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WAYNESVILLE, N. C, TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1947
$3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties
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Llidales have filed for
si have entered the
lares on the board of
LI was announced yes-
rnoon by Mrs. Hedwig
clerk.
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retired naval officer,
for mayor. Two of the
tri T. L Bramlett and
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Hugh Massie. the
ber of the board, has
Iced, although his broth-
Massie is a candidate
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1y announced candidates
onus Stringfield, Mack
litury Howell.
nrooVs' for newlv
mtti in the May 6 elec-
ooen from Saturday,
through the following
the courthouse. Only
(ins who are registered
owed to vole, and it is
everyone eligible qual-
Ihcir ballots.
Ihe 1943 election there
small vote, .since thp
for office were not op
larger participation is
year,
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ACCUSTOMED TO SITTING at phone switchboards, these Philadelphia
long distance operators find long hours of picket patrol a bit hard on the
ft. Her they take time off also their shoes for rest. (International)
No Settlement Of Phone
Strike Is Expected Soon
Town Fines Two
$10 For Driving
Near Fire Truck
Fines of $10 were given lo
Krmnctt Eller and C. h. Bur
gess for following too close be
hind the Waynesville Tire truck
Thursday while oh the way to
Answer Ta call at the residence
of Roy. Campbell.
The. two men were fined in
Mayor"s Court Friday after
noon under a stale law which
makes it illegal for a vehicle
driver to "follow any fire ap
paratus traveling in response
to a fire alarm closer than one
block, or to drive into or park
such vehicle within one block
of where the fire apparatus has
stopped."
Violation of- this law is con
sidered a misdemeanor, carry
ing a finimum fine of $10, max
imum of $50, or 30 days in
jail.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Joseph Glenn Norris to Lillian
Justice H'atherlee, both of Haywood
county.
Boosters Club To Stage
Lawn Beautification
Contest In Hazelwood
A lawn beautification program
was inaugurated by the Hazelwood
Boosters Club Thursday night, as
the organization adoDted recom
mendations of a special committee
and voted $50 for prizes.
The Eeneral nlan is to eneouraee
the improvement of lawns within
the town limits of Hazelwood. Two
sets of judges will work on the
project, checking the lawns two or
three times during the late spring,
summer and early fall.
Tentative plans are for those
wishing to enter the contest to
Sive their name tn a enmmittee.
and the Judging will be confined to
niose entering. There is no en
trance fee.
charge of handling details, and
naming of judges, is Rev. M. L.
al Values Are'Being Offered Here During
FOR PICKETS' FEET
Situation Same As
Last Week At Waynes
ville Telephone
Exchange
Telephone service began ils sec
ond week with local calls being ac
eepled only of an emergency na
ture, and no prospect in sight for
an early end to the strike of switch
board operators and repairmen.
Leaders of the National Federa
tion of Telephone Workers met
yeslerday to draft a plea to Presi
dent Truman for intervention in
the negotiations, which have come
to a standstill.
Mrs. Laura Ueardon reports
Hint the situation at the Waynes
ville exchange is unchanged since
last week. It is not possible to es
timate the decline in calls, but all
emergency messages are getting
through without difficulty and
there is enough management per
sonnel to continue this service. A
number of important business long
distance calls also are being al
lowed. It was reported by the Associat
ed Press thai Southern Bell plan
ned to adjust charges for telephone
service lo customers during the
lime of the strike.
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Lewis. L. N. Davis and Lawson
Summerrow.
Complete details of the contest
will be announced later, and plans
are to tie the campaign in with
the annual clean-up. paint-up week.
Proposals have been made for the
town of Hazelwood to supplement
the $50 prize money donated by
the Boosters Club. The town offici
als are expected to take this mat
ter up at their next meeting.
Reports were made by various
committees Thursday night, in
cluding one on sponsoring baseball,
Boy Scouts and the hospital,
The program committee for the
May meeting is composed of R. L.
Prevost, W. Curtis Russ and Dewey
Y..ni -pha nri3Kiripnt. is Frank Un-
nydii, t -
derwood, and John Summerrow is
secretary.
Moore, Gibbs
To Be Tried
For Highway
Fatalities
Bound to Superior
Court on Manslaughter
Charges After
Hearing
At preliminary hearings in Ihe
courthouse Saturday afternoon,
Emanuel M. Moore, 53, and James
Paul Gibbs. 23, were bound to trial
in the criminal term of Superior
Court on charges of manslaughter
in connection with recent highway
deaths.
Moore appeared before Magis
trate W. C. Medford, where evi
dence was presented that he was
driving the vehicle which over
turned March 31, near Balsam Gap,
when George C. Snyder, 38, was in
jured. Snyder died a few days
later in the Haywood county hos
pital. After the hearing, Moore
was released upon arranging for
$1,500 bond.
Magistrate W. H. Noland con
ducted the hearing of Gibbs. who
was driving the vehicle April 5
which struck Mrs. Bertha Medford
Amnions, 47, while walking on the
Allen's Creek road near her home.
Gibbs was bound over for trial
on the charge of manslaughter aod
released upon making arrange
ments for $2,000 bond. I
Area Meeting In
Brevard Set For
This Afternoon
Number From Here
Scheduled To Attend
Luncheon At Ecusta
At One
A group from here are scheduled
lo attend the monthly meeting of
Ihe Western North Carolina Com
munities Associated, Inc., at Ecus
ta this afternoon. The meeting
will begin with a luncheon at one
and adjourn to Brevard college for
the business session.
A number of projects affecting
the entire area are scheduled to
be brought up today.
Among those slated to attend to
day's meeting are Charles E. Ray,
vice president of the organization:
C. J. Recce, J E. Massie, James
Kilpatrick, James H. Howell, Jr..
Howard Clapp, C. N. Allen, Rich
ard Bradley, David Underwood,
Grayden Ferguson, Ed Sims, Rich
ard Barber, M. D. Watkins and
Robert Sutton.
New Fire Escape
Being Erected At
Central School
Workmen are erecting a steel
(ire escape from the second floor of
the Central Elementary School. The
new fire escape is on the north side
of the building, and an addition
will be made to the present escape
on the south side.
The project will be completed
this week. The new escape was
recommended by the grand jury
several months ago.
Masonic Group Is
Attending Meeting
In Raleigh Today
The following party from the
Waynesville Masonic Lodge left
yesterday to attend a meeting of
the North Carolina Grand Masonic
Lodge, which is being held in Ra
leigh today: Dr. J. Rufus McCrack
en, grand master of the Grand
Council of the Royal Arch Masons
of the state; Ralph Crawford, Rob
ert McBride, Hugh J. Sloan and F.
G. Rippetoe.
Attorney For Town Tells
Rotarians Advantages
Oi Large Municipality
New Rubber
Mill To Be
Installed
By Dayton
Foundation Being
Prepared For Another
Basic Machine
The foundation is being prepared
for a new 60-inch rubber mill to
be installed in the Dayton Rubber
company's textile division plant
here, which will increase produc
tion at the plant considerably.
Three skilled operators will be
used to man the new mill when it
goes into operation.
Forms have been built in the
millroom to pour 78 yards of con
crete, with a five-feet thick base,
to hold the 137,000 pounds of ma
chinery. J. L. McConnell, plant
engineer, expects the new mill to
arrive from Akron, Ohio, within
the next 10 days and its installa
tion completed by the week of
May 5.
This mill is one of the basic ma
cittnef at the plant, mixing tha syn
thetic rubber with compounds and
coloring chemicals and preparing
the sheets of pliable rubber which
goes on the calender wnere ruo
berized fabric is made of varying
thicknesses.
Dayton's current production con
sists mainly of 20,000 fan belts
daily, for automobiles, washing
machines and similar appliances.
A recently completed addition to
Ihe plant has been the setting up
of a more complete machine shop,
where the lathe now is being pre
pared to make the drums used in
the finishing process of fan belts.
'We have been wanting a com
plete machine shop for years," re
marked Mr. McConnell.
Joyce Ann West
Elected To State
FHA Secretary
Joyce Ann West of the Waynes
ville chapter, Future Homemakers
of America, was elected secretary
of the state FHA association Sat
urday night at the concluding ses
sion of the group's annual meeting
in Hugh Morson high school, Ra
leigh. Ailecn Casey of Mount Olive,
past vice president, became presi
dent for the 1947-48 year, and Lc
atrice Hill of Chocowinity was
elected vice president. Other new
officers are Peggie Essex of Clem
mons, treasurer; Sarah Smith of
Mecklenburg county, reporter;
Maxine Farlowe of High Point, par
liamentarian: Dorothy Stell of
Rolesville. historian; and Kitty
Fisher of Elizabethtown, song
leader.
During the final night of their
convention, the Future Homemak
ers staged a dress revue, modeling
school dresses, sports wear, street
clothes, dresses suitable for church
and afternoon wear and evening
dresses.
Civil Court Term
Opens Here May 5
With 35 Cases
Thirty-five civil cases are calen
dared for trial in the Superior
Court of Haywood county, which
will begin Monday, May 5, with
Judge William H. Bobbitt of Char
lotte, presiding. In addition there
are six cases on the motion docket.
Several of the cases have been
carried over from previous court
terms. The calendar has been
drawn to complete all trials dur
ing the first week.
Waynesville Pjans To
Extend Limits Under
Recently Passed Law
"I think it would be a fine thing
for Waynesville and Hazelwood to
he consolidated into one municipal
ity, " said J. R. Morgan, attorney
for the town of Waynesville, as he
addressed the Rotary Club Friday
on the financial affairs of the town.
Mr. Morgan made the statement
during the "question and answer"
period following his talk, in which
he showed the steady growth of
the town for the past 40 years.
The fact was brought out that
municipalities with populations of
5,000 or over can usually sell bonds
for two per cent Interest, while
bonds for Incorporated towns of
less than 5,000 population have to
pay about four per cent. It was
also brought out that there would
be a substantial savings on insur
ance rates by virtue of a larger fire
department.
Mr. Morgan tcld the civic club
of the recent legislation which had
been' enacted which set up legal
machinery for a town to extend the
town limits. He said the town of
Waynesville contemplated taking,
ia additional territory Under the'
lion or ecHoM- " ' '" 1
e "Many citizens too often neglect
to find out about town or county
government and its operation," he
began. "Everyone should manifest
enough interest to know what is
going on, and the progress that is
being made."
Mr .Morgan described the town
manager plan, which Waynesville
has operated under since 1941.
"Waynesville has an average an
nual income of about $150,000 per
year, and a tax valuation of two
and a half millions. The town
owns utility property estimated to
be worth two millions of dollars,
and has a bonded debt of $414,000,"
ho pointed out. .
"Due to the extensive building
program now undprway in Waynes
ville, the tax valuation will be sub
stantially increased over the two
and a half million mark," be con
tinued. The town attorney set out that
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Tobacco Growers Are
Warned That Fermate
Is In Short Supply
Fermate, the chemical which
protects tobacco beds from blue
mold, is in short supply due 10 the
large demand for it in the eastern
part of North Carolina, reports
County Agent Wayne Corpening.
Growers are urged to place their
requests for fermate as soon as
possible to be sure of getting the
material.
Full House Sees Minstrel
Here; Will Play Tonight
At Crabtree - Iron Duff
O. R. "Lucious" Roberts and
Richard "Honey Boy" Gerringer
took turns with the other End Men
in providing a fast sequence of
comedy in the Cotton Blossom
Minstrels which opened Friday
night to a filled auditorium at
Waynesville Township high school,
and were called back for encores
in their song and dance specialties.
Tonight the Lions Club will take
their blackface show to Crabtree
Iron Duff high school, and on
Wednesday will play at Fines
Creek. Friday the show will be giv
en in the East Waynesville school.
All performances begin at 8 p. m.
The show was carried out in a
satisfying manner by the cast, with
costumes, staging, and lights be
ing particularly effective. Charles
Dollar Days All This Week
Wins Honor
MARY ANN MASSIE, sopho
more at Waynesville Township high
school and daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Hugh Massie. has been select
ed to represent the Waynesville
Band in the All-Southern High
School Orchestra, which will meet
April 16-17-18 at Birmingham, Ala.
unde rthe direction of George
Barth of Southwestern Louisiana
Institute. She is one of six flutists
chosen from eight southeastern
states. Membership for the orches
tra is selected mainly from the
students' records in music. Aaron
Hyatt and Joe Morrow, saxophon
ists, have been picked as alternates
for the orchestra.
Joe Cline Js Y
Named Ass't.
Farm Agent
War Veteran From
Shelby Will Replace
Ernest Stallings in
Haywood
Joe Clitic, a recent graduate of
N C. Stale college, begins official
duties today as assistant county
agent for Haywood. He will re
place Ernest Stallings, who is
transferring to a similar position
at Lumberton.
The new assistant agent is a na
tive of Shelby, where he was raised
on the farm of his parents, Mr.
and Mrs V. O. Cline. His college
education was interrupted by the
war, during which he served with
the 34th Infantry Division in North
Africa and Italy.
Following his discharge. Mr.
Cline resumed his studies at State
College and received his B. S. de
gree in agriculture last month, with
a major in animal industry. I
Mr, Stallings a native of John
son county, has been assistant
county agent here for approximate-l
ly two years.
Phil Medford. student at Emory
University. Atlanta, left. Sunday
after spending the spring vacation
with his parents, Dr. and Mrs. N.
M. Med lord.
Isley's WTHS ragtime band enliv
ened the show with their excel
lent musical accompaniment.
After the introduction of the
four end men. Tony "Sonny" Da
vis. Jim "Boseo" Killian, Roberts
and Gerringer1. by the Interlocutor.
Herbert Buchanan, a vocal solo was
given by John Cuddeback.
All special acts were well re
ceived by the audience, including
the Ramp Hill Ramblers, dances by
W. G. Byers and Tom Campbell,
Chester Cogburn's imitation act,
Lawrence Leatherwood's harmon
ica solo, the renditions of the Lions
sextet .and Joe Casabella's senti
mental version of "Old Black Joe".
Proceeds from the show will be
given to the school lunch fund
benefit.
Operations
Will Begin
In 90 Days
Says Wallace
Several Sites For
Transmitting Station
Considered by Broad
casters
A constructiin permit. Mihject,
to approval of a transmitter site,
has been granted Smoky Mountain
Broadcasters, Inc.. by the Federal
Communications Commission, ac
cording to information received
here yesterday from the company's
Washington lawyers, the lirm of
Gardner, Morrison and Rogers.
With only the technical details
of approving a site for the 150-foot
tower, the company can proceed
with construction and give Hay
wood county a local radio station
within 90 days, according to Rob
ert M. Wallace, engineer in charge.
The station would operate on un
limited time, and have power of
250 watts which would enable it
to be heard 50 of more miles. The
station will operate on 1400 kilo
cycles. Mr. Wallace said that the call
letters for the station would he
determined within a week or 10
days.
A corporation was organized here
last fall for the purpose of oper
ating a radio station for Haywood
county. The formal application for
a station was placed before the
Federal Communications Commis
sion on December 11. At the time
U wa expected -it would take four
to slxjmonths to, get action, due to
the large number of applications
ahead of this one.
Mr. Wallace, a radio engineer of
many years experience, and gen
eral manager of the station in
Shelby, handled all the technical
details on the application, and will
be general manager of the station
here.
Several sites are under consid
eration for the transmitter, ami
this information will be placed be
fore Ihe engineers of the FCC uilh
in a few days.
"It now appears that vt- eau
have the station on the air within
90 days," Mr. Wallace said
The order for new and modern
equipment has been placed, and
assurances made lhat it will hi;
here without delay.
Plans are to have studios in
Waynesville, and the 150-foot trans
mitter in an outlying area A
transmitter room will be built at.
the foot of the tower, and all other
equipment will be in the studios.
Plans also include a number of re
mote control centers, such as
churches, schools and theater,
where local programs can originate
and be carried over the air.
Mr. Wallace said plans were to
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Chamber Of Commerce
Board Meets Tonight
The directors of the Chamber of
Commerce will hold their regular
monthly meeting tonight at 7:30,
according to C. J. Reeee. president.
A number of projects for the
summer are scheduled to be dis
posed of. and plans' made for the
season at tonight's meeting. Most
of the directors are slated to at
tend the W.N.C.A. meeting at Ecus
ta at one.
Highway
Record For 1947
In Haywood
(To Date)
Killed - - 2
Injured -12
(This Information Compiled
From Records of Stat High
way Patrol)