The Waynesville Mountaineer
Published In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance oj The Great Smoky Mountains National Park
KNTUYEAR NO. 43
Sixteen Pages
WAYNESVILLE, N. tX, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1941
$1.50 I Adrance la Haywood and Jackson Countlea
Hour Speed Limit
Knv On Lookout
Laion Of Speed
llB.WaynesvUleand
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I better watch your speed
Lg in Waynesville and
rV. .,,. in coinsr to
, and if you exceed
hour, Ik J-"-
limit has been
Lee, and officers of both
L today issuing oue wm
Fthey are going to rigidly
he law- .
will be arrested and
court. . ';
ff measure is to curb so
idents, and to protect lives
rty, the officers pointed
L of the streets in the
here there is a straigns
Lome motorists make a
t afreet.
le opening of schools there
an increased danger in
.necially during the hours
pupils are en route to
school.
friendlv warning, you
L vmir eve on your speed-
tnd step on the gas very
else you'll pay a visit
Mice court.
iodists Meet
inston-Salem
inference
IP. I.. Hutchins. sunerin
of the Wavnesville dis-
lh Methodist church, with
fc.-Huggin, Jr., pastor of
Methodist church and a K
of Methodist ministers'
lit the county, are; attends O
Western North w
conference in ..
in Winston-SalerA? :'' '
m Massie, member of he
r smtotos ;oi . tne-iooai
it church, was among: the
attending the conference
section. . ' ,
1.000 Methodists from the
part of the state are at-
I the five-da v conference
p Bishop Clare Purcell
fcflferenre .will nHinnm on
hi new appointments for
Mrs will be announced at
Dental Conference
Here Largest Ever
Held In District
Dr. David Abernethv. of Hickorv.
was named nreairient-elat nf
first district of the North Caro
lina Dental Society at the con
cluding session here on Tuesday
morning of the three-day 21st an
nual meeting1 nl the irrnnn
Dr. Abernethy will take office as
president of the district orcaniza-
tion at the 1942 annual meeting
Li 1 Ml t L1J r .
wuicn wiu De neia in Lienoir. :
Dr. W. M. Matheson. of Rnone
was installed on Tuesday mOrrling
;il . . .
ana win serve as president aunng
the cominir vear. He vni name1
president-elect at the meeting last
year. ,
Others who will serve with Tir
Matheson will be Dr. W. B. Bree-
land, who was re-elected vice
president, and Dr. F, G; Coffey, of
Morganton, who was re-elected
secretary-treasurer.
The meeting which was attended
by more than 200 was said to have
been the largest ever held in the
district. One of the outstanding
features was the meeting held by
the assistants, this district serving
as a pioneer in the state in the
work of organizing the group to
siuay proDiems in tneir work.
The meeting opened Sunday with
a golf tournament and a trip to
Beech Gap. The first formal meet
ing taking place Monday morning
following registration at the Hotel
Gordon, headquarters for the meet
ing. The Rev. H. G. Hammett,
pastor of the First Baptist church,
f- e the invocation and the address
Warns Japan
Planes Fly
Over City
In "Rail
This area got their first taste of
put
noon.
ers flew
turned
i" the
rm post
to head
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Shot
Members To
Calves At
In Charlotte
'P f Haywood county 4-H
mbers are planning on
kt baby beeves next week
Jouthern State Fair to be
Parlotte. It is expected
I Will Virino-
bbons to add to the large
raay won by the Hay
1 members at the fairs in
I"? have exhibited this
rs going to the fair will
lax James P.t.J MJ.
pthan Caldwell, Charles
pvin Francis, Margaret
i vvya Messer, Ben v
Glenn Davis.
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t tL a V UW OVUbU"
Fair wfll be sold at the
t
faynesville Girls
Dege Clubs
Woman's College at the
? of North Carolina, is
nine new members to
speakers club of the col
?mbership was made after
wline Rotha is a'new
the Boot 'n Spur club
Wr-01d Negre
To Death;
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Paper
pis, and columns of local
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L and Pictures
NeS4andK
jnes( page 6. - . .
Srn at Fort Jackson
jj Sloan, page 7.
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satisfied customer",
UIllty and defense news,
T tier's statements, page
5 pictures, page
40 ditor, pge 16,
Daifgliters Held
Mvrtle Lenoir Cullin, 24, and
her sister, Katherine Lenoir, 20,
daughters of Oscar Lenoir, 55,
negro, who was ' fatally wounded
late Sunday afternoon are still
being held in jail.
Sheriff R. V. Welch. Deputy
Noble Ferguson, with Sam Cabe
and Norman Caldwell ol tne cuy
police department, investigated the
nccordiner to them they
were called at the Lenoir home
on Daisy avenue about 5 :30 o'clock,
foaMntr there shortlv beiore o.
TVie nfficr stated that when
they arrived they found the body
nf fWnr Tnoir in the front room
in a kneeling position, with his
arms outstretched and his neaa
Urirtir nn the floor ili A OOOl Of Wood.
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ti.o hnAv ws directlv in front ol
a settee, that according to the
officers, this would indicate that
t the time of the shooting he bad
been sitting on the settee and that
after the four shots were nrea nis
kitr Vio1 slnmned to the floor.
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His two daughters and nis wue
were in the house when the offi
cers arrived. The wife, Jannie
T-onnir whn is emDloved as a cook
at the Haywood County Hospital,
tated that she had been caueo
from her work and told that her
husband had been killed.
The man had been shot four
times, once in. the left jaw, the
shot coming out of the opposite
side of the face; another went
through the head and came out
on the upper part of the forehead,
one shot was in the left leg above
the knee, and another in the back,
coming out on the right side. It
is said that the shot through the
leg might not have been fatal,
but that either of the other tnree
shots would have caused death.
Officers state that three of the
bullets were found by the dead
man's body and the fourth went
-nto the wall. ' The blood arouna
the body had started' hardening,
according to the- officers, by the
4,e Miow arrived and they juageu
To; W been dead about 30
minutes.'
The : house gave considerable
evidence, so the officers state, of
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rir. S. P. Gav Leaves
Today For Houston For
Two Dental Conferences
Relations between the United
States and Japan neared the break
ing point following a long confer
ence between U. S. Ambassador
Joseph Clark Grew and Japanese
Foreign Minister Admiral Teipiro
Toyoda in Tokyo. Grew is report
ed to have warned Toyoda that
American pressure will be intensi
fled unless Janan makes fundamen
tal changes in her foreign policy,
R. T. Messer Is
Elected Head WNC
School Board Group
R. T. Messer. member of the
Havwnnd countv board of educa
tion for the past eight years, was
elected president ol the western
district of the North Carolina
School Board Association at
meeting held in Asheville on Mon
day night.
A. C. ' Moses, of Sylva, was
named vice Dre'sident. and Mrs
T. O. Franks, of Hendersonville
secretary-treasurer.
W. A. Deece, of Goldsboro, pres
ident of the state association, made
the nrinciDal address. Others
speaking included, T. W. Calton, of
Bostic, retiring president, Guy
Phillips, of Chapel Hill, Judge
Hubert C. Jarvis. and A. C. Rev
nolds, Jti, et:ABheVille. :
Approximately 100 persons at
tended the meetintr. The associa
tion is cornposed of school board
members, city and county superin
tendents, principals and Bchool
committeemen.
The next year's meeting will be
held in Waynesville.
an 'air raid" Tuesday a
when two bi-motored bonl
over from the northeas
and left here due east.
Mrs. Hubert White "sp.
raiders from the Welch
and nut in the "alarm
quarters which is somewhere in
the South. The infornihiion was
in the hands ol the heactauarters
officials in 13 seconds after the
"raiders" were spotted. The av
em era renort takes SO seconds.
Ten nnsts In HSVWOOd Will be
manned until Saturday at silt, when
the raids are scheduled to cease, ac-
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coraing to ivooeri a. iuiur, who
is in charee of the five postd in this
immediate area. There are five
nnsta in the Canton area
Those on duty notify headquar
ters all information where kwb or
more planes are spotted. S
Mr. Millar said last nieht that
the nnsta are active from tfiix in
the morning until six at niglt.
The local post ol tne American
Legion is Sponsoring the observa
tion here
Would Arm Ships
FBI Find Strychnine
In Liquor, 3 Men To
Be Given Hearing 27
Spurred by President Roosevelt's
suggestion that "arming of our
ihips is a matter of immediate ur
gency," Representative Sol Bloom
.if New York introduced a bill in
Congress to permit the arming of
merchantmen. His legislation
would remove the prohibition of
this precaution from the Neu
trality Act.
Big Bear
Killed At
Soco Gap
Commodity Surplus
CorDoration lo
Aid Apple Growers
A c-roun of local apple growers
and the county agent attended a
meeting held m Asheville on Jtton
dav nieht at which a representa
tive of the Commodity surplus
Corporation discussed surplus pro
duce. . , .' ;
T?. Rarber. Jr.. is the member
of the committee on surplus com
modities for this section, and any
one who has not been able to find
a sales for their apples are request
ed to get in touch either with Mr.
Barber or the county agent.
There will also be a meeting in
the county agent's office at 7:30
o'clock next Monday night for
those who have not as yet found
buyers for their apple crops.
Those attending the meeting in
Asheville on Monday night were
Wayne Corpening, county agent,
Hilliard Moody, Lester Borgia,
Robert Boone, Bill Medford, and R.
N. Barber, Jr. : . .... ; :
A fnnr hundred and fiftv nound
bear, the first kill of the season,
in this county, was brought in
Monday afternoon by local sports
men vnn nan snent rne nav
huntine on Hornbuckle Mountain
on the James A. G Dayny place
oh Soco " Gap. j -
For a while the bear "lay In
state" at th Standard Filling
SHmtinn nn Main street and was
viewed by a large number ol in
terested persons.
The bear was killed by Oliver
Finger, of the Maggie section,
about two hundred yards from the
highway leading into Cherokee
below the mill owned by Mr. Davey
The party took with them 17
Hoes whn cave Old Bruin ouite a
chase. Those making up the hunt
were Felix Stovall, Lawrence Ker
ley, Dill Howell, Vernon Hill,
Harry Clay, Bill Kelly, Jim Moody,
Elonzi McGaha, Roy Plott, Hub
Plott, James Plott, John D. Plott,
Zeb Moody, Fred Campbell, W.
Medford, M. B. Hannah, John
Finger, Ben Massie, Oliver Finger,
and James Hall.
Two Haywood Boys
Win Awards At
National FFA Meet
Two Haywood county boys Sam
Arrinirton. of Waynesville. and
Mark Kirkpatriek, of Clyde, were
a mon a- the seven North Carolina
vouths who won "American Farm
er" awards at the 14th annual
convention of the national FFA
group held in Kansas City during
the week.
The awards are sriven to mem
bers who display outstanding abil
ity in actual farming, investments
and earnings from their agricul
tural projects, school and com
munity activities, leadership, co
operation and scholarship.
Both youtig Arnngton and Kir.
Patrick have made unusual rec
ords4 ihelr chosen fields.
300 Tourist Acents
To Pass Through
Town This Morning
The nnn members of the Ameri
can Steamship and Tourist Agents
Association which are holding a
five-day meeting in Asheville this
week, will pass through Waynes
ville this morninir between 10 and
11 o'clock en route to the Great
Smoky Mountains National Park.
It is said that many of the per
sons, attending the convention will
have their first trip to the park
this week.
In the party will be officials of
steamship companies and tourist
agencies from all over the united
States.',..'
Committeemen Of
Countv To Hold All
Day Meeting Today
Will Study Needs Of County
In Working Out Defense
Program.
Today beginning at 10 o'clock
this morning an all day meeting
will be held at the court house to
ofn,W the hest methods of putting
on the defense program with in
creased farm production in tne
county. J. C. Lynn, former county
farm aarent. and now district agent,
and T. Weaver Cathey, state AAA
committeeman, will be the main
sneakers. All AAA committee
men are expected to attend.
The suggested goal for Haywood
county is as follows: a 4 per cent
increase in milk production, wnicn
would mean 870 more pounos oi
milk per year with 200 more cows
milked: eirnf production is stepped
up 11 per cent, with an Increase of
69,210 dozens; soybeans increased
inn ner cent, with 10 additional
acres to be planted : oats 20 per
cent, with 300 more acres planted;
barley increased 10U per cent, wnn
50 more acres; nay nve per cent
with 9Hi more acres.
Every one of the 2,576 Haywood
county farmers will be visited by
the AAA committeemen during the
month of November. Instruction
in the defense nroeram is the larg
est taBk ever assigned to the AAA
committeemen since the time the
AAA work was first begun.
This contact will have a two fold
nhWtive. First, a farm plan for
1942 will be worked out. he
ncrna of cover crops needed for
map acres of Brasses and clover
to be seeded to eonservw the soil
and nrevent erosion: any land un
fit for farmimr and pasture that
should be planted to forest trees;
the number'of acres of smallgrass-
es and legumes to be turned under;
and orders taken for lime and
phosphate.
Second, a farm defense plan will
he worked out for each farm, and
this will take un anv increase that
can be arranged for the farm for
the following crops: livestock and
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RE A Officials Attending
Meeting in Lake Lure
.Tames C. Moore, suoerintend-
dent of the Cruso 'Electric Mem
hershin Corporation, and Carter
Osborne, president, left yesterday
for Lake Lure, where tney are
attending a two-dav session of
superintendents of REA over the
state. .
1 50 Come Here to Study
Farm Defense Program
Pond nrnduets. for defense" was
the theme of the all-day meeting
held here on Monday with approx
imately 150 state, district, and
county officials of State AAA dis
trict number 10 present. Plans
were discussed to determine the
best way to carry on the National
Farm Defense program in 1942.
iElvery one of the 12 counties in the
district were represented. :
In the group attending were
county farm agents and their as
sistants, county home demonstra
tion agent, and their assistants,
home economics teachers, farm se
curity agents, superintendents of
public welfare, chairmen of wel
fare boards, and members of boards
of commissioners. ;
T. Weaver Cathey, of this coun-
Hearing Set For Monday
Before Magistrate" Fergu
son; Men Out On Bond.
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Mandel Woodard. Charlie Wood-.
ard and Roscoe Messer were releas
ed from jail last week on a 50O
bond each, where tney naa oeen
held following the sudden death of
Love Clark. The three win De
given a preliminary hearing at
2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon at
the court house before Magistrate
Frank Ferguson.
The three men alleged to have
given Clark and Melton Messer a
drink of liquor, which is said, they
claimed to have found.
riorir a snid to hv died short
ly after drinking the liquor and
attending physicians report that
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Messer was taKen violently in. ne
came to a local doctor's office and
was then taken to the Haywooa
County Hospital for treatment.
Ail flvo men are said to have
been friends, and all employed on
a logging operation in tne Liiner
Cove near Lake Junaluska.
the coroners' inquest
and autopsy, it is said that Geo
A. Brown, Jr., chairman of the
county board of commissioners, in
structed the county coroner, jji.
J. R. Westmoreland, to send a sam
ple of the liquor to the govern
ment laboratories or tne rm
Washington, ".
According to the sheriff s de
partment, a report has been re
ceived from tne r m laoorutuuro
stating that the liquor contained z
per cent strychnine. "
Clark was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. William Clark, of East Ten
nessee. Funeral services were neiu
at Panther Creek for Uiarn on
Saturday afternoon, Oct. lUn H
is survived by a wife .and three
children and a number of brother"'
HIIU BIOLCIO,
ty, state triple A agent for the
conservation nrocram. was in
charge of the program. Mr. Cathey
stated the purpose of the meeting
and told of the work that faced
the farmers of America in their
part of the defense program.
' "We 'are going to produce food
for home consumption for the ar
mies that are fighting battles for
us, and the men and women who
are in our camps in training for
our own defense," Said Mr. Cathey.
"The suggested minimum goals
fot national defense in 1942 in
clude the following: Increases in
milk, milk cows, eggs, soybeans,
oats, barley, and hay, all pro
ducts of the western part of North
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Haywood Lumber
Dealers Ready To
Serve Builders
Lumber dealers of the Carolinas
found irood news in the regulations
issued bv the Federal Goverment
affecting the construction industry
referred to as "priorities."
M. Garner, secretary of the Car
olina Lumber and Building Sup
ply Dealers Association, said
a bulletin issued this week.
The nnlletin is nublished in de
tail in this newspaper today be
ginning on page 12,
The lumber dealers of Haywood
have constantly ' maintained com
nlete stocks of building materials
and according to the individual
statements, also on aee ' . . . they
are ready to supply the needs in
that line for remodeling, repairing
or building. -
Norman Caldwell
Recovers From Illness
And Is Back On Job
Norman Caldwell, traffic officer,
is hack on his iob directing the cars
on Main street. He started work
on Monday morning after having
been confined to his home by ill
ness for the past four weeks.
Death Claims
James C. Richards,
Canton Official
PuTierni services were held on
Wednesday af ternoon at 3 o'clock at
the Canton Methodist cnurcn ior
James C. Rickards, superintendent
of the Canton water department,
and oldest employe in point of
service of the municipality of Can
ton. Mr. Rickards died Monday
afternoon at 4 o'clock of a heart
attack at his home on Hampton.
Heights, Canton.
The Rev. Walter R. Kelly, pas
tor of the church, and the Rev
George B. Hammond, pastor of the
Canton Presbyterian church,' of
ficiated. Burial was in Green Hill
cemetery here.
Serving as active pallbearers
were: W. E. Sheffield, Carroll J.
McCracken, Jordan Neal, J. H.
Keener, William Battison, and Mark
Auberry.
Mr. Rickards was a native of
Missouri, but was reared in Flor
ida, the son of the late T. M. and
Ann Elizabeth Rickards, of Canton.
He was a graduate of the Univer
sity of Kentucky. H was a mason
and a member of the Knights of
Pythias lodge.
Surviving are his widow, the
'former Miss Ethel Trull, of Can
ton; two daughters, Mrs. O. L.
Briggs, Jr., of Newport News, Va.,
and Miss Marian Rickards, of
Canton; three sons, James C, Jr., a
student at the University of Illi
nois, and Raymond and Leonard,
of Canton, and three grandchildren,
Linda, Marianna, and Raymond
Briggs.
Cruso School Termed "Haywood Health School" Because Of Interest In Teeth
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Dr S. P. Gay leaves this morn
ing for Houston, Texas, where he
will attend a meeting of the
American Academy of Periodont
onogy this week. ,
' He will remain in Houston for
the next week and attend the
American Dental Association con
vention which will be in session.
He plans to be out of town around
ten days. ',
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Every student in the Cruso school
has had the necessary dental work
done, either by their private den
tists or by Dr. A. C. Early, school
dentist. Each child has a new
tooth brush and powder, and has
been taught the proper way to
brush their teeth.
The teachers, students and their ing fed and cared by the children
parents have been keenly interest
ed in the health project and now
the school has been termed as the
"health school" of Haywood, Paul
Grogran is principal.
Each class room is conducting a
health project White rats are be-
in order to show the value of prop
er foods and what these foods
mean to' the school child. "
The total amount of dental work
done is amazing, it was said, as
it was shown that Dr. Early made
139 amalgan fillings, 179 extrac
tions, 517 silver nitrated, 203
nronhvlaxis. 23 miscellaneous treat
ments for a total of 1,071 opera
tions. ' .
"The program could not have
been accomplished without the
health interest and the cooperation
of the parents, teachers and stu
dents," Dr. Early said.
Extension Of Time
Granted On Certain
Soil Practices
hflS VtPPrt 0rant.fWi fY tViA Qaorlini
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of Austrian winter peas and vetch
from November 1 to 30, according
to the county farm agents, for
practices under the 1941 ACP pro-
The agents have also been no
tified of an extension nf time nn
the seeding of small grain to
qualify for the special allotment
payments until December 15th.
No extension of time has been
given for the spreading of lime
and phosphate, which was set for
October the 31st.
MANY VISITORS SEE FOLIAGE
This area is experiencing heavy
traffic right now as thousands are
coming to this area to see the usual
beautiful leaves.
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