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Mis Joining ,h Can- TOE WAVNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER PAGE THREE " V n,rd. the i Conntitser Wins Convention Trip To Atlantic City LONDON HONORS 'RED HOT MAMMA' CHOICE BRIEFS OF Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Connatsei returned this week from a 'e I ..;-Ha' convention at Atlantic City, vfSter- I . " ,. leffprsnn Life Insur- n,t r ! Mr. Connatser quaitneu tor an , expense-paid trip to tne resort con- 1. 90 men. 01' vention when he achieved the high- Sm "lT' lest sales pruuuiuu.. ... .... ......... cWPsn . ' between Shelby and Murphy. f Ltoipan " " i . area were Frank Leathers ood " L,nsof Waynesville and buck uucney ss ronton m The meetin was tne regular re gional gathering of Jefferson employees. special- . .i, ra- twitc'hboard nd U field. ' Capt id ith a c"eok it over to Ud tin- fleck In. Collect ADDED BASEBALL HAZARD CHICAGO (UP A young boy playing baseball set fire to a house, causing injury to one person ami (..wine 12 others to flee into the street The youngster, seeking a ; ball he had batted under the porch. crawled in with a lighted match and let it drop into a can of paint. ; . I .;-, - ' x.f I fcMifcijiMht.jE.t---..-. - M, M -mi iiiiinnifiiiiniitir rT r r ' T I CAROLINA NEWS From The ftlrr of Associated Prrss and I'nlted Press FONTANA DAM HAS BIG VISITING CROWD Kontana Dam was visited Sun day by 11.208 people. This is the largest number of people visiting !lie big TV A project in a single da this year. Fontana is rapidly be coming one of North Carolina's chief resorts TEACHERS MAY GET $2,400 MINIMUM The state education commission in Raleieh proposed a $2,400 mini mum salary for teachers in North Carolina, it also proposed a state fund for aiding counties in school const ruction. CANTON HOST LED BY Bl'RCIl Roy Burch of the Canton office of Carolina Power and Light Com pany has been elected commander of the Varner-Rhinehart American Legion Post of Canton. He suc ceeds Jeter P. Williams at the post Wilton J. Busbee was named sec ond vice-president; Willis Jimison. adjutant. H. O. Hudson, athletic director; A. J. Reno, chaplain KNOWN TO BROADWAY as "the last of the red hot mammas," songstress Sophie Tucker pouis a cup of tea for the land Mayor of London, Sir Fredeii. k Well-', during a reception held fur her at the MunpL-.n House. She was the tir?t aitist ever to aihieve such an honor. (titernatioiial) For These ALUE The Choice of The People DEPARTMENT STORES ''utoiij B Denier, Lovely :- HUDSON'S VALUES LEAD THE FIELD BY A BIG MAJORITY Mt'ii's SOiini'i', S:inloiied, Kcil ( iinu'l Overalls .... $2.25 These arc lull cut, and ret' tilnrlv M'll for $2.il Mmi Double Slitt IkmI Mile ( hamlii av Work Shirts . . $1.19 All sizes sanforized nnd full cut Hoys' I'ttir Cut, Comfortable b Hose : . $1.69 (Regular $2.11(1 Value) 1948 Styles Of Hals . $1.48 up If Hemmed kerchiefs : . 10c Slack Suils S2.98-S7.95 tan's S2.98 PINT In In-own. lilwi-. tun and limires ESSES ft 2 to 1(1 Now Showing in Our Lingerie IVpai Inicnl Till: FAMOl'S Playtex Girdles A New Discovery in Figure Control! 3 Styles There's A Size For Yon The all-occasion Girdle with the All-Way Stretch. Made with liquid I nlt v. $3.50 - $3-95 nebular S5.95 DRESSES Special 1-ot KAVON SHANTUNG CIIAIUHKAY Various Colors Sizes !l to 15 (Second Floor) Yard Value of hray : : 75c yd. fs-m solid colors, floral designs, stripes and checks " 0r Children's Department ping Jack bhoes Sizes 2' 2 to 6, in white only l Style jSkoes : : : $1.98 nand black. This is a special price. "nmed. Full Cut - : : : $1.98 P ln teatose and white. . Sizes 32 to 40 Ueaiitiful L'vrht Top Cotton Slips $1.98 In while only, sizes !I2 to 44 Lace-Tiiininod. Top and F.ottoni, While Rayon Slips . . : . : : $2,98 l ull rut sizes ?,2 to 42 Just Received a" Shipment of Curtain Scrim . : 39c In white, blue, yellow and ecru: made up in plain, dotted Swiss, and small figures. Hemmed. Fully Shrunk. Regular S2.79 Muslin Sheets . $2.27 The Famous Cannon Sheets . . : : : $2.79 All Sizes tK-HUDSON CO. "Home of Better Values' LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE IN BUNCOMBE i The old adage that light ninR nev ier strikes twice in the same place j lias been proved untrue. A sturdy oak on the grounds of Frank Mc- lntosh, Chunn's Cove, did the trick, j Lightning struck the tree three 'years ago. Tuesday a bolt struck j the oak again, ripping out a center I portion of the tree. SYI.VA MAN FOUND j AFTER 18 YEARS i The body of a Methodist niinis jler who disappeared eighteen years I ago from his Sylva rural home has been found. The body was identi l tied by a gold watch, shoes, and glasses. The minister was the Rev. W T. Hawkins. Mrs lleneva Wright of Cashiers the minister's daughter said that her father had left homo March 18. 1930 to hunt the family cows The body of the 73-year-oht man was found by log gers in a swampy section of White side Cove, HENDERSON VI LLE NEGRO AWAITING AN INQUEST Lee McCoy. Negro, remained in t he city jail at Hendersonville Tuesdav for an investigation of the fatal shooting of Susie Walker, a Neero. in the Brooklyn section ol the city on Sunday. The Walker woman was shot twice with a shot gun Canton Cow Sets i New High Record i A registered Guernsey cou, 1 Babette of Garden Creek, mined ' by Florence Osborne. Canton, has ' just completed an outt:indniV Ad vanced Registry record ol 1J KSHI I pounds of milk and U9:t p,.uiuK of butterfat in the 3b.ri iLn illusion starting her record a-, a -.emor 3-year-old Baberte is the dauehier ot tin registered Guernsey sue H.i! n riml Blitzen who has five A I! daugh ters. This record was supervised by the North Carolina Stale Colleee and was reported to The American Guernsey Cattle Club tor appro val and publication LIGHTNING BOLT DESTROYS HAY SHED A ImiII of lightning struck a hay- shed in Cabarrus county Tuesday night and destroyed it and the 800 bales of hay it contained. The bolt put the telephone out of commis sion so that the farmer was unable to call the tire department. The loss was partly compensated by in surance, the manager said TRYON SUIT IS POSTPONED Action by five Tryon Negroes to compel their registration by Regis trar Amos Foster has been post poned fur ten days. The plaintiffs claimed at court that they had been disqualified from voting "sole ly because of race". Video Sets To Take Care of 6,000 Overflwy ' PHILADELPHIA (UP) Televi sion manufacturers will hare a field day -at this year's national political conventions. An anticipated overflow of 6,004 persons will see the convention by television at Philadelphia's co'n- cut ion hal lannex. across the ireet from the main hall. The annex wlir be diiaed fnlo dozens ut small theaters outfitted urt teleieston Sets "provided ttfth uut charge by manufacturers. I'ohHcul headqua'rters' spokes men said about 20 television manu taetnieis will furnish the sets, and iiieideiiially, will have a good op poiiiinili to show their wares to thousand, of convent lonen. morning and admitted Ins guilt. An Army psychoneurotic ea-e Limerick will probably plead m- ; sanity. Parton, the policeman who was slain, was a 38-year-old t.uh- ; er of eight children CADETS WATCH AIR WARFARE Military planes landed this week at Pope Field with 3fi() West IVml mrh'ls fttudvlng air-ground warfare Today the cadets class of 1!IT0 , will watch a demonstration fcy iin 82d Airborne division. It's part of j the West Point summer plan to i show the future officers the role of air operations. ! Ch eek fire, a form of gunpowder, vias used in the defense of Con stantinople in 6T3. Construction o f flshpotidJl lak-s; ditching and elearloaj farmland: heavy grading ot roads and building sites. t ALL or WRITE C. & W. Construction' Co. Box 263 Ashrville, N. C. Phone Day: Enka 722 Night: Ashetflle 5928 CHEROKEE PROJECT GETS ALLOCATION Congress has appropriated SI 14, 1)00 fur the improvement of the sewage and water systems in Cher okee village. Superintendent Joe leanings returned to the town from Washington with the news thai this amount was contained in an Interior Depart merit bill re cently passed. Some of the money will be used for a new and larger water tank. The present sewage disposal system in Cherokee is ex pected to he vastly improved by the new allocation EDITOR TELLS GROUP THE SOUTH MUST PROGRESS .lames Gray, young Georgia edi tor, told the opening session of the Southeastern Institute for Cham ber of Commerce executives in Chapel Hill that the South 'can not id back, it must go ahead ". Gray said that individual Southern areas must work out their own problems without Federal influ ence. He did not mention the civil rights program. PROGRESSIVE PARTY GIVEN NEW HOPE The Progressive Party got a boost in its battle to get on the November ballot Tuesday when Hu bert Olive State elections board chairman said that he would ask the elections board to forget its order banning the Henry Wallace party from the election. Hut still to be faced by the party is a regu lation requiring payment of ten cents a name for the 10,001) name petition which they must have to get on the ticket. GUARD UNIT GF.TS SHOT IN THE ARM The National Guard unit at Asheville has received a boost from the new draft law. Capt War ren Krueuer of the service com pany, 120th Infantry. 30th Division, said that a rush to sign up seems to be in the making 1 he naval reserve also reported an increase in enlistments. THREE YOUTHS HELD FOR ROBBERY Three boys who escaped a New York industrial home pleaded guil- Iv to highway robbery charges at ;i hearing in St George. S. C. They were arrested alter a wild ail-nine highway race in lower South Caro lina Mnndav niehl. Police received report of a holdup and picked up the hoys' trail. They will be held for the October term of general sessions court TEXTILE WORKERS DEMAND PAY RAISE The Ninth Carolina Statu Tex tile council- an affiliate of the AIM. is demanding a tlfteeti per cent increase for all its contracted employees. The demand will af fect at least four Gastonla mills. About 10,0(10 texlile workers in North Carolina will come under the pay raise. Other requests made by the organization are six paid holidays a vear. higher vacation pa, and an' employer-paid insur ance program. GASTONI A MECHANIC KILLS POLICEMAN Tommy Limerick. 27-year-old Gastoiiia mechanic, wept in his cell u..a,.silv as he admitted tus "mind was a blank'' at the time he ..i,., i i',,iii.iitnan Llovd Parton. Vi.iiek had been drinking heavly Saturday night and wreck io , :,r He returned ot the ac eident with a rifle, found Parton , ti. automobile and pumped the ..it,-...,.- u.ith six shots. Escaping from the crime, Limerick walked i it,., sheriffs office Monday FOR PURITY OF PRODUCTS Our pharmacists take pride in the fact that we dispense only the hest and purest of drug products. When buying drng needs, think of Curtis Drug Store as the place to go . . . because you can always be confident of the quality. Let Curtis Drug Store be your drug headquarters. Home Owned and Operated. CURTIS DRUG STORE Your Walgreen Agency (?od Ymi will bo (lelii'.hted with these outstanding values in cotton chesses. Percales and ginj'.hams, all pre-shrunk and fast color. Full cut and plenty long. Sizes 14 to 44. 2.98 and 3.49 JSP 1 1 i I ! r i i '.V I JI I t llf f ' " (I. ,v!i lit HI " .! ill 1 I i. ft'' I I i tr A i
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