■ SENATOR
SAM IRVIN
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private indi
itions and the
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Shenandoah
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on the south.
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National Parks
itablished, they
f landed areas
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embraced in
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te individuals
the States of
Carolina at
tely 10 million
to the Federal
enjoyment of
those active in
donation of
never con
toll would be
visiting the
rk. Moreover,
ay of the Blue
than that
National For
the State of
a cost of ap
,000 and convey
the State of
North Carolina to the Federal Gov
ernment. Since the State of North
Carolina has steadfastly refused
to exact a toll of any person for
the use of its hridges and high
ways, 1 am satisfied that the State
of North Carolina would never
have made these valuable gifts to
the Federal Government if it had
known that the Federal Govern
ment would pervert its gifts to the
raising of revenue.
The National Park Service at
tempts to justify the imposition of
the proposed toll on the ground
that the toll is intended to defray
the cost of maintaining the Shen
andoah National Park, the Skyline
Drive, the Blue Ridge Parkway,
and the Smoky National Park,
which totals $546,000 annually. As
1 have already pointed out, ail
tolls collected are to be covered
into the general treasury.
Popular Parkway.
During the past year, 1,500,000
automobiles used the Blue Ridge
Parkway. If such use continues
in the future, and the National
Park Service collects the minimum
proposed fee, i.e., the '‘15-day”
$1.00 fee, from each automobile,
it will collect three times the main
tenance cost. When I called this
significant fact to the attention of
the National Park Service, I receiv
ed the astounding reply that only
enough motorists would be com
pelled to pay the fee to raise the
cost of maintenance, and that all
other motorists would be permitted
to use the Parkway without charge.
This would be, indeed, a queer
practice in a country which believes
in ‘‘equal justice under law.”
It is to be remembered that the
Federal Government already col
lects two cents on each gallon of
gasoline consumed by automobiles
using the Parkway, and that it
would be just as logical to impose
a toll on other highways construct
ed in part with Federal funds as
it is to impose a toll on the Blue
Ridge Parkway. The argument
that the toll is justified for the
Blue Ridge Parkway because it is
used for recreational purposes
lacks validity. All other highways
are used in large measure for rec
reational purposes.
Abandon The Idea.
I he difficulties inherent in its
administration alone ought to in
duce the National Park Service to
abandon its plan to impose and
collect the toll. There are approx
imately 500 different entrances of
one kind or another to the Skyline
Drive and the Blue Ridge Parkway.
As a consequence, the National
Park Service proposes to establish
30 different stations for the col
lection of the toll. If these sta
tions are placed at equal distances
along the 325 miles of Parkway
now completed, the motorists will
have his view of the beauties of
nature obscured by the revenue col
lecting agencies of the Federal
Government.
In conclusion, it is worthy to
note that the National Park Ser
vice maintains several other road
ways in other parts of the coun
try and does not propose to im
pose any fee for their use.
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Poet's Corner
Conducted by
Anne K. Sharp, Chairman
Creative Writing Group
WHEN YOU SMILE
1 think that there will never be
A sweeter smile than yours for me,
For in that moment there is seen
A door opening wide between
Two hearts that dwell in quietness
Around a hearth of happiness.
1 know again that all is well.
Your eyes are warm and gently
tell
Of love that words cannot reveal,
Whose yearning speaks until 1 feel
1 The fullness of humility
That such a gift has come to me.
Louise Barker Barnhill.
"When You Smile” was publish
ed in the winter issue of the
“Westminster.” We congratulate
our ‘‘fellow townswoman” for at
taining this nationally recognized
| honor, but more, we congratulate
Black Mountain because it has an
other "poetic star in its galary!”
Alexander I’ope wrote: “True
ease in writing comes from art,
not chance.” “When \ ou Smile” is
“art” embracing music deep with
in the soul.”
Chr. Poet’s Corner for the
Creative Writing Club.
Rites Held For
Spurgeon Shope
Funeral services for Spurgeon
Shope, 64. of the Riceville section,
were held Sunday afternoon in
the Riceville Presbyterian church
with the Rev. A. I). Smith offi
ciating. Mr. Shope died Friday in
an Asheville hospital after a long
illness. He was a native and life
long resident of the Riceville
section.
Surviving are three sisters, Mrs.
Gordon Gragg. Mrs. Frank G.
Roberts, and Mrs. James N Brad
ley, all of Swannanoa: two broth
ers. Carl of Springfield, Mo., and
William of Sanford. N. C.
Harrison Funeral home was i:i
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Kogarding thp iong-range effects
f the A-bomb explosions upon hu
man beings, there has been much
speculation. The -Los Angeles
1 imes recently stated.
hv hn’ffV'T tan b(' <iamagfd
tb( flash of atomic or hydrogen
bombs ns far as 40 miles from
he observer, the School of Avia
iT" Medicine at Randolph Field,
lex., reports. But there is a more
serious menace.
“Dr. A H. Sturtwant, interna
tionally known caltech authority
on eiedity, advances arguments
Which Imply that each bomb ex
ploded as a test, in Nevada, Aus
tralia, or Siberia, contributes some
t ing to the future production of
inferior men and women.
"There is no possible escape,"
the caltech geneticist asserts,
"from the conclusion that the
bombs already exploded ultimate
ly will result in the production of
numerous defective individuals if
the race survives for many genera
tionMoreover, every new bomb ex
ploded, since its radioactive pro
ducts are widely dispersed over
the earth, will result in an increase
m this ultimate harvest of defec
tive individuals.”
Science News Letter" suggest
ed a limitation of the test explo
8ions that are being made, since
Mill 'l.< llll IHl 1
sion that the gradual accumula
tion of atomic dehris from H- and
A-bomb explosions will poison the
earth’s atmosphere.
The French physicist and head
of the natural science section of
UNESCO, Dr. Pierre Auges, sug
gested that the atomic powers
might agree to limit their "shots”
in the interest of not creating too
much radiation in the earth’s air.
The article continues:
“If tests are fix-ed repeatedly
without regard to the radiation
danger, we may drift into a pollu
tion of the air that it will be im
possible to remedy.
“Some of the debris of atomic
explosions is very long-lived, as
long lasting almost as natural rad
ium and uranium. It goes on giv
ing off radiation for thousands of
years. Other new elements man
ufactured in the gigantic blasts are
shorter lasting and more intense.
"From the standpoint of poison
ing the world, the radioaction ma
terials that explode over a few
years are equally important. How
many bombs exploded in a short
time would be dangerous to the
whole world is problematical, per
haps as few as 100, perhaps more.
“These widespread effects are
not the same as the direct radia
tion effects of the explosion. They
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We salute you on your birthday,
Feb. 12—
Natalie Calloway
C. S. Betts
Martha T. I’erley
Mrs. Paul Turner
Mrs. Clyde A. Stubbs
Mrs. W. H. Holman
William Quinn
Feb. 13—
Bradford Field
Robert Byrd Jr.
Evelyn Bumgarner
Feb. 14—
Betty Ball
Myrtle Stephenson
are less immediate and more in
siduous.”
In face of these dangers, we
need more women under fifty in
our Ground Observer’s Corps.
We’ll need women as wardens,
nurses, and so on “if” so please
enroll. Phone me, 7539. Several
have enrolled, more are needed.
Mr. Chas. Spencer of Spencer
Hnes, is over-all director for this
vicinity. Be patriotic. Enroll to
help defend your community and
your country.
Mrs. Thos. S. Sharp,
Chr. Women in Civil Defense,
Black Mtn. Sr. Woman’s club.
Earl R. Swann
Barbara Helgreen
Sarah Bumgarner
Joan Biddix
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G. B. Quesinberry
Mrs. Glenn Stafford
Leroy Vomer
Feb. 16—
Richard F. Gauthier
William Metcalf
Claude Brooks
Charles Michael Sobol
Feb. 17—
W. E. Lindau
Sandra Wright
Veranda Walker
Townsend Hay
Robert Owenby
Kiah Ferguson
Experts say that “hollow horn”
and “hollow tail” are imaginary
diseases of cattle, having no basis
of fact.
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