North Carolina Newspapers

Zr s Fin St The Waynesville Mountaineer Published Twice-a-Week In The County Seat Of Haywood County At The Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park 49,500 People Live within 20 miles of Waynesville their Ideal shopping center. SECOND YEAR NO. 10 8 Pages Associated Press News WAYNESVILLE, N. C, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1947 $3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties blished e-a-Week f Tuesday Friday Is Are Renewed 'ocate Lost Plane ter, Three raft, unt Over 'his Week 0rt now is u. . to locate Me , Which with its crew been missing since a this area during the if Jan. 31. 1944. wnn ,uc Service ol the All . a large helicopter, ',-5 planes, and a C-47 .. fm- :, concentrated 'hout the Cataloochee creeks water sheds. i 1 IIli k will be uaseu i"w endersonville Airport, rinriiiL' the day Horn ,...lini field. Major T. ho has been in charge :h since last summer, n and a radio controll- ive coordination from Ion Tie Top mountain, loochce lianch. ,S .1. Magusick of the Service with six pilots hanics. assembled tnc Asheville-Hcnderson- inturday and Sunday, the Greenville Air began their first flights moky Mountain i'ai'K afternoon, taking ad- lood Hying weather. ,nliT .i aree Sikorskv iladcd rotor, if it lives lations in mountainous be the major asset ot :ill.iuniL detailed ob- this area In addition. fejor Ilieatt. the L-5's ipccflc areas to cover lid will stay here until search of the area is Is ago a ground crew s were here and trac- 'eral leads to the lost ible location, shifting lorthward across the Divide on information t?d. One of the group at appeared to be a nc near Paul's Gap a will be worked on this itarts In ng Co. Saturday Hire broke mil shnHlv iaturday in the dry tum 'ice Dry Cleaning com lli Boyd I'nrn it ure coni- EMiK 11 pieces of elolh- heing extinguished by the building and the f part men). imbler is a steam heal. derated by an engine. 'c exaei cause of the IO II. it is hptipvnrl In Started from friel inn nn Pf the tumbler tfiuishers were used by owner of the building, "icn to put the blaze became uiicontrol- ows Killed ck Sunday fcr SUCUS llf Rrvcnn f'M., f 46 Dodge pickup truck fcncsviiie along highway r 01 llve cows crossing F Finger's Store about Sunday night. were killnri hv th i Jlie truck received about e. ronnrte t( i Suggs was not injured. r'le Cat hey. memhnr ,,f the Greensboro Daily the week-end at rivHo Ntlier, Mrs Th.nH a per Report The Mountains.. K.. I '"im.V.1 UV Mther Bureau) Feb. 3 !, nd wanner today and tt'Pct i 40. "c lu" Feb. 4 ri..-j.. ..... . Pecoiiuno fr,M ! .... f turner aunng Tuesday fair and con- mnoh u.. . Waynes Vlllo 4 l - tempera- Ndcd by ta Min. Rainfall "? 56 .65 59 30 55 22 47 14 ir Rescue Service State Winner MISS THERESA ALLEY, senior at . Waynesville Township High school, won first prize alter going through all rounds of the state wide oratorical contest conducted by the Good Health association. Her essay appears on page 8 of this issue. Waynesville Girl Earns Good Health Scholarship Theresa Alley Emerges From Oratory Finals With Highest Honors Miss Theresa Alley was the win ner in the finalist contest sponsored by, the North Carolina Good Health Association, which was held last Thursday night in the state Capitol building in Raleigh. Miss Alley had won- in the school, county, district regional and semi-final contests, held prior to the last one in which a boy and girl from the east com peted with a boy and girl from the West. Competing with Miss Alley from the West was Harvey Adams of Farmer of Randolph county, and they had as their opponents, Dor othy Ray nor of Ahoskie and Alton Hill of Kinston, the latter winning in the boys group. The two lop winners were pre sented $500 scholarships by Gov ernor Cherry in behalf of the Good Health Association. The winners up were presented radio-phonograph combinations. Miss Alley is also competing In the state Pilgrimage contest spon sored by Hie Daughters of the Am erican Revolution. Her scrapbook has gone to the judges, but she has not as yet heard from their deci sion. She is representing the local township high school in the contest. Patrolmen Wage Drive On '4G Auto Tag Users Highway patrolmen are waging a drive against 194G license tags, and against lags not being proper ly displayed on motor vehicles. Over the week-end some 15 motor ists were stopped by the patrolmen in the county. Cpl. E. W. Jones said he 'felt that most of the vehicles had new tags, as the arrests had decreased Monday. I - Southern States Best WNC Vacation Visitors Western North Carolina's best vacation customers probably are residents of the states to the south, according to a survey recently made by the N. C. Travel Council and the State Division of Adver tising and News. Floridians predominate at resorts lying south of Route 70 and west of Asheville, and are especially prominent in late summer'and fall, according to the survey. Next to the Southern States, the Middlwest .notably Ohio, furnishes most visitors to the mountain re sorts. The survey, covering hotel registrations at 38 western resorts, as well as checks on travel in the Great Smokies National Park, Nan tahala and Pisgah Forests, and the Blue Ridge Parkway, indicated that visitors tended to slow down or stop at the areas nearest their en trance into the state. Lions Hear Explanation Of Social Security Act Many Retired Workers And Dependents Fail To Apply For Benefits "Not only workers covered by the Social Security law, but their de pendents as well are eligible for benefits," stated D. W. Lambert of the Asheville field office in an ad dress and discussion of little known phases of the federal program at the Lions club meeting last week Mr. Lambert emphasized that many persons do not know they are eligible for benefits, and stated that applications should be made to a field office. By a retired worker when he reaches age (15. By dependents of a worker upon the latter's death. All persons working for a living are not covered by Social Security, such as farmers, self-employed per sons, government and railway work ers, which he commented was "one of the weaknesses of the law." At tempts to revise it to include a (Continued on Page Eight) 19 18-Year-Olds Register In January The following boys, who have be come 18 years of age during the month of January have registered under the selective service draft with the local county boards, it was learned yesterday from the clerks. Those from the Canton area in clude J. B. Emerson, Canton, Rt. 1; Wade Weaver Rogers, Canton, Rt. 2; Charles Edward Ford, Canton; Russell Eugene Jones, Canton, Rt. 1; Kenneth Briscoe Saunders, Can ton; Grover Posey Parham, Canton; Gresham Mingus Heatherlee, Can ton, Rt. l; Robert-Glenn-Stroup, Canton, Rt. 1; Charles Farms n Wor ley, Canton, Rt. 1; and Herbert Ollie Bentley, Fiberville, Canton. Registering from the Waynesville area of the county were: William Brent Massie, Waynesville, Rt. 1; Lowery Lee Candler, Waynesville; Bennett Douglas Best, Clyde, Rt. 1; Max Ralston James, Clyde, Rt. 1; James Wesley Trammell, Waynes ville, Rt. 1; George Robert Gaddy, Waynesville; William Glenn Kings more, Waynesville; Charles Lewis Burnelte, Waynesville, Rt. 1; and George Wallace Brown, Waynes ville. Miss Harris Returns To Mission Field Miss Ruth L. Harris, who has spent the past 21 months in the United States following 17 months service with the Mission Board of the Northern Baptist church sails Friday, the 14th, to resume her former position as secretary-treasurer of Central College, at Iloilo, Luzon Island, in the Philippines. Miss Harris came to this country for recuperation following her lib eration from a Japanese prison camp In the Philippines, where she was held as a prisoner for three years. She has spent sometime with her sister, Dr. Mary Michal here, regaining her health. For the past several months she has held a position with the Central office of the Northern Baptist church Foreign Missions society in New York City. She will sail on the S. S. Marine Lynx, of the American President Lines from San Francisco, Calif. Southern states visitors were prominent along the southern, bor der, Middlewesterners were found west of Asheville, and Northern state visitors north of this area. Average length of stay seemed to range between one week and fifteen days; average expenditure per visitor was estimated at $10 plus. A similar study of the coastal resorts is planned by the two agencies. An addenda revealed that New York, Pennsylvania, North Caro lina, Massachusetts, Ohio, Wash ington, D. C, Virginia, in the order named, were the best customers of the mid-south winter resorts in the Sandhills. Average length of stay was 5.8 days; average expenditure ranged from an estimated $18 per (Continued on Page Eight) Allotment oi $66,489 Is Planned For County Soil Work During '47 Speaks Here BISHOP PAUL N. GARBER, of the Southern European charge, will report on the relief needs of the war-devastated areas at a district rally Wednesday evening at the First Methodist church. Methodist Bishop Will Tell Needs Of Europe Bishop Paul Garber To Speak At First Methodist Church Wednesday JKshop Paul,N, Garber, know n as "the most traveled man in Eur ope" and Methodist supervisor of the turbulent and diverse Geneva, Switzerland area, will speak at the First Methodist church Wednesday night. All Methodists in the Waynes ville district have been invited by the local pastor, Rev. Paul Town sand, to hear Bishop Garber. and persons of other denominations and faiths are urged to be present as well. During the past two years Bishop Garber has had the Geneva charge, which covers central and southern Europe and North Africa, embrac ing 11' countries: Czechoslovakia. Switzerland. Hungary, Poland, Yugoslavia. Bulgaria, Spain. Al geria, Tunisia, and the Madeira Islands. The bishop has studied the social and religious problems, visited I he principal centers of devastation and conferred with high govern ment dignitaries and army olfieials, as well as with religious leaders and the plain people. He was the first civilian to enter the infamous (Continued on Page Eight) State Test Farm Asking $45,000 For New Buildings A hearing will be held before the appropriations committer of the legislature on Thursday night, in an effort to get $45,000 included in the agriculture fund for new build ings at the State Test Farm here. Howard Clapp, general superin tendent, will be among those at tending the hearing and testifying as to the needs for the proposed expansion. The $45,000 is needed to com plete the plans for the Department of Agriculture as set forth in the original plans when the test farm was established here. . , '.:.. . . 1 Groundhog Advises That Winter Is Not Over In Annual Forecast "Don't put your overcoats away," Mr. A. P. Groundhog stated in an interview with The Mountaineer Sunday, "winter is not over." Since Mr. Groundhog's mid dle initial stands for Prognos ticator, we are not inclined to take his word lightly, especial ly when it concerns the weather. February 2nd is traditionally Groundhog day, when the furry weather prophet emerges from his winter hole to make his an nual forecast. Sunday morning , we waited patiently at his front door if you wish to call it ' AAA Committees Meeting This Week to Complete Plans For Year Haywood county has been al lotted $66,489 for the 1947 agricul tural conservation program, accord ing to an announcement by G. T. Scott of Raleigh, state director of the Production and Marketing ad ministration, received at the AAA office here Friday. This is the county's share of $6,416,000 allocated to North Caro lina for conservation work, as in cluded in the Department of Agri culture budget, and is subject to action by Congress. The county figures also will be revised March 15 on the basis of requests sent to the state office, which will of fer Haywood the chance to increase its allotment. Complete figures for the amount spent in the county last year are not yet available, remarks H. M. Dulin, secretary of the A. C. A., because a large number of per formance reports for 1946 have not yet been turned in. Payments to farmers on their conservation measures is figured on their yearly reports. Deadline for submitting 1946 re ports is February 15, and R. C. Francis, chairman of the county committee, urges that "extra effort be made to file performance re ports before this date." Farmers who received either lime or phos phate in place of cash payments are particularly asked to report their use of these materials im mediately. Meeting have been called this week at the AAA office for mem bers of each community committee to approve last year's reports, rec ommend new grower burley tobacco allotments for 1947, and to' receive instructions 6n filling out the 1947 farm plans. Approximately half of the new farm plans have been made already, and the county com mittee plans to concentrate on get ting all plans signed and returned to the office by February 15. Five meetings are to be held, each starting at 10 a. m. Monday the Beaverdam and Pigeon commit tees met, and today the Clyde, Crabtrec and East Fork groups will meet. Schedule for the remainder of the week is: Wednesday, Fines Creek, While Oak, and Cecil; (Continued on Page Eight) Motorcycle Crash Injures Two Men Saturday Morning William G. Dot son and Edward Gregory of Route 1, Clyde re ceived leg injuries when the motor cycle they were riding hit the fen der of a car ahead of them on the highway Saturday morning, and bounced off a four-foot embank ment. The accident occurred about 10:20 a. m. on the highway be tween Lake Junaluska and Waynes ville. Dolson, who was driving and Gregory, owner of the motor cycle, were going towards Waynes ville, and following the 1939 Plymouth driven by Thurman W. McCrackcn. The automobile slowed to stop near Connatser's service station, and Dotson cut the motorcycle to wards the middle of the road to avoid hitting it, reports O. R. Rob erts, investigating patrolman. The motorcycle, however, glanced the left rear fender of the car and went off the road. Both young men received a com pound fracture of the right leg, and were taken to the Haywood County hospital for treatment. that until finally he appeared, rubbing his eyes and stretch ing his forelegs after having been cramped up for such a long time. He was rather grumpy at first, muttering about being tired of all the newspaper pub licity. He looked around cau tiously before emerging from his home, then sighed and came forth. We mentioned the morning's sun, and the chilly wind accompanying it. "Just what I expected," he said, rath . er testily. Asked what his forecast was, (Continued on Page Eight) Sec'y Krug Meets WNC Delegation This Week Group From Haywood Will Join Discussion Of Park Improvements I At least seven persons from Hay wood county will attend the meet ing Friday in Washington between Secretary of the Interior Julius Krug and Tar Heel congressional delegates and civic leaders of the western part of the state to dis cuss plans for developing the North Carolina side of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. Four of the Waynesville dele gates, Charles Ray, Ed Sims, C. N. Allen and C. J. Recce, will leave here Wednesday. The others, J. E. Massie, W. Curtis Russ, Tom Alex ander, and either Jonathan Woody or J. H. Way, Jr., will join the spe cial train leaving Asheville at 4:00 p.m. Thursday afternoon. Asheville, BrevaVd, Henderson ville, Bryson City, Sylva, Andrews, Franklin, Robbinsville, Murphy, and possibly Canton will be repre sented by approximately 40 persons attending from this area. William Medford, state senator from Haywood, and other W.N.C. members of the assembly, will at tend the meeting from Raleigh. The meeting was arranged early in January by Rep. Monroe Redden, who has been assured the support of the entire North Carolina con gressional body in presenting their plans to the interior secretary. Development of the Tennessee side of the Park has been more in tense than that of this side. Al though North Carolina has not been discriminated against, Rep. Red den has commented, it docs appear that development here has been neglected. A comprehensive list of projects for improvement of the park have been written In a report, compiled by Mr. Ray and other community leaders ' In the "W.K .C-. Associated Communities, to be the basis for discussion at the meeting. The Interior Department will have the discretion of including which of these projects: road im provements, picnic grounds, rest stations, etc. it favors in its de partmental budget. If the budget is approved by Congress, funds would be authorized to carry out the outlined work. Others who desire to go are urg ed to join the group, and are ask ed to get in touch with Miss S. A. Jones at the Chamber of Com merce office to get a train reserva tion. The group will return Fri day night, so no hotel reservation will be necessary. Pigeon District Scouts To Observe 27th Anniversary Boy Scouts in the Pigeon River District will celebrate scout lug's 27th birthday anniversary in Amer ica Sunday. February 9. at the Champion YMCA In Canton, start ing at 3 p. m. C. C. Poindexter, co-vice chair man of the district, announces that a program featuring the theme of National Boy Scout Week (Feb. 7-13) will be presented, and an of fering taken to help re-establish scouting in countries devastated by World War II. Members of all boy scout and cub scout troops in the district arc urged to be present. Committee men, pastors and friends of the or ganization also are asked to at tend. Test Farm Is One Of Best Despite shortages of materials and labor, the new Mountain Test Farm at Waynesville is now one of the best equipped experiment sta tions in the South, according to H. R. Clapp, assistant director in charge of operations at this sta tion. Clapp reports that the farm has completed two burley tobacco barns, one of which is equipped with blower equipment for forced air ventilation for use in curing tobacco and for drying hay. An "ordering pit" and classing room are also attached to one of the barns. He says the Mountain Experi ment Station now has a fully equip ped tobacco barn especially equip ped for curing Turkish tobacco grown for experimental purposes in the Waynesville section. For poultry projects the station Judge Denies Motion To Set Aside Jury Drawn For Feb. Court Foreman J. EARL FEUGLSON was nam ed foreman of the grand jury which was selected yesterday. The jury will serve for a year. Mr. Ferguson was tax collector of Haywood for six years, from 1940 to 1946. Rev. Townsend USNR Ordered On Cruise Rev. Paul Townsend, U. S. Naval Reserve, pastor of the First Metho dist church, has been ordered, by the Navy Department to report to Charleston, S. C. on Saturday, the 8th, where he will be assigned to duty on a training cruise. Rev. Townsend, who holds the rank of Commander, will serve aboard the V. S. Little Rock, Cruiser, as a chaplain for a two weeks period Rev. Townsend, who has served the local church as pastor for the past 13 months is a veteran of World War II, having been on duty in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters with more than four years of service to his credit. At the time he volunteered in the navy he was pastor of Main Street Methodist church, of Belmont. One-Filth ol Cars Checked By SHP Have Bad Lights AImiiiI Kin motor vehicles were cheeked during two light stations held l Highway Pat rolmen in ('anion recently. Of the 4(10 cars checked, about HO had defective lilils. and were sent lo garigcs to have the systems roaircil. "We plan similar stations in Waynesville soon,'' Cpl. E. W. Jones told The Mountaineer yesterday, -The ratio of one out of even lii c is entirely loo high." lie said. The si a! inn was conducted by Cpl. Jones. Patrolman O. It. Roberts, and Patrolman F. It. Harper, who will be here un til the I ,i!h, and is expected to be transferred to Andrews Becoming In South has built one brooder house, a lay ing house, lour pens and feed stor age quarters, a breeding house with eight pens, another house with egg storage, an incubator room, chick starter room, office and stor age rooms, and six range shelters. Probably the most beautiful building on the farm, according to Clapp, is the dairy barn and milk ljousc. Constructed of terra cotta tile, the barn has a capacity of 40 cows. In addition, there is a calf barn equipped with 12 individual stalls. Dwelling houses have been con structed for the farm's poultryman, dairyman, horticulturist, and farm laborers. In addition, the following build ings have been completed: horse barn, calf barn, crib, and maternity barn for dairy herd. WSk- mm it Ul? fllildtlPl Motion Takes Several Hours, As February Term Of Criminal Court Convenes Judge William H. Bobbitt, of Charlotte, yesterday afternoon, de nied a motion made earlier in the morning by J. Bat Smathers, Ashe ville, attorney, that the jury panel of 42 names drawn for the first week of the February term of criminal court, be set aside and vacated. In behalf of his client, Mr. Smathers gave a notice of appeal to the supreme court, saying he rep resented Charles W. Edwards, Jr., of Lake Junaluska. Mr. Edwards has a case in court on a charge of reckless driving. The motion sought to set aside the panel of 42 names was made right after the foreman of the grand jury had been sworn in by the court. The hearing on the mo tion started at 10:30 and continued until the 12:15 recess, and was resumed at two o'clock. Judge Bob bitt gave his decision, after put ting into th records, a full sum mary of testimony given before the noon recess. J. E. Ferguson, tax collector of Haywood county from 1940 to 1946, was named foreman of the grand jury. The other seventeen members are: N. W. Ferguson, Sam Kelly, Swan L. Hendricks, Sam No land, Bryan Heatherly, Wess P'.ess, Carl Rogers, Turner Franklin, G. W. Burnette, D. M. Cagle, J. Man son Arrington, Larry Justice, A. Grady Noland, Clint Burnette, Jack Felmet, J. M. Palmer and W. W. Pi ess. The grand jury was drawn in I court, with 7-year-old Jerry Henry. urawing oiu me names. Judge Bobbitt excused Erastus Medford from jury duty, due to his physical disability, and Felix Stov all was excused by virtue of bis position as assistant fire chief. Frank Davis, of Beaverdam. was also excused because of physical disability. The other 21 men of the original 42 named for jury service will serve as trial jurors for the first week of court. Just after Mr. Ferguson had been sworn in as foreman, Mr. Smath ers made his motion that the panel of 42 names be set aside and va cated, on the grounds that tlic'25th name drawn was Ned Carver, and his name was set aside in lieu of the name of Felix Stovall. Mr. Smathers charged that the name of Carver had been "taken from the list by no one in author ily". Mr. Smathers then submitted the ..r-'ginal list of the 42 names drawn for jury service, and pointed out to the court that name No. 25 had been erased. The name erased was that of Ned Carver, and the name of Felix Stovall substituted, the lawyer said. Bryan Medford, register of deeds, and clerk to the board of commis sioners, was called to testify be (Continued on Page Eight) Haywood Farm Leaders Attend Bureau Meeting A number from Haywood at tended the 11th annual convention of the North Carolina Farm Bureau now in session in Asheville. The convention started Sunday after noon, with an attendance of about 1,200. A special train from the East brought in several hundred. Among those attending from here, include Howard Clapp, who is a member of the reception commit tee. Others were Wayne Corpen ing, county agent, E. N. Stallins, and W. D. Robinson, assistant coun ty agents, and Dave Boyd. Highway Record For 1947 In Haywood (To Date) Killed- 0 Injured - 8 Vehicles Checked 804 (This Information Compiled From Records of State High way Patrol)