Poet's Corner
Conducted by
Anne K. Sharp, Chairman
Creative Writing Group
THEN AND NOW
Where have they gone: the fluid
years
Now flashing brilliant like the
northern lights,
Now gleaming steadily like glow
worms in the dark?
Where is the dawn, the halcyon
days of youth,
Where dew of morning, the cooling
touch
Of water from the spring in noon
day’s heat,
The struggle to succeed, the forced
delay
When one had stopped to help a
brother ?
The quickening of the pulse at
sound of someone’s step,
A mother's crooning song, the
pride of fatherhood,
The grief that strangles, clutching
At the heart before an open grave.
Pinnacles of prayer, peaks of high
achievement.—
W art* all these? .Lost in the
maze of memory?
R. C. BOWNESS
BUILDER
P.O.Box 1068 — Black Mtn.
Nothing is lost.
Out of the then, the now is fabri
cated,
Out of the now, another then . . .
Out of the ferment of last sum
mer’s fallen leaves,
The satin buds of bloodroot and
anemone,
The dawning of tomorrow.
by G. Esther Chapin.
Courtesy of “The Pen Woman.”
“Nothing is lost,” Isaiah 55:10:
“For as the rain cometh down, and
the -now from heaven, and return
eth not thither, but watereth the
earth, and maketh it bring forth
and buds that it may give seed to
the sower, and bread to the eater;
so shall my word be that goeth
out of my mouth, it shall not re
turn unto me void, but it shall
accomplish that which I please, and
it shall prosper in the thing
whereto I sent it.”
Gen. 1:11-12 tells us that by di
vine decree, the earth brought
forth shade and fruit trees, and
vegetation. Each species “after
its kind.” No evolution here. One
scientist has written: “The plants
might as well have dropped down
from the sky, or, at least, the
seeds from which they grew, as far
as the fossil indications of descent
are concerned.” This fact can be
verified in any good text book on
geology. God fears no test of
geology. “Speak to the earth and
it shall teach thee; and the fishes
of the sea shall declare unto thee.
Who knoweth not in all these that
the hand of the Lord hath wrought
this?” (Job 12:9-9).
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W. Herbert Weatherspoon Lucius H. Harvin, Jr.
Carolina Power & Light company directors today named
a plant in honor of a long-time official and elected the grand
son of a South Carolina electric pioneer as a director.
The Lumberton steam-electric generating plant was
named for W Herbert “Weatherspoon, vice president and gen
eral counsel for CP&L. The new director is Lucius H. Har
vin. Jr., of Henderson.
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spoon's name will he unveiled at
the 240,000-horsepower plant on
the Lumber River “at an early
date,” The plant near Lumberton
was CP&L’s first major post-war
project, going- into service in 1949,
and enlarged twice since that date.
The plant’s proximity to Laurin
burg and Weatherspoon’s “identi
fication with and abiding interest
in the general area” were cited.
Weatherspoon practiced law in
Laurinburg before moving to Ra
leigh in 1928 to form a partner
ship with the late U. S. Senator
Josiah William Bailey. He soon
left the firm for full time service
as a CI’&L attorney, advanced to
vice president in 19111 and to the
hoard in 1935. On the death of
James H. Pou, Sr., he became gen
eral counsel in 1935.
son of W. Scott Harvin, industrial
ist who brought the first elec
service to Manning, S. C., and
of Lucius H. Harvin, who served
as a CP&L manager after tin
Manning property became par f
the larger system.
L. H. Harvin, Jr., was born in
Manning and graduated in elec
trical engineering at Clemson
lege in 1934. He spent three year.
with CP&L, first in Henderson as
a lighting specialist and later as
manager at Dillon, S. C. He left
CP&L in 1937 to attend Harvard
Business school. He won a Mas
ter's degree in 1939, after which
he joined Rose’s 5 & 10c store
chain. He has served as executive
vice president and treasurer f
Rose’s since 1956.
Opportunity to Join Slate
Art Society is Offered Here
At a recent meeting of the board of directors of the
North Carolina State Art society in Raleigh, Mrs. Mary E.
Aleshire of Black Mountain, was elected as a vice president
to represent the 10 counties of the 12th district of Western
North Carolina.
Mrs. Aleshire has been a mem
ber of the State Art. society foi
several years, attending the an
nual state exhibit and meetings ol
the society.
Mrs. Aleshire is one of the few
women of the U. S. who made a
career of organizing and directing
art galleries and schools of art
drama and music.
She is an exhibiting artist
speaker, theatre director, and writ
er, having contributed to both do
mestic and foreign art and cultur
al magazines.
The North Carolina State Art
society joins with the other stat<
cultural groups in holding thei:
annual meetings in Raleigh rim
ing the first week of December.
The State Federation of Mush
clubs, the Poetry society, the His
torical society, the Literary an<
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The State Art exhibition is for
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are presented each year for out
standing work in painting, sculp
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tales and book reviews provide in
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Mrs. Aleshire will extend ii
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WITH GI LOANS SHOULD INSPECT
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VETERANS ADMS h’ISTRATlU.N office
An increasing number of cases
are coming to light in which GI
life insurance proceeds must be
paid to other than th.- veteran’s
immediate family because the vet
eran failed to keep his be; eficiary
listing up to date.
This was reported today by
Charles E. Peters, Officer-in
Charge of the local VO Office lo
cated in the City Building here in
Asheville, for the benefit of any
of the 141,071) GI insurance policy
holders in North Carolina who
should change their beneficiaries
in line with recent changes in fam
ily status.
Marriages, divorces, births or
deaths are the types of changes in
family status which may indicate
needed, changes in beneficiary list
ings, Mr. Peters said.
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coming to light, the beneficiaries
of VA record were the same the
veterans had named when they
took out their policies years ago,
even though they had since married
and begotten families, Mr. Peters
said.
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to pay GI insurance proceeds to
the beneficiary of record, whether
or not that beneficiary still is in
any way connected with the vet
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made at any time without notify
ing the beneficiaries, but they
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icy, Mr. Peters said.
These changes cannot be made
in a last will or testament, he ad
ded, they must be filed by the
policyholder with VA directly to
be valid under law.
—North Carolina ha> the largest
number of commercial corn coun
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Seaboard.
Sen. Erwin Says:
\V A SHINGTON.—Congress has
K'ivpn approval for the submission
of plans by Smithsonian Institu
tion for a National Air Museum
here in Washintgon.
New Air Museum
North Carolina is so closelj
identified with man’s first flight
at Kitty Hawk that I believe you
will be interested in the proposed
National Air Museum. When
the plans are completed it will
he necessary for Congress to
appropriate funds. I he recent
ly passed legislation is onh an
authorization for plans and ap
proval of a site opposite the Na
tional Gallary of Art.
The building’s architecture will
compliment, the National Gallery
of Art and will he of the monu
mental type.
The museum will memorialize
the development of aviation in the
I nited States. It will house aer
onautical equipment of important
historical • significance, such as the
Wright Brothers plans now on dis
play in the main building. 1 he
air museum is now partially hous
ed in a sheet-metal hut at the rear
of Smithsonian Institution. Many
of the planes and items of avia
tion interest are scattered through
out other buildings.
Space Age .
The proposed new building; "ill
house space age vehicles. Dr.
Leonard Carmichael, secrethtv <»f
Smithsonian, points out that
\ meric a was first in the devel
opment of rockets. As proof of
this fact he points to the (»od
dard rockets now on display.
Thcv were developed around
1919. Goddard, a Ne" ^n^la. .
professor, was far ahead o 1
time.
Wright Brothers
Dr. Carmichael says the kittr,
Hawk flight by the Wright
ers is one of the most significant
achievements of mankind. de
scribes it as a symbol of the tri
umph of science, engineering an i
ingenuity and strictly an Amen
can achievement. This achievemei
will play an important part in the
history of aviation in the proposed
National An Museum.
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State Highway Patrol, issued an
invitation this week to all law en
forcement officers to attend a se
ries of professional conferences
next week.
The patrol chief said the confer
ences, which arc under the joint
auspices of the Department of Mo
tor Vehicles and the Governor’s
Traffic Safety council, aim to
achieve closer liason between state
level enforcement agencies and
those on the county and municipal
level.
He said the currently scheduled
series of conferences would deal
primarily with the enforcement of
driver license laws.
A conference will he held for
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2d opening at 10 a.m. at patrol
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