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THE DtJPUN TIMES, KESAZSYZXX, N. C, T J I' t; ual mow in the. loftiest heights. of the Himalayan ruounlui,.s tuete is reputed to live fantastic .monster .galled the 'timinablo jnowman. A recent expedition to .ML . Everest photo graphed hi track. A Tibetan monk has claimed that fellow lama , encountered this eight toot creature while . meditating i among the , Himalayan peaks. Mow a group of .westerner has set forth to prove ' or disprove his existence. If they do find him, I hope they rout him effectually, bring him back In chains, and leave him to melt In the ..middle of the hottest place that can be found. It is a fate I often1," ; ' Wish would, overtake our macabre, weatherman who 1 called;' Weatherbee. ?i,w,l!S .U vvt r -,'T " ft-1, ttiit-m i for ten days now we have been frozen fast to the bitter grasp, of . -winter. Actually the thermometer has not reached ten degrees above rv )ero for all that time. Outside It is painful to venture forth with the biting winds freezing your face, chilling your lungs, and inside if you move more than ten feet away from the tire you're apt to be frostbitten.' It takes so much effort to keep alive that you are conT stantly tired. To relax your "constant 'vigil against the cold can be . fatal. Hence you dont relax.: Added to all the discomfort has been snow, inches of snow, tons of snow - snow that has to be shovelled : r even in the eountry - and removed In the cities at costs of occasionally T ' r more than a million dollars. And as the weatherman who takes such ; i jpride in predicting the werst storm In years, or even on record, warns - - you - if you are not, in good physical conditlonrput that shovel down. s We had such storm the first of the week. Here In Maine It began on Saturday . and it got stuck in it, too on the middle of an Icy and ' , very steep hll - stayed there in five above ero cold until I was rescued an hour later. We missed the snow, that fell of southern New England Sun. - exchanged if for sub-zero temperature that felt " , even colder because of high and piercing winds and we did not get halt as much as fell on Monday south of here. It was just too .cold .-, for that amount of moisture to accumulate except as rime ice.. Ice " formed in distributors of cars. In water pumps', and' I am quite con-"' -,. fident in lungs as well Only a sense of humor kept you alive, a r ,i ' warped sense of humor to be sure. I fowled , with laughter when I 1 heard our Mr. Weatherbee, that inveerate snow lover, whom I call .-' the abominable snowman, complain that he had been stuck in a six k-x foot snow drift in front of his weather station on, Boston's south store, ' too. And today the- bay is coated over with ice there. Serves him . fright for almost pleading with winter to come.1 Xjt: For hundreds of years writers have been concerned about the cold - ' even Plutarch who Uved between 43 and 130 AJ). wrote fiiat in a ' . 'certain city the cold was so Intense that words were congealed as soon as spoken, but that after' some time they thawed and became , ' audible; so that words spoken In winter were articulated next sum- : .. mer. Could that be why Englanders have the reputation of being so tadturnT v-. "4 v,,:,, k..:!,'. -i . 1 ;v ' Nietzsche many centuries liner in Thus' Spake Zarathustra said what might weU be my motto, "Winter, a bad guest, sitteth with me at home; ; - ' blue are, my bands from his friendly handshaking." "It has been so many 'years since I have had any use for my red ' flannel underwear "that when I took It from mothballs, I was. horrified to find the pants full, of holes - quite like John Phillips in his Splendid fy,' ' Shilling written about 1701, ' v v . ' "My galligaskins, that have long withstood "i The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts, j-V ' By time subdued (what will not time subdue) j J " . A horrible chasm disclosed. ' And when someone offers me a cup of scalding not tea or coffee , ' or a steaming hot buttered rum I feel that I should reply. In Shakes peare's words, 'Tor this relief much thanks; His bitter cold, and I am sick at heart," And you get sick at heart too, discouraged, confused, ' unutterably weary just combating the cold. You understand too well how people lost in deep snow drifts can just give up the struggle and lie down in the snow to what will be almost certain death. Yes, it is no wonder that New Englanders are a hardy breed - the weak ones ' gave up long ago - and I suspect that thi more intelligent ones left ( for Florida or California or even Texas. And how anyone with the ' ' IQ os well, let's say, a high grade moron, would willingly stay in one , of these old .huge, drafty, high-ceillnged houses, impossible to heat, miserably uncomfortable at best, is a mystery I hope to solve if I sur ; ' vlve it. . I read most understanding the delightful book of Margaret Hen 'h.' . rlchsen called Seven Steeples. And I learned why nightcaps ought to be in' fashion again. She prepared for. bed on these cold Maine J . . -nights with red flannel skiing tights under a pink outing-flannel nightgown. And over that, "a blue knitted bed jacket, some heavy hand knit white wool socks tucked into lavender hand-knit traveling slippers, a tan sleeveless sweater over the whole to add another layer and keep the underneath layers from shifting around too much. And on really cold nights a blue sweater, pulled over the head, its v arms tied around the neck, was the most comforting touch of all." 0This last she learned from reading a sociological stujly of tramps. They take off their coats and wear them that way around the head and neck when they are cold. It seems that if the Jugular veins and tae nerve centers at the base of the brain ar kept warm, you're warm all over. Since I read that I have been very grateful to Margaret Hen . rlchsen, too. Only J have- more trouble keeping warm in. the day time, ' . . ' " V Da va in tha fimiuk T wmi. nw nmil vt ........ . sweater and a wool shirt and a heavy sweat shirt over that, two I . ynum ui irwi awu aueep-unea suppers insiae insula leu DOOtS, U . , the wind Is blowing frigid blasts thru the crevices and cracks into ' the room, I wear ski hood and my Maine Guide Jacket over all the layers underneath. When I go outside? Well, it is not much colder, the air Is not still and moving rapidly Increases the circulation. - Weather reports this past week have referred to Maine as the ice box of the nation. No Ice box was ever that cold - and no modern refrigerator goes to such temperatures as you can find now in any of the some twenty-eight unused rooms at Greentrees. The food would be spoiled frozen solid, And that fiend, that abominable " Snowman, Mr, Weatherbee, has just announced that we will probably have most Interesting weather over the week-end. He doesnt mean good weather. He means weather only in superlatives, the coldest, the r stormiest, the windiest, the most wretchedly uncomfortable weather that you can imagine - if you have a good imagination. . ' And my most unwelcome guest, whiter, has made my, fingers so ; blue with cold that my spelling is becoming too erratic for even the most patient llnotyper. I shall make this shorter than usual, put on my snowshoes; and take Some food to the birds . the woods will be warmer than this room at IssaEKffft .rry,?'' ;? 4'.. TWPr H ; Helen CaldweU Cushman Essay Winner - RALEIGH, Jan. 13 There's a $600 college scholarship waiting for the Tar ' Heel High School student who writes the best essay.on "Why the Private Practice, of Medicine Furnishes This Country With the Finest Medical Care." It's the seven th annual essay contest conducted by the Medical Society pf North Carolina's Committee on Public Re lations. The contest opened January 1 and 1 continues through February 28, 1951 Announcements were mail ed to school principals and librar ians last fall, and additional contest information may be obtained from the Medical Society of North Carolina,- 203 : Capital Club Building, Raleigh. : . , . In addition to the prize of a $600 scholarship awarded the first place winner, the Public Relations Com mittee may choose to invite, at its expense, , the winning contestant to be its guest and to present the win ning essay at 4he annual meeting of the .State Medical Society in Pinehurst, May 3-5 ( 1954. Prizes will also be awarded to Winners of sec ond -and third place essays, and the top papers in the state contest will be forwarded to the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons for competition In the national con test National prizes range from $1,000 to $2500. , ' f Esays may be submitted any time until February 28, 1954. Officials of the Medical Society have request ed that High School Principals ap point a committee of three teachers in each school to select the two best papers. The local winning papers will be forwarded to the county or city - Superintendent of Public Instruction who is being asked to select the two best papers in his school system, and forward them to the State Medical Society by March 10, 1954. Additional small packaged librar ies with bibliography, of the type furnished each high school, may be obtained from the Headquarters Of fice of the State Medical Society in Raleigh, for use in this contest. Contestants should write not more -..!;:! . Fcrri JfC1sTp,Sfdy, Sf -lie's livestock Pre Juclion v RALEIGH, Jan. 13 M. G. Mann, general manager of the N. C. Cotton Growers Association, has called on North Carolina farmers to shoot for a bale an pcre in 1954. r u growers wui attempt to average 500 pounds of lint to the acre, he said, this will cushion to some ex tent , the - rather . drastic reduction in cotton acreage under the govern ment's farm program..;,. ' Average yield during the past 10 years has been approximately 350 pounds, some 150 pounds short of the 500-pound goal Mann is urging for 1954. . Under the present law,, - North' Carolina has been alloted 628,000 acres for the production of eetton in 1954. Last year growers planted 781,000, acres, yet because of poor growing weather, the 1953 harvest has been estimated at 453,000 bales,. an average of only 280 pounds of lint to the acre. The year 1952 was considered more ' normal, Mann said. Then growers harvested 569,000 bales from 745,000 acres and received from both lint and cottonseed an income of $1187000,000. Income during the year Just closed was only an estimated $85,000,000. "With the sharply cut acreage," Mann went on, "it is possible that our income from cotton this year can drop as low as $60,000,000, or only about half of that of 1952. "However," he continued, "if we could produce a bale an acre on every one of the 528,000 acres allot ted, our cotton income would almost equal that of 1952 and -would be well above last year's. Government supports will assure growers of prices near the 1952 and 1953 levels." than 1500 words. Thomas R. Bello of Reidsvllle High School was the 1953 winner of the state-wide award. v RALEIGH, Jan 11 Bankers and farm experts will meet Feb. in Raleigh ' to study thepbsslbllitle of .expanding livestock production in North Carolina, according to an announcement today from the N.C Bankers Association . (.; The State's banking leaders and farm' experts will gather at the Hotel Sir. Walter for the third live stock Symposium, sponsored by the bankers' association. From the meet ing, bankers and farm leaders hope to emerge with policies which will stimulate livestock- production on a sound, profitable basis for farm ers of the State. - 4 ' The existing unsettled farm situ-' ation, particularly In livestock pro duction, promises a record atten dance. Not since livestock prices began to tumble last year has there been a Joint meeting of farm ex perts and bankers on this project. Lending policies of banks will be discussed, as well as latest methods of livestock production. The chair man of the bankers' Livestock Com mittee, J Jl. Austin of The Peoples Bank of Roxboro, 'said that "many bankers share the dilemma ol farm ers in these uncertain times. Farm ers, dont know whether to expand their livestock production, and many bankers are not. certain that live stock loans are sound investments." Austin added that he was con vinced that livestock -is a safe bet tor both farmers and bankers, and this meeting' Is designed 'to urge both -groups to promote livestock production m North Carolina, . ' . Among those scheduled to parti cipate in the forum ares 3 "i : Dr. D. W. Colvard, Dean of the School of Agriculture at State Col lege; Dr. Joe Pou bead of the De partment of Animal Industry at State College; and Dr. C. Brice Ratchford, head of the Farm. Man agement and Marketing Extension at State College. " These bankers will participate in we program: Edward A. Wayne, vice-president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond; Herman E, Vernon, farm representative of the Planters Na tional Bank and Trust Company of Rocky Mount; Wayne A Corpen Ing, farm representative for Wacho via Bank and Trust Company, Win-ston-Salem; and E. D. Gaskins, farm representative of American Bank & Trust Company, Monroe. Bankers will be accompanied to Raleigh by their county farm agents so that a free exchange of ideas on a level can be accomplished. Total attendance is expected to be shout 500. v CROP Drive Exceeds Last Year Usually the folks who worry about nothing are those who have nothing to worry about OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOI o o o o o o o i: r so '-- .0 o i " t; ; o '-- , .. .... .; V . o 3 O o o , o o s o ' IJULluA. in Ve sAre Again" Offering Johnson's Famous Line Better Quality Fertilizers Dictator for TOBACCO Laiid Plaster And All Magnesium ' QUALITY - MlilSOU'S FERTILIZERS Limestone Filler of Soda s for ALL CROPS Place Your Orders Nov For coker, bissette & yatsoii certified tobacco seed Improved plant bed fertilizer for health ier plants - . . lf you would like for one of our men to come out and talk over your : ; needs drop us a cardtor call 202-1, Everything for the farm and home. P. ( 1 . 1 s " :n n 5 it OF WALLACE, N. C, INC. 4tr phone 202.1; Cash KYou Have It WALLACE, N. C. Credit If You Need It O o o o o o -O o o o o o o G o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o iO o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o VJOOOOOOOCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO The 1953-54 Christian Rural Over seas Program in North Carolina already has exceeded the previous year's returns by more than $7,000, the Rev. Carl R. 'Key of Durham, State CROP Director, said in Green boro yesterday, December 20th. In: a report to a meeting of the CROP Executive Board and State Committee, the Rev. Mr. Key placed the value of commodities received & cash in lieu of grain at $36,612.80. "We hope to reach $40,000 by the end of January", he added. The CROP progsam officially ends the last of February. "The eves-all program a( Charch World Servce, which includes CROP, has reached a value in com modities, cash, clothing and animals of $186,627.10, Key added, and that figure should exceed $200,000 by the year's end. Key submitted his report to eight members of the Board and Com mittee, including the committee's Chairman, Commissioner of Agricul ture L. Y. Ballentine, who presided here at the American Friends Ser vice Center, 336 Church St. "A modern miracle has been wrought by CROP workers in spirit, attitude and adaptation to condi tions," Key said, "especially in view of the drought last summer. " More than 100,000 refugees, or phans and old people have been aided by the program, Key de clared. Three carload of wheat, two from Catakba and one from Lincoln County were shipped to India. Seven 50,000 pound cars of dried milk have been shipped to Korea, India and Germany from as many coun ties. Two more cars of dried milk await shipment. 29 head of purebred goats will be sent to Puerto Rico this week for distribution to poor farmers. A carload of Peanut Butter is scheduled-to go to Western Eu rope, and the Near East by the end of the CROP year, include J. Graham Morrison, who won national prominence during his many yaers as Lincoln Conuty farm agent; Dr. Carey H. Bostian, chan cellor of N. C. State College; James D. Moore, Chicago, consultant on personnel and labor- relations; Dr. R C. Young of the University of Georgia; C. E. Hentrich, Chicago advertising expert; and J. Frank Rushton, Jacksonville, Fla., busi- R. Flake Shaw Bureau Post RALEIGH R. Flake Shaw of Greensboro has been reappointed executive secretary of the North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation and given a vote of confidence by the organisation's directors. The action was taken at a meet ing here Tuesday of the directors, who also named an 11-man execu tive committee. The directors com mended Shaw for his outstanding work at the American Farm Bureau convention In Chicago last month. Shaw was chiefly responsible for a compromise price support reso lution sponsored by the South be ing approved at the Chicago, meet ing. He also led" a successful cam paign for the election of Walter L. Rondolph of Alabama as national vice president. In addition, Shaw was named to the national federa- '"rnf r r,i;-.i RALEIGH According to Dr. Harold J. Dudley, General Secretary of the Presbyterian Synod of North Carolina; a comparison of the two major Presbyterian bodies in the United States, the Presbyterian Church in the United States (South ern) and the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (Northern), since 1040 reveals that the Utter has led both in the Soul winning Ratio and in Spiritual Birhrate every single year for the period' compared. As regards' the Soul-winning Ratio, which means the least number , of members re quired to win .a. convert on pro fession of faith, the Presbyterian Church U. S. A. has a ratio of 2101 persons in contrast to 2922 for the tion's 4-man executive board. Lauding Shaw's efforts, A. C. 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