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" Tit Yancey Record ! 'staklisbid illy, 1936 1 nUCNA P. FOX, Bilk* * Publisher { . MIBB ZOE YOUNG, Associate Editor &UIUMAN i. BROWN* Shop Manager ABCBIK BALLS W, Photofrupher it Pressman FULIBHED IVEKI THURSDAY BY ji YANCEY PUBLISHING Company Seemii Cims Poster* Puk. »t Burnsville, N. €. I THURSDAY, SEPT. 1, 1960 NUMBER ONE SUBSCRirriON BATES 12.50 PER YEAR f Scene From Top O’ The Hill -* By: Jack Kelly Washington, D C., folks claim, is changing. Well, it is what with all of the new buildings going up and the tearing down, of the old ones. However, most people claim that Georgetown, a section of Washington, keeps right on the way it always was. That Is not quite true. I was born and raised in Georgetown. Back in the Taft Administration. Matter of fact, my pappy named my older brother William How ard Taft Kelly” and received a fine letter and a photo graph from the President, the President wasn’t quite as busy then, as now. That pic ture, with its endorsement, always hung in our parlor. Folks only saw it at wed dings and wakes because that was the only time the parlor was ever used. In the house where I was born, also my thirteen bro thers and sis ers, we had lots of rooms but not enough for us. We were all actually born in the house. Who went to the hospital for a baby? Hospitals were for sick peo ple who nee led medical at tention Mrs. Copper.hwaite, always called ‘Mrs. Copp”, / nvdwifed all of us into the world. Doctor Owens helped out or. the last three or four because mv Mom kind of went ‘'modern" or else my pappy must have made a couple of good real estate deals. Like he did on the house I was born in. That house, a pressed brick, two-story colonial, with a b'g backyard, cost pappy $1,900 00 at an auc tion sale. He immediately borrowed $2 300.00 ~ from a Grrman-American Bui’d ing Association. In repay ing it, he found some leather "pokes” in the cellar chim ney. when he ripped It out. They he’d $3,400.00 In gold coins. Pappy always claim ed that was the greatest “buy” he ever made. That house is now electrified and has a lamp in front pf it. No o'-hr changes. Ic sold, quite recently, for $36 000.00, Pappy must be “spinning” in his grave. Georgetown has chair ed too! Mention of gold coins, wh ch kids toiay only see in museums and such places, reminds me of another oc cas;on when pappv got some. He ran, at one time, before he went to Law School at George.own University. f ou r saloons One of them cater ed to strlct'y colore 1 trade. One Sa'urday evening, a chao who had been working at tearing down old places in Georgetown, came into the plane and wa’ked to ■the bar and asfce-t ‘‘Uncle Joe you’s a Ca f hoPc. ain't you?” My pappv assured h’m he was and whv he was in'erested, whereupon the co’nred fellow tossed some mildewed coins he had found, upon the bar. “There’s pome Catholic medals you can have.” Os course they were go.d coins, so pappy -OKI him they were wor-h money, “Who’ll give you money for them?” So, pappy cashed them at their values of 2y 2 ,5, 10, whatever they were. The colored fellow picked up .he money and said “Daw one! You Catholics is the craziest folks. Paying all that money for some old medals.” In that particular saloon, pappy conduc.ed the Settled Men’s Social Club and also the J. J. Kelly’s Sons of Abraham Lincoln Walking Brigade. I recall some comi cal stories about them that will have to save for another time, in the event anyone might want to hear them. All of these stories go back to the time that Georgetown was a place unto itself, not, as now, the most expens'vc area In Washington in which to live. I suppose, if some one had a billy-goat for a pet there he would get locked up. Yet, at our home, we had a gorgeous goat. My pappy used to guGd his hooves and horns when he was used in two parades a year: The Shrln ers and the Knights of Col umbus. Old Billy got ram bunctious one day and broke my brother’s arm. Mom got ” rid of Billy that evening. Besides the two parades, “Billy” was used in one “march” each year. That was on Lincoln’s Bir hday Whrr, r.n o y l ed t h e J J.K.B. AL.W.B. on its march to the Wh'te Home in honor of that martvred PresHent. That “march” is also anoth er storv. WashHeton has changed. Georgetown has changed. % r * ("b jL You feel good about it when you buy Savings Bonds 1 h&KHk 1 IA a^°r Da V' A Salute... I ‘ IW * T ° tHe workin 9 men ar| d women of this com mumty, we express our pride and our thanks. Their I ?, efforts, energy and initiative have done much in build-' ing for prosperity and progress, and on them we rely, I I as we look to the future. I Letters To The Editor Spruce Pine August 25, 1966 Gentlemen: Much more than ever be fore people of different ages are being bitten by dogs, and in most instances the dogs have not been vaccinated for Rabies. In the event anyone re ceives a bite from any ani mal regardle.s of whether or nnt the animal is sick, we ur.t,e you first to wash the wound thoroughly for fif teen or twenty minutes, us ing a strong solution of soap in warm water. Second, see \our family doctor at once, and give him alf. the facts.’ Thirdly, notify your local Health Dept., and give them all the facts. DO NOT KILL THE ANIMAL , if you can capture it alive without dan ger to yourse f. If an animal does have Rabies it will show some symptoms within ten days; and ten days is the length of time we ask you to confine the animal in some place where dogs, etc., cannot get to it. We also ask you to feed and water the animal and observe its eating and drink ing habits while confined. Should you suspect the ani mal of having Rabies, or anv disease p ease notify your Heath Department at once. The Technicians at the Lab oratory can more accurately diagnose the care, and a per son still has time to take the anti-rabic shots. There is no known cure for Rabies, and once an animal or hu man contracts the disease dea’h is sure to fo'iow. The vaccine used by a lic ensed DV M is said to be about 90 percent perfect. Please have your dog or dogs vaccinated. By so doing you are not only protecting your animal, but you are not subjecting human beings to this dread incurable disease. So far we have not had a confirmed case of Rabies in our Heath District for over a year. P’ease remember that dogs are not the only animals that spread Rabies. Last week we received a re port from the State of Tenn. that they had had seventeen cases of it, a ~t that foxes spread ten of these, the oth ers being cats, skunks and bats. Jake F. Buckler, R. s. District Sanitarian District Health Dept. bomtom fAi OPINION ELMA, ALA., TIMES JOURNAL: “If you had an old bUFteroo of a day on the job, it might soothe things if you compared our system with the way the Russians handle emp oyment . Pro pagandists claim there’s no unemp’oymentr of course, and also boast that the past 10 years workers hav/" had the freedom of quitting by giving two-weeks’ notice, Under the surface, these claims prove not quite true. A jobless worker can be ar rested as a ‘parasite’ And be exiled to remote areas such as Siberia for two to five years if he ho’ds no Job, lives on unearned income or engages in a forbidden busi ness Feel better?” •# • • ATCHISON, KAN., GLOBE: - • • if every country now living under communism were to disappear from the face of the earth, the real threat—the idea of utopian prosperity under state capi ta’ism would still remain. Until the frau lu’.ent. unwork able theory of Marxian eco nomics is thoroughly dis carded . . . there will be no permanent protection from the seductive appeal of romethlrg-for - nothing. Karl Marx was right about one thing: every functioning economy needs a dictator. Eut Marx picked the wrong one: government. Free en terprise operates under the one: the free customer who, by merely refusing to buy, by taking his patronage elsewhere, can diselp ine any business, large or small which does not offer what he wants rtt the right price. This is .the proper and democratic p’ace to 1 put power: in the hands of everybody. It needs no supervision except government enforcement of an office cm* 0 f honesty an* fair play.” GARRISON, N D., INDE PENDENT: “This is the ‘en lighten fd society’ . ;. , a transient methodical’y kills eight student nurses in Chi cago wh le c’oser to home an apparently deranged young father assaults a young cerebral palsy v'c’im. Even though we’re suppos edly an intelligent peop e, crime is rampant. And O ro- Bab’y because of a shift in moral values, rone are the inhibitions that ma*e each of us more responsible a gen eration ago Today individ ual ‘freedom’ reigns supre m“ • • Defiance of law and order is condoled, even, en couraged by high govern ment office's in this Coun try «<! r "omc 0 f correcting social wrong*."
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