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delights Of The News Mice Business . ,wks ag. Clyde Ray yautitul antique lamp. , 1(1 his stock, put a tag ; ,ent about his daily av nwrning a local cus f banking about the me lamp. Admired it, ,0 another part of the i4ov.T the stock. ; it a visitor, saw the lamp, ,on sdmired it. In fact, :m ma'- t hey bought it. nty r reached the street. .wtomer. who was un- transaction, announc- rjv: "I II take mat lamp I inspecting. can you b81 that tw0 wanting the same item, e time,. and me with only ausl. . jsville To Tokyo ho receive their The Mountaineer neatly l fresh as they come from mav be glad to know tnai Mrs. Jack Douglas Moore mil soon be in the same nation. ot the Moores sent them , and used old pages of ItainetT for wrapping and When the letter of thanks jt only acknowledged the of the box, but the The Moores had care- aged every page, spread til as flat as was possible ir trip, and read every Mr friends have entered merr subscription to go the Moores in Tokyo. linen Eat, Too Mi! ago while awarding iters to members of the II teams at Waynesville Iwl. Coach Carl Ratcliffe it Carroll Swanger was a it who participated in all iris offered at the school I basketball, and baseball, does he participate, but lirst team in all three, fems that Carroll's inter- liiile varied. her night he and his cous- ulw is incidently his fcl- iiaik in football and is on iiall team too4 were very l in the undertaking of cake. Everyone -who sum cake said that it was one N they had tasted lately, had no help, either. ned aprons, mixed the in and baked it. The only ley wouldn't do was wash WAYN r ESYILLE M INEER 66th YEAR NO. 38 16 PAGES Jbhshed TwiccAAVeek In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountain National TODAY'S SMILE A boss b nan who late when yoa air early, and early when yon are late. Associated Press WAYNESVILLE, N. C, THURSDAY AFTERNOON $200,000 Land Suit Being Tried In Court Indications today were that the $200,000 land lawsuit now being tried in the civil term of court here, would require all this week and two days next week. The suit j got underway after noon Wednes day, and after the jury was drawn, ! the lawyers entered in the technic al opening phases of the case of Davey Tree Company vs the State Highway Commission, The suit envolves 1.290 acres of property from Soco Gap towards Balsam Gap. which would be the right-of-way for the Blue Ridge Parkway. The Davey Tree Com pany is asking $200,00 for the prop erty, and damages sustained to ad joining property. Attornies for the Davey Tree concern point out that several tracts, of 500 and 800 acres each, are isolated from the main tract by the right-of-way. Judge J. A. Rousseau is presid ing at the term, which convened here Monday morning. The law firm of Morgan and Ward, together with George H. Ward, of Asheville, is representing the defendants, while W. Roy Fran cis, and Frank Ferguson are assist ing R. Brooks Peters, general coun sel for the State Highway and Pub lic Works Commission. On Monday morning the court heard a number of non-contested divorce cases. Then the case of Sawyer, vs Southern Railway, a $30,000 suit, was non-suited. No recovery was made in the case of McElroy vs Shuler, which was the uotgrowth of an automobile wreck. Mountain & N, MAY Park -n 1951 $3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Countiat Local Men Meet On Korean Battlefield jr Brightens Things ncident calls to mind the quilting parties at least Us were the same. It goes i? like this: Ihb'or out in Hazelwood had 'k-end guest a fellow sales- 0 arrived on Friday. Enter- 1 that night was the dance, Saturday morning the wife 't informed him that she iki' very much to get the mom painted that day. M immediately stated that going to paint his own s soon as he arrived back said that he would like f some practice before he so the two men painted the men were Dalntine. ' the neighbors droDDed 'he guest and talk with "f them were led to the "ig painted and sat on the wmture and conversed. u'te an informal party. "sess told her guest as he un8 on Monday morning uid tike very much for "ne back and visit with dn. She also added that f the first time she had ever fed her guests with a lt.v. but that the room HOVely unci shp I. lnnblno la ivunuii, such party. 1 Vf Y n 'v, '; " Inquiries loreThan About Section Far Same Time In 1950 Stone Named Relaxing After 7 Months Fighting Hew Nay or 01 Canton n G. Williamson Wins Declamation Contest Pfc. Lewis W. Greea (left) of Hazelwood, and Sgt. Frank H. Rick man, route one, met unexpectedly recently at the Fifth Air Force's 67th Taeticn' Heconnalssan.ee Wing, somewhere in Korea. They art shown here with the tools of their trade switchboard equipment, and camera, respectively. Chances they are discussing old times back home, w'here they were schoolmates. Former Schoolmates Heel On Battlefield In Korea ilidate in I ic detent- I tf9 voles k. WITH l'HK i7TH TACTICAL UKCONNAISSANCE WING IN KOREA--It took a Korean war, George Williamsdn; speaklnc on ! n,e Fifth Air Force, a truck load "The New South.fi was dinner of the Declamation Contest sponsored by the Haywood Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confed eracy. The contest took place this morning at the Waynesville High School. T. L. Francis, delivering Daniel's "Robert E. Lee," was awarded second place. Judges are quoted as saying that this was one of the finest contests to which they had ever listened, and that every speaker deserved at least honorable mention. The judges were Mrs, W. E. Carter. Mrs. T. Lenoir Ggyn, and Mrs. II. L. Boyd. Besides the first and second place winners, speakers were Rich ard Baker, Bobby Thrower, Billy Bishop, Ted Rogers, Eugene Davis and Stuart Roberson. Usually held in January on Lee Jackson Day, the contest this year was postponed until Confederate Memorial Day- Mrs. T. L. Gwyn returned Tues day from Raleigh where she at tended a meeting of the State Li brary Commission. of tc!eplqntwirc anqa press camera "to reunllc"fwo Waynes ville Airmen, Sgt, Frank B. Hick man, route one, and Pfc. Lewis VV. Green, Hazelwood, after a separa tion of .nearly two and one-half years. Sergeant Hickman, a photograph er with the 0'7lh Tactical Recon naissance Wing, and Private Green, a switchboard operator with a base communications unit, met under surprising conditions as the two came lace to face in Korea. Sergeant Rickman, on a photo graphic assignment near the com munications area, was about to enter a restricted vehicle contain ing intricate switchboards and webbed antennas when Green, weighted down with ear phones and mouth piece, intercepted him at the door. ' Sorry buddy, no admittance," Green said, not realizing that one of iiis lormer schoolmates stood before him, Then they recognized each other and after an exchange of. greetings, began discussing school days back in Waynesville. (Sec Schoolmates Page 8 R. B. Hopplo Dies At 81 In Florida Richard H Hopple, III. summer resident of Waynesville for the past 35 years, died last Friday at his home in St. Petersburg, Florida. He was a native of Covington, Kentucky and a graduate of Chest er Academy and the University of Pennsylvania. He had lived in St. Petersburg since 1IKI7 and was en gaged in the citrus business. Private services were held Sat urday afternoon at Wilhelm-Hooth Chapel in St. Petersburg with the Rev. Arnold Charnnck officiating. Interment was in Lexington, Ky. Surviving are the widow, Mrs Margaret Winston Hopple; a sister Mrs. Julia Hopple Purcell. both of I Gordon Hole St. Petersburg: and two nephews. James Hopple Purcell' of St. Pet ersburg, and Woodson Nicholas Purcell of Largo, Florida. Canton's newly elected municipal officers were sworn In yesterdav after a race which drew a record number of voters to the polls. W. J. Bill Stone defeated incumbent Floyd W. Woody for the post of mayor, Henry Seaman and J. N. i Dirk i' Powell were successful can- rilH.'itPc fnt thri future it ulrliiiMiwiii Seaman received 1,165 votes from me oiai oi i.mu wno weni 10 meu polls, thus polling the largest num- I ber of voles of any candidal any Canton election Stone ed Woody by a margin of 1.19 Re-elected were Sebe Plolt, board member; Judge Ralph R Mease, police court judge; and T. A. Clark, who was unopposed as police court solicitor. Wynesville High Chorus And Band To Give Concert The mixed chorus and the band of Wiivnesv ille High School will present coneerl I tils Tuesday evening. May IS, at 8 o'clock The coneerl will be given in Hie high school auditorium The program will be verv light, including such members ;e .lohann Strauss' "lllue Danube Wall.," Ihe "Cowboy Rhapsody." several iniirehes by John Phillip Sousa. and Cesar Fi'anck's haunling "Sym phony In D Minor." ThoVoneAt band and the chorus will join in the finale, lidwurd Fi nal's "Pomp and Circumstance" march, using the text of "Land of hope -mid glory." One., march, "Semper Fidells," will be conducted by Edwin Train man, director of the Canton High and. Mr. Traulman is soon to leave for duty with the Marine Corps. Members of the band, as well as Mr. Traulman, will be pres ent. Waynesville students In boih baud and chorus will start tudiy selling tickets for the concert Charles Isley is director of the two grouDS. He is assUicd by Robert Campbell. . . s , tV ) PX x . N t V,!) vi V A . ! s-S v'N- k ! ,v "i-t . . ':, 1 ','1, . vV-itl J I I tl I Vt, CHAKLE8 CUBTI6, JR., got-Uie feel of' Ms golf eluUMor the first time since he started lighting the Reds in Korea last August. After seven months of fighting ami one in u hospital-Ll. Curtis is home on 30-day leave. He is a champion golfer, and tried out his swatting eye Tuesday. He is wearing a Japanese silk embroid ered Jacket, which he says means good luck -but from Lt. Curtis' gulling record, he has had plenty of thai. iStatl' Photoi. Lt. Charles Curtis Sees Thirty Years Fighting In Korea, Unless Bombs Used C of C Mail Is Breaking All Past Records Inquiries are pouring inlo the Chamber of Comnierre much heav ier than last year, according to Mrs. Gordon Schenck, secretary. Not only are the numbers much larger, but the inquiries about the length of time is materially longer than last year, Mrs. Schcm-k sul, "We are receiving scores of letlei-s about the entire season, two and three weeks, and from folk wanting apartments, and other facilities," she explained. So heavy Is the tuatl thai an'a' sistant, Mrs. Robert Buyd. has al ready been added to the oil ice staff. The directors, meeting Tuesday, were told that four or rive times the advertising of last year had al ready been contracted for the se,, son. A large section In Tin- t'h.ir lotte Observer. The State Mrf i zinc, and other publications .,u l" be published soon. In .hI(Ii h,h ,( new pictorial folder of 20 .mm to; les Is now on the press, ainl oiliers being prepared. A new sign has been ere terf jit the Intersection of lligl'w.n N- 27C In Rrevard, and a eontiact is to be let tor a neon sign at the inter section of Highway No. 1! and "HI the sidw seen by motorists dm ne west will have "Sore Slr.m'lit V head " On the opposite side e.-o by motorists coming from Soco nut Jonathans Creek will read. "Tin ti here to Waynesville " A number of colorful slirk'i , fot car windshields, as well a-, win dows In places of business il! soon he available Al-o all P' l sons and tirms holding Hi.tl m- berships in the oi'ganual ion will receive a framed certificate These are going out soon. The directors on Tuesd.ix tm:U. decided that since it was impovabl--to get h group of Cherokee Indi.in. to accompany the proposed mn-oi-slate tour, that the funds Mi up fortius project be used In semlimy literature with the m.! e.i state Farm Tour to Texas, and the t 11 (Tub tour to New Mexico Legion Meeting Set For Monday Joseph Spitzer, owner of the arrived from Coral Gables, i-'la.. on Monday. Mrs Spitzer and son, Billy, will Join him at tne expiration of the school term in Coral Gables'. Fried Ramps And Scrambled Eggs 10 another : lid Mro rili f"d Mrs nii.,- it eu-n f ru(,sday from a ton-riav Allanla'and Marietta. Ga. 1 Upsto nt tkl , 1 .v w mcii aun uiiu in-iaw', Mr. and ',ell" in Atlanta. Mrs. jather Saturday Last Day For Hazelwood Voters To Register For Election Saturday at six marks the end I ing to Carrol Whitner. registrar, of registration for the merger Almost daily, some people are election for the Town of Hazel-1 rinding that they are not registered wood. The registration books will j in the Town of Hazelwood poll close then, and all persons nol j hook. Many voters fail to realize properly registered will not be I that there are two sets of poll eligible to vote on the question of i books at the Hazelwood precinct consolidating with Waynesville in , a county book, and a town book, the election of May 26th. Oniy persons properly registered May 19 is challenge day, as! in the town book will be eligible to nrorrih.H hv law i vole on the 26th, it was explained. ci;v..i than inn wrsnns The machinery lor the election ., have registered since the books was set up in the bill passed by- opened three weeks ago. accord-1 the legislature in April. I . ' - ... . f , I V 1 UP May 10 -Parllv lnnrfv "" TlmrsHau. IJ i.i- Ft tr j... ... . "udy ana cooler. 1 rer a-vnesville tempera- --.ul;o. Dy the sUff of the Ul farm): Max. 59 70 77 Min. RalnfaU 38 .03 32 .... 86 Lions Set For Annual Minstrel This Week - End l5 i Phillips, The 65 members of the Waynes-1 "rolled 'em in the aisles ..in. ii..riK an into the! Models include Ben black" on Friday and Saturday! Charlie Heed. Dwight Williams, nights in order that the club treas-j Henry Davis. Johnny Schell, How ury for their numerous project ell C rawford, and Joe Palmer Pre- mleht rome out of the red -ru .nn,,ii hnnpfit minstrel will be given Friday and Saturday nights, at the high school, with past masters of the stage taking the leading roles in an all-home talent presentation of a full evening of entertainment. Dr. Boyd Owen, Richard Brad- Joe Cline. Joe Davis, isier Burgin, Jr., and Wayne rramun. are the end men, with Herb Buch anan as interlocutor. These per- I formers have on previous oecps.nns ley. - . . . . i i : i I : t r- views ! line inoociinK niuiwi" a "hearty laugh a step" for each of the participants. Soloists include Jack Felmet. M. t. "Tony" Davis, Johnny Cud deback. Charles lsley. and Charles Woodard. Jerry Rogers is general chair man, and Mrs. Fred Campbell, di rector. Another feature of the program will be a 16-piece band composed of members of the High School band, directed by Robert Campbell I Wy- r" Sl B At Ramp 22nd Convention j fe "yy,4 ' ' '., f .i fc- - S.J ' wj hp every fellow to his .Talmadge ol Georgia k iom-JuI of l;Vh; rfj' Scenes like this will dot the countryside at Black Camp Gap Sun day, as the 22nd annual Ramp Convention convenes. Hundreds of bushels of ramps will be available, and a crowd of 10,000 is predicted. Army Wife Goes From Far East To Deep South Fast becoming the typical Army wife who can keep house in Ihe Far Kast or the Deep South with equal poise Is Mrs. Charles Curtis. Jr. In another month or so she will have to pack up and move to Fort Jackson. S. C, but for a wife who has picked up her two small child ren and followed her husband to Japan, crosing a state line instead of the International Date l.lne should he simple. Terry was 6 and Ronnie only 2 when Mrs. Curtis went to Japan in the fall "f 1949, but with the lid of a smiling Japanese nursemaid, she kept house as readily as in her own home in the Aliens Creek section The four-foot snow at their Nation In Japan was Just as much fun as anv snow on the Balsams "The war in Korea will ninlinue for thirty years, unless we bomb Manchuria." is Hie belief ol l.t. Charles Curl is. jusl back from sev en months ol continuous liiihtiiiu, plus one month m a hospital with three bullet wounds in his hack. The nulling lieutenant, who has made liolliug history in this area, a.s well as in Hie army prior to the outbreak ol hostilities in Korea, will soon bemn a new assignment in Fort Jacks-on.--.it-the end of his present HO-dav leave. The tall. browned lla.elwood soldier lias delillllelv derided to make tin stalled n !m.. ai unci ii The American l.eunui nouueed a ehaiiKe in nights, with the next hiisim. .. . mi-e' ing to be held at 7.HII p in on Muii da, May 14 Installation of new olT:eei - wi l lake place, and iinportaii1 Inram is in be passed on. aecordin,; io .1 T Kussell, Adjutant Royal Arch Masons To' Hold Meeting On Friday night, May II, ,d a p. mi . Waynesville Chapter No .' lioyal Arch Masons, will ineel in a Stated Communication Cum Army his career. Heipanion Joseph Way Howell wel Ihe National Guaid in preside. All Hovai Alcli . Ma -n . ale invited to attend When lh fumilv fame back last i "ul ""I"1-1 August, they brought many souven- ed . -o,e K.uhlh Am, play n irs of their life in the Orient. Mrs. which he .-imaged wnile with the Curtis' taste Is everywhere evident Army l Oe. upation in Japan in the small white house overlook- from liH'l until the outbreak in (See Army Wife Pace 6) 1 (See Charles Curtis Page the lair thirties, lell here with the Guard in I!I40, fought in the Fur-! opean theatre durum World War!j,V. Waynesville l'TA II. was in the landing at Norman-) dy. and in HHa came home. j T() Install Officers It was also in l!45 that he be-j g,in to lake golf seriously, and; The Fast Waynesville T will entered loin nainenls. and In dale. '"'"" officers for Ihe coining vr ii has a rerord of never falling to i on Tuesday, May la The mi . lin,: i ioiirnameni with-, will be held at tile m li'". .ui 'iii -I hal record includ- I w " 11 covered dish supp' r at 7 o clock come out- nt Record Crowd Expected D. Ballcw. owner ami maii.rcer of Wayside Lodge, arnvid troin' Atlanta on Tuesday Mrs Itille.v will join him about June ful. Mr and Mrs. Oliver Yminl, Ji. and Mr and Mrs. llanty n'ai"l are spending a -vacation at (ar Una Beach. taste at the Ramp Convention Sun-j getting up to Black (amp Cap to I dav, as an estimated l'f.O'lO people;. sample m,- iningi -nt herb others take their choice of munching them : wlio have been mvileil are (iover raw gulping them cooked, or juslj nor Scott, tioveruor Warren "I inhaling the fragrant air. Florida, and Governor Hum rung of Last vear's downpour cut the at-1 Tennessee tendance to some 3.00(1 persons,! Tharl Fore North Carolina s See who mav have come on Hie princ-l retary of State, w'lh till- his percn iple that if an onion is good for a mal post. as duel speaker of the oc cold'a ramp is proof against doub-, easion. Accompiinying him will be le pneumonia. However, officials , George Ross, Raleigh attorney; and this vear are hoping that the weath- t'hai les Parker, head of the State er will be clear and sunny. News Bureau Haywood's neighbors in South i Square (lance teams, string Carolina must have gotten wind of .bands., and quartets are expected the doings a Convention member! to be on hand, with Carpenter's reports an unofficial request that Governor Jimmy Byrnes and his Ptaft be Invited. Governor Herman String Band, Ross Kirkpatrick, Ho- bart Williams and Sam Queen in evidence. V, Highway Record For 1951 In Haywood (To Date) Killed ... . 0 Injured... . 20 (Thl Information com piled from Rtcordj State Hijbway Patrol.)