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"'V',i)A!;n i ' '(nirv 'i .... ;'..5t (he Vs o r And verted l(j hoard of all emenn that ,ut 3 "'ash; Ems a. tnougn ied last week. ,r tii-.ught that av hi- brought ip i; .'unci the 1(.r had wound lakin2 that for U. ! the cat. I the P'"l in the aml had con- t closed. But ar sounds from lt, sh- thought goud idea and her inclination. Ihe basement With a flood of la,- whirr of the full speed. Ilably on top 01 videiitly enjoy- Irforinaiice, sai Miss renoc. ijll one of the stretcher hasn t gain tiler of a single Lr again. But ill fur attention. The man who Icxtra poini tor Christ School Terry Swanger Iver. The point I came from the Issomed out with key and a new number was 79. Thai' Carver's (reporter, adtnir- fciece ol strategy into a fullback iarvcr the credit Hie extra point pig 59 cross the seems, is still user was tne 09 li Report Wrecks lucre reported by Jpl over the week- nial injuries sus- ase. ' t loon about three, lav No. 19-A and lc Hock Service lis to C1. John the highway pa- driven by Julian tin. The vehicle lut $300. it. Patrolman Wil- sted W. H. Bur- iville on charges Burrell's car fit 700 yards west l-Buncombe line, amaged. Burrell Ion his head. He MO Kord and was Sawyer reported. bad Gap Section pday strict Hanger Cliff tonal Park Service the five-mile sec- lay at Wagon Road for the winter, ttment, he report ed 3.000 ears passengers visited between June 1 from practically tE L'niori and from lama Canal ZnnP 'he Wagon Road Pe Parkway durine His," Iip sairf Ml Way Is Following Saturday fell Way was re- ous condition at rr daughter Mrs. noon May. Mrs. slfokp on Satur ation has been Slce then. CLOUDY pber 31cinnriv r Partly cioudv and i1"- and cool Tups- nesviiio f by thp staff f ,u In: 1 Mu. Min ,i.f.n '.aiiuail 22 fi .59 I4 4 M n a. The Waynesville Mountaineer I'ulilislied 64th YEAH NO. !)( S Plott Hounds Are Bear Experts Plott hounds like I hose tracked ooxvn ;lie h0 bear which were killed last week in an ( Xpenp.iin.il hunt in .Michigan. Holding the leashes are John l'lotl .leli. and ins neighbor. May s I riz.el. of Plott Creek. Mr. Plot I 's nrphi w, Hill, diroclul Hie six-day Michigan hunt last week which w.i.-. ,.n elloit to prove tiial hear hunting with dogs doesn't spoil the (leer mm mi Plott Hounds Star In Experimental Bear Hunt Aliens Creek Man Kills 200-Pound Bear Friday Big Creek in Saiiteetlah is a death trap for bear. ' The week before last, Crockett Schultz of Bit; Creek killed a 100 pound bear there. Last Friday, not far from the same spot, Kay Wilson of Aliens Creek killed a 200-pound bruin on the second day of a two-day hunt Wilson was hunting with Max Rogers of Waynesville and his party when he made bis kill. Girl Scout Drive To Be Started On Thursday A drive for fund:, for Girl Smui work in the llazelwood-vYayue.ville area will he made Thursday anil Friday under I he sponsorship of the Lions Club and the Girl Seoul Finance Committee. A goal ol $1,000 has been set for the cam paign. Receipts from the drive will he used in a number of way s in rIv the girls an opporl uiiilx to i:;pen enee real Seoul ing. Heading Ibis lid will be tie operation ol a Girl Scout ( amp next .summer. In order to meet Girl Scout requirement:. I be ( amp must have a qitalifi' d director r,nd counselors, and (hose worker, are not available without pay. Other projects for the girls in clude additional furnishings and a heater for the Girl Seoul Hid. and materials to he used in the Seoul program. This is the first lime an appeal has been made lo the general pub lie to help rarrv on the Girl program and lie- commitii i ing to meet with great .ucei (Hit 111,: West Pigeon To Meet Tuesday West Pig?on resident - will lmld Pin n ( ommuiiuv i'"""!'""''' gram meeting at 7:30 p. m. I ur rlav al Bethel School. Jack Sloan, community chairman will preside. Witches Set Flight In County Tonight .,, nf t The witches and the oblm shove the football siar- out of spotlight today a, cWi Irrn both olv-erx-e I be 'i 111 the nod llll- tional Halloween eclcbt throughout the county. In Wavnesville. at least l,l hilHren will I rv old :,nn their xcindows ..41, ti nT.nt nil throughout this town and n.U'bo, ing Hazelwood. I hvm Thousands of 'own people are expected to crowd i . K. Cr,e Hie ColOlfUl streets lomgoi ix. -costume parade which wi t j litrrrt f 1(1111 t I1C .tai-l First QUWII 111111 Baptist Church at 8 p.m Both the window-pa. nt. ng ' petition and the parade and attendant costume contest an u ing sponsored by the Way -Chamber of Commerce with TuUe-A-Week In The County I'ACiJ.S Associated Press and I ivo hear, (racked by Plott hounds Iroin Haywood county, uei- killed last week during a is-ihv national experimental hunt in Mis-.aiikee County. Michigan. Hill Plott ol Waynesville, who diiected the hunt for the slate operated Michigan Conservation Club, reported this this morning a le v hours alter returning from Michigan. He described the hunt as the most successful of the four so far conduct i d. However, I he results f the ex periment won't be known until alter Hie deer season in Missaukee County is well underway this month. The purpose of these experi mental hunts is to prove lo Michi gan's deer hunters (hat tracking hear with dogs doesn't spoil the deer season. II V. Plot I of Waynesville, Bill's I lice, bagged the biggest of the live bear killed. Last Wednesday, on Ihe third flax ol Ihe hunt, ho shot a bruin that weighed Xifj pounds after it w as field-dressed. In fact, Bill 1 plott estimated, the bear would i weigh about 370 pounds. ; -It took six men to carry him , in," Bill said. ! lie said he and his companions ; us, d 24 of the lamed Plott hounds j,, I he hunt, which was held on ; mi,, ni Hie nation's finest deer .round- He quoted official rec oup, xx huh e lunate that each ot the emmtx 24 square miles con tain ,'l'l deer. Approximately 7f) game inspec tors and del r hunters from Michi gan,, Indiana, and Illinois accom panied the party of Western North Carolina men each day of the six dax neriod. The deer hunters made their jown personal observations on the ! behaviour of Hie flogs on the hunt. ! On only Iwo of (ho six days did Iih buiiier.. I ail lo bring back dead ' hear. i mix two "f Hie seven hear the l,i,itr- aw during that period es , . i.rd and one of the two was ' ...iprle-d I -tr Plott killed his bear after l only a 3'' -minute chase. This was ill,,' longest chase necessary to bag , nv of them. -i. h, ,t u bears caught, one of Ihe first two aays oi on each luin' that slarted ucuoer xciro shot within only 50 or ou (Sef Bear Hunt Page 8) For Annual hn'iiearled cooperation oi uk. merchan' - and businessmen of both l own (Ixcr in Canton, the aa long . ..U.hrnl inn will feature football ,,1 haskelhall Karnes, ano me i ih..r traditional evening Mj.IIow.-Vii contests. C. C. Poindex (anion High School athletic ,,,,'eeior. h supervising the color in! program. i ,,, cpmuinities throughout the I !,.,, ,he1(. will be Hallowe'en I Carnivals at the rural m-iu'im houses. All last week. Parent-Teachers other schools and Associations held annual Hallowe'en Carnivals their attracting ranacity audiences oi oarents. teachers. and children. :..i- r. scheduled for to- (See IlalloweVij Pare R ff M" Seat of Haywood County At United Press News WAYNESVILLE, N. C, MONDAY Monty Red Cross Meeting Tomorrow EITorts will 'he made tomorrow night lo strengthen the organiza tion of the Waynesville American Red' Cross chapter by Ihe election of a 12-meinber board of directors. The directors and other principal officers xill be elected at the an nual public meeting in the main courl room of the Haywood County Court House. The meeting will open at 7:30 p.m. with the Itev. M. H. William son, Chapter chairman, and W. D. Oibroll, general field representa tive from the ABC Southeastern area, Allanta, Ga., headquarters, in charge. The officers and directors will be elected for the calendar year opening January 1. The other current principal of ficers are Vice-Chairman Curtis Rtiss, Treasurer Joe Davis, and Mrs. Jonathan Woody, home -service chairman. The presidents of civic organiza tions and industrial executives in (his area have been invited to send two representatives each. Invitations also have been sent (o (he 13 Gray Ladies of the chap ter area. Bed Cross officials also specific ally urged private individuals to attend the session. Everyone attending the meeting will lake part in the elections. During the meeting also, the chapter work for the next year will be planned. Hotel Waynesville Is Being Wrecked Y Workmen are fast wrecking the old Hotel Waynesville building on Main Street, and plans are to have the lot cleared by December first, according to H. H. Holt who pur chased the building at auction last summer. The material is being sold on the site, and the cleared lot is to be turned over to five local men who purchased the property at the sale. No announcement has been made as to what use will be made of the lot. Store Hours To Be Discussed At Meeting Tuesday The establishment of opening and closing hours will be discussed Tuesday at three, by the Mer chants Association, at the Chamber of Commerce office. W. M. "Bill" Cobb is president, and Mrs, Frank Knutti secretary of the organization. Heavy Dew Hits Waynesville Haywood County roofs got a thorough testing yesterday. So did the county roads and the field crops. The weather station at the Mountain Test Farm reported that 3.19 inches of "California sunshine" hit the Waynesville area alone. 'Whatsits' Invade Field; Eat Everything But Crop Every year, American fanners spend millions for weed killers. Last week, Andy Ferguson got swarms of them free from Moth er Nature. When he went out to cut his two acres of alfalfa in Riverside, he saw with a feeliwr of surprise that the crop had never looked better nor greener. With further surprise, he no tired that the entire field had been picked clean of every weed, except for a few small scattered clumps of orchard grass and dock. He also saw that the soil had the finely pulverired appearance of a carefully-worked flower gar den. Yet the adjoining: land that had been lying fallow and the corn field looked the same as ever. The Eastern Entrance Of The Scto Ousted V ? ' " mill s t V s! I President Truman last Thursday said he xva. ousting Admiral Louis E. Denfield from his job ol chief of naval operations. Den field had charged that, the uni fied defense selup was ruining the Navy's offensive power. The President said he was taking t In action on the advice of Navy Sec retary Matthews that it was vilal "for the good of (lie country.'' World-Wide Good Will Stressed By Rotary Official "The world is suffering, from loo much ill-will today," Jason Dey ton, district governor of Rotary, told Waynesville members here on Friday. "There is a general lack of un derstanding among the peoples of the world today, and a thorough understanding is essential (o the building of goodwill," the Spruce PiBP educator eonlinticd. Mr. Deyton pointed ou( (bat If one is lo judge the future by the past, thai the continuance of ill will among nations will ultimately result in another war. far more devastating than the others. He slressed three major points in his lalk: ( 1 -sal urate every member wilh the principles and spirit of Rotary; (2i stress the im portance of vocational service; and 3) the importance of International service. The speaker was presented by Jack F.lwood, co-chairman of pro grams. Jonathan Woody is presi dent. Former Clyde Residents Here From Venezuela Mr. and Mrs. John J. Chapman of Caracas. Venezuela are visiting relatives in Clyde. Mrs. Chapamn is the former Miss Dorothy Walker of Clyde. Mr. Chapman has a position as engineer widi the Creole Petrol eum Oil Company in South Ameri ca. Before going to Venezuela, he attended the Colorado School of Mines and served in the armed forces. ON BUYING TRIP Mrs C. J. Recce is spending today and tomorrow in Charlotte buying spring merchandise for Massie's Department Store. Jerry Rogers, J,ce Davis. Fred Campbell. Jimmy Fields and Tony Davis, altended Hie Duke-Tech game in Atlanta on Saturday. Investigating, he discovered hundreds of thousands of grub like insects had done the job working two or three inches be low the soil. The little grubs had eaten everything except the roots of the alfalfa. Mr. Ferguson said he didn't know where they came from or what they were. At first glance, he thought they might be army worms. But these work above soil and eat every green thing in sight, including al falfa. The county agent's office could not immediately identify the in sects from the telephoned de scription, but was planning to make a field investigation. Last Thursday morning the in sects, their work done, were starting: to move out into the nearby road. Great Smoky Mountains National Park AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 31. looses Many Expected k Boad Meeting Here On Tuesday County PMA Meeting To Be Held Thursday County and community commit tee elections and the pending to bacco referendum will come up fur action at a meeting of the llayxxood County Production and Marketing Administration groups Thursday morning. The meeting is scheduled lo open al 10 a.m. In the PMA office in the Haywood Counly Courl House. County Committee Chairman A. W. Ferguson of Crablree said in his announcement today that the tobacco referendum scheduled for later this month will be discussed. In (he referendum, tobacco growers will vole on whether or not they waul acreage control con tinued, whether they waul it for only one year, or whether they waul it for the next three years. A definite date has not been sel for the vote as yet. The audience also will eleel members to the county PMA com mittee and lo the community com mittees. Attending Ihe session will be Jeff Knloe, district PMA field repre sentative from Asheville. Mr. Ferguson also pointed out Ihe new U.S. Department of Agri eullure regulation made some changes in the procedure for nam ing members of the committees. Under the new regulation, a member of the counly committee may not be elected as a delegale to Ihe county convention in his own county. FurtheVjnprjj the selected dele gate to the county convention must not be personally interested in any of the positions which are to be filled. Mr. Ferguson added, however, (hat there has been no change made in the system under which fanners participating in the PMA programs select their conimunily committees. The Production and Marketing Administration commitees were known until only recently by the name of "agricultural conservation committees". Yates To Testify At USDA Burley Hearing Tuesday Oral Yates of Iron Duff will testify against the proposed cut in hurley tobacco acreage when he appears at a U. S. Department of Agriculture hearing in Washing ton tomorrow morning. Mr. Yates will represent the Haywood County Farm Bureau at the hearing. He left for Hie capi tal today. The hearing will be on a House bill that would reduce the burley acreage about 20 per cent next year. Representatives from each of (he Western North Carolina burley counties have been delegated to testify by their respective Farm Bureau organizations. Mr. and Mrs. James .If. Howell. Jr., and Miss Mary Lu Elwood were among those attending the Carolina-Tennessee game in Chapel Hill last week-end. State, County Officials To Confer On Hospital J State and county officials on Wednesday will take another step toward the actual construction of tlje proposed new wing to the Hay wood County Hospital. Dr. John A. Ferrell. executive secretary of the North Carolina Medical Care Commission, will confer at 9:30 a.m. that day with the Haywood County Commission ers, the Hospital's board of trust ees, and Architect Lindsay Gudger over tentative plans for the expan sion. The county's voters approved a $225,000 bond issue on October 1 to help finance the new construc tion. George A. Brown, chairman of the County Board of Commission ers, said recently the date of the 1949 $3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Countiet Highway ol'icials will be here Tuesday morning al ten o'clock to discuss wilh Haywood citizens vari ous road improvements, and to dis cuss the plan for carrying out Ihe rural road program as provided in Ihe bond piograin of last June. Dale Thrash, commissioner from Ibis di.iiicl. will he present, and xx ill have with him engineers and maps. ' We aic goii,'; lo talk about roads, and mud roads in particu lar,'' be said. lie expressed the hope Hint I here would he a large crowd from all sec! ions of the county to attend the meeting. Coinniis siouer Thrash pointed out Ibal he was. interested in see ing Ihal every citizen now on a mud road got out of the mud. He said Ihal I bi l e were stockpiles til crushed stone which would Uv used for such roads. After the ".-inch rain on Sunday, it is extxeted Ihal many more peo ple will allend Ihe meeting, since a number of roads are now in mud. Plans for paving under Ihe bond road program will be discussed, but Commissioner Thrash pointed out thai no paving will he done until next April, according lo specifica tions of engineers not to do paving in fall and early spring. Band, Chorus To Give Concert On Next Thursday A band and choral concert will be gix'cti by I be high school music department on n c x t .Thursday night, at the high school audit orium, featuring the SS-plece con cert hand, and Ihe 90 voices of the mixed chorus. This is the first concert of the season, and Ihe two units under the direction of Charles Isley, director, are preparing a special program of about one and a half hours. The concert is being given as a special benefit for the music de partment. Several new instruments are needed lo complete Ihe band's requirements. The program is as follows; Part I Band Panis Angelieus, Cesar Franck; George Gershwin Selection. Air. David Bennett; Symphony in B Minor (The I'nfinii lied Symphonyl, Franz Sehuberl; Cowboy Rhapsody, Morion Gould, March Colonel Bogey, A H ol d. Part II Chorus Onward Christian Soldiers, Arr. Sinieone; The Lost Chord. Arr. Sluart Churchill; Bailie Hymn nf the Republic. Arr. Itingwald; Ol' Man River, .leronie Kern; Oh. Su sana, Arr. Cain; The Erie Canal, Arr. Tom Scot I; Male Chorus, Dry Bones. Arr Gearhart; Country Style, Arr. Harry Simeone. Part III Rand Folic .song Suite, Vaughan Wil liam.',; March Group National Emblem, fiagle.x ; Anchors Aweigh, Arr. Briegel; The U. S. Field Ar tillery, Arr. Lake; Semper Fidelis, Sousa; Stars and Stripes Forever, Sousa. MRS. EVANS AT ST. JOSEPH'S Mrs. Harry Evans, Sr. is a pa tient at .St. Joseph's Hospital in Asheville where she underwent an operation lat Saturday morning. start of the acjual building still is not known. The federal and stale shares of new hospital building is issued ac cording to urgency of need in the respective areas. The dale of the start of construc tion will depend on how close to the top of the list Haywood County stands The Wednesday conference also will Include an inspection of the present facilities. Meeting with the Commissioners and Dr. Ferrell will be Hospital Administrator Lee Davis, L. H. Bramlett, chairman of the board of trustees; F. M. Byers, trustee from Canton; and Mark Ferguson, trus tee from Fines Creek. TODAY'S SMILE Dick, ace three, did not like soap and water. "Sorely you want to be a clean little boy, don't you?" asked his mother. "Yes," he tearfully acreed, "but can't you just dust me?" - n Check Is Made By Highway Patrol The State Highway Patrol last week gave Haywood County's 51 school buses a clean bill of health. Patrol Corporal John L Carpen ter also reported afler the examin ations were completed Friday that the routes the buses travel also were in generally safe condition. He said school bus driveis re ported only two instances of brush obscuring curves. One was at a place on Highway 209 in Crabtree and the other in the Fines Creek section. Bolli roads have only light traffic in those places. The corporal reported that the patrolmen assigned (o Haywood found the buses safe both mechan ically and with respect to loading of passengers. This was t lie first of a series of monthly inspections which all school buses in North Carolina will undergo by Stale Highway Patrol men. Corporal Carpenter said the in spection:, were instituted at the order of Patrol headquarters in Raleigh. In his statement on the findings of this first investigation, lie com plimented the county school authorities on the school bus con ditions. County Schools Superintendent Jack Messer said the buses aru checked constantly by county mechanics, but that the State High way Patrol inspections are very (See School Buses Page 8) Francis Cove Chord Busters Unhurt In Mishap A 1949 sedan carrying the mem bers of the Francis Cove quartet home from the Waynesville Lions Club Minstrel show al Fines Creek School Thursday night plunged down a steep embankment and rolled over twice. A few minutes laler, Dr. Boyd Owen and Undertaker Hal Craw ford, who had taken part in the show, arrived on the scene on their way home from the school. But the singers needed neither one. All four miraculously escaped injury. One of the boys, Paul Franklin, wis thrown from the rear and tha heavy sedan rolled over rum. But. he had been tossed into a shallow ditch in the path of the oncoming car. The worst he had to show for his narrow escape was a painful shoulder bruise. The others suffered only slight bruises. X-rays at the Haywood County Hospital the next morning showed Franklin had no internal injuries, and he was not admitted. Jack Kelly said he. Franklin. Wayne Edwards, and Earl Hoglan were returning home in Edwards' car when the vehicle skidded on wet pavement on the Old MU1 curve and plunged down the ten foot embankment. He said the car was traveling slowly at the timp. The singers, who perform under the name of the Francis Cove Chord Busters, has appeared in the show and in the three previous performances the Minstrel had given here and in rural communi ties. Last summer they won the grand prize in the Haywood County Com munity Development Program's Stunt Night event at Canton, and are in constant demand to appear in other similar shows throughout the county. The damage to the car. a four door Ford, was estimated at $700. Highway Record For 1949 (To DU) In Haywood Killed .... 6 Injured ... 33 (This Information com piled from Becords of State Highway Patrol). mi li'