, I^AJTOaud P7V- _ ,120-230 ??* *r r I |?~1 The Waynesyille Mountaineer E? ? . Published Twice-A-Week In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park ^ NoT82 22 PAGES Associated Press * WAYNESVILLE. N. ( THIKSDAY AFTERNOON OCT. It. 1954 ~ $3.50 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties IM^ ?2 Inches ?Rain For ItionSince Itember 1 Ba has had less than one Bird inches of rain since Br first, according to a ? of the official records to Bported by the State Test j B uas rather "wet" with B, of iam recorded on 16 ? days. The heaviest of .72 Bh on the 28th. Bhor had but two days with ? 21>t and the 22nd. for a j Bin of in anch. The rain Bllv divided on the two Bother 28 days of Septem B is starting out a little Ban September but only j ?the .79 of an inch which ; Blober first. On four other | Bctober the total has been ? inch, or an average for ?a,r.> of .03 of an inch per B>e lour days. As of today B had been .93 of an inch Bcordcd in October. Brings and wells through Bounty are reported dry. Bis are even reported low B instances than last fall, B termed the worst dry Bfaywood's history. 'o Make i For Mass ing Oct. 21 or a county-wide mass f Alcoholics Anonymous and prospective members icussed tonight at 8 p.m. ing at the parish house Spwcopal Church, ar meeting was held at i house last Thursday. i October 21 meeting at tod Courthouse, members j groups from Charlotte. !, S. C.. Hendersonville rille will be among the vement to organize a .lo ir of AA is being backed nforcement agencies, the epartment, The Waynes wtaineer, Station WHCC. i Carolina Alcoholic Re in Center, and the pastors Waynesville and Hazel rches, interested in the move ! write Box 454. Hazel Meeting Set Boone Council of the Boy igeon River District, will Itilar meeting at 7:30 p.m. it the llazeluood Presby urch. nouncement was made by lolph, a council executive. lectors Of C. of C. To Named Early December mating committee was ifsday nmht to prepare nual election of the board ars of the Chamber of s 'Jotin Johnson, presi d thai plans be made to (lection prior to I)ecem in order that the new meet and elect offi 1955 at the December romittee is composed ol lay, tairtnan. Joe Cline, Ptowitch, James Kilpat l?hn Carver. fectors discussed promo tional material for next year, ana a committee composed of Pitt Me-! Carroll. Ken Fry. and Hye Shep-1 towilch, was named to bring recom mendations to the November meet ing. Charles Kay reported that an in vitation had been extended the board of directors of the Carolina Motor Club to hold their annual, fall meeting here next >car. He said there are 30 members of the , board, and that the wives are al ways invited to attend. As a mem ber of the board, he said the "re action to the invitation was en-j eouraging." L. 16 I* therf ? ? "V ^ I I CLOUDY ?cloudy and warm, with ^^??4 ol a iew scattered ? *?>nesvillc temperature W** *>\ the State Test Max. Min., Pr. I 83 44 I 80 48 I 83 60 M FIRE SEPT. WAYNKSVII.I.F.'S NEW STREET WASHER will be put into use Friday morning. The modern. $(>..>00 unit has J lank which holds 1,2011 gallons, and flushes the streets from four sprays with 180 pounds pressure. Each spray has a separate control. The unit is also equipped with a special suction hose which can pump water from a creek, and be used for lire futhting. Shown with the new unit, in front of the town hall, left. Henry Gaddy, alderman, and G. C. Ferguson, town manager. (Mountaineer Photo). Southern "s Officials Using Passenger Train A long Murphy Branch Citizens along the Murphy )ranch of the Sotuhern Railway lave bene startled for the past few- !? lays in seeing a 5-cai; passenger j rain pass back and forth. No, passenger services has not j >een restored. The train passengers are officials I )f the Southern Railway system. | aking a 3-week schooling at the i Mmond Camp, on Kontuna, of B.! (V. Brosman. vice president of the ijstcin, Each day. officials are carried Tom the Almond camp to a point , jeyond Ashevllle to view a recent y designed machine at work be ween Black Moui >lr." and Oiti Fort. The group will leave today, and inless something unforeseen takes jlace. the Murphy Blanch will be w ithout another passenger train ! Jdtil the camp opens again, per laps next fall. loastmasters Club Installs New Officers Ray Ellis was installed as presi dent of the Waynesville Toast masters Club at ?a "Ladies Night" program at Mount Valley Inn Monday night. Also installed were: Dick Bradley, vice president; M. T. Bridges secretary-treasurer; Raj I'lcincss. educational chair man. and Robert Hall, sergeant-af firms. Perry Weaver of Asheville, area governor of Toast masters, served as installing officer. Cliff Harrell, charter president, presided at the meeting. A program conducted included a number of extemporaneous talks and prepared five-minute speeches. (See loastmasters?Page Hi Highway Patrol To Address Two Groups On Friday Lt. H. C. Johnson, of the State Highway patrol, will make two ad dresses here Friday, on highway safety. At 8:45 lie will address the stu dent body of Waynesville high school, and at one o'clock he will address the Rotary Club. The four Haywood members of the patrol, together with Sheriff Fred Campbell, and Chief Orville Noland. will be guests of the club on Friday. REV. M. R. WILLIAMSON i Charlotte Church ? Asks Williamson To Fill Pulpit 1 An Associated Press dispatch from Charlotte said the Tenth Avenue Presbyterian church had called the Rev. M. R. Williamson. I pastor of the WayncsviJIc Presby-1 terian church to be its minister. I 1 Rev. Mr. Williamson said upon leaving for a men's church conven tion in New Orleans, that he would not be back until Monday, and that he had received the call. He also j said that no action will be taken j until a church session meelinuj scheduled for Sunday, October 24 ( A. R. Pegram, chairman of the pulpit committee of the Charlotte j (See Williamson?Page 8> Western Carolina College's Growth Told By Dr. Reid Western Carolina College at Cul lowhee is now enjoying the largest enrollment in its history 8(12, President Paul A. Reid of the col lege told the Waynesville Kiwani* Club at a meeting Tuesdav night at Spaldon's. The institution is also in the midst of a major building program. Dr. Reid added. The WCC head told the Klwani ans that the college's enrollment this year Is up 18 per cent from! 1933. and has shown an increase j of 67 per cent in the past three) years. ?. Although encouraging. this stcarlv gain in enrollment has con fronted Western Carolina College with acute problems of housing and feeding on the campus. Dr. Reid said. "The situation for men is ex tremely critical: we don't know how many prospective students we have lost because of being filled up." I To accommodate more men on the campus, the college will ask the North Carolina General As (See Western College?Page Hi Street Washer Has Connections For Fire Fighting The latest equipment in Wa.Vncs ville's vehicle fleet '* a modern j street washer. The new unit was brought in from the factory at Ore-! gon, 111., by J. Turner, lire truck driver this week. The equipment will be used for the first time in washing the streets | this weekend. Added equipment on the unit includes connections for fire hose, j The pump has a large suction hose ! which pulls water from a river or creek and sends it out under high pressure The old street washer was traded j in for SI.100 on the new unit, I which means the modern equip ment cost about $5,500. Town officials believe the new machine will prove to be a good in vestment. especially since it can be used as an auxiliary piece of fire fighting machinery. 29 Haywood 1 Men Leave F or Induction Twenty-nine Haywood Counts ! men left here Tuesday tor Knox ville and induction into the armed forces, Thev were. Joseph Wade Osborne. Route 2. Canton: Thomas Glen Gaddv. Way nesville: Tommy Blankenship. Can ton; Ervin Jack Rogers, Clyde; Thad Way Crawford. Route 4, Way nesville; James Robert Williamson, Route 4. Waynesville; Samuel Stewart Green, Route 3 Waynes ville: James Roy Parton, Waynes ville; George Thomas Holcoinbe. Route 1, Canton; Reuben Wilburn Adams. Lake Junaluska: Eddie Rav , Caldwwll, Route 2, Waynesville; Jerry Richard Rogers, Route 3. Canton: Eugene Arrington. Route 4. Waynesville, Roy Lee Holcombe, Route 1. Canton; R. O. Frady, Route 4. Waynesville; James Edson Jaynes, Route 4. Waynesville; Frank Davis Medlord. Route 4, Waynesville; Uillie Haywood Cagle Route 2. Waynesville; Roy Wayne Pope. Route 4. Waynesville; Alvin Clyde McFalls, Route 1, Canton: Wayne Charles Presnell, Lake Junaluska; Jessie Church well, Jr.. Route 1, Waynesville; Robert Sanford, Route 4, Waynes ville: Dalton Cullins. Waynesville; Hilly Odell Conard, Route 1, Way nesville; Earl Leon Norris, Route 3. Waynesville; William Fulton Os borne. Clyde: Carroll Ceal Smith. Route 1. Clyde; Albert Johnson I McCracken, Jr. Route 4, Way I nesville. Thirty-three registrants were sent to Knoxville Monday for pre induction examinations. Garden Club litterbugs' Program Set People who leave a trail of trash on Western North Carolina's high ways and byways will be the "tar get" of "Anti-Litterbug Week" Oc tober 17-23. to be observed by Hay wood County garden clubs along with others throughout the slate and the nation. "Litterbugs" also will lie one of the major themes of a district gar- j den club meeting to be held at the First Methodist Church Thursday. Next week local garden clubs plan to distribute "litterbug" post-1 el's throughout the business section ; and also a quantity ot automobile ! w indshield slickers. Talks at, Waynesville olomentarv schools i and th<' high school will be made b> Mrs. Harry Lee Liner. Jr. In charge of the "Anti-Litterbug" I campaign will be Mrs. R. B. Wright, general chairman of the district She will Ik- assisted by a committee made up of Mrs. Joe ' Stanolli. Mrs Liner. Mrs. Bill Mor ris, Mrs. .1. L. Ldwards, and Mrs. I H. 1. McKitlrick. - I Concerning "litterbugs." an ar ticle by William S Dnllorv in i re cent issue of "Header's Digest" J pointed out ill part: "Civic groups are at work. The National Council of State Garden Clubs, with allied women's groups including State Roadside Councils, | is waging a national drive to nnd i what q calls The Great American | Di?grace The emblem of the drive \ is a cartoon of an ugh nug strew-] ing trash, with the slogan: 'Don't | Be a Litterbug". Seals bearing the emblem are sold at cost for dis play on auto bumpers. Posters have been designed tor schools and meeting places, and enameled met al signs for parks, roadside rests and playgrounds. "If 'Keep America Beautiful' plans are realized, the whole coun try will blaze wilh appeals before another year parses: anti-litter re minders on cans, cut>s, bottles, car Ions, and also in radio. TV. news paper and magazine advertising. "One scheme for ending roadside litter was first proposed by the garden clubs. II is to have every motorist carry a 'litterbag' in the car and use it as he would a waste basket at home. Service-station at tendants would empty it a< part of their routine. "The proposed bag is square-bot (See Litterhuu? Page 8) Dr. Elmer Clark Going To Meeting In West Indies IJr. Elmer T. Clark, o! Lake JunaluBka, will attend sessions ot j the Methodist Provincial Advisory ! Council of the British West Indies | on October 1)1-27 in Autitfua. Dr. Clark is secretary of the council. He is one of the four American members of the World Council to attend. Others are Bishop Ivan Lee Ilolt. of St. Louis. Mo., presi dent of the world council: Edwin L. Jones, Charlotte, treasurer, and Rev. Dr. J. Manning I*>tts, Nash ville, editor of "The Upper Room." In addition to the islands of the West Indies, where Methodism dates from 1760 the Provincial | Council includes churches in Hon (See Dr. Clark?Page H> CARSON CLARK, crew loader lor the census of agriculture, is in charge of training personnel to work oh the farm census, which begins Nov. I. .Mr. Clark announced this morning that another exam would be given on Tuesday at ! 10 a.m in the Commissioner's . Room at the Court House as ad ditional applicants are needed for the survey jobs. Poll Books Opened For Registration Election registrars will be at pulling places in each precinct of Haywood County froin 9 a.m. until sunset Saturday to register voters for the November 2 general elec tions, according to the County Board of Elections The registrars will also be jit their precinct posts next Saturday, (.etober 23, from 9 a.in. until sun set. During the week prospective voters can be registered by con-1 tacting the registrars in their com munities. Challenge Day will be Saturday. October 30. from 9 a.m. until 3 p m Provisioh has been made for ab Ls.ntee voting by any qualified vot er who expects to bo out of the county or who because of sickness wood Coun ty health center wilt be opened Friday in the commissioner# office, according to C. C. Francis, chair man ol' the county commissioners. Fstimateil eost of the structure is $58.363.50?with the federal gov-j crnment to provide $25,679.50 of that amount. The remainder will he split between the state and the counts with the latter expected to contribute approximately $18,000 over a two-year period. The new building will contain at least 3.500 square feet with the possibility of an additional 900 square feet if funds can be obtain- ' ed. Approval of the 900-foot addi tion depends on the bids submit- . ted here Friday. | J The health center, to lie eon-j strueted on Highw ay 19A-23 just j I --outh of I. K. Sims property, will include: I j An assemb'v room to seat 40 per sons i70 if the addition is aporov edi. interview room, three treat- 1 ment rooms, health officer's room, ? nurses" room, sanitarians' room, ' dental room, secretary's room, rec- ' ords room, bacteriogolical labors- '? tory, X-ray room. photographic ' darkroom, storage room, and fur nace room. 1 Architect for the building is 1 William Moore Weber of Raleigh. 1 specialist in designing health cen ters in North Carolina. Draft Board Classifies 29 County Men Twenty-three men were given] (trail classifications by Selective | Service Board No. 45 at a meeting j Tuesday. They were: Class 1-A available for indue-) tion) William McKiitley Gibson. Jr., Wilfred Kinsland, Class 1-C the N C. Dept. of Agriculture from the manufacturer and turned over I to the N. C. Agricultural Founda tion for use In research work. The funds have been used to (Jo i "search work on small fruits, truck crops, tobacco, cotton, pea nuts, other Held crops. livestock and poultry along with diseases and insects of crops and livestock. Eligible voters may vote at on?; of the following places 011 October 15. Aliens Creek; HuchSnan'.s Store Muse's Store, and Aliens Creek School. Beavcrdam: Beaver dam School, Don Lunatorm's Store, Farmers Federation. Cecil: Hubert Messe'r's Store and Cecil School. Center I'igeon: Pigeon Vallej Store. Hla> lock's Store, and Pow (See Elections?Pase 8? V ? Highway < Record For 1954 In Haywood (TO DATE) Killed . . . ; 3 Injured.... 49 (This Information com piled from Record* of State Highway Patrol.) t .