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TWELVE PAGES TODAY 1 nn 1HE W A YNRS VTT J iF. MOTT WT A If W W.I? Published In The rn c, t . . . I ' xzanvooa counry At The Eastern Entrance oj The Great Smoky Mountains National Park tflJtfTH YEAR WAYNESVILLE, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER ifi ioo SECTION OF THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER WAYNESVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, THUKSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1939 - . , " 1 :"' '---::--;.-if! -..:, y I : X r- ' t m-j n i i I ! i i; ........ f - ' :' . .' , ' .... $1.50 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties it Highway Projects ted For Haywood County its lOn hway On Soco Early d orgin and Hill No ma iid. ;r, siiid rebuild nt was te-week st been million mt only imed in illc fire ize and of the months re em oods. mills hex at e with works, f luin- 00 spn Yards I sea i last :cess lately uring klized ch ts lount 'ards rrcat the d a yers, inies CB- last ing- irds med of 1,000 Acres On Town Watershed Already Burned The forest fire on the Way nesville watershed was con fined last night to the mica mine areas, after burning 1,000 of the 9,500 acres since last Friday afternoon. The sections about Snaggy Ridge, Deep Pigeon Gap wire hit by the blaze. Robert Hugh Clark, super intendent of lights, took a crew of town workmen to the scene when the alarm was given, and since then as many as CO men have fought the blaze, under the direction of Mark Hannah, county fire warden, and his crews have been as sisted by a party of 60 CCC men. Seven Major Projects Outlin ed By Commissioner Mc Kee To Local Group Commander Rose Will Address Groups Friday State Legion Head Is Brought Here By Haywood Post And P. T. A. June Rose, commander of the American Legion and superintend dent of schools, Greenville, N. C, will be the special guest of the Haywood Post No. 47 and the Parent-Teacher Associations of the community on Friday night at the Legion horn. - Commander Rose will address the groups and their friends. lie will be introduced by Major J. H. Howell. Lester Burgin, comman der of the local post, will preside. Representatives from local civic organisations, town officials, min isters, post commanders, adjutants and other members of the Ameri can Legion posts from Asheville, Franklin, Bryson City, "Andrews, Murphy and Robbinsville have also been invited. Special guests of the evening will be the Gold-Star mothers of (the community, Mrs. John Mc Clure, of Hazelwood, and Mrs. J. L. Williams, of Waynesville. Friday morning Commander Rose will speak to the students of the high school. He will be intro duced by Mrs. D. D. Alley, state president of the North Carolina Congress of Parents and Teachers. At noon on Friday Commander Rose will be the guest of M. H. Bowles, superintendent of the Waynesville district schools, at the Kotary luncheon. js On Rural on Project Are iring Past Week Committees Are At Work In Five Sections Of Haywood Trying To Get Projects tie o rt, y. IS, Hi m ic i '"V agent's office, with ! c cnairman, Bill Med j -l - Altai; White Oak, Z?ord farm, with Wal-l- chairman, Oliver H. S1 m ; ....uui voiwrne. Canton, N. C. Dear Mr. Osborne: It must be a source of gratifica tion to you and your associates for your herd of Guernseys to con tinue to break national records, as I have noticed all along. I think it was quite a distinction for you to be called upon to pro vide a cow for exhibition at the New York World's Fair. A a lover of eood cattle, and one who knows the time, and in vestment it takes to do wnat yon have, I offer my congratulations on your accomplishments. GENERAL HAYWOOD. Mayor and Aldermen, Waynesville, N. C. Gentlemen: ; The double parking situation on our Main Street has become more than a nuisance it is dangerous, as evidenced last week when a school boy started across the street and had the view obstructed by a double parked truck. The condition is growing worse. No attempt seems to be made by the police to better the situation. I understand that some property owners have offered right-of-ways for a back alley. I realize that some are still opposed to such an alley, but that is to be expected. - (Continued on page 2) with an active Sunday school in 34 of the 37 churches. The valuation of all Baptist chureh properties in the associa tion is listed at $197,846. The Waynesville church is listed at $55,000, and the Canton church at $52,380. Clyde comes third with a valuation of $25,000. The 37 churches reported that $30,287.65 was spent durinz the year for local church work. Can ton led the field, with donations of 57.560.78. Waynesville was sec ond with $4,769.33, and Hazelwood third with $2,061.64. Total contributions for all pur poses amounted to $37,143.93. This included gifts for missions, educa tion, and benevolences. muiun case, mat ot ferry Rich; 23, alleged slayer of his brother, Jess Allen Rich, on Sun day, August the 27th, at the home of his parents, at Maggie, on the Soco Gap road, will come up for trial.'. A civil calendar has also been prepared for trial during the sec ond week of court. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lee. of Atlanta, spent the week-end in town as the guests of the former's father, W. T. Lee, at his country place on the Fairview road. Mrs. Joe Liner and young son left Friday for Miami, where they will spend the greater part of the winter. ' ' ; : - - Five meetings in the interest of securing electrification through the assistance of the Rural Electrifi cation Administration in Washing ton, were held over the county dur ing the past week. Large crowds and enthusiasm were met at each meeting accord ing to J. C. Lynn, county farm agent, who sponsored the move ment. Committees were appointed in each section to complete a sign up of all prospective subscribers, the work to be finished by December the first so that the project may be brought up for approval before the administration in Washington at an early date. A list of the committees who will serve is as follows: Iron Duff committee: Jarvis Chambers, W. C. Welch, Joe Med ford, J. H. Medford, T. C. Davis, Horace Bryson, Jess Fulbright, Harley Bryson, Dennie Crawford, Frank Davis, Oral Yates. Fines Creek committee: Roy Rogers, Sam Ferguson, D. Reeves Noland, Grady Ferguson. Glenn James, N. C. James, Glenn Mc- Cracken, Cauley Rogers, John (Continued on back page) Seven important highway pro jects are slated for Haywood County, was the definite statement of Commissioner E. L. McKee to a group of Haywood citizens on Monday. Within thirty days Mr. McKee looks for the letting of a contract to widen the highway in East Waynesville, from the city limits to the RatclifT Cove road. This pro ject will cost approximately $43, 000, which is several thousand more than first anticipated due to the additional drainage facilities, found necessary. As soon as machinery is avail able, crews are to begin work widening and surfacing the road from Waynesville to Bethel. The road will be 20 feet wide. This work will be a WPA project, but under the supervision of the state highway department. Plans are to take out a number of curves in the present road. Mr. McKee said his plans were to get from the next appropriation, enough money to surface the two and one-half mile stretch of road from Cruso to the mouth of Hun gry Creek. The road to Cruso is already surfaced. . Before the next tourist season, he plans to put crews at work on the road from the steel bridge to the top of the mountain at Wagon Road Gap, a three-mile mountain road. This will be put into a good gravel road, with a curbing, and some of the sharper curve cut away, ' Machinery is awaiting the set tlement of a right-of-way contro versy to renew work on the Fines Creek road from Rush Fork Gap to James' store. Th highway de partment has money in hand ready to complete the surfacing of the road for the two miles, -which is a two-mile short cut over the pres ent iroad. The county commis sioners and committee of the Chamber of Commerce are at tempting to work out satisfactory plans so the work can go forward at once. Work was suspended 40 days ago when the state held that too much was being asked for a right-of-way. No definite time was set, but Mr. McKee said plans were underway to straighen the highway and build a new bridge at the Little Rock Filling Station, midway between here and Lake Junaluska. Plans are also underway to ex tend Highway 110 from Woodrow over the river to connect with the new highway from Bethel to Cruso. This will necessitate the building of a bride, Mr. McKee pointed out. "Over $600,000 has been spent in Haywood County during the past year, on roads and other im provement," Mr. McKee told the group.. .. :' The citizens from here Monday learned that their request that Highway No. 284 be changed from a state highway to a federal high way had been granted, and that new U. S. highway signs would be erected at once. U. S. Highway 276 starts at Laurens and wonM terminate at Waynesville at pres ent. By making this a U. S. High way, it was pointed out that Way nesville would appear on all maps. . I nose attending the . meetinar Monday from here, were: L. N. Davis, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce roads committee, Geo. A. Brown, Jr., chairman of the board of commissioners. Frank Davis, commissioner and Chas. E. Ray, Jr., W. A. Hyatt, J. R. Boyd. vv. juinan, and J. Dale Stents. Mrs. A. T. Lucas, of Winston- Salem, spent several days during the past week with her sisters. Mrs. N. M. Medford and Mrs. A. Ward. Upon her return Mrs. Lucas was accomoanied hv Mrs. Ward, who made her a brief visit. . . . IP
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