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OAKLAND, Jan. %. (SpeciaD
Fastest air trip 1 ever made
in a commercial plane, Los
Angeles to Sacramento, All
miles in two hours flat. That's
two-five an hour.
On the Varney line, Lock-
heed plane, pilot Taft. Fly
ing part of the Sierras all
snow capped at that speed was
more of a kick than the
Andes at about 80 miles.
Mother big bank failure.
Suppose the fire department
was run like a bank? A fire
examiner finds a small fire,
goes back from time to time to
see it getting bigger. Then just
as there is nothing left but
the chimney he notifies the de-
partment, 1--WE better see what
we can save for those people. :"
Yours,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-08-10
First Summer
Semester Winds
Up At Weaver
Marks Easy Transition
From School To Col
lege Work

WEAVERVlLLE, AUG 10-The
Weaver College summer school
has completed the first quarter
Of its work. Since it is possible to
secure thirty-Six semester hours
of college credit in nine months
or thirty-six weeks, it is no more
difficult to earn six hours in six
weeks. Thus a full years work in
one study can be accomplished in
a summer SiSSiOn If the student
devotcs full time to it. The work
of one semester can be completed
in three weeks.
The first semester will there
fore close on August -, when the
mid-ycar examinations will be Civ.
en-. Az that time a number Of new
courses will begin. and students
prepared TO do so can drop into
the second half of some of the
classes now in operation.
The young high school graduate
usually finds real difficulty in
bridging the gap between high
school ana college methods. The
struggle often continues indefi-
njtcly for weeks, and the new
problems are too often still clu-
Sive even after the failures Of the
first semester examinations.
The student who can undertake
4 summer course of college work
IS therefore most fortunate. He
learns beforehand to take lecture
notes, to write term papers, and
to work mp library assignments by
himself, The personal interest and
attention of the teacher usually
enable him to pass crcditably, and
he enters the fall session with the
confidence born of successful ex-
0erjcncc. This adds effectiveness
TO all his later study.
At the same time the summer
study affords college credit and
.ightsns the strain of the fresh |
man year. 1t helps in many ways. |
md is thoroughly advisable. !
Beginning on August Is, tho |
Weaver College summer school |
offers opportunities in English,
History, Mathematics, Foreign
Education, Business, OIL
Science. The classes are small and
IRE practically a form of super
'ised study. Many who have diff
'iculty in knowing how to use eff
their time and native |
lbiIity, learn in Summer School
10Th methods and devices which
lid them effectively throughout |
III their future educational effort. |
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there is nobody else on hand to be
put to work. But l want to do
whatever | can"
THE RUSH Inland OUT
Once there was a cheese fac
tory at Mira. Those were the
days! And there was. the great
coal rush of '92. Workmen dig
cling a well struck what they
thought was a six-foot vein of
coal. It was second Klondike
But the" boom collapsed when
they found that whatever that
wasn't coal. The promoters. the
prospectors, the settlers, vanished,
and then the cheese factory van
ished, too.
Mira, disillusioned, sank back to
the condition that President
Cleveland had described as inocu-
Gus desuetude.'' Since 1892; then,
Mira quietly resigned itself to
watching its walls sag, its siding
warp, its paint flake off, forget
ting the, outside world, and by
that world forgotten
THE FIRST 'NIRA-A PUZZLE
Eight families. 90 inhabitants,
five of them children. That is the
town whose name is more often
in the papers today than that of
any other. -.
John Whetstine reflectively
watched white shaying curl up
under his knife and drop to the
ground. He recalled how he came
to Mira and helped build the first
house there. So years ago. He
came from Indiana in a wagon
train. eve stopped here because
land was cheap" he said. TITS
still cheap"
Mira was named for Mira Moi
fit, the first white child born in
the neighborhood, Whetstine
seems to recall. Or was it the
other way-was Mira Moffit
named for the town? Nobody re-
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Jeffress, Pou
And Brummitt
Best Paid Heads
The T.mes-N.ws Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel

RALEIGH. Aug. 1O.-While the
salary of George Ross Pou as Ex-
ecutive Director of the State High
way and Public Works Commits
sion has not been finally approved
at $4,000 year by Assistant Di-
rector of the Budget Frank Dun
lap. it was intimated today that it
would be approved. The salary Of
Chairman E. B. Jeffress has al
ready been approved at $4,000 q
year. Thus the salary of these two
executives amounts to $4,000 q
year. 1t is pointed out, however,
that when Frank Page was chair
man of the old state highway COM
mission he received a salary Of
$4,000 year and that the work
Of the commission then was by no
means as complicated as it is now.
Then only the 10000 miles Of
state highway was under the con-
troll Of the commission. 1t now has
charge of the maintenance of al
most 1000 miles of state high
ways and $4,000 miles of county
highways as we'll as the supervis-
ion of more than 1000 state and
county prisoners.
Ever since the 1888 general as
sembly consolidated the State
Prison system with the State High
way commission and it's prison
system, 1t has been regarded as a
foregone conclusion by those fam
liar with the situation that two
executives would be necessary to
administer the work of the new
highway and public works COM
mission. Consequently, very few
were supervised when Jeffress was
appointed as member of the
commission and as its chairman.
with Pou named as executive di-
rector, ranking next to Jeffress.
1t is expected that Pou will have
charge of all prisoners and most
of the maintenance, as well as of
much of the business management
of the entire set up, while Jeff
ress will continue in the chief ex-
ecutive capacity in charge of con-
struction, general policy, person
mel and maintenance of state high
ways.
1t is nointed out that while Pou
will continue to get a salary of
$4,000 a year, the same he receiv-
ed as superintendent Of the State
Prison. he will not get the nrequi-
sites which went along with the
prison job, such as serva 1t hire,
laundry, vegetables, milk, butter,
eggs, and so forth. 1t is under
stood that several months ago he
asked that these be discontinued,
although they amount to several
hundred dollars a year.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-08-10
LAUREL PARK
CLUB PICNICS
Over 80 Residents Enjoy
Outing; Year Round
Residents Hosts

A delicious ham supper was
served to more than eighty resi-
dents of Laurel Park Tuesday
at sunset on Jump Off Mountain.
The occasion was the third regu-
lar meeting of the newly organic
ed civic club. The year-round resi-
dents acted as hosts and hostesses,
providing a tasty menu for the
summer residents. Old friendships
were renewed around the camp
fire and many expressed their de-
sire to make this delightful event
an annual affair.
Edward H. Carpenter, president
of the club, who is leaving next
week for his home in Indiana, af-
ter expressing his appreciation for
the splendid cooperation of the
members of the CLUB and thank
ing the active committees for
their work, turned the gavel over
to O. B. Crowell, the vicc-presi-
dent, who will assume charge of
the next regular meeting which
will be held August %, at the
home of Mrs. G. H. Rogers in
Laurel Park. >..-.
Representatives from ten states
were in attendance as follows: Mr..
and Mrs, R. l.. Stillson. Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry A. Robinson, Miss
Anne Robinson, Mrs. R. j. Vidette,
Miss Elizabeth Means, Mr.. and
Mrs. J. C. Lettuce. Mr.. Bill Schulz
tz, Mrs. Walter Rose, Miss Har-
riett Rose. Misses Jean and Anna
Tilden, Miss Ellen McElroy, Mr..
Jimmy McElroy, Mrs. Alphonse
Sarre, Misses Eugenia and Elaine
Sarre, Mr.. and Mrs. F. d. Groves,
Mr.. F. H. Garner, Mrs. R. A. Gar
ner, Miss Virginia Rood, Mrs. G..
@. H. Rogers, Mr.. and Mrs. J. S.
Sargent, Miss Emily Sargent. Mr..
and Mrs. Edward Fl. Carpenter,
Mrs. w., A. Smith. Mr.. and, Mrs.
H. Walter Fuller, Mr.. and Mrs. A.
C. Hewitt, Mrs l.. B. Ames, Mrs.
Alvin Ames, Mr., and Mrs. F. E..
Mohr. Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Groov-
er, Miss L. Young. Miss Hughes,
Mrs. S. M. McNeel, Mr.. and Mrs.
A.. M. McKeithan, Mrs. D. T. Nc
Keithan, Miss Sadie McKeithan,
Rev. A. W. Lippard, DR.. and Mrs.
j. L. Wellington. Mr.. and. Mrs.
a.. S. Browning, Mr.. and Mrs. R.
C. Kuhn, Mrs. J. D. Mckinney,
Mr.. and Mrs. F. c., Shelton, Mr..
ara Mrs. E. w. Hamm, Mrs. E., C.
Mclean, Buck and Peggie Mclean,
Bill Davis, Ben Taylor, Mr.. and
Mrs. T. H. Roberts, Mr.. and Mrs.
o. B. Crowell, Mrs. A. G.. .Erb,
Edwin Mason. Mrs. C. E. Mason,
Mrs. E. M. Stevenson, Fred Stew
enSon.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-08-10
PRESS NAMES NOBILITY

MADRID. (UP).-Use of titles
of nobility is forbidden by law in
Spain. yet it is interesting 20 note
that many of the Republican
newspapers in their social col
nuns continue using such titles
with great "gusto," while in their
political columns they use another
name for the same person. Thus,
n newspaper may, in its general
news columns refer to Duke San
tiago Stuart, but in it's social col
umns it is always the Duke Of
Alba.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-08-10
Presidents Private Secretary
Has Is Years of Service With Him
She Calls Him "F D" and He Often Uses Her Pen to
Sign Federal Measures With

Mass, worked in Washington as
a governmental stenographer dur
ing the world war, later obtained
job in Democratic headquarters
in Boston and finally was hired
by President Roosevelt in 1920
when he was campaigning for the
vice presidency.
Mr.. Roosevelt soon found her
invaluable.
She worked with him during
the busy years in Albany, where
he was Governor of New York,
accompanied him on his unpre-
cedented airplane dash to the
Democratic National Convention
in Chicago and then as a matter
of course became one of the most
important members Of his official
family in Washington.
Miss LELAND is an expert at
drafting innumerable letters which
do not require the personal atten-
ton of the President. She knows
him so we'll that she always knows
exactly what to say and how to
say it. a.
Whenever a group picture Of
the Roosevelts is made, Miss Le-
Hand is in it. She frequently lends
the President her $1.50 fountain
pen for the signing of bills. She
considers it the most historic pen
ever.
She was about to hand it to him
on one important occasion when
the movie cameras began to grind.
"Franklin," exclaimed Mrs.
Roosevelt, "you fix your hair"
The President smoothed down
his'unruly locks, the efficient Miss
LELAND produced her fountain
non and tbo rnrnmonv continued
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PLANE
IN CRACK Up
Preliminary Flight Was
Being Made For N. Y
Warsaw Hop

HARBOR GRACE, Md, Aug.
9. (UP)-Two Polish filters crack
ed up Tuesday when they mis-
juged the size of the landing field
here, on an unannounced flight
from Floyd Bennett field, New
York. Both were slightly injured.
The filters, Benjamin and JOS
eph Adamowitz. apparently mis-
judged the wind signals, also, and
crashed while trying to land down
wind. They were unable tc check
their speed after touching ground
and overshot the field.
The undercarriage and one
wing were smashed and other
damage done to the machine. The
men were not seriously injured.
Joseph Adamowitz suffered a cash
in one arm, needing three stitches.
Emile Burgin, American pilot
who accompanied the Poles, ap-
parently was uninjured. The flight
was preliminary to a flight from
New York to Warsaw.
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By FREDERICK c. OTHMAN
United Press Staff CORRESPONDENT


WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. (UP)
Some people call President Roo
sevelt "Mr. President" Some call
him "Mr. Roosevelt" Some still
call him "Mr. Governor"
But Miss Margaret LELAND has
a name for him ali her own.
She calls him "F. D."
"Good morning +. D." says Miss
LELAND when the President ar
rives at the executive offices.
"This is ready for you to sign, f.
D." she says when she prepares
4 document for him.
All of that indicates that Miss
LELAND is closer to him even than
the members of his cabinet. The
indication is correct.
As personal secretary Of Mr..
Roosevelt, Miss LELAND knows
more about the business Of the
United States than any other one
person, the President excepted.
She lives in the White House
and is regarded by the numerous
ROsevelts as a real member of the
family.
They take her on picnics and
to parties. They confide in her and
they call her missy"
Even the President calls
"Missy" when he wants to talk to
his super secretary.
missy" is a vivacious and
charming woman. She is trim,
well dressed and usually smiling.
She has dark brown hair, tinged
with gray, and blue eyes which
sparkle when she talks about
"F. D."
She was born in Somerville,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-08-10
Eczema and Asthma

Eczema and asthma are both due
to what IL known as hypersensI-
tivity. This means the individual
Is sensitive to certain foods that
he eats or to something with which
he comes In contact, such as pol
lens from plants or the dander
from animals. Thus individuals
with eczema may also have asthma
or the other way round.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-08-10

MIRA. Ia, Aug. To at least
20 people in the country, the
magic term MIRA that everybody
is learning to say these days, is
an old story. Those 20 are the
population Of this Iowa village of
nine houses which was named
Mira SO years ago when its first
house was built.
Mira doesn't mean National In
duStrial Recovery Act to them,
or at least it didn't until a few
weeks ago. 1t just meant home.
the only town in the United
states Of that name. according to
the Postal Guide.
This town. with its grass
grown railroad track, its general
store and post office at TIC inter
section of two dir roads in
Limo Greek township, Washington
county. is normally Republican.
But it expects to gain by the New
Peal, lust the same.
BOOM TOWN IN '92
"And it's about time" observes
John WetStinc, 84-year-oll whit.
tier. Nira'S oldest inhabitaut.
"Thc president talked sense the
night he explained his plan" went
on Whetstine, the shavings falling
rhythmically from I soft-wood
stick. Everybody in Nir&--all 20
of us-is for him"
Mira looks forward to something
like its boom days of 1892. When
that boom collapsed. the little
hamlet fell asleep, and it has been
quietly disintegrating ever since.
Two of its thea stores closed in
1925. The front of the Other fell
in recently, exposing shelves of
canned goods, 4 candy counter,
and the postmaster. f. J. Yoder.
A MYSTERY
By long tradition Republican,
Mira turned Democratic in the
landslide of last March. Or did
it? Residents are divided OH the
point, and as the Mira voting is
pooled with the Lime Creek town.
ship tabulations, no one can be
sure. But the New Deal mas al
ready brought better feeling to
Mira, both Postmaster GOd3r and
farmer Ross Miller agree.
"Conditions around here aren't
really any better than they were
six months ago." appraiser Miller,
'but people feel better. They feel
good times are on the way, and
that we'll share in 'em. We ought
to. with the name we got
A BANKLESS COMMUNITY
Mira, aside from general creep
ing paralysis, is suffering from a
more active complaint. There be-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-08-10
Black Bear Likes Anti

The black bear, though rellshlng
a great variety Of things as food,
from centipedes to skunk cabbage
roots and from toads and field mice
to honey, Is especially fond Of ants.
His method Of obtaining these
choice morsels Is to run his paw
down into an anthill and leave 1t
there until the ants swarm up on 1t
where he can lick them I'D.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-08-10
INDICTMENT FOLLOWS
CASING OF CHANGE

NEW YORK, Aug. 8. (UP).-
Eugene S. Daniel, Jr., Boston
lawyer and Harvard graduate, has
been indicted on a charge of
malicious mischief, as a felony,
growing out of the tear gas bomb
ing that caused the closing of the
New York Stock Exchange last
Friday. He will be arraigned to-
day.
Unable to furnish $1,000 bail,
the young Harvard graduate was
returned to cell in the -.Tombs
prison. .... go. -...
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Hypnoti.m Doe. Not Work

There IL no such thing as the
hypnotic eye" of the animal
trainer. according to a writer in the
Kansas City Star. The trainer. espe-
cially Of big cats. controls his
charges by bluff and fast footwork.
Some time or other he must fight 1t
out with every animal to convince 1t
OF his mastery. II he loses round
and goes to q hospital. he must take
up the gage when he returns,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-08-10
Military SEXES
Kansas Office

TOPEKA, Kans.. Aug. o.
(UP).-Governor Alfred Landon
ordered state militia today to
take over the office of State
Treasurer T. B. Boyd, as a result
of the discovery of more than
six hundred thousand dollars in
forged bonds in the treasurer's
vaults.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-08-10
LINDBERGHS ARE
AT JULIANEHAAB

JULIANEHAAB, Gre enland,
Aug. 9.-(UP.-Col. and Mrs.
Charles A. Lindbergh, on an aerial
survey of an air route over the
North Atlantic to Europe, arriv-
ed here at HAS p. m. last night
from Angmagsalik, on the east
coast of Greenland, after an in
termediate stop at Godthabb. It's
miles north of here.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-08-10
WILL DISSOLVE 10000
AUXILIARY POLICEMEN

BERLIN, Aug. TO- (UP). -
The Prussian Ministry of Edu-
cation has decreed that all
school children and teachers in
future must adopt the Nazi salute
of the appraised arm.
The Prussian auxiliary police,
numbering about 10000 men,
bone of contention at. the recent
preliminary arms conference in
Geneva, was ordered dissolved
yesterday by government decree,
effective August Is.
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ing no bank there, nor even a
single newspaper subscriber, the
NiraeanS do their banking at near
by towns, Wellman, Kinross and
Kcota. Banks in those towns are
still closed. says Miller. and that
makes it all the tougher.
Postmaster Yoder, who also OPP
crates the store, is awaiting word
from the other MIRA in Wash
ington as to what is expected Of
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-08-10
[iCHVAY WORK.
OKEH.
md Batch OF Projects
m For Consideration
AT Washington
The TimCS-News Bureau
sir Walter Hotel

Sir Walter Hotel
LrrTGU. Aug. 1O.-A new
~. opp or more additional
ne construction projects are
rr. by Chairman f. r.
Of the State Highway and
Works Commission to
4 .,,.,r for approval there, so
/ IA, may be called for on
/ o. soon as the first list of
L. already announced have
4 w.rI. 1t is not known how
1 these projects will be APP
BIZ the L. s. Bureau Of
~qI,. but it is hoped that
1 .arm viii be. Among the
4 p, on this new list are the
4 Gl7 yoad in Jackson and
4, Counties, extending into
:ra. smoky Mountains Ma
[,Ip-.A area ana the surfacing
M o. he YonchloSSce trail
irrr county FROM Linvillc to
|rq'tre,' county line.
E.xs rsw projects as SUBMIT
L Washington are as follows:
s,omhe county. / - miles
,m,. f.. from junction with
/ - 90 Fit Comty line; also
|-es from Pitt county line,
- .1u.g 10. 20 Bruce, grad
nj structures.
rs; county. . miles on route
rom yrginia line to near
w,.e, grading and structures.
son county, / miles from
burg 20 ROScbOrO on route
-aln. and structures.
Eaus county, Z miles from
HIM Bridge to Deep Run,
bin. -sading and structures.
In..am county, 1l.3 miles
|Sc-9 TO AIaEauce county line
r-.. %, grading and struc-
srr..ls county. II miles from
h. o. Oak Hill on route 562,
L. lnd fractures.
zen county. u miles from
b. TO Virginia on route IA,
l- and structures.
El.iord county, relocation of /
i miles Of route 60 from F..
'cnSbOrO, south. /
county, 2 1-2 miles /
surface treatment on route 704 /
IT Madison. -!
'abarrus county. 2.3 miles of .
she'd stone construction and !
lace treatment on route 10, /
L Concord.
Richmond county, bridges and !
reaches TO Yadkin river on
ts SIS.
,9Fry county, VT. Airy west on
e y, about . miles grading.
''eIy county, S.3 miles surface |
linen. Of Yonchlossec trail !
z LnvIlIe to Caldwell county |
E.9Te.l county, rebuilding !
%Ess between Woodlawn and !
I-s falls on route %. /
|&oTcll county. So miles on /.
L . from Wild Acres to Gil /
aP, grading and structures.
= county, y miles on route !
nom South Carolina line to
SNlngS, grading and struc-
'A0A county, surface treat
"a route 1O6 from Sylvia to
'''ae- county, 3 miles county
! s2lEuction from Beaulah- |
% LsaneSsee state line, grad
ana a. structures. J.
NAS'n and Swain counties, IL
: y % route 293, Soco Gap road
~ ..ET0aeG IN Great Smoky
. "a National Park, grad
% structures.
y. ! je" addition projects may
J. 70 this list before it is
y Washington within the
=! Or so, Chairman Jeffress
T. nave no assurance as to
, ,auy OF these projects will
proved Of course, although
:, hoping that most or even
mem m will be found satisfac-
'ettress said.
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him in the way Of salary increases
and increased employment.
Two daughters and son help
him with the store, he says. and
one daughter, Orpha, serves as
assistant postmaster. But Yoder
faces a real dilemma when 1t
cosc to increasing employment.
81 don't see how | can very we'll
put anyone else at work at the
store" Yoder laments, because
The Washington times., 1933-12-25
DUE
At BIC DINNER

Leading the countrywide cele-
bration commemorating the birth
day of the late woodrow Wilson.
President Roosevelt will make his
first address at a public dinner
since entering the White House,
at a celebration Thursday at the
Mayfloy er Hotel.
He will address members of the
Woodrow Wilson Foundation and
prominent Democrats who will
gather here for the event, and his
voice will be carried via radio to
banquet rooms in more than 100
other cities where Woodrow Will
son clubs will be celebrating the
occasion.
Roland S. Morris, of Philadel-
phia, president of the board of
trustees o. the foundation and
former Ambassador to Japan, will
be master of ceremonies. He and
the President will be the only
speakers on the dinner program,
which threatens to replace the an
nual jackson Day" dinners of
long standing as the big annual
political banquet.
Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Wood
row Wilson, widow of the war;
time President, will head the list
of feminine guests attending. The
Vice President and Mrs. Garner
also will be present, making their
first public appearance of the
season. Other acceptances include
the members of the Presidents
Cabinet and their wives, the
members of the United States
Supreme Court, and hundreds of
Democratic leaders.
President Roosevelt was the
first chairman of the National
Committee of the foundation
when it was organized in 1920,
and has always been an active
member,