ANSA*) PTC CO I ^iisvillekJ Fir" S' III I I|l^| I wp ?People Than rn "WWr :::tr 1HE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINFFT? *?: ^ 1 ? - ^ *2 ' ' ' ? 13,50 U Advanca ,l* "ayw^^TaclTs^a^rt^ te Officials To Make nal Protest On Toll tec. McKay Tuesday XVM. MKDFORD has ?d to one of the Sen important posts, and > w ill Hy to Washing Governor Hodges to ?il protest on proposed >11. ford Is rman Of Group iam Medford of Hay telieves that no county more than ono Sen fad the nine-member > amission to make a 'natorial redisricting, ident Luther Barnhardt > ted. [fission was created by ! i introduced early ill ! Hythe of Mecklenburg, Guilford would stand nator if the Senatorial re realigned according n changes shown by the ; the study commission Iy one Senator from counties. President ?aid lie considers the to be representative ,e. commission members, aude Currie of Durliani the larger counties, t and Guilford, the two i' interested counties, ICf1, her Members Medford and Currie, ! ippointed Sens. Klton 'ascmolank, C. V. Hen- : Iredell, Carl Hicks of 1 ev Jones ol' Surry, i Ro\ nolds of Ruthcr- . riiomas of Union and of Brunswick. Of ?tt. Reynolds, | Thomas arc serving their first 1 Senate. said his appointment surprise to him. He voted for the constp intent, defeated at the Medford?Page 6) ' Governor Luther Hodges will lead a small group of Tar Heels to see Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay Tuesday, in a formal pro test against the proposed toll on the Blue Kidge Parkway, Senator William Medford of Waynesviile will be with the .governor, along with Rep. Kelly Bennett, and Hugh i Morton, chairman of the state ad vertising committee. Senator Medford here for the weekend sai dthe plans of present ing the protest had been arranged by the Governor, and if the Secre | tary of Interior refuses to rescind ! his order for the May first toll. | then the protest will be carried on j to the President. Senator Medford lias been in ! several conferences with the Gov j ernor on the Parkway toll, as well ? as other state matttrs, and said the ! program is to "carry this thing to | the end and stop the proposed toll if possible." Numerous groups here have passed resolutions protesting the ! proposed toll, and have forwarded their sentiments to Governor Hodges to use in presenting the state protest to Secretary McKay. The North Carolina Congression i al delegation will meet Governor Hodges and others in Washington Tuesday in assisting to formally present the protest to the Interior Secretary. Mrs. Phillips Dies From Burns Mrs. Edna Fish Phillips, 82. died Sunday afternoon in the Haywood County Hospital frori burns she suffered Sunday morning when her clothing caught fire at her home. Canton. Route 3. Dr. Thomas Stringfield, attend ?)}'_ .;-v ? Phiiups was badly burned when she was brought to the hospital about 9 a.m He said she apparently got too close to a fire in the honuf and her clothing became ignited. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Bethel Meth odist Church. The Rev. L. B. j George and the Rev. Thomas Er jvin will officiate. Burial will be in Bethel Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Kenneth Led better, llillard, Boyd. Clarence, I Herman and Ruble Phillips. Granddaughters will be flower bearers. The body has been taken to the (See Mrs. Phillips?Page 6) ARC Bloodmobile To Visit Canton The Bloodmobile from the American Bed Cross Regional j Blood Center in Asheville will visit i Canton Wednesday under sponsor-: ship of the Canton Civitan Club, j The mobile unit will again set up at the Champion YMCA, where the Canton Red Cross Gray Ladies ( will assist in the operations. It. M. Murphy. Civitan president at Canton, is general chairman for the Bloodniobile's visit. p Made For Enlarging [ting Program In WNC heard praises heaped vr| members, and plans enlarging the scope ?> Scouts in the area, led to Forest Gardner, the Daniel Boone 'liday. ' Stouter since 1918. '"8 ccniuacoio cloudiness, Cold with t and snow flurries to partly cloudy and a r. iVaynesville tcnipcra >iled by the Slate Test Max, Win, Pr. 5fl 33 S3 21 .35 22 5 34 3 said the Daniel Boone Council was one of the finest in the nation, and that further development was planned. The Scout leader praised Ben Colkilt for his interest and leader ship in the establishment and cre ation of the camp on East Fork, | and for the part Jonathan Woody had played in the further develop ment of the camp, while M. H.1 Bowles had been active for many years in the execution of the Scout program in Western North Carolina. Gardner said Scouting was a system of education, and based on a boy's psychology, featuring ad- ji venture, as well a? physical train- i ing. "Scouting is a way of life," the president of the area said, "and men could have no fllner code of; living than the Scout laws." as they reflect the better principles of liv ing. lie pointed out that Scouting can transform personalities. There are 3,200 boys in the Dan iel Boone area, and the adminis trative cost per Scout is far below the national average, he said. L. Y. Biggerstaff. district trus tee, also of Hendersonvllle. attend- ' ed the meeting, with M. H. Bowles in charge of the proemm 2 Accidents Investigated On Soco Rd. Two accidents ? one at the entrance to the Soco Road and one on the highway itself ? were re ported by the Slate Highway Patrol during the weekend. At 6 p.m. Friday, a 1950 Ford driven by Walter R. Austin. Route li. Asheville. entering 19-A and 23 from the Soco Road near Lake .Jun aluska. collided with a 1947 Chev rolet driven b> RatclifT Way Kins land. Route 1, Clyde. Austin was charged with failure to yield the right of way by Cpl. Pritchard 11. Smith of the Highway Patrol Damage to thd Kinsland ear was estimated at $75 and to the Austin ear at $15. A similar accident took place at 8:30 a.in. Sunday when a 1949 Dodge taxicab driven by Willie Dee Ledford, Route 2. Waynesville. emerging from N. C. 284 onto the Soco Road, struck a 1941 Chevrolet going east on U.S. 19, driven by William Reed Bradshaw, Route 2, Waynesville. Bedford was charged with fail ure to yield the right of way and and failure to stop at a stop sign bv Patrolman W. H. Wooten of too Highway Patrol Damage to the taxi was put at $300 and to the Chevrolet $200 or a "total loss." Waynesville In National Safety Plan Wayncsvliie is one of the ten North Carolina towns in which a national voluntary motor vehicle inspection program will be launch ed, it was decided in Chapel Hill 1 last week. '* "* The voluntary inspection pro gram is sponsored by the Inter-In dustry Highway Safety Committee. Look Magazine, and the National Safetj Council North Carolina towns already planning to take part besides Waynesville are: Rocky Mount, King's Mountain. Monroe. Wil mington. Winston-Salem. Salisbury. New Bern, Kayetteville and Greens boro. Under the program, volunteer mchanics would check automobles and point out defects to owners. It would be up to the owner to have the defects corrected. Safety movies featuring Kay Kyser. retired orchestra leader and movie star, would be made at the University of North Carolina for use in the safety drive, representa tives of the towns were told. Summerrow Attending Directors Meeting Of N. C. Food Dealers Ralph Summerrow, Hazelwood, is attending a directors meeting of the N. C. Food Dealers Association in Greensboro today. Summerrow was named for a two-year term j last year, and is one of the 25 di- 1 rectors of the state. He is a mem- ? ber of the legislative committee of ! the Association, and plans to go to ! Raleigh after the meeting in ! Greensboro. The mid-winter meeting of the board is slated to discuss proposed legislation affecting food stores. Chief among the items is the pro posed sales tax on food. Needham B. Check, of Charlotte j is president of the Association. THE HEART FUND drive will be climaxed Sun day under the sponsorship of the Waynesville Jay - cees for this area. Shown here making plans for the occasion, are Sam C'alhoun. chairman: Dwight Beaty. and James Milner, president of the club. members of Ihe committer, toeether with lliuh Constance. mIio was absent when the picture was made. The Jaycees will staxr the one-day drive in the Waynesville area on Sunday, February 2(lth. (Mountaineer Photo). Freedlander Tells Dayton Board Fine Year Is Ahead Boosters Club In Resolution Mood The llazclwood Boosters Club had a session of "resoluting" Thursday night?they approved two area-wide projects, and bit terly opposed tile third. The civic group voted unani mously in favor of the Bennett Fishing; Bill now in the House of Representatives; sent Harry Buchanan a telegram backing him 011 the construction of the Pigeon River Road and for the third resolution, went on record opposing the proposed toll on the Blue Ridge Parkway. HEMC Gets $50,000 REA Loan Grant Congressman George A. Shtiford announced from Washington that the Haywood Electric Membership Corporation here had been granted 1 a loan of $50,000 by the Rural : Electrification Administration. R. C. Sheffield, general manag er of the local cooperative, told The Mountaineer the loan was for ! the continuation of the installment loan program, inaugurated back in 1949. Under terms of the program, members purchase electrical ap- j pliances from a dealer and REA finances the loan with payments made monthly with the power bill, The interest rate is four per cent Manager Sheffield said that since 1949, the cooperative had been loaned $425,000, including the recent $50,000. ' All but $80,000 has been paid back," he explained. The loans to the cooperative and | the customers are for a period of five years. 'AVc have found the program very satisfactory, and under the plan have enabled many of our 4.200 members in seven counties to acquire needed electrical ap pliances," Sheffield continued. ustonuiv orders and optimism led in with expanding markets for established products and wider ac- T ccptancc of niw products indicate * I he Dayton Rubber Company in U'.i will ,.n,ov crentb improved T year over 1954. A I. Freed lander. ; pi evident, told the annual slock- t holders meeting in IJayton las! I j M eek. He said he believed the business upsw ing which started last August' will continue. -We leel (his year ' |Miiich niarjts the Golden Anniver sary of our company, sets a firm foundation on which t? build for U>e next fifty years, he added I he company s continuing diversi fication program is producing im- I portant new iienis of ftianufacture. ' Mr, Kreedlandcr reporled. , In a summary of new product- I in ioduced _he pointed to the adop tion by leading tank vacuum cleat, ei manufacturers ?f the new DAY 1 i.i-.x \ action, i?,M, representing I new matiufacluriiig process ?is well as new product. g After many year, develop- > nu nt 1 hoi,,-Size si/hud rollers lor extile nulls are being widely ac- ? Will, the rest of the rubber in dustry. Dayton Rubber increased ? pi ices early this jear on many of ' it s products to offset increased'raw materials and ifbor costs u Man On Trial jj For Beating Small Child Robert Led ford was on I rial for *r j icCon Moody, at Dellwood. Seven people Pd were injured in the midnight crash Tt of two cars. No Wcision has been in handed down in the case. Ci Other cases disposed of by the th court since Thursday includes; p. wiihT' l,avid c"K,r' charged , th ith forgery, sentenced to State Lb l lison for term of from II! monlhs to two years. w) Ju*,icC charged with dc abandonment and pon-suppoii. sen- as ? need to 12 months on the road r<,reih|,M,|.h ,,obinvon '''gamy and , R, forcible trespass, sentenced to 18 n< months on the road Garfield Grooms, larceny, sus- tie r on, Burma; Calcutta and Horn ly. India; Karachi, Pakistan; Te hran, Iran; Baghdad. Iraq: 1st am il, Turkey: Athens. Greece; Milan, aly: Brussels. Belgium; Cologne, ermany; Paris, Clermont-Ferrand, id Bordeaux, France: Norway, veden, Finland, England, and rc rn to the L". S. Last year Mr. Kollman toured e globe in the interests of his Vorld Construction" program. Hazelwood Making Plans For Planting Dogwoods Haielwood seems defined to be come a dogwood center, according to plans completed by the beauti fication committee of the Finer i Carolina Committee. The plans were announced by Mrs. Frank Worthlngton, jChair nian, at the generai meeting with the Boosters Club Thursday night. 1 Also along with the announcement j of the town-wide planting of dog woods, came the word from Mayor i Lawrence Davis that the streets of | the town would soon be marked. These are just two of the many projects announced as goals for the year by project chairmen. Oth er projects center around the Ha* elwood school, with playground improvements, and landscaping, together with a general recrea tional program for the younger group again this year. Mrs Worthineton announced the i T town had been divided into eight districts and committees named in each area to contact property own ers about planting dogwoods ? (or flowers in spring and shade in summer. The general committee plans to arrange to have the dog wood trees on sale (or property owners. Only trees that are known will thrive in this area will be planted. The program, sponsored by the Carolina Power and Light Com pany, was explained by Julian Stepp, manager of the district, lie pointed out the fine job Haze I wood did last year, and said a lot of! progress was made in the 164 par- : tleipating communities who staged , 900 projects last year. Jlazclwood received $100 as prize money for j : last year's program. In discussing the prospects fori (See Hardwood?Page 6) Of Rep. Rogers' >ills Pass Both louse And Senate Two bills Introduced into the )fth Carolina General Assembly Hep. Jerry Rogers have already isscd both the House und ?enale. ley are ItB 128, dealing with iil g of claims against the Town of inlon. and HB 129. concerning e fixing of the salaries of the osecuting attorney and judge of e police court by the Canton >ard of Aldermen. Still in the Senate is HB 127. itch would authorize Canton ai rmen to adjust sewer-water line sessment*. A fourth bill introduced by Mr. igers would require the State ?pnrtmont of Motor Vehicles to nd lists of automobile registra ms to all North Carolina counties, lis measure is still in committer Two Towns Asking Bonds To Provide Recreation Set Up Permission to hole) an election 011 the issuance of a total of $175, 000 in bonds for construct inn rec reational facilities is now being sought by the Towns of Waynes-: ville' and Hazel wood on applica lion of the l.ocal Government Com mission in Raleigh \\"a> nesville is proposing the is- 1 sue of S13C.5U0 in bonds and Hazel- i ; wood anotla r $38,500 According to the legal notice published by The Mountaineer, the $175,000 would be used "for the purpose of financing the town's share of the cost of acquiring, at the joint expense of the Town of i VV'a> nesville and the Town of j Hazelwood, land within said towns! lor use as public park and play- j ground and of constructing there- i on a swimming pool, a play-] ground and of constructing public 1 recreation and of acquiring origin- . al equipment therefor. If the Local Government Com mission in Raleigh gives its per mission for the issuance of the bonds, the towns would then set a date for the election ? which would conic some time alter mu nicipal elections already set for this May. Several Groups Thank Buchanan For Road Work I A number of civic and business groups here have written or wired llarry E. Buchanan a mes sage of appreciation for his work on the I'igeon Kiver Road. Among the messages going from here includes those From the Rotary Club. Boosters Club. Chamber of Commerce and Mer chants Association. Formal action by the North Carolina Highway Commission, asking for the road be put on the inter-state system, is slated to be I acted upon February 24th. HENKV Ft)V Henry Foy Will Open Architect Office March 1 Henry B. Fov announced today he is opening an architect's office at 109 Welch Street. March first. This wilt be the only architect s office west of Asheville. the an nouncement said. Fo.v is a life-long resident of Waynesville. was educated in the local schools, and attended Mars Hill College. From there he studied at Stanford University, and gradu ated from Clemson with his degree in architecture ? Since T Jat toil lie lias l? c.n connected with the firm of Six Associates, architects and engin eers in Asheville He served three years in the Army during World War If,, with two of them in the Pacific Theatre. lie is the son of Mrs. Henry il. Foy and tile late Mr. Fo.v. Clyde's 'Finer Carolina' Group Adopts Six Projects I (Sep Picture Pace 1, Section 2) All olTioers of l he Clyde "Finer Carolina" organization were re- j elected and six new projects were adopted Friday night at a join' meeting of the Finer Carolina group and the Clyde Lions Club, one of the supporters of the pro grain. at the Central Methodist Church. Named to serve for another year were: G C Starr. Jr.. chairman; Glenn I) Brown, vice Chairman; and Mrs. Larry If Caglo. publicity chair man. Finer Carolina projects adopted by the group were I Beaut ideation of the front of the new Clyde High School gym nasium. i 2. Beaut ideation of Hie business and residential districts. 3. Flection of signs on principal streets. 4. Purchase of additional fire ( fighting equipment. 5 inviting a doctor to settle in Clyde 6. Attracting industry to Clyde. Project chairman will ,he Mr. Brown, No 1; Larry 11. Caglc. No (See Clyde?Page 6i Down To Three Here Sunday Haywood's coldest "seise of the winter" let up mid-day Sun day. after the mercury dipped to five on Saturday, and down to three Sunday. At noon today, snow Hakes were falling, and according to the official weather bureau, the tem perature this morning was IX. At Max I'atrh Saturday, at X a.m. there was three inches of snow, and the reading was three below aero. County Farm Bureau Will Elect Officers Officers fir 19515 will be selected by the Haywood County Farm Bu reau at a meeting at 7?:>(> p.m. Wednesday in the commissioners room at the courthouse. Several oilier important items of business will be taken up at the meeting, according to Jarvt.s Cald well. president, and Mrs. Quay Medford, secretary, of the Farm Bureau. Annual Adult Membership Scout Enrollment Begins lunarians have started an adull membership enrollment for Bo> Scouts, with a quota ot $2,100. Paul McKlroy is general chair man, and is being assisted by Ralph Prevost. Dr. John Penny. Joe Massle. and Charles Way. The club membership has been divided into 30 teams, and the teams will work under one of the above assistants. Jack Wav is treasurer. ? McKlroy said the quota is rais ed $500 above last year due to ex pansions at Camp Daniel Boone, at Kast Fork, and other phases of the Scout program which Is termed essential. The records show the Seoul pro gram in the Daniel Boone Conn-, cil Is much lower than the nation al average.McElrov pointed out. / Highway Record For 1955 In Haywood (TO DATE) Killed .... 0 Injured.... 7 Accidents.. 25 Loss.. $10,304 (Till* Information com piled from records ol - Slate lllchwajr Patrol.)