H. Y. Belk "r i""11/111 j .",f| .,|||'|?
AND HIS NEWS OF NEBO VALLEY
George Belk and children from
High Shoals visited your reporter
Sunday.
Harrison Belk and wife and llt*,j
tie son from Missouri came by
Sunday and spent a. while with
the news man
Hall Belk and wife and child
ren came to see Grandpa during
the weekend from Church street.
Mr. Sam S^iuford is visiting rel
atives lr. Kaleigh this weekend.
Mr. Dock Bowen, wife and ba
by visited the Belk's Sunday af
ternoon.' '
? ?? I Just wonder
% r i.~V ' ? ??* _ *
j& ' . iv when the war in
the Par Ka?t Is
finally over, will |
our G o v. e r n- 1
ment keep a
Standing army
over there -fori
four or five
years, and feed
and clothes all
those killers?
They have killed 60 many, why
not kill all of them and come
home and study war no more? If i
It is impossible to sat
.-si y tlto hungoi of firo
Yet. 90 "U oi (he home3
in- this countiy aie
.nndcrqualoly prOtect
oa by insurqnee to
! jy Whether we
jiciye ihsrtinftd' you or
? :t check your pol
? . with us society
iC.E.WARLICK
insuRoncf fl&Enc y
PHOHC 96 4 7 u
lit mt at houi UK l 10 ASMtmnON
we rebuild all these nations back
we have subdued, It can't be Jong
'til we will be as poor as they
were. Yours for a better, cleaner,
and more efficient Government.
So lets get out the broom and get
ready for a fine house cleaning,
and Keep our house in order by
letting the rest of the world tend
to their own business and be sure
we do the same. Then we may
learn to study war no more. We
know better.
You know it well as I do, one
must watch his steps. Very few
people today but what will take
! your money if we give them the
[chance. Tell any kind of a lie to
roll you out of your good honest
I made money. If you want to find
out a bunch of old dead beats, |
just loan 'em $5 Or $10 'til Sat- ,
J urday and hell, you can't see him i
for six months. If you do, jf he
[ sees you first he's gone. You
would be astonished if I'd call
out the names of sortie of thej
'dead-beats in your town, that
| will willfully lie you Out of yourj
| last dollar <and if J'?u don't let!
them have.it you lose a dear
friend. To hell with that kind of
sneak friendship. I wont call any
of their names. I hope they read !
this short inanuscrpt. I'd hate to]
be a rascal and take your money.
We should keep a Strong well
trained army at all times. As
soon as War No. 2 was finished '
they let the army get very low,
with the remark that Ilitler's
gone, we will never have to fight
another war overseas> Well, four
years past here we are fighting
back overseas. Why I don't see. j
The people in the Iron Curtain j
countries hate our way of life but j
they certainly like our way of
saying yes when they want a j
hand out. An honest man is the
noblest work of God, but they be ,
so many damn ra~8cals trying toj
crowd In on the Salvation Train i
? dead-beats ? they will take!
COMFORT. CONVENIENCE
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your last dollar and then ride
right on in the sleeper, but let's
be glad we have that few men
that will pay their debts. Would
it not be fine if wfe only had a
few like you and I, men we can
depend on. V V
The race Isn't always to the
young and' the swift, Plenty of
older folks are proving age is'
lurgely a matter. of spirit. The^
race these days is no longer to ;
thp young and swift. H. G. Wells j
who died at 79 leaving a record
of more than a dozen books pro
duced after his 70th birthday.
Bernard Baruch at 76 displayed
the energy of a man 25 years
younger whire serving as Amer
ica's representative on the Unit
ed Nations Atomic Energy Com
mission, and hundreds of other
great men of our day are great
leaders In our nation today. Vi
gor and activity knows no age
limits. In 1943 Edsel Ford died
and Hertry Ford, then past 80, re
sumed control of his industrial
empire. He remained on the Job
two harried war years. No, we
can't Judge a man by his years.
War Two gave tremendous proof
of the worthwhile of our old fight j
ing men. Today men in their de- j
clining years are fighting like
lions lo preserve our Democracy.
Look at General MacArthur, sav
ing our nation from Commun
ism. What a grand old hero. With
unselfish patriotism he fights his
way 4o victory in every war, and |
always answers America's ur- ,
gent calls. I wish we had all the
men in our White House like he.
But alas, I fear some of them are
Communists only waiting to de
feat America, maybe more than
Pappy Joe Stalin.
A very smart "A" model . man
told me how he cut down on his
fuel. bill. He ordered a ton of coal
then bought a half gallon of good
whiskey and kept warm both ;
ways. Two-in-one might be the j
best way to keep Warm. I could j
not get enough money ahead to
buy b8ih so I bought a- ton of
coal. I may stay warm on the out
side. Whiskey is all right if one
could get the kind they drink ov
er at Washington. It won't give
one the bellyache like the stuff i
they hide out'around here and j
make in the woods, then call It !
moonshine. I
Low mo, did you know they
had three kinds of Democrats?
the Old Fashioned Democrat ?
(which is very good).? the New,
-Deal Democrat ? and the Red;
Herring Democrat? The Old
Fashioned Democrats are gone. ,
You may put that down in your
little red book.
So called Christians for two
thousand years have fought like
pagans. The Pacifists and the
Conscientious objectors still find
little comfort or sympathy. Aj
generation . ago we drafed our
man power and sent them to Eu- 1
rope to fight t? end all wars. To
day we are back at the same old
trick. Webster, in his time. de
clared (hat 'draft' was despotism.
What do our smart devils cal.l it
now?
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Farm Fire Loss Can Be Reduced
Expert Says; Precautions Listed
Reduction of life and property
losses caused by fire is the pur
pose of National Fire Prevention
Week, October 8-14. It is custo
mary for the week to Include the
date on which the great Chicago
fire started ? October 9, 1871.
Farm fire losses amounted to
$95,000,000 in 1949. Farm fires
are often total losses. About a fif
th of the property value of the
farms is destroyed, as art average
each time a fire gets out of hand.
In some areas the average loss
is much higher, and in big fires
there is added, loss of life, and
suffering from major burns.
H. M. Ellis, in charge of agri-j
cultural engineering for the State
College Extension Service, points
out that all fires start as small
fires, and most of them could be
prevented. Some, precautions are:
Have a portable - type water
extinguisher handy. If you have
pressure system, have spigots fit
ted for hose.
Have proper extinguishers
ready for electrical and flamma
ble liquid fires ? don't use wa
ter. Keep at hand a sturdy ladder
long enough tq reach the roof of
farm buildings.
To prevent fires, don't smoke in
the barn, in bed, or near flamma
ble liquids. Don't refuel tractor
while motor is running or hot.
Don't use kerosene or gasoline to
haSten fires. Don't overload the
wiring system ? check it fre
quently. Don't operate or store
the tractor In the barn. Don't lo
cate fuel tanks close to build
ings"; put them on the downward
slope.
"Don't stall? let's graze!" ft the
slogan being used by farmers of
U?e County in their Green Pas
tures campaign this fall. An ef
fort is being made to seed 1,000
acres of pasture in the county this
year, according t<* Farm Agent
K. S. Harmon. Goals for the next |
two years are even larger ? 1,200 1
acres in 1951 and 1,500 acres in |
??APft
The Boston tea party was plan
ned in the back room of the Bos
ton Gazette.
Dynamite Ditching
Saves Farmer Money
Opening a drainage ditch by
yunamite instead of by hand re
sulted in an estimated saving or
$175 lor a Madison County farm
er, Romeo Ferguson of the Anti
och community.
By dynamiting the ditch, Fer
guson was able to drain an ob
jectionable swamp, remove the
source of foot, rot infection in his
cattle, and salvage unused land
for pasture.
For some* time Ferguson had
been treating foo' rot In his cat
tle, but each time he succeeded
in Clearing it up, the herd became
re-infected. When he called on V.
L. Holloway, county agent for the
State College Extension Service,
for advice on how to control the
disease, Holloway traced the in
fection to the swamp in Fergu
son's pasture. As fast as the in
fection cahie under control, the
cattle would pick up more from
the swamp,
Ferguson decided to drain the
swamp and arranged with Coun
ty Agent Holloway to r a ditch
blasting demonstration. To drain
the area properly, it was found
that a ditch around 260 feet long
and 3 1-2 feet deep would be re
quired.
Two cases of special ditching
dynamite were used, along with
a cap to set off the charge. Dyn
amite sticks weer set 15 Inches a
part and 18 inches deep along the
site of the proposed ditch. Then
the electric cap was placed In
the last stick and double wire
extended to a safe distance. As
the charge went off, 85 cubic
yards of mud, stumps, water, and
gravel flew 300 feet Into the air.
When teh smQke cleared away,
spectators saw a perfect drain
age ditch 262 feet long, 3 1-2 feet
deep, and 5 feet wide at the .top.
The entire operation cost about
One-tighth of what it would had
it been done by hand, and requir
ed the services of only four per
sons for two hours.
A development of special Inter
est during 1949 was the announ
cement by the du Pont Company
of the commercial use of nickel
"dibutyldithioearbanate," popu*
larly known as "NBC", a rubber
additive to Inhibit the cracking
of white wall tires.
The earlLst g^ate editorial asso
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sin in 1853. ;
Uncle Sara Says
Graduation days are over and
the hopes of those leaving school
for tne last time are flying high.
There la one bit of advice yonr
Uncle 8am wants you graduates to
remember, and that 1* ? "the only
money you'll ever have la the money
you are saving right now. Saving
part of each pay-check Is the ONLY
way to save." And one of the best
ways to do It Is to bay V. 8. Sav
ings Bonds through ytfnr company's
Fay roll Savings Plan. Those bond's
are backed by the full .resources of
the Government and will return you
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NOUTHERNiJHIlWAY S YSTEM
You never miss the water
till the well runs dry ? ? ?"
Like the water we drink, the availability of
adequate railroad service is often "taken for
granted" in normal times.
This is a high tribute to the railroads. But
unfortunately, it is also too often taken fcr
granted that railroads can always be strong
and ready for any job, on a moment's aotice...
despite strength - sapping factors over which
they have little or no control. Subsidized com
petition. Inadequate earnings. Hamstringing
regulation. And forced continuation of services
no longer needed or used.
Today, America can no longer afford the
luxury of taking its railroads for granted. For
more than the future o? the industry is at stake.
The railroads are our country's "transportation
backbone." In the public interest, railroads
should have equal opportunity with other
carriers. Given that, they will always be ready
C0 play their vital role in helping to shape the
strength and security of America.