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68th YEAR NO. 7 14 PAGES Associated Press WAYNESV1L1.E. N. (., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JAN. 22, 1953 $3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties
delights
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News
lipaign Smile,
ly
lowing exchange took
?een Mrs. Irving Leath
i tier son Danny several
? Mom. I've been hear
about an inauguration.
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therwood: "An inaugur
,nv. is when the new
takes office."
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lding Of
y Home To
Next Week
ng of the portion of the
County Home that was
>y fire recently will be
week. James M. DavisH
f the County Board of
ners, said this morning,
is said that local build
would be used and re
1 builders interested in
i the project to visit the
een now and Monday so
would be able to give
of Commissioners an
I the cost of the rebuild
t by the first of next
is said that the damage
me amounted to about
e county has insurance
to cover that amount,
ame time Mr. Davis ex
ie Board's appreciation
eln of the Waynesville,
(I Enka fire departments
rompt action during the
an Will
[ Monday
n's Club
*
Hlnian, president of the
>r Corporation at Hazel
be the principal speak
uarterly meeting of the
Men's Club of Haywood
he held at Hong's Chap
unaluska Monday even
mart ts a native of Ger-:
was one of the refugees
h> Hitler. His company
in tlie European area,
oilman makes frequent
id and is familiar with
litems.
thor of a hook just pub
V Plan For World Con
in which he lays down
World Peace.
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Park Ranger
nes Duties
anger Granville Liles,
r the post on the Great
mintains National Park
>' held bv Chief Ranger |
crnin has assumed his j
? according to informa
reccived by Western
olina Highlanders, Inc..
maintains headquarters
anger Liles is a native I
Carolina, having been j
fachland, and Mrs. Liles, |
r Mary Bryant, is a na- '
ranklin. They have four
1 chief ranger has served
inber of years in like
or the Shencndoah Na
"k- Mr. MePnin was ve
nsfcrrcd to Greater Lakt
Park, where he is now
"superintendent,
r > aiif making their home ;
I'urg in the house form
pied by the Mernins, and
rcrlnoks the Park head
office, and the main j
phe Smokies.
I I*' Vnnr a m
,w*r /mi iiu.nr,
ripfla Knopf, who under
C('rv at St. Joseph's Hos
^heville, Is now con
st her home on Pigeon
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id Mrs. Francis Massie
?hr Southern Furniture
Market in High Point the
pp week.
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lay ? Partly cloudy and
?1 Waynesville tempera- (
omplled by the State Teat
Max. Min. Rainfall
Hi 23
60 31 .01
53 38 .55
Two Boards Name 10
On Recreation Set-Up
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1J1CVCIHII iTlctll ?> III
Be Named By Group;
Chairman Will Be
Elected Soon.
The boards of aldermen of
Waynesville and Hazelwood named
10 men on a recreation commis
sion here Tuesday afternoon.
Tentative plans are for the com
mission to meet Monday and name
an 11th man, and also select a
chairman of the group.
The Waynesville board named:
Charles E. Ray, C. E. Weatherby,
David Underwood, John Carswell,
and G. C. Ferguson.
The Hazelwood board named as
their five members of the commis
sion, Paul Davis, Rudolph Cars
well, Joe Cline, Lawson Summer
row, and Sam Lane.
The action of the two boards
came within the time limit set by
Heinz Rollman in order to receive
a donation of $1,000 towards the
expenses of a recreation engineer
coming here and mapping plans
and blueprinting the proposed com
munity center and adjacent recre
ation areas. Mr. Rollman made an
offer of the $1,000 if the commis
sion were named within a week
after a meeting of civic leaders
with the director of the state Rec
reation Commission.
As soon as the commission
meets, they are expected to begin
formulation of a tentative program,
and discuss plans for bringing in
the recreation expert to help com
plete the set up of a proposed pro
gram.
The commission will have work
ing with them on the program, an
advisory committee, composed of
men and women from the entire
community, if suggestions of Mr.
Andrews, state director, are fol
lowed.
Other than the estimated figure
of $?,000 annually for operation
and maintenance, as made by Mr.
Andrews, no amounts as to the
cost of the community center can
be made until final plans are com
pleted.
Much interest is being shown in
the proposed community center,
and among the group endorsing
the commission idea was the mer
chants association at their annual
meeting on Monday evening.
Canton Youth's
Condition Said
To Be Critical
The condition of Bill Miller, 17.
of Canton, who was Injured Tues
day night when a car in which he
was a passenger struck a power
pole on Haywood Road, remained
critical last night in Memorial
Mission Hospital.
Miller was said to have been
badly cut and to have suffered
head and internal injuries.
Also injured are Charles H.
Nichols. 20, and David Burrell, 18,
both of Canton. The two received
severe cuts and bruises'and suf
fered considerably from shock.
They were transferred to the
Swannanoa Division of Oteen Vet
erans' Hospital. , 4
The accident occurred in front
of 1252 Haywood Road, West Ashe
ville. after Nichols is said to have
lost control of the two-door sedan
the three occupied with Bruce
Miller, 17, also of Canton. The lat
ter suffered a bruised lip. but was
not hospitalized.
Mrs. Weaver Kirkpatrick and
son, Weaver, Jr., left Saturday to
join the former's parents. Con
gressman and' Mrs. Edward Robe
son. in Washington, D. C. for the
inauguration.
Plans Nearing Completion
For New Filtering Plant
Town officials expect plans and
specifications of the new filtering
plant, and the feed lines from the
intake on the mountain to be ready
j within two weeks.
Engineers have completed their
lield work, and selected the site
lor the filtering plant. Mr. Fergu
son said the new plant would be
built on a 3-acre plot just beyond
the Rocky Branch church. This plot
is part of the watershed property.
When the new filtering plant is
completed, all water will be fil
tered there, and by gravity, car
ried to the two storage reservoirs
in town.
The construction is part of the
expansion program approved by
the vote of the people last No
vember for $300,000.
H. P. McCarroll attended the
Furniture Market in High Point
this week.
Visitors Asked
To Curb Visits
To The Hospital
Health authorities have re
quested that visits to the Hos
pital be kept to a minimum.
Since the hospital is tilled to
overflowing, with beds even in
the reception room of the new
wing, authorities asked that no
visitors see patients, except mem
bers of the immediate family,
and then only when entirely free
of cold or symptoms of flu.
Some patients have contacted
colds and flu from visitors, it
was explained.
There are now 57 beds occu
pied in the hospital. When the
entire plant is completed, the
institution will have 135 beds.
Gain Of $127,844 Showed
During 1952 By Haywood
Building and Loan Assn.
The Haywood Home Building and
Loan Association showed a gain of
$127,844 during 1952. it was re
ported Tuesday night at the an
nual meeting of the Association
stockholders at its local 9 if ice.
The financial report, which was
made by L. DaVis, secretary
treasurer, showed that most of this
gain was used for additional loans,
i According to the report, $48,000
; was paid depositors during the
, year. No foreclosures were made
in 1952.
Last year's directors were re
elected to serve during 1953. They
were R. L. Prevost, president, C.
N. Allen, W. H Burgin, J. W. Boyd.
L. N. Davis, L. M. Killian, J. W.
Ray. C. J. Reece. O. H. Shelton, j
and A. T. Ward. '
New officers will be elected by j
the directors when they meet j
January 26r^
Total assets for the past year
were $1,865,206.89. the report show-:
ed. compared with $7,737,362.21 at
the end of 1951. Most of this1
money, $1,664,257.56, was in first
mortgage loans; $148,177.05 in cash
and government bonds, $18,650 in
share loans; $31,400 in Federal
Home Lan Bank stock; $2,704.05 in
furniture, fixtures and equipment;
and $18.23 in other assets.
Following are the liabilities; $1 ,
519.535.49, savings and investment
accounts; $160,000, Federal Home
j Loan Bank; $185,218.85, surplus
'and reserves; and $452.55, other
: liabilities.
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Kiwanis Change Radio
Show Phone Numbers
Elsawhere in the paper a story
of the "Amateur Radio Show" be
ing sponsored by the Waynesville
Kiwanis Club for the benefit of the
county's March of Dimes Drives
appears and lists several tele
phone numbers that may be called
during the progress of the show
, Saturday night.
Those numbers are wrong, a
member of the club said today.
People who wish to take part in
[ the show are requested to call
either telephone 921 or 922
Decision On Band
Trip To Chicago
Is Due Tonight
Sometime to-ilrht the state
committe of Lions, will meet and
decide whether or not the Way
nesville high school band of 100
pieces goes to the Lions Inter
national Convention in Chicago
in July.
Members of the YVaynesvllle
club have been working on the
project for some months, and ac
cording to Lee Davis, president,
"present indications are at least
fifty-fifty that the Waynesvllle
band will be named by the state
committee.
The state committee would pay
about half the expenses of the
trip to the convention. Among
the features of the convention
would be a long parade, in which
the band would march.
Mrs. Medford Named
To NCFBF Committees
Mrs. Clay Medford of Lake Juna
luska has been appointed a mem
ber of the Resolutions Committee
of the North Carolina Farm Bureau
Federation, according to a letter
she received this week.
Mrs. Medford will attend the an
nual convention of the Farm Bu
reau from January 30 to February
4 in Charlotte as a delegate from
Haywood.
Kiwanis To Stage Polio
Program Saturday Night
The March of Dimes drive in
Haywood will get another boost
this Saturday night when the Way
nesville Kiwanis Club stages its
"Song Request" radio program over
station WHCC.
Members of the club have been
working on final plans for the radio
program and announced today that
the show would begin promptly at
8 o'clock when a group of musi
cians report to the radio station
to offer their assistance with the
show.
The program this year will be
conducted along the same ifties as
the one held last year and will pro
vide an excellent opportunity to
mix some business with pleasure
and, at the same time, raise money
fSr the March of Dimes campaign.
The need for polio funds is
greater this year than ever before,
polio officials said, and, though
Haywood's quota of $15,000 is the
same as last year, drive officials!
are hoping to raise a great deal
more than th^t. Last year the \
drive proved most successful and
Haywood was second among the
North Carolina counties in per cap
ita contributions,
The Kiwanis Club program is"
a proven fund-getter. The people
in this area have accepted it as an
excellent medium through which
to donate to the polio fund and of
ficials of both the Kiwanis Club
and the polio drive consider itj
? See Kiwanis SJiow?Page A)
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Heads Merchants
?
; Joe Cline is the new president of
! the Merchants Association. He
succeeds C. D. Ketner. The elec
tion was held at the annual meet
^ ing on Monday night.
Joe Cline
Merchants
New Head
The Merchants Association wrap
j pod up a varied program at their
i annual meeting, at Spaldon's Mon
day night, when they:
I ?elected new officers.
?heard encouraging reports of
accomplishments.
?voted to back the recreation
commission.
?heard an optimistic outlook for
the tourist season.
All this took place within an
i hour and a half after a feast of
| barbecue chicken.
C D. Ketner. president for 1952,
presided, and gave a brief outline
i of the work of the organization for
j 1952. He reported 78 establish
? m*nlr metr.bcrv? sponsors of J*ie
Bethel-Clyde football game; spon
sor of the Tobacco Harvest Festi
val; annual trade festival, and had
| sharply curbed the solicitation of
I "fly-by-night advertising schemes."
In a questionnaire, the members
voted 28 to 12 for the continuation
j of the Trade Jubilee next fall, with
some modification. No action was
taken Monday evening.
Harry Whisenhunt, treasurer, in
(See Joe t'linc?Page 8)
WNCAC Meets
In Bryson City
On February 3
Several representatives from
Waynesville and Haywood County
are expected to attend the quarter
ly meeting of Western North Caro
lina Associated Communities in
Bryson City on Tuesday, Febru
ary 3.
The meeting will begin at one
o'clock with a "dutch" luncheon at
S/iecd's Restaurant, and business
sessions will follow immediately in
the Community Center building on
the Bryson City square.
Legislation affecting Western
North Carolina, plans for tourist
business for the coming season on
j (See WNCAC Meets?Page 6)
Commissioners Asking All
Phases 01 Business Help In
Making New Revaluation
i iif county commissioners ex
plained today that the program of
staging a county-wide revaluation
program was going forward satis
factorily. Listers in all parts of
the county reported cooperation
from property-owners.
Officials explained that the re
valuation program, as required by
law. was being staged in an effort
to get every piece of property in
the county on the lax books in
proportion to adjoining property
and property of like value in the
county. "The purpose is to get a
fair <|nd just valuation placed on
every piece of taxable property."
a spokesman said.
.Some of the listers are finding
property which had not been on
the tax books. Mostly newly built
homes, or other buildings.
The tax listers have been in
structed to list all property for. 40
per cent of its value. A definition
of what constitutes a fair value
was explained as being a price
that a willing buyer would pay a
willing seller. One commissioner
went on to explain: "We mean a
] price without a brass band ? a
| price which a man would offer the
owner, and the owner sell for.
without any pressure from either
1 party."
Listers working in the rural
i areas are farmers of the township.
The listers in the towns are those
j familiar with business property
| values.
The commissioners have asked
owners of industry to work with a
I committee of industrialists in set
ting a fair valuation on manufac
[ luring plants. J. Aaron Prevost is
chairman of the industrial group,
i Working with the industrial group
! will be Jonathan Woody, and
<James Kirkpatrick, county audi
tor.
It has been eight years since a
revaluation has been made of Hay
wood property. Several years ago
a horizontal raise was made, but
this was a blanket raise on all
. property.
The commissioners explained
that during the eight years there
have been numerous changes in
(See Commissioners?rage 6
CDP Awards Will
Be Made Saturday
Aliens Creek
Sewer Work I
About Ready
Work on installation of sewer
lines throughout Aliens Creek is
scheduled to get underway early
in March, according to G. C. Fer
guson, town manager.
Mr. Ferguson explained that the
draft of the engineers was back,
and that work would get underway
just as soon as the weather per
mitted digging of the deep ditches.
"This kind of weather is not fav
orable for such work, especially
j as deep as some of the ditches j
will have to be dug in some areas." ;
J he explained.
The field survey for the sewer
lines were made last fall.
Joe Palmer Serving
On Ten Committees
Haywood's representative to
the North Carolina State Legis
lature, Joe H. Palmer, has been
named to serve on ten commit
tees for the present session of
the legislature.
lie is serving on the cominit
tees of agriculture, appropria
tions, conservation and develop
ment, elections, insurance, manu
facturers and labor, mental in
stitions, senatorial districts, li
brary. and trustees.
Founder's Day
Ball Will Be < ?'
Held January 31
One of the highlights of the an
j nual March of Dimes Drive in Hay
wood County this year will be the
Founder's Day Bail, scheduled for
Saturday night, January 31. from
nine until one o'clock in the
Waynesville Armory.
The ball, which will be spon
sored by the Beta Sigma Phi soror
ity and the Waynesville Junior
Chamber of Commerce, will be one ,
of thousands held throughout the'
country Saturday to pay tribute to
Franklin D Roosevelt, one of the
National Infantile Paralysis Found
ation's most ardent supporters.
Charles Alley and his Orchestra,1
one of the most popular dance
hands in Western North Carolina, j
has been secured to furnish music
for the occasion.
Tickets are on sale at Charlie's
Place, the Ladye Fayre Beauty
Salon, Charlie's Place in Canton. |
and the Nichols Man Store in Can-1
ton. Tickets may also be secured
at the door.
People Witness
Inauguration
On Television
Several hundred people here
saw inauguration ceremonies on
television Tuesday at the Ameri
can Legion sponsored show at the
courthouse, Commander J. T. Rus
sell has reported.
The television show lasted from
11:30 a.m. until about mid-after
noon when the picture became
dark. However, by that time the
actual swearing in of President
Fisenhower and Vice - President
Nixon had taken place and viewers
'See People Witness?Page 6>
CDP Speaker
Charles Milton Newcomb. na
tionally known lecturer, will be
the principal speaker at the an
imal Community Development
Program awards day program j
Saturday morning at the court 1
house. Mr. Newcomb has deliv- j
ered hundreds of lectures to i
civic clubs throughout the na
tion.
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Flu May Be On
Decrease Here
llaywood County doctors said
Wednesday aftrrnocn that there
may be a slight, hut not defi
nite, decrease in the number of
flu cases.
Schools were closed after
Monday for remainder of
the week because about 30 per
cefnt of the tp'iche s, md '.mpils
were MCk. It Is nol^ known yet,
it was rrportrd, whether classes
will be resumed Monday or not,
depending on how the situation
will be at that time.
The flu is described as a gen
eralized type 'hat affects pa- I
tients several days. The best
preventive measures, as rerom- I
mended by doctors, is to avoid
large crowds and keen from
getting run down.
llaywood Countv is apparent
ly the mcst heavily hit in the
western part of th? State and
the largest number of cases seem
to be centered in Waynesville
and vicinity. It has not been
necessary to close Canton
schools and "n Monday, when
the situation in Waynesville was
at its worst, Canton school of
ficials reported 2 fewer num
ber of cases than previously.
Assistance By
BRI Offered On
Income Tax Forms
Two agents of the Bureau of In
ternal Revenue are going to be on
hand in Haywood County from now
until March 15. income tax filing
deadline, to assist taxpayers who
are having difficulty in filling out
the prescribed forms.
The two agents. J, C. Haynes and '
H. H. Hogan. are making their
headquarters in the Waynesville
post office and will be there each
Monday, all day, to lend their as
sistance in the filing of returns.
They have announced a sched
ule that will carry them to many
areas in Western North Carolina
during the next month and a half.
They will be in the post office in
Canton February 19 and 20 from
8:30 in the morning until 5:30 in
(See Assistance?Page 6)
Annual Event
Will See Three
Communities Getting
Prizes Totaling
$1,000 In Cash
A total of $1,300 in awards will
be distributed to the Haywood
communities that are judged to
have made the most progress dur
ing the past year when the annual
Community Development Program
meeting gets underway Saturday
morning at the court house.
Each of the 26 communities in
the county has been judged during
the past year in various categories
and awarded so many points for
each category.
The prizes, which have been
made available by Haywood busi
ness Arms and civic organizaitons,
will be distributed in two differ
ent categories. The regular awards,
a total of $1,000. will be present
ed by Jonathan Woody, president
of the First National Bank of
Waynesville and chairman of the
CDP Board of Directors. The first
place winner will receive $500;
$300 goes to the second place win
ner; and the third place winner
will receive $200.
Among the donaters of the prizes
are the Waynesville Lions Club,,
Waynesville Chamber of Com
merce, Haywood Builders Supply
Company, the First National Bank,
and the Haywood Electric Mem
bership Corporation.
A total of $350 is to be distrib
uted as special awards. One award,
$50, has already been distributed,
the award being divided by Upper
Crabtree and Aliens Creek in the
tobacco contest.
The other $300 will he present
ed by Jack Chapman. ?iun?v "'vnr
man of the CbP.
There are six divisions in the
special awards conlest: forestry
i$50i?to be presented to the com
munity showing the greatest activ
ities in reforestation and soil ero
sion controi; tobacco i$50i al
ready presented to Aliens Creek
and Upper Crabtree on the basis
of planting the highest percentage
of its tobacco allotment: poultry
i$)50)?to go to the community hav
ing the largest number of poultry
units; green pastures i$100> ?. to
the community having the create t
increase in number of points in
the Green Pastures Contest; dair>
i$50) ? breeding dairy animals to
to proved sires; better sires ($V)i
?to go to the community placing
the most registered sires in rela
tion to the number of beef animals
in the community.
Charles Milton Neweomb. na
tionally known lecturer w*ho ha;
addressed civic groups in almost
every section of the country, will
be the featured speaker. He will
be introduced by Col. Robert Put
nam. Public Relations director of
Champion Paper and Fibre Com
pany.
Jack Chapman, county chairman
of the CDP, will preside at the
meeting. Rev. Oder Burnette of
Cruso will offer the invocation.
Rev. J. H. Coleman, chairman of
the Jonathan Creek Community
will welcome the officials and vis
itors.
Group singing will be led by
Mrs. C. O, Newell, a member of
the Board of Directors and pa;t
chairman of the County CDP.
Frank Davis of Iron Duff will rec
ognize guests, and Miss Kathleen
Nash, public school music instruc
tor. will render a solo.
R. C. Francis, secretary of the
County CDP. will deliver the re
port of the nominating committee,
at which time nominees for the
various offices of the group for
1953 will be made known.
In judging the various commun
ities for the grand awards, five ac
(See CDP?Page 6)
Highway
Record For
1953 I
In Haywood
(To Date)
Injured.... 10
Killed .... 0
(Till, information com
piled from Record, of
State Highway Patrol.)
Despite Flu Epidemic,
March Of Dimes Drive
Making Rapid Progress
Haywood County's 1953 March
of Dimes Drive, hampered some
what, by the current flu epedemic,
is moving steadily to its goal of
j $1.5,000, leaders of the drive an
nounced today.
The flu epidemic has caused a
temporary cancellation of all
phases of the drive in the public
school* of the county but, other
| than that one part, the drive is
moving along on schedule.
No report is available at this
time as to the financial progress
| of the drive but officials this
morning said that all parts of
the drive had been, so far, suc
cessful.
The one big program planned
ifor this Veek is the Kiwartis an-!
! nual "Amateur Radio Show,")
; which has been .scheduled for Sat
urday night from eight o'clock
until midnight over station WHCC. I
Committee members in charge of
! the show said today that much
,interest had been shown in the'
show and that it would probably
be as much, if not more, a suc
cess this year than it was last
year when a large amount of
money was raised.
The Waynesville Secretaries
i Club announced today that final
plans are being made for the an
I nual "Porch Light" march, which
! will be held Kridav night. January
(See Despite Flu?Page 6)