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-.-?"v.-? ?- THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER ? ^ i ? ? ? ? miss nell stinsun, president of the Division of Classroom Teachers of the North Carolina Education Association, will be the speaker for the annual ban quet tonifht of the Classroom Teacher Association. CTA Annual Banquet Slated For April 30 Miss Nell Stinson, president of the Division of Classroom Teach ers of the North Carolina Educa tion Association, will be the speaker for the annual banquet of the Haywood County unit of the Classroom Teacher Association Mionday evening, April 30, at The Lodge in Hazelwood. The Schoolmasters Club will meet with the Classroom Teachers for a joint meeting, according to the president of the organization. Brace Jaynes. The Canton Class room Teachers have been invited to attend the meeting, also. Tickets for the banquet are available in each school from the CTA building representative, and reservations must be made in ad vance, according to Mrs. O. L. Yates, president of the Haywood unit of Classroom Teachers. Park Naturalist May Program Is Announced The Naturalist Program lor May in the Great Smokies has been an nounced by the National Park Service with hikes, nature walks and talks scheduled for nearly every day. The programs are open to everyone and no registration is necessary unless specifically indi cated. This week the program opens May 1 with a 2V4-mile round-trip hike to Laurel Falls from Fight ing Creek Gap, starting at 9 a.m. Hikers will see the flowering shrubs and plants of the lower elevations, as the altitude varies between 2, 300 and 2.600 feet. Wednesday, May 2, a nature walk starts at 9 a.m.""from Park Head quarters Building. Thursday, May 3, footsore visit ors may listen to an illustrated talk on "Through the Seasons in Great Smoky National Park," at 8:15 p.m. at the Andy Huff House in Gatlin burg. The week concludes on Friday with,a hike along the Appalachian Trail from Newfound Gap to Indian Gap, starting -at Newfound at 9:15 a.m. Eleveation along t^is section of the Trail ranges from 5,000 to 5,600 feet. Canton High Band And Chorus Slate Spring Concert The Canton High School Band and Chorus will present their spring concert Tuesday, May 15, at 8 p.m. in the high school audi torium. Also on the program are the Junior High Band and the Senior Brass Sextet. Members of the Sex tet are Diane Thomason. Glenda Pressley, Charles Gaddis, Steve Westmoreland. George Freeman and Darrell Hawkins. At the concert, senior band mem bers will be presented awards by a member of the Canton Lions Club. Many Indian tribes of America had a vigorous and ancient art con sisting of pictures on rock, bone, hides, wood and pottery when Co lumbus landed in America. ? ? ? ? A HEAVILY-LADEN TABLE at the Crabtree Methodist Church dedication Sunday command ed the close attention of these (onr youngsters. having tone difficulty in making their selection from the wide variety of foods on hand. (Mountaineer Photo). MOKE THAN 2M PEOPLE attended the dedica tion of the Crabtree Methodist Church Sunday raornin* and then attended a picnic dinner in the church basement at noon?amog them this mother and her son, filling their plates. (Mountaineer Photo). Rotarians Hear Expert Tell Of New Parachutes Rotarians heard first-hand Fri day, from a parachute engineer, of the strides which have been made in the field of parachutes in recent years. Charles Fully, vice president of Irving Manufacturing Company, the world's largest manufacturer of parachutes, startled the civic club and the ten guests with the state ment that only 8 per cent of para chutes made are used for saving lives .The other 92 per cent are used for everything from landing tanks, trucks and other equipment from planes, to serving as a brake for the huge bombers landing on conventional air strips. One of the latest uses of para chute? is in the field of guided mis siles. The expensive missiles are equipped with automatic para chutes which enables recovery of them after they have reached the height of their flight Pully explained that newly de signed parachutes are necessary for use in planes that go 600 miles per hour or faster. Some of these consist of several parachutes, which open at different altltnffe*. and all designed for the safety of the pilot. The executive told of how just two weeks ago a test pilot was thrown from an exploding plane, with a broken back. He was unable to help himself, but the automatic releases with which parachutes are now equipped took over and the helpless pilot floated to earth with no further injuries. Mr. Pully showed a "ribbon para chute" which is used as a brake for stopping a huge bomber in landing. He also showed the newly designed parachute used for laying mines in harbors. This parachute makes it safer for the mine-laying pilots as they do not have to get within gunfire, range of the ships in the harbor. Torpedoes are also laid with | parachutes and at a greater safety i to the pilots, he went on to explain. < "Parachutes are not an invention tion of the present generation," Mr. Pully said. "There are carvings in Siam showing a parachute which was perhaps used in 500 B.C." The parachute came into prac tical use after World War I, when ;he late General Billy Mitchell sent word from the Western Front in Germany to get him "something" to save pilots of disabled planes. The Army called In three men who had previously shown patterns of parachutes to officials. One was Mr. Irving, now head of the firm making the parachutes, a German and an Englishman. All three in ventors were called in and drew lots for demonstrating their para - . . i * chutes. The Englishman was killed a as his parachute failed to open. 1 The German who drew second lot refused to demonstrate his. Mr. Irvlng's demonstration was a suc cess and he got the first govern- ; ment contract for making para chutes. Mr. Pully was presented by John ^ildenbiddle, manager of Dayton Rubber Company here. The two men were roommates in college. Walter Baermann was inducted ' s a new member, and there were 0 visiting Rotarians. 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