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The Waynesville Mountaineer iis= Published Twice-A-Week In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park * ^ __q 68th YEAR NO. 27 12 PAGES Associated Press M AYNESVILLE, N. C. .MONDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 30, lt53 .(??, 1, A u .uce In Haywood and Jackson Counties ?delights t)f The |l iNews | 1 Like An Imy Custom. I e kDOWB by their ? and few, if any m. u first name. m : the wiiiilm. the ? ne. and the ? 1 an initial. B , a letter was received Kpu:'. offieert relative to Kc>- to in lie Id soon, and K,t the president - elect B "(the Waynes B- apparently by a H^ce man. followed the End used just the first ? kt local men, which for ? ted like an error to Bum- i- I lie presldeht Btfce Charlotte man listed B n I) WatkJns. The linif dealt with "Toot" Bwrretan elect. The let B Wiogate. and while that B > few people around B him by sueh. s Of Pre >r Union ces Planned tcr I'nion services in the lie churches will begin 5 evening at 8 o'clock at \:erian Church. Rev. J. i, pastor of the Waynes hodist Church, will deliv K?sage. rsday evening at 8 o'clock, t, Williamson of the Pres church. will speak at Un ices at the Methodist Also on Thursday cele f Holy Communion will ved at Grace Episcopal rith Rev. Edgar Goold in evening at 8 o'clock Union will be held at the First hurch. This will be a msical program with the choirs of all the church part. today services will also it Grace Church from 12 clock Friday. Services, sponsored by *ood County Methodist iioislup subdistdCCTXmt t Lake Junaluska at 6:30 inday morning. The ser be held at the Cross, ne is cordially invited to e I'nion services. ing Work ed On an River Rd. eti of -the Burton Con Company of Lynchburg. n" 'r. dirt and clearing of way for the Pigeon ?<i last week. 12 mm vc presently en vnrking on the Tenn r of the road. Plans call to move over to the North : i< at an early date, mak '! m-.ny equipment which ?i onto the site over the Unit-Itinson, in charge of ' t arolina Highway Com-1 ??ho- in Wavnesville, said ' ' an inspection crew from 1 > surveying the site to *ill report on their flnd f in the week. jiess Men Of kty Urged To kote Area Ws leaders of Waynesville I '! county who care to ?V assist in promoting the of the area for early J ts hv mailing out a I new folder published fcra North Carolina High ly -upply having been plac * Waynesville Chamber of p for this purpose. PKested by the Highland I next few weeks it lousiness Men?Page 8) I I le ! Hhet warmer Partly cloudy and continued warmer Tucs (J**nces of scattered thun r1 *avn?sville tempera "r,lp(l at the State Test \f ?? ? la 1 ? n t m ? a inn. Hainiaii 41 2fl .01 96 26 *5 39 .02 Board Asks Completion Of School Wo rk Taxpayers To Be Heard By Board On Current Assessments On Property Elks Head David Underwood has been elect ed Exalted Ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Waynesville Lodge No. 1769. at a recent meeting. He sucuceeds Bill Dover. Other officers elected were: Es teemed Leading Knight, George A. Bischoff; Esteemed Lecturing Knight. Fred J. Ferguson: Esteem ed Loyal Knight, R. E. Allen; Til er, Tom Campbell, Sr.; Secretary, Carl A. Bischoff; Treasurer, Rus sell Fultz; Treasurer, 3 years, C C. Nichols^ 1 year, Maurice T C^rooks ' It is urged that all members of BPOE Lodge No. 1769. attend the next meeting for installation of officers. Special days have been set aside to hear all citizens who feel that adjustments should be made in their property valuations. The board of commissioners will . sit as a board ol equalization and review and hear all taxpayers of the county who feel that an ad justment should be made. The results of the recent revalua tion have been completed and on file in the tax office, according to C. C. Francis, chairman of the, board. That is all townships except' Waynesvllle and Beaverdam. and plans are to have these finished within a short time. Mr. Francis said that any prop erty owner who has not already learned of the valuation recently set upon property could find It by going to the tax office and checking the listing books. The first hearing will be Mon day, April sixth.'when the taxpay ers of Ivy Hill, Jonathan Creek. White Oak and Cataloochee will be heard. On Tuesday. April 7, the hear ings will be for Fines Creek, Crab tree and Iron Duff townships. Wednesday, April 8, the citizens 1 of Pigeon, East Fork, Clyde and ' Cecil will be heard. Then the board will visit the ; premises of those registering com , plaints, and make necessary ad ? justments. , I The hearing for Beaverdam has been set for April 20th, and Way nesville for the 21st. This will give | the listers time to finish the two large townships, Mr. Francis said, i Mr. Fr3bris Salif that lirider the | law, this is the only time in which i the commissioners have the au thority to change valuation of real estate. Mineral Engineer Says Many Scarce Minerals To Be Found In WNC April Fool's Day Is Wednesday; Exercise Caution Wednesday is a day that some children look forward to almost as eagerly as thev do to Christ mas. It's April Fool's Day and It's expected that many a young boy is spending countless hours hatching up tricks and gags he may play on his playmates or any other hapless soul that might come along. It's hard to,sav just how April Fool's Day started . . . there are many variations on its origin . . . but it's safe to say that many a young boy (and many elderly men too, for that matter) is hap py that such a day does come. So. two days in advance, we warn you . . . don't pick up any wallets, or smell any flowers. Both might be loaded. A number of the scarce minerals needed in the industrial world to day are to be found in Western North Carolina, according to Mason K Banks, in charge of the mineral research laboratory of State College in Asheville. Mr. Banks, a mineral engineer. > in addressing the Rotary Club here Friday, pointed out that with the increased production of the jet en gines. and development of the H-bomb, that more and more of the finer metals are being in great er demand, he pointed out. Mr. Banks explained the begin ning of the laboratory in 1946. which was erected at a cost of $80. 000 to State College, with TVA spending $60,000 on equipment, and the city of Asheville and Bun combe county donating the build ing site. The laboratory devotes time and experiments to service work re search; miscellaneous small inves tigations. and small tests of miner als. He pointed out that five major contributions had been made; Research on felspar concentrates; Method of bleaching talc, mak ing a perfect white; Creation of a new type machine for wet grinding mica. Basic research study of produc tion of scrap mica, which is prov ing profitable to owners, and pro viding new methods of recovery of (See Minerals?Page 8> Waiting List For Camp Junaluska Is Growing I Camp Junaluska has a long waiting list of rampers wanting to attend the camp this summer, it was learned this week from Miss Palmira Carbajal. director in charge of the institution. The full capacity of the camp of 150 has been filled for several weeks. Miss Carbajal said, The waiting list is growing, and it looks like a good season for all camps, the camp executive said1. Miss Carbajal said that in dis cussing the prospects tor the com ing season with other camp direc-l tors she had learned that almost all camps were going to experience i a banner season mis summer. "Parents are learning that camps are a vital part of a child-'* edu cation. and that their associations, and work during the summer are of extreme 'importance. Camps are no longer just a place to "park" ? the children for the summer. ' Camps are really educational in stitutions." Camp Junaluska is one of the largest, and best known camps in this area. Miss Carbajal said there were no plans on foot to expand Camp Junaluska. except to add to the dining room used by the junior campers. School Contracts Award ed By County Officials Last Friday county officials formally awarded contracts to low bidders for construction of the Central Elementary School. Seated from left are C. C. Francis, chairman of the County Board of Commissioners; W. R. Francis, county attorney: Jack Baber of Asheville. archi tect in charge representing Lindsey Gudger; Mrs. Lucy Jones Boyd, superintendent of county schools: J. W. Killian. chairman of the Board of Education; and Jarvis Allison, county commissioner. Back row: L/eteh Worley, member of the Board of Education; J. R. Sechrest of Canton, member of tIw Advisory Board; Frank M. Davis, county commissioner; Gwyn Denton, architect; Dave Felmet, * chairman of the Advisory Board; and Glenn Brown, member of the Advisory Board. iMounlaineer Photoi. i Haywood Is Included In New Tax Bill Haywood county has twon in-! eluded in a House bill to levy taxof for certain special purposes relat ing to county offices. The hill was introduced by the Buncombe county delegation, and | later, Haywood was among the nine counties to be included in the terms of the bill, which amend' the General Statutes 153-3 so as j to authorize counties to levy tr.xes for eerlain special purposes relat-| ing to the county accountant, the | farm demonstration agent, and the home demonstration agent, and thc| veteran's service officer. As thej title indicates, the bill authorizes the commissioners to levy annually ! special (axes 'amount not spcci-i fled' for declared special purposes I of payment of salary and expenses of county accountant, farm demon-' stration agent, and home demon stration agent, and veteran's Ser-; vice officer, and for payment of j other expenses incurred in larm and home demonstrations and in maintaining veteran's service office Olher counties asking to come! under the terms of the bill besides! ; Haywood and Buncombe are. Ala j mance, Chatham. Cumberland. Le I noir. McDowell, Orange, Randolph i and Rutherford. Education Board Named In Bill To Go Before House , The omnibus bill for naming the boards of education of the 100 counties of the state was due to be introduced in the General Assem bly tonight. Representative Joe Palmer said he planned to name the five men j who wer? nominated in the May primary, and to set their terms of I office in keeping with the agree ment of the primary. The bill will name Mark Kirk pafcick for six years. J, Tom Leatherwood and Jarvis R. Cald well for four years, J. W. Klllian and Jack P. McCracken for two j years. Contracts Are Awarded For C. Elementary t Building contracts for the Cen tral Elementary School were awarded Friday when the Hoard of Commissioners. Advisory Com mittee. and Hoard of Education met at the courthouse to discuss this as well as other school construc tion. The contracts were awarded to the low bidders in each case: gen eral construction, William H 1)11 tard. $1 98.000; plumbing, I'resslcy and Osborne, $14,:tlH: heating. Al Jennings. Inc.. $22,354; and clec rical. Ivestcr Klecrical Co., $15, 639. The total is $250,311 Work will start within 10 days after the contracts have been sign ed. The building site is one of the former C. E. Ray properly at Hay wood Street and Daisy Avenue It will eonlain 10 classrooms, eight for primary grades, and eight grad ed school, plus auditorium, stage, and cafeteria and kitchen. GOP Member Of County Election Board Resigns Charles B. Hawkins of Clyde. Republican member of the Hay wood County Board of Elections, tendered his resignation last week to the State Board of Elections, it was announced today by Clenn W. Brown, chairman of the Board. It has not been determined as yet whether a successor to Haw kins will be appointed If Gudger Duekett of Canton, who is the county Republican chairman, rec ommends a successor to the State body, it is probable that some a< ition would be taken. However, 11 here are no more elections sched uled to the county Iwfore Hawkins' I term would have officially ended Hawkins was a member of the Board for two terms. His present term was due to expire early next year. Mrs Glenn McClure and Mrs. Charles Stephens and children have returned home after a visit with Patrolman and Mrs, W. R McClure in Liberty this past week Democrats To Discuss P\an Of Extending State Senate Term Two Terms Beer Election Draws Heavy New Registration \ Close ?o 300 new registrants added their names to the books before they closed Saturday so that they might vote in the forth coming beer election in Way nesville, which will be held Wednesday, Anril 8. Of those new registrants, more than 200 were registered in l're< inct One (Town llall). ac cording to Mrs. Kuth Kelly, registrar. Approximately 75 new registrants added their names to the books In Precinct Two (Aliens Creek). Mrs. Denton Browning, registrar, said. Saturday was *he heaviest day for new registration In both precincts, as almost h'll the new names were added then. Challenge day has been set for this romlng Saturday from 9 o'clock until 3 o'clock. | a ' ? Highlanders To Meet Wednesday The monthly meeting of the | Haywood County Highlanders will he held at 8 p. m Wednesday at j the courthouse. President L. K. De Vous has announced. \ color movie on travel will In shown and reports will be made of interest to all members. Plans will ! also be discussed for the 1953 sea son. Haywood Democrats will meet here Friday, at Iwo o'clock, to dis cuss allernal 11114 Slate senators with Henderson county 011 a two-term liasis, instead ot the present one term system. Charles H. McCrary. chairman of I h>' Democratic executive com mittee. is calling the meeting of the commiltee. and all other in terested Deinoc rats. pointed out that the proposed plan would en able a senator to gain seniority in the upper branch of the General Assem bly. "As the matter now .stands, the senator goes down each time as a freshman, and has I lit It- opportun ity of getting into a key post in the senate," Mr. McCrary said. The Haywood chairman has dis cussed the proposal with Demo crat ie leaders in Henderson and they are anxious for the plan to he nut into fore "They are interested in making jthe change." Mr. McCrary said, ! "and suggest that Haywood have ihe senator for the next two terms. While we appreciate their position, land altitude, it appears that it [would he better to have the senat or go in of fire at the same time as the governor, instead of change during an administration For that I reason, it would rem practical for Senator William II Hodges of Hen derson to go hack next term and remain in I lie senate as long as the present governor is in office. And then when Governor L'm stead's successor takes office in 1957, the senator from Haywood would he taking office for the (See Democrats?f'age 6) Districl Commissioners iTo Meet Here Wednesday Boy Scout Quota I Is Met In Drive Staged By Rotary The local adult membership drive for the Boy Scouts went over the goal by $4. according to Jack Messer, chairman of the cam paign. The quota for the Waynes-; ville area was $1,800. Mr. Messer, representing the Rotary Club, as sponsoring organ- : izatlon. said that the members of the club had staged the campaign, and a total of $1,804.21 had been turned In to the fund. This area Is part of the Daniel Boone council. The Canton area ! recently reported that that area j had met their goal Between 40 and 50 reprsenta tivev from Western Nor?h Carolina counties will attend the district meeting for county commissioners here Wednesda^. County Chairman C. C. Francis said today. It^ will start at 10 a.m. In the couft house. The commissioners will discuss school financing, leasing of county homes, legislation of interest to county officials, and other matters pertaining to county government. This is the first time that Mr. Francis said he could recall a dis trict meeting has been scheduled for Haywood county. The meeting place Is changed each year. Presiding will be John Alexand er McMahon, assistant director of the Institute of Government at Chapel Hill. Plans To Be Pushed On All Projects "Work on some of the smaller school improvements throughout the county?which has been over shadowed by the larger construc tion projects?will "start as soon as possible," according to county offlcals. At a meeting Friday, the Board of Commissioners, Advisory Com mittee. and Board of Education adopted a resolution calling for the architects to start working drawings at the earliest possible time on these jobs. As a matter of fact, however, architect Lindsey Ciudger has already commenced Work at the Clyde School. Once these drawings and plans have been completed, bids can be sub mitted on the work and contracts awarded. The county officials said at the meeting they were extremely anxi ous these important jobs be start ed as soon as conditions permit. The improvements are included in the S2 million school bonds. Following is a list: Crabtree School?Plans call for a physical education spare with full playing court, agricultural shops, music room, and two stand ard classrooms at a cost of $168. . 0(H). Clyde?Physical education cen ter with full playing court and lockers for $100,000 plus changing the shop to the existing gymnasium and painting of walls where neces sary. $10,000 Cruso?Replacement of lighting fixtures, ? celling " repairs and ad ! ditlon of coal bin. $10,000. East Waynesville?Correct toilet i conditions and modernize heating ; system. $7,000. liazelwood fold building'?Cor j rect toilet condition. $6,000, Saunook?Repair auditorium and | floors. $5,000 Fines Creek?Correct toilet ron I ditions. replace basement floors ' with finished material, repair ceil ings, and modernize water and lighting systems, $11,000. Mt. Sterling ? Modernise light ing and heating system and correct toilets. $3,000 Total cost of these improvements is $220,000 Contracts have been awarded jfor work on I he Rethel Elementary building '$4fit),700i; Waynesville Vocational ($330,000'; Waynesville Elementary <$260.000>; Maggie '$46 000'; Lake Junaluska $'40.000>; Rock Hill >$31,000(; and Aliens Creek '$10,000'. Red Cross Drive Still Lagging; Ends Tomorrow With just two days to go?today and Tuesday?officials of the Way nesville area Red Cross Drive re ported today that the drive had netted a little more than half the goal. Fred Moody and Louise Ballard, co-chairmen, said that reports from various workers had not been com pleted and it is not known as yet whether such reports would carry the drive over the goal. Among the reports to be made are indus try. some of the profesisonal men. some schools, and some of the rural I communities Practically all of the residential reports have been made Waynesville and the surrounding area has a goal of $5,000 to rai-e this month. BULLETIN O. H. SHELTON DIES O. H. Shelton. formerly con nected with the Post Office here, died early this afternoon at the Haywood County Hospital. He entered the hospital early last night. Announcement Of Policy This is to give notice of a policy adopted by The Mountaineer, that no advertising will be accepted from cither side for the beer election to be held here April 8th. This policy was adopted because we believe it to be in the best interest of all concerned. This newspaper will accept letters for publication on the subject, when the letters are confined to 300 words, or less, and measure up to all requirements of fair play, and arc wholly factual. No letter that makes personal attacks will be published. The publishers reserve the right to decline pub lication of any letter that borders on libel. The publishers, and their lawyers will be sole judge of such letters. The news of the election, as in the past, will be fully covered by this newspaper. THE PUBLISHERS Highway Record For 1953 In Haywood (To Date) Injured.... 16 Killed . . ..' 0 (This information com piled from Record, of State Highway Patrol.) -?
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