The Waynesyille Mountaineer are there to 4* the jeb. Published Twice-A-Week In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park a u 68th YEAR NO. 2 MMPAGES Associated Preaa WAYNESVtLLE, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, JAN. 5, 1953 $3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties ? delights Oi The News \ ? [ Luck iok seems to run in the kis family. jong age Mr. Davis won k a commercial contest jbacco farmers. Then in | Jack Davis, his son, kcury in another contest, Lon a bicycle in still an il Imes a winner, and .each dhing to ride in or on. bles Are Turned 1941, Joe Palmer as a State College, would go neral Assembly, and sit itor's gallery and watch r on the floor of the he represented Haywood. > scene has changed. Glenn C. Palmer visit ral Assembly this term, sit in the visitor's gal watch his son Joe on the ihe House, as he repre wood. nn C. Palmer served five representative. Wcdnes mark the beginning of i term. lion Thursday's issue of The >er, it was stated that a mud was being dug up Street by the Town of le, a necessary step in of new power lines. The [er was in error and E?ke a correction, the work being done eet is a project of the 11 Telephone Company icessary in the project (eventually provide Way telephone subscribers Conveniences of a dial system. | mud and accompanying [the price of progress. alendar icen looking with a great iiterest at the new 1953 No fancy girls in the ave, but some pretty nice e're mostly interested in dates that most people know, like which day ashington's birthday falls lay tjiis year.) But we'll off to what comes in Ike's inaugural day falls lay. Our Governor, Mr. [ will be inaugurated of this week, he's Day is on a Satur er comes April 5 this Jr Day comes on Septem I July 4 falls on Saturday, ire three Friday the thir - - in February, March, I months later, in N'o |as falls on Friday, and Day falls on a Wednes Ire, as usual, quite a few s that are to be remem I planned for, but the a about as important as im Sells 0 Here ( s Studio, which has been for the past seven years isonic Building, has been led and the owner and V moved to Florida, the equipment has been 1 by the Mountaineer and being made to install a >hic dark-room in the r plant . Pictures that as taken during the time ed the studio have been the disposal of the Moun nd persons desiring re y do so by contacting the > To Resume cly Meetings ms Club will hold Its first of the New Year at 7:30 rsday at Spaldon's Res r meetings are being re illowing the usual post ts that accompany Christ New Year's holidays. le ther 4 ^CIdoleiP y ? Considerable cloudi cold, with snow flurries late afternoon. Partly id colder Tuesday, il Waynesville weather as at the State Test Farm.) Max. Mln. Rainfall 96 24 ? 43 29 .17 38 26 ? 33 18 ? Excellent Travel Year Forecast By Travel Group v * Telephone Manager ? C. T. McCuiston of Asheville has been appointed Waynesville Group Manager of the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Com pany effective Jan. 1, it was an nounced today by J. L. Smith, Asheville District Manager. He will have charge of the Waynesville and Canton exchanges and his office will be in the new telephone building located at 106 Academy Street here. Meanwhile, the company has an nounced the moving of its business office into the new building where it has been open for business since 8;30 a.m. Monday. Jan. 5. The same office hours will be maintained from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. A night depository is located at the front entrance for the convenience of customers. Mrs. Fay Toy and Mrs. Annie Fie will continue to handle busi ness transactions in the new build ing. Mr. McCuiston began his service with the telephone copiggny. Jyly 8, 1940, in the Directory Depart ment. Later he served four years in the Air Force. He has held sev eral positions with the company and for the past two years has served as office manager in the Asheville District office. A native of Winston-Salem, Mr. McCuiston has been active in the Asheville Lions Club work and served as president of the Haw Creek Mens Club. He is married to the former Miss Charlotte Sofley of Asheville. They have three chil dren. Mr. and Mrs. McCuiston arc members of the Presbyterian Church and will make their home in Waynesville in the near fu ture. District "Slanager Smith stated that due to the past telephone growth experienced in Haywood County and the $800,000 dial con version now in progress, it is felt that a full time manager is neces sary in the best public interest and in the supervision of the Company's business. Southern Bell now has 6740 telephones in service in Hay wood County and 390 requests for service pending. Iron Duff CDP To Meet Thursday Night The Iron Duff Community De velopment Program will hold its regular monthly meeting Thurs day, January 8, at the home of Jarvis Caldwell. Jack Ray. chairman, urges that all members be present. The meet ing will begin promptly at 7 o'clock. "We can expect an excellent ( travel season for 1953. barring un forseen events that could be im posed upon our nation from the outside". That is the confident prediction of the National Association of Travel Organizations. Inc., of which Bart Leiper is president, as well as being executive vice presi- 1 dent of Western North Carolina Highlanders, with headquarters 1 here. I ' i The predictions of NATO, Leiper stated, are based upon the con sidered Opinions of leaders in vari- , ous phases of the travel industry, ! such as the railroads, airlines, bus i lines, and the American Automo | bile Association which states: "The ' picture is bright for 1953, but the year will also be the time for long range planning of the country's travel needs". The AAA points out the need for expanded facilities in connection with maintenance and upkeep of the National Parks. "Overcrowd ing and understaffing of the na- 1 tional parks and failure to build new and adequate highways are two aspects of a problem which will worsen unless serious thought and action are given". Dr. Herbert A. Wilkinson,, spec- , ial assistant director of Services , for the U. S. Commerce Depart ment, Washington, has informed NATO that their studies indicate I at least a general over-all 5 per- ( cent increase in domestic travel , this year, stressing the increase in disposable personal income and growth in savings accounts. More and more emphasis is be ing placed by travel experts upon the- need for adequate recreation ! and entertainment as a means of holding visitors, Leiper stated. Tax Listing Places In County Are Announced Only Five Arrests Are Made So Far This Year The New Year has proven to be'a good one so far as the Waynesville Police Department is concerned. To date there has been only five arrests made, all of them on the charge of public drunkenness. Ac time two men, whom officers be lieved were Inman and Red Bon ner, also an escaped convict, shot a tire off the car of a Mr. Riddle of White Oak.and fled before offi cers could arrive on the scene. Police have intensified their search for both men. M Ready For Session Representative Joe Palmer fefT this afternoon for Raleigh, where he will represent Haywood in the House of the General Assembly. He is one of the youngest mem bers of the 1953 session. ? -' ' Four Negroes Are Injured Saturday Afternoon Here Two Waynesville Negroes were still in Moore General Hospital Veterans Hospital in Swannanoa this morning as a result of an auto mobile accident late Saturday af ternoon in which four persons were injured. Ed Wheeler, listed bv officers as the driver of the automobile which careened off the highway (Pigeon Street) and overturned, was reported to have his jaw broken, most of his teeth knocked out, and serious injuries to his hand. He ?1?0 suffered uov.irk .? skull fracture and interna? in juries. Dexter Bryant, who is at pres ent serving with the Army, suf fered a possible skull fracture. The accident occurred about 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon on Pigeon Street. The car. which was traveling at a high rate of speed, left the road, struck an embank ment, a telephone pole, and over turned twice. ? Two other passengers in the car were treated for injuries at Hay wood County Hospital and were released shortly after. The two were Jute Clark and Gene Howell, who is Just three years old. Officers .Harry Evans and Ray Whitener investigated. Weather Let The Pupils Down; Classes Resumed The weather over the week-end just wasn't had enough or long j enough to keep any Haywood Coun ty students home today and about 9.000 of them headed back to classes this morning. For a while some of them un doubtedly were 'hoping that the snow and ice on several of the I highways would extend the 16-day Christmas vacation. But this morn ing Mrs. John Boyd, superintend ent of county schools, said all 1 buses were in operation and clas ses started on time. Christmas vacation is the divid- | ing line in the school year in vaca tions and days off. With the coming i of the New Year there is little time ofT until summer vacation?unless. I of course, the weather causes a change in plans. Students may not attend classes F.aster Monday, but | aside from that, the grind is steady i from now on. Gospel Sing Scheduled At James Chapel Church A program of gospel music will be presented at the James Chapel Baptist Church at Crabtree tomor row i Tuesday) night at seven i o'clock. The music will be presented by j Hartford's Quartet of Knoxville. a musical group that has a regular radio program each Sunday morn- I ing. The singers are widely known in I this area. Rev. G. A. Crumn has invited the public to attend the program. Boosters Club To Meet The Hazelwood Boosters Club will hold its regular meeting Thursday night. January 8. at 7 o'clock at the Presbyterian Church. All members are urged to be i present. Lions Top Goal In Funds For Christmas Cheer The Waynesville Lions Club, which had set a goal of $2.000 for its Christmas Cheer fund, collected more than that this year and. as a result, was able to help more children than ever before. An unofficial report shows that the Lions Dime Board, which op erated about three weeks before Christmas, collected some $1,863. A radio program netted $370 for a total of $2,235. So far $1,900 has been oaid out with some bills still not paid. Should any of the funds be left over after all bills are paid, the Llors v ill place the reineinder of the funis in a "special Welfare fund to be used much in the same way as the Christmas fund Generally speaking, the Lions use Christmas Cheer funds to help needv children in the county. The project is taken each year and ? has always proved hugely success ful. Members of the Lions today ex pressed thanks to the people of Haywood County for being so gen erous in their contributions. Haywood Has Low Rating In Public Assistance North Carolina is a State thai ranks low in the nation in genera welfare assistance to its people anr Haywood County has a low ratinj in the State, according to informa tion for the current issue of th< -?University of N. C. News Letter. General assistance refers t< needy people between 18 and 6i yean of age and does not includ the Federal Social Security pro gram. Public assistance comes fron county funds, perhaps supplement ed by the State. In the matter of jold age assist ance, Haywood County rank thirty seventh in North Carolim with an average payment of $25.10 in aid to dependent children It i; in fifty-sixth place with an aver age payment of $45.65; and in aii to the blind the county place twenty-fourth and an average pay m%nt of $36.06. These figures for the county ar? about the same as the State's aver age in*each case. North Carolina') payment for general assistance wa.' $21.16 and for the U. S. it wai t $48.35. Only three southern states 1 ranked below North Carolina and I the southern states were at the i bottom of the list. No county in the state even ap 5 proaches the .national average pay ment for old age assistance. No ) county in the state is close to the ' national average payment for aid e to dependent children. No county - approaches the national average i average payment for aid to the - blind. The public welfare date al so shows that no county in the - state approaches the national aver s payment for aid to the ' manently and totally disabled. In : fact. In a vast majority?of coun s ties the public welfare recipients receive less per month than the i average for the southern states. s The News Letter concluded its " summary by stating that "certainly the lowest goal to be sought by North Carolina Is to meet the southern average in the various items that make up the public wel fare program.^ Seriously Hurt ' Dr. Edgar H. Neaae, Sr., an offi cial of Lake Junaluska. and in charge of the program, was re ported today as still in a critical rondltion following injuries re ceived in an automobile accident. Christmas Seal Drive Is $380 Short Of Goal Proceeds from the 1952 Christ-1 mas Seal Sale, which ended ofTi-i ciaily Dec 25, total $1,080.59. about $380 short of the $1400 goal. Mrs. | R. R. Campbell. Seal Sale Chair man of the Waynesville-Hazelwood - Tuberculosis Committee, has an nounced. Mrs. Campbell stressed, however, that it is not.too late to send re turns. The $1400 goal is the mini mum needed for the committee's i tuberculosis control projects dur ing 1953. . I "We have had inquiries about whether Christmas Seal returns are: still being accepted, and I want' to emphasize that they are not only acceptable, but welcome." Mrs. Campbell said. "In fact, we are counting on those late returns to reach minimum financial needs so that the committee will be assur ed of making Its 19.13 TB control program in this area the most ef fective in its history. May I say here that the bringing of the Mo bile X-Ray Units here in May 1953 is our main project." These are already scheduld for Haywood County. "I am confident that those who have forgotten or overlooked their Christmas Seal Sale letters will acknowledge them in the very near future," she said. Highway Record For 1953 In Haywood (To Date) Injured.... 5 Killed .... 0 (This Information com piled from Records of State Highway Patrol.) i - t-- - Pre - Trial Hearings Start Today The pre-trial calendar got under way here this morning at the Jan uary tfrm of civil Superior Court with Judge Allen H. Gwyn presid ing. Following is a schedule of the trial for the two week term: Motion docket: Ward, trustee vs. Ensley, and Watkins Co. vs. Alli son. Tuesday ? Roberts vs. Rogers Electric Co.; Ratcliffe vs. Goforth; and Powell Lumber Co. vs. Go forth. Wednesday ? Sanford vs. Moon ey and Jones vs. Town of Can ton. Thursday ? Haywood Builders Supply Co. vs. Deeb: Caldwell vs. Protex Weatherstrip Co.; and Davis vs. Snyder. Friday ? Rogers Electric Co. vs. Goforth; The L. N. Davis Co. vs. Patten; and Haywood Builders Supply Co. vs. Ratcliffe. Monday ? Camp vs. Camp, Car ver vs. Moody Rulane, Inc.; Clark vs. Wellco Shoe Corp.; Leather wood vs. Green; E. F. Caldwell vs. Charles Edwards; and Frecl vs. Cagle. Tuesday ? Owen vs. Meiselman; Daugherty vs. Wise; Francis vs. Snyder; Haywood Builders Supply Co. vs. Deeb; and Martin Electric Co. vs. Deeb. Wednesday ? Price vs. Messer; Rathbone vs. Pipes; Mills vs. Hampton: James vs. Surrett; and Westmoreland vs. N. C. State Highway Public Works Commis sion. Uncontested divorce cases will ?e tried at the convenience of :ourt and counsel.