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NO. 92 30 PAGES Associated Press WAYNESVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, NOV. 12, 1953 $3.00 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties
OWN COME OLD WOODEN poles on Main Street, as they make
U for the new steel poles of the modern whiteway. Town crews
lis week were pulling up all poles except those from which
net lights were suspended. They will be removed as soon as
?*ew*mts are installed. Dh-the left, !? Walter
riuffey, in charge of the electrical department, while Bob Yar
mouth is guiding the pole as it comes out of the ground, and
mi Rogers can barely be seen behind the rigging of the truck.
Ml Warren, not shown, was handling motor winch which pulled
I the pole. (Mountaineer Photo).
enelits Of United Fund
lan Explained To C. of
. Board, Interest Shown
?be directors of the Chamber
?Commerce gave $200 for the
?> annual prize fund; named * |
boating committee, and heard
? Hugh Matthews. Canton, chair
P of the United Fund Drive,
pain the mechanics of the
?paign now in progress, as they
? Tuesday night.
Provident Dr. Boyd Owen nam- I
las a nominating committee, C.
I Tommy" Thompson, M. R
penhunt and H. P. McCarroll.
PJ will make a report to noml
Pig directors at the December
Pe S200 donation towards CDP
p is part of the annual money
pi the winners of the best com
1% program under CDP rules.
P prizes will be awarded dur
I the Tobacco Harvest Festival
ft week. |
fr Matthews predicted that the
Pon Campaign, for $32,229
PJ he surpassed by $10,000.
?People have never shown such
Pusiasm before over such ?
PWgn as they are in this one.
P*nbines eleven former drives
P one Heretofore, we estimate
flhe average drive has been
pfted hy about 900 people.
P time, under the United Fund
PWgn. ??(, expect 4,000 partici
P" the Canton president ex- i
r?' as be recommended the |
Pjf Fund campaign to Wiynes
l^_Fund Drive?Page t)
U.S., German Military
Insignia Being Displayed
In observance of Armistice
Day, a special military inslgna
exhibit was placed in the window
of The Mountaineer yesterday.
The display includes shoulder
insignia of American infantry
divisions, field armies, Air Force,
and Marines, and 32 medal in
signia once worn by German
soldiers in World War II.
Items in the exhibit are owned
by a Mountaineer employee.
$313,580 Paid
On 1953 Taxes
A total of $313,580 was paid on
1953 county taxes from June 4th
through November 1, according to
Tax Collector Mrs. Mildred Bry
son.
Tax collections this year are
running "8 little ahead" of those
in the past, Mrs. Bryson said. The
deadline for the payment of taxes
without penalty is February 1, she
added.
Taxpayers in Haywood County
paid a total of $548,698.47 on
1952 taxes, according to Auditor
James Kirkpatrick.
The
r?ather
FAIR
Ity r?ol Thursday and
,?iDllp^kynesvll,e temP^i"ature
Z 6 bythe State Test Farm.
? 9 Ma*. Mln. Rainfall
?10 13 _
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85 14 _
Further Building At Lake Planned
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Aliens Creek Getting Sewer Lines
3 Miles Of
Lines Being
Installed
Work began this morning of in
stalling almost three miles of sewer
lines in the Aliens Creek area.
. G. C. Ferguson, town manager,
said that town crews would install
about half of the lines, while a con
tract had been let to Allfson Con
struction Company for laying 7,000
feet of the main lines.
Town crews will install the feed
er, or lateral lines, Mr. Ferguson
said.
The entire area will be served
by the new sewer system, and plans
are to have the work completed
sometime this winter.
The project was started with a
survey about 18 months ago, and
has been listed as one of the top
projects in the sewer system of the
community.
6th Dog* Shot,
Thought To
Be Rabid
E r n e st Chambers, Haywood
County's dog warden, today was in
vestigating reports that a dog kill
ed on the Little East Fork road was
rabid. It was believed possible
that the dog may have bitten sev
eral children as well as dogs and
cats.
If the slain animal is found to
be rabid, it will mark the county's
Sttfh casbdf rdbles In the past two
and a half months. However, an
evamination of this dog has been
complicated by the fact that it was
shot in the head. Since it is the
head that is examined, it will be
more difficult to establish whether
the dog was suffering from the
rabies. It was reported shot by
Robert Pace on Tuesday night.
The county's last rabies case oc
curred just last week when a dog
owned by Lonnle Bishop of the
Ninevah section of ? Waynes villa
died from the disease. However,
it had been kept penned up and was
rot believed to have bitten any
other dogs or people.
Mr. Chambers, employed recent
ly as dog warden, is now working
throughout the county to enforce
the anti-rabies Quarantine which
has been in effect since early Sep
tember.
To further protect dogs and dog
owners, a series of clinics are now
being conducted in the county by
Dr. A. R. Riegg, veterinarian. State
law requires that all dogs in a
quarantined area must be vaccinat
ed.
Thanksgiving
Union Service
Set For 26th
The annual commuity Thanks
giving services will be held at the
First Baptist church, Thursday,
November 26, at nine o'clock,
with Rev. Earl H. Brendall, pastof
of The First Methodist Church
bringing the message.
Rev. M. R. Williamson, pastor
of the First Presbyterian church
will be in charge of the service,
and will preside. All pastors of
the town will participate.
Regular orphanage offerings
will bfc taken for all the churches,
with the loose collection being
equally divided between the par
ticipating churches.
Special music for the service Is
being arranged. j
Football Fan Has Yet
To See A Football Game
By BOB CONWAY
Mountaineer Staff Writer
In Haywood County, "Football
Capital of Western Carolina,"
ardent supporters of the gridiron
sport arc a dime a dozen. But have
you ever heard of a football fan
who has never seen a football
game?
We never did either until we
met Albert W. Ferguson of Upper
Crabtree. friendly manager of the
Haywood PMA office in the court
house.
The chances are that Mr. Fergu
son la not the only adult in Hay
t
wood County who has never seen
a football game. Undoubtedly
there are others, but you'd prob
ably And that they've never at
tended a game simply because
they don't care for the sport.
But that's not the case for Mr.
Ferguson: he's very definitely In
terested in the pigskin fortunes of
Haywood gridders and often lis
tens to their games on the radio.
Still, he never has sat on the aide
lines like the rest of us?eating a
hot dog, freezing our feet, booing
the referee, watching to see which
girl Bill is going to escort to the
(See Football Fan?Page ?)
THERE SEEMS TO BE AN EPIDEMIC of slant candy roasters
in these parts. Or maybe Its Just the rood Haywood County soil.
A fifty-three and one-half pound candy roaster raised by John
Kerley, former deputy sheriff, has now taken Its place In the
window of the Mountaineer next to the 52 pound one grown by
Mrs. J. A. SInrli-ton, which recently made front pare news.
Mr. Kerley, seen en the left above, claims that this is Just
one of some 18 to 20 candy roasters weirhlnr anywhere from 30
to 53 pounds which he has riven to various friends, includinc
town officials and Mayor J. H. Way, who rot the blrrest of all.
The rifts are by way of thanks since Mr. Kerley raised his crop of
42 roasters on the Lem Shepperd place of the town water shed.
He said he "Just tossed a little fertiliser 'around and carried water
out of Aliens Creek up the bt^l l- tl em."
Srt. Paul Cough, apprnis?? u Ufc riant roaster above, was
"chief advisor" on how to grow them and furnished Mr. Kerly's
transportation. (Mountaineer Photo).
Kiwanis Club Members
Discuss Needs Of Area
What docs our community need
and how can these needs be met?
In industry, housing, schools, agri
culture, spiritual welfare, and gov
ernment?" was discussed by five
members of the WavnesvlUe Ki
wanis Club Tuesday night.
Bill Roberts, speaking on In
dustry, asserted that "we need i
more smokestacks in the horizon
in Haywood County." He estimat
ed that Haywood County is now
80 per cent agricultural and 20
per cent industrial. A more favor
able balance, he added, would be
60 to 40 in favor of agriculture.
Mr. Roberts said that Haywood
County probably always will be
primarily agricultural, and ex
pressed the opinion that this is
desirable since farm communities
are able to "weather" depressions
much better than areas which are
mainly industrial.
He pointed out that Waynesville
got the Dayton Rubber Co.'s Kool
foam rubber plant because of the
town's pure water supply, and
urged that further efforts be made
to attract other industries here
whose operations depend on ac
cess to a supply of pure water.
Bob Winchester, discussing
i housing, asserted that the com
munity's principal needs are (1)
more adequate housing in the col
ored section?which, most likely,
would be achieved by a govern
ment housing project, and (2)
(See Kiwanis?Page 2)
Story Of Big Bend
Starts Today ?
I
One of the roughest and most
isolated spots in Western North
Carolina is the Big Bend and
Big Creek sections of Haywood.
Begining today, W. C. Medford,
who is familiar with the area,
is beglnnig a series of srticles
in The Mountaineer about the
section from the time It was
settled before the Civil War un
til the present, when it will soon
be opened to the public by a
modern highway down Pigeon
River to Newport.
Two New
Fires Erupt
In Haywood
Two new fires?in White Oak
and Ratcliffe Cove areas?broke
out the first part of this week,
county forest ranger E. R. Cald
well reported Wednesday.
Approximately five acres at Rat
cliffe Cove were destroyed by a
fire which started at 6:30 p. m.
Monday. It appeared to be under
control at 10 p . m. but broke out
(See Fires-rPage 2)
War Dead Are Immortal,
Gold Star Parents Told
Speaking on "Immortality" at a
special American Legion Armistice
Day program Wednesday night at
Hazelwood School. Rev. James H.
Coleman told the audience, includ
ing 40 Gold Star parents:
"Death on the battlefield for our
men was not an extinction of life
. . . death is a going home. Have
no fear for you shall see them
again in a place where we will
never grow old, or weary, hungry,
or feel pain . . . where the boats
man with the silver oar leads us
across the river that has no bridge
. . . where it is not taps?but re
veille."
"The supreme conviction In the
lives of those men who died in
war was that their lives did not
end; neither wet* they defeated,
for any issue in which God is in
volved cannot end in disaster be
cause life in God is unconquer
able."
Answering the frequently asked
question: "Will we know our loved
ones in Heaven?" Rev. Coleman
observed: "Whatever else Jesus
said about immortality, He clearly
assured us of the continuation of
personality.
"In the world heyond, we will
be known as we are known . . .
consciousness survived these men
after death?they are still feeling,
thinking, and knowing.
Concluding his talk. Rev. Cole
man quoted the words of Mrs.
Helen Goodrich, author of the
book, "With Wings As Eagles,"
and a Gold Star mother;
"He went out on'wings like an
(See Armistice?Page 2)
Meanest Man Of
Year Sought For
r
Robbing Church
The nomination for the mean
eat man in the state belongs to
the person who broke into the
Riehland Baptist Church early
this week and took about $17
from tie birthday box.
Members of the church have
been putting birthday money
into the box for the annual
Christmas Cheer fund.
The thief left just a few pen
nies In the box.
The police have been called
In and are working on the case.
When the culprit la caught,
the congregation will no doubt
give him the title: "The mean
est man of the year."
22 Haywood
Men Leave
For Induction
Twenty - two Haywood County
young men loft hero this week for
Knoxville for induction into the
armed forces, according to selec
tive service officials of Local
Board 45.
The inductees Included:
Kenneth Eugene Oaddla of Way
nesville. Rufus Lee Parrls of Way
nesville, John Hugh Medford of
Wayneavllle, Route 4, Allen Boone
of Waynesvllle, Route 3. Julius
Jerome Boyd of Wajrnesville Route
2, Charles Billy Allison of Can
ton, Route 2, James Clifton Mor
gan of Waynesvllle, Route 1, Paul
Thomas Smart of Clyde, Route 1,
Robert Lee Henson of Canton,
Route 2, Cecil James Rector of
Canton, Route 3, Jack Douglas Mil
ner of Waynesvllle, Carl Green,
Jr., of Canton, Route 2, Manuel
Blaine Hooper of Waynesvllle,
Route 1, William Dea Jordan of
Waynesvllle, Route 1, Thomas
Wyatt, Jr., of Waynesvllle, Route
1, Samuel Lee Brooks of Hazel
wood, Lawrence Daniel Jenkins of
Waynesvllle, Route 3, Thomas Earl
Nichols of Hazelwood, Greenbury
Thomas Worley of Clyde, Route 1.
Arthur Ray Denton of Canton,
Route 2, Rufus Lloyd Morgan of
Canton, and Mike Natt Atkinson
of Waynesvllle.
Eleven other Haywod men were
sent to Knoxville for pre-inductlon
physical examinations, the draft
board said.
SMALL GASOLINE BLAZE
The Fire Department was called
out about three o'clock Wednesday
to the Allison Construction Co.,
yard, at the Aliens Creek and Bal
sam roads, to put out a small fire
that started around a gasoline tank
on a concrete mixer. No damage
was reported.
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DR. LANCASTER AT HOME
Dr. N. F. Lancaster, who suf
fered a heart attack on Septem
ber 27, and has since been receiv
ing treatment at Mission Hospital,
Asheville, is now convalescing at
his home.
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Seventh Tobacco Festival
Will Open Here Tuesday
King Tobacco will begin the
seventh year of his reign here
Tuesday when the annual Haywood
i County Tobacco Festival is sched
uled to open m the Waynesville
Armory. A special program will be
held on Tuesday night at the
courthouse?to include the an- |
nouncing of Community Develop- |
ment Program awards, tobacco and
j home demonstration exhibit win
ners. !
| The Armory will first onen at 9
| a.m. Monday for placement of to- ,
bacco and home demonstration ex
hibits, which are to be judged at
10 a.m. Tuesday. The public will
be admitted to the armory from
1:30 p.m. Tuesday until 7 p.m.
The program at the courthouse,
starting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, will
intclude an address by William D.
poe. associate editor of Progres
slv Farmer magazine; announce
ment of awards, and specil music
by the Waynesville, Canton, and
Bethel high school choruses.
This year, five communities will
receive CDP awards instead of
only three as in the past. Judging
of home demonstration exhibits
also will be changed?with blue,
red and white ribbons to be a
warded instead of designating the
winners numerically.
Boy Bennett of North Carolina |
State College and J W. Van Ars
dall of Kentucky will serve as to
bacco judges. Judging of home
displays Will be done by three
home demonstration agents and
two county agents from other
counties.
A sp'ecial contest will also be
held for posters by high school art
students. The posters are to be
put in local store windows at 9 a.
m. Tuesday for judging at 10 a.m.
that day.
The armory will remain oifen
from 9 a.m. until 9:30 p.m. so that
the public may view the various
exhibits. Booths and displays are
to be removed by 10 a.m. Thurs
day.
Exhibits are to be entered by all
27 of Haywood County s home
(See Tohaeco?Page 2)
Mrs. McCracken
Dies Wednesday 1
After Illness
Mrs. W. L. McCracken, former
deputy Register of Deeds of Hay
wood County, died yesterday af
ternoon in the Haywood County
Hospital after a brief illness. ?
She was a mcmbr of one of
Haywood County's prominent fam
ilies, the former Miss Hattie Kirk
patrick, daughter of the late
Milas and Ann Byers Kirkpatrick
of Crabtrce. She spent most of
her life here.
Mrs. McCracken retired last
January after serving twenty
eight years as deputy Register of
Deeds of the county. She started
as deputy at the request of her
brother. C. F. Kirkpatrick, and
continued under Weaver McCrack
en, Edwin Haynes, C. C. Francis,
Bryan Medford, ar.d the present
Register. Jule Noland. It was said
that she knew more about the of
fice than anyone else and even
the older lawyers found her
knowledge a great asset in sav
ing time and trouble. Through the
(See Mrs. McCracken?Page 2>
Committees Appointed
For United Fund Drive
Committees were named for the
Canton-Bethel-Clyde United Fund
at a meeting Monday night at the
Champion YMCA at Canton.
Dr. H. O. Matthews is president
and Glenn Simmons is general
rhairman of the United Appeal,
which is chartered by the state and
operates under specific by-laws.
Loranzo Smathers heads the drive
in Canton, Ken McNeil in Bethel,
and Carleton Corslne in Clyde.
Bethel committee members are
Mrs. Lou Singleton, listing com
mittee; Mrs. Henry Garner, pub
licity; Caraon Clark and Morris
Bumgarner. co-chairmen solicita
tion; Mrs. Ralph Kelly, special
gifts; and Rev. L. B. George, pro
fessional.
Clyde committees include:
Mrs. Bonnie Shook, professional; j
Mrs. Iris Cagle, publicity; G. C.
Haynes, commercial and retail:
Mrs. Emily Williams, chairman'
rural and farm; Jack Belcher,
Roland Leatherwood, Kyle Lindsey,
Dfr. Robert Yost, and Mrs. Pat Cole.
The United Fund drive opened
in the three communities Monday ^
and will continue until December
5 Participating organizations in
clude the American Red Cross.
American Heart Association,
American Defense Fund aid to
Korea), USO, Boy Scouts, Girl
Scouts. White Cane Drive (Canton)
(See United Fund?Page 2)
Conference
Includes 2
Big Projects
(Special to The Mountaineer)
Further steps toward the erec
tion of two new buildings at the
Lake Junaluska summer assmbly
of the Methodist Church were tak
en in Atlanta Tuesday by the board
of trustees.
A proposal to locate a $50,000
archives building at the lake?to
serve also as American headquart
ers of the World Methodist Council
?was referred to a committee for
consultation with the church's
southeastern College of Bishops.
The trustees also voted to explore
| the possibility of building a modern
'youth center for high school and
college-age visitor^, employes and
residents. Sam Banks, Lakeland.
Ha., chairman of a special com
mittee on youth work and recrea
tion, and Hugh Massie. Waynes
ville, chairman of the board's build
ings and grounds committee, were,
asked to investigate plans and
costs of such a center. A new
children's building was opened at
the Lake last July.
Walter Richard. Atlanta, is chair
man of th# archives building com
mittee. He and Edwin L. Jones of
Charlotte, chairman of the assem
bly board who presided at the an->
nual meeting here, were delegated
to confer with the southeastern
bishops when the churchwide Coun
cil of Bishops meets December
8-11 at St. Simons Island, Ga.
Dr. Elmer T. Clark. Lake Juna
luska. reported to the board on the
proposed archives building. He
said the building is to be financed
by private subscriptions and will
serve as the official depository for
historical records and materials of
the church and as the office of the
World Methodist Councills ^me^s
1 ckn section. Wr. 'dark fs sterol
of the council, a federation of
Methodist communions in 75 coun
tries.
Tbe body will hold its 1956 ses
sions at Lake Junaluska. Dr. Clark ?
said.
The trustees indicated that neith
(See Lake Junaluska?Page 2>
John Blaylock Is
Succeeding John
Smith On Board
At Hazelwood
John V. Blaylock has been nam
ed as a member of the Hazelwood
Board of Aldermen, succeeding
John Smith, who recently resign
ed, since he is moving to Lake
Junaluska.
Mr. Blaylock Is a well known
contractor, and has previously
served on the board of aldermen
of the town.
The board of Aldermen in their
session Monday night named Mr.
Blaylock to the post. He will fill
the unexpired term of Mr. Smith,
which was to June 1955.
Other members of the board are
Howell Bryson. and Frank Leath
erwood. Lawrence Davis is mayor.
Canton Youth's
Condition Is
Still Critical
The condition of Carl "Bud"
Stanley, 17, son of Canton Alder
man and Mrs. C. F. Stanley, who
was seriously injured in an auto
mobile accident late Saturday
afternoon, remained critical but
slightly better Thursday morning.
Stanley, who suffered a fractur
ed skull, a left shoulder fracture,
and serious cuts about the head,
throat and leg, is in Memorial Mis
sion Hospital, Ashevllle. His fam
(See Wreck Victim?Page 2)
Highway
Record For
1953
In Haywood
(To Date)
Killed 4
Injured.... 47
%
(This Information com
piled from Records of
State Hlchwsy FatroL)