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No. 84 EIGHT PAGES United Pre
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WAYNESVILLE, N. C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER. 21, 1947
$3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties
I Scout Awards Last Night
(Dmifs
Don
rata
on Church
Large Gath-
All-Day
iday
id to the memory
lywood county set-
Sara Vaughn Mc-
loximately 500 per-
and friends, who
from four states
tutorial serbice at
Methodist ceme-
Eion church
Bent to the pioneer
lied by Rev. ftt'pl
occasion was held
iversary of Joseph
h.
ithey of Asheville
Icipal speaker, de-
of the family tra
the work of the
Jen generation.
Association was
business session
he program. Ful
fil Crabtree was
Mrs. Albert Wal-
grandchild of the
was named hon-
Tom McCracken
chaiman- Mrs. O
toy. and Mrs.
I historian.
'"Pic. it was told
racKon, came to
P 1800 from Hav-
Weia. travplinu
P a three-year-old
wir 13 children.
hat
is now the Al-
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I Settle herp anH
(make one of the
Pa5e Eieht)
Bethel 4-H club
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second Dri7.P fnr
Pbles
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I0UR Haywood Boy Scouts received the nward
L at the Court of Honor at the Canton YMCA
lown here, left to right, Billy Mainous, Louis
Ly Patton and David Deas.
Photo by J. E. Deas, Canton.
onor Pioneers 0!
cken Family; Plan
Id Annual Meeting
Large Crowds See
Pisgah Forest And
Parkway Sections
o . . ' flitision to build the Blue
Several thousands visited the; Ridge Parkwav on the eastern side
Pisgah Forest area over the week-, of Soco Bald instead of on the
end and went on the 5-mile section ; northwestern sinV mm.. Into svi.
of the Blue Ridge Parkway, accord
ing to Ranger Carlos K. Dale, who
has been in charge.
The coloring in the forest is not
as bright as a week ago, yet there
will be plenty of color for this com
ing week-end, he pointed out.
Wetland the story -I -Traffic along U. ,S. No. 276 was
extremely heavy, with' the large
throng enjoying the scenery from , tcr 1'ock formation for a more solid
numerous lookout points on bothroa(1 alltl would afford all-year
.sides of the fountain
A rock slide on this side of the
mountain on Friday had been
cleared and was of no hindcrance
lo traffic.
Travel into the Park was also
heavy over the week-end, with the
Soco Gap road bearing a large por
tion of the travel.
Hickory Pastor
Conducting Series
Baptist Meetings
Tonight at 7:30 Rev. Knolan
Benfield, of Hickory, will use as his
sermon subject "Our . Shadow
Selves" for the second message in
the week's revival which started
Sunday at the First Baptist church.
Rev. L. G. Elliott, pastor of Un
church, is leading the singing.
Services will be held each eve
ning at 7:30. Each morning at 3: 15,
Rev. Mr. Benfield will give the de
votionals over WHCC.
Much interest is being shown in
the meeting, and large crowds arc
expected to attend throughout the
week.
Wednesday. Rev. Mr. Benfield
will use as his sermon subject,
"The Cost of Discipleship". The
Thursday topic will be "Salvation
The Cost".
Rev. H. L. Smith
Accepts Pastorate
Of Canton Church
The Rev. Horace L. Smith, pas
tor of the Red Bank Baptist church.
Chattanooga, Tenn.. for the past
five years, has accepted the pastor
ate of the Canton First Baptist
church, effective Nov. 1. it was an
nounced by E. W. Jones, chairman
of the board of deacons.
Mr. Smith, during the past five
years, has increased the member
ship of the Chattanooga church
from 500 to 1.100. it was learned.
The Chattanooga minister will
fill a vacancy here that developed
last Aug. 1 when the Rev. Richard
Alexander Kelly resigned to accept
the pastorate of the Lane " -
Fla., First Baptist church.
Since that time the Rev. J. N.
Binford, retired Baptist minister.
and father-in-law of Mr. Kelly, has
been supplying at the local church.
ATTENDS PRINTERS MEETING
Marion T. Bridges attended a
printers meeting in Greenville, S.
C, Saturday. Delegates from North
and South Carolina held confer
ences with representatives of pa
per mills, machinery firms and suppliers.
Survey Of Parkway
Cherokees
Exchange
Right-of-Vay
For Parkway
New Route Will Make
Better Road For
Year 'round
Travel
A party of Bureau of Public
Roads engineer headed by F.'W.
Cron. of Gatlinhurg, started the
initial .survey for a 3.2-mile spur
section of the Hlue Ridge Parkway
from Wolf Laurel Gap to Black
Camp Gap yesterday morning. En
gineering is being pushed so the
contract lor construction can be
let for early spring work, accord
ing to officials in an interview with
The Mountaineer.
day when the Cherokee Indian
council agreed to swap lands for
the rights-of-way. The state had
several years ago bought the right-of-way
on the northwestern side of
Soco Bald.
The new route will be a tnuch
ir.r.re favorabje .oneas fa m,4ee-:
table faster construction, has bet-
t rave
as compared with the former
route.
R Getty Browning, chief locat
ing engineer for the state highway
commission, spent several days
with the Indian council last week
discussing the project, and on Fri
day night the decision was reached
to make the change,
j The new road will open up a lot
: of territory south of Wolf Laurel
'Gap which is in the Soco Gap sec
1 1 ion.
I The Park Service plans to build
I the Parkway from Black Camp
Gap to Heinlooga, a distance of 6
.miles. This is also planned for
i spring construction.
The section of the Parkway from
Soco Gap to Big Witch Gap, a dis
i lance of C miles, was graded be
fore the war. It is from this sec
tion of the Parkway that the Wolf
; Laun-I-Black Camp Gap spur of
the Parkway will be built.
This project has had considerable
I attention from the N. C. Park Com
mission, and they have been work
I ing with all agencies in acquiring
! the better route. The new route
w ill give the Indians access to some
territory on the Reservation not
now traversed by roads. The coun
icil made a trip into the territory
j with Mr. Browning last week to get
i first-hand information of the plans
j proposed by the State and federal
J agencies.
Charles E. Ray. chairman of the
! North Carolina Park Commission,
said here yesterday. "I am elated
that work is going right ahead on
this project. It will open up some
of our best scenic country in West
1 ern North Carolina. I trust there
j will be no delay in Retting the
I project completed at the earliest
possible moment.
, "The new location guarantees
i that we will have an approach into
; the Park equal in standards to the
. Blue Ridge Parkway. It is my
i opinion that the change in location
I is favorable to all parties con-
cerned. The action taken by the
j Cherokee Indian Council is evid
ence of what we can do coopera
tively with respect to regional
j projects."
DISCl'SS SANITATION
Robert Livingstone, state sani
tarian for the western counties,
spent Tuesday conferring with
j sanitarian O. B. Jones here. They
j discussod sanitation requirements
( and inspection procedure for
slaughter houses.
HEREFORD BREEDERS TEEM
Members of the Haywood County
Hereford Breeders Association met
at the county agent's office last
week, discussing the proposed W.
N. C. association to be formed at
a meeting in Asheville on October
28, and reviewing details of the re
cent sho-v and sale held here.
Presiding Elder
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DR. C. N. CLARK, former pastor
at Mount Airy, will arrive here this
week to take up his duties as pre
siding elder of the Waynesville
Methodist district.
Dr. Clark To
Begin New
Church Post
Wednesday
District Superintend
ent Comes Here After
5-Year Pastorate At
Mount Airy
Dr. and' Mrs. C. N. Clark will
leave Mount Airy tomorrow for
Waynesville where Dr. Clark will
assume his new duties as superin
tendent of the Waynesville district
Methodist churches.
The Rev. Walter B. West, for-
mer superintendent here and Mrs.
West, left Monday for Salisbury,
which district he now has charge
of under assignments made at tho
annual Western North Carolina
conference.
Dr. Clark preached his final ser
mon Sunday at the Central Meth
odist church in Mount Airy which
he has served for five years. A na
tive of Missouri, he came to the
W. N. C. conference 16 years ago
after having been pastor of the La
fayette Park church in St
Louis
for eight years.
During his stay in St. Louis, Dr.
Clark became a very good friend of
Branch Rickey, presently Brooklyn
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Charter Will Be
Given Exchange
Club At 8 Tonight
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The formal awarding of the char
ter win mark the high spot in the Chamber Of Commerce
meeting oi me txenange liud ai
the Imperial hotel in Canton to
night at 8 o'clock.
John Inman, of Mount Airy, state
president, will aw-ard the charter to
Joseph W. Stone, president of the
Canton club. A number of state
clubs will be represented, as well
as officers of other civic clubs in
Haywood.
There are thirty charter mem
bers of the club, and about 15 j
awaiting membership, it was said. J
The club will meet the first and
third Tuesday of every month.
While Driving To Georgia
Stops Car To Hear All
Of Sermon Over Radio
Climbing up Cowee mountain a
radio listener was so impressed by
a service reaching her from the
Presbyterian church here over sta
tion WHCC that she parked her
automobile so as "not to miss a
single word of the comforting
sermon."
A summer visitor here from De
catur, Ga., she wrote of the first
Sunday morning service broadcast
from Waynesville. "Rev. Malcolm
Williamson's voice came clear and
gttong over my car-radio as I
drove from Asheville to Franklin
and my home in Decatur.
"I needed just such a message
Rep. Redden Will Address
Public At High School Here
On Wednesday Evening
Funeral Services
! Held Monday For
Mrs. Carrol V. Bell
Mrs Louise I vie Bell, 4f. wife
of Carroll V. Bell, prominent
Waynesville business man. died
suddenly at her home here Satur
day night following a heart attack.
Funeral services were held at
the residence in Griniball Park
Monday morning at 10:30 o'clock
with the Hc-v Robert G. Tat urn.
rector of Grace Episcopal Church,
officiating.
Pallbearers were Harry Millar.
William Medford, Ben Sloan, Frank
Ferguson. Ralph Provost, and Jon
athan Woody.
Following tho service bore (ho
body was taken to Live Oak, Flor
ida, former homo of Mrs. Hell.
whore another service will bo hold
today at the Methodist church, with
the Rev. Fred Martin officiating.
Mrs. Bell was a daughter of Mrs.
W. H. Lylo and the late Mr. Lylo
of Live Oak. She was educated ut
Ashley Hall, Charleston. S. C.
and moved here with her husband
to lnfflie yer. home 1 5 years ago.
She'as'a member of Grace Epis
copal church and took an active
part in the social life of this com
munity. She had made countless
friends during her residence in i
Waynesville. I
""'
Surviving are the husband
daughter. Mrs Fred Phillips, of
Shelbyvillo, Tenn.; the mother,
Mrs. W. H. Lyle, of Live Oak and
! Jacksonville. Florida; and one sis-
tor. Mrs.
Minas Pay no, of Jack-
I sonville
' Arrangements
i direction of We
' Canton,
wore under the
s Funeral Home.
Fire Damage, Car
Of Visitor $200
r'stimaled damage of about $200
was done lo a Pac kard Sunday af-
tornoon near I he fool of Pisgah
Mountain, when the brakes caught
on fire. The flames spread under
the hood, and did considerable
namage 10 in. paint on I lie car ! chairmen and executive secretaries
The owner. C P. Pugli. of At-! of Haywood. Jackson, Swain and
lanta, bad his lamily with him and i Ti ans l ania counties participated
had visited tho Park and Pisgah j in a round-table discussion of prob
and were enroiite hero lo see Mr. ; loins in homo service, led by Mrs
and Mrs. L. L. Lyda. j Louise St. John Taylor. Rod Cross
Passershv helped extinguish thcim'lcl ' l'ivsontalivo from Atlanta,
hl.n,. 9n,i i-,.,,c,hi ih.. ,.,,.,,, at the courthouse Thursday
to Waynesville. No one was injured.
Board Meets Tonight
The board of directors of the
Chamber of Commerce will meet i
tonight at 7:30 to discuss a num-, bryson City: C. N. Douglas. ISrev
bor of mailers of vital importance, ' aid; Jonah A. Dills, Sylva; Mrs
according to C. J Roeco. president. Jonathan Woody and Mrs. Ethel
. ., ... i ., ' Hayes Fisher of Waynesville.
.rtniong me manors to cianii ine
attention of the board will be re
viewing applications for the post of
secretary of the organizalion. The!
office was temporarily closed Oc-j
tober 15.
to face the heavy Sunday after
noon traffic on the open road. Was
glad Rev. Williamson saw fit to
eivp comfort and courage to his
listeners, as too many make us eat i
'fire and brimestone
She related that the station could
be heard ascending Cowee moun
tain, but going down towards
Franklin it became indistinct.
On reaching her home she wrote
here to tell how much she enjoyed
anH nrnfit.rl lv I ho sprmon and
j nu t ,h I
enclosed $1.00. Th.s was for tne j
church ... "I could not very well i
contribute over the radio
Spur Started
Haywood N. C. E. A.
Unit Sponsors Public
Discussion of School
Legislation
Congressman Monroe Redden
will address all interested Haywood
citizens Wednesday night at the
Waynesville Township high school
auditorium, discussing proposed
federal legislation affecting schools.
The twelfth district representa
tive's talk, to begin slun-tlv after the
program is begun at 7:45 o'clock.
will be the feature of a mooting ot
the Haywood county unit. North
Carolina educational association,
The public is invited to attend, es-
pecially parents of school children.
Pan! T. Grogan, teacher at Crusn
and president of the' Haywood
NCEA unit, will fireside. The Way
nesville high chorus directed by
Charles Isley, will offer a brief mil-,
sical program.
A. J. Hutchins, superintendent of i
Canton district schools, will intro-l
duee Congressman Hodden at 8
o'clock.
The speaker is well know n in I
Haywood and has earned a repu
tation as tin active, -wockv-stor leg--Islation
beneficial to Western North i
Carolina during his first year in;
Washington. A talented speaker1
and well in touch with events on1
Capitol Hill, his talk is expected to;
attract a large number of inter-
I estod listeners.
Several major changes in educa-,
tional legislation have beep written j James Hanson Grooms, 65, farm
far the consideration of Congress. J or of the Cecil section, died Satur
including one to bring federal day in the woods near his. home
funds to raise the standards of thej while out gathering ginsing root,
schools in low-income areas. The Ho had loft home that morning
Hendorsonvillo congressman's talk 1 alone, and a search for him was
ii expected to explain the various begun when nightfall came and ho
proposals and his opinion on how i failed lo return. The body was
Congress will deal with them.
; Tho program will be carried over
radio station WHCC.
Four-County Meet
Held By Red Cross
T T v rpi j ;
Here Ull InUrSaayi
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I
I'haptrr !
American Rod Cross
Rev. Malcolm Williamson, chair
man of the local chapter, presided
at the all-day meeting, which ad
journed for dinner at the Towno
House.
Others participating were Mrs.
! Herman Bowles. Mrs. Helen Press-
ley, and Mrs. W. R. Moore of Can
ton; Mrs. Nora Lee Calhoun of
State Nurse Will
Meet With County
School Teachers
Miss Pearl Weaver, public health
nurse on the staff of tho School
Health Coordinating service, will
meet with Haywood county elem
entary school teachers Tuesday.
Wednesday and Thursday of this
week, it is announced by Supt.
Jack Messer.
At 9:30 a.m. today she will meet
with teachers at Clyde, and at 3
p.m. all from Bethel district schools
at Bethel. Wednesday the meet-
l ings are 9:30 at Crabtree and 2:30
at Fines Creek; and 3:00 p.m.
Thursday all elementary grade
teachers of the Waynesville dis-1 Bureau, and Bill Robinson, assist
trict will assemble at the high I ant county agent.
school. ;
Emphasis ai the meetings will I FIREMEN ANSWER CALL
De piacea on lonowing up cornec- I
live nealth measures found to be
needed by pupils when screened
by nurses of the District Health
department
Killed In Fight
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j JAMKS HERMAN MITCHELL
I was 1,Hn"1 ll, ;ul Saturday night
i "''' lll,nu' ol llls parents on
1 Waynesville. route 1!. Death was
i attributed by a coroner's jury to
j stabbing wound.-.. The piclure above
I was taken when .Mitchell was
i the Army during World War II.
Searchers
I Find Grooms
After Death
In Woods
CeriHIati Succumbs-
Heart Attack Satur
day While Gathering
Herbs
found at It) o'clock Sunday morn
ing by a brother, Rudolph Grooms,
, and a neighbor, Carl Singleton, a
mile 1 roni Ins home.
Dr. J. Frank Pate, coroner, placed
Jllie lime of death at approximate
j ly 2 p. m. Saturday, from a heart
I attack. Mr. Grooms had been un-
dor treatment lor Heart trouble
during the past year.
u ., if t . ivi-.
nui vmiiik iiti' uir wiuuw, una,
j x tia Jackson (Jroonis; lour sons.
Fred and Ted Grooms, of Ashe-
villo; Ardell Grooms of Canton,
Route 3. and Roy Grooms of Mc
Henry. Ill : throe daughters, Mrs.
Ola Mao Chambers and Mrs. Ila
Pace of Canton, route 3: and Miss
Gladys Grooms of the home.
Garrett funeral home is in
charge of arrangements.
Lions Auction
Baby Beef; Will
Attend Revival
The Vane
acl.iourn their
li' Lions club will
mooting Thursday
night early to attend the revival
service in pi o jres at the First Bap
tist church, to start at 7:45 p.m.
on that night
Last week the Lions conducted
an auction amines the membership
for dressed meat from the baby
heel purchased by the club at the
recent district show. A total of 424
pounds of meat, in packages of
from three to .-.even pounds each,
was auctioned for a total of S642.ll:
an average price of SI. 52 oonts
per pound.
Joe Love. 4-11 club youth who
raised the calf, and- his father,
Ernest Love of the State Test
Farm, were guests at the meeting.
The auction was conducted by
Medford Loatherwood of Jona
than Creek.
Ed Sims bought the highest pric
ed package sold at $4.75 a pound.
Other guests at the meeting were
George Farthing, of the N. C. Farm
Firemen answered a call Mon
day afternoon to the Main street
apartment of Mr. and Mrs. George
Patrick, w here a mattress fire was I
extinguished.
Four Men
Arrested
In Death Of
Veteran
Local Youth Admits
Fighting and Stabbing
Mitchell, States
Sheriff
Junior Head, 23, of Waynesville.
will face a charge of murder in
connection with the fatal stabbing
of James Herman Mitchell. 25-year-old
World War II veteran of
Waynesville, route 2, whose body
was found on a roadside Saturday
night 150 feet from the home of his
parents in the Hanging Dog sec
tion. Sheriff R. V. Welch reports thai
Head admitted fighting Mitchell
and stabbing him with a nn.-kpt
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knife about 8:30 o'clock Saturday
evening on a side road in the Shin
gle Cove section.
Head and three other men arc
being held without bond in tho
Haywood county jail. The others
are Robert Fullbright, 28, of Way
nesville, who is expected to be
charged as an accessory after the
crime; James Stanley and George
Plommons, material witnesses.
Dr. J. Frank Pate, Haywood cor
oner, conducted the inquest late
Saturday night in the Mitchell
death. He and the jury; Orville
Noland, Alney Mehaffey, Dr. W
Boyd Owen, Ben Sutton, Robert L
Coin i nd Cole Green, found thai
the death resulted from stab
W6tffiaihfflrtetf by ''an unknown
person or persons."
Funeral services for Mitchell
were held Monday afternoon at the
home of the parents, Mr. and Mrs
James Burton Mitchell, with the
Rev. George Mehaffey officiating
Burial was in Maple Grove Mpthn.
dist church cemetery.
Surviving in addition to the par
ents are a brother, Norman of
Waynesville, route 1; and four sis
tors, Mrs. Lucy McEIroy and Mrs
Mallie Kay Mitchell, both of Way
nesville, route 2; Mrs. Grace Sisk
of Waynesville, route 1; and Miss
Lucille Mitchell of the home.
Pallbearers were Harden Cald
well, Roger Davis, Bud Nelson. Rov
Hightower, David Underwood, Rob
ert Hoyle and Hub Nelson. Ar
rangements were under direction
of Garrett funeral home.
Mr. Mitchell, who served in Eu
rope with the Army Medical
Corps for two years, was employed
by Underwood Lumber and Supply
company.
The body was found by James
Bradshaw and Samuel Ledford, Jr..
as they passed by in a taxi which
they operate.
Investigation indicated that the
stabbing took place near the James
Stanley home in the Shingle Cove
section.
Mitchell remained in Fullbright's
parked car while Head and Full
bright went into the Stanley hou.se.
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More Rye Grass Seed
Arrives For Haywood
An additional 5,000 pounds of
rye grass seed will arrive today for
winter pasture planting in Hay
wood county, reports Miss Mary
Sue Crocker, chief cleric at the lo
cal AAA office.
Farmers may get purchase or
ders for the seed now, paying three
cents per pound while the govern
ment pays the remaining seven
cents.
Highway
Record For
1947
(To Date)
In Haywood
Injured - - - 47
Killed---- 8
(This information Com
piled From Records ot
State Highway Patrcl) ,