how alloc! ionale it is "l'orky is intelligent, loo." says Mrs. Nicl
son. "ile ojiins our serein door, even though it swings outward
He is better than a watch dm; because no one dares to intrude while
he is en guard."
The little animal cats all kinds of fruits and vegetables. "We
found him when lie was very small, and raised him on a nursing
bolUo." says Mrs. Nielson. "Now he weighs 10 pounds. Ile eats
from the same dish as our Irish Setter pup. The pup got a few
sharp (piilis in him al lirst. but soon learned to stop biting at
Porky. Now they play together."
Waynesville Sailor
Gels Promotion
William A. Hodgers, DSN, hus
band of Mrs. W. A. Hodgers of
1 1 14 liichland Street, Way nesville,
was recently advanced to the rank
of engineman, third class, while
scrying with Subordinate Group 2.
Florida Group. Atlantic lieserve
Fleet, Green Core Springs, Fla
Before entering (he Navy, he
worked for the Howell Motor Co.
I'acts About Kansas
Kr.rd.-is, with more than 82,1,'iS
Sdiir.re miles, has more than 100
lakes. ; : ta!e parks, and a greater
variety of wildflower life than else
where tn the nation. It also has 18
principal rivers.
lion with municipalities in the ex
panded highway program, and
many county road connections in
side towns were among the first
roads paved with Bond money.
484
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i
Voice
(Continued from Page Two)
corporated. plus several days after
Christmas. Actually, about eight
days olT for the holidays."
Charles Alley, Freshman "1 pre
fer lo have two weeks vacation for
Christmas, because you have more
time to do your Christmas shop
ping and all the other necessary
things."
Calcium
One serving
In Ice Cream
(one-sixth quart)
of
vanilla ice cream contains
times as much calcium as
medium-sized potato, two and
nine
one
one-
hnlf times ns much as a medium
sized orange, four times as much
a an egg, and nine times as much
as one medium-sized carrot.
Three Simple Rules To Follow
1. Shop at the local stores, and save a tiring trip out of town.
2. You will avoid big crowds by shopping with your local
friendly merchant.
o'
..
MORE ABOUT
Health
(Continued from Pace 5)
ands of under-privileged, lame
tittle ones. The work has not al
ways been without its discourag
ing features. Dr. Cooper pointed
int. but it has continued, just the
same, with progress that has been
highly gratifying to him.
Oral Hygiene rPoeram
The State Board of Health,
through its Division of Oral Hy
jiene. inspected the mouths of 9,
S24 children, in thirty-two North
Carolina schools, last month. The
.lumber of under-privileged receiv
ing dental corrections was .59(i,
while 5.955 were referred to local
lentists.
Sanitary Engineering
Among other interesting fads
contained in the monthly report of
the Division of Sanitary Engineer
ing was that, following a confer
ence with State Medical Care
Commission oHcials. it was consid
ered necessary that complete san
itary inspections be made of all
hospitals, as the results of these
could he used by the commission,
along with information received
from the Insurance Commissioner,
and others, in determining inose
hospitals which would be licensed.
A "bridge" in a radio program
is a device, musical or otherwise,
to cover a gap between two sections
of a broadcast,
TOBACCO
Sell Your Tobacco At
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WAREHOUSES
Two of the Largest and Best Limited Warehouses in
Morristown, Tenn.
Joe Bryant Assures You of Higher Prices and
Satisfaction.
For
Baskets, Floor Space or Further Details
Contact
Paul W. Ferguson
Route 1, Clyde, N. C.
Can You Imagine
Christmas Shopping
Made Easy-
Your friendly local merchant has your interest at heart,
as well as the fuller development of the community. After
all, merchants are a vital part of that which it takes to
make a town better.
THIS YEAR SHOP AT HOME
Save Yourself.
Save Your Money.
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Timt-Ttsttd : 1
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