EMTHIST IS Ntw Y0RH John I*"- h?* *un "ving, 111 How York He thinks it ? just a lot of small to*"? V" get her and finds the folks he knows and works with as nice and friendlv as those of his home town. Dallas. North Carolina < popula tion: 2450 ?. Some of those w hom he knows well are keneraUyw^l Known, too. sueh as Kid Bail* Ren Hogan. Whitey Lockman. the baseball star, John's friend since boyhood, and Charlie Justice, formerly All-American fooOw 1 player. You s.e. John is dm ctm of sports of CBS Radio and his dally work is with colorful tiKim* ?n this major part of America, pastime But such is the con.ple x itv and specialization of New life that although he and M have both lived here for five years they haven't seen each other in all thai time, yet thev are not more than a mile apart. John has a go ball given him by Hngan wlmh be prizes very much since tt*? the one used on hole 13 land by Ben when he won th famous British Open and J?hn with him Although he > deals with college sports. John Dorr never really went to co ? himself, having taken courses from Belmont Abbey and the I. diversity o. North Carolina. Invited over to the New York Times building. 1 was pleased t witness there the unveiling of a statue of Chief John Boss Now in case you don't freshly recall your American history, he was head the Cherokee Indian nation about a hundred years ago before and af ter the tribe had been driven from the South to its final home "i Oklahoma, lie also founded a place called 'Ross's Landing bet ter known now as Chattanooga. The Ochs famllv. owners of tm New York and Chattanooga Times, came here from Chattanooga hence the local interest in the un veiling of the fine statue which was made possible liy the eft art of patriotic Tennessee women. Over in nearby New Jersey, a historic event of greater national, significance took place during the holldavs. This was the colorful re enactment of the memorable Washington's crossing of the Dela ware River on Christmas night. 1770. OH Christmas IJav. 'J953- ? local musical producer with a his fie overtone. St. John lorrell got JL ? together, dressed them in Revolutionary uniforms and in a Durham boat" made the , ( rossing at exactly the spot which C.corge used in that latetul nigb when Colonel Henrv Knox and his Massachusetts sailors' ferried the ragged Continentals over tor the exciting capture ot 1 ronton from the British. Patriotic citizens, of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, led by Mrs Ann Ilawkes Hutton the historian, helped make the re vival of the crossing a gala and successful event, which started at the Thompson-Neoly House, where Washington and his staff madt their plans, and ended up acroie the icy Delaware?and finally ir victory at Yorktown. Holiday greetings: one of the funniest I received was from Douglas Stengel, General Motor* official, whose daughter was just married. Wrote Doug: "Please ex cuse if this is in broken English I am broke- following this wed ding." . . from Bell Irwin Wiley on Conft lerate States stationery stating "Our pen is bad. our ink is pail, our love for you shall nev er fail." . . . from I.ouise and Ross Caldwell of the Maggie. N. C. Country Store, adding "try our varbs. terbaker, rock candv and snuff ? cider that ain't mountain dew bid's nice and cool and good for you.'' , . . one from Texas in ' the shape of a state map so big it ' would hardly conve in the door . . . from Arthur Grot/, president of the Western Maryland Railroad | with a painting bv his brother . . . another which looks like a bill but its only "statement" is that I owe ! good wishes for a Happy 1954 Well, that debt is paid . . and probably the nicest one of all. from a lifelong friend who sent a simple card on which he wrote his name bv hand, and on the front there was a picture of a small country church in a setting of snow, such as we went to when we were bovs back on the farm and Christmas and New Years were simple things which meant another year had passed and a new one was coming in which we expected lo do a lot of things ? hut just mostly to keep on enjoy ing everything and expecting noth ing but what was good and kind and happy. Deadline Of January 11 Announced For N. C. High School Contest DURHAM. N C.. Jain. 1 ? Mon ti;i>. January 11. is the deadline fpr entering this year's good writ ing contest sponsored bv the North Carolina Knglish Teachers' Association, contest director Dr. Francis K. Bowman of the Duke University Knglish faculty has an nounced. Open to high school juniors and seniors throughout the State, the annual com pet ion offers recogni tion for outstanding prose and poetry Winning entries will he published next Spring in a special student issue of "The North Caro lina Knglish Teacher," journal of the NCKTA. "in la't year's contest," Dr. Bowman said, "a total of 475 manuscripts by pupils of 75 teach ers in 47 high schools were sub mitted. Steadily increasing inter est over the past five years has shown that the competition is a sound method for the encourage ment of good writing." Headers from North Carolina colleges and high schools will judge the entries on the basis of literary excellence. Final selec tion will take place on the Duke campus next spring. High school teachers may ob tain contest information and entry blanks for their students by writ ing to l)r Bowman Department of English. Duke University. Aged Cyclist Active WICHITA. Kas (AD ? C. N. Horner, 82-year-old cycling enthus iast, has piled up 3.000 miles at the pedals Since the autumn of 1952 nearly 7 miles a day?he re cently made a pleasure jaunt on his bicycle to the Fall River reser voir 78 miles east of Wichita. THE NEW 1954 FORD will go on display Wednes day in the Mottinger Motors showroom on Hay wood Street. Illustrated is the Crestline Fordor sedan. The new Ford series will feature a hardtop model with a transparent top of tinted plastic. Clyde Youth Dies While Working On Car i t Funeral services were held this afternoon in l.ong's Chapel Meth odist Church for Earl Chambers, 17. of Clyde, Route 2, who died suddenly Saturday morning while working on his car in a used car lot at Clyde, The Rev. Don Payne officiated and burial was in Crawford Mem orial Park. j Chambers was the son of Mrs. ! Hazel Medford Chambers of Clyde, Route 2. end Guy Chambers of Waynesville, Route 2. Surviving, in addition to the parents, are two brothers. Howard Chambers of Miami, Fla., and James Chambers of Pasadena. Tex.; the paternal grandmother. Mrs. Charity Chambers of Waynes ville. Route 2; and the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Medford of Waynesville. Route 2. DEATHS WILLIAM M. REYNOLDS Funeral services were held this morning in the Beaverdam Metho-: dist Church for William M. Reyn olds. 67, who died Saturday night while en route to the Haywood County hospital. The Rev. W N. Reese officiated. Burial was in the church ceme tery. Pallbearers were nephews and flower hearers were nieces. j Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Eva Reynolds: and one brother, James (J. Reynolds of Swannanoa. Reynolds was a native and life long resident of the Thiekety sec I tion of Haywood County and the | son of the late Jack and Eliza Rob inson Reynolds. Gilbert Inman With Air Corps In Greenland NABSARSSUAK AIR B A S F. GREENLAND: Airman Third Class Gilbert R. Inman. son of Mr and Mrs. Gilbert Inman. Waynes vllle. has recently been assigned to Narsarssuak Air Base. Green land. A graduate of Waynesvillo ' High School. Airman Inman en listed in the United States Atr Force on the 16th of June. 1953. lie was assigned to Lackland Air Force Base. Texas, for basic train ing. and. upon completion of this ; training, he was assigned to Fort ' Sam Houston, Texas, where he at tended the United States Air j Force Medical Technicians School. j He was then assigned to Narsars suak Air Rase. Friends and relatives interested in contacting Airman Inman may i write to the 6611th United States Air Force Hospital, APO 858, c/o j Postmaster. New York. New York Sharp Compc For Consume By RADER WINGET AP Newsfeatures NEW yORK?This was the year of war and peace and a bear mar ket in Wall Street. But the stocks of leading Ameri can corporations survived it all and approached the end of 1953 with a surprising bounce ahead. There are some 2.300 stocks of corporations listed for trading on the New York Stock Exchange and thi* American Stock Exchange in New York plus hundreds more listed on regional exchanges at Toronto and Chicago and San Francisco and elsewhere. That, broadly, is what is known as the Stock Market with the stocks owned by millions of Americans and Canadians and traded freely on the exchanges. The value of all stocks listed for trading on the New YOrk Stock Exchange, for example, comes to better than 117 billion dollars at current prices. The net decline in that total since the first of the year has been less than 3 per cent. That is a good measure of the over-all stability of the stock mar ket during the tryng times of 1953. Naturally some stocks reacted vi olently during the year and now show wide gains or losses as com pared with a year ago. The individual reactions rep resent the adjustment that the economy of the nation itself has gone through in meeting the re sponsibilities of war and the chal lenge of peace. And what about the great bear, market? Well, we are in it now. at least technically, and we have been all year, it seems. A bear market is one that fol-' lows a long-term downward trend. A bull market, on the other hand, is one that follows a long-term upward trend. They got their col orful names from newspaper car toons showing bulls and bears! fighting without quarter in Wall Street The symbol grew to be a raging bull goring a savagely fight ing fallen bear. But you must look at this year's hear market against the big pic ture of the stock market. Every one knows how the stock market rracked and crashed in 1929 and continued plunging down until 1932. That was a bear market without parallel in history. There followed a five-year hull market and another five years of bear mar ket readjustment. In 1942 the bull market of the war years began It ended in 1946. A broad readjustment of the mar ket then continued until 1949 when the bull market movement was resumed. Hindsight now tells us that this bull market continued right on to January 1953. The peak of this year came early in January when the traditional year end rally and the Eisenhower election boom in the market petered out. It is difficult to select one sin gle thing that causes the market to rise or fall in any given period. itition Seen i rs' Dollars I ; : because you have hundreds of stocks all under diverse influences and fluctuating in price from min ute to minute with the bewildering aspect of a swarm of fireflies on a summer night. The administration's hard money policy, which later was eased, had a depressing effect. But there was j the offsetting factor of easier gov ernment controls on business. Mar gin requirements also were low ered. enabling you to buy stocks with a smaller amount of your own cash. The effects of such de velopments, however, never show I immediately in stock prices. It was the fortunes of war in Korea that banged the market [down. The first big fall started late in March when the Chinese I Reds proposed swapping prisoners. There was a minor measure of re covery from that shock before the market dropped even lower during a period of uncertainty over the Korean truce Again a recovery set in only to be cut short by the most severe plunge yet, starting in mid-August after the Korean truce actually was signed. Why did people rush to sell their stocks and thus force prices down? Basically, it was because they feared the uncertainties of the economic future. They didn't know what peace would bring, and they rushed to shift their invest ments into industries that would benefit by peace, they wanted to' get out of war stocks, they want ed the haven of cash money in the bank. The market hit bottom in mid September. From that vantage point, Wall Street analysts could, easily see that they were in a bear market and had been since early January. They also saw continued high earnings of corporations and con tinued high dividends, both ahead of a year ago. And there was fur ther easing in money rates, a promise of tax reduction, and a government pledge that there would be no depression. "Maybe." ran the thought in Wall Street, "we have overdone this thing." That is when the rally started It carried ahead with little or no interruption and continued longer and went higher than any other recovery movement of the year. It was said in Wall Street that the market already had discounted next year's expected slackening of business and now looked at a brighter future. Some said the 1953 bear market was rapidly on its way to becom ing just a memory. Rhode Island has 400 miles of coastline. ~ ~ " " ~ ??? - 1 WANT ADS FOR RKN'T?First floor single bed room and bath. Outside entrance. 103 Walnut St. Call 6-6312. J 4-7-11 LAFF-A-DAY i i l?hj. Kx* Ursfcm >ic. k. WwW r<*#? nism4 "I'm no dope. We're married six years, and my wife still doesn't know what I do for a living." Mottinger Will Display New '54 Ford Wednesday ? The 1954 Ford passenger cars, which will go on display this Wed nesday in the Mottinger Motors showroom, will feature the follow ing Ford exclusives in the high volume field; A new 130-h.p. Y-block V-8 en gine with overhead valves. New 115-h.p. 1-block Mileage Maker Six engine, designed for economy. New ball-joint front suspension. The Skylinc-r?an entirely new hardtop model with tinted, trans parent plastic roof over the driv ing compartment. New Ford Sunliner convertible with a transparent plastic panel inserted in the top over the front seat to provide overhead visibility. Four new power-operated driv ing assists: Power brakes, power steering, 4-way power seat, power lift windows. Fordomatic transmission. "The two new Ford engines for 1954?the Y-block V-8 and the I block Mileage Maker Six?were de signed expressly to lead their re spective fields and have been under development for the past six years." L. D. Crusoe, vice-presi dent, Ford Motor Company and general manager of Ford Division, said. The new I-block 115-h.p. Mile age Maker Six also is a modern high-compression, low-friction en gine. It rates 14 horsepower more than the 1953 Ford Six and. like the Y-block V-8. it is an "over square" engine?that is the diam eter of the cylinder is greater than the stroke of the piston. Matching in beauty the new in terior trim, the 1954 Fords have a new astra-dial speedometer mount ed on top of a new control panel almost at eye level and easily seen through the steering wheel. The semi-circular glass dial of the speedometer has numerals which are illuminated in the daytime by light passing through the trans parent hood at the back of the speedoometer. At night the dial face is illuminated from beneath by hidden lights. At each side of the base of the speedometer are jewel-type turn indicator signal lights and in be tween these lights is a high-beam headlamp indicator. The control panel itself is orna mented with an engine-turned fin ish and contains the instrument controls plus lighter, radio dial and clock. This year the ammeter and oil pressure gauges are re placed by red .warning lights which flash on when the generator is not charging or the oil pressure is low. By adding four new power-oper- j ated driving assists as extra-cost optional equipment on its 1954 cars. Ford is bringing to the high volume field all the driving aids once found only in the high-priced cars. These include Master-Guide pow er steering of the hydraulic, steer ing-linkage type which reduces steering effort up to 75 per cent: Ford's Swift Sure power brakes which reduce pedal pressure effort up to one-third; 4-way power front seat "which raises or lowers ln4 inches and moves back or forth 4' i inches by means of two powerful electric motors and power-lift win dows, which open and close auto matically at-the touch of a but ton. Fordomatic full*' automatic transmission, which Ford calls tIn most versatile automatic drive ] ever built and Ford overdrive, which reduces engine speed 110 per cent while road speed is unchang ed. also will be available in the ] 1954 Ford models. Sgl. Overton Completes Course At Ft. Benning Sergeant First Class Loyd V. Overton, husband ol Mrs. Florence Marie Overton, of Wayhesville, has graduated from The Infantry Center's Chemical, Biological and Radiological School at Fort Ben ning. Georgia. The three-week course is de signed to teach protective and de fensive measures against chemical and atomic attack. The Great Lakes could be seen from the moon with the naked eye. CHARLES J. DA\ IS \\ machinist mate chief I e son of Mr. and Mrs. t Hazel wood, and husl ar ll former Mary Evelyn (f Hazelwood, recently i? it the Navy. o Chief Davis, a vet.er, s Pacific Theatre during M II. is attached to Air? Squadron 22 at the N.u;l lion. Norfolk V'a. I I *j I Waynesville DRIVE IN THEATRE Children Under 12 Admitted FREE Show Starts At 7:00 I\ M. MONDAY, .IAN. I "White Witch Doctor" (In Color) Starring SUSAN HAY WARD KOHKRT MITCH I'M ?ALSO? News and Cartoon ? TI ES. & WED., jan. :?& a "The Master Of Ballantrae" (In Color) Starring KRROI, FYLNN Color Cartoon v 0 THURSDAY. JAN. 7 "The Girl Who Had Everything" Starring ELIZABETH TAYLOR FERNANDO LAMAS Seleeted Short Subjects ? FRIDAY, JAN. 8 "Loose In London" Starring i LEO GORCEY and r THE BOWERY BOYS 5 Color Cartoons PARK Theatre Program MON. & TIES.. JAN. I & :? ' HERE'S THE 3-D YOU HAVE HEEN < WAITING TO SEE! "Devil's Canyon" (In Color) Starring VIRGINIA MAYO DALE ROBERTSON # WEDNESDAY. JAN. f? "Northern Patrol" Starring K1RBY GRANT ? Plus ? Selected Short Subjects ? THl'RS. & FRL, JAN. 7 & 8 "Flight To Tangier" (In Color) Starring JOAN FONTAINE JACK PALANCE Strand ^lUedt/ie mon. * TUES., JAN. I & 5 DON'T MISS Gary Cooper Rarbara Stanwyck IN "BLOWING WILD" WED.. TH1HS. * FRI., JAN. 6. 7 & 8 "FLAME OF CALCUTTA" Starring DENISE DARCEL PATRIC KNOWLES ?ALSO? Shorts - -Cartoon ? News