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THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER (Second Section) Reaction Noted Among 154 On Farm Tour par I the third, Vtii-l" by ibout 'he rm 'our' rlhe 154 trip. and he hifih Icts of the Vive (''"n "here W"-t,at- at tire "' Vd.nn -Hf'l' Jnakinti s0 jucli a Ki'od f heard 'r W trouble (oik from group id ini'luding Hoy Holl and H"b I had been days and and slept for a few fell report - Boll C ars- lafler hmi. Pressley s crowd iand fihn jwas oecu jralkiiiK P Ivakinf! up en fortuii- id the con- me di- Sleeps On ients .jLaKollette, Jaby lioy, Cooper, s appetite ely. We food down ft that only to make e r v o u s he :not retain e ale. Ke ;td anemic tweak. The jdian River improve his e tull nl Now he All Good leers over :30 a. m. V To Study Courts lr nil Governor Kerr pointed Willi.s president of the liar Association, Scolt has ,p Sniilli. loinirr North Carolina to head a -huh of the state's court ..!cin and make recommendation', tor ii -modernization. Scolt ha. an nounced he plans to streamline the North Carolina's court pio eedure through legislative inj ures. rector of the 'Southerners' quin tet and is choir director at O'k j Grove Baptist Church m ar ( aidi n. ; led the group singing. He v.,i. a -sisted hy Joretta McCreary. il.mdi ter of S. B. McCreary w ho v a . on the lour. (She is piaiii:,t at the Oak Grove Church t. While all thi:, was ein: on and ' the flat tire heiiiji fixed. Mr and j Mrs. A. B. Kobinson were f.':nnn I t he cost of putting a white hoard; fence around their farm mar I'.eav. j erdam. They, like many olhei on the tour, were amazed a I the leni ty that a good fence can lend to any field. . Sam Jackson, v. ho woi k , at Champion and dona some i:ood farming on the side, and Laurence Hall, who resides on a ( anion route, agreed that nothing on the tour was prettier than those fences Mrs. Ila Mae While occupied her self during the wait, sketching the profile of Roy Robinson. The lateness of I he dinner hour did not mar the enjoyment of the Tar Heels who ate at a Huntington hotel on the last night of their lour. This gala ocasion featured mu sic by the quartet, composed of Charles Isley, .lack Noland, Wayne Edwards, and Karl llaglen. Cnrpr oral Roberts gave a final rendition of his immortal "When the Saints Go Marching In." as he led a cho rus of all persons who had traveled in cars on the tour. A contest then developed to sec which group could do the best sing ing. Red Rhinehart s bus load won first place. Roberts with his car A THEATRE ROGRAM TUESDAY, Aug. 15 - 16 I isicof Hit fa yto ! pXESDAY. Aug. 17 t iwuay, Aug. 18 ig MASS Kflucua "T" i T0NE ylU0r r passengers ran a close second thick (taming by Dave Boyd. Ail bin- 'Little Abiien Mahaffey, Ui Rhea, ended the entertainment, i But long before the program tided. ,1 S. Ilanell was seen head- J ing up the stairs wondering if thus,. ieople weie going to dance and sing the rest of the night. Saturday morning Sgt. K. A. Mc-j Kee ol the Ohio highway patrol, j who had lead the tour through j Ohio, headed back home. Wayne ! Corpemng said that of the l'J pat- j I'olmcii who had lead the proces sion through the various states since it lell North Carolina, this ; one had done the most perfect j job j The route back through Ken-I tuel.y s i 'i.iI mining towns an- swered the ipiestion of a number ol the lour men. hers who had won dered if there were any poor land or people in the stale. The picture here. vastly different from lush blue grass and white columned mansions was colored with dirty liltle houses crowded along rail road tracks. Saturday was election day in Kentucky and the roadsides were plastered will) campaign signs of candidates ranging all the way from county sheriff to .jailer and judge Kvcry little town and school bouse was surrounded by mobs of IK ople The Ha wood Coun'y group be came deeply interested in the elec tion events, especially after one ariee station operator warned thin to hurry out of the slate be fore the afternoon came and shoot -in' started. After lunch at Jenkins, coal min ing center which was the tour's last stop in Kentucky, the motor cade bo-need down the mountain to Kingsiiorl, Tenn., where the small group of carsick people had la I "i minute rest stop. At Gi cetu ille, Tenn, there was i a IIU miiuile stop to inspect the I l I Tennessee 4-H Club Camp, hi'-h is valued at approximately $tril.(ll)0. The recently completed ciinp, which includes acres and a new $2K.(()() swimming pool, was built by donations of farm oeople in l.s lennessei! counties. A few persons, who have seen the 4 II camp under construct inr. here, felt that certain features of the local camp are .superior to the Tennessee one. Ice cream from Pel Dairy in Waynesville had been sent down for a treat at the 4-H camp. f inal event of Hie day was pre sentation of gifts from the tour group to County Agent Corpeiiing and his assistants. Wayne Frank lin and Herbert Singletary; Miss Mary Cornwcll. county home dem onstration agent; Miss Mary Mod lord, secretary to Mr. Corpeiiing. and Corporal Roberts, state high way patrolman, who last week was transferred from Waynesville to Lenoir; and to bus drivers. Gordan Khinehart, Rubin Justice, and C. K. King. R C. Francis, chairman of the Haywood County Commodity De velopment Organization, in making the presentation, expressed the ap ptociatinn of the Haywood tanners l,i the leaders who had conducted Hi,, seventh annual out-of-counly farm four lo such a happy ending. TOl'R SIDKI.IGHTS A number of otit-of-cotinty per sons were on the tour, although it went .strictly under the name Haywood County. Mrs. Norman James with her two sons, Ted and William, came all the way from Statesville to join friends and relatives for the tour They formerly lived at Fines Creek. Her daughter. Mrs Mark Ferguson Route I. Clyde, was also along. Mr and Mrs. W. E. Allison "( Caldwell. Idaho, who were visit ing Mr and Mrs. Earl Ferguson at Del I wood when they heard of die tour, just colildn't resist the op portunity to do a little traveling 'Already this Summer they had driven more than 11,000 miles on around the country trek from Idaho down to California, east through Texas, and covering Flor ida'. Mr. Allison, a brother of Mrs. Ferguson, hadn't been back to his old home on Jonathan Creek in 20 years. John F. Corbin, argriculture teacher at Sylva High School in Jackson County, was the first per son to sign up for this year's tour, he said. Morris Bumgarner, who is a sea man stationed with the U. S. Navy in Jacksonville, Fla., was home 'Route 2, Canton', and used part of his leave to make the tour with his brother. Ted. and his uncle. Fred Bumgarner. Mrs. Sally Ferguson of near Clvde was visiting her daughter. Ruth, in Trenton, N. J.. when she read in the paper about the farm tour. She rushed back home to get ready to go. There were many regrets nressed that Decatur Justice ex (Old BuckshoD of Pigeon was unable to make the trip this year. At The Strand Final Warning. Babara Hale and Driseoll he will lie punished it RKO Radios siispens, Mil "Tiie Roman are (licit en - tars in lite the Strand Theatre Wednesda; At The Park Grace McDonald and David Bruce are Ho. .starring Randolph Scolt wilh ,1 C This put ii t . shows at Ille I'alk on V abililies ol Haywood Coiinly fann ers, Elmer lleiidnx ( oiinneiit ed that it's not Ian lo compare them Willi the level land lai inei s ol Ken lucky and Indiana. C. I, Reno ca I his vole lor I h'' tradilional last hoics and hcaiill lul women ol Kentucky, when de ciding Hie most impressive sighls of the lour. George Wrighl of I he Thicki Coiiimiiiiil y said he liked the hoi better Ulan anvlhing he saw. I Lawns, pretty Mower' drew the interest of Robinson. and home, Mrs. Ruth "The black cattle and Hie wod Matinee Showings Monday tlirn Friday. MONDAY - TUESDAY, Aug. Ii - lb X Tli;SI)AY, n".,mw vis. MDnn of I r hf III w nuui-ivi m M. ..: P ' X. . UMNtR CUMM1NGS Mm I ANNA SUM fff W piXS Color Cartoon News C - WEDNESDAY - THURSDAY. An. 17 -18 C VS-'X -6 nobody L , VJk S i. cw. rrKi r I filmed ON BARBARA HALE t f U NEW YORK'S ,i BOBBY DRISCOLL &" jJS TEEMING AST SlOtl ' I ARTHUR KENNEDY t A . 1 1 S 1 , K 0 X PAUL STEWART f VA V RUTH ROMAN Qf - I . J$l T ? PLUS News O "Musical Western" Wednesday Arlhur Kennedy led lilile Hobby lie mikes in I.hiI.isIk slum's, in Window'. Paul MeuaM and Until .pim -Hin'.lm;: drama Opening al Wednesday shown in a scene from "Gung irrol elllie Naeh and sdav. Alan Curlis lood imn i Roy w I lad lo eat inipic.scd lie' than any Hung else," Mis. Robinson said Tom l ergiison, one of the most congenial persons on the tour, was continually puzzling ocr some Ibing He coiihlu'l iindersland why he saw nobody working in Hie holds ol the enoi nioiis lanns of Kelilucky and Indiana or could a lot of oilier people who began lo wonder il Ibis land was just naturally immune lo weed- We wonder il I Ley -aw the bright yel low tinibii l: sailing over Hie head nl one farmer as he drove Ins trac tor down the held'. Aack Harris, who bears ing resemblance to Gene a slrik-Kclly r! the movie star was the topic of a great deal of conversation and the object of many tide-lung glances from the Purdue University co eds. Mrs F.arle Butz. whose husband is agricultural economist at Pur due I'niverslty, 'and addressed the Haywood group at a banquet Wed nesday night i is a former North Carolina home demonstration agent and native of Sampson County. The name Waynesville wasn't entirely foreign to Miss Anna belle Claussen, district home dem onstration agent with the Purdue I Diversity extension service She said that she has been in N'oitn Carolina, visiting Mr and Mrs O l Crews in Waynesville. Ol the 81 men and Tit women on the tour, there were 211 mar I led couples. There were many lamily coinhin.it ioie : Father and son. mother and daughter, brother and sister, uncle and niece, aunt and nephew, cousin, and a great many (too many, somebody said1 1 1 lot lie i s-in-law'. In one family group were Mr C C. Willis. Mrs Dee Clark, and l)r Rhea, all brothers and sisters Mrs. Willis' son, Jack, was along and of course. Mrs Clark's daugh ter. Mrs Wayne Corpeiiing, was on the trip to lend a helping hand to her county agenl husband Miss Until CorpeniliB, who wast taking her fust farm tour, is a sister of the county agent. Florence A. Allen, noted I' S Circuit Court of Appeals judge and author, somehow failed to im press Glenn James with her speech before thousands of people at Pur due ' Wednesday night We asked Glenn just what Hie judge dis cussed "Well." he replied, 'she talked lot about rhubarb." The comments ended there. Representatives of Hie county farmers co-operatives or federa tions, who made the (our. were Roger Amnions, manager of the Canton Farmers Federation and .lull' Noland from Wav nesville Co op. Running true to form by doing Hie unexpected, these women sur prised us hy their sincere inlet est in the same things that the men liked on the four. They were more interested ill barns and chicken feeders, horses, and farm machin ery than in flower beds, fancy lawns, and big front porches. Many of the women folks wore highly insulted because they were left at Purdue University lo see a weaving exhibit and cooking dem- frVWVVi jslr' n-xfrti&S - "For The Discriminating v" Announcing Ayl y i The Re-Opening WmA oi f Ae Ae Ranch House TURN LEFT AT COUNTRY CLUB DRIVE BEAR LEFT UP HILL We are pleased to announce the change of manage ment and policy of the Ranch House. We cater to ladies and gentlemen, serving the finest of foods by candlelight, midst a refined atmosphere. The Management The em onstration. while the men rode on wagons to see a faun of 10.000 tur keys. 'The men seemed to enjoy that afternoon best of all Mrs. Vainel Swanger didn't talk about pielty hou .ei, where slue looked like she would lit in. instead she raved about the stretching fn Ids of tall oi n Mrs Hugh Rog ers said thai the women wanted to see the same things their husbands were looking and livestock, inent . Sonu body few leu, ml b Hie Mid We I lice gave a tioti: "Tcuanls the laruiiug i tor good pretty Horse:, latin iiidiige- onmiented thai so ines were seen in ii si .il - . Fuller Jus ili.Metoey evpl.uia- n'l needed where highly nicilia- WAYNESVILLE DRIVE -DI THEATRE PROGRAM Shows Start MONDAY AM) TUESDAY, AUGUST 15-16 THE PLUNDERS A Ti ncrolor featuring Ilona Massey I'l.l'S SELECTED SHORTS Including "Doc Bluebird" WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 17 SOUTH OF TAHITI Willi Tilt SiiroiiH-Clad Goddesses of Love Starring Itiian Dnnlevy, Andy Devinc and Brod Craurford Also a Comedy THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. AUGUST 18-19 Irving Berlin's famous EASTER PARADE Starring Judy Garland, Fred Astaire. This is a Technicolor. Also Shorts in Sports ' rrwvyyvwvvvvvvvvvvvvvy .Raich ized." Driver C. E. King's bus had its share of the young people. Mrs. Myrtle Smalley and Mrs. Kenneth Lowe had their hands full 'and a lot of fun. tool keeping a bunch of teen-age boys from driving the other passengers crazy with their noisy chatter and pranks. Lined up on the long back seat, throwing grains of corn at the ears of the sleeping passengers. The farm tour participants look ed as if they'd jut gotten back from doing their week's grocery shopping when they unloaded in Waynesville Saturday night. The Morgan Packing Company, where the tour stopped in Austin. Ind.. (Continued on Page 6) at 8 P. M. O Fine Foods O Entertainment ALL GENTLEMEN MUST WEAR COATS WHEN VISITING CLUB f TT louse Z A staunch defender of the in- I
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