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ARROW shows where the steel mtfrwlirrl was torn from the Cove Creek mill and washed down stream against the highway bridge, which was moved six feet ofT its foundation. The road to White Oak wax blocked because of the. damage to the bridge. (Mountaineer Photo). Cove Creek Flood Halts Old Grist Mill's Operation f-v"? ?.1 By W. C. MKDFORD After 84 years of continuous ope ration, a county record, the Cove Creek grist mill has been put out of commission by Saturday's flash flood. The mill was built about 1872 by the first owners. Pack Owens and his father, Jake It has been operated without a break since that time. Jt was repaired in the late '80's by Mark Howell New siding was added and some other repairs and additions were made. Toward the last of the century it passed into the hands of I). W. ? Manse Cagle. who ran it for a number of years Later Hob Bo.vd bopght the mill and had it operat ed for many years, until some 12 or 15 years ago. when Temp Phil-, ligo acquired it. Harry Stewart, who lives on Fie Branch, is the present owner. Nor man Hannah has been operating it for hin). Other operator! over the years { -included lorn Parks, Judge Rob erts, liiily Davis, Allen Davis and Shaffer Rollins. This year's Hood damage to water wheel, drive wheel, shaft, cogs and race represents the worst in the mill's history It has withstood previous high waters and freshets. I The best of timbers went into ' the building sills, beams, joists, plates, etc There is one beam j the main central support?that is 4?i feet long and all in one piece It was hewn out. of poplar with a broadaxe. is one loot square, and "straight as a gun barrel." The old reinforced front door is of two pieces, a throwback to the old range .days, w here there were many such doors. ? More than 700.1100 miles of rural I U S highways were surfaced form ! 1020 to 1035 ' MORE ABOU1 Flood (Continue*, from Pate 1) deep out in my bottom and 200 feet wide." The flood reached within a few feet of his house. Jim Messer also lost the bottom land in his com field tie lost about nil acre and a half of corn and all of his small tobacco allotment. George lloring and Ills partner. Franklin, lost approximately two acres of tobacco Roosevelt Ward lost 8 acre of tobacco, an acre of corn and beans and a quarter of an acre of oats A rock wall on his property was washed away and a bridge washed out Here also a flint boulder, estimated to weigh 1200 to 1500 pounds was washed up and moved some distance On the Widow Howell and Will Howell places damage was done to corn, tobacco and grass fields, es pecially on the latter farm Nearly all of Clyde Morrow's to bacco, growing on both sides of tfie creek, was washed away or cover ed with mud. Considerable corn and garden truck was carried away. A monetary estimate of the dam ape had not been, made this morn i ing. The lied ? toss had not reeeived ! any requests for aid from the ; Hood victims. The Soil Conservation Service planned art inspection trip to Cove Creek today preparatory to ofler i inp plans for farm ponds and dams j which could take care of future flood waters. ROAD SCRAPERS had to clear ]?] miles of road following the flash flood of Cove Creek Saturday. The road was scraped from the end of the pavement to three miles up the Suttontown road. Thr operator is Bobby Davis. I Mountaineer Photo). MORE ABOUT Flood Highlights (Continued from Pace 1> ing quarters in I he mill and keeps a small stock of groceries. Clyde Morrow's old storehouse (not in use) was pushed by the liood oil its pillars and left stand ing llat on the ground Those who saw where the cloud hurst hit on Big Laurel said that ! it tore out a place in the ground a big around as an average-sized house. There was perhaps a greater volume of water in the Cove Creek Hood than in the one that occurred on West Pork of the Pigeon above l.ake Logan in I August. 1940. There was cer- j |: . I tainly much more damage done to Cove Creek crops. However, in the West Fork cloudburst, two lives were lost. They were Will Hampton, aged 70. and his wife of nearly the same age. whose home was right heside the Hooded stream. It was six days before Mrs. Hampton's body was found. The water poured down in such ! volume and with such force that trees the size of big telephone poles were uprooted, forced out of the area of the cloudburst and wash ed down with the flood. These trees were sheared en tirely of their limbs and bark and some were broken into pieces as i if they had been mere match sticks. vlOKE ABOUT Waynesville Band (Continued from Page 1) thirst and hunger. After spending Saturday night at Ocala. the band resumed its re turn trip at 8:30 a m. Sunday. Mov- ' ing in heavy traffic, the two buses arrived at 7:30 p.m. in Augusta, Ga ' Ga., where band director Charles Isley called Waynesville to notify parents of band members that the arrival of the group would be de THIS IS a view of what damage was done to afternoon. Marion Messer's farm by the flash Hood Saturday (Mountaineer layed. The band's last performance at the Lions convention was at noon Saturday during the inauguration of John L. Stick ley of Charlotte a:. president of Lions International Representing the district and the Waynesville Lions Club at the Miami convention were District Governor Lawrence B. Leather wood and Mrs. Leatherwood and family; District Secretary Harry! Whisenhunt and Mrs. Whisenhunt and son; President-elect James E Fender and Mrs. Fender and son. and delegates Joe Tate, Jr., John Boyd and M T. Bridges. At the Florida metropolis. North Carolina Lions broke all records j in attendance and in the magnifi cense of their program put on for "North Carolina Night" Thursday in the Orange Bowie Stadium, dur ing w hich the Waynesville band performed There were more than 4,000 Tar Heel Lions at the con vention, and the crowd at the "North Carolina Night" exceeded | 40,000. Manitoulin Island in Lake Ontario is rated as the largest j fresh-water island in the world. MOKE ABOUT Man Drowns (Continued from page 1) torn of a whirlpool at a depth of 12 feet. Haywood's sheriff, Fred Y. Campbell, and Coroner Pate con ducted the investigation Moody had been employed by the American Enka Corp. for the last 11 years. Surviving, in addition to the son. are the widow, Mrs. Helen Davis Moody" one other son, Danny Keith; one step-son, Charles Aiken; 1 one step-daughter. Sandra Aiken: three brothers. Robert J. of Clyde, I Alvin of Canton and Ellis of Bridgeton, N. J.; four sisters, Mrs. Homer Constance of Santectlah, i Mrs. Thad Tipton of Vader. Wash.. Mrs. Nannie Dunn of Bridgeton, N J., and Mrs. Dennis Caldwell of YVaynesville; and the parents, Mr and Mrs. Walter Moody of Canton. \ Funeral arrangements, being handled by Crawford Funeral Home, are incomplete. Cse Mountaineer Want Ads. MORE ABOUT Rotary (Continued from Page 1) the year. Charles Way is secretary-treas urer, with C. G. Thompson, assist ant. The board of directors, besides the officers are: H. P. McCarroll, J. W. Fowler, Jr., Whitener Pro vost. and Earl Brendall. The program committee for July and August is composed of Admiral W N. Thomas. Dr. Frank S. Love. W Hugh Massie, and J. W. Fowler, Jr. Bad Ethics DALLAS i API ? Two 9-year-old boys and their 14-year-old com panion were released by police after they told officers they stole tropical fish from a school "because we wanted to go in business with tropical fish and make a 100 per cent profit " Thdy were told their ideas on the free, enterprise system were good, but their ethics, were bad. Gone. &/#?, | ?ffie wend,/ * I ? WHEN A FREIGHT CAR rolls down the "hump" at our nqw $14 million Citico Yard at Chattanooga, Tennessee, even the wind resistance of the car is * \ automatically measured. While the car is rolling, a radar device instantly picks up and evaluates all the many factors that affect its reliability ? weight, speed, size, wind, weather and others. Then the magic brain of an electronic computer regulates the retarder brake in the track under the moving car so that it will couple safely and gently co another car standing far down in the yard below. This is a neu kind of railroading. You'll see it at work in countless ways on the Southern today?at Citico, and in our other multi-million dollar push-burton yards at Knoxville, Tcnn. and Birmingham, Ala. And still another ultra-modern electronic yard to cost 513 million is now under construction at Atlanta, Ga. Yesteryear railroading is "gone with the wind" on the Southern. l\niay's modern railroading means better living for all in the South. ? |OU^y\ W rn*i?Ic?t (? SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM ^<*TY?j!y WASHINGTON, D. C. f ? + ? * t \ ^ CONGRATULATIONS MR. AND MRS. RAYMOND DUCKETT Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Ducket t. of the Love joy Road section of Hay wood County have just completed the installation of a new CREAM ERY PACKAGE BULK FARM TANK, thus becoming the first Hay wood dairy family to start using the new method of storing fresh milk. Haywood's dairy farmers voted unanimously to adopt this new sys tem on all 68 dairy farms in the county. Haywood will be the first in North Carolina, and perhaps in the United States to adopt the new bulk tank meth(?d 100'i. We congratulate the Haywood County Dairy Producers Association for the work they have done in making this progressive step possible. Mr. and Mrs. Duckett. after making a thorough survey of all types of bulk tanks, decided that the CREAMERY PACKAGE BULK FARM TANK was best suited to their needs and would give them better service through long years of constant use. WHEN YOU GET A CREAMERY PACKAGE BULK FARM TANK YOU ARE ASSURED OF PROMPT AND EFFICIENT LOCAL SERVICE FOR MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS v "We're As Close As Your Telephone" Just Dial GL 6-8386 T. S. MORRISON - FOARD, Inc. 0 / , Depot Street ? Waynesx ille
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