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No. 68 Twelve Pages
WAYNESVILLE, N. C, TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1947
$3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties
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EXPECTED -THREE ARRIVE
mmuTURE the triplets born to Mrs. Leonard J. Snyder,
wital ThP trio, two boys
Kwiehing about four pounds, came as a.compictc sur
Eta, whohad expected only one addition to their family
In Accidents
McDonald Clark
Dies From Auto
Wreck Injuries
Bethel Youth Suc
cumbs Friday, Funeral
Is Held On Sunday
Afternoon
Mcdonald Clark, 20, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Dallas Clark, of Bethel,
who was injured August 12 in an
automobile wreck on the Waynes-ville-Brevard
highway, died at an
Asheville hospital early Friday
morning.
Funeral services were conducted
Sunday afternoon at the Bethel
Methodist church with Rev. C. W.
Benson and Rev. Thomas Erwin
officiating. Burial was made in
the church cemetery.
Surviving in addition to his par
ents are four brothers, George,
Carol and Hubert Clark of Hay
wood county, and William Clark
of Newport News, Va.; and one sis
ter, Miss Lucy Clark of Bethel.
Young Clark, who was an em
ployee of American Enka corpora
tion, suffered a broken neck and
skull fracture in the recent acci
dent. George W. Michal, 20, also
of the Bethel section, driver of the
car which overturned on a curve
south of the Dix Creek bridge, and
Jimmie Rhodarmer, another pas
senger in the car, received cuts
and bruises, but neither was seri
ously injured.
Arrangements for the funeral
were under the direction of Wells
funeral home.
600 Enjoy Park
Pictures And Talk
By Arthur Stupka
Tentative Plans Are
To Stage Four Such
Events Here Next
Summer
An appreciative audience of 903
attended the second in a series of
illustrated lectures on the Great
Smoky Mountains National Park,
given here Friday night by Arthur
Stupka, park naturalist.
Among the distinguished visi
tors in the audience was Senator
Claude Pepper, of FloVida, who
joined with all the others in ex
pressing himself as being surprised
at the mass of colored pictures
available, and was keenly inter
ested in the explanation given each
scene by Mr. Stupka.
The scenes ranged from bloom
ing flowers to ice and snow scenes,
all made within the park area.
These entertainments are spon
sored each season by the Chamber
of Commerce, and tentative plans
are for Mr. Stupka to give four
such illustrated lectures here next
season. Interest has grown each
year, and attendance has shown a
decided increase at each lecture.
J. J. Trilby has returned to his
home in Stark, Florida, after
spending some time at the home of
his aiater, Mrs J. W. Killian, and
Mr. KUUaji. ; .
bchool
Doors 01 Haywood Schools
To Open Wed. Horning
For Several Thousands
Liner Gets
Bid Accepted
For Canton
School Work
Commissioners And
Canton School Board
Accept Bids Totaling
$116,330.43
Low bids for the general con
struction, plumbing, heating and
electrical work of a colored school
in Canton, replacing one destroyed
several years ago by fire were ac
cepted Thursday evening at a joint
meeting of the Haywood County
Board of Commissioners and mem
bers of the Canton graded school
board in the courthouse.
Jerry Liner of Lake Junaluska
was accepted as the general con
tractor on his bid of $97,665. The
plumbing and heating will be done
by Floyd Miller, Wayneville, on
bids of. 4,884 -and $8,703.78, re
spectively and. the electrical con
tract will go to r Rogers V Electric
company, Waynesville, on their low
bid of $5,097.65.
Ten bids were submitted for the
general contract and three each for
the special installations.
Present for the meeting Thurs
day were George A. Brown, Jr.,
chairman of the commissioners,
who presided; J. R. Hipps, member
of the county board; and the fol
lowing persons from Canton: A. J.
Hutchins, Willis Kirkpatrick, C. A.
Rhodarmer, K. E. Silver and Go
bel McCracken. '
It was ordered that contracts be
signed as soon as possible so that
erection of the school can begin.
It is expected that colored stu
dents of the county will have a
modern building ready for use by
next autumn.
Annual REA Heeling To
Be Held Here Saturday
Waynesville Man
In National News
On Steel Prices
Garland S. Ferguson,
Chairman Federal
Trade Commission,
In Spotlight
Garland S. Ferguson, a native of
'Waynesville, and chairman of the
Federal Trade Commission, was a
headliner in the business news of
the week. Mr. Ferguson's picture
was published in many of the
larger dailies and business trade
journals. Among the publications
carrying his picture and the news
stories included Time magazine.
It all started several weeks ago
when President Truman asked the
(Continued On Page 6)
County Farm Tour
Outstanding crops and livestock
in Haywood will be visited Wed
nesday by the first postwar county
farm tour, ending at a display of
agricultural machinery at the
Crabtree-Iron Duff school.
The tour will start at the court
house, leaving down Depot street
at 9:30 a. m. toward Dellwood to
Jonathan Creek, across Coleman
mountain, through Iron Duff and
Crcbtree, with six stops planned
along the route.
Sponsoring the first county farm
.tour since 1941 are the test demon-
vacations Jbnd
Students To Report
At 9:30 Wednesday
Morning; Large At
tendance Expected
Schools in the Waynesville,
Bethel and Clyde districts will
open Wednesday morning to in-'
augurate the 1947-48 term with a
9:30 a. m. to 12:30 p. m. schedule
announced for the opening day and
the full schedule, 8:45 to 3 p m.,
to begin Thursday.
Bus service will be improved by,
eight replacements of old units,
and an additional new bus added
to the Clyde equipment. Another'
new bus is expected shortly for
Waynesville and additional re
placements are looked for during (
the school year, states Superintend
ent Jack Messer.
Dnlv one leneher vaeanev re- I
m.tirw nnu' nnn nl Ci-iiko havinff
been filled by the acceptance of
Lyda Hall. The vacancy is for a
music instructor in the Hazelwood
school.
All teachers in the county sys
tem will meet at 3 p m. Tuesday,
September 2, at which a workshop
in visual education will be set up
(Continued -on page six?
Dorothy Walker Is
Clyde Reporter
Miss Dorothy Walker or Clyde
has accepted a position as news
correspondent to the Waynesville
Mountaineer from her home com
munity. Miss Walker recently spent five
weeks teaching daily vacation Bi
ble schools for the state Sunday
school board of the Baptist church
in five Avery county churches:
Newland, Yyatte, Cranberry, Beech
Mountain and Oak Grove.
Following the Bible schools, she
spent a two weeks vacation in New
York, Maine and Canada She was
the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice
Alkins at Bingham, Me.
Annual Association
Set For 30th At The
Waynesville
Armory
The 8th annual meeting of the
Haywood Electric Membership co
operative, REA, will convene at 10
o'clock Saturday morning in the
Waynesville Armory, with a record
attendance expected from Haywood,
Buncombe, Jackson and Transyl
vania counties, according to R. C.
Sheffield, manager.
Directors of the cooperative are
meeting today to open bids on their
new "K" project, which calls for
the erection of 148 miles of line in
Jackson and Macon counties to
serve approximately 550 rural
homes and business places. Inform
ation concerning this and the "C"
project (now nearing completion in
Haywood and Transylvania coun
(Continued On Page 6)
Stops To Be made At Some of Major Agri
culture Projects in Haywood
stration farmers, who will award
a silver loving cup to the town
ship having the most people in at
tendance. Several hundred persons
are expected to be present.
County Agent Wayne Corpen
ing will lead the tour and explain
the various points of interest to be
seen.
The .first stop, scheduled at 9:50
ijn a. aiL t. .1 nnM j
a. ro., will be at the Jule Boyd
NAMED TO KEY
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ROGER S. WARNER. JR
APPOINTED TO WORK in Importu... .,..cts of domestic atomic energy
iclivity, Alfonso L. Tammaro, of Providence, R. I., will be Acting Mali
nger of Chicago Directed Operations, and Roger S. Warner, Jr., of
! -PSWich
Mass., will be director of
Commission. Tammaro formerly was assistant to the district engineer,
Manhattan District Project. Warner formerly was coordinating engineer
or the Los Alamos, N. M., laboratory. (International)
1,000 People
j'l'it""'
To Annual Hound Show
Staged Here
Merchants Here
To Close For
Labor Day Event
Dave Felmct, president of the
Merchants Association here, an
nounced yesterday that plans
had been completed for all the
stores to observe Labor Day,
September 1.
There will bp no program here,
as the county will .loin in with
Canton in statins their 41st an
nual celebration.
AAA Offers
Support In
Winter Feed
Program
Haywood Farmers
Encouraged To Grow
More Clover Crops
Due To Feed Shortage
To build up adequate feed sup
plies now that a short corn crop in
midwestern states is predicted,
Haywood county farmers are of
fered rye grass, Ladino clover and
orchard grass seeds with the pur
chase price shared by the govern
ment, announces R. C. Francis, the
AAA county chairman
Extra pasture and cover crops
are needed badly, due to the feed
shortage, and can be a more eco
nomical way of caring for livestock,
Mr. Francis states in urging as
many Haywood farmers as will to
(Continued on Page Six)
Set For Wednesday
farm, where attention will be di-(barn. The group will then go to
rected to ladino clover, corn and g. C. Palmer's dairy farm to look
beef cattle. At 10:40 the group is 0VCr his equipment and cattle,
to arrive at the Glenn Boyd farm Lunch will be served at the
to see Shorthorn cattle and where Crabtree school and from 2 to 5
the production of hybrid corn seed p. m. will be the farm implement
will be explained. display and demonstration.
Three nearby- places in Iron Tractors, silage cutters, balers.
Duff will be visited: a home dem- plows, harrows and other equip
stration of water system and bath- ment will be shown, states Mr. Cor
room at the E. W. White house,' (Continued on Page Six"
1 oday
ATOMIC POSTS
ALFONSO L. TAMMARO
engineering for the Atomic Energy
Attracted
Last Saturday
More Interest Is
Shown In Show Than
Ever Before; Will Be
Annual Event
"Mr. Trippi," owned by Dr. A.
L. Duckworth of Greeneville, Tenn.,
was judged the best dog in the sec
ond annual Haywood-Jackson Kox
lluund Bench show held Saturday
;il I he F.ast Waynesville school
grounds by the two county Fox
Hunters Association.
The Duckworth entry also look
first place as the best male derby I president Guernsey said. "We shall
hound under two years. Jack West : strive for a better understanding
of Cbde won first place w ith "Ike" j between nations and create good
m the Haywood county competi- will as we carry oul the program
I ion.
More than 1.000 hunters and
hound breeders from various sec
linns of the Soulh were present for
the event. Jim Killian, president
of the sponsoring organization, was
master of ceremonies and O. L.
Childress of Knoxville, Term.,
served as .judge during the 10
evenls Over 200 hounds were en
tered. "Hi Dick" was winner of the first
place ribbon in the natural car
riage group, owned by W. T. Wells
of Buncombe county. T. H. Davis
of Hazelwood took first place in this
class for females under two years
with "Merry Bell."
"Rambling Spare," owned by I.
T Wilkinson of Concord, was the
all-age male blue ribbon winner,
and B. W
Hawkins of Whitesburg,
Tenn., won
group with
in the all-age lemale
'Trebble Carrier."
Floyd Cooke of Canton showed
"Bessie and Bossie Blackman" to
win first place for the best ppir.
and Mr. Hawkins was awarded the
prize for bringing the best pack of
hounds.
The best dog of the opposite sex
the show was
Mr. Laney.
'Alene," owned
hurley tobacco on Manson Med
ford's farm and a group of the best
Hereford bulls in the county with
1 1 heir progrency at Jarvis Caldwell
iieaverdam lovnsmp raas
Largest Gain
Past Year, Almost Million
Engineers
Pushing To
Open WHCC
By First
"Our lasl piece o! equipment lell
the factory by last express Mon
day aitei noon. " Robert M. Wallace,
manager of radio station WHCC
said yesterday. Immediately upon
the arrival of this one piece of
equipment, we can go on the air in
two days time.
Mr. Wallace still sticks to his
September first prediction, but al
ways uses the word "provided" in
making I lie statement.
The engineering at the transmit
ter has been completed, and the
work now centers around installing
the one piece of equipment in the
control loom at the studio over the
Park Theatre.
Several members of the staff ar
rived over the week-end and have
already assumed their duites.
Zcno Wall, Jr., commercial man
ager is at work, and K. MacFarland,
an announcer, moved lus tauiiiy to
Waynesville Saturday.
The station will operate on 1400
kilocycles.
Rotary Head
Urges Group
To Be Patient
With U. N.
S. Kendrick Guernsey, of Jack
sonville, and president of Rotary
International, called upon 80 Rotar
ians here Friday to have patience
with the United Nations as they
strive to work out a world-wide
formula for outlawing disputes and
provide an everlasting peace.
"Give the United Nations time.
Be fair in your appraisal of the
organization," Hie Internal ional
president urged. "I believe the Uni
ted Nalions will grow up and make
good," he cnnl inued.
"This year Rotary International
will stress inlernalional peace,"
this year.
The speaker said that newspap
ers too often put the wrong inter
pretation on international affairs,
and thai notary Inlernalional was
hecinninu the publication of bul
letins on affairs of world-wide im- i
portanee lhal would he "straight I
facts thai Rolarians should know."
The first such bulletin is due soon.
He urged all Rolarians to read j
everything possible on inlernation-'
al affairs, and be a sludcnt of what ;
is happneing around the globe. He 1
further urged that Americans talk
to their congressmen more give
them ideas and opinions on all im
portant matters. "These opinions
are always welcomed by your
Washington representatives," pres
ident Guernsey said.
The sneaker told of the operation
' f ,,.,.irv international, who the
: board of Erectors made up of men
!f i,,ht HilTi-rent- rnnntrics anH
how they were stressing a better
understanding of world affairs,
i President Guernsey discussed the
four objects of Rotary, and the cul
tivation of real friendship.
At the conclusion of Mr. Guern-
sev s address he
was presented
with a dozen golf balls, with Ralph
Prevost making the presentation.
At the head table were 12 past
(Continued on Page Six)
Promotion Given
Former Resident
By C & O Railroad
Walter I. Knox, former resident
of Waynesville, has recently been
appointed division passenger agent
for the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail
road, according to news received
by friends here.
Mr. Knox has been connected
with the railroad for some years
and has made his home in Rich
mond, Va. Since his promotion he
will have headquarters in Colum
bus.. Ohio, at 603 Spahr building.
During The
All Townships In The
County Had An
Increase Except
White Oak
Haywood county's taxable prop
erty valuation for 1947 is assessed
at $26,834,921. showing a gain of
$1,866,48!) over the previous year,
it was announced Monday by James
Black, county tax assessor
The biggest gain was recorded in
Beaverdam township, $9:t7,432, al
though there was a loss in the Beav
erdam colored valuation of $438.
Waynesville township showed a
gain of $545,367 over 1946.
Except for Beaverdam colored
and White Oak township, which
dropped $535, all other areas in the
county had increases in the value
of taxable property.
Personal property, which in
cludes household furnishings, au
tos and store merchandise, in
creased $988,908. Real estate value
(which takes in housing, manufac
turing plai 's and machinery)
showed a gain of $827,824, and cor
poration excess property gained
$49,757.
These figures are totaled from
property lists submitted in Janu
ary which arc revised whenever
necessary before being consolidat
ed by the assessor into permanent
county records. The valuation of
municipalities has not yet been
separated from the townships of
which they are a part.
H. B. Milner
Rites Held At
Hazelwood
Funeral services were held yes
terday afternoon at three o'clock
at the Hazelwood Baptist Church
for II. B. (Bun) Milner, 51, Hazel
wood real estate man. who died
suddenly Friday morning while vis
iting his farm on Hyatt Creek.
Services were conducted by Rev.
L. Lewis and Rev. J. M. Wood
aid. Graveside rites were in charge
of the American Legion Post and
interment was in Green Hill
Cemetery.
Active pallbearers weie C .-i.
George. W. A. Bradley, Hoy Camp
bell, William Shoolbred, J H How
ell, Jr.. and Lester Burgm
Honorary pallbearers were R. L.
Burgin. L. N. Davis, Robert Henry.
Charlie Henry. William Robinson.
Jack Robinson, Grady Dewcese.
Burnice Deweese. Don Allen G. C.
Summorrow, R. V. Welch. Dr. W.
L. Kirkpatrick, Robert McKay,
George BischolT. Carl Bischnff. Roy
Colvard. and Harry McCracken
Mr. Milner came to this section
27 vears ago from Missouri lie was
a veteran of World War 1. a mem
ber of the American Legion, and a
member of the Hazelwood Baptist
Church
Surviving are his widow. Mrs.
Lucy Scates Milner; lour soup.
Bill. Jim, Bob. and Jack Milner.
all of Waynesville; five daughter.:,
Mrs. Dorothy Kahr, Mrs. Mildred
Revis, Miss Barbara Milner. Mss
Patsy Milner. and Miss Janet Mil
ner; his father. Marcus Milner, of
Doniphon, Mo.; two sister.. Mr..
Ora Borth, of Doniphon. and Mrs.
Oma Busson. of Detroit, Mich;
and one brother. James O. Milner,
of Detroit.
Funeral arrangements were in
charge of Crawford Funeral Home.
Col. Harry Crawford arrived yes
terday from California for a visit
to his mother, Mrs. W. T. Craw
ford. Highway
Record For 1947
In Haywood
(To Date)
Injured - 40
Killed-- 6
(This Information Compiled
From Records of State High
way Patrol) ..: .