i r-iESSS^ ?? n ^PISVILLE Ki " S Mountaineer ???-?__ 1? Haywood "andjickaon ~CountH? KEYING TIIF BLACKENED GROl'ND when- her home once is Mrs. Josephine Caldwell of the Dellwood road, whose eare was one of the two destroyed by fire Monday morning. Included in the tire loss were a new refrigerator, bedroom suite, television set, radio, and six persons' clothing. (Mountaineer Photo). Called Appear In , C Hearing iteen Haywood tobacco have been notified to ap-! j fore the ASC tPMAl County j tee at 9 a.m. Friday to ex- | ihy their average hurley ist fall was either consid ibove or below the average ir community. is these farmers can offer actory explanation for their d yield, their 1954 tobacco ints will be cancelled by the mintv committee, vear. three growers' allot were canceled after a total Arsons appeared before the Itee. violation being investigated ASC usually involves the of excess tobacco on white nstead of the red "penalty" 1 Marketing of excess pound permitted when sold on red ihere specified penalties are ting the county committee lucting the hearings will be M Sugg of Raleigh, field ; intative for the state ASC j fliles Road ed In County ng February ?idonini> and laying a traf nd macadam base for 1.6 >r. the Francis Farm Road, f report for February of' nrk in Haywood. The re Is made In Harry Buchanan, aioner of the fourteenth tal of 40 5 miles was com in the district, the report livisinn headquarters in 'he Fourteenth is compos Cherokei Clay. Graham. *>n. Jackson, Macon, Polk. Tranolvania and Haywood s G. G. Page is division en Virginia Car Carrying Sign A number of people in front of the court house Wednesday morning were amused to see a Chrysler, with a Virginia license tag. with a bumper sign read ing: "Lennon For U. S. Senator." The usual number of specula tions were made. Some surmised that a parking lot attendant plac ed the signs on every car. while other observers mused different versions. The car remained narked a few minutes and headed west. Before a reporter and photog rapher arrived on the scene, the car had left. Warden Reports On Four Forest Fires In County The rains of Wednesday brought welcomed relief to forest fire fight ers. R. E. Caldwell, county fire war den. said that four fires had been put out. all with small damage, and tot much acreage burned. On Monday a fire across High way 19 from the Mount Valley Inn burned about three acres. Ranger Caldwell and two members of his crew were just five miles away, and by quick work, and enlisting aid from others, brought the blaze under control in short order. A strong south wind was stirring up the blaze when the fighters arrived on the scene. Other fires reported by Caldwell were at the head of Hyatt and Richland Creeks, one in Pigeon Cap. and down in Beaverdam. pnation Of Toastmasters N3 Here Is Proposed nt interest is shown, a *rs Clul>?established to in neMberS imProve their I sPeaking?will be M ln Waynesville. |jP the new club get started, on Toastmasters Club will d;iy at 7 p.m. at Spaldon's Restau rant. The project was explained last week at a Lions Club meeting and this week at a Kiwanis Club meeting by Dick McMahon. mem ber of the Canton Toastmasters Club and president of the Canton Kiwanis Club. Toastmasters meetings consists of a number of scheduled talks by members and evaluation of the talks by other members. The group also stresses the learning of correct parliamentary procedure. Officers of the Cantbn Toast masters Club are Dr. Carey Wells. Jr.. president; G. L. Edgerton. vicb president; James Hall, secretary treasurer; W. K. Stephens, educa tional chairman, and Ed Bell, ser peant-at-arms. CHIT Harrcll of: W'aynesville is a charter member I of the group. The meeting Friday night is open to all interested men. he other ^ mild wUh^Ptorcd ludit!" Friday, ronslder and <ooler. temperature ed by the State Test Farm. 22 Ma*. Mln. Prec. 23 "" ?# 16 ? 56 39 .04 47 1.18 Water Tanks Rushed To Balsam Helped Firemen Save Valuable Property I Only the fast work of three fire i departments, and transporting water in spray trucks, and street washing trucks, saved a lot of valuable buildings at Balsam Mon day. Residents of Balsam today were warm in their praises of the work of the fire departments of Waynes ville. Hazelwood and Svlva. and for the quick action of the water truck from WaynesviUe, and the spray truck loaded with water from Barber's Orchard reaching the scene in time to help save nearby buildings. The quick spreading flames burned a two story building, in cluding the post office, and two a partments, at an estimated loss of $20,000. Knight's Store, within fifty feet of the blaze, began smoking on the back, as firemen drenched the building down with the extra water hauled to the scene. The fire was so hot that crossties in the tracks across the street were scorched. A power pole in front of the building was burned. The blaze started in the apart- j ment of Mr. and Mrs.-Roy Soud-1 eres. The fire began in the kitch- ' en about 10 minutes after Mrs. | (See Fire?Page 6) Dellwood Fire Blamed On Wiring It wasn't an imposing dwelling, but a small house on the Dellwood road was home to Mr. and Mrs. Ned Caldwell, their three children,! and Mrs. Caldwell's father, Law son Ewart, But that home is gone now ?! totally destroyed by fire last Mon day, and with it, practically all of | the occupants' possessions. Destroyed in the flames which [ leveled the residence were a new refrigerator, television set, radio, bedroom suit, and all the family's clothing except that being worn at the time. There was no insurance on the property. Mrs. Caldwell rephrted that she was in the kitchen preparing to give her children their dinner when she discovered that a fire had started up in the attic of the house. She got all her children out of the housq. but when she started back in an effort to save some of her furnishings, she noticed that the rdof had started to collapse. The cause of the fire was never determined, positively, but was be lieved to have started from defec tive wiring. At the time that the Caldwell home was burning. many of Waynesville's firemen and part of the department's equipment were at Balsam where another blaze de stroyed a store, postoffice, and two apartment residences. Billfold Found, 'Mystery' At Lake Is Cleared Up One "leftover" mystery from last summer at Lake Junaluska has been cleared up, but another remains a puzzle. The story goes something like this: Last summer a women dropped her purse?(containing two $1 bills and a watch valued at $75? overboard from the Cherokee II excursion boat in about 15 feet of water. At about the same time another woman reported the loss of a dia mond-bedecked watch, valued at $2,000, near the postoffice. As stories often do, these two got twisted so that rumors were soon going around that a purse containing $2,000 in cash was drop ped into the lake waters. Recently when lake waters were lowered to permit construction of a swimming area, a number of people?including teen-agers and smaller children?started dragging the lake with rakes, shovels, and other tools. Several of these im plements were lost in the process, hut the lost purse was not found for a time. Finally, the other day, two main tenance men at the lake ? Mil* lard Gaddy and Lewis Jones ? found the purse and turned it in at the assembly office. The $2 in cash and the watch ? somewhat saturated by water ? will be turn ed over to its owner. But what happened to the $2,000 ; diamond-studded watch? That Is still a m.vstery. GOING TO CHICAGO Oral L. Yates leaves Friday for j a 10-day National Milk Confer-! ence in Chicago. He is regional . representative of the Farm Bureau. ' Work Under Way On Pisgah Road Work was begun this week on (he rebuilding of a road between Cruso and the base of Mt. Pisgah when a t.000-foot section was grad ed in preparation for the construc tion of a television tower by sta tion WLOS-TV in Asheville. Charles B. Britt, vice president and manager of the station, said that the rebuilding of the mile-and a-half road would require about 15 working days. At completion of the road work, construction of a three-rail two-car hoist from the end of the road 2.200 feet below the peak to the site of the tower will begin, Britt said. Draft Board Classifies 45 County Men Draft classifications for 45 Hay wood County men were announced Tuesday by Selective Service Hoard 45 after a meeting at the court house. Classifications made were: Class 1-C (Inducted??Erwin M. I Burgin. William Lee Wood. Lynden A. MeCracken. Keith D. Smathers. I ?Joseph Ralph Ferguson, Cassius Green, llarley Rhodes. Jr., Frank j Edwin Chambers, Richard Taylor j Medford, Charles Dean Medford. | Andrew Jackson Browning. L. K Henson, Gerald Francis Turner, j Robert Lee Hembree. Doyle Queen. Jaynes Riley Medford. Haynard Devane Dixon. Robert Bryson Boyd. Robert Edgar Frady. and Norman Ronald Reagan. Class 1-C (Enlisted1?Billy Fred Cordell. CTcil Frank Thomason. William Junior West. Theodore Wayne Shipman, Samuel Loo Browning. Hugh Thomas Russell, Jr.. Ernest Dale Ford, and Alvin Francis Moody. Class 1-C 1 Reserved William Horace Rich. Homer Lester Han nah. Jr.. Jule William Messer, Harley Lee Sherrill. and John Ed ward Griffin. Class 1-C 'Dischargedi ? John Thomas West. Jr.. Richard Radford Guy. Hall Junior Warren. Howard Thomas Carter. Lorian Leon Mc Dowell. and David Lewis Wells. Class 1-A-?Kenneth Gene Keen lib. Jack Reece. John William Hay. Worth William Smathers. Joseph lack Nelson. One other man was classified 4-F. The board will meet again on April 13, at which time 13 regis trants will he sent to Knoxville for induction. Red Cross Drive Near Conclusion E. A. Williamson, chairman of the Hod Csoss Membership Roll , Call, said a concerted effort is be- j ing made to complete the cam paign by April first, and to meet ! the quota of $5,000. Williamson said that some work- I ers had not made their reports. I which made it impossible to tell : exactly where the campaign stood I In regards to meeting the quota. "We will need to work a little harder, and to get as many mem- i berships as possible, in order to meet the quota for this very worthy cause," Williamson pointed out. "The need is great; the time is short, so 1 urge everyone to give. , and give now," he continued. , '? ???' r"r~ ' Co-op Officials To Attend Dinner In Washington Four officials of the Haywood Electric Membership Corp. will attend a dinner in Washington, D C. Tuesday night in honor of North Carolina's senators and rep resentatives. sponsored by the state'si electric cooperatives. The group?Hoy B. Medford, president; M M. Kirkpatrick and Dan Heed, directors, and R. C. Sheffield, manager ?- will leave here Monday. While in Washington, they will confer with REA officials Staff Of 9 Carries On Health Department's Work 'EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first of a series of articles eon rerning the program earried on by the llaywood County llralth Department.) By BOB CONWAY Mountaineer StalT Writer For the information of those eoneerned about the matter, the Haywood County Health Drpart n ent is still very aetive and has not "folded up," in reeent weeks members of the department have been surprised \?hen people have asked them: "Is your olTier still open? I heard you had folded up." This statement seems to be bas ed on the belief that a health de partment cannot operate without a health officer?which the local i department has not had for several months. However, according to Mrs fittbye Bryson. acting head of the Haywood County Health Depart ment, her office Is carrying on the same program as it would if it had a health officer. While Mrs. Bryson Is responsible for her staff's actvities. the Hay wood County Board of Health has fSee Health Dept.?Page fit REV. C. V. BROWN is a candU date for the nomination as Rep resentative. He is from Beaver dam. FOR SENATE?J. H. Howell is a candidate for the nomination as State Senator. He served in the General Assembly in 19.U. W. II O M K It O W KN, a well i known businessman of Waynes ville, lias announced lor the j nomination as representative in the >la.v Primary. mm P >"ir r |-iii|i-if-M? Mil?jamm J. KII.I.IW has announced he is seeking the nomination and re-election as a member of the board of education. Along Political Fronts W. Homer Owen Candidate For Representative W Homer Owen, a well known businessman, announced he is seeking the nomination for Rep resentative. Owen, a business man for many years, said in a formal statement when making his announcement: "I am not interested in creating any more jobs in the county; or raising anyone's salary; or pass ing any more petty laws. 1 am in terested in better schools. Wild life Conservation and Develop- ] ment. "In the state I am opposed to voting any more taxes or bonds on a now over-taxed state I am in favor of amending our sales tax laws to abolish the three per cent sales tax now levied on meals serv-j ed in our eating places. This hurts our state-wide tourist industry. I also favor revising our non-resi dent fishing license law which is i also running our tourists else where. I am in favor of a fair trade law. "I am in favor of diverting any ' surplus money accumulated in the state to where it is needed for any purpose as long as the people as a whole get the benefit of ft. I am interested in good conserva tive government." "I am definitely against the sec recy law, and would vote for it's n peal." Owen is a World War I veteran, member of the American Legion, First Haptlst church of Waynos vilie, a master Mason, and past master of the Waynesville Masonic Lodge. J. H. Howell Candidate For State Senate J Harden Howell, former post master, legislator and mayor, an nounced he Is a ^candidate for State Senate. Active In public and civic af fairs since he opened his law of fice in 1907, Col Howell has play ed a leading role In many projects here. It was while he was mayor that the 9 000-acre watershed was pur (See Political Fronts?Page fi> Rev. C. V. Brown Seeking Representative Post Hev. C. V. Brown, pastor of the Beaverdam Baptist Church, this week announced Ids candidacy for county representative in the Gen eral Assembly. A native of Haywood County, Mr. Brown attended Haywood In stitute and Winona School in California He has served as a war production job instructor and worked for Kt years as a shipping clerk at Champion Paper and Fibre Co. Mr. Brown is married and has two suits one an Air Force lieu tenant. the other a contractor in Canton. The Red Cross Would Help You bo Do Your Part And Join, today i Commission Hears Dairymen Discuss Controls For Area ? ? 150 Dairymen From l.'J Counties Discuss Commission Control On Prices More than 150 dairymen, produ cers and dairy specialists from 13 -ounties were still in session at I 45 this afternoon, as the State Milk Commission conducted a hear ing here as to whether or not the Nroa should come under control of Ihe commission. Sentiment of most producers was lhat they favored the area being under the control of the commis sion which has the power to es tablish the price distributors pay for milk. Some distributors openly opposed 'he control, and were joined by one or two producers. 1). Reeves Noland. Haywood pro ducer, said he had no complaints with his two distributors?Pet and Southern Dairy. "1 am willing to abide by the decision of the com mislson. but feel that if controls are established that the base per iods should be set up 12 months in advance." The greatest dissention came from producers in the Murphy area, where they complained the price of milk was cut without being given any notice. They pointed out the cut was frpm $5.50 to $4.85 in Feb ruary. One dairyman expressed it: "Wc dairymen are on the spot." The longest discussion came about distributors giving large users of milk special discounts. The dairymen felt that they should not be penalized for such discounts. Bert Browning, Hendersonville, testified for about 30 minutes on this point. He said he was opposed ! to the commission and controls as t be feels it will work Kgainst pro ' ducers because uniform prires would force distributors to buy I milk closer to plants. I One of the first acts of the com mission would be to require all bottled milk sold to be at least 3.6 per cent butterfat. W. W. Fitzpatrick. chairman. Stressed that the dairymen needed to cull their unprofitable cows, and prepare for the summer surplus which would bring about $2.50 per hundred. "You can't sell $2 50 milk from unprofitable cows and stay in business," he said. "The time has come when the dairy industry must advertise, and try to combat the present substi tutes. The per capita consumption (See Milk?Page 6) Car Hits Light Pole On Sulphur Springs Rtl. Kenneth Griffin, 19, escaped serious Injury at 5:20 p.m. Tues day when he lost control of his car and crashed into a power pole on the Sulphur Springs road, lie suffered only bruises. Sgt Paul Cough of the Waynes ville Police Department, who in vestigated the accident, estimated damages to Griffin's car, a 1951 Chevrolet, at $225. Ramp Convention Set For May 16th At Camp Hone Thp 2f>th Haywood County Ramp Convention will be held May 10th. at Camp Hope. Officials spent Tuesday in Gat linburg trying lo make arrange ments to hrtld the silver anniver sary convention at Black Camp Gap. and Hcintooga. but lack of room makes it impossible again this year, according to A. W. Parker, president. "The park officials wanted us back, but due to the lack of park ing space for the several thousand who attend, it was felt that it would not be practical this year. They hope lo get enough money from Congress to provide adequate space for next year," Parker said. Bill Palmer, chairman of the convention committee, went on to explain, "the park officials. Super intendent Hummell. and Bob White were extremely nice to us. and wanted us back, and Were sorry there was not enough room for us. W'e are looking forward to getting back in IBM." The two convention officials said there was lots of interest in thp [ 1054 convention, and that among the recent letters received about the convention was one from Thad Etire. secretary of state, who al ways makes the annual address Cure said he was bringing a large delegation from Raleigh with him this year. Another feature of the conven tion will be peanut-fed hams from Dunn will be served. Tickets will go Qn sale soon at a dollar each. "We feel that this year will bo the best in the 24 years the con vention has been held." said Park er. as he recalled the large volume of mail already received. Highway Record For 1954 In Haywood (TO DATE) Killed ... I 0 Injured.... 3 (Thia Information com piled from Records of Stale Highway Patrol.)

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