Mm. Ketchum Dies
Wednesday Morning
At Yellowstone Park
Mrs Morgan C. Ketchum c
Memphis. Tennessee, a summe
resident ol Lake Junaluska for th
past forty years, died unexpected!
Wednesday morning at Yellow
stone National Park.
Mrs Ketchum. u'dou of the lati
Judge Ketchum was on a trip will
her son and daughter-in-law, Mr
and Mrs William Ketchum o
Birmingham Ala and her broth
er-in-law. Walthan Ketchum ol
Memphis
She left Waynesvtlle about ter
days ago and expected to returx
August 16
The body will be taken to the
home. 178 South McLean Boule
vard. Memphis, and the funeral
services will be held in Memphis
soTHISij^f
NEW YORK
BY NOtTB CALLAHAN
Travellers returning here Iron.
Europe say that one reason wi
den t get better cooperation from
countries over tnere is tnat tht
European people don t like Ameri
cans as well as we would like to
tnink. According to these first
hand reports, many average citi
zens ot the Continent and Eng
land still resent our advancements
and wealth. This teeling is not al
ways reflected in the governments,
wno of course hnd it to their ad
vantage to be friendly with Uncle
Sam. 'litis situation reminds me ol
wnat the late John Dewey sato
when a European lecturer askeo
him why Americans are so money
minded. Keplied Dewey. "1 don i
know why we are so money-mind
ed or whether we are?but 1 know
why you think so. Because we pa>
you so much to come and tell us
so."
3
Victor Moore remains a favorite
entertainer with the young people
as well as old-timers who saw hiin
decades ago. He is one of those
actors who never seem to get old.
although he made his first stage
appearance on an amteur night
show in Boston just 60 years ago
when the Gay Nineties were in full
flower. Asked what advice he might
have for young hopefuls out-of
town who may yearn to come to
this big city and try their luck
he replied, as if speaking directly
to them: "Find out if you have tal
ent, and if you have, keep trying
Never give up. If you don't have
talent, don't try to find it because
you never will be able to. Talent
is born In you, whether you're an
actor, a painter or musician."
3 ? ?
Brooklyn Bridge, which accord
ing to pleasant legend, has been
"sold" many times to gullible
greenhorn visitors, has reached the
age of three score years and ten
The graceful span which one
dreamy architect said resembled a
"beautiful harp" was opened in
1883. It was thirteen years in the
building, was designed by John
Roebling who did not live to see it
finished.* Like the new elevated
railroads and big rail terminals,
the bridge in those days enabled
New Yorkers to live In the sub
urbs and work in Manhattan. Not
long ago, the bridge underwent
heavy repair, but it will always re
main a venerable landmark to
most people, regardless of alter
ations. Oddly enough, there are two
other bridges wot far up the East
River, the Manhattan and Williams
burg bridges, which look enough
like the Brooklyn one to be its
brothers, yet they are hardly ever
mentioned in stories of this water
front.
a
Andrew Carnegie whose happiest
bequest is seen in the many fine
local libraries which bear his name,
did not exactly have a love for the
book-publishing industry, accord
ing to the report. He once asked
Frank Doubleday how much the
latter made each month, and the
answer was that one couldn't figure
publishing that way. "In that case.
Frank." commented the canny
Scot, "I'd get out of it."
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Part of this town is fowled up
A secretary of a midtown assoeia
tlon complains that noisy chickens
brought In by roaring trucks from
out of town in early morn are
awaking and annoying Manhattan
Ites no end. Fact is, this ofTicia!
wrote a letter to city officials.
Quoth he in his wrath which ap
parently never knew the delights
of country living: "With hens
cacking resentment and roosters
crowing defiance, a decidedly un
pleasant rural atmosphere spreads
over the place." Alas. This poor
ctty slicker cannot hear the music
in the language of those noble
fowls.
Human Cowcatcher
EUREKA, Calif. (AP) ? Engin
eer Earl Wahlund saw a calf
caught in a fence, with its mother
bawling helplessly.
So he stopped bis Northwestern
Pacific passenger train, freed the
calf and arrived here 10 minutes
late.
Reprimanded? No, because
NWP Superintendent A. G. Bays,
who happened to be in his private
car on the train, praised Wahlund
foe bis humanitarian action.'*
Carolina News Briefs
Man Killed As Car Leaves Road
<f I Charlie M. Henry, 61. of Highlands, was lulled when the
r car in which he was a passenger, swerved off the highway
'y i and went oown a 50-lo.t embankment. Three other passen
-1 gfcrs ir the car escapes injury. He was a lile long resident of
I Highlands, and worked in a grocery store,
i The driver of the car, said by officers to be John C. j
?Vebb, was charged with driving drunk. ,
f Sylva Man Drowns In Lake Thorpe
,' Searching parties are continuing their search for the
! oody ol Charies E. "Buddy'' Thompson, 40, of Sylva, who dis
appeaxed alter taking a small motor boat on Lake Thorpe
near Gienvilie Sunday. His smashed Dual was found aground
.n the Norton Cove area.
It is thought he fell from the boat while trying to start
the motor.
.Mother, Two Children Perish In Flames
Mrs. Margaret Peeler Gudger, 35, and two children,
Sarah Elaine 6, and Linda Cheryl, 11 months, died in the fire
.nat consumed their 75-year old Candler home.
Gudger and two other children, Sammy 3, and Harold,
Jr., escaped from the dwelling, with the father receiving
painful burns about the body.' Gudger is an employee of
Enka, and Mrs. Gudger formerly worked there.
Duke Drive Raises $176,722
Duke University alumni and friends have contributed
d record-breaking total of $176,722 to the University's Loyalty
Fund during the last year. President Hollis Edens has an
nounced.
Final tabulations for the 12-month period which ended
June 30 show that 7,953 persons throughout the nation con
tributed. The Loyalty Fund helps Duke meet its annual op
erating expenses.
"This year's total contribution exceeds by more than
$20,000 the amount given during the next best year of the
Loyalty Fund."
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Cucumbers Pay - - -
A couple of Cucumbers paid $10 a piece today for being
pickled.
Calvin and Lawrence Cucumber, two Cherokee Indians'
were ordered in city police court to pay that amount to a
small hotel they were charged with damaging while under
the influence of liquor.
North Carolina Polio Study Planned
North Carolina public health officials have completed
plans for an evaluation study of this State's 1953 outbreaks
of poliomyelitis, it was announced by Dr. Fred T. Foard,
director of the Division of Epidemiology of the State Board
of Health.
Dr. Foard revealed that the evaluation, which will be
gin in Caldwell and Catawba counties immediately, will be
under the cooperative sponsorship of the U. S. Public Health
Service, the American Association of Physical Therapists and
the North Carolina State Board of Health.
He Meant It, Seriously
It's a pretty good guess that Beverly James Hill, Jr. of
Leaksville is serious about wanting to be a Marine.
Two years ago young Hill joined the Marine Corps. ?
Within three months he was a civilian again.
Marine brasshats were sorry, but at 15 Hill was just too
young to be a warrior. ?
On July 16 Hill turned 17. The candles weren't cool on
his birthday cake before he hustled down to the Marine re
cruiting station here.
So Hill, wearing the single chevron of a private first
class and the jaunty air of a 17-year-old second hitch man,
was shipped off to Parris Island, S. C. to begin his military
career.
Drillers Find No Oil In Dismal Swamp
No oil has yet been struck by drillers in Camden Coun
ty, a spokesman for the Urice Drilling Co. said today. Drills
have been sunk more than 4000 feet and will probably have
to stop at 5000 feet because of a layer of hard stone there.
The drilling operations have been on the edge of the Dismal
Swamp. \
Court Frees Two On Illegal Sugar Sales Charges
A Federal Court has dismissed charges against two
Wilkes County grocers of illegal sales of more than a million
pounds of sugar. The judge held that the acts for which
Isaac M. and Jack V. Ellcr were indicted were allegedly
committed after April 4, 1951, when a new regulation on
gross sugar sales was put into effect. The two were indicted
after that date under a regulation which was superseded by
the new one, the court noted.
Charlotte Census Bureau To Open
A district office of the U. S. Census Bureau will open
in Charlotte Monday, officials have announced. The new
office Will replace those in Raleigh and in Greenwood, S. C.
Lennon Asks Smith's Staff To Remain
l
Senator Lennon said yesterday in Washington that he
hoped Jesse Helms and John Slear would remain as mem
bers of his office staff. Both men had been with the late
Senator Willis Smith.
Helms was administrative assistant to Senator Smith,
and Slear was secretary. '
Lindsay Warren To Get Retirement Pension
Pension benefits for the comptroller general are pro
vided iii a bill just signed by President Eisenhower. A comp
troller general may retire at full pay of $1*7,500 a vear if he re- ?
%
tires after reaching the age of 70 or after 10 years' service
because of physical disability. He may receive a hall-pay
pension if his service falls short of 10 years because of physic
al or mental disability.
The post is now held by Lindsay Warren for a term of
15 years.
Duke Power Plans Expansion Program
Issuance of 208,321 additional shares * common stock
at $30 was announced yesterday by the Duke Power Co. as
part of a $94,400,000 expansion program planned for the
Carolmas in the next two years.
The company has speni over $180,000,000 in a construc
tion program begun in 1946.
Paroles Granted Two Klansmen
Leon Alford and Brock Norris of Columbus County
have been freed on parole, Commissioner N. F. Ransdell an
nounced today. They were sentenced as a result of last sum
mer's Ku Klux Klan trials to 18-24 month sentences.
The Commissioner said that parole was recommended
by Solicitor Clifton L. Moore of Burgaw and supported by
a petition signed by 160 Columbus County residents.
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Mrs. Edwards
Dies At 92
Mr*. August McElruy Edvirdt.
| ?2. widow oi Mark Edward*, died
at her home in the Edward* Cove1
sect too of Haywood County about
9 am. Monday
She wa* a native and lifelong
resident of the county.
Funeral services were held at 3
pm Wednesday in bethel Metho
dist Church with the Rev. L B
George officiating. Burial was in
the church cemetery'. Grandsons
were pallbearers as follow*. Wayne.
David. James. Jack and Joa Ed
wards and Bobby Causby.
Surviving are two daughters.
Mrs. John Piott of Way nesville .ad
Mrs. Ivy Causby of Morganton
two sons. Cart Edwards and Cash
Edwaids of Way nesville. RFD 3.
a slater Miss Allie Welch of
Way nesville. RFD 3: 24 grandchil
dren and several great-grandchil
dren.
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Add a little lemon, orange or
grapefruit juice U> beets when
you're boiling them. Helps to pre
serve that attractive bright red
color!
,
(BULLETIN^
At );}( this afternoon. Senator
Robert T ait had been reported
as taking a turn for the worse.
His physicians said he was
breathing with extreme difficul
ty.
SEN. ROBERT A. TAFT, Sen
ate Republican door leader from
Ohio, was reported "somewhat
improved'' Thursday morning af
ter reports the previous day that
his unspecified hip ailment had
taken a turn for the worse. His
wife, Martha, who is confined to
a wheel chair, was brought from
Washington to his bedside yes- :
terday for her first visit since
Taft entered New York Hospital.
Other members of the family had
gathered there including his
third son, William Howard Taft,
III, American ambassador to Ire
land, who is flying from that
country.
Charl?? Noland
.Dies At 76
i
Alter Illness
Charlie Z. Noland, 76, well known
Haywood County cattle raiser and
farmer, ttied in a Waynesville nos
. pital at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday fol
1 lowing a long illness.
Noland was a native and lifelong
resident of Haywood County, a son
of the late Wilburn R and Jane
Lusk Noland. and was a member of
the Piney Grove Methodist Churcb.
He is survived by two daughters,
Mrs. Hugh Ferguson and Mrs. Hi
ram Green of Clyde RFD 1; two
sons, Furman and Glenn Noland of
Clyde; two brothers, Lee and Wiley
B. Noland of Waynesville RFD 2.
Also, three sisters, Mrs. Dave
Duckett of Hot Springs, Mrs. Caney
Plemmons of Orlando, Fla? and
Mrs. Horace Ferguson of Waynes- 1
viUe; two grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Fri- !
cay at 11 a.m. in the Fines Creek
Memorial Baptist Church.
Officiating will be the Rev. Pete
Hicks, the Rev. Forrest Ferguson
and the Rev. J. B. Mull.
Burial will be in the church
cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Frank Kirk
patrick. Mark Kirkpatrick, Tommie
Noland. Jess Noland, Ruel Noland,
and Bobbie Green.
Nieces will be flower bearers.
The body will be returned to the
home on Fines Creek this after
noon and wil] remain there until
time for the services.
Arrangement are under the di
rection of Garrett Funeral Home.
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