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Published Every Wednesday in the interest of Cherryville and surrounding community._________ Entered as Second Class Mail matter August 10th. 1906, i^the Post Office at Cherryville, N. C., under the Act of Congress, March 3rd, its/* FRED K. HOUSER MRS. CREOLA HOUSER—Advertising Director.. TELEPHONES: Office, 6752 118 WEST MAIN STREET Editor and Publisher _ _ MRS. CARYE BROWNE—Job Printing Residence, 6866 CHERRY VILLE, N. C. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year . $2.50 Four Months ... Six Months..-. 126 Three Months - $1.00 .76 NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE American Press Association NEW YORK. CHICAGO. DETROIT. PHILADELPHIA WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1955 A NOTEWORTHY BIRTHDAY We salute the Boy Scouts of America ob its 45th birthday, now being observed during Boy Scout Week, Feb. 6 to 12. Since its founding in 1910 the organi zation has enriched the lives of over -2, 750,000 boys and adult leaders, truly Scouting represents a living cross section of American life. Boys of every race, religion and eco nomic background are attracted to Scout ing. Today we find 2,700.000 boys in its ranks. Add to that impressive figure the 960,000 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. Dr. Arthur A. Schuck, the Chief Scout Executive, a leader in the organization since 1913, feels that it is of vital import ance to train the boys of today to be ready for positions of leadership as they grow to manhood. “Strong character, participating citi zenship and physical fitness,” he says, are needs of our boys and young men who are served by the program of Scouting in co operation with the home, the school, the church, and all other community institu tions actively interested in training our future citizens.” Scouting's purpose, stated in the Fed eral Charter granted by Congress in 1916, is to promote the “ability of boys to do things for themselves and others, to train them in Scoutcraft, and to teach them pa triotism, self-reliance and kindred virtues.” Every 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. FEST ON RECORD As 1954 approached its end, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, which compiles elaborate statistical studies of health, stated that the “health of he American people has been the best on record.'' In reporting the findings, Newsweek said tna» during the first 11 months of the year the tubercu losis death rate dropped 20 per cent over 1963, and that from influenza and pneumonia 25 per cent. Slight reductions were recorded for heart, artery, and kidney conditions. And the death rate was also lower for diabetes. There were 50 per cent more cases of measles and whooping-cough than in 1953. But the death rates were very low. ■ The point of all this is that the health of the people gets steadily better—and the average life expectancy gets steadily longer. Over a period of years, the gains nave been spectacular. And there is hope that medical science may be on the verge of subduing killeres which are now thoroughly understood, such as cancer. Such progress is of enormous importance to everyone—our lives are literally at stake. And it is important that the facts be made known a? widely as possible—for those who favor socialized medicine or some variant thereof have, deliberate ly or not, tried to make it appear we get inade quate medical care, and that government inter vention provides the only answer. In no other major nation are the health stand ards as high as in ours. That is an achievement of free medicine—not politically-bossed medic MADE — NOT BORN “Suckers are made - not born.” That is the moral of an article by Nathaniel L. Goldstein, who recently completed a 12-year tenure as Attorney General of the State of New York, which appears in The Exchange magazine for December. * Mr. Goldstein describes the activities of “boiler room” stock salesmen and promoters. He points out that a crucial current problem is the securities frauds originating in Montreal, where enormous profits are promised in uranium and other mineral stocks. And then he provides an “investor’s guide” which could profitably be fol lowed by every stock-buyer—whether hie invest ments run to small sums or large. The guide includes these rules: Make sure you are dealing with a responsbile brokenage house and avoid glib telephone salesmen; take any prophecy of a future run-up in the stock as a warning something is wrong—honest dealers aren’t fortune tellers; get reputable advice on the pros pects of any concern in which you are urged to invest; remember that oral statements by the salesman, are not binding; insist on a witness when a Ttl** pitch is made—the swindler always insists on talking to his intended victims alone; don’t buy securities in a hurry on a high-pressure approach _thinlr and inquire about them. The aecuritiee industry, along with state and federal agencies, is working hard to expel and expose the few parasites in its rank. But so long as suckers exist, gyp artists will be at work taking them to the cleaners. The real and lasting cure is intelligent action on the part of investors them selves. A BANNER YEAR FOR MEAT The meat industry has never been in a better position to satisfy the meat-buying wants of the public. That statement was made as 1954 neared its end by a top official of the American Meat In stitute. The industry, he added, has been able to keep supplies in pace with the steadily mounting population which has now reached 163,090,000 and it would appear there is little danger of its not being able to produce enough meat within the foreseeable future. The figures are certainly impressive. It is ex pected that during 1955 some 26,000,000,000 pounds of meat will be produced, for a new rec ord. Every type of meat is in mountiful rupply. Pork is to be especially abundant in the near fu ture, due to the heavy fall pig crop, which was II percent greater than that of 1953. The 1955 spring crop, also, will be substantially larger than that of 1954. There is nothing static about the meat busi ness. As the spokesman for the Institute said: “The meat packing industry is facing up to the challenge of doing its part in continuing to pro vide an adequate supply of meat at reasonable prices for the American people. iMoreover, the industry continues to devote intensive attention to extensive research directed toward improvement in processing, packaging, and distribution of pro ducts in order to be of greater service to consum ers and livestock producers and to obtain better earnings which it must have for progress.'’ The cuts of meat we want will be available when we want them—and competition will see to it that the price is right. BIG CHANGE IN ATTITUDE The public attitude toward cnain stoies has undergone a great and salutary change in the last 20 years. In the '30s it was argued that the chains would destroy independent merchandising. A punitive federal ehaimstore tax was proposed. A number of states adopted such taxes on their own hook. Experience has conclusively proven that the independents had far more vigor and competitive spirit and ability than those who feared for their existence realized. The proportion of the total retail business done by them and by the chains has changed little over the years. Both kinds of stores are major employers. Both make ci ormous contributions to our well-being and oie living standards. Both are good citizens. Many of the states which passed special chain store taxes have repealed them. The presentrday attitude toward the question is found in a state ment made recently by the Indiana Commission on State Tax and Financing Policy. It recommends that Indiana's graduated chain-store tax be aband oned. And it quotes testimony from representa tives of the Associated Retailers of Indiana which holds that ‘‘the former feeling of bitterness on the part of independent stores toward the chains . . . no longer exists” and that the special tax “in its nature is inequitable and unjustifiable." That is good nri—for retailers, consumers, and all < c ncerned. GRASS ROOTS OPINION MEDFORD, MASS., MERjCURY: “Add two more R's to the traditional three of reading’, ’riting and ’rithmetic to round out today s education. To their credit and glory, 16 and 17-year-olds on the New York Times Youth Forum named the two R’s as responsibility and religion. The true goal of education, according to these amazing young* sters, is to make people Americans and make them aware of their land and its opportunities. And yet there are "people who despair of this genera tion !” PETALUMA, CALIF., ARGUS-COURIER: “\Ye have not gained very much, if anything, if the federal taxes go down while state and local taxes go up.” BISHQPVILLE, S. C , MESSENGER "A news release coming out of Washington tells us that an early Senate hearing was promised today on advertising mail delivered to homes without carry ing any specific address.’ Such mail has b*#o called ‘junk mail’ by many people disgusted with receiving this type of mail.” TSCONDIDO, GAX.IF,, WEEKLY TIMES* ADVOCATE: “The free market, governed as it us by the natural law of supply and demand, is the only kind of market that brings maximum benefits to all concerned. It is a lot better to rely on that market than it is on the mouthings of politicians who, when they’re out, yell about high prices and when they’re in set up costly bureaucracies to control prices.” In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasdnt, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in he* rejoicing with heaven and earth.—Milton. PLANS, IDCAS KE AND PBQ3*MM® ■£-<’Revei*T jlNCM j^_ PBLlMQugMC*. ErTHAT -- PAIL FO fSt, BEHIND THE SCENES IN AMERICAN BUSINESS —BY RENOLDS KNIGHT— NEW YORK, Jan. J1 — The United States Saving' and Loan League, fastest-growing of finan cial agencies concerned witn the nation’s home building boom, pre dicts a fast start this spring, a good summer, and perhaps a little slacking off next tall and winter in residential construction. Americans are still moving into the suburbs. Mortagage money is still plentiful, both from govern ment and from private savers. Children of the great birthing boom of right after the war are growing up and crowding their parents into bigger homes. More persons have incomes that allow them to own their own homes. That's the League’s summary of favorable factors. On the minus side: Building has taken care of much of the pent-up demand for housing. Fewer new households are being formed than in the years just passed. Income expan sion for many segments of the population has about ended. Sonne cities have persistent unemploy ment; the jobless are broke and the jobful are hesitant to spend. Still, balancing all factors, the League believes 1955 will match the 1,215,900 dwelling units built :n 1954. And that was one of the industry’s best years, i PROGRESS IN FOOD — Be ! cause agriculture is the world’s oldest industry, there’s a tendency to think of it as “sot” in its ways. In this counry, a least, the re verse is true. Food production and distribution methods are high ly efficient and on the lookout for new ideas. A case is point is the nine-year old program of state farm experts and the A & P Food Store to encourage production of higher quality yams in South Carolina. County agencies and Agricultural Extension Service workers coach 4-H Club members in the best production practices. Each year the food chain buys a carload of | the winners' yams, and gives them a trip to New York as a prize. Best record this year was a $661.90 harvest on one acre. The bey’s average yield was 365 bushels of yams—170 bushels of them U. S. No. 1 grade. Average per acre yam production through out the nation, of all grades, is 90 bushels. The young visitors to New York see their carload of yams unload ed at 1 a.m., then at 10 a.m. the same aav visit a supermarket and watch the piles of ruddy yams being transferred to shopping carts. The sights of the big city ocoupv the rest of their visit. THINGS TO COME—If your zippers stick when they return from the laundry or the cleaner’s, a new zipper lubricant, spread on with a little wheel, may be what you need . . . Robert’s Rules of Order have been reduced, as far as possible, to slide rule form. A presiding officer can match up eight basic questions about 36 possible motions, and read off whether the member is out of or der or whether a question can be debated or must be voted upon at once ... A soap dish substitute consist of one magnet to be af fixesd to the bathroom, another to be shoved into the cake of soap . . This summer it will be possible 1 to get a lawn sprinkler which | will turn the water on and off while vou are on your vacation. FIRE HAZARD ELIMINATED | —Carol City, the new Miami su i burb Where houses are priced “at | cost,” will be the nation’s first j major housing development to ! have 100-ampere wiring through i cut. This innovation means that the 1 homeowner can use any number | of electrical appliances he wishes I without fear of blowing fuses or starting tires. j Julius Caines, preesident of the I Caines Construction Company, j builder of the 10.000-home com I munity. says the installation will add $400,0000 to building costs. ; I + ’s worth it, he says, in elimina I r supPEfty ROADS Raleigh, N. C. (Special)—This is the time of year when many drivers get that sickening ana helpless feeling which come# when they put on their brake* and the old car just slides blithely along the ice or snow-covered street. It’s an experience no one likes and one no motorist need have, according to J. T. Outlaw, Exee. Vice-Pres. North Carolina Motor Carrion Association. _ “If you have trouble controll ing your car on slippery street*, don’t blame the weather, Mi. Outlaw said. “Chances are it is high time for a reappraisal of driving habits. Safe driving on slippery streets requires drastic ally reduced speeds. Most people glow down some, of course, but few people slow down enough to have full control over their ve-. hides under all conditions. Maxi* mum safe speeds range from as low as 10-15 miles an hoar or even less on ice—to a possible 36 miles as hour on packed snow. Mr. Outlaw emphasized that “the control of your car depends on the traction between the road surface and your tires. This trac tion is greatly reduced by snow, ice or rain and you can’t expect to be able to control your car at dry-pavement speeds.” "Remember, too,” he asked, “that maximum traction is ob tained just before the wheels be gin to slide whether in stopping or starting. To £ake advantage of this fact, make your stops and starts gradually. Thus, you can minimize the likelihood of being involved in an accident and of pitting stuck.” (Report No. 25) America by 1975 will have an increase in consumption of natur al gas ranging from 50 per cent for residential nonheating to S20 per cent for residential heating. The National Association of Manufacturers cites the report of the President’s Materials Policy Comimi.ssion of June 1952 in pointing out that the average in crease of all natural gas con sumption will be 138 per cent. In addition to residential use of natural gas, commercial use will increase 150 per cent, indus trial use 100 per cent, pipeline fuel and lost in transmission (which amounts to only 5 per cent) 133 per cent. (Reoort No. 25) America’s Southern states by 1975 will double their use of pulpwood, according to an official of the International Paper Com pany. The National Association of Manufacturers cites a recent speech in Atlanta, Georgia, by J. • E V'lcCaffrey, vice president of the International Paper Company, ir. outlining the needs that will be imposed upon he pulpwood indus tion of future Hazards. MORE COSTLY CREDIT— Every year about this time the New York State Bankers Associ ation holds its midwinter meeting in New York. Just as regularly the New York Federal Reserve Bank buys the members a lunch eon. Most times their host, the president of the Reserve Bank, just says he’s glad to have them there. This yeaj- the president. Alan Sproul. said the Federal Reserve System meant to let credit tigh ten ud a bit. He said this course was justified by the upturn in business, which no longer needs the stimulation of easy credit. It’s a far piece from the Hotel Commodore in New York to most little businesses and farms scat tered over the land, but this news is meant for them too. It’s unlike ly that any good customer will at his local bank. However,, he find he can’t borrow for his needs may run into a stricter definition of needs, or even a little higher interest cost. BITS O’ BUSINESS—Commod ities rose last week in New York markets on fear of war in the Far East . . . Steel mills last week operated at 84 per cent of capac ity a yield of 2,019,000 tons of ingots and castings . . . Farmers’ cash recepits in 1954 were 4 per cent under 1953’s, said the Bu reau of Agricultural Economics. try. , I Mr McCaffrey said that where I the South used approximately 14 | and one-half million cords of pulp wood in 1962 it is expected to need 30 million cords in 1976 . . an increase of 107 per cent. “This is,” he warned, “In ad dition to .anticipated increases for um'ber, poles, %nd all other pro McCaffrey spoke before the Southern Pulpwoorf Conservation Association annual meeting. Gaston Gets Big Blow-Up In N. C. Magazine The January 29 issue of State Magazine, mailed out recently to local subscribers, has unusual in terest for Gaston county people. This is the Gaston county issue— a 66-page edition packed with stories of Gaston towns and in dusries, and flavored with many advertisements from Gaston firms. ■Of particular interest is a news story called, “Gaston Didn’t Wait For Outside Help,” written by ti'l Sharpe and telling of the fast growth of industry along the Catawba river. Another 'interest ing story is called “Town-Studded Gastonia,” a history lesson about Gaston’s towns, written by Paul Peasants. The Gaston issue will be in corporated in another book by Bill Sharp . He has already cov ered 36 counties of North Caro lina in his first volume. Driver Training For High School Teachers RALEIGH—Professional driver training, including classroom work and behind-the-wheel instruc tion, will be offered North Caroli •) iieh school tcax-hers in a spe •i«l series of courses set to begin February 7th. The courses are free. All nec essary textbooks and study mater ials are provided at no expense to teachers. Every regularly certified high school teacher with a valid driver’s license, a good driving record !ind who is in good henlth is eligible for the training, accord ing to Joe C. Noe of tne State Department of Public Instruc Th. sessions wiil be composed of 20 hours of classroom work and 12 hours of behind-the-wheel instruction. Teachers completing the full course will be awarded a certificate qualifying them to t'ach classroom and in the car phases of driver education in North Carolina schools. The training courses were prev iously offered by the Department of Public Instruction through -rm-ner sessions at colleges througout the state. A r-'roxiniately 224 teachers qualified in last year’s summer training classes. 'Application blanks and addi tional information may be secur ed by writing to John C. Noe, De partment of Public Instruction. Raleigh. Opening date for the training and meeting' place are given for the following counties: AREA 8: Catawba, Lincoln. Cleveland, Gaston, MecUewourg. Cabarrus, Rowan, Stanly, Union, February 16» Lincolnton Hipn School, Lmcolnton. Milk Production To Be Greater The nuik production and. sup ply in 19615 and 1956 ail! be greater than in 1954 in North Carolina as well as the nation as a whole, according to Dorris D. Brown, extension farm manage ment and marketing specialist at State College. Jdjore molk is expected because of more cwos, high production of milk per cow, low beef salvage value, and a diminishing oppor tunity to shift to pork produc tion, experts say. But the demand for milk and dairy products this year will more then likely take care of any expected increase in production in this state. Brown, says that in most areas of North Carolina the farm price for Grade A milk will be slightly lower in 1956. Excess supplies during the spring season are like ly to force down prices, some what. _ , He predict® that feed prices are likely to be slightly higher but still favorable for continued heavy feeding, and pastures and rfoage supplies are likely to im prove in North Carolina. Post Peelmg Machine Is Boon To Fence Building T-- . .-t\*pe post peeling machine is catching the eyes of ti o- - '.c'i< have seen it demon strated. areording to John L. Gray, head of extension forestry. Gray says at a recent demon stration on the A. F. Stone farm. Back Swamjp community, Robe son County, the operator was tim ed and it wan discovered that line-sized, seven foot posts could be peeled by one man at the rate of one every two minutes with this machine. It takes one man from eight to 10 minutes to peel a post by Gray say* that several fa-mers wanted one of the machines right •v -<- -r.) are making plans -to 'mild tl1"*v'. » Stone, mmsetf. h is already con strutted his own chain peeler at i total cost of $‘J8 for materials. The machine is in operation and doing a good iob. Gray says. Th>* forestry specialist point* -lit -hat gettiir the hark off fence -o t-- v a* a’ways one of the big re*! nrp :**n« in putting longlife 'n* - home-grown pine posts. TH* ipevnenaive machine seems tc have that problem licked. Gray feels. Ethv’"’•• gas has beta tested by marketing research technician* of the U. S. Department of Agri culture, to speed the ripening of - mnto,.s in storage. BUILDING FOR A BETTER TOMORROW c* Seat* *v , . *. teeian mw mmNt tJMMIOOi They are |aa a Ba||m fAMAM^niV mJ||| |k* 4 -MHM '■ ok Ti &f $&mim§., X - STRER8THER TV* MEAT MOVEMENT •Y 1IVIM IT YOON ACTIVE SUPPORT AMERICAN CHERRYVILLE NATIONAL BANK Wesf Main St. Cherryville, N. 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