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Wayne sville Mountaineer H Published In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park HTHIRD YEAR No. 7 WAYNESVILLE. X. C. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 25, 1937 $1.00 IN ADVANCE IN COUNTY ection Meeting OfC. Of C.Will Be Held Tonight Directors Will Be Elected. Tin Officers Will Make Annual Report foe annual election nreuuK " " r f fvmmerce will be held fcrsday evening at the court house 1"S0 IinUHl rcpviw Ui c"i- i vrtil be made at that time, it was r.n, H,l bv President Chas. E. iv. Jr.. yesterday FThis meeting I nursuay evening is Vital impOIta"- v..... - community," Mr. Kay saiu, "u i .-h..n h mnKp pverv pnuri i rhe scheduled program iur uie ,.,- falls, for a short presidential Lenient from Mr. Ray. the 'report of the treasurer, w. ;Mt Massie. j pa!e Stentz will give his report secretary of the organization. 11 be supplemented bv a pert from' Ernest L. Withers, who ivel as secretin y jiuhi umiuaij il June. And M. H. Bowles will lie a report for the time he was the oflkt from June until Sep- 'tlr. Stentz is now full-time secre tin, and this is the first time in a ntmbcr of years that the organization fife had a "full-time secretary. Ernest L. Withers will make the iurt-of the nominating committee, ..fK-h consists oj -Mteen names, ana 'Am that list ten will be elected as Jtctors. Mr. Ray also announced additional nominations will, be IcntpH from the floor. JThe recommendations of the nom- itinir committee are as follows: itcn Colkitt. L. M. Richeson, Ralph fvnst. "Harry Lee Liner, j. Earl jruson, John Earl Barr, W. ch. Massie. James Atkins, Jr., las. L. Kay, Jr. M. H. Bowles, .! -Watkins. Dr. S. P. Gav. Is Burgin, Dr. R. H. Stretcher, and I W. Woodward. ftoting. will be done by ballot. k se have been printed. Ue Boyd Bound To Court In The Parton Death Case M Hill Scjhool Principal Waiv ed Hearing Before Magis trate Atkinson Saturday yule. Boyd, Brincinal of the Rock P School, waived a hearing before fgistrate (j. a. Atkinson here Satur in connection with the death of txr Parton, 21, of Jonathan's Creek, lo was fatally wounded while near ? barn of Boyd on February 9th. yd was bound over to Superior fart, under the nrevailine $5,000 Cnvestigatintr officers said that Par. i had gone to Boyd's bam, and nle there wa shot by a gun from p. inside of the barn. The investi ng -officers."- said further that no e was piv sent at the barn at the n of the shooting. P load hit Parton in his hand and ji v rta,L itjo laici .11 I Haywood County Hospital. ome Ilvdene Cer tificates Given To 13 Women Here n Vdm.s,iay William Medford -Md certificates to 13 women Jiave completed a 30-hour modi- ,Ur in Home Hygiene and ,L . e Sick Sive through the tal Red Cross and the local iv,ne chapter of the Red Cross, ne class wa taught by Miss Harte w, county pUblic health nurse, jectives of the course are the teach-L:- fi:an)iness, Sanitation, and a ?Ti kn wl,Hp home care of j, ac,,rding to a physician's ose rcdvir certificates were; ta ;Andorv Althea Biddix. Tilda ne ArringOT,; Martha h - Hatt5e Faulkner, Mao i AnW Unnin?' Lucy Led- Lethl rCer' A,anda Unler PprtrV ;Var!-en and Mary West It01 Presented the l the Cov Creek commn a'C 'V? completed the same 'en Skies Passes Awayln Arizona aSs f xenJ ved here by 1 W hnlfl!1I?-r,?kies. f the death 1 . nusoand. Glen sn e t.. F- Mr"l- occurred n last Fri JLh SkcAs.has ften. visited here frlce RT ' c former misa StrinBT7;,"1606 of Mrs. James m .Caroline Alsteat- u&n a. Love. 5 Bills Introduced In Legislature By Rep. John Cabe Board Of Commissioners Would Be Reduced To Three Mem bers; Salary Also Cut Among five bills recently introduced in the legislature by Representative John Cabe, includes a change in the board of commissioners, whi.h will re duce the number from seven to three members after the next election, and sets the rate of pay at five dollars a day for each day they meet, instead of the present salary of $500 a year. The commissioner bill reads as fol lows: That chapter one hundred and twen ty of the Public-Local laws of 19:?.r be and the same is hereby repealed. "That in the year H:i8, and biennial ly thereafter, in the same manner and at the same time provided for tin nomination and election of other coun ty officers, there shall be nominated and elected by the qualified voters of Haywood County three persons who shall constitute the Board of County Commissioners of said county. The said commissioners shall receive five dollars per day for each day in which they are in session. "That all laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the prjisions of this act are hereby repealed." Another bil.l of interest, is restor ing the absentee ballot in the county, for county officers. That hill reads: "Section 1. That chapter two hun dred twenty-three of the Public l,aw.s of 1935 entitled ' An act to repeal the the absentee ballot law of Haywood County,' be, and the same is hereby repealed, it being the purpose and in tent xf this act to repeal said chapter two hundred twenty-three and to place- the control of the absentee bal lot under the supervision of the state wide Election Law." A third bill is that of creating a board of municipal elections for the town 'of Canton. That bill in part, reads: "A bill to be entitled an act to amend chapter 131 private laws of one thousand nine hundred and thirty five creating a board of municipal elections for the Town of Canton, That Section 6, Chapter 131, Private Laws of one. thousand nine hundred and thirty-five," be amended by strik ing out in lines four and five thereof, the words 'and any Municipal Elec tion thereafter.' Representative Cabe also introduced a bill abolishing the office of deputy constable in Waynesville Township. Another bill affecting Waynesville, was, ''That chapter three of the pri vate laws of 1933 providing for the sale of pulp timber on the watershed of the town of Waynesville, be and the same is hereby repealed." The bill introduced by Mr. Cabe which reduced the salaries of the town board of aldermen and mayor, has been ratified. David Stentz Wins DM: R. Medal David Stentz and "Gordon ' Hendricks won first and second prize in the 29th annual declamation contest sponsored by the Dorcas Bell Love Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revo lution, for the boys of the township high school, which was hold on Mon day morning in the school auditorium. Mrs. J Mi Long, vice regent, presid ed, and Mrs. J. Harden Howell, chap, ter chairman of patriotic education, was in charge of the propram, Dr. R. P. Walker, pastor of the Presby terian church, offered the opening prayer. A gold medal from the chapter, the first prize, was presented to David Stentz, and a silver dollar, the second prize, donated by Mrs. James W. Kil lian, was presented, to Gordon Hen dricks by Mrs. Howell, who also read a list of the, 28 winners of the medal. The boys taking part and the de clamations were as follows: Kenneth Palmer, who delivered a selection from President Roosevelt's inaugural address; Ruf us Jackson, "The Con stitutional Convention;" Hugh Palmer, "The Challenge of Crime;" James Leather-wood, "Free Columbia;" Rob. ert Cope, "The Bible of Democracy;" Joe Johnson, ''Ropes;" Sam Queen, "Eulogy of Washington;" Joe Davis, "The Soul of the American Soldier;" Gordon Hendricks, "Supposed Speech of John Adams;" and David Stentz, "The New South." SOCIAL DISEASE CONTROL WILL BE STUDIED WED. ' Jack Messer, county superintendent of education, has announced a confer ence on social disease control, which will be held on Wednesday, March the 3rd, in the Central Elementary School, at 3 o'clock. All teachers of science, health and public health workers, mothers and all persons interested in public health work are urged to attend. The conference is being sponsored by the state department of health and education. Survey Reveals People Favor Instead Of Present Methods A general survey completed this week, shows that the trend in Hay wood county favors a liquor store in preference to the present system of handling liquor. N'o less than 100 people were ap proached on the subject, and a large percentage of the cases, they favored the liquor store system as provided for in a bill just passed by the legis lature than to the present bootleg methods. "It is a question of control, and not a question of wet and dry," said one man who is a staunch dry and asked that his name not be mentioned. "I do mt use liquor in any form, and hardly knew what it tastes like, but I have been a close observer, and honestly believe that the opening of a l'q ;o- stove would do more to con trol iiquor than, anything else." Am-, lie: staunch dry made, the re mark that the people' were no longei in sympathy with tin- prohibition law. and 'as long as that situation ex isted there could Ik1 no satisfactory control under present laws. Seveial pastors, and leaders in the churches, have expressed themselves as favoring a liquor store, provided E. J. Duckett Named I Plant Engineer At Sylva P. Board Mill E. J. Duckett, who has been plant engineer at the Western Carolina Teachers College for the past four years, has recently accepted a similar position with the Paper Hoard Mill, of Sylva. Mrs. Duckett who has been matron of the Reuben Robertson build ing at the college, has also resigned. Mr. and Mrs. Duckett are now re siding in Sylva, where they have pur chased a home from Dr. Cirover C. Wilkes. Mr. Duckett is the son af Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Duckett, of Waynesville. He is a graduate of State College, and prior to his work at the college at Cullowhee, - was plant engineer of a state institution in eastern Carolina, for two years following his gradua tion. Turbyfill Bound To Court For Robbery John Turbyfill was bound over to Superior Court, under a $1,000 bond, by Mayor J. H. Way, Jr., Tuesday, in mayor's court, charged with break ing into The Tavern, on Main street. The Tavern, owned by Sam Jones, was entered Sunday night, and all sil ver change stolen. Entrance was made by prizing open the rear door. The robbery was discovered at seven o'clock Monday morning, and at 8:30 Policeman Lloyd Phillies had arrested Turbyfill. Dr. John H. Smathers, Jr., who has been located1 in Chicago for the past year or more, is in town with his parents. Dr. and Mrs. J. II. Smathers, IN WASHINGTON (By Senator Robert R. Reynold.) The next four months may prove to be one of the most eventful periods in the Seventy-fifth Congress. The legislation passed and the issues rais ed will certainly have a sweeping ef fect on the whole functioning f the Federal Government. Few can pre dict anywhere near accurately what that effect will be. Will the President's Supreme Conrt plan pass through opposition which, to say the least, is formidable? Will reorganization of the executive branch of the government, as recommended by the President, withstand objections raised or will it survive? Will the new farm proposals solve agricultural ills in the way opponents claim? Will the new President's ideas for relief funds prevail or will the bloc seek ing larger amounts win out? Let me hasten to say that I -an-rot answer those questions. Weeks of committee studies, bearings, pnblic sentiment and many othQr factors enter into the situation and must be consafered before the answers are found, - However, it may be said that the individual members of CongrRi perhaps as never before, appreciate the grave significance of the ques tions and "behind the scenes" in the quiet of offices and committee room? are giving all facts studied attention. At the moment the Supreme Cout proposal is far aid away ahead of a'A (Continued on page 5) What s Going On Majority Of Liquor Stores all beer and wine be sold from the same store. They said in part: "We would prefer to have all beer, wine anil liquor sold from one store, under strL-t supervision, and during certain hours and for six days a week, rather than the present methods." Included in the survey were officers, both present and past. They were unanimous in their views, in that tin public would not support them in en forcing the law. and many times made it extremely hard on them for trying to enforce the present prohibi tion law. One officer said: "Too many r,..r,l ,nt ,L ,u.. r.!.. abide by the law to the letter, but to When Rev. Mr. Dallas arrives, the overlook them when they violate it." j services will be held twice daily. At One man, who frankly admitted he ten in the morning and at 7:45 at bought liquor often, said that mini- night. erous times he has had bootleggers I ... ,, . . , , , approach him and use every Tales 1r- Uil!kt1' hi,t method to disnose of their stock. This ,a as T . (" lbv f"" same man pidnted out that ho knew i Pf hers he knew and that he wa. of instances where such methods were ' conh.d,,' nal """'d bring messag- iwe-l on voumr neoi.le. He strone-lv ' favors the liquor stores. Another person quest iom-d, t-aid that under no circumstances would ini-y lavor a uquvi siure, wcausi- i ( Continued on Back Page) Local Scouts Get Promotions By The Court Of Honor A ('our, of Honor was held in the court, house on Monday night for the Waynesville troop xf the Hoy Scouts, with William Medford, presiding. A large number of parents and friends of the scouts were present. O'thers taking part" in the ceremo nies were: W. D. Smith, Dr. S. P Gay, irfi-mbers of the court of honor, A. W. Allen, of Ashcvillo, scout execu tive of the Daniel Boone Council, M. H. Bowles, and Lelloy Davis of the troop committee, J. C. Brown, scour master, and C. E. Weatherby. assist ant scout master, and from the dis trict organization, Ben Colkitt, Dan Watkins, and Ralph Prevost, Advanced fnm tenderfoot to sec ond' class scouts were: Jimmie Dtcus, Kenneth Wright, Rufus Jackson, Rob ert Lowry Ix-e, Edward Mclvoi ie, Tom-, mie Davis, Joe Tate, Kyron Marsh, Wilson Melford, Bill Toy, lloward Rollins, Dean Ix-dford, Jack Shehan, and Paul Walker. Advanced from second class to fu st lass scouts were: Henry Foy and Ralph Sease. The following were awarded merit badgesj William McCracken, two awaits, pathfinding and swimming; Joe Way, three awards, pathrtnlingj bkbinding and public heakh; ' Bell Colkitt, ' five awards, aulomobiling, safety, txtiles, first aid to animals, ami music; Ralph Sease, two awards, carpentry and woiHlwork; Jack Rich eson. seven awards, public health, personal health, swimming, life sav ing, reading, safety and pathfinding. The following were advnneed in rank: Ken Colkitt to Junior Scout Master; Jack Richeson, to Senior patrol leader;" .Henry Foy and K'nneth Wright, patrol leaders, and Joe Davis 'as 'troop scribe. In Our IN RALEIGH (By Dan Tompkins.) North Carolina, officially dry, by vote of the people, since Jan. 1, 1008, is no longer a dry state, but has gone back to local option, the status privr to 1908, by vote of the General As sembly. Any county whose voters de sire can establish ABC liquor': stores. Any citizen can transport from one county, to another as much as 1 gal lon of liquor, upon which the tax has been paid. And the wine and beer up to 21 per cent by weight are left for sale in the places where they are now sold. So, North Carolina is no longer dry, either officially or act ually. ,: One of the greatest demonstrations of oratory that the present session of the General Assembly has seen was that displayed when the liquor con trol bill was being considered in the Senate, The prohibitionists put up a fignt; but every one of them knew, as well as they know now, that not a single vote would be changed either way by the speech-making. The two amendments offered that were voted down, that are . considered of the greatest importance were the one to make the bill operative only after it had been submitted to .a referendum of the people of the whole state; anf the one offered by Mrs. McKee, which would have taken all alcoholic bever ages above 3.2 from the cafes and other places of sale and placed them in the liquor stores. She asked, when (Continued on page 3) Capitals Presbyterian Revival Begins Tonight At 7:45 Rev. E. A. Dallas, Of Georgia, Engaged To Conduct Services For One Week Revival services will begin at the Presbyterian church hen- tonight at 7:45. with the Rev. J. A. Klannagan, ' of Franklin, prea.-hing. On Friday ! night at the same hour, the Rev i Coorge Hammond, of Canton, will I bring the mesage. Saturday the Rev. A. K. Dalkus, (,l i La Orange, Oa. will arrive and con duct the services until the close of i the series of meetings which will 1h j Friday, March 5th, according to th P"sioi , nr. n. r. nauer. . gieai iiiiercsi 10 tnis eoiumuniiy Jcev. A. r,. Imllas is a young min ister of great charm and ability. He graduated 1920 in Kentucky Theolo- m"V Siimillnl-v I miisvi li W U .u pastor for several years in Korkmc.- ham, N. ('., and has Ik-en. nastor in La Orange lli years. He has u wife and two boys. They spent a month in the summer of in Wiaynesvi'.le, dur- j ing wnu-n lime nis aged latlier. a 1'resDyterian minister from Scotland, visited here. Dr. Dallas also preach ed here wheii he was a Commissioner to the General Assembly in .Montreal. Cabe Takes Floor In Behalf Of His C. Library Bill c..." II i7-n 4 ",rn,i mm ' Says He Will Appoint Three Men, For Aldermen If None Ilun Because Of Low Salary According to Raleigh visitors, resentative John (be took the floor of the House last week after he had introduced a bill which would abolish' the court library $1 fee now.'; charged each person convicted in Haywood county. A numler of law yers, and citizens, wrote Mrs. McKee I in the Senate to hob un the bill for a hearing. Then it was. it was .s.-.i' that Mr. fabe took the floor and dur ing his remarks said: "The only thing in that .ourt libra ry is a telephone book and an almanac. It is not doing anyone but the law yers' any good. And one Monday morning when the jail doors wvi opened, 5 lawyers' walked' out.". It was learned that Mr. Cabe is deterinimd t0 abnlish the law - whit-l, has bt-cn'in effe-t since IWV.l. On the same nay he took the !loor on the court library.- bill, he arose again n-gaiding his Waynesville -watershed bill, whith wd! prohibit the sale of pulp timber from it. He re marked that this was the best, water shed in Eastern America. His re marks brought forth favorable com ment fi'nn -.other representatives who have visited here. "I do not want to s-e the timber cut off, and fire get started on the water.- hod that furnishes the best wa ter in, the world," he told the House. When questioned about the bill whinii cut the salaries of the' Way. nesvilie board of aldermen, effective after the May election, he said: "That a law will not hurt anyone how, and those who do not want to run for the office because, of the low salary don't have to run, and furthemore, if nobody will run, I'll appoint three good men to Wl the place." Mr. Cabe is still working on .plans to get liquor stores in Haywofvl with out the matter going to --a' vote of the people. To date, however, he has not Present indication are that the leg islature will adjourn about the ,15th of March. Mr. Cabe is not expected to come home before the adjournment. Industrial Class To Stage Exhibit The industrial classes of the high school will stage an, exhibit of their work on Thursday evening, beginning at eight o'clock, it was announced by Owen Corwin, instructor yesterday. In connection with the exhibit, thero will be a show staged by Cliff Carl isle, and his rambling cowboys, it was an nounced. A small admission will b charged. Lenten Lectures Will Be Continued At 7:15 Tonight The third in a series of Lenten lec tures will be given on Thursday night at 7:45 by Father Federal, of Swan nanoa. The subject of his talk will be "The Scourging at the Pillar." Mrs. Jos, Liner will be the guest soloist accompanied by Mrs, Evander Pres ton at the organ. Three Young Men Killed When Train Strikes Automobile Coroner's Jury Returns Verdict Warning Driver Of Car With Accident An accident, termed "negligence on the part of the driver," by a coroner's jury, cost three young Haywood coun ty men their lives late Sunday after noon, when their automobile crashed1 into a westbound passenger train at a grade crossing at the Clyde city limits. Harry Chambers, L'5, of Clyde, and Verlin Talmadge Leopard. 22. of Rat cliff Cove, died instantly, and Sam Hugh Garrett, 24, of Jonathan's Creek, died en route to the Haywood County Hospital. The car was approa hiitg Highway No. 19. coming out of the Hayne. Coe Road. The crossing is just be hind the home of Dr. A. C. Downs. Those getting to the scene within a few minutes after the accident, found where the wheels of the car skidded for a few feet and then rolled on. Just what happened, or what went wrong n one knows, i The loeomotivc hit the car, which I was a Ford touring, just behind the j front wheel, throwing the occupants , into the air. I Chainln-rs evidently was sitting on 1 the outside, because he was crushed beyond recognition, 'the- other two were cut and bad'y mangled. It is thought that Garrett was ..driving. The ear U'longed to Garrett. At (In- coror.er's inquest Tuesday morning, the jury questioned six wit . iit-sses, and was i-onducted by Dr. J. R. Westmoreland, coroner. The- inquest; lasted only 45 minutes. R. F. Oline, engineer, told that he 'til not witness- Hie ar-eident, but blew the usual crossing signals. He was going about 1(1 miles an hour when In got to the crossing, he .said. The .car approached the train .from ttK I left side, and L. IL Ixuithei woinl, fire I man, said the car anproarhed the i i.iuvi;im; rtmiiH mo linii- ail nour. lie signaxvi r;ngmeer t line, who applied the brakes immediately. Both the fireman and engineer said the train could plainly In- ,s-n for about 300 feet on apju-oac.hing the crossing, from either side. The third membr of -tJie ttain ! Tew' (onductor Thomas Wakefield. took the stand. lie testified that he was in the baggage car at the time, and knew nothing of the circumstan ces of the accident, other that) he fell the brakes applied and the impact. Immediately after the impart, he said he saw objects flying by the window. Conductor Wakefield has st en IS years fervice alul Engineer Chile 50 yenr--. Besides Fireman Leathei-wond, ' there we -e two eye witrursses to the accident. Judith Scntelle, a 17-year-old gn l, and Shirley Moom y. Miss Sentelle said she saw the j men pass nei ntniK' gi inir - lio t he mhmI ami in a r..i ,n tites saw them return, driving about .').r miles an hour. She heard the train, and realizing that at the speed they were- going that the car might hit the train, she called to them, but they fa - d to bear her, and went on. She tuii.c'd her head to avoid seeing the at ! .ia! nonact. she told the jury. Shn.'ey M '). -, also saw the ear speeding towards the crossing, and remarked th;,l. it looked- as if th" ear would get hit .li'esjs it slowed lowu. The speed wa-: not changed, he said. He was the f. i st ! arrive at the sct-rc. besides; the train crew. He and George Hayru s twik Garrett in a car to the hospital, Garrett died when (Continued on back page) - n . T JCotarianS Hear Asheville Editor Charles K, Robinson, -di-or of The Asheville Timet;, discussed loth sides of the proposed changes in the Su preme Court before the' .-Waynesville Rotary Club here jast week. Mr. Robinson gave facts that were outstanding for both sides of the question, and did not try to influence his audience either way. He said he believed the question would be car ried to the people: for a final decision. Dr. Thomas Stringfield was welcom ed as a new member into the cluij. Visitors were R. L. Prevost and C. X. Allen, of Hazejwood, and Fred Sloan, of Franklin. The local club Voted to' support Guy Huock, of Franklin, for district. gov ernor at the coming district meeting in Columbia. TO BUILD HOME IN THE BELLE MEADE SECTION Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Colkitt have completed plans for building a home in the Belle Meade section, it was learned yesterday. The home will represent an expendi tuer of approximately $5,000.
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