North Carolina Newspapers

The W a ynesv ille Mountaineer s?? the children. Published Twice-A-Weck In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park O C 68th YEAR NO. 18 16 PAGA Associated Press WAYNESV1LLE. N. t\. MONDAY AVTEKNOON, MAKCI1 2, 1953 $3.UU In Advance In HaywoocfandJackson Counties I I County Schools To Make Up Lost Time 2 Saturdays (tegular school hours will be observed two Saturdays this month, Mrs. Lue.v Boyd, super intendent of county schools, said this morning. By attending classes on the two Saturdays?March 7 and March 21?students will be dis- I missed for the summer vacation June 4 instead of June 8. The decision to hold the Sat urday classes came as a result of a request made by school offi cials. Permission of the county Board of Education and the North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction was grant ed last week. The county schools lost six days of reguar classes last month due to a flu epidemic that caused hundreds of students to stay v jme. The schools closed after regular classes Monday after- | noon. January 19, and re-opened , Wednesday, January 28. Mrs. Boyd said that, barring further interruptions in the regu lar schedule, classes will be dis missed June 4. Ray's New Store Sets Open House Over $400, in cash, food, and other prizes, together with flow ers and refreshments, are part of the offerings for open house set for Wednesday at Ray's Super Market on Balsam Road in Hazel- j wood. The new store opened about J two weeks ago, and set their open i house event for this Wednesday \ afternoon and night, and special features exetending through Sat urday. '"(-M J. W. Ray said $50 in casfr would be given away on Wednesday night, in addition to several bas kets of groceries. Another $100 in cash will be awarded Saturday, and In all. 30 baskets of groceries, each valued at about $8 would be given away., Red carnations will be given the ' first 50 ladies on Wednesday af- j ternoon and evening, with chewing gum and balloons for the children, j and refreshments for all who at-' tend. Details of the event arc carried in the firm's advertisement else where in this issue. Bill Hampton is general man ager of the unit; James Fie. mar ket, and Bill Henry, produce. Heart Fund Drive Exceeds Goal In Waynesville Area : The Heart Fund drive in the Waynesville area, which had a quota of $750. ha* gone over the I top. Mrs. Mildred Bryson. chairman of the drive here, said this morn : ing. Final figures will not be avail able until after Friday. Mrs. Bry son said, when industry leaders turn in their funds. Mrs. Bryson expressed her ap preciation to all groups and indi viduals who participated in the drive and said, "The people of this area have again expressed their interest in supporting worthwhile projects, of which the Heart Fund drive was certainly one, and dem onstrated their desire to have a permanent Heart Chapter located ! here." She reported that the dance held at the Armory Saturday night net ted something in the neighborhood of $150. and the benefit basketball game played by the Lions and Ki wanis Clubs a very good sum. Dry Group Held Meeting Here On Sunday Afternoon About 75 attended the meeting of the Waynesville Civic and Moral Improvement Committee on Sun day afternoon. Reports were made by chairmen of four committees?general pro gram; publicity, parade and finance group. Rev J. E. Yountz Is general chairman. All pastors of the area were present, with representatives of their churches in attendance. The program of the group is centered around the beer election called for April 8th. The com mittee. Mr. Yountz said, is working hard for keeping Waynesville le gally dry. To Open Store W. L. Turner is today announc ing the opening of Turner's Store on .Main Street In the building formerly occupied by the A & P Tea Co. (Mountaineer Photo). Turner's Store To Open Here This Week-End W. L. Turner is announcing to day the formal opening of a new Waynesville firm?Turner's Store, on Thursday, at the corner of Main, and East Streets, in the building formerly occupied by the A & P Company. Mr. Turner, well known here in the merchantile field, said he would carry a complete stock ol shoes for the entire family, to gether with clothing for men and boys, and hose and lingerie foi ladies. He is featuring nationally known brands In the store, which has been renovated, with modern fix tures and lighting made a part of the new firm. The entire sales space of the 28 by 80 foot store will be utilized for disnlay of | (See Turner?Page 6) County Tourist Group To Meet Wednesday Night The Haywood County Highland ers, county tourist organization, will meet Wednesday night at 8 o'clock at the court house, L. E. DeVous, president, announced t# day. The meeting will be of partic ular importance because Bart Leiper, executive director of the Western North Carolina High landers, Inc., will report on the just - completed annual National Association of Travel Organiza tions travel show at Chicago. rpn'There In. carolina_u g?PRlM*NU dealer ?? ^'rrri the disple?snre > ST??rt tudge last *T, result drew . .?? ft wocr .nd . "ne. The L?r. who is 65 rears old la with "o? burying ? J within J4 hours. But *?arff ??> that the deal 'eruel to animals, often ! ?, in the open and I itoi lot days and weeks The judge remarked. *' bad an exhibition of I B w ?? af I've ever seen. UjCTlVt; ROBBERS , ordinarily think that .pre after money, but not " ???d .? ABC ??ll, u.t ???*? ?W a window and made *ne bottles of "very se itiiskey and tcft the till. log $3. empty. Fl'NDS ASKED .Senator Edwin Duncan of ,BJ has proposed that the .propriate SS5.000 to help "Horn in the West." one atate s newest outdoor Senator Duncan noted ? sUte had. In the past, -into These Hills" and Colony." ?ektint* keansmen Brooks, sentenced last May jlumbus County for activi the Ku Klux Klan, is all ?ith the outfit. "I don't be connected with any out ran get you into trouble. ,s he was being transferred ier jail to serve a Federal . Brooks' sentence so far i Carolina was concerned. n reduced to time served are can drag." he said. plane missing Lr-state hunt for a missing piloted by a Charlotte ? executive has produced W results, and officials fear jine has been lost over | areas in either Florida trgia. Civil Aljr Patrol from the four states took i the aeareh. Officials said id weather might postpone , r search, due to begin to I I \ >ut Fund ars Half iy Mark trs are just about at the I mark in raising $1,800 for outs, according to Jack general chairman of the campaign. The Waynes d Canton areas each have it 11.800 as their share of get for the Daniel Boone Mr. Messer said, lavnesville Rotary Club is I the campaign in this area, 'h member assigned a par irea to canvass, lesser said plans were to ' the campaign by the end reek. up Group Already On ns For Next Season f* if the Haywood Coun | Club are already looking ? the convention a year s May. when they plan to J Hcintooga for the annual tival. 953 convention has been May 17th at Camp Hope, i due to the fart that Park were unable to get factli Pleted at Heintooga. last year, the 22 conven 1 been held at Black Camp w link of the Parkway ?uah part of the area used be ither Ml ,?.Light r?)ns expected, farmer tonight and Jj^'WewlU. tempera r*Orded at the SUte Teat M?*. Mln. Rainfall 80 43 _ 80 34 _ f 57 28 ? 53 23 .02 by the convention-goers, and the scene was shifted to Camp Hope, which is owned by the Canton YMCA. The group, headed by A. W. ''Fat" Parker, as president, and W. R. Palmer, chairman of the board, expressed deep apprecia tion for the use of the Camp Hope facilities. "We all know that the conven tion originated at Black Camp i Gap. and should return to that I area as soon as the Park officials have the water, nd rest rooms in sufficient numbers to care for our 5.000 or more people," Mr. Parker said. There will be about 25 on the active committees again this year, .the officials said. They will begin work soon in getting all arrange ments for another overflow crowd. Our committee will have very little to do ? that is the speaker s . committee. By acclamation. Thad ' Eure, secretary of state, is the an nual speaker, and he wrote Mr. Palmer the other day. that the first taste of spring had put him preparing his annual address. Mr. Parker looks for a nice crpp of ramps again this spring. But In case there is a complete failure, he has about two gallons of the potent little roots which he saved from the 1952 crop ? he put them In his deep freeze .and they are as delicious as the day he put them away, he said. J. E. Resiter is treasurer of the organization., and Mrs. Dan Owen is aecretarv. But What's Her Number? 1 " The local Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company exchange has just completed a directory that contains telephone books from 108 cities all over the U. S. Installed to save time in making long distance calls, anyone can look up numbers all the way from Mercer County, N. J. to Los Angeles. Calif and Day tona Beach, Fla. In addition. 11 cities not in the directory are available on request. Manager C. T. McCuiston requests that sub scribers visit the local office in person rather than telephone for information Making use of the directory is Kmily McCraeken of Lake Junaluska. i Mountaineer Photoi. Annual Red Cross Fund Drive Starts Here Today March Weather Probably Won't Change Much Although March did not come In like a lamb yesterday. It didn't enter like a lion, either, so that could mean that nothing definite ran be said about how the month will go out. Clouds hung over the county all day and when nightfall came. It brought rain. Sunday, howev er, was a mild day and not every one' wore overcoats to church or far their afternoon stroll or ride. Of course, the groundhog pre dicted bad weather and February had eight days of rain and snow to show the little animal wasn't far wrong. Rut the forecast for March Indicates above normal warm weather In this section. Such general predictions aren't necessarily the final word. Es pecially in the mountain counties the weather varies considerably from predictions and of course is quite different from the lower altitudes of the state. What will probably happen in ilaywood County in March will be a snow fall or two and a good deal of rain?as in past yrars. The weather will get warmer as a sign of encouragement to people with large homes and furnaces but the heat likely won't be turn ed off completely until about the last of April. Tl^r 1U.i3 American Red Cross J fund raFhf>atsTTi' W'H1 tfave tts Kick off meeting at the Wayijesville Presbyterian Church T u e sitay morning, Mrs David Hyatt, gen eral chairman of the County Chap ter, said today. The goal for the drive this year, which will last throughout March, has been set at $5,000. At. Tuesday mornings meeting, which will begin at 9:30, all divi sion chairmen are requested to be present. More committees and workers have 'been announced by Mrs. Hyatt, including chairmen of 13 rural communities which will l>c a part of the Waynesville area. Mrs, Carl Medford is general chairman of the rural area. Chair men of the various communities are: Fines Creek. Perry Plemmons. C'rabtrce. G. C. Palmer. Jr.; Upper Crabtree, Miss Sara James and (See Red Cross?Page fi) ? t . ? ? Water Bonds To Be Sold Tuesday Tomorrow 1 Tuesday i. $300,000 in water bonds will he sold to expand the water system here and sealed bids will be received at the Local Government Commission in Kal j eigh. A modern filter plant and addi tional intake lines from the 9.000 acrc watershed will be included in the expansion. Repayment of the bonds will not ] be completed until 1981. Groundhog Predictions Proved Correct; One Of Worst Februarys Recorded It's been almost a month now since the world's best known weath er prrdictor. thr groundhog, madr his annual pilgrimage from a dim hole in the ground and said, for Haywood County: "More Winter." A quick look at the weather sta tistics from February 2 through February 26. bear out the ground hog in his predictions. The county has certainly had a rough month. There has been sixteen days In which the temperature, as recorded at the State Test Farm, has been freexing. Five times the tempera ture was below 20 degrees. It has reached 13 twice. Generally speaking this county has an average rainfall each year of 60 inches; most of that comas In the summer months. During February there was Ave inrhes af rain, more than the average, and at least six inches of snow. The snow, which fell thr 15th. measur ed six inches at the Test Farm, but was considerably higher In other places in the county. The week beginning February 13 was the worst. During the period from the 13th through the 19th freezing temperatures were reeord cd every day. On the 20th it warmed up considerably and start ed to rain. High for the month was reeorded Saturday, the 21st. On that day golfers got out their elubs and played in a warm 66 degree tem perature. But for the most part that pre dietion made by groundhogs prov ed correct. No matter how mneh winter this month though, there's only a few short weeks until Spring. Three. toJie exact, and they can't pass too soon. RETURNS FROM GIFT SHOW Mrs. Howard Kaiser returned Monday from the New York Gift Show where she went to buy mer , chandise for the Book Store. Contractors Ready To Start Pigeon River Road In Thirty Days 380 Working Days Set In Contract; Route To Go Through Tunnel Work on the Pigeon River Road will begin within 30 days, spokes man for the A. B Burton Con struction Company of Lynchburg. Va? said in a telephone interview with The Mountaineer today. The company was awarded the contract Friday morning after the North Carolina lfighway Commis-! sion reviewed several submitted bids. The contract was let for $1, 404,676 and will cover grading, drainage and the excavation of a 1.000 foot tunnel. The Commission turned down an alternate bid made by the Burton firm which would have cost the state $146,504 less, but would not have included the tunnel. An ottieial of the company said today that about 25 men would be used in the initial clearing of the 1 project. More will be added from time to time as the work progres ses Heavy duty machinery will be moved into the locality in the next two or three weeks. The road will be graded for 6.59 miles from a point on the Tenn essee state line northeast of Water ville southeast along the river to a point near Cold Springs. It will eventually tie in with existing roads in Haywood County and provide this area with first class roads be I tween the Chicago area and the Southeast The grading will provide for a ' standard tWo-lane pavement of 24 feot wide with 10-fnol shoulders on Alls and eight-foot shoulders in cuts The construction of a road down Pigeon River to Tennessee dates back more than 125 years. Digging info the records reveals (See Pigeon Koad?Page 6) Committee Ready To Start Work On Road Program A committee was named by the Rotary Club here Friday to work with committees of other orga nidations in the area on a pro gram commemorating the start of work on the Pigeon River Road. The contractor of the project 1 was contacted on Saturday and said they would he glad to co operate In such a program. Other organizations are ex pected to name committees to work with the Rotary group In staging the program in about thirty days. The idea had been discussed frequently whenever mention of the Pigeon River Road was made. Forest Fires Burn 38 Acres On Weekend About 38 (teres of young timber land was destroyed by fire during the week-end, and Warden Eld ridge Caldwell said one of the blazes was started intentionally These were the first fires of the year. Shortly before noon Friday.! X'aldwell and his men were railed to Riddle Cove in the Ivy Hill sec tion where a fire had started from burning a tobacco bed. A high wind had scattered the bed and started a forest fire that burned about 10 acres before it was put out late in the afternoon. Nine men fought the blaze. While they were battling the Kiddle. Cove fire, another conllaga tion was reported on Scay Moun tain at lower Jonathan Creek. Twenty-four acres of timber were burned, chiefly because the warden and his men were unable to reach the spot until about 5:30 p.m. The fire had evidently been burning since morning, the warden said. Reportedly started hy children playing with matches, the fire was extinguished about 8 p.m. The third fire, on Cove Creek Mountain, was reported to Cald well about 11:30 p in. and an hour later he and his men reached the idle. They had litt'z to do because a snow stOrm took care of the blaze for them. About four acres burned. Warden Caldwell said evidence Indicated the fire was set 1 on purpose. Response Is Being Felt In C. of C. Memberships The response to the memberships to the Chamber of Commerce is gratifying, according to H. P. Mc I Carroll, chairman. The last of the letters and mem bership cards went into the mails Saturday, and this morning Miss F.dith Chambers, secretary said .1 i response was being felt. Plans of the committee are to handle the current membership project by mail. Tonight at 7:15, over WHCC. Dr. Boyd Owen, president of the or ganization, will begin a series of 15-minute talks on the work and program of the Chamber of Com merce. Each evening for the week. ; the chairman of one of the orga (See C of C?Page 6) Farm Agent Resigns ? Successor . Herbert J. Slngletary. left, resigned Feb "8 after serving Ave year* as assistant county agent In the county to operate a hatch ing egg and beef cattle farm on the Balsam Road. He came to Haywood County after graduating from N. C. State College in 1948 His successor. Joe K. Davis, will start his duties March 15. A native of near Shelby, Davis graduated in 1952 from State College where he majored in poultry science. Since finishing col lege he ha* served as assistant agent in Polk County. At State, Davis wa* a member of the Poultry Science Club, National Col legiate Poultry Club, Agricultural Club, and Alpha 7-eta fratern ity. He served as president and vice-president of the Poultry Club. He was a member of the team that attended the National Poul try Judging contest in 1951-52 at Chicago and the Southern Judg ing Contest in 1951 in Memphis. Davis is married and has a three vear-old son He and hi? family are of the Baptist denomination I To Head Rotary M, D. Watkins will assume office as president of the Waynesville liotary Club on July first. He wilt succeed Dave Pelmet, who will be come vice president. Mr. Watkins owns Watkins Mot or Company. He came here and es tablished this business in 1933. A year later he became a Rolarian. He'is interested in civic affairs, and is a deacon of the First Pres byterian church. The directors for the coming year include: H. P. McCarroll. Tommy Thompson. Johnny John son. Kfm Barber, 'James Klfpat riek. and W. I. Dooly. iMountaineer Photo). Hundreds See Highlanders' Travel Booth 'Special to The Mountaineer' International Ampnltheatre, t'hi cago?Early spring ttractions for visitors In Western North Carolina have been glimpsed by thousands attending-ttWNational Travel Show which colluded a ten-day run in Chicago'* International Ampilhea tre Sunday. The attractive booth manned by representatives of Western North Carolina Highlanders. Inc.. has been the focus of much interest as a steady stream of visitors learned about the vacationland which in cludes 12 Western North Carolina counties. Carl Henry and Mrs. Joe Diner, both of Waynesville, and Mrs. Her bert Bosworth of Asheville. were members of the volunteer crew which manned the Highlanders' dis play booth. They received high praise from Bart Leiper, executive vice-president of the Highlander^ for their faithful and enthusiastic handling of the booth under very trying conditions. The travel show was sponsored by the National Association of Travel Organizations of which Lei per Is president. The NATO Board of Directors held its winter meet ing at the Palmer House in Chi cago Thursday, and also a lun cheon which was attended by hun dreds of travel promotion loaders from the Chicago area as well as many NATO members attending the travel show The display creation carried out for the Highlanders booth by llardy Stinnett of Waynesville re ceived much favorable attention, according to Leiper. Highway Record For 1953 In Haywood (To Date) Injured.... 11 Killed .... 0 | (Thl. information com piled from Record. of State Highway Patrol.)