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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
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NO. 21
16 Pages
Associated Press News
WAYNESyiLLE, N. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1947
$3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties
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Dept.
Doors
tools
nilely
Bents In
ille District
ent From
hursday
lille district schools
this morning and
Id for an indefinite
of the county
jdue to an influenza
t is causing auseu-
hools in large num
disease is in a mild
iere were 519 stu-
Lut of the 3.188 en-
Lstrict school, it was
lack Messer, county
of education. The
lead in absentees
h 65 uut of the 131
ionic
ary to take this ac
lecause of the need
read of the disease,
idemic form, in cer-
to protect those who
cted from unncces-
fthat might bring on
cations later," ex-
lary Michal, district I
lays been noted in
Imics. it is the com-
on fage. Two) ,. .,
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riding 5th
Germany
thorne W. Reed. U.
lias been assigned to
Fifth Airways and
lion Service wing in
Reed assumed his
lander of the Fifth
ry 14th.
ng serves the United
tu rope.
f ho entered the air
following his gradua-
like University, has
that date with the
lany important posts
He is the son of
James VV. Rced of
current assignment
statoned at Langley
V Auctioned
Thursday
Purchased at uub-
939 ford eoach for
morning at the
been confiscated by
fior Court, when
f was arrested Janu-
farge of transport
G. Stanley, county
ucted the sale.
ACXIUARV
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Park Commission Bill
Of Sen. Bedford Would
Unify Promotional Work
Introduces Bill
STATE SEN. WILLIAM M.
MEDFORD of Waynesville intro
duced a bill Thursday to eliminate
separate commissions set up to pro
mote the Smoky Mountain Na
tional Park, Blue Ridge Parkway,
Pisgah and Nantahala national for
ests and co-ordinate this work in
one state commission.
Taeyiew
Board Will
Meet Here
Next Week
Commissioners Visit
Raleigh To See
Chances For Hospital
Assistance
All property taxpayers who be
neve that there have been errors in
the listed valuation of their prop
erty will have the opportunity to
appeal their assessment before the
Board of Equalization and Review,
which will be in session Monday
through Friday of next week in
the commissioners' office in the
courthouse.
The Haywood county board of
commissioners will sit as the equa
lization board, as provided by law.
A schedule announced by George
A. Brown, Jr., chairman, specifies
the days on which complaints from
the various townships will be
heard:
Monday Ivy Hill, Jonathan
Creek, White Oak and Cataloochee.
Tuesday Fines Creek, Crabtree
and Iron Duff.
Wednesday Pigeon, East Fork,
and Cecil.
Thursday Waynesville.
Friday Beaverdam and Clyde.
Next week is the only time in
which the commissioners have au
thority to change valuation of real
estate, and all taxpayers are urged
to submit their complaints at this
(Continued on Page Two)
Red Cross Drive
Continues With
Funds Below Goal
Collections and pledges to
taling $2,500 have been gather
ed by workers in the annua!
Red Cross drive, reports James
Kilpatrick, general chairman
"Our volunteers have done
an excellent job." he states,
"but it has been impossible to
Catch everyone in their homes
and places of business, and all
persons who have intended to
make a donation to the Red
Cross have not had the oppor
tunity." It would be appreciated, Mr.
Kilpatrick says, if those per
sona -who have not been ap
proached personally either
mail or take their contribution
to the Red Cross office in the
courthouse, or to him. Plans
now are to close the drive at
the end of next week, with the
full quota of $3,122 reached.
Measure Is Introduced
Thursday To
Establish Seven
Member Group
Senator William Medford intro
duced a bill in the State Senate
yesterday which would consolidate
the several commissions that have
been created in the state into one
board whose duties it would be to
promote the development of the
Great Smoky Mountains National
Park, the Blue Ridge Parkway and
the Pisgah and Nantahala National
Forests in North Carolina.
The commission of seven mem
bers would be appointed by the
Governor, with one member com
ing from each of the following
counties: Buncombe, Haywood,
Jaekson and Swain. The three re
maining members would come from
counties adjacent to the area af
fected by the Park, Parkway or
National Forests.
The bill sets out that North Caro
lina has invested more than two
millions in the purchase of lands
for the creation of the Park, in ad
dition to sums contributed by indi
viduals and organizations. The con
trol is in the hands of the Federal
Government, which also owns and
controls large areas in the state
known as Pisgah National Forest
and the Nantahala National Forest.
These, together with the Blue Ridge
Parkway, makes "North Carolina
vitally interested in the comple
tion and development of all three."
"A single state agency being de
sirable in the public interest to co
ordinate the efforts of these pro
jects in North Carolina, that dupli
cation of effort and conflict of aims
may be avoided, and a unified, and
well considered program may be
developed and maintained to the
end that over-all plans for the de
velopment of the region as a whole
may be formulated and pursued
over a prolonged period."
The bill specifies that "the com
mission be known as the North
Carolina National Park and Forest
Development Commission."
The bill also sets out that the
Governor shall appoint the seven
members of the original commis
sion, two to serve two years; two
to serve four years, and three to
serve six years, and as terms ex
( Continued on Page Two)
C. Of C. Board
To Meet Monday
The board of directors of the
Chamber of Commerce will meet
Monday night at 7:30, it was an
nounced yesterday by Miss S. A.
Jones, secretary. The regular meet
ing on Tuesday night has been
changed in order that all members
can attend the concert of the Little
North Carolina Symphony orchestra
Tuesday evening.
C. J. Reece. president, announc
ed that a number of matters were
due to come up for disposal.
Two Youths Appear
Before Juvenile Judge
Two teen-age boys from the Jon
athan Creek section appeared be
fore Hugh Leatherwood. judge of
Juvenile Court, here Monday, and
were placed on probation after be
ing tried for petty larcency.
The youths, one 14 and the other
j 15 years old. broke in the Rock Hill
school the night of March 6, tak
I ing a butcher knife and $2.25 in
jcash. They admitted also to enter
I ing a store and picking up chew
ing gum, tobacco, a pair of over
alls and some aspirin tablets. The
younger boy was arrested that same
night by Waynewille police, and
the other one picked up two days
later.
Central Elementary
PTA Will Meet 25th
The Central Parent Teachers As
sociation have changed their regu
lar monthly meeting to Tuesday the
25th, in order that members can
attend the concert of the Little
North Carolina Symphony here
Tuesday night.
Closes
Little N.
Pictured above is the Little N. C. Symphony, directed by Benjamin Swalin, that will present two concerts Tuesday in the Waynes
ville Township high school auditorium. At 2:30 p. m. a program will be played for school, children, and al 8:30 o'clock the adult concert
will begin. Numbers are especially selected for the size of the orchestra, which is now on tour covering most towns in North Carolina.
President
Asks U. S.
To Assume
New Course
Aid To Greece,
lutivcy ,iw ijicin
Tide Of Communism
Urged By Truman
WASHINGTON 1 API Presi
dent Truman, in a fateful speech
to Congress, grimly called on Am
erica to halt the world march of
Communism with money, materials
and military skill.
Proposing a new and historic for
eign policy Wednesday, the Presi
dent specifically asked $400,000,000
to aid Greece and Turkey, hard
pressed Mediterranean bulwarks
against the totalitarian tide.
Moreover, lie served notice he
would not hesitate to ask addition
al sums if necessary "to help free
peoples to maintain their free in
stitutions and their national integ
rity against aggressive movements
that seek to impose upon them to
talitarian regimes."
Before his taut-faced, anxious
audience, he laid a request for:
(Continued on Page Twoi
Milk Producers
Invited To Meet
Here Wednesday
All milk producers in Haywood
are invited to attend a meeting
Wednesday evening, March 19. at
the courthouse. Grade A and un
graded producers as well are urged
to attend.
F. R. Farnham, extension dairy
specialist, will discuss wilh those
present the problems of milk pro
duction in this area. A movie, "The
Science of Milk Production" will be
presented, which is highly recom
mended by County Agent Way ne
Corpening.
The Case Of The Missing Tools
Is Solved With Lost Letter
What Earl Stanley Garner
or some of the other mystery
story writers might term The
Case of the Missing Tools came
before Magistrate W. C. Med
ford last Saturday, climaxing
a series of events that would
appear to be more fiction than
happenings of everyday life.
Last December Hooper
Green, a mechanic in Ben No
land's garage in Hazelwood, .
found one morning that two
boxes of tools were missing
from where he had left them
the nighf before, on the porch
of his home near Waynesville.
Part of the tools belonged to
his employer, and their value
was approximately $400. .
The victims hunted every
where that seemed likely for
a lead to the missing tools.
All District Schools
C. Symphony Orchestra Will Play Here
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National Guard Needs
18 Men By Saturday
To Meet Required Quota
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1 Income Tax Deadline
Is Midnight Saturday' '
Midnight Saturday, March 15
is the deadline for filing federal
and state income tax reports
without becoming: subject to a
stiff penalty.
A steady stream of taxpayers
have been filling the office of
Fred Walston In the courthouse
for assistance with the state tax
forms during the "last minute
rush".
Cemetery Is
To Be Made
On Dellwood
Road Land
A certificate of incorporation was
forwarded to Secretary of State
Thad Eure this week requesting a
state charter for Crawford Memor
ial Park, a new cemetery to be lo
cated about one mile from Waynes
ville on the Dellwood road.
Backers of the cemetery are, R.
M. and H. W. Crawford, David
Underwood, R. V. Welch and C.
H. Leatherwood, who plan an au
thorized capital stock of $20,000 and
have subscribed $4,000 each.
A 20-aere tract of land, part of
which is an oak grove on the
eastern side of the Dellwood road
across from the home of Richard
Barber is to be the site of Craw
ford Memorial Park. "We plan to
beautify five acres and start sell
ing lots as soon as possible," stated
Mr. Crawford yesterday.
Not a clue was found, and it
seemed that they had vanished
permanently no small loss to
men in their business.
Time passed and there seem
ed no chance of recovering
something happened.
Noland was working on an
automobile at his garage. He
moved a seat, and under it
found a letter. It was soiled
and crumpled, and its sender
apparently had misplaced it
before getting the letter in the
post office.
It was addressed to a man
in Virginia and the return ad
dress was to Wallace Anders,
the man who had recently own
ed and sold the car. Curiosity
caused Noland to open the let
ter and it was all about the
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1 5
Special efforts are being made
by Captain James Davis of the
National Guard to complete the
quota of 30 men by Saturday- which
is the deadline set by the adjutant
general. At Wednesday night's
drill, eighteen men had completed
their enlistment papers. Most of
them are veterans.
Captain Davis said fourteen oth
er men had received papers and
were in the process of having them
rilled out. He urged that each of
the 14 return their papers com
pleted by Saturday in order to
meet the deadline of securing the
quota of 30 men here. Captain Da
vis said he would be at the Armory
tonight and again Saturday night
to assist any man with papers, or
receive applicants.
The eighteen who had completed
their enlistment papers through
Wednesday night Included: Floyd
Dean Fullbright, Mark Edwards.
Hobart Grant Williams, James Lee
Sanderson, Paul Monroe Mull,
James Newman Williams.
George Marcus Mllner, Homer
Howard Boone, Edgar Wiley Robin
son, Kirius Harrla, William Dwight
Hall, Robert Leverne Gilford.
James Edmund Robinson, Thur-
man Wales McCracken.
Jack Harrison Snyder. Bethel
Reed Hundley, Glenn Edward Ar-
rington, and Paul Frederick Shee
han. Police Recover
Two Stolen Cars
Here Recently
Local police returned two stolen
automobiles to their owners recent
ly, one to Ashevilel and one to
Greensboro.
A 1944 Ford coupe, owned by
William B. Apple, was taken from
the parking lot at Mack Judgson
hosiery mill, Greensboro, on the
night of March 6. Policeman Guy
Messer noticed it the following
morning, parked in front of Hill
Matney's residence on North Main
street. Although not aware that it
was a stolen vehicle, he returned
to it shortly afterwards because it
was a traffic hazard at that loca
tion, and learned that two men had
left it there about 7 o'clock. The
car was found to be in bad mech
anical condition, was pushed to the
police station, and a description
sent to the State Highway Patrol
radio station where it shortly was
identified. The owner came that af
ternoon and recovered his car.
The other vehicle was a 1939
Lincoln Zephyr, registered to High
land Hospital of Ashevilel. It had
been taken from the hospital by
the escaped prisoner, "Buster"
Casey, who returned to Waynes
ville and was arrested after break
ing in Curtis Drug Store. Dr.
Scott of the hospital staff took the
car back on March 6,
Tuesday
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Interest Is
High In Two
Concerts For
Waynesville
N. C. Little Symphony
I To Play At WTHS
I Auditorium Tuesday
Much interest is being .shown in
the two scheduled concerts to be
given here next Tuesday by the
Little North Carolina Symphony
Orchestra. Both performances will
be given in the auditorum of the
high school, according to Mrs.
Jonathan Woody, chairman.
"Membership tickets are going
satisfactorily," Mrs. Woody said,
"and all indications are that a num
ber will be purchased over the
week-end."
The sale of memberships are
being handled by members of the
Woman's Club, the Music Club and
Book Club ben'. Memberships are
also available at the Chamber of
Commerce olfice.
Those patrons of the orchestra,
who bought memberships through
the students of high school, can
pick-up their tickets at the Cham
ber ol Commerce olfice, Mrs.
Woody said. At the time the salt
was made the membership tickets
had not arrived.
The special concert for school
children will be given al 2:30, and
the evening performance will be
given at 8:30
Two scheduled meetings have
been called off 111 order that there
be no conflict in engagements on
Tuesday evening. The board of
directors of the Chamber of Com
merce will meet Monday night in
stead of Tuesday night. The Cen
tral Elementary Parent Teachers
Association v. ill meet the 25th in
stead of on the HMh for their regu
lar monthly meet ins.
Rumor That Lost
Plane Is Found
Not Confirmed
Although rumors circulated
through Canton y esterday morning
that the two-engine passenger
plane that disappeared during the
February 22 snow-storm had been
found, no official report to that ef
fect bad reached the Canton police
department by 3 30 p. m. Thurs
dav. Because of hick of confirmation,
a spokesman at the police depart
ment which is acting as head
quarters for an intensive hunt for
the lost craft stated that he be
lieved the story unfounded. Wreck
age from a previous crash in the
Pigeon area may have been found
and been the basis for the rumor,
he added.
Searchers cheeked in the Allen's
Creek and Balsam areas near Way
nesville, as well as in Pigeon and
Crabtree during the past week, J.
C. Brite and his mother, Mrs. C. C.
Hollon, of Waco, Tex. were aboard
the plane on its fateful flight, bound
from Nashville, Term, to New Jer
sey at the time.
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19 Per Gent
Cut On Oig
Producers Is
'Authorized
I AAA To Mail
! Statements Of New
! Quotas To Farmers
i This Week-End
Haywood county has approxim
ately 1.460 acres of Burley tobacco
allotment for 1947, a nine percent
cut from the acreage authorized
last year but well over the 1,111
acres actually planted during 1946.
Statements of the acreage allot
ment are being mailed to each in
dividual farmer this week-end by
the Agricultural Conservation As
sociation committtee, announces R.
C. Francis, chairman.
Changes in acreage allotments,
as decided by the Department of
Agriculture, will be:
1) Any producer with a 1946
allotment of one and one-tenth
acre or more will he reduced by
19 per cent.
2) Any producer with a 1946
allotment of one acre will be
reduced to nine-tenths aere.
3) There will be no reduction
of 1946 allotments of nine
tenths acre er less.
A general reduction of allot
ments hafc been expected by Bur
ley farmers, due to the excess of
that type of tobacco that has ac
cumulated in warehouses for sev
eral years. Last year a cut of 10
per cent was made on growers with
more than five-tentrtf acre allot
ments. This year all producers with
an allotment of one and one-tenth
acre or more will be reduced by
19 per cent. ' '
However, explains Mr. Francis,
since the average Haywood county
grower is alloted nine-tenths of an
acre, a majority of the producers
will have the same allotment they
had last year.
Plant bed failures were the main
reason why there were so few acres
planted in Burley last year, prin
cipally due to the infestation of
Blue Mold in plant beds. A cam
paign is being conducted by the
county agent to urge protective
measures against this disease, and
the interest taken in it by growers
indicates that tobacco beds will be
in better shape this spring.
"If we have good plant beds."
states Mr. Francis, "there will be
more tobacco planted, even with
the reduction in quotas, than last
year."
Some growers with small allot
ments who received adjustments
during January by their commun
ity committees will not get the in
craese they expected under the
(Continued on Page Two)
Palmer Works Out
Commission Cut
On Burley Sales
The Mountaineer learned
from a reliable Source yester
day, that through the efforts of
Representative Glenn C. Palm
er, that the warehouse com
mission on burley tobacco sales
will be reduced this season in
North Carolina from four to
three per cent.
The official announcement of
this reduction is due to be
made any time probably to
day. This Mvings to North Caro
lina burley growers will run
into thousands of dollars, this
newspaper was told from Ral
eigh. Highway
Record For 1947
In Haywood
(To Date)
Killed-- 0
Injured - 10
(This InfermaUoa Compiled
Prom Records of State High
way Patrol)
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