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STANDARD PTG C Comp 220-230 S First in LOUISVILLE K7 -u :!ight f Tho llows s 1 n JLIUU Waynes till eMoui Published Twice-A-Week In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park cT3L3 TODAY'S ::ILE Doc: "Best thing: for yon to do Is to stop drinking and to to bed early every night.? Patient: "Frankly, doe, I don't deserve the best. What's next best?" L ad Louder lie fire siren sounded Friday morning passing bewildered to see fire riln front of the sta- ii towards the sky. The - . j re calm, and seemea t to stand and look sky- f'isten. isity "of one motorist got f him, so he asked: .ning?" n have Just finished I siren on a hew and aform this is the test k a fire," he was told. ;ood Com ' ... . , : J hi tallest corn crop seen id is the large tract back . ion churcn on upper Tie corn field belongs Ndand, and it is shoul- iimei comments that "any tW." close to a church JiecessRy have to be good hat that had to do with ir is unknown, but it is a of tall corn for early 66th YEAR NO. 53 12 PAGES Associated Press WAYNESVILLE, N. C, MONDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 2, 1951 $3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties 3 Elayuood Groups Pul Endorsement On ESiglmay 'Step Right Up - Free Ice Cream Resigns As Pastor Weather and humid weather that County recently experi- created quite a problem I the local dentists. td he could not figure out iany people are having k, unless it is the weather, this week he pulled near iteeth for twenty different at is rather a record the-20 patients had ap is that day, they were Snes that couldn't stand bny longer and came in it tooth out! ie week-end this dentist Iral more calls than that, too, might be due ather, in his opinion. ore of The Same veryone has some good r the people who get a much sun and get a nice hy times the advice is fol particular instance, the th a bad sun burn; tried ktggested medicines and pedies for per Sunburn Vet Ifc with ntimerotw stin nd put tr.eamg and 'salves fl,, a week later, she was irned as always. ie talked with a girl from America who had a beau- JThe advice she received -was: "never put anything 1 just getouUn'theiSun omc more on top of what fly. have!" ' ' Jrists Given Ung By Patrol 1th Travel ?itchard Smith said that way patrol were making a constant and rigid check I on Haywood highways th. are two eood mips to art on time, and do not ient in heavy trafto. It J make-up much time in flic, so start where you : in plenty of time," he REV. PAUL THROWER has re signed as pastor of the Hazel wood Presbyterian church to ac cept the pastorate of the Pickens, S. C, church, Rev. Paul Thrower Going To Pickens, Leaves Aug. 15th The Rev. Paul P. Thrower has tendered his resignation as pastor of the Hazelwood and Bethel Pres. byterian churches, effective the middle or last of August. He is resigning to accept the pastorate of the Presbyterian church at Pick ens, S. C. Mr. Thrower announced his res ignations at the two churches Sun day morning and asked for eongre gational meeting to be held fol lowing next Sunday's services. Mr. Thrower is in the early part of his fourth year as pastor of the Hazelwood and Bethel churches He came here after serving six and one-half years in the Camp Green ,ehurch..ia Charlotte; , ; ; ' 34 Club Members Leave Tues. For trip Into Texas Thirty-four 4-H Club members leave Tuesday morning for Denton, Texas ,in this year's only 4-H Ex change Program. The Haywood county group was selected by D. S. Weaver, director of extension at State College, to represent North Carolina in the exchange, The' group, traveling by charter ed bus, will arrive in Depton Thurs day afternoon. They will remain there until July 12 and be back home on the 14th. The Denton club will visit here next year. Miss Mary Cornwell, county home agent, and Grover S. Dob bins, assistant county farm agent, are in charge of the trip, Three Haywood groups went on ecord during the past week favor ing immediate construction of Highway No. 284 from Cove Creek down the Pigeon River to the Ten nessee line. Under an agreement with the Park service, the present gravel road known as No. 284 is temporary, and Would become a Parkrbad upon completion of the new water-level route down Pigeon River. The Canton Chamber of Com merce led the pace by adopting a resolution of formally approving the immediate construction of the water-level route, On Thursday the Canton Civitian Club also went on record favoring the road. The speaker at the meet ing Thursday was W. Curtis Russ, editor of The Mountaineer, and Dave Felmet, president of the Way nesville Chamber of Commerce. Friday the Rotary Club unanl niously endorsed the movement with some 50 members present. Other civic groups are expected to take similar action in the near future.. ; - I- Hearing On Water Bill Suit Will Be Later The proposed hearing growing but of the injunction obtained by Hazelwood to keep Waynesville from cutting off the water on June 15th, will not be heard this week as scheduled. The hearing was to be before Judge Dan K. Moore. . The altornies for both towns have been advised that the judge will be out of the district all this week, and he suggested that the hearing be held in Sylva on July 14th, or here on July 21st. , 'While no definite date has been set it is understood that the hear ing will in -all likelihood 1)e held here on the 21st. v 1 Tax Rate For ........'. .-...'.. County Might I 'i 1 t V and some 1,300 people did just that here Saturday as the Haywood Milk Producers Association, in cooperation with dairies', gave away free ice cream on the lawn of the court house Saturday morning. The event was part of the June Dairy Month program. James Kirkpatrlck Is president of the producers. (Staff Photo). mm Jtrolmen will give special to enforcement of the it of 30 miles an hour on section nf tilahuto.i et " ' mj uob Inton. Officials ire push en the new road, and lave It open by Wednes Vild the road be opened, f e limited to 30 miles "all Friday The Bucket then Some! - iun was no light Ju-st as you suspected. r ' m Farm reports that na a third inches fell -and aU of It between 'our and five o'clock. I EM Haywood To Get Million More In New Rural Roads jHaywood county has a balance of aftout one minion aoiiars in ine r?ral road fund, according to the fipures as of May 31, as computed by the State Highway Commission. W, M. Corkill, division engineer, reported that as of May 31, a total jf $818,318 had been spent on Haywood's rural roads out of the Evo hundred million bond pro-ram. Canton Man Hurt As Car Leaves Newfound Detour Billy Eugene Rogers, 20, of Can ton, suffered three broken ribs, and a severe cut over his left eye, when his car left the detour on the Newfound road, two miles east of Canton at 12:45 Friday morning Patrolman Harold Dayton, in vestigated, and said Rogers' car hit a soft shoulder of the, highway on the right side, and then in getting back onto the road, shot over a 30 foot bank, turned over, and also turned completely around. Patrolman Dayton said the car was a 1937 model Pontiac, and Rogers was the lone occupant. He was brought to the Haywood county-hospital for treatment, which included seven stitches over his eye. Are Self To Geo! (Fo Basing Fourth of July expecta tions on past . experiences, the Chamber of Commerce office will remain open as iate Wednesday night as necessary in order to rco that all visitors get a place to 4l'oeu. Last, year' Mrs. Goraon jSchenck kept the office open until 12:30 a. m. finding rooms for the heavy in flux of visitors. "We plan to stay as long as necessary again this year just as long as we can be of service to the visitors and our tour ist operators," she said. The mail continues heayy, and inquiries about reservations ar,e far ahead of last year. Each .letter of inquiry is getting a personal answer, and not a form letter, she explained. The Tourist Association, which is headed by Mrs. Sam Queen, presi dent, have just published 25,000 folders listing the places of all the members of the Haywood Tourist Association. These are being dis tributed by the Chamber of Com merce through service stations and other points over a wide area. b Off The county commissioners were reviewing the tentative county bud get this morning, and expected to have the board of education pro gram this afternoon. . . This morning the tentative fig ures called for an Increase of 10 cents per $100 valuation, making the proposed new rate at $1.50 as against $1.40 for last year. " The school board is expected to present to the commissioners tentative proposal for improving school buildings in the county and also proposals for a county- wide school bond issue of about a million and a half dollars or more. The final figures of the board will not be complete until later this af. ternoon. The commissioners are basing their study of county needs for the next year on an estimated valuation of $32,400,000, with a tentative ex. penditures to run slightly under $500,000 for the year. The board of education have had an engineer here to make an esti mate of costs of all needed repairs and additions to Haywood schools, Much of this would come from reg ular maintenance funds in the event the bond issue approved it was explained. Hazelwood Mayor Large Overhead Sign Put Up In Front Of Chamber Of Commerce ' Finding the Chamber of Com merce should be no task at all for visitors, with the addition of a large sign hanging in front of the office. The big sign reads, "Waynes ville Chamber of Commerce In formation". Suspended below it is a smaller one, "Tickets Unto These Hills" . Plans j are afoot to have floodlights on each side to ilium, inate the two signs, Road In Park Being Resurfaced Beginning Monday, July 2, the road from Newfound Gap to Cling man's Dome in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park will be closed to traffic on week-days, ex cept for July 4. It will be open on Sundays and on July 4. This road is being resurfaced and it is neces sary to bar traffic therefrom dur ing the resurfacing operations. It is estimated that the resurfacing operations will be In progress for at least three weeks. The road will he open to travel as usual upon completion of the resurfacing. Diving Champion To Perform At Lake On Fourth JJclty McCall of Fort Lauder dale, Fla., 17-ycar-nld Junior Na tional AAU three meter board div ing champion will give a twenty minute diving exhibition as a fea ture of the Fourth of July program at Lake Junaluska, according to an announcement made by Dick Crow der this morning. Miss McCall, who also holds the title of Florida State one-meter board champion, will start her per formance at 2:10 p.m. She is serving as a swimming in structor at Camp Dcllwood for the season, " .., A full program of events has been planned for the Fourth of July at the Lake Junaluska Metho dist Assembly.. . . , In addition to the Candler Camp Meeting, which will be under way, 1 here will be swimming-and boat races and a lakeside display of fire works. No(gate fee Fill be charged visitors for the day. The camp meeting speakers will be heard in morning and evening programs and the , water sports events will be held in the after noon beginning at 2 o'clock. Entrants for the events will be divided into two groups, according to Richard Crowder,. recreational director.' The first group, under, 14 years old, will compete in a 50 yard swimming -rare, . dog paddle race, under water swimming, relay swimming, three legged race, 50 yard dash, egg and spoon race, and a sack race. The events for contestants over 14 will .feature a 100-ynrd free style swimming race and a 100 yard bark stroke race as well as boat races. Trophies will be awarded to first place winners in each event and medals will lie given .for second and third places. The awardr will bo made at the Bath House at 5 p.m. The fireworks display will be the largest ever held in the commun ity and will be staged at 10 p.m The 'Tiring line" will be at the top of Mission Hill near (he cross so that the spectacular bursts of rockets, pinwhecls, and picture de signs will be visible for miles. Haywood Is looking for a ban ner Influx of visitors for the Fourth of July. '. i- ' Business in general will suspend for the day.- but firms catering to tourists are preparing for a record crowd. .Th - C North Carolina Dairying Adds Prosperity To Haywood Income The roll that dairying plays in the prosperity of a nation was des scribed by L. L. Ray at the Hay. wood County Milk Producers Asso. elation banquet Saturday night. Mr. Ray, who is director of the agrl R. L. Coin, Jr. Now At Fort Bragg Robert L Coin. Jr., EMC. has been transferred from Baptist Hospital, Winston-Salem, to the base hospital at Fort Bragg. Coin, who was injured in a high way accident last week, is report ed to be progressing satsifactorlly. -Mostly cloudy and warm ped showers Monday. A fer Tuesday. 1 Waynesvilje tempera worded by the staff of Test Farm): , Max. 85 84 78 79 Min. Rainfall 60 .... "62 1.38 60 .10 64 .14 Officers Find Liquor Flowing From Big Still Three officers walked in on the operations of a flourishing still Saturday, rtabbed one man, and then put the fire out under the 35 gallon copperl still. Five barrels of mash nearbyl were destroyed, as were the four gallons of liquor which had lust been run. Two of the I operators fled the scene from th dense wooded sec tion In the Fi Top area. Nathan i Messer was arrested, and later made bond for $500. Officers ex pect to make further arrests soon. The officers making the raid were Deputy Carl Setzer, togeth er with John Corbin and C. C Noble, of the ATU. "This raid will no doubt be re flected in a safer and saner Fourth," Sheriff Fred Y. Campbell said. Wallace Ward, who is a patient at' Mission Hospital is reported to be progressing satisfactorily. He is recovering from extensive injuries received in a highway accident a Elderly Man Killed On Maggie Highway By Car John Henry Conard, 80, was in Klanlly killed about noon todayras; ho stepped out from behind a car Just west of Maggie, on Highway No. 19, near the intersection of the road that , leads to Cataloochce Ranch. " Patrolman Joe Murrell, investi gator, termed the accident as un avoidable. He said Mr. .Conard stepped out, tro,T behind a stalled car which was being pushed by his grandsons. A car said to have been driven by Jack Rowland Ingle, 34, of West Asheville, struck Mr. Con ard. The Ingle car swerved in an effort to miss the man, Patrolman Murrell said. The highway was wet and slick at the time of the ac cident. Patrolman Murrell said there were a number of eye witnesses to the accident, including motorists directly behind the Ingle car, a 1949 Plymouth coupe. The car was going about 30 miles an hour, the officer said. Dr. J. Frank Pate, coroner, said War n i n g "It Is essential that motorists realise that Highway No, 19 from Lake Junaluska to Soco Gap is extremely dangerous when wet," warned Patrolman. Joe Murrell today, following the death of an elderly man near Maggie. "The entire section of road Is dangerously slick when wet. And motorists using the highway are warned of this condition, and urged to drive with extreme care," the officer continued. death was the result of a fractured skull, in addition to a broken right leg, broken ribs and possibly oth er internal injuries. The injured man never regained consciousness. The body was moved to Garrett Funeral Home, and funeral ar rangements were incomplete at press time. merce has warned of the heavy in crease in inquiries, and prepara tions are being made to take care of the big Increase in visitors. The activities here for the day will begin at ten o'clock with a parade up Main Street, and on out to the high school, where the Boosters Club are staging a full week's program of activities and rides. The program Tuesday will be gin at 10:30 with an athletic pro gram, under the" direction of Turn er Cathey. The contests will in clude races for girls and boys, sack races, tug-o-war, pie eating event, wheelbarrow race, and cow boy race, Cash prizes will be awarded in each event. The afternoon program will get underway at two o'clock with a se ries of four snftball games. The scheduled games are: - 2:00 Morning Star plays Upper Crabtree (girls). . ....... 3:00 Canton Memorial Recrea tion Park (girls) play Haywood County Giants (boys). 4:00 Beaverdam plays Stamey Cove (boys), ' 5:00 Allen's Creek plays Center Pigeon (boys). The evening program will consist of a musical program, starting at eight o'clock, with music by-Carpenter's String Band. The singing contest will get underway at 8:15 with many various groups particip ating. A number of cash prizes will be awarded for the best singing, it was announced, Present plans are to hold the program in the high school audito rium. State College, pointed out that countries with a large quantity of dairy: products are usually out standing in both health and finan ces. Mr. Ray also paid tribute to the progress of dairying in Hay wood county as well as to other agricultural achievements. A second highlight on the ban quet program was the recognition (See Dairying Page 6) y ill Alexander Attends Honorary Tar Heel Meeting In Manteo Tom Alexander attended the meeting of Honorary Tar Heels at Manteo over the week-end. The group met at Cataloochce Ranch sometime ago, and went on a bear hunt. CLYDE L. FISHER was re-elected for the seventh time as may or of Hazelwood in Saturday's town election, New Board Named By 556 Hazelwood Voters Saturday Clyde L. Fisher, re-elected may or for the seventh time in Hazel wood, said this morning that tenta tive plans were for the new board of aldermen to take office Tues day night. -t'The present board has some unfinished business, and I presume they will clear it up Tuesday nlaht cirwn It is flip rpPlll.'ir lllpt--.. Ini? nisht and then thn new. board. . can be sworn into off ice,"' mayor, Fisher said. The new board is composed of John B. Smith, banker; Howell "Bunt" Bryson, service station own er and transport truck operator; and Frank Underwood, owner of Waynesville Auto Parts Co. Fisher won by 31 votes over Carrol Whltner. The vote was 262 to 231. A total of 556 votes were cast, an the poll books showed the names of 881 registered vot ers.'- ''i ' Other candidates for 'aldermen, were: ' . Carl Swanger, incumbent 193 Tom Garrett 4 171 Grady R. Smith, incumbent ,. 162 Woodrow Troutman was regis trar .and judges were J. E. Kuy kcndall, Sr., and Cecil. Mooney, . judges. . . . Pushing To Open Iligbway East 01 Canton Fourth William L. Howell has returned to Highland Park, Michigan after a visit to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Howell, of Waynesville, Route 2. He was accompanied home by his brother, David Howell, who will be his guest for a few weeks.- Dale Medford ' Reported To Be 'Holding His Own' The condition of Dale Medford. injured in an automobile wreck last Sunday, is "good, under the circumstances," according io his mother, Mrs. James Medford. He is holding his own, although four hip fractures, one of them serious, were reported yesterday, Ho also has a fractured skull. Medford : is still a patient in Mission Hospital, Asheville, with one or both of his parents con stantly with him. He is allowed no visitors, 10-Year Employees Of Wellco Shoe Co. Honored All employees of Wellco Shoe upon completion of their tenth year with the firm will receive $100 in stock In the company, Heinz Rollman announced Friday, as the firm observed their tenth anniver sary in Waynesville. The observance was a luncheon at the Lodge, with 72 present. These included supervisors, offici als, and eleven of the twelve em ployees who have been with the firm for ten years. The occasion also was the birth day of two of the 10-year employ ees, and extra gifts were presented to Lola Holllngsworth, and Bessie Browning. - Mrs. Ruth Monroy was in charge ot the program. Highway officials are making every minute " between showers count ir an effort to get the new section of Highway No. 19-23 east of Canton open by the Fourth. W. M. Corkill. division engineer, told The Mountaineer this morning that crews put down a sealer coat on the road Sunday, uid he was "hoping the weather works to our advantage to where we can let traffic in by Wednesday morning." Mr. Corkill explained that should traffic be turned on the new sec tion of highway, that the maximum speed will bo limited to 30 miles an hour. The highway patrol will be on hand to see that this is en forced. Traffic would have ti turn off the new road at the railroad over pass since the new bridge is not completed. It is expected the (See Highway Page 6) Mrs. M. Parham presented the ten-year employees, together with a word of appreciation for their loyalty to the. firm. Mrs. Heinz Rollman was given an orchid by the employees In her ca pacity as the first instructor for making shoes back in 1941. Jonathan Woody told briefly of the history of Wellco, and what the firm had meant to the employees and the community during the past ten years. (See picture on Page 6) Those receiving the stock from Mr. Rollman included: Hazel Wyatt, Elizabeth Frazier, Beatrice Palmer, Flora Caldwell, Lena Cul- bertson, Corbet Chambers, David Smith, Catherine Robinson, Mrs 1 Parham and Mrs. Hollingsworth. Highway Record For 1951 In Haywood (To Date) Killed...: 2 Injured ....27 (This Information com piled from Record K State Highway PatroD 1 J.
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