L?? ? lore People Than | pluw.: Ahe Wayne syille Mountaineer FtIXr NO. 86 20 PAGES ~~T~ ?? e County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great S w m ^ M JM iXV * ?? ? | 1!- ? - _ Associated Press ? ^ ? Ut The Great Smoky Mountains National Park ^ WWM'A I AKIUKNOON. (kt. 28. Hi.' . . CI ?? *J.60 l? Advance In Haywood end Jeclnron Countie." E Census Begin Monday teen enumerators will start ing Farm Census inl'orma Haywood County Monday sk which is expected to re I month to complete. Farm Census is taken each ears: it was last taken in 1950 This year is the first has been conducted in the the year, according to Car irk oi Canton, county census r first agricultural census was in 1840 the present one w ill 16th. aerators who will work un le direction of Mr. Clark ir\n Allison. Jonathan Creek (terville: Helen VV. Caldwell, luff; Wilburn P. Campbell. Mary C. Cody, Beaverdam; L. Coin, Maggie; William is. Fines Creek: Grace K. t. suburban areas of Can lerthenia A. Dunn. Lake ska. Ratcliffe Cove. Francis and Saunook; Gladys S. i, Cruso and Cecil: Nancy rwood. Lake Junaluska and an areas of Waynesville and oud. Everett Carroll Powell, Cove: Verlin T. Shelton, Geneva M. Singleton. Valley; and Leamon J I, Henson Cove, ussing the census, Mr. Clark led: "Congress has directed akc this census because the ation being obtained is by farm people and their mtatives, by the govern and by many other groups ! with farm people. 1 good management of our our businesses, and our gov lt depends on good inlor Decisions must be made day and every hour by op of big farms ^nd little by merchants selling pro ofarm people, and by manu r of products for farms, one of these decisions should n on good Information. The purpose of our farm census >ro\ide good information a ur farms and farm people.' meant farts to be provided e agricultural census, Mr. said, include: reas of production of corn, rice. milk, eggs and each ant farm product, nount of production of these products in each county or he kind of farming activities 1 on in each area of our amount and kind of farm wry in use. umber and hours of work of 'orkers employed on our na farms. Ganges in farm practices 'he last census. wrese in food production as i to our increasing popula rmation compiled from the '? Mr Clark pointed out, ( used: I farm operatrs themselves nr own planning. lv a benchmark for making II crop and livestock esti b.v the United States Agri >1 Department. ?y manufacturers and deal w make and distribute $20. T Farm Census?Page 8) lusons To Attend lElectric Congress flard Ferguson and Barbara pon. the son and daughter of Kd Mrs. Paul Ferguson of I Creek, will represent Hay ICounty at the annual North M Farm and Home Electric P*s for 4-H Club members parlotte next Monday and Founty winners in 4-H Club r Projects, Bernard and F1 will be guests of the Caro P?*r and Light Co. the tather jjkrably cooler today. Fri ~^y and rather cool. ^ayneaville temperature by the State Test Ma*. Mln. Pr. te ?? 75 25 - - ? 73 32 72 44 .03 COOLER SWORN IX as Farm Census enumerators Tuesday by Carson Clark (right) were (left to right) Wil liam C. Davis, Wilburn P. Campbell, Robert L Coin, Mrs. Raymond Caldwell. Mrs. (irace I>uck ett, and Mrs. Kathryn Allison. (Mountaineer Photo). Rotarians Of 280th District Close Successful Meeting , ??/ . ; - ? Forest Fire Threatens Area On Haywood-Jackson Line October Travel On Parkway Link Up 25 Per Cent * A 25 per cent increase in travel on tlie Blue Ridge Park* way link here along Mile High and llrintooga overlooks for the month of October has been re* ported by Park Warden James G. i Varner. Mr, Varner talked with mem bers of the Western North Caro lina Press Association last .Nat | urday and pointed out various points of interest in the vicinity ; of Mile High. Williamson Will ! End Pastorate Sunday Morning The Rev. Malcolm R. William son, pas'or of the Waynesville Presbyterian Church for the past 13 yeai;s. has announced that he will preach his final sermon as pastor of Ihe church here Sunday morning at the 11:00 o'clock hour of worship. His resignation as pastor of the church has been ac cepted bv the congregation in order that he might accept a call to the Tenth Avenue Presbyterian Church in Charlotte. Mr. Williamson has chosen as his subject for Sunday morning. ' The Hour of Decision." Prior to the morning service the children of the church arc requested to meet to arrange lor their partici pation in the service. A picture will be made of this group of some 40 or more children \v(io each Sun day compose the children of the church group for whom Mr. Wil liamson has a special message. All members of the church con gregation and friends of the com munity are cordially invited to at tend the servici. State Patrol Relays Drug I Through County The State Highway Patrol ill Haywood County was called on early Wednesday afternoon to re lai a badly needed drug?to be given a critically ill patient in the Sylva hospital?from the Haywood Buncombe line to the Haywood Jackson line. Patrolman V. E Bryson picked up the drug, which had arrived at the Asheville-Hcndersonville air port on a plane from Raleigh, at the Buncombe line and took it as qtdckly rs possible to the Jackson line where another patrolman pick ed it up to hasten on to Sylva. Patrolman Bryson explained that such service is provided by the pairoi in serious niu-isimn?. Crabtree Cannery To 'Open For Meat Canning The Crabtree Cannery will be open by appointment November 16 | and 17 for meat canning. Those interested may make ap I pointnients with H F Neshill. ;2 2 cares, is burning at an eleva tion of 5.500 feet on what is to | become the Blue Ridge Parkway's right-of-way Control of the fire is exceedingly difficult because of steep moun tain slopes, huge boulders and cliffs?which make it necessary | that water be brought in tanks on the shoulders of the fire fighters 'arid keep bulldozers and other ma chinery from operating in some areas. A bulldozer lent by the Mead Corp. of Sylva, has cleared a 12 loot fire break around a portion of the area, but the terrain is too sleep in other sections for the big machine. Parkway Hanger Art Henderson said the blaze was located in the most difficult location for working he had ever seen in his career as a U. S. Forest Service fire fighter j ?which includes 13 parachute jumps in the Montana mountains. As to rainfall. Robert E. Howe, | chief ranger for the Blue Ridge i Parkway's Asheville district, said 1 it Would take about four inches of rainfall (more rain than this area , usually gets during the entire ! month of Octoberi to bring the fire under control. light fall last night barely wet I the parched ground. The most serious forest fire this frill is now being fought on a 24-hour schedule by state forest fire-fighters alop Hornbuckle Moun tain on the Haywood-Jackson coun ty line The blaze, which has destroyed Large Crowd Attends Service At First Methodist A large audience practically fill j ed the First Methodist Church last i Sunday evening when the pastor, the Kev. Earl H. Hrendall, began a series of sermons on "Conf ident Living." The sermons, based on the book. " Guide to Confident Living." by Or. Norman Vincent Peale. pastor of Marble Collegiate Church in New York, will be delivered each , Sunday night through December 12 The sermon topic for next Sun day night will be "Get Rid of Your Inferiority Complex." The Youth : Choir will sing and other special I music will be provided. 1 The service will begin promptly | at 7:30 o'clock nad will continue about fifty minutes. The program will include congregational singing of hymns and a period of silent meditation and prayer. The Methodist pdMor has plan j ned the series of sermons as a part | of a special program on Personal Guidance and Counseling. Cards are provided in the pews for the convenience of those who desire a personal conference with the min ister. Orders may be placed for a copy of Dr. Poale's book at the close of I each service^ The entire series of sermons will bo broadcast over Radio Station WTICC. j 'miss miller recuperating Miss Robina Miller, who was In jured in a fall several weeks ago. is recuperating at the Le Faine Hotel where she ia the gu^st nf her sister, Mrs C F Kirkpatrirk. Rotariahs of the 280th District j ended a successful two-day confer ence here Tuesday night, with a j banquet, which featured Joseph A A bey. of Reading, 1'a.. as the main speaker. Abey. a newspaperman, carried j i thorugh the Conference theme of j service and working for world- j v ide peace. Just prior to the time for him to j address the large audience in the i I new VVTHS cafeteria. Abey was! j made a lifetime member of the: I Eastern Band of Cherokees, as he ! was presented a certificate, after | smoking the peace pipe, w hile j c leaked in a robe of eagle feathers. William Wulkingstiek and John 1'arris, of Cherokee, presented the j visitor with the certificate and i assigned him the Cherokee name! of "Askuv Tusaue Kanolieskie" which means. "The Man Who j Speaks With A Straight Tongue." Director A bey, complimented i | conference leaders, and said the1 I program was comparable to an International Conference | Ernest Ross, district governor, of Marion, reported that 33 of the 1 | 37 clubs in the district, were rep-! i resented at the conference. The , j district extends from Monroe to j I Andrews. "Rotary alone cannot bring about world peace." A bey said,, ; but members of Rotary can have | a bearing on world affairs and j work diligently on peace and un derstanding throughout the world." A Truthful l.ife He pointed out* that Rotary en courages a truthful and useful life 'and arouses the ambition of achieving greater things in life. (See Kotar.v?I'age 2> Burley Group To Set Auction Market Season 1 The Burley Sales Committee will ; meet November 8 at Lexington, i Ky. to fix sales dates for the 1954- I j 55 burley tobacco marketing scas ! on. I The sales committee is empov. I fed to fix opening dales' for bur ley auction markets, regulate hours and quantities of sale and to de termine marketing holidays. The meeting, set for 11 a.m. at j (i20 South Broadway, Lexington. | was announced by President Albert I G. Clay of the Burley Auction I Warehouse Association. Membei<||Of the committee this season include Matt Jennings, ; Nashville, director of markets in j Tennessee. Godrey Vann. Grecne ville, Tenn.: Park Bernard, Abing- '< don. Va.. and J. C. Dean, Knox ville. ' I 13,000 Votes Predicted In Haywood Election Tuesday registrars And Judges Appointed, The Haywood County Hoard of Elections today announced the reg i. Stars and judges for the Tuesday election, as last-minute details were completed for the 13.000 expected t Haywood voters. W. G. Byers, chairman of the I hoard, announced that the polls , would open Tuesday morning at i 6:30. and remain open until 6:30 i p.m. This Saturday will be challenge day since registration books clos ed last Saturday afternoon. Each precinct will have three I allot boxes Tuesday, with some having four in cases where there is a township race. There will be the state ballot, county, state amendments, and township For the state box there will be two ballots?one long one, and a very small supplement, which has the name of one judge | l'or an eastern district. The small I ballot was necessary because of the j recent death of the judge for that1 district. A sample of the ballot on amend- j mcnts will be found on page I three, section two of this issue, while th? county ballot is printed , on the back page of this section j In the general election of 1952. 1 Haywood polled M.795 voters in the presidential election. Political : observers today predicted that the , vote in Haywood Tuesday would be iibout 13.000. The same observers ! s!tid they felt that 95 per cent of J the votes cast would be straight tickets, with very little mixing of the candidates of the two parties. Chairman Byers said that to date, about 50 absentee ballots had been requested. "Almost all of them have been by voters who are in military service," he explained. The state ballot has 27 Demo cratic candidates listed, while there arc five Republican candidates listed. On the county ballot 14 Demo cuts are listed and seven Repub licans. Democrats without opposition on tne county ballot include: T. D. Bryson. Jr., solicitor; Jule Noland. register of deeds; J. B. Siler, clerk of court; Bryan I). Medford. tax collector. J. W. Killian and Clifton Terrell, members of the board of education; and Dr. J. Frank I'ate. coroner. Opposition in the five races are: staW* senate, representative, sheriff, chairman and two members of the board of commissioners William Medford and David M Hall, Democrats, are opposed in the race for state senate by Mrs. Roland Owen and F. E. Parker. Jerry Rogers, Democrat, is op posed for representative by, Ross hilpatriek. In the race for sheriff, Fred Y. Campbell. Democrat, is opposed by (Sep Election?Pare 8) WNC Highlanders Discuss '55 Plans Regional directors of Western .North Carolina Highlanders, Inc., met today in the N. C. Park Com mission office in the Masonic Temple to lay plans for the 1955 travel season. Committees were to be appointed and projects discussed. Presiding was John Parris of Sylva. who was elected president of the Highlanders at a meeting here in September, He replaces ?laj. O. A. Fetch of Kontana Vil lage. who served in that post for several years. i 13 Haywood 4-H Members To Be Honored At Asheville Thirteen Haywood County 4-HI Club members and four adult lead < rs will attend the annual 4-H Rec ognition Day Luncheon at the Grove Park Inn at Asheville Sat urday. it has been announced. The 4-H'cri making the trip to Asheville are county winners in i their various specialties and have also participated in district and state contests: , The group includes: Martha Swaim of Canton and | N'cal ? Kclley of Bethel, public '? f peaking: Frances Km ma Yates of Crabtree-lron Duff, dress revue; Amelia Morgan and .loan Green I of Bethel, acrobatics; T L. Francis of Waynesville, forestry; I'atricia Messcr of Crabtree, piano; Linda Gribble and Jo Ann Wright of East Waynesville. group talent; Jimmy Francis of East Waynes ville. reading; Jackie Folmel of Waynesville. and Verlin Edwards of Waynesville, judging team; and Bernard Ferguson of Fines Creek, farm and home electric. Accompanying the 4-H members w ill be Mrs. O. L. Yates, leader of the Crabtree-lron IJuff clubs; Miss Mary Cornwell, home agent; Miss Jean Chiiders. assistant home agent, and Joe K. Davis, assistant (arm agent. n? i*41 % ai w 1 w ri'l <13 rli !T g I WL. . . ^aJB, * PROMINENT PARTICIPANTS in the Waynesville Kiuanis Club's observation of its third annivers ary Tuesday night were (left to right! Hooper Alexander, Jr., Harold Shipley, president of (lie Asheville Kiwanis Club: live Sheptowirh, presi dent of the WaynesvlUe Kiwanis Club, and K I.. Plriness, w tin was in rhanre of the anniversary procram. (Mountaineer Photo). . ? Keep Halloween Fun Innocent, Authorities Warn C'hirf of Poller Orvillr Nolanri tif Waynesville and Koy Stephens of llazrlwood and Sheriff Fred Campbell have no objection to ' anyone having any innocent fun on Halloween. ? I But all officers warned town and county residents against ma licious pranks and theft or des truction of property. Policemen and deputies will be especially watchful Saturday night to keep 1 ( the celebrating within bounds, i , and offenders will be brought i j into court. A special warning was issued | concerning the defacing or des- < truction of mail boxes since such , a violation constitutes a federal offense. The State Highway Patrol also , urged parents to warn their rliildren against throwing things into the streets and highways where vehicle* will run over [ them. I , Last Halloween several ears had their tires cut by objects thrown by pranksters. Although no general civic cele bration is planned herr, businrss streets are expected to be throng ed with costumed relebrators and residential doorbells are likely to get a stiff workout from "trirk or treat" participants. Many schonbt within the eoun- ' ty are planning Halloween carni vals. 13 Haywood Men Named On District Scout Committee Three Haywood men have been j elected to the executive board of j the Daniel Boone Council of Boy 1 Scouts. They are M H. Bowles. , Waynes ville; Bill Prevost, Hazel- j wood; and Carlton Peyton, Can ton. Peyton is a vice president i ai.d was named for a three-year! term. Forrest B. Gardner of Hender sonville, was re-elected president at the annual meeting. Other officers re-elected were: Andrew Gennett. Jr.. of Asheville. | vice president; Julian B. Stepp of Asheville. treasurer; Harry W. 1 ove of Asheville, trustee; Dr. j i Samuel Kobinson of Asheville. j commissioner; and John C'orbett of , Marshall, M. E. Gambrell of Hen clersonvllle, Paul Kirk of Sylva. VV. C. Hennessee of Sylva. Dr. T. ! M. McRae of Burnsville, executive | committee members. I I Caldwell Heads County Students At Mars Hill 1 Wayne Caldwell was recently .elected president of the Haywood County Club at Mars Hill College at a recent dinner meeting in the school cafeteria. Also selected were Joe Hoyd of Waynesville, vice president, and . Grace Erwln of Canton Miss Collie Garner is faculty I advisor Waynesville Kiwanis Club Marks Third Anniversary The Waynesville Kiwanis Club elcbrated its third anniversary! I ucsdav night at a meeting at ipaidon's Restaurant. also observ (1 as "Ladies Night " Feature of the program was the voek trial of a club member, Hooper Alexander, Jr., on charges ]( "neglecting his home to work | tin Kiwanis Club projects." The "prosecutor" was Mrs. K L. j I'leincss. the "defense attorney" Kill Roberts A livc-memtier " jury" found the . icfeudant guilty and sentenced him lo "one month at hard labor"? I tielping bis wife wash dishes. R. L, I'leincss was in charge of Ihe program, while president Hye slicptowitch presided at the meet ing . Guests Included members of the ? Vshevillo Kiwanis Club and their J Aives and two ipembers of the' Waynesville High School Key Club. Talis for perfect attendance were presented by Harold Shipley, Ashe ulle club president, to these 14 Waynesville Kiwanians: Three years Rufus Carswell. R. V Johnson. Frank Underwood, Bob Winchester. R L. 1'leiness and Ivrios Boyd. Two years Roger Amnions Henry Clayton. A. I) Harrison. Bill Roberts, live Sbeptowiteh and [ bailie Underwood. One year Boh Conway Draft Board Classifies 78 County Men Seventy-eight Haywood County men were classified by Selective Service Hoard 4."> at its last meet ing. They were: Class 1-A Melvin Itryant Ear ley; Lamar Kverett Killlan; Her bert Conrad; Troy Von'roc Prcssley; Hubert Handolft Sutton; Billy .loe Lowe: Bruce Leon MeKinnish; Carl Lynn Stanley; James Claude Caldwell; Wade McKtnley Reece; James Homer (Jreeno; LeRoy Reece; William Howard Trull. Class 1-C (enlisted)?James Rob ert Chambers; Charles Kenneth Boltlen. ' Class 1-C 'inducted??Billy Odell Conard: Karl Leon Morris; Delton Culiins; Frank Davis Mcdford; Roy Wayne Pope; James Kdson Jaynes; Roy Lee Holeombe; R. O. Frady; Eugene Arlington; Reuben Wll burn Adams; Eddie Ray Caldwell; George Thomas Holeombe; James " ?? ? t. si?? a. tinti: lio> ranon: .tames nuncn nnnaiii son: Hoy Allen Walker; Thad Way Crawford: Ervin Jack Rogers; Tom my l Highway Record For 1954 In Haywood (TO DATE) Killed . ::: 3 j Injured.... SI (Thta Inform*tie* com pile* from Reeorde of State Hlckwoy Patrol.) I J 1 <1