lion School Start 13th Ivde Church rt p, Church School will be Qtotral Methodist Church , jg? 13 through June 24. between three and six Li of age are invited to jpn 8:30 until 11:30 a.m. 0 to be taught are as fol f Beginnings, "My Home jdy"; Primaries, "Friends (,nd in the Community"; -tfe Would Follow Jesus"; ^mediates, "Christian Be ta members of the church. Idirection of the Rev. Starr and Mrs. Howard ^11 make up the teachinv Lcement exercises will be (day night, June 26, at t ? * ? jtss Moore, who recently 0 surgery in the Baptist |it Winston-Salem, has re 8 her home. The Swangers Are Honored At Shower 1 Mr. and Mrs. David Swanger were honored at a miscellaneous i shower Monday evening in the G. i R. Underwood home in Ratelifle i Cove. Hostesses were Mrs. Hugh i Mitchell. Mrs. Eugene Kuykendall, i and Mrs. T. T. Muse. Mrs. Mark 1 Palmer assisted with the enter- 1 tainment. The guests included Mr. and ' Mrs. Swanger, Mrs. Frank Swan- 1 ger, Mrs. Hugh Underwood, Mrs. ' Maggie Grasty, Miss Mary Jo Grasty, Mrs. Mark Galloway, Mrs. Hugh Ratcliffe, Mrs. Jim Under- j wood, Mrs. Everett Underwood, i Miss Betty Underwood. Miss Peggy Camp, Mrs. Grace Camp. Mrs. George' Liner, Mrs. James Med- , ford, Mrs. Ratcliffe Medford. Mrs. Dean Reeves, Miss Lucille Under wood, Mrs. Jerry Underwood. Mrs. Howard Gibson, Mrs. Tom Queen, Mrs. Ernest Sutton, Mrs. George Galloway. Miss Phyllis Underwood. Mrs. Harry Robbins, Mrs. Bill Lane Prevost Is Honored At Coffee Hour * ? Miss Lane Prevost. whose mar- 1 rlage to James N. Swift will be in event of next week, was the ^ guest of honor at a coffee hour v given Tuesday morning with Mrs. I r Richard Barber, Jr. and Mrs. | Whitener Prevost as hostesses in { the home of the former. t In the receiving line were the j hostesses, the bride-elect and her r mother, Mrs. Ralph Prevost, Jr., j Mrs. W. F. Swift, Mrs. R. L>. Pre- v vost. Sr., and Mrs. T. G. Boyd. Mrs. R. S. Roberson greeted the , guests during the first hour and Mrs. Dan Watkins received at the entrance to the dining room. Mrs. R. N. Barber, Sr. and Mrs. W. W. Norman presided at the coffee table and others assisting were Mrs. Leon Killian, Jr., Miss Helen Ray, Miss Sally StovaU, Miss Eliza beth Watkins, and Miss Betty Bar ber. The table was covered with an Italian cut-work cloth and the centerpiece was a crystal epergne filled with pink delphinium, sweet heart roses, and gypsophila. Ar rangements of pink roses, blue larkspur, and gypsophila were us ed in the living rooms. During the second hour Mrs. Hallett Ward greeted the callers, and Mrs. Eric Clauson received in I the dining room. Mrs. O. R. Mc- I Donald and Mrs. Alvin Ward pre- I sided at the coffee table and assist- I ing in the dining room were Mrs. H. P. McCarroll, Mrs. Boyd Owen, Miss Laura Woody, Miss Linda I Sloan, Miss Ann Coman Crawford, I and Miss Julia Ann Stovall. One hundred and fifty guests I were included in the courtesy. I ? * * Mrs. Charles Rogers, Jr., of I North Wilkesboro will arrive this I weekend to visit her parents, Mr. I and Mrs. Jack Messer. while her I husband attends a special course for bankers at Rutgers University. Mrs. Rogers is the former Miss I Jackie Sue Messer. I * + ? M/Sgt. and Mrs. Walter D. I Brown left yesterday for their I home at Pope Air Base, Fort Bragg, II after visiting the former's mother, I Mrs. I. J. Brown, who is a pati- I ent in the Haywood County Hos- II pital. I * * ? Singing Convention I Meets This Sunday A singing convention will be I held at the Balsam Baptist church 11 Sunday night. June 12 at 7 p.m. || Louis Ensley said that a large at- j I tendance was expected and that all I singers and the public were invit- I ed to attend. I The United States has more than I 7V4 million oil burners in use for central heating. Lowe, Mrs. James Swanger, Mrs. Hilda Russell, Miss Ruby Davis, ?nd Mrs. Carl Swanger. Boyd Cites Achievements Oi Town, County, State Facts about Waynesvllle, Hay rood County, and North Carolina /ere cited by Enos Boyd in an lu ormal talk before, the Kiwanls Mub Tuesday night at Spaidon's. Mr. Boyd, Waynesvllle post naster. is cvhairman of the Ki yanis program and music com nittee. Basing his talk on Prof W. C. lllen's "Annals of Haywood Coun y" and other reference books, dr. Boyd pointed out that Way lesville had a population of 5.295 n the 1950 census as compared vith 2,940 in the 1940 census. Average ^elevation of the town is 1,644 feet, he said. (The elevation of Main St. itself Is 2,721 feet, according to a bench- I mark at the courthouse, placed 1 there by the U. S. Geological Sur- < vey. Ed.) 1 Haywood County, the speaker | said, comprises 546 square miles and ranges In elevation from 1.400 feet at Watervllle to 6.622 feet at i Mt. Guyot qn the county line. I With 22 peaks over 6,000 feet ' in height, Haywood County has the I highest average elevation of any county east of the Mississippi Riv- 1 er. Turning to North Carolina, Mr. Boyd commented that the state i contains 52,712 square miles and now has a population of more than tour million ? a gain of over a j lalf million since 1940. The state ;urrently ranks 10th In the nation in population?rising from 11th place in 1940. With a population in excess of 13.1,000 Charlotte is the largest city In North barolina and is the metropolis of the two rarolinas. Winston-Salem, onetime leader, Is in secord place. The Tar Heel State is third in the number of farms and second In the South in farm income. Among North Carolina's "firsts" are: 1. First white child born in America, Virginia Dare, was born on Roanoke Island. 2. First state to take action to obtain independence from Eng land. 3. First in the nation in the per centage of American-born resi dents?90.7 per cent. 4. Transports more children on school buses and at a lower coat than any other state in the union. The state flower of North Caro lina is the dogwood and the state bird is the cardinal, Mr. Boyd said. North Carolina is the only state in the union in which its governor cannot veto legislation by the state assembly, the speaker con cluded. Rights For Underprivileged DALLAS, Tex.