SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY.
The Waynesville Mountaineer
Published In The County Seat of Hayrvood Con
nty At The Eastern Entrance oj The Great Smoky Mountains National Park
.flFTH YEAR
NO. 42
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t
ood Hospital
en Rating By
rican Surgeons
institution Given Pro-
Lai Approval By IN a
Q Organization
Hiywood County Hospital
ta provisional
939 list of 2,720 approved
L in the United btates,
lutl i few other countries,
annual Hospital Stand
m Conference which open
Phikdelphia this week in
in with the Clinical Cpn
the American College of
WAYNESVILLE, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1939
$1.50 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties
AN ENCOURAGING SIGN
mouncement was made by
Crile, of Cleveland,
Is of the board of regents
illege.
Western North Carolina
ins included in the report
Tryqn, Fletcher, Murphy
Nile, together with the
Litorium at Black Moun
ting showed the Haywood
to-be a general hospital,
bpacity of 90, operated by
of trustees and owned by
M of every fourteen per-
i community, on the av
I patient in a hospital
Does it not therefore
the public to encourage
care of these patients,
'to co-operate with the hos-
bth conservation efforts ?
science, solicitous for the
of the patient, has sec a
dard of approval for hos-
ice; equally solicitous,
jiding equally high stand-
be every enlightened
Dr, Crile stated.
There was an increase of
$1,128.28 for last quarter re
cords of the Waynesville post
office receipts over the same
period of last year, according
to Postmaster J. H. Howell.
The total for 1938 was $6,
774.07, while for the three
months just past the total
reached $7,902.35. Major How
ell states that the increase does
not reflect the tourist season,
but local mail.
Hazelwood Tax
Rate Stays $1.60
Officials Cut 1940 Budget Over
$6,200; One Dollar Goes
For Debt Service
Expert Economist Here For 3 Days
Postmaster
ded National
eet In Capital
were more postmasters
i district than from any
a at the annual conven-
fhe National Association
tasters which was held in
p last week," said Post-
iarden Howell, yester-
representative of The
Iter.
Howell returned Friday
nding the three dav nes
tle association. He made
th Postmaster nnd Mra
f, of Canton, and Post-
1 Mrs. Martin, of Bryson
kere between 4,000 and
pasters from every state
"n and from Porti Rico
Major Howell nnrfi
pident and Postmaster
ames Farley and all de-
leads of the govern
ashington addressed the
f resting feature at the
Pe'd at the Mvfl
F 3,548 persons attend-
le Presence of a woman
f a small town in
who was 82 years old
Mryed as postmaster for
she was given a seat
t the table -with Mr.
fits, postmaster of Char-
reeled president of the
The Hazelwood tax rate remains
at $1.60 per $100 valuation for
1940, according to a statement just
issued by the board of aldermen
in which a budget of $25,154 was
adopted.
The 1940 budget is about $6,200
less than the 1939 budget, with a
slight increase in bond interest to
be paid. One dollar of the rate
will apply to debt service for th
coming year.
The budget sets out the valua
tion of the town at $672,000, and
at the $1.60 rate, would produce
$lv,liZ in revenue.
water rents are estimated to
bring an additional $1,000 from
street assessments and collection
of delinquent taxes. Privilege
taxes are scheduled to put $200
into the town treasury.
The town sets out that the wa
ter department will cost $3,550,
while the street department Will
run to $5,817.
The general fund, which includes
all salaries, including pc!ice and
of all officials, is set at $2,847.
rsona maturities this year re
main at $7,750, while bond inter
est is up several hundred dollars,
being $4,570, with a slight drop in
sinking fund requirements, from
$1,045 to $720.
Itemized parts of the 1940 budget
includes:
WATER FUND
Cost of Water .... .......$2,600
Pipes and meters, etc. '.. 600
Labor .. 200
Supplies .. 100
Postage .. 50
Total ..
(1939 Total $4,490)
$3,550
STREET FUND
Capital outlay-improvement $4,300
Street lights 692
Labor .. .. .. 300
Supplies ... .. 100
Machinery upkeep-operation 300
Surveying ..
Emergency .. .. .......
1940 total .J
(1939 total $7,150)
25
100
..$5,817
1 Music
For Returns
n State Meet
! Jr., director of music
-"u on Tuesday from
wtere he attended th
'uai conference of mu-
Nns were hcU f n.
fc0"ege of the University
p'"'ina and more than
Is throughout the state
''nS was r);;,i.,j ii '
. iucu up into
rences including piano,
estra and band, with
fading the group meet-
.u their own
eld of activity.:
I, Carolina Bandmas
t'on had the following
y the meeting, Ma
futschinski, from N. C.
Earl Slocum, of the
i L h Carolina, Don
f Wake Forest, and
f tian Wi. . . . .
i iui" oi jjaviason
GENERAL FUND
Salary, mayor-aldermen ......$ 100
Salary clerk ............................ 200
Salary treasurer .. ...,....,..... 200
Salary police ........................ 900
Tax collector 840
Salary attorney 150
Vital statistics .... .................... 14
Tax roll .. .................................. 35
Lights town hall 13
Postage, stationary, supplies 75
Aids' and gifts ...... 100
Fidelity bonds-insurance 50
Fire protection .................... 30
Auditing .. .. ..,...............;....... 140
1940 total'..' .:...,..u..,...............$2,847
(1939 total $7,531 this includes
$4,500 for fire protection)
N v
MISS FLORENCE ROGERS, noted home economist and lecturer,
will begin a 00-minute demonstration promptly at three o'clock this
afternoon at the Park Theatre, for The Mountaineer's third, annual
cooking school. The admission is free, and 90 attendance prizes will
be given this afternoon, also tomorrow afternoon at 3, and Saturday
morning at ten o'clock.
90 Prizes Will Be Awarded
At Cooking School Today
Revival Services
Drawing Larg
Crowds At Tent
Stirring messages, with empha
sis on getting back to the "old time
gospel" and righteous living, are
beine delivered by the Rev. B. B.
Caldwell, evangelist, of Greenville,
S C . at the services which started
at the tent meeting now being held
at the depot, last Sunday afternoon.
The tent will seat around one
thousand and each night it has
been filed to the limit of its ca
pacity, with interested listeners,
to the great spirtual truths as are
being brought out by the Key.
Caldwell.
The public is cordially invited
to attend all the meetings.
Admission Is Free To Hear
And See Noted Expert Pre
pare New Recipes At
Park Theatre
Rev. B. B, Caldwell
Will Teach The Citizens
Bible Class On Sunday
The Rev. B. B. Caldwell, evangel
ist of Greenville, who is holding
revival tent services here, will ad-1 gin her 60-minute demonstration
This afternoon ninety lucky wom
en will receive an attendance prize
at the first session of the Moun
taineer's third annua Cooking
School, which will be held at the
Park Theatre, starting promptly at
throe o'clock.
Last minute, details have been
completed, and early this morning
Miss Florence Rogers, nationally
known lecturer and home economist
and writer on food subjects, began
her preparations for this after
noon's session.
This afternoon, the doors of the
theatre will be open at 2:30, and of
course, the seats up near the stage
will be the choice ones for the
scchool.
A few minutes before three
o'clock, the Park Theatre will give
a five-minute showing of previews
and possibly interesting short sub
jects.. .
Immediately after a very brief
introduction, Miss Rogers will be-
dress the Citizens Bible class at
their regular Sunday morning hour
in the town hall. J. R. Morgan is
teacher of the class which meet
each Sunday morning at ten o'clock.
The public is invited to attend.
LICENSE REVOKED
DEBT SERVICE
Bond maturities .,
Bond interest ..
Sinking fund ..
.,:.$7,750
.... 4,470
.... 720
1940 total ...u..$12,940
(1939 total $12,255)
Two Canton men had their driv
ers' license revoked this past week,
both charged with driving drunk.
They were, Julius Paul Thomason,
of Canton, and William Crawford
Rice, of Canton Route one.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Boyd, of Dallas,
Texas, are spending this week ,'n
town with the former's sister, Mrs.
Oliver Shelton.
IN LOOKING OVER THE COUNTY
General Haywood
GETS A FEW THINGS OF COUNTY-WIDE
INTEREST OFF HIS MIND WITH LETTERS
To The Public:
This week I was astonished xo
see a prominent gardener burning
18VS
Little did he realise that he was
burning money, for he is a most
conservative man, yet, he evidently
did not stop to think what he Was
doing as he lit the match to the
large pile of leaves that his hun
gry garden was crying for.
Burning leaves is an easy dis
posal, but not profitable. If this
man had taken a little time and
piled the leaves in the corner of
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preparing from five to eight dishes!
inese will be awarded as prizes
after the demonstration.
Each person attending the school
will be given a printed program
which contains all of the recipes
that Miss Rogers will demonstrate
on tne stage.
New program will be given
each day, as each session she will
give entirely new recipes. Those
getting the programs are requested
to save them so that they may make
and cook at home the different
things they will be shown during
the demonstration. '
Every woman attending the
school will have an opportunity to
participate in the free attendance
prizes which will be given daily.
The complete list of the 90 daily
prizes are published elsewhere on
this page. ; . '
The school will start today at
three o clock, and at the same hour
tomorrow and on Saturday the lat
session of the school will begin at
ten o clock. 1
There is no admission charges.
Martin Electric Company is pro
viding for Miss Rogers' use a Frig
idaire range and refrigerator. I
Massie Furniture Company will
have all necessary kitchen equip- '
ment for Miss Rogers to use on'
the stage. J
All groceries and meats will come I
from C. E. Ray's Sons and the .
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Festival Ended
With 900 Taking
Part In The Fun
Four-Day Event Ended Mon
day Night With "Evening.
Of-Fun" At Armory
With around nine hundred per
sons assembled at one time, during
the evening, the square dance stag
ed on Monday night in the Way
nesville Armory, closed the four
day Festival which was held this
iind last week.
The high light of the evening
was with the drawing of the twenty
prizes, contributed by business
firms of the town; which were won
by people not only from Waynes
ville, but from Canton, Sylva, Rob
binsville und other towns in this
section, showing the wide terri
tory from which the four 'special
shopping days had drawn shoppers.
As early as 7:30 o'clock, there
were more than two hundred peo
ple present at the Armory, await
ing the events of the evening, and
by 8 o'clock the building was crowd
ed. The square dance callers had
difficulty in clearing the floor for
the first dance set, when at least
150 couples joined the figures.
While the crowd thinned noticea
bly after the drawing of the prizes,
several hundred remained through
out the evening.
The Soco Gap Dance Band furn
ished music and, the how famous,
Soco Dance Team also gave one
exhibition dance. The Waynesville
High School dance team lead by
Sam Queen, Jr., drew a big hand
of applause after their exhibit, R.
T. Boyd entertained the crowd with
a buck dance, and Mrs, Ida Mullis,
Henry Miller, and others also gave
numbers greatly enjoyed.
During the evening, Chas. E.
Ray, Jr., introduced Noble Garrett,
chairman of the Merchant Division
of the Chamber of Commerce, who
spoke to the crowd.
J. R. Boyd, was also intitducisl,
and made some pertinent remarks
about the necessity of team work in
a community, and what could be
accomplished whim the citizens got
together on a project.
The evening closed with com-
mcdatioh and praise for the first
Plans Are To Start Work
On New Clyde School In
Early Part of December
Fire Department
Was Called Out
Bv Two Alarms
Two fire alarms were given this
week, but neither proved to be
signals of great danger.
The first alarm came to the fire
department around 10 o'clock on
Tuesday morning when the pick up
truck belonging to Joe Moore,
which was parked at hi homo in
East Waynesville, near the home of
Mr. and Mrs, C, B. Russell, caught
fire. Before the firemen could
reach the scene the .flumes had been
extinguished.
The second came around one
o'clock on -Wednesday from the
Allen's Creek section and proved to
be a couple of blazing haystacks,
in a field about twenty-five feet
from the Allen's Creek Baptist
church, the cause of the fire un
known.
In short order the firemen had
the stacks under control; and re-
turned to town in a few minute.
Sixty Representatives of Clyde
Appear With Petitions Be
fore Commissioners
Waynesville District
School Will Close
At 12:15 Tomorrow
The schools of the Waynesville
district will close tomorrow nt
12:15. This deviation from the
regular hours was granted in order
that the teachers may attend the
western district convention of the
North Carolina Educational asso-
elatiobrwhich a being held in Aihe-
ville on Friday and Saturday.
All the teachers in the county
are expected to attend the sessions
of the convention.
Mrs. J. D. Bivins, of Albemarle,
was the guest during the past week
Fall Festival staged in Waynesvilln. of her sister, Mrs. S. H. Bushnell.
Thousands Visiting Park To See
Mountains Cloaked In Fall Colors
A good display of fall colors has
brought thousands of persons flock
ing to the Great Smoky Mountains
National Park during the middle
of October, according to park of
ficials., This display will continue
throughout October and will cul
minate with a display of oaks at
their : best coloration probably
through the 10th of November.
From the present through the
next week some of the most vivid
colors to be seen include black gum,
sourwood, red maple, dogwood,
sumac, sweetgum, all of which are
of various shades of red. Certain
others such as tulip popular, birch,
hickory, pawpaw, mountain holly,
and others turn varrying shades of
yellow and gold.
There is a period of six weeks
of good autumn coloration in the
park due to the fact that there are
so many species of trees in the
area, the range of elevation, from
approximately 900 feet to over
6,500 feet, being an important cle
ment in this ngard. Coniferous
trees, of course, retain their dense
green color throughout the entire
season, and they stand in contrast
to various other shades of the for
est. Some persons regard the
Smokies as being at their best dur
ing the fall as the colors cloak the
mountains completely, where as the
rhododtmdron display in June Is
merely localized in various sections.
Cooking School Prizes
The following prizes will be awarded at each of the
three sessions of The Mountaineer's third annual Cook
ing School:
6 dishes prepared by Miss Rogers.
15 market baskets, each containing 8 items a
package of Yukon's Best Flour, one of the 11 Pet Dairy
products, a loaf of Becker's Bread, a can of Spry, a pack
age of Lux Flakes, Lifebuoy Soap, a package of Rinso,
and Lux Toilet Soap; The last five items given by Lever
Brothers.
3 cartons of Coca-Cola, by Coca-Cola Bottling Co.
215 pounds of Youkon's Best Flour (in bags from
2 to 24 pounds). Contributed by Waynesville Wholesale
Company. .
5 loaves of Becker's Bread, and some Virginia Dare
Cakes donated by Beckers Bakery.
A $4 electrical appliance, by Martin Electric Com
pany. On Saturday, an $8 percolator will be given by
this firm. -:v;;'.:'
A person must be present to receive one of these
90 prizes. None will be held over.
There are no admission charges for the school.
As the result of the disagreement
of the members of the Haywood
County commissioners over the ne
cessity of the erection of a new
school building in Clyde, a dele
gation of approximately 60 of the
leading citizens, taxpayers and pa
trons of the Cb'de scnool district
appeared before the commissioners
at their regular third Monday meet-
I inc. held here this urpplr
The delegation left the court
house with satisfaction over their
work, as they were given the
promise that the work of construc
tion would begin around the first
ef December, and as far as was
known the tentative plans made
sometime ago would be carried out.
The delegation presented three
petitions to the commissioners;
namely, from the- board of the
Clyde school district; the teachers
of the Clyde school, and another,
with 76 signatures from the busi
iness and professional citizens of
the town.
The delegation was presented to
the commissioners by Mark Leath
erwood, chairman of the school
board. Mr. Leatherwood then call
ed on Clifford Brown, who present
ed the three petitions to the com
missioners, setting forth that from
the standpoint of health, safety
and adequate facilities for carrying
on a school program, they felt that
a new school building in Clyd Was
a necessity, '."' .
. It Mas tlao brought tut In th
f-petitfons that the only site satis
factory to the great majority of
the citizens of Clyde, will likely
be subdivided and sold for residen
tial purposes in the near future,
if not acquired at once for school
use.
They also pointed out that when
the present site was selected the
road ran between the school build
ing and the river, and "now that the
road has been abandoned, as a
public thoroughfare and a new
concrete highway runs east and
west, parallel with the river, to
the south of the building, cutting
the school property off between
the highway and th river, creat
ing a most undesirable location,
and at the same time blocking the
possibility of expanding the cam
pus to the south with the growth
of the school as was Originally in
tended." They brought out the fact that
no major WPA or PWA project
had been asked for or received by
the town of Clyde or the Clyde
school district, although local Clyde
WPA labor had been transferred
to other communities in the county
to effect desirable and important
and expensive improvements.
George A. Brown, Jr., asked
Jack Messer, county superintend
ent of education to explain the
exact status of the application of
the loan from WPA for funds to
apply on the construction of th
building.
Mr. Messer told of the plans
which had been adopted by the
county board of education, and en
dorsed by the Clyde school district
and the county commissioners, and
that the WPA application was now
in the Raleigh office-, and all nec
essary arrangements were going
forward to start work sometime
early in December.
The remainder of the day was
spent with regular routine mut
ters that come Un at eaeh mHn
of the county board of commissioners.
Dr. W. Dudley Smith
Becomes Member Of
College Of Surgeons
Dr. W. Dudley Smith and Dr.
Gladys Osborne left Sunday for
Philadelphia, where they are at
tending the annual meeting this
week of the College of Surgeons,
high ranking organization in the
medical world.
Dr. Smith was initiated into
fellowship of the college on Mon
day. ;
E Prizes Interesting Lectures At The Cooking School Today and Friday At 3; Saturday At 1 0
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