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I ptg a, ? t^e^^lynesyille mountainpfr itK NO. 68 20 PANES etk r? The County ?,,3, of Haywood Cou A T E Fntrnnrr r,, Tl -XX-1.X 1 J J fi JV i ??* n-t. lum,'tSTlJS: E Associated Press rn Lntrance ?f The Great Smoky Maintains National Park *? "ft ??- -a ka th. WAVNESVILLE. N. C? THntsntvudtov,^^^.,,, ~ L?_!^k n!?? "? - - 1 ?o.oU In Advance In Haywood and Jack? Coontfe," fayne Franklin Resigns As County Agent Leaving On October 1st For Iredell Wayne Franklin has been ap- i pointed County Agent for Iredell j County, beginning October 1, it was announced today. The appointment I came as a "complete surprise," Franklin said. "This has been one of the hardest decisions I have ever had to make, as 1 have so thoroughly enjoyed working with the people of Iiaywood County." Franklin's successor here has not yet been appointed, though several names are reported to be under consideration. A native of Macon County. Franklin came to Haywood in 1942 as Assistant County Agent. He i served in the U. S. Marine Corps from 1944 to 194b, and on his re- | j turn was appointed an assistant I agent in Buncombe County. From Jauary I, 1947. till Febru ary, 1949. he served as County j Agent for Avery County, leaving that position to become assistant j county agent in Haywood. His i work w as on a special project in I cooperation with Champion Paper j and Fibre Company, dealing with the particular interests of "part time farmers". In 1952 Franklin succeeded | Wayne Corpi ning as Haywood County Agent He will replace Koger Murdock in Iredell. In addition to his duties as County Agent. Franklin has been I active in civic and church organiza tions. He is a director of the i Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of the board of directors | 1 ol the Way nesville Lions Club and : a former president He served as' ' superintendent of the Sunday; , School of the First Mothodist Church and is a member of the of-' filial Board of Stewards, j President , of fhe Western North Carolina County Agents' Associa-' ; tion. he is also a member of the association's State board of direc tors. Franklin's family expects to move to Statesville as soon as he j takes office His wife is the form-1 or Miss Alice Dean of Franklin, i They have two children. Millie, 1.3, j i and Linda. 11 Still Discovered At Cove Creek; Liquor Seized Stanley Messer of Cove Creek 1 has boon charged with possession < of an illegal still as the result of the seizure of a shiny new 70-gal lon copper still in his front yard by Deputy Sheriff Gene Howell. ; i The deputy said he found the still in a clump of weeds only a boul 15 feet from the front door . | of Mossor's residence. ! ( Messcr's case will be heard be- | fore ,1. II. Howell, Jr.. U. S Deputy i | i Commissioner. I The sheriff's office is still in vestigating to determine the own- < or of 65 gallons of illicit whiskey ' J found at Crabtree Friday by i Deputies Howell and EvcjTtt A. J McElroy Mrs. <) Ft. Martin will leave to- 1 morrow for Dearborn. Mich.. Where | she will visit her son-in-law and, daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Edward B 1 Harrison. ' < County School Enrollment Shows An Increase Of 300 A total of 303 more students have been enrolled in Haywood County schools during the first week of the fall semester than were present during the last week in May of this year, according to enrollment figures reported by the county school superintendent's of fice. The largest increase was at Wa.vnesville High School which now has 1,407 students in com parison to only 1237 at the close of last semester?a gain of 170 students. Contrary to the general trend were four schools?East Waynes villo, Lake Junaluska, Bethel Dis trict and Cruso?which reported slightly lower enrollments. Totals for this year and those a year ago tin parenthesis) are: W'aynesville High School, 1.407 11.237); llazelwood, 792 (749); Central Elementary. 435 (430); East Wavnesville. 230 f2H8 >; Hock Hill. 198 ' 197?; Lake Junaluska, 203 (218): Maggie. 177 11711; Sau nook. 102 < 100?; Aliens Creek, 100 <80?: Ml. SteHing, 24 (esti mated) )24); Fines Creek, 359 1347); Clyde. 604 (575); Crabtree Iron Duff 353 (339); Bethel, 1072 (Includes Cecil and Spring- IIilll il.077i; Cruso, 196 (197); Catal oochee. 8 <8'; and I'igeon Street, 52 (48> Most crowded schools at pres ent. according to Superintendent Lawrence Leatherwood, are Hazel wood, where the library was mov ed into the gym to provide extra classroom space, and East Wavnes ville Additional classrooms are to be constructed at both schools to re lieve this congestion. Mr. Leather wood pointed out. Ashcville archi tects started drawing on the addi tions yesterday, he added. W'aynesville High students mov ed into their new building this week and students at Bethel will follow suit in three or four weeks. Work is well along on Clyde's new gymnasium and the old gym is being converted into an agri cultural shop. Construction has he gun on a gym and cafeteria at Crabtrec-Iron Duff and building will start soon on a cafeteria at l ines Creek. Ctudents at Central Elementary moved into their new building on January 4 Also under construction is a new junior high school in Canton near the site of Canton High School. M. C. Sprinkle Dies Suddenly At Asheville A prominent Canton business man. M C. Sprinkle, 69, died un expectedly at 10 a.m. today at Memorial Mission Hospital ill Asheville. Mr. Sprinkle had not been ill j previously, but went to the hos- \ pital to see a specialist at 8 a.m. I today for a cardiograph <heart) | I est. Mr. Sprinkle, who lived at 150 1 >'isgah Drive, was the owner of' the Canton lee and Coal Co. At native of Madison County, he came o Canton in 1922 and purchased i lis present business. He is survived by hjs wife, Mrs. Berta Page Sprinkle; three sons, J. L., Carl, and Robert, all of Can on, and a daughter, Dr. Marion Sprinkle of Atlanta. Funeral arrangements are in complete. h Annual REA eting To Draw Dwd Saturday ovtr .i thousand per pd (o attend! plans are bmplete for the 15th |ing of members of the [Electric Membership | Saturday, bast year's iras 1200, and prepara fing made for an even wr this year. |ug will be held at the I High School, begin pgistration at 9:30 a.m. B meeting is scheduled taker will be William 1 Raleigh. Mr. Crisp is manager and general the Tarheel Electric / Association. His talk I am jgenda of the business the election of 11 i>r the coming year. ?date are the members tnt board-, Ira H. Cog I Kirkpatrick. Roy B. Jack Harris, Walker ier Osborne, C. W. Lon Davis, j N Fisher, tolson and Dan Reid. Inations may be made ? meeting or from the 1 be available from 12 1:30 p.m. swings will be held the meeting, with a e for the largest family new feature this year Bubble Gum Blow ing I .'hildren. equipment demonstra e gives by the foilow i>?ys; Otis SUwinter, we: Gary Sellar*. Syj. ade clothes dryer; and ! rguson. Clyde, hot bed < nent will inciuue quar , ds' s"l"ist.s and oth Among them will be' 'an of the Mountains " ' of M'We. and the e> "amblers, string Poration lhis year re. j ' emS f,l'"e in operation lately 4100 custom BOoo.ooo kilowatt Purchased by the Corp-j aised In il Events lioFund me all the figures are to have cleared about le three special events " in the Emergency i imes". Turner Cathey. i aid yesterday, as he he need for outright : drive is going to be cesslul. ley. who heads the inton itself, estimated profit had been made >lio benefit Softball ler last Friday night Champion Y.M.C.A. nton Democratic Club. 50 was realized from >f baked goods, garden d Monday. !. treasurer, announced 5ad been turned in by inging Convention of fts from four individ ?n have totalled $275. ' total known to have 'd in the local M.O.D. 000 tinder of the original nust be raised through le ehannels," the Can-1 Polio?Page 5) * i ler | ? - !___*? I HOT nny and rather hot lo iday with a chance of Iternoon thundershow >ynesville temperature by the State Test Max. Mln. Pr. ...81 61 84 64 .011 86 63 ....I WILLIAM T. CRISP will deliv er the main address at the an nual meeting of the Haywood Electric Membership Corpora tion Saturday. Bloodmobile Will Be Here Next Tuesday The American Red Cross Bloodmobile will pay another visit to Wa.vnesville area on Tues day when it is scheduled to he at the Hazclwood Presbyterian Church from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. The goal for the visit Itc 200 pints?set to make up the deficiency caused when past trips failed to meet established quotas. Persons who wish to contribute blood but do not have transpor tation to the Hazelwood church are asked to call GL 6-3912 and a ride will be provided for them. The Red Cross Gray Ladies, with Mrs. Eelix Stovall as chair man. will again assist the Blood- ? mobile operations. N. C. Park Commission Meeting Set The North Carolina National Park. Parkway, and Forests Devel opment Commission will hold its annual meeting here on Monday at the commission's headquarters in the Masonic Temple. The session wilt begin at 10 a.m. A new chairman, vice chairman, and secretary will be elected and reports on various activities will be given. The present chairman. Kelly E. Bennett of Brysori City.; will preside. Commission members and others ; expected to attend arc: YV. R. Winkler of Boone, vice chairman and chairman of the sub-; committee on the Blue Ridge Park w|j; William Medford of Wa.vnes ville, chairman of the subcommit tee on the Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Frank H. Brown. I Jr.. of Western Carolina College, chairman of the subcommittee on North Carolina National Forests:; Mrs. Doyle D. Alley of Waynes ville, clerk and budget officer of the commission and manager of the organization's office: Edward A. Hummell of Gatlinburg. Tenn.. superintendent of the Great Smoky" Mountains National Park; Sam P. Weems of Roanoke, Va.. superin tendent of the Blue Ridge Park way; C. M. Douglas of Brevard, and Robert 1. Presley of Asheville Methodist Youth To End Summer Activity Program The last in a scries of summer activities for the young people of the first Methodist Church will be held in the fellowship hall of the church tonight, beginning al 7:30 o'clock. This will be a joint meeting of the intermediate and senior groups. Parents of the young people arc Invited to attend a social hour be ginning al 0 o'clock. , The youth program has been car ried on during the summer under the direction of Mis* Linda Sloan 4 Haywood 1 Towns Will Get 47,582 From State Checks for $47,583 will soon ar-| rive at the offices of the treasurers 01 lour Haywood towns as the State payment of the 1954-55 street I maintenance fund under the terms | of the Powell bill. | Way nesville will receive $20,841 Canton $17,542 [ | Hazelwood ? 7.000 I Clyde $ 2,200 I The State Highway Commission j ; yesterday announced distribution; i of $5,390,897 in Powell Bill funds, including the sum to be given j Asheville. Under the Powell Bill, one-half jl | cent of the state's regular gas tax!) i must be returned to municipalities j| 'lor improvements of the non-hig.!- f way street system. State Highway Chairman A. H. i' Graham said checks would be! . mailed the middle of September. I Hall of the pavmenl was made on a per capita basis based on The j 1950 census. The other half was determined on local street mileage in eligible municipalities. Per capita payment was fixed at ! $1.77 and the mileage rate was $466. 2 Injuries Result From 4 Accidents Three traffic accidents in the VVayncsville area have been in vestigated by Wavnesville police and the State Highway Patrol in _ the past three days?two within the town limits, the third on the 1 Soco fioad. A fourth accident, which occurred on the Fibreville Road in Canton, involved two , VVayncsville boys. Kenneth Griffin of Hazclwood received lacerations of the fore head and nose at 9:40 p.m. Tues day when the 1950 Chevrolet con- " vertible he was driving crashed into the rear of a loaded truck driven by Stephen Joe Cogdill of 11 Way nesville near the Indian Hills ^ Gift Shop on the Soco Road. I Griffin was charged by State i " Highway Patrolman Harold Day- ( ton with driving under the influ- k enee of intoxicants. Damage to his ear was estimated at $500. The truck, owned by C. D. Ket ner. was not damaged. Two trucks, one owned by the Asheville Baking Co. and driven 1 by Ed Rhinehart, and the other owned by the Haywood Typewrit er Co. and driven by Tom Pass more. figured in a collision near Spaldon's Restaurant at 5:35 p.m. Monday. Rhinehart told Wavnesville po licemen Arthur Paul Evans and Coleman Swanger, who investigat ed the accident, that he noticed Passniorc's signal for a right turn, 1 but could see no driveway or inter- 1 section and believed that the lat- 1 tcr intended to turn left instead. As he attempted to pass on the T right, Rhinchart's truck struck Passmore's panel vehicle as the t latter started to make a right turn. ^ Damage to the panel truck was T estimated at $350 and to (he bread truck at $100. VVayncsville police are still in- B vestigating a hit and run accident g that occurred at 9 p.m. Wednes day on the Dixie-Home Store park- a ing lot w hen a parked vehicle own- p cd by W. Earl Miller of Florida was struck by a car owned by Mrs. a Betty Bovd Ketner of Route 2. u Way nesville. However, Mrs. Ketner was not driving her car at the time of the collision, police said, and the in vestigation is being continued, j. Damage to the Florida car was termed "considerable." The Canton accident occurred r a! 11:05 p.m. Tuesday when a car driven bv Franklin Sherrlll of ? VVayncsville struck a light pole on " the Fibreville Road, southwest of the Champion Paper and Fibre n Company plant. b Sherrill's companion. Jack Gad- b d.v of the Dcllwood Road, Waynes ville. was hospitalized with a brok- *1 en nose at the Haywood County si Hospital, lie is expected to be dls- fl charged todav. fi Sherrill was charged hv Canton poller with reckless driving tl ? WW* , v STRINGING TOBACCO was anions the subjects discussed at bur ley tobacco field day held at the Mountain Experiment Station yes terday. At a stringing rack here are (left to right) l)r. W. F.. Colwell. assistant director of the Agricultural Experiment Station at N. C. State College; J. R. Tippett. Haywood assistant farm agent, and Dr. Luther Shaw, agronomist in cnarge of hurlev tobacco re search at the test farm. (Mountaineer Photo). WellcoShoe Employees To Get $60,000 From Profit-Sharing Plan Electric Power Will Be Off Sunday Morning Electric power will be off in WaynesviUe, llazelwood and Lake Junaluska early Sunday morning from 4 until 4:30 a.m. and from 6:30 to 7 a.m., accord ing to an announcement by Itoy Wright. manager of the Carolina Power and Light Co. at llazel wood. The interruption of power is necessary in order to increase the transformer bank rapacity at the Canton substation, Mr. Wright explained. The Sunday morning hours were selected in order to cause rustomers as little inconvenience as possible, he added. )ellwood Road churches Plan iomecoming Day Congregations of the Barbervillc aptist Church and the Maple Srove Methodist Church will join igether, Sunday, September 5, for Homecoming Day program at the arberville Church. The two churches will have .sop rate Sunday School services, but ill unite for the worship service. The program will include: Welcome by the superintendent f the Barbervillc Sundat School, rayer by the superintendent of ie Maple Grove Sunday School; ddresscs by former pastors of each hurch; special music by the two hurch choirs, dinner on the rounds at noon, and group sing-1 ig in the afternoon. The Maple Grove cemetery coin littee will give a report arid the torning offering will go towards eautiflcalion of the cemetery. A public address system with peakers In the belfry will be In tailed so that the expected over OW crowd can enjoy the program ?om outside the church. The public is invited to attend ie event (See Picture Page Eight) VVcllco factory employees and office workers are receiving profit sharing cheeks totalling over $(>(>.- I 000. This is an increase of ap proximately fifteen per cent over ( last year's figure when the system . was inaugurated at Welleo Walter J S Kaufman, executive viee-presi dent of the firm, states that the ex cellent cooperation among <?ll em ployees was a key factor in attain- j, ing the high profit figure. Prior to the announcement of the exact amount of profit sharing to he distributed to the various employ-j ] eis. two separate contests wcr< |.| held; one among factory workers i and one among oil ice employees. I t he contestants were to guess-the amount of profit sharing honus each employee would receive (excepting I ' those who had a small pro-rated i amount deducted for absenteeism" 1 in their respective departments, 1 Among the factory employees. Arvil Green was (he winner. Among 1 i he office employees, V'elda Holder j ? was the winner. Employees will receive one-half j ' of the amount within the next few days. the remaining half at Christ-!' mastime An additional contest was held 1 regarding the amount of federal J fax the firm would have to pay for tbe past fiscal year. First prize1 * as won by Ola ' Hutch Franklin. ' the second prize, a radio, was won by Alva Jean Keener. Profit sharing participation for supervisors, sales representatives and executives are computed on a (iilferent basis than that u^ed for hourly or weekly pay employees. Officials of the company, who are stockholders, do not participate in the profit sharing system. Several foreign affiliated facto ries of Wellco-Ro-Search have also adopted the profit sharing system in their factories abroad as a re sult of the recommendation by Heinz W. Rollman. president of the organization. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Hill of Fort I^ee, N. J, arc visiting the formerfa brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Julian Hlrt on the n.iN.mi Road. Musical Program Saturday At Junaluska Auditorium A sacred concert by the Juna-1 uska choir on Saturday night, will ; sring to a close the 4!st annual .ummer Assembly at Lake Juna uska. There will be two regular .ervices on Sunday, morning and , ?veiling, worship, with Dr. Harold Donaldson. of Scotland, preaching Dr. Donaldson will preach i I'hursday night, Friday morning <nd evening, and also at the morn-; ng and evening sessions on Sun la > The musical program Saturday ;vening, at eight, will be Mercan lante'a famous contata, "The Scv ?n Last Words of Christ." The pro gram will be under the direction ?f Dr. Cyrus Daniel, director of nusic at the Lake, and also head >f the music department at Van ierhilt University. He will give an rgun number on Saturday night ! Member* <>l the quartet inelurle Miss Laura Ann Harris, of Guod lettsville, Tenii., soprano; Miss .lean Armstrong, of Belmont, alto; Allan Parrent, Frankfurt, Ky.. tenor, and Frank Love, Wilming ton, baritone. Richard Hipps, of Lake JunalUska. bass, will assist in one of the numbers. finding today was the convoca tion of supply pastors, which be gan Monday . Several sessions were held daily for the pastors, with leaders from over the South tak ing part in the discussions. This morning Miss Margie Mc Carty of the hoard of education, j Nashville, led the workshop dis- I cussion on the pastors and chil I dren. | Many summer visitors at the. Lake plan to remain over for sev-I oral weeks It was learned mmmmm ?mbmm WAYNE FRANKLIN has been named Iredell County Agent. He will leave Haywood County to Assume his duties on October 1. Draft Board Classifies 50 County Men Fifty Haywood county men Were given draft classifications by Se lective Service Hoard No 45 at its meeting Tuesday. They are Class 1-A 'available for induc tion) '? Hubert Medford Rogers. Sammy Harrison Kcece, Tlioma Glen Gaddy, Reuben Wilbuiu Adams. Ned Wilson l.edbettei . Wayne Charles Presnell, Otis Leon Sorrells. Class 1-C 'enlisted1 Ray Lovd ltouser. Thomas Allen Hunter. \\ U liam Kerry Duckett. Class 1-C 'inducted' .lame 'I nomas Nelson, Franklin lb ?? ?lames. Herman Lec Matins. Chat It's Lee Hirchfleld, John Howard Jones. Jr., Freddie Frederic Wright. Hid David Noland, Harley Lee SherriM. Carroll Gray Shaver. Class 1-C (discharged Sherman Goodson. James Carroll Gamut, Billy Henry. Candler Paul Justice Samuel Truman Swanger. Luther Reeves Sanders. Claude Albeit Burrell, lliliie Lee Cogdill. Class 1-C 'reserve' William Henry Smith. J. 1) Whitson, Robert llranner Mitchell.- Johnny Marvin t'onard, John Hampton Alley, 1 Itomas Lee Corzine, Charles Rob ert .Goodson. Class 2-C 'agrieultural deter ment)?-Everett Myers Hickman ,1: Class 2-S 'student deferment Max Harrison Duckett. Class 3-A 'hardship' Joe Ro> Turner. Jr. Class 4-1) 'ministerial student lironson Matney. Jr. Class 4-F?Garren Haley Riley Greene. Olen Belles James. Charles Gordon Reagan. Boyd Johnson. V\ i - liam Samuel Churchwell, Luther Ledford. Charles Alvin Worlev Mark Haynes Brown, Fred Israel Calvin L. Bradley. Kenneth Edward McClure. James Hoover Conanl The hoard will meet again Sep tember 13, at which time IK regis trants will be sent to Knoxvllle for induction. The county does not have a pre-induction call for Sep i ember. Haywood YDC Meets Friday The Haywood County Youn Democrat Club will elect new of ficers at a meeting at 7:30 p.n Friday night at the eourthou e. it has been announced by Joe Tate Jr., president. The organization will also de fuss plans for the state YDC con vention a( Charlotte September lb-18, and for the coining Novem ber elections. All Democratic candidates lia\o been invited to attend the-met ? ing. Highway Record For 1954 In Haywood (TO DATE) Killed . . . . 2 Injured.... 26 r ? , (This Information com piled from Record* of SUle Highway Patrol.)
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