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f TWO (iecuiid Scciiou) THE WAYNESVILLE MGlWTAIXEEIt Monday Afternoon, Juue 2tj, 195 i i ; i i 4 H Or lit: IS!: 'ft' ? 1 f HI i H;'t t. TIF. I IOUNTAINEER 00 1"'a Street Phone Waynesville, North Carolina Tie County Seat of Haywood County Published ?y WAYNESVILLE PRINTING CO. triCURTlS RUSS : Editor W. Curtis Russ and Marion T. Bridges. Publishers PUEtT- ITSSYimDAT AXn THURSDAY On0 Tfesr Si;yonfh;i: lUpVOOD COUNTY One T Si""M NORTH CAROLINA Year On ftVISJD litoRTH CAROLINA S3 00 1:75 $4 00 2.23 $4.50 2.50 Attered at he oftst office at Wavnesvtlle. N. C. as Sec- end Iflasi "Maif jtatter, 'as provided under the Act ot MBTTH fl879. November1. , 1SU' ' " ' ' Jbrtuary notices, resolutions ot resDect. card of thanks. and all 'ftcnicc of 'entertainment for profit, will be charged far a tg rate twq cents cr word. " I MMBEEI 0$ TU5 ASSOCIATED PRESS jTh Associate Press is entitled exclusively to the use F VPMKaun of air the local news printed ln; this newsisaf erji 'ai' well' as all Ap news dispatches.' ir.'-.i.iiia 'Monday Afternoon, June 26, 1950 displaced Credit 1 Unfortunately all the publicity corning oit of Washington about the proposed visit of President Truman in this area on the com ietiqn' pi the Parkway to Asheville does not t lj the cpniilete story. It would appear that President Truman reacbly accepted the invitation the minute th'e, proposal was made last week by repre sentatives of this state and Virginia, with some secretaries of large city chambers of commerce attending. ' '. The truth of the matter, due credit for Mr. Trurnan coming should be given the N. C. Park Commissipn, Senator Graham, Senator Hoey, Congressman Redden, Western North Carolina Associated Communities, State Highway and Public Works Commission, especially. These, together with II. Getty Browningj have had the proposed program in mind for a long time. In fact, their files are literally bulging with letters and information compiled for the event Right at the 'crdcial moment, some other ran in, and made the headlines. Those who have worked so hard for 1 this project all these years will know of this edi torial in their defense when they read it. The , credit is theirs, and when Mr. Truman cames to Western North Carolina, those who have been roaster-planning the program all the while should be on the front seat. White Oak Sets to do A Job Under last Thursday's hot sun was not a time one would term an ideal day to work on ' a tin roof all day, especially when there was no pay day coming for the labor. The heat, and absence of money did not stop 15 men in White Oak from tackling the job, and beginning the initial step in provid ing for the 60 families in their neighborhood a community center. The 26 by 40 foot Presbyterian church, hav ing been acquired, is being converted into a model community house, with every conven ience that will make it the ideal meeting place for a long, long time. The people of White Oak, realizing a need for their own welfare, and community life, started out on an objective, and with that brand of determination that succeeds, they have the project well along. White Oak is not a rich community, as far as monetary values are concerned. But neith er did that prove to be an obstacle for the de termined citizens. They have worked hard, and by having a common goal, cooperated on the one plan that has enabled them to start the project with "cash-in-hand." There is a lesson which can be learned from this group of civic-minded, and indust rious citizens of the rural community some 15 miles from town they approached their community needs in a practical and whole some manner. They decided their needs, then went to work on ways and means to acquire what they wanted. Within a short time their finished project will speak for itself, and be proof on that high hill overlooking the area for miles around that success comes to those who work hard enough to deserve it. Theyll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo XH A CLOSET . V-OTUS WILL J? MAN 6 TWO SUTS-r- SHUN TWE OUP OKZ- . ONE OLD-THE " IT'S THE-KEW ONE - OTHER NEW- v : THAT THEY'LL CHEW! Uf aHI nstJJXI i-T lm- WOULD ICHT SKfKVVP-- -T -:- " ;-V'A?C-Ji Lo(MngBq&QverThe Years 15 YEARS AGO Twenty-two persons from Hay wood County leave for convention of Young Democrats in Raleigh. Guitar made by George Miller unique piece of native hand work.' is They AH Say So. An Associated Press dispatch from Wash ington brings the fact that Uncle Sam has readied his camping grounds for a record crowd of vacationers this season. ? A. E; Demaray, associate director of the National Park Service, estimates that more than 33 million will visit the country'V 181 national parks, monuments and historic areas during 1950. ; , ; . This is in -keeping with the general belief for some time, and the fact that nipre than a iriillion and ' a half, people visited the Park, and also a' like number id Pisgah Forfest last ' yar,Thisputsj us rx a, position of becoming tw iSnb of acty;ty this season.' Our, readers haVe seen this statement in these '.columns bef)ret but we still maintain that 1950 will be the biggest tourist season in oir history. , . A Political Year From Every Angle Politics and moral issues can often create some interesting situations. And in many in stances, makes for some combinations that are sometimes called "strange bed fellows." Since early spring, the Democrats of this state have been in the middle of a heated campaign. Thejirst primary held on May 27th brought, to a climax a majority of the races in the counties and districts Many harsh things were said between some opponents. Then came the, second primary on last Sat urday. The issues were keen, and many things were said, and perhaps some things done that can be attributed to a heated campaign; Now the Democrats, with' their primaries over, have tossed away all differences, and are out to meet their common foe in the No vember general election. Prior to that time, howevefthere 'will be another election here in Haywood. On August 12th the voters of this county will decide on whether to continue to retain the law for the . legal sale of wine and beer, or do away with the existing laws. In that election the wets and" drys will carry? their respective torches, regardless of political affiliation. Then after the; beer and wine vote, the party lines will again be tightly drawn, and the ground, work set for the November gener al election. . It looks as if 1950 will go down in history as a year of elections. Walter Herbert, associate direc tor of Lake Junaluska Music Camp, speaks to Rotarians. Angus C. Craft, manager of the Hotel Gordon, places $600 in ad vertising . with papers throughout the South. Soco-Cherokee started. 10 YEARS AGO Road survey is Alvin T. Ward assumes office as president of the Lions Club. Parking on Main Street is lim ited to 30 minutes. Miss Thomasine Stringfield leaves for visit to friends in New York City and to her sister, Mrs. John Allen, in Burlington, Vt. Mrs. Frank Bradshaw gives birthday party for her daughters at her home in the Iron Duff sec tion. 5 YEARS AGO Thirteen Guernsey cattle are bought by Haywood dairymen at the second promotional sale, Earl Scruggs leases former the atre building in Hazelwood to open up-to-date cafe. "... Pvt. Ernest Rogers arrives from German prison. Sgt. Ben Atkins arrives in Mi ami after completing a tour of duty In the Pacific theatre. Rambling 'Round - Bits Of Human Interest News By Frances Gilbert Frazier It will probably come as a dis tinct shock to you, but the fact re mains that one week from tomor row is the Fourth of July. One sudden jump and it's Labor Day. Then we'll all be agreeing that the street lights and the decorated Christmas tree on the Courthouse lawn were never so beautiful. Tempus sure does fugit! If all our eood intentions were built into a ' ladder, we could climb up to the Pearly Gates In a hurry.' '"'' Heard in passing: "I'm so mad at her about what she said about me that I never want to see her igain. Oh oh! Here she coines now. Let's wait and see what gossip she has about somebody else." "I WILL" Is the' magio key that opens the most Intricate lock. '''" '" The ballots have all been count ed, the successful candidate named and another Election has gone into history. How hio.i . ' "c "e 111 iree country J we can mark our ballot. to our viewpoint and nS point of , bayonet dire""' where to make our mark. We wonder If We.d tf completely happy if "J wishes were grautcd. He didn't like tiig J picnic he particularly didn't !to to this one and he didn't fik ' deal of satisfaction "" "iiiis awiuie So h, tied down in his ea.y chair; fascinating detective'" storv was soon brought back to'r. j ...-j -ihc. voice "Ail Tnhn nt . . . nU uaneis. ere going Xq picnic at Jim Jones' barn" Jones' barn.'by the wajMcin .1...!. Hum iuwn and road! on a When hands are Idle the works overtime. ' Letters to flie EdUm mi Capital Letters By EULA NIXON GREENWOOD Editor's note The views and tool as President and a Catholic of opinions expressed in this column Wall Street as Comptroller, the are those of the author, and not necessarily those of this news paper. APigCqmpajgri Tuesday night will qiark the conclusion of the month-long observance here' oi Dairy Month. ; '"' ""' : Haywood is keenly aware of dairying, as is means something like a million dollars year income to farmers who own and oper ate the 83 grade A dairies in the county. The parade, free ice cream, bankers milk ing cows on the. court house lawn, and the an nual picnic has all been focused in such a way as to make the average citizen even more aware of the importance of dairying. STORE CLOSINGS The trend to shorter hours is not confined to State departments in North Carolina. Most of you can remem ber when your favorite trading places stayed open until all hours . . . or as long as there was any body around to buy anything or to talk to. In the .larger cities now, the N. C. Merchants Association finds, stores open around 9:30 and close about 5:30. As a general rule.all employers are providing their clerks with at least one after noon off each week. In most cases this is Wednesday. The old NRA and Hugh Johns&n started the early closings at night, good business during and since World War II pushed along the movement, and now even the smaller communities' stores are open only about two- thirds the time, they were 20 years ago. MIRROR OF YOUR MiND By LAWRENCE GOULD Consulting Psychologist not pretended; that they occur ' only in men who are somehow "abnormal"; that deliberate ma lingering is common; that a suf ferer from neurotic illness will never get well; and worst of all, that neurot s can be made into ef fective fighicrs by being calloj "yellow" or punished. Are yea responsible for your mate's moods? Not always, at any Aamrer: rte. But you may prefer to believe yeu are, even though it makes you tw&mfortable. If, let's say, your ftnt reaction to seeing your hus band looking depressed is "What eai I have don$ hurt him ypu soay be reacting with a sense of guilt to an unconscious wish to do 0, but it's, also possibly that you wish to believe you are so over whelmingly important to him that auiy enotion he has must some bow involve you. Yet much goes en in the jminds of those we love best that has nothing to do with us. Does tlje Army understand " "x ' neurotks? " ' '" Answer: It learned a good deal kabout them in World War II, but Dr. David M. Banen in The Mili tary Surgeon lists several false , ideas which are still too commonly i held. Among these are: that neu rotic reactions are intentional, it Should you always "say what you think"? Answer: Certainly not. You may find yourself in situations in which you hear someone say things which you vigorously dis agree with and feel that it would be untrue to yourself and your own convictions not to "speak up" and oppose them. But unless there is a real chance that you can con vert the other person to your way thinking '(which Is seldom tie case) you will only get yourself disliked, and do' no good to any body. If you can't keep quiet, some such question as "How V you know that?" may possibly be effective. v-"- - Voice of the People University had, indeed, gone con; servative . " 'If I were to stop or to stoop to answer Mr. rreidstaqt, said Mr. Carmichael, 'I would say that Gor don Gray and I are not conserva tives but preservatives, and we will devoje the rest of our active lives to preserving the things that have made America great and to keeping our University true to the faith of pur fathers and mothers and the ; hope of our sons and daughters. '"'Neither radical nor reaction ary will ever control the University of North Carolina . . TOWARD $700,000 The Bap. tists finally voted not to accept the $700,000' from the Federal Govern ment to build at their hospital in Winston-Salem a wing. They said thej(-wpuld prefer to raise the money!' that they did not want- to accept any handouts from Uncle Sam, and that they are tired of having the old boy peep over their shoulders every time any big pro ject comeS along. People are ap parently getting rather fed up with Government interference . . . but they love Federal money . . . and it is hard to have one with out the other. So, the Baptists are now setting quotas for all the churches in the State as a step toward raising the $700,000. This will require some time, but at least when the addition is built it will be by the Baptists and not with Federal money collected from taxpayers who thought their taxes were being used to operate ' the Government.- . . ; SHAPPARD J. A. Shappard of Wilson was set two weeks ago to accept employment with the N C. Merchants Association as field representative in the southwestern section of North Carolina . . . and on Monday, June 12, was to meet R. B. Tomlinson, Association Field Secretary, at the bus station at Sai)ford to begin his training pro gram. ' ' On Saturday, June 10, he tele phoned the Association that he had made another connection . . but Tomlinson, out on the road could not be notified that his man would not be in Sanford to meet him. He was at the bus station as planned and had Shappard called on" the, public address sys tem. No Shappard. He called again that afternoon, but still no Shap pard. ; At 6 o'clock, he had completed his day's work and went around to the bus station. This time Shap pard was present. But it was R. W. Shappard of Route 2, Sanford. Tomlinson talked to this Shappard . only to find after two or three "PRESERVATIVES" Miss Nell Battle Lewis writes a column . . . and has for years ".. .'. in the Ra leigh News and Observer. She loves the University of North Carolina and now lives in Chapel Hill. In a recent column she quotes Uni versity Comptroller W. D. Car michael's statement to the General Alumni Association at the com mencement: "Gordon Gray's ac ceptance of the presidency of the University is the greatest thing for the State that has happened since the Revolutionary War." - Miss Lewis was intrigued by the statement and she went to Car chimael for more as follows: "About Mr. Gray' said Mr. Car michael, . he wanted to warn the alumni. The University's 'Red Badge of Courage' and chief brag- gadocian Communist Hans Freid- stadt, a graduate student in physics who has now departed, recently re peated what he had previously pub lished in a little' sheet he got out from time to time, i.e., that "what with a tobacco tycoon and Truman What, in your opinion, is the most attractive feature of the sec tion around Waynesville? Herbert Singletary: The friend liness of the people. A TRIBUTE TO GEORGE II. S.MATHERS Editor The Mountaineer: . The news of the death of George H. Smathers, formerly of Waynes ville, brings to mind an incident which I wish to put on record as a tribute to the memory of this man of high character whom I have known since I was a mere 1 After my father's death in. the spring of 1913, during my vacation at home that summer, I set to work to collect his law books, which were scattered in the offices of var ious lawyers in Waynesville. When Mr. Smathers heard of ' this, he sent me a message that he had a number of these books and that he wanted me to come to his office. When I called on him, he point ed to a shelf of law books set aside from the others and said -"Those are all of your father's books that ! have and I wish' io purchase them. They are North Carolina Supreme Court Reports of the 1880'S and 90's and they contain records of land title ' settlements going far back. I am specializing in " legal eiauve 10 land titles in j em North Carolina and these pons nave Deen of great pi to me and will be in future vl 1 wm giaaiy pay you for theml ' The price he named was si oeyond what J expected that I he was setting it very high, haps too high. He answered these State Reports were Ion of print and could only be boi wnen some deceased lawvw'i rcame on the market, and ne was offering what he thuj that they were worth, The added "Besides all this, I Used them over a good years, and I feel that I reaiiy to pay you more than market price, and you must the money" and so I had to This incident reveals clearlvl integrity of my father's old fr George H. Smathers. I publi: as a tribute to his memory. EUGENE W. GUDGE! New York City. Geological Survey North Carolina was the state (1823) to undertake a (eo cat survey. i Mrs. C. G. Medford; The home in the sections" between Waynes ville and Hazelwood. Mary Lee Elwood; The way the mountains look different every day. They are ever changing.' Mrs. gah. W. E. Carter: Mount Pis- Mrs. Joe Massie: Lake Junaluska. Mrs. Fisher Sprinkle: The friend ly people and the mountains. a Shappard, biit not the right one. This new Shappard, however, was interested in coming with the N. C. Merchants Association as field rep resentative He went to Raleigh to see about the position which he had stumbled onto by being named Shappard. The day after he made application, Walter H. Paramore, secretary of the Henderson Chamber of Com merce and- Merchants Association, resigned that position. Having been editor and reporter on 'papers at Plymouth, Raleigh, and having operated merchants organizations in Wliiteville-and Fuquay Springs, he was given the job. - On Monday -'.morning,.-.. June 19, Paramore met Tomlinson at the bus station in ; Sanford to begin work. There being no other Para- MARCH OF EVENTS ' 1 ' I: Senator Toft . mores at the station, no major dif- stops and starts that he had foundilculties were encountered. ' THE ANT EATER Bi-Partisan Fore'gn Policy I Taft's Answer to Preside Is Undergoing Final Split ( To iMake It Campaign Isid Special to Central Press WrASHINGTON The ReDublican reDlv to President Truman, w livered by Senate GQK Policy Leader Taft. of Ohiois general interpreted as marking the final split in the bi-partisan foreign poll Thus, the politicos point out, foreign policy becomes a campei issue up and down the nation in the 1950 congressional fight, n the first time since" World War II; the foreign policy issue emerged into the open1 with the chips falling ward the ballot boxes. Taft drew' up the battle lines when he came sauarelv with the charge that the Truman adml istration, and the Roosevelt administration befi It,' made possible a third world war. GOLD -The United States cold-mining industi j is considerably irked at the government-and tl Treasury in Darticular. The industry has come to a slow boil over tt fact that although the world market price of g is considerably higher than that fixed oy t Treasury, it can only sell for home consumption! . To get the higher price, the gold industry pi . ' poses to take two steps: (1) proceed agamsi government in the courts to determine the right of gold produc to sell their product anywhere, and (2) try to get the Treasury revamp its regulations to pay higher United States prices. ' SMALL A-BOMBS Development of small, "baby" atomic bomt has heightened the military possibilities of the weapon. i Whpro tnrtirinna In thflir nlnnninn- npovlouslv had to "COnSefl ' -- - way- , f r " ' f . ammunition" because a one-punch blow might miss, they can n plan a "saturation pattern" as employed in the bombing of N Germany. . Such a plan would still use up a critical number of bombs but i chances of vital hits would be greater because of the recogn theorem that it is impossible to stop every bomber from g" through to the target. fast fighter bombers interception of which is much more than of the comparatively slow heavy bombers used to carry i big bombs. - ...J ' , 'I : . a , , A I M I d r.ti...rvr. m.'. f(t.J Ct s.m will nlSV S tOU hand in its aid to southeast Asia despite the urgency of saving i dm rnmic TVo., mm ha trin?s" attached 1 1 A u 1 f .. V American aia. v .mi . . . . . ..... it.. tn Bllt SUCn COUH oLdie uepartmem omciais xeei mai. vne r-- j gutl tions on assistance to China caused the collapse of the United -i "ifX JhC?U?tr? ... ' . .n,lt that H vviui iiiai ueoacie in minu, mis cuuiiiijr eoveii administrators help the Indo-Cblna, Indonesia and Burma g i ments m making use of projected American am iu . ci, American assistance The administration ; United States probably will insist upon reforms n i -.istration of the southeast Asia countries as a requirem lean assistance. :' . .- . .J NEW FLYING TIGERS A new "air force" of volunteer w n pilots may be fighting for Chiang Kai-shek by midsu mn.c - Mc fcivuL, retailing me lamcu riyu.& nnrted thai will H For Chin davsj is Called the International Air Brieade. It is re airmen have enrolled and that the brigade has finan cial backing from the Chinese Nationalist' govern ment.": -. '; : 1A5 reportedly is dedicated to fighting Commu nism everywhere, but the Chinese financial influence i.. ...... .... . - . , .i ln inaicaies mat tney will do tneir nrsi ngnuns . .anst Far East, where Chiang is making a last-ditch stand ag forces. . -., . . : m The brigade is seeing assuranc( that it e" - fl,n equipment out of the United" states wunooi ,- may hit a shoal, as United States policy has been C,1BU";" , j sny sanction of a non-federal military force to fig" s M natiojC'ven' sr-hdstneT'dnir --"-. -"v I