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WhlRrd fMNTtMi CX 20 S First R IXWISVII.LF KV published The Waynesville Mountaineer 49,500 People Live within 20 miles of Waynesville (heir ideal shopping center. Every Tuesday and new j published Twice-a-Week In The County Seat Of Haywood County At The Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park rcTVEAR No. 112 16 Paces ijjy.riiv " Associated Press News WAYNESVILLE, N. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1946 $3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Coon ties mm mm am i y Hospital histees kounced Listers Will Be stmcted to Oct ersonal Items H uramlelt, Waynesville: U M Bver Heaveruam; aim Fcrguton. Fines Creek were trustees ol mc naywuuu ,t, Hospital for 1947 by the ly board of commissioners at . I TT ,1 meeting Dec. 10. incy nave serving as trustees during past year. V listers in eacn lowiisiup tere appointed, and on tne U of Commissioner J. it. U will be instructed to require complete lists of persona! ty from taxpayers in the The listers will be asked to each taxpayer make out, per !), his list of taxable personal hty (automobiles, iivcsiock. ind in case of omissions, the penalty will be imposed. more thorough collection of pell tax also is planned. t county board appointed nod Smathers of Canton as Irical inspector for Beaverdam lihip, Roy Swanger and New HcElroy of Hazelwood as in ters for Waynesville township, ford James was appointed as ittojhc coupty auditor.,. ef m Jan. 1. listers for the various town- ire J. Mack Caldwell, Cata- f; Oddic Fish, White Oak; Allison, Jonathan Creek; Mrs. Campbell. Ivy Hill; J. Man- Medford. Iron Duff; Frances ft, Fines Creek; Charlie T. Crabtree; Coman R. Fran- Clyde; C. E. Williams, Beaver- Gay Burnett, Pigeon; Ken W, East Fork; Jerry Francis, and J. S. Black. Waynes- Jckless Driving Charged After feck Wednesday hold Shaw, Jr., son of Mr. Mrs. Aronid Shaw nf Lake rjjska, sustained a broken col nc in a wreck Wednesday pon about 2:30 o'clock, on F street, of a '38 Oldsmobile P West, 23, of Hazelwood, F of the car is scheduled to Fin Mayor's court on Mon IWcrnoon to face a charge of ps driving. "wding to Police Chief Orville "Hand Patrolman Bill Sawyer, "Nestigated. there wprp five fts in the car enroute from n s school Fe basketball. The car be- r" 10 J. G. Carver nf rivrto SOU attonrlc crVrt-vt horn onrl - - - . ov. lSVSl lie C O 1 1 VI Wned the antnmnhllo in thp rt. youths told the investigating that when they turned into weet, the right rear wheel mi the car, it got out of con rf"t up on the sidewalk and " through a telephone pole into the street, about 10 "n the pole, before it stop "e car was damaged beyond Electricity and telephone as CUt off in enmo narta " snort time, f all appearances," states 'Poland, "the car was being J" too fast." occupants of the car in to, . let Ww"d. Jr- RalPh J ad Clarence Morrow. I, oth" than Shaw was seri y njured jggther Report fished The Mountaineer by , Weather Bureau); . 2, Dec 19Fair and fa cold today and tonight. Dec. 20 Increasing , ess and slightly warmer. wte Friday night or Satur- punty Board )n Personal Jurors Are Named For Jan. Term Civil Court Judge William Bobbitt To Preside At Next Session Of Court Here Thirty-five civil cases have been docketed for the January C-9 term of Superior Court at the Haywood county Court House, with six cases listed on the motion docket and uncontested divorces to be heard at the convenience of the court. Judge William 11. Bobbitt of Charlotte is scheduled to preside at court sessions here for the next six months. The jury list was an nounced for the next court follow ing the meeting December 16 of the county board of commissioners, with 25 persons named for the first week, and 18 others selected for duty the second week. The jury list includes Goble Mc Cracken, Beaverdam; J. V. Hipps, Clyde; L. M. Smathers, Beaver dam; Herbert F. Rice, Beaverdam; John W. Grasty, Pigeon Arthur Conard, Jonathan Creek; J. Sam Medford, Clyde; Lloyd Teague, White Oak; Asbury Bradley, Ivy Hill; Dennis, Crawford, Iron Duff; Lawrence A. Cogburn, East Fork. W. M. Howell, Jonathan Creek; Troy Stamey, Clyde; Thomas II. Rogers, Clyde; J. A. Singleton, Ivy Hill; Dillard Haney, Crabtree; John A. Rathbonc, Crabtree; S. L. Galloway, Waynesville; John W. Sparks, Waynesville; Wiley F. Al len, Fines Creek; John M. Sutton. Catalooehee; Silas E. Clark, Crab tree; Wayne Browning, Waynes ville; and W. T. Terrell, Pigeon. In the event court lasts into the second week, the following jurors will be called: Charles II. Burnett, East Fork; Dan Cochran, Pigeon; Waldo Green, Fines Creek; D. V. Brcndlc, Waynesville; Lee Howell, Jonathan Creek; J. Howard Recce, Cecil; John II. Finchcr, Fines Creek. .1. M. Calhey, Pigeon; Theodore Knight, East Fork; R. O. Allen, Waynesville; Walter Smith, Fines Creek; Theodore Muse, Waynes ville ;John E. Rhodarmer, Beaver dam; Weaver Green, Clyde; Dan Carpenter, Ivy Hill; H. F. Bryson, Iron Dufi"; Robert Green, Crab tree; and Hiram Leatherwood, Ca talooehee. Baptists Gave $3,000 Sunday On New Church Fund More than $3,000 was contribut ed last Sunday morning in a spe cial offering at the First Baptist church for the building fund. The church rdopted a building program several months ago, and a special committee began raising money for the proposed new church. The plan was to raise $25, 000 a year for four years. Rat Killing Campaign Will Begin January 15 The rats of Haywood county arc hereby given warning to vataie this area before January io, t ith is the starting day for a rat-killing campaign to be con- ducted throughout me count,, i hv fho rounty agents office, the schools and towns of Haywood county, m coope ";.u it S. Fish and Wildlife service All persons with farms or homes or business places are in vited to join in the campaign to get rid of these pests. A large supply of rat poison, fortified red squill, is being ordered on the basis of questionnaires sent hv thP county agent to farmers and the requirements of town offi- Plans to Clamp Property Tax $1,500,000 Would Be Heeded To Modernize Haywood County Schools Court House to Close For Holidays Tuesday Noon Until Dec. 27th The Haywood county court house will be closed at noon Tuesday, Dec. 24, until Friday morning, Dec. 27, for the an nual Christmas holidays. This schedule was announced by George A. Brown, Jr., chair man of the board of commis sioners, after u meeting of that group Monday, and will apply to all offices in the court house. Salvation Army To Give Cheer Christmas Trees Will Be Held In All Eight Centers of Mountain Division of Army Hundreds of people in the re mote areas of Hr.ywood county will be remembered with gifts by the Salvation A -my in their Christmas programs, according to an an nouncement by Major Cecil Brown, head of the Mountain Division of the army. The first even" on the program, which will include Christmas trees and special plays and readings at all eight of the community cen ters, will take place at Miller's Gap. Here all the workers will take part in the program which will be held on Sunday morning, December ?2nd, at 10:00 o'clock. The second event will be held a( Maple Springs, Citadel, headquar ters in the area for the Salvation Army, where a program will be given on December 22nd at 2:00 o'clock in the afternoon. Lt. Pad den and the girls In the commun ity will stage a play and special singing. The third event will take place at Shclton Laurel on Monday, Dc ( Continued on Page Three) Lions Dime Board Fund Is Growing Each Day The Lions Club dime board, placed on Main street in front of the Art Gallery last Saturday, is drawing generous contributions from the public to go into the club's charitable work. An estim ate of the money on the board at noon Thursday placed the total at between $325 and $350. with but few minutes passing without some one adding to the coin collection. Christmas carols are broadcast over the loudspeaking system, and a Lion is on duty to thank the con tributors. The board will remain there through Christinas Eve. . . m, ! i ..an l, mixfd and cials. mis uait ... - distributed to the schools on Jan. 15. where it will be picked up in rural communities. The bait is to be prepared in three pound packages for farmers at a cost to him of $1. "This is a small price to pay for the relief that will be obtained," remarks Wayne Corpening, county agent. Rats each year eat and destroy enough grain and other items to account for a loss of $200,000 in the county, as well as being a nuis ance and carrying harmful germs. Supts. Jack Messer and A. J. Hutchins have pledged the cooper ation of the Haywood and Beaver dam district schools during the campaign. Superintendent Jack Messer Describes Condition Of Buildings "It would take a million and a half dollars to give Haywood a thoroughly modern school sys tem," Jack Messer. county .super intendent of education told mem bers of the Central Elementary Parent Teachers Association here Tuesday night. "The buildings are over-crowded, are in need of repairs, and in many instances need entirely new buildings, such as Central Elemen tary. The obstacles between us and these needed improvements are many. First, the necessary funds, second shortage of building materials and skilled labor." Mr. Messer told the organization of contracts that had been let to correct the fire hazards of the Central Elementary school as re cently pointed out by the building inspectors here. Additional fire escapes are being added and some electrical wiring corrected. Mrs. Rufus Siler, county direc tor of lunch rooms, addressed the association, telling of the work the lunchroom was doing. Mrs. Siler discussed the menus which were served, and the care with which the food was prepared. Those who work in the lunchroom were present and introduced to the organization. "We are allowed 24 cents for each meal," Mrs. Siler said. "Of this amount, the student pays 15 cents, and the federal government 9 cents. We figure 0 cents for meal, 5 cents for milk, 8 cents for cook ing and serving, and Hie other five cents to take care of vege tables, bread and desserts." About 300 students are served daily at the Central bunch room with four paid workers in the kit chen. Before the meeting adjourned, each teacher, and lunch room worker was presented with a gift from the organization, and refresh ments were served in the lunch- room by dates. Mrs. Siler and her asso- Public Urged To Buy Seals Sales Lagging There has bean a slowing up of Christmas Tuberculosis seals sales during the past tew days, and Mrs. Frank Ferguson, chairman, is urg ing that the people of this area make more extensive purchases during the last fow remaining days before Christmas. Mrs. Charles E. Ray, Jr., presi dent of the club, is making an ap peal to the public to make more generous purchases and use them on all mail being posted. The sale of seals will continue up to Christmas day, according to Mrs. Ferguson, who also points out the work is accomplished each year through the money raised from this source to aid in supplying milk to the undernourished children in the area and other preventive measures. Usual Large Christmas Edition Coming Tuesday Tuesday's edition of The Mountaineer will be the usual Christmas Edition, featuring scores of holiday messages from business firms, in addition to the usual interesting features which has always made the Christmas edition so popular. Special local features, together with thos? of Associated Press will be carried. All advertising copy for the edition must be in the office by 10 o'clock Monday, and all news by nocn. The paper will go to press at 2:30 on Monday afternoon. Down Levies Community Christmas Tree Plans Completed Annual Gift Program Sponsored By Woman's Club To Be Hold Saturday Plans have all been completed for the Community Christmas tree which is annually sponsored by the Woman's club In cooperation with other organizations and indi viduals in the area. The program which is held each year in connection with the distri bution of gifts will take place in the main courtroom in the court house on Saturday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. Rev. Paul Townsend, pastor of the First Methodist Church will conduct the devotional features and Miss Stephanie Moore will be in charge of the music. Mrs. J. C. Brown, chairman of welfare in the club is chairman of the Christmas tree program. Serving with Mrs. Brown are: Mrs. Charles E. Ray, Jr., president of the Club, Mrs. John M. Queen, Mrs. Jimmic Boyd. Mrs. John H. Hipps. Mrs. T. L. Bramlctt, and Mrs. James W. Killian. The public is Invited to the an nual event at which time gifts are distributed to the children in the community. Making donations to the toys, fruits candies and general expenses to date have been the Lions Club, the Town of Waynesville. the Rotary Club, Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Barber and others. Mrs. Bradley Takes Own Life Funeral Today Mrs. Bertha Bradley, of Waynes ville, native of Cherokee was found dead in her room in an Ashcville hospital Wednesday morning about I o'clock. Dr. I'. R. Terry, coro ner, of Buncombe county, an nounced that she had come to her death as a result of hanging her srlf to a steam pipe with a torn piece of sheet hit;. He estimated thai she had died between 11:30 and 12 o'clock. The body was disco, tied by attendants at 1 o'clock in a routine check of the rooms. Funeral services will be con ducted at 10 o'clock at the home of Tom Tolley on the Soco Gap road, Cherokee Reservation Friday morning. Burial will follow in the Bradley family cemetery. Surviving are her husband, Thomas Bradley, of Cherokee, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andy Chick elic, also of Cherokee. Mrs. Bradley had been residing here for some time. Garrett Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements. County Library To Close Three Days Christmas Week The Haywood County Library will be closed for a three day pe riod during Christmas week, start ing on Tuesday, the 24th and con tinuing through Thursday the 2C, according to an announcement made yesterday by Miss Margaret Johnston county librarian. New Tar Heel Senator tf" t TV, i 4? if ! S,' , i WILLIAM B. tMSTEAD of Durham, was appointed to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the Jeath, last Saturday, of Senator Josiah W Bailey. Office Closed But Licenses Available "This office is gottig to be closed like the rest of them in the courthouse, but if anybody wants to buy a marriage li cense they can look inc up and 1 will gladly conic tip and open up long enough to U't them married," said riryan Medford. register of-Deeds yesterday In speaking of the Christmas holidays. "And if they can't find Mr. Medford, I wilt'be at home.'' added Mrs. tlatlie MvCrackrn, assistant to Mr, Medfdrd,. "but I don't especially '.like to be routed out of bed during the night, which I have been, lo" sell marriage licenses." Christmas Cantata Methodist Church Sunday Night A cantata. "Th" Story of Christ mas," will he Civen by the com bined junior and senior choirs of the Waynesville protest a lit. church es Sunday night at 7:30 o'clock in the First Methodist church. The Presbyle-ion, Baptist, Epis copal and Methodist choirs have prepared the program under the direction of Mrs. Fred Martin. The cantata is an arrangement of scrip ture and song in telling the events of Christ's birt.'i, with the Rev. L. G. Elliott, pastor of the Baptist church, reading the Bible passages, assisted by the Rev. Malcolm Wil- j liamson, Prcsbvterian pastor, and the Rev. Paul Townsend, pastor i of the host church. Mrs. W. L i Matney will accompany the cantata at the organ. ! A cordial invitation is extended j to the public to attend this Christ mas porgram. Holiday Moonshine Supply Gets Another 2-Still Loss Two more stills were captured by officers in Haywood county during the past few days bring ing the total up for the past two weeks to five an. unprecedented record, which also includes the largest still said to have ever been taken in the county. Around two o'clock Tuesday af ternoon the officers learned that there was anther still in operation in the Maggie section and they left town immediately. In the par ty were deputies, Wade McDanicI. of Waynesville and Crum Cole, of Canton, both of the sheriffs de partment and Roy Recce, Revenue officer. By four o'clock, in less than two hours after they reached the vicin ity they found the still tucked away on the Jack Carver Cove, in 5 '.'(f-S Umstead Is Successor Of Bailey In Senate Former Congressman From Durham Is Appointed By Governor Cherry William IS I 'i:i-lcad. 51. Durham attorney, former congressman, and campaign in.ni.' :i r for Governor Cherry in l!H4, u;is appointed to succeed the lal'- Josiah W. Bailey in I he United S, .iles Senate. The appointment v. h .inuunced Tues day by I lie ,o , i hoi' The neu sen itoi was born in Durham onnl m IfW:", Hie son nf a ( diih ilei .1! s oldier and one time state lem i .ioi He graduat ed f'oio tin I .'iwtmH of North Carolina and l.nv'lil .school in Kin Mon until l!M7, when lie entered the ,-i r 1 1 1 . .er,iej eight months oversea.-, with the AKK. Ret in inn:: Durham he studied law at Ti inin ii lleg", and started a practice in Ih tall of 1919. Re served as m use ;Hor in county rc- I corder's coin I. v. as elected solici tor for the I (H h district, and in 1933 was seel ( . congress, where he remained he three terms. In 193!) he mIiiiiI.v ily retired to rc- ; sumo his law ;-i act ice. Alter chieetnr: Gov. Cherry's gubernatorial cai.ipaign, lie was ap ' pointed as la' Democratic chair ! man He ic-e-vicd Irum this post 'several weeks ,en He has been 'mentioned a a ;iossihle candidate for govci inn in 194H. but now is 'expected to he noie interested in J staving in (he s. ,iale. possibly com peting will' torner Gov. J Mel ville Broimhi in v. hen election year rolls around - Ivy liiil Township The furnace was still war:-' Pel the liquor from the GO gall 'in Ii' had been spirited awa wilh its maker. There were ihr. gallons of back mash left ai i he spot, which was about one and a half miles of the Soco llighua;. On their ret am to town they stopped at N ('man Caldwell's Filling slat ion and w ere asked to bring another si.ll of a 35 gallon caapcity. The still had been captured near the same section in the Maggie area by Mr. Caldwell, who is a deputy. The site of the latter still's operation had been on the opposite side of the Soco Highway, almost straight across from the 60 gallon still taken by officers McDaniels, Reece and Cole. Civic Clubs Begin Work To Improve Facilities Haywood County's Eighteen-Year-Old Hospital Buildings Are Inadequate The movement to enlarge Hay wood county's overcrowded public hospital facilities is gaining sup port from the public steadily, with the Waynesville Chamber of Com merce added to the ranks which already includ'.- the Hazelwood Boosters and local Lions Club, Rotary Club and American Le gion. A further diseusison of the need for an addition to the present buildings and a report of what in formation had been gathered in connection with Federal and State aid for a hospital building pro gram was given at a joint meeting attended by the committee mem bers of the civic organizations at the L. N. Davis Insurance company office Monday night. When the Haywood County hos pital A-as built 18 years ago, re lated Tony Davis, business mana ger of the institution, it was intend ed to be a 60-bed hospital. Since that time the county has grown; its population increasing from 28. 273 in 1930 to 34.804 in the 1940 census, and is estimated at nearly 40,000 now. Tho habit of using the hospital has grown, and al though it was adequate at the time built, it is woefully inadequate now. The hospital is operated on the basis of being ,a 75-bed hospital, with private rooms lor patients a memory of the past. During its most crowded periods it has had as many as 99 patients, with even the hallways being used for bed space. This overflow has been the result of normal growing demand and not. caused by an epidemic or other emergency for which its present, facilities are entirely hopeless. In the discussion that followed, the major points emphasized were that a building program should be adopted that would take care of the county's normal growth within the next 20 years and that definite plans should be made as soon as possible so that the request for State and Federal financial aid can be made before these funds are al located elsewhere. After a new addition is built, (Continued on Page Three) Christmas Lights Cover Main Street Christmas lights went up over ! Waynesville's Main street during the past week, and the town will glow in many colors during Hie holiday period after all. Although the idea of putting tip j lights has been planned lor sev eral months, it was given up when the original order for lighting j equipment was not filled and there i didn't seem much prospect for getting it elsewhere. Several citi. I ens expressed regret that the tow n j would have no lights when this was announced, so Town Manager G. I C. Ferguson started looking around for the bulbs and sockets i needed. j Although these items arc in short supply, he managed to get a , few here, some more at Canton, and then cornered another supply in Asheville.. After getting ever j thing together. Fire Chief Clem I Fitzgerald took charge of the job ! of putting the sockets on the wires I lo stretch over the streets and dy ' ing the bulbs a variety of colors. The town electricians then took ! over for what adds up to the fact that Waynesville now has Christ I mas lights. Highway Record For 1946 In Haywood (To Date) Killed - - 15 Injured 165 (This Information Compiled From Records of State High way Patrol)