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Published Tuice-a-Week In The County Seal Of Haywood County At The Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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No. 50 TWELVE PAGES Associated Press News
WAYNESVILLE, N. C. TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1947
93.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties
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Shp and her late hus-
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llrs.J. Harden Howell.
ln to Hendersonville
lib visit with a triena
liming to Waynesville
of the accident.
lixl had died in Febru-
fas as is known here
klose relatives.
was prepared hy the
H home in Canton for
St Petersburg, Fla.,
services and burial,
nil arrangements in-
The Mountaineer went
Iterday afternoon.
Eagle Reported
jal Condition
Lie, 0, of Hazelwood,
K Monday afternoon in
icd Condition at the
bounty hospital, where
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put from an automobile
110:40 1. m. Saturday on
23 near the RatclifT
Intersection.
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investigated the ac
le, a Navy veteran, was
f Dodge panel truck,
pl during a heavy rain,
ling the curve beyond
hill it appeared that
started sliding, turned
Bit a tree alone the
lit knocked the truck
;heels, crashing in the
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Week of
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jn Dies In Auto
In Railroad Cut;
Hurl In Wreck Here
Hurt In Wreck
GILMER CAGLE, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Glen Cagle of Hazelwood, was
seriously injured in a wreck Sat
urday morning east of Waynes
ville when the laundry truck he
was driving spilled over on the
road during a downpour. The pic
ture above was taken when he
served in the Navy.
Lions Will Have
Ladies Night
Meeting Thursday
President Davis
Reviews Activities
Of Club During Past
Year
Ladies night will be observed by
the Waynesville Lions club this
week, the dinner meeting to begin
at 7:30 p. m. Thursday in the Cher
okee Inn, Lake Junaluska.
All members who plan to bring
guests other than their wives, or
who will be unable to attend, are
requested to notify President Joe
Davis Immediately. Installation of
officers for next year will be con
ducted at the meeting, and the dis
trict Lions' governor has been in
vited as special guest.
At the regular meeting last week.
in I'atncks Lateteria, me outgo
ing president reviewed activities of
the club since he was placed in of
fice last July.
Highlights of the year's activities,
President Davis related, were the
annual Christmas Cheer drive,
when the club raised most of the
$1,425 it spent to outfit underpriv
ileged school children with some of
the clothing they needed, and the
five minstrel performances, when
approximately $1,200 was taken in
for the school lunch program bene
fit.
Work to assist the blind was car
ried on regularly, including the ex
amination and fitting of glasses for
many children: paying part of the
salary of the blind welfare wrxker.
and buying household itemsTfor
families in distress. The club
sponsored a drive calling attention
to the need of expanding the Hay
wood County hospital, bought a
guernsey calf to be raised by an
outstanding 4-H club boy, and an
other calf at the district livestock
show; donated six uniforms to the
high school band and financed the
band's trip to an out-of-town foot
ball game.
Several other activities were
mentioned, and others have been
carried out that were not reported,
(Continued on Page Six)
Haywood Can Pay 29 P. C.
On Hospital
If Haywood county adopt? a 1 os
pital expansion program under the
state-aid bill passed by the 1947
legislature, the county will pay
29.6 per cent of the cost, accord
ing to a plan announced Saturday
by Dr. John A. Farrell. executive
secretary of the Medical Care com
mission, at Raleigh.
State funds would pay 37.1 per
cent, and federal aid if provided
by congress under the Hill-Burton
act would take care of the re
maining 33.3 per cent of cost in
Haywood.
The medical care commission
based its schedule of state aid to
the counties upon per capita indi
vidual state Income tax paid in
the ixlyer period 1939-1944, Dr.
Ferrell said. Wealthier counties
Taft-Hartley
Labor Bill
Passes Over
Truman Veto
Senate Gives Measure
Two-Thirds Majority
In Monday
Voting
WASHINGTON (Pi The Taft
Hartley labor bill was enacted into
law Monday afternoon as the Sen
ate voted 60 to 25 to override
President Truman's veto, follow
ing the lead taken Friday by the
Hoiibe.
The House voted 331 to 83 to re
ject Mr. Truman's decision that
the bill was a threat to American
democracy.
L'uder the new law, the most
sweeping yet of restraints on labor
unions in the history ot the country
will go into effect, the biggest mlle-
ston in labor legislation since the
Wagner Act.
Supporters of the new law
claimed it was needed to eliminate
inequalities created by the Wagner
Act, which was intended to en
courage union organization and col
lective bargaining. It will outlaw
the closed shop and put tight re
strictions around the union shop,
make unions subject to charges of
unfair labor practices and to suits
for damages, forbid jurisdictional
strikes and secondary boycotts and
allow the government to gel 80
day injunctions against strikes en
dangering national health and
safety.
A filibuster was carried out on
Saturday by opponents of the bill,
preventing a senate vote until
Monday. Senator Taft, co-author
of the legislation, appealed to the
public over the radio and directly
to the Senate yesterday, leading the
heated debate in favor of the law.
Veteran Trade
School Meeting
Set For July 26
Veterans who have signed for,
or desire to enroll in carpentry
and masonry training are requested
to attend a meeting at 11 a. m.
Thursday at the FFA hut on the
grounds of the Waynesville Town
ship high school.
Jack Messer, superintendent of
education, reports that the meet
ing is being held to set hours for
the two training courses, decide on
the opening date, and sec how
many students will start with the
classes.
Tentative plans are to hold one
course in the morning arid the oth
er during the afternoons, each con
sisting of 25 hours per week. Stu
dent expenses are covered by the
GI bill. All interested veterans
are urged to attend Thursday's
meeting.
Opening Oi Art
Gallery Set For
Wednesday Night
Inspection of the Waynesville
Art Gallery will be held here on
Wednesday and Thursday nights,
with the first sale to be held on
Friday, according to an announce
ment "by James Mann, owner.
The firm is in their new and
large building on Main street. The
building was complete just this
past week and was built specially
for the auction concern.
The building affords much more
space than the site occupied for the
14 seasons the firm has been oper
ating here.
No sales will be made on Wed
nesday or Thursday nights.
Expansion
will receive less, in some instances
only 10 per cent, from me muc.
while those with the lowest in
comes would received 50 per cent
of hospital construction costs from
the state and one-third from the
federal government.
According to a press report from
Washington, the bill providing
funds for activation of the federal
aid program is still pending in the
senate-house conference commit
tee, which action being delayed due
to the controversal labor bill.
Once money Is provided by the
national government, it will open
the way for counties to secure
both federal and state funds for
hospital construction by providing
their own part of the cost of an
acceptable expansion program
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GOES TO TRIAL ON
EXPRESSING CONFIDENCE that she can prove her innocence, Mrs. Bertha
Surprise Cote (left), guarded by a police matron, enters the Superior
Court at Plymouth, Mass., to ace charge of murdering hei husband.
When Cote was slain last December, Mrs. Cote hysterically called in
neighbors, and later was held tor the crime. (International Soundohoto)
Congressional Committee
To Spend Thursday And
Friday Inspecting Park
Fines Creek And
Crabtree Schools
To Orien July 30
Schools in the Fines Creek
and Crabtrce-lron Duff districts
will open on Wednesday. Jutv
30, and "in all probability"
schools in the other Haywood
districts will begin Thursday.
August 28, Jack Mosscr, superin
tendent of education, announced
yesterday.
Board Accepts
Bid For Lunchroom
At Morning Star
A bid of $22,993. submitted by
Jerry Liner of Lake Junaluska, was
accented for the construction of a
lunch room at the Morning Star
school at a meeting Friday of the
Haywood county board of commis
sioners and 'he tru tcr; nf the
Canton graded srlmnl fi?tiict.
Ten firms in all Mihinitted liid.
of which the lowest fixed bid was
accepted
Other bids were from Merchant
Construction rompanv. $25,000 or
cost plir- 8 per rent; I'nrtev Mc
Clurc. $26,400. ens' Plus 5 per cent,
or cost plus $5.MK; Jackson lop
and Lumber company. $23,000,
cost plus 10 per rent, or cost plus
$2,000: Haywood Company. $25,500,
cost plus 7' 2 per cent, or cost plus
$2,200; Rogers Flectrie company,
for wiring, $0K7 50: Hyatt Brothers
for plumbing and heating. $2,075;
Floyd Miller, for plumbing ano
heating. $1,605; Young and Brook
shire, for plumbing! and heating.
$2,000. .
Union Services Will Be
Held For Hayvood-Wide
Fourth Of July Event
Community wide union services
will be held at the high school sta
dium Sunday night, as the begin
ning of a week's observance of the
Fourth of July here. The event is
being sponsored by the Hazelwood
Boosters Club.---
The Ministerial Association will
be in charge of the program and
yesterday announced the detailed
program for the occasion. In the
event of rain the program will be
given in the auditorium of the high
school.
Rev. M. L. Lewis, pastor of the
Hazelwood Baptist church will
preach, using as his sermon sub
ject, "Man's Greatest Need."
MURDER CHARGE
Rep. Monroe Redden
, Bringing Committee,
, From House To See
Park Area
Rep. Monroe M. Redden of the
12th district, told The Mountaineer
yesterday of plans for members of
the House Public Lands roinmittoc
to inspect the Great Smoky Moun
tains National Park on Thursday
and Friday of this week. Rep.
Redden is a member of the com
mittee and will accompany the oth
er five members here by plane,
landing fit the Asheville- Hender
sonville airport about 11 o'clock on
Thursday morning.
From the airport the group will
motor to the Long Shoals farm, 8
miles south of Hendersonville. for
luncheon. Invited to the luncheon
will be city and town officials from
Haywood, Buncombe. Henderson
and Transylvania counties, together
with the members of the North
Carolina Park. Forestry and Park
way Development Commission, just
recently named by Governor Cher
ry. The luncheon will start promptly
at noon, as members of the com
iContinued on Page Six)
Does Anyone Have Few
Ramps On Storage?
Lowlands Carolinians still
are inquisitive about ramps
since the enlightening ex
change of information between
Carl Goerch's State magazine
and The Mountaineer. Last
week another request for a few
ramps arrived, from Durham.
The letter came too late to
get results, however, for ramps
now are out of season.
Rev. S R. Crockett, pastor of
the Hazelwood Presbyterian church
will be actively in charge of the
program.
Music for the occasion will be
furnished by the high school band
under the direction of Charles Is
ley. In addition to the band, sev
eral vocal selections have been ar
ranged. The program will mark the be-
einnins of the full week celebra
linn which will feature an old-
fashioned singing contest on Thurs
day night, a full day's program on
Friday, July fourth, and several
athletic events on Saturday, July
fifth.
Merchants Favor Organizing
Credit Association In Community
Auction Of
Gems Issue
Tabled By
Merchants
Merchants Association
Hears Representatives
Present Strong
Pleas
The Merchants Association voted
Friday night to table the request
that the organization endorse a
plan which would urge the town
board of aldermen to pass an ordi
nance stopping jewelry auction
sales in Waynesville.
The group heard representatives
of both sides of the question pre
sent strong pleas.
James Harden Howell, Jr., at
torney representing the group
wanting the ordinance passed, said
he was acting in the interest of
the public, and termed such auc
tion sales as illegal. The proposal
would be to make the license for
such sales $25 per day, plus one
per cent of the gross sales, and
no sale would be permitted to be
held between 5 o'clock in the after
noon and nine o'clock in the morn
ing. He pointed out that a large
number of places had ordinances
prohibiting jewelry auction sales.
Mr. Howell had a petition which
he said contained the names of
some thirty people, and that more
would be added. He said the peti
tion would be presented to the
town board later.
W. Roy Francis, attorney for the
firms now oMrting such sales ln
the town told the group: "There is
nothing wrong with the sales. The
state has laws which protect the
buyers. Each firm has to post $5,
000 bond with the state before he
can operate. This bond is in ad
dition to the $400 town license and
$200 state license.
"Waynesville jewelers don't lose
$50 a year business to the auction
business. Besides that, the local
people are not the customers of the
auction sales. The sales provide
entertainment, and every item of
fered is exhibited to the customers,
and carefully examined by them.
The auction people pay more taxes
than all other jewelry stores com
bined. "There is not any fraud on the
sales, and if there were, there is a
$5,000 bond posted with the state
to cover such instances, should they
occur.
"An ordinance, such ai proposed,
is unconstitutional," Mr. Francis
continued.
R. P. Hess, ow ner of one of the
sales, told the group that as a re
tail jeweler last year, he knew for
a fact that the auction sales helped
his business rather than hurt. "The
sales created interest in our goods,
and people came in and bought.
Ninety-five per cent of the patrons
of the sales are from out-of-town."
No date has been set for formal
presentation of the matter before
the board of aldermen.
Refrigerator Destroyed
In Fire Sunday Evening
Fire in the home of Finnie L.
Timbes, Meadow St., reported to the
local fire department about 6:50
p. m. Sunday, caused the loss of
their electric refrigerator. Only
minor damage was caused else
where in the kitchen.
The blaze started In the refriger
ator's engine, reports Fire Chief
Clem Fitzgerald. The loss was cov
ered by insurance.
Date Announced For '47
Federation Picnic Here
The annual Farmers Federation
picnic for Haywood county will be
held Saturday, August 16, in East
Waynesville, it is announced by
James G. K. McCIure, president.
Sixteen picnics will be held this
summer in each county that has
one or more federation warehouses.
Max Roberts, educational direc
tor, who has made plans and set
dates in cooperation with the coun
ty committees, said that the out
ings will be all-day affairs, with
music by local singers and musi
cians as the outstanding attraction.
"AU fiddlers, guitar pickers, sing
ers, and other musicians and musi
cal groups are Invited to participate
on the program," Mr. Roberts said.
"Quartets and choirs are invited to
Sewer Line Gets
Stopped With
Strange Objects
What clogs up sewer lines''
Last week employees of the
town went into Waynesvllle's
sewage line, u short distance
above Lake Junaluska and
found among other things a
dead bulldog. A few weeks
back a large trash can was tak
en out of the line. Much gravel
and other trash accumulates in
the 17 to 24-Inch pipe, and the
fire hose wa turned into the
line to wash it out last week
In the place inspected
G. (. Ferguson, town man
ager, reports that workers will
clean the line out at another
spot today, and should have it
back in good shape. Recently
there were occasions when the
manholes overflowed because
the line couldn't carry the
"traffic," with such items as
dead dogs and big cans causing
the line to jam.
Haywood Boy
And Girl To
Enter 4-H
Health Test
Peggy Noland and
L. J. Cannon, Jr.,
Selected To Enter
District Contest
Peggy Noland. daughter of Mr,
and Mrs. I). Reeves Noland of
Waynesville, and L. J. Cannon, Jr.,
of Canton will represent Haywood
county at the western district 4-H
club health rontest, Wednesday at
2 p. m. in the Buncombe county
health department, it was an
rtounced by Bill Robinson, assist
ant farm ageln.
The contest is designed to pro
mote more interest in health among
all 4-11 club members and is spon
sored each year by the N. C. ex
tension service. Winners of the dis
trict contests will be entered in the
state contest at Raleigh later in
the summer, during which a king
and cmeen of health will be chosen
and sent to the national 4-H club
congress.
Judges for the 19-county west
ern district contest will be Dr. H.
C. Whims. Buncombe county health
officer; Dr. Wtlliam F. Powell, eye.
ear, nose and throat specialist; and
Dr. Clyde Whisnant, Burnsville
dentist.
The Haywood county representa
tives were selected from a county-
wide elimination conducted by the
district health department.
Membership Drive
For Chamber Of
Commerce Starts
Eleven teams were assigned ter
ritories Monday morning as the
final step towards ending the an
nual membership drive for the
Chamber of Commerce.
The drive is being beaded by
M. D. Watkins, chairman of the fi
nance committee. C. J. Reese is
president.
No reports were complete at noon
yesterday, but the committee was
determined to complete the cam
paign by sometime today.
sing and prizes will be awarded to
the winning groups."
He added that, for the first time
in several years, the lemonade will
be made with real sugar. Free lem
onade and watermelon is served,
but those attending are expected
to bring basket lunches or patron
ize the school or church organiza
tions which sell lunches and sand
wiches at each picnic.
Various federation officials will
be present, and all county agents,
home agents, agriculture teachers,
and others who take the lead in
farm work, Mr. Roberts said. Many
of them will give reports, but all
speeches will be short, in order
that most of the time can be given
(Continued on Page Six)
Committee Named
To Work Out Plans
For Protective Credit
Union
So much interest was shown in
a local credit bureau, that the
Merchants Association here Friday
night went on record approving the
general outline of the plan and in
structed a committee to proceed
with plans and get detailed costs
immediately.
Besides the credit bureau, the
merchants set up a special commit
tee to formally check all advertis
ing plans and give approval before
solicitors start making a canvass.
The matter came before the meet
ing after several merchants had
reported a number of "schemes"
were being attempted by out-of-town
solicitors.
David f'elmet, president, presid
ed at the meeting and a report on
the proposed credit bureau v as
made by Charles D. Ketner, who
recently studied the operation of a
bureau in other cities. "The plan
works well in the places investi
gated, and the members save thou
sands of dollars a year by getting
the information before extending
credit to those who have a reputa
tion for not paying their bills
promptly," Mr. Ketner said
"The bureau would also aid in
stopping bad checks, as the record
would show this on the report of
any person guilty," Mr. Ketner con
tinued. The committee named to make
a further study of the plan is com
posed of Mr. Ketner, David Fel
met and W. Hugh Massie.
The group voted to close all day
the Fourth of July and to put out.
flags and decorate their places of
business for the parade.
The committee named to not on
advertising is made up of Richard
Bradley, Felix Stovall, David un
derwood and R. P. Hess.
A special merchandising commit
tee to plan sales events such as
dollar days, is composed of Charles
Ray, E. H. Balentine and J. Cecil
Jennings.
The committee to act on closing
hours and holidays to be observed
by the merchants is made up of
Francis Massie, C. M. Allen. Har
vey Dulan. J. C. Galusha. William
Ray and Roy Parkman
Miss S. A. Jones is lecrptnry of
the group and the meeting was he'd
in the Pine Boom of Patrick's Caf
eteria. Fox Hunters
Make Plans
For Showing
Two-County Meeting
Here On Saturday;
Hunting Laws Ate
Discussed
About 40 members of the Ha: -woood-Jackson
Fox Hunters Asso
ciation met here Saturday after
noon and completed plans lor ; he
annual show to be held here in Au
gust. J. W. Killian, president of the
organization, said yesterday that
the publicity and executive com
mittee of the association Jould
meet Thursday night at the laun
dry and map out plans for the last
minute details of the show
The association has 160 members.
The group discussed fox hunting
laws, which have not been changed
for this county since 1913 There
is not any closed season on hunt
ing foxes. The law prohibits
smoking out. digging out or shoot
ing in front of a dog. The law.
however, gives a property owner
the right to kill a fox that is mo
lesting property.
Highway
Record For 1947
In Haywood
(Te Date)
Killed - 3
Injured - 23
(This Information Compiled
From Records i State Hich-