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Publishcd Tvvi"-Week In The County Seat Of Haywood County At The Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park
NO. 29
18 PAGES Associated Press News
WAYNESVILLE, N. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1947
$3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties
Bed
CWeek
'Tuesday
Triday
jd Wdl (Dtompaiiiw
S&ofcs $
si.
Used
Westmore
'resident of
y; $300,000
,i I
btion of the Bram-! ,,,
wis learned from
iend, president,
lill handle a com-
W, seed, fertilizers,
h md farm needs,
land Hid.
is the former Bram-
Lvery, nd workmen
m (oors for sales
jddition to an office,
lining room for farm
irea around the
hi converted into
Irtkultrly proud of
n ire making for
ei in the building,"
Mini said. "The
Herery convenience,
rt, spotlessly clean,
i teta sec-for
1 Waynesville and
i will provide this
Jinued.
itjve was organized
jigo, and while inde
fcave connection with
W Cooperative in
r will buy when and
F Mr. Westmore-
toottgh we will work
W office, and derive
from such
Jut Adult
fship Drive
1H lln
.80O during
Oleitlbershln -.
ff.1 the district co-
Thomas G.
'to1 Dr. Thomas
rvoesvuie.
represented the
P." Canton Lions
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pood Farm Co-opBuilding Large Retail Unit
Jurors Are
Drawn Here
For Civil
Court Term
County Commissioners
Meet Monday, Name
Bryson Superintend
ent of Welfare
i
JUlflOrUtU ,m -y venires were drawn for the
1V1 in' 'iuil form nf Riinrinr Crwtrt
'organircd Haywood , . meetine Mondav of the
n Cooperative are:. , f rnmmiKS.,nn. in fh
k Depot Street and resignation of H Arthur Os-
itocking up wit in , b()rnp Canton, as superintendent
of public welfare was accepted and
Gudger C. Bryson, Canton, was
unanimously appointed to that po
sition. A two-year bond also was
presented by the county auditor
Charles It. Metcalf.
Three petitions were presented
for road work in the Pigeon, How
ell Mill road and Edwards Cove
sections. The requests were for
warded to the state highway and
public works commission.
The first week jury will be drawn
from Marshall Messer, Jonathan
Creek; Marion B. Jones, Beaver
dam: Joe Teague, White Oak; Dave
P. Turner, Waynesville; J. , R
Boyd, Jiv Waynesville; R. L. Wells,
Pigeon; Lee Bjrchneld, East Ford;
Earnest F. Caldwelt, Clyde; Poster
Ernest Rhodarmer, Jonathan
Creek; James D. Gossett, Pigeon;
(Continued On Page 6)
Easter Seal
Drive Short
$70 Of Goal
ve was incorporated With ti f onn .i,..
i.iL . ' " sveii ui oci 1U1 lilt
p Stock will sell ; Children, the community eamoaien
!Wffinre.,,nd eacn is falling short wjth Qnly re
pmve a vote, re-.Dort.pri to Hato om.jin . i,
number of shares. I E. Massie. chairman serving from
K ?ure notl the Waynesville Rotary Club, spon-
f 01 Stock, but arc snrino nrBn:.l
1' daily. "Rieht "i h . u... ,
inilnnc i . "ve me complete re-
Mdthelfw iSl."1 "" the Sch00ls. throUg1.1
hUM -w ";, ' saies were made, and l
bu.ii . ---- ii'si many persons wno
I OrpaiOCR, atCr'!intendcd t0 buv seals have delayed
e Dl lti:ikino lk,.i . 1 t
sure by the end of the week we
I will be over our quota", said Mr.
Massie when contacted yesterday
ior a report.
For many years the National So
ciety for Crippled children and its
affiliated state societies have spon
sored a program designed to ben
efit handicapped children. The
deal of the agencies is that every
handicapped child shall receive op
portunities to develop his talents
in equal proportion as that pro
vided for the average or so-called
normal child. The symbol of this
'deal is the Easter Seal.
"Just because Easter is over
does not mean that you cannot use
the seals. Everyone should be
proud to use them on their letters
and show that they are lending a
"c'P'ng hand in this worthy cause,"
said Mr. Massie.
The chairman further pointed
out that any person who has not
been contacted through the schools
and wishes to buy seals may find
t'V "is office over the Park
l heater.
Assembly Passes Many
Laws Affecting Haywood
Senator William Medford and
Kepresentative Glenn C. Palmer
were sponsors of 10 laws relating
my to Haywood county which
Passed the 1947 legislature, and
three statewide bills were passed
Medfort?1"? lntroduced Sen'
He was the author 0j lhe pubc
act to create a commission of seven
members (one to be from Hay
wpod to coordinate all the activ
m ? benalf oithe Great Smoky
Mountain National Park, the Blue
wage Parkway, and the Pisgah and
wantahala National Forests. Gov.
Dnie?TJndicated that he would P
noint the commission shortly after
djournment of the: General
Worked Together On Book
It took three people to write "Mrs. Mike," and it's a first book for
all of theni. Mrs. Mike herself ( inset was the wiie of a Northwest
Mounted policeman, and lived the rugged, hardy ana dangerous north
woods life denied to most of us nowadays. After her husband's death,
she tried to sell some stories about her experiences to Hollywood
agents, and one was so thrilled with her accounts that he introduced
her to Benedict and Nancy Freeman, a young couple trying to make a
go of writing. With Mrs. Mike Flanoigan talking and the Frecdmant
lfe.is..pt0graphicttl-aulobjographical novel was completed.,,''
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Phone Tieup
With Loss Of
Felt By Local Business
Softball Organization
Meeting Monday Night
All parties interested in
sponsoring a Softball team in
the Waynesville - Hazelwood -Lake
Junaluska league are re
quested to attend an organiza
tion meeting Monday evening
at 7:30 o'clock in the L. N. Da
vis Insurance office. C. E
Wealherby will take charge of
thc meeting.
Police To Enforce
Hour Parking Law
On Main Street
The one hour parking law will
be rigidly enforced, starting April
15, according to Chief of Police Or-
ville Noland. During the winter
the parking regulations have not
been enforced.
Chief Noland also said that a
campaign would be pushed to see
that all motor vehicles had ci
license tags. The tags are on sale
at the city hall for $1, and all per-1
sons found without a tag that come i
under the ordinance, will be
hailed into court and subject to a !
fine of $10, he said.
So far this year only 3G2 tags
have been sold and there are about
500 motor vehicles that should have j
the tags, he pointed out. j
Clyde's Hep. Palmer effected a
substantial saving for the farmers
of Western North Carolina by se
curing a reduction of burley tobac
co warehouse fees, agreed to volun
tarily by the warehousemen on a
two-year basis after the represent
ative anounccd plans to lower their
fees by legislation.
Two statewide measures spon
sored by Sen. Medford aimed pri
marily to take care of local situa
tions were one to authorize a town
to create a commission for super
vision of public cemeteries, and
one to permit a county to place its
poor in private institutions at
county expense.
- Rep. Palmer's bill to extend the
Continued on Page Six
Continues
Service
Manager Reports
Public Is Cooperating
In Making Only Emer
gency Calls
Way ncsvi lie's telephone system
finished its fourth day with oper
ations curtailed to handling emer
gency messages only, due to the
strike of operators and repairmen,
with no indication yesterday after-
! noon when the communications tie
: tip would be settled.
I Meanwhile, at Canton and other
j towns where dial systems were
t used, local messages were going
I through with little difficulty and
I the only hardship suffered by the
I public was in making long distance
j calls. An agreement was reported
I between long distance operators
and American Telephone and Tele
; graph company, which if passed on
j by the National Federation of Tele
! phone Workers would soon permit
1 normal service between commun
j ities.
j W. L. Lampkin. manager of the
local Southern Bell office, stated
yesterday that the "public is co-
, , operating splendidly" in limiting
their calls to emergency messages.
Two men from thc Charlotte office
are assisting the management per
sonnel here in taking care of mes
sages, allowing two operators on
duty during thc day and one at
night.
No ill feeling exists between the
local managers and strikers. The
switchboard girls and repairmen
have formed into pairs for tours
of watching the office from below,
at a sidewalk bench. Wednesday
most of the strikers called at the
office to get their paychecks for
(Continued on Page Six)
Central Cleaners
Install Boiler,
New Equipment
Central Cleaners have, just in
stalled several new pieces of
equipment, including a marine
type, 150-horscpower oil boiler, and
a new washing machine.
This equipment merely supple
ments present equipment, accord
ing to Johnny Shelby, owner and
operator.
The boiler is of the latest design
oil burner, and provides constant
100-pound pressure of steam for
the two floors of cleaning equip
ment operated by the firm
State Promises To Repair
Two Crabtree Creek Roads
School Board Appoints
District Committees At
Keeling Here Monday
Three Are In Race
For Local Board
Two more candidates an
nounced for aldermen this
week, it was reported at thc
Waynesville Town Hall yester
day. Dr. Thomas Strinefield
and Asbury Howell have joined
Mack Pace, Dayton Rubber com
pany employe, ln seeking scats
on the town board that will be
selected in the May 6 municipal
election.
' No candidates have yet iiled for
the office of mayor.
i Contracts
Are Asked
On School
Projects
Construction of New
Colored School,
Lunchroom at Morning
Star, Planned
Bids for the construction of a
high school at Canton for all the
colored students of Haywood
county, and for a lunchroom addi
tion at Morning Star school will
be taken until April 21, according
to an announcement this week by
A. J. Hutchins, Canton school sup
erintendent. Construction has been planned
for some time and money set aside
for the projects, lfowcver, due to
state regulations on accepting con
tracts it was not possible for some
time to find a firm that would of
fer to do the work for a set
amount. Sen. William Medford in
troduced legislation into the Gen
eral Assembly which allows the
Canton school district to contract
for these two projects on a cost
plus basis, if necessary.
The new school is to be of brick
and will contain seven classrooms
and a home economics room on thc
ground floor. A work shop will be
added at some future time.
It will replace the colored school
which burned down several years
(Continued on Page Six)
Miss Gibbs' Play
To Be Given Today
At The University
The Dramatecrs of Mars Hill
college will present "Pity, If You
Please," an original one-act play
by Pollyanna Gibbs, of Waynes
ville, in the Annual Dramatic Fes
tival at the University of North
Carolina, Friday, April 11.
The play, which was accepted
for production by the Carolina
Playmakers Guild, was presented
at Mars Hill college February 22
and in Asheville March 20. The
play, which includes five charac
ters, is built around a woman who
is a neurotic and who dominates
(Continued on Page Six)
3 Sections
Today
18 Pages
Instructs Supt. Messer
To Replace Sub-Standard
Teachers Where
Possible
School committees were appoint
ed for the six districts in Haywood
county,' exclusive of Canton, by thc
board of education at their meet
ing in thc courthouse Monday, with
nine new committeemen on the
lists.
A schedule is being arranged for
each district committee to meet in
the superintendent's office, elect
their respective chairmen, and se
lect the teachers for their schools.
The county board, R. T. Messer
of Waynesville, chairman; Vinson
Davis, , Crabtrrjnot'f;,'V"Caslei.
Beaverdam, Instructed Supt. Jack
Messer to replace as many as pos
sible of the teachers with sub
standard certificates with instruc
tors holding class A certificates. Of
the 180 teachers at the schools in
the six districts, 47 have the lower
class certificate.
Supt. Messer believes that it will
be possible to secure a good share
of accredited replacements from
college graduates and other
sources.
Next meeting of thc county
board will be in May, when the
1947-48 budget will be outlined
and building needs of the school
planned.
Members of the school commit
tees are as follows: Waynesville
district Claude Allen, Hazelwood;
Guy Massie, Jim Noland, Fred
'Campbell, Waynesville; and Med
ford Lcatherwood, Waynesville Rt.
2. Mr. Noland and Mr. Campbell
succeed Jerry Liner and Sam
Queen.
Bethel Forrest Justice, Walker
Brown, Edgar Burnett, Canton. Rt.
3; George Stamey and Rex L. Pless,
Canton, Rt. 2. Mr. Burnett suc
ceeds Charles Moody.
Clyde Coleman Francis, Mark
1. eatherwood, Roy Ilaynex, Larry
Cagle, Clifford Ernest Brown, Jr.
Mr. Cagle and Mr. Brown succeed
Hessie Terrell and C. E. Brown, Sr.
Crabtree-Iron Duff Fred No
land, Jim Best, Weaver Chambers,
and Hugh Noland, Clyde Rt. 1; and
Hardy Caldwell, Waynesville, Rt.
2. Mr. Best, Weaver Chambers
(Continued on Page Six)
Crabtree-Iron Duff
Senior Play Tonight
The Crabtree-Iron Duff high
school senior class will present the
play, "He Couldn't Take it," to
night at 8 o'clock in the school au
ditorium. Mrs. O. L. Yates is di
recting the play.
There will be a small admission
charge.
Minstrel Show Will Open
Tonight At High School
A steady series of rehearsals, in
full-dress for the first time last
night, has put the Lions club mins
trel show in readiness for their
openin gperformance tonight, when
the curtain will rise at 8 o'clock in
the Waynesville township high
school auditorium.
John Cuddeback will lead the
blackface chorus of 40 in the open
ing number, after which Herbert
Buchanan the interlocutor will
turn loose the end men, "Bosco"
Killian, "Sonny" Davis, "Honey
Boy" Gerringer and "Lucious"
Roberts. These characters have
the job of injecting comedy
throughout the show, and Director
Joe Casabella claims that they are
naturals for the job.
Delegation
Of 50 Talk
To Highway
Engineers
Road Impassible
During Winter
Weather, Causing
Many Hardships
Rock to make the road up Crab
tree and Ball creeks passable the
year around was promised by J. C.
Walker, state highway department
engineer for the western district,
and his assistant, James Knight, at
a meeting in the courthouse Tues
day afternoon attended by the
county commissioners, school su
perintendent and a delegation of
more than 50 persons from the
Crabtree section.
After listening to the Crabtree
residents describe the hardships
they encountered during the win
ter and on any rainy period, Mr.
Walker stated tha pe would make
"HSr'AMd" hid " number T Improve
ment project for Haywood county
and "get it in shape to travel" be
fore next winter at the latest.
The engineers discussed in de
tail how their department func
tions, being limited by appropria
tions from the state legislature
and directed to apply their funds
only to specified types of work.
They described how run-down ma
chinery was one of their major
problems, and said that many items
of equipment had been on order
for several years and still was not
coming in.
Mr. Knight remarked that the
break-down of a shovel was a main j
cause of the Crabtree road's bad
condition, it was assigned to fill
ing in the road last August, he re-1
lated, several feet above the dan
ger level from the creek. Its mo
tor broke down after it had filled
part of the road, and the needed
part for repair has not been se
cured yet.
Vivid descriptions of how the
road had affected life in the com
munity were told by residents,
who felt that immediate steps
should be taken to remedy the
road.
There are J08 families who live
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Sims Tire Puts
In Larger Boiler
Sime Tire and Battery Company
are installing a large oil-burning
boiler this week. The larger ca
pacity boiler is needed to operate
thc recapping plant of the firm.
Since the addition of several ad
ditional recapping molds, the steam
requirements have more than
doubled and necessitated a larger
toiler, according to L. E. Sims,
owner.
The front of the place is also
getting the finishing touches, as
plasterers arc completing the work
gf the final finish on the outside
talis.
A ragtime crew from the Waynes
ville township high school band
will accompany the performance,
and string specialties will be given
by the Ramp Hill Ramblers. Solos
will be taken by John Cuddeback,
O. R. Roberts and Joe Casabella;
and two numbers are programmed
by the Lions Quartet. Original
music and old favorites have been
arranged especially for the show
by Charles Isley.
Tap and clog dances will feature
Richard Gerringer, W. G. Byers and
Tom Campbell and during the sec
ond part of the show Chester Cog
burn will give his act.
Four performances of the show
(Continued on Page Six)
Plant Goes
Up In Flame
Wednesday
Factory And Finishing
Buildings Destroyed
When Spark Sets
Lacquer Afire
It was three o'clock Wednesday
afternoon at the Inlaid Wood
Products Manufacturing company
finishing room, one mile west of
Lake Junaluska along highway 19
23 when a spark from a hot motor
set fire to the lacquer spraying
machine being operated by Den
cilc Cagle. The fire caught hold of
the wood and combustible paints,
racing swiftly throughout the build
ing. Within less than two hours t he
finishing room and main factory
building were left a smouldering
ruins a loss estimated by the
plant manager, Vardy Fugate, to
be from $40,000 to $45,000: with
a place of employment lost to lti
workers and some 25 others who
were to begin work shortly on the
new spring and summer line ol
inlaid wood novelties.
The company owner, George
Kessler of New Brunswick, N. J., is
expected to arrive today, alter
which the future of the plant will
be determined.
He is reported to have $22,000
insurance coverage.
Employees of the company
fought the blaze with all means at
their disposal, 24 fire extinguishers
scattered about the two main build
ings, and called the Waynesville
fire department. Fire Chief Clem
Fitzgerald answered the call with"
one truck, but since there was
nothing larger than half-inch water
outlets at the site the firemen were
without facilities to extinguish Hie
blaze.
Flames reached more than r()
feet in the air during the height li
of the fire, and police and highway
pauolmen blocked traffic from
passing by on the highway to pro
tect travelers from heat and I lie
danger of an explosion of lacquer
from the green-painted shed, about
100 feet away from the finishing
room, where 350 gallons of lacquer
were stored.
Fire caught hold of the closest
stack of lumber in the ravine lead
ing uphill, but employees threw
sand and water from a garden hose
on it, and were assisted by the lire
men after they attached a hose to
the Waynesville street cleaning
truck and sprayed the lumber and
a number of small machines taken
from thc two buildings.
Although the office was hemmed
in by the fire minutes after it be
gan and practically all records were
lost, employees rolled out to safe
ty approximately $4,000 worth ol
planers, routing machines and va
riety saws.
The dry lumber shed and lacquer
shed also were undamaged. Then
were no high winds blowing, and
the heat rose straight upward with
smoke billowing high and visible
from several miles.
West bound traffic was directed
over the Junaluska-Dellwood cut
off where construction crews were
preparing it for pavement but
traffic officers found it necessary to
stop all vehicles going towards the
east for approximately an hour.
The company was purchased
(Continued on Page Six)
4-II Club Leader
Here In Conference
vvnii county igenis
Miss Eleanor Barber, assistant
4-H club leader of the North Car
olina extension service spent Thurs
day in town in consultation with
the county farm and home agents.
Highway
Record For 1947
In Haywood
(To Date)
Killed - - 2
Injured -12
(This Information Compiled
From Records of Stat Hif h
way Patrol)
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