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Pigeon Road Needed To Take Com
mercial Traffic Off Sleep Highway
Brakes failing on heavy vehicles coming
off Soco Mountain has grown into a serious
matter.
Several times in recent weeks, heavy
trucks have had their brakes to fail, and
have created a hazard to themselves as well
as to those on or near the highway at the
time.
Mechanical failure of a machine is to
be expected at any time, yet any driver
knows that constant use of brakes on a road
such as Soco Mountain will burn out the
brakes and render the vehicle uncontroll
able. That seems to have been the case in
the recent wrecks at the foot of the moun
tain. On some occasions, the vehicles have
plowed into nearby fields, crashed into the*
road embankments, and in the case of the
tractor-frailer Sunday, the vehicle hit a
cafe, and both vehilce and building were
destroyed by the fire which started when the
fuel tank on the vehicle Caught on fire.
The Soco Mountain road is one of the
heaviest traveled roads in this area, and
it is fortunate that there have not been any
deaths resulting from the incidents. One
man was injured Sunday, and several had
narrow escapes, such as in the other cases
when vehicles had their brakes to fail as
they rolled down the sleep highway.
The road across Soco was not built
as being suitable for heavy commercial
travel. The grade is too steep, and the load
ed trucks cannot keep pi we with the traffic
on either side of the mountain.
Commercial traffic retards normal traf
fic movements along the road, yet there is
no other direct road into Tennessee from
this area. This puts the matter right back
into the laps of our highway commissioners.
Such incidents which have taken place
in recent weeks on both sides of Soco
Mountain "is/ proof of the urgent need for
the immediate construction of the all-weath
er. water-level road down Pigeon River.
That is the natural outlet for commercial
traffic from this area, and the section to the
suoth and west of us to get to the mid-west.
The completion of the Pigeon River Road
will be the means of saving lives and proper
ty damages on the Soco Mountain, because
until the Pigeon River Road is opened the
heavy,commercial vehicles of necessity will
have to continue to use the road, and just
as long as they use the road, there will he
brake failures, and that means a wreck.
The luck which has been with those
having their brakes to fail will not last al
ways. and some of these days we can ex
pect a heavy toll of lives, along with the
increase of property damages.
The Highway Commission has an obli
gation to the state, and tin- adjoining states
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Growing In Popularity
Engineer* tell us that the .1-10-foot
'1 V tower on top of Pisgah is completed.
We have looked at the structure from
several angles?from here, from Krevard,
and along Highway 19-2.'> between here and
Asheville.
Often the haze and low-hanging cloud.
obstructed the view, but what times the
structure could be seen, it did not appeal
to mar the beauty of jnajestic Pisgah.
The contst ruction engineers report
that the influx of visitors to the top ot
Pisgah is far beyond anything they ever
anticipated. It is not just the TV installa
tion which is drawing them, Out the fact that
they know they can reach the top of the
high peak, and be well awarded with a view
for many miles when they reach there.
Many of the people going to the top
take the route of our two reporters, while
others take advantage of an empty seat on
the tramway and ride up the steep slope.
We feel Pisgah is steadily coming back
into her own, and that coupled with the
growing popularity of Pisgah National For
rests, is destined to mean a much brighter
day for the area.
Our Greatest Tourist Attraction
Those of us who live w ithin the shadows
of the Great Smokies, often take them for
granted,, yet we always delight in reading
of the impressions of others after a visit
to this scenic wonderland.
Such is the case with us, after reading
what Miss Hoatrice Cobb had to say in her
interesting newspaper, The Morganton
News-Herald, after a recent visit to the
Park. She wrote;
About twenty-five years ago, when the
Great Smoky Mountains National Park idea
began materializing, few of us even dream
ed that it would ever develop in the amaz
ing way it has. It is undoubtedly our greatest
attraction. A trip into the Park any week
end during the "season" gives proof to the
accuracy of the record that it now draws
a greater number of visitors than any of the
other National Parks in the United States.
I spent last weekend in and near the
Park, my third visit this summer. For the
outdoor drama, "Unto These Hills," stand
ing room was sold for both Saturday and
Sunday night performances. 1 am not very
good at estimating crowdsvbut figured
that there were at least three hundred, pos
sibly more, who stood to see Saturday
night's show. Traffic congestion offered fur
ther proof of the way the Park is drawing
tourists.
It is my observation that the average
tourist thinks in terms of three require
ments for a pleasurable trip?good food,
scenery, and entertainment. A combination
of any two is acceptable, but the three to
gether make, as a rule, what the traveler,
for pleasure, or recreation, expects. There
are no eating places in the Park, but camp
ers and "Pick-nickers" can easily supply
that need, and there are plenty of restau
rants and snack-places at or near the en
trances. The time is not too far distant
in my opinion, when the Park Service wil
make concessions available for the sale ol
soft drinks and lunches, and perhaps, ever
Hotels and lodges will be provided for the ac
THE MOUNTAINEER
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Thursday Afternoon. Sept. 16. 15)51
to see that the Pigeon River Road is pushe<
to completion as fast as practical.
Needless to say. we have been a littl
? discouraged over the fact that no furthe
news or announcements have come from th
statement that the I'igon River Road wa
being requested by the State to be put 01
the inter-state system of the federal bureau
Someone needs to get behind this projec
and see that the road is completed post
haste.
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By Frances Gilbert Frazier
Again we are impressively brought t.. .
here m Waynewille. where We WCt K
mountains. We ate spared the hazards of hurt , an?y .Jlj
tonadoes.
We read of the terrific loss of property. . trag,c J
and the resultant damages done, and ?, ?
cannot fully realize the horrifying mental . ip.,, 1
the citizens whose lives lie in the path
after the crisis has passed, the terrified popular,- are a
of panic. And tho-e deprlv d of homes pn,
bewildered to the point of desperation
It is hard to believe tl at Nature eat B
and peaceful, yet so ruthlessly death-dealing arnu^ I
Classified ad. "Wanted ... to excitant,, summer ?-?!
steam-heated apartment.
We learned this little trick the hard u I
to others who may be in the same predicament 1),, jJU jB
park a covered hat box on a high-up shell ,| w V
down the cover makes a direct solo no-, A
your nose as a landing field .' Well, we put a (,tuple of
tape on one edge of the cover and fasleiH A
not interfere in any way with opening the 'fl
hirtge. and certainly saves you a bump or t w.
l.ittlc Johnny had listened attentively as Ins dadd\
the investigation going on in Washington. In a |ul|
"Daddy, when are they going to begin censoring >|r mkB
His father laughed. "You mean censure, son but I think iS
something in the word you used."
I wish I was a mountain stream
That gurgles on its way.
It splashes, sputters over roek
And scents the air with -pi n.
It sings its song as it plays taa
With leaves that go astray
It leaps and bounds and run- -o fast,
You think it's gone away
Oh. would 1 were a mountain stream.
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So happy, free and gay
I'd gurgle right to your doorstep
And there I'd spend the day
If you can't make up your mind whether what vouwfl
is right or wrong, it's a pretty safe bet that w>u know n',J
Looking Back Through The Years
,?o years ago
.lack 1'hillips. star fullback and
1934 captain - elect of Georgia
Tech's football team, is hurt in
scrimmage,
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Thomas Stringfield goes to
' Charleston, S. C. where he is a
student in the Medical School of
the University of South Carolina.
Miss Hosalvn Ray resumes her
'sftadMcwi IHiiveratty. ?
Coach C. K. Weatherby predicts
greatest team in history of Waynes
ville High School.
JO YEARS AGO
Miss'Evelyn Underwood accepts
position in the history department
at Mars Hill College.
Aviation Cadet James Dicus and
Mrs. Dicus are here with the form
er's parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. M.
! Dicus. j
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I Harry Jaynes goes to Cullowhee
. to attend Western Carolina Teach-'
j <*rs College.
| Mrs. W. H. Tuttle, Mrs fharles
[ A. Jones, and Miss Catherine Hill
| are added to St. John's faculty.
5 YEARS AGO
Waynesville gets second full-time
fireman. Kenneth Turner is named
to force.
Robert H. Breese, Jr. attains
scholastic honor at the University
of North Carolina and is included
on the dean's list.
Miss Ann Osborne accepts posi
tion as technologist in the Medical
Laboratory at Duke Medical
School.
Henry Foy returns to Clemson
College.
North Now Has Its Chance To Show .
Whether It Can Take Nonsegregation
Minors noie uavKl uawrence,
writing 'n The Charlotte Obser- j
ver, Rave some pointed facts, and !
raised some new questions on the |
f matter of segregation, and some
of the many problems which now
loom on the horizon. This is Mr. I
Lawrence's article:
WASHINGTON?Are the par
ents of white children in the North
. prepared to accept 'an influx of
] Negro teachers to take aver many
j- of the classrooms hitherto occupi
j ed by* white teachers?
1 i This is the new problem which
- the American people fare now that
the full meaning of the decision
j of the Supreme Court of the Unit
I ed States has undergone further
study. For it is likely that many
of the Negro teachers who have
l> been employed in segregated
r , schools in the South will be dis
,, ! placed when integrated schools.
j with both whites and Negroes, are
-S fully established.
II There are. according to the lat
I. est U, S census figures. 76.390
f Negro teachers employed in the
17 southern and bordering states
and the District of Columbia, as
j compared with the 310.319 white
(teachers. This is one Negro out
I of each five teachers
WIDE DISCREPANCY
In the 31 so-called non-segregat
! ed states there are only 10,248
Negro teachers, as compared with
| 722.487 white teachers. This is a
rrtio of one Negro teacher out of
each 73 teachers.
Careful reading of the Supreme
Court decision would seem to in
dicate that any such ratio of em
ployment in the North as between ;
white and Negro teachers could
be held to be discrimination. In
asmuch as the Supreme Court de-;
cision savs, in effect, that the Fed- j
eral government can intervene in
the field of education and pass
judgment on what kind of educa- i
tion pupils are receiving, it may
be inferred that examination of
the quality of teaching has also
come within the Federal power.
The Supreme Court said:
"There are findings below that
ttie Negro and white schools in
volved have been cquafized. or are
being equalized with respect to
buildings, curricula, qualifications
and salaries of teachers, and other
'tangible' factors. Our decision
therefore, cannot turn on merely
a comparison of these tangible
, factors in the Negro and white
schools involved in each of the cas
es. We must look instead to the ef
fect of segregation itself on public
education. ,
"We conic then to the question
presented: Does segregation of
children in public schools solely
on the basis of race, even though
physical facilities and other 'tang
ible" factors may be equal, deprive
the children of the minority group
of equal educational opportunities?
i We believe that it does."
SfcK DISCRIMINATION
With such a direct intervention
into the subject of what consti
tutes a pood education, the Su
' preme Court undoubtedly has de
! creed that any palpable inequality
i in the selection of the number of
Negro teachers as compared to
whites would be considered as dis
ci imination if it can be proved that
Nogro teachers who are well quali
fied to teach are not being given
jobs they deserve.
It will be asked, for instance,
why, as the latest census figures
show, only three Negro teachers
were qualified in Maine, whereas
7.483 white teachers were employ
ed. Similarly. Montana has only two
Negro teachers and 5,601 white
teachers.
Even Massachusetts, which has
prided itself on its historic attitude
toward the Negro, employs only
110 Negroes out of a total of 36,
553 teachers. Indiana, with a large
Negro population, has only 680
Negro teachers out of 27.290. Cali
fornia has only 923 Negro teachers
and 73.525 white teachers. Illinois,
another state with a large Negro
population, has only 1.961 Negro
teachers, while it employs 55,712
white teachers.
The same small ratio of Negro
teachers prevails in other north
i em states. New York state has only
1.693 Negro teachers, as compared
j with 101.387 white teachers. Ohio
has 1.051 Negro teachers and 50,
P95 white teachers. New Jersey
! has only 759 Negro teachers and
j 34 118 white teachers.
MAY INVESTIGATE
lias there been discrimination
in the North? Plainly congressional
communities?now that Federal
1 power over education Ls involved
[?would have authority to %sum
| mon witnesses and take testimony
and find out what has been happen
ing in the process of selecting or
! commodaticns of tourists within the Park
aron. Such provisions have precedents in
other National Parks. Hot Springs and Yel
lowstone Park are two with which I am
familiar.
The amazing attendance year after
year at "Unto These Hills," and the crowds
of visitors this summer to the reconstruct
ed Indian Village, Oconoluftee, at Cherokee,
are proof of the statement that good enter
tainment is one of the big attractions for
tourists. -The comping sites, at Smokcmont,
on the North Carolina side, and the Chim
neys, in Tennessee, have been "full up" it
is reported, all summer.
There's one thing "for sure""?the thou
sands who have seen "Unto These Hills,"
know more than they would ever have learn
ed from books about the history of the
Cherokee Indians. It is not to the credit of
the white man. that as in the case of the
Cherokees, the Indians were double-crossed
and treated unfairly. My companion at last
Saturday nijrht's performance asked me a
ouestion to which I did not know the answer:
"What effect has it had on the Indians who
now live on the Cherokee Reservation to see
and know how their ancestors suffered at
the hands of the white 'invaders' and the
government at WashinfftoVi ?" My impression
is that they have accepted the protrayal of
their traffic history in the traditional stoical
Indian fashion.
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Voice of the
People I)
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What do you think about play-11,
in* football fames on Thursday
nights ? such as the Sylva game j.
; last week and the Bethel game this ^
week? (Continued). a
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A. D. Harrison?"Thursday night i n
games give fans the opportunity t
to see games both here and in p
Canton, but it's a bad thing from t
the students' standpoint. Friday
and Saturday nights would be! s
much better."
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Bob Tharp ? "I'd rather have
them on Friday."
Mrs. I?uise I.eatherwood?"We
don't Jike it. Friday is much nicer: *
Thursday is too hard on the kids."
Linzie Hollifield ? "Friday just f
seems to be the right night for i'
football." '
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Kurt Cans ? "Games should be <
On Friday for the protection of
banning Negro teachers.
The South and the border states. '
which have 76,390 Negro teachers. 1
are employing seven Negroes to
every one on the teaching rolls of
all the 31 so-called,non-segregated '
Northern states put together. i
If the South goes in for integra
tion and many Negro teachers t
lose their jobs, as seems inevitable. I
v.ill narthern states accept them i
and put them in classrooms? ' 1
Letter To Ed
AN APPREOIATI
Iditor The- Mountaineer:
Many thanks for thei
our paper on last This
ave already received ?i
ers and cards from Ina
opies pi the issue
It is men like yourselt
ications like The Wi
iloUntaineer'" that haveh
long the way in myw?t
If possible, I would 1
nuch to have about five
he story, and would also
permission to use th, til
ure publicity on my pmj
Again may I thank yd
tor.v. and your interest,
Best regards.
Yours very truly,
Don Matney
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?f the week Attendance?
lays probably won! -
either."
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tny difference to me. W
?r see them on SatutK
:han any other time.
Mrs. Kenneth H.
tave gotten so accustort
ng football games on M
Thursday nigh' >s
o church on Saturday '
people have always
nights vacant, hut no*,
know what to do ^
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