North Carolina Newspapers

Peekin' Through The KEYHOLE . . . With LIB By Elizabeth Dinwiddle Mrs. Lennie Shirlen and son James have just returned from a visit with Mrs. Edith Sprout of Seattle, Wash. Mi-s. Sprout, who recently underwent major surgery, is getting along nicely. H. C. (Dickie) Reed of Appal achian State Teacher’s college, Boone, spent the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. 11. C. Reed, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. George Sarti, Jr., and small daughter, Jo Ann of Greensboro have been spending a few days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Sarti. Mrs. Effie Guthrie of White Sulphur Springs, West Va., spent the holidays with her daughter and Deer Hunters Wear Clamp-on Cleats. Don't slide all over the mountain. Go up and down steep slopes. Sure - footed • wear Clamp-on Cleats — at your local Sports Dealer! family. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Brown, Marilyn. Carilyn. and Billy. Mrs. J. K. Peterson is spending an indefinite time with members of her family in Tvanhoe. Miss Pat Browning of Greens boro college. Greensboro, spent the holidays with her family, the W. S. Brownings. Mr. and /Mrs. Wade Rice and children, Laurie and Todd Alan, of Hampton, Va., spent the holi days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Higginbotham, and sis ter. Miss Janice Higginbotham. Mr. and Mrs. George Sarti, Sr., returned last Sunday from a vaca tion in Florida. Mrs. Clifford Porter went to At lanta last Sunday to spend an in definite time with her two daugh ters and their families, Dr. and Mrs. A. P. McDonald and sons and Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Stillwell and son. The McDonalds drove up for her. Mrs. Frank Watson of Raleigh is spending a few days with her sister, Mrs. George L. Pritchard. Miss Nell Woods of Roxboro is spending some time with Dr. and Mrs. S. M. Bittinger. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Chandler and two daughters of North Augusta, S. C.. spent the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Alli son. This | Christmas save while vdu spend... v with With Green Stamps you’re SURE to get exactly what you want —when you want it Davidson Coai Co. “Buy Where Your Winter Supply is Assured” Dial NO 9-7711 Swannanoa, N. C. Telephone Talk by DON SPRINKLE Your Telephone Manager FOR MORE CHRISTMAS FUN—Let me suggest a sim ple formula for the lady of the house to have more tim* for family and friends this gay season. Just “let your tele phone do it for you.” For example, those party invitations. Must you write them? Wouldn’t a quick and cordial phone call do? And those time-taking trips to the florist, the bakery, the gift shop. You can telephone instead. Matter of fact, a lot of your Christmas shopping can probably be done right on the telephone. If you're in doubt about who sells what and where, remember the Yellow Pages ■of your phone book will help you find it fast. 3k sk sk CLULS TO THE IDEAL GIFT— * A Christmas gift should he ... Something that's fun Something that's useful Something needed Something unusual Something new for someone dear Something that's used, year after year Guessed what it is? Why, an extension telephone in color, of course. Here’s a truly different way to bring year round joy and convenience to others. And you may choose hand> extension phones from nine colors including lovely new pastels. Why not order your Christmas gift extension phones now from our Business Office? You may have them charged to your own telephone bill. * * * SEND YOUR VOICE where your thoughts are. Some times the nicest Long Distance calls are the ones made just to say “I’m thinking of you.” Or maybe to wish a college boy or girl good luck in exams ... to share holiday fun with friends ... or to say “Hurry home!” to a travel ine husband. You know, Long Distance costs so little for the satisfaction it brings. And you save money when you cull station-to-station—that’s when you’ll talk to anybody who answers. Save even more during Bargain Hours— after 6 P.M. and all day Sundays. Why not send your voice where your thoughts are, now? Mrs. Sam Lackey and children, Nancy Lee and Danny, spent the holidays with relatives and friends in Statesville. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Freeman of Lakeland. Fla., spent Thanksgiving holidays with Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Sanders. Mrs. Freeman is Mr. Sanders' sister. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Melton, Da vid Atkins, and Miss Shirley Swann visited the Melton’s son, S/Sgt. Ii. Frank Melton, who is a patient in the U. S. Naval hospital, Charles ton. S. C. Frank wishes to thank his friends for their many cards and messages. He would like to answer each one but at this time is unable to use his hands. Miss Louise Sloan of Salisbury and Miss Fan Sloan of Mt. Ulla recently visited Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dougherty and family. Miss Patty Tyson of the Uni versity of Georgia. Athens, and David Tyson of N. C. State col lege. Raleigh, spent the holidays with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Tyson. Ikt and Louise Cook are leaving Saturday for Miami where they will visit Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cook for several weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Greenwood and sons, Gordon and Ricky, left early Tuesday morning, Nov. 2.r>, to visit Mr. and Mrs. Carl Trickett and family in Princeton Junction, N. J. They also visited points of interest in New York City and sur rounding area. They returned home Sunday night. Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Ander son and son Robert of Montgom ery, Ala., spent the holidays with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Anderson and Mr. and Mrs. George McElreath. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Anderson and four children, Glor ia Jean, Kay, Helen, and Chucky, of Detroit, were also here to visit his parents during the holidays. Visiting Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Reese during the holidays were two of their sons and their families, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Reese and Ter ry and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Reese and two sons of Dunedin, Fla. Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Dough erty and sons Ricky and Brian, of Decatur, Ga., spent the holidays with his family, the C. A. Dough ertys, and her mother, Mrs. Ruby Medlin of Oteen. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Ward and small daughter, Chiquita of Moody Air Force base, Valdosta. Ga., spent the holidays with their par ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Osteen. Sr., and Mr. and Mrs. James Ward of Swannanoa. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Reese and daughters, Patty and Linda Marie of Dunedin, Fla., spent the holi days with Mrs. Reese’s grandmoth er, Mrs. Stella McMahan, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Reese. W. Bingham Gragg spent the week-end in Knoxville with the Ray Leland family. Mrs. II. E. Stinchcomb returned Monday from a two weeks’ visit with relatives and friends in Chap el Hill, Burlington, and Raeford. Members from the Equitation club riding in the Christmas par ad.' in Asheville last Wednesday were Nancy DuPuy. Janice Hig ginbotham, Toni Rowland, EIoi.se Styles, Cheryl Burgess, Teresa Dougherty, and Ann Beddingfield. Conducted by Anne K. Sharp, Chairman Creative Writing Group PR \ YER OF TH AN KS For eyes to see and ears to hear, Our thanks, 0 God, throughout the year. For blessed warmth and cheer of friends Our thanks until the last day ends. For seed well-sown and harvest reaped, Abundant yield around us heaped, Our thanks, and lend us grace, we plead To give with love to those in need. And for Thyself who givest all: Green hud of spring, red blaze of fall, The spirit’s life, the body’s food, We bow our hearts in gratitude. •Irene Foreman Williams. Mrs. Williams, a member of the Creative Writing club, in this ex quisite beautiful and "heart felt" poem of thanks to God, reminds us that each day of the year should be a day of Thanksgiving "throughout the year*’’ and “until the last day ends,” and that, es ; pecially, we should give daily 1 thanks for “Thyself who givest all our Lord and Savior, Jesus | Christ. "1 give thanks unto the Lord; for He is good because His mercy | endureth forever.” (I“s. 118:1). | From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same, the I Lord’s name is to be praised.” I ( Ps. 113:3). Anne Kendrick Sharp, Chr., Poet’s Corner. Creative Writing Club. —Thanksgiving Day in Canada is not strictly a legal holiday. Ac j cording to The World Book Ency clopedia, Thanksgiving depends each year on a special Government | proclamation. VETERANS NEWS GI insurance policyholders who plan to re-enter military service should not drop their policies in the belief they will be covered by the sq-ealled “free $10,000 insur ance." or indemnity. Veterans Administration repre sentative, Charles E. Peters, locat ed in Room 421, City Building, Asheville, N. C., advises that the indemnity coverage ended almost two years ago, on January 1, 1957. An increasing number of veter ans who are returning to servin are making this mistake, Mr. Pet ers said. They apparently do no! know that the indemnity or s - called “free insurance” no longer is available. Mr. Peters said most of these veterans were discharged whih the indemnity still was in effect. It was abolished January 1, 1957, by the Survivors’ Benefits Act, which substituted increased com pensation rates for service-con nected deaths. VA’s advice to these veterans: "If you go back into service, don't drop your (11 insurance in the be lief that you’ll get free coveragt You won’t, and you may lose your insurance in the bargain, if it is near the end of its five-year term period.” Many of the 1,000,000 Korea vet prans who dropped out of GI train ing will get a new chance to re sume their education this fall un der a Veterans Administration rul ing announced by the Officer-in Charge of the VA office in tin City Building in Asheville. The veterans are those who had interrupted their training for more than 12 consecutive months, and whose (11 Bill Cut-Off Dates had passed. A veteran’s cut-off date for starting Gl training occurs three years from his discharge from the armed forces. Once that date passes, a veteran in training under the Korean Gl Bill is allowed by law to interrupt his studies for up to 12 months, without needing VA approval. But if he interrupts longer than that, he may resume training only if he can show VA that the inter ruption in excess of 12 months was due to reasons beyond his control. It was explained that V A s new ruling amounts to a liberalization of what the VA will consider to be reasons beyond a veteran’s con trol. Many of the 1,000,000 former GI trainees who weren’t eligible to resume training under VA’s old procedures now will become eligi ble under the new, he said. The VA ruling will permit a veteran to get back into GI train ing if ho shows that he interrupted his course for any of these reas ons: 1. Family or financial obliga tions beyond his control that n ade it necessary for him to i-pend training in order to get a job. 2. Personal or family illness, or death in the immediate family, which caused him to drop out of training to get a job. H. Unavoidable condition in con nection with his employment that ! forced him to suspend his training. 4. An allowable 12-month per iod of suspension that come? to an end during a vacation, recess; or some other time when it isn’t i possible to reenter school. While it’s up to the veteran to prove that his suspension in ex cess of 12 months is a valid one. j the Administrator of Veterans Af ; fairs has ordered that all rea-on I able doubt be resolved in the vet eran’s favor. Individual letters are going to go out to all veterans affected by the new VA ruling, enclosing Gl training applications, so that they may apply to resume their studies (his fall. Officials said there are approxi mately 30,000 veterans in .North Carolina whose files will be re viewed in order to determine if they have remaining: entitlement for educational benefits under the liberalized ruling. Letters with application forms will soon be re leased to each of these veterans advising them of this change. Receipt of military retired pay does not affect the eligibility of disabled Korean conflict veterans for vocational rehabilitation train ing from Veterans Administration. William H. Watkins, Officer-in Charge of the local VA Office in the City Building here in Asheville says any veteran who suffered a service-connected disability during the Korean conflict period (June 27, 1950-January 31, 1955, inclu sive) may receive vocational re habilitation training, provided: 1. The disability entitles him to VA compensation, or would entitle him to VA compensation if he were not receiving military re tired pay; 2. lie was discharged or other wise released from active service under other than dishonorable con ditions; and, 3. VA determines he needs vo cational training to overcome the handicap of the service-connected disability. All these conditions must be met, Mr. Watkins points out. Deadline date for completion of vocational rehabilitation training H&W 5&10c Store 118 STATE ST. Open Wednesday p.m. and Friday Nights 'till Christmas! • USE OUR LAY AWAY PLAN • depends upon a person s separation date, the date service-connection was established, or other factors. Retired members who believe they may be eligible for this train ing may contact the local \ A Of fice on the Fourth Floor of the City Building in Asheville. r DecrmJwr 2, 19 IS. Mr. and Mm August Rndiol'f of West Asheville, and Mr. and Mrs. Geo n;e Dougherty were Thanks giving guests of Mr. and Mrs. 0. W. Tinney at the Royal League Sanatorium. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Allison had as their guests last week, Mrs. Allison's brother and sister-in-law. Mr. and Mrs. Nat Smith of Moores ville. Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Mashburn and son David spent Thanksgiving with their parents. Mi. and Mrs. L. H. Mashburn. Mr. and Mrs. .Tames Thompson have returned to their home in Berkley, \V. Va.. after visiting Mr and Mrs. Douglas Jones. Mrs. A. K Knoefel, Jr. honored! her daughter, Charlotte, on her eleventh birthday anniversary Wednesday afternoon. Nov 24, a* her home on Church street. Those ; present for the happy occasion were: N'onie Greene. Carolyn Clapp, Sara Gouge, Jackie Sarti, Yvonne and Lula Osteen. Bur.zie Brown, Anne Marie Moiloy, Joyce Justice, and Charlotte Carpenter. Mr. and Mrs. W. 1>. Hyatt spent Thanksgiving day with J. R. Swann, and Mr. and Mrs. W. H. j Hinkle. Mr. and Mrs. Y\ . u. Kmitn and, children, Edwin, Eva. and Caro lyn, spent the Thanksgiving hoii- i days with their son. Hubert R. Smith, a student at N. C. State college in Raleigh. While there they attended the State college Yilla Nova game on Saturday. Dan Turner returned Saturday from Shelby where he visited his j friend, Tom Osburne. Mr. and Mrs. George Greene of Rogersville. Term., were the week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. \. Goodman. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Frady and son Bryan spent Thanksgiving day with the Rev. and Mrs. Harry Dycus and family at their home in Oakley section of Biltmore. -—Two new cucumber varieties Fletcher and Ashe—-are resistant to both downy mildew and scab diseases. MRS. FARR ENTERTAINS FOR DAUGHTERS On Saturday, Nov. 2!*. Mrs. Mar garet Farr entertained with a swimming party at “ 1 ntheoaU and a supper at the home of her mother, Mrs. M. J. Harr, in hnnm ..f Mrs Farr’s daughters, Melinda and Mitchell Farr. Melinda is a student at St. Genevieve-of-The I'ines and was home for the Thanksgiving week-end. (;lu.S’s vere the Misses Barbara Gregory, Fay Fender. Dianne Nes bitt, Sue Tominson, ] ind . Ann Woodcock, , ' Tommy Wagner, ( West, H 1A,,; U endell Brown, and f, ‘"'aff 'rd’ i ard. lmimy g|j ’ BO. ECONOMY BAG EVER FRESH VACUUM PACKED A// ThefVayt Yes, The Rich Blended Aroma of Delicious JFG COFFEE Makes It, TAe Pa/Et O/f 7/ze Tfteaj?,* 3-lb. Jar Vacuum Packed Many Uses For This Wide Moufh Jar Instant Coffee For a Fast Cup of No Waiting, No Pot To Clean, No Grounds. Ask your Grocer or write direct for a JFG Special Premium Catalog. In it you will find a select group of high grade and valuable articles, any one of which you would be proud to have in your home. Take advantage of this opportunity to secure these worthwhile items with JFG Special Coffee Coupons. 8 VALUABLE COUPON IN EVERY POUND OF JFG ' 11 i fUr . There's a happy homemaker f with holiday in her heart and r the modem magic of a new electric > servant in her home. You can do the same tor the lady in your life with the snowy whiteness ot an electric dishwasher, dryer, water heater or the gleaming modernity of an electric ' range. You II brighten and lighten her work-a-day world for years to come V This year, make her Christmas the J brightest, whitest ever. Give her a major electric appliance Electrically! (jcarolina power & lightTTTTTW^ , - - S si: «iO-X;.. :,v:-C i