DR. JOHN R. KERNODLE of
BurUnrton, pioneer leader in
cancer research in North Caro
lina, has been named state chair
man for the 1955 Cancer Cru
sade, to be conducted in April
by the North Carolina division
of the American Cancer Society.
I
School
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technicalities of acts relative to the
transfer of the block - square
school property from the town to
the county back in 1923, and then
30 years later when an act of the
Legislature authorized the return
of the property to the Town, with
certain portions to the Haywood
County Library'.
The records reveal that the town
did not make a deed to the prop
erty to the County at the time of
the 1923 transfer. Although the act
of the legislature authorizing the
transfer stipulated that a "deed
shall be made the county." This
was not done.
One technical question of law is i
whether or not the Waynesville ^
school district was abolished. It is
a fact that the county took over
the school, both sides admitted, j
and the duties of the board of trus- j
tees were assumed by the county ,
board of education. ,
All the trustees of 1923 are dead, (
and their successors were appoint- ,
ed by terms in the legislative act (
of 1953. The 1923 trustees func
tioned until 1924, the records re- ]
vealed. (
J. R. Morgan showed county !
auditor records that a special tax j
of 50 cents, was levied on Waynes- i
ville township through 1926 for
school purposes, and 40 - cents '
special levy until 1933. He claimed
that this levy.was for the payment (
of the i$41,300 indebtedness on the i
township school property at the j
time the county took over in 1923.
The plaintiff, in turn, argued that ]
the levy was for payment on ?177,- j
000 in bonds which were sold for )
the construction of the new high '
school here in 1924. It was at this |
point that Judge Moore said the i
attorneys would have to dig into t
the records of some 30 years ago
to determine "whose money paid |
for the bonds." ]
The Town, through Mr. Morgan, I
argued that the special levy, came t
for the most part from within the
city limits. 1
"The county as a whole did not I
pay off the bonds," he said.
"The Town of Waynesville car- j
ried the big part of the debt," he
continued, as he turned and re
read a portion of the minutes of
the Board of Education minutes of
April 7, 1924, which had been in
troduced earlier by W. R. Francis,
and F. E. Alley, Jr., attorneys for
the Board of Education. The sec
tion of the minutes read:
" - - - and it was further order
Jaycees
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torney. The winner in 1951 wai
Charles F. Isley, director of musii
at Waynesville Township Hlgl
School, and in 1952, the Rev
James H. Coleman, former pastoi
of the Shady Grove Methodisi
] Charge.
In charge of arrangements foi
the DSA banquet is a committee
composed of Andy Blanton, chair
man; Raymond Caldwell, and
Doug Worsham.
ed that the County B<>;u j of Educa
tion assume, to be paid out of the
funds belonging to the Waynesville
Township Special School Taxing
District, the school indebtedness
of the town of Waynesville of ap
proximately $41,300.
Mr. Morgan introduced an ex
tract from the minutes of the board
of commissioners of August 22.
1933, which as he pointed out:
"showed that the special school tax
district existed and that special
levies were made to that time, as
the minutes read: " - - - it is or
dered by the Board that the coun
ty attorney draw proceedings and
necessary orders for the county to
assume any and all debt service
due by the Special School Tax
Districts, and the same become a
county-wide debt, and that the tax
levy for such school indebtedness
become county-wide."
It was brought out that the
Town did not levy a tax for
schools after 1923, and argued by
Mr. Morgan: " - - - that while the
county treasurer paid for the
bonds, ($41,300) it was from
monies collected through the spec
ial levy of 50 cents and later re
duced to 40 cents for the 10-year
period after the county assumed
control of the school."
These facts in the case remain
undenied:
In 1923 the county took over the
school. The indebtedness ?,t the
time was $41,300.
In 1953 the General Assembly
authorized the property be re
turned to the Towh for recreation
purposes and other public use,
when the Haywood Board of Edu
cation finished with the building
For school purposes. Provision was
made in the 1953 act to name
three trustees. These trustees ?
lonathan Woody, Hugh Massie,
and Mrs. Charles E. Ray ? acting
iccording to provisions of the law,
signed a deed to the property as
signing it to the Town of Waynes
? J
No deed was ever made by the
["own to the county in 1923.
The Town has the new deed
1954), while the county remains
n possession of the property, us
ng it for a storage warehouse.
Last November the County
Board of Education entered suit
against the Town for title to the
property. The case is now in court.
Die judge hearing the cast wants
;his question answered from the
records: "Whose money paid off
:he $41,300 indebtedness"
It is a complicated, and highly
:echnical case. The answer will be
known probably in early fall, when
the State Supreme Court gives
their decision.
In the meantime, the county
board of education will continue
to use the building, and the town
will cling tight to their deed to the
property.
In the early 19th century, labor
unions were classed as conspiracy
by courts and were illegal.
Dentists running their own prac
tices in the United States average
net incomes of $7,820 a year and
doctors $13,432 before taxes, says
the Twentieth Century Fund.
LAST OF NATIONALIST GARRISON IN FROM TACHENS
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IAST OF THE NATIONALIST garrison from the Tachen Islands, these soldiers arrive at Keeping, Formosa,
where a gala reception awaited them. Bands played and flowers were strewn by pretty girls as they
marched in the streets But the troops were not gay. They reflected the feelings of their commander,
Lt. Gen. Liu Llen-yi, who said he felt "ashamed" as he left the islands. 'International)
tififcayjii
so THIS
NEW YORK ?
|By North Callahan
With all the new-fangled things
In our schools nowadays, it is not
surprising that this happened here
the other day. It seems that in a
local elementary school, they have
not only teachers and principals,
but psychologists who take the
place of the old-fashioned paddles.
These individuals are supposed to
find out what is wrong with the
student and try fo correct it?or
him scientifically?and to ascertain,
If possible, the cause of said prob-1
lem. So when a psychologist asked |
a certaih 6-year-old who hod been 1
sent to him, what was the matter, i
he replied he had problems. Where, j
asked the psychologist. At home,
was the reply. How jnany? Two,
was the answer. "What are they?"
finally asked the psychologist. "My
parents," was the reply.
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3
The current rise in the stock
market and the effects it is having
on people, one way or the other,
remind me of what the late Grant
land Rice honestl^ wrote, he said
that if he had not lost his money
in the crash of the 1929 market, he
would have, in all probability be
cause of the resulting ease from
work, have ended up a sot.
3
; At the corner of 42nd Street and
Lexington Avenue, they are build
ing another skyscraper. This one
will be, by- comparison to Mount
Everest and the Empire State
Building, a midget, being only 42
stories of stainless steel, with self
operating elevators. Passing by
there, I asked Jerry Morelock, the
Ohio-born construction supervisor,
why New York has more skyscrap
ers than any other city, and he
said it was because there is such
a huge bed of solid rock under
neath Manhattan, something that
Is necessary for the foundations of
all tall buildings.
3
When Alben Barkley was here
recently, he told of a Republican
who thought he might get a state
Job for himself when Kentucky
elctcd its first Republican governor
in 1895. He mounted his faithful
mule and rode miles to the state
capitol, hung around there for
months. Finally with money gone,
he saddled his mule and started for
hofne. On the edge of town he met
a friend who asked him why he
was in such a hurry to leave. "Hur
ry." exclaimed the man. "All m;
life I've heard that the office
should seek the man and I've been
here three months and haven't seen
an bffice seeking a man yet. If you
happen to see one looking for a
man, after I've gone, tell it I'm
ridin' out Somerset Pike and ridin'
durned slow!"
When Robert L. Kincaid. presi
dent of Lincoln Memorial Univer
sity on a visit here, saw the big
tree in Rockefeller Center, he was
impressed, but it reminded him of j
another tree, now long gone, but to
him meaning much more. It was a
big beech tree at his boyhood home
i near Blairsville, Ga. in which he
used to climb and frolic in his 1
carefree davs of boyhood. Not quite
carefree. He wore brogan shoes |
and got up ?arly and cut crossties
in wet weather. But the joys more
than made up for it, the days when
life was fresh and keen and little i
things meant so much because they
were new and exciting. Of the two I
trees, he said if he had his choice I
he'd take the old beqch.
3
This may be an old one, but is
so appropriate to this city, it should
be here set ddwn,. A preacher and .
a New York taxi driver tried to
eet through the Pearly Gates. St. j
Peter let in the driver, made the )
minister wait. The latter asked
why. "Because," smiled St. Peter,
"that taxi driver has scared the
devil out of more people than you
have."
3 ?
Gotham Gatherings: Stuart Gor- I
rell, local banker, was a student
at Indiana University and named j
the song, "Star Dust" which his
classmate Hoagy Carmichacl wrote I
. . . reports from Ontario are that j
officials are very pleased at the !
journalistic portrayal given of'
their province by Charlotte N.C. 1
publisher, B. Arp Lowrance . . .
you can ride from here to Boston I
and baak, railroad excursion rates,'
for $5.50 . . . sign in an 8th Ave
nue bakery: "Pies like mother used
to make, 30 cents. Pies like mother
used to think she made, 60 cents."
*- *
One third of Ohio's farm fami
lies earn more than half their in
come in nonfarm work.
About 2Vi million cubic yards of
silt are removed from New York
f harbor every year.
Signals Crossed
FT. MONMOUTH, N. J. <AP> ?
Foreign soldiers trained at this
Signal Corps center under the Al
lied Military Training Program do
all right learning the technical as
pects of communications, but
American speech and food just
about floor them.
An Italian major put it this
way:
"I studied school books. I learn
ed that you say "hello" when you
greet a person in America. But I
come here and everybody says 'hi'
or 'how the hell are you.' "
And a Korean officer adds:
"The riclf American food just
about knocked me out for the first
few weeks. But now I like it."
Birds as well as planes take off
against the wind.
DEATHS
J. E. KEPHART
J. E. Kephard, 79, died in bis
home in Canton at 4 p.m. Satur
day after a long illness.
funeral services were held to
day tat 2:30 p.m. in the First Bap
tist Church in Canton. The Rev.
Horace L. Smith, the pastor, and
the Rev. O. L. Leoford officiated.
Burial was in Bon-A-Venture
, Cemetery.
i Nephews were pallbearers. Mem
! bers of the Berean Sunday School
i Class of the First Baptist Church
were flower bearers.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs.
Edna Wilson Kephart; a son,
Grady A. of Charlotte; three
daughters, Mrs. Claude Swafford
of Canton, the Misses Willie and
Anna {<ePbart of the home; a
brother, John, of Murphy; and two
grandchildren.
Kephart was a son of the late
Samuel Ray Kephart and Mary
Ann Palmer Kephart of Cherokee
County.
A retired merchant, he had liv
ed in Canton the last 29 years, and
was a member of the Marble
SDrinas BaDtist Church, at Marble,
Cherokee County. Crawford Fu
neral Home was in charge of the
arrangements.
MRS. FRANCES PRICE
Mrs. Frances Palmer Price, 42,
died Saturday at 6 p.m. following
a brief illness.
Funeral services were held at
the Liberty Baptist Church at 2
p.m. Sunday. The Rev. D. D. Rus
sell and the Rev. B. C. Fugate of
ficiated and burial was in Wesley
Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Guy Hannah,
Hugh White, Vinson Linnings,
Horace Messer, and Jerry and
Leonard McElroy.
Surviving are the husband, Glenn
Price of Waynesville, Route 4;
three sons, J. D., Willie and R. D.
of the home; the mother, Mrs.
William Palmer; four sisters, Mrs.
Albert Price. Mrs. Lester Franklin,
Mrs. Hugh Messer and Miss Selma
Palmer; and two brothers, Frank
and Wade Palmer, all of Waynes
ville, Route 4,
Crawford Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
AQUAMAIDS IN PERFECTfJ
BEAUTY AND SKILL are combined as these aquamaidi sal
water on Lake Eloise, Florida. Form was accented aslhgl
(exhibition that is pictured above. (/ntcrnattotuligfl
Cold Gets The Birds
BOYNE CITY. Mich .<AP> ? I
Caught 'n a surprise cold wave,
two swans were frozen into the j
ice that formed on a mill pond in
the Boyne River. While Police
Chief Floyd Newville and Conser
vation Officer Ed Sartnell were
preparing for rescue operations, j
nature took a hand.
The sun softened the ice suf-.
ficiently for one to break loose.
Ten minutes later the other also
clambered out. First thing they
did when they got to shore was
lie down and rest.
want Ads bring quick results
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Spani ih < > mi tbefl
tlu> Ni'\\ World in t|fl
Panama m 1502.
A taxic-ali driver kfl
lectin ii al .\iw Yoitfl
speakii .? class itfl
tnfi occupations.
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IS ALE
FEB. 23rd THROUGH 28th
HOME FREEZER & LOCKER HOLDERS
Eight Different 12 Items of
fr07pn frozen
vegetables vegetables
121clb 15clb'
strawberries
SPINACH, TURNIP 10 oz. 25c ea.
MUSTARD, KALE $2.60 Doz.
and 'COLLARD GREENS
16 oz. 37c ea.
18Clb $4.00 Doz.
ORANGE JUICE PERCH FILLET
OCc lb
I $1.40 Per Doz.
^ ^ ^ plus many other
sea foods
FREE ? with every order of $5.00 or more
we will give four colorful plastic
SALAD BOWLS
LONESOME BEN SAYS. "I'm (ivlnt this food away folks.
Sale starts at S a.m. Wednesday morning and lasts till 6 p.m.
Saturday if there is anything left that long."
I FARMERS FEDERATION J?
? Depot Street Phone GL *-5561
THE OLD HOME TOWN By STANLEY
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c a^'n ? 557^ t?r j <
by a new auto.'! r-~tmarks alee "s.
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KACK-ffOAP POLKS? * ? ' ' '' '
AH IMPORTANT LOCAL PIRST ? SVMJ&eSJ.
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CHARLES PENLAND
JULIAN PENLAND
? 'I
FRANK PENLAND
THANKS
ON THE OCCASION OF OUR
SECOND
ANNIVERSARY
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WE WISH TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO EXPRESS OUR SINCERE AP
PRECIATION TO OUR MANY FRIENDS AND CUSTOMERS WHOM WE
HAVE SERVED DURING THE PAST TWO YEARS SINCE OPENING OU*
FIRM IN WAVNESVILLE. WE BROUGHT TO WAYNESVILLE, FOR THE
FIRST TIME, A COMPLETE COMMERCIAL REFRIGERATION SALES AND
SERVICE FACILITY.
WE SERVE ALL OF
WESTERN NORTH CAROLlN
WITH J
COMMERCIAL REFRIGERATIO
PENLAND BROTHERS
REFRIGERATION COMPANY
WALL STREET DIAL
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