North Carolina Newspapers

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<ording to records at the [ Police Department, one arrest was made January 1, another on January 2, and three this past | Saturday. w People in-the Wayne.wille* town shift who do not own real estate ( and will not be visited by tax list-* ers and assessors can do their list ing each Saturday of the month from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the court house. Non-property owners in Begver dam township can list daily at the Chamber of Commerce office at Canton and Saturdays at the Town Hall. For the rest of the county, tax litsing places li'ave been announc ed as follows from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Jan. 10: Cataloochee township ? Mack Caldwell's Store, Mack Caldwell, Jr., lister: Cecil township?Cecil School. Jerry Francis; Clyde town ship?Cagle Furniture- Store, Wil liam Osborne: East Fork township ?Poston's Store, Ken Burnette; (See Tax Listing?Page 4) Polio Sing Will Be Held Sunday At Court House Haywood County's 1953 March of Dimes drive will hold its kickoff program next Sunday when the an nual Polio Sing takes place in the Court House. The sing will begin at 2 o'clock. Rev. C. L. Allen and W. T. Queen will be in charge of the sing. These two mn have been leading this phase of the March of Dimes cam paign since its inception in the county several years ago. The sing, always one of the most popular features of the drive has attract ed hundreds of people annually, and has consistently been so well presented that hundreds of dollars have poured into the Dime Drive's coffers as a result. All singers in the nearby area (See Polio Sing?Page 4) Condition Of ! Lake Tunaluska Official Serious Dr. Edgar H. Nease, Sr., of At lanta, was reported this morning to have gained consciousness after being critically injured last Mon day in an automobile wreck at Seneca, S. C. , Dr. Nease is executive secretary of the Southeastern Jurisdiction of the Methodist church, and in charge of the program for the coming year at Lake Junaluska. He suffered a concussion of the (See Condition Serious?Page 4) Joe Palmer Will Not Ask ' Much Local Legislation Inauguration Set For Thursday At noon Thursday. William B. Umstead is to take the oath as governor of North Carolina. Luther B. Hodges will become lieu tenant governor, in what now looms as one of the most colorful inaugurations in the history of the state. Inauguration And Opening Oi General Assembly To Be Big Event In Raleigh Temperature Drops To 18 Here Over Weekend The weather tot down pretty low last night but not quite as low as was registered back in December. On Decemher 15 the Mountain Experiment Station recorded a low of 13. Last night it was 18. Soco Gap, which was closed at one time over the week-end, was open to motorists today. Officers warned anyone travel ing that way that there was still some Ice and that careful driv ing was an absolute must. Saturday afternoon two cars ran together at'Balsam because of icy conditions but neither ve hicle was damaged. A bright sun early this morn ing is melting much of the snow that fell over the week-end but the weatherman forecasts more snow flurries for late this after noon and tomorrow. . ! Tar Heel political leaders from all corners of the State will swarm to Raleigh this Week for a double barreled attraction?the opening of i the General Assembly on Wednes | day and the inauguration of a new j Governor on Thursday. A few legislators and other po-1 ' liticians arrived Sunday, but the invasion of the Capital won't rfca< h full momentum until Tuesday.1 when party caucuses will be held to choose leaders of the General Assembly. The big crowd, of course, will be in the city on Thursday. Thousands of persons from all over the State will view the parade and the cere-, mony at which William B. Umstead of Durham takes over the head post in State Government from W Kerr Scott of Haw River, who has held it for the past four years. The official party will move down Fayetteville Street after leaving the Executive Mansion on Blount Street shortly after ll o'clock. Umstead. a lawyer, former Con-; gressman and former U. S. Senator,' will take his oath in Memorial1 Auditorium, where a joint session : of the House and Senate will be (See Inauguration?Page 4) Tourist Group | To Meet Here Wednesday Night A colorful peek at what other i resort sections are doing to attract 1 and to hold visitors will be a mo s tion picture of "Dudin' in Colora p do" to be shown at the January 7 meeting of the Haywood County 0 Highlanders (formerly Haywood 1 County Tourist Association) meet .. ing at the court house, at 8 p. m. according to L. E. DeVous, presi dent. The organisation will also dis cuss plans for participation in the forthcoming National Travel Show by Western North Carolina High f landers, Inc., to be held in Chicago I I February 20 - March 1. . The plans call for a display that will attract widespread interest i- with special emphasis upon the - desirability of early Spring visits -! to the "linger longer" Highlands 'of Western North Carolina. Local Heart Chapter Will Be Organized A local chapter of the Americar Heart Association will be organic ed Friday when the Heart Func Committee will meet at 7:30 p.m at the courthouse. With the formation of the ehapt er, plans will be completed for the heart drive Feb. 1 to March 1 am a goal will be set. Dr. J. L. Reeve: and Mrs. Mildred H. Bryson ar< co-chairmen of the committee. Purpose of the drive will be ti raise funds for local, State am federal use in combating heart di seases. Waynesville Masons To Meet Here Friday The Waynesville chapter ol Royal Arch Masons No. 60 wil hold a stated convocation Friday January 9 at 7:30 o. m. Installation of officers and initi ation in the M. M. and P. M. de grees will be a part of the busi ness of the evening. ./ Representative Left Today For State Capital t Representative Joe Palmer said just before leaving for Raleigh to-i day that he had little local legis lation which he planned to seek ] in the approaching term of the j General Assembly, which convenes ! on Wednesday. Representative Palmer said there ; are a number of pieces of local legislation which he has under con sideration. but not dihnitely made up his mind as to what he will do about them. Several office hold ers are seeking pay increases, he; said. These include both county and town officials in Haywood, it was said. "There are several offices in the county which need to be studied with the view of modernization," he said. "Just how far. or what will be done after making a study of comparison with othor counties is not known right now. I plan to study the proposals and investigate what has been done in other coun ties and then make a decision. There is no reason to be in too big: a hurry on such matters. The General Assembly will be in ses sion for at least 90 days, and there is time to study, and confer with others on such matters before writ- t ing any bills." Representative Palmer said he j i (See Joe Palmer?Page 4) Mill In Gastonia Robbed By Inman; Was Seen Here An Mcatied convict, who has re nnrtvAiv jfeen sci'ii in Haywood' fCdunty recently, wts idehnfledJ Saturday as one of the three men who held up the office of a Gas Ionia- textile mill and escaped with a $2,400 payroll. The man, identified as Defoye Inman. was identified by the pres ident of the null from a picture taken from police files. j Inman. who escaped from the! Pitt County Prison. Camp in Octo-11 bcr with two others, was reported ly seen in the Cove Creek section of this county last week. At that -> 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.