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:v.; PRINTING CO 2Zi'-SW. S First S LOUISVILLE KY people The Waynesville Mountaineer Published Twice-a-Week Every Tucstby and Friday fl miles of their ideal per. Published Tvvke-a-Week In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park No. 84 EIGHT PAGES United Pre s and Associated Press News 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- ki... . rr. navmg paid P that included nt t-rabtree town- Haywoori the ro pes, being one of I Settle herp anH (make one of the Pa5e Eieht) Bethel 4-H club -- ji me Club can second Dri7.P fnr Pbles a' the State wntly Muderi rotables C has been an Pr Of the nn,, IS the rfo. .!..- Gorrell, of -mner of the f Bethel high i le'8h evhihif Report Mountai v Mureau,: y Km. ana r 2i , c'ear amj the eraturp staK of the j. Rain-M- Mi. faU -59 .76 0 SH ne rell Place chibit 48 50 .38 7S illfiii , UliillJllll I I ( ...I IIIIII.W illlll.iimm. - .aS . 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 mm 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 (Continued on Page Eight) Charter Will Be Given Exchange Club At 8 Tonight -- -Jl i 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 I 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 ' If ' Wk' i 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 i i i 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. (Continued on Page Eight) 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) ,