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BSMSBflfflll Has More Paid-In-Advance Subscribers In Haywood County Than All Weekly Newspapers Combined VOL. XLV NO. 35 WAYNESVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1933 I i- 500.WW To Be Spent For Park Lands Business Firms Here Cooperating With NRA. New Jobs Created jtferchants To Add More Clerks To Their Present Force Plants Under Code Additional jobs were created Tues day night by business men ol ay nciville and vicinity whe the ma jority of them signed to keep their places of business open from 14 to 22 hours longer than the K. R. A. pro giam says a clerk in a dry good store or grocery store can work. 'I he meet ing was held at the court house ami about o5 were present and entered into a general discussion of the N. R. A. program, with J. M. Mock pre siding, and C. E. Ray, Jr.. acting as secretary. liecause of the nature of their busi ness, and not employing mure than two people, some stores were not in cluded in the grop, but in almost every instance they have signed to coop erate in every way with the N. R. A. They arc to buy their goods from firms working with the N- R. A. and ..also agree not to profiteer, Most places of business. in Waynes ville have already secured their 111 ue Eagle" and have it displayed in their windows. Dry good stores, grocery stores, bar ber shops, together with others which have made their announcement in a page advertisement elsewhere in this paper,-' state that they will open for business at 8 o'clock, and close at." o'clock every day except Saturday. On Saturday the store hours will be from 8 a. m. until 9 p. m. The clerks in the dry goods torea will work 40 hours while the grocery ileiks will remain on the job 48 hours a week- Mayor C B. Atkinson in a bncl statement urged the merchants to co operate with the national movement, as he felt it was the best way out of of the present economic situation. Ben E. Colkitt, manager of Royle & Pilkinton, Inc., of Hazelwood. told The Mountaineer yesterday that his company adopted the 40-houv week for both shifts at his plant on last Thursday,. The shifts had formerly been work ing 10 hours a day. The new sched ule giving the workmen the same wage Under the 40-hour schedule as .they" received for the 10-hour day. There are- now employed at the tapestry plant about 125 workmen who have been effected by the new : schedule. . It was made known Wednesday to The Mountaineer that England-Walton Company plan to adopt the blank et code in the near future. As all things of this nature are worked out at the Boston office of the company nothing definite could be learned here except that plans are now being made for the adoption soon. The Champion Fibre Company went on the 40-hour week basis Monday morning, with the same wage as had formerly been paid for 48 hours. Announcement was made that 150 additional men were given work be cause of the hour schedule. Revival To Start Wednesday At Clyde Rev. J. Walden Tysinger, pastor of the Clyde Methodist church an nounced yesterday that Dr. Maxwell, a professor from Ashbury Meminury Will rt,, o vai,ival of TlP Clvrfe Methodist church beginning Wednes day night, August 8th. The evangelist is a graduate from the leading universities of the counts- co1, Vnl Un,.or,l rillllO. Hilt he still believes and preaches the old fashioned gospel, it was stated. A cordial invitation is extended the public to take advantage ol ur, Maxwell's sermons. Pastors T Meet At Clyde Monday The Haywood County pastor's as sociation will meet for their regular session at 10 o'clock, Monday. Au gust 7. at the Clyde Baptist church. All pastors are urged to attend, as this vill perhaps be the most impor tant meeting of the year, according to R?v. R. p. McCracken, secretary flf L - ... tilt: organization. Honored o-)"ifV-',l I K nit i: I ham is Was nam. d secretary of the state Tar Heel Farmer laxly a', their meet ing in Raleigh last week- The speech delivered by young Krai-.c;- apiears elsewhere in this paper. Arthur Francis Is Named Secretary State Farm Body Haywood Hoy Wins Third Place In Public Speaking t on test At State Meeting- Arthur Francis and W. D Smith returned from Raleigh last Friday night after spending ten days at State College attending, the A oung Tar Heel Farme,. meeting the State Vocational Conference, and the Amer ican Institute of Co-Operation.; Hie first- two named were state meetings anil the latter nation-wide, "The Young Tar Heel Farmers meet ing was -attended ny moie i -v boys from various cnapifi- . m- tate. Arthur r r.rncis ; was me ' ) .- ,1,. ., i-,i,,vi 1 lo representative irom me -i'".';""-chapter of Vocational Agriculture. He ;l,o represented Western North Carolina in the state public siKakmg contest. There were six, other boys in 1 bo contest and he was ano.ucu some Teal 'competition it was said. "HaVwo.Hl County," M r. Smith, sani. has a right to be proud of this boyas he won honor, respect and trust m inis meeting. He won third place in uie contest, but .tins noes nov on v true story as there was not one pome ditVcrence in the three leaoeis as ic vealed by the judges. On. the sec ond day Arthur w-as nominated Jr c...... T,.nl.;.iv,t. ,f iho Young Tar niiiLC n-.iK.vii,. ---- Heel Farmer organization f rom thc n .,.r,irn,l n'TIICo VOtC. lltn HOOl auu itv..v. -.- the committee made their report ot nominations for state -secnetary he was again nominated a nil won iy a wum majority. "This is a distinct honor to Aii-nur an,, Haywood county from more than one angle. He is the first boy wesi of the Blue Kidge to ever noiu a office in this organization in. the, six years of its history. I believe that it is fitting and proper that the. people ot Haywood county have an opportunity to "read and .. study, his speech,.' Mr. Smith continued. . The speech made by young Mr, Francis appears elsewhere, in this issue- .'.' Haywood Students At Summer School . Ha-wood county's representatives at the Wake Forest-Meredith summer school, which this session has a record-breaking attendance, are D- II.-. Cogdill of Canton, and H. . Baucom. Jr.. of A avnesville. -T,fniliront.-if ,r)04 students. V 1LIJ ill ruiv.. - - an increase of 10 per cent over last summer session, the Baptist institu tion i- enjOMng it- bet e-son inee it- organization 12 years ago, accord ing to Direcor Daniel B. Bryan. "Our increa-e in enrollment as compared with the national decrease of 17 per cent " Dean Erjan sad is due to the coalition with Meredith College and the advantages of the nine-week session." John W. Doan 77, Will Be Buried Here On Friday Funeral Services Will Be Ud At Home of Daughter, 2:30 Friday Afternoon John W, Doan, 77, died at 4:45 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. G, Francis, on Central avenue. He haj been ill for two months. Mr. Doan was born in C oatesville, Pennsylvania. He was a merchant there betore coming to Waynesville nine years ago- He was an elder in the Presbyterian church at ( oates ville lor more than thirtv years and w-is an elder in the Presbyterian church here at the time of his death. Surviving are one daughter. Mrs. . C l'rancis. and two brothers. J. A. and J. E. Doan. both of ('oates ville. Funeral services will be held at the home of Dr. and Mr.-. Francis Friday afternoon at 2::0 o'clock and will be conducted by lr. R. P. talker, pastor ol the Preshvterian church, Kuri.il will be in (liven Hill cemetery Active pallbearers be: I.ouie lllack- I. eon Killian, Albeit Abe William llarbock. Oscar Briggs, and S. 11. Stevenson. Honorary pallbearers are; M. K. Uniirht 11 ( I md-U R 1 Pu- - f ( Ko- , I S( iw i M Mock; W. 1). Smith. )r C. 1). (ireen. Dim-, ( II R in ( 1 R y, Mr... Rciger. deorgo Justice. Dewev Stovall. Felix Stovall, K(l Potts, J. R. liovd. Charlie Russell, T. I.. Green. Oliver Shelton. W. A. Grahl, H. (. Stone, C. A. Plack. E. I!. Camp, and I rov vche. COUNTY SCHOOLS TO OPEN MONDA Y, A UG. 7 Large Enrollment Is Expected In All Schools. Teachers Are Named All the schools of the county will open Monday "'morning.- Augusit. 7th. with the exception Of Clyde h'igh school and the Waynosvillo town shjp schools- according to an an nouiH'enii nt from County 'Superin-1 dent Jack M esse, yesterday. This of course- excludes the Canton schools which ire imder separate charter from (lie rest of the county. The Clyde high -chool and Waynes-j viile tow nhip schools W'ill open August, .'lis!. .The Wavnesville : township scho -1 -only 'include- the .East Waynes-. ville, Lake Jimaluska. Sauiinok, Al len's ("reek. Hazelwood and the two Wa tiesvillo school -. The scbools re cently; aken into the Wayne.sville 'district .will open Monday. There is a last-minute 'rush in mak. ing liu:! ari angemenfs for the school ojiening. B.us routes have been made an, assigned, to the drivers.'' and the exjiectation of a larger .-enrollment than past years. With a decrease in teachers is cause of much worry among school authorities.. The county was allotted nine less teachers tins vear than last. , 'I he en rollment is expected to he much larger.. In "W avne-ville township the enrollment is expected to be .2(,'(). more than last year.. Mr. Messer streesed the fact that the state law (iocs not provide trans porta'tion for children within two mile' of the school- Last vear the distance was a mile and a half. This law will have to be adhered to in every instance. Mr. Messer stated. "All children within two miles of the school can't ride the bus under any circumsj.ances as set out by the state law,1 he stated. . All the ". schools are scheduled , to remain open for eight months as pro vided by the new state school law. The teachers lost by the recent al io, ment from last year's number are are as follows: Clyde. 1; Fines Creek,' 1; Bethel, 2; Park area, 4; and 1 from high school here. The list of teachers other than those published last week for the W aynes ville district are:. CLYDT DISTRICT Clvde Shirley Connatser, Princi pal and Mathematics. Horace Francis, M. and B. Margaret Terrell. L. and E. R. ( Cannon, Science- Evelvn Underwood, E. and H. ; Mrs. Noami Crumley, F. and H. . Mrs. Mary Brooks, seventh. Helen Smathers, sixth. Helen Rogers, fifth, Bonnie Francis, fourth. Edith Cannon, third- Haselle Stall, second. Ellen Haynes. second. (Continued on page eight) LARGE TRACT OF TIMBER BOUGHT AT EAST FORK Alwut 100 Men Will lie (liven Work In Cutting Million Feet of Timber One of the largest real estate deals in the county in several months was completed Monday of this week when E H Hickman, county commissioner, 1 nomas and .lohn Michael purchased from Ernest Hutton, 2000 acres ot virgin timbe,. land in the East Fork section of the county. It l- estimated 'that there are about a million teet of saw limtior on the tract of land and plans are under way by the new owners to let con tracts within the ncv: few days for elear'ng this land am) cutting tim ber. About 100 men will be given employment on the project, it was said. Resides the large amount ol' tim ber there is between 10,000 and 15, 000 cords of arid wo id which will be gotten out at an e.rly date. The tract is located near highway number 'J SI and plan are to giV lb" limber hauled out Willi trucks. The colli r:.cts. w ill be made soon and work will get under way immediately, ac cording to Mr. Rickmaii. Included in the list of men to bo given work will die .loggers, teamsters and :,riick drivers. .Most of the tim ber will be rut under contract. The purchase price of the trans action was not made public. Mrs. Ruth Rotha left Wednesday fur WeavOrville where : she has a position as secretary to the president of Weave,. Colli go for the summer vacat ion. BISHOP M0UZ0N URGES DUYS TO RATTLE REPEAL Speaker A1 Juiialuska I rges Men 'lo Kise and l-ighl. a i ns Rcpealistis An ;iopeal to '-Christ ian dry forces tci rally to combat the wet parade seidiing to repeal "'the IKth amend menl" was issued at Lake J unalu da last Friday by Bishop Ivlwin D. Mouzon, of Charlotte, spoak'ne; under the auspices . of the .Western North Carolina assemblies of Methodist young people. .The churchman called oil citizens to light against repeal,- saying. "Rise, men of the south and light for Cod and home, and native land." . I!i hop Mouion said 'the people of America face "three great problems the .problem of peace or War; the problem of economic recovery anil, the problem of the trade in intoxicat ing liquors," :oi:-oli kyiIj" : Terming, the drinking of alcoholc 1 leverages an "age-old evil," the .bish op cited various, instances in history in which, he said, the "evil of liquor had wrecked human lives, broken up families, left children in beggary, corrupted politicians, and filled pris ons and insane asylums. ' 'Tvirst one experiment, was tried then another, " he said, in efforts to control : the traffic, ''and finally the conclusion was reached that there was no way to do . business with the liquor traffic with decency and honor. It was in utter, disgust and horror of the whole evil bu-iness. the Amer ican people arose in indignation and wrote, the eigthteenth amendment into the contWution." 1 he bishop said he believed in states' rights and added that "Southern-states believe . they have a right to vote against repeal, but Postmas ter I arlcy; chief dispenser of political lobs, hastens to the south as (the President's spokesman and informs governors and others that thev will vote dry at the peril of political disfavor. This is a new and sinister thing. This is state rights with a vengeance. In fact, the rights of the individual are thus taken away and we are to be herded and driven like cattle." OT to nn DRIVEV "No matter what others mav do, the ministry of the Methodist church will not be driven. Our ministers are still free men " The bishop said. "We have the highest respect for the President of the United States" regarding the work (Continued on page 5) President Roosevelt Signs Order For Spending Funds For Additional Acreage Superintendent 1IW M. II. Howie- who vva- elected: su perinleiulenl . of the Waynesvillo township .-chorijs la'.--t : week.- Cut courlesv Asheville Citizen. : 75 Million Is Netted To Do Road Work People Have Sought IliKhwav I ominission 'Swamp 4d" I'nder Willi" Petitions I' or Itoad Work Weary after four days of hearing countless noail requests the Mia to Highway anil Public Works Commis sion adjourned '.yesterday- al'.enionn upon completion nf a day thai' brought tile largest group of delegations yet to-, face Hie commission..' If it had $.'iil .1100,(100 to -ien in stead of $1 1,0(10.(1110, it possibly could gran' the petitions presented to it i luripg the most .intensive series of highway hearings ever held in North Carolina, but. Chairman K I'. Jeff ress est imaled it would take upwards of $75,000,(1110, to 'make happy every body who ciine to Raleigh in search of . road work ince the hearings be gan Monday. "We want to rest." li' said in an swer 'to a .query about the Coin-mission's' next move, fli.s declaration was eehiii d by other nlenibers of. the Commission, all of whom Wore show ing' elVe.ct 'of patient listening to bur.-: di i d of -pet it Miners, w ho .-ought favor for their highway jiroposals. Mo.Ki-: to no ..The chairmim, in a w ikened con dition brought. . on by a recei'v . pro 1 raclt d illne.s -,;, liore . the strain as well as any if (hem. He -presided over all .sessions .nf his, intimate acquaintance with road: conditions in North .".Carolina' occasioned much, com ment. . .Today he, will return .to his offices and with orders will be busy compil ing and filing data asd material har vested during the hearings. That job will consume a week and after that the commission will study all propo sals laid .before it and select the pro jects for inclusion in the highway pro gram getting under way this summer. ConcTucion of -the public hearings does not eliminate further petitions to the Com mi -sion.. but Chairman Jffress is desirous that -they lie pre sented in .'writing:,, with suitable sketches, if possible, rather than in person- . Quilt Show Today The Quilt Show which is an annual event in. Waynesville- under the .spon sorship of the Woman's Club. will be held this afternoon. August .3rd. in the building next door to the Way newood Theater between the hours of 2:00 and 7:00. There will be cash prizes of $2.00 each for the prettiest old and the prettiest new quilt; $1.00 each for the prettiest snread, the prettiest quilt top and the prettiest coverlet, aswell as other prizes. Prize winning exhibits will be chos en by popular vote but only those having made a silver contribution of ten cents or more will be entitled to vote. There will be no admission charge and the affair promises to be a rare treat, not only for devotees of the art of quilt-makmg, but for beauty-loving people generally. k N i'.v.w,v. t AV. KW.VWV 1 4 II x f. National Hody Starts Work Of Speedinir Plans For Ex. pendi lure Of Funds President Roosevelt, has signed the executive order authorizing expendi ture of !?l,ri00,000 for completion of the Croat Smoky Mountains National park and the National Park service began " making plans fo,. acquiring -ullicient additional land I" m ike the project a l'ull lledged national park. Accm ding ito a special dispatch ap pearing in -The A-shovillo Citizen from Wa-h.mgtoii Thursday morning. Th,. Croat Smoky Mountain- Na tional park. mule,, present plan- 'will c ut ,in when romplcted li'iO.OOO acres; instead of -J 17 Ollil :u res a ally ij.len.U .I. " i'- will .. . aii,iu-t-inent of boundaries. R.M. Albright, director 'of t he N'alioiial Park r c.'. ,lee! ire,l today and the fund- oh aineil under the exeetilive order iua' be Used I'm iui'eba-e of kind at the foot of . stone of the nnuinla i ns 1 o provide win ter ea nip's l'o- the I V'OO men ,)f the emergency conservation corps now wiirkiiiY',' in the -Croat Smoky park. When 1-7, boil acres is .acquired, be government will immediately take ooi' .the park and it will be run in the same manner as the other great n.itiorial park-. l!y ' ivadjti.-tiilg the iK.unilaries. (lu- Park service will not be .compelled to purchase land origi nally cuntcmplai ed fo,, the park, and this will remove .t lie": clanger of proli fci ring by owners of land desired for the park it was pointed out- Had the purchase of land been confined to the original projected areas some delay may have resulted in 'completing the park because of the failure ofi he gov. eminent .and hind owners to agree oil a purchase 'price,. Nn announcement as to the change of .'the boundaries il expected utitil land has been pur cha -ed. Albright : said today that the Rocku feller foundation funds remain avail able for purchase of park land under new plan for use of federal money in completing cln- park. About Iji.iOO.OOO is - lati .I to be used from the Roeke felle,. fund in acquiring additional land in the Croat Smoky park. II .. .l.iA-; ni:ciso W'ilhis the next few days, Secretary of Interior Ickcs will decide mi tha cUo.-i'i(in of whether his .department, will handle the purchase 'of the Croat Smoky park land or if the goyern nn nt-.will deal through the North Carolina ami Tennessee, park com-, missions.' Mrs. Sarah liases Buried Here Monday Mi--.. Ssarah I Hayiios. on, ubo was formerly .Miss Sarah K. Roberts, for many years a teacher in the .pubic schools of Haywood "count y, die. Sun day morning at the Haywood Coun ty hospital at tiffer an illness of several weeks.. Funeral, services were "conducted -at the. Canton Bai- tisl, church Monday afternoon tit 2: :io, and burial was made iii (ireen Hill cemetery at Wayne-vil le. following the service at .Canton. . A short servico was also held at the grave, . Mrs. Haynes was bom near Wav nesville, and educated in the public schools of the county. She ' era me a teacher when quite, young, taught for a number of years in the. coun try .schools- and when the public school system of Waynesville v is or ganized in 1 S!li) she became one of the teachers,; and held the . position four teen years. In , 1020. she was elected to the position of teacher of the first grade in the Canton -chools and sent. nas continued there urtn! the pre; Some years ago she was married to the late W: ,Y. Havties. who wa? for six years sheriff of Haywood coun ty and for several years United States com mi's sioner and : who lost his life in an aii'omobile wreck.: Mis. Haynes is survived by several nieces and nephews. The nephews served as active pallbearers. Hon orary pallbearers were: A. J Hutch-in.-. George Haynes. Dr. .J. L. Reeves, Dr. W. L. Kirkpatrick. Dr J R. McCracken. Roone Medford. Frank Fergu.-ei. J. - II. Kirkpatrick. V. W". Mitchell, W. R Hipns. W." R Crt: C. M. Blaylock. John ll. Knodarmrr. and H. Arthur Osborne. VAUCIh HFMYAL GOIC FIn The revival meeting at the Maggie Methodist church is progressing njcelv, according to Rev. Walden Tysinger. of Clvde , who is doinff the preaching. ;' " I MA .If