County 4-H Club Winners
To Attend District Banquet
A number of Haywood County's
outstanding 4-H Club members
will attend a district recognition
banquet at noon Saturday at the
Battery Park Hotel in Asheville
where district winners in 4-H
work will be announced.
Representing Haywood will be
county winners in various work
projects, first-place contestants in
the district elimination contest
last spring, and members of judg
ing teams.
Boys winners will include:
Crabtree-Iron Duff School ?
Frances Emma Yates: dairy judg
ing team, dairy achievement, and
dairy demonstrtion; Billy Best; en
tomology, field crops, poultry and
livestock conservation team; Ed
' win Bryson: forestry, livestock
conservation, livestock judging
team, floor sanding, tobacco judg
ing team, 1952 corn winner; David
Hugh Tate: pig, and Harley Cald
well: dairy demonstration.
Fines Creek School ? Bernard
Ferguson: tobacco winner, tobac-.
co judging team, garden winner,
and James Ferguson, tractor main
tenance.
Canton?'Dale Ingle: brood sow;
Weaver Hipps: sheep, and Morris
Broyles: first place in instrument
(piano) competition at the district
elimination contest.
Bethel ? Neal Kelly: district
winner in public speaking: James
Ray Fore: dairy calf: R. E. Cath
ey: livestock judging team and
James Mease: dairy judging team.
Waynesville ? Jennings Plem
mons: farm and home electric;
Jack Felmet: meat animal, live
stock judging; Mack Ratcliffe:
dairy-judging: Tom Garrett: farm
and home safety, and Douglas
Christopher: dairy judging.
Among the girls winners are:
Betty Felmet of Waynesville,
leadership, dress revue, and com
munity relations; Mattie Sue Med
ford of Iron Duff, farm and home
electric and grounds beautifica
tion: Martha Ann Caldwell of,
Crabtree, senior canning and bet- i
ter grooming; Frances Emma
Yates of Iron Duff, clothing
achievement and better grooming:
girls' record; Estalena Robinson of
Tliickety, frozen foods: Bonnie
Sue Justice of Crabtree, recre
ation and rural arts; Bobbie
Jean Bradshaw, food prepara
tion; Nancy Noland of Waynes
ville, home improvement; Barbara
Ferguson of Fines Creek, junior
canning, and Ann Cathey, first
place winner in the vocal contest in
the district elimination.
Car Kills Horse
A black horse owned by Bob
McCracken was killed at 6:15 p.m.
Wednesday when it ran out into the
path of a car driven bv James Law
rence Elwood, Asheville Road, Way
nesviile.
State Patrolman Cpl. Pritchard
Smith said the horse ran into the
road as Mr. Elwood drove south
on Route 276. Damage to the car
was estimated at $200. >
Hospital
News
ADMISSIONS
Mrs. Elford Sutton, Waynesville;
Mrs. H. B. Burgess; Miss Maxine
Messer; Baby Gary Neal Ramey,
Waynesville; Mrs. Charles Erwin;
M. H. Gaddis: Mrs. Elils Williams;
Miss Mary Ray; Vaughn Arrington;
Baby Elizabeth Ann Beasley, Clyde;
Roy Blaylock, Cantoh; Mrs. Jule
Buchanan, Hazeluood; John B.
Smith, Hazelwood; Mrs. Floyd
Wines. Clyde; Mrs. Johnny Press
Icy. Waynesville; Mrs. Clingman
Beck, Clyde; Peter Klosky, Way
nesville; Nelson fright. Canton;
John Sanderson. Waynesville.
DISCHARGED
Mrs. Norman Mitchell. Waynes
vine; Mrs. James Christopher and
baby, Candler; Miss Brenda Hyde.
Canton; Miss Hazel Smith, Mem
phis, Tenn.; Mrs. LeRoy Creson
and baby, Waynesville; Mrs. Albert
Whitehead, Waynesville; Mrs. Jack
Smith and baby, Waynesville; Mrs.
Roger Singleton and baby. Canton;
John E. Williams, Waynesville; Mrs.
Scott Reeves and baby, Waynes
ville; Mrs. Neal Hipps and baby.
Canton; Mrs. David Messer and
baby. Waynesville; Mrs. James '
Davis and baby, Waynesville; Mrs. 1
Frank Radford. Waynesville; Mrs. |1
A. S. Spivey, Canton; Mrs. Troy |1
Messer and baby, W'aynesville.
BIRTHS
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sanford of
Waynesville, a daughter, October
27. ;
Mr. and Mrs. Willard Plemmons ,
of Waynesville. a son, October 27.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Jenkins ofi (
Canton, a daughter, October 28.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Chambers!,
of Canton, a son. October 28.
Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Stamey of
Canton, a daughter. October 28.
Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Dixon of
Canton, a daughter, October 29.
Mr .and Mrs. Van Haynes of
Clyde, a daughter, October 29. j'
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Conard of,
Waynesville, a daughter, October i
29.
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Reverse Order
WATERTOWN. Mass. (AP> ?
The Army's Watertown Arsenal
believes in doing things backward
to get results.
For example, it produces better
guns bv firing armor plate at
proiectilds.
Col. Benjamin S. Mesick, the
commanding officer, explained
that reversing the normal proced
ure resulted in the best way to
measure the strain and impact on
the shell.
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INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS of the North Carolina Secretaries
Association was held at a banquet Saturday night at the Waynes
ville Country Club Inn during the three-day state convention
there last weekend. Left to right are Miss Katherine McGrana
han of Durham, serving as proxy for Miss Hallie Hicks of Dur
ham. treasurer, who was absent because of illness; Mrs. Cornelia
Farrell of Asheville, secretary; Miss Rosa Miller of Hickory, pres
ident, and Miss Marguerite Dodds of Birmingham. Ala., South
eastern District vice president of the National Secretaries Asso
ciation, who served as installing officer. (Mountaineer Photo).
L. M. Sherrill
Injured When
Thrown By Horse
By MRS. JOHN W. JOHNSON, SR.
Community Reporter
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L. M. Sherrill, chairman of the
B.'st Pigeon CDP, was painfully
injured recently when he was
thrown off a horse he was riding
tn his pasture to round up some
calves. Two broken ribs resulted ;
from the fall. Later pleurisy de
veloped. We send him every good
wish for a quick recovery.
There is quite a bit of excite
ment in East Pigeon since a dog
with rabies was killed in the Cecil
community.
Mrs. Lee Chambers visited Mr. j
and Mrs. Charlie Fish of Cruso j
Sunday.
.
Mrs. Robert McCracken and j
daughter. Jacqueline, and son,
Ilillie. visited their mother and
grandmother, Mrs. Lee Chambers,
recently.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Long, Mr.
and Mrs. John W. Johnson. Sr.. and
Ray McNeil visited relatives in
Weaverville Sunday.
Astor Wells of Winston-Salem
spent Friday night with his mother.
Mrs. T. C. Wells and his brother,
Moore Bound
To Court On
Rape Charge
Clarence Willie Moore, 48, of
Hyatt Creek, Waynesville, was
bound over to Sunerior Court on
charges of rape and having inter
course with a girl under 18 years
of age after a hearing before Jus
tice of the Peace J. J. Ferguson
this morning. Bond was set at
$5,000 by Mr. Ferguson on recom
mendation of the attorney for
the state.
The complainant, a 12-year-old
girl, testified that the alleged at
tack occurred on a Sunday after
noon last August. She said that
she was working at the defend
ant's fruit stand on the Soco road
when he called her inside and
forced his attentions on her.
She explained that Moore warn
ed her not to tell anyone of the
alleged incident, and that she did
not mention it until quesfioecl by
her mother several weeks later.
The defendant did not testify.
The Army maintains 69 supply
depots in the United States and 68
overseas.
Van Wells and family.
J. D. Justice of East Pigeon is
visiting his son. Baxter Justice and
family, in Battle Creek, Mich.
Good Advice From th*
North Carolina Merchants Association -
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"?Experience has shown that average
down-to-earth advertising carefully planned
and carried on a regular basis outpulls the
so-called brilliant advertising run in a hap
hazard, spasmodic manner."'*
?(From a recent bulletin mailed
to 7,000 members of the N. C.
Merchants Association.)
'FOB BEST RESULTS
THE MOUNTAINEER
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Leads In News and Pictures of Haywood County People.
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Haywood PMA
Officials Attend
Asheville Meeting
Five Haywood County PMA offi
cials attended a meeting of Dis
trict 8 representatives of the Pro
' duction and Marketing Administra
tion Wednesday at the Buncombe
County courthouse in Asheville.
From this county were A. W.
Ferguson, PMA office manager;
Mrs. Huub Tate, principal clerk,
and county committeemen Floyd
Fisher, chairman; T. C. Davis, vice
chairman, and C. R. Liner, regu
lar member.
The meeting in Asheville was
called to discuss the completion
of the 1953 agriculture conserva
tion program and any questions
which may arise concerning the
1954 program.
3 Youths
Bound Over
In Break-In
Three Haywood County youths
were bound over to the Superior
Court on charges of breaking and
entering by Mayor J. H. Way after
a hearing in police court Monday
afternoon. The three pleaded
guilty and the bond on" each was
set at $1,000.
The trio is accused of entering
Fast Waynesville School on Oc
tober 16 and taking approximately
$6.00 from a teacher's desk drawer.
Waynesville policemen testified
at the hearing that they found a
black hat and a piece of an auto
mobile soring ?under one of the
school windows after the theft had
been discovered.
Police said they recognized tl\e
hat as belonging to Leroy Wyatt.
16. of the Chestnut Park section of
Waynesville. Picked up by police,
Wyatt implicated two other youths.
Rov T,ee Silvers of nefer Clyde, and
Johnny Kirkpatrick, who lives in
the Canton area.
Wyatt admitted that he and Kirk
patrick broke into the school, but
said he got none of the money
"taken, m nam?H Silvers as the
driver of the car that took them
to the school building.
The hat and piece of automobile
spring, sometimes used as a tire
tool, were believed dropped when
the boys were surprised while leav
ing the school. However, they
made their escape at that time.
Frank Rogers, principal at East
Waynesville School, testified that
two desk drawers were forced open,
and two cabinet^ were broken into
at the school.
United Fund
Drive Opens
November 9
The first United Fund drive, will
be launched Monday, November 9.
by Canton. Bethel and Clyde civic
leaders, according to an announce
ment by campaign directors.
A quota of $32,229 also was set at
a meeting of officers and directors
of the United Fund on Monday
night.
The quota selected represents the
budget figure for the United Fund's
first year of operation. Each item
in the budget was discussed by Dr.*
H. A. Matthews, fund president
and other officials.
Glen Simmons of the Champion
Motor Co.. will serve as general
chairman for the drive. He will be
assisted by Loranzo Smathers of
Canton and Kin McNeil of Bethel.
A representative from Clyde will
be named later.
Simmons declared that it was
the goal of United Fund to com
plete the drive in four weeks. This ,
one campaign will replace several
money-raising drives that are be
ing conducted in the Canton
Bethel-Clyde area each year.
Participating institutions of the
J United Fund at present are the
Christmas Cheer (Dime Board),
i fund, the White Cane drives of the
Canton Lions and Clyde Lions, the
American Bed Cross, the Boy
I Scouts, the Girl Scouts, the Unit
i od Defense fund, the Canton Band
j council, and the American . Heart
I Association.
Loaded Officials
OLYMPIA, Wash (AP) ? Two
officials of the town of Milton
soon may be able to stop taking
their work home with them.
An examiner for the state audi
tor has requested the town's may
or to have the city hall vault re
paired immediately.
He said the vault has been "un
usuable and unused" since the
building was constructed five
years ago.
"It has been necessary for the
treasurer and collector to carry
the town funds with them at all
times?<a dangerous and undesir
able practice," the examiner de
clared.
Dummy Run
NORFOLK. Va. <API ? The at
tack transport Burleson probably
sees more activity than any other
decommissioned ship. Since she
was tied up In 1946 at the Little
Creek Naval Amohibious Base,
more than 100.000 men have
boarded her to slide down her net
covered sides into waiting landing
craft. v
Dead Loss
HARR1SBURG. Pa. (AP>?Even
the deceased will have to pay
Pennsylvania's new sales tax
when If takes effect Sept 1.
It provides that 50 per cent of
the lump sum charged by funeral
director is subject to the one per
cent levy.
If a vault is provided for the
burial, that's a separate Item ? j
and its entire cost is subject to
the levy.
Before a cricket fight in China,
the contestants are weighed in by
their handlers and classified as,
heavy, middle or lightweights.
Red Bank Baptist T?
Hold Singing Sunday
The regular monthly J
will be held al the hed Bang]
tUt Church Sundae night 4
nillg at 7 30 All m.ifij j
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roirthern New Hampshire tJ
pendent from 1932 t0 1935 J
ing allegriance to either the fl
States or Canada until iJ
Hampshire mtli la in I
tants to acknowledge state 1
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