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Siandar.l ?Kl. IIXG ft. LOUISVILLE k' ElTlCAL 'ONTS I o T .uv set a blistering s the Texan ad SThS De-rats rights '"not 5.1 In the t ut Connally hit it teXl,h asserting. "We tut Of course, we shall t lying tav L is -vicious, wrong, eo' ,j u.. ofnatpd." The Isliouia w - ovmo.it Practices Act, he a raaicai 18 a " The inB proposal lie labeled a 16 r..u... iui i." who pass a law " L KILE FOR Em. johnson r,i,.r cuunty farmers Leigh Saturday and went lo the beard oi elections there each one tianaca . u.. CI 0 hlinit b make up ...,r favorite son, Charles L, u-hii is seeking the Jc nomination as governor fwsun in "e niediiL.i.ic icial headquarters in Ma- got Ins organization to br tlif cami'uiB"- L GOP MEETINGS b'OR TODAY mnnes are scheduled t Haywood for today by loaders, it was an- v Glenn A. Boyd, chair- county executive com- Lrh precinct chairman targe of making arrange the meetings today, he matters to be brought selection of a precinct t two members lo Igatcs to the executive ( be held in Canton Sat- E o'clock. IP MAKES PLANS XACE DRIVE t Chapel Hilt, 126 pro- kanded together last Sat- niake formal plans for Hie Wallace for president throughout North oaro- hi lot "Tarr Heel 8tu- IWallace Rally" they re in experts in liberal-front the basic lessons in hp for the common to get free time on the to push petitions, how rough "letters to the parlinents of newspapers to sell the cause with CAROLINA SENATORS ft CIVIL RIGHTS ILS OF TRUMAN I Carolina's two United' ators, Clyde R. Hoey andf Umstead, severely crlt sident Truman's civil fcram and declared it is lot every Southerner in lo oppose it to the limit. statements were issued senators as they urged Democrats "to use sound and nol act hastily at 1 time. Southern Dem- Congress will challenge 'gtits program at every way." JAROLIMAN TO RIMAN FROGRAM al went out from South State Senator William chairman of the South emocratic party, for ev ' be made to bring to southern states for unit " the "Southern revolt" ; national party, UP met yesterday in l make final plans for iD SOLICITOR N 20TH DISTRICT BTson. Jr., 0f Bryson en appointed solicitor 1 Jud?e F. Donald Phil . during the current ' ""Swain county, due h of Baxter C. Jones. n,m has becn men "l' successor to So- ;; as have been Ed Whit City, fomer state Jones of Franklin; francs of Waynesville, U on'? aUSrney and ,UQ On Pair ir;u f Weather Ihe v rressj March 2 Mild wit 'aynesvllio 5t? the sta Mia, RalnfaU 66 47 68 37 The Waynesville Mountaineer i Published Twice-A-Week In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park 63rd YEAR No. 18 EIGHT PAGES United Press Farm -Home Appliance Shou Mere Is Planned Displays to Be Pre pared for Show at Armory on March 19-20 A farm and home appliance show will be held Friday and Saturday, March 19-20, at the Waynesville Armory, featuring displays of equipment by Haywood county dealers and national supply Arms. Plans for the show were formu lated last week by representatives oi the Chamber of Commerce, Haywood Electric Membership Co operative and the Farm Extension Service, held at the county agent's office. During the show, talks will be made relative to household ar rangement and use of the various appliances. Specialists from the local area, N. C. State College and the R. E. A. i nWashington are be ing invited to conduct the educa tional aspects of the show. A committee composed of R. N. Barber, Jr., chairman; David Fel met and Wayne Corpening was se lected to allocate space in the Arm ory for dealer displays. Rural wa ter systems and electric household appliances will be shown in the displays, with dealer representa tives to be present to discuss the technical points of the equipment. Purpose of the show is to bring out the advantage of modern appli ances in the home and on the farm. Redden Is Speaker To Postmasters At Clyde Many Attend Gather ing At Clyde School Cafeteria On Satur day Night Between 75 and 100 persons at tended the dinner meeting oj the postmasters of the T2th district at the Clyde school Saturday night. Representative Monroe Redden was the speaker of the evening. Grover C. Haynes, Clyde post master, was toastmaster, and gave the address of welcome. J. H. How ell, postmaster of Waynesville, gave the response. Recognition was made of Wade Hill, state president of postmasters. During the busi ness session it was voted to meet in Waynesville for the summer meeting, which will be held in late June or early July. Mrs. Ammons of Robbinsville was named presi dent of the association, succeeding Mrs. Emily Walkingstlck, of Cher okee. Mr. Redden discussed the prob lems facing the Congress, and dis cussed at length some of the do mestic issues at large. He also (Continued on Page tight) School Attendance Violation Causes Road Sentence The father of a Fines Creek high school student who had stayed away from classes since the Christ mas holidays without legitimate ex cuse was given a road sentence of 30 days when tried Thursday be fore W. G. Byers, justice of the peace. Sentence of Shuford Beas ley, the defendant, was suspended upon presentation of evidence that his wife is sick, and his promise that he would send his son back to school this week. Mrs. Wanda Clark, truant officer for Haywood county, prosecuted the case. Magistrate Byers pointed out that state law requires parents to send their children to school be tween the ages of 6 and 16 for the complete school term, unless pre vented by illness or other reason able excuse. Bookmobile Drive Quota Subscribed . ...$3,000.00 522.00 Balance to go . .$2,478,00 Clothing MORE THAN 4,000 pounds of clothing and other goods shown in the boxes above were gath ered in "the Waynesville area by workers in the church-sponsored "Kill a Ship With Kriendship" drive. The Rev. Russell Young, Methodist pastor and chairman of the drive here, is pictured with the goods before they were shipped for World Service Center, in Mary land, on their way to help clothe the destitute in Europe. A Mountaineer Photo hv Ingram's Studio. Carl Brock, Jr. Is Haywood's 'Leap Year Baby' Four years will pass before Carl William Brock, Jr., will cele brate his first birthday. Little Carl was born at 5:30 p. m. Sunday, February 29, at the Haywood County hospital. He was the pnly "leap year" baby reported, abd will have to wait until 1952 before another Febru ary 29 rolls! around. His parerfts are Mr. and Mrs. Carl Brock of Canton. Two Liquor Stills Are Captured Two illicit whiskey stills caotured Sunday in the were Cold Springs section by Deputies John Kerley and Max Cochran, and Roy Reece, federal ugent. One of the stills was of 60-gal-lons capacity, made of copper, with evidence nt the silo that it had completed a run Saturday. There was 3(0 gallons of mash found with the still, and poured out by I he of ficers. The other was a smaller plant, and was destroyed at its location. Sixty gallons of mash was found and poured out. Both stills wore untended at the time, and no arrests have been made as yet, according to Deputy Cochran. The larger still was brought in and has boon wrecked. Jersey Cattle Promoters Will Meet Here Friday The Great Smokies parish of the North Carolina Jersey Cattle Club will meet at 10 a.m. Friday, March 5, at Mountain Experiment Station here, announces Howard Clapp, manager. Plans for Jersey field days and youth work in the parish will be discussed at the meeting. County agents, 4-H club members, voca tional agriculture teachers, and F. F. A. youths who are interested in dairy cattle are urged to attend the two hour program. W. C. Hodges of Fletcher is pres ident of the parish, which covers 11 W.NC. counties. Ted Besh of Biltmore Farms is secretary-treasurer. Curtis Hobson of Charlotte, field man with the state club, also will be present for the meeting. Assignments For Boy Scout Drive Made By Lions Assignments of canvassing areas were made in the drive to raise $1,400 for the Boy Scouts of Amer ica at last week's meeting of the Waynesville Lions club, which is conducting the drive this year. Lawrence Leatherwood, chair man of the boys and girls commit tee, made the assignments and re ported that through Thursday the preliminary canvass had netted ap proximately $300, and Associated Press News Gift Starts On Way -J v "Tn'V I L P Vfcr, I Ifw fMil Dorcas Bell Love Mother Of Waynesville Founder Was Heroine Of Revolutionary Days Small Child Injured In Hazelwood Accident I Johnny Marcus. 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Marcus of Hazel- wood, was treated at the hospital heroSaiurday for tgash ovrs, eye and othef cuts sustained when he was struct by an futomohile in front of his Beech street home. He returned honie sifter treatment by a physician. A hearing on charges of reckless driving and assault with a deadly1 weapon was scheduled for 6 o'clock Monday afternoon against Charles' R. Powers, who was driving the car at the time of the accident. Canton Had A Big Building Program During Past Year Canton's building permits issued for 1947 showed that $2H7.342 in construction was clone during the year. This is a gain of $48,000 over the 1946 figures. New dwellings accounted for $157,500, and repairs lo dwellings for another $37,002, the report re vealed. Churches and commercial build ings, together with repairs to bus iness places accounted for Ihe re mainder of the building permits issued. IMPROVING Eleanor Phillips, 0. recovering in the hospital from injuries sustained in an automobile accident Thurs day in East Waynesville is reported to be improving. Hazelwood Although the "Lord's Acre" plan is usually associated with rural churches, Rev. M. L. Lewis has found that mem bers of the Hazelwood Baptist church take to the idea with Qi-itViiiciacm rnnsrious of its spiritual and mate- jV-lf rial benefits. In a report on how the Hazelwood church has carried out the Lord's Acre idea in in dividual and group proj ects, Rev. Mr. Lewis writes that the past year 01 , r i has seen the church add New Educational Building a $20,000 educational building to its facilities, a growth in membership and improvement of Christian fellowship. "I at tribute much of this fine spirit to the Lord's Acre work. We have learned this largely by 'working together with the Lord' in the Lord's Acre movement. In 1947 from individual and small group projects, and from many of the church members who gave their first hour's "wages of each week, the Hazelwood church real WAYNESVILLE, N. C, To Europe (Editor's Note: The following ar ticle is reprinted from the Greens boro Daily News, i By TIIF.KLSA I IIO.M.VS A mother whose six sons served in the War ot Independence' cer lainlv rli.vr.T'v' Id hi HiiKsod ;ls a rdme f that atone vffere her rfalm lo fame. But in the case of Dorcas Bell Love that was only one. Her hnmc was a haven for hard Dressed patriots and although her thoughts were centered on her .sons and five brothers in Ihe C'onlinental Army. she si ill found lime and means In neip I nose w no came io ner ioi shelter. In commemoration of her devotion Hie Dorcas Bell Love Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution of Waynes ville was named for her. Dorcas Bell Love was the dough ter of James and Sarah Grace Bell who lived in Tangling Springs. Au- 1 gusla county, Virginia. II was (here that Dorcas was horn, the youngest of eighl children. She was nl stur dy Scottist stock, lor her grand father. Matthew Bell, came lo Ihis coiinlry directly from Scotland. , Matthew sol I led in Virginia and be j came a man of w ide inlliienee and 'wealth whose descendants are prominent citizens of the colony. As a young girl. Dorcas Bell en joyed all the privileges and pleas i ures wine'' .ire l- adil ionally associ ated with the daughters of the wealthy and cultured of the era 1 She was a belle anil, the young blades paid their court in the digni fied gallant manner I hat w as con sidered correct in I hose more for mal times She received more than her share of the tighl, lace filled nosegays which the young men sent to the lady of their choice'. Notes (Continued on Page Five) Likes Lords Acre Plan I wr r J, . . '"I BTB - n r i, ized $1,513. In addition to this sum, the men cultivated a field of certified Sequoia potatoes, yielding around 300 bushels, which is to be sold for seeding purposes. "We feel that we will be able to TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1948 Drive Begun To Get 500 Members In Farm Bureau Prizes Are Offered to Persons Who Write Most Memberships This Month A drive to secure 500 members in the Haywood County Farm Bu reau was launched Saturday at a called meeting in the courthouse, and will be continued during the month of March. There were 163 members in the Haywood bureau at that time, it was reported. The drive will be conduclcd by individual initiative, with prizes oi fered the person who signs up the most new members. First prize will be $25, second prize $15, third, $10 and fourth, $5. Members of the women's auxiliary arc eligible for the prizes. W. Ci. Byers spoke to the large group who attended the meeting last week on the value of farmers organizing to secure bencfieienl legislation on stale and national levels. He described how labor had achieved much by forming unions, and pointed out that f miners must organize in order to promote their own interests. Another speaker was George Far thing, farm bureau Held represent ative. One goal of the bureau this year is In, get the state to reduce the warhousc commission on burley to bacco sales from 4 per cent to 3 per cent. If this movement proves successful, savings among individ ual farmers in Haywood would more than amount to the annual membership dues in the bureau. ,Dad Mdevod antf"? .Waym (iirp ning were selected to confer witlj olTitMli.ln Raleigh this week end' on the appointment of a path- j ologist for the state farm extension service, ! Rotarians Hear Young On World Of Opportunities Rev. R L- Young, pastor oi me. First Methodist Church, addressed the Rotary club on Friday on "Op-j pnrluiiilics." He pointed out that; the world affords more opporluni ties today than ever, yet Ihe "door closed forever perhaps faster" than a I any other period in history. Rev. Mr. Young raised the ques limi in the course of Ihe discussion ' of whether il would not have been, better for the Allies in World Warj II to have informed Japan that the; atomic bomb was ready to he used , unless they signed an armistice.! He said the conference might have resulted in an armistice without; I he use of the bomb. "Our goal today should be the; hope of making a world without war. and each individual in the world is responsible for eontrib- uling their part to such a pro- j gram." Howard Clapp, vice president, presided in the absence of Rev. M R. Williamson, president. double this amount in 1948," the pastor states. Three men have been named by the church as its Lord's Acre com mittee. Arthur Watkins will have charge of the small group and in dividual projects. D. L. Dean is managing the church project, to be a two-acre field of Irish potatoes ! grown for seed. Charlie Palmer is in charge of the "first hour" phase of the work. "These men," reports the pastor, "are taking hold of the work in a fine way. They feel that we can enlist every mem ber of our Sunday school in one or more of these projects." Last year the church was in great need of Sunday school rooms and with the Lord's Acre work in progress it was decided to meet this need by building. The educa tional building was constructed with 20 class rooms, an office and two assembly rooms, at a cost of around $20,000, including heating and furnishings. The church found it necessary to borrow $7,000, but believes that the loan will be paid (Continued on Page Eight) $3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties Street Paving Contract Will Be Let Thursday Solicitor Dies BAXTER C. JONES, solicitor of this district, died of a heart at tack at his home in Bryso'n City last Friday afternoon. He had been solicitor of this district only a few weeks. He succeeded Dan K. Moore, of Sylva, who was named judge. l'liolo by Ingram's. Heart Attack Is Fatal To Solicitor B. C. Jones Recent Appointee to 20th Judicial District Post DiesxFriday At Bryson City Baxter Columbus Jones. 62. solic itor of the 20lh judicial district and former state senator, died of a hearl attack Friday nl'ternoon at his home in Bryson City Mr. Jones, long a prominent member of the Swain county bar, had served al only one court term since being named recently to the post of solicitor. That was in his native Jackson county. He relin quished the post of 33rd district senator at the time he was made solicitor He succeeded Dan K. Moore of Sylva as solicitor when the hitler was named superior court judge to take the place of Judge Felix E. Alley ol Waynesville. An outstanding Western North (Continued on page eight! Madison Man Is Recovering From Gunshot Wounds Boh Keener; 46, of Little Creek in Madison county is reported in generally good condition at the Haywood County Hospital where he is recovering from gunshot wounds in his face and head. Keener, who was admitted to the hospital al 12:30 a.m. Sunday, stat ed to Patrolman O. R. Roberts that he was shot by D. A. Keener, 22, his brother, at their mother's home in the Little Creek area. Madison county officers have been notified in order for them to complete the investigation. The shots are believed to have been fired by a .22 calibre rifle. Civic Programs Start On WHCC The Chamber of Commerce in augurated a series of programs over WHCC last night, which will con tinue for three times weekly for a period of weeks. Each of the 17 committees of the organization will have a program which will be heard from 7:05 to 7:15 each Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings. Each phase of the work of the organization will be discussed dur ing one of these programs. Waynesville Junior 4-H Members Elect Officers Officers of the Waynesville high junior 4-H club were elected at the group's first meeting Thursday, February 26. Patsy Blalock was named president; June Messer, vice president; Raymond Inman, sec retary-treasurer; and Patricia Bren die, reporter. The junior club is composed of seventh and eighth grade students. 49,500 People Live within 20 miles of Waynesville their ideal shopping center Town Board Will Open Bids For Paving Streets In Waynes ville Sealed bids will be received for letting of a contract to pave sec tions of eight streets in Waynes ville, at 4 p.m. Thursday. March 4. at the Town Hall. Specifications advertised by the town calls for prospective contract ors to submit prices for a total of 1,860 tons of asphalt ic concrete and 2,500 tons of base course. Should acceptable bids be received, work will be begun within a shoil time. The lineal feet of the streets lo be paved are as follows: Oak Street, 400 feet; Hill SI reel. 1,050 feet; Hospital Street, 375 feet. Bal sam Street, 2,81)0 feet; I'ark Drive, 2.275 feet; Ray Avenue, 965 feet; and Lee Street, 1,140 feel. All. will be paved to a width of 16 feet with the exception of Lee Street, which will be 14 feet wide. Town officials decided on the street improvement program dur ing January, when they allocated $24,000 from the reserve fund to take care of the paving and to pay for the enlargement of a water line serving residents of Park Drive. J. R. Boyd Jr. Named To County Board Of Welfare J. R. Boyd, Jr., of Waynesville was reappointed to the Haywood county board of public welfare for a three-year term ending April 1. mpl, at a recent meeting of the 8tate Board of Welfare j a Raleu-h. 'Pie Sftte Board appoints one member of county hoards, the county commissioners select one member, and these two appointees choose the third member. Each member serves for three years, with their respective terms ending at yearly intervals. Currently serving on the Hay wood board in addition to Mr. Boyd are N. W. Carver of Jonathan Creek, who is filling the unexpired term of Clifford Brown until 1940. and Norval West of Clyde, whose term extends until 1950. Mrs. Sam Queen, superintendent of welfare for the county, is a full time em ployee of the state. Public Invited To See Battle Movie At N. G. Armory The public is invited lo a show Ing of authentic films of the Bat tle of San Pedro," showing action on the Italian front in World War II, which will be presented Tues day rught, April 2, at Ihe local Armory under sponsorship of the National Guard. Capt. James M. Davis, command ing officer of the Waynesville. guard company, states that this is one of the outstanding movies re corded during the war by Signal Corps cameramen. The showing will start at 7;45 p.m.. and seats arranged for several hundred spec tators. There will be no charge. Crabtree Bookmobile Program Was Success The box supper and basketball game held Thursday night at the Crabtree-Iron Duff high school to raise that area's quota for the book mobile fund was reported a com plete success. The school P.-T. A. sponsored the program. Highway Record For 1948 (To Date) In Haywood Injured--- 6 Killed---- 1 (This Information Com piled From Records of State Highway Patrol)