North Carolina Newspapers

1 1 Standard Printing Co 220-230 S First S ' oriSVII.LE KV The Waynesville Mountaineer Published Twice-A-Week In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park Published -Twice-a-WeeK Every Tuesday and Friday ' 'people 10 miles of hpir ideal J" 4tf center EIGHT PAGES United Press and Associated Press News WAYNESVILLE, N. C, TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER ?. 1948 $3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties 3i ; 1 p: f racken family will iled "Master Farm in ceremonies tig al 10:30 on the ie winning farm, ind a hall north of on highway No. In family is one of Jarohna selected on lily scorecards sent farms in every ltate were inspect- trti-ken puce velfs lourisliing and effi- k named as one of ive larmer maga- flh t'artil in.i Kten- Ic the select ion. the presentation morning will be of Stale College, ( the Nurth C'.iro- lon Page Kight) HFoTk Set 120 wood ciiunly Folk placed on the Can- athletic field on a colorful slate of fainiiuiu planned. was originally set 'as held off be fit situation in this fr me affair. Any Participatc .should thers at the Can- commerce. Market pction 52c to 55c 20-28c 15c 10c 32-36c 175 to 2 00 Lbs 2 25 to 2.50 ft. 170 to 19.00 22f)0 to 23.50 22.00 to 24.50 -0O to 28.50 27 00 to 28.00 23 10 to 25.10 PAIM 7 ti-. . a'ny cioudy r scattered thun F aernoon. tnesviiu , led K 7u. "i"a: l "e siarl of f Mi. R,inf,u , .uv W1 1 'ill D PEACETIME DRAFT BEGINS 2 ! . . - Jl - r mmmm n thousands of young Americans registering for th tat draft is this group of 25-year-old New Yorkers waiting 1 out questionnaires. Some 20,009 registration office fen were faced with the task of checking the eligibility Jing men. First on the list are those born in the year 1922 to. Other eligibles will register later. (International) I i ' I f i n j ICKen s i o uui mvaru emony On Thursday W.N.C. Funeral Directors Meet Here On Friday Funeral directors from Western North Carolina will convene here Friday morning at 10 o'clock at the Crawford funeral home, accord ing to Ralph Crawford, director of the- TwetftR ptitrtet Fumyi Dl-' rectors and Burial Association. Dinner will be served at 12:30 for the directors and their wives. A tour of points of interest in this area will' be made at 2 p. m. by those attending the meeting. Mayor J. H. Way wtll welcome the guests. Representatives from Brevard, Bryson City, Franklin', Andrews, Murphy, Sylva and Canton are ex pected. Out-of-town visitors will be A. Leo Forvis, president of the Burial Association, Greensboro; W. D. Townson, vice-president, Mur phy; John L. Rusher, secretary treasurer, Salisbury; Claude C. Abernathy, Raleigh. Many From Here Attend Barbecue Given For Redden A number of officials, civic lead ers and Drofessional men from Mesw post of many sections of Haywood attend- ffi'on is sponsoring od the barbecue given in honor of Rep. Monroe M. Redden by Harry teams, strine hands R. Plavford at his farm near Hen- lividual performers dersonvllle on Saturday afternoon Many state officials, newspaper men of Raleigh, Washington and other points attended. The W.N.C. Press association met prior to the barbecue. There was no formal program other than brief recog nition of the state officials. Ferguson Sells 34 Head Cattle The Guernsey herd of Earl Fer guson, Jonathan Creek, was sold in a special sale at the Clyde Stock yards last week, bringing a total of $7B00 or an average of $220.58 for the 34 head of cattle. Buyers from throughout the county attended auction of the ani mals which included registered and non-registered Guernseys. It Won't Be Long Until 'Color Season' Is Here Within a few weeks, the annual march of autumnal colors will be gin in the vast hardwood forests of Plsgah Forest and the Great famoK ies, those twin mountain ranges which run the entire length of Western North Carolina. And with them will come tne annual army of sightseers for the "leaf" season a vacation and trav el season now firmly established as one of the best visiting times of the year. Late in September will appear the brilliant red of the sumac, gums, sourwood, Virginia creeper, dogwooH rd maple Hftil lw fcnsh Guard Nabs Convict On Cove Creek A seven-day man-hunt through the Cove Creek section of Hay wood ended Friday morning about 8:30 when an alert prison guard and his blood-hound trailed Robert Clark, escaped colored convict, through the underbrush and caught him sleeping on the banks of the creek. The guard was C. L. Rabb of the Hazelwood prison camp staff. The prisoner had been seen cross ing the road near Cove Creek ear ly Friday and the blood-hound was j immediately put on his trail. Clark was serving a 15-20 year sentence. He jumped camp on Aug. 27 with two fellow convicts in a dram atic escape. The three took over a truck which was loading rock at the quarry and held a file at back of Carl Ray, the truck driver. A guard, Julius Rigers, fired at the prisoners, not realizing that Ray was in the truck shooting off the finger of the convict who was hold ing the file on Ray's neck. Ray then drove the truck down the highway about a mile, where the fleeing convicts told him to dump his load of rocks and they would leave him unharmed. He did so, and the prisoners roared up the highway until they spun off the highway and down a 20-foot embankment at Panthers Creek Gap. They leaped out of the truck cab and ran up the river. Highway Patrolmen captured one of the trio named Whitcsides at the scene. A Mr. Woody grabbed the other one, named Sales, a lit tle later. Neither offered any re sistance. Cagle Rites Are Held Friday At Clyde Church ... Funeral services for David MMKfc-Caf U, 49, Judge of Clyde police court who died at a Waynes ville hospital Thursday morning fol lowing! a brain hemorrhage last Sun day, ere conducted at Clyde Met hi (list church Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Officiating were the Rev. T. E .Samply and the Re. C. M. Klrby. Burial was in Bon-A-Ven ure cemetery. Judi9 Cagle had been a mem ber of Canton Central Methodist church Ifor a number of years. ActivJ pallbearers were Hubert Thompn. Jud Thompson, Shady Henson T. E. Reed, M. Connie Henson arid Dae Mann. Flower bearers were members of the Woman Society of Christian Ser vice cf the Clyde Methodist church. Honorary pallbearers were R. V. WelcH, Clifford Brown. Grover Davis, Fsgh Leatherwood, George A. Brown Jr., W. G Byers, W. G. Smather;, W. G. (Bill) Harris, John Srmthers, Weaver Sorrells, Grady Williamson, L. H. Hartshorn, Marvin Vlexander. Ben Coleman, Willis Krpatrick, Charles S. Bran son, Genld Kish, J. E. Wells, L. H. Baldwin, Jarvis Campbell Clayton Mehaffey Sidney P. Haynes and Charles lawkins, members of the Clyde beard of alderman, John Contnued on Page Eight) Mrs. Haliburton Of Clyde, Attended Con ference !At University Mrs. Hlda S. Haliburton of Clyde, menber of the Canton High School faculty, attended a Con frence on Jesource Use Education at the Unversity of North Caro lina. She vs recently notified by Dr. Clyde Vwin, state suprintend ent of putflc instruction, of her apointment as a committee mem ber to reprent this school area at the conference. The sessions began Wdnesday Bid continued through Friday. blueberry. Ttey will blend with the voiinw nf ths sassafrass. birch and yellow poplar which, as the early reds fade, cunue i uicnu the late red of the scariei ana roi niki t tan of the white oak, and the. llow of the chestnut oak. These last-to-turn continue the color Intctbe first week or ten days of Novenber. The gloriot naming coior pro duced by the greatest remaining rf.mi nf hanfeoods in America is against a backtound of evergreens. ranging irom line " ' conifers to theiombre blacks of the Conttm!on Pg fight) AN EXPERT AT MAKING CHANGE . a,rc JLtai BEING ADEPT In the use of safety pins Is the first lesson the male parent must learn if he intends to become an expert quick change artist. Take thii from Benjamin Walthal of Shirlington, Va., who here demonstrates how he becami "pinup daddy" of the week. He won a baby diapering contest held by merchants of his town. (.International i'otindplioto; Former Rotary President Says U.S. Has Too Many 'Undesirable' Ambassadors Hard Rains Fall Over Weekend, Dampen Holiday The Labor Day holiday was dampened for many folks around Waynesville by the sporadic but heavy rains which fell over the weeje-end climaxing in a hard downpour Sunday night. Picnics were canceled and out ings called off after Sunday night's 1.18 inch rain more rain than fell in the previous two days, said the State extension farm, which keeps weather rec ords for this area. But a crisp air and warm sunshine Monday morning promised to make up for the wet week-end here. The weatherman said that things were still going to be unstable with thundershowers likely to fall at anytime Mon day and Tuesday. Heavy rains over the week-end didn't stop the exceptionally heavy flow of traffic down high way 19, according to highway patrolmen. The cars were thick Sunday afternoon, said they, with the largest group of out-of-state automobiles hearing Tennessee and Ohio license plates. Most of the traffic was going east to ward Asheville. Baptists To Hold Meeting Tonight A supper meeting of the Baptist pastors, deacons. Wake Forest trus tees and all Wake Forest men is scheduled for tonight at 7 o'clock at the First Baptist church. Horace Easom. director of the Baptist State convention's program for Wake Forest college, will be in charge of the meeting. The prospect of moving Wake Forest college to Winston-Salem will be discussed. Suave Senor Attempts To Work Ancient Flim Flam Trick On Local Doctor A clever variation on the old flim-flam traveled from Mexico City to Waynesville last week and left Dr. Robert Turner of 1 Hazelwood scratching his head about the whole business. rif Turnpr ent a hlue air-mailed ' -nupinn,. last week with a Mexico ru H,n nn it This was ouzzl- inc" enough, since Dr. Turner couldn't remember any friends . i ir Ar iha u'lvtfle Rut he slit the letter open and began reading Said the letter: "A person who knows you and who has spoken very highly of you, has made me trust you a very delicate matter of which depends the entire future of my dear daugh - ter as well as my very existence, "I am in prison, sentenced for hanlmintfv and T wish to know 'Many of our ambassadors in foreign countries are a disgrace to our nation.' Koiidrick Guernsey, former president of Rotary Inter national told Way nesville Hotarians and their w ives at the annual sum mer outing here Friday night at the Piedmont Hotel picnic grounds "In traveling in 20 different countries during the past year us president of Uolary International. I came in contact wiLh almost all of the ambassadors, and others who rpprrnl-nt our nation in foreign countries, and on many occasions, I was ashamed of 1 1 h in and their actions. Many were mill aincd. and not filled for the important place thev held. In many instances their conduct was n-pulsive." For the rest of my days, I am going to wage a campaign to see I that our diplomats are pioperly trained, and selected for (hen abil- it. rather than on a political ap pointment." i Mr. Guernsey said that in Ins traels and talks with high govern-1 ment officials around the world, he j had been led In believe that Rus sia was blufliiiK. and would eonli-1 nue to bluff as long as possible, as the Russian people did not want j war. Any little incident, however. would happen that could start a I conflict." lie continued. The loiiner head of Rotary In K'ont inued on rage Three) i Bishop Paul Kern j At World Meet j Bishop Paul B. Kern, who inaiii-i tains a home at Lake Junalusku. and often fills the pulpit there, is t in Amsterdam. Holland, mingling i with high ecclesiastics from all i parts of the world archbishops, patriarchs, metropolitans - w hose j attire varies from the simplest cos-j tume to the regalia of the Wise I Men from the Kast in the annual meeting of the World Council of Churches. Bishop Kern is one -of five bishops of the Methodist church to .attend the world-wide conference. He is president of the Council of Bishops of the Methodist church. if you are willing to help save the sum of $449,000 me to U. S. currency which I have in bank bills hidden in a secret compartment of a truck that is now deposited in a customhouse in the United States." The, writer went on to explain I that "it is necessary that you come ' here and pay the expenses in curred in connection with my pro- in'cess, so 'he emDargo on my sun- 1 cases can be lifted ... to compen- sate for all your troubles, 1 will give you tne thir1 part of s sum." i On the surface, that seems a j pretty good bargain Dr. Turner takes a trip to Mexico City and gets $149,660 for his trouble. But 1 the doctor read on down, j "Due to serious reasons which you will know later, please reply 1 .'rvmtirmwt n Pagp Threi 42 Named 14 Hurt In Series Sit In Jury . , . . , Box For Fall Court Term The jury lists for the Fall term of Superior court, opening on Sept. 20, has been announced by coun-y register of deeds Bryan Medford. Forty-two jurors are to be noii- 1 fied that they are to apear for ser vice on the jury when the civil term of court convenes. Judge 11. Iloyle Sink, it was an nounced by the county clerk's of fice, will probably be the judge for the court. Jurors for the first week of court are as follows: J. L. Mauney, Fines Creek: Miss Annie Albright. Waynesville; C. C. Walker, Waynesville; Frank D. Rich. Ivy Hill; Horace Crawford. j Iron Duff; C h a r li e Woodard, Waynesville; Wayne B. Medford. i Clyde: Cecil Tester. Fines Creek; Walter Burnet I, Fast Fork: Hubert necves. Jonathan. Miss Georgia ( i Miller, Pigeon; Joe Teague, White jOak; M. B. Rogers, Crabtree: .1. Ben Burton, Beavordam; Goble Mc jCracken, Beaverdain; Craig Allen. I Beaverdam; Jeff James, Ivy Hill; ft. H West, Waynesville; Roy Ed , wards, Cecil; Lawrence E. White, j Catalooehee. Lee Smith, Waynes Jvillc; Hubert Thompson. Clyde; A. J. bummer, Beaverdam. and W. A. Nichols of Waynesville. Jurors for the second week of court, opening on Sept. 27. are as follows: Vaughn Palmer, Ivy Hill; Lewis Continued on Page Eight I Funeral Services Held Monday For Mrs. Stiles Funeral services for Mrs. Eliza beth Jenkins Stiles. 72. who died Saturday morning at the Haywood County Hospital, were conducted Monday morning at the First Bap tist church The Rev. L. G. Elliott, pastor, officiated and was assisted by the Hcv. Nane Starnes. Inter ment was in tVeen Hill cemetery Pallbearers were P. E. Gentry, Herbert Morgan, Emmett Balen linc, Henry Miller, William Med ford and J. B. Siler. Granddaughters served as flower hearers. I Mrs Stiles, widow of John B i Stiles, was a native of Maryville, Tennessee but had been residing ; in Waynesville since 1942, when she i came here with her husband, who died soon after moving here. j Surviving are eight daughters. ! Mrs. Ella Blankenship and Mrs. Clay Garland of Waynesville, Mrs Roy Colvard of Hazelwood, Mrs. John Weaver and Mrs. Roy Bat chelor both of Arlington, Va., Mrs. A. L Snyder of Asheville, Mrs. Melvin Crisp of Washington, D. C. (Continued on Page Eight) Travel Is Heavy In National Park Travel in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park has been heavier than ever before, accord ing to figures released by park superintendent, Blair Ross. Tabulations for August brought the travel total for the year to 1.247.878, said Ross. This figure is for (he eleven month period beginning in October of 1947. the schedule on which travel is count ed in the park. The 1946-47 trave.1 year only brought in 1,186,000. This year s total has already out-stripped thai figure. Labor Day crowds and fall visi tors are expected to boost the number up several notches. Ross said that 29,000 people went into the park on the Fourth of July, and almost that many were expect ed Monday. Prison Shoes Prove Dead Give Away For Escapee The appearance and Edmond Maurawsky actions of arroused the suspicions of Patrolman O. R. Roberts and police officer Paul Gough here early Saturday morn ing, which led to the questioning of the man. His answers to ques tioning appeared partially satisfac tory, until the officers noticed the particular type of shoes he was wearing. "Where did you get those shoes," he was asked. "They are GI shoes I bought a long time ago," the man said in broken English. "Nov wait a minnt'1 aid Vh nignway New Air Queen lETTICE CURTICE THE WINNER of the 100-kilometeri closed circuit race at Lympne, Eng land, Miss Lcttice Curtice, London, is pictured beside the Spitfire, owned by a U. S. Embassy civil air attache, which she flew at 313.07 miles per hour. Setting a new wom an's world speed record, Miss Cur tice bettered the mark sat by Jacqueline Cochran of the United States In 1940 by twenty-one miles per hour. (fnfernafional) Polio Takes Toll Of 7 fn Haywood The loll ol polio cases climhed to seven last week in Haywood county as three mole children were strik en by the disease, according to an announcement Iroin the district health officer. Dr M li. H Michal. Two of the cases were relatively light, said the health department. They were a brother and sister liv ing on Richland street. The girl, fourteen months old, grew sick on Aug 21 Her brother. 2' a years old, I was reported with the disease three days later Both were taken to the 'Asheville Orthopedic hospital where they were declared to he im proving i p k 1 1 y 1 A more i ecent ca.-e occurred in the Nuievah section where a seven-year old bo) became ill on Aug. 2!t. Tlu. ease was of a mole sei i ous nature slated the health de part ment. and is also now in the Ashevi I hospil al ' Persons hjniiii! contact with the three cases have been quarantined. Haywood's lirst polio case occur red on Aug !l in the Beaverdam section and was followed on Aug. II with a second ease in Bethel. Canton icporled another case on 'Aug. 24 Last week a lourth case . wa.s found in Fines Creek. These latest thiec cases show that the disease has attacked no particular area leaving its mark on several dillereiil anas of the county map. The health department said that 1 these newest cases would not affect ; I he sclic di i le of schools in the coun ty. Sc hools here opened on Aug. .'it), Willi the exception of those in Beaverdam which were under quar antine. trolman Roberts, those shoes were ; issued by the State prison depart ment, and you're wanted for es caping from the Peachtree Prison Camp near Murphy." "Aw what's the use," said the escaped prisoner as he raised his arms, putting his wrists together for the handcuffs. The escaped prisoner had six more months lo serve in North Carolina, and records showed there is a detainer for .him back in Detroit, his home, ed to the Murphy He was return camp Saturday I I f I I acciaems Slippery Roads Are Blamed For Three Injuries; Sleeping Driver For Fourth Four persons have been injured in highway traffic accidents in Haywood during the past three days one of them considered seri ous, although properly damages took a sharp rise in the four wrecks, involving 6 cars and a truck. Slippery roads, and a sleeping driver accounted for all four acci dents, Cpl. E. W. Jones, of the Highway Patrol told The Mountain eer Monday morning. Three people were injured Sun day afternoon about four o'clock, near the Owl Cafe, several miles east of Canton, when a ear driven by Hallman Wilson, of Charlotte, slipped off the slippery highway, hit a 6-inch run on the side of the road, causing the driver to lose control of the car as it shot across the road in the path of an ap proaching car, driven by Lt. Frank Clayton Nail, of Arlington, Va. The Wilson car hit the left side of the Nail car, causing about $300 damages to both cars. Cpl Jones said. C. O. Bank, of Charlotte, suffered a right broken leg, while Mrs. Nor ma Hunt, and J. K. Gibbs. passen gers in the Nail car suffered cuts and bruises that required medical attention. Two other occupants of the Nail car were not hurt. Cpl. Jones said that no arrests were made, as the accident was caused by the slick road, which is under re-surfacing construction, and the rut on the edge of the pavement. Traffic was tied up for about an hour as a wrecker and ambulance worked at the scene One-way traffic wa.s pushed through by patrolmen during the time. On Saturday a car driven b.v J. Lawrence Hord. of Kings Moun tain, slid Into a car driven by Ruby Stephens of Clyde, on Highway 19-23 between Clyde and Canton, doing about $50 damages to both cars. Cpl. Jones said the Hold car had slick tires, and he slid hbout I., as he entered a sharp curve. No one was injured. On the second, about fi 2.i p.m., the car of John Lewis Allen, of Boiling Springs, crashed into the guard posts at the overhead budge just east of Canton. Cpl. Jones said Allen went to sleep at the wheel, and the car turned over in the highway after hitting the potts. Allen suffered a left arm injury, and the car was damaged about $200. Earlier, a highway prison truck, driven by H. Young hit the rear of a 1948 Dodge just west of Canton. The Dodge was driven by Mary Rogers Davis. The car was damaged about $157 and the truck about $100, Cpl. Jones reported. Truck Turns Over Saturday Night Near Junaluska Thomas Scth Wood, Jr . 2!. nar rowly escaped serious injuries about 9:30 Saturday night when thc 1941 Chevrolet truck he was driv ing left Highway 19-23 near Lake Junaluska. It was raining at the time, and the highway was slip pery. Wood lost control of the truck. The truck left the road and land ed in a field, damaging the top about $250, Patrolman O. R. Kob ers, investigating officer said. Traffic was halted for a fe-v ! minutes while a wresker pulled the damaged truck bac k onto the high way. The truck was said tn have been the property of Gobrl McCracken of Canton. Highway Record For 1948 (To Date) In Haywood Killed . .... 4 Injured .... 34 (This information com piled from Records of i t I 'I 1 i i .1 t f 1 V 'if