TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES TODAY
HE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER
Published In The County Sect of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance oj The Great Smokv Mountains Xational Park
SytTfth
YEAR NO. 26
WAYNESVILLE. N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1939
$1.50 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties
ed Putnam Held For
Business Will Be
Suspended Gn 4th
Observe Business Anniversaries
Shooting Father-In-Law
.Jv Took Place In Thickety
( rmmfv Farlv
Lftion u lv""v
Last unaay
;4t flight
died in the Hay
Hpital at 8:10 on
U . 1 -
fii.m bullei wpunus
, 1 Y).t
Uby his fon-m-jaw, ncU m-
navwi''i loumy iimnt mi
CourUH- of the two men,
!wk place around seven o clock
.day morning at the home of
tor, in me-
Canton.
... in ihe Hav-
rv,ntv ail wnere ne whs
at by officers around ten o'clock
morning, awaiting vrini in
lly term ol criminal turn i nt
W arrested Dy me ponce ui
L who called ttie snerm s ue-
nt, from wnicn iwo ejju-
l,re sent to bring mm 10 jaii.
Ln in an interview with a
putive of The Mountaineer
Ly, stated that the unfriendly
Us existing between him and
ther-in-law were of long stand-
jt that of recent years they
petting along better.
Putman and his brother Wil-
marrieii sisters, daughters of
Luske. Recently William had
is wife, and Fred Putman
that his father-in-law held
sponsible for his brothers
Increase Seen In
County Tax Rate
For Coming Year
The Mountaineer learned fiisl
hand yesterday that county officials
are pacing the floor, in working out
the 1939-40 budget, which is to be
completed sometime around th. first
of the month.
There is every indication that there
will be an increase in the county tav
rate for the coming' year. Just how
much, no one can say, as several
matters enter into making the final
figures.
However, there are several points
that cannot bt. overlooked, and one
of them is that there will be a much
larger debt service this coming year
than at any time in the past five
years, it was explained.
Another itr.m that local officials
Cannot determine, and that is just
how many old age and dependent
children the state will allow on the
rolls for the coming year.
But taking it in all, the officials
have a hard job ahead in trying to
keep the budget down, and yet meet
the necessary requirements in car
rying on work outlined for them to do.
brding to Putman , h was
i when Luske came to his place,
Lis awakened by his oaths and
to kill him, and that Luske
lin axe from a chopping block
I yard near the house, and start
ler him. .
man claims that he got out of
It once and tried to talk witn
. who started chasing him
the house, in the mean
Ike four small Putman children
ned and started crying, while
ffe stood by begging her hua-
and father to stop, and the
I to go back home.
man claims that in desperation
slized that he was no match
laske, unarmed and that he
in the. house and got his ,22
high powered rifle, which
panging on the wall. He says
tended to stop his father-in
iith the bullet without killing
phi; had to put up some fight
defense.
can states that he fired four
It is said that the first bul
ged a shoulder wound, the
struck the hip, and the third
Iffl o Luske a arm. He states
fpparently Luske paid no at
1 W any of the shots, but con-
I to chase him around the house,
N he then fired the fourth
: '.it head, which struck Luske
temple.
I th's Luske left the prem
ie gave no indication of how
f he was hurt, but walked
neighbor's house, and was
rs- aid by R. E. Cowan, at
p of Jim King, from which
H as later taken to the Hay-
rwty Hospital by Sandy Mc-
"e remained in the hos-
N his death the next night.
"won as diagnosed as crit
N the beginning.
L , man is the father of four
fliildren ranging in aire from
p to two months old.
ntes were held for Luske
day afte
'ated. Burial in tn
cemetei-v: .'':'
f a native of Buncombe
m was the son of ,,.!
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I'll-l-MANS OXl'K AGAIN ON
THE Ml KPHY HKANl'H
Two Pullman cars direct from
New York . City, solidly packed
with .campers 90 in all headed
for the Springdalt Camp, at the
Springdale Stock Farms, pulled
into the Canton station on Tues
day causing a stir of interest.
It has been sometime since the
Murphy branch carried through
Pvill.'iians from distant points,
and whs reminiscent of the days
when "travel, by train" was the
most feasible form in this moun
tain (section.
Sports World Will Dominate Ac
tivities Of The Day; No
Formal Program
MRS, LKONA IHVKKTT, will on
C. D. KETNER, manager of Farm- Saturday, observe the twentieth alt
ers Exchange, is today marking the niveiary of her business, The Cham
second anniversary of the business l'ion Shot Shop. Sh,. has been ac
hy staging a big' sales event. The tiv.ly managing the business since
details of Mr. Ketner's business and msf June, when death claimed Mr.
anniversay plans are found on page . I'uekett. On page four of (he second
one, two and three of the second sec- etion will be found- ai'comnlish
tion. Photo bv Sherrili's Studio. ments of her business.
$3,000 Is Goal Of
C. Of C. As Workers
Start Active Drive
$ 1 ,I00 In lMedffes Already In
Hand; Committees To Make
Thorough Canvass
Salvation Army
Starting Drive
For Funds Friday
Funds Received During Drive
Will Be Used Exclusively
In Work In Mountains
Waters Rising In
Lake Junaluska
Since Tuesday
Last Gate Closed At 7:03 Tues
day Night, When Water Was
Turned Into Lake
The Mountain Division of the Sal
vation Armv. which maintains a
church and school in the Shelton
Laurel community, twenty-two miles
from Waynesville, will start drive
to raise funds to Carry on the work,
beginning tomorrow morning.
Groups from the various civic or
ganizations in the town will assist
in the campaign to raise money to
supplement that allocated by the
Salvation Army for mountain work.
In 1937, through the generosity of
the Salvation Army officers through
out the fifteen states of the Southern
territory $2,600 was contributed for
the construction of a building at
Maple Springs Gap near Max Patch
mountain.
Gifts from local friends in the
county have made possible the com
pletion of the building, which has
i served as mountain missions head
quarters. .'Here Captain Cecil Brown
recently promoted to Adjutant, and
her co-worker, Lt Thelma Colton,
maintain a community center.
There is an auditorium with a seat
ing capacity of two hundred persons,
class room space, and living quar
ters with four rooms for the workers.
The mountain circuit is worked from
the Springs Citadel, the officers vis
itine tho outlying centers each Sun
day morning, and returning to the
building for the religious services in
the afternoon, which include Sunday
school and a sermon.
Some of the children who now at-
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Death Claims Board
Head Of Champion
Fibre Company
Officials From The Canton Plant
Of The Company Will Attend
Funeral This Afternoon
The last gate at the dam at Lake
Junaluska was closed at 7:03 Tuesday
night, with around one hundred per
sons gathered to witness the first
water that would begin to fill the
250 acre lake bed, which had been
emptied several weeks ago for con
duction on the sewer lines.
By Wednesday morning it was
estimated that one acre of the lake
was covered and that last night
five acres were under water.
It will take anywhere from two to
three weeks to completely the
lake, though it will be filled to the
narrows in about One week. However,
in case of heavy rains, ft would take
much less time, those in charge
stated.
The work on the sewer lines had
been carried forward a few days
ahead of schedule time, as it was
estimated in the beginning of the
construction, that it would be the
first day of July before the water
could be turned into the lake.
Green Beans Are
Selling In County
For Top Prices
True to the to the prediction of
Frank M. Davin, 'manage) of the
cannery of the Hazelwood Mutual
co-operative, this is a banner year
in which to grow beans.
Buyers are now in the county, ac
cording to Mr. Davis paying from
$1.35 to $2,00 a bushel for beans.
The sales are private sales as the
Hazelwood cannery has not yet open
ed for the bean market.
Mr. Davis points out that there--is
still time to plant a late crop, and
be urges the farmers to heed the
signs and grow large quantities of
beans this season, as they seemed
assured of a profit.
Air System Changed
At Park Theatre;
Now Much Better
Complete Theatre Page Is Being
Started In Today's Issue Of
This Newspaper
Massie Funeral
Home Employs
New Assistant
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C. Relihan, Jr., of Douglas, (ia.,
be associated with the Massie
Funeral Home, having arrived dur
ing the week to take over his new
duties. Mrs. Relihan has joined him
and they will reside in the apart
ment at the funeral home formerly
occupied by Mr. and . Mrs. Francis
Massie.
Mr. Relihan, a native of Douglas,
Ca,, intended the South Georgia
State College, and later attended the
Gupton Embalming School, of Nash
ville, Tenn. Prior to his coming to
Waynesville he was connected W'ith
the Douglas Undertaking company, of
Douglas, Ga.
Members of the Chamber of . Coin
nit i ce, w ho compose the annual drive
committee, hud an early breakfast at
the WWNC Cafe on Tuesday and
opened the drive for pledges and pay
ments, on subscriptions to the-organization-
for the current year.
Three thousand dollars has been
set as the goal for the expenses of
this year. To date $1,900 of this
amount has been pledged. Every
person in the Community, who is able
to make a donation will be contacted
before the drive is over. Some of
th.. committees are completing their
campaigns this week, while others
will carry over into the coming week.
Those making the drive in the
commercial group include, for the re
tail stores: Fred Yearout, Noble Gar
rett, Charles K. Ray, Jr., and R. C
McBride, with Claude Allen, Paul
Hyatt, Harry Lee Liner, and '.George
A, Brown, Jr., covering the filling
stations and the garages.
The professional group are being
visited by L. M. Kicheson, W. A.
Bradley, Wm. Med ford, L. N. Davis,
E. J. Hyatt, and A. V. Lcdbetter,
with Ben Colkjtt, Ralph PrevoK, and
Jack Messer taking -pledges from the
industrial groups.
The following are soliciting funds
from th(. court house and the indi
vidual classified! ions : Mrs. Johnnie
Ferguson, J. It. Boyd, Kmmett Bal
entine, Felix Stovall, Quinliy . Kipp.
and Chrest (ieoige.
In onler that the necessary work
of the Chamber of Commerce be Car
ried -forward; and the pfiiee main
tained, live goal of three thousand dol
lars must be raised this year, it was
pointed out by Dr. K. I'. Gay,- presi
dent, and other leaders in' the organization.'-'-.'
Pages
day
.Work is being pushed rapidly on
the expansion of the Park Theatre,
and concrete for the floors is being
poured today.
When completed, the addition to
the theatre will give. 200 more seats.
The air conditioning system has
been enlarged and several changes
made, Which now makes the theatre
more comfortable than ever.
Today also inaugurates the addi
tion in The Moutaineer of a theatre
page, which will give complete Infor
mation about coming attractions at
the Park Theatre, and also some of
the latest Hollywood news, that is
vritten by Harrison Carroll, in a
special copywrighted article for King
Features Syndicate.
Today's theatre page is on the
fifth page of this section. - ' -
y,8 issue, one of the larg
er
issues ever published
' composed of 28 pages.
,lssae is goine into con-
7 more lhan twn thoiis-
Alexander Thomson, 56, chairman
of the board of directors of the
flhamnion PaDer and Fibre Company,
of Canton, with planU in Hamilton,
Ohio and Houston, Texas, and Can
ton, died on Tuesday night in a hos
pital in Cincinnati, following an at
tack of pneumonia.
Last rites will be held this after
noon at three o'clock from the
Thomson residence in Cincinnati, and
burial will be in that city.
Mr. Thomson w-a a former pres
ident of the Ohio Chamber of Com
merce, and at the time of his death
was a director of the U. S. Chamber
of Commerce, and president of the
Chamber of Commerce of Hamilton.
He was the brother of Mrs. Reuben
Robertson, of Asheville, who with her
her husband is now in Cincinnati.
A number of the officials from the
Canton plant will attend the funeral
services this afternoon.
Massie's Dept. Store
Staging Big Sale
Sullivan Sales Company have been
brought here to stage a sale for Mas
sie's Department Stojv. The sale
gets underway this morning.
"Extra salespeople have been em
ployed for thc event, and for the past
week, special experienced men have
been here arranging the store and
stock for the sale," C. J, Reece, owner
said yesterday.
A four-page advertisement in to
day's issue of this paper, gives scores
of the many items that Will go on
sale at nine this morning. There
are also specials listed for the next
few days.
Arwood Building
Three Rock Cabins
acce
Peofde
Since the state has provided f'r
only an eight months school term,
would you favor a local tax. to finance
an additional month, as many other
towns in the state have dneT
Noble (Garrett Merchant "Those
of us who had children leave the
local schools to enter college have
had this need brought very forcibly
to cur attention. I would be willing
to pay such a tax."
Mrs. Henry FrancisAllen's Creek
"Yes, I approve such a tax. I
prefer another month to the much
talked of twelfth grade, if we can't
have both."
' Otis Burgin Merchant "I
be in favor of such a tax."
would
Hugh Massie Merchant "Yes, in
deed. I think we should by all means
have a nine months school. I would
be glad to pay such a tax."
Mrs. Paul Walker President of the
Central Elementary P. T. A. "Re
gardless of how much we need the
additional Fchool month, I feel that
we are taxed to the limit now."
Grover Ci Davis Attorney ''I
have not made up my mind about the
matter. There is a lot to be said on
both sides."
Fred Arwood, owner of Lake-way
Service Station, on th,, highway at
Hazelwood,' is. -completing three 2-
room stone cottages, or ioui isi
cabins.
When this unit is conipli ted, Mr.
Arwood will have eleven cottage in
all. '-'
He ' said this week that the Con
stant and growing demand for tourist
cottages had kept him busy building.
'Grateful to their ancestois for
making history during the hot sea
son, and to tht. fact that July the
4th, has traditionally become the of
ficial opening of the summer season
in this section, the community at
large gives signs of a holiday mood
I that will make much of Tuesday.
All the citizens of the town are
urged by the town officials to dis
play Mags not only at places of
business, but also at their residences.
All stores with th exception of
the drug stores will be closed for the
entnv day. Shoppers are urged to
attend to the buying needs on Moil
day in preparation for the obser
vance of the 4th. The drug stores
will have their usual week day hours.
The First National Bank, the post
office, and the employment office will
close their doors ill commemoration
of the day.
Perhaps the most holiday minded
group were the officials- and vheir
clerks in the Haywood County court
house, who contemplated the possi
bility of an extended week-end,
starting with the closing hours at
three o'clock .on 'Saturday, and con
tinuing until Wednesday morning,
but someone dragged out an old law
passed one hundred years ago, that
changed the plans.
The law slates that the office of the
clerk of th,, superior court must re
main open on every Monday, and for
six hours a day on every day, ex
cept a legal... holiday. The old law
further sets forth that a judgment
could not be signed except ol) Mon
day, o the office must remain open
on that day regardless of circum
stances. Late yesterday afternoon it wan
thought, however, that some of the
offices. in' the court house would take
advantage of the extended week-end,
as the old law did not affect then).
All the offices will be closed on Tues
day the fourth.
Those who wish to etk the charm
of primitive nature- may lake a day
of fishing in Sherwood l-orest, of the
National Pisgah Forest Preserve,
which will he open to sportsmen on
July the 2, 3 and 4th. Others'- may
follow the route of the recently fin
ished .CCC. 'highway which runs from
Sunburst to Beech Gap, to be opened
for the first time to the public on
the !th.
Softball fans ntay take in four
inter-city games, in ihe afternoon,
aiid two games nir' Tuesday night,
which w ill close the first half of 'the
Softball season.
Down at Lake Junaluska, there
will be shown "Kentucky," the well
known movie, in tht. auditorium at
K o'clock. This will be lollowed Dy
fireworks- displayed from the cliff on
which is located the Cross, with E.
R. Riedel in charge.
It was also learned in the check up
of the day's festivities that there
would be no holiday observed either
at the Haywood County Hospital or
the sheriff's department.
McFarland, Assistant
Manager Pet Dairy Goes
To Washington, D. C.
R. A. McFarland, assistant man
ager of the Pet, Dairy has resigned
his post here and leaves Saturday for
Washington, I). C, where he will be
connected with the Highland Farms.
Mr. McFarland has been with the
local plant for more than a year,
and has been connected with the Pet
Dairy Products Company for more
than ten years. He has made many
friends during his residence in
Waynesville.
County Taxes Are
86 Percent Paid
Tax collections for Haywood Coun
ty for th,. current year, are Hi per
cent collected, it was learned from
W. H. McCraeken, tax' collector and
tax supei-visor here yesterday. .
Plans are being made to advertise
property on which 1938 taxes have
not been paid.
Last year, the office collected 93
per cent of the levy.
Few Complaints
Made To Board
. The. county equalization board is
completing their work this week, with
tax payers from Clyde, Crabtree,
Iron Duff and Fines Creek to be
heard today.
The number of complaints this
year wag reported to be below that
of former years.
Melvin H. Reeves, Jr., Is
To Be Associated With
His Brother In Business
Melvin 11. Reeves, Jr., son of Mrs.
M. H. Reeves and the late M. H.
Reeves will return to Waynesville to
become associated with . his brother,
Jefferson Reeves, in the management
and operation of the W aynesville
Pharmacy.
Mr. Reeves has been connected, with
the Canton Drug Store for the past
eight years.
Prof, and Mrs. Z. H. Dixon, who
have been the guests of the Rev. and
Mrs. W. L. Hutchins, returned home
this week. They were accompanied
by Mrs. Hutchins, who will visit rel
atives and friends in Ell'.in.