North Carolina Newspapers

? A * i' .^n'dabu ? Cf ^U-23^ CO. ? '^'SyiLlS0^v K,r? si The W aynesv ille Mountaineer ~i?~ j Published Twice-A-Week In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park ? I WU.YEAK NO. 51 U PAGES WAYNES VUXE, N~c7 MONDAY AFTERNOON. JUNE a. 1K3 J3.00 In Advance In Hdywood and Jack? CountK. Park Head Sees Bright Future For Area OFFICIALS WHO HAD A PART in the dedication this morning at the Heintooga Ridge Road included this group?Park officials and others?who, in either an official or unofficial capacity, were prominent in scouring this spur of the Blue Ridge Parkway. . (Mountaineer Photo). Livestock And Home Arts Building Committee Asks Purchase Oi Site The livestock *id home arts building project gt* off to a flying start as the planking committee' recommended purchase of acreage for the purpose. The Board of Commissioners was requested to "purchase ade quate property and to make plans | for the buildings and over-all lay out." The committee also recom mended that the commissioners name trustees to hold title to the property, that the trustees be ap polned to serve ftntil their, succes- J sors should be named. And that their terms, run djheurrg ntly with those of the commissioners. In addition, the committee asked that the one-half cent per bund red dollar tax rate authorised by recent State legislation be set up for 1953-1954 as a maintenance fund. Accompanied b y Commission Chairman C. C. Francis, commit tee members inspected four pieces of property deemd suitable for the project. Their recommends-1 tlon favored purchase of a 23-acre tract lying on the west side of Highway 19A-23 about three miles east of Waynesville. The land is1 owned by M- O. Galloway and the price discussed is 815,000. The committee asked that Ex-, tension service study the site and make recommendations for devel opment^ of the property. Project committee members, j named by the commissioners folJi lowing a meeting Monday, are. Jack Chapman, chairman, and Dave Boyd, Dick Barber, Roy Haynes, Joe Palmer, Dave Felmet, and Dr. J. L. Reeves. Lions Honored At State Convention High honors were awarded last week to the Waynesville Lions Club at the State convention at Asheville for its work during the past year. Two gold cups were presented to the club. The first was for the local Lions' successful white cane drive, and the second cup was pre sented for the best bulletin In Dis trict 31 A. A plaque went to Charles Reed for having the best record as a club secretary during the year. The club was also runner-up in the State for its general activities. Representing the Waynesville club at the convention were Presi dent Lee Davis. Jerry Rogers, Herb Angel, Claude Woodard, Paul Davis, and Boyd Owen. Wayne Franklin Lions President Officers for 1953-54 will be in stalled Thursday night by the Way nesville Lions Club with Wayne Franklin to take over as president. He succeeds Lee Davis. Also to be installed in ceremon ies at 7:30 p. m. at the Mount Val ley Inn by Roy Taylor of Black Mountain. International Counselor and J former District Governor, are the following: , Joe Cline, first vice-president; Ernest Edwards, second vice-presi dent; Lester Burgin, Jr., third vice-president; Bruce Jaynes, Lion Tamer; Claude Woodard and Phil Medford, Tail Twisters; and J. E. Fender and M. T. Bridges direc , tors. 4-H Club Camp Underway For Its Fourth Season Camp Schaub, the 4-H Club camp near the Mountain Experiment Station, is now full swing*in its summer schedule with clubs from throughout the State arriving each week for the five-day encampment. Opening date was June 2 when 4-H'ers from the mountain areas .arrived fpr a three-day handicraft tamp. But the summer season did not begin until June 8 with the arrival of 150 club members from Wayne, Person, and Watauga counties. Last week an equal number came from Madison. Mitchell. Bertie, and Al leghany counties. Avery and Hen derson will have 120 present this week, while Haywood, Polk and Clav counties will attend the camp during the last week in June and the first week in July. The camp leader again this year is Eric De Groat from N. C. State College at Raleigh. Mr. De Groat has headed Camp Schaub for three out of its four complete seasons. The director said the schedule follows that of last year except for several changes: there are two guards at the swimming pool for both beginners and advanced swim mers; the handicraft project is a black walnut pinup electric lamp; the electrical program for girls contests of packaging and freezing foods while the boys make a hotbed for heating plants in cold weather and learn how to string an electric fence; and extension service for esters spend two days weekly with the young people showing them various trees, diseases, and princi pals of reforestation. Fathers Have A Warm Day Father's Day was a long, hot,' and we hope, pleasant Sunday. The longest day of the year, the first official day of summer was also the hottest, according to of ficial records at the Asheville Weather Bureau. The mereurv soared to a blist ering 92 degrees in Waynesvtlw so that Dad had plenty of excus es to take it very easy, to go for a swim w'th the kids, or fuss around over that new fishing gear the family gave him. The blazing heat, 8 degrees above last year's high of 84 for the same date, was In line with tem peratures all over the country. Ileat records were broken in sev eral cities throughout the United States. The longest day was just a hout fourteen and ? half hours long, with the sun rising at 5:15 a. m. and setting et 7.49 p. m. ' Wa.vnesville and Dad's spirits were dampened but cooled by some scattered showers in the evening. Although hot, humid weather Is expected again Mon day. there's hope ahead. A "cold" front Is moving across the country and should arrive here sometime Tuesday. Charles Isley and Wayne Frank lin left Sunday for Chicago to make arrangements for the high school band to attend the Lion's Convention there next month. Pisgah Area Use Up 10 Per Cent Over I^ast Year Use of recitation facilities in wPisgah NatioikV-*o?^M as run ning 10 per eeitt ahead of last , year's. Ranger Ted Seely reports. Indications are that heavier travel along Highway 276 is bringing more and more people to the area. Seely has observed cars from practically every state in the Union, but remarks that the sec tion is especially popular with South Carolinians. During week ends, he estimates that probably 50 per cent of the cars have South Carolina tags. I tjdelights [Of The News ^ ? 1 j Gap ? ? ? 5355 Feet" the Heintoog? Ridge lotion this morning who frign, "Mailie Gap . . 5355 feet',, may not have ? thev would have the T of see>nS the Mollle tbf pP was named, grs Mollie Arneach of I" ^ onlv woman, who jiKrved on the Cherokee til. The gap was nam KT^onor on recommend ? Qotty Browning, chief i engineer for the State f end Public Works Com \ dark-haired Mollie was those attending the cere beating that part of the ger ancestors to the whole in people. Lft On Tides Ut Boyhood laynesville Lg j Haight, nationally tat oceanographer, who at jfiynesville schools in the [prt of the century, will re t June after serving more g years in the Division of iind Currents, Coast and It Survey, under the De ft. of Commerce in Wash 1 lught was born in Barker, ;H May 20, 1893. He attend ^niar and high schools in utile and was graduated in a degree in electrical (ring from North Carolina College of Argiculture and King. During World War I bight served with the U. S. I Carps, attaining the rank |Uin. He participated in the i Campaign of 1919-20, af itb he entered duty with the ad Geodetic Survey, gaight has made many out ig contributions in devising |of analyzing and comput [currents which have re more accurate determina linportant data for naviga I engineering purposes. He pad as Chief, Section of ? of the Division, of Tides rents, tinec 1M3. He is If various special publica ktaining to currents in wat k United States and Alas I has prepared tidal current (f ? number of our more ?I waterways. In 1951 he tirted the Department of he meritorious service a ? the Secretary of Gom laight resides at 3930 Har keet, N. W., Washington, plications Coining In rOui-Of-Siaie Tour ations have already start ing to the County Agent's * the 11th Out - of - State bur announced last week, planning to go along have iy 13 to make application. ?8 from Waynesville and on July 17, the trip will i days and will include 11 sides North Carolina. Over te will be traveled in this, lost to date for the annual tat day's schedule winds tanphis, with brief stops Ita. Chattanooga, Fayette ISavannah, Tenn. An early j ' following morning brings ' to Tulsa, Okla., in time tapection of the Angus tams an(j supper at the tanday's driving crosses " to spend the night at Oty. Kansas. I* seen on Monday and delude some of the most ta on the trip. Lunch on ?t Pueblo, Colo., will be ? ta a view of the Royal ? the afternoon sunlight. ?will be passed at Den * be / "her ? HOT M P?rtly cloudy, with n '*t'Pred thunder show 1 much change in tem er uesdaX. partly cloudy w?ynesville tempera ^eompiied by the State Max. Mln. 82 56 - 90 54 90 59 92 60 ver. Tuesday the travelers will be lunching early at Cheyenne, Wy oming, to drive on to the Frontier Days Rodeo. The overnight stop will be in the third state to be visited in one day, at Sidney, Nebraska. | Observation of farming opera tions along the way Wednesday will bring the tour to Grand Is land, Neb., for the night. Thurs day's overnight stop will be at Ames, Iowa. Dr. J. H. Hilton, form erly of N. C. State College, will present the evening's program. Friday night will see the party in St. Louis, Mo. After supper tour members will have a choice of a ball game "under the lights" be tween the St. Louis Browns and the Boston Red Sox or a perform ance of the St. Louis Municipal Opera of "No, No, Nanette." Saturday's homeward swing con tinues through Illinois and Ken tucky to a stop at Nashville. Tenn.: and Sunday morning begins the last lap of the journey across the mountains to arrive in Waynes ville Sunday evening. Lions To Give Minstrel Show A minstrel show for the benefit of the Waynesville High School band that is going to Chicago in two weeks will be presented Sat urday by the Lions Club. The show will be at 8 p. m. at the high school auditorium. Club members will participatac along with the Edge Brothers of Clyde In songs and Impersonations. Music will be furnished by a group of musicians from the high school band. The songs will be under the di rection of Charles Isley and Car roll Underwood. Mrs. Fred Camp bell is directing the show. Admission will be fifty cents for students and 91 for adults. Beech Gap Link Right Of Way Partly Cleared Nearly half of the right of way on the uncompleted 4 - mile stretch of the Blue Ridge Park way between Wagon Koad and Beech Gaps has been cleared and burned, according to Pisgah Forest Ranger Ted Seely. About 40 per cent o,( the section is ready for the next steo. The road has been roughed out as far as Yellowstone Falls, reputed to be one of the most scenic in the area. However, none of the stretch will be open fcr travel this season. Waynesville Art Gallery To Open Thursday Night The first sales of the season at the Waynesville Art Gallery will be at 8 p. m. Thursday, owner Jim my Mann has announced. This will be the 21st season here for the Art Gallery, located on Main Street near the two theaters. After Thursday there will he two sales daily, the first at 10:30 a. m. and the second at 8 o. m. Inspection nights will be Tues day and Wednesday when the pub lic will be allowed to visit the gal lery from 8 to 10 p. m. Haywood HDC Wins Ribbon For Publicity A blue ribbon was recently a warded to the Home Demonstra tion Club Women of Haywood County for a scrapbook of public ity on the local activities of Home Demonstration Clubs. The ribbon was presented in a state-wide com petition with Home Demonstra tion Clubs from other counties during Farm and Home Week in Raleigh. This information was received in a letter to the editor of the MOUNTAINEER, reprinted on the editorial page today, and written by Miss Mary Cornwell, Home A gent for Haywood County. Stale And Federal Groups Here For Program Bv Agnes Fttzhugh Shapter j Staff Writer "The facilities that we are dedi cating here today mean an en largement of the usefulness of Great Smakv Mountains National Park; and it will bo still more en larged as we are able to proceed with other segments of our de velopment plans,' dclared Nation al Park Services Director Conrad L. Wirth at this morning's dedica tion of the Heintooga Ridge Road Any national park is worth get I'ng acouainted with, and that takes time," he pointed out. "We must make it possible for out guests in the parks to see a fair share of what each has to offer them. This park especially offers so much of interest that the visit or is cheating himself who fails to take advantage of that fact." Mr. VVirth spoke before a crowd of about a hundred assembled on the flank of Heintooga Bald for the ceremonv. An occasional cloud filtered the brilliant sunlight, or masked the peaks of Cllngman's Dome or Le Conte. "Charlie Ray must have been saying his pray ers," observed Francis J. Heazel. co-chairman of the Joint N. C. - Tenn. Committee for promotion Of the Great Smokies Park, "because we certainly have perfect weather." The principal speaker himself. Mr Wirth, asked incredulously just before the dedication, "Do you al JJ^have weather like this Vp Mr. Wlrth was introduced bv Charles fc. Ray of Waynesville, member of the N. C. Park, Park way and Forests Development Commission and chairman of the committee on arrangements for the dedication. The introduction followed a wel come by Dr. Kellev E. Bennett, presiding in his capacity as chair man of the Park and Parkway Commission; and an invocation of fered by the Rev. Arsene Thomp son of Cherokee. A number of dignitaries were introduced by Mr. Heazel prior to ! Mr. Wirth's address. Accepting the road in behalf of he public were Commissioner Harry E. Buchanan of the 14th Division of the N. C. State High way and Public Works Commis sion; and Charles McD. Puckette member of the Joint Committee and secretary for the Tennessee division They were introduced by W Ralph Winkler, vice chairman of the Park and Parkway Com | mission. Mr Wirth's address stressed the i eventual development of an in terpretive program for the Park! i System. "No part of our work is j of much more importance," he said "I want to see it extended, for i] believe that Increased under standing is the key to finer enjoy ment of this and all of the other parks that the people of the United States possess. "If the average visitor gets a ? : * way without having learned some thing about that natural world of the park, or its human history; if he leaves without some widening of his horizons or some kindling of his imagination and his curios ity?he just hasn't had his money's worth?and we have, to that ex tent. failed to do the job we .are trying to'do." Discussing the progress of the Park development. Mr. Wirth said: "Some of you have perhaps dis covered what V discovered after several years with the National Park Service?that the process of developing a National Park, in this day when defense activities make such tremendous demands on Fed eral funds, is necessarily a slow one. We in the National Park Service each year try to persuade the Department of the Interior, the Bureau of the Budget and the Con gress that we should have more funds' both to provide for needed developments in the National Park System and to enable us to take belter care both of the parks and of the people who use them. Hav ing made that effort?often w'th the valuable help of some of those here present; and having determin ed to make it again and again here after, we nevertheless have to culti (See lleintooaa?Page 8) LARGEST TAX RILL in Haywood County was paid last week when Roy S. Wright, manager of the Carolina Power and Light Company, gave a check for $103,194 to Mrs. Mildred Bryson, tax assessor. Mrs. Bryson said this was the largest tax cheek ever received in her office and it rep resented about one-sixth of the total taxes the county will receive this year. Last year Caro lina Power and Light Company paid about $98, 000. (Mountaineer Photo). CONRAD L. VVIKTH of Washington. Directtor of the National Park Service, was the principal speaker during dedication cere monies today of the Helntoogk Ridge Road. (Mountaineer Photo). World Council Considering Lake As U.S. Headquarters ? - - ? Jt i Dr. Elmer T. Clark, secretary of the World Methodist Council, told Rotarians here "Friday, that he hop ed to make permanent headquart ers for the organization at Lake Junaluska. Dr. Clark, one of the two secre taries of the World group, explain ed that the Council is composed of 150 members with headquarters in United States and Great Britain, with a secretary for each unit. Dr. Clark accepted the post as sec retary of the United States division. He pointed out that one disad vantage for making the Lake Head quarters. would be the world-wide meeting every Ave years, when about 1.000 to 1,500 attend for 10 days. "Peoples of all races attend, and from 75 countries." he explain ed. "That within Itself, presents a complicated problem in certain areas." Dr. Clark said there were about 15 million Methodists in the world, and that the function of the World Council is to hold all groups to gether. and to coordinate all bod ies. Connected with the council are a number of historical groups of the church. "The goal is to federate, and eventually achieve unity throughout the earth." The speaker served as editor of the World Outlook for about .SO years, and is now making his head quarters at Lake Junaluska. In giving some statistics about the growth of Methodism in Ameri ca. he said the current, budget is about one fourth a billion. a>ul property valuations are in excess of three billions. MR. FANCHER IN WINSTON HOSPITAL Mr and Mrs. A. J Fancber left last Friday for Winston - Salem where Mr. Fancher has undegone surgery for an injured back at Bowman Gray Hospital. Highway Record For 1953 ' In Haywood (To Date) Injured.:;; 23 Killed ..;. 2 (This information com piled from Records of State Highway Patrol.)