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ESTABLISHED JULY, ISM IRENA P. POX. EDITOR ft PUBLISHER MISS. ZOE YOUNG. ASSOCIATE EDITOR THURMAN L. BROWN. SHOP MANAGER ARCHIE H. BALLEW, PHOTOGRAPHER ft PERSSMAN PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY YANCEY PUBLISHING COMPANY SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT BURNSVILLE, N. C. THURSDAY, JANUARY J, ISM NUMBER SEVENTEEN SUBSCRIPTION RATES $3 00 PER YEAR OUT OF COUNTY $4.00 PER YEAR SCENE FROM TOP O’ THE HILL By: Jack Kelly By: Jack Kelly Happy New Year to all from Blanche, Hobo, and myself! Hobo, sitting ou'side the win dow, is reading this as I write it. He just gave vent to a dirty bark. Sort of a laughing-bark, (but a nasty, snide sort of a laugh, not a real funny belly laugh. When I turned and asked him what caused all of that, he stt of grinned at me and said "You know something?” but, before I could answer whether I did or didn’t, he continued on. “I think you must believe those stupid words of that old song.” What old song?" I asked him. "You remember it,” he said. Then he sort of barked out the - ** °f "Wishing will make It 1 shook my head in a yes tie would stop clashing his ‘h as he hum-barked. “Well, un’t true,” he said. "You « r, te in the paper that all of us on the Hill here wish everybody Happy New Year and too n any of them are going to ac cent that wish and just assume ’hat they are guaranteed a Happy New Year for 1969.” He growled at the very thought of if "Nobody gets a Happy New Year that easy. You can’t just wish for it or have someone eSe wish it to you!" raised his head and barked one of his fin est stentorian notes. "No sir! ou have to earn a happy New ear. Most people are lazy and don t try to earn anything. That’s wh> so many people end up having a perfectly miserable New Year every year." ‘What would you suggest I do instead?” I asked. "Don’t you get lazy too,” he answered. "It’s your Column, so you go ahead and write it. Just write in right!” I promised I would do it if he would cease being a buUinsky. £ begin at the beginning, we wu uke the entire greeting: Happy New Year. If the Lord spares us and we live through the next twelve months, we will make the year. Now, since it ia upon us and has never been this way before (nor have we trav elled its way euhe~) it is cer tainly a "new” year. Those two parts of the gree ing we cannot ignore if we live. However, the third portion of the greet ing, the Happy-part, i guess Hobo is right, about it "Nobody gets a Happy New Year that easy." So how do we go about having this? For a s arte~, let’s get our Moral life in order. How do we do tha? Let’s begin with the Ten Commandments. Then we add in the various virtues and the grea’est of these is Char ily and we become a bit more long-suffering; and we go to Church, and we ac’ually become Christians and lead a Christian life. None of these things are easy to do. If they were, we would have no need for orga!> ized Religion because everyone would be a truly confessed Christian. Like I say, it is not easy bit’, I assure you that if you make a real effort to do it, you will have a happier year than if you don*! try it. Secondly, let’s get our Mental life in order. Most people give -- ve~y lit le regard to how they think. Thinking is very import ant. Look at the immense a mount of our people who are men'ally disturbed in and out of Institutions all because they don’t Think right. Your mind ia doubtless the most important part of your entire makeup If you think property, the toughest day can pass and leave you jn ats'urbed. Especially try u think kind thoughts r- about your neighbor even about your enemy. The third portion of this "greeting” for the new year covers your "physical" condi tion. You have to watch over that. If you are sickly, it ia tough to be happy or have any happiness, except for the famed martyrs of Biblical fame. It is your du\y and obligation to yourself, your family, your friends, and to everyone in the Nation (since we are all part of the economy) to keep yourself as healthy as you can. Then, the fourth and final portion of the "Happy New Year” wished upon you con cerns i’self wt.h your financial well-being. Now, if you have not observed the first three pa i"s of this "Happy” new year, you would be Morally unhappy, Mentally unhappy, and Physi cally unhappy. Therefore you would be such a miserable per son to be abound that if would be impossible for you to make a living and utterly ridiculous to think that you could make a lot of money, therefore you would be Financially unhappy to boot! So, for the first week or so this year when a friend greets you with "Happy New Year!” pon’t be too quick with a "flhank you, the same to you!” Instead, why not look him in the eye and say "Thank you. Ml try.” ''T&IStWS iES /i . Htagr HE* yeVR W r-V.'/y 4 9 Citizens Complain About Bad Driving Practices RALEIGH That State Troop er knocking on your front door •may have been sent by yqur nex:-<loor neighbor. Or he may be there because of the action taken by some to.al stranger who doesn’t even know your name onJy your license plate number. Glances are the Trooper will not be there to make an ar-est, but if you been driving recent ly with a disregard for traffic laws, he may advise you that someone was watching and didn’t like what they saw. Complaints from private citi zens about the bad driving prac tices of other North Carolinians have increased dramatically in the last year, according to the S'a.e Highway Patrol. Patrol officials say most of the complaints concern individ uals. Letters and phone calls come in daily from concerned motorists who provide license numbers and ask the Patrol to find the person guilty at run ning them off (he road, passing them on a hill, exceeding the speed limit or violating other motor vehicle laws Other complaints are from groups of ciizens petitioning the Patrol to "do something’’ about a particular situation usually prearranged racing or speeding on a nr'al paved road. According to Colonel Charles A. Speed, commander of the Highway Patrol, all complaint* and petitions are taken serious ly. "We want these irresponsi ble drivers to know that they are in a minority, that the vast majority of drivers in our State do not condone what they aro doing and want them removed from our streets and highways. "In the case of individuals," Speed said, "we make every effort to contact them and let them know they have beep ob served breaking the law and that we have received a com plaint. In the case of petition ers, we contact them for de tails and employ every means * our command to solve the problem that caused the com plaint ’’ Speed cited a petition receiv ed last week which began, "We, the undersigned citizens are ia dire need of your help to ap prehend and prosecute to the limit of the law, those who are attempting to use the road by our homes as a race track and for other dangerous acts of driving." The petition was signed by 11 properly owners who n pledged their full cooperation to the Patrol in efforts to apprehend the guilty drivers. The Patrol commander said appropriate or ders have already been issued to Troopers in the specified area. Speed said the significant thing about the growing influx of complaints "is that it indi ca es a growing concern oo the pan of responsible drivers The people who know the import ance of obeying traffic laws are becoming indignant about those who disregard those laws. They are reporting those peo- Pie Jo the Highway Pa:rol and to local polio<> -n.) en couraging them *<< ,| 0 v, ••
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