North Carolina Newspapers

AiXT? WAV A VTVTll7'Ciik7'TTr ttt TMrvn-rrvrnn a TT"n7o"in jl IK VV nil JCik3 V IJUJUJCi IVlHj V n 1 AlH JCi JCilb Pabli5hed 111 The Coy Seat Of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park WAYNESVILLE, N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1944 (One Day Nearer Victory) Uty Is Long Ways om Reaching Bond ota, Sales Lagging L Here Last Thursday snreessful; Many Men kot Have Stars By le. L.lh-n: ran mm ... ----- jj n ' hursuay "i ?tk;"a,s totaled $72,000. ,rk Theatre, where aamis- bv lion J only, was prw y to capacity. A colorful , j .1... iii-umKir with ' , .,, frnm Moore H.,.r:tal taking part uu . . i the interest snown o. "' be total sales I me uonua fifth War Campaign to Uj considerably less than if the quota assigned tne According to the selling of the Waynesville and i . i rnnii. area? tne saics nave icou- rw 75 Lviile was 1n the lead yes- ith J204.0iiy.25 credit of Li.rnt.on had $162,260.50. kefd for work during the u nf the drive was point- y the leaders, and the citi- the county are urged w sacrifice, if necessary, to rountv over the top. that the invasion has got- lerway in Europe the gov- nfficials have pointed out Jessity of every quota being go that the men overseas supplied with all neces- luipment and supplies. hvood county has never yet Ito meet her quota in an key, and I am counting on that record to carry lueh this vital call from eminent. Few of our Hay- kunty folks have yet made sat sacrifice to buy a bond. nevr had to much money section, and we might as re the fact thve cani.ot fighting forces," said C. i. chairman of the county To Conduct Revival w Ik M. T. Bridges romoted To ain In Guard p T. Bridges, sergeant of 1 unit nf the State Guard, h promoted to Captain in oi supplies of the Second nt, N'orth r He succeeds Captain W. A. who recently resigned the Bridces and Capt. Ralph Regimental Adjutant, will me time Tuesday for Fort were thev will nerfept P'ion for the StaU Guard encampment. Diirinoi iha t they will take special along with officers nf the pte Guard units. Bridees has K u v. v ' ' a iiiciii- tfle local StatP r.no N one half years anri has in various capacities. p Employees J Vacations Friday Night m employees of Corporation will be !r annual ( .....iuon witn pay a "'Bht. when the factory until r.i -"Miutly morning, Pan CIV,,.- . wet V employees i 7i U' a"'' the Fourtn rnera: man.. Heinz Roll- ;- i. said. . ....Hi. n annn.,1 ... , eu-iom tor the n officials to time off with pay. l 1 . 3 ,rea At Dinner r?Tfri:en f'JoSephu8 aowi;; k ,ace H.otel Sun- auditor; nnual dress Meth v. "nP(1: Dr- W- H:n r an" Mrs. Hil- Mr r and fra T k'TTN D:r-smi Mrs. Glenn C. iel r;, ' aLrngheld, E. "nrl Mrs. E. L. Hth7V v r'Sr' Danids Cuni t).. Present- son of Mi 4 f1". witK ;.-"""' "si week d o 5'rndparents-u- S. McClean. DR. C. E. ROZZELLE, pastor of the Wesley Memorial Methodist church of High Point, who will con duct a special series of revival services at the First Methodist church here, beginning on Sunday, July 2, Dr. Rozzelle is one of the outstanding ministers in the West ern North Carolina Methodist Conference and has occupied the leading pulpits in the conference. Committees Are Named By Ray For Rotary Club Charlie Ray, president-elect of the Rotary Club, has announced committees for the coming years. Mr. Ray and these committeemen will assume duties the first of July. Mr. Ray succeeds W. H. F. Millar, who will be vice presidmt for the coming year. The following are now on the board of directors of the Rotary Club: President, Charles E. Ray, Jr.; Vice-President, W. H. F. Millar; Secretary, H. B. Atkins; Treasurer, E. A. Williamson; Directors, L. N, Davis, S. P. Gay, Howard Clapp, Hugh Massie, J. H. Woody, M. H. Bowles. Aims and objects committee: Members of the Board of Directors and chairmen of Club Service, Vo cational Service, Community Ser vice and International Service com mittees. Club Service committee Joe !E. Rose, chairman. Program Joe E. Rose, chair man, W. Curtis Russ, H. B. Atkins, Frank Rogers, W. H. F. Millar. Attendance S. E. Connatser, chairman, Jimmy Neal, Hallet Ward, H. B. Atkins. Fellowship and Hospitality Jonathan Woody, chairman, Hugh Massie, Ralph Prevost, James Mas sie. Classification and Membership M. R. Williamson, chairman, Ralph Prevost, M. Dan Watkins, E. A. Williamson. Rotary Information Horace G. Hammett, chairman. E. L. Withers, S. P. Gay, M. H. Bowles. Auditing Jack Way, chairman, L. N. Davis, Guy Massie, Wm. Lampkin. Rotary , Cog Howard Clapp. chairman, Clay Madison, Curtis Russ, H. B. Atkins. Vocational Service committee Dr. Joe Baxter, chairman, M. H. Bowles, Ralph Prevost, S. E. Con natser. Community Service committee Hugh Massie, chairman. Victory copimittee Curtis Russ, chairman, Dr. Tom Stringfield, Bob Davenport, Frank Rogers, Col. J. H. Howell. Youth Service Ben Colkitt, chairman, Horace Hammett, Dr. S. Parker Gay, J. C. Brown, Stanley Brading, Hugh Massie. Crippled Children Dr. J. Rufus McCracken, chairman. Bob Daven port, Clay Madison, J. Yates Bailey. R u r a 1-Urban Cooperation (Continued on page 6) Tannery To Play Canton Tonight Tonight at seven, the Tannery softball team will meet the strong Canton team, for the first inter city game of the season. A small admission will be charged. Only Forty Men Reclassified During Past Week Forty men were reclassified dur ing the past week by the Waynes ville area draft board with four of the group placed in class 1-A as follows: R. V. Bradley, Charles Heston Barrett, Robert Richard Cope, and Jack Wilburn Setzer. Those placed in class 2-A were: Julius R. Stephens, Medford B. Gaddis, James S. Cope, Hascue L. Haynes, John H. Tucker, Raymond Kenneth Pearson, Thomas Clifford Rich, Hobert Long, Cass Lee Con stant, Arthur Pless Messer, Hous ton Robert McClure, Cleve Wilson Caldwell, and David Nelson Smart. Continued in class 2-A was Ray mond Howard Hyatt. Placed in class 2-B were: Joseph H. Sisk, John Jackson Kirkpatrick, Noble William Ferguson, Charles Rufus Scates, Lowery Lee Cald well, Deryal Luther Matney, George Clifford Styles, Charles Pierce Sutton, Hugh Turner Fran cis, Charles Franklin Derrick, Ar vis R. Carver, Jack D. Moore, and Charles Steve Chambers. Continued in clnss 2-B were: Frank Medford Bryson, Harrison Sighby Green and Berckley T. Cagle. Placed in class 2-B (H) was Frank Moody Parton. Placed in class 2-C were: Fred N. Haney, Edward R. Messer, John T. Rich, and Charles Adkins Smith. Placed in class 2-C (H) was J. Edward Jaynes. Help Land Troops During Invasion V Stockyards Open Today At 2 O'clock Interest among the stockmen of the county centers today in the opening sales of the 1944 season of the Haywood Mutual Stockyards at Clyde. The sale will begin this afternoon at 2 o'clock with Med ford Leatherwood serving as auc tioneer. Tb! stockyards have been oper ated for a number of years, and have been of increasing service to the cattle men in this area, due to its convenience to most farms, and the fair prices which have been realized on stock sold at the yards. The owners of the yards are: L. H. Bramlett, general manager; Medford Leatherwood, D. J. No land, Jonathan Woody, and Lt. Jack Messer, U. S. Navy. Waynesville Art Gallery To Open Here On July 5th The Waynesville Art Gallery will open their ninth season on Wed nesday, July 5th, it was announc ed yesterday by Morris Stone, gen eral manager. The merchandise will be offered at auction twice daily at 10:.'i0 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. .Mr. Stone said, with James Mann, popular auc tioneer, again in charge of sales. A large stock has been received and is being arranged for the opening sale next Wednesday. RORERT EUGENE GIBSON, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Gib son, of Waynesville, who is serv ing with the landing craft infan try, made two trips across the English Channel landing troops during the Invasion on the coast of France. The last trip over his group were allowed to go on land and the paper on which his letter was written had been bought in France. Young Gibson, who entered the service immediately after he grad uated from the local high school, has recently been promoted from fireman first class to motor ma chinist mate third class. He enter ed the U. S. Navy in May, 1943, and took hjis boot t ruining at Bainbridge, after which he attend ed Diesel Motor school, Richmond, and took advance training at Solo mons, Md., before going overseas, where he has served since January of this year. G.O.P. Nominate Dewey and Bricker Haywood Mutual Governor Thfimas -E. Dewey, of New York, was chosen as the Republican candidate for president in 1!M4 at the con vention held in Chicago this week. Governor John R. Bhicker, of Ohio, was named as Dewey's running mate, as a candidate for vice president. From all reports it appeared that the Republicans wanted Dewey and Dewey wanted Bricker. As governor of New York Dewey has shown that he can stage a good fight, and from all accounts the party plans "to go after" his election in the fall. Local State Guard Unit Leaves For Fort Bragg On 6th The local unit of the State Guard, which now has the required mem bership of 50 men will leave early Thursday morning, July 6, for Fort Bragg for the summer en campment. The local unit is Head quarters and Service Company for the Second Regiment, North Caro lina State Guard, commanded by Col. J. II. Howell. The group will travel by school buses, which the state department of education is turning over to the guards in the state to use as means of transportation to the annual en campment. The service company will make preparations for the encampment prior to the arrival of all the units in the state on Sunday, July 9. Dates Of Health Center Changed For July, August The dates for the health center which is sponsored by the district health department have been changed, according to an announce ment this week. Through the coming two months the health cen ter which is conducted in the of fices of the health department in the court room will be open to the public for three days, from 2:00 to 5:00 o'clock in the afternoon. The dates announced are: first Wednesday in July, 5; first Wed nesday in August, on 2nd; and fourth Wednesday in August, on 23rd. All parents with children of pre school age and those who plan to enter in the 1944-45 term are urg ed to bring their children to the health center. Free Tomato And Pepper Plants Marglobe tomato and sweet pep per plants can be had free of charge, just by stopping at the Dunham House this afternoon after four o'clock, Donald Dun ham said yesterday. "I have more than I can use and want to share with my Haywood friends," the hotel man said. Former Haywood County Couple Visiting Relatives Here And In Macon Mr. and Mrs. D. N. Green, of Darrington, Wash., have arrived to spend three months visiting rela tives in Haywood and Macon coun ties. Mr. Green is a brother Ot T. L. Green, of Waynesville. Mrs. Green was before her marriage, Miss Minnie Innian of Haywood county. Mr. Green is a farmer and dairy man and has resided in Darrington for the past twenty-two years. This is his second visit home since leaving here. Florida Publisher Likes The Mountaineer "The Mountaineer is one of the best weekly newspapers I have ever seen," said L. C. Pepper, pub lisher of The Daily Sun, Gains ville, Fla., here this week. Mr. and Mrs. Pepper are spend ing their vacation at Blink Boney, and will be here another week. Besides publishing the evening paper, Mr. Pepper publishes a weekly newspaper and operates a large commercial printing department. Strt . James Robinson, who is sta tioned at Camp Croft for the pres ent, spent the u ek end here with his family. Dayton Employees Hear Aviators From Front $1.75 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties Business To Suspend On Fourth, Governor To Speak At the Lake At Lake Fourth GOVERNOR J. M. BROUGH TON will speak at Lake Junaluska at eleven o'clock Tuesday, in his annual lndependepce Day address. His topic will be "Christianity and World Peace." Pvt. Chas. Ketner Writes His Wife On Invasion Coast Private ('has. D. Ketner, is now with the Invasion forces in France, according to a letter to his wife, the former Miss Jewel Hipps. The letter was written on June 11, and stated that Pvt. Ketner had been given a 12 hours leave from the front lines for sleep and rest. He stated that replacements were be ing made after several days fight ing. He told her of eating Spring onions from the gardens of France in the conquered area and how good they tasted with their "can ned fighting food." He also stated that they expected to have their kitchen set up soon and have regu lar food on the firing lines. Pvt. Ki trier wrote of the deter mination of the Allies to win and how inspiring it was to everyone. Enclosed also in the letter was the message given all the invading t loops from General Eisenhower. The letter was written from a fox hole, and Pvt. Ketner stated that he had dug so many he felt like a squirrel. Pvt. Ketner has been in the ser vice since December, 1942, and was inducted at Camp Croft and from there transferred to Plattsburg, N. Y., and then to Fort Dix, before being sent overseas. He first serv ed in Africa and later was sent to England. Prior to the war he was owner and operator of the Farmers' Exchange, which is now run by his brother. Athletic Events Will Be Held Throughout the Day Here In Waynesville and Hazelwood. Business in general will sus pend here Tuesday in observance of the Fourth, with the address by Governor Broughton ut the Lake auditorium at eleven o'clock, and athletic programs uiuler the direc tion of the Recreation Council be ing carried on throughout the duy. All manufacturing plants of the community will observe a holiday, stores will close, while all offices in the court house with the excep tion of the sheriff's office will be closed. The bank and post office will also observe a holiday. E. W. Tenney, recreation direc tor, announced that teams from the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts would meet at the high school in competitive softball games at ten o'clock Tuesday morning. In the afternoon at three, the Community League teams will play, with the Tannery meeting Dayton, and R. & P. against Pet Dairy. Besides softball, there will be contests in base running, horse shoe pitching and other events. A community dance will be held at the Armory at night, in which both round and square dancing will be featured. Contests will be held between square dance teams, with possibly a team from Cherokee at tending. An exhibition of jujitsu will be given by a special team of boys that are training in self-protection for the army. This team is taking special training nightly. Interest is growing in softball, with junior and senior Girl Scouts practicing daily at the elementary chfKI at 7:30, the Waynesville boys at the army every morning, and Hazelwood boys and girls daily at the Hazelwood school at two o'clock. Regular practice is being held at the high school for league teams. Last Friday night the Tannery trounced the Dayton team 12 to 8, while in the junior league, tho Waynesville boys won over Hazel wood 8 to 0. In a return game, the score was 13 to 14 in favor of Waynesville. Mr. Tenney said that ping pong tables, and shuffle boards were be ing completed for early erection in the armory. In his report to the council last Friday night, he said increased interest was being shown in every phase of the recre ational program in the community. The recreational survey is still underway, and all persons who have not returned their cards are asked to do so at once. A result of the survey will be published next week. Haywood Leads In School Lunch Rooms SGT CARL A ALFREDSON, left standing, is shown telling employees of Dayton Rubber Com nanv sonie of his experiences in 30 missions over enemy territory in the European area He also said he hid Tsn Dayton products in use, and praised the people w ho helped make them The entire plant closed for an hour to hear Sgt. Alfredson. He was accompanied by Lt. W. V. McMullen shown on the rieht before the mike. Seated left to right are: Herbert Buchanan, general foreman of the ponton de partment, and Charles Furtado, resident inspector, for the AAF, and who brought the speakers to the Dayton plant, and N. J. Tucker, personnel manager. Haywood county school lunch rooms made an outstanding record in the state last year, and prospects at present indicate that the opera tion of the school lunch rooms in the school term of 1944-45 will be equally successful. Haywood county was the only county in the state to have a coun ty lunch room supervisor under the program following the WPA re gime. Mrs. Rufus Siler. who was supervisor of the WPA program was retained in that capacity under the new program. During the past year there were 75.679 hot lunches served the chil dren of Haywood county, which does not include the Canton schools that are operated under a sepa rate set-up. The lunches cost $2.34 per child per month, the Government set ting a minimum of $2.00 per child as necessary for a well balanced meal. The average number of meals served daily cost $2,617.46. Meals were served in the white schools at a cost of ten cents each and in the colored schools at five cents each. During the past year $1,988.36 was spent on equipment for the 21 school lunch rooms, while $362.80 was expended on repairs. There have been from 49 to 54 persons employed in maintaining the lunch rooms. Through the State Board of Edu cation the Federal Government al lows a nine cents per meal allocs- j tion of funds. This has been sup plemented by the State Department of Agriculture marketing specia lists in the movement seasonal surplus which has greatly aided in the serving of balanced meals. According to George Ross, mar keting specialist in charge of the Agriculture department's contribu tion to the program the farmers of the state can render a great ser vice to themselves, their children and to the farmers in other states hy encouraging the schools in their districts to cooperate in the lunch room program. "There is no reason now why rural children should not have warm, well balanced meals," says Mr. Ross, who also added. "That thousands of boys and girls living in rural areas of North Carolina must eat breakfast around seven o'clock five days of the week in order to catch the school bus. Many of them do not have an opportunity to eat a warm meal again until 11 or 12 hours later." Many of the school children of Haywood county start their school day earlier than 7 o'clock and do not get home until the late after noon. The health of the schooF children in Haywod has greatly improved since the hot lunches were started seven years ago. In the schools where the teachers are interested and cooperate, each child that needs a hot lunch is given one. If the child cannot (Continued on page 6) i; ,