NEW BOOKS AT REGIONAL
LIBRARIES
■ By: Ashton Chapman
pl DRUGS hv Peter Laurie This
: Bo:k represents the first objec-
Hi\e report to offer all the ma-
Bor medical, psychological and
Bsocial facts about drugs to a
■public which is often fed with
■alarm I ' t and sensational reports.
I ERNEST SETON THOMP
■ SON'S AMERICA, edited by
■ Farida A. Wiler, with Seton
■ drawings . Here—selected from
I m re than 50 years output of
books and maeazine artie’es
is the best of the great natura
list.
WILD SEASON by Allan W.
Eckert. One of the most con
stantly exciting animal-nature
books ever written.
THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL
by Ann and Myron Sutton. This,
Ihe first full- length book about
this hikers’ paadise, is infused
with the smell of smoky camp
fires, the taste of mountain wat
er and the springy feel of pine
s'raw and lichens underfoot.
Maps and photos inc'uded. Sev
eral mentions are made of Roan
Mountain, the crest of which the
trail traverses.
THE TRUMAN WIT, edited
by Alex J. Goldman. In this
short volume the former Presi
dent is presented at his best and
most incisive moments as poli
tician, family man and citizen.
MOBIL TRAVEL GUIDE to
Alabama. Florida, Georgia, Ken
tucky, Mississippi. Food, lodg.
ing, sightseeing with ratings for
the year 1967.
COUNTRY FURNITURE 0 F
EARLY AMFRICA by H. Lionel
Williams. With its many illus
tration? and comprehensive text
this will be a useful reference
for all dealers and craftsmen as
well as collectors.
DOWN BOY, DOWN, BLAST
YOU! In this short, amusing
book Charlton Ogburn, Jr., tells
what happened to his own sta
tus when a dog joined the family.
THE POCKET MIRROR;
poem? by Janet Frame. As any
one who has read the novels of
Jane Frame or her equally ex
traordinary stcries must be a
ware, although the medium is
prose, the vision and the voice
are a poet’s.
A HOUSE OF MANY ROOMS
by Rodello Hunter. A rollicking
joyous and touching memoir of
a wonderful Mormon family at
the turn of the century in a
small Utah town.
BEHIND THE LINES—HANOI
Dec. 23-Jan. 7 by Harriison E.
Sa’isbury. In this book, disting
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THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1967
uished by its vivid prose and
on the-spot photographs, Mr.
Salisbury enlarges on what he
sawi and heacd behind the lines
in Vietnam.
YOGA by Ernest Wood This
volume, based largely upon the
leading classical books on the
subject, is supplemented in many
cases by the author's own ex
perience.
WITCHCRAFT by Pennethorne
Hughes. A reliable history of a
subject of unfailing interest
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF IN
TERPERSONAL BEHAVIOUR
by Michael Argyle. This is a
book which the student of psych
ology may well find indispen
sable, and the re’evance of the
material to everyday life offers
irrestible reading for everyone.
Taylor Votes
For House Bill
To Protect Flag
WASHINGTON - U. S. Rep.
Roy A. Taylor Tuesday voted
and spoke for a House bill to
protect the American flag from
abuse by protest groups.
In a floor speech, the 11th
District Congressman said en
actment of the legislation is nec
essary to broaden the govern
ment’s authority to crack down
on those he termed “a minority
greup of misguided Americans
who do not yet know the mean
ing of citizenship or patriotism.”
He made reference to a recent
demonstration in New York City
where draft cards and a U. S.
flag were burned before televis
ion cameras. “They call them
selves anti-Vietnam demonstra
tors. They actually are anti-
American demonstrators,” he
said.
Rep. Taylor told colleagues:
‘‘The flag is a symbol of our
national purpose. It is a symbol
of our determination to remain
free. We must let the world
know that the overwhelming
majority of Americans differ as
they do on problems and issues,
revere our flag and revere all
that it represents.”
The legislation calls for stiff
penalties for those who dese
crate the American flag.
THIS IS
THE LAW
By. Robert E. Lee
'For the N C. Bar Associati'n)
COMMON-LAW MARRIAGES .
-z entered into in North Carolina
_> valid?
No. The informal or non-cere
monial type of marriage known
as the “common-law marriage”
is not recognized if entered in
to in North Carolina.
At the present time they are
pe’mitted in only sixteen juris
dictions. They are: Alabama,
Colorado, Florida, District of
Columbia, Georgia, Idaho, Kan
sas, Montana, Ohio, Oklahoma,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,
South Carolina, South Dakota,
and Texas.
Commcn-law marriages, in
those jurisdictions where such *
are recognized, are just as bind
ing as a cermonial marriage.
They can be terminated only by
annulment or divorce.
The validity of a marriage
generally speaking, is determin
ed by the law of the place where
it was entered into. As a conse
quence, North Carolina and oth
er states will recognize as va’id
a common-law marriage if the
acts alleged to have created it
took p’ace in a state in which
such marriage is valid.
•• • *
What is a common-law mar
riage?
To constitute a common-law
marriage there must be a pre
sent agreement between a man
and woman, eligible to enter
into such relationship, to take
each other as husband and wife.
All that is necessary is that the
parties shall intend to marry,
and that their intention may be
proved either by their words or
by their conduct. No solemniza
tion or other formality, apart
from the agreement itself, is
necessary. No witnesses are re
quired.
The agreement being the es
sential element in these mar
riages, it may, like any other
agreement, be proved by words
or by conduct, and by the testi
mony of the parties themselves
or by the testimony of third
persons.
•• • •
This is the last of a spring
series of articles which have
appeared weekly during the past
three months. They have been
written for the non-lawyers as a
public service of the North
Carolina Bar Association. Ano
ther series will be started in the
faU. *
THE YANCEY RECORD
Appalachian Development
Outlined By Harry Caudill
By: Victor Wuamett
Some novel ideas for the de
velopment of the Appalachian
mountain regions of several
states were outlined for a Boone
audience last week by Harry
Caudill, author and attorney
from Whitesburg, Ky„ in a talk
June 21.
Caudill’s ideas are centered
around the development o f
TVA-like districts that would
be able to make and sell elec
tric power and use the profits
to improve the area’s schools
and roads.
The big difference between
his ideas and TV A is that no
federal money would be involved
in the new plan. All the money
would be raised by the local
counties through the sale of
bends to private investors.
“We don’t need or want fed
eral help,” Caudill told the
Boone audience, "All we need is
for state and local governments
to start using the authority they
have to develop these mountains
for the benefit of the people
who live here.”
Caudill’s ideas sound fantas
tic at first. But he uses examp
les to show that this sort of de
velopment has already taken
place in other parts of the
country.
In the state of Washington,
he said, many counties formed
public utility districts in the
1930’5. One county, which at
this time was one of the poor
est in the (Jnited States, sold
SSOO million in bonds on Wall
Street and used the money to
build electric generating plants.
In 30 years, he said, the profits
from the sale of electricity have
built the county into one of the
richest in the country, with the
best schools and public facili
ties, and with many industries
that came in to use the powed.
Caudill thinks the same kind
of development is possible in the
Appalachian mountains.
“We have the resources
minerals, water, and beauty
to provide a good living for all
of our people,” he said, “What
we have to do is to start con
trolling how the resources are
used. Risht now outside corpor
ations are getting all the profits
from Appalachian minerals, and
the people are getting all the
prHb’ems.
Caudill is chairman of a newly
formed group called the Cm-
gress for Appalachian DeveloD
ment. Its members include engi
neers, architects, scholars, and
we'l-knnwn political figures. Its
purpose is to plan and promote
thp development of the moun
tains. I
The crucial print in the grain’s
ideas is of an agreement among
the states that would allow their
mountain counties to form “pub
lic utility districts” similar to
those in the state of Washington.
These “public utility districts”
would then sell bonds and get
money to buy out the coal field
. owners of Kentucky, West Vir
ginia, Tennessee and Virginia.
The districts would then build
electric power generating plants
at the mouths of the mines to
generate power for local use
an dfor sale in the north and
midwest.
Other mountain areas that
don’t have coal resources—like
the North Carolina mountains
could also fit into a region-wide
plan, Caudill said, by using oth
er resources the coal states do
not have, such as water, good
* agricultural land and natural
beauty.
In calling for local action for
development of the mountains.
Caudill sharply criticised the
federal government and the Ap
palachian Regional Commission
it set up to deal with the re
gion’s development.
“The only thing the Appalach
ian Regional Commission has
done in Kentucky,” Caudill said,
is to build a 2-lane super-high
way that is the most dangerous
in tbe United States. And the
federal government as a whole,"
ho i said, “‘has dene little in 30
years except to create a ‘white
man’s reservation’ where hund
reds of thousands of peep’e are
living off of monthly checks.
Washington hasn’t tried to solve
the problems of the region,” he
said, "it has just tried to keep
the people quiet with a few dol
lars a month.”
Caudill also criticised state and
local politicians for serving the
interest cf big business, rather
than the needs of the people,
and cited Kentucky’s failure to
tax coal and North Carolina’s
failure to tax cigarettes as ex
amp'es of political sellout.
Caudill’s lecture was sponsor
ed by the American Association
of University Women of Boone.