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WAYNESVILLE, N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1947
$3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties
Loll at Rio
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ir of State Gejorge C.
town as he addressed
tsion of the Inter
Eense Conference at
frazil Me warned the
fwblics that recovery
ital to Western Hemi-.
Ay. (International)
Two Million Dollars For
Park Wifl Be Sought By
Two-State Commission
N. C. And Tennessee
Groups To Meet With
Park Director Sept.
25th On Plans
A two-state commission will for
mally ask the federal government
for two million dollars for devel
opment of the Great Smoky Moun
tains National Park for the next
fiscal term, it was announced this
week by Charles E. Ray, chairman
of the' North Carolina National
Park, Parkway and Forest Develop
ment Commission.
The announcement came at the
Closing session of the two-day meet
ing of the Commission at Boone
and Blowing Rock.
The commission completed plans
for the meeting on September 25
at Gatlinburg, when the North Car
olina group will join with the Ten
nessee Conservation Commission
In formally presenting a plan for
development of the Park to Newton
B. Drury, director of the National
Park Service.
The commissions of both states
met late In August and formulated
plans on the proposed program, in
cluding plans for development of
the North Carolina side of the
Park, which had been recommend
ed by the Western North Carolina
Associated Communities to Secre
tary of the Interior Krug in Feb
ruary of this year
Blair Ross, superintendent of the
Park, was here Wednesday in con
ference with Mr. Ray. makine last
vl minute details for the two-state
Wants Ike' to Run
Court
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Week
wit arising from an,e,lg 'itn Mr- Drury on the
Stale To Pave! Indones!a Talk
County Road
As Detour
For 19-23
Commissioners Ap
prove Relocation Of
Road Between Canton
And West Asheville
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large number of
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trials.
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was granted in ad.
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fiscussed
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, "rmers and busl
"Wend the dinner
laV night at 6:30 at
discussion will be
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Carolina. The moot.
the Town House.
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federation, will
swn and present the
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pm:th of .the officials n;
uuunccu any specinc plans ior ae-
velopment within the Park. Neith
er were' suggested expenditures
made public
At the meeting of the N. C. Park
Commission this week, a proposal
was made to recommend to the Na
tional Park Service and the state
highway and public works com
mission, that a restudy be made of
the location of the parkway section
entering Black Camp Gap.
"The proposed new location is by
far superior to the present one
Mr. Ray said yesterday, in dis
cussing the matter. "To follow the
present location would mean a nar
row road and sharper curves than
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Lions Of Zone 2
Meet Here Tues.
The first quarterly meeting of
zone 2, district 31-A, Lions Inter
national, was held Tuesday night
at the Towne House here, attended
by representatives of clubs at Bre
vard, Sylva, Canton and Waynes
ville.
J. I. Ayres, of Brevard, zone
chairman, presided. Others pres
ent were Edward H. McMahan, dis
trict councilman; M. G. Pangle,
president; and James Brennon. sec
retary, all of Brevard; J. W. Ashe,
president; T. L. Clayton, secretary;
and Hugh L. Montieth, of the Sylva
club; C. C. Nichols, president; John
Morgan, secretary; and Hall B.
Whitworth. of the Canton club:
Claude Rogers, president ,and M.
Davis, secretary of the Waynes
ville club.
PRESIDENT of the 'Draft Eisen
hower for President League," Rob
ert M. Haar (above) Is shown in
Washington as he announced plans
for organizing clubs throughout the
U. S. to campaign for the election
of Chief of Staff Gen, Owight D.
Eisenhower. Both Republicans and
Democrats are In the non-profit or
ganization, which will have as tts
goal only one purpose getting him
in the White House. (International)
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Magazine
Has 23 Scenes
In Oct. Issue
Twenty-three of the 100 color
pictures in the 26-page section on
North Carolina in the October issue
of Holiday are devoted to this im
mediate area. The pictures include
scenes in the Park, Cataloochee
section, Cherokee, Cove Creek and
square dancing in Asheville.
Cove Creek and Cataloochee re
ceived more publicity than any
other one area in North Carolina
in the lay-out.
The 10,000-word story accom
panying the pictures was written
by Jonathan Daniels, executive ed
itor of the News and Observer. Mr.
Daniels says, "It's the richest state
in the old south, yet it remains the
pioneers preserve that the early
Americans found it."
Of the five scenes on the cover,
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A resolution was passed by the
Haywood county Board of Commis
sioners at their meeting Monday
approving the prcposed relocation
and paving of a part of the county
road leading northeast from Can
ton through Newfound Gap (on the
Haywood-Buncombe line) into West
Asheville.
Project 0-164, as prepared by the
State Highway and Public Works
commission, includes the partial
straightening and hard surfacing of
the Newfoud Gap road to serve as
a detour for east-west traffic dur
ing the reworking of highway 19
23. According to James Knight,
maintenance engineer for the Ashe
ville district, the project will tie in
with pavement 1.6 miles east of
Canton at Frank Mann's store and
extend to the paved portion of the
Buncombe County Home road: a
distance of two and one quarter
miles in Haywood and nine miles
in Buncombe.
A sketch of the route, showing
the ownership of property along
the way, is posted on a bulletin
board at the Haywood courthouse.
Quite a few curves in the present
gravel road will be eliminated.
Contract for the construction of
the road will probably be let in Oc
tober, Mr. Knight believes, and
the paving done next spring.
After traffic can be routed be
tween Canton and West Asheville
by tayf-: the--NWfouit Gap (or
North Hominy) road, highway 19
23 between Candler and the Hay
wood county line will be closed.
Grading for a new three-lane high
way -is under way now. Eventually
the wider main route is planned to
be brought through Canton and
Clyde to Lake Junaluska.
Bids have been asked by the
state for another section of the
main highway, between Enka and
Asheville.
The Haywood commissioners also
received at their meeting this week
a petition to improve the road
from Mr. Simpson's house to J. M.
Long's place on the golf course.
This was approved and recom
mended to the State Highway and
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IT. GOVERNOR GENERAl of the
Netherlands East Indies, Dr. Hu
bertus J. Van Moot: is shown on his
arrival in New York, lie Immedi
ately left for Washington to confer
with Secretary of State George C.
Marshall on the troublesome Indo
nesian situation. (International)
Car Stolen One
Night, Returned
On The Next
Police are searching for the
party, as yet unknown, who bor
rowed Lochlan Hyatt's 1940
Plymouth tudor sedan on Tues
day night when parked in up
town Waynesville, put between
500 and 600 miles on the speed
ometer, and parked it the fol
lowing night on Love lane.
The car was reported stolen
between 7 and 9:30 p. m. Tues
day after having1 been parked on
Miller street, with 4aM keyt left
Inside.
A warning was sent out and a
lookout maintained on the high
ways, but no blue sedan with li
cense No. 246-196 was sighted.
Not until Wednesday, about mid
night, when Policeman Jerry
Rogers and Potrolman . R.
Roberts were cruising about the
area.
The car was found abandoned
on the dirt road between the top
of Love lane hill and the Drll
wood road. It was undamaged
and a little gas left in it. Mr.
Hyatt was notified and glad to
get his car back.
REA Plans
Expansion
To Reach
Rural Areas
Haywood Electric
Membership Cor
poration To Service
550 New Customers
North Carolina still has 146,200
farmt without electric service, ac
cording to a report just sent by
REA to the Haywood Electric Mem
bership Corporation with head
quarters in Waynesville, President
Carter Osborne of Clyde has announced.
About 2,500,000 of the nation's
farms still do not have service, ac
cording to the figures received by
Mr. Osborne. Great progress has
been made, however, during the
past 12 years, when the percentage
of farms with electricity increased
from 10.9 in 1935 to 57.4 as of the
first of this year. In North Caro
lina, the figure has risen from 3.2
per cent in 1935 to 49.1 per cent
as of December 31, 1946, Mr. Os
borne said.
The Haywood Electric Member
ship corporation has plans for ex
tending service to 550 rural con
sumers in this area, most of them
farms, within the next few months,
Mr. Osborne reported, and even
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Civic Group Pushing
Improvement Of Road
Projects In Haywood
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Annual Haywood
Sing Convention
Will Be Sunday
The annual Haywood county
singing convention will be held at
the courthouse here Sunday, start
ing at 10 o'clock, with Ray Parker,
president, in charge.
Singers are urged to attend and
take part in the program. The pub
lic is invited to the convention,
which annually draws a large
crowd.
Closing Hours Will Be
Discussed By Merchants
Members of the Merchants Asso
ciation are urged to attend the
meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept.
23, at the Chamber of Commerce,
office, when closing hours and dates
will be discussed for the approach
ing holidays, announces David Fel
met, president of the group.
Plans will be made at that time
for meetings of the association dur
ing fall and winter months, and
other business of importance to all
will be discussed.
Champion Five
Year Employees
To Be Feted
The annual party for Champion
Paper and Fibre company employ
ees who have had five years contin
uous service with the company will
be held at the Canton Armory on
Saturday evening.
Reuben B. Robertson, company
president, will be host to the party
and will present membership em
blems to new members of the
group. A special program of en
tertainment has been completed
under the direction of Marie Bell,
social director at the Champion
YMCA, which will include local
talent and a special act by How
ard Nash, known as "Panhandle
Pete," of West Asheville.
Employees eligible for member
ship this year number 174.
Hazelwood Asks
Bids On Paving
Thirteen Streets
Bids for the paving of 13 streets
in Hazelwood will be accepted until
5 p. m.. September 29, at which
time they will be opened in the
town hall, according to an adver
tisement published this week by
town officials.
Streets included are Richland.
Beech, Church, Balsam, Virginia,
Georgia, Oak, McClure, North Pine,
Carolina, Adkins, Morgan and
Brown. Plans and specifications
are on file with the town clerk, J.
R. Carswell.
In the municipal election this
spring a vote was carried author
izing $35,000 for street improve-1
ments. Paving of the streets list-1
ed above will be the first phase of
the improvement program.
Legion To Sponsor
Jamboree Program
Saturday Nights
The Saturday Night Jamboree, a
two-hour program featuring four
Haywood county string bands, will
be broadcast from the auditorium
on the third floor of the Masonic
Temple here and open to the pub
lic under the sponsorship of the
local American Legion post, it is
announced by George Flowers, pro
gram director for radio station
WIICC.
The program "ill begin at 7:30
p.m. each Saturday and last until
9:30 o'clock, being on the air from
8 until 9 p.m.
Conducted by "Grandpappy Bus"
Bridges and Mr. Flowers, the Jam
boree presents string music by the
Dixie Ramblers. Smoky Moun
tain Entertainers. Haywood Moun
taineers, and Fred and Sam.
A small admission fee will be
charged the public, to be used for
American Legion activities.
Keen Interest
Shown Here In
Florida Storm
Keen interest has been shown
here in the hurricane which raced
across Florida late Wednesday
.night. Scores of Floridians her on
vacations have been unable to get
messages into or from the stricken
areas.
The local telephone Suffice got
calls to Orlando and Jacksonville
yesterday, but were not taking calls
for any further Into Florida.
A number of vacationists here
left Thursday for the storm area,
some cutting their vacations sev
eral weeks short.
High winds, raging at more than
100 miles per hour crossed Florida
and headed towards Jacksonville
late yesterday.
The weather bureau in this im
mediate area predicted Western
North Carolina would get heavy
rains directly due to the storm.
Light rains fell Thursday after
noon from a sky that had been
overcast all day.
Radio Station WHCC gave news
of the storm every hour, and on
special bulletins broke in on pro
grams, in order to keep listeners
posted on the progress of the
storm.
DR. CALEB GREENE
NOTED PHrSICIST, Dr. Caleb Greene,
is pictured in New York City, as he
told newspapermen that the Irgnn
Zvai Leu mi approached him 18
months ago to develop synthetically
an "A" bomb for the Jewish under
ground. The FBI is investigating
11m statement. (International)
Home Burned
In Tuesday
Blaze At
Hazelwood
Near Total Loss Is
Caused By Fire In Lee
Sullivan House On
Church Street
Run-Away Car Travels
50-Yards; $100 Damages
Russians Make
Accusations At
U. S. And Britain
FLUSHING, N. Y., Sept. 18 (UP)
Russian delegate Andrei Vishin
sky has accused the United States
and Great Britain of trying to
wreck the United Nations and of
sabotaging efforts for universal
and atomic disarmament
Soviet Russia has also charged
that the Truman doctrine and the
Marshall plan for European recov
ery directly violate the United Na
tions charter.
It is not unusual to read where
a mule runs away from home,
sometimes a teen-age boy or girl,
and even wives have been known
to pick-up and go places, but
when it comes to cars following
such tactics, then that's news.
Shortly after noon Tuesday,
V. L. Reno parked his Ford coupe
on the parking lot back of his
service station next to The
Mountaineer, just as he has been
doing for month after month. He
went about his business until
an employee of The Mountaineer
called to him that his car was
running away.
By the time Mr. Reno could get
to the parking lot the car had
already rolled entirely across the
parking lot and over the alley,
and down the steep embankment.
Peering through the dense under
growth on the 40-foot bank, Mr.
Reno saw a faint glimpse of blue,
as if the car were hiding in the
thicket. In rolling down the bank,
the car missed two trees by
inches, turned slightly towards
the left and missed another. A
good driver could not have done
as well.
Workmen, cut out a path
through the thicket, and a wreck
er pulled the car out by going
around the foot of the hill.
Outside of a new radiator, a
fender and other parts, the ear
can be put back in condition for
about $100.
Mr. Reno is still at a total loss
as to how the car started on its
venturous trip, unless some
motorists in parking touched it
enough to start the car rolling.
Anyway, it proved to be an ex
pensive 50-yard trip.
Methodists Will
Hold Conierence
At Fines Creek
The fourth quarterly conference
for the Fines Creek charge will be
held at the lower Fines Creek
Methodist church at 11 o'clock on
September 21, with the Rev. Walter
B. West, district superintendent,
presiding. This session will have
on its agenda reports concerning
the closing of the conference year,
election of church officials for the
coming year and the making of
plans for the new conference year. !
All church officials are urged to be 1
present and visitors are welcome to
this service.
After the morning worship and
business session there will be a
picnic lunch. Plans for the after
noon have been changed. There '
will be no preaching services as j Waynesville police were alerted
originally announced so that the j Tuesday night by authorities in
people of the Fines Creek charge Sylva following the jail break of
An almost total loss was caused
to a one-story, frame house on
Church street in Hazelwood Tues
day morning.
Lee Sullivan, Unagusta employee
and one of the owners of the house
and two friends, William Robinson
and Gene Powers, were in the
house when it began burning.
They were asleep when the fire
started and Sullivan arose to get
a drink of water, opened the bath
room door and the flames burst
out in his face giving its first
warning, lie awakened nis com
panions and all escaped without
injury.
Fire spread throughout the in
side of the building, starled--it is
presumed in the bathroom of
unknown origin, and was held to
the interior by the tin roof. An
alarm was sent to the Waynesville
Fire Department shortly after It
was discovered and the firemen
soon extinguished the blaze after
arrival at 10 a. m.
All but the front right bedroom
was gutted by the flames with prac
tically all furnishings in the house
destroyed Damages were esti
mated at approximately $2,000.
There was no insurance.
Local Police Alert
After Hearing Of
Sylva Jail Break
Chamber Of Com
merce Directors Urge
Parkway Section Kept
Open This Fall
The board of directors of the
Chamber of Commerce passed a
series of resolutions Tuesday eve
ning, among them being one urging
the Bureau of Public Roads to
open the section of the Blue Ridge
Parkway from Wagon Road Gap i
to Overlook point for the next six
weeks and during daylight hours.
The resolution came as a follow
up to a suggestion made by The
Mountaineer that the section be
kept open for the fall season in '
order to afford vantage points for
viewing the colorful foliage in that
area.
The civic group also passed a
resolution urging the State High
way Commission to improve high
way No. 284 from the Cove Creek
post office to Cove Creek Gap. The
resolution carried with it the sug
gestion that the present location
of the road be widened and also
smoothed.
The Park Service was also peti
tioned to improve the Pisgah motor
road from Wagon Road Gap to the
inn.
The civic body went on record
favoring the Pisgah National For
est Service acquiring the 12-mile
strip near Waterville. The section
is within the purchase of both the
Forest and Park Service. The di
rectors felt the Forest Service
should acquire this property which
is owned by Carr Lumber com
pany. j ,
tfim Atipvti-wji was jiauieu il, -
succeed Charles E. Ray as a mem
ber of the Western Carolina Asso
ciated Communities, with M. D.
Watkins as an alternate. Mr. Ray
had to give up his place on the
group by virtue of becoming chair
man of the new State Park Com
mission. The following resolution was
passed by the board of directors of
the Chamber of Commerce Tues
day nifht:
Whereas, no section of the Blue
Ridge Parkway has been completed
in this area and opened to the
public,
Whereas, a five mile section has
been graded in the Pisgah National
Forest, starting at Wagon Road
Gap on U. S. No. 296 and this sec
tion, while not paved, does have
a good crushed stone base; is well
drained for the most part.
And whereas, it traverses a love
ly area itself, and affords views of
the Pink Beds area to the south
and rugged mountains to the north,
that are exceptional,
And whereas, the State Adver
tising Bureau and the local com
munities have expended consider
able sums featuring the colors of
the fall and the flowers of the
spring, and local communities are
promoting travel over U. S. 276
from the south via Brevard and
Waynesville into the Great Smoky
Mountains National Park,
Now, therefore, the Waynesville
Chamber of Commerce urges and
petitions that for short periods
during the fall and the spring,
starting this fall, this section of the
Parkway, and at least to Green
Knob overlook, be opened to the
public during daylight hours."
The resolution has been sent to
all state and federal agencies con
cerned with the Parkway.
may join in the Pine Grove Metho
dist church's homecoming services
that afternoon. The afternoon
service will be made up of quartet
and choir singing.
13 Cases Tried Monday
In Local Police Court
Charged with reckless driving,
Troy Smith of Canton was fined
$150 and costs in police court here
Monday. Bessie May Stephens,
colored, of Waynesville, was sen
tenced to 32 days in jail in lieu
of paying costs on a public drunk
enness case.
One person was assessed the
cost of court for failure to stop at
a traffic light, and 10 others
charged with public drunkenness
paid eostR.
three prisoners, being held in de
fault of bond awaiting trial.
A Jackson county jailer, Thad
Cowan, was opening a cell to clean
j it out when he was caught by the
prisoners, choked with a wire, and
forced to give up his keys.
The prisoners were described as
James Spencer. 21, of Anderson,
S. C, five feet, nine inches; weight
160 pounds; red hair; James Lail,
18, of Robbinsville, 5 feet, 11
inches. 150 pounds, black hair; and
James Howard, 23, of Asheville, 5
feet, 9 inches; 145 pounds, with
brown hair.
All three were wearing brown
trousers and white shirts at the
time of their escape. ?
Busses were searched and a
watch maintained on roads in Hay
wood county by local police and
member of the Highway Patrol.
ATTENDS CONVENTION
Joe W. Davis of Hazelwood at
tended the Southeastern Photog
raphers convention September 15
17 in Asheville.
Highway
Record For
, 1947
In Haywood
(To Date)
Injured ---42
Killed---- 6
(This Information Com
piled From Records of
State Highway Patrol)
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