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Monday Afternoon, September 3, 1951
Wellco's 10th Birthday
Sixteen pages of this edition are being de
voted to the observance of the 10th anniver
sary of Wellco Shoe Corporation. This pro
gressive, and fast growing firm, started here
in a meager way back in 1941. Today the pro
ducts are sold in all 48 states and several of
the territories of the United States,; and the
demand is ever increasing for the popular
shoes manufactured here..
The company is constantly expanding, and
based on past records, the firm is destined to
continue to grow, and give many others in
this county steady employment.
When the firm began in a small way just
10 years ago, very few would have consented
to have been, quoted as predicting a million
dollar payroll in ten years. Yet that is what
has been accomplished.
The past history of Wellco Shoe has been
one of constant growth; the future is just as
encouraging as the past has been successful.
House Cleaning
Judge Dan Moore, superior court judge of
this jjjgtrict, is getting much favorable press
comment for his action in the Rockingham
county court, as he set out to clear the civil
docket of many moss-covered cases which
have continued to clutter the docket for
years. ,.. :v
The Raleigh News and Observer' said edi
torially: If nothing like it has ever happened before
in its history, Judge Dan K. Moore is making
the right kind of history in announcing that
he is going to clean off the calendar of the
Richmond County Superior Court cases on it
which have aged on it without settlement.
The report from Rockingham is' that dur
ing the July term, Judge Moore discovered
that some 150 civil cases have been on the
calendar term after term during the past ten
years. The number has reached such a vol
ume that much time is taken up at each term
calling up these old cases only to find the
litigants or the attorneys are not ready frr
. trial. Some of them never will be.
Other counties must have similar accumu
lations. "And good judicial housekeeping
shoujd long ago have suggested the 'course'
Judge Moore is following now.
Funny Things Can Happen
When People Close Their
Eyes To Public Affairs
What happens in Winston-Salem is import
ant, in this instance, to Chatham County only
because it serves to illustrate a point we're
about to make: that public indifference to the
affairs of government can create situations by
which politicians take powers unto them
selves that were not intended to be left in
their hands.
Several years ago the people of Winston
Salem voted in favor of the city manager
form of government and, after a lengthy
search, a man, by the name of C E. Perkins
was hirecL,to fill the job.
In the intervening years Perkins did an
amazingly competent job as even his worst
enemies would readily admit. But the politic
ians in the City Hall didn't like him because
he couldn't be "run". He did his job without
regard to political implications involved and
in the course of so doing he trod upon the toes
of sensitive politicoes.
More than a year ago these politicians set
out to "get" Perkins. They tried all the old
tricks they accused him of appropriating
city materials to his personal use. They pass
ed around sly innuendoes about his personal
affairs. They said he had a bad temper. They
accused him of side-tracking Winston-Salem
firms to do business with outsiders. This is
an old, old formula. It is the "smear" which
has grown in favor among politicians because
they can use it without too much fear of be
ing called to account.
Perkins went about his business despite the
fact that he was a controversial figure in
tensity of the controversy growing each day
as public apathy continued to encourage the
politicians.
On a Friday night several weeks ago the
politicians acted. They passed a resolution
over the protest of Winston-Salem's city at
torney and "fired" Mr. Perkins. He knew it
was coming and it was common knowledge
around the Twin City that even the Perkins
successor had been chosen and was almost
signed, sealed and ready to be delivered be
fore the "firing" took place.
Of course the indignation of the people pop
ped up after the summary action of the poli
ticians. But it was too late. A fine servant had
been sacrificed on the altar of cheap politics
and the people deprived of the services of a
man against whom his enemies could find lit
tle of criticism levee only that he had a
temper and that the board had the right to
fire a city manager at its discretion.
The Perkins successor has been hired. He is
They 11 Do It Every Time
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niTT-ik aiavi sen
And quote grunto
pis iron, will you,
LIKE A GOOD FELLOW?
CAH you FW OUT
Mitt" CONX MONOCLE
IS SELLING AT
Iti LONDON?
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fS INI HERE
, FROM 10 TO 3
ever my-
BUT I NEVtR
SEE HIM 30
AWyWlNG-
yA CAliT TELL-THE GUYS
WITH NO SEAT IN THEfK
PANTS MAY0E WRZ IT
OUT UJTiNS A FAT WALLET-
,SO WE GOTTA BE NICE
10 EVERYBODY'
By iimmy Hado Rambling 'Rowg
3
ORDER
ROOM
TMlS IS BETTER'N
SITTING IN THE PARK-
j think he steals
OUR TiCKER TAPE
AN' SELLS IT Km.
CONFETTI
YEAH-HE At
WSAYS VtSAZS A
eOUTONNfEEE.CUT
I'LL BET HE PONT
KNOW WHERE HIS
HEKiSOUP STAIN
IS COMING FROM-
Tim
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Casins 'm board-
ROOM HABITUE' WHO
SITS IT OUT-.
Stock ahead, .
5oMy,NEWytKlN.yr
Dits Of Human Interest News
By Frances Gilbert Frazier
S YEARS AGO
Miss Frances Rogers, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rogers of
Canton is crowned Queen of Labor
Day in the beauty contest held in
Champion Park.
L. N. Davis is elected president
of the Haywood Electric Member
ship Corporation.
Twenty thousand people attend
Labor Day program at Canton.
Miss Bernice Harrell entertains
with dinner for Miss Jean Murphy
of Miami, Fla.
10 YEARS AGO '
Six hundred and eight students
register at Waynesville High School
for the new term; 238 register, in
Junior High.
Price of milk is raised from 12
cents per quart to 14 cents.
Mrs. J. Howard Bryson of States
vllle is appointed public health
nurse of Haywood County.
Four ' thousand persons attend
open house at Dayton Rubber Com
pany.' ' , .
15 YEARS AGO
Payment of the Lake Junaluska I
debt is now assured.
Three attractive young laaies
took their places alongside of us
in the pew as we were attending
church last Sunday. After scanning
the bulletin, one of the young
ladies leaned over and whispered:
"Is there another Presbyterian
Church in Waynesville?" and be
fore we could reply, she continued:
"You see, we have traveled miles
out of our way to see Charles
Igley, the choir director, and this
isn't the church." We directed her
to the Baptist Church and as they
quielty left, she leaned over and
whispered to us: "Right pew but
wrong church." ".
So many times we think we
need consolation when what we
really need is common sense.
It makes all the difference In the
world how people spend their time
during six days of the week as to
how they regard Sunday. To us
who glare at the clock when the
alarm pulls us to waking conscious
ness on six successive mornings,
Sunday offers everything; rest,
peace church ' benediction, ming
ling with friends, relaxation and
preparation for the coming six
to whom the Preceding
been all Sundays, the A
nd by afternoon 1?
down with a hea
somehow, we belief
weekers get more out
weekthan,theseve.sij
Heard in'pas'J
she head him hu3
- waists l
; 'n time."
each ntw , . . 10tr!
theV beean th . CWI
"Where ;;, 7JT.
irom1" ii
nnoH tViat nil .1. '
iml. l,J w"t
"au "'any mutual d
had never mpt a. .l.
"a.vnesviUei;
York, you'll always
who knows some one J
And tothis was added,
"VVI orK: just hasn't J
"c i" u, mat s
all."
Didn't we tell you It
T.aKnf Tin. Ur
"c" . nere U is!
Haywood County is asking for Thanks From MaSOHS
over a million uunais in iciunus
from State Highway Department.
Letters To The Editor
"uiiiv iuu very
Davis MacGhee, 17. rides his
bicycle 768 miles from Moorestown,
N. J. to visit relatives here.
Editor The Mountaineer:
'We, the committee for the
Masonic summer assembly, wish to
thank you for the news space and
pictorial coverage so generously
given the Waynesville Masonic
bodies during the recent 1951 as
sembly. " ' " """
We appreciate ,your. thoughtful-
Mrs. Charles E. Ray arrives
from Chapel Hill-1. visit. Mr. Ray
for a fortnight.
.1 Frank Hodffes who is lorat, ss In taking ptwtegraphs of lo.
ed at Murphy, joins his family here 1 cal Mason and other dignitaries,
for the week-end.
bvJA'I3 ILCOU DAI LEV
" ttxmt i ii nu i iiirminiiiiittn. niiinn m iiitiiii.tiiii'iiiiii
; INVENTION Ben McDonald of'
Wilmington, North Carolina's most
listened to commentatbr, had this
to say on Wilmington's WMFD and
a chain of five other stations, the
other day.
"There's a big, big feature story
for the newspaper boys at Lake
John D. Gold, former police chief of Winston- Waccamaw' Co County, and
' I if- nnnsiAtmc IT r. .... Cl U 4U.
Salem and more recently director of North .tor of the famous Anchorage. Mr
Carolina State Prison. Gold is a capable man.
He has had no previous experience as a city
manager and Winston-Salem's municipal
business is big business.
We wonder if Mr. Gold realizes that the
ame, forces which brought to an end the
worthwhile services rendered by Mr. Perkins
could well be used to throw him out on his
ear in the event that a change in the nature
of the politicians in the City Hall were to be
brought about.
And we wonder, too, if the "Perkins inci
c ent". won't serve to revive public interest in
Winston Salem's government so that a re
currance of demagogic practices won't be
come standard operating procedure.
It all adds up: public apathy , can create
some darned peculiar situations.
Chatham County News.
MIRROR OF YOUR MIND
4r.lt t 1 i 1 IV. Ill I IV 1M VA
JB LAWRENCE GOULD
Consulting Psychologist
been made to "follow up" their
findings later, but noreally satis
factory results have oeen ob
tained. Too many "unmeasured
factors" like ability to eam a liv
ing, alcoholism, and in-law inter
ference have confused the situa
tion, to say nothing of the most
important factor of all, the capac
ity tor "adjustment,"
Anchorage. Mr.
Smith has had a big-time inven
tion patented, and if the, shortage
of materials doesn't stop its im
mediate manufacture, Harry Smith
has earned what any man would
consider a fortune.
"1 am given to understand that
.the largest manufacturers in the
country are bidding for the rights
to produce the new deep fat fryer
invented by the capable restaurant
operator
Ben McDonald probably merits
another scoop on that one. Matter
of fact, Smith has. a patent on
type of copper netting which makes
it possible for you to cook fish in
a deep fat fryer, pull the netting
through the grease and then use it
as virtually pure grease again for
potatoes. Follow this with chicken
If you wish; and there is still no
potato or fish odor in the grease
So on and so forth. Westinghouse
is one of the firms tremendously
interested in the device. Others
are said to be bidding for it
It couldn't happen to a nicer
guy than Harry Smith, who
Known and loved by prominent
folks, politicians included, through.
out jsoutneastern North Carolina
North and East and only six per
cent in the South. . .
The ICCis now moving tn nut
all rail freight rates on a uniform
basis for the South, East, and
North. For 50 years the South has
been pleading for, this, It is now
coming to pass, thanks largely to
strong Southern representation in
the Congress for the past 20 years.
An end to freight rate discrimin
ation will enable the South to
hold in ; the future the plants
which are being planned for this
area by a Government needing in
dustry a safe distance from popu
lous (and atomic-attractive) areas.
Should you be "afraid of doctors"?
Answer: No there may be soma
basis for this feeling in the rare
case of the person who has suf
fered from malpractice or -incompetence,
but in general anyone
who says he is afraid of doctors
though he has had little contact
with them is really afraid of what
they might tell him i.e., of the
facts about his physical condi
tion. This fear in turn may uncon
sciously reflect a dread pf finding
out "the truth about himself
of having to face the moral weak
nesses that plague his conscience.
Yet no physical or moral danger
eac be overcome unless you lace
ft realistically. ' - v
Can success in marrSag
b predicted?
. Anaweri Hot reliably by any
tests that have yet been devel
oped, says Dr. Clifford R. Adams
1a Marriage and family Li ring.
For the past twelve years mar
riage prediction tests have been
given to i ingle Individuals and
engaged couples at PtansylTania
State Cotkgs ed an attempt has
. UU. Dm Wmtwm SraStwta. fata
Do wo enjoy stupidity in others?
Answer: Yes. gome of the most
highly paid entertainers owe
their success to their being able
to appear "dumb" and make
blunders which the average per
son would not dream of making.
The pleasure they give us is
partly a feeling of superiority, but
perhaps still more relief at being
able to see ignorance as funny.
For it can be frightening to realize ,
how stupid we are capable of
being so that to see dumbness
treated as a joke brings a release
of nerrous tension which we
gledly pay to enjoy. Then, too,
realizing that the "dumb blonde"
is not actually as dumb as she
looks helps us hope that ws aren't,
either. v
or ate PAYROLLS Total
state government payrolls went up
$17,000,000 in the year endine last
April 3, according to the Census
Bureau. Two states. Maine and
Massachusetts, reduced their pay
rolls during the 12 months' pe
riod and about half the states re
duced the number of State em
ployees.
The Census Bureau reports that
eight states New York, California,
nun in l-akulina, Pennsylvania
Texas, Illinois, Ohio, and Michi.
gan accounted for practically
one-half of all payrolls and 44 per
cent of all employees of the 48
state governments.
Voice
of the
People
as wejl as for the many other court
esies shown our group.
W. A. Abel
F. G. Rippetoe
Jack Felmet
What are you doing on Labor
Day?. ;', '.,
Boundary Lines
Within the United States straight
and nearly straight latitude and
longitude lines predominate as state
boundaries. Colorado a.nl Wyoming
appear as perfect rectangle, each
with two north-south and two east'
west borders.
Editor,. The Mountain
- We of the Morning Sj
munuy would like to tak
puriunuy t0 express our
ana appreciation for the
Ficiures ana write-up of ol
munity which appeared in
ust 28 issue of the h
Mountaineer. We know thi
ed a lot of expense and i
the part of the Mountains
and we would like to say
you very much."
Barbara Setzer
Morning Star M
Ancients Kecoimnecdri
Liver was -recommnM
cure for r.ight blindness dJ
Middle Ages. Gr.e such pnl
has even been found on ai
papyrus of 1530 B.C. Tin
didn't know it, but night:
is associated with a deE:
v'tamin A. Liver suppfe:
mln. ".
, Mi's. Glenn Wyatt: "I don't know
what I am going to do but . I'll
probably go to Cherokee to see my
mother."
Mrs. William Withers: "I expect
to be carrying out the plans we
have made for the entertainment
of sixteen salesmen who will be
Wellco's guests over Labor Day
week end.
IASHIH
MARCH OF EVENTS
Alaska Resources Could
Supply Many Millions
Get the Lead Out!
Turkey's rriost important lead op
eration was formerly at northwest
Balya, between the inland city ef
Balikesir and the Dardanelles
Strait, where extensive deposits
were worked by French interests.
The mines were closed down, how
ever, some time ago, because of
high costs and transportation prob
lems. At present, the government's
Eti Bank, the agency responsible
for developing Turkey's mineral
resources,' is pushing two . lead
projects the Bolkardag mine, and
the Keban mine, the latter in the
east-central part of the country. In
1948, new processing and power
plants were completed at Keban. .
Xrue Founder
While , Charles Darwin, by his
"Origin of Specie?" 0859) con
verted the scientific world to the
theory of evolution, Lamarck,
(1744-1829) was the true founder of
the theory. .
Mary Dorcas Howell; "I'll be
packing my bags to go to school,
I hope. I leave for Cullowhee a
week from Monday,"
Mrs. Kyle campbeu: "i guess
we'll go on the last picnic of the
season. We'll go to Canton and
Hendersonville to see the parades."
Mrs. Ed Hill; "I expect we'll be
in Newport News, Va., where we
are going to live. My husband gets
home Sunday morning from the
National Guard encampment,, and
we 11 leave Sunday evening , for
Virginia.
.Herb Smgletary: "My brother
has just arrived for a visit, and if
were not working, we'll be off
somewhere together."
, Moslem Shrine
The principal shrine ot the Mos
lems is the Kaaba, at Mecca, which
marks the birthplace of Mohammed,
All Arabs face its direction to pray
and all believers who can are re
quired to make at leact one pilgrim
age there during their lifetime.
Interior DtH
Report Reveals ft
Special to Central Press
W7ASHINGTON Alaska is on the same latitude as NoH
I W Sweden. If it had a population density equal to theil
those Scandinavian nations, its inhabitants would soar frtt
100.000 to more than 12 million. Alaska's resources, a butt!
released by the Department of the Interior indicates, could M
BODulation up to 10 million.
I Alaska's remoteness has caused many Americans includ;!
eressmen to be apathetic regarding- the vast region s dl
. nnu Amanita ir iiuiur-iii i
numerous miscontopuons bduui us p
future value to the nation.
Prepared for the information ef Conrl
Interior report contains facts that aescri
tention of the whole American puouc.
some things you may not know about ours
trrritorv
Alaska is one-fifth as larjrc as the Unilrij
and it extends one-sixth of the way si
world at that latitude. It has an estinw
hllHnn hnnfd foflt (Sf merchantable timW 1
of the finest forests in the world, yet Ml
part of its lumber is imported from uI
States. I
Alaska nniwnwa llnHfVcloned POtentUM
and yet it imports $10 million of pwj
u
Washington
"PLANK STEAK'
LEADER Meantime, the U. S.
Commerce Department reports
that North Carolina led the South
last year in total income with
$3,880,000,000. Total Income in
eludes wages and salaries, farm in
come. Government payments, and
all other forms of income to resi
dents, of this State.
HIGH COTTON Looking at
either our State payroll or our in
come, we seem to be walking in
pretty high cotton, tobacco, tex
tiles, corn, or what have you.
SIX AND NINE The Interstate
Commerce Commission three
weeks ago in action given too lit
tle attention in N. C. raised rail
freight rates nine percent in the
ITrAlfykt .ntnn tA A Inslfa ..a .m hirrh thftv TAllSe
nriPM to skvrnrkpf homiiae mannfflrturin? has not been d'1!
Alaska and mnnv of th chin have tn return empty
y Alaska is estimated to have 17 million acres of land m
farm crops and grassland for livestock, and yet it ""P0.
its food. Alaska's vast river system, offering 3.000 miles of"
channels, is capable of producing 50 billion kilowati-tw"'1
.energy each year.
I RUSSIA ACROSS "STREET" Alaska lies only 56
Bering Strait from Soviet Russia's Siberia, and its 33.W
kfiord-notched coastline create a major problem of coasts
but numerous other metals and strategic minerals M' j
I(v nf hlimfln IncrAnuitv bi anlamrioa Alaska's tOPSV't"' '
I arilin lllimtrateH Kv Ha nol With raonnroes believed W
billion tons. Alaska In 1945 imported coal valued at $464,WJ
... . . .h,roi!tern a1"!
uong-range planners in Alaska iook upon Ilu'1' ,,r.
an economic unit, including Canada's northwest, particuia I
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vi iwaa .uiuiuuia aim ine xunon wnitu uui.ii w--- ..j
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- Indicate that natural resources there could support six ro
. rnlniu Ikli ai. ...i.l. A In.lra'. .nttantlfkl 11)1"""
have a population two million greater than Casadas p
population.
-.it c, .ai f r i toH States
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tng, processing, manufacturing and marKeung
lurmermore. wnen populated would be a nearoy i-
sometime when Moscow replaces the present ori:
wihi utiesmen aesirous of co-operaiing to aevci'
uais ror me good of mankind. It will be possu: -
establish a Bering Strait link between the mgnw
and railway systems of the Americas with those oi
Asia. Europe and Africa. This is a geographic ana
scientific possibility as soon as men decide to use
their resources for constructive purposes instead o .
wasting them in warfare.
Meanwhile, we need to face todav's facts and strei
defenses to assure that Russia shall not make an invaa
.of this sparse and undeveloped region Which Congre
patheUc even jo convert Into s state.
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