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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Editorial Pago of The Mountaineer . >-?*- I Lord.?Juditrv jjfl ... .5 Drive After Drive Makes Us Think of the United Fund Just ?bout this time of year, citizens in this community begin talking about a United Fund campaign. This subject is prompted by the unusual large number of campaigns, which begin with polio, and continue until Faster, when seals are sold for crippled chil dren. We are just ending a successful polio drive in Haywood. Next comes the deserving heart campaign, the cancer drive, Roy Scouts, Girl Scouts* Red Cross, and then Faster Seals. It seems there is another right along about March first, but we fail to find it a mong our large volume of material in every drive. There is much to Ik- said for and against a United Fund Drive. We believe the average IK'rson would welcome such a plan here, and feel that in the long-run each individual cam paign would derive a larger contribution than is now realized under the present basis. We have heard a number of business men say they would prefer to donate cash to^com pensate for their time away from business, than to make solicitations for funds. The citizens have talked, discussed, and at times become enthusiastic about a proposed United Fund Drive, but thus far it has all been just like talking about the weather ? nothing is done ? or should we say, has been done thus far. The Facts Are Before You Since January first. The Mountaineer has heen keeping a record of the number of high way accidents, the number of injured, and the damages done to vehicles involved, as well as the total number killed on our high ways in the county. The January record showed seven injured in lit accidents with the losses amounting to *8*699. We feel the figures write their own editor ial of warning, and that is one reason we keep the facts on page one of every issue. Where The Trouble Lies Senator Byrd of Virginia recently made this significant comment of federal budget: "We are enjoying the greatest prosperity in our history. We are not engaged in war. If we cannot balance the budget now, 1 ask when can we balance it?" The basic trouble lies in the Big govern ment philosophy. Economy in government will remain a will-o'-the-wisp so long as we must support a government which provides all sorts of services and projects that the people can and should provide for themselves. THE MOUNTAINEER Waynosville, North Carolina Main Stmt I>ial Ola ?-5301 The County Seat of Haywood County Published By The WAYNESVIIXE MOUNTAINEER, Inc. W CURTIS HUSS Editor \V. Curtis Hiiss and Marion T, Bridges, Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY BY MAIL IN HAYWOOD COUNTY One Year .. .. v ..?-? $3.50 Six months .. 2 00 BY MAIL IN NORTH CAROLINA One Year - ? - i ?? ? 4.M Six months 2.50 OUTSIDE NORTH CAROLINA One Year . ... _ 5 Or Six months .. 3 0C LOCAL CARRIER DELIVERY Per month .. _ 40r Office-paid for carrier delivery 4 50 Filtered at the port office at Wavnesville. N C . as Sec ond CI.'Iis Mail Matter, as provided under the Act of March 2 1*71. November 20 1114, MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the use for re-publication of all the local news printed In thl# newspaper, ns well as all AP news dispatches Thursday Afternoon. February 3. 19.V> We Shall Miss Our Annual Stimulant of Spring Music The statement of Charles Isley, director of the music department at the high school here, that the concert band would not enter the state music contest this year, came as a keen disappointment. The director said that indifference on the part of three-fourths of the members of the band necessitated his decision. Since the first band was organized here in 1939, we have taken it as one of our main civic topics of "pride and joy." Five years ago when the concert band went to the state contest and came back with a superior rating. we must admit we were almost hysterical with joy. Then for the next few years, we always looked for ward to the spring; concert which was the send-off for the band going: to the state con test. And then came the day of the contest, and interest grew to fever pitch as we im patiently awaited the news of the judges' de cision. The following day, a group of some 40 to 50 cars filled with well-wishers would go down to Turnpike and accompany the victorious musicians back home amid screeching sirens, loud horns, whistles and shouts of proud parents and friends greet ing the students. The band contests, and the victorious par ade home was a stimulating spring tonic to us, as well as many other music-loving citi zens. If it were not for this era of miracle drugs, we might offer as a suggestion an pld-ftsh ioned prescription and stire-cure remedy whereby the band would soon be on its feet again, and back into state-wide competition. However, we shall refrain at this time and join the many other disappointed citizens in hoping that the situation soon clears and we can again enjoy our annual musical spring tonic. Boy Scouting Achieves Many Things In 45 Years Sunday will mark the 45th birthday of Boy Scouts of America, as the organization be gins observing their annual nation - wide event. Here in Haywood, we have many active troops of Scouts, and up on Hast Fork, there is the Daniel Boone Camp, where thousands of Scouts spend summer outing vacations learning more about Scoutcraft. The organization was founded in 1010 and since then has enriched the lives of over 22,750,000 boys and adult leaders. Truly. Scouting represents a living cross section of American life. We must admit, that there is one short coming in the Scouting program here in Western North Carolina, and that is the lack of sending to newspapers the news of their activities and even the promotions in ,the monthly court of honors. It seems to us that those responsible for this phase of Scout work are doing the Scouts a grave injustice by not giving the public news of their achievements. Boys of every race, religion and economic background are attracted to Scouting. Today we find 2,700,000 boys in its ranks. Add to that impressive figure the 060,000 adults of good character who give generously of their time and talents to serve as leaders of units, Merit Badge Counselors and in many other capacities. There is hardly an American family that has not felt its influence. Kvery member of the nation's 95.000 Scouting Units is indeed "having some kind of experience that is adding to his equipment to meet the problems of adult life." It is that training that we heartily en dorse on this noteworthy birthday. THE SCARLET LETTER /-^,taw?a\ ! ; i WERE ST'1-1-, I I ^ \ (ntheRED!//^ j^lgJ ' rW: Looking Back Through The Years 20 YEARS AGO Mr, and Mrs. J. R. Latham and their children move to Gastonia where Mr Latham has larger ter* ritory with the Standard Oil Co. Thirty men attend Citizen's Bible Class which meets every Sunday morning in the offices of Morgan and Ward, Mrs Margaret Marshall who is spending the winter at Hillcrest. gives delightful content party. R. N. Barber. Jr. makes business trip to Asheville. 10 years ago , Rufus T. Carswell, fttached to the Fifth Army, is promoted to cap tain. Sgt. Clyde Harkins is awarded Bronze Star for heroic achieve- ! ment. Wi'B prohibits use of electricity for outdoor advertising, decorative lighting, and White Way lighting in excess of amount necessary for public safety. Claude Gilstrap becomes educa tional director of the First Baptist Church ' ? " ft . 1 5 YEARS AGO Dr. J. L; Reeves of Canton is named head of the newly organized Haywood County Health Depart ment. January weather breaks high temperature record with average maximum for the month of 61 de grees. "Womanless" wedding is held at Hazelwood with "Miss Big Boy Hooper" as the bride and Dr: Ralph "Tiny" Keenum as the bride groom. Sam Queen. Sr. goes to St. Pet ersburg, Fla., for vacation. Scholarship For Prodigy KERNEY. N J. 'API ? Karan Helen ZdanolT. 12, who was con sidered a child prodigy at four, has been awarded a scholarship to study piano at the Julliard School of Music. Mark N'evin of Maple wood. the teacher who tested her eight years ago. said: "From the very beginning she lias demonstrated the unique traits of a child prodigy. She had an ear for music, and could, at once, pro duce tunes. A youngster with such a flair for playing piano comes along once in a great many years." . ?? Educational Preparation? / TUSCON, Ariz. (API?A 15-year old boy with a loaded ,38-caliber pistol in his waistband was remov ed from a high school class here by police. His explanation for carrying the gun: "A couple of those teachers were giving me a hard time." WASHINGTON REPORT By BILL WHITLEY t POST OFFICES. Despite trc- , mendous opposition, the Republi- ^ can Administration is determined ( to carry out its plans to t lose small, ] fourth-class pn.-t offices that are ( losing money. Since taking office two years ago. the COP administration, has closed almost 2,000 such offices throughout the country So far. the Post Office Department claims it has saved the taxpayers some two million dollars by doing this. Although the Department real izes it is irritating thousands of people by taking their hometown post offices away from them, it plans to close even more such of ' ficcs II is a hard hill of goods to sell to the public, but (tie depart | mcnt claims it not only is saving the taxpayers money, but is giving small, rural communities better service by closing the smaller, money-losing offices. FIRST. The Department picked | North Carolina to start its program i to reduce the number of fourth class offices (Wo years ago Wilkes | County was chosen to lend the way, \ where heated controversies were raised over closing the stations at Lomax. Buck and other points. Since then, the Department has shut down no less than 145 offices : in the State. Sever AI are in (he i process of being closed now TOUGH. Once the Department I sets its Ctins on .1 station to Close, ! it almost takes a miracle to keep it ' open So-called oost.il exnerts _ with ' hie mans, facts, figures, and much Political information sit down at their desks in Washington and de-J cide thev'd like to shut down such and such nost office A postal field Insnertor Is then s.-nfnto the area anl finds anv number of reasons whv ff would ho better to eliminate a given office. No nuhlir announce ment is made until the decision is made. HEARING? Then. If rnouch peo ple demand it a so-called hearing is held. In most ease* the hearings chance tptte HoWever. one elTee tlvr method Is a good eontae? with ?n influential Republican In Wash ington Plans had been made, for px I amnle to close a small mld-west I ern post office thai served onlv one amily. A big-time baseball player, vho had Republiean friends in Washington, voiced his protest. Plans to close the offices were trapped. In passing, it should be nentioned that the family the of fice served was the baseball play er 's. ACADEMY. Candidates for the first class of the new Air Force t Academy will be nominated by February 18. Under the rules of the new academy, North Carolina Senators and Congressmen will name 10 youths each to take com petitive exams for admission to the academy. Unlike the Army and Navy acad emies. cadets for the Air Force Aeademy will be selected strictly on the results of the exams. Of the total 140 nominees named to take the exams, onlv the top seven com pleting the exams will actually be admitted to the academy. EDUCATION. Hearings started this week before a Senate commit tee on federal aid for education. : Several bills have been introduced that would give states millions of dollars for the purpose of erect ing new school buildings. They'll Do It Every lime ???*? vr?^ By Jimmy Hatlo 1 A > L iUL^VE GOT FOUR TPN&LUCCl RECORDS" Y-rUAr& A irrrnc. VB I Ask ANY RECORDc?*^2^VERV GOOD GONtXTlON--*VERvRARE-V COU6W-BUT LET$\* COLLECTOR">>00 ' L / 'I'lTVfOU'? DIFFERENT ARIAS ?SEE "HAV-lVE BEEN ? ? SPEMDPLEWTy 1 fvfi i$ 11,'' >FnTl CC"-LECT[Mo~TOM- ? I DOU&ti TRACKING 1 L/( * ft FORVCARSg DOWN TLIE ONES 4 U ,F ?EVW "THE M ? vssr lilS^lfe\ llPlrl CHANGING NET INCOMES what's left after taxes... married couples With mo children [? 150 ) fiso, ooo 6ross mmm^r0e^ooo 20 is. ? -* $5,OOO PROS 5 INCOME I i i i ? i ..I 1913 1919 1935 1931 1937 1943 1949 1955 I*THOUSANDS Of DOllAtS SOU*# ?*?*?Mt '*TH/.sJ ?. M CONftRfNCt AOtttO Aa DP Mews/at urn Pktopapk J.. Rambling 'Roufl By Frances (Gilbert Frazier A recent murder i:t New York Ot) prov< H ren t ilif RMM( important things in life. ats The etetlm war'reputed i<> be worth H unrounded ki pricele - paintings, tapesti . H da wealth oouid purchase. He also was surnm. M>rt? by enemies. Every waking hour ol' this m. lefense, suspicion and knowledge that all hi >revent the inevitable How much richer i- the man of modes ?an place his head on his pillow at night and - p ?( , JH ng that he hiss far greater wealth than the H nillions and now lies the victim of those lie fear. ~ ?* li. "TKa -I.. I. .. :n ... . ? . rernaiiS ln?- H-UHI nrruni n. . ...... .. ,,, |?M<|| ,, equipment on the baseball field." The farmers say our recent snows were and who are we to deny it . we the pedes! n lave sold the whole mess for a thin dime? Probably we who ar can-opener-addits i i ull> subjective the farmer is to climatic ? - reasonable cold weather and over-moisture can tetween success and failure, can no an that lor i j. iave been fruitful 01 a total los- Without i hose who produce our vegetables, lruits and brm is ndustry could join ihe now extinct order of bu 1 ./i nonths of labor that go into the contents of a ca'n or)* unpty in a matter of minutes, i overlooked In i t,[ >ut the painstaking work of those who grow the pqj 3e in a sorry fix. so. perhaps, the next time wv !: thr<* 3r sidestep a hunk of icc. we should say softly - . <.urseh? ?ood for the farmer shouldn't be too bad for i i: ,? is, we'd like to arrange things so the snow ar. i . t. an the farms instead of Main street . . ? *> ? ? n t. mcKory, uii-Kiirj i?n?, The mouse ran up the clock: But when 'twas time for it to chime, The poor mouse died of shock Uncle. Mose had only two eyes but he was using bof assiduously, one on Mammy Jo and one on the kitchen latter held two alternatives; he could be shown that by] or the bossman could enter by same. Of the two, Uncle Mammy Jo's demand. It was a cold, winds dav and the warm kitcfn n wjth i'i odors was much to Uncle Mos.es liking and he prefers within its confines. Just as he was luxuriating: in hK ,?i was an imperative tap at the window and the. bin komrrg St bossman. As Uncle Mose rose slowlv to his i, he :r,t! jest can't win. I.ooks like Ah's got to be window it: her a There's one nice thing about February It has onh eight days. News For Russia DRUMMOND ISLAND, Mich lAI't?Workers in #the dolomite plant here have news for Pravda the Russian newspaper. Pravda. they learned, said that "socialist competition" at a Russian Donets i Basin plant had produced three quarters of a million tons of dolo mite in a year and claimed this as a worlds record. 'Dolomite is a limestone with a high magnesium : content.) Drummond Workers wrote Prav da a letter, with a copy to Premier Malenkov. It said: "We reached the three-quarter million mark six years ago. Last I year we produced over two and a ' half million tons." Pravda said the Russian plant employs 350 men. There are 200 employed here. The letter continued: "We boys are paid immensely better than your boys. And we have job security, We can quit I any time we want to and move on somewhere else We can own pur own homes and vote as we please, and worship God as we please? ar.d if we please. Liberty is a gfeat producer of many things, in cluding dolomite." Percentagewise, a human being grows more in the first year of life than at anv time afterward. Bookmob Schedui Friday, fet ( Rl'SO Robert Fre< ir. .n Sam Freeman Cruso Gro.- ? r\ Cruso Schi h! Dois Roger J. S. Willi.? - Jim Clark Burnett Ca^li Grocery. Monnav, rn MAcorr: - jowtha! Dave Plott Ilobart White Smoky Mt. Gift Si' ? Maggie Sc)xji>; Wav Fisher F. F. Kennedy R. W. Howell Rock Hill S. Mrs. Ethel Buvd Burgin's St i1 Tuesday. FA n.vM Clyde School Frank Stanley Sam Jackson M. W. Dotson Jack Belcher Clyde Town Hall - Annie I.ong Want ads brine I"1 CROSSWORD cmM ACROSS 1. Light bedsteads ? S. Squalid section of a city 9. External covering of a seed 10. Locatlort of "Leaning Tower" 11. Draw up 12. Entertain 14. Lubricated 15. Concise 16. Jewish month 17. Perch 19. Indite 20. Cuts off. as tops 23. Not many 25. Retinue 27. Mechanical man 31. Bark, as a dog 33. Disease of a child's mouth 34. Moslem title 37. Fabulous bird 39.1 am (con tracted) 40. Chief Norse god 42. Swiftly 43. Eat away 46. Dens 47. God of war 48. Italian island 49 Perlo^of 50. British 11. colony 13. (Arabia) 18. 21. DOWN 22 1. Reindeer 24. (N. A.) 26. 2 Verbal 28. 3. Duration 4. Vehicles with runners 29. 5. Splash with 30. liquid 6. Citrus fruit 32. 7. Seize and 34. hold without right 35. 8. Billiard stroke 1 * r/ m 't . I . ' Colts Even (poet.) Whether Greek letter pen Gained Zealous Board of Ordnance (abhr.) Greek letter Domesti cates Italian river Solemn wonder Goat antelope (Himalaya) ?r-.?rtT7CT~ 1: lii : li? l* ?-? t? wr*%\ 3-?? ?? ? mW^Z-Wrn mil * If 1?1-1 r
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