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f he Best Advertising Medium In Haywood County Published At Th Fastpm Fntru.-, r tj. n . . . nea At ine tastern Entrance of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park Read by Thinking P 'eople NO. 33 WAYNESVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA Bills Returned Blind Man Serves )TrilP Unst 15 for Spon :iin2f Cock Fighting . Itoino- Kent Rusv ,-riminai -"u'1 - - '" ? TT T:il With Flood 01 1Iue Sent in by G. Jury eore of true bills d jury, the second court wis kept z.v:,l Ha''-': bv'-.hc grand jury, the second I"" ,. ri to near the docket "V. t.f the week, with Judge f" Alley presiding. I-1 " ...i,. . nf anv laree - .i,,-crowd? were not as large rf' . iat. but the court room Ta-rltd over nan wu v H'" ,iov afternoon Judge Alley Yan'rtder for the rand jury to ( " .'e for consideration of the '"""a?a;n-t Howard Pickens, a cap- .4! ,ifense ease. , . .(Ve adjourning, me K'"" Jw l"" i hi D 1 ... .vturr.eil tnree " ,-vh some. aimed, charge .th!;nP' "r- following Arthur Ma.-hbum and Ruth Byrd Vhburn. ru e Her.o.n and P. H. Henson. V:rf;n:a Mdnturff and Clyde Me r'lirtT L.rie Sa'-m'onl and Leonard Ban- On Haywood Jury What 1s believed to hi- the first 111 i lid juror to serve in Hay wood County, wont into tin- jury box Monday, as the second week of criminal eourt opeiusl. Tlie juror. liradlcy Allen, 4N. has iH-en blind since birth. lie attends the Sunday School class taught by J. H. Morgan regularly. Although seldom ever qucstion ed, the law does not specify that a man who is blind cannot serve on the jury. THURSDAY. Jl'LY 18, 1935 JUDGE ALLEY TO GIVE LECTURE SUNDAY NIGHT Eight Church Services Given To His Lecture At Methodist Church. Special Music Planned fifteen or twenty were i'd with sponsoring cock divorces had been Rav K. SnuUhers and June A. uathers. . . " Ralph 'HigMower and Clara Jriign- rer. Estts Rathbotie and Erastus Rath- Lr.e, two tu tnree years suspeiiueu !tKtnce for breaking and entering. Grady Kit. -land was given . 12 bnths on the roads lor assaua, James Price and Matt urooms re- VaT sentences of three montns h for larceny. William Raines was sentenced six kionths for breaking and entering. flwwlev Press ev was sent to tne ads for six months for violation of ,he prohibition law. Howard Gentry and uay mricpat- :ck got 12 months each for public irhkcmu-'ss and disturbing puDlic rshiD. ' The case in which Elmer Wood was larced with abandonment waj or- fcreda mistrial when the jury failed aeree after being out several hours. For dynamiting fish, Ned Mull, Ed f,av ami Herbert Messer were fined each, plus cost and given a 30- iay suspended sentence, The assault case involving four F.alph Carver, Grover Moody, Ethel fnilljp.; and tllennie Moody resulted r. the men being fined $25 each and : and two years suspended sen tnce. The two women were given impended sentences. Another assault case involving four, s: Richard Trull $30: Bill Sinirleton. 1-0; Ira Singleton, suspended sen- race and '-Leonard Sizemore, a jail it-Mencc. F.ach . paid one-fourth of :.".e cost.. Willard Davis on two charges of leaking and entering, was sentenced serve six months on one count and '"rti ;o live years on another 'in the e piV(-n. Water And Light Collections Show Increase In Town Collections for water and lights by the Town of Waynesville for the month of June exceeds that of last year by $1,670.21, according to fig ures released by Mrs. Hedwig A. Love, city clerk this tveek. Not only are there more patrons being served, but a greater amount of current and water is being used by the average customer, the records reveal. in May, 19d4, the collections to taled $3,442.20, wlhile last May a total of $3,948.63 was made, an in crease of something like $500. Brevard Group To Meet Here Today To Discuss No, 284 1,1 ' ' . A group of eight civic leaders from Brevard are scheduled to meet with a similar group here today for a luncheon meeting and a eeneral dis cussion of plans for presentation to the highway commission the neces sity of completing Highway No. 284 from here to Brevard through the Pisgah National Forest. Tentative plans, with weather per mitting, are for a group of Waynes ville citizens, about twelve, to ac company the delegation back to Bre vard over the route in order to get first hand information about the road. The meeting is bein sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce. An audience is expected to tax the apacity of the Fst MeihoHLst church here on Sundav ..veim-iir at eight o'clock to hear Judge Felix F. -iiey, judge of the Superior Court, deliver his lecture "Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Man anil the Son of Clod." As a lawyer would present hi.s case to a jury, Judge Alley in this lec ture, with eloquent phrase and con vincing logic proves the FACT and DIVINITY of Christ and the DIVINE origin of Christianity by Christians, Jewish and Roman witnesses of the first century, who had first-hand knowledge of the facts. This lecture has been delivered by Judge Alley in the principal churches in the counties composing the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth judicial districts and nlso in Char lotte and Elon College. To date he has given the lecture in 21 churches; 2 court houses and a college. The lecture is being sponsored by the several churches, all having con sented to give way their night services for the lecture. As an added feature of the service, the popular choir of the First Meth odist church of Canton will assist the choirs of Waynesville in the song service. Couple Whose Ages Differ 45 Years Buy A Marriage License Han Cupid is no resKvtnr of aires, according to a iiiiiriimio license issued la-t mccU In Ken ister of Deeds i:din Itatuc. when W. II, Waixin. til', and Kliiahcth Sexton. 17. made the nevssnry legal ariaiiKCiiiciii s in wed. Hoih are from t'aiuon. The records show that the falh er of the hride-to-U- sao his enn-ent to the marriage. The fact that there is i:, years tliftVrciuv In the age- was of Mule concern to the i-ouple. Commissioners Fix Tax Rate At $1.31. School Additions Are Included Mother Of Mrs. X R. McCracken Is Buried Grand Jury Makes Several Requests In Their Report Clock And Name On Court House Recommended, And New In dex System In Register Of Deeds Sr. Koberson Made President Of Hiking Club At First Meet Formal orjr:i'ivQt;rt' u:i, wns j,,.rfect.ed Tuesday night v ....,,,,,,., 0I commerce, witn -own Lyiiif I..,. "'in iiiLinnes, vice P-btm. ami' Mi.c M,.,. n( 'IK-,. L.:- ",'4ie' "'aue ior me the Prir. r : wmcn win oe to tai.. 'V"1'' 011 Lickstone Moun-tcVk- v ' t0 begin; at two Url" i:' L- Prevost will be F- '' M .first hike, v . N urr, r'-U'.in tne ntKe a;er than noon Sat- GEORGETOWN, S. C Puneral services were held on Sunday after noon, June the 30th, for Mrs. E.-Ma rion Doar, Sr., one of Georgetown's most beloved citizens, who died early Friday afternoon at the home of her son, E. M. Doar, Jr., following a lin gering illness of about a year. Born October 1877, she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James F. Detyens. She was graduated with the seccond class to finish from Wiii tbrop College in 1891. In 181)4 she was married to Elias Marion Doar. Three children of this union with her husband aui-vive. They are E. M. Doar, Jr., of Georgetown, Mrs. J. R. McCracken, of Waynesville, and L. II. Doar, of Kingstree. In 1917 she became Georgetown's Home Demons Oralt ion a genu Her work brought her in contact with many women, and to her the rural women owe a debt of gratitude for she helped to improve living condi tions, and to give a broader outlook to those whose lives she touched. Mrs. Doar had often visited her daughter here, and had made many friends in Waynesville (luring her trips to this section. TAX SUPERVISOR GETS TELEPHONE IN OFFICE ph:kes The For the convenience of the public and tax payers of the county, a tele phone has been installed tn the tax supervisor's ofhee D. A. Howell an pounced yesttiilav. The number is eight-eight. The public is requested to call that num ber when wanting anv member in the - no cost involved in tax office rather than over other Da 'p araret Hyatt, and r'-T.ir.fnJot':- w mane or- wriM'' at he next-meet- f t;,..:"-"'c Jor tne e nh !tiprestnt at the mti Y- X lK Mks Daisy Boyd, L Wirw 'QW -hr Prevost, 'phones in the court house. LPkin- r', 'f- Gay,-W. L. rd:n t Mclnnes. Orarfv r?'I)r p cStentz- Charles E. I "r. r. stuart R b lVe-s Reraion To 5 Held In Clyde of the Hayne. '??C: Harh ld- at the home of AnVi5 iClyde.-on Sat :: !1 ar.d fri!,1'-.. All the rel ..tT.i, '-er"!s are exneot t i-l'" be an- '?(a!en:s. ts 15 chairman of ar- Fire Department Makes Two Runs Over Week-End The fire department answered two fire alarms over the week-end, with no damage being reported by Fire Chief H. H. Stevenson in either. : Saturday morning the department ans-wered a call on Love JLane, at the home Maudie Cochrane, and Sunday morning made a run to the home of Walter Crawford. Chorus Practice Is Set For 8 Tonight "That is the most complete, Intelli gent and host report 1 ever saw," Judge Felix Alley told the memberH of the Grand jury Saturday noon when they adjourned after working all week on the many different matters claim ing their attention. "You did not overlook anything in the county, and it is the host prepared report I've heard. The recommenda tions are most intelligent ones. This grand jury did more work than any I know of." "They wore exceedingly diligent in investigating crime," he roneludod. The report of the grand jury was in part : "The boiler in the basement hospital which furnishes st sterilizing equipment is not heing tisi on account of lieing unsafe and insuf ficient for that purpose. There has booh considerable money spent on repairs.-' Wo recommend as a matter of economy and safety that a new boiler be purchased. The nurses homo is in excellent condition, atid the main budding is in good condition, with no ood of immediate repairs. "We found in the jail that the. bedding- in the Dion's department to be In such condition that somo of the mattresses be done.-' a way with and replace!, with' new ones. The kite. hen windows should be kept closed so Mo one can go outside.. "Court House- So far as our investi gation revea:i-o, ine reeoroM m ine different, ollioes, namely Register of Deeds, County Auditor. Clerk of Court. Tax Collector, ami slierilT. and Coat'! of Ed neat ion, are being neatly and properly kept We find the records jn the otlice of Register of Deeds n'-at ind well kept and appear' to be in .ex cellent t-onditiori with the except ion of the fieneral Indexes of Heal Kstate Conveyances covering the period from IS18 to 19.23. We find that for several terms the Grand Jury has made recommendations that the: Index of Deeds prior to 19;'3 he reoopied or. re- indexed by the County'.: and we-, de sire to make a more .oomph t" report on this matter at this time. The. Gen eral Index was constructed over a period of some 1 1 5 years in chrono logical order as deeds were filed for registration.: and during this time the general usage of the records have ceused them to become yorn and in some cases illegible; to further com plicate this condition, the index books (Continued on back page.) Contract On 284 To Be Awarded Tues By Highway Heads It was learned here this week that plans, are to award a contract on next Tuesday for live miles of No. 284 in the Looking Glass section, by the state highway commission. Highway L'8-l, which is the one from here to Brevard, has been surveyed the most of the way. The contract was let for the live-mile section some few months ago, but the contractor forfeited his bond, and now it bus to be awarded again. If engineers complete their plans, it is the opinion of the commission that a contract will be awarded for the paving 'of the toad from Wood row to Springdale. a distance of about eight miles. Surveyors are now at work on the tentative j-outc over the mountain. Postal Receipts Show 30 Increase Every -quarter din ing the past year has showed an increase over the snie period of last year .at the local post office, with an increase of thirty" per cent for the last fifteen days over the same days of last year. For the 'first fifteen days in Julv, 1934 the otlice did $8)4.HK, while this year it jumped to $1,050.90. Postmaster J. H. Howell stated that a general increase in both in-coming and out-going mail had shown a grad ual increase during the past month, with last Saturday's and Sunday's mail being the heaviest. A Railway Official Sees Better Crowds For W.N.C. In Aug. R. II. DeKutts, assistant general passenger agent of the Southern Railway, with (dikes in Asheville, was a visitor in Waynesville this week, and while here made the prediction that, "August would be an exception al good month for all of Western North Carolina." "The flare-up about infantile paral ysis is waning, and reports from all sections are that we will have a good crowd during August," he said. Mr. DeKutts stated that a change was being made in one of the sched ules of the trains oti the Murphy Branch numlber 19. The train will leave Asheville at .r:."!0 o'clock in the afternoon instead four as heretofore. No other changes have been made in the schedule. He stated that air conditioned Full mans were being put on all lines as fast as possible. The initial cost being about $.r,000 per car. Cherokees Want Road From Soco," Says Their Leader Dr. Foxht, Superintendent Of Reservation, and Chief Illyth, Rotary Speakers. Dr. Harold W. Fdght, superintend ent of the '.Cherokee Indian Reserva tion, told thirty mem'bers of the IRo tary Club and guests Friday that everything possible, was being done to get the contract renewed for the completion of the highway from Soco Gap to Cherokee. Haywood County's tax rate for the coming year has been definitely set at $1.31 -two cents less than last year. The board of commissioners in ses sion Monday officially adopted the budget for the coming year, ami fixed the rate. The detit service fund was slashed seven cents from last year, and the school fund increased live cents in rder to care for the proposed bui'd ing program, part of which is aln. underway. Both the debt serv . o and school fund is fixed at fifty cel. . The funds other than the two men tioned above remain the same as last year. Jack Messer, superintendent of ed ucation, .stated this week that work had already started on the Rock Hill school, and that he expected work on the Allen's Creek and Waynesville Township school to get underway at an early date. IMans are to be in all three buildings before Christmas. By increasing the school fund rate from forty-five to fifty cents, it is expected that $30,000 will be raised. To this amount the state has made plans for adding $20,000. Contracts are not being awarded for the buildings, as day labor is be ing 'used, and the plan is to utilize relief labor to the fullest extent. The building program calls for an eight-room building at Rock Hill, with native stone Wing used. The school will - also have an auditorium. A 'modern steam heating system will be installed, as well as new equipment. The building at Allen's Creek will be four rooms and will also be of native stone A modern heating plant is included in the plans of this build ing, also. The building will be Used for the lirst four grades. The largest unit of the building program as planned, will be the ad dition of ten rooms at the Waynes ville High School.' This unit will be of brick, and will be used for a junior high school and gym. The present jym being.' converted;, into an agri cUtural building. -. Dr. Foght gave an interesting back ground as to the need of the road. A comparison of this year's btisi- and the advantage it would be to the ness with that ol last year per quar- reservation. ter, is as follows : June, 193T. . . June, 1934 . . . . . March, 193a . : . . March, 1934 .$1,291.48 . $3,720.f4 . $3,4.r7.r..'i .$3,331 ;i ;;f Local Building And ' '"" ..." .1 Y lit 1 Loan is nenoering Section A Service (Written bv an Official of the Ruild ing and I a ki n . The Haywood- Hume Huilding and. Loan Association , which was orgafi ized iiv 1919, has. had a Wonderful re cord in. hovel; having failed to ma ture i! r;!!i!.i!l;' .'n,-K. During this time it has loaned several hundred thousands of dollars, enabling many people to become home owners; nor has this association ever failed to pay interest on its paid up s'o.k, Thus, it can be truthfully . sain that the association; has done more towards. .the up-building of the Waynesville- Lake J una 1 us ka-Haze wood areas, thatl any other community agent. This is a mutual organiza tion in. w-hioh la; .salaries or. 'fees- are paid except to the secretary-treasurer w ho is a full time employee -"drawing a nominal -alary. A community in which : there' is a large percentage of homo owners make- for .strength, it should behoove every head of a family to owii his own home and if for no other reason.-, tl: Chief Garrett Blylhe, in a few words said: "For twenty years we Indians have been trying to get Hie road from Cherokee to Waynesville, but- every time something' happened. I believe we have a - belter, chance this time than ever to get it. Our people are anxious for it to be built. Visitors at the club included besides the two speakers, Mrs. Fng-ht, Mrs. W. T. Shelton, Mrs. J. H. Way, Mrs. C. E. Kay Frank W. Miller, H, S. Marsh, all of Waynesville, and Dr. Copelaiid, .Charlotte, Koy Latham, Ga.stonja, and Mr. Mason Gary, Mich igan. Tom IV .limison, columnist on The Charlotte News, and former rest deti! of Haywood, county, wil be flic speak er Friday at '-'the. .Rotary 'Club' at. 1 2:30. Sea-Plane Lands On Lake Junahiska Juhahiska's ; first, visitors, by sea plane arrived Friday afternoon, when Joseph Baylor', I ! Lieutenant' in the United States Army Aviation Corps, rested the - Amphibian . I'lane No. 9K on the waters of Lake .lunaluska. Lieutonan: Baylor,- on a business trip, made a stop at the. lake, for a-. week end -visit to- his parents, -'the. Rev, Dr. and Mrs. .. A. liayVr, of Wythc yillo, 'a., who have a summer home at- the lake. . Lt. Baylor had as, his guest (-apt tain V. H. Johnson; two mechanics, thinking people should support and I lea men Men lieu and Talie Rico, : also boost, their Building and Loan Asso ciation, Audit just conrplett'd by the,. State Insurance Department shows that the Building -and' Loan Assoeiaion has-well weathered, the storm of the recent de pression and is fully solvent. . The July series is now open and the association invites all who are interested in taking out stock to com -(Continued on back page) accompanied the plane. Lieutenant Baylor, who has spent many , summers hero, (luring his: childhood and youth. expressed his pleasure at seeing the many improvements here and the gen era air of prosperity around this church center. He came from Mitch el Field, Long Island, leaving about 8 a. m Friday, and arrived at Lake Junaluska at 4:30 p. m., having made a stop at Langley Field, Norfolk. Life Of Old "Honest John 9-9 Lawrence G. Nilson, director of the music camp at Lake Junaluska, and of Atlanta, announced yesterday that a practice will be held at eight o'clock sharp at the Methodist church Thursday night of the chorus that will shortly present "Elijah" at Lake Junaluska during the coming month. Voices from all the rhoirs of the city, in addition to a number from the lake and elsewhere compose the chorus. none?.t John, champion bear and champion hunter of pork on rhc hoof in the Balam Monntalnw, Is the subject -of local controversy on legislation according to me from both sfies f ihe mountain. Wild life lovers, pointed to the bear's reputed 50-jrear age, hi preat fize 600 to TOO poond advocate special legislation to pro tect his life. But there are oth ers who feel that the legislature should make it lawful to hunt him In season or out of season, antil his ravages on the hours and 'sheep of the farmers In his "range" are ended. Honest John got his name from the fact that he never kills more than one hop at a time, always picking the earcas cean before lie seeks another porker. Thc fact of the matter is, Hon est John is doing very nicely without legislation of any sort. Hunters and dogs hare found him too smart. Hip nearest capture being many years ago when be lout a toe in a trap. State In Raleigh Oral L. Yates left here Friday for Raleigh, where he took a position Saturday in the Weights and Meas ures Division of the Dpartmnt of Agriculture. I- , He will work in the main office in Raleigh. During the last legislature he was assistant seargantat arms in the Senate. HURTS FOOT. Jarvis Campbell is suffering from an injured foot; caused by a heavy ban-el falling on it. Although a painful bruise, Mr. Campbell is able to walk. Gipsy Smith, Jr., To Conduct Meeting In City July 31-Aug. 11 The Riv. (iipsy Smith, Jr., will conduct a scries of revival services at llic .Mclliodisl cliurch from July 31 through August 1 1, as has been previously announced; Mr, Smith-'is a nationally known revivalist and Mr. Hardin, pastor of the; Motliodisl i-luirrh, considers .that he has. 'been exceedingly fortunate in being able to secure Mr. .Smith's ser vices at t bis time. Mr. .Smith is being brought hero ai the height of the .-.tinimor season with tlie particular idea in mind of giving visiting friends, a chur. li at traction. 'I'he member" 'of the Meth odis'l chiirch invite their friends 'of othei lu.i relies and all otlu-fs who will 'o share with (hem the oppor tunity of hen r i tig this holed evan gel 1st, :, '; $i:M)80 Awarded By Jury In Damage Suit B. : t'Wrk; w,f ; Asheville, was. awarded .12,00(1 for. .personal inju ries, and $8."i(l for ilamagi' to his :car by a. Buncombe county jury late ye s lerdiiy afternoon in t he case-against Mrs. A: W. Meade, which is the. out growth of an, automobile ac ideiit un Highway No. - near the Welch Fat m on August-9, 1933. It "Was in this wreck that .Mrs, Joseph K. Johnson was fatally injur ed, living several days. Two brand new cars were complete ly demolished in the wreck,. A .Mr. Hampton, driver of the Clark car at the time of the act-idem, was awarded $230 for personal injuries. Mrs. Meade,' through .her attorneys, brought a counter claim against Mr.. Clark alleging, damages received. The case has consumed three days in the Buncombe courts. . In a trial in 1934, a jury retimed a verdict setting out that both parties , were negligent, and refused to award either any damages. Appeal was tak en for a new trial which ended yes terday,;. It if expected that Mrs. Meade will enter an appeal. 'i , Mrs. G. C. Plott had as her guest this week Mrs. D. D. Shermer and two children, Betty and Dan Shermer, of Atlanta. THE WEATHER OFFICIAL WEATHER REPORT Date Max. Min. 11 - ' 87 - . 51 12 .'; ' ' 87 - -. 44 13 89 56 14 " ' 85 , ' 52 15 - 84 . 48 16 84 52 17 87 - - ' . 57.