North Carolina Newspapers

n Standard Prm' a. : Co 220-230 S First S nnsvii i.F. K The Waynesville Mountaineer Published Twice-A-Week la The County Seat of Haywood1 County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park People Published Twice-a-Week Every Tuesday and Friday miles of Ltbf"' h1"' center jT 72 SIXTEEN PAGES United Press and Associated Press News WAYNESVILLE, N. C, FRIDAY, SKITEMBER 10, 1948 IB $3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties wi May (Da Mew IP krease For Shows ml ore man ..l u ni lr tin- (irst j,an iur I !' same nurds in mi' l1- Supt'I'lllll'lldt'lH l d Monday inorn- Lhools to I'L-purt fcnrollimnl. the present number , as agiiitisl 5,4(12 ! last year i that in some of ' there will be a j kits to come in tially in tines; k. principal, told hat he expected j itional students ixt, wIhi a iv nut to the polio vy rush of farm ' week fern Mt. Melting i t still missing, early today, two new buses the county fleet il If and one at Jby schools in the :ed by Mr. Mes- Last Y'r's Iniollm't Mln'l 237 229 63 in 175 18." 696 710 543 rIB 578 :,;,; W (it 296 r: So 8! 6on .-,-,o 2M 2(i() I'd IKK 69 (il 3"2 XVI 72 4:i.r) j 12 127 :m ,2 .i4l)2 RHTRN f-E TODAY WaiHMi!le al- P hack today, f days in Win. liisvillc (in hncl Market t !tln 52c to 55c 20-28c 15c 10c 32-36c 1 75 to 2 0(1 . 2 5IS Ir. O Cf, 17-00 to 19.00 22-M to 23.50 22 "0 to 24 50 200 t 28.50 27 f0 tn 9R nn t 2310 to 25'in 'fmpera s,aff of the Min Rainfall 60 6 .05 57 showers r-Parth- cloudy rMi thunder vine It' the ol Enrollment tly Above Last Report Shows Schools In Canton Will Open Doors On Monday Between 2.700 and 2,800 school children in the Canton area will begin classroom work on Monday morning, it was announced by A. J. Hutchins, superintendent, yes terday. The book room opened yesterday, and will remain open today and Saturday, for all students to get their necessary books. Mr. Hut chins stressed the importance of getting the books before Monday, as the room will be used as a class room after Saturday. There is a possibility that there will be a delay in opening the new colored school, due to the unfin ished plumbing work. Efforts are being made to get the plumbing fixtures installed by Monday, Mr. Hutchins said. There are 5 white elementary, and 1 white high school in the Canton district, and I celored high, and 1 colored elementary school. This is the only colored high In the, county, and stiidonts from herq will go down by bus daily. The Canton district will have 81 teachers this year, with all posi tions filled, Mr. Hutchins said. I Colorful Program Lines Up For Folk Festival A colorful program of music and entertainment is planned for the j first Haywood Folk Festival to be j held at the Canton high school ath J letic field on Sept. 20-22. Square dance teams, string bands i and several outstanding individual ! entertainers are lined up for the I event. The Edwards-Clark-Mcsser post of the VFW in Canton is sponsoring i the affair. Local Civil Engineer To Spend Few Weeks On Surveying Large Dam W. H. Carrington, local civil engineer, leaves Sunday to do some special work on the large Clark Hill Dam in Georgia. He expects to return to his office here in about two weeks. Mr. Carrington opened his office in the Ferguson Building sometime ago, and has his home at Lake Junaluska. He is from Charles ton, and maintained an office In Franklin for a year before coming here. Baptists Number 5,123 In Haywood Now, Says Survey There are 5,123 Baptists attend ing 36 churches in Haywood coun ty, a survey taken at the recent Sunday School revival and released today by Miss Daphne Boone of the Baptist associational shows. The survey was organized by workers from the State Baptist headquarters in Raleigh and by county Baptist leaders. Sunday school enrollment in Haywood churches, the survey states, has risen to 5,796, but dur ing the past quarter the average at tendance in Sunday Schools has been around 3,000. During the two week Sunday School revival, attendence in the classes was 2.823 the first Sunday and 2,795 on the second. Possibilities for Baptist church members in the county was estim ated at 13,388 by the workers. A compact Sunday School group of workers has 419 members with Back In The Old If you happened to have been traveling down Main Street here about ixl vears ago. tins is what you would have seen do vou recognize the spot? This picture was made In.m where the Hotel I.eFaine now stands, looking towards the Presbyterian church. In fact, that is the !d Presbvterian church on the left. It was torn down about 1900. The house just this side is the old l.ush Tale house now the Towne House, and the building on the right was the Oapt. Alden Howell home, later he converted it into a boarding house and then the Hotel Gordon, with additions added. olc the fence across the lower part of what is now Main Street. This, photo graph from the collection of Mrs. Ida V. Ilrown. of route one. !ftHu(tson Adding tven More Space In Expansion As workmen started excavating for the enlarged Belk-Hudson building here this week, engineers made some last-minute changes in the plans, and will add an addi tional 800 iquare feet io the origi nal plans, which were "X& treble the store, J. C. Jennings, manage said yesterday. "After checking on some fea tures of the present building, it was decided to extend the present building back 26Vi feet further, in addition to adding 15 feet in width, and making the entire base ment a sales floor," Mr. Jennings said. "This extension to the back will give Ms 800 more square leet of sales space than was first plann ed when we decided to treble the present building," he continued. Excavating has started on the outside, while other crews will dig out the basement under the pres ent building. The store will have a modern front, and an entirely new set of modernized fixtures on both the first and second floors. Present fixtures will be shifted to the Dasement Rathbone Is On Honor Cruiser Lewis J. Rathbone, boatswain"s mate, second class, USN, of Way nesville, is serving aboard the light cruiser USS Providence, which has just been awarded the Battle Ef ficiency Pennant and "E" for her general excellence throughout the fiscal year July 1, 1947 to July I, 1948. His ship was the only light cruiser so honored" in the entire U. S Navy. This qualifies him to wear the Battle Efficiency "E" badge on his uniform, an old peacetime prac tice in the Navy revived with this recent award. 87 new workers added during the revival. There were only sixteen classes across the county, but the revival upped this number by 89. Hazelwood Baptist church has the heaviest Sunday School enroll ment with 533 members. Waynes ville church can count 501 mem bers in their Sunday School and Canton Calvary has 334. Hazelwood is also the largest church in regards to resident mem bership. The Hazelwood church has 1,173 members. Second in line is the Beaverdara church with 882. followed by Waynesville with 672 and West Canton with 485. One of the most advanced churches during the two-week re vival was the Barbervllle church, which added twelve new Sunday School workers and 20 new classes. Waynesville church had the high est average Sunday School attend ance during the last quarter with 270. v Days, Main Street Haywood Baptist Pledges - . , Assures Quota For The Jjev yaM rores S No New Cases Of Polio In Hay wodd No new cases of polio have been reported in Haywood coun ty during the past week. It was announced by Dr. M. B. Micli.il of the district health department. Haywood has (teven cases of the disease this Summer. Farm Bureau To Lay Plans for Campaign Plans for a membership drive will be laid Saturday morning at 11 o'clock when the Haywood conn ty Farm Bureau and the Woman's Auxiliary hold a joint meeting in the county courthouse. Aocording to C. B. McCrary, pres ident of the Farm Bureau, all mem bers are urged to attend in order that arrangements for the member ship campaign can be made. Election of officers lor the coin ing year will be held after the membership drive plans are com pleted, said Mr. McCrary. "Some of our neighboring coun ties already had their membership drive, and have over 5O0 members to date. Haywood county should double that number.'' said the pres ident. "Let's all the farmers and farm women work together for a better rural Haywood county. " Representatives from the North Carolina Farm Bureau will be on hand for the meeting. Miss Johnston Wants Ideas For Bookmobile Stops Miss Margaret Johnston, county librarian, has asked for suggestions from the rural communities for suitable places to be used as stops for the Bookmobile. She asks that persons mail or telephone their suggestions to the library immediately, since the Bookmobile service will soon be started. Want Ad Sold More Windows . . . Several weeks ago Hugh Mas sle sold a number of windows and screens the same day he usd a small want ad in The Mountaineer. Last week he advertised more windows and screens for sale and they too, sold in short or der. If it's worth selling:, it's worth advertising- use the want ads of The Mountaineer 20 words only 40 cents. Was Fenced In l.eadeis of Haywood Baptist chin ehe.s underwrote a sum Tues day mijlil which assured stale lead ers of raisin: $1 ,rll(l ()(l() for Ihe jnew Wake Koivsl at Winsloii ; Salem. The goal was about $25,000 sh-trt ol Hie goal on Tuesday, when Horace Kasoiu. director ol Hie cam paign, pn M illed Hie plan belore tlx- I lay wood leaders at a supper meeting in Hie Welch Memorial building Tuesday evening. "The llaplMs o the stale must raise six million, and break dirt by July l!.r)2, in order lo get the gilt ot (i(M) acres, two mansions at Winjjton-So.'eni, and an endowment ol $11 .000,000. with an annual in- come ol $3:0.000. Mr. Kasom c x- plained. "The inconi,. from the endow ment will hriiiK in a million and a half, lli' eiHens of Winston-Salem are giving an equal amount, a spe cial gilts committee is raising an other million and a half, and the Baptists of Ibe stale have been ask ed for a million and a half. If Hay wood churches underwrite some thing over $25,000 here tonight, we will have in hand pledges of $1. 501101)0 to report lo the stale con vention However, we are out for $1,800,000 in order to h,. on Ihe safe side.'' he continued. .Mr. Kasom said that "Ihe next 100 years in Christian education de pends on the action of North Caro lina Baptists in regards to the de velopnu nt ol Wake Forest The project lias created world-wide in- tresl, and our progress will (Continued on Page Eight) be R. Rathbone Cut In Monday Affray Kichaid Rathbone, 55-year-old larmer, is getting along satisfac torily at the Havvvood County Hos- ' pilal. where he is undergoing treat- 1 menl for cuts received about the' face and head Monday night. Raltj- ! bone lost a lot of blood, and was unable lo give investigating officers much ol Ibe delails The cutting! took place in Jones Cove. I j Officers are looking for Paul ; Eure, 24-year-old farmer, who they ! said Rathbone told I hem did the! .cutting. Officers investigating were Deputies Max Cochran. Wade Mc- Daniel. John Kerley. and Police man Orville Noland. Large Truck Goes I Off Alley Bank I A large crowd gathered Tuesday j afternoon to watch w orkmen pull a transport tractor-trailer unit out of alley embankment. The right 'back wheels of the trailer slipped off the embankment, and it p :peared for a time that the loaded l unit might topple over, i A wrecker and two large trucks together with the tractor finally j pulled the trailer to an upright position, without any apparent damage heiny done. 150 Saw McCrackens Get 'Master Farm' Award At Ceremony On Thursday Wind And Rains Damage Crops Meavy winds and rain in the Clyde area over the week-end blew down a treat deal of corn and cane, doinR considerable damage, farmers reported. Many bushels of apples which were not yet ripe were blown off the trees. They were bruis ed and now good only for hoR feed, one tanner said. Last Service Will Be Held Sunday In Dellwood Church Sunday's serv ices in the present Dellwood church will be the last in the old building, it was an nounced yesterday by Hev. J. K If Houser, pastor. The building was recently bought by J. M. Palmer, and the church in turn bought the old school building, and will so,n have a dedication service then Hev Mr. Houser announced that Hev. Frank Leatherwood woyld preach Sunday morning at 1 1 o'clock, with Sunday school meet ing as usual at 10 o'clock. A spe cial Invitation Is extended to all former members, as well as the present membership, to attend this service. Rev. Mr Houser will preach Maple urov nt trh n clock and at Maggie at II o'clock. The revival services at Maple Grove with Hev. It. L. Younn of Waynesville doing the preaching have been well attended Mr. Young has preached nightly to the congregation, bringing inspiring messages each evening. Efforts are being made to have a special serv ice Sunday evening with an over flow attendance. Funeral Men To I Convene Today Funeral directors from several points in Hie Western part of Ihe state were due to meet at the Craw ! ford home this morning for Ibe an l nual Twelfth District of Funeral Directors and Burial Association meet ing. Mayor ,1 II. Way whs scheduled lo welcome the visitors. Lunch was to he served at 12:30. followed by a todr of interesting points in the area. Ralph Crawford is director ol the associat ion. Visitors will conn: from Brevard Bryson City. Franklin, Andrews. Murphy, Sylva and Canton, Willi association executives from Greens boro. Raleigh and Salisbury also mi hand. Haywood Ministers Will Meet Monday The Haywood County Ministerial Association will meet at Long's Chapel at Junaluska on Monday at 12:30 p. m. Local Woman AtNuremburg Ves. there is a lot of depression (and misery over there, The people look hungry and they're not very happy. It certainly makes you glad J to be back here again." j Miss Henrietta Love sat on her front porch on Love Lane last week and talked about the 16 months she spent in Germany with the govern ment as a stenographer for the Nuremburg War Crimes court trib unal. Miss Love looked around her at the shady Waynesville streets and Summer lawns, and decided that she'll take America anytime. "It was interesting and all that," said she, "but I have no par ticular inclination to go back any time soon." The Waynesville woman has been working with the Civil Service for quite a while. The Nuremburg tri als were 1nst pnother a;sionmpnt Surrounded by the flourishing lields and green pastures that were proof of their successful farming, Mr anil Mrs Albert J, MeCracken and Hun children stood in their i front yard Thursday morning and received a plaque proclaiming them a "Master Farm Family" one of i the nine best I aim families in the slate j Around 15(1 proud neighbors and friends were on hand tn observe i the award ceremonies. Sitting un der the trees in Ihe MeCracken yard they heard the "master fam ily given due praise for their achievements by farm leaders from , t lie count v and stale. Wayne Cm pining, the ebullient I aim (lemons! rat ion agent for Hay j wood county, ki pi the program moving at a last pace as master of ceremonies Several men who were lanuli.ir wilb the MeCracken fam iily s progress made brief talks. along with agricultural dignitaries who described the McCracken's j cooperation in the farm programs ; in this area. 1 H (' Larue, associate editor of ! Progressive Fanner magazine the I putilu at ion which sponsored the j presentation ol the plaque, opened I the program w ith an explanation of ! the "Master Harm Family'' project and ils aims. J Mrs W. I), ketner followed linn with a glowing account of Mrs. McCracken's work as a 4-H leader in the county, as an interested worker in any home demonstration program and as Ihe mother of nine H children "She always- cared for Hie neallh ol tier children, said Mi s Ki tner, "and made sure that thru education and I heir music came a hurt; with I heir material tilings in Iheir lives." Albert Walker, a long-time k-m-dent ol the community who said he had known Albert MeCracken "from inlancy" rose and told of Mr McCracken's past . "I can see him a a boy. pattering down that !road lo Sunday School with his brothers and sisters." Speaking ex j tenipei aneously , Mr. Walker re minisced ol Mi . McCracken's early , tile ''"id his parents, " was his Sunday School superintendent for :!.") years and know him well. He lias gol a wonderful family . . ." Joe Davis, representing the First X.i I ii i i .i 1 Hank ol Waynesville, then came to I he microphone and in troduced the many well-known ! guests at the ceremonies, includ ! nig county farm workers and lead I ers in Waynesville civic organization- Thry received applause from I he audience Dave Felmet. head of (ht. Cham i her ol ( ninnierce in Waynesville. is.nd "'I'll.. Chamber of Commerce I has itividid its interests into three Continued on Page Eight) Arrests Of Drunks Starts Off Heavy Wilb H2 arrested on charges of being ilinnk in August, Waynes ville police reported yesterday that September loomed lo he another heavy inonlh. with 20 already on the police docket on drunken j charges I "We find they are drinking j every thing Unit W ill pass their j gullet and make them drunk," one i police officer said. Is Reporter War Trials to Iur but a difficult she will admit. assignment. "The trials were carried on in ihany languages." she told the Mountaineer. "If a Nazi had per petrated a crime aganist Greek citizens, wc would have to have German and Greek interpreters to translate the testi mony. Each w itness would have his translater and it is surprising how fast they- could work. We had a complex microphone arrangement CS Ihof oil m, llnJ 4n 1 . 1 A 1 jsf ...ai an jwu nau CO UU IU gel inC trials in English was to switch a button on the mike. Then We took down the testimony in shorthand Miss Love was one of thirty trial reporters present at the affair. There were six trials in all. "Of course, the way we worked, we missed most of the interesting Continued on Page Kfght) Heavy Vote Predicted For County In November With Four Candidates On Presidential Ticket, Much Interest To Be Shown The Haywood Hoard of Elections will meet Monday and make a de cision on whether a new registra tion will be called for the Novem ber general election, or a revision be made of the present poll books, it was learned Thursday iroin Jerry Rogers, chairman of the board. "There has lieen some discus sion asking for a new registration, and the board will decide Monday just what is to he done,'' Mr Rog ers said. The board is composed of Mr. Rogers, chairman. Claude Williams and J A. Singleton, with Mrs. Edith P. Alley, as secretary The board will also begin mak ing plans for what looms to be one of the heaviest vote in a presi dential election in the history of the county. In 1944 Haywood poll ed 10,693 votes for the two presi dential candidates. Roosevelt got 7.77fi and Dewey 2.917. Now thai the supreme omrf has ruled that the Dixirrats can have their candidates on the presiden tial ticket making four in all -the vote is expected to be cxtmrn ly heavy, probably hitting 15.000 or better. J. R. Morgan, member of the state board of elect Ions. ,aid here yesterdav that there is every indi cation that the tact Hyd. the, Dlxie crats will have e cahdidole on presidential ballof in North Caro lina will bring out many people who would prohpblv olliciwi'.e stayed at home and will now vote for Thurmond, but il just means keener competition for all four candidates, and that always in creases the vote. Mr. Morgan was mil surprised at the action of the Supreme Court in ruling against the previous action of the board of elections. The state board will proceed at once to print more than a million and a half state presidrnli.il bal lots, which will require more thin a carload of paper The ballots will be distributed at eal 30 djys prior lo November 2. in order that absentee ballots tan be given to those eligible. In discussing absentee Da!l t; . Mr. Rogers said that college stu dents and other persons qualified to vote may register now with hini if they will be absent during Hie regular registration period, nlorh will be on October SI to Hi Per sons who have not regi:,t"red pre viously but who will be ::i years of age on or betore the November 2 general election and ai" other wise qualified may register with the chairman if they will be out of the county during the registra tion period Mr Rogers also pointed nut t'-at persons who are registered and who moved from their i,3;i vofin.; precinct for as long as four months ago may have their registration transferred at his office Hazelwood Police Have Light Weok The Hazelwood polirp fnvre hai a comparatively light wrfi;s work according to a report from Chief of Police John Woodward Among arrests made thi v eek in Hazelwood were two drunks, one drunken driver, two spcedcis, and one man for failing lo report an ac cident. Highway Record For 1948 (To Date) In Haywood Killed 4 Injured .... 34 (This information com piled from Becordt of