'nday Afternoon, August 13, 1951
PAGS TEHEE (Second SeetliaJ 1
THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER
)re Than Seven Hundred
z Part In Field Days;
jjs0 Tour Attracts 320.
than seven hundred per-
f efd days last week as f jn.
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ours are siaicu -
of the veewn-
1Jto West riBcu"
Za Upper Crabtree visit-
pigeon on inuiauaj. ..
.. trio will include m-
'nf the planting on the
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blowing . V.T . a t
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and Carry ie sneiuem.
;..ing !lir i ,
was Thursday s wur "i
. iron Duff. The day was
huge' success. In the ath
eram. the two eommuni-
t honors in every evem. m
Le pitching, the Cruso
n composeu oi nuj'
ret't parton.won over Roy
.Tack Long of Iron
Ith Riddle and Eva Trull of
lutpitched uermce irom-
OHie Brenaie. in me uuys
; division, the Iron Duff
,nts were winners, a rank
and Harrison eaiawen
Junior Henson and Jack
d polly McElroy and Max-
i0Vd won over uena siyies,
a Henson. .
s softball'. game was a
for Iron Duff, 8-0. The
rls came back to deteat
Iff 3-2..
(or driving Cruso men and
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up victors, wiui iiwu
fid women evening tne
lith wins, Howard eogourn
Dan Davis; Opal Pless
Mattie Sue Medford; Har-
ildwell defeated Tommy
d Edith Milner outpoint-
ffrull.
I singing included a solo
ill Henson ot uruso, a ouei
Ie Rooney and Kit Kimling-
ingdale School and a duet
a Newell and Mattie Sue
of Iron Duff. J. B, Sharpe
ie Burress led the Cruso
iiging. and Mrs. C. 0. New-
Bron Duff's leader.
boy :
Modem Meter - Testing
Oak's group singing: and Mr.
Young led that of Thickety.
ThicKety took the lead in most
of the sports events, although Ed
gar Messer of White Oak set a rec
ord of 55 seconds for the tractor
driving course. Winner for Thick
ety in this contest were Jack Har
ris, Mrs. Roy Robinson and Rowena
Robinson Others competing were
Usnora Robinson, Kenneth Harris,
and Jack Harris of Thickety, and
Yoder Messer of White Oak.
In softball Thicltely overpower
ed White Oak as the boys' team
won 17-5 and the girls blanked
White Oak 6-0.
White Oak took two places in
horse shoe pitching as Sarah Led
ford and Montie Gaylon outshot
Joretta McCrary and Betty Ford;
and Bobby Hunter and Neal Tea
gue won over Jimmy Birch and Max
Robinson. Thickety won the men's
division with the pitching of
George Frady and T. J. Fletcher,
and the girls' division through the
efforts of Mary Young and Lorine
Trantham. Their competitors were
Teague Williams, ' Luther Duckett,
Roslyn Messer and Marlene Hunter,
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Oak-Thickety Draws 240
fsday's field day was
H'hite Oak to Thickety, with
40 persons in attendance.
ical program included a
rom White Oak composed
nd Mrs, France Teague,
isher and Roslyn Messer;
Oak duet by Frances Con-
Janie Williams; and a duet
nd Mrs, Cecil Young of
Mr. Fisher led White
Crabtree & Hominy Split Victories
More than 200 persons took part
in the tour Tuesday as Crabtree
was host to Hominy. As in the
Iron Duff-Cruso field day, the two
communities divided victories in
each division. Crabtree men and
girls, and Hominy women and boys
won the horse shoe pitching. Win
ing teams were Joe Ferguson and
Lee Parks, Susie Noland and Fran
ces Sanford, ' Sonny Warren and
Douglas , Alexander, and Loretta
Clark and Louise Mann Jones.
Losers were Tom Hipps, Fred
Mann, Wade Kinsland, Jack Bis
hop, Pauline Wood, Dora Ledford,
Shirley Jones and Thelma King.
Crabtree girls took their soft
ball game 4-3, and Hominy boys
evened up matters by routing Crab
tree 7-0. .
In tractor driving Marshall Kirk
patrick and Susie Noland of Crab
tree and Maxine Clark and Charles
Mann of Hominy took honors for
their respective divisions. They de
feated Yoder Clark, Wilson Kirk
patrick and Ann Worley.
Group singing was led by Mrs.
C. O. Newell of Crabtree and Yod
er Clark of Hominy. Special num
bers were by Buck Ferguson of
Crabtree, and Yoder Clark, Maxine
Clark, Curtis Clarke, the Rev.
George Culbreth and Ruth Met
calfe of Hominy.
In the laboratory of Carolina Power. & Light Company, Richard
Thyse tests a meter with an electronic device which is itself test
eVl against a- master meter from the U, S, Bureau of Standards.
Only a fraction of 1 per cent of electric meters are found faulty,
and the deviation is divided equally between "fast" and "slow"
. meters. . : : - ':
New Meter - Testing Plan
S tarted By Carolina
In 145 games extending over six
seasons, Pitcher - Claude Passeau
handled 275 fielding chances with
out making an error.
A new system of meter-testing,
which will install a laboratory
tested meter in every customer's
home in the western district each
four years, has been installed by
Carolina Power & Light Company,
J. B. Stepp, manager of the Com
pany's western district, said today.
under the former plan, meters
were taken to the Asheville labor
atory where, under the direction of
Richard Thyse, superintendent,
they were checked and then re-installed
at the same location. Now,
meters which have already
been checked against Bureau of
Standards master meters are re
placing meters already on the job,
and the ' old meters are being
brought in for testing and any re
pairs found necessary.
The met,er, itself one of the most
accurate measures ever devised, is
an invention almost as remarkable
as electricity. It was invented one
year after Edison started generat
ing power at his famous Pearl
Street Stataion in New York about
1887 and is marvelously simple. A
small porportion of the current go
ing to a customer is diverted and
run through the meter, which con
tains a tiny two-watt motor. This
infinitesimal portion of the cur
rent measures the full amount be
ing taken by the "load", or the de
mand.
The tiny motor, spins a disc,
which is on a shaft connected al-
kilowatlhours being consumed. The
more "juice" a consumer uses, the
faster spins the dial disc, and the
faster turn the dial hands.
This .mechanism, sealed in a glass
case, does not run in oil, but in
jewels, just as a watch does, and it
can measure 133,000 volts as easi
ly as it measures a 110 -or 240
volt residential line. In recent
years, meters have been installed
outside residences, for convenience
in reading, and they contain tem
perature compensators, so that
they will run uniformly in all kinds
of weather.
Francis Roule, CP&L's labora
tory head, describes the wattmeter
as fine, but rugged, too and meters
installed as long as forty years ago,
when tested, are found still woring
with hairline accuracy. However,
as fast as the old-timers are taken
for testing, they are replaced with
ones of newest design, which are
easier to test.
A meter reading is not always
for an exact month, and for that
reason, some consumers mistaken
ly malign the silent checker. Meter
readers work all the month on a
route which brings them back to
the same street on approximately
the same day he worked the pre
vious month. But due to exigencies,
such as weather, sickness, or some
thing else, he might read a meter
on the 15th of February, and read
it again on the 13th of March, cov
might be April the 16th before his
route brings him back to the same
home, a period of 35 days. This as
an unusual variation, but it might
happen, and the householder
might view with amazement what
appears to be a 30 per cent In
crease in his power consumption
over the previous month. Actually,
of course, the year around bill is
uniform.
Every year in cold weather, met-
er readers explain to hundreds of
clients why they use more power
than they use in warm weather.
There is uniformly more cooking
in cold weather, and lights are
used more in evenings and morn
ings of short days. But one of the
biggest factors is that in summer
time, an electric hot water heater
takes water out of the ground pipes
at from 70 to 75 degrees temper
ature and brings it up to around
145. or 150 degrees, whereas in
winter, it often takes the water at
40 to 50 degrees, and his heater
must do the same job on this chill
ed water.
Often, a meter reader has to
make discreet inquiries to learn
why a customer is angry at his met
er. In one case, a housewife chang
ed from an old-fashioned stove to
an electric range, and her bill grew
to such size that even the meter
reader was puzzled. At last he dis
covered that the lady was heating
all her water for washing and
bathing on top of her new range
She d always done it that way on
the cook-stove, she said.
But the most frequent problem
the reader has is with the family
which goes away on a two -week
vacation and figures that, without
service for half the month, the
next monthly bill should be cut ex
actly in half. It never is, for the
simple reason that, as in the sale
of commodities, bulk buyers gain
discount with volume. For 500
kilowatlhours, for instance, a con
sumer would pay $10.50, but for
250 kilowatthours, he would pay
$6.75. not the anticipated $5.25,
because he had not "used" vol
ume sufficient to earn the larger
discount. .
'Brothers of The Brush'
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j. B. Bernard, left, points to badge worn by Charles Pcttit, right,
which1 identifies bim as a "Brother of the Brush". Both men are
(rom Jackson County where every man is wearing a beard in celeb
ration of the 100th anniversary of the county. They attended the
. muzzle-loading riflle match at the Cataloochee Ranch Wednesday.
Dr. Weir Will J
Conduct First A
Aid Classes
Dr. Irvin Weir, Haywood County
Health Officer, will conduct olasses
in First Aid in the commissioner's
room at the Court House, beginning
Monday night at 7:30 o'clock.
The classes, which are being
held in co-operation with the Hay
wood Chapter of the American
Red Cross, will be held each Mon
day night from 7:30 until 9:30
o'clock, for nine weeks.
All interested persons are invited
to enroll.
Long's Branch Homecoming
Attended By Nearly 500
, MRS. GEORGE F. WORLEY
" Mountaineer Reporter
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The Homecoming and Children's
Day program. Sunday at Long's
Branch . Church in Beaverdam
brought together one of the larg
est crowds, that has ever gathered
at this little mountain church. It
was estimated that between four
and five hundred people attended.
Chester Worley welcomed the
crowd. . Mrs. Alden Scott was In
Charge of the Children's Day program.:'.'-
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"The pastor, the Rev, Walton
Wise, preached at 11 o'clock. Group
singing was also featured during
the morning. . ' '
Dinner was served at noon,
with more food than could be
spread on an 80-foot table.
During the afternoon several
preachers made short talks, Among
them were the Revs, Haney from
North Turkey Creek, Heatherly
from Candler, Bill Abies front New
found, Mitchell from Rocky Face,
Coleman from Asheville, Angus
Worley from Canton and Ralph
Surrett from Beaverdam. . Charlie
Thompson, colored, from . Canton,
made a talk also. Several quartets
sang, and group singing filled out
the afternoon.
One of those present was P. L.
Hall, who was superintendent of
Long's Branch Church was estab
lished about sixty years ago, far
ther into the mountains near the
Haywood and Buncombe line, It
was then known as the "Old Bear
Wallow Church". Built of logs, it
served as both a Church and a
school,
Approximately thirty-five" year
ago the building burned,' and
Long's Branch Church and a school
building were erected where the
church now stands. Because of the
bad roads, and the fact that so
many people moved out of the
mountains, services were .discon
tinued for ten years.
A year ago, while revival serv
ices were being held at the Beaver
dam Baptist Church, Chester -Worley
and the Rev. Mr. Plemmons,
pastor of the Beaverdam church
at that time, along with two other
ministers, went on the mountain
for prayer. When they went into
the Longs Branch church to "have
prayer, they were awakened with
new interest in the church. They
announced that the people should
meet there the following Sunday ,
for Sunday School. Interest began
to grow and continues to grow each
Sunday.
ThanKs were due at 'Sunday's
service to the State highway offi
cials, who did work improving the
road so that the cars could carry
the church years ago. Sunday was
his first visit there in thirty years, the people right to the church
so to the dials which record the ering a period of only 25 days. It
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Canton High School
Saturday; August 18th
Public Invited 10 to 4
Cash Prizes
See6cHear.
Panhandle Pete, Steve Ledford, Gaither Robinson, Ernest Owenby, Rae Smith",
Patsy Messer and Many Others
Choirs Quartets Musicians Entertainers
Invited To Participate
Free
Lemonade
Ask Your Warehouse
Manager About The
Free Pig
To Be Given Away
At The Picnic
Free
Watermelon
Specim
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To All Our Present And Prospective Students:
Blanton's Business College will begin the operation of free bus service daily from Hazel wood to Asheville on
Tuesday, September 4, 1951. No increases in tuition or fees will be made to cover cost of operation. This service is
made possible because of our desire to render the best service possible to our students. This accommodation will
continue as long as this type of service is( deemed advisable. . ' ...r. : . jjuiu ja
All students desiring to avail themselves f this service, should secure riding passes from Wayne Blanton, Busi
ness Manager, 126 College Street, 'Ashevifle, North Carolina. '
New Fall Term Begins Tuesday, September 4, 1951
Applications should be received in advance of enrollment date
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This is i a new 35-seat capacity, Chevrolet Bus, and will be driven by Richard Hannah, a licensed school bus driver."
TENTATIVE DAILY SCHEDULE - MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY
Hazelwood ....... : Bus leaving
Waynesvillc Bus leaving -
Clyde .... ... .. Bus leaving
Canton .. Bus leaving
Candler ........... . . Bus leaving
Arriving in Asheville .
7:00 a.m. Returning ...............:.... approximately 4:30 p. m.
7:15 a. m. Returning . approximately 4:20 p. m.
7:35 a. m. Returning . approximately 4:00 p. m.
7:50 a. m. Returning ........,....... approximately 3:40 p. m.
8:10 a. m. , Returning .. approximately 3:13 p. m.
.8:30a.m.
Blanton's Business College
. v ' Asheville, N. C.