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The Waynesville Mountaineer
Published In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance oj The Great Smoky Mountains National Park
RfltH YEAR
NO. 47
WAYNESVILLE, N. C THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1939
e In Hospital, Another
Jail After Head-On Car
Collision Late Yesterday
Ley, Of Canton, Suf
Hnjuries In Smash,
Lessee Man Held
Lkev. of Canton, is con-
lie Haywood wumy nos-
UW. R. Sanaers, oi len-
i lodged in jail, as me re-Lkfiid-on
collision of their
U 6:30 yesterday alter
k. accident occurred on
pn Street near the en-
L Woolsey ileignts.
Lkey received bruises on
k i cut over the left eye,
ii on the chest. The phy-
h charee of the- case
Lt night, that it was im-
lo tell the extent of his
fBryson, also of Canton,
ijr of the car in which
was riding, escaped m-
Uders was alone in his
cording to the sheriff's
M not hurt
fare are "nearly worthless,"
term used by the owner of
fliere the automobiles
Auto Theif Gets
3 Years To Think
Of Two Mile Ride
Jury Returned
True Bill In The
Rich Murder Case
November Term Of Criminal
Court Convened Monday,
Judge Hess Presiding
tickets To
gro Minstrel
ave Been Sold
Local People To Take
In Benefit Perfor-
ice Friday Night
WO tickets already sold,
running: high, all
in that a large audi-
the.401ocal taliiad
in the Darktown Min
night at the high school
h it eight o'clock. The
i half program is being
f the Lions Club to raise
tarry on their work of
glasses for underorivi-
Pn. This paet year
Y 12 pairs, and are mak-
mw to provide 25 pair
jst it composed entirely of
nd is of the typical
fMtrel type wHh music,
' jokes, dancing: and sev-
tjr numbers.
fug on the program, will
Ml dance by "Snake"
and also Lauriston Har-
w Davis will give a rope
exhibition, while special
umbers will be given by
a, Jim Killian, Bobby
'Preston, and L. T. New,
t is acclaimwl to
F many laughs, has been
Fy tlarence Barnes. A
M- Freeman and Jim
pkfence Barnes also ap-
oio skit, as Henpeck-
Kfu will be a neero
Preached" by Chester
flkitt snm'es the role
P the long string of
I voes.
PP Hill Rnmklo J.
1 i ik.cio yiuviue
t- -v .us evening.
" in be 25 cent for
r-' cents lor children.
rossRoll
Is Exnected
P Exceed 1938
IS - last night
" had been raised to
teriL "Ual d Cr88
X?T the Waynes-
mber of groups yet
reports.
J the quota for Way
at $600., and the
J ovw the top by a
to spare. This year
Quota set, only the
W P as far as poesi
es. President of the
Itki dt indent yester-
u . ni raised this
flw exceed that of last
ta"? groups have not
Q tiT8 Manufac-
rJv Saunk school,
Eighteen months in the state
penitentiary for every mile he
drove a stolen car, is the price
John Campbell, of Crosby,
Tenn., will pay for his two-mile
ride late Saturday afternoon
out highway No. 284.
If he behaves, he will be back
home in three years, otherwise
according to his sentence, it
will be just about Christmas
time in 1944 or the price of
thirty-months-per-mile."
Campbell drove off in a coupe
which was parked in front of
Hyatt and Company, and own
ed by the firm, about 5 o'clock
in the afternoon.
He raced out towards Dell
wood, and is said to have hit
another car before running
into a ditch near Turpin's
Chapel.
In ten minutes, Campbell
was in the hand of officers
from the sheriff's office, and
was tried in court this week,
and given a sentence of three
to five years in the state peni
tentiary. And of all the cars parked
on the streets at that time,
Campbell selected one with the
owner's named painted in large
letters on both doors.
Tax Listers Were
Appointed Mon.
;tiy Commissioners
Tax listers were appointed at
the meeting Monday of the board
of county commissioners and will
begin their work on the first of
January, instead of April a, has
heretofore been the custom in Hay
wood County.
Listers for the various townships
include the following: Beaverdam,
John Allen; Cataloochee,
Flora Palmer; Cecil, Perry Allen;
Clyde, Carey Byers; Crabtree, R.
L. James; East Fork, K. L. Bur
nett."; . ' . -
Fines Creek, Cauley Rogers;
Iron Duff, Oral Yates; Jonathan
Creek, Dick Moody; Pigeon, K B.
Rickman; Waynesville J. S. Black;
White Oak, John William; Ivy Hill,
D. J. Boyd.
The Haywood County grand jury
returned a true bill against Perry
Rich for the alleged murder of his
brother, Jesse Rich, on Monday
morning, the opening day of the
November term of criminal court,
over which Judge J. Will Pless, of
Marion, is presiding.
The docket of the present term
contains a large number of cases,
and a civil calendar has been pre
pared for trial during the second
week.
The following verdicts had been
rendered through Wednesday af
ternoon: Roy Colward, driving drunk, fined
$50 and costs, and driver's license
revoked for one year.
L. A. Farrior, for driving drunk,
fined $75 and costs, and driver's
license revoked.
Jack Ferguson, driving drunk,
$50 and costs, with driver's li
cense revoked.
Ella Mae Paris, for violation of
prohibition laws, two years sus
pended sentence.
George Brysoo, for larceny of m
automobile, 8 months to work in one
of the county institutions, and
driver's license revoked.
E. F. Cody, for driving drunk,
60 days on the roads and driver's
license revoked.
Garland and Fred Pressley, for
operating a junk yard in Canton,
were discharged on payment of
costs.
Carter Clark, for assault, fined
$10 and costs.
Horace Sharp, for breaking and
entering, four months on the roads.
Roy GosnelL for larceny, 6
months on the roads.
Jack Ci.rn.XJor hunting without
license, discharged on payment of
costa. ; i
D. R. Owen, far f orrery, 6
months on the roads.
Orville King, for cruelty to an.
imals, two years on the roads.
John Mathis, for bigamy, senten
ced to state penitentiary from 2 to
4 years.
Monroe Ewart, for larceny, dis
charged on payment of costs.
Bill Sharp, for breaking, enter
ic,! ling and larceny, sentenced from
Z to a years to suite peniienimry.
Frank Williamson, for driving
drunk, 6 months on the roads, and
driver's license revoked.
The following divorces Were
granted: Marjorie Swayngim Ball
from William B. Ball; H. C. San
ford from Nova Sanford; Hilda
Margaret Anderson from W. G.
Anderson; Louise Stamey from
Ernest Stamey. '
Bringing Back The Bruin
fi'xw.r.ii hi n i in i "I m - - - f it) Wniimniii i iiumih 111 m ulrnn
Dr. E. W. Gudger, International
Authority On Fishes, Was 36
Years Old Before Seeing Ocean
By Hilda Way Gwyn.
Truth U stranger than fiction. A
trite beginning, but how else could
you describe the life of a man who
Vm hprome an international au
thority on the creatures of the
brinny deep, who never saw an
ocean until he was thirty-six years
Such are the facts in the life of
Tif Hiiirene W. Guderer. ichthyolo-
rit native of Waynesville, and
resident of New York City, who
rotireH 1t vear from his post oi
associate curator of nsnes in ue
American Museum of Natural His
tory, and is now honored witnvtne
title of Honorary Associate in
Ichthyology. The leisure of his
retirement is merely a continuation
of his life work. .
"A prophet is not without honor
on no in hi own country," might be
applied to Dr. Gudger, famous Tar
Heel. While he has gainea jm.e
national recognition, he has lived
out of the state so many years,
and his work being of such a high
.v-;-i .tiiro it is doubtful
if he is as well' known to the people
of North Carolina, as his achieve
ments deserve. - : l
The background of a life, rics
and full of accomplishments, which
reveals step by step the path to
fame and renowned recogniuu
come in for tlieir snare
riation. .
Th lit of fellowships and mem-
cientific groups
over the world, in which he is in
cluded, is far too large to mention
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It would have taken four pictures to have told the story of R. L.
Prcvost's hunt of last week-end, and four large bear were brought
Hack. This picture was snapped after a hunt last season, and as you
can see, the boys did themselves proud. J. W. Killian is holding the
left end of the pole, while George A. Brown, Jr., is kneeling on the
extreme left of the picture.
57 Nominated As
Candidates For
C. of C. Directors
Ballots Available At Office, Or
One Printed In This Paper
May Be Used
Sixteen directors for the Cham
ber of Commerce will be elected out
of a nominated list of 57, and from
the directors will come officers for
1940.
Ballots are being mailed by J.
Dale Stents, secretary this week,
and all voting must bo dona be
tween now and.jooiv-tf .Wtflri"
day, Nov. 29th, he pointed, out
Additional ballots can be secured
from the Chamber of Commerce
office, or the one ued which Is
printed elsewhere in this newspa
per, he said.
The nominees are classed under
six different groups, and a desig
nated number to be voted on from
each group.
The nominating committee has
prepared the following list:
Industrial group, three to be
(Continued on back page)
Soco Gap Dance
Team Will Make
Tour Of Florida
Bookings Are Being Made In
Theatres And Night Clubs
In The Larger Cities
DR. E. W. GUDGER
ty, but among them are: member
nt th American Society of Zoolo-
n'at? the Societv of Naturalist:
Society of Ichthyologists; life mem
ber of the American Museum I
Natural History; president for one
vear and secretary for ten years
of the North Carolina Academy of
Science; a fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement
nf Science: and honorary corre-
ennndine member of the Salmon
and Trout Association of Great
Britain.
T)r. Gndter's name is found In
the Natural Encyclopedia of Amer
ican Biography; in Who's Who in
(Continued on page 5)
The Soco Gap Dance Team plans
to tour Florida for a two months
period, leaving here around the
23rd of December. Joe Welch will
be in charge of the bookings for the
group.
The team will travel in a Smoky
Mountain Tour bus and will be
accompanied by W. F. Bridgers,
owner of. the company, who will
show his movies of this section as
part of the program staged by the
Soco team.
Richard Queen, Ralph Moody,
Joe Campbell, and Joe Welch re
turned this week from Kentucky
where they made arrangements
with the Coon Creek Girls, a moun
tain string band, that has furnish
ed music for the Soco Dance Team
at the past two Folk Festivals held
in Washington, and that played
for the team on the memorable oc
casion when they danced for King
George and Queen Elizabeth.
The Coon Creek Girls have been
on the Renfro Valley Barn dance
program of WLW for sometime,
and are well known for their moun
tain tnusic. ;
Mr. Queen states that they plan
to take six couples on the tour. They
will have bookings in the theaters,
night clubs and public square dance
features in all the larger cities of
Florida. They plan to stay in
Miami for a two weeks period.
Robert Clark Takes Up
New Duties In Asheville
Local Hunters
Bag Four Bear
Hunt On West Fork, Headed
By It L. Prevost, Has Suc
cessful 2-Day Hunt
' Four bears were killed by R. L.
Pievost's bear hunting party on
Friday and Saturday in the Sher
wood Forest area of the Pisgah
National Forest.
Tht largest kill, a 600-pounder,
was made in the morning of the
first day of the two-day hunt This
was regarded as the largest kill tu
any of ; the federal-state co-oper
ative areas in the three seasons inf
which hunts have been held and
possibly ever killed In Pisgah
Forest;. -. ' ;
The four bruins were killed by
W. A. Bradley, Bob Boone, George
Bjschoff and Hub Parker.
The hunting party was compos
ed of Mr, Prevost president Of the
Unagusta Manufacturing Co., in
Haxelwood, Congressman Zebulon
Weaver and twenty-three others.
Ten bear dogs were used in the
hunt which resulted in the killing
of the four bears. The hunt was on
the left prong of the west fork of
Pigeon river.
Another party of 25, headed by
Albert Abel, made a hunt on No
vember 10 and 11 on Big East Fork,
but did not meet with any success.
On the 24th and 25th, another
group of 25, headed by A. J.
Hutchina, of Canton, will hunt in
the Little East Fork section.
J. C. Cannon, of Dillsboro, and
a party, will hunt the middle Prong
on December first and second.
A group from here went to Lin
ville this past week-end, but bad
Weather prevented any hunting.
Garrett Named District
Governor Of N. C. Funeral
$1.50 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Ceontks
Haywood Votes 10 To.
1 For Burley Control
Next Thursday
Will Be Observed
As Thanksgiving
According to information
yesterday afternoon, the rural
mail carriers will be the only
local people who will observe
President Roosevelt's Thanks
giving today.
The annual celebration which
has been traditionally held the
last Thursday In November
will be observed here next
Thursday as usual, starting
with the union church service
at 8 o'clock.
The service will be held this
year in the First MethodiBt
church, with the Rev. W. Her
bert Mayers, rector of Grace
Episcopal church delivering the
sermon. The other ministers
of the town will assist in the
service. There will be spe
cial music.
The business firms, the post
office, and tho First National
Bank will observe the usual
Thanksgiving holidays
The high spot of the after
noon is the football game be
tween Waynesville and Canton,
which annually attracts large
holiday crowds.
Santa Claus To
Arrive On Train
December Second
Is Sending His Motor Sleigh
Ahead, Will Give Children
w' Candies - - :
Santa ClauB special motor sleigh
is on its way to Waynesville, and
according to word received this
week from the jolly old man, it
should be here several days prior
to his arrival on Saturday, Decem
ber second..
Santa notified the local committee
who is making arrangements for
hig arrival,' that the sleigh is being
sent ahead of time, and that the
chubby, red-nosed old fellow will
come to Waynesville on the 10:30
train on the morning of the second.
While he did not tell everything
about his plans, he did say that he
would have his motor sleigh driven
around the streets of Hazel wood
and Waynesville before he went to
his igloo and from there would
give every little girl and boy
meeting him some candy.
He was pleased to know that
members of the high school band
would be on hand to give him a
rousing welcome with some band
music when he arrives at the sta
tion, and also at the igloo.
Plans are going forward rapidly
in making last minute preparations
to have the town decorated by Fri
day night, December 1. : The many
colored lights will be strung on
Ivy Hill and Beaverdam Town
ships Vote 100 Per Cent
For AAA Plan
Burley tobacco growers in Hay
wood County voted in favor of AAA
tobacco quota control for 1940 crops
on Tuesday, with 509 voting favora
bly and 52 votes caBt against the
measure.
The county committee was much
gratified over the result of the
election, and feel that the growers
will appreciate the significance of
their vote in the coming year.
The approval expressed on Tues
day by the majority of the burley
growers does not effect the 1939
crop, as far as the AAA is con
cerned, but applies solely to the
1940 crop. However some tobacco
authorities seem to think that the
vote on Tuesday will boost prices
for this year.
Under the plan voted on this
week, if approved by two-thirds
majority of growers in 16 southern
and mid-western states, included
in the burley belt, growers will be
permitted to market tobacco grown
upon their AAA acreage allot
ments. Tobacco grown on excess
acreage will be subject to a pen
alty tax of 10 cents a pound if
marketed.
The vote in Haywood County
according to townships was as follows:
Township
Waynesville
White Oak
Fines Creek
Crabtree
Ivy Hill ,
Jonatbad
Iron Ouff
BeavecJam
Clyde
Pigeon, Cecil
East Fork '
Twenty-four of the votes chal
lenged were allowed to be cast
as the voters had business in Way
nesville, a number attending court,
and the challenge was more or less
routine.
8 55 &
I ill
g l
91 63 3 26
31 29 2 0
123 96 7 0
64 19 16 2
19 19 0 0
69 61 8 0
63 62 1 0
27 26 0 1
' 46 42 4 0
60 60 10 0
568 609 62 2
Robert M. Clark, circulation man
ager of The Mountaineer for the
past 15 months, took up new duties
with a well known insurance com
pany, in Asheville this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Clark and young
daughter, moved to Asheville, their
former home, on Friday.
Ana Juntaimers Aseo. Pomniptinr iheir r,in t hv th.ir
stores trimmed in all the Christmas
festooning by that time. ; Several
stores have already unpacked loads
of Christmas goods, and yesterday
several places were busy marking
and checking in holiday merchan
dise. Santa Claus will visit every
school in the county, traveling in
his motor sleigh, and will be in his
igloo every Saturday, and on the
streets and in the stores from De
cember 18 through Christmas eve.
He will spend the entire time from
the hour he arrives on the second
until Christmas eve n this imme
diate vicinity.
N. W. Garrett has been named
district governor of the eighth dis
trict of the North Carolina Funeral
Directors and Embalmers Associa
tion. The appointment came from
State President, Ernest Thompson,
of Burlington.
Mr. Garrett announced yesterday
that a district meeting, which will
include all counties from Ruther
ford ton County west, will meet at
the George Vanderbilt Hotel on
November 28.
There are 36 members in this
district, and Mr. Garrett will serve
for one year. : ;
IN LOOKING OVER THE COUNTY
General Haywood
GETS A FEW THINGS OF COUNTY-WIDE
INTEREST OFF HIS MIND WITH LETTERS
The plan met with favor in 17
of the 18 counties in Western North
Carolina, while other states par
ticipating in the voting carried
overwhelming, pilling up about 87,
000 votes for and 16,000 against
Graham turned thumbs down on
the plan, by a vote 36 for and 49
against. '"
Avery and Mitchell counties
failed to carry a two-thirds majori
ty, while Mitchell voted 72 for and
64 against.
The results of Tuesday's voting
had political bearing, as it is the ,
second farmer referendum victory
so far this fall. The administra
tion's crop control program, now
looms as a potential issue in next
year's presidential campaign.
A year ago, burley growers
voted against the plan.
Haywood County Commissioners, county home, where there are al
Gentlemen: 'most as many children as adult
In my day I have been a close ' inmates. The condition has been
observer of county affairs, and I
appreciate the numerous and some
of the perplexing problems with
which you have to deal, but there
is one, that seems to me that needs
immediate attention.
This is the situation at the
appalling for all these years. It
is not getting better, although as
has been often said, through co
fault of present or past superin
tendents, or your board, but large
ly because the public was not
(Con tinned on page 2)
Rabbits, Birds
Plentiful, As Sea
son Opens 30th
"There are more birds than at
any time in years," County Game
Warden Cody Plott said yesterday,
in discusing the opening of the
season on the 30th.
"Grouse and rabbits are also
plentiful, and according to the num
ber of hunters at Lake Junaluska,
it is a good season for ducks, Mr.
Plott continued. The season for
rabbits and grouse also opens next
Thursday.
Between 200 and 300 ducks ap
pear at the Lake every morning,
it was said, and from 20 to 25
hunters are on hand to try their
luck. One man got eight ducks
Saturday, three Monday and eight
again Tuesday.
Mr. Plott said he understood
there was considerable duck hunt
ing at Waterville, but that he had
not made a check-up down there.
The duck season will close De
cember 29th. Any gun tinder 8
guage is permitted to hunt ducks,
but no ri files.
The open season for grouse will
close January 15, while the season
for rabbits and quail will remain
open until February 15th.
Mr. Plott had no official infor
mation on the annual deer hunts
in Pisgah National Forest, but was
expecting some this week-end.
P nd the Juniors.
in full in a sketch oi sucn