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Building In Waynesvilla
Is Encouraging Sign
No doubt many readers blinked their eyes
once or even twice when they read the head
line Thursday in The Mountaineer that build
ing permits in Waynesville during last year
went to over $514,000.
Many of us have seen building going on,
but gave little thought as to what it would
totalln the course of a year.
One encouraging fact is that 45 homes
were built within the city limits. We would
not venture a guess as to the number which
were constructed outside the city limits.
Expansions and new businesses added al
most $100,000 to the total for the year, but
the fact remains that over $400,000 was in
vested in new homes in Waynesville during
1955.
That means a minimum of 45 families?
and even if they were renting or living in an
other house, it means another place for one
more family.
This report tells a factual story of prog
ress and growth.
Haywood's School
Improvement Program
Nears Completion
The action of the State Board of Educa
tion approving the construction of a new
school on Pigeon Street, plus the addition to
the Cruso school writes a new chapter in
; education in Haywood county.
The completion of these two proiects will
end the current program which has seen
more than $2,500,000 spent on modernizing
and enlarging our school plants in this
county.
These two projects are both sorely need
ed, and when completed will give this coun
ty an excellent school plant system. There
are. of course, some things which will have
to be added in the not too distant future, be
cause many buildings are already crowded in
spite of the extra rooms added just recently.
We feal that Haywood citizens are taking
a keener interest in schools than at anv
time we have known in the past quarter of
a century.
This interest on the part of the public is
indeed encouraging. And we are confident it
will be reflected in the type of work done
by the students.
Haywood has been recognized as one of
the counties in the state that has done a
lot towards improving school conditions, and
it is a record of which we can be justly
proud.
Now that we are in the last phase of the
expansion, and modernizing program it is
hv no means any reason why we are finished.
Our schools are of primary importance, and
will always remain so. \
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New Water Line To
East Waynesville
Important Project
The Town of Waynesville is doing an ex
cellent thing, in our opinion, of running an
auxiliary water line from the reservoir to
the East Waynesville and Hospital sections.
The new 6-inch water line will serve the
area as added insurance of an adequate
water supply at all times, and even in case
of a breakdown on the existing line, the
auxiliary line coming into the area from a
different direction will be added protection.
In addition to this new water line, several
sewer lines are being installed, to serve a
wide area. All of the projects are costing
oVer $30,000, but should prove a good invest
ment in the years to come.
With the installation of the modern filter
ing plant, the water system of Waynesville
has gradually grown, and now the needs of
the citizens of a wide area are being proper
ly met. ?
It is wise planning to look, and work to
the future, such as is an example of these
new lines being installed.
1956 Will Be Good Year
For Tourist Business
The new attendance records set last year
by travel in the Smokies and on the Blue
Ridge Parkway substantiates our earlier pre
diction that 1956 looms as a banner year for
travel.
Those visiting this area last year will cer
tainly be potential 1956 visitors as will a lot
of others with whom they have an oppor
tunity to discuss their 1955 travels during j
the winter.
The growth of the tourist travel into this |
area has shown a steady increase each year ,
since the restriction on travel during the war i
years.
Taking all these factors into account, plus
the added facilities which have been erected
in the past few years, we look forward to the
best year yet for the tourist industry in 1956. 1
But optimism will not be enough. Neither
will the records of the past year. We must .
realize thut the tourist business is a highly 1
competitive market. There are many states,
and many countries out after the tourist dol
lar. It is the area that makes the best bid, (
and offers the most inducement for visiting
that will get the business.
Yes, 1956 will be a good tourist year for
those who go after the business.
MORE WIDOWS THAN WIDOWERS I
On the national average, women live 6
years longer than their husbands and are a
lout 3 years younger, making a 9-year dif
ference in the life expectancy of average
couples. Thus 13% of women are widows
while only 4% of men are widowers. Add this
to the fact that men leave their estatea,
large and small, to their widows and you see
why so much of the nation's wealth is in the
hands of women.?The Kiplinger Letter.
FOUR MILLION BABIES THIS YEAR
The baby boom continues; over four mil
lion were born during 1955. That means 25
new babies for every 1000 population. The
record high was reached in 1947 with 26.6 ,
babies per 1000. During the depression de- i
cade of the 30's, the birth rate was 18 per ;
1000.?The Kiplinger Letter.
HIGH INCOME GROUP INCREASES 90%.
During the past five years, the $10,000- !
and-up income group has grown by 90%.
This class, which is economically important,
includes the upper middle class, the well-to- ]
do and the so-called rich. But it represents \
only 7% of the total number of families in 3
the country.?The Kiplinger Letter. 1
Voice of
the People
What was Ikt'ikat thinr that
happened to you In 1955?
Mr*. Betsy Shulhofer: "I've al
ways wanted a set of shears to cut
scrap metal and I got them in
stalled Last year."
Mrs. H. L. Liner. Jr.: "So many
nice* things happened to me It's
bard to say. One of the nicest was
to realize that my son had sudden
ly grown up to be a young man."
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Miss Ray Ballard: "The family
leunion we had in the fall."
Mrs. Joe Maaaie: "It was such a
nice year. I can't pinpoint any one
thing."
Miss Debrayda Fisher; "That I
lived and stayed well and had a
good job."
Mr*. Joe Webster: "We stayed
well!"
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Looking Back Through The Years
20 YEARS AGO
Mrs. F. H. Marley returns from
New York where she spent
Christmas with her son. Hal Mar
ley, student at Columbia Univers
ity.
W. Riley Palmer, student at
State College, returns to his
studies.
Mrs. Earl Messer visits relatives
in Halifax.
Miss Carolyn Haynes returns to
her work In Andrews after a visit
ivlth her mother. Mrs. Claude
Haynes.
it years ago
Haywood coal situation reaches (
critical stage. No relief is in sight (
as coal yards are bare of all types
of coal.
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Mercury climbs to 89 as freak
ish weather hits area.
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Mrs. N. F. Lancaster and son, v
Bobby arrive from Camp Gordon.
Ga., and will be joined within a
few weeks by Major Lancaster.
Pfc. Charles B Way is now serv- j
ing on Luzon. (
5 YEARS AGO
Miss Carol Jean Burnham of
Jurham is bride of James Elwood.
II.
Miss Harriet Atkinson weds
lames Henry Tutwiler, Jr.
Max Rogers, patient at Asheville
irthopedic Home, gets to spend
veekend at home.
First National Bank re-elects
joard of directors and all officers.
B. K. Colkitt is named a vice
>resident of the Daniel Boone
Council, Boy Scouts.
Milk Run?
BENTON HARBOR, Mich. (API
?Fire department equipment Is
taking cm the look of milk trucks.
One of its old red fire wagons has
been repainted white and the fire
chief has traded in his red car for
i white station wagon.
Senator Estes Kefauver
To Address Young Demos
Of North Carolina 27th
| Tall, lanky U. S. Senator Estes
Just Looking Around
Br W. CURTIS BUSS
One of the best stories of the
new year has to do with the party
of neighbors who were celebrating
the arrival of 1956.
The next morning the hostess
found the hat of one of the men
in the living room. She called the
man and reminded him that he had
left his hat at her house earlier
that morning.
"Yes. I know I left It there.
When 1 left your house the hat was
far too small for the size of my
head. I'll pick it up later."
The new North Carolina tags re
mind us so much of the New York
tags. For the first day after the
tags went on sale we could not
help but feel we had a lot of New
Yorkers in our community.
While plans are not completed,
considerable work has been done
on Haywood County Day ? a big
event at Lake Junaluska every
June. The work done thus far has
been encouraging, and when final
plans are announced, the general
program, we feel, will be one that
will come nearer pleasing everyone
than any that could be possible to
work out.
Many places, institutions, and
perhaps families have set up new
rules for the year. There might
tven be some individuals who are
ret carrying out New Year's reso
lutions.
Even so, they are not as tough
is the rules of the Stokes County
kcademy, of 1848. We ran across
i set of their rules, adopted Nov.
10, 1848 and found them quite
nteresting. They are as follows
with the number of demerits for
I act) offense listed:
Boys and girls playing together.
Quarrelling. 4.
Fighting. 5.
Fighting at sahool. 3.
Quarrelling at school. 3.
Gambling or betting at school. 4.
Playing at cards at school, 10.
Climbing for every foot over
hree feet up a tree, 1.
Telling lies, 7.
Telling tales out of school. 8.
Nicknaming each other. 4.
Giving each other ill names. 3.
Fighting each other In time of
looks. 2.
Swearing at school, ?.
Blackguarding each other. 8.
For misbehaving to girls, 10.
For leaving school without leave
>f the teacher, 4.
Going home with each other
irtthout leave of the teacher, 4.
For drinking spirituous liqnen at
rboai, 8.
Making swings and awing on
has. T.
For aiiahahgslnf whan a itriag
er is in the house. 6.
For wearing long fingernails, 2.
For not making a bow when a
stranger comes in or goes out, 3.
Misbehaving to persons on the
road. 4.
For not making a bow when "you
meet a person, 4,
For going to girls' play places. 3.
Girls going to boys' play places.
2.
Coming to school with dirty face
and hands, 2.
For calling each other liars. 4.
For playing bandy. 10. ?
For blotting your copy book. 2.
For not making a bow when you
go home or when you come away, 4.
For wrestling at school, 4.
Scuffling at school. 4
For not making a bow when go
ing out to go home, 2.
Far wetting each other washing
at play time. 2.
For hollering and hooping go
ing home. 3.
For delaying time going home or
coming to school, 4.
For not making a bow when you
come in or go out. 2.
For throwing any thing harder
than your grab ball. 4.
For every work you misa In your
art lesaon without good excuse. 1.
For not saying yes sir and no sir
or yes ma'am and no ma'am. 2.
For troubling each others' writ
ing affairs. 2.
For not washing at playtime
when going to books, 4
For going and playing about the
mill or creek. 8.
For going about the barn or do
ing any mischief about the place. 7.1
j Kefauver, one of the top three as
pirants for the Democratic nomin
ation for President in 1956. will
highlight a Statewide rally of
Young Democrats in Raleigh on
I Friday. Jan. 27.
Samuel H. Johnson, president of
the Wake County YDC. announced
that Kefauver's appearance is the
first of a series of visits to North
Carolina by top Democratic hqpe
fuls. It is expected. Johnson said,
that Adlai E. Stevenson and New
York's Gov. Averell Harriman will
al?o come to North Carolina later
this year under YDC sponsorship.
Johnson thus Joined State YDC
President Henry Hall Wilson, Jr.
of Monroe in emphasizing that the
YDC is not sponsoring the candida
cy of any one Democrat. Rather,
he said, "we are interested in giv
ing the people of our State a
chance to see all of the various
candidates and make up their own
minds us to their preference."
The YDC rally on Jan. 27 prob
ably will be one of the largest such
affairs in recent years. Arrange
ments are being made for a crowc"
of 3.000 people at Raleigh's Mem
oriai Auditorium, at which Senator
Kefauver will speak at 8 p.m. Prior
to Kefauver's speech, there will b<
a banquet at the Hotel Sir Walter
As a result of recent re novation.'
at the hotel, 700 people can be
seated at the banquet.
Reservations can be made for thr
banquet by writing to Johnson
Raleigh.
Destructive Anger
PARIS, Tex. (AP) ? A used car
dealer told police he thinks some
body is angry with him, because:
somebody poured sugar in the tank
of one automobile on his lot; took
the fender skirts off a second, and
cut all the wires on a third:
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Rambling 'Round
By Frances Gilbert Frazler
Well, It looks like the fashion experts are going to have a prob
lem on their hands this year. The fact that Easter comes on April, first
will be a poser as to whether the Easter raiment shall be coated, suited
or gowned. It is highly problematical as to whether the breezes on
that date will be sephyrish or tigerish, anu whether you bdtter haul
your old raincoat or don that faille duster. Then the qiisstion of
chapeauxl What will be the headlines?
Easter can come as early as March twenty-third but it rarely )?
exercises the privilege. The old way of settling this important date
was reached In a rather long-drawn-out compilation It would be the
first Sunday after the first full moon after the 20lh of March. By the
time one finished this laborous computation, they just didn't care
much. Anyway it slipped into April by minutes this year. *
Personally, we still have the same around-the-season holdover so
April first won't fool us any. *
First She: "Isn't that a rldd diet your new doctor cave i
yon?" . if.
Second She: "It certainly is, and I'm coinr to chance."
First She: "The diet?"
Second She: "No. The doctor."
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A kindly thought came drifting by,
A-top a cloud of snowy white;
It hovered 'round for quite a while
Then off it went, right out of sight.
How sad it is that kindly thoughts
Remain aloft, or go astray. d
If only they would stick around. '
'Twould do so much to smooth our way.
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To pinpoint a fact sometimes requires hard knocks.
We'd like to make a bow of pleasant acknowledgment of an in
troduction to two new columnists on the editorial page of The Ashe
ville Citizen. They are Robert Sylvester with his_ "Dream Street."
and George Dixon giving us his witty and amusing "Washington Scene".
They both produce delightful reading and take one's mind tem
porarily off the sordid facts that are bound to force themselves upon
the public. There never was a truer sentiment than that expressed
in the line?:
"A little nonsense, (now and then,
Is, relished by the best of men."
With January only nine days old, many of the New Year reso
lutions have already become obsolete.
Early Bird Bandit's Treat
PORTLAND, Ore. (API ? For! HAGERMAN, N. M. (AP) ? A
the 35th straight year. Charles bandit with no hard-feelings treat
Nebergall has been the first per- ed officers after they had corner
son in Multnomah County to pay ed him on a roof-top and arrested
his taxes. him for armed robbery. He had $21
Nebergall doesn't have to go far of his own and generously ordered
from his work to make the pay- drinks for everybody in city hall,
ment. Blind, he operates the coun- Police got malted milks,
ty courthouse cigar store. His tax- .
es. or his home, amounted to Nothing Sells Like
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MARCH OF EVENTS
World Awaits Jan. 30 Anglo-American Policy
Ike-Eden Conference Subject of Discussion
Sfitrial to Central Press Association
VwrASHINGTON?The spotlight of world attention will focus on
W the White House Jan. 30 with the meeting there of President
Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Anthony Eden since the sub
ject of discussion will be on Anglo-American policy and strategy for
combatting the newly hypoed cold war maneuvers
of Russia.
^There has been strong sentiment in London for
the forthcoming Eisenhower-Eden talks in view
fl|. M of the failure of the Geneva conference and Rus
-J sia's new attitude toward the western powers.
British diplomats feel that United States-British
t policy must be co-ord'nated to meet the unfolding
Soviet threat of trying to win influence with a
ft "StfedB^ft "salesmanship" campaign.
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? TURNCOATS?In congressional circles, Defense
Secretary Charles E. Wilson is being blamed for
the Army's inability to court-martial three ex-OIs
Kritain's Eden who went over to the Communists in Korea.
The former servicemen, who later returned home,
can not be prosecuted by the Army because'the Supreme Court has
invalidated a key provision of the Uniform Code of Military Justice
authorizing such action.
Rep. Paul Kilday (D), Texas, a top-ranking member of the House
armed services committee which initiated the military code in 1090,
pointed out that the men had been dishonorably discharged at Wil
son's order.
Kilday remarked, "That was a mistake. If they had not been dis
charged, they would still be in the Army and thus subject to court
martial proceedings. Now it is doubtful that Congress can do any
thing except make sure it doesn't happen again."
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? ICC IN THE NEWS?The Interstate Commerce commission is one
of those government agencies that goes along for years without mak
ing headlines. Recently, however, the ICC was very much in the news
with the resignation of its chairman. Hugh W. Cross, and with its
decision banning segregation in interstate rail and bus travel.
The ICC is in for some continued interest since there are now two
commission vacancies which President Eisenhower is expected to flit
shortly. His choice will be watched by both parties. Democrats will
look closely for any appointment they consider indicates a bias toward
the railroads, buses or trucklines which the ICC is charged with regu
lating.
For Mr. Eisenhower, filling the johs will be a ticklish situation. At
least one of his appointees must be a Democrat since the ICC is, by
law, a bipartisan agency. He could pick two Democrats because there
now are only four of them on the commission and six of its II mem
bers- but no more?may be from the same political party.
Republicans, of course, are going to plump for one of their mem
bers. In other words, almost anything the President does Is bound
to come in for some close political scrutiny?and hit the headlines
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? GOP VS. UNIONS?Recent Republican attacks on labor unions
haven't the unanimous backing of the GOP. In fact, whether or not
he runs again in 1050, President Elsenhower is likely to repudiate
v some of the more violent accusations made by members of hi* party
against the unions.
The most prominent of these charges have been made by Senate
OOP Leader William F. Knowland of California and Senator Barry
Goldwater of Arizona.
A tip-off of the split that this provoked within the GOP cams from
Gov Theodore McKeldin of Maryland, a Republican. He Immediately
spoke out against the Knowland-Goldwater statements?with some
interesting political ramifications.
McKeldin was promptly contacted by the support- Oevemer
era of California's Gov. Goodwin Knight. The Mary
land governor was asked how he would like running MeWdln
for vice president on a GOP ticket headed by Knight. _ Per Veepf
Although he didn't reply, the significance Mes In
the fact that it was McKeldin who nominated Mr. Eisenhower at the
1952 convention?and Knight has gotten much of hie paHMsa! sup
port In California fmm labor leaders.
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