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,iU7 THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER PAGE ONE '(Second Section? On r .... .A If m, crawled ,utneast- r.Jini. this S"1""; ud the Trr for the k ""T : in June. W ' ,,MM Blue Ridges Ffpgt is likely to PJwdthewa- P formidable sheets j bribe early moun- kirtnminc on Crtlleys. dainty and C ainor introductory lL-Hini! symphony L's Dome to the r m r k hut r"?. . kt hntanical- ruitnn. ' - - traveiinc from ( to Raleigh. N. C. I, visitor wouia uc Li Canadian forest lilsam; in me -I fad trillium and Will Bloom W.N.C. Mountains grape blossoms blooming along the banks of Tuckasegee, apple plos soms all but gone, and Indian f arm- i --o cuoniine over uieu svnnK Cia - - plowing. While the Smokies and Blue I Ridges offer many interesting flow ers and the most vanea community of plant life in America, the great shrubs are the bass note in this symphony, and of them the purple rhododendron is the most impres sive. Good displays of this, with moun tain laurel should begin appear ing around June 10. While no sec tion of the North Carolina moun tains are free of them, there are ; especially good displays on the Roan. Mitchell, Andrews Bald, Craggy Gardens, Grandfather and Pisgah. The great .white rhododendron (R. Maximum) is due to come to flower from two weeks to a month behind the purples. Flame azalea, closely related to the rhododendron in habits, will occur along with them. This brilliant flower, said to be found nowhere in the world except in North Carolina and In dia, sometimes reaches the mag nitude of trees a foot in diameter. lid, Classes Fitted For Appointment Telephone ioi DK. B. KING HARPE Optometrist Canton, N. C. DE - WINTERIZE Get rid of the effects of winter driving and wake tar for smooth, efficient motoring. OUR PRICE IS REASONABLE Received at Ray's Lots of ) Children's Things We for earlv Slimmer wonr 4 WW w that are distinctively lovely. es-Sunsuits-Playsuits kuits-Shorts -Etc. '"S-Y,,,, will Find r GREEIJ BOON Sttes6Upon Our Main Floor Pay yod to shop for Wren's wear at- rs Dept. Store Aids Cities STEWART LEIGH WILSON Mayor Henry T. Powell of Hen derson, president of the North Carolina League of Municipalities, has announced th. nrum,.., , Stewart Leigh Wilson to the State League staff as a field consultant available to work on municipal proDiems. Wilson is a native of Norfolk, Va, He was educated in the Raleigh public schools anri thA University of North Carolina, where he graduated in 1942 with a B. A. degree in political siienee wn. son entered the Army in January ot and served in the Pacific with the combat engineers and in fantry. He left service as a lieuten ant. He is married to the former Miss Nancy Barwick of Raleigh. He succeeds Guy Whitman, who left the League to enter private busi ness. When I hey occur in masses, they present a gorgeous effect due to the shades varying from deep crim son to a bright sulphur-yellow. Mountain laurel (kalmia) should he in bloom this month, with max imum display probably around June 1. One of the best stands is at the famous Pink Beds of Pis gah, where there is a recreational area, and the last week in May and the first in June will find thou sands of visitors there. Rhododendron grow in such pro fusion in the North Carolina moun tains that masses of them are called "rhododendron hells," a term easily understood by any hunter who has ever tried to worm his way through the dense brakes. Similar concentrations of laurel are called "laurel slicks." In the last century, a mountaineer became lost in a hell and it took him nine days to worm his way out. Chase wise bear dogs will skirt a thick hell, even though in hot pursuit. The Uiickets are anything but hf 11 when the blooming season is on. Sometimes there will be acre after acre of the blossoms, so solid on the mountain sides that from a distance it appears a fire were rag ing amid the evergreens. The largest stand of purple rho dodendron in the world is atop mile-high Craggy Mountains, 32 miles from Ashcvillc. For almost tea miles, the natural gardens drape themselves across the moun tains choking out all the trees and other competing shrubs. Located on National Forest land, Craggy Gardens has a large parking lot and picknicking facilities. The area will be open during the blos som season. The flowering shrub will bloom over a period of several weeks throughout the mountains.' and the Blue Ridge Parkway runs through large fields of them. On the high est peaks, such as Gregory Bald, Mitchell and Roan, the color will remain for some time after it has fated in the lowlands. Due to the fact that the state is the meeting place of three zones and that in topography it is a giant declivity, the flowering sea son in North Carolina starts early, lasts late, and provides more varie ties of plant life than any similar area in America, and more than all Europe combined. First blossoms appear in January in the coastal pocosin country, with flowering of camellias and azalea at Orton and Airlie Gardens. In the nearby lowlands wildflowers of the bays and savannahs appear, in cluding the Venus fly-trap, which this month is sending up its showy white blossom. Thick brakes of berry-covered yaupon (American holly), occur among the dunes, SCOH'S SCRAP-BOOK. SArfUARO CACfUS SWEUUi AffiR A t WAtR rf ABSORBS WILL KEEP CAuS ALIVE FROM TOO to FOUR YtARS M WHO MADE. 1HK I . KlS MANKE.K. IH First aStMMomicali . . III DrSVKIWANP . Li . . I . I Cecil News By MRS. J. EDGAR BURNETTE BIRTH Mr. and Mrs. Coy Pressley an nounce the birth of a daughter, on May 5. at the Haywood County Hos pital. T5 Doice Caldwell, stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia, arrived home for a furlough, on Sunday morning. . MOTHER'S DAY PROGRAM An all-day program was held at the Riverside Church, on Mother s Day. Following the Sunday School hour, Miss Alma Chambers had charge of the verses and exercises given by the children of the four-through-twelve years ages, -Miss Lela Mae Burnette gave a recita tion on "The Book of Books". A basket lunch was spread at noon on the tables put up next to to the river, with 175 members and friends present. Among those pres ent were: Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Messer and daughters, of Dills boro; Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Cham bers, of Hazel wood; Mr. Fred Crum, of Canton; Rev. and Mrs. Gay Chambers; Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Caldwell; Mr. and Mrs. Louis Chambers and family; Mr. Fred Pruett; Mr. Robert Pruett; Rev. Thomas Erwin; Mr. Robert Messer and children; Mr. and Mrs. Har mon Erwin, of Crabtrce, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Clark. An afternoon program of sing ing was held with a quartette from Springhill Church composed of Mrs. Mease Mrs. Will Rhinchart. Mr. Robert Clark, and Mr. Louis Chambers rendering several songs, with Mrs. Wilson Caldwell at the piano. The Riverside quartette was composed of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Burnette, Mr. Howard Reece. and Mr. Glenn Chambers, who sang a few numbers; then a double quar tette was composed of both groups. The program was concluded by a solo "Just A Closer Walk With Thee", by Mrs Edgar Burnette. MOVE TO ALABAMA Mr. and Mrs. Floyd W. Burnette, have sold out their property and moved to Montgomery. Alabama. on Saturday. They plan to reside with Mr. and Mrs. James M. Waller, the latter's parents, until they can buy a home or build one. Thev'll be greatly missed in the community and church work. Mr. Winton O. Clontz, of Canton, spent the week-end at the Clontz camp, as guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Burnette and children. Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Warren and family, were the dinner guests, on -Sunday, -of Mr. MWBe'rf J. West. Miss Betty Jean Shipman had as guest, on Sunday, Miss Barbara Jean Burnette. : Mr. and Mrs. Ted Grooms and family, of Enka, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Grooms, and daughter, of Asheville, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Grooms, on Sunday. WMS MEETS The Women's Missionary Society of the Riverside Church, held their monthly meeting, on Wednesday evening, in the basement class rooms, following the study course hour. The program civen was nn the subject "Meet the Japanese", by Mrs. Howard Reece; Japanese As Christians, by Mrs. Thomas Erwin: Japanese As Baptists, by Mrs. and there are American olive. gardenia, Ilex myrtiflora and many others. The bulb farms have early har vests in February and March, and in April the Hollanders of Terra Ceia reap their tulips. By this time the dogwoods and peach blossoms of the Sandhills and Piedmont ap pear, together with many wild flowers, and the apple orchards on the slopes of the mountains arc ready to bloom. All of this however, is a mild prelude when compared to the mile-high gardens which fling up such masses of color that they are unbelievable until seen. The time to see them runs from the last week in May until as late as mid-July, when you'll have to do some climbing to keep up with a fast-disappearing spring. By R. J. SCOTT jferCJ I I A Diwa or Aj I Ifi wAH-rfo.E d JK I 11 coKWABtt I 11 ttl 5AM0$ 1H RIDES HIROHITO'S WHITE HORSE '5- fx: - . Oil r M '--j 'Qw'Ia'' " - ' " " "' ,r:ui EX-CAVALRY OFFICER Richard Ryan sits astride the world's most famous white horse Emperor Hirohito's "Hatsusliiino,' which the Japanese placed in his custody "for the American people." Ryan is shown in Pittsburgh, Pa., during a tour of veterans' hospitals with the horse. The Dalmatian u a gift of actor Edward Arnold. (Infernotionnl) Isolated Atoll Is Liked By Small Navy Garrison AP Newsfeatures PONT AG ERAS 1M.ANI), llilhi Atoll Less than two years ago Ulithi atoll provided one of the great fleet anchorages for Ameri can operations against the Jap anese. Now it is a lonely, almost forgotten outpost, manned by less than two dozen Navy and Coast Guard personnel. Battleships, carriers, cruisers, destroyers and countless other craft once found refuge from submarine attacks and storms by entering one of two narrow channels into Ulilhi's huge lagoon. Navy men swarmed ashore to the tiny islands for recreation. Supplies were piled high on the coral. Now the island is visited on1 twice a month by a ship whir t brings food, beer and other sup plies to the men who operate a weather station anfl a lorail ilo'hp range navigation1!! a id i for shi;' and planes. The island commandant. Navy Lt. Ernest H. Goldman, directs 22 enlisted men. Most of the men say they are contented, however, preferring the loneliness with its personal free dom to the stricter spit-and-polish atmosphere of larger bases. Each tour of duty is for six mouths. The men play Softball, badmin- Bena Metcalf; Japanese Not In Japan, by Mrs. Laura Messer; and "A Stranger or a Urol her." by Mrs. Claud Singleton. Mr. Robert Clark, of the Spring hill Church, had charge of the preaching service at the Riverside church, on Sunday evening, follow. ing the B.T.U. His scripture was 1 Cliron: 4:1-2. and the subject: Stew ai d: hip" which was well thought out and delivered. The Youth Fellowship meetings held on Friday evenings, at the Hall of Friendly House, are in charge of Charles Warren until Mrs Ros alie West returns from her month's vacation from Canada, about Mav 27th. COMING HERE! ALL NEXT WEEK WAYNESVILLE FIRE DEPT. PRESENTS FLORIDA AMUSEMENT CO. THE LARGEST CARNIVAL EVER TO PLAY HERE ENTIRE WEEK STARTING Rtaday, ilfey 3 lv:: r ""' ' McNarney Says UN Needs Small Military Force ! NEW YORK -'API Gen. Joseph T. McNarney. chief of the United States section of the United Na tions Military Staff Committee, de clares there is no necessity for the ! United Nations to have an armed force powerful enough to defeat a major power He said that if the need for light ing a major nation arose, it would mean "war and nothing but war". He added that the U. N. forces "would be very valuable for isolat ing a hot spot," and expressed I he belief that World War 1 could have I been averted if there had been an ; international security force to iso late "the hot spot in Serbia". There need have been no World War 11 it the German invasion of Austria in 1938 had been Isolated, he asserted. NEW BLOOD GROUP IS BELIEVED FOUND NKW YORK (,1V-A new blood group different from Ihe four stan dard known groups has been found by two Sydney physicians and a science graduate employed by the lied Cross transfusion service, Ihe Australian News and Information Hurcau says. The physicians said the new group was found while testing a woman's blood for classification in one of Ihe standard groups. It still is being studied to determine what importance it might have in transfusions or other medical studies. i ton and volleyball during their '.span- time, or t'o on outrigger j canoe trips with inhabitants of j I other islands. Fishing and .wim- ; 1 ing are rood. 1 When the supply ::hip appear virtually everybody piles into a j seagoing duck and rides out to gossip and to trade old movies for ' , new ones. Sometimes the ship's. Crew goes ashore to play sol t ba 11 against Ihe Ulithi team and to have a beer parly under the palms. "The men get along unusually i well." says Goldman. "There is ! rarely any trouble and many of, them would prefer to stay here." . i r 1 AT THE ARMORY LOTc BIG THRILL RIDES MERRY GO ROUND, OCTOPUS, FERRIS WHEEL, CHAIROPLANE, TRAIN, TILT - A - WHIRL, AERO- PLANE AND LOOP - O - PLANE GREAT FREE ACTS! SENSATIONAL KAYS FLYING WILLARDS FIREWORKS EVERY Fiddlers Meet At Canton Set For June 13th The annual Smoky Mountain Fiddlers' convention will be held at Canton Friday night, June 13. at the high school auditorium, it has been announced by officials in charge of the program. The pro gram, which attracted wide atten tion last year, will be under the direction of Bascom Lamar Luns ford, well-known authority on folk music. The program will be sponsored this year by the Varner-Rhinehart post No. 61. American Legion. "Aunt" Samantha Bumgarner of Sylva, fiddlin' Bill Hensley of Bun combe county; Joe Pressley, of Can ton, champion fiddler last year, will be some of the well-known enter tainers who will participate this year. Other musicians wishing to take part in the event may do so by contacting Edgar Pressley, Box 20, Canton. AIR SAFETY CITED CHICAGO i APiThe National Safety council reported that 16 U. S. air lines completed their 1946 scheduled passenger operations without a single fatal accident. Diamonds are found in shades j of green, pink, deep blue, brown I and even black PARK THEATER Waynesville, North Carolina MATINEE SATURDAY 2 and 3:30 SUNDAY 2 and 4 P.M. NIGHT SHOWS 7 and 9 Daily SUNDAY 9:00 Only ADMISSION PRICES: Children Under 12 Years 12c Including Federal Tax Adults, All Seats 35c Including Federal Tax Friday, ii Blondie's Big Moment Starring PENNY SINGLETON and ARTHUR LAKE News and Comedy Saturday, May 17 "Desert Horseman" Starring -TTIARLES STARRETT and SMILEY BURNETTE Comedy and Serial Late Show "Lone Wolf In Mexico" Starring GERALD MOHR and ERIC BLORE Sunday, May 18 "Little Mr. Jim" Starring HUTCH JENKINS and FRANCES GIFFORD Comedy Monday, Tuesday, May 19-20 "Swell Guy" Starring SONNY TUFTS and ANN BLYTII News and March of Time No. 3 i9tDi to iiiiit nil "r"jf , I i KVlUftMOTO SCMtCE WINSTON-SAIMM, N.C May 16 ii NIGHT 11 E.J.LILIUS & JEWELBR 2mh
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