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Standard FRINT1NG Ou Adv 220 S First St Jp LOVISV1I.I.E KV The Waynesville Mountaineer Published Twice-a-Veek In The County Seat Of Haywood County At The Entrance Of The Croat Smoky Mountains National Park 49,500 People U.WeeK Tuesday Live within 20 miles of Waynesville their ideal j lopping center. iday WAYNESVILLE. N. Tl'ESDAY, Jl'LY Hi, l'JIf, $.'!.(() lit Achance In Ha.vnood and Jackson Counties taron Hfe Hani: Faunnmoim No758 8 Pages feres S dFoxhunters ton To ent To Ll Grounds i, president of the ) Foxhunters As luncPS that a Fox ;m will be held at 1 grounds. Saturday. ,8 entries from five ly registered uu Lied to be entorea Pn Alexander, oi Liniullv-known cx- L. will judge the cn- nll be given to win- ifications. rst bench show ever lyncsville, and rc reasing interest of ly hunters and dog Lag quality hunting county foxhunters erown to a memuer- ki in bringing this fsville will help call e recreational op- Ifcis area. kxptcted from Tcn- knd South Carolina. Irginia. Mr. Killian liny of the visitors vernieht after the Lot in the ncighhor- kow will be open to dging of the hounds o'clock in the after- Haywood county nil be entered, as if the best hounds ountics. !g Hits Machine image f of lightning Satur- 9:30 causing first fid then extra high linos resulted in a on a machine at Iter Manufacturing o the plant fire kk breaker on a ft machine created (rial arc, which was '8 the main switch tfnwrs are being 'ermine the nature "dent. 'rm of the plant fire department 'He answered the it that iammna (1,.. Plant manager "'very little dam M U was confined ne' An Auxiliarv """Mted in a few rmal operation re- FwSuson will leave Visit In h- j. .. 'Medford inWash- P"- ne win spend L'he Llons club I'aynevii, .... Fir. . ' wnere t0 be h in L tendance I a "ankers fc-si- U --""""need at f chair! Willis.. . hZ Charles It .rkmai: Mem- 'Alston larsha11 e- and C. B. IcT, i Ger- jlaleBench Show Uounds Will Be Here August 17ih Heads Dog Show J. W. KILLIAN, president of the Haywood Fox Hunters Association, will be master of ceremonies v. hen the first annual Bench Show is held here in August. Queen At Lake To Be Crowned On July 20th Elected queen in a popularity contest, Thursday, Miss Virginia Rippy; 38, of Nashville, Tenn., daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. M. Leo Rippy, will be crowned in coro nation ceremonies at Lake Juna luska Assembly on the evening of July 20. The queen-elect is a rising senior at Ward - Belmont Junior College at Nashville. She studied last year at Wesleyan Col lege Conservatory, Macon, Ga., specializing in art. She is five feet, six inches tall; is slender, has blue eyes, brown hair and fair complex ion. Her father is head of the department of Adult Work in the Methodist Board of Education at Nashville, Tcnn. The Rippy family have made their summer home at Lake Junaluska for a number of years and Virginia is popular among all ages. Queen election and Coronation is one of the annual events here and a colorful program is planned for Saturday evening, July 20. Other girls who received sub stantial votes in the election were: Jean Hart, Chattanooga, Tcnn.; Peggy Herbert, Atlanta, Ga.; Sara Loyal, Columbia, S. C; and Dor othy Norton, Spartanburg, S. C. Mrs. Frank Moore Irwin, of Salisbury, the former Miss Kit Crum, of Durham, the present queen, elected last season, will par ticipate in the coronation of Juna luska's new queen. Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Nelson have as their guests Mr. and Mrs. Jack Enoch, of Knoxville, and Mrs. D. L. Boyd, of Nashville, Tenn. Mrs. Enoch is the former Miss Betty Jean Boyd, niece of Mr. and Mrs. Shelton and daughter of Mrs. Boyd. aJL Club Announces P'tees For New Year Kinsey; sight conservation: Henry Davis, Charlie Woodard, L. G. Elliott, and Charles D. Ketner; boys and girls: F. E. Massie, Lawrence Leatherwood, Ed Sims, and Ben Phillips; citizenship and patroitism: J- H. Howell, Jr., G. C. Ferguson. Joe Casabella, and J. L.. Edwards. Publicity: Paul Davis, Jack Fel met, and Everett Camp; civic im provement: Earl Messer, E. H. Balentine, Cecil Heckard, and Ed Lane; community betterment: Wayne Corpening, John Boyd, Ralph Fore, C. C. Davenport; edu cation: Frank L. Rogers, J. C. Galusha, C. E. Weatherby, and Tom Campbell; health and welfare: Harvey Dulin, Ed Boone, and Harry Burleson; safety: O. R. Roberts, Tony Davis, and Leon Killian. Military affairs: Joe Casabella, J- H. Howell, Jr., and Marshall Tolley; greeter committee: Charlie Woodard, Herbert Buchanan, Jr., jnd C. E. Weatherby,- and the food committee: John Boyd, Ed Sims, and Kd I.nnr. Court To Continue This Week Number of Cases Tried Since Last Friday, With 29 Divorces Granted To Date The July term of Superior court which convened here on Monday, the 8th, with Judge K. E. Alley pre siding will continue through this week, according to court officials, due to the heavy docket. A recess was taken during the session yesterday morning for the memorial held honoring a former member of the Bar, the late Lt. James S. Queen. Since the last issue of The Mountaineer, the following judg ments have been handed down: Five additional divorces were granted bringing the total through Monday noon up to 29. William Howard for violation of the prohibition laws was ordered to pay a fine of $100 and court costs and given a five years sus pended sentence. James Putnam, charged with breaking and entering was given six months suspended sentence. In the case of William C. Shook (Continued on Page Four) Jack Messer Announces Bus Drivers School The anual bus driver's school for the operators of the Haywood county school bus system will be held on Thorsday, July 25th, start ing at 9:30, according to Jack Messer, county superintendent of education. The school will be con ducted at the county Garage locat ed on the Waynesville Township high school grounds. The school will be conducted by representatives from the Safety Di vision of the State Highway Patrol, at which time the school bus driv ers are given instruction in the rules governing the operation of school buses in the state. The drivers of the buses are also examined and their knowledge of what is required checked at this time. Last year 4,134 students in the Haywood schools were transported to and from schools daily by the 43 drivers employed by the county. A total of 1 ,256 miles was covered daily in the transportation of the students. "We hope to have at least seven or eight new buses allotcd to Hay wood county by the State depart ment of Public instruction, as the tentative plans of the department are, if possible, to replace all buses prior to 1937 models ", said Mr. Messer in discussing the condition of the school buses. "The buses will be put in as good condition as is possible under the circumstances and every bus will be equipped with new tires", further pointed out Mr. Messer. , Community Cannery To Open Today, Thursday A change in operation days of the Community Cannery this week is announced by Mrs. Rufus Silcr, one of the managers. The cannery will be open on Tuesday and Thursday this week instead of the days pre viously announced. Future op erating dates will be announc ed the latter part of this week, states Mrs. Siler. The can nery began operations last week. Weather Report (Furnshcd The Mountaineer by the U. S. Weather Bureau): Monday, July 15 Partly cloudy, occasional scattered showers and thunder storms and rather warm today and tonight. Tuesday, July 16 Unsettled with nnccihiv iwasintial showers in the r-.j. "-' morning followed by fair and some what cooler in tne anernoon. (Official Waynesville tempera ture as recorded by the staff of the State Test Farm): Date Max. Min. Rainfall July 11 88 60 " 12 85 62 13 88 68 .20 14 8 60 Summer Theatre To Give First Of Series 0! Hit Plays At School Tonight Memory Honored The late Lt. James S. Queen, son of Mr. and Mrs. John M Queen who lost his life in World War II. and in whose memory the family present ed an oil portrait to Haywood coun ty in a fitting memorial service conducted by the Haywood County Bar association Monday morning in the courtroom in the courthouse. Family Lt. Queen Present Portrait To County A portrait of the late Lt. James Shook Queen, U. S. Navy, son of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Queen, was unveiled and iJresciftcd to the county by his parents in an im pressive ceremony Monday morn ing, with Grover C. Davis, presi dent of the Haywood County Bar Association; presiding. J. G. Bycrs, on behalf of the family made the presentation and unveiled the portrait, which is the work of Miss Helen I'ligh, one of North Carolina's leading artists. M. G. Stanley, on hahalf of the county commissioners accepted the portrait, paying high tribute to Lt. Queen, late member of the Hay wood Bar. He referred to the fact that his great great great grand father, Jacob Shook, was one of ten Revolutionary soldiers buried (Continued on Page Eight) John A. Scott Is Injured When Enka Bus Is Sideswiped John A. Scott. 20 riding home to the Beaverdam section near C an ion in a work bus from Hie Ameri can Enka plant, suffered a fractur ed skull and broken nose when the bus was side-swiped by an auto trailer on the highway just inside the Haywood County line Sunday morning. No other occupants of the bus were injured Investigating officers reported that the bus met two cars with trailers, and the last trailer hit the bus, an insulator going through a window and striking Scott. .Neither of the cars with trailers stopped. Mr. Scott was taken to the Hay wood county hospital for treatment. Weather Forecast Now Being Carried In Every Issue A new feature now being carried by The Mountaineer is a semi-weekly weather re port. Although Mark Twain is said to have remarked that no one ever does anything about the weather, it's some thing that we couldn't do with out if we knew how and is talked about in most every conversation. So each Monday and Thurs day, our press day and the afternoons when The Moun taineer reaches news stands, the U. S. weather station in Asheville gives us a two-day forecast. Local temperature maximums and minimums are furnished by the State Test Farm, as well as the daily amount of rainfall. Waynesville's first Summer Thea rc "The Theatre In The Sky" will :et under way tonight. Tuesday . with a gala formal opening, when he Waynesville Summer Players present "Claudia" under the direc tion of Maurice GcolTivy. manag ing director of the group Phyllis Luis, of stage and radio experience, plays the title role in the produc tion, supported by Grace Shiner and V. Lawrence Benson and a splendid cast of experienced per formers. Miss Shiner, prominent Chicago actress, is here lor two weeks as Sliest Artist with the company and plays the role of Mrs. Brown. Claudia's mother in the current presentation. Mr. Benson appears is David, the patient husband of Claudia Recently released from the Air Corps, he will be seen in i number of important parts this season. June Cole and Monroe Lewis ap oear as Bertha and Fritz, faithful servants in the Naughlou house hold. Jack It l'yle is the third person in the triangle upon which I he plot of the play is based and plays the role of Jerry Seynioure. :i novelist who is attracted to the naive freshness of Claudia. As the flamboyant opera singer. Madame Daruschka. Louise Gagnon makes her first appearance of the season, and Cecelia Stack appears as Julia Naughton. a sophisticate.! bored with life and her husband. David's Brother. The stage setting depicts the CiinnectlKvlt home of Claudia and David and was arranged by Rose niarie Thomas. Costumes for the play were planned by Klina llene. The production staff includes (Continued on Page Four) Shelby Pastor Heard By Local Rotarians Dr. W Arthur Kale, pastor of the Central Methodist church of Shelby, was the speaker at Rotary club here Friday. He stressed the folly of carrying excess loads of worry and jealousy through life. There were 2fi visitors from seven slates at the meeting. VV. M. Cobb Undergoes Operation At Duke W M "Hill" Colli) underwent an operation on his back at Duke Hospital in !ui ham on Monday Mr. Cobb injured bis back some lime ago. He was accompanied by Mrs. Cohb. Market Report T he Fa r in e r s Exchange an nounces the billowing prices are being paid to growers who market with them for wholesale distribu tion, prices as of noon Monday; Beans, 5c; eggs, 40-4.ric, fryers 35c; hens. 20-25c. At the Clyde stockyards auction sale of July 11. with nearly 201) animals sold, prices ran strong. Cows fat butcher heel type. $1 5 00-S17 00, medium butcher heel type. $12 ()0-$14 OO, canners and cutters, common and dairy type. $8.00-512.00. Heifers -fat ones. $14 00 - $15.75: medium, $12 00 $14 00; common. S10-S12. Calves fat. $20-522.75; medium, $18-$20; culls, $14-$17. Steers butcher type, good. $16; fair, $I3-$14.50; common, $10-$12.50. At Asheville, the market last week ran for eggs, grade A 42c. and broilers, 37c; hens 27 to 28c per lb. Patron Causes Stir At Post Office In Misreading A "Wet Paint" Sign The Waynesville t-ost office is getting a new coat of paint, both inside and out. The painters work ed about the front doors over the week-end, and as a precaution, stuck a "wet paint" sign on the door. Contrary to all rules governing wet paint signs, one patron of the office did not stick his finger on the freshly painted door to see if Pushes Program iSAiiiw, ? iiiiwi iii iiiiw i " . i num. u J. RUBEN ROBERTSON, of The Champion Paper and Fibre Com pany, was named vice president of the newly created organization at Chapel Ilill Saturday known as "The Business Foundation." More than 250 prominent business, in dustrial and professional leaders set up the program for the '. diver sity of North Carolina. Robert M. Ha ncs, of Winston Salem, is president. The general purposes of the Foundation are "to aid and pro mote, by financial assistance and otherwise, all types of of educa tion, service and research for busi ness and industry at or through the School of Commerce and other departments of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill." Death Claims I. W. Noland Retired Farmer Funeral services were conducted Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Hiram Rogers Baptist church on Fines Creek for J. W. (Billy) Noland, 82, a retired stockman and farmer of Haywood county who died at the Haywood County Hos pital Sunday morning at 7:30 o'clock where he had been a pa tient for the past few days. Rev. Hoy Young, pastor, assisted by Rev. R P. MeCracken, officiated. Burial was ill the church ceme tery. Pallbearers were Caulcy and France Rogers, Glenn MeCracken, Norman James, and Hiram and Farrady Green. Nieces were in charge of the flowers. Mr. Noland, vho has been one of the leading cattle men in Hay wood county, had been in ill health for sometime He is the son of R Wilhurn and Jane Lusk Noland, of Haywood county, and had lived on the farm of his father all his life. His wife, the former Miss ('el hi Rogers, died a few years ago. Mr. Noland is widely connected through Ibis section. Surviving are: three brothers, Lee Noland, of Iron Duff, Wiley B. Noland, of Lake Junaluska, Charlie 'A. Noland, of Fines Creek; four sisters, Mrs. I). B. Ducked, of Hot Springs, Mrs. Marian Coward, of Trust, Mrs. Horace Ferguson, of Waynesville. and Mrs. Cayne Plcm- inons, of Orlando, Fla.; a large number of nieces and nephews. Garrett Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements. Cobb Is Appointed On Pharmaceutical Council .1. Louis Cobb. Waynesville pharmacist, is one of 50 members named to an advisory council set up by the North Carolina Phar maceutical Association. First meet ing of the group is announced for Chapel Hill, July 28 and 29. The council is composed of rep resentatives from the state asso ciation and related organizations, lis duties will be to advise the body in developing plans. the sign were truthful, but stood on the sidewalk and came to the con clusion the sign read "closed." He immediately wired the post office department in Washington that the office was closed in the middle of the day Sunday, and demanded action. , Perhaps the "action" will be full explanation to the patron as to the difference between a sign read ing "wet paint" and "closed". One Killed One Injured During Storm Fain Gragg Is Hit liy Lightning At Champion Fibre Co. Nursery Friday Two ('anion men were hit by lightning during I lie severe elec trical storm here Friday afternoon about 1 o'clock resulting in death to Fain Gwg, and KiincKing a Champion Fibre company watch man, l.erciv Meals, unconscious for several bonis Mr. Gragg, :i!), who was em ployed at Die ( hamipou nursery in Fiberville, was hit alter taking refuge from the storm under a large poplar tree, lie was brought to the company first aid station, but died shortly afterwards. Mr. Meals was hit while lowering the flag in front of the main office building. Several eye - witnesses saw the holt knock him down, and removed him immediately to the first aid station lie later was taken to an Asheville hospital, and was returned home by Monday recov ered from the shock, lie is expect ed to return to work next week. Fnueral services for Mr. Gragg were conducted at the Canton Wes leyan Methodist church on Sunday afternoon, followed by burial at Bon-A-Venture cemetery. Officiat ing pastors were the Hov. C. A. Ramsey, of the Wesleyan church; the Rev. Dr. K. 1'. Billups; the Rev. George B. Culbrelh and the Rev. David E. Camack. A military funeral was conduct ed for Mr. Gragg, a veteran of World War II, by members of the Varner-Rhinchart American Legion post. Cousins of the deceased served as pallbearers, and members of the Young Ladies society -of the church were flower bearers. He is survived by his widow, the former Miss liulli Bramlclt; the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Iloyce Gragg of Carlton; one sister, Mrs. Mary Hiljer of Detroit . and a nephew, Dewayne Hiljer of Canton. Slogan Sought For Livestock Show; $10 Prize Officials of the Haywood Live stock and 1 1 i i i - Arts Show are anxious to gel a slogan to use in all publicity for the show which will be held early in October. They are offering $11) lor the best slogan submitted by five o'clock on July 251 h. All entries should be mailed or sent to the County Agent's office. The post ollice box is No. 590. Slogans must be suggestive of Haywood's leade rship in the cattle field. Similar slogans now in use are "Cattle Country of the South." and "Haywood, the home of good Hercfords." Bomb Witness Urges Use Of Christian Energy Now ! womic energy, which irom a single bomb damaged every ship of the 73-vessel fleet that was placed in the waters near Bikini Island, is the strongest force man has ever discovered and offers him the decision of doing something greatly destructive or constructive. Bui Christians, for 19 centuries, have had available an energy that would be a greater influence on the world. Edwin L. Jones, an eye witness of the Bikini atomic test, speaking to the large Friday morn ing audience at the Lake Junaluska auditorium, declared' that now is the time for Christians to utilize their greater energy to save the world from the destruction that man now has the power to do. Mr. Jones, a Charlotte construc tion man w ho was presented as an extra speaker to the regular Juna luska Assembly program, talked to an audience estimated at 1,200 peo ple, one of the largest present for a week-day morning program. He described to those present the ex plosive test at Bikini, where he had gone at the invitation of the gov ernment, and emphasized the relig ious aspects of this recent dis covery. Friday evening the platform speaker was the Rev. W. A. Stan bury of the Gastonia District, who called attention to the many un certainties and perils confronting American Christians of this gen- High Winds And Rains Cause Of Damages Maggie, Hemphill, Jonathans Creek, Lower Carbtree Hit Hardest NORMAN CALDWKLL NARROWLY ESCAPES BU.l.KTIN At 3:10 Monday afternoon damages caused by a storm in the r astern part of the county disrupted electric service in this end of the county. Workmen repalrrd the lines, and were able to resume opera tion by 4:30. Telephone lines to Asheville also were slichtly disrupted at the same time. A severe rain storm, accompan ied by sharp lightning, and high wind in some arttas, hit Hemphill, Maggie, Jonathans Creek, lower Crabtree and Fines Creek late Sun day afternoon, damaging crops. Tall corn In the Hemphill, Mag gie and Jonathans Creek area was blown down, and flash floods washed mud over low fields. Cen tral reports gathered by The Moun taineer by noon Monday revealed that tobacco came through with slight damage, except for mud and high water. Norman Caldwell, merchant and service station operator on the Maggie Highway, was knocked down by a flash of lightning Just as he was closing for the day. Mr. Caldwell, former traffic officer here, said yesterday his left side was still numb and he was rather shaken from the shock. He was draining the hose to his station gasoline pump when the holt raced down the power lines overhead. Mr. Caldwell was knocked into a pud dle of water, and estimates he was unconscious for ten or more min utes. C. B. Ferguson was in his dairy washing milk cans when the si or in broke. The same bolt that knocked Mr. Caldwell down, broke two light bulbs right, over Mr. Ferguson's head. He reported there was no further apparent damage done. Lightning was sharp in other areas, but no damage had been re ported. John Campbell, of Maeeie. re ported the tall corn in his section was Hat, while the little corn was covered with mud. and some field i severely washed by the head rain that fell for more than an hour. On Jonathans Creek the heaviest rain ever remembered fell, accord ing to Bryan Medford, a resident of that section for the past 27 years. "II rainrd for an hour and a half, and the flat places on farms 'Continued on 1'agc Four) eralion while speaking on the topic, "Resources for the Present Crisis." "OI the creation and discussion of problems, there is no end," ho said. "Everybody you meet has a ! problem. Let us," he suggested. "seek for the means, resources and power to meet and solve them." He then gave five factors in which reassurance can be found. First, "There is the great ma:; of unpublicized, but sound, solid citizens who stay at home, support the good institutions of their com munities, and give society what equilibrium it has. These and not the erratic or cheap and immoral will weigh the balances in favor of good for the future. "In spite of warn-born epi demics of divorce and broken homes, the homes which do not break will produce the influential leaders of the future. "Peace in the world will be made, not a parfect peace but one which though always precarious has a good chance of being per manent and endurably just. "The church, although also im perfect, is vigorous and will mike its contribution to a better and safer world. "Faith in a sovereign God who over the centuries accomplishes his purpose, ruling men and women, and sometimes overruling them, is a source of courage and hope such as arises from no other cause."