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The Waynesville Mountaineer
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WAYNESVILLE, N. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1947
$3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties
wraTo HMdl Ejdmisnoii Hlesiirnoiig Wdlnisd
Examined For Visual
Ms At Siayvood Eye
; Glasses Given 64
THE PILOT CLIMBED OUT ALIVE
C
Lful Clinic Held
,o Days At
lvania Ave-
hool
Ire nueu im
five adults and meas-
Lided for the preserv-
toothers by a trained
k the two-day clinic
county, held last wee
fenia Avenue m.-uuui,
97 students and five
Uual examinations by
lowell of AshevlUe at
Jonsored jointly by the
th Department, State
(or the Blind, and
of Waynesville and
king Dr. Powell were
heed, medical social
he blind commission,
frs. Howard uryson or
distriet health nurse;
Knoph, registered
hatham, N. J. who is
nton; and Mr. Clark
eastern Optical com
itted frames for the
of the Pennsylvania
1 P.-T.A., the princi-
iCathey, and student
sgave full cooperation
e clinic successful,
i to the spectacle fit
nendations were made
ighting at home and
itiumber of young peo-
were given medicine
or special diets to use
I their sigband in
surgery wag recom-
! child is to be given
kiination within three
it is believed he may
int to the State School
e 46 children examin-
fcsday when the clinic
Id by the Canton Lions
Jvhom were fitted for
Thursday when the
Lions sponsored it.
1 children examined
for glasses. Members
N attended the clinic
in progress, and the
will pay for glasses
fcn in their respective
Visitor, on Thursday.
pa Keeler, district sup.
ne Mate Commission
pools in the Waynes-
iwn am not send pu-
pic last week will have
lea at a later date in
forts Mrs. Bryson. All
n examinations were
pfehand hv
health nurses
Inspection
Of Vehicles
Will Begin
In January
One Station To
Conduct Inspections
In Eight W. N. C.
Counties
One inspection station will serve
Haywood and seven other counties
in Western North Carolina next
year when every motor vehicle in
ihe state will have to take a physi
cal examination.
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Price Holds Good During
First Week Burley Sales
With Average Of j&4fj.4l
oss Can Use
pthes For
families
appeal is being made
r clothing to be given
aren.
Fisher, executive sec
Red Cross Stated vhl
F'othine is npoHori inT
F Sirls from two to
Is of aee
PPeal mad.
F 'wo families brought
I response onn nnj
fhat time.
asks that all Hrtno.
psh' to the Red Cross
f 'hird floor of the
as soon as possible.
Permits at jena
Pvine in ti
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No schedule has yet been pie
pared for the station to be set up
in the various communities, re
ports Patrolman O. R. Roberts, who
anticipates that it will move about
from town to town with weekly
stops in each.
Some 200 stale employees will
serve as inspectors under Arthur
T., Moore, a former lieutenant in
the state highway patrol, head of
the mechanical inspection division
in the department of motor ve
hicles. One group of employees
is attending a school at Chapel
Hill learning their new jobs. Two
Other schools will be held in Jan-
To handle the inspection of more i Yule Holidays Will
tnan buu.uuu motor vehicles twice
a year, decreed by the last legis
lature, Moore will place 36 inspec
tion stations in operation over the
state, each expected to handle ap
proximately 200,000 vehicles. He
plans to begin the program grad
ually, with the first five stations
scheduled to open the first Monday
in January, and five more the
second Monday.
Each station will be manned by
one supervisor and at least foul
inspectors. Motor vehicles will be
checked for all manner of defects,
covering the horn, rcarview mirror,
windshield wiper, wheel alignment,
steering gear, exhaust system, tires,
tail lights, head lights and brakes.
If the vehicle passes the test,
the driver will be issued a seal
of approval a blue and black
sticker in the shape of the state.
Vehicles found to be unsafe to
operate will get a red, diamond- I
shaped sticker which means that j
the owner will have to have the.
mechanical defects repaired. If he j
returns to an inspection station i
within the specied time with the
defects corrected, he will be issued (
an approved sticker. i
Owners who fail to make trie
A DERRICK CLEARS away the burning wreckage of a V. S. Navy single
engined torpedo bomber which crash-landed during a traffic rush on the
John Philip Sousa Bridge in Washington, D. C. The pilot, Lt. S. T. Billing
of Glenview, 111., climbed out of the burning cockpit unaided, his only
injury a relatively small gash on the head. (International Sounripnoio)
Start Dec. 19th In
Haywood Schools
Christmas holidays In Haywood
county schools will begin after
classes on Friday, Dec. 19 and
last until Monday, Jan. 5, an
nounces Supt. Jack Messer.
Yuletide programs are being
prepared at all schools for pre
sentation In chapel periods, in
classes, or to the public before
the two-weeks vacation starts.
Chafin Rites
Will Be Held
Wednesday
Service To Start At
3 P. M. For Thad O.
Chafin, Jr., Returned
War Dead
Last rites will be conducted
repairs will have their cars tagged Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock
with a large vellow sticker whicn ai me niM memuuisi L,m.tu
,.,m ,. "Thic vphiMe is unsafe, for First Lt. Thad O. Chafin, Jr.,
. J i o-otoH nr narkprt on I 24 son of Mr. and Mrs. Thad O.
More Drivers
With 'A', 'B'
Names Take
License Test
Examiner Here Gets
Assistant As Jan. 1
Deadline Nears For
First Group
Vehicle drivers in the Waynes
ville vicinity with surnames start
ing with the letters "A" or "B" are
coming in larger numbers to take
their license-renewal examination
before the January 1. 1948. dead
line, reports W. W. Moore, examin
er for Haywood and Jackson coun
ties. There are only six more days
Mondays and Saturdays when the
examinations will be given here.
Patrolman Lonnie Bishop is assist
ing Mr. Moore in conducting the
tests in order to speed them up and
accommodate the larger number
of drivers whose licenses automat
ically expire at the end of this
month. .
The examiners maintain their of
fice on the basement floor of the
courthouse, under the sheriff's of
fice. They are here all day Mon
days and until 1 p.m. on Saturdays.
Drivers are examined with a writ
ten test, a visual test, and driving
their vehicles.
Begining in January all North
Carolina drivers wnose surnames
begin with the letters "C" or "D
will have six months in which to
take their renewal exams.
JEWS REJOICE ARABS THREATEN
Lower Grade 0fter
ings Cause Slight
Dip As Auction
Starts Monday
A total of 1,674.314 pounds of
tobacco was sold during the first
week at the Asheville market,
bringing a total income to growers
of $810,554 or an average price of
$48.41 per hundred.
Selling was resumed on Monday
morning in Carolina warehouse on
Valley street, and the first 26,926
pounds went for $13,072 for an av
erage of approximately $48.51.
This price drop was caused by a
large amount of inferior reddish
type leaf being offered.
Prices ranged, as in the past
week, from $16 to $60 according to
! grade, and only five per cent of
the tobacco sold during the first
hour yesterday morning went to
the Commodity Credit Corpora
tion as the support level.
At the Boone market during the i
first week, 1.253,022 pounds of j
burley was sold for $516,985, bring-!
ing an average return of $41.25. I
First week sales in the Tennes-1
see-Kentucky belt averaged $48.05,
with greater volume of leaf being Farm Blirfmi Mfft
sold than riurine thp nnpnino- ! UU1CUU
of the 1946 sales season and a gen-
roadways or any public place."
If exDerience in other states
which have adopted inspection
Chafin of Waynesville. who was
killed in Germany November 22,
1944. The pastor, the Rev. R. L.
1 ,r ...:n cr::..i 12. ...jit ..r;M hD
.-!.. in K-nrth Caro-; ' ""'' '" "c
syiein " " ,f ! in Green Hill cemetery. The local
Una, only one car in three w ill pass , Veterans of Foreign
the test at first. After the pro-, Amrrjcan Legjon wi1 be
gram has been in effect for a white, j of (he wrv,CM at the
the percentage probably will begrave
reduced. j pallbearers will be Lachland
: Hyatt. Howard Hyatt, Bill Ray,
Bobby Plott. Bill Swift, and Jack
Smith. The body will arrive Tues
day afternoon at 4:30 o'clock from
the distribution center in Char
lotte. The body will be taken to the
Garrett funeral home, where it will
remain until one hour before the
service when it will be taken to the
church.
Pallbearers will be Lachlan
The V'FW and Legion auxiliaries
have charge of flowers.
Lt. Chafin, native of Waynes
ville. was graduated from the
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H. S. Ward Elected
Master Of Masonic
Lddge Fri. Night
Group Will Hold
Special Convocation
Tonight To Confer
Degrees
H. S. Ward was elected Ma.ster
of Lodge 259. A. F. and A. M . at
the annual election held Friday
evening In the Waynesville lodge
hall, attended bv more than 20 vis
iting masons from the Clyde lodge.
Other new officers are: Senior
Warden, E. A. Wilson: Junior War
den, Fisher Sprinkle; Senior Dea
con, R. M. Fie; Junior Deacon, H.
J. Sloan, Jr.: Senior Steward, C.
R. Eckhoff; Junior Steward. Jack
Felmet; Tiler, J. D. McClure: and
Chaplain, R E. Fore.
Tonight there will be a special
convocation of the lodge, at 7:30
o'clock, to confer the Fellowcraft
degree on three members, announc
ed Jimmy Reed, chairman of the
publicity committee.
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CELEBRATING THE FORMATION of the new Jewish state In the Holy Land
crowds attending the New York convention of the National Committee
of Labor Palestine donee in the street (top). Meanwhile Arab threats ot
violence continued. Below (right) is Haj Amin El Husselni, former
Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who has been granted leadership over all
Palestine Arabs He has Issued no final orders for Arab action. At left is
Dr. Hussein Khaldi, chairman of the Arab Higher Committee which
ordered a three-day general strike of Palestine Arabs, (fnternatlona!)
Lions Club Will SettJp
Dime Board Saturday For
Christmas Cheer Program
Plan Annual Drive To
Furnish Needy School
Children With
Clothing
Fines Creek Man
To Attend National
Woods Fire Put Out
By Firemen Sunday
The fire 'department was called
about two o'clock Sunday after
noon to extinguish a woods fire
just off Grimball Park Drive. An
area about 50 feet square was
burned and nearby houses were in
the path of the flames when the
firemen arrived. A brisk breeze
fanned the flames through the dry
leaves.
Hazelwood Pastor Is
In Sylva Hospital
y., c n rrnrkett. pastor of the
Hazelwood Presbyterian churchy is
quite ill in the C. J. Harris Com
munity hospital in Sylve.
Rev. Mr. Crocneu ;
m from fllS
en a leave 01 auci-
church and had gone to his farm
In Macon county, when he was tak
eral price average of $7.66 per
hundred pounds more than was
paid last year. Kentucky growers
sold 67,417.671 pounds for an av
erage of $48.84, and Tennessee pro
ducers sold 24,456,085 pounds for
an average of $47.05.
Selling at Asheville will move
next to Bernard-Walker No. 1.
Carter No. 1, Farmers, Carter No.
2. and Planters, in that order.
MRS. ROBERT PALMER III
Mrs. Robert Palmer is critically
ill in Mission Hospital, Asheville,
where she underwent an operation
several days ago.
TOMMY WALKER AT HOME
Tommy Walker, young son of Mr.
and Mrs. Roger Walker, is at home
after undergoing treatment for
pneumonia at the Haywood County
Hospital.
Ray S. Ferguson Aboard
Cargo Ship USS Libra
Ray Shelton Ferguson, chief yeo
man, husband of Mrs. Gertrude
Herrel Ferguson of Birch Tree.
Mo., and son of Mrs. Fannie Fer
guson of Waynesville, is serving
aboard the assault cargo ship USS
Libra, which has arrived at Boston,
Mass., to report to the Atlantic Re
serve Fleet for decommissioning.
Commissioned in May, 1942, the
Libra fought in the South Pacific
at Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester,
Guam, Lingayen Gulf, and Iwo
Jima. She was credited with des
troying 12 Japanese aircraft and
damaging 12 others. For more than
four years the Libra performed in
combat areas, and at no time did
she suffer any material dahiage of
consequence nor any personnel
casualties due to enemy action.
Miss Carmen Plott, of Oteen,
spent last week end with relatives
here.
Chalres B. McCrary of Fines
Creek has won a free trip to the
National Farm Bureau convention.
December 14 to 18, at Chicago, ac
cording to a notice from stale
Farm Bureau headquarters at
Greensboro.
Mr. McCrary was selected for the
trip at a drawing in the state of
fice of all Bureau members who
had brought in as many as 10 new
members to the organization.
He will leave Friday evening on
a special train from Asheville, and
is scheduled to return the following
Thursday.
EXPENSIVE MODEL HERE
The replica of the millionth Ben
dix automatic washing machine,
made of silver and gold, is on dis
play this week at Rogers Electric
company. The display model is the
same size as the regular washer.
Duke Alumni Of
Haywood To Meet
Wednesday Night
I'he Haywood county alumni of
Duke University will hold a reor
ganization meeting Wednesday
night at 6:30 at Lake Logan, at
the camp of Dr. J. L. Reeves and
Dr A. P. Cline.
This is the first meeting of the
group since the war. and oMicers
will be elected.
indications yesterday were that
approximately 100 would attend the
meeting, which comes a day before
the anniversary of Duke Endow
ment Day.
Frank Ferguson is chairman of
the committee arranging for the
meeting. Other members include
Mrs. William Medford. Miss De
brayda Fisher. Johnny Johnson and
David Hyatt, of Waynesville. and
Dr. A. P. Cline, Mrs. Jack Hamp
ton and Tom Reeves, of Canton.
The principal speaker will come
here from Duke Universitv.
Sale Of Christmas
Seals To Continue
Students in all schools of the
area are selling Christmas seals,
with the money being used for the
prevention and cure of tubercu
losis. The sale of the seals has been
gratifying, according to Mrs
Frank Ferguson, chairman.
Seals are also on sale at the
Chamber of Commerce and board
of education offices.
Several radio programs have
been presented here in connection
with the sale of the seals.
The annual Christinas Cheer
drive by the Waynesville Lions
Club will officially bi'in Saturday
morning, when the dime board s
placed on Main street to receive
contributions that will be spent to
help clothe needy school children
in the Waynesville district.
F.ach Lion has been assigned two
shifts of duly on the board, which
will be manned from 9 a.m. to 9
p.m. through Christmas Eve, ac
cording to C. R. KckhofT, chairman
of the finance committee.
One hundred school children will
gather at the County Board of Edu
cation office on December 18, and
be taken on a shopping tour of
department sto'cs for wearim; ap
parel items. Ttic chikhcn will oe
selected by their teachers from
Waynesville hitih, Aliens Creek.
Saunook. Maggie. Lake Junaluska,
Rock Hill. East Waynesville. Cen
tral Elementary. Hazelwood, and
Waynesville colored school.
lt is booed that the drive will
bring in more than $1,000. states!
Chairman Eckholl. since all that
can be raised will help make Christ
mas a happy day for some worthy
child.
The health and welfare commit
tee, of which Howell Crawford is
chairman, has charge of making the
clothing purchases. G. C. Fergu
son and Henry Davis, members of j
the finance committee, will assist i
Mr. Eckhoff in setting up and con- !
trolling the operation of the dima
board.
Objections
To Planned
Extension
To Be EJeard
Hearing To) Be Held
Wednesday At 4 P. M.
In Mayor's Office At
Town Hall
The hearing of a proposed ordin
ance to extend the corpora'" limits
to include East Waynesville will be
held at the Town Hall tomorrow,
and if sufficient objections arc not
presented the ordinance will be
passed and the limits of Waynes
vilel automatically extended.
Town officials will meet at the
mayor's office at 4 p.m. to conduct
the hearing, in keeping with an
official notice published regularly
in The Mountaineer since Nov. 14.
So far as is known, Waynesville
is the first town in North Carolina
to use this method of extending
corporate limits. It is based on
Chapter 725 of the General Statutes
of the state. Prior to the last legis
lature, the General Assembly had
to authorize an election before
such an extension could be made.
Under the present law, which
simplifies procedure to a great ex
tent, the Town may extend Its lim
its by passing an ordinance If
there is no objections.
Should 15 per cent of the quali
fied voters lu East Waynesville ob
ject by petition, this would make
necessary an, election In that area
among all voters.
Should V5 per centif the quali
fied voters it, WaynerfyMle object by '
peWttoir.tMfe woutff&iuire that an'
election be held in the present cor
porate limits.
It is not known whether there is
any organbed opposition to the
ordinance or not. General opinion
is that no objections will rise from
Waynesville, and that the majority
of residents in East Waynesville are
in favor of the action.
The territory to be annexed
starts on East Street at the present
city limits, and follows the street
past the Nurses Home and Hospital
to the intersection of Highway No.
19-A and 23. From there the line
extends to the East Waynesville
Sunday School building and fol
lows a ridge to the property of Rob
ert H. Gibson, and then a straight
line to a point In Richland creek,
almost opposite Waynesville Lum
ber company.
This proposed extention would
include the majority of homes in
East Waynesville, as the present
line runs just a few feet east of
Davis-Liner Motor Sales building.
Deadline Nears
For Voting In
C. Of C. Election
Chamber of Commerce ballots
for the election of the board of
directors must be in the office
of the organization by four o'clock
Wednesday in order to be counted,
it was announced yesterday by C.
J. Reece, president.
A large number of ballots have
been received from the members,
and practically 100 per cent of the
membership will vote, officials said
yesterday.
The new board of directors will
elect the president and other offi
cers when they hold their first
meeting sometime this month as a
joint-meeting will be held by the
new and old board.
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M SHOPPING DAYS
TO. CHRISTMAS
"Builders Of Peace" Is
Shown To Groups Here
The movie. 'Builders of Peace,"
which pictured the National Guard
program as an asset to the nation,
community and individual member,
was shown last week to a group of
boys at Waynesville Township high
school, and to the Lions Club and
Rotary Club at their regular meet
ings. '
Col. Fitts. senior instructor for
Two different box suppers will be the N. C. National Guard, Raleigh.
held one for high school and adults brought the movie to Waynesville
and the other for elementary stu-' for showings ararnged by the local
dents. ' Guard company.
Bethel To Stage Box
Supper Thursday Night
A box supper and auction sale of
various items will be put on sale at
the auditorium of the Bethel high
school Thursday night at 7:30.
The event is being sponsored by
the journalism club of the school,
and the proceeds will be used in
publishing a school paper.
Highway
Record For
1947
(To Date)
In Haywood
Injured ---50
Killed---- 8
(This information Com
piled From Records of
State Highway Patrol)
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