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Stvicar-I PkINTINi, i t) 2?f) ':: S Firn R t OtMSVILI F. V The Waynesville Mountaineer 49,500 People Live within 20 miles of WaynesvSle their Ideal shopping center. . Publishcd Tvvi"-Week In The County Seat Of Haywood County At The Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park NO. 29 18 PAGES Associated Press News WAYNESVILLE, N. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1947 $3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties Bed CWeek 'Tuesday Triday jd Wdl (Dtompaiiiw S&ofcs $ si. Used Westmore 'resident of y; $300,000 ,i I btion of the Bram-! ,,, wis learned from iend, president, lill handle a com- W, seed, fertilizers, h md farm needs, land Hid. is the former Bram- Lvery, nd workmen m (oors for sales jddition to an office, lining room for farm irea around the hi converted into Irtkultrly proud of n ire making for ei in the building," Mini said. "The Herery convenience, rt, spotlessly clean, i teta sec-for 1 Waynesville and i will provide this Jinued. itjve was organized jigo, and while inde fcave connection with W Cooperative in r will buy when and F Mr. Westmore- toottgh we will work W office, and derive from such Jut Adult fship Drive 1H lln .80O during Oleitlbershln -. ff.1 the district co- Thomas G. 'to1 Dr. Thomas rvoesvuie. represented the P." Canton Lions ireri tiT . N k th. T 01 forth. nywood t,7 given for tk. "" " om "it k.i. thenTl 1 CamP Scout camn ork 0f thc DrniAnt . .... F of n , '""'"son, Report Bureau,: " oy m in . ers wnight and lni night. m bt ,1 tenPera- W, staff f :". Ml. . : 50 .07 pood Farm Co-opBuilding Large Retail Unit Jurors Are Drawn Here For Civil Court Term County Commissioners Meet Monday, Name Bryson Superintend ent of Welfare i JUlflOrUtU ,m -y venires were drawn for the 1V1 in' 'iuil form nf Riinrinr Crwtrt 'organircd Haywood , . meetine Mondav of the n Cooperative are:. , f rnmmiKS.,nn. in fh k Depot Street and resignation of H Arthur Os- itocking up wit in , b()rnp Canton, as superintendent of public welfare was accepted and Gudger C. Bryson, Canton, was unanimously appointed to that po sition. A two-year bond also was presented by the county auditor Charles It. Metcalf. Three petitions were presented for road work in the Pigeon, How ell Mill road and Edwards Cove sections. The requests were for warded to the state highway and public works commission. The first week jury will be drawn from Marshall Messer, Jonathan Creek; Marion B. Jones, Beaver dam: Joe Teague, White Oak; Dave P. Turner, Waynesville; J. , R Boyd, Jiv Waynesville; R. L. Wells, Pigeon; Lee Bjrchneld, East Ford; Earnest F. Caldwelt, Clyde; Poster Ernest Rhodarmer, Jonathan Creek; James D. Gossett, Pigeon; (Continued On Page 6) Easter Seal Drive Short $70 Of Goal ve was incorporated With ti f onn .i,.. i.iL . ' " sveii ui oci 1U1 lilt p Stock will sell ; Children, the community eamoaien !Wffinre.,,nd eacn is falling short wjth Qnly re pmve a vote, re-.Dort.pri to Hato om.jin . i, number of shares. I E. Massie. chairman serving from K ?ure notl the Waynesville Rotary Club, spon- f 01 Stock, but arc snrino nrBn:.l 1' daily. "Rieht "i h . u... , inilnnc i . "ve me complete re- Mdthelfw iSl."1 "" the Sch00ls. throUg1.1 hUM -w ";, ' saies were made, and l bu.ii . ---- ii'si many persons wno I OrpaiOCR, atCr'!intendcd t0 buv seals have delayed e Dl lti:ikino lk,.i . 1 t sure by the end of the week we I will be over our quota", said Mr. Massie when contacted yesterday ior a report. For many years the National So ciety for Crippled children and its affiliated state societies have spon sored a program designed to ben efit handicapped children. The deal of the agencies is that every handicapped child shall receive op portunities to develop his talents in equal proportion as that pro vided for the average or so-called normal child. The symbol of this 'deal is the Easter Seal. "Just because Easter is over does not mean that you cannot use the seals. Everyone should be proud to use them on their letters and show that they are lending a "c'P'ng hand in this worthy cause," said Mr. Massie. The chairman further pointed out that any person who has not been contacted through the schools and wishes to buy seals may find t'V "is office over the Park l heater. Assembly Passes Many Laws Affecting Haywood Senator William Medford and Kepresentative Glenn C. Palmer were sponsors of 10 laws relating my to Haywood county which Passed the 1947 legislature, and three statewide bills were passed Medfort?1"? lntroduced Sen' He was the author 0j lhe pubc act to create a commission of seven members (one to be from Hay wpod to coordinate all the activ m ? benalf oithe Great Smoky Mountain National Park, the Blue wage Parkway, and the Pisgah and wantahala National Forests. Gov. Dnie?TJndicated that he would P noint the commission shortly after djournment of the: General Worked Together On Book It took three people to write "Mrs. Mike," and it's a first book for all of theni. Mrs. Mike herself ( inset was the wiie of a Northwest Mounted policeman, and lived the rugged, hardy ana dangerous north woods life denied to most of us nowadays. After her husband's death, she tried to sell some stories about her experiences to Hollywood agents, and one was so thrilled with her accounts that he introduced her to Benedict and Nancy Freeman, a young couple trying to make a go of writing. With Mrs. Mike Flanoigan talking and the Frecdmant lfe.is..pt0graphicttl-aulobjographical novel was completed.,,'' , 'a,iTH. 'M t-.m- ri , ... . , : : Phone Tieup With Loss Of Felt By Local Business Softball Organization Meeting Monday Night All parties interested in sponsoring a Softball team in the Waynesville - Hazelwood -Lake Junaluska league are re quested to attend an organiza tion meeting Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock in the L. N. Da vis Insurance office. C. E Wealherby will take charge of thc meeting. Police To Enforce Hour Parking Law On Main Street The one hour parking law will be rigidly enforced, starting April 15, according to Chief of Police Or- ville Noland. During the winter the parking regulations have not been enforced. Chief Noland also said that a campaign would be pushed to see that all motor vehicles had ci license tags. The tags are on sale at the city hall for $1, and all per-1 sons found without a tag that come i under the ordinance, will be hailed into court and subject to a ! fine of $10, he said. So far this year only 3G2 tags have been sold and there are about 500 motor vehicles that should have j the tags, he pointed out. j Clyde's Hep. Palmer effected a substantial saving for the farmers of Western North Carolina by se curing a reduction of burley tobac co warehouse fees, agreed to volun tarily by the warehousemen on a two-year basis after the represent ative anounccd plans to lower their fees by legislation. Two statewide measures spon sored by Sen. Medford aimed pri marily to take care of local situa tions were one to authorize a town to create a commission for super vision of public cemeteries, and one to permit a county to place its poor in private institutions at county expense. - Rep. Palmer's bill to extend the Continued on Page Six Continues Service Manager Reports Public Is Cooperating In Making Only Emer gency Calls Way ncsvi lie's telephone system finished its fourth day with oper ations curtailed to handling emer gency messages only, due to the strike of operators and repairmen, with no indication yesterday after- ! noon when the communications tie : tip would be settled. I Meanwhile, at Canton and other j towns where dial systems were t used, local messages were going I through with little difficulty and I the only hardship suffered by the I public was in making long distance j calls. An agreement was reported I between long distance operators and American Telephone and Tele ; graph company, which if passed on j by the National Federation of Tele ! phone Workers would soon permit 1 normal service between commun j ities. j W. L. Lampkin. manager of the local Southern Bell office, stated yesterday that the "public is co- , , operating splendidly" in limiting their calls to emergency messages. Two men from thc Charlotte office are assisting the management per sonnel here in taking care of mes sages, allowing two operators on duty during thc day and one at night. No ill feeling exists between the local managers and strikers. The switchboard girls and repairmen have formed into pairs for tours of watching the office from below, at a sidewalk bench. Wednesday most of the strikers called at the office to get their paychecks for (Continued on Page Six) Central Cleaners Install Boiler, New Equipment Central Cleaners have, just in stalled several new pieces of equipment, including a marine type, 150-horscpower oil boiler, and a new washing machine. This equipment merely supple ments present equipment, accord ing to Johnny Shelby, owner and operator. The boiler is of the latest design oil burner, and provides constant 100-pound pressure of steam for the two floors of cleaning equip ment operated by the firm State Promises To Repair Two Crabtree Creek Roads School Board Appoints District Committees At Keeling Here Monday Three Are In Race For Local Board Two more candidates an nounced for aldermen this week, it was reported at thc Waynesville Town Hall yester day. Dr. Thomas Strinefield and Asbury Howell have joined Mack Pace, Dayton Rubber com pany employe, ln seeking scats on the town board that will be selected in the May 6 municipal election. ' No candidates have yet iiled for the office of mayor. i Contracts Are Asked On School Projects Construction of New Colored School, Lunchroom at Morning Star, Planned Bids for the construction of a high school at Canton for all the colored students of Haywood county, and for a lunchroom addi tion at Morning Star school will be taken until April 21, according to an announcement this week by A. J. Hutchins, Canton school sup erintendent. Construction has been planned for some time and money set aside for the projects, lfowcver, due to state regulations on accepting con tracts it was not possible for some time to find a firm that would of fer to do the work for a set amount. Sen. William Medford in troduced legislation into the Gen eral Assembly which allows the Canton school district to contract for these two projects on a cost plus basis, if necessary. The new school is to be of brick and will contain seven classrooms and a home economics room on thc ground floor. A work shop will be added at some future time. It will replace the colored school which burned down several years (Continued on Page Six) Miss Gibbs' Play To Be Given Today At The University The Dramatecrs of Mars Hill college will present "Pity, If You Please," an original one-act play by Pollyanna Gibbs, of Waynes ville, in the Annual Dramatic Fes tival at the University of North Carolina, Friday, April 11. The play, which was accepted for production by the Carolina Playmakers Guild, was presented at Mars Hill college February 22 and in Asheville March 20. The play, which includes five charac ters, is built around a woman who is a neurotic and who dominates (Continued on Page Six) 3 Sections Today 18 Pages Instructs Supt. Messer To Replace Sub-Standard Teachers Where Possible School committees were appoint ed for the six districts in Haywood county,' exclusive of Canton, by thc board of education at their meet ing in thc courthouse Monday, with nine new committeemen on the lists. A schedule is being arranged for each district committee to meet in the superintendent's office, elect their respective chairmen, and se lect the teachers for their schools. The county board, R. T. Messer of Waynesville, chairman; Vinson Davis, , Crabtrrjnot'f;,'V"Caslei. Beaverdam, Instructed Supt. Jack Messer to replace as many as pos sible of the teachers with sub standard certificates with instruc tors holding class A certificates. Of the 180 teachers at the schools in the six districts, 47 have the lower class certificate. Supt. Messer believes that it will be possible to secure a good share of accredited replacements from college graduates and other sources. Next meeting of thc county board will be in May, when the 1947-48 budget will be outlined and building needs of the school planned. Members of the school commit tees are as follows: Waynesville district Claude Allen, Hazelwood; Guy Massie, Jim Noland, Fred 'Campbell, Waynesville; and Med ford Lcatherwood, Waynesville Rt. 2. Mr. Noland and Mr. Campbell succeed Jerry Liner and Sam Queen. Bethel Forrest Justice, Walker Brown, Edgar Burnett, Canton. Rt. 3; George Stamey and Rex L. Pless, Canton, Rt. 2. Mr. Burnett suc ceeds Charles Moody. Clyde Coleman Francis, Mark 1. eatherwood, Roy Ilaynex, Larry Cagle, Clifford Ernest Brown, Jr. Mr. Cagle and Mr. Brown succeed Hessie Terrell and C. E. Brown, Sr. Crabtree-Iron Duff Fred No land, Jim Best, Weaver Chambers, and Hugh Noland, Clyde Rt. 1; and Hardy Caldwell, Waynesville, Rt. 2. Mr. Best, Weaver Chambers (Continued on Page Six) Crabtree-Iron Duff Senior Play Tonight The Crabtree-Iron Duff high school senior class will present the play, "He Couldn't Take it," to night at 8 o'clock in the school au ditorium. Mrs. O. L. Yates is di recting the play. There will be a small admission charge. Minstrel Show Will Open Tonight At High School A steady series of rehearsals, in full-dress for the first time last night, has put the Lions club mins trel show in readiness for their openin gperformance tonight, when the curtain will rise at 8 o'clock in the Waynesville township high school auditorium. John Cuddeback will lead the blackface chorus of 40 in the open ing number, after which Herbert Buchanan the interlocutor will turn loose the end men, "Bosco" Killian, "Sonny" Davis, "Honey Boy" Gerringer and "Lucious" Roberts. These characters have the job of injecting comedy throughout the show, and Director Joe Casabella claims that they are naturals for the job. Delegation Of 50 Talk To Highway Engineers Road Impassible During Winter Weather, Causing Many Hardships Rock to make the road up Crab tree and Ball creeks passable the year around was promised by J. C. Walker, state highway department engineer for the western district, and his assistant, James Knight, at a meeting in the courthouse Tues day afternoon attended by the county commissioners, school su perintendent and a delegation of more than 50 persons from the Crabtree section. After listening to the Crabtree residents describe the hardships they encountered during the win ter and on any rainy period, Mr. Walker stated tha pe would make "HSr'AMd" hid " number T Improve ment project for Haywood county and "get it in shape to travel" be fore next winter at the latest. The engineers discussed in de tail how their department func tions, being limited by appropria tions from the state legislature and directed to apply their funds only to specified types of work. They described how run-down ma chinery was one of their major problems, and said that many items of equipment had been on order for several years and still was not coming in. Mr. Knight remarked that the break-down of a shovel was a main j cause of the Crabtree road's bad condition, it was assigned to fill ing in the road last August, he re-1 lated, several feet above the dan ger level from the creek. Its mo tor broke down after it had filled part of the road, and the needed part for repair has not been se cured yet. Vivid descriptions of how the road had affected life in the com munity were told by residents, who felt that immediate steps should be taken to remedy the road. There are J08 families who live (Continued on Page Six) Sims Tire Puts In Larger Boiler Sime Tire and Battery Company are installing a large oil-burning boiler this week. The larger ca pacity boiler is needed to operate thc recapping plant of the firm. Since the addition of several ad ditional recapping molds, the steam requirements have more than doubled and necessitated a larger toiler, according to L. E. Sims, owner. The front of the place is also getting the finishing touches, as plasterers arc completing the work gf the final finish on the outside talis. A ragtime crew from the Waynes ville township high school band will accompany the performance, and string specialties will be given by the Ramp Hill Ramblers. Solos will be taken by John Cuddeback, O. R. Roberts and Joe Casabella; and two numbers are programmed by the Lions Quartet. Original music and old favorites have been arranged especially for the show by Charles Isley. Tap and clog dances will feature Richard Gerringer, W. G. Byers and Tom Campbell and during the sec ond part of the show Chester Cog burn will give his act. Four performances of the show (Continued on Page Six) Plant Goes Up In Flame Wednesday Factory And Finishing Buildings Destroyed When Spark Sets Lacquer Afire It was three o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the Inlaid Wood Products Manufacturing company finishing room, one mile west of Lake Junaluska along highway 19 23 when a spark from a hot motor set fire to the lacquer spraying machine being operated by Den cilc Cagle. The fire caught hold of the wood and combustible paints, racing swiftly throughout the build ing. Within less than two hours t he finishing room and main factory building were left a smouldering ruins a loss estimated by the plant manager, Vardy Fugate, to be from $40,000 to $45,000: with a place of employment lost to lti workers and some 25 others who were to begin work shortly on the new spring and summer line ol inlaid wood novelties. The company owner, George Kessler of New Brunswick, N. J., is expected to arrive today, alter which the future of the plant will be determined. He is reported to have $22,000 insurance coverage. Employees of the company fought the blaze with all means at their disposal, 24 fire extinguishers scattered about the two main build ings, and called the Waynesville fire department. Fire Chief Clem Fitzgerald answered the call with" one truck, but since there was nothing larger than half-inch water outlets at the site the firemen were without facilities to extinguish Hie blaze. Flames reached more than r() feet in the air during the height li of the fire, and police and highway pauolmen blocked traffic from passing by on the highway to pro tect travelers from heat and I lie danger of an explosion of lacquer from the green-painted shed, about 100 feet away from the finishing room, where 350 gallons of lacquer were stored. Fire caught hold of the closest stack of lumber in the ravine lead ing uphill, but employees threw sand and water from a garden hose on it, and were assisted by the lire men after they attached a hose to the Waynesville street cleaning truck and sprayed the lumber and a number of small machines taken from thc two buildings. Although the office was hemmed in by the fire minutes after it be gan and practically all records were lost, employees rolled out to safe ty approximately $4,000 worth ol planers, routing machines and va riety saws. The dry lumber shed and lacquer shed also were undamaged. Then were no high winds blowing, and the heat rose straight upward with smoke billowing high and visible from several miles. West bound traffic was directed over the Junaluska-Dellwood cut off where construction crews were preparing it for pavement but traffic officers found it necessary to stop all vehicles going towards the east for approximately an hour. The company was purchased (Continued on Page Six) 4-II Club Leader Here In Conference vvnii county igenis Miss Eleanor Barber, assistant 4-H club leader of the North Car olina extension service spent Thurs day in town in consultation with the county farm and home agents. Highway Record For 1947 In Haywood (To Date) Killed - - 2 Injured -12 (This Information Compiled From Records of Stat Hif h way Patrol) 1