North Carolina Newspapers

I % ? ? \ ? I People Than 1HE \^\YNESYILLE MOTJNTATIVFPP I .r?? 1i pTi.S-raa ~ 0'~ ""I i i NESVILLfc, N.C.. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUG. 12, 1954 Z^r ? W.o0 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties 5 Camp ting Is racting Crowds ial Candler camp meet- ! d Sunday at the Lake lethodist Assembly, fol- ! he opening Monday of : South-wide Town and inference. al conference of Metho- j i from throughout the ' sill open August 19 and | i August 22. arv Chitwood. pastor of ethodist Church, Tusca will be the guest speak I a.m. and 8 p.m. ser iv in the main auditor ; out the camp meeting day speaker at 11 a.m. is the eminent British Dr. VV. E. Sangster of io will end his sermon i.v night. e, a workshop for local j ?men of Methodist Com Missions in nine south-; tcs. will open Friday i it Shackford Hall and j i Sunday noon, principals will include ?ngle of the Methodist lissions. New York; Dr. Gum. Richmond, Va.. f the Southeastern Jur missions board; Alex a, editor of "The Pro farmer." 'Birmingham. . Trigg James. Johnson .: Dr. Pierce E. Cook, ' S. C.; Dr. Horace R. i statesville; the Rev. H. j Danville, Va.; Mrs. E. I, Siler City; the Rev. ' Sprinkle. Jr.. the Rev. ; rres and the Rev. M. O. ; II of the national mis I in New York. n Man Shot oat By His >y Neighbor le. 47. rgmains in a criti-! >n. according to his ph.v ). with a .22 bullet lodg throat. He is at the bounty Hospital. rilT's department said , holding Joyce Mann, 51. impiele investigation of ig. which they reported ibout midnight YVednes Ucnc Howell was called j rest Mann home on the i.v east of Canton, just | overhead bridge at inid inesday. Forrest Mann j ler of Joyce Mann, the ! 1 Mann told the officer lot Case, his neighbor, a .22 rifle through a r. The two live across j rom each other. Howell was still investi- j case this morning, and scene at noon. irs Crash Near e Road Curve ' damages amounting to ) resulted in a rear-end 1 the RatclifTe Cove Road I ^ay 19-A Tuesday after tehard Smith said a car Charles Frederick Beach, ng down to pick up a when it was hit from 5> a car driven by M. hael. The Beach car was about $75. and the ?r about $150. was charged with driv ose. e her CLOUDY *nd unsettled todav. Fri c'oudiness and warm with '1 noon thundershow dVhv?uWvi!ie temP?ratui* dbythe Sftte Teat Farm Ma*. Mln. Prec. B3 65 .55 80 57 .02 ^ 5.1 Guards Company To Leave For Encampment Sunday l The Tank Company of the 120th Tnfantry, N. C. National Guard, will leave Sunday for Ft. McClcl an. Ala., for their annual two veek summer encampment. Mem *)ers will assemble at the Waynes I 'ille Armory at 4 p.m. An advance detachment compos ed of 1st Lt. Robert Winchester, sfc Edward J. Stepp. Cpl. Wayne Vf. Edwards, Cpl. Hollis R. Hamp on and Pfc Bobby M. McKay 'eaves Waynesville tonight with rucks and jeeps to join a convoy >f other units of the 120th Infan fry. 0 The first week at camp the com 1 pany will be engaged in range | practice on small arms and lank j weapons. They will fire the com* pletc gunnery course for the 76mm tank gun. The aecond week they will be in the field for tactical problems. The roster of five officers and 58 ] men is as follows: Capt. Samuel A. Carswell. com manding: 1st Lt. Frank C. Byrd. platoon leader; 1st Lt. Albert C. Jones, platoon leader; 1st Lt. Rob i ert H. Winchester, executive offi cer; 2nd Lt. James R. Adams, pla , (See CHarris?|*age Ri Where, Oh Where, Can Honest John Be Found? I "Where is Honest John?" That is the question asked by a num ber of Haywood and Jackson rounty farmers whose cattle are j being killed almost nightly by some animal believed to be a bear. Honest John is a huge black ? bear weighing approximately 700 pounds. His name derives from his honesty. He never kills more cattle than he ran devour in a day. He roams from Tennessee to western North Carolina in quest of food. Honest John sank into oblivion shortly after losing three of his toes In a steel trap several years ago ? that is, until last week when farmers began finding their cattle slain and partially eaten. Hub Parker of the Sunburst area reported the loss of three cattle this week, including a 700 pound prize steer which had been partially devoured by some animal. He said the intruder re turned for three successive nights killing one of his herd each time. However, he feels lie got some revenge by killing a '250-pound bear near his home veiterday. The game warden not only issued Parker a permit to kill the bear but was on hand to see It well done. Three other Haywood County farmers and two Jackson County farmers reported the loss of from one to three rattle each week. Reclassification Made Of Number Men By Draft Board The following registrants were 1 classified by the Local Board at 1 their meeting August 10. Class 1-A ? Charles Carl Haw-! kins, Charles Alvtn Mease, Richard 1 Reeves Wilde. Jackie Kenneth ' Moody. Jimmy Wayne Howell. 1 David Hugh Tate. Harrison Wil liam Caldwell, R. O. Frady. James ( Sydney Woods, Raymond FJic Rathbone. James David McJunk- 1 in, Clyde C. McLemore, Robert Crage Spurling, Jr., Roy Allen Walker, I.ow'ell William Messer, William Cnrlylu Howard, Scotty Dean Rhodarnu r. Charles Howard Metcalfe. j Class t-C, Enlisted ? Richard Mackey Russell, James Edward* Campbell. James Montevillc Davis,; Jr., Wiley Wilburn Parker, Leon ard Howard Smith. William Cans ler llayncs. Class l-C. Discharged?William Trammell, Charles Bonner Atkin son. Robert Russell. Class l-C. Reserve ? William \ Edmond Phillips, Jack Tranimell.I Robert Charles Sheehan, James, Meredith Henson, David Johnson (Sec Draft Board?I'ape 8) ?? Highway Record For 1954 In Haywood (TO DATE) Killed .... 2 Injured.... 24 (Thin Information Mflfr pIM from Records of State Iflffhway ratrol.) 4-H CLUBBERS enjoy a ride on Cherokee II. on Lake Junaluska. This ride was part of the week's entertaimneint Haywood 4-11 Club memhrrs save the 45 members fiom Berkshire county. Mass. The group left for their home this morning. (I'hoto by Robert M. Hall). j TV Tower Rising Above Summit Of Mt. Pisgah Billy Graham To Be At Junaluska Service Tonight Evangelist Billy Graham will be on the platform of Lake Junaluska tonight (Thursday) at eight, and take part in the even ing services, it was announced this morning. Dr. Graham and Dr. W. E. Sangster, of London and warm friends, will be together tonight. Dr. Sangster will preach. Dr. and Mrs. Graham, together with Dr. and Mrs. Sangster will be dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Banks at the Terrace Hotel. 15 Inducted From County On Tuesday Fifteen Haywood men went to Knoxville for induction Tuesday, according to the report of the Hay wood Selective Service Board. Also. 26 registrants were sent for examination. The 15 men being inducted in cluded: Carroll Gray Shaver, Canton: Harley Lee Sherrill, Rt. 3: Bill David Noland. Rt. 3; Freddie Fred eric Wright, Waynesville; Boyd Johnson, Rt. 1. Newland; Kenneth Edward McClure, Clyde. William Samuel Churchwell. Waynesville; Charles Gorden Rea gan, Waynesville: Charles Lee Birchfield, Hazelwood; John How ard Jones, Jr., Rt. 2; Olen Belles James. Waynesville. Herman Lee Mathis, Rt. 3: James Thomas Nelson. Waynesville; Franklin Dewitt James, Rt. 1, Clyde, and Johnny J. Jones. Rt. 3. Three 24-foot sections of the 340 ; foot TV tower atop Mt. Pisgah have been erected, and workmen are going up about one section a day. The four legs of the lower, anchor ed in about 22 feet of concrete, are 24 feet apart. While the tower crew are at work, other crews are busy getting I transmitter equipment and sup plies to the top of the mountain. The five unit transmitter is due lo arrive Monday, while the auxil ' iary generator of 73.000-watt capa [ city, is already in the basement of j the transmitter house near the top j of the mountain, as is some other heavy pieces of equipment neces I nary for the operation of the sta tion. One workman described the an tenna, which will be atop the tower, as "looking like Something from Mars." ?; Don Hunnicutt. TV engineer, pointed out that the antenna had 24 units, and was so built that it could be defrosted of ice and frozen fog. i Another story on the project will be found on page one of section three-, this issue.) Pioneer Road To Beech Gap Nears Completion A pioneer road on the four-mile link between the Wagon Road Gap roadway and the Beech Gap sec tion is expected to be completed in another week. Bulldozers, earth movers and jeeps?but not cars or trucks ? will be able to travel the road. It will take an estimated two months to get the route to where ordinary motor vehicles can get over it. Engineers said work on the $3, 980.000 road construction project is about 86 per cent finished .and they consider themselves on sched (See Pioneer Road?Page 8> I - Visiting 4-H'ers Say 'Good-Bye' To Haywood Hosts Reluctant good-byes from hosts and guogls marked the departure at 6:30 this morning of the 4-H group from Berkshire County. Massachusetts, ending a week's exchange visit here. Friendships begun last year when the Hay wood club visited the Northern ers ripened fast as the young : sters whirled through a round of trips to such diversified j spots as a newly decorated bed- j 'room and the top of Mt. Mitchell. The Massachusetts group was i ; loud in its appreciation of "South 1 crn hospitality". Member.-, were! cheerfully frank in admitting that ! they had not expected the comfort-' able modern homes, the fertile ; contours of the fields. "1 suppose i we just had to see for ourselves." I commented one. "to believe that all mountaineers do not live in ; primitive cabins far up a jagged mountainside." The height of the mountains and the friendliness shown them every- i I where vied in the youngsters minds for "the tiling to remember' about a memorable trip. They were! delighted to find that the climate (See 4-H Club Page 8) Former Residents Of Cataloochee Have Reunion The Rev. James M. Fowler, superintendent of the Lake Juna luska Assembly, spoke at the an nual reunion of former Cataloo chee residents and their families I Sunday at Palmer Chapel. More than five hundred persons from 14 states attended the re union and picnic lunch which was a | feature of the day's program. M. N. Hall of Franklin was elect ed president of the group for next year, succeeding Eldridgc Caldwell. 1 Mrs. Silas Caldwell of Hazelwood i was named vice president and Miss Jackie Sue Messer of Waynesvillc I was named treasurer. Funds were raised for the im provement and maintenance of the thirteen cemeteries in the Cata } loochee area. Filter Plant Valves Ready For Shipment The large valves for the new filtering, plant for the Town of Woynesville are scheduled to be shipped on August 17, the contrac tor has notified town officials. Engineers figure it will take three or four days to install the valves and then a check of the new $300,000 expansion program of the system can be made. G. C. Ferguson, town manager, said he felt that the new system would go into operation about Sep I tember first. Pigeon Fair Committees To Complete Plans Final plans for the annual Pi-) : geon Valley Fair will be made at a meeting of the officers and direc tors of the Fair, Friday, August i 13. at 8 p.m. in the Bethel Voca tional Agriculture Department, i Directors are Mrs. Henry Gar i nor. West l'igeon: Deimar Heed.; Stanley Cove. L. M. Sherrill, East | I Pigeon; Mrs. Cecil Murray, Center i Pigeon; L. C. Moody, Cecil; and Dick Alexander, Cruso. M. C. Nix is manager and J. E. Justice is secretary-treasurer. The fair superintendents are George Stanley, Henry Justice. Miss Mary Jane Leatherwood, and Charles Stamey. The committees are as follows: j Ways and Means. T. A. Cathey Van Wells, Mrs. D. B. Vance, Mrs. Lou Singleton, Mrs. Edgar Bur nette. Mrs. Don Stevenson. Mrs. H | E. Cathey, Troy Hargrove. Publicity. Hugh K. Terrell, Mrs. Ralph Evans. Mrs. Charles Lay-. mon, Mrs. J. Edgar Burnette, Mrs. | Martin Roger-. Mrs. Vaughn Kuy kcndall, Ray Green. Catalogue committee. Mrs. Clif-! ton Terrell, Mrs. Guy Clark, Vin cent Hall. Charles Stamey, M. N.? Nix, and Mrs Bill Swift. The fair Mill be held the last' week in September, the exact date to be set at this meeting. Horses Valued At Million Dollars Will Feature Show Three Performances On Program For Friday And Saturday Show horses from six stales, and visitors from many more places, began arriving here this week for the Carolina Jubilee Horse Show on Friday and Saturday at Hay wood Park, in East Waynesville. Show officials were completing final preparations this morning for a record crowd. Gravel on the road to the parking lot, and final j adjustment of lights, saw every thing in readiness for a capacity crowd. The grandstand seats were erected a week ago. along with 100 portable stables for the more than I 150 show horses being brought J here for the show. The first of the three perform ances will begin at eight o'clock Friday night, with another per foromance at two Saturday and the final show at seven-thirty Sat urday night. At the conclusion of the Satur dav show, the Carolinas Walking Horse Stakes will be awarded. Officials said today, that by the time the show gets under way Fri day night, more than a million dol lars worth of horses will he hous ed on the grounds of the Haywood Horse Show Association. The ring is one of the largest in the South, since it is 320 feet long, and 180 feet wide. It is fenc ed off, and ringside box seats are provided around the white fence. liaywtood Park, of 20 acres, was purchased last fall by the Associa tion for the show, and since that time new roads, drains, and many major improvements have been made to the area. Some horses began arriving Tticsday,' others Wednesday, and today saw a large influx of shuw horses. Five horses and as many teen age riders, representative of the top amateurs of the nation arrived Tuesday at the horse show grounds from the stables of Suzanne Shear er. and Lois Adams, woh maintain headquarters in Miami at the Southwest Hiding School. Their schedule calls for further compe tilion at shows in this general (See Horse Show?Page 81 i ? Iimni ini m??imai mra???~I?t~)l I 1"WT STATE CHAMPION Kay Whitesides. of Miami, is shown here helping to unload her horse. "Kala rania Delight" front the van which brought lour other horses from Miami to the llorse Show set HHHHW JPPWWBIfW'r for Friday and Saturday. Kay is champion of her class in Florida, and will participate in ihr show here. Other pictures on page one, section three. (Mountaineer Photo). CDP Tours Slated Today And Friday Two community tours arc sched uled for Thursday and Friday, as the CDP program clears the half way mark. White Oak is host to Morning Star today, and Ratcliffe Cove is to visit East Pigeon tomor row. The Morning Star-White Oak group "was to meet this morning at Cove Creek, The itinerary included tobacco at Mrs. Grace Morrow's and at Boone Jenkins'; home im provements by Mr. and Mrs Bob-' ert Davis, where refreshments were to be served; Henry F. Teague?tobacco; Bobby Hunter? 4-H pi'let chain: Pigeon Baptist Church and cemetery; J, I) Duck ett?-corn and tobacco and Joe Davis?corn. Lunch at the Community Center was to be followed by recreation at the Fines Creek School. Tomorrow's tour will see East Pigeon hosts meeting their ltat clitTe Cove guests at Bethel School. The inspection will cover Van Wells' tobacco, poultry and corn; Frank Sorrells' corn and a tobacco variety demonstration; Wilson Bur nette's dairy; the Riverside Baptist Church and a tobacco priming demonstration at Marvin Long's. Lunch will be served at the school. [6 Negro Prisoners Strike As Corn Bread Put On Menu Town Board Gets Bids On Two Projects Two important matters will face j the board of aldermen when they meet on August 20th?one is a mat ter of buying, and the other, is a matter of selling. And both transactions will be handled on a bid basis. The town will open bids on a 11buck chassis for a street washer. I The present one is too slow for the i work. ' j The other matter will also mean I tiie opening of bids for the sale of | 1.200.000 feet of timber on the 1 ! Waynesville watershed. This tim-' i bor is being sold upon state and TVA foresters recommendations, in ! accordance with good timber prac- I tices. This is a sale similar to one about two years ago. when the timber brought about $22 per thousand feet. Town To Advertise Property For Taxes The Town of Waynesville will ad vertise property for sale beginning j Monday, on which there are delin quent 1933 taxes. I The list Is being compiled and will be published Monday, and the property put up for sal" on Mon day, Sept. 13th. WRONG FIRST NAM!) The man arrested In a chase from an Eagle's Nest still Sunday was Louis Lanee, and not Johnny Lanee, it was learned after the ; news article appeared Monday. The Mountaineer and all others regret the error in the mix-up of : the two names. i '; " LU "1 ? n . ^ " Corn bread on a supper menu displeased six long-term Negro prisoners at the State Prison ("amp in Hazel wood, and they went on a dual strike?refusing to eat, and also refusing to work. The corn bread was served after the camp cafeteria ran out of their supply of loaf bread, Capt. W. F. Swift, prison superintendent, ex plained. The six protested and staged their dual strike. All six have been transferred to Central Prison, lialeigh. J Four of the men were grade C prisoners, which indicates they had been misbehaving prior to the menu incident. One of the men was Carl Wil liams, ser\ ing a sentence for the murder of an Asheville newspaper man many years ago. 4 Head Of Cattle Killed On Soco Highway Today A trailer-tractor rolled off Soco Mountain this morning and the brakes failed as the vehicle ap proached a herd of 14 head of cattle 1 luing driven toward a truck for loading. The driver was unable to stop, and four head of cattle v as killed immediately. Patrolman W. It. Woolen, in vestigating officer, said the animals valued at $190. were owned by \udie Moss. The animals were a cow and three yearlings. The Headway Express, of Wins 11on Salef ow ned the vehicle, and ?M Claude Moody, also of Winston Salem, was the driver. He was | charged with improper brakes. ("pi. Pritchard Smith, also helped j in the investigation of the freak accident. Cecil Wells Is Leaving 4-H Work Cecil Wells, assistant county agent for the past 2ij> years here, and in charge of 4-H Club work for boys, has resigned and plans to | leave about September 15lh., Wells will return to the family I farm in the Leicester area of Bun combe county and operate the farm. He has been popular with the ! liny wood 4-H Club members and | carried out a strong program. Last night the club members prc ! settled him with a watch during the i farewell party being staged for the 4-H Club members from Berkshire 1 County. Mass. The gift came as a distinct sur ! prise to the 4-11 leader Wayne Franklin, county agent. | said that no announcement could be made at this time as to a stic i essor. Lake Junaluska Driver Suffers Broken Arm As Her Car Leaves Highway I Frances Louise Leach, of Lake Junaluska, suffered a broken arm. when the car she was driving left Highway 284 on Jonathan Creek Sunday. Cpl. Prltchard Smith, investigat ing officer, said the driver lost con trol of the car on a curve and left j the highway. Two other occupaifts suffered bruises, and shock, but were dis missed after being checked at the hospital. Damage to the vehicle was about $200, the patrol report showed. The driver was charged with reck-' j less driving. I 1