North Carolina Newspapers

THE W AYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER Published In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance oj The Great Smoky Mountains National Park , rlEVENTH YEAR NO. 27 Twelve Pages W AYNESVILLE, N. O, THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1941 $1.50 In Advance in Haywood and Jackson Conntlea 98 Local en Heed raft Call (. Even 100 Registered In Lesvilleand 98 In Can L With Haywood Draft C f ins voung men who 1H enousrh to vote general draft registrar Ortober who regisweicu d here and in Canton on hL'the estimate fell short of ! 250 that had Deen preuicwu, , -mW of volunteers in .....rtaven among those under cvui . . ntj-one years or age account lie jmaller numDer oj. rKiD- wcording to to the local t pen 100 registered in Way &e, The places of registration, Ui. nntv. the offices of the W . I , logrda, were open from 7 in I morning to W ociock in uw Intng. i-u. .) cWks of the local cf urived shortly before 7 two i were waiting to be registered, fast man to be signed up was Eiim Jesse Mills, of . Waynes L md the last. Leo Buckner, fi card was filled out around in the evening. ; jjf the 100 men, 85 were resi- ta ol this county, out were U out of the state as follows: Irom Mississippi. 3. from Ten- Isee, 1 from Georgia, and 1 from tim, while the other 9 were k North Carolina. Two of the were colored. 0f the 98 registered in Canton I; 6 were from out of the coun- tith only 1 out of the state, tone being in Georgia. Judffe Bobbitt To Preside Over Term Of Criminal Court Docket Rather Heavy With Possibly Two Murder Cases Scheduled For Trial. Judere William H. Bobbitt. of Charlotte, is scheduled to preside over the July criminal term of Superior Court to convene on Moii-t day, the 7th. The docket is rather heavv wr i a number of important cases to come up for trial. The jurors drawn for the term include: First week Beaverdam. W. M. Allen. C. Guv HioDS. J. K. Caddy. W. J. Cogdill; Fines Creek, F!uyd Fisher, H. L. Justice; East F .k, J. Harrison Feece; Ivy Hill, D:m Carpenter, Alney Mehaffey; Crab tree, G. W. Messer, Crawford Best; Waynesville, W. H. Frazier, Burl McCaha, Grover Leatherwood, Geortre Troutman. W. H. Burcrin; Pigeon township, Burton S. Blay- lock; Iron Duff, Joe Medtord: Clyde, Marvin Rhmehart, fcam JJ. Rathbone: White Oak. Lloyd Teague; Jonathan, Gaddy Howell. Second week B e a v e r d a m, Charles A. Smith. Harry N. Mat thews. A. J. Gillis: Ivy Hill, As- bury Bradley, Frank A. Setzer; Waynesville, George Galloway, Ellis Setzer, Jerry R. Mull, Charlie Scruggs, Gaston Ferguson, M. Stamey: Crabtree, Thomas Fer onunn Knh Rocern: Iron Ulllr Clarence A. Dotson, L. B. Brown ; White1 Oak. Talmadge Hoglen; Fines Creek, C. S. Green ; East Fork, James R. Metcalf; Clyde, Fred S. Medford. Chai Of itv Police Ts - .Funeral servfs will be held this mm at ton o'clock at the Shen. 1 Wneral Hnma in Hpnrlerann t. for W. R. BnmoM 89 fnrm. thief of police of Waynesville, mea at tne home or his daugh ters. J. W. firnstv in tlniid TueSfiftV mnrninty of Q efn1ine Following the funeral services in mersonville the body will be nere tor burial in Green- i cemetery, where brief final rites 1 he cnnHnpfo4 i Serving as pallbearers will be Nsons as follows: Eugene twty, Robert McClure, Blaine Mc (f. and 0. C. Gray, all of Ashe Edwin Potest, of Waynes- Ji nd Clvde Fisher of TTorel- to. Burnett is a native of this unty. hut hoA Hendersonville for the past - jcura. ne served at one time npenntendent of roads in Hay. W CMintv Sorvivinp RlStv d ii .4 !. ' two omer aaugnirs, B. McClure and Mrs. M. A. ltpntii tit ... i . j . waynesville, ten grand fUoren anH i j. j 'udren. .'. Council MsTuesday t Hazelwood W. (,Westt'rn North Carolina ET y v:u will meet in the au fnam of the Hazelwood Bchool ff 7 evening, July 8, at l- H. Wooten, of the Gulf Oil IniT ? W1U 8Peak on "Industrial ""cation and 5t t A feature f the evening i - peciai numbers by a ne Pqnartette from the Ecnsta ilr Corporation at Brevard. lPresentatives from the State Z 8 Compensation Bureau expected. ; L: - Bailey, chairman th Zl ngof trophies. L Unagnsta Manufacturing Com- n''e & Pilkington Co Inc., r 00d; the Sylva Paper Utu r "nuanaia rower anu v pany f Franklin; and l' Wrohna Wood Tnrnino- Oim- Bryson City" wllembers j0 Rotary Club toft ?ew members were taken Friday Rotary Club here Uat -neh v y 'were Presented by "WL ie. and welcomed by v8'- Thev were: Guv 8. IfJi, ke Janalnska, Rev. R. Frank Ferguson, Jr. Is Given Federal Appointment Frank Ferguson, Jr., local at torney, has been appointed by JuHce Yates E. Webb to try petty offenses committed in the national park, jiational forest or on any other tfoVeMrrfent Sr'.pd property in this. ylcinityTV , - I All euch violatio- t of the law have heretofore bet f 'yied in Bry son City, but owir ' o the large nrp of eovernmeni i. ,nds covered in this section, it has not proved feasible to have all cases tnea there, so the appointment of Mr. Ferguson was made lor tnis sec firm The appointment was made lor a four-year term Deginmng uu June the 2nd. Mr. Ferguson is a graduats or DnV University and following his oraduation taUeht for a few years in the local Schools, tie was a mitted to the bar in 1939. Verdict In Whitted Death Given As Unavoidable Unavoidable death was the ver At w in-rv at the coroner's in UIVV V W..w J - quest held in Ashevme on jwonaay morning over the death of Allen whittpd 45. of the Candler sec tion who was struck by an automo bile driven by W. T, Crawiora, locai ottnmev around .9:10 oaiuruay It was brougnt out it mt,"" f tWat a nassine car naa Mr Crawford so that when v. j;aAAVaT-oH him walkine about 15 feet ahead he swerved his car and the man moved in tne same di rection so that the accident was unavoidable. s " Mr Whitted was rusneu Asheville hospital and lived until about 3:15 Sunday morninK. , w. ;jont occurred two and half miles South of Candler near the T. L. Miller store. One Killed, Two Hurt As Car And Truck Crash ? of n v '41 II . i . i . 1 i 1 . J . . nn J VA..t t,ilr ffnmoliuVied Aa thp fOitlllt of ft une man is aeaa, iwo seruiumy iiijueu, cw u ucai; - - - head-on collision just beyond Hazelwood early last Saturday morning. Photos by Homer Davis for I he Mountaineer. J: I Bank To Close This Afternoon For Two-Day Holiday The First National Bank will close at the regular hour two o'clock this afternoon and will not reopen until Monday morning at nine o'clock. The week-end holiday has been declared for all state and national banks by . the gover nor of the state, according to the officials. Any transaction of business during the two-day holiday will be regarded as illegal. 50th Anniversary Opening Of Library To Be Observed Plans are being made bv the board of dierctors of the Waynes ville Public Library to observe the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the institution to the public on July 11th, I8U1. On Fridav afternoon the 11th open house Will be held in the building with the board entertain ing at tea. The public is general is invited to attend an dinspect the building on which a number oi improvements have recently been made. . . The members of the board who operated the library for , years before the current board took over the management will officially receive the callers on Friday. A silver offering win De taicen cive the citizens of the com munity an opportunity to show their appreciation ol this nau century of service, which ha been ..iv.ia nnlv hv clasfl mansife- ment and time given by those who One man met his death, another is in ' a critical condition and third is badly hurt as the result of a head-on-collision of a car and a truck on the Balsam road around midnight on Friday. . Emanuel C. Markowiti, native of New York City, jewelry sales man, 47, who was driving the car, suffered fatal injuries and died at 11:10 o'clock Sunday morning in the Haywood County Hospital where he had been taken for treat ment. ' His wife arrived by Diane and reached here before his pass ing. Officers visitine the scene after the accident wereiof the opinion that Mr. Markowitx must - have been asleeD when he passed the truck since it was directly in front of his car, with the latter on the wronir side of the hisrhway. The dead man suffered severe internal Injuries, his chest was knocked in by the steering wheel and his head was cut by the wind shield. The body was shipped North on Monday and final rites Will be conducted this week in the Bethel Cemetery In- -Borgin coun Ed Wooten. of Ardi. unver Oi ment ana time given i . ..w-.., -,- , - t have worked for years for the the truck owned by Perry Alexan ... CContfnued on page 7) insuiuwuu. . -.- . , A Dream Of 30 Years Becomes A Reality Today Tndav trucks will be turned in on the back street running parallel with Main street, extending from the Puroil Station to East street Fnr thirty years the need of this nassaire way has been agitated to aid traffic on Main street, but it remained for the present town officials to see the project through. While the street will in all prob ability be known always as the "back alley," it is in reality a street from 20 to SO feet wide, with a 'substantial eight inch bed of gravel. All trucks delivering merchan dise to the stores on Main street in this area are required by a city ordinance to use this back street during certain hours. This also applies to the passenger buses stopping here. Hjivwnnd Housewives Will Save About $35,000 Yearly Jrom Sales lax un rooa Former U. S. Consul To Germany Visits Here Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Hona ker,: of Washington, D. C., were guests during the past week here at "Blink Bonnie." Mr. Honaker has been Consul General to Ger many from the United States for the past seven years, located at Suttgardi. Mr. Honaker has been in the diplomatic service for thirty years and his career has been marked by many interesting experiences. He is a nephew of Mrs. S. A. Jones and this was his firs; viit here since 1904 when he was a student at the Bingham school for boys in Asheville. ' '. ' . . '0- Rotarians Postpone Thpir Weekly Meeting Aaron Prevost, new president of iv. villa Rotarv Club.' will me . j 'v- . , . nreside at the first meeting of the new year on d A decision Was reached yester j... ".Vir." the weekly meeting Mm nince it was a national A A 1 J f holiday. :' - ' : Clyde R. Hoey To Make Principal Address At LaKe un Christian Patriotism will be the . t oiro Junaluskas ob- seance "of Th7 Fourth of July. Probably the most extensive pro- cram ever plannea, duv d . ara ort the Independence Darcelratthis-churchcen- Highlights of the programmed evS include an evening address !I a o'clock by former Governor Syde B ? Hoey; of Shelby, on the Snic "Our Country-Peace or Township Bana, (Continned on page 7) - j. .' 1 j-yt"jit"t."';.'' Urn. r f - ' i ' I ' ' ' : -.: , bib '' ' The lilting of the sales tax of 3 per cent on Tuesday, July 1st, from North Carolina's breadbasket will save the housewives of Hay- Wood county approximately $35,000 a year, according to local authori ties, estimate based on the State figures and those of other counties.-.: The housewives of the state will be saved a total of more than $2,- 000,000, state authorities claim. The remove! of the tax is the result of a. bill oassed n the last legis lature, which was one of the main planks in the platform of Governor Breughton in his campaign. From now on all food products used in the preparation of the meals in the home will be tax exempt. However, the three per cent tax will continue to be col lected on many household articles purchased at grocery' stores, such as candy, mops, bluing, soaps, and other, supplies of this type. "If housewives," says J. B. Vog ler, who introduced the bill in the General Assembly, "will only keep in mind that all. food for human consumption is tax free and that everything else is taxable there - (Continued on page 12) Elizabeth Francis Takes Up Duties As Assistant Home Agent of Iredell Miss Elizabeth Francis left Sun day for Statesville, where she will assume her duties this week .s assistant home demonstration agent of Iredell county. Miss Francis is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Francis ami urns irraduiited last month from the Woman's College of the Univer sity of North Carolina. D. A. Howell Is Named Collector Privilege Taxes . D. A. Howell was named city collector of privileged taxes "last Thursday at a meeting of the town aldermen. Mr. Howell served as city tax collector lor I three-year period a few years ago and also served as tax collector of Haywood coun ty for one year. Mr Howell's work will include collection of all items that come under the srrouninir of privilege taxes, including the operation of hotels, tourist homes, places oi en tertainment, chain stores, sales of wines and beer and numerous other specially taxed items. Hazelwood Board Re-annomts All Of Town Employees The Hazelwood board of alder men this week re-anoointed the heads of all departments of the town for the coming year. j . R. Hovle was retained as treas nrere! R. B. Woodard as clerk George Summerrow as tax collector and in charge of the water depart ment .Jerrv Roeers will remain as chief Of police, and William Med' ford, Is town attorney. Mavor Clvde Fisher said yes terday that work on the budget for the coming fiiscal year would be completed as the annual audit in (tuhmitted the board. The au ditor plans to complete the Work in ten days. No changes have been made in the nrivileire license taxes for the current year, it was pointea ous. A New High in Circulation was reached this week by The Mountaineer. Again this week, the cir culation department added over 100 new subscribers. 1,000 Crappie Placed In Lake Junaluska During Past week One thousand crappie were placed in Lake Junaluska last week ac cording to G. C. Plott, county game and fish warden. The fish, which belong to the brim family, were 6 inches. While thev are around 14 inches at ma turity, the legal size for fishing is 8 inches. Haywood Is Ready For July 4 Program At Lake Will At tract Hundreds, As Busi ness In General Suspends. Observance of the Fourth for this community will center around the all-day program at Lake Juna luska. Business in general will ob serve Sunday hours, with the bank and state offices remaining closed until Monday. The court house officials will have a one-day holiday. Some of the stores in Hazel wood and at Lake Junaluska are advertising in this issue that they will remain open all day the Fourth. Sport fans will have a diversity of events to select from. Hun dreds are expected to take to the streams, while the golf courses an ticipate capacity crowds. Begin ning at three o'clock, the inter city softball teams of Waynesville and Canton will play. Four games will be played at eacn town, a full program of athletic events are scheduled for the lake, also. The address by ex-Governor Hoey at eight o'clock at the lake ia evnerted to attract several thous and, while a large number plan to hear senator tiaiiey in a western North Carolina political rally m Asheville at the same hour. , A dance at the Piedmont tonight will mark the first festivities of the Fourth. The sauare dance at the Hotel Gordon, sponsored by the Woman's ciun is expected to attract large numbers. A central aurvev of hotels and boarding houses this week showed a large number of reservations had been made, and a heavy influx of visitors are expected over the week-end. , : Tom P. Jimison Is Visiting In Haywood ' Tom P. Jimison, of Charlotte, is spending several weeks visiting relatives and friends in Haywood. Mr. Jimison is a native of Hay wood, and several years ago when conducting a daily newspaper col umn in Charlotte gave this section many a boost. Mr. Jimison is a lawyer. ' At present he is staying with his sister, Mrs. W. M. Tate, of Lake Junaluska. 169.095 Persons Visited Park During June A total of 109.095 persons, in 61,005 vehicles, visited the Great Smoky Mountains National Park durinor the month of June. This was an increase of 32 per cent over travel to this park dur ing June, 1940, and brings travel for the travel year to date wen over the half -million mark, and 35 ner pent ahead of the correspond ing period for 1940 (travel year- October of one year througn Sep tember 30 of the next). The visit ors were from all 48 states, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Fan AIM. the PhiliDDine Islands, Cuba Central and South Americas, and two Canadian provices. Fifty three per cent of the visitors were from other than the local states of Tennessee and North Carolina, in which states the park is locat ed. Tennessee furnished the most visitors, with North Carolina, Illi nois, Ohio, and Indiana following in the order named. Heaviest travel on any one day during the month was on Sunday, June 15, when 15,689 persons vis ited the park. Senator Bailey To Address Politica . '. fJSSJl SBJ SJJ SK Rally In Asheville un h riday Nignt triotie rally, the fir8t of its kind conducted in Western North Carolina in many years, will knnr tniret.her citizens from 22 " ' ff - , , , counties in Asheville on the night of July 4 to hear an important ad dress by Senator Josiah W. Bailey Not only Western North Caro lina, but the whole nation will fol low the proceedings, for Senator Bailey's speech is to be broadcast over the facilities of the Columoia Broadcasting Sytem from eoast-to- coast, invitations to attend the meet ing' have been sent out to many public officials and prominent per sons in the western counties. Pos ters explaining the purpose of the rally have been distributed for 1 1. j: 1 pUDlIC display. , Senator Bailey, despite the press of official business in Washington, has agreed to come to Western North Carolina because he leeis 4 v 'i I . y i ,fy J SENATOR J. W. BAILEY Interest. Growing In Out-Of -County Farm Tour On 15th Tnterest in the OUt-of -county farm tour to be taken by Haywood county farmers and business lead ers on July 15, 16, 17, and 18, is growing, according to the larm agents. The tour promises to be one of the rnont educational and spec tacular tours ever taken in the state. ' The date of the tour has been- ret at a time when the crops of" the state are in their prime. Some oi the hign lights ot tne tour are a visit to Morocroft Farms at Charlotte, owned by ex-Governor-Morrison, a trio to the coast andt a deep sea fishing expedition, a ride out on the sound, a visit to me mansion to see Governor and Mrs. Broughton and a stop at State College. Persons wishing to make the tour are asked to make applica tion at the county farm agents' office. Mrs. Boyd Becomes NYA Interviewer For Three Counties Mrs. Jimmie Boyd, former area supervisor of the NYA, has been appointed Youth Personnel Inter viewer of the counties of Haywood. Henderson and Transylvania un der the re-organization plan of the National Youth Administration in this state. Mrs. Boyd will be in the NYA of fice in the court house here each Tuesday and in the afternoons on each Thursday for the puprose of interviewing youths interested in the NYA program and to take applications for entrance in the various NYA centers. Mrs. Boyd has been connected with the NYA work in this sec tion for the past five years. Fisher On Advisory Board Institute Of Government Clyde Fisher, mayor of Hazel wood, has been appointed to rep resent this congressional distrfet on the advisory board to co-operate with the Institute of Govern ment staff in working out a train ing school program for city and county officials in this state. The appointment was made by Albert Coates, director of the in stitute of government at the State Unniversity. (Contined on page 7) CLYDE K. HOET d Yates Bailey.