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TODAY'S DIDI.E V E fl S E _ _ . " <"'?T,!1
Editorial rage of Ine mountaineer J
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''Meet The Press"
Betginning tonight, members of the North
Carolina Press Association will be guests in
our community for three days. Indications
are that there will be between 150 and 200
members attending the annual summer ses
sion, which is being held at Lake Junaluska.
This community and the North Carolina
Press Association are "friends of long stand
ing." L
The first time the association came here
was in 1883, when the group met at Sulphur
Springs.^t the time, A. T. London was presi
dent, an^l Josephus Daniels vice president.
The^jress came back in 1920. when J. F.
Hurley was president, and Gait Braxton,
Winston, who plans to be here this week, was
vice president.
The-nuct convention in Wayrfesville was in
1936, ^|en the group met at the Hotel Gor
don, and had as their speakers, SenaUn Rob
ert R. Iteynolds and Clyde R. Hoey.
The ?*oup met in Asheville in 1944, and
again )if 1950, and both times visited Way
nesville for a meal.
The community has always looked forward
in having the press come hero, and again to
day, *fo are delighted in having them for
their three-day conference, and trust they
will enjoy being here as much as we always
enjoy having them.
It Is XlSCUT
Heayfns forbid, the above is not for a new
federal vureau or agency. It stands for "Af
ter Election Clean Up Time."
Thtfltrminder of the recent election are
still \nfh us, in the form of large placards
nailed tr> trees and utility poles throughout
the c<(^f try side.
As time goes on. these placards will be
come weather-worn, and give a ghostly ap
pearahtr of those whose likeness they show
ed to the world.
Election posters, like a circus banner,
grow more obnoxious with age.
The" fact remains that the candidates in a
state-wide race are not going to take the
placards down, so it looks like the responsi
bility ofi those who put them up.
Aci^lling to our calendar, it is "After
Election Clean Up Time."
Still A'atching Fish
According to the Birmingham News, a
bamboo fishing pole manufacturer at Mont
gomery ^till is going strong. In fact, strong
er. Heliports that despite new-fangled fish
ing gimgets demand for the old reliable cane
pole remains heavy; that he is shipping
75.000 poles a year to 14 states, and is think
ing oFT^foving into the Canadian Market.
It'sTi good sign, stirring deep nostalgia;
a refreshing reminder thut the more things
change^ the more they remain the same.
And What. by the way. does one hear from
the bent-pin industry?
?Nashville Banner.
TftE MOUNTAINEER
Waynesville, North Carolina
Main street Dial GL 6-5301
Tl)e County Seat of Haywood County
,iL Published By
The WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER, Inc..
W. CURTIS RUSS Editor
W. Cudti* Russ and Marion T. Bridges, Publisher*
PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY
, HAYWOOD COUNTY
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Entered at the post office at Wayneivllle, N. C.. as Sec
ond Class Mail Matter, as provided under the Act of
March 2. 1*79. November 20. 1914
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Associated Press ts entitled exclusively to the use
for republication of all the local news printed In this
tiewspajper. as well as all AP news dispatches.
Thursday Afternoon. June 10, 1951
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Mrs. VV. T. Crawford
Few people lived a fuller .life than did Mrs.
W. T. Crawford.
She enjoyed life, and put; much into living
by making those around lier happy. Truly,
she lived for others, and in so doing, enjoy
ed life to the fullest.
Perhaps the one word t;hat can best de
scribe Mrs Crawford is loyalty.
Among her many butstanding traits of
character was her sense of loyalty to her
family, her church, hwr friends, her county
and state and her nation.
Many lessons could be learned from the
long and useful life of Mrs. Crawford.
She felt that her mission was to "make this
a better world in which* to live. Her life's
record proves she achieved her goal.
Three Good Appointments
Not in recent years have we recalled a
governor having to make as many major ap
pointments in such a short i>eriod as Gov
ernor Umstead.
Last Saturday he filled the vacancy in the
Senate created by the death of Senator
Clyde K. Hoey by naming Judge Sam J. Er
win, of Morganton. In naming Judge Erwin,
a vacancy was created on the bench of the
State Supreme Court. The governor on Tues
day filled that spot by naming Carlisle Hig
gins of Winston-Salem.
Three days before, the governor named
Frank Crane as commissioner of labor, fill
ing in the unexpired term of Forrest H.
Shufford, who recently died of a heart at
tucli ?
Judge Erwin is looked upon as a man who
will make a capable senator. He has proved
himself a capable man in many capacities,
and has served his state in the legislature as
well as on the Supreme Court bench. Those
who know him best, feel that Governor Um
stead made an excellent appointment.
The new member of the Supreme Court,
Wiggins, is 64, and a lawyer in Winston-Sal
em. He managed the governor's campaign.
He served in the State House of Represent
atives in 1925 and the State Senate in 1929.
He was solicitor of the 11th judicial district
and in 1934 was appointed U. S. District At
torney for the Middle District. He held the
l>ost until 1946.
He is the state's Democratic national
committeeman, and after World War 11 rep
resented the Justice Department in prosecut
ing Japanese war criminals, including Japan
ese Premier Tojo.
Frank Crane was elevated to commission
er of labor after 15 years in the department.
Thus, he was promoted on his ability to the
top promotion.
The Governor seems to have made good
appointments in all three instances.
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Crowding To Religion
Undoubtedly the 120.000 people who
crowded VVembly Stadium in London to hear
the final sermon of Billy Graham's evangel
ic mission to London paid by their presence
a great tribute to the man. The stadium
crowd?greater than those which have filled
it for the most popular sports events?prov
ed. however, something even more important
than Graham's powers as a preacher. They
massed in demonstration of the hunger for
religion in the so-called materialistic modern
world.
Apparently people of all sorts and classes
in England were impressed by both Graham
and the response to his ministry. He may be
a man of unique appeal. The eagerness of
the listeners to a religious message today,
however, is more important even than the
deliverer of that message. These London
meetings prove a deep desire for the susten
ance of religious faith in a much troubled
world.?News and Observer.
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Invite friends over to wear vour ?
loquacious parakeet perform-and ?
there's not a peep out of lll v\ - ?
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^ARE >ou^ _y KID ? J ?
TUEM JUST WUEM SAID FRIENDS ARE
PULLING AW4V?TME &tr!!* BIRD
TALKS HIS MEAD OPE !!
"I PETEV'S A SWEETBOWI
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Voice of
the People
A. a new graduate from high
school, what arc your plans for
the coming year?
Barbara Jean Davis, 408 Main
St.,, llazelwood?"I'm just leaving
for two weeks at the Presbyterian
Young People's ocnference at Mon
treal and after that 1 just plan to
vacation at home. Next fall I go
into nurses' training. I've been ac
cepted at Memorial Mission Hos
pital."
Jessie Alexander, 111 Hospital
St., Wa.vnesville?"I'm working in
the dining room of the Country'
Club for the summer but plan to
enter Woman's College down in ,
Greensboro next fall as a fresh
man. I'll probably major in busi- !
I ness or art."
I>ave Felmet, Jr., Balsam Drive.
Wa.vnesville?"I am going to work i
at the Wa.vnesville Country Club j
this summer and finish my studies j
at the Ashevillc School for Boys
next year. I hooe to go to the Uni- I .
versity of North Carolina after'
that."
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Alary Jean Rowland, Balsam Rd.. s
CHINESE NEEDLE WORK
iaunook?"I plan to work for the
ext year or so and have already
tarted in Mr. Frank Ferguson's.
the lawyer, office. I do secretarial
work."
Looking Back Through The Years
20 YEARS AGO
Haywood County Farmers' Day
is planned for Friday.
Formal opening of new $25,000
Western Carolina Creamery is set
for Friday.
Miss Mary Elizabeth Garrett is
married to Herbert Hugo Braren. i
Mrs. Charles Hard and children.
Mary Vance and Charles Hard, Jr..
of Elyria, Ohio are visiting the
former's parents, Dr. and Mrs. J.
F. Abel.
C. J. Reece leaves for week's
fishing trip to Robbinsville.
10 YEARS AGO
Haywood County Hospital is des
ignated as penicillin depot.
Charles Jack Davis, U. S. Navy,
is spending a 30-day leave with j
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Spurgeon j
Davis, at Hazelwood.
Humes Hart. Jr. and Robert Gib
son. Jr. leave for Oxford. Miss,
to enter the University of Missis- j
sippi for training.
Cpl. Joe S. Davis is serving over- i
seas.
5 YEARS AGO
Alice Marie Burgin and Nancy |
Floyd are chosen to attend Girls'"
State at Woman's College.
Baptists approve plans for build
ing new auditorium.
Miss Evelyn Underwood, faculty
member of Mars Mill College, plans
to spend the summer studying and
traveling in Europe.
Tom Alexander is appointed to
State Board of Conservation and
Development.
Mozelle Liner wins second place
in state-wide speaking contest held
in Hickory.
Letters to the Editor
CONSTANTLY IMPROVING
Editor. The Mountaineer;
I have" rend every issue of The
Mountaineer ever since you took it
over years ago '231. I have seen it
grow until it covers Haywood Coun
ty as with a blanket.
Haywood has never registered so
high in the scale as it does now.
And The Mountaineer has played
its large t>art In this going forward.
The splendid publicity you have
given every good cause in the
county has been of incalculable
help to our county agents?men
and women in the splendid work
they have done for old Haywood.
You have given their plans and
efforts such wonderful publicity.
And as a result of the multiple ef
forts. living in Haywood is at the
highest level 1 have ever seen.
I have just read your current
issue (June 3' and 1 think it your
high water mark in coverage and
readability. So keep up the good
work, as 1 am sure you will, and
old Haywood will climb still high
er.
It gives me no small pleasure to
vyrite and send this letter to you.
Cordially yours
Eugene W. Gudgcr
Waynesville.
Itva states position as to
j water level of lakes
Editor, The Mountaineer:
Duo to the fart that vou received
conies of Mr. Bennett's letter to
TV A raising some ouestions about
the water level of Fontana reserv
oir. I am sending you a cooy of
our reply. You mav make such use
of it as you see fit
If you have any questions about
this subject, or anv other phase of
TV A operations, do not hesitate to
call on us.
Sincerely.
Tennesson Valley Authority
Paul L Evans
Director of Information.
Kellv E Bennett
Mavor of Brvson Citv
Brlvson Citv. North Carolina
This is in reply to your letter
of May 14. 1954. relative to the
water level in Fontana Reservoir.
The present relatively low water
level in Fontana Reservoir, as is
the case generallv in the TVA res- |
ervoirs on the tributaries, is due to
the dry weather conditions experi
enced in 1953 and the heavy power
load that now prevails. These cir
cumstances made it necessary to
draw these reservoirs much lower
than is desirable during the latter
part of 1953 and during the first
pat of January of this year. There
after heavy rainfall and increased
runoff reversed the trend and made
it possible to begin refilling the
reservoirs, but the runoff was not
enough to permit recovery to the
elevations we would normally have
at this time of the year.
To give vou an idea of thj^gevei^
ity of the drouth In the Tennessee ;
Hiver Basin as a whole, rainfall was ;
? substantially subnormal for the!
six-month period from June to No
vember 1953. and was only slightly
' above normal in December, which
was not sufficient to bring runoff
1 up to normal that month. Fol
lowing is a record of the actual
rainfall in the Tennessee River j
Basin for the above months togeth-'
er with the mean rainfall for the
same months for comparison:
Actual and Mean Rainfall?
Tennessee River Basin
June-November 1953
Month Actual Mean
'june 3.21 4 29
I July 1.45 4 98
| Aug. 1 45 4 33
Sept. 301 3 15
! Oct. * 0 65 2.93
(Nov. 1 40 3 43
Total 14.61 23.11 !
| You can readily see what a great
demand this nut on water stored in
jFontana and other reservoirs Nor
1 ris. Hiwassee. Cherokee, Douglas.
' Xottely. South Holston, Watauga,
and Fontana all had to be drawn
much below the established flood
| control levels.
Bv tho rniHHIn nf lanuan
! t ho first big. general rains came.
, >^orris. Hiwassce. Cherokee. Doug
las. Nottely. South Holston. Wa
tanen .and Fontana were all much
below their normal levels for flood
control, varying from about 30 feet
in Douglas where the reservation
for flood control is much more
severe than in Fontana .and about
05 feet in Nottely. At that time
Fontana Lake was about 80 feet be
low its flood control rule curve for
that time of the year. As stated,
this drawdown was in no way due
to flood control requirements hut
was due to the deficiency in natur
al runoff caused hv low rainfall.
After the middle of January
rainfall for the remainder of the
month was well above normal and
fl'ling progressed ranldlv in all
these reservoirs. In Fontana. the
filling amounted to ahout 70 feet
between .lanuarv 15 and the end of
? he month. S'nee then. evrn though
rainfall in February March, and
Anril was b"tow nnr?il an addi
tional rise of about 3S feet has or
"urred making gjotal Of some 105
feet since its lowest level was
reached in January However, th's
?-ecervnir and others are ?Htl msjch
below levels th?t we would like to
have for th'* time of the vear.
As von jmo'", ratprvolru
WfTf author* ipH ;?nH blHM In cr
wHh tho TV A cfatuto for
flood control tnnnlvlnf wnftr for
flown?tco*m navigation nrH now??r
ttowpvf TV A coco^nl*** th*?t thov
?ifp pr\ inherent r*?rroaHnnal
? o flr?n in w^loh thov pro *o?
ctaed and to *bc Tonne?*** Vallcv
?? * whole. Olir water rontro1 onnr.
nUnnc are /?*rr?t*?d out to m?vimirp
this reemrMon*! ( vain* insofar *??
?? r?n h? Hon* In conformity wUb
the pflraarjr operating requiir
monts of the TVA Act.
As a matter of fact, it is in the
best interest of the primary objec
tives for which these reservoirsj
were built to have them filled at
this time of the year, and it is our
hope that rainfall and runoff will
be sufficient from here on out to
permit continuance of the filling
operation. Of course, we cannot
foresee what weather conditions
will be like in the next month or
two, but we should very much like
to fill Fontana ti the 1700-1710 lev
el before beginning the drawdown,
if possible.
As to the relation between Fon
tana levels and the fish spawning,
our records show that from the first
of April this year to the 27th. the
water level in Fontana Reservoir
rose steadily and fell only about
15 inches between April 27 and
May 4 As you may recall, there
were a number of warm days in
this period. This resulted in water
temperatures in the reservoirs ris
ing sufficiently for fish to spawn.
We do not have the temperature of
the water in Fontana at that time
but in Nottely. which is at a higher
elevation than Fontana. the tem
poral ure rose to the upper 70's
which is well above the required
temperature for this purpose For
th" above reasons, our technicians
tell me that the period of rising or
stable water levels from April 1 to
Mav 4 provided suitable conditions
i for fish soawnin?. Moreover, manv
individual bass and erapojo spawn
| at sueh ereat deoth that their nCsts
! wou'd not be disturbed by the
small drawdown that oemi-red be
tween Mav 4 and May 24.
I hone this explanation has made
if clear?first, that we ton wou'd
'ike to see Fon'ana Reservoir much
more near'v full, hnth for our prim
nrv operating needs and for recre
ation: and seeond. that the eir.
numstsnces which have prevented
'ts heinv filled are pet within our
control. We operate the reservoirs
as renuired hv law. for the maxi
mum flood control, navigation, and
power benefits from the system
?nd we aceommoda*p other decir
at>'o nurnose^ insofar ,as pocsihte
Plprrtv su"h operation is directlv
!n the Public irfprect
Since we understand that your
letter addressed to us under date
of Mav 14. 1054. was released to
the Wavnesville Mountaineer and
the Asheville Cttiren. we are send
ing eonies of this letter to those
; newspapers.
Very truly yours,
John Oliver
General Manager.
Radioactive Credit
HOLLYWOOD 'API ? An en
gineering student and his girl
i friend had dinner at a restaurant
He discovered he was short of
mooev to nav the hill. Affer h?
told the manager hig troubles he
! said. "!'s awfullv son v. tf vou'll
trust me until tomorrow I'll leave
my Geiger counter as security."
1. Want aaU MacgaMi remit*.
Rambling 'Round!
l'.v Friatw Gilbert Franc* I
When It started I" 1 ? I
on the bottom step and wiit on ?P ' I
an equally comfortable soot and I
rapidly soaking lawn No mown u J
later I
11,. was musing, with hall closed ?
when a figure entirely enrtli" hod I
past him, down the steps, across t I
in the garage Uncle Most l?' out I
his unwilling leg* bucklet up und< ?
kitchen door and cried out I
matter with yhu, Untie Mas 1 . ,J
tered in his head as he stutte,ed i
that? It had wings and was ?.-? .J
and .?sc-laiinod in ho uncertain t I
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Some people like to disli it out but can't take a
same. 1
There's something spooky about p r m.^ or *
whatever you want to call cm. Tbe> !? i\. ?; satiny wa\ (
ing under the skin and slithering tv e heart
No matter how much poetic liven- i ^
a responsive chord. Men may turn up t> s in disgust
poetry addicts express their disapppn tar* <??!
that rhyming is bettei able to t\pi .. -j
seems able to do.
Do you think Joyce Kilmer's je ! . a-sij |
mained the classic it is. had tie ;n
sentences? How about Walt Wl.itn. \I vrh tlx
Longfellow's "Children's Hour" and K\ B
tion only a few that ha ve remained . ? 4
and their rhythm has crept h low t' 1'
Once you become a rhymester, you're
\ He who can close his lips when .1 m;a-s lias a strensth (
than that of Samson.
We are indebted to the radio prosv,;in 1 You Top Thi
Senator Ford doing the talking.
Little Johnny had been a regular atlei..' or ,it Sunday*
some time but today was the first time In 1 .tteriled the
church services. He was very enthusiastic he return
and his father, wishing to see what imp re n ' s-rmon la
on the child, asked him: "Johnny, do vdu > 1 ? he to
sermon was?" "I sure do. Daddy." \ -as t ? boy's i mj
"It was 'Don't worry You'll gi: your <;u. \\ d iiti, ;M
a smile, his father said: "Well, no: qui'-i -oil 1' F
for the Comforter cometh.' "
Little words that sound alike,
Are used to end each line:
And frill up the simplest thought
Until it sounds divine.
Report from
Washington
? By
SEN ATOR ALTON I I WON
WASHINGTON ? Duo to the
rush of legislative matters ? iri the
Senate, it was h'ece?satw to re
turn to Washington immediately
after the election. It is very dilli
cult to conduct a campaign and at
the same time carry on the duties
of the office. One of the rewarding
features of politics is the oppor
tunity to get acquainted with the
people. I shall never forget the
cooperation I have received and
the friends I have made during
the few months in the Senate.
CURRENT BILLS
I
In order to Inform you of mv
voting position during the past few
days. I am listing my votes On a
number of current bills. The Sen
ate passed with amendments the
Agriculture Appropriations Bill for
fiscal year 1955. On a close vote,
the Senate adopted the amendment
to increase by S35.000.000 the loan
authorizations for rural electrifica
tion. which I supported. I also vot
ed for the amendment increasing
by $10,000,000 funds for the school
lunch program. This proposed in
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