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^VlSVlLLe K v Klr" *' ? * * / ? ;? ? - . "ir" 31 E People Than rva S; ' IB ? 1.HE mYNESYILLE MOUNT A TNFFP ? ? iT1VLli>I JAJJ>^K o?: ? 1 jriAR NO. t> 18 PAGES Associated ftess WAYNESVILLE, N. (., THl'HSDAV AFTERNOON, FEB. 24, In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties ? ? lison County Delegation In Raleigh Asks Public Hearing earing Called On Pigeon River Road Plan ' X X X-. X- MWMWWWWWWWA A A A * n ^ n ^ .p T ?getables Can Increase Farm Income $500,0(M oway ; Market ie Open' I County fanners could leir income by at least a In dollars each year by egetables and fruits for jercial markets, County |il L Holloway told The er Wednesday, irmers assembled at the 1 to hear specialists from te College discuss the rotation on the growing Irs and some fruits, and the raising of poul attle, and hurley tobae ly well stabilized in the : present and apparently increased materially in >, Mr. Holloway said. I portable iparkel is wide e both the soil and the grow vegetables and aantity and quality," he d ot vt getable produe * crowded and the t'u bright because Ameri days ar? eating more i. Mr. Holloway explain r. we must have quality hiih will bring premium added. case the size of the s coniniercial vegetable county agent- believesl a tor need is for a mar to the ones in Ho'ider ' can get such a market f the production and if i s display interest in ire w ( tables and lruiis the county, at Hender tshrville, Atlanta, and Is. lyoesville Chamber of is interested in this tl is currently studying sliment of a market in Mi Ilohoway said, county's total of 2.900 county agent estimated esctables?Page 4) ng Drive med For 'hursday i porchlight drive for ( clothing for the Com othing Closet will he ?sdav night, March 3, it 7:30 p.m. io, sponsored by the j er of the Moose, is ; an effort to replenish J cf clothing for which nstant demand. Collec s made by members of nd volunteers from the Club and the Woman's i with clothing to con asked to turn on a at the specified time, will not be at home evening are asked to lights on and their do the porch. Calls may the home of Mrs. Rog GL 6-6045, or to the office, Gp 6-4141, for > is overlooked by the ? to Mrs. Walker, the f'd is for children's it adult garments are I It is requested that ! be put in as good con o^ible so that it may cd at onee. ler i?l?, cooler Thursday. Fri r*ble cloudiness and ' In temperature with 'casional rain. ' ^.vncsville temperature * the State Test Farm: Max. Min. Prec. M 42 ? S3 50 .70 S2 38 .80 RECORD Sl l as the Dayton Rubber March of Dimes Committee hands over checks totaling S3.825.75 to Rev. Earl ISrendall, chairman. Shown i here, looking on are left to right: Minnie Spen cer, Chairman Rrendall. Bessie Tucker, l,ewis Keener, Noble ArrinRton, and Truman Grasty. chairman of the Dayton Committee. Absent when the picture was made are John Messer and Don na Robeson. 1,000 Jehovah's Witnesses To Meet Here March 11-13 Scout Quota Of $2,100 Appears To Be Near Goal The $2,100 quota for the Boy Scouts will be met. according to all indications. Chairman l'aul McElroy announced today. Several of the 30 teams of the Kot&ry Club have until this weekend to complete their can vass, McElroy said. Chairman McElroy said that every member of the Rotary worked and worked hard on the canvass. "The quota this year was $500 more than last year, which meant much harder and consistent work on the part of the Kotarians," McElroy pointed out. Interest in Scouting 'here has increased in the past few years, and the plans for an enlarged program at Camp Daniel Boone in this county will affect this area, Scout leaders have point ed out. Between 800 and 1000 people are ekpeeb d 0> tlift. three-day meeting of the semi-annual Cir cuit Assembly of Jehovah's Wit nesses here March 11-13. The 1955 semi-annual event for Circuit No. 2. embracing Western North Carolina. Northeastern Georgia and South Carolina, will be held in the Waynesville Town ship 'High School auditorium, it was announced by Henry H. Cur tiss, of Waynesville, spokesman for the Witnesses. Mr. Curtiss pointed out that twice yearly the New York world headquarters of Jehovah's wit nesses, the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Incorporated, spon sors small conventions of this kind throughout the world. Our last Circuit Assembly was held in Grfcenville, S. C., last October, at the Meadowbrook Ball Park, with ; 835 in attendance. t The Circuit Assembly for Way nesville is a three-day event and its purposes is Bible instruction and concentrated Gospel preach (See Church Group?Page 4) Cagle Furniture Selling Out Store Announcement is being made to day that Larry H. Cagle, owner of Cagle Furniture Company, Clyde, is going out of business. The an nouncement in this issue, explains that the furniture stock will be sold at auction, starting Friday evening. j Cagle opened the business 10 years ago, just* after geUing his | discharge from the Navy after j four years of active duty. Prior to pntering service he was connected with Champion Paper and Fibre Company. He is police court judge of Clyde, and fire chief. He has made no announcement as to his future plans. Meeting Slated Friday To Plan '56 ACP Program . An open meeting of county agri j cultural officials and farmers will (be held at the ASC at 2:30 p.m. Friday at the courthouse to discuss | recommendations for the 1956 Agricultural Conservation Pro ! gram. Albert W. Ferguson, ASC coun ty manager, explained that the ACP program is set up months in advance through recommendations of "grass root" groups. Results of the meeting here will be reported to the state ASC office, which will, in turn, make its recommen dations to Washington. The meeting at the courthouse is open to interested farmers and will be attended by ASC, Extens ion,, Soil Conservation, District. ' and Vocational Agricultural rep resentatives. Anniversary Banquet Is Set Friday By Rotarians Rotarians will combine three events in one here Friday night at a banquet at the WTHS Cafeteria. The banquet will be an observance of the Waynesville Club's 30tli an niversary. and International's 50th anniversary, both combined for a ladies night program. Admiral VV. N. Thomas will be the principal speaker. Attending the meeting will be District Governor Ernest Ross, Mrs. Ross of Marion, and former dis trict governor. Rev. and Mrs. M. ! R. Williamson, formerly of Waynes- I ? ville and now of Charlotte. William S. Ray, president, will preside, with M. H. Bowles serv ing as master of ceremonies. The banquet will be served un der the supervision of Mrs. Rufus Slier, and the Cafeteria staff, with Home Ec students serving. Jack Elwood is general chairman of the banquet program, which is part of the international observ ance of the 50tfi anniversary of Retary. The organisation is n<r.. operating in 89 countries of the world, in 8.400 clubs having a mem bership of abrfht 400 000. Dayton Rubber Folk Set Record For Polio Fund Employees of Dayton Ru >oer , Company went $325 above their $3,500 March of Dimes assumed quota, as they paid over to the fund, checks totaling $3,825.75. Truman Grasty, chairman, said the committee set a goal of $3,500 for the Davton group early in Jan uary. "We knew the goal was high, but we also knew that by hard work we could reach it with suc | cess." Chairman Grasty said that the total is well over an average of $3 per employee, and that in the Maintenance Department, the av erage there was $6.08 per man. * M. . ' Drendall. area chairman, pointed out the pleasure it had been to work with such a cooperative, hard-working group of people. The Dayton employee contribu tion was the largest single sum ! paid into the fund this year in Haywood. Rogers Opens Ford Tractor Agency In Clyde - T. Hugh Rogers of Clyde has! purchased the Ford tractor agency | I here, known as the YV'aynesville ! Tractor Co., and has moved the dealership to a site on the super highway in Clyde. ) Mr. Rogers will be the author ized dealer for Ford tractors and ; Dearborn farm equipment in Hay wood. Jackson, and Swain counties j j and will offer complete service 011 I all makes of tractors and farm ma- i chinery. Six people will be em ployed by the new Clyde firm. Mr. Rogers is one of the original j ; owners of the Waynesville Trac-1 tor Co. t Many Attend Revivals Of H. Baptists Tonight will bring to a close the ! t-day county-wide revival services of Haywood's 53 Baptist churches. Rev. Elmer Greene, Associational Missionary, said the pastor's con ference would continue through the Friday morning session at the i Clyde Baptist chdrch. Attendance at the pastor's conferences has i been about 35 or more daily. The attendance at the five : churches in the county where the revival is being held has been] somew hat lower than last year, be cause of wide-spread illness, and the bad weather. Rev. Mr. Greene ! said. The average attendance for1 the first two nights was about 685. he reported. The theme of the revival is "A United Front For Christ." - Speakers for the five churches are: E. L Spivey, state mission sec retary of the North Carolina Bap tist Convention, at Waynesville; the Rev. Guy S. Cain, Ilainpton ville, N. C., at the Barberville Church; J. C. Pipes, assistant pro motional secretary of the N. C. Baptist Convention, at the Fines Creek Churclj; the Rev. Nane Starnes. pastor of the West Ashe ville Baptist Church, at Calvary Church, ahd the Rev. Earl Brad lay. promotional secretary of the N. C. Baptist Convention, at Mt. ; /-ion church. Annual Drive To Be Planned By Red Cross A meeting of volunteer workers for the annual Red Cross drive in the Waynesville area will be held at 8 p.m. Monday at the home of chairman Leo Leslie on Jackson Drive in the Country Club section. The Red Cross enrollment cam paign will open March 1 and con tinue through the month. The goal this >ear is $.1,000. Another drive will be collected in the Canton Bethel-Clyde area. Mr. Leslie invited persons in terested in the Red Cross drive to attend the meeting Monday night. The need for rural workers is especially urgent, he said. Ln addition to the solicitation to be carried on here, several hund red letters also will be sent to summer residents of this area. Ed Sims Sells Firm To Haynes Ed Sims, a well-known business man here for the past 15 years, has ?old his business to Joe Haynes, and plans to enter another field in the near future, in a nearby town. Sims will keep his farm, al though he sold his business and about an.acre of land and building to Haynes. Mr. and Mrs. Sims will live here until school is out. and then plan to move to their new home. Sims said he would have an announce ment to make relative to his busi ness plans in the near future. Self - Education Pays Off For Native Of White Oak I I By BOB CONWAY Although formal education is very helpful, the lack of it has | not proved to be a barrier to suc cess for a White Oak native who left this section more than 40 | years ago and rose to a high po sition in the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa). The subject of this modern suc cess story is D. R. Baldwin who decided he wanted "to see the world" back in 1912 and headed over the mountain from his Hay wood County home to seek work as an electrician. ?j His first stpp *as in Knoxville, j Tenn.. where he worked one year | for Bell Telephone. He next went to Chattanooga for a job with the Tennessee Power Co. and later left ' that Arm for the company he was to remain with for 39 years?? (See Baldwin?Page 4) I ? -l. n. R. R AJ.DWIN Governor Hodges Given 1 Facts About Park Area GOVERNOR Ll'THER IIODGES i heard many details relative to the Great Smokies and roads in the area, and their importance to Park development, at a con ference in his office Tueslay. Governor Luther Hodges show- s ?d keen interest in the presents-1 ion ol Edward Hum me 11, superin- t endent of the Smoky Mountains ' c National Park, of the program of ( 'oads in and adjacent to the Park i i irea. i Supt. Huinmell was accompanied ! o the Governor's office Tuesday -norning for the conference by < Chairman A. H. Graham of the j 1 state Highway? Commission; R.' 1 [Jetty Browning, chief locating en-1 ' jineer of the commission, State' i Senator William Medford, Repre- ; < sentatiye Jerry Rogers, Charles | ! Ray. former chairman of the N, C. Park Commission, and D. Reeves i Noland, former highway eommis- j sioner of this district. Governor Hodges showed much interest in the steady increase of travel in the Park, as Supt Hum-1 mell cited that more than 2,500,- I 000 visited the Park last year. The Park official also expressed a de- i sire that, state roads would soon be completed whereby the Eastern | end of the Park could be develop-! ed, R. Getty Hrowning. armed with ? a sheaf of maps, showed Governor | Hodges the area in its relation to the Eastern Seaboard, and the areas of population from which the Park attracts the greatest num ber of visitors. ? Governor UoAges was visibly impressed wittf the additional facts he received from those at tending the conference Tuesday morning. Senator William Medford. author of the bill creating the State Park , Commission several years ago, ar- j ranged the conference. - Chest X-Ray ; Survey Plans Announced Plans for the operation of two , state mobile units, which will con duct another mass X-ray survey | here in May and June, were made , Wednesday afternoon at a joint 1 4 meeting of the Tuberculosis com-) mittees of Canton and Waynesville I at the courthouse. After some discussion, it was a- < greed that the first unit will be in i operation at Hazelwood May 13. 14, 17, and 18; in Clyde on May 19. 20. and 21. and at Canton from May 24 through June 11. The second unit will be in Way nesville from May 26 through | June 11. i ? Both the Canton and Waynes-1 ville areas will contribute $400 for the survey from funds raised by ; i the sale of Christmas seals. It was also decided to pay the two clerks who work with the! mobile units $7 per day. Miss Dorothy Whisenhunt. sec retary at the Health Department and treasurer of the Waynesville TB Committee, disclosed that the county had a total of 24 active cases of tuberculosis last year ? of which number 12 were in sani loriums, 2 in veterans hospitals and 10 at home. During 1954. nine persons were admitted to the hospital for the first time as TB patients, and 15 were discharged from the hospital j ? several against doctors' orders. Miss Whisenhunt said. Planned in conjunction with the X-ray survey is a poster contest for students of the county's seven high schools ? with prizes of $15, ' $10. and $5 to be awarded. Heading their town's TB com mittees at the meeting yesterday were Dr. Jack Davis of Waynes ville and Lee McElrath of Canton E. A. Williamson appeared in be half of the Hazelwood Boosters Club and Boosterettes to ask that the unit operate in Hazelwood. Heart Drive By Jaycees Nets $470 _ A total of $470.55 was donated | to the Waynesvillc area Heart Fund Sunday afternoon during a drive conducted by the Waynes ville Junior Chamber of Com merce, according to Dwight L. Beaty, treasurer for the campaign. ' Twenty-five workers participated in the drive in which the Waynes- 1 ville - Hazel wood - Lake Junaluska area was divided into eight dis-1 tricts. Persons who were not at home Sunday afternoon were left en velopes in which to send their con- ? tributions to the heart fund. The envelopes were to be addressed | to Mr. Beaty. Box 766. Wayncsville. \ Part >?f" fclwr mondy collected in this and other state drives will stay j in North Carolina; the remainder ; will be used by the National Heart ( Association for research on di- J seases of the heart and blood ves-, sels. Mr. Beaty pointed out that part of the money for the exploratory operation on Suzanne Milner of Ilazelwood at the Maj?> Clinic in \ January came from the Heart Fund and several of the techniques used i were developed in research financ ed by the fund. Mrs. Aaron Prevost, district chairman of the Pisgah Girl Scout Council, and Mrs. Roy Campbell | and Mrs. Clyde Fisher, neighbor | hood chairmen, are attending the last session of a leaders' course in Ashcville today. 2 Haywood Boys Nominated For $5/000 Scholarships j Two Haywood high school sen | iocs arc among the six from the Sixth District recommended to the central committee for a $5,000 More head scholarship at the Uni versity of North Carolina. Ted Rogers of .Waynesville and Charles Stamey of Bethel will go to Chapel Hill, March 8-9 to h" Interviewed by trustees of tfie Uni versity and the Morehead Scholar ship Central Committee. The district committee recently interviewed 23 candidates, and selected six D lliden Ramsev, Asheville, I* district chairman. State Senator William Medford is a member of the .district commit tee. The other four seniors from the Sixth District going to Chapel Hill for further interviews are: Clifton Metcalf, Transylvania County; Charles B. Reed. Jackson; Gary M. Hipps, Polk, and Benjamin C. Sumner, Rutherford. William M. Corpeuing and Rich ard A. Wood, Jr., of Buncombe were chosen as alternates,* inter - State Proposal Is Dbjected To 3y Madison The State Highway Commission, neeting in Raleigh this morning, ailed a special public hearing be orc asking that the Pigeon River toad b? put on the inter-state ystem. The hearing will be before a ?ommlttee of three members of the commission, to be named by Chairman A. H. Graham. The icaring will be held in Asheville, ind the date, will be announced iooq. Harry Buchanan, commissioner jf the 14th district, told The Vlountaineer over telephone from Raleigh, that the public hearing was called at the request of a dele gation from Madison countv, head Pd by Sheriff E. Y. Ponder. The Madison group, accompanied by some Buncombe citizens, held a confeernce BdHt Governor Luther Hodges Wednesday about high ways. The Madison delegation, with their Highway Commissioner, J. F. Snipes, of Marion, asked that the hearing be held before the State Highway. Commission took formal action of requesting the Bureau of Public Roads put the Pigeon Riv er Road on the inter-state system. Last December the Tennessee State Highway Commission took action asking that the ropd be placed on the system, and re quested the same action of the North Carolina Highway Commis sion. Commissioner Buchanan was all aet this morning to make the mo tion and get the North Carolina Commission to formally, request that the Pigeon River Road btf put on the Federal inter-state system. "We are not fighting any road? (See Hearing?Page 4) Cole Rites Held Today . In Canton William Garvin Cole. 78, retired Canton merchant, died unexpected ly Wednesday morning in his home at Canton. Funeral services were held at 3 p.m. today at the Canton First Baptist Church. The Rev. Horace L. Smith, pastor, officiated and burial was in Bon-A-Venture Cem etery. Active pallbearers were Frank Wykle, W. G. Rodgers, I'atil Mur ray. P. V. Hamrick. Frank Col lins. and Gurley Robinson. Honorary pallbearers were mem bers of the Men's Bible Class and the Baraca Class of the First Bap tist Church, Flower bearers were members of the church's Women's Missionary Society and TEL Class. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Minta Searcy Cole; two sons, Charles of Savannah, Ga., and W. G. Jr. of Nashville. Tenn.; two daughters, Mrs. Frank Hester of Roxboro, N. C? and Mrs. Thomas Goodman of Canton; two brothers, (See Cole Funeral?Page 4) County 4-H Council To Meet Saturday Plans for observance of National 4-H Club Week by Haywood County 4-H Clubs will be made Saturday at 10 a.m. at a meeting of the 4-H Council at the court house. Neal Kelly, of Bethel, council president, will be in charge of the meeting. National 4-H Week w ill be mark ed this year March 5-13. Highway Record For 1955 In Haywood (TO DATS) Killed ?.. ? 0 Injured.... 7 Accidents.. 26 Loss ?. $10,384 (Thta Inforautioft c*m-* piled from reeeids ?t State Highway Patrol.)