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The Waynesville Mountaineer Published In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park FIFTY-THIRD YEAR NO. 2 WAYNESVILLE, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14. 1937 $1.00 IN ADVANCE IN COUNTY Hazelwood Votes Tuesday On $10,000 Street Bond Issue If Ordinance Passes, $9,000 Will President Roosevelt With Three Secretaries Stockholders Told lyb A Success! Ul Year With Bank Officers Elected. Report Showa Deposits $70,000 Above Last Year -..'.'.,,... ::.:.:--.'.- v,''v-y.v.v.v,v.i.-.Vv v- w. .v.- o: . v.- v,.v -.-.-.w w. .v - .: -.- .v. . .vttT- v oaoanacwwi .si mm r;"u II if M ; ;,i if iff Be Spent For Streets; $1,000 For Bridges Voters of Hazelwood will file to the polls next Tuesday, January 19th, and vote yes or no tor an ordinance which, if. passed will authorize the board of aldermen to issue bonu for $10,000 for building streets and bridges. If the voters pass the ordinance, $9,000 of the money will oe used foi "the purpose of constructing, 07 re constructing the surface of roadc, streets and h'ghways, and the contem poraneous construction or recon struction of sidewalks, curbs, gutters and drains, including the grading and regrading of etreets. Such surfaces being of water bound macadam, and penetration process. The $1,000 will be used for construction or repairing of bridges within the city limits." Four per cent interest will be paid fur the bonds, and they will be retire, at the rate of $1,000 per year, accord ing to the notice that has been ap proved by the board, and given to the voters. Expressions from a number of citi zens contacted at random indi.ated that the vote would carry for the bond issue. : When the board of aldermen met last Tuesday n'ght, the financial statement showed that they had bought $3,600 worth of new road ma chinery and two cars of cement, both of which they paid cash. The treas urer's statement also showed that ail bills had been .paid. The total bonded indebtedness of the town of Hazelwood now stands at $16,000. For several months work h as been in progress on the-streets uf the town. As high as 75 men have bee., at work on the project, which are -W PA jobs. The street from the high school to the store of Bradley & Rhea on Highway No. 19 is over a mile and a half long, and will be paved during the r;ojeet. A concrete bridge was also built on the street. " : . Reinterment OOIrs. Bevilte Held Sunday Savannah, Ga. (Special to The Mountaineer.) An impressive and solemn ceremony took place on Sun day when the reinterment of Mrs. Anna Mcintosh Fall'gant Beville took place in the Falligant lot in Laurel Grove cemetery, at 4 o'clock. Many of the members of the family and close friends of both the mother and the daughter were present. The ceremony which consisted of the consecration of the grave by the most Rev. Monsignor Joseph D. Mitch ell, and the reading of the 23rd Psalm, which had been a favorite of Mrs. Beville, was very beautiful. There were many floral offerings and placed on the grave was a bronze marker wh'ch was presented by the Dorcas Bell Love Chapter of the D. A. R.. of Waynesville. Mrs. Seville was the daughter of the late Champion G. Falligant and Ruth Mcintosh Mell, and the widow of the late Francis Bartow Beville; the niece of Dr. L. A. Falligant, Judge Robert Falligant and Mrs. L. C. Berien, of Savannah; great great granddaughter of Brig. Gen. Lachlan Mcintosh, of Revolutionary fame. She was also the consin of Governor Wade Hampton, of South Carolina; and a great great granddaughter of Cyntha Sumner, sieter of Senator Sumner, of Massachusetts. Also a cous'n of John E. Ward, a former mayor of Savannah, and later U. S. minister to China. A desire to rest in Savannah near the scene of her childhood had been expressed to her daughter which wag fulfilled in the reinterment. Mrs. Beville had a distinctly artistic literary nature and her poems ap peared in numerous Southern publi cations and the Boston Transcript. For many years she had been an out-of-town member of the Poetry Society of Georgia." FATHER LANE HEARD BY MURPHY STUDENTS On Monday Father Howard V. Lane gave an interesting talk to the stu dents of the Murphy high school, during the chapel hour. His subject was "Duty." On Tuesday morning he addressed the. pupils of the East Waynesville school, on the subject of "Helpful Children." Today's Market The following cash prices were be ing paid Wednesday by the Farmers Federation here: Chickens, heavy weight hens . ....12c , Chickens, fryers . . . . ........ . ... 12c Eggs, dozen 20c Corn, bushel . 90c Wheat, bushel . ... $1.10 Business At Post Office Shows An Increase Of 20 Postmaster J. H. Howell reported this week that the postal receipts for 1936 would probably show an increase over 1935 by twenty per cent. The Christma business this year at the lo. al post office exceeded that of last year by twenty per cent, the post master stated. The big increase came in parcel post, as. the sales on the one and one-half cent stamps were the same for the two years. Although there has be?n a twenty per cent increase 'n business, the same number of employees are at the post office. Legislature Is Proposing 3 New Sources Of Taxes Budget Committee Recommends Sales Tax Be Removed From Food Necessities The North Carolina Legislature e-ct down to work this week, faced with the task of finding money to meet a sought-for budget of $70,178,171 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, pnd $70,240,975 for the year ending June 30, 1939. This is (something like two millions more than the budget for the past fiscal year. Governor Hoey in a special .message, urged the members of the legislature to give careful study t the problems facing the assembly. .Those in -barge of making out the budget recommended that t lit- sales tax be removed from meals told in public eating places and from the re tail sale of fiojr, moat, meal, lard, n, ilk, molasses, sa.it, ugar and coffee. This is in keeping with the pledge made to the voters by Governor Hoey an also the Democratic party. A bill was also wtrodu.od which would, exempt coal, wood, tread and grits from the sales tax,. While tne Assembly talked of re moving the sales tax from a number of necessities of life, ft proposal was madft whereby three new taxes would be levied to raise revenue sufficient to take the place of that lost by the sales tax on necessities. 1. A Itvey on wines providing for a $150 license fee for wholesalers, a $10 license fee for retailers and a tax of 20 cents a gallon on all wines sold. In the past wines had been exempt from all levies except the sales tax. 2. A gift levy, providing for a tax on present valued in excess of $2,000 a year to family members, with the exemption reduced for non-family members. 3. A levy on intangibles, provided under a constitutional amendment approved at the last general election, which would tax: bank deposits at lo cents on the actual $100 value; money on hand at 20 cents o the $10 in excess of $300; matured insurance, building and loan and other deposits at 25 cents on the $100; bonds, notes and other evidences of debt, except i tax-free securities, at 40 cents on the J $100 in excess of $300, and thans of stock at 40 cents on the $100 in a cess of $300. Tw o From Here To Attend Press Meet W. Curtis Kuss. editor of The Mountaineer, ieft yesterday after noon for the Mid-Winter Institute of the North Carolina Press Association which will be held at the University of North Carolina and at Duke Uni versity. . He has part on the program as chairman of the weekly newspaper group "in. discussing their problems. Last summer he wa named vice presv ident of the state organization. Mrs. T. L. Gwyn, society editor, and assistant to the editor, leaves this afternoon to attend the remainder of the session. Young Garrett Is Bound To Court James Garrett, Jr., of the Allen'e Creek section, 'was placed under a bond of $2,000 and bound over to the next term of Haywood Superior Court at a preliminary hearing last week, in the case in which he is charged with manslaughter. He was arrested following the death of James Mull, of West Asheville, who was struck by a truck said to have been driven by Garrett, on December the 23rd. SON TO WORK FOR FATHER James Roosevelt, the President's eldest son. became last week an "ad ministrative assistant," on the White House staff. During the 123d political campa'gn and on the recent trip to South America, he served a$ personal aide to his father. On July 1, he will be promoted to Presidential secretary, along with Stephen Early and Martin H. Mclntyre, who are now assistant secretaries. , Top 'hats and tails were worn by President Roose velt and his three secretaries when, this new pic ture was taken in Washington as the four rode down Pennsylvania avenue. Left to right are Hoey Calls For A Referenduum Upon ; Liquor Question Proposes Free Text Books, Asks Educational Reform and Re tention Of Sales Tax The pros Of the state is .must h'gh. in praise 'of -'the inaugural, address of Governor Clyde It. Hoey. Some pa per termed it as a classic. The Charlotte Observer, --aid in part; "Unless its primary nature is kept clearly in view the impression would be justifiable that 'nstead of being a State-paper, it wa a contribution by the Shelby oracle to the good liUratur,, of the State and of the times. "The vigor of the message is unim paired by the beauty of the verbiage. "Without engaging in a detailed elaborat'on of even the major points of the Governor's message, one in stant impression leaps out from its lilting line. "That is the Tourageousness of Mr. Hoey in fa'cintrthe issue of chie f con troversy in Xoith Caitdina at this time." The 16 points of his address were aP follows: 1. Free publ'c school textbooks. 2. Repeal of the s-ales tax oh ne cessities. . :i. Reorganization of the State Highway Commission for greater at tention to the needs of local roads. 4. Cheaper automobile license tags. 5. Discontinuance of liiveits'on of highway, funds to other State pur poses. f. Co-operation with other South Atlantic State- in the .-passage of f.gricultural ' control . legislation. 7. Co-operation. Of the work of the central State eduiation administra- tion.'. V 8. RestoraCon of teacher salaries. 9. Increased Vocational training. 10. Adoption of "reasonable" regu lation of working conditions, " 11. A careful study of the liquor commission report, with no legislative abrogation of prohib'tion "until an other opportunity is given for a full and fair expression of public opinion at the ballot box."' 12. A long-time program of increas ed facilities at State charitable insti tutions. 13. Additional legislation, amplify ing old age and unemployment com pensation regulation adopted at the December special session, to embrace the entire Federal social security pro gram. 14. A rational exposition, along the lines of the Texa centennial, to ad vertisp North Carolina to the nation. 15. A balanced budget. In,' Reappointment of legislative representation. Boy Scouts And Fathers Will Be Entertained Fri. The Wayhesviiie Rotary CluB.will entertain the Coy Scouts of this com munity and their fathers at a meet ing Friday evening , at 6:30 at the Welch Memorial Sunday school build ing. The program will be in charge of M, H. Bowles, C. E. Weathe'rby, and J. C. Brown. Mr. Brown is scout master, and Mr. Weatherby is assis tant. The Hotary Club is sponsor for the Boy Scout work in this community. President Hoosevelt with serrrtarles, Mclntyre, Karly and James Roosevelt President Roosevelt, Marvin Mclntyre, Stephen Early and the president's son, James, who was re cently attached to the White Jlouse staff as gen eral aide to hi father. $829 Tobacco Crop Grown on 8-10 Acre By A.A.Kirkpatrick I One of the beet m'flrds-.'fur tobacco sales yet reported to The Mountaineer, 'came from A. A. Kirkpatrick, of Clyde, K(iute one. Mr. Kirkpatrick ' got ?82U for his crop of 1.288 pounds. . Hi: croj) was planted on just eight 1 tenths of an acre-r-which is something like $104 for each tenth of an acre. I His record was as follows: ,0 pounds ...................... ..$28.00 208 pounds .................. 44.00 276 pounds .. .... : 69.00 250 pounds ........ 70.00 224 pounds ... 72.00 220 pounds ....... . . ..... . ... 71.00 1 .288 $S2!).00 Leaders Feel That Counties Will Get Refund From State Haywood Has Entered Claims For Koad Money Amounting To About $300,000 The progress of the steering com mittee of th,. Eastern Carolina' Cham tx'r of Commerce, who are handl'ng the road bond adjustment campaign, is satisfactory, according to a state ment just released by' Judge Guy Elliott, of Kinstn, through the sec retary 0f tht; loinmittee, N. G. Hait lett. -.'.:: ' The fact finding committee has not made their report to the governor, hut it is understood that a.- soon as the report is handed in, that a campaign will be launched w'th plans to follow it through the legislature, ' . .Haywood county is one (if the 70 counties in the state that filed claims against the state, for refunds of mon ey spent on road after the state had taken over the roar) 'sy.-t.em. .-- Hayyood 1 county entered a claim' of about j.'JOO,-000..- :- . ;. :.j The 79 counties entered claims amounting to over sixty million dol-! la-.'s. Wh'le it w as understood all ! along that the full amount would hardly be paid, it is the opinion of Chairman Elliott that the net amount will represent about 15 per cent of the claims entered by" the respective countief. This will be the average, he explained. It is understood that Haywood has preferred cla'ms total ing about fifty thousand dollars, which would likly get first preference over a lot of claims presented by other counties. " Those in charge of the campaign are optimistic over the counties getting refunds, due to the fait that the state borrowed 18 million? from the counties for the road bu'lding pro gram, and that all of this will have been paid back by the end of 1 937. ' Those in charge of the campaign feel that the funds due the counties could ! be paid from the general highway1 funds, which are derived from the sale of license tags and the tax on gasoline. The claims of the counties, they say, could be pa'd back without crippling in the least the program of construction and maintenance. Mrs. W L. Hardin left on Wednes day for Washington, D. C., where she will join Mr. Hardin. They will re main in iWash'ngton during this ses sion of Congress. D. Reeves Noland Re-Appointed To Agriculture Board Governor Hoey Names Mr. No land To Serve Four-Year Term ; This Is Third Term D. Reeves Noland was appointed last week hy Governor Clyde Hoey. and approved by the state senate. I'm a four-year term as a member ol the state board of agriculture. This will give Mr. Noland a total of 12 yearK as a member of the board, ns he w'H have served eight on the 22nd of this May. It is interesting to note that his appointment for the new term begin on the 22nd of May, which so happens to be Mr. Noland' birthday. He will leave here Thursday after, noon for Raleigh, where the board ! will confer with the new commissioner of agriculture, W. Kerr Scott. Mr. Noland is a fanner of the Fines ('reek section, a representative 'of the Federal Iind Hank of -..Columbia, in charge of this district, and vice presi dent of the I li st National link. I J.E. Swayjitfini, cSS, Buried Monday At Grabtree Church One of Haywood's Oldest Con federate Veterans, Passes In Virginia ' Funeral services were conducted on .Monday afternoon at one o'clock at liie Rati .iff Cove' Methodist chur h, for James Ervin Swayngiin, HS, Con federate veteran, who (lied Saturday morning at the home of his son, Joe M. Swayngim, at Hilton Vjilage, Va., whom he wag visiting. The Rev W. A. Rolling and the Rev. H. I), Jestup offioiated. Bupial was at Parker's Chapel, on Crabtree. Active pallbearers were: James, J. W., Paul, and bam fewayngim, Rowe Haney, and Eugene Cooper, giand son and great grandsons of Mf. Swayngim, Honorary palllK'arers were: Dr. Tom Stringficld, Dr. Sam Strinfield, Elmer Bjyson, Ed IlatclifT, Robert Welch, J. C. Welch, Mark Galloway, Dock Turpin, Harry Evans, A. C. Ar rington, C. C. Francis, C. F. Kirkpat rick, L. McCracken, Theodore Mc Cracken, Tom Rogers, Roy Rogers, Albert Abel, David Turner, Hub Turn er, and R. G. Underwood. Mr. Swayngim was a native of Hay wood county and was born December the. 14, 1848. ; He served in the Confederate Army, with a record for courage and bra v ery. He was a member of the pen sion board of Haywood ;ounty and wa$ one of the oldest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in this section. family belonged to thp pioneers of Western Carolina. He was a descendant of the Swayngims who originally settled in Maryland. Surviving are fix sons: W. T. Swayngim, of Asheville, Sam Swayn gim, of Savannah, Okla., J, B. Swayn gim. of Waynesville, Charles Swayngim, of Candler, Joe M. Swayn gim, of Hilton Village, Va., and . J. Weaver Swayngim, of Cowarts; one brother, W. H. Swayngim, of Clyde; 26 grandchildren and 34 great grand children. Mrs; Grady Clayton, of Addie, w:as the guet on Friday of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James R. Boyd. The thirty-fifth annual meeting of tht, stockholder of the First National Hank, of Waynesville, was held on Tuesday morning, with T. L. Gwyn serving as chairman and L. N. Davia as secretary. The annual report of the cashier, J. H. Way, Jr., was most gratifying, showing the best year for the institu tion since 1920. According to the re port, the deposits totaled $70,000 more than at the same date last year. The following officers were re-elected to sucteod themselves: President, J. R. Boyd; vice president, D. Reeves' Noland; rathior, J. II. Way, Jr., and assistant cashier, J. G. Noland. Fleeted to serve as directors for he coming year are: James R. Uoyd, M. M. Noland, J. II. Way. Jr., 1). Reeves Noland, and J. (. Noland. Th(, First National Hank was or ganized in 1002 and since it tiist year (f business has been recogr.i.ed in hanking circles as an institution of sound management. It was one of the few banks in Western Carolina to" t-urvivo the financial storms of 1029-30, and it has held the continued support and confidence of the people of Hay wood county during its thirty-five years of business. Rotarians Hear Rev. W. A. Rollins Rev. W. A. RollinFp'csiding elder of the Waynesville (hstiiet of the M tbodist church, discussed for the. Rotary' Club last Friday the princi pal -religions of the World, : Rev. M r. Rollins out lined t ori ma jor :-ligiins: and discussed I him, and their etfect upon the world. FIFTH LECTT'KE' WILL HE ;i EN AT ST. JOHN'S The fif:h in a series of lectures on the Ten Commandments will lie given on Thursday nipht at 7;30 by Father i;.icette, of West Asheville, a former pastor of Waynesviile. The mbject of his talk will be "Parental and State Authority." The guest soloist will be Miss Eva I.oathcrwoyid. Mrs. Evander Preston will he at the organ. The sei vices will consist of seirnon, pray ers, singing, and questions' and an swers, followed by Benediction' of the Ulcsed Sa rament. All are invited. I"0 KEEP THE FARMERS UOISC. Kaying the farmer's income has returned to iV pre-war parity with in banc incomes And declaring he will seek to maintain that relationship, Secretary Wallace last week outlined a 10-point program foe keeping Ameri a's ,'10,000.000 farmers on an equal footing with business and in dustry. A PIONEER IN AVIATION One of the most widely known f.. uvejs in American' aviation is Juan Trippe, president' of Pan American Airways, oji whom the Chinese Gov ernment lan week conferred the order of Brilliant Jade for his part in span ning the Pacific w'th fat-flying Clipper ships. Mr. Trippe got his first tap te of flying in the navy dur ing the World War. After which ho finished a broken-off course at, Yale and then tried banking. But he was soon back in aviation as president and often pilot and mechanic of Long Island Airways. Later he or ganized Colonial Airways connecting Boston and New York. In 1928 with Cornelius Vandirb'lt and others, he organized Pan American Airways, which today touches forty lands and is working with Britw-h aviation inter ests on plans for transjitlantie ser vice.'1 WORRIED BY STAMP COLLEC- '-:..-:; TORS ; -. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hathway, rul ers of Sark Island, in the Englsh Channel, revealed last week that their most vexatious problem the phil atelist. Their domain, "the only feudal state in the British Empire," has no jobless, no crime, and no in come tax. Stamp ollectors, how-, ever, are always requesting speci meiv from Sark, thinking they have special ones, when they use only the , rPcfir w .,,, r itth. J way is a native of East Orang", N. J., and by hi marrrage acquired sov ereignty rights over Sark. The Weather Max. 48 f4 63 69 ;, 68 63 59 Min. 4) rt 4i :V 4H WeJr.erday Thursday FViday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday