a idelights Of The News ? || Have To Burn lidnight Oil leg maketh a full man," | heard, but it's prob ?hat effect books are go me oil the personnel of f of the Superintendent of This morning they re i truckload of over four textbooks, all of which lie checked over and sort distribution to Haywood ichools b> Monday, ing 8300 pounds, the e packed in 144 cartons, I to a carton. ed are new spelling books second through eighth nd new arithmetic books third through eighth, tig and riling, and rith ia> be a severe strain on Is minds, but spare a sigh iching backs of the super t's secretaries. j DO You Do With rriage License? s a story going around id to be true, about a luplo who duly and ac 0 law applied lor a mar ?erse The only trouble they just didn't know do with the license and hat they were as married sin The license was ind hung in a place of 1 their home, and the ted happily ever alter ? or three months, that is. ?day a relative suggested a> customary and neces isit a preacher or justice. Now they really are liv ily and legally ever alter. ;y Gap id Nears npletion en are putting down the j latment on the newly con ana graded highway 209 rguson's Store to Betsy 'ines Creek. The distance t more than six miles, ive plan* are to have the surface on the project ie next two weeks. With weather, workmen say be accomplished, nishing touches of sweep road is to be done, and surface treatment begins. | sw road is about half in cation, which gives much :rves and grades than did ?oad. !w location provides long curves, and near the top, I everal open views of the fy below. ad connects with the pav from Hot Springs to the -Madison line. for the surfacing is be ?d to the project from a East Fork river near the le School. Exchange m New C ive enthusiastic 4-H Club Tuesday night adopted a on [or a new organization, nod County 4-H Exchange mbership of the club will f active 4-H exchange ?those who have particip iy exchange trip cither by e trip or by keeping one isiting members in their associate members and members. About 150 peo ligihle for membership, e of the association, ac ta the new constitution, smote 4-H Club work and artivitpjs in Haywood The group hopes to make tchanges even more pro ? both local and visiting e the membership will be of rollrer as well as high Udents tlip- club expects M active during summer "4 holidays However, the See l-n?page 3) le ther . - A. ^ L CLOUDY r r illy cloudy and 1 Little change in tempera l**mivllle temperature !? Lv uH. state Test Farm. I Max. Min. Rainfall I 71 10 .15 I Kit (in .02 I m M n ??CI The W a ynesv ille Mountaineer ^ much acratchinc you do. * Published Twice-A-Week In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park Q _(fj 68th YEAR NO. 68 20 PAGES ""Associated" Press W A YNESV ILLEN. C.THI RSI) AY AFTERNOON.AUGl'ST 20, 1953 ' $2.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties OFFICERS of tile Haywood Baptist Association are shown on the steps of the Fines Creek church, just a few minutes after their election on Tuesday afternoon at the (>Kth annual assoeia tional meeting. Front row, left to right: Rev. Oder F. Burncttc, vice moderator: Mrs. John Blaylnck, chairman W.M.S. work: Kcv. Horace I,. Smith, re-elected moderator. Back row: Rev. Crank K.arly, pastor Anlioch church. Uoyle Miller, liutch Cove, Rev. Klmer tirecnc, associatiooal missionary, and Rev. W. N. Reese, North Canton pastor. (Mountaineer Photo)* itr -r* .1 State Highway Commission Plans Meeting Here Friday Communities desirous of improv- j ing their roads, as well as other interested individuals, will have an ; opportunity to present their peti- j tions to the Commissioner of the 14th division of the State Highway and Public Works Commission Fri day as the staff of the division holds an open meeting at the Court House in Waynesville. The meet ing is sat at 2 p.m. Commissioner Harry E. Buchan an will be accompanied by staff members in charge of the various phases of the commission's activ ities. They will be able to answer queries on road locations, bridge building and give other engineer ing data. Since this meeting will treat of problems of the whole ten-county area, it is expected that represent atives from a number of other counties will be present. STATE FIREMEN MEET George Bischoff. of the Hazel wood Fire Department, and Clem Fitzgerald, of the Waynesville De partment, are returning today from a meeting of the firemen from all I over the state at Wrightsville. 1 Participants Organization I Wounded Marine Recovering, Hopes To Return Home 'Before Too Long' A telephone call this week from a hospital in Japan reassured an anxious mother as Marine Private Robert D. Stepp talked to his mother. Mrs. Jake P. Stepp of Al iens Creek Me told her that he was getting around in a wheel rhair, hut that he expected soon to he walking. Young Stepp was wounded in a<' tinn in Korea on July 20 and has been in a service hospital in ?lapan. I.etters have kept his mot ti er informed of Ins condition He had been shot through the right arm and the right leg, hut an earlv letter reported that he was getting along very well. An operation on the injured hand was successful. Since the 'phone call,_ Mr. and Mrs. Stepp have had another let ter written with the help of a Red Cross worker. M gives the good news that Pfc. Stepp is now walk ing a little and that he thinks "it won't be long before he will be well again and home again."