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f THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINER ilitary Service Honors Suzanne irry As Amateur Radio Operator w CLRTIS KL'SS ar The Mountaineer d girl amateur radio oper to join thi Military Affili , System MARSi is six .old Suzanne Curry of according to Capt War obson of the Third Array iction at Fort McPherson, |1 join a group of approx- ( J.5O0 oilier amateur and cal MARS radio operators luntry The MARS world-] idcasting system won the radio relay system's cov Sc Service Award in 1953, orious service in aiding J ,nd disaster operations it the country when other communication were dis c's amateur call letters B4VTO. with MARS call [ A4VTO. Lor student in the Junior B'THS. she obtained her lass Amateur License in I In July, 1953. she was by the Federal Contmuni ammission in the Amateur llass. accepted her application fter the Army lifted its age requirement of 21 radio operators in the |ition to her recently ac inors in the field of radio, bember of the Girl Scouts, business manager of the ipcr. business manager of li annual, a member of two I bol clubs, and plays in the j ' DAUGHTER TRAINS MOTHER as an amateur radio operator. Three years ago Suzanne Gurry became interested in amateur radio work. Just recently she was named as the. first girl ama teur operator to join the Military AiTiliate Radio System. Her interest captivated her mother. Mrs. Rankin Ferguson, seated, and noV the two find lone hours of satisfaction in their hobby. The two are already making plans for scheduled "visits via air" when Suzanne enters college in the fall of 1955. This picture was made in their living room at Balsam, as they sat in front of the equip ment. . (Mountaineer Photo). school band. Capt. Robsori, who is in charge of tiie MARS station at Third Army' Headquarters said this about Su-1 zanne: "As an operator in the Military j Affiliate Radio System, she will j play an important role in the secur ity of this nation. MARS is proud to have her as a member." Suzanne's interest in wireless be gan in the fall of 1951. She was then 14. when Eric Carlson. Jr.. of W4YPF visited his parents at their summer home in Balsam ?and brought with him his amateur radio equipment. Suzanne immediately became in- ; tersted in amateur radio and pro ceeded to order manuals and hand books to study for the Federal Communications Commission ex- i amination. Her mother, Mrs. Ran- : kin Ferguson, bought her a'small i short-wave receiver that winter ; and Suzanne studied and listened. - In May, 1952, after going to Knox- : ville and successfully passing the Novice examination, she was issued the call letters, WN4VTO. In the summer of 1952. when Carlson again visited Balsam, he helped Suzanne build a 5-watt transmitter which she used for sev eral months. Then she met Frank Wilbur. W4JTQ at that time Chief Engineer at WHCC, and he loaned her a 25-watt transmitter which she used for 2'$ months, during which time she made over 300 con tacts and increased her code speed to better than fifteen words per minute. During this time she was studying for the General Class'Li cense. which would permit her to operate on all amateur frequencies by voice or code. In April 1953. Suzanne went to Atlanta and successfully passed the examination for the General Class license, and was allowed to change her call letters to W4VTO, leaving out the "N" which stands for "Nov ice , Suzanne has now made contacts in 37 states and has many friends j on the air. only a fev% of which she had the pleasure of meeting in per son. However, this is the season of the! year when amateurs gather at their j "hamfests" to exchange ideas and : to get acquainted in person, and Suzanne and her mother are plan ning to attend several during the summer. Because of her good operating technique, Suzanne was recently invited to become a member of MARS. Amateur radio plays a very im portant part in the event of an emergency, not only in Civil De fense, but also in the case of lo cal disasters when telephone and power lines might be disrupted be cause of storms. For instance, Su zanne's station has been listed by the TVA as someone on whom they might call to get information through to their headquarters in the case of such an emergency. Suzanne's mother, looking to the time when Suzanne would be in college, decided that she too should get her license so that she and Suzanne could have long and fre quent chats via amateur radio while she was away from hore. So when Suzanne took her examina tion in Atlanta last year, Mrs. Ferguson took the Novice examina tion and passed, and was issued the call letters, WN4AGX. She is now studying for her General Class and hopes to be ready to take it in the next few months. Suzanne and her mother agree that it makes a wonderful mother daughter hobby and they have spent many pleasant hours and \ have met many new friends be cause of their rather unusual inter est. Suzanne does not 'devote all her spare time to radio. Sh tikes mu sic, is fond of horses, and can handle a gun like a professional? in fact, she took loi> honors at the annual Hog Rifle Shooting match some time ago at Cataloochee Ranch for her age division. In the Balsam area she likes to roam the mountains and dig out arrowheads, and lias an interesting collection to show* for her efforts. While these things interest her. she always gets back aroTtnd to ptalking of her radio work and her many far-flung friends. The regu lations permit the radio operators to talk about anything, but never allows them to use music over the air?nor profanity. The latter is of no concern for her, but she does like music. Her present plans are to build a larger antenna in order to get w id er area coverage. Of course Su zanne realizes that she will get to use the set until the fall of 1955 when she leaves for college, but her mother plans to keep the hobby going, and both are looking for ward to many happy hours of vis iting via air when Suzanne enters college. Rector's Guild To Have Rummage Sale The Rector's Guild of Grace Episcopal Church will hold a Rum mage Sale at the James Furniture Store on Main Street, Saturday, June 5. beginning at 9 a.m. New Edition Of Highway Maps Is Printed By State* The new State Highway Com mission maps which have been re vised to 1954 are off the press and ready for distribution, according to Highway Chairman A. H. Graham today. The maps which are free have been printed in black and white. There have been several changes sinee the last black and white highway maps werea printed in 1951. The new map has a panel on the reverse side with detail | sketches of eight of the largest Tar Heel cities showing the streets over which US and NC primary high ways have been routed. Another panel gives the size and weight laws of the State regarding trucks. Penalties for truck weight over loading are clearly spelled out. There is a new illustrated panel on highway safety which explains the use of radar by the State Highway Patrol to apprehend speeders, sat ; uration ("On various Tar Heel highways, identified as particular ly hazardous, dozens of State troop-1 ers are occasionally massed to con duct closely integrated patrols), [ and unmarked cars ("Not every North Carolina patrol car is easily identified as such. To apprehend \ the wilful speeder and other viola tors about one third of the patrol's fleet appears on the highway in j various colors. The trooper, of 1 course, is in full uniform.") The schedules of the free ferries operated by the State Highway Commission at Oregon Inlet, Sandy Point-East Lake, Atlantic-Ocracoke, and Hatteras - Ocracoke Island have been condensed as the sched ules are subject to slight changes due to traffic volume and weather conditions. There is an index to cities and towns and points of in-1 terest. The "rules of the road" are I clearly explained. On the front or map side there; is a mileage chart which gives the distance by miles between cities and points of interest. Graham said that 10.000 of the new black and white highway maps had been printed. The colored tour j ist map outlining the principal highways in red with colored pic tures on the back should be ready j soon for distribution, he added. Five Haywood County Men Enlist In Marines Throe men from Waynesville and two from Canton were enlist j ed <in the Marine Corps during ivl&y. according to the M?rine Re | cruiting office in Asheville. Waynesville men were: Roger Carroll Woodard, Lowell Howard Edwards, and Robert Sanford. Canton men were: James Fin j ley Smythe and Cecil .Mack Han ; nah. William the Conqueror, king of F.ngland, died in Rouen, capital of , Normandy in 1087. I Use of fertilizer in the United I Slates reached an all-time high of j 23,143,000 tons in 1953. More than 100,000 automobiles a | year are ferried across the Eng lish Channel. WINNERS of medals in the speaking contest, staged by the Clyde Woman's Club are Joy Carol Young and Alen Dean llaynes. Joy Carroll is the daughter of Rev. and Mrs. W. S. Young, of Lake Junaluska, and used as her topic, "Mary Carey". Allen Dean is the son of Mr. | and Mrs. A. T. llaynes, of Clyde, and he used as his topic "I Speak For Democracy". Ned Davis Arrives At Air Base In Japan T/Sgt. Ned S. Davis, son of Mr. j and Mrs. Frank Davis of Waynes ville, recently arrived in Japan for service with the U. S. Air Force. Sgt. Davis entered service in 1941 and served in the Pacific with the 126th Infantry Regiment during World War II. After his discharge from the Army, he en listed in the Air Force and plans to make his career of that service. His wife, Mrs. Helen Davis, now living in Asheville, will join him later in Japan. ? ? The hornbill has a bill that is massive and looks heavy, but is really light, being a thin, hard sheath over a network df bony fibers. The United States imports around eight million pounds of dried daisy blooms annually to make pyrethrum, an insecticide. GARRETT FURNITURE CO? INC. Main Street consumers r.xpec What consumers anticipate in he way of future price changea? egardless of whether such anticip tions eventually prove right or ^ rronf!?has an important influence in their current economic deci ions. It is significant that a re- < ent Federal Reserve Board survey i hows that, in early 1954. the larg est group of consumers expect >rices to remain steady. As always, i certain number expect prices to ail and others expect prices to -ise. but tfiere is not a majority n either direction. This is not too nuch different from the situaton i year ago, but it is vastly differ ?nt from the pattern in early 1951 ivhen 77% of consumers expected prices to rise and early in 1952 when 53% expected them to rise. About 41 per cent of the consum ers now expect prices to remain substantially unchanged during the rest of this year. These people are not likely to engage in panic spending in order to buy before prices increase, but neither are they likely to hold off in anticip ation of lower prices. A somewhat smaller number? 36 per cent?expect falling prices. These consumers may postpone some types of buying, thereby leav ing a backlog of needs and desires in the future. To some extent, the hoped-for lower prices have al ready materialized. Another 16 per cent of all con sumer units in early 1954 expect rising prices. (An additional 7 per cent were uncertain as to what to expect). This is smaller than the corresponding percentage in any year since the beginning of the Korean War. In summary, the trend suggests that while consumers, in their present mood, are not likely to be scared into buying in the near fu ;i rnce oiaoimy CALL A NURSE! HAMDEN, Conn. (AP) ? The [iamden Chapter of the American Red Cross has announced it wijj conduct a course in home nursing. Classes will meet weekly in a funeral home here. ture. they can be enticed into buying. I ONLY FACTORY FARTS USED I PROMPT SERVia ? GUARANTEED 10W PRICES ?OR OXE YEAR fT i J I I WISH TO THANK MY MANY FRIENDS FOR THEIR SUPPORT IN THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY * 1 ON SATURDAY, MAY 29th FARADAY C. GREEN ? | \ !_/ . '' " I ^ ^ % , Come in-See the big difference! inj in. 'niiimimmiriiiMritini iim?rrt ? G-E 21-inch Aluminized Tube We '11 turn on thfe G-E next I to any other set anywhere near its price. To* be the judge. See for yourself the difference the G-E Aluminized Picture Tube makes?blacker blacks, whiter whitA, greater range of grays. Designed for ^ll-channel UHF-VHE. Let us show you this G-E in action. Blocker blocks! Whiter whites! More tones in betweem j I Model 21CI1*. 21 inch con cole io genuine mahogany veneert and no- mWWWMl ld< i!" HhfiTI five hardwaodt. Swivel caitert. NELSON'S RADIO AND TELEVISION SERVICE MlivLEK ST. DIAL (iL 6-6581 ' flP 1 THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND VOTE IN THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY LAST SATURDAY. Clifton S. Terrell mtTteir Drive Up Where It's Cool AH The Time (Altitude, 1 Mile) And Enjoy I'erfecUU' While Dining STEAK DINNER I _? CHICKEN DINNER ^,\gP ? Plate Lunches # Sandwiches . ? Home Made Pies # Coffee ? Cold Drinks ? Ice Cream NOVELTIES AND SOUVENIRS MT. PISGAH DINING ROOM & GIFT SHOP Mr. and Mrs. Jarrett Williamson, Owners-Operators THANKS? I Want To Express My Sincere Appreciation To The People Of Haywood County For The Votes I Received In Saturday's Democratic Primary For Nomination For State Senator. % WILLIAM MEDFORD >. . ? ? + ....... ? . i "-S-"?,.. ' ' - Vi* ,
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