MUf E ABOtn Vf cation (Continurd from pace 1) den Monument Works in her hometown of 18,000 population. Other industries in Camden, county seat of Ouachita County, are a paper mill nrd a naval ord nance plant "Pine trees," she added, "are our major product," In addition to winning a week's fre* vacation. Miss Gordon also woh 40 gallons of gas from a Cam den serrvicc station. For the Gordons, their trip to the Great Smokies and Blue Ridge of North Carolina represents a re turn trip, but it was the first visit here for Miss Lide Ml*s Gordon said she and her mother came* to this region six years ago. but explained that she has seen many things on this trip she never saw before tyhile in the Waynesvllle area, her group visited the Ha>wood courthouse, the Highlanders of fice, Lpke Junalu\ka. the Moun tain Experiment Station, and the Waynesvllle Country Club She also had plans for trips to Fontana Village, Asheville and Henderson vil^e before returning home this Tuesday. If possible. Miss Gordon said, she will return here for another visit next summer. At a stop at The Mountaineer office Thursday, the? contest win ner said: 'People here have been treating us wonderfully, and I feel like the Queen of the Smnfc ies." Accompanying the Arkansas residents to Waynesvllle were Barney Rentz and Miss Margie Estes of the Cherokee Historical Society. During their brief Slav in this area, the group was escorted by Mrs. Edilh Alley Empson, sec retary of the WNC Highlanders. Mrs. Noland To Conduct Craft Classes For Adults An ndult class on Pastel faint ing of Pictures and Copper Enamel ing of .lewelry will be conducted by Mrs. Glenn Noland for women in the Crabtree-Iron Ouff Com munities. The class will be held two afternoons each week Those interested in enrolling are requested to meet in the Home Ecnnomics Department of the Crgbtree-lron Duff school Tuesday. October 23. at 2 4S p in. Definite dates and hours for the class will bo decided at this time. nri.lv III \'l 11 IK IV took top place in the Has rare Saturday at the All-Western llorse Show. Ilere Billy is shown ridini! his horse Flicker aiound one of the liars while he carries the other in Is hand. Make no douht out nl it?Billy and Flicker were covering ground. This picture was made at 250th part of a second and that is pretty last, yet the horse is shown moving fast. (Mountaineer Photo). 3irl Scouts Plan Hike To Alum Cave All (Jirl Scouts, their mothers, and leaders are Invited to go on a special hike which has been ar raliked by Mrs. Tania Itollman and Mrs Joe Liner for Saturday, October 27 The hike, which will be led by a I'ark Hanger, will tic two miles into Alum Cave from the parking area on the Newfound Highway. The hikers will meet at the Waynesvllle High School at TVth a.m. and transportation will tie furnished Nosebag lunches will be taken ? m * The first Commercial television station in Australia is scheduled to begin regular transmission in September Lots 01 Action Seen In All-Western Horse Show MORE ABOUT Burley (Continued from Pace 1) the grading and sorting of your , nop, or if you would like to see a j part of your erop stripped and | sorted, please bring along four or 1 live stalks to the demonstration and ; the government grader will be glad I to assist you " ? ? ?S General Franco, ruler of spain, | Is a fisherman. He once took a 710-pound tuna off the coast of I Galicia Those attending the All-West ern Horse show here Saturday af ternoon saw lots of action, as horses and riders staged an un usual 10-event performance. George Evans was manager and judge of the show, which was spon sored by the Smoky Mountain Traril Riders Association. The winiK-rs were announced as follows: Western Parade 1st place. Gol den Sunshine, owned and ridden by Kenneth Treadway, Pony Lead Line?1st place. Lit tle Lady, owned by Joe Reinert son, ridden by Gary! Gibson. Western Pleasure (Ladies'?1st place. Lanta. owned by Kenneth Treadway, ridden by Nina Duncan. Flag Race 1st place. Flicker, owned and ridden by Billy lleath erly. Musical Chairs ?1st place. Lanta, owned and ridden by Kenneth Treadway. Pony Parade?1st place. Sun-star, owned by George E. Evans, ridden by Johnny Rogers Mule Race ? 1st place. Clara, owned by Thomas L Moody, ridden by Mike Cribble. Pet Pony ?1st place, Kit tie Lady, owned h> Joe Roinortson. ridden by Glcnda Morgan. Pole Bending?1st. place. I-anta, owned and ridden by Kenneth Treadway. Fanny Seat 1st place. Flicker, owned and ridden by Billy Heath er ly "We want to thank alt the people in helping to make this- All West ern Show a success," Evans said. MORE ABOUT CDP (Continued from page 1) r;uate family food supply 5. Community with largest per centage of families covered by hos pital insurance. (i Community with largest per centage of families producing one or more acres of corn with a yield of 100 bushels or more i including silage corn.! 7. Community with largest per centage of families showing an increase in income from new sou fees 8. Community with largest per centage of families making home improvements. Once again this year, the com munities will be judged on the Danish system, with each of the competing areas receiving blue, red. or white ribbons. Each com munity in a ribbon class will get the same amount of money except for the top winners in the blue ribbon group, which will win $25 more than others in the class. Drawer Reflex SAN DIEGO. Calif. lAl" ? A burglar used a physician's 'reflex banner ? the little one he taps your knee with .to make your leg bounce ?? at the office of Dr. Jacob Wenig. The theif tapped the desk drawer It bounced open and ho took the $200 inside. MORE ^BOl'T REA (Continued from pace 1> construction and conversion of these lines, which will cost approx imately $20,000.00, will be per formed by the' cooperative, and Is not included in the contract award ed to Skyline Construction Co., the REA manager pointed out. The contract between the coop erative and Skyline is subject to approval by the Rural Electrifica tion Administration, and this ap proval is expected within two or three weeks. The contractor will start immediately aipon approval of the contract by REA, and the work is scheduled for completion within 60 working days from that | date. Mr. Sheffield said. The cooperative has 20 men en gaged in clearing tne right of way, and this work will be completed within about five weeks, he added. Other work included in the $600,000.00 expansion program, ac cording to Mr. Sheffield, is the construction of 4 miles of 66 kv transmission line between Clyde and Bethel, the erection of a 1500 kw substation at Bethel, and the conversion of existing distribution lines from single phase to three phase in Buncombe and Haywood I Counties. This work, is not inelud I ed in the above contract, but will ' be built later when the load on the ] ' lines necessitates the additional, facilities. Mr. Sheffield said that the co-i operative now serves 4.900 mem . bers along 925 miles of line in parts of seven counties: Buncombe. Hay i wood. Jackson. Transylvania, and Macon in North Carolina. Rabun County, Ga? and Oconee County. S C. Usage of electricity by the members of the cooperative is in creasing at a rapid pace as addi tional equipment and appliances are being added daily. Monthly average kilowatt hours per mem ber of the Cooperative has now reached 215 kilowatt hours. Usage is expected to be around 450 kilo watt hours per member per month within the next 10 years, which is more than double the present us age. ' ? - - -' - ? ' ? - ' ' MORE ABOUT Polio (Continued from Page 1) I said, but only 1.049 persons have | had the complete series of three. Ranking lowest in participation 1 in the polio-inoculation program are teen-agers from 15 through 19 i years of age, the health officer dis I closed. I Polio shots are given free each | Wednesday at the Health Center ' on the Asheville road. Miss Dorothy Whisenhunt. cus | todian of records at the Health | Department, said that 4,503 per ' sons have had the first Salk polio i shot, 3.609 have had two, and 1.049 ! have had three. Of this total of 9,221, she ex j plained, 2.269 have been in the | under five years of age group; 2.153 have been in the 5-9 group; 2,770 have been in the 10-14 age I group, 1.738 have been in the 15-19 group, and 291 have been given to expectant mothers, i Miss Whisenhunt said that Hay wood County has had two polio j cases this year ? both occurring in August. The victims were Debra Lynn Smith, eight months old, of Route 4, Waynesville, who is still confined to the Asheville Ortho pedic Home at Biltmore with par ! tial paralysis, and Mrs. Maude Hannah. 20, of Waynesville, who has suffered no paralysis and is ! now at home. MORE ABOUT 4-H Club (Continued from pace 1) stock team was Ash by Cat Ivey of ! Bethel. Also at the State Fair last week were three 4-H Club hurley tobacco judging teams?from Fines Creek, Waynesville, and Clyde. On the Fines Creek team were j 1 Barbara Ferguson, Gail Bradshaw Arnold Phillips, and Freddy Rath-j I bone. On the WTHS team were ' V irgil Ford, Gene McGaha, and ! James Hannah. Making up the Clyde team were John McCracken. Clifford Underwood, and Keith Cathcy. Accompanying the 4-H members to Raleigh were Cecil Brown and : Fred Boss, assistant county farm agents. Mr. Brown explained that the results of the tobacco judging contest will not be announced for two weeks. KENNETH THEADWAY, ridinr Golden Sun shine, took first place in the Western Parade Class of the All-Western Horse Show staged here Sat urday. (Mountaineer Photo). WHAT JYJOST communities, in their own wa\, have attractions for some kind of industry. When a new industry employing 135 people begins operating in a community, according to The United States Chamber of Commerce, it can mean: $787,000 more personal income per scar, $480,000 more < retail sales, $360,000 more bank deposits, 395 more people, 232 more workers employed, 146 more households, 68 more school children. It can also mean job opportunities at home for graduates of our colleges and high schools who arc now leaving the State, What kind of industry is best suited to your own community at this time? It might be a large, highly technical operation. It might be a supplier to other industry. It could be a handicraft operation, or tourist attraction. Ask for the free booklet on Community Organisation for Industrial Development. It lists scores of ideas for products which may be manufactured to advantage in various communities of the State. > ? STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT This is another in the series of advertisements published by this newspaper, a member of the North Carolina Press Association, at a pub', service in the ir&tU of the State's industrial develop adcoi program. 1 m! Wife Preservers l ? > i When jroq, \> v a portcrboirc* ftsk the meat <k?aler to jrrimt the tail meat a? ft i$ ivss leader thau the ran el iha Kltt IAFF-A-DAY "You have Just answered a question that will set you 32 years. Would you like to try for M T" i GETTING OUT THE VOTE! S. K. Waters, President of Crown Central Petroleum Corporation, pins Republican Elephant lapel button on Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower. DITTO OF ABOVE.. . but it's a Democratic Donkey lapel button S. K. Waters has pinned on Democratic Presidential Candidate Adlai E. Stevenson. Crown Service Stations are distributing FREE lapel pins for both parties in a special drive to get out the vote! VOTE AS YOU PLEASE-BUT VOTE! 1

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