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Published Twice-A-Week In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park ? q
bXth YEAK NO. 35 12 PAGES Associated Press WAYNESVILLE, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 27, 1953 $3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties
|d Wills
[veal
Jeresting
formation
i \ t meuford
f . , be. mainly, a chapter
I , ...t compared with
t"tbe loaf**4 and shortest?
I , will in law carries
K direction after the
| h s to ashes- have been
Lfh/- remaina. Wills often
W... quirks and character.
K?rd? that Shakespeare
lhl. wife only his "second
BTand furniture"; but most
t^ng mils nowadays, even
Cnodest means are better
t" -dearly beloveds than
ILttid that two out of three
I die without wills Un
f but we think that even
Lbtr would be too high for
K countv-?one of four or
tdd probably be more cor
Jhe form of wills, like the
I vanes greatly; but the old
Ld reverent and philoso
lYpproach that always pre
| the wills of our forefathers
Lut lost out.
Lest recorded will
l, portions of the follow
Jwjlls because they arc the
Lorried wills In this county.
Lid book beginning 1809:
?the name of God Amen. i
I Jones of Buncombe County
? Carolina hiring of perfect
nd memory (blefsed be God)
28th day of August in the
I our Lord One thousand
undrcd and eight, make this
will and testament?" (and
Ld became a separate
in the same year, and this
is probated in our old Coun
rt, June Session 1809, Kobt.
:1k."
ill of john cabe i
the name of God Amen. I
labo of the County of Hay
? ? being in perfect health
1 and memory though by the
of Nature 1 am nearing
y calling into mind the
ity of Body and knowing
is appointed for all men
i die, do make and ordain
ly last Will and Testament,
tu say principally and first
1 give and recommend my
ito the hands of God that
and my Body i recommend j
cc Old JVilU?-Pate
tton^?4kes Optimistic
itlook For Future Of
ea In Civic Address
tptimistic outlook for the i
based on the steady
of the past, was the key
I the address of J^ouis V.
president and general man
Carolina Power and Light
ay at the Chamber of Corn
banquet here Friday night.
Sutton showed that the con
Mi of electric power in an
is a good barometer of the
of the section, and with
! pointed otu that power
ption in this community
reased 11 times since 1931.
executive also told his audi
' the adequate power in this
ad the abundance to take
' any industrial growth for
tion.
Sutton was presented by
i Ray. The invited guests
itroduced by Dave Felmet,
? Bnvd Owen, president, was
of ceremonies.
Sutton %-iid in his address:
t of the scenic points of
' in the Appalachian range
tiered in North Carolina and
re no more attractive places
fre than here, between the
Smoky Mountains National
id the Pisgah National For
fst wish to compliment you
"tir fine Chamber of Cotn
'nd thr splendid job it i>
' 8,'i al o impressed with
^operation among adjoining
"t'lte.s having similar inter
n"ead of vying with each
,nr agricultural, industrial,
ton t development, you of
' H.,/eiw ood, and Juna
hav r< i ognized your prob
one of mutual concern
>*r loin. ,f forces in search
^ll!l "utmns and thus the
natural competition between ad
joining towns is secondary to your
feeling that you cannot isolate
your problems but that together
greater results can be accomplish
ed.
"I think it is only natural that
the* tourist business has favored
this section of the state. Last year
more than two and one-fourth mil
lion people visited the Great Smok^
Mountains National Park, an in
crease of one-half million visitors
over 1951. Last year three and one
third million tourists traveled by
the Blue Ridge Parkway, an in
crease of one million over the pre
vious year. Approximately three
and one-fourth million tourists vis
ited Pisgah, and smaller numbers
visited Mount Mitchell, the Cher
okee drama and other points of in
terest. you are ideally situated to
benefit by most of the tourist trav
el to and from these points of in
ters!. How long you will be able
to keep the tourists in this area
and how much they will spend here
is certainly in some degree depend
ent upon you. This meeting tonight
I think is evidence that you recog
nize that fact and are relying on ;
your own initiative to take such I
(Continued on Page 1, Sec. 2)
Leather wood New Education Chairman
Hazelwood To
Vote On Bonds
Governor Fine
Of Pennsylvania
To Visit Here
Givernor John S. Fine of Penn
sylvania will pay a whirlwind visit
to Haywood County Thursday,
stopping just long enough for a
brief talk to
town, county, and
civic officials
and lunch at The
Towne House.
His visit is be
ing arranged by
members of the
Waynesville-Haz
elwood - Lake
Junaluska Cham-i
ber of Commerce,
and the Waynes
ville, Clyde, and
Canton I,inns Clu
Gov. Fine will lunch with the
groups at The Towne House at
one o'clock Thursday, make a
short talk, and tour the county.
Immediately on leaving Waynes
villo he will go to Cherokee for a
tour of the Indian Reservation, and
then attend a supper meeting at
Sylva.
Officials said this morning that j
there was a possibility that Gov.
Fine would be accompanied hero
by several Congressmen and Sen
ator Clyde R. Hoey,
He is scheduler! to speak to the
Statesville Lions Club Wednesday
night-_ . ??,j
?Mr ? * JCWHMM
JOHN SYDNEY FINE
hs.
Hazelwood voters will go to the
polls beginning at 6:30 tomorrow
'Tuesday) morning to vote on a
special $25,000 bond issue for
street work in that town.
There is about 800 qualified
registrants on the books in Hazel
wood; it has not been determined
how many new registrants have
j placed their names in the books.
| hut officials are not expecting an
! unusually heavy vote.
The voters will mark their bal
j lots either in approval or disap
proval of the following proposi
1 tion: "Shall the qualified voters of
the Town of Hazelwdod approve
the bond ordinance which was
adopted by the Board of Alder
men of (Hazelwood) on March 20,
and which (1) authorizes bonds of
(Hazelwood) of the maximum ag
gregate amount of $25,000 to fi
nance the construction or recon
struction of the surface of public
streets in 'Hazelwood) and the
contemporaneous grading of such
streets and the construction or re
construction thereon of sidewalks,
curbs, gutters and grains, and (2)
authorizes the levy and collection
of an annual tax sufficient to pay
the principal of and interest on
said bonds; and also approve the
indebtedness to be incurred by the
issuance of said bonds?"
Hazelwood officials have pro
posed that all important unpaved
streets in the town be paved at
once. They believe they can get a
better price by having one firm
take the whole contract. They also
propone to pay the entire princi
pal iu|d intercut on the- bonds with
I*owc .. 'n . jwuey and have the
appi wai of tne Local Government
Commission for such a plan.
Mrs R. W. Crawford is registrar
for the election and Mrs. W. C.
Whitner and F. E. Kuykendall are
judges.
The polls open at 6:30 a. m. and
close at 6:30 p. m.
Engineer For
Recreation
Center Reports
Charles M. Graves, park and rec
reation engineer of Atlanta, was in
Waynesville and Hazelwood several
days last week making a survey of
the recreational needs for the com
bined communities.
Graves, who was retained several
months ago by the Recreation Com
mission to make the survey, was
here looking over several possible
sites for the centfer and gathering
information as to the present rec
reational facilities.
He met with members of the
Commission to review the progress
made to date in establishing a
center for Waynesville and Hazel
wood and said his survey was near
ing completion.
Mrs. Gosta Wollin of New York
City arrived Saturday to spend a
week with her mother, Mrs. Mabel
Brown Abel. Mrs. Wollin is the
former Miss Janet Abel.
New Board Oi Education Takes Office
This morning the new hoard of education j^ok office, and went right to work, holding a busy two-hour session. Seated left to right;
J. W. Killian. J. Tom' Leatherwood, chairman. Mrs. Lucy Boyd, secretary; standing, Jack P. McCracken, Bethel; Mark Kirkpatrlck,
Firies Creek, and Jarvis R. Caldwell, Iron Duff. (Mountaineer Photoi.
$6,500 Is
Sought To
Send Band
To Chicago
Members of the Wavnesville
Lions Club began a campaign this
morning to raise $6,500 to send
the Waynesville 110-piece band to
Chicago for the International Lions
Convention.
The band has been named to rep
resent the state of North Carolina,
and will be gone one week from
Waynesville.
Henry Davis, finance chairman,
said this morning that the club
plans to pay all the expenses for
transportation, meals and lodging
for the band members It is for
these items that the Waynesville
club is having to raise the $6,500.
Mr. Davis stressed the fact that
the current campaigp should not
be confused with the periodical
drive staged by the hand commit
tee to get funds for the purchase
of uniforms and instruments.
"While we have an obligation to
raise $6,500 for the Chicago trip,
we want it clearly understood we
do not want, nor intend, for this
campaign to interfere with the
band committee's drive at anv
time," Mr. Davis stressed.
The Waynesville club worked
hard in getting the state committee
(See $6500 Sought?Page 6)
Highway Cfflintission Is
Urging Funds For Two
Nearby Parkway Sections
Bloodmobile To
I
Be Here Friday;
150 Pt. Quota
It will take an average of 25
people each hour to insure the
Rloodmobile quota Friday, officials
said this morning as they complet
ed plans for the visit.
"We feel confident that blood
donors in this area will show up
for this important visit," they said,
"but right now we're concentrating
on obtaining new donors. We have
a quota of 150 pints, a goal that we
almost reached on the last Rlood
mobile visit, and one that we must
reach this time."
David Underwood. Rloodmobile
chairman, said that the unit would
be at the Waynesville Presbyterian
Church from 11 o'clock until 5
o'clock Friday. The visit is being
sponsored by the Secretaries Club,
the Elks Club, and a number of
Waynesville merchants.
The Slate Highway Commission
has urged North Carolina's sen
ators and congressmen to protect
federal appropriations needed for
North Carolina sections of the
Blue Ridge Parkway.
Highway Chairman Henry Jor
dan sent the plea for help after
learning that the appropriations
bill for the Interior Department
had passed the House without in
cluding an appropriation for three
new links which had been recom
mended by the National Park Serv
ice.
Jordan pointed out that an ap
propriation of $6,000,000 "would
insure the completion of three very
important links in the Parkway,
making it much more useful to
the travelling public."
The links would be built between
Blowing Rock and Linvilte, a dis
tance of 12 miles; between Balsam
and Soeo Gap, a distance of 12
miles; and between Beech Gap and
| Wagon Road Gap, a distance of
(three miles.
The surveys on Beech Gap-Wag
on Road section have been made
and the grading has started.
"In view of the great popularity
of the Parkway and the immense
value of the tourist business which
it attracts," Jordan wrote. "I feel
that any reasonable appropriation
tor the continuation of this work
should be approved without ques
tion." *
The completion of the three
links would make about 90 per cent
of the Parkway open to public use.
The balance of the work could be
completed later.
When complete, the Parkway
will have an overall length of about
500 miles. It will connect the
Shenandoah Park in Virginia and
the Great Smoky Mountains Na
tional Park in North Carolina and
Tennessee.
Glen Palmer Re-Named
To UNC Trustee Body
Glen C. Palmer, prominent
Haywood County cattle raiser
and farmer, was recently re
elected a trustee of the Consoli
' dated University of North Caro
lina.
Palmer was originally named
to the trustee body In 1947 for a
si* year term. Ills present term
is for eight years.
Several years ago he was a
member of the Board of Trustees
at Western Carolina Teachers
College.
Among The Partipicants At Chamber of Commerce Banquet
Thin group was caught by the photographer just a minute before th e Chamber of Commerce banquet began Friday evening. Left to
right: Pitt McCarroll, past president; Charles Ray, who introduce d the speaker; Dr. Boyd Owen, president; Louis V* Sutton, presi
dent and general manager of Carolina Power and Light Company . speaker; Julian B. Stepp, and C. S. Walters, also of Carolina Pow
er and Light Company; and Dave Pelmet, banquet chairman, (Mountaineer Photo). (Other picture* on page 1, see. 2)
Palmer Has
Three Bills
Pending In
Leaislature
Three bills, all introduced into
the North Carolina Legislature last
week by Representative Joe Palm
er. are being considered this week
by Assembly committees.
Rep. Palmer's first bill, introduc
ed last Monday, has been passed
by the House and is now in the
Senate Kducation Committee. It
would fix the compensation of
members of the Haywood Board of
Education, and allow the hoard to
designate of its members to super
vise the construction, maintenance
and repair of school buildings and
grounds. The bill would make
available to the designated member ?
$10 for each day devoted to such
services and seven cents per mile
travel allowance.
Another bill, introduced Wednes
day, would "provide for an adjust
ment of taxes between the seller
and the buyer of real property as a
condition to the registration of a
deed in Haywood." The bill was I
sent to the House Judiciary Com- j
j mittee for consideration and study.
Palmer's third bill, introduced
Friday, would authorize the county
Board of Education to make an
adjustment of the boundary lines
of Lake Junaluska elementary
school property in Waynesville
I Towri hip.
Mrs. Boyd
Resigns As
Snpl. Oi
Education
Haywood's five-man board of
education took office this morning,
jand went right to work on num
erous school matters, including:
Naming J. Tom Leatherwood. of
Clyde, as chairman of the board:
Receiving the resignation of Mrs.
Lucy Jones Boyd, as county super
intendent, effective June 30th:
Almost completing the list of
school committeemen for the var
ious districts;
And adjourning to meet again
Thursday at ten o'clock with the
board of commissioners and ad
visory board on the school expan
sion program.
The board went into session at
ten o'clock this morning, and took
their oath of office from J. H Siler,
clerk of court. With the formali
ties out of the way. the five mem
bers and Mrs. Bovd as secretary,
went into executive session for al
most two hours.
The first matter* of business was
naming a chairman, and the elec
tion of J. Tom Leatherwood. of
Clyde, resulted. Mr. Leatherwood
is an accountant of Champion Pap
er and Fibre Company, and an
executive of the. Clyde Building
and Loan Association. Mr. Leath
erwood succeeds J. W. Killion as
chairman.
Mrs. Boyd tendered her resig
nation as county ^uperinUtpdetd,
effective (Tune 30th. which will con
clude the current fiscal year
The board will announce, within
15 days, as prescribed by law, the
new superintendent, it was learned
from an official of the board
I The board hopes to complete the
naming of school committeemen of
all distircts by the time they meet
again on Thursday morning. Some
committees were completed this
morning, while some members are
yet to be named on other commit
tees. it was learned, and the board
decided to announce all commit
teemen at one time.
The board which took office this
morning is the first five-man board
in some time. Up until now. the
board has consisted of three mem
bers.
The members are: Mr. Leather
wood. chairman; J. W Killian, Wav
nesvillc; Jack P. McCracken. Beth
el; Jarvis R. Caldwell. Iron Duff;
and Mark Kirkpatrick. of Fines
: Creek.
Mr. Kirkpatrick was nominated
| last May for a ?-year term; Mr.
Leatherwood and Caldwell for a 1
j year term; and Mr. Killian and Mr.
McCracken for a 2-year term.
Mrs. Boyd gave no reason for
I resigning in her letter of .resigna
tion to the board
The Haywood school system has
about 210 teachers, and a student
i enrollment of about 6.000 The
Canton system Is not included in
the Haywood unit.
Mrs. Mildred Bryson. Haywood
County Tax Collector and Super
visor. is attending a special ,-rhnol
at the University of North Caro
lina this week.
Five Fires Break Out
In Forests In One Day
Friday wilj go down in the rec-1
ord:. of Haywood county as "Forest i
i Fire Day," according to R E. Cald- j
! well. county j fire w arden. Five |
fires broke out on the 24th. Up j
to that time there had beery only
one fire during the month.
The largest blaze was Chestnut
Flats, in the Cove Creek area,
where 25 to 20 acres were burned.
Mr. Caldwell said.
The most dangerous was in Big
Cove, where fire from a hrush pile
swept to the edge of the Waynes
ville watershep "F.xcept for quick
work, the fire would have gotten
ahead of us in the watershed and
caused untold damage," Mr. Cald
well said.
A small fire broke out at Mag
gie. also from burning brush, and
did slight damage.
Mr. Caldwell said the forests are
salll considered "highly dangerous." ,
with the daily fire rating of four'
continuing. A rating of Ave is as 1
bad as the situation can get, he 11
?i
explained. The sjlght scattered
showers, and growing foliage are
not sufficient to curb the dangers
of fire spreading fast, he explained.
Highway
Record For
1963
In Haywood
(To Date)
Injured .i17 j
Killed ..; ? 0 p
(This Information com
piled from Records of
State Highway Patrol.)
L* til
?her
FAIR
^ ?Partly cloudy, windy
101 Pair and slightly warm
fsday
eial Wavnesvillc tempora
?compiled at the State Test
Max. Min. Rainfall
\ 75 53
! 81 47
[ ft 57
1 87 45 .01