North Carolina Newspapers

? ? fl The Waynesville Mountaineer * | ed." F^iiblislied Twice-A-Week In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park ? i ^ I2 PAGES Associated Press WAYNES VILLE, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 13, 1953 $3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties 0 Water tes Will gin On iy First officials are today an r 1 " ,i a in water rates, i ^ rJtt. starts with a mlni W?i 40 for 400 cubic feet, 3 000 gallons. The old $1.10 other quantities one up in proportion, the ur. published in today's neve out-ide rate is $2. in j ji 65 a- heretofore. The mile rates do not apply to ffs served by Hazelwood Junaluska, as both these [,u) water wholesale from prills. Fergus* n. town manager, ,t the new >"ates were neces" 1 order to meet the cost of >(0.000 expansion program nderwa.v here in town. The (or the expansion was voted II in a town election. tor Roll Of {C. Being lished Today ?nor hoi I of some 150 firms dividuals who have joined jncsville - Hazelwood - Lake k? Chamber of Commerce 3 is being published today Mountaineer. > McCarroll, chairman of diii l(ei'. membership com ?i i tod,iv the response to nm,itter drive has been ratifying and that he ex nore firms and individuals dm . members witliin the iture. Mud tti.it all those who are . i,i nun the Chamber to ?(,". \pril 24, the date of mal banquet. irterly Meet WNCAC To leld April 28 leaders from Waynesville iwood County have been in iattend the quarterly meet ;ht Western North Carolina led Communities at West irolina Teacher's College B. iais of the State, the Na "ark Service, 4*0 iifuc | JaiKwa\, and the national arc expected to be present Bint those attending with ir tin summer operation of iciiities. n of the recently complet- ' an building and classroom j I will he made at 10:30 in nii:g. Lxccutive Committee will 11 45 and a dutch lunch- j 'be college dining hall will general business meeting ft at one o'clock. ILathrop igned To luiting Duty Ills ISLAND, S C ? Marine I ithrop, 34, hus ?Mrt M Lathrop, 106 Geor ? Hwelwoodj was graduat ? Marine Corps Rccruit fcool at the Marine Corps ? Depot here recently, lathrop was a supervisor for Inna Laundry before enlist fci Marines. |s been i Signed to recruit ? n North Carolina, and is itationed at Raleigh. INO 81 \TB KEY CLUB I MUTING Hugh Frazier. James 1 Ri< rd Green, all i l( "f the Krv Club of the ?ille High School, attended ^ convention of key Clubs ?k in Haleigh. They re-1 1'1 their homes Sunday. | rHS Bands And Chorus Present Concert Friday B' iIU Township High Btatirt. which has received B Qg possible in the I COOLER B \ 11 table cloudiness. ?nd cooler. Fair and mild ?>a' Wavncsville tempera Icompiled at the State Test Max. Min. Rainfall I :u 37 ? 78 55 .14 I 77 31 ? 72 45 .52 past three years in state contests, will present a special concert at the high school auditorium Friday night, April 17, at 8 o'clock. Members of tne nana started sell ing tickets for the concert today and hope to sell enough to defray expenses for the annual contest trip to Greensboro, which is being held April 21-24. The numbers presented at the concert here will be the same ones the band will play at Grepnsboro. Charles Isley, Jr.. director of music at WTHS, said today the band would play at 5 o'clock, April 22. i ? When the band performs here, the program will be supplemented by selections by the chorus. The Junior high school concert band, made up of eighth'grade students, will also make its first appearance and ..will present four numbers At the Greensboro contest, the band will play in grade six. which is the highest classification. I Waynesville will be in competition Bids Sought On Filtering Plant Here The town board is today adver tising for bids on a modern filter ing plant, to be built as part of the expansion of the water s>stem here. Bids will be received on May 7th. at the Town Hall. In addition to the filtering plant, which will be constructed of brick and concrete, there will be a reser voir to hold 147,000 gallons of water. The new filtering plant will be constructed on the Aliens Creek road near the Free Baptist church. Estimates are that the plant will cost ahout $200,000. In the near future the board plans to ask for bids on a 5-room house for the superintendent. This will enable the superintendent to live near the filtering plant. New Members Ol Board Elected By Canton Body New directors were elected last week by the Canton-Clyde-Bethel Chamber of Commerce. The new board immediately began laying plans for the year. It has been announced that the annual meeting will be held at Camp Hope May 1. Results of the election of direc tors were announced by Secretary It. V. Bailey as follows: Elected for one-year term. Roy McKinnish, F, I. Newman and A1 Phillips. ? Elected for two-year term. Wes ley Holtzclaw, J. Bruce Morford, and F. E. 'Bill) Shull. Elected for three-year term, George BulT, Pat Greeley and Guy Roberts. ? The new board of directors will meet tonight to elect their officers for the coming year, and these of ficers will be formally installed at the May 1st meeting. Preliminary plans for the Cham ber's annual meeting were dis closed by President J. Bruce Mor ford as he announced that Reuben B. Robertson, chairman of the board of directors of the Champion Paper and Fibre Company and a charter member of the Chamber of Commerce.- would be the prin cipal speaker on the program. Mr. Morford also announced that all living charter members of the original Canton Chamber of Com merce would be extended a specfcl invitation to attend as guests of honor at the annual meeting. New Building Is Being Erected On Main Street Here Construction has started on a colonial type building for a dress shop at the Oak Park Motor Court, it was 'learned from Joe Rose, general manager today. Mr. "ose said that in addition to the modern building, that the lobby of the motor court was being enlarged. He said a long-term lease had made with Mrs. Carrie Hannah, owner of the Town and Country Shop for the new building, which is scheduled to be ready by June first. The new building faces on Main Street and is right at the entrance of the motor court. Work Started On New Water Line For Waynesville Workmen are pictured preparing to lay the new water line to service WaynosvHk'\ water needs. Tlic line, which is a part of the $300,000 improvement in Waynesville's water service, will be 12 inches in diameter ami will run 0500 feet. Another line, 10 inches in diameter, will run about 850 feet. Town officials are now awaiting complete plans and specifications for a modern filtering plant, being prepared by a firm of engineers. (Mountaineer I'hotoi. ^ National Guard Here Is Valuable Asset To Area ? Establish Park Line Patrol Again This Year Oliver Hathbone, deputy in the | Wildlife Resource Commission, will ! start patroling the National Park boundary lines within the next few | days to help ranchers and cattle men protect their livestock from stray bears who live in the Groat | Smoky Mountains National Park. j Hathbone did the same job last year after many cattlemen com- ] plained to state and national offi cials that dangerous bears from the park had crossed the line and killed several cattle. J. A. Akin, wildlife protector for Haywood County, and Hathbone have received permission from J Park officials to give chase to any i dangerous beats, even'though the chase may cross Park lines. Permission al.^> has been grant ed by Park officials for either of the two men to organize hunts for dangerous bears, providing one of j them accompanies the hunting group, and providing Park officials #e notified. Chief Ranger Lyles of the Na tional Park stated at a meeting last week that he would cooperate in every way possible to alleviate1 the problems caused by dangerous bears. Not many nights ago a young boy sat in a local theatre, wide eyed at the sight of United Nations soldiers firing on an enemy posi tion. "Gee. I'd sure iove to shoot one of those cannons." he said, turning to his companion. "Those guys really have the life," Well, you just can't go around shooting cannons, unless you're In the Army and have been specif ically assigned to a cannon unit. Or. if you don't want to go into the Army, there's another way. The National Guard unit of Way necvillc 'Tank Company, 120th In fantry. North Carolina National Guard' lias summer encampments each year and during that time most of the moil have an oppor- j tunitv to fire the big weapons But firing weapons and there are many kinds used in the Nation al Guard units is not all of the things a Guardsman does. Guardsmen in the Waynesville unit hold drills 48 times each year in the Armory (Thursday nightsi, hold six extra week-end drills, and spend 15 days at a summer en campment at an Army Camp In the South. In addition to the drills? which an1 not alwayi marching-? the men work with various pieces i of equipment, which includes movie projectors, cut-away work ing models of weapons, map read ing instruction kits, and sand bib les. The sand tables pre <>nt one of the most interesting phases of training?4hey are used to illus trate the tactical employment of various weapons and units of an Infantry Division again ! aggros or (See National Guard?I'ace ll Annual Wildlife Pilgrimage In Park April 23-25 The third annual spring wildflow er pilgrimage in the Great Smoky Mountains National Hark April 23. 24. and 23, according to an an nouncement made this week. The pilgrimage will include illus trated talks, color slides, scheduled wildflower hikes, motorcades, pho tographic tours, and bird walks. Botanists have listed some I 300 species of flowering plants, 1.800 kinds of fungi. 330 mosses and liv erworts, and 230 lichens in the area which the pilgrimage will encom pass. Nationally known botanists and naturalists will help participants in the pilgrimage identify more than 200 flowering species. Registration for the pilgrimage will be held Thursday, April 23, at 7 30 p.m. in the Greystone Play house in Gatlinburg. Further information may be ob tained from Park headquarters in i Gatlinburg. Pfelawr Bill Passes Third Senate Reading House Bill 921 which rr defines the rorooiate limit.' of Wayin , vllle. passed the third reading in the North Carolina Senate la t Monday. It was introduced by Kepre rot ative Joe II. Palmer March 19. ~1 ~ Fines Creek Seniors To Present .'J-Act Play The Fines Creek Seniors pre sents their Senior play "Take Your Medicine", Thursday night. April 16. in the school auditorium. The 3-act Comedy will begin at. B 00 P. M Admission will be 25 and 50 cents. Mrs. Jackson, senior spohsor, is in charge. C. Of C. Board Will Meet Tuesday Night The directors of the Chamber of Commerce will meet Tuesday night at 7 30 at the organization's j office, it was announced today by 'Dr Boyd Owen, president. Town, Stale Boards Say Control Laws Will Be Rigidly Enforced Here County Has About Average Index For Teachers Haywood County, along with the groat majority of othrr North Carolina counties, has a lower index lor white instruc tional personnel than for Negro instructional personnel. According to figures iust re leased by the Institute for Re search in Sr.iial Science, white instructional personnel in this county have an average index of 789.6, which is about four points higher than the state av erage, The Negro index aver age index is 800.0, about four points lower than the state average. The index is determined by a formula which gives !)00 points to persons holding graduate cer tificates, 80(1 points to those holding Class A certificates, 700 to those holding Class B cer tificates, and so on down for Class C. Elementary A, and those with no college training at all. On the hasis of these figures white teachers 'n Haywood County have, on the average, slightly less than ?n A certifi cate: Negra teachers in thr aver age, have slightlv more than an A certificate. Canton, which has a chartered city school unit, has a slightly lower index for white teachers (787.4) than the county system, and a higher index for Negro teachers (810.7) than the county system. The state average is 786 for white teachers and 803.7 for Negro teachers. The figures are for 1951-52. Haywood Typewriter Company Observing First Anniversary Tom Passmoro, owner of the Haywood Typewriter Company, is receiving many congratulations on his first business anniversary here. The firm has steadily grown dur ing the past twelve months, and he is serving a wide area with sales and repairs to typewriters and general office equipment. Mr. Passrhore has had a num ber of years experience tn the re pair and maintenance business. Two representatives of the North Carolina Alcoholic Beverage Con trol hoard, here today, said that indications were that legal sales of beer could be resumed In Waynes ville about April 20th. The (wo representatives were here to meet with the town offic ials. and dealers and to explain the control laws. The board of aldermen, in'can vassing the vote of last Wednes day. went on record Thursday that a strict policy of law enforcement would fx' followed upon the re turn if legal beer sales. The board ordered that police make a dally check of the places selling beer, and that any place found violating any phase of the control law would be closed. Ralph B. Stockard. assistant di rector of the State Board of Alco holic Control, was accompanied here by H. B. Kendriek. inspector* of this area. The two were to spend some time here conferring with of ficials and police as to the current control laws, they said. (i. C. Ferguson, town manager, said five or six applications had been made for beer licenses. The Stale Board has ruled that they will hold that licenses In ef fect last November, when legal beer sales ceased in Haywood, would be honored until their ex piration date. State licenses ex pire April .10. while town and coun ty license expire May 31. and Fed eral license on June 30th. Under the law. a dealer must file a written notice for 10 days of intention to apply for a license and post such a notice on the place of business where he plans to sell beer. Mr Kendriek said: "We are go ing to enforce the law to the let ter. and give close supervision to every retail outlet." A representative of the dealers said there would be no beer sales made oh Sunday. The two officials from the atate board said they would recommend such action at once. Red Rank Church Will Mold Special Singing A special singing program will be held at Red Bank Baptist Church Sunday night, April 19. The Ray Parker Quartet, the Cathey Brothers, Otis' Thompson Quartet. Webb Brothers, and the Red Bank Trio will participate in the program. All singers and Ihe public are invited to the program which will get underway at 7:3ft, Palmer Gives Views On Bill Exhibit Building Bill Introduced By Rep. Palmer A bill which would authorize the Haywood County Board of Commissioners to levy a special lax to provide for the construc tion of a building for "livestock, agricultural, home arts, and in dustrial shows and exhibits and other community, civic, and educa tional purposes," was introduced into the General Assembly last i Friday hy Representative Joe H. Palmer. The hill would give the Board authority to purchase the real - estate, and to construct, maintain and operate the building for the purposes named. It also authorizes the cpunty to use available surplus funds, to make necessary appropriations, and to levy >i special annual tax for the purpose, not to exceed one half of one cent on each $100 property valuation. The hill was referred to the Committee on finance. Eight Named To C. of C. Ticket Sales Committee M K, "Bid" Whisenhunt was to day placed In charge of ticket sales for the annual Chamber of Com merce banquet, which will be held April 24 at the Haze I wood School cafeteria. Whiscnhunt. who was named to (he position by Dr. Boyd Owen, president of the Chamber of Com merce, has delegated Bill Prevost. of Hazel wood, and J. T. Russell, of Waynesville, to head up the ticket sales committee in the two towns. Working with Prevost will be Tommy Thompson, Joe Cline and A. P. Led better. Russell's committee consists of Jimmy Childress, David Hyatt and Euel Taylor. Tickets for the banquet, which will be held at 7 o'clock, may be purchased from any member of the , committees for $2. L. V. Sutton, president of the Carolina Power and Light Com pany, will be principal speaker at the banquet. Five Men Added To Staff Of National Park Glen L. Shurts and Charles A. Pickel, both of Pigeon Forge. Tenn . will be reemployed as sea sonal rangers in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, begin ning May 17. For both men it will be the fourth year during which they have served in the same position, Shults will spend A major portion of his time at the information desk in the park headquarters building, while Piekel will be assigned to the Sugarlands district. On or about June 1 a third seasonal ranger is expected to report for duty at Heintooga where he will be in charge of the park's most recently developed campground and picnic area. Three ranger-naturalists will constitute the seasonal interpretive staff in Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1953. On May 2, Frank F.arl Williams of Whittier, will return to his former assign ment In the Oconaluftee Ranger Station where he will have charge of the pioneer exhibits at that place; this will be his second sea son at a location which had a visit ation of almost 150,000 people in 1952 Williams is a graduate of Western Carolina Teachers College. Dr. Robert A Dietz of the De partment of Botany, University of Tennessee, will report for dutyj June t to assist with the program of hiking trips and talks; this will | ! Ik- his first season with Great ! Smoky Mountains National Park. } Dr Dietz has degrees in biology and botany from Washington Uni versity. St. Louis. The third ranger-naturalist, Wil liam G. Alston of Princeton. New Jersey, has served here for the past many years. A graduate of Maryvllle College, he has a mas ter's degree from the University 1 of North Carolina. Alston will en ter on duty on or about June 20. i Will Drop Bill On Maintenance Man For Schools Representative Joe Palmer, home for the week-end, stated his posi tion on the secrecy bill which the General Assembly voted several weeks ago. He aaid he did not want to debate the issue, hut there were two sides to the question. He said he believed both sides arted hastily, and that he was for open door meetings for transact ing official business, no matter if it weie town, county, state or fed eral government. RepresentaHvo Palmer said he felt that at times it was necessary to have executive sessions to study and dis cuss certain Issues, but agreed that all final action and voting should be in open meetings. "1 believe now, and always have believed in the Freedom of the Press. But I also believe in a fair press," he continued. Representative Palmer said he did not favor any law which would slam the door shut to the public when it came to final action. There is a bill in the Legislature for repeal of the measure hastily Introduced to give the committees and sub - committees seclusion while studying pending legisla tion. Representative Palmer did not state his plans, nor intentions as to which way he would vote on the pending bill. The question was not put to him as to his intentions. He said that he proposed to in troduce a bill which would give the Board of Education the power to act as to disposition of the Cen tral Elementary School property when the new building is finished. Suggestions have been made that the property to be given the lawn for recreational purposes, and a corner lot for a new library build ing be given the County Library. Another pending bill he plans to introduce is to definitely establish a property line for the Lake Juna luska school Representative Palmer said he had already asked that a bill be introduced about a week ago be held up. It deals with the board of education naming a maintenance man for looking after school prop erty at $200 a month, and $50 trav- ? el expenses. "I have since found the board has the power to employ such a maintenance man. and at such compensation as necessary." he said. (Editor's note?There is an edi torial today on the subject, which was printed before Mr. Palmer made his announcement of holding up the measure.) Representative Palmer was join ed today by Representative Frank Brown, of Jackson, for their re turn trip to Raleigh. They said it now looked like the General As sembly would adjourn sometime during the week of April 27th. Earlier predictions by some mem bers had set April 25th. but neith er of the two here this morning felt that the work could be com pleted by that time. Milk Producers Discuss District Organization Plan The Haywood Milk Producers Association discussed a proposed 12-county organization here Fri day night. About 20 members at tended the meeting, with James Kirkpatrick. president, in charge. Leading the discussion wis Franw McDowell, of the North Carolina Milk Producers Associa tion. Mr Kirkpatrick said no formal action was taken on the proposal. Highway Record For 1953 In Haywood (To Date) 'I Injured.... 17 Killed ...; 0 (Thin Information com piled from Rerordn nt State Highway Patrol.) J i