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- . . - - -^ ? ? ' f JhliM J &jjkt M)mii B I I II B jv mI # R mi m First farm couple I know of who are really taking time to see this city are Mr. and Mrs. Hank Hanne of Nebraska; They visited here once and found that a few days only whetted their big Midwestern appetites, so they decided to come back and see all the important things, "even if it takes a year," Hank told me. They rented their farm to a tenant, packed up and came here, got jobs with an in surance company and are now see ing the sights between work Though it's hard to keep up with their present schedule, I can tell you some of the highlights: they've walked from Fort Tryon park to Fulton Fish Market; they see a Broadway show once a week, hav ing wisely written In for their tickets months before; they've heard fine sermons and listened to great music by the choirs of many big churches here; and the only time he has had to write a check on the bank back home, Hank con fessed, v.*a? v/h n he bought a suit of clothes, 3 Freddie Suits tells me that the reeent get-together of the Chuck Wagon gang at the .21 Club was a wow. This highly-social organiza tion which gets its name from the Western steaks served in sibilant style, had as Its special guest?a member?one, Frank S. Pratt, known as "the poor man's Tiffany" since he carries his jewelry busi ness around in his pocket. At lunch or anywhere, it is nothing for Frank to pull a thousand-dol lar diamond out of his vest pocket and casually show it to a friend? who may buy it. Once he carried a million dollars worth of jewels frem Chicago to New York by sim ply putting them in an old valise, boarding a Pullman and locking himself in his roomette en route. This way he excited no suspicion Anyway, at this Chuck Wagon din ner, Frank appeared in a new role, that of violinist. He has been taking lessons on said instrument, it seems, so he had the nerve to biing along his accompanist and render a few string selections ? those present actually enjoying them. The best salesman In the world, as he is known to many, has just celebrated his 80th birthday and I add my congratulations to the countless ones he is already receiv ing He is Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of IBM. After an inter view with him in his office here, I was convinced that one secret of his rise from a $6-a-week clerk in upstate New York is his happy faculty of making others feel they are doing him a favor instead of the other way round: His motto, seen everywhere around the IBM offices is THINK, also the name of the interesting company magazine. Another most impressive * thing about the four-score-years achieve ment of Mr Watson is the fact that he is obviously and consist ently a Christian gentleman. 3 With all the talk about milk and butter prices, the new plastic milk truck that I saw displayed the oth tr day was even more impressive. This certainly should lighten the "milk load". Checking on such tiansportation. I was told by an ex pert, C. H. Wager, Traffic Manager of the Shell Oil Company, that this is only a beginning; that undoubt edly trucks, pipelines and even railroads will eventually begin the wide use of plastic for lighter, more economical carrying of cargo 3 Dropped in to the Book and Author Luncheon of the Herald Tribune and American Booksellers Association, and heard Jessamyn West say "It is the Joy in life that counts, that sustains?-not the sor row as many would have us be lieve." Burl Ives sang the old Con federate song, "Goober Peas" and soon had the sophisticated audi ence joining in the chorus. Then slender, youthful, heavy-haired Sir Edmund Hillary yawned during a flowery introduction, but rose up on rue and told how Sir John Hunt and he wrote "The Conquest of Mount Everest" in four weeks after their monumental achieve ment. adding that the most thrill ing thing they have learned from it all is how very much people still | love adventure?of any kind. 3 [?.._/? There was something special about Glenn Miller, even in the music world He must have been a real hep guy, as they say. So says the new moving picture, "The Glenn Miller Story". One Stop Costly ATLANTA (/Pi?(Ail Mrs. Marie McKenzie did was stop her car on the street. Here's what happened: 1. A car driven by Thomas Wil liams bangd into the back of the McKenzte car. 2. A tractor-trailer and two cars in the opposite lane stopped when the accident occurred. 3. But a bus behind didn't stop and smashed into the rear of the second car, driven by C. J. Vaughn. 4 The Vaughn car was knocked into the one in front, driven by Mrs. Effie Jarrett. 5. The Jarrett car smashed into the rear of the tractor-trailer. Final score: three injured, dam age amounting to upward of $1,000. , Losses Listed LYNDONVILLE, Vt. W)?They lose the strangest things in Ver mont. Harold Brown is looking for a Jersey heifer but George Pil grim is advertising for "one rub ber boot with jumper inside". State Short Tax Form Is Easy To Fill Out | The 1953 North Carolina General Assembly gave the smaller taxpayer t helping hand ? a short form 'D400-AI which may be used by taxpayers whose income is derived solely from salariea,' wages, com missions. interest or dividends. As State Revenue Commissioner Eugene Shaw recently commented, the short form was devised to elim inate the necessity of non-busi ness persons' keeping books and -ecords of their income and deduc ions and to make the filing of re turns as convenient thi possible. The single-sheet fbrm is simpli city itself?as easy as ABC. Here is how a mythical North Carolina taxpayer would go about It. Like so many of his contempor aries. this sypothentlcal taxpayer is named John Doe. He lives on North Main Street in Anywhere, 1 ar Heel County, North Carolina. He is an employee of the Acme Distributing Company in Any where. and makes $350 a month, or $4,200 a year, In salary. He and Mrs. Doe have a daugh ter, Mary, 14 and John, Jr., 12 years old. One night after work he decides to tackle this job of filing his state income tax, and finds that the short form allows him to finish this "chore" in a very few minutes. At the top of the form he fills in his name, his street address, town, county, and state. In Block A, he answers Question 1 "yes" indicating that he did file a return with the department in 1952. Both parts of Question 2 he also answers in the affirmative. In the block under Item 3, he lists the names, ages, and relationship of his children. (If he had other dependents he would have entered them here.) Question 4 and 5 he leaves blank, as they have to do with single men, or married men whose spouse had a separate in come. Moving on to Bltfck B, on the first line of Item 6 he gives the name and address of his employer, and on the extreme right in the proper block he gives the total in come paid htm by his employer during '53. or $4,200. He also lists this amount in the block on Item 7, as his total salary, as he worked for only one employer. Item 8 he leaves blank, as he had no dividends or interest, nor any subsistence allowance from his em ployer. His gross income (Line 9) is also the same, $4,200. i On Line 10 he enters the stan dard deduction, allowed on the short form only, of 10 per cent, which is substituted for a listing of all his deductions. If he had made Average prices received by North Carolina farmers for most commod ities they sell increased slightly during the month ended January 15, 1954. ADDING SPEED?That is what James llurlbut, master press machinist of the Goss Printing Press Company. Chicago, is doing here, in re placing a main bearing in the 8-ton press of The Mountaineer. Due to the steady increase in cir filiation, the publishers were forced to add the new units to increase the speed of the press. Machinist liurlbut is shown under the baek of the perss which turns out 50 complete papers a ininbte. Other picture, page one of this section. (Mountaineer Photo). more than $5,000, he would have been restricted to a $500 deduction, as the maximum blanket deduction is $500. A iittle simple arithmetic, sub tracting the total on Line 10 from that on Line 9, and he arrives at his net income, which is $3,780. Then, having read the instructions on the reverse side of the short I form, he computes his personal exemption, which Is $2,600. i$2,000 for himself as a married man, $300 for each of his children.! He enters this amount on Line 12. and sub tracts from Line 11, which gives , him his Net Taxable Income of $1,180. The he moves on to Block C. On Line 14. he finds that he must pay 3 per cent tax on the first $2,000, of his net taxable income, not on his gross income. So, multiplying the $1,180.00 by .03, he finds that j his tax is $35.40. He enters this amount on the ex- I treme right of Line 14, repeats it on the extreme right of Line 19, ! and again on Line 20. He signs the line which is indicated "Signa- [ ture of Taxpayer," his wife witness- j es his signature by signing the line in the lower left-hand corner of j the form, he attaches his check for $36.40 itaxes of less than $50.00 are payable in full at the time of filing!, j and the form and check are ready for mailing. Time elapsed, less than 15 min utes. The overseas possessions of France are 4Ms times as large as the mother country. The French Cameroons in Africa are larger than California (about j 166,800 square miles). High Culture Is Sought In Lost Cherokee City By REESE CLEGHORN AP Newsfeatures CALHOUN, Ga.-?Ruins of Ech-|v ota. long lost capital of the Cher- \ okee nation may soon emerge r from a cotton field. Dr. Henrty Ma lone of the University of Georgia q says the lost city is believed to j represent a high civilization com-1 ( parable to those of the Incas and Mayas. c Malone will lead archaeologists to a site revealed by strange lines traced on an air-survey picture. ^ After long study of Cherokee a records he says, "These were not ~ a people of teepees." New Echota , was one of the last sanctuaries of { a free and independent Indian tribe within the United States. The Cherokees had a republican form of government, published a news paper and levied taxes. Although New Echota was built about 1825, no one now knows just 5 i where it was. In the 1700s when frontiersmen1 were spilling over the mountains, the Cherokees fought them. Dur ing the Revolution the Indians sided with the British. Afterward the angry Americans pushed them back into the moun tainous corners of northwest Geor-i gia, northeast Alabama, east Ten nessee, and western Nprth Car olina. There they lived peacefully for! several years, advancing in culture and in commerce. Then, about ; 1817, they refused to make any, more land concessions to the white ien. Between that time and 1835, /hen they were driven to the t'est, the Cherokees developed emarkably. New Echota became the tenter f their nation. There their bi ameral legislature assembled and heir supreme court judged cases ppealed from the tribal circuit ourts. Their newspaper, the Cherokee ?hoenix, published in the 86 char cters of the Cherokee language circulated through the Piedmont. White missionaries settled in Chi rokee territory, but the Chero kees must have been stern task masters. A Cherokee chief once notified the Moravians that they would be ejected from the nation unless they built a school for the Indians. "They must have been more interested is the 'Three R's' than in the Trinity," Malone concludes. A wealthy Indian farmer named Joe Vann, who lived in a hand some brick house still stading, is said to have owned 110 slaves. The Cherokees sided with Amer icans in the War of 1812. One lead er was a Tennessee militia ofTicer named Andrew Jackson, and some historians think their aid enabled Jackson to win his famous victory at Horse Shoe Bend. In 1835, the State of Georgia extended its authority over the j Cherokee territory and drove the once-proud people out?with as* I sent of the man in the White House, Andrew Jackson. Democratic Republican' \ Don't Take To Democt^ 3y JANE EADS WASHINGTON ? The Capitol Hill Club, yrhich opened for social business about a year ago in a j smartly renovated little mansion across from the Old House Office Building, is strictly a Republican stronghold ? "where Republicans can meet Republicans"?but boasts that it's quite democratic (with a small d. that is). "We welcome all kinds of Re publicans," one official told me? "the so-called Taft, Eisenhower and Independent Republicans, the Young Republicans, Republican women and wives of Repblieans." The day I was there I met the club president. Congressman James J. Auchincloss of New Jer sey; the secretary, Carl L. Ship ley; a score of other resident mem bers and Cooper, the butler; Yvonne, the maid, and Tino, the chef ? Republicans all. But strangers walk in where angels fear to tread, and one such "stranger" was Mrs. Morris Caf ? and mod t: u. kM b?M .Jp . should u ? ,11 9^ not ,i ? Ki her 9 minded I rturb^^H that ship I ? - .. .-H ; just you qi^I )i< for - B member 1 The ( B 1 the I Illinois 1 Dew t H it I alcohol ? ? 1 the ? been t h< of i^H n ? ents alio , c'ub ment ' \ liquor the ano ? Love In Jail PITTSBt UGH AP ?l ninth prisoner is pn)^B jailer. ? H Sure 1 ud^e wile l loving tries age. It wfl I "Hapi>'. or. 1 ninth anni\ersar> I lonely, i ly worn* me Bot^| ? ry. the is nfl ? Take the ? (ut nt ? et and bus fl| I you havi . py anniversary." 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I haven't seen this book but s< about the contents of the book.i hut I understand it came right out and said flatly that the reason that bosses don't shower most of us, with the raises of which w?- are so justly deserving is quite simply our own tactlessness. Of course, everyone in my own organization knows full well that my efforts are really the one thing that holds the whole struc ture together. I've often wondered what would happen if some day, infuriated by an apparently per sistent lack of recognition for my true worth. I just up and quit. Chaos, that's what would result, absolute chaos. Meanwhile. Mr. Napoleon llill, the author of "How to Raise Your Own Salary" (and I certainly would like to know his family's philosophy on the naming of a man-child) has caused me to wonder if perhaps my modest in come can't be explained by the fart that it has always been a mat ter of prinnciple with me to say right out what 1 think. The one thing people can't stand is frank ness. Mr. Napoleon Hill, according to this summary, maintains that raises flow in. irresistible and unsought, to those who are tactful. I think tact is a form of dishonesty. so more as a curiosity than anything else, I'm setting down specific ac tivities which he considers show a lack of tact in dealing with others, although I must ronfess I don't see why any of these should have anything to do with the way one does his work. Are you. asks Napoleon Hill sternly: ? Careless in the tone of ihe voiee. often speaking in gruff, antagonistic tones that offend?! omebody sent me a little summary (Not me, 1 whine.) ? Apt to speak out of turn or interrupt others who are speaking? (Not unless I have something to say much more interesting.) ? Overworking the personal pronoun? (Well. what's more conclusive than a personal ex perience?) ? Prone to ask impertinent questions, generally to impress others with your own importance? (Only when I think it's necessary for the good of certain people who think they are really something.) ? In the habit of going where you have not been invited? (I wouldn't think of it. except occa sionally when I'm sure it's an over sight.) ? Irresistibly impelled to vol unteer an opinion when not re quested? (Only when it's neces sary to bp brutally frank.) ?? Accustomed to using profane t or offensive language? (Never, and; I can prove I said only "Darn it." i the time the staff rigged a pail of water over the door to pour on'me when I walked in.) ? Habitually discussing ills and misfortunes? (I don't believe in dragging one's private life into the 1 office, although I think my loyalty to the company in spite of my phy sical condition should have some recognition. And besides, wouldn't you think people would be inter ested in the other fellow's symp toms?) Personally, T don't suppose "How to Raise Your Own Salary" would do me a bit of good ? peo ple are just prejudiced against me because I'm a woman?but I'm go-; Ing to insist that a number of peo-; pie right here in the office read it.' If they only knew it. they are standing in their own light, to be brutally frank. !-? it (tint WAY! No. money "ain't hay" ... but sometimes you'd almost think it was the way you have to "fork it over" for this and that! How ever, if you can manage to stash a little away in your savin* account, every pay-day, you'll be surprised at how it mounts up to important figures that really "ain't hay" in any man's language. It's smart to make some of the money you work for work for you. i ?e The First National B* ? Organized 1902 M<nilur Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ,
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