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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE # - # 10uAi^ VlOi W Editorial Page of The Mountaineer that causMh shamr.?Prov. 1*5. a flwr"',? a"?t >? '??\VjjgB "Bob" McLean Yesterday, Robert L. McLean, an employee of The Mountaineeh composing room for about 40 years, was buried. Bob began his printing career early in life, and was one of the few remaining men who learned the trade back in the days when the work was all done by hand, and very little machinery entered into the every day scheme of things. Bob was what is known in the trade, as a pressman. He operated the presses which printed various items in the commercial de partment. He was by nature, particular, and took pride in his work, and the printed pieces which came from his presses. LTntil The Mountaineer installed a large automatic newspaper press. Bob inserted the sheets of white paper on which this news paper was printed, on what was known as a hand-fed press. After that, he devoted al most his entire time in the commercial print ing department of the plant. In recent years he lost his hearing, but never his sense of humor, and his devotion for those around him. When illness forced him to give up his work, he often remarked he missed the contacts with other employees, and the smell of printers ink. In recent months he would often come in just to see the wheels of machinery turn, get a whiff of ink. and slap the backs of those with whom he had labored so long. Bob was unselfish. He was kind hearted, and truly a devoted son to the printing field. 98'? Of Families Didn't Buy New Homes In 1953 The complacency of salesmen who racked up so-called "hot" sales records during: 1953 was paired more than gently by a recent communique received by Minneapolis-Honey well field sales operatives. 1'rging the boys to get up off their laurels, the Memo from Minneapolis advised them not to think contentedly of all that was sold J. ' -->ov* ViAoqnqn* 98'.' of the families in America did not move into new homes or apartments; 98'. did not buy a food freezer; 97'. did not buy a room a^ir conditioner; 97'. did not buy an electric range: '<91 did not buy a vacuum cleaner; 92'7 did not buy a refrigerator: ' 92'.' did nflfTTuy ?tn rlectric Shattr; * * 92'. did not paint their houses; 91'.' did not buy a washing machine; 89'. did not ride in Pullmans or airplanes; 85'. did not buy a TV set; 7(5 ^ did not take a real vacation trip; 71'. did not buy a radio set. And this, the home office "needle" points out. was during a period when consumer sav ings were at an all-time high. The inference was obvious.?Ex. THE MOUNTAINEER WajwsvHIe, North Carolina Main Street Dial GL 6-5301 The County Seat of Haywood County Published Br The WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER, Inc. W. CURTIS RUSS Editor W. Curl is Russ and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY HAYWOOD COUNTY One Year _ $3 00 ?seven Month* . ... 2.00 Three Months : 1.00 NORTH CAROLINA One Year $4 00 Six Months _ 2 25 OUTSIDE NORTH CAROLINA One Year _ _ $4 SO Siv Months 2 50 Entered at the post office at Wavnrsvllle. N C.. as Sec ond Class Mail Matter, as provided under the Act of March 2, 187a. November 20. t914. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS * The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for 're-oublication of all the local newg printed In this newspaper, as well as all AP news dispatches. Monday Afternoon. June 21, 1951 Traffic A Major Problem In Canton Canton officials and civic leaders realize that the traffic situation within their city limits constitutes a major problem. The easy way to cope with the situation, would be to bring in traffic engineers, give them a free hand, and spend money like the proverbial drunken sailor. But that spend ing part would be hard on the taxpayers when "pay day" rolled around. Taking the practical and sensible course, the Canton leaders are making a complete study of conditions, and as would be expect ed, there are many suggested angles to the ultimate solution. The Canton/Enterprise in an editorial, un der the caption, "Still A Problem" sets out some possible solutions to the problem, as they said: "All the talking and planning that has been done thus far, has not solved the traf fic problem in Canton, and until some work is actually done, our streets will be no wider, the Highway will not be built and the con gested condition of our streets will not be relieved. "Aside from the New Highway, we heard some new suggestions the other day, at least they were new to us, when someone made the statement, that a one-way street would be helpful, provided the parking could be arranged satisfactorily. Other suggestions which seemed practical, were a two-way bridge to replace the "old river bridge", which with the widening of Penland Street now underway, would accommodate more traffic to and from the high school, one of the major traffic hazards during the sum mer-season: the widening of Fibreville Road from the intersection of School Street and a re-routing for the heavily-loaded wood trucks that bring in cord wood to Champion. It was recalled that on several occasions these trucks had gotten out of control when the brakes gave way as they reached the top of "Canton Hill". Fortunately, no one has been injured as the result of this, but at the same time it creates a traffic hazard, and if a route were opened, as suggested via Oak Street, the trucks would by-pass much of the towm traffic. "In the meantime however, steps have been taken by local officials to handle the traffic problem as best they can until a bet ter solution is found. They have given specif ic orders that all violations be checked and h!Tve"tisked the full cooperation of motorists in complying strictly with the ordinances, so there will be no inconveniences on anyone. "The problem is here, and must be coped with for the best interest of all citizens, motorists, pedestrians and law enforcement officers." Time For Protests All of us can take heart that additional funds have been set aside in the National Park budget for trails and roads in the Smokies. While the sum is a mere pittance as com pared to what is needed, we are hopeful that it is the beginning of an era that will see Washington looking with more favor on the Smokies. The adverse publicity recently given the , Park has not hurt the cause. In fact, we have I always been of the opinion, that such was the only means of getting before Washing ton the true needs of the Park. We are still concerned about the lack of sufficient funds to invnrove the highway from Cherokee to Newfound Gan. Rut there again, public sentiment will or will not de mand the improvement. If enough peonle protest, and point to the inadequate road, then we will get some action. Washington seems to know no practical reasoning ? all they seem to be able to in terrupt is the howls of public protests. WflE*J JUNIOR DOES SOME~WlN<3 I SuT WHEN TUP wrm n,^ a SOOD IN TME GAME MOU CAN NEAR ? BSSSoKSpSSsKgSfe5^V , i FOP CROW IN TWE NEXT COUNTY- ? IT'S J^AWlSPeffi ' TMAT'SMy jM -vy/ ttxjdm luck, va / shortstop; \y 1 I THAT WAS 4 ]\ very owpcult ; ? i plav--too /i ft \ mot to /' " ' MAN OVERBOARD! ^kp?t^T0 THsmrpfr] 'Mh>: r- ' Looking Back Through The Years 20 years ago Two hundred Masons of West ern North Carolina are expected to attend a banquet here Monday night. Many farm homes to get elec tricity according to the plans of the newly appointed Rural Electri fication Committee. Mrs. Bonner Ray and young son, Tom. go to. Mt. Airy to visit Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Marrgum. Charles Ray returns from visit with Mrs. Ray in Chapel Hill. 10 years ago Alpha Irene Best, daughter of i Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Best of Crab tree, attends school over a period of 11 years without missing a day. Lt. Rufus L. Carswell is wound ed in action in Italy, according to' i a message to his mother. Mrs. Anna . Carswell. Norman D. Pless is named assist ant inspector for the Federal De j posit Insurance Corporation. Mrs. Joe Scruggs and young son 1 of Mississippi are visiting Mr. and I Mrs. C. A. Scruggs. 5 YF.ARS AGO Turner Cathey is named assist ant county agent. High waters damage Haywood crops; roads are badly washed. Miss Mildred Houck is bride of Dr. Phi] Medford. Miss Barbara Francis accepts position with the Welfare Depart ment of Stokes County. Miss Nell Collins of Clyde weds William Boyd Burch. Mrs. Guy Massie goes to Dixon. HI., where she is visitng Mr. and Mrs. Ray Cline. Highland Flings By Bob Conway One rtay while walking along a street in Aberdeen. Scotland, an American tourist took the last cig arette from a pack and threw the empty pack aside. He had walked only a short dis tance when a Scotchman came up behind him, held out the empty cigarette pack and asked: "Pardon me, but do you want this?" Surprised, the American replied: "Why no 1 don't." "Well, I'm sure we don't either." asserted the Scotchman as he turn ed on his htels and walked away. Seconding the motion made by the canny Scot, we'd like to men tion that if you no longer have any use for that beer can. cigarette nack, ice cream or candy wrapper, you can be certain that the rest of us have even less use for it??and nrefer that you don't strew the landscape with it. The sidewalks, the streets, the highways, the parks, forests, and lakes belong to all of us. So if vou wouldn't throw trash in another oerson's vard. whv should you throw It in the street, which is part of his larger "vard"? Streets and hiehwavs are made for travel oublie narks for recre ation Thev are not ? and never have been?intended to be used as iva?*eh?skets. When are we eoing to wake uo ind start protecting the heaufv that Rod nut all around US'* There's no better time thin ri"ht now. KEEP CAROLINA CLEAtf! ' -o If TtmV* nlmiiilttf a visit to The Mountaineer otvtee. Itlt nav to be n rood nhvstcjil condition. Other rise. vottll never he able to own ?nr new screen door If vou cant Uidre Ibis nortal knock on the loor and we'll have one i\t our imatrur strong men let you in. o Why are thundershowers always poken of as "scattered"? Seems ike we've seen a few concentrated >ncs lately. ? o Homer Davis. Waynesvtlle radio 'ham," reports hearing lately from itations in SaJron, Indo-China. ind Prague, Chechoslovakia e The other day a married man nade this complaint to Ills friend When I married her, she was a vision. Now she's a sight !" ??o The state's auto license plates proclaim Florida to be "The Sun shine State". That being the case, do our Smoky Mountain distillers make North Carolina "The Moon- - shine State"? o .lust about two minutes after we | took a picture of C. V. Sorrells' ! crop sprinkler system in Beaver i dam community last week. Mother 1 Nature turned on her own sprink j Itr system for a half-hour down-' | pour. * o The other day a man started to ret Into his car parked near Ray's Supermarket and found a strange load of groceries on the seat. It seems that a woman shoDper got mixed un and put her vittles in the 1 i wrong vehicle. 1 In the event that tourists ask I vou about Wavnesville's elevation [ ' above sea level, the correct fteure is 2.721, accordine to the bench mark Just to the right of the door ' at the courthouse. (After walking j (Continued on Page 5) 1 Voice of the People What do you do on a rainy day? Mrs. Charlie Creson, Park Drive, Waynesville ? "I sew and clean hpuse. I do about the same things on good days except that 1 like to work out in the garden then. So I save my sewing for bad days." M. M. Kirkpatrick, farmer, Fines Creek?"Most of the time if it's raining too hard 1 stay in the house. I've beCn setting tobacco though right out in the rain. 1 don't particularly save special jobs for the rainy days. I just do what I would have done anyway." Mrs. Wayne Moody. Soeo Gap Rd.?"I iron because I can't get out and work with my flowers 1 try to get caught up on my kids' clothes and I read some too." Hub Robinson, painter. Stone Paint & Wallpaper Co.. Canton.? 'Well, if we're working outside, we just have to quit. Just take it easy, that's all I can say. We would like to save our inside jobs for days like that but you have to just do them as they come along." SCOH'S SCRAP BOOK By R. J. SCOn FREAK PQIT/C. TO VAMIGATL; CMttKtL ?fAIA* ? A VfSLAK of Luck kFREAK A IRfitQUlA* ?Ac A abhor MAX EH u -vucf ff ? 0? SOMl Kfl >togus JA.M0A.NS BUILD tfOMtS Minus windows and doors. y> ? ' RUMANIAN % ^ 41RLS AM ML. -J? ' Ant ALWAYS J 1 S 1MP10YID now SQ ACt Mills * 4il EAA-rt'J SUA'ACX Ml CO . 11 IP ir pasiks ? 10,000, ODD. ? iHHnmc KM P* ? -*? i) m Rambling Rounl I?y Frances Gilbert 1 ra/ier We are indebted to H. W. Rurnetie f> this un(j ^ I good to keep. It proves, as the stor> t. p, , * criminating tastes even if a l)it "ofTi-h t, ? ?? r prominent citizen of Iron DutT had been I ' ukt is i V ;at route, so he set a trap which suit ?? n ''uv ; ikf H lead of the family. Several tiny inqui-n > u , I situation assured the citizen that a In , Home, and he started digging them on y u V( isonishment when he found at the end tr borrow nished "bedroom" made of copies of The U a> tic-vil!e December 31, 1953, and a copy of the \ lu \, Cltzer tifiableh Mama Polecat had evidentl> - . i (lll from a pile of discarded papers A scarlet rose With ? tear-drop on its velvety petal that soon it would he iust scattered leaves in a passim tjH He sat upright on the rear seat ot . 'nvury-liner a block-long Cadillac. He was lonely, and and t: . -gfl cord with the world. Passers-by would ?- m<,. ,i <\-t ,.ar^M him would shiver, shrug their shoulders 'h-.r even laughed and made remark-, lb ? Every luxury was his; petted, pampered ! iyen u '?? attention should have made him compete He wanted to be like the others, to be an k>.i: just caressed and Baby-talked-to. Sudden ft a -n-.gj tion on his bare flesh and looking dyer I -miuld.-: a flea. He barked with sheer joy: now he v -r just a clammy, hairless Cbihauhau One new home owner who has worked hard and Ion;I his landscaping in order, is a bit disgusted, lie luhorcushl his plants each morning and the following da\ a mi.hfl washes away his efforts. "Let the worms eat em." is hi-,1 decision. Out of the archives of an ancient and ne.ua cvinctB retrieved recently, our first masterpiece. It v. ?,j ru'.edp^l written in the flowing hand of the fifth grata It wu, ' ec? all things, a red picot-edged ribbon. Why nai v , (t0 nut ktol don't like red or reds. But to us the most '.beautiful.tf.i.n:? "A" in the corner written in the Speneerian hand ! our I Of course this might not be due so much to n.r.it a- votlsH it was a small class and we were the onlv i>m> who. forcsawB would be on the staff of a newspaper The til' of tk essay was prosaic, to say the least. It was The Travels of tfl How.' this piece of money came into our po-ision wa< n?H started off with the aforesaid nickel clasped hotly in our imH mitt and us on the way to buy a loaf of bead Gatbooks' inrjH date us, nothing will. Who in the present ? f o. r. c : nH when five cents woudl buy a loaf of bread; The tale of the nickel w ent on ai d o:t until i H an ignominious cri^l by slipping out of another moist i;ti?nH sumablyi and rolling into an open water drain when for a long rest. And there we leave the little rur.rm;.-. t|H of the noonday sun Some conversations are like dead end streets . onlvH the dead end at the beginning. ^t^WASHIHGjl - MARCH OF EVENTS EEEEE* U. S. at 'War* 100 Years I Offshore ProcuremtflB Against Pestiferous Insects \ Spark Blazing ContrtB Special to Central Press WASHINGTON"?About one-third of the nation's bug expert* number 4,.r?00 in all, are converging on Washington mm** to plot more dirty work against the mQst undesirable of insect pests. I The convention is expected to be quite a shin ! g inasffl'c ? marks a'full century of what the specialists jcfei to as r-0iaB entomology." It was on June 14, 1854, that the federal govpi nmen' first entomologist one T his work cut out for him in the asspra collect "information on sec h. f the United States." Glover's activities actuailv piceiM W years the establishment <?: t ?? L'fi Agriculture, of which ti e . lie ! ?' s 1 major function. The entomologists cont n ?? t > fve wj? lories over harmful insects. ?? ? <r: '"J is in sight. Host estimate i. . r t.'.e.-o pest do about 54 billion worth of ' : a vrtf.? lent to the production ? ? 1 ; n ? ? ? ? Enemy ? OI PS|fORK 1'KOCTRI Vl \T Tv W well become the cent 's""n ''ng phrase "offal ? ' fl month. , cr of a blazing- controvert, in Cwip?? The phrase is the ? . Program under wh u , ,'C Uo for "Klt portion of the W the foreign countryuilewUnitc'1 St4tes pun pB I'entagon expects toW*'1 W'" pot "lrm '' jSJ contracts between n billion worth < prtt^H However pTu.^ ,?W an<l J""e. 1PS5. I over in Congress ? ?'. ?PP??'tion has developed, an I I cforeW? will be diverted in a '* expected that ? 1 ' the* <^B The main tones 1 ? that domestie inlar*p "offshore pr n merit fW foment Wi,,^?2rne'ds them as a n the "B basic reason for , M.more~p*Ppri?l'v m th ' W good for foroien ? 'np contracts overseas: that they** With btisi Pconomies. I United States mln '?nppr booming as lustdv as it had bff?J their fight to gain '' ac'urcrs ar? petitioning (' ngresS for would partially off?,??,/0reifrn aid contracts These, they P*1 Influential memtu.. rpcent cutback in e produchdB fRl. Michigan ?n7o-?f ConKrpsS| led h\ i 1 fl headed these n'lca. '^?I<ha", B' R"SS,'H (Di, G? I curenient." ' hey lead the fight for more "onih^B it has not boon generally J a'Iiance in the F C slowness in tfrv 1<m 1 *?* been en,,:"?'* that the Asian nations, them* I A Pacific ldea" I P?N(I of thiT i'%?!?C.that would bring the . to AP*? Zealand-unLiSL?, Ste,cs- K"^,nd. Fran e. Au.tr I this is not what ?k' y coi,,(' be arrived at Quickly enough. 1-1 The question - States nor her allies want M alliance? jt cann f/ow '? hrfng the Asian n ttMU hito I J J?'n an alliance S nnsw-ered anally. Korea, for ex.mpfcj come Formosa 'h JaP?n is a party England would "J China. t 0 * security pact since the Ilrilish recof*^ a and C<-\ r> f " ""J elated States of r a Krpnch who still hold the A n?w| P?>dent statu. ^d?5hina |n M oaly partial J the peace treaty J!>,J^Uippll>? have not yet ratifl I '""l Th^ prm?i "'in Jfipan. J ttmlam tn mm?.not '"surmountable. However, will be aehKd J f that M *el.n regional *curt?r SmI * ,0Bff month il 'ptonjetic observers are convinced it *':iJ *?S?5mCI** ***before ,i ***" m I
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