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A PAGE ABOUT THE AREA DEVOTED TO Information For Visitors i Cileloaders Cocked Primed For Annual oochee Beef Shoot ihoot it out again a e August 5 for th< hip championship o I ohna's Great Smokv when the Beef Shoot ecause the prizes art t beef, attracts upward pstants, men and womer ages from 16 to 80. The ipeO to anyone who ear muz/lekading rifle cap . able of drilling an aee of diamonds r at 60 yards. Sometimes "outsiders" , win. Usually, however, the shoot simmers down to Smoky Mountains > family feuds. ^ Most of the shooting is done from prone position, and a log or , other rest may be used. Any i amount of assistance may be ob tained. such as shading the sights or breechlock from the -?m's glare. Each contestant makes his own target of charred wood in any form he wishes, because the size of the customary diamond bullseye makes no difference. It is the closeness of the pattern of 3 shots that counts, and the judges have calipers handy for splitting hairs in measuring. No stances are bar red. Some fire from a position flat on their back. The Beef Shoot is an all-day affair, although the official starting time is 9 a.m. and the closing time 3:30 p.m. Actually, contestants and spectators begin arriving at dawn, and it is dusk before the last of the procession has rengotiated the steep and crooked gravel road that soars the last 3 miles from the turn off on U. S. Highway 19 to moun tain-top Cataloochee Ranch. In days past, there were hun dreds of the long-barrelled rifles in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. The mountaineers "used them to kill game for their table as well as for protection from marauders, man and beast. ? Thev are deadly on an animal as small as a squirrel at 100 yards, and are effective against bears and wild boar and deer, which are found In the Great Smokies. Old Smoky Visitors Top Number For Last June Estimated travel to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, atwart the North Carolina-Tenness ee line, was 394.342 persons In June. This compared with 298.525 in June of 1952. an increase of 95,rfl7 visitors during the month to the most visited of all national parks. Fontana Dam, in the North Caro lina Great Smokies, had 124,000 visitors in June, which was 22,400 more than were counted there in June, 1952. Use Want Ads for quick results 1 ? . - - ?n ii ???ii?m?w???? IT TAKES EXPERT COACHING to show a flatlander how to handle one of the old long>barreled rifles used at the annual beef shoot at Cataloochee. Jerry^Mull. who has been coins to beef shoots for a good 50 years, gives the benefit of his experlenee to Mrs. Arthur Yates of Jacksonville, Fla. <N. C. State News Bureau Photo). Tonga Islander Describes Work Of Missionaries .. A descendant of South Pacific cannibals told the story at the Lake Junaluska South-wide Methodist missionary conference of how his island people were converted to Christianity. "Every resident is now a Chris tian and we live up to our name of the Friendly Islands," said the Rev. .lohn Havea. international student and a delegate to the conference. He is a native of the Tonga or "Friendly" Islands which compose a protected state in the South Pa cific. with an area of 250 square miles and a population of nearlv 50.000. In this country on a Methodist "crusade scholarship" to do grad uate work at Drew University. Mad ison. N. J., Havea is a third-genera tion Christian and the son of a native Methodist minister. The native queen is Salote Tu pou.. who was featured recently in news pictures of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth in London. Other than the three queens of the Brit ish royal family, she was the only queen permitted to take part in the coronation. Havea said that the English ex-1 plorer, Captain Cook, was the first | white man to visit the islands. He I landed there in 1772 and named the group of 150 islands the Friendly i Islands because the natives gave, his crew food and water. "Had he stayed one day longer my forej bears probably would have cooked ; Captain Cook," Havea quipped in his address to conference delegates, i A few years later, Havea said, i a young British Methodist couple, < the Rev. and Mrs. John Thomas. ! came to the islands as missionaries. They did not win a single convert the first four years, but then the natives starting accepting Chris tianity and from then on the "new religion" spread throughout the islands Until every person is now a Christian, the young student re counted. "My people stopped their tribal warfare, built churches and schools, and gave up the practice of offering human sacrifices to false gods." Havea said. He said that at one church today part of the baptismal font was once a "killing stone," used to crush the skulls of babies to be sacrificed. Eighty per cent of the island population are Methpdists. he said, and the rest belonging to Protes- . tant and Catholic churches. The church he serves as associate pas tor has 850 members and the at tendance at worship services is always more than 800. he said. A native of China. Miss Ivy-Chou, also spoke at the student session. After studying in this country at Scarrit College, Nashville, Tenn., and Columbia University, New York, she returned to China in 1946 as a missionary teacher. She was forced to leave In 1948 when the Communists gained control. "I fled'to Borneo, expecting to be with strangers, and found thous ands of Chinese Christians who years before had left China and had taken the Christian gospel with them." she said. "These are trying times for Chinese Christians, as well as for Christians in other parts of the world, and more than ever we look to Americans as our friends," she idded. ' The missionary conference. Which opened July 16, ended Wednesday noon following an address by Dr. ] George P. Howard, missionary to South America. Smoky Again Tops j US National Park Visitors' Record Visitors to thp Great Smoky Mountains National Park continue to top by a wide margin those re ported for other national parks in the U.S.A.. according to the latest official report of the National Park Service just received by Western North Carolina Highlanders here. Through June the total in the Smokies is shown as 808.324, com pared with 720,782 total for the corresponding period of last year, a gain of 87.542 for the first six months of 1953. Among all national parks, closest rival to the Smokies in total at tendance remains Shenandoah Na tional Park, in Virginia, reporting a total of 526,714 visitors for the first six months of this year. a slight gain over the corresponding period last year. Visitors using the Blue Hldge Parkway for the first six months this year showed a phenomenal eain of 316.892. or 25 per cent plus, over the similar period of 1952. Total visitors through this June were 1.542.091. contrasted with 1. 225.199 through June of 1952. Instead of flving hundreds of miles horizontally, one wily bird has learned to do its migrating one mile perpendicularly. The Junco, locally called tbe snow bird, lives on top of the Smokies all summer, then glides down Into the valley when Severe winter weather comes. i Brevard Festival Highlight To Be Beethoven Ninth Outstanding artists and a per formance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony are planned for the Brevard Music Festival at the Transylvania Music Camp August 7-23. . Joseph Fuchs. internationally known violinist, will he the soloist at the opening festival concert on Aug. 7. Other.artists on programs of this southern musical event in clude: Jorge Botet. pianist; Olin Downos. commentator; Richard Oyer-Bennett, tenor: FJleen Farrell, soprano: Beverly, WoIIT. contralto; Andrew McKinlev. tenor, and An drew White, baritone. Highlight of the 1953 festival will he the presentation of Beeth oven's Ninth Symphony, scheduled for August 21 and 23. Also featured will be the Festival chorus under the direction of Lester McCoy, and the Brevard symphony under the direction of John Christian Pfohl. Four Nominees Campaign For Junaluska Queen Title Lake Junaluska soon will be buzzing with "politics." pointing to ward the August 1 election of the 1953 queen of the southeastern Methodist Assembly. Already the young people at the lake are busily making posters, banntrs and other campaign mate rial in support of their favorite candidate. Arthur O'Neill, recreation direc tor at the assembly and supervis or of the election, announced that four "fair maidens" have been nominated to 1953 title of "Queen of Lake 'unaluska". They are: Miss Mary Moore of Columbus, Ga.. rising junior at LaGrange (Ga.t College, and the daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Leland Moore, longtime summer residents at the lake. She is sponsored by the Ter race Hotel, where she has work ed for several summers. Her eam oaign managers are Jan Westmore land and George Joiner. Miss Joyce Carter, rising junior at the University of North Caro lina, and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W, C. Carter, year-round res idents at the lake. She is being sponsored by the Soda Shop, and Jerry Alexander of Canton is her campaign manager. ? Miss Lucy Neeley of Columbia S. C.. who will be a sophomore this fall at Wesleyan- College. Macon Ga. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs W. B. Neeley, Columbia. Miss Neeley's candidacy is hacked by Lambuth Inn, and Miss Peggy Herbert is her campaign manager. Miss Louise Leaeh. Lake Juna luska resident and a rising sopho more at Alabama Poly, Auburn. Ala. She is the (jaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh LeacTT*of Sunset Col lege, a summer lodge which is sponsoring her candidacy. Dewey Gaddis, Waynesville, is her cam paign manager. The coronation of the new queen, always a gala affair, is set for August 15. Hikers who lose their way in the mountain forests are advised to fol low streams downhtttg bi ' variably lead to a settlement or J road. Florida Visitors Pleased With Waynesville Area Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Wagner and their daughter Evelyn, of West Palm Beach. Kla., are enthusiastic about their first visit to Waynes ville. They are spending July and part of August as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Heinbree at Valley View Farm on Valley View Circle Koad. The Wagners say that they are "delighted with the climate and very happy with the. whole set >'P" llot Surings, in Western North Carolina, was a famous Indian ren dezvous before the white man dis covered it in 1778. Many Happy Returns of Your Shirts Bark they come . . . again and again . . . from our laundry . . . whiles dazzling, colors sparkling . . . linished lo perfection . . . look ing like new! DIAL GL 6-.r?:iG7 W A YNES VILLE ?*LAUNURY BOVD AVENUE ? M-* SEVILLE'S NEW UNDER LANP ^ DRAMA th Mountain sic Based On Tie Life Of MEL BOONE 'ANY OF 105 TED PARKINQ FOR 1800 CARS SEATS 1.50 i 2.00-2.50-3.00 Otder 12 Half Price NEVILLE'S FOREST HITHEATRE TLY at 8:15 EPT SUNDAY 0 SEPT. 7 ATCH I pairing iranteed For IE YEAR s ring It To 1 11 ? * X pwTHERtllABUWw J EESEEG ? REDUCED SUMMER PRICES Now In Effect! 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IN TOWN ' Breakfast Our Specialty! * SANDWICHES * DRINKS Delicious Bar-B-Quc Chicken Ideal for Sunday Picnics and Dinners CHARLIES Opposite Pet Dairy Hillcrest Resort On Highway 19-23, one mile east of Lake Junaluska. Modern cottages and apartments with kitchenettes. Located 500 yard* off highway, making a cool, restful place to spend your vacation. Large grounds with recreational facilities ? shuffleboard, etc. "Children and Pets welcome." Write or wire for rates and reservations. Owned and operated by Mr. and Mrs. I,. E. DeVtkus, P. O. Box 747, Waynesvllle, N. C. Phone Waynesvtlle GL 6-3873. \ f* ? ? (a. 1.*. ?ri'.flW i -w,* . ? . ? V .'. J. aUriP ?? ?-\r ., I
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