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i A Practical And Economical
Request Of Congress
Rep. George A. Shu ford had the right idea
when hp went to the House Appropriations
Committee and pointed out the wisdom of
lining the Parkway tunnels at Reech Gap
as a means of curbing further deterioration.
The Representative of this district in
presenting the facts before the committee,
asked for $280,000 to complete the surfac
ing of the 11-mile Parkway link, as well as
lining the tunnels. This project would afford
a scenic loop of imjtortant value to Pisgah
National Forest and this entire area.
Rep. Shuford went about his approach to
the committee in a practical manner, when
he pointed out that money spent on relining
the tunnels now would mean hundreds and
thousands of dollars saved in later years.
This newspaper trusts that the committee,
and all of Congress realize the words of wis
dom spoken by the Congressman of this dis
trict and act accordingly.
Pisgah And TV
Unless something unforseen develops, the
TV tower which had the approval of so
many Haywood citizens, will before too long
rise from the summit of Mt. Pisgah.
There were, and perhaps are still many,
who were just as sincere in their opposition
to the project, as were those who sincerely
advocated the erection of the tower on
Pisgah.
The entire procedure was carried through
in a democratic way, and as in such cases
the decision was'in favor of the majority.
Those who won do not, however, have any
right to do more than to take their victory
as good sports, just as those who did not see
their wishes in the matter materialize. In
fact, everyone we feel, shall take it in that
frame of mind.
A S:ife Platform
You've no doubt heard of the candidate
who was running for an office that had noth
ing to do with fencing In cattle, hut the is
sue had become quite warm, and as he was
speaking at a certain place one day, some
one in the crowd yelled at him.
"How do you stand on the fence law?"
And the astute fellow was on the hall with
that one just as he was on all other issues.
So he replied:
"Well, some of my friends are on one side
of that matter and some of my friends are
on the othec aide, and I'm telling you right
now I'm standing by my friends."
The moral of that story is that it is always
best, when running for political office, not
to he ton much "fer" nor too much "agin."
?Harnett County News.
. Time To Start Talking Again
The records clearly show that Haywood
has been entirely too quiet about the Pigeon
River Road for the juist 15 to 16 months.
During that period of quietness, there has
not been anything done towards further
completion of the road'.
Since being so quiet and nice about the
project has failed to produce desired results,
it seems only logical that the thing for us
to do now is to start raising our voices and
letting officials in Raleigh ? and Hender
sonville ? know that we want the Pigeon
River Road first and foremost above all oth
er road, or civic projects.
One Haywood man, who is keenly inter
ested in the road, recently made the state
ment that when the state candidates come
around asking for support, he is going to
tell them, "I shall support only those candi
dates who are 100 per cent for the comple
tion of the Pigeon River Road ? brother if
you don't speak that language, I ain't for
you."
A rather harsh, and perhap; blunt way of
stating that he does not intend to support
any candidate that does not first show an |
interest in the project which means so much
to the entire southeast, as well as the mid
west.
The Mountaineer believes that if enough
public sentiment is created right now, that
we shall realize the fruits of our labors years,
and years sooner than if we continue to keep
quiet.
What Is The Best Answer?
As more ami more speeders are being
caught, it is apparent that the Superior
Court docket will be heavily loaded with
traffic cases. Some people have the feeling
that provision should be made for a traffic
court and give the violators an opportunity
of paying the cost and fines and going their j
wny.
Others feel that the superior court is the
place to dispose of the cases, and that vio
lators of traffic laws should have to go to a
little extra trouble.
All these different opinions offer food for
serious thought on a matter that must be
faced seriously.
The Raleigh News and Observer takes a
definite stand that the state needs fewer
courts and not more. The Raleigh newspaper
said in an editorial:
"North Carolina needs fewer courts, not
more. The electorate and the General As
sembly each create more justices of the
peace than are needed every two years and!
the Governor adds a varying number, de- j
pending upon the personality of whoever i
happens to hold that office.
"The defects in the present justice of the
peace system and the unfavorable impression
of law enforcement in North Carolina which
has been made upon visiting motorists have
caused State officials to revive plans for
traffic courts, which were rejected bv
former Legislatures.
"The defects in the justice of the peace
system stem from, two conditions: there are
too many of them and they are paid by fees
contingent upon convictions instead of draw
ing salaries.
"To superimpose a new system of courts
upon the present justice of the peace system
would only add to the present confusion. The
present system should be abolished and a
new system of inferior courts, with proper
emphasis upon traffic cnses, should be estab
lished in its place."
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Mistakes Are Like That
The difference between a natural, pardon
able mistake and a foolish, unforgivable
blunder too often depends on whether the
error is ours or someone else's.
?Waycross Journal-Herald.
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Thursday Afternoon. March I, 19.11
1 licvll Do It livery lime
By jimmy Ilatlo
Before-tmis is 1
THE MAIN DRAO OF |
NEW ROQUEFORT BE
FORE THE COUNCIL
PASSED 4 "NO PARKING"
ORDINANCE DURING
BUSINESS HOURS- I
AfTER-same street
WITH SAID ORDINANCE
IN EFFECT. NOTICE
THE DIFFERENCE ?
SURE-WE COP CM
"WE CORNER 6REW
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HOSTILITIES REOPENED
?PEACE
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Looking Back Over The Years
20 YEARS AGO
Curfew ordinance is passed by
board of aldermen prohibiting chil
dren under sixteen to be on streets
alone after (file hour following sun
down.
Exploding oil heater causes dam
age to the home of S. H. Keller.
Mrs Richard Barber, Jr., has
two parties honoring her mother,
Mrs. W W. Norman of Grilfin, Ga.
Mrs. R. L. Prevost has party on
her husband's birthday.
10 years ago |
G. C. Sw&yngim of Lake Juna-j
luska has five sons in the service.
Mrs. Whitener Prevost heads
group of 25 merchants' aides check
ing food prices.
J. C. Madison, chairman, re
ports Red Cross quota in sight.
Frank Ferguson. Jr.. of Wilming
ton is spending several days with
his mother,
Pfc. Julius F. Davis, Jr. is now
in New Guinea.
5 YEARS AGO
Miss Mary Ann Massie wins sec
ond place in the state DAR Good
Citizenship contest.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Stringfield
leave by plane for Kent, Wash., to
visit their daughter, Mrs. J. D.
Jones.
Miss Marv Medford returns from
a vacation in Florida.
Mr and Mrs. G. M. Kimball
move to their new home on the
Country Club Drive.
Views of Other Editors
IIOW TO MVF. A LONG T1MF.
If you want to live to a very ripe
old age, there are a number of
highly recommended ways to do
so, although we concede that some
of the recommendations are in
contradiction to each other. Liv
ing a long time seems to be pret
ty much a matter of opinion, so far
as how to go about it is concerned.
For example, we knew a gentle
man in the 80s once who attribut
ed his longevity to the fact that
he took two snorts of whiskey every
morning as soon as he got up hut
did not touch another drop until
8 p.m. when he took two more
snorts.
Then we read of people who
claim that they lived to approach
the century mark because they
never took a drink at all. Others
proclaim tobacco as life-extended,
and still others insist that it is life
shortening Some say red meat
shortens life, othere say it leng-1
thens the span.
With fjuch contradictions, it is
difficult to reach any conclusion
on how to live to be 80. 90, 100 or
more.
Rut there is one thing that is
Certain. If you want to live long,
do not be a high official in Soviet
Russia.
The London Sunday Times, in a
summary of what has happened to
high officials in the Soviet in re
cent years points out that since
1980 nine of the 11 cabinet minis
ters holding office at that time
have been shot by firing squads.
Five out of seven presidents of
the Central Executive Committee
were executed by firing squads.
So were 49 of the 53 secretaries
of the Communist Party central
organization. So were 15 of the top
27 Communists who drafted the
1990 Constitution of Soviet Russia.
So were 70 of the 80 memhers of
the Soviet War Council.
And. since 1917. three of every
five Marshals of the Soviet Army
have been shot as spies or traitors.
And evcrv member of Lenin's first
post-revolution politburo was fin
ally shot with the one exception of
Joseph Stalin.
Play with dynamtie. stick your
head into a buz7 saw. jump in front
of trucks on the highway, or prac
tice shooting at yourself with a
pistol and you're still safer and
much more likelv to have a long
life than if you are an official in
Soviet Russia.?Shreveport Times.
THE VEST GOES WEST
Epitaphs for the vest have been
frequent, these last few years.
Tailors suggest that it Is an ex
pensive garment to cut out and
sew; jewelers point out that
watches come mostly with wrist
bands. nowadays; physiologists as
sert that the new fatty layer about
his middle warms the average per
son adequately by itself. Style
jounals hint that the vest origin
ated as a sweater for dinosaurs in
the Second Ice Age. and can now
safely be abandoned. Tailor and
Cutter, the priestly utterance of
London's Savile Row, says the vest
just isn't being worn now. and
make way/or cummerbunds.
Nobody cleared that with John
Foster Dulles, it's safe to surmise
A man whose photographs show
him well weskited as early as Sep
tember, our Secretary of State per
sonally exports the vest every time
he wings off for another interna
tional conference. President Eis
enhower himself, proceeding to
ward a recent press conference,
was pictured not in his usual
double-breasted suit but in a sin
| ele with full snread of vest; a ques
tion-proof vest, no doubt. In less
elevated regions, such as the neigh
bor's Saturday night whisky tast
ing. what is there better to give a
man distinction than . his plaid
Christmas-present tattersall?
The cummerbund is just the
thing for one's next trio to Dar
I jeeling. It is ideal for bull-fighters.
| demonstrators of electric reducing
machines and. crises, persons with
out a napkin. Rut in other circum
stances. what's good for the waist
coated interests is good for the
country.
Though, of course, the Raltimore
climate is a special factor. Balti
more vests are customarily display
ed In a group, as good as new. at
the back of one's clothes closet
?The Baltimore Evening Sun.
CRIME IS COSTLY
"I do not believe the average
ciiizen senses the proper role that
%
crimp plays as a national prob
lem. It exists on a scale so enor
mous that it is difficult to grasp
it It can reasonably be estimated |
that 20 billion dollars annually is
the cost of crime in this coun
try."
That's J. Edgar Hoover, Chief
G-Man. informing a congressional
committee. And he goes on to
break down crime costs by main
taining that it costs each family
?n the United States an average of
?495 each year. It is this figure that
hits home?a terrific cost to be
borne in a societv that oftentimes
prides itself, to the point of com
placency. on the absence of crime
in a particular area or community.
Mr Hoover has also voiced con
cern. as should all of us, over an
increase in the crime rate among
youths. He said 7.8 ner cent of the
persons arrested in 1952 were un
der 18 years. 13.3 per cent were
tinder 21. and 23.1 per cent were
under 25.
As disturbing as are these fig
ures, they become more so. when
they are evaluated in the light of
the little interest often shown by
the public in crime prevention and
in law enforcement.
?Chatham County News.
COI.D COMFORT
A group of tall - tale spinners
were gathered in a country store.
"When I was a kid." said one, "it
got so cold in mv bedroom that the
candle froze and we couldn't blow
it out."
"That's nothing." spoke up an
other. "One night it was so cold
in our bedroom that when my
brother and I spoke, the words
froze as they fell from our lips and
we had to scoop 'em up and heat
'em in a skillet before we could
hear what one another was say
ing."?The Country Gentleman.
Rambling 'Rowij
?Bits Of Human Interest \? \vs-_^ I
By Frances Gilbert Frazier
In days gone by. March 4lh (in inaugural
iwarming into Washington to view tin- H
jpon a president being sworn into office t
ore, packed stands and sidewalks and 'u-u.i
narked March 4th. It also ended "Lame l)u
vas whisperedi was one of the main"reasoi
We distinctly remember the first it H
juisition of a radio. The loud speaker wa '?
*e had an extra long cord attached s(, t
iround from room to room. We called up ,
?ave them portions of the music and excit.
tnd via an extension cord. With the advent
fortably relax at home, call in all the ih i. H
iffair minus crowds, lost children food H
Jealousy sits in a watch tower.
Little Johnny wasn't exactly scared s
seven and in the second grade, you would'
iidn't quite like, nor understand, the viohe
bending trees, rattling windows and send
ing down the street. The trouble was one
was. You couldn't see it but you could
how it felt; but what was it?
Just as a precaution . . . not that he
Johnny stayed close to his daddy who w:
the telephone. "Yes. Mr. Smith." the boy'
that data in my coat pocket. Hold the pho
to get his coat. Little Johnny, with his 11,11
(he howling wind and utterly oblivious ol
ceiver. piped up in a loud voice; "Daddy,
work for and the one you said was not hit S
It's hard to stop at anv station when tin mind :. .J
One of the most gracious things thai 1 F
was the kind invitation of a visitor to acron
Knowing how difficult it is to get hotel 1
ute. he very kindly extended his invitatim 1 . . .?
guest of himself and wife. This invitation, nr.
able to accept 'press day being what it is b
the kind impulse behind it. Since then we
of how the average house-wife could , 1
stranger, unexpectedly hurled into her
would take nothing less than an ..ir .](9
this situation with an extended hand 11 fl
"dented" well that we couldn't do , \ ?
cd upon our mind that this kind invitaC.e
who had a perfect wife, or who didn't know
Snow may be pure when it hits the earth hut it'.mtM
quires plenty of "dirt" in a short time. F ]
Voice of the
People
Do you think there should bp a
law against hitchhikers?
Bill Freeman. B&P Motor Lines
?"I guess there should be a law
against it because a lot of evil has
been done. I've never hitchhiked
myself so I haven't thought much
about it. We meet a lot of hitch
hikers in the trucking business but
never pick them up because the
insurance company doesn't allow
it."
D. E. Tichenor, real estate and
insurance?"Yes. I think it is a
hazard from both sides. Many
times people will pick up a hitch
hiker and then suffer the conse
quences.''
J. C. Haynes, internal revenue
service. Post OfTice?"No. because
the law is not enforceable. The
driver is a free agent and it's up
to him to protect himself. After
all, if you know a hitchhiker, you'll
pick him up regardless of the
law."
Miss DeRrayda Fisher, office
manager. Employment Security
Commission?"Yes. I believe there
should be a law against hitchhik
ers. Accidents frequently happen
or can result from incidents like
Letters ToM
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