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Published Twice-a-Week In The County Seat Of Haywood County At The Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park
No. 101 14 Pages
Associated Press News
WAYNESVILLE, N. C, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1946
$3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties
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and emphasized that
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orld." he stated, and
th person "resolve to
citizen possible" by
red, racial prejudice
becoming "a builder
rasite."
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that included many
he to world wars
in were in uniform
snor was paid to the
lofhers and fathers
ibers of the American
Veterans of Foreign
rs of the ceremony,
rs and color bearers,
itman, commander of
st. presided.
Crockett gave the
or. After the band
tonal anthem under
i! former Marine Cor
Isloy, the Legion ad
ism Medford, intro
mit. Townsend as a
Main who had been
was of the recent
war observance was
1 "ifilil with a ban
Ihe patriotic groups
Aond Elementary
na. at which Frank
hevilio was the prin-
a veteran and newly
scnator, spoke on
fr Armistice Day."
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" which we fought,
'we civic obligations
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ir Dead Honored in Armistice Program
Details Of Program For
Homer L. Ferguson Day
ikre Almost Completed
Speaks Here
FRANK PARKER, Asheville vet
eran, civic leader, and recently
elected state senator, spoke to
those attending the Armistice Day
banquet Monday night in the
Hazelwood school.
Parking Lot
Will Relieve
Traffic In
Hazelwood
Town Given Use
Of Space By Allen;
Planning to Number
Houses
A free parking lot to relieve traf
fic congestion in the shopping dis
trict will be set up by the Town of
Hazelwood on the vacant lot ad
joining the store of C. N. Allen,
who has donated the use of this
property.
The lot will be covered with cin
ders or gravel and arranged for
use by automobiles, states Mayor
Clyde Fisher. It should be ready
for use within a short time, he
adds, and will aid shoppers con
siderably during the rush hours of
week-ends.
This was decided on at a special
meeting of the mayor and board of
aldermen Friday night. Another
meeting is to be held by the group
tonight, at which time a final selec
tion of a police officer to serve
the town is to be made.
Another project being worked on
by the Hazelwood officials is to
get all houses within the town lim
its numbered. A survey of the town
has recently been completed, and
arrangements are being made for
the printing of an official map.
Some difficulties are being experi
enced in getting the map printed,
but when it is received the num
bers for the various homes and
business places will be assigned.
Recommended
ftomand NG Company
by the regular army be extended
Federal recognition as a unit of
the National Guard of the United
States and of North Carolina.
Capt. James Davis, present com
mander of the local State Guard
company, has been recommended
by Mayor Way to be unit com
mander of the anti-tank company.
Frank Byrd also was recommended
to be one of the first lieutenants
in the organization.
Following the recent public an
Continucd on Page Six)
The committees in charge of all
details for staging Homer L. Ferg
uson Day in Haywood county on
Wednesday, Nov. 20th, met last
night and completed final details
for the gala affair which will honor
the internationally known ship
builder on his return to his native
county.
Ed L. Sims, president of the
Chamber of Commerce, the spon
soring organization, was well
pleased with the reports, and the
details that have been completed
for staging the big one-day affair.
Dr. Tom Stringfield is general
chairman, and Reuben R. Robert
son, of Canton, is co-chairman of
the event.
Tentative plans include a motor
cade from the county at large,
meeting Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson
and party at Canton, about 10:00
o'clock on the morning of the 20th.
The motorcade will come on to
Waynesville and join in a parade
headed by the 55-piece band. After
the formal program at the court
house will be held, with Dr. String
field master of ceremonies and Mr.
Robertson presenting Mr. Ferguson,
together with distinguished guests
and members of the Ferguson
party.
Plans are to have the program
broadcast from 11 to 11:30 over
WWNC.
Lachlan Hyatt, former employee
of the shipyard, is In charge of ar
rangements for having all former
employees of Mr. Ferguson's from
Haywood, to attend the program in
a group. Each will be provided
with a special ribbon for identifica
tion. After the program at the court
house, a barbecue will be given at
the Armory in honor of Mr. Ferg
uson. Due to limitations of food
and space, admission to the barbe
cue will be by ticket only. A limited
number of tickets will go on sale
at the four banks in the county,
and at the Chamber of Commerce
here and also the Chamber of
Commerce in Canton.
Much interest is being shown in
the event, and newspapers in New
port News, Raleigh, Charlotte and
other points have carried articles
of the celebration.
The Mountaineer has under way,
a special section of the papei for
the 19th, carrying the complete
story and life of Mr. Ferguson.
Dozens of pictures will be used,
and many articles about Mr. Fer
guson will be included In the spe
cial section.
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Chambers of Salem, N. J., a daugh
ter, Barbara Lee, on November 4th.
Mrs. Chambers is the former Miss
Hazel Lee Ward, of Waynesville.
Lions
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The Waynesville Lions club recently entertained a number of Haywood apple growers in observance -A National Apple Week. The club
h ueht in three specialists from State College to discuss various phases of orchard work. The above picture for The Mountaineer was made
hist after the meeting at Wayside Lodge. Seated left to right, front row, Wayne Corpening, county agent, in charge of the program; J. F.
Corner extension entomologist of State College, Dr. Clyde Smith, entomologist in charge of DDT, State College, Joe S. Davis, president of the
club Dr Charles Clayton, plant pathologist of State College, Howard Clapp, in charge of the State Test Farm; second row, left to right, Charles
Edwards Lake Junaluska, Jack McCracken, route one, K. L. Burnette, Cruso, Watson Howell, Cruso, Ira R. Cogburn, Cruso, T. H. Rogers,
Clyde John W. Boyd, member Lions Betterment committee, Robert Boone, route one, C. C. Davenport, also member of the Lions committee,
and Hiram McCracken, route one.. This Is a Mountaineer photograph by Ingram, Skyland Studio.
Associated Press News
Added By Mountaineer
Beginning with this issue,
The Mountaineer will have As
sociated Press services. This Is
the only newspaper between
Morganton and Murphy, other
than Asheville, to have the
services of the Associated
Press.
The news and features of
Associated Press will be usd
only to supplement the large
volume of Haywood county
news now being carried. Plans
are under way to even expand
facilities for getting more Hay
wood news.
In addition to a staff photog
rapher, The Mountaineer will
continue to get national and
international pictures from
King Features, as well as pic
tures from the Associated
Press. With these three sources
of spot news pictures. The
Mountaineer will carry even a
larger number of pictures than
Half Of Mew Uniforms
For Band Are Pledged
Electricity Off
Sunday Afternoon
Electricity will be off in
Waynesville, Hazelwood, Lake
Junalusjka, Balsam, and on the
R. E. A. lines of this area on
Sunday, Nov. 17, from 1:30
p.m. until 5:30 p.m.
This announcement was
made by H. M. Burleson, local
representative of the Carolina
Power and Light company, who
explains that the interruption
of service is being made to do
maintenance work on lines.
This work could not be done
safely without cutting off the
power.
Christmas Lights
For Main Street
To Go Up Again
Main street will be decorated in
Christmas lights this year, for the
first time since the use of power
was curtailed during the war years.
G. C. Ferguson, town manager,
reports that part of the supplies for
the holiday lights, ordered in Sep
tember, have already arrived, and
that the supplier has promised de
livery of the remaining items be
fore long.
New equipment will be used al
together, with pre-colored bulbs
rather than the ones dipped in
paint that were used in previous
years. Lights will be placed across
the street from the Baptist church
down to the Hotel Gordon, between
the first and 10th of December.
Club Entertain Apple Growers And Specialists
ever. At present, this news
paper carries more local pic
tures in a week, than most
newspapers in towns the size of
Waynesville carry in months.
In getting Associated Press
services and news. The Moun
taineer will have news avail
able from the four corners of
the globe. Thousands of re
porters and editors are on duty
24 hours a day gathering news,
pictures and features for the
Associated Press.
The publishers of The Moun
taineer have always felt that
Haywood county news should
come first, and then sectional,
state and national. With the
services of the Associated
Press, the publishers feel that
a "complete newspaper" can be
given the many thousands of
readers every Tuesday and Friday.
Bradley Starts Drive
For New Equipment
At Football Game
Saturday
Starting at the football game
Saturday night, W. A. Bradley,
chairmna of the W.T.H.S. Band
committee, opened a drive to
equip the band with new uniforms.
Pledges for the purchase of 37 uni
forms were received from various
firms and individuals before noon
Monday, and members of the com
mittee expressed the intention of
completing their drive before the
end of this week.
Mr. Bradley, speaking over the
public address system to the foot
ball audience at half-time inter
mission, pointed out that their
present uniforms had been used
since 1939 and didn't fit their pres
ent wearers as well as could be ex
Continued on Page Six
Highway
Record For 1946
In Haywood
(To Date)
Killed - - 14
Injured 159
(This Information Compiled
From Records of State High
way Patrol)
Two Injured
When Auto
Overturns
Monday Ail
Car Slides Off Wet
Hoad and Overturns
To Injure Navy Man
And Wife
A navy man and his wife, Mr.
and Mrs. W. E. Cope, were injured
Monday morning, about 10 o'clock,
while riding in a car driven by
Samuel Knight of Hazelwood when
it skidded off the raln-slickened
highway east of Waynesville and
overt urned.
Cope suffered a broken collar
bone and fractured nose, and his
wife received bruises. Both were
taken for emergency treatment to
the Haywood County hospital;
which released Cope to a service
hospital and his wife was released
without further need of hospitali
zation. The car, a 1940 DoSoto sedan,
got out of control on a straight
stretch between the Ratcliff and
Francis Cove curves, and went off
the road. Patrolman O. R. Roberts,
who investigated the accident, at
tributed it to the slick road sur
face. Lions And
Rotarians
Sell Calves
At Auction
The principal item of business
at both the Lions and Rotary club
meeting last week was the auction
ing off, in packages, of the Hay-wood-grown
baby beeves purchased
by the two organizations during the
W. N. C. Livestock sale in Biltmore.
Medford Leatherwood served as
auctioneer at both meetings, and
the clubs realized a profit over
the purchase price and additional
costs that will be added to their
funds for community betterment
programs.
At the Lions club meeting
Thursday night the calf brought
a total of $526, averaging $1.08 per
pound. The Rotarians paid up to
$1.61 a pound for their calf, getting
a total of $503.
The beeves had been processed
at the Farmers Federation freezer
locker. Rev. Malcolm Williamson
had been in charge of getting the
meat cut and delivered to the
Rotary club.
Two new members, Dr. Boyd
Owen and Frank Kirkpatrick, are
announced by the Lions club.
Merchants Assert Some
Prices To Decline; 0PA
Functions Ended Sunday
Haywood Merchants
Look For Supply To
Exceed Demand In
Many Types of Goods
A survey of a number of Hay
wood merchants on Monday show
ed they do not expect many in
creases on merchandise, now that
OPA controls does not exist except
on rent, sugar and rice.
A few items will show a slight
increase, the survey showed, while
a number of retailers felt some
items would come down, and the
supply is now exceeding the de
mand. Men's slioes seemed headed for
a slight increase, while women's
shoes advanced only recently, and
present prices will probably be
toiis.
There was no flurry of buying
here Monday, although the stores
were closed from ten until noon
for the Armistice Day program,
One merchant said he felt that few
manufacturers would increase
prices, due to the increases being
made in the general supply. Com
petition is again a big factor in
controlling prices, as was shown on
several recent spring showings in
the south which were attended by
many Haywood merchants. Those
houses who refused to give a defin
ite price on merchandise, were get
ting very few orders, as buyers
were not interested in taking a
chance on "prevailing prices at
time of delivery."
Winners Are
Named In
Townships
Republican Wins In
Canton, Dispute
Gives East Fork
Office to Democrat
Beth T. Grogan was the lone Re
publican winner in Haywood county
during the general election of Nov.
5, winning in the race for con
stable of Beaverdam township by
a vote of 1,203 to 876 for his
Democratic opponent, Horace Me
haffey. He will succeed Wheeler
Scott (D), who has held the posi
iton for 15 years and was not a
candidate ii this year's election.
In East Fork township the con
stable race was complicated by one
of the election officials writing in
the name of an extra candidate for
Republican voters, and when the
Danots were submitted to the coun
ty Board of Elections the Repub
lican votes were not counted.
This action placed J. B. Heather
ly (D). who had received 7fi vntp
as East Fork constable. The count
(Continued on Page Six)
Market
Reports
(Note: Local prices as of Mon
day, others as of last week-end due
to holiday).
Eggs and Poultry
The Farmers Exchange: Eggs 55c
a dozen. Fryers and broilers 25c a
pound, hens 23c. Asheville mar
ket: Eggs, receipts light, market
steady. A large 58c, A medium and
Continued on Page Six)
Wellco Now Furnishing
Music To All
The Wellco Shoe Corporation re
cently installed a system for broad
casting musical programs on a 24-
hour basis throughout both their
manufacturing plants here.
The management has subscribed
to World-Wide Laboratories for up-to-date
records, which provide spe
cial musical programs for every
hour of the day. The programs are
arranged to best fit the needs of
the employees. At rest periods dif
ferent music is played than is
played with the plant in operation.
The system is at plant No. 1 and
Truman Announces
Sweeping Decontrol
Order Returning
Goods to Free Market
Price ceilings on everything ex
cept dwellings, sugar and rice were
wiped away completely by Presi
dent Truman in a sweeping order
Sunday night that meant the end
of OPA.
This action was taken four days
after the election in which the
Republicans seized control of the
house and senate in a campaign
around the slogan "had enough?"
(of controls and shortages). The
president answered the public deci
sion with his sweeping decontrol
order, and declared that:
"The law of supply and demand
operating in the market place will,
from now on, serve the people bet
ter than would continued regula
tion of prices by the government."
Ceilings were lifted from build
ing materials and lumber, all tex
tiles and apparel, consumer durable
goods such as electric refrigera
tors, washing machines, etc.; house
hold furniture, heavy machinery
and equipment not prevoiusly de
controlled and farm machinery and
equipment.
Automobiles, basic metals, news
print and other paper products,
tires and other rubber items, all
chemicals and drugs, coal and coke,
transportation and laundry and dry
cleaning and repair services.
OPA announces that a special
liquidation agency will be set up
to end its work. One official also
predicted price increases cf 10 to
100 per cent on the items removed
from control with scarce build
ing materials to jump more than
100 per cent.
Other predictions: autos up 12
to 15 per cent, soap up "no limit",
coal to increase 50c to $1 a ton.
Water Line
Completion
Is Expected
In 30 Days
Many New Water
Customers Added
Waynesville's new water line was
nearly one-third laid by last week
end, with completion expected
within 30 days.
About 2,500 of the 9.000 feet line
has been joined together. The con
tractor in charge was planning to
lest it unaer 250 pounds pressure
by tieing it in to an old line near
Buchanon's store up the Allen's
Creek road, then coverine ud the
completed section.
The new line will add around
300,000 gallons daily to the local
water supply, at an expected cost
of near $40,000.
This added water capacity will
take care of the needs of Wavnes.
ville for many years to come, with
enougn supply to encourage growth
of the town and surrounding ares
it serves. Although there is a
larger demand for water durine th
summer than in other seasons of
the year, many new water users
have been added during the past
six months who will be steady cus
tomers. According to G. C. Fprernsnn
town manager, there has been an
average of 20 new water customers
added per month since SDrine Rp.
tween 30 and 40 of this number
were new homes built around the
Camp Branch road in the Allen's
Creek section, and the others were
within the limits of Waynesville.
Employees
is carried to plant No. 2 by special
wire. A special machine was also
installed for making recordings of
speeches, music or any program
which the plant might want to
utilize later. Announcements can
be made over the system at any
time, and afford quick communi
cation to every employee on duty
at one time.
The Wellco Shoe Corporation is
one of the few plants In the South
providing special music for their
employees.