\roposal For New Health Department Building Rejected
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The Waynesville Mountaineer
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Published Twice-A-Week In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The GVeat Smoky Mountains National Park q q
68th YEAR NO. 56 18 PAGES Associated"Press WAYNESVILLE. N. C.TtHURSDAY AFTERNOON, JULY ?, 1953 *3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties
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i Phillips Will Preside
Superior Court July 13
Illy term of Haywood ,
ourt, has been set for j
July 13, when a two ,
n will begin for both
nd civil cases.
?on Phillips will preside,
irt docket has 95 cases
ther cases carried over
last term of court,
y list for the two weeks ]
selected as follows:
eek?Roy L. Pless and 1
Hey, Beaverdam; W. B. 1
ir. Waynesville; E. C. 1
bbtree; Eugene Craig, 1
Be; Will Mintz, A. J.
fc. M. Hawkins. William '
fcarlie R. Willia, J. M. \
I R. Barnes, Allen Gragg.
p: Ralph Lucas, Waynes
[ph Blalock, East Fork; 1
Imer, Robert Mills, Zim
fcarlton P. Holt, Waynes- 1
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iRathbone. Fines Creek; 1
Isser, Crabtree; L. H.
f. L. Lawrence, Waynes
le Medford, Clyde; Jesse
t?ve Creek; John W.
I Pigeon; Hack Price,
raw. Bruce McKinley.
|1p; Henry Farmer, Pl
I "ark Clark, Turner S.
I Joe R. Cogburn, Pat j
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I COOLER
?rloudy and cooler, with
Wternoon thundershowers.
? Waynesville tempera
Bmpiled by the State Test
Maxi. Mln. Rainfall
? 88 64
? 88 88 .28
? 80 ?3 .29 1
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Presbyterian Church
To Elect Ruling Elders
At Meeting Sutiday
A congregational meeting of the
Waynesville Presbyterian church
tas been called for Sunday to fol
low the morning hour of worship.
The Session of the Church is re
questing all members of the con
gregation to present for the pur
pose of electing additional ruling
?lders.
The Session will propose to the
congregation that they elect three
more ruling elders to serve on the
Session, making the total eleven.
According to Presyterian proce
dure. the pastor of the church is
the moderator of the Session, which
Is the government body of the local
congregation. R. L Prevost, senior
ruling elder in the Waynesville
church, is clerk of the Session.
County Tax Rate Cut 10 Cents
Two Members of Board Feel
Proposal For New Quarters
Should Be Studied Longer
The proposal for a new Health
Department building for Haywood
County was turned down today
ever coming to a vote by the Board
of County Commissioners. There
as an economy measure without
was no second to a motion to Com
missioner Frank Davis that the
Board appropriate sufficient mon
ey from this year's budget to qual
ify them to apply to the Medical
Care office for their pro rata of
70.4 cents on the dollar to make
possible a health center and office
building for HayWood County. The
motion therefore died without
coming to vote.
The three Commissioners stat
ed in full their reasons for their
respective positions on the matter:
Commissioner Davis stated: "1
am in favor of a health center and
I think now is the appropriate
time to do it. We are financially
able to do so with the aid of the
amount proposed to be put up by
the Medical Care Commission.
With the crowded conditions that
exist in the Court House, which is
now running over, and the in
crease that has taken place, we
are forgetting the need of the
health of our people.
"Taking it on a strict financial
basis, it is economically wise to
do it at the present time. The
health of the people is the first
consideration, in the home, in the
community and in the nation. All
Ihe wealth and all the power is
.vorth nothing unless our people
ire healthy.
"The excellent work of our
Health Department through the
years has proved its worth. The
small amount of $17,000 required
by Haywood County ?? plus the
site?? is a justified expenditure.
It will have to be done in the near
future. Some provision will have
to be made for some of our offices
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in the Court House, and while the
appropriations from the Govern
ment is at it is now, with no as
surance that it will last, we should
take advantage of it.
"We c'an do this and still cut
our tax rate 5 cents under the
present rate, and after all, with
the growth of Havwood County,
its many buildings and industries
that are developing day after day.
there is no immediate danger of a
over-t. x burden on our citizen
ry.
"That Haywood County property
and* real estate ranks above all
other counties around it is due to
our fine hospital, roads, schools
and the other progressive moves
it has made. The soil might not be
so good, but the spirit of progress
is high. The continued guarding
of the health, and the protection
of our people, is one of the steps
that has made this a desirable
place to live. I am voting for a
health center In the hope that
Haywood County will continue to
grow and become a better place to
live."
Commissioner Jarvis H. Allison
gave his viewpoint as follows:
"I want to say something on both
sides of this ?uestiohN X am in the
habit of weighing things from all
angles. To begin with, I admit we
are about to outgrow the Court
House, and I think that the pre
ceding Board of County Commis
sioners acted wisely in buying the
half acre of land between the
Court House and Branner Avenue.
I appreciate the fact ? I am
speaking now on the debit side of
this ?i that the State and Nation
al governments propose to put up
70.4 cents if we put up 29.6. I
realize that this Court House in
the near future will have to ex
pand.
"I further understand that pro
moters of this proposition have al
ready told us that it takes an acre
of land. That disbars us from the
opportunity of putting it on the
Court House space, and if by some
means they could be persuaded
to put it there, they would not al
low anything else to be put there.
This would prevent the expansion
of the Court House in the future.
It is probably true that $17,000
would be our proportionate part?
except for the site; and the site
would have to be purchased in ad
dition to the $17,000.
This would only relieve us to
this extent ? it is true that we
are payWig $75 a month for quar
ters for the Welfare Department,
but if we had this building it
would only provide room for the
Health Department and" would
therefore only relieve us tempor
arily.
"1 further state that we have a
wonderful Health Department as
it is. In that statement I am in
cluding the Health Department
as we usually know it, the hospital
and all the doctors?they have a
form of hospital themselves.
"If we were to add the purchase
(See Health Building?Page <)
Lake Dedication Ceremony
Opens Children's Building
The southeastern summer assem
bly grounds of the Methodist
Church at Lake Junaluska added
? new activities center to its
Christian education facilities when
a new $60,000 children's building
was formally opened Sunday with
appropriate ceremony.
Miss Elizabeth A. Jarratt, Char
lotte, chairman of the building
committee, announced that the of
ficial name of the handsome, mod
ified colonial structure is "Chil
dren's Building?the Kennedy
Skinner Memorial."
She presided at the ceremotly
and welcomed visitors to the open
ing exercises. "Today we celebrate
a dream come true," she said in
her tribute to the committee and
donors.
Or. Carl H. King of Salisbury,
treasurer, said that $45,000 of the
building costs had been contribut
ed, largely through "small change"
offerings of Methodist Sunday
School classes in nine southeastern
states, and tha" he was confident
that Methodists interested in
children's work would soon sub
scribe the balance.
Mtss Jarratt and Mrs. C. A.
Rauschenberg. Jr., Atlanta, vice
chairman, praised Dr. King as "the
one who has worked hardest in
making this building possible." Dr.
King is executive secretary of the
Methodist Board of Education in
the Western North Carolina Con
ference.
"We link this building to the
memory of two wonderful women
?Miss Minnie E. Kennedy and
Miss Mary E. Skinner?in grati
tude for their love of children and
their long years of service as Meth
odist directors of children's work,"
Dr. King said.
He said the new center is an
entargment, of the nearby J. 8.
(See Lake JnaafmlM?Page ?>
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SITE OF THE AGRICULTURAL EXHIBIT BUILDINGS is out
lined with white dotted lines in this photograph taken from an
elevation opposite the location. The county ha? selected 20 acres
on Highway 19-A on the M. O. Galloway farm near Waynesville.
Barn at lower left la on the Welch Farm Place.
(Mountaineer Photo).
600 Masons Are Expected To Attend
Summer Assembly Here This Weekend
Band Gives Effective Show
In Three - Hour Lions Parade
Jaycees Bringing
Putnam Here For
Address July 9th
The Waynesville Jaycees are ?
sponsoring an address by Robert I
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 Wiiat
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.
'Bare' Facts Should Not
Be Taken Too Literally
Speaking of ' bears in the
Smokies, which everybody does
sooner or later, Bart I^eiper tells
a hard-to-believe tale of a bear's
startled "prospect" who succeeded
in 'phoning for help. As Mr. Leip
er puts It:
"It is seldom if ever that a man
treed by a bear in the wilderness
has been able to telephone for
help. But that happened in the
case of a hiker who had ascended
one of the Are towers scattered
at strategic points on mountain
tops of the Great Smokies. Tired
of waiting his descent, the rest of
his party hit the trail. When Anally
he started down the ladder, he
found a huge mother bear and cub
reaching up the ladder for him.
"How was he to know, that the
food he had stashed away In his
pack was really what they sought?
Because It was early spring and
getting late, the hiker began to
shake and shiver with cold. At last
a flash of Inspiration came over
him: the telephone on top of that
tower! ,
"Up he scrambled to call for
help ? and the Park'rangers an
swered his frantic plea."
Chamber of Commerce
Board To Meet, 14th
A meeting of the board of direc
tors of the Waynesville Chamber
of Commerce will be held Tues
day. July 14, at 7:30 p.m. in the
Town Hall.
Dr. Boyd Owen, president of the
group, has requested a full attend
ance.
(Special to Thr Mountaineer)
CHICAGO ? Waynesville High
School's 110-piece band, marching
in a spectacular parade down Mich
igan Avenue for the annual con
vention of the International Asso
ciation of Lions Clubs Wednesday
morning, put on a fine show for
the 125.000 spectators and feame
through the three-hour event
"without a casualty".
The weather man looked favor
ably upon the Mountaineers and
provided a pleasant 74-degree tem
perature.
The band, representing North
Carolina, was part of an estimated
14.000 paraders representing all
of the states and a number of for
eign countries, it was a typical big
city show complete with showers of
confetti.
Following the parade the hand
members relaxed at. .lackson Park
Beach and later played for a ses
sion of the Lions convention at the
Chicago stadium?substituting for
another band. Wednesday night
they enjoyed a boat ride with sup
per aboard.
The hand caravan arrived in
Chicago according to schedule
Monday night, and spent Tuesday
visiting the stock yards and the
Museum of Science and Industry
Today's schedule calls for a visit
to *the Adler Planetarium, the
Chicago Museum of National His
tory, and Shedd Aquarium.
The last day in Chicago will in
clude a performance at the stad
ium. a tour of Marshall Fields, the
Tribune Tower and North Lake
Shore Drive, and attendance at the
double-header baseball game be
tween the White Sox and the
Cleveland Indians.
According to the latest plans,
forty members of the band will re
main in Chicago Saturday morning
with their director, Charles Isley,
and will play for the final session
of the Convention The remaining
sixty members, accompanied by
Robert A. Campbell, assistant, di
rector, will .leave according'tn
schedule for Cincinnati, O., to at
tend the opera, "Carmen". The
two groups will meet at the Uni
versity of Cincinnati later Satur
day night and will leave together
Sunday morning at 7 o'clock for
the trip home.
Headquarters for the North Car
olina delegates in Chicago Is the
Morrison Hotel. The band group
which had reservations at the Hote
Riviera, moved on Tuesday to the
Hotel Croyden which provide
larger and more spacious ?< -
(See Band?F ag* tV
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(See Picture* on Put 1, Sec. 3)
A vanguard of an estimated 600
Masons and members of their
families from many states are
scheduled to arrive here Sunday,
July 12 for the fourteenth annual
Masonic Assembly of the Grand
Council of Royal and Select Mast
ers of North Carolina.
The three-day event will open
with registration Sunday from
9)60 a.m. until 6 p.m. at the Way
nesville Armory ? headquarters
for the meeting. All Masons are
requested to report and register
upon arrival in order that they
may be assigned to their hotels
and tourist courts.
The first meeting will be held
Sunday evening at 8 o'clock in the
Armory when the Rev. James H.
Coleman will conduct a Masonic
Service. All Master Masons, their
families, and friends are cordial
ly invited as well as all churches
in the community.
A social hour will be held im
mediately following the service
and refreshments will be served
by members of the Eastern Star.
Al 7 p.m. Sunday a motor trip
is planned for all who wish to
witness the drama, "Unto These
Hills" at Mountainside Theater at
Cherokee.
Following is a complete schedule
of events:
Sunday. July 12.
10 a m. toi 6 p.m.?Registration
and assignment.
7 p m.?A motor trip for al' who
wish to witness the play "Unto
These Hills" at, Mountainside The
ater at Cherokee.
8 p m?Masonic Service at Way
nesville Armory. Social hour and
refreshments (arranged by the
ladies of the Order of the Eastern
Start immediately following ser
vices.
Monday, July 13.
9 a.m. ? Opening the Grand
Council by the Most Illustrious
Companion Thomas G, Slate,
Grand Master; Introductions and
reception of distinguished guests;
announcements; call from labor to
refreshments.
3 p m.?Scenic motor trip to
Masonic Marker at Black Camp
Gap. Judgw James I. Walker, Past;
Grand High Priest of the Grand
Royal Arch Chapter of Royal Arch
Masons in Tennessee, will make
the address.
8 p.m.?Royal and Select Mast
ers Degree at Waynesville Armory
by a team from Blake Council No.
? 19, Spartanburg, S. C.
9 p.m?Select Masters Degree by
a team from Golden Triangle Coun
. cil No. 28, of Eustfcg, *"la.
Tuesd*" n
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More School
Projects Are
Ordered By
Two Boards
Excellent progress In the $2,
000,000 county-wide school expan
sion program was reported yester
day at a joint meeting of the
Board of Commissioners and the
Board of Education. Dave Felmet,
chairman of the combined board,
announced that taking into account
the number of contracts already
let, every school was going to re
ceive every dollar that was prom
ised at the beginning of the pro
gram.
Next on the building and remod
eling agenda is work at Crabtree
Iron Duff, Fines Creek and Sau
nook. The architect, Lindsey Mad
ison Gudger, has been requested
to submit preliminary sketches for
a new gymnasium at Crabtree, for
a lunchroom at Fines Creek and for
remodeling the old classroom
building at Saunook into an audi
torium
Work will get under way as
quickly as possible on the water
system at Fines Creek, with the ex
pectation of having it ready for
the opening of this school term.
Mr Felmet expressed the satis
faction of the joint board with the
general progress of the projects
New County
Tax Rale b
Set At $1.55
The tax rate for Haywood coun
ty was reduced 10 cents per $100
valuation today, as the commis
sioners approved a tentative
budget for the fiscal year, which
began July 1. The new tax rate
will be $1.55.
The board will meet on July
20th, and formally adopt the bud
get, under the provision of the
finance laws of the state.
According to James Kirkpatrick.
county auditor, the new budget
calls for $1,438,434. Of this amount,
the sum of $592,875 must come
from taxes. The remainder is from
other sources, such as state and
federal aid. and penalties.
The county debt service fund is
up about $5,000, the record shows.
The county debt service covering
roads, hoap'tal and court house
amounts tq $65,040, while the
school debt service is $102,991.
The general fund of the county
shows a decrease of about $1,600.
This total fund for 1953 is $84.
770. This fund is lower than last
year, even with the $10 per month
increase the board granted all em
ployees Whose salaries are not set .
by law.
? The largest Increase in the
budget is for the Hospital, which
is exactly $100,000 more than last
' i year, going from $254,000 up to
$354,000. Of this, a sum of $63,
000 will be raised by taxes, as
against $47,000 raised by taxes for
the past year. The remainder will
come from revenues paid by pa
tients of the institution.
A complete comparison of all
funds and the tax required for each
fund will be shown in detail in
Monday's issue of The Mountain
eer.
Only One Man Is
Being Held Here
In lackson Case
Ail of the men held in the Hay
wood county jail In connection
with the murder of Sheriff Griffin
Middleton of Jackson county, have
been removed to other jails, except
Lonzo McCall, according to Sheriff
Fred Campbell.
Demos Woods, the confessed
slayer of the sheriff, was remov
ed to the Bryson City jail, where
he has been questioned by Solicit
or Thad Bryson. and Sgt. T. A.
Sandlin of the Highway Patrol.
Indications were that Woods
might be returned here at a later
date.
Mrs. Martin Berry left yester
day for her home in Pleasant Val
ley, New York after spending sev
eral days with her mother, Mrs.
Harry Rotha.
already under construction.
The board also decided to re
employ Howard Hall as supervisor
of construction work. After con
sideration of a number of applic
ants. it was felt that Mr. Hall's
previous experience with the
county in this work was of great
value. ; j ? . ? ' B
County Teaching Staff
For Year To Number 203
Haywood County's teacher allot
ment for thp coming school y?ar
remains substantially as It was last
year. Superintendent. Lawrence
Leatherwood announced today.
Personnel will total 203, compar
I ed with 202 last year.
Of this number 149 teachers
will go to elementtary schools, 50
to high schools. 2 to colored ele
mentary work and 2 to supervisory
work. Mr. Leatherwood said that
there was a possibility of gaining
one more primary teacher.
The largest number of white
teachers and principals will be in
the Waynesville district, where
the staff will be 114. Bethel re
vives 42; Clyde 19; Fines Creek
"rabtrae 11; and Cataloochee
s sterling one each,
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Highway
Record For
1953
In Haywood
(To Date)
Killed.;:: 2
Injured 27
(Thk> Inform*Uea eMM
pilrd from Record* mt
State Highway Patrol.) ,
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