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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-09-05
BIRTHS ANNOUNCED

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Pritch-
ard, of West Jefferson, announce
the arrival of a son, Charles
Frank, on August 81 at the Ashe
Memorial hospital. Both mother
and son are doing nicely.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Williams
announce the arrival of daugh-
ter, Joyce James, On September
l at the Ashe Memorial hospital.
Both mother and daughter are
doing nicely.
rather than toward the worker:
turning pot handles so that they
10 not extend over the edge Of
the stove; and using pot holders
hat are thick and dry.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-09-05

Forest fires do damage other
than to the trees themselves.
They kill all wildlife.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-09-05

The kitchen is the busiest room
in the American home, especially
during summer canning season.
It is also the most dangerous
room, according to safety advis-
ers. Almost one out of every five
serious home accidents occurs in
the kitchen. These accidents in
clude falls, burns and scalds, COL
lisions and bumps, cuts, bruises,
and poisoning.
More than a fourth of these
kitchen accidents are burns and
scalds, with burns by steam and
hot liquids the most frequent.
Carelessness is often the cause Of
these burns. Simple precautions
that will prevent many burns are:
lifting the lid of kettles so that
the steam escapes away from,
The sub., 1946-02-14
SUB Waves
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By RUTH DEnGBO

All labor leaders and union men and women cannot afford tO miss thte new series heard over Station WNLC on Monday nights at BIS ?. m. LEST WE FORGET THESE GREAT AMERICANS are making a big hit with the radio audiences everywherel The first two broad casts were dedicated to Franklin D. Roosevelt. our late president, and on last Monday night the late great American Wendell Wilkie was dramatized. Quentin Reynolds. famed war correspondent acted as narrator and Howard Smith. star ring in the current Broadway hit, DEAR RUTH" portrayed MT. Wilkie. These features are present. ed in a very stirring fashion and make everyone listening more conscious that they ARE AMERI- CANS and that they are PROUD TO BE AMERICANS and the EEL LOW CITIZENS OF SUCH TRULY GREAT MEN.
 This week the Sub celebrated Negro History Week by presenting a program over WNLC with repre- sentatives of the New London In- terracial Council. YWCA. and the Longshoremen's Union. Rev. A. A. Garvin. Miss Hazel Robinson and Brother Charles Silva brought the real issues of race relations home to the radio audience. All agreed that good race relations were a 365 day job. All made plea for equal ity of opportunity for all men re- gardless of race. creed or color. Brother Silva hit out strongly against the FEPC filibuster now raging in the Senate which he stat ed was in complete violation of democratic principles. He said 1t was time we got rid of outmoded
The sub., 1946-02-14

Actress Elaine Williams is the lovely lady featured on Dave El- mans unique "Radio Auction Show" now aired over WNLC at 10 p. m. Wednesdays.
The sub., 1946-02-14
League Of Women Voters
 To Call Housing Meeting

Calling attention to the urgent needs of housing in the New Lon- don area, the League of Women Voters will sponsor a public meet ing along with other organizations on Tuesday, evening. Feb. 18th at 8 p. m., at Buell. Hall. Among the invited organizations will be lead- ing AFL unions and veterans or- ganizations who are yitally con- cerned with housing at this time.
 Feature of the evening will be movie, "Rebirth of City," which shows the transformation Of New Haven slums to a federal hous- ing project for low income groups. MT. George MacDougall. assistant director of the Connecticut Veter- ans Unemployment and Advisory Commission. recently returned from a Housing Conference in Washing ton,. will be on hand to give 8 talk and outline a program of action for local groups. MT. Peter Hale of the City Planning Commission of New Haven, will also be present.
 The housing meeting. which will receive wide civic support, may spur Mayor James May to action in appointing B housing authority as he was advised to do in letter from Governor Baldwin on Janu- ary 28th.
The sub., 1946-02-14

Monday through Friday coast-to- coast broadcasts are under the sponsorship of Kreml Shampoo and Kreml Hair Tonic, and replace William Lang-News' previously heard at this time.
 Stage, screen and radio star, Dick Powell, has turned from melodies to mysteries in his weekly radio series, "Rogue's Gallery" which airs each Thursday evening at 8:S0 p. m. over WNLC and the Mutual Broadcasting System.
 The Rogue'S Gallery series has Powell portraying Richard Rogue, operator of private detective agency specializing in the solu- ton of mysterious crimes. Comedy is interspersed with mystery to keep the suspense from being too intense. Each program is com plete murder story, and the pro- grams are unique in that there are no running characters or sit- uations. Powell has a new sup- porting cast for each show.
 Rogue's Gallery, sponsored by the Fitch Company, originates in Hollywood.
 Little Americans who do big things will be selected by admir- ing compatriots to receive well mer- ited recognition on Wednesdays as Morton Downey inaugurates a series of weekly salutes to Big, Little Americans" for his Songs by Morton Downey programs heard Mondays through Fridays over WNLC from 12:15 to 12:S0 D. m.
 Reporters, radio newsmen and employees of the Coca Cola Com pany, sponsors of the programs, have been recruited to act as scouts seeking out these everyday citi- gems who will receive the weekly salute. The home towns of the Big. Little Americans" will share the honors as fitting tribute is paid to the cities of their residence.
 The purpose of the salutes Is to bring to light the activities of those patriotic and civic-minded Ameri- cans who do their share, often in unusual ways, and who expect no reward other than the satisfaction of jobs well done, or vital services well executed.
 Chosen to receive the initial award, which was made on Feb- ruary 9th, was John P. Pfeifer of Columbus, Ohio, whose special in- terest is providing help for orphans. Dad" Pfeifer is one of the founders of Charity Newsies," an organi- bation composed of business men who were former newsboys, and who return to their old corners once each year to sell papers at five and ten dollars apiece-an for the benefit of orphans.
 There's usually a good reason why newscasters and commenta- tors use catch phrases is signing off their programs. Arthur Hale, heard Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, 7:3O to 7:45 p. m., over WNLC, started closing his broad casts with, And that's the news" !" Today, that expression. or slight variations of it, are almost stand ard throughout the U. s. Later on, when Hale became a commenta- tor, a friend suggested that he use B friendly farewell for each pro- gram. So Hale used Keep Elm Flying" which is his sign-off sig nature to this day. Incidentally, it was the War Department which thought of and requested Hale to
The sub., 1946-02-14
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race and religious prejudices and followed along the lines of our Con. stitution which guaranteed free- dom and equality for all men. Brother Silva said that the Fair Employment Practices Bill which would outlaw discrimination in in- dustry receives the full support Of the AFL and all other labor groups. Thanks Brother Silva, Miss Rob- inSon and Rev. Garvin for a job well done.
The sub., 1946-02-14

that he made his start in radio. News reporting soon attracted his attention and his continued study of the vocal arts has made his voice one of the most interesting and pleasant of the better known newScasterS.
 Entitled Lyle Van-News," these
The sub., 1946-02-14

Monday through Friday coast-to- coast broadcaSts are under the sponsorship of Kreml Shampoo and Kreml Hair Tonic. and replace William Lang-News' previously heard at this time.
The sub., 1946-02-14

The greatest single cause of fire in the home is dirty and de-. fective chimneyS and flues.
The sub., 1946-02-14

One of the foremost voices in present day newScasting is now brought to WNLC listeners as Lyle Van, well known radio reporter, in- augurated a series of daily pro- grams heard Mondays through Fri days from F noon to 1915 p. m.
 Through IA years of war and peace Van has been engaged in the task of bringing his listeners the latest developments on the most important events. and his daily newscasts have featured number of outstanding reports on unique stories.
 Van was born in Troy. New York, and divided his schooling between Baltimore and Atlanta. He stud jed singing while working in Flor ida for the U. s. Treasury De- partment. and 1t was as a singer
Evening star., 1946-04-06
|AAUW to Hear
Talk ON Far East

Miss Angela Jurdak, attache O.
the Lebanese Legation, will speal
on Education in the Far East" be.
fore the College Park branch, Amer.
ican Association of University Wom.
en-, at 8 pm. Monday. The meeting
will be held in the Maryland room
Of the Home Economics Building
University of Maryland. Mrs. c. H
Mahoney is chairman of the Hos.
pitality Committee for the meeting
An education review of present.
day elementary problems will b.
presented in a talk by Miss Heller
NJ. Hosp, associate in higher edu.
cation at AAUW national headquar.
ters, before the Silver Spring branch
AAUW, Tuesday evening. A GOV.
ered-dish supper at 7 pm. at the
Jesup Blair Community House will
precede the program.
Dean Henry Grattan Doyle o1
George Washington University viii
review and comment on THE Har.
vest Report on General Education
before members of the AAUW al
$50 pm. Tuesday at the clubhouse
1884 I street NV.
Evening star., 1946-04-06
Miss Flatber We'd
In London Church

A wedding of great interest tt
WaShingtonians took place in Lon
don yesterday afternoon. Miss Agne.
Flather, daughter of Mr. and Mrs
William j. Flather, became the bride
of DR.. Neville K. Connolly of Lon.
don at small ceremony in St. Paul's
Church on Portman Square. Only
members of the families and init.
mate friends attended the wedding
and the reception that followed al
the Rembrandt Hotel.
DR.. and Mrs. Connolly will make
their home at l6 Upper Barkley
street in London. The former Miss
Flather has been in London fol
some time working in the pho.
tographic division Of the Warbure
Institute. Her husband is resident
physician at Ormond Street Chill
drens Hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. Flather. who sailed
for London on the Queen Mary
March 20 to see their daughter mar
ried, will return to Washington in
the near future.
The bride made her debut in
Washington at a beautiful costume
party the evening of January 3
1912. She was graduated from Mount
Vernon Seminary and finished her
college course at Vassar a year ago
DR.. Connolly is graduate of Kings
College, Cambridge University, and
Harvard Medical School and two
years ago was an exchange student
at Johns HOPKINS.
Evening star., 1946-04-06

Pi Beta Phi
Sorority to Mark
I75b Anuiuersarp

A luncheon celebrating the 75tt
anniversary of its founding will bt
held by Pi Beta Phi Sorority Apri
27 at the MayfoWer Hotel.
The sorority, which was the first
women's national college secret fra.
ternity, was formed in 1867 by 6
group of IL girls. The principa
interest of the fraternity since 1915
has been the Settlement School al
Gatlinburg, Tenn, which was estab-
lished in memory of the founders
From one room, the school has
grown into an educational center
with an elementary school enroll.
ment of more than 300 pupils anG
a modern high school.
Both active and alumnae chapters
shared in the war effort by con-
tributing to a national fund fol
training girls in physiotherapy in
service and university hospitals.
Mrs. Harold M. Kiesel is chairman
of the Banquet Committee and viii
be assisted by Mrs Winfield Weitzel
Miss Barbara Belknap and Mrs
James c. Wilson. Reservations are
being taken by Mrs. A. E. Nesbitt, los
West Woodbine street, Chevy Chase
or Wisconsin 3733.
The Washington Alumnae Clut
will meet to discuss convention plans
and proposed changes in the bylaws
at 8 pm. Tuesday at the home OF
Mrs. Nesbitt.
Evening star., 1946-04-06
Truman Urged 10 Allow Aid
Be Sent 10 Former Enemies

Declaring that an Overwhelming
disaster Of famine and disease is
threatening the lives of millions o1
people, Seventh-day Adventist
Church executives have appealed tc
President Truman to help open
transportation for food and clothing
into former enemy countries and
others still closed to shipping.
In a letter to Mr.. Truman, j. L.
McElhany, General Conference
president, expressed the conviction
that If given an opportunity the
American people will contribute lib
orally to reduce the suffering In
these countries.
"The generosity of our people in
this respect" he said" will do more
to remove bitterness and hatred that
may still exist than any other one
thing that could possibly be done, "
Countries named in the letter are
Germany, Poland, Hungary, the
Balkans, Japan and Korea.
Evening star., 1946-04-06
Ansberrys Hosts
1t Large Partv

The Peter Ansberrys have SO
many friends that they had to
stager the hours of the cocktail
party they gave yesterday after
noon in their home on McGill Ter
race. The party was for the wife
of the former Counselor of the
Portuguese Embassy, Mime. Vasco
Garin, and for the fabulous Mr.
Dayton Hedges from Cuba and his
popular wife. Mr.. Hedges has re-
ceived recognition throughout the
world for his advanced labor
theories which he has put into
practice in his vast cotton mills
in Cuba.
The glamorous brunette, Nine
Garin, will be leaving Washington
any day now to join her HUSBAND
in Lisbon. DR.. Garin left about
two weeks ago to take over his new
post in the foreign of1ice. After
several years in the Capital, this
well-liked couple will be very much
missed.
Yesterdays guests were invited
either from 5 to 7, 6 to 8
and on. There was tea as well as
cocktails and those who took turns
pouring were Mrs. John D. Small
Mrs. Alden Sibley, Mrs. Preston
Marshall, jr.; Mrs. Katherine van
Wort, Mrs. Charles Bruce and Mrs
Robert Knowlton. From New York
came Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Mount
and Mr.. and Mrs. Laurens MacFar-
lane. who are spending the week end
in Washington.
Evening star., 1946-04-06
W0mzen's GrOHb
Hears Lady Astor
At Tea Program
By Frances Lide

That ardent feminist, Lady Astor
said yesterday she likes to talk to
an audience of women because she
feels she will be understood by
some of them, at least.
She was speaking to such femi-
nine group at the Congressional
Club Friday tea. And whether or
not the women agreed with it all
they found what she had to say
highly entertaining.
Before a crowd that overflowed
the clubs large ballroom, the Vir-
ginia-born former member Of the
British House of Commons was at
her ironic best. She spoke on most
of her pet subjects and added few
American movies and radio came
in for special barbs. Hollywood, she
asserted, is not helping the spiritual
development of this country by the
type Of movie fare it is offering. As
for the radios, she hit at the COM
mercials-giving an amusing imita-
tion-and deplored some of the pro-
grams, especially "the murders y
The latter, she maintained, are bad
for juveniles.
mo country has ever allowed such
propaganda as we allow in this
country without taking 4 stand
against it," she declared.
But the theme of her talk was
what women can do to prevent war.
She called on the Congressional
wives to exercise their leadership
by getting after your husbands. "
Let your husbands make the
speeches and you do the thinking, "
she advised.
The viscountess was presented by
Mrs. Hal Homes, entertainment
chairman, after Mrs. Harold H. Bur-
ton, club president, opened the pro-
gram. Afterwards she greeted men,
bers and guests and then had tea
at table with a group which in
cluded Mrs. Clinton P. Anderson, a
vice president Of the club, and Mrs.
William O. Douglas.
Evening star., 1946-04-06

put terrible Stigma on the PreSi-
dents plan.
The men and women who have
been working for years to improve
the national health sand who are
earnestly backing the bill now be-
fore Congress, are gentlemen and
ladies. They wouldn't think of using
the same tactics that are being used
against them. But if they should
lose their good manners, here's an
epithet ready for their use-"Com-
mercialized Medicine" They could
make the issue socialized medicine
VS.. commercialized medicine.
Might be Effective.
1t wouldn't be any more honest
or fair, of course, than the tactics
of the opposition, but it might be
effective, for "commercialized" car
ries stigma quite as damning as
"socialized" We even think of
''commercialized vice" as something
worse than plain, ordinary vice!
The average high-minded, self-sac-
riflcing doctor, who gets jittery at
hIiC OlloQSI1U VI SOSldllLCO IllSulCl1lt,
probably would be even more upset
at the thought of his proud profess
sion being labeled commercialized
medicine.
AS for the ling taken by the A.
M. A, if the National Health Act
represents socialism, our present
methods of protecting the peoples
health are shot through with the
same curse. Who operates the local
sewer systems, designed to protect
the community health? The COM
munity. But We don't speak of So
cialized sewers. Who provides 9TH
er sanitary projections? The COM
munity. But we don't call it social
ized sanitation. To whom do we
look when epidemics or plaques
threaten? The city, the State or
the National Government. But we
don't call that socialized security.
Most cities and towns own and op-
crate their own water systems. But
citizens don't refuse to bathe or
wash their clothes in the water on
the ground that it is socialized.
And so it will be when we get over
the fear of that phrase in connec-
tion with medicine. Basically moth
ing is proposed by the National
Health Act except national insur-
ance plan, plan to insure the
health of the people, with the peo-
pie paying the bill. ....
MISREPRESENTATION of Bill.
There has been much misrepre-
sentation of the bill. It has been
said it denies citizens the right
to choose their own doctors. This
is not true. Patients may have any
doctor within reach, if the doctor is
willing. And doctors may select
their own patients. No doctor is
compelled to participate in the plan.
The doctors who do participate are
merely assured of collecting their
fees; they will no longer need to
charge well-to-do patients all the
traffic will bear -- commercialized
medicine, hahn order to compen-
safe for free services to the poor.
This national health legislation
Is long overdue. It had become
overdue before the outbreak of
World War II. Selective service
discovered that more than 40 per
cent of our selectees were unfit for
military duty.
In 40 per cent of our counties,
Evening star., 1946-04-06
Memorial Services
To Honor Mai. Walker

Memorial services for Mai. James
E. Walker, colored, who died while
serving in the Army during the
World War, will be held at 8 pm,
tomorrow at his grave in Arlington
Cemetery.
Col. West A. Hamilton will speak
at the services to be conducted by
the James E. Walker Unit No. IS.
American Legion Auxiliary. Her
bert jacob, District department
commander of the American Legion,
VIII place . wreath on the grave.
MAJ. Walker was commander of
a colored regiment, National Guard,
and served on the Mexican border
campaign in 1916. He had been a
teacher in the District public schools
and director Of the 18th school d.
vision.
Evening star., 1946-04-06
By John A. ThoIe
Foreign Correspondent Of The stor and
the Chicago Dolly News

ATKINSON FIELD, British Gui-
ana, April 6.-The United States
Army may have to send small search
parties fighting through some of the
worst jungles in the Western Hem
isphere in hunt for several score
Missing comrades.
The missing ones were aboard
military transports and bombers
forced down in the wild back coun-
try" of the Guianas and northern
Brazil during the war.
Officers estimate there are up to
Is planes down in the bush, wreck
ages of which never have been To-
Gated. Most of them had from half
a-dozen to IS persons aboard when
they crashed.
Missing Presumed Dead.
The passengers have long been
posted as missing and presumed
dead" But the Army high COM
mand may decide definite proof of
their death should be established.
There is million-to-on chance
that some of the men might have
survived their crash and fallen into
the hands of friendly natives. They
could be living in the brush, unable
to make their way back alone to
civilization, and unable to persuade
the natives to take them.
Actually there is no reason to
have the slightest hope that any
of the men are still alive" an Air
Forces officer explained. "The kin
of each man has been told of the
circumstances of his disappearance,
and they are morally certain that
he is dead.
But as long as there has been no
positive identification of his body
there Is always going to be that
tiny, gnawing ray of hope in his
familys heart that he may still be
alive-somehow. somewhere. Just
tiny grain of miserable uncer-
tainty."
Uncertainty Lingers.
Mysterious disappearance appar-
emily always leave that uncertainty.
Over the past decade there have
been dozen flashes" about Amelia
Earheart, aviatrix who disappeared
while making ca flight across the
Pacific. Recently speculation fared
afresh when snapshot of the
famed woman flyer repeatedly was
found among the effects of a dead
Jap on a Pacific island battlefield.
Half-a-dozen expeditions have
been organized to try to find Paul
Redfearn, noted aviator who disap-
Evening star., 1946-04-06
Glass Exhibit

An exhibit of early American glas.
will be shown at a luncheon meeting
OF the Women's Community Club O.
kensington Monday at the Towr
Hall.
The exhibit has been arranged by
Mrs. Weston Valentine, chairman
of the art appreciation section.
Luncheon will be served at 12:3(
pm, following which Mrs. Wilfrec
Chairman will speak on Washing
ton, Symbol of Democracy"
Vocal solos will be presented by
Mrs. Emil Kryz, accompanied by
Miss Marjorie Boyd.
Mrs. Walton B. Wells, the presi.
dent, will preside.
Evening star., 1946-04-06
Army to Comb Guiana Jung|es
In Search for Lost Flyers

| peared on a flight over this area a
number of years ago. Periodically
travellers return from the interior to
tell OF hearing tales of a white man
living with an Indian tribe deep
in the bush. Immediately, the
name 'Redfern" pops up again.
Army officers say they know the
general locations where each of the
currently missing planes went down.
But getting to them is going to be a
terrific undertaking for search
teams braving tangled jungles, ami
mails, malaria, heat and other
dangers.
IS Men Aboard One Plane.
One transport went down with
IS men aboard. It took a party Al
days to hack its way through the
jungle to the wreckage after it had
been located from the air. The
searchers reported they had found
IS bodies, and buried them in a COM
mon grave. However, under the pro-
posed positive identification pro-
gram, an expedition may have to
go back and get dog tags" and other
means of Identification to cover all
those listed as being aboard.
jungle experts in this country are
extremely skeptical of the chances
any downed flyer would have of sur
viving by himself in the bush,
especially if he was injured in any
way in the crash.
In addition to the terrors of the
jungle itself he would face the perils
OF animals such as jaguars. alliga-
tors, boa constructors and other
snakes.
Thickest Bush in World.
The bush is among the thickest in
the world. A hundred yards from
the barbed wire boundaries of Army
airfields carved out in British, Dutch
and French Guiana is wild country.
In the still of the night the men in
side can listen to the weird. high
pitched crying of the red babboons
on all sides.
Military planes flying over jungles
are equipped with survival kits and
llandbookS telling how to live of the
jungle. One point fails to satisfy a
young officer who has been heading
a weather observation group in the
of French Guiana.
The Army. book tells me not to
get worried or upset about starving"
le commented bitterly. "It says Just
% go ahead and eat anything the
monkeys eat. How in hell do II
Know what monk is eating?"
Copyright, 194eI