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FACE EIGHT THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER Ti,,... , MOHE ABOUT Power Firm (Continued from Page 1) Hazel wood. He said the conversion of the Canton - Hazelwood transmission line should take care of any fur ther development in consumer population that would occur dur ing the in few ears. Mr. Burleson added that the line already Uen insulated for 6b. 000 volts This will mark the second time that the iouer line for Hatlwood has been expanded. That are i cot its first bis pow er boost U out three years ago when a larger transformer was in stalled J. 1! Stepp, the company's west ern district inananer at Asheville. reported that the November hill ings showed that the firm was serv ing H.:i.'!4 customers in Haywood county alone at that time nearly ten I'cr cent more than at the same time last year. These- customers include the towns of Canton. Clyde, llazelwood and Waynesville. Vaynes ille. in turn, which is considered only one customer, re distributes the power to more than 1.200 more Another customer of the firm in Hay woe .1 is ill" Rural Electrifica tion Authorise. The expansion work in Haywood county is or.e of several that was launched during 1949 in the west ern disViet which also includes Buncombe. Yancey. Avery, and Mitchell counties, and parts of Henderson anil Madison. In all. the company has spent $1,000,000 in the expansion of its substations and transmission line facilities. These new improvements in this district include the new $415,000 Asheville substation which was built near the West Asheville bridge: the titi.000-volt "tap" and substation for the Cranston Print and Dye Works at Fletcher, this project totalling $134,800. and the expansion of the Canton-Haelwood line and the substations concerned. Besides these, the company also spent $617,304 in 1949 on the im provement and expansion of its distribution facilities in the dis trict, added 2.3tu? customers to its existing lines. Of these new customers were in rural areas finned more than 5.000.000 Der Reviewing the situation for the had arrested 14 people for one company's entire consumer terri- 1 thing or another, tory which covers both North Car- Over the Christmas weekend, the olina and South Carolina. Mr ! officers received no reports of any Burleson said the system's total , ' pe of violence, number of customers during 1949 ; The town was free of theft, rob reached above 240 000 a new rec- "ery. and any serious crime in gen ord eral. while on the streets the town These connection.- alone, he add- couldn't show so much as a dented ed. .ervr an estimated 1.000.000 fender in the way of a traffic ac people iii li.iili states , cideut. The latest estimates made by; "u the quietest Christmas the magazine, Electrical Merchan-' weekend I've seen since I've been di7ing," he pointed out. show that here." said Chief Stroupe, who there are 8H1.000 electrical rus-: has served 12 years on the Canton tomers ot all classes in North Car- police tone. olina alnn The we. !-.. ml rains kept much of "With an t-timateri population the iralTie off the town's streets of 't.90o hoo." he said "this indi- arKl ,hl' highways between them. rates that residential connections are sirving all hut about a half million of North Carolina's popu lation "About half of this population have elec'rici'v available but are not using it " In both tat -. Mr. Burleson con tinued more than 5.000,000 per sons, however, have the benefit of electric power, and this number is rising steadily The L'rited States as a whole has 43,000100 electric customers The work being done in Hay wood County is jUst one 0f tno jobs of expanding that the com pany completed or launched dur ing 1949. For instance. Carolina Power WANT ADS FOR RENT One nice three-room apartment with garage. Unfurn ished. Call Howell Crawford at 147. D 29 J 2 the 'VfV has a t sunday punch! William Gargan mm m hard-hitting mystery detection SUNDAY 9 P.M. WHCC a Mir Mutual rcspusi stow President's Aide :f sv f I s - Charles S. Murphy labove), (has been appointed by President Tinman to succeed Clark dit toed as his -'JO. 000 a year special counsel Murphy, a native of Waiiace. N. C. is now one of the president's administrative as sistants. The appointment will become eticcL.e Feb. 1. Clifford sas he plans to leave the presi dential post to go into private law practice. 'AP Wirephoto). MOKE ABOLT f V ri c trt1 f"TC! WHW'" (Continued from rage 1) crime fit her of "violence, or thefts. Wa.wiesville policemen picked I the plump man in the red suit up only 11 drunks and one reck-' stepped into the room, less driver between Friday evening His little brother and his two and Monday evening. I sisters were happy, too, over this Canton did even better than 1 premature visit. They had come that. with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. During all of Christmas week, j Clarence Lewis, and their grand Canton police Chief W. N. Stroupe parents. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Early reported, officers made only 23 ; arrests of all types. j Of these, only 12 were drunks. Six others were arrested for drunk -g driving, and one for reckless driv ing in the Canton city limits. The week before, Canton officers That would account for part, of tm Peace, but not all of it. "I can't account for it, said I Chief Stroupe. "We were just lucky," said Wajnesville Police Chief Orville Noland. Over the rest of the nation 61 1 I people lost thir lives bv traffic ac- ciden! . and other forms of violenci btwci n h p m night .M--ndav. Friday and MORI: ABOl'T New Plant (Continued from race 1) viile Ga.' Fertilizer and Ginning Company four years ago. He was vice-president and gen eral manager of the Louisville firm when he left to launch the new plant here. Mr. Harwell is with Carbide and Carbons Chemical Co. of Oak Ridge. Tenn., and will remain with that firm. Shortly after the preliminary details concerning the establish ment of the plant were completed, Mr. Thompson and his family mov ed to the Ninevah community. A charter of incorporation for the new firm was issued by Secre tary of State Thad Eure at Ra leigh early this month. Since the location of the new plant definitely was established, a plant executive has been confer ring with State Agriculture De- partment officials and the aywood County farm agent's office to de t rmine the nature of such analy ses. I' was announced earlier that the plant would start operating in time to supply farmers with ma terials for their 1950 spring plant ing. The new factory will serve farm ers throughout the area from (opened a 120,000 horse - power j steam electric generating plant at Lumbcrton, and broke ground for another large unit at Goldsboro. I With other facilities, this will add 2.000.000,000 kilowatt hours of I power annually to the firm's pow- er resources. j Carolina Powr obtained $9,000, i 000 from investors to finance these I and other improvements, and addi tional financing is anticipated in 1950. j The. increase in electrical sales ; In the Carolina is attributed part ly to the extension of distribution lines to farms and rural areas, partly to new construction, and to the installation of more electrical appliances by residential and com mercial customer, i MORE ABOUT Lions Club (Continued from Page 1) $1,720 figure announced Owen, by Dr. The generosity of the people and organizations permitted the Lions to buy slightly more than $15 worth of gifts of warm clothing and other essentials for each of 83 needy school children. The rest of tie funds were con tributed directly by organizations and individuals to the Dime Board which tne Lions operated in front of the old Citizens Bank Building on Main Street. Club President Richard Bradley and Dr. Owen expressed the club's heart-felt gratitude to the people who made it possible for the chil dren to have a really Merry Christ mas. They extend their appreciation particularly to those civic organi zations like the Waynesville Elks Lodge, the Waynesville Junior Chamber of Commerce, Beta Sigma Phi, and the Tally-Ho Club for their generous contributions. The people's generosity made the 1349 Christmas Cheer campaign the most successful one of many a year. As one club official put it, "It left us with more intake than out for the first time in several ! go years." In one season, the Lions had to dig into their own pockets for $350 to cover expenses. This season's campaign was forced into a wa'k during the first week by bad weather, but ("nded with a strong rally that reached its peak Christmas Eve. MORE ABOUT County People (Continued from fage 1) of Lee St., to see Norman. Don and Santa opened his pres cuts, one by one. since he was too weak to do it himself, though he was feeling a little better be cause of the transfusion he had received that morning. Nurses, doctors, and just about everybody who worked on the first floor where his room is came in to help him celebrate Christmas. Norman first became ill about seven months ago. His condition grew worse about seven weeks ago. however, and he had to start having transfusions regularly. The one he had had a few hours before Santa had arrived had been his eighth. Matney's campaign to assure Norman of an early. Merry Christ mas had started about two weeks before when he first learned of the boy's serious condition. His mother had written, asking I him to play one record for Norman ion each of his daily Roundup" broadcasts. "Hill-Billy Don got the idea of asking the public for help in giving the boy a generous Christmas. He made his appeal during the first 15-minutes of his regular broadcasts, after first arranging with Norman's mother- to make sure the boy himself didn't hear mid-'tfhnse portions of the program. The presents started coming in the day after he first told the story, from men, women, and, children throughout Haywood County. Reclaimed Lake Bed Reverts To Nature NEW HOLLAND, N. C. (UP) The roars of wings and of shot guns are echoing across the waters of Lake Mattamuskeet, which cov ered the remains of a 23-room ho tel, houses, barns, highways and bridges to become instead a home for wildfowl. Twenty years ago the "New Holland" in the bed of the lake was a rich man's dream. A total of $17,000,000 was spent to reclaim 50,000 acres of rich farm land and establish the settlement below sea level. But what was then the world's largest pumping station succumbed to the relentless sea. Even a pump ing capacity of 1,250,000 gallons per minute could not keep up with the seepage. Water finally covered crops and stood in the lobby of the hotel. The lake reclaimed its own and was made a federal migratory wild fowl rof uge, the home of thousands of ducks and wild geese, as well as bass and other fish. The former world's largest pumping station has become a hunting lodge. Scientists are working with tem peratures so low they'd make a home refrigerator seem like a fur nace. In a new Westinghouse "push-button" laboratory, the re searchers can reach down to 459.6 degrees below zero Fahrenheit within one-tenth of a degree of absolute zero. Black Mountain to the northwest Georgia state line. During normal production periods. It will provide employ ment for 18 to 20 people. During rush periods, it will employ up to 80 workers. The new unit measures 80 by 160 feet in area, and is to be a one story structure 30 feet high built of steel and masonry. Waynesville Men Catch 16 Bass In Single Day For everybody else last Monday, it rained cats and dogs. For Wayne Rogers and Delnws Caldwell, however, it rained large and small-mouthed bass. In the seven hours they fished at Fontana Lake in the heavy downpour, the two men between them caught 16 bass a reported record for the lake. It might have been even better, but that's all the law allows a bag ! 1'mU ?f,eignt Per man in a sinle j "ay fl liter tuuiat- ui me siicccsa- ful trip, they caught three more, but threw thorn back in hopes of getting something better, which they did. Lumped together, the 16 fish weighed a total of slightly more than 32 pounds. The largest of the catches tipped the scales at four pounds, and the smallest weighed a pound and a half. None of them were as small as ' the Ieal minimum of ten inches. most ot them measured better than 12 inches from tail to nose, and two of them were 19 inches 'onf? Rogers said they caught some of them by trolling, but most by casting, using plugs ("Whopper Stoppers" and "Head and River Runts") at the end of their 12H: pound test lines. He used a Statesman line, while Dclmos fished with, an Ashway. It was Wayne's brother, Max Rogers, who landed the record breaking 14-pound seven-ounce rainbow trout last March while fishing in Glenville Lake. Priest Becomes Beagle Expert In Spare Time COMBINED LOCKS, Wis. (UP) Father John de Wild is the Catholic parish priest in this small Wisconsin town, but on his free time he's known as one of the best hunters in the area. He likes to tell about the time that hunting made him bungle into the beagle business. He had a parish in Wautoma right in the hunting country, so he decided to get a dog. After experi menting with a few pups that scar ed away the game, he bought and trained a female beagle that never dropped a scent. In fact, the beagle's hunting abilities became so well-known that a neighbor prevailed upon him to fix it so the neighbor could get a pup from the female. The beagle was delivered of a little more than Father John bar gained for, six mailes and two fe males The hunting priest had no rouble giving away the males, but he couldn't get rid of the females So he advertised them for sale in the National Sportsman Maga zine. The trouble was that he for got to say he had only two dogs and letters and checks poured in. ' Father John sent the money back and apologized. He told the letter writers to wait awhile, and he started pup raising in earnest Next time the original beagle had a litter he carted the females around to local farmers and made a deal. He told the farmers he'd do the advertising and selling on a split-the-profit basis if they would raise the dogs. It wasn't long till Father John and the farmers were in the beagle business on a large scale. By Their Watches Ye Shall Know Them NEW YORK (UP) Pierre Bohy likes to look at women. He looks at their watches. Bohy, who is a vice president of the Eterna Watch Company, says he can slook at a woman's watch and tell what country she is from. Or a man, for that matter. "The French like extreme, but not gaudy, watches," he explained. "They like them encrusted with jewels." The British like round watches. They won't buy square ones. Siam, which buys many watches, imports large quantities of time pieces with blue dials, green num bers, red sweep second hands with flecks of yellow. The Siamese like steel watches, not gold. The Chinese have small hands and Chinese men wear women's watches, Bohy said. "People in the Middle East are small and like small watches," he continued. "South Americans like pink gold watches. The average Russian hasn't seen a new watch since the Bolshevik revolution in 1917, so there is no way of telling what they would prefer." The trend In America Is away from small, "jewelry watches," for women to larger, accurate time pieces, he said. If Santa Can't Gamble, He Can Give It Away OXFORD, Neb. tUP) Chamber of commerce officials found that Nebraska anti-gambling laws pre vented their usual custom of giv ing away money by lottery during the Christmas season. So they said a Santa Ctaus will just throw it away Instead. They decided there was no law against anybody, even Santa, stand ing on a street corner tossing bills in the wind. " Highway Accident Takes A Life hz&i'y o fry A young college student lost his life last week when this truck went out of control on a sharp curve a mile south of Cruso, turned over on its side and crashed ink) tiie deatj .stupm in the foreground. The tragedy occurred nt it the L"ast Fork Baptist Church. ; , '- (Staff Photo) 1 HAMS . lb. 42)c ( BACON SQUARES LIVER CHEESE BOLOGNA GROUND MEAT .. . FAT BACK . 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