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oo ? - to?"nE?V* *** <* % % - - ? !? * H i?i i - - ? . ?, 1 4fe^H The Waynesville Mountaineer sis to heary. Published Twice-A-Week In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park -j J 3 S8th YEAR NO. 44 18 PAGES Associated Press* WAYNESVILLE, N. C-, THURSDAY AfTEENOON, MAY 28, 1953 $3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Coufttie* -ood Onions pown South you ever seen 1.000 dozen bunches of onions at once? Take it from us, it is a lot of onions, (day'- a week, from 500 to 1,000 dozen bunches are packed and shipped from here by Farm ixchange. Shown here is Marvin McCarson dipping the freshly pulled onions in cold water to them C D. Ketner, owner, said he had planted enough onions to produce 20,000 dozen hs?that's almost a quarter million onions. Most of them are shipped to Atlanta. (Mountaineer Phpto). v Valuation Of County 1 Be Known Late June |Off;ce To tpen 1 Hour korial Day ? trurral delivery window Ifwt Office will he open ke until ten o'clock Sat ItIls will be the .only pub h sen-ire, except for reg feblributinn in boxes, and hint. Postmaster J. li fe, has announced. I observance of Memorial Kenns there w ill not be any ? rural carriers on duty, I announced. kst Edwards b Scholarship [Month's Study P 0 Edwards leaves next Pa four-week course at the P Foundation of Funeral ? Evanston. 111. |Ed?ards. of the Garrett ? Home, won a tuition schol Pf <2iO for his entry on the I'Funeral Service As A ? Mr. Edwards scholarship ? "Captain George Billow P- holat hip." ?tool train-, managers in I "r and sets out, the ? him are (1> to provide P *Here men and women P'-^I to improve upon the P tody nrohlems common service; 12> to serve as P? school jn up-to-date Pmanarn inetit: (3) to act PlenEc fnr those who wish lftrsonallv and profession y in tructlon and as Which Mr. Edwards F N?vjhine first. County officials announced today that it would be sometime in June; buJoib Out ueu' ltfoSesseo falv.aiion of Haywood county taxable proper- ; ty would be known. A new bookkeeping machine for handling the tax listing sheets is due to be installed Monday, and it is believed that about three weeks will be required to transfer the figures from the listing sheets to the master and permanent records. Until this is done, there will not be a report as to the amount of the current valuation. Some tentative estimates are that the new valuation will show a slight increase over the $33,900,000 of 1952. The work of making a revalua tion of the entire county was com pleted about 10 days ago. I. Earl Tate Taken By Death Wednesday J. Earl Tate, retired Carolina Power and Light manager, died in an Asheville hospital Wednesday afternoon after a long period of declining health. Mr. Tate had been connected with the Power Company in Can ton since the company was known as the Canton Electric Company. He retired last year after more than forty years with the company. Funeral services will be held Friday at 4 p. m. in the Canton Presbyterian Church with the pas tor, the Rev. J. Clayton Lime, of ficiataing. Btirial will be in Locust Field Cemetery. Active pallbearers will be Thom as Pruitt. Carroll Kinsland. W. K. Parker, Wayne Burnette. H. L. Set-' zer. and Frank Smathers. Honorary pallbearers will be eld (See Tate?Page 6) Low Bid Received On Canton - Lake Junaluska Road Low bid for paving the new 4-lane 6.5-mile road from Canton ' to Lake *;<naiaska *as $33*, 764.50 submitted to the State Highway and Public Works Com misison in Raleigh yesterday by II. K. Stewart and Company of Asheville. Grading on the Canton-Lake Junaluska route is virtually com plete and W. M. Corkill, District Engineer, expressed the opinion that this link of C. S. 19-23 would be paved and open to the public by early fall. Other low bids were received for roads in other counties. The bids were among those for 33 projects in 35 counties for 280 miles of road work opened by the Commission. The bids totaled $4,911.616.45 and were some $600,000 below Commission esti mates. The Commission will meet Friday, May 29, to review the bids. Normal Banking Hours Saturday Ranking hours will be as usual from 9 a, m. to 12 noon Satur. day, May 30, it was announced by the First National Bank of Waynesvillc. The usual services will be available to their cus tomers in spite of the fact that Saturday is Memorial Day. a national holiday. The First State Bank of Harelwood will also maintain usual hours Sat urday from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. Mrs. .Too Liner and Mrs. Ralph Phillips left today for Waynesboro, Virginia where they will spend the week-end. They will return Sun day accompined by Mrs. Liner's son, Joe Liner, Jr., who Is attend ing Fishbourne Military Academy. terican Legion Plans Impressive !I&orial Day Services Sunday, fcnhill Cemetery, At 3 P.M. Nher lUNNY 4|\ , ~ Fa"r and slightly . Official Wayncsville * farm|C?mPilCd by th? M?*- Mln. Rainfall ?8 62 ? ?<> 56 ? fc 80 57 _ Memorial Dav Service will be conducted by the American Le gion, Post 47, at the Memorial Plot of Greenhill Cemetery, Way nesville, Sunday at 3 p. m. Speaker for the occasion will be the Reverend James 11. Coleman. | pastor of Shadv Grove Methodist I Charge, Jonathan Creek, and Presentation of Flags and roll rail will be made by John Plott for the Spanish American War and Adj James H. Howell, Jr., for World ! Wars I and II. Mrs, .Will Medford will represent Gold Star Parents by placing wreaths on the Veterans' Marker. Douglas Worsham, Commander of the Waynesville Post of the | American Legion, will open and cIom the services, with the invo i cation by the Post Chaplain, Rob-1 i ert Hall, and introduction of the speaker by Col. J. H. Howell. Following the placing of flags by members of families who lost loved ones in any of the wars since the Spanish American, the Tank Company. 120th Infantry of the N. C- National Guard will fire a vol ley of three rounds. The National Anthem and .Taps will be played by the Waynesville High School Band. All Gold Star Parents are espec ially urged to attend, and tbe Le gion asks that members of fami lies having veterans buried in the cemeteries in this section of the county be present to receive flags which they will place on the graves of veterans. J. B. Siler is chairman in charge of arrangements for tbe day. 365 Haywood Students Will Get Diplomas This is graduation week in Haywood county, and by noon, June 7, some 365 diplomas will have been handed out to high school graduates of seven high schools in the county. Five baccalaureate sermons are scheduled for Sunday, and three schools will have their graduation exercises on Thursday night, with one set for this Friday, another Jj^ne 3rd, and also the 5th and 7th. The complete information, as tabulated from informa tion given The Mountaineer by school officials, shows the following schedules: Number Sermon Graduation School Graduates llate Date Canton ... 95 May 24 May 29 Waynesville __ . 146 May 31 June 5 Fines Creek - - 20 May 31* June 4 Clyde . 31 May 31 June 4 Bethel 48 May 31 June 4 Crabtree-Iron Duff 20 May 31** June 3 St. John's . 3 June 7* June 7 * Serpion at 11 a. m.; all other hours at 8 p. m. in school auditoriurrv ** 3 p. m. Elsewhere in this issue, are complete details of com mencement exercises of each of the seven high schools in the county. Pictures of several of the graduating classes will be found on the front pages of the second and third sections. Pictures of other classes are scheduled to appear on Monday. The Mountaineer is the only newspaper sending' their photographer to all the schools making the graduation pictures. Only A Short Time Left To Get Free X-Ray The mobile X-ray units will con clude their visit to Haywood Coun ty Saturday afternoon, and resi-| dents who have not had chest X rays made must be at one of these units before 4:30 p.m. Saturday. The Health Department reported i that 7,796 X-rays had been made through Saturday, a small percen tage of the total county population of some 38,000. There is no charge for these ex aminations and it takes only a minute or two to take the photo graph. Results are mailed within i two or three weeks. Two large Individual projects were completed this week when the unit at Waynesville visited the local high school Wednesday and then moved to the Bethel school Thurs day. It will be at the usual place near the courthouse Friday and Saturday for its final two days. Capt. and Mrs. Henry Dania of Savannah, Georgia, have returned to their home after a visit to Mr. j and Mrs. Ralph Phillips. Ah, More Like It TM weathet* Ik now behaving much more like the tourist bul letin!* and folders say it should for this time of year. It Is. in other words, much cooler than it has been earlier this week. The moderate tem peratures and clear skies are turning out some good, comfor table mountain weather. Saturday. Sunday and Monday the official temperature showed a high of 88. The readings were taken at the Test Faym. located ; several miles from town, and very likely several degrees cooler than . on Main Street. * Anyway, on Tuesday the ther mometer dropped two degrees, then dropped to 80 on Wednesday, j and today it is probably even lower. All the heat should not have been here in the first place. The mountains, at least around Way nesville, Just don't get that hot. Alvin Ward left this week to join Mrs. Ward in Milledgeville, Georgia, where the latter has been visiting her mother. They are ex pected to return at the end of the week. Farm Leaders Attend Field Day , Discussing a milk cow demonstration Wednesday morning at the Livestock, Pasture, and Forage Field Day at the Mountain Experiment-Station were, from left, C. D. Thomas of Raleigh, director of test farms in the State: County Agent Wayne Franklin: M. R. Whisenhunt, director of the Experi ment Station; L. Y. Ballentine, N. C. Commissioner ol Agriculture; and Wayne Corpening^ District County Agent. Six demonstrations were held for the several hundred farmers who were present. (Mountaineer Photo). New Telephone Directories Being Mailed All dial telephone numbers will be distributed by May 28, it was announced by C. T. McCuiston, manager of the Waynesvillc office of the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company. He also said that new directories have been received from the printer and work has been begun on their mailing. Almost 3,000 dial telephones are hting established in this area and will go into operation midnight ?tunc 6. Any subscriber whose phohe has ? .ot been changed to date is ur%?r uf get ih touch with the Telephone Company for prompt service. The Company also hopes to render better service and install new phones where requests have been on waiting lists for several years in some cases. Haywood Heart Chapter To Be Organized In June Fifteen charter members decided Wednesday to organize the Hay wood County Heart Chapter, and named a nominating committee to report at the June meeting. The date to be set later. The committee is composed of Glenn Brown, Lawrence Leather wood, Mrs. Claude Rogers, Roy Pat ton and Lee Davis. A president, vice-president, secretary-treasurer will be elected. Mrs. Howard Bryson will be pro gram chairman, it was announced. Mrs. R. E. Renia, state organizer, was here for the meeting, and re mained through today, discussing the proposed program for Haywood. Ratcliffe Named Principal 01 The Hazelwood School Carl Ra'cliffe has been named principal n. the Hazelwood school, succeeding Lawrence Leatherwood, who becomes county superinten dent on July first. The county oard of education, In session Tuesday night, formally named Mr. Leatherwood and Mr. RatclifTe to the two posts. The board also passed resolu- . tions expressing gratitude to Mrg. Lucy Boyd fpr her services and leadership as county swiperinten- . dent since February 1950, when she ! sueemled Jfc*k Messef.- xr Mrs. Boyd tendered her resigna ! tion several weeks ago effective June 30. Mr RatclifTe has been a member | of the high school faculty and coaching staff since completing his college work, except for the time spent in the army. . School Board On Tour New Projects Members of the Waynesville school hoard and other officials visited the four completed school projects on Wednesday, and were highly pleased with the construc tion, and the attitude of teachers and students at each of the schools. "The students were bubbling over with joy," Mrs. Lucy Boyd pointed out. "and the teachers were sharing their jubilant spirit in hav ing larger and better cafeterias and classrooms." Those making the trip included Mrs. Boyd, C. C. Francis, chairman of the board of commissioners. Dave Fclmet. chairman of advisory committee, J. W. Killian member of the county board, and James Noland, John Finger, W. H. Prevost J and Guy Massie. all members of the district board. The group visited Aliens Creek, Lake Junaluska. Maggie and Rock I Hill, where they had lunch. Gets New Post Carl Rattcliffe, member of the high school faculty, and coach ing staff, has been named prin cipal of the Hazelwood school. He succeeds Lawrence Leather wood, who becomes county super intendent on July first. Senate Committee Studying Parkway Request For Funds WASHINGTON?Senator Wil lis Smith has received assurance from the Senate Appropriations Committee that plans for the Blue Ridge Parkway are current ly under review by the commit tee and that additional funds for the project probably would be made available. No specific sum was mentioned, the Senator sal.d A report from the Senate ap propriations subcommittee on the parkway and other items admin istered by the Interior Depart ment is expected in the next two weeks. "* M tMORIALjji b DAY Sen. Hoey To Speak At Haywood County Day June 7, Lake Junaluska A record crowd is expected at Haywood County Day services and picnic to hear the Honorable Clyde R. Hoey, United States Senator, speak Sunday, June 7, at Lake Junaluska. The Reverend J. W | Huneycutt, D.S., will preside over the services, beginning at 11:30; a.m.. and Reuben B. Robertson, chairman of the Board of Direc tors, Champion Paper and Fibre Company, will introduce Senator Hoey. Haywood County Day Is spon sored by the Ministerial AsSocia-j tion, the Chambers of Commerce,; and the Community Development | Programs of Haywood County. The Junaluska Assembly has expressed its deep appreciation to the follow ing committees: General Committee: Hugh Mas sie, chairman: Charles Ray. Curtis Russ, H. G. Allen. Thomas Brum mitt, Dr. Boyd Owen. Bruce Mor ford, C. D. Ketner and Miss Ray Ballard. Marshal Committee: David Fel met, chairman; Hoy McKinnish and C. D. Ketner Usher Co mm It tea j Hugh Massie. chairman. The Reverend J. E. Yountz. pas tor of the First Methodist Church, Waynesville, will read the Scrip (See Hoey?Page 6) Highway Record For 1953 In Haywood (To Date) Injured.... 20 Killed .... 0 (This information rota piled from Records ot State Highway FatroL) I
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