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? ?JA*I>AKD i*Tr; r. ,220 2i<?' C u*'*Ttu.t *j "** ? (mi the-Waynesville Mountaineer 5? far-^oTTl iVPAGM "AasociaTd~P ?W^Cwmy A,Tk? Mmrnn Entrance Of The Great Sntoky Monntatns Nattonal Park fe 1 ? LJ= _ WAVXESVII.I.E' N. P.. TIII'KSIHV AFTERNOON. SEPT^T^T" 7*X in and Jacket Cottntte, S. Approves Its Portion Funds For Health Center I L L i: T I N |M,rgf A. Shufford of 12th District repre told The Mountaineer bone Wednesday that | jl government has ap- | ir first of four appro far construction of the wood County Health Estimated total cost of ing is S58.363.50. Of unt. the federal gov will furnish $25,679.50. he asked on the coun lealth center sometime it was disclosed today Francis, chairman of i imissioners ve date to seek bids was ; ;ly for October 8. but r.ay be changed, it was g to plans for the health j wn up by architect Wil- j Weber of Raleigh, the ng will have a total of ; e leet. iit.onal appropriation is by the commissioners, ii feet may be added to < ire health center will in- j' mbiy room to seat 40 j laltli officer's office, sec- ; f ee, sanitarians' office. I ice. bacteriological lab- ! ?ray room, photographic three treatment rooms. ' room, dental room. . f clinical records room. . om janitor's room, and . ims. tensions, if approved, made on the assembly . increase the seating ca about To -and on the dental and storage i. 1 the sanitarians' and !. ices. tion is expected to be- . 1 health center approxi d weeks after the con irded. The building will on property purchased ' Sims, just south of Mr. ' ness place on the Ashe- ' ?av between Waynesville j' Junaluska. ? Haywood rs Sold Isheville ii I county livestock men | ? ?ad of steers in the sale , lav at Asheville. when ( ie was S17.49 per 100 ( "ere were a total of 370 ( leers in the sale, and ] It ? total of $42,839 19 ibined weight of the \ Id were 245,002 pounds. , price for a lot was an ] $19.60 per hundred- , id by Dewey Pless of , bought a pen of 22 8'ng in weight from 600 nds. brought at the sale etter than the prevailing ^e. It was pointed out j ts were generally satis be prices. County steers at the offered by: estmoreland. R. o. Kel Snyder, Weaver Kirk B Hipps. Fred Allison. Iker. Glenn Palmer, Le 011 Grady Howell. Roy !i1 C, Ret'd' 3 B James, p' S" E B- Rickman. eeves, Sam Ferguson. Justice. ^Paeate sale of steers 5 section was conducted i. North Carolina ee Agncultural Exten 1 and the North Caro ( cn' of Agriculture ds an educational fea p" of the animals graded [J^-Page 4) J SUNNY >nwy.and warm today With Ci0U<ly and c?ntin chanceg of scattered *bvthSVole temP?r?tu'e the State Test Farm: M". Mln. Free. RO 43 M 45 ? R3 46 __ September Civil Court Term Dockets 40 Cases Local 'Aid-Handicapped' Group To Meet Today Plans for observance of the "Aid the Physically Handicap ped" Week, which is to be held the first week in October throughout the nation, will be made at a meeting of the Hay wood County "Aid the Handi capped" Committee at 4 p.m. today at the Park Commission office. Mrs. Edith P. Alley, committee chairman, will preside at the session. 500 Attend Telephone Open House Some 500 persons trooped hrough the telephone company wilding Wednesday night to see low a long-distance call goes inouvh, to listen to the incessant dicks in the equipment room, to vetch a cable-splicing demonstrat ion involving thousands of wires ?and lo eat 75 dozen cookies, drink uncounted cups of coffee and lottled drinks, received souvenirs elephone key-rings, and generally itake themselves at home in the immaculate modern building of .he local exchange. Last night's open house program ivill be repeated this evening be .ween 6:30 and 9:00 o'clock and a general '.nvitation has been extend ed to residents of this area and the surrounding communities. Admis sion is free. Attracting particular interest Wednesday night were two "gad jets" not, strictly speaking, part af the telephone set-up. One was i "voice mirror," which played bark the visitor's voice to enable him to hear himself as others hear liim. <The result was generally disillusioning.) Another was a 'tic-tac-toe machine" utilizing the same relays as the telephone sys tem. A few souls managed to tie their mechanical adversary, but everybody learned that "you can't beat the machine." No part of the exchange is omit ted in the tours conducted through jut the building, and even the parking lot is used to display three different types of trucks with their equipment. Hugh Sloan Reported In Good Condition Hugh J. Sloan, who underwent surgery at Bowman Gray Hospital in Winston-Salem Monday morn ing. is reported to be progressing nicely. Mrs. Sloan expects to go to Winston tomorrow to spend the weekend. About forty cases are listed on the pre-trial calendar for the Sep tember term of .Superior Court which opens Septembe 20 The 1 Hon. Walter E. Johnston. Jr.. will be providing judge. fs'ine cases, on the motion docket, will be heard Monday in the Judge's chambers. They are Roll man vs. Presnell; Rollins vs Hol ' litis; William Swanger by next friend Robert Swanger vy A.she vi.lle Oil Co ; Robert S. Swanger. Adm. Martha Swanger vs. Ashe ville Oil Co ; Robert S. Swanger. Adm.*Rachel 11. Swanger vs Ashe I ville Oil Col: Taylor vs. Hill; A. T, Ward. Adm's vs. O'Connor; Bruce B Brown et ux. vs. SHl'W'C. Scheduled on the trial docket for Monday, September 20, are Hud son vs. So. Dairies & D. L. Vaughn 'two cases!; Greer vs. Silverman, trading as Silverman Co.: and Broyles vs. Beadles. Cases docketed for Tuesday are Jenkins vs. Wrought Iron Range Co.; Fish vs. Wrought Iron Range Co.; Limbo vs. Wrought Iron Range Co.: Allison vs. Ferguson. Forga vs. Forga, Wednesday ? Caldwell vs. Win field; Gibson vs. Constance; How-( ell vs. Moody, Medford &- Med ford. Thursday ? Holbrook vs. J. H.; Howell, Adm'r Dollie Ferguson: | Roveano vs. Railway Express Aen-: cy. Inc.; Morris Transit Mix Con Crete Co. vs. T. Hunter Worsham. Jr. Friday?.John a. Scott and wife, Macie Scott vs. George K. Worley; Forga vs. Forga; Morris Jenkins vs. Theodore Shipman; Worley vs. Scott; Ruth Kellev vs. a/t. Ward, Adm'r of David Underwood, Jr. The second week of the calen dar opens Monday. September 27 with the following cases; Gran ville Mull vs. A. T. Ward, Adm'r, i of David Underwood. Jr.; A. T j Ward, Adm'r of David Underwood Jr., vs. R R. Jeter and wife Blanche Jeter; Gentry vs. Gentry. Tuesday?A. T. Ward. Adm'r of David Underwood, Jr., vs. Lee (See Civil Court?Page G) Main Street P For $290 Per Mr. -and Mrs. Charlie Woodard bought an 80-foot lot on Main Street at auction Wednesday morn-! ing. for $290 per foot. The lot ad- ; j joins the Dunham House and the J Waynesville Motor Sales Company, j The Woodards bought the lot, j from the First Baptist Church, who 1 had purchased it about two years j ago to use as a parking lot. The church in- turn, bought a J 09-loot lot where the Dunham i House stands, and will convert it into a parking lot. which will ad join the church property. W. A. Bradley bought the Dun i ham House, for $1,000 and was given six months in which to clear ! il from the lot. The furniture of GEORGE BISCHOFF George Bischoff Named To Head WNC Firemen George BisehotT. Hazelw ood fire chief, was elected president of the Western North Carolina Firemen's Association at an associational meeting last night at Tryon. Last year he hi Id the post of vice-pros-, ident. Approximately 150 firemen from about a dozen Western North Car olina counties at'neded the meet ing which included a fish fry at Harmon Field and a business ses sion in the high school auditorium. Accompanying Mr. BischofT to the Tryon meeting were other Hay.-, el wood firemen, including I)r Hub ert Turner, James Wright, Wilburn Wright. Melvin Underwood. Jack McClure. Charlie Balentme. Ru dolph Cat swell. Bob Pitts, and Hoy Stevens. WayiiesviMe firemen at the ifieet-j ing were: Felix Slovall fire chief; Henry Clayton, Robert Chafiin. Paul j Warren, Bill Frady , Freddy Shoe-1 ban, and Bob yarbotouglt. From Clyde were Larry Cagle,; fire Chief; W, A, Haliburlon. Troy Stanley, Lemuel Maekey. I lw in Jackson, Glenn Allen. Lester Ward.; Charles Lanning James Newman,' Joe Killian. Fred Medlord. and i J B Martin Dr. Clark Improving In Asheville Hospital Dr. C. N" Clark, who was tak en to Memorial Mission Hospital J last week for treatment, is report- ; ed to be showing improvement. Dr Clark. Methodist minister, lives at Lake Junaluska. roperty Sells Front Foot the Dunham House will be sold later. At the W A: Davis auction on i Ilvder Mountain his 29 acres sold for $3,500. This tract was bought > by Wilson and James Kirkpatrick. j whose home adjoins the Davis tract. The last sale of the day. that of j J. L, Walker tracts oh Crabtree. J brought ?? total of $9,90(1. bid in by j Frank Brown and Mrs. Glenn 1 Palmer This made a total for the Davis and Walker sales of $ 13.4(H). which, added to the sale of the Waynes ville town lot. made a grand total of $36,600 West and Gosset had charge of the sales $200,000 Expansion Of Lambuth Inn Starts Soon Work Will Begin In 40 Days Construction is to begin within i 40 days, on enlarging and modern-! i/ing Lambuth Inn at Lake Juna-i luska. The project will cost about $200.00(1. James VV. Fowler. Jr.. superintendent told The Moun- ( taineer A new wing will be built on the back of the present building, which will provide 40 aditional bed nooms. This new wing will be con nected with the main building by a ' court, and will provide a view of the Lake from every room Besides the additional bed rooms lour new classes and a chapel will be included in the new plans . The present lobby will be enlarg ed. and the kitchen and dining loom will also be modernized . The new structure will be ready for the opening of the 1955 season J next June. Superintendent Fowler said The steam heat system will be extended into all of the new rooms as well as the sprinkler system. This is one of several major projects set for this fall and winter id Lake Junaluska. Workmen are about ready to be gin work on the Paul B. Kern Youth Center, as well as the Arch- . ives building. 1 Lambeth Inn is the large white j hotel near the cross. Haywood Man Succumbs To Gunshot Wound ! Nathan F. Kathoonr, 45, a native I ot Haywood County, died this morning at 7 o'clock in an Ashe ville hospital as a result of a gun- ! shot wound in the temple. !< Buncombe County Coroner Dr. i P R, Terry, who investigated stat- I cd that the wound was self-inflicted ' and that no further inquest would be held. Kathbune had been in the hospital about an hour before ho 1 died, j: A resident of the Candler sec- 1 tion since 1944. Kathbune was em ployed as a pipe fitter at American Enka Corporation. He was a mem ber of the Fines Creek Memorial; Baptist Church. Surviving are the wife. Mrs. Kathleen Arlington Kathbone; two sons. Carlton and Marvin Kathbone of the home, the parents, Mr. and' Mrs Ausble Kathbone of Waynes- j ville, Route 1; two brothers. Fur man and Alonzo Kathbone ol Waynesville, Route 1 Funeral arrangements, under ; the direction of Garrett Funeral ! Home, are incomplete. Jaycees Cite Civic Projects Financed By Dances Receipts from the Jaycees square dances?held each Satur day night throughout the year at the Armory and oil Wednesdays during the summer on the court house parking lot?have provided financing for a number of special club projects within recent months according to Dwlght L. Beaty, Jay cees secretary. The square dances have helped finance: 1. The expense of entertaining visitors from Berkshire County. Mass. in August by the Haywood County 4-H Exchange Club. 2. Establishment of college (See Jaycees?Pa*r 6> WITHIN 40 days, work will begin on the addition of 40 bedrooms to l.ambuth Inn at I ,.i k r Junalus ka. and other modernization plans, at a cost of $200,000. Thr construction will be completed for the new units to be used next season. Annual Pigeon Valley Community Fair To Open Next Week At Bethel School TV Hook-Up Completion Due Today Transmission linos from the base cf the antenna atop Mt. I'isgah into the huild-ni? housing the transmit ter of Station WLOS-TV were be ing run this afternoon as The Mountaineer went to press Don liunnicutt. engineer in charge, said that installation of the antenna it self was completed this morning, and thai hooking up the lines and testing tor picture and sound qual itj was all that remained to be done before the station could go on the air. The t"st pattern, he said, is scheduled to go out tomorrow, but may possibly be on the air late this afternoon. The station is slated to present regularly scheduled programs be ginning Saturday. The annual Pigeon Valley Com munity Fair, to be held next week from Wednesday through Satur- "* day. will have a brand new home , this year the impressive, just opened Kethel cafeteria. Kxhihi's will be placed there all day Wednesday from 8 a.m. until | 10 p.m. The program of events will oi>en I on Thursday with an all-day pro- . gram. A talent contest, beauty contest, and cake walks are slated al 8 p.m. that night. A livestock show will be held in an outside pavilion at 10 a.m. Fri day and a pet show wilt be con ! ducted al 1 pin. lhat day. Kxhib ii< will also be judged that day. Saturday morning will be de- | voted to Community Development program activities A special ad-1 ded attraction will be a horse show , on the playgrounds, with Carl I Green in charge. All exhibits in the fair will be hi display until noon Saturday. Fair officials say this year's Pig eon Valley extravaganza will be (See Fair?Page ?) Director Of C.ofC. k Considered a. The directors of the Chamber of Commerce took under considera non Tuesday night, the proposal if employing a full-time director af promotion for the organization. President John Johnson, said he felt the work, of the organization would never attain its fullest po tentials until a full-time person is emploved for the promotion of projects, which are needed No definite action was taken, al though officers are conferring with other Chambers of Commerce nn the inauguration of such a plan. The directors went on record as opposing the early opening date of school. "This defeats the very idea which we are spending so much money in trying to get the season lengthened," James L. Kilpatrick said. James W, Fowler. Jr.. superin tendent of Lake Junaluska. pointed to the hardship eases of where students were employed on sum mer jobs, and these students had to return to school before the of ficial end of the season. President Johnson named as a committee to confer with the schoolmasters club, in an effort to work out a later opening date for next year: James W. Fowler. Jr., Dr. Boyd Owen, James L. Kilpat rick. and H. P. MeCarroll. Charles Hay, a director of the Carolina Motor Club, was author ized to invite the Club's board of directors to meet here next fall. The group is meeting this weekend in Charleston. There are 30 to 40 who attend the fall meetings, Mr. Hay reported. President Johnson named James \V Fowler. James Kilpatrick and Charles Ray on a committee to n.akc a revised and up-to-date re port on tourist and recreational facilities here, as part of a survey being conducted by TV A. Contractors From Four States To Meet Here Haywood Sends 19 To Knoxville To Enter Army Nineteen Haywood County men left here this week for Knoxville * for induetion into the armed forces. They were: Richard Radford Guy Rt. 2 Canton; James David MeJunkin- Rt. 1 Waynesville; Ernest Wayne I'ressley ? - 27 Hampton St., Canton; Luther Wallace Shaw Waynes ville; Robert Eugene Fore - lit. 3. Canton; Kenneth Alvin Jones Rt. 2 Canton; Robert Crafio Spurling. Jr. 00 l'isfiah Drive. Canton; (See llaywood Sends?Pane 4t Between (it) and 70 officers and directors of Roofing and Sheet I Metal Contractors of four state ! associations, will meet here Fri- j day for a two-day session The session will get under way ; Friday afternoon with registration , at the Piedmont Hotel, where the I sessions will he held. On Friday i evening the group will stage a banquet at the Country Club. John Johnson, Waynesville, a director of the Carolinas Associa-! tion, issued the invitation to the I group to meet here. Officers of the Carolinas group, together with those of Georgia and . Florida make uo the four-state j conference meeting here. H J. Barnes, of Charlotte, presi dent of the Cafolinas group, will j preside at all sessions. ! Rhett Martin, vice-president of j the Carolina* group, will be in charge of the pre-convenlion de tails A feature of the Saturday morn i ig sessi ill will he an address by j Dee Cramer, of Flint. Mich , preal-1 dent of the Sheet Metal Contract ors National Association, and also an addres by Walter Simon, of St. Louis, President ot the National Hoofing Contractors Association. Their addresses will be followed by discussions of common problems Special committees from all four states are preparing items to be discussed. (See Contractors?Page 6) (i.O.P. COMMITTEE TO MEET The Haywood County Republi can Executive Committee will meet at 7:30 Tuesday in the Canton Town Hall. U has been announced by Elmer "Red" Miller of Canton, committee chairman. Clyde btarts Construction On Its New Fire House Construction of a new cinder block fire house at Clyde started Wednesday and is. expected io be completed in about two weeks, ac cording to Fire Chief Larry II. Caglc. Being built on (he site of tile old structure, adjoining the Clyde town hall, the new building will be a one-story structure measuring 24 by 24 feet. At some time in the fu ture. brick will be placed over the cinder block. The lower portion of the build ing will be wood, the upper per tion glass?with a cement floor and a shingle roof. Sliding doors also will be installed. The new fire house will have a siren on a 30-foot pole which can be heard for three or four miles,' Chief Cagle said. The Osborne Lumber Co. of Can ion has the contract for the con-1 structien of the building, which is eypected to cost about $3,000. The Clyde Fire Department's fire engine is now having a 300 gallon tank installed by the Cham pion Paper and Fibre Company. Highway Record For 1954 In Haywood (TO DATE) Killed . . . 2 , k|| Injured.... 33 (This Information com piled from Rccorda of State Hifkway Patrol.) A CONGRESSIONAL HANDSHAKE b *lven Kiwanis president Hyp Sheptowitch (left) by Rep. Georfe A. Shuford of Asheville at a Kiwanis Club mcrtinc Tuesday nbht where the 10th DIs Irlct representative spoke on the work of the I'.S. Congress. Looking on at right In Oral I/. Vain, who arranged for Mr. ?huford to appear here. 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