ESTABL2SHED JULY, 2*98
TRENA P. POX, EDITOR ft PUBLISHER
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1968 NUMBER TWENTY-ONE
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SCENE FROM TOP O’ THE HILL
By: Jack Kelly
In the interest of “fair" play,
I like to look at and into both
sides of a question. That is the
reason Blanche and I drove to
Miami for a spell. Somewheres
or other I had read in the news*
papers that the rich people de
scended upon Miami in droves
during the winter time. The
more I thought of how nice it
oust be to have lots of loot and
enjoy basking in the Southern
sun, the more I got to figuring
that I should investigate how
the rich people lived. I decided
it was the only fair thing to do,
since, for well nigh sixty years,
I have been an authority en
how the poor folks lived.
The drive from Burnsville to
Miami, in this day and time, is
a most pleasant journey. You
could make it in sixteen hours
wi h no trouble, if you wanted
to push along. With a medium
speed of fifty to sixty miles an
hour, you find yourself in Tif
ton, Georgia, as er eight hours.
This is a rather nice place to
stop and is four hundred miles
from Water Tank Hill which
not one single person in Tifton
knew, before I told them. If
you over-night at Tiwton, you
ere maybe four hundred and
fifty or seventy-five miles from
Miami, With the Turnpike road
over which you travel being the
way it is, you can’t take over
seven or eight hours. You let •
your speed drop below seventy
and you get bumped in the be
hind or else motor-cops pull
beside you and wave you along
to a higher speed.
Os course, by this time you
can smell the rich people and
see them too. They pass you lika
crazy in their Cadillacs zocm!
A car passes you that does
not have a certain sound, well,
you can be certain that it is not
« Cadillac. I understand that
Company charged fifty dol
lars extra for the “rich’’ sound
that it installs in each and
every Cadillac. Os course, there
is a drawback or two to being
rich. Mainly, it cos.s you more
money. A motel hikes the price
on you as soon as they "pipe"
the Caddy. You can’t use the
low-priced low-grade gasoline.
As a matter of fact, I have de
cided that most of us, particu
larly me, just can not afford
to be rich. It costs too much
money!
In Miami Beach itself, there
is a well-defined "poor" area,
down around lower Collina Ave
nue. Many of toe rooms there
are less than similar accomoda
tions back home. However, a
chap who cate-a to the "rich"
people told me that this section
with its reasonably priced rooms
was built by and is operated by
the Chamber of Commerce just
so that the Ho'e! Operators up
town could charge the "rich’*
people unconscionably high tar
iffs for their rooms. Anywheres
from seventy-five to three hun
dred dollars per day! Os course,
some of these penthouse apart
ments are out of this world'and
rich people love them. Ihe
main thing, however, is that
they can drive down to the
Beach into the poor section and
see how the poor folks are doing.
In yesterday’s paper there
were two pictures. One showed
a gentleman and his wife who
had just opened their leased
penthouse for the season
(17500.00 per month!) and the
other showed an elderly lady
being tossed out of her home
because her reliof payment of
75 bucks per montn did not
I’a.v her suffici»i.» money to
fted herself ana pay fifty «
month rent. n t e-' pictures fas
cinstcd me becajs? they
ed my point that | made hack
a few paragraphs ago. It takes
money to be rich! The nice tld
lady in the second picture
any fool could see that she plaia
could not afford to be rich Z
saw it right away!
Someone once said that rich
people smell better than poor
people and, perhaps he made a
true statement. R is difficult
to get close enough to them to
learn how they smell. When you
go to the Races, the rich people
sit in the expensive "boxes'*
and make large bets at private
windows and us poor folks, who
have no logical reason to be
there, well, we sit in the Grand
s.and and make two dollar bets
and lose, while the rich folks
send their chauffeirs up to the
win-windows to collect the mon
ey they won on the race. Seems
to be a rule down here that
only rich folks can win. That
may be due to the fact that the
rich own the horses.
They have two other fascinat
ing sporting events down here:
Dog Racing (dogs instead of
horses) and Jai Alai (pronoun
ced Hi-Li, which uses men in
stead of horses or dogs de
spite the fact that the players
are always referred to as dogs
because people abound me kept
saying that such-and-such a
player was a son of you-know
what).
Thus far, we have not been
successful in this rich-man’s
passtimes. In fact we have been
most unsuccessful! I have about
reached the conclusion that we
can not only afford to boa rich
person here in Miami, we can
not afford to be a poor person.
However, I a n ra, idly coming
to the conelt don th it rich peo
ple i t betU * off than poor
people. They »v* tetter and all
that sturt. Probably because
they have nor* money. It was
nice seeing them.
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trying to find the buRiEO
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SENATOR '’N 1
SAM ERVIN
WASHINGTON - Those who
witnessed the inauguration of
President Nixon saw one of the
most meaningful affirmations of
government, in
a moment, two men exchanged
their roles as citizen and Presi
dent. Once more, W e have de
monsLdated that our country is
dedica.ed to a system of laws
rather than of men. This is the
sys.em that has unified our
coum ry to meet its greatest
challenges.
Even so, the realistics of the
day tell us that we have some
difficult tasks ahead. Cong'ess
has returned to Washington in
the knowledge that few are sat
isfied with things as they are.
The vast achievements which
we have made in education,
technology, material wealth and
power have been matched by
the most pressing problems we
have ever had. There is division
as to how we should go about
our dealings at almost every
level of policy.
One can look at the War, or
crime, or the Budget which
President Johnson submitted,
and there is seldom agreement
about how we should deal with
any of these problems.
There is division as to wheth
er we should channel funds,
which we really do not have!
to provide for a whole range of
new spending for such items as
the guaranteed annual income
to everybody or for the rebuild
ing of cities, towns, and hamlets
here and abroad. Even the fis
cal experts are at a loss to ex
plain how we can finance all of
the demands for Federal spend
ing without Incurring inflation
and doing serious damage to our
monetary sys.em.
Certainly, governments should
be responsive to the needs of
the peoplt, and anyone familiar
wi.h a changing society cm un
derstand that we must keep an
open mind about how we i*#n
desl with our needs. We should,
however, keep in perspective
the fact that not every problem
can best be solved by drMting
a new Federal program, in
our experience demonstrwtes
that we may damage the whole
fabric of our civilization by tak
ing that approach. Adding lay
er upon layer of Federal bureau
cracy to deal with problems
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that can best be dealt with at
a level closer to the people stif
les productivity and individual
initiative.
Aside from dealing with speci
fic problems of crime, education,
health, the post office, highways,
pollution, and hunger, there is
the problem of general govern
ment and its structure which
needs attention at this Congress
For years now, we have been
dealing with problems almost
on a program by program basis.
Consequently, there is duplica
tion, overlappage, and vast* in
the countless programs which
deal with domes, ic problems.
As I have frequently pointed
out, the-e is a real need to cor
rect this.
I am hopeful, therefore, that
the new Administration will
join wi.h Congress to bring or
der to the kingdoms which exist
here in Washington.
local Retailers
Attend Furniture
Market
Note to Editor:
The following retailers were
among those from your city who
attended the Sou hem Fiimiture
Ma ket, High Point, N. C. They
registered at the Southern Fur
ni ure Exposition Building. The
Ma icet is exclusively for retail
buyers of home furnishings. The
event ran January 19-13, 1969.
Messrs Bill Bailey and J. F.
Robinson Furniture.
High Point, N. C. Home
furnishings buyers, representing
the leading furniture s'ores, de
partment stores and specialty
shops from throughout the Sou
theast we~e in High Point last
week for the Fumi:ure Market.
JanuaTr 19-23. The event waa
being billed as (»e Winter Fur
ni'ure Fashion Festival.
The advance styles froti tha
mammoth Southern Furniture
Exposit .n Building, the heart
of the Market in dow v wr. High
Point, forecasts a continuing
fashion interest in tha popular
Mediterrat.ean influence! <4
Italy and Spain, al .ug with Ear
ly Am*titan and Coiursl de
signs. tne Cm.emo-raiiea and
xoth Provincial and Court sty.
les of Italy and France.
Hie rndus.ry thrives on tha
interest and stimulation found
at the Markets. Store owners
and buyers select from the rich
variety of merchandise to suit
the needs of their customers
back home. According to Leo J.
Heer, managing di-ector of the
Southern Furniture Exposition
Building complex, nowhere else
in the world can a retailer find
the breadth and depth of home
fu:nishings as are right here ia
the backyard of the Southeas
tern buyer*.
Hail To The
Jaytees
Not only does the Mayland Chap,
ter, American Red Cross thank
you. Burnsville and Yancey
County thank you for the won
derful job you did in getting out
donors during the quarterly vis
it of the mobile blood unit to
Burnsville last Wednesday. What
a record 124 pints of blood!
For the first time in history we
not only met our goal of 106
pints, but went over the top. In
addition to the 124 units of blood
donated, 22 would-be donors
were rejected for a number of
reasons.
All this was accomplished on
very short notice. Given a lon
ger period of time in which to
work on it, no tolling what these
energetic JAYCEES would have
come up with.
If this newly organized JAY
CEE Chapter keeps on going at
the pace it has set, we can ex
pect a change around here. Let’s
hope a little of it will run off os
sane of the rest of ua.
Notice
Final Tax Listing days Crab
tree and Brush Creek Thwn
ships: January 30 through Slit
at the Court House.
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