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The Waynesville Mountaineer
Published Twice-a-Week In The County Seat Of Haywood County At The Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park
$3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties
TWENTY PAGES Associated Press News
WAYNESVILLE, N. C, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1947
No. 41
Tuesday
i
Lnily Heeds To Be
Ced At Banquet
01 C. At 7 Tonight
pinner Being j c
Haze wood "..
Jj, Tonight At
n.mhpr of fom-
L till begin at 7:30
It in the !"""
,,1 cafeteria -
spotlights aacmn...
Z need for future
Pa( Haywi county's
(ommumt.v mr.
. president of the
rmmerce. win pie-
L of ceremonies and
EL.k.n. all of v honi
Lers with first hand
fa the activities v
talk.
iking prepared oy
fiynesville Lnitea
i the Confederacy
iffl be accompanied
played by the V
the airecuon ui
the banquet may he
L door by those who
mirchased them, or
hiober of Commerce
innounced by Richard
Innan of preparations.
lew of last year's ac-
1) will be given by
put president of the
;h are to summarize
Its In 10 minutes or
presented in the fol-
Howard Clapp, su
tf the Slate Test
Irtpwt on "The Test
bitulture": R. L. Pre-
of Unagusta Man-
Impany, will speak on
fOtir Industries."
& Outlook for Lake
,, be given by Dr.
, wperintendent of
assembly, and State
iw Medford will dis-
ittoitii Western Caro-
Felmet, president of
:ti Association, is to
road sign Drnpram
& Woody, president
National bank, will
eluding talk on "Look-
in This Community."
Williamson. Prrshv.
r, will give the invo-
M. L. Lewis of the
church will
ediction.
both the Rnlarv ,.11,
will attend the ban-
it their regular meet-
POLICE are Investigating the escape
of Winnie Ruth Judd (above),
trunk murderess of two women in
1931, who disappeared from the
Arizona State Hospital for the In
sane, at Phoenix. Bloodhounds
were brought out to track down the
notorious patient, who escaped the
gallows for the killings by being
declared Insane. (International)
Bids On New
Negro School
Are Rejected
As Too High
County Commissioners
Turn Down Four Bids
On New School And
Lunchroom
Four bids submitted for the con
struction of a new colored school
at Canton and a lunchroom at
Morning Star school were turned
down as being too high at the
meeting Monday of the Haywood
county board of commissioners.
The lowest bid submitted for the
project was $168,751 by Merchant
Construction Co., which estimated
the cost of the colored school
building at SI 10,000, the lunchroom
at $28,000. plumbing, heating and
other necessary installations at
$25,751. Other bids were: Robin
son Construction Co., $174,161;
David Underwood, $107,251; and
Ben Sloan. $1C8,647.
After discussing the project with
the architects, Gaines and Gudg-
er; members of the school board,
and Supt. A. J. Hutchins of the
Canton district, the commissioners
believed that the bids submitted
were too high and voted to reject
them.
Supt. Hutchins was instructed to
see it "more reasonable" bids can
be obtained.
George A. Brown, Jr.. chairman,
D. J. Noland and J R. Hlpps were
all present at the meeting this
week.
Paralyzed Hero Weds Nurse
se
lidCour
SvenHere
P Interested in taking
,Wse in first aid are
'Class being or-
" Cross, that will be-
r we courthouse
P"Wd, who has com
M, advancp mj :
In first aid, will
ung. All phaSeS
W be ainrM
Hi) to join the class
"rmatton are re-
WrT nr contact
rher, Red Cross
at the court-
JklsDesiornaJ
P& Sunday
Jj8. li as been desig-
H... . . ouay and
Li , . " unty have
C 10 Offer sDerial
; uvcasin
enervation
Large Crowds
At Trial Of
2 Jackson
County Men
Crowds Pack Court
room In Sylva For
Trial Of O'Dear and
Messer
With the Jackson county court
house jammed with spectators and
jan equal number standing outside
on the ground, a special jury
picked from Macon county men be
gan listening Thursday morning to
evidence of state's witnesses in
the trial of Robert Messer, 21, of
Dillsboro, and Ear! O'Dear, 24. of
Sylva, charged with the slaying of
Jack Hall, taxi company operator,
and his wife, Margie, near Sylva on
April 21.
Six witneKf.es anueared before
the adjournment for lunch yester
day. These were, in the order that
they took the stand, George Evans,
Sylva policeman; Jud Robinson and
James Clontz, who told how they
discovered the bodv of Hall beside
his dying wife on a lonely road
near town; Doris Ashe, who had
seen the couple in Sylva at 8
o clock the previous night; Dr.
Grover WUks. who had examined
he Halls after the fatal blows had
been struck; and State Highway
Patrolman Charlie Lindsey.
Patrolman Lindsey testified that
he had been with the Jackson
county sheriff when they first in
vestigated the deaths, had assisted
in making the arrest of Messer and
O'Dear. and stated that he had
heard them confess to the crime.
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4-H Beeves
Are Visited
At 15 Farms
Tour of Show Animals
Is Conducted Saturday
By IIaze!wotdJarm
Agents
Babv beeves at 15 Haywood
rnnntfv farms- were visited Satur
Hv hv 4-H club members, veteran
farm students from Bethel, parents
and friends during the tour con
ducted bv the farm agents.
All beeves were weighed during
the tour, with the heaviest one be
to Jo Ann McCracken.
daughter of Jack McCracken at the
County Home farm, weighing 775
pounds.
The tour started at the farm of
Neil Slamey, in Bethel, and from
there went to the McCracken place,
i,. .Ii.e Love at the Test Farm, to
Wade and Ted Francis in Francis
Cove, to Jimmy Howell and Car
rol! Morrow at Lake Junaluska.
H H Caldwell. Joe Medford and
nan Davis in Iron Duff. Jerome
Rnvd and Laura Woody in Jona
than Crpek Bettv Ruth Ferguson
Wade Ledford and Max and Woody
Best in Crabtree.
All animals visited are being
fattened for appearance in fat
stock shows and sales this autumn.
Two of the beeves are Aberdeen
Angus, one is a mixed breed, and
the remainder are Herefords.
'Newspaper
(Group Due
Saturday
At Noon
Group Touring Park
Area, Headed By
Peele, President Of
N. C. Press
A oroiin of newsDBDCr publishers.
headed by Herbert Peele, of Eliza
beth City, president of the North
Carolina Press Association, and
Miss Beatrice Cobb, secretary-treas
urer of the organization, will ar
rive here Saturday morning ana
remain until after lunch on a tour
of the Park area.
The tour is being sponsored by
the Western Carolina Press Asso
ciation, and will cover many scenic
attractions in this end of the state.
Walter Ward, Asheville. is presi
dent of the Western Carolina or
ganization. The group will have lunch at
Patrick s Cafeteria and shortly af
terwards leave for Cherokee via
SITTING IN HIS WHEEICHAIR, Bill Barber (third from left, gaee, up at n "J
his bride, the former Dorothy Jean i.auDrann. oi nn roor, u, . "- fa
alter their marriage m Detroit. Barber became paralyzed from the waist City for the night. Plant , l ave Deen
down when be wat wounded saving company to Germany. The br.de made for a mght boat t rip on Fo -as
a nurse at Vaughn Husp.tal. where Barber was stayu.g. Left to right, ana Lake and ea ly Su day morn
ire: Jason White, Len Klelm. the Barbers and H. H. Smith. The couple inB the group will visit thebap
. .. .',., u..:.. i nir,hnnt oh re country, having lunch In
win live in a specia.iy-uu.n - rhml.p
of Commerce, then on to Brevard,
and across Plsgah Into Waynesville
late Sunday afternoon.
The tour is beinn made so the
editors and publishers can get first
hand information about this part
of the state. The tour is
made in Trailways buses.
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Number 01 Streets At
Lake Junaluska Being
Paved; Bridge Bepaired
Big Blow-Out
Clean-Up Campaign Will
Get Underway On Monday;
Community-Wide Project
being
Preparations Being
Rushed For Summer
Season Opening
June 1
Workmen are pushing to com
pletion, the paving of several
streets at Lake Junaluska ana win
have the project completed within
a week.
A new road has been built from
the new highway to the Terrace
hotel, and is being paved with as
phalt. The driveway up to the
Terrace hotel is also being pavea,
as is the driveway to Mission inn.
Another Lake road, known as Car
olina road, which runs from the
auditorium to the county road is
also being paved.
Dr. Frank S. Love, superiuienu-
ent. also announced that $2,200 had
just been spent on the bridge over
the dam. The bridge was re-floored
and many Improvement made. A
new coat of paint will De aaaea
soon.
Traffic across the bridge will
continue to be confined to passen
ger cars and all trucks must go
the back way, It was announced.
The Lake will maintain two en
trances this season. The one at
the dam, and the other near the
Junaluska school, on the new high
way.
Junaluska Given
Modern Organ For
The Auditorium,
The auditorium at Lake Juna
luska will have a new Hammond
orgten installed before the sea
son opens on June 1, according
to Dr. Frank S. Love, superin
tendent. Dr. Love announced yesterday
that the organ was a sift from
J. B. Ivey and If. A. Dunham.
Mr. Ivey has a summer home at
the lake and spends most of the.
summer and early tall here. He
grows hundreds of dahlias In his
large garden at the Lake.
Mr. Dunham, of Asheville, has
taken an active interest in the
affairs of the Methodist church
aud its schools. He recently
gave an endowment of $100,000
to Brevard college.
Reed Opens Display
RoomTor Goods
Jimmy Reed, owner of Reed
Paper Products Co., has opened a
showroom in the Ferguson Build
ing on Main Street, and is show
ing supplies and equipment for
hotels, restaurants and Institutions.
Mr. Reed is a wholesaler and
jobber of a large line of merchand
ise, including furniture.
Extra Men Will Be
Put On To Collect
Trash In Waynesville
Hazelwood. An intensive Clean Up campaign
will be inaugurated Monday In
Wnvnesville and Hazelwood. to lid
i homes and business places of rub
j bish and help promote painting, re
pairs and beautification in all sec
! tious of the communities.
I The campaign is jointly spon-
sored by the two Towns as a meas
' ure of improving health and safety
i conditions, and stimulating civic
: pride in making the home and city
i beautiful before the opening of the
summer season. Officials ask all
citizens lo clean up now, and keep
, their goal and enthusiasm on a
I permanent basis.
' Dxtra trips are lieim: arranged
i by trucks to bun! all I rash and
j
NOTICK
An advertisement on pae 1 of
Section Three states that the open
ing day of C'ean I'm week is June
,2m, whereas it should read M Ay
: 26. '
Youth Club
Receives Chairs,
Woman's Club
The Waynesville Woman's club
has recently made a gift of six
chairs and a bench to the Commu
nity Youth club, according V Mrs.
James W. Killlan, chairman of the
Youth club committee of the or
ganization. The furniture has been placed in
the club rooms on Main street and
is being greatly enjoyed by the
members.
There are a number of articles
yet needed for the rooms and any
one wishing to make a donation to
this worthy cause Is asked to get
in touch with Mrs. Tsvlglou, man
ager of the club.
WHILE Tin Pan Alley's most lumous
sons and daughteis turned out to
celebrate his .r9tli birthday. Irving
Berlin, internationally popular
composer, blows out the candle
atop liis cake duiinK a PM'ly "
New YorR Asked Ins aye. Heihn
said: "Just 4,ri." ( lntermtttKiiol)
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of De
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Officers Make Heavy
Haul In Liquor Raid
Last Rites For
Mrs. Chas, Thomas
Held Today
Funeral services wil! be conduct
ed this morning at St. Matthews
Episcopal church in Hillsbnro, for
Mrs. Charles R. Thomas, prominent
Waynesville resident, who died al
the Haywood County hospital on
Wednesday afternoon at 5:45, fol
lowing a lengthy illness The Rev.
Masterton. rector, will officiate.
Burial will be in the family plot
of the church cemetery.
Thnrnx uae the former Miss
Mary Cain Ruffin. daughter of are asked to make a special ettori
Judge and Mrs. Thomas Ruffin of jto clean their basements thorough
Hillsboro. her father having been , ly. paying particular attention lo
one of the state's most eminent I any trash that would be a fire haz
judges of the Supreme Court. She aid.
... n.iri si si Marv's Junior I Owners of vacant lots are urged
college Raleigh. lo have them cleared of weeds and
She was first married lo Thomas, other trash. It is pointed out that
Hill of Hillsboro. A son. Thomas ! weeds make a home for nuisance
Hill .Tr Hied in New York in 1937. I insects
garbage during the week until
the campaign closes on Saturday,
I May 31.
! Persons who collect rubbish and
want a special trip made to haul it
away are invited to telephone the
town hall in their respective coin-
; munity.
; It is requested that where pos
sible the trash be placed in cans,
i boxes or other containers in order
! to he more easily collected.
' Employees of business concerns
AAA, Grand Jury
And Health Dept.
Get New Quarters
Three changes went into ef
fect this week in the use of of
fices at the Haywood county
courthouse, authorized by the
board of commissioners at their
meeting Monday.
The Agricultural Adjustment
Administration (AAAl moved
from its office In the court
house basement to the Grand
Jury Room, in the front part of
the building on the second
floor.
The District Health Depart
ment, which has been occupy
ing the commissioners' quar
ters on the main floor, moved
to the space formerly used by
the AAA, In the basement.
The Grand Jury Room, in the
future, will be in the small
courtroom on the third floor.
This formerly was used by the
draft board, whose office was
officially closed May 15.
After dodging revenue officers
for the past five years, who have
constantly been on his trail, while
he operated stills in all sections of
Haywood county, moving from one
isolated spot to another, Dennis
Smith, with six charges of viola
tion of the prohibition law against
him, was arrested Monday after
noon around 4 o'clock by Revenue
Officer Roy Reece and Deputies
Wade McDaniel and Alney Mehaf
fey. The arrest was made at the stilK
which was going in full operation
at the time, located about two miles
off the main highway on the Soco
Gap road, a little south, on a knoll
in a dense thicket of rhododen
dron. , .
OperatinB the outfit with Smith
'was Lonzo McGaha. Both men at
the sight of the officers, started to
run, but were caught a short dis
tance from the still, the dense
growth which had been their pro
tection, in the end turning them
over to the law enforcement of
ficers. The still was a 50-gallon outfit,
with 240 gallons of mash, ready to
run, and one run was found ready
to cap.
In a preliminary hearing Tues
day afternoon before. Magistrate
W. H. Noland, both men were
bound over to the United States
Federal Court for trial in Ashe
ville. ...
McGaha's bond was set at $1,000
which he met and is now out, while
Smith, whose bond was set at $5,
000 is still confined in the county
jail.
Some years after the death of
the first husband, she was married
fo Congressman Charles R. Thom
as, of New Bern. For many years
she and her husband resided in
New Bern and Washington during
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Home owners will find Clean Up
week a good occasion to compete
with their neighbors in trimming
lawns and shrubbery, cleaning win
dows and woodwork, and making
other general improvements about
their places.
The Mountaineer Marks
End Of First Year As A
Semi-Weekly Newspaper
This issue marks the anniversary
of the first 'year during which The
Waynesville Mountaineer has been
published as a semi-weekly.
Prior to last May The Mountain
eer was published each Thursday.
Then following several months of
planning and preparations, the first
Tuesday edition rolled off the press
on May 21, 1947: volume number
42 of the newspaper's 61st year.
The publication days since that
time have been each Tuesday and
Friday. By May 20. 1947. the dead
line had been met 104 times dur
ing the 52 weeks.
A total of 1,314 pages were
printed, averaging 12.6 pages each
edition, recording the history of
Haywood county and notable events
of the world outside.
Road Signs
Will Be Put
Up By First
Four Modern Signs
Bought By Chamber
Of Commerce To
Direct Motorists
The modern highway signs re
ccntly bought by (he Chamber of
Commerce are scheduled to be
ow.i.irrl iwxl week, according to
information leeched from the
builder this week.
The contract calls for four signs.
with the lettering in Scotchlite
paint, thai can easily be read at.
night as the letters will reflect
light. All four "f the signs will
be at the two intersections at
Lake Junaluska Two of the signs
will be small. Mid serve as a warn
ing of the luni-off ahead, and the
two large signs ill be at the road
intersections pointing to Waynes
ville. Tentative plans are to also erect
a similar sign al Brevard, pointing
to Highway No. i'7fi across Pisgah.
The contracts cover maintenance
for a period of three years.
Gmhb To Take Up
Duties In Orangeburg
C. B. Grnhh leaves Saturday for
Orangeburg, where be will be con
nected with the Belk-Hudson store.
For the past several months he lias
been floor mangaer of the second
floor of the firm here.
II. II. Mills-, who has been with
I he firm many years, is being
transferred In the second floor.
J. C. Jennings is manager of the
store.
Women Invited
To Attend Salad
Demonstration
Miss Virginia Wilson, nutrition
ist of the North Carolina State Ex
tension Service will give a demon
ut ration of salads, congealed and
other types in the dining room of
Long s Chapel Methodist churcn.
Lake Junaluska, this afternoon at
2 o'clock, according to an announcement-by
Mi8 Mary Margaret
Smith, home-gent,'
All the women of the county are
invited to attend though the dem
onstration is being given for the
members of the home demonstra
tion clubs in the county.
Local Artist
First Place Art
Exhibition
First place in the exhibition of
I pictures in the spring festival of
the Asheville Artists Guild, v hich
was held In the Morrison furniture
store on Merriraon avenue, Wed
nesday went to Mrs. Irene W. Mc
Cullum, of Waynesville
The winning picture by the Way
nesville artist was "The New Eng
land Hunter." Mrs. McCullum tied
for first place with Frederick Wit-
on, but in the end the judges voted
in favor of the former.
The exhibitions will remain opm
until May 28.
Group Ask Money For
Becreation In Town
Hyatt Opens Market
On Plott Creek Road
Billy Hyatt has opened Hyatt'.-,
Market at the intersection of the
Plott Creek and Sulphur Springs
Road. He will handle a general
line of groceries, produce, vege
tables and meats. He wiU handle
these both retail and wholesale.
A large cold storage in'.it has
been completed and put into operation.
Dr. J. R. McCracken On
Masonic Program Friday
Dr. J. R. McLvacken wil! have a
prominent part of the program of
the Scottish Rite reunion in Ashe-
! ville tonight, as he confers the 32nd
degree on several candidates.
Dr. McCracken is the immediate
past Grand Master of the Grand
Masters of North Carolina.
Should the town of Waynesville) Mr. Weatherby stated that the
allot the revenue from parking me-j idea of using parking meter funds
o nmirroveiv recreational 1 to support recreational facilities
program, rather than put this new J and such allied activities as the!
income i-n the town's general fund? high school band was not original, j
This is a question that has arisen but is the practice of Brevard, Hen
fr,.m h. announcement that the i dersonville, Asheville and other.
town officals had last week signed
a contract to install 125 parking
meters on Main and Depot streets
within the next month.
The question has been put to nu
merous merchants and other citi
zens during the past week, has
come to the consideration of the
aldermen, and was discussed with
an enthusiastic group of listeners
at a meeting of the Waynesville
Hazelwood Softball League by C.
E. Weatherby, principal and ath
letic director at Waynesville Town
ship high school.
communities.
By earmarking the parking me- j
ter nickles for a definite purpose,
popular with the public, those who
use them will know the money is
going to a good cause and not re- j
sent the meters, lie added.
"This community is definitely
behind in its recreational facilities.
There are several things we need,
but I doubt if the taxpayers would
support any increase in taxes to
provide them. By alloting the in
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a
Highway
Record For 1947
In Haywood
(To Date)
Killed - - 2
Injured -17
(Thia Information Compiled
From Records of Stale High
way Patrol)