1 - - ????' ?i i m n?i?? I W1 rl^B H P I b~ a ii^P^^i^B^^fc^BBfcB5^^^^H^^^RSP?BB^BLJBR ^ ir>m/A nil * llB/iB'i^^M >?' ?P^B^jTi ? %\ ? / f^^aS"SiBJ JIBMLSfl^^Mi;iBgjB^v^ *11; *JW^X^MMfirtSnn ? ?p The Waynesville Mountaineer only bring trimmrd. Publ.shed Twice-A-Weck In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park ? . ? ?7th YEAR NO. 70 12 PAGES Associated Press WAYNESVILLE, N. C., MONDAY AFTERn6on7sE>T. I, 1952 In Advance In Haywood and JacksorTCounttet ' ~ " ~~ " lights " The ews , ? ii ithout Clothes rk i -< 1 v -1'' tor c i but one l" partic-1 t.M. lit - in tolling is w lu. decided to i world by peddling ellow consistently bmier who always n with a loud. "No." ,.jdt.(| that he would m with the boy so J h, kcleton. which u.|\ doctor's office s the hoy approach he doctor let the slide down a wire y. | little fellow- drop ui fruit, and took to ailed, and told him as he would buy fun-red the frightcn (nming back. I saw f lot he. off " [?f The Year for trout fishermen pvei yesterday, so we j we'll he hearing, stories until next ;out Unit part of the we did hear a good s* fishermen, last week Coach ; M - i" and his son. i-hint: down in Glen Rohert was operat . Guy Ma ie w;as in ill Coach Wcathcrby bet end. ins young Robert | plug a little too far illy was hung on the a li'tle maneuvering to get the boat head nk a. they could tpi* i B'.i'jen something hit t in the face (he i a snake i and he was j of jumping in the luirk check with the nerl it wasn't neces letliing was a 13-inch 'elmet Sells t Here In id Supply 4 irnl m i made today imi'i I .nl old his in-1 Rifliiami Supply Co., mi and Mrs Maggie sixialc. ;n the firm. D? tame effective to- j ru rales a large hard-1 ami and supply store and *a ? organized in iMfi. will he general mana 'm. it was announced. I I had no anounee a- tn hp future plans. j f I am going t0 take ' " t." he aid He is ' it of the Chamber of ird ai n the Merch ton pi-, id.-nt of the member of the Hay- I advi-nn 'onimittee, ?he Episcopal church, i Assn. d First 9 Of Fall l?H nesting of the J "til'' I"uri ? Associa 1 at R p.m. Wed "tf courthouse in I year will ' ' ' I tr Vous. presi m cl | (l" Is With Jewelers I N' ' ell known n("1 . t- now asso- 1 Reliable Jewelers. l '' ' erehantile < ^jWe tnan 20 years. | Rol ler , r. T Ur - : fair ?v (a^ ;,nrt - ' tair and warm I Heavier Vote Forecast For Tuesday Heavy Rural Vote Is Seen On Beer - Wine Question; Much Enthusiasm Is Shown Indications this morning were, that with fair weather.! the vote Tuesday in the wine and beer question, would be far heavier than predicted ten days ago. Increased enthusiasm in every section of the county, plus an active campaign, is seen as the reasons for the heavy { voting. The polls will open at 6:30 a. m. and will close at 6:30 j p. m., according to Glenn W. Brown, chairman of the coun ty board of elections. , A glireoo a el'ouu ca/?Han I In. county, plus reports of registrars v ho came In Friday to gel their ballots, all results In the fact that the vote would be heavier than ex pected, with an unusually heavy vote In the rural areas. Registration was heavier than anticipated, with some middle-age people registering for the first time In their lives. Both groups, those who want to retain the legal sale of wine and beer .and those opposed to the con tinuance of the sale, planned to carry the campaign right on up to the opening of the polls. There has been considerable work done in getting workers for each precinct tor both sides. The Haywood county Citizens Cc&al CtuttruU.Committee, jyith James W. Reed, Jr., chairman, opened offices in Waynesville. next to the Le Faino Hotel, and have boon working from there. Several i officials of the state organization I have been here helping carry on tlie campaign. The Haywood Ministerial As-j. social ion. sponsor Of the petitions asking for the election, have carri ed on the program, with many ap peals front pulpits for a 100 per cent vote on the part of the people Tuesday. Ministers of the county have preached sermons on the elec tion from their pulpits, and tonight a series of prayer services will be held throughout the county. The service in Waynesville will be al the First Melhodist church, at 8 o'clock. The churches of the county will remain open all day Monday and Tuesday, for citizens to gather for prayer and meditation. Chairman Brown said that he ex pected the ballots would he counted in about two hours The results j i*.ill he broadcast over WHCC. I The registrars and judges for the j ?lection are as follows. Aliens Creek. Waynesville?Mrs Charles Duckett. Registrar; El wood H. Caldwell, Dem. Judge; Grady j Farmer, Rep. Judge. Beaverdam No. 1. Canton; N. C. (See Election?Page 6) 2 Counties Voted Dry On Saturday I The North Carolina dry forces Saturday added two more counties to their ranks as Caldwell and j l)n\ic voters balloted overwhelm-' ingly to cast out wine and beer. The margin in Caldwell was al most two to one. while in Davie, the drv margin ran nearly three to one. ! Both counties saw exteremely ; heavy balloting. Saturday's victories at the polls were the 4(Kh and 47th wins for the dry forces of Noi tli .Carolina/ led by the Allied CtfWrh League, of which it. M. Hauss, of Shelby i.s executive director. In 50 county-wide beer-wine elec-j lions since March of 1948. Ihe drys have lost lint three limes. Rich mond Pearson, and Rockingham1 counties voted to retain Ihe bever ages. In all of the mountainous West ern North Carolina, only three countiies have wine and beer as of today, are Haywood. Buncombe and Wilkes. : ? 11 Haywood Electric Membership Directors j. Shown above are all eleven members of the Board of Directors of Haywood Electric Membership Corporation. They are, left to right, first row, Dan Reid. Lake Toxoway; Ira II. Cogburn, Secretary Treasurer, Cruso; Carter Osborne, President, Clyde; Roy B. Medford. Vice-President. Iron Di/lT; second row. J. N. Fisher, Scaly-; H. W. Davis, Candler; Jack Harris, Beaverdani; Walker Brown, Pigeon; C. VV. London. Candler; Blaine Nicholson, Cowarts; and M. M. Kirkpatrick, Fines Creek. . , : t Schools In County All . Sel To Open School bells will ring for the first time this fall in Haywood County when pupils in the Canton District report to classes at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday. For students in the Haywood District, classwork will not com-1 mence until Wednesday morning. With many of the schools to be used as voting places for the beer and wine election on Tuesday, offi cials decided there would be much less confusion if opening date Was postponed one day. Everything is in readiness for the pupils, however. Changes in the teaching staffs have been com pleted; most of the schools have been improved with renovations,1 new paint, and other necessary work: the football teams have been practicing to be ready for opening games which start right along with classwork; school buses have been getting final check-ups; children standing fearfully in doctors' of fices to get their immunization shots; practically every pupil has been buying new clothes and get ting together supplies. Early indications are that regis tration will be above that of last rear, with most schools having a slight increase in enrollments. Mrs. Dewey Stovall and her son tnd daughter. George Dewey and Julia Ann Stovall. spent several lays last week in Marion with the former's father, the Kev. P. W. ruckdr. i Ballentine Cites Many Gains Of REA In Past ? i ?i ii ii . ii ? ? ?i tl '1PI >1 >< liirt ??nmai'l/C' I Un Udiui^ III.> i mini i\i ||11 n noi i|ir RKA canolo to li'-lp meat iootl pro-: rtuction goals in this country. North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture. I- Y. Halientine told members of (he Haywood Electric Membership Corporation Saturday morning that a great potential for development in Western North Carolina exists if wise planning is fully utilized. Citing xtatistcs over a number of years dealing with production of rood. Halientine cautioned the (See Halientine?Page C) Page Kflfed In Fall From Phone Pole Charles Page, 36, of Wa.vnesvillr ( was killed Thursday morning when ( in- fell from a' telephone pole. ; ( He was working as a lineman for the I-. W. Roulh Construction Company in Montross, Virginia. j Page lost his foot hooks while! climbing and plunged to his death Funeral services were held Sun-1 day afternoon in the home here !, The Rev. Kay Allen officiated and burial was in Crawford Memorial, ? Park. . Active pallbearers were Paul ; Putnam. Ben Bridges, Fred Rat cliffe, Charles D. Moody, Eugene Davis, and Robert Buchanan. ? Honorary pallbearers were line- j men of the L. W. Routh Construe- } tion Company of Greensboro. i Surviving are the wife, Mrs. I Thelma Davis Page of Waynesville; f two daughters, Brenda and Judy ' Page of the home; the parents. Mr. and Mrs. H. Page of Waynesville. r Route 1; a brother. Hilliard Page c of Waynesville, Route 1 and a sis- a ter. Mrs. Ray Owen of Statesville. 1 Arrangements were under th?* direction of Crawford Funeral h Home. Teachers To Meet 2nd A county-wide meeting of all teachers in Haywood County will be at 10 a m. Sept. 2 at the Hazel- i wood School, according to Mrs. Lucy Jones, superintendent of schools. Symphony Orchestra Being Organized At High School Plans have been completed for a symphony orchestra at Waynes ?'ille high school this year. Charles Isley. director of the jand. said that 25 students would je given an opportunity to study string instruments under his direr ion. and also Itobert A. Campbell, issistant band director. Both have jeen making a special study of lymphony. and string instruments his summer. Mr. Isley was enrolled it Appalachian State College, and Mr. Campbell at the University of Michigan. The symphony orchestra will consist of about 50 pieces in all? he wood winds, and brass instru nents will be recruited from the concert $and, Mr. Isley said. A number of the larger stringed instruments have been purchased, and will be here if time for the initial call "for registration for the orchestra". Mr. Tsley slid that a number of good violins about the community could be sold to the students, and persons having such instruments should contact him at once. This is the first school of a small enrollment in the state to organise an orchestra, and interest in this phase of the musical program Is increasing at a fast pace, he point ed out. Many of the students who heard of the orchestra have shown keen interest, and present plans are to give the initial concert in May,: during music week. f Board Of Missions Meet Ht Junaluska, Sept. 3-6 Though Labor Day will close thei iummer program of the Lake Juna uska Methodist Assembly, the south-wide church center will be justline with activity this week ilaying host to one of the most im >ortant agencies of the denotnina ion. More than 200 Methodist lay nen. women and clergymen, in luding 14 bishops, will come from tcross the country to attend the luadrennial organizational meeting >f the Board of Missions. Septem ler 3-6. The board has its world leadquarters in New York City. Bishop Arthur J. Moore. Atlanta.' has served as president of the board I he last four years New of ficers are to be elected at the ses- ' sions. Bishop Frederick B. Newell, the church's newly-elected presid ing officer of the New York epis- | copal area, has been named con- j venor of the Lake Junaluska meet- , ing. . I Following the meeting of the |, missions board, other Methodist 1 general boards and agencies are to ( hold similar meetings September | 8-12 in Chicago to organize four- | year programs. All of the church's general agen (Kee Missions?Page 6) Dairy Cattle Winners In Livestock Show The three calves shown here were selected Friday afternoon at the Haywood County Livestock Show c< in Waynesvilie as the best artificially bred heifers of their breeds and also the junior champions al of their breeds. From left are Philip Davis of Iron DufT with his Holstein, L. M. Sherrill of East Pigeon with his Jersey, and Johnny Mack Ferguson of Dellwood with his winning Guernsey. (Mountaineer Photol, " Labor Day Queen Vivian Green ol Aliens Creek was selected Saturday night from among 25 contestants as the Queen of Labor Day. The beauty contest was held at the Champion Y.M.C.A. before nearly twice the number of people that had been expected to attend the event. Miss (ireen is a 17-year-old Waynesville High School senior and the daughter of .Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Green. Selected as Labor Day king was Hoy M. Blythe of Canton. (Mountaineer Photo). Large Crowds Attending Canton Labor Day Program Aided by perfect weather. Can ton's 4fith annual celebration of Labor Day was off to a Rood start Saturday. A Riant parade this morn inR at 10 o'clock will start the festivities for the third and last day. The parade started forming on North Main Street a little after nine o'clock, this morninR. and as The Mountaineer went to prrs- at 10 o'clock, indications were that thousands would jam the side walks to match the paraders. All seven State MiRhway Patrol men in ilavwood County were dis patched to Canton to handle the (See Labor I>ay?Page 61 Court House Offices To Be Closed Tomorrow Office* in the Haywood County court house will continue to be closed all day Tuesday, because of the beer and wine election. ('. C. I'rabeis, chairman of the hoard of commissioners, said to day. The offices were closed all day Monday in observance of Mhnr Day. The commissioners will meet on Wednesday. The sheriff's office was the only olfice open for the 3-day holiday. Annual Livestock Show / Attracts Many Entrants In Week-End Competition With approximately a hundred t ntries to chose from and a law ttendanoc on both days, the Hay- 1 mod County l.ivstock Show last riday and Saturday ended as one f tile mo t -tore ltd ever con uetod in the county. The entire -lo.v hotveyer. was ot devoted lo rattle judging An ltei '-tim' t i_ h11tit was the ciyljt eo?-Miv (oldest in which a ital of S.Vi t. awarded to the five ?inner* They were men. Curtis I?un* ird; boy- Jimmy hone: ladies, Ir- Ctuy \rno!ion. and girls, rami Vale These winners,'who irh received $10. had lo guess 'he ymblned weight of a bull. cow. rid little bull. In the 4-11 C'luh Guessing contest, [?rry I'eruuson came first in es-1 mating the weight of a hull and ^?as awarded sin. The prize money for th>- event, was donated by .loe Reiner*ton of (See l.ivrstork?Page Hi BE SURE TO VOTE TUESDAY ? Polls Open 6:30 A. M.; And Close 6:30 P. M. | ? Highway Record For 1952 In Haywood (To Dat?) Injured.... 38 Killed .... 5 (This Information fom pilrd from Reoord* of State Hihway Patrol.)

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