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THE MOUNTAINEER
Published By
THE WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO
Main Street Phone 137
Waynesville, North Carolina
The County Seat of Haywood County
W. CURTIS RUSS Editor
MRS. HILDA WAY GWYN Associate Kditor
W. Curtis Russ and Marion T. Bridges, Publishers
PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY
Those "Yankees"
Is North Carolina in "the South"? Most
people have the notion that it is, and the
map bears them out. But it all depends upon
the point of view. The North in North Caro
lina really means something to the inhabi
tants of regions farther south. There is a
story about a Florida citizen who remarked:
"Kvery year we're having more and more of
those Virginia and North Carolina Yankees
coming down here." Chapel Hill (N. C.)
Weekly.
Which Road Do We Take?
Beginning May 16, 1946
HAYWOOD COUNTY AND SERVICE MEN
One Year $3.00
Six Months 175
NORTH CAROLINA
One Year $4.00
Six Months 2.25
OUTSIDE
One Year $4.50
Six Months 2.50
Entered at the post offi.e nt Wiiyneyville, N C, as Secoiul
Class Mail Mutter, as j.nnhled un.ler the Ait uf Murth '1, 1n7I,
Novembw 20, 1U.
Obituary notices, resolutions of respeit, (nj-d uf thyntts. a'ltl
all notices of entertainment fur profit, will be rhurge1 for at the
rate of one and a hall cents per worti.
NATIONAL CDITORIAI
SSOCIATION
'Mitl Coroiin
Waynesville Paper Steps
Ahead
Last week The Waynesville Mountaineer,
heretofore one of the best weekly newspapers
in the State, went semi-weekly, and is already
setting an example in its new field that will
make other twice-a-week papers hustle to
keep pace. Such a paper and such enterprise
reflects in no uncertain manner the spirit
of Waynesville and the progress the town is
making. The Mountaineer is not only keep
ing step with Waynesville but is out in front
helping in its march forward.
To Co-Publishers Russ and Bridges and
their helpers The News-Herald extends con
gratulations on the changes and best wishes
for their continued success. The News
Herald, Morgan ton.
Cooperation
TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1946
Congratulations
The Mountaineer, our neighbor newspaper
at Waynesville, this week is beginning publi
cation of a semi-weekly paper instead of
weekly.
The publishers, W. Curtis Russ and Marion
TV -Fridges, who have taken progressive lead
ership in the weekly field of newspapering in
this section and in the state, announce that
they are adding some new features, and will
maintain for the twice-a-week papers the
same high standard that have characterized
the weekly issues.
The Scout rejoices with The Mountaineer
that its field of service has grown to such an
extent that the additional issue weekly is
possible and feasible. We wish for the paper
continued growth and success' through the
years. The Cherokee Scout.
Our Crowded Schools
Ever so often public services that are func
tioning get behind, either with necessary
equipment or personnel. They outgrow
themselves, so to speak. Today here in Hay
wood county our schools as we are told they
are elsewhere in the state, are in need of
assistance. They are over-crowded and the
teaching personnel has dropped off in alarm
ing numbers.
There has been a surprising number of
resignations and only eight of these have
been filled to date, it was learned this week.
During the war years when teachers left
the profession for war jobs and to enter the
armed forces it was not surprising that there
was a big drop in teaching personnel. Now
that the war is over and many of the war jobs
are closed and most of the men are dis
charged, the need for teachers is still acute,
according to Jack Messer, county superin
tendent of eduaction.
The question of supplying the schools with
qualified teachers is a serious problem which
is being faced here and in the other sections
of the state. A teacher invests quite a sum
of money in preparation for meeting the
standards required. Parents would not have
this standard lowered, yet the teachers do not
receive salaries comparable to other fields
which in many instances do not require half
the money for training.
The citizens of this state will have to make
changes in the salary scale of teachers if they
expect the schools to maintain the standard
they want, for unless the salaries are more
lucrative, competent teachers will continue
to leave the profession for other fields. This
will be one major piece of legislation that
the coming1 state assembly will have to solve.
With the addition of the 12th grade to the
high schools there is a great need for build
ing1 expansion to take care of this extra
grade. In the Waynesville Township high
school. there will be around 250 new students
entering the junior high next fall. It ig an
unusually large group and will require more
classr room space. It must be remembered,
that this year only five graduates left the
school, rfo the addition of 245 more students
to the. already crowded conditions, it is a
problem, and a serious one.
Adollar bill now lasts seven months, says
the TJniterStates Treasury. Wonder if they
didn't mean seven minutes 7
In the anual campaign for a clean-up drive
sponsored by the board of aldermen of
Waynesville and Hazel wood, the public is
urged to make special efforts this year by the
officials to see that their premises are cleaned
of every possible suggestion of rubbish.
While the trucks run each week on routine
trips collecting trash, they are on extra call
this week, and there will be no plausible ex
cuse for anyone failing to get all debris
hauled off from their places during the period
designated.
As the officials point out this is the opening
up of a new season, the first since the war,
and they are making an appeal to have every
piece of property in this area as clean and
presentable as can be made by the owners.
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P -i ' GO RIGHT 5fC;
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V ' CLEAN-UP , A KSS
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VOICE
OF THE
PEOPLE
Due to the fact that the State
Highway Commission has been able
to contract only 200 miles, or an
average of 2 miles per county of
seconoary rouun, uo you mum mi
i major constructions should be tem
' porarily held up until more secon
dary roads are improved?
II. II. Holt "1 would be in favor
J nl coiireiilration on the L'onstiuc-
l tun ol secondary roads to u certain
iiiiint just at present."
Mrs. I). I). Alley "In as much as
major projects on the highways are
underway, 1 would suggest that the
citizens of North Carolina get busy
and contact their prospective rep
resentatives and begin now on a
program to see that improvements
will be made on the secondary
roads through the necessary legis-
d ion. '
I'.ol) Ferguson "I am in favor of
Letter v," i f 1 1 roads, for the farmers
h..w to net to the markets with
their foods, which are necessary."
Joe Davis "I think contracts for
new roads and repair work on the
main highways is not essential right
now. for they arc passable, but we
have impassable secondary roads,
and these farm to market roads
nean much to the people, so feel
hat the major highways should
wait lor improvements until the
secondary loads are put into better'
hapo."
ALONG BR
By
Walter Winchi
IN OUR TOWN:
Sallies in Our Alley: Rogers
Stearns (the 1-2-3 host) says he
didn't go to the Derby this year
just mailed 'em his shirt. . . . Oz
Nelson's nifty sum-up: "There are
two kinds of people in H'wood the
stand-ins and the stand-outs." . . .
Jerry Lester thinks the guy who
dug up Mussolini's body and took
only his leg musta been his agent.
going
for
and
u r;"' hei-k u
-s uf Hitil,
camps.
Mid tow n Vignette: It happened
the other afternoon in a Radio City
elevator. ... A prim looking wo
man was teddibly embarrassed
when her garter slipped from her
nylon. . . . The elevator operator,
noting her predicament, stopped
the car and doused the lights until
she made the adjustment.
LETTERS TO EDITOR
. A Bad Job
A doctor tens us that lumbago means that
the blood is poor. Or that the lawn needs
mowing.
We heard a great deal of talk during the
war years of post war plans. The period of
reconversion was discussed almost as much
as the progress of the war. All groups, as
well as individuals seemed to be ingrossed In
post-war plans.
We heard such talk of the mistakes made
following the First World War. We were
preparing ourselves to see that history did
not repeat itself. Instead today we offer not
only to ourselves but to the world a bungled
job of coming from under a war. How can
the other nations of the world look to us for
leadership if we cannot manage our own af
fairs any better than we have done so far?
Perhaps in our effort to improve ourselves
and make this a better country in which to
live, we have forgotten that after all work
is the panacea for most troubles. There have
been too many people who have simply folded
their hands and cried for more, expecting to
have the world dumped in their laps without
honestly earning it.
We seemeed to have forgotten that only in
economic progress made by greater increased
production will we have what we are looking
for and this means work. Only in greater
output from our factories can be found higher
wages in those and other fields. We won't
reach the goal by merely sitting down and
crying for more.
An individual may have the right to quit
work, but does a large group which affects
a nation have the right to stop and obstruct
the business of other groups, is a question
in the minds of most people. It seems to us
that the right to damage the public as a
whole is forfeited when the influence is so
nation wide.
There is something akin to a "rebellion"
in a strike, that is not wholesome. We come
back to the start, nobody will reach a goal of
greater reward, if we continue to fight over
what we hope to have.
It is time the pressure of organized groups
let up and started back to work. To give
the business of the country time to reconvert
back to civilian production and let the greater
economic era we have heard was coming get
under way, before we start scrapping over
the gains, would to our mind be the solution
It looks like the "cart has been put before the
horse."
Every strike delays the realization of our
peacetime prosperity. Is there not some
where in America a hand strong: enough to
lead us out of this chaotic condition ?
Maybe we have the wrong answer, but ours
would be for every man in America to start
to work tomorrow and we feel that in six
months with production meeting the demands
of the public needs and desires, there would
: begin to come through some light of hope.
T J.1 1 " m i 1
i. in outer woras tne answer is jsacic to wotk
j for everybody.
Kditor The Mountaineer:
All of us at The Tinfes were
pleased this week to receive the
first issue of The Mountaineer as
a semi-weekly and to see that you
are off to such a commendable
start, maintaining the former high
standards of Haywood County's
newspaper.
We understand just what you
mean when stating in your edi
torial, "A New Day," that the first
issue represents a dream come true
for the owners of this paper. Since
entering the semi-weekly field our
selves two months ago we have
learned that we can belter serve
both our advertisers and our sub
scribers, and that the work is more
interesting for us and the readers
are more interested in our work.
We extend our congratulations to
you in taking this forward step.
Sincerely,
THE CLEVELAND TIMES
Will Arey, Jr.
LET THE INDIANS VOTE
Editor The Mountaineer:
In The Mountaineer, last week,
the question, "Do vou think the
Cherokee Indians should he alloiv-
d to register and vote," was asked
six citizens of Waynesville. In the
answers were three positive yeses,
one positive no. and two its. The
majority yeses of Dr. Sam String
field, Col. J. Harden Howell, and
Mr. M. G. Stamey, struck a re
sponsive chord in my heart I was
glad that such representative men
of Waynesville were friends of the
Cherokees and wanbed them to
vote.
Perhaps I should remain silent
and steer around problems that are
no immediate concern of mine, but
I know that what affects one people
ultimately affects us all. Besides
I was named Chewani by my In
dian Preacher friend, the Rev. Sib
bald Smith, great, great grandson
of Chief Yonaguski, the Cherokee's
last chief, the others following him
being elected leaders with more or
less white blood in their veins. I
am a friend of '.he Cherokees and
proud of it. The following may
explain why.
Not long ago I had to make a
bus trip to Asheville. On the re
turn trip, I sat in front of a Chero
kee couple. I found them very
good company and talked with
them most of the way to Atlanta.
The man had been a scout in the
first World War. When the Ameri
can command wanted an order to
go through to the front lines with
out the enemy knowing what was
said and even though tf? enemy
may have tapped the communica
tion lines, it was a simple matter
to use two Cherokees, who talked
the Cherokee language, and my
new found friend did. "If the ene
my had tapped tne lines, tney
couldn't understand our kind of
talk," laughed my Cherokee ac
quaintance. And, he continued, "
Our country ought to keep the lan
guage a secret and for our own
use in case of another war." He
objected vigorously to people com
ing to the reservation from other
countries trying to learn the lan
guage. Waldo Swaygum, Hazelwood, a
veteran of this last World War told
me that had it not been for a Cher
okee Indian scout, whom the boys
called "Chief," crawling through
the enemy lines at night and re
turning in the morning with chick
ens and other food, he doubted if
some of them would have survived.
It seems that Waldo and' a small
number of soldiers were cut off
from the others and their position
was pretty desperate until they
were spotted by an airplane from
which food was dropped to them:
"Our men tried to crawl through,
the enemy lines and got close
enough to hear them talking: but
would return empty-handed in the
morning. They couldn't make it.
But the Chief would disappear
about dark and long about day
break come in with a chicken or
something to eat. The Chief would
always get through. He saved our
lives," said Waldo, with a great
deal of gratitude and feeling in
his voice.
W. T. Crawford said in his an
swer to the question asked him
that the Cherokees should not be
allowed to register and vote be
cause, "They are not taxpayers mid
they would have the privilege of
voting obligations on people who
do pay taxes while they would
escape." I do not believe this is the
real reason he would deprive the
Cherokee from, voting. Doesn't the
Cherokee hold the balance of pow
er in Swain and Jackson counties,
Mr. Crawford? And whose fault is
it that the Cherokees do not pay
taxes; they were the abordigines
living in those everlasting hills and
mountains of the Blue Ridge and
Appalachians before the white man
ever set foot on this continent.
Justice and humanity would give
them at least a few acres of the
land that once comprised their
mighty nation as did the former
Chief Justice Marshall when lie
handed down his decision in regard
to the Cherokee's ancestral lands.
The Supreme Court guaranteed the
('has. II. Metcalf "I would ap
prove of the improvements on the
main highways first for on them is
the greatest travel."
Dick Bradley "I am in favor
of fixing the hack roads for much
of the business that comes to the
main highways is drawn from the
farm to market roads."
NOTICE OF SALE
NORTH CAROLINA.
HAYWOOD COUNTY.
J. L. Walker,
vs.
E. H. Walker and wife, Thelma
Walker, Kenneth E. Walker and
wife, Verdeena Walker, Bobbie
Walker Bezzil and husband, Joseph
Bessil, Mrs. Arthur Walker, widow
of Arthur Walker, deceased, and
Walker, Minor by her Guar
dian Ad Litem. T. L. Green.
The undersigned, having been
ordered by the Clerk of the Super
ior Court of Haywood County. N
C. to re-sell said land as described
in said petition in said cause, the
said Commissioner as aforesaid,
will on Monday, the 24th day of
June, 1946 at 10 o'clock A. M., at
the Court House Door in the Tow n
of Waynesville, Haywood County.
N. C, offer for sale to the highest
bidder for cash, the following des
cribed tract of lands: Lying and
being in Haywood County. N. C,
Crabtree Township, and bounded as
follows:
Beginning in the center of the
public road in the line of Sonic
Walker and Eva Jones, and runs
with said line, South 34 degrees
East 72 links to a stump; thence
South 19 degrees 30 minutes East
one chain and 99 links to a dead
sourwood, corner of J. D. Towles
estate; thence with the line of said
esiaie aoum a degrees ZU min
utes East 6 chains and 64 links to
a stake, Towles' corner; thence
North 1 degree 30 minutes 3
chains and 30 links to a slake in
an old fence; thence North 15
degrees East 2 chains 93 links
to a stake in the center of a
small branch and in and old fence;
thence down the center of the
branch North 63 degrees 15 min
utes East 1 chain to a stake in the
center of said branch; thence North
30 degrees 25 minutes West 2
chains 58 links to the center of the
public road; thence up the center
of said" road 4 chains and 66 links
to the beginning. Containing 3.8
acres, more or less.
Said tract of land being known
as the Dr. Robert L. Walker Home
'place.
This the 3rd day of June, 1940.
GROVER C. DAVIS,
. . Commissioner.
1542 June 4-11-18.
Indians their land in solemn
treaty, but, as Mr. Crawford un
doubtedly knows, land - hungry
whites and Andrew Jackson were
determined to have their land even
if they had to defy the law of the
land to do it. Today history is
repeating itself in regard to the
Negro voting. That is another
story, though, and the Negro never
owned a foot of land until after the
War Between the States, while the
Cherokee Indian did, about 40,000
square miles at the time of the
White man's coming. By all rights
of priority the Cherokee should be
allowed to vote. '
From the very beginning, the
White man has misnamed, mis
understood and mistreated the Red
man. Columbus, thinking he had
reached the Indies, named the
scantily clad, copper-colored men,
with high check bones and straight
black hair, who came running down
to meet his ships "Indians" and
(Continued on Page 3)
Irving Berlin's farrtous song hit,
"Blue Skies," will be a click all
over again this year when it is re
vived in Parmount's film of the
same handle. Count Basie waxed
the first recording of it, due next
week. . . . Both Louis and Conn tell
listeners they expect to win by
kayos on the ground both are now
"older" than they were. . . The John
Ersklnes (Helen Worden) are study
ing Greek for their visit to Greece.
Erskine plans a book comparing
ancient Greece with today's ver
sion. . .. 20th Century-Fox bought
"Foxes of Harrow," the best seller,
for 150 Gs, outbidding Paramount
and several Independents. . . The
Rockefellers and the broadcasting
firms have been having a quiet feud
for years as to whether that part
of the city should be called Rocke
feller Center or Radio City.
Hotel rooms are so scarce for
any purpose that the hotelmen find
themselves the worst victims. .
Needing a hotel for their annual
convention they were unable to find
a single leading hotel in the U. S.
to accommodate them on the con
vention date except one. . . . That
hotel is in Biloxi, Mississippi, and
they can have it, because the season
will have been over and it's the
hottest time of the year down there
They took it!
Sounds in the Night: At the Sing
apore: "I hear Serge Rubenstein is
in such deep water that he's gonna
show up at his trial in a diving
suit." ... At Ciro's: She's so broke
she doesn't know where her next
heel is coming from." ... In the
Stork: "Get a look at that beauti
ful fiddle of a figure." ' ' ' At the
Village Corners: "She's decided not
to be 25 until she's married." . .
At Gilmore's: "Aw, stop talkin
through your halo!" ... At the Mer-
maid Room: "Marriage is the magic
wand tha. changes Puppy Love into
a dog's life." ... In the Cub Room:
"I got a novel idea for the radio.
A Mr. and Mistress program."
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publisher opined thaU
matters uf OPA and
line, was running thj
nind closed doors.
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uii ruiioi . wnat wort
way Congress runs
closed minds."
ADMlNISTRjTlti:
Having qualified i
trix of the estate of tl
es, deceased, late
County, North Carul
notify all persons 1
against the estate of
to exhibit them totlJ
at Clyde, North Card
fore the 4th day of
this notice will be d
of their recovery. J
debted to said estal
make immediate paf
This the 4th day J
MRS, H. C. HI
Administratrix of If
Hugh C. Haynts,
1541 -June 4-11-18-4
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Farmers and Dairymen
Is The 3rd
Annual Guernsey Promolional S
ON WEDNESDAY
'The Friendly
Bank"
This Bank has long recognize
importance of dairying in M
county, and the value of regisj
herds.
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more milk today than ever M
and in good times or bad,
be a demand for milk. Here m
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source for the development o4
dairy farms and herds.
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