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THURSDAY, MAY *#, 1952 m 89 UIL vH 1b ,„.-.<B Bp ■■ *-/*^' '' ■ : ).:-r i/ by STUART EDGARS JOHNNY BLAKE was tough. Plenty tough. Long weeks in solitary didn't break him. Neither did his periodic sessions at the whipping-post. But those things wore nothing. Mere routine. This today was dif ferent. Today, as he stared stonily at that ominous door across the room, Johnny’s heart turned to water. Gas! .... They were going to use gas! He shifted nervously in his chair, then turning tg the guard at his side he asked: "What time is it?” The man glanced at his watch and answered quietly, soothingly: "You've ■ still got ten minutes. There’s a man ahead of you.” And now, suddenly, a soft whir ring sound penetrated from .the - other room. "Ventilating fans,” fnurmered Johnny knowingly. Then turning again to the -guard he asked: ‘‘Will it hurt, d’you think?” "Naw, nothing to it. One or two whiffs an’ you're out. Never know what hit you. Easy!” HE SLUMPED in his chair and with low groan bowed his head in his cupped hands. He smelled something. Was that the gas he smelled? Was it seeping out des pite the tightly closed door? Icy. beads of perspiration stood out on his forehead as his body twitched, .squirmed, straightened up, then slumped again*. Finally he whined: "Can I smoke?” "Sure.” Extracting a small sack of to bacco from his shirt pocket and a paper from the book attached to the bag, he tried to roll a cigaret. ,No use. The paper tore in his tremb ling fingefs and the tobacco spilled on the floor. Without comment the guard drew a cigaret from his own ! pack and offered him one. | He accepted the cigaret and the light with a mumbled word of thanks and inhaled deeply, happily. PaleCarwigiei Defeating the Inferiority Complex QALVIN OSBORN, San Diego, Calif., entered Washington Mis sionary college in Washington, D.C., one of the most backward, bashful students who ever crossed the campus. He had developed |one of the worst cases of inferiority complex and self-conscious ness anyone could possible have. It began when he was just a lad. He was next to the youngest jin a family of six children. His mental attitude caused him to de velop the habit of stuttering, and his older broth- ; f w jers mocked and made fun of him. Finally he got *' to the point wheije he refused to talk before a All through high school he lived in that at- 'Jh)> mosphere of fear and worrjh Why couldn’t he re- j!? ;cite like others? Why couldn’t he answer ques tions in classes without embarrassment? In his 'mk Spanish class he would be asked: “Senor Osborn, Que le’ccion tenemos para hpy? Que pa’gina?” HUM (Mr. Osborn what lesson to do have we for to day? What page?) To that question and all other Carnegie questions, he would answer “No comprendo” (I don’t comprehend). He was afraid of his own voice. Even in col lege he would hide behind the one in front for fear he would be asked a question. And he wanted to enter the ministry! He knew what that meant! Public speaking and plenty of it. There was only one thing to do, so he made up his mind that every time he had an opportunity to speak in public he would. The director of the wood working shop at Washington Missionary college encouraged him. One morning he said, “What one man has done another can do.” Then Calvin Osborn said to himself, “Cal, if you have to let some of your studies go in order to give a talk, do it. Don’t worry about mistakes everyone makes them.” Opportunities came and he accepted them. In the woods, in his room, walking down the street he practiced talking, and he overcame his fear by doing what he feared most. Today as pastor of a large church he no longer stutters; his worries and fears are gone. It is as easy for him to talk as it is to eat. jyOHHHbL * v ’TOOß** l ' >v 44 ' y ' BLIND GOLFERS STAGE TOURNAMENT Gauging distance by sound, Clarence Carlson narrowly misses a putt in blind golfers’ tournament at Chicago. Cecil Miller (not blind) taps pole to guide Carls on toward hole. Hal C. Neal, of Oklahoma City, awaits his turn to play. __ . -lt #-k __ Then he drawled; "Well, I got one consolation. At least I won’t still be in this dirty hole tomorrow." "Got any idea where you will be?” "Yeah, I got a idea.” “Well, wherever y’are, I’m glad you won’t be here. That’s my fare well message to you, brother,?’ Johnny smiled. “Sure made you earn your money, didn’t I” "You sure did.” Suddenly now the door opposite them opened and a guard on its threshold beckoned to them. “All right, boys, This way,” he called briskly. AS HE LOOKED, Johnny saw that btehind the guard stood some one in the crisp white uniform of the prison doctor, and for a long moment his heart slowed to a dead stop. He gasped, fighting .for breath against this, blind terror. The guard was trying to pull him to his feet, and from somewhere far off he heard someone saying: • This is it, Johnny. Let’s go!” Trembling, he arose and let them propel him to the door. Then sud denly, as he saw the terrible chair, its straps dandling from its arms, he tried weekly to draw back. "Look at ’im, Doc,” jeered the elder guard, “He’s seared silly!” ”©h, yeah?” rasped the victim Then with a final vigorous wrench that broke the guard’s hold on him, he drew himself together and, with head now defiantly high, marched toward the waiting chair. With a grin at the doctor the guard returned to the ante-room and closed the door. "Funny, isn’t it?” he commented to the younger guard. "Funny?” “Yeah. I mean how r **-"h guy 1 like Johnny goes all tc -s when j he’s got to have a tooth pulled.” i "Yeah, an’ he coulda waited. He gets out tomorrow; but I ’spose it | hurt so bad he couldn’t wait.” i '' ' 1 BRING UP TANKS TO QUELL . RED PRISONERS—As Red prisoners on Koje Island south of Korea United Nation . Jf- 4 co . ntmues *t camp for pound with tanks. Camp is in right background. Note the guard towel?”* n ° US Ct>m ' Society For Crippled Children To Sponsor School at WCTC Parents of handicapped children can now go to sum mer school with their children at Western Carolina Teachers College at Cullowhee, accord ing to an announcement just made here by Mrs. Frank Howell, County Chairman of the North Carolina Society for Oippled Children. This parent-child experiment is a part of the Special Educa tion teacher training program to be held from June 10 to July 17. The Society has cooperated with Dr. William E. Bird, Dir ector of the Summer Session, in providing clinics for handi capped children. Children needing speech correction, those with hearing losses and impaired eyesight and the physically* handicap ped and emotionally disturbed will be selected to attend the six-week clinic. Applications should be sent to Dr. Bird. This parent-child program is “a new approach to helping the parent to become a train ed member of the team which will be rehabilitating his or hel child,” Albin Pikutis, exe cutive director, North Caro lina Society for Crippled Children, explained. “Parents, mother or father, or both are to be admitted on the same basis as regular students of the college. The parent is expected to take at least one course in relation to the child’s difficulty.” The child pays room and board and five dollars tuition. An organized program of re creation will be provided for children living on the campus. “The learning opportunity offered the children . of up permost interest to the North Carolina Society for Crippled Children, and the Society has for this reason assisted in sharing the expenses of the personnel of the clinic,” Pikutis said. “The clinical assistants are lgj PEPSI-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY Box 805 SPRUCE PINE, N. C. . THE YANCEY RECORD ‘Horn Os The West’ Begins Rehearsals June 3rd Boone —Rehearsals for the new outdoor drama “Horn In The West” will begin at Boone June 3, according to Samuel Selden of Chapel Hill, director of the drama and the famous Carolina Playmakers. Assoc iate director is Kai Jurgensen, also of the Department of Dramatic Art at the Univer sity of North Carolina. “Horn In The West” will be presented June 27 through August 31, nightly except Mondays, at the Daniel Boone Theatre. The theatre construc ted especially for “Horn In The West,” is located at the edge of the town of Boone, six miles from the famous Blue Ridge Parkway and sev en miles from Blowing Rock. Two Sioux Boys On USS Hanson Two Sioux, N. C., seaman Apprentice, USN, James C. Howell, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Howell, and Lawrence L. Howell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harley Howell have returned home aboard the radar picket destroyer USS Hanson. The Hanson returned to San Diego, Calif., after serving eight months in the Far East and Korean areas. During her second tour of duty in the Far East, she operated with UN Blockading and Escort forces on both the East and West coasts 6f Korea. While operating from For mosa, enforcing the blockade of the South China coast, the crew members visited the Brit ish Crown Colony of Hong Kong. all trained and experienced Special Education teachers and therapists.” . This parent-child demonstr ation project is attracting at tention beyond the borders of North Carolina, he added. IT IS AXIOMATIC that a man will serve a kind and generous master more readily and faithfully than one who is hard and stingy. Since God In Infinitely good and loving, why, then, do so many men flout - his will and turn their faces from Him? One reason is that many Indi viduals have little understanding of God’s great love for them. It may be that some would continue to offend God even though con-j vinced of His claim to affection' and loyalty But most men tend to find in the reality of God's love a challenge to what is highest and noblest in their nature. . Meditation on His marvelous works and manifest interest in the welfare of humankind is one way to evoke an inspiring love of God. Another is to study the Bible which chronicles the manner and ways in which God has encompassed mankind with His mercy and com passion. Yet another Is to study the lives of other beings whose love for God inspired them to scale the heights of spiritual perfection. A St. Paul or a St. Augustine can teach more perhaps about God than any formal theological treatise. Other great and holy men have lived lives which demonstrated how wondorously God can exalt and en noble even the hury.blest *of His servants. The history of Christi anity is replete with the names of weak «ad trembling human beings whose ■ laith in God has carried them through heartbreaking ob stacles to great accomplishments. Beading of such things, one must 'ause Ao reflect: A God who is s; tijhtjf and powerful and yet s ■■*n* and condescending mer, * to he served in all revere.-., i • r V ~~~ ' \ n SQUARE DANCE and ROUND DANCE too- BURNSVILLE H. S. GYM Saturday Nite, May 31 (AND EVERY SATURDAY NITE) p \\ Wear “LOUD” Shirts, Jeans, Gingham or Calico Or w A PRIZE FOR THE FUNNIEST HAT CALLER TICKETS—SOc plus Tax DIRECTORS HENRY CLAY EDWARDS Children under 12 Mr. and Mrs. Ira West MARS HILL No Charge (Formerly at Cattail) tyanceif County liettesime*U AtejocicUian Special Sale For Limited Time KLEENEX 3 Boxes 300’s 69c 3 Boxes 200’s 47c Pollard’s Drug Store * ■* * war I . 4i # • ■ V ‘ . —T ' ■' ■— SSZJ, -A- --’ ■■■ - —■ i i DON’T TAKE A CHANCE ' insure today with the • ** Farm Bureau Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Co- ” riJ ' r j lumbus, Ohio and be sure you have fire and extended coverage which includes insurance against I loss or damage by windstorm, hail, explosion, riot, riot attending a strike, civil commotion, aircraft, ve hicles, smoke. It pays to have complete protection. t fok COMPLETE INFORMATION, CALL ’ MILDRED L. ROBERTS, Agent Phone 236 Burnsville, N. C. PAGE THREE
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