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Black Mountain (NC) NEWS Thursday, December 30, 1948 4 The Black Mountain News Published Every Thursday in Black Mountain, N. C. DAY PHONE 4101 NIGHT PHONE 4503 GORDON H. GREENWOOD Kd,,or GEORGE W. DOUGHERTY Mech. Supt. Co-owners SUBSCRIPTION RATES Buncombe and Surrounding Counties: One Year $2.00 Six Months Outside Above Territory One Year $2.50 Six Months *U6O Entered as Second Matter Sept. 13, 194.), at the I ost Office a£ Black Mountain, N. C., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Editorial As we enter the new year 1949 it is fitting that we pause and consider the progress which we have made during the past year and to chart our course for the future. Needless to say our No. 1 problem was and stiil is an adequate 'payroll to help tide us over the slow months. As the year 1948 began we had one prospect. The Hudson Hosiery Mill had purchased the property across from the grade school and announced plans for building a modern plant. As the new year begins that is stili where we stand. The past 12 months brought several "feelers" hut no tangible results. Thus our economy is still geared to a program of four months feast and eight months famine. No one called for our suggestions but we believe that much good could he accomplished by a full pro gram of cooperation and hard work. Accordingly, we offer the following possibilities for consideration and action during 1949: 1- to attract the right kind of industry by aggressive action rather than by passive resist ance, 2- to get a paved highway through Lakey Gap, connecting Black Mountain and Bat Cave. 3- full cooperation to the plan now underway to develop the Broad River area agriculturally, 4- an underpass for the downtown crossing. 5- teaching of hand or orchestra, or both, in the public schools, 6- parking facilities. 7- the year around recreational program. 8- the grammar school with adequate play ground equipment and another basketball court. 9- use of the facilities at the clubhouse, 10- within the framework of the Chamber of Commerce a merchants’ association that will aid the merchants and help them with their problems. 11- adequate recreation for the thousands of visitors who annually come to our community. As a town we have less to offer visitors than Chimmey Rock, ( herokee, and Blowing Rock, to say nothing of Gatlinburg. Perhaps you have other suggestions. If so, send them along. In our haste we have no doubt overlooked many others which merit attention. What’s your opinion? We’d like to know. Sossamon-Tyson Gives S. A. Eller Record Player S. A. Eller was the lucky new Beacon home owner receiving a beautiful radio-record player con sole given by Sossamon-Tyson Furniture Company for Christmas. Mr. Filer lives at 56 Edwards Street. He is a loom fixer and has been with Beacon for many years. Mr. Tyson stated that he was very gratified by the response to the invitation sent to all the new Beacon home owners to visit Sossa mon-Tyson during the holidays. A lot of old friendships were re newed and many new ones made. It was the first visit to Sossamon- Tyson by many of these new home owners and they took time to look around the store and find out for themselves why Sossamon-Tyson is such a popular place to shop. Sossamon-Tyson pledges to con tinue during the coming year to offer to you quality home furnish ings at the lowest possible price. The management and all the em ployees of Sossamon-Tyson join in wishing all the new Beacon home owners a prosperous and happy new year. ADV.— TO KALISRI RY Mr. and Mrs. Boyce Penley left Monday for Salisbury to visit Mr. Penley's mother, Mrs. A. E. Pen ley. IN MARION Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Lewis and children. Harvard and Charles, had Christmas dinner in Marion with Mr. Lewis’ mother, Mrs. Mary Lewis. Letters To The Editor ••••••••• '••••••••• Oklahoma City, Okla. Dee. 21, 1948 Dear Editor: Since leaving Black Mountain we have made short visits to Siloam Springs. Arkansas, with a brother and his family; to Tulsa, Okla.. with n sister and her fam ily; to Stillwater, Okla., with a niece and a nephew and former residents of Hi Top colony, Dr. and Mrs. C. B. Loomis who will be re membered by a number of your readers. All the Stillwater people mentioned are connected with Oklahoma A&M college, two on the faculty, one as a student. Arkansas was interesting with its rice fields, cypress swamps and Ozark scenery, which reminds one of our North Carolina mountains. In Oklahoma we visited the Will Rogers memorial at his home in Claremon, and which is prob ably one of the most appropriate memorials to a nationally famous personality. A heroic bronze of Will greets one at the entrance and almost literally bids one wel come to the stone structure filled with saddles and other cowboy relics formerly belonging to him. These relics include articles taken from the plane in which he crashed, and including his last report on Alaska and the smashed portable typewriter on which t was typed. Oklahoma city, with its forest of oil derricks, is a modern met ropolis of between 250 and 3(H) thousand population. Weather so far has been ideal for our trip but , nothing so far experienced can equal western North Carolina in our opinion. J. W. Bergthold Dear Editor: A good many Christmases have come and gone since you and 1 have been working together to tell North Carolina folks about the latest information in good farming. 1 try to dig it out "here at the college so that your readers ran have and use it. On the other hand, you go to the expense of printing it so that the people might have these facts brought to their homes. Many of them have used these facts. M*>re than you or 1 shall ever know Many of them have been influenced by these facts whether they got them directly from your paper or not. But no one can deny the evidence that North Carolina is the leading agricultural State in the South. Its crop wealth exceeds that of any other Southern State and its pro gressive farming methods have become a byword. So much so that it is unbecoming in us to boast of what is happening. We know that. But we know also that we have much more to do. Thanks. Rut, this is a letter of thanks for the fine cooperation you give this office week in and week out. We try to be your farm reporter •and to prepare for you in an under standable way, the latest avail able information about good farm ing. Since we are here at the source of research results and of extension information, this means that you get directly all the late news that is available. You have been most cooperative in using this news material and the re sults of your effort are evident. Therefore, accept from us here in this reporters' office our good wishes for a Happy Christmas and a good year in 1949. We appreciate the great service you are render ing the rural people of North Carolina. Sincerely, F. H. Jeter State Extension Service RETURN To \. j. Lawrence De Graves has re turned to his home in Titusville, N. J., after spending several days with Mrs. W. H. Lindsey and family. He came to attend the funeral of Sgt. Woodrow Lindsey. SWANNANOA GROUP MEET . . Circle No. 1 of the Swannanoa i Presbyterian church will meet with Mrs. Charles Porter Monday, January 3, at 2:30 p. m. r-p-T-l DOING THINGS r~~-—i | TOGETHER P; J By GEORGE S. BENSON President ol Harding College fly 1 Searcy. Arkonia* “THE AMERICAN success is the story of large numbers of peo ple doing something together. When an enterprise prospers, everybody connected with it pros pers, and the success legend nnist be divided among them. The statement was made by Mr. Crawford Grecncwalt, president of the Du Pont Company, who be lieves that America's unique po sition was achieved “not because we have more coal or more gold or more land, but because we have more incentive, more ycn ture, more determination.” Now, when the rest of us get out and talk that way, I believe that we will begin to see the greatness of America. If management thinking at Du Pont is any key to the attitudes generally held in industry, I think we may nil be encouraged to ex pect greater and greater things as America goes ahead year after year. No Merc INDEED, “the great- Aocident ost dto the great est number of peo ple” is a description that just fits America. But it is no accident. It includes the wa>'s we cooper ate, capita! with hibor and labor with capital—until actually there are no difference:;. When you consider that per sons willing to deny themselves put up their savings to the tune of $13,500 for each worker at Du Pont, you see how the stock holders cooperated. That makes a good solid investment behind the average Du Pont worker. It's higher than average. Proper and wise use < f to is and human energy ena! 1 this aver a go worker to collect SIO,OOO for his part of production. That's higher than average. Out of this $lO,- EARL HI RST 11.1. spent Christinas at home / wii Earl Hurst who underwent a return to the hospital for furthei serious operation at Moore Gen- oeatment friday. eral hospital several weeks ago PHONE YOUR NEWS TO 4101 ■ r ' % Ml * i maom Mi Mrfj / J y# Wit _ 5), ' \ < \>«' yxPf jy94 9 Another year has marched away And for your patronage each day, Our thanks are due for your friendship true And blessings on your New Year, too! Iplfl The Northwestern Bank ni ACK MOUNTAIN OLI) FOKI 600 hnd to come costs of p r , ing the goods. About i> , C ' cent, or $4,410, went for raw . Y terials, power, and other : . sary expense. What Makes THIS AVER Arp America? worker him-elf _, was paid $Y " , The government tax bill wa ‘ replace and modernize tools th-o wore out. All these costs , $9,500, which taken from Horn leaves a profit of $l,lOO. On • investment of $ 1 3,5 00 that’- about 8 per cent. That's not‘hart either. u However, stockholders w cre asked to leavb S2BO of this p r ,-,fu in the business, making for this average worker to use the following year. Stockholder: were then paid SB2O in dividends or about a G per cent return on their money. This is the way?h a t I)u Font’s annual report rc-.i j terms of each worker. It r ,. re . sents wonderful coordination?.? the worker - management t< ,1? When you duplicate this n . j times, with big and little i ness, you’ve got what makes 'America. The measure of America. ‘Jen is how well ail of us coop rate! We’ve done a wonderful job in the past, despite mis unde land ings here and there. This ; y?. tem, that permits us to me all our talents and all our n ,uurces is sometimes called “free com petitive enterprise.” But it is also a wonderful adventure in co operation. More than any (/her land today, more than can be found of any nation in history— we have succeeded in bringing “the greatest good to the great est number of people.”
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