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SEEE THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER ?" uto Inspection Program Set-Up On A Voluntary Basis te Backs v System Checkups .nor L'mstead, Motor Ve Commissioner Ed Scheldt, |? of business firms and (ir ons and thousands of pri itizens are supporting a to "safety check" the Piles and trucks which trav streets and highways of, Carolina. The program, | includes the use of state-1 d windshield stickers for chicles which are in safe n, gets under way this novement is being directed Carolina Safety League of ? a, Williams, Greensboro die dealer, is chairman, irogram is strictly volun filliams said. "And the in s won't cost a penny and itaii any obligation on the of the cars. We believe that is will welcome an oppor 0 have their cars safety if they are not subjected of red tape and delay." nor Umstead issued a signed statement giving his and personal endorse >f the program, which fol- j happy to give both my of-j id personal endorsement to oluntary Motor Vehicle I Check' campaign sponsored Carolina Safety League, re doing so I discussed the detail with the commission lotor vehicles, Ed Scheidt. a director of the league. I ? ith him that the state's ef- j ir highway safety will bej laterially by a successful j 1 to assure the "mechanical if motor vehicles by peri spcction. and correction of found. Since there is now in North Carolina to re ich inspection, the league's to secure the voluntary AN DIES J LT THEN? V j f SUNDAY ? ) U. 7:30 p.m. A ? BA uiswers To What The luman Heart is Eager To Know! Happens To A Man At I? Do the Dead Know Any About Their Loved Ones Livinc On F.arth? Where w I)o They Spend Their In The Weeks: k. Mar. 16. 7:30 ? A PROMISE GOD COULDN'T FULFILL" ? Mar. 19, 7:30? REMEMBER LOT'S WIFE" 'essages You Cannot Afford To Miss! Adventist Tabernacle I Street Hazelwood ~ GOVERNOR ENDORSES ALTO INSPECTION.? Governor William I instead has given his "official and personal endorsement" to a plan for the voluntary safety inspection of automobiles pro mulgated by the Carolina Safety League. The free inspections are to begin this spring. Above Governor Cmstead hands his signed endorsement to Thomas A. Wiliiahls of Greensboro, chairman of the League On the left are Mrs. Bessie Bal lentine ul Raleigh and MeAlister Carson, Jr.. of Charlotte, secretary-treasurer and vire-chairman of the league, respectively. On the right of the picture is State Motor Vehicle Commissioner F.d Scheldt, a league director, who calls the move ment "one of the linesl things that has happened since I took office." check-up of as many vehicles as possible, without cost to the own ers, should fill a real need. More over, that part of the plan which provides for stickers on the wind shields of cars checked and found safe should prove popular with those motorists who want to do their part in the prevention of highway accidents. "When the actual inspections be gin, I will see to it that the state owned automobile which carries li cense plate No. 1 also carries a sticker with the statement that it has been checked anp approved." The aclual inspections will be gin in April or May depending up on delivery of the hundreds of thousands of green, white and black stickers which have been or dered. Cars and trucks will be in spected as to brakes, steering^ lights, horns, tires, windshields and windshield wipers ? according to rules set down in an officially ap proved manual. Vehicles which are found safe, or which are made safe following discovery of mech anical defects, will be given a sign ed and dated sticker stating that they have been checked and "ap proved". The North Carolina Legislature passed a mandatory mechanical in spection law in 1!)47 and the state set up "Inspection lanes" through out the 100 counties. But the ad ministration of the law proved so i unpopular that the next Legisla ! ture immediately repealed it. The plan of the Carolina Safety I-eague calls for free, voluntary inspection at any one of hundreds of garages designated as inspection stations. "I think it's one of the finest things which has been started since I took office," said Commissioner Scheidt. the former top FBI man who is leading the state's effort to reduce highway deaths and ac cidents. Officers of the league, in addi tion to Williams, are: McAlister Carson. Jr., of Charlotte, vice I HEREBY ANNOUNCE I AM A CANDIDATE FOR CONSTABLE IN HAYWOOD COUNTY IN TIIF, MAY ELECTION. YOUR SUP PORT WILL BE APPRECIATED. A. F. ARRINGTON ? ; 1 Patrolmen Nab Average Of 178 Speeders Daily Tar Heel motorists accused of speeding filed in and out of court at the rate of 178 per day during February the State Department of Motor Vehicles reported today. For the short month the vehicles agency recorded 4,998 speeding convictions, an increase of nearly 2.000 over February of last. year. The speedsters made up the only four figure bracket of violators during the month. Reckless driving (first offense! followed in second place with 929 convictions and driving with no chairman: Mrs. Bessie B. Ballen tine of Raleigh, secretary-treasur er; and Scheidt, V. K. Fisher and J. W. Ragsdale of Raleigh and T E. Pickard of Charlotte, directors , ? operator s license resulted in 701 convictions. I * Failing to stop for a stop sign ? resulted in a court appearance for I 3G6 motorists. Chief miscellaneous violations and subsequent convictions were reported as follows; improper passing. 18ti; improper lights. 122: passing school bus. 25: following loo closely. 8G: failing to give right of way. 139: and driving on wrong side of road, 90. Total convictions secured for the month came to 8,103, well over I half of them from speeding. Moose Will Meet Tonight For Special Session The Royal Order* of The Moose will nieet Thursday night. 7:30. in the Feiiland Brothers Building on ?] Wall Street. All persons intersted are invit i ed to attend this meeting, as sev eral matters of importance will be . brought up for discussion. Our Bears Better Behaved Than Yellowstone's Bruins - : ?_ '? : _ t ' . I Roy E. Bell To Address Methodist Men On Tuesday Rev. Roy E. Bell, pastor ol the Syl\a Methodist Church, will be tlu' speaker for the Haywood Count) Methodist Men's Fellow ship meeting at Morning Star Methodist Church. Tuesday even ing. March lti. at 6:30 o'clock. The meeting will feature a sup per. served by the Women's So ciety of the host church, fellow ship singing, and an address by Mr. Bell The speaker is a native of Lexington, graduating from Lexington High School in 1937. | lie graduated from Catawba Col lege in 1941. and received his seminary training at Duke Divin ity School, graduating in 1944 Since then, he has served as pas tor of Mou/on Methodist Church, Charlotte: Main Street Methodist r Church.- Kernel si ille; and came to Sylva last October. Mr. Bell is presently serving as District Di rector of Youth Work for the W ay hesville District. The president of the Haywood County Methodist Men's Fellow ship is John W. Bless of Bethel. He and the other officers are antic ipating a large number of Meth odist men in the county lo attend i this meeting. Parking Law Has Tooth DAVENPORT, Iowa (A P) - The police desk sergeant just laughed when a motorist display ed his overtime parking ticket and complained he'd been tied ut) at the dentist's office. Then the motorist carefuly un wrapped a handkerchief and dis played an extracted tooth as evi dence. He pointed, too, to his swol len jaw. The ticket was excused. Want Ads bring quirk results The bears of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park have1 notched up another triumph for I he region's greatest scenic attrac-1 tions. They're gentler than are the j bears in some other national parks Yellowstone for instance. The bears in the Smokies have made reputations for begging food and for showmanship hut this is something new in the way of tour-; ist attractions? gentleness. The National Park Service has just reported that in Yellowstone National Park last year ?- lour times the sire of the Smoky park 43 persons left bearing wounds inflicted by the bears. These casualties were infected during, a year that drew 1.326.858 tour ists to the Yellowstone. Hut our bears, bless their little claws, only left scratches on some 10 or 15 persons, or at least that was the number treated by physic ians at Gatlinburg. And they had more chances too. The Smoky park drew 2,250.712 visitors. Maybe they are more used to people?the park is young yet ? j or maybe the tourists in this area j are more susceptible to signs. "Bears have never been known j to bother anybody who heeded the ' warnings posted throughout the J park and let them alone," said Ed i Hummel, superintendent. Fifteen of the Yellowstone vis itors were injured while they or someone close by fed bears. Twenty-three injuries resulted from approaching a bear or letting one come too close. Four bear at tacks apparently were unprovok [ i d. The other case involved a park employee who bumped into a bear on a trail at night, according to the dispatch. However, minor traffic acci dents, resulting when motorists stop in the middle of the road to watch the animals without signal ling to cars behind them, add to the headaches of rangers in Great Smo)i? Rational Park "Our bears are just as black _ iL, ? I ?-? HFC. KENNETH I.. SMATHF.KS, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Perry Smalhers of the Kalsam Koad. is spending a 20-day furlough at home. Pl'e. Smathers will report to Camp Kilmer, N. J., March 16. for assignment overseas, lie en tered the army in April. 1952 and has been stationed with the 47th Military Police Co., Camp Kuek er, Ala. Pfc. Frank Hunt, Jr. Arrives At Ft. Bragg Army Pfc, Frank Hunt. Jr., of Wayhesville. arrived at Fort Bragg March 3 with the 576th Quartermaster Depot Company from Fort Lee, \'a. His unit will help provide cloth ing and general supplies for' 60,000 troops coming to Fort Bragg in April and Ma\ for Exercise Flash I Burn, a field maneuver employing the newest Army tactics and wea pons. Hunt, a supply handler, entered the Army last April. and lust as mean as any others," Superintendent Hummel said, "and they're going to In? mighty hungry when they come out w ith the warm weather and start entertaining the ' tourists about April 1!" Park Attendance For February Down 3 Pet. Attendance of visitors of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park for 1954 now stands 3 per cent below last year. The total for February of 38, 784 was 20 percent below the 48, 753. reported in February, 1953, compared to an increase of 39 per cent in January this year, over last year's figure. ' Total for the two months is 72.317 this year, compared with 74.859 in 1953. Smokies Warden Clyde Smith Dies Clyde Smith, a Great Smoky Mountains National Park Warden for the past 16 years, died last week after a long illness, lie was 51. Smith had been stationed at Cade's Cove until he recently was transferred to park headquarters in Gatlinburg. He is survived by his wife. Mrs. Pauline Smith, two daughters, Judy and Sue Smith; his mother, Mrs. Nellie Smith of Atlanta, Ga.; one step-daughter, Mrs. Aubrey Smith, Atlanta: two sisters, Mrs. E. J. Kosser and Mrs. L. V. Sny der. both of Atlanta; and two brothers, Audley and John Smith, both of Oneida. The British aircraft industry em ploys about 224.000 people. ANNOUNCING THE OPENING OF THE S AND M BARBER SHOP, LOCATED ON MILLER ST., NEXT DOOR TO BUS STATION. TOUR PATRON AGE WILL BE APPRECIAT ED. | E. T. SAWYER and JAUVIS MORROW Co-Owners BENDIX TV it will pay you to hoose bendix television ? COMPACT ? STURDY ? EASY TO TUNE ? SUPERIOR QUALITY ?LET US DEMONSTRATE BENDIX - Up To 24 Months To Pay ? NELSON'S Radio and television service XER ST. (;L 6-6581 SZJP ' '" " PI ?M??? ? * Th# look of Tomorrow is in every '54 BUICK Today yy.fh <? .- ;,'oto1y nnw ? vo-r . awo/' styling keynoiod by the Take it Easy tjou don't have to prove a t IET's he sensible about this subject of horsepower. 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I lie real pride of owning such a car is simply this: ^ou know so well what it can do that you never have to prove it. That lets you enjoy the tireless case of its gait in ordinary driving, when only a frac tion of its eager power is working. It gives you a quick reserve for breasting a hill ? and the luippy knowledge that there's still more to come in a sudden emergency. Sure, this is more power than most people really ha\ e to have. Hut you can hardly call it extravagant, when you are buying more horsepower per dollar in a CKNTURY than you get in any other car in America. MIlTpN at.DIE STARS FOR BUICK-SaaihaBu.ck Barl* Show Tu*?doyEv*nino? BUICK I lie beautiful buy Tho 200-horsepower Buick Csntuhy for 1954 It available lint of modolt, Including the stunning no w 6-pottenger Convertible shown hero. TAYLOR MOTOR CO. HAYWOOD STREET DIAL GL 6 4685 ? *
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