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? ' . ' I The ^Waynesyille Mountaineer ' Published Twre-A-Week In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park ^g N0T77 16~PAGES Associated Press WAYNESVILLE, N. C.. THl'RSDAY AFTERNOON. SEPT. 15, 1955 ~ >3.50 In Advance In HavwonH mH J^v?^n CffunthTt roups Begin Work On 9th Tobacco Festival + + - krk Started On $250,000 Lake Hotel Project lywood Burley Growers lainst Poundage Control iway Says >sal Would Haywood d burley growers look pprovai on a poundage i controlling prooucuon number of Haywood ouieu with others trom lorin Carolina at a hear ty in Asnevnie, and voice to any change in the plan. iring Tuesday was con Don Paariberg, economic Secretary of Agriculture on. and Bob Owens, ut tobacco division. Congress adjourned, a waa appointed for the [ malting a study of our lacco marketing system, ecific request that they us consideration to the of changing our mar ts system from the pres ;e quota program to a quota program, imittee requested that a i held in Washington, at t views of farm organi periment Stations, Agri olleges, Burley Growers is, manufacturing com ld other organizations iresented. At the hearing (ton, North Carolina in excellent case against quotas. North Carolina tented by Commissioner ntine and Phil Headrick tate Department of Agri i. C. B. Ratchford and ariey Plan?Page 8) led Fund lpaign [Named ement will be made the nine division chair United Fund Drive 'as learned today from let. campaign chairman. Mid the advance gifts would begin work as the budget committee 'wn their needs for the Ionizations who will par the United Fund pro campaign is set to be ?r 10 and be completed Ith. The advance gifts will probably begin 'ate this month, said that the campaign committee would be of the division chair ?thers. [ Fender, president of 1 F?nd, said a meeting ws and directors would ?sday, 7:30 p.m., In the room. He said sev nt matters would 'be pchlon at the meeting. "?ngfield Remains ville Hospital t strtngfield, who auf leg In a fall at her *e Lane last week, re emoria] Hospital, Ashe ? she was taken for e expects to be mov Haywood County Hos next week. r WARMER d"ny and somewhat >? Friday, some nd warm. temperature ? *e SuteTe* Farm. *"? Mta. Free. 55 .02 71 55 ^ --?* 40 - Smoke Abatement Law Effective Here Sept. 23 The new smoke abatement ordi nance for Waynesville becomes effective one week from tomorrow, G. C. Ferguson, town manager an nounced today. Ben Sloan, local contractor, has been named by the board of alder men as the inspector. Ferguson said plans were to be gin checking places next week. He said he expected Inspector O'Neil, of Asheville, to come over and assist in getting the program started here in Waynesville. Mayor J. H. Way said the ordi nance is designed to make the town cleaner and will affect only those places that let excessive smoke from their heating plants into the air. \ "In almost every case, 1 am tola, the correction of excessive smoke will mean a ma terial savings in fuel," the mayor' said. The ordinance was designed after some of the best in the state, and passed ail three readings of the aldermen. BEN SLOAN has been named inspector for carrying out provi sions of the smoke abatement ordinance which bacomes effec tive Sept. 23. Rubber Workers Make Plans For Large Union Building Highway Between Dillsboro And Franklin Opened A nine-mile stretch of Route 23 in Jackson County between Dillsboro and Cowee Mountain was opened to traffic today. G. G. Pace, 14th Division en gineer, said that a 15-day set back in the original opening date was caused by a delay in apply ing a sealing coat of asphalt on the strip. Traffic has been detoured over N.C. 28, U, S. 19 and 19-A by way of Bryson City, Page said. The new road is a big improve ment oyer the old Cowee Moun tain road, and is several miles shorter than the old route. Town Adds Diversified Tractor Unit A tractor with a combination dirt loader, mower blade and scrape blade, has just been added by the Toyn of Waynesville to their fleet of mobile equipment. The piece of equipment will be used mostly by the street and water departments, according to G. C. Ferguson, town manager. The machine can be used for lifting dirt, or for filling a ditch. The mower blade is being used for cut ting weeds along sidewalks and the streets, Ferguson said. The machine is designed to save labor costs,' especially where new water and sewer lines are being in j stalled, Ferguson pointed out. (See Picture, Pace 1, Section 2) Local 277 of the United Rubber Workers. CIO, hive purchased a lot 174 by 251 feet on Highway 19A-23 across from the Dayton Rubber Company plant, and plan to erect a brick home there at an early date. Robert Hipps, president, said tentative plans are to include in the structure an auditorium to seat 2.000 persons. There will also be offices for the officers of the union, and a modern kitchen has been discussed as being included in the building program. The lot was purchased from Woodrow Rowland, with a building committee working with the offi cers. The building committee is composed of Lewis Keener, Fred Moody, Joseph Osborne, Ed Trull, Albert Muse and James Hendricks. The union officers, besides Hipps, are John Messer, vice presi dent; Miss Florence Drinnon, (See Rubber Workers?Page i' Miss Camlin To Represent Area In Cotton Event The Waynesville Jaycees are sponsoring Miss Sylvia Camlin in the annual "Queen for Cotton" contest to be held in Clayton, Sept. 24. Miss Camlin, queen of Junalus ka this year, and a recent mem ber of the queen's court of the Hendersonville Apple Harvest Fes tival, will take part in the parade and other festivities of the Clay ton festival. She is a student at Western Carolina College. The program is designed to cre ate more interest in cotton grown in eastern North Carolina. Hazelwood Police Cracking Down On Traffic Violators Those jvho fail to watch their I speed and the stop signs in Hazel- j v.ood are finding it expensive. ! Chief of Police Roy Stephens said that about 20 motorists have been hailed into court for speeding in recent weeks, and 25 others for failing to stop for a stop sign. , Most of the speeders were caught on Brown Avenue and j Church Street. I Mayor Lawrence Davis is giving j the speeders a fine of $10 and \ costs of $8 for the first offense. ; The second offense will likely be a.$2A fine and costs, he said. Those \ failing to stop for a stop sign are being taxed with the costs in the first event, and the second offense brings a penalty of $10 and costs. Chief Stephens said those who exceed the speed limit in Hazel wood, and fail to obey ail other traffic laws can be prepared to ap pear in court. "We are bearing down on violators, and mean busi ness. We are trying to protect our school children, and other citizens from traffic accidents, and the only thing tve know to do is to rigidly enforre ihe law," he continued. 50 Rooms Being Added To Lambuth Work began Tuesday morning on the $250,000 addition to Lambuth Inn on the Lake Junaluska As ; sembly Grounds. The famous white hotel, high on the hill above the dam of the 250-acre lake is owned : by the Assembly. The new addition will have 50 i rooms, plus two large assembly j rooms, according to the plans adopted in August by the Lake board of trustees at their annual meeting. The rooms will be modern in every respect, equipped with baths and heat. The new addition is being built on the west side of the present building, and some 3.600 yards of dirt are being moved from the site between the present building and large cross at the point over looking the Lake. The dirt from the excavation is being put on Lakeshore Drive as a widening program continues for that part of the Lake street system. Plans are to have the building completed for the 1$56 season which will open in June. The new unit of the hotel will be needed for several big conferences which are scheduled for the Lake next sea son. One is the Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference July lt 15 and the World Methodist Coun cil from August 28 - September 12. The J. A. Jones Construction Company, of Charlotte, have the contract for the construction of the new 50-room unit. The George R. Stuart Auditor ium will be redecorated and instal lation will be made for the accom modation for the two large confer ences. The Program Director, Dr. George E. Clary, announces that the Candier Camp Meeting will be held July 19-26. Billy Graham has accepted the invitation to preach during the first two days of the Camp Meeting and Dr. William E. Sangster of London, England, will be the preacher for the remainder of the Camp Meeting. Dr. Clary reports that the Conference sched ule is now set for the 1956 season. Sheriff Working Long Hours On Cattle Cases Sheriff Fred Campbell is literal ly working day and night on the cases of cattle being poisoned and others stolen. He was out late Wednesday night on the case, and left the office early this afternoon following up j the cases. Three cattle were poisoned when arsenic was put into a Beaverdam pasture last week, and three others died of arsenic poisoning in a Maggie pasture. Sheriff Campbell said he was determined to get to the bottom of the rustling and poisoning of cat tle, and is spending the greater part of his time on the cases. CONSTRUCTION began Tuesday on the 50-rooni addition to Lambuth Inn at Lake Junaluska. The new wing will be on the left of the present build ing. Here machines can be seen excavating the site for the new unit. This is one of four major construction projects on the Assembly Grounds. (Mountaineer Photo). Lake Junaluska Assembly Ends Successful Season Civil Tentt 01 Court Will Convene Monday Morning The two week September term o? civil court will convene here Monday morning with Judge Dan K. Moore, presiding. There are 27 cases listed for the term, according to the calendar compiled for the court. The motion docket has been set for Monday, with the following cases scheduled: Sampson vs Bran son; Cogdill vs. Cogdill; Parks vs. Parks and Sentelle, extcutor, vs. Sentelle, et als. The trial calendar lists Sampson vs. Branson; Hipps vs. Southern Railway; Kelly vs. Ward, admini strator. Tuesday, Bramlett et al vs. Town of Waynesville; Browning vs. Weissinger Lumber Company. Wednesday, Rathbone vs. Me haffey; Woody vs. Mchaffey; Cald wen vs. jvtenattey; Brannon vs. Singleton, et al Thursday, Jenkins vs. Smothers; Stanmyere vs. Hospital Care As sociation; Casey vs. Cogdill Motor j Company; AlMed Roofing Campany vs. Frazier. Friday, A. T. Ward, administrat or, vs. Dewey Carver, et al; Don nahoe vs. Hyatt, and Parks vs. I Parks. The second week, Monday, Kan- j dolph vs. State Highway Commis- j sion; Randolph A Cairnes vs. ] State Highwav Commission; Day (See Civil Court?Page 8> / Trio Of Former Convicts Enrouie To Stage Holdup Arrested By Cpl. Smith Three former South Carolina convicts were enroute to hold up The Owl Drive-In at the May wood Buncombe line when they went through a,speedwatch at 66 miles an hour and were later ar rested by Cpl. Pritchard Smith at Clyde. The three men, now in separate prisons, told officers of their plans for the night of August 26th, when their carefully laid hold-up was foiled as Cpl. Smith stopped them for speeding. As the patrolman opened the door of the new caa. he found the three men had four loaded pistols on them and five boxes of shells. He charged all three with earning concealed weapons. John Gilbreath. 40. of Scnaca. S. C.. was the driver of the car, .and had served seven years in the South Carolina penitentiary for cattle rustling, and had just got ten out in May of this year un der parole. He has since been sent back to the prison to serve seven more years. Donald Nichol Capps. 17, a form er inmate of a South Carolina re form school, remains in the Hay wood county jail, charged with carrying a concealed weapon. David Eugene Capps. 23. also of | Seneca, served 5 to 6 years in the South Carolina penitentiary for j murder, was re-arrcsted about I midhight Wednesday af Seneca and brought to , the Buncombe county jail, where he has confess ed to being one of the trio that held up the Grace Esso Station on Merriman Avenue, Asheville, early on the morning of August #th. Fos ter shad made a cash bond here 1 and had been released. He was I (8ee Three Men?Page 8> Viaduct Survey In Canton Nears Final Stages Engineers are expected to com plete the survey for the Canton Viaduct sometime next week. Commissioner Ilarry Buchanan told The Mountaineer today. As soon as the engineers com plete the survey. Commissioner Buchanan said plans were to have the right-of-way men go right to work, in order that no more time than necessary be lost on the project. "We hope to have everything out of the way by October," he continued. It is understood that a few de tails on the surrey had to be made before the final routine could be made definite. I 1 State C&D Will Meet Here Three Days Next Month The State Board of Conservation and Development, policy making body Tor the Department of Con servation and Development, will hold its fall meeting in Waynes ville, October 24, 25 and 26. The dates were announced today by C Sc D Director Ben E. Douglas who said the board's sessions will be held at the Wayaesvllle Country Club. Gov. Luther H. Hodges is board chairman. Douglas was here Tuesday checking on final details of the meeting. He conferred at length with Ned Tucker, executive vice president of the Chamber of Com merce as to local arangements for the 3-day meeting. Final audited reports of Lake Junaluska prompted J. W. Fowler, Jr., superintendent, to say this morning, "Lake Junaluska Assem bly has- just dosed a very fine season." The superintendent continued by commenting that "the attendance at the Lake for conference and | leadership schools was consider | ahly better this year than last iyear Pre-reglstration for the spe cial conferences were responsible for the larger attendance. "The apartments, cafeteria' and Shackford Hall area of the Lake experienced about a 25 per cent incraese in attendance and partici pation, however, the regular sum mer tourist visitation reflected a decrease which seemed to be quite general in the mountains thfk year, and is attributable to the very cool wet weather during the months of June and July. The ho tels did not record as great atteikl ance this season as they did tail year." ' The Paul B. Kern Youth Center on/I th.. UfofU MofKo/liof ?-I a?u v?n; iiuiiii mvvnuuioi V/UUii< u Building are nearing completion and Shatkford Hail is being fin ished.'Plans have been adopted for the erectiofi of a Children's Craft Center and the placing of a beau tiful ornamental fence around the Ivey Playground, The swimming pooj. which was completed this year with the instal (See Lake Junaluska?Pane 8) Board Asks For Assistance On Street Projects Th board of aldermen have ask 'cfj "the Chamber of Commerce and the Merchants Association to assist in the details of acquiring right of-ways for extending Wall Street from East to Pigeon Street and for widening Montgomery Street, Both organiaztions recently pe titioned the town, asking for both projects. The town has had an engineer make a survey *and blueprints of the proposed street improvements. Buchanan To Seek Early Decision On Pigeon Road Commissioner Ilarry Buchanan leaves Saturday for several days in Washington, where he will con fer with the Bureau of Public Koads about the Pigeon River Road project. Commissioner Buchanan told The Mountaineer that he had had several conferences with state of ficios recently on the matter, and wanted to talk further with the federal agency in an effort to expe dite the formal approval. "Since North Carolina and Ten nessee Highway Commissioners have requested the project be put on the federal system, I feel sure it is just a matter of time before it is approved," the Commissioner continued. "I am going to be in Washington on some other highway matters and this is one of the things I am going to check on while there," be pointed out. The announcement was made at the time of the decision of the North Carolina Highway Commis sion selected the Pigeon River Route that formal approval might take several months. Tentative Date Set Early Nov. Judging from enthusiasm and cooperation, it appears that the 9th annual Tobacco Harvest Festi val here this fail will be the larg est and most diversified yet staged. Tentative plans are to hold the Festival early in November, per haps about the 10th. This will de pend upon the time the farmers can get burley ready for the tobac co show. Virgil Holloway, county agent, said that present Indications point to about the 10th of November. The exact date will be set soon, when members of the Chamber of Commerce, Merchants Association, Jaycees. and agricultural leaders, together with CDP officials meet and work out the best feasible date. The 9th festival will be staged through the combined cooperation of all agencies. For this reason, the leaders are predicting a larger festival than ever. The Festival will include the colorful Home Demonstration Club exhibits which always attract wide attention each year. The only tlting missing will be | the display of apples which was discussed last year as being a part of the 1955 show. The early spring freeze killed the crop. The Chamber of Commerce di rectors named Ned Tucker to serve as coordinator, and together with a committee work in staging the Festival. The Merchants will have a committee joining in, and the Jaycees through a spokesman, said they would sponsor the pop ular and colorful beauty contest. 1 he agricultural group and CD1* will join with theae in working out a complete program, that is cx pected to attract the largest crowds in the history of the festival. Those in charge feel the earlier date in November will miss the had weather which hampered the first three festivals when it rain ed. snowed and sleeted during the parades. Town Will Get Fourth Safety Award The fourth safety traffic award will be formally presented to the Town of Waynesville here Friday at the Rotary meeting. Charles Ray, director of the Carolina Motor Club, has told town officials that R. T. Elicit, Jr.. direc tor of the department of High ways and safety of the organiza tion, will be here to make the formal presentation. Ray announced Elletl will also be the speaker for the Club meet ing Friday, and he will present the safety director. Those who are expected to at tend the formal presentation of the award will be G. C. Ferguson, town manager, Chief of Police Orvillc Noland, Cpl. Pritchard Smith and Sheriff Fred Campbell, who is chairman of the safety committee of the Ltons Club. Mayor Way is a Rotarian and will take part on the-program. 'Waynesville has won the dual safety awards for 1050, 1052, 1953 and 1954 for not having a fatality on the streets In the town during those years. The awards are given by the Carolina Motor Club and the National Safety Council. Highway Record For 1955 In Haywood (TO DATE) Killed .... 1 (1954 ? 2) Injured.... 69 (19M ? S3) I Accidents 137 Loss ?. $54,226 (This Information com piled from records ol State Highway Patrol.)
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