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James McClure, F armer F ?deration President, Dies James Gore King McClure. pres Idenl of the Farmer* Federation Cooperative, died yeaterday morn ing In an Aahevllle hospital of a heart attack after a abort illness. Be was 71 year* old. Funeral serv ices will be held tomorrow. A native of Lake Forcat, 111.. Mc Clure came to Aahevllle in 1B10 Throughout the enaulng year* he demonstrated again and again fcls qualities of civic leadership. From a atari of aiding farmers ip hi* own Fairview communty to tuild the flrst Farmer Federation warehouse to provide a base for handling farm supplies and aaaemb ling truck-load* of farm prolucts, he continued with a cannery at flenderionville. sweet potato cur ing house* in Rutherford County and similar achievement*. McClure started thr Farmer* Federation hatchery, then took the lead in promoting broiler produc tion Opening of the Aahevllle To bacco Market was a result of h* efforts. He was largely responsible for the Introduction of a large scale artificial breeding of dairy eattlc In Weatern North Carolina He sponsored a group rural health insurance program He also provid ed an outlet for the knitting and rug-hooking of the women of the area. Ttii? Lord'* Arr-A Plan u/am nn vistoned by McClure. He and hi* brother-in-law. the Rev. Dumont Clarke, started the plan In Ashe vtllr In IS30. Starting with six churches. It has spread throughout i several thousand churches In the United States and Into foreign mls-j sion fields. IfcClure was chairman of the United War Fund for Western North Carolina. He was also re gional chairman of the North Caro lina Symphony Orchestra and pres ident of the Aahevllle Civic Music Association. He was a former presl i dent of both the North Carolina Forestry Association and the Am erican Forestry Association and a member of the National Citizens' Committee for Public Schools. Merchants Board To Meet Thursday, 4 P. M. The directors of the Merchants Association will meet Thursday. 4 p.m at the Chamber of Com merce. according to A. D. Harri son, president. Plans are for the board to hold their monthly meetings on the third Thursday afternoon of each month. Harrison said. JAMES O. K. MtCLUIE, president of the Farmers Fed eration Cooperative, Presbyter ian minister, and prominent elvie leader, died early Sunday morning in an Aahevllle hospit al as a result of a heart attack. DEATHS MISS ANNIE BICE Miss Annie Rice, 61. of Canton, died Sunday at 11 a.m. in a Can ton nursing home after a linger- , ing Illness. She was r. native and lifelong resident ol Haywood County, a member of the Beaverdam Metho dist Church, a daughter of the late R. D. and Minnie Allison Rice Surviving are three brothers Herbert F., W. Crawford and Fred of Canton, Rt. 1; three sisters. Mrs Carrie Griffith and Mrs. H. E Wright, Sr., of Canton and Mrs. Sallie Spence of West Asheviile. Funeral services were held today at 4 p.m. in the chapel of Wells ' Funeral Home here. The Rev. L B. George and the Rev. R. H. Kind schi officiated and burial was in Bon-A-Venture Cemetery. Pallbearers were Howard. Grov er. Jack and Harold Rice. H. E Wright, Jr., and Walter Spence Nieces were flower bearers. Road Closed For Repairs Pine Ridge road near the Day ton Rubber Co. plant is now closed for repairs, it has been announced. The road will be reopened soon. Mrs. Smith Dies In Atlanta Mrs. Evelyn Sentelle Smith, M. of Atlanta, Ga.. a native of Hay wood County, died Friday in an Atlanta hospital after a brief ill ness. Funeral services were held Sun day in the Patterson Funeral Home in Atlanta and graveside rites were held this morning in Bethel Cemetery. Officiating at the grave tide rites were Dr. L. B. Hayes, the Rev. Thomas Erwin, and the Rev. Will I harr. Pallbearers were Mark Cithty. George Blaylock, Clif'or. Terrell. Ed Justice, and Jack and Harry Sentelle. Surviving are the hu.tband. Har ry G. Smith; two sons, Harry G? Jr., and Ennis. both of Atlanta; one sister. Mrs. W. F. McMillan of Charlotte; and the parents. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Sentelle of Bethel. Arrangements were under the direction of Wells Funeral Home. MORE ABOUT United Fund (Continued from Page 1) is in reality a Western North Caro lina institution rendering service to the crippled from whatever source they come." The United Fund is now receiv ing payment on pledges for the second period, and according to Ml* SIIat f hora aro nKnnt M HAH ir? unpaid pledges to date. He pointed out that he will make another dis tribution of funds after July first to the 16 groups which participated in the United Fund campaign. About $33,000 in caah and pledges was raised last fall in the first United Fund drive here. Siler cit ed the Importance of prompt pay ment of p.edges Recently Russell E Fulti. of The Dayton Rubber Company, was nam ed president to succeed Dr. J. E. Fender who resigned because of holding the presidency of Lions Club. At a meeting Thursday night plans were begun for the second drive this fall. The budget commit tee, headed by Paul Davis, said they wou!4 begin receiving re quests for participation in the fund at once. The U. S. aircraft carrier Sara toga has enough power for 100 passenger locomotives. Speed of traffic in Bermuda is limited to 18 miles an hour in towns and 20 miles in the country. Doctors On Call During Medical Assembly Listed rne nsi ?f doctors in me way nesville and Canton areas who will be on call (or emergencies during the three-day session of the i.iountaintop Medical Assembly here Thursday, Friday, and Satur day, has been announced by Dr. George D. Presley of Canton. Doctors on call will be at their offices from 8 until 12 and from 2 until 5, or can be contacted through the switchboard operator at Haywood County Hospital. The list for the Waynesviile area is: Thursday morning. Dr. Jack Davis and Dr. A. J. Dlckerson; Thursday afternoon, Dr. J. E. Fender and Dr. Frank Hammett; Friday morning. Dr. Boyd Owen and Dr. A. Heyward Smith; Fri day afternoon, Dr. R. S. Robersan and Dr. R. H. Str.tcher; Satur day morning, Dr. -homas String field and Dr. Davis; Saturday af ternoon, Dr. Dlckerson, and Dr. Fender. The Canton schedule is: Thursday morning, Dr. V. H. Duckett and Dr. George D. Pres ley; Thursday afternoon. Dr. H. A. Matthews and Dr. Presley; Friday morning. Dr. J. R. Westmoreland and Dr. Matthews; Friday after noon, Dr. J. L. Reeves and Dr. J. F. Pate; Saturday morning. Dr. Roy Moore and Dr. W. O. Kearse; Saturday aftqrnaan, Dr. Reeves and Dr. Pate. MORE ABOU1 Medical Meeting (Continned from Pate 1) gia. Augusta, and Dr. Park Nicely, urologist at the Acuff Clinic, Knoxville. A three-day program of enter tainment has also been planned for the wives and children of the physicians. Thursday events include a visit to the pool and playground at Lake Junalrska, Dutch luncheon at the Country Club, fashion show at the Town and Country Shop, square dancing at the Maggie Playhouse. On Friday thy women will en joy bridge and golf at the Coun try Club, have a Dutch luncheon, and then tour the Champion Paper and Fibre Co. plant at Canton. That night at 7.30, an informal buffet banquet will be he>d at the Country Club. On Saturday, the group will take a trip to Cherokee. Mile High and Heintooga. In the after noon a golf tournament will be held, starting at 1 p.m. To accommodate the doctors Teacher Suffers A Broken Ankle # While Fishing Frank Kirkpatrick of Waynes vllle, a teacher at Crabtree-Iron Duff High School, suffered a brok en left ankle Saturday morning while fishing in Little Cataloochee Creek with Lawrence B. Leather wood, superintendent of schools. The accident occurred, Mr. Leatherwood said, about 8:40 a.m. when the two men were fishing a bout 100 feet apart. Mr. Kirkpat rick reportedly stepped over a pole and onto a small sand bar v/hen the sand bar gave way be neath his weight, breaking his left ankle over the pole. Mr. Leatherwood had to walk a mile and a quarter to the road to get help. He was abie to find seven men who helper. him carry Mr. Kirkpatrick to the .-oad, where he was placed in Park Warden Mark Hannah's wagon and taken to thr Lower Bridge campground where he was transferred to a sta tion wagon owned by Tom Mal lonee of Candler. The eight men tied poles to a cot to make a stretcher used to , carry the injured man. The first mile and a quarter of their trip they were forced to cut their way through a thick laurel thicket. They were further impeded at that time by a heavy downpour of rain which drenched them. Mr. Leatherwood estimated that 1 six hours and 20 minutes elapsed between the occurrence of the ac cident and the time that Mr. Kirk patrick reached Haywood County Hospital. ? Edwards To Talk On Campaign 20th Charles W. Edwards. Jr., can didate for representative, announc ed he would discuss issues of the campaign in the second of a series of radio talks Wednesday. Edwards said he would be on the two stations of the county at 5:45 over WHCC and 6:15 over WWIT. The auto industry uses about 65 per cent of all upholstery leather produced in the United States. and their wives, baby-sitting ser vice will be provided during the assembly. MORE ABOUT Colorado 4-H (Continued front Put I) former county commissioner Also in the welcoming group at the courthouse today were mayori or their representatives from Waynesvllle, Canton, Haielwood and Clyde; Rowe Henry, superin tendent of Canton schools; Law rence B. Leatherwood, sitperintend ent of Haywood County schools; Richard L. Bradley, president, and Ned Tucker, executive vice presi dent, of the Waynesville Chamber of Commerce, Home Agent Mary Cornwell and Farm Agent Virgil L. Holloway. On Tuesday the Colorado group will he taken on a tour of Hay wood County, to include the follow ing: Jennings Plemmons' 4-H poultry project in Saunook community, state fish hatchery. Barber's and Eavenson's apple orchards, refresh ments by Saunook 4-H Club, Jule Boyd's beef cattle farm in Jonathan Creek, lunch at Rock Hill School given by the Jonathan Creek Home Demonstration Club. O. C, *Palin er's dairy farm at Rush Fork, O. L. Yates' burley tobacco and bis son's sheep project at Iron Duff, refresh ments by the Yates family and the Farm Bureau, poultry farm at Clyde, Carole Wilson's foom-im provement project at Canton, pure bred Hereford farm of Dr. A. P. Cline, Sr., at Bethel, Mountain Ex periment Station, and recreation program at the Bethel School gym nafiium with pofrpahmpnto nrntriHoH by the WaynesvlUe Business and Professional Woman's Club. On Wednesday morning the Coloradoans and their Haywood hosts will assemble at the Cham pion YMCA, see the film, "Deep Roots," and then tour the Cham pion Paper and Fibre Co. plant. After lunch at the Champion cafe teria. with the company acting as host, the group will leave for the Wagon Road-Beech Gap section of the Blue Ridge Parkway and a pic nic supper at the Pink Beds in Pisgah National Forest. Some members of the group also will at tend the Jaycees' square dance at 9 p.m. on the courthouse parking lot. On Thursday the visitors and the Haywood 4-H'ers will tour the Cherokee Indian Village and Pioneer Village at the Oconoluftee Ranger Station, go to Mile High Overlook, and then have a barbe cued chicken supper at the resi dence of Jonathan Woody, with the meal to be prepared by Rufus Siler Friday's schedule calls for i tour of the BUtmore Estate and dairy farms and a ride on the boal "Cherokee" at ?ake Junaluska On Saturday the group will swim in the pool at Camp Schaub and then have a^ farewell banquet in the camp's dining room. Sunday, after a devotional serv- 1 ice to be conducted at the cross at Lake Junaluska by Rev. John Kiz- 1 er of Hazel wood, the Colorado group will start their trip home. Haywood countians keeping Col oradoans in their homes this week j will be 4-H Club members Joan Green, Kay Boyd. Marilyn Burch. Ellen Cathey, Judy Harris. Bev erly Chambers, Jane Davis. Ann Oathey, Aurelia Morgan. Mary Gail Clark, Estelena Robinson, Annette Sheffield, Jannette Sheffield. Gail Cogburn. Carole Wilson. Martha Swaim. Patricia Kirkpatrick, Bar bara Ferguson, James Ferguson, Bernard Ferguson. Phillip Davis. Jerry Ferguson. Johnny James. Neal Kelly, Bobby Clarke, James i Ray Fore, Tom Garrett, Johnny ? Williams, Powell McElroy, Neal . Allison. Jennings Plemmons, Don i Price, Phillip James, and adult . leaders Jean Childers. Cecil Brown, ! V. L. Holloway, Joe Turner, Mrs. | Ray Seay, Mrs. Cecil Brown, and t Elsie Palmer. Wool PooL Lamb Pool Both Slated Next Week , I w Scouts Receive Asbury Hiking Award Tonight A special Asbury Trail Award is scheduled to be given to Ave Can ton Explorer Scouts and their scoutmaster, J. E. Anderson, of Troop One tonight at the Pigeon River Council as they meet at the Hazelwood Baptist Church. To be present tonight for the ceremony are .A, W. Allen, Scout executive of Western North Caro lina; Dr. Elmer T. Clark, secretary of the World Methodist Council at Lake Junaluska; Mark Hannah, 1 chief ranger, Cataloochee; and H. C. Wilburn, well known historian. The Scouts and their leader cov ered the 37-mile trail from Clyde to Davenport Gap, the first Scouts to make the hike since the trail was authorized by the Boy Scouts. The group reopened a 4 feet wide trail over, a 12-mile link of the 37 mile distance, much of it through den$e laurel. The five Explorer Scouts are Geoffrey Cooper, John Bottoms. David Coman. Bill Moore and Jack Allison. The annual WNC wool puol and the second lamb pool of the year in th? county both will be held next week, according to County Agent Virgil L. Holloway. The wool pool will be held Men day and Tuesday at the Carolina Tobacco Warehouse on Valley St., Asheville. Prices to be paid at the pool are: Clear wool $50.79 Coarse wool $47.79 Lambs and/or short wool $44 79 Light burry wool .... . _.. $42.79 Medium burry. stained black. ? or dead wool $40.79 Heavy burry wool $35.79 Tags $14.00 Concerning the wool pool. Mr. Holloway stated: "You may bring your wool in either Monday or Tuesday, and should plan to have a little time to watch it graded and weighed. Be sure to keep your sales ticket for the wool and all Iambs that you sell during the year of 1956 and turn them in to the ASC office to be able to get the govern ment payment. The wool pool es tablishes the market end deserves your support." The Haywood County lamb pool will be held at the Clyde stock ya'rds Monday, with all lambs to be brouaht in between 7 and 10 a.m. Producers entering lambs in the sale should notify the county agent's office not later than this Wednesday. At the first pool in May, a total of 359 animals were sold. w ? WNC Officials To Discuss New Soil Bank Plan County Agent Virgil L. Holloway will attend a meeting of agricul ture officials Tueslay in Asheville, where the latest Information on the new "soil bank" program will be discussed by U. S. Department of Agriculture and N. C. State Col lege representatives. The meeting tomorrow will out line the effects of the soil bank on Western North Carolina farmers. Mr. Holloway said he has already had a number of inquiries on the program approved recently by Con. gress. In 1900 7t4 million Americans owned their homes compared with 25 million today. Lithium is the lightest known metal. OUR 24th SEASON IN WAYNESVILLE # \ Ml. fJameA. Mohh \ 1 TAKES PLEASURE IN INVITING YOU TO ATTEND V \ THE OPENING OF OUR UNIQUE AUCTION SALES V \ , on Thursday, June 21st, 1956 \ 1 AT S:00 R. M. V \ liJcufsteAvilU Alt Qall&uf. \ 1 V ; WAYNESVILLE. ViORTH CAROLINA 1 I INSPECTION NIGHTS ? ? TO IO P. M. 1 TUESDAY - WEDNESDAY 1 JUNE ISTM AND lOTH 1 1 |}t: ' m ? ?' '? ; *r, r ? ? ? 1 - DRAWINGS FOR FRIZES AT EACH SALE ? FOR THE MOST UNUSUAL GIFTS WE HAVE EVER COLLECTED ? COME EARLY ? GET YOUR EARLY TICKET. HlkBl Skfi # 2 - AUCTION SALES DAILY - 2 10:30 A.M. and 8 P.M. The Largest Collection Of Art In The South ? - Consisting of: Diamonds, Watches, English Plate. Royal Copenhagen, Dresden, Meissen, Crown Derby, Spode, Persian Rugs, Linens, Oil Paintings. Sterling by Georg Jensen, International, Gorham, Tiffany. Watches by Poramier, Famous French Designer, and other Famous Brands. t r THIS IS OUR 24th CONSECUTIVE YEAR IN WAYNESVILLE 153 MAIN STREET James Mann. Owner WAYNESVILLE Seymour Eisen. Ward EMridge, Sam Rodney. Al Kleinman. Fred Durant ? Personnel Nat Neederman. Bernard Kauf fman ? Associate Auctioneers ' ? /
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