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AVNESV1LLE, N. I'., MONDAY AKTERNOON, NOV. 9, 1953 , ? O
n Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties
fdYDE'S NEW GYM begins to take shape as the steel framework , .
f r the structure foes up on ground just west of the football Held progrew W<> m ~d?,Ur #Ch?<
luross the river from the school. The gym is part of Haywood
farm Editor
Vill Speak
It Festival
An address by William D. Poe,
ociaie editor of "Progressive
nuer magazine and announce
m of awards in CUP judging,
acco and home demonstration
units will be among tne main
mis at the seventh annual To
ko festival wnicn opens at the
jnesviue Armory next 'luesday.
ione from the program will be
? traditional beauty contest and
! paraue. The beauty contest,
ich has been held until this
it was voted down by CUP ot
itis several weeks ago. Tne last
ride was held in i9oi.
Die armory wtU be open from
un. until 8 p.m. next Moinjay
that booths can be set up.
Igtng of both tobacco and home
mats will begin at 10 a.m.
(way
feme demonstration booths and
?ceo exhibits will be opened to
public from 1:30 p.m. until 7
t Tuesday and from 9 a.m. un
130 p.m. Wednesday,
i special contest for high school
dents' tobacco posters will al
be held?-with posters due to
in the windows by 9 a.m. Tues
Judging will begin at 10 p.m.
(r Poe's address and the an
uicement of awards will come
ting the Tuesday night program
the courthouse, starting at 9:30.
ta will be the first year in
ich the winners of the Com
nity Development Program
nty contest are to be announc
11 the Tobacco Festival. In the
t they have been announced
first part of the year.
'. - ?
Irs Lester Burgin and Mrs.
' Calhoun spent the weekend
Charlotte and attending the
thing Market.
Parkway In Pisgah Closed
For Winter, Construction
Oi 4.5-Mile Link Continues
Banks, Courthouse
Offices To Close
On Armistice Day
All offices in the Haywood
County courthouse, except the
sheriff's and the banks in Way
nesville and Hazelwod will be
closed Wednesday for Armistice
Day, it was announced today.
Retail stores, however, will ob
serve their rerular Wedtfesday
hours?.8:30 a.m. until noon ?
according to the Merchants As
sociation. Waynesville town of
fices will be open all day Wed
nesday.
A special Armistice Day pro
gram sponsored by the Ameri
can Legion is to be held at 7:30
p.m. Wednesday at Hazelwood
School, with Rev. James H. Cole
man as the principal speaker.
?J?,
Francis Addresses
Watauga Homemakers
R. C. Francis, "Haywood Coun
ty's Will Rogers," was a featured
speaker Friday night at Watauga
County's annual Home Demonstra
tion Achievement Day at the Dan
id Boone Hotel in Booue. He dis
cussed the role of women in the
Community Development Program.
Home Demonstration Agent Mary
Cornwell and Assistant Agent Jean
Chllder8 also attended the event.
Although the Parkway link atop
the Pisgah National Forest has
been ordered closed, construction
work on the four-and-one-half mile
stretch out from Wagon Road Gap
is proceeding on schedule.
This particular section of the
Parkway begins at a point approx
imately four miles west of High
way 276 at Wagon Road Gap.
The work is being done by the
Clement Brothers Construction Co.,
of Lenoir, and will be continued
until hard, wintry weather sets in.
A large rock bluff near Yellow
stone Falls impeded the ? progress
of the road building crews, but
after considerable dynamiting, the
work is proceeding on both sides.
At the present time, the new
stretch is within 1,300 feet of the
completed link from Beech Gap.
Roughing in and grading will be
completed this fall and next spring
and it is hoped that paving can
be started next summer.
When the new section of road
which is now under construction
is completed, it will be possible for
motorsts to make a complete loop
from Wagon Road Gap west via
the crest of the mountains and
back to 276. for a distance of some
20 to 25 miles. This is expected to
become one of the most scenic
drives in eastern America.
3 Canton Youths
Hospitalized As
Auto Overturns
Three Canton youths were hos
pitalized Saturday when the car
in which they were riding over
turned several times on the new
superhighway at Clyde.
Carl "Bud" Stanley, 17, son of
Canton Alderman C. F. Stanley,
was reported in fair condition at
Memorial Mission Hospital in
Asheville after suffering a frac
tured skull and cuts about the
head and throat. Also taken to the
Asheville hospital was John Davis,
16, who sustained a compound
fracture of the left leg.
The driver of the car, identified
as Reeves Payne, 19, suffered a
broken left arm and was treated
at Haywod County Hospital.
According to State Highway
Patrolman W. R. Wooten, Payne
was driving a 1951 Mercury on the
new highway through Clyde with
Stanley and Davis as passengers.
Payne lost control of the car and
it overturned five or six times on
the road but remained on the
highway, the officer said. The ve
hicle was demolished. *
No arrests have been made,
pending the outcome of the vic
tim' conditions.
1 construction program now in
(Mountaineer Photo).
Santa Will
Arrive Here
December 5
Santa has included this com
munity on his pre-Christmas eve
tour.
According to a message received
this morning by Joe Cline, presi
dent of the Merchants Association.
Santa has accepted an invitation
to visit here on Saturday, Decem
ber 5th.
Santa wired:
"Am happy to accept your gen
erous invitation to visit your beau
tiful community. Will bring plenty
of candy, and pass it out during
and after the parade. Sounds
mighty fine that you will have two
bands to meet me and parade.down
the streets of WaynesviUe and
Hazelwood. Tell all my friebds T
am anxious to meet them. Am ship
ping big supply of candy today. Be
on the lookout for it."
Mr. Cline said that the parade
would start at ten o'clock and
would feature the two WTHS
bands. The details of the route
will be announced later. The wire
from Santa came so suddenly that
the details of local arrangements
have not been completed. How
ever. a committee composed of
Frank Moore, Euel Taylor, Bill
Cobb. J. C. Jennings and Robert
(See Santa?Page 6)
Tweed Captures
Football Contest
Only one miss out of a possible
12 brings Howard Tweed of Bal
sam Manor Apartments $13 this
week as winner of The Mountain
eer's weekly fotball contest. Duke's
tie with Navy marred his other
wise spotless record.
Eleven other grid guessers miss
ed only two games, while 32 miss
ed three.
Consultants Here
Three representatives of the
State Board of Health were visit
ors in the Havwod Health Depart
ment offices last week. They were:
Miss Rebeoca Swindle of Raleigh,
nursing consultant; Mrs. Louise
East, of Asheville, district nurs
ing consultant, and Miss Sarah
Goggans of Raleigh, records and
procedures analyst.
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[scaped Convict Spotted
[y Children As He Ate
palnuts Beside A Creek
?-?? young children spotted I
Par-old Roosevelt Buie, escap
leonvict. as he cracked walnuts
|the edge of Big Branch In the
pee section, not far from
F* he escaped from a gang
psday afternoon. He was
P behind bars after 24 hours
P* three observant children of
lJwi Mrs Ben West saw Buie,
Imported it to their parents
^notified olTicers.
P? escaped convict ran to the
? of Sheep Mountain, where he
I hailed by the bloodhounds.
?J**' up without any resistance,
routes after the chase started.
B*1* serving a 13-15 year
?*? from Wake County on
P* "f highway robbery.
Ed Sims Resigns
From Committee
On Agarts Project
Ed Sims has tendered his res
ignation to the Board of Com
missioners as a member of the
Advisory Committee for the con
struction of the Livestock and
Home Arts Buildings.
Mr. Sims explained in his let
ter of resignation that he would
not have the time to devote to
the project since he was busy
with the development of the
Waynesville Horse Show on a
site just bought from M. O. Gal
loway.
No successor has been named.
The
Either
FAIR
?Ny^rt,y clouc,y ?n<l con
ga, J*?1, C?W again tonight.
^ ' lr and slightly warmer
I Ma*. Mln. Rainfall
i?-- ? 41 -
If"- 33 ?
*;?"?40 12 ?
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Haywood Steer Brings
Top Beef Sale Price
A 1045-pound steer owned by the Waynesville Lions Club, the
Jack Felmet of Ratcllffe Cove, other owned by George Kirkpat
which was declared Grand Cham- rick and sold to the Dayton Rub
pion of the Western Carolina Fat ber Co.
Stock Show at Enka Wednesday, Fourteen head of stock entered
also brought the top price ? SO by 4-H Club members brought an
cents?In the sale held yesterday, average of 30 centi, while 17 head
The animal was purchased by entered by FFA members averaged
the S. & W. Cafeteria in Asheville. 29 cents.
The second highest pdee for a Other sales of "prime" grade
Haywood County steer?35 cents?Haywood County livestock lnclud
was paid for two animals, *__oneed animals owned by:
owned by Don Calhoun and sold to (See Hiywood bteef ? Page g)
Waynesville-Canton To Mee t
In Just One Football Game
Per Season, Starting In 1954
Crews Battling 3 Forest Fires
In Different Areas Of County
Fifth Dog
Dies From
Rabies Bite
A six-months-old dog owned by
Lonnie Bishop of the Ninevah sec
tion of Waynesville died from
rabies Thursday evening to be
come the fifth animal victim of
the dread disease in the county
'during the past two months.
The dog died on Thursday and
on Friday a report was received
from the state health department
saying an examination disclosed
that the animal had been rabid.
It has been kept penned up and is
not believed to have bitten any
other dogs or personse.
Mr. Bishop told the Haywood
County Health Department that
the rabid dog killed in the Pigeon
area two weeks ago had been
fighting with his dog, and prob
ably infected it at that time.
In order to protect other dogs
and owners in the Ninevah sec
tion, a clinic will be conducted by
Dr. A. R. Riegg, veterinarian,
from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday at
the Ninevah Baptist Church. At
that'time, dot* will be vaccinttod
for one dollar.
On Thursday another clinic will
be conducted in the Hyatt Creek
area from 4 until 6 p.m. in the
Green Valley grocery. Both this
clinic and the one at Ninevah are
open to the general public as well
as to persons in those areas, Dr.
Riegg explained.
In addition to the one at Pi
geon, other dogs who have died of
rabies have been in the Allen's
Creek, Camp Branch, and Sau
nook sections, Several persons
weer bitten in September, but all
have been taking shots for rabies.
In arder to prevent the outbreak
of rabies, county commissioners
last week hired Ernest Chambers,
a retired Army man, as county dog
warden. His duties are to see that
all dogs in Haywood are vaccinat
ed and that owners comply with
the present quarantine, which
specifies that animals are to be
kept in confinement while the
quarantine remains in effect.
Lowest Reading
Of Season Down
To 12 Saturday
The coldest morning of the
season rolled around Saturday,
when the mercury slid down to
an even 12 on the official ther
mometer at the State Test Farm.
On Sunday morning the tem
perature was four degrees warm
er as the official reading was
16.
DOG WARDEN Ernest Cham
bers, appointed to his new post
last week by county commission
ers, is now working throughout
the county to enforce the dog
quarantine now in effect.
(Mountaineer Photo).
OSee story page six)
Lake lunaluska
Trustees To Meet
Tuesday In Atlanta
Thirtee."? North Carolinians are
members of the Lake Junaluska
Methodist Assembly's board of
trustees which will hold its annual
meeting Tuesday in Atlanta.
Edwin L. Jones, Charlotte, is
president of the assembly and
board chairman, and will preside
at the meeting. The Junaluska cen
ter has been summer program
headquarters of the Methodist
Church in the southeast sinoe
1913.
The board will review reports of
the assembly's fiscal year, discuss
development projects and plan the
1954 summer program.
Bishop Costen J. Harrell, Char
lotte, is vice president; Dr. Elmer
T. Clark, Lake Junaluska. is pro
gram chairman, and Hugh Massie
(See Trustees?Page 6)
Farm Outlook
Conference Set
A conference on the agricultural
lutlook for 1954, for both farm and
iome workers, will be held at
:30 p.m. Thursday at the court
louse.
Dr. D. D. Brown and Charles
Villiams of the Farm Management
lepartment of N. C. State College
rill lead discussions on the na
ion's farm outlook.
All agricultural workers in the
ounty have been invited to at
snd.
High winds Sunday night reviv
ed a forest fire on hough Nob be
tween Big Branch and the Crab
tree Section which was discovered
at dawn Monday by Dewey Frank
lin, lookout in the Chambers
Mountain firetower. A crew head
ed by E. R. Caldwell, County Fire
Warden, was battling the blaze
again Monday.
This was a rekindle of a fire
which was brought under control
with great difficulty last Friday
after it had burned out a partly
timbered area of between 20 and
25 acres. Franklin stated that it
was in extremely rough territory
and had burned last week about
14 hours.
Perhaps greatest tragedy of the
current forest fires is one in Sun
burst area of Sherwood Forest.
Rangers have reason to believe
that this fire was wiifulv set after
midnight Sunday by a series of
4 or 5 different fires started on
heavily timbered property owned
by the Champion Taper and Fiber
Company around and above Lake
Logan on the West Fork of Pigeon
River. A crew of some 30 men
have brought this fire under con
trol. but a round-the-clock watch
is being kept to avoid its spread
ing or being renewed. A fourth
fire in the Pisgah Forest at the
head of Crawford's Creek Is in the
(flee Forest Fires?Page 8)
Bloodmobile Due
On November 30
The Red Cross Rloodmobile will
visit Waynesville on Monday. No
vember 30. it was announced today
by Johnny Edwards, co-chairman of
the blood program committee. The
Waynesville Lions Club will spon
sor the Bloodmobile's visit here.
The mobile unit will operate
from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. at the
Presbyterian Church.
Each member of the Lions has
been asked to enroll a blood donor
between now and the 30th. Those
who wish to contribute have been
requested to call the Red Cross
office in the courthouse.
Theft Suspect Bound
To Superior Court
i
Alvin Mansfield, 49, of Edenton.
was bound over to Superior Court
on a charge of auto theft by May
or J. H. Way after the defendant
waived preliminary hearing. Bond
was set at $1,000.
Mansfield, now being held in
the county jail, is charged with
stealing a car belonging to Robert
Davis, 115 Maple St., last Monday
morning.
Police said he was picked up
in the car at Taylorsville, N. C.
later last week and returned here.
New Schedule
Necessary In Order
To Meet With
State Athletic
Association Rules
By W. CURTIS RUSS
Editor The Mountaineer
Waynesville and Canton will re
turn to a schedule of one football
game each season, beginning with
1954.
The two-game per season sched
ule, started in 1937, will end with
the second of the 1953 series here
on Thanksgiving Day.
The decision to play just one
game per season between the two
schools, was reached by the ath
letic associations of both schools,
after the meeting of Blue Ridge
Conference members with officials
of the North Carolina High School
Athletic Association, at Sand Hill
several weeks ago.
Officials of the State Associa
tion told members of the Blue
Ridge Conference that the only
way they could participate in the
state football playoffs would be to
end their regular season by No
vember 15th of each year.
Until now, no member of the
Blue Ridge Conference has been
participating in the state playoffs,
because of the late dates in ending
their schedules.
Sentiment at the Conference
meeting seemed to favor partici
pation in the state playoffs, and
then it was that the officials of the
two athletic associations?Waynes
ville and Canton?decided to re
turn to tfte one game per".season
schedule.
Each school, however, plans fo
play a full 10-game schedule each
season, starting earlier in order to
have the schedule completed by ,
the State Association's deadline of
November 15th.
The game will be played early in
October, It was learned from a re
liable source. The exact date will
be set within a few days, along with
the place of play for the first game
of the new series.
Officials, together with coaches,
of both schools were emphatic that
the return to the one game per
season was wholly due to the regu
lations of the State Association,
and not because of the outcome of
(See Football?Page G)
Heavy Dynamite
Blast Moves Rock
On Road Project
Ton* of rock were blasted to
bits shortly after noon today, as
workmen set off a heavy charge
of dynamite at the highway in
tersection at Lake Junaluska.
where the road is being widened.
Workmen have been working
on drilling for the blast about
ten days or two weeks.
The road is being widened 39
feet. The cat is 50 feet deep,
and about 27,000 yards of dirt
and rock will be moved.
U.S. Milk Sui
Higher Rating
A federal milk inspection of
Haywod County producers and
dairies was completed last week
by a federal inspector, P. L. Pes
sup of Raleigh.
Although an official report will
not be made for several weeks, Mr.
Jessup told Haywood Health De
partment workers here that he be
lieved the county will be given a
satisfactory rating.
During the four-day survey, 28
producers of Grade-A milk, one
retailer of raw milk, and two
pasteurization plants were inspect
ed.
Assisting Mr. Jessup in the in
spection were Health Department
sanitation officers Bill Milner and
Jack Arrington. 4
Federal milk inspections are or
dinarily made about once each
two years. In the last inspection
made in this county in July, 1951,
unsatisfactory ratings were made
on several aspects of the inspec
tion. Since that time, however,
considerable improvement has
been made in miik-handling facil
ities. and a much better rating is
expected this year.
To achiev* a satisfactory grade.
rvey Made;
r Expected
ratings of above 90 must bo made
In retail raw milk, raw milk sold
to plants, pasteurization plants,
pasteurized milk, and enforcement
methods.
Haywood County has the larg
est number of milk producers west
of Ashevllle.
Highway
Record For
1953
In Haywood
(To Date)
Killed 4
Injured.... 46
(This Information com
piled from Records of
Stats Highway PatmLl
GRAND CHAMPION of the annual Western ratines were also won by a number of other ani
Carollna Fat Stock Show he!4 at Enka last week mala entered In the show by Haywood 4-H and
was this 1045-pound steer owned by Jack Felmet FFA members.
of KaifcUffe dbve, a t-H Club fwttber. Hwh (Davis' Photo).