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WAYNESVILLE, N. C, FRIDAY. AUGUST 22, 1947
hUR No767 SIXTEEN PAGES
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At
rj Atteridence
ted Saturday
inters Doff Show
five states are expected to compete in the 10
.... ,1 f r tVio eior n f antiiml Hau.
betition annuujn.cu .v. ...v. j
County Fox Hound snow, in wnicn judging
I o'clock Saturday morning at the East Waynes-
bunds. . ,
FnY Hnntprs association
the sponsors deciaea to iransier uie snuw num
the East Waynesville school to take advan-
a( (he latter
president oi me
U btvera! hun-
from Mrginia,
pa, iwui
jrolina to attend.
Icial entry list is
ch class, a large
dogs will be
fiow.
of Knoxville,
She judge. Tro-
Lj ribbons will be
best dogs in all
:ontinue from 10
at which time a
ich is being pro-
bin at 1 p. m.
of hounds is as
under one year
derby male un-
derby female un-
all age male, best
1st pair, best pack,
iage. best hound
W of opposite sex,
tund in Haywood
lies.
165 members of
on Fox Hunters
Recent
sessions
ins were tried in
tnday and Friday,
re charged wltb
Im Arrlngton, a
ler, was given 94
while the others
paying costs. Two
pund guilty of be
ll an affray, were
ris.
You'd Smile Too
War Of
nts
Mr
Club meets at
House.
pouse, Arthur
Park natural
Junaluska, Or-
rttal and musical
a by Junaluska
is.
Ml Tannery vt
Ml Guard.
pRDAy
Hound Bench
Et Waynesville
;i "Jane Eyre."
IDAY
Rev. Parris
Named Head
Of Baptist
Association
62nd Annual County
Meeting Concludes
Wednesday At Rat-
cliff Cove Church
Rev. T. H. Parris, pastor of the
Clyde Baptist church, was elected
moderator of the Haywood County
Baptist association during the 02nd
annual two-day session which con
cluded Wednesday afternoon. He
will succeed Rev. Doyle Miller in
directing associational activities
for the coming 12 months.
Gay Chamber of Rt. 2, Canton,
was elected vice-moderator, Mrs.
Sam Knight of Hazelwood was re
owtori rWk. Mrs. Gladys Henson
I Of Tit. 2, Canton Is treasurer, fctid
J. H. Morgan of waynesville is
historian.
James Chapman cu Canton was
named county superintendent, Har
ry Mashburn. Rt. 2, Waynesville,
director of Training Unions; Ho-
bard Carter, Canton, choirister;
Neal Cable, Canton. Brotherhood
president; and Mrs. John Blalock,
Hazelwood, superintendent of wo
men's work.
Npxt vear's associational meet
ing will be held in the Hazelwood
church during the first day, and at
the First Baptist church in Waynes
ville during the second day. Rev.
Edgar Stephens, pastor of Calvary
church, will deliver the annual ser
mon and Rev. M. L. Lewis, Hazel
wood pastor, will preach the doc
trinal sermon.
Forty-five of the 46 churches in
Haywood were represented in the
meetings, held Tuesday in the
Rocky Branch and Clyde churches,
and Wednesday at Ratcliff Cove.
Among the distinguished visitors
who attended were Dr. P. L. Elliott.
president of Gardner-Webb col
lege; Dr. Saukey Blanton of Wake
Forest college; W. F. McGee, rep
resenting the Baptist Hospital at
Winston-Salem; Prof. H. K. Ken
dall of Mars Hill college; Western
Reed, representing the Baptist Or
phanage; and R. M. Hans, a leader
in the Christian Temperance Movement.
wl i f
TupuDDi) EKdhiaiDoge
EDDY SUTTON, youngest soft
ball player in Hoi) Sutton's fiimily
and mascot of tne team, flashes a
big Milile as I he cameraman snap:;
him holding (irmly to the trophy
won in the WNC Invitational Soil
ball tournament at Brevard. A
picture of the team is on the spoils
page. (Photo by John Andersoni.
Four Women
On Jury List
For Coming
Civil Court
'Commissioners Draw
Jurors For September
15 Court At Meeting
Monday
Four women were drawn on the
first and second week jury lists for
the September civil term of Supe
rior Court at the meeting Monday
of the Haywood county Board of
Commissioners, the first women
made eligible for lury duty here
since the passage of the state con
stitutional amendment to that ef
fect during (lie general election
last November.
Mrs. Bonner Ray and Virginia
Wilson, of Waynesville township,
were among the 24 names drawn
for the first week of court; and
Mrs. Jennie R. Breece. Waynes
ville. and Mrs Mary Rhodarmer,
Beaverdam, were in the group of
18 drawn for the second week
The civil term will open on Mon-
( Continued on Page Eight)
f services at all
ps; Lake Juna-
w. A. W. H.w.
M services; Lake
Ma, church serv-
"DAY
Junaluska, Ad
A. W. Hewitt.
Junaluska, ad
r. Robert F
path.
F Report
F Mountaineer ,.,
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lost 2i
No. 1 Rotarian To
Be Guest Of Club
At One Here Today
S. Kendrlck Guernsey, president
of Rotary International, will be
the speaker at the Rotary Club to
day at one o'clock.
This is the first time the Waynes-
Cannery To Be
Open Only Tues.
Of Next Week
John Nesbitt, general manager
of the community rannery an
nounced yesterday that the can
nery would be open only on Tues
day next week, due to the opening
of school.
Normal operations of three days
500 Tobacco Farmers
Saw Demonstrations At
Test Farm Yesterday
A group of North Carolina s leading authorities on bur
ley tobacco met with some 500 Haywood growers Thursday
at the State Test Farm near here and discussed every phase
of tobacco from planting to selling.
The annual tobacco field day was a success from every
standpoint, and according to W. Kerr Scott, North Carolina
Commissioner of Agriculture, "the fanners here today certain
ly arc interested in learning more about hurley and the
- - Turkish type being grown here on
2 Teacher
Vacancies i
For Schools
In Haywood
Superintendents An
nounce Faculty As
signments For Schools
Opening Wednesday
Teachers for the Haywood coun
ty schools that will open Wednes
day morning were announced this
week with one vacancy listed for
the Waynesvtlte district tmd on
at Cruso.
The Dellwood school, which has
been operated by one teacher in
the past, will not be open this fall.
Students of that area will be taken
to Lake Junaluska on special bus
No. 17.
Faculty members of Waynesville
district schools, as assigned by
Supt. M. H. Bowles, are:
High School C. E. weatneroy,
principal, Mrs. Johnnie I.. Kellett
(business, math, Latini, Margaret
Terrell (Bible. English). Mrs. Ethel
Craig Sloan (commercial I, Alta
Louise Ponder (Librariani, Mrs.
Lucy K. Tale Jones (math), Mrs.
Grace A. Stanley (science), Mary
Helen Elmore (science). Carl R.
Ratcliffe (phys, ed.. soe. sci.. John
Dudley Moore (matin. Hazel Fran
cis Wright (history', Charles Frazier
(English!. Harriet! Ellen Phoenix.
(English), Charles Isley. Jr. (mu
sic), Margaret Chambers (Span
ish). Alma Mae Jackson (English,
modern problems), Marjorie A. Mc
Manus (home ed, Owen Corwin
(ind. shop), John 11. Nesbitt (Agri
culture). Junior HighHarriett Boyd (so
cial studies), Grace Dean Leather
wood (arithmetic), Margaret Perry
(Phys. Ed).TVlrs. Inez Cloud Brooks,
(art), Nancy Louise Killian (music
health). Mrs. Ova Patterson Fer
(Continued on Page Eight i
Pepper Amazed At Beauty
In Smoky Mtn. Park Area
the farm Such a large gathering
is certainly an inspiration."
The morning session of the pro
gram was devoted to discussions by
hurley experts and in the afternoon
the farmers were shown field dem
onstrations, including cutting,
stringing and priming and test
plots.
The group showed a lot of in
terest in the Turkish tobacco which
was strung on sticks and curing
in the sun. in front of a specially
built barn.
The addresses were made inside
Ihe large and modern hurley to
bacco barn, which was completed
late in 1945.
H. R. Clapp, assistant director
in charge of the farm, acted as mas
ter of ceremonies and the address
of welcome was made by Commis
sioner Scott, who pointed out the
need for farmers to take advantage
of the experiment station and the
work that was being carried on for
the iurtbr development of agrt
CBfuire" """ "'
Dr. W. E. Caldwell, professor of
agronomy at State College made a
brief talk on the burley crops, and
was followed by II. R. Bennett, ex
tension tobacco specialist, also of
Slate College. Mr. Bennett said
that many sections of Haywood had
better burley crops than last year,
hut the general lack of rain would
mean a lighter crop. "Some rain
now would help, and delay ripen
ing too fast at the bottoms of the
(.Other Pictures on rage
SENATOR CLAUDE PEPPER of Florida is photo
graphed above with his mother, Mrs. J. W. Pepper (center)
and aunt, Mrs. Eunice McClendon, on the lawn of their va
cation home, Seven Oaks. The natural beauty of the moun
tains in the Great Smokies area more than lives up to its
reputation, they state.
(A Mountaineer photo by Ingram's Studio).
vUle club has even been host to an a week will begin sepiemoer set
International president. ond. he said, and the cannery will
Mr. Guernsey is a life insurance he open each Tuesday. Wednesday
executive, and lives in Jacksonville, and Thursday until present can
pig ning products are exhausted.
Partly
r,ther suit
P thunder show-
r tonight, with
fo r the hot
or lhe scattered
Nville
the
tempei
staff of the
Rain.
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fin tn
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Lake Junaluska Assembly
To End Successful Season
On Sunday, August 31st
The Lake Junaluska assembly
season will close August 31 with
one of the best end-of-the-season
crowds in its history. Dr. F. S.
Love, assembly superintendent, has
received commendation on all sides
for the excellence of the program
and the general management.
Since the opening of the season,
June 1, 15 schools and assemblies
have been held with a total enroll
ment of 3,850. In addition, there
has been a total daily population
of approximately 2,000 on the
grounds. The public program, cov
ering lbo days and nights, has
brought to this religious Chau
tauqua men and women prominent
in the religious and political world
and various entertainment fea
tures, including movies, operas and
concerts by talented artists in the
held of music.
The traditional preaching week
will feature the Assembly's last
week. August 24-31. The Rev. Dr.
A. W. Hewitt, of Northfield, Vt.;
the Rev. Dr. Robert F. Galbreath,
pastor of First Presbyterian church,
f Continued on. Page Eight)
Ten Bids Given
For Negro School
Bids for the construction of the
colored school building at Canton
were opened Monday at a joint
meeting of the Haywood County
Board of Commissioners and Can
ton Graded School Board, which
was recessed until Thursday night
when a decision was to be made
with regard to accepting any of the
bids.
Ten bins were received for the
building, .ranging from $97,665 to
$127,590, and three each for plumb
ing, heating and electrical installa
tions. The lowest plumbing bid
was $5,700. for healing $8,703.78,
and for electrical. $5,097.65
Arthur Stupka To
Give Lecture Here
On Park Wildlife
Arthur Stupka, Park Naturalist,
will lecture on animal life in The
Great Smoky Mountains National
Park tonight at 8 o'clock at the
Court House. He will also show an
exclusive collection of colored pic
tures of animals.
The public is invited to take ad
vantage of this unusual opportunity
to view sights often denied travel
ers taking the "beaten path''
through the Park. Mr. Stupka ha,
been collecting these pictures for
the past 12 years.
Earlier in the season Mr. Stup
ka gave an illustrated lecture on
wild flowers in the Park and was
received by a large enthusiastic
audience. He is being brought here
by the Chamber of Commerce and
no admission will be charged.
Completion
Of Parkway
Is Urged
By Pepper
Park and Parkway
I Development "No Fx-
travacance." States
Florida Senator
"You can quote me as favoring
strongly the immediate completion
of the Blue Ridge Parkway and
full development of the Great
Smoky Mountains National Park.
It is a tragedy and national loss
not to do this."
, Senator Claude Pepper. Florida's
senior member in the upper house
of Congress, made this statement
Tuesday morning when interviewed
on the porch of Seven Oaks, the
Fauview Road home where he is
now vacationing.
On his way down from Washing
Truman Will
Beat Taft In
'48, Predicts
Sen. Pepper
Events of Hughes
Investigation Related
At Vacation I tome In
Waynesville
Senator Claude Pepper explained
his viewpoint on natiora! affairs,
stating that Truman would oppose
-and beat-Taft in the 1948 pres
idential election in a clearly drawn
campaign with the Democrats car
rying the liberal banner against a
reactionary Republican platform,
when interviewed by The Moun
taineer at his vacation home in
Waynesville Tuesday morning.
The Florida senate! . one of the
mosl influential men on Capitol
Hill, related some of the events
which led to the ieip.s of the How-
ouusur;
New Units
To Provide
Speedier
Services
Present Switchboard
Unable To Take
Care Of Increased
Load
A crew of 13 engineers are work
ing around the dork to get three
more units of equipment installed
and in operation at the telephone
oil ice here by September 6th, it was
learned yesterday from C. L. Mas
singale, supervisor of the construc
tion project for Western Electric
Company.
Two of the units ar for local
service, and one for long dis
tance. Each of the units will ac
commodate from 200 to 600 new
telephones, and will require three
additional operators to handle the
exchange. At present nine operat
ors operate the board at one time.
The completion of the new units
will give considerable relief to the
present overcrowded switchboard,
it was explained by Mrs. Laura
Reardon, chief operator in charge
of traffic. There are now 26 oper
ators with the local office.
A check was just made of the lo
cal calls, and it was found an aver
age of 15.000 are handled daily, by
the four units of the switchboard.
With the addition of the two new
units, this will cut down the num
ber of calls each operator will
handje, and speed up the service.
The three long distance units
are handling about 500 long dis
tance calls daily, which is far ahead
of the normal capacity of the
switchboard. The extra long dis
tance unit will relieve the ten
sion of the present facilities.
A partition had to be removed
at the telephone office to provide
sufficient space for the new units,
and ample space is now available
for four additional uqits, with
the wiring already in the office.
The expansion program was
authorized several years ago, but
was delayed because of the short
age of equipment. The equipment
being installed is of the latest type
manufactured by Western Electric
Company.
Foot-Long
Cucumber Grown
By Gilliland
A cucumber that grew almost to
i. ,ii la. t week. Spii. Peooer said
thai he deliberately drove down thp ard Hughes warulsne contract ln
Skyline drive and on sections of , vestigation, and expressed Ins hope
the Bloc Ridge Parkway ..."' that America would help all the
beautiful (hive. 1 liad never oeioie j Wni!d. not .lust Western Mirope. oy
realized how much beautiful seen- 1 following intelligent trade and
ery there is in this section ."
Expenditures for Parkway de
velopment "are not extravagance,'
he declared. Such a highway has a
great military value in addition to
the Pleasure it gives the people
"Persons from all states visit the
Park, and its development. by
right, is the duty of the Federal
government. Complete the Park
way. Then add to facilities along
the route. More inns and stopping
nlare; for lunch and drivers who
the size of a young watermelon was j havp ,,Hltr trouble with their auto
brought to The Mountaineer office i (Confim,.d on ,,aRe Kighl i
Wednesday bv Tom Gilliland, Jr.,
of Woolsey Heights. It measured a
fraction over 12 inches in length,
and had a diameter of 11 inches.
The cucumber, of the China long
variety, may be seen in The Moun
taineer window.
leadership policies under the
framework of United Nations.
His endorsement of President
Truman as the Democratic nominee
in next yer't election received
wide publicity la-t week in the na
tion's press
This statement followed a con
ference with (I'e President last
Thursday ' on a number of general
matters, and several Florida top
ics." When leaving the White
House. Senator Pepper slated,
(Continued on Page -Eight
Civic Body Thanks Hello
Girls For Their Service
Rep. George A. Smathers
Is Not Candidate For
Governor Of Florida
New Folders Are
Planned For Next
Season By C. Of C.
Civic Body Makes
Tentative Plans To
Promote Travel Over
No. 276
The hoard of directors of the
Chamber of Commerce decided
iuesday night to publish a new
pictorial folder for general distri
bution. A committee was named by
C. J. Reece, president to proceed
with the work immediately.
Another project discussed by
the board was the promotion of tra
vel over Highway No. 276 from up
per South Carolina via Brevard
over Pisgah. Tentative plans call
for a trip to be made over the
route soon as a preliminary to an
extensive campaign in the Spartanburg-Greenville
areas.
Numerous committees made re
ports, including the finance group,
the committee on the hearing be
fore the State Utilities Commission
and the courtesy committee deal
ing with more recognition of visitors.
The board of directors of the
Chamber of Commerce on Tues
day night, passed a resolution
praising the personnel of the
telephone company for the serv
ices rendered.
The resolution praising: the
operators and their supervisors
came after the civic body had
heard a report on a number of
complaints from some out-of-town
folks who are unaware of
the lack of facilities in the Way
nesville office.
The directors of the Chamber
of Commerce said in their res
olution that "the delay in serv
ice is not the fault of the per
sonnel, but merely the fact that
this is the peak of the season and
the present equipment is not ade
quate to care for the extra load.
The resolution continued: "We
are happy to learn that addition
al equipment is now being in
continued on Page Eight)
Representative George A. Smath
ers. of Ihe fourth district of Flor
ida, and a summer resident here,
cleared Ihe political atmosphere of
Florida over Ihe week-end when he
issued a statement here that he
was not a candidate for governor,
but would seek re-election for his
seat in Congress. The Florida prim
ary will be held in May 194H.
Representative Smathers has
been given the title by this news
paper and others as "North Caro
lina's other congressman," since he
has such an Interest in the affairs
of this section of the state.
Mr. Smathers had been frequent
ly mentioned in political circles of
Florida as a possible candidate for
governor and prior to the adjourn
ment of Confess issued a state
ment be would make known his
decision later in the summer. With
a number of candidates in the field,
speculation niere.-sed as to wheth
er he would step in. which would
have been a big factor in the race.
Other potential candidates are ex
pected to announce soon.
Representative Smathers won his
election in a three to one victory
in the 1946 primary. Miami is the
center of the fourth Florida con
gressional district.
Highway
Record For 1947
In Haywood
(To Date)
Injured - 41
Killed-- 4
(This Information Compiled
From Records of State High
way Patrol)