The Waynesville Mountaineer ! Tkit "Niaktr | I 6 8 t C ' ' ? Published Twice-A-V'eek In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park U {I 68th YEAR NO 47 16 PAGES Associated Press WAYNESVILLE. n7~C.7mONDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 8, 1953 $3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties " ? ~~ i ^ ? sidelights Of The News r prjce Education? -y don t know can hurt ^din^ to a pair of si*. Cousin- 'iv Hazelwood. ' be the only youngsters '.L. looking forward to i jcbool nest fall. ! M?nion and Mike Duck , keen in the habit, ever L nfte hig enough to \ phono, of calling each ,-pi>s the time of day." the planned switch-over L] telephone system was ZT t0 Ricky, he turned rpr what might ba the * he lilted the receiver the operator for his lumber. he said sadly, "they've ? telling me about this I thing Do vou know what pans It means that if pne to be able to talk to le, we have just got to Kadi" jd Roost i Fame fty owners along Bui jst. a short road near Can , not like the name of ,d but its fame is spread iK the nation. It all started he owners recently sent a on to the district highway loner, L. Dale Thrash, permission to change the 0 Laurel Drive. Mountaineer has just re 1 clipping from W. T. rto describes himself as an rtamite tarheel. The clip i a United Press dispatch, lay 29. from a Cedar Rap aa newspaper and headed rd Roost Is On The Way It reads in part: "Nobody to know how a mile-long inear nere tnayues to be called Buzzard iroperty owners along ? suip of one thing? changed . . . The road luzzard Roost on state em maps. A spokes delegation said it has liar name for so long andpa does not know writes that he hopes t didn't get its name I's Roost did. Quail's railroad stop. Mr s"riie 40 or 50 miles am. it was so named s blessed with a lot iptist n School Record >cht to be the largest idents ever enrolled '"day registered this he Vacation Bible ?irst Baptist Church The Rev. Broadus announced that 174 "oiled in the school, s through Wednes *ek. the nearly 40 staff '"die the classes are Mate Convention onnection with the 1 enlargement pro It and Misses Betty hinehardt and Ann en assigned to as cation school, i Miss Brewer are "fs of the Train ? State Convention, leadership classes "eople and Adults, "or and Intermed 'ectively. rdt. who has just 5ardner-Webb. will Intermediates; and Wake Forest, a Stage A t Tuesday 'ill confer Fellow >n Tuesday nighi it was announced s. as well as visit invited to attend lie other unstmtD laV ? Variable cloudnes; a"? Waynesville Area Offers Good Employment Source Labor Department Reports I Weekend Rainfall ( Benefits County The'rafhs rime Saturday, after . I 18 rainless days. Official rain fall at the State Test Farm was | .82 Inch on Saturday and .51 on [ Sunday. Even people who had planned outdoor activities for the week end were delighted to unpack their picnic kits and put away their other equipment. The longest dry spell at this time of the year in the memory of a number of residents had ; parched lawns and gardens. The rain was general through out the county, according to the County Agent's office, and was of especial benefit to tobacco and pastures. Chamber Of Commerce To Meet Tuesday The regular monthly meeting of the Waynesville Chamber of Com merce has been called bv Dr. Boyd 1 . Owen. president, for Tuesday eve- j ning, June 9. Dr. Owen has em ; phasized the importance ot a large attendance at this meeting which . will be held as usual at 7:30 in the Town Hall. I Draft Board ' Needs Addresses Anyone knowing the present address of George Kenneth Walk er or Jackie Claude Bare is asked to give the information to the local r Draft Board No. 45 in the Court t House. Telephone number of the 1 Selective Service Board is GLen ? dale 6-3101. Miss Grace Blanton left today to attend the summer school at Mars Hill College. She was grad uated last week from the Waynes ville High School. Unemployment in the Waynes ville area was estimated at 1.300. or aliout 8.7 per cent of the labor population In April, 1083. accord ing to an .analysis ot Ujp labor, situation In the Waynesvllle-Hay wood County area compiled by the Defense Manpower Adimistration of the Department of Labor. The report has been made available by the Hon. George A. ShufTord, Con gressman from this district. The 6.7 per cent figure indicates that there has been virtually no change in the level of employment or unemployment during the past few years except for the usual scasunal expansion in resort activ ities. About one-fourth to one tjiird of the jobless are women Of the total unembloyed, about 2.3 per cent are profesisonal and man agerial; 6.6 per cent clerical and sales; 8.8 per cent service; 16.8 per cent skilled labor; 23.3 per cent semiskilled; 22 6 per cent unskilled, and 19.6 per cent other types. The situation will be about the i same in the coming months, the j report points out. While unem-; ployment is likely to drop some! during the summer seasonal em- 't ployment peak period, this is re-' garded as a temporary situation.! and joblessness can be expected to return to its present or a higher level by late fall. It is suggested | thai, since the area has been one of long-standtng labor surplus, it offers a fertile field for labor re cruitment by expanding firms from many other areas. There are approximately 19.400 employed of the present popula tion of 56,900 in the Waynesville area, including Haywood County and Jackson County. About one fourth of all employed workers in the area are engaged In agricul i ture; about one-half of the wage i and salaried workers are on the payrolls of some type of manu facturing plant, especially those . for paper and rubber products, | leather goods 'shoe soles and belt | ing>. and wood furniture. In all these are some 11.550 wage and salaried workers, of which 5,600 are in manufacturing. Another 5.950 of the wage and (See Labor Supply?Page 8) 15.2 Miles Rural Road Paving Completed In May V The State Highway Commission! completed 15.2 miles of paving In Haywood County during the month [. of May. d The following roads, with their - lengths, were graded and paved: h Ross Road. 0.5 mile; Chestnut Mountain, 0.3 mile; Peden. 0.2 mile; Bradley. 0.1 mile; Clyde Loop. 3.3 e miles; Ratcliffe Cove. 0.5 mile; Iron i. I Duff, 2.9 miles; Burnette Cove, one II mile; Thompson Cove. 1.2 miles; I Cross road. 0.4 mile; Stamey Cove. 0.5 mile; Pisgah Creek, 1.1 miles, j River Road. 2.4 miles: Country ' Cluh Road, Municipal-County Road connection. 0.4 mile: and Ueather wood Street. Municipal-County Road connection. 0.4 mile. The old Tenth Highway Division brought a total of 43.7 miles of paving and 6.45 miles of stabi lization to conmpletion during May. Under the new 14-division set-up Haywood County will be in the Fourteenth Highway Division. Har ry Buchanan of Hendersonville Is the Commissioner; G. G. Page is the division eflgineer. Headquar ters for the Fourteenth will be in svlva- . i mm Senator Smith Optimistic Over Getting Funds For Building Links Of Parkway I 4 Two Miles Of -j Streets Here i' Are Being Paved ; Work started Friday on pav ing an additional two miles of Waynesvllle's streets, according to Grayden Ferguson, town man ager. Marshall Street, back of { the East Waynesville school, is the first place of work., Also included in the contract ( are Auburn Road. South Hill Street and several short streets ( still to be decided upon, Mr. Fer- ( guson said. The contract was awarded Thursday to the Allison (.'on- < struction Company, and the Job | was under way the following day. , Officials And Headquarters , Announced For Highways i All highway work for Haywood ' County will bo controlled by the > District One office in llenderson ville. It was announced this week , by Harry Buchanan. Highway C'orn | niissioner for the 14?h Division At the same time his complete j "official family" was listed. G. G. 1 Page, division engineer, will have headquarters in Sylva. C. W. Lee I is assistane division engineer. The Hendersonvllle District One office, with P. J. Durpee. district manager, will oversee Henderson, Transylvania and Polk counties as well as Haywood County. Bryson City will be headquart-1 ers for the District Two office. E. L. Curtis, district engineer, will ( ! manage highway affairs for Chero i kee, Clav. Graham. .Tackson. Mac on and Swain counties from Bry son City. Visiting Editor Plans Haywood Feature A special feature article on Hay wood County will result from the visit here of Bill Sharpe, editor of I The State Magazine. ? Mr. Sharpe and his family are I here from Raleigh for a week's va cation at Cataloochee Ranch. Combining business with pleas ure, however, Mr. Sharpe will gath er material for a Haywood County feature to run in The State. Col. Mint Reed of St. Peters burg, Florida and Waynesville has returned from Durham whore he i attended the -twenty-fifth reuniona I of his class at Duke University. TfcfnaWi" tolq *fh<' Jountainecr Saturday night that ie was "hopeful that Congress ?>uld appropriate sufficient nion y for at least one or two links of he Parkway for this immediate rea." Senator Smith had reference to he request for six millions to fin sh the Parkway- -two links in ? faywood, and one near Blowing! took. A cut in appropriations by Congress made it appear .some ime back, that perhaps only' 'tiougli would be approved for but ine link. The number one project has icon listed as the Soco Gap to ialsam Gap section, a distance of ibout 12 miles. Senator Smith said he and senator Hoey were right behind he project, and he had just talk-1 ?d to the chairman of the Senate Committee, and felt that "we will jet something soon." No amount! ras specified. "We are going to stay right lie-1 hind this, and push for all we can i set for the Parkway," he said. i Car, Truck Are Damaged Sunday In Collision ?Robert M. Hawkins. Jr. of Up per Crabtree has been charged with drunken driving after the ton and a half truck he was driving collided Sunday afternoon with an automobile driven bv James Mc Elroy of Cove Creek. The accident took place on Riverside Road as the two vehicles were approaching each other. Dain age to the McElroy car was esti mated at $600 and to the truck at $h0. No one was injured. Cpl. Pritchaid Smith and Patrol man H. Dayton were the investi gating officers. Dial Phone System Is In Operation Here Switch-Over Made Without A Hitch On Saturday Night Waynesville's telephone system was converted to dial at midnight Saturday night, without a "hitch." and according to officials, it was among the "smoothest ever made in the system." Atiout 11-50. all local calls were stopped by the operators and as the hands of the clock stood straight up gnd down on midnight. C. C. Frgarls, chairman of the board of coi/hty commissioners, threw a 1 switch, changing the system to dial. Engineers at the old central office began pulling other switches there, and the change was made. Then the dial equipment in the new building on Academy street began to hum and click. By 12:15 1 It sounded like several hundred typewriters going at full blast, as I people began to make calls trying out the new system. The number of calls were des cribed by officials as normal for such a conversion. About 100 people were In the building at the time of the change over, most of them telephone em ployees, their families, and others who were participating in the change-over program. /?s ivir, rrancis whs pulling me switch, a long distance call was in progress, with Mayor J. H. Way of Waynesville, and Mayor Law rence Davis, Hardwood, W. Curtis Ituss, editor The Mountaineer, and 1 J. Lovdl Smith, district manager I of Southern Bell, talking to Sena tor and Mrs. Willis Smith. The . Tour here averaged about three 1 minutes each in talking to the two J Smiths, who were attending a meet ing in Morehead City. Mayor W^pt organ the conver- , satlon', by telllnrf hi* M'rmer col- , lege classmate, "Willis, this is a . fine building, but I'm not so sure J 1 am going to like dial. I've had the same number for so many years, and now it is all changed." Then the mayor laughed, when the Senator told him he would get to like the new and modern system. By that time the two had gotten around to politics, and Mayor Way predicted that Haywood would give the Senator even more votes next time than in the last election. This | pleased Senator Smith, and joking- | ly, he asked the mayor to repeat such good news. Mrs. Smith expressed delight in , hearing of ? continued progress in her former home town, and said they were definitely coming up as . soon as Congress adjourned within the next fe^ weeks. She also is sued a general invitation for "all to look her up when in Washing ton." Mayor Davis described brifly the telephone building to Senator and Mrs. Smith, and how proud every one was of the progressive step. Senator Smith complimented the district manager tLovell Smithi for having such a fine time, and being I with Southern Bell. Manager Smith recalled having been in a conference with the Senator bask i some years ago. W. Curtis Russ, editor The Moun ! laineer, told Senator Smith that , many readers were enjoying his ; column which is carried each week ; in Tiie Mountaineer. Then the I two began discussing the possibility ! of getting Congressional funds for completing nearby links in the | Blue Ridge Parkway. Senator; I Smith, along with Senator Hoye. have been working on this project.' and took an optimistic view of the possibility of getting some money j irom Congress for this. A number of visitors stood in (See Dial System?Page 8) East Wayncsville Baptists Buy Community Church The treasury of the East Way-' nesviile Baptist Church will be over $1000 richer in spite of?and because of?its purchase last week of the East Waynesville Commun-. ity Church and School property. The selling price was givan as $3000, but of this sum, $600 was donated by the trustees of the Com munity Church to the Baptist Church, In addition, the First! Baptist Church of Waynesville, | returned to the East Waynesville | church its share of the proceeds. Since a number of local church es had participated in the found- > ing of the old Community Church nd School, proceeds of the sale \ were divided among them. Church- J ps receiving this distribution wore as follows: First Baptist Churrh of Waynesville, First Methodist Church of Waynesville, Waynesville Presbyterian Church. RatclifTe Cove Baptist Church, RatclifTe Cove Methodist Church, Church of Christ of East Waynesville. Indications are that other church es may follow the example of the First Baptist in contributing to the East Waynesville church. A considerable amount of re modeling will be necessary on the old building, according to East Waynesville church officers. J R. Morgan, of the law firm of Morgan & Ward, handled the dis tribution. ' At Opening Of Junaluska Season Senator Clyde H. Hoey, left, who was the principal speaker yes terday at Lake Junaluska for Haywood County Day, chats after the morning service with Mrs. W. T. Crawford, a regular visitor at the event ever since it was started 40 years ago. and Dr. li. G. Allen, Lake superintendent. (Muuntaineer Photo). ' 1500 At Lake Sunday For Haywood County Day rs GfS^Wood : Now Have Phones a 01 Approximately 75 per Cent of A Haywood County families have Irlephonr service, according to R Waynesville Manager C. T. Mc- n Cuiston. This figure makes the t! county one of the most highly V developed telephone-wise in the ei state. u b Seven Men 5 Inducted ii Here Monday; s Seven Haywood County boys left s Monday morning at 7 o'clock for Knoxville where they will be in- , ducted into ihe United States Army. From Knoxville they will In* assigned to camps throughout I the country. The inductees are ( George Harrison Stevens, (tonald Clifford Cogdill. Junior David Hath- p bone, Harold Dean Medford and f J. D. Smith. I Thirty-three more young men j will be called from this area for r examination on July 13. and four will he called for induction on that p date. j! The men gather in the Selective j Service Hoard Office in the Court t House, and those who are inducted t proceed from there to Knoxville by t bus. I ___________ i Reckless Driving Damages Vehicle Charge- of (airless and reckless driving have hern placed against Richard B. Parham of Waynesville after he swerved off the highway; on the Old Dellwood Road and I can ed considerable damage to his1 car. The accident occurred about 7 p. m. Saturday in the rain Patrol in,hi .(or Mum ill who investigated, aid thai Parham ?nade a right turn on lh< Old Dellwood Road from t S Ht skidded 160 feet, hit an embankment on the other side swerved aero, the highwnv to the lett side, continued moving for 60 feet, and overturned in a ditch. Parham was injured. The acci dent damaged the right side and top of the vehicle and damage was placed at $300. Mrs. ,| L. Giles of St. I-ouis, Michigan ha- arrived to spend several months at her home on Balsam Drive. Mr. Giles will join her in a few days Mrs Giles drove | down with Mrs. Wendell Dunbar and her children, who are now visiting Mrs Dunbar's pai-ent.s in I Rome. Georgia. Approximately pei aoni ? lined 1,41 .SvnOa> tU" *untt? ? Haywood County Day" program t Lake Junaluska. marking tile (Ticial opening of the Methodist's ssembly's 1953 season. With United States Senator Clyde . Hoey as the guest speaker, sum ler residents and visitors from iroughout the Waynesville-Ashe iie area, as well as numerous arly arrivals from other states, nited in a worship service in the ig Junaluska aduitorium and then eld an old fashioned picnic at the ikeside Fried chicken and home lade pies and cakes featured the lenu. With the weatherman cooperati ng to hold off showers until mid fternoon. the opening day exer ises were termed an "enjoyable uccess" by Chairman Hugh Mas ie and his general committee. The program was sponsored by he Ministerial Association. Cham ?ers of Commerce and Community levelopment Programs of Haywood bounty. Representing the assembly were Sdwtn L. Jones. Charlotte, presi lent of the board of trustees; Dr. f. G. Allen, superintendent, and Jr. Elmer T. Clark, program chair* nan. ine assembly this year is cele irating its 40th anniversary as tha Method ist Church's South wide su in ner program headquarters. Mora han 30.000 persons are expected o visit the famed church center his summer to attend conferences, eadership training institutes or Tierely to enjoy a vacation. Sen. iioey was introduced by Reuben B. Robertson, chairman of tie board of Champion Paper and fibre Co.. Canton. The Influence of the church upon Lhe state is what gives "government ? heart." the senator declared. Ha .aid that both Haywood County and the assembly are fortunate in the location of Lake Junaluska and its lationally-known Christian pro (See Senator Ho< y?Page 8) Highway Record i or 1953 ?? In Haywood (To Date) Injured. 23 Killed:::: 2 (This information com piled from Record* at State Highway Patrol.) wmmmmmmmmmmmmm