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THE WAYNESVILLE BIOUNTAINEEB
Crawford Funeral Homo
Observes Eighth Year Of
Business In Haywood
Tuc Crawford Funeral Home is
now celebrating it's 8th. year of
business in Haywood County.
Organized in 1944, the Funeral
llohie began business at Clyde.
Early in 1945 a division was estab
lished in Waynesville and later in
that year the two Homes consoli
dated at Waynesville. A division of
the Funeral Home was established
at Canton in 1948.
The Crawford Funeral Home is
owned jointly by Mr. and Mrs.
Kalph M. Crawford, who reside in
the Canton Home and Mr. and
Mrs. Howell W. Crawford, who re
side m the Waynesville home. Both
Funeral Homes operate under the
same name, by the same owners
and employees.
The staff of the Crawford Fu
neral Home is as follows::
Ralph M, Crawford, a native of
Haywood county. He attended
Rock Hill high school, Haywood
Institute at Clyde, Mars Hill col
lege, Western Carolina Teachers
college, Duke University, and
Brown's Embalming School, Ral
eigh. He has been a licensed Em
. balmer for more than thirty (30)
years and is past district Cover
. nor of 12th District North Carolina
Associations. Mr. Crawford taught
school in Itaywood and Buncombe
counties for a few years and was
also connected with the American
Enka Corporation in administra
tive and supervisory capacities.
: Mr. Crawford is very active In
the Masonic order, having filled
all offices in the Blue Lodge, York
and Scottish Rites. He is past
district deputy grand master of the
41st Masonic district and has re
ceived the degree of K.C.C.H. hon
orary of the Imperial Council
Southern Jurisdiction of U. S. A.,
Loyal Order of the Moose, and the
Lions International. He is a mem
ber of the First Baptist church in
Canton.
j Dorothy Boyd Crawford, Sec
Treas. of the Crawford Mutual Bur
ial Association, was born in Bun
combe county. She moved to Can
ton at an early age where she re
ceived her elementary and high
school education. She completed
extension work at Western, Caro
lina Teachers college and partici
pated in summer study at Duke
University. She taught elementary
school in Haywood county for one
year and was attached to the ad
ministrative department of the
American Enka Corporation for a
number of years, before resign
ing to oin the staff of the Funeral
Home, gha to a licensed Funeral
Director. Mr. Crawford is Past
Matron of the Order of the Eastern
Star. She Is a member of the
White Shrine at Asheville; vice
president of the Friendly Garden
club of Canton; secretary of dis
trict No. 1 North Carolina Feder
ation of Womens clubs; and a
member of the Canton Woman's
club. She is an active member
of the Canton First Baptist church,
a teacher of the primary depart
ment and the cherub choir mother.
Howell W. Crawford, became a
partner in the firm in 1945. A
native of Haywood county, he re
ceived his education in the Clyde
high school. He was formally con
nected with the American Enka
Corporation and was in business
in Waynesville for a number of
years. A licensed Funeral Direc
tor, Mr. Crawford has been active
in the funeral work for several
years. He is a member of the
Lions Club, Waynesville Masonic
Lodge, and the First Baptist
church in Waynesville. . ,
"'Theda Crawford joined the firm
. in 1945. She was educated in the
Waynesville high school, Asheville
Teachers college, and Western
Carolina Teachers college. She
taught school in Haywood county
for a number of years before join
ing the funeral profession. She is
; a licensed Funeral Director. She
belongs to the First Baptist church
in Waynesville and the Order of
the Eastern Star.
M. E. (Tony) Davis, Waynes
' ville, joined the firm in the early
part of 1951. A native of Hay
wood county he received his edu
cation in the Waynesville high
school, King college, Bristol, Va.,
and Blanton's Business college of
Asheville.' Mr. Davis was man
ager of the Haywood County Hos
pital, for eight years. He is a
Auto Plunges
Off Mountain,
Driver Jumps
Despite icy conditions on roads
in this arer today, no traffic ac
cidents had been reported to police
or slate highway patrol up until
noon today.
: Ice, however, claimed one victim
on a county road Tueslay, when
Billy McElroy, 35, of Fines Creek,
lost control of his car on the ice
while going up the road around Mt.
Pisgah, and had to jump out to
avoid going over a bank with his
vehicle.
McElroy told state patrolmen!
that his car hit a patch of ice on
Highway No. 276 and started slid
ing backwards, with the ear out
of control. Unable to stop, he leap
ed from the car as it plunged over
an embankment for 40 feet until
brought to a stop by trees.
Stage Handcuffs Bit
PORTLAND, Mc-tAP) Auth
enticity backfired on the stage here.
Actor Philip Young insisted on
borrowing official police hand
cuffs for his role with the Portland
Players.
In the middle of the third act re
hearsal Young was in distress. He
couldn't get the handcuffs off and
there wasn't a key in the house. So
the whole cast moved to police
headquarters where a police captain
removed Young s manacles so he
could sign a "confession".
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has been through. The roads are
bad( but there is some traffic. It
is raining now (at noon Thursday)
and the ice is beginning to melt
a little."
Mrs. Weaver Sheffield of Center
Pigeon said; "It is sleeting here (at
noon). The roads have been scrap
ed and the work buses are running,
but there is little other traffic."
Patrolman Joe Murrill if the
State highway patrol reported that
a highway department scraper was
at work early this morning on the
Soco Gap road where ice was
scraped away and salt and chemi
cals spread over .the highway Cars
were still going over the Gap this
morning, he added.
The bad weather also brought
increased business and troubles at
the Waynesville telephone office
where five long-distance circuits
to Asheville were reported out of
order, and two lines were down in
the county. ;
Mrs. Frances Davis, chief opera-!
tor, said that ice put five out of 19
toll circuits out of order this morn
member of the Presbyterian church
of Waynesville, Woodmen of the
World, Elks, Lions, and Knights
of Pythias.
Curtis F. Stanley, a reseidenl of
Canton for seven years, joined the
firm in early 1951. A licenses
Funeral director, he has been in
the profession for fifteen years. Mr.
Stanley was educated at HenrietU
Caroleen high school in Ruther
fordton county. He is a member
of the First Baptist church in Can
ton and the Baracca class.- The
Stanleys reside at the Crawford
Funeral Home in Canton.
Robert T. Phillips, a native of
Canton, joined the firm in Sep
tember, 1951. A graduate of Can
ton high school, he attended West
ern Carolina Teachers college;
Kansas State college, Manhattan,
Kansas; University of Miami (Fla.);
and the George Washington Uni
versity, Washington, D. C. He was
formally connected with the Gov
ernment in Washington. Mr. Phil
lips is a member of the American
Veterans committee (AVC), Ame
ricans for Democratic Action, the
Civil Liberties Union, Council on
Human Rights, The Central Suf
frage League, Phi Kappa Tau, the
United World Federalists, and the
Unitarian church.
Charles Creson joined the firm
at the beginning of 1951. A native
of Haywood county, he attended
the Waynesville schools.
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Hayvood Farm
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generally ranked well in the state
In the number of farms owned and
operated by the same persons.
The UNC News Letter reports
further:
"The outstanding observation
about tenancy in North Carolina is
that it is definitely on the decline.
It will be noted, from the accom
panying table, that the percent of
farms operated by tenants incrcas
cd in only nine counties between
1940 and 1950, and in no instance
was the Increase of any signific
ance. On the other nana, there was
a decrease in the percent of farms
operated by tenants in 91 of our
100 counties. In a few of these
counties the decreases were imma
terial but in a large majority of
them the decreases were quite Size
able. - -
"As a general rule, the counties
that now have the lowest tenant
ratios are the ones where the ten
ant percents have decreased the
most during the last ten years, For
instance, the percent of farms oper
ated by tenants in Clay County has
decreased from 33.5 to 10.2; in
Swain county from 35.3 to 12.8;
in Graham county from 29.3 to 7
percent, and in a number of other
counties from half to two-thirds or
more of the tenants have disappear
ed in the last 10 years.
"There has been a steady decline
in the percent of farms operated
by tenants in North Carolina for
the last twenty years, From the
Civil War down to 1930 there was
a gradual increase in farm tenancy
in this' state. The high point of
tenancy was reached in 1930 whpn
49.2 percent of all North Carolina
farms were operated by farmers
who did not own a square foot of
land.
"By 1940 the ratio had dropped
to 44.4 percent tenants, and in 1945
to 42.6 percent tenants. The 1950
census revealed that only 38.2 per
cent of our farms are now operated
by tenants. This is only five points
above the tenant rate in North
Carolina back in 1880 when the
first census of farm tenancy was
conducted.
"The 288,508 farms in the state
are distributed by tenure of oper
ators as follows;
Tenure Status Number
Full owners ....... .............. 142,085
Part owners ............. ......... 35,422
Managers ,. ... ... 516
All tenants 110,485
Cash tenants 4,341
Share cash 1,462
Share tenants ;............,..,. 38,805
Croppers 57.457
"The outstanding tenure change
; during the last five years, a trend
quite common throughout the Uni
ted States is the large increase in
the number of farms operate by
part owners. In 1945 there were
19,835 part owners in North Caro
lina, while in 1850, there were 35,
422. "The part owner is generally a
farmer who has decided to expand
his operations and instead of buy
ing additional land he takes over
the operation of a neighbor's farm
or other land. This neighbor mav
have moved to town or he may bo
farmer who sublets, a part of his
estate to the part owner. In almost
every case me part owner is a
small to modest size farmer who Is
expanding his operations but who
is not buying additional land.
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CAR BALED CORN SHUCKS
Arriving Today
GET THEM OUT OF CARS-
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CD. KETNER
, Farmers Exchange
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tive budget of $9500 for the com
ing year. This is an increase over
1951. The executive committee was
scheduled to meet at 2:30 today
and make a break-down of the
budget for presentation to the
board at an early date.
Mr, Galloway has headed several
nereiord organizations, including
me state group. He has won num
erous prizes and honors with his
cattle throughout a wide area.
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REV. WALTER L. DODSON, Pastor ;
ing. Increased use of telephones
also resulted in the blowing of
fuses on one unit in the telephone
exenange, putting that piece of
equipment out of commission tern
porarily. - . .
Mrs. Davis praised the work
of her telephone operators in com
ing to work Without being "sum
moned early this morning in order
to help out with the increased flow
of calls.
Mrs. Davis urged that the public
restrict cans to emergencies and
ot(ier urgent matters in order to
rcueve the heavy strain on both
operators and telephone equipment
Harry Kent, central office repair
man, . reported - three telephone
lines aown. Including one on Bal
sam Mountain, Hyatt Creek, and
riott creek. . 1 v
R. C Sheffield, manager of the
Haywood Electric Membership Cor
poratlon, KEA, reported that his
office had received no calls up
tin noon of electrical lines down
Here In Waynesville, town crews
of street workmen were busy put
ting down salt at main intersections
of streets, according to G. C. Fer
guson, town manager.,.
. Chief of Police Stroupe, of Can
ton reported no acldents by noon.
"It is raining here- and I advise all
people to stay off the streets un
less it is an emergency and then
to drive slow and use chains."
"Telephone lines to Fines Creek
and some other communities were
out Of order, ind a report was un
obtainable by press Ume.
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Top Photo, Funeral Home located at 455 Mum Street, Waynesville. Center, Canton Funeral Home located at 1 North Main Street. Vit,
1 . iicci oi up-to-date equipment used by both Homes.
A Merry Christmas, A
Happy And Prosperous New Year To All
NO. 1 NORTH MAIN STREET
', CANTON, N, C. .