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? YEAR NO. 93 1- 1 AGES Associated Press WAYNESV1LLE, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, NOV. 22, 1951 $3.50 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties
to,000 Ferguson Place Given County Library
Plans Are To
Modernize
House Into
Library
Two daughters of the late Wil
iam Burder Ferguson ? "father
?f the Waynesville Library" ?
Have given a $40,000 tract of land
n the center of town, as a memor
ial to their father.
Mrs. Maude F. Watson, of Hick
Dry, and Mrs. Marjorie Blaylock,
Df Waynesville and Florida, have
jeeded the property known as the
'Ferguson home place'' to the
Library Board. The property is at
the corner of Haywood street, and
Boyd Avenue.
The large wooded lot includes
the two-story brick home which
the board of directors plan to
convert into a Colonial type struc
ture for a new and spacious Li
brary building.
The board has employed Six
Associates, Inc., architect firm of
Asheville, to make plans for ren
ovating and remodeling the brick
house. The board estimates that
the cost of the project will be a
bout $75,000, which they plan to
raise by donations.
Extensive landscaping will be in
corporated in the renovation plans
of the property, and ample park
ing facilities provided for patrons
of the Library.
The present stone Library build
ing on the 23-foot lot on Main
Street will be sold when the new
quarters are occupied. The Library
has been in the present building
since 1912.
The liberal gift on the part of
the donors, is without question, ?
the greatest single contribution
made to the Library since a group
of interested citizens met in Mr.
Ferguson's office in April 1891 and
formally organized the Library
Association.
Since that day 63 years ago. this
community has enjoyed library
service, and the growlh of the in
stitution has been phenominal,
with an annual circulation today
of over 100,000 books.
This history of the local library
service represents one of the fin
est pieces of cooperation ever
shown in a community. Literally
through nickles and dimes, il was
built and functioned as an insti
tution of which the whole area
takes much pride.
The movement of the Library
here actually began in the 1880 s.
Many meetings were held in the
early days in an effort to work out
some means J>y which the people
of the community could hau ac
cess to good books.
As a result of the meetjir it
was on April 16, 1891. the board of
directors met for its first session in
the office of the late Mr. Fei _u
(See Library?Pane 4t
716 Enrolled
In 4-H Clubs
This Semester
A total of 716 students are en
rolled in the 23 junior and senior
4-H clubs in Haywood County this
semester, according to Joe Davis,
assistant, assistant county agent,
and Miss Jean Childers, assistant
home agent.
The reported membership by
schools is:
Beaverdam, 17; Bethel Junior,
117; Bethel Senior, 5; Canton Jun
ior, 14; Canton Senior, 6; Clyde,
64; Crabtrce Junior, 28: Crabtree
Senior, 14; Cruso, 45; East Way
nesville, 20; Fines Creek Junior,
36; Fines Creek Senior, 11; Hazel
wood, 33; Lake Junaluska, 24;
Maggie, 35; Morning Star, 22;
North Canton, 50; Patton, 38;
Psnsylvanla Avenue, 23; Rock Hill,
23; Saunook, 3; Waynesville Jun
ior, 71; and Waynesville Senior, 22.
Highway
Record For
1954
In Haywood
(TO DATE)
Killed . ... 3
Injured.... 58
(This Informs tl or com
piled from Records ef
Stele Highway PstreL)
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unty Alleges Shortage In Funds;
ers Asserts Settlement Was Made
G. Byers
ces Full
ement
unty Commissionetrs in
0 W. G. Byers, former
Durt, dated Nov. 16, asked
diate settlement of an
deserepancy of $12,
revealed by a recent
vers, this morning, in a
nd full statement, cited
ds of the Board of Corn
ton March 4, 1946, "show
id settled accounts of the
full as called for by the
de when he resigned as
Court."
ter. signed by C. C. Fran
nan of the board to Byers,
follows:
s request of the Local
Hit Commission for a
ailed audit- of the records
llerk's office, Mr. Perry
CPA of Asheville, N. C.,
ileted the audit of the
(flee for a period of from
1 to an including Novemb
3. Incorporating a former
Ihe office during your ad
Ion. This recent audit in
descrepancy in the money
and coming into your
clerk and the amounts
in the sum of $12,872.09.
regular session of the
(vember 15, a resolution
I, authorizing and direct
bairman to write you a
Banding a settlement of
is raised and set out in
a copy of which can be
seen at the ofTice of the
ccountant."
ter of transmittal of Per
eaver. CPA, with the 52
lit. dated September 23,
is in part as follows:
"it to formal contract, we
le a special examination of
if the office of the Clerk
rior Court of Haywood
'#r the period June 2, 1941
November 30, 1953. The
?f this examination was to
ssb receipts and disburse
to funds, and likewise to
? classification of liabili
le close of the period,
"mined each item of cash
?nd disbursements for the
"red above, and classified
** in accordance with the
" which they were re
n the dockets.
der to balance liabilities
"wts at November 30,
'referred to, and made
of- an audit report of
Superior Court of Hay
1. 1941; a report of
n of J. || .Howell, receiv
Uywood Furniture Manu
J^npany and the Way
?reiture Company for the
?""iber 1, 1933 to Oc
'and a supplement
report of Haywood Clerk
I J?ne i 1941 made jn
. dated February 26,
i .bo? .?f the r?P?rts re
move indicated possibili
2?eou? method in com
ment with a former
^Penor court. We have
i,rt.. ,r'es of statements,
tpt ?'th.ls rePort, in which
Pt to show Uems not ^
inoth.t?Ck,U which a
wnittert'?8 recorded- vierc
"ttlem .r?m eomputa
the *ormer
^??rs?p,IC sil)
lie
flther
COOLER
leather ? Partly cloudy,
Jindy. and quite cool to
**da5, continued rather
111 Way ncsvillc tcmpera
fported by the State Test
Ma*. Min. Pr.
. 65 49 .01
.65 45 .03
59 37 .35
1 50 35 .01
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"A REAL GONE BIRD" Fort McPherson Wac Pvt. Ada Moore and
MP Cpl. Ernest Inman team up on a deemed turkey, to assure that
Ft. McPherson personnel have at least one turkey for Thanks
giving. If Pvt. Moore misses, "dead-eve" Cpl. Inman will finish
the game with his forty-five. Cpl. Ernest Inman is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. R. II. Inman, Route 1. Cpl. Inman, assigned to MP Det.
66th .MP Plat. Ft. McPherson, Ga., for past 14 months, and is a
former WTHS football star.
(US Army Photograph by Sgt. Robert F. Jennings)
96,000 Pine Tree Seedlings
Ordered By 4 - H Members
A total of 96,000 white pine tree '
seedlings have been ordered by
Haywood County's 4-H Clubs as a
part of their annual reforestation
project, according to Joe Davis,
assistant county agent.
The trees are supplied to the
county, on order, from the TVA's
nurseries.
Mr. Davis explained that mem
bers of the county's 23 4-H clubs
are encouraged to plant trees on
their farm lands to (1) increase
the farm's income, and (2) to halt
erosion and take better advantage
of rainfall.
Often, he pointed out. farmers
can pay taxes on their lands by
growing trees in areas not used I
in raising crops or for grazing
livestock.
Mr. Davis also commented that
"there is a big market here for
pulpwood because of the Cham
pion plant at Canton."
As an outstanding and well
known growth of white pine, the
assistant agent cited the fine trees
on the Biltmore Estate ? set out
approximately 50 years ago.
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Mountaineer
To Be Issued
On Wednesday
The Thanksgiving edition of
The Mountaineer will go to press
at noon this Wednesday to per
mit employees to spend the holi
day at home.
The deadline for both news
and ads accordingly will be ad
vanced 24 hours.
Legion Auxiliary
To Meet Wednesday
The Auxiliary of American Le
gion Post 47 will meet at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday at the Legion Hall,
with Mrs. Raymond Caldwell pre
siding.
Mrs. Roy Campbell will be in
charge of the program.
Several matters of importance
are to be discussed, Auxiliary of
ficials said.
Clyde Taking Applications
For Post Of Police Chief
Two applications have been re
ceived for the post of chief of
police at Clyde to replace C. F.
Lanning. who resigned to devote
more time to his business, it was
disclosed at the regular monthly
meeting of the Clyde Board of
Aldermen last week.
Other applications for the post
are expected later, the aldermen
said.
A l^o discussed was a request for
bids on a third well for the town,
which is expected to be dug in the
near future.
The aldermen said that another
well will give the town "better and
purer water" and provide an add
ed reserve for use by the fire de
partment.
At present, the two wells In ex
i istenro are pumped each day to
keep the filters in good condition. |
Because of a false alarm turned
in to the fire department last j
week, Fire Chief Larry Cagle an
nounced information leading to
conviction of any person on a I
charge of turning in a false alarm, j
It was also announced that, for^
the first time in history, the town
owns a typewriter, having pur-;
chased one recently from the Hay-1
wood Typewriter Co. in Waynes-;
villc.
In the past, the town's clerk,
Mrs. Jayce Haynes, has always
borrowed one from local owners.
It was pointed out at the meet
ing that Mrs. Haynes will have
served as town clerk at Clyde for
20 y^ars on May 5, 1955. She is
now 77 years old.
Court Will
Recess Late
Wednesday
The November term of Criminal
Court convened here this morning
with a smaller audience than us
ual for criminal court.
Judge Walter T. Johnson, Jr.,
of Winston-Salem, presiding judge,
said he plans to recess court Wed
nesday afternoon for the Thanks
giving holidays, and convene again
at 9:30 Monday morning.
Solicitor Thad D. Bryson. Jr.,
told The Mountaineer that his
tentative plans were to call the j
case in which Joyce Mann, 51, is
charged with the murder of Jack
Case, not prior to Monday.
Ernest Messer, foreman of the
Grand Jury said he had a stack of
bills "this high" as he measured
off about 12 inches with his hands.
"We are going to inspect every
school this term, and will have to
get that over with prior to Thurs
day, as schools will be closed
Thursday and Friday. Now wheth
er we can do that and complete
our work with all these bills is
more than I can answer right now.
We are working to get through by
the time court recesses on Wednes
day afternoon," he said.
A number of traffic cases were
heard this morning as court got
under way.
John H. Nixon, a linotype oper
ator, was the only juror excused
this morning. Nixon is automatic
ally excused by law, because of his
work.
Members of the jury arc:
First Week:
Hugh Moody, Ivy Hill: Charles
E. Trull, East Frk; Cecil Robinson,
Beaverdam; G. R. Putnam, Pigeon;
Edward Furness, Beaverdam; G. E.
Green. Fines Creek; James Arring
ton, Waynesville; Alton B. Watts,
Beaverdam; Hill Matney, Waynes
ville; E. S. Delridge, Waynesville;
J. H. Nixon, Beaverdam; Carl Hen
line, Clyde; Lester L. Smathers,
Beaverdam; Hardy C. Sanford,
Beaverdam; George Hanger, Beav
erdam; Frank W. Swafford, Beav
erdam.
Dewey Buchanan, Waynesville;
E n n i s Chambers, Waynesville;
Boone Davis. Waynesville; Eugene
C. Rogers, Pigeon; Guy C. Wright,
Beaverdam; William A. Lenoir
(col.), Waynesville; T. H. Pressley,
Beaverdam; Rouel Noland, Way
nesville; Wallace J. Davis, Beav
erdam; A. D. Harrison, Waynes
ville; Frank Ensley, Braverdam;
(See Court?Page five)
Student Wins
Final Football
Contest Of '54
Christy Bramlettc won The
Mountaineer's final football con
test of the year with 10 correct
predictions out of 12 and a fore
cast of 27 points for the combined
score of the North Carolina-Vir
ginia game.
Bramlettc's misses were on the
Arkansas-LSU and Harvard-Yale
games.
An unique feature of the contest
this year was its winning by the
same person two weeks in a row
?and it took a woman to turn the
trick?Mrs. Carl RatclifTe, wife of
Waynesville High's former line
coach and now principal at Hazel
wood School.
Canton Negro Suffers
Stab In Right Chest
Officers arc still holding William
Bryson, 38-year-old Canton Negro,
in jail, pending the outcome of
Bryant Richie, 27, also a Canton
Negro, who suffered a stab wound
in the right chest and cuts on the
left hand, late Friday night.
Richie underwent an operation
at the Mission Hospital, Saturday,
and his condition is reported to be
fairly good.
Deputy Gene Howell, the InvestL
gating officer, said the cutting and
stabbing was the result of a
"drunken row."
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THIS HOME PLACE of the late W. B. Ferguson, G. Watson, of Hickory, and Mrs. Marjorie Blay
well known lawyer and civic leader, has been lock, of Waynesville and Florida,
donated to the Haywood County Library as a
memorial from his two daughters, Mrs. Maude (Mountaineer Photo).
Two Injured
In Weekend
Accidents
Two persons were injured in
traffic accidents in the county dur
ing the weekend?one in Waynes
vilie, the other in the Canton area.
Margaret Kinsland. 14, Welch
Ct., Wa.vnesville, suffered head in
juries when the car in which she
was riding was struck by another
vehicle at the intersection of
Miller and Haywood streets at 1:30
a.m. Saturday.
Patrolman Francis Recce said
that a 1952 Chevrolet, driven by
Miss Hazel Ann Green. 300 Bound
ary St., was struck in the right
rear fender by a 1948 Chevrolet
driven by Earl Thomas Smith. 18.
Route 1, Waynesville. Miss Green
was going east on Miller St.. Smith
north on Ha>wood.
Miss Kinsland was taken in
Crawford's ambulance to Haywood
County Hospital, where she was re
ported today as "resting comfort
ably". She was treated by Dr. Stu
art Roberson.
Damage to Miss Green's car was
estimated at $150, and to Smith's
car at $161.
The other accident last weekend
occurred at 10 p m. Saturday at
the intersection of the Thirkety
and Sorrells Cove roads when John
? Luther Reed. Jr., 19 of Route 3.
Candler, driving a Chevrolet, fail
: ed to make a turn and plunged into
| a ditch.
State Patrolman V. E. Brvson
| said that Reed was coming off the
Thiekety road and attempted to
turn into the Sorrells' Cove road
when his car struck a bank, ca
reened across the road and into a
ditch on the other side.
Injured was Maxine Stanley, 16,
of Canton, who suffered a cut over
one eye. Reed and another occu
pant, Gary Brooks of Candler, were
unhurt.
Reed was charged with exceed
ing a safe speed and driving on
the wrong side of the road.
10 Speeders
Nabbed Here
In 4 Hours
Highway Patrolmen arrested 10
motorists In four hours Sunday
night, as they set up a speed
watch on the eastbound lane of
the new highway near Clyde.
Cpl. Pritchard Smith said the
speeders were going from 65 to 75
miles an hour. All were cited to
court. The four patrolmen assign
ed to Haywood operated the speed
watch.
Last week, 24 motorists were
cited to court on charges of
speeding, as the speed watch was
put into operation.
The patrolmen plan to use the
speedwatch electronic device more
in Haywood than in the past, it
was learned.
HUGH RATHRONK
IN HOSPITAL
Hugh Rathbone of Clyde. Route
1 Is a patient at Mission Memorial
Hpspital where he will undergo
surgery this week.
Children Need
Shoes To Attend
Central School
I At least three children will be i
able to attend the first grade at
Central Elementary school if they
have shoes. This information has
been received by Mrs. Roger Walk- I
er. president of the Clothing Clos
et Association, which is attetnpting
to see that needy children in the
community are better clothed.
The Clothing Closet will accept
used or new clothes or money for
| the purchase of clothes. Donations
are being left at the Waynesville
Fire Station or in the Closet in the
third floor of the Court House,
i On November 30, the Waynes-,
ville KiWanis Club will sponsor a 1
porchlight campaign for collection
of clothing. In the meantime the
Association Is taking care of j
emergencies upon request.
68 Contribute
To Blood Bank
Sixty-eight pints of blood were
contributed here Friday during a
visit of the American Red Cross
Bloodmobile at the First Methodist
Church, sponsored by the Waynes
I ville Jaycees.
A number of prospective donors
were rejected because of having
colds or having recently recover
ed from influenza.
Rudolph Carswell, co-chairman
of the blood program here, praised
the efforts of Jaycees Raymond
Caldwell, Jim Milner and Bill Bur
gin for their work in contacting
blood donors.
Operations were assisted by the
Gray Ladles, directed by Mrs. Felix
Stovall and Mrs. Ben Colkitt, co
chairmen. Cookies were furnish- i
ed by the Waynesville Homemakers
Home Demonstration Club.
Union Church Services
To Nark Thanksgiving
Union Thanksgiving services
again will be held this week in
Waynesville, Hazelwood and Clyde,
it has been announced.
Services are planned In Way
nesville at 9 a m, Thursday at the
First Methodist Church, in Hazel
wood at 9 a.rfi. Thursday at the
llazelwood Presbyterian Church,
and in Clyde at 7:30 p.m. Wednes
day'at the Clyde Baptist Church.
In Waynesville a Thanksgiving
message will be brought by the
Rev. T. E. Robinett. pastor of the
First Baptist Church, while the
Rev. James Y. Perry, rector of
Grace Episcopal Church, will lead
the prayers and reading of the
Scriptures. The host pastor, the
Rev. Earl Brendall, will preside.
A union choir will be under the
direction of Mrs. F'red Martin of
the First Methodist Church. Men
from the Waynesville Presbyterian
Church will serve as ushers.
An offering to be tfiken at the
services will be divided among or
phanages of the four Waynesville
churches.
At Hazelwood, the Rev. Archie
Graham, pastor of the Hazelwood
Presbyterian Church, will bring
the message, assisted by. pastors of
the other participating churches?
Hazelwood Baptist, Hazelwoo'd
Methodist, Church of God, and
Seventh-Day Adventist.
At Clyde, the Rev. George C.
Starr, Jr., pastor of the Clyde
Methodist Church, will preach a
sermon on the theinc, "The Tenth
Man."
Other churches will be repre
sented at the Union service will be
the Church of God and the Louisa
Chapel.
ON CBS TV
Edward J. Robeson, Jr., United
States congressman from the 1st
distrct of Virginia, will appear on
Edward R Murrow's CBS televi
sion program, "See It Now," Tues-'
day night at 10:30 p.m.
Christmas Seals Mailed
To 2,000 Area Residents
Two thousand envelopes contain-1
tng Christmas seals, to raise money
for tuberculosis prevention and de- j
tection work in this area, were put
into the malls today by the Way
nesville TB Committee.
The goal for the Christmas Seal
sale has again been set at $1,200
Last year, $1,069 was contributed
toward the same goal.
The funds received last Christ-'
mas were used by the TU Commit
tee this year to (1) purchase a $600
bacteriological microscope for the
health department's laboratory. '2>
for health education work. <3> for
clinical use, and <4) for chest
X-rays.
Mrs. Roy H. Calpbell, in charge
of the Christmas Seal sale here,
said that the entire amount raised
last year was spent for the various
| budget items.
Envelopes sent out were address
ed by typing student* of Mrs. Ethel
Sloan at Waynesville High School.
Seals and enclosed material were
placed in the envelopes at a "fold
ing party" Friday night at the
courthouse.
Christmas Seal posters will be
placed in store windows, and film
trailers on fighting TB will be
shown at local theatres.
According to Miss l)orc?hy Whis
enhunt. secretary at the health de
partment. the department is now
supervising (J5 cases of tuberculos
is in the county?of which number
18 are new cases, j
This represents an increase or
three new cases over the three re
ported for the first time in 1953,
Miss Whisenhunt said.
In addition to the regular diag
nostic work done In the health de
partment here, the state sent its
mobile X-ray unit here in 1953 and
probably will again In 1955,