North Carolina Newspapers

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After the do much advance and (I to keep their uni one booster advised: i; get muddy!" :. ii JO. -1 . . - 1 f 3 -M TT TTTTT" V.Y M Y J'W , -Hi JL IN iOKJ V ii IUIU 1 I f HOUHTAIKEER Published Twice-A-Week In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park TODAY'S SMILE He: So Hilda' broke; it off with Bobby. I wonder if she still keeps his letters? She; As a matter of fact, they're keeping her now. - 66th YEAR NO. 90 16 PAGES Associated Press WAYNESVILLE, N. C, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, NOV. 8, 1951 $3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties New Hospital Wing Visualized A f - , ' ------ 43.1 Miles Of County Roads To Be Paved , 42.2 Miles Of Surfacing Already Laid 41 Chosen On Haywood Jury Panel T hoo! drive. , Is failed to peenies' ad 'This is an architect's drawlng.of the $750,000 addition now under construction at the Haywood County Hospital. The new addition will add 49 beds to the present structure, and give the county one of the best hospital plants in Western North Carolina. With The Press I the score of the Duke lame?" asked the voice (fhune. flg the reply, Ask Turn- this reporter said in on and I'll look It up." icdiate files revealed oaoer containing the is.-ing. But the voice asked urgently: "Can't 1 please? It's very im- td search through al papers finally produc- puilainiiig the informa- fed. tho reporter re fill the voice said joy- ti' right down to pick ilis bier the owner of rived, took one look "id; 1 win six bucks," ir in hand he dashed vporter put a nickel fn pocket into the cash returned to his type- 'Nickels For Know-How1 Plan Approved 783 to 45 A vote of approval of 103 to 19 for the 'Nickels For Know-How" plan to expand state agricultural research has been reported by the county agent's office from the 11 Haywood communities whose vote was not announced Monday. No votes were cast in the four of the last 11 districts to report their '.; vote. They were Cecil, . Jonathan Creek, Maggie, and South Clyde. Results from the 16 other polling places were announced on Monday. The total vote, listed by Wayne Corpening, county agent, was 783 to 45. , 7: .' ' -h. ' Results listed' bV.v the1' agent, with affirmative votes first! Paving Of 13 Rural Roads Completed ouse Will Pen Nov. 12 i. - . ' ji'avis announced today fly Commissioners that ''Plion of the Sheriff's wood County Court llie closed on Nov. 12th. I 1 hat since Armistice nlll) Slinil:i!H! I ha cion enable the folk at the !(l have a holiday. inty Council ject Officers f the 4-i I club county ? be elected at a meet- f. m. Saaturday, it was ?" by the county Club work in Hay 4 lor the next vpr will fused at Sahirriav't as disflniiofi o Address pod Alumni t;1 '. Preston, Jr., dean 'f of Forestry at North e College, will be the at the quarterly meet- .fiywood County State f i Club at 7 p.m. f; who's in Canton. r be elected at I Monday, according to T-i'i'mng. president. were; ,;,, -. , . ." .. : . . .. tcii, iio votes recorded- Center Pigeon. 12 to 1: Cruso 23 to 0: Dell- wood 1ft totj; Jonathan Creek, no votes; " Lower Jonathan, 8 to 14; Maggie( no Votes; North Clyde, 24 to 2; South Clyde, no votes; and Stamey Cove 17 to 2. ' Votes reported Monday inculded: Aliens Creek, 68 to 0; Beaver dam, 24 to 3; Crabtree 32 tto 0; East Pigeon, 64 to 3; Fines Creek, 42 to 3; Francis Cove, 29 to 0; Hominy 59 to 0; Iron Duff 13 to.0; Morning Star, 67 to 4; Mt. Sterling, 16 to 1; Ratcliffe Cove, 32 to 0; Sounook, 35 to 0; Thickety, 85 to 3; Waynesville, 77 to 1; West Pigeon, 15 to 5; and White Ook, 28 to 3. The proposal put up to North Carolina farmers in the statewide referendum last week was whether to impose an assessment of five cents on each ton of feed and ferti lizer sold in order to finance ex pansion of state agricultural re search. The proposal won overwhelming ly approval, with Haywood county listed as one of the top Western North Carlina counties in its mar gin of affirmative votes. The State Highway Commission completed the grading and surfae ing with traffic-bound macadam on thirteen secondary roads In Hay wood county during October, Chair man Henry W. Jordan announced today. : A tnlal nf 2 7 mllps rvn Dnavps "T1 stree,- North Woodland, Ralph Queen, Parris Road, Warren Cove Ex-Resident Gets Major Diplomatic Post In England Charles Edwards, and his sis ter, Mrs. John Klopp, of Lake Junaluska, left here today for Durham for a family reunion with their parents, Prof, and Mrs. Charles Edwards, Sr., and their brother, Dan Edwards, assistant secretary of defense. Mr. Edwards has been reassign ed from Washington to an Im portant diplomatic post In Eng land, and is to assume his new overseas duties Nov. 19. He Is a former resident of Waynesville, and has returned here often to spend summer vacations. Prof. Edwards, now retired, Is former Duke University instruc tor. . ,' : Falling Tree mils Soy ill Fines Creek Addresses Lions 1 ! Robinson Road, Palmer' Road, Mar- cia Head Road, Rose Cove Road, Old 284, Jonathans Creek and the Underwood Development were com pleted. These projects ranged from one-tenth mile to four-tenths of a mile each, These projects were financed by the Secondary Road Bond program. Two and one-tenth miles in Lake Junaluska were graded and sur faced with traffic-bound macadam. This was also financed by the Sec ondary Road Bond program. ' Three and nine-tenths miles in Max Patch were graded, drained and surfaced with traffic-bound macadam. Eight and seven-tenths miles of paving were completed in Haywood county for the month of October. High Prices For Burley Predicted Gold Star Parents To Be Honored A banquet honoring the Gold Star Parents of this section of thc county will be held by the Haywood Legion Post No, 47 and Hie ladies Auxiliary of the Post at the Hazel wood Elementary school cafeteria on Saturday, November 10 at 7 p. m. The Gold Star Parents will be thc guests of honor, An address by Judge Dan K. Moore, of Sylva, will be a feature of the program. The menu for the banquet will include roast turkey, With all the trimmings. All Legionnaires of this section are being urged by local officers of the Haywood Post to attend. Tickets are available from any legion officer at $1.50 per person. CONTINUED COLD i I November 8 Thurs. . ul Cold v;a.. fi a5'nesvillr by the staff of H Farmi. rarm) Max. Min, Rainfall 22 23 .08 28 .86 56 50 52 James E.. Walker, Jr., the man ager of the Bernard-Walker Ware housese in Rocky Mount, Vidalia, Ga., Hazel hurst, Ga., and Asheville predicted today that prices for bur ley tobacco would be higher this year. ' . . "With a good crop in Haywood County I am confident that the farmers will enjoy a most prosper ous season," he said. The Bernard-Walker Warehouses are celebrating their 14th anniver sary on the Asheville tobacco mar ket this year. During the period of their growth some of thc best mar keting facilities In Western North Mr. and Mrs. Claude Francis left today for their home in Knob Noster, Missouri, after a three weeks visit with relatives here. An unusual accident look thc life of a Haywood County youth at 11 p. m. Tuesday when a dead chest nut tree uprooted by the wind- fell on Junior Paul Rathbone, 18, of Fines Creek The mishap occurred un the farm of Mark Ferguson at Shelton Laurel, where young Rathbone, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Rath bone of Fines Creek, was cutting hardwood for the Champion Paper and Fibre Co.. at Canton, He was trimming a fulled ottk tree when the dead chestnut tree, toppled over by the wind, fell and pinned Miri'tOlnc ground. Working with him at the time were Ander son Sutton and Jarvls Clark, both ol Fines Creek. Haywood Sheriff Fred Campbell and Coroner Dr. J. Frank Pate wore summoned to the scene of the accident. Dr. Pate attributed the youth's death to internal Injuries, a broken back, and crushed chest. Rathbone was injured at the Ferguson farm about six weeks ago when he suffered a broken arm when thrown from a horse. He had returned to work only a week ago. Junior Paul, a former student at Fines Creok School, is survived by his parents; a brother, Nathaniel; a sister, Minnie; two half-brothers, Alfred and Mllburn Price; the ma ternal grandfather, Lloyd Ledford, of Fines Creek, and the paternal grandmother, Mrs. Matlle Rath bone, also of Fines Creek. ; Funeral services - were held at two o'clock this afternoon at the Fines Creek Baptist Church with Major Cecil Brown of the Salvation Army officiating. Burial was in Fines Creek Cemetery under the direction of Crawford Funeral Home. A total of 41 names were drawn on the Haywood jury panel for ser vice in the November term of Su perior Court which will convene November 19. Of that number, two persons were found to have moved out of thc state, and a third out of the county. One man was listed as de ceased and another presented doctor's certificate stating that he would be unable to serve because of ill health. Designated to serve during the first week of court were. Wilson Trantham of Beaverdain, Ora T. Shipman of Pigeon, M. G. Reeves of Beaverdain, Harley Mc Elroy of Cove Creek, Jack O'Neal of Beaverdam, Haywood Saunders of Beaverdam, Orville Cogdill of Waynesville, Mrs, Minnie Recce 'of Waynesville, Temp Phillips of Jon athan Creek, M, Morrison of Way nesville, J. H. Grooms of Waynes ville, W. J. Brown of Beaverdam, Maggie Justice of Waynesville, W. D. Earley of Waynesville, R. Letch, or Reeves of Beaverdam, Joe Car ver of Jonathan Creek, Mrs. R. W. Howell of Jonathan Creek, W. R Medford of Beaverdam, and Robert O. Rowe of Beaverdam. Chosen for service during the second week were: George F. Worley of Beaverdam, W. Brooks Young of Waynesville, Robert IL .Brown og Pigeon, Bob Messer of Ivy Hill, A. M. Frazier of Cecil, Mrs. Josephine Cook of Way nesville, Steve McCrackcn of Clyde, I, B. Pleas or .East Sork, Mianle Davis of Clyde, D. H. Harkins of Beaverdain, Arthur Conard of Jonathan Creek, Mrs. Ethel Pharr of Pigeon. Glesson Belt of Waynes ville, W. W, Collins of Waynesville, Mrs. Sam Arrington of Waynes vllk, and J. H. Way, Jr. of Waynes ville. r v tVv Henry Bridges, State Auditor, will deliver the principal speech .at -'the .regular .'meeting of the Waynesville Lions Club tonight at 7:00. He is expected to (ell the group, meeting in Patrick's Cafe, of the State's current fi nancial condition. T. Grady Boyd Dies In Hospital Early Today Thomas Grady Boyd, 59, died early this morning at' Moore Gen eral Hospital following nn illness of several years. He had been a patient at the hospital for the past three months. Mr. Boyd was owner of Boyd iYiioJjwale .Coiuiwu.hiii:a, Uu"i a member of the First Methodist Church, a veteran of World War 1 and a member of the local post of the American Legion. He was a native of Haywood County, the son of the lale James R. and Sally Campbell .Boyd. Surviving are the widow, the More than 200 cases already are ' former Miss Cornelia Bell; one on the calendar for Superior Court action this 'month. Approximately 105 were continued from the July term of court, and an additional 57 have been added to date. About 15 or 20 more probably will be sched uled between now and November 19 when the court convenes, Valuable Gifts Listed For Saturday Another in the series of trade jubilees sponsored by the Waynes ville Merchants Association will be held Saturday at 2 p. m. on the football field. The usual large crowd is expected to attend. Dur ing the program four gifts will be presented to some lucky persons. The gifts this week will be: A five-piece knotty-pine living room set! a 14-piece Imperial Glass punchbowl set a Westinghouse twin to her home in btanron, icnn., at waffle iron; and a Sheaffer pen andjter a visit to her sonsF.L-Timbes pencil set worth $14.00. and Gilliam Timbes. Girl At Morning Star Gets Rich The Hard Way Freda Trantham, 5-ycar-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Trantham of Morning Star Is 25 cents poorer today than she was the first of the week. But she's also much happier The trouble is that Freda ac quired her recent wealth the hard Carolina hava been developed for way Internally. It all happened growers of burlev tobacco. Their Sunday when she swallowed a the Mission Hospital in Asheville. A surgeon at the hospital, oper ating Monday with a local anaes thesia managed to retrieve the two bits from Fredia's stomach, and she was sent home the next day. Presumably the quarter is still In the Trantham family but right now it Isn't in Freda's personal motto is, best." Don't take less than the Mrs. F. L. Timbes has returned 17 Communities Choose Queens For Tobacco Show quarter, and hud to be rushed to possession. Postmaster Says Early Mailing Is Essential "Do Your Christmas Mailing Early." : 1 The same old story, with a famil iar ring, but one that has a lot of meaning this year, according to Postmaster J. H. Howell. The post office department has just made a survey of Santa's bag, and are convinced that unless peo ple mall early this year, there will be some disappointments in store for those who wait. Postmaster Howell also pointed out that the Importance of mailing overseas packages by November 15th still stands. He said such mailing here had been slow, but ex pected a pick-up the first of the week. Postmaster Howell said the sug gestion of mailing early both do mestic and overseas was not just an idle slogan, but for the 1951 sea son it has a definite meaning and one of merit. ' daughter, Mrs. Erwin Buruin; and one son, Thomas Grady Boyd, Jr., all of Waynesville, Also seven sisters, Mrs. T. O. Cliafln of Waynesville, Routed t, Miss Daisy Boyd, Miss Bessie Boyd, Mrs. II. G, Clayton, and Mrs. J. J, Ferguson of Waynesville, Mrs. Wil liam Smith of Riverdale. Georgia, and Mrs. Joseph Webster of Co lumbus, Ohio; and two brothers, John and James Boyd, Jr., of Way nesville. Funeral arrangements, under the direction of Garrett Funeral Home, are incomplete. L. D. Thrash, 10th Division High way Commissioner, in a report re cently to the County Commission ers stated that a total of 42.2 miles of road have been paved in Hay wood County. The roads were list. ed, along with the paved mileage. They are: . t '..-.- Crabtree Mountain, 1.6; Fibre. vllle, 0.5; River Road, 1.8; Lake Lo gan, 4.8; Aliens Creek, 1.3; Hyatt Creek, 0.7; Plott Creek, 1.1; Eagles Nest, 0.9; Howell Mill. 0.9: Fines Creek, 1.0; Center Pigeon, 1.5; Iron Duff, 1.2; Hyder Mountain, 5.1; Beaverdam, 1.8; Crabtree 2.3; Dutch Cove. 2.3; Phillipsville, 2.0: Lake Junaluska, 2.1; Hannah Cove, 2.1; Rhodarmer, 0.9; Queen Town, 1.0; Old 284. 1.4; and Max Patch, 3.9.' Scheduled for paving "as soon as possible" are: Henson Cove, 2.4: Nlnevah, 1.7; McClure, 0.8; Cole man Mountain, 3.0; Ironduff . 2.9; Old Crabtree, 1,9 Thompson Cove, 1.2; Thickety, 4.7; Worley Cove, 0.6; Hemphill, 3.5; Clyde Loop. 3.5; Ratcliffe Cove, 1.2; Mooney Cove. 1.5; Riverside, 2.2; Burnett Cove, 1.0; White Oak Road. 2.0; Water- ville road, 1.0; Dix Creek. 0.4; Lit tle East Fork, 2.0; Cross Road, 0.4; and Central Patton and Ellen Streets (Green Hill) 0.4. Also included are: Dewey Street Green Hills) 0.3; Holtzclaw, 0.9: Reynolds School Road, 0.2: Pisgah Creek, 1.3; Stamey Cove, 0.5: Jones" 'Cttvtf BoadrO.T; and Sunny sMej 0.. Thrash emphasized in his report that the roads are not listed in the order in which they will be paved. He also said that it will take all of next summer and part of the 1953 summer to finish the program. All school bus roads have been strengthened, continued Thrash. and school officials have been ask ed to report muddy places so that they may be rocked Immediately, "Practically all mud roads where enough people live to justify it." he added, "have been graded, drained, and rocked for all year use." In conclusion Mr. Thrash point ed out that $903,590.14 of bood money has been spent, leaving a balance of $987,444.88 as of Sep tember 30th. Seven more queens have been , named by Haywood county com munities to compete for the title of queen of the Tobacco and Home Demonstration exhibition to be held here November 16-17. The list of a total of 17 com munity queens selected to date in cludes: Saunook, Mary Evelyn Plem mons; Ratcliffe Cove, Betty Mash burn; Morning Star, Barbara Set zer; White Oak, Estalee Duckett; Cruson, Clara Mae Henson; Hom iny, Shirley Jones; Stamey Cove. Judy Stevenson; Maggie, Mouriene Carver; Thickety, Betty Jean Ford; Francis Cove, Dorothy Bridges; Aliens Creek, Mary Jo Hembree; Upper Crabtree, Bonnie Sue Jus tice; Beaverdam,' Mary Evelyn Rob inson; Center Pigeon, Joyce Sue Sheffield; West Pigeon, Theresa Wright; Iron Duff, Claudie Sue Crawford; and Fines Creek, Phyl lis Russell. ' Community queens will appear on a program Friday night, and ride , in a parade Saturday morning. Queen of the exhibition will be crowned Saturday evening. Sanja Completes - Plans -For Visit To Haywood Word was received here today from The Mountaineer correspondent at the North Pole that Santa Claus will make his pre-season appearance here promptly at 3 p. m. Friday, November 16 regardless of whether its snowing, raining, or the sun is shining. Santa will make his first call at 3 o'clock at the Hazel- wood town hall where he will distribute candy to his small friends. Then Mr. C. will climb aboard the Hazelwood fire truck, and ride to the Haywood court house where he will hand out the remainder of his king-sized load of candy. While here Santa will ride in the burley parade at 10:30 p. m. Saturday, November 17, and Saturday afternoon will make a special appearance at the Merchant's Trade Jubilee program at the high school stadium. r 1 ' Officials Al High Point Dr. I. M. Weir, county health of ficer; George W. Rountree, county sanitation officer, and Miss Eliza beth Glavich, health department laboratory technician, visited the High Point laboratory branch of the Guilford County health depart ment to inspect milk-testing facil ities. Thursday Coldest Yet Did you wake up shivering? No, the current wasn't off in your electric blanket; you simply failed to turn it up liiuh enough to match the coldest night and morning thus for this season. , Yep, as officially recorded by the staff of thc State Test Farm, the official mercury was down to 15 degrees this morning. Kiwanis - Club Hear s Talk 7 In New Service Insurance Haywood 100'' Organizations For Schools The following organizations have officially gone on record as being 100 per cent behind the school ex pansion program here in Haywood county. The election is set for Saturday, December 15th. Others are expected to be added later. Waynesville Lions. Waynesville Rotary. American Legion, Post No. 17. Hazelwood Boosters. Waynesville Woman's Club. Hazelwood PTA. Business and Professional Wo men's Club. East Waynesville PTA. Mountain View Garden Club. United Daughters, of Confed eracy. . Waynesville Jaycees. , Bethel . PTA. --- - Fred C. Wilkenloh, District Man ager of the Metropolitan Life In surarice Company, told the Ki wanis Club of Waynesville, at their weekly meeting Tuesday night, that it cost the taxpayers of the country $457,000,000.00 more because of National Service Life Insurance than it would have cost had they simply given $10,000.00 , outright for all war-caused deaths. Wilkenloh, also with nine other members of the Asheville Kiwanis ly enacted laws regarding govern ment insurance for servicemen, and pointed out some of the weaknesses of the old NSLI as well as present faults. "Thc government." he said, "still has 40 billion dollars invested in life insurance out of the 121 bil lion that was in force during thc late World War. "The threat of a new world war made the government decide to take some action to correct faults Club, put on a "Model Meeting" Un the old law. Under the present for the entertainment and instruc tion of the newly organized local club. Fenton T. Erwin, president of the Asheville group, presided. . The principal, speaker was Mr. Wilkenloh, He discussed thc new- arrangement the government will automatically pay $10,000.00 to the beneficiary of any serviceman or woman killed in line of duty. There will be no .charge for this, but it (See Kiwanis--Page 8 : " Highway Record For 1951 In Haywood (To Date) Injured .... 50 Killed.... 5 (This piled State Information com f rom Records of Hlhway PatroL)