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Published Twice-A-Week In The County Seat of Ha>wood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park n j*j
68th YEAR NO.67 12 PAGES Associated Press WAYNE8VILLE? V l MONDAY AFTERNOON, At (il'ST 17, 1953 (3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Countic*
? GRA\ J L has been spread over the new four-lane highway
Canton to l.ake Junaluska. This photograph was made by
lountainrer. as gravel trucks were nearing the end of the
>t at the intersection near the Lake. Several other coats of
gravel are to be spread before the asphalt Is poured, it was ex
plained. Highway olficials have scheduled the surfacing to J>e com
pleted early this fall. This picture was made front the top of the
hill looking towards the Lake.
'ea Had Heavy Traffic Throngs
f Visitors Over The Week End
ge Number Haywood's
00 Baptists Expected
Meetings This Week
s from the ")2 churches
ood County will gather
k for the fiSth Annual
of the Haywood Baptist
in Meetings will open
morning, August 18, at
:he Fines Creek Church
Dderator. the Rev. H. L.
ther meetings will follow
night at the Richland
hureh and all day Wed
it the Antioch Baptist
1 speakers include Dr.
luggins; executive secre
C. Baptist Convention;.
James M Hayes, superin
Baptist Home for the
L. Carpenter, editor,
{reorder; Dr. C. D. Bess
pastor. Grace Baptist
West Asheville, Dr. W.
e. Baptist Hospital Rep
e; W C Reed, superin
Baptist Orphanage; and
t' Blackwell, president,
College.
ifficers in addition Jo Mr.
e the Rev. Doyle Miller,
lerator; the Rev. Elmer
clerk and Neil Webb,
Mr Greene is also As
il Missionary,
illowing programs have
ottneed: '
r. Morning, August 18
trs Creek Church
-?Making Disciples
all to Order by Moder
'? H I. Smith.
2 Hymn?Carl Painter,
baptists?Page 6)
P Family
^sented At
ecoming
tan fnui hundred rrsi
I former residents of the
community attended the
1ln' UoQiecomig of the
tspol Methodist Church
Antioch Baptist Church
a' Davis Chapel.
Pioneer family of the
y vs. represented and
I'"m f, number of
also noted that
"i the litfir farming
branched out in
ally rv.-,y profession and
I/1"''" ' K,?r. pastor
"d Raptrst Church.
- "'"f'ttng sermon and
?.rd Wavile8vlI,e at
ta a panic hmrh a ser
'' 'n memory of those
rtierl during the past
ggi,',TTd by
RAIN
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THE REV. HORACE L. SMITH,
moderator of the 1953 Haywood
Baptist Association, will preside 1
at the 68th Annual Session to be
held Tuesday and Wednesday,
August 18 and 19, at the Fines
Creek, Richland and Antioch
Baptist Churches.
No Standing In Line
To Vote This Time
Friday was just another day on
the calendar as far as Haywood
County was concerned. On that
day growers whose holdings were
more than 15 acres were sched
uled to vote in a national ref
erendum to determine whether
quotas should be used in market
ing the 1954 crop.
The local PMA office reports
that only two county farmers
were eligible to vote, and neith
er of those cast a ballot.
FIRE ON JONATHAN CREEK
The Waynesvillc Fire Depart
ment answered a call about two
o'clock this afternoon to the Boh
Boyd farm On .Jonathan Creek.!
Firemen were not back from the
blaze at the time of going to press.
State Apple Crop
Estimated At Half
Of Normal Years
The official forecast of North
Carolina's commercial apple pro
duction is 944,000 bushels. This
is less than half of the 1952 rec
ord-lush crop of 2,053.000 bush
els, and even slightly under the
1952 -51 average of 1,067,000
bushels.
Haywood's crop has been pre
dieted at less than half of nor
mal, due to the freeee early In
the spring.
Run-Away Gravel
Truck Cuts Down
Trees Off Road
Adriver of a gravel truck nar
rowly escaped serious injuries Fri
day. when the truck he was driv
ing went out of control down High
way 209 on Rush Fork mountain.
The truck left the road, cut a path
through brush and trees 60 yards
long.
The truck was traveling at such
a high rate of speed when it hit a
group of 6-inch trees that the trees
were cut off as if sawed, Cpl. Prit
chard Smith said. The truck was
completely demolished, as the body
of the truck was sheered off. and
the chasis went another direction.
The colored driver crawled out
with minor scratches. This was
his first load of gravel to the Betsy
Gap highway project. The gravel
is being hauled from a point near
Springdale school on No. 276.
Cpl. Smith said that charges of
reckless driving will be prcfered
against the man.
Paving To Be
Completed This Week
The sidewalk has been complet
ed in the street widening pro
ject of Haywood Street for almost
a block, between Miller and Depot
Streets.
This section of the street has
been graded and paving will be
gin any day now. The improvement
will widen the street by 20 feet
at its widest point.
A surge ol visitors swept into
the area this weekend to give the
community the greatest boost lit
transient population that it has
had at any lime this summer. A
survey this morning showed thai
every motor court was fitted Sat
urday night, with many "No
Vacancy" signs remaining through
Sunday night.
State Highway Patrol Cpl.
Prltchard Smith stated that al
though traffic as a whole was not
as heavy as that of the duly 4
weekend, there were more visitors
travelling than at that time.
Waynesville traffic, according to
Police Chief O. L. Noland, was
"every bit as heavy" the the pre
vious peak of July 4.
The Waynesville - Hazelwood
Lake Junaluska Chamber of Com
merce reported only the normal
number of inquiries as to accom
modations. but said that it had
been reported that one party of
visitors'* searched four hours T?un
day afternoon before finding over
night lodging. They felt that the
number of visitors had been stead
ily rising for the past two weeks.
The Chamber also pointed to a
rise during the past week in sales
of tickets to "Unto These Hills"
at Cherokee. ,
Merchants commented that they
"had hardly time to catch their
breath" during Saturday's busi
ness. Grocerymen reported un
usually heavy sales.
(Wealher report for Saturday:
Waynesville high 90 - low 53;
Charlotte high 97 - low 67; Chat
tanooga high 95 - low 68; Memphis
high 100 - low 72; etc.)
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Milk Truck Goes
Down 75-Ft. Bank
West Of Soco Gap
A ten-wheel transport milk truck
left Highway 19, just west of Soco
flap Sunday afternoon about 5:30.
and went down a 75-fool embank
ment.
Patrolman Itay Heffner. of Bry
son City, investigated, and said that
Joe Thomas, of Bryson City, was
the driver of the truck, and sus
tained only slight injuries. The
truck, loaded with empty milk
cans, was damaged about $750, ac
cording to the investigating offi
cer.
The driver lost, control of the
truck, and due to the slippery con
dition of the highway, left the road
way at a sharp curve near the new
picnic area just west of Soco Gap.
Board Names Group To Push
Agriculture Building Project
Hog-Calling
And Crack
Shooting
Mark Tours
Another high score in target
shooting and'the innovation of a
nog-calling contest to replace the
usual fox horn blowing marked the
two ( (immunity Development Pro
gram farm and home visits Satur
day.
Three more visits arc slated for
this week, as Upper Crahtree goes
to West Pigeon on Tuesday. Kast
Pigeon to Thickely on Friday, and
South Clyde to Francis Cove on
Saturday.
A target score Of 45 was regis-'
tered by Bobbie King to win the
girls class for Bcavcrdam as they
visited Satmook Other winners!
I "Pre Hoy Stephens, Mrs. Hoy \
I Stephens and Charlie Clark.
Horse shoe pitching honors wore
j even as Mrs. Stephens and Mrs I
Francis McCrackcn defeated Mrs
j Fred Best and Mrs F,d Bell for
j Saunook and Mr. Bell and Mr
Best outpitched Bud Diliard and
Jimmy Rowland
Bcavcrdam boys look the soft
ball game 5-1. with Bcavcrdam
girls forefciting
Others taking part were Nellie j
Moore. Who won the guessing game. ;
Charles Beck. C V Sorrclls. G.
Sutton, Edith McCrackcn, Mae
Robinson. Mrs. Carl Best, .loe Boh
Harris. Dale Robinson, Mary Sue
Sparks. Imogene Hooper and Freda
?lane Worley.
The hog-colling contest at White
Oak. where Aliens Creek visited,
was won by a "dark horse" v ho
claims White Oak as his adopted
?community. The Rev. Malcolm
Williamson of the Waynesville
Presbyterian Church outshouted
the Rev. C. L. Allen, Bonnie llen
drix, Mike Ferguson, Sallie Sutton
and Sam Ledford.
Target shooting winners were I
Delmas Caldwell. 11a Farmer and !
Harold Rogers. Their competition
was Wayne Caldwell, Walter Luwc,
Hugh Messer, Louise Chambers,
Edna Williams, Kathleen Derrick,
Billy Shpler, Tommy Davis and
(Hog-Calling?Page 6)
Two Injured As
Cars Collide In
Thickety Area
Two children, here on vacation
from Detroit, were treated at the
Hospital for injuries sustained
Friday in the Thickety section,
when their car was struck by
another car.
Cpl. Pritchard Smith said llial
a car driven hy Clarence Mills,
Route 2, Clyde, turned left in (he
Path of a car driven hy Woodrow
Medford, of Detroit, and formerly
of Canton. Mills was following 1
close behind another car at the
time, the report showed.
The two Medford children, a son
and a daughter, sustained injuries
The daughter had bruises and her
tongue cut, while the son had a
deep cut over the lefi eye.
The Mills car was damaged about
$200 and the Medford car about
$300, the patrolman's report show-'
ed. ,
SWEEPSTAKE WINNER of the Clyde Flower Show was Mrs. G.
E. Cagle, shown here holding the cup she won. and surrounded
by just a few of the many entries she made in the show. On thp
extreme right, center row, in a gold band lily, an unusual entry.
Mrs. Cagle has about a half acre of dahlias, and many glads.
She admits, however, that potted plants arc her favorites.
(See other pictures and story. Page 1. Sec. 2) (Mountaineer Photo).
Bethel Methodist Breaks
Ground For New Parsonage
Burley Crop In
State About 2'/'
Under That Of '52
Hurley production in North
Carolina is currently estimated
at 19.775,000 pounds, or nearly
2 per cent below the crop of last
year.
Hue cured tobacco is 9.3 per
cent less than last year, with the
present crop set at 1,270,282,000
pounds.
Haywood's hurley crop usual
ly averages about 3,000,000
pounds.
West Pigeon Group
To Meet On Thursday
The West Pigeon CUP will meet
Thursday nights at eight o'clock
in the school cafeteria, with the
program featuring "Families Need
Hobbies."
Scheduled to appear on the pro
gram include A. J. Hutchlns. Mrs
Bert Cagle, and Mrs. C'ora Welch
R. C. Sheffield is chairman of
he CUP.
HBUkTl "J"
The congregation of the Bethel
Methodist church on Sunday after
noon broke ground for a modern
parsonage, in the wooded side
across the highway from the
church, and later in the evening,
following a supper, and during the
quarterly conference, voted to pro
ceed at once in awarding the con
tract for the construction of the
building.
Estimates are I hat the structure
will cost between $15,000 and $20,
000
The committee named to proceed
with plans, and award a contract,
was named at the quarterly con
ference. and is composed of:
Charles Osborne. Ilngh K. Terrell,
Bert ('agio. Krod Hyatt, and J.
Letch Worley.
Rev I, B Oeorge is pastor of
the church, which has about 200
members
Friday and Saturday a group of
interested parties worked on the
wooded .site clearing it of under
brush, and surplus trees in prepa
ration for the forma! dedication on
Sunday afternoon.
The supper was served to about
50, with the members of the do- \
part men I taught by Mrs Johnny
Teague and Mi Welch Singleton '
serving the drinks The members '
of the WS( s were hostesses, and '
Mrs I 'I Ni -I II of I i ,nti?e t,rj. '
Brtlfl Mr'hodl.t HI
Commissioners
Named Committee
Of Five Today
To Handle Work
The hoard of commissioners this
morning named a steering com
mittee of five, to start at once mak
ing plans, and getting blueprints
for the development of the 20
&cre tract for the Agricultural and
Home Arts building and exhibi
tion grounds.
The commissioners named R N.
Barber, Jr., Ed Sims, Jack Chap
man, Roy Haynes and B F. Nes
bitt.
Some of these were on a com
mittee which made a study of the
program, as provided by the 1953
General Assembly, and recom
mended the purchase of the 20
acre tract from M O. Galloway,
nn Highway 19A-23 several weeks
ago
Last week the Champion Paper
and Fibre Company donated $5,000
towards the cost of the building,
and Carolina Power and Light
Company have written that they
will send a check for $500 for the
project.
This morning it was learned
from Wayne Franklin, county
agent, that similar projects might,
be visited in Statasville, Winston
Salem, Tazewell, Va., and Val
dosta, Ga. Also experts of Stale
College are to be consulted and
recommendations and suggestions
gotten from them. Included in the
group to be consulted will be live
stock specialists, as this will be
one of the features of the new
project.
Officials this morning said that,
they expected the steering com
mittee to start at once in getting
the plans made and the preparing
In get the project under way. No
estimate has been made as to the
cost of the building or the land
scaping of the property and build
ing of the show rings. All the
estimates must await the final
planning, it was said.
Changes Made In
Personnel Of
Pisgah Forest
Several changes in Pisgah Na
tional Forest personnel will take
place this month, it was disclosed.
They are:
Seaborn J Johnson, assistant,
forest supervisor, is leaving to take
over a forest genetics project in
Mississippi. Succeeding him will be
Leslie Shontz-of Cleveland, Tcnn
Lewis H. Mielke will come to the
area from South Carolina National
Forest as forest engineer
Maynard W. Underbackke has
submitted his resignation as dis
trict ranger on the Catawba Ibis
trict. He will operate a sawmill and
cattle farm in Minnesota, Succeed
ing him in the Catawba post will
be Walter J. Graves, now district "
ranger on the Cheoah District Roh
hinsvillo
Graves, in turn, will be replaced
by Edwin M Manchester who will
leave the Grandfather District.
William L Nothstein. formerly tim
ber management assistant in Nan
aliala National Forest, will take
he ranger post on the Grandfather
District.
The changes were announced by
0 J Morriss, Pisgah supervisor.
Over 100 Horses Expected
To Enter Show Here 22nd
At (past one hundred horses are!
expected (n he entered in the first j
annual horse show which is set \
for Saturday afternoon and night.
In he newly constructed ring be
tween here and Lake Junaluska on
Highway 19A-23.
T. L. Bramlett. president of the !
sponsoring organization, said that
bleachers to accommodate 2,000
would be erected, in addition to
the large number of ring-side
boxes.
Entries of horses are assured
from South Carolina. Georgia,
and, some pending from Florida.
Rex Watts of Newton, will judge
the saddle and walking horses, and
Lloyd Tate, of Blowing Rock, will
be judge of the hunters and jump
ers.
Read Wilson will be master of
ceremonies, and C. C. League will
be ringmaster, with Miss Mary
Medford, secretary.
The new ring has been complet
ed. and special mixture of sand
and clay put into the riding ring.
Farking facilities are being pro
vided for some 300 cars.
The Saturday afternoon program,
starting at 2:30 includes:
I. Ponies under 46 inches.
2 Local pleasure horses.
3. Junior equitation?riders 16
and under.
4. Haywood County walking
horses.
5. Western riding.
6. Colored riders on walking
horses.
7. Knock down and out.
The Saturday evening program
includes:
8. Two year old walking horses.
9. Local five-gaited horses.
10. Amateur walking horses,
II. Ladies' hunter.
12. Equitation championship ?
Riders 16 and under.
13. S100.00 roadster stake.
14 Junior walking horses.
15. Pleasure horse championship.
16. $75.00 three-gaited stake.
17. $150.00 walking horse stake.
18. $150.00 fiive-gaited stake.
19 $75 00 jumper stake.
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FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS enjoy working
out their horses on the newly constructed ring
for the Horse Show on Saturday. Shown here in
"a Ivpirgj workout are left to right: C. C. league.
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riding "Swamp Man" Jane Sims riding "Lazy
Bones," I d Sims riding Sewannee Lou; and
Sara Jane League, riding Major Prince.
(See other pictures. Page 5) (Mountaineer Photo).
Fincher's Chapel Methodist
Burns Note At Dedication
The hank notf rtt? Ftncher's
Chapel Mclhodi i < hurch was
humeri with solemn rejoising
Sunday in a penal service of
dedication The new building,
completed three yeni ago on Hv
der Mountain, is now owned In
full by the church.
About 125 member, and visitors
heard the 111 Uev. Kisliop Charles
S. Sclccinan, retired, of Dallas,
Texas, and Lake Junalilska, preach
the sermon He used as his theme
the statement read when members
are received into the church: "The
Church is of God and will be pre
served to the end of time for the
promotion of His tyorship and the
administration of His Word and
Ordinances, and the maintenance
of Christian fellowship for the
edification of believers and the
conversion of the world." He com
(Fincher's Chapel?Page 6)
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Highway
Record For
1953
In Haywood
(To Date)
Killed I4
Injured .; 1. 34
(This Information com
piled from Records of
State Highway Patrol.)