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THURSDAY, DECEMBER PAGfc FOUR (First Section) THE WAYNES VTLLE MOUNTAINEER 'SINGS' OF BUMMY DAVIS KILLING On Leave DEATHS TOU WILL FIND AT IIT' IS! --' " I".- I , 1 1 M" i;fPJi'.! -'I ; ;'!:. '.r I ' If I Si it t 1 Much Interest Being Shown In Essay Contest Interest In the newspaper con test which is being conducted in the county by THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER and THE CANTON ENTERPRISE and in the State by the North Carolina Press Arsociation, is steadily growing, according to all reports from the schools in the county and inquiries corning into this office. Every member of the senior class of thp Waynesville Township high school has entered the contest and It has also been reported by the principals of the other high schools that there are large numbers of their students also entering the contest. The purpose of the essay con test ie to focus the interest of the piesent high school student gen eration on the place and import ance of newspapers in modern so ciety. All essays in the compe tion must be written on the sub ject: "Newspapers Serving the Community." The contest which is being held by the State North Carolina Press Association is being aided by the county newspapers in handling the essays as a clearing or prelimi nary contest toward awarding the State prizes. The prize winning ess.iy in each county will then en ter the statewide competition for the grand prizes. In Haywood county the contest prizes to bo given by the two papers will be as follows: First prize essay $25 in Victory' bond. Second prize essay $15 in Vic tory stamps. Third prize essay $10 in Victory stamps. Fourth prize essay $7.50 in. Vic tory stamps. Fifth prize essay $5.00 in Vic tory stamps. The statewide prizes offered by ihe North Carolina Press Associa tion are: First prize $100 Victory bond. Second prize $50 Victory bond All Haywood county high school students must enter the contest through their own schools. Every high school principal in the county has been sent full information about the contest. Each high school, public or private, through Its prin cipal, will conduct their own con test, and make their selection for entry into the countywide contest. The county contest will close on December 15, and all entries in the contest must be in the offices of the two county newspapers by that date. Tr 3 winners of the county prizes will be announced early in January. As soon as the Haywood winners are announced the first prize essay will be sent to the North Carolina Press Association headquarters to be judged again in the state-wide competition. The state-wide win ners will be announced shortly thereafter. All essays should be neatly writ ten 'preferably typewritten, though this is not required) on only one ride of the paper; not more than 1,500 words in length. In planning to write their essays in this contest, students should consider Ihe purpose of this com petition: "To focus the interest of the present student generation on the place and importance of newspapers in our modern society." HELD AS A MEMBER of the four-man hold-up mob that killed Al (Bum ? n vis Vmcent Giarratfa, 23. answers an official's questions at New Yort P e h Xarters. jusi pnor to being taken to a hospital 1 for re I , a bullet from his neck. A strong police guard W . nital asamst threats that other mobsters were cominfl to get Giarraffa For havmg iven the police too much InformaUon. (Internationa I) Ambergris, Plastic Eyes Make Oddities Of News Nazi gems, plastic eyes, and per fume from the stomach of a sick .vhale these were some of the high points of oddities in the news this week as headlines ran a jamut from Christmas sales of precious stones to efforts by the J. S. Navy to help men blinded in .he service. Germany, developments indicat ed, was to pay a further price for Aar by helping to relieve the jhortage of precious stones on the American holiday market. Dispatches from Washington ;aid that the Alien Property Cus odian is freeing 300,000 rubies, )earls, cats-eyes, and other gems for that purpose. Seized from German-controlled interests in this country, they are being disposed of in bidding, which, in one instance, covered 2(i2 lots of diamonds. Chief qualifications for pur chases are t tin t bidders must be citizens of the United States, or members of organizations control led by citizens. Dental circles in the United States, meanwhile, were studying Jie future of commercial value of plastic eyes developed by the Naval hospital at Bethesda, Md., where .orpsmen were selected for this work because of their skill in mik ing products coordinated with the functions of muscle tissues. Commander LaMar W. Harris, of the Naval Dental Corps, revealed Then with their subject. "News Serving the Community" wrue their essays from any angles they choose. progress in the field in a discus sion between dentists in New York this week. To date, he said, the develop ment is under military control, but the near future points to general use and production by optical man ufacturing companies. Moving freely in its socket, the plastic eye, he pointed out, is an improvement over every previous artificial eye on the market. It is made the exact size and color of the patient's good eye. with paint ing of the false iris done at pres ent by experienced workers, most ly Waves, at the hospital. Close physical examination de termines whether the eye should bo Inserted, but during the last year the hospital has manufac tured more than 500 eyes for vet erans. "In time," Commander Harris said, "the price can be made so low that even the lowest Income groups will be able to purchase the eyes." Ambergris, the strange source of perfume bases ejected by sp?rm whales, found revived news inter est through a New York Herald Tribune story which said that scarcity of whales has cut dowr. the number of discoveries. Always fabulous in their acci dental nature, these discoveries, i: was pointed out, lead to small for tunes. Amabergrls, an oily, odor ous substance found as a morbic secretion in the alimentary cana of the whale, is valued at betweer $800 and $1,000 a pound at curren prices. Usually it is found as flotsam or For E very ige Boy or Girl! Pull Toys Games Tea Sets Chairs Rockers Sewing Sets Paints Shooting Darts Child's DESK SET Were $9.45 Now $6.95 Just Received Bicycle Tubes FOR THE HOME 32-Piece China Set $9.95 18-Piece China Set $4.98 4-Horse Drawn DRAY Was $8.19 Now $6.95 Home And Auto Supply Store Main Street KILL COBB, Owner Waynesville MRS. IDA GIBSON NOLAND Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at Worley's Chapel, union church. Shoal Creek section of Jackson county for Mrs. Ida Gibson Noland, 59, wife of D. Grover Noland, who died at her home in Iron Duff section of Hay wood county, at 9:40 p. m. Mon day. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Surviving are her husband; three sons, Cecil Noland, of Asheville, Kerm Noland, Swannanoa, and Robert Noland Newport News, Va.; three daughters, Mrs. Ben Wat kins, Newport News, Va., Miss Lucile Noland of Waynesville, and Mrs. James Benton, of Asheville; two sisters, Mrs. Maggie Moody, of Statesvllle, and Mrs .Grace Gibson, of Houston, Texas, and seven grandchildren. Garrett Funeral Home will be in charge of the arrangements. JOHN JACKSON FULLB RIGHT Funeral services were conducted at the Clyde Methodist church at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon for John Jackson Fullbright, 70, re tired farmer of the Fines Creek section of the county, who died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Vance Davis at Clyde, on Friday afternoon. Rev. C. O. Newell of ficiated. Burial was in Bon-A-Ven-ture cemetery. Serving as pallbearers were: J. Dock Noland, Curtis Rogers, Wiley B .Noland, Len Rathbone, Marian Kirkpatrick and Glenn Beasley. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Lelia Rogers Fullbright: three daughters, Mrs. Harrison Davis of Fines Creek, Mrs. Vance Davis of Clyde, and Mrs. Earl Justice of Asheville; three brothers, C. R. Fullbright of Altamaha, Jess Full bright of Iron Duff, and Charlie Fullbright of Clyde, RFD 1; three sisters, Mrs. Lon Caldwell of Bluff, Mrs. Homer Caldwell of Bluff, and Mrs. Floyd Green of Clyde; ten grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren. i' i " " p ( FIRST LIEUTENANT DAVID H. MICHAL, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Michal, of the Pigeon sec tion o the county, has arrived in the states after serving in the Pa cific theater. Lt. Michal was attached to the 20th Air Force as a B-29 flight engineer, and was based on Guam and the Marianas. He completed 30 missions against the homeland of Japan. He has been awarded the Distinguished Flyiog Cross, the air medal with four oak leaf clus ters. At the time he volunteered in the service Lt. Michal was a student at State College, Raleigh. Switzerland is the prostituted "moll" of the world's big crooks. It has more crooked funds and guilty secrets than any other, and the law protects them. yc around the sea and varies in color from white to ash-gray to yellow or black. A typical fairy tale incident of discovery cited by the Herald-Tribune was that in vhich James Schurmann, a Cana dian visitor from Ottawa, was va cationing at Longsport, N. J. Dis ?overing a mass of grey matter in the shore line, he suspected hat it was ambergris and later jroved his suspicion when his find vas evaluated at $16,000. Refused Drink, Fined $300 NEW YORK Racial bias this week cost a New York grill $300 when an all white jury awarded a verdict in favor of Frank Wilson a New York Central Railroad cleaner , against O'Gara's Bar and Grill, 393 E. 138th street. 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