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Published Every Thursday in Black Mountain, N. C. G. H. Greenwood and G. W. Dougherty — Co-Owners Entered as Second Class Matter September 13, 1945, at the Post Office at Black Mountain, North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Day Phone 4101 A 66Finer99 Toivn Several weeks ago the Carolina Power and Light company, in an effort to stimulate a greater inter est and community spirit in the area it serves, of fered thousands of dollars in prizes to the towns showing the greatest improvement in several divis ions. No town or village was excluded because of size. The largest municipality and the smallest vil- j lage had the same opportunity. But strange as it may seem the greatest interest ' has been shown by the larger towns and not by the , smaller cities as one w'ould suppose. In Black Mountain and Swrannanoa, under direc tion of general chairmens, W. Dean Willis and Mrs. 1 W. A. Porter, respectively, many projects have been J begun and some completed. For instance at bwannanoa tne luncnroom im provements have been practically completed and 1 great progress made on the streets, town sign, and \ club house. Work is going steadily ahead on sev- i eral other projects. i Two projects have been finished in Black Moun- I tain, the street marking venture sponsored by the Jaycees, and the town sign located at the west en- j trance of town which was sponsored by the B&PW club. At Ridgecrest the new kitchen and dining , room, W. K. Weeks reveals, will be finished by June 1 A^ reported elsewhere in the NEWS, through the untiring efforts of committee members, Black Moun tain will soon have a city park located on the Mon treat road. The Black Mountain Lions Club and the Chamber of Commerce have taken as their objective the im provement of the Montreat road. The highway de partment has agreed to widen the street and im prove it if property owners will give their consent to certain alterations. That should prove no prob lem. We have made an excellent beginning, but this is no time to rest on our laurels. Summer will soon be here and with it the rush which is always pre sent during our busy season. Now while we have an opportunity to improve our town—and get paid for it, too—is the time to dig in and make our com munity “Carolina’s Finest.” What further in centive do we need? Attend Church? — An enter prising Raleigh pastor had some thing in his bulletin last Sunday under the heading of: “Why I don’t Attend the Movies—or the Churclj?” The manager of the theater never called on me. I did go a few times but no one spoke to me. Those who go there aren’t friendly. Every time I go they ask me for money. Not all folks live up to the high moral standards of the films. I went so much as a child I’ve decided I’ve had all the entertainment I need. The per formance lasts too long; I can’t sit still for an hour and three quarters. I don’t care for some of the people I see and meet at the theatre. I don’t always agree with what I hear and see. I don’t think they have very good music at the theatre. The shows are held in the evenings, and that’s the only time I am able to be at home with the family. To Chicago — Remember how dull those National Democratic Conventions were in 1936-40-44? The one in 1948 was only a little more exciting. But steer clear for the one com ing up in Chicago in July! There is going to be plenty of fun — and North Carolina is likely to be right in the middle of it. You can look for a full house from this state in Chicago. Here is what Joe and Stewart Alsop, our favorite Washington political pundits, say in discussing Democratic meeting: “ . . In short, nothing but a Republican nomination of Sen. Robert A. Taft, with a subsequent draft-Steven son movement among the Demo crats, is now likely to reunite the increasingly divided Democratic Party. “If the Republicans choose Eisen hower, the show the Democrats put on at their convention ought to make the Kilkenny cats feel pretty ashamed of themselves. Optimism — With the primary only a few days off, a remark made by O. Max Gardner in May of 1927 may prove interesting at this time. Angus W. McLean was gov ernor. 0. Max Gardner had been beaten for governor seven years ?arlier when Senator F urnifold Simmons quietly but powerfully ?dged his power over Cameron Morrison. Gardner said in 1927 that folks ,vho thought he would be the next governor were guilty of “audac ous optimism.” Well, he went in with nothing :o bother him in 192S and pretty veil controlled politics in North Carolina for the next 20 years. Not since Gardner, who was Lieutenant Governor in 1916-20, ias one of our number two men jeen elected governor. Not Registered — For two or ,hree weeks now we have been vriting here about each person s larticipation in government by the ample act of voting. But you can’t vote unless you ire registered—and in North Car >lina in 1950 there were 711,000 leople — or considerably larger han the number which voted — lot even registered to vote. In South Carolina, whose pop ilation is much smaller than ours, ion-registered voters numbered 101,000. In Texas there were 3,076,000 ion-registered voters in 1950. To Paris? — We can’t get the owdown on the rumor, but reports lersist that Kerr Scott’s private iecretary, John Marshall, will oon go to Paris as personnel man or Jones Construction company, day be nothing to it, but stranger hings have happened around here n the last three, four years. Where here is so much smoke there may >e some fire. The Races — In four sections if the state, there is excitement iver congressional races. We will lot predict here what the results vill be, but keep an eye on events n the second district, where young L. H. Fountain is running hard igainst veteran John Hosea Kerr, vho first went to congress to fill jut the unexpired term of Claude Kitchen. He was elected in 1923. AROUND THE DISTRICT By George Vitas, The other week we were up in the northern end of the District on the Tennessee-North Caroline line with Forestry Aide John Stan ley. The Forest Service road crew up on the Roan was busily push ing ahead on the road which wil eventually link Carvers Gap witl the old hotel site. With the Roar Mountain Rhododendron Festival scheduled for June 21, we art hoping that the road will be com pleted in time for the use of the thousands of visitors who will be expected on the Roan this year. There is every indication that this year’s bloom of purple Rho dodendron on the Roan will be exceptionally fine. We checked the prevelance of bloom-buds or the plants and found them to be considerably more plentiful than they were last year. With the governors of both North Carolina and Tennessee heading a long list of dignitaries who will attend the festival, it looks as if it should be one of the best ever. But jus1 in case you should miss the fest ival and are still interested ir seeing one of the most outstand ing displays of purple rhododend ron in the United States, be sure to visit the Roan some time be tween the middle of June and th« first week in July. Each year, during the Christ mas tree season, we hear a lo' of pro and con discussion abou how long the Frasier Balsam fii trees which grow on the Roai can hold their needles after the\ are cut. Last week we checkec last year’s Christmas tree cut tings and were amazed at wha we found. The needles on thi if YOULL PLANT TV»KE UTOf Off ME'-* wE can grow ..■ .rq-B UP TD&CTHER 1 2s. /;"anp we must be SsuBE TO KEEPr FiBE EPOM\ < ' *-V I&JRN'N&'WESE fe” ^ismallTWBS Tee To make a better America—to give a future for future Americans—Don’t burn up a great natural resource by YOUR carelessness! Fountain’s lawmaking experience was gained in the state senate. He is around 38 years of age. An interesting thing about young Fountain is the fact that he has been to Sunday school 36 years without missing a Sunday. This type of candidate is hard to beat, but Fountain has still competition in John Kerr. In the seventh district, Fayette ville Mayor J. O. Talley is work ing diligently to unseat Ertel Carlyle. Talley is only 31, is very liberal. His wife should be of some assistance to him. She is the daughter of the late R. O. Self, at one time the Corporations Com mission expert and a man who knew his politics. Talley is only 31, and Carlyle has only been in congress a short time, making a good steady record there, but as Fats Waller used to say, “One never know, do one?” In the ninth, one of Kerr Scott’s former highway commissioners, Mark Goforth of Lenoir, is run ning against Hugh Alexander and Graham Carlton for the seat be ing vacated by Robert L. Dough ton. In the twelfth, another of the governor’s former highway com missioners, Dale Thrash of Ashe ville, is competing with Frank Parker and George Shuford for the position held by Monroe Red den. It is extremely difficult to de limbs of trees that were cut and lying on the ground since No vember 1951, were still gTeen. We tugged on some of the needles and found that they clung firmly to the limbs. We knew that Fras ier Fir, when stored in a cool place would hold its needles for a long time. But we had no idea that the needles would still be on the trees, green and fresh looking, five months after the trees were cut! You can’t gamble on fire, even on Roan Mountain. A coal black area of two acres marks the spot at the old hotel site where a fire which started in the dry bald grass, did its damage a couple of weeks ago. Only the fact that the boardering spruce and fir had shaded the ground so that it was damp kept the fire from tearing A POET'S EYES 'To Rosemary) rhou cast a poet’s eye's, for ttl are deep r “ley ",ltUr,ss r*r b'« % “firas?'**. iCt shed tol'.‘hy *"* W* »• knowi mg 't 2,rer thr ’*“> **. Beauty is born thee I know rhou see'est all with such a delight " a pure rhat evil flees and goodness *eems to grow. ras rt0UL<? 1 )° a"' 10 fath<™ thy blue depths s 0 lovely eyes! Such wondrous dreams, such ri,k thought there ‘ ” 1 would find: And I would be content to dwell forever in thy light Leaving the world behind Reprint COLUMN’S,' Louis burg, N. C. Carol Bessent Hayman Mrs. Hayman is an active mem her of the Asheville Branch of the National League of American Penwomen. She served this year ss program chairman for the Creative Writing Club, Black Mountain Arts Club, and is now the president. Her latest poems »re being published by the poetry magazines, THE COUNTRY POET and SCIMITAR AND SONG in Spring issues. Interested per sons are invited to look for her poem ‘‘This Day” which appeared in THE CHRISTIAN ADVO CATE, March 20, 1952. feat a congressman in the South. Fountain and Talley knew this when they started. Odds are against them. Reports are that the gubernatorial campaign is having little influence for or against these two rambunctious young sters. In the ninth and twelfth dis tricts, you are likely to see the groups winning out for governor taking leading roles in the sec ond primary—if and when. through the evergreens that cover the mountain top. Cause of the fire is still under investigation. We would like to urge anyone visiting the Roan to be especially careful of fire. Our timber business continues to be good. One of the largest timber sales made on this Dis trict in several years was made last week. In a sealed bid sale, 0. K. Masters, timberman from Burnsville, purchased more than four million feet of timber which our men had marked for >ale on Locust Creek. Every tree so is marked with a yellow pam spot. An ample reserve stand has been lift, to regenerate the open ings that will be created and > • ficient in volume to pe™1 another commercial cut in 1 same area. _ fur country is UNLIMITED A few are saying the frontier ia gone, that there is no place where a pioneer can strike out on his own. They are the kind who wouldn’t have taken the Oregon Trail twanae they didn’t have the imagination to see where it would lead to, or the guts to get there. The rest of us know there are —and always will be—trails to be hacked through the unknown by pioneers of the land and of the mind—and Americans who would rather make a new trail than take an old highway. Listen! Read! Look! Talk! Argue! Think! Then VOTE
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