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r V ) i j (One Day Nearer Victory) THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1943 'r''J J THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER l"ne uy Neivs That Made Headlines WCounty In 1943 la Headlines Taken From 52 Issues Of The Mountaineer Local Activities Centered Around rVar Campaigns Throughout Year. JANUARY Joe Rose named head of Ration ing Board. County Hospital on approved list again. William Haywood Poteat, first baby to arrive in Haywood in New Year. Resources of First National Bank pass two millions. 101 men leave fey induction center to service in armed forces. Farmers asked for big increase n food production. Restrictions put on packages and newspapers to men overseas. Cannery called on to pack more food in 1943 for war needs. J. T. Bailey, senator, and Glenn C. Palmer, representative, go to Legislature. Stern warning given consumers of fuel. Haywood farm rs complete plans for food production in 1943. R. B. Davenport named president of Chamber of Commerce. February draft call to be increas ed 20 per cent. Mrs. Donald Hyatt christens S. S. George E. Badger. $735 sought in county on Presi dent Roosevelt's birthday. Three soldiers charged with theft of car. FEBRUARY Over liUO books given to Victory Kook Drive to date. January War Bond drive txceed--d $11,500 in Haywood county. Rotary Committee to ask for Library Fund. Merchants will close at 1 o'clock on Wednesdays. Glenn Edgar Si.k is 8th Haywood county man to lose life in war. Registration for point rationing book 2 begins on February 22. Howard Taylor Crockett, former local football star, awarded Purple Heart in North Africa. Red Cross asking Haywood for $4,000. Captain A Iden Howell, native of Haywood, observes 102 birthday anniversary at home of daughter in Los Angeles. Jack Rathbone is 9th Haywood boy to give life in World War II. Pressley Brothers given WPB award for scrap shipped. Haywood victory gardens to solve food problem. Park travel fi3 per cent less in 1943 than in 1942. vested. Around 100 men will leave here in March quota under selective ser vice system. Teachers given recognition to W. C. Alhn's last textbook. Campaign is started on v'ctory gardens. New law extends terms of offices in county and town. Local State Guard officers to take training at Fort Bragg. Circulation of Mountaineer is neaiing 3,000 mark. This area is to stage blackout to inaugurate new rules. Four fires in two days keep fire men busy. 95 per cent of Wellco personnel sign up to donate blood for Red Cross. Seniors of three Haywood schools gt diplomas. Leaders instructed in preserva tion of foods here in two-day school. American Legion observes 24 anniversary. gugt 2. Stations handling drin food must post prices. ind . APRIL Fines Creek mines to be drilled in the near future. Sam H. Robinson is appointed Mayor of Canton. Trailway lines open station in Hazelwood. Haywood County Hospital gets $7,211 from Duke Endowment. Red Cross quota of $4,000 is raised in county. Pfc. Janus Arrington is prisoner of Japs. Haywood goes over the top in March bond drive, quota $75,361, while $79,020.50 sold. Lund O'Sky ships 768,000 cans of beans to camps. Outlook for tourist season en couraging. 10 Haywood Herefonls to be sold at State Sale. Haywood starts to sell $290,300 in war bonds. Clyde R. Hoey to speak at Bond Rally here on Monday. Joe Blaine James, U. S. Navy, is 10th casualty. Red Cross ships 60,000 bandages during week. Captain David Stentz bombs Italian ship. Total bond sales 45 per cent above quota, reaching $418,493. MARCH Cruso Electric buys 24 more miles of line. Two Haywood boys, A. G. Boin--au, Jr. and C. H. Downs, on U. S. .S. Chicago. Haywood passes quota in Febru ary bond drive, with $80,025 in- Ask Us About Our Many Gat Ssrvlcss. 3A Athevilie Road Phons 202 -J MAY Haywood county puts ban on Sunday beer sales. Bond sales in county are nearing $700,000. Rev. Williamson to head Red Cross Chapter. Towns to hold clean-up cam paign. 250 persons are need-d to watch for airplanes in defense program. Cruso Electric receives nation wide publicity. Chamber of Commerce starts drive on Monday, reports of com ing season growing much better. Patrolmen seek quinine for men in armed forces overseas. Officers capture 20 gallon still on Saturday. Dark picture painted about more gasoline. Area-wide clean up campaign to get underway. Sixty draftees left here in May quota for induction center. Town puts ban on Sunday beer and wine sales. Fire destroys Sloan storehouse and shop. Miss Alice Ball contributes 77 books to local library. Schools in district to open Au- JUNE Workers needed to halves local crops. Lake Junaluska starts seas, n on June 27 with Haywood County Day. A. J. McCracken heads Haywood County Grade A producers. "Salute to our Heroes" edit on soon to be published by Mount.i n eer. Clyde stockyards to pen n June 17. Pet plant shipping carload of milk to army post each day. Ratcliff Cove to honor 45 men from community now in service. Canton and Champion officials dedicate bridge spanning Southern tracks. Tuesday is last day to get shoes on stamp 17. Public showing lots of interest in men in service edition. Haywood casualty list now 12 as Bethel Gunner is killed and Waynesville pilot are missing. Captain David S. Stentz has been missing in North Africa since May 25. Staff Sgt. Glenn E. Harding re ported killed in European territory. Seventeen 18-year-olds register under selective service in May. Broken records in shoe business as customers sought to use stamp 17. Federation to build frozen locker unit in Waynesville. Bean crops are fine, picking starts soon. 16,944 sponges made in July by local women. Soc Gap Dance Team adds another laurel. Pvt. Homer V. Conard, U. S. Air Corps, accidently killed on maneuvers. Local women to assist merchants with OPA prices. First still made without copper captured in Haywood county. Haywood county given heavy quota for month of August. Shortage of pulpwood and acid wood acute, county farmers and woodsmen urged to increase pro duction. Mrs. Cornelia Barr hears from son who is Jap prisoner. Three fourths of men leaving in month's draft call were volunteers. Haywood county has million pound tobacco crop. Haywood quota of Third War bond drive set at $892,000. ' Land O'The Sky bean pack 50 jer cent short. JULY Registration of bean pickers be gins for harvest of 1,200 acres in Haywood. H. A. Osborne, chairman of coun ty "work or fight'' committee. Bond sales in Haywood reach $73,740 for June. Optimism prevails as Lake sea son gets underway. 50 head livestock sold on Clyde market Thursday. Surprise blaskout almost perfect says air chief. Long's Chapel dedicated, with impressive ceremonies. Cannery began packing green beans on July 7. Haywood goes over top in bond quota for month of June. Pvt. Carl Head, local man, wounded in combat, back in Ameri ca. Sales on auto tax lagging far behind other years. Tourist business improving over that of last year. Court adjourns here with light est docket on record. Mayor's court sets new record in collections. Greetings to Haywood's 2,500 men and women in the armed forc es. 56-page edition in tribute to those serving their country. Sp cial edition well received by readers everywhere, Governor Broughtop likes spec ial edition. Masons pay honor to members now in service. SEPTEMBER Business suspends for quite Labor Day, no formal program planned. More help needed to harvest crops in Haywood. C. N. Allen, chairman, announc es War Fund committee meeting. Carter Osborne heads REA in Haywood county. County schools to have lunch rooms, with Mrs. Rufus Siler nam ed supervisor. Salva ion Army officers hold in stitute at Lake Junaluska. Italy ut of war, hardest fight ing is near, need sale of bonds here. Over $33,600 in war bonds sold at Federation Picnic. Second annual sale of Purebred Hereford set for October 23 at Clyde'. Improvements costing $25,000 undertaken by Junaluska trustees. Pearce Bakery holds opening of modern plant. Big War Bond Rally to be held today, starts at 6:30, huge crowd is expect' d. Hazelwood cuts taxes. Burning of notes marks payment of Legion Home. Sgt. Joseph Smith is missing, was bomber gunner in England. Judge Sink says county has too many divorces. Haywood's apple crop worth $500,000. Third War Bond quota passed, sold $904,000. 400 fat calves expected to sell at Civile. 21 Pre-Pearl Harbor lPas leave in October call. Big vote expected i1 Burley Referendum. Milk producers get incft?se oi 40 cents per hundred lbs. f)r milk. Burley growers vote, for qota plan in county. James Carl Keylon, U. S. Na'y. pays supreme price in World W?r II. Asheville resident fatally injur ed on Soco Gap road. NOVEMBER Haywood calves take first place at W N. C. Fat Calf show. Haywood county first in Western district to go over United War Fund quota of $11,000. Public urged to contribute cloth es for Greek relief. Three fatal accidents in Hay wood county since beginning of year. Col. J. H. Howell goes on In spection tour of State Guard. Sgt. Joseph H. Smith, reported missing, now a prisoner of the Germans. Fat calves entered in Asheville show to be butchered and sold here this week-end. Drunks crowd jail over the week end, largest number of week-end arrests in six months. Three Main Street buildings are sold, Reeves Noland buys 2, and Joe Rose, 1; both to start improve ments. Three more casualties reported in Haywood, Lt. James Shook Queen, U.S.N.R., Lt. Grey Win chester, U. S. Air Corps, and Pvt. Edward Williams. Sgt. Stringfellow, missing, re ported to be German prisoner. Pvt. John Hampton reported missing in action in Italy. Milk producers given 33 cents increase for Grade "A" milk by recent OPA ruling. AUGUST Haywood County tax rate reduc ed 15c; now $1.30. Lt. Wm. C. Medford, U. S. Navy, reported .wounded. Women to observe Molly Pitcher Day and sell bonds. Captain Wayne Corpening with American forces in Sicilian attack. OCTOBER Dealers say shortage of coal is temporary. Nearly 600 head of cattle sold at Clyd? feeder sale. Local draft board reclassifies 195 men during the week. Pet plant offices are enlarged. Erkraft plant is making toys. Business places and homes to be inspected for fire hazards here. Waynesville cuts tax rate to $1.40, the lowest rate in 25 years. Glenn C. Palmer had $30,000 fire loss at his farm. Pvt. Fred B. Moody reported wounded in North Africa. Lt. Jam s Queen commended for service in Sicily. Cpl. Homer Franklin, Dellwood boy, given Purple Heart for brav ery under fire. Half-day's wages set for goal from every working person in county to meet goal of war bond for month. DECEMBER Outside trees and decorations are not patriotic. County passed bond quota for November. Bethel students sell $11,000 in bonds, money will buy 7 Jeeps. Pvt. Samuel H. Sherrill, killed in action. Staff Sgt. Roy M. Jackson, miss ing, reported German prisoner. J, C. Brown re-elected head of the State Vocational Agriculture Teachers. Clapp predicts $500,000 tobacco income for Haywood county. Robert Frances heads local AAA committee. War Bond Committee making pi. ns to meet all c,uoats for county. Merchants Association to orga nize on Friday. Edwin Haynes heads district Sci at work. Lical merchants set 24-hour holi day at Axis powers collapse. E nest M. Messer reported miss ing since November 20. Dallas Rhea CI irk, Haywood's first casualty missing for 21 months reported Japanese prisoner. No cause for alarm over Flu fcpidemic. Haewood private making more tlun Major's base pay. f'ew high being set for Christ ma, buying in community. Mountaineer gets award for merit for pulpwood campaign. Slee' storm hit this area Christ mas d'y- 1944 business depends on collapse of AxP, says Roger Babson. Miss Helen Noland, who ia now employi J by the Newport News Shipyard and Dry Dock Company, has retfned to neF wor.k after spendinf several days with her mother, Mrs- Ben Noland. Petty Officer 1st CIa J. Newton Brendle II Petty Officer, First Cla Newton Brendle, U. S. N volunteered in the serv e tober and was called to . in the same month, is v ten-day leave here with and three children at th, on the Balsam Road. Petty Officer Brendle u, basic training at Camp p. rr where he is still stationed. 'lies ho "g & wifo eme i. his Va.. QUICK RELIEF FROM Symptoms of Distress Arising from STOMACH ULCERS due to EXCESS ACID Free BookTells of HomoTreatment that Jlust Help or it Will Cost You Nothing Over two million bottle of the WILLARD TKRATMENTharre been sold for rvhelnl ty i . , p toma of distress arising from Stomats) mil DuedmaJ Ulcers due to Excn Ada Poor D !( on. Seur or Upset Stomach, Business, Hsartbsint. Mssplssstmt, etc, due to Excess Add. Sold on 15 days malt Ask for "Millard's Mmssis" wbii-n full; explains this treatment tree at SMITH'S DRUG STORE SAVE A Part Of What You Earn New Series Opened January First. BUY SHARES NOW HAYWOOD HOME Building & Loan ASSOCIATION Shoe Values For All The Family A Men's Red Camel or Old Hickory WORK SHOES Composition or Gro-Cord Soles. . . Black or Tan . . . Plain or Cap Toe. Real Value 53.95 to Boys' Red Camel Shoes - $5.95 1.94-2.98 Large Stock of Dress OVERSHOES-FOOTWEAR Children's GALOSHES $1.69 Women's GALOSHES 1.69-1.79 Men's OVERSHOES 1.79-1.98 Natural Bridge Shoes Brown or Black, High Quality School ec qc OXFORDS 2.98-3.95 ePe.W XViih T.oflthor nr CnmiutHitinn Soles. Many Styles , Brown Black FOR GOOD SHOES COME V HERE BELK-HUDSON GO. "The Home Of Better Values" We Have A Full lV Of . . . BOUND LEDGERS 100 to 500 Pages Several Sizes, In Both Double and Single Entry. Also Records and Journals LEDGER SHEETS Several Rulings. COLUMNAR PADS From 2 to 8 Columns LOOSE-LEAF LEDGERS From Fige Size 6ft9 to 14x17 Inches. LEDGER INDEXES For All Sizes. t i LOOSE-LEAF KEfilO BOOKS Leather Were Index. Several Sizes. The MOUNTAINEER Stationery and Supplies for O0Ie, Hoe and School i
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