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Improving
To Be Done
New Surface On High
way 19 Between Can
ton and Balsam Is
Under Contract
With favorable weather, the new
surface on the road from Canton
to Balsam Gap will be finished dur
ing October, according to J. C.
Walker, state highway engineer for
the Asheville district.
Trucks now are laying the base
for the binder surface on one part
of the 18.39 miles under contract,
between Hazelwood and Balsam.
The roadway will he widened from
18 to 20 feet and get two coats of
surfacing material.
After the binder is laid on the
road now being worked on, the eon
trator, Asheville Paving company,
will place a new wearing surface"
on the highway between Canton
and Waynesville. When this is fin
ished a wearing surface will be
poured over the Hazelwood to Bal
sam stretch.
The Canton - Waynesville road,
states Mr. Walker, will get the same
type asphalt surface that was placed
on Main street here last summer.
The road is in good condition now
to carry traffic, but is being given
another surface to make it more
akidproof as a measure of safety.
Highway patrolmen have called
this road one of the slickest and
most dangerous in the state when
wet.
W. F. Brinkley granite quarry of
Jackson county was awarded the
contract of $49,913.10 to furnish
rock ,for the improvement work,
and "Asheville Paving company
will do structural work under
their $134,472.00 contract.
Mr; Wjade Noland'
Funeral Is Held
AtCrabtree Church
Funeral services were conducted
Wednesday afternoon at the Crab
tree Baptist Church for Mrs. Wade
Noland, who died at the Haywood
County Hospital ' Monday after a
brief illness. Rev. Oder Burnell,
Rev. Forest Ferguson, and Rev. El
mer Green officiated and inter
ment was in the church cemetery.
Active pallbearers were Howard
Dotson, Grady Boyd Noland, Jack
Noland, Frederick Noland, Carl
Jones, and Andy Ferguson.
Honorary pallbearers were Boone
Swayngim, Elmer Bryson. C. C.
Francis, Dave Turner, Jessie James,
Itatcliffe Medford. Millard Fergu
son, Glen Palmer, L. B. Brown, W.
Tom Kirkpatrick. T. L. Green. G.
W. Liner, Larry Ferguson, and
Taft Ferguson.
Grandchildren and nieces served
as flower bearers.
Mrs. Ferguson was born in Crab-
tree Township August 4, 1874. She
was the former Ruth Anne Fergu-
(Continued on Page Eight)
Tour Of Orchards
To Be Held Mon.
Haywood orchardmen are invited
to attend a tour of three of the
leading apple orchards in the coun
ty on Monday afternoon. Septem
ber 8.
The tour will begin at the Bar
ber's orchard packing house at 2
m. and after visiting facilities i
there will go to the Henry Francis
and R. H. Boone orchards. Per
sons desiring transportation are
asked to see County Agent Wayne
Corpening at the courthouse short
ly before the tour.
H. R. Niswoneer. N. C. State col
lege horticulturist, will accompany
the group.
MILLER FAMILY REUNION
The annual Miller family reunion
will be held at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Miller of Spring Creek
Sunday, September 7. All rela
tives and' friends are invited to
come and bring a picnic lunch.
Visual Education Work
Organized By
Seventy teachers of Haywood
couty schnools enrolled in a visual
education workshop, which will
meet here once weekly through the
school year sponsored by Western
Carolina Teachers college.
The use of films in Haywood
schools received another boost with
an agreement to get 240 visual ed
ucation units from the University
of North Carolina- extension divi
sion fjurliuj the year. These will
Of Highway
Before Nov.
August Travel
In Park Near
280,000 Mark
Travel to Great .Smoky Moun
tains National Park is now about
three per cent ahead of last
year's figures for the same time,
Park Superintendent Blair Ross
said Wednesday.
In August a total of 277,991
visited the park. That was an
increase of 22 per cent over the
same month last year, and offset
a two per rent drop for the pre
vious part of this year.
Industrial
Display Is
Prepared By
NCES Office
Manufacturers Of
Haywood Prepare
Exhibits To Give
New Ideas
A graphic display of Haywood
county's industrial products is be
ing arranged at the local office of
the North Carolina Employment
service which will surprise many
citizens at the diversity of goods
manufactured in the county.
Dayton Rubber company, A. C.
Lawrence Leather company, Well
co Shoe corporation, Royle and Pil
kington, Unagusta Manufacturing
company. Champion Paper and
Fibre company, CUriucraft Indus
try, Noland's Grain Mill Builders
Supply company, Pisgah Maid and
Gold Dot Foods, and Underwood
Lumber company are among the
concerns which have made or are
making displays.
The purpose of the exhibits, ex
plains DeBrayda Fisher, Employ
ment Service manager, is to show
what is being made here and to
encourage thinking along further
industrial development using na
tive products. This is considered a
long range step in increasing job
opportunities for the growing popu
lation.
Similar exhibits are being pre
pared in several other Western
North Carolina communities. It is
planned to gather them in Ashe
ville this fall and later send the
entire group to the State Fair in
Raleigh.
Milk Prices Here
Went Up One Cent
Quart On First
The Haywood Milk Producers
Association in a statement today
pointed out the severe droughts
and floods in the areas which grow
dairy feed, had resulted in in
creased costs which meant the in
crease in retail milk prices one
cent per quart.
The increase became effective
here September 1, which makes
the price of milk now 21 cents a
quart, both for sweetmilk and but
termilk which is distributed by Pet
Dairy Products company.
Producers are now getting $6
per hundred for their milk, it was
shown.
Burley Measuring Now
97-Per Cent Complete
Measuring of the Burley tobacco
planted in Haywood county is 97
per cent completed, it was reported
Thursday at the AAA office. Of
1.741 farms listed for checking, 1,
695 field reports have been turned
in.
Of 1,683 reports computed at the
office, 132 have records of excess
plantings.
Teachers
arrive in 16 truck deliveries, be
ginning September 17, to supple
ment the educational library al
ready begun by the county board
of education.
Dr. C. D. Killia of Western Car
olina met yesterday afternoon with
the teachers to plan dates for the
workshop meetings. Nine semes
ter hours of college credit will be
given those who complete the work.
(Continued on Page Eight)
WAYNESVILLE,
Farm Tour
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PART OF the approximately COO persons who attended the Haywood County Farm
tour are snapped by the cameraman looking into the 3-acre field of alfalfa planted four weeks
previously on the Jule Boyd farm in Jonathan Creek. After turning crimson clover during
June, Mr. Boyd had planted 25 pounds of alfalfa seed per acre, with fertilizer and borax.
(Photo by Joe Davis.)
Haywood Veterans Cash
Over $100,000 Terminal
Leave Bonds On Tuesday
Dedication
Of WHCC To
Be Held On
Wednesday
Senator Clyde R. Hoey
To Lead Group Of
Distinguished Visitors
At Event
Tentative plans are to have the
formal dedication of radio stnlion
wnuc on Wednesday. September
10, at the Park Theatre, with Sen -
,.,,. ,
ator Clyde I!. Hoey as principal
speaker, it .was announced yester -
day by Robert M. Wallace, general
manager.
The formal program will take
about an hour, and the public will
be invited to attend. There will
be no admission charges.
A number of officials from (his
area, including slate and federal
agencies, radio executives, news
papermen and representatives of
chambers of commerce will be in
vited to attend.
The program will be broadcast
from the theatre.
The exact hour has not been defi-
nitely set, but will be either 11!
o'clock or noon, Mr. Wallace said.!
The owners of (he station will!
be presented to the public, and as;
many of the station personnel as
operations will permit.
Plans also include a musical pro
gram before and after the address
by Senator Hoey.
Open house will also he staged
by the station and the public will
be invited to visit the studios over
the Park Theatre.
August A Busy Month
For Vet Farm Trainees
A variety of activities kept 90 j cessing of food,
veteran farmer trainees busy dur-1 On August 13 the group attend
ing the month of August in the pro- led a meeting at the courthouse in
gram directed at Waynesville Town- which the possibilities of setting up
ship high school by John H. Nes-1 an artificial dairy cattle breeding
bitt. vocational agriculture teacher. I organization was taken up. On Aug.
and his assistants, J. J. Boyd, Dick
Moody. Hulan Gibson. M. H.
Bowles and Glenn McCracken.
The veterans, from Waynesville,
Ivy Hill and Jonathan Creek town
ships and two from Jackson county,
spent four days during the early
part of the month processing food
for their homes at the community
cannery. Mrs. Rufus Siler, school
lunch room supervisor, explained
and demonstrated preparing and
canning vegetables and fruits. Miss
Margaret Smith, home demonstra
tion agent, also discussed the pro-
N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1947
Group Inspects Alfalfa Field
483 Former Enlisted
Men Convert Bonds
Into Cash At Hay
wood Banks
Four hundred eighty-three for
mer enlisted men lined up Tuesday
at banks in Waynesville, Hazel-
wood and Canton to cash $100,
I 555.47 worth of terminal leave
' bonds.
The lines were still in effect on
Wednesday, but smaller in size than
on the first day during which they
were allowed to collect on the Fed
eral bonds issued for unused fur
lough time while in the Army, Navy
or Marine Corps.
At the First National bank here
and Hazelwood s First Stale bank,
,,,'"uo"' "ds veiei -
ians - uf ,h,s 100 cashed ,,UMr
I bonds at Hazelwood for approxi-
, mHtev $2, ij()0
j T,t, nayWOod Comity bank at
Canton cashed $16,866 of bonds for
235 persons. Bonds were not be
ing cashed at the Clyde bank.
An average of $208.19 was paid
to the Haywood county veterans on
Tuesday.
Opening day rushes were report
ed from over the nation as thou
sands of the approximately 9,000,
000 World War II .servicemen
formed "pay day" lines lo collect
their pari of the $1,800,000,000 is
sued under the Armed Forces
Leave Act.
Estimates were thai 250,000
(Continued on Page Eight)
jf. q Hereford Breeders
oft ,
lo lVIeet On bept. CVIIX
The annual meeting of the North
Carolina Hereford Breeders asso
ciation will be held Sept. 20 at
Klizabcthtown. Greene Brothers
Hereford farm and Sidney Thorn
ton will be hosts.
All Haywood county men inter
ested in going are asked to contact
the county agent.
21st 85 veterans attended the To
bacco Field Day at the Mountain
Experiment station; hearing talks
by W. Kerr Scott, state commis
sioner of agriculture; Howard
Clapp, director of the station; R. R.
Bennett, Drs. W. E. Colwell and
Luther Shaw, specialists in tobac
co and agronomy. They also en
joyed seeing the demonstrations on
Burley and Turkish tobaccos being
carried out at the station.
Eighty-four veterans went on the
Haywood County Farm Tour Aug.
(Continued on Page Eight)
Traffic In
Pisgah Was
Heavy Over
Week-End
Use Of Highway No.
276 . Far Ahead Of
Other Koads Into'
Pisgah Forest
A traffic count for Pisgah Na
tional Forest last Sunday showed
increased traffic over Highway No.
276, with 1,560 cars, carrying 6,240
people entering the forest from
both the Waynesville and Brevard
sides. This represented 61 per
cent of all traffic entering the for-
est last Sunday, according to W. W.
Iiuher, district ranger in charge.
A total of 2,461 cars entered the
forest from all entrances, carrying
10.177 people.
The count showed 554 ran .o,.
rying 2,1 16 people entered at Wae-
i0n Koart Gap, and 1,006
cars at
Davidson river, with 4.045 people.
The Davidson river entrance ac
counted for 40 per cent of all traf
fic, and I he Wagon Road Gan i"n-
t ranee for 21 per cent.
The counters checked thai 66
per cent of all cars were from
North Carolina, 4 per rent from
Florida, three from Georgia and
oilier stales represented included,'
Virginia. Ohio, Texas, Mississippi,
New York, New Jersey. Mary land. I
Pennsylvania, Indiana. Illinois and;
Nevada. '
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table
Mi-ber said every available
n the Pink Bed recreation ,
area was occupied Sunday noon,
and a ear parked in "every wide
place in the road "
The traffic count was made from
8 o'clock in the morning until the
same hour that night.
New Leather Firm
To Open Here On
First Of October
A. H. DuBreuil and J. R. Ger
ringer have formed the Armond H.
DuBreuil Leather company here,
and plan to open their plant about
October 1.
This week they are attending the
I convention of Southeastern Lcath-
j er Finders Association in Atlanta.
I The plant will manufacture sole
'leather, taps, strips and other
; items for the leather trade,
j The owners are well known in
the leather industry.
Haywood Ministerial
Association To Meet
The Haywood Ministerial Associ
ation will meet Monday at 12:30
for a dinner meeting at Breezy
Corner, Lake Junaluska. for the
first meeting since May, it was an
nounced yesterday by Rev. Cecil L.
Heckard, secretary.
Many important matters will be
brought before the association, it
was announced. A new president
will be elected to succeed Rev. R.
$3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties
Haywood Calves Win 6
Blue Ribbons At Show
Enrollment
Increases
In Schools
Over 1946
High School Of Hay
wood Have 85 More
Students, Elemen
taries Lose 40
Enrollment figures for the first
month of the current school year in
the five high schools and 18 ele
mentary schools of the Haywood
county system total 5,74(1, showing
an increase of 3(i students over the
first month last year.
High school regis) rat ion has in
creased 85. with gains at Bethel.
Waynesville and Clyde. In the
elementary grades the enrollment
declined 4'), all hough several
schools showed increases.
Hazelwood, with 700 students, is
the largest elementary school in
the county, with Bethel and Clyde
next in order.
The following figures were re
leased Thursday by Jack Messer,
county superintendent of educa
tion: INGII SCHOOL
First Month 1946-47 1947-48
Bethel 228 200
Clyde 11!) 130
Crahtrce 9ti 89
Fines Creek 85 83
Waynesville 1.001 1,052
Totals 1,529 1,614
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Aliens Creek 12 70
Bethel 547 536
Cataloochee 8 8
Cecil 130 141
Central 360 355
Crabtree 333 323
Clyde 432 425
jCruso 231 228
j Del I wood 38 x
I East Waynesville 231 228
Fines Creek 293 295
j Hazelwood 081 700
Lake Junaluska 170 180
Maggie 129 130
Mt. Sterling 45 45
Rock Hill 2(il 257
Saunook 73 62
Spring Hill M (j4
W'ville Colored 84 85
Totals 4,181 4,132
Work Starts
Monday On
School In
Canton
Excavating for the new Canton
colored school i.--. scheduled to be-
.'l m"r""f a")" to
l' ' ' Y .l'mP ' 'a' "irar f
iin- ijiu.ini vfjhii will cost auoui
$116,000. The building will be
erected on the site where the other
school burned several years ago.
Mr. Liner said a bulldozer and
steam shovel would be on the job
and plans called for completion of
the excavation within 10 days.
Plans are to have the building
completed by next term of school.
Sen. Umstead To Teach
Canton Church Class
United Slates Senator William
B. Umstead of Durham will teach
the Sunday School lesson to the
adult division of the Central Meth
odist church at Canton at 9:45 a.
m. Sunday morning, it was
I nounced by C. C. Poindexter.
Dr. F. S. Love, superintendent
of the Lake Junaluska assembly,
will lead the devotional and pre
sent Senator Umstead. Persons of
all denominations are invited to
attend the service.
A. Kelly, who recently moved from
Canton. The annual fall program
will be discussed, with Rev. M. R.
Williamson, acting as program
chairman.
Among other things to be dis
cussed will be the request of the
radio' station for the morning devo
tional to be given by members of
the Association.
Plans call for the association to
meet monthly.
Blount And Massie
Osborne, Johnny Mack
Ferguson Enter
Winners
i Blount Osborne, son of Mrs.
j Henry Osborne and a member of
! Clyde F. F. A. chapter, won blue
I ribbons with three entries in the
junior Guernsey calf division of
I the third annual Junior Dairy show
I conducted Wednesday in Biltmore.
Johnny Mark Ferguson, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Ferguson and
a member of the Dellwood 4-H
club, also took a blue ribbon in the
same division. His calf had won
grand champion honors among
Guernseys entered in the Haywood
county show held here Tuesday
prior to the Biltmore event.
I Massie Osborne, a brother of
Blount, had two blue ribbon senior
J Guernsey calves at Biltmore. One
; of his calves took reserve cham
I pion honors in the' county show,
I and Massie also won recognition as
(the best in showmanship.
A total of 179 animals from 12
Western North Carolina counties
competed 'in the district show
Wednesday, held in Haney tobacco
warehouse under the sponsorship
of the Asheville Merchants associ
ation. Dean Colvard of N. C. State
college and Ted Besh of Biltmore
Dairy farms judged the entries
under the Danish system, in which
all animals get either blue, red or
white ribbons.
Twenty-seven of the 30 animals
which took part in the preliminary
show at the Haywood county court
house were entered in the Bilt
more show.
Dowena Robinson, 4-H member
from the Pennsylvania Avenue
school, Canton, won second place
WioCtaMusfcipo in ,he onost
here.
In the jersey division, with three
animals entered, Billy Morgan, 4-H
club member from the Norlh Can
Ion school, was grand champion and
Carl Green of the Cecil 4-H club
was reserve champion.
Dean Colvard, from N. C. State
college, spoke prior to the judging
explaining the points on which
dairy cows and calves are graded.
The judges were Howard Clapp,
director of the State Test Farm, B.
F. Nesbitt, and U. C. Evans, voca
tional agriculture teachers.
Johnnie Mack Ferguson entered
one blue ribbon animal in the
junior calf division and another in
the red ribbon class. Massie Os
borne's calf was the second best,
a red ribbon entry, as were those
of Don McCracken, Marion E.
Howell and Blunt Osborne. Patsy
Simms had a white ribbon calf.
Blue ribbon senior calves were
entered by Blunt Osborne and Mas
sie Osborne; red ribbon by Frank
I). Medford and Massie Osborne,
and white ribbon by Maxine Sims
(Continued on Page Eight)
Florida Publisher
Vacationing Here
Until October
J. S. Minis, publisher of the
Tampa Tribune, and Mrs. Mims,
are spending a September vacation
at the Waynesville Country club,
their first visit here in several
years.
"Florida people, and especially
those from the Tampa section, re
gard Waynesville as one of the
most desirable and delightful sum
mer resort spots in North Caro
lina," Mr. Mims said, "and it is
good to know that so many of them
have been around here this year.
Quite a few others are heading
this way in the next few weeks.
They are wise, for after all, the
most wonderful months in this
mountain area are September and
October."
Mr. and Mrs. Mims expect to be
in Waynesville until October.
Highway
Record For 1947
In Haywood
(To Date)
Injured - 40
Killed-- 6
(This Information Compiled
From Records of State Hhrh
way Patrol) ' ' v ' 'f'