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' - 15 ,r,s t " 9utdoi4 PM1NX1-SG LOUISVILL y 49,500 People Live within 20 miles of Wtnwvffle their Ideal hopping center. , ublished The W SVILLE MOUNTAINEER Vice-a-weeK f . i fery xuesaay nd Friday Published Twice-a-Week In The County Seat Of Haywood County At The Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park NO. 9 KPages Associated Press News WAYNES VILLE, N. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1947 $3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties imn m M AYNE t f-SECOND YEAR m hi ft i iri f : Leaders Map Plans Gel Haywood Hospital uded In State Funds Is, Industries 5c Presented hosals For slation Id county's civic club rop es laid plans to fight lor o get the needed cnlargc- Jic Haywood County Hos- uded in the state-wide id program and give the komniissioncrs more frec- piancing the hospital's ex- id maintenance at a mect- ay night in the supcrin- education's office at the sc. Jeeoniincndations to be put ' next meetings of the ubs and industrial tax the county in petition lask Haywood s state legis sponsor a state-wide bill By hospitals and health "necessity"; which would kty commissioners author- be bonds for hospital con work and levy taxes for Eiaintcnance without a spe on within the counties. the bill outlined above pass, to have local legis- tonsored to increase the 3 cents taxation rate for support to a sufficient o take care of the insti ixpenses, since the present lisufficient. ft the state-wide program, esented the General VVa? Mte StateWeolctirCare Ion, be supported . in all but the costly plans to caching hospital and ex- ficdical school at Chapel cy for the medical school allotted to other phases ogram, and laws enacted ood county to participate. oposal to build a medical Chapel Hill, which would a large portion of the p federal money assigned lal improvement in North was attacked bitterly at ing Monday night. t. Reeves, representing the iud, described it as unnec- fce vacancies exist in hp iversity and Wake Forest nd a large portion of the there are from other Several other doctors and faUendine the mpptimr . latives of the Haywood JMedical Society and the ions club, also voiced on- Jtinued on Page Two) js Named bt For lys Line fire and Battprv rnmn. n named dealers for the he of jeeps, station wagons, ""ens and the standard six-cylinder automobile, due in Anril. Sims, owner of tho tirm d yesterday that a Un f lid a station . bSW11 WC1C Py at the rnmnanv1 Main street. interest has been shown in ay, and kpvapqi t, - . DBito nave Peen made J'Hys automobile, due in 1 be of sUndard size, com- 0 otJher six-cylinder cars, 1 said. ather Report Phed The M,,. u.. Weather Bureau); fay. Jan. 30 rin,.., and thunder storms today. li's afternoon. r'ndy, and colder with oc powers. Lowest tempera gnt near frinn Jan. ai ti ' ef. clcarins In fh- . frlandco,der Friday night LIyne?vie mpera- Test Farm): of Max. 63 66 .67 Mln. ,25 26 39 Swiss Area Bishop Will Speak Here Wednesday Bishop Paul Garber, Native Tar Heel, To Give Address At Methodist Church Bishop Paul Garber, resident bishop uf the Methodist church for the Geneva, Switzerland area, will speak Wednesday night, Feb. 5, at me first Mqtliotiist church at a district rally. Persons of all faiths are extend ed a cordial invitation to hear Bishop Garber by Rev. Paul Town send, pastor of the host church. "The bishop has been in Europe for two years," he remarks, "work ing daily among (he Christian peo pie of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bel gium and other war-ravaged areas. He has a great story to tell of how the people of Middle Europe are turning to the Christian faith, and his story of suffering there will touch the heart of every one." A native of North Carolina and former member of the Western Carolina conference. Bishop Gar ber is making an extensive speak ing 1vy$.pt the south, after wlijch be will return to Europe. During the corning week, he will stay with Dr. Elmer Clark at Lake Junalus- ka. Damage Of Main Street Blaze Nears $100,000 Mark UmiHire More, Wie Suffer Heavy Damages In 3 -Hour Fire Tuesday Today Is Deadline For '46 Auto Tags Today is January 31st. This is the last day to use a 1940 automobile license in North Car olina without being subject to a fine. Get your new tag and have it displayed properly before mid night. If you live in Wayncsville, get your city tag as well. No Extension On Tax Listing Given No extension of time will be given for listing taxes, it was learned yesterday from officials at the court house. Today is the last day to list for 1946 taxes, without being subject to a pen alty, the official pointed. A large percentage oi proper ty owners have already listed their property, it was said. GAS BURNS NO DAMAGE A bucket of gasoline turned over in Ben Noland's Garage, at Hazel wood, Thursday night about seven o'clock. The Fire Department an swered the call. No damage was done by the blaze. t - - v ! lf- ffri iiiiniiiiiLiLiiiiiiuiimT?rfitiiU "v " . a. "- This photograph was made shortly after the fire was dicovered in the basement of Garrett Furniture Store on Main street Tuesday afternoon. The white gaseous smoke pouring from the right of the store is where the disastrous blaze is believed to have started. Firemen fought the blaze for three hours before bringing it under control. Smoke almost as dense was pouring front the back of the building at the time this picture was made. TM heat from the fire was just as intense as the 6moke was dense. To make this picture the photographer stood on the marker on the court bouse lawn. (This is a Mountaineer photo by Ingram, Sky land Studio). t i , (Other Fire Pictures on Page 8 and Page 1 of Second Section) . . T. 1 , : , , , ..... . p gg. f College - y To he Hotel For Summer Term Here Health Dept. Of District Meets Here Wednesday Group Recommends Report Providing For Further V. D. Controls The annual meeting of the board of the District Health department composed of Haywood, Transylva nia, Macon, Jackson and Swain counties and the Cherokee reserva tion area, which Is served by the district through the Indian agency, was held here Wednesday in the offices of the health department in the courthouse with George A. Brown Jr. chairman of the group, presiding. The board endorsed a resolution (Continued on Page Eight) Reece Named President Of Chamber Of Commerce V I -? i I i ' " f i i I liiiiT m mm IjlfSw J C. J. REECE C. J. Recce was named president of the Chamber of Commerce by the new board of directors here Tuesday night. Mr. Reetfe succeeds L. E. Sims as head of the organi zation. M. D. Watkins was named as one of the vice presidents, and Richard Barber the other vice president. James Kilpatrick was named treas urer, succeeding William Medford, and Miss S. A. Jones was re-elected secretary. The new board discussed plans for the coming year, and heard re ports from the committee that will go to Washington next Week for the Park hearing before Secretary of Interior Krug, a meeting ar ranged by Representative Monroe Redden.' The new board was elected two weeks ago. ...... Waynesville Hotel To Serve As Girls Dormitory During Summer School The Waynesville Hotel will be leased to Florida Southern College as a dormitory to be used during a five-weeks summer school here, .starting June 2nd. Mrs. Grady Boyd, who manages the Main street hotel under an agreement with the administrators of the Woolsey estate, reports that only "a few minor details" remain in the way of sub-lelling the hotel to the college. E. R. Riedel. dean of men at the Lakeland, Fla. college, was in Wayncsville three weeks ago mak ing arrangements for the school to begin a summer session here. He was offered the use of Waynes ville Township High school class room facilities, and before leav ing said that housing space for non-resident girl students was tho only thing standing in the way of starting the school. A letter was received, written January 23 by Dean Riedel to Supt. Jack Messer, stating that "It seems everything will work out all right for the summer school in Waynesville," and quoting tuition, board and room rates. He also ask ed that Supt. Messer find out how many teachers in the Haywood and Canton school districts would en roll in the summer school, and the courses they would want to take. When here earlier this month, Dean Dicdcl talked to Mrs. Boyd regarding use of the Waynesville Hotel as a dormitory. Mrs. Boyd since that lime has discussed it with the hotel owner's attorney, William Medford, and the lease between her and Florida Southern College is expected to be signed within a short time. The college plans to use its own staff to manage the hotel, and in crease the bed capacity to hold ap proximately 75 persons. The college also desires another rooming house for use as a boys' dormitory, but this was not con sidered a necessity since it is pos sible to let them room privately. Enrollment for the summer term was estimated by Dean Riedel, who will be in charge here, to include aobut 125 regular Florida South ern students the majority of them girls, and approximately 100 day students from this area. Last Rites For Horace Sentelle Held Today Was Formerly Connected With Waynesville Courier, Local Newspaper Funeral services will be conuct ed this afternoon at the Clyde Bap tist church at 3 o'clock for Horace N. Sentelle, 73, who died at his home in Clyde after a long illness. Rev. R. A. Kelly will officiate and burial will be in Pleasant Hill cemetery at Clyde. Active pallbearers will be Dr. F. M. Davis, Joe Hargrove, Way Kinsland, Gudger Bryson, Hugh Leatherwood, T. H. Haynes, Ray Cashion and Joyce Warren. Members of the Masonic Lodges of Waynesville, Clyde, Canton and Bethel will conduct the graveside rites. The body will remain at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Sam Robinson, Academy street, Canton, until the hour of the funeral. For a number of years Mr. Sen telle was active in public affairs of Haywood county and was chair man of the county Republican ex ecutive committee. In his early manhood he served as postmaster at Clyde and then entered the newspaper field. His first paper was a weekly published at Clyde and he later was asso ciated with the Waynesville Cour ier, now The Waynesville Moun taineer. He also published the Vindicator-Observer at Canton. He was at one time business manager (Continued on Page Eight) Town Police Arrests Decline In January Fourteen arrests have been made byv local police since January 20, raising the total figure for the first 30 days of this month to 36 arrests as compared to 70 during the month of December. Eight persons were released on paying court costs when found guilty of public drunkenness, and two were given a suspended sen tence, to be lifted upon payment of costs. Three others, on the same charge, and one charged with speeding, are to be tried Monday. School Aid Bill Backed By Haywood Legislator Senator Medford Helps Sponsor Grants-In-Aid For School Construction Senator William Medford of Haywood was among tue sponsors of the bill sent to both the House and Senate in Raleigh this week to provide grants-in-aid by the state for help in construction school buildings. Representative Dan Tom kins of Jackson and Senator Bax ter C. Jones of Swain are other legislators f.oi.' the western part of the state sponsoring the meas ure. The bill would establish a fund of $10,000,000 for aid to poorer (Continued on Page Eight) Losses In Tuesday's Blaze (These arc conservative estimates, gathered by The Moun taineer alter consulting with contractors, owners, suppliers, and officials). Garrett's Stock $60,000.00 Garrett's Building 25,000.00 Burnelle's Cafe (Stock-Fixtures)- 3,500.00 Noland Building (Cafe Building) 3,500.00 Jones' Furniture (Apartment) 60.00 Briggs' Furniture (Apartment) - 400.00 TOTAL LOSS ' - $92,460.00 Smoke began boiling from the basement of Garrett's Furni ture Store early Tuesday afternoon to signal the beginning of. a fire that gutted two floors of the store and ate into the Burnette's Cafe next door for over $92,000 worth of destruc tion in one1 of the most costly blazes to ever hit the Waynesville business district. Work Starts On Repairs In Burned Cafe Here Damage At Burnette's Cafe Is Estimated At Approximately $7,500 Workers began yesterday morn ing cleaning out the debris in Bur nette's Cafe, preparatory to reno vating the building, which was bad ly damaged in Tuesday's blaze. Kstimales were that the building, which is owned by D. Reeves Noland, was damaged $3,500 or more. A like estimate was placed on stocks and fixtures of the cafe. The cafe is owned by Mr. and Mrs. II. W. Burncttc. Tentative plans are to have the building renovated so the cafe can re-open in ten days or two weeks, provided no difficulty is experi enced in gelling sufficient mate rials. Tiie eiil ire ceiling of the cafe, walls and all windows, both front and back, will have to be replaced. The smoke was first discovered in the cafe, and clue to the heavy duty suction fan in operation, Mr. No land said he felt this had a tend ency to pull the smoke from the Garrett building. The fan was shut off soon after the fire was discovered. Fire ate through a connecting wall into the cafe and burned to the ceiling of the first floor. "In four minutes more the blaze would have been into the second story and out on the roof," Mr. Noland sur mised. The lire burned the switch boxes of the Noland building, and elec tricians were busy yesterday in stalling new units. Some employees of the cafe were (Continued on Page Eight) Valiant efforts on the part ot Waynesville, Canton, Asheville, and scores of volunteers, kept the fire from doing further damage. Tor rents of water were poured on it in a three-hour-long battle, through windows, the rear door, and dur ing the last stages by breaking openings into the main furniture store floor to spray the basement storage room where the fire started. Biggest loss was the two crowded floors of furniture, much of it still crated in the basement, although a large portion was found to be salvagablfi and some only damaged,, ,wUr when tb M"w of workeiw started clearing out the wreckage Wednesday morning. Noble W. Gar rett, owner of the furniture store, started carpenters to tearing down and rebuilding the damaged portion of the store, with the stock to he moved elsewhere and sold. The fire started in a storage room at the front left part of the basement, of unknown origin. Ac cording to the management, second hand stoves were stored there, which would contribute little In spontaneous combustion. The fur nace room is on the opposite side of the basement. Smoke was first noticed by Mrs. Hub Burnettc fn the restaurant next door. She went to their base ment and saw smoke coining through the walls separating the buildings, ran upstairs and sent one of the waitresses to warn Garretts. They soon located the smoke, anil called the fire department about 1:15 p. m. Chief Clem Fitzgerald brought (Continued on Page Eight) Criminal Court To Open Monday With 122 Cases A heavy docket is scheduled for the February term of Haywood county Superior court which will convene here on Monday morning, February 3. with Judge William H. Bobbitt of Charlotte, presiding, ft will be the first court in Haywood in which the newly elected solici tor, Dan K. Moore, of Sylva, has appeared in his official capacity. Solicitor Moore told The Moun taineer yesterday that he expected the greater part of the first day to be taken in naming a grand jury, and the charge by Judge Bobbitt to the grand jury which will serve for a year. There are 97 cases carried over on the docket and twenty-five new ones, according to the docket. The new cases coming up for trial the first time include: The State versus Lawrence D. Brooks, charged with reckless driv (Continued on Page Eight) L iiiiimintiiiiHiiHiitnl tto& SOLICITOR DAN MOORE 700 Gallons Water Per Second Used On Fire Tuesday One of the visiting firemen estimated that at the peak of the fire fighting Tuesday 70i gallons of water was beins? used per second, or 42,000 gal lons a minute. Normal pressure on the hy drants being used is 85 pounds, when run through the tire truck pump, this was increas ed to nearly 200 pounds. Any person who worried about using up all the water in the reservoir may forget i One of the town workmen went up to the storage tank during the fire and opened the inlet valve to keep it full. When the fire was over the reservoir was running over. Highway Record For 1947 In Hay wood (To Date) Killed - -Injured - 61 Vehicles Checked 692 (This Information Compiled From Records of State High way Patrol)