RIDGECREST . . . ramblings Mrs. L^ottard Biddix Dial 4966 Miss Bell Presents Program Miss Arvine Bell presented the program Tuesday evening when the Business Women's circle met at the home of Mrs. George Pick ering at Camp Rockmont. Miss Alice Turner, chairman, presided over the meeting. After an open ing prayer by Mrs. Eugene Wright a short business session was held Miss Bell gave a very interesting program on "We Give Thee Bui Thine Own”, using a radio broad casting program skit. At the close of the meeting refreshments were served to the following: Mrs. Pau: Lawson, Mrs. Paul Turner, Mrs Bill Snypes, Miss Turner, Mrs James Moore, Mrs. Jewel Bell Mrs. Wright, Miss Bell, Mrs. Rav mond Lanning, and Mrs. Leonard Biddix. Klng-Johnson Wedding at Canton Miss Irma Joan King, daughtei of Mr. and Mrs. John Joseph King of Canton, became the bride oi Wilford Lee Johnson, son of Mr and Mrs. C. B. Johnson, Saturday at 8 p.m. at the First Baptist church. After a wedding trip to Florida, the couple will live at Ridgecrest with the groom’s par ents. Congratulations to this newly married couple and welcome to Ridgecrest! Personals Mr. and Mrs. C. P. McMahan and children moved from the Crav en building to the cottage on Craven Hill Saturday. Mrs. R. L. May returned to her home on Thursday from an ex tended visit with her children, Mr. and Mrs. Bob May in Fayette ville. Mrs. Bob May and a friend drove her home. Dr. Hight C Moore will cele brate his 85th birthday Saturday. We wish him a very happy birth 1111 day and many more. Dr. Moobe is attending the morning church ser vice now and is also able to get out a little bit every afternoon for a ride and to get his mail at the post office and chat with friends there. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Pate were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ho bart Lee of Beverly Hills Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Craig and some friends of Lincolnton visit ed their house on Royal Gorge road Sunday afternoon. Mr. Walker and a group of men from Gastonia spent Wednesday night and Thursday at their church cottage making more additions to the cottage. Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Gilliam of Columbia, S. C., spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Meeks. CHURCH CIRCLE MEETS WITH MRS. I. L. PENCE The Jauary meeting of circle 4 of the Methodist church was held Tuesday night, Jan. 17, at the home of Mrs. I. L. Pence. Mrs. Zeb Sawyer, chairman, presided during the meeting. Mrs. Douglas Jones gave the devotional and the study taken from the book “Five Spiritual Classics,” a story on the life of Saint Augustine. Mrs. Jones gave a brief account on the background of Saint Augustine 1 and his parents. During the social hour a sweet course was served by the hostess to Miss Sarah Thompson, Mrs. Fred Cook, Mrs. J. M. Goodman, Mrs. Finley Stepp, Mrs. D. P. Din- ' widdie, Mrs. Clyde Watkins, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Gordon Greenwood, and Mrs. Sawyer. —The first submarine accepted by the Navy, the USS HOLAND was built in 1899 at a cost of $239, 600. The Navy bought it for $150, '• 000. Present day submarines cost about $10,000,000. _________ FILLING PRESCRIPTIONS REQUIRES ACCURACY AS WELL AS PURE INGREDIENTS. Our Pharmaceutical Department uses only the Best and Freshest Drugs Available, and are compounded by a REGISTERED PHARMACIST only. KNIGHTS PHARMACY WALGREEN DIAL 3331 AGENCY Black Mountain, N. C. This is the Law By Robert E. Lee (For the N. C. Bar Association) LIENS Smith takes his watch to a jew eler for repairs. Nothing is said at the time about the payment. tVhen Smith returns for the re laired watch, the jeweler informs aim that the cost is fifteen dol ars. If Smith refuses to pay, may ;he jeweler continue to keep the vatch ? Yes. If a person requests an ither to perform services for him, .here is an implied contract to pay a reasonable price for the services •endered. If there is a dispute as 0 the reasonableness of the price, ;he dispute may be litigated in the ■ourts. If a worker or artisan has in his rossession the personal property >f another on which he has per ormed requested services, he has 1 right to retain the property as ecurity for the payment of his ervices. Lawyers call this right i “possessory lien.” This particular lien may be crea ed without an agreement of the larties. It arises by operation of aw out of a custom which arose nany years ago and has been made t part of our common law. This ixplains why many repairmen do lot require compensation in ad vance for services rendered or ma erials added to personal property n accordance with the owner’s •equest. How does a repairman enforce lis lien on personal property which le has made or altered at the re juest of another? The statutes of North Carolina >ermit the repairman to sell by lis own act at public auction, vithout intervention of a judicial iroceeding, the property for the >urpose of enforcing the lien, 'here are certain details to be fol iwed in the publishing and giving otice of sale. An attorney should e consulted for advice. A Story of Progress that Benefits Everyone The past year has seen booming growt all through the South — in business . . industry .. . housing . .. personal income Telephone development has surged aheac too. Since the telephone means so much t everyone, you might like to know some c the ways Southern Bell answered Dixie call in 1955 for more and better servia Last year we: • Increased operator dialing of Long Distance calls straight through to the distant numbers. • Converted many exchanges to the new nation-wide numbering sys tem, which will eventually make It possible for you to dial your own Long Distance calls. • Added many thousands of miles of new Long Distance circuits and TV network routes. • Installed a bumper crop of new rural telephones, with the aid of newly-discovered technical devel opments and construction methods. • Carried out history-making tests proving that new-type rural service can be powered by the Bell Solar Battery, which harnesses the sun’s energy for the first time. • Changed many more telephones to dial service. • Made widely available new and improved equipment such as tele phones in color . . . volume-con 1 trol phones . . . dials that light up In the dark . . . the Speakerphone, which lets you talk and hear with out lifting the receiver . . . and ^ many more. t ANSWERING NORTH CAROLINA'S CALL... * In North Carolina, we added about 30, 000 new telephones in ’55. This involved construction of buildings and equipment amounting to over 17 million dollars. In all, we have spent over 148 million to expand and improve service in the State since 1945. In step with North Carolina’s progress, we plan to spend more than 21 million more in 1956 on construction to provide North Carolinians with the kind of service they want and need. This large expansion program makes telephone service more useful and valu able for everyone. And the millions of dollars for construction, plus more mil lions we pay in wages and taxes, contrib ute vitally to the State’s economy. Where will construction money to ex pand and improve telephone service come from? Not from the customers’ payments for service. But from thousands of people who put their savings into telephone stocks and bonds. To attract this money, telephone rates must be adequate to pay them a fair return on their investment. C. L. Lott, North Carolina Commercial Manager Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company tsaMi Does a garage keePer, h®'1 “ lien for storage char ges. In North Carolina a garage keeper does not have a lien for storage charges. This is due to the fact that the privilege of a lien is usually extended t0 those who have by their skill and labor im parted some additional value to the property of anothei. In a considerable number of oth er states there are statutes giving to a garage keeper a lien for stor age charges. In several of these States the lien exists even though the garage keeper voluntarily sur renders possession. Does a warehouseman have a lien for storage charges? Yes. There is a statute in North Carolina which gives to warehouse man a lien on goods in storage. The Supreme Court of North Carolina has held that the Statute applies only to persons or firms who operate warehouses as a busi ness for compensation, and not to isolated instances in which goods are stored in a store or building of the claimant. The warehouse man must be one who holds him self out to the public as being in the warehouse business and who has paid a tax for such a privilege. BEE TREE NEWS By Mrs. C. M. Howie This past week has been a very disagreeable one. It has been very eoid. with high winds, some snow from the north, plenty of ice and a little rain. The Longs branch has had plenty of ice, almost frozen over. The Talmadge Hensleys of Longs branch road have all been very sick this past week with colds. Aunt Carrie Shope has been sick this past week. Visiting her and the Oscar Bowens Sunday after noon were Mr. and Mrs. Elmore Burnette of Bee Tree road and the Rev. Parham of Candler. The Rev. Parham and family were dinner guests of the C. M. Howies Sunday. J. B. Sawyers of Sawyers dairy was stricken suddenly with pneu monia the first of last week and was rushed to Mission hospital where he underwent treatment. His sister and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Berry Barnes of near Biltmore, brought him home Fri day afternoon. The Rodman Sawyers apartment at J. B. Sawyers caught fire last Thursday night from a defective flue. The blaze was extinguished before it did very much damage. Mrs. Ave Maney of near Swan nanoa visited her mother, Mrs. Jimmie Dillingham Sunday. She has been sick this past week. Mrs. Ruth Wilson’s daughter and grand daughter of Mrs. Oscar Bowen is reported to be very sick. Mrs. Stokley Brooks of Bee Tree road has been sick for several weeks with a throat ailment. The Wrights of Longs Branch butchered hogs this past week. Monroe Howie and his father, Murray Howie, visited J. B. Saw yers last Friday afternoon at his home. Visiting the Loyn Howies of Longs Branch road Sunday were Mrs. Howies’ sister, her husband and son, the Wade Worleys of Black Mountain. Leaders Predict Better Business For This Year The consensus of a great many business men from all parts of the country is that there will be more employment, better business con ditions and more take-home pay in 1956 for the average employee, Cola G. Parker, newly elected president of the National Associa tion of Manufacturers, has report ed in his year-end statement. Industry, the prominent business executive predicted, will produce from three to five per cent more goods and services in the new year. "There is no doubt whatsoever in my mind about this,” Mr. Park er added. “We are moving up ward on the economic charts into a period of prosperity, of expan sion, of living standards higher than ever before. The NAM president continued: The emblem recognized in more than A MILLION HOMES As the hallmark of clean heat comfort We believe in implying the best!] Williams Bros. Distributors Black Mountain — Dial 7110 "I think I can best sum up the rusiness outlook for 1956 this way. Hie picture is brighi. The picture is pood. Our population grows at the rate of more than two and a half million a year. This means more jobs must be created, and more jobs can be created only if have expanding markets and Americans with the faith and in centive to invest in the future. Wages may go up, yes, but wage increases are economically sound only when they do not exceed the increase in productivity. —Operating more than 44