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67th YF.AB NO. 93 16 PAGES Associated Prew WAYNESVILLE. N.C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, NOV. SO, 1952 i3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties
6th Tobacco Festival
One Ot Best Staged;
With Large Attendance |
Tar Heel Brand
Bart Leiper, execuitve vice presi
dent of the recently formed
Western North Carolina High
landers, Inc., with headquarters
in Waynesville, wears the Tar
Heel tie presented him by Bill
Sharpe, publisher of The State,
magazine, just before Leiper left
to attend the annual meeting of
the National Association of Trav- j
el Organizations, Inc., at San
Diego, Calif., which on November
19th elected him president.
(Photo by Bill Leinbach)
Bart Leiper
President
National
Organization
Bart Leiper, executive vice prcsP
dent and general manager of West
ern North Carolina Highlanders.
Inc.. with regional headquarters
here, today was elected president
of the National Associatiqn of
Travel Organizations, Inc., at their
annual meeting just concluded at
San Diego, Calif.
Memberships in NATO, as the
travel promotion organization is
called by those in the field, repre
sents a cross-section of all travel
interests in the United States ?
travel publications, metropolitan
newspaper travel editors, regional,
state and municipal travel promo
tion organizations; numerous cham
bers of commerce; hotels, resorts,
motor courts: transportation organ
izations, including rail, air, high
way, and by water; and commercial
(See Leiper?Page 2)
Four Residents
Of Haywood Take
Citizenship Oath
Fourteen new citizens of the
United States were welcomed yes
terday by Federal Judge Wilson
Warlick in Asheville.
The oath of citizenship was tak
en by the group before Judge
Warlick, presiding jurist in the
western district of North Carolina.
They were introduced to the court
and recommended for citizenship
by Bryon McAdoo of Norfolk, ex
aminer for the Naturalization and
Immigration Service.
Included in the naturalization
class were four people who make
their home in Haywood County:
Violet Barbara Moore of (CIyde.
Katherine Strafford of Canton;
Elwyn Mary May Calhoun of Way
nesville. and Elizabeth Barbara
Golden of Waynesville.
Trade Jubilee To
Have Five Prize
Winners Saturday
Five big prizes will be given
away Saturday afternoon at 2
o'clock on the tVaynesville High
School athletic field as part of the
Second Trade Jubilee sponsored
by the Waynesville Merchants As
sociation.
The big prize will be a five-piece
dinette set with a retail value of
$169 50 Other prizes will be a $110
Remington automatic 16-gauge
j shotgun, an overstuffed plastic
platform rocker, a modernistic)
table lamp and mahogany end
table, and $15 worth of groceries.
The drawings are held each Sat
urday on the high school field
Everyone holding tickets Is urged j
to be on hand for the big draw
ings. ? I
Miss Vanita Morrow, a 16-year
old Waynesville high school stu
dent from Jonathan Creek, was
picked from 18 entries Tuesday
night at the armory as the Tobacco
Queen for 1952-53.
She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Edgar Morrow.
As the new queen. Miss Morrow
will receive a $100 scholarship if
she goes to college and a ward
robe from Canton merchants. %
The beauty contest lasted about
an hour and was the concluding
event for the day of the Tobacco
Show and Home Demonstration Ex
hibit. The two-day event, which
ended Wednesday with the closing
of the displays at the armory at
4 p.m., was sponsored by the
Waynesville Merchants Association
and the Haywood County CDP.
At least a thousand spectators
crowded into the courtroom and
stood in the doorways to witness
the evening's program which start
ed with a musical program by the
Clyde, Bethel, Waynesville, and
Canton high school Glee Clubs.
Ben C. Fisher, a native of Jack
son County who is now vice-presi
dent of Gardner-Webb College at
Boling Springs, made the principal
address of the evening. The pro
gress Haywood County has made
in the past two years was the sub
ject of his talk. He was introduced
by Jack Chapman, chairman of the
Haywood County CDP, who was
master of eeremonies for the even
ing.
Prizes to the tobacco. Home
Demonstration, tobacco allotment,
and poster winners were then
awarded by Joe Davis of the First
National Bank of Waynesville.
which donated the money for the
tobacco acreage contest, and C. D.
Kctr.er, president of the Mer
chants Association.
The contestants for the Tobacco
Queen title were introduced by Asv
sistaHf County Agent Turner
Cathey. They appeared in evening
gowns on a raised platform at the
front of the courtroom. Just be
fore the beauty contest started
last vear's queen, Mrs. Charles
Hay- Howell, was presented to the
spectators and she occupied the
"throne" until she placed the
crown on the new queen's head.
Merchant Group
Makes Changes
In Schedules
Members of the Waynesvllle
Merchants Association have decid
i td to keep their businesses open
all dav on Wednesdays until Christ
mas.
The new sphedule was decided
upon along with several others at
a meeting of the group Monday
night.
Other changes include the clos
: ing of all member stores on
Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day.
the day aftter Christmas, and Janu
i ary 1.
It was also announced that, as
a convenience to shoppers, the
stores would remain open the three
Fridays before Christmas until
nine o'clock at night.
Also, the stores will be open all
day on the day fWednesday) be
fore New Year's Day.
Tobacco Queen For 1952-53
The queen's crown was given Miss Vanita Morrow of Jonathan
Creek Tuesday night after she had been chosen from among
18 contestants by Mrs. Charles Ray Howell, who was queen last
year. (Photo by Ingram's Studioi.
Mrs. Roy Meador Takes
First Prize At Tobacco
Show For Second Year -
Cold Cash Given
For 1902 Coins;
And Old Papers
Were you born December 2,
1902?
Do yoti have any coins dated
1902?
Do vou have any checks, notes,
statements, or mortgages dated
around 1902 to 1905 from the
First National Bank?
Officials of The First National
Bank have some cold cash for
such things?they want to use it
as part of their golden annivers
ary on December 4, 5 and 6th.
Start looking?details will be
announced in this newspaper
soon.
Special Sacred Music
Program Here Sunday
A special program of sacred
nfusic will be presented bv 'he \
combined choirs of the First Bap
tist Church, under the direction
of Charles Isley, Sunday night, at
7:30 o'clock. The program will re
place the usual evening service.
The four church choirs, cherub,
junior, youth, and senior groups,
will take part with Joe Morrow as
accompanist.
Mrs. Roy Meador of Ratcljffe
Co#c. who took first place last
yt?ir, took too prize again this fall j
in the individual tobacco exhibits
at the annual Tobacco Show andj
Home Demonstration Exhibit.
In addition to the blue ribbon
she was presented $25 in cash.
Judging for the tobacco show
took place Tuesday morning.
Taking second place among the
individual exhibits was ltay Fish
er. 13-year-old son of Floyd Fisher
of Fines Creek. He received a cash
award of $20.
Other winners in this particular!
display were Grady Davis of Iron
Duff, third place, $15; W. C. Cham
bers of Jonathan Creek, fourth
place, $10; and Fred Mann of Mom-|
iny, fifth. $5.
Awards were also made in the
single exhibits in each of the
above grades. They were;
Flyings: Grady Davis, first, $10;
Mrs. Roy Meador. second, $8; R. C.
Francis of Ratcliffe Cove, third.
$6; Robert Brown of Iron Duff,'
fourth. $4: and Floyd Fisher, fifth,
$2.
Lugs: Mrs. Roy Meador, first,
$10; Robert Brown, second, $8;
Grady Davis, third, $6; Woodrow
Plemmons of Center Pigeon,
fourth, $4; and Floyd Fisher fifth,
$2.
Leaf: Robert Brown, first. $10;'
Fred Mann, second. $8; Grady Da
vis, third. $6; Mrs. Roy Meador.
(See Mrs. Meador?Page 3)
Takes First Place At HD Exhibit
The Waynesvllle Hofhemakers repeated last year's performance ami took first place again this fall
with their entry in the Home Demonstration exhibit this week at the armory. Mrs Irving Leather
wood was one of the members on hand to furnish information to visitors. (Mountaineei Photoi,
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iBurley Growers To Vote
Saturday On Quota Plan
2,100 Haywood
Growers Eligible To
Participate In
Marketing Plan Vote
Growers of Burtey tobacco of
Haywood county were urged today
by A. W. Ferguson, Chairman of
the County PMA Committee to
take part in the referendum Sat
urday, November 22, 1952, on mar
keting quotas for Burley tobacco.
"Vote any way you choose," Mr.
Ferguson said, "but, be sure to
vote."
"Congress has made it possible,"
he said, "for farmers to have mar
keting quotas and it is up to them
to decide by voting in the referen
dum. Marketing quotas make it
possible for growers to obtain fair
prices for their tobacco by provid
ing a method of adjusting supply
to demand."
The referendum has been called
in compliance with the Agricultur
al Adjustment Act of 1938. The
Act provides for quotas on Burley
tobacco which will be made effec-'
live if approved by at least two
thirds of the growers voting in the
referendum.
"The voters," Mr. Ferguson said,
"will cast ballots on three pro
posals: (1) in favor of the quotas
for three years, 1953, 1954, and
1955: (2) in favor of the quotas
for one year, 1953. but opposed to
quotas for three years: or (3) op
posed to any quotas.
Any person who has an interest
(See Election?Page 2)
Construction Of
Parkway Motor
Court Scheduled
Mr. and Mra R. Gordon Hudson
are completing plans for the con
struction of the Parkway Motor
Court early in 1953. Parkway
Court will be at street level in
front of Parkway Knoll, and will
!>e of native stone construction,
with window walls. Only visible
construction will be either stone
or glass.
Merchant Construction Company
of Asheville will have the contract
and the first units should be in
operation by early summer.
Three Local Men
Get Deer Kills
As Season Opens
Waynesville deer hunters got
their share of the record number
of deer killed during the first
three days of the season.
At least three kills were report
ed by Waynesville hunters. Wayne
Rogers, hunting in the West Fork
Area of the Sherwood Management
area, bagged an 8-point buck about
noon Tuesday. The deer weighed
117 pounds field dressed. Rogers
was hunting in a party that in
cluded Dr. Boyd Owen and Frank
Rathbone.
Rlaph Provost, who has been
hunting for the past 10 years, fin
ally got his first deer this week.
The deer, a .Vpolnt buck that
wtighed 85 pounds field dressed,
was killed on Pisgah Ledge. In
Prevost's party was W. A. Brad
ley, Guy Massie, C. J. Reese, and
Alvin Ward.
Dr. Phil Medford. who usually
manages to get a deer every year,
was successful again this season.
His kill was a 7-polnter weighing
over 100 pounds field dressed.
There were probably other kills \
: nude but dettails weren't avail
able.
To Head Chamber Of Commerce 1953
I)R. BOYD OWEN
President
? JOHNNY JOHNSON
Vice-PresJ'Jeni
u
These three civic leaders were
named Tuesday night to head the :
: Chamber of Commerce for 1953.
They will take office on January ?
first. All three have been active in
I civic affairs of the community, and ?
all three are veterans of World
War II. The Board of Directors '
will be elected at an early date.
; 1 )r. Owen will succeed H. P. Mc
i Carroll as president.
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c.i. k \v Asfntna'NT
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Dr. Boyd Owen Named h%
President Chamber Of
Commerce; Johnson V.P.
Top Com Grower
Edwin Bryson, who averaged 94.4
bushels per acre of corn this
, . ? . ,, . ;
year, nas neen namea me cnam
pion 4-H corn grower of North
Carolina. He is a member of the
Crabtree-Iron r>ulT elub. In rec
ognition of his achievement he
will attend the National 4-H Con
gress in Chicago.
Dr. Ho; d Owen a well known
physician end civic leader v. a:;
named preifdet ; ol' the Ch .1 her
of Commerce Lterc Tuesday 1 . *-1
and will assume < iTicc .J.nu.'.ry
first. Named to serve wit1: f>r.
Owen was Johnn-, Johnso: \<co
president, and. M. "Bud'' VVhi -
jenhunt. wa- re-ciected tm.riin'.
The hoard of directors will be
i elected soon, i* c.nnouved.
The secretary. Mi - Edith CI' l i
bers. will continue in that 1 c
ity
Dr. Owen will succeed H. 1' Mc
[ Carroll, who is now sei viu as
president of the organization.
Tentative plans ar ? to have t! e
1 committees for the new year nam
ed al the December mcotin". and
have them ready to begin work on
January first, the new pit :d? rt
i elect announced Tuesday evenh
Other than the election three
officials, the hoard of dirt - tor s
heard report.- including one from
L. E. DeVous president oi the
Haywood Chapter of the YV. N C.
Highlanders. He ? ? ?onte d ' 'is
of the hook'et v. i t the prnnp
will publish again this ear- and
the appreciation o. the c< (ca
tion of the Chamber of Corim ? ice
with the tourist operator this
past year.
The new pi?? sidcnt-ebwt k a
native oi H.W'.nd, and re
ceiving his BS degree at * a'-.e
Forest, took two vears in the
medical sciiool. later ent< rii.? 'Tie
? University of Penn-vlvenii. v. I ? . e
he graduated in 1(142. and ?<ent
(See Itr. Owen?Pace 2?
Judge Bobbitt Hears Many
Cases As Superior Court
Opens Here For Nov. Term
A large number of criminal cases
are being tried here this week dur
ing the November term of Super
ior Court with drunken driving
charges the most numerous of
those brought before Judge William
H. Bobbitt.
The following divorces were
granted on the grounds of two
years' separation:
Glenna Thompson vs. Henry
Thompson; Wilma N Mehaffev vs.
Edward Mehaffey; Bettie Maltry
vs. Ralph Maltry; Alice Kesler vs.
Paul R Kesler; Maude E. Sherrtll
vs. Grover Sherrill; Noble J. Gib
son vs Mary Willie S. Gibson: Ava
Chambers Barrett vs. John M.
Barrett; and Odessa F. Yanlk vs.
Stanley Yanik.
The remainder of the docket,
through Wednesday afternoon, fol
lows:
State vs. Ctayhorn N. Goodson.
Plead guilty to drunken driving.
S100 and costs Ninety-day sen
tence suspended upon payment.
State vs. Grover Lee King. Plead
guilty to drunken driving 8100 and
costs Ninety-day term suspended
on payment.
State vs. Edward F. Griffn. Plead
guilty to driving more than 75
miles per hour .$25 and costs.
State vs Nelse Gentry. Plead
(See Court?Page 2)
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Highway
Record For
I 1952 I
In Haywood
(To Date)
Injured .... 44
Killed .... 5
(This Information com
piled from Records of
State Highway Patrol.)
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