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? I.VNDEN A. McCRACKEN
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BOBBY B. BO YD
ROBERT L. HEMBREE
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CHARLES I). MEDFORD
JOE FERGUSON
FRANK K. CHAMBERS I
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IT HAYWOOD COUNTY MEN' who recently completed eight
i of basic training at Camp Gordon. Ga. were (bottom row,
?right) Pvt. Doye Queen, son of Mr and Mrs. Weslev Queen,
ur Springs road. Waynesville: Pvt. Lynden A McCracken,
nd of Jewell Dee Ferguson McCracken of Crabtree: Pvt.
( B. Boyd, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Boyd of Route 'J.
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Waynesville; I'vt. Robert !.. Ilembree, son ?if .Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Hembree, Route 1, I'vt. Jaynes R. Medtord. husband of Carol
l.iucr of llazeluood; I'vt. < harles l>. Medford, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Cash Medtord of Route 4, Waynesville; Pvt. Joe Ferguson, son of
Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Ferguson, Route 1, Clyde, and Pvt. Frank F.
Chambers, son of Mr. and Mrs. Weaver Chambers, Route 1, Clyde.
(U. S. Army Photos)
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JEWELER
! Saturday Evening Post Story
Calls Smokies Most Popular
I Great Smoky Mountains Nation
j al Park, a 508-000-acre chunk ol |
| up-and-down real estate straddling i
j the North Carolina - Tennessee |
j border is "Uur Most Popular Na
! tional Park," it is pointed out in
the current (June 5lh) issue of
"The Saturday Evening Post.
In an article ot that title, Don !
Wharton tells that Great Smoky
last year attracted over 2.250,000
visitors, more than any other na
tional park has drawn in a single
year.
"In fact," he says, "of the
twenty-eight national parks, onl>
five ? Yellowstone, Shenandoah.
! Rocky Mountain. Grand Teton and j
YoSemite ? attract as many visit- ;
ors in a whole year as Great I
Smoky draws in July and August
In those two months there were !
1,160.000 visitors in 1952. 900.000 !
in 1953. The record day was July {
j 2, 1950, which brought 48.858.
"Over a period of more than !
three-quarters of a century, Yel
lowstone. our oldest national park,
has had some 16,000.000 visitors.
Great Smoky, a full-fledged na
tional park for only twenty years,
has already run up a total exceed
ing 22,000.000."
Wharton finds that the main
tourist attraction is not the peaks
and valleys, the trees or even the
acres of flowers. It's the bears,
he says.
He tells of the traffic jams caus
ed by motorists' stopping on the
road to watch, photograph, feed
I or tease the bears they spy paw
ing through roadside garbage cans.
Sometimes, he reports, there are
half a dozen such jams in a given
ten-mile stretch of Steep, twist
ing highway.
And he relates park rangers are
fighting a losing campaign in try
ing to persuade bear-watchers to.
remain inside their cars.
It is further reported that the
visitors ask some surprising ques
tions. including that of the woman
who wanted to know; "Where did
Lincoln make his Gatlinhurg ad
dress?'
Grain sorghum, or Milo, is a
good drought-resistant summer
feed crop and is often used in
North Carolina as a catch crop
following failure of early seeded
crops.
Jarretts Purchase
Dining Room-Shop
On Mt. Pisgah
Mr. and Mrs. Jarrett VVilliaiu
son of Canton have purchased the
Mt. Pisgah Dining Room and Gift
Shop from Paul Pless of Candler
and are now operating the estab
lishment.
ft is situated at an altitude of
one mile, and is the nearest place
to the site of the new television
tower. It is also a mile and a half
from the peak of Pisgah.
The dining room will serve
steak and chicken dinners, plate
lunches, sandwiches, and refresh
ments for lunch and dinner, but
will not serve breakfast.
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Bethel Baptist
Lists Honor Roll
The following persons are on the
I Honor Roll of the Bethel Baptist
Church for perfect attendance in
Sunday School during the month
-of May:
Beginners' Class?Linda Cooke.
Sammy Cooke, Susan Bumgarner,
Clara Trull. .
Primary Class ? Evelyn Rose
McNeil, Dennis Amnions, Darrell
Fore, Billy Trull. Nancy Tatham,
Frances Trull. Mary Alice Trull
Junior Girls' Class. ? Geneva
? Trull, Helen Trull, Joyce Trull.
Margaret Rigdon, Kaye Sloan,
1 Doris Lowe.
Junior Boys' Class?David Lee
Pressley, Garr> Fore, Donald Trull.
Terry Wright, Garry Stiles. Wayne
Smith.
intermediate Girls' Class ?
Teacher: Mrs. C. L. Bissott, Phyl
lis Ann Stiles. Jo Ann Russell,
Johnnie Kinsland, Joyce Riddle,
Mary June Riddle.
Intermediate Boys' Class ?- Ed
win Mann, Troy Hargrove. Troy
Ledford, Philip Rigdon. James
Fore. Norman Long.
Young Adult Ladies' Class?Mrs.
Paul Rogers. Mrs. John M. Rigdon.
Young Men's Class?Teacher.
Raymond Duekett. Othel Stiles.
Kin McNeil, L J. Tatham.
Women's Class?Teacher: Mrs.
A. T Medford, Mrs. J. B. McElroy.
Mrs. J. W. Kinsland. Mrs. Margaret
Cole. Mrs. J. M. Long. Mrs. Louise
Wright, Mrs. Erwin.
Men's Bible Class?Teacher: A.
T. Medford, Marvin'Long. Homer
Galloway.
Secretary and Treasurer: Van
Mat &l;fjiljeri? j||
memorial day G
' resent your bodies a living sacrifice."
Romans 12:1
He travels in a rolling chair . . .
}?>. p.i' Or must a faded bathrobe wear
(?>? Ljft. </ ... Or watches time go march
^rni ing past... His body in a plaster
f, off* cast . . . That one was hit in
?e^eau Wood . . . While that
r * * 'ac* 'n nex* stood . . .
J*e day at Utah Beach and fell ... The vic
,!ni a German shell . .. Can you not find
c time to go . . . And spend with them an
hour of so?
JULIEN' C. HYER J?
WELLS ,
l FUNERAL HOME
Canton, N. C.
^^Wife Preservers
If you lose one eretty eairiny. do not
throw it* mate aw ay Remove the shark
and clue the . est to the cover of a small
box. It will make a pretty bo* for your
dieseir.e tabic.
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"He can invent almost thing
but ? way to pay ?ui ulli.'V
Memorial Gifts
Presented To
Canton Library
The Canton Public Library has
received a number of memorial
gilts which will he placed in the li
brary on Park Street.
One of the outstanding mem
orials is a hand-made solid walnut
dictionary table. presented in
memory of the late W Jack Hamp
ton by Mr and Mrs. A W. Sw ang
er and Mr. and Mrs. William M.
Green. Jr.
Memorial books recently donat
ed include:
"The Conquest of Everest," by
Hunt, in memory of W. Jack
Hampton, presented by Dr. and
Mrs. J. Frank Pate.
"The Fox", by Edwards, in mem
ory of W. Jack Hampton, present
ed by The Haywood County Medi
cal Auxiliary
"Ernest Thompson Se ton's
America". Wiley, ed In memory of
Charles Johnson (father of Mrs.
V H. Duckett and Mrs. C. C.
Nichols i presented by Mr. and
Mrs. Clyde R Hoey. Jr.
"Mental Health in The Home",
by McLeol, Ph. I). In memory of
Charles Johnson, presented by the
Haywood County Medical Auxil
iary.
"Understanding Music", by New
man. In memory of Thomas P.
Rice, presented by Mr. and Mrs
H. A. Holder.
"Life is Worth Living", by
Sheen, in memory of John Earl |
Tate, presented by Mr. and Mrs ?
Forrest E. Kempton of Centervllle,
Intl.
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Gibsons To Operate
Gordon Dining Room
As*1'11 This Summer
After another successful season
in Tavares, Fla.. where Ruth and
Henry Gibson operate the most,
frequented Dining Room in the ]
area, Mr. and Mrs. Gibson have
returned to Waynesville and will
open the popular Hotel Gordon
Dining Room for their sixth sea- |
son Tuesday, June 1st, two weeks j
eaerlier than usual, due to |
many requests Breakfast will be !
served from 7 to II and Dinner |
from 5 to 9. Sunday Dinner from
12 to 3
Mr. and Mrs. Gibson are look
ing forward to the pleasure of a
gain serving their many old guests
as well as new ones As usiial.
I home-made soups, oven baked |
| rolls and biscuits will again be!
featured as well as home-made
pies and cobblers. Also child
plates.
Retirement Goes
Professional
OMAHA iAPi ?An ex-university
president is ready to help you face
retirement. His correspondence]
course is called "planned matur
ity".
When Rowland Haynes retired1
as president of the University of |
Omaha in 1948. he wasn't sure
what he would do.
"I never was much good at fish
ing.he admitted.
But Haynes. now 73 and a wid
ower living with a son-in-law and
daughter here, found happiness. In
six years, in'addition to doing a lit
tle teaching "for relaxation," he
planned his course in what he calls
"super adult education".
"Someone has said that retire
ment is about the severest shock
the human organism can sustain.
But it doesn't have to Ik- a shock
if you plan ahead for it."
Wells.
Pastor; C. L. Bissett.
Friends are cordially invited to
visit our Sunday School.
Your Eating Out
Problems Are Over
HOTEL GORDON
J
Dining Room Opens
TUESDAY, JUNE 1st
Superlative Food ? Sensible Prices
Breakfast 7 to 11 Dinner 5 to 9
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. ROOM and BOARD
$25 to $55 Per Week In June
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NEW OFFICERS of Waynrsvillr American Le
sion Post 47 Installed recently were (seated left
to rislit) Douk Worsham. past eominander: J. II.
Ilowell. Jr., commander; Witlard Francis, ad
jutant: (standing) Robert Hall, chaplain; Mila*
Kcruusnn. first vice commander, and Julius Hoyle,
sergeant-at-arms.
(Mountaineer Photo).
Tar Heels Join 24-State
'Slow Down' Safety Drive
A joint declaration of war on
traffic deaths by the governors of
24 Northeastern and Southern
states will take effect tomorrow
night when police and traffic court
officials from Maine to Texas
launch the 1954 summertime high
way safety program. "Slow Down
and Live."
Designed to curb the normal sum
mertime rise in highway fatalities
brought on by increased vacation
travel, the 1954 campaign is pat
terned after one conducted last
year by 11 Northeastern states
from Maine to Maryland.
Principal efforts in the slow
down program will be made by
state, county and local police de
partments working closely -with
traffic courts throughout the par
ticipating states. Emphasis wiil be
placed on arrest and conviction
of speeders, who are considered
by highway safety experts the
number one cause of automobile
fatalities. The campaign started
last week and will run through the
Labor Day weekend.
The joint declaration, signed
last month by Governor William
B. Umstead and the 23 other
j state heads, says in part, "We are
convinced that the many court
eous, drivers suffar at the hands
of those who are obsessed with
the 'in a hurry' complex. This
state of mind manifests itself in
excessive speed, in speed too fast
for conditions, in following too
closely, in failing to yield the right
of way and in improper passing."
The Northeastern and Southern
State Safety Coordinators, co
administrators of the slowdown
campaign, declare the program "is
not a gigantic speed trap."
Captain C. K. Taylor of the
Florida Highway Patrol, chairman
of the southern group, said, "The
sole purpose of this drive is the
saving of lives on the highway.
Each slate is determined to a
chicve this end through stepped
up enforcement by its Own police
and other enforcement agencies of
its own state and local traffic
laws as they now exist
"Residents and visiting drivers
alike," Captain Taylor continued,
"have been put on notice that the
states participating in this drive
intend to make their highways
safer lor all those who use them
during this vacation season. It re
mains for the individual driver to
change his own bad driving habits,
or else face the consequences."
Last year's campaign was credit
ed by safety authorities with not
only eliminating the expected in
crease in highway deaths over the
previous summer, but with actual
ly producing a three per cent de
crease jn fatalities during June.
July and August as compared with
the same iponths of 1952. States
participating last year included
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode
Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Delaware and Maryland.
Joining forces with them this
year are Virginia, West Virginia.
Tennessee,. Kentucky, Arkansas.
Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Ala
bama. Georgia, Florida, North
Carolina and South Carolina.
Coordinating the program in
North Carolina will be Major C. A.
Speed( director of the State Motor
Vehicles Department's highway
safety division.
Major Speed indicated that mer
chants. civic groups, radio and
television stations, and others
throughout the state will cooper
ate in an extensive educational
lH~ogram to acquaint the driving
public with Slow Down and Live.
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