STANDARD PTG to Comp-220-230 S Fust Si LOUISVILLE K? - TODAY'S SMILE The Waynesville Mountaineer ts Here Ue a golfer; a food one was he Till be drove off a curve Instead of a tee! Lficlentb- Ion. Sow g. Ten" . forecast Canton A. J he de- itup- ",c ,atures is ,y Camp- .stimaiea X peoPle " fer toi the No"" Extension I dav Tues- Havwooa Jvelopment itv ASi-i" returned fcphs tl" led to L program winter. lleec s a Haywood neral aim iment Pro- Mountain- to. puoii-""'- Id interest s as well nd federal Icials and living are see what the man iould have (recast for car. Alter was done. buried from in six rained. Le Into Belks a clerk! order was ised, some- she asked, few you put loughlfully tippers hur- i with their her father anas. Every- for them- trience h e go ! Of never Morri Tuesdav at ital. He and 30-foot em i a week ago ip. The car hen turned High it, to Itted. it was loth he and more about Fing in the (Drive down fough Perm North Car their foot n the steep les checked pe drove brakes FAIR wrdrive en- Gener. nd Fridav M thunder Wn- Warmer arm Fri- e temnoT-tt I'he staff of "in Rainfall 53 48 5 .25 57 .02 60 5 1.37 .16 i - Published Twice-A-Week In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park yE5iTlirpTdii AclaTeT Press and United Press News WAYNESVILLE, W. C THURSDAYAFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 8, 1949 $3In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Couati Queen Of Carolina Apple Festival t--V, "X - .J II I Haywood Young Democrats Elect Officers; Endorse Hospital Expansion Program Pcggy Egerton (above, 21 co-ed from Erskine College at Due West, reigns as queen of the 1949 North Carolina Apple Harvclit Festival al Hendersonville. She was crowned by North Carolina's Congressman Monroe Redden. 'Al' l'holo'. First Methodist Church Ends Year With Surplus . .. . -1 Couple Hurt In Accident Give Praise To Hospital 4 it guei ll k hacUo happen.!' said E vrr.fr! o nf Omuleec. Okla couldn't have happened in a belter place. He made the statement during an interview in Administrator Lee Davis' office in the Haywood County Hospital Tuesday morning. Six days before, the meal pack ing company salesman and his wife plunged over a 130-foot em bankment four miles wesi oi .wi Gap and miraculously escaped death. 'I've been in larger hospitals that were better equipped. m declared, "but the service a n o treatment I received in those could not surpass the service and ireai ment we received here." Mr. Morris had nothing mil Tt. 1 r-,i,nlv praise for tne naywwou v . Hospital and its nurses ana flut ters. His wife, he said, sintn-u felt the same way. "What impressed me parlicinai- y." he added, "is ine irien.. . rtpsv here. In other hos)ii.ns ihnrp is rfficiencv. too. But so many (See Couple Hurt rase 6) Nanette Riley Wins Baby Health Event Nanette Riley's health brought her a title last week. The 14-year-old daughter ot mi and Mrs. David Riley oi u. i,,oicVa mnn the prizes in the baby health contest of the 43rd an nual Labor Day Celebration aim Fall Festival at Canton last wcck MonoHo was awarded the granu prize after being judged the health iest of the 50 children throughout the county who com peted. She also won first place in t class for children one to 18 months of age. She was presented $j in casn i winning the grand prize, and $2 for taking top honors in her age group. Nearly 250 members and their Is last night attended the an nual Victory Dinner of the Hrst Methodist Church of Waynesville. The evei. held in the church's dining room with the Rev. Russell 1, Young, the pastor, as master of ceremonies, celebrated the close of a highly successful year. They heard Treasurer Harvey M. M..iin i-iMMiit that the church not only had Com through tne-yearr with a balanced burget but-that members had raised $2,000 above Uie budget of approximately $12,000. All but a few of the 72 new members who joined the church (lin ing the lasl 12 months attended the covered-dish supper. Honor guests of the event were the new members, tne nusuanus u. wives of the members, and the student members who are leaving tn oritur colleee . SVJ1MI i . - The financial report was the only note of business that entered the gathering. , niherwise. music dominated the program. I Mrs ClilT Senne directed her children's choir in selections, then joined the church's senior choir in another performance. Mrs Fred Martin directed the senior group, with Mrs. Fred Cal houn, Sr, playing piano -paniment. , . Bronson Malney varieo t..- ections with his soios ot tit ular songs he recently composed. The Francis Cove Chora nusi (Ts Paul Franklin, Jack Kelly, Wavne Kdwards, and Earl Hoglen ,.0nfi(.d out I he entertainment with their popular arrangements of old and new favorites. It was a performance like this tliat won them the grand prize in ..he Havwnod County Community Development Amateur Night last month in Canton. Mr. Young s benediction closed the program. Jury List Set For Civil Term Prospective jurors for the two week September civil term of Hay wood Superior Court have been drawn. I The term is scheduled to open j September 19 with Judge Dan K. Moore of Sylva on the bench. Jurors for the first week are: .1 R. Plott, Ivy Hill; Woodrow Downs, Waynesville; William Mes- srr. Jonathan CrceK; uaner ws- borne, Clyde; Frank B. Henson. Beaverdam; Gobel Rathbone and Troy Stamey, Clyde; Dewey Car ver. Ivy Hill; Edgar Brown, Clyde; D. E. Hipps, Beaverdam; Carl Bry son. Iron Duff; Roy Robinson, Bea verdam; Rex Pless and Boss Bur ress. East Fork: Taylor Ferguson. Ivy Hill; Gay Bradshaw, Crabtree: Jack Harris, Beaverdam; Uoraon Reeves, Jonathan; L. H. Baldwin, Beaverdam; Glenn McCraeken and Ben Mauney, Fines Creek; Jerry Liner, Waynesville; Paul Ferguson, Jonathan; and Mrs. Mary Ketner, Ivy Hill. Second week: "carl Moody, Cecil; Way Mease, Pigeon; Mrs. Addie Stringfteld, Waynesville; Reed Sutton, Cataloo chee: S. J. Moody, Ivy Hill; W. B Henson, Jptiathan; Miss Lois Har reit? WaywsBville; Perry Smathers, Beaverdam; Swan Hendricks, F. C. Milner, and L,. H. Bramlett, Waynesville; Joe Parks, Iron Duff; Earl Scruggs, Waynesville; i. i. Owens, Beaverdam; Matt isurress, East Fork; Dan Carpenter, ivy Hill- and John Coble and Mrs. Miley McCraeken, Waynesville. Heads Democrats i v vi Hominy Creek Waters Pasture County Has 7,089 Motor Vehicles Havwood County is credited .u 7.089 motor vehicles registered with the State for the firs Six months of this year. This county does not have quite one per cent of the state total of 918 404. Clay has the lowest with 60t, and Mecklenbure the largest frith over 53,000. Thursday-The Rev. Frank Di- Health Office To Be Closed Week Of Sept. 11 Dr. Mary Michal, district health officer, announced today the health office in the Haywood County Court House would be closed the week of September 11. shP said the action is being taken to permit the health workers to attend the annual meeting of the N. C. Public Health Association opening Sept. 14 in Greensboro. nr Michal and all the nurses of the Waynesville office are plan ning to go. The office will reopen Sept. 19. The health office in Canton, how ever, will remain open. Many of the county health of ficers spent part of last week studying- Dr. Michal attended the west ern North Carolina Public Health Association meeting at Blue Ridge, and Lylc Jones, county sanitarian. .,,! rharles Keener, associate san itarian, attended the Inter-State Sanitation Seminar which was held at Blue Ridge also, through Friday. V. W. (Vanar) IIAVNF.S, mayor of Canton, was elected president of the Haywood Young Demo crats, succeeding !'. Cole Cog burn, of Canton. Canton City Schools Open For Term to cjass Tuesday in Canton as the city's seven schools started the new term. City Schools Superintendent A. i. Hutchins reported enrollment substantially higher than last year has crowded all but two school buildings to capacity, and one over capacity. He said yesterday one entire class of students at Beaverdam School would have to he transport ed to the North Canton unit. The North Canton building and the Reynolds School, for Negroes, are the only schools in the city which are not jammed, he added. Dr. Hutchins saia accurate inj ures on the total enrollment for the new school year would not Ife .,.,n,,M,. until inmiirriiw Bv that time, he explained, the class rolls would be comparatively settled for the new term. Until then, he said, some stu dents would be dropping out and new students would be coming in. causing the figures to fluctuate. One defiinite point he indicated. however, was that the tinal en rollment would be greater than it was in the 194B-49 school year. Last year, there were 2.1GS pti oils enrolled in the five white grade schools, and 471 in Canton High School. Reynolds had 96 grade students and 32 high school pupils. Mnhela Glance, Dr. Hutchins' secretary, said yesterday, quoting the records So far, all but one of the teach er vacancies have been filled. This vacancy is that of a man ual training teacher, who is ex- Tuesday I pected to be named in the next I ten days. The Havwood County Young Democratic Club last night went on -.,.. nrrl in favor of the proposed bond issue to expand the Haywood f'nnntv Hosnital The action was taken at the or ganization's regular meeting at the Haywood County Court House on a motion made by Mr. Fred Camp bell, newly elected vice-president of the county YDC. During the meetlne. the Voting Democrats elected Clyde Mayor Vanar Haynes as presi dent to succeed F. Cole Coe burn of Canton. Mrs Wade Rhea of Canton was elected secretary, and Jerry Rogers of Wax nesville. chairman of the Cotintv Elections Board, treasurer to succeed Wingate Hannah. Mrs. Rhea replaces Bill Plott as secre- tary. Nominations for the new offi cers were made by a committee of Mrs. William Mcdford. Fred Camp bell, Hall Moffett, and L. H. Cagle. Following the approving vote on the hospital bond issue, which will be decided in the October 1 elec tion. William Mcdford was appoint ed to draw up a resolution ex pressing the organization's endorse ment. In other business, they voted ap proval of a motion that any Hay wood County member who can at tend the Slate YDC Convention Bt New Bern Sept. 16-18 would go as a county delegate. In a featured speech at the session, State Senator W. H. Craw ford of Sylva stressed the impor tance of maintaining a closely knit organization within the Demo cratic party and of sending the same, representation to Raleigh every election In order to obtain recognition for Western North Car olina. The speaker was introduced by W. G. Byers, chairman of the Hay wood County Democratic Execu tive Committee. During the heavv rains of the week-end of August 28, Hominy Creek overflowed its banks into this field about five miles east of Canton Al the lime it looked as though the bleak flood scenes of June would be repeated here an din the valley of the Pigor. Swollen si reams lapped at the underpinnings of bridges. But it never got worse than that. A few hours after this picture was taken al 2 pin. the rain had stopped entirely und the sun hfld broken through lite clouds. (Staff Photol. WtlC Tourist Group To Support Cherokee Drama i niroMnre nf the Western Noi Man Injured When Struck By Car On Main St. Carl Inman, about 65, suffered a frslured pelvis Tuesday afternoon when he was struck by a car on Main Street in front of the Owen Building in downtown Waynes- villx Police Chief Orville Noland said the driver was 20-year-old Charles Pink Francis. The hospital reported this morn ing that Mr. Inman s conaiuun was "only lair. The officer reported Inman stepped from behind a passing car into the path of the rora sedan. Terming the accident unavoid able, he said no arrest would be made nor any charge filed. Fast Patrol Car On Humane Mission Aunt Ida Honored By Jaycees For Dances With Every Available Bed in Use Hospital Staff Spend Hectic Night, Fearing Arrival Of New Patients T.acl Thurcrlnv niellt. 1.500 peo ple went to the Court House park ing lot, generally to see the Waynesville Junior Chamber t Commerce's final street dance of the summer. But particularly, they came to see 78-year-old Aunt Ida Mullis hon ored as the leading disciple and matriarch of the square dance. There was applause when Jaycee President Lester Burgin. Jr., paid recognition for the success of the dances to the Police Department anA nltv in i-nnntv officials. But when he introduced Aunt Ida, there was a reverent silence rtnfl her with a Then lie mid loving cup. symbolic of her interest and her promotion of sauare dancing s1uo . ii t thunrlerntis Then a long nm vl .a rV applause echoed down the dark. qtunfldea,Shasn t missed a single onV of the dances the Jaycees started last June. And she didn t merely come to them. She danced. She'd start when the music started. And she d stop when the final figure ended and the bandsmen Ilg . . .. .ui,. instruments to go paCK7seTAnntMaPe6l I dead silence of the night blended together to cre ate a tension at the naywoou. County Hospital the other night that has not been felt there in a long, long time. Everv member of the staff, from telephone operator to the doctors, were aware of what was wrong, and the tension grew as the night wore on ... .u Each time a car turned into the driveway, the membrs of the staff just looked in silence at one an other, as a lump slowly rose in their throats. What was this that was causing all this tension, and fear? Just the thoughts of one more pat'enf. Fvprv ava liable bed in the insti tution was occupied. Not a single one was left. Had there been an automobile wreck, sudden illness, a group poisoned by food or any of the many things happened that send people to the hospita.l there would not have been room lor tnem. Lee Davis, administrator, was on hand, and looked over the charts, and the first smile seen all evening, came across his face, when he found that two patients were leav ing early the next morning. "That will give us two beds." he whispered. "But we have reservations for both of them," a nurse reminded iSe. Hospital Staff P6 61 The fast traveling patrol car which passed through here shortly after noon Wednesday, was n route to Sylva with a shipment of blood for an emergency case at the Sylva Hospital. With siren open, ana going at. high rate of speed, the patrol car attracted much attention here, with many people speculating that a wreck had happened out west. Field Day Set For Canton Park The first Havwood County Com munity Field Day program will be held September 17 al Champion Park in Canton. The Field Day recreation com mittee decided on the place for the all-day event at a meeting last week. Last week, the details had been arranged and the tentative loca tion set for the Waynesville Town ship High School athletic field. But school officials said later that scholastic activities at the field on that day would prevent its use for the Field Day events. Meanw hile, I hey announced this week the Field Day representative for group two will be Iron Dun. The other sectional winners of the inter-conimunity field davs held this summer that will compete in the events are While Oak, East Piooon tinner Crabtree. Saunook and Thickety. On Saturday, girls' and hoys' Softball teams will engage in play offs to decide the three entrants in this phase of the Field Day program. Upper Crabtree's teams will meet the Saunook representatives at Rat cliffe Cove field. Thickety's soft ballers will engage Iron Duff's at Champion Park, and White Oak and East Pigeon will meet on the dia mond at Rock Hill School The Field Day events will open at 10 a.m. September 17. with in dividual and team contests sched uled. The sectional representatives were decided on the basis of high point totals of the events during the summer. The Field Day Committee se lected the following events for competition in choosing the Coun ty winners: Singing group and quartet; horseshoes-for both men and wo men over 30 years of age; tug-o'-war men: softball girls and boys. The program: 10 o'clock Boys' softball; Horse (See Held Day Page 6) Retired Rear Admiral William N. Thomas Will Make Home At Junaluska Directors of the Western North Carolina Tourist Association yes terday voted to admit Polk County into the organization. The action was taken during a meeting at the office of the North Carolina National Park, Parkway, and Forests Development commis sion in the Masonic Temple here. Thic hrlnes to 12 the number of counties represented in the Asso ciation, which wan formed here this summer at a meeting of 85 tourist facility .(jperstors. Dufirtg the rtieelin?'also. the new director from Madison County was introduced. She is Mrs. J. B. Tweed, operator of Tweed's Court at Hot Springs, who was named to fill the vacancy crated by the resig nation of Mrs. J. N. Penland. Standards for tourist courts, hotels, and other tourist facilities occupied a prominent place in the discussions. One of the aims of the Associa tion is to set minimum standards for tourist places. Slate Sanitarian William Broad way of Asheville and his associ ates explained in detail the state's sanitation program and the rating system for hotels, cafes, restau rants and eatine places generally. The directors discussed the plans for having signs made to indicate membership of facilities in the As sociation. They will o further work on price quotations for manu facture of these signs. Attention during the day-long session was directed also to the perfecting of the organizations of the individual counties in the As sociation. Only four of the 11 directors could not attend Uie meeting, and one of these. Miss Lassie Kelly of Macon, had as her representative Ed McNish of the Dawah Valley Ranch. Mrs. Doyle D. Alley, secretary treasurer of the Association, de scribed the meeting as an enthu siastic one. She said during the session, many tourist facility oper ators phoned the office to learn of developments. Early in the afternoon, the offi cials took time out to go to the Piedmont Hotel for dinner as guests of Paul Hyatt. At the last meeting, held in July at Hiwassee State Park, the Association set the membership re quirements, and the minimum standards and fees to be charged for membership. They also planned improvements (See Tourists Page 6) Rpar Admiral and Mrs. William N. Thomas last week, moved to Lake Junaluska and have permanently occupied their new home there. Admiral Thomas retired on the first of Seotember as Chief of Chaplains of the United States Navy. A native of Mississippi, Admiral Thomas entered the Navy during the First World War and spent most of his ministerial career in the chaplaincy. As a Rear. Admiral he held the highest rank to be at tained by a minister in the armed services. Admiral Thomas served twelve years aS the chaplain of the United States Naval Academy at Anna- nniis one of the longest terms of service ever rendered by a chap lain in that outstanding assign ment. From Annapolis he was as signed to command the entire Chaplains Corp during World War II. He is a graduate of Millsaps College at Jackson, Miss., and holds an honorary degree of Doc tor of Divinity from that Institu tion. In his duties as chaplain he has travelled over most of the world. He has for many years been a summer visitor to Lake Junalus (See Retired Man Page 61 Highway Record For 1949 (To D) In Haywood Killed .11". 5 Injured .... 39 (This Information com piled from Records of SUt Highway Patrol).