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standard r-rn re Comp 20-230 S Fu-n St LOUISVILLE KY D- 1 Of Tho News -o ;ed After 49 Years ! few days Oliver Shel- postal employee, hopes brother, Leonard, whom seen for 49 years. jton. together with Mr. f Ved Carver left this j, for Ferndale, Washing- Ln together for the last .mi ind we figured It was r,isH,",.Mr. Shelton Mid. Shelton was an expert taller when he went to .ton state. Now he. owns a ,iry and farm. urn? JiiUiU. TT I -a JLUUiiJ MIMTi liiiii. Published Twice-A-Week In The Cyounty Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park i: r v: f in A I " I 7, 1 ! 7 a farrr.T s j i v , i : an ,; t ee i i 1" e f .' ! er'i ortLatJ. rj tL's i i fenious ex;'iri..'. i: "C f your art'e tc II ofT and I wan trying to put it back." 65th YEAR NO. 49 12 PAGES Associated Press and United Press News WAYNES VILLE, N. C, MONDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 19, 1930 $3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties - Some Charming Haywood Belles Demonstrate Goodness Of Dairy Products In The Shade v"3 v r-1 .J humber of Commerce, and ;mi Olllce are uuus newest attack is a beaming i rrppn metal awning, of Jernistic design, which adds h, the appearance of the 1 md comfort of the office aside. . . ung Pessimist Lid never do to reveal the but this took place right Sjs week. A neighbor invited I child next door over for jic supper. The little ne, fover the invitation, which Ltc in the afternoon, accept C thanks and the added ex- be right over, just as soon iish my supper. i What He Said ! in Johnston County, The ield Herald reports that a lit for a county office ap ti i highway patrolman be- t primary and asked point- Are you going to vote iot ... '. ' i .X loot know," replied the an, "I'll have to vote the (sergeant told me to." candidate's eyes grew large questioned further In a 1 voice, "How did, the ser ell you to vote?": patrolman looked around see if anyone was listening n leaned toward the candi es and said quietly: ' ' loll me to vote for any one vices Are iFor Sam Plott rjl services for Mrs. Eliza Mi! Plott, 50, who died lay at her home In Chats Ga., were held Sunday af i in the First Presbyterian i here. The Rev. Malcolm "son, pastor, officiated. pallbearers were Robert Fred Plott, Robert Coin, Sr., Sr., A. C. Jones, and byd. wry pallbearers were Dr. Stringfield,- Jim Stringfleld, organ, George Wary, Sam Wi Roy Francis," J, H. How W. f. Swift, Grover'Da- Henry Davis. : nnent will be in Green etery upon the arrival of Uwence A. Plott, from An rurkey. ,r tt, a native of Haywood as the daughter of the A. and Laura Clark Grahl. ,efl nere until 1933 and was W years employed by the . Morgan and Ward She Member of the Waynesville fian Church. . J are the husband, Sam 2 T dau8hter, Miss Betty Chatsworth; four sons, pK Jr.. of the U. S. h,?T' Lawrence A. Plott -Turkey; Joseph M. Plott "ateo, Calif., and Thomas g0la lniana; and J,ers- d Grahl of Jpjjnta are under the dl Garrett Funeral Home. t i w 4 vs 1 ; I'll' t.lv M'j i' ,1 .!l u iiiiij This was the lead float in the bairy Parade here Saturday, in which 83 dairies, and 96 vehicle's participated, with the High School band leading. The event was in recognition of Haywood's Million Dollar Dairy business, and some 6,000 people witnessed the parade down Main Street. Shown here, left to right, are: standing, Maxine Med ford; seatel, Patsy McCracken, Edith Haney, Doris Rollins, Peggy Peek, Arley Jo Jones, Miss Jean1 Childers, Ernestine Osborne, Dorothy Muse, Maxine Cochran, Doris Musei Ann CatheyJ and Frances Davis. (Staff Photo). ; Week Program Outlined For Annual Observance f Fourih Of July Jere Renewed Interest Is Being Shown In Hotel Proicct 'i. :f ;.;.; :. ' ?. Renewed interest has been vrei ported in the proposed modern ho tel project for Waynesville, it was stated today. V .''Substantial progress has been made by the local committee," J. Wilford Ray, chairman said. - Plans ate being made to con clude the campaign by June 30th, a spokesman, said. Local citizens are being asked to loan $100,000 pn the. project, , Heads Safety Group Presbyterian Men To Meet At Hazelwood : The Men of .the Church of the Hazelwood Presbyterian Church will hold their monthly supper meeting in the church dining room Thursday at 7 p. m. W. B. Winchester, program chair man for the evening has announced the guest speaker of the evening to be the Rev. J. C. Lime, pastor of the Canton Presbyterian Church. Rufus Summerrow, president of the group will preside. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Smith are here from perkinston Junior Col lege in Perkinston, Mississippi to spend the summer and hove open ed their home on Haywood Street. Plans are being made for rec ord crowds at the annual county wide Fourth of July celebration, sponsored by the Hazelwood Boost ers Club. The week-long celebra tion will formally get underway on Sunday. .evening. July,, second., with the annual Union 'church services in the High School Sta dium.'.' ; ';'."'' Whitener H. Prevost, general chairman, announced this morning that numerous committees cover ing all phases of the observance had just about completed their task of coordinating one of the best programs ever assembled. In addition to the usual events, there will be $780, or more in merchandise prizes given during the week. This is a new feature of the celebration. The Community Development or ganizations of the county are co operating and will stage athletic events, as well as a musical pro gram of interest. Mr. Prevost ' said" that early on Monday, July 3rd, 1 the Williams Amusement Company rides would be assembled on the High School playground, and would be in oper ation that afternoon and for the re mainder of the week. Starting at 9:30 on Tuesday, July 4th, a long, and colorful parade, featuring the high school Band, a beneficiary of the proceeds of the celebration, Boy Scout, Girl Scouts, the National Guard, a group of youngsters with pets, and others, will participate in a parade, which will terminate at the high school. A series of Field Day athletic See Fourth of July Page 4) Graves Of Many Haiy wood Confederate Soldiers Found In Heart Of Chicago 5 WARMER June 19 ParMv MilSC9ttwetoundershow. Teday, warmer - m ntiuued warm Tues- i'lynesvllie tempera by th staff of k arm; I, Max. 82 83 - 85 . 85 Min. Rainfall 56 " ' .... 56 21 50 57. ' . :f f -: :;:i:''i-i:-::if: ..." feS'ifWf!t(i5 H 4 1111 - f "lypii i : JOHN SMITH, Hazelwood bank er,i has a hobby of research for historical data of the War Be tween the States. He has just found some interesting local ma terial. - . ".Diligent research for four years finally paid off for John Smith, Hazelwood banker. Mr. Smith's literary hobby is history, and for some years he has been interested in Wsj, family his tory, and trying to get accurate de tails about his grandfather, who i died while a Confederate prisoner, Mr. Smith knew his grandfather J died while in Douglas Prison, but there the details stopped. Several weeks ago Mr. Smith, while visiting' in Chicago, renewed his search, and there found what he had been looking for all these years. . On the side of the impressive monument in the heart of Oak Wood Cemetery, between 67 and 71st streets, East, was a bronze placque bearing the names of the 6,000 Confederate prisoners who were buried In the cemetery. In the list was the name of his grand father. ' A casual check of the list showed numerous Haywood .and Jackson county names, and the records at (See Graves Page 6) NED J. TUCKER, personnel di rector of Dayton Rubber Com pany, was ' elected chairman of the W.N.C. Safety Council, suc ceeding Tom Mason, of Ashe vllle. R. L. Hendricks, also of The Dayton Rubber Company, is secretary of the district organization. . Mr. Tucker joined Dayton Rub ber in October, 1943. .. v ; President Of Dayton Rubber Company Says "Textile Future" Never Brighter Business; EIou Gearinn flo E-IggI G:gvj2!v A. L. FREEDLANDER. president of The Dayton Rubber Company. Estimated Crowd Of 6,000 Witness Long Dairy Parade Perhaps the longest parade ever to roll down Main Street did so Saturday .when 96 vehicles, rep resenting 83 Haywood dairies, stag ed a parade, led by the High School band.- '- 'ri'';' It is estimated that some 6,000 persons saw trfe parade, which featured all phases of dairying in Haywood."';"". ' -y. - Dairying is now recognized as a million dollar industry in Hay wood, y ;.' . ''.V;t'; :.. ' AU morning hundreds of people visited i the First , Nationals Bank and saw the "dairy queen," a prize cow. There scores of gallons of Ice cream was consumed by those visit ing the bank. The dairies gave the ice cream. After the parade, dozens of young girls passed up and down the streets passing out coupons good for five cents on the purchase of milk at any retail establishment. Haywood Baptists To Raise $4000 For Their Hospital The Haywood Baptist Association adopted a resolution on Sunday afternoon, which set up a goat of $4,000 for this Association's part of the $700,000 campaign for ex panding the Baptist Hospital at Winston-Salem. . ' The 43 churches of tho assdcla tion are being asked to ma f 3 the initial offering prior to July 16th, and another in September. The $700,000 Is being sought for expanding the facilities of the hos pital, after the convention turned down the offer of the same amount from the federal, government.' Dollwood Baptists End Successful ; Vacation School 4 V ON COMMITTEE ' , J. R. Morgan has" beeft named on a special 21-member committee by the N. C. Baptist Convention to work out recommended policy resolution to present to the group in November. The , policy - is to cover such .actions as. attitude to wards available federal funds for schools and hospitals.; Little Interest Being Shown In Second Primary With the second primary less than a week away, interest in the; campaign, as far as Haywood is concerned, , seems to be at a Jow ebb. . Very little 1 comment . is '-heard about the approaching ...election, and little or no display of. enthtts ism can be seen in evidence about the county One political observer had this explanation: "Here in Haywood, we got all enthused and worked so hard in the May 27th election, that it is hard to muster up any new enthusiasm this time." ' - The second primary will be held Saturday, June 24th, with only two candidates on the ticket here in Haywood Senator Frank P. Gra ham, and Willis Smith, both seek ing the Democratic nomination for U. S. Senate. ; , Dr. E. W. Gudger's Research Reveals That EHayivood's Elevation Is ligtest E EasferFE'S: ' Haywood qOunty has an average elevation of 4,787 feet, according to facts just compiled by Dr. E. W. Gudger, former citizen here,' and for many years with the American Museum v of Natural History of New York City. Dr. Gudger's painstaking work that of a scientist found that the highest elevation in the county is 6,621 feet, and the lowest 1,396 feet. After computing all the fig ures, and concludes that Haywood has the highest average elevation of any county east of the Mississip pi river. , ' 1 His paper, in full, is as follows: THE BACKGROUND PICTURE ' The Appalachian Mountains or Highlands ' He just west of the Piedmont in the Eastern : United States, and extend from northeast in New Hampshire southwest - to northern Georgia. They are high (See Altitude Pg. 1, Sec. 2. - V - : X Commencement exercises were held Friday , night for the Dell wood Baptist; Church Daily Vaca tion School,' which had an enroll ment of 66, with an average attend ance of 60 for the 10-day session Open house was held in connec tion with the commencement exer cises. ; ; :' ' ; Mrs. Lee Evans .was general superlntendeht, with Mrs. Ben Fixate, in charge of the senior Intermediates, and Mrs. . Vernon Wells the junior intermediates. Mrs. Frances McGaha, the be ginners, with Miss Jo Ann Russell, assistant, Mrs. Edith Grant, Mrs Clay Grant, Mrs. Hugh Allison Mrs. Andy Owen, and secretary, Miss Sarah Sheehan. ' The young men's class gave wiener roast on Friday evening just before the commencement. The young ladies' class furnished the marshmallows and the young moth ers' class furnished refreshments six times during the school. ; Deral Matney operated the bus for the students during the 10-day ioom bumper8 ChOOl. v.. ''.'.'..:. . Asserting that the future of tlie textile industry in the southeastern part of the United States was "never brighter and" certain to ex pand tremendously in the next dec ade because of the combination of enthusiastic workers, alert com munities, vast resources and in creased demand," A. L. Freedland er. President of the Dayton Rub ber Company, today announced an expanded sales and service plan designed to aid in the improvement of textile operations. Mr. Freedlander said that J. O. Cole had been appointed Vice President and Regional (Manager for Dayton Rubber to head up the new program and to also direct southeastern area sales and servic ing of industrial automotive roller, railway, and latex foam products made by Dayton. A graduate tex tile engineer from Georgia Tech, born in Hiram, Georgia, Mr. Cole has been with the Dayton Company since 1938. Since 1942 he has serv ed as Manager of the company's Textile Division. Mr. Cole will make his headquar ters at the company's plant in Waynesville, and the sales offices at Greenville, South Carolina. ur modetn plant at Waynes ville,' Mr. Freedlander said, has amplified its technical staff so as to provide for the even greater improvement in the quality of pro ducts through research required by textile mills in the southeastern area. Our specialty is the produc tion of rubber and synthetic rub ber products essential for today's fast looms, for spinning frames in the production of many grades and sizes of yarn and for carding ma chines, drawing frames, roving frames and other equipment. "The growth of plants in the southeastern area for an ever wid ening output of products means that each problem is a special one requiring its own blend -ot rubber to give tt ine cnaractensucs de sired,; Dozens of ingredients are often needed.' Blending these to gether in the proper proportion to produce a product of technical ex cellence requires widest expert, ence, knowledge of many differ ent chemicals, rubbers and bond ing agents and constantly new, ever-expanding research." Mr. Cole who grew up in the textile industry as an engineer and is generally regarded as one of the top experts In this field, will travel throughout the southeastern and other areas and direct opera' itons of a large sales force. Day ton Rubber Company's products in the textile field, include the fol lowing: Roll covering, woolen and worsted cots, cot grinders, long draft aprons, rub aprons, conden ser tape, slasher rolls, cone base pads, winder tires and friction discs, products for weave rooms, loop pickers, drop box pickers,) de luxe lug straps, sweet sticks, hold up straps, reversible picker bumpers, spindle rods, frogs and L J. O. COLE, vice-president and 4 regional manager of firm. . ? SongLeaders: Named For : ' ' . : "'; ''v ,:' ' ' .' ' ' ', '". ' Music Event : Tthe county agent's office today announced the names of the com-" munity song leaders for the Com-w munity Development Music Festl- val scheduled for the Waynesville. High School Stadium. - - r The event wil open at 7:30 P. M 5 Charles Isley , director of the high school band, will lead a coun ty-wide - choral concert of up toj 700 .voices in one of the outstahdr ing features of the festival. , . The following have been named song leaders for their respective communities: . . , " . . . Paui TFrankltrt; Fjancis" CoVe: ; Mrs.- Claudia' Lcatherwoody-Jone-than Creek; Pearly Phillips, Rat cliffe Cove; Hack Clark, Thickety; Yoder Clark. Hominy; Noel Fisher, Morning Star; Mrs, Edgar Burnette, Cecil; Mrs. Will Kuykendall, East Pigeon; Jeter Martin, Center Pigeon; the Rev. Clyde Colins, West Pigeon; Robert Fisher, White Oak; Bill West, Beaverdam; R, C. Evans, South Clyde; Mrs. Jack Rogers, Stamey Cove; Mrs. H. p. Franklin, Cove Creek; Mrs. Hurst Burgln, Lake Junaluska; Mrs. C, O. Newell, Upper Crabtree, LSwer Crabtree, and Iron Duff; ? Crawford Sanford, North Cbde; Lester Stockton, Cruso; Mrs. Mark . Ferguson, Fines Creek; . JuniU Hill, Saunook; Mrs. Blanche Frank lin, Allen's Creek; and the Rev. Paul Taylor, Dellwood. Police Made 8 Arrests Last Weekend Waynesvnie'g "crime wave'? over the week-end amounted to barely a ripple. , ; The town's policemen found only eight citizens that needed arrest ing, between Friday night and Sun day night six less than the num ber arrested the preceding week end. . : v.V .. One of the arrestees was jailed on a drunk driving charge. All the others were taken in for pub lic drunkenness. :' Hay wood Farmers Ask For 2 Sets . Of Burley Buyers Members of the Haywood Farm Bureau here Saturday passed a resolution asking that all tobacco companies furnish two sets of buyers at-the Asheville Tobacco market. O. L. Yates, president,' was in charge of the meeting and George Farthing, state representative of the Bureau, discussed the need for two sets of buyers ? on the Asheville market. After, his talkf the resolution. was presented and adopted. v, White Qak Presbyterian Church Building Donated As A Community Center DRE. W. GUDGER The White Oak Presbyterian church is scheduled to be convert ed into a Community center on Thursday of this week. The church building is being deeded by the Presbyterians to the White Oak Community Develop ment Association, and will remain in their name as long as it is used as a community center. . George C Boring, general chair man, said this morning .that be tween $800 and $1,000 would be spent on renovating the building including a new roof. - Some fifteen men are to start work Thursday, and the women of the community are to serve dinner on the grounds for the men. The steeple will be taken off the church, and the bell returned to the Presbyterians. Mr. Boring said that there was approximately $800 .in cash in the treasury, .The group made $401 on a box supper; $200 as third prize in the , Community . Development contest, and $200 from other sources, such as dues, and incident al benefits. .. The community averages 55 per sons per. meeting, and leaders be lieve; attendance will be greatly in creased when the new community center U completed. Specialists To Give, Demonstrations : John Harris, N. C. State College Extension landscape specialist, wul give a series of demonstrations this week in Haywood County. ' His schedule is as follows: - . ' Friday, 1:30 p.m. Home of Mr. and Mrs., Ed Mehaffey,' Hensoo Cove (Pigeon Township); 4 p.m. Home of Mr. and Mrs. Troy Leath erwood, Jonathan Creek.. 1 County Agent Wayne Corpening said in his announcement today that everyone is invited to attend. Commerce Board To Meet At 7:30 Tonight The Board of Directors of the Chamber of Commerce will meet tonight at 7:30 f or r the regular monthly meeting, it was announced by Mrs. Gordon Schenck, secre tary. 1 . A number of summer program projects will come before the at tention of the board. Highway Record For 1950 In Haywood (To Date) Injured .... 18 Killed . . . . 3 (This Information com piled ;from Records of . State Highway Patrol) a