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,i ill ions of fathers who tMtstnselves somewhat less . jtiee i<lols will he relieved there is no truth to the that a prospective "mark” her unborn child by gazing at an unpleasant sight. —Last year North Carolinians ate an average of 12.3 quarts of ice cream per person. Extruded Aluminum Combination Doors Now Only Over 1" thick. . Complete with C3 / Qf all hardware, including pneumatic door closef, outside aluminum door jamb and expander type bottom rail. (' "-iaraoTeed by •* f/. '-i Housekeeping Q.nriUO IrMAJ I'lWlV 3-Track Combination Windows COMPLETELY ASSEMBLED — EASILY INSTALLED! Now Only a for opening sizes thru F m F 25x47" double-hung \ I ^ windows. Other sizes slightly higher. V Gaaront»#4 by^* Good Hous«ke«pinf P-oducts of the WEATHER-PROOF Co. SPECIAL THIS WEEK: Glidden Spred Satin! WAS: —Quart—$2.10 . . . Gallon—$6.39 Special Price — QUART $150 $480 Blackmcm/ntain eCjUAflfe/is CoHipCUUl, . Jr INCORPORATED 1908 (/. &■ &CHUfklsCty, £&c. OMoL JkiAA ' LUMBER. a»ul BUILDERS' SUPPLIES BLACk MOUNTAIN, N. C. GET A WINNING DEAL ON A NEW CHEVY-THE GETTING'S EXTRA GOOD III III llll!lil!li(HI4'^«e ik PdEn Walkpr s,or\l'hi<''1 *, ‘“"J. 'ou an animal >> m a long time, so I will tell dog tale. Much has been you Un!U™ aboin the intelligence of S' n’ fact ;i" Article in ast weelcs News reminded me to in article in d« ‘his. "rthink^these*brainy^dogs peopTe YoilTk jUSt likc br™ant he's a|.)| ' fc ,a duinb person, n s hard to teach anything, I’r ^ruW,UJ 3vsclf ln lots of wavs person, m When Minnie and 7 were'Tir.st married one of her friends in Mar ion gave her a bulldog puppy she - the real dog lover V this' fam - | didn t much want to be bothered with the pup.' but to please hei 1 went over and got him. She already had him'named esrs'T ‘1 3 £°g S,1C had owned -,before- He was all white, xci pt one ear which was brind led Me never did have his tail and ears cut I think if 1 had a tal I won lent like it to be cut oil. although it was unsightly. When I got him home 1 put him m a cardboard box in the kitchen. Minnie also had a few ducklings in another box which she was go mg to raise for pets. I went ”to teed the pigs before going to work and when 1 got back to the house ? yclone had climbed out of his into the other box, and killed the ducklings. Minnie excused him saving he probably didn’t like the noise they made We had a hard time teaching Cy t° he house-broken, he was always cold natured and our little shack had large cracks in the floor, so he most likely thought it was fool ish to go outside. We lived far up the mountain. When we went down in the valley on a hot day, some of the children would have to carry Cy part way back, even after he was a good sized dog. The first thing we noticed extra ordinary about Cy was when we went to the garden (which was down the mountain) we often left a basket and other things at the mailbox while we visited some where. and although Cy was a social minded fellow he would lay down by whatever we left at the mailbox and guard it until we came back, no one ever told him to do this. Another trick he took up early—if Minnie, or one of the girls made him angry, he would slip into the house and find some of the guilty one’s clothing, us ually nylon hose, take it out be hind the house and tear it to shreds. One afternoon I was mowing grass across the creek. I didn’t lack much being through. Cy knew there was a rabbit in the tall grass, when I mowed around one side he would run to the opposite side and watch. Minnie came along and being afraid he might get cut with the sickle, she tied him with a cord to take him home. Cy didn’t want to go, when she got to the creek he lay down in the water and growled threaten ingly at Minnie. She finally got him home, but he tore the cord loose and rushed back to the field in time to catch the rabbit, which he ate with great relish. 1 don't think he ever got as much to eat as he wanted. My Dad never liked dogs very well, he considered them a useless thing, but Cy took a great liking to him. maybe because he drove the horses and Cy liked horses. Dad reciprocated this feeling. One autumn evening he was stacking hay with one of his grandsons. When Dad peaked out the stack he slid down, forgetting to bring his More People D ill ill II III coat from the top of the stack. That night Cy went back to the field, climbed the steep haystack, dug out a hole in the hay near the coat, and kept a lonely vigil all night. Next morning Dad went to gel his coat and was greeted by Cy from his lofty bed. We had a tin heater in our cabin, what is known as a trash burner with a draft at the bottom. On cold winter evenings Cy used to love to come in and stretch out in the warm glow. He seemed to think this was made just for him. for no one else could get near the stove. Cy was a big boy now. The stove pipe was put through a hole in the end of the house into the teeth of the north wind. Now and then the wind would whip down the pipe causing a blue flame to lick out into the room from the draft opening. Cy would lunge backward, overturn ing furniture, knocking anything out of his way. When he got over his fright he would look at me as if to say, “Why can’t we do some thing about this great hazard?” His insatiable appetite was some thing else again. He would pan handle all over the community. Miss Kate Wicker kept a special yellow bowl for him. he would be at the back door at a certain time each day for his handout. My sister. Mrs. Blain Morris, had sev eral cats which she fed milk in the back yard from a deep metal utensil. When she looked for this at feeding time it would always be in the front yard behind an evergreen tree. Moreover the cats stayed gaunt as if they didn’t gel proper nourishment. One evening she watched from the window to see if everything was going right with her felines. After she had left and the cats settled down to their repast. Cyclone rushed around the house, jumped viciously at the purring cats, scrattering them helter-skelter. Then he tend erlv picked up the pan by its edge, carried it gingerly behind the thick tree where he consumed the milk leisurely. (Maude went to feeding her cats under protection.) One day Cy and myself were riding along in my car. I picked up a man that I knew who was in the last stage of inebriation This man, being a dog lover, put his arm around Cy and tried to kiss him on the cheek. He deeply resented these amorous advances, and when he smelled the man’s breath he leaped from the window and raced home. He despised strong drink as much as Carrie Nation ever did. We had our beds upstairs in our little cabin and Cy liked nothing better than to take an afternoon nao on one of these. He knew that this was forbidden, so he would try to slip in. His long toenails gave him away, though, we would hear them click on the stairs, and then the springs creak as he heaved his heavy body gratefully on the clean counterpane. One hot summer evening Minnie was tak ing a short siesta. She woke up talking to herself, railing out at me for not shaving, she found that Cv had crept into bed with her. and had his bewhiskered face close to hers, with one forepaw over her shoulder. (I will finish this next week. T cannot cover Cy’s life in so little space.) We visited my brother, Ernest, of Stradford road in the Beaver Lake section on Labor Day. He is in very poor health and unable to get out much, but always full of stories of the old days. We went to the Bee Tree picnic this Saturday like we do everv rear, unless providentially hind ered. There was an unusually large crowd this year and a very good program. We think Clarence Stevens and Verlon Bartlett are doing a commendable job in carry ing on this worthy custom. They have 78 vears of backing, but it is bound to take a lot of time and energy. It is always a pleasure to be on a program with John Connet of Warren Wilson college, he is so full of vitality and humor. 'rive Chevrolets Than Any Other Car There seem to be two kinds of roads around the country lately. There are dull, ordinary everyday roads. 1 hen, there are the same roads when you take them in Chevrolet—fun roads. Stepping along nimbly, surely staying on course-traits like these come just a little more naturally to Chevrolet. Few cars at any price are so beautifully balanced. None in Chevrolet’s field have Ball-Race steering, extra-long outrigger rear Better try it soon-Chevrolet Bel Air Sport Sedan ' springs-or Body by Fisher-to name just a few of Chevy’s exclusives. As for spirit, well-take a Chev rolet out and feel that eager 245* horsepower! Just drop in at your Chevrolet dealer’s-soon! •Optional at extra cost. 270-h.p. VS engine also available at exUa cost. See Only franchised l het ruleI dealers Your Local Authorized display this famous trademark Chevrolet Dealer Sen. Ervin Says: Washington — while study ing the military public works bill for the continental United States, 1 made a few comparisons which I believe you will find interesting. military construction For fiscal 1958, here are the projects and amounts for North Carolina: Army: Fort Bragg, $1, 051,000; Navy: Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, $6,503,000; Naval Seaplane Facility, Harvey Point, $5,728,000; Marine Corps Air Facility, New River, Jacksonville, $39,000; Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune, $2,372,000; Air Force: Seymour Johnson AFB, Goldsboro, $9,991,000, a total of 25, 684,000 for military construction in North Car olina. COMPARISON North Carolina, generally speak ing, ranks high in the amount of investment for military activity. On the construction phase alone, our State outranks New York whose total is $19,616,000. We are far behind California which would get $122,191,000. I cite this to show the great amount of Federal funds being spent in North Carol ina by the military on this one item. Of course, it doesnot in clude the many other expenditures for national defense. ECONOMY ? The cut-back in personnel i.n the Armed Forces create a con fused situation. For example, the Army is reducing its forces by 50,000. Those who applaud the economy therein practiced are prone to forget how this action hits many career military people. This austerity program is forcing from the services many careerists who had planned on making their retirement. As you know, I have favored adequate defense preparation. I want our defense to be in being, fearing no time to prepare should an emergency strike. I believe some more effective means of pro viding for our armed forces must be found than this “feast or fam ine” approach now in use. This is why I am reluctant to drastically reduce our personnel until a firm program can be adopt There were other good directors. I remember Theodore Roberts from boyhood. All of the string music ians were personal friends except one that I had not met. Nearly all mountaineers love good string music. We enjoyed Dr. Henry Jen sen’s lovely ballad "Ballad of Bee Tree” with its beautifully imag ery and phrasing, and well com posed music. Dr. Jensen don’t look a day older than the first time 1 saw him and that has been a long time ago. Gov. Luther Hodges was intro duced by the “parson” (Rev. Wayne Williams) about noon. His speech was down to earth, rung with sincerity, and was seasoned with zesty humor. We took a great liking to him from the start. We should be truly grateful that we have this fine Christian gentleman at the helm of our state in these trying times. I have tried to describe the food at the Bee Tree picnic before, one just has to be there and see the array of dishes to believe it. Truly the community cxels in wonder ful culinary artists. 1 hadn’t traversed more than 20 lineal feet of table until I began to have visions of added poundage, and began to partake more of fellow ship and less of victuals. Our good friends the Northcotts and Whitakers were there with Renne in high spirits. She gave the Governor a big kiss. A Scots man went through the crowd dur ing lunch hour with bagpipes a skirling and Minnie and Renne took out after him, Renne liked the string music, too. The afternoon was given over to singing, music, and short talks by old timers. Roses, white and red, were pinned on several people for different reasons — for out standing work, being the oldest, etc I think a softball game was played in the late afternoon, but •we had to go to another picnic. With a faint trace of melancholy I led the congregation in "God Be With You.” We went on to the Beacon Out ing at the Recreation Park, and liked to never found a place to park. I never saw so many cars. In the short time we were there we saw many good friends, but we were so tired we soon started homeward. We had an invitation to sing at the Grassy Branch Bap tist church that evening, but one can only go so far. so we came home and stretched out. Sunday afternoon we went over to the Christmount Assembly grounds to hear the beautiful car illonic music. This is indeed a lovely thing that has been added to our community. There were quite a lot of folks over there. This column used to have a lot to say about the doings of the Rev. and Mrs. Bobby Hare of Chester, S. C., and Waco. Texas, where Bob by went to college. Remember, they spent their honeymoon with us a year ago last Christmas. Well, we heard from them today, and they are expecting a blessed event in October. We hope to see them soon after. Bobby has been having a rough time with a severe attack of asthma this summer. He cert ainly has my sympathy. We are going to miss Henry T. Ware when he goes back to Miss-1 issippi. We keenly appreciate the able way he has helped to kid our beloved fat one. We get the Brewery Gulch Ga zette regularly now from out in Arizona. George Bideaux is long ing for the day when he can dab ble in the old North Fork creek. He’d better make it snappy, if Asheville keeps taking the water he might find it like the Painted j Desert, but we’ll find him a damp place. He mentions sitting on a bench by the drugstore across j from the Southern depot, too. So we’d better keep it dusted off, George might make the pilgrimage j back someday. This Wild Bill Williamson talks about red-headed women around here. We might point out a few blondes and brunettes that can make “an old man dream dreams”, also. Anyhow it is good to hear these fellows speak well of the place, it makes us think that we did iust as well to “stick in the mud”, or in other words remain Tarheels, but it is nice to look at pictures of other places. ed. It is false economy. If we are to urge young men and women to make a career of helping defend our country, we ought to have a system whereby they can do it without the constant threat of being involuntarily turned out on the whim of the moment. —A simple epitaph appears on a tomb in Florence, Italy: “Here lies Salvino d’Armatti of Florence, the inventor of spectacles. God for give him his sins. Died in the year of our Lord 1317.” The in scription may be misleading. Marco Polo is recorded to have 3een eyeglasses used in 1275 in China, according to Murine Co. researchers. AL'S RESTAURANT State & Cherry Black Mountain, N. C. DELICIOUS FOOD AT MODERATE PRICES, SERVED IN A DELIGHTFUL ATMOSPHERE • BREAKFAST • LUNCH • DINNER OPEN 7A.M. to 9:00 P.M. 7 DAYS A WEEK Al. Garland, Mgr. 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COOK Electrical Contractor Phone NO-9-3082 Black Mountain, N. C. Let us worry about your printing. That’s our business. Call your home town printer The Black Mountain NEWS Dial NO-9-4101 Suppose you had servants instead of electricity... If you did, your domestic pay roll would probably be more than your income! That's because in the average American home electricity does jobs eaual to the manual labor of more than 30 servants work ing a 40-hour week. Multiply that by 75 cents or $1.00 an hour, and the figures skyrocket. Next time you look at your elec tric bill, think of it as your pay roll for 30 servants. Mighty low wages—don't you agree? I CAROLINA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY)
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