THOMAS U. MASSIE, now serv
ing with the 45th Infantry Divi
sion in Korea, has recently been
promoted from Corporal to Ser
geant.
Sgt. Massie entered the service j
in July, 1952, and arrived in Korea
in January, 1953. He attended
Waynesville High School and was
later employed by Seabrook Farms
in New Jersey. He ij> the son of
Mr, and Mrs. Bea Massie, Rt. 2,
Waynesville.
School Bus Driver
Test Scheduled
Prospective County school bus j
drivers who do not have school bus
drivers' licenses may apply for
them on Friday. August* 7, at 9
a. m.. Superintendent Lawrence
Leatherwood announced today.
Carroll Angel, school bus driver
examiner from the State Highway
Safety Division will be at the
countv school bus garage in Way
nesville at that time.
All persons applying for the bus
^driver!!' licenses must have North
Carolina drivers' licenses.
Several vacancies are to be fill
ed aibong the county's 54 school
bus positions.
British officials say that the
country entered World War II with
assets of 10 billion dollars and fin
ished it with liabilities of 7 bil
lion dollars.
Is Hot Weather
Wearing You Down?
?Do vou bo
fore the day'* work is half done?
Chances are the hot weather has
taken your aDpetite, denying your
body the normal food energy it
needs as badly now as any time of
year.
Say good-bye to those "Summer
Doldrums" with Sralf's Indian
River Medicine. This famous fami
ly stomach tonic has been waking
nn folks' annetites for over 50
years . . . Read the praises of Miss
Natomia Sexton, Hnntsville. Tenn.
"I suffered terribly Jrom loss of
apnetite with resulting loss of
weight and e tired, weak, nervous,
rundown feeling. Most of the time
I felt too miser- *
able to work.
Then I heard a
hout Seairs In
dian River Medi
cine and I tried
it. I started at
once eating al
io o s t anything:
then, before long
I had put on ten 1
pounds - of much
needed weight. I^iatomia Sexton
feel so much stronger and better
that I can do my work with ease."
Pi^fH by Miss Sexton's experi
ence: see for yourself how quickly
Scaif's Indian River Medicine
brings back mealtime gusto. Re
sulting nourishment supplies vita
mins the natural way ? sends new
energy surging through your body.
4*k for it today at your nearest
drug store.
Revival Begins
Sunday In
Beaverdam
I By MRS. GEORGE F. WOIiLEY
Community Reporter
i The people of Beaverdam enjoy
ed one of the best field days last
| Wednesday that we have had since
they were started. We were proud
to be host to the Iron DutT com
munity, and we want to thank
everyone who participated and
helped make the day a success.
The women are to be congratulat
ed for their fine spirit of coopera
tion in bringing out the good food,
and we wish to thank Mr. Hubert
Wines, janitor of the Beaverdam
school for his cooperation on that
day.
We are sorry that Fred Best was
injured playing ball during the
field activities, and hope he will
soon be well. He received a small
fracture above the left eye from a
foul ball.
A ? revival will start at Long's
Branch Church Sunilay, August 9.
The Rev. Plemmons, the pastor,
will be in charge, and Rev. C.
Worley. 73 years old. from Spring
Creek, will be the preacher. All
singers and others interested are
invited to attend and take part.
There will be Homecoming and
Decoration at the Beaverdam
cemetery near the Beaverdam
Methodist Church the third Sun
day, August 16. Everyone is in
vited to bring a basket lunch and
enjoy the day together. The East
Haywood Singing Convention will
meet there in the afternoon.
Mrs. Ray Plemmons. of West
Asheville, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. C. V. Sorrells. is improving
at her home after surgery in Me
morial Mission Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. "Chick" Trantham
and children. Mike and Sandra,
have returned to their home in
Texas after a few days visit with
Mrs. Trantham's mother. Mrs. G.
H. Wilson and other relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith and
son. Gary, from Hyder Mountain,
spent Sunday with Mrs. Smith's
sister. Mrs. Russell Robinson and
family.
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Mr. and Mrs. Ira Worley and
son, Gordon, spent a few days
with their sons and brothers. El
bert and John Worley and thei"
families, in Tennessee recently.
Miss Annie Rice is spending
some time with her brother, Her
bert Rice.
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My Favorite Stories
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By CARL .GOERCH
Col. Calvin H. Burkhead passed
this story along to me during the
war when he was stationed at Ft.
Bragg and I've always thought it
was a good one.
At Camp Meade, in 1917, there
was organized a negro regiment.
The regiment was commanded by
a white colonel, and all of t|Je of
ficers down to and including the
majors were white. The captains
and lieutenants and non-commis
sioned officers were negroes.
Among the colored officers was
a tall 6-foot-or-more captain, who
stood verv erect and in every way
made at fine soldierly-looking offi
cer. He had been First Sergeant of
one of the ten cavalry troops prior
to the outbreak of the war.
Considerable difficulty was ex
perienced in getting the negro sol
diers of this regiment to take out
the full $10,000 government life in
surance. The men would take out
$1,000, $2,000, and some few as
much as $5,000. The colonel and
other white officers had done
everything they knew of to encour
age lhe negro soldiers to protect
themselves to the full extent, but
without any noticeable effect: the
negroes just naturally wouldn't
take out the insurance.
One day, at officers call, the
colonel brought this matter again
to the attention of his captains
and lieutenants. The negro captain
' -tood up and made a statement to
'his effect:
"Colonel, if vou will assemble the
men at the Liberty Theatre tonight,
1 believe that I can make them
'ake-Aih tHe full $1#T)00 worth of
Gladys Hipps at the home of Mrs.
Marvin Mann Friday night, July
11. A large crowd was present and
Mrs. Hipps received many pretty
eifts. Delicious refreshments were
served by the hostess.
Mrs. Haywood Chapman Is feel
;ng much better following a recent
'llness. She was greatly missed at
our field day Wednesday, as this
was the first one she has missed
since they were started.
%
Gaston Rhymer's condition still
remains about the same. He is
confined to his bed most of the
time and appreciates his old
friends visiting him.
1 insurance?every last one of them "
After some discussion, the colo
nel consented and issued the or
der that the entire regiment would
be assembled at the#Liberty Thty?
tre at 7 o'clock that evening. ^
Promptly at the designated hour,
the men were marched in by com
pany formation and took their seats
?some 3,000 of them. The adjutant
of the regiment made a statement
to the effect the captain had some
thing to say to the assembled
throng. He therewith turned the
meeting over to the captain.
"You men listen to me. You
think you all are smart and you
won't take out this $10,000 insur
ance because it costs you a little
extra money. But I wants to tell'
you something; you men are deal
ing with somebody just as smart as
you are.
"This-yeah Uncle Sam of ours is
no fool. He is a good businessman.
It's true that if you only take out
a small amount of insurance you
have a little more money to spend
for cawn licker and to throw away
on your girl friends, but there is a
day of reckoning coming. And
that's what I want to tell you about
now. so that you all can be pre
pared to meet it.
"Listen carefully. One of these
days you all are going to wake up
and the Colonel here is going to
say: 'All right, men; we's off for
France.' Then they'll put you
aboard the train and send you
up to New York. Next they'll
put you on a big ship, and
fi^st' thing you know you'll be
sailing across the Atlantic
Ocean. A|tar abolit a week or so.
She of the sergeants will go among
you and he'll sav; 'Everybody git
off this boat. We is now In France.'
"Nacherly you wants to know
what's going to happen then Well,
when you start gettin' off that big
ship, and when you walk down the
gangplank, you're going to find
this-yeah adjutant of ours with the
thick glasses, standin' at the oth
er end of the gangplank. In his
hand he'll have a list of names of
all the men in the regiment. He'll
make each one of you tell him what
your name is. and when you do,
he'll chec it on his list. Opposite
your name will be the amount of
insurance that you've taken out.
"You. John Smith, sittin' down
there in the third row. When you
gives your name to the adjutant,
he'll look at his ljst and he'll say:
'Huh! > you're a cheap boy. John
Smith; you only got $1,000 worth
of insurance. Government won't
lose much if you gets shot. We'll
send you uo to the front line.'
"And you, Tom Brown, sittin'
over there on the right. When the
adjutant gets to your name, he'll
say; 'Another cheap soldier. Only
got $2,000 worth Insurance. Up to
the front line, where the action Is
the hottest.'
"But suppose he comes to your
name. Hiram Wesley: or suppose
he comes to yours. Jim Weatherly.
He'll look on his list and he'll see
where each one of you all has tak
en out $10,000 worth of insurance.
Do you know what he's goin' to
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Services Are
Planned For
Mrs. Reece
Mrs Ethel Mehaffey Reece. vife
of Francis Reece. member ot the
Waynesville Police Department,
died yesterday in a Winston-Sal^
em hospital after a week's illness.
Funeral services will be held in
the Richland Baptist Church Fri
day at 2:30 p.m. with the Rev.
George Mehaffey officiating. Inter
ment will be in Green Hill Ceme
tery.
Active pallbearers will be Char
lie McCali, Bale Hicks. Kyle Camp
bell. Henry Miller. Harry Evans,
Jr.. and Paul Galloway.
Honorary pallbearers will be
members of the Police Department.
Surviving in addition to the hus
band. are two sons. Harrold and
Howell Reece; two daughters. Bar
bara end Gale Reece. of the home;
'the parents. Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph
Mefiaffey of Waynesville, Route 1;
six brothers. Fred Mehaffey of the
State of Washington; William and
Floyd Mehafey of Hazelwood.
Charles Mehaffey of Waynesville,
Samuel Mehaey of Detroit, and
Robert Mehaffey of Waynesville.
Route 1. ,
Also three sisters, Mrs. Glenn
Bentley of Winter Haven. Fla.;
Mrs. Andrew Ball of Candler, and
Mrs. Cecil Cobe of Farragut, Ida
ho; the paternal grandmother, Mrs.
James Mehaffey of Waynesville, I
and the maternal grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. John Bryant of Con
nelly Springs.
Crawford Funeral Home is in
charge.
DEATHS
MRS. JOSIE MITCHELL
Mrs. Josie B. Mitchell. 64, died
in an Asheville hospital Monday
night after a long illness.
The funeral services were held
Wednesday morning in the First
Baptist Church at Canton, conduct
ed by the pastor,'the Rev. Horace
L. Smith, the Rev. W. Harold
Groce, and the Rev. H. R. Sher
man. Graveside rites were held at
4 p.m. in Lynnhurst Cemetery,
Knoxville, Tenn.
Nephews served as active pall
bearers, and honorary pallbearers
were: Dr. V. H. Duckett, Bill Stone,
Glenn Howell, P$ul Murray, Arthur
Owenby, W. S. Edwards. Ernest
Messer. Charles Jacobs. Frank
Davis. Brent Angel, Clay Pegram,
Charles Penland, Sam Robinson,
Maurice Brooks. Lloyd Sellers, Bill
Burnette. Charles Rhodarmer,
Charlie Hardin, Howell Blalock.
Carroll Warren, Bob Suttenfield.
Ernest Owenby, Carl G. Hill, and
J Ben Patton.
' Mrs. Mitchell Was a riatiVe of
Tennessee and the widow of L. W.
Mitchell. She had resided in Can
ton for 25 years. The past two years
she had made her home with her
daughter, Mrs. Lon Goodson.
Surviving are three sons. Rex
D. and Morris of Canton and Maj
Fred B. Mitchell of Denver, Colo.;
five daughters. Mrs. Lon Goodson,
Mrs. Rov Patton of Canton.
Miss Junfte Mitchell and Mrs.
Troy Oden of Houston, Tex., and
Mrs. Clyde Gilbert of Durham;
and three sisters.
BEN H. BLAYLOCK
Funeral services for Ben H.
say then?? Well, I'll tell you. He's
goin' to say: 'Huh; these two are
expensive. If they get killed, the
gov'ment would lose $20,000.
They's too expensive to send td
the front lines, so we'll put 'em in
the Service of Supply where they
will be safe. We don't want to have
any $10,000 men killed if we kin
help it."
And with that he sat down. There
was a hush over the whole regi
ment assembled, and it was very
evident that the men were deep
in thought. The men were dismiss
ed and went quietly to their quar
ters. I
It is a matter of record, however,
that the next day, the regiment
went over the top and 100 per cent
of the organization was protected
by the $10,000 insurance policies.
THE REV. PAUL O. ELDER re
cently of Macon, Go.,- has Just
taken up his new duties as pas
tor of the Free Methodist Church
in Waynesville. For the past four
years he has been superintend
ent of the Geerria-Carolina Free
Will Methodist Conference, and
is now replacing the Misses Ruth
Gruber and Charlotte Bishop,
who have temporarily retired be
cause of ill health.
The Rtv. Elder was for five years
pastor' of a church in East Macon,
Ga., which was founded by him
[ in 1937. Through his efforts both
a church building and parsonage
wefe completely paid for. -In 1942
the Conference appointed him as
paslor of the church in Miami,
Fla.. where he remained for 3
years, and later of a Free Will
Methodist Church ir? Gainesville.
Ga., where it fell to him to build
a basement church and finance a
parsonage.
The Rev. Elder rose to his pres
| snt important position in his
church organization following- 2l
| vears as a railroad man. After his
conversion, he had the call to pas
'orship and for several years work
ed as both a minister and layman
while establishing the church in
Macon.
He is* accompanied here bv his
wife. Hazel, and their 3 children,
Tommy, 15, Paul, 10, and Wesley,
6. Another daughter, Mrs. Hugh
Hunnicutt, lives in Macon, Ga.,
and a son, Russell, is pastor of the
Free Will Methodist Church in
Murphy.
"I am here to serve any person
In any station of life, regardless of
denomination or creed. I am most
anxious to meet the friends of Rev.
Gruber and Rev. Bishop, and I ex
tend a cordial invitation to all of
the people of this community to
visit our church here," he said up
on arrival in Waynesville. The
church is at the corner of Assem
j bly and Oak Streets.
Blaylock, 67, who died Monday in
his home in the Dix Creek Section
after a long illness were held Tues
day afternoon in Dix Creek Bap
tist Church.
The Rev. Thomas Erwin officiat
ed and burial was in Bethel Ceme
tery.
Pallbearers were Dewey Queen.
Frank and Johnnie Blaylock. Her
man Chambers. Doyle and Elmer
Inman.
Granddaughters and nieces were
flower bearers.
Blaylock was a native and life
long resident of Haywood County,
an employe of the Unagusta Manu
facturing Company at Hazelwood.
and was the son of the late John
and Mealia Singleton Blaylock
Surviving are the widow, Mrs.
Mary Revis Blaylock; two sons,
William Shay of Canton, RFD 2,
and Charles Ray of the home; four
daughters. Mrs. Lonnie Smith,
Mrs. Dewey Heatherly, Mrs. Ralph
Cook and Mrs. James Fish of Can
ton RFD 2. ?
Also 17 grandchildren; two
brothers, Joe and Pearson of Can
ton. RFD 2; one half-brother,
James Inman of Canton; and one
half-sister, Mrs. Anne Chambers
of Canton, RFD 3.
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Claims to parts of the Antarctic
continent have been made by Eng
land. France. Norway, Australia,
New Zealand, Argentina. Chile
and Russia.
Services Are
Held For
Fire Victim
Funeral services were held yes
i terday morning in Morning Star
^lethodisl Church for James
Cook. 53. who was burned to death
in a fire that destroyed a home on
Pigeon River early Monday morn
ing.
The Rev. Kenneth Crouae of
ficiated and burial was in the
church cemetery. ,
Graveside rites were conduct
ed by the VFW Post of Canton.
Surviving are oue son, Baxter
Cook of Ohio; tlirefe brothers, J.
Paul Cook of Canton/ Route 2.
Eugene Cook of Clinton, S. C., and
Walter Cook of Asheville; two
sisters, Mrs. Burrell Olven of Can
! ton. and Mi's. Gerald Rogers of
Canton. Route 2; the mother, Mrs.
Frances Cook of Canton, aRoute 3;
and one grandson.
Arrangements wet* under the
direction of Crawford Funeral
Home in Canton.
Aluminum ore deposits in the
African Gold Coast are estimated
at 225 million tons.
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