North Carolina Newspapers

".r. C t S 220 ?30 s Fi ' 1,1 II i r The Waynesville Mountaineer Published Twice-A-Week In The County Sat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park Published Twice-a-Week Every Tuesda" and Friday FOURTEEN PAGES United Press and Associated Press News WAYNESVILLE. N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24. 1948 $3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties icture On Magazine Cover Starts Fan Mail Rflen r 5ple ideal inter 515 HO BISHOP er Dhoto on the issue of Collier's Its brought .lanet tie. a screen test :r" proposals of inde said that she HoMvM''X'd film her way. The will have to wait. she -di(l with fcok in her eyes, lou know " young She came 18 and now she is fiy ftnd it neces- le ''f ears to her Iness threatens to (not m et on Ihe ! fur that matter. r of applications . the famous pho- lecterl her as a arranged for the olriwyn-Maycr. U dime soon. lace appears on a on Page Six i directors eeting I1" of conflicts in- Fong the officers. Fling f the hoard t"c Chamber of Postponed Irom jiecrelarv "Hi a allT rial,. announc- Market inTliursrlay) filed ion 52c 55c 20-28c 15c 10r 32-36c 2 fin In.??'; lbs 2.35 fi PS 1 0(1(1 l OTIt 29 50 to 37.00 23-S' to 25 50 28 00 to 32.00 2S.0O (n 29.50 22 00 (n 24.00 21M to 27.00 FAIR IMP,) V lempera RtJr the staff of . Milt !!-.. ni viiiiiaii 1-82 v, 0 53 .06 W ;. "VI Hbmk r-sf . "ST.- tt IrV-' " ' I i. - ... &:.-m-M.-M ABEL, a Waynesville girl, now modeling in New York, recently posed, as show n above. illicr's and since then nas receiveo a miniocr oi 1'.. . , . ... ..1. 1 (Li.. ........... laRe. miss ADCI plans iu no hiichii iumu- i-h she says "she has plenty ol lime. yci. cui couiiesy cum iouc vjumm vei f 'hotograph Wins est And Proposals Miss Osborne Is Named Festival Beauty, Queen Mis Mary Osborne, student of. Bethel high school, was named Miss Haywood County High School in the beauty contest on Wednesday night at the closing performance of Ihe 3-night Folk Festival in Canton. About 3.000 persons attended th last night, with good crowds attend ing on Monday and and Tuesday nights. Miss Osborne is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Osborne of route 2. Canton. The winner was given prizes, and the school will get a cup from the Kdwards-Clark-Messer post of the Veterans of For eign Wars, sponsors of the event. Taking the number 2 place was won by Miss 1'alsy Smalhers, of Canton high, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Carey Smathers. The number 3 place went to Dot Norris, of Waynesville high, (laughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Norris. All 12 con testants were given prizes of jew elry by the sponsors. ' The Bent Creek Ranch square dance team won first place in com petition in this field. Johnny Crook is caller and Miss Frances Wheeler is leading lady. In second place was the Waynesville Okltimers team, (Continued on Page Six) W. Kerr Scott Due Here For Brief Stay Tuesday W. Kerr Scott, Democratic nomi need for governor, is scheduled to come to Haywood for a few hours Tuesday morning. Mr. Scott will be among the large group of Dem ocrats attending the 12th District Rally in Asheville Monday night to hear Senator W. Alben Harklcy. GOING TO ST. LOUS Charles K. Ray leaves Saturday for a six-day buying trip in St. Louis. Drys Of Cherokee And Macon Get Favorable Ruling In Court Hearing Judge H. Hoyle Sink signed two orders here Wednesday afternoon disinissimz the restraining orders which had forbid the board of elec tions of Macon and Cherokee coun ties from certifying the results of recent elections held in the coun ties on the sale of wine and beer. The hearings took most of Wed nesday afternoon, and the effect of the judge's ruling is to outlaw the legal sale of beer and wine in the two counties, in conformity with the result of the elections, which were about 10 to 1 in favor of the drys. Judge Sink's order provides that the new law becomes effective im im onusais mi nr d-so. n cu a In.l.. u,nitimn tiutll I. fit for HM , m.-. ........ ....... ..... . ..... 250 Attend Corn Field Day ill Test Farm Here About 250 people from 15 coun ties ittended the hybrid corn field day at the State Test farm and a visit to two Jonathan Creek farms on Thursday. During the morn ing session a number of leading specialists, including Dr J. F. Heed, who is in charge of the soil testing division of fitate College, addressed the group on "The Value of Soil Testing." Howard Clapp, director in charge of the test farm here, was host to the group, and showed the sev eral hundred farmers the different plots and type of hybrid corn under experiment. A tour was made in the after noon to the farms of Glenn A. lioyd and Dave Boyd, both on Jonathan Creek, where outstanding fields of corn were shown the visi- tol'R. Body Of Pfc. Scruggs Is Returned The body of Pfc. Clarence j Scruggs of Hazelwood has been re i turned to the United States for i burial. I Pfc. Scruggs, son of Clarence ! Scruggs was killed in action while (serving with the Marine Corps in the South Pacific. He entered the service in November, 1943. BUY SIMS HOME Mr. and Mrs. Fern Parris have purchased the brick home on Cen tral Avenue from Mrs. J. M. Sims, and are now occupying the place. The sale was made by H. H. Holt, of the L. N. Davis Co. mediately, except that he gave licensed dealers until noon De cember 15 to dispose of the stocks on hand. Judge Sink ruled on both cases due to their similarity. Members of the board of elec tions of the counties, together with a number of civic leaders were on hand for the hearings. A temporary restraining order had been obtained shortly after the elections last August, and the hear ing before Judge Sink Wednesday disposed of the orders. J. B. Gray and R. S. Jones ap peared for the defendants, and W. Roy Francis appeared for the plaintiffs. 19-Year-0Id Girl Dies Of Polio; County's First Haywood's first fatal case of polio was reported Thursday after noon by the District Health De partment, following the death of Mrs. Earl Smith, 19, of Clyde, route one, a( four o'clock Thurs day morning in an Asheville hos pital, where she had been taken two hours earlier. The tenth case to develop in Haywood this year, was also re ported Thursday, when il was found a 10-year-old boy on Penn sylvania Avenue had polio. He has been taken to an Asheville hos pital for treatment The boy be came ill last Saturday and had not been in school since that time, the investigating health authorities said. The records of the Health De partment show that Mrs Smith be came I on Monday. Funeral ar rangements were incomplete Thursday afternoon. It is under stood that her husband is in the army, and her mother in California Wells Funeral Home, of Canton, will be in charge of arrangements. 300 Masons End Annual Summer Assembly Here "The people of the world have got to get back to God." Joseph Cameron Dunn, of New York, told an audience of between 250 and SOU at the formal dedication of the 21 steps leading to the Masonic Mark er at Black Camp Gap Tuesday af ternoon. Mr. Dunn's address was the last part of the formal program of the 3-day summer assembly ot the Grand Council of North Caro lina. Mr. Dunn reminded his audience that Abraham Lincoln sal'! . under God this nation shall not perish." Then he pointed ifiiI that not once since the United Na tions had been founded had there been any mention of the Diety in any session, because of the request of certain members of the assem bly. He called for a better under standing among the nations of tin' world, and made a plea for world wide peace. "No nation, no organization can help to meet with success with that attitude," he continued. Mr. Dunn, a leading figure in the (Continued on Page Sixi Membership Drive Of Farm Bureau Is Being Pushed George Farthing, representative from the North Carolina Farm Bu reau is in Haywood county work ing with the officers and member ship committees during the mem bership drive being held by the Havwood County Farm Bureau. This drive was started on Mon day, and will end on Thursday, September 30. Mr. Farthing was pleased after visiting many of the workers who are securing the memberships in the countv. Charles B. McCrary and Oral L. Yates have been work ing with Mr. Farthing, and have alreadv visited several of the areas in the county and assisted the com munity workers in this campaign. It is understood that Mr. Farth ing plans to stay in Haywood coun ty until the 30th, when the cam paign ends. GO TO BURLINGTON Mr. and Mrs. Joe Tate are at tending a barbecue given by W. Kerr Scott at his farm near Burl ington this afternoon. Mr. Tate was co-manager of Mr. Scott's campaign in Haywood. Jar Baby Black-Widow Spiders Gets Attention Do yon want any baby black widow spiders? the Mountaineer has. several hundred of the lirely, reddish, two-day-old spiders, all sealed up In a jar, that is creating a lot of interest. Several weeks ago a subscrib er found a black widow and her eg. Both were placed in a small jar, and brought here for display purposes. In several days the spider died, and the egg appeared to be drying up. The egg Is about the siie of a small Rally Speaker if S F.N A TOU AI.HI'. W UAKKI.F.Y. Democratic iiooiiihc for vice pi c-idi ill . will ad'ln s Democrats of the I2lli dish ii t at a tally in A.lnillc Monday mr.lit A large iiiiiiilifi linn Haywood pi, hi lo nl tend Hie r.'illv which will he held at Mr( ni inn k f ield 30 Animals To Be Shown In lunior Dairy Show flans have been completed for Ulin Haywood Cmiiilv Jiiiiun Daiiv Show v hit h will take place on Monday, September 27. ;it the court hoii-e parking Int. willi indu ing .lartiiu: at 10 00 o'clock G I) While, manager of Skylnonk Farms. llondiTsonvillc, will judge this show Abiiul I hilly calves are expelled lo he entered Thi .bow U being .pou .ored by tlin Haywood Cininly Milk Pro ducers As .oi i.il inn and the Way nesville Chamber ol 'oiooiei ee. Any boy or girl under twenty years of age can enler a dairy call lor show ing After judging here, the calves will he taken In Asheville on Mull- day afternoon lor the District Junior Dairy Show which will bo held at the Planlers warehouse on Tuesday. On Monday night there will be a banquet for all 4-H and F.K.A. members and their parents, at the Planters Warehouse. Dr. Robert B House, chancellor at the University of North Carolina, will be the principal speaker at this banquet . Haywood coiinly calves are gel ting in shape, and It is hoped that we will make a line showing at the District Show Haywood Library To Be , Closed On Tuesday The Havwood Coiinly l.iluaiv will be closed all dav on Tuesday. September lo enable members of the library staff to allend a district library meet ing m Ashe ville. The meeting. vilii(-li is one of seven being held I hroiighout . t In state, wll he to'' the purpose of discussing library problems and plans II yvill lake plain at the Battel'. Park Hotel from 10 a in to 4 p. m All library staff members, board members and friends are invited to attend the meeting. marble. Yesterday the inside of the jir became alive with the baby spiders, and a double seal was put on the jar ltd just in case. One citizen stopped by yester day, and remarked: "There ain't much kick in the hundreds of them baby spiders, as there is in two bir drinks of some of this moonshine." Since the cus todian of the spiders is not an authority on liquid moonshine, the spectator's word was taken at face value. 8 Pages Of Questions Being Mailed To 100 Daily A total of 3.147 Haywood coun ty men 18 through 25 years of age registered for the draft under the peacetime selective service system during the special registration period which ended Saturday . Clas sification is slated to si art about the middle of October Mrs V'ergie M Itobinson, of Canton, chief clerk of the Hay wood hoard, reported that ques tionnaires were being mailed to 515 single, non-lather, iion-veteian registrants 19 through 25 Mrs. Hoy Campbell Is tile clerk of the board. These registrants are given 10 days iu which lo complete the quesl ionuaircs and return them li Ihe board here. F.ach question naire contains eight pages. The dratl hoard will use the question naires as a basic of classifying the registrants Mrs Itoliiusoii said Ihe questionnaires were being mail ed at the rate of about 100 per day The army this week ordered 15,000 men drafted, and be in uni form by Christ mas The order came Iron) Washington and (overs the entire nation Draft board officials here fell lhal the increasing number of vol unteers from Haywood might take care of the first quota of draftees from here This was an assump tion on their part, however, and without any official ruling The breakdown of the number of registrants in the 515-group hy Ihe year of their births is as follow: UK'2 30 io:':i 13 ir.! 3(i 1025 42 HKVi 17 HW7 70 I 9:H t 4(i i!i:'q i fin 1030 Draft board personnel reminded Haywood citizens that men born mi or after September 1. 1030. i most register on the day they be come IH or within five days there M'ontiliued on Page Sixi Funeral Services Are Held For Mrs. M. Jones Funeral s'ervices for Mrs. Mar garet Robert Francis Jones. 73. who died Tuesday afternoon at the Hay wood County hospital, were held at Long's Chapel Methodist church at Lake .limaluska. yesterday after noon The Rev. Paul Duckwall of ficiated and interment was in Pleasant Hill cemetery at Clyde. Active pallbearers were J. B. L'n- . derwood. William Norris, John T. Norris. George Jones, Jr.. Mack Jones. Claude Walker, Hubert Un derwood, and David Jones. Honorary pallbearers were Wayne Medford. Herman Rhine hart. Dill Howell. Leyton Mears. Giovor Davis. Dr. Thomas String Meld. Henry Francis, Kd Potts. Jer ry Liner. J. T. Coman, Kd Brown, F.dward Fincher, Horace Anderson. 1 and Cepbus Clark. Mrs Jones, widow of John Tay lor Jones, was a member of an early Haywood county family. Shi' w as owner of Jones Farm resort near Clyde. Surviving are three daughters. Mrs T C. Norris of Waynesville. Mrs. Fred Plott of Candler and Mrs. Charles Henderson, three sons. George H. and Robert F. Jones of Cfrston. anrl Jule P Jones of Pasedena. Texas: (yvo brothers. J. Pink Francis and Gideon Francis of Waynesville; I I grandchildren and six great grand children Arrangements were under the direction of Garrett Funeral Home. Robbery Of Clyde Post Office Believed Solved; Woman Held In Jail Here The robbery of the Clyde post office last spring, and 32 other i offices, vere believed solved this week, when postal inspectors and FBI swooped down on an alledged theft ring, and arrested five peo- jple and are seeking for a man, said to be the leader. Inspector I R. V. Cooper said the ring had ' operated over 14 states, and had I taken $100,000 in the past two years. Mrs. Bonnie Philpott. of Middles boro, Ky , said to be the wife of 16 Divorces Granted By Court; HU Jury Cases Are Scheduled For Next Week Puts Up Bond VAUGHN .1. C A N O ,v of Ashe ville. on Wediiesd.i;, posted $15. 000 liooil in i.unioinho county to Hiiswer ch.oi'es ol oiiei aliug a gam bling linn e anil unlawful posses sion, opei at ion and sale of gam bling device-. I. u lier this week a $1,451.07:' federal income tax lien was tiled iu at ( i eensboro. and put on lecoul in ..evei.il Western North Carolina counties including Haywood. $1,451,972 Tax Lien Filed Hero Against Cannon j i The large . I las lien ever filed in j Haywood, wa put on record in the office ol the 1,'egi.ler of Deeds this! yvcrk. as the ledeial Government filed a SI .4.(1 .072 lax lien against! Vaughn .1. Cannon, of Asheville. I Fodeial agents checked the rec-. olds here Miuieliine ago and found1 lhal Mr Cannon has property in llayyvuiKl and Hie lax lien was filed here as well as in Buncombe and some oilier counties in this area Wednesday afternoon Mr. Can nun walked 1 1 r I the office of Sher iff Lawrence Brown, in Asheville. and surrendered to answer charges growing out of a grand jury inves tigation in Asheville Mr. Cannon is out under SI. 5 ,000. He is due to appear at the October term of court, which convenes on the 18th. Cannon yyas named in a civil war rant for failure to appear August 2(i at a hearing on the padlock of six of Hi closed places. Later. Judge jN'ettle ordered that a criminal war rant be issued lor him. Simultan- enusly. Nellies signed orders im i pounding records and sales seized 'at offices ol distributing firms, 'Continued on page six) House Could Have Been Rented 30 Times From Ad In Tuesday's issue of The iMfdiiitainrer. Mrs. .1. M. Palmer inserted the following small want ;d. Ihe apartment was rent ed sborllv after the paper went to prrss. and in all she had 30 plioor r;ills. This little ad is what brought all the response: FOR RJ.VT 5 loom housp. garden, free yv.ilrr Pbone 14-J-l, Mrs. .1. M P.iln.ei James Floyd Philpott, head of the j ring, remainfd in the Haywood I county tail Thursday morning. Her I bond had been set at $20,000, ! Deputy Wade McDaniel said Mrs. Philpott was arrested in Frank lin and brought to the Haywood jail for safekeeping. Postal authorities said the ring is charged with breaking into 32 post offices, and probably an equal number of laundries, schools, drug stores and other concerns. j i mm, Judge H. Hoyle Sink announced I that motions would be heard In the civil term of court today, and I adjournment would be made until I Monday morning This will be I the first time since 1041 that a civil term of court has gone into the second week. Jury cases will he heard on Mon day, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. .Iudfe Sink announced. Other than divorce cases, only two cases have gone to a jury this week, and one of those resulted in a mistrial The jury was hearing evidence Thursday morning in a case resulting fiom alleged dama ges sustained in an automobile wreck. The case is Cook vs Shel tou The following divorce? have been granted at this term of civil courl: Cora Harris Flvnn vs. W. C. Kly tin: Robert McKay vs Frankie McKay: Neria Mae Pace vs. Rem ington Pace. Edwin Taylor v; Lou ise Taylor: Loirs Mooney vs Sher ley Mooney: Kathrjn K Dean vs Henry Lois Dean, Louise Franklin vs Lawrence Franklin: Kenneth Parker vs. Martha Parker: Mar tha Binge vs Thomas Burke. Paul (Continued on page six) WNC "Safety Council To Meet Here The Dayton Rubber fire brigade will give a demonstration of com bating file at Ihe fall meeting of the Western North Carolina Safety Council meeting at the high school stadium on Tuesday. Sept 2R at 7:30 Dayton Bubber Company, and the Royal & Pilkington. Inc . will be co-hosts to the 300 members of the council, in addition to the general public. Ned Tucker, representing Day Ion, .ind Ben F,. Colkitt, of Royle & Pilkington, have arranged the program as a "lead-off" for Na tional Fire Prevention Week Chief Fitzgerald of Asheville said yester day he was bringing a number of his men over, and other municipal fire departments of Ibis district, as well as plant firemen, are expected lo attend in large numbers. Similar demonstrations have proven beneficial, as well as popu ; lar in other sections. The Dayton company's plant in Dayton had the championship team, and they have traveled extensively showing their method of combating indus trial fires. Each event will be I timed, and interest runs high. ?s the men fight actual fire under the ' pressure of time. I A brief business session of the council will be held prior lo the : demonstration, with Johnny Barnes ! of Canton, president, in charge This is the first meeting of the council here in several years : Those in charge of the program I said the public was invited, and j especially urged school men. in dustrial foremen and members of i all fire departments to at'end. Eight From Here r? i-i t o i cnusi in oervice j Among the 29 men from Western : North Carolina enlisting in the army or air force since September 15. there were 8 from this area They included: Sam Everett Me haffey, Hazelwood. Leonard D Robinson. Donald Allen. Walter Gilbert Leming, Eugene Frank Grasty. Edward Wheeler McClure and Ted Donald Arlington, all of Wavnesville. Highway Record For 1948 (To Date) In Haywood Killed 4 Injured .... 34 (This Information com piled Irom Record of