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A Big Bottleneck
Being Corvected
It fi welcarttad news for hundreds of mo
torist* that a three lane highway wiR soon
be built at Five-Points. This conjested area,
especially from about S to 5 each afternoon,
a enough to try the patience of Job.
Hundreds of ears from the plants have
to go by the area, and often one car. travel
ing east trying to make a left turn wdl hold
up as many as 20 other cars, which only
adds to he congestion and often "short
patience."
The plan of the three lane system will
enable through traffic to move along with
out interference of turning traffic. AM will
be regulated by a system of traffic lights
geared so as to meet the latest in traffic
engineering.
The propoaal was made sometime ago by
Mayor I^twrence Davis of Hazelwood to
Commissioner Harry Buchanan, of the 14th
District. In ? short time an engineer was on
the job. mapping plans for easing the traffic
flow.
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about 600 feet of pavement six feet wide,
which will give three 12-foot lanes in the
area. The project is scheduled for immedi
ate completion, and fortunately in time to
take care of the additional load of traffic
which will descend upon the section as more
and more workers move into the new Una
frusta plant, which is just beyond the Five
Point area.
This project will be money well spent, and
a credit to all those who had a part in bring
ing it to a reality.
More Highways To Be Built
American drivers should be encouraged
bv the prospect of a 41,000-mile network of
highways, to be completed within 13 years,
linking almost all the cities in the United
States of over 60,000 population. They can
be more heartened by the fact that this new
federal interstate highway system will al
low no billboards or roadside business on the
right of way. Instead, there will be plantings
of shrubs, grass and trees.
Not only will these plantings make driv
ing more pleasurable, but they will also pro
vide -very-practical service* s?ch~as erosion
prevention, traffic guidance, snowbreaks,
highway noise reduction, crash protection,
headlight glare elimination, and buffers to
keep large animals off the roadway.
?The Herald, llanska, Minn.
People believe some things right off, but
others, they never believe. Take for example,
you tell a fellow there are 279 trillion stars
in the heavens, he'll take the fact at face
value. Ix't n sign say "wet paint" and he'll
touch his finger to the surface to find out.
There Are Needy
Ones Among Us
The Yule time season brings to our at
tention the number of needy folk in every
community. Really, there are just as many,
on an average, every season of the year as
there are at Christmas, hot it seems that
their plight becomes more pronounced at
this time of the year.
It m encouraging to note that some 30
families from the Welfare rods have already
been taken by individuals and groups. There
are about V) other families that have been
checked by the Welfare Department and
set up as being worthy and needing assist
ance.
It is fine that the people are cheeking
through the Welfare office for names of
families to assist. There was a time when
many individuals and groups went out look
ing for a family, and in more than one in
stance, some families were remembered by
several persons, while other needy groups
did not get a thing. By checking through the
Welfare office it is possible to take care of
a larger number of folk, and to do it in a
systematic manner.
When a family is listed on the Welfare
roll, it is known that they have been check
ed. and re-checked by experienced Welfare
workers as to their particular needs.
Yet Nothing Is
Done About It
The weather this fall (winter is due next
Friday) has been a mixed-up pattern. There
have been five days of "average fall" weath
er, and then about the same length of time
of spring-like weather. The off-season
weather has caused a lot of concern, all the
way from farmers trying to decide when to
kill hogs to the ladies trying to figure out
when to wear their fur coats.
It has been a puzzler, and even the fur
naces have not known how to take the "off
and on" cooler days. Over the weekend, we
understand there was an epidemic of furnace
breakdowns, even some of the schools faced
a chilly day. So it goes with the weather,
which seems more mixed up now than ever.
, Highlanders Set Up
Tempo Of Program
The county and regional group of the
Highlanders have a wide and comprehensive
proBram for the coming season.
The enthusiasm of both groupR is a good
sign of the amount of work which is expect
ed this coming season.
The groups plan a larger promotional cam
paign than in the past, and are "gearing up"
for a strong presentation of the advantages
of Western North Carolina as a vacation
center.
VTFWS OF OTWFR FOITORS
'Politically Palatable'
Governor Hodges terms a report by the Com
mission on Legislative Representation, made pub
lic Friday, as "practical and politically palatable"?
and with that we agree.
A plan which is not "politically palatable" has
no chance with the 1997 General Assembly. Reap
portionment has been shamefully ignored for the
last four years because It symbolises a struggle for
power between the agrarian East and the populous
Piedmont. The East will tolerate no reapportion
ment which threatens its power, and therein lies
the stalemate.
The question now facing the state is this: Will
the General Assembly, furnished a patchwork com
promise. do its duty on reapportionment where it
" has dismally failed during the last two sessions?
The answer to that question lies in practical,
realistic study of the commission's report. Commis
sion Chairman Carroll Weathers, dean of the Wake
Forest Law School, admirably defended it at the
Governor's state-wide press conference Friday. He
granted forthwith that the report was neither Utop
ian nor ideal?but represented the best workable
compromise which might provide fairer representa
tion thai the state now has. The goal, let us re
member, is fairer representation within the frame
work of what ia politically possible.
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While Dean Weathers refused to comment on
Commission Member Weimar Jones' dissenting
opinion, his report did answer the Franklin editor
by implication; it made concessions both to the
princinle of area (favoring the Fasti and population
(favoring the Piedmont).
The plan would, in brief, give larger population
counties more representation both in the House and
Senate; but at the same time it would place limita
tions on the extent of that increase?and thereby
quiet fears qf the agrarian East.
Under the plan changed in reapportionment
would not take place until after the I960 census
(a wise stipulation), but in the meantime the Gen
eral Assembly would proceed with a long-delayed
reapportionment at its session next year.
The changes themselves would add 10 additional
members to the House of Representatives, distribut
ed by population as at present so that the larger
population counties would get additional representa
tion. At the same time each county would continue
to assured one representative regardless of
population.
? In the Senate two new provisions would apply:
(1) No county could obtain more than two senators;
and (2> no senator could represent more thai! four
counties. In case of a conflict between these limita
tions, the four-county proviso would have priority.
Under this plan, if appliod to the 1950 census,
both Guilford and Mecklenburg would qualify for
two senators and there would be a reshuffling of
senatorial districts elsewhere In the state to com
ply with the four-county limitation. Most of the
new representatives would go to counties which
have grown substantially in the last decade but
which have not had repreeentattioa for such growth;
at the same time certain other counties, sueh as Pitt
and Cabarrus, which have not grown as rapidly,
would still hold on to their persent representation.
As the capstone of this plan, reapportionment
would he turned over to a special commission, com
posed of elective state officers, which would he
charged with the job of reapportionment after each
decennial census. The Dally News a ghees with
Weimar Jones that the Republican Party should be
assured some representation on this commission,
not now provided; but otherwise we look on this
rhanee la responsibility as a constructive one.
Win the General Assembly go along with this
plan?or something akin to It? We trust that it will,
recognising on the oae hood that further tagruat
disregard of the State Constitution Must Mt 000
tiiroe add on the otter that an ideal solution is not
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?The Gteeflsboro Dally Newt.
THE MOUNTAINEER
Wiyimtlk, North Carolina
Main Street Dial GL 6-5301
The County Seat of Haywood County
Published By
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Views of Other
Editors
CONSIDER THE HtTRRIOANE
"At* you a hurricane driver?"
arks the National Safety Coun
cil.
Stop and look yourself coolly in
the eyes before you answer "No."
Tor these modern automobiles,
maanMcent in ghtting drivers out
of tight spots, are also deceivers
in the grand manner. On today's
straight, wide highways they can
Hit Ice the motorist up to 70. 75.
80. 90 . . . miles an hour. They .
slide so effortlessly.
Tet 75 miles an hour is weath
er bureau hurricane speed for
wind?for just nice, soft, moving
air. And hurricanes can tear up
cities and countrysides. What can
two tons of hard steel automobile
do* Physicists can tell us that one
moving at 80 miles an hour car
ries eight times the lethal force
of one moving at a mere 20. And.
the Safety Council tells us, dur
ing the last Christmas holidays
driving in excess of the legal
limit or too fast for accompany
ing conditions entered into 85 per
cent of the fatal accidents.
So curb your two-ton hurricane,
Mr. Driver?even on an arrow
straight. four-lane, dual turnpike.
?Christian Science Monitor.
LIQUOR GETS THE BOOT
A brave Chicago company has a
new plan for entertaining converi
tionei's: No liquor.
And word-weary convention go
ers are finding phrases to praise
it.
"It was time for someone to
change the trend away from li
quor." That was a typical com
ment at the American Hospital
Association convention in Chicago
last month.
The "someone" is Bauer &
Black. Chicago producers of first
aid and hospital supplies.
The company decided to do
away with cocktaH parties at con
ventions and trade association
meetings.
Instead of liquor, Bauer &
Black serves a late evening "ice
box party," a buffet spread of
raid outs, cheese, bread and but
ter, coffee and milk,
"We just thought how people
like to raid the ice-box and de
cided to give them a chance to do
it at conventions." a company
executive said.
He reports "enthusiastic reac
tions everywhere" to the new sys
tem and adds that "the milk goes
over biggest "
?Chicago Daily News
EXTRAVAGANT WOMEN
Wives more often than hus
bands are resnonsible for saving
money. According to recent sur
veys. both husband and wife man
aft- the savings in fiD'r of the
families, the wife in 25rc and the
husband in 15?!. In families
whose income is above $10000 a
year, the husband is more likely
to see that some money is put
awav, But in families in the $2.
000-$ 10 000 bracket. the wife
plavs the more active role in
making sure something is saved.
?Changing Times.
ARE THINGS BETTER NOW?
Peoole have more money today
than they did before World War
II. But here are ^om? sobering
comparisons: A worker who earn
ed $3 000 In 1939 needs $6 122
today to be as well off. The family
With a $5,000 income in 1939 has
to have $10,583 now. And 1939's
$25 000-a-year man was doing
Just as well as today's executive
who brines in around $68,000 a
year." Taxes and inflation make
the difference. No denying it. the
dollar has really shrunk
?Changing Times.
?GOING rOR CIDER?*
This Is the time of year when
country roads?yes. and suburban
streets ? used to ring with the
laughter of people who were not
too young to be out after dark
and were headed in happy groups
to the cider mill.
Of course, the cider mill still
exists in some places, but it is
not what it used to be or even
what many of this yooneer gen
eration may imagine it was. On
many farms it was not so much an
institution as an annex. The
presses were set up in a wing of
the barn, and the fragrance, pun
gent sweet, of apple juice, ming
ling with the smell of kerosene
lamps, waf led out into the autumn
darkness.
"Going for cider tonight?" used
to he heard fn hfrh-school corri
dors as classes changed rooms.
We would guess that only the
echoes of such greetings now
whisuer unheard through the
halls of learning. And to hear
ilffhthearted banter and . the
Stompin* of feet down the road
Peat your house, you must listed
again with the Memory.
?'Ale Christian Science Monitor
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THE OLD HOME TOWN ? By STANLEY
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Looking
Back Over
The Years
20 years ago
Louise Messer of Fines Creek
high school wins $8 cash prizes
given by merchants for best
"Trade At Home" essay.
Dr. Thomas Stringfield is nam
ed Commander of the Hugh A.
Love Camp, Spanish War Veter
ans.
Library reports an average of
70 books circulated daily.
Miss Anna Catherine Coin,
student at Berea College, arrives
for the holidays.
10 years ago
J. C. Patrick and George Pat
rick purchase WWNC Cafe to
operate as a cafeteria.
Mrs. Carl Medford honors her
guest. Mrs. Cleon Williams, at a
large tea.
Glenn Palmer is appointed to
head the state Grange Committee
on Burley Tobacco.
The Toggery receives 1.295
pairs of nylon hose.
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5 years ago
Railway Crossing signals are
being considered for the commun
ity
John M. Queen is elected pres
ident of Haywood Bar Associa
tion,
Mr. and Mrs Phil Brooks cele
brate their seventieth birthday
with a family dinner at their
home at Balsam.
Mrs. Robert Miller. Miss Loui
ise Francis, and Henry Francis re
turn after a month's visit to Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Gillen in Berk
eley. Calif.
Letters To Editor
A CHALLENGE
Editor, The Mountaineer:
I have just read your signed
editorial, "Another Phase of Our
Progressive Program Needed" in
the Dec. 6 issue of your splendid
ly-edited paper and 1 want to
congratulate you on the challenge
you have thrown out to the citi
zens of Haywood County and
vicinity. I am sure this problem
is not peculiar to your area, but
you are wise in recognizing its
existence. Three young people
were killed instantly near the
Greensboro-- High Point Airport
the other night. Beer and whisky
found in the car told a sad story
of the reasons for the tragedy.
1 shall follow with interest the
program your progressive county
will work out to remedy this situ
ation.
Perhaps you can perfect a
"pilot" plan that can be adapted
in other sections which are also
aware of the need to give our
young people a better chance in
life. Great emphasis is being put
on conservation of our natural
resources in America and the
time has come for more commun
iTV-w?3e effort tc be put in con
servation of human resources, be
ginning with children and young
people in our midst.
Sincerely,
Marse Grant, Editor
Charity and Children
Thomasville. N. C.
A JOB WELL DONE
Editor, The Mountaineer:
Our United Fund has just com
pleted another successful year
and I feel confident that the uni
ted way of giving has become a
permanent thing in this cbmmun
ity and will continue to grow and
be of greater service in the fu- .
ture.
It would be impractical to name
all of the fine people in this com
munity who have helped to make
our United Fund a success and
yet I do want to especially thank
our Campaign Chairman, Charlie
Woodard; our Publicity Commit
tee, Ken Fry and Curtis Russ:
our Treasurer, J. B. Siler; our
Clerk. Mrs. Jackie Caldwell, for
their fine work this past year.
While we can and should ex
press our appreciation to the
various officers and committees
of the United Fund, the real rea
son for our success is, of course,
the generosity of the people in
this community, and to all of
them I want to express, on be
half of the United Fund, a sin
cere "thank you" for a job well
done.
Russell E. Fultz
President.
iBibiyjDortS
MATTHEW II 10?"This 4s he of whom it is written,
?Behold, t send my messenger before thy face, who
shall prepare thy way before thee.'" (RSV)
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Our Lord does all honor to John the Baptist as the
preparer of the way for the Kingdom of Heaven. The
Baptist did yeoman's service in levelling the hills,
filling up the valleys, making thecrookedplaces straight,
making a highway for the Kingdom of Heaven,
We know that things don't Just happen in our world.
We literally level off the hills, fill In the valleys and
make the crooked straight.
Believe me, in this business of religion, we do not
believe in miracles. Just as the world was prepared
for Christ by John the Baptist, the prophets before him |
and many others, a? also if we are going to come
by the "Good News" of Christ we have to do something
about it.
We have the Christian life today because others have
made it possible. Christ can come to us only ss the
way la made ready. Others can and do help ue but we
have got to help ouraelvee. God has ssnt Hia servant,
Jesus, to help us. He stands at the door and knocks.
Only we can open that door.
The Rev George MeKlnley,
St. John's P.R. Church.
Palmerton. Pa.
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Rambling Round
. By Prueta Gilbert Fnaier
Seventeen years a?o on December 20th, a deep sorrow came into
our life and we said, bitterly: "What a mockery this Christinas will
be." That same expression could so truly be said about the situations
ira the year 195?. Millions of peoples are at such violent discord ihat
torture and murder are taken so lightly, and life at such a low valu
ation that it is a tragic situation. Affairs overseas are so well known
that it isn't necessary to go into details, but the enormity of the crises
is of such vital importance that it cannot be taken as a prosaic matter.
But we need not travel to other countries to find deep concern,
for here in our own beloved America churches are being burned,
ministers attacked, men blinded by acid-throwers, and other atrocities
are being committed every hour of the day and night.
"Peace on earth, good will toward men" is the most beautiful
precept on earth but it is as far awav as the human race seems bent
on making it. How can Christmas mean anything but horror to those
in oppressed countries, and what price victory to those inflated with
the lust for power and domination! Can the world ever look forward
to a Christmas when harmony, peace and friendship celebrates the
birth of Chri-f
A friendly hand is never encased in a glove.
A recent editorial in The Mountaineer mentioned the fact of
the confusion that must arise in the minds of the small frv because
of the large number of Safita Clauses seen for several weeks before
the Great Day. And this fact is not alone baffling to youngsters but
a matter of deep concern to their elders. It is pretty hard to explain
why one person can be seen at so many different spots at almost iden
tical moments.
And speaking of the jovial old gentleman of the white whiskers
and extended waistline, we had the pleasure of seeing "double'' in
Asheville recently. The extremely joyous Santa Claus in Ivey's window
was so laugh-provoking that one completely lost sight of the ex
hausted condition of the poor reindeer who floundered. fell and
flopped. A few moments later we were greeted by a Kriss Kringle
at the next corner whom we thought was directing traffic but wo
were informed, was waving at us. To ihave a man wave at us was ex
hilarating enough to make the evening perfect, even if he waved
indiscriminatingly throughout his tenure of office.
Long live Santa Claus. Or. at least, until December 24th. After
thaf, he's a bit passe.
Heard in passing: "If I bought everything that child wanted.
I would have to use a blimp instead of a stocking."
The number of disastrous forest fires recently gives grave
cause for worry, and North Carolina has been the victim of several
that have caused tremendous loss of valuable timber; timber that
has withstood the ravaging seasonal storms only to be swept down
by blazing destruction . . . and the tragedy is that most of #iis devas
tation is caused by thoughtlessness.
It is hard to realize that a carelessly tossed match or lighted
cigarette can bring about such a frightful thing as a forest fire. A
tiny spark in a bed of dry grass can spread into an inferno of
terror and ruination that will, in minutes, undo the work that Nature
has taken years to develop. ?
If necessary, hold a lighted match between the fingers until it
burns you, then you can easily be made aware of the damage it
can do if thrown on the ground. It is an excellent remedy for for
getting that matches can do harm when thrown from a car while
riding in a wooded section.
No branch of mistletoe is ever complete without a beau.
Views of Other Editors
PLEASURE OF
GRANDFATHERS
If there is any joy in this world
that somehow does not hold its
small irritations, its occasional
sadness, we know it not.
Grandchildren are just about
as great a joy as this world can
bring.
The other day a friend who
lives a couple of blocks from us
said:
"I wish you and your General
Manager would come to see us.
We have our three small grand
children visiting us."
Then he paused and added sob
erly:
"After a half hour with them
you will be able to appigciate
your solitude."
?Goldsboro New^nrgus
CROSSWORD ,
ACROSS
1. Electric
catfish
5. Serpent
lizard
9. Gelatinous
?ubatance
10. Limps
(dial.)
12. Hall!
13. Indian
mulberry
IV Hawaiian
bird
(hyphen.)
13. Music nots
16. Speedy
18. Coin (Peru)
19. Granulates
21. Pro-Nazi
organization
22. Eskers
(geol.)
23. Shrubs
(Jap.)
23. Neon
(eym.)
26. Sets of
boxes (Jap )
28 Part of
"to be"
SO. Wild ox
(Celebes)
31. Distressed
S3 The com
mon heather
S3. Required
37. Remnant
S8. One-spot
card*
89. Sloth
?a Publio
notice
<1. Perish
4X Milkflsh
43. Lest
43. Mohamme
dan bible
47. Three-toed
diving
birds
18. Absent
DOWN'
1. Opposite
2. Malt
beverage
3. Man's
nickname
4. Two
(combining
form)
5. Begone*
6. Old measure
of length
7. Italian river
I. Wooden
head golf
club
9 Cant
It. Vended
13. Guarantee
16. Discharging
a gun
17. Indefinite
article
18. Genus
of twine
to Rough lava
21 Manages
24. Note of
the scale
27 Negative
28. Sunken
area leading
to a cellar
29. Middle
30. Particle of
addition
32 An alleged
force
33. Part of
a plant
34 Asiatic
country
36. Electrical
engineer
? iabbr )
38 Trouble*
If
AfUHff
41. The mail
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42 Constel
lation
44. Greek tetter
45. The
unknown
god (Hindu
ism)
46 Cry of pain
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