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I 1 1 11 II SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY The Waynes viLLE Mountaineer Published In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance oj The Great Smoky Mountains National Park NO. 34 WAYNES VILLE, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1939 $1.50 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties llurned Into Lines Tues. jeon-Cruso Sections flow Have Electricity Morning 215 Homes To Be Served dock Tuesday morning was ,,pd dramatic hour in the VIk'. fur on the stroke .wt rural history was in when twenty of the M"" . .1 i; .:. ' ol tne lines vi Mutual Electric Company, Lrrized and the initial dis tal of electrify on the first electrification project m tne uid Western JNortn caro I. nut in motion. L the lineman of the Caro ler and Light Company the switch, and formed the it was very gratifying k who had worked so hard the past few months to L the realization of the pro- M to see their efforts re- perfectly to the tests usu- Ue at such times. I . . i r tr..i 1 fcri 01 me viMSU luuiuai c Company, representatives Carolina Power and Light nj, and representatives from ehna F. Burgess Company, ntractors and builders, of ore, were present to partic- tbe program of energizing lrs of the Cruso Mutual : Company started the pre- organization and the in- lition of the company about go. The project was ap I by the Rural Electrifica Administration on the 'I4th April. Ir the approval of the pro- Washington those inter ii the movement lost no time hurting the work. Engin wan staking the lines on pe 1st, and by July the first kts had been let for on Ion, which wis' given to the 1 1: Burgess, Inc., of Balt- last r orK line Known os "A" of approximately 20 I was completed and ready Unction by August the tenth fiction on the West Fork s section d was com- on the 22nd, and is now pecked and tested. In the "A" line was energized Faay, approximately 75 Iers enjoyed their homes that lighted with electricity. nne will, be energized in is week. I'-al of 215 members have ap lr serviee and the wiring of Jes are beincr raDidlv nn land will be cut in as com iwary offices are beinir fined at. Woodrow, with T. pn in charge. Carter Trull. I5". '.Was actini ci,:J f" the period of construc- Wfar L- Briges. is now naent of the Ho-hH p of the Cruso Mutual company include: uresi 'ey Hess: r rnffV,m l-esident; Mrs. E. : B. Rick- relar-treasurer: board of ' . .. -. 1 3 ref the flW T nuu Boston, Claude Deaver, rogan, and Watson . "ester Cogburn, f 's attorney for the com TS on the job have been an, district engineer, ' "n Swan o- , :.... ' icament en- Several Sections Of County Seek Electric Lines The electrification of the Pigeon Valley is no doubt the beginning of a wide program of rural electrification in the county, for what has been ac complished on the East and West Forks of the Pigeon can be realized in other communi ties in the county. Since the initial construction in the Pigeon Valley was start ed interest in electrification has been stimulated in the county, and it has been report ed that soon other groups will be organized so that they may apply for this service. Plans Completed For Dahlia And Flower Show Here Mrs. Frank Ferguson, General Chairman Announces Com mittees and Prize List Taken By Death 1 Vv:i fcSK f II ' f i J 1 Starts da'.::l';:': 'Ue f The Mountaineer, s van find interest ? mfoi-mation rec-ard- ? Preparation a fn."fa of school. Suable sue-o-pstinn t..;n f round in hntK , Wj vv" UIC I1C TV a Fa advertising nr.i VV1U uuio s newspaper. Mrs. Frank Ferguson, general chairman on arrangements for the annual Dahlia and Flower show. sponsored by the Woman's Club has announced the following com mittees in charge of the various work connected with the staging of the show, which will be held on Tuesday, August the 29th: Miss Robena Miller, Mrs. James W, Killian, Mrs. J. P. Dicus, Mrs. R. L. Prevost, and Mrs. Dan Wat kins will serve on the arrange ment committee. Miss Mary" Ash worth Barber, Mrs. Jerry Colkitt and Mrs. George Kunze, will be in charge of the entries as they are made. Mrs. John M. Queen will assign space to the exhibitors. Mrs. Felix Stovall, president of the club, Mrs. R. N. Barber, and Mrs. J. Harden Howell will serve as a committee to engage the judges for the show. Exhibits may be entered from 8:30 until 12:00 o'clock on Tues day the 29th, the day of the show, which will be opened two he urs later to the public. Rotarians To Hear Talk On International Situation REV. ALBERT NEW, former rector of Grace Episcopal Church here, passed away suddenly last Thursday in Clearwater, Florida Rev. Albert New Dies Suddenly In Clearwater, Fla Beloved Former Rector Of Grace Episcopal Church, Was Prominent Mason The Rev. Albert Newf 67, rector of the Episcopal Church of the As cension, of Clearwater, Fla., and for twenty-five years rector of Grace Church here, died sud denly at the rectory in Clearwa ter, on last Thursday morning. The Rev. Mr. TJew went to Clearwater from here last October to take over his duties as rector During the years he resided here he made many friends not only among his own congregation, but -(Continued on page 5) Chris Rauschburg, prominent insurance man, and a student of international affairs, and far many years closely indentified with ac tivities of Rotary, will speak at the Waynesville club Friday on the European situation and its re lation to Rotary and this nation. The speakers is from Atlanta. For the entertainment of the meeting, Mrs. Robert LeFie, of Columbia , will be guest soloist, according to ' Chas. E. Ray, Jr., program chairman. Mrs. Andrew Wolfe has as her guests Mr. and Mrs. I. K. Van Cott and son, Talbort, and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Grooms, all of St. Petersburg, Fla. Lions Club Will Have A Musical Program Tonight The Waynesville Lions Club by unanimous vote of the member ship has changed the meeting night of the organiaation from every other Thursday to each Thursday night, with the hour for dinner served at the Welch Me morial hall set at 7:30 o'clock. President J. S. Hopkins has or ganized all the new committees that are beginning to function in a satisfactory way, it has been learned. Evander Preston was elected to membership in the group at the last meeting. Mr. Preston will be in charge of the musical programs of the club. At the meeting tonight each of ficer will be required to give, a three minute talk on his duties as an bfficial of the club, A special program of music will also be given under the direction of Evan der Preston. Large Crowds Attending Annual Haywood Baptist Association Meet Election Of Officers Scheduled To Take Place At Today's Session Pages 8. Q in n ' H srv.;0u ' , ' Baptist church L- r aevoiea to -s subject. - With the seating capacity of the East Canton Baptist church taxed to its limit, the Haywood Baptist Association opened its annual two-day session at Canton, yester day... ' :j,'' The meeting opened with the Rev. R. Leather wood, the modera tor, in charge, v 1 he devotional was conducted by the Rev. O. F. Burnette at 10 o'clock. This was followed by the roll call of the churches, and the reports of the moderator and the executive com mittee. The regular annual sermon was delivered by the Rev. J. S. Hop kins, pastor of the W aynesville W. L. Sorrells was in charge of the afternoon devotional period, with W. C. Allen, giving a report Grover C. Haynes, talking on evangelism. The program today will be -devoted to various discussions of interest to the church. The Rev. H. K. Marstellar, pastor of the First Baptist church of Canton, will lead ? a discussion on the ministers retirement plan. T. f. Noland will give a report on the orphanage under church supervision. The Rev. Leather wood, of Waynesville, will discuss "The Goals of Ithe Co-operative Program." T. L, Green, of Waynesville, will speak on Sunday schools. Steve Clark will talk on the work of the B. T. U. C. H. Green will speak of Baptist Brotherhood. A. T. Medford will give a talk on tem perance, and Mrs. E. C, Horton will tell of the activities of the Woman's Missionary Union. A number of people from Way nesville and this section of the county attended yesterday's ses-( sion and will be present for to- Young Democrats To Elect Officers Saturday Night Brief Business Session Will Be Followed By Annual Pub lic Dance At Gordon League President Members of the Young Demo cratic Clubs of the county will meet at the Hotel Gordon Satur day night at eigh't o'clock to elect officers for the year, and name del egates to the coming state conven tion. C. E. Cole, of Canton, is county chairman, and will be in charge of Saturday's meeting here. The state convention will be head in Charlotte September 8 and 9th. Immediately following the bus. mess session, the annual public dance will be staged by the organ ization, featuring Sam Queen and the Soco Gap dancers and band. The dance will get underway at nine o'clock. An admission of one dollars per person is being charged in order to defray expenses of the Haywood delegates to the state convention. Large Number Are Present For Home Co ming Day Hundreds Of Residents And Former Citizens Attend Annual Event More than 750 residents and for mer citizens of the Crabtree ami Iron Duff communities gathered around the 240 foot tabte laden with appetizing food, on Sunday at the second annual Home Coming Day held by the two communities, according to reports made by a member of the committee on ar rangements. in view or tne successful exe cution of the day's plans it was decided to make the event an an nual occasion to be held the first Sunday of each August. The fol lowing committee on arrangements for next year was appointed: Mrs, Hugh Medford Noland, Crabtree, chairman; Dr. J. R. McCracken, Waynesville! Willis Kirkpatrick, Canton; Harley Bryson, Iron Duff, and Fuller Justice, Crabtree. The Sunday School hour was con ducted by Willis Kirkpatrick, and the sermon was delivered bv the Rev. Pink McCracken. Other speak ers in the afternoon were, Frank Ferguson, Jr., Prof. C. E. Connats- er lormer principal Of the schooj and Dr. J. R. McCracken. :. several musical numbers were given by the Kirkpatrick quartette, and two of the daughters of Mrs. Ganey, of Fayetteville, the former Miss Macey Kirkpatrick of this county. f R. L. PREVOST, president of the Haywood Home Building and Loan Association, has just been named president of the western district of the N. C. Building and Loan League. Tuberculosis Clinic Opens ttre Today Sponsored By Health Depart ment And Is Open To The Public Dr. J. S. Denholmn, clinic phy sician ol tne state Tuberculosis Sanatorium, of Sanatorium, will start, his second clinic in Haywood County today when he will receive those , desiring examinations in the court room of the court house, for a three day period. Dr. Denholm held a twoflav clinic in Canton on Tuesday an.! V ednesday of this week, at which me a number of people were ex amined. The purpose of the clinics is to make fileuroscopic examinations of all suspected, and active cases and of persons who have been ex posed by contact With someone suffering with tuberculosis. The clinic is open to the public to anyone having reason to feel that they have been exposed or that they possess alarming symp- R. L. Prevost Is Named As Head Of Loan Group R. L. Prevost, president of the Unagusta Manufacturing Com pany, has recently been appointed president of the western district of North Carolina Building and Loan League, which comprises the part of the state from Morganton west, and includes about fifteen building and loan associations. Mr. Presvostj wno is president of the Haywood Home Building and Loan Association, has served the organization in that capacity for the past IX years and has been a director for twenty years. He has been active in the work of the local association, and this recent recognition of his service and interest in the work is well deserved. The meeting of the dis trict will be held in Canton on October the 20th. Contract To Be Let 7th For 2.5 Miles of Parkway In County "Takes Courage To Make A Successful Dairyman" - Henry Farmer-Editor From Mitchell County Talks To Local (roup Republicans In County Are To Be Organized State Official Made Recent Visit In Interest Of Party Plans Brown low. Jackson, secretary of the North Carolina Republican or ganization,' was a i ec nt visitor in the county, ucc odinif to Alvin H. Ward, chuirmn.1 of the Hay wood County Republicans. Mr. Jackson, who is milking a tour over the via ; in the inte rest of reviving and roorani.iiiiif the party groups, went over plans for this county with Mr. Ward, The plans formulated while Mr. Jackson was in the county are getting underway. : Mr. Waid states that he is appointing a chairman and a committer to func tion in each voting precinct in the county, and that in the near fu ture he expects the organization to be perfected. Mr, Ward further announced that he plans to have a meeting of all his appointees preparatory to making a political survey of coun ty conditions, "The courage to sell a fairly good cow because she is not good enough," was listed here Monday by S. T. Henry, of Spruce Pine, as one of the most necessary requis ites for successful dairyman. The occasion was the all-dny dairy meet, directed by J. C. Lynn, Hay wood County farm agent and as sociates. Gathered on the shady lawn of Albert McCracken, a group of Haywood farmers and dairymen heard Mr. Lynn introduce Mr. Henry as "the only man in Western North Carolina who operated a 270-acre farm without the aid of a plow." Elaborating, Chairman Lynn said that the Mitchell County man used but four implements on his farm, "a manure spreader, a lime spreader, a liioWer and a rake." Takes Figuring Mildly enough, Mr. Henry re buked Mr. Lynn for ommision of what he considers his most im portant implement--a pencil. Any fanner who tries to get along without! ixgular uso of a lead pencil is headed toward failure, he believes. As for culling, the Mitchell county man who in addition to op erating his dairy farm has a half interest in the Tri-County News, Spruce Pine newspaper, admitted that he had been culling his herd of grade cows for eight years, and that he is not through yet. Following a rather widespread (( ontinued on page 8) Included In Section From Beech Gap, Is 600-Foot Near Devil's Court House A contract or contracts are scheduled to be let on September 7th for two and a half miles of Blue Ridge Parkway from Beech Gap, near Tennessee Bald, east ward towards Wagon Road Gap. Included in this letting, will be a 600-foot .tunnel, which will require the removal of 16,000 cubic yards of dirt. Engineers here this week stated that a pioneer road to the site of the tunnel would be built, and actual work in the tunnel would get underway this winter. , The tunnel is through the ridge of Devil's Court House. It was said, also, that parking grounds would be built at the site of Devil's Court House. The letting of this section, will leave a gap of about 4 miles be tween the section now under con struction from Wagon Road Gap. After these two sections are com pleted from Wagon Road Gap and Beech Gap, heavy machinery can easily be taken in from both ends of the road and two contracts could be hi on the unfinished section. The road from here to Beech Gap is via Sunburst, and is 22 miles from here. In the area where the next con tract will be let, are two rivers, each over 6,100 feet high. Mrs. N. F. Lancaster had as her guest during the past week Miss Shirley Revely, of Richmond, Virginia. Miss Flud Resigns As Supervisor Of District Nurses Miss 1 heouosia Hud, who re cently resigned from her connec lions: with the district health de partment, will leave tomorrow for Fayetteville, where she will take up her new duties as supervisor of the city and county health depart ment, a position she formerly held before coming to Waynesville. Miss Flud has served as super visor of public health nurses in the district health department for the past two years. During that time she has done an outstanding piece of health work in her plan ning for the projects which haVe been carried out under her su pervision. . She has done an extensive amount of field work, traveling over the entire area of the coun ties under her supervision, making visits to each one at stated inter vals. .. '. No announcement has been made yet by the health department of Miss Flud's successor. Commissioners Draw Jury For September Court Regular Third Monday Meet ing Given Over To Rou tine Affairs More Of Park Should Be Opened, Says State Advertising Director Some Of Most Scenic Spots In Park Are Not Available To Public, Says Baskerville Every effort should be made to get the National Park Service to see the importance of opening the territory between Black Camp Gap and Heintooga and Cherokee, for therein lies the most beautiful scenery in the entire park," was the opinion of John C. Baskerville, member of the state advertising . , .. . .,, , IHVMIUCI Jt lire nwic MU V ei LlHIflj; toms Active cases will prefera- d epartment( here ,ast week before Wy, he referred by the cl.n.c to the Rotary club and 15 visitors.. men xaiuiiy yiij ojuian. on the co-operative program, and day's deliberations. ON BUYING TRIP Miss Frances Ray, head of the ladies ready to wear of C. E. Ray's Sons left Sunday for New York City, where she will spend several days buying merchandise. She was accompanied by her sister. Miss Helen Ray. Mr. Baskerville pointed out that there should be more than one road across the park, and that, too many places of scenic beauty were not now available to the public, and since the park is a national one, it belongs to the people and should be opened to them, j, "This area has an orchard of golden apples in the tourist bus iness," he said. The travel busi ness in the state last year Was $64,350,000, or more than twice the value of the state's cotton crop, and almost half as much as the tobacco farmers received for their tobacco. "The amount spent by tourists in North Carolina in 1938 repre sented an increase of $29,350,000 over the 1937 travel business, es timated at only $35,000,000 and at only $25,000,000 in 1936. "If i the $64,350,000 spent by tourists in North Carolina last year could be set aside in a lump sum for state purposes, it would be sufficient to operate the public schools for more than two years. It would be enough to operate the schools, the state university and all other state institutions and de partments, with the exception nf the highway department, for one year and have some $24,000,000 left over." Routine matters Consumed the greater part of the regular third Monday meeting of the month, of the county commissioners in ses sion here this week, with all three members present. A number of road petitions and requests for aid were heard during the day. The jury for the September term of Superior court to convene on the 18th was drawn by the com missioners on Monday, Drawn for the first Week were: Ben II. Cathey, Beaverdam; C. A. Campbell, Ivy Hill; R. L. Harris, Beaverdam; Boone F. Cagle, Clyde; Emerson McCracken, Clyde; Jack F. May, Beaverdam; Herman R. Bolden, Beaverdam; Chas. H, Jones, Beaverdam; Sam Jackson, Clyde; T. Floyd Green. Fines Creek; Don Scruggs, Beaverdam. Hajley Haynes, Fines Creek; Taylor J. Medford, Iron Duff; Boone Brown, Jonathan: Fred Campbell, Ivy Hill; Frank Jones, Waynesville; Ray Bradley. Ivv Hill; Millard Mills, Waynesville; Glenn Farmer, Waynesville; How ard M. Jones, Clyde; James E. Barrett, Beaverdam; George L. Erwin, Pigeon; Will A. Smathers, Waynesville, and H. McKinlev Kuykendall, Pigeon. For the second week, Grady Yarborough, Waynesville,; L. N. Davis, Waynesville; Everett R. Cogdill, Waynesville; Carl M. Chambers, Beaverdam; Jas. A. Cole, Beaverdam; C. W. Chambers, Clyde; C. E. Brown, Clyde; Oscar Layman, Pigeon; Jas. L. McElroy, Iron Duff; Rufus Shehan, Ivy Hill; R. A. Parker, Beaverdam; M. V. Kirkpatrick, Waynesville; Jam ej Teague, Jonathan; Hugh C. Best, Crabtree, Oliver P, Jenkins, WTiite' Oak; and S. H, Hunter, White Oak. Park Naturalist To Give Lecture Tonight At 8:00 Arthu Stupka, park naturalist, will give a short illustrated lec ture on the plant and animal life of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, tonight in the court room of the court house, be ginning at 8 o'clock. Mr. Stupka is well versed on th. subject and it is to be hoped that a large audience will be on hand tonight, made up of both loel Yup pie and tourists visiting here.