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This Is YOUR City The Knoxville News-Sentinel Formula for Long Life? These 2 Are Living Proof KNOXVILLE (2) TENNESSEE SUNDAY MORNING OCTOBER 25 1959 fog Dress Warmly You'll Be in Clouds Clingmans Dome Tower Opens New Scenes to Park Visitors Opposition to Closing Sevier Academy Grows Harrison-Chilhowet Alumni Battl To Save School By CARSON BREWER Niw Jnlinl list! Wrltar GATLINBURG Oct 24-If the weather will co-operate you can climb the new Clingmans Dome Tower and see enough autumn color at a glance to last till next fall The Weatherman last night thought weather atop the dome be favorable for long-range viewing A wind of 20 to 25 miles an hour will send clouds sailing through the spruce and fir trees on the dome It will be chilly Dress warmly if you make the trip The Dome has been plagued with ill weather since the tower was opened officially in a pouring rain Friday afternoon On that day the view endpd a few yards from the tower in a misty sea of fog and rain and clouds But for those who love the Great Smokies the Dome has strong appeal even in foul weather The wind has a mournful whistle and the green trees look ghostly in the gray mist The crest of the Great Smokies often wears a cloud cover even when there are few clouds over the surrounding lowlands This is because moist air striking the mountains tends to climb the slopes cooling as it rises The moisture cools till It condenses as clouds By ARSON BREWER I want to live a Iona an I can enjoy the feel of a fish on the tine the fragrance of a woman's perfume a good book a good sermon sourwood honey wood fires spring flowers autumn leaves and a little work I hope for about 100 more years So I went to see a couple of octogenarian barbers one afternoon last week I thought I might pick up Irom them some ideas on how to remain so active so long Why barbers? Mr Brewer Well I figure barbers have to have three qualities not normally possessed by persons of advanced strength to stand for reasonably long periods steady hands and good eyes The two gentlemen I Interviewed are Manley Houser who will tie 81 next April 26 and Underwood who will he 81 April 2 They turn out haircuts at the Farragut Barber Shop at that" Mr Houser said thrusting out a latooed arm and hand which were as steady as one of KUB'x utility poles that" he suggested offering a biceps for inspection It felt like a chunk of hard rubber Mr Houser is a Spanish-American War veteran He went into the Army in 1898 and came out in 1905 Like everybody else he took calisthenics in the Array Unlike nearly everybody else he continued to take them when he got out For 10 minutes before bedtime he does quarter half and full knee bends takes arm and trunk exercises Besides the calisthenics Mr Houser gets more exercise when he goes fishing He goes about once a week usually to Douglas Lake He also mows his lawn trims his hedge and works with his roses He lives at 3018 Sevier Ave Mr Houser Is lean He js five feet seven Inches tall and weighs 131 pounds What does he eat? mostly a vegetarian" he said eat meat only once or twice a Except for bacon for breakfast Mr Houser shuns fried food And he wants his bacon crisp He puts it on a paper which absorbs some of the grease before he eats it When he eats eggs they are boiled or poached He bakes his fish He starts breakfast with orange juice or grape juice He drinks no more than a half cup of coffee per day a little tea and no milk He drinks lots of water eat lots of celery radishes head lettuce and raw Mr Houser said He added that he has a fine turnip patch coming along in the spot where the tomato patch was earlier He likes raw' turnips I turned to Mr Underwood 24 days older than Mr Houser one-half inch taller and about 24 pounds heavier you like raw vegetables too?" I asked never eat Mr Underwood said you eat fried he said He likes fried eggs fried ham fried fish and fried bacon you take I asked can't say as I Mr Underwood replied get my exercise I found a couple of things however on which Mr Underwood and Mr Houser are in agreement Both have smoked for many years Mr Houser also chews occasionally He keeps a plug of chewing tobacco in his fishing tackle box And both agree that worrying is a waste of a time ON TOP OF OL SMOKY This new ramp tower at Clingmans Dome gives spectators a four-state view if the weather is clear Part of the wide spiral is in Tennessee and part in North Carolina Portions of Georgia and South Carolina also are visible Traffic Roundup MANLEY HOUSER (LEFT) AND UNDERWOOD Both barbers and both 80 "Why exclaimed Mr Houser think worry hurls a Mr Underwood said Mr Underwood is a baseball fan He missed only four or five of the Knoxville Smokies home games last season Both these fellows have been harboring more than 50 years Mr Houser says he started the shop in the Farragut in 1918 He owned the Service Barber Shop on Market St until hr sold it and retired last year Retirement suit him That's why back on the Job One more thing: How about sicknesses? Mr Houser says he's had a spell of sickness only once in years That was in 1941 It was a kidney ailment But Mr Underwood says he's had several pe-ods of sickness and has been hospitalized some He says his trouble is in his blood circulatory system State Sales Tax Take Shows Big Increase People seem to he spending more money in stores around here these days As best I can figure it state sales tax was collected on $27006333 of Knox County sales in September That's up from $24836066 for September of last year Based on sales tax collections Hamilton County has had an even greater from $24299-866 during September of last year to $27620233 for September of this year But George Fritts president of Knoxville Real Estate Board and the man who passed along the sales tax figures thinks the biggest reason for the increase is that the tax collector is working harder in Hamilton this year than last Knox led Hamilton 10 of the 12 months last year every month except March and June But Hamilton has led Knox every month this ever since a new family moved into the Governor's mansion George thinks the figures should have shown Hamilton leading Knox at least most of the time last year too Union County Trio Injured Three Union Countians were injured in a traffic accident on May nardville Highway yesterday afternoon One of the Mrs Ida Bailey 63 of Rt 3 Maynardville suffered broken ribs and was admitted to St Hospital Her husband Frank Bailey 68 of the same address suffered bruises and a passenger in their ear Jo Ann Bates 13 daughter of Mr and Mrs Raymond Bates also of Rt 3 Maynardville suffered a broken arm They were treated at St Trooper Wallace Mills said the girl and Mr and Mrs Bailey were passengers in a car driven by the son Carson Bailey of Rt 5 Maynardville He said the Bailey car was going north following another driven by Edgar Troy Presley of Rt 2 Fountain City When Mr Presley attempted to turn off the highway onto Quarry Rd Trooper Mills said the Bailey car ran into the back of it WET CEREMONY Carlos Campbell center secretary of Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association has his camera shielded from the downpour as he makes pictures at the Friday afternoon opening of the Clingmans Dome Tower Holding the umbrella is Fred Overly Great Smoky Mountains National Park superintendent At left is Hubert Bebb of the Gatlinburg architectural firm of Bebb Olson which designed the tower Not Sign of Cancer by Joseph Molner MD SEYMOUR Oct 24 (SpeclaD-Organized opposition to the closing of llarnson-Chilhowee Baptist Academy here appears to be growing as the Nov 10 showdown dale for the school approaches Alumni of the high school-level academy are organizing over the state to urge rejection of a study report recommending that the school be dosed The committee will submit its recommendations to the Tennessee Baptist Convention meeting in Gat-linburg Nov 10-12 The convention has final authority over the school Two Associations Act At least two associations the county-level organizations of Baptists have gone on record urging the school be continued They are the Chilhowee Association (Blount County) and the Sevier County Association The school is in Sevier Harrison president Stuart Rule said another group spearheading opposition to closing the school is the Permanent Ministerial Association composed of all graduates who are clergymen The Rev Wayne Markham pastor of Rocky Hill Church here is president of this group Mr Rule said all but one of the trustees present for the June meeting voted in favor of continuing the academy Trustees Take Vote The chairman of the boar Lenoir City car dealer Paul Phelps said this vote was consensus of individual wrote the convention president to assure him that there would be no floor fight by the trustees as such although each will be a messenger to the convention and will take a stand as an individual or as instructed by his church The trustees try to bring any Mr Phelps said (Each Baptist church is entitled to one or to the convention plus an additional messenger for each hundred members after the first up to a maximum of 10) Convention To Act have a good discussion at the convention but no tempers I believe close the school but some changes may be made Whatever the convention does I know it will be Mr Phelps added Another Baptist pastor however was not so optimistic He said: would hate to see the school closed I am a graduate and I met my wife there Rut we must not be sentimental we must face facts and the fact is that the school no longer fills the need it once did it (the continuing of the school) comes to a final vote this fall it will be defeated The only possibility of saving the school is to get an extension of time and another committee study I would would have to follow my convictions and vote for 240 in School Now Academy President Rule assailed the committee report as the fact that there has been a large increase of dormitory and that still more would enroll if money now on hand could be used to build a new dormitory is not going to go up until this confusion is he said The student body reached a peak two years ago with 286 There are about 240 students now idea that Tennessee Baptists will not put money into Chilhowee is not borne out by any previous fund-raising Mr Rule said citing contribution statistics Committeeman Explains A spokesman for the committee recommending the closing said its report on Chilhowee was only a part of a study of all the convention's mission program including colleges and hospitals study showed that the school was costing more than we could afford in relation to the rest of our program especially the he 'aid The report showed that far more in state mission funds was being spent for the church-supported high school than the per student contribution to the denomination's colleges in Tennessee academy has been promoted to the churches as training underprivileged preachers who didn't get to go to high school when they were younger The truth is that very few students are in that group in fact 47 per cent of the students are from Sevier County which has plans to build its own high school in the the spokesman said Some 3000 messengers to the convention in Gatlinburg early next month will decide the fate of the 78-year-old institution as they vote on the committee Highest Ever For Knox Diverticula (out-pouchings) of the esophagus or gullet can do the same thing A hiatal hernia (also known as diaphragmatic hernia which discussed before) is another possibility An ulcer can cause a spasm and resultant difficulty or even regurgitation So can some other ailment or congenital deformity as a stricture (or abnormal narrowing) of the gullet There are rarer Parkinson's disease and Myasthenia gravis There is also the possibility of UF-RC Campaign Reaches $686456 But the forecaster sees a pretty good chance of clear weather atop the dome tomorrow and possibly Tuesday If it is clear you can see and see and see Looking west and north you can see all the way to the Cumberland Mountains And you look south over range after range of green and gold and yellow mountains Portions of Georgia South Carolina North Carolina and Tennessee are visible from the dome tower The view up close is mostly of spruce and fir trees But the lower elevations are painted with the reds and yellows and golds of maples sourwoods tulip trees hickories birch and buckeyes Those going to the Dome any time this week should either go or return by way of Maryville Townsend and Little River Gorge Color In the gorge is good now Purpose of the tower is to enable people to get a view from the Dome While Clingmans at 6642 feet above sea level has the second highest elevation east of the Mississippi River it doesn't provide a good view from ground level This is because it is covered with trees and it is gently rolling It has no rocky treeless peaks like Mt Le Conte's Myrtle Point and Cliff Top The 45-foot tower simply puts the viewer above the tree-tops so he can see The tower design was criticized early this year before construction started in April The critics didn't like the sweeping modern design of the spiral ramp and tower They wanted something more conventional But defenders of the design claimed the tower would not look out of place and they said it could be used by elderly persons who could not climb a conventional tower such as a fire tower This tower certainly is easy to climb The spiraling soaring ramp has the same 12 per cent grade as the trail which leads to the dome from the Forney Ridge Parking area The ramp is six feet wide giving plenty of room for two persons to walk abreast The ramp takes off from a wide circular approach beautifully floored with native stone The ramp proper travels the first few yards on a stone base and then takes to the air The ramp-lower is supported by eight concrete columns which range from 30 inches in diameter to eight feet for the big column supporting the observation platform at the top of the ramp The columns have a roughed surface not unlike the bark of a tree Lichens soon will be growing on this rough surface giving the tower a more natural look The tower builders did a good job of saving trees Spruces grow so close to the ramp that a person climbing it can touch the branches The spiral makes a circle which is 100 feet in diameter Inside this circle grow more than 30 medium-sized spruce trees pius many smaller ones Fortunately the site was selected at a point where no large trees grew It as burned over in a 1925 fire and the trees there now have grown only since the fire The United Fund-Red Cross campaign for $813223 has reached $685456 the highest figure ever reached in Knoxville in a federated campaign The 1958 United Fund-Red Cross campaign closed with a total of $684775 Bvrl Logan general campaign chairman ses the campaign sight of after the fourth report meeting Friday brought in 8441 per cent of the goal A fifth report meeting will be held Friday noon at the YMCA "The biggest single factor What about that feeling of stuck in the a letter on the subject For some time now I have had a feeling In my throat as though something Is stuck there When I eat it feels as though my food sticks My doctor thinks it is nerves Could this be a sign of remind ourselves that although cancer is a very serious disease it is neither the commonest nor the most frequent cause of death I received thousands of letters about itches bumps sore spots and all manner of problems with the writers asking at a ratio of about 50 to one this be a cause of Of course I want to say anything to distract people from looking for signs of cancer Caich the disease early and you have an excellent prospect of curing it! But in the same breath I think worth remembering that cancer isn't the only thing to look for Rather than to notice a symptom and ask "Is this a sign of I say better to ask causes By the simple law of averages it usually will be something else But the deserves identification and treatment too In case a doctor already has examined the patient Believe me he has heard about cancer too and has checked for it! In his opinion the cause is nerves Nerves probably is the commonest cause of such difficulty Anxiety whether from family discord conflict at work or some other source can make one physically tense The throat stomach abdomen head (as in headaches) are common sites at which nerves "go to work on There are other things which can interfere with swallowing or cause this in the An enlarged thyroid (goiter) which expands inward instead of outward is one Bike Arm Broken in Crash An 11-year-old boy suffered broken arm late yesterday when his bicycle collided with a pickup truck on a sharp blind curve on Hinton Rd He was admitted to University Hospital The victim is James Male-bey foster son of Mrs Mae Pinkston Hinton Rd The truck involved belongs to Landscaping Service Mrs Virgil Christine Emory 33 Rt 9 suffered neck and back injuries last night when the car in which she was riding was struck from the rear by another car on Chapman Highway' at Anderson Rd She was admitted to University Hospital A passenger in the other car Philip Hoit 13 son of Mr and Mrs Holt Rt 16 suffered mouth injuries He was treated at Baptist Hospital 1 Morristown Boy Hurt A Morristown youth Charlie Calfee 17 suffered hand and leg bruises in a traffic mishap at Fifth Ave and Gill Ave last night He was treated at Baptist? Calfee told Traffic Officer Jack Crisp he was driving with his brother Frank of 12jJ Fifth Ave when their car was struck by another turning inti Gill Ave He told the officer thj driver of the second car jumped out and fled on foot after the crash An hour and a half later Walter Flanagan 117 Hinton Ave reported his car stolen Polled said the car at the wreck is registered to Walter Flanagan Boy Falls From Car lies in the fact that only 476 per cent of the accounts in Sections and the business and corporation have been he said He said the full week between last fourth report and next fifth report is real challenge in which to bring in 100 per cent of these outstanding Chairman Logan urged business and corporation heads to help the volunteer campaign solicitors by having their pledges ready when the solicitors call would automatically bring us to our he said success of the campaign so far can be attributed to the magnificent increase in employe giving" A meeting for section leaders division leaders section sponsors and members of the campaign cabinet will be held at 7:30 a tomorrow at the Farragut Hotel corporate In this column whenever possible Dr Molner welcomes all reader mail but regrets that due to the tremendous volume received daily he is unable to answer individual letters Readers' questions ore incorporated in this column whenever possible an overactive gag reflex Whatever the cause it deserves attention X-rays or other types of examination will help in diagnosis If need be an X-ray series can be taken while the patient is in the act of swallowing And if the trouble basically physical then we must concede that it is nerves If nerves nothing is to be gained by fretting over whether might be Dear Dr Molner: I am a boy of 16 I have ralher skinny wrists and forearms and would appreciate some exercises to build them up Strangely enough however I also have a fat behind Any suggestions to remedy this would be How about basketball? Also push-ups weight-lifting and general gymnastics? MRS A No they were confused The truth is that Type blood is very common (Type AB is rarest) Type blood is often called the It can be given to a person of any type although it is better if possible to match the blood exactly Want to lose weight? It can be done if you follow the advice given in my pamphlet Lost Secret of For a copy write to me in care of The News-Sentinel enclosing a long self-addressed stamped envelope and 5 cents in coin to cover handling Three Injured in Hit-Run Wreck Dora Sees Light George Crane Ph MD Eddie Hurt More Than Skin Deep Eddie had pimples His skin hurt and he hurt deep inside Eddie was 18 and his life should have been a happy one He was on the honor roll was forward on the a ske bail team he had an allowance and he had no quarrel with his parents But Eddie so with his skin had had a bad skin since he as 13 and now with shaving he suffered terribly It was so bad he cried He cried too when he saw his scarred face in the mirror Neither Father nor Mother knew what to do for a boy who cried The high school counselor referred them to Family and Youth Service a United Fund agency Here Eddie got real help He was referred to a skin specialist The agency counseled with Eddie and gave him a new perspective on his problem helped him face the mirror without tears gave him confidence Eddie who might have been another unhappy hoy who dnin make the grade is now a promising young citizen Familv and Y'outh Service had a budget of $38 WO last year: it now asks $907 from the $812223 United Fund-Red Cross appeal A 2-year-old Maryville boy suffered bruises when he fell out of the family car on Woodland Ave here yesterday The child Carl run crash last night at Vine Vjm H(X)ser Jr son of Mr and Ave and Craze St Police said Mrs Carl Van Hooser Sr was the driver of the hit-run car treated at St Mary's Hospital fought them as they arrested him I for drank driving Passenger Injured Traffic Officer Jack Crisp said 1 a car driven by George King Jr! OS Car Hits Bank 34 of 1939 McCalla Ave wasj stopped on Vine ready to make passenger in a car hich a tum when it was struck from I ran Maloney Rd last night the rear by another car and suffered a head cut when the car knocked 78 feet The officer said struck an embankment the second car was driven bvi Robert Duggan 29 of Rt 1 Frank Moss 36 of 121 Kyle St Roc kford was treated at Univer who went on to his home street Slt' Hospital The driver Chester where they were forced to subdue Lee Latham 30 Maryville was him before charging him with hit- unhurt run and drank driving i According to State Troopers Injured in the King car were William Goodman and Joe Little-Mr King's two daughters Mo- ton the car ran off Maloney Rd zella I and Janice 1 along with I bounced back into the road and Mrs Vera Williams 21 of the crashed into the opposite em-same McCalla Ave address They bankment The scene is between had ruts and bruises and were Alcoa Highway and Maryville treated at University Hospital Pike and laid them on the table telling me she had rated the married suitor thereon her own admission he scored only 45 which gave him a rating of Poor said they had quarreled after he heard about the tests and now she was ready to break up with him altogether she began to cry and asked me what I thought she should do so I suggested she date other men and stay away from him for a few weeks That's what she has done Now I believe she is over her intoxicated state and I think she has broken off with him entirelv During the height of a torrid romance we react to total personalities and ignore minor flaws But the rating scale causes love addic's to focus on those many facets of personality that make or break happy marriage Slowly therefore the victim begins to see that his or her sweetheart has faults This shatters the hypnotic trance letting the victim widen her outlook until she has a more impartial CASE C-174 Dora 21 is the love drunkard who was infatuated with an older married man Crane" best girl friend later informed me took those for when I had lunch with Dora let ha- think I was using them for my own boy friend So we got to discussing the various items seemed quite interested in them so after I rated my fiance I told her she could have the tests and use them herself on anybody she wished my boy friend came out with a ranking on those tests knew married man would not rate very high hut I say anything along that line to Dora week passed before I had a chance to dine with Dora again "Fortunately before we were through luncheon she asked me agam how my Dance had sewed and I told her he got 86 which meant he rated a classification she brought the tests out of her purse Benefactor Also Stricken Jom Easterday who is recovering from a slight attack of meningitis at University Hospital used to get an ice cream cone every day at the hospital But she doesn't now Because her Bob Hummer was himself admitted to University Hospital with a case of pneumonia Friday Bob used to bring Joni a cone a day Bob 21 of Temple Ave and Joni 24 of Woodland Ave are good friends They're both pre-med students at U-T and both work a University Hospital ioo Boh is a laboratory technician and Jom a registered nurse ELIZABETHTON MAN HURT KINGSPORT Oct 24 (Special) William Eugene Lewis of Eliza -belhton tomtit suffered two fractures of a leg in a car reck The accident occurred on State Highway IS just inside Sullivan County viewpoint.