Packages For Mail
No Longer Require
A Printed Label
House wives will be delighted
with a new regulation of the Fust
Office Department now in effect
permitting theiu to seal all their
packages wilhput using a printed
label.
Seat I hem hereafter, and seal
them as lightly as you w ish, Post
master' J. II. Howell advises his
4 patrons. All thai is now necessary
is lo write "May be opened for
postal inspection ' above or below
the sender's return address, he
said.
This ri'w order by Fostmastcr
Gcneial Suniinorfteld lias been
greeted enthusiastically by the
public and postal employees alike.
In the past, Postmaster Howell
explained, it \?as necessary to
have a Friiited permission on seal
ed packages. Typewritten or hand
written instructions wete not ac
ceptable, and the package wa;
either rated u? to first-class rates
or Ihe sendci often had lo hunt up
a printed label.
The old requirement was seldom
understood bv Fost Office patron
and it was the cause ot much lost
time at parcel txtst windows, pan-,
tieularly during the hoikiay rush
es. Mailers would seal their pack
ages with scotch tape or seals, only
to discovei with dismay thai it
was not permitted.
Of course, cautioned Fostniaster
IloWell. the inscription should he
legible if it is handwritten. The
Post Office still prefers the
printed or typed form, but is
waiving the point as a convenience
to its patrons.
Flowers Beat Asphalt
NORFOLK, Va. <AP> ? Twenty
years ago, Mrs. H. O. Crumpler
said, she wanted to plant a garden
and the city-owned plot next to
her house looked like a good spot.
"Go ahead" the city officials told
her. The cfty had charted Ever
green Street to run through the
plot, "but that street never will be
opened in your lifetime."
So. Mrs. Crumpler hauled in
rocks, fertilizer, peat moss and
started planting flowers. Soon the
flower garden became a neighbor
hood showplace. Then last month,
came a notice from the city public
works department that Evergreen
Street would be opened. Mrs.
Crumpler would have to move that
part of her garden which came
within limits of the proposed streel.
the notice said.
At the next city council meeting |
she told her story and then gave
all the councilmen some flowers
from her garden. The councilmen
tossed the problem to the Public
Works Department. On a second
look, the Public Works department
found that Champion Street? ]
another non-existent street on the
other side of Mrs. Crumpler's flow
er bed?would serve the city's pur
poses just as well as Evergreen
Street.
The Roman goddess Venus orig- \
inally represented growth in na
ture and beauty and only in later
times did she acquire the traits of
the Greek Aphrodite and come to
represent human love.
Hospital Could Not Function Without Sterile Equipment
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Sterilization of equipment is absolutely necessary and this department is one of the most important at the hospital. It is something
that is now taken pretty much for granted and patients hardly ever give the matter a thought, in fact "Hospital" and "cleanliness"
are practically synonymous.
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My Favorite Stories
By CARL GOERCH
One Of the most dignified wo
men I've ever met is Mrs. Ander
son of Greensboro.
Mrs, Anderson had her book club
meeting at her house several years
ago. There are very few women
who can entertain their book club
without going out and borrowing
silver from the neighbors, and Mrs.
Anderson proved to be no excep
tion. She borrowed several pieces
from a neighbor, Mrs. Holbrook.
Next day Mrs. Anderson wrapped ;
up Mrs. Molbrook's silver in a neat j
little package and started down I
town. She had some shopping to j
do and. after that was attended to,
she planned to stop by Mrs. Hoi
brook's house anil leave the silver.
While in Meyer's Department
Store, whom should she meet but
Mrs. Holbrook.
"Why, hello. Emma'."
"How are you, Minnie? I de
clare; your meeting yesterday was
perfectly lovely."
"Do you really think so?"
"I most assuredly do."
And then Mrs Anderson said;
"By the way. I've got your silver
ware here with me. I was planning
on stopping by your house on the
way back home and leaving it
there."
"Oh, 110 need to be in a hurry,
about it."
"But I like, to get these things'
out of the way. Are you eating
lunch down town?"
Mrs. Ilolbrook said she was.
"Let's eat together," said Mrs.
Anderson.
So they went to the nearest
restaurant. Mrs. Anderson put her
umbrella on a vacant chair and
placed the small package of silver
inside the umbrella.
Then they ordered lunch. A very
nice lunch, too, according to what
Mrs. Anderson told me. They lin
gered awhile over the meal, as
women will do. Finally, they called
for their check, and, after paying
it, proceeded to leave the establish
ment.
Mrs. Holbrook got up.
Mrs. Anderson got up too and,
as she did so, grabbed her umbrel
la. She had forgotten all about the
silver. As she lifted the umbrella,
the silver dropped out and landed
on the floor. The package busted
wide open and silver spoons, knives
and forks flew in all directions.
Twenty-seven customers and six
waitresses turned around and gaz
ed with intense interest.
The manager who was acting as ?
cashier at the time, left his post j
and came toward the ladies with !
a dangerous glint in his eye.
"Ooooooh!" said Mrs. Anderson.
Mrs. Holbrook didn't do any
thing but turn pale.
"Couple of crooks," someone
commented as a buzz of whispered
convi rsation could be heard all
'over the restaurant.
The manager stopped in front
of them. "So!" he exclaimed, then
waited for the ladies to say some
thing.
"It's perfectly all right." said
the helpful Mrs. Holbrook.
The manager laughed mirthless
ly.
"So it's your silver, is it?" he
demanded.
"Yes," said Mrs. Holbrook.
"Look?it's got my initial engrav
ed on it."
She held up several pieces for
his inspection and finally satisfied
him that the silver didn't belong
to him.
"All right," he finally said, as he
left them.
Mrs. Holbrook and Mrs. Ander
son picked up all the pieces and
left the restaurant to the ac
companiment of such remarks as:
"Bet they stole it somewhere
else." "Look right respectable, too.
don't they?" and other comments
of that type.
It took them a couple of days to
get over it.
Lake Victoria is the largest lake
in Africa and the chief reservoir
of the NUc.
We Extend Our Most Sincere
CONGRATULATIONS
To The
Officials And Staff
Of The New
Haywood County Hospital
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123 Main Street
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Injections Better Than
Pills? Some Think So
by CARL HARTMAN
(For Jane F.adst
WASHINGTON ? Some people
like injections better than pills, a
London surgeon believes, because
they hurt more.
"It should be noted," says Dr.
Richard Robert Willcox of St.
Mary's Hospital, "that the majority
of patients prefer to undergo in
jections, sometimes painful ones,
rather than swallow other remedies
such as pills and so forth, perhaps
in accordance with the theory that
'something that doesn't hurt can't
do any good'."
Dr. Wijcox was talking about
yaws, a dirt-spread tropical disease
that looks like syphilis but isn't.
He attended a conference recently
at Bangkok, Siam, where there
were discusisons of the battle
against it in Haiti. Columbia. Ecua
tor, Indonesia. Thailand, the Philip
pines and other areas. His state
ment of encouraging results was
issued here by the Pan American
Sanitary Bureau.
The conviction grew among the
conferees, he said, that one to three
injections of phenicillin at inter
vals of a few days can definitely
cure a patient. In addition to his
liking it better, the treatment
seems to be more effective and less
dangerous than pill-swallowing.
The pills take longer, too. and the
patient sometimes forgets them.
Total cost of the injectidn is about
$3 per person.
Up to the end of last year nearly
ft million people had been examin
ed in Haiti. Indonesia. Thailand
and the Philippines under a pro
gram of the World Health Organi
zation. U. S.-assisted Point Four
teams have been working in Ecua
dor and Columbia.
One of the doctqrs' main prob
lems. Dr. Wilcox reported, is sup
erstition. One primitive remedy is
to make the patient swallow a med
icine brewed from a certain kind
of snake?apparently becaues the
snake's markings resemble those
of the disease on the human skin.
In some places there is a belief
that "the men will not lie strong
and able to face life successfully
unless they have contracted some
very spectacular form of yawst"
Children are sometimes delibe
rately infected at an early age, he
found, so that their bodies are
mutilated by the time they are 12.
"The face," he said, "may lose
all human aspect and become noth
ing more than a nightmarish mask
worthy of the legends of the Mid
dle Ages."
Thirst For Knowledge
LINCOLN, Neb. <AP>?Max Den
i ney, administrative assistant to
j Nebraska Gov. Robert Crosby, faces
1 an assignment that could keep him
| busy quite some time.
Denney wound up in possession
! of a letter from an Omaha student
| which asked: "Please send me, as
quickly as possible, all information
i on the state of Nebraska.
Particular Robber
DENVER 'API?A man carrying
a pistol went into a North Denver
florist's shop, took a look inside the
cash register, muttered "this isn't
enough" and walked out.
Groundhogs are marmots. il
Texas Bird Shelter
GALVESTON. Te*. <AP>?One of
few places in North America where
the roseate spoonbill will nest is
a small island which would have
disappeared years ago had not
Texas saved It.
it is Vington Island in Galves
ton Bay. When members of the |
Outdoor Nature Club of Houston t
discovered the exotic bird nesting
on the island in 1830. they also
saw that the Island was eroding
away.
Club members planted oleanders,
hackberries and other shrubs and
trees to hold the soil. The plants
also furnished the birds with more
shade and nesting sites. Now the
roseate spoonbill is often joined
>y Louisiana herons, black-crowned
night t. toi rw 1
sno? 1
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Bigger and Better
Is Our Fine
Haywood County Hospital
An institution with a splendid record of
25 years of service to this section of WNC
Waynesville Wholesale Co.
At The Depot Ed Glavich, Manager Waynesville. X. C.
... 25 TEARS Or SERVICE
3 Registered neighbors in congratulating the staff of the Haj?<>oH t
Pharmacists Hospital during the observance of your 25th Anniversary. W?" 111 1 1
?Jq 3erVe You 'a"y Prout' ?' the new addition and the many new and mod'111
^ , offered by this fine hospital . . . one of the most modern and >'|? 1
institutions of its kind in the entire area.
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SMITH'S DRUG STORE
Phone 25 Main Street