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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-05-15
Fly-Casting Is
Being Taught
AtLees-McRae

Banner Elk, May S. - Coach
Johnny Mackorell of Lees-McRae
college is busy these warm spring
days teaching his students the
proper flick of the wrist, the pro-
per release of the line, the con-
troll and placement of the dry-fly
all this being a part Of their
learning the art of fly-casting, for
which they are given credit in
physical education classes.
The college makes a speciality
of intramuraT college sports, in
which all students may take part,
and in which there is keen rival
ry. In planning the program OF
physical education Mr.. Mackorel
stated that it would be the prime
purpose of his department to
teach every student some sport,
or hobby, which he could use at
ter his college sdays are over. 1t
is for this reason that 'possum
hunting, fly-casting, archery, ten
mis-, swimming, badminton, shut
fleboard, and many other sports
are being taught the students
recreational activities which they
can carry with them throughout
their later life.
The fly-casting classes include
learning how to cast, the selec-
ton and care of rods, reels, lines
and flies. Students who progress
sufficiently in this course will
also be taught how to tie their
own flies. Trout fishing is a sport
which appeals to people of all
ages. The sheer joy of angling
comes from the feel of the rod,
the song of the reel, the soft swish
of a beautiful line, and Mr..
Mackorell, himself past master
at the art, is finding eager enthu-
siasm among the students who are
taking the fly-casting training.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-05-15
n. C.. WOmen's Clubs Name
Mrs. Rankin AS President
Defense Is Theme. Ex-GOver-
nor Speaker at Indus
trial Banquet.

Wi;nston-Salem-Mrs. P. r. Ran
kin, of Mt. Gilead. was elected
to the presidency of the State
Federation of Women's Clubs,
which concluded its three-day
convention here Friday night with
a gala industrial banquet honor
ing the Is district presidents and
a score of North Cardinals indus
trial leaders.
Former Gov. Clyde r. Hoey an J
E. C. Michaels, vics president o.
the Wick Chemical company and
chairman of the regional ..'.nmit-
tee on home and induet-~' Or the
National Association ufac7
turers, were chief spea fire
banquet. The forme' Ut
spoke on North Carroll US
tries and their part in + lefS'.se
program, and the lat told of
efforts to speed up production
Tor defense neeQS.
Mrs. Clarence w. Beasley, Of
Colerain, was elected second vice
president of the federation; with
Mrs. J. Henry Highsmith, Of Ra-
leigh, third vice president; Mrs. o.
M. Scarborough, Mt. Gilead, cor
responding secretary; and Mrs. r.
H. Latham, Asheville, trustee. All
nominations came from the nomi-
mating committee, without any
other from the floor.
The first federation president,
Mrs. Lindsay Patterson, Winston
Salem, was elected honorary pres
ident. The only other person to
have held such a position was the
late Mrs. R. r. Cotton, Farmvllle.
Endorsement was voted for the
candidacy of Mrs. Latham as gen.
eral federation treasurer. She is
unopposed for the office. Her
qualifications were presented by
Mrs. E. l.. Mckee, Sylvia, former
state president.
Members of district Nc. 2 ex-
tended an invitation for the next
convention to be held in Ashe-
vile. This was accepted tonight
by the executive board.
Six resolutions were adopted,
, favoring work training for wo-
men prisoners in special units,
raising of the compulsory school
attendance age to 16 years, more
funds for adult education, appre-
citation for the work of Governor
J. M. Broughton and the recent
general assembly, domestic health
programs for making America
strong by m kin G Americans
stronger physically, and the pro-
posed world federation of nations.
Among those from the local
club who attended were Mrs. A.
B. Hurt, Mrs. Lem Hafer and Mrs.
Ed M. Anderson.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-05-15
Fishing Time
Bv MARTIN V. CRAFT

Friends, please listen to my
rhyme:
See the boys at morning time,
See them gaze. with longing look,
Down toward the babbling brook
Where the trout were wont to
play
On a happy bygone day.
See them as to school they go
Boys must go to school, you
know.
See them 60 with tagging stride,
See them pause, the brook beside,
Planning sport for evening-time-
This goes in to keep the rhyme!
See them then at evening-tlde,
Chores done, school books laid
aside,
Gather at their swimming-hole
With hook, line and fishing pole,
Lots of wriggly worms for bait;
It seems they can hardly wait
To untangle fishing line
In goes the hook, the fishings
fine!
M77--l-r -,:~-l :
See the finny beauties fly
Twixt the earth and evening sky!
My heart swells in envious pain
Oh, to be a boy again!
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-05-15
Parkway Officials Will Be
Guests OF Automobile Club

Officials of the Blue Ridge
Parkway have accepted the invi-
aation of the Winston-Salem Au-
aomobile Club to be guests at the
clubs parkway tour and barbe-
cue May 81.
Stanley w. Abbott, acting sup
erintendent with headquarters at
Roanoke, advised President John
M Brown that he and one other
official will join with the clubs
members and their guests at Bluff
Park, on the parkway, where the
barbecue will be held.
Tie parkway officials have also
instructed the park rangers and
Others connected with the park
way to cooperate in every way
in making the barbecue a success.
They will provide long tables
from which to serve the barbe-
cue and will provide personnel to
help park the cars and explain
points of interest from the point
at which the barbecue will be
held. .
Already reservations are begin
ming to come in from members
of the club. The first request for
tickets was from Chief Walter
Anderson, who has been a men,
Der Of the club for a number of
years, and three members Of his
family.
John L. Gilmer is head of the
committee arranging the details
and he stated that plans are in
the making to make the tour Of
the parkway and the barbecue
thoroughly enjoyable from every
point of view.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-05-15
SEEKING FUNDS FOR
FOLGER.S PORTRAIT

Dobson. "A group of Surry
county citizens met in the court
house at Dobson and appointed a
committee to solicit funds for a
portrait of the late A. D. CLon)
Folger to be placed in the Surry
courthouse. A committee from
each township in Surry county
was appointed to receive volun-
tary contributions from friends
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-05-15
Baptist Women
To Hold Annual
Meeting May q

The w. M. u. of the Ashe Asso-
citation will hold its annual meet
ing with the Grassy Creek church
Wednesday May 81.
This is expected to be a good
meeting with well planned
program beginning at 9:45 and
continuing until 3:45. Many phas-
es of w. M. U. work will be dis
cussed with plans for the coming
year. A state worker from Ra-
leigh will be present as well as
the divisional superintendent from
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-05-15

Mr.. Folger, and any other persons
wishing to contribute to establish
ing permanent memorial to him.
w. M. Johnson, of Mt. Airy,
was named as chairman of the
Surry county committee, and Her
man Coe, of Surry County Loan
and Trust company, Dobson, was
named as treasurer.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-05-15
WHAT, NO WOMEN?
SINCE THE FOUNDING OF


THE NATION, two women have
been nominated for the office of
President of the United States,
and have carried on animated
campaigns under auspices of the
old Equal Rights party. They
were Victoria Woodruff, who ran
IN 1872, and Mrs. Belva Lock
wood, who opposed Cleveland
and Blaine in 1884 and Cleveland
and Harrison in 1888. And Mrs.
lockwood, at the age of 81, did
herself her party-proud. In
fact, her party nabbed more cleo
tora1 votes in 1884 than did the
C. o. P. in 1886!
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-05-15
REVIVAL TO OPEN

The revival meeting at Pleas
ant Home Baptist church will be-
gin Sunday night, May IS, at 800
o'clock. The pastor, Rev. Cicero
Ashley, will be assisted by Rev.
E. A. Eller and J. c. Blevins. The
public is invited to attend these
services.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-05-15

Elkin.
It is hoped that all the churches
in the county will be represented
and all ministers are especially
urged to attend, leaders pointed
out.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-05-15

More people are killed in traf-
fic accidents on Sunday than on
any other day.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23

SIDES, the government was paying good premiums
for carrying the mails, and they had to be de
hvered prompt So they started the packet ships
that slammed back and forth across the western
ocean in spite of hell and high water. Cargo or no
cargo they sailed east and west under all canvas
But the crews they shipped were caution.
Packet rats they were called and that was insult to
the rats! Brawlers, sea lawyers, pmps, drunkards,
no-goods all.
They liked short runs A few weeks at sea and
then the dives of Liverpool or New York til they
finished their pay, then another ship and another
drunk. They never shipped unless they were
broke, and sailed with little but donkeys break
fast to sleep on. They Dragged that they went
aoft in the midwinter gales in their shirt sleeves.
They did too, by gosh. They were tough. Be.
laying pin soup and handspike hash was what they
fed on and it was served by such mighty walters
as Bully Waterman.
He'd look EN- over when picking his watch and
choose the toughest look EN- in the eyes and tell
em he was the master of any or all. They feared
him and respected him, for though he wasn't
whisky-Johnny (matter of fact he was bit of a
kind of fighting; knock down and drag out foot
fighting, Lancashire style, and spit in their eyes
afterwards.
On one trip right in the middle of winter there
was gale rolling the old Britannia right on her
beam ends One of those packet rats chose the mid
die of the night to fall overheard BY gosh, Water
man went after him. The man clawed at him and
damned nearly drowned them both, but Waterman
uppercut him and dragged him by the hair until
the ship was put aback and boat lowered. That
takes something more than just toughness.
Two years after that he got his masters
ticket. Yessr, at the age of twenty-five he was
master of fine tall ship. Took her five times
around the world, he did, carrying more sail than
any other man would dare to think of, and all dur
ing his service on the sea he never lost so much
spar for his owners. There might have been some
thing in that heather Chinese charm after all.
He was thirty-seven when they gave him the
Natchez. An old flat-floored high popped New
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23
No. 10-Seo-DeviI
Bully
Wofermon

sitting on spare spar, was, watching Old Sven.
the carpenter, whttlu on ship model 1t
fine day. about eight days out of New York, and
nothing was farther from my mind than violence.
But at sea you gotta be prepared for anything.
I heard some GUESSING and binding and looked
up to where two foremost hands were holystoning
the deck One of them big brliser, suddenly got to
his feet and chucked that stone overheard.
Hell with it, he growled.
That's the stuff mate" yelled his pal and
heaved his stone oversize.
Then things began to happen There was rush
and the big sailor spun and dropped as two big
fists smashed into his face don't think he even
knew what hit him; teeth and blood all over the
deck. But his pal dragged knife from his belt.
But he didn't have time to it. saw it flash in
a vicious swing, but the captain stepped back
ducked the blade and stepped in. His big fists just
squashed into the others face, once, twice and as
he toppled forward the shippers knee caught him
in the belly and dropped him. out like light, beside
his pal.
stared like fool. Our skipper, Captain Joe
Hall, my first MASTER was little man, about five
foot four and as broad as he was long. His face
was calm as if he'd been in church, but his eyes,
pale blue they were, were blazing. He saw me.
"Youv he barked. Get other stones" Al.
tell you almost fouled my own feet getting
under way. When got back with the stones the
captain cool cucumber sloshng buckets
of sea water over those sick and sorry mutineers.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23

Orleans packet she was, and slow as the second
coming. No one had ever heard of her before Bully
Waterman got her Rowland and Aspinwall bought
her second hand, handed her over to Waterman and
sent her out to China.
But when she came back from Canton in 70
days there was some excitement. When they
sighted her top-hamper coming through the Mar
rows they didn't believe it. The captains came
aboard soon as he tied up at Packet Row and de-
manded to see his charts At first they said he
hadn't been to Canton. Then they swere he'd come
home by some short cut that no man had ever
heard Of But the chart and log proved that the old
Natchez was now in the hands of a sailorman.
ooh, that amt nothing" he grinned. II was
just feeling her out. Wait til next voy'ge"
They laughed and told each other that he was
damned blowhard. But next voyage the Mattel n
loaded tea in Canton, sailed January 18th, 1915,
passed Java Head on the 26th, sighted the Cape of
Good Hope 80 days out, crossed the Equator 81
days from Canton and arrived in New York April
Bird; 1905 miles in n days And that was the
record.
tell you Captain Waterman was character
around New York town Kids followed him like
they'd follow Babe Ruth these days. Sailors cheered
him, even his own men; they proud to sail
under such captain; he made them all heroes He
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23

holystones and keep EN- on deck for their next two
watches off, and without change in his mahog
any-colored face he went back to the poop.
Old Sven was still chipping away at his ship
model unconcerned as you please
Tough" he says, splitting to leeward. "Well,
son. dunno as I'd say that. Not tough but able to
do what's needin when it's needn. If he'd bin
tough them two wouldn't have bin able to work for
a couple weeks. S'pose he'd bin Bully Waterman;
whered those two be now? Oversize, like as not"
I d HEARD of Bully Waterman, green as I was.
Captain Robert H. Waterman was his full mon
iker who went to sea when he was twelve, was cap
tain at twenty-five, broke most of the worlds sail
ing records fought mutinous crew with his own
fists and nearly got burned to death by mob in
San Francisco in 1851.
Started right at the bottom he did, and sailed
out of New York for China as ordinary seaman He
was tough young devil even in those days and
there's story that he did some good turns for one
OF them Mandarin fellows, who gave him some sort
OF heather charm that always protected him no
matter how much sail he cracked on.
Well, that may be; don't hold much with them
things still at sea some mighty strange things
happen and manys the sailorman who swore up
and down that Waterman was protected by the
devil himself
Anyhow he worked his way from ordinary to
able seaman bosun. third second and at the age
of twenty-three he was first mate under Captain
Marshall in the Black Ball packet ship Britannia
between New York and LIVERPOOL 1 guess that's
where he learned the business of being tough, for
them ships were crewed with the scrapings of hell
man had to be tough to live one voyage in
Black Ball packet, and Waterman lived through
plenty.
You see, before those packet lines started there
were no schedules for crossing the ocean. A man
might sign for voyage to Liverpool and find him
self rounding the Horn, sliding into Sydney harbor,
beating past Java Head and years tumbling
around the world before he sighted the Mersey.
But some shipmasters had better ideas Be
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23

In the Black Ball Line served my time.
Away-ay-ay, hooray-ah;
And that's the line where you can shine
Hooraw for the Black Ball Line.
ItU carry you along through frost and snow,
Awsy-ay-ay, hooray-ah;
And take you where the wind don't blow
Hooraw for the Black Ball Line.
It's there III sport my long-tailed blue,
Away-ay-ay. hooray-ah.
It's there III sport my long tailed blue
Hooraw for the Black Ball Line.
(Capstan Chanty)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23


O
But
billiards So No Fearful Hands Them Go In a
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23
BY CAP'N DAVE LANDERS,

One of the Last of the Clipper Shippers
1871 by American Weekly Rights
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23

4 Ia RID c a Sc s?
Sure, I've
y . heard of hard
cases; sailed with
'em, too! I remember
my very first trip;
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23

They climbed to their
fee ct nur sin G their
busted jaws.
Now" says the skip
per, ION your knees and
clean up that deck. And
by heaven, if I ever
hear a peep outta either
of you, you'll wish you
was both born dead"
He turned to the mate.
Log these two days
pay and the cost of the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-20

Gen. Hugh 3. JOhnso
Writes Daily for the Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-20
u. of VI. Telescope Mirror
Idle for Lack of $500, 900
Time. star Correspondent

ANN ARBOR. July 19.-After
four years, the third largest tele-
scope mirror in the world. five
ton, 97i2-inch pyrex disc. today
still lies unused in a shed behind
the University OF Michigan OBJ
servatory here waiting for some
doner TO give 100000 in order
that it may be mounted.
The telescope mirror is exceeded
in size only by the 100-inch re-
hector at Mt. Wilson and the new
20G-inch disc in the Mt Palomar
Observatory. 1t was ladled by the
Corning Glass Works, Corning. n.
Y. in 1884, the same year that the
MI Palomar reflector was poured
and the funds were supplied by
the late Tracy McGregor OF De-
troit.
The size OF the mirror is the
result OF mistake in the original
casting. Specifications called for
a disc S5l2 inches in diamter, but
before the cooling process was
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-20
Business Today Towers
Over Peak of 1929

six months for the United States
and Canada Detroit figures can
not be separated from the grand
total for several reaSonS), was
3413.SO4 This exceeds the total
for the first six months of 1871
when 3.l42433 were made, but
that isn't the whole story.
The 1929 figures are swollen be-
cause in 1929 new models came
out in January and the demand
was at its peak. New models for
l941 will not arrive until this Fall
The figures for the full L
months Of l91l would have shown
a far different picture, if some
thing hadn't happened Saturday.
The something was curtail-
ment Of automobile production by
government fiat. Officials in the
Board OF Commerce were wary Of
projecting their views into the
future too far in a rapidly chang
ing world. but they did not see
how Detroit could avoid an I'M
employment problem because of
the cut in production
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-20
Car Jumps Curb
3 Children Hurt

Three children were seriously
injured in Van Dyke Mich Satur-
day when they were struck by an
automobile which ran over a curb
and into a field
The children two sisters and p
brother arc in Saratoga General
Hospital. in critical condition
They are Janet Cross. 4 Juania
Cross. II. and Bert Cross IL, all of
$500 Ford avenue. Van Dyke
Janet and Bert had been taken
10 the hospital and police were on
the scene for Is minutes before
.Iuanita was found lying uncon-
scionS in The tall grass 30 or 4C
feet away.
Driver Of the car vas CyrieI
Devriendl. 90. Of 1ll00 Republic
avenue Van Dyke Witnesses SAID
his car went over the curb on
Piper AT Ford avenue and ran over
the children. II left the field cir
cled on Ford avenue, and then rar
hack ONTO The field. they said
Devriendt was ordered held fQl
investigation by Lieut. Fred Ma.
letta OF Warren Township police
Maletta said Dcvricndt admitted
having had five beers Just before
The accident. but claimed hC
couldn't avoid hitting the children
because they ran into the path oi
his car
on June II Dcvrieudt was
charged with reckless driVnl
when his car struck Margrctr
Kerr II n 722S ilupp avenue
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-20
Traffic No Better

Traffic is not going 10 get any
better. apparently. because De-
troitcrS arc buying new cars Al a
terrific rate. In tho first six
months Of 1920. there were S3.497
now cars and trucks sold IN the
county. In tho first SiN months OF
this year. l0l.07l were sold.
The dollar volume Of depart
ment store sales for the first SIX
months of 194l Is lower than tho
same period OF 1929, but dollar
volume IS a misleading index The
price diffcrental is such that #
YOU Sought four pairs Of SoX for
81 m 1929 YOU could buy five pairs
Of the same son today for the same
money It's tho number Of articles
sold that interests The average
man and on a physical volume
basis department store sales arc
up 20 per cent over 1920.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-20
Here's an Example

a typical average man working
in a Detroit automobile factory
earned SO cents an hour in 1929
Assuming ne worked 40 hours. he
earned S27 so
The same man receives Sl.O0 an
hour today or S42 for a 40-hour
week. II he works more thar DC
hours he receives tlnie-and-a-ha
so that for a 4S-hour week IN 1871
he will receive $3.50 For rs hours
in 1929 he received SHIP
When nc took his money 10 The
store i'm 1929 he paid Is per cent
more for what ne bought than he
viii pay now Prices are slowly
rising today bur Al least some
attempt Is hclnc made 20 keer
thcm down. In 1929 the sky was
tho limit
Detroit made 2 lot ~ automo.
hileS in 1920 The total for Tho FIRST
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-20

completed. the glass had become
hazy and imperfect. The glass
works then offered 10 recast Il
into a larger piece. and the pres
ent mirror was produced. The
process was not completed until
1886 and the mirror arrived at the
university in 1897.
First steps necessary to mount
the disc are grinding and polish
ing which must be accurate to
within one five-hundred thou
sandth of an inch. The process
would take more than a year.
A perfectly balanced mounting
would then have 10 be constructed
so that there would be no vibra-
ton or strain on the mirror. The
work of grinding and mounting
would cost a total of $4,000.
The huge telescope would then
have tosbe housed in a new build
ing which university officials hope
would be built on site owned by
the university at Portage Lake,
west of here.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-20
1942 Tag Plan
RejeltedbyKeI|y

Secretary OF State Harry F,
Kelly Saturday turned thumbs
down on CALIFORNIA; plan TO re-
lduce steel consumption by maxi
ing this years license plates serve
for 1912 by attaching a small tag
10 them.
eligibility OF license plates Is
vitality important in safety and
In aiding law Officers" Kelly
said. land the amount OF steel
consumed In their manufacture
II negligible i'm comparison with
the importance of speedy identi-
ficatiOn Of licenses i'm crimes or
accidents"
The new plates. requiring 1900
tons of steel for which OPM has
promised a preference rating, are
now in production at Jackson
Prison. Full plates will be white
on dark green. half-year plates
blue on cream. Kelly said.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-20
No Stock Boom

There is one business that hasn't
iolned IN the parade 90 tho top Of
the graph is the much mahgned
DOGGY of tho boom, the stock
market
In tho first SIN months Of 1929
fhG. Detroit stock exchange (which
handled only IA fraction Of tho
speculation In stocks by De
tfolterSl traded S649l go worth
of stocks The figures for 1911 60
81 0693iT
All m an after looking az 1929
and 1871 statistics. We can only
ISSUE The advice that is posted
near tho entrance 10 roller
coaStcrS n reads
Hold on 10 your hats and
don't stand up"