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The Waynesville Mountaineer
49,500 People
Live within 20 mile of
Waynesville stteir ideal
shopping center.
Published Jwicc-aVcck In The County Seat Of. Haywood County At The Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park
NO. 12 8 Pages Associated Press News
WAYNESVILLE, N. C, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1947
$3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties
JaoRf Report
Mir
So
Announced By
Liner, Sr., To
Uc 150 to 200
1 1' a large nuiuuci
i .. r
luuscs for I Ins coin
led In be completed
. .1.... Ulnnc
v or I nui Mii . i ipua
lo erect some 15"
Douses ny ii. l.-
W Cornelius, of At-
linil is being crecicu
Street, and is of the
building, with two
living loom, batli anu
kitchen combination,
ation was completed
noon, and by 4:30 Fri-
wcro up. roof on, and
ork of plumbing and
led. according to Mr.
luce men can cut and
Is together in two days,
In can creel me nouse
be uccks is required I
:i (i In 7 room house !
lie tin1 blue prim is
le plant, Mr. Cornel-
ut. The work is being
i Hie old Hyatt mill
Kmalhers Street.
litis plans to move a
d wood-working plant
lie from Atlanta soon
ipmcnl already here.
In Id n house in 3 weeks
equire two to three
ir former conventional
tion. We do not have
i scaffolding, or fitting
The complete panels
td in the plant, even to
lien it is just a matter
c panels together on
n. Each house is in
fill save a lot of fuel
s pointed out.
to build the houses
Nhe community, from
Iville lo Hazelwood. As
fie, each house will be
design. The houses
as completed.
'us said that there is
fated houses over oth-
work is done in just a
c time
i: i; i
'A I' Two contro
the separation of the
panic and inland fish-
fe state department of
and development, and
Imcnt of a four-vear
ol and teaching hospi-
ivcrsuy of North Car-
aired this week in
''ion issue will come
pint conservation and
committee todav
"(1 the medical care
"I present itc nis..
PPropriations commit-
To Check
pnse Tags
ke department will
checkinr
fie owned by a resi-
ner of a business in
"as a 1947 city
!' are on saJe at the
SI each.
,artmcnt said those
comply Wi(h lh -
tultl be subject to a
per Report
Th Mountainpor k
lather Bureau):
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Clear mlH .k'
KIT nw 10 b
' '' 'l -Partly cloudy
"1 tlln afl- '
'Vavnnc,;ii
. , """e tempera
'dby the staff of the
Snow &
Min. Rainfall
14
31 .31
8
4
Max.
44
45
40
25
Dnil Going Up As
fabricated Housing
jel Gels Under Way
Forest Fire
Burns Area
In Pigeon
Last Week
Over 200 Acres Of Dix
Creek Area Is
Damaged By Forest
Fire .
A forest fire, the first in the coun
ty this year, burned over at least
200 acres of cutover woodlands in
the Dix Crock section of Pigeon
township early last week until
finally put out by 11 men who
fought the blaze all night through
under adverse weather conditions.
Tt. E. Caldwell, county fire war
den, received a warning of the fire
after It had broken out about 9:30
Monday night, and organized the
group of men to fight it as soon as
he arrived in the area. High winds
that swirled in various directions
made the job most difficult, and
their first attempt to start a back
fire failed as heat from the main
fire swept over their safety line.
The group moved back further and
began another backfire, and by 5:00
a. m. Tuesday the blaze was out.
Timber losses are estimated at
Between. $550 .and J8QQ,, although
the
e iSditwHtt be
much more valuable had it been
allowed to mature. The area burned
covered several privately - owned
lands. Cause of the fire is not
definitely known.
Vets Must Sign
For Agriculture
Training At Once
Veterans wishing to take farmer
st of about 10 per cent 1 traininS under the G.I. Bill must I
enroll for classes prior to March 1,
according to a recent change in
regulations received by John H.
Ncsbitt, vocational ' agriculture
teacher at Waynesville high school,
last week.
No enrollments will be accepted
after March 1 by veterans not yet
entered in the program this year.
All veterans must sign up during
January and February every year.
There are approximately 8,000
North Carolina vets of World War
II taking co-operative farm train
ing, with tuition costs and subsis
tence allowances paid by the vet
erans administration. They, how
ever, and all other enrolled before
March 1, will have to show evidence
of satisfactory training progress
when a review is made March 1,
1948, by agricultural teachers and
VA agricultural training officers.
Subsistence payments will be stop
ped in unsatisfactory cases.
GEORGE POU DIES
OF HEART ATTACK
RALEIGH, Feb. 10 (API Fu
neral services will be held in
Smithfield Tuesday at 3 p. in. for
State Auditor George Ross Pou, 52,
who died in his sleep yesterday
morning in Rock Hill, S. C, of a
heart attack.
Engineers Make Final
Inspection Of Pipeline
. Engineers were here csterday
making final inspection of the 9.-00O-foot
water line from a point
near the Micadale Church to the
reservoir. The project was complet
ed sometime ago, and yesterday's
check was a routine matter.
The project cost about $42,000,
according to G. C. Ferguson, town
manager. The new line is a 10-inch
cast iron pipe which feeds direct
into the reservoir.
Surveys are now underway for
extending the line on about an
other 9,000 feet to the filtering
Plant,
The present facilities are ade
quate to take care of the commu
nity for several years, Mr. Fergu
son said.
"The town was fortunate in let
Haywood Delegation At Park Hearing In Washington
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Shown here are 14 of the 15 delegates from Haywood county who attended a hearing before Secre
tary J. A. Krug in Washington Friday, seeking further development of the Park and the Blue Ridge Park
way. (This picurte was made just outside the auditorium where the hearing was held. Shown left to right:
Harley E. Wright, R. D. Coleman, L. E. Sims, J. T. Noland, J. E. Massie, Charles E Ray, C. J. Recce, C. N.
Allen, Senator William Medford, Miss S. A. Jones, Sam M. Robinson, W. Curtis Russ, Representative Glenn
C. Palmer, and G. C. Ferguson. The fifteenth member, Thos. W. Alexander, arrived just as the picture
was made. (Photo by Harris-Ewing, Washington).
Haywood Delegates Help Promote
Development Of Smokies, Parkway
Haywood To
Begin ROA
At Meeting
Here Friday
All Former Army,
Navy and Marine
Officers Urged To Join
Group
The Haywood County Reserve
Officers association will be organiz
ed at a meeting to be held in the
Court House at 7:30 p. in., announc
es Wayne Corpcning.
All reserve officers, army, navy
and marine corps, are eligible for
membership and urged to attend
the meeting. There ore more than
70 former officers now living in the
county.
Mr. Corpcning announces that a
representative of the state military
district, Raleigh, and the naval re
serve battalion at Asheville will
attend the first meeting of the
group. A minimum number of offi
cers have already signed the appli
cation for an association here, and
the federal charter has arrived.
The ROA was first formed on a
rational scale after World War I,
disbanded during the recent war,
and was reformed during the sum
mer of 1945. Its purpose is to
assist in the development and exe
cution of a military policy for the
United States, with concentration
on matters affecting the reservee
personnel.
Former officers do not have to
belong to the regular reserve to
be eligible for membership in the
ROA.
ting the contract when they did.
because the contractor told us that
the materials had advanced 10 to
15 per cent from the time the con
tract was let until the work was
finished. We saved that much by
having the work done in 1946," he
continued.
Boosters Club To
Meet On Thursday
The Hazclwood Boosters Club
will meet Thursday night .at the
Hazelwood Presbyterian church
dining room for the regular month
ly meeting.
Frank Underwood is president,
and John Summerrow is secretary.
VV: : Si
Secretary Krug Raises
Hopes Of Tar Heels
At Meeting Last
Week
Haywood County had 15 of a
delegation of 60 North Carolinians
who presented Secretary of the In
terior J. A. Krug a plan for further
development of the Park, and addi
tional construction on the Blue
Ridge Parkway. The recommenda
tions of the suggested improvement
program, and the order preferred,
was presented Friday afternoon
in Washington in the auritoriuin
of the Interior Department Build-
ng.
Krug said the projected program
was "splendid" and one that should
be made available to every mem
ber of Congress, since the money
to carry out any program would
have to come from Congress. "It
isn't that we disagree with your
recommendations, but the fact that
we don't have the money."
Secretary Krug said he felt tin-
Park was getting a proportionate
share of funds set aside for nation
al park work, but he and his associ
ates were ready to discuss this mat
ter with the delegation or represen
tatives at any time.
Representative Monroe Redden
of this district, presided at the
meeting, and presented Secretary
Krug to the Tar Heel delegation.
Representative Redden, a member
of the House Public Lands Commit
tee, asked the Interior Department
to join with the state in seeking
funds from Congress for the pro
posed improvements in the Park
and the Parkway.
The principle obstacle in the way
of additional development was pic
tured by the secretary and other
department officials as the lack of
funds.
Mr. Krug said that the present
economy-minded Congress might
not be willing to make more money
available for national park develop
(Continued On Page Five)
Haywood Airport
Is Recommended
In Washington
An airport for Haywood
county was recommended for
construction within the next
three years in a group of 86
airport projects listed for
North Carolina by the Civil
Aeronautics administration.
T. P. Wright, CAA adminis
trator in Washington, "caution
ed that the airports are not yet
definite projects, but are rec
ommended on a priority basis
to the extent that money is
available from congress and lo
cal agencies.
The CAA plan for the "Can-ton-Waynesville
airport" is for
It to be a Class 2 field: requir
ing betewen 2,700 and 3,700
feet of flat, unpaved runway.
Three Pires
Are. Put Out
Saturday
i
! No Serious Damage
Caused With Firemen
Called At Early Stage
Of Blazes
Three small lircs broke out dur
ing a 12-hour period Saturday re
quiring the attention of the Way
nesville fire department. Nunc,
however, caused any serious dam
age. At 8:30 a.m. the chimney Hue at
Lcc Bramk-U's home on Meadow
Street caught lire. It soon burned
out while the firemen watched it
lo see it (lid not spread.
Less than an hour later a call
was received Mom llie Coiiec bnop
on Main Street. A torch had been
used lo thaw a water pipe, and
shortly afterwards a door frame
near the pipe began smoking. It
was put out with an extinguisher.
At 8:15 p. m. Chief Clem Fitz
gerald took the truck to answer a
call from Mrs. Ada Calhoun at Lake
Junaluska. Wood under her fire
place hearth had started burning,
and was extinguished with little
trouble.
Spic And Span
Drive-In Opens
During Weekend
The Spic and Span drive-in grill
opened to the public in its new,
modernly designed and equipped
building next to Dayton Rubber
company plant in Hazelwood over
the past week-end.
Gene Smathers and Earl SeruKgs,
owners of the grill, announce that
they will remain open 24-hours a
day. One of the owners will be on
duty at all limes, and will be as
sisted by an experienced staff that
includes Elmer Lemming. "Red"
Arnald, Willis Beck, and Jack Ar
rington. A complete line of sandwiches
will be featured, with steaks, chick
en and chops, and breakfast plates
among the specials.
The building is of buff colored
brick, blending with tho Dayton
building. The kitchen and wall fix
tures are of stainless steel, with
counter stools and several tables
for the use of customrs, and plenty
of parking space outside.
BERLIN CAFE FIRE KILLS 81
BERLIN, Feb. 10 (AP) Berlin
Police President Paul Markgraft
set the death toll of "at least 81"
in the flash fire at the Cafe Loebel,
in the British zone of Berlin.
Superior
Court Term
Ends Here
On Friday
Two Short Prison
Terms Given During
Last Days Of
February Court
' The February term of criminal
court adjourned Friday at noon,
with Judge William II. Bobbitt
leaving for a short stay at his home
in Charlotte before convening court
in Jackson county next week. This
ends Superior Court trials in Hay
wood until May 5, when the next
civil court will begin.
In trials heard the latter part of
last week, two short jail terms were
given 18 months for larceny and
90 days for cashing a bad check:
otherwise all sentences were sus
pended under speciffied conditions.
Liquor law violations brought fines
of from $250 to $300. Two persons
involved in highway fatalities were
placed on three year probationary
periods.
There were 27 true bills returned
by the grand jury, on such charges
as breaking and entering, assault
with a deadly weapon, reckless
driving, bigamy, seduction, selling
mortgaged property, and minor
charges.
Other than cases reported pre
viously, derisions given last week
were:
Way Abel in. an abandonment
case was given a six months sen
tence, suspended if he pays $50 a
month to his dependents and costs
of the action.
Charles Crane, after pleading
gullV, t transporting 1(q0or j W
fthed $250.' 'costs; and glveit if
Was
n
months sentence: suspended if he
broke no laws over a two year
period. His automobile was con
fiscated. Paul Smith, found guilty by the
jury of reckless driving, had his
ease continued.
Leo While, who pled guilty to
larceny of a Smoky Mountain
Trailway bus, was sentenced to 18
months in the state prison.
Wayne Bramlctt for abandon
ment was given a six months sen
tence, suspended if he pays $25 a
month for support of his depen
dents. Ned Cook, charged with felonious
assault, was turned over to juve
nile court for trial because he was
under 16 when the matter for
which he was indicted happened on
August 14.
W. A. Green, who during the No
vember term of court had pled
guilty to cashing a bad check for
$250, was given a 90 day term in
the Haywood county jail.
James Wiley Franklin, who pled
guilty to involuntary manslaughter
in the death Oct. 19 of Mrs. Mary
Frady, who was hit by Franklin's
automobile on Pigeon Street, was
given a three year sentence, sus
( Continued On Page Five)
Nurse Consultant
Here On Friday
Mrs. Louise P. East, state con
sultant Nurse of the North Caro
lina Slate Hoard of health, who
serves the Western area from
Charlotte to Murphy spent Friday
in town on business.
Mrs. East was here for a con
sultation with Mrs. Alma Mc
Crackcn. district supervisor of pub
lic health nurses with the health
department, on routine business re
garding the work of the department.
Farmers To Get Ideas
For '47 Farm
All farmers and their families
arc invited to one of the meetings,
to be held over the county starting
next Monday night, when County-
Agent Wayne Corpening and other
agricultural leaders will discuss the
1947 farm program in Haywood.
Emphasis will be placed on urg
ing the wider growth of hybrid
corn, ladino clover, increasing milk
and beef production, and other
phases of the year's work. Other
than the speakers, music will be
played by one of the two high
school bands in the county, there
will be a drawing of free prizes at
each meeting, and a movie will be
shown.
First meeting will be at the
Clyde high school auditorium, at
7:30 o'clock Monday night. The
Local Author
s,
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JuilGE FELIX E. ALLiiY has
recently had published his second
book, "What Tliink ye of Christ?"
Reviewer
Calls New
Alley Book
Important
Historical Work On
Christ Is Cited As
Valuable Reference
Material
The following is a review writ
ten by LeGclle Blythc of the Books
and the Arts page of Ihe Charlotte
Observer, of the hook on the
life of Christ, ' What Think Ye of
Christ?" a history, by Judge Felix
or 'Alley or wayoesvnne.-
Several years auo Judge Felix
K. Alley, one of North Carolina's
ablest jurists, published a long
book that bore the burdensome
but descriptive title of "Random
Thoughts and the Musings of a
Mountaineer." As the title ind
cales, the book touched upon many
things and developed a great vol
lime of unrelated subjects.
Much of the information is of
high value, particularly to North
Carolinians, for .Indue Alley's book
contains a wealth of historical sub
ject material coleeted and recorded
after years of diligent and patient
research. Among the notable stories
are many about the early Indians
of western North Carolina, and
even ol j'.'ealcr geivral interest is
it'oiiliiiiiiil On Page Five)
Rotary Club Will
Sell Car On 15th
For Polio Fund
The new I!) 17 Chevrolet which
is being sold by the Rotary Club
for the benefit of the polio drive
will be announced Saturday after
noon at the court house at three
o'clock, il was learned from M. D
Wat kins, general chairman yester
day. Much interest ha been shown in
the sale of the ear. and a large
crowd is expected to be present
Saturday afternoon. Mr. Watkins
said he had named the four mayors
of the four Haywood towns to as
sist at the program, together with
the following committee: J. H.
Howell, T. W. ( athey. Mark Han
nah. Jonathan Woody. W. Curtis
liuss. Paul Halt and Wavnc Cor
pcning.
Efforts arc being made to raise
$4,000 for the polio campaign this
year.
Program
following night a meeting will be
held at Hock Hill, and on Wednes
day at Crablrcc: with the W.T.H.S.
band playing each night.
Next Thursday a meeting will be
held at Morning Star, and on Fri
day night at the Beaverdam school.
The Canton high band will play
for these meetings. Meetings in
other townships will be announced
later.
Jonathan Woody, president of the
First National Bank, T. L. Gwyn,
of the N. C. Department of Agri
culture, and Miss Theresa Alley,
representing the N. C. Good Health
association will attend each meet
ing. The movie to be exhibited is
"World Dominion." in mini mnA
sound. ' Ushers at each meeting'
wilt oe 4-H club members.
New Wing
Is Needed
By Hayvood
Hospital
Stiff Inspection Is
Carried Out By Grand
Jury Of County
Institutions
Heating and plumbing in nevei al
Haywood county schools were
found inadequate and toilets in a
few schools termed unsanitary by
the February grand jury in a re
port submitted to superior court
Thursday.
"Due to the crowded condition"
at the Haywood County Hospital,
stated the jury report, "we recom
mend that an additional wing be
constructed to the building."
A new building was recommend
ed for the Saunook school, and re
pairs stated as necessary in others.
The County Home, Court House
building, Prison Camp, Canton Jail,
and 13 schools were all reported
"in good condition." Faults were
noted with a number of school bus
es, notably bad brakes.
J. E. Ferguson was foreman of
the grand jury, and the other 17
members are N. W. Ferguson, Sam
Kelly, Swan L. Hendricks, Sam No
land, Bryan Heatherly, Wess Pless,
Carl Rogers, Turner Franklin, G.
W. Burnette, D. M. Cagle, J. Man
son Arrington, Larry Justice, A.
Grady Noland, Clint Burnette. Jack
Felmet, J. M. Palmer and W. W.
Pless.
Text jf t Unreport is as f oMpwsV -
County 'Home: Was found in' very
good condition, inmates warm and
well fed, with nursing care by prac
tical nurse and are visited weekly
by county physician,
Springhill School: Building very
poorly heated, no underpinning and
open to the weather. Water supply
muddy and exposed to weather.
Toilet facilities unsanitary and in
adequate, with 56 pupils in this
school and receive no State or Fed
eral allotment of milk or food;
Cruso School: Building in fair
condition, crowded condition in
present school rooms, auditorium
used as class room, heating system
not giving enough heat in strictly
cold weather, drain from lunch
room kitchen choked up. Water
standing in road in front of school
house. Dangerous conditions exists
bince highway runs so close t
school building. A fence was sug
gested as a partial remedy lor Ibis.
235 pupils in this school.
Cecil School: Building in fair
condition, heating facilities inade
quate, toilets not clean.
Bethel School: Building in good
condition, but extremely filthy,
hallways and stairs very dark, only
7 toilets for boys and 8 toilets for
girls for an enrollment of 798 pu
pils, these toilets very unsanitary.
One janitor trys to keep the entire
school clean, which consists of
gymnasium building, main building
and agriculture and home econo
mics building. He also attends to
2 heating plants located in separate
buildings. The main building is
three stories high without an out
side fire escape. All school buses
without emergency brakes with 2
exceptions.
Dell wood School: Toilets in bad
condition and need new slove pipe.
Saunook School: Recommend
new building, steel on the ground.
Central Elementary: Furnace
needs repairs, is in bad condition.
(Continued On Page Five)
BACK FROM BALTIMORE
Mrs. R. L. Burgin returned from
buying trip in Baltimore Satur
day.
Highway
Record For 1947
In Haywood
(To Date)
Killed - -Injured
-
0
8
Vehicles Checked 825
(This Information Compiled
From Records of State Hlxh
way Patrol) , .
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