North Carolina Newspapers

Waynesville Mountaineer liana the IITICAL iONTS rTsHITPING st developments m uic race of next June, was announcement that C. 'aping "i uieensuoio, out feelers before defi auncing 1 hat 'he would jate to oppose ReyViolds jcas,. riaieign puiim-aj irwpnt article, .had this i. jt Greensboro's possible j will bp remembered leal trade as the cam- l-iager ot Kaieign s jos- Mey's lirst successiui for United States Sen- and later as the Dem- ational tummitteeman i Carolina, who could President - Roosevelt's policies. ' bments this week indi- llr.Shuping, a man who siah William Bailey per Senator'- Furnifold Simmons so much in be the latter would not bred Emmanuel Smith lent in 1928. definitely a to run tor the Senate. its are that he will not A of the very interest if checkerboard politics played in this great us. Do mistake apout it, is really on for a real, nservative to get in flow so monopolized K Reynolds and Ilan- of them, are liber- pse that one spells the III capital "L." and the pocrats in the State for a man to get into that they can warm h when the time ar- PJane for the voters Never they may be e moment and trek ft N said that Mr. Shuping ur humble correspon liim well in the Sim- ?? contest in 1930, and w hini as Mr. Shup "e in his campaign 1 in the Bailey head tie mai! ivhn VinH nr. fuled the Democrats pf na with such an iron ''Bgue! Wrovyard in later we Di mnrraf if n t pittemariship from "". All lllta.onnoor. ,rv .-Pa i ted mitinan .: r;-,. it lot t in no uncertain terms ; muth opposed to Philo.H Dhies of the j3- ; : the . White raS and is Senator Hn Bail - Last year, the commit t voluntari have known rather lush iently. Since rather dor- He 5e n.u .:iu ; k hi did. ... tin f,- .1. J .. . - ""3 iui ucr 5,1 DlUl h f,. 41 .... Nd r usi Know L have especially k. nport in his hlT iH decide to CJ'1 move his po uT than it moved I ynold or Frank t0r that spirant i .e more the mer Lf.re.v'ho enter the 1 'Vlil to fill po . oenatnr r ,j. 3l L the State and lave s 'Political knittin., irt .Vd6 nmUst know that j& on ------, -, & Published In The FIFTY-THIRD YEAR No. Red Cross Roll Call To Begin In Town Today DINNER MEETING" HELD LAST NIGHT FOR WORKERS IN ANNUAL CAMPAIGN The Annual Roll Call ior the American Red Cross will start this morning, with workers lor the various streets and groups of the town well organized tor the drive for the 500 members, which the local chapter hopes to gain this year, Last night the workers held a dinner meeting in the banquet hall of the Welch Memorial Sun day School building of the Bap tist church, with L. N. Davis, lo cal Roll Call chairman presiding. Plans were completed for the three day drive which started to day. In place of Mrs. Tom Lee, Jr., who was to have served as chair man of the house to house can vas in the residential sections, Mrs. Richard N. Barber, Jr., will be in charge. Mrs. Barber has announced the following assis tants, Mrs. Bess Lee Page, Mis. Charles. Lee, Mrs. James W. Kil lian, Mrs. Tom Lee, Jr., Miss Hel en Ray, Miss Dollee Marsh, Mrs Felix Stovall, Mrs. Dan Watkins, Miss Tillie Rotha, Mrs. Jack Mes ser.and Mrs. Josephine Coman. Ferguson. Mrs. Whitener Provost and Mrs. Jerry Colkitt will have charge of the drive in Hazel wood. The Rev. J. E. Carper and Miss Stephanie Moore will seek memberships in Lake Junaluska. Jim Massie will have, charge of. the business and professional groups, with the following assist ing, Dr. S. P. Gay, Paul Martin, Hugh Massie, Dr. O. T. Alexander, and J. Dale Stent:. Soliciting among the industrial plants will be Bill Prevost, William Chambers and Rufus Gaddis. The following will work in the district schools as chairman, C. E. Weatherby, Township High School, R. E. Connaster, Crabtree High School, Mrs. Ray Burgin, Fines Creek, ' Miss Annie Dee Kirkpatrick, Central Elementary, Homer Henry, HazelwOod, Claude Rogers, East Waynesville, N. W. Rogers, Lake Junaluska, Law rence Leatherwood, Maggie, and Miss Hattie Slier Freeman, Allen's Creek. C. of C. Directors Will Be Elected December Second A nominatinog committee, com posed ot J. Wilford Ray, C. N. Allen and Guy Massie, are work ing on a list of nominees for di rectors of the Chamber of Com merce. The annual election will be held on Thursday night, December 2nd. The directors will be elect ed at that time and will take of fice on the first of January. The annual meeting is being held about three months earlier in order that the new .officers' van make plans for the coming year and get the program underway before spring. j The meeting on ueccmoei sec ond will start at 7:30, according to L. N. Davis, president of the organizaztion. Coffburn Child j Killed In Wreck Saturday P. M. Evelyn Cogburn. 12-year-old: daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur; Cogburn. of Cruso, was instantly killed Saturday afternoon when she was thrown from a truck on to the pavement near the Rhod- : armer Mill. ' The funeral service was held at . the Cruso Baptist church Monday morning at 11 o'clock, conducted; by the Rev. O. Burnette. the Re j T. M. Cogburn and the Rev. B. N. , Rogers. Burial was in the Gwyn i cemetery. Surviving are the par ents, two sisters and a brother. i Mr .Cogburn, father Of the child j;,,4, fnick when the - accident occurred. The truck struck a concerete culvert and swerved across the highway stricking a tree. The sudden im pact .according to witnesses, threw the girl, who was riding in the back of the truck with her two smaller sisters, onto the pave ment. The other passengers on the truck escaped uninjured. SCHOOLMASTERS TO MEET The Haywood Schoolmasters Club will meet Tuesday night at Bethel. J. C. James will have charge of the program. County Seat of Haywood 45 Own Largest R. N Barber, and his son, It. some of the thousands of bushels of the record year in lirjli, when Erk Leases Black Apple House For Novelty Plant E N TEN S I V E REMODELING PROGRAM TO-GET'-UNDERWAY AT EARLY DATE R. V. Erk, owner of Krkral't In- , dustries, will begin within the : next few days making extensive improvements on the rock build-i ing in Hazelwood, known as the j Black Apple Storage Plant. Mr . Erk has leased the building I for four years, and will move his noveltv wood plant from the pics- : int M;im str.-et loi'ation to Hazel-'! I'Nt IVltllll k.J H V , .v. - M-nnrl soon after the first of the I year he said. The new building will give nim j double floor space, which is bad- - lv needed I y ,.,"'.'. . , , j 1 A boiler room, dry kiln, and , lumber sheds will be built, be- sides a new double floor, new roof ' ' ,. windows ,mt into I the building Mr. Erk now has about 50 men employed, and since starting in the business in 1932 has complete ly outgrown his present quarters. No figures were given as 10 the actual amount that will be spent in remodeling the building and building the other puildings, but it Will amount to several thous ands of dollars. Caskey Addresses Kotarians On Work Of The Red Cross Herbert K. Caskey, of Asheville, addressed the Rotary Club last Friday on the work of the Red Cross" Mr, Caskey has been ac tive chairman of the Buncombe Chapter for several years. the program was in charge )f L. N. Davis, local Red Cross Roll Call chairman. 150 Attend District Welfare Meeting; Officials Heard With approximately 150 persons ! to the group by J. Dale Stent, in attendance- the Western Dis- i secretary of the Waynesville ti'-ict Welfare conference, .with j Chamber of Commerce. Mrs, Mary rersei.ta-ivt f om . 13 count xs O. Linton, president of the asso ou't "of the 21 in the district was .ciation of county supe. intendents, held at the court house here on i of public welfare spoke briefly. Tuesday. - Many state -and' federal Mrs. W. T. Host, state commit officials were present, a number sioner of public welfare address of whom took part on the pro- j ed the meeting, making a special gram. Mrs. - Dora Patton, .upennten- j ..-oiraro.wn k m l ransvi- vania county was elected to sue- j K. Conner, of Asheville, who has served as president, of the body for the past year, N. J, Lynam, county superintendent, of public welfare, of Graham county was elected as secretary. The meeting was conceded to be one of the most successful ever held in the district and the pro gram was featured by practical talks for the immediate problems of the wo k. E. E. Conner, president, presided over the morning session. Invo cation was by the Rev. J. J. Hug gin, pastor of the First Methodist Church. Greetings were brought County At The Eastern WAYNESVILLE, N. C. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18. 1937 Apple Orchard East Of N. Barber, Jr., are shown in their apple orchard, holding samples ol produced this year. The yield of the orchard this, year was almost that 80,000 bushels were produced. Barber Harvesting Thousands Of Bushels Of Fine Apples 3 Murder Cases Set For Trial At Nov. Term Court SIX MANSLAUGHTER CASES . APFEAB.ON DOCKET. AS OF FICERS FACE BUSY TERM, Three murder cases isx man numerous slauiihter Cases and r j minor cases, are on the docket for the November term of Criminal urt which will convene here Monday ' morning with Judge J. Hoyle Sink, presiding, according to Solicitor John M. Queen, here , )MUl,JJ: . - . . The murder cases include. Jule Boyd, for the death of a young man by the name of Parton. This case was held over from a pre vious term- Pearl Barnett Red mond, charged with the death of Clyde Reynolds, a young Canton barber. And Harley Robinson charged with thte death of Ratcliff Robinson. The six manslaughter cases, are all outgrowths of automobile wrecks, and several have been continued from other terms. Those which Solicitor Queen indicated he would not call, includes: Mel vpn Reeves, Bud Warren, Buford Noland and others, James Garrett, Annie Roe Ferguson, Cecil Yount and C- N. Marshburn. Solicitor Queen pointed out that the docket this term was extra heavy with cases, which includ ed: abandonment, reckless driv ing, assaults, forgery, house breaking, larceny and of course, the usual number of violations of the prohibition law. pieaior.aequaie cou.ny ucp-, ments of w hrougtout. the sxaie. one cniuiiasi-eu .uie.- iu- portance of a trained personnel ior ine worKUig oui ui a peimaii ent program, if real benefit was to be had f . om the work. She out lined public assistance that will be derived from the Sociay Security. She spoke of the varied duties of the county superintendent of wel fare, and the added burden of So cial Security legislation. Following Mrs.. Bost's talk an open forum, directed by Dr. Eu gene Brown, assistant state com missioner of public welfare was held, in which the county super intendents and their workers par ticipated, asking solutions of their (Continued on page 10) Entrance of The Great Mississippi AS MANY AS 21 MEN EM PLOYED IN GATHERING FRUIT FROM TREES Since its first settlement. Hay wood has been recognized as the banner apple growing county m this section of the country. Two of the outstanding men in tins field are R. N. Barber who start ed his lirst orchard here in 1902 MttiL' bus. douc umcli piouecr .Jwyrk in the production of better apples and his son It. N. Barber, Jr., who has now taken up the. work estab lished by his-father.; The Barber Orchards are said to be the larg est this uide. of the Mississippi. The .crop for this year far ex ceeds even the promise of the luxuriant bloom of last spring. It is estimated that the total yield from the 15,000 trees will nearly reach the hip' record of 192(1, when the crop was around 80,000 bushels, according to Mr. Barber. The ideal blooming season com bined with the summer which brought the right amount of mois ture, have been perfect growing conditions to develop' the apple in the most desired state. The pop ular varieties, of Stayman Wine Saps, Red Delicous, Golden De licious, Grimes Golden, Mammoth Black Twigs, and Rome Be;lties, grown in the Barber Orchard, are seen there in exhibition sizes and perfection. These ideal conditions for fruit growing have not been confined to Haywood County, so Mr. Bar ber states, it has been prevalent over the entire country. The ap ple .crop in thte UnitedStates last year was around 164,000,000 bush els, while this year it is estimated to be 20(i, 000,000 bushels. Since the 10th of September the work of gathering, grading, and packing apples has been un derway at the Barber orchards. At one time there were as many as 291 persons employed in the work. Even at this late dale in the season there are still 100 per sons engaged in the Work of car ing for the fruit. The plans arc to complete the gathering thtis week. One of the most, interesting pro cesses in connection with the work is the. grading, of the -sizes. It takes 25 persons to operate the grading machine. The apples are divided into five sizes as follows, 2 to.2'4 inches; 2 U to 2'a inches; 2 Vie to 2 !4 inches, 2::j to 3 inches; , diameter, - . .. . There are 30.000 bushels in the cold storage plant and around 20, 000 in the common storage at the orchards, and several thousand bushels are stored in other plants located in Waynesville, Asheville, Atlanta, Americus, Ga , and Chat tanooga. For weeks around an average of five trucks a day, hauling from 200 to 350 bushels each have been loaded at the orchards. These are trucking Haywood apples into South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, and Missis sippi, For weeks around 1,000 bushels a day have been going in to the Atlanta markets. These (Continued on page 4) Smokv Mountains National $1.50 McKee Asked To Spend $70,000 Balance On High way To Brevard Soon Price Of (ias Takes Drop Here Motorists of tliis section wel comed the news Wednesday as rush line prices dropped seven tenths of a cent per gallon. The new prices will mean a reduction of three cents on each live gallons. The price reduc tion was general in this area, it was learned. Board Will Be Filled At Early Date The town board of aldermen will meet at ;m early date to lilt the vacancy made on the board by the recent resignation of M. M Noland. Mayor .1. H. Way said that n. date had been set, but the matter would be 'attended to at an early date. ''On Tuesday of this week, Mr. Noland and the th.'ee other de lendauts in the case which Was tried in Federal Court in Asheville last week, paid lines amounting io $3,250. Mr. Noland was order ed by Judge Webb-to -.tender his resignation as a member of the town board of aldermen. .-The town board met Tuesday night, but discussed other mat ters with members, of the 'Hazel-wood- and Lake Junaluska boards. Work Going For ward Rapidly On Mountaineer Plant NEW floor: BEING PUT IN COMPOSING ROOM. WILL SET M A C II I N E R Y THIS WEEK-END. Present plans are to have the new floor of the composing room of the Mountaineer completed by Friday, and the equipment mov ed back and erected ready for op eration by Monday. Carpenters have about finished their task of putting in a new floor, which was damaged by lire two weeks ago. All the machines have been reconditioned, and ready for operation. Four men ha ve spent the past ton days, even working overtime, to get the lin otype machines ready -for' opera tion, by the time the carpenters completed their work. Many new parts had to be plac ed on the machines which were damaged by smoke and water. While an accurate check can not be made until the machines are thoroughly tested, it is esti mated that the fire did approxi mately $5,00(1 damage to the building and equipment. The building belongs to George II. Ward, Jerry Liner has the contract lor repairing the building. Letters For Court House Are Ordered An order has been placed for the brown sanded bronze letters for the front of the court house, j The board of commissioners fa vored the bright polished letters, but a fte r a careful investigation, ; found that, the polished ': letters-; would tarnish in a short time: The letters which were bought j will remain the same, for years. ! The work will bo completed j within the next few weeks, it was ' . learned. :;' MARTIN SEES NEW FRIGIDAIRE LINES Paul Martin, of Martin Electric i Company, returned last night . from Atlanta, where he went to ; attend the showing of new Frigi- daire appliances, which included ranges, washing machines and the 1938 model Frigidaires. LICENSE REVOKED A. R. Brooks, of Waynesville. had his driving license revoked for driving drunk, according to information received here from the State Highway Department. To date, 13,832 revocations have been made of driver's license. Park IN ADVANCE IN COUNTY SUM WOULD BUILD BRIDGE AND GRADE 5 MILES FROM SPRING DALE TOWARDS BRE VARD. E. L. McKee. State Highway Commissioner of the Tenth Dis trict, in a letter to the Chamber of Commerce this week, said that there was a nice balance from the 193(5 budget alloted for work on Highway No. 284. Commissioner McKee gave no indication when the money would be spent on tliet road, out inas much as it has been discovered, it is believed that work will begin soon. In connection with the discov ery of the sum, the board of coun ty commissioners, in session here Monday, passed a resolution, ask ing that the work on Highway 284 got underway immediately. It was pointed out in the resolution that the H)3ti highway budget car ried an item calling for an ex penditure of $200,000 in Haywood County on No. 211-1. Later, a representative of the If. S. Bureau of Public Roads, ask ed that $130,000 of this be trans ferred to Transylvania County for work in the I'isgah National For est. The balance of $70,000 is evidently the "nice sum" which Commissioner McKee has refer ence. Not any of the $200,000 originally alloted Haywood was spent in the county, the resolution .said. At the time of the allotment, something like $18, 000 was set aside for the construction of a bridge over the river near the entrance of Springdale. The bal ance of $52,000 remains in Wash ington, it was learned here yester day. This $52,000 would grade and stone about 5 miles up the liver towards Wagon Road Gap and the Transylvania :-.',; Work from the mouth of Look ing Glass Creek to the Gap, in Transylvania County, is already under construction, or under con tract. Representatives Horn nere visit ed Commissioner McKee in Sylva last night, urging that he request that a contract he let soon on the highway to Brevard. FFA Fair Will Be Held Here Friday The initial Fair by the local FFA members will be held on Fri day, Nov. 19th. The exhibits will be on display in the library of the Township High School and nn ad joining room. The public is in vited to view the work of the young farmers. The fair is one of the many ac tivities planned for the year's work by the chapter, which won first place in. Western Carolina last year, and are making an effort to continue their high standard There is no admission charge to the Fait . . Father Of Mrs. J. M. Garrison Passes Aw ay J. A. Gibson, 78, father of Mrs, J. M. Garrison, was buried in Buncombe County on Saturday, November f!th. He had lived in Buncombe county for the past 30 years, and is survived by his widow, and 13 children. U.S. Department of Agriculture WEATHER IttJREAU Waynesville Cooperative Station H, M HALL, Observer Nov. Max. Mm. Prec. . 1 .-.' ti.i - M . 0 07 12 ?"- Mi -)o - 0 32 13 ' 48 42 : s 0.02 14 :.'... 62 . 35 1.1 ;..' 54 ; ''. 2.' l'i 55 . 28 , ... 17 :, 47 2't . : 0 IX! Mean Maximun . '..:.... .56 Mean Minimum 36 Mean for Week . 46 Lowest for Week ..I.....:.: 29 Highest for Week .....:...:..:. 63 Precipitation for week :..:... :: 0.47 Same Period Last Year, 1936 Mean Maximum Mean Minimun Mean for Week Lowest for week Highest for week 52 . 26 ... 39 . . 17 , 60 0.90 Nov. 45.92 Precipitation for Week ..,.s... Total 1936 Precipitation to 1937 Deficiency for 1937 f eTl'rrf!m i' if--