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0- 4 flights )f The flews LLi WAYNISYILLE TiTrm a it it LHJ1 TODAY'S SMILE The less tome prople have a their minds the more they seem to want to talk Published Twice-A-Week In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The 'Great Smoky Mountains National Park - published Letter t . i-tter to the editor 'o.and it has not .Tf- Rev. M. L. -r.kerday. ..H it the first is- afraid it was too l find " ln ev"V rjTfar " has not appear- ffr stood waiUng fto answer. Rev. Lewis Padded: "I shall not ex- L H in pr'"1, since r...H nassed you see. rnd the letter on my L forgotten to mail if to - I .' ..j rector was then gtver reacnes mc mi-. .bors Away Home cinriH recently, two gentlemen -: ..,h n her ai winced themselves. r. t im Harry Bourne, .....MUt IIP. UU ' """ 65th YEAR " NO. 40 18 PAGES Associated Press and United Press News WAYNES VILLE, N. C, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 18, 1950 $2.u0 In Advance In Haywood and Jacksor Countid New Bridge Across Lake Junaluska Dam Is Opened Vr vv-1 j Hytrin Waynesville, Bethel, Clyde, Fines Creek, and Crabtree-Iron Duff Ready mencement liXercises 10 Lid his hand out. a tall lA -rrnwed his eyes on lr;ld:."rm James! y I too am from Waynes i i. wnrth Carolina.' 'they both looked puzzled ' .nt nd when due ex- over. they held a f session afterwards discus ...lis hrk home.' Mr. mt here about the Jlme vB left for Florida. While members of , UsvMe club, they had L ..ntll at the luncheon .- . - nuthern Florida. A Snort? ower aay. a "" i. t Wavnesville clti jiting for the traffic light h snort?" he whispered in warded tone out of the of his mouth as his eyes quickly up and down the whispered the 'citizen carefully. . v tdiately the man snorted. Dr. Frank S. Love superintendent of Lake Junaluska Assembly. Is shown cutting the ribbon which formally opened the new $15,000 bridge across the 555-foot dam at Lake Junaluska. This is one of the projects of the expansion program now underway at Junaluska. Shown on the left is W. H. Mas- sie a trustee and Mrs. Massie. Directly behind Dr. Love is Mrs. r-inwr , vim , looks on besi'de Mrs. Love, and Max Cochran, officer of the grounds Is on the extreme right. 'oolbov Suffers i enLedIn V-Txuck Crash' rt Gibson, III, eight-year klwood youth, suffered a teg when his bicycle ran .iracK Monday afternoon ai Slight at Bradley's Store in dd. ' I Highway Patrolman Joe I OCr i Ki n ft fh aintrlatl' OB i u,vaiiaiig ca-Wiiav ?able, quoted witnesses as the youth, riding out of street (in his wav home W, failed to stop in time jintersection. ,le struck the side of 4. nd he was thrown un ! fight rear wheel, which w. his left leg before the owld stop it. th was rushed to Hay- Countv Hnsnltal h flnh to was doing some work service station across the F Gibson was transferred Asheville hospital for anient. k is the son of Mr. and Gibson, Jr., of Hazel wtrolman said the driver of Jack KllwarH TT.,,rnt OK ft Creek ...uu C1 after the investigation "wiaent was unavoid- wea a schoolmate of W0Son' v j i Hi. i . ma"a8ea 10 Slop Ce time at the end of 1- . , 'vai "I nUlllK 3 Gibson. .Tr f k Ifg in an accident Clean - Up Campaign Will Start On Monday Officials of Wavnesville and Haz- elwood are going forward with plans tor the annual clean-up cam- nnlcn which cets underway on Monday, and will continue lor an npxt WfiPK. Additional trucks will be used fnr nickina ud all trash and any trash missed will be picked up on special calls when the town halls are notified. "All indications are that this spasnn will brina a large number of visitors to our community, and it Is Important that every part ot it be sDotlessly clean," u. u. ter cuson. town manager said today. A special effort win be maae to aot all areas of the community rleaned arid free of trash. Owners of vacant lots are reminded that all weeds' should be cleared imme diately. . Robert H. Clark Power Official On Guam Island Robert H. lark is "now assistant superintendent of power on the is land of Guam. Mr r.lark fnr a number of years, was electrical superinten dent of the Town of Waynesville. He resigned in 1944'to go to Pearl Harbor to do war work. Since ne finished his work in Pearl Harbor in 1946, he has been in Southern California, Edison, San Bernar- dine district until assuming duties with the Navy in Guam. Mr. Clark is a native oi waynes- ville. and is convalescing tnHazelwood. ; - from , Mission Plans Completed Motorcade For Into S. C. Civic Group Approves Projects "The board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce put their xtamo of annroval on dans for the annual membership drive; for an nual clean-up campaign, and the motorcade into South Carolina at their meeting here Monday night. Dave Felmet, membership chair man, said a quota of $7,500 had been set. In addition to approving these nlans the directors cave contracts for repairing the electric sign at the Lake, and approved the re painting of other road signs in me area which are owned by the organization. A reDort of the treasurer snow ed that the recent banquet was self-sustaining that is. it paid Its own way with the exception of. $2.55. V The board also went on record of urging the officials of Trallways to provide adequate bus facilities for the present and looking to the future needs of the community. James L; Kllpatrlck, president presided at the board meeting. To West Point W.T.H.S. Band And Chorus To Give Last Concert The Wavnesville High School Concert Band and thex Mixed Cho rus will give their final perform ance for the. year, Tuesday night as part of the commencement pro- i m i gram, . .;, The concert will ne oi ugni mu sic, including several novelty num bers, and will be under the direc tion of Charles Isley and his assist ant, Bob Campbell. will be 25 and 50 cents with tickets' available from all members of the band and cho rus. .. SHOWERS l2' ,May 18-Mostly fair rjwa warm Thursday and W Pi for iso,ated lat ill , yne8vUle tempera- fJXSf" 818,1011116 5 Max. Min. Rainfall 75 42 76 45 .04 Haywood Road Project To Be Let On May 30 Amons the 26 bids to be opened May 30 by the State Highway Conl- ml!lnn. wiH tie r HaTWOoB Project. The 1.75 miles of road, part oi the hnnd Droerain. calls for hard- surfacing from a point on the Fib erville Road approximately 2 00 foet west of Beaverdam creek bridge north to a point on the Beaverdam road, approximately 550 feet east of the beaveroam Plan's are to let the contracts on June 8. A second group of con tracts will be awarded on June 6. Waynesville VFW To Send Group To State Convention The Waynesville Township High School band and a 16-year-old wavnesville Hleh School junior will participate in the 1950 annual convention of the Nortn uaround nnnartment. Veterans of Foreign Wars, at Hendersonville net mnnlh The eirl. Mary Jane Rogers, will f-nmonte in the beauty contest which will be a feature of the con vention. The band will march in thn i-nlnrful state-wide parade. Snonsorine the appearance ot tne local students at the convention is the Waynesville VFW Post headed hv Commander Albert Marshall. . . ... The four-day meeting win open .Tune 1. ' This marks the first time tne State VFW organization has set its annual convention for western North r.arolina. Meanwhile. Commander Mar shall has called a special session of the local nost for 7:30 p.m. May za at the Haywood County court House to make plans for the at tendance of a large Waynesville delegation at the convention. "This may be the last time the annual convention will be held this close to Waynesville," Mr. Mar shall pointed out. "Consequently we are trying to arrange to have as many members of this post as possible attend it." He requested those members not able ot attend who own official able to attend who own official delegates who do not have them. i N 1 .0';-.: ."..'-S If V : VV , K " fcimii wm iiimi urn iwmu win rniniTi'ir"i hiiitt'i i " Canton, St. John's Set Graduation Ceremonies For Later Dates District ChieS Northern South Carolina: Is slnrerelv anxious to have us come down and tell them more about Western North Carolina," Mrs. r.ordnn Schenck secretary of the Chamber of Commerce said Jthls morning, upon her return '-from -a two-day stay in the area making arrancements for the motorcade, Mrs, SchencK. together with Earl Aiken, of Brevard, completed de tails for the two-day motorcaae ir May 31 and June 1st. , The 85-picce Eeusta band will go In two special buses, together with 30 cars from Brevard, a similar number from here, and a group of Cherokee Indians in full war costume. -,' Plans are to leave here early on the morning of May 31, go Into Greenville, stase a parade, and have lunch at the Poinsett Hotel, with representatives of the City of Greenville, press and radio as spe cial Guests. The chief of police will escort the motorcade Into the city, and dick an irainc ior ie iihihuc. A number of young ladles, in perky bonnets, will go down the streets passing out numerous fold ers of this area, including a two color map featuring highway No. 276. - From Greenville the motorcade will co to Easley." and Pickens for similar performances, and then on to Anderson for the night. Two hotels have been reserved for the Dartv. Earlv Thursday the motor cade will swing1 into action, parad ing down Anderson s Main street, and then to Laurens, and up to (See Motorcade Page 6) . . . i ' 10,000 Folders Showing Places To Stay Printed Ten thousand folders, of eight naiies. listing accommodations In Waynesville and vicinity have been nrlnted and are now belna dls tributed tv tha Ha vwbod Tourist Association and the Chamber of Commtrcc. The information was compiled within the. past few weeks, and shows 14 hotels: 16 motor courts 1 dude ranch; 11 tourist homes and farms; 70 tourist homes with rooms only; 44 apartments, cottages and homes; 7 camps, and 14 hotels and inns at Lake Junaluska. Also listed on the back page are seven churches, and four realtors of the community. The folders are printed in dark ink on pastel green paper, and fold to fit into a large letter size envel-ope. The work of compiling the vast amount of material for the folder was done by Mrs. Gordon Schenck, secretary of the Chamber of Com merce, in cooperation with Carl Henry and Paul Hyatt of the Tour 1st Association. - The printing was handled by the commercial printing department of The Mountaineer. DONALD M. R1IEA. of Hazel wood, will enter West Point on July fifth. He received his ap pointment some months ago. Cadet D. Rhea Will Enter West Point On July 5th Donald M. Rhea. 19. will enter West Point Military Academy on .Tnlv fifth as a cadet This event will come exactly 30 days after he graduates from Georgia Military College. -. - Cadet Rhea Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon M. Rhea, of Hazel- wood He,, attended v the nubile schools, and graduated from St. John's in the class of 1948. He en tare Georgia Military Collog in the fall of that year as a student of, engineering, and immediately became an honor student with high scholastic rating. He Is graduating also in R. O. T. C. Cadet Rhea was appointed to West Point by Representative Monroe M. Reeden. The end of May will mean the end of high school days for Hay wood County's seniors of 1950. Commencement week will open f . . . ..... ..... i . Sunday lor most ot me cuuiuy public schools witn ine annual Baccalaureate Sermons. Graduation exercises at St. John's High School will unofficially close the county's annual com menccment ceremonies during the first week of June. One hundred and one seniors will receive their diplomas the night of March , 25 at the 1950 Waynesville Township High School Commencement, marking the ex odus of the largest of Haywood's Graduating classes. The ceremonies are scheduled to start at 8 p.m. But before that, the prospective Graduates and their parents and other friends will gather In the school auditorium at 8 p.m. Sun day to hear the Rev. M. R. Wil liamson, pastor of the Waynesville Presbyterian Church, preach the Baccalaureate Sermon. At the same time Sunday night, the Rev. W. T, Medlin, pastor of the Clyde Methodist Churcn, will Breach the sermon to Clyde Hiah School's 29 graduating seniors and their guests. Clvde's commencement exercises are scheduled for Wednesday at u p.m. j , janton rugn acnooi s commence ment week will open a little later. The Rev. C. W. Kirby. pastor of Canton's . Central Methodist Church, will preach the Baccalau reate Sermon the night of May 28. .The following Tuesday, May 30, the 58 seniors will be honored at the traditional Class Night Pro- cram in the hleh school. The night of May 31, they will receive their diplomas. , Crabtree - Iron Duff ; School's Commencement Week program will open Sunday atternoon witn me Baccalaureate program at the school auditorium. V Waynesville Restaurant Has New Management The Waynesville Restaurant on Main Street is operating under a new owner and manager. A. M. Itayem purchased the busi ness Monday from M. All for an undisclosed sum. - Mr. Itayem, who is now living on Welch Street, is a veteran of the business. Before coming to Wavnesvilla he nnerated his Own restaurant in Chicago's Loop, the Wavnesville High School tftir'o main rSuulnaca Aairif I The Rev, Horace L. Smith, pastor of the First Baptist church of Can ton, will preach the sermon to the 19 sraduatine seniors. The program is scheduled to ooen at 2:30 o. m. The eraduatlon exercises for the. students of the eighth grade will be held at 7:30 p. m. Monday with 30 scheduled to receive their di plomas, i , f)n Tuesdav nitzht. the hiah school seniors will be presented with their diplomas, with the event scheduled to start at 8 p. m. Duplicate Of Liberty Bell To Be Shown nere Crabtree, Bethel Teams Place High In FFA Tool Test Teams from Bethel and Crab-tree-iron Duff High Schools placed third and fourth, respectively this week In the 14 county Future Farm ers of America Federation tool identification contest held here. ; Hayesville's team won the event. Franklin placed second, and Bry son City, fifth. ' The students were required to Identify tools used in the school shops and to spell the names of them correctly. " Making up the Crabtree team were Edward Wood, Frank Cham bers, and Floyd Plemmons. all stu dents of the school's agriculture department. Students from more than a dozen high schools in the Federation com peted in the event. Mountaineer Reporter Finds That Cooperation Mixed With Printer's Ink And Hard Work Has Built Gatlinburg An exact duplicate of the famous Liberty bell Is slated to be put on jicni.v horo nn the afternoon of Friday, June second from 2 to 3:30 it was announced xoaay uy Massie, chairman of the U. S. Sav ings Bonds for Haywood county. The display is part of the cam paign, which began Monday night, with the Liberty Bell as the sym bol and "Save for your Indepen dence" as the slogan for the drive. Mr. Massie said that Ford Motor Pnmnanv has donated trucks to transport the bells of copper, and Johnson Motor company, oi lotte, Is furnishing a driver. The sale of Savings Bonds in Haywood during April totaled $35, 943, Mr, Massie said. Of this a mount. all was E bonds except $2,000 which were G bonds. ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. . William S. Ray announce the birth of a son, Wil liam Shelton Ray, II, on Wednes day. May 17, at Biltmore Hospital, Biltmore. Mrs. Rav is the former Miss Laura Mae Clauson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eric Clauson, MRS. WARD IN HOSPITAL Mrs. Hallet Ward is reported to be doing nicely at Haywood Coun ty Hospital where she is a patient. Edward Fuller Dies Wednesday In Hospital Rdward E. Fuller. 60. of Wavnes. ville died Wednesday morning in an Asneviue hospital after an ex tended illness. Funeral services will be conduct ed In the First Baptist Church Fri day at 2:30 p. m. with the Rev. L. G Elliott. Dastor. oflciatina. Inter ment will be In Green Hill Ceme tery. "- Pallbearers will be Lemuel Leo pard, Charlie Woodard, Clyde Styles, Howard Bryson, Cordell Price, and Ben Phillips. ' The bodv will remain at Garrett Funeral Home until the hour of the service. "- . A native of Brattlebo'ro, Ver mont. Mr. Fuller came to Waynes ville about twenty years ago from Daytona Beach, Florida and was owner and operator of a garage and repair shop. Surviving are the wife. Mrs. Alice Stephenson Fuller; one Hauehter: Miss Dorothy Fuller; and one son, Arthur Fuller, all of Waynesville. : Dr. I. B. Funke has recovered from a recent Illness and has re sumed her. practite at her home on South Main Street By BILL LINDAU Some far-sighted, public-spirited Gatlinburg citizens a few short years ago, looked over their town, the majestic hills surrounding it, then wrote out a prescription. The new road through the Parn over the mountains to Cherokee had just been paVed, and Gatlin burg was a ' nice little town that vou micht stop in if you were a salesman or out tin a little side trip from Knoxville. Gatlinburg took the medicine in generous doses, its alert citizens, with confidence in their town in vested money In beautiful little buildings and soma pretty big ones. The prescription saidr "Printer's Ink." - Now it's the best-known town in America. "In the' Great Smokies, reads the attractive little booklet the lady at the Gatlinburg Tourist Bu reau gave us last Sunday, 'Gat linburg is the vacation center. "Six principal hotels, fifty lodges, inns, guest houses, motels, and tourist courts." Some time this season they'll have to revise that copy: Last Sunday, Gatlinburg had 54 lodges, inns, guest houses, motels and tourist courts. - About this time next year it will have at least 56. (See Gatlinburg Pae 6) The Ilev. J. E. Yountz, pastor of the First Methodist Church of Waynesville, will deliver the invo cation following the opening of the Baccalaureate program Sunday night. ;' The high school's mixed chorus will sing the anthems, and Jlmmie Galloway will play the procession al and recessional pieces on the piano. Mr. Williamson's sermon will be on the subject, "The Road Ahead." On the following Thursday night, the Commencement exercises will open with the invocation by the Rev. L. G. Elliott, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Waynes ville. A- The featured addresses will be given by the graduating honor stu dents. Giving the, salutatory will be Nancy Floyd, and Elaine rrancis will be the valedictorian. FRED Y CAMPBELL of Waynes ville is the new commander of the American Legion's district covering 12 posts and 3.000 . members In Madison, Haywood, and Buncombe counties, ine former Waynesville post com mander was elected last night at .... a district meeting In West Ashe ville. Barton Ray, retiring com mander of the Canton post, was elected district vice-commander.. Campbell Named District Legion Chief Last Night Fred y; Campbell of Waynes ville last night was elected com mander of the American Legkm district .covering three . westetti counties. A Barton Ray. retiring commander of : the Canton Post, was named vice-commander. The two Haywood County men were selected at a district meet ing in the West Asheville Ameri can Legion Hall by representatives of the 12 Legion organizations in Buncombe,. Haywood and Madison counties which make up the dis trict. Camobell thus was selected aS the leading officer for the approxi mately 3,000 Legionnaires who are members of the posts in this sec tion. A World War II veteran and former member of the staff of the Waynesville Post Office, Campbell served as commander of Haywood Post 47 of Waynesville In 1948. Attending the session last night also were 14 representatives of Haywood County's posts here, in Canton; and ln Hazelwood. Among, the delegates, In addition to Campbell, and Ray, retiring commander of the Canton post, (See Campbell faec 6) Bettv Lee Gibson. Mildred Med- ford, and Harry Crocker will de liver the class orations. A A'; During the course of the program also honor students will receive the Daughters of the American Revolution Good Citizenship awards and the Beta bigma rtu scholarship. C. E. Weatherby, principal of the mgh school, will make the pre sentation of the class. The program will come to a climax in the pre sentation of the dlulomas bv Dis trict School Superintendent M. H. Bowles. Mr. Elliott will deliver the- benediction closing the program. Plaving the processional and re cessionat music will be Pianist Jimmie Galloway. The following seniors are sched uled to receive their diplomas at the exercises: Annie Charlene Adkins, Charles Bonner Atkinson, Mary Cuml (See Schools Pace's) Miss Rogers To Appear In N. C. VFW Convention Marv Jane Rogers, pretty 16- year-old Waynesville High School junior, was selected last week to represent the Waynesville Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars in the State VFW's beauty contest next month. The contest will be a feature of the 1950 convention of the vet erans' organization. It s scheduled to be held in Hendersonville from June 1 through June 4. Miss Rogers Is the daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Frank. Rogers of. Wavnesville. Mr. Rogers is prin cipal of East Waynesville Elemen tary School. Highway , Record For 1950 ' In Haywood (To Date) ' Injured... . 17 Killed 3 (This information com plied from Records of State Highway Patrols 1 ,V' I f f , 1. An f AT 15 i 1 r t r