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re'n'There In 'arolina ' __ ? (;OP MEET 'age of Charlotte, who led h C'arolnut Citizens lor er in the recent election. jm-,1 a meeting of State in leaders in Kaleigh tor iim' of Ironing out dif ji the patronage" matter, both J E. Broyhill, na aunitteeman, and J. M. ilarshall state CJOP chair agreeable on the matter. VI tt SIII' CARS 11 Motor- has been aw rontrael to supply the North Carolina with 250 it> Highway Patrol cars. i cars, all of which will relets, will be delivered now and July 1. MASS ARREST over agents in Martin own in the eastern part of , rounded up 33 alleged rs in one week-end. The irted their work last No ind by last week-end, had ridence to turn the trick, appearing in court ALARMS BACKFIRE loung men of Pamlico also down in the eastern he state, had a wild time sday night. They raced own. police say, turning: ilarms?seven of them? 1 sat bark and watched trueks roar to the scene, 'man. apparently a bit I, said: "We ought to 'ir clothes off and pour r on them. That's the ?els to go out on a false The Police Court judge ipathy with the firemen, probably in a different I NT A M BALLAD lieemcn in Greenville sot robbery last week. Some ipster said, was trying to 9 a house, 'the officers, vith bloodhounds and full s. slole quietly to the I to the window in ques ere, sitting on the sill, bantam chickens, doing inter counting. The ofTi d around for a while, then iv. ifcuu<H|i. ousters get ad when their courting is ?d. jie Man Shot Year-Old dson Sunday Hannah oi Maggie, who about fi p.m. Sunday by car-old grandson, is in mdition at the Haywood Jsjjital. Fred Campbell, who report, said Hannah was .38 calibre revolver. The ered bis right side. The ?r and boy were alone so e report as to exactly )ened is available. The d that evidently the boy ic vcith the pistol, which lying on a table. Correction r last issue of the eer a siory was pub effect that an au driven by Mrs. Herbert ^avnesville w?s in vol v aceident with another "T was an error. The "ie person should have Herbert Ruff. nd Jury Makes Its ort To Judge Gwynh nri Jury recently named hls year has completed "?n oj county property "s report to Superior ao Allep H. Gwynn as ?e County Home .s',rry ,0 report that en 1 "re at the County " 'he last inspection. "und exactly the same e her FAIR 7ur"i.v. not so windy 'oudipr Tuesday with 0 showers. ''aynesville tempera. '"P'lcd at the State Tesl M?*. Min. Rainfall s3 18 50 34 .23 45 38 .24 4" 28 I conditions existing that were re ported by the last Grand Jury as needing repairs. In addition to these we suggest that a new laun dry be installed, one capable of handling the volumn necessary for this institution. We found in the Home II men. (i women and 1 child, i The farm animals consisted of 133 cows and heifers, 1 bull. 4 steers. 20 yearlings. 7 calves. 1 horse, 2 brood sows, and 99 chick ens. We found 30 tons of hay 'estim ated), 100 bushels corn. 13 sides 'of meat. 15 hams. 2 shoulders. 35 gallons lard. 65-'2 gallons and 20 quarts sausage, 400 cans of food stuff. Hospital and Nurses Home We, the Grand Jury, found thi property in splendid condition considering construction being done. I Courthouse We recommend that the Register . of Deeds office and store rooms t! be painted and given a general I cleaning: Tax Collectors office II needs window shades Selective Service office has broken ventilator glass: Red Cross office needs paint, rest room needs a general clean 1 (See Grand Jury?page #> The Waynesville Mountaineer si? I ! But I ?UII prefer sotf." Published Twice-A-Week In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park a ^ ; *8th YEAR NO. 12 12 PAOES Associated Prev WAYNESVILLE, N. C , MONDAY AFTERNOON. FEB. ?. 1*53 |3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackaon ~i Willi Town Beer Election Set For April 8th PT A Groups Asking Higher School Rating Mrs. Boyd States Stand As School Superintendent The consistent rumors that ! Mrs. Lucy Jones Boyd had resign I cd as county superintendent of education are without foundation. This morning Mrs. Boyd told The Mountaineer: "My appointive term of office is until the 30th of June. I intend to fulfill my term. "I will announce my decision to the new board after they take office, of whether 1 seek reap pointment, or whether I will term inate my office at the end of the appointive term. At present, it would be improper, and unofficial, to place a resignation, or an appli cation for reappointment with the present board, since a new board will be responsible for the term of office of superintendent begin ning July first of this year. "My decision will be announced in the due course of time. Right now, this building program is tak ing my time and attention ? I ant already late going with an engin eer to inspect the work underway at Aliens Creek school." With that, i engineer to make the inspection, ' engineer to fake the inspection, ! and without further comment as I to her future plans. Hendersonville Girl Attempts Suicide At Clyde A young girl from Hendcrson j.villc attempted suicide about 7 p. ! m. Sunday at Clyde because she I said her sister took her boy friend away. Tiie 16-year-old girl had come to Wavnesville to visit her brother I and then took a bus to Clyde. She entered a home and cut both wrists with razor blades. Deputy Sheriff Everett McElroy was called im mediately and he took her to the Haywood County Hospital where she was treated and discharged The cuts in her wrists were de scribed as not being very deep. After she got to Clyde, the girl said she did not remember any thing. Later at the hospital she i explained the reason for her ac i tion. Commerce Directors To Meet On Tuesday The directors of the Chamber of Commerce will meet Tuesday night at 7:30, it was announced to day by Dr. Boyd Owen, president. This is the regular monthly meeting. Gets New Post I Earl Messer, native of Waynes I villc, was elected secretary yt, the Imperial Life Insurance Company at the annual meeting of the board of directors Thurs day. lie will assume his new duties immediately. The com pany has 24 district offices and 400 field oil ices in North Caro lina. Annual CDP Planning Meet Highly Successful Short Session Is Expected A short court session is expect ed this week to clear up a few , civil cases although a number of criminal trials that were planned will not be held because of the ill ness of Solicitor Thad Bryson. Jr. i Allen H. Gw.vnn is the presiding judge at this term. Court was recessed last Wed nesday when Solicitor Bryson be came ill. Only those criminal tases j I in which guilty pleas are entered will bo heard. Serving on the jury this week are: James H. Mcsser of Pigeon, i Earl Burke of Beaverdam, Robert Burgess of Clyde. Earl Parham of Beaverdam. Miss Eunice Trull of 1 East Fork. Mrs. Irene Davis of Waynesvllle, George E. Morgan of Beaverdam. Joe A Chambers of Iron Duff. Fred Underwood of Waynesvllle, Jack C. Rabb of Way nesvillc. Fred Farmer of Waynesville, H. M. Stevenson of Clyde, Ralph A. Robinson of Beaverdam. Frank Warlick of Waynesville, J V. Un derwood of Clyde, and R. L. Mil ler, Emma Duckett. Kmil Zotos. S. C. WVirley.1 Clyde L. Wyatt and E. G. Hall, all of Beaverdam. CIRCLE MEET The Robina N. Tate Chapter of the Woman's Auxiliary of Grace Episcopal Church will meet at the Parish House Tuesday afternoon at 3:30. By-j(Vlrs. George Boring The annual planning meeting for Haywood County's Community Development Program Friday night was perhaps the most suc cessful ever held. Turner Cathey. assistant county farm agent, said today Of the 27 organized communi ties in the county. 16 were repre sented at the meeting. Almost every phase of community de velopment and improvements was discussed at length and much en thusiasm was shown in the plans for 1953. Much interest was shown in the discussion on road-hank improve (See County CDP?page 6) I Aliens Creek Church Plans Building Fund A building enlargement campaign is in progress at the Aliens Creek , Baptist Church. Plans are to build a new auditorium. The entire community of Aliens I t Creek will be included in the cam paign. which will attempt to raise enough money to begin contruction of the new building by April 1 Total cost of the new construction ' has not been set. but it is expected that at least $16,000 will be needed before construction can get under way. j A building committee will visit each home in' the community in the near future. Rev. C. D. Sawyer is pastor of the church. Spring Must Be Near, Folks Asking For Ramps SPRING MUST BE NEAR! | Already people are writing In from throughout the state ask- ' inc alio lit ramps. From down at Kinston romps a letter asking for full informa tion. and a dollar's worth of ramps for planting in a beautiful garden. Firm laikeview. N. C.. comes a similar request lor seed or I plants for planting In a formal garden. So from now on. it will be re quest after request for Informa tion on ramps, and the ramp convention. And to clear the record, past history shows that ramps get "ripe" about the middle to the latter part of May. | i Group Present Ideas Before Members Of Nominated ' School Board. Representatives of Parent.' Teachers Associations throughout Haywood, have called upon mem bers of the new potential county school board to raise the standards j! of schools. The plea for raising the stan : dards of schools was made Satur day night, when about 40 people i met in the dining hall of the First Methodist church hero This was the third meeting of the PTA group, but the first where ? members of the board had been asked to attend. Three of the five members of the county board who are due to j take office this spring were pres ; ent. Tom Leatherwood. of Clyde, told the group: "We are not in of fice yet. We will have to wait un til we have been named by the legislature. "We are interested in good schools, and all want In'tter schools. There are many problems : I confronting all of us. and we ask j ?your cooperation in order that the ultimate good may be accomplish : e(l." Jack McCracken. Bethel, and J W. Killian of Waynesville, the ;! other two members present, a | greed with the sentiments of Mr. j Leatherwood. -Hwr HWtwi When we get in office, we will be glad to meet with any group and hear your suggestions." The two members unavoidably absent were: Mark Kirkpatrick. .and Jarvis Caldwell, of Fines | Creek and Iron DufT. respectively. (See Schools?page 6) Revaluation Is a Big Job Tax listing and revaluation, which started the first of the year, is keeping the listers busy around the county. At South Clyde Wayne Medford, William Osborne, and W. G. Byers examine the house of Curtis Rogers (right* as they start on their inspection of the farm. (Other photographs showing this group on their lour of the Rogers' farm will be found on page 1. section 2). i Mountaineer Photoi. 1 Planning Meeting Is Set Tonight Indications this morning were that about HOO people would attend the initial planning meeting of the Recreation Program at the court house tonight. The meeting has been called for 7:H0 by the 1 l-man commission recently named by the boards of aldermen of Waynesvllle and Hazelwood, Charles K. Ray is chairman of the commission, and will preside al tonight's meeting. Kach orgarmatipn in the two towns. all industries, as well as sortie organizations in the county, have been requested to name a recreation committee, with the (See Planning?page 6) -?????<??? M. O. Brannon Is Expanding Two Store Buildings Construction has started on the Brannon Furniture Store. Depot Street, and Brannon Fruit Stand on Branner Avenue. The new building will be an L in shape, lacing on both streets, according to M. O. Brannon, own er. The present fruit stand and grocery store will be widened by eight feet on Branner Avenue. The building on Depot Street will be forty feel wide, and will be used as part of the furniture store. Construction will be of concrete blocks, with a brick facing About the middle of April, Lt. Hobert Brannon is expected to get his discharge from the Air Force and join his parents in the opera tions of their business here. (See Puxe One Set. 2 for other Pictuersj Need For Revaluation Explained By Francis : i ?? . | ? ? ? ?' ' . ' ? ?' J ] 0.1 Per Cent Of People In County Are Over 05 Jperplc ^In llayivo<><l County apparently live longer than people in haif the other coun ties in North Carolina, a sur vey based on the 1950 Census shows. There are some 2,285 people in the county who are 65 or ? Ider, 6.1 ner e?nt of the popu lation of the county. According to the table it's ap parcntly easier 'n reach an old age if you live either on the ex treme east coast or in the moun tain area. For the state as a w hole there were 225.297 people over 65, or 5.5 per cent. A&P Will Open Store Wednesday A $100,000 store, an ultra-mod ern self-service super market, will he opened on Thursday, Feb. 12 by the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company at 304 South Main Street in Waynosville. The open house celebration will be held on Wednesday afternoon, February 11 from 5 to 0 p.m. "The model store will offer some of the most modern super market innovations in the state," said 1' M. Bealer, Jr., vice-president in charge of AAP's Carolina** Unit Roy Gwaltney, veteran A&P employee, will be in charge of 1 he new store. Mi Bealer announced that the building, leased from Sol Schulman of Sylva, covers an area Of 50 by 'See A&P Store?page 6) "We are trying to level up all property values on the tax books," j C. O. Francis, chairman of the board of commissioners told mem-! bets of the Hotary Club here Fri day, as he explained the need and 'ptflri of the present valuation i>fI propelt.v in the county for taxes. "We know there are a lot of Ir regularities. because it has been eight years since a revaluation of . property was held in the county, and many tilings have tAen place to change values in most of the , localities since lhal lime." he con tinued. I j The chairman began lit pointing i out that Hie hoard was not playing politics, hut were working for the ; wdlari of all concerned. "We have . named farmers to judge, and place values on farm lands; we have asked industries to do the same , on plants, and business men to i set a lair valuation on business properties. We did not know of a fairer way of going about the mat ter of getting everything on an eoual basis ? body happy," lie said. "Aud those whir arc not Satisfied with the as- , s< ssment placed utron their pro- . perty will certainly have ample Opportunity t(> explain their pisi tion 011 the matter. The chairman said that unless a substantial amount is gained in the new revaluation, that there is a possibility of another raise in the county lax rate. He said that while several townships had com pleted their revaluation, that the 1 work of adding and comparing it with last rear had not been enm (See Revaluation?page 6) Dr. Elmer Clark Honored As Great Editor; Leaves Famous World Outlook The.Rev. I)r. Elmer T. Clark of Lake Junaluska, officially resigned as an editor of World Outlook. Methodist missions magazine, and as editorial secretary of the Meth odist Board of Missions. New York, at the reecht Board of Missions meeting held at Buck Hill Falls. Pa. Dr. Clark and Mrs. Clark live at I.ake Junaluska. At one time his offices were in Nashville, when he was secretary of the Methodist Church, South, and editor of The World Outlook, then the missions magazine of the Southern church. He moved to New York with the Board of Missions and the World Outlook at the time of Unification of the Methodist Church, South and the Methodist church in 1940 Since 1940 Dr. Clark has spent a great deal of time in Nashville in connection with the printing of, (See Dr. Clark?page 6) DR. ELMER T. C LARK Board Calk Election On Strength Of Petitions An election to determine wheth er or not beer shall be legally sold in the town of Waynesvllle has been called for April 8. The Board of Aldermen, sitting for its regular monthly meeting rhursday, voted to call the elec tion after being notified that the necessary number of qualified vot ers had signed petitions asking for such an election, and at the same time appointed registrars and judges. After the required number of qualified voters sign such a peti tion?in this case the number was 257?then it is mandatory upon the Board to call an election. Registration books will be open for three successive Saturdays in March?the 14th, 21st and 28th. On all other week days between the 14th and 28th of March registra tion books will be available for registering persons at the homes or at the places of business of the registrars. Hours of registration are from 9 o'clock in the morning until sunset. Saturday, April 4. has been set aside as Challenge Day. The hours for challenging registrants are from ? o'clock until 3 o'clock on that day. Several weeks ago those forces Interested in securing the election presented petitions to the town but. because of a legal technical ity. the petitions were withdrawn. Plans were formulated al that . time by the "wet" forces to cir culate more petitions. Needed were the names of 257 qualified voters who had voted in the last Mayor alty and Board of Aldermen elec tions. The petitioners secured the names of almost 600 qualified vot ers and presented them to the Board of Aldermen, which acts as a Board of Elections in all town elections. Registrar for Precinct One is Mrs. Ruth Kelly. Judges are Hugh lolly and James H. Howell, Jr. For Precinct Two Mrs. Denton Browning was appointed registrar, and Bill Ferguson and Elwood Caldwell were named judges. Haywood County voted out the legal sale of beer and wine last September 2 and. 60 days later on the eve of the national elections, the county went legally dry. Presbyterian Laymans Club Meets Wednesday The Laymens Club of the Way nesvillc Presbyterian church will hold their regular monthly supper meeting at the church Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock. A film "Unto The Harvest" will be shown. This film depicts the Mission Work of te Southern Pres byterian Church in the Belgian Congo, Africa. The men of the church congre gation are invited to be present. Mrs. Milner Says Grand Jury Duty Was Surprise Mrs. Lucy Scales Mtlner, the first woman to serve on a Haywood County grand jury, thinks maybe it wasn't intended a woman would have been appointed. Si nee she is the first woman so honorcd it may be natural for her to make this assumption, but the fact remains that any person listed on the tax books is liable for this service. It just happens there are not many women listed. One day last week she received a card in the mail notifying her she was to serve on the grand jury for a year. The news could hardly have been more unexpected and she thought at first she was to serve on a regular jury. With this in mind. Mrs. Milner searched for another woman who had had jury' duty, a task that would not have been Impossible had she looked long enough. Monday morning she reported to the courthouse at 9 o'clock and so unfamiliar was she with the building she had to ask where the courtroom was located. But since this early, and probably natural confusion. Mrs. Milner has now be come aeeu.slomed to her duties. She said she now understands much more about the schools and other1 county property, especially the jail and prison camp, which she had never seen before. Now, with about a week's experi ence behind her. Mrs. Milner thinks more women should serve on the grand jury. In fact, she said, there should be a law to the effect that at least one woman will be required for each grand jury. Highway Record For 1953 In Haywood (To Date) i Injured.... 11 Killed .... 0 'This information com pilrd from Records of State Hithway Patrol.)