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The Waynesville
OUNTAINEER
Published In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance oj The Great Smoky Mountains National Park
pfTH YEAR
NO. 43
WAYNESVILLE, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1939
$1.50 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Countic
M
trolmen Launch Drive
To Enforce Traffic Laws
loan Roberts,
L issues Warning
Violators Of Law
Stationed
To
"nip in this county are
Ereless about a lot of traffic
I. ttiev are all over the state.
L to see that the motor ve
in of North Carolina are
U in my appointed wrriio-
j Patrolman Owen K, Kod-
U , .
ijp has been stationed in
y, with headquarters in
trifle since the 15th or bep-
have a habit of failing to
L entering the main high-
They drive cars Without
;, They run over stop signs
, often fail to give the prop-
li signals," continued Pat-
Roberts in discussing
drivers, with a representa
The Mountaineer this week.
:end to indict anybody I
sing a school bus while it
ng and unloading children.
I will show no favoritisms.
to see that the laws are
out," continued Mr. Roberts.
n the state commission ad-
more highway patrolmen,
t of last month, it was in
lion of the great need for
ler observance of driving on
hways, and we partolmen
t we would be falling short
entrusted to us, if we do
b close watch on the high
fcxplained Mr. Roberts.
law that has been ignored
klly over the state, that is
tressed at present, is the
of lights of cars in pass
large number of wrecks
late highways each year is
ted to drivers failing to
iir lights, and the glare
approaching car so blinded
er, that he was not held
Hi,
also pointed out that the
of trucks on the highways
m to stop in this section
rivers take the course of
the speeding of large
chicles around mountain
p the highways in this vi
sing particularly danger-
man Roberts also stated
'e are a number of cars in
:ion that have onlv one
late and that hereafter
calls for duplicate plates,
all drivers bavins' only
p must purchase an extra
once.
4,000 Rainbow Trout
Will Be Planted In
Richland Creek Monday
Now since the towns of Ha
zelwood and Waynesville have
removed the pollution of the
sewerage from Richland Creek,
the stream is again recogniz.d
by the state Department of
Conservation and Development
according to Game and Fish
Protector G. C. Plott.
On Monday morning Protec
tor Plott states he will plant
no less than 4.000 rainbow
thout in Richland.
The planting of the fish,
which will be from four to six
inches in length, will begin
around the vicinity of Howell's
Mill and will continue as far
up as Allen's Cretk.
Hendersonville Band To Play Here Friday
Plants Running
Full Capacity
At Hazelwood
New Wage-Hour Law Maks
But Little Change In Ma
jority Of Local Plants
Department
s Called Out
ice This Week
M occurred
F slight damages are re-
tooth instances by the,
Apartment.
N alarm of the two, Was
' last Saturday morn
lJe apartment of Mr. and
1 Lewis over the building
occupied by the Moody
re, on Boyd Avenue.
P, and ia cv;...:.l i
1 " VAMUgUlBUCU
F damage was done.
fnd fire occurred around
at the Jim KniWIl. ,.,
w VIUI Uvlllw
P street, and was said to
pt on the outside from
fom fh i.ix.i
- imcueii stove.
y was away from home
e was discovered by the
ho hnl vio,
wiic viac
; by the time the fire
From the wage and hour law,
which went into effect at midnight
on Monday of this week, with its
42-hour work week maximum and
its 30-cent hour minimum wage,
little or no reaction was felt
among local manufacturing indus
tries, according to a survey con
ducted by The Mountaineer.
It Was learned that the plants
at Hazelwood were all running at
full capacity and that in some cases
additional men had been put on
during the recent months, with em
ployment figures making an en
couraging record.
In cases where the work week
had previously been at 44 hours,
the manufacturers were philosophi
cal about the change, but stated
that in many instances the men
would prefer to work 44 hours.
However, they all seem to agree
that the time and a half wage
would be prohibitive for the extra
2 hours as it would take all the
profit from the producer.
According to estimates issued
by the Wage and Hour Division of
the United States Department of
Labor, wage increases for 60,000
workers in the industrial plants of
North Carolina will' be made.
An estimated total of 71,100
workers in the state will have
their hours reduced from 44 to 42
per week, or will receive
overtime pay at the rate of time
and one-half the regular wage-rate
for hours in excess of that number.
These North Carolina w-orkers
are part of an estimated 690,000
in the nation who get wage increas
es and 2,800,000 now working more
than 42 hours, whose standard
work week will be reduced to that
figure.
The largest number of North
Carolina workers to receive wage
increases are employed in manu
facturing, wholesale trade, and
motor car industries. These three
groups account for 90 per cent of
all those in the country receiving
less than 30 cents an hour, or work
ing more than 42 hours weekly.
Administration of the Wage and
Hour Law during its first year
contributed to the upswing in bus
iness, by wage increases for more
than 300,000 of the most poorly
paid workers and reduction in the
hours of work, or the receipt of
overtime pay for some 1,375,000
Fire Raging Over 500
Acres In Plott Balsams
at
r
re,
District
Superintendent
The 65-piocc band from Hendersonville will lend a parade up Main
Street about five o'clock Friday afternoon, and during the halves at the
Hendersonville-Waynesville football game .which will start at 7:30 at the
stadium, wilt give a marching exhibition.
The Hendersonville band was organized in the fall of 1938. Last spring
they made an honor rating of first in the state music contest in Greensboro
in the U classification (bands organized less than one year). This rating
made them eligible for the regional contest which was held in Charlotte a
month later. The band there made a first honor rating, being the only band
in the 8th region to attain such an honor. The 8th region includes Virginia,
North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and parts' of Tennessee. The
Hendersonville band is directed by Julian W, Helms.
Haywood County
Mutual Cannery
Closed Oct. 1st.
Successful Season, With Profit
To Growers Reported By
Frank M. Davis, Mgr.
Pent In Sale Of License
Nine Felt In License
Fs As Couples Go
Georgia To Wed
P when you could apply
t "cense, get it
the services of a
the
Peace in the court
m the snare of 15
r couPle could be tied
ft holy bonds of mat-
oara as the law could
J' changed in NorthQr-
t nu,
n law ent into effect
;."ove on swifter wings
V 'ws nave let
i J ior dissatisfied hus-
w,ves. but the laws of
North Carolina have thrown re
strictions about getting married,
and it now takes from two to three
days to get the necessary arrange
ments made, even though it still
takes the justice or the minister
only a few minutes to seal the final
chapter. !
It seems that the new legisla
lation designed by the last legisla
ture relative to the requirements
of health certificates and blood
tests is not "holding water" as
time goes on.
It is not interfering with the
number of marriages, but it is
making a considerable dent in the
records of the number of licenses
being sold, not only in Haywood
County, but throughout the state,
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The Haywood County Mutual
Cannery at Hazelwood closed down
for the year li:!!( the first of the
month, following one of the most
successful years since its establish
ment five years ago. The cannery
started operation for the current
season on May the 15th, and with
the exception of about two weeks
between the spinach crop and the
blackberryneason, operated on full
time from then until October the
first, according to Frank M, Davis,
manager of the cannery.
A total of 11,905 cases, including
spinach, beans, and blackberries,
were canned during the season. A
total of $2,339 was paid out in
labor during the canning season,
and $3,710.13 was paid to the farm
ers for their produce this year.
The total number of cans used in
the canning of the three product
amounted to 589,358 and the num
ber of pounds of vegetables and
berries canned came to 367,709,
while around 1,000,000 pounds of
produce were handled, including
that put on the green vegetable
market.
The Haywood County cannery
stands today as a monument to the
far sighted civic leaders and farm
ers who back in 1934 realized that
the products of this section with
the opening up of through high
ways, should and Could compete
with those of other sections. The
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Building Loan
Officials At
Canton Meeting
R. L. Prevost President Of
District, Led Discussions
Yesterday
W. T. H. S. Band Provided
With Necessary Instruments
10 Free Tickets
To Game Given
Ten football tickets to the
Waynesville Hendersonville
game are waiting at The Moun
taineer for the tan people
whose names are listed in
the want ad columns. this week
to come claim ther$ ,- by five
o'clock Friday.
Building and Loan officials from
Murphy to Rutherfordton met in
Canton yesterday for their district
meeting, of which R. L. Prevost,
president of the Haywood Home
Building and Loan Association, is
president.
Prior to the opening session at
4 o'clock, those attending were
guests of the Champion Paper and
Fibre Company, and were escortid
over the plant on a two-hour in
spection tour.
At the meeting which followed
at four o'clock, round tabl'j discus
sions were held pf the various prob
lems now facing the Buildinr and
Loan groups throughout th2 state,
and the ways in which an associa
tion can best serve its community.
At seven o'clock, a banquet was
held at the Imperial Hotel, wbich
was attended by a number of direc
tors of the Haywood Home Build
ing and Loan. Clarence N. Walker,
of Asheville, was the principle
speaker of the evening.
Among those attending were iev
eral of the officials of the state
group, and representatives of the
insurance companies which in
sure loans for the associations.
Smoky Chapter Of
F.F.A. Wins High
Honor At Meeting
The local chapter Future Farm
ers of-America was accorded high
honors at the National Convention
held in Kansns City recently when
the National organization presented
the chapter with a certificate of
honorable mention. This chapter
was one of ten in the Southeastern
region to receive such certificate,
signed by- the National president
and the Chief of Agricultural Ser
vice for the United States.
From the sixty-three hundred
chapters in the United States and
Hiwaii, the Stamping Grounds
Kentucky chapter was accorded
first place. ChapUrs other than
first are designated by honorable
mention only to outstanding chap
ters. Waynesville came in for some
free advertising at the National
banquet when 1200 members from
every state in the union and Hiawii
gathered in the municipal audito
rium. The local chapter furnished
raspberry jam for the occasion
and recognition was given on the
program for the contribution. Mrs.
Henry Francis made the jam and
was accorded many compliments on
the fine flavor of the product, some
credit for which should go to the
local cannery for sanitary and effi
cient methods used in canning.
Sponsors Underwrite $600
Worth Of Horns For Rasa
Section Of Hand
An unbelievable demonstration
by the flO-pitce high school band,
organized seven weeks ago in the
Waynesville Township High School,
completely swept 30 business and
civic leaders off their feet Tues
day night, and in less than an houf,
the men had organised into a per
manent group and underwritten
$600 for the purchase of three
large instruments for the bas sec
tion in the band.
Under the direction of their
bandmaster, L. T. New, Jr., the
players demonstrated their abil
ity to keep time, and not only run
the simpler scales, but to play
complete pieces, bringing in varia
tions nnd different sound effects.
The thirty men elected L. M.
Richc8oii, as chairman, George A.
Brown, Jr., vice chairman, C. N.
Allen, treasurer, Bill Prevost, Sec
retary, and Hugh Massie and T. L.
Bramlett as members of the exec
utive committee.
The band is complete with all
new instruments, with the excep
tion of two BB fiat Sousaphoncs
and one E fiat Sousaphone and a
pair of cy mbols. These instru
ments, together with stands and
cases, were bought on the lowest
bid from three companies for an
even $600, and will remain the
property of the school band.
According to J. P. Separk, rep
resentative of the instrument man
uf acturer, the instruments would
last for an indefinite period. The
meal for the evening was provided
by Mr. Separk.
After the 60-pieces in the high
school band had given a 35-minute
review of the work accomplished
in seven weeks, a quartet from the
fourth grade demonstrated their
abilities on the saxette. These sim
ple instruments enable grammar
grade students to determine their
musical abilities and according to
Mr. New, put them in line for
regular band training with regula
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1
KKV. W. L. IIUTCHINS
Rev. Hutchins
And Rev. Huggin
Are Reappointed
Six Changes Are Made At
Methodist Conference In
Piistors In Waynesville
District
.V LOOKING OVER THE COUNTY
General Haywood
GETS A FEW THINGS OF COUNTY-WIDE
INTEREST OFF HIS MIND WITH LETTERS
Waynesville Aldermen.
Gentlemen: :
I note with pride that your street
department is making repairs on
broken sidewalks on Main Street.
There are but few things as ag
gravating as to try and walk on
broken sidewalks, and not many
things more dangerous to pedes
trians. '
As long as the sidewalks remain
in their present condition, the
town is inviting a lawsuit from
some unlucky person who might
fall and suffer injuries because of
the broken pavement
I am glad to see the work start
ed, and hope that the entire side
walk system can be put in apple
pie order before you call a halt.
Yourg truly,
GENERAL HAYWOOD.
The Roy V. L. '.Hut-chins, district
superintendent of the Waynesville
distriot ofthe Methodist church of
the Western)' North Carolina con
felt nee for the past year, will re
turn to his charge here, and the
Rev. James G. Huggin, Jr., pastor
of the First Methodist church, Was
re-appofnted as local pastor for n
third year.
There were six changes in the
Waynesville district of the Metho
dist churches, at the Western
North Carolina conference, which
was held during the past week in
Greensboro.
With the three Methodist denom
inations, the Methodist Episcopal
Church,' South, the Methodist Pro
testant church and the Methodi-t
Episcopal church, united into one
body the church faces a new year
of hiirh hope and spiritual inspi
ration for broadening its services.
Bishop Clare Purcell, of Char
lotte, Bishop Wallace E. Brown, of
Portland, Oregon, and Bishop
Straughn are Completing the final
step in the work of uniting 'the
three groups.
The appointments to the Waynes
ville district are as follows: W. L.
Hutchins, district superintendent;
Andrews, (J. N. Dublin; Bethel, J.
W. Blitch; Bryson City, A. L.
Rayle; Central Canton, W. R.
Kelly; First Canton, .1. F. Wyatt;
Clyde, G. E. Price; Crabtree, W.
H. Neese,
Cullowhee, W. L, Lanier; Dell-
, (Continued on back page) "
Dr. N. M. Medford Has
Returned From Hospital
And Is Much Improved
Ii. N. M. Medford, who has
been a patient in the Mission Hos
pital for three weeks, has returned
home and is much improved. He-
plan's. to be in his office jn the Ma
sonic Temple the latter part of the
week. ''
Special Crews Have Been
Fighting Blaze Since
Monday Morning
It was estimated yesterday af
ternoon that 600 acres of woodlands
on the R. II. Plott estate lands had
been burned over by one of the
most disastrous forest fires inhis
section in sometime and was still
raging at a late hour last night.
Forty-one men Were reported to
he fighting the flames last night,
headed by Jack Spratt, district
forester of the North Carolina
Forest Service; his assistant, Dan
Blake; county fire warden Mark
Hannah, and four county district
warduis, J. R. Plott, of Ivy Hill
township, llarve Beach, Clem Fitz
gerald and George Plott, of Way
nesville district.
The fire was thought to have
started bit ween S). and 10 o'clock
Monday morning according to
wardens from a skidder of a lum
bi r operation on the property, on
I ii-hii- Kidgo on Little Balsam, and
by late Tuesday afternoon the fue
had reached the Mont Plott plac
on Plott's Creek.
Chief Warden, Mark Hannah,
took a crew of 10 to 12 men to the
scene of the fire when it was first
discovered and by late Monday af
ternoon it was thought that the
lire was under control, and prac
tically out.
In the ineaiitimo Warden Hannah
was called to Iron Dutf township,
where he and his men fought until
four o'clock Tuesday morning.
After the fire was under control he
Was called back to the scene of th
first fire which was raging over a
still larger area.
He at once got in touch with the
district foresters in Asheville and
called for other help and sinco
that time the large crew has been
fighting the spreading Humes on
the; Plott lands. :
R. T. Underwood
Will Be Buried
At Green Hill
Last rites for Robert Taylor
UnderWood, 91-year-old Confed
erate veteran, who died Tuesday at
his home in Asheville, will be held
this afternoon at two o'clock at the
Berryman-Craddock funeral home,
with the Rev. II. A. Clark officiat
ing. '
Burial will be made at Green Hill
cemetery here.
The deceased was a member of
the Zeb Vance camp United Con
federate Veterans and the Seventh
Day Adventist church.
He wag a native of Waynesville,
but for the past 20 years had re
sided in Asheville.
Surviving are his widow; six
daughters, Mrs. H. P. Parker, of
Urbana, Ind., Mrs. Canie Foster,
of Wei don, Mrs. J. S. Jones, of
Elizabethton T.enn., and Mrs. By
ron (Reeves, Mrs. G. C. Hawkins,
and Mrs. Odell Rawls, of Asheville;
three sons, James UmJ.'rwood of
Nashville, Tenn., Robert Under
wood, of Gainesville, Ga., and Ar
chie Underwood, of California; and
a number of grandchildren and
great grandchildren.
Mr. Underwood was the sole sur
vivor of Company A of the Thomas
Confederate Legion in the War Be
tween the States. He would have
been 92 years of age next Novem
ber 8. Two summers ago, he at
tended the joint reunion of the
armies of the north and south at
Gettysburg, Pa.
Some A dvoca te Observing
Thanksgiving Twice; On
Federal and State Days
To AH North Carolinians:
Two weeks ago, a gasoline trans
port truck wrecked near Morgan
ton, spilling over 3,800 gallons of
flaming fluid on the highway, dam
aging public and private property,
besides burning to death, the driver
and helper on the tanker.
Last week, another transport
tanker, headed for Sylva, caught
on fire just east of Hendersonville,
- (Continued on page 2)
With the exception of North Car
olina and Kansas, all the f tates in
the union, have agreed t) fall ;n
with President Roosevelt'? "New"
Thanksgiving date. In both states
there will be many mix-ups, no
doubt as groups and organizations
work out their days for celebrat
ing this great National holiday.
Locally the observance of Thanks
givin still hangs in the balance
with a number of groups about
town. One will observe the day on
the traditional and time honored
last Thursday of November, as set
forth by Governor Hoey, while
those connected with Federal agen
cies state that they will in all prob
ability have to abide by the deci
sion made sometime ago by Presi
dent Roosevelt to Celebrate the day
on November the 23rd.
In families where one member
works in a state or county office
and another in a Federal set up,
it is puzzling the mother as to how
to plan her Thanksgiving dinner.
Will she have two birds which
Seems an awful piece of extrava
gance, though it has been learned
on good authority that the birds
will not be so high this year.
Or on the other hand would it
be a better plan to have one meal
on the 23rd off the bird, then
wrap him up very carefully and
store him away in the electric ice
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