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f TODAY'S QrOTAT| TODAY'S BIBLE VERS! # Not prayer without : lhirJ tmttttis'jsvrt&stz Editorial Page of The Mountaineer ZZZ^JZ z J climbeth ap worn* other aay. the same U a V -?J thief a robber?John !?:!. - ?-?< ? For Traffic Justice This State is not dedicated to the proposi tion that it is necessary to legislate for the exclusive benefit of tourists, even though these temporary visitors form a multi-mil lion dollar industry. At the same time, the State certainly does not want to discriminate and alienate tourists when corrective action is possible to assure justice both to them and to permanent North Carolina residents. In Washington, Motor Vehicles Commis sioner Edward Scheidt made the point that a uniform traffic code applicable to all sec tions of the State would be "an improve ment" over the present method of handling traffic violators. Because fines and court costs vary from section to section, tourists who are stopped can never be sure what the penalty will be. And they are understandably irked by the discrepancies and the slipshod system. A uniform traffic code, which would pre scribe a fixed fine for the speeder in Murphy or Manteo, holds appeal for the tourist and the Tar Heel. Speed traps would be impos sible. There would be no question about the penalty to be levied for any specific offer e. The code would produce a more even-handed administration of traffic laws. The uniform system should meet the ob jections of those legislators and others who have opposed the creation of Statewide traf fic courts. The business of local courts would be undiminished in the absence of any new courts. Court revenues would be unaffected, unless the revenues had been inordinately high because of outlandish schedules of fines and costs. The possibility of illegal tie-ups between unscrupulous judges and officers would be drastically lessened. Adoption of a code with Statewide appli cation for traffic cases would dovetail nicely with the current safety campaign and with plans for improvements to our highways. Fixed schedules of costs and fines would re move any possible doubts from the minds of those who drive on our roads. With the pres ent hodgepodge of fines fixed arbitrarily by the multitudinous courts, neither the tour ist nor the Tar Heel can be certain about the fairness or equality of traffic justice. ?Raleigh News and Observer. Price Of Automobile Tags Undoubtedly Is Enough Now North Carolina motor vehicles will carry two tags in 1955, and soon work is to start on printing more than 1,-100,000 sets. The plates will carry only license number, the year, and the name of the state. There'll la' no safety slogans or tourism "plugs." The tags will be increased slightly in size. The*present plate is 12 x 5 1/8 inches, but the 1955 tags will measure 12 by 6 inches. The News Of A County As a general rule, the large city newspap ers often poke fun at the small county news jmpers. But not so with the New York Her ald Tribune in a recent editorial, which cit ed anew the role of the county newspaper, and its permanent place in the area in which it serves. The editorial is as follows: "From a bowl of buttered popcorn to a televised dish of Groucho Marx, there are various forms of entertainment for a farm er's winter evenings. But come Friday night and whatever may be the diverse appeals of Eddie Fisher or a prizefight, a countryman has waiting for him a greater attraction than a flickering screen. For it is on a Friday that his weekly paper arrives. "A well edited country weekly coming to a snowbanked road by rural free delivery has, surprisingly eningh, more value to a reader now than it had before the automo bile linked town to town with an ease and clarity a sorrel colt and a buckboard never accomplished. In the time of the horse a man might expect to know well the radius of his own township and its people. But in today's era of eight cylinders and a hundred-mile ride he can have friends and acquaintances in all of a county's fourteen towns. The say ing has it that names make news. The col umns of correspondents from villages "un der the mountain" and in the valley, bring the happinesses and mishaps of folks a coun tryman knows in many places. This is al ways live and near news. To read it is a lot more interesting than seeing a guy he nev er heard of win a lightweight bout on a Fri day night boxing program. It's an awful big world, and a short-hand ed farmer with a barnful of cows can't spread himself too thin in keeping track of countpes he never expects to visit and folks he's mighty sure he'll never set eyes on. A plane may crash in Alaska, an avalanche may plunge in Austria, a volcano may blow its head off in Java?these are important and fatal events. But a countryman ? and most assuredly a country editor?knows that they do not really loom as large to a back road, county-acquainted reader as a story aboi t Burr Decker's dog getting killed chas ing * truck, or that two 'coon hunters got lost on a neighboring mountain. These are the .sort of items a man savors while he also munches popcorn and listens to the north west wind attack ineffectually the defenses of his thermostat. "A countryman has read the same county paper for thirty years. It is better than ever today. It has more correspondents, more names of folks he knows. He reads some of the items aloud, and they sound sweeter to him than Perry Como. Many of the jokes he thinks funnier than Arthur Godfrey's or Milton Berle's. There's no accounting for tastes ? as the old lady said when she kiss ed the cow. After all, it was her cow, and it was never milked in a television studio," This increase in size will bring North Carolina's tags into conformity with the oth er 17 states and the District of Columbia. License plates are a necessary evil, and we once wondered whether motorists were paying enough for them. Put with gasoline tax at seven cents a gallon, and several hun dred dollars in taxes going into the price of each car. plus Blue Book listing on the coun ty and city tax books, we are quite willing to say nothing about raising the price on tags. However, we know of no easier way to raise an extra $1,400,000 than to boost tag prices $1.00 each. The IT. S. mint is one institution which definitely frowns on the practice of giving or taking samples. Looking Back Over The Years 20 YEARS AGO Mrs O. R. Martin tins birthday | party for her little daughter, Louise. Miss Belle Franklin, student at | Asheville Teachers College, spends weekend with Jier parents. Mr. and Mrs. Hardin Franklin. Mr. and Mrs. George Coble re turn from ten months stay in Glen dale, Calif. Mr and Mis, John N. Shoolbred celebrate their forty-fourth wed ding anniversary. 10 YEARS AGO Gilbert Hembree wins 3rd place in a state Food for Victory contest. Aviation Cadet Dick Bradley is classified as a navigator in the Air Force. ? . | Mrs. R. H. Black well joins her daughter. Mrs. James Michals of Durham, for a visit in Clearwater, Fla. -? Fred Howell of Providence. R I., visits his parents. Mr and Mrs. D. A. Howell, 5 YEARS AGO Senator J. M. Broughton dies of heart attack. Mrs. Grover C. Davis returns from Raleigh where she has been visiting her husband. Rep. Davis. Miss Jean Ann Bradley has lead in play at Brenau College. Waynesviile girls take Blue Ridge basketball title. Ttilrtv-one Bethel seniors visit Raleigh. Voice of the People What do you think of the idea that churches plan more activities for elderly persons? Mrs. John finger. Soco Gap ltd. ??'1 think that would be nice. They do a lot now but could prob ably do more. My church, the Mag gie Methodist, takes a collection for any older person when they're sick and we visit them and take food." Mrs. Marshall Hannah. Chest nut Park Dr.?think it's a fine idea We do quite a bit in the Bar borville Bapttlst Church. The old folks seem to enjoy the special evening servici s we have for them on the first Friday of every month. They have Rd?d singing and preaching." Mrs. nave Wiggins. Aliens Creek "I go to the Seventh-Day Ad ventist and we do a lol for the old er people. If they can't get out. we take them flowers and food and go to read the Bible to them. We give them cards and things to help them study the Bible, and we take clothes to those that heed them, and generally visit with the old folks." Views of Other Editors SCOTT, LENNON AND A LIVELY RACE I Former Governor W. Kerr Scott | occasioned little surprise in any North Carolina corner when he announced his candidacy for the I seat now held by Senator Alton I V Lennon. Mr. Scott wasn't fool j ins anybody with his "coyness" over the past several months. He's been running full tilt. Political proqnostigators will now burst into print with a delin eation of the support that the former governor will get and there will be some surprising revela tions on this front; that Mr. Scott will receive the active support of people who have not heretofore iven in his corner: who opposed him when he made his successful race against Johnson for the guber natorial nomination and who op pnst d Hubert Olive because the i Scott blessing rested upon him. This support may be puzzling to some but it won't be to the poli tic tans who grumbled when Gov ernor t'mstead picked the relative ly unknown Alton Lennon as the sue cesser to the late Senator Wil lis Smith. Senator Lennon. starting from I scratch, has gained ground in the i months since his appointment. He Is" a pqrsonahle, hard-working >conger man with a reputation as a fighter. He is at a disadvantage however, as of the present he is still relatively unknown to many of North Carolina's people. On the other hand Mr. Seott is known in every little village and hamlet in ihe state and hasn't been idle these past months whieh he said were given over to a survey of statewide sentiment. What puzzles a great many ob servers are the lines of battle that are to be drawn in the campaign. Senator Lennon will find it diffi cult to run on his record because he hasn't been in Washington long enough to develop one. Mr. Scott is sure to make u?e of his con tinned espousal of his better roads and schools program as well as his "go forward" platform?but there is .1 question about his being able to project that sort of philosophy into the national and internation al levels in which a Senator moves, About one thing there can be no doubt, ft will be a lively race and our only hope is that the peo ple of North Carolina will* he spared the bitterness and the vin dictiveness of previous campaigns for public office that have been so much a part of the political scene these past few years. ?Chatham County News. army chaplain At an Air Force training base in tin- West, the chaplain announced . that his sermon would be about Rambling 'Round Bits Of Human Interest News By Frances Gilbert Fra/ier Now another controversial subject ha- l>. the TV tower on Mount Pisgah, so we ? ^ where. And to the thousands of u- come ? f how. when and where can we acquire a 1 \ onl\ one objection to owning a TV -el , rieri and that is the owner acquire- a fixator \ ^ relaxation "after hours' but our idea of t! . ^ sewing, painting or just sitting with clo-ed . ( TV positively excludes any of these indoor - - ^ the opinion that we will have to continue jn - . r we are rejoicing with all tho-e wl ?> tion on Mount I'isgah with perfect recepthe Memories are onlv the.pleasant things ? |)f> ot(|fr ^ are recollections. We were amazed to hear that out of the " New York City. 450.000 of them were Puerto Pi ible that a good-sized city is made of this f , The recent attack on the Congress by fine Puerto Rican fanatics, from the visitor-. to think about seriously It looks like we led > - ri up our own backyards in a hurry. There is lite. of these so-called "patriots" had been inflamed 1 We wonder how 450.000 Puerto Rican- fit many of our people are being relieved of the;. \,;i ( played, from what sourcet come- their livehh. hard to answer that question. It behooves all ol . . way possible to stop this infiltration that i- do ? mine the safety of all of us. ? "If winter eomes . . will it ever ret nut of the wjt? Teacher: "Little Johnny, you may now n - ^ 'Sleep'." Little Johnny: "Sleep. Sleep is what < ri ?t Sleep is what you go o(T in but come out of. S ,a to go to when you want to stay awake and what ? m to w >e.i you can't stay awake. Sleep is why! e. used 'most any old time. Sleep is what they e n < and which you don't like to hear because you v ! . Fsti" Little black-eyed paragraph. All puffed up with pride and inv, 'Cause some one said they liked sou. ? Short and sweet, and sometimes coy. Little blark-rved paragraph, Ain't you just the cutest one! Stay as little as you are Else out you go. on the run. ; liars. "How many of you." he ask I ed, "have read the 29th Chapter j of Matthews?" A show of hands ' I went up. "That's why I chose the ; j subject." said the chaplain. ; j "There's no such chapter." j i ?Pageant Magazine., 1 11 ' I THRIVE ON DEPRESSION "The longest and most disastrous ' depression in history," says The Guaranty Survey, "was the one which government tried most ! strenuously to combat with infla | tionary injections." i 1 Which depression? Why, the one I that started with the stock crash in 1929?the one that Charles Michelson. smear-artist for the Democrats, laid at the door of , Hubert Hoover 11 is ;e, - wax prolonged I t:>. St* and interrup- s>. the at i-irous ;ii 1: *hf Otrals had ?1 1952. '!*? have prolotui . , depress definitely IS .. ...p. ::,n depression lire i;i| iass an appoint rn M bur u Charleston N -i C an Porhap f? rm prohle;, . M I'd satisfacto: - 'hat tk tier ha- be. p pol ivho think t1 =< ?<; 1 ! involving ti ? : "](f of getting ' tin - 1)1 Daily OU^ THE MOUNTAINEER Waytiesville, North Carolina Main Street Dial C.L 6-5,101 The County Seat of llaynood County Published Bf The WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER, Inc. W CURTIS RUSS Editor W Curtis Russ and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers PI RI ISHED EVERY MONDAY "AND THURSDAY HAYWOOD COUNTY One Year . $3 00 Seven Months 2 00 Three Months 1.00 NORTH CAROLINA One Year $4 00 Si\ Months 2 2S OUTSIDE NORTH CAROLINA One Year . $4 30 Six Months 2.5Q F'utf?d at the post cvfTtee at WnVnesvUle, N C.. as Sec ond Class Mail Matter, as provided under the Act of March 2 1H79. Nnvrmhrr 20. 1014 MFMPFK OF THF ASSOC! A TFT) PHFSS The A??ii?datfd Press ts entitled exclusively to the use for re-publication of all the local news printed In this newspaper as- well as all AP news dispatches Monday Afternoon, March S, 1951 I lie\ II Do l( livcrv I imc iymen greasewell,service chief for bedlam auto sales, waited an moor for his date witm the werxo, me was surfctep to consider it sort of a merry jest- - . ? - ttttt " . " - . ?? Bv 11111111 \ ll.itlo -- Now TVIAT THE DOC'S V * 6> ???!!<* u2T"Y Been waiting ten / ,_VOlJ heard me.'! amnutes RJR Ml<=. I ^sptt-SRTT)MOTMING aUNK^sS I BUr 4 CRUAUNV UTTLE ?43"giS V MOTOR CVERMAUl..' ARE PAR FROM 7 X'M A BU&y MAN// MIFPOCRATIC // ( G>AI'*.VJ-.. GET pu- V ?AT CAR OUT ) I ^ -- \ AT ONCE OR , I - , I LL HAVE VOU A1, . 4 [ / S. FIRED.'.' a I Mrs. Ilarry MeCracken. Upper Crabtree I think that's ;i fine Idea. The\ say middle age begins ?round GO now. So many people feel quite active in their so-called old age." Lions To Moot At Central Elementary The Wayltesyille Lion's Club will hold Its regular meeting Thursday night at 7 o'clock at the Central Elementary School. Following supper, which will be served in the school cafeteria. Claude Hogers. school principal, will conduct a tour of the build ing. SCOH'S SCRAP BOOK FLASHING, jdpA 'Ml c*tA<to? o* M J^F M'lUClAl * LOv. C? ?> ml luDM* IMfMHi ^ k ? v- ,1 J' FLASHING, w ; , A Largo Crowd Attends Sieging At Church A Urge crowd attended the reg ular First Sunday night singing last night at the Red Rank Baptist Church. Among those participating were the Southerners, the Gospel Five, and the Red Bank Trio Roy Parker was In charge. By R. J. SCOn 'One AUSt<IUUA.H KtlPIt CAM 00 -WE WORK df SIX MtM ? Heroine sheep. ? is *, proymct ? ' *m.hcr is ho< ks / uhdnsioop v vi' i ikr 1 f m many plafk i ? i* <m miwon. i '' < /j?? *lu ww am <* 0*1/ i /l-l . k mis can i w!vl wkcm * htc-fa* ? a.him<0l? m rip cu3vlr *p bumiluiu. ? 19kii<k WASHIM MARCH OF EVENTS Agriculture's Big Headache: I Must Stjre 280 Ml lack of Storage Space | Bushels ot Form fiW Special to Central Pri s.t WASHINGTON?The Department of Agricultui is about * bark on a nation-wide search for empty ? m * merchant ships, empty airplane hangais, vacant ->'s. Army barracks, closed-down movie houses. The department needs more space in which to ?' 10 an eit 280 million bushels of farm products which are cm "ted to vested this summer, but for which there is no av.tii storJjt If the search is unsuccessful, still another hea ! wl" ^ to the Republican administrai wiui - cope in its effort to solve the tr ate faro:' tion. Under current government J farmers who avail themselves >f : ? ?leral * must find storage space for tin u craps , can't, then they have to asstine > ' s ri from spoilage. The search for space by fat." w''" be a hotly competitive one, with t r blamed by those who lose out. They will charge that the . ** done enough to build bins itself or t>> inducep fnnof riir.t ??? VVIUHI u?.VIUII, Senator Wiley This was a major issue, used adroit! Democrats in the 1918 p" ntial caM against the Republiean 80th Congress. It was credit .i with swing normally GOP farm states to the Democrati le and* the election of Harry S. Truman. ? ? * ? , ? TREATY FIGHT?An unusual aspect of the pr tanged search for a compromise on the Bricker treaty can. tut ion*1 ment is the fact that at no time was the adirilnistrati >n s top policy spokesman in Congress a party to the negotiation* The absence of Senator Alexander Wiley (R). W -,in conferences caused considerable speculation, for he i : airna* Senate foreign relations committee, which handles t: 'ties Wiley a non-participation underscores his oppositi : to ',f formula for curbing a President's treaty-making powers secret that Wiley would prefer to leave the Constitution a , may go along, however, with mild proposals being advanced ' leaders. Senator Walter F. George (D), Georgia, the top-rank"1? ^', member on Wiley's committee, was a leading nc patience ran out. Some wondered if George was not Pu' . chestnuts out of the fire. The senator is a fecognl? d an" constitutional matters, especially those in the foreign t" 1 * * * ? ? HATS!?The rats have been yirtually conquered, 1"'> 11 Infest the hallowed halls and walls of the nation's Capitol. They come in through pipelines, largely Of sewers extending to less revered reaches of Wash- " ington. * Several tiny black rodents make the Senate press C*f"^ ga cry their home and appear occasionally elsewhere Jn the sprawling building. ,, r*U h#v* "PParently disappeared entirely , s it there is still a holdout colony of large-sire rodents " ?nd unvtsited area below ground. ^ Rata were once ao bad a problem that the authorities e'M in th? sub-baa?ment ana lire a idle at *,l> 1 poked their noses out
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