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Ill ' f (One Day Nearer Victory) THURSDAY, Jty THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER fi F5IFIty-OT IPeate Dun ParCs Aire Over A Mille InlDglh WOOD FOR SALE Many Thrills In Store For Anyone Climbing Them The Great Smoky Mountains Na tional Park contains 51 peaks and gaps more than a mile high, ac cording to a list compiled from records of the U. S. Geological Survey. According to the list, there arc 20 mountain peaks in the park area with an altitude of 6,000 feet or more. Twenty-three peaks have an altitude of over 5,280 feet but less than 6.000 feet, while eight mountain pags are over 5,280. The highest peak in the park is Clingman's Dome, which rises 6, 642 feet above sea level. Next in size is Mt. Guyot. which is 6.621 feet high. All of the peaks are located within the park area, which con sists of approximately 428,000 acres. The Newfound gap, over which runs the main highway to the Grcak Smoky Mountains Na tional Park, Is only a few hundred feet less than a mile high, its alti tude being 5,045 feet. Mountain peaks 6,000 or more high are: Balsam Corner. 6,000 feet; Big Catalooehee, 6,112 feet; Blazed Balsam, 6,243 feet; Mt. Buckley, 6.582 feet; Cams Knob, 6,140 feet; Mt. Chapman, 6,430 feet; Cling man's Dome, 6,642 feet; Mt. Col lins, 6,188 feet; Mt. Guyot, 6,621 feet; Mt. Hardlson, 6,148 feet; Mt. Kephart, 6,200 feet; Mt. Love, 6, 400 feet; Luftec Knob, 6,216 feet; Old Black Mountain, 6,356 feet: Mt. Amber, 6,000 feet; Mt. Se quoyah. 6,000 feet; Thermo Knob, 6.120 feet; Tricorner Knoti, 6,100 feet; Mt. Youaguska. 6,183 feet and Mt. Lcconte, 6,593 fee. Peaks more than 5,280 feet high are: Andrews Bald, 5,860 feet; Bal sam High Top, 5,688 feel'; lack horn Mountain, 5,425 feet; Buck Knob, 5,640 feet; Catalooehee Bal sam, 5,940 feet; Charlie's Bunion, 5.400 feet; Chiltocs Mountain, 5, 888 feet; Eagle Rock, 5,500 feet; Hemphill Bald, 5,573 feet; Laurel Top, 5,865 feet; Little Bald Knob, 5,677 feet; Little Thunder Head, 5,320 feet; Mt. Mingus. 5,800 feet; Peck's Corner, 5,300 feet; Rocky Top. 5,440 feet; Sheepback Knob, 5,520 feet; Siler Bald, 5,620 feet; Soco Bald. 5,462 feet; Spruce Mountain, 5590 feet; Mt. Sterling, 5.835 feet: Strawberry Knob, 5, 340 feet; Thundcrhead, 5,530 feet; Anakcsta Knob, 5,800 feet. Mountain gaps over a mile high are: Indian Gap. 6,265 feet; Deep Creek Gap, 6,020 feet; Collins Memorial Plaque The founders of Great Smoky Mountains National Park are honored with a memorial at Newfound Gap, on the North Carolina-Tennessee line. A bronze plaque on a high terrace wall of the memorial bears the fol lowing inscription: "FOR THE PERMANENT ENJOYMENT OF THE PEOPLE This Park Was Given One-Half By The Peo ples And States of North Carolina and Tennessee And By The United States of America And One-Half In Memory of Laura Spelman Rockefeller By The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Founded by Her Hus band John D. Rockefeller." Gap, 5720 feet; Double Spring Gap, 5,520 feet; Dry Sluice Gap, 5,375 feet; Horse Creek Gap 5,575 feet; Laurel Gap. 5,400 feet; Porter Gap, 5,500 feet. From the standpoint of geologic history, this is the oldest land on the American continent. Compar ed with the Great Smoky Moun tains in point of age, the Rocky Mountains are in their swaddling clothes. The Smokies were old when the great forces of nature pushed upward the gigantic ridges and towering cones of the Rockies. Through countless geologic ages the great Architect of the Uni verse carved and molded and chis eled the great canyons and domes and peaks of the Smokies and molded them as we find them to day. Through other countless ages the same great Architect has woven and fashioned for them a magnificent garment of verdure, and illimitable forest and spruce and hemlock, poplar, and chestnut, beach and maple, with every spe cies of shrub and plant and flow er. In fact, this is the last of A Condensed Summary Of RATIONING NEWS As it applies to Haywood County The lUOth week uf war against Japan. POINT REMINDERS MKATS. FATS Red Stamps K2 through P2 Red Stamps Q2 through U2 Red Stamps V2 through Z2 Red Stamps Al through El Last Dale l or Use July 31 August 31 September 30 October 31 PROCESSED FOODS Blue Stamps T2 through X2 July 31 Blue Stamps Y2, 7.2. Al, Bl, CI August 31 "Blue Stamps Dl through III September 30 Blue Stamps Jl through Nl October 31 SUGAR STAMPS 36 August 31 FUEL OIL Period I, 2, 3, 4, and 5 coupons, good for ten gallons per unit, continue valid throughout the country for the rest of the heating year. New Period 1 coupon in the 1945-46 ration may be used anytime after June 1. SHOES Airplanes Stamps No. 1, 2, 3, in Book Three continue valid indefinitely. GASOLINE A-16 coupons valid through September 21 Airplane Stamp No. 4 in War Ration Book No. 3 would become valid as a shoe stamp on August 1. Airplane Stamps Nos. 1, 2, and 3 arc valid indefinitely. Steps are being taken to put more low priced knit cotton and woolen clothing on the nation's counters before winter comes. Manufacturers, to obtain priorities, must sumbit their production schedules on items in the program showing they will produce the same proportionate quantity of each price line that they did in the base period. ID il mi rm'Wnr, 'f Aim 'iftVM- w raw SAVE and Further Costs The Law Requires That We Ad vertise and Sell All Property On Which Taxes Have Not Been Paid. WW OF WAYNESVILLE .....:.,.' - - ,1 JOHN BOYD, Tax Collector . THE BOOK CORNER Reading From Left To llight With FKANCKK (ilLBEKT FKAZIER splendid book by C. S. Forester. This book rates second in the list of best sellers. Just wait until you sot1 the nifty little booklet we are (jetting out. They will come alontf with your statements and in your books you purchase and will be gladly hand ed you who are interested in read ing the newest and best books. The booklet contains from 24 to the great primeval forests of the Appalachians. Only its remote ness has preserved it. The sum mits of these mountains arc cloth ed with Canadian fir or balsam that is not to be found again in the wide stretch of the forests of Canada, for it loves a cold and bracing climate. The mountain sides are heavily wrapped with chestnut and great tulip or poplar trees and hickory and every variety of maple and birch. Some of the great tulip trees are 8 and 10 feet in diameter. 48 pages, describes from 150 to 250 bonks and gives you a run ning idea about the popularity of the best sellers. It is small enough to slip in your purse and can be looked over while in the beauty parlor, waiting for a friend or even on the bus. The demand for UP FRONT by Kill IMauldin continues un abated. We have just put in our fourth re-order and hope to have a supply within a week. The cartoons are clever iui end and the captions under each one makes a perfect whole. COMMODORE HORNHLOWER has arrived under full sail and the salty tang of the sea per meates the 384 pages of this Alone about third, we find DRAGON HARVEST by Up ton Sinclair known for his Lanny Budd, an American in Utose terrifying days from Munich to the fall of Paris. 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