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FHE WAYNESVILLE M OUNTAINEER Published In The County Seat Of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park fcgfjpVEAR NO. 13 16 Pages WAYNESVILLE, N. O, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1944 (One Day Nearer Victory) $1.75 In Advance In Haywood and Jacksen Coon tie TO LIVE Tmj )amae To Fruit By old Still Uncertain Ld To Determine How uch Damage Was uone Wpiither Uday Night. flown to 20 on e n;tr. " " Tnesdav t nt'i ihmiu i - k uu v," :,7 Z a "k ,altur:.l experts si." " " the damage uunc .. ;,.r contacted seve- irchara,!lt,n as weU as the k. agent otnce' " f . too early to mane pu-ui.". the damage. . ..etiftn Milt Whftt. LT0 wa? qui"""" L,., but tin- extent will not be .n for perhaps some vcchd, nSn'dv agents in Buncombe v :hMr iruit crop nau i i .l.il' I'l'lll I VV1U . . n that locallv. ae- lurai leaders pointed out that ooilV season was ai ictmh. iu , liit.-r :han Buncombe, which ','biir dilference in the dam- Lstaiiu-J here ss U'Totl'-y twaru'ii, imicrni ier observer, said the ther ... ... i.,t., viKtti-dav indicated a er night last night than on lay night. 5 Reclassified Local Board ring Past Week humlr. il and twenty-five i- i j : U vtiTi- roc assineu uumhk week by the Waynesville area board. Nineteen were placed L l-A as follows: Jowdy Medford Messer, Stan- Franklin, James Kobert Fereuson Marshall Duckett, leth Goodson, M. B. Reeves, .1 D. Smith. Julius Jones, p Messer, Sam Leatherwood, am Htnshck Melton. Robert L Davis, Riyee Lee Crawford,. fiell Animons, Fred Lewis ,, Bruce Montgomery Ram Wilburn Clyde Dills, and re Jerome Bradley. fcced in class 2-A were: Rufus Gaddis, John Clyde Smith, y Anion hwanger, Brown fonaril, Everett Smith, Wil- Benjamin Winchester, Robert van Grant, Sam Brown, Ern- Daniel Kstes. Ernest Brown Elbert Allen Parton, and Riggins. i-d in da - l-A (II), Fred Hannah and Rufus Henry kced in class 3-D was Robert in Grill'm. Iced m dass l-C were: Rich- 'ai; I'lihran. Robert. Rnv Kel- in-k I'mli-i wood, James Jack- K.I! -.. .lanu-s Frank Fineer. Vinson Grei'n. Grover Lee i, Janu Elmer Greene. Clyde link-y Reagan, Willis Frank h Hay.len Caldwell, Clyde Vyatt. Abe Hovtt Jordan. Clifford Tarton, Howard Ed- tienti v. Frank Yarboroueh. i irt Jackson Whitner, Fred en Moody. tcher V. Klivkendnll Jr.. N'l'iiiian Penland. Vinson klrow V. I.cathprwooH John kd Ji.n-s. Robert. .Tnmoa Kuv- lall, George Holdbe Sisk, Wal- amptwii I'lntt Edff-r Wallace Jhn Henry Ruff, William arris. Henry Russell Gilli- "iiiiam t.radv Honevcutt. iam Venson Reerp. hes We.Uy Gunter, Dennis ,L 1 aidwi-ll, James Samuel I.PC1 ( Ooncr Pmnlr Carartn p Raymond Blanton, Leonard nun, Frnest. Kno-pno To. Fe Jan,, ., )Ht Larry R0bin- 'i i! iut,,n Sparks, Homer on Ii'ninL'. .Tasnn WnnJpniD "" True Ii T.,: aj.. "n1 Van, John Henry Smiley (Continued on page 4) Buys Business C. R. KCKHOFF recently bought the Western Auto Associate Store here and is now operating the business. Mr. Eckhoff has had many years' experience in the mer chantile business. The firm was formerly owned by J. C. Galusha. Photo by Sherrill's Studio. rst Baptist Prch Continues e-taster Revival Pre-Easter Mvival which Is ?'JrtP'1 at the First Bap ' cor.t.nue through Easter a'Sl the subiet of the er- "-"j tomorrow the pas to n ?rak on- "Christ-The m Zn .ne-" An n Sun- irit Ti , WU1 Pach on, 'he , r i Lord of Joy-" .unday evening laster ser- , "pti5m, turd's Sop- fendl. vr i. D' tfie Coir and i a .J r.orsll,P "'od will I mc,uded in the service. 5 Parents Found Guilty In School Attendance Cases Must Send Children To School Or Pay Fine Of $25 Or 30 Days In Jail, Says Magistrate. Six cases, each charged with violation of Rtate school attendance laws were tried before Magistrate W. H. Noland during the week. It was disclosed during tht trial that one case of non attendance was claimed to be due to length of dis tance of home to school bus route and the other five to parental in difference. Parents of all six children wre found guilty and charged with the costs of the court and were order ed to put their children back in school or pay the penalty of $25 or 30 days in jail. Unless parents comply with the court ord;r another warrant will be sworn out by the county wel fare department whose duties in clude that of truant officer for Hay wood county. In discussing the case, M. H. Bowles, county superintendent, stated that the law required par ents or guardians to keep children in school and he cited the follow ing state law: "Parents or guardians required to keep child in school; Exception Every parent, guardian or oth- r person in state having charge or control of a child between the ages of seven and fourteen years shall cause such child to attend school continuously for a period equal to the time which the public school in the district in which the child resides in session. The principal, or superintendent, who is in charge of such school shall have the right to excuse the child temporarily from attendance on account of sick ness or distance of residence from the school or other unavoidable cause which does not constitute truancy as defined by the state board of education. The term "school" as used in this section is defined to embrace all public schools and such private schools as have teachers or tutors and cur ricula that are approved by the county superintendent of public in struction." , Mr. Bowles called attention to another article regarding prosecu tion of the cases in North Caro lina, as follows: "The county sup erintendent of public welfare or school attendance officer or truant officer provided for by law shall inventigate and prosecute all vio lators of the provisions of this article. The reports of unlawful absence required to be made by teachers and principals of the chief attendance officer, shall in his hands in case of any prosecution consti tute prima facie evidence of the violation of this article and the burden of proof shall be upon the defendant to show the lawful at tendance of the child or children upon authorized school. Mr. Bowles also pointed out that the law was very rigid about chil dren between the ages of seven and fourteen being kept out of school to work. Part of the law regarding non-attendance at school for this cause, according to Mr. Bowles, (Continued oa page 4) Allen To Head War Bond Drive Here In June County-Wide War Finance Committee Met Tuesday Night At Hazelwood Church. C. N. Allen was named chairman for the fifth war loan drive which will start sometime in June, by the county-wide war finance com mittee which met Tuesday night for a supper meeting at the Hazel wood Presbyterian church. Norman Freel, of Canton, was named vice chairman for the campaign. The minting Tuesday night cen tered around plans for stepping up activity in the sale of war bonds in the county and laying ground work for the Fifth War Loan Drive. Charlie Ray, county chairman, pre sided, and after a review of acti vities of the January drive by Sam Robinson, a general discussion was made regarding regular monthly quotas. Thus far, Haywood has met the monthly quotas, Mr. Ray announc ed, but sometimes by a close mar gin of a few dollars. Plans are being made for the industrial committee, headed by E. C. Wagenfeld, to meet this week and complete plans for a campaign to be carried into all plants on pay roll deductions. Leo Weill, presi dent of Wellco Shoe Corporation, also spoke briefly on the plan. Those attending the meeting in cluded; Mr. Ray, E. J. Hyatt, J. E. Massie, R. B. Davenport, W. Curtis Russ, Howard Clapp, Miss Mary Margaret Smith, Leo Weill, L. N. Davis and Mrs. William Medford, all of Waynesville; C- N. Allen, S. R. Crockett, Rufus Gaddis, Frank Compton and E. C. Wagenfeld, of Hazdwood; W. P. Whitesides of Bethel and the following from Can ton; Sam Robinson, Norman Freel, Harley Wright, A. B. Robinson, Roy Patton and Wade Hill. The report made at the meeting showed that $105,843 in bonds had been reported sold in March against a quota of f 104,129. Personnel Head Dayton Manager I A Dates Are Set For Democratic County And Precinct Meets At a recent monthly meeting of the State Democratic 'Executive Committee held in Raleigh, Thurs day, May 4, was set as the date of the bi-annual meeting of the State D mocratic Committee meet ing to be held in the city auditor ium in Raleigh, at 12 o'clock noon, according to an announcement by Clifford Brown, chairman of the Haywood County Democratic Exe cutive committee. Mr. Brown stated that the com mits e had also set Saturday, April 29, as the date for holding the county executive meeting, and Sat urday, April 22, for hblding pre cinct meetings. The latter will be held at 2 o'clock at the poling plac es in the precinct. At the precinct meetings, at least five Democrats are to be elec t( d who shall constitute the pre cinct committee. From this com mittee in the precinct, a precinct chairman will be elected. The chairman, according to Mr. Brown, automatically becomes a member of the county executive committee. At the county convention the exe cutive committie shall elect a chairman, vice chairman and dele gates to the state convention. Other business that may come up at the time of the me. ting will also be transacted during the session, said Mr. Brown. Fourteen Boys Become Of Draft Age During March Fourteen boys became eighteen years of age in the Waynesville area during the month of March and are now subject to call under the selective service system, it was learned this week from the local draft board. In the group were the following; Yuman Trantham, Clyde, R.F.D. No. 1; Lemuel Hilliard Frazier, Jr., Waynesville, R.F.D. No. 1; Glenn Haney, Clyde, R.F.D. No. 1. Wal lace Hunyon Crawford, Clyde, R. F.D. No. 1; Julius Jones, Waynes ville, R.F.D. No, 1; Wilburn Clyde Dills, Hazelwood. Phillip Messer, Cove Creek; George Jerome Bradley, Waynes ville, R.F.D. No. 2; Sam Leather wood; Charlie Edgar Massie, Clyde, R.F.D. No. 1; William Arthur Casey, Waynesville; Willie Wood ard Conner, Waynesville, R.F.D. No. 1; Brace Vaughn Curtis, Haz elwood; William Yoder Conard, Cove Creek. NED J. TUCKER is head of the personnel office of The Dayton Rubber Manufacturing Company here. Photo by Sherrill's Studio. Ned J. Tucker Heads Dayton's Personnel Office New personnel manager at the tii 1 i r:. ..i ..- tu,. I i i it . inn i-u i'ivimuii jiiuiii oi i iii. Dayton Rubber Manufacturing Company is Ned J. Tucker, a na tive of this locality who can call most people around here by their first names. Mr. Tucker grew up in Cullo whee, graduating from the Cullo whee high school in 1942 and the Western Carolina Teachers Col lege in 1936. Before joining the Dayton Rub ber organization, he was connected with the Aluminum Company of America at Alcoa, Tenn., in per sonnel work and also in the U. S. Employment Service. With such a thorough back ground of personnel experience, Mr. Tucker is qualified to handle his duties of obtaining the men and women to make the fighting equipment the plant is producing. Of them Mr. Tucker says, "We are very fortunate to have a plant of this type located here. It is a wonderful opportunity for the peo ple of this area to work in whole some surroundings in essential war production right here at home and to be able to plan on job security and future employment." Community Cannery Nearing Completion At Local High School Much Interest In Baptist Revival The revival at the First Bap tist church conducted by the pas tor, Rev. H. G. Hammett, and Rev. Miller Freeman, of Rutherfordton, will continue through Sunday, ex cept for Saturday when there will be no service. Great interest is being shown. Choirs composed of adults, young people and juniors have been singing for the special services. Mrs. Fannie W. Sell Assumes Duties With Health Department Mrs. Fannie Wright Sell, for merly of this county, has assumed her duties as a public health nurse with the Haywood county health department. Mrs. Sell is a graduate of the Allentown Hospital and took post graduate work in public health at the University of North Carolina. At the time she accepted the po sition here she was employed by the U. S. Public Health Service at the Marine Hospital in Balti more. Mrs. Sell is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Sell, of Cove Creek and Baltimore. FRANK C. ROGERS is the new factory manager of the Thorobred Division of The Dayton Rubber Manufacturing Company here. Photo by Sherrill's Studio. Frank C. Rogers Factory Manager Of Dayton Rubber Frank C. Rogers has recently been appointed factory manager of the Waynesville plant (Thorobred Division) of The Dayton Rubber Manufacturing Company. He takes the place of O. C. Kelley, former manager, who had to return to Dayton, Ohio, to take up his ftirmer duties there. Mr. Rogers, with a wide engi neering and production record be hind him, brings to his job a thorough knowledge of crude and synthetic rubber developments. He has a long and successful execu tive background in the manufac ture of rubber products -notably with the large rubber companies in Akron, Ohio. Added to this is considerable airplane production experience in plants producing fighter planes for the Marine Corps and the British air 'vnr. The plant Mr. Rvigcv- now man ages is the first one of its kind in the country specifically designed to ma mi fact ure synthetic rubber products. And of his new work M r. Rogers says, "The pontons life rafts and oxygen hose we an making are now vital in the big all-out offensive planned by the Army and Navy for this year. Our plant's facilities are doubly im portant because of our country's desperate need for synthetic rub ber products." Mr. Rogers went, on to say, "I wish to pay particular tribute to the men and women working with me. Their fine cooperation, their willingness to wrestle with produc tion problems and to stick with their job and see it through is as fine a spirit as I have seen Any where and that goes for every worker, every foreman, every su pervisor. "I am happy to have this oppor tunity here at our Waynesvilje plant because it offers a splendid opportunity to continue production of vital fighting effuipment. Not only that but its after-the-war op portunities are unusually bright since we will be producing the com pany's already established line of synthetic and natural rubber pro ducts for the textile industry plus many new developments for this and other fields. Our plant is new. modern and has more than doubled in sie since it was first opened two years ago. I feel it will take its place as one of the leading industries in the community. I'm happy to be living here in Waynesville." Mrs. H. E. West returned this wrek from a visit to her husband, Pfc. West, who is stationed at Camp Ijeune, New River. Board Of Directors Named For C Of C. R. E. Sentelle Is Candidate For State Legislature R. F. Sentelle has announced himself a candidate for the house of representatives from Haywood county on the Democratic ticket. He is the second candidate to an nounce for the coming primary. Mr. Sentelle, native of Haywood county, son of the late Rev. R. E Sentille, has had wide experience in the legislative affairs, having served i a total of five sessions :i regular and t2 special of the North Carolina General Assembly. Mr. Sentelle represented Bruns wick county in the state legislature in l;i:!5 and U):t7 and Wake county in 1905. He has spent most of his life in school work, in the eastern part of this state, as school princi pal, city and county superintend' tit . Ilis total teaching experience cov ers around thirty years. Prior to coming back to Hay wood county he practiced law in Southport for five years. He re signed from the post of county school superintendent in Brunswick to represent the county in the leg islature. Mr. Sentelle came to Haywood county in 1939 and opened a law office here. Ill addition to his law practice, he operates a large farm in the Woodrow section of the count y. Methodist Youth To Hold Easter Service At Cross The linnual Easter morning sun rise "erviot held at tllu crogs IKjt overlooks the Methodist Assembly grounds at Lake Junaluska will be held at 7:00 o'clock Easter morn Ing. The program is conducted each year by the Sub District Methodist Youth Fellowship group. The trumpet call to worship will be sounded by a member of the Canton band. Invocation will be given by Rev. Culbreth, pastor of tin Morning Star Methodist church of Beav rilani township. Rev. W. I.. Ilutcliins, superintendent of the Waynesville Methodist District will deliver the main talk and Rev. J. (', Madison, pastor of the First Methodist church of Waynesville, will give a special prayer. Miss Carolina Gates, of Canton, will read the Scripture lesson, and special music will be rendered by the Girls Chorus of the Waynes ville high school. The ben' diction will be given hy Miss Louise Mar tin, Waynesville, president of the group. Central Elementary Makes Fine Record In Stamps And Honds The Central Elementary school holds a high record for the sale of war stamps and bonds for the month of .March. The sales of bonds through the school reached $4,443.75 while they have to their credit a sale of $2ill.35 in stamps. The sales according to grades were as follows: First grade, one with $22.00 in stamps, another with $11.80 in stamps and a $18.75 bond; Second grade, $38.45 in stamps; Third grade, $55.85 in stamps and $000 in bonds; Fourth grade, $17.00 in stamps; Fifth grade and part of fourth, $31.90 in stamps; Fifth grade, $48.90 in stamps; Sixth grade $.34.45 in stamps and $3 825 in bonds. IJrick Building Houses Unit; Slaughter House Built In Connection With Cannery. A community cannery has been erected on the high school grounds, and all equipment is on hand and will be installed within 10 days, according to J. C- Brown, who has supervised the erecting of the 30 by 50 foot brick building to house the modern cannery. The cannery is built along the same design as a large commercial cannery, and will have a capacity of 2,500 cans daily. In addition to the cannery facili ties, a slaughter house unit has also been erected on the site. This will enable patrons of this school district to slaughter their cattle or hogs there, where plenty of hot water, dipping vats, and cutting facilities are available. The meat can be canned, or prepared for curing, it was pointed out. The community cannery has been made possible by the cooperation of federal, state, county and local school authorities working togeth er to provide means for canning anything that the canning world knows how to can. The facilities are available to any person in the Waynesville school district to use. Each per son will have to do their own can ning, but under the supervision of an expert who will nlways be on hand to give minute instructions. Meetings have been held in al most every section of the town ship, at which time the plans were given, and the general planting schedules suggested for gardens. The purpose of the meetings was to inform potential users of the cannery, of the fundamentals, and the necessity of planting smal ler crops about the same time as others in the neighborhood, in order 'Iiat better r - of all cannery tquipm-)u could be had. The only cost attached to the use of the cannery, will be the ac tual cost of tin cans used, it was said. The services of an instruc tor, and all the facilities of the cannery will be born by the state and federal government. The per sonnel of the cannery cannot do commercial canning. Thay can only instruct, and supervise the work of those who bring produce to the cannery. Standard size tin cans will be used in the canning process, and the latest and most modern meth ods will be employed, it was point ed out. Further meetings will be held in any community, and the full pro gram explained, where there is suf fiei nt interest, it was said. Those interested in getting the details should contact J. C. Brown, R. T. Messer or Mrs. Rufus Siler, and arrangements will be made to hold such a meeting. The advisory committee is com posed of Mr. Brown, Mr. Messer, Mrs. Siler, M- H. Bowles, George A. Brown, Glenn Boyd; Mrs. Henry Francis, Miss Mary Margaret Smith, Mrs. Homer West and Miss Marjorie McManus. President and Other Officers Will Be Named From Board By New Group. More than twice the votes of were cast over the week-end for the 1944 board of 15 directors for the Chamber of Commerce in the annual election. Four members were held over from the 1943 board, included R. B. Davenport, who served as pres ident last year, Mrs. J. M. Long, Charlie Ray and Howard Clapp. Those elected to represent the different groups in the voting on Friday and Saturday were: Agriculture C. N. Allen. Auto Sales-Service M. D. Wat kins and Hallett Ward. Business and Professional Dr. S. R. Roberson and Alvin T. Ward. Hotels and Boarding Houses Mrs. T. C. Norris. Industry Frank C. Rogers, Leo Weill and Ralph Prevost. Merchants N. W. Garrett and Guy Massie. President Davenport said yester day that he plans to call the new board together soon and the an nual election will be held, at which time a president, vice president, treasurer and secretary will be named. Plans will also be made for the annual banquet. Presbyterians To Hold Communion Service Tonight The quarterly communion service ordinarily held the first Sunday in each quarter of the church year, will be held at the Presbyterian church tonight at 8 o'clock. This is in keeping with the special ser vices being conducted during Holy Week and Thursday night is the appropriate night for such a ser vice, inasmuch as the Lord's Sup per was instituted on Thursday night of the Week of Passion, it was pointed out by the pastor, Rev. M. R. Williamson. As a special feature of the ser vice tonight, recognition will be given to all those men and women of the church now in the service of this country. Families who have one or more members in the ser vice are especially invited to attend Baptist Choir To Give Cantata The choir of the F'irst Baptist church, Mrs. L. E. Green, director, composed of 20 voices, will give the cantata, "The Resurrection" Sunday night as a part of the candlelight worship which will in clude the Lord's Supper and Bap tism. The cantata, a beautiful por trayal of the events of the Resur rection, was composed by Frederic Field Bullard. The texts are carefully selected from the scriptures with music for solo, quartet, chorus, organ and string quartet. Notice To All Subscribers ... Effective today, all sub scribers to The Mountaineer will be given at least 15 days notice by first class mail of expiration date of their paper. Under present circumstances, it will be impossible to give more notice than the original expiration reminder.. All sub scriptions will be suspended immediately upon expiration.