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Waynesville M Published In The County Seat Of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park YEAK s nniji jio V lljLi9 IN. lliUKSlJAI, fllAULn 3, 1SH un way ncaicr ! $1.75 In Advance In Haywood and Jackaoa Owtki SoristsMustShow! v noerly Endorsed i . ksoline Coupons Headquarters Of County Library .ina issued by fcm warning - 1 " nnn.d woor!- ti Rationing co JW" " ;0PA inspectors are stop- ntorists a"0 uc"'" endorsed gasoline coupons. motorist touna without the license num- " i ,L Bfata writ- ike car, a"" L"c "'V the face oi eacn r II be cit d to appear before dnjj to Joe Rose, chair he board has been given Tders to inflict the penalty Vion, and the least pen- It can be P'vt-" u"u?' hirtv day suspension ui loline coupons, air. nrpose of the endorsement to fight the black market, -cials have cited numerous s where the black market rg to he a steady drain on te uses of gasoline, and r ful share. officials are going at this plan with their sleeves p, and ignorance of the law be an excuse," me cnuir- id. hecking system began Mon d will be continued for an :e period. Is warned that every cou- fct be endorsed in mK, even Icounonj which will not De r some time yet, such as n nnri 12. L pointed out that coupons krior to January nrsi carnea license number. Motorists .lightly mark through the nse number on the front coupon bouklet, and insert 4 license number, and use tent license number in en- their coupons, the OPA said. Gilbert Hembree Wins 3rd Place In State Contest Allen's Creek Boy Wins In State Food Program With Chicken Project (Picture on page four) Gilbert Hembree, a member of the Smoky Mountains National Park Chapter Future Farmers of America, has been awarded third place in a Food for Victory contest sponsored by the State Bankers Association. Gilbert's project consisted of 200 white Leghorn pullets. Young Hembrre won third place in a contest in which 8,000 North Carolina Future Farmers partici pated and was nresented a check for $30 in chapel at the local high school recently. Gilbert is a junior and has taken agriculture two years, and is the son of Mr. and Mrs W. H. Hembree who live on Aliens Creek. : . '.'V .h .A ,. .' -Jr:;-:;,f:. . " .1 - I I Mi I bv, jri xc- R n ! 'I M SI irms Attain fc Honor Roll i Donations gh yesterday noon, 21 local were reported 100 per cent i-ontrimitinns to the Ken The committees reported lowing firms to the chair- lev. J. C. Madison: , Ray's Department Store, ie's Department Store. Food Store. Itine's. mat Park Denartment Store. ptt Furniture Company. Service btntion. ferson's Corner Jble Jewelers fling Board necerv. Wounta inner. ie Hardware Company. Theatre. food Print Shop, t Barhrr Shop, ipion She Shop. National Rank, mvond's Sinclair Station, rill's Stud'o. lovees of Tnwn flettP Roa'v Shop. ilPsvilln WVinlnool r VJ. Arts Company, hairman said that there rhaps other firms who had 1 Per rent, but were not i by workers at noon yea- and Mrs. Sam PoKo nhn n residing in North Wil- nere the former has been i with the IT. S Rpvpnne :ment, snent tha n,nJ wr. Cabe is entering the -'n and Mrs. Cabe and plan to return to Way- to reside. Ch ti-ii Irs. s r. Ramey is visiting and daughter, Capt. Sam C. Welch, in Spar- By Gilbert Hembree I enrolled in agriculture in tho fall of my sophomore year and be ing interested in poultry I took 200 pullets as a project. My day old chicks arrived March 29th. They were sexed pullets and had Hanson, Barron breeding be hind them. The brooder house and brooder were already cleaned, heated and ready for the chicks. I kept the temperature of the room around 95 degrees during the first two weelcs. I started on a good commercial starter mash and continued feed ing it through the first six weeks and then switched over to growinn mash adding granite grit. The pull ts were ranged on a . ulov nnd oats during mixture i , t the summer and were moveu the laying house in Septembe, -with full laying rations. It was Octob, r KoreV.y came into full produe- tion. 1 used piemy , litter, provided am roost space and had a nesi ior eve, ers. . . T u- In the early part oi I started using si""' order to stimulate and step up egg production. When the (v,o morn ne at four o clock fresh water, plenty of laying "h as well as a mixture oi " cracked corn were available for the birds. The automatic swucn lunr the lights off at daybreaK am. they were left off until the next morning. , , I cleaned, graded ana pacKea uiu eggs twice a week and soia uiern to the local stores ai iop pi When I summed up all my receipts and subtracted my expenses . found that it cost me Zic to prooute a dozen eggs and that I had a labor tAK.A AH have learned that wun wciu, woik and management it really pays to raise poultry. I've gained invaluable experience as wcu ..tahlishinir a profitable business with plenty of room for expansion. Methodist Society To Hold Meeting On I4tn Tha Wnmnn'a Rocietv of Chris tian Service will meet on Tuesday afternoon, March 14, at 3:30 o'clock. Mrs. Noble Uarrett, pres- iHsnf will nreside. Mrs. M. H. Ferguson will be the leader of the program. The Waynesville Public Library which will serve as the Hay wood County Library, which will be of srrvice not only to the Town if Waynesville, but to the entire county. IVtails in second seel ion. Haywood's War Bond Quota Set At $104,129 h I Go To ?h" . . . new feature, sponsored le Haywood Ministerial Ration, which will be 'i!ed weekly from now faster. Tha .:i - n by laymen. Next week lree such articles wil The first Ann Trill ho on Page U of thia issue. Memory Expert Uses System For Remembering Data Sifrmund Klomberg Enter tained Rotary Club Here Last Friday. Tid bits of personal information which most, of the men had diffi culty recalling themselves were nulled out of the memory bag last Friday for amazed Rotary club members. . The memory expert who ett most of the club members feeling he knew more about their private lives than they themselves knew was Sigmund Blomberg, a former residence of Asheville, who is now touring the country to teach absent-minded businessmen how to remember the names of prospective customers and equally absent minded secretaries where they filed away that report over which the boss is tearing his hair. Blomberg called each of th' eluh members by name and told his occupation and date of birth with as much speed and accuracy ... , i i wnn; tViom as it ne nao oeen from a written lit. He had stored the information away in his mind, he explained, by reading through the Rotary club rooster the night before. A highlight of the program was performed with the aid of a current magazine. He hurriedly turned through the first 36 pages, and then passed the pages to the members, who called for Blomberg to tell what was on this page and that. He would rattle off the answers with as little difficulty as he had just turned the magazine to that particular page and read the con- (Continued on page 4) llavword has been civen a ouotn of $I04.1?9 for war bonds for the month of March, according to Charlie E- Ray, chairman of the county war finance committee. The amount is for all types of war Ixmds, and no specific amount for ither K. F or C, Mr. Ray said. The state quota for the month of March has been set at $11,400, (HK), it was announced. Mr. Kay said that the regular committees and chairmen of the organization would continue to serv . Several special groups were named for the recent fourth war! loan drive, but the regular groups will continue in their respective capacities, he said y.sterday. Sam M. Robinson, county vice chairman, served as county chairman for the fourth war loan drive, Mr. Robin, son will continue as vice chairman, with Norman Freel in charge of 'he Canton area and J. E Massie activily in charge of the Waynes ville end of the county. Haywood made a splendid show ing in the fi.urth war loan cam paign, going over the quota by over $100,000. The quota was $700,000. Sixty-Seven Men In March Call Report To Croft Sixty-seven men left here on Saturday morning for Camp Croft for physical examinations, making up the March call under the selec tive service system. Kdwin Burnett Poteate was nam ed leader of the group, with James McClure, Hugh Lionel Frazier, and Clifford McCracken Harrell as as sistant leaders. There were seventeen volunteers 1 v i" the group as follows: Cling ' John Wyatt, Jesse Edward Hamp- ton. James McClure, Clark Joe . Hill, Robert Edward Reece, Rex 1 la-e Messer, Vee Jones, Benjamin . , tir- .r i h red Trouiman, i lyue wnmeu Morgan, William Oliver Plemmons, Mux Ferinison. Charles Francis Lee, Joe Calvin Davis, Herman Bryan Ellis, transferred from Hay- sville, Harvey Edward Puvis, I from Newport News, Va., Jack I M i'd ford Leatbei wood, from Wil mington, and Aster Paul Rogers, from Newport News, Va. Other transfers included: Robert I Cone, from Svlva ; James Randolph Hall, from Franklin: Harvey Moore Dulin, from Charlotte; Rob ert Lee Vaughn, from Spartnn- l burg, and Julius Fred Caddis, from I Canton. Others leaving were: Robert Ed- Uii.i-,1 dement. Fred Youili? Mor- Lnn. Charles Franklin Derrick, Homer Ray Kirkpatrick, William i Francis Lanning, James William Lanning. Willie Claude Allison, j James Blain Garrett, Jr., Howell I Jackson Buchanan, Ed Haynes Davis, William Lucius Allen, Her man Rathhone, Jess Junior Moody, Edwin Hugh Caldwell, Virgie Wil liams, Woodrow Wilson Waddell. Randolph McDonald, Lee Lewis, Willie Ervin MohalToy, Frank Leon Smith, Walter James White, Rob ert Vincent Fisher, Horace Devoe Downs, Clyde Ramsey, David Hugh Justice, Earl Andrew Messer, Wil liam Sanford l edford, Hugh Leon Underwood, Raymond Cagle Rath hone, Frank Palmer, Howard Wil liam Moore. Homer Ernest Pruert, Jaiifc!Af drew Price, Lester Brown, Bur nett, John Smith. Clayton Tran- tham, Pherson Floyd Cagle, Mar vin Samuel Chambers, Lester James Bradshaw, Emery Allen, Co lumbus Wright, William Perry Rich, and Benjamin Karlisle James. Red Cross Quota Is In Sight, Chairman J.C.Madison Reports Close Call k- v x v IF 2 Hi 1 S(iT. WILLIAM W. 11ENSON. Fortress tail gunner, of the Bethel section, is shown examining the hose of his oxygen mask which was severed bv enemy flak during a mission to Chateauioux, France. The hole in the plane in the ex treme left of the picture was made by the piece of flak that cut his air hose. Sgt. Heiison is at an rh A A F Bomber Station. This is an official Air Corps photograph. Son Of William Chambers Listed As Missing In Europe wiiiinm rhMmhpm. Jr.. of U Iwood, hag reeeivad. fd4M i son, Staff Sergeant James Ralph Woman's Club To Hold March Meeting On Thursday Afternoon, 16 Mrs. S. P. Cay will be in charge of the program of the March meet ing of the Woman's Club which will be held next Thursday, Kith, at 3:,'(0 o'clock at the Hotel Lc Faine. Hostesses of the afternoon will include Mrs. J. Hardin Howell, Mrs. John R. Hipps, and Mrs, E. M. Rothermcl. Dr. and Mrs. Joe Baxter have as their guest this week the latter'e father, J. S. Mullen, of Dolhan, Ala. Mr. Mullen is a brother of Mrs. T. L. Bramlett. Chambers, is missing. The message reads as follows "The Secretary of War desires me to express his deep regret that your son, Stair Sergeant James Ralph Chambers, has been reported miss ing in action since February 10th ovir Germany. If further detail--or other- information are received you will be promptly notified." Young Chambers volunteered for service the day after Pearl Harbor II,. was inducted at Fort Dix, N. J. .1 : arid received training at isoioxi Miss., Barksdale Field, Shreveport La., Las Vegas, Nevada, Plant City, and Lakeland, Fla , was sent over seas from New Brunswick, N. J a little over a year ago. He was tail gunner on a bomber. He attended Carlisle Military school in Bamberg, S. C, and prior to entering service was employed in Mt. Holly, N. J. He has a brothir, Private Wil liam Chambers, HI, who is in tin medical corps, now serving over seas, Big Orders Arrive On 11th Anniversary Of Erkraft Industries In Community March second seems to be a lucky day in the life of R. V. Erk, owner manager of Erkraft Industries, manufacturers of inlaid wood nov elties and household items. It was exactly eleven years ago, on last Thursday, that Mr. Erk bought a small novelty business here and started on the road to wards becoming one of the largest such concerns in the south. While looking back over the nc ords and checking the thousands upon thousands of different piece of merchandise that had been turn ed out by his modern plant in the pleven years, there came rush ord ers for 60,000 more pieces. - Since the first of the year the plant has gone in for household items, after manufacturing many thousands of wooden toys during the fall. Among the orders re ceived last Thursday included on: for 50,000 kitchen knife sets, and another for 10,000 towel racks Numerous orders calling for just several thousand pieces come in almost daily. The plant recently added on several additional workers to help care for the increasing demand for the products. Mr Erk said that novelties would supplement the household items, hut right now, it looks like the ca pacity of the plant will be required to meet the steady stream of in creasing orders for household ifms. The owner-manager looks forward o his 12th year here as the "best ever." Food Prices In Area To Be Checked Soon Mrs. Whitener Prevost Heads Group of 25 Mer chants' Aides In New Work. Twenty-five volunteers of the local price panel will begin a rigid check of every grocery story in this area on Monday and continue for the week, it was announced from the Waynesville War Pric and Rationing Board yesterday. T. J. Cathey. chairman of the board, said that the 25 m rchants' aides would receive special instruc tions at a meeting to b? held Fri day afternoon at the rationing hoard. Mrs. Whitner Prevost has been named chairman of the spec ial group of checkers. W. A. Brad ley repres'.nts the food division on the price panel. Any retailer of food found hav ing prices above the stipulated ceiling prices, will be cited to ap pear before the board during the week of March 20 to 25. The stores will be thoroughly checked again during the week of March 27 th' ugh April first. The merchants' aides will make r gular checks on the food stores of the area as long as the price control regulations remain in force. Those who, violate the regulations will be cited to appear before the board for a hearing. The 25 women who have been named by the board to carry on this work, is composed of Mrs. Prevost, (Continued on page 4) Hammett Writes For Big Baptist Devotional Book Rev. H. G. Hammett wrote a week's devotions for "The Open Window," a Southern Baptist pub lication with a circulation of over 200.000 copies. Mr. Hammett was the only North Carolinian requested by the editors of the publication, to contribute to the issue of the second quarter. Mr. Hammett prepared the 6-min-ute devotions for the week of April 10 to 16th. No Reports Made To Trea surer From Industrial Croup Or Rural Areas. Total contributions to the Red Cross at noon yesterday, as report ed to the treasurer, stood at $3,852, to apply on the $fi,100 quota. The totals did not represent any report from the industrial group, nnd hut a partial report from the rural areas of the community. J. C Madison, roll call cnairman, said that one industry had report ed $400 had been raised, but was holding out the report prnding other contributions from other workmen. Another industry had about f'-'OO from only a third of their employees with the campaign just starting. Mr. Madison said he believed the industrial group would give at least $2,000 and the rural areas about J400, which would put the ltavwood chanter to the goal set by national headquarters. The drive in Haywood is scne- duled to close on the Llth and Mr. Madison was anxious that every person make a contribution by that date. "If by chance, a worker has missed anyone, we would like for such a person to call II. H. AtKins or mvself, and we'll see that they are contacted at once for their con tribution," the chairman said. Some committees are to make !"nal check-ups today and tomor row on some places which were missed in the initial drive, it was said. The colored committee request ed a quota of $100, and yesterday urned over to the treasurer $li:i.35. This committee waa head ed by Mariun Howell. DAYTOV UBBKR GROUP fiETS lP TO GOOD START In the Red Cross drive at Dayton Rubber Company, something like $200 was raised the first day from a third of the employees. The re minder of the grouD were being contacted yestarday and plans are to finish the work today The drive is under the supervis ion of Ned J. Tucker, personnel lirector, working in cooperation with the Labor-Management Com mittee of the plant. The campaign started in the plant Tuesday, and n a few minutes the radiator hose lepartment went 100 per cent. The day shift of the life raft depart ment gave $.10; the ponton depart ment $25 and the hose department vi r $75. Mr. Tucker predicted Dayton em ployees would exceed the $500 mark his week. Travel In Park Is Up 11 Percent For the third consecutive month, travel to the park has shown a great increase over travel of the previous year. In February, 1944 travel to the park is estimated to b? 11 per cent greater than travel during February, 1943. An estimated total of 10,577 per sons, in 3,670 vehicles visited this park during February, 1944, as compared with 6,162 persons, in 2.221 vehicles during February, 1943. Local travel from Tennessee and North Carolina showed an in crease of 53 per sent, while foreign travel showed an increase of 20 per cent. The visitors came from at least 24 known states. Mrs. F. H. Marley spent a few days in Lenoir during the week as the guest of relatives. Pathetic Appeal Wade By Lonesome Soldier For Letters From Home During the past two years sad and tragic stories about the men in service have been recorded in this newspaper, but nothing has touched the hearts of the news staff any more than the following pa thetic appeal written on a post card that came to The Mountaineer yesterday. The soldier is thousands of miles from home. He is not complaining about his present job. He is glad to do his part, but he longs for a touch from home, from friends. We have been told that there are few thing in life more heartbreak ing than for a soldier to get in line and expect a letter at mail call and have to step aside empty handed. Think of how many times this Vina mnt riavc bepn disappointed as he walked away, thinking in his heart that he was forgotten bacK hnmo Who of us could expect that boy to fight with that feeling of neglect from those from whom n will fight T Put yourself in his place. Are you a friend of his? A relative? You may be neither one, (Continued o page 8) WAC Recruiter Coming Tuesday Sgt. Marie MacFeely will be here Tuesday, March 14 to enlist wo men of this arfa in the Women's Army Corps. The booth will be set up at Massic's Denartment Store, from 11 to 5 o'clock. Lt. Opal E. Brindle, of the Ashe ville recruiting station was here yesterday making arrangements for the recruter to be here, ana aid, "Women are urgently needed in the WAC, particularly at tnis time in view of the Dlans that are being made for the great invasion and the need for men for jobs that only men can do." Sgt. MacFeely will be here again on the 28th of March, it was an nounced. Our Quota Is $6400 -$6,100 $5,500 -$5,000 $4,500 -$4,000 $3,500 -$3,000 $2,500 -$2,000 $1,500 -$l,00t $ 600 u r .t"f I t:-' 1'