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The Waynesville
Published In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance oj The Great Smokv Mountains National Park
tjyJlFTH YEAR NO. 31
WAYNESVILLE, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1939
$1.50 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Cou
ty-One Tons
Mountaineers Pages Enlarged By Installing New Press
Mountaineer
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New Glamor Girl?
Haywood Count
Will Have Tx,
Health Nu:
lackbernes Are
Canned Locally
Larger And Faster
Press Installed In
Mountaineer Plant
New Press Enables Publishers
To Add Another Column
To Each Page
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tirood Cannery Getting
t Prices For Beans On
Southern Markets
,r running fourteen days at
it wnnin? fifty-one tons of
Mries into 100,000 cans, the
ood Mutual Cannery has
down temporarily, Waiting.
it ban canning season opens
Unre than $2,500 has betl
Lt to the berry pickers dur-
it past two weeks.
ill. the beans are being put
L market the price is too
for canning and they are be-
LhiDped to green vegetabU
lets in the South. On Monday
Tuesday night of this week,
lushels were put on the At-
market, and served the next
Lb the tables of the retail
truck stands waiting at the
Ltv now to haul 600 bushels
lay, if we could get them,"
Frank M. Davis, manager of
(winery.
Lv farmers are being misin-
Jed about the bean market and
Ming them to individuals at
lower prices than are being
ted by those selling through
cooperative, continued Mr.
i.
Wing to Mr. Davis, the bean
et is just opening bp, but
that have geen put on the
Let ire of superior quality,
bringing top prices.
ten the drop in bean prices
the Haywood cannery will
tanning the beans, instead
lipping to wholesale markets.
Paid For
leal Estate Here
At Auction Sales
b Piece Of Land Put Up
br Sale Sold, Farm And
Rural Property Sells
throne of people followed
y Brothers and their brass
Tuesday, as they wended their
over the streets here and out
k Dellwood section, and at the
of the day, over $23,000 in real
p had been sold. ' Every lot
parcel of land put on the block
Mi.
k 50-acre A. D. Hunter farm
lellwood Road was divided into
acts and were bought by M.
Ialdwel, W. S. Ferguson, Jar-
'almer, and J. R. Boyd.
C Galusha bought two of the
Mreet lots of the Willis
M, and John Boyd bought the
wo. The house was sold
H. Milner.
k lot adjoining the LeFaine
was bid m by J. R. Boyd.
H. Bramlett boutrht A lots on
It Street and 7 lots on Bran-
Wnoe. These lots and the
wught by Mr. Boyd were the
fly of Mrs. M. H. Reeves.
l Penny, manager of Penny
hfr3, said yesterday that he
SIPied a contract to Sell the
w House for TV n Pprrv.
I tie sale date would be determ-
soon.
Penny was warm in his
r of ahe co-operation given
" saies rorce by city officials
Police in liinill,'nn ti, ,.,..,).,
I" streets here.
find
investors here eager to
l U'Q of proDertv AnA T also
' that newspaper advertising
aynesville pays big dividends
)nnes results," Mr. Penny said.
itre sales force eave today
sale of Norwood estates in
mS Rock Saturday morning.
AlexaniW
Mamed Trustee
or Chandler Co.
T- Alexander has been
'nli trusts fn
LT. Jewelers. - The papers
. mted July 27th, it was
this week.
opder tn ;. j J; .
Lf; , - -"B iiiimeuiaie casu
In,. J creditors, Dr. Alexander,
e arrasgeraents to have
ueiPul t ns . . ..
r - Cincinnati, expen
Va auctoneer, to come
:T "nauct a public auction
VmA he first sale wiU be"
j anoay morning at ten o'clock
l n econd at 7:30 p. m. Two
L1" held daily"
I ndler stock consists of
lw mercnandise, with the
S?Siewe,ery weUrepre
lnont the stock.
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This is the new press which was installed in the plant of The Mountaineer this week. It weighs
12 tons, and prints 40 papers a minute, This picture.vas made Monday morning by SherriU's Studio as
the press was being given a trial run. The installation of the new and faster press was necessitated by
the increased circulation and the demand for more Deed in the mechanical department. Standing on the
extreme left is H. C. Waggnor, press erector from factory, who had charge of erecting the new machine.
Standing on the press is M. T. Bridges, in charge of the mechanical department of this newspaper, and
at the right, is W. Curtis Russ, editor, looking over tie work of the new press. On page five is a picture
it the new folder, also installed this week.
Community Goes To Bed By Candlelight;
Lightning Breaks 'Petticoat' Insulator
District Health
Staff Discussed
Work In Schools
Representatives From live
Counties In District Held
Conference Here
Pinna f nr neilth work in the
schools in the territory were the
main topics under discussion at
the staff conference held here on
Monday of the district health de
noptmpnt. with renresentatives
from the five counties included in
the district.
Plans were also formulated for
tho" tiihomiloRis clinic which will
open in the district on August the
7th and close on the 26th. The
vaccinations in the schools for
various communicable diseases
were discussed as to the dates to
be given.
Miss Theodosia lud, superri-
nf nnrspa in the district, pre
sided. Present for the conference
rr C. N. Sisk. district
health officer, Dr. Phillip Padgett,
of Bryson City Mrs. Doris Hicks,
county nurse oi bwain coumy,
Miss Margaret Squires, of the
rhornVop Indian Reservation, Mrs.
Josephine Gaines, nurse of Macon
county, Miss Myrtle Cogburn,
nurse of Jackson county, and Mis
Clara McCall, of Haywood couniy.
THEY ARE PASSING
THROUGH
Lawrence Kerley. of the
city N fire department counted
cars from twenty-three tates
in one hour and 15 minutes be
tween 10:45 and 12 o'clock
Wednesday morning of this
week.
License tags from the fol
lowing states were noted:
Connecticut, Tennessee, South
Carolina, North Carolina,
Georgia, Virginia, Alabama,
Ohio, Texas, Florida, Missou
ri, Louisiana, Mississippi, Illi
nois, Maryland, Nevada, New
York, Kentucky, Pennsylva
nia, Michigan, Wisconsin, West
Virginia, and New Jersey.
Main Street Lots
To Be Auctioned
The second auction sale of Main
Street property of the month will
be held next Wednesday, by the
Gossett Realty Company, they an
nounced yesterday.
The property opposite the Le
Faine Hotel, part of the Dr. J. F.
Abel estate will be offered.
The H. L. Liner property and
home on Highway No. 19, between
Waynesville and Hazelwood, will
be offered, as will the W. Crawford
McCracken farm, consisting of 40
acres. ''.
Carolina Power Lines Disrupt
ed Early Saturday Night
For Three Hours
Rockwood Methodist Church
Dedicated Before Large Crowd
Dr. A. C. Early
Starts Uetail
QhoJ Clinics
Dentist From State Board Of
Health Will Spend 20
Weeks In County
Modern Rural Church Planned,
Erected And Paid For In
Year's Time
r A n TTorlv nf the Oral
tt. : r jnortit nf tho State
Hygiene ucjjbi v...-... - -
Board of Health, arrived in the
county during the week and start
ed work on Monday morning in
the Fines Creek school.
Dr. Early, who will hold dental
clinic in all the schools of the
county, wil be in Haywood for a
Deriod of twenty weeks, and will
give free dental service to all i
children in the county schools un-
der tne age oi
Last year dental clinics were
held over a nine weeks period in
the county. Daring that time, the
teeth of 2,532 children were ex
amined. 1,092 given treatment,
6,491 operations performed, 710
children referred to family dentists
(Conunnea op pi -j
A large number from various
sections of Haywood County, and
from distant towns, attended the
dedication services at the Rock
wood Methodist church near Can
ton Sunday.
The Rev. W. A. Rollins, pastor
of First church, Hickory, who for
four years was presiding elder of
the Waynesville district, and who
assisted in launching plans for the
new building, preached at the 11
o'clock hour. Others participat
ing in this service were the pastor,
the Rev. E. C. Price, and Dr. W. L.
Hutchins, district superintendent
nf this district. At the opening
of this service a telegram, bringing
congratulations from the Jtev. jv.
O. Cole, a former pastor, and the
Rev J. P. Hipps, a native of that
community and former member of
Clark's Chapel, both of whom are
pastor of leading churches in
Charlotte, was read.
Lunch was served picnic style
t totilea in m. Drove near the
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Since the time of man much of
the trouble Of this old world has
been blamed on the "woman thou
gavvst me." The darkness that
wrapped tha towns of Hazelwood,
Waynesville, and Lake Junaluska
from 8:25 to 12:11 on Saturday
night was due to a breaking down
of a "petticoat" insulator, accord
ing to an employe of the Carolina
Power and Light Company.
If the headlights from the cars
that cast their long shafts of con
centered light on the highway be
tween Hazelwood and Clyde could
have been blotted out that stretch
of the county might have given the
appearance of an air raid in the
night over Haywood -or it might
have been some scene back in the
gay nineties before electricity had
brought its comforts to this vi
cinity. When all the lights we n
suddenly snuffed out on Saturday
night.
Without any warning a blanket
of darkness decended. The neon
signs stopped their everlasting
blinking in the night. Main street,
which has of recent years, become
a blaze of light in the night, was
in twilight shadows.
Coming at 9:25 it caught the last
minute rush of the Saturday night
shopping. Business was paralized.
Merchandise and groceries being
handed over the counters were de
layed in the consumation of sales.
Pedestrians stopped in their
tracks, shocked for a minute by the
darkness. Even the motorists
slowed up a bit, in the city limits,
wondering what had happened.
Nature added her bit by a heavy
downpour.
In the homes and along the cor
ridors of the hotels and boarding
houses were heard the sound of
fumbling feet and the cry every
where for matches. Party candles
half burned, hidden in forgotten
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Over twWve and a half tons of
new equipment were added in the
plant of The Mountaineer during
the past week, and you are now
vtHilinir tho new Kile miner seven
columns to the page instead of the
former sis.
Thn iniTi-Hso iii circulation, and
the demand for more speed since
more pages are being printed ne
tu tiii u fuKttr nri'Rs. and before
the publishers bought a new press
they decided to increase th0 size or
the page from six to seven col
umns.
A snecial nress erector was on
hand last Thursday morning just as
last week s paper was Demg com
nlutori mill in less time than it
will take you to read this, the old
nr.. whs hi'inu- moved, and tho
new twelve-ton press was being
unloaded (other new maenme
a folder, weighs 1,600 pounds.)
Thn now nrpHR was crated UP.
and even every little part covered
in a thick coating of special grease.
These were hurriedly unpacked,
checked, and a half dozen men put
to work washing the parts which
ranged from a small washer the
size of a dime up to the base
which weighs over a ton and a
half.V: ,
Am tha nnrtu were cleaned, the
erector and his five helpers quickly
assembled them and started build
ing the complicated piece of ma
chinery.
Monday noon, it was ready for
a trial run. The greater part of
in making final
adjustmenU, some down to several
thousandths of an men, ana oy
Wednesday mominc, the press was
turning out paper at a fast dip
on regular schedule of the plant.
The new preea hat a speed of 40
.n. a minut and can be slow
ed down to a snail's pace VltKthe-
special built heavy duty motor, a
large control board back ot the
operator wta the speed of the
press, which also has a reverse on
it. " '
Besides the new press, a faster
and late model folding machine was
installed at the same time. This
machine also turns out 40 folded
paper a minute, and can take from
4 to twelve pages at the same
speed.
All of the shafting and gears of
the old press and folder have been
done away with, and each machine
has an individual motor, although
special electric lines had to be run
to take care of the increased size
of the motors over the old ones.
Because of the stiffness in both
machines this week, neither were
run at full capacity, and there re
mains some miner adjustments to
be made, but in all, both spun liktf
a top, while printing and folding
the second section of this issue.
We hope the same will happen
when this is printed.
The faster and larger machines
will enable the plant to turn out a
larger newspaper, and a better
printed one in less time.
Every measure is being, taken
to makc The Mountaineer a bigger
and better newspaper, and the
proper mechanical requirements
are a big factor in achieving this,
Soil-Building
May Earn County
Farmers $48,550
Explanation Made Of How
Farmers May Earn More
Money
J. C. Lynn, county farm agent,
has announced that under the
1939 Agricultural Conservation
program, Haywood County farm
ers can earn $48,550.
In 1937 Haywood farmers lost
$18,000; in 1938 $17,000 by fail
ing to carry out the required soil
building practices. This means
an average of $7.00 per farm co
operating with the program was
losi. A special effort is being
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Owing To Largest Popu'
Of Any County In Distil
Work Demands 2 Nur
MARY STEELE
New York society leaders con
tend that blond and pretty Mary
Steele is the logical successor to
Brenda Frazier as the social set's
number one "glamor girl." Miss
Steele, daughter of Mrs. Nelson
Steele, is five feet ten inches in
height, wears her blond hair in a
long bob, and has hazel eyes. She
plays the piano well.
Power Company
Worker Killed
Accidentally
Death Occurs While Installing
Transformer Near
Woodrow
Owing to the greater popu! '
in JIaywood, as compared to
of other counties in the d. '
health department, Haywood c.
ty will be allotted two public 1
nurses instead of the one a.s v
formerly the case.
Miss Sarah Margaret Qrr, fui ni
erly of Andrews, recently of 'Yit
Asheville, and daughter of Dr. erl
Mrs. C. V. Orr, has been appointed
as one of the two public health
nurses of the county. Miss Orr
will hnve charge of the work in
HcHverdam, Bethel, East Fork, and
Cecil townships. Miss Clara Mo
Call, who has been a county nut
covering the entire area dui ii.
the past year, will work in the
remaining townships. ,'.
Miss Orr is a graduate of t c
school of nursing of Fort Sun.' n
Hospital, of Knoxville, Tenn. :
has recently completed a f" '
months course in public hi
work at William and Mary !
lege, with two months field vt'-t
at Chapel Hill.
Haywood Citizc
Are Urged To '
On 4th Farm Tc :
Several State Agrlct' I
Specialists Will Be la
County For Event
l
Mrs. F. A . Lee, of Spartanburg,
has joined her husband here for
a visjt at DaVista Terrace.
TJwen O'Kelly, 30, of Asheville,
was instantly killed around 2
o'clock Tuesday afternoon when a
disconnected transformer touched
a low voltage wire stepping up the
current from 220 to O.ouo volts, on
a pole near Woodrow.
Mr. O'Kelly was a lineman for
the Carolina Power and Light
Company, and was helping some
workmen install the transformer
when his death occurred.
The transformer was being
raised from the ground to wires
carrying 2,300 volts atop the pole.
Mr. O'Kelly had his hand on the
connectionon the high voltage
side of the transformer and as the
transformer passed secondary
wires carrying 200 volts the low
voltage side accidentally made
contact with one of the wires.
Fellow workers removed the body
which was held to the pole by a
safety belt.
Surviving are his wife, and two
small sons, Jimmie, four and Don
ald, 14 months.
Mrs. ('has. Spearman and son
and daughter-in-law and two chil
dren, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Spear
man, of Greenville, S. C, were the
week end guests of Mr. and Mrs.
J. T. Bridges.
Miss Josephine Plott had as her
guests over the week-end, Miss
Edith Beard, of Concord. Miss
Beard and Miss Plott were class
mates at Brevard College.
Voice off 1ke PeofUe
On Tuesday an auction ' sale of
real estate was held here by well
known auctioneers, and every lot
offered for sale wag bought by sub
stantial business people... Do you
think this ready sale of real estate
should be an encouraging sign of
better times in Haywood County?
J. R. Boyd President First Na
tional Bank "It certainly shows
that people are expecting some
thing better."
George A. Brown, Jr- Chairman
county board of commissioners
"Yes, I think it shows that people
are interested in buying property
at reasonable prices. I feel max
bottom prices have been reached
in real estate in this county. I do
not expect a boom, but I feel that
from now on prices will be steady,
and that the demand for real estate
will pick up. Good farm and
city property are now bringing in
fair prices."
Ernest J. Hyatt Manager Hyatt
and Company "I think a success
ful land sale is one of the best In
dications that business is swinging
back to normal."
Jerry Liner Contractor Man
ager Junaluska Supply Company
"Yes, I feel that we should enjoy
much better business for the next
several months, as a reflection of
this sale. This proves to me that
the investing public has come to
realize that the safest investment
they can make is in real estate,
especialy when prices of real es
tate are as low as they are today.
When real estate is going at a fair
price, it means more construction
and more money in circulation."
Plans are going forward for the
fourth annual farm and 1
tour in Haywood County, v- i
will be held on Tuesday, t :
starting promptly at 9 o'cUx , v
cars forming on Depot itr t
C. Lynn, county farm agent,
W. A. Corpening and J, T. i '
zel, assistant agents, are ui; :
not only the farmera and f um
women to take this opportunity to
see the progress being made t,lr
agricultural lines in Haj .
but also the business and r
8ional men and women who liv
the towns. f V
There was some criticism of t
length and time these coJTnty-v.1 i
tours have taken in the past, t
it was decided this year to cov.
less ground, and give those takii -the
tour more time for observatici
of the various project which wi'.l
be visited.
The plan at present is to mnV;o
a tour of one section of the cmr.iy
one year and the other hu'.;' t!.e
next, giving each part of the equi
ty an opportunity to take p;n t i'l
the demonstrations.
The tour is sponsored" by the
Haywiood Mutual Soil Conserva- j
tion and Land Use Association, hs
sisted by the three county f.M-m
agents. Officers of the or' a
tion are: president, Albert J .
Cracken, of Clyde township; ,oe
president, John F. Rogers, of Crab
tree; secretary, Mrs. Frank B.
Davis, of Beaverdam, and treas
urer, T. Weaver Cathey, of FiVon.
Much interest is being mani
in the Baby Beef Show, with i
bers of the 4-H clubs con r
which will take place at 2.i
the afternoon, and close the t
Paul Fletcher, marketin
cialist of the Department
culture, will serve as a J
the show. Twelve calves a
groomed and fitted for e.
at Bethel, by the young
farmers of the county.-
Others from Raleigh who wnl
take in the tour are: L. I. Case,
animal husbandry specialist, of
State College, J. F. Criswell, " spe
cialist in land planning use, and R.
W. Shoffner, assistant "district
agent, ' . ;
Another feature of the program
around which centers the interest
of the farmers, is the thrashing
demonstration of grass and clover,
seed and other small grains, which
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L. N. Davis Real Estate and
Insurance Agent "The fact that
the property sold here Tuesday was
bought to a large extent by local
people shows that they have confi
dence in the growth and develop
ment of this section."
JOHN M. QUEEN, JR. ' "
BECOMES MEMEEIl
HIGHWAY PATROL'
Jnhn f OtlPPn Jl- lira a BMnH. :
the fifty men who were select!
from the training camp recent
held at Island Lake near Ilende j
sonville, for recruits in the Nor, ,
Carolina State Highway Patrol
The camp started with 108 m l
but they were gradually ' wee !
out to 76, from which the 51 n
were chosen. The others will
taken en for duty sometime i
next few months. . ,
Queen will be assigned for I
sometime this month. .
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