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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10/ : 1955 % ,J - ", ,y” ; , v ~"r—r— ' T THE GIMMICK '1 By Norman A. Disher I'VE never believed in this love * and the girl next door stuff, , ■ "but I’ll be darned if the gal that Just moved in next door isn’t the prettiest thing I've ever seen. me a glance. I’ve stood on my head, done somersaults / off the porch, and dashed about the yard looking masculine. No dice. 1 What I need is a gimmick. You know, something to make her admire me. I've never had this trouble before but she is worth it. Just to think about her makes me feel nice all oyer. r I suppose I ought to act more grown-up about this, but when a guy is eighteen he should be al lowed to be n little adolescent when It comes to things like love. It must be love. It must be love; 1 don't know why else I would go so far out of my way to at tract a girl. There she Is now. 'j "Hello," I say, real friendly. -■•(*» "Hello," she replies coldly, j "Nice evening, isn’t it?" "Yes." She answers disinterest edly. - “\yhere are you from?" 1 ask. my voice eager. , “We’re from up north, near Yacoma." She's warming a lit tle. This is better. “Where is Yacoma?" I asked. “Well it’s—" ~ she starts to ex plain but an authoritative voice calls her. r“I have to go now, goodnight,” •he says dashing into her house. Darn! Just when I’m making progress! Oh, well, tomorrow iif l Saturday and I shall make plans. Today is Saturday and my plans are made. I have argimmick! Ah! There‘she is., sitting on the, tront lawn. o “Hello," 1 say, feeling/clever. "Hello," site replies She*is smil ing today! “I hope you won’t think me rude, but may I sit and talk awhile? Since we’re neighbors we ought to be neighborly." seaming D OLITICAL analysts have been <* spending their time since, con gress adjourned in trying to surrr' up and evaluate the first months «<- of the Republican administration. Perhaps the best way to express the genera) conclusion is in the words of one observer, who said, that neither party (Republican or' Democrats) was “keenly hup.yv or , keenly unhappy." Seven achievements can be list ed on the Administration's- s'ide These are:. , 1. An extension of the excess^, profits tax on corpora'' until January 1. This tax will yield £3OO I million. 2. A limited cut’in expenditures ■ —sl.4 billion from tire cletOr:s° budget, $.6 'of a billion from for ieign aid. and SI 4 bilbos UH.fr fit •other expenditures 3. Redeemed' t'h’e , Pi csLUt.I ;* » . ,-+■ .pledge to give the Stales tide to oil and mineral deposits on tiioir off-shore lands 4. Congress granted the Presi dent’s request for a year s’"exten sion of the Reciprocal Trade Act A study of the whole tariff r.rob lem is scheduled wne.r congress • convenes again 5. Congress' apni i ved- 'admission ■of 214,000 iiijmigi'an s in the next : two./Years, somewhat less than ,'what the President had requested. 6. Congress authorized SIOO mil Uion In surplus food for needy na i . ||| ~ __ She smiles again. I look deep into her brown eyes. I think she rs melting. “Well?" she asks. "Oh?—er, oh yes. I play foot taattf" “That’s nice.” It didn’t Impress her. ' I am desperate. "Do you like books?" "Why yes, I do. What sort do you like?” ” “Adventure," I answer, "glori ous adventure and" dark mystery.” ■ “That’s fine, but I like romance.” “I like romance too. I’m not all muscle and courage. I have my sensitive side.” I can tell this makes an impression. “In fact I have a copy of Paryl Callings worth’s latest novel. The Tearful Woman on my desk. It s great!” “1 like he.' books very much, may I see it? ' she asks. “You certainly may.” I reply, jumping up and, bounding off across the lawn'like a young panther. I approach the hedge and turn a lit tle to see if she is watching my jumping form. She is. —t-iu. I spring into the air, deer-like, but my foot catches on the top of the hedge and I ccme crashing, to the ground on the other side.' The ground resents m,t intrusion’ ar.d slaps me firmly on the jaw. I t remember no more, all is darkness.. Out of the darkness comes a sweet melodious voice: “Are you* all right, are you hurt?" “I don’t know,” I reply. Then I realize my head is on the lap of the girl next door so | relax and' groan,- Such pain! j “Oh. you poor thing," she Li saying. J'l’U be all right." I say. She; holds the closer. I groan, again.; She is worried. I sigh. She strokes my head and smiles down at me. “Thank you." I say, “you're s« kinl” Sue knows I am better now, but she does not move. I feel wonder ful, I even forget my gimmick. Who needs a gimmick? Tonight we shall go dancing. tions between now and Marl'll. 7, The Defense, Agriculture, and .Justice departments were reorgan ized and a new cabinet department —Health, Education and Welfare —was created. There is also che other side of tne picture- A number of meas -1 .ires which had been on the Presi ; dent's “must’’ list got nowhere. I Generally they were killed in com mittee They were: 1 Hawaiian statehood which the {’resident recommended. 2. Extension of social security to /rcviis not now covered. ! 3 increase in postal rates to get theude/arlment out of the red. 4 A dclay: <in the revision of the - T/t/Lartl y labor law and the McCan dn-Walter immigration act i_ Jt .* - <? PN.’Tnr? Robert Taft’s deatl: has left the Republican party and the administration with a bridge that cannot be. replaced fcas'ilywise Washington observers are saying It was Taft, they point out.- that bridged the gap between the conservative and "wilder’' 1 groups within the G.O.P And il /was he who set the tone of the present administration even if Eis i enhower is President of the Unite J : States. This bridge, will not be 8 I I distressing problem YTntil, eon^re:: reconvenes again. It is then tK. observers are predicting, thh* . n.: fireworks will begin. i 111 ■* -- .l.i■ ■■ ■■ i.,—i..., ....- - Don’t Worry, Bats Will i Keep Out Os Your Hair By Wendell A. Hinkey Last night while milking a lit tle later than usual, it was still ing erratically over the pasture. They apparently enjoying the warm evening air and the zest that must go yith the abili ty to fly. Each flew about, zig ing and zagging, dipping and turning with no apparent pur pose or sense of direction. When they happened to approach one another,/One would give chase to the other, whereupon the* pur sued would dodge and maneuver with a skill that surpasses any bird. For bats are not birds nor are they related to the birds. They are mammals, and like all nammals nourish their young af ter they are born with milk pro duced by the mother. In fact, this nurssing process may even while the mother is flying in the night air after insects upon which the bats in this ar<ea live on almost exclcsively, with the young bat clinging to the mother while she is flying. Bats are the only mammals that can truly fly—apy others credited with “flying” merely glide or sail. The group that the bats belong to is called Chirop tera, which means literally hand wing, not an inept term for them since the p&rts of the front legs or arms which would correspond to the hands in a person have very long “fingers” between which are thin mem branes of skin. These mem branes extend back to the hind legs and altogether form an ef ficient organ of flight. Even the birds do not fly as exclusively with their wings as do bats, "since birds use their tails as de finite aids to flight and steering. Superstition and misconcept ions surround the bat almost more than any other of God’s creatures. It is represented as a symbol of evil and mystery at Hallowe’en and at other times. Yet the little bats that occur in yoES mm** If" |Y HEIEH HALE SOURED sponges can be fresh ened by rubbing fresh lemon completely over the sponge. Rinse the sponge several times in luke warm water and it will become as fresh as new. Egg beaters are not really diffi cult to keep clean if you remember to dip in cold water immediately after using. Simply immerse the beaters for a moment. Rotating clogs should not be allowed to be come. wet. Protect the bottoms of pots and pans which are going to be used RECIPE OF THE WEEK Sunshine Sauce (Makes 1 cup) 1 cup canned cling peach slices Vi cup maple-flavored syrup % cup whipping cream * Maple flavoring Drain peaches, mash and press through a sieve. Combine with syrup and cream and cook over low heat until thickened, stirring frequently. Add maple flavoring if a stronger flavoring is desired. Serve warm over ice creanb. for cooking out-of-doors by rub-\ bing them with a cake of soap. Later, when you wash them, the soot washes off readily with the soap. If paper sticks to varnished sur faces, such as furniture, soften the . paper with a small amount of olive oil and rub gently with a soft cloth until iti comes off. Like kitchen drawers to keep neat easily? Line them with a plas tic fabric which makes them easy to wipe clean in just a moment. Keep a pair of embroidery hoops handy on your stain removal shelf. They will keep material taut when you’re pouring boiling Water over the material on a spot, or when you’re sponging a stain. Press a bar of damp-fsoap into ends of a light bulb ana turn left to remove it from a socket. Remember, though, to turn out the current first. If you’re in doubt about having turned off the current,’ remove the fuse. * . r- —i — r TTTrWspaper survey shows that we have one automobile or truck in this country for every three in habitants, while the ratio tn West ern Europe is one for every 32 per sons and iif"the Soviet Union one for every 107. - I You may be bitten by a radio active insect befo.re winter, but scientists say the bite won’t be any mure .than usual. The scientists are ’’tagging” the insects wilh radioisotopes so that they 'can use Geiger counters to check thn»- travela THE YANCEY RECORD this country are about as harm- / less as any animal could be and are definitely quite helpful to mankind in that they eat untold _ quantities of insects. When you see a bat turn suddenly in the air as though it were siezed by the blind staggers from having imbibed too long and too freely it is probably very much in con trol of its flight and is only darting after some insect which, chances are, it caught and then consumed in flight. There is no recorded instance of a bat ever having gotten tangled ir any one’s hair despite the persistent rumor to that effect. A promin ent student of bats once widely publicized the fact that he was . offering a reward of one hund red dollars to anyone who would report to him the name of a person who had a bat caught in her. hair, and would sign a state ment that he had seen it hap pen. There were no taksrs though the offer stood for many years, may still. Bata are far too skillful flyers to get involved in a clumsy mistake like that. On many occasions when bats are numerous I have thrown my cap into the air and have had them swoop at it, sometimes under it, but never have they touched it or been hit by it. Actually relatively little is known about bats since they are nocturnal in their habits and spend the daylight hours in re tirement in some dark place, a hollow tree, a dark attic, or & cave. There they hang, some times by the thousands, upside down, holding by the claws of their hind feet. I have seen them in caves “where they have made 1 the roof of a large chamber seem 1 almost black with bats so many were there. It seemed almost im possible that they could find so many places to hang from on the rocks above. “Blind as a bat’’ is another common idea that is quite false. One who is as blind as a bat is T aps used tp catch tsetse fliefj j.i South Africa look like cows. Set up in- infested areas/ the large (ranies, covered with light-colored i tirlap, hav* helped reduce tsetse ly disease among livestock. 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In absolute darkness the bat is still a skillful and uner ring flyer. With highly sensitive ears and with sensitized hairs on wing membranes; they pos-i sess a kind of radar that gives ithem absolute certainty in dark. Bats have had their eves covered with a tape and then been released in rooms with! many wires or strings stretched I about* but-they were able to, fly! about without touching anything! \ , ~ _ , * n ir . ji* \ Let Us Sell Yeur Land At | AUCTION | 5 S 5 FARMS our SPECIALTY | 5 5 § West & Gossett Land Auction Co. 5 ! WEAVERVILLE AND CANTON, NORTH CAROLINA i % % s s 8 Phone, Wire, Write 5 5 | TROY W. WEST ! i WEAVERVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA J 5 “ , ! 8 OR w 5 $ S RALPHiT. PROFFITT, Rep. j BALD .CREEK, NORTH CAROLINA ( win In adolute dirknesl. One! writer tells about a bat that he! had in a room that flew through i the whirling blades of an elec tric fan, not once but several i times, apparently just for k - the fun of it, and came through*' un scathed. Associated with this radar- ; r like sense is the ability to find ■ tiny holes for ingress or egress. ; , I have found' bats in attics i ! where try as I would I could i ; not find the place where they 1 j entered! One naturalist writes < ! about trying to capture some' i PAGE THREE f bkts iff a cave for studs purpos f es by fastening a net across the I mouth. There was one small hole In the net and all of the several hundred hats in that cave flew out through that hole in an amazingly short time, Next time someone calls you batty take comfort in the fact that bats, though as ugly look ing as acme of us. are far the most pUrt quiet, self respecting, energetic citizens of the animal world that are performing an exceptionally commendable job as insect catchers..
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