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ilincng County's Top Com Grower Five Haywood County school boys earned memberships in the Haywood County 100-Bushel Corn Club by their expert farming dur ing 1949. The boys and their elders in this exclusive club were honored last Thursday night at the annual Corn Club banquet at East Waynesville School. Allen Boone of Waynesville, route 1, a member of the Future Farmers of America chapter of Waynesville High School, topped the youngsters and most of . the veterans with a yield of 133.1 bush els of corn from a single acre. Hugh Pressnell, 12 -year -old member of the Crabtree-Iron Duff Junior 4-H Club, came through 1 with a yield of 123.29. -J. L. Chambers of the Bethel FFA qualified foe the Club with 113 bushels. Wade Francis, who was one of the Waynesville Mountaineers' top ends last football season and is president of his high school 4-H Club, turned In a tidy 109.68 to gain his membership. , , Billy Allison, of the Bethel 4-H Club and FFA chapter showed a yield of 106.2 bushels. ' Pigeon Valley farmers generally dominated the roster of the Club which helped give Haywood Coun ty its greatest year In corn produc tion. . County Agent Wayne Corpening, who applied the label of "greatest," declared that the county's farmers would have done even better than this record but for the floods of last June and the generally heavy rains that swept through low-lying corn fields throughout the county. Dwight Williams' yield of 141.34 bushels which won both state and county championships had never before been reached officially by any Haywood County farmer. .OraI Yates of Iron Duff was a elose second for the county title with a yield of 137.28 bushels. -Here is the complete record of the members and associate mem bers of the Corn Club, shown with their yields per acre for 1940; 2 Dwight Williams, Waynesville 141.34 (State and County champion). Oral Yates, Iron Duff 137.28 (County runnerup). , "Jack Chambers, Clyde, Route 1 135.8. Wayne Sorrells, Canton, Route 3134.2. A. J. McCracken, Waynesville, Route 2133.5. W. A. Medford. Waynesville, Route 1133.3. Allen Boone. Waynesville, Route 1 133.1. C. S. Rollins, Canton, Route 3 132.8. Frank Bradshaw, Waynesville, Route 2132. Weaver Parkins, Clyde, Route 1 129.18. Howard Burnctte, Canton, Route 3123.9. I Hugh Presnell, Clyde, Route 1 123.29. v .. . . . v.Gene Barrett, Canton, Route 3 122.5. ... i William Osbornet Clyde 122.07. Joe Palmer, Clyde, Route 1 117.3. G. C. Palmer, Clyde, Route 1 116.34. Thurman Sanford, Waynesville, Route 2116.28. . Tom Rainer, Waynesville, Route 2- 116. , v Hiram McCracken, Waynesville, Route 1115.5. C. M. Moody, Waynesville, Route 2115.34. D, J. Boyd, Waynesville, Route 2114.15. , Roy Arrington, Waynesville, Route 1114.12. C V. Sorrells, Canton. Route 1 113.8. J. L. Chambers, Canton, Route 2113. George E. Stamey, Canton, Route 2111.7. L. Z. Messer, Waynesville. Route 1111.1. ' Willis Wood, Waynesville, Route 1110.9. Watt Howell, Canton, Route 2 Wade Francis, Waynesville, Route 1109.68. Raymond McCracken, Route 1108.38. naney Warllck, Waynesviil nuuie t 100.96. Billy Allison, Canton, Route 2 106.2. 7 M KIrkPWck;: ClydeTiote 1105.5. 'Wayne Stamey, Canton, Route 2 104. 'John F- Rogers, Clyde, Route 1- 102.6. ' V?;M- Fisher C1yde- i - Corn Champion Gets Trophy in Jonathan Woody, left, presents Dwight Williams the trophy repre senting the 1949 Haywood County corn-producing championship as J. F. Rogers, president of the Haywood County 100-Bushel Corn Club stands by. Williams top yield of 141.34 bushels from a single acre also won him the state championship. The trophy, donated by the First National Bank of Waynesville, was presented during the Club's annual banquet Thursday night at East Waynesville School. (Photo by Ingram's Studio). MORE ABOUT Awards (Continued from Pare 1) 24 editions of all the newspap ers. . The awards were made at Duke University Friday night, with Governor W. Kerr Scott making the announcement of the winners and presenting the awards to the editors of the winning news papers.:.. The Smi thfield Herald won first place in the news division, and ; The Elkin Tribune first place ln features. Zjai tWi- weekly; division,' The TangjjVa?'1"1; The Forest City Courier and The Leeksville News, were first place winners. W. Curtis Russ, editor of The Mountaineer, attended the Mid Winter Institute, and received the three awards in behalf of this newspaper, MORE ABOUT Medford N (Conunuea trom rate 1) Clyde, e, MORE ABOUT Democrats (Continued from Page D cincts. The final session is scheduled for Clyde on February 16. The first of the series of meet ings was held last Saturday at Can ton for the six Beaverdam pre cincts. The County Rally will be held February 18 at the Court House here, and the Young Democrats will open their membership drive formally then at a banquet. The committee on arrangements for this meeting consists of Win gate Hannah, Jerry Rogers, Jimmy Reed and Carolyn Henderson. Other committees named at the recent county meeting here were NHugh Latherwood, Waynesville, Chairman, Milton Brown of Clyde, Cole Cogbum of Canton, and Mrs. Fred Campbell of Hazelwood. Finance: David Underwood, chairman, Jack Williams of Canton and Bruce Brown of Clyde. Constitution and By-Laws: Wil liam Medford, Waynesville, chair man, with Mrs. Edith Alley and James H. Howell, Jr. Social Committee: Mrs. Carolyn Henderson of Canton, chairman, Mrs. Jack West of Clyde and Mrs. Joe Palmer of Waynesville. Executive Committee: James W. Reed, Jr., Waynesville, chairman, Wingate Hannah of Waynesville, Loranzo Smathers of Canton, Glen W. Brown of Clyde, Jack Mc Cracken of Pigeon, Ken Browning of Cecil Raymond Caldwell of Iron Duff, Wallace Hill of Crabtree, Charles H. Duckett of Fines Creek, Jule Boyd of Jonathan Creek, Tom Medford of Ivy Hill, Row Ledford of White Oak, Reed Sutton of Mt. Sterling and Lush Caldwell of Cataloochee. Publicity Committee: Jerry Rog ers and Fred Campbell. Jerry Rogers, Chairman of Hay wood County Board of Elections, displayed the new Registration Books and explained their usage Plans were discussed for a second county rally to be held sometime in May. prior to the date set tor the Democratic Primary. the club climaxed the annual din ner. - " .'. Prior to the presentation of the trophy, W. D. Lee, soil specialist to both the N. C. Agricultural Ex periment Station and the N. C. State College Extension Service presented tne memows witn tneir scrolls. . These showed that nine of the county's farmers drew better than 130 bushels from an acre of land, five others topped 120 bushels per acre, 15 more produced 110 bush els or better or, that 29 Haywood farmers have been producing at least 110 bushels to the acre. A newsman's spot check at the banquet furthermore showed that most of these have been hitting these marks consistently oyer the last few years at least. In all, certificates were awarded to 42 .full members and two asso ciate members. The full members, of course, had to produce 100 bushels an acre to make the roll. The associate members reached their status by obtaining high yields under the 100-bushel mark. One showed a yield of 83 bushels per acre, the other, 76 bushels, One official, expressing respect over the large number of Haywood County farmers who had shown these tremendous yields, pointed out that Haywood farmers as a whole produce an average 38 bush els of corn per acre three1 bushels per acre more than the state average,.'"'"-" Corn Club officials that night also decided to do something about letting visitors to the county know where these big corn yields are produced. : Retiring Vice-President Frank Davis prewnteAJaembBr-itlf front of his farm. The black letter ing on the yellow background reads: ' "Member 100 Bushel Corn Club." The sign is centered with the figure of an ear of corn labelled: "N. C. Certified Hybrids." The women and girls of the Rat- cliffe Cove Methodist Church serv ed a dinner of ham, lima beans, mashed potatoes and gravy, and salad but no corn. Corn was the silent guest of hon or that night. Robert L, Brown, Waynesville, Route 2101.4. Mrs. Quay Medford, Lake Juna- luska 101.4. : " Claude Rogers, Waynesville 100.4. W. G. Arrington, Waynesville, Route 1 over 100. Albert Walker, Clyde, Route 1 83.04 (associate member). Mrs. R, C. Long, Lake Junalus ka 76.8 (associate member). .'.. MOKE AEOCT Corn Club (Continued from Page 1 bushel yields and higher in the Mid-West, he declared that through a personal investigation he learned that these figures are actually the result of different standards of measurement that the judges in the North Carolina corn contest use for estimating yields. j By Mid-Western standards, he indicated, the Waynesville farm er's record would not be topped by any other grower in the nation. He added he was going to see , whether North Carolina corn grow ers this year could enter the na tional competition on the taore liberal basis. The agronomist mixed his bou quets with a few kindly brick bats, tOO. : He expressed his professional respect for the fact that so many Haywood County growers were eligible to attend a banquet of this nature. V '' . ; But at the same time, referring to the corn exhibits placed by ad joining tables, he said that judg ing from this representation, Hay wood County was "out of line" with the state as a whole In the proportion of hybrid corn produc tion. ""North Carolina last year," he said, "grew 70 per cent yellow (hy brid) corn of the total production. Haywood County Is out of line." Referring to the state as a whole, however, he attributed North Caro lina's loss to Virginia in the Inter state corn war of last year to the fact that Tar Heel farmers had not turned as fully to the use of hy brid as Virginia farmers have. "As progressive as North Caro lina is in this respect," he said, Virginia is more progressive. "Virginia is 80 per cent adapted to hybrid corn. North Carolina is only 31 per cent. "If 3.5 bushels more to the acre had been raised In North Carolina, Tar Heel farmers would have won the contest. In other words, they would have won It if they had ac cepted hybrid corn more widely ." Praising the Haywood farmers for their high corn yields for the contests, he declared, however, mat tne most economical corn- production level is somewhere be low the 100-bushel level. The current average of the coun ty, boosted by the tremendous yields obtained by the members of the Corn Club, is 38 bushels per acre. .. Dr. Collins said that a range of 50 to 75 bushels is an economical one where the returns from the investment in materials of produc tion is higher proportionately than that used to obtain the much great er yields. V " Generally, he said again, to raise the level of production, the farm er must get back to basic fertility, he must think In terms of rota tion. In connection with this, he re ferred to the planting of pasture crops this year. "The Brannan plan," he said, "hasn't been passed yet. If it does go into effect, it. will put controls on just about everything. This acreage allotment will be on a his toric base. you want to now, and build up this historic base. If the Brannan plan is enacted, you may not be able to seed all the pasture you want to. This he said is what he meant by the statement, "You can't live by corn alone." Dr. Collins' address generally Vc!:d Forest Student End: To Fcco Murder Chcrgo Martin To Show Nev Appliances1 ! Paul Martin, of j told todav of h'rn.ri . t - if of Frigidaire household Raymond D. Hair (left), 24, pre-medieal student at Wake Forest College, is brought back to Raleigh, from Los Angeles to face the charge bf murdering a eollege chum. He pauses a moment with Sheriff If. J. Pleasants (right) before entering a jail cell. II air," a resident of Fayettevllle, was arrested in Los Angeles 28 days after another student, Roy W. Coble, was shot to death near the Wake Forest campus. . . : li . i : i- ; : : MORE ABOUT Polio (Continued trom rage 1) at local theatres following the showing of trailers carrying the plea for aid to the victims of the polio epidemics, past and future. Tomorrow, Massle's Furniture Store will display an iron lung in connection with the March of Dimes apneal. Last week, the store displayed other equipment that the Dimes funds buy for the victims of infantile paralysis. Throughout the county, benefit events are beinn planned or sche duled for definite performance In the near future. The dime board will continue to onerate through next week for the 1950 March of Dimes campaign In the Waynesville area. The board will be in front of the First National Bank until the j bank closes for business, then will move to the front of the American Fruit Stand further up Main Street. The remainder of the schedule is as follows: Tuesday 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. David Hyatt, Mo Kimball, Mrs. Ethel McDarrls, Kate Lowe; 11 a.m. to I p.m. Ott Ledbetter, Frank Love, Mary Med ford, and Mary Ketner; 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Tom Lee, Johnny Johnson, Mary Michal, and Frances Rose; 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Leo Weill, Dan Watkins, Rozell Nesbitt, and Nancy Killian; Wednesday 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Bill Ray, Felix Stovall, Margaret Johnston, Rubye Bryson; Thursday 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Nick Medford, Charles Ray, Bill Bradley, Wanda Dover, Clara Rippetoe; 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Ben Sloan, Bob Stretcher, Bea Brown, Edith Alley; 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Hallett Ward, Tom String field,, Ethel McDarrls, .Mary Med torfr, z-- ' '"iu.' 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Bill Medford, Jack Way, Ova Ferguson, Rozell Nesbitt; Friday . 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Jim Massie, Tom Stringfleld, Mary Ketner, MORE ABOUT j Queen (Continued from page one) the dance, and that the Soco Gap String Band, which plays for Queen's dances, are donating their services free of charge. That means a saving of about $75 in the normal rent for use of the hall and the average fee the Square Dance Band usually receiv es for playing, Stovall said. Last year, Sam Queen's benefit dance poured $60 into the March of Dimes campaign chest. Bookmobile Schedule 4-H Council Sets Up New Awards At Meeting Here Forty-four members of Hay wood County's 4-H Club Council last Saturday discussed the details of the annual Achievement Day Program scheduled for next Satur day and Voted to set up special at tendance awards. With Council President Nancy Poston of Bethel presiding, the members at their meeting in the Court House decided to give an award to the club having the larg est representation at Achievement Day. ;. ';- ,J:;i''" They also decided to hold regu lar. Council meetings on the . first Saturday ol each month. In conection with this, they es tablished an award to the Club having the highest attendance of officers at these Council meetings during 1950. During their Court House meet ing also they heard Miss Mary Wednesday, Jan. 25th ALLENS CREEK & BALSAM RD. Aliens Creek School .. Mrs. E. K. Chambers Frank Worllck Mrs. Wiley Wilson .. Kay Allen .. ...........I ... Franklin's Home Groc Rainbow Cafe ............ Saunook School j....... O. J. Beck : Ensley's Valley Groc. .... 9:10- 9:30 9:35- 9:50 ...10:00-10:20 ..,.10:30-10:50 ...11:00-11:15 ,. ..11:30-11:45 ...12:15-12:30 ...12:45- 1:15 ...1:15- 1:30 .... 1:45- 2:00 Laughing Clerk Routs Drug Store Bandit ST. LOUIS (UP) Henry J. Grady, a drug store clerk, just laughed When a Negro bandit point ed a pistol at him and said, "This Is a holdup." "No it isn't," Grady said. "Why that gun isn't even loaded." Grady, still laughing, turned and walked away. The bandit, obvious ly confused, hesitated a moment, then fled. Mary Michal; 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. was 'loaded with forceful state-l?u.rtls Russ- Gy Massie. Margaret ments supported by solid facts, figures, and plain good farming sense. In other points, he suggested that corn be planted in rows fac ing north and south to give the fullest, advantage of the sunlight He declared Howard Clapp, director of the Mountain Test Farm, had produced as good look ing a crop of corn as he had seen and without cultivation. "Cultivation," he declared, "is purely and simply weed control. If you can do it without hoeing, the same aim is reached." Williams was presented the large golden trophy symbolic of the county corn-growing championship for 1949. Jonathan Woody made the presentation on behalf of the First National Bank of Waynesville, the donor. For his brilliant mark in corn production, Williams already had been awarded a $100 U. S. Savings Bond as the county champion and another $100 bond as the state champion. : . Williams - will keep the trophy until a new county champion is crowned. To keep the trophy permanently, a producer has to win the title three times, though not necessar ily in succession. , ' . So far, no Haywood County man has won it more than once. J. F. Rogers, president of the Cornwell, Haywood home demons tration agent, describe the func-Corn Club, was in charge of the tions of the Council. , event, and Frank Davis, vice-presi Johnston, Wilma Sease; 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Tom Lee, Leo Weill, Kate Lowe, Alma McCracken; 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Jonathan Woody, Dan Wat kins, Lucy Jones, Eula Patterson. , Saturday . . 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Kim Barber, Dave Hyatt, M. H. Bowles, Eliza beth McCracken, Kathryn Kirk- patrick; 10 a.m. to 12 noon Doug las Grant, Aaron Prevost, Rev. M. R. Williamson, Elise Palmer, f ranees Rose; 12 noon to 2 p.ra Russ Kibby, Roy Francis, Mo Kim ball, Alma McCracken, Clara Rip. petoe; 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Johnny Johnson. Ben Sloan. Shirley Con dent of the Club gave the welcom Ing address to the guests and mem. bers. County Agent Wayne Corpen ing generally supervised the pro gram... The guests were recognized by Sam Ferguson, the Club treasurer, and G. C. Palmer, Jr., the secre tary, -introduced the principal speaker. . The Rev. M. R. Williamson, pas tot of the Waynesville Presbyteri an Church, opened the banquet with the invocation. The event wasn't all' shop-talk or field talk. .. . For entertainment, the popular Francis Cove Chord Busters Wayne Edwards, Jack Kelly, Earl Hoglen, and Paul Franklin sang three favorites, then had to sing three more before the enthusiastic audience would let them retire. natser, Amelia Leatherwood, Belle Ratcliffe; "tftfrtd'T f. m.cirBarbet Ralph Prevost, Jonathan Woody, Wanda Clark, Dixie Campbell. MORE ABOUT Patrolman (Continued from page one) honorable discharge, and went into the oil business in Onslow county with his brother. The 190-pound six-foot patrol man, a bachelor, is making his home in Hazelwood. Murrill Is the second new officer to be assigned to Haywood since the first of the year, Patrolman Wooten joined the Patrol forces here earlier to re place Patrolman Bill Sawyer pf Waynesville, who was transferred to Kings Mountain, Wooten's form er station. The others on duty are Corporal John L. Carpenter, and Patrolman II. Dayton. Resignations and transfers had cut Haywood's normal Patrol strength of five officers, to three before Murrill was assigned here. The force is expected to be brought to full normal strength within the next eight weeks when another officer is scheduled to be assigned to the county after the State Highway Patrol School term at Chapel Hill graduates its cur rent class. ators, ranees ann . wuicn ne inspected recemh Frigidaire District there Martin said that he y underway for an extent uu muses. iew 1950 nrrvkl be on display "within 5j or three wanbe to be announced later" The r.ew refriem-.t'. fords three distinct H luu,- to-. and 10 sizes. Food stor cities range from fn,, feet. Martin points line includes two-door rpfrtffprntnre . arate "locker-top" freeziL partmehts; De Luxe m2 full-Width frPP7Pr0 uu doors, and Master and sw iciiigciaiurs. "AU models." hp ,a J distincUve new Raymond i styling. Gold and chromie side trim adds to the appe my icinscittLurs 01 the lin. H1K.11UI9 me maue more ittr. by colorful new ice-bin.. Among the many new fP!,tJ "target" door latches, afc) luu-wiam piasuc chill y piasuc DasKet drawers and twin Hydrator arranBemom ' Martin, said that idea has been injected hito priced electric ranee desi i are two, compact 30-inch Ty 30 models equipped with Frigidaire describes as "tin est ovens installed on ki ranges". The new -"giant" J tending , completely acres range, will hold up to six 10 loaves of bread. Other new products inU .... " 8t the district meetine in if. 7 and 18 cubic foot imi ers, an improved electric dek ifier, window room air eonditi glass door commercial ret. tors, self-contained farm mitt ers, water coolers and lar J city open-type ice cream catf EIGHT GOT FOUR SOUTH BEND, Ind (AP) A mong the seniors on the 1949 Notre Dame football team were eight players who earned four Irish grid monograms. They were Emil Sitko, Jim Martin, Leon Hart all three All-Americas, Mike Swistowicz, Walt Grothaus, Steve Oracko, Ralph McGehee and Doug Waybright. CARD OF THANKS we wish to express our thanks to everyone for their help and kind expressions of love in the sickness and death ..v of our , wife ;fend , mother-,.',. Mrs, AnnaM'aFiaUnderw'6od. W. P. Underwood and Sons, Hilliard and Fred. In 1950 Yale will face the nine 1949 football opponem Connecticut, Brown. Fordhan lumbia, Cornell, Holy Cross ! mouth, Princeton and Hard Tfieyll tz&Hl lie sensational netf 1950 TRlGlDAlRg Home Appliances . 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