North Carolina Newspapers

t Undtr. i K.n , i M. 22o-230 S Fir.-1 -LUUlb il.L:. 49,500 People Live within 20 miles of Waynesville their ideal shopping center The Waynesville Mountaineer Published Twice-A.Week In Tina County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park No. 4 TWENTY PAGES United Press and Associated Press New! WAYNESVILLE, N. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1948 $3.0(1 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties nd Baptist Men To 'n Clyde Tonight ( all M '"' ll ""I ut ,11,1 111"11" tM" tjI --" in. S''w' L we V . ... K ,n iii' ine i'"- FT lllt. nifi'l nit, li.. IHA. 1- ( ndi- tin"1'1 biuicuo "i" leeiint; t"u " ns rc ""' 1 Baptist Speaker ell. LmgtlietAinl. Lcoiis. UxniL-n, I i i l L 1. , lUur u.un ties Delist ciiuicii L.iiiU'ii Hrsl tle LiaDUt'f thel church. mo J- l- loi Wcsieni tan L. lii'au- , taslein North M M A. MUGGINS, executive secre tary of the N- c Baptist Conven iKin will address the Baptist men C ' Uu'llanl. I of Haywood tonight at eight in Absucialioiial . Clyde. Carolina; una 110 Doctors Held Annual Meeting Here Wednesday One hundred and ten physicians from Western North Carolina gathered in the Piedmont Hotel Wednesday to hold the annual spring meeting of the Tenth Dis trict Medical Society. The convention, according to President V. H. Duckett of Can ton, was very successful. The doc tors hope to meet here again next year lor a similar event. An address of welcome was ex tended to the medical men by Mayor J H. Way of Waynesville. Dr. B O Edwards responded to the mayor's welcome. Following this hve papers were read and dis cussed on technical aspects of the profession. At a dinner held last night in the Piedmont Hotel. Dr. James Hendrix of the Duke University Medical School spoke on "New Sympatholytic Drugs and Their Therapeutic Uses." District committee reports were made at the dinner. Many of the doctors' wives at tended the convention and report edly enjoyed their visit to waynesville. Banquet Speakers J. H. HILTON, right, will be the featured speaker at the dairy banquet to be held Monday night in the Armory by the Chamber of Commerce and the Milk Producers' Association. Mr. Hilton is dean of sericulture at State College. Jona than Woody, president of the First National Bank, will also speak to the milk producers. nusmuiiai lir if the state. JlleOn serve State lie, local lawyer, I a member of ice Reserve by lerry. ppointment was it he declined to eek. He delayed fig to Mr. Scn ie Albright, can ', had requesled ipolnted lo draft ed."" said Mr. intention of re- when a GI can le my place." 'ved as appeal a dr.ifl hoard ill serve in t ho the new draft fiappiiintmrnl re- iber Of Workers iy Law Waynesville Art Gallery To Open 16th Season Soon James Mann, Owner, Predicts This Will Be An Outstanding Season Here James Mann, owner of the Way nesville Art Gallery is announcing today that tie will open for the 16th consecutive season in Waynes ville with inspection nights on Wednesday and Thursday, June 23 and 24. The first sale will be held Friday t&gM, June 25:- " ' Mr. Mann said he had about 50 per cent more stock than in for mer years, and in addition to us ual lines, has added ivories and a large stock of figurines in Dres den and Meissen. II. A. Finckc will again he asso ciated with the firm as auctioneer, and Leon Sisson and Miss Edith Parrot are again back for the sea son. Mr. Mann predicted this season would be comparable to 1945, which was one of the best this area ever had. 1 1 i xf If fc:S lit J J 1,WC $ ll'twi Driver Licenses Being Issued At Fast Clip The number of "C" and "D" drivers who didn't have licenses was thinning out this week, as iho line of aoDlicants moved swiftly through the inspection examination in the courthouse basement. Examiner W. W. Moore said that he would only be in Waynesville live more times to test drivers whose names begin with "C" or "D". Moore is at his stand in the basement three times a week Monday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.mi Thurs day, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. to p.mj- w " By noon on Thursday , Examiner Moore had issued 18 licenses to Haywood residents. He said that he had failed only three people Thursday morning in their tests. "We're keeping pretty busy," said the examiner, "cleaning up the last of the C and D drivers." Assisting Moore are Patrolmen Lonnie Bishop and JefT May. Also expiring on the July 1 dale are chauffeur licenses for 194 and 1948. These must be renewed be fore that time, said Moore. Dairymen And Business Leaders To Stage Annual Dairy Banquet Monday the people in i PTU'.U'efl it. iotecled !v the i Sty Law. aironl- ! fet'd hy Henry iloyment Secur-' P county !iaria ' '1.569 people. total non-agri-1 oree ,S 7.165 47 hfl .1 mi. :.. '. About three 'people engaged ere covered hv curity Law. An tons were work "mg Irades. I of people in fvered by the iy Law is much st year. increase of 36 in the number 'e now covered The increase 'n North Caro ov the total Rotary Iron Lung Sent To Morganton The iron lutic which the Ro tary Club presented to the Waynesville Hospital several years ago has been sent to Mor ganton temporarily to help In that city's flght against infan tile paralysis. Beekman Huger d David Hy att, co-chairmen of the county chapter of the National Polio Foundation, went to the ortho pedic hospital In Asheville this week to study combative meth ods used on the disease there. Mr. Hyatt said that although there is an early Summer epi demic in some parts of the state no steps of precaution will be taken in this area yet. The near est case of polio has been re ported in Buncombe county, ac cording to the Foundation chairman. arket Ron . e 20-23c - 15c 10c 32-3fir !unds 3 .on 22-251ir I 25 to 273ic 22 to 24c f 28 to 33c -25 to 23.80 i gather "Partly cloudy "Hie tempera- 7s le staff nf Miss DeLozier Assumes Duties With Home Agent Miss Elise DeLozier. of Bun combe county has assumed the duties of assistant home agent for Haywood county. She will fill the j vacancy caused by the resignation of Mrs. Sam Cartner, the former Miss Margaret Corwin. Miss DeLozier is well qualified for the position, having this spring graduated from Woman's College of the University of North Caro lina in Greensboro, where she ma jored in home economics. She is also a graduate of Sand Hill high school and Asheville-Biltmore Jun ior College. While attending Wom an's College she was a member of the Home Economics Club and the Y. She has also been active in Girl Scout work. Miss DeLozier will assist Miss Mary Margaret Smith, county F.H Club work and in Home Demonstration Club work. She is residing in Waynesville at the home of Rev. and Mrs. L. G. Elliott. Pfc. Messer's Body To Arrive Today For Burial Here The body of Private First Class CTavton Messer, son of Rufus Mes ser and the late Mrs. Hester Mes ser of Mt. Sterling, who was killed in southern France on Septem ber 15, 1944, will arrive here this morning. Final rites will be conducted Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at Phillips cemetery near WaterviUe with Rev. J. P. Davis officiating. The body will remain at Garrett Funeral home until the hour of (Continued on Page Two) Woody Reappointed To State Pension Board Jonathan Woody has been re appointed by Governor Cherry as a member of the board of trustees of the Teacher and State Employee Retirement System and of local government Employees Retire ment System. Also re-appointed was Millara F Jones of Rocky Mount. Their terms are for four years and will expire April 5, 1952. C. Underwood, Killed On Saipan, To Be Buried Sat. The body of Technician Fifth Grade Claude W. Underwood, koii of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Underwood of Route 1, Waynesville, who was killed in the invasion of Saipan on July 11. 1944, will arrive here this morning. Funeral services will be held to morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock at Elizabeth Chapel Methodist church in Ratcliffe Cove with Rev. J. E. n Hnuspr nastor. officiating. In terment will be in the Memorial Plot at Green Hill cemetery. Mili tary rites at the graveside will be in charge of the North Carolina Muiinn.il Guard. 120th Anti-tank Company under the direction of Lt. Frank byrd. Pnllhearprs selected from the Veterans of Foreign Wars will be Dewey Ford, Rufus Ratclitfe, carl (Continued on rage iwoi Di .1 H. Hilton. lean of the school of agriculture at State Col lege will speak to the annual Hay wood dairy banquet in the Armory Monday night. Jonathan Woody, president of the First National Bank of Way nesville. will also speak before the banquet, which is being sponsored hv l he Havwood County Milk Pro ducers Association and the Way nesville Chamber of Commerce 1 Mr. Woody, will spiH on.hsub-i jject, "Looking Forward In me I Community." Joe Palmer, president of Hie 1 1 1 ay wood Cooperative Breeding (Association, will introduce the : featured speaker. Dairy farmers and civic leaders from all over Haywood county are ,expecled to attend the event. The ! program arranged by the banquet i committee was designed to be ed I ucational as well as entertaining. I Master of ceremonies for the ! program will be James Kirkpat 1 rick, president of the Milk Pro- ! ducers Association. During din (Continued on Page Two) Minister's Conference Draws Many At Lake The third week of Assembly ac tivities at Lake Junaluska will come to a close tonight when Dr. J. J. Rivts, pastor of the Court Street Methodist Church. Lynch- burg. Va., speaks for the second j consecutive night in the outdoor auditorium. I Dr. Rives, who has held a num ber of leading appointments in the Virginia Conference, has been ac cepted as a preacher of great abil ity and distinction not only in his own conference but throughout the Methodist Church as a whole. He was a delegate to' the recent Gen eral Conference in Boston. Massa chusetts. A Week of Preaching Ministry will get underway Sunday morn ing when Dr. G. Ray Jordan, pro fessor of homiletics at Emory Uni versity will speak for the first time. He will speak again Sunday night. Dr. Jordan U one of the 'out standing ministers in Methodism. He has received degrees from Em ory, Yale, and Duke Universities and for over 25 years held ap pointments in the Western North Carolina Conference. He is the author of at least ten books among which are "Faith that Propels." "We Face Calvary And Life." "Adventures in Radiant Living," and "Look At the Stars." The Rev. Clay Madison, pastor of the First Methodist Church in Hickory, will speak Monday night on his recent .visit in China. Othar prominent Methodists who will speak at the Assembly next week are Dr. Roy Short, editor of The Upper Room and Dr. W. A. Stanbury, superintendent of the Gastonia district. Dr. W. A. Smart, Emory Univers ity. Georgia was the featured speaker at the Lake Sunday. June 13 through Tuesday. June 15. He spoke four times. Taking the Lord's (Continued on Page Twoi Election Officials Are Named For Second Primary To Be Held On June 26th Physician i m tliiwawaiw"Tf sSr ilk ifH Newspaper Folk Pass Through Here Enroute To Meet A number of members of the North Carolina Press Association passed through, here Thursday en route to Fontana where the an nual summer meeting of the asso ciation got underway last night. About 150 are expected to at tend and the session will end bal urday at noon, following the an nual election of officers. This mornlng'g sessions will be devoted to general discussions of current problems. Al Hesch, of Siler City, is pres ident; Miss Beatrice Cobb, of Mor ganton, is secretary, and Miss Ad die Mae Cooke, of Murphy, is in charge of arrangements. Rites Will Be Held Today For Pfc. Jenkins Military rites will be conducted for Pfc. Richard Clem Jenkins at Crawford Memorial Park this aft ernoon at 3:30 with members of ( Veterans of Foreign Wars and the I Waynesville Post, American Le ! gion, in charge. Rev. R. L. Young, chaplain of the post, and Rev. u. G. Elliott, pastor of the First Bap tist church, will be the officiating ministers. Pallbearers will be Jack Smith, William Shook, Douglas Worsham, J. T. Russell, Carol Grahl and Les ter Burgin, Jr. Pfe Jenkins was killed Au gust 2, 1942, while serving as ra dio operator on a B-24 bomber in (Continued on Page Twoi j Forty-One Feared Dead In Air Crash Forty-one persons were believed .killed in a mountain air crash ear Iv vesterdav afternoon, ' ' The Plane, a United Airlines HC-Y was on a routine flight from San Diego. Calif , to New York City when il plummeted and hit ;in electric transformer, lt burst ! into flames seconds afterward. The crash occurred in the Sleepy j Mountains of Pennsylvania he- tween the towns of Carmel and Mt SanburK. Mountaineer Starting Carrier Boy System Kain- P 55 ;Q . "o .01 53 .03 The Mountaineer is inaugurating I a carrier system in this area for getting the papers to subscribers on Monday afternoons and Thurs day afternoons. 1 , The area has been mapped, and routes are now being created by J. D. Hyatt, who is in charge of this phase of the circulation de partment. Mr. Hyatt was with The Mountaineer before the war. and 1 since his return from the Army has been with the paper except what time he has been in college. The boys that will be carriers are being given special training, and taught to keep their account books, and given the fundamentals necessary for young business men. As an inducement to start their j Singletary Is Given ! State College Degree Herbert J. Singletary, agent in the local farm office, received his degree in Animal Industry from State College in Raleigh on Mon- S day night. Bodies Of 2 Haywood Men Returned i ' DR. JAMES E. FENDER is opening his offices in the Masonic Tem ple Saturday, for I he general prac tice in medicine and sucgerv . Dr. J. E. Fender, A Physician, To Open Office Here l)r .lames E Fender announced ycslerday that be will open his offices Saturday in the Masonic Temple for the general practice of medicine and surgery. Dr. Fender is a native of Bam berg, S. C, and after graduating from Furnian University, attended the Medical College of South Car olina in Ch.irli slon He served his thlerncship al the St. Louis City Hospital and from there en tered the Navy in 1946 as a doc tor. He remuiuud in Uie -Navy i til March of 1 his yeitr. Dr. Fender announced his office hours would he from II) lo 12 and 2 to 5 daily except Friday when only I he morning hours will be observed Dr. and Mrs Fender expect to move mlo an aparlnicnl in the Cleveuill in the near future. 60 State College Students Here On Agriculture Tour thrifty plan, The Haywood Building and Loan Association, hearing of the earner boy plan, has offered to help each boy start an account win. u.c -ciation. Among the inducements will be the Association win vy the entrance fee, as well as offer other inducements for saving regu larly. . It will take about ten more days to complete the carrier system in all sections of me area. number of boys have applied for routes, and these are being assign ed by Mr. Hyatt as rapidly as pos- S'bln' order to meet the schedules for the boys to get their papers (Continued on Page Two) I O O ?' ' ft Pi . ..mm v.t' "lvc&.- I Y mm TM Sixty agoiwini students from Stale College al Raleigh swung through Waynesville this week on their tour of agricullure in West ern North Carolina. The shidcnls were juniors and j seniors at the college who are re- quired to observe farming meth ods in eastern and western parts ; of the slate as a part of their course. The lour of the Havwood county section took them on a visit to the ! State Test Farm and to A. J. Mc ; Craeken s farm, which is a lem 1 oust r-'il ion project Head of the Itour was Dr. H L. I.ovvorn of the j agronomy deparlmenl al State ! College. From Waynesville the louring i party w cut to Morganlon. Farm Program Leaders : Plan August Field Day The Count officers ol the Deni onstralon Farm program will meet in the county agent's office al 1:30 o'clock this afternoon lo discuss the farm and home field day which will be held in the earlv part of August . All Democratic Judges Will Serve For The Coming Primary In Haywood' This slage was being .''I till, week fm Haywood coiinlv sec ond primary on June 2H as niler est mounted in I he elect ion tun otls for several state officer Jerry Rogers, chairman of the county hoard of election. )- lay ing plans to regulate I he second primary. The Board ha:, appointed titi Haywood citizens lo ow-r-.ee Ihe new election. I want lo urge ever.' one w ho voted ill the first uiim.ii v lo be in the polls for this election. It is a voter's privilege and dnl lo select his leaders said .Mr Rogeis Although Ihe vote nexl Sattiiday will be somewhat lighter Ih.oi the fust primary ballot, interest in the guberiKit orial battle between Keir Scot I and Charles M Johnson is high enough to promise i fairlv strong vote. The precinct officers and regis trars have been named by ( hair man Rogers They are as follows: lieaverdani No. 1, W. W. I'lesi. registrar, .lack Woody and E F. Ilaynes, officers; Beaverdam No 2. Jack Chapman, .lake Smathcr and Carl Clark; Beaverdam No. :i, Mrs Howard Smalher, C E. Cole and II. M Hyers; Beaverdam No. A. Hill Franklin. Wilina Stevens and Cole Cogburn; Beaverdam No. 4. Fied Windfield, C. C I'leniiuons and Elliott Mease: Beavei dum No K. S. C. Wood, G. W. Smalhtr and Preston Phillips. l Pitfcon Walker llmwn rcfislrar .1 M. Cat hey and Dillard Calwell. officers; East Fork, Rex Ploss. W. A Pless and Charlie Fish, Cecil, J. M. Francis. S. L. Sanderson and Ken Brown; CaV, JS. VVqsi, Venarr HayndiVnii"C. H. Frii'-i. Iron Dufr,,Q.la,.Yates.1r(v'C. Davis and Ralph Dotson; Crsbtree. Prert Nolan, llliuh Besl and Kl Hill Fines Creek. Charlie Met 'r.irv, Hoy Rogers and Paul Ferguson. While Oak. Mrs. Kslella 'league. A (I. Baldwin and Hae Ledlnnl Ivy Hill. Karl Ferguson, daily Moody and Tom Medlord. Cata loochee, L. C. Caldwell. Levi l. Calwell aud Cole Sutinn. Big Creek, Mack Caldwell. .I (' Mop kins and Reld Sutton. Lake Juna luska, Mrs. Lizzie Reeve., Hugh (Bud) Lealherwood and Sam Halli bone; Hazelwood. W A Wlii'iier. John Til I U- and Cecil M.uiney; S Ward, Mrs. Bon Alkin (in. Jofi Welch and Mrs. W. II. I halt: N. Ward. Sam Kelly, llarrv Clay and J. W Pat I on. Mrs. Crawford Addresses Women In Hendersonville Mrs W T Crawford addressee) the Woman's Missionary Society of the First Baptist chin i ll in Hen ilersonville on Monday of this week. Mrs. Crawford I old of at tending the Baptist World Alliance in Sweden last summer. While in Hendersonville she was 'interviewed by some native., of Sweden who had not been to their country in many years She showed them pictures of the country as it I is today, and gave an account of conditions there today. T5 CLAUDE UNDERWOOD will be buried Saturday anemuun. PFC. CLEM JENKINS will be buried this afternoon at Craw- Pictures Being Made Of Babies For Publication Canton Club Hears About N. C. Highways D. Reeves Noland. highway com missioner of the tenth district, "as the speaker at the Canton Civitan Club Thursday afternoon. He discussed the general set-up f the highway system of North Carolina and some of the projects which are now underway in Haywood. Funeral services will be held at ford Memorial Park. He was Elisahetlr Chapel, Ratcliff Cove. killed in North Africa. If vou Dass by Ingram's studio toriav and hear creat Quantities of baby talk, don't worry they're not converting the place into a nursery. The Studio is expected to be run ninff over with gurgling infants today and tomorrow. An offer has been made to all mothers wno will bring their children into the Studio from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free pictur.es will be taken of all chil dren. ' There is no obligation and no appointment has to be made. After Ingram's gets through snapping the babies' portraits, the pictures will be grouped and print ing plates made. The pictures will ithen be published in this news 'paper. All children under four years of j lage arc eligible to "watch Ihe bir j die" free of charge. , j There is nothing to buy and In ' gram's promises worthwhile pic- j Itures of the youngsters. There j ! will be more than one shot made of leach child so that the parent may I select the picture they want print- , ed in The Mountaineer. Studio as- ' sistants will take down the need- , ed information on each child. t A newspaper picture of your j child will be something to put among his souvenirs. If you want to preserve Junior's babyish grin before he sprouts up. drop into Ingrain's Studio today, tomor row or any day next week, between 4 and 10 o'clock. Highway Record For 1948 (To Dale) In Haywood Injured .... 22 Killed....; 2 (This information com piled from Records of State Highway Patrol.)