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?fights * i ? . _ u hei < ?"s a p^u-. ^K'i(!t lutk> ?inn one afternoon f( coll ^?7h<-" ?' ?^ Built For Two." ? mind the singing. the l.?i ^^Ejrtei "I Kd him breathless, -mgrr- lning up ^?^ thin k t ? 0f a pretty song, ^?^k- later. Albert ^?crabtree received ^Kra TM- c.ive Mr. ?Hf called Mrs. Fer ^?jred a- to whether ^?a. selling out his, into movie ^^Eytng time spin on each ? Ferguson believes ^?orc of a success at than Davis ^?bicvrle Hem ^?johi - i- close ob Btnt events. the election, bis c Cuiin. found a ?triotic ribbon lapel ^?suggested that Kon ^?oschool and distrib his friends. ^Eed to know what ^?thilr and blue ?his grandfather said ^Ejr national colors. ^Bfd our democratic ^Himenl use trying to give I ?f-every body is a jKaid Ronnie. I Range, >; Football, iven Away it have been made 1 i beautiful Hotpoint Saturday at two. for te at the regular I rtng of the Trtlde | high school stadium, iril] include a eertifi *n turkev they are And then a genuine late football ? the II used in college j tart of the long list given away by the j wciafion during the t Gibson, who is nt tm Carolina Teach visited her parents, Robert H. Gibson. Iiteen Girls Are Entered Ibacco Queen Contest High school girls from j Hwntties throughout! Have entered the To ?tontest Tuesday night H?r the 1952-53 crown. Hship. and a wardrobe ?ton merchants. B is beinu held as part ? Haywood County To- | Hiome Demonstration ?it Tuesday and Wed ? H Waynesville armory ?.who will ho selected ?tarance of the con ? m at the courthouse, ?the crown from last ? Mrs Charles Hav Bat that time was Miss i ?' ";? of Maggie. ?tarts and the com-1 ? will represent are. ?rgan of Aliens Creek. ?*er n[ White Oak. Bbsof Hominy. Gladys ?wedam, Geraldlne ?tfty. Doris Hollins of I Pauline Sheppard of ?ttim Robinson of Center Pigeon, Lou i\tin Osborne of South Clyde. Mattie Sue Med ford of Iron Duff. Shirley Sheffield of Francis Cove. Jewel Dee Fergu son of Crabtree, .Ajnc Suttles of Fines Creek. Mae Holcombe of Morning Star, Sylvia Newell of Upper Crabtree, Norma Jean Win chester of Fairview. and Venita Morrow of Jonathan Creek. Serving as judges will be R. A. Tomberlin, supervisor of Buncombe County schools; Sam P. Hyatt, prin cipal of Cherokee schools: and Roy R. Bennett of N. C. State College. All entries are juniors or seniors. Mrs. Bryson Attending Tax School At UNC Mrs. Milcimd H. Bryson. Hay wood County Tax Collector, left Wednesday to attend a tax super visors school at ('hapel Hill. Problems relating to tax matters at the county and local levels will be discussed through Saturday. er ?Gy.and Warmer- ' ZT:* fpmPTa- 1 b> I ha Slate Test ' J ^ Mln R?inr?ii i t 44 ** 1 I T 28 ? 1,4 23 , fair The W aynesville Mountaineer ? 9 Published Twice-A-Week Ir. The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park Lj ^ 67th YKAK NO- 91 16 PAGES Associated Press " WAYNESV1LLE, N. C.~ THURSDAY AFTERNOON, NOV. 13. 1952 $3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties $1,500,000 Tobacco Crop Seen For County Leaders Of Haywood County Polio Drive The above men will direct the 1953 Polio Drive in Haywood County. Left to right, Frank Ferguson, director of the drive in the Canton area, Max Rogers, director of the Waynesville area, and David Hyatt, who is acting in an advisory capacity in the whole area. Mr. Ferguson was named to succeed W. B. Iluger who has headed the drive in Canton for the past five years. The three leaders were enthusiastic about the coming drive, which will begin in January. Last year Haywood ^County was well over the top in securing the quota that had been set, and this year efforts will be made to make the drive even more successful. (Mountaineer Photo). Car Rolls Down Rocky Mountainside, Driver Unhurt Wesley Gibson looks at what remains of his 1941) Chevrolet, after it rolled down a rocky nt >un tainside. Gibson was in the car during the wild plunge, and escaped with a small scratch on his leg. The top was crushed in, and pinned Gibson in a,n 18-ineh space on the front seat. The car rolled over and over, and then look an end-to-end Hip, to smash up both ends as well as all four id's. Gibson was parking at the Grassy Itidge Mica Mine when his brakes failed to hold. (Mountaineer I'hotoi. Record Crowds Expected 18-19 For 6th Annual Tobacco Show - Home Festival \ V Plans Are Completed For Annual Flame Demonstration Exhibit Festival To Get News Coverage Special news coverage will he made of the sixth annual To bacco Harvest Festival Tuesday and Wednesday. The Mountain eer has had calls for newsmen, and photographers wanting to cover the event. The Enka Voice will have rep resentatives here getting a pic torial story for their publication. i .. - . i . Members of Haywood County i Home Demonstration Clubs are making final preparations for their 1 annual Achievement Day exhibits to he shown in the Waynesville Armory, Tuesday and Wednesday, November 18 and 19. According to Miss Mary Corn I well, home agent, each club in the county is preparing an individual exhibit, based on a phase of home demonstration club work. Achieve ment Day is observed as a climax of tite year's work and the exhibits I usually represent a summary of accomplishments of the club mem bers. The exhibits will be assembled Monday, November 17. and until 10 am. on Tuesday, N o vein lie r 18. | .lodging will start Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock and the exhibits will be scored as follows: 1. General Appearance ? 50 points. a. Clarity. Is the theme and purpose of exhibit easily understood? 15 points. b. Organization Arc major points of exhibit well organized and definitely related to the theme ? 15 points. c. Attractiveness and general appearance. Are all points clarified with good posters, placed neatly in the right places for em phasis?20 points. II. Educational Value ? 50 points. Does the exhibit inspire, motivate and suggest ways to interest rural women in Home Demonstration Club work and definitely teach a point? Judges lor the exhibit will be Miss Edna Bishop, home agent of Cherokee County, Mrs. Velma B. (See Exhibits?Page 3) Most of the 26 Home Demonstra tion Clubs in Haywood County are i expected to enter booths Tuesday [and Wednesday in the Haywood ! County Tobacco and Hqme Dem onstration Exhibition. In addition, some of the best tobacco of the season will also be placed on display. Both exhibits will be at the Way nesville armory and the past cus tom of placing the booths around the sides of the building and to bacco exhibits in the center will be followed this year. A wide variety of homemade articles will again be placed on exhibit that will include rugs, flower displays, cooking of all types, and many others. Prizes for these exhibits will be awarded as well as for the tobacco and window art works by high school students. Judging in all three divisions will start at 10 a.m. Tuesday and entries must be ready by that time. For many years the Home Dem onstration clubs held . their own exhibits. About six years ago to- j bacco growers started their own (See Festival?Page 3) Rainfall This Week Alleviates Shortage A total of .50 of an inch of rain fell in the Waynesvillc area Mon- ! day and Tuesday, the State Test Farm reported today. The rain, though still not enough to completely erase the shortage caused by a 30-day dry spell, was sufficient enough to dampen the ground and some what do away with the fire haz ard. G. C. Ferguson. Waynesvllle town manager, said this morning that the rain was sufficient to allow the turning on of the var ious fountains on Waynesvllle streets. If the water level drops below the danger point again the foun tains will be cut off again. Much of Crop Destroyed By Early Freeze County Agent Wayne Franklin said this week that the tobacco j crop this year should amount to $1,500,000. and would have been' even more had not an early freeze destroyed several huhdred thous and dollars' worth. That hard freeze that hit the county about three weeks earlier than usual caused a loss of between $250,000 and $300,000, he said. Otherwise. Haywood County would have enjoyed a record year, Frank lin said. The loss from the freeze Is great er than anticipated because many farmers did not know their tobac co was frozen until they examined Haywood county has about 2,100 growers, with an acreage allot ment of 1,700 acres. The markets will open on De cember first. Disease in tobacco has been 1 about average for the year and had little effect on the county-wide picture. After starting off to a poor season with farmers looking for light crops, the summer dry spell ended in time for many farmers to grow some of their finest tobacco in years. Except for the hard freeze 1 the season would have been un expectedly good. Another period of dry weather this fall made the cured tobacco so brittle and dry that farmers are, behind in their grading. Hut Sun day night the month-long spell was broken and by Tuesday a few workers started grading. The grad ing and sorting process was gen eral in the county by Wednesday,1 and if damp?not necessarily rainy I? weather continues, tobacco should be ready for the market in j about three weeks. In schools. throughout the county, absent lists , are long as students are resulted to stay away from classes and give their time to getting the crop ready. Grading For New School Is Nearing Completion I "The new vocational building at, Wayncsville high school will be a 'show house' of Western North Carolina," said Jerry Liner, con tractor, today, in discussing build ing schedule of the new plant. The rains of Monday came two days ahead of finishing the basic excavating, Mr. Liner pointed out. There are about 50.000 yards of dirt to be moved in ail for the building, which will be 500 feet Jong?extending from within 50 feet of Brown Avenue to within 16 feet of the bank on the upper end | of the lot. A roadway will be buflt entire- j ly around the building for haul-1 ing in supplies, and the digging of foundation trenches will get I underway as soon as weather per mits, the contractor pointed out. The next work will be the erec-1 tion of an office, tool house, and | warehouse op the Site. Mr. Liner said. "I feel that this building will be far beyond any thing yet seen in the way of school buildings. It is the greatest set of j plans I have ever worked with, j Everything is complete, from the deep foundations to the ail-stetel roof, and we are yet to find a bet-j ter roof than an all-steel." The project is part of the school expansion system voted upon by the citizens of the county in De cember 1951. 99 New Cases On Docket For Conrt; Opens Hondav | The November term of Criminal court will convene here Monday morning, with Judge William H. Bohbitt. presiding. The-records in the office of J. H. Slier, clerk of court, shows that there are Bfl new cases on the docket, with 83 caaes carried over from previous terms of superior court. '? , Most of the cases deal with driv-; Ing drunk, simple assault, non-sup- j port, larceny, giving worthless checks, and one case for slander. There are 41 new cases on the docket in which defendants are charged with driving while drunk These 41 cases have been on the docket since the July term of court. Thad D. Bryson Is the solicitor for term of court. The jury for the first week, in-1 eludes: Miss Marjorle Brown, Beaver dam; Milton Mcsser, Fines Creek; Mrs. Minnie Terrell, Pigeon, Charlie R. Caldwell. Pigeon; L. E. Evans. Pigeon; E. L. Itohinson, Clyde; Johnny Fie. Ivy Hill; Chas. L. Shepard, Beaverdam; G. M. (See Court?Page 31 Woody Is Freedom Drive Head Jonathan Woody,, president of; the First National Bank of Waynes ville, has been named a district chairman who will help lead the third annual Crusade for Freedom in North Carolina. The crusade opens December 7, Pearl Harbor Day, and will con tinue for one week. Woody's appointment was made by Gordon Gray, president of the Consolidated University of North Carolina and state chairman of the crusade for 1932. Other district chairmen are George Watts Hill of Durham, (See Woody?Pa*e 3). Referendum On Burley Quotas Set For Nov. 22 i More than 2.100 growers of j Burley Tobacco in Haywood will be given an opportunity to vote: in a national referendum Satur-! day, November 22, to determine whether they want marketing quotas continued on 1053, 1954 and 1955 crops, according to A. W. Ferguson, chairman of the county I'MA committee. A large gumber of growers and business men met here Wednes- i day. and heard two tobacco spec- j talists discuss the merits of the referendum, and the advantage of the present program. Claude Turner, of the U. S. De pal tment of Agriculture of Wash ington, addressed the group, as did J. L. Nicholson, of the State Department of Agriculture. Ita leigh. The speakers pointed out that the marketing quotas enable grow ers to adjust supply and demand and thus help them to obtain fair prices for the tobacco they pro duce. The guaranteed support price is part of the marketing program, j the speakers pointed out. The marketing quota program will be in effect if it is approved by at least two-thirds of the growers , voting in the referendum. A grow er is termed any person who has an interest in the 1952 crop of hurley. No grower, however, is en-i titled to more than one vote even though he may have been engaged in the production of burley In two or more communities, counties, or states. "A favorable vote in the refer endum," said Mr. Ferguson, "means under the law, that price (Sec Referendum?Page 3) Car Plunges Down Steep Mountain; Occupant Unhurt Wesley R. Gibson, of Maggie, has a small scratch on hi;; ley., and a completely demolished car, re sulting from a double sitnm-T sault in bis car dowM a rt* icy mountain side. Gibson, foreman of the Grassy Branch Mica Mine, was parking his car at the mine early Wednes day mor"lng, when the car .- iarte I to roll, lie tried to put on the brakes, but the rear axle had lip ped. and the brake would not hold. He did not have time to get out, and the car started tumbling.. It turned over twice amid huge boulders, and then for a last twist, went over end ways, landing cn the lop. The top waa jammed down on the steering wheel, with Gib >n occupying the 18-ineh -pace "be tween the smashed top and e?d of the 1849 Chevrolet. "It was a helpless feeling," he told The Mountaineer. "The car started for the 40-foot bant, and f tried to jam the other side of the road, but it was too lale, anri down the bank it went. II all happened so quickly I did not have lime to think much while it was turning over." By some miracle, the hack glass in the car was not broken. Gibson has been torcman of the mine for some time, and had just let two fellow-workers out when the car started to roll. Eldridge Sutton, wrecker oper ator. said It was the roughest country he had pulled out a wreck ?"rocks as big as a cow and the car hit almost all of them." h' .aid. Gibson said his back and shoul der were a little sole from being thrown around in the run-away car. but he did not think it was anything but slight bruises. 4 ANGUS COWS PURCHASED BY SUN RISE FARM Sun Rise Farm. WaynesvlMe. re cently purchased four pui rl>r> d Aberdeen-Angus cows frpni Rot torfT Brothers. Prospect. Kentucky. Highway Record For B 1952 In Haywood (To Date) Injured.... 43 Killed .... 5 (Thl* Information rom pilrd from Rrrnrdn or State Highway Patrol.) World Peace Plan Gets Endorsement Of Lions The VV'aynesville Lions Club re cently went on record as being "favorable" lo a plan for worid peace, known as World Construc tion, Incorporated, and became the first organized group to formally acknowledge the plan as one that would, if successfully carried out. break down the barriers that r.tand between world peace and world war, Heiriz W. Hollman. founder of the plan, which has already re- j 'Cived favorable recognition from several International leaders for | world peace, met with a rommil :oo of the Lions Club to discuss the msir concepts of the plan. After 'onsiderable discussion the coni nittec reported to the club that 'the basic idea of the plan is one of high merit" and the report of the committee was accepted by the club as "favorable." In Its report the committee brief ly described the plan: "The United I States should pass legislation draft ing three million people to form a peace army. This army would be composed of persons of numerous fields of endeavor, to wit. minist ers. farmers, doctors, lawyers, teachers, bankers, etc. This army would be sent to the various coun tries In the world who requested assistance, thereby Instilling the peoples of those countries with the method, means, and spirit of the American way of life." In talking with Mr. Rollman the ! (See Peace?Page 3) ? 11 Jury Finds Alexander Not Guilty In Park Bear Case j By BILL LEINBACH Staff Writer In a ease that one of the prose cutors called the longest mis demeanor trial he could remem ber. Tom Alexander was found not guilty Wednesday afternoon In Federal Court at Ashevllle on three counta arising from the kill ing of a hear last spring in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. The jury trial lasted from 10:10 a.m. until 5 p.m. and saw the call ing of many witnesses in a vigor ous prosecutuion and defense that at times brought laughter from the J spectators. The final decision was not easily arrived at and the jury required two hours to reach a decision. They returned twice to the courtroom to clear up technical points in regard to the evidence. Charges against Alexander in cluded hunting and killing a wild animal in the Park, with molest ing a hear in the Park, and carry ing firearms in the Park. None of the charges was proved to the satis faction of the jury. J. A. Uzzell, U. S. Attorney, was the chief prosecutor. (See Bear?Page 3) County Entries Take j Prizes In Annual WNC Fat Stock Show Haywood County F.F.A. and 4-H Club members showed 30 calves jt (he Annual Western North Caro lina Fat Stock Show and Sale held In Ashevtlle on November 12-13. Calves were shown by F.F.A. mem bers from Crabtree. Waynesville. tnd Bethel Chapters, and 4-H Club ?nembers from Crabtree. Waynes ville, F.ast Waynesville, and Bethel i-H Clubs. Other counties show n? calves were: Macon. Clay. Cherokee. Swain, Jackson. Transyl vania. Madison. Buncombe. Mc Dowell. Avery and Henderson. A otal of 111 calves were entered in he show. Macon County won flrand Cham pion with a Hereford calf owned by Paul Killian of Franklin, .lack son County won Reserve Champion with a Shorthorn calf owned by Robert Davis of Sylva. Calves were grouped info Light. Medium and Heavyweight classes. Top Haywood calves were as fol- ^ lows: Lightweight Class <875 pounds and under, with 39 calves in classi Keith Lcatherwood 2nd. Dewain Crawford 4th. and R E. Cathey 10th. Middleweight Class <876 pounds to 975 pounds, with 38 calves In class> Billy Allison 7th. (See Stock Show?Page 8)