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Standard PK!N n,(. ( . 2"J0 S Kfast S( LOUISVILLE M if People The Waynesvelle Mountaineer Published Twice-a-Week Every Tucstby and Friday L 20 miles of ille-their iaeai center. Published Tw in'. .l',.,.L i ti i- in i he County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park No. 96 SIXTEEN PAGES - niled Press and Associated P "ress News WAYNESVILLE, N. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1947 $3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties eft Tba(D(D Festal a 1 r I ymicxO ! Millwn Pound Burley Crop Starts To Market Getting Iron Duff Tobacco Ready For Sale T MANSON MEDFORD FARM in lam Dull' township, tobacco r;:dinu was keeping Ed Frady, lllianis. center; and Mr. Medford busy when the cameraman look the above picture. Mr. one ill his best crops in years, and some of it will be entered in l he tobacco show during iido Harvest Festival. A Mountaineer photo by Ingram's Studio. r Pleads Guilty Of slaughter; Is Given Feature Speaker I ence Of 3 Years ght Is Found By Jury; o Set Verdict Entered ipforr court adjoun v a three year sent- Innniiiirrd for John if i'iry found Robert uilly (if implication (fhfll di-aih. but his jure) an appeal to get fcasid,. which may re-fas- being taken to - Court. Jt of Waynos a plea of guilty of which was accepted Iming in Superior ! bavins been indicted n I he fatal stabbing aso ol James Her I. 25-year-old war I"' Hanging Dog sec "ngnr, id. who was r 'he night of Mit. 'as on trial Tuesday la f inal statements ?eS ucrn hoinn ' tug au- jurv as ih I to press f Head had not Pd by Judge Fehx p major case of the Frm- Manslaughter pally range of from F 20 ears in prison. Fence yet to Hp an. r Kmanuel Moore. ' to Beef Takes Big And Sudden Drop In Cecil Section Not many people know it, but beef took a sudden and hie drop in Haywood last week. The drop was nnl crncral, how ever. In fact, it was eonlined to Cecil Township. But rather than keep :,nu in suspense any lonccr, here is the story. Harvey Hargrove had a line steer on pasture, that included some rather much and steep cliffs. Mr. Hargrove missed his steer and after checking thor oughly, found the steer had stepped off a high cliff and sus tained a broken neck in the fall. .est - - Low v s;OTilS lfL.--' tm Crop Owned By 1,388 Haywood Growers Quality Is Good, According To Au thorities Here Many pounds of the Haywood two million pound burlev crop is moving to the market this week, to be on warehouse floors when the market opens Monday morning. Haywood farmers have always practiced having a lot of tobacco on I be warehouse floors for the opening sales, and this year is no j exception. I There are 1,388 burley growers I in Haywood this year, and they I planted 1,126 acres of tobacco, i w hich is 374 less than authorized by AAA. Authorities after a recent check of the crop here estimated that the poundage would be about the same as last year when the to j tal went to almost two million pounds. The 1916 crop brought ; $813,728.(13. The current crop w ill be support i eri by 90 per cent of parity which now is 44.8 cents per pound. The I loan level for this year is 40.3 as compared with 33.6 last year. ' Throughout the fall a numOer of grading schools were conducted here in Haywood and a large nuin I ber of growers attended these j schools and are taking advantage ; of the strict classification of their crop. Tobacco specialists who have been here during the harvest sea son have all ben pleased with the rfHarwood crop." and predictions' are that some of the best burley grown this year will be from the Haywood crop. V. A. Bradley To Lead Group In Making Plans For Recreation Program To Lead Group 0''V:ti FIRE REPORTED The Waynesville Fire Depart ment was called out about 5:15 Wednesday afternoon to extinguish a fire that had caught in Mrs. Sam Leatherwood's home on Meadow Street. Very little damage was reported. J&ifewltoiUmwriiMl W. A. BRADLEY was chosen to head the 1 AMI 1 1 1 1 it Iff to oi k out a long range recreation program for Waynesville and Hazelwood. Christmas Lights To Be Turned On This Week-End City( electrical workers are push ing to completion the .stringing of Christmas lights on Main Street and plans are to have I hem turned on this week-end, according to G. C. Ferguson, town manager. The lights will be strung on Church Street and at the Depot the first of the week, it was ex plained. Several hundred more lights than have ever been used before are being put up, Mr. Ferguson said. To Name Assistants For Waynesville Hazelwood Committee In Ten Days W. A. Bradley was elected Tues day evening to head a committee of his own choice, to be innounced within the next 10 days, to pre pare plans for the development of recreational facilities serving Ha elwood, Waynesville and surround ing area. Mr Bradley was the unanimous choice of representatives of church and civic groups, officials of the two communities, and other inter ested persons who gathered il the Tow ne House to consolidate their efforts for a community reereal ion- program. Afl,er his acceptance of leader ship, Mr. Bradley, a successful merchant and one of the com munity's hardest working civic ; leaders', staled that his woik would i be directed towards making the j best; use of school grounds and I other facilities we now have, but that: i "Kventually we will have to have j recreation grounds owned by the towns of Waynesville and Hazel- wood if we are to have a long Died Wednesday County-lVide Celebration Will Offer Many Events Taylor Will Give Highlight Speech To Tobacco Growers Here Saturday range program. Mrs. Stanley Brading was chosen as secretary for the committee. No limit on the committee size was placed. Mr. Bradley being given full choice in Its selection and promised the wholehearted support of all present. A general feeling of enthusiasm and confidence that "this time something will be accomplished" was prevalent as the meeting was (Continued on Page Two) involuntarv m an automobile fat med over from the V tr inn Ik- i n ' to niuruer fi A y Jmathers A Wtlls. Sam Bradl f'ns. John Palmer, G. r "Utton. Rnv Havnoc f"ed thi . JL..' " ecu were j. nf cases: Millard Bradley; Bry I s Iva Phillips Lu ?e;s Frank Brown- 1 vs. Mfirthn Vote Places Given For Committees Of Farmers Chairman R. C. Francis Urges All Eligible To Help Select Committees HUGH W. TAYLOR, executive secretary of the Burley and Dark Leal Tobacco Kxport association, will make the keynote address of the Haywood County Tobacco Har vest festival at 11 o'clock Saturday morning, speaking on the outlook of Burley tobacco. Raised on a to bacco farm in Hancock county, Ky., iiid a graduate of the University of Kentucky. Mr. Taylor has been connected with the tobacco indus try since 1909; with experience in foreign countries as well as the United States. He retired in Oc tober alter 17 years with the U. S. Department of Agriculture to take his present position. 11511.. "-outers, vs Frnnci.c r-tha Mease vs. Bob- !""- Kate Roger$ their Kixe . make ! develop of farm said. "And Voting places for the election of farmer committees in the agricul tural conservation program were announced this week by R C. Fran .c .niintv rhairman. who advises all persons eligible to cast ballots. "These annual elections Inrmiirs an minor (unity to their voice heard in the ment and administration w . nojiies, I nrnerams. Mr. Iraiicis tBen'i tmerson Mc" since even farmer has an interest L, , in seeing that the national pro '""ted thin , i. . , ... i t, chnnlH use gram nis local neeu, it this opportunity lo select the men to administer the program who will best carry out this responsibility. Elections on Tuesday. Dec. 2 will be held in each township as follows- Beaverdam Canton Cham ber of Commerce: Cecil-Messers store: Clvde Ed Finchers store. Crabtree Crabtree school, and tm .... . . r. i ir....r f'rxff- ttea', "mtted vs. George Best store; r-asi rui-w Q arolyn Hender- burn's store: Fines Creek-Fines "uaerson. and Creek school, ana cnaine ... "Pc vs. tJvn,. wc ctnre- Iron Duff Jarvis vs. Pes Co Ballots Are Ready For Commerce Annual Vote Votes To Be Returned Before December 10th In Election of Officers Ballots are being prepared for mailing to the members of the Chamber of Commerce in the an nual election of the board of di rectors. The nominating committee named some weeks ago by C. J. Reece. president, made their re port at the November meeting Tuesday- night. The ballots are to be marked and mailed to the Chamber of Com merce by December 10th, as the tabulation will be done the 11th of December. The ballots will contain the fol lowing names: Representing Agriculture and Livestock 'Vote for one), George A. Brown, Howard Clapp, Wayne Corpening, C. D. Ketner, D. Reeves Noland and R. C. Francis. Continued on page two Friday and Saturday November 28 29 PROGRAM Thanksgiving Armo Night Tobacco Harvest Festival Ball at the Waynesville - Sponsored by Beta Sigma Phi. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY - NOVEMBER 28-2!) NO ADMISSION CHARGE EVERYTHING FREE Friiay, 1:00 p. m. Parade (3 bands -19 beauty contestants). Saturday. 10:30 a. (Courthouse). Band Conceit Friday, 1:30 p. m. Official opening of Tbbacco Harvest Festival and Band Concert. Friday, 2:00 p. m. Address by Jonathan Woody, President of First National Bank of Waynesville (Courthouse). Friday, 3:00 p. m. Lighting: Demonstra tion (Armory). Friday, 3:00 p. m. Movie, "Meet North Carolina" (Courthouse). Friday, 7:30 p. m. Selection of Tobacco Queen Court; band music. Saturday, 11:00 a. m. Address by Hugh Taylor, Executive Secretary of the Burley and Dark Leaf Tobacco Ex port Association, Inc. Saturday, 1:00 p. m. Luncheon for To bacco Warehousemen of Asheville. Saturday, 2:00 p. m. District Farm Bu reau meeting (Armory). Talks by Carl T. Hicks, Chairman of the N. C. Farm Bureau Tobacco Committee, and J. V. Whitfield. Chairman of the N. C. Farm Bu reau Fruit and Vegetable Com mittee. Saturday, 3:30 Tobacco Demonstrations. Saturday. 7:30 p. m. Selection of Hay wood County Tobacco Harvest Festi val Queen; band music (Armory). Saturday, 8:15 to 11:00 p. m Squara Dance Team competition and String Band competition (8 square dance teams and 16 string bands are com peting. Armory). Friday, 8:15 to 10:30 p. m. Singing Convention 18 quartettes have al ready been lined up (Armory). All tobacco entered in the Tobacco Show must be entered on Friday before 4:00 p. m. at the Armory. Judging will be held Saturday morning and the announcement of winners will be made at the meeting at 11:00 on Saturday morning. All roads will lead to Waynes ville on Friday and Saturday as hundreds of persons from all of Haywood county gather for the To bacco Harvest Festival, sponsored by the local Merchants Associa tion. A varied program of interest to Burley tobacco growers, ( heir fam ilies anr) friends, has be n prepar ed from both the cduc3tion.il and entertaining viewpoint. An impos ing number of state and federal agricultural leaders will bo on hand to take part in the festival. Some 100 growers will enter hands fo their 1947 crop in the tobacco contest. The committee in charge of this. Joe Cline, R. C. Evans, W. T. Hawkins, John Nes bitt and Claxlon Henderson, will accept entries at the Armory until 4 p.m. H iday. Judging of the leaf Well Known Educator "''" b' 1,old Saturday. W. Kerr Scott, state agricultural Retired After commissioner, will lead the parade Friday afternoon that gets the Fes Teat'hing For 52 lival started. Three bands, floats b and cars bearing the 19 heautv queen contestants, and six addi tional floats, will be in the parade Edward J Robeson, 87, well j which will go from the First Bap known educator and beloved cit i- i tist church to the courthouse, zcn. who taught for fifty-two years The highlight speech of I ho (es i.lhe schools of , North Carolina, i Uval will be 'given al 11 o'clock Georgia and Virginia, died at his j Saturday morning by Hugh W. home here Wednesday morning, Taylor of Washington, on the out following an extended illness. j look of the Burley market. Accord Funeral serv ices will be conduct-' i"8 to general chairman Wayne ed at the First Methodist church j Corpening, the address will he at on Friday morning at 11 o'clock. ! ,,le courthouse unless court is still The Rev. It. L. Young, pastor of!'" session: otherwise it will b,. at PROF. E. J. ROBESON. 87. died at his home on Love l.anei here early W ednesday iihu ihiil;, follow -in; a long illness. Funeral For E. J. Robeson Will Be Held On Friday Years In State : the Armory. A free trip to the Biltmore Es tate has been promised to the 4- club having the largest percentage of members present to hear Mi Taylor. The beauty contest, singing con vention, square dance and string band contests are scheduled dur ing the two days and nights of the festival. the church, of which Mr. Robeson was a member, will officiate. He will be assisted by the Rev. L. R. Akers, pastor of the Bryson City' Methodist church, and a nephew of Mr. Robeson. The body will remain at the j Garrett funeral home until ten; o'clock Friday morning, after which I it will be taken lo the First Melho-j disl church where it will remain! until the hour of the service. Burial : will be in Green Hill cemetery. j Active pallbearers will be Laeh- lan Hyatt, Bill, Swift, Joe Jack At-i CO. Of Sifrnal 7, FlII JJtlU Woodrow Cooper Named kins. David Hyatt. William String- Meld. Carleton Weatherby, Ben Sloan and Richard N. Barber. Jr. Honorary pallbearers will be Dr. Tom Stringfield, Dr. W. L. Kirk pat rick. J. R. Boyd. R. H. Black well. Col. J II. Howell, M. H. Bowles. Hugh Massie, Guy Massie, II. L. Lee. .1 II. Woody. Wilford Ray. Charles E. Ray, Frank Rogers. I. M. Killian. Sr . Hugh J. Sloan. G Dewey Stovall, J. C. Patrick, Dr. N M. Medford. W. F. Swift, (Continued on Page Six) Woodrow (Bill i Cooper, who served with (he Army Air Corps during World War II, has recently been promoted to captain and nam ed commanding officer of th Canton 30th Signal Company, N. C. National Guard. He succeeds Fred Ferguson, who has headed the unit since it was reorganized. The company now has a strength of 91. men and six officers, being authorized a full strength of 236 enlisted men and 11 officers. Impressive Service Held For Returned War Dead An impressive memorial service honoring the World War II dead upon their return for final burial m Haywood county was held Tues day upon the arrival of the flag draped casket hearing the body of Technician Fifth Grade Low Par ton, who was killed in Germany at the age of 21. Veterans organization, the Na-1 tional Guard, and Waynesville I high school band joined in a form- j al military funeral procession, es- j corting the dead soldier and his i family from the railway depot to 1 the courthouse lawn. With the Hag al half mast the principal memorial address was spoken by Rev. R. L. Young, chap lain in the late war. who acknowl- j edged the debt of the living to the j sacrifices of those who fell in bat- I tie. I William Medford. American Le- , gion post commander, expressed the purpose of the service in mem orializing the return of all of Hay wood county's war dead. Three or ganizations, the National Guard, high school band joinc din a form Wars offer their services to con duct military funerals to others as families, be stated. The National Guard firing squid gave four volleys, and the sounding of taps concluded the service. Graveside rites were conducted Wednesday afternoon at Crawford Memorial Park by Rev. R. P. Mc-Cracken. NmmMM Highway Record For 1947 (To Date) In Haywood Injured - - - 50 Killed---- 8 (This information Com piled From Records of State Highway Patrol) (Continued on Pagf Two' they return, upon the request of the
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