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68th YEAR NO. 54 20 PAGES ~ Associated Press WAYNESVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 2, 1953 $3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Countief
WITH THE STEEL FRAMEWORK of the new Waynesville Voca
tional High School building in place the structure is beginning to
take shape. Workmen said this week that with the foundation work
completed they are through the most difficult part of the job.
At least another 12 months will be required to complete the
building. (Mountaineer Photo).
$60,000 Children's Center
To Be Dedicated Sunday
At Methodist Assembly
Another Death
On The Fourth?
If the Fourth of July week
ends of the past two years repeat
agate this summer a JHa.vwood
County pedestrian will be killed
k on the highways.
In 1951, John Henry Conard
died when he stepped from be
hind a car he was pushing into
the path of another automobile,
i Last year Richard Rathbone was
i injured fatally after being hit
by a car as he walked along the
highway on the pavement.
Both deaths could have been
prevented by the pedestrians, ac
cording to CpL Pritchard Smith
of the Highway Patrol.
Cpl. Smith said that people
should walk beside the highway,
riot on it, and with the heavy
summer traffic pedestrians are
only asking to be hurt or killed
when they do not observe safety
rules. In neither of the above
deaths was the driver at fault.
Smith added that he hoped
Haywood County would observe
the Fourth of July week-end
without an accident.
Now It's
Route 4
The people who formerly re
ceived their mall through the
Cove Creek and Dell wood post
offices now call Waynesville their
post office.
At the close of business Tuesday
afternoon the two rural post of
fices shut down for good. Both had
been serving their communities for
many, many years and gave identi
ty to small sections of the county
that gave pride to the people way
out of proportion to the actual ef
fectiveness of delivering mail as
compared with regular rural de
livery.
Their closing is a sign of the
times: turning over smaller agen
cies to be served through a large,
central organization.
Milas Ferguson, who was form
erly carrier for Route 2, now de
livers the mail on Route 4. The
regular substitute for Ferguson's
former delivery area, William P.
Boyd, Jr., is now carrying Route
2.
So if you address a letter to Dell
wood Or Cove Creek, it will prob
ably be delivered to the addressee,
but a clerk at the WaynesviTle post
office will undoubtedly mark
through the community name and
scribble "Route 4" underneath.
J. B. Siler Attending
Court Clerk Meeting
J. B. Siler is attending the 4-day
session of the Superior Court
Clerks Convention, to be held In
Asheville. The session began Wed
nesday.
Mr. Slier Is a member of the
state program committee.
A dream of many years will be
realized Sunday when the new
$60,000 children's building is for
mally opened at the Lake Juna
luska Methodist summer assembly.
In large part, the building is the
gift of children themselves. Sunday
school classes of Methodist church
es throughout nine sou tin astern
states hive been contributing
nickles and dimes to the fund for
several years.
Members of the building com
mittee said the new center will
provide facilities for a daily pro
gram of religious, educational and
recreational activities throughout
the summer for children five to 14
years old.
It will also serve as a laboratory
I school for parents and church work
ers with children throughout the
i South who come to Junaluska to
observe and learn the latest tech
niques in Christian education.
Mrs. C. A. Rauschenberg, Jr..
Atlanta. Ga.. a summer resident at
Lake Junaluska and volunteer sup
erintendent of children's activities,
said church school classes will be
held in the building every Sunday,
a "story hour" and vespers at 4
| p.m. The weekday program will
| feature dramatics, nature studies,
music, folk games and handicraft.
Mrs. Rauschenberg is vice chairman
of the building committee.
The opening exercises at 4 p.m.
Sunday will be directerf by Miss
Elizabeth A. Jarratt, director of
religious education at Myers Park
Methodist Church, Charlotte, and
chairman of the building commit
tee.
Program principals will include
Mrs. Rauschenberg. Dr. Carl King.
Salisbury, executive secretary of
the WNC Methodist Conference
Board of Education, and treasurer
of the building committee; Dr.
Harry Denman, executive secretary
of the Methodist General Board of
Evangelism, Nashville, Tenn., and
Mrs. Ruby Sandefur, staff member
of the children's department at the
Methodist General Board of Edu
cation. Nashville.
The children's center will be o
memorial to two pioneer women
(See Children's Center?Page 81
Clyde School Gym
Construction Set
To Begin Soon
Construction will start Immr- !
diately on th? new physical edu
cation building: at the Clyde
School, according to County Sup
erintendent Lawrence Leather
wood and contractor Jerry Liner.
The contract was awarded last
night to Liner's low bid of about
$130,000. Mr. Liner stated that
with "reasonable delivery" on
materials, he would expect to
complete the building by the tirst
! of the year.
The one-story structure will in- |
elude a main gymnasipm area a
little more than one hundred feet
square and two wings for show
er rooms, boilers, etc. Total
dimensions of the building will
be 172 feet by 102 feet.
This is the fourth major pro
ject of the county-wide school
expansion program. Other pro
jects already under construction
include Waynesville High. Cen
tral Elementary and Bethel Ele- ;
mentary.
Jaycees Bringing
Putnam Here For
Address July 9th
The Waynesville Jaycees are
sponsoring a t address by Robert
J. Putnam, here at the court house,
on Thursday, July 9.
Mr. Putnam has made addresses
before many Haywood audiences,
as well as throughout the South.
His address will be "Evils of Socia
lism and Communism, and What
We Can Do About Them."
Mr. Putnam recently resigned his
position with the Champion Paper
and Fibre Company to spend the
next 18 months in a speaking tour
! on the subject.
Waynesville Band Looking
Forward To Interesting
Visit At Lions Convention
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Use Care On The 4th If
You Want To See The 7th
Happy Seventh of July!
The seventh is not a holiday and
there is no particular significance
to the date. But if the past two
years repeat themselves there will
be at least one person in Haywood
County who will meet a violent
death during the Fourth of Jfcly
week-end and wil Inot be around
for the seventh.* July 7 comes on
Tuesday but is included as part
of the week-end by the. Highway
Patrol because patrolmen will be
on special duty from the third un
til the morning of the seventh.
One pedestrian was killed last
year and another in 10,51 by auto
mobiles. The drivers were not at
fault but in many ways that makes
little difference.
Comparatively speaking. Hay
wood County has not had a bad
I record during its Fourth of July
week-ends. There have been no
1 cars involved In wrecks in at least
three years but that is no guaran
tee of the future. Elsewhere in the
State the picture has not been as
good.
Last Fourth of July week-end 14
people were killed on the highways
of North Carolina, 253 injuries
were reported, and 492 accidents.
Oil July 4 itself, seven of the 14
deaths occurred. Broken down
statistically, this means that dur
ing the 1952 holiday someone was
killed in a highway accident every
eight and a half hours, an injury
occurred every 34 minutes, and an
accident every 14 minutes.
What caused all this? 20 per cent,
of the accidents were the result of
(See Use Care?Page 8)
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News
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Krrri "Ham"
. V. feel* he has "cov
, ?- with his ham radio
4 With 102 foreign sta
ir i I in his log, and 317
t i Ions listed. Homer
<yo a little bass fishing
It an S-40B Hallicrafter
b-gao his quest of the
ij. uiary 15th. He listens
ee hours daily ? 4 to 5 |
,t?moo. and then from
;dka that night.
,1 r n'ght when static was
?i, wiih the reception,
iUjt iihooked the antenna,
ts p ice put ^ 3-inch safety
, static was gone, and in
Moscow, Berlin, and Lon
r thinks there might be
sgic to the over-sized pin,
vows he is going to keep
for other evenings when
? gets bad.
r seldom has visitors come
his "listening periods'
as he explains it, "they
it as the announcements
as to the station."
s at Homer's side is
the Boston Bull. The pup
? enjoy traveling over the
ia ham radio as much as
There is one thing that
just won't stand for?and
loud preaching.
works Climax
4 Program
unaluska
orful fireworks display at
urdav will climax a special
if July program at the Lake
[a Methodist Assembly,
ored by residents and busi
es of Waynesville and Juna
ihc fireworks will be the
pnd most varied assortment
pendence Day celebrations
lake, according to Arthur
O'Neil, recreation direc
iring line will be top Mia
11, the explosives to include
bursts, flares, streamers,
aueers, Roman candles and
(ipes to be shot high over
t.
holiday program also will
field and water events, and
;J1 game between teams rep
W Ridgecrest and Lake
ka.
II said the field events for
id girls will start at 10 a.m.,
II include dashes, egg and
ces, and handicap races. 9
I of dolls" for young girls
held at 11:30 a.m., and
nd boat races are scheduled
i at 1:30 o'clock. The soft
ne is set for 3:45 p.m.
f trophies will be awarded
test winners, O'Neil said.
t Asphalt Goes
Hazelwood
ets Today
K of the first coat of as
i Hazelwood streets start
morning, according to an
Construction Company
?n. Conditioning of the
es of streets to be paved
last Wednesday and the
?"on to be worked on was
?r asphalting today.
weather has aided in
_the i?b a little ahead of
,he company said, and
?s aie for the entire con
I W?uk to k* completed
nan the time anticipated.
K 'he past week the streets
Prepared for paving
coating of "traffic-bound
a mixture of crush
trr.a e.aHh' This ls rolled
least c f0rm a compact
nor. i"I lnches depth,
tr nc'Uf1,,s three layers
" ne. bonded together by
"mid asphalt, with the
71, t'oa,
th rP'n8 done according to
irolitis State Highway
^specifications.
xther
HOT
Fa'r" hut hot an(1 8U'"
Li., ,p*' '"olated afternoon
irh rK 'hunder showers,
hanee of change In near
ompiu^neKVlUe iemperatur
?npfled by the State Test
) M? Mia. Rainfall
86 60 _
89 39 _
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Boards To Meet With
2 Engineers On Plans !
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Clearing Lake Waters [ |
4 Groups Wold
Initial Meeting
In Effort To
Solve Problem
Two engineers are being request
ed to come here early next week
and consult with the two boards of
aldermen and representatives of
Lake Junaluska and Health De
partment. relative to the overflow
of the 6-mile sewer line serving the
three communities.
Representatives of the two towns,
the Lake, and Health Department,
held a two hour session Tuesday
night, in an effort to reach a so
, ?n of the problem which re
sulted in the Lake being closed to
swimming. As a result of the clos
ing. the Lake trustees have said
they would have to resort to legal
action unless the situation is cor
rected.
At the Tuesday session, the group
asked that W. Curtis Russ, editor
ot 1 lie Mountaineer, serve as chair
man. The group also requested
that he serve in that capacity in
future meetings when the engineers
arrive to confer with the represen
tatives.
William Medford, attorney for
Lake Junaluska. said that the trus
tees would like to avert court ac
( tion, provided the overflow of sew
age. and excessive contamination
> of streams flowing into the Lake is
/ corrected. ' We are willing to go
. along and work with the two towns
. as long as it appears that progress
- is being made, accord itlg to engin
ltI commendations, of correcting
| the situation." Mr. Medford said.
> J. R. Morgan, attorney for the
i I own of Waynesville, said the Way
? nesville bourd had already approv
? ed the two major projects deslgnat
? ?d for Waynesville. and in one
instance |iad the pipe 011 the job
"We realize the seriousness of the
? situation, und feel that we can have
1 our part of the engineer's reeom
. mendations corrected by spring."
1 Mr. Morgan said.
' Lawrence Davis, mayor of Hazel
l wood, pointed out that his town
' had already been at work checking
011 the lines, and would co-operate,
1 and try to work out the matter to
? avoid a lawsuit.
Dr. N. F. Lancaster, health offi
cer. told of tile repeated tests that
[ had been made of the Lake water,
? and also water of streams flowing
? into the Lake. He read a letter
from F. Rodwell Blaisdell. district
- engineer of the State Board of
. Health, Mr. Blaisdell told of a
I quantity of surface water getting
. into the trunk sewer line, and caus
? ing an overflow during and after
-: rains. The overflow comes at a
1 point at the head of the Lake. The
- engineer went on to say that he
felt that all swimming in the lake
? I (See Sewer?Page 8)
ikh School Band leaves here earl}
Son? i m?r"inR for ,h* Interna
tional Lions Convention at Chicacn
itvvUl be .starting the mj 2?E
f h ut a f,a-vw"<>d count}
hand has ever taken.
Hrst of all. of course, is tin
oistinction the band received ir
cing chosen to represent (he StaU
HO band,,Ve,,,lr At Chictt??
110 band members will start theii
official week bj performing Wed
nesday morning at the North Caro
V,ons breakfast. Later in the
morning they will march i? . Z
and a half mile parade down Michi
Kan Avenue leading the Nortl
Carolina delegation, will giVe ?
concert in the lobby of the Hotel
Morrison, and are scheduled u
Perform Friday morning at the
( hlcago stadium. At that time Job.
' ot'ikley of Charlotte will l>,
nominated for Third Vice President
01 Lions International.
This constitutes the official part
he band will p|ay for the conven
' Durin? 'heir -off time" the
band wiii t?ur Chicago itself to see
rv of Sc,ence a,,d Indus
sh aa a dl,'r Planetarium, the
Shedd Aquarium. "Marshall Kiel,
Store. Chicago Tribune Tower, th,
s ock yards of Armour and Corn
P?ny. and the Chicago Natural His
ory Museum. On Friday afternoor
they will see the twilight double
he-ader baseba" game between the
dians* and thC Cleveland In
^.hiS',s 'he most important
Part of their trip But on theii
return to Waynesville the band wil
stop Saturday in Cincinnati where
they will be guests of the Univer
s"y of Cincinnati and hear the
opera. Carmen' at the Zoologica
Gardens. By Sunday night sever
and a half days after leaving, the
band will be back in Waynesville
Preparations f?r the trip are
abou completed and Band Directoi
m 'S plann'n? to leave
ZVJ Z !e 1 7 a m Sunda^
after brief religious services have
been conducted by several banc
members The band will make the
round trip in three chartered aii
conditioned buses. The first nighl
wi'l be spent in Lexington, Ky.. anc
by Monday night they will be lodg
ed in the Hotel Riviera at Chicago
Out it takes more than thref
buses to take the band on a trip
of this nature. Tw0 trucks wil
also go along to carry equipment
and in addition there will be twe
automobiles carrying various offi
rials and a Highway Patrol cat
whT? ^ Cpl- Pochard Smith
. , '* als? a delegate from the
local Lions Club.
Others who will accompany the
Sroup include Dr. Boyd Owen. !
Lion, who will serve as band doc
lor. Mrs. Howard Bryson, banr
nurse; Mi,s Mary Cornwell. ir
< haige of housing; and Mr Bla<i
from the Carolina Motor Club It
linTZ : nativp "f Chicago whl
will help the band keep on ached
ul< during Its various fours in the
(See Band?Page S)
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; Some Places To
; Close Saturday,
Others Monday
I If you have business at the bank.
? post office, or court house Satur
' day, better plan to get it out of
. the way either Friday or Monday.
> But if you want to do any gen
- eral shopping, Saturday will do
, fine, but don't plan any Monday.
The Fourth of July, which conies
, Saturday, is the reason for this
I mix-up. The post office, bank, and
, court house will observe the day
. and be closed. But stores here will
! have a belated holiday Monday and
. remain open the Fourth.
A traditional observance will be
at Lake Junaluska Saturday night
' with a fireworks display to mark
! the 177th birthday of the U. S.
1 The Mountaineer will be closed
1 all day Saturday and will publish
1 on Monday as usual.
i ?_
Gudger Duckett
; New Postmaster
W. Gudger Duckett became
acting postmaster in Canton July
1 first as he took over the work
headed by Wade C. Illll fhr the
1 past twenty years. Post Office
lJ Inspectors spent Tuesday In Can
' ton Closing out the work. They
1 also administered the oath of
' office to the new postmaster.
Duckett is chairman of the
Haywood County Republican Ex
I ecutive Committee.
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TWO WIDELY-KNOWN METHODIST LAYMEN will be the prin
cipals on the Saturday morning program at the Lake Junaluska
Assembly observing the 2S0th birthday anniversary of John tVesley,
British founder of Methodism. Edwin L. Jones, Charlotte, is presi
dent of the Junaluska Assembly and treasurer of the World Meth
odist Council. He will preside at the 11 a.m. service, and Dr.
Arthur S. Elemming, Washington, D. C? will speak on "Religion
in the Making of America". On leave as president of Ohio Wes
leyan University, Dr. Flemming has held high government posts
since his appointment to the Civil Service Commission by Presi
dent Roosevelt in 1939. He *was recently appointed Director of
U. S. Defense Mobilization by President Eisenhower, a post he held
under President Truman.
Wesley Birthday Program
Opens Tonight; Speaker List
Includes Arthur Flemming
Officials Making
Up Part Of County
Budget For 1954
County auditor James Klrk
patriek. and Chairman C. C.
Francis arc spending a great part
of their time gathering prelimi
nary ligures for the 1954 budget.
The commissioners will begin
a study of the new budget as they
meet Monday. July 6.
The filial details of the budget
will be determined when the new
valuation is ascertained.
Neither of the officials would
make any statement as to what
they expect the 1954 tax would
be. They hinted that it would
not be above $1.65, the present j
rate?that is their hopes are that
it will be kept to within that
| figure.
Work Ahead
Of Schedule
On New Road;
i
Work is ahead of schedule on (
the Pigeon River Road, and an j
engineer from the contractors said (
his men have blasted a mile and a (
half through rock on the North
Carolina side plus 600 feet in the ^
Tennessee side since work started ,
| in April. ,
The contractors. A. B. Burton Co. (
of Lynchburg, Va., have reached ,
a spot where tunneling is to be (
done and have sub-contracted the (
work of an 800-ft. tunnel,
j Two groups are working on the ,
highway. One is on the Tennessee j
side while the other is clearing on ,
(his side of the line. They are both
in fairly inaccessible territory and (
must walk part of the way to their (
| work each day. Tunneling cannot ;
start until the crew clears another
i mile through the forests to the site
and then they are expected to only
work at one end rather than from
both sides as is usually done.
The new highway will shorten
the distance considerably between
Knoxville and \sheville. It will
come out near Vaynesville at Cove
Creek. R. Uett> Browning, chief
locating engineer for the State,
said last week that the new high
way will have such a gradual slope
that even the heaviest trucks will
not be required to shift gears.
Library Will Close
For Fourth of July
The Haywood County Library
will be closed Saturday. July 4. in
observance of the National Holi
day The library will remain open
Monday. July 6, and the Book
' mobile will operate as usual.
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Methodist leaders of the Ui.ited
States and ' England will join to- ..... -*
night in opening a three-day pro
gram at the Lake Junaluska sum'
mer assembly commemorating the
250th birthday anniversary of John
Wesley, British founder of Metho
dism. '' -J
Sponsored by the World Metho
dist Council and the Association of
Methodist Historical Societies, the
Wesley commemoration is attract
ing visitors to the lake from i j
through the South, as well as num
erous other sections.
The principal speakers tonight
at 7:30 o'clock in the lakeside audi
torium will be Dr. E. Benson Perk- f >
ins and Dr. Maldwyn L. Edward:., /
both of Birmingham, England.
Along with Dr. Elmer T. Clark.
Lake Junaluska resident and pro
gram chairman. Dr. Perkins is co
secretary of the World Council.
Bishop Ivan Lee Holt of St.
Louis. Mo , council president, will
preside at tonight's service. Mem
bers of the council's executive and I 9
finance committees were scheduled
to meet at 3 p.m. at Lambuth Inn.
Two other British Methodists will
speak Friday. Dr. Dorothy Farrar,
t'iee president of the British Metho
list Conference and vice principal
?f Wesley Deaconess College. Olk
ley, England, will address the as
sembly at 11 a.m., and Dr. Howard
Roberts of Richmond College, Sur
?ey. vice president of the World
Council, is to speak at 7:30 p.m.
Presiding at the Friday program
will be Mrs. Frank G. Brooks, Mt.
Vernon. Iowa, national president of
he Methodist Woman's Division of
Christian Service, and Dr. Oscar
T. Olson. Cleveland, Ohio, chair
?nan of the council's U. S. execu
ive committee. , . i
A tea and exhibit of Wesleyana
will be held at 4 p.m. at Lambuth
Inn under the direction of the Rev. V; < j?
Dow Klrkpatrick. Athens, Ga.
A prominent Methodist layman 14
>f Charlotte, Edwin L. Jones, presi
ient of the Lake Junaluska As
iembly.will preside at the 11 a.m. m
(See Lake?Page 8)
Highway <19
Record For
1953 1
In Haywood
(To Date) , j flJ
Killed .;;; 2 jll
Injured.... 24
(This information ems
piled from Reeorda ad I
State Highway Patrol.)