North Carolina Newspapers

1 STANDAIU) O) Comp 220.2:1 s n-o St LOUISVILI.P. hi 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 UNCLE ABE SEZ Yess ir-ee! Jay-walkin' is often a "hurry-up!" way o' goin' whir you don't inten to I go: -a Sir he Iction L Rogers andl r . . .... trnllt rainDow v 1 s and ms i" I form, I ccnated 10 L North Caro lice. With Mr. Ce are Wayne lent. Action lent business ireed to a""" Ujght. He we lt since h that he go, ne Led, he kept touch as nini.ii- number, the came to life" lands together L pnioving it, !ife with joy. :my hand is hg to wane h comments are reasons.) lanting an interesting who put much lire of planting Friday. In fact fcat unless he crop on Good failure. He extent that my talers on It falls on -Wrong kdilion of The iicle about the the name of lhat John Fing- fce. This was in ids that "such Beds a better egrets tne jer- sorry that Mr. h the opposite from the way BCC utti of Station though he'd mny from CBS. :his proud ex- a way. It was (: strip. In last yer'' strip by e panels shows r broadcasting the "mike" are ptten the artist reproduc- prospective leir civvies mi. ptate selprti VP P has advised were wil be no P then, pood draftees "on was Jan- f started their quietness ,s due largely ' enlistments at the recruiting rth Carolina during World enlistments in among the P'n of Tuesday f ln a lot of Pos! 0( local ' ""o noped to " moon, rft Six) Ittflflt ' M Fair t,j flight. Fri " not qUite mil. tempera. F the staff of ft. infU 2 8 64th YEAR NO. 30 18 Bsptnsts Stony Property Fob4 Ktew Easter Programs Are Scheduled For Area Military Rites For Pvt. Webb Set For Sunday Military rites will be conducted at the RatclifTe Cove Baptist Church Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock tor Pvt. Fred E. Webb, 26, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Webb, who died in Germany on May 1, 1945 as a result of wounds received in combat. The services will be in charge of the American' Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars with the Rev. R. L. Young, chaplain of the Legion, officiating. t (See Webb Funeral Page 6) Soco Rpad Group Plan Ciyjq Meet At An EarlDate A terlative survey by civic lead ers of the Soco Road area shows that the most favored name for the valley is "Socoluska". This name was suggested recently, as the val ley has Soco Gap at one end and Junaluska ridge at the other. A spokesman for the leaders said that another meeting of citi zens of the area is being planned. "The purpose of this meeting," he explained, "will be to work out a program that will be for the best interest and welfare of the citizens as a whole. "There is no need for any citizen to worry about having the area in corporated into a town; neither will there be any plans whereby any barns will have to be torn down, or even painted, as has been rumored. Such ideas are not the purpose of the proposed meeting," he continued. The time and place of the meet ing is in the hands of a committee composed of Norville Rogers, Grady Henry, John Finger and H. G. Valentine. Citizens of the Soco Road section can get details from any one of these, it was said. Address Of Eight Men Sought By Draft Board Haywood County Local Selective Service Board 45 is interested in determining the current addresses t eight Haywood County men. Chairman W. A. RraHlpv saiH thp board has been unahlp tn onntaet the following because of change of i , auaress: William Fred nihcrtr William Thomas Grant, Hay Frank Reece, Hollie Monroe Potter, Estell Willie Forester, Melirn Clifford Carver, John Henry Parris, and Robert Perry Phillips, Jr. Maggie School Patrons Seeking New Members eachers Association decided Tues- uay night to take their plea for a new School hllilrlino tn iha nniinlv sehool board and superintendent "Saill. This action followed a discus sion led by District Committeeman frd Campbell of the short-com-ngs of the, physical plant which ar!i b'ocklng sate accreditation. Spokesmen pointed out that: There are only four small class roomsifor the 187 pupils, neces sitating the use of the inadequate uditorium for class work; lh Pro At.. . , ,.!. fountains. PAGES Sunrise Service Set For Lake Junaluska And Soco Gap On Sunday The people of Haywood County will celebrate the most glorious event of Christianity this Sunday at colorful, solemn services. The observance of the Resurrec tion of Jesus Christ 1,949 years ago will end the traditional week of mourning over His suffering and death on the Cross for the sake of all people who were born and who will be born. On Sunday, the people will at tend the special Easter services planned by every church in the county. Hundreds of worshippers of all denominations will go to Lake Junaluska for the annual Easter Sunrise Services that will start at 5:30 a.m. At the same time, others will at tend the services of the Free Methodist Chapel at Soco Gap, and still more will go to the Clyde Baptist Church at 5:15 a.m. for the Sunrise services there. At many of the churches, the congregation will hear the singing of choruses of up to 60 voices. The Waynesville High School band of 50 members and chorus of 60 under the direction of Charles Isley will take part in the Sunrise Services at Lake Junaluska. These services have been arrang ed and will be conducted by the Methodist Youth. Fellowship of Haywood County, with Bill Mainus of the First Church of Canton heading the arrangements as chair man for the services. At the First Baptist Church of J,WynesviUe, the- church's junior and senior.. choruses of some 60 voices will sing at the 11 a.m. Eas ter services. Again, this combined chorus will be directed by Mr. Is ley, who is the church's minister of music. Evening services at many of the churches will close the Easter Sun day observance. The union services of the Hazel wood Presbyterian, Baptist and Methodist Churches for the second quarter will be held Sunday night at the Methodist Church. The Rev. Paul P. Thrower, the Presbyterian pastor, will bring the message at this interdenomination al gathering. And on the lighter side, many (See Easter Page 6t Summer Resident Drowns In Florida Little Claude Maurice Patrick won't be coming to the mountains this summer. Many friends of his family in Waynesville had written his grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Walk er, who own Rock House Farms in Balsam, saying they were looking forward to seeing him. The three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Wendell Patrick of Winter Park is dead. He drowned recently when he fell into a canal near Zellwood, Fla. Mrs. Walker sent the Mountain eer a newspaper clipping which tells this story of the tragedy: The boy disappeared a few. min utes after his father stopped at a muck farm. .He was found in some weeds in the canal, and all efforts tp revive him failed. The Patricks have one other son, Wendell Patrick, Jr. The father is associated with Mr. Walker in the Walker Fertilizer Company at Fairvilla, Fla. Building Students leaving other classes have to pass througn the auditor ium, causing distractions in the studies there; The pupils at lunch time have to take their meals front the kitchen to their desks because there are no tables; The school has no gymnasium. The Association officers report ed that the major obstacle in the campaign to get the school accred ited is that of insufficient space. They added that the P-.TA mem bers have bought more books for the school, and done other things toward getting the school accred (See Maggie P"" 8) Associated Press and United Press News Ramp Dispenser This man is laying out freshly dug ramps for the benefit of the delegates to the ramp conven tion. The picture was taken at last year's session. This year's convention is scheduled for Sun day, April 24 at Black Camp Gap. Plans Made To Complete C of C Drive Efforts are being made to com plete the annual membership drive of the Chamber of Commerce this week-end, according to Mrs. I'.ank Knutti, secretary. Three of the eight committees working on the drive have made reports, Mrs. Knutti said. "Reports' coming "in so far have been satisfactory," Mrs. Knutti said. Plans are to have complete de tails of the drive ready for the board of directors for the meeting Tuesday night. Engineer Won't Meet With Commissioners District Engineer J. M. Knight will not meet with the Haywood county commissioners Monday be cause of the Easter Holidays, the commissioners' office reported. tm i " . Lookout Trout, Here Come The Fishermen Tomorrow is the day fishermen have been waiting for since last August. It's also the day trout have been worrying about. The trout season opens in the mountains of North Carolina for four and a half long months. To assure its success from the angler's point of view District Game and Fish Protector C. W. Ormand, and his assistants, aided by Haywood County sportsmen stocked the county's streams the first three days of this week. They started putting in the trout after meeting at Pott's .Esso Serv ice Station. The trout population of Jona than Creek was multiplied on the first day with brown trout from the Balsam hatchery. Then Big East Fork and Big West Fork were stock ed on the succeeding days. Safety Award Given Newspaper mm tmm wmmim of mm , r" CUT 7i$ fttMn h I' V-, I u 1 1 1 :i S 8 I i. W MWU'-. The Mountaineer has been awarHed a certificate of Safety Achieve ment signed by State Labor Commissioner Forrest H. Shuford for Sg Achieved a perfect reco-d of no TWtarf on P?e 3, WAYNESVILLE, N. C, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 14, Uncle Doc Rogers Has Lived In Same House On Fines Creek For 93 Years By W. C. MEDFORD "My father bought this place and moved in here before the Civil War, when I was only six years old, and I've been living here ever since." So said Uncle Doc (Adolphus) Rogers when we went to see him recently for the purpose of writing this sketch. In the old family Bible, now over one hundred years old, is this entry: "Adolphus H. M. Rogers was born July 30, 1850 in the year of our Lord." So, come July 30, '49 Uncle Dock will, if still living, be 99 years old the oldest person in Haywood county, or in this entire section, so far as the writer knows. He lives with his son, Hugh and family, in the Wilkins Creek sec tion of lower Finos Creek, where his father, Matthew Rogers, lived for many years. Elizabeth Lusk Rogers was his mother, she being a sister of Col. Virge Lusk of Asheville. And Matthew Rogers was the son of Hugh Rogers, one of the earliest pioneers of Hay wood county and a soldier of the American Revolution. Mr. Rogers told us that his grandfather, Hugh, who lived to he about ninety, could then boast that he had one hundred and ten grandchildren by the Rogers name "which was," said Uncle Doc, "the biggest generation around here, even bigger than the Rath bones or McCrackens." He said that his grandfather first settled in Tennessee but soon sold out most of his belongings there for an Indian pony and a gun and (Sec Rogers Pace 6) New Shipment Of City Tags Arrive The supplement shipment of city tags are here. The town bought 550 city tags for distributation the first of the year. The supply was exhausted, and some 100 motorists had to do without. Now that the new shipment is here, police will begin check ing all Waynesville motor ve hicles to see that they are dis playing a 1949 tag. The stock, which came from the Balsam hatchery, were as large as last year's maximum legal size lim it of seven inches, and most of the brown trout that went into Jona than Creek were even larger, Mr. Ormand said. He reminded anglers that there is no size limit this year but that there is. for the first time, a ban against fishing after dark. Fishermen cannot take more than 10 trout a day. and may not have more than 20 per day in their possession. Meanwhile, Mr. Ormand and his assistants, Dan Taylor and Bill Greene, kept their usual vigilance against off-season angling, and planned to do so up to the last minute of the closed season. But after dawn tomororw. it's every trout for himself, until Aug ust 31. Will Soon Be 99 ySrA A. II. M. ROGERS, of Fines Creek, will be 99 in July. He is one of the oldest living persons in Haywood. 6,000 Maps Bought By C of C Here Six thousand pictorial map"! have been received by the Chamber of Commerce, and are now being dis tributed as part of the material sent from the office to prospective visitors. , The maps measure 22 by 34 inches and - we pvinted In five colors. The map takes in tru; area from Elkin to Murphy, and is a pictorial design, showing the mountains, lakes and the larger places in the area. Also scattered throughout the map, are small figures of people in such scenes as camping, fishing, horseback riding, hunting and dancing. Under Waynesville is the nota tion "entry to the Qreat Smokies". In the upper left hand corner is a legend about this immediate area, pointing out that "You haven't seen Western North Caro lina if you haven't seen Waynes- I ville." i The map was prepared by Bill i Sharpe of the State Advertising i Service, and the Chamber of Coin i merer hero bought six thousand j for distribution. Several places catering to tourists have bought large quantities from the Chamber of Commerce for their own use. On the back of the maps are 12 descriptive tours of this area. All carefully planned, and concise ex planation of the trip and some of the things to see enroute. Park Streams To Open For Fishing Monday, May 16 Don't plan to fish Park streams until May 16. That's the stern warning of Mark Hannah, warden in the Park. Warden Hannali made the statement yesterday following the publication by an out-of-town sports writer that the Park streams would be open earlier. The official date is Monday. May 16, and anyone fishing in Park streams earlier are doom ed for arrest, Warden Hannah pointed out. Pre-School Clinics Are Underway In This County Dr. Mary Michal, district health officer, today announced a sched ule for pre-scliool clinics in Hay wood County to check the physical fiitness of each pupil. The examinations, she added, also are for an enrollment record, which becomes part of the cumula tive record of each child. Dr. Michal urged parents of pre school children to have these phys ical examinations made each spring. Such checkups are urged as a means of assuring that the child will be ready physically for school enrollment in the fill. 1949 $3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties MdlDtodiiooini 83 -Foot Lot Adjoining Sunday School Building Acquired This Morning The First Baptist church today bought the 83-foot Main Street lot adjoining their property as a site for a modern auditorium. The members voted unanimously in a church conference Wednesday night to purchase the lot, and to build an auditorium to seat about 600. The chi"xh in conference, also instructed the building committee "to proceed immediately with plans for the con struction." The committee plans to confer with an architect over the week-end. The property which was acquired today, is the vacant lot between the Welch Memorial Sunday school buildin" Canton Baptists Ready To Build Educational Plant Bids will be opened April 29 for the contracts for construction of a new educational building for the First Baptist Church of Canton. J. Paul Murray, chairman of the Church's building commit tee, reported that his group now has the plans and specifications for the new structure. He added that about $81,000 has been raised so far for the church's expansion program. The deadline for accepting bids is 4:30 p.m. April 29 a half hour before the time they are to be opened. Lower Crabtree Leaders To Meet Wednesday The scheduled meeting of the Lower Crabtree Community Devel opment Program committees and leaders has been postponed from Tuesday to Wednesday night at the Crabtree-Iron Duff School. Mrs. Millard Ferguson, reporter, said the postponement was made because the annual Junior-Senior banquet of the Crabtree-Iron Duff School is scheduled for Tuesday night. She addud thai the committee members and other officers will discuss plans for the general de velopment program at the Wednes day meeting, which will begin at 7:30 p.m. Henson Cove Petitions For Paved Highway Citizens of the Henson Cove com munity arc petitioning the State Highway- Commission to pave the road in Dial area. The pel it ions and project is be ing sponsored by interested citi zens, property owners, together with the Henson Cove Community Development organization, and the Pigeon Valley Civic Club. According to Edgar W. Mehaf fey, the petitions are now ready to be submitted to Hie county com missioners for formal approval. $100 Given By Elks For Cancer The Elks Club donated $100 to the Cancer Drive here Thurs day morning, it was announced by Mrs. W. M. Cobb, chairman of the campaign. "This is our largest single con tribution towards our quota of SS.500," Mrs. Cobb said. "The health of the pre-school child is important to Haywood County." she reminded parents, in advising examinations by the fam ily physician. But whether a checkup is made by the family physician or not, she said, the child should be brought to the clinic, held each spring, for enrollment. Dr. Michal advised that a certifi cate should be brought showing all immunization treatments the child has had. The health officer reminded par ents that the state law requires that children be immunized against (S.e Clinlns Ppge 6) land the Dunham House. The lot was purchased from J. R. Boyd and his two daughters, Miss Bessie Boyd, and Miss Daisy Boyd The lot is the same depth as the church property. The Baptists now own 234 feet on Main Street and about 150 on Academy Street. Tentative plans are to begin as soon as possible the construction of the modern auditorium on the newly acquired lot. When the auditorium is completed, plans are to convert the present auditorium annex into Sunday school rooms, and make a chapel out of the ori ginal auditorium which has been used by the church for over 4(1 years. The pews and pipe org in now used would remain intact for the chapel. The parsonage which fares Academy Street will not be dis turbed by the expansion program. It is estimated that the cost, of building and furnishing the audi torium, including a pipe organ, will be about $100,000. The church inaugurated an "ex pansion program" several years, ago, and have since that tirne been raising money for the project, ln the past few months, the leaders of the church have been working on a number of possible plans for expanding the physical facilities nf the church. These plans include everything from remodeling to moving to a new site. After a thorough investigation of costs of all the plans, the committees unani mously recommended to the church that the 83-foot lot be bought and the auditorium built there, and later making changes on the pres ent building. The church accepted the recommendation of the com-, mittees without a single dii.-.cnl-ing vote. Kev. L. G. Elliolt, pastor, said this morning: "There has been a lot of hard work, and study made of our program here, and it is gratify ing to see such a large congre gation one hundred ppr cent for one plan and purpose." The matter of acquiring th property was handled by J. K. Morgan and W. H. Burgin. The church now has a mem bership of 801 members, accordir to a report made at the Wednes (See Baptists Page 6) Carload Pipe For Water Mains Is Bought By Town A carload of cast iron pipe foi water mains has been bought h" the town for extension of several lines. G. C. Ferguson, town manager, said the pipe is due to arrive m a few days. It will ,be one of the largest single shipments received in several years. 4 PAGES OF CHURCH NEWS The first four pages of the second sectiort are devoted to news and pictures of churches. Highway Record For 1949 (To Date) In Haywood Killed.::: o Injured . i . . 12 (This Information com piled from Records of State Highway Patrol).