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WAYNESVILLE, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1947
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me ignited.
was reported to have
a room with another
round 12 o'clock Wed-
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ii open fireplace, with
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spring house to get
foods and the father
out to bring in some
being out of the
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evidently got too near
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ught on fire. A neigh-
y heard the screams
to Ihc house to find
s clothing had bum
fs rushed the child to
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fs given treatment, but
three hours after she
jthe burns.
r iws will be held this
o'clock at the Crah-
fhurch with the Rev.
son, pastor. anH ih
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FURT, GERMANY inese army Hostesses recently mei
time since their arrival overseas lor a luncheon-reunion
old, Frankfurt, Germany. Left to right are Miss Virginia
of Waynesville, assigned to tne u.i. country Club in
icrmany;" Mrs. Loretta McLaughlin Hartrich of Sioux
Dakota; and Miss Mary Ann Gibney of Tucson, Arizona.
mt time there are 167 Army Hostesses in the European
60 Armv Service Clubs which are operated under the
lervision of Theater Special Services in Frankfurt.
I Child Is Fatally
m
ed In Home Accident
tiesday At Grabiree
All Workers
For A. R. C.
DriveAsked
To Meeting
Group To Have
Planning Session,
Dinner At Hazelwood
School Tonight
The 105 chairmen, co-chairmen
and workers who will get the an
nual Red Cross drive under way
Saturday are urged to attend the
dinner meeting tonight, at 7 o'clock,
in the Hazelwood school cafeteria.
Details of the drive will be ex
plained and all pins and other
necessary items will be distributed
at that time.
The complete list of workers,
under the general chairmanship of
Jim Kilpatrick, is listed as follows,
with the chairman of each group
named first:
Business and Special Gifts: J. E.
Massle, William Bay, Felix Stovall,
E. J. Lilius, John Boyd, Carl Mun
day, Paul Davis, William Ratcliff,
and David Underwood. For the
Hazelwood district: C. N. Allen,
John Smith, and Bill Bradley.
Industries: Ned Tucker, Kern
Barber, George Bischoff, S. H.
Lane, Mrs. Harriett Withers, Wil
( Continued on Page Six)
New Penalty Goes
On 1946 Unpaid
Taxes Saturday
Another penalty will be added to
delinquent 1946 tax payers Satur
day, announces Sebe Bryson, col
lector for Haywood county.
As prescribed by law, taxes will
be raised 1 per cent on the first
day of February and March, and
Vi per cent the first of each fol
lowing month. Thus, the penalty
will be raised to 2 per cent Satur
day, and property owners who
wish to avoid the new raise are
requested to pay their taxes today.
More than three-fourths of the
approximately 10,000 taxpayers in
Haywood have already paid their
1946 taxes, states Mr. Bryson.
Sun Returns
Snow Is On
The heavy snowfall of last
week, and supplemented by
another inch Tuesday night,
was meltlnr fast Thursday
afternoon, as the mercury
steadily rose.
The snow remained several
inches in shaded aad protected
areas. The streets and side
walks, as well as highways,
were clear and dry, with the
IBB5iwy Enm
rv7.
Civic Group Urges Town
To Build New Street
Off Main To Back Alley
Polio Drive
Goes Over
County Goal
By 40 P. C.
More Than $5,000
Is Collected, Report
Of General Chairman
Shows
Haywood county exceeded its
goal by 40 per cent in the annual
polio campagin. The final report
of General Chairman Jonathan
Woody showed $5,100 raised, or
$1,450 more than the Haywood
quota of $3,650.
The drive this year was spon
sored by the Rotary Club of
Waynesville, with M. D. Watkins
in charge of this area, and Loren
zo Smathers and Jack Woody in
charge of the Canton area.
Collections totaled $3,054 here,
a large share having been raised
by the sale of a new automobile
Each school in the district added
to the total through contributions
lot students, with this phase of the
drive organized by Supt. Jack
i Messer, and several communities
raised funds through community
sings.
Gifts from students and the
general public raised a total of
$2,046 in Canton. ,
According to an announcement
from Chapel Hill early this week,
with 21 counties yet to report,
North Carolina appeared certain to
go over its quota. Figures given by
Dr. Ralph McDonald, state chair
man were that this year's quota
was $363,411 as compared to $350,
000 last year, when $433,000 was
raised.
County Bond Sales
Total $72,206
During January
January sales of U. S. savings
bonds in Haywood county amount
ed to $72,206.25, according to an
announcement by Allison James,
state savings bonds director in
Greensboro, issued through the
county chairman, J. E. Massic.
Sales in North Carolina were
$13,738,547.50 for the month, ex
ceeding any previous month's sales
since the Victory Loan in 1945. Of
this amount $8,570,770 . was in
Series E bonds, $862,377.50 in
Scries F, and $4,305,400 in Series
G bonds.
All bonds bought in Haywood
during the month were the Series
E type. January is normally a
month in which many investors ac
quire the annual limit early in the
year.
Mr. Massie urged all employees
in manufacturing plants to avail
themselves of the payroll savings
plan for regular and systematic
investments in savings bonds, even
if they can have only a few dol
lars a week allotted to bond sav
ings. Farmers, business and pro
fessional men and women and all
others will be doing themselves as
well as their state and nation a
good favor, by regularly investing
in savings bonds in 1947, and hold
ing on to them.
To County;
Its Way Out
exception of where snowplows
had piled it in deep deposits.
Cold weather was experienc
ed each night, with the mer
cury slipping down to 6 on
Monday night, 11 on Tuesday
night, and down to 12 on Wed
nesday night, according to the
official reports from the State
Test Farm where the official
readings are made.
Recommendation Asks
"Break" In Building
Frontage As Safety
Measure
The executive committee of the
Chamber of Commerce yesterday
afternoon passed a resolution rec
ommending to the mayor and board
of aldermen that the town purchase
the property of Mrs. M. H. Reeves,
on Main Street, and construct a
street to connect with Main Street
and the alley in the rear of the
buildings on the cast side of Main
Street.
The property the committee had
in mind is the site where a two
story brick building was damaged
by fire last week, and has been con
demned by the town.
The resolution also carried the
recommendation that the town buy
an adjoining eight-foot strip from
D. Reeves Noland, making a 32
foot street, including adequate
sidewalks.
The executive committee point
ed out the need of a connecting
street, since there is none between
the Pure Oil Station and East
Street, a distance of more than
1,000 feet. ;
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The committee pointed out the
additional accessablc parking space
in the rear of the buildings, and
as a hre measure, both from hav
ing a "break" in the solid row of
buildings, and a means for a fire
truck into the alley area.
As a further recommendation,
the committee urged the city offi
cials to construct several fire hy
drants along the alley.
The executive committee is com
posed of C. J. Reecc, president, R.
N. Barber, Jr., M. D. Watkins.
James Kilpatrick, L. E. Sims and
Charles Ray.
Farm Meetings
Are Resumed With
Better Weather
Farm Planning meetings are now
being resumed in community
schools over the county, with relief
from the bad weather which caused
four of them to be postponed.
Tonight the meeting will be at
Cecil. Next week the schedule is
announced as: Monday at Fines
Creek, Tuesday at the Courthouse
for Waynesville township farmers,
and Wednesday at Bethel.
More than 100 persons were pres
ent Wednesday night for the pro
gram at Maggie. The Waynesville
band played a half-hour concert,
after which County Agent Wayne
Corpening discussed farm planning
Miss Theresa Alley and Jonathan
Woody were other speakers.
Prize winners at Maggie were
James R. Carpenter, who won the
hybrid seed corn, and Ken Bradley,
who won a year's subscription to
The Mountaineer. C. A. Campbell
drew the winning tickets. Last
night the meeting was held at
Cruso.
Br. Alexander Describes
Conditions Of Germany
The most important reform that
is expected to emerge from the
educational laws now being written
by the State Legislatures in Ger
many is the abolition of class dis
cfimination in German schooling,
according to Dr. Thomas Alexander,
a Columbia University educator and
founder and educational director
of Springdale School, who is now
serving the zonal Military Gov
ernment in Germany.
At the age of eleven, German
children have hlterto been sepa
rated into those who could afford
to attend a gymnasium, leading to
a university, and those who con
Em
Blaze Hits
Waynesville
Lumber Co.
Mon. Night
M. O. Galloway
Estimates Loss At
Between $15,000
And $20,000
Fire of . undetermined origin
started in the sawmill at the
Waynesville Lumber Company yard
Monday night and destroyed be
tween $15,000 and $20,000 In build
ings, machinery and equipment be
fore being extinguished in a two
hour long fight.
The fire was discovered shortly
after 10 o'clock by Ralph Leonard,
night watchman at the yard, while
making his rounds. It began in the
eastern side of the sawmill build
ing, and quickly spread over the
frame and tin covered structure.
Chief Clem FiUgerald brought a
fire truck to the site and sounded
the alarm which brought volunteer
firemen and a large numuer of
spectators. Two hoses were con
nected to a nearby hydrant, and
water was sprayed on the blaze
from both ends of the building,
which was blazing brightly and
shooting sparks into the air to fall
on the snow.
The streams of water dampened
the fire and confined it to the im
mediate buildings, which were
practically destroyed by 11 o'clock,
according to M, O. Galloway, own
er of the concern. Tire continued
to -.burg, but was,. under control by
12 o'clock; Due to the amount of
combustive material in the area,
the hoses were left connected and
small outbursts of flame were ex
tinguished by persons who re
mained on watch throughout the
night.
Mr. Galloway praised the fire
men for doing "a fine job'' in, con
trolling the fire under the weather
conditions which existed, with the
(Continued oh Page Six)
Two Men Found Guilty
Of Drunkenness After
Car Smashes Monday
Marcus B. Corne, 61, and his son,
Everett M. Corne, 28, of White
ville, were tried for public drunk
enness Tuesday after being arrest
ed the previous night following the
smash-up of an automobile owned
by the latter on highway 19-23 just
this side of the Haywood-Buncombe
county line. Both were found
guilty and paid court costs when
brought before Magistrate Sam
Justice in Canton by Patrolman O.
R. Roberts.
The car, a 1947 Pointac sedan,
was traveling west from Asheville,
skidded into the embankment on
both sides of the road, beinf con
siderably damaged. Both occu
pants alleged that another person
had been driving at the time of the
accident when it was being in
vestigated by the patrolman.
Mrs. Everett Camp
Patient In Hospital,
Reported Improving
The condition of Mrs. Everett
Camp, patient at the Haywood
County Hospital, was reported im
proving yesterday afternoon. Mrs.
Camp underwent a major operation
a few days ago.
tinued in the Volheschule and quit
school at 14. Here it is thought,
begins the division of German into
socially superior caste of leaders
and a mass of inferior followers,
points out Dr. Alexander.
No law that does not include re
form along these line or permit
free schooling from the first grade
to the university will be approved
by the Military government. Dr.
Alexander declares.
Even more Important in Dr.
Alexander's opinion are the plans
to send German teachers abroad
for training. To fill the places of
(Continued on Page Six)
Three Bills Introduced
By Bedford In Senate;
$4 Baily Jury Pay Asked
Speed Limit Signs
In School Zones
Will Be Enforced
Three signs calling attention
to the 15 miles per hour speed
limit have been placed on the
highway at East Waynesville
school, and others will go up in
the remaining local school
zones within a short time.
Town police and the state high
way patrol promise strict en
forcement of the law, and all
drivers arc asked to cooperate
in making the streets safe for
students.
Steel pipes will be placed in
sidewalks along the approaches
to Central Elementary,
Waynesville township high
school, St. John's, and the
Waynesville colored school to
place the speed limit signs
there. Those at East Waynes
ville have been welded on
movable platforms,
Fjee Tree
Seedlings '
Are (Offered
To Farmers
County Agent Urges
That Orders Be
Placed Now To
Reforest Woodlands
Haywood farmers may secure! Carroll J. McCracken. 55, Can
forest tree seedlings free from the I ton furniture dealer and civic lead
county agont's office under a new j er. died suddenly at his home, 11
plan arranged by the Forestry and Hampton Heights, following a
Parks Division of the State Depart- heart attack Thursday morning,
mcnt of Conservation and Develop- Funeral arrangements are in-
nicnt, and the TVA.
White Pine. Short Leaf Pine, and
Locusts are the seedlincs most
farmers here will need, savs Wavne
Corpening, agent for Haywood. ,hc Kirst lP'ist church, the Civi
Farmcrs are urged to come to his tan c,llb- Moose lodge. Masonic
office and sign up for as many as lod8e. American War Dads and the
they can use under the require- Veterans of Foreign Wars,
ments set up by the project spon- Hc was a veteran of World War
sors. ' and is a former member of the
The seedlings are to be placed
on eroded lands, to reinforce un
stocked woodlands, and for sound
land-use adjustments. It is recom
mended to use about 1,000 per acre,
setting them out 6 by 7 feet apart.
The farmer must agree to protect
the trees from grazing, fire and
other preventable damage as well
as he can.
Mr. Corpening urges that orders
be placed as soon as possible so
the seedlings can be secured in
time for the best planting dates
this spring.
Sgt. William Mitchell
At Augusta Hospital
Sgt. William E. Mitchell, army
air corps, of Route 2, Waynesville,
has been transferred from the
Station Hospital at Shaw Field. :
S. C, to the Oliver General Hos
pital at Augusta, Ga., for further
treatment. Thousands of service
men who fought in Europe and
the Pacific are today receiving
medical and surgical care at this
orthopedic center.
Guard Company Needs
Men For Tanks, leeps
Several more men are need
ed to fill the minimum required
to gain the Waynesville Na
tional Guard company recogni
tion by the federal government,
and place it on payroll status
that would mean a good in
come for this community.
Officers who have been com
missioned in the company,
Capt. James Davis, Lieutenants
Sam Carswell and Frank Byrd,
Town Control Of
Negro Cemetery Is
Requested, And Right
To Swap Land
Two local measures and one bill
to increase the pay of jurors in
Haywood county were introduced
Tuesday in the N. C. General As
sembly by Senator William Med
ford. Persons now serving on the grand
or trial jury in Haywood receive
$2 for each day they serve, plus
5c per mile for one round trip be
tween their home and the court
house. Under the law proposed by
Senator Medford, to become ef
fective upon ratification of the
assembly, all jurors would be paid
$4 a day and the present travel
allowance.
The two bills affecting Waynes
ville were sent to the senator by
J. R. Morgan, attorney for the
Town, at the request of the local
board. One asks that the Town be
authorized to make a private ex
change of property in the water
shed area, and the other would
give the Town legal control over
the property now being used as a
colored cemetery here.
f; No survey has yet been made of
the. land to be . swapped-.br the
watershed property, comments G.
C. Ferguson, town manager. Their
plans, if the bill is passed, are to
(Continued on Page Six)
McCracken
Dies From
Heart Attack
complete pending the arrival of a
' daughter from Chapel Hill, it is
announced at Weils Funeral Home
Mr. McCracken was a member of
town board ot aldermen. Active
in political affairs for a number of
years, he was a candidate for may
or in 1945. At one time he oper
ated a furniture business in
Waynesville. He has been in Can
ton for the past 20 years, where he
was co-owner with Dr. Robert
Owen of McCracken Furniture
company.
Survivors include two sons, Max.
with the U. S. army in Japan, and
Carroll, Jr.. of Canton; one daugh
ter, Miss' Jo Ann McCracken, a
senior at the University of North
Carolina: five brothers, Sandy,
Guy. Goble. and Fred of Canton,
and Garrett of Tennessee; and four
sisters. Mrs. Gordon Sanford of
Waynesville. Mrs. Gill Carver of
Clyde, Mrs. Jesse Curtis of Hazel
wood, and Mrs. Guy Hemphill of
Canton.
HOME FROM ARMV
Pfc. Linden A. Nichols, who was
discharged from the army February
13 at Fort Dix, has returned to his
home on Route 1, Waynesville. He
reported to the local draft board
i last week.
plan an intensive recruiting
campaign between now and
March 15th to sign up the
necessary personnel. Several
good non-commissioned ratings
still are open in the company,
which needs tank and jeep
drivers to take care of the
large amount of vehicles it will
receive.
The unit, which will be activ
(Continued on Page Six)
j 53 Homes
Are Built
I In Town
Last Year
New Construction And
Repairs Totaled At
Least $261,000
During 1946
I New construction and repair to.
, business and dwelling places was
j conservatively estimated at $264,
j 200 during 1946 by T. Henry Gaddy,
on the basis of permits let last year
' for construction in Waynesville's
town limits.
Mr. Gaddy has issued a number
of permits this year that make him
believe 1947 will be even better
than last. "If lumber gets any
cheaper," he remarks, "I believe
that several good homes, costing
from $10,000 to $30,000 will be
built."
Permits for live business build
ings issued last year totaled $89.
000. One of these was the new
theater on Main street, expected
to cost $60,000, which probably will
be completed this spring.
There were 34 permits for new
dwellngs, to have been bult at a
cost of $8,500. Mr. Gaddy, after
surveying the town, counted 15 new
dwellings which were built without
permits, estimated to cost at least
$27,700.
Five permits were given to prop
erty owners for a total of $23,500
of building repairs, including the
alteration of the First National
Bank building.
This makes a total of 53 uew
dwellings and five new businesses
begun during the year in Waynes
ville. Just outside the town limits
there "Was. -great, conviction' ac
tMty. wU. - - -
An indication of the extent of
this can be obtained in the record
of light and water connection';
made by the town. According to
G. C. Ferguson, town manager.
there were 17 new customers who
took both lights and water. 37 who
connected water only, and 6 who
installed lights only.
New customers inside the town
limits were 32 for lights and water.
36 for lights, and 6 for water. The
total number of buildings installing
one or both services was 134 an
average of more than 11 per month.
Postponed DAR
Contest To Be
Held Today
The annual 39th declamation con
test which is sponsored by the
Dorcas Bell Love Chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revolu
tion which was scheduled to have
been held the first of the week, was
postponed on account of the in
clement weather.
The contest will be held this
morning at 10:00 o'clock in the
auditorium of the high school, with
Mrs. W. A. Hyatt, chairman of
patriotic education presiding.
Mrs. W. F. Swift, regent, will
present the medal and make the
announcements. The public is in
vited to attend.
Waiting Room Set Afire
At Depot Here Wed.
The blow-torch method of thaw
ing out frozen water pipes at the
Southern Railway depot here start
ed a fire in the colored waiting
room about 11 o'clock Wednesday
morning. It was extinguished
quickly by the fire department, us
ing the water from the tank on the
truck. Only minor damage was
done.
Highway
Record For 1947
In Haywood
(To Date)
Killed-- 0
Injured -10
Vehicles Checked 911
(This Information Compiled
From Records of State High
way Patrol)
For Service Ly da. Motor Co.