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Published Twice-A-Week In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Sinoky Mountains National Park ^
SKth YEAR NO. 9 16 PAGES Associated Press WAYNESVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JAN. 29, 1953 *3.00 In Advance In Haywood^nd Jackson Counttaa
I-I
tTV There
?Carolina
?an rehabilitated
old Joe G^n. a
?prentice who was serving
?^ Central Prison in
Kg a larceny charge. was
Ka commutation in his
? tiih week by Gov. Urn
Kren will be sent to the
Khabilitation Center for
^E nt.ar Durham. He was
?ring an escape attempt
? refused to stop on the ?
ktlers and was shot.
If COASTAL PLANT
Kis to start immediately
?million dollar industrial
?on plant in Wilmington.
? plant will employ about
??P CHAIRMAN?
Herree. an Asheboro attor
? Eisenhower booster back
?icr. said this week that he
^Bept the job of state GOP
if it were offered him.
?ley of Marshall, present
is being mentioned as a
?choice for WNC federal
^Attorney.
? still seized
located on the banks of
^Euha River and so inac
? as to require a motor
K*rt the finished product
? seized by Burke County
k Monday. Officers got all
^Lphrrnalia but failed to
bootleggers.
?.mi l l() speak
^B Richard Russell (D-Ga.i
?k at the North Carolina
^Bjaekson Day Dinner in
^February 28, former Rep.
? Doughton announced.
?sort protests
? leaders in Myrtle Beach
^Boto.lrd to the i'. s.
? Bureau about the dis
?a storm warning sign in
?n. Myrtle Beach, the
said, is not a seaport
boats ever dock there.
Hag. which is red, caus
I psychosis to develop in
tourists. The Weather
? official said he'd try to
^Bher-ups in Washington
^Be matter.
ICK KILLS WOMAN \
?r-olri I.umberton woman j
i hospital early Sunday
apparently as the result I
k brought on by the in- ,
[ a man into her home,
idcr was being held on |
charges,
ATERMTY FINED
rth Carolina Slate Col- I
lal fraternity was order
ly a $50 fine and court
r allowing the operation
le-armrd bandit" within
ines. One student was .
d on gambling charges
:e others were dismissed
Ise.
DNE RATE HIKES
tate Utilities Commission ?
d the Western North i
Telephone Company,1
jrves subscribers in nine
|nties. to increase its rates,
imple: from $4.50 to $5
party lines; from $7.25 to
r one party business line, j
GAS BLAST
bodies were removed
r rubble of a gas explos
t wrecked the business
of the atomic boom city,
B. C. Two more bodies
ected to be found in the
of the wreckage, caused
?king gas pipe at an ap
store.
amaged When
i Phone Pole
iDickson, of Maggie, nar
paped injury when the car
I driving crashed into a
P pole on Brown Avenue
resday morning. Dickson
route to work, when the
I the car failed, he told
|r was damaged more than
lit broke off the telephone
L|
?ther <
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SUNNY
'ay ? Sunny, windy and
?r and warmer Friday.
'! Waynesville tempera
nmpiled at the State Test
Max. Min. Rainfall
58 22 ?
55 37 ?
57 40 .48
Officials
Checking
Election
Petitions
Town officials were checking
this morning the petitions asking
for an election to legalize Ihe sale
of beer within Waynesville. The
petitions were returned to the offi
cials the 23rd. and the board of
aldermen now have thirty days in
which to check the list. A total
of 257 names of those voting in the
last town election is needed to call
the election.
Those handling the petitions
were confident that they had more
than enough names on the peti
tions.
No definite time has been made
for submission of the petitions to
the Board of Aldermen, which
serves as a Board of Elections in
an election of this type, but the
board will meet next Thursday and
it is likely that the petitions will
be submitted at that time.
A beer election must be called if
15 per cent or more of the quali
fied voters that voted in the last
Mayoralty and Board of Aldermen
election sign a petition requesting
such an election. In the last elec
tion 1,712 people voted.
Bids For Fines
Creek Road
Project Received
Bids totaling approximately
$160 000 were received by the
North Carolina State Highway
Commission Tuesday for grading
and building of 3.8 miles on the
Betsy Gap Road in Fines Creek.
Clement Brothers Company, of
Lenoir, submitted a bid of $123,
735 for the grading portion of the
work, and a Greenwood. S. C. firm
submitted the low bid for struc
tures. Their bid was for $36,140.
The bids are being reviewed by
the State Highway Commission to
day iThursdayt and it is expected
that the contracts for the job will
be awarded next week.
Heart Fund Drive
Leaders To Hold
Meeting Friday
Final plans and preparations for
the annual Heart Fund drive in
February will be made Friday
night when county leaders meet
in the Commissioners' Room of
the Court House ata 7:30.
The Heart Fund Committee has
divided the county into three
separate divisions for the drive,
and chairmen have been appoint
ed for the Waynesville, Canton,
and Clyde areas. The goal has been
set at SI500.
Dr. J. R. Reeves, of Canton,
and Mrs. Mildred H. Bryson, of
Waynesville, are co-chairmen of
the Haywood County ^ommittee.
Loranzo Smathers and Roy
Patton wHl head up the drive in
the Canton area; Bruce Brown
will direct the drive in the Clyde
area: and Mrs. Charles McDarris
is to be in charge of the drive in
the Waynesville area.
All members of the Advisory
Committee and other people who
have signified their intentions of
helping in the drive are urged to
be present at the meeting.
Formal Ground Breaking Set Monday For Bethel $500,000 School
? trust ? .RMUMNtt
vwiHr ^NW* A . wfufcw.Miv'... : . .v^
V
Officials of the county and Bethel School district will formally break ground Monday at two o'clock for the half million dollar new
elementary school structure. The above is a drawing of the new building at Bethel.
Hazelwood
Had Low Fire
Loss Of $550
During '52
Fire losses in Hazelwood dur
ing the year 1952 were placed at
the very low figure of $550, ac
cording to year-end statistics re
leased today by Mayor Lawrence
Davis1.
"The town of Hazelwood, which
has a population of about 1,800.
and an assessed property evalua
tion of $1,400,000, is extremely
'proud of this record," Mr. Davis
[said, "and our volunteer fire de
partment, serving without pay
[and ready at all times to answer
alarms, deserves a lot of praise for
a job well done."
Thirty-four men are presently
serving in Hazelwood as volunteer
firemen. George Bischoff is chief,
Howell Bryson is assistant chief,
and Rudolph Carswell serves as
I secretary.
The department answered nine
calls for fires last year, six of
them calls for burning buildings, i
and three for grass fires. Of the
] six building fires, two were in in-'
dustrial plants. Of the total $550 i
, fire loss, some $800 was listed as
damage to buildings and the other
$250 as damage to contents to the
buildings.
Two men maintain a twenty-four j
hour duty at the station. Gene
Wyatt, who doubles as tax col- j
lector for Hazelwood, is on duty
during the day time, and Mark j
Smith stays at the station each
night.
In 1950 the town added a new,
(See Hazelwood?Page 8>
Telephone Crews
Installing New
Dial Equipment
About 40 technicians of the
Western Electric Company arrived
here Tuesday to begin installation
of the switchboards and dial equip
ment for Southern Bell in the new
telephone building.
Other crews of the Southern Bell
have started putting cables under
ground. as part of the installation
of the dial system here. Some
other crews arc changing telephone
i sets now to the dial type sets.
Plans are to make the change
over from the present system to
dial early in June.
February Court Docket
Lists 125 Criminal, 10
Civil Cases For 2 Weeks
About 12S criminal cases, most
of them routine, will be tried here
next week wljen Judge Allen II.
Gwynn of Reidsville opens the Feb
ruary term of criminal court Mon
day. .
The majority of trials will be
for drunken driving and non-sup
port.
Although the term of court is
scheduled for two weeks, the sec
ond week will probably see the dis
position of 10 civil cases, plus di
vorces. Few criminal cases were
left over from the last term and
those on the docket are expected
to he completed the first week.
The following will serve on the
jury the first week:
Gilmer Long of Waynesville,
Harold D. Pressley of Pigeon. Fur-:
man Davis of Beaverdam, Will J.
Lcatherwood oi waynesville. /\. i.
Medford of Pigeon. Leon Russell
of Waynesville. Alfred Johnson of
Pigeon, Carey Shepard of Beaver
dam. Clay Neal of Pigeon. Howard
Hall of Clyde, Ella Shuler of Clyde,
S. T. Cooper of Beaverdam. W. V.
Hyatt of Waynesville, Briscoe Ham
ilton of Beaverdam. D. Reeves No
land of Waynesville.
John Chambers of Jonathan
Creek. Grover Robinson of Way
nesville. Porter A. Broyles of
Beaverdam. Dewey Justice of
Beaverdam, Grady Yarborough of
Waynesville. Frank Scales of Way
nesville. Sam McElroy of Waynes
ville, Sidney L. Ha.vnes of Clyde.
Fred Early- of Beaverdam, O. L.
Adkins of Waynesville, L. M.
Smathers of Beaverdam, Lon Good
(See Court?Page 8)
Polio Campaign In Final
Days; Several Programs
Planned This Weekend
Clyde Election
Bill Being Held
Up In The Senate
Thf bill in the General As
sembly to change the date of the
election for the Town of Clyde
has been held up in the Senate
Committee.
Senator Robert T. Gash, of
Transylvania, has asked that the'
Palmer bill be held in commit
tee in order that he coald study
the measure.
Representative Palmer intro
duced the bill several weeks ago,
and the measure passed the
House. The bill would put the
town election of Clyde on the
first Tuesday after the first Mon
day in May. just as the other
three Haywood town elections.
At present Clyde elections arc
held in June.
Representative Palmer Intro
duced the bill at the request of
citizens of Clyde. Senator Gash
is one 6f the two senators from
this district.
No Decision Yet
On Band Making
Trip To Chicago
A definite decision on the Way
nesville Township High School
band making a trip to Chicago to
appear at the Lions Convention
has not been made yet, officials j
said this week, because of illness
of several of the state committee
members.
The state sommittee met and
discussed the possibility of accept
ing the Waynesville hand for the
trip, amid favorable comment on
the band, there is a good chance
that the students from here will
be selected.
Tax Penalty To
Start February 1
A penalty goes on unpaid 1952
taxes on February first.
This penalty applies to both
county and town taxes.
During the past few days tax
payers have been getting their
tax bills paid in order to save
the penalty.
With just one-third of the goal of
$7,500 reached to date, leaders of
the March of Dimes Drive in the
Waynesville area called on people
this morning to lend their support
to the remaining parts of the drive
to insure the goal before the drive
is over.
Some $2,500 has been turned in
to date. ofTieials said today, but
some of the bigger parts of the
drive are scheduled for this week
end and it is expected that a con
siderable amount of funds will be
derived from these programs.
The larger events scheduled are:
The "Porchllght Parade," spon
sored by the Waynesville Secre
taries Club and scheduled for to
morrow (Friday) night in all the
area in and around Waynesville,
liazelwood and Lake Junaluska.
The annual Founder's Day
Ball, sponsored jointly by the
Beta Sigma Phi sorority and the
Junior Chamber of Commerce,
scheduled for Saturday night at
the Waynesville Armory.
The annual Basketball Tour
nament, which has already at
tracted some of the top talent
in Western North Carolina. This
event Is scheduled for Febru
ary 5. 6 and 7.
The I'orchlight Parade is to be
gin at seven o'clock and last until
ten o'clock, or until the canvassing
members complete their assign
ments.
The annual Founder's Day ball
will feature the music of Charles
Alley and his orchestra. The event
?will be held in the Waynesville
Armory Saturday night from nine
o'clock until one o'clock
Arrangements for the basketball
tournament are being handled by
Bill Kanos. He reported this week
that several teams had signified
their intentions of participating
and that final plans for the tour
nament would be announced next
week. Several girls have been
nominated by business firms of this
area to take place in an election
for a "Basketball Queen." who will
be selected by a vote of those at
tending the tournament.
The Dime Board, being operated
by the Waynesville Rotary Club,
will be in operation Friday and
Saturday for the last tim?s. The
board is located on Main Street.
Mrs. S. T. Neal of Reidsvillc, is
the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Ben
Sloan.
'Porchlight Parade' To
Be Held Tomorrow Nighl
Plans for the annual "Porchlight
Parade," sponsored by the Waynes
ville Secretaries Club for the March
of Dimes Drive, have been com
pleted and assignments made to
the various workers.
Residents of the area that in
cludes Waynesville, Hazelwood.
Aliens Creek. Lake Junaluska and
Barbervllle, have been asked to
turn on their porchllghts as a sig
nal that they wish to contribute to
the polio fund when the parade
gets underway Friday night at 7
o'clock.
The beginning of the drive will
be signified by the sounding of
sirens of the Waynesville and Haz
elwood Fire Departments promptly
at 7 o'clock.
The complete list of assignments
follows:
Mrs. Marjorie Reed and Mrs.
Clara Davis ? Haywood. Tate.
Academy, Central, Gudgef, Daisy,
Br.vson. Balsam Strpct, Clifton
Rldgewood, Killian. Old Hickory,
and Boyd Avenue from Haywood
to Smathers Street.
Evejyn Siler and Dixie Campbell
?Goodyear. Meadow. S. Richland.
(See Porchliffht?Page 8)
Ground To
Be Broken
Monday At
Bethel
Ground-breaking ceremonies for
the new elementary school build
ing at Bethel, which will cost in
excess of half-tnillion dollars, have
been scheduled for 2 o'clock Mon
day afternoon. C. C. Poindexter.
supervising principal of the Bethel
School District, said today.
Church and community leaders
from all six communities in the
Bethel District?West Pigeon, Cen
ter Pigeon. East Pigeon. Cecil,
Cruso and Stamey Cove?will join
with county leaders in turning the i
first spade of dirt on the building
site, located adjacent to Bethel
School.
Funds for the new building were
made available from a two million
jjpunty bond issue and a fifty mil
lion slate bond Issue. The cost of
the new building has been set at1
something over $500,000.
Final plans for the ceremony!
have not been completed. Mr. Poin-'
dexter said, pending the outcome
ol arrangements with several coun
ty officials. A half-holiday for
children in the Bethel School Dis
trict has been scheduled, however.]
so that they may witness the be
ginning of an educational plant
that will be one of the most modern
in the state.
When completed the new school
will have 30 classrooms, a modern
cafeteria and kitchen, library, clin
ic. teachers' rest room, offices for
(See Bethel?Page 8)
Rebuilding Of
County Home
Now Underway
A complete rebuilding of the
Haywood County Home, which was
partially destroyed by fire several
weeks ago. was started" earlier this !
week. C. C. Francis, chairman of
the County Board of Commission
ers, said today.
Ben Sloan, Waynesville contrac
tor, has been placed in charge of
the rebuilding program.
Mr. Francis said that the cost of
the rebuilding was not expected to <
be more than the amount which
the county will receive from an in
I surance policy.
Damage to the home was estim
ated at between eight and ten
thousand dollars.
Ray Chairman
Of Recreation
Commission
General Meeting
Slated For Evening
Of February Ninth
Charles E. Ray was made chair
man of the 11-man commission to
make a survey, and recommenda
tions of a community center in this
community.
The five men named by the Way
nesville board, and the five men
named by the Hazelwood board of
aldermen, met Monday evening and
named Jonathan H. Woody as the
11th man. and in turn, named Mr.
Ray as general chairman.
Plans of the commission are to
ask every civic organization of the
community to name a representa
tive to serve 011 the advisory board
to the commission. Tentative plans
have been completed for holding
a joint meeting of the commission
and the advisory board on Monday.
February 9th.
At the meeting. C. E. Weatherby
was named chairman of a com- j
mittee to make an inventory o^
existing recreational facilities in
the community, and report at the j
general meeting on the 9th.
Paul Davis was named secretary j
of the commission.
Members of the commission In-'
elude: Chairman Ray, Jonathan
Woody. C. E Weatherby. G. C.
Feiguson. Paul Davis. Sam Lane.
Joe Clinc, Rudolph Carswell. Law
son Summerrow. David Underwood.:
and John Carswell.
i iH' imuai meeting was neia ?
about two weeks ago when repre
sentatives met with the state di
rector. W. J, |\ndrews,' and dis
cussed plans for making. a coin
munlty-wide study of plans for a
community center, and methods
that had been found most practical
for obtaining such a unit.
The initial meeting was spon-j
sored by the Jaycees. in coopera
tion with other groups of the two
towns.
Herbert Buchanan Is
Going To Nashville
Herbert I.,. Buchanan. Jr.. sales
manager of Dayton Rubber Com
pany. has been granted a 6 months'
leave of absence from the com
pany and will leave the first of the
week for Nashville. Tennessee.
Mr. Buchanan will assume the
management of his father's busi
ness, the Capitol Lumber Company,
in Nashville.
Coming first to Dayton with the
Army Engineering Corps during
World War II. Mr. Buchanan has
been with the company eleven
years.
He is married to the former Miss
Marjorie McManus and has one
son. Herbert Lee Buchanan, III.
Canton Gives 99
Pints Of Blood
Residents of Canton gave 99
pints of blood Wednesday in an
operation of the mobile unit of the
Asheville Regional Red Cross
Blood Center sponsored by the
Y s-Men's Club of the Champion
(See Canton?Pare S>
Named Chairman
Charles E. Ray- was named chair
man of the Recreation Commis
sion, just appointed by the two
town boards.
1953 Auto Tags
Must Be In Use
Before Sunday
Red and white make a-nicc color
combination but after Saturday
midnight?this Saturday, that is?
If you have those colors on your
license plates, it'll be strictly il
legal.
That's another way of saying
that 1953 adtomobile and truck
license tags are on isale ailrt mub
be placed on your,car after Sai
urdky midnight. They can. n
course, be placed on your car be
fore the deadline.
Waynesviile and Hazelwood town
automobile plates are also requir
ed after January 31. Officials in
both towns said they had sold
about half their supply and they
urge that everyone who lives with
in the corporate limits of either
town to drop by the town hall and
pick up the new tags.
In Raleigh Motor Vehicles Com
mission officials said that the sale
of tags throughout the state had
been lagging. Through January
22 the Raleigh office and 70 branch
es had sold only 644,067 new tags.
29.995 fewer than last year through
the same period. Last year's en
tire registration came to 1,274 075.
That puts the #ale of new tags at
just about 50 per cent of the total
registration.
Haywood Pupils
Start Back To
Class Wednesday
Mrs. Lucy Jones Boyd, superin
tendent of Haywood County
Schools, said today that attendance
in the various schools was reported
to be higher than when classes were
stopped a week and a half ago.
School was resumed Wednesday
morning.
She said this was due to the
reduction in number of flu case:,
and that the disease was evtdentally
on the decrease everywhere in the
county.
Haywood county schools had
been closed a week ago Monday
because about 30 per cent of the
pupils and teachers were ill. Can
ton schools, however, were never
forced to close.
The seven days that were lost as
a result of the wide-spread sickness
will have to be made up before
summer vacation can begin.
First Apple Experiment
Project In State To Be
Started At Test Farm
?. ? .
Haywood County will soon have
the onlv State-operated apple ex
periment project in North Caro
lina, it was announced Wednes
day by George Klingbeil. extension
horticulturist, who was one of the
speakers at the Fruit and Vege
table School at the fcourthouse.
Mr. Klingbeil said that a seven
acre plot at the Mountain Experi
ment Station has been prepared
and a large number of two-year
old trees will be planted in early
spring.
Trees from all over the U. S.
will be planted in order tbht
? many varieties can be tested for
possible use in the State. Some of
the varieties, the speaker said,
are so new they have not been
named and relatively little is
known about them. Mr. Klingbeil
explained thai by planting these
new types now and observing the
results, about 15 years of apple
production can be stepped up.
Otherwise, he said, results of hew
varieties would have to he obtain
ed from other sections of the
country and if satisfactory, experi
I ments would have to start with
young trees. On the other hand, if
certain trees prove not adaptable
to local conditions they can easily
be discarded for the proven types.
This experiment will also be
used for the study of pruning and
fertility in combination. Mr. Kllng
boil said that much is known a
bout these individually but not to
gether. The experiments should al
so enable the researchers to get
the maximum size and*strength in
trees and early production of qual
ity fruit, he said.
When You Hear The Sirens Friday Night - Turn On Your Porchlight! - Fight PoliolJ
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Highway
Record For
1953
In Haywood
(To Date)
Injured.... 11
Killed .... 0
'Ttifci Information com
piled from Record* of
State Highway Patrol.)