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fd X?Kt& SecttonT Thursday Afternoon, M HIE TTATNtSVILLt 'SIOtNTAlNmi m THE MOUNTAINEER Pictorial Editorial Winesville, North Carolina fata Street Phone 7M The County Seat of Haywood Copnty Published By ' the WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. W. CURTIS nnss ,W. Curtis Russ and Marlon T. Bridges. Publlsherj PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY f HAYWOOD COUNTY ne Year 13.00 x Months . . , 1:75 r NORTH CAROLINA tW Yeaf. flit Months.. .,.,- OUTSIDE NORTH CAROLINA One Vm Six Months . , $4 00 3.25 . Enta-ad at tht post office at Waynesvltle, N. C, 94 Class Mill Matter, at provided under the Act March I, 1871, November 20, 1914. , $4.60 aa 8c. Of ( Obituary notices, resolutions of respect, card of thanks and aC notlcss of entertainment for profit, will bs charted tor. at the rati of two cents per word. ; MTMRER OF THEASSOCIATED PRESS " , Tha Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the Utie tor re-publlratlon ot all the local news printed In tins sewspnper, as well as all AP news dispatches. ' NATIONAL iPITOIIAt : ' - - - '. . : Thursday Afternoon, March 15, 1951 Cool, Careful Study Needed The local school building program is a deadlock until an election has been held on the bond issue, according to the decision of officials, after consulting the law, and author ities on the matter. And that is the reason pe titions calling for signatures of 1,500 qualified voters are now being circulated. ' . ' Trie Haywood district has $346,000 from the state bond program, but under the present circumstances in Haywood, none of this can be spent until an election is held. The officials have had a ruling to substan tiate their decision, and thus the push that is Ibein made to hold the election. Z Again, The Mountaineer reaffirms its Jforrr.er stand, that now is a time for cool, "clear thinking on this important subject, and ;not a time for snap judgment, and off-tan-gent ideas. apt ; Marines On Another Beachhead Tourist operators at Wrightsville Beach Jare J'aced with a problem; as well as causing a problem. When housing became scarce for the near by Marine Camp, numerous families movterj5 into beach homes last fall. Now the owners have ordered eviction, because they want the .property for the summer season. The families Z of at least 25 Marines can't find living fluart JJers, but that still does not mean the property owners are content with anything less than 2 having their houses. Someone suggested the Marines pay the summer rates and keep the houses, but with rates from $55 to $100per week, the Marines I ask, "Pay with what?" " All this is another complication brought on by war. Modified Inspection Law Another modified inspection law proposal has been introduced in the General Assembly. It is less cbrnplicated, and calls for greater convenience to the motorists than the former law which was killed last session. The Mountaineer is still of the opinion that a regulation governing inspection of motor vehicles is a good piece of legislation, and be lieve that one designed to be of service, rather than a hardship on the general public, would be n asset to the citizens of the state. .oily:: . t This sign, about three feet square-. Is nailed on a large tree, beside- a road not too far from Waynes vllle. It is easy to understand what Is meant by the message, although the spelling is not exactly ac cording to Webster. The photographer who made this picture .has witnesses that the sign still exists, and is just a few feet from a road. This is further proof that more attention should be given to the subject of spelling. , Spellbound The Gastonia Gazette, following a similar line of thought expressed in these columns not too long ago, finds a definite need for more attention to be given spelling. The Gazette in an editorial pointed out: Charles A. Dana, famed editor of The New York Sun, always gave a spelling test to ap plicants for reportorial jobs. It consisted of this sentence: "It is disagreeable to witness the unpar alleled embarrassment of a harassed peddler gauging the symmetry of a peeled pair." Perhaps some of you school teachers would like to give your pupils that test; better still, why don't some of you principals give the test to your teachers? Newspaper editors probably see the most flagrantly mispelled words. Everything "from soup to nuts," so to speak, is misspelled in copy which is submitted for publication. Spelling is no longer considered important in our schools. The children learn to read by sight not by vowels or syllables or the ABCs. First graders depend mostly upon memory for their reading. We've no doubt that this is a tried and true method and that our public school instructors know what they're doing. But it remains that our boys and girls are sadly lacking in an ele mentary knowledge of spelling. . About the only working class which must practice good spelling consistently is the stenographic corps. And many of these girls would be lost without their handy copy of Webster's. Newspapers have sad experiences not only with high school graduates but those with col lege degrees too. It seems that no one is re quired to spefl, or for that matter, to write a legible hand. Of course, we are in the machine age and a legible hand isn't as important as it once was. But we've got several typewriters in our business offices that can't spell a whit! Bad News Goes Far Eastern Carolina is much disturbed over the fact that out of fifty men recently sent for an Army examination, that only six pass ed the test. The chairman said that heretofore the ratio of rejections had been better than fifty per cent. The fifty per cent group did not get much publicity; while the 12 per cent group has caused headline after headline" So it goes. , MIRROR OF YOUR MIND By LAWRENCE GOULD Consulting Psychologist nessman who expect his em ployees to know without being told that he intends to treat them fairly, or wants them to take an interest in work for which they see no adequate reason, leaves them an easy prey to fomenters of unrest. It is as Important to "sell" yourself to your workers as to advertise your products to the public. - v Do children naturally fear the dark? Answer: Most children go " through a phase of seeming to do - so, but it generally is not the dark Z they are really afraid of it Is being left alone. Freud quotes a Z child as saying, "If someone talks, it gets lighter Fear of being Z a'one has a realistic basis in the fact that the child has Intense " urges hunger, for example which he knows he cannot satisfy " for himself yet which cause pain to ful anxiety and tension if frus- - fated. The surer the child has m j come to be that his needs will be " met as th? arise, the less afraid he will be of the dark or of any "wthing else. Is "communication" an impor tant business problem? Answer: Very much so.' Elton Mayo, quoted in Personnel Jour nal, says that the inability of In dividuals and groups to com municate their feelings and ideas to one another la "without doubt tfie outctandu defect that civil ftation b facing today." The busi- Does insanity affect the I. Q.? Answer: Yes, say Drs. Sheldon R. Rappaport and Wilse B. Well of Alton (111.) State Hospital. Testa given to ten patients posi tively diagnosed as schizophrenic, the records of whose schoolday I. Q. scores were available, showed a very large and significant loss of intellectual capacity. They were negative in attitude, did not con centrate or pay attention, and ap peared indifferent and preoccu pied. However, ell these are emo tional attitudes characteristic of the schizophrenics' withdrawal from realjty and show that the patients did not want to use their cinds, rather than that they could not. Theyll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo OL' VQA SLAVES DAY IM. ETC. eflXMNS THE CHICKENS WTWOUT AUCA AS A KIND WORD FROM POP"" HiT-c.r inn iy to raise J V-h -WllV ISUWSGK'STEHSefi ii rr iwur fflVFS rTRyiWiNlS AJAY AHD TAIS All TWE BOWS? A5 MOfA'" SHE (KNOiVS!I P' HEKt, COUSIN -TAW MC F."?yl? HOWE 1WE ISSUS-I f?AS MYSELF-AW SOME TAKE 5QWE FOR WALDO AMD BcZTlE.MAW CA KILL -EM AMD PLUCK 'EM WHILE YOU AHD Ml have a utile Looking BackOver The Years IS YEARS AGO Charles E. Ray Is re-elected president of the Chamber of Commerce. W. Tom Rainer is named sales managor of Watklns Chevrolet Company. Waynesville High girls win Blue Ridge Basketball Tournament. Mrs. Juhn M, Queen gives all day rug-hooking party. 10 YEARS AGO Walter Francis opens new gro cery store on Church Street. Mrs. Dewey Hyatt Is named pies ident of the Haywood County Parent-Teacher Council. Mr. and Mrs. Turn Alexander of Cataloochee Ranch leave for Ven ice, Florida for a vacation. Charles Messer has kindei'Sarten class on birthday. part' his for siMll Miss Alma Jackson, Junior at 5 YEARS AGO Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Patrick start construction of a 10-unit tourist court. I.t. William Ray returns home on terminal leave. John James and son. Glen .lames, purchase' Walnut - Cove I'ai in on Jonathan Creek from Mrs, Joe cm. Harold Massie is discharged from Western Carolina Teachers Col- the Army Air Force and returns lege,' sings on college, program. hoim SHAMES JH EOU PAIIEV '-fc jUu-jMa w.. f1 f () 1 1 il n J.jisTi -In-iii in f. ': JUST FERTILIZER Consider. atlon last week of a bill which would require motorists convicted of speeding to have governors plac ed on their cars and thus kn the speed to a maximum of 50 miles an hour brouaht uo the yarn about the colored man who was on his way from Lumberton to Whitevllle. . He was clipping along in his pickup truck at around 65 miles an hour when he heard what he described later as the "sireen of the gray goose". It was the patrol man or petroleum, as some peo ple refer to him and he pulled up beside the truck and asked the driver if he knew how much speed he was making. No. boss, he didn't. Have you got a governor on your truck?" 'No siree. Boss, that's iust a load of fertilizer." TOSSING IT AROUND - This story was tossed around last week as if it was new and thev were having a big time with it. As a matter of fact, the yarn was get ting plenty of laughs several vears ago when Senator Clyde R. Hoey was Governor. In fact, he seemed Voice of the People What do you think of the propos ed tax increase of 3 cents on a pack of cigarettes? $156,000,000. This $10,000,000 in crease $20,000,000 for the bien-! Edward Haney- "It wouldn't hurt nium should prove sufficient tojme. I don't smoke. But from the help the teachers, the State cm-j standpoint of raising taxes, I don't ployees including the Highway em-(think it is necessary." ployees . Iwhp need assistance .just. as much 6r more than the teach- t" - ,. v . ers), and to give assistance to our Fred Jones: "I nl in favor of il more pressing social needs. Thele aIe so manV People who , smoke who don't pay any other GOLF CURSES-Charles Parker !ax' Ilhl"k erybody should help is doing a good job for the State I bear "le 1aX burde"; News Bureau, but one of his writ-) ers has no doubt had some trouble j J, c. Rose; "I think cigarettes with sand traps and other hazards are 'taxed enough. I'm not in favor and handicaps of golfing. In one of j of an increase." the recent beautiful booklets on I "Variety Vaeationland," referenci is made to the many beautiful goll courses in the Southern Pines Pinehurst areas. In fact, the bul Bill Ray: "It would make smok ! ing pretty expensive." letin reports that probably no oth er area of that size in the United States has so many golf curses. to get a big kick out of telling it on with it. So hard, as a matter klmn.lf I TAKING IT EASY A lecisla- live measure which would change the senatorial representation in the State does not seam to he making too much headway. This uenerai Assembly has matters .of more importance to consider thus the bill may be delayed out of existence. However, sooner or later a reapportionment mav h pflWipH The Mecklenburg Senator repre- sms lau.uoo people; the Guilford Senator, 190.000: and the Forsvth Senator, 150,000. Senators from the more populous counties rep resent 100,000 people or more. In the eastern and far western counties, the senators represent around 50.000 DeoDle rarh It Is proposed that there be a redisrict ing, with three or four of the big counties having two senators raeh and enlarging some of, the sena torial districts in the less popu lous areas. This looks good on paper How. ever, the less populous counties are in the majority and their senators happen to be among the most able in the Legislature. That's why you are not likely soon to see any dras tic rearrangement 1 of senatorial districts. REPORT The sub-committee named to make recommendations to the Joint Appropriations Com mittee should be prepared to make its report by the latter part of next week. The Joint Finance Com mittee has lopped off the head of each attempt to raise any taxes. Its work may be completed with in the next day or two. As day follows day, it becomes more apparent that there will be no new taxes and no alteration in our present tax schedule. Estimat. ed State income will probably be increased from 1146,000,000 to ALL MAKE 'EM We all make our errors. When Senator Hoey was Governor, he decided to raise a window at the Mansion. The win dows at the Governor's Mansion are about three times the size of that one right over there and the would-be lifter had a hard time of fact, that the next morning the Ra. leigh News and Observer had a writeup to the effect that "Gov ernor Hoey suffers hernia lifting widow at Mansion," 'Greenland About six-sevenths of Greenland, world's largest island, is capped by an ice mass up to a mile and a half thick. If the ice cap were 'suddenly to melt, it would cause the oceans to overflow their present shores. Ralph Summerrow: "I guess we'll have Jo roll our own, if any more tax is put on cigarettes. If money were spent as wisely by the government as it is individually, we wouldn't need any more tax." C. N. Allen: "I'm against a tax increase on cigarettes. 1 think we have enough." Zeb Curtis: "I think we had bet ter have tax on cigarettes than on food and other essentials," Refrigerator Care The next time you clean your re frigerator use your electric vaccum cleaner, and the attachments. Con siderable dust and lint collect on the condensing coil and plate of the el ectric cord plug on the refrigerator for safety precautions while clean ing and remove all this dust and lint. Your refrigerator will operate much more efficiently. FIBBER SOMEBODY'S CLOSET " W&M - ml :imliv '' m Rambling 'Rouni Bits Of Human Interest NWS By Frances Gilbert Frazier Well, did you attend to your Income Tax duties today? Now, for twelve months, you will be able to think of something else ... and by the time the fifteenth of March rolls around again, so many im portant things can happen. Time has always had a way of carrying on as usual despite our frantic at tempts to stem its advance or hur ry its passing. Time and the weather are two important items that neither money nor politics can infiuence. Spring fever is an ailment that is followed by a rash of sun burn. - . :- -:-' Laughter is the oil that lubri cates the machinery of every-day life. Somehow, a good laugh loos ens up all the muscles of the mind and heart; the sun comes from be hind a cloud of uncertainty and beams warm and soothing on ruf fled spirits. People seem more friendly after a congenial ha-ha together; opinions that have varied have a way of becoming reconciled. Never was there a truer saying: "Laugh and the world laughs with you" , . . and you know the rest. The quickest way in the world to reach isolation is to continually seat yourself beneath a weeping willow tree. The passer.. I with the young staring at his new,,J automobile. -Well- i greeting addressed u owner, "have oa J test yet?- And the mournfully- "D 1 er or sanity?" -:- -:- She was one of th T6 dtwillin8oung offered her servi,.. vey campaign. The caJ "' "line, address the word: "Remarks'" card came in as foliOWs John Jnnps; ; j j -uuress 1 street; Remarks: . Very J mjr. ": up 01 your The soring breeze SJ wic uiam-m's on ;(,, shrub bv the porch, and in the bright sun wa weaving a web so delicaiJ wondered how jt w-jttJ swaying 0 Me branches worked, each intrirat. falling into its exact J make the pattern peril ei some women sav they even a straight seam. ' SCOTT'S SCRAP BOOK CM ISH -foqt-fXLR IK AM AOUA.B.IUM AMP rtlY WIU SHOCK OHE- is Killed. . A VMlH WERE. SEEL YIRE. NA.ILS FIRS-f MA.DE COMMJU!A.l.LY l A.MER.ICA. p 18.75 C l UJ I hi ,1 i M ISSSI H i1 L' It 1 f 1 S' Ik pofiio XSV I tm S PC CUV PERUVlAH CO R MO RAH' IS SKIPPED AS fER-fiLlZER. -fo ALL PARIS OF THE WORLP. BulLOlsl HI MM. Al,0 Ul CLUBHJ POPUlAt MARCH OF EVENTS Nevada Atom Tests for Soviet Russia's 'Benefit'? Reactor Can Cieoli Faster Than It Con: Atomic Blast Spi-cial to Central Pir.w AY"ASHIX"T0-y'Tncl'e is stiong1 conviction in Washing V the series of atomic tests in Nevada recently may hail conducted to serve notice on Russia of our atomic strength as to experiment on new A-bomb developments. Observers "point out that the tests were publicized more ft previous atomic blasts even though the Atomic Energy Com: clamped a security blackout on any of the details. It is noti 1V holding the tests in the continental States the AEC adopted a course which m would lead to wide publication, of the cvntl The AEC probably could have conuiuted periments iust as well in its Kimvetnk i ground in the Pacific and kept them a lp until it chose to announce them, lliraevt licit V mav have hern iust vh;it the Atonal mission wanted. The Nevada tests certainly demonstra Russia and the world that wc have plenty boinhs and nre hnsv at work imnrovinsf thtl ATOMIC MAGIC In the midst of I' war, the Atomic Enerev Commission U come tin with its most sensational peaces vice the first electricitv-Droducine: atomic rower plant. The commission's so-called "breeder" reactor, beine built st Id., is nearly ready for unveiling. Engineers say its heat will generator bigr enough to keep a thousand light bulbs burning Although experimental, the nlant is hound to he sensaW Cause it Will nrnrlnrn mrtvo ufnmin funl Ihon it Vinrn? It will h closest approach to perpetual motion. What, happens is that thn "snare nnotmns" nrodiircl 'in the process are captured to make more atoms radioac tive and tM usable as fuel, and the amount of fuel thus created promises the amount burned. However, economic electricity from the atom is still a to off. The cost of the breeder is more than $3 million and it! oil costs will be hith. Chemical nroressine- of fuel is cost!)' evffl it is created. ' DEFENSF. mvTRjrT Titavn ts lnnL- fnr any Si lar probing by the House armed services committee into"! contracts. Something hot may turn up, but it will be e"I iiiLiueniai. Reasons: Chairman fai-'i vi mi r.pnrpia. insist investigative powers and thn ssn.nnn nnn'ronrialion for the Pt order primarily to h uiemberitt lish a special investigating committee, which Vinson feared 'I vuu niuen ot a publicity hunter. The committee's efforts will be chiefly preventive,"101 Hdtcnuog nature. There is no driving chairman wno -crusade and to exni.'.it i.,i t, ouit nt bv im'f! 1 The Senate war preparedness subcommittee under Chain' 1 "on. jonnson (D), .Texas,, is too far ahead and too r situation to lose the ball. . ; T .J LATIV AAlFRinixr E-,.r-r-,r t a ,.ir rica i M!l a strone- fie-hr in , . r it.11oj states con"1! " o fiv jjiuvcLiiun iron, uuiitu . allocations. Most Americans do not realize it but controls " America profoundly. During World War II e c i.mgnDox republics were put under terrific strain. Latin Americans are particularly worried "about price controls. They fear that while their big exports to the United States will be controlled, the price of goods they buy from here will be allowed to rise. The results would be swta icoa antf inflation. They fear allocations will not give fair consideration to "1 . utvciupmcni. xney rear loans anu i'!" --""t-"'i. iJiugrarns will be curtailed. Ih.r $ Latin America wants guarantees on these and oln" e matters. They have a strong bargaining point since tiW w an Incrcasineiv .lo C1
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