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A PAGE ABOUT THE AREA DEVOTED TO Information For Visitors jars Steal The Show long Smoky Highways jre 52 kinds of fur-bearing ^ m tiif un ii smoky Moun oiwl i ? I** to lne Lg jHju.il -Ur. and Mrs. lc_'? , take preced yier them all. j, u not ouo oecause of their putting silt, or?in the case ( cuds?ut their antic ways, go because so many of them jaeen mo the beguiling ,oi me i-'-i- .miller, even a red light or a skern > cop ran bring a car to the , salt caused by appearance dDcrs of tm bear tribe along i tie overlook parking spots tic our-the-Smokies high passive. almost pet-dog de ir ot Hit bears at limes often ie unsuspecting into unwise s, for the animal is never and its mood can switch-in iking from meek supplicant aenui aggressor if it feels ted. pile the numerous warning p.jted b> the .National Park e to deter visitors from feed r molesting the bears, this ig goes lor naught with uiih the result that increas mbt .s ol these favorite deni Indian Corn And Beans Grown With Old Tools Oconalufiee village at Cherokee includes a community garden. There the Cherokee inhabitant* plant Indian corn and Indian beans, squash and other vegetables whicn tney contributed to civilza tion. The implements used in the gar dening are tnose used by the Cher okee in the 1700 s, and the pro duce grown will be cooked over open lire's and in clay and iron pots in the village. As more and more research is done, the Cherokee Historical As sociation hopes to keep projecting village activities and life still far iher back into time. zens of the Smokies quickly learn the arts of panhandling, standing erect in supplication or with paws" Placed against jour car, anticipa tion written all over the rugged jowls. Aside from the matter of law violation the real danger in bear feeding, the experts point out, comes largely from holding food in the hand as it is offered; or, in run ning out of food too quickly; or again, in parcelling it out in a stingy manner, which may lead Btuin to retaliate with a sturdy slap by a mighty paw, ringed with knife-like toenails. The unrehearsed antics of one, two or even more cubs can be ' quite as amusing as a Walt Disney , comic, plus the fact that no admis- , sion is charged. So tame do the youngsters appear that misguided ' visitors are sometimes tempted to I pat or hug them, an action usually misinterpreted by a watchful moth er who can make her displeasure known by startling throaty growls j and a sudden lunge. The way in ] which unsuspecting sightseers take j off would lead to the suggestion ( that the scouts for an Olympic track team might well hang around in the Great Smokies. It is believed that the mullet is < the only fish which can be fried in ' its own fat. ( GARRETT FURNITURE CO., INC. I Main Street ; I re You Interested In A Good i USED CAR? See Ad On The j Back Page of The First Section! , UO'.V PAGES I Your Telephone ? ? handy as your telephone . . . t CONCRETE BLOCKS GRANITE & LIMESTONE J * $ .19 8 x 12 x 16 ...... 28 L\V 'J - -15 8 x 8 x 8 .11 * x 16 .12 CONCRETE TILE I ?!! $8.0012" x 36" 3.50 _ 5.50 "ICIM'IN<; STONES 12" x 12" $ .25 'EMMONS CONCRETE PRODUCTS CO. n_e 6217 Canton, N. C. j ???i c ne bought costly tools so you ; could save money! ( We've tooled our shop with the latest t 1 >t in test and repair instrument ' we can find the trouble and fix t ' trouble faster and better. This means <r repairs that actually COST LK.-S! mottinger motor co. food St. Dial GL 6-4fiSo MOUNTAIN CRAFTS SOUVENIRS AND GIFTS You Are Cordially Invited To Come In And Browse Around INCH'S HOUSE OFjCRAFTS S 19 Adjacent West Entrance to Lake Junaluska BEARS RoXm THE SMOKIES, often ambling down to the high ways to cadge food from venturesome visitors. Feeding the bears is dangerous, despite their seeming friendliness, and is forbid- ( den by the Park Service. . i*r if it a . . l Homecomings And Annual Decoration Days Pioneer Traditions In This Area i ???????????? ? On practically any Sunday dur-1 ng spring and summer Decoration 1 Day is being observed somewhere ' n the mountains of Western North ' Carolina. It is a solemn occasion on which . nembers of a family decorate with lowers the graves in their private jurying ground or members of a 1 :cngregation decorate the mounds f ,n the churchyard. Thus -do fhe mountain people J 'keep green" the memories of the ( :1cparted, back to pioneer days, ind assemble once a year to honor f he departed members of their , ?lans. These decorations go all the way lack to the early days when isola- , :ion often made it necessary to | inter the dead without benefit of a ' ourial service conducted by a min- j ister. This was especially true t luring winter when trails were ( Blocked by show. Also during the ( vinter months no flowers were in j Bloom and, if the graves were deco ?ated at all. native evergreens were :he only things available. Therefore, in the spring or sum- ( ner when the mountainsides were ( covered with native shrubs and | vildflowers in bloom and cabin ( loor.vards were gay with eultivated t lowers, a date would be set for iecorating the graves of those who | Bad died during the past winter. The date would be dependent jpon availability of a preacher, for ' ie would be expected to conduct i funeral service over each new :rave that had been made since he previous summer. Because churches in those days ,vere few and often distant from he majority of settlers, difficulties >f transportation made it advisable or nearly every family to establish i private cemetery on their own Broperty. An examination of the grave itones in church cemeteries will jsually reveal that the dates of loath do not begin until after the urn of the century. A definite Sunday, such as the iecond Sunday in June, the first 5unday in July, has long been es ablished at each cemetery for the i mnual memorial service. Year ifter year it is observed and dis ant members of the various fami ies assemble on that date without he necessity of being notified in idvance. Decoration Day is preceded by i thorough cleaning of the burying ;round on the day before. All weeds ire removed and the earth above each grave is loosed to receive, mi the morrow, the stems of multi colored blossoms. Thrusting the items deep into the loose earth .eerns to preserve them about as veil as if they were placed in /essels of water. Long before the time set for the iervice the throngs begin to as icmble. bringing flowers by the trmful or heaped in backets or cartons. Every grave in the ceme ery. no matter how ancient, is completely hidden by a mass of ilossoms, white, yellow, pink, red, ilue. After all the graves have been leaped high the memorial service icgins. As many as four or five ninisters may participate. Each lifers a prayer, and their talks are nlerspersed with the singing of he grand old hymns familiar hroughout the mountain region. Decoration Day is also an in brmal family reunion, for distant nembers of the clan may not sec each other until the cemetery is igain decorated the following yeat. \ Twenty peaks in Western North Carolina highlands exceed 6.000 eet in height. /v* ^ ASHEVILLE'S NEW THUNDER LAND A DRAMA With Mountain Music Based On The Life Of DANIEL BOONE COMPANY OF 105 LIGHTED PARKING AREA FOR 1800 CARS 1200 SEATS 1.50 Others 2.00-2.50-3.00 Children t'nder 12 Half Trice ASHEVILLE'S FOREST AMPHITHEATRE NIGHTLY at 8:15 EXCEPT SUNDAY TO SEPT. 7 DU1ANF ? BOTTLED AND METERED SERVICE GAS APPLIANCES Domestic or Commercial Installations DIAL GL 6-5071 MOODY RULANE, Inc. 902 N. Main 11 'Sherlock Holmes' Hideaway Stood Outside Tryon William Gillette, aetor and play wright and idol of the American stage during the last part of the last century when the theater was supreme, found a hideaway in Western North Carolina. Near Tryon he had a compara tively large acrtage and a lodge to which he came between lours. Nev er one to mingle with the publio in private life, he liked seclusion pnd found it in his beloved moun tains. Known as a writer of, plays in which he frequently appeared him self .as well as an actor in the thriller type of dramas, he oc cupied a unique place in the theater. Few people know thai he spent some of the happiest hours of his life in his retreat near Tryon. That w^as during the period when he was apparing as "Sherlock Holmes" and also in his famous role in "Secret Service". Over 18,000,000 board feet of lumber is harvested annually in the Pisgah Division of llie National Forest. vvone noinesieaa Open To Public The big white frame house at 48 ' Spruce Street, Ashcville, home of the late Thomas Wolfe, Is becom ing a mecCa for visitors. It was opened to the public as a memorial July 19. 1949. by the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association. The building has been restored as far as possible to the exact appearance of the days of the writ er's youth. It is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and on Sunday from 2 to 6 p.m. It con tains the furniture and furnishings of the days when it was operated as a boarding house by Wolfe's mother, who was Eliza Gant in "Lpok Homeward, An^el," Wolfe's first novel1. '" HOWELL'S ESSO SERVICE (?sSo) Tires - Batteries - Accessories EXPERT LUBRICATION WASHING - WAXING DIAL GL 6 9195 All this W $233588 for as delivered low as locally New '53 BUICK SEDAN I Come in and look at, sit in, and drive the highest powered, sweetest-riding, biggest-value Buick Special in history. You'll find it far beyond the "low-priced" cars in ride and comfort and thrilling performance? but just an easy step up in the price you pay. Better drop in soon I ?including these "extras" at no extra cost! Direction Signals ? Lighter Dual Map Lights ? Twin Sunshades Trip-Mileage Indicator Automatic Glovo Box Light Oil-Bath Air Cleaner Full-Flow Oil Filter ? Vacuum Pump Bumper Guards, front and rear Even tho factory-installed extras you may want are bargains, such as: Heater & Defroster only $67.26 ?2-door, frpasenger Sedan. M del 4?D. HlyilroHd. Optional equipment, OtctMorfM, ?/o>? ond loco# Iofci, (# any, add>t >nal. Pricei may vtiry ehghtly in adjoining com munilies dt/e fo thlppbg charges, All prices subject to change without notice. TAYLOR MOTOR CO. 101 Depot St. Dial GL 6-3591 I Ashing Offers 4any Varieties 1 WJi ? ri . Thi o Sportsmen a . Set Seventy-five beautiful mountain yW kes, most of them literally alive a j ilh scrappy game fish of a dozen rat ffrent species, and hundreds of $;it iles of rushing, tumbling wood-J nd streams make Western North jn(j arolina truly a promised land for { t,lr le disciples of Izaak Waltun. eli The section is most famous for scj s trout fishing, the cold, crystal art ear streams which cascade lront ,scb s towering peaks providing the ? ?al habitat for rainbow, brown ad brook '.or speckled) trout. But ic lakes, along with streams and ivers of a more lazy disposition, re correspondingly will stocked 1th large and small mouth bass, rappie, bream, and even the kingly luskcllungc, a member of the Ike family found nowhere else in :ie southeast. For every fish taken from these atrs, two or three are planted In ,s stead from the never-ending upply turned out by fish hatch ries in Western North Carolina, 'he Federal Government maintains hatchery ^ the head of Davidson tiver to stock streams in the Pis ah Wildlife Management Areas, nd another at Smokemont to pro ide fish for the Great Smoky j fountains National Park. An outstanding fish hatchery op- < _ rated by the state is the one at I lalsam in Haywood County. The season closes the end of I his month in National Forest I f reams j P _ | The planet Mercury is believed II to have no atmosphere. ? The Code GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP> ? 0 said telegraphy is a dying art! liir h Springs school here has special Kailroad Telegraphy tool. Of six graduates this ir. one girl has been placed in ob with the Atlantic Coast Liflfc Iroad at Jasper, Fla. She is paid :0 a month. rhe other five students are wait 1 until they pass their 18th thday when they, too, will be uible for jobs. Paul Peters, tool superintendent, said there ? only two Kailroad Telegraphy iooIs in the country. WATCH Repairing Guaranteed For ONE YEAR Bring It To " ITS tA&Y ro PAY THE Mil ABU WAY "A ? : ? ' ? V/* I ?/ iU * i ? ?? CHARLIE'S TEXACO SERVICE OPEN 24 HOURS A DAY ONE OF THE MOST COMPLETE SERVICE CENTERS IN W. N. C. B. F. GOODRICH TIRES & TUBES FOR ROAD SERVICE DIAL GL 6-4971 Dad's shirts come hack sparkling, fresh as a daisy, finished to perfection, when we do your laundry. I (ask in the glow of his approval as he thrills to that "like new" look! Yes, we do the best work in town. No. our prices are never higher than elsewhere! WAYNESVILLE LAUNDRY "Particular Cleaners For People Who Care'' Fred Sheehan ? Joe Liner Iloyd Avenue HE'LL LIKE THAT "LIKE NEW" LOOK Hillcrest Resort f On Highway 19-23, one mile .east of Lake Junaluska. Modern cottages and apartments with kitchenettes. Located 500 yards 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. t Owned and operated by Mr. and Mrs. L. K. DeVous, P. O. Bo* 747, Waynesville, N. C. Phone Waynesvllle GL 6-3873.
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