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STANDARD pt- , Comp 220-230 S ki1V LOl'lSVILLE KT - I Idelight s JjE Mount mneer TODAY'S S5IILE Something to remember "If you have a rood tem per, don't lose it If yon have a bad one, keep if I I 1' Of The JQLJCj News Published Twice-A-Week la The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park O- kition rine post in front of the - fllon h the way- use nas "" - Greeks ago, we new was put UP reaaing ow vilu-ood 13. Wending portion was re Kpparently that wasn't isn't exactly the riaht ..hat haDDened to U. " !' niffht the n..H0prt over. ten sukb--icu fc of an error In parsing, ; Lands A per Massey took off from irini duties Ion? enough r- " c . tn Drove W nsnermen ones' still thrive in Lake 63th YEAR NO. 8 16 PAGES Associated Press and United Press News WAYNESVILLE, N. C, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JAN. 26, 1930 $3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties Saunook, Jonathan Creek, Maggie, Newfound, Beaverdam Areas Included In .Rural Ph oee Froiect .10 Go st $75,000 All For The March Of Dimes red worms, Fisherman hauled out an 8-pound inrhes long. - . . i nerosity overpowered nis nd hp eave the prize , Octavious Love, well Imitor. before naving a ' , i I marte. Anyway, ne nas iroof to at least show that cne did noi The Light thpr dav a waynesvme 'd rather forget the whole insnortinff some new sh cauipment he was buy- camera store. To test u, Id a bulb in the flash gun, lie camera at the street,! ped the shutter, The bulb kirk. . bled around with the bulb, Jack, aimed the camera at bt again, and snapped me ti't work again. l-ned the camera around, and frowned at the bulb. pped the shutter. ked. store owner courteously I the mans', wife, and she id led him home. i - s h s; i I-tit I f I SZ2 mm. Couiity 4-H Clubs To Hold Achievement Day Events Saturday From 7 am. to 7 p.m. Jerry, Ball sits in a aox wuth a piano sus pended high above Independence Square in Charlotte, and plays numbers requested via telephone. If he can play the desired tune, the person making the request pays $1 to the March of pimcs fund for infantile paralysis If Jerry can't play it, he drops $1 into the fund. (AP Photo). . - -V. . v Haywood County's 4-H Clubbers will have their day Saturday. . The occasion is the 1950 annual 4-H Achievement Day, when the young farmers and future farm wives will be honored for the out standing work they did on their projects during 1949. R. B. House, chancellor of the University of North Carolina, will address the youngsters and their parents Saturday morning at the Haywood County Court House. j After that. Assistant County Agent Joe Cllne and Assistant Home Demonstration Agent Jean Chllders will present the winners with their medals for achievement. Wade Francis. of the Waynes- ville Senior 4-JI Club, vice-presi dent of the County 4-H Council, will preside over the session. After lunch, the meeting will adjourn to the Armory for an af ternoon of recreation. The Rev. M. R. Williamson, pas tor of the Wayhesville. Presbyteri an Church, will open the meeting at 10 a.m. with the invocation, All the club members, repre senting the 22 4-H organizations in the county, then will give the club pledge, and Bobble Jean Bradshaw will lead, the group In the singing (of "America". 4-H Day Speaker V cnalty OtPxogrcss I Messer is 100 per cent for ral roads, although they causing him one grand is as a road is too bad for bus to travel ' over, the never mention the matter Idesser. But the minute the axes the road, maKing u id wideband covered' with stone, they want a school Bt is only natural, and Mr agrees, but then school fe not that easy to get, and fed routes are not that easy fe. boils down to a big head- the county superintendent Is. . Only Third Of Polio Drive Metlri University of North Carolina Chancellor R, B. House will be the principal speaker Saturday morning at the opening of the annual Haywood County 441 Club Achievement Day program at the Court House here. Wayhesville Flung Garbage Wagon Road Gap Rated Among N. C. 10 Beauty Spots Wagon Road Gap, on High way No. 276, was listed as one of the ten prettiest places in North Carolina, by Carl Goerch, editor of The State Magazine. Mr, Goerch has always pointed out that he felt Wagon Road Gap offered more varied scenic views than did almost any other point in this area. . ... . . . X-i '., Other points In this immedi ate section included the Biltmore Estate, and the drive" west of Highlands. ; it is eight months to Hal -"lite iiioimaier wiui a w - - . n t ?y, climbed a telephone canton rasior iicw rri, r0u, oriitnr nf the Highland F our reporters, hearing of rhurrhman. the magazine of the Went, wondered if by any Woctcrn Nnrth Carolina Episcopal the garbage on the tele- r,,OM ia iho rPV: Robert J. Mc- couw nave m any way r, of Canton. a snort circuit which re- nt-Kr ; named to the "nasty" telephone call ' Dntw in suppppa the Rev. LV wvvt ,f r W. C. Leach of Valley rucis, In The 1950 March of Dimes drive in the Waynesvllle area reached the $2,500 mark this week. Campaign Director Felix Stovall of the sponsoring Waynesvllle Rotary Club and David Hyatt, Waynesville area chairman for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, reported the figure rep resents the receipts from all sourc es Dime Board collections, theatre collections, benefits and organiza tional contribution. The Waynesville Elks Lodge is dropping a cool $100 in the pot. In the four working days between Saturday morning and last night, nassersby dropped $250 worth of coins and bills on the Dime Board that members of the Rotary Club and the Business and Professional Women's Club manned. Two benefit dances are expected to swell the fund considerably more this week-end. Tomorrow night, the Haywood County Polio Ball is being held at the Waynesville Armory under (See Polio Drive Page 8) slight error. jrner Haywood Man Dies bm West Coast Accident al services will h 'held Jlethodist Church, Saturday, ior Ben Green, 40, who asphyxiation at hi Fe. Washington last Friday. Rev. R. P. McCracken will f and interment will be in 'nai Fiott at Green Hill arers will be members nf f wwn Legion Post No. 47, p Pallbearers will be cous- I he LMli.,,,,!,,, , : M I ins, Ben Mooney. Hugh McCracken Joe Mooney. Tommy McCracKen, Sanr McCracken, Glenn McCrack en,, Ed McCracketu- George .. Mc Cracken, Gerald Mooney, and Wil son Medford. . Flower bearers will be members of the American Legion Auxiliary and cousins. MilitarV rites at the graveside will be conducted by members of (See Accident-Page 8) N Press CLOUDY 2 "anuary 28 X, Partly u tuntlnilert Vjarm fat r. . te,bythestaffothe Farm): . Max. ..60 ... 70 .. 68 Min. Rainfall 49 .... 45 J2 County Agent Corpening Says: Ladino Glover Holds Future Prosperity For County Farmers "Haywood's farm prosperity of the future depends to large degree on the number of acres we plant in Ladino clover," County Agent Wayne Corpening pointed out this morning. . "Experiments have proven the value of this pasture cover to be so high, that a goal of 10,000 acres for 1950 in Haywood has been set," the county farm leader continued. In order to fully acquaint the Reopened On Monday By BOB MEDFORD Mountaineer Correspondent Clyde't freight depot is open for business. Last Monday, for the first time since 1948, the office by the rail road crossing started operating. John Smathers of Clyde, the newly appointed freight agent, re ported for duty that morning. There was no telegraph at first. but there will be as soon as the equipment is installed. The depot was opened again af ter its long idleness by an order is sued last October by the State Utilities Commission, The order followed a hearing In Ashevllle of representatives of the Southern Railway and a large group of Clyde businessmen last June before Commissioner Mc Mahan. v Acting as legal counsel for Clyde was Town Attorney Bruce Brown. The railway officials appealed to the full seven-man commission from the o order, But the slate agency ruled to sustain Commis sioner McMahans opinion on which the order was based.- A number 'of members of the commission complimented the towns' young attorney by saying that the case the town had pre sented was one of the best pre pared it had heard. The Commls slon in a letter to Mr. Brown said that the town's oral argument also was one of the most able it had ever heard and requested copies for future reference. Work In Balsam Area Scheduled To Begin About First Of April Five more rural areas of Hey wood are scheduled to get telephone facilities during 1950. This fact was learned today by The Mountaineer from J. Loyell Smith, district manager of the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company. V It is estimated the five rural projects will cost about $75, 000, and work is slated to begin on the first one about April.' Mr. Smith said the five projects did not include the work now nearing completion on Aliens Creek, which will add Soon after April first, construe- Large Haywood Delegation To Go To Jackson Event Haywood County will be repre sented by 16 people at the Demo cratic Party's annual Jefferson- Jackson Day dinner at Raleigh next Saturday. W. G. Byers, who plans to at tend as chairman of the Haywood County Democratic Executive Committee, described the 1950 dinner today as promising to - be "the most successful and colorful occasion in many years." The principal speaker for the $50-a-plate event will be Vice President Alben W. Barkley. Mrs. Doyle Alley, co-chairman assisting Mr. Byers, announced (See Democrats Page 8) To Speak Here t r " "X 1a L $5 Offered For Ladino Slogan County Asent Wayne Corpen ing is offering- $5.00 to the per son submitting the best slogan on Ladino clover. The slogan should be brief, pointed, and have a definite meaning. The contest closes Wednes day, February 1, at five o'clock, and all entries should be mailed or delivered to the county agent's office. people with the true value of La dino, a series of sessions have been held with farm leaders from .all sections of the county, and Mr. Corpening has cited many instan ces of the worth of this pasture crop here in Haywood. Ladino clover was first Introduced In Hay wood about 1945. A I'UIe was planted in 1944. but it was not until 1945 that the first county-wide recognition was gained from the croo. Mr. Corpening has set a special meeting for many farmers ana civic leaders of the county to dis cuss the 10,000-acre program fin Monday night at his office. "We have some 93,500 acres of pasture land in Haywood, and to (See Ladino Clover Page 8) Patrol Checks Here Show Very Few Bad Lights The state's compulsory auto in spections have been dead and buried many months now. But as far as attention to their lights are concerned, Haywood's motorists are keeping their vehic les up to snuff Just the same in fact, better than those over the rest of the state generally. This week the State Department of Motor Vehicles reported that in spot checks State Highway Patrol men found that one-third of the motor vehicles inspected in De comber had defects in their light ing systems. Asked recently how many de fective lights his inspections in this area had revealed, State High way Patrol Corp. John L. Carpen ter replied: "Very few." In all. officers throughout the state checked 89,203 vehicles for lights. In this group, they found 27 181 bad lights. They issued 887 light tickets and 6.009 equipment tickets to motorists. The patrolmen worked 125,489 hours and travelled 1,342,839 miles in the performance of their duties The department also reported that traffic accidents in the state during December killed 57 people and injured 668. HORACE EASOM,, director of the North Carolina Baptist Broth- erhood, will address the Hay wood Assoclational Me n ' s Meeting-, which will be held next Sunday at the First Baptist Church of Waynesville. The meeting will open at 3 p.m. A Baptist Men To Meet Sunday At Church Here A Haywood County Assoclational men s meeting win open at 3 p. m Sunday at the First Baptist church here, with Horace Easom, director of the North Carolina Baptist Brotherhopd, scheduled, to make the principal speech. ' Every Baptist church in Haywood county is expected to send repre sentatives to the meeting, and every pastor, deacon and layman In the churches are urged to at tend. The Rev. L. G. Elliott, pastor of the host church, will Lad the devotional, while the Waynesville Male Quartet will provide special music. Recognition of the churches and announcements will be made by Harry Mashburn just before Mr. F.asom sneaks. A hymn and the benediction will close the meeting at 4:10 p. m. M, C. Wyatt is to give the bene diction. tlonls scheduled to begin on lines front the Dayton Rubber Plant up Highway 19A-23 to the State Fish Hatchery. This project will ac commodate about 73 phones, he' said. Tentative estimates are that 90 days will be required to get ser vice completed after construction starts. The cables to the beginning- of the project are already com pleted. ; ?. Yesterday an engineer of the company was In the Jonathan Creek. ; area making a field survey, witb the idea of setting up blue print-. ed plans for service in that sec tion. The engineer made a house count, and took measurements be tween the houses in the section. Mr. Smith said that another rural project was supplementing the expansion of a few years ago in the Maggie area. He made no I stlmate , as to the number oi phones which would be added, but did say, that plans are to add quite a few more. Two of the rural projects are out of the Canton exchange. One Is ' the Newfound area, and it it stlmated that about 40 phone:; will be put in that area, and per haps few more than 40 In the Beaverdam section. The company engineers have already strung cable through North Canton for both of these projects.; There are now approximately 4,900 telephones in Haywood coun ty. Waynesville has . 2,350, and Canton 2,550. The completion oZ these five rural projects will add a number to both exchanges. The circuits down into Crabtres and Iron Duff were completed ear lier this year, Mr. Smith asid ha had nothing definite to report on the proposed lines Into Fines wee and that a study is being made of extending lines from the Fish Hatchery into the Balsam seuu ment. Both projects are in ma tentative stages, he explained. Champion Fibre Wants Old Photos Beekman Huger, an official cf The Champion Paper and Fibre Company yesterday made a re quest for the loan of pictures c the early construction days of the plant in Canton. - Mr. Huger Is preparing some historical data on the Canton di vision, and needs some photo graphs made about 190 5 when work was started on the plant. Building And Loan Directors Re-Elect All Their Officers Let's Have A Parade, And Get Some Snow Rumors were making the rounds this morning that the Tobac co Harvest Committee was in session, and might come up with the suggestion of staging a surprise parade just to spite the weather- manFor three "successive years,""the weatherman' has gotten the best of the parade committee. -Each time there has been rain. ' sleet or snow. The 1949 parade brought about the only snow to fall here this winter. 1 , .... . The committee remained silent on their plans, but it is known, that they would like to "get even" for the many tough breaks. the action of the committee would be upheld by youngsters, who have been denied a snowfall. Many older persons, especially those with low coal piles, thought the "action of the committee mi- AI1 officers of the Haywood Building and Loan Association were re-elected by the board of directors here Monday night. The board had been re-elected on the 17th, when the 30th annual meet ing of the 30-year-old organization was held. The officers are: R. L. Prevost, president, C, N. Allen, vlce-presl dent; L. N. Davis, secretary-treas urer; Miss Elsie McCracken, as sistant, and A. T. Ward, attarney. Committee Discusses Work On 4-H Club Camp -The members of the overall com mittee directing the Haywood county 4-H 'Club 'Camp last Thurs day discussed the problems of com pleting the camp in time for open ing early this summer. The committeemen talked over plans for building the pool and landscaping the playground, the two major jobs still to be done. County Agent Wayne Corpening, a member of the committee, said after the meeting that they hoped ' (See 4-H Camp Page 8) Trees In City Park Trimmed All the trees in the City Park on East Street have had a "limb cut ting" and are now all set for a pretty spring. Town workmen have cut away surplus and dead limbs from the huge oaks, and Improved the looks of the Park materially. The cords and cords of wood will probably be converted into funds for further improving the nnoearance of the Park, It was learned from Town officials. JUST HOW DID a Modern Store Look Back In 1904 the answer to this question is a photo graph in the special "50 Years Of Progress" Edition of The Mountaineer, which will be published in February. Bioodmobile To Visit Waynesville Area Tuesday The American Red Cross Blood mobile will pay its first visit of the new year to the Waynesville area next Tuesday. The blood donor room will be set up in the basement of the Way nesville Presbyterian church, and will operate from 10 a. m. until 4 p.. m. . Meanwhile, the Waynesville Lions Clubbers pressed their search for the remainder of the 130 vol unteers. Boyd Owen, chairman of the Many Spring Flowers Now In Bloom For How Long? Gardeners were checking this morning on the shrubs and flowers that are beginning to bloom in this spring-like, weather. Bees by the thousands are buzzing about budding maple trees, while winter jasmine has added a touch of gold to the bleak yards since early December. ' Breath of spring Is in bloom, and many, gardeners reported their Splrea in bud, and Jonquils were popping up in many a plot. Iris has shoots several inches high, and Japonica is in bloom. Many feople are literally sleeping with one eye open, won dering when Old Man Winter will strike a death blow to the spring flowers that are blooming In mid-winter. . Club's health and welfare commit tee, who has tne Tesponsiuiuij findina donors for this visit, sa-.a today nearly 100 folks had regis tered to give a pint oi mooo. eacu. At the same time, however, he pointed out that at least some of these may not De aoie 10 (See Bioodmobile rage o ' - ""T7n Highway Record For 1950 In Haywood (To Date) Killed.... 2 Injured . 5 (This information com piled from Records of State Highway Patrol).