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Details, Pa(e 7-A. RADIO-TV Sunday's radio and television programs are en Page 4-0. Dedicated to the Upbuilding of Western North Caroline Asheville, N. Sunday Morning, November 23, 1958 89th No. 327 o.iiv tic Suntn iHM CIW Mt PrlvltM Authorize at Ashtvlllt.

N. C. WWNC Radio 570 CBS 52 Tages "Kremlin Presses Berlin War Of Nerves W. Germany Urges Big 3 Stand Firm 'County Rights Taking Spotlight For 3-Day National Parley Here Specials On Inside Allies Differ OnTouglmess Against Reds U. S.

Will Go Slow On Use Of Force directly involved in the pro- soon as he returns from the I day evening executive session grams. K'ACO meeting. preceding the meeting proper. For instance, ArchamDauil is W. H.

Johnston, WAUU presi- me norm varouna nssotiauun There's more than meets the eye in the crisis over scheduled for a briefing session dent, of Palmetto, was one of County Commissioners is host- Willing To Risk Blockade Of City BERLIN (AP) Western military and diplomatic officials con. ferred urgently Saturday on. the Hernn. feature story explains why, on Page 12-A. with President Eisenhower asof the early arrivals for a Satur-'ing the meeting.

WASHINGTON AP The Western Allies showed evidence ol Alaskani gel ft rut rhaore In peak for themselves al pnlli on Tuesday. Turn to Pace disagreement Saturday over just Berlin crisis. West Germany Reyn-; urged the Big Three to stand firm how tough to get in countering John Parris" interesting feature stoiy about Robert It. found any Communist move aimed at the once-picturesque, controversial senator, will be with pictures on Page 1-D. gainst recognizing Reef East Germany even at the risk of new Berlin blockade.

The Kremlin kept the West Court decision barring merger of two steel giants jan U.S. Industry. For details, turn to Page fi-D. Mount Craig, which once topped Clingman's Dome by a mere guessing on when to expect a note on Soviet intentions. East Ger- three feet, now towers over it by 18 feet, new marker reveals.

many maintained the war of nerves, referring to "gangsters" squeezing them out of Berlin, i Informed U.S. officials said this country would be in no hurry to break down Communist barricades with tanks, although the passible use of forcible measures has not been excluded. They said such measures almost certainly would not be needed in the first stages of any crisis. ALLIES DIFFER Thus U.S. attitude differed sharply from that of German officials as reported in news dispatches Thus Mount Craig is found to be only 21 feet lower than Mt.

Mitchell, the highest east of the Mississippi. Story by Staff Writ in West Berlin and demanding the er Doug Reed on Page 12-D. ra iv- Vol U. British and French garrisons get out of the Isolated city. Hodges Due For Address On Monday Forget that phrase: "States' Rights." For the next three days around Asheville, the watchword will be "County Rights." The occasion i the annual midyear business meeting of the National Association of County Officials being held through Tuesday at the Battery Park and George Vanderbilt Hotels.

An advance guard of some 200 county officials rolled into Ashe-vill Saturday and their ranks are expected to swell to almost 400 by the time business sessions begin Sunday. HODGES TO SPEAK Hilghlighting the speakers will be an address by Gov. Luther H. Hodges at a Monday luncheon and another by Rep. Robert A.

Everett of Tennessee and a breakfast meeting the same day. A general session Monday morning will hear nine experts in the fields represented by NACO's nine standing committees. Raoul Archambault, assistant director of the U. S. Bureau of the Budget, will discuss federal roal orooertv.

Bernard F. Hillen West Germany took a strong Wings Over WNC, aviation rolnmn by Staff Writer Earl Freeman, reappears after an absence of several years. See Page 12-D. stand opposing a plan said to be under study by the three powers to yield on East German control of vulnerable supply lines when and if the Russians quit Berlin. from Bonn, the West German cap ital.

These reports pictured the N.C. News government of Chancellor Konrad Sports Adenauer as urging the United Theaters PRESS IS BRIEFED This emerged from a press Deaths 11-A Editorial 2-D 1-S-B Utters 3-D 5-B Radio-TV 4-D 8- House Plan S-D Sec. Markets 6-D 9- Crossword 6-D 1-D Classified 7-11D States, Britain, and France the West Berlin occupation powers to adopt a tough policy and to briefing given by Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano in West Berlin. He refused to allow him Society Bridge Features ram tanks through the barricades if necessary. self to be quoted directly.

Disagreement was also indicat U. S. forces were reported ed over whether the Western Big readying to meet any emergency. frits highlighted an allied Idea Three should have any contact with East German officials whom that without any formal diDlo- the Soviets may put in charge of 2,000,000 Lbs. Of Burley Here Await Opening Sale control points on the traffic cor ridors to Berlin.

malic recognition of Ihe East German regime the West could deal with the regime as representing the Russians on any questions of transport in and out of the cap- OPPOSES V. S. PLAN brand, executive director of the Citlien-Tlmes Photfr-Gltnn COUNTY PROBLEMS ARE PLENTIFUL Diplomats said the Adenauer ilal. mum will be 360 baskets an hour Selling of the 1958 burley tobac government does not like the The limit for each pile is 700 co crop will start Monday morn U.S. plan, reportedly substantial pounds.

ing on the markets at Asheville, NACO, will discuss legislation as it affects the county leaders. Dr. "Ellen Winston, director of the North Carolina State Welfare Department, will speak on welfare. EDUCATION A TOPIC ly agreed to by London and Paris Boone, West Jefferson and the to make routine contacts with the will be among almost 400 wrestling with county problems Sunday through Tuesday at the Battery Park and George Vanderbilt hotels. But the big problem Saturday was pinning on Johnston's identification card.

The opening day's schedule al Asheville, with two sets of buyers working: First sales at Day's and others in the eight-state belt. On hand for the mid-year business meeting of the National Association of County Officials Saturday were these three (L-R): Bernard F. Hillenbrand of Washington, D.C., executive director; W. H. Johnston of Palmetto, president, and Mrs.

Johnston. The two men East Germans as necessary to get For Western North Carolina the traffic through. The idea Carolina warehouses, starting at AIR ATTACKS FEARED Some Western experts fear Communist fighter planes might interfere with allied transport planes if another airlift is attempted. The Russians tacitly agreed to the airlift in 1948-49 by remaining in Berlin's air safety center. But if they withdraw this time, as they apparently plan to do.

farmers, the outlook has been termed bright. The crop is larger Education will b3 the subject of B. Alden Lillywhite. associated director of federally affected 9:30 a. second at Dixie-New would be to treat the East Germans merely as agents of the So.

viet Union. than last years and has been Burley and at Planter's No. Two, ind third at Bernard-Walker. areas. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

Adenauer's ambassador to Wash- termed better in quality. Boosting hopes also have been Boss Thinks It's Not Enough Turn To Page Elght-A the strong prices on the flue-cured markets. The Eastern C. W. Enfield, general counsel of the Bureau of Public Roads, will talk on roads and highways their East German replacement North Carolina belt, which ended tales Nov.

13, for instance, re could claim allied planes were fly- Rainier, Grace Flying To U. S. and Dr. Curtis C. Southard, chief Jobless Getting $4Billion In 1958 ing over German territory without proper clearance unless the ported a record average of $57.13 of the community service branch of the National Institute of Mental per hundred pounds, and the tant from a psychological point wili have to replenish these funds.

C. Middle Belt average hit $58.08 Health, Public Health service wiil sneak of mental health. of ew. Thev helo people trom uver a penoo 01 years ureir ay Fires Flare In Forests Of 5 Areas Allies agree to deal with the East Germans. Soviet Premier Khrushchev has made it plain that the Soviet Union would back up East Germany onino into a Danic when we're in roll taxes will gradually rise.

Any Bv NORMAN WALKER WASHINGTON (AP) Recession-idled workers are receiving a record four billion dollars in jobless payments during 1958, but NICE, France (AP) Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco boarded a plane Saturday night for a month's visit to New York and Grace's hometown, lor the season. R. S. (Dutch) Witherington, Asheville market supervisor, re A pair of speakers will discuss civil defense. They are Joseph NaDoli.

director of the Federal a downturn." I move to increase and lengthen He said, however, surveys re-'benefits would have the same ef. ported Saturday nearly 2,000.000 serious auestion as to feet the programs's boss questions fleet Philadelphia. in any armed clash with the West, presi'mably including any air pounds of hurley were on the Contributions Program, Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, nd Frank Bane, consultant in whether benefits now averaging This would also be true u. as floors of the 10 warehouses which The royal couple will be hinoHjiash will be operating in the city this guests Dec. 4 at the Imperial Ball about $31 weekly are adequate! some advocate, tne 13 minion and whether their duration should' farm, domestic, and casual-type Continuity of Government Pro- icason, and the quality appeared in the Waldorf Astoria, an ellair The proposal for limited dealings with the East Germans came under study after the Russians workers, employes of nonprofit or be permanently extended.

hetter than last year's. held since 1955 for the benefit of ganizations, and state and local The 1957 opening day activities war veterans. government employes all now exempt were added to tne roils. f. control of air.

highway and rail at Monte Carlo were Princess "Condition Red" was the apt description of Western North Carolina timberland Saturday as forest fires flared in five different areas. The weatherman was no help. His Sunday prediction of continued mostly fair skies and a little warmer had an ominous post script, when he said: "Becoming windy in the afternoon." B. H. Corpening, district state little brother, About 45 million workers already are protected by unemployment If the Western Allies refused to Caroline and her Prince Albert.

insurance. Most states normally pay benefits for 26 weeks of unemploy ment. Most of them have elected, under a temporary federal aiJ program enacted this year, to extend duration half again as long for a maximum for 39 weeks. But well over 200,000 workers have run through even the 39-week maximum and still haven't found jobs Of course, there is a piper to produced a new all-time record price average of $62.25 per hundred pounds on the Asheville market A total 616,806 pounds vere sold here that day, and the average went to $62.40 the second before declining. Witherington said shipments of tobacco from the farms to the warehouses has been slow.

Sales will be held three and a half hours a day, and the maxi- wrwmer inai is cikiukm. The four billion represent about double the jobless benefits in 1954, the prior record year. Beneficiaries this year number nearly 10 million individuals, another record and close to twice the 1957 total. Robert C. Goodwin, longtime director of the Labor Department's Bureau of Employment Security, said Saturday the various government unemployment compensation plans have weathered the recession well.

He said they provided a valuable cushion to idled workers and the economy as a whole. "The payments are important beyond the amount of money involved," Goodwin said in an inter, view. "They go to people who need it the most to supply their basic needs. They're very impor Beside the general state program, there is a private program for railroad workers. And there are government financed plans for federal employes and accept these controls, they would be confronted by a virtual blockade of their West Berlin military garrisons, isolated 110 miles deep in East Germany and encircled by 22 Russian divisions, The Allies, therefore, began Turn To Page Eight-A tram, OCDM.

Natural resources will be recounted by Clint Davis, Division Education and Information, U. S. Forest Service, Department of Agriculture. Tracy B. Auger, director of the Urban Planning Assistance Program, will discuss county planning.

During Monday afternoon, these speaker will meet with the members of the specific committees in nine small, three-hour aessions. The meetings will serve the two-fold purpose of giving the county officials insight into Federal Government planning and allowing the federal speakers to "feel the pulse" of the counties Today's Chuckle It may be true that it Is never too late lo mend our ways, but most people feel it is too early. forester, said the dry WNC forests were at their peak danger and "just a little wind will really mean trouble." ex-servicemen. be paid for the music. The bulk of The estimated four billion in current total jobless covers all the plans.

Biggest blaze of the area was the four billion dollars being spent comes from state unemployment compensation reserve funds financed by employer-paid payroll taxes. in McDowell County, 20 miles north of Marion where a fire had consumed between 800 ana 1.000 acres by 10 P- m. and was Under automatic provisions of still termed "hot" by Corpening. state laws, employers eventually Firefighters "backfired" the Roaming The Mountains area after nightfall Saturday and hoped that the blaze would burn itself out in ihe space between the line of the main fire and the backfire Tie backlire was set along the France Votes On Assembly Choice Today PARIS (AP) France begins electing a new National Assembly Sunday after a campaign domin Clinchfield Railroad "Loop." Shy Joint Bailey Did Courting From Afar, But Won GirVs Heart ated by the towering prestige of Over 100 volunteer and forestry fire fighters were battling the blaze, located at McKinney's Gap. adjacent to the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Some 40 students from Warren Wilson College, 20 employes of the American Thread Co. plant, a busload of students from Appalachian State Teachers Premier de Gaulle. he saw something that pleased him and set his heart to Frenchmen will be voting in Leaning on his rifle, his eyes searched for a glimpse of the girl who had unknowingly stolen his heart. A brace of wild turkeys he had U.S. style elections under a new By JOHN PARRIS ESTATOE A brace of wild turkeys for his love lay at his feet.

But the pretty slip of a girl from whom they were intended 'i Far down there, down there Constitution designed to end the in the clearing surrounding a College at Boone, plus Conserva political turmoil that brought shot as he came up the moun down the Fourth Republic in tion and Development and Mate tain lay at his feet. torestry personnel were on ouiy. The prediction of good weather lonely cabin by the Estatoe Trail, he spied a sudden movement. Out of the cabin chimney camej a puff of blue smoke as somebody heaped fresh wood on chaos last May. Only the Communists and a few lonely left-wing independents, such The twilight of an early evening lay upon the land.

About noon there had been a indicated a second danger for know that John -Bailey existed. For the young. Tar Heels heavy weekend traf- as former Premier Mendes- flurry of snow and the sheltered coves and clearings of Estatoe France. stood against the wave of lc 'ouow mountain a -i was shy a nd De Gaullism. Valley were still dusted with SPSS North Carolina auto accidents.

fire. And then he made out the figure of a woman chopping wood in an open space at the white As a reminder to drive sately, bashful when itiw come to making jf2 nlav nnenlv But now the sweep of sky was side of the cabin. Two or three State Highway Patrolmen will keep their lights on during the The Communists are expected to drop at least half of the 145 seats they held under the Fourth Republic. Mendes France, who battled against De Gaulle's new constitu cold and clear in spite of a great blaze of pinkish red behind Celo weekend patrol. Uiil PARRIS and Deer Ridge.

The light faded, turning an Other WNC fires reported by i i for the love of Ruthie Ellis. So he courted her from afar, Hvintf a thou Corpening Saturday included Yan children played near her by the chimney wall. I John Bailey picked up the turkeys, swung himself down from an outcropping of rock on the mountain and headed toward Estatoe and the cabin. tion, is fighting for his life in his apple green, and a less prac cey County, where two acres -Jtck Rtvnolda Photo HUNGRY FLAMES AT WORK ticed eye would have seen noth home district. Other candidates of his leanings are swimming up ing more than the masses of were razed; Reynolds Mountain in Buncombe County, where five aand deaths of hearfelt agony, while he tried to get up cour- stream.

pine among the gray oaks and i Interest boil down to whether walnuts' in the wilderness below. az to tell her he was the center of the picture are the two Hun-nicutt tunnels of the Clinchfield Railroad, and -to the right of the tunnels, the Rocky pass track. B. H. Corpening, district state forester, estimated the blaze had burned between 800 and acres by 10 p.m.

But John Bailey had a keen 'eye. He could squint across a creek and knock out a deer's eye with his muzzle-loader or bark a squirrel off a tree on a Biggest forest fire in this area Saturday was at McKinney's Gap in McDowell County, some 20 miles north of Marion. This picture was taken across the Holstcn Orchard with the packing shed in the foreground. The area at upper left had already burned and the flames were heading southward. Ir the mysterious and unseen visitor who left gifts at her cabin door.

It had been going on for six months, and now John Bailey stood atop his secret lookout and acres were burned off; some 3 acres near Ridgecrest just east of Swannanoa, and an acre in Polk County. The predicted high for Sunday is 65, the weatherman says, following a high of 62 and low of 30 Saturday. He parodied an old. old folk1 song, singing as be picked his way down the mountain, bring my love two turkeys, two turkeys I bring my love." It was dark when he reached Tnra To Page Seven-A the Communists can rebuild their popular votetafter their stunning tosses in the Sept. 2 reierendam I that adopted the new French Con-; stitution and whether tlie new hi-sembly will be os splintered as I the old.

cloudy day. 1 Because he was sharp of eye, (canned the pattern of the valley below..