/ ^ ?? ? TODAY'S 8MILE The Waynesville Mountaineer ^ * lost two wives <Ut way." ? Published Twice-A-Week In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park ^ " O 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, * 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. ? V 'Whs- ? c.i. k \v Asfntna'NT . ?.. ' 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) mmhmu4MTv ^vivv^v-aeewro Highway Record For I 1952 I In Haywood (To Date) Injured .... 44 Killed .... 5 (This Information com piled from Records of State Highway Patrol.) I

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