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:cnd.srd P.-mi,. v 0 S first Si 'ni rsvir.tr jcr he fwHlTry The Waynesville Mountaineer Published Twice-A-Week In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Ol The Great Smoky Mountains National Park Today's Smile Hare ye beard about the moron who took a clock la an airplane to tee hew time Ues? 63rd YEAR No. 90 16 PAGES United Press and Associated Press New WAYNESVILLE. N. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1948 $3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties jr Hunters hunters are - full of deer 1 seasoned deer Siting the open . Monday. over highway isgan National Id sighting num bast few weeks. thing but t average bear rule go deer hunters do not tw inters are liav iason. it stands deer hunters h, nuts nine them IT of game killed. pur Hero On Up f tenor of note, festern Carolina Lnd is taking an i music depart , The first of a Certs were given Jtary Club Tues tnev taking the I inhered that he it when he ap er Major Bowes 1 national hook- trictly jiness Jove superinten iluska Assembly ithat the Build immittee of the held an all-day md never once an unheard-of-Love. Usually iroup of people iisiness meeting, 1 the line some- id starts talking torrent events, or a neighbors, but L And they stay- day. emarkable com angle," he con- Handicraft Fair Slated At Festival November 26 ppies Arc Vnr - lung lady selling Veterans ol For Thursday had a the man who "new style" pop d down in his flange. I are different we have bought -iented. She flashed back. Vcent variety. The e all been sold I 4 been bested by He man paid ac- poppy and walk- that once again Jig tg out-talk a One of the highlights of the sec ond annual Tobacco Harvest Festi-1 val is Hie Handicraft Fair which is j being held especially for the wo men and girls on Friday, Novemb- 1 er 26, starting at 10:30 o'clock. This Handicraft Fair is open to' any girl or woman in Haywood , county. All exhibits must bo in place at the courthouse before 1 10:30 o'clock on Friday, and ex hibitors can take their exhibits men and girls on Friday, Novem ber 26, starting at 10:30 o'clock. The Handicraft exhibit which was put on at the State Fair this year will also be exhibited. Also, there will be special dem onstrations showing how to make certain articles of handicraft. Judges for the event will be: Mjss Mamie Sue Evans, Buncombe County Home Agent, and Miss Louise Matthews, Cherokee Coun ty Assistant Home Agent. The committee in charge of this Handicraft Fair Is as follows: Miss Mary M. Smith, chairman, Mrs. Will Medford, Mrs. Paul Hyatt, Mrs. Jim Welch, Mrs. Edgai Bui nette and Mrs. Mary Hawkins. Premium list for the Handicraft Fair is as follows, with $1.00 being paid for each first prize, and 50 cents for each second place winner. CRAFTS Single piece of wood work: metal work; best collection of nov elties; reed baskets; raffia baskets: willow baskets; honeysuckle bas ket; straw basket; straw mats; shuck mats; split maskets; metal tray of aluminum or copper. RUGS Woven of cotton, or rug yarn; woven of rags; braided wool; hook ed wool yarn; hooked cotton or crocheted. NEEDLEPOINT Needlepoint chair set; needle point foot stool cover; needlepoint sampler or picture. QUILTS 1 Cotton patchwork or applique 50 years old; new patchwork of cotton; new cotton applique; new silk, velvet or rayon. AFGHANS Crocheted; knitted and woven. SPREADS Tufted; crocheted, knitted; hand woven or of feed sacks. TABLE LINENS Crocheted luncheon sets, lun cheon sets made of feed sacks; luncheon sets of linen, cotton or rayon; crocheted table cloth; 4 woven linen place mats; 4 colton woven place mats. TOWELS Linen handwoven, and cotton handwoven. Argentine Ambassador To Address Lions Club Here At Meeting Tonight At 7 Best Corn Grower ry u Nine Tobacco Grad'g Units Will Be Held In Haywood A J McCRACKEN made top news ill farm circles again this week, w hen his 10 stalks of corn was ad judged the best in the state from a field glowing 100 bushels per acre or more Mr. McCracken won $100 first prize, while George Stanley, of Pigeon, won second place. 2 Haywood Farmers Win In Carolina Corn Contest At f fntirr Parade In attractions at parade here yes fo M4-A1 tanks National Guard fceavy tank com fcundred people f, observation of fatrolman O. R. the tank on the $ moment of de- ugh the small larket on Thursday) ction .... 55c-60c 20c-28c 15c 10c 32c-36c 100 lbs 3.00 lbs 2 set 10.UU-18.UU 25.00-27.00 20.00-23.00 25.00-28.25 24.30-26.00 26.00-26.50 . 27.00-32.00 --Partly "cloudy r cold. ule tempera. the staff of the Mia. Rainfall 29 33 38 .20 Bethel Civic Club Sponsors Contest For Group Slogan The Pigeon Valley Civic Club, new community service organiza tion of the Bethel school distrcti, is searching for a suitable slogan, according to announcement by the Club's board of directors, and in vites Haywood county citizens to help write one. To the writers of the three slo gans adjudged best by the board of directors, prizes of $5, $3. and $2 will be awarded. The slogan ad judged winner of the $5 first prize will be adopted as the official slo gan of the Club to be used on its stationery, checks, and member ship cards. The directors announced these rules for the contest: Slogan ent ries must be of six words or less. (See Pig-eon Club Paffe 2) Mother Of Waynesville Physician In Serious Condition In Hospital The condition of Mrs. W. H. E. Lancaster, of Hendersonvillc. was reported as serious from an Ashe ville hospital Thursday morning. Mrs. Lancaster, the mother of Dr. N. F. Lancaster, underwent an operation Wednesday a week ago Dr. Lancaster has been wun since her operation. her Ray Ferguson Serves In Atlantic Fleet Hav S Fereuson, chief personnel man, USN, son of Mrs. Fannie rmiaon of Route 2. Waynesville, i- Hh subordinate Group One of the Boston Group, Atlantic Rtserve Fleet, billeteo aboard the barracks ship USS Colleton in the Naval Shipyard, souinr mv Hnw Tin-inn MaSS.' :'t The group is engaged In the in action; preservation It, maintenance of urplus Navy ships. ' Two Haywood county farmers look lou honors in the 100 Bushel Special Corn Class at North Caro lina Stale fair, according to Wayne Corpening, couuty agent, who has jusl iece.ived this. Information. . Exhibits in this class consisted of ten complete corn plants from fields prodiicng more than one hurdled bushels of corn per acre. 'Ihis class was open to any person in North Carolina who grew at least an acre of corn In 1948 which produced more than one hundred bushels of shelled corn (15.5 moisture per acre, with an ac companying letter signed by a nearby vocational teacher or coun ly agent veryfying that fart. A J. McCracken, demonstration farmer of Clyde township, won first place with an exhibit of U. S. 282, which is a yellow hybrid va riety. First place premium is $100. George K. Stanley, demonstra tion fanner of Pigeon township, was second place winner with his exhibit of Dixie 17. a while hybrid variety. There were over Ihrty entries from all over the state in this special corn exhibit. Dr. Jeronimo Remorino. recently-appointed Argentine ambassador to the United States, will speak at a special called meeting of the lo cal Lions Club here tonight at 7 o'clock in the Towne House. Dr. Romorina, leading jurist of Argentina, and his official party is scheduled to arrive in Waynesville about 11 o'clock this morning and will pick up a delegation of local Lions, headed by Paul Davis, pres ident, and will motor to Bryson City where he will make a short talk. Following the Bryson City ad dress. Dr. Remorino and the part.v will visit the Cherokee Indian res ervation, where he will speak and present Cherokee with a special gift from President Juan l'eron of Argentina. lie is scheduled to arrive hack in Waynesville around 4:30 o'clock this afternoon when the I. ions Club will give the group a recep tion at the Lodge in Hazel wood be tween 5 and 6 o'clock. Officers, di rectors of the Lions Club and their wives will be hosts to the Argen tina delegation. The ambassador will arrive here from Asheville where he spoke last night. In his speech there he declared that the work of the Fan American Union has shown the United Nations that it is possible for the nations of the world to live together peaceably. Dr. Homorino'a visit to North Carolina is being sponsored by the Statesville Lions club, which en tertained Dr. Oscar Ivanlssevich, lormer Argentine Ambassador to this country in January of last year. Joe Cline, assistant Haywood county farm agent, spoke on the Western North Carolina Kat Stock Show and Sale to be held in Plant er Tobacco Warehouse. November 17 and 18. at the meeting of the Asheville Lions club. After the luncheon last night. Dr. Romorino and his party was taken on an inspection tour of Kcusta Paper Corporation plant and on a sightseeing trip to the Wagon Road gap area in Pisgah Forest. He delivered a talk before Hie Brevard Lions club in the cafe teria of Brevard College. Nine tobacco grading demonstra tions have been arranged for Hay wood next week, with J W. Van Ardstlall. of Kentucky, rated as one ol the best hurley graders in the country putting on the demons trations, according to Wayne Cor peniiiR. county agent. Mr YanAisdall is a hurley grow er, and not only knows tobacco, but is also said to be one of the fastest graders ever to put on a demonstration here The first demonstration will be held at the larm of Jule Boyd, on Jonathans Creek. Tuesday, Nov. 16 at 10 o'clock. At 1 30 the same day. a demonstration will be staged at the Mark Ferguson farm on Fines Creek The oilier schedules are as fol lows: Wednesday. Bob Francis Farm. Waynesville. at 10 o'clock: Sam l.edford'.s farm. 2 o'clock on White Oak Thursday, at 10. a,l the Albert Ferguson tarm on t'rabtrcc. and the Jarvis Caldwell farm at 2 o'clock on Iron Duff. Three demonstrations will be held Friday, Nov. 1!). The first starting at 10 o'clock will be at the Dillard Caldwell farm on Pi geon; at 1:30 the Fred Mann farm on Beaverdam. and at 3:30 the Jar vis Campbell farm al Clyde. ' Proper grading is important to all burle growers." Mr. Corpening said, us he urged that every Hay wood growei attend as many of the demonstrations as possible. Armistice Day Parade, Program By Large Throng Here Local Legion Witnessed Work Starts On Telephone Construction In Crablree Speaks Here j XY I .vj; j Sir s I ' W s ! i t Construction crews are schedul ed to begin work of setting poles and stringing the telephone cable down the Crabtree-lron Duff area next week. It was learned from J. Lovell Smith, district manager for Southern Bell Telephone Company Engineers are slated to complete staking the line this week, and right-of-way men are about finish ed with the task, it was learned Mr. Smith said a special contract would be given for erecting the poles, while the construction crews of i he teleohone company will string the cable. All indications now point to giv ing that area of the county service by January first, Mr. Smith said "It all depends on the weather With favorable weather, we ca have service In the section by th first of the year," he continued. The project will call for about 185 telephones and will cost about $55,000. Post Sponsors Gala Event WCTC Requests Allocation For Improvements The Advisory Budget Commis sion heard requests from Western Carolina Teachers College for funds for operation in the 1949-51 biennium in Raleigh recently. Western Carolina Teachers Col lege asked for $1,532,100 to supple ment a 1947 allocation and $1,217, 700 for other permanent improve ments. Proposed projects include a $398,000 dormitory, a $376,000 addition to the training school, a $200,000 sewage disposal plant, a $100,000 faculty apartment and cottages costs $61,800. The hoard also heard requests from Pembroke State College for Indians for $337,400 for permanent improvements costing $21,000. a $58,800 supplement to a 1947 li brary allocation, and a $22,600 sup plement to a $12,000 allocation of last year for a president's home. Garbage Collection In East Waynesville Is Now Underway The garbage collection from the East Waynesville area, new addi tion to the town limits, was started last Tuesday. G. C. Ferguson, town manager, revealed this morning. Mr Ferguson stated that collec tions of garbage will be made every Tuesday and Friday. He urged that all residents of East Waynesville purchase garbage cans with lids and place them in front of their homes on these two days. Masonic, Eastern Star Thanksgiving Banquet Set Wednesday, Nov. 17 There will be a Thanksgiving banquet at Fines Creek High School. Wednesday. Nov. 17. at 7 o'clock. All masons and their wives, all Eastern Star ladies and their husbands are invited to attend. A special program is planned with M. W. Thomas J. Harkins, Past Grand Master of masons of North Carolina as principal speaker. R. W. Ralph M. Crawford. Past District Deputy Grand Master ol the 41st. district of North Carolina, will be master of ceremonies. The groups will leave their respective places and meet at the interseclion of highway 19 and the Iron Duff Crabtree highway near Lake Juna luska at 6:15 p.m. so that all can drive down In a group. Drawings Slated For Farm Bureau Contest Winners Charlie McCrary. president of Haywood County Farm Bureau, an nounced today that the, state-wide drawing to determine winners of trips to the National Convention In the Edward A. O'Neal contest will be held al the Sir Walter, Raleigh, Saturday, November 27 All members of (he Farm Bu reau here who have secured 10 or more new members are eligible for the drawings. Mr. McCrary urged thai all members who have enlisted al least 10 new members to turn (hem in iiniiicdialely so thai the secre tary may record their names on Hie bureau rosier. Mr. McCrary lias appointed the following committee to be in charge of the Farm Bureau meet ing scheduled for Salurday after noon. November 27, al 2 o'clock in the court house. The commit tee is composed of the following: O. L. Yates, chairman, Albert Fer guson. D J. Boyd. George Slaincy. C. C. Francis, Jarvis Caldwell, Mrs. W. D. Ketner, Mrs Carl S Green. Mrs Paul Robinson, Mrs. Jack McCracken and Miss Mary Mar garet Smith. Floats for the Haywood Farm Bureau in the second annual To bacco Harvest Festival parade will be in charge of the following com mittee: Fred Campbell, chairman. Glen McCrackeru David Under wood. William Osborne. Mrs O. L. Yates. Mrs Ed Sims, Mrs C. C. Francis, and Mrs. D. Beeves Noland. L. Y. BALLENT1NE. lieutenant governor of North Carolina, and new Commissioner of Agriculture, will deliver the feature address here Friday, November 26 at 2 o'clock as part of the annual To bacco Harvest Festival to be held November 24-27. Haywood To Enter 40 Calves In Annual Show Haywood Coumy 1-tl Club and F F A. members wl 11 have some forty entries in the annual West ern North Carolina Baby Beef Show in Asheville on Wednesday. Nov. I7lh. II was announced yes Icrdaj by Wayne Corpening. coun ty agent.. The judging will start at one o'clock Wednesday, with the an nual sale to be held the next day. The event will take place at the New Planter's Warehouse. Haywood has always made a good showing al the sale and show, and the animals to be exhibited Ihis year are expected to be among the best ever to go from here. County Residents Urged To Buy Savings Bonds As part of a national promotion of U. S. Savings Bonds beginning Armistice Day, J. E. Massie, chair man of the Haywood County Sav ings Bonds committee today urg ed residents in the county to put away all the surplus cash they can In E, F and G bonds. "This is not a national bond drive such as we had last spring in the Security Loan," Mr. Massie explained, "but a special campaign with three alms: to add more pay mil savers to the 7.500,000 wage and salary earners who are now buying bonds regularly through payroll allotments; to get more bank depositors to sign up on the Bond-a-Mnnth plan, and to urge farmers to build up their financial reserves in these safe bonds." In the rural phase ol the cam paign, the goal is to reach every possible farm family and urge them to build up their financial reserves against the future by investing as much as possible of their current crop money in savings bonds. In this the county savings bond committee will have the help of implement dealers, members of the National Retail Farm Equip ment Association, which is back ing the farm bond campaign nationally. Remains Of Four County Soldiers To Arrive Soon Tax Valuation Shows $255,91 1 Increase The tax valuation for the city of Waynesville gained over a quarter of a million dollars during the 1948 tax levy, G. C. Ferguson, town manager, reported this morn ing. The record figure for 1948 was $2,918,!)fi9, showing an increase of $255,911 over the total for 1047. The remains of one Waynesville man. Pfc Glenn Price, and three Canton servicemen, Pfc. Bassey Wilson, Lt. Frank Curtis and S. Sgt. William R. Dayton, are sche duled to arrive here within the next few days, according to infor mation received from the war de part ment. The body of Pfc. Glenn Price, son of Hayden Price of Fines Creek, is enroute to the States from Italy for final burial. Services will be held at Fines Creek Baptist church with Garrett Local Hunting Party Kills Five Bears, See Five Others In Sherwood Game Area A party of 23 hunters from Waynesville enjoyed a "once in a lifetime experience" on a two-day bear hunt recently when they kill ed five grizzly bears and saw five others in the Sherwood Forest Wildlife area. The local party, headed by vet eran bear hunter Tom Campbell Sr., left Waynesville early Monday morning for the Sherwood Wild life area and pitched camp in the vacinity of Triple Arch Bridge, where the fun started. The first bear was killed by Glenn Rogers on Monday afternoon after a pack of dogs chased it up a tree. The animal tipped the scales around 300 pounds and was the largest bear bagged in the two-day hunt. Fanner Kills Bear Next day, Tuesday, the Sherwood Forest area turned out to be a hunters' paradise where four bears were killed in less than an hour in 33 equal parts and divided it among the hunters. The cutting parly took place at Howell Motor and a half, and five other bears seen Company and the hunters' tables Fred Farmer downed tne . are expecieu t" w " meat this winter nearby first bear of the day which weighed over 200 pounds Immediately after this Mr. Camp bell spotted three bears across the ridge an,d the hunters emptied their guns on the trio of animals but they kept trotting along some 300 yards away. The bears were seen 25 yards from where the first bear was killed. Others killing bears during the 90 minute period were Dr. Phil Medford, whose bear weighed close to 250 pounds; Hub Parker, weigh ed over the 100 pound mark; and Chief Orville Noland, who bagged a 250-pound bear. The party cut up the five bears Sherwood wardens Millsap and Huffman reported that it was the first bunch of dogs turned loose in the mountains that haven't chased a deer. It was remarked that the dogs were too busy smelling the scent of bear tracks to be bothered with other game. Mr. Campbell gave good news to deer hunters when he revealed that there was plenty of deer in the Sherwood area this year. Unusual Experience "In all my 25 years of bear hunt ing, I have never had such an ex perience as this," commented Tom (See Bear Hunt Page 2) in charge of ar Funeral Home rangements. Pfc. Price died as the result of wounds received in combat in Italy in December, 1944. The body of Pfc. Wilson is ex pected to arrive today, and funeral rites have been set for Saturday morning. Pfc. Wilson, 19, was the son of Albert Wilson and the late Mrs. Wilson of the Dutch Cove Section. He died in France on October 27. 1944, having been re ported wounded earlier that year. The body will remain at the Wells Funeral home until time for the service Saturday morning, which will be held at the Morning Star Methodist church. The Rev. A. L. Maxwell, pastor, and the Rev. George B. Culbreth, a former pas tor, will conduct the service. Bur ial will be in the church cemetery. Members of the Canton VFW post will serve as pallbearers, and will be in charge of the military rites at the grave. He is survived by three broth ers, Paul F. and Harley S. of Can ton, and Arthur E. of Baltimore, Md.; two sisters, Mrs. Claude Haynes of Clyde, and Miss Helen Wilson at home; and his maternal grandfather, Charlie Burnette of Cruso. The body of Lt. Frank Curtis who was killed in Italy on April 6, 1944, while serving with the 15th air force, is expected the latter part of next week, according to information received here from the Philadelphia depot. Arrangements for the fuderal are incomplete, but the service will be held at Central (See Service Men Pag 2) Severa lthousand persons lined the streets of Waynesville yester day morning to witness the color ful Armistice Day parade spon sored by the local American le gion Post No. 47. The parade formed at the First Baptist Church and marched down Main Street at 10 o'clock ana nroKe up In front of the court house to hear an address by Kev. Paul ijuck wall, pastor p Longs Chapel MethodwChurch. The Waynesville High School band led the marching caravan in the brisk,-, chilly weather that marked the occasion. A police car withs its siren blasting kicked off the parade. Two Tanks In Parade The local American Legion post with members clad in service uni forms, dress suits and overalls stepped firmly down the street with campaign ribbons in evidence on most participants. A group of live ly 4-H Clbubcrs marched in a group, followed by a host of Girl Scouts with their leaders. On the heels of the Girl Scouts came two heavy army tanks, manned by members of the local National Guard unit. Two trucks loaded with National Guard members were moving slowly behind the two tanks. Bringing up the rear of the pa rade was the Waynesville junior band that received numerous cheers from people that lined the streets and. rom those. Hint stayed in tlrajr-t.wr4. off the eold weather. Several youngsters were climbing telephone polls to get a better view of the procession, while an elderly woman was standing against a car with a cane in her hand and occasionally clapping her wrinkled hands In approval of the parade. Patriotic Speech Several hundred people crowded on the lawn of the court house to hear an Inspiring patriotic mes sage delivered by Rev. Mr. Duck wall. He opened the address by saying, "We know that sacrifices of war are always for peace " as he pointed toward the gold star parents in the rear. Rev. Mr. Duckwall pointed out several philosophies that have been tried in gaining world peace, but declared that peace cannot ae bought, and that it must be achiev ed. He said .that the philosophy of the "big stick," appeasement and idealist have been tried and failed. Rev. Mr. Duckwall stated that an other philosophy which has failed because it has not been practiced on an international scale is that of brotherhood. "This philosophy car ries us much deeper than blood kinship of man," Rev. Mr. Duck wall commented, and concluded by declaring "the ties that will bind men's heatrs together for peace are spiritual rather than physical." The guest speaker was intro duced by Rev. R. L. Young, chap lain of the American Legion Post. Rev. Malcolm Willamson, pastor of First Presbyterian Church pro nounced the benediction. An Armistice Day banquet was held last night at Hazelwood High School, sponsored by the Ameri can Legion Post and Veterans of Foreign Wars and auxiliaries of both organizations. Gold Star par ents of the county were special guests of the group. The band play, ed several selections before the program got underway. The Armistice Day event was broadcast over WHCC. L. Highway Record For 1948 (To Dtto) In Haywood Killed ..... S Injured .... 39 (This Information com- ' piled from Record of ' State Highway Patrol).