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I? ? I More People Than I p~J_ EE J^XNE^V1LLK Mountaineer !~-=^~ K8A1 'jgSg jSoaSSTtM O, The Great S?toky Mountains Nation., P?k i 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. ... , [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 ? - M Ig _ I' 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).