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. ^ 9 _ ??a ? n ci Hp | The Waynesville Mountaineer mm. **** a" Jll ? Published Twice-A-Week In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park ? ! ^Jl Vt;\K NO. 74 18 PAGBS Associated Press WAYNESVILLE, N. THI'RSDAV AFTERNOON, SEPT. 10, 1953 $3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties 1^ ' ? fiaywood Stands To Get $400,000 From State ?OlSWDS l/PON THOUSANDS saw the 47th annual Labor k parade in Canton, on Monday. Here is just a small unit of L crowd that flowed into the street after the parade passed. This picture was made from the judges' stand in front of the Post Office. (Mountaineer Photo). to Organizations Go On :ord Favoring Bonds gistration oks Open On lurday Again l rrfistration books of the b will be open again on rdiy (?r those who ane n<ft Mate-srt#e I elertion set for Saturday, her Jrd. a books were open last Sat t, ud will open again on the , whieh will be the last day R(istration. boo Brown is chairman of bwrd of elections, and said ill persons that have regis I prior to this need not reg ' again for this bond election. The Waynesville Kiwanis Club, and the directors of the Chamber of Commerce, went on record in their respective meetings Tuesday night as favoring passage of the two state-wide bond issues on Oc tober third. One bond issue is for fifty mil lions for s<jltpol improvements, and th? other k for 22' millions for ex .TSfer Both groups in favoring passage of the bond issues, also pledged themselves to work diligently in an effort to carry the two issues by a large vote. The Mountaineer will carry an honor roll in each issue listing all organizations going on record as favoring passage of the two bond issues. Summer Driest Here ce 1925, Report Shows !? will go down in ry as the dryest 1925. This is the ise observers, and e lived here for the or longer. ? drought began in tinued into Septem 1s. and springs dried failed to come back, came so dry that cut down trees In i in order to give ireen foliage to eat. rd. and others recall of 1925. he trees on rocky in shallow top soil o weeks before the ning season. Some d up completely dur ner of 1925. observers feel that s a real dry summer, luite compare with the ?ught of 1925. Looks Like A Heavy Docket For November "Here it is September 10th, and I have already bound 38 cases over to Superior court," said Justice of Peace Johnny Ferguson, this morning. "At this rate, I will have 100 cases in court by the time it And I am just one of several J. P.'s in the county sending up convenes on November 23rd. cases to the court." The last term of superior court was held in July. Guntcr Bound To Court For First Degree Murder Verlin Gunter was bound over to the November term of Superior Court without bond on a charge of first degree murder. The hear ing was held before Justice of Peace Johnny Ferguson. Gunter is charged with killing Bob Ford at Mt. Sterling on Aug ust 2nd. Gunter is from the Mt. Sterling area, and was a co-work er with .Ford on a road construc tion job* Canton Labor Day Program Termed Best In 47 Years . Shucks The storehouse filled with shucks, on the lower end of Boyd Avenue, which caught on fire Saturday night, broke out in flames several times since that time. Firemen made several trips to the place since Saturday night, when they poured water on the .burning dry feed for an hour and ? half, i ' < \ Tuesday the damaged building was torn down in order to get air to the packed and baled shucks. Thursday morning blue smoke was seen curling up from the pile of shucks again. Lancaster Resigns As Health Head Dr. N. F, Lancaster, acting head of the Haywood County Health Department since July, 1952, has tendered his resignation, effective September first. He accepted the place in a temporary basis. C. C. Francis, chairman of the board of health, said this morn ing that he will call a meeting of the 7-membcr board to meet in the near future to name a succes sor to Dr. Lancaster. Mr. Francis gave no indication who would be named to the post. Street Crew Building Concrete Bridge Over Creek At Vance Street Street crews are constructing a concrete bridge across Shclton Branch on Vance Street. The footings have been poured, and the steel was being set Wed i nesday. i Boosters Meet Thursday At Presbyterian Church The Hazelwood Boosters Club members have received notices of a meeting scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday, September 10, at the Hazelwood Presbyterian Church. All members are asked to notify the Secretary, E. A. Williamson, If they plan to attend. With Haywood County weather at its most perfect, thousands of persons from the county, Western North Carolina and many distant states poured into Canton Monday to witness that town's 47th Annual Labor Day Program. The gala celebration officially opened with a mile-long street pa rade including many attractive en tries. The event was approximate ly 30 minutes passing in review. No better weather has ever pre vailed for such a fet*-anti certain ly the quality of entries has never been higher. G. Nat Fortner and George Howard Trostel were co chairmen and everything moved with precision. First place in the commercial float division went to the Dixon Shoe Shop entry featuring an old shoe cobbler. Second place in this division was : won by the Cantton Coal and Ice Company entry, while third place I went to Plemmons Contracting i Company. Civitan Little League baseball 1 players took first place with their! unusual float in the non-commcr-1 cial division. Running this entry a close race was the Canton Kiwanis Club entry, and third place was won by the Canton Lions Club. Canton Drive-In theater entered the best decorated commercial car. Murphy Chevrolet Company was second, and Dixie Cab Company, entering an old model Ford, took third place honors. In the non-cemmercial decorated car division Brownie Scout Troop (See Labor Day?Page 6) Haywood School Folk At Janitor's School Lawrence Leatherwood, county superintendent of education, six janitors of the county system, and Hobert Hoglen, maintenance sup ervisor, attended a state conference on janitor's work in Bryson City Wednesday. The conference dealt with ways and means of cleaning floors, and general building cleansing. Allocation Set Up From School Bonds Havwoods share of the state wide school bond issue is conser vatively estimated at $400,000 Of this amount. $244,275 is definitely Sui" onn?rK,,a^WO?d' #nd the other $156,000 based on a conservative estimate, using state figures as the guide. The Mountaineer consulted with the officials in Raleigh as to Hay wood s share of the fifty million school bond program, which is to he voted on October third. John Harden, co-chairman, with Brandon Hodges, said: "Haywood wi 1 get $244,275 out of the first naif of the bonfl issue revenue of $25,000,000. The second $25,000. 000 will be distributed aerordlng to need and ability to pay, and will be handled under a formula to be adopted by the State Board of Ed ucation, with the approval of the governor." The $244,275 figure was reach ed by a formula worked out by the state, which appropriates $100, 000 to every county, plus the pro portionate part of the remaining 15 millions on a average daily at tendance for 1951-52. On this basis Haywood gets $244,275. The state records, as checked by The Mountaineer this morning, shows that Haywood, which in cludes the Canton school district, needs 28 regular classrooms for while, and one for colored, with eight special classrooms for white, making a total of 37 classrooms, and these together with other facil ities would dost about $874,500. Of this, the county has $475,000 to ap ply on the need, leaving $400,000 to come from the state bond issue Basing tjiis need on the state-wide need, it was figured, in a confer ence today with Lawrence Leath | erwood, county superintendent of education, that Haywood's share would be about $156,000. All of this is rather complicat ed. and simply boils down to the fact that Haywood will get about $400,000 if the bond issue is pass ed on October 3rd. At the same time, voters will have an opportunity to vote, on a bond issue of 22 millions for ex panding and improving mental in stitutions in the state. Both of these issues were pro posed by Governor William B. Urn stead, and approved by the Gen eral Assembly last spring. Interest in the bond issues are growing, and indications are that both issues will carry when voters go to the polls on Saturday. Oc tober third. No Developments Reported From Mad Dog Outbreak The Health Department report ed this morning that there were no new developments from the re cent outbreak of rabies, when one dog died after biting four people, and coming in contact with six other people. The Department placed a quar antine on Waynesville, Hazelwood and the Ninevah sections until Sept. 28 as a precautionary meas ure. Officials said that dogs were be (See Mad Dog?Page 6) Tommy Norris, who has been partly paralysed since he broke his neck In a swimming accident eight years ago, will speak Sunday at the Free Methodist Church's evangelistic service at 7:30 p.m. Norris, only 24 years old and a new convert to the church, will be granted his local preacher's license next week. He is seen here as most Hay wood County folk know him in his midget car with special hand-operated controls. (Mountaineer Photo). Not So Good! ? .?? i Tourist travel In Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a bout 11 per cent less than a year ago. Park officials disclosed In an eight-month report. August travel in the park was off 43 per cent from last Aug ust, the report stated. Powells Buy Million Foot Timber Tract The Canton Hardwood Company has Hist purchased the timber rights On the Mlhacre Plott Boun dary, in the Maggie area. J. T. and J. N. Powell, owners of the com pany, said that there is about a million feet of timber on the tract, and it is estimated that 12 months will be required to cut it off. The firm operates a mill at Lake Junaluska, and have just finished cutting approximately three mil lion feet purchased off the Way nesville watershed. The Plott Boundary was recent ly purchased by W. A. Bradley, L. N. Davis, C. N. Allen, and A. T. Ward. County Needs 29 More Classrooms, Kiwanis Club Told Lawrence Leatherwood, county superintendent of education, told th Kiwaneis Club her Tuesday night of the Importance in passing the state-wide bond issue on Oc tober third, for more school class rooms, and expansion of mental in stitutions. He cited the increase of about 200 students this year over last in Haywood, which Is indicative of the state increase. "Haywood needs 29 more class rooms, in addition to those under construction," h* said. "Haywood is in dire need of the extra classroom space which the bond issue will provide, and I trust every voter will go to the polls and approve the bond issue on the third," be continued. The Kiwanis voted to back the program with their votes, and un tiring efforts. Miss "Boots" Gunn On Television Show Tonight Miss "Boots" Gunn will be on WBTV tonight (Thursday) at seven o'clock. She is a vocalist, and will appear on the Arthur Smith and his Cracker Jacks show. Miss Gunn will sing "Mexican Joe," one of her specials, and one which impressed Arthur Smith to schedule her for his television show. Story Of Faith Told In Tommy Norris' Life By CHRISTINE NI BAERMANN StalT Writer Faith is a thing a lot of pqpple profess in their religion but few take the trouble to live by. Waynes ville bas one very young example of living in faith and faith in liv ing. Tommy Norrls, 25-year-old son of Mrs. T. C. Norris of the Maples, was once told by famous doctors that fie would be totally paralyzed for the rest of his life and probably would not live at all. Today, eight years since he broke his neck in a swimming accident, he leads a full and busy life confined as he is to ' a wheel chair and devotes much of | that life to others. Almost a new convert to what he believes is the true Christian life, he will preach at the Free Methodist Church's evangelistic service Sunday even ing on the topic "The Fallen Man". Tommy tells the story of his con version this way: "About 18 months ago an evangelist happened to be staying at our house. That same week I had just received a new midget car with special controls and was tinkering around trying to fix it just the way it needed to be for me to drive. The evangelist helped me a lot, and we had a good time doing it. Then when he invit ed me to con\e to one of ills meet ings at the Free Methodist, I was sort of ashamed not to go. I went to that revival. I had read enough of the Bible to know the truth when I heard it. "Even when I was not a real Christian, I believed that some day I would serve the Lord. I think (See Tommy Norris?Page 6) Varied Matters Claim Attention C. oi C. Board The directors of the Chamber of Commerce had a big assortment of matters to claim their attention Tuesday night, with Dr. Boyd Owen, president, presiding. They went on record to support the state-wide bond issues; to co operate with the State Secretaries Club convention meeting here in October; to work with another group seeking to bring a convention here about Christmas; cooperate with the Merchant Association on some proposed local projects, and at the same time, took under con sideration several requests for join ing on a state-wide movement to get some cross-state highway num bers changed. The directors heard a report that one large lighted highway sign on the Dellwood Road is complete, and the second under construction. Patrol To Stage Checking Program In Near Future How the the lights on your car? Your brakes OK? And do you have a current driver's license? If not, you had better do some checking, because that is what the highway patrol plans to do right away. Several cheeking - stations are being arranged, and every ve hicle will be checked that passes a given spot?where, did you ask? This newspaper docs not know, but is sure of one thing? the checking program is near at hand, and this is just a friendly tip of what is in the future. School Fund Gets $1,191 Froih Fines The treasury of the county school fund was increased this morning by $1,191, which repre sented the fines collected by police court in Waynesville during the month of August. All fines go to the county school fund, it was explained by G. C. Ferguson, town manager. The defendants in police court during August paid a total of $2,507.25 in costs and fines. The costs, which amounted to $1,316.25 went into the general fund of the town. The charges included driving drunk, speeding, running red lights, shop lifting, and no oper ator's license. The cases were tried by Mayor J. H. Way, in his court which con venes three time* a week. It's In The Book I haven't tried it yet, but I'm interested in knowing. Can tele vision be legally installed in a car??P.K., Pine Level. It can. but it's hardly worth the trouble. The Motor Vehicle Manu al says any TV screen installed in a motor vehicle must be located behind the driver's seat. It may not be installed in any position where it is visible to the driver while operating the vehicle. fc ?other IHllO I-Iy '?"? and mild. Friday, dlneSs and somewhat ?*Ji|oinu,vi,le ,c"ipera d b> State Teat Max- Min. Rainfall 80 County Agents Making Forestry Study Camp Hope (Special To The Mountaineer) | Approximately 80 county farm agents and assistants of Piedmont and Western North Carolina are at Camp Hope this week attending a Forestry Training School which is being sponsored jointly by the Champion Paper and Fibre Com pany and the N. C. State-College Agricultural Extension Service. The Piedmont farm agents are In Camp Wednesday and Thurs day, and the Western agents will arrive for a two-day session Fri day and Saturday. fcach group will obaerva the for estry operations at the Biitmore Estate, tour Champion's Canton miilfl and attend classes and dem onstrations conducted by Cham j pion, State College and Forest Ser | vice personnel. The primat-y purpose of the camp, said J. H. Keener, manager of Champion's wood procurement department, is to provide farm a gents with basic lessons in forest ry problems as applied to small woodlots. Pointing out that 60% of the country's potential pulpwood sup ply is contained in small farm (Sm Forestry Study?Pago 6) Board Of Education Needs Information For Survey On Handicapped Children A survey of the number and needs of handicapped children in Haywood County is being made for the first time by the Board of Edu cation. Purpose of the suryey is to gath er information so that better facil ities can be offerd by the Board j for these children. If the survey indicates the need, the Board will judge whether or not it would be worth startnig' a school or schools in the county or hiring specially trained teachers for the handicap ped. The Board, through Jerry Rog ers, new school attendance officer, has asked that anyone knowing of or connected with a handicapped child please pick up and fill out a questionnaire in the Board office at the Court House as soon as pos sible. Information for the Board should include the child's name, aga, school district, parents' name. address, nature of disability, gen eral mental aptitude graded as good, fair or poor, and any remarks which would be helpful. Any type of handicap should be taken Into consideration. Some of those suggested are polio victims, faulty hearing or sight, amputees or cripples, speech difficulties, or slow mcntallty( unable to keep up with age group in school work.) It is emphasized that the survey is purely for information at this time and any decisions the Board migh make on the basis of it will be strictly in the interests of both the handicapped children and those who are more fortunate but who may be held back in their school work by tfye handicapped. Blanks are available at the Board office or in any Haywood Courtly School principal's office. All lnfprmation may be sent to Jerry Rogers. Board of Educa tion, Court House, Wayaesville. Work To Start Soon On New Saunook Auditorium A contract for remodeling the auditorium of the Saunook school was let by the Board of Education Tuesday for $16,040. The main contract went to Bill Norria for $13,982. The contract for the heating. $800, and electrical, $850, went to Harry Hyatt. Both contractors are of Waynesville. The contract calls for some change** te be made in the school a roof, and front of the building. The grading of the school yard has been completed, according to Lawrence Leatherwood. county superintendent of education. Mr. Norris said that he plans to get the work under construction next week. This project is part of the coun ty-wide school expansion program, for which the county voted two mil liens several years ago. Highway Record For 1953 In Haywood (To Date). Killed:;:: 4 Injured.;:. 35 (Thin Information eon piled from Records ot State Highway Patrol.)
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