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Th» Yancey Ritird (iJiMliktd Jily, 1936 IRENA F. FOX, Sittor * Publisher MISS ZOK YOUNG, Associate Editor ■ggJJBMAN BEOVntShop Manager AKCmB BALLEW, Photographer It Pressman FLUSHED IVEW THURSDAY BY YANCEY PUBLISHING Compaq Soeond 'Class Postage Paid at Burnsville, N. C. THURSDAY. JUNE 2, 1966 NUMBER FORTY SUBSCRIPTION BATES BN HOI YEAR OLD TIMER PUTS AUTO SAFETY IN PERSPECTIVE Old Timer has away of popping In to put things in proper perspective. The oth er day he came in to set us straight on this business of auto safety. Looks like, he said, we’re on a witch hunt in the auto field. You’d think, he said, the manufacturers hadn’t done a thing to make cars safer. That fellow, Ralph Nedler, is looking at the dark side, • “Course, I’m not saying more couldn’t be done to make cars safer.” he opined, as he plopped himself down in a chair already overload ed with newspapers. “But let's look at the record,” he added and went on: “Take tires. I can remem ber when, if you went on a trip of a hundred miles if you didn’t have two or three blov outs you were lucky Usually you carried two or three spares with you and changed ’em there on the smt. A”d a task it was. You Just didn’t switch wheels You didn’t have a spare wheel. You lacked uo the ear, pu’led the tire off the wheel, you patched it and then you pumped and pump ed and pumped. Why in these days every car came equipped with a hand pump and you wou’dn’t be cau ht out on the road without one. T~day punctures and blow outs are rare; that’s an im provement,. a big' 1 one in safetv.” Some today are eoulpped with safety r’ms. If a tire b’ows out at hl~h speed the tire remains on the rim 4 ust as fast as if it had 30 pounds of air in it. Another imn^vement! “Know what a running i* he asked. They talk about safetv d<n>r latches rot beln~ safe today. Posh! Back In the davs of the running boards and t'mr in" cars there was no tel’lng when a door would flv onen. You put kl'ts In the back fold Them to stay put because you knew rot when a door would flv onen. You don’t have that today. A~d how the k'ds lust, lov«»d to Hde the running boards!” A~d he continued: “Wasn’t unusual a few years a?o to turn over a car. Todav, Just look at the wrecks. You don’t see many cars overturned. They’re bet ter engineered today. It’s hard to turn on* oyer,” he continued. And another thing, he said, it is usual today to drive a car 300 or 400 miles a day at 60-70 miles ' per hour on the freeways: — “Years ago you’d bum up a. car putting it through the paces we put ’em today. We’re overlooking something else the manufacturers have done, too. Safety glass all around. Just a few years ago glass would splatter from hither to yonder. “And oh yes, brakes. You got four-wheel brakes to day. Few years ago you had only rear wheel brakes. You got power brakes today, too. And remember when every car had what was known as the emergency brake there in the middle of the floor. That was to be used if the foot pedal brake was not sufficient. Today it’s called a parking brake. The foot brakes do the Job of stop ping cars better than the old emer~ency brake,” he con tinued . Let’s have constructive criticism sure, he said, and let’s encourage manufactur ers to make cars safe but also let’s <dve credit where credit is due. And so Old Turner lit. up his com cob ploe. and s°t t’ed fr’ck to read the office coov of the Congressional Record, wh'ch he sov* the fiction publication out today. REV. CURRIE SPEAKS TO’ MONTREAT STUDENTS As you continue your high er education or enter into the business or ’ theological world, go about heralding the Tact you are children In the family of God, the Rev. David M. Currie, of Durham, ur ed the 50 receiving diplo mas at Montreat-Anderson College May 29. Mr. Currie, pastor of the First Presbvterian Church in Durham, earlier delivered <the baccalaureate sermon to the graduating students. Mr. Currie went on to say that many feel in the present day that man has mastered the controls, and that God is technologically u iemp’ov ed that God used to be a giver of knowledge, but that men are now disseminating information that man feels he is all but creating life, and would term God as a blacksmith that he was useful in His day. Mr. Currie reminded his hearers that God is not tech no’og'cahv unemployed: that he created this universe, and Man is His on earth— jyjt-tfHSr profltteer nor prop rietor. iS A PERFECT DAY IN JUNE Walking in the golden sun light Os a perfect day in June, Nature sweetly smiles around me With the Infinite in tune. Till my heart is thrilled and raptured At the beauty that I see. And the thought that God in Heaven Made It all for you and me. Many kinds of flowers bloom ing Through the valleys, o’er the hills. Greet the sunshine in their* splendor While the air their frag rance fills, Thus Inspiring nature lovers Who admire God’s charm ing art, Giving poets theme for writ ' ing Poems that may joy import Music from the many song sters— Birds that flit from tree to tree— Is a pleasant part of nature That for ev’ryone is %ree. And there is a note of glad ness In the songs of merry birds That the artist cannot pic ture. Nor the writer paint it in words. Farmers plowing, sowing, reaping Through the country *> far and wide. Is a that greets the tourists As o’er the highways glide; And fV> -' odor sweet from meadow With its new-mown hay at noon Meets us as we work or , travel o-' i dav in June. Walter E. Iseufiowfcif, Mln lster, Taylorsville, N. C. Mr. CuiA urgpri the grad uates to those with whom thev are in contact into communion with Jesus Christ. Mss Martha Guy of New laud, Bank Cashier, was ore- - sented the Distinguished Alumni Award of Montreat- Anderson College in an alu mni luncheon at Assembly Tm on Saturday, the 28th. The a" ard was In recognition of Christian service far-rea cMng beneficial influence a->d continuing ’lova'fv to Montreat-Anderson College. IT NEVER FAILS t) Ifji Sv ■ Than* To ~ flan aSm. Chas M‘CuTCHeon * #Mwv«ni>oeT, iowa NUTT AH, ** Fighting Poverty In The Upper Brackets National Nows-Reseorch Washington Millions of the poor are fed up with talk about an antipoverty war that never reaches them, says Dr. Ecgene Car son Blake, Secretary-elect of the World Council of Churches and Stated Clerk of the United Presbyterian Church of America. Commenting on a near riot which occurred during a so-called “Poor Peoples Conference” here in Wash ington, Dr. Blake charged Ithat “money comes into their areas, but they never see it and nothing happens to change their plight.” Rep. Bill Ayres, an Ohio Republican and an original supporter of the Federal Antipoverty war, has now come up with one reason why the poor never sees the poverty money that comes into their areas . . . top heavy payro’ls for the so called poverty fighters. Charging that there is “a fantastic leakage In funds intended to help the poor" Ayres cited the following figures: —6,484 permanent Federal emp’oyees are budgeted to run the poverty war at a cost of 53.4 million dollars in sa'aries alone. *—1,557 Federal poverty employees will draw annual salaries of $10,619. or more. —25 Federal poverty fight ers will be paid more than the base pay of General Westmoreland, who heads U. 8 forces in Viet Nam. 36 Federal poverty bureac crats wl'l be paid more than Astronaut Nell Armstrong (a civilian employee) - and 25 others will have the same salary grade rating as Arm strong. —Five ant'povertv workers will get more than the $25,000 sa’arv paid to the U. S. Commissioner of Educa tion who operates programs twice the size of the war on poverty which is budgeted at 17 billion dollars. "The has gotten out among Civil Servants in Washington that ’the b'g money is in poverty’ but few k*ow how big it is” Ayres says. Observers here in Wash ington v-ere not surprised by Avres’ figures since the. iav ishness with which the pov erty war administration meets its payrolls has been the talk of the town for some months. Last year Washington was shocked when it was leaked out of the Office of Econo mic Opportunity that num bered among the poverty fighters were quite a few re porters who were being paid upwards of 75 dollars a day as “consultants” in the war on poverty. What caused the raised eyebrows was the fact that a number of these newsmen were also writing stories about the “great successes” is the poverty war for the newspapers for which ‘they were supposedly work ing full-time. A number of Congressmen and Senators from both Parties have expressed deep concern over the entire sit uation. As one of them said privately recently "we’ve got an explosive situation on our hands. The real poor got their hopes up when the War on Poverty was first launched. Now a couple of years have gone by and no body but the bureaucrats in the OEO seem to have got ten a penny out of the pro gram. Something has got to give and give soon.” Shortly after he made this statement the blow-up at the Poor Peoples Confer ence which upset Dr. Blake took p’ace thus confirming his fears. A * Attends Open House Reporter. Sharon Williams The Club toured the Glen Raven Silk Mills during their open house May 20th. Each member now has a bet ter knowledge and under standing of the work carried on there, and would like to thank their guides, Mr. Ned . Wilson and Mr. Bob Renfro for their information and courtesy. The 4-H members of both Junior and Senior Clubs, who are members of Laurel Branch Baptist Church on Sunday, May 22nd, observed 4-H Sunday in the church with a special program. Those taking part were: Russell Wilson, Morris Byrd, Glenn Williams. Dwight Wil son. WUUamsr~Ctau=- dette Wi’son, Vicki Styles, Susan Wilson and Bharon Williams. \ t
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