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Fhe Waynesville Mountaineer Published In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park TH1RDYEAR NO. 12 WAYNESVILLE, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1937 $1.00 IN ADVANCE IN COUNTY Jans Underway To Get Immediate ction On Park And Parkway Lentatives From W. N, C. I' S - i rA Anil Work Out ueians ntf there has been a genera! lwn" on action to get construe- ctted on mis enu w s Parkway, the committee of the &r of Commerce on Park mat- 'rman. have been active m con- ting offifi"" 1,1 Kelu,1 -iKlv umierwaj. Jf the first moves, has been -the line f Kitting a co-ordinat-committee organized to carry for i the vast amount of work that ft be done to tret construction start- on the i'aiKway anil oiner ram fjif plan? are similar 10 uiose ui ,,Fal years ago, Wll-n lepresraw i'from Bryson City, Sylva. Way- ville, Cant. .ii. Asheville. Henaer- Iviile. ana iienu tuinpsiug hrnittee. hie f urn.-, ion of the committee, ac idic to Mr. Ray. would be "to rmbe and correlate an perunein. Lrmation; to establish policies; and ee through our congressmen, sen rsand reprc sentatives-at-large and ere, to prosecute our objectives h ail possible vigor." Ir. Ray went on to say: "The time come when the communities most Illy interested in the development the Park and trie construction oi Parkway, must go after these. t& such as tney nave never none : . I ; was learned here this week, m l action with the Parkway, that j (traction of the highway from I A Camp Gap to Flatt Creek I mot be started this spring, because -I he recent action of the Cherokees. ' Had the Cherokees consented to nt the right-of-way 'for the Park- from Soco Gap to Cherokee, it I nderstood that construction of the ft Creek highway would have Deen ted this spring. This leaves the whole thing in thin md.it is time for definite action. Ray continued. there have been some rummors here It the Parkway would not follow the final route, after leaving Bun- kbe county, as approved by Secre- ty of Interior Ickes several years The approved route calls for Parkway to cross the French pd River neary Skyland, go up the (fan range along the Haywood "ierson county line, and follow the p on the Haywood-Transylvania nty line to Wagonroad Gap, and a around by Uckstone and over to sm and then to Soco Gap. was learned that citizens from se counties discussed the matter Mr. Ickes reeentlv. and he as- ,pi them that no chanM would be & ill the approved route. NAMED LAKE TRUSTEE ... .v Hoey Being Urged j Last Rites Held On To Name Miller On I Tuesday Afternoon The Highway Com.; For P. E. Hyatt, 83 Re-Appointment Of Frank W, Leading Farmer In County For Miller Being Urged By j Many Years, Passed Away On Haywood Friends Monday Afternoon Dr. V. P. Few. Last week Dr. Few was named trus tee of the Southern Assembly. Lake Junaluska. He fills the vacancy made by the death of Bishop Mouzon. Dr. Few Named Trustee Of Lake Dr. W. IV Few, president of Duke University, was named trustee of the Methodist Assembly at Lake Junalus ka to fill the vacancy made by the death of Bishop A. J. Mouzon. Dr. W. A. Lambeth and Bishop Paul B. Kern, together with Dr. Few were here this past week in conference with local people regarding the coming sea son at the lake. While here the papers were recorded at the court house regarding the ap pointment of Dr. Few as a trustee. J. R. Morgan handled the legal work for the trustees. C. Of C. Board Adopts Budget Calling For $3,000 Details To Be Made Next Week. Board Endorses Miller For Highway Commission Citizens of Haywood county are urging Governor Clyde R. Hoey to re-name Frank W. Miller as a mem ber of the State Highway commission. Until Monday, it was not known whether Mr. Miller would consider the place for another term, but after be ing approached by a number of friends, he said he would accept the place, but was not going to make any personal campaign for it. On these grounds, hi-s many friends here, start ed in early Monday to contact the Governor to re-appoint Mr. Miller. It is understood here that prac tically every county in Western North Carolina has a candidate for the com mission. The appointments are scheduled to be made within the next month, it was said. One of Mr. Miller's staunchest sup porters said that it would be to the advantage of Western North Carolina to have Mr. Miller back on the com mission, as he had both the. time and the thorough knowledge of mmded roads in this area. "Mr. Miller is the man who first conceived the idea of the Blue Ridge Parkway, and he is also one of the few men who have been over every foot of the route. Right at this time, when there seems to be a let-down on the Parkway activities as-to the end of the route, it seems most important that Mr. Miller be a member of the commission to see that necessary ac- ' tion is taken to keep the project mov ing, and construction started," said one of Mr. Miller's friends Monday. Governor Khringhaus appointed Mr. Miller to the highwav commission in r.:i:s. Cabe's Waynesville-Beaverdam Liquor Bill Enacted Into Law BUYS MAIN ST. BUILDING Dr. Coltrane To Address Seniors Of Bethel School 29 Bethel Students To Receive Their Diplomas On Friday Night Funeral services were held on Tues day afternoon from the residence of his son, . A. Hyatt, on the Fairviow Road, for Pinkney Ftheringham Hyatt, M, who died on Monday after noon at his son's home at ti:30 o'clock. The Rev. R. S. Truesdale. pastor of the First Methodist church officiated. Burial was in Green Hill cemetery. Active pallbearers were grandsons of Mr. Hyatt as follows: Arthur, David, Howard. Clarence, Walter, Jr., and Franklin Hyatt, Jr. Honorary pallbearers were: V. T. Lee, J. C. Welch. George Plott, Lester Burgin, T. L. Branilctt. K. L. Withers, W. M. Kvans, J. 1 StringtieUl. Dr. S. L. Stringtiehl, lr. Tom String tielci, WeSs Patton, Hock Turpin, C. N. Allen, John Mot 'lure, and Uino Ar lington. Mr. Hyatt was the sen of the late Elisha Parker Hyatt and a great grandson of Kdward Hyatt, one of the early settlers uf Haywood county. He was born on the farm where he has always lived, on October the 22, ISM, and was for many years one of the leading farmers jn this section. In May, 1S73 he was married to Miss Margaret Jones, of the Mills River section of Henderson county. Their children have for many years been leaders in the civic, business, social and religious life of this com munity. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Margaret Jones Hvatt, five sons: W. A., Fi nest J.. and Harry H, Hyatt, all of Waynesville, Walter V. Hyatt, of WhitHer. Franklin 1, Hyatt, of Aslie viile and two .brothers, Robert K. Hyatt, and J. 1). Hyatt, of Waynes ville, 2'J grandchildren, and 3 great grandchildren. Among those from out of town at tending the funeral were; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hyatt, of Brevard, Clar ence Hyatt, student at Mars Hill, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hyatt and family, of Whittier, and from Asheville Mr. John Clement, Mr. and Mrs, Clarence Miller, and Mrs W. J. Htinnicutt. Original Bill Passed Senate And Ratified Monday Night. As sembly Adjourned Tues. One of the 1.200 new laws put on the statute books of North Carolina by the 1SW7 General Assembly, before adjourning Tuesday noon, was one by Hay wood's representative, which pro vides that an ABC liquor store can be established in Waynesville or Bea verdam townships, provided either of the townships east a majority vote for the store, regardless if the vote of the county. The bill was defeated twice in the Senate, but during the closing hours Monday night, the bill was brought up, and passed and ratified that night. .Senator F L. MeKee tabled the bill the first two times it went to the Sen ate. Representative Cabe was successful in getting another of his hills which had been tabled in the Senate re vived Mondav night, and ratified. That bill calls for the e'ection of a ourt v. k. i n win i;it Mr. Chandler is owner of (he ;i'v -eleiy (inn lirOnni: his name, which w 1 1 coon move in'o new ii. liters on Main street. Chandler Starting Work On Modern Jewelery Store Main Street Building Will Be Completely Renovated For Jewelery Firm Wins Hopkins Hos pital Promotes Dr. Julius C. Welch " a "Wt meeting of the board of ls of the Johns Hopkins Hospl- Balttmoro. Dr. Julius C. Welch 1 artrminvj a xi.- L ''s nouse oracer, on lire ptnc Sen-ice of the institution. ' assume his duties on July the p'"- L, Welfh His truinirior n-ntK py. Jewell oualifv ;, hi nrV Ft ii't,it31,inn' of such prestige. "wn received his education at Uffiimhio M;l;..- .i . n.i '"'""iy scnooi, oi vu P. Term., Seawanee, the Univer f of Wh Carolina, Leland and fiti!-en foincted with Frank- L""'')i -san Francisco, and the rhe is at the Isolation Hospital, magnolia gardens in m 4 Dl rcr.-.-fcT P5 following mall nn noHn mn- r hrWtn over the week-end p.. Magnolia Gardens: Mrs. il n';pa!Tick. Miss Robena Mil- fc h0 ; C w- J- Damteft na Heh-er, of Asheville. PRII. FIRST.'. . As previously announced, subscription price of Mountaineer will be ad- "ancfi on the First of April. cieTWals cre being ac S d at the old price, re in Sv? f exP5ration date, , - - ".-i vi April. The board of directors of the Cham ber of Commerce adopted a budget for the coming year Tuesday night which calls for an expenditure of ap proximately $3,000. The board adopted the budget upon recommendation of the executive com mittee, who had previously worked out the details. The budget was not ready for publication this week, but will be in next week's paper. President L. N. Davis discussed with the directors the committees for the coming year Due to a few slight additions, Mr. Davis is with holding the list until next week, at which time he will make the list public. The directors went on record as j favoring Frank .W. Miller for re-a p- i pointment as a member of the state j highway commission. A letter bear ing the names of all twelve directors will be forwarded to Governor Hoey this week. ' ' . ; Among other matters tinder discus-! sion, -was the date for the annual banquet. No definite date is announ- j ced. ':. ProeidcTiT Dan's will also name a committee this week to work out de tails of the banquet which will be given in honor of officials of the Pet Dairy Products Company. No date has been set for this banquet. . t Plans for some of the organization s work for the coming year were dis cussed at length. Dr. E. J. Coltrane, president of Bre vard College, will deliver the literary address in the commencement exer cises at Bethel high school Friday night, beginning at 7:30 o'clock. This will be the concluding item on the Bethel school program for the year 1936-37. At the end of his address, Mr. Col trane will present diplomas to the twenty-nine Bethel high school sen iors. Those graduating from Bethel high school this year follow- Ora Burnett, Glenn Chambers, David Edwards, Hugh Edwards, Hugh Frady, Joe Moore, Ralph Pless, Clarence Poston, J. B. Sharp, Henry Terrell, Kenneth Travis, Robert Welch, T. F. Wells, Ruth Burnett, Shirley Boyd, Effie Caldwell, Betty Sue Cathey, Mae Cook, Mary Lou Hardin, Virginia Hill, Florence Mease, Irene Mease, Hazel Mull, Mary Penland, Mary Phillips, Marie Powell, Berdine Rigdon, Eula Vance, Genevieve Warren, and Ned Clark. Clifton Caldwell, 33, Was Found Dead Miss Hilda Fisher has returned to Cullowhee, where she is attending the Western Carolina Teachers College. Funeral services were held at two o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, at the i Richland Chapel for Clifton Caldwell, j 33, who died sometime early Monday j morning. The Rev. Oscar Rhymer, j Baptist minister, officiated. Burial was in Green Hill cemetery. Pallbearers were: Sam Kelley, John Boyd, Lush Bramlett, Herman Martin, Dewey Patton, and Hurst Burgin. Mr. Caldwell was found dead by his wife .Monday morning when she went to call him to breakfast. The physician who attended the case stated that death was due to a heart attack, and that judging from the con dition of the body, he had been dead from four to six hours. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Oro Mathews Caldwell, his parents, Mr. and Mrs, William T. Caldwell, two sisters, Mrs. George Queen, of Fas'. Waynesville, and Mrs. Taylor McAbee, of Del) wood, and nine brothers, As bury, Harrison, Gilmer, James, Haus. ton, George, Clive, Vance, and Lawson. Work is scheduled to begin this week on remodeling a Main street j building for Chandler and Company, W. K. Chandler, owner of the.com- pany, stated that he had purchased the i building now occupied by the Service Shoe Shop, and would begin this week remodeling the two floors into a mod ern jewelery store. i Mr. Chandler said that plans call for an expenditure of about $1.(100 for remodeling. The store will be modern in every respect, he said. Special fixtures have been built, and were made special to order for the I store. The building fronts twenty-two and a ; E. P. Martin, of Waynesville, and i Mrs, Lyman Hidgdon, of Franklin, i The entire first fbmr will he devoted to the jewelery business, while modern apartments will !e built on the second floor. : j "Plans (all for a complete remod eling of the building, from the ground to a new roof," Mr. Chandler said, j The building f routs twenty-two and a half feet on .Main street. The pur ; chase price was not made public. I "With favorable weather, we plan to be in our new home -hy May first,'' he said. j The new place of business will en ! able the firm to carry a larger stock j of merchandise;.- which has already ( been purchased. Besides larger lines, : several additional lines will be added. ' The firm of Chandler and Company was opened here on October first on . Church street. A. W. McLaughlin will be in ( barge of the work. Brig. Gen. Barley B. Ferguson Credited With Saving Lower Mississippi alley from Flood Town Election Will Be Held On May 4th The town election will be held on Tuesday, May fourth, according to a formal announcement in today's paper. Roy R, Campbell has been named registrar, and W. J. Campbell and Henry Gaddy judges. To date no formal announcements have been made as to candidates. Several have indicated they would en ter the race, but none have announced. ATTEND FUNERAL SERVICES IN ABBEVILLE Among those attending the funeral in Asheville on Monday of Mrs. Bruce Gordon were, Mr. R. L. Prevost Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Bradley, Mrs. C. G. Plott, Mrs. Irving Leatherwood, anJ Mr; and Mrs. George A. Brown, Jr. New York Times Devotes Much Space To Work Of Former Haywood Man The following is in part an article which appeared in the Sunday edition of the New York Times, and will fee read with interest by the people of Haywood county and this section, as Brig. Gen. Harley B, Ferguson, is a native of Waynesville. He enjoys a wide family connection and has many friends here who have followed his engineering feats with both interest and pride: . , . " , . The 1937 Mississippi River flood is history.: The I river waters which wrought such devastation in the up per stretches of the gi-eat stream are pouring into the Gulf of Mexico in orderly cadence, The river gauges are falling all along the line. The Bonnet Carre spillway -which was built to protect the city of New Or leans is being closed. From Cairo to the Gulf not one main-line levee of the Mississippi River spilled a drop of water over its top. Official figures show that the Lower Valley never was in any real danger. These figures have just been compiled by the Mississippi River Commission staff of engineers, and checked by Brig. Gen. Harley B. Fer guson president of the commission. They indicate that New Orleans never was safer from river flood in the 220 years of its existence than it Was in 1937. (Nor was the Lower Valley.) The engineers' report shows that when the water had reached a crest ol 19.3 feet on the Carrollton (uptown) guage the levees protecting New Orleans still rose t5. 8 feet above the flood. The Bonnet Carre spillway twenty three miles above New Orleans, at its maximum discharged 218,000 cubic feet per second into Lake Pontchar train. When the spillway dicharges 60,000 cubic feet per second the gauge at Carrollton drops one foot. Thus the spillway kept the water at Car rollton three and a half feet lower than it might have been. But even if there had been no spillway, still there would have been 3.3 feet of levee untouched. And this flood was approximately equal to the historic "all-time" high of 1927. Now that it is passed, army engin eers have discovered that certain facta stand out conspicuously. The $300, 000,000 levee system built under the Jadwin plan not only stood the test without failure at any point, but show ed by the generous amount of free board on the levee that it is able to hold far greater floods. Further, it was demonstrated that the plan of (Continued on back page) Marie Smith, 17, Passes Away After IIlnessOf 10 Weeks Last rites were conducted on Sat urday afternoon at three o'clock at the home of her mother hear Hazel wood, following an illness if ten weeks. The services were conducted by a group of Jehovah's Witnesses from Asheville. Burial was in the family cemetery in the Fairview section. Miss' Smith was born on April the 4th, 1920 in Boyton, Fla.. and is the daughter of Mr. L. I. Smith, of Wash ington, D. C-, and Mrs. Smith of Hazelwood. She was a junior in the Waynesville Township High School. She had lived here since 1927. Surviving are her parents, one sis ter, Flora Mae, one brother, Allen, and her grandmother, Mrs. F. W. McLean. Clarence Garwood Buried Sixteenth Funeral services were conducted on Tuesday afternoon, March 16th, at the home for Clarence Garwood, 13, son of Mr. and Mrs. Shirley G. Gar wood, who died on Monday afternoon at the residence of his parents near Hazelwood. The Rev. W. M. Wood ard, pastor of the Baptist Church of Hazelwood, officiated. Burial was in Green Hill Cemetery. Surviving are his parents, three sis ters, Lillian, Betty Jane, and Mary Jo Garwood, and one brother, Ray; his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Bingham, and several aunts and uncles. solicitor for the Canton police at the Ma- town election. The 170 legislators were in session only 77 days. This was the shortest ses sion since 192!t. The 1937 legislature balanced the largest budget in the his- Itoiy of the state, legalized liquor, compiled With all phases of the social j security program and authorized free 'textbooks for children in the eleiiien- tarv schools. I A total of 1,804 bills were intro duced, and about 1.200 enacted into law. This session of the legislature i disposed of more work in a day than any other assembly in the history of ; the state. i Governor Clyde Hoey said he was f well pleased wi'h the session. Only I twice did the legislature fail to enact I legislation proposed by Governor i Hoey. One act was a measure on re apportionment of the -membership ol the house to' conform with the 1930 census, and the second was enacting into law a local option liquor measure allowing each county to vote on the question of legalizing liquor. The enacting of the liquor lnw, ! ended 28 years of state-wide prohibi tion. Another bill, which was new to. general assembly routine was the social security program, which is de signed to aid the indigent, blind, aged, and dependent at a cost of eight mil lion a year. This cost will be borne by the state, Federal government and counties. The legislature also enacted into law, a measure whereby a million and a half dollars Worth- of bonds will be sold to give elementary school chil dren free text books. A budget was adopted which calls for an expenditure of $147,000,000 for permanent improvements for the next two years. From nine necessities of life, the sales tax was taken. A $4-a-pump tax was levied on filling stations. The cost of automobile license tags were reduced from forty cents a hundred to thirty-five cents a hun dred. Behind teachers ;)nd state workers were given a 10 per cent, increase in salary. Slot, ' machine's were banned. Tattooing of 'Persons' under 21 years are prohibited. Two of t he state's most important commission the Highway and Public Works, and the education groups, were reorganized along lines recom mended by Governor iloey. The Highway commission will be comtiosed of 10 men and a chairman. all' appointed by the Governor, who j will divide the state into 10 highway districts. The school commission will be composed of a member from each congressional district, the -super, tendent'of public instruction, treas urer, and lieutenant governor. Among the bills ratified that were introduced by Representative Cabe. includes: Prohibiting shooting or sale of fire works. Reducing board of commisjoners from seven to three members, effective after expiration of present board. Reduction of salaries of Waynes ville aldermen and mayor. Repealing absentee ballot law. Increasing sheriff's salary $900 a year. Increasing tax collector's salary $200 a year. Making it . mandatory that two members of the hospital board be members of the minority party. Fixing the date of the fall term of court in order that it not conflih with court in Macon county. The bill abolishing penalties on de linquent taxes, if paid by January first, 1938, was not passed. Lou Gehrig Signs For $36,000 Instead Of $50,000 Lou Gehrig, New Tork Yankee first baseman holdout, has apreed to play this season for $36,000. He had been holding out for $50,000. He came to terms at the Yankee training camp in St. Petersburg.