The Waynesville Mountaineer
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Published In TheCounty Seat Of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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WAYNESVILLE. N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1945 (One Day Nearer Victory)
$2.00 in Advance in Haywood and Jackson Counties
3u Mm T iossiioss Area PeveflMinfii
ariHilog
tourist
Season Is Far Ahead of Last Season
In
C. Survey
,rs It Three
That of 44
Junaluska Is En-
Last Year; Irat-
ls Heavier.
community has three times
visitors as wc had last
bis time Mi" a- "-
of the Chamber of Com
forted yesterday, auer
a survey of the hotels,
houses, and tourist cen
tre community.
rank Love, superintendent
Junaluska, told The Moun
!lt the Lake was enjoy-
:er crowds tlian for me
tod last year.
Roberts, chief of police
id traffic was heavier than
and the number of out-
cars seemed to be grow-
of the hotels reported re
ins (or the last week of
the first two in August
Implctcly cxhaused their
of facilities, while some of
hi places catering to tour-
they would have some
those weeks.
lilting iiie survey, it was
that many of the rcscrva-
m through the middle of
bcr.
eating places arc using
local produce which is now
There are some com-
because of the lack of meat
days, but as a rule, most
frs take it as a War-time
and say nothing.
Brycc L. Crawford
dec! Bronze Star
pryce L. Crawford, of Way-
as recently awarded the
Star for heroic action
the enemy by Major Gcn-
'illard G. Wynian. comman-
"ic 71st Infantry Division,
m to information received
Mquartcrs.
commendation for Pfc.
H. husband cf Mrs. Helen
ton Crav.inrd. of Wavn..
Part said: "For heroic
tnt against thr nnpmv
fit. Crawford was a incm
pn assault patrol that cross-
Kimic river, engaged the
.' combat, and sucessfully
M its mission, and then
to the organization."
Crawford entered the ser
! 19, 1944, and received
''"! at Camp Wheeler, Ga
"Bcnnmg, having been sent
15 m February of this year,
wwntly assigned to Com
1 Utli regiment of the
"amr Division In Europe.
Centering the service h'e
"Ployed
Daii
ai a milk salesman
r Products Company.
,es Lcathcrwood
ds Leave Here
1(8 Leatherwood, quarter
W son of Rev. and Mrs.
thcrwood, is spending a
He Pn(hCre wilh hls Par
vnTercd the rvice in
lunteer while he was
Furman University.
2 ft tralnin t
mnths of sea
id ",onlhs he
C'antlc- Mediterran
BTh.ud ,hc Erpen
aod r cntiUe1 l wear
Conduct meda
there and two battlP
State Agriculture Board
Coming For An Official
Inspection of Test Farm
Leaders At Park-Highway Conference Today
First Time Group Has
Been Here Since New
Test Farm Has Been
Established.
The North Carolina State Hoard
of Agriculture will make their first
official inspection of the Waynes
ville State Test Farm of the Moun
tain Experiment Station on Wed
nesday and Thursday of next week,
according to an announcement yes
terday by Dean, Colvard, assistant
director of the Mountain stations.
Mr. Colvard plans to meet the
group headed by W. Kerr Seott.
State Commissioner of Agriculture,
and other state officials at the Ashe
County Test Farm, the work of
which is correlated with the experi
ments carried on at the local farm,
and will return here with the party.
While here the board and offi
cials will make a detailed inspec
tion of the farm projects and the
building program now under con
struction on the Haywood test
farm.
The Ashe county and the Hay
wood county farms serve the farm
ers in the twenty Western North
Carolina area and the tests made
on each farm are applicable to im
provements in all the Western
Counties., ,
'Among those who will make- thf
inspection tour in addition to Mr.
Scott are: F. E. Miller, director of
the State Test Farms; It. Q. Day
ton, director of the budget; Prof.
J. H. Hilton, head of the animal
husbandry department of Stale
College; and the following board
members, Claude T. Hall, Woods
dale; Lionel Weill. Goldsboro;
Charles F. Catcs, Mebane; J. H.
Poole. West End; W. B. Austin.
Jefferson; Hoyle C. Griffin, Monior;
Miss Ethel Parker, Gatcsvillo, and
D. Reeves Noland, of Waynesville
The inspection here is part of
a state-wide program to review the
experiments that arc being made
on all of the seven state test farms
which will be visited during the
tour by the group.
Haywood Breaks Record
In Purchases Of Bonds
During 7th Bond Drive
County Goes More
Commissioner
vi.y ,vWf:.,v.;.;, v:;:A' S". . r -i
W KERR SCOTT, commissioner!
of agriculture of Nbrtft Carolina,
will head the group of agriculture
leaders and others here for a two
day inspection of the State Test
Farm
Joe Palmer Named
Assistant Agent
Of Henderson
Joe Palmer, veteran of World
War II. with a long period of duty
in the South Pacific theatre of op
erations, has been named assistant
county farm agent of Henderson
county.
Mr. Palmer, a graduate of Slate
College, is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Glenn A. Palmer, and at the time
he entered the service was assistant
county farm agent of Madison
county.
Green Beans Are
Being Canned At
Haywood Cannery
The Haywood Cannery at llazel
j wood received the first l!M.r beans
1 Monday, with others coining in
Tuesday and yesterday.
.1 E. ISarr, general manager, said
plans were to get the cannery op
erating on full schedule the last
( of this week, perhaps starting to
day. ! The bean crop in Haywood was
i deseihed by Mr Harr as being
i "fair, and spotted."
1 The cannery could use fif)0 tons
j of beans to can for the govern
I merit. Mr. Hair pointed out. al
j (hough the local crop is far short
of I hat volume, he said.
Than A Million Above
the Quota
All records were broken in the
7th War Loan Drive in Haywood
county, when $1,872,901 was in
vested in bonds of various series
during the period, according to
the official record received from
the treasury department this week
by W. Hoy Francis, chairman.
Haywood's total quota for the
campaign was $800,000, which
meant that the county exceeded
the quota by well over a million
dollars. About $85,000 was need
ed to make the "E" bond quota
of $609,000, but the local workers
consoled themselves with the fact,
that Haywood was far above the
national and state average on the
"E" quota.
This is the largest amount ever
invested by Haywood in bonds
during a campaign. The Sixth
campaign was $1,413,000 against
a quota of $714,000.
J. E. Massie, war finance chair
man, was of the opinion that pur
chases of bonds in the county
Would continue without any let
down below the monthly quotas
This Region Sells Over
18 Millions In Bonds
.lon.il ban H. Woody, chairman of
this region in war bond cam
paigns, was lold yesterday by the
treasury department that this re
gion, comprising IS counties of
Western North Carolina, had in
vested $18, 447, 183 in war bonds
during the 7th campaign This is
about twice the quota
The totals for the counties are:
E-iswgjgggg f"BB
MmLV , I fiJ II aoLJ
NEWTON B. DRUKY, director of
the National fark Service, is
bringing several of his staff here
for the conference which will be
held at noon today.
CHARLES E. RAY, JR , chair
man Of the roads committee of the
Chamber of Commerce, will be
master of ceremonies at the con
ference luncheon today.
A. H GRAHAM, chairman of
the State Highway Commission, and
members of his stall will be here
today to discuss development of
the Park on this side
Cpl. Billy Medford Is
In Germany Guarding
Nazi Prisoners
Cpl. Billy B. Medford. son of
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Medford. of
route 2. who is serving with the
106th Infantry Division in Ger
many, has been awarded the mer
itorious service unit plaque for
outstanding service from Decem
ber 16, 1944. until March 15. 1945
His division is guarding Ger
man prisoners in American hands.
He took his training at Fort
Jackson, S. C, and Camp Atter
bury, Ind. Maneuvered in Ten
nessee. He is a graduate of Bre
vard College.
forces Granted In July Term
-ourt; Many Other Cases Tried
'nn of Superior Court
5ne ay, July oth,
Pre-iiHi Roussea. of
todal 10 adjourn
the twHly recew.
8eei1 rante4 and
one non-suited. At the time The
Mountaineer went to press wit
nesses In the case of T. E. Shook,
et at versus D. M. Pless, Herman
Rogers, and D. D. Reed, trustees,
were testifying. Fifty persons had
been summoned to testify in the
case which involved property
known as Pine Grove Methodist
church left in 1879 by the Rhoda
mar family to be used as a school
building and for worship of all
- (Continued on page 8)
Pfc. Holtzclaw
Among Those
Wounded In Action
The name of Pfc. Wesley F.
Holtzclaw, cook's helper, who has
been in Italy for the past several
months, has been added to the
list of casualties in Haywood coun
ty not heretofore reported. He
has been attached to the 3rd Bat
talion of the 339th "Polar Bear"
regiment, which discovered the
priceless art treasures that had
been taken by the Germans all
over the world.
Pfc. Holtzclaw, of Canton, has
been awarded the Bronze Star for
meritorious service and also wears
the Purple Heart.
The treasures were hidden in a
15th century castle in Italy. The
tank mounted troops of the bat- j
talion entered the castle and found i
a number of large sealed crates, i
with German lettering on them, j
Inspection of the crates revealed I
that they contained 350 pieces of j
art. paintings, sculptures, carvings,
antiques, all tagged and in good j
condition. They were works by i
Hembrant. Rubens, Raphael, Mis
ahelangelo. Botticelli. Hilbein and
Velasques.
Buncombe
Cherokee
Clay
Graham
Hay wood
Henderson
Jackson
McDowc.i
Macon
Madison
Mitchell
Polk
Swain
Transylvania
Yancey
Total
$8,035,066
431.G72
(i 1.801
446.469
1,972.052
3,006.266
479.690
857.531
405.905
471.822
403.377
450.648
270,400
851.597
242.747
$18,447,183
Six Negro Men Report
To Fort Bragg
The following negro men left
here Monday morning for pie-in-duction
physical examinations at
Fort Bragg: John Henry Foster,
John Henry Tucker, Jesse Junior
Scruggs, John R. Cox, Samuel Mc
Clarrin, and Arthur Lane Chapman.
Boosters Club
Seeking YMCA
For Hazelwood
Committee At Work
On Getting Details To
Report At August
Meeting.
The Boosters Club Thursday
night heard a preliminary com
mittee report on the plans of se
curing a YMCA for HazcPWooct.
The committee plans to have full
er details to report at the next
mctftiiig. which is tentatively set
for August ninth, and will be the
annual summer ladies night.
Dewey Hyatt, president, named
It. L. Prcvost, Clyde Fisher and
Claude Allen as a committee on
arrangements, while George Bis
choff, Rev. Everett Murray and
Rcv.V C. R. Crockett were named
to work out details for a meeting
place for future meetings.
Speakers ol the evening were
Pvt. William Chambers and TSgt,
Ralph Chambers, brothers, who re
cently returned from Europe,
where both were prisoners of
war Ralph Hi months and Wil
liam 8 months
St. John's High
School Here Will
Be Discontinued
St.. John's high school here will
be discontinued, it was announced
by Rev. A. F. Ilohrbachcr. superin
tendent. St Johns School will
continue to operate its other de
partments, grammar school, busi
ness school, music school and kin
dergarten. Private bus service will be avail
able for pupils attending school
within twenty miles radius.
40 Bankers To Gather Here
25 To Hear GI Bill Discussed
W. H. F. Millar On
Way To London
W. H. F. Millar, Waynesville
attorney, sailed Monday for
London, where he will spend
at least two weeks on business
with an associate. He sailed
frpn New York.
Mr. Millar has reservations
to fly back to the States. His
original plans were to fly both
ways; but changes were made
in schedules at the last min
ute. ,
Judge and Mrs. Smathcrs
Go To Hot Springs
Judge and Mrs. Frank Smathcrs
who are spending the summer here
have gone to Hot Springs for the
coming month.
Buying Cigarettes On Sly Makes
Local Man So Sick He Gives Up
Smoking, And Starts Buying Books
New Five And Ten
To Open Saturday
The new Carolina 5. 10 and 2oc
Store will open Saturday morning,
it was announced yesterday by G.
L. Durden. general manager and
owner.
The building has been complete
ly renovated, and a modern front
installed. New fixtures were
brought in last week, and yester
day the sales force was busily en
gaged in getting the merchandise
arranged for the opening Saturday
Mr. Harden and associates re
cently purchased the building,
which is 25 by 90 feet.
This is the fifth store to be open
ed by the linn, the other stores arc
at Morganton. home office, Valdese,
Drexel, and Kutherfordton.
I.lsrwhere in this edition, the
linn is announcing their opening
specials
Supreme Court Judge
To Address Lions
Club At Meet Tonight
Judge Atkinson, of Macon. Ga..
Supreme court judge, will ad
dress the members of the Waynes
ville Lions Club at their meeting
tonight which meets at 7:30 at
the Maples on Walnut street.
An invitation has been extended
to all visiting Lions to attend the
meeting and hear this distinguish
ed speaker, who is spending the
summer at the Methodist Assem
bly at Lake Junaluska.
Haywood
Casualty List
As of Today:
Killed In Action 105
Wounded 219
Prisoners 5
Missing' In Action 25
Liberated 21
TOTAL 375
'The idea made me so sick,
I gave up smoking overnight,"
was the comment and confes
sion of a hard-smoking Way
nesville man this week, as he
told how he was forced to
slip back of counters, and in
other ways, get his smokes.
"I felt guilty. I felt like I
was buying something that
was wrong, when I had them
slipped to me," he remarked.
"The last package I bought
just turned me against all
smoking. I was the sickest I
have ever been. I was so sick,
that I gave them to a friend
within ten feet of the store
where I bought the package."
On several different occa
sions, the man tried to stop
smoking. He was smoking
three packages a day, and
when the" shortage came he
decided to stop, but could not
make the grade, until the
incident of buying, as he said,
"the sneaking way" made him
sick.
He proudly admits he feels
better physically, and his con
science is in "much better con
dition," he said.
The money that formerly
went into cigarettes is now be
ing put into books for a fam
ily library. He has a good
start, and is proud of his ac
complishments in quitting
smoking and the results of his
savings.
His wife is enjoying his de
cision, as she points out, it is
easier to dust books once a
week, than it was to clean up
the cigarette ashes every
morning, noon and night.
Notice To All
Subscribers . .
Following a practice of
many years, The Moun
taineer stops all subscrip
tions immediately upon
expiration. A notice is
mailed first class fifteen
days before the expira
tion date.
The expiration date is
printed after the name at
the top of the paper. All
subscriptions expire on
the first of the month.
Forty bankers of Western North
Carolina will be guests of the F'irst
National Hank on next Wednesday
night, for a district meeting and
to hear details of the G.l. Hill ex
plained.
The bankers will have dinner at
the Hotel Gordon, and adjourn to
the cHict room for their executive
session, and to hear add.rscs by
representatives of the ticnsfury de
partment from "Washington, and
Gordon C. Hunter, of lioxboro,
president of the Slate Bankers As
sociation. Also appeal In-: on the program
will be Fred Greene, secretary of
the state association, and W. 11.
Neal. of the Wachovia Hank of
Winston-Salem.
Jonathan II Woody, president of
the First National, will serve as
master of ceremonies
This Is one of ten similar meet
ings being held throughout the
state by the Hankers Association.
Pvt. Buddy Cooper,
Of Canton, Is
Listed Wounded
Private Buddy- Cooper. U. S Ma
rines, was wounded on June 17,
on Okinawa, aitonlmg to infor
mation received by Ins parents,
Mr. and Mrs ,1 M Cooper, of
Canton. He was flown to a field
hospital for treatment and is now
reported to be convalescing at a
rest center
Pvt. Cooper li.i- hour brothers
ill the iService. S;;t .lames II. Coop
er, now on furlough with Ins par
ents, en route to the Pacific, after
five months in Germany where he
participated in Hie final battles
of the European conflict, serving
with the 86th Black Hawk divi
sion; Corporal Wayne Cooper, now
in Pacific theatre, Cpl, Herman
Cooper, serving m Germany, and
LI. Woodrow Cooper, now in Bra
zil. Former Railroad Man
Observes 72nd Birthday
John Dotson, of Canton, celebrat-
Conference Begins
At Noon Today At
Piedmont Hotel
Officials of Park Ser
vice, Highwaymen and
Civic Leaders of Sec
tion To Discuss De
velopment Plans.
Everything was in readiness last
night for the luncheon-conference
here today of officials of the Na
tional Park Service, State Highway
officials, together with civic and
business leaders of this section, to
discuss in detail plans for develop
ing the eastern area of the Great
Smoky Mountains Nationalal Park.
Heading the group coming for
the conference arc Newton B.
Drury. director of the National
Park Service, and A. H. Graham,
chairman of the state highway com
mission. Charles E. Ray, Jr., chair
man of the Chamber of Commerce
roads committee, will be acting
chairman of the meeting, which is
scheduled to begin promptly at
noon at the Piedmont Hotel.
Chairman Graham and R. Getty
Browning of the highway commis
sion, will 'extend official welcome
to the Park group and wil loutline
to them the State's views with re
spect to proposed developments.
The Park group is made up of
twelve, while the highway officials
will number six, and about thirty
leaders of this area will complete
the members of the conference.
The conference and luncheon Is
being sponsored jointly by the
Waynesville Chamber of Com
merce, the Asheville Chamber of
Commerce and the Carolina Motor
Club.
The Park officials are scheduled
to arrive from Fontana Dam short
ly before noon, while members of
the highway group, and the out-of-Haywod
delegations plan to arrive
abit Blcveii o'clock.
A highway ' patrolman and a
grotfp of Ioca4rfitii04)ded by
H. H. Atkins will meet the .Park
group at Soco Gap this morning,
and escort them to the Piedmont
for the meeting.
Among the matters to be discuss
ed at the conference will be the
proposal to construct a water-level
stale highway from Cove Creek
post office down Pigeon river via
Watcrville and the Carolina Power
and Light Company lake and dam
to the Tennessee line where it
would be met by a Tennessee con
nection. The distance is about 18
miles, and Would open up some of
the most Interesting scenic areas
of Western North Carolina.
It would permit the Park Service
to open up to the public the Cat
taloochce and Big Creek sections
of the Park to the left of the Pig
eon river, and the Pisgah National
Forest which comes down to the
river on the right side. In this
area it would be the equivalent to
the Foothills Parkway proposed to
skirt the Park on the Tennessee
side and would have a connection
(Continued on page 5i
Music Program
To Be Given At
Methodist Church
A program of sacred music will
be presented at the First Metho
dist church on Sunday evening,
July 22. at 8.00 o'clock, according
to an announcement by the pas
tor. Rev. J. Clay Madison. Featur
ed on the program will be Charles
Medlun, chcllist, from High Point,
and a student at the Juliard School
of Music, New York.
Several numbers will also be
given by Sol Cohen, violinist, from
Urbane, ill., now. head of the De
ed his seventy -second birthday on ! partment of Music at High Valley
Camp. Mr. Cohen was director
of the Peoria Symphony Orchestra
for several years and arranger ot
the Blue Network before coming
to his present post.
In addition to the instruments'
numbers there will also be several
vocal selections by summer stu
dents in the Music Department at
High Valley.
July 15th Born in Canton be
has always lived there and ex
pects to enjoy main more happy
years at the same place His two
daughters are employed at the
Champion Paper Co
Mr. Dotson was an employe of
the Southern Kailway for a great
many years and retired when he
was sixty-five
Federal Inspector "Sold" On This
Community By Chamber of Commerce
"I have been treated so nice by
the Chamber of Commerce, and
given so much detailed informa
tion about this county, that I have
definitely made up my mind to
acquire a summer home here, and
spend a large part of each year
here," said Mrs. Sue Allen, of
Charleston, this week.
Mrs. Allen is a federal inspec
tor at the navy yard at Charles
ton, but. plans to come back here
after the war to live.
"I have spent five years abroad,
and traveled extensively, but am
yet to find a spot that compares
with your community," she said
as she recounted the many attrac
tions that "sold" her on the idea
of making this her home.
What credit is given for selling
Mrs. Allen on this community
must go to Miss S. A. Jones, sec
retary of the Chamber of Com
merce, for it was Miss Jones whom
Miss Alkn contacted for, the in
formation. ' i .