flights
J The
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lastures
which arose
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staunch Kt-puo
K,, where he n?w
K the Democratic
Kith convenes on
^Hceteral weeks a??
considered
fconvention of his
n"1 ork (,ul s"
?, i.
K-ord he could from
fthr more he listen
Kgusted he became.
Hf derided he would
Democratic con
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under way. and if
Ken intervenes. #he
Krvcr at the Deino
^V"
?ell.
K what happened to
K tn live in Chatta
Kirt of the morning
I,ni spmt 'he rest
I marvelling at the
ha. seen during
I years. The court
ante, wasn t here,
K just can't get over
K looking it is.
Ks born on .Jonathan
to Wayhesville
^Eince his day here,
K lots of changes, a
K post office (which
^R very nice addition
?new businesses and
? .j great deal more
flip left. Waynesville
Kntry town. Now he
the size of it. nor
K
Kr. Smith. Welcome
I hope you can find
Kiintliar landmarks.
All Dies
10197
la Moody Plott. one
?nldrd residents, died
? ,t ltaywood
I.
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wlu she was tn
^vvirrs will be held
^Knnni 1 I 11 clock
?? tin Soco Gap road
?ill be in t .e family
? The Rev. George
? 1 Rev liroadus K.
I will serve as pall
? granddaughters will
I the daughter of
I Nancy Heiur Moody
?laughter of Ruben
?er settler of this
I was born February
? Plott?Page 81
C. Rose
Iddenly
I A. M.
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?vffle ? 1 hant. died
mid,i\ mot nlng at her
?She was H4 years of
Is former m iss Blanche
B r of the late
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Bit had lived here alnce
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pod Post ut the Vet
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The W a ynesville Mountaineer rss
ference.
Published Twice-A-Week In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park j ?
67th YEAR NO.56 14 PAGES Associated Press \VAYNESVILLK, N. cTMONDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 14. 1952 $3 00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Countiai
Texans With Their Hosts
Because cowboy hats are somewhat of a novelty in the county, Haywood 4-H'ers Joe Green of
Fines Creek, left, and Patsy Brendle of Balsam Road, right, find the western hat of Richard Gaisford
of Denton County, Texas, of unusual interest. Richard is a guest of Joe, and Mary Lou Mullens,
also from Texas, is staying with Patsy during the visiting 4-H members stay in the county. This pic- j
ture was taken at the Aliens Creek-Thicketv Community Tour and Picnic Saturday at which the 4
II Club members were special guests. Today the young people visited Biltmore Estate as guests of
the Waynesviile Lions Club and Tuesday they will be treated to a picnic supper on Cherokee Island
by the local chapter of the Secretaries Association. (Mountaineer Photo).
V lsiting
Texans On
Full Tour
i *
!
The visiting Texas 4-H Club
members, after arriving several
I hours later than expected last
I Thursday, have been kept busy
j since then touring Haywood County
| to witness the farming methods
j first-hand.
AM has not been strictly business,
however. Several picnics, swim
ming parties, and ?ther forms of
recreation have already been en
joyed by the visitors. Similar
| "breaks" in the one-week tour are
j also scheduled during the rest of
> the Texans' stay.
On Friday the young people, with
their Haywood hosts, made a gen
eral tour of the county, while Sat
urday^ was devoted chiefly to recre
ation. first at Aliens Creek and then
, fo Camp Schaub.
Sunday afternoon was spent at
(See Texans?Page 8)
- ? ? 4
Criminal Court
Will Convene At
10 On Tuesday
The second week of the July
term of criminal court will con
vene here Tuesday morninc at ten
o'clock, with Judge William Bob
bitt. of Charlotte presiding.
The entire second week will be
devoted to criminal cases. Solicitor
Thad D. Bryson announces as court
adjourned for the week-end.
Among the cases disposed of
during the Thuisday session, in
kcludc:
William Troy King, reckless driv
: ing, $100 and cost, and a 60-da.v
suspended sentence.
Frank Palme'. driving drunk,
fined $100 and cost, with driver's
license revoked for 12 months.
James Taylor Wolf, larceny, sen
, fenced 8 months.
Roy Albert Mathis, driving
diunk. fined $100.
Joe Nelson, and Leonard Sutton
fined $200 each and cost for un
lawful possession of non-tax paid
liquor.
Electric Service To
Off Tuesday P. M.
The Carolina Power and Light
Company will have an interrup
tion of electric service Tuesday
from 2:00 p.m to 4:30 p.m. Cus
tomers served from Soco Gap Road,
west of Lake Junaluska to Dell
v.nod and Maggie, will be affected.
By increasing the number of
crews working on this line the in
terruption should allow the electric
company to finish in safety the job
of installing an additional phase to
serve the area.
Meeting Of Merchants
Association Canceled
The regular meeting of thr Mer
chant'a Association, which was
scheduled for tonight, has been
called off.
The group will not hold a meet
ing at all this month, but will meet
next month.
Town Budget Is $48,000
Higher Than. Last Year
Chamber of Commerce
Has Busy Morning
The ( hmrbfr itf Comtn' rce had
its irratfst number of inquiries
to date this moi nine, wlirn be
tween .">0 and 10(1 |H'n|ilr came
by to set food and lodging in
formation.
Miss Edith Chambers, secre
tary. said that the number of in
quiries was even larger than the.v
had July 4. when the offices were
open all day and into the night.
" An inquiry at the Police De
partment brought forth the in
formation that traffic on Main
Street is as much, if not more,
than at any comparable time in
recent years. Traffic is moving
along much faster because of
the new lanes and the "no left
turns" signs that have been
erected.
Many people coming into the
Chamber of Commerce are ask- 1
ing about the Cherokee Indian <
Drama. "I nto These Hills." and i
ticket sales have been brisk. A
surprising number has been ask
ing about tl.e proposed Pigeon
River Road.
But mostly they're asking
where to stay and where to eat.
%
David II. Spechlcr Is
Licensed Veterinarian
The North Carolina State Board
of Veterinary Medical Examiners|
have announced that David H
I Specifier of Quincy. Ala., has been
granted license to practice vetor
{jnary medicine in North Carolina.
Dr. Spechlcr sure-dully passed
the examination held at Atlantic
Beach in .tune.
Dr. Spechlcr i= expected to prac
tice veterinary medicine in Way-'
nesville He is a graduate of the
University of Georgia
The official budget requirements
For the town of Waynesville for the
1951-53 fiscal year has been set at
$368,696. an increase of $48,416
over the previous fiscal year. The
tax rate will remain at $1.40 per
SI00 valuation.
The tax rate, which has been
ki t't at its present figure several
years in the face of rising munici
pal costs, is basort on an estimated
valuation of $4,500,000 in taxable
property.
G. C. Ferguson, in releasing the
budget for publication, estimated
that the town would receive in the
neighborhood of $24,000 from the
state for streets during the year?
Operation of the town for the
coming fiscal year will require an
estimated revenue, other than the
tax levy of $306,546.00 This leaves
$62,150 to be collected from the
levy of the $1.40 tax rate.
Wavnesyille gets its revenue
from a variety of sources?lights:
and water charges, court costs, beer,
lax. parking meters, intangible tax
property taxes, and miscellan
eous sources.
The largest single item of out
(See Town?Page 8)
LIFE Features Story
On "Finger Transplant"
The current issue of Idfe mag
azine has a story on an amazing
operation. In which a soldier had
his index finger made into a
thumb.
The doctor who performed this
successful operation was l.ieut.
Krle Peacock, nephew of Mrs. J.
R. Morgan, and of Alvin. Ilallrtt
and Wallace Ward, of llaywood
County, l.ieut. Peacock spent a
great deal of time here as a bov.
lie grew up in Chapel Hill,
where his father was a member
nf the farultv in the Department
of Commerce at the Cniversit.v
nf North Carolina.
Aliens Creek Host To
Thickety In First Tour
And Picnic Of Summer
Bv B'lX LIENBACH
Staff Writer
If -another straw would have
brokenMhe camel's back. then one
more pickle would have brought
down the picnic tabic- Saturday at
Allen* Creek.
Th.c occasion was Hie summer's
first community tour and picnic,
with AHen<- Creek doing the hon
ors for the day. Thick' ty was the
visiting community and t II Club
members from Denton county. Tex
as. and Haywood county were
among the guests that brought the;
total to some 400 people.
Held at the Aliens Creek recrea
tion area the pirnic tables under
th(> trees were crammed with bar
bceue ehieken. fried chieken. chick
en pie caramel cake, chocolate
rake checkerboard cake a wide
assortment of pies, salad-, crackers,
cookies. and bark to tbp meats,
there was lots of pork In short,
Just about PVPry food. except sea
food. that folk Iovp to rat at the
outdoor spreads, was represent
ed In fart, an extension table bad
to he put Un to tak'- rare of it all.
And the people ate. They were
lined up at the tables until there
wasn't much left but empty bowls,
trays, plates and jars. They went
bark for second* and third help
ing* and became so full and lazy
many of them could not throw their
used plates, cups and left-over
fAod into the trash boxes but left
them on the ground for others to
clean up.
The Invocation was given by the
(??ee Aliens Creek-?Page M) j
$87000 Made
In Haywood
OnPNAPlan
The Haywood County PMA last
year distributed $87,083 72 last
year to county farmers of "which
$48.938 42. or more than half.
used for phosphate, potash, and
mix fertilizer.
In spile of this, however, there
is still a great need for conserva
tion in the county because 44 per
cent of the permanent pasturcland
and 39.5 per cent of the woodland
have yet to come u.idcr conserva
tion practices. Since 1938, some 81
per cent of the county's 173,443 2
acres have come under con .crva
tion with the aid ot AtT. while II
per cent has seen conservation
adopted without ACP help. This
StUl ? leaves most of the county in
need of conservation practices,
Wide extremes in expenditures
are shown in the 1951 PMA re
port. At the top of the scale was
the nearly $49,000 for phosphate,
potash, and mix-fertilizer. only
$105 75 was spent on the construc
tion of permanent fences to pro
tect young timber stands and wood
lots from grazing. The report said
the small amount for fences was
due to insufficient funds, and only
70 acres, of the 45,938 acres which
(See PMA?Page 6, 2d Sec.)
Beef Shoot I
Scheduled
For July 23
Because of conflicts in August.
Tom Alexander has announced the
annual beef shoot at his Cata
loochee Ranch will come on July
23 this year.
The shoot, which w ill be similar
to those of previous years, is par
ticularly interesting because all
contestants use muzzle-loading
rifles. Many homes in the area
boast the old-time unpredictable
weapons, which the ownew proud
ly show (i p with a I the shoot.
Prizes will consist of tour quart
ers of a steer and yvill hi' awarded ;
to the winners ot the four divis
ions into which the marksmen un
divided. A steer from the ranch
yvill he used for prizes
Entrance fees will be charged for
those w ishing to enter the con- i
test.
Colored Movies Being Taken At Champion
xf M ? ,
Camera crews are busy "shooting" three interesting 30-minute films of Champion Paper and Fibre
Company, with the movie-making now centered around Canton. Here Ed Grabill, director, left; Ver
non Hlakely. center, cameraman; and Pat Burke, assistant cameraman, are shooting a scene of
Champion employees entering and leaving the Canton division plant. All the movies are in color
and will be ready for release late in the spring of 1953. j,. .
Court Action Dropped On
'Dual Office Holding'
Solicitor Thad I) Bryson in court
here late Thursday, dropped the
eases on the docket against .1 w.
Killian and R. T. Messer. in which
both were charged with dual office
holding. while serving as chair
man of the county board of educa
tion. and also as supervisor of
buildings and grounds for Haywood
sc hools
A true bill was returned by the
grand jury in the February term <>l
court.
The case was the? outgrowth ol a
controversial matter, in which the
North Carolina attorney general
had reversed opinions as to wheth
er those holding both positions at
or.e time constituted dual office
holding, which Is a violation of the
law.
The actjon of Solicitor Bryson in
taking a nol proa of both cases,
ends t|u" action.
There was speculation here this
morning that legislative action
might be sought in the General As
embly to set up a law naming the
chairman of the Haywood Board of
Kducation, as supervisor of build
ings and grounds.
The chairman's salary is $5 per
meeting. The board meets about
once a month.
Tht> records show that I he salary
of the supervisor of buildings and
grounds is $150 per month, and $50
travel expenses.
County Budget Calk For
$1,326,000 For Next Year
Burley Tobacco
Down For 1952 *
The Agriculture Department
in Washington. I). C., last week
forecast a hurley tobacco crop of
598 million pounds for the 11. S.
a figure which is three per rent
below the 1951 record produc
tion. North Carolina's crop for
this year was estimated at 22
million pounds or 706.000 pounds
more than last year.
However, the 1951 acreage of
159.1 in llavwood County has
been increased this year to IH03.
which will bring the total weight
to about 3,700.000 pounds.
Ilaywood is third in the dis
trict in burley tobacco, and is
exceeded by Buncombe and Mad
ison countids.
HaywOod county s budget needs
tor the next fiscal year calls for.
$1,326,035.61. which requires a tax
rate of $1.65 per $100 valuation,
according to the summary of the
budget estimate being published in
! full today, as passed by the com
missioners last week. This is about
$120,0U0 more than last year's bud
get.
The summary sets forth that the
? property valuation of the county is
$33.000.000. It is on this valuation
that the current budget is based.
The amount ol 'tie budget which
must be raised by local taxes Is
8503,415 Revenue applying to the
budget from sources other than the
budget amounts to 8022,020 61.
Among the items in the current
budget is a sunt of $21. 380.32 lot
tax revaluation.
The funds of the budget, togeth
j er witli their requirements, are as
, follow s:
'General $85.170.83
County auditor 5.760 00
Farm agent 17.483.00
Home agent 5.647 00
Health Dept. 42.480.00
(See County?I'age 8)
Town Getting Bids
On Motor Grader
The Town of Waynesville is ad
vertising: for bids on a modern
motor grader, and according to
(1. ('. Ferguson, town manager. |
will cost somewhere in the neigh
borhood of $9000.
The old grader now owned by
the town is "pretty well worn
out" he explained, and heavy jobs
which the town street forces are
called upon to do demands a bet
ter piece of equipment than is
now owned.
o Movies
Being Made
At Champion
Western North Caroling and par
ticularly 'he area in and around
Waynesville and Canton is serving
as the maior location for three all
color movies now being made for
The Champion Paper and Fihre
Company. This paper company has
a large mill in Canton and thous
ands of acres of timberlands in the
Oarolinas.
One of the movies deals com
pletely with the stor\ of good foi
estry operations and practices. 1'n
like most industrial movies, this
picture, to he known as Deep
Hoots," handles the lessons of mod
ern foiestry by weaving them into
a human interest story of the "Har
rison" familly. The life of Jud and
Margaret Harrison, their children
and grandchildren is closely lint 1
to the forestry history and future
of the CaroUnas.
"Good Business" is the title of
the second movie which pnrtra s
the importance of companv and
employee participation in commun
ity ac'ivities This picture tell its
story through the use of a drama!/
presentation rather than he docu
mentary technique usually used in
industrial films. The action fol
lows the experiences of a report
er for a technical magazine a- he
(See Movies?Page 8)
16 From County
Inducted Last
Week In Army
Sixteen men from Hsvw oori
county were inducted test Wed ties,
day into the army at Knpxville.
Tenn.
Tile local draft hoard a No sent
2i> men for pre-induction exannna
tions. '
The .July draftees were HardM
I.. Crawford of Canton. David F,.
Kich of MafiBie. EuBene H N'ichol*
of Ha/.elwood. Raymond W. Mooo'e
of Wavnesville. Thomas II. Ma = li
nt Waynesvflle.
Koye Led ford of Clyde Ralph
Cope of Hazel wood. Guy I, Cook?
of Canton. Lindy A VlrGowan of
Canton. Charles K Ford of Clyde.
Glover IV Parham of Canton.
Jessie .1 Kinij of Canton. Jack M.
Scott ot Canton. Kenneth I Med
ford of Hazelwond. (feoree t Cop *
ef Canton, and Wilbur n 1 Ua\ix oi
C anton.
August draft call for H ivwoorl
countw fill take 18 w n s? F?tle 13
will be sent at the -arae time for
preinduction tests.
Highway
Record For
1952
'In Haywood
(Tr> Date)
Injured .... 02
Killed .... 4 ?'
(This Information rom
piled from Records of
State Hihway Patrol.)
And They Went Back For Seconds, Too
J. Hack Clark, left, Cl)l' chairman of Thickety. and-Jack /L'hapman. right. County CDP chairman,
know good food and found plenty of it Saturday when they were guests of the Rev. C I.. Allen. Al
iens Creek CDP chairman, center, at the first community tour and picnic of the summer. Aliens Creek
played host to Thickety for the event, at which Texas and Haywood County 4-H Club members were
special guests Mountaineer .Photo',
t