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Monday Afternoon, January S. ij j !AGE TWO THE WAYIVTSYILLE SIOUNTAINErR THE MOUNTAINEER Wanesville. North Carolina eiala Street Phone 79t The County Seat of Haywood County Published Br TIIE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. W. CURTIS RUSS : -' : . ' . - , , Editor W. Curtis Rusa and Marion T. Bridges. Publighert PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY HAYWOOD COUNTY One Year Six Months One Year. Six Months ... NORTH CAROLINA 13 00 1.75 $4 00 2.25 OUTSIDE NORTH CAROLINA One Six Months . . Year. ; - - " $4.50 2 50 Entered at th post office at Wavnesvl'le, N. C. as Sec ond Class Mall Mailer, as provided under the Act of Maih 2. 1879. November 20. 19!4 - Obituary notices, resolutions of respect, card of thanks, and all notices of en'ertainment for profit, will b charted for st the rate of two cents per word MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The AaocUted Press is entlllid exclusively to the tue for re-publication of all the local news printed in th.i newspaper, as well as all AP nevis dispatches. NATIONAL EDITORIAL Monday Afternoon, January 8, 1931 llazelwood's Fire Truck The Hazel wood fire truck is a thinj,' of beauty, ancj those with a mechanical eye, vis ualize it as a piece of equipment designed for efficiency. The piece of fire-fighting equipment was accepted by the board on Friday, and immedi . i . . i . . . , . uiviy, pians were siarxeu lor training a volun teer department. The truck will be housed in the space built -r it :!. the new city hall some months g'j. , Modern fire .:-;: are almost a comnlete i - .t-mselvfcs. They car .n addition to fire ex ..'.. for pumping well as boost .. when r.eces- fire depar.rr.tr.! w. ry water icr ur.guishers. from creeks or df-p VI c-- :..ri .res. t:1; 1 . I.. it- m? pres sary. We understand ClyJe is str.ously consider in? the pure has of a s.rnnar truck. This would give all four of Haywood's incorporat ed towns pood fire-fiL'ht;r,L' equipment. ... This newspaper -ha:: always held that noney spent on such wjulpnfnt is a good investment. LJ(m quotes-get it?) OF THE OFFCc ALWAYS DOFF THBR WATS iM THE ELECTOR WV'EN 4 L7 ENTERS; A Broad Program Last Thursday Governor Scott presented a rather broad, and far-reaching program for the General Assembly. He covered the high spots of the needs of the state, and we feel that the Legislature will in a large measure, follow many of his suggestions. There seems to be a general feeling among the members of the General Assembly to go slow on raising taxes. In view of the federal increases. There also seems to be a determin ed effort on the part of 'many kgislators to de mand more efficiency from the agencies paid from state funds. Just how many of the proposals made by Governor Scott will be enacted into law is at this point a mere guess. '.Ve trust that the sug gestion for increasing the highway patrol by 105 men, and the restoration of a modified in spection law will be among the things favor ed by the General Assembly. The health program needs attention, and certainly the state would be justified in mak ing some necessary improvements as to hos pitals and mental institutions. For the teachers the governor holds that the state should establish the pay on a secure professional level. He would also look into the 1913 compulsory school attendance law with the view of making possible necessary changes. The Governor shares the feeling of many citizens, that there are needed changes to be made in election laws, relative to the expen-1 ditures of a candidate. And along the line of ; elections, he would have the General Assem- j Miss Buth Green bly change the voting age to 18 instead of 21. iviMt t0 Atlanta. This is a subject of much controversy, but the trend seems to be in that direction. The aqe-old question of a state-wide refren dum on liquor was also recommended again by the governor. He hit at the need for increased electric power, and further use of water facilities for power ind transportation. We were glad to note the governor did not have socialistic leanings, as seems to be ap parent in the federal program. Although he cud suggest increased benefits, he does not in dicate a wild, "give-away" program. In a.sking for immediate legislation on civil ian defense, it appeared that the state law makers were being fore-warned of the ser iousness of the international situation. We have every reason to believe that the 1951 General Assembly will be a conservative group, seeking to correct, and bring up-to-date our state laws, rather than inaugurate drastic measures in these days of unrest. Theyll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo llili iMjt (LET a LOCK : nnwm; (ij 1 irvJ f t-Wl ' 'VZr ts? r As S I ,Y' HaW vi ii SiK m 1 Rambling 'Roun Looking Back Over The Years 15 YEARS AGO Supreme Court declares the AAA unconstitutional. retu-ns from 10 YEARS-AGO 5 TEARS AGO W. Riley Palmer returns to State College after spemlrn'i the holidays with his parents; Mr. and Mrs. Glenn C. Palmer. Mrs. F. H. Marley returns from New York City where she spent the holidays with her son. Hal Mar ley, a student at Columbia University. Mrs. Joe Tate wins first prize ! Glenn C. Palmer is named as a in Christmas decoration contest ; member of the N. C. Tobacco Ad sponsored by the town officials of visory Council. Hazelwood. The'Rotary Club paws resolu tions endorsing and commending the Lions Club for its wink with the Dime Board for the Christmas cheer fund. L, E. Sims of Canton buys the Gulf Service Station on the corner of Main and Pigeon Streets. Mercury climbs to 89 degrees this w(ek as weatherman forgets to look at the calendar. George A. Brown, Jr., is elected permanent chairman of the five- county district health department board. Haywood coal critical stage. situation reaches A Busy Spring It looks like the spring of 1951 in this com munity will be one of considerable construc tion. Several large projects are due for comple tion before the summer season, and from the progress being made on some of the projects there is every reason to believe that the dead lines will be met. Rising rapidly on the site back of the high school is the 22-unit apartment house, repre senting an investment of about $250,000. Last Thursday this newspaper carried the news that a tourist center, costing more than $100,000 would sta-t immediately on the Oak Park property on Main Street here. Scheduled to begin soon is another modern motel at Lake Junaluska, similar in size and aesign as the one which was kept full of guests all last season. . , - We understand that several other sizable projects are slated for spring construction. It looks like this is going to be a busy year, as the building pi ojects go forward. ... 'Tai: Ity JME$,HPOU DAI LEY j THE COST-Just how does It cost the State of Carolina tor its legislative body to meet anyway.' Well, the experts here say,.that this session will cost in the rwifhborhnrtrt of a half-million dollars. It used to be that a special session of only a few days duration ran a minimum of $100, 000. This tremendous expense has been used by many a Governor in call a special session. Generallke America is blessed with natural resources. Not the least among these resources is its well of manpower and leadership. We are thinking right now of General i refusing to Dwight D. Eisenhower,' who has been called , wantcd 10 the taxpayers from his post as president of Columbia Uni versity to head the international army in Europe. General Eisenhower was not picked for the international post because of any personal heroics either past or present. As supreme commander of the army which so successfully stormed Hitler's ramparts in World War II, he made no attempts at developing his per sonal ambitions nor did he seek to bask in re flected glory of his army. He was all business, with a mind on the job he had to do. And he accomplished that job without his own personality intruding. Now there is a second job to do. Nobody seems exactly sure of the nature of that job other than it is to keep peace where peace seems most to be endangered. And, although we cannot expect the impos sible of a man even with all the qualities of General Ike, we are willing to trust him to the limit. We believe the country is, too. Shelby Star. money ; out he also wanted to avoid legislative entanglements which might disturb the even tenor of his administration. Even a brief special srssion now would run over $150,000. If the Legislature stays in town for the full 90 days, total payroll of its 170 members alone will be $229,500. Add to this the pay of around 175 employees, printing of bills, lights, electricity, water, and the thousand and one other miscel laneous items and you can readily see that lawmaking, even on the state level, is an expensive proposition. much man, but are merely a drop in the North , bucket in comparison with the in creased appropriations requested by the various State departments, the public school system, and ti;e wide assortment of other agencies operated by North Carolina. If even a portion of these in creases are granted, where will we get the money? The legislators will need the help of magicians as well as economists in finding a solution to our financial problems; and, in absence of magicians and econo mists, they will need advice from the people back home. So let them hear from you. Voice of the People Should a state law requiring the mechanical inspection of motor vehicles be enacted? Felix Stovall: 1 am in favor of a WORKABLE inspection law, yes. Bill Porter: Yes, I believe the state needs one for the sake of highway safety. -Cits Of Fluman Interest News By Frances Gilbert Frazier v Coincidence plays a large part . waxed floor and the in our daily lives, jet it would be! -:- -:. . a tragic thing to convict a person It's alwavc a eu,. on strictly circumstantial evidence. Uhe whole story before '". One of our staff completed a sum-a decision. Recently mary of certain Items, on January ( part of a sentence as 1. 1951. ana was a on suipnau ing into a store. Two ! find they totaled exactly 1951. Out ( busily chatting and ft of curiosity, he looked back on the one rose a bit higher t previous year's total and whistled his astonishment. That "total was 1950. A tiny rreen leaf taklne its life In its hands by appearing; in pnblic xou can i convince m. hadnt been there i every evidence . that he when he heard me w house," The other Sad) curiosity . . . and so d; we had to hurry on . always wonder whether a tinge of scandal to tht was just commonplace chl 5'OBlii 1 niary nasni any too Amy, her classmate, but an invitation to hat with Amy the folloniJ day. Then she added ul cepiance: - es, I II com, if I don't set invited place I'd rather go." A lady told us of a funny in cident the other day. She had sud denly decided to accompany her husband on a trip to Asheville, me candor of and as the weather was during our "ice-coated" period, she put on a heavy brown coat, pulled down a small brown hat on her head and sallied forth. As so often happens, even in the best regulated families, the appointed hour in which her husband was to stop by Ivey's and eet her came and went ... and continued to went '. as is oniy i ue wonuer 11 our mit natural, after a certain length of get dingy just like time, the lady became irked and The world looks like i her face was fast assuming the place when viewed throu color of the berries of the holly cleaned window-panes: wreath she had purchased and was distant mountains lemkee holding in her hand. Imagine her forbidding, they sudder surprise to have a heavily be-furred warmth and frieiulline- dowager amble up to her and say, is much bluer and tht "My good woman, how much do brighter. It might be you want for that wreath?" Already idea to get out the profJ at the boiling point because of the ing materials and bruin long wait, our friend blew up . . . our minds as We start of and we feel quite sure the be- brand new year abend o! furred person realized the wreath ' was not for sale. There's many a slip" twixt a A friend is some doesn't wait for vou before they open the dJ SCOH'S SCRAP BOOK !l.V Frank Kirkpatrick: Yes, I think there ought to be such a law. MIRROR OF YOUR MIND IT ' V . . . . i f t l 'I t-V.i v CL . t. By LAWRENCE GOULD Consulting Psychologist powers of adjustment. His hap piness and his usefulness both de pend on his being encouraged to "concentrate on his assets rather than his liabilities," as Dr. Morton A, Seidenfeld expresses tt "He can make for himself a good life, with extra dividends of strength of character," if everyone "treats him like a person, not a cripple." ' ehronlc boredom a neurosis? Answer: It is a severe nn f' writes Dr. Edmund Bergler. The ( immediate cause of being bored is lack of imagination. The chron ically bored person Inhibited his j imagination to repress his tend ' ency to speculate about things "a nice, child should not think about" But without imagination, he can see no possibilities of in , terest or pleasure in life, so that 'everything and everyone bores him. You can always reassure your conscience that you do not Does "polio" effect the mind? Answer: Tests show that it does not affect the intelligence appre ciably and It certainly does not lead to insanity. But it is an emo tional shock that makes vers- entertain forbidden . wishes if ' there's nething that you want great demands on the victim's Do children learn mainly through words? Answer: No, say Drs. Milton I. Levine and Reuel J. Howe in the Journal of Pastoral Care. It is during the first six years of life that a child' character is mainly formed, and the decisive factor in making him truly "human" is not the words or ideas that he Is, taught, but his relationships with other people, starting from the hour Of his birth. A child learns to love by being loved, to give bji receiving, and to manage his ag gressive impulses by having them accepted as natural by those who love and understand him. PROBLEMS It now looks as if Governor Kerr Scott is almost cer tain to drive hard on at least one feature of the sales tax: the $15 limit. He apparently wants no lim it to the sales tax whatever. He may prove strong enough to get this through, but its removal will mean that thousands and thous ands of dollars worth of various products will be bought outside North Carolina every month, with the State receiving no revenue from them whatever. Removal of the $15 limit would also mean that the price of a Ford, Chevrolet, or Plymouth would be increased by about $40. The sales tax item and its various angles will be one of the Legislature's problems. Matter of separation of the pris on system from the State Highway Commission will engage the minds of the legislators considerably. They must also arrive at a deci sion as to where to get the money for new buildings and improve ments for various State institu tions. Requests in this bracket to tal a cool $42,iM)0.00a. The last two Legislatures h a v e appropriated $157,000,000 for State institution buildings and schoolhou.se con struction. The 1951 Legislature must decide if it will raise with nex taxes the $42,000,000 request ed or whether the question of an other bond issue shall be submit ted to the people, or finally, wheth er the requests will be refused. There is also the problem of city streets. The State Is being firmly asked to look after their maintenance and construction. If this is done, how much will it cost and Where will we get the money? Questions which the 1951 Legisla ture must answer. This Legislature will be faced, also, with two years of deficit spending. This year, the State will spend at least $5,000,000 more than it takes in. Last year, the deficit ran around $1,000,000. These SCOTT TOP Associated Press papers in the State listed the 10 most important North Carolina stories of 1950 last week. It is in teresting to te that none other than Cover; r Kerr Scott, devot ed newsmaker that he is. played a prominent role in several of them. The defeat of Frank Graham by Willis Smith got first place. Scott was certainly in on that one. in fourth place was Gordon Gray's inauguration as president of the University of North Carolina. Had Scott not appointed Graham to the U. S. Senate, neither of these stories would have seen the light of day at least not in 1950. In fifth place: J. B. Moore, State Pris on head, fined on charge of mis appropriating State funds. The Governor appointed Moore and thus was in that story. Tony Tolar's resignation won seventh. Scott was in it. In eighth place was the teachers' getting extra pay. Gov ernor Scott was in the middle of that one, and the money borrowed Fred Wateton; The state should have a motor vehicle inspection law. The statistics on highway ac cidents have already proven the need for one. The highway toll rose steadily soon after the old in spection law was killed. I also be fieve Ave need a stricter law con cerning drunk driving. Making jail sentences mandatory on drunk driving convictions would certain ly help. Mrs. Carrie Hannah: Not if it would be like the law we had orig inally. We should have one, though, but it should be administered much differently from the former one. The original law was badly administered, there was too much red tape involved in the ac tual matter of getting your car through a mechanical inspection, and there was a great waste of state money. 1 if m p? iuvm ; i M!i'!:Wi'! 4a, Diamond is MADE of UlCrtt, A. BRll.LIA.S-f PIAStiC. kML tlMOND . rfs Silt WOULD VMElCtt 57,000 CABOfi.' By R. J, SI -sea if 5 I MAY HAH Ik C5NNE:ii:r fKE A-BlLltf Uit 7 1 -t ( in im r .itrWAf. SV'V ' T ' " Iff ' ' .WJiafr ' CrSf jkWASIIiriGT MARCH OF EVENTS Tremendous Strain Blamed For Caustic Truman Note Labor-Management To Discuss Stobili: Jimmy Williams: Absolutely. Joe Casabella: Yes provided it is enforced. But not like the one we had before. Is if any wonder that W. Kerr Scott is called "good copy" by the newspaper folks? Of the 10 out standing stories of 1950 in this State, he stomped, tiptoed, patted, and pigeon-toed between the linos to meet the bonus will be repaid in five of them. Thus went trip olrf late in March. year in Tarheelia. HE MAY GET-HIS WISH! ttSTCOUMTME. OUT(F ICN ISA. 0 J 1 jH T i Special to Central Press TVTASHINGTON Reports from the White House are thf! it ueni iruman is repenting- his angry, caustic letter t: ington music critic Paul Hume for panning daughter Margare: The President is reported to have told close friends after, dent made the front paees that his exnlosinn was due tn ft strain under wnicti he has been laboring a months. Men Close to tho Prpnirfent oynlain tht! ...... . vnbiBiiuiuai j OUCH world crisis and that when he reached trf uivi en. lci iTiargm eta v" i read Hume's biting review, he simply "b nru . .... . ins reporis are mat in commeniing t- to friends about his imnnlsiVo Ipttrr. AS dent sounds somewhat apologetic and ri HiS White Hoil.SO rnnfirlanto recent reperci'ssions will dissuade him ft lung any iuiure vitriolic letters. . President Truman LABOR-MANAGEMENT PARLEY cles expect the government to call a labor ment conference in Washington, soon to discuss the stabilia gram and maintenance of full defense production. Such a parley was held shortly after Pearl Harbor and i meeting seems to be in order now with the United States nw: f'"6'" ucing sieppea up an along the line. One of the main purposes of the labor-management sl be to obtain the advance support of both groups to governmf wage controls and the projected voluntary price program wf r.Fai. in aauiuon, we issue or a no-strike pledge protac be presented to labor. Union leaders are expected to assent to sucM a pledged that the cost of living will be stabilized.-It is likely also conference would consider establishment of some type of P to handle labor disputes without stoppages in vital defense pr- This job might be delegated by President Truman to ti Stabilization Board headed by Cyrus S. Ching, although tH feels it has no authority under the defense production act' a role. r ; ROCKET REVERSE The 3.5-lnch bazooka rocket pro- in oestroying scores of tanks In Korea, but the same we?f lose lot of batUes for the allies in the future. The iirp hitnnV. , .... . .. -"-- a nuw oeen given io uie communis" capture, and there are a number of reasons why it may pfi useful tn fi j m , ... ....... r I r. - nina man lo the United States. The main reaann tViof tk ...- ei . - "v wic vwu-uian rocKei weapon u cneap to manufacture, and thus Ideally suited for the am" countries where populations are huce and manufac- luring limited. Ironically, the Russians had the 2.56- H in on Hftvssilr t tir.uj tit. ... .... I m TTwm war u ana thought it was id jr UVU, i1." effective against Russian tanks, as was . "e ivorean war when they I y. dwtancea as short as 10 feet and simply 4 .r-.U . 7 "uwever. yieia an entirely different oraer-i I amounts may seem large to the lay. .; i jnade ao far.; v. r - . :' V . ... -:
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