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Standard PRINTING Co 220 S First St LOUISVILLE KV Now Published Twice-A-Week - Every Tuesday and Friday The Waynesville Mountaineer Published Twioc-a-Week In The County Seat Of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park GIther 49,500 People Live within 20 miles of Waynesvlll thalr Ideal thopptcg cantor. V4 .,.,rfv and SIXTY-FIRST YEAR No. 56 8 Pages WAYNESVILLE, N. C, TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1946 $3.00 In Advance la Haywood and Jackson Counties 1. ,1 B 1 at Joint , Held , Monday j this meeting 1S t mountain people, ,,d our min.Mwo rtnnoction between and ihc relation of j !,;. ret. tw man ann the u-o 01 resm, . , ... " c.j r Hr piven ni"1' director 01 ' Community dcvelop- ,Hti headquaiicis ttte. Madisonville. ipnitiC remarks al mwt hold hole .1 church yesterday. irra afienls. Liana, chairman 01 county demons! ra- nresiowl. .uiriiuins j,lfTs i,f the county, tAAA county com onstration farmers gave an illustrated g bow proper prep- soil and sclent 11 ic ; ihc life of those t rural areas, lartman, field seere- ouncil of Southern tors, explained the meeting, stating that I5bcinfi held in the irth Carolina moun- Incluctt'd 111 the Ten- Authority. tiing, county farm i the speakers at Sev. Cecil L. Heck 's Chapel Mcth- jke Junaluska, gave Bcv. C. L. Allen, assembly singing, A served as song I the program, t group were the 'first National Bank Hotel Cordon, with furnished bv the Pet company. rth all those altend :( rre taken on a :h included visits to T Francis and kbolh places being fcion arms. Regional p Organize lently o( four persons. rlesE. Ray. Jr.. will rille in Ihc mert- m Brisnn City to pniunities of Ucst- t'una in promiiting rrrational and road ara The mert- flto hccill at 7 1-1 m Inil, with the bcr of Commer- ''ous meetings the n Page Three) Asportation 00 Fine t last week bv ' m for puhli'e o for riri. ;. I'ng. and one hiskcy. rfc""ant was r,nS eight f those Public ri,,,i .., -""ciiness T" rcni,vn.-w t "led for ear Iv fcfT First i.-,. unday morn. Sea to us a fund with . "e church flv , program, &b?.memrj of UtL. church "ttrnmpnrt iantr,..: "new k PhiJ.., 1 !m"iated te non " "ennite hthe first mCt! Was P tw.' st motion. A1 Board of mor than ood Farmers And (bis Hear Talks oils And Souls Director MAURICE GEOFFREY, director of the Waynesville Summer Play ers, composed of a large group of actors and actresses, who will ap pear in summer stock here. Mr. Geoffry will be managing director of the group and his wife will de sign special costumes for the play ers productions. Mr. Geoffrey is director of the Tampa Players, of Tampa, Fla., a group that has staged numerous productions at the Tampa Little Theater. The Players will present five plays here during the season, which opens on July 16, at the high school audi torium. 2,000 Visit Lake Group Meetings Our hope in this hour of world's predicament lies in the spiritual forces which can change human nature. Thus explained the Rev. Mark Depp, of Winston-Salem, in the Sunday evening sermon at the Lake Junaluska Assembly, while discussing the theme, "A Matter of Priority." Dr. Depp will be heard each morning through Friday when the Western North Carolina Conferences on Adult and Chil dren's Workers meet at the audi torium. More than 1,000 young Methodist leaders from this part of the state will have attended the two assem blies recently concluded and the two now under way under the direction of the Rev. Carl H. King of Salisbury. In the election of officers at one assembly last week, Brona Nifong of Waynesville, was chosen secretary for this district. The Southeastern Board of Evan gelism in last week's meeting se lected September 8th to be ob served as Life Service Sunday and October 6th as Membership Sun day. Each church will be asked to install a Christian service flag which will identify by stars per sons who have entered Christian life callings in the past and new recruits. More than 2,000 persons present ly are filling the grounds, and al though the superintendent, Dr. F. S. Love, has received many appre ciations for the grounds improve ment and fine program, it is be coming apparent that additional housing accommodations shall be needed for this popular religious -naiauqua. (s Here Decide m New Church $11,000 in cash was on hand for me ?Z5,000 goal this year. Committees have been named, and are ready to start the cam paign to raise the $25,000 each .vear for the next 4 years. Tenta tive plans are to get $100,000 in Cash and then rtpf iflo nn tho tvno structure to be erected. ill R Pnnforanna KAninflii TVT f Morgan pointed out "at the end of four years, we will be in a better position to decide on the iype and design of the new build "ig than now. There will be new materials and ideas to work with "y me time the full amount i; raised." Rev. L. G. Elliott, pastor, point eU OUt SlinHaV aflat- ha nnnfur ence, "this action is a progressive step forward, yet one that will demand the fullest cooperation of every member in order that the Roal be reached." Main Street Repairs To End Thurs. Traffic Is Being Permitted On Thoroughfare As Quickly As Possible People began "board walking" across Main Street in Waynesville yesterday morning when contrac tors began their re-surfaeing of the pavement by pouring a sticky base layer of black binding material upon the old road-way. Entrances into the thoroughfare were roped off and traftic and park ing held to a minimum by the police. The fire wagons were brought from the station and head ed down side streets so as not to be kept from any call to duty. Tne contractors expect to have the inch and one-half of asphalt laid from the Hotel Gordon to The First Baptist church completely laid before Thursday morning. In the meantime, Main Street will be roped off a block at a time as they lay the plant-mixed asphalt, being brought in by truck from a porta ble plant in Canton. Chief Orville Noland states that traffic will be permitted unon the streets as quickly as possible. He explains that this work was to have begun two months ago, but that the contract was blocked by the Asheville highway commission er who believed the prices un reasonable. L. K. Barber New Superintendent Of A. C. Lawrence Former Research and Development Engineer Now Heads Tannery At Hazel wood L, K. Barber has been named superintendent of the A. C. Lawrence Leather Company, Hazel- wood, succeeding F. C. Compton, who becomes assistant superin tendent, a position he formerly held with the plant, which Is the oldest manufacturing company in Hay wood county. Mr. Compton succeeded the late L. M. Richeson as superintendent soon after the lattcr's death in February, 1943 and has held the post until the recent change, which was made at the request of Mr. Compton, at this time for personal reasons. Mr. Barber, the new superinten dent, formely held the positon of research and development engineer and was attached to the Technical Department of the A. C. Lawrence Leather Company with headquar ters in Peabody, Mass. The newly named superintendent joined the company in 1937, fol lowing his graduation from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Mass. as an analytical chemist. A year later he was trans ferred to development work and in this capacity he has been as signed at one time or another to practically every tannery owned by the company. Mr. Barber was first assigned to the Haywood plant in the Spring of 1943 and has been located at the local plant the greater part of the time since that date. Community Cannery Opens Friday, 12th Plans have been completed for the opening of the community can nery for the current season on Fri day of this week. For the first two weeks the plant will operate for two days only each week. Tues days and Fridays, after which it will remain open for longer periods. William Purlsey, agricultural vo cational teacher of the high school will serve as manager of the can nery and will be assisted by Mrs. Rufus Siler, director of the county wide lunch room program and Mrs. H. L. Buchanan, teacher of home economics in the high school. The hours for opening, and clos ing have been set for 9 in the morn ing and after 4 o'clock no proces sing will be started, but operations started prior to that time will be completed. M. H. Bowles Joins W.C.T.U. Faculty For First Semester M. H. Bowles, superintendent of the Waynesville district schools has joined the faculty of Western Caro lina Teachers College for the first semester. Mr. Bowles is teaching a course on "The problems of secondary education." Holiday Celebration So Successful Plans Begin ior Next Year's Affair Claimed By Death 3S COL. WILLIAM IRA LEE, 73, former resident engineer of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, who died at the McQuire Vet erans Hospital, Richmond, Va , Fri day afternoon. Col. Lee had spent much time here on official business and as a guest in the home of his wife's family. Col. W. I. Lee Buried In Emporia, Va. Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Episcopal church in Emporia, Va., for Colonel William Ira Lee, 73, native of Virginia, U.S A., re tired senior highway engineer of the public roads administration, who died at the McQuire Veterans hospital in Richmond, Va., on Fri day. Burial followed in Round Hill cemetery. Col. Lee, a veteran of World War I, having made a brilliant record while serving in France, joined the public roads administration in 1928 and was placed in charge of the design and construction of the Mount Vernon Memorial highway in Northern Virginia. Upon complrMon of that project in 1932 he was named resident en gineer of the Great Smoky Moun tains National Park with hcad ( Continued on Page 4) Waynesville Man Within 15 Miles Bomb Test Jerry Robert (Bobby) Leatherwood, P h m . Mate, third class, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sherrill Leatherwood, of East Waynesville, who is serv ing in the U. S. Navy was at Bikini Atoll when the atomic bomb test was made. The Waynesville man was within 15 miles of where the test took place, it was learned this week. Young Leatherwood has been serving in the Navy for the past 16 months and at the time he entered the service was a student at the Waynes ville Township high school. Five More Registered Guernsey Calves For Haywood i iUI- Mfl" till v-f Shown here are the five registered Guernsey calves recently bought from the Quail Roost Farm at Dur ham and placed on Haywood farms. The calves were selected by Wayne COrpening, and bought at a special price through the cooperation of W. W. Fitzpatrick, manager of the farm, who spoke here recently at a dairyman's banquet. These five make seven in all that have been placed under the Junoir Dairy Foun dation plan. Shown left to right, Charles E. Ray, with hand on calf that C. E. Ray's Sons gave Albert McCracken (holding calf), son of A. J. McCracken. Standing between Ray and McCracken, in background, John W Boyd who gave a calf to Gene Wells, son of Van Wells, Bethel, E. M. Stalling, assistant county agent holding' calf bought by G. C. Palmer, Crabtree, Ed Feinstmacher, of Pet Dairy, holding calf the company will place on a dairy farm, and James Kirkpatrick holding calf bought for dairy he and his brother, Marshall, operate on Crabtree. Photo by Ingram, Skyland Studio. Wholesome Fun Enjoyed Throughout Day By Wcll-Behaved, Record Crowd Since the county-wide Fourth of July celebration was completely successful from all standpoints, members of the llaelwood Boost ers Club who organized and direct ed the activities last week air I enthusiastic about going ahead with plans to make it an animal atfair. Between seven and right thous and people arrest iniated to have visited the High School grounds at son 10 lime (Hiring the festivities. In spite nf this record gat tiering, not a single arrest was made by police, nor were their any automo bile accidents or serious traffic congestions. Since the entrrtaininenl provid ed was altogether wholesome and free of any gambling devices, the children of the county as well as the adults all had a general good time and returned home with no regrets .having been exposed to nothing more serious than a loo full stomach. Sunny weal tier thai never be came too hot added to the day's enjoyment, and the schedule of musical, sporting, and general events were followed with interest. The Independence Day address was given by Monroe Ki'ddcn, whose oratorical abilities need no com ment. What is said to be the largest crowd ever to witness a baseball game here saw lla.elwood's unde feated team take a victory from the hard fighting aggregation of Champion Y during the afternoon. Another record group witnessed as closely contested a soflball game as could be played that night when Canton's American Legion team defeated the previously unbeaten Boosters 2 to 1. R, L. Prevost, general chairman for the Boosters Club in planning the celebration, and Dr. R. Stuart Roberson, program chairman, ex pressed their complete satisfaction with the celebration's success. It is anticipated that at the club's next meeting on July 11, steps will he taken towards planning next year's event, and making it broader in scope as the years pass. Last Rites Held For E. J. Hyatt Friday Afternoon Last rites were conducted al 4 o'clock Friday afternoon at the First Methodist church for Ernest J. Hyatt, (if), prominent business, civic and religious leader who died at his home al f):2.r Thursday morn ing. The Rev Paul Townsend. pastor of the church officiated. Burial was in Green Mill cemetery. Nephews as follows served as pallbearers: David. Laehlan, Wall er, James, Frank, Jr , Thcron. Billy and Clarence Hyatt. Honorary pallbearers included members of the board of stewards of the Fust Methodist church, di rectors of the Haywood Home Building and Loan Association, members of the Waynesville Ma sonic Lodge, and the following frienjds and business associates: (Continued on Page Four) Hundreds Attend July Term Court Scheduled As Criminal Term, But Number Of Civil Cases To Be Tried The July term of Superior court, which is a mixed court, but sched uled as a criminal term, which at tracts the largest number of per sons from over the county of any session during the year convened here on Monday with Judge F. E. Alley, presiding. Judge Frank Armstrong, of Troy, was to have held the court at this term but made an exchange with Judge Alley. At the time The Mountaineer went to press four divorces had been granted in addition to the follow ing judgments banded down: In the cars of the Stale versus Howard Moore! with the defendant charged with adultery and felony, the sentence was suspended on payment of costs of the court. Andy Patton, who pleaded guilty of abandonment was ordered to pay the costs of the court and given a five years suspended sentence of 12 months provided the defendant paid $50 each month for the sup port of his four children; and pay ment of the court costs. In the ease of Ernest Early, charged with gambling, the defend ant pleaded guilty and was fined $5 and required to pay the costs of the court. Monroe Ewart, who was tried in 1943 and ordered to pay his wife $100 and had paid her only a total of $80 since that date was sen tenced to a year in the state prison. The ease of the state versus Dewey Ross and J. W. Reece, in volving a fight in the boiler room of one of the Industrial plants last fall was in the hands of the jury at the time the paper went to press. It was thought that court would continue for several days, due to the heavy docket. End of Subsidy Brings Increase In Price of Flour Prices will advance ap proximately 20 per cent on flour due to the lifting of the government subsidy which went into effect this past week, Waynesville wholesalers announce. Coffee also is af fected, and the price per pound will advance roughly four cents to consumers The new Increase for flour will advance the price from $1 HO to $2.00 a bag, It is esti mated Previously the feder al government had subsidized flour al $1 03 per 100 pounds, or $2 26 a barrel Now that the subsidy no longer is being paid, the retail user shall pay for it directly rather than through taxation. T he price of milk here is 20 cents a quart, the increase is to take care of the subsidy formerly paid by the govern ment, milk officials announced. "Consumers are now having to pay all their milk nlll, jinee the government stopped pay ing dairy subsidies," they con tinued. Coffee had been granted a 3'i cents per pound subsidy, which was lifted at the same time as that on flour. Dr. C. N. Sisk Resigns As Head Of District Health Deparment Here Has Resigned DR. C. N. SISK li.is resigned as head or the District Health Depart ment in order to assume duties as head of a similar department in Morganlon for Burke, Caldwell and McDowell counties. 22 Traffic Arrests By Patrolmen With High Record For Week, Patrolmen Report No Arrests On Sunday During the past week the slate highway patrolmen serving Hay wood enmity made twenty-two ar rests of traffic violators on the highways in this area - with this record, there was not a single ar rest made on Sunday, it was point ed out by (he patrolmen. They included: one arrest for reckless driving, the defendant lined $25 and costs in the court; two charged with speeding, one paid $33 75 in fines and court costs, and the oilier $20. Nine arrested for Improper stale registration, with eight bound over to Superior court for trial during Ihc current term of coin I, with one fined $l(i(i() Hirer' anclcd for driving without licrnv, to be tried this week. One driver charged with driving drunk, case hound over to July term of Superior coini; two ar rests for transporting liquor to be tried in this term of Superior court; one driver of truck without license, lined SKilill; two cases of violation of non clearance lights, each lined $11.00. One case in which operator of car without license was in possesion of liquor was required to pay $37.50 in fines and court costs. The arrests which were made within the city limits were tried in the mayor's courts of the towns in the county and the arrests made outside ol c ity limits were tried in magistrate's court. Mr. and Mrs. ( '. (' Kidge and son Kent, and Mr.s Martha Craven, of Aslielioro, are spending a few days in town visiting relatives. II I II l1- Haywood Infant Care Ranks High in State Five principal handicaps face North Carolina physicians in re ducing the number of infant deaths. according to a report by Dr. Frank R. Lock of Winston-Salem recently published in the University "News Letter." Considerable progress through out the nation has been kept apace with by North Carolina, and dur ing the 10 years following 1933 the death rate per 1,000 live births dropped from 6.7 to 3.42 in this stale. However, compared to other states the first year following birth is safe for all but 39 infants on a national average, while in the Tar Heel state 45.4 deaths per 1,000 live births are recorded. The 1944 figures are slightly low er than those for 1945, given above. North Carolina averaged 44.7 deaths of children under one year for every 1,000 live births. This ranged within the state from Greene County, with an average of 15.7 to Dare county, with 126.9. Haywood county was under the state average and ranked 18th Going to Morganton To Head Similar Department; Been Here 13 Years Dr. C. N. Sisk has resigned as head of the District Health Depart ment, effective July 15. He leaves on that date to become head of a similar department in Morganton, which is headquarters for the three county unit, Burke, Caldwell and McDowell. His successor has not been named. Dr. Sisk came here 13 years ago and established the District Health Department, then composed of Haywood. Jackson, Swain, Chero kee counties and the Cherokee Indian Reservation. Later Tran sylvania and Macon counties were added. The personnel of the depart ment has more than doubled since 1034. Dr. Sisk was elected by the dis trict board of health in Morganton on July 3rd and immediately ten dered his resignation here. "I have enjoyed my work in this district, and appreciate the cooper ation given me, and I hate to leave my hundreds of friends," Dr. Sisk said yesterday. The department in Morganton was established after the one here, and has about the same personnel and territory to cover as far as population is concerned. Dr. Sisk is a native of Burke county, but came to Haywood from the city of Henderson. His successor will be named hy the District Board of Health, which is composed of George A. Brown, Jr., chairman, Dr. A. P. Cline, Can ton, Waller Ashe and Dan C. Moore, Sylva, W. L. Latham and Dr. H. L. Bacon, of Swain, W. A. Baldwin and James Perry of Ma con and Verne Clement, of Brevard. Atlanta Boy Scout Executive Inspects Camp D. Boone Boy Scouts from 15 troops in this area are enrolled in Camp Daniel Boone as it began its third week of activities Monday. E. H. Almond, Jr., from the re gional office of the Boy Scouts in Atlanta, was to spend Monday and Tuesday inspecting the camp in company with B. E. Colkitt of Waynesville, council camping chair man, and Scout Executive A. W. Allen. Swimming, boating, canoeing, scoutcraft and other activities are enjoyed by the scouts at the camp on Little East Fork of Pigeon river. Among the troops now present are members of Lake Junaluska troop 8. Members of the camp staff are W .C. Wall, Charles Lominac, Hugh Allen Cazcl, Bill White, James Plemmons, Henry Harris, Jr., Harry William, James Sanders, and Jack Harris, Ted Jackson, Tom Sanders, Bill Smith and Bennie Fieere are serving as senior patrol leaders. Mr. and Mrs. W. Curtis Russ have as their guests thi:; week, Mrs. Roy Tillotson and three chil dren of Hendersonville. among the counties with an aver age of 31 deaths this figure also being lower than the national aver age. Among the factors which Dr. Lock lists as handicaps to safer ob stetrics in North Carolina arc: (1) inadequate number of nurses for field work in rural areas, (2 ignor ance of the laity concerning the im portance of prenatal care, 3i inac cessibility of qualified consultants for complicated cases. (4) inade quate hospital facilities, and 5) lack of readily available postgradu ate instruction. The state Medical Society's Ma ternal Welfare committee, which Dr. Lock heads, has begun a sur vey of individual cases, made with out the names of doctors and pati ents being known, to gather further information on combatting infant mortality. Because of the success other areas have had through such a program, the group feels that the South, led by North Carolina, has the duty of doing as much as possible making birth sale! I