North Carolina Newspapers

1 bUndard PRINTING . Adv 220 S First St LOUISVILLE The Waynesville Mountaineer Published Twice-A-Week In The County Scat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The G-eat Smoky Mountains National Park 49,500 People Live within 20niles of Waynesville their ideal shopping center ICAL rE on OD ihernll, candi ,ner of Labor, ijwood Friday. iome" in w'est he is a native ,nd lived there :rUCS when he uin the State !S pretty well, e liMl General llidin Later tie :(UB; hour dtvi u ouvti innent, juineu ins own p41a tonsull- ;i lut ot Hay- fcem some timet Jiiaiiy ol llls! winning lnv nau aciual cx g mailers tnat its ul me Com . anil with inc is qualified lor, i ny unqualified . w hile on his j e section.'' j anxious lo get the rest ol me j ia stale line is Dad river. Too! he state is ior Kaleigh." AREA RIGHTS MAN (publican meet- leek, a number party leaders vast majority tats on at least (President 'JVu- frogram. idiscussed Pres- fl rights bill in mention once ding GOP can The conven C. Meekins, of Hennessee, ot to the national lit instructions ion named Col. if Asheville, as ress from the K, of Brevard, nvention, was ate for national jthe state. ites to the na- fere Dr. W. A. f and James J. iiville. State executive iitchell F. Lom Glenn A. Boyd' p, Mr. Hamlin, Irson and Tran Hugh E. Mon ount.v; T. M. n i; Swain and A R. Hidgon of yde Jarrett of knd H. N. Tiger fOSSEI) T RING h. Charlotte at iced that he will lor the Demo- or the 10th dis- seat opposing ts. Two Kepub lso have an h district, Man- nd l'. C. Burk- IV FILES p. Harold D. e has filed for ticcecd himself gressional dis W the state elec- ftek. t ?ES NAMED pernatorial Can Johnson's field announced last ris as campaign enburg county. y of Roberson- nty manager. BALSAM carrying Jasper Allman of Web- est Saturday m 19-A, over all Hatchery. No fere reported by Patrolman, with fek estimated at ather fed Press 6 CnniimioH ffed light show- pville tempera- the staff of m): Max. Min. 67 39 54 52 61 27 15 22 63rd YEAR No. 22 FOURTEEN PAGES United Press K ' ' . ' - fA frTI W; e if r 1 THE NORTH CAROLINA Little Symphony Orchestra, composed ot personnel irom the full Dr. Benjamin F. Swalm, will appear in Wavncsville Thursday. The Little Symphony is mately 30 communities throughout the stale. State Bench Show Is Awarded Waynesville Foxhunters Here Victory Medals Awarded State Show At Meeting of Officials Will Be Given Last Week Ex-Servicemen Following a conference between officials of the North Carolina Foxhunters Association and repre sentatives of the Haywood-Jackson Association here last week, it was announced that the Stale twnch show wilt be held in Waynesville: on the afterrtoon of July 5. j Taking part in the session were Rev.-Glenn Miller of Gold Hill, president; and I T. Wilkinson of Concord, secretary of the st.tte group; E. F. Nanney of the Tryon show; J. W. Killian, president; Jack West, vice president of the Haywoodr-Jackson group; and Tom Davis of Hazelwood, member of the state bench committee. This will be the first time the North Carolina association, one of the largest in the country, lwis held one of its annual shows in this part of the state. A promise to bring the show to the west was made to a local delegation attend ing the field trials at Haleigh last fall. Several other locations were taken into consideration, and the deciding factor in selecting Way nesville as the site for the 1948 show was the great success of the local hound show last summer. Around 300 entries are expected in the July 5 event, from all over the South, and several thousand spectators are expected. H. P. Richards of Bluff City. Tenn., will judge the show, and Robert C. Collins of Asheville was chosen as master of ceremonies. A business meeting of all mem bers of the N. C. Foxhunters will be held here following the show. Hounds that are entered in Ihis show must be owned by members of the association, and a campaiKn is being conducted in this area to ( encourage all local foxhunters to become members. Anyone who is interested in joining may contact J. W. Killian, Tom Davis or Jack West, who have a supply of mem bership blanks. Officers Hamper White Liquor Men In Recent Raids Whitp liauor makers and sellers have had considerable interference with their business since the first of the month in Haywood county, according to information from law enforcement officers concerning recent arrests. . Highway patrolmen report cap turing three different loads of li quor, totaling 124 gallons: and deputy sheriffs, working with fed eral officer Roy Reece, found and destroyed two small stills. On the night of March 1, Patrol men Jeff May and Lonnie Bishop made a catch of 16 gallons in Fines Creek; and two days later May and Deputy Max Cochran took over a load of 60 gallons 'in Cove Creek. Patrolman Bishop made the latest haul, 48 gallons, Sunday at Cove Creek. Arrests were made in all cases, with the defendants bound over to Superior Court or U. S. District Court. March 11 two stills were ca? (Continued on Page Six) N. C. Little Symphony Here Thursday Veterans of World War II will be presented victory medals at the open house program Fri day night, April 2, In the local Armory, sponsored jointly by the National Gnard company and American Legion. According to Ernest Edwards, legion publicity chairman for the program, arrangements have already been made with the Army recruiting sergeant for this area to supply former Army i men with the medals, and Navy authorities are being contacted to provide medals for ex-Navy and Marine personnel. The program will include the showing of an action movie, "The Battle of San Pedro," of scenes in the Italian Front dur ing the war. An invitation is ex tended the general public to at tend the program. Former servicemen who want the victory medals are required to brine their discharge paper, so that the proper notation may be made cs it. Plans for the presentation of mrdiils were discussed at the meeting Friday nichl of the American Legion post. Rotarians Name Board Of Directors Kotarians elected .seven directors for the coining year at the meet ing Friday. The new board will meet early next Friday and elect a president, secretary and a treas urer. Rev. M. R. Williamson, pres ident this term, will become vice president next July when all offi cers take1 office. The seven elected as directors Friday include Richard Barber, M. II. Bowles. Dave Fclmet, James Kilpatrick. Jack Messer, William Ray and Hallett Ward. Malcolm Williamson, Jr.. winner of the D. A. R. oratorical contest, gave his address for the club dur ing the program hour. He used President Wilson's address to Con gress when (he United States de clared war on Germany. WTHS Musicians Waynesville Township high! school's band and chorus are pre paring for the district music con tests this week-end in Lee Ed wards high auditorium, Asheville. Approximately 100 students from here will enter one or more of the contests. Music students from 18 western counties are expected to partici pate in the contests, striving for ratings that will entitle them to advance to the state contests on April 20-23 at Greensboro. Judg ing is expected to be highly criti cal at the Asheville performances in order to bring only the cream ' of North Carolina's high school and Associated Press News Speaker L. I. CASE, beef cattle specialist with the state Extension Serv ice, will speak at tonight's farm planning meeting in the Crabtree hon Duff school auditorium. Farm Meet Set Tonight At Crabtree Iron Duff 0 Agricultural Leaders To Discuss Problems With lliivwnrtd Farm- ..... j ers The first of a series of farm planning meetings lo reach all sec- lions of Haywood county will be held tonight, at the Ci abtree-Iron Duff school, beginning at 7:30 o'clock, announces County Agent, Wayne Corpening. j Specialists of State College ag ricultural extension service in j agronomy, beef and dairy cattle, poultry and farm management will be the principal speakers at the meeting, to which all farmers in Crabtree and Iron DufT townships j are invited. Teachers enrolled in the Haywood county workshop Willi attend the meeting in lieu of their) regular weekly class. One of the highlights of the meeting win oe a coiicen oy me Waynesville lownship nign scnool band, directed by Charles Isley. I There will also be a drawing of! free prizes. Speakers scheduled for the pro gram are: Dr. E. R. Collins, agron omy specialist: L. I. Case, beef cat tle specialist; J. A. Arey, dairy spe cialist; C. F. Parrish, poultry spe ( Continued on page six) musicians to Greensboro, for which the nation's best judges have been secured this year. Charles Isley, music director at Waynesville high, announces that 58 members of the band will com pete in the instrumental events on Friday. The judges are Alan Bone, James Christian Pfohl and Earl Slo cum, directors of music respective ly at Duke University, Davidson college and the University of North Carolina. Saturday the choral and other vocal contests will be held with 57 students from Waynesville high to be entered and accompanied in the various events by Mis Bette Han 4. K WAYNESVILLE, M C. TUESDAY, MARCH to, 1948 ! t If r T 1 4 . symphony and directed by now on a tour of approxi N.C. Little , Symphony In Concert Thursday Orchestra to Present Student and Public Programs In Wavnesvillc The Little Symphony of the North Carolina Symphony ()ichesi tra, conducted by Dr. , Benjamin Swalin. will present two concerts i at the Waynesville lliyh school au- j ditoiium Thursdav. March 18. I I The first conceit will be a tree, matinee for school children at 1:3(1, p in. and will be broadcast through the courtesy of station WHC'C to all schools in I he county. The second concert will be pre-' sented at S:3il in I lie evening and admission will be by Sinphony So ciety membership card or tickets 1 which may he purchased at the door. Since its rcnrgnnizal ion in lilH!) when only two concerts were giv en, the Stale Symphony has been acclaimed by several hundred thousand North Carolina citizens. Last season the orchestra gave 115 concerts in f9 orlh Carolina towns and the attendance was 100. 000 children and 50.000 adults. The enthusiastic response of the children who attended the free concerts indicates how much line music can mean to them when they jure given (lie opportunity lo hear i it. As a cultural force the sym phony is one of the state's greatest i assets. The 23 members of the Little Symphony will travel to HO com munities from February 0 until ! April 1, at which lime it joins the full symphony lour which con j tinues through May 20. I There are several reasons why the North Carolina Symphony di vides itsell into the "Little'' and "Full" symphonies. TJioiv are so , many demands for the orchestra 'from smaller communities that it is necessary to travel two monins with only one busload of players before assembling1 three times that number for the full orchestra. As in the case of the full orches- t ,he , ju,e Symphony presents I nn.,ine nrBrams centered around such winks as Haydn's "Surprise" Symphony and his Symphony No. 97 perfectly tailored for a 23-piece orchestra. Dr. Swalin, musical director of the Symphony, conducts the mem bers of the Little Symphony in both concerts for children and the evening membership concert. Prepare for Contest nah, St. John's high school student. Miss Hannah also will represent St. John's in the piano contest. Jimmy Galloway will compete in the piano contest, and accompany the instrumental soloists. Taking part in the instrumental solo events will be: Carol Underwood, cornet; Mary Osborne, clarinet; Sammie Waggins, baritone; Luther Shaw, trombone; Mark Rogers, alto sax; and J. D. Stanley, Bass horn. A cornet quartet, composed of Carol Underwood, Robert Massie, Alice Marie Burgin and Tommy Curtis, will compete as Waynesville's in strumental ensemble. Member"; of thp hand are as fol ppliance Show To Draw Larae Crowd Appliance Show Speakers L a i.., m 1 HOWARD ELLIS TWO OF THE speakers who will take part in the Farm and Home Appliance Show here are R. W. Shoffner, district Extension agent, and Howard Ellis, head of the Agricultural ciiL;ineering department at State College. They will get the two-day show under way Friday morning. Auto Inspection Lane To Open Here Today Local Employment ! Office'Placed 54 Workers In Feb. Local offices of the N. C. Em ployment Service Division of the State Employment Security Com mission found jobs for 54 persons in Haywood county d urine Feb ruary, reports DeBrayda Fisher, inanam'i. Of this number, 50 were non-agricultural place ments. Duriiic the past month, stales Miss Fisher, there were 160 new applications for work filed at the Waynesville and Canton offices. As of the end of the month, there was a total of 614 persons reg istered as active applicants for employment in the county, re (lectine a larger supply of work ers than 'at the end of January. Placements in February were made mainly in such fields as hiiildine trades, service trades, and a few in industry. Miss Fisher states that the number of jobs found was somewhat higher than usual for this time of the year, when employment normal ly declines. The outlook for spring months is fairly good. The employment service expects a slight expan sioiriof demand for industrial workers, in construction and oth er fields. All persons who are unemployed are requested to register with the employment of fice at Waynesville or Canton; and employers are Invited to list their openings also. All possi applicants to jobs for which they are suited, at no cost to employ ers or job seekers. Chamber of Commerce Board Meets Tonight The board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce will meet tonight at 7:30 The chairmen of all committees are slated to make a brief report of their activities. Wayne Corpening is president and Stanley Henry is secretary. lows: Flute section Mary Ann Massie, Joe Fortner, Eugenia Boone, Mary Jane Rogers, Malcolm Williamson, Jr., and Wade Francis; clarinets Jimmy Galloway, Mary Osborne, H. C. Turner, Vivien Watkins, Joan Morris, Patsy Green, Betty Duncan, Ruth Corwin, Nancy Bischoff, Ann Bischoff, Mildred ! MfriforH Lillian Knnic Medford. Elizabeth Davis and Peggy No land. Bass Clarinet Nina McClure; alto clarinet, Kathleen Calhoun; oboe. Kathryn Hyatt; alto saxes, Mark Rogers, Brent Chapman, Em ily McCracken and Helen Garrett; 'Continued on page six $3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties I R. W. SIIOFFNER Section of Boundary St. Blocked Off for Auto Inspection Lane ' Here .i-Wi ' L . , A section of Boundary St has been blocked off leading toward the Armory and will be used dur ing the next two weeks as the in spection lane for motor vehicles. The lane is open today and to morrow for city, county, state and mechanics' vehicles. Thursday it will be open lo the general public for the first time, and is capable of a vehicle in five minutes time. C. P. Sawyer of Hobbinsville is supervisor of the lane, which will serve the eight mos' -western coun ties which compose district No. 1 in the stale-wide inspection prog-ran starting this year on a permanent basis. Four inspect or j are assigned lo the lane. Vehicles which pas the test are given a blue sticker of approval, pasted on (he windshield. Those which do not pass the first inspec tion get a rejection sticker, and the owner is allotted sufficient time to make the necessary repairs. Next month the lane will be set up in Canton, and is tentatively scheduled to spend two-week pe riods there, at Brevard, Sylva, Franklin, Bryson City. Robbins vill. Murphy, and Hayesville be fore returning here in July. A fee of $1 is charged for each vehicle inspected. Parkway Has Big Rock Slide Near Wagon Road Gap Workmen Find It Will Take Month To Re move Rock; Road Closed Last Fall Engineers estimate that a month will be required to remove the rock from a slide near the en trance to the Blue Rdge Parkway at Wagon road Gap. The slide occurred at the first curve after entering the Parkway. The section cf the Parkway has been closed to the public since late last fall and workmen will have the rock removed before the section is scheduled to be opened for the spring foliage and flower ' season. i The flowers along the Parkway in that area bloom late in May or early June. The pink azalea at Bridges camp Gap are among the most beautiful in the entire Pis gah area, and usually bloom late in May or early June. SINGING CONVENTION The Third Sunday Singing Con vention will meet March 21 at St. Moriah (Calvert) Baptist church between Brevard and Rosman, starting at 2 p.m., it is announced by Glenn Winchester, president. Program of Events Is Announced for Bigger And Better Appliance Show Plans for the farm and homp ap pliance show are progressing at a very satisfactory rate, with indi cations that it will be a much bet ter event than Its predecessor last year, and attract around 2,000 spectators during the two days. A schedule of activities was an nounced yesterday by County Agent Wayne Corpening, starting at 10:30 o'clock Friday morning and continuing through Saturday afternoon. Displays of electrical and plumb ing appliances for the farm and home will be open to visitors throughout the show, and a num ber of interesting demonstrations will be presented during inter missions in the program. Formali ties will be brief, according to the counjt; agent, in order for all vis itors to examine closely displays which appeal to him. Visiting speakers who will take part, in the show include Mrs. Dor Haines and H. J. Kroger, REA specialists from Washington; W. E. Henry of Atlanta and E. B. Melton of Spartanburg, pump engi neers; Toward Ellis, head of the State College agricultural engi neering department; Miss Pauline Gordon, home management spe cialist from Raleigh; R. W. Shoff ner and Pauline Hotchklss, district extension agents. Raymond Cald well of Iron Duff will report Fri day afternoon on "what a water system has meant to our home," and Haywood winners in the better methods electricity contest for 4-H youths, Phyllis James of Crabtree and H. R. Caldwell of Iron Duff, lJ,W!i -M. Uwlr winning pepj- I , ftv-i . , Among the demonstrations to be given are: Ironing, by Miss Eliz abeth Greenwood bf Carolina Power 8c Light company; wrap ping and processing of meats and vegetables for deep freezer, by representatives of farmers feder ation; irrigation system, by deal er from Spartanburg; equipment for a farm workshop, by John Nes bitt, vocational teacher at Waynes ville high school; milking machine, by a local dealer; modern kitch ens, modern bathrooms, all the lat est home appliances at the dealer displays; and a sanitation demon stration conducted by the district health department. Prizes will be given at intervals throughout the show, and other en tertainment offered that will at tract the interest of all. Grading Begins On Street Project In Waynesville Grading of Balsam Street began yesterday by the Asheville Paving Co., successful bidder on the Town of Waynesville contract to hard surface sections of eight streets here. Balsalm is the longest street to be surfaced in the project, with 2. 890 lineal feet. Different phases of the work will be carried out simultaneously on several of the roads. With favorable weather, the project will take about a month to complete. R. E. Allison is in charge of the construction crew. MAYOR'S COURT Two men were found guilty of public drunkenness Friday when tried in Mayor's Court. One paid court costs, and the other. Arch Arrington, was sentenced to 64 days on the road; this having been a second offense. Highway Record For 1948 (To Date) In Haywood Injured-6 Killed -v 1 (This In! omttloa Com piled From Records of ' Stat Highway Patrol)