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STANDARD PTG CO Comp 220-230 S First S. LOUSVILLE KT delighls 01 The News The WAY mm Mountaineer TCDAT8 SMIL1! har as advantiio rer whem we to ut to gether." How ? TMr U belter cofnpanjr Uuh I am." Service, Please the touring Haywood rmvrs: dead tired after dav in New York City, into the Empire State led wearily around for a though looking ior some- he approached a unl-1 ittendant and Introduced little tired," he explained, nder if you would mind me to my room. I jusi i- 1 W inuwhftM " i,n to n"u fcome discussion, nowever, iood man was put on the Ll room, it seems, wasn't inpire State Building. fcally because mc iroinre ilding lsn i a noici. Published Twice-A-Week In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park 65th YEAR NO. 67 14 PAGES Associated Press WAYNESVILLE, N. C, MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 21, 1950 d: Leaders lid county has 11 Girl oons right now. ily two of them have lead- officials here face the job the nine other troops bv September'. 1, lone interested In this work to get in touch with Mrs. itkins. idren Must mmunized School flrvin M. Wclr, Haywood health officer, today re parents that their children lhow immunization certlfl- kforc they can be admitted il this term. jutted the state law requiring flrtren to be immunized diphtheria, smallpox and ht much before thev reach k of one year. irinripal or teacher, he add il)ermitted to enroll a child fits not have a certlhcate if. he or she has been im ict against these diseases. health officer explained that lertificates may be obtained from the county health Of- from the family physician. recommended that the lm At ion be done by the family an, though in some cases alth department can handle latter. Jib should be done, he cau- lo protect the child and the Irn with whom he would come tract." Lady Of The Lake 3y' -r s van ?. ft ' " - mom s vJI . 7 'HI Mt MISS LAKE JUNALUSKA of 1950 Is the newly crowned queen, Miss Frances Cobb, of Largo, Fla. Miss Cobb was crowned queen Saturday in a colorful coronation In the auditorium at Lake Juna luska. More than 4,000 people attended the impressive program. The queen was recently elected in the annual popularity election. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Cobb, of Largo, Fla. She will be a senior at Wesleyan College, In Macon, Ga.. this fall. lv (Staff Photol. (See Story on Page 4) Large Crowd Expected X Whisenhunt s Suddenly Home Here iter M. Whisenhunt, 58, farm fan of the Mountain Expert- Station here, died suddenly f home here Sunday after- I native of the Riceville sec- he had been connected with Experiment station 35 years. as at Swannanoa 29 years be - The eleventh annual meeting of j the Haywood Electric Membership Corporation will be held Saturday at the Waynesville Armory. Co-od manager R. C. Sheffield of Weyncsville said In his an nouncement today that the ses sion would open at 10 a. m. A record turn-out is expected. Princapal business on the pro gram will be the submission of the financial progress reports and the election of 11 directors for the next 12 months. Rounding out the session will be an entertainment program, the chntulnff nf films on th use of electricity on the farm and in the District YDC Backs Williams For State Head Final Plans Hade For Mew Term A county-wide meeting of rural leaders and school principals Tues day night will be one of a series of final preliminaries to the open ing of the new school term August 28. County Schools Superintendent Jack Messer, calling the meeting for 7:30 p.m. at East Waynesville School, urged all Parent-Teacher Association officers, chairmen of Community Development Program organizations, and local school committeemen to attend the ses sion for conferences with the school principals. On Thursday, he also announced. 11 the county teachers will meet at the Hazelwood School for dis cussion of matters pertinent to the new school year and the opening of the new term. This one will run from 10 a.m. to approximately 3 p.m. The teachers will take time out about noon to have lunch in the school cafeteria. At the same time, the Haywood education chief said school buses would be Issued drivers outside of the Waynesville district this Fri day, The Waynesville district driv ers will get fheir vehicles on Sat urday. Meanwhile, Mrs. Rufus Siler, supervisor of the school lunch room program, announced that the Waynesville Township High School lunchroom would open for the new term on August 29. All others, she added, would open Sep tember 1. Mr. Messer also said today sev eral extra teachers have been add ed to the county staff to help com pensate for the anticipated Increas ed attendance, some 6,300 students are expected to start the new term In the district schools about 300 above last year' starting lineup. The same principals who served last year will be back again for duty, he added. Referring to the atate ge re quirements fdr school. cbtldrBO, be again reminded parents that chil dren may start grade school this year only If their sixth birthday falls on or before October 1 The principals went to work In School MQonl.e 1! JJf JLtXOvfAlkJ if 4 m if A t s m .. $3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Countiea Open -Event 1,200 Visit Cherokee Drama Sunday Night Wins Flower Show Sweepstakes MISS PASTY EZELL Is "boning" for the coming football season by studying at a school for drum majorettes in West Virginia. Waynesville Elks Lodge 1769, headed by Exalted Ruler Alvln Ward, Is sponsoring her special coursewhich started a week ago for two weeks. (Staff Photo). 2 Highway Patrol Officers To Soon Exchange Posts Cpl. Pritchurd Smith, of the State Highway patrol, will come here September first succeeding Cpl. John. Carpenter who will take up duties in charge of the patrol In Hendersonvllle. " s The announcement Was' made by Sgt. T. A. Sandlin, of Hryson City. "The two men are exchanging posts," Sgt. Sandlin said, "al though, Cpl. Smith is actually liv ing in Asheville, his work is in August 14 to prepare school bus Hendersontllle." routes, book assignments, and oth-1 rjpl. Carpenter ca me here a lit er details, I tic more than a year ago. Col. moving to Waynesville when I home, and the presentation of fat ion was established here in He was a member of the f Baptist church. Ineral services will be con- d tomorrow at 11 a. m. in f Hie Presbyterian church with pastor, the Rev. W. M. Hyde, ating. five pallbearers will be Ken- OBarr, Neal Duvall, Robert Howard Bryson. Eugene h, and Dewey Henson. n0rW pallbearers will be Dr. ler Shaw, Dr. Boyd Owen, Dr. toivard, Dr. J. M. Buchner, Thomas. Prof S. C. ClaDO. f l,. Clapp and H. R. Clapp. rviving are the widow, Mrs ) Koberts Whisenhunt; two Ray Whisenhunt, assistant agent of Ash eountv. and Pl.d Whisenhunt of the home; daughters, Mrs. Phil Queen, Katherine Duval and the ;es Dorothy and Alice Whlsen- an of Waynesville. and Mrs. Pice Carroll of Lynchburg, Va.; I orotners, Dudley Whisenhunt PWannanna onH William Whls. I"nt of Colorado- a sister Mrs. . .. . F - i. Koberts of Swannanoa and f grandchildren. awards. Mr. Sheffield also said arrange ments are being made with local merchants to hold an electrical ap pliance show In conjunction with the meeting. This would serve to familiarize the Co-op members with the latest models of equipment now avail able. Plans also will be discussed, Mr. Sheffield added, to bring electric service to as many rural people in the remote areas as possible. Recently, the organization laun ched a new $670,000 construction program aimed to carry electric service to 1,250 farms and non agricultural institutions, like schools, churches, and small industries. Provision also has been made ior re-Dhasing the system's main trunk lines, boost substation capacity, in- ciaii coptinnalizine switches ana other new equipment, and build a new headquarters near waynes ville. (See REA Page 8) The sVeath FAIR nily cooler Monday and Tues- fT!:.t ... MLldl WflVnoeulUA inmnAra. 1 -? corded by the staff of the IT est rarin): ' 85 58 .... o -81 56 .... Z 83 56 .15 u 77 - 62 Officers and executive commit tee members of all Young Demo cratic Clubs in the 12th District, held a dinner meeting on Friday night at the Lodge in Waynes ville. Cole Cogburn, of Canton, Dis trict chairman, presided. The purpose of this meeting was to formulate plans for the' State YDC Convention which will be held in Asheville, September 14, 15 and 16th with the 12th District as hosts. Tom Garrison, Jr., prominent young Asheville attorney, is chair man of this affair, which promises to be one of the outstanding events of the season. Upon a motion made by Senator Wm. Medford of the Haywood Club, and seconded by Bob Sloan of Ma con Club, the 12th District repre sentatives unanimously endorsed Rnhert It. Williams. Jr., of Ashe ville for State President. Williams has been active in the YDC for a number of years and has served as district chairman as well as western organizer. Represented at the meeting were officials and delegates of YDC or ganizations from Henderson, Cher okee, Graham, Clay, Macon, Jack son, ' Swain, Transylvania, Bun combe and Haywood counties. Painters and carpenters are put ting the finishing touches on their repair work, painting, and general clcan-up. Smith is in, his early thirties, mar ried and has one daughter. He has een with the patrol for a number of years, and has been stationed in several of the mountain counties. 'Buddy Wright Missing In Action In Korean War On July 27, Buddy Wright, writ ing In his fox-hole on the South Korean front, wrote a letter to his mother In Waynesville saying he missed sweets most of all. That was the last letter Mrs. Eugene Wright received from her son. Last Friday, she received a tele gram from the Army Department, saying he has been missing in ac lion since July 29, two days after he wrote the letter. The 18-year-old soldier, whose legal name is Charles B Wilson,' was in action with the 24th divi sion, which has been bearing the brunt of the fighting against the North Korean Communists. During the action, a Life photog rapher took pictures of a combat patrol moving up a Korean road. One of the soldiers was either Buddy or someone who could have been his twin brother. Mrs. Wright wrote a letter to the magazine asking for identification. She has not yet received a reply, but she Is convinced the soldier in the picture was Buddy. Hundreds Of Beautiful Flowers Color Clyde Show Mrs. Devoe Medford last Thurs day won the top honor in ine viyue Flower Show, sho was presented a beautiful loving cup after she was judged the winner of the snows sweep stakes. ' ... Mrs. C. E. Brown, Jr., ana mrs. Curtis Rogers tied for honorable mention. - . The Parent-Teachers Associa tion was judged the winner of the club division. The Clyde Future Homemakers of America placed second, and the Clyde Home Dem onstration Club finished third in that division, v The P-TA was awarded a plaque for its beautiful entry. urn. Medford. in gaining the grand' prize, placed first in two' divisions, and second In three oth ers. The Show, exhibiting hundreds of beautiful arrangements and in dividual specimens, attracted large throngs to the Clyde School Gym nasium. The successful evept was spon sored by the Clyde Woman's Club. Serving as Judges were Mr. and Mrs. W. Sherrod McCall, Mrs Harry Lutz, and" Miss Nancy Kll lian. The results: V Sweepstakes won by Mrs. De voe Medford; Mrs. C. E. Brown, Jr., and Mrs. Curtis Rogers, hon orable mention; Club Entry won by Parent- Teachers Association; 2 Clyde (See Clyde Pate 8) Beta Sigma Phi's Final Summer Dance Saturday Beta Sigma Phi's final danre nf the summer season will be held Saturday night at the Piedmont with Eva Boatwright and her orchestra playing. The dancing will be done from 9 P. M. to 1 A. M. The profits from these summer dances will help, pay for the lunches the sorority provides for many of Haywood County's underprivileged school children during the year Miss Edna Summerrow, Beta Sigma's president, is general dance chairman. A caravan of more than 175 autos carried approximately 1,200 Masons and members of their families to the Cherokee Drama last night. The trip to the Pageant featur ed the opening program of the an nual Suhimer Assembly of the Grand Council, Royal and Select Masters of North Carolina here. The visitors and their hosts of the Waynesville Masonic bodies left the Waynesville Armory be hind their police escort of Town Policeman Jerry Rogers and State Highway Patrolman Joe Murnll early In the evening for the trip to Cherokee. Local observers described It as the largest motorcade ever as sembled In Haywood county. Today, another trip to another scenic spot Is planned for the Masons and their guests. At 2:00 p. m. a scenic motor trip will be formed in front of the Armory and proceed to the Ma sonic Marker at Black Camp Gap. This monument to Cryptic Mason ry was conceived and erected by Most Illustrious Companion T, Troy Wyche, Past Grand Master of the Grand Council of North Caro lina. It was dedicated In 1938 by Most Worshipful Thomas J. Hark- ens, Past Grand Master of Masons In North Carolina. The public Is cordially Invited. Most Illustrious Companion Os car T. Hawkc, Grand Master of the Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters of Ohio will make the ad dress after the picnic dinner. On Monday evening at 8:00 p.m in the First Presbyterian Church of Waynesville, a Masonic address will be delivered by the Reverend and Eminent Sir Knight Marvin W Chapman, pastor of the First Bap tlst Church of Franklin. ' The public is cordially Invited to this service. Charles L. Islcy will be In charge of the music. They'll leave In another motor cade from the Armory at 1:30 p. m. Tuesday tit a pHrfttc flf TfleTlhk Beds in the Plsgah Forest. All Masona and members of the Order of the Eastern Star arc In vited on this excursion. Arrangements workers urged all planning to attend to be at the Armory with full picnic baskets by 12:30 p. m. Anyone wishing to have baskets called for at their home Is ad vised to phone Mrs. Joe Liner at 369-W. In the event of rain, the picnic will be held at 1:30 p. m. at the Armory. For information in regard to bas kets, please call the basket com mittee of Mr. William Chambers, Jr., D. F. Whitman, R. M. Flo, and C. H. Metcalfe. There will be no need to include (See Masons Pate 8 I I .... tz 1 WALTER TALIAFERRO won th sweepstakes prize at the second annual Flower Show sponsored by the Richland Garden Club here last week. He Is a rising senior at St. John's, and the son of Mrs. Janie I-ove Mitchell Taliaferro, (Staff Photo). Evangelism Conference Opens At Lake Junaluska J. M. LONG AT HOME J. M. Long, who has been re ceiving treatment at Norburn Hos pital, Asheville, for Injuries receiv ed In a fall two weeks ago, Is now convalescing at his home on the Country Club Drive. Haywood Baptists To Meet 22-23 The 65th annual meeting of the Haywood Baptist Association will meet Tuesday and Wednesday with the Spring Hill, Sunny Point, and Mount Zion Churches. The announcement of the pro gram was made today by the Rev. M. L. Lewis, Association moderator who is pastor of the Hazelwood Church. Other officers are M. C. Wyatt, vice-moderator; Mrs. Award Cad dis, clerk; and Neal Webb, treasurer. Mother Of Mrs. W. Curtis Russ Taken By Death Saturday Mi's. Foster Bennett. 80, mother pLMrs. Wv CitilW RtiMvtVWwM ville, died early Saturday morning at her home In Hendersonvllle, fol lowing a heart attack suffered i few hours earlier. She had not been ill previously, Mrs. Bennett, a native of Greene ville, Tennessee, was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Carter- She was the oldest member of the First Baptist Church In Hender- sonville in point of years of con tinuous membership. Her husband is a well-known lumber and build ing supply dealer. Funeral services were conduct ed Sunday afternoon in the First Baptist Church at Hendersonvllle with the Rev. D. H. Daniel, pastor and the Rev. B. E. Wall of Ches. ler, S. C, and the Rev. Broadus Jones of Raleigh, former pastors. officiating. Interment was In Oak dale Cemetery. Pallbearers were Noah Holh well, J. M. Stewart, Allard Gar ren, C. T. Jervis, W. B. Sinclair, and J. J. Jenkins. Surviving, in addition to the husband, are a son, Roy C. Ben nelt, Sr., of Hendersonvllle; three daughters. Miss Myrtle Bennett and Mrs. Hoy Tillolson of Hendcr sonviile, and Mrs. Russ; six grand children; and one great-grandchild Haywood's Touring Farm Families Return Home Chamber Of Commerce Stays Open Late The Chamber of Commerce is staying open late through most of the week to take care of the in creased volume of summer visit ors travelling In this section. Mrs. Gordon Schenck, Chamber secretary, reminded tourist facility operators today that the office re mains open until 9 p.m. every Tues day, Wednesday, Thursday and Fri-, terry. No serious injury or sick- By M ,T. BRIDGES 4 Staff Correspondent The 186 participants that loft last Monday on the 1800-mile Farm Tour, returned to Waynesville late Sunday night after having seen some of the wonders of the eastern seaboard in their week-long jour ney. The trip was not hampered by any serious trouble, the only hm- derance to the four large buses and seven private cars, came Friday when one of the buses burned out a clutch across the bay from Nor folk and had to be pushed to the celery, onions, and other vegetables i matter Farm Leaders To Seek Extra Buyers For Burley Mart A group of farm leaders from Western North Carolina burley growing counties left today to try to obtain a second set of buyers for the Asheville tobacco market next season. Haywood Farm Bureau President Oral Yates of Iron Duff said before he left that he and the other mem bers of the party would confer in Washington and New York on the Two bishope preachad from the Junaluska Assembly pulpit Sun day. ' They were Bishop Paul B Kern, of Nashville, Tennessee, and Bishop Clare Purcell, of Birmingham, Ala bama- ' The Sunday acrvlces launched Matter MthwM eMif-rpif at this church center. A Conference on Evangelism, featuring methods, lectures, and evangelistic preach-ing. The ensuing week will also in clude a meeting of the College of Bishops of the Southeastern Juris diction of The Methodist Church. Bishop Roy H. Short, of Jack- sbnvUle, Florida, is president of the Southeastern Episcopal Col lege. During their sitting the lush ops will appbint delegates to the prfroacMlng Methodist Unimeti- Ical Conference which will meet in Oxford, England in Srptembor. This Is a decennial gathering of Methodists from all parts of the . World. Dr. John W. Shackf ord, of New port News, Virginia, delivered the closing address, Friday night of a Conference on Christian fcduca tlon which opened here on the nih of August. Speaking on ' Chris tian Education for Whom and For What," Dr. Shackforcl expressed the opinion that Protestant! ha-l depended too much on pulpit preaching and not cnoimh on Christian education through var ious channels of creating p'lblte opinion, including the home, ele mentary schools and i-tiU'.tions of higher education. . The Rev. Mr. Dawson Bryan, ot the national Board of Evangelism at Nashville, will speak daily at 9:30 a. m. during the Coufaranc on Evangelism. Other speakers arc: Bi hop Pur cell, programmed for 11 a in. and 8 p. m Monday; the Rev. 1). Clov.s Chapell of Nashville; Dr. Leonard Cochran, Columbia, Ga., and Dr. Jesse N. Bader ot New York. day; and until midnight or 12:30 a.m. every Saturday. She asked tourist court operators to contact the Chamber of Com merce whenever they are unable to accommodate visitors. - Escorts will be provided to take out-of-town guests returning from the drama to the places where they are to stay. ness was reported Some of the largest and best farms of this country were visited by the group: These farms con sisted of some of the finest beef and dairy cattle this writer has had the privilege of seeing. The group visited large vege table tracts in the muck section of New Jersey, and saw acres of growning on land that had recently been reclaimed and put into culti vation in the marshy section. Also one of the largest dairies in the northern section was visited by the group. At Plainesboro, N. J., the Walker-Gordon Company was visited, where the party saw the Rotolactor in operation. This mod ern machine looks like a merry-go-round and the cows are placed on a revolving disc. When they have completed their cycle they have been milked. This particular dairy milks 1650 cows three times a day and getting an average of 26,000 quarts per day. : The Haywood group moved onto the Del-Mar-Va peninsula, where they Saw some of the largest poul try flocks In this country. On one section of range for the broilers there were 125,000 birds. The group saw the process of raising He said the Western North Caro lina men would discuss the situa tion with U. S- Rep. Monroe Red den of Hendersonville and J. E. Thigpen, head of the U. S. De partment of Agriculture's tobacco branch. Tuesday. Then they would go to New York for a meeting with J. H. Blount, an executive of the Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company on Wednesday. In the near future, he added, a delegation would get together with American Tobacco Company ef ficials at Durham for the same purpose. Mr. Yates, Democratic candidate i for state representative from Hay-' wood, pointed out that the R." J. j Reynolds Company of Winston-1 Salem was the only major tobacco firm which had two sets of buyers at last season's burley market. Among those making the trip CALLED TO OHIO S. A. Furtrcl and J. W. Robin were called to Toledo tin; morr.ms on account of the death of tneir sister. Mrs. Rosa Gilbert. She died suddenly at her home lata Sunday night. these chickens from the egg to th with Mr. Yates today were George (Re Farm Tour Page 8) (bee uurley rage Highway Record For 1950 In Haywood (To Date) Injured . . . 21 Killed ..... 5 (This Information, com piled from , Records of 'State Highway Patrol) i: ,,: r-; . i t. : i