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-o - Of Tho llevf -D .w Point Of View V,inr Cog recently carried .?i?bout "high finance" 5 Pl between two TUe swu v m.0 nnia n(J tOJK cgro for the ..- n-lnff unsuccess- fiihteen months to effect he met the debtor on SieTay.ndthe foil nversation ensued: " ah hen y-a gonna pay lt hundred dollars what you me rcro: "Man, I can't pay . .jw, rinllars 'count I .u ifon vou dont pay me . Still. " ;0ey what you owes me and Lick. I'm gonna take your nd burn it right up." a "Jes" you burn -... .looah. les' you burn bote and watch me sock i it oyou." lard Name After All ti -wi a well known re I of Cherokee, delights in I his 'rlends this story, in re- jtohii name. I . i. a aao. a woman seem little i.turbed over the, fact he la'd his name was "Owl .. Ued nd ' pronounced just ,,y oli Hoot owl" George ex u t niatn O-W-L." he i"U. - I ' i ' wnman then understood. Lurked. "I wish I had fas simple, and as easy to re ar as "Owl." I next day the two happened I t in the village again, and Je tlppea MS nai as iney uaa- hd the oman said sweetly, 1 morniihg. Mr. Crow )rge telli the story and laughs I adds k little philosophy- things tthat seem the easiest, limes am not. i - Gentl; the printidmenu of a local arant is what appears to be ind new specialty, fining down tho column be- I the fried chlcken you find Jer the nam: Friend Oysters I couldn't investigate the mat 'exhaustivelybut a concenous peculation developed these tions: - at they re friendly oysters, at they are simply oysters taya friendly cook in ,, a ply mamlt t it was just! a typographical I i if? Waynes yi JlU 0TLMTAK TTiTTTl ; . J JhJhlt Published Twice-A-Week In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park O- tc D.vrs z-::lz Then Certs is ti e t. person !.o saj-: C I , behind me, S-'.at," be he would be n,hzz:.ti t have the devil see what doinc Grit. 65th YEAR NO. 1 8 PAGES Associated Press and United Press News WAYNESVILLE, N. C, MONDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 2, 1950 $3.00 in Advance In Haywood and JacksoCT Peace After Corn War V f hi I Jsv 1 ; 6 Governor W. Kerr Scott of North Carolina (left), and Governor Tuck of Virginia, joke over the two-state corn "war" in which Virginia won the trophy presented at Richmond. ( AP Photo). Methodists Considering Lake For Large Conference e manager and the waitresses Hie cooks, hoyever, were very ly about the) whole matter. Children pefit Froin ristmas Tree me 200 underpnvileged chil shad a happier ihristmas be I of the, annual Community jtmas Tree. . ' . all more than 3)0 grownups hlldren attended the annual held ChristmaiEve in the court room of he Haywood ly Court House under the jorship of the Waynesville 4n'S Club. rles Isley, dirfctor of the iesville Tiwnshli High School and his high school Glee ' gave a concertYof, special ions, then led ie audience singing of thi traditional "mas carols. ;a gifts which hal been con- ieo were presentd to the en, and besides th,se presents fuits, nuts. to everyone in tit audience. Mary Michal, as Wrman of wenare Cortnittep. to- xtended thanks U f and others who W so gen- u aonaung the rfcterials for ags and toys, and h the Lions Rotary dubs whfh donated was in clirge of the Michal m ping were Mrs. Jhn Queen, t V. KlrkPatrick.Mra. Noble win- Jimmy Bring, Mrs. Williamson, Mrs. J. W. Kil- rT' J. R. HiDOS, VTr r.rnv. m Mrs. Charles Ray, Miss Mrs wui S"? T- L- Bram S111 Fion,and Miss The lyftj County's 1950 Polio Drive Is Set The annual drive for funds to aid polio victims will be launched na tionally January 15, and plans are being pushed to completion for the campaign in the Waynesville area. Dave Hyatt; chairman of the Waynesville area for the National Foundation -r For Infantile Paraly- i-if4oeif vi)VlWnfnJ that FrlixJ Stovall wit liicrve as director of the 1949 campaign here. . ' He also announced that the Way nesville Rotary Club again would sponsor the campaign. , Beekman Huger is serving as chairman of the Canton area and Edwin Haynes will direct the drive in that section. ; Mr. Hyatt said the county's 1949 goal has not yet been revealed but that he expected it to be announc ed within the next week. The complete organizational structure for the Waynesville area also will be anijounced later. ,. For the drive, the Waynesville area covers the section from the western town limits of Clyde to Bethel and Balsam. The Canton ,area includes, the communities of Clyde and BetheW Between them, the Canton . and Waynesville areas' poured in e nough contributions to send Hay wood nearly 50 per cent over its $13,000 quota. Soco Road Club To Study Plans On New Scout Troop The members of the Soco Gap Road Boosters Club on Thursday night will resume their discussions concerning the organization of a Boy Scout troop for the Maggie area. . . . The meeting is set for 7:30 p.m, at. the Maggie School. ., Club President Fred Campbell will be in charge of the session. More than 2,000 Methodists from eight states want to come to this community for a 3-day conference late in June. The matter was brought to the attention of the directors of the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce here Tuesday. James t. Kllpatrick, president, announced that a convention of adult Sunday school teachers, and class presidents, wanted to come to Lake Junaluska for a 3-day con ference on June 24-27. Adequate accommodations is the only major problem confronting the local com mittee and the Methodist leaders. Dr. Frank S. Love, superintend ent i0.j'ke urwlusko. saiJvtlMt he fe!t tho . hotels a.id boartiiiie hoities at the Lake could accom modate about 800, which would leave 1,200 for the remainder of the community. , A tentative survey revealed that about 600 could be cared for In regular boarding houses and tour ist courts here, with the other 600 having to go into private homes. "It just means the people will be called upon to offer their extra bed rooms for the three days," President Kilpatrick said. "Of course these are paying guests, and no one is being asked to contribute to the convention, We are merely trying to find rooms, for which the visitors will pay the regular prices," he continued. Dr. Love commented on the convention, from a direct benefit to the community, by saying: "I can't imagine a more comprehen sive program than this. It will bring delegates from eight or more Southeastern states, and this one meeting will be worth more in advertising to the section than $10,000 spent through commercial channels." t The Tourist Association are dis cussing the- convention, and a com mittee from the Chamber of Com merce is expected to be named to coordinate all details. Final liiies Held For Us. Smailiers Funeral services were held Sat urday afternoon from Asheville's Central Methodist Church for 71-year-old James B. (Bat) Smathers, native of Waynesville and member of a prominent Haywood County family. The eminent Asheville attorney died Thursday in a hospital at Charleston, S. C. several weeks after he was stricken while on vacation. The Rev. E. H. Black, pastor of the Asheville church, conducted the services, and burial was in Lewis Memorial Park. Mr. Smathers had stopped in Charleston to see his two brothers. Dr. H. A- Smothers and Dr. H. Way Smathers, while on his way to Florida when he became 111. For the last 13 years, he had served as a senior member of the law firm of Smathers and Wiliam C. Meeklns in Asheville, and had been active in church and civic work throughout most of his life. For many years he practiced law in Canton in partnership with Tom Clark, then with his brother, Charles C. Smathers, and in the law firm of Smathers and Sam II. Robinson until 1927. After moving to Asheville, Mr. Smathers went into partnership with the late Thomas S. Rollins. Later he joined Judge Thomas L. Robinson, practicing with him until Robinson moved to the east ern part of the state. Mr .Smothers, born in 1887, was one of 22 children of Dr. H. A. Smathers and Sophia Owenby Smathers. His father died at the age of 94 in Asheville several years ago. Mr, Sma-thers started his law practice following graduation from Rutherford College and the Wake Forest College law school. In church work, he at one time led the choir of the First Method 1st Church of Canton, and served as superintendent of its Sunday School for many years, at one time teaching a men s Bible class that had an enrollment of 300 members. During his distinguished law career, he served as a member of the American, North Carolina, and (See Smathers Page 3) Pretty Kettle Of Fish Mrs. Roy Martin, who spent the holidays at her home here, left today for Charlotte where she will visit her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Fowler. Mr. Martin, who was also here for Christmas returned to Warner Robbins, Georgia. - -. 2 Jried, . 2 TaceTrial . For fearing Down CD Signs ri rt irw ; :rryo2.-"ciudy" , driner, occasional ' light iCraofthe 29 30 Max. 62 en 1 55 Min, Rainfall 20 20 ' 22 : . 22 i Last Friday, Community Chair man Jar'vis Caldwell of Iron Duff gave the Haywood Superior ( Court clerk $50. Except for some loose ends which will be taken care of in February, that closed the case of Iron Duff's wrecked community signs. ' The money represented the re ward the citizens of Iron Duff had offered for informataion leading to the arrest and conviction of the persons responsible for tearing down three community signs last April. Ironically, the reward will go to one of the boys convicted of the vandalism. -Mr. Caldwell said the youth gave the testimony which cleared up the case. . , The informant and another youth pleaded guilty in the No vember term of Haywood Super ior Court to charges of destroying community property. Two others implicated were in dicted and face trial in the Febru ary term of court. The morning after the residents had erected the new road signs as a project of their community De velopment Program, they found them torn down and damaged, The aroused citizens through their chairman immediately noti fied the sheriff's department. Within ten days after the signs had been torn down, sheriff's offi cers discovered the identity of two of the youths involved. The identity of the two others was revealed in the November trial, and Judge Dan K. Moore im mediately directed the Grand Jury to return true bills of indictment against them All four boys are each about 20 years of age. None are Iron Duff School Bells To Ring Out Again On Thursday There may be worse in the long run, but the saddest sound of this physical universe for Haywood County's 6,000 school children will come Thursday morning. That will be the chiming of the school bells sounding the knell of the parting Christmas vacation. County Schools Superintendent Jack Mcsser says classes for the New Year will take up shortly after breakfast where they left off in the already dim, dead past of 1949 that has already entered the quiet stream of history. The boys and girls will have their bright memories, however, as they force their reluctant 6teps toward desk and teacher. If sales figures in the town stores mean anything, the school children have memories of one of the bright est Christmases they've ever had. Then they'll have this thought to break the gloom, too Less than five months before summer vacation. 1 ""I ,4 Herman Rathbone Is Haywood's First 1950 Bab" Fontana Lake gave up these 16 bass all the law allows to Wayne Rogers (holding the string) and Delmos Caldwell, both of Waynesville. The flsh ranged from 12 to 19 inches in length and one and a halfto four pounds in weight. The men landed three others of the minimum legal size during the seven hours they fished in a steady downpour, but threw them back in hopes of getting something better, Wayne's brother, Max, was the angler who landed the record-breaking rainbow trout last March from Glenvjlle Lake. (Staff Photo). Postal Business Here Tops Mark For 1948 Power To Be Cut Off In Some Areas Jan. 8 Power will be off from 1:30 P. M. until 4:30 P. M. Sunday for the people served from Hazel wood, and in the Lake Junaluska, and Balsam areas. , . II. M. Burlson ... manager of tho Hazelwood office of the Carolina Power and Light Company, said in his announcement today that the Interruption, will not affect the Waynesville area or the cus tomers on the Rural Electrifica tion Authority lines. He explained that the service will be Interrupted because of work being done on the Hazel wood and Dayton Rubber sub stations in connection with the conversion of the Hazelwood Cantori power line from 22,000 to 66,000 volts. The cut - off originally was scheduled for three weeks ago, but rain forced postponement. Funeral Held Ifiiliiiipill (See Trial Page 3) Funeral services were held re cently for the late Mrs. Mar garet ("Aunt Mag") Mooney Caldwell of Cataloochee. 'A resi dent of her community for 57 years, she died December 23. One of the Mountaineer's charter readers, she had never'missed an issue of the paper since it was first published 65 years ago, : Youth Hurt As Mishap Mars 1950 Traffic Record Haywood County's traffic record for 1950 developed a spot before the New Year was three hours old. Ralph Holder, 17-year-old Can ton boy was Injured early yester day morning when the can in which he was riding crashed into an ap pie tree in Clyde. I Haywood County Hospital at tendanls described his condition late this morning as "good". x . State Highway Patrolman Bill Sawyer investigated. Otherwise, the last days of the old year and the first day of the New Year were peaceful in Hay wood County. "All quiet" was the report from State Highway Patrolmen and the police of Waynesville and neigh boring towns. Community festivities, private parties, and plain old-fashioned fun ruled throughout . the county as the Haywood folks saw the New Year in. LS Is A report released today by the Waynesville Post Office indicates the town's businessmen had a bet ter year in general and a better Christmas in particular in 1949 than they did the year before. Col J. H. Howell, Sr., the post master said the Post Office's Christmas business was about $1,000 better than the 1948 holiday season. ' ' 7 '" C . He also said the year's postal business . through : December 29 alone was ner'y $6,000 above that of all of 1948. He said there would be a com plete report within the next ten days covering 1949 postal business as a whole. By Thursday night, the 1949 postal business had reached $64, 008.82. This figure docs not include (See Postal Page 3) William: Declared Corn Winner A Haywood County farmer who produced 141.34 bushels of corn on one acre has been declared officially North Carolina's champ ion corn grower for 1949. Dr. E. R. Collins, in charge of agronomy extension at State College and chairman of the State Corn Con-J test Committee, announced this week. The new champion is Dwlcht Williams, of Waynesville. He will receive a $100 bond as regional winner for the mountains and an other $100 bond as State winner. He won first place with an acre of Dixie 17 which was seeded May 6 with 12-inch spacing in 42-inch rows. The field was fertilized with two toons of stable manure plus 200 pounds of 7-7-7 at planting and tow side-dressings of 100 poounds ANL each. Dale Gainey, 15-year-old Wayne County youth, won the Coastal Plain regional title with a yield of 139.3 bushels. ine Piedmont wnlner was Charlie Barbee of Stanly County, whose yield was 129.2 bushels. Gainey and 'Barbee will receive one $100 savings bond each. All of the prizes are donated by the North Carolina Foundation Seed Producers, Inc., and will be pre sented at a meeting in Raleigh lat er this month. First 6 Months Of Lions' Year Is Successful ... . . ,. . ..... r The Waynesville Hons last Thursday j night heard how good they were financially, then heard how good they were period. Club President Dick Bradley told the Lions at their regular weekly dinner meeting at Patrick's Cafe teria that during the first six months of the organizations year, $4,200.35 poured into the club treasury from all sources. Then Waynesville Attorney W. R. Francis, a member of the Way nesville Rotary Club, Incidentally, praised the Lions for their long record of consistent service to the community. Mr. Francis, a former state sen ator, was the guest speaker at the meeting. - Bradley's financial report cover ed contributions from the Christ mas Cheer campaign and other fund-raising drives thecluhjeon- ducted during the last six months, and the receipts the Lions earned from the five performances of their annual Minstrel. In all, the club actually handled more than $6,000 during the firts half of its year, Gas Stations4 Being Checked For New Tax are How many filling stations there in Haywood County? Ask one of the State Highway Patrolmen in a day or two. Since last Thursday, the officers have been working on the ardu ous job of checking the gasoline stocks of every service station in Haywood. Corporal John L. Carpenter ex plained lhat the job is necessary to give a basis for helping to com pute the receipts the county will give on the new one-cent tax on gasoline. The one-cent-per-gallon tax is being levied to help pay for the State's $200,000,000 rural road building program. . ' Waynesville Man Saw Strange CraftDec. 28 Speculation continued today over the identity of the "flying cigars" which persons throughout the Carolines reported, seeing ; flying high and fast last week. An Associated Press dispatch first noted the mysterious craft It said the "object was first seen at Fayettevllle . . . at about 4:30 p. m. Wednesday. Within a half hour, residents of Hamlet, Ches terfield and Greenwood, S. C., re ported sighting it." , . This would give the thing a straight trail of about 200 mile? going southwest across the Caro lines. ' Tom Lee pf Waynesville, said he saw what looked like a wing less transport plane flying at 3, 000 to 4,000 feet over the town toward Dellwood Road at about 1:30 p. m. or 2 p. m. Wednesday, two and a half hours before it was first reported over Fayetteville. "I Thought at' first it was a plane," he reported, "but then I noted there was no sound of a motor or an appearance of one, and that it had no wings. "Otherwise, the body looked like the one of a transport plane long and made of bright metal-like aluminum." Mrs. J. R, Plott, Jr., reported she saw a strange trail of smoke be tween 4:40 and 4:45 p. m. high over Plott Balsam. She said she and her 16-year-old daughter, Elizabeth Ann, were in the back yard of their home near the Mount Valley Inn when they noticed what they though was an invisible plane starting to sky write. ' Mrs. Plott said the trail was describing a huge circle as though it wefe beginning to write the let ter "P" ancTthat it was travelling generally toward Sylva. "We didn't hear any noise at all. There was no sound of any plane (See Strange Craft Page 3) Son Of Hemphill Couple Wins Baby Debry Award The first baby born in Haywcod County in 1950 was Herman Hr old Rathbone, son of Mr. and Mrs. Troy Beauford Rathbone of Hemp hill. He thus won the Mountaineers' annual Baby Derby and all the prizes merchants and businessmen have contributed. ' , The boy weighed eight pounds and three ounces when he first saw the light of day yesterday in Hay wood County Hospital when the New Year was only five hours and nine minutes old. He became the Rathbone's sec ond child and their second son, Herman Harold's older brother, Trpy Beauford, Jr., is 19 months old.', . Attending Haywood County's first birth of 1950 was Dr. Thomas Strlngfield, Jr. Mrs. Rathbone, who is 21 years, old, Is the former Allie Acuff. . Mr. Rathbone, a farmer, Is 24. The county's first baby of the New Year was born just 23 hours and 11 minutes after the last baby of 1949 came into the world. ' The baby who came into the world as the old year was fading is Douglas Monroe Hannah, born to Mr. and Mrs. Bryson Hannah, Cove ' Creek farm couple. Douglas Monroe became the Han, nah's seventh child when he was born at 5:20 p.m. New Year's Eve, Mrs. Hannah, who is 32, is the former Lorena Messer, Mr. Hannah is 39 years old. I The attending physician was Dr N. F. Lancaster. The first baby of 1950 also came one hour and 41 minutes less than a year after the first baby of 1949. The winner of the Mountaineers 1949 Derby was Carolyn Suo Win chester, born to Mr. and Mrs. Beecher Winchester of Deliwood Road. Carolyn Sue was exactly one yar old at 6:50 a.m. yesterday. Like the 1949 champion, young Mr. 1950 will be well supplied for his first year of life. For being born before anyone else this year, Herman Harold will receive: Fifteen quarts of pasteurized milk from Pet Dairy; A complete baby outfit valued at $14.50 from Belk-Hudson, includ ing a blanket, handmade dress, a dozen Birdseye diapers, baby robe, and a Johnson's gift set; A sterling silver spoon and fork from E. J. Lilius, Waynesville (See First BabyPace 3), Two-Week Civil Court Term To Open Monday A two-week cjvil term of Hay wood Superior Court will open here next Monday morning with Judge Zeb V. Nettles of Asheville scheduled to preside. Twenty-five cases are scheduled for hearing during the course of the term. Meanwhile, court officers today announced the list of prospective jurors for the session. The day-by-day court docket shows these cases are coming up for hearing: January 9--Smlth, Administrator vs. Gibbons; Medford vs. Burrell, et al; Tennessee Roofing Company vs. Gibson, et al; Sellers vs. Sta nley, et al; Harvey vs. Hemphill. January 10 Sutton vs. Caldwell; Phillips vs. Potts, et al; Muse vs. McCracken. January 11 Epstein vs. Under wood; Wright vg. Alrrington; Stiles vs. Crowder; Pressley vs. Galloway; Lunsford vs. Lunsford. January 12 Reece vs. Scott; Mitchell vs. Smith Drug Co.; Swain vs. Motor Lines. January 13 Silvers vs. Gallo way, et al; Reed vs. Matney. January 16 Strable vs. Medford; In Re Marion W. Allen, Deceased; McCracken, et al vs. McCracken, et al. January 17 Davis, B.N.F. vs. Casey; Livingstone vs. Livingstone. Motion Docket Welch vs. Welch; Blaylock vs Boyd; Begni vs. Moss. The jury list: First week -Dave Millwood and John f A. Plott, Waynesville; G. W. Wrfeht, White Oak; Silas Nichols, Wajes ville; J. C. Hopkins, Cataloochee; Mrs. Wilma Rhodarmer, Clyde; (See Civil Court Page Patrol Change Starts New Year In Haywood - A change in Haywood county's State Highway Patrql force marked the opening of the new law en forcement year.' State Highway Patrolman Bill Sawyer left yesterday, a few hours after investigating the year's first accident, to find a place to live in Kings Mountain. Meanwhile, Patrolman Wooten, previously stationed in Kings Mountain, reported to Corporal John L. Carpenter to start learn ing the Haywood ropes. Sawyer and Wooten swapped stations in the transfer that was announced last month by the cor poral.'.;' - Meanwhile, the vacancy left by the resignation of State Highway Patrolman Jeff Mays early last month will remain open until about the first of March when a replace ment will be assigned from among the new-crop of graduates from the State Highway Patrol School at Chapel Hill. ' . " State " Highway Patrolman" " II. Dayton and Corporal Carpenter are remaining on duty in Haywood, giving the county a current force of three state officers. - Highway Record For 1950 In Haywood (To Date) Killed.... 0 Injured ... 1 (This information com piled from Recoi ' ; State Highway r ' - rrr V