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EDITORIAL
Just Who Is Responsible? ;
Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay told
Governor Luther Hodges, and other North Carolinians j
in Washington Tuesday, that he did not believe it was
his job to say "yes or no" to the proposed tolls on the
Blue Ridge Parkway.
The Tar Heels were in the capitol protesting the
proposed tolls.
Several months ago. North Carolinians "jump
ed on" Sam Weems, superintendent of the Parkway a
bout the tolls. Weems said he was just "following or
| ders." Then the protests went to Conrad Wirth, director
of the National Park Service, and head of the Parkway.
Wirth came back, "I'm following instructions." And now, I
I when the protest is dumped into the lap of the Secretary
of Interior, he comes back with the startling statement,
"It is not my job to say yes or no."
Governor Hodges said in Hendersonville earlier
this month that unless a satisfactory answer was had i
from Secretary McKay, that the matter would be taken
to President Eisenhower.
It appears that the time has come to at
least find out in Washington, "Who is Responsible for
What?"
Draft Board
Classifies 33
County Men
Thirty-three Haywood County
men were assigned draft classifi
cation by Selective Service Board
45 at a meeting at the courthouse.
They were:
Class 1-A (available for induc
tion) ?? Douglas Hile' Stewman,
Hobert Elmer Gibson, Jack Alex
ander Haney, Bobby Dan Duckett.
James Ernest Wood, Alfred Kirk
Putnam.
Class 1-C (enlisted) ? Sidney
Pinckney Haynes, Jr., Francis
Lamar Pless, Gene Oscar Wilson,
Woodrow Everett Styles, Joseph
Loly Freeman, Jr., Thomas Lynn
Wells. Jere Newton, Jr., George
Washington Cogburn, Roy Clyde
Singldton, Ray Eldridge Singleton.
Ralph Baxter Singleton.
Class 1-C (reserve) ? Herman
James Medford, Harold Edwin
Donaldson, Boyce Thomas Brock,
Henry Arel Kuykendall, Mal
combe Lee Beasley, Walter Arche
lous Lowe, George Robert Owen,
Ray William Fanner, Charles Ed
ward Gaddis, William Walter Er
win.
Class 4-A (prior service or sole
survivor) ? Oliver Dee Early,
David John Deas, George Rufus
Garrett. Clarence Hoyt Powell. Ed
gar Milliard Brock.
Class 4-F (rejected i ? Cassius
Green.
The next board meeting will be
held March 2, at 9:30 a.m.
James Kilpatrick
Named President
Of Rotary Club
James Kilpatrick has been 1
named president of the Waynes- 1
ville Rotary Club, and on July j
first will assume office, suceeding
W. S. "Bill- Ray.
Charles Way was re-elected i
secretary-treasurer.
Kilpatrick has been active in
j civic affairs of the community for
a number of years, serving as presi
i dent of the Chamber of Commerce
two terms, a director of the Chero
kee Historical Association since it ,
was organized in 1950, and for sev- i
eral years a director of WNCAC.
He is also a member of the Hay
j wood county Library Board.
Kilpatrick and Hay plan to at
tend the international convention
of Rotary, in commemoration of
the 50th anniversary, in Chicago,
the last of May. Plans are for i
them to be accompanied by their
! wives.
The club elected a 7-man board
of directors several weeks ago. The
board is composed of Leo Weill,
i Charles Way, Kilpatrick, 11. P. Mc
, Carroll, Tommy Thoihpson. Dr.
John Penny, and James W. Fowler,
Jr., in addition to William S. Ray.
Baptists'
[Fiscal-Year
Report Made
Total receipts of $380,972.94 and I
i expenditures of $330,536.99 are
reported by the 53 Baptist church
' es of Haywood County for the
, period from July 1. 1953 to June
, 30. 1954.
These figures and many others
are listed in the report of the
69th annual session of the Haywood
Baptist Association which has just
been published and is now being
distributed.
Total membership in county Bap
tist churches was put at 11,261,
Of that number. 8.882 are residen
tial members, 2,379 non-residen
1 tial. During the year, the 53
| churches gained 525 members by i
baptism and 444 by letter, A total '
[ of 479 were lost by death.
I Other enrollment figures cited )
| were:
Sunday School. 9,527: Training!
Union, 3,298; Woman's Missionary 1
Union, 2,047, and Baptist Brother- i
hood, 272.
The value of all church property ;
was estimated at $1,881,217 and :
of the pastors' homes at $125,000. I
The debt at the end of the fiscal
year was $87,478 for all 53 ,
churches.
During the 12-nionths period, the I
Baptists spent $91,068.91 for new'
equipment, contributed $50,882 for j
(See Baptists?Page 8)
! JAMES KILPATRICK will be
come president of the Wa.vnes
j ville Rotary Club July 1.
Court Finishing Criminal
Cases; School Civil Case
Hearing Set For Friday.
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Jury Rules In Favor
Patrol Speed Watch !
By BOB CONWAY
It was "Man vs. Machine" in
Superior Court late Monday after
noon . . . and the machine won a
victory.
At stake in the jury trial of a
Trailways bus driver on a charge
of speeding 70 miles per hour last
December was the accuracy of the
State Highway Patrol's new speed !
watch device ? popularly called
"The Whamrny."
On the one hand, defense attor
ney Roy Francis belittled the bat
tery-operated time device and call- I
ed it inaccurate and inferior to hu
man judgment. On the other/ the 1
prosecuting attorney. Solicitor!
Thad Bryson, contended that the
machine is more reliable than "the
human equation."
The first witness for the state, j
V. E. Br.vson of the Highway Pa- !
trol, testified that while operating i
the speed watch on the new four-,
lane highway at the Jones Cove
Road about 8 p.m. on Dec. 19, he
clocked an castbound bus doing 70
miles per hour and radioed the in
formation ahead to another patrol
car. driven by Patrolman Harold
Dayton.
Patrolman Bryson added that he
! never saw the driver of the bus
I that night.
Patrolman Iiay\on told the court
: that he Was about thrTc-qifart'en or
1 a mile east at that time and soon
saw the bus approaching. He said
he turned his cruiser around and
overtook the bus at Clyde, where |
he gave the driver a ticket.
The driver, Carlos Lee Ford of
Asheville, said he had been driving
a bus for nine and a half years and
denied he was exceeding the speed
limit on the night charged.
Two passengers on the bus at the
time took the stand briefly and ex
??
pressed their lielief that the ve- i
hicle was not going more than 55 I
miles per hour between Lake Juna- j
luska and Clyde.
The state's third w itness, L. C. ;
McKinney of Black Mountain, who;
checks and services "The Wham- !
my" for the Highway Patrol, testi-1
fled that he had checked the par
ticular tinit involved the morning
of the trial and found it to be In
perfect working order;
He, along with the patrolman,
explained that the speed watch is
set in motion when a vehicle
strikes a cable across the road and
is stopped when a second cable
132 feet away is reached.
Attorney Francis asserted that j
a man should not be convicted
solely on the evidence furnished !
.by a mechanical device, such as j
"The Whammy." He said that the j
battery operating the unit may i
have been low, or that the patrol- ]
man could have misread the in
strument.
He added that he would have
been much more willing to take
the advice of the patrolman or
other witnesses.
Solicitor Bryson, in his argu
ment to the Jury, compared the
speed w'atch to a common watch I
and pointed out that persons rely j
on such timepieces to tell the i
, time instead of trusting to tl*cirI
M?wn judg-wont A '
He praised "The Whammy" and
said that it has been instrumental
in cutting down fatal accidents on
North Carolina highways 11 per
cent since it has been in use.
After hearing instructions from ;
Judge Dan K. Moore of Sylva, the
jury deliberated for a half hour
before finding the bus driver "guil
ty as charged."
Judge Moore then directed that
Mr. Ford pay court costs.
fudge Moore To
Continue School
Hearing Friday
Judge Dan K. Moore of Syiva
completed hearing of criminal
cases in Superior Court {it noon
today, then scheduled for 10 a.m.
Friday a continuation of the civil
case between the Haywood County
Board of Education and the Town
of Waynesville over the ownership
of the old Central Elementary
School building. v
A continuation of the county
town case was scheduled after ad
ditional evidence bearing on the
suit was disclosed this week.
Judge Moore will hear argu
ments in the civil action tomorrow
and then take the case under con
sideration. He is expected to rend
er his decision within the next
several weeks.
The last General Assembly pass
ed a bill deeding the block-square
piece of property to the town for
recreational purposes, after the
county finished with the building
for school needs.
The county board of education
entered suit, setting forth the prop
erty valued at $75,000 was not leg
ally transferred, as no monetary
value was passed between buyer
and seller.
Some of the facts in the case
were presented to Judge Moore
several weeks ago. and on Friday
he will hear additional facts from
the two parties involved in the
suit.
l Since criminal court opened
here February 7th _a-Ar ma
jority in the 2iS raises which
were on the docket have been
cleared.
Earl Dean Moody of Marion
charged wth manslaughter in the
(See Court?Page 2>
Joe Boone .
Will Head
Farm Bureau
Joe Boone of the Mountain Ex
periment Station was elected presi
dent of the Haywood County Farm
Bureau at a meeting last night at
the courthouse.
Other officers named were:
Haymond Caldwell, vice presi
dent; Mrs. Quay Medford, secre
tary: Robert Boone, treasurer, and
C. B, McCrary, chairman of the
board of directors.
Directors chosen included:
Roy Haynes, North Clyde and
Thickety; W. G. Byers. Clyde;
Herschell Rogers, Crabtree; Mr.
McCrary, Fines Creek; Mr. Cald
well, Iron Duff; Mrs. Medford,
Lake Junaluska; Dave Boyd,
Jonathan Creek; John Plott, West
Waynesvllle; Dick Setzer, Morn
ing Star; Mrs. Jack P. McCrack
en. Bethel; Mr. Boone. South Way.
nesville, and Woodrow Plemmons,
Hyder Mountain.
Also selected as honorary di
rectors were:
Virgil L. Holloway, county farm
(See Fam Bureau?Page 8)
Hazelwood Baptists Will Begin 60-Day
Building Fund Drive Friday Night
Boy Scout
Enrollment
Satisfactory
The thirty teams of Rotarians
are expected to complete the an
nual adult enrollment for the Boy
Scouts today and tomorrow, ac
i cording to Paul McElrgy, general
chairman.
The chairman said that as or
: noon today, indications were that
about half of the $2,100 quota had
| been raised. He said plans were to
I complete the enrollment by Fri
day afternoon in most areas.
"The response has been very
satisfying, as people are realizing
more and more the importance of
training of our young people, in
such things as are taught by
Scouting", McElroy went on to
explain.
WTHS Team
Places First
In FFA Contest
I The Waynesville High School
j chapter of Future Farmers of
1 America won first place in a re
i cent crops contest conducted by
the Balsam Federation of FFA at
Slyva High School.
The WTHS team ? made up of J
Joe Hannah, 'Phil James, and!
Freddie Norris ? scored 2,430 out ,
of a possible 3,000.
Fines Creek was second w ith j
2.420 and Crabtree-Iron Duff third I
with 2,020.
The Waynesville team, coached
by John Nesbitt, vocational agri
culture teacher, will compete in
the state FFA crops contest at j
Raleigh in June. j
UVM 1'apiUl V/UUUII
will stage their kick-off building 1
lund campaign with a banquet Fri
day night at the Hazelwood Ele
i mentary school. The plans are to
raise $150,000 for a modern sanctu
ary ilt the corner of Main Street
and Virginia Avenue.
Rev. John I. Kizer, pastor, said
about 100 people were expected to
j attend the banquet, and hear de
i tailed plans for the 60-day cam
' paign. Rev. Nane Staines, West
Asheville, will be the speaker.
Plans are to begin actual con- ?
struction this spring, Rev. Mr. Kiz- !
; er pointed out.
Rep. Jerry Rogers is chairman
of the building committee, while j
John Blalock is chairman of the ;
! board of deacons.
Roy S. Wright is chairman of the
building fund committee, and
; Charlie Palmer heads the memor
ial committee.
Mrs. Sam Knight heads public
; ity, while other members include
; Mrs. P. M. Chase, Mrs. Jack
Snyder and A1 Whitehead.
Mrs. Carol Underwood is treas- j
urer of the building fund.
P. M. Chase is director of the
j divisions for the drive, while lead
er of division one is Herschell
| Caldwell, and Glenn Wyatt is
j chairman of division number two.
Each division has three captains
who will head the work of their
group. The captains are: Lawrence
Ray. Talmadge Woodard. Delos
i Dean. Bill Kanos. Hobert Williams
and David Taylor.
The individuals of the six work
ing groups, as announced by Rev.
Mr. Kizer are as follows:
Lawrence Ray, captain; Mrs. Jim
Wilson, Mrs. Gertrude Fugate,
Bill Freeman, Marshall Caldwell.
Robert Shuler, and Woodrow
Troutman.
Talmadge Woodard, captain:
Arthur Watkins, John B. Smith,
Sonja Snyder, Patsy Clark, Jess
Messer, James Holder, Charles
Dean and Lawson Mehaffey.
Delos Deane, captain, Sam
Knight. Lizzie Noland, Ossie Sut
(See Hazelwood Baptists?Page 8)
4 Haywood Road
Projects Worked
During January
Four roads were improved in
Haywood during January, accord
ing to Harry B. Buchanan, com
missioner of the 14th highway di
vision. '
Commissioner Buchanan listed
the improvements as: Graham
Road was widened from 12 to 18
feet wide for 0.8 mile with traffic
bound macadam. The surfaces of
three other 12-foot county roads
were strengthened: Big Branch, 0.9
mile: Wells Town Road, 0.25 mile;
Walker Road, 0.3 mile.
During January, the State High
way Commission completed 17.9
miles of road improvements in the
Fourteenth Highway Division.
Girl Scouts
Staging All
Day Meeting
Some 150 Girl Scouts of the
Waynesville and Hazelwood area
will gather at Central Elementary
School Saturday for an all-day
'?International Fiesta". The Fiesta
is in celebration of "Thinking Day"
set aside by the Wbrld Association
of Girl Scouts to re-emphasize in
ternational friendship and the fact
that there are Girl Scouts through
out the world.
The program Saturday will be
from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.. and par
ents of the children have been in
vited. All are to bring "nose-bag"
lunches.
Every Girl Scout present will
participate in the program, with
(See Girl Scouts?Page 8)
Bloodmobile Gets
91 Pints During
Visit To Canton
Ninety-one pints of blood were
contributed to the Red Cross
Bloodmobile during a visit to Can
ton Wednesday, sponsored by the
Canton Civitan Club.
A total of 97 volunteered to con
tribute their blood.
Two new names were added to
the Two-Gallon Club list, and two
donors reached the one-gallon
mark.
Donors giving their 16th pint
Wednesday were Dr. H. A. Mat
thews and George W. Price. New
members added to the One Gallon
Club were Charles S. Johnson and
Ann Harden.
Students' Milk Drinking
Up 3,000 Bottles Daily I
Since the start of the new milk I
program in the Haywood County
schools, students have been drink
ing nearly 3.000 more bottles of
milk each day than was consumed
prior to November, when the pro
gram began.
According to Mrs. Rufus Slier,
county school lunchroom supervis
or, students can now purchase as
many bottles of milk as they wish
for only three cents a bottle. Or
dinarily. they purchase the milk
before the start of classes in the
morning, during the noon lunch
period, and in the mid-afternoon.
In November, the federal gov
ernment gave the county $1,944.97
to help finance the new milk pro
gram and $2,105.40 in December.
Consumption of milk at Crab
tree-iron Duif and Fines Creek
has more than doubled since No
vember, and at the latter school,
largely because of the new pro
gram, some 240 students eat at
noon in the lunchroom in con
trast to only 160 in November.
At present, 1,623 of the 2,325
schools in North Carolina are par
ticipating in the new milk pro
gram.
Unfortunately, not all of Hay
wood County's schools are partic
ipating fully in the program. Of
the total of 6,500 students in the
county (exclusive of the Canton
system), only about 3,000 are get
ting the benefits of being able to
buy as much milk as they'd like,
according to Mrs. Siler.
To take full advantage of this
program, Mrs. Siler urged the co
operation of principals and teach
ers, students and their parents.
Volunteers To Solicit
Funds On 'Heart Sunday'
With enthusiasm and hope main
tained at a high level, the Heart
Sunday army consisting of about
150 volunteers is ready to march.
It will move forward at "H-Hour",
set for 2 P.M. Sunday. By 5 P.M.,
it is estimated, some 1500 families
will have been given their oppor- '
tunity to support the local and na
tional crusade against heart dis
ease.
Sam Calhoun, 1955 Heart Fund
chairman, expressed confidence
that the intensive four-hour house
to-house collection would yield a
sizeable amount and contribute
substantially toward fulfillment of
the local campaign. The Jaycces
are sponsors of the event.
It will be this community's first
Heart Sunday campaign.
Throughout the area church b^)ls
will ring at 2 P.M.. signaling "H
Hour". Immediately thereafter,
members of the volunteer army
will start ringing doorbells. Each
worker has been assigned to call
on between fifteen and twenty
five families in his or her own
(See Heart Drive?Page S)
? i)
Patrol Reports
Canton Accident
The sole accident reported by
the State Highway Patrol during
the lakt several days occurred at
8:15 a.m. today when a 1948
Chevrolet pickup truck, driven by
Lewis Leonard Drye, Route 1,
Canton, struck the tear end of a
1949 Fond* driven by Lorian Leon
McDowell, Route 2, Canton, as the
latter slowed down to pick up a
passenger at the Canton Drive-In
on N C. 110.
Highway Patrolman W. R. Woot
en charged Drye with following too
closely and McDowell with failure
to give the proper hand signal.
Damage to both vehicles was
estimated at $4o elfch
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Tax Listings Are
Now Being Copied
Listing crews are busy copying
tax books for Waynesville and
Beaverrlam Townships, since the
listing time ended on the 15th.
Bryan D. Mcdford said those who j
had failed to list might possibly j
list during the period Of copying |
and avoid the penalty invoked for '
failure to li$t. He did not make {
this as positive, but said there was
a possibility of avoiding the penal
ty by getting in before the task of
copying is completed.
Ledford Gets Two Years
For Beating Baby Daughter
A severe spanking administered
to his three-month-old <at that
time) daughter earned Robert Led
tord, 26, of the Hemphill section,
a two-year prison sentence in Su
perior Court Monday.
The two-year term meted out by
Judge Dan K. Moore of Sylva was
in addition to another sentence of
12 months, pronounced last week,
for beating his wife.
Two witnesses for the state testi
fied that they had seen Ledford
whip the infant, severely one night
while staying at their home near
"The Purchase."
Two others said that they notic
ed black and blue marks about the
baby's hips when the Ledfords
brought it to their home on Christr
mas Day.
Dr. Thomas Stnngfield testified
that he examined the baby, found
its body bearing bruises, and sent
the child to a hospital for observa
tion.
Taking the stand In his own de
fense. Ledford denied beating the
infant and said he only shook it
to make it catch its breath from
havinf the colic.
Ledford also related that the
baby had been operated upon for
a brain tumor while he and his
(See Ledford?Pace 8)
?Outlines Principles
tional Guidance Aid
? of vocational
0 high school
e them into
'ill be happy
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mild Thurs
lle tempera
t the State
i*. Min. rr.
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19
L . ' 70
and able to produce, the Waynes-!
vtlle Kiwanis Club was told Tues- j
day night by M. H. Bowles, super
intendent of Waynesville District
Schools, at a meeting at Spaldon's '
Restaurant.
Mr. Bowles emphasized that vo
cational guidance counselors must
only advise young men and women,
but leave it up to the individuals
themselves to make the final de
cision as to what fields they will
enter.
He said that parents too often
err in trying to form children's
opinions for them ? without re- j
gard to their own wishes ? leav
ing the youngsters feeling frus
trated.
"Don't attempt to force a decis
ion," he added.
Mr. Bowles also expressed the
(.See Bowles?Page B>
Highway
Record For
1955
In Haywood
(TO DATE)
Killed.... 0
Injured.... 7
Accidents.. 26
Loss ?. $10,384
(This Information com
piled tram rew (hi ?i
Stat* Highway Patrol.)
Welcome The Heart Fund Volunteer Who Calls At Your Home Sunday