TODAY S Mm.B VBBSR # . TODAY'S Or the action of the citizens of that county, and said the "petition is a tremendous step toward knocking out vote buying in Cherokee county." The petitions, we have learned, are prov ing popular and many signatures are being > placed upon them by people in every walk of life. The Scout in their editorial went on to say: Even though the petition does not touch on the evils of markers in the general elections, we believe it is a wonderful starter. If the people of this county respond to the petition the way we believe they will, the General As sembly will soon learn that Western North Carolina is interested in clean elections. ' The success of this petition could help strengthen the recommendations submitted by the State Board of Elections the first part of this year. Those recommendations would do away with absentee ballots for civilians and stop wholesale ballot marking. If those two evils in our elections were rub bed out, we believe vote buying would be a lot more difficult. The petition puts the first step up to the people of Cherokee County. THE MOUNTAINEER Wayncsvillc, North Carolina Main Street Dial GL fi-5301 The County Seat of Haywood County Puhltahed Rv The WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER, Inc. W. CURTIS RUSS Editor W^Curtis Russ and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY BY MAIL IN HAYWOOD COUNTY One Year , . $3 50 Six months . ? 2.00 BY MAIL IN NORTH CAROLINA One Year ? 4.50 Six months _ 2.50 OUTSIDE NORTII CAROLINA One Year ? ? ? , ? 5.0V Six months _ . 3.01 LOCAL CARRIER DELIVERY Per month ... 40e Offire-paid for carrier delivery ._ 4.50 Entered at the post office at Waynegvtlle. N. C.. as Sec ond Clasa Mail Matter, as provided under the Act of March 2. 1279. November 20, 1914. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the use ?or re-pubtlcation of all the local news printed In thta aewspaper. as well as all AP news dispatches. J Thursday Afternoon, March .% 1955 Planning For New Industry First Essential Step For Community Two areas of North Carolina that have en joyed a far more than average increase in industrial plants are Ilendersonville and Shelby. But don't think for a moment that those communities successful in getting'new industrial plants are without their headaches. The Ilendersonville Times-News in an edi torial. discussing industrial expansion ad vice from the Shelby Daily Star, went on to say: Here are the views of this Shelby news paper on one of the difficulties frequently encountered in locating industries in small towns or cities or nearby such commuhities. We quote it as g'ood advice to be applied to our efforts to secure industries for Hender sonville and this section. "There are usually three essentials for most industrial plants: ample water, a railroad siding and ample acreage for future expan sion. Our water supply, our community spirit, schools, recreation Center, climate, tax rate and labor supply usually meet the re quirements, but when acreage is priced far out of line with other places, the prospects go elsewhere. "No land owner can be forced to sell his property except for public utilities uses, but he certainly should have enough pride in his city, enough concern for employment of local people to set industrial site prices within the bounds of reason. No corporation, however much money it might have, is going to pay a fabulous price for a site in Shelby when there are plenty of other towns and cities holding out a welcome and even inducements for in dustries to came their way." This newspaper is aware of what has oc curred in the past experience of Henderson ville right at this point in negotiations for the location of industries in this area. It pre sents difficulties hard to handle when it is encountered. The owners of property cer tainly have the legal and moral right to price it. Naturally, the average property owner de sires to realize as much as possible in selling his property. The Shelby Star stresses the most prac tical, and in the end the most profitable . course, when industries are negotiating for j sites. The word profitable is used advisedly; and the explanation is made by the Star. If what the owner gets for property is the sole consideration, this may not apply; but if the consideration includes the upbuilding of a community and the general prosperity of the same, that is the sound and safe view of sutfh a transaction. The Times-News recalls an experience Henderson county had many years ago, when what was, perhaps, the largest and most valuable industrial opportunity this section has ever had within its grasp, was turned a way and located elsewhere in North Caro lina, because land which was wanted was priced so high that the industry was driven away. In later years it was recognized by our citizens that a grave mistake had been made. It was a heavily losing mistake for the own er of the property and for other property owners; for the people needing employment; for Henderson county taxpayers; and for the general interests of the county and all our people. That is the condition under discussion by the Shelby Star and this newspaper. Henderson county people should make it certain that similar mistakes are not made in the future. * Pedestrians are learning they have some rights in court. The next step will be to get some in the streets.'?Omaha World-Herald. HOT FOOT * * 1 1 " " l EE. iflrTnr fit U.S.T0RM05A^ y POUCV OY " N V'/ 7~m&: -Z'D -I - . Looking Back Through The Years 20 YEARS AGO Miss Mary Barber spaaks on t Southern Germany and the Pas sion Play at the regular Sunday evening service at the First Bap- j tist Church. Jimmie Neal and Aaron Prevost attend junior - senior banquet at Salem College. Miss Martha Mock and William ; Medford motor to Shelby on Sun day. 10 yEARS ago Town places 10 trash cans on Main Street. ? Ensign James K. Stringfleld ar rives home from France where he has been on duty since D-Day. Dresses from Lueile Haviland Shop are modeled at tea given at Oak Park. . 4u Sgtj. Earl Sutton arrives safely in France. * 5 YEARS AGO M. D. Watkins starts two auto motive building projects on Main Street. Dr. and Mrs. Elmer T. Clark go to Washington. D. C. where they will be guests at a luncheon given by Vice President and Mrs. Alben Barkley. , ? Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Ratclifle are honored on the ocacsion of their 47th wedding a'nniversary. Just Looking Around By W. Cl'RTIS RUSS ? Sheriff Campbell was giving a reporter a news story of a recent j arrest, involving a drunk. The group in his office listened intent- I ly. as he told the story. Then he j said: "This case reminds me of the time I was called out here in the country to arrest a crazy woman She wasn't crazy, just plain era?', drunk. But. she wasn't so drunk hut that she knew all that was taking place. "When I got there, 1 saw she knew I was on the scene and^she started taking on something aw ful. "I went over to her, and took her by the arm and suggested that we come to Waynesville, and maybe ) find someone who could help her ! She took about two steps, and then . became as limp as a dishrag. and , slumped to the ground. "I knew her trick: she wanted to be carried down the rocky lane to the car. "If she had been sick, that would have beefi different, but she was able to walk, with a little assist ance. so I had no idea of carry ing her down the steep road to the car. ."I tried to get her uo on her feet again, and she just went down like a big bunch of rubber bands. "After a moment's thought. I de cided to find out just how incapaci tated she reallv w'as, and ^ said in a oretty loud Voice?'I can't carry this woman, so I'll just have to drag her over these rocks." Then I tried to lift her ud again, and my nlan worked. She got uo. shook herself, mumbled about being drug over rod**, end we walked on down t? the car. If I had been unable to ec? her to walk I was going to get a Jeeo to take her down the road, j "She refused to stav on the b-?ek seat, .wanting to get down on the ffoor of the car Seeing I could not do much about it 1 did not sav anvthing. Again, she staged an act of being crazv and helnless. But I soon learned she was OK. because evervtlme the ear hit a hole or rough soot in the road. I could hear her grunt, because the floor of the car wasn't the softest place in the world to trv to sleep while driving over a'rough country road. "I locked her uo. and she did not give me any more trouble, and neither did she try to get any more sympathy "I've often thought about it since, how that woman would have laughed at me carrying her down that road, and how she put it pver on me, making it appear she was unable to wglk. "These drunk women are often not entirely out." r~ * "There was one. however, who was out cold, and also out in the cold. V "I got a call that there was a woman in the ditch at Soco Gap. "It was a cold night?about m'd night. One of those still, bitter cold 1 nights. We found the woman, and she had on a thin sweater and skirt. And I am telling you. there was' frost on that sweater, and that wo man was snoring away. "I had some help that night, so we put her in the back seat, and my assistant got in to hold her on the seal. She was out dead drunk. We could not wake her up. so my assistant got back there to keep her from falling off the seat. "Down about liraggie he said, 'Say, Sheriff, how about my com ing uo front?this woman has been 1 drinking white liquor and eating something like ramps, maybe gar lie. and I can't take it.' "We fixed her on the hack seat, and he came uo front We drove slpw. and got her fo jail, and I'm telling you, that liquor-ramp odor stayed in my car for several weeks.'' All this time, Forrest Messer was listening, and said it reminded him of the time many years ago. when he had a store in Frog Level. One night a customer came in and said a well known crippled man was in a ditch dead drunk about where Taylor Motor Company is now. It was a cold, rainy night. In fact, the rain was almost sleet. "We found the man. and knew he would freeze if left there, so we got a wheelbarrow, and rolled him to iail, and turned him over to the jailer. He was dead drunk, and did not know anything about being moved. And two of us liked to have , never keDt that man in the wheel barrow. He was as limber as the woman Sheriff told about, and he would slide from one side to the other, and about the time we had all of him in tile wheelbarrow, we'd hit a bump in She street, and he'd Just about aptil out. We knew If we left hing ilk that cold rain he'd die. but be Has*- me. It wasu some lob getting that mar to iaU. and a warm bed to save his life." Then Sheriff Campbell spoke up. i saying: i "Speaking of putting drunks to bed, reminds me of the experience (CaMttBiief, on Pate 3) Rambling 'RouJ By Frances Gilbert Frazier Inconsistency wasn't exactly the word he phasized it a bit more strongly. This actually was ate breakfast one morning in the restaurant Th(. man atjtfl occupied a table adjoining ours and he had just read t'hf J the paper that read: "Solons have been granted ; ?: "O their salaries." In an adjacent column was the article abojjB for and against the $20 cut in income taxes It did seen a little incongruous that these two import,,, J should snuggle so cozily together when the> \ . ? troversial. S As the man was saying, a bit explosively ' Thai s Anything that will help the little fellow will bankrupt ? | Bah! But the fellow w ith the biggest bankroll is' handed rubber band so his money can expand. I just ran t see jtto>l I guess " yea. man. And how many of us feel the same way? Going from the sublime to the ridiculous: Lady customer (in millinery salon): "Oh that hat hyl How much is it?" Spleslady: "Seventy-five dollars." I L. C. (gasping): "Why, that is ridiculous." Hootay, the sun is here again. Gone are the clouds, gone is the rain: Gone is winter and all its ills I Electric pads, capsules and pills | Are those, bluebirds round my shoulder I Coming closer, getting bolder . I See those branches gayly leafing. While new summer duds we're biiefing. Ah! Spring has come to our fair land The birds and bees prove love is grand. What's that I see out there right naw? I Don't dare tell me that it is snow It just can't be . . . achew! achew! I _ Say. where the heck did Spring go to? ? Heard in passing: "Yes, he said he almost saw yW J crossed the street." s ? Although it was a long time before> Easter, Utile Mar ? her sex)-was already allowing her mind to dwell on finery? occasion. She poured over the new fashion books centering k? tion on those pages devoted to small-fry styles. Tlicn niiJ switched her full attention on fashions for adults. One i? i brought a picture to her mother of a very full-fashioned cockg? I "There, Mommie," she proudly announced, "that's ju-t whJ for my Easter dress." Her mother, a bit astonished slid: "M that's entirely too old for you and much ton -ophis'ieaid? Mary's face showed her keen disappointment, then lit iipfl smile: "Please, can't I be old enough just for Easter in be list? When your conscience says "NO," don't trv to ,rnl point. Over The Counli By W. C. MEDFORI) I FAMILY REGULATOR?Sheriff i Fred Campbell says he doesn't mind the sheriff's duties; but he j balks at the extra specials which 1 he is also called upon to do. The sheriff may be asked to try to ! "skeer" a man into paying a debt, ] also to give a wayward boy a "good talkin'Sometimes he is called upon to get a runaway boy back home or to try to locate a girl, it may be, who has been tak- ' en off bv a man or men much older. But that is not all. A woman call ed up from Pigeon sometime back at two o'clock in the morning to complain that her "old man" wouldn't let her play the radio. With the Fines Creek man it was the other way around. He told the sheriff that his wife wouldn't let him hang his tobacco where he wanted it, and wouldn't the sheriff "omf down and "stop her ? med dlinNext morning he phoned 'he sheriff that he didn't need him. DAYS LONG GONE?Rex Mes ser, builder, has found a 70 year old store account book, or "Day-1 book" often used in the old days for charges and credits. The book was found in the attic of an old house. Allen Noldr.d place, lower Crabtrec. Some (if I he entrie-? lows: Oct 3 1384 Jiiti I Dr. to bottle Parasol it ?? 12'.2C; Par Shoos pa $1.75; W. 11 SwangmiigJ Bimi to 4 Pars Shone* ably this was for tumrji in? 4 sots of ho: tobacco, 10c; 1 Hanker 'handkerchief 20c. "Sharping 6 plows Then we notice in aro'i* "Sharping 2 Plows. 10ce< w ay, that w as from five I cents for sharpening a pit required skilled work. It an average of nearlv half to sharpen a bull-toMi "Sharping Matfoc" was 3 Other entries were a "1 Woo! Hate" 'hat J! Sene oil" (kerosene1 ll> "1 Pack Diluent. Dies' dyes). 10 cents: "Shnora! 'shoeing one horse' ? This included turning as' four shoes, cleaning and" hooves, nailing on, rasp* etc. It was about a D."* of" hard, skilled labor One customer had a C cents for 30 pounds (Continued on paB SENATOR SAM ERVIN ? SAYS * V ALIANT WORK WASHINGTON ? Washington witnessed an unusual ceremony during the past week when Mrs. Jessie Taylor, of Southport, was awarded the meritorious service medal by the United States Weath er Bureau for her highly intelli gent work during Hurricane Hazel. For many generations the men of Southport "have gone down to the sea in ships." As a consequence the people of Southport are well acquainted with the fury and thag (Continued on page 3) Voice of the People Have you missed this feature in the papej- and would you like to see it resumed? Mrs. David Hyatt: "Oh, yes. Both my husband and I have missed it very mueh. It was ojje of the first things we read. We think the ques tions are interesting and enjov reading what others feel and think." r - Mrs. Fred CaOiourt; "Yes, I've missed it. I enjoy reading the Voice of the People and had acquired the hgbit of looking for it." Jim Kilpatrick; "It has always been interesting and a rood fea ture. yes, I had missed it." Keith Gibson: "I have really missed the Voice of the People. It was my favorite part of the paper and I alwavs looked forward to reading it first. I believe manv other boys and girls of high school see enjoyed this part of the paper, too.'' Joe C. rilne:%"I'd say 'yes* to both questions. Make these boys talk!" Mrs. Ternnleton Leefcey: "I al ways look for the Voice of the Peoole and I'd like to see It re j ?umed if I don't have to answer the questions I lik* to read an I swets frertt other people." CROSSWORD asngg ACROSS DOWN 16. Fuel nltQI i - . ? 1 Rlv*r 19. Thick alices [tflyi 6. Sack* ? (U.S.) 20. Chief mars- iPlfl v. An amount 2. On top trait of a ? ? JHiH on which 3. 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