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ART COLLECTION _ Although most of the Civil War's more famous battles were fought on land, quite a few naval engagements occur red. Among these was the sinking of the U nion's "Cumberland" by the Confederate's ironclad "Merrimac" off Newport News, Va., in 1862. This original Currier & Ives print is in a collection of Civil War lithographs that will be on public display in Charlotte, September 10 to 24 at the Mint Museum of Art, SOI Hempstead Place. The free exhibit is being jointly spon sored by the Mint Museum, the Woman's Aux iliary, and the North Carolina Confederate Cen tennial Commission. The collection is owned by Nationwide Insurance, which is showing it in cooperation with the Civil War Centennial Commission. Civil war Art, Paintings To Be Displayed A large collection of valuable Currier and Ives prints — illus trating major events of the Civil War from the fall of Port Sum ter to the surrender at Appomat tox — will be displayed in Char lotte. The free exhibit is scheduled from September 10 to 24 in the (Mint (Museum of Art at 501 Hem pstead Place. It will be sponsored jointljy by the Museum, the Wo man’s Auxiliary, and the North Carolina Confederate Centenni al Commission. It will consist of 58 original full color prints, all from a col lection owned by Nationwide In surance of Columbus, Ohio. A bout 12,000 persons attended a showing of the prints earlier this year in Raleigh. Currier and Ives scenes are familiar to most Americans through their extensive repro duction in Christmas and greet-r dng cards, in decorative hangings,' and elsewhere. The old firm,' headed by lithographers Nathan- j Sel Currier and James M. Ives, turned out more than 7,000 pic tures of just about every subject1 during more than 50 years of operation. During the 19th cen tury, nearly every American home had at least one of the prints. The prints have become collectors’ items. Currier and Ives artists traced ifhe course of the Civil War with their pons. And because photo raphy was in its infancy then, j those prints have -become valua ble as graphic Impressions of the glory, carnage, futility, and tra gedy of the conflict. As an additional feaure, the extensive T. Price Gidson collec tion of Civil War memabilia will Better Breakfast Menus Listed How are the breakfast eating habits in your family? You should start today during Sep tember Better Breakfast (Month to provide your family with an adequate morning meal. Believe it or not, many Tar Heels eat no breakfast This ef fects their future health and well being. It is hard to get the nu trients you need during the day, for health and fitness, without eating breakfast. For many people, and particu larly for children, it is sound planning to have one-fourth to one-thdrd of the day’s food at breakfast and to include good sources of protein, such as eggs, lean meat, or milk.. Contrary to popular opinion eating breakfast does not tend to cause overweight if foods are properly chosen. An egg for breakfast helps provide part of the day’s food be on display with the Currier and Ives prints. The Gibson collection includes Confederate bonds, currency, newspapers, stamps, broadsides, army proclamations, ribbons, medals, guns, swords, and let ters. Most important are Robert E. Lee’s General Order No. 9 — the farewell message to his troops — and a separate paper bearing the signatures of all his staff officers. The Gibson collection has been displayed recently in Charleston, S. C., and in Raleigh. Hours of showing at the Mint Museum will be from 10 a. m. un tile 5 p. m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and from 3 till 5 p. m. Sundays. The museum is clos ed Mondays. lit 11 i, LL jun to romp on warm, cozy floors T sir give your family a healthier, happier, warmer home with a beautiful, new SIEGLER has the big, built-in Blower System and ex clusive Inner Heat Tubes that give you the comfort ^ miracle of SUPER FLOOR HEAT. Come in and jaRk ask for a demonstration and see how this new A Siegler will pay for itself with dlfjffi ... the fuel it saves. ^ McGinnis furniture co 309 S. Battleground Ave needs, especially high quality pro tein which may not be obtained at other meals. Try eggs on "De viled Ham Muffins” for a special breakfast treat.. English muffins 2 English muffins 1 can (2 lioz.) deviled ham 1 tablespoon butter or marga rine 1 teaspoon grated onion (may be omitted) 3 eggs dash salt dash paprika 3 tablespoons milk Split English muffins in half. Toast, spread with deviled ham and keep warm while you scram ble the eggs. Melt butter or mar garine in a skillet.. Toss in grated onion and cook a minute or two. Beat eggs in a little 'bowl along with salt, paprika, milk. Pour into butter-onion mixture and cook over low heat until eggs be gin to set. At this point stir wtftJK a fork until eggs are scrambled but still moist. Spoon on top of hot muffins. Seed Treatment Pays Dividends To Grain Grower (Mr. Small Grain Grower, how would you like to increase jyour small grain yields six to eight 'bushels per acre? That’s the boost you can expect when you treat to control seed borne diseases, according to J. C. Wells, extension plant pathology specialist at North Carolina State College. Chemical seed treatment pays big dividends in protection of germin a ting seed, improved 1 stands, higher yields and better quality grain, Wells says. It pre vents stinking smut of wheat, loose and covered smut of oats, covered and black loose smut of barley, and the seed-borne stripe disease of barley Chemical seed treatment also helps to minimize losses from scab of wheat and barley and from seedling blights and seed rots of wheat, oats rye and barley. Chemical seed treat ment will not control brown loose smut of barley and loose smut of wheat, however. Wells says recommended ma terials for treating oats, barley and wheat are Ceresan M. Pan ogen, Ceresan 100, Chipcote and Ortho L,. M. Seed Protectant. These materials should be used according to manufactures’ direc tions. “It is best to treat the seed at lest 24 hours and preferably a week planting,” Wells said. This gives the chemicals time to pen etrate under the hull of the kern els and kill the disease-producing organisms. The cost of seed treatment per acre of small grain planted will vary with the kind and quantity of treating material purchased and the rate at which the seed are sown. Usually this will amount to about ten cents per acre. John or Wesley Woilick Bush about this question: *We just switched from a 5 HP to a 15 HP outboard motor. We also sot up a plastic wading pool for tiie children. Must we re port these two items to our in surance agent in orded to have coverage under Comprehensive Personal Liability of our Home 1 owners Policy?” Consult the C. E. Wariick Insurance Agency. Phone i 739-3611. I * The sharp clang of a rock smashing into a metail sign _ the zing of a well-aimed bullet that finds its mark_the woud be artist who has found that a 3 in 35 can be changed very sim ply to an 8. These are some of the problems facing traffic en gineers and sign supervisors in what has been termed an annual $100,000 disgrace in North Caro lina, according to Highway De partment officials. R. A. Burch, State Engineer es timates that each year $100,000 is spent to replace roadside signs which have suffered severe dam age at the hands of some un thinking youngster or old per son who regards highway mar kers as nothing more than an ob ject for target practice. If such useless waste could be eliminated the same amount of money would hardsurface more than five miles of secondary roads each year, replace one or more outmoded secondary road bridges or construct about a quarter of a mile of new four laning. Annually the various sign departments estimate they re place about a quarter of a mil lion highway signs, 20 percent of which have been damaged be yond repair by rocks, bullets or bottles or by bending, stealing, breaking or painting. Outright theft of signs has al so been a problem over the years ever since some high school or college student thought a high way sign would look better on the waill of his room than out on the road. Happily, according to Burch and others, this expression of adolescence seems to be on the wane but has by no means dis appeared. Sometimes theft of signs can take on enormous pro portions. Not long ago field forces of the Highway Department came on what seemed to be a whole truck load of highway signs in a re mote, wooded area near White Lake. Carelessly thrown on the ground or tacked to nearby trees were roadside markers, not only from North Carolina but from Virginia and South Carolina as well. The culprit or culprits had a yen for travel and collected trophies from points as far a way as a hundred miles and toted them back to this seclu ded “graveyard” where they might be enjoyed art: leisure. Missing signs pose the most serious problem for sign men be cause it is easy to overlook a spot where a sign should be and for this reason the marker may go unnoticed for days or even weeks. Such thefts also create hazards for drivers. The unsus pecting motorist may run up on a dangerous curve, bad grade or dangerous inrterestion with no forewarning. Accidents with re sultant property damage, per sonal injury or even death have been caused by such! lack of ade quate warnings. Most common damage to signs comes from rocks, pop bottles and bullets which dent or pierce the sign face. A pop bottle thrown from a fast moving car may have more than a 75 MPH impact against the face of a me tal or wooden sign. Broken glass at the base or even on the road way itself stands as mute eviden ce that a prankster has tested his aim and found it true at the expense of the North Carolina taxpayer. Chances are that his accuracy cost $15.00 or more to say nothing of the labor of re pQacing the damaged marker. North Carolina has long-stan ding laws to the effect that any person wt.o willfully defaces, damages or remove signs shall be guilty ol a misdemeanor but apprehension of the guilty party is difficult and conviction even rarer. Highway officials feel about the only way to minimize sign damage is through education and appeals to the common de cency of individuals responsible. In the main, persons who get a kick out of damaging a road side sign probably don’t realize just how much damage they and their kind are doing. While much of the vandalism of signs comes on remote sec ondary roads it is by no means limited to such facilities. It is commonplace on major primary and interstate roads as well. Not long ago a state highway offi cial returned to Raleigh from an Asheville trip to report that he found sixteen damaged signs in a row along US 64. On one 16 mile stretch on in terstate roadway, sign crews re placed between 50 and 75 delin eators in one week. These are small glass reflectors mounted on metal posts at the edge of the shoulder and are especially helpful for nighttime driving. Damage is not limited to the familiar "stop” and "yield” signs and the like. Vandals seem to take delight in working over the huge new interstate signs which really cost money. The Highway Department spends about $6.00 per square foot for the big white on green interstate informational signs and the letters are made of la minated plastic, highly suscep tible to damage. Any hard blow against a letter will break the seal which holds it and replace ment of the letter or letters is the only repair that is effective. To th men responsible for maintenance of roadside signs it seems a horrible waste of money, manpower and time when van dals take aim and fire away at expensive State property, but the $100,000 disgrace will continue until a method of getting throu gh to the vandals is found. If you’ve ever been tempted to take a pot shot at a roadside sign just for kicks try to keep in mind that it takes the state tax on 200 gallons of gas just to re place one stop sign ait $10.57, ev en more to put up a new “Yield" sign at more than $15.00 With schools soon starting a cross the state, children will be walking or riding by a great ma ny roadsigns. Parents are urged to remind children that there are plenty of worthless targets just as good as a highway sign where they can test their accuracy. That highway sign is too ex pensive and too important to the safety of North Carolina drivers to be damaged beyond repair simply at the whim of a though tless person. Leave it where it is doing the job it was meant tc perform_ directing people tc where they’re going and showing them the safest way to get there Cpl. William Goins With Second Marines CAMP LEJEUNE, N. C. (FHT NC) — Serving with the Second Service Battalion,Second Marine Division at Camp Lefleune, N. C., is Marine Lance Cpl. William A. Goins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam E. Goins of 602 Phenix st.„ Kings Mountains, N. C. The battalion recently returned to Camp Lejeune from a five week training exercise with the battalion landing team of the Eighth Marine expeditionary unit on the Island of Vieques, Puerto Rico. The marines received training in the latest infantry taofcis us ing helicopters to help maintain the division’s force-readiness role. Periodic tours were made of the island and the historic city of Isabella Segunda. HARRIS FUNERAL HOME —Ambulance Service— Phone 739-2591 Kings Mountain, N. C. How to get up to 30 extra miles per tankful Shell test drivers add a “fifth wheel’’ to their cars for precise distance measurement during mileage tests. It helps item record performance to a decimal point i Here are some tips from Shell’s experts on how to get maximum mileage from your car. If you practice these good driving habits —and if you use today’s Super Shell, with 9 ingredients for top performance - you may well save a pretty penny on gasoline bills. Shell scientists spend much of their working lives figuring out how to get the most mileage out of a gallon of gasoline. Here are some of the things they’ve learned. 1. Don’t race a cold engine. When your engine is cold, it uses up more fuel. You're also in danger of underlubrica tion. You pay in greater engine wear. note: Today’s Super Shell has fast ■uarm-up ingredients to save gasoline. And Shell X-100® Premium Motor Oil moves freely even when cold—saves fuel and reduces engine wear. 2. Use a light touch on the accelerator. Tromping down on the pedal is an ex pensive habit. Starting up, it holds your automatic transmission in a lower “gear" longer—makes the engine turn faster, wasting fuel. Under way, uneven pedal pressure is costly, too. Feed just enough fuel to maintain even speed. 3. Drive “ahead of your car.” Watch for slowing traffic and red lights as far ahead as you can see. Then coast up to the stopping cars, instead of braking heavily when you get there. 4. Don't let fuel costs creep up at the stop light. If your car “creeps” when idling with the automatic transmission engaged, have your idle speed adjusted. If you drive a stick shift, remember that pumping the accelerator won’t change the light. It only uses up gasoline. 5. Don't indulge in jack rabbit starts. Racing starts are fine on race tracks— but the drivers of those cars are lucky to get 6 miles per gallon. note: Air resistance at high car speed is the biggest single drain on power. It increases approximately as the cube of the vehicle speed. Even fox tails on aerials may cost you gasoline. 6. Check your tire pressure regularly. Under-inflated tires increase friction and cut mileage. note: Tire pressures build up during a long run. Don’t let air out to bring the pressure down —it makes the tires run even hotter. Check cod tires only. 7. Check for dragging brakes. Have your Shell dealer check for wheel drag next time you’re in for a lubrication. If brakes drag, you pay for it every mile. 8. Get these fuel-saving adjustments. If spark timing is off, for example, you pay in wasted gasoline—and possibly in engine damage. A compression check can reveal power-wasting valve and ring conditions. Other essentials: A. Keep your spark plugs at peak effi ciency. Use Super Shell gasoline with unique TCP* additive to give them extra life. B. Adjust carburetor. Super Shell’s 9 ingredients for top performance #1 is TCP for power and longer plug life. #2 is Pentane mix for fast warm-ups. #3 is anti-knock mix to resist all knocks. #4 is Alkylate to control “high speed knock.” #5 is Butane for quick starts. #6 is “cat-cracked” gasoline — for power. #7 is “anti-icer”—added in cold weather. #8 is gum preventive for clean carburetors. 09 is Platformate for extra mileage. At Shell, 1997 scientists are working to make your cargo better and better. ■dt““k lvl SbeU’‘ «“**«■ TCP « b, U. S. P««a 2*^H C. Have automatic choke checked. D. Clean or replace filters for air, fuel,, oil as manufacturer recommends. E. Tighten fuel line connections. F. Have automatic transmission or clutch checked regularly. 9. Get regular oil changes and lubrica tion-including transmission and differ ential. Your Shell dealer knows what to do. And he has the finest equipment and lubricants. Your car will last longer. Your gasoline will go farther. 10. Show this advertisement to every one who drives your car-especially if y ou pay their gasoline bills. We can’t guarantee 30 extra miles per tankful — but the closer these suggestions are fol lowed the better your mileage will be. To start off right, fill up with today’s Super Shell. Its nine ingredients mean top performance.
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