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MDMmif0!8 rtr,t s' * ? i ?^|The Waynesville Mountaineer sin Published Twice-A-Week In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park u ju?Q fEAH PAGES Associated Press WAYNESVULLB, N. THURSDAY AFTERNOON. MAY It*. 1955 $3.60 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties cision On Pigeon >er Road Is Near ond Suit Damages di Canton let Held bfor $1,600 were award Ivy Company, Inc., ^ Town of Canton in the lit growing out of street damages within a week il term of Superior Court t court is near the end ?week term, with J'tdge bore presiding, ek a jury awarded Floyd mages for $2,500 against if Canton as a result of totet project. The Town has given notice of ap t Woody case. te Parker was awarded tlement of a case against rt Fire Insurance Com iit of the David Under lie against the Liberty arch, a settlement was ?ring the trial, whereby is of the church agreed !5 The trustees are A. i t, Horace Messer and S. L i of Frank S. Leather and James W. Leather settled over ownership 1 property. if M. V. Jenkins against |$t Iron Company was a Ire was granted Johnnie p and Carrie Nell Mes Hhtreup anoLPaul O. Hapected to adjourn [Child bwned piany I Curtis, t hree-y ear-old ?plain and Mrs. Charles I Waynesvtlle. Route 1. bed Monday when he ?I Siebentisch Canal in ?krmany, according to b received by relatives ft was playing with an ?eighboi - child and a bwgster when the accl- 1 bed, it was reported, ?ttl has tK'cn stationed ? tor two years. Mrs. I their three children ? in April, 195*. * family is being trans- : he States, bringing the 1 y home. The estimated ?rival, according to in received by the Red Iter here, is May 25. 1 in addition to the par two brothers, Charles Ronald Stuart; the pa ?dmother, Mrs. Mary j Route 1. Waynesville: |aternal grandfather, i rirer. of Waynesville, j tfrangements will be 011 arrival of the body. I At Clyde Psh Auto Fire ?*men made ? a run at porning to the Thomp P?d where an automo ? by James Jenkins had ? from defective wiring. Ptins, who lives in ? Cove, was on his way ? ?be Champion plant in P^Se to his car, a 1949 ? *as estimated at $100. extinguished the P* home of Ott Ford. I ?^Wly and mild with ? thuiidershowers today phnesvUle temperature 1 the State Test Farm. ? Ma*. Min. Prec. ? 60 54 24 ? 70 52 23 I 75 47 .24 By W. CURTIS RUSS Editor The Mountaineer Indications this morning were that the State Highway Commis sion could reach a decision on the route of the interstate highway from Western North Carolina to Eastern Tennessee about June first. The Mountaineer learned from a reliable source that the present schedule would permit the decis- ; ion being reached about that date. When the hearing was held in I Asheville April 18 on the two pro posed routes, those favoring the , French Broad route requested , that the Commission withhold a ; decision until a report could be made by T. M. Howerton, engin eer of Asheville, one of those , from Asheville advocating the French Broad route. Chairman A. H. Graham prom ised to held uo the decision until > Howerton could get his. maps and proposals for the French Broad route to Raleigh. The Howerton maps and report * are due in Raleigh this weekend. The Commission's engineers would have about 10 days in which to study Howerton's maps and make their report and decision on the proposals made by the private en- ' gineer of Asheville." Howerton contends that the west side of the French Broad is the logical route for the interstate road, while highway engineers turned thumbs down on the route as being- impractical and too ex pensive to construct. But- at the 1 insistence of a delegation from Madison and Asheville, the Com mission agreed to review Hower ton's proposals before making the final decision. At the April 18th hearing, W. H. Rogers. Jr., chief engineer, and R. Getty Browning, chief locating engineer, termed the Pigeon Riv er Route the only logical route for the interstate highway. With Howerton's reports In ? hand, the engineers will have ten days to study them, and then sometime "about" June first, the decision will be announced, pro vided the present timetable is followed. Sheriff Names Setzer Deputy Sheriff Fred Campbell said to day he had named June Setzer as a deputy, under the terms of the recent law passed in the General Assembly authorizing the sheriff to name three deputies. Sheriff Campbell said that Gene Howell who has been with the of- j flee for some time is included un der the terms of the new law. The third man. to be named from Beav erdam. will be announced soon, the Sheriff said. Deputy Setzer has served as deputy under Sheriff Campbell prior to this. The new law becomes effective fJuly first, so Sheriff Campbell j said he was paying the salaries of the two deputies himself until that time. On Juyl first, the sheriff's ; office goes on a salary basis, with all fees going to the county. Bookmobile To .Cease Operation For 2 Weeks The Haywood County Bookmo bile will not be in operation for two weeks beginning May 23, ac cording to an announcement by Mrs. Frances Jones, Bookmobile j | librarian. Mrs. Jones will be on vacation duriqg the first we^k and will work i ' on records at the library from May ! 30 until June 4. The Bookmdbile will resume op ; eration on June 6. I ASSEMBLY LINE METHODS were utilized here to keep ears and trucks rolling through the safe ty inspection check lane on Boundary St.. which was manned by a police officer, highway patrol man, two mechanics, and several driver training students from Wa.vnesville High School, who jack ed up vehicles and served as checkers. ? (Mountaineer Photo). 866 Vehicles Checked In Waynesville And Hazelwood; 757 Pass Inspection Rep. Rogers Sees Adjournment By Next Thursday Kep. Jerry Rogers told The Mountaineer today that it now looks like the General Assembly might adjourn about May 25 or 26th. "The committee named from both Houses to work out a solu tion on the matter of new taxes should be able to report within a few days, and then the formal j approval of their recommenda tion will not take lone. The talk 1 making the rounds In the legisla tive halls right now is that it looks like next Wednesday or Thursday, for the adjournment." This term of the General As sembly is one of the longest since 1931. In 1931 the adjourn ment was May 27, having start ed January 7. In 1933 the session was from January 4 until May 15. The 1955 Legislature convened January 4fh. Fire Destroys Home At Hazelwood The home of Mrs. J. B. Mash-r burn behind the Ciine-Bradley hardware store at Five Points in Hazelwood was destroyed by fire about 3:30 a.m. Sunday, according to Fire Chief George Bischoff of : Hazelwood. Forced to flee when the blaze started were Mrs Mashburn. her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Donnie Nar more. and Mrs. Narmore's two sons, Gene and Earl. Mrs. Mashburn awakened first I and then roused the other three occupants of the one-story frame | structure. Chief Bischoff reported that the fire started in a bedroom, but said ? the cause was unknown. He estim ated the loss at $2,000. Neither the house nor any of the furnishings were insured. Groups in Hazelwood, Aliens Creek, and Ratcliffe Cove are now taking up money to aid the home less family, the fire chief said. .j (The fire was not reported to The Mountaineer until after presstime Monday evening.) A total of 866 cars went through creek lanes in Waynesville and Hazelwood during the first two and a half days of the current vehicle inspection in Haywood County. This figure was as of 1 p.m. today. Of the -total. 757 vehicles were approved and their drivers given I safety inspection stickers. Driv ers of cars found defective were informed of the defects and urged to have repairs made. Many driv- 1 ers did and brought their cars back fdr a second check. Rain hampered the operations at the check lanes on the lower part of Boundary St. in Waynes ville both Tuesday and Wednesday . The first day, 425 cars w?re in spected, the second day, 3ld. This morning on Beech St. In Hazelwood, 122 cars were checked. Manning the checking statibns are Waynesville and Ha/elwood police, state highway patrolmen, mechanics from Howell, Parkway, Taylor. Watkins, Waynesville Mot or Sales. Potts, and Br.vson and Harrell garages, and driver train ing students from Waynesville Township High School. Police Chief Orville Noland of Waynesville said that 26 prizes are being offered in connection with the inspection program which will continue Friday and Saturday on Boundary St. Vehicles in the Canton area are being checked on Penland St. Pvt. Samuel Cham bens Reported A Little Better Pvt. Samuel Chambers. 19. was ; reported a little better at the Moore General Hospital, where he has been since receiving serious head injuries in an automobile accident near Lake Logan. May 7th. Pvt. Chambers, home just a few hours from Ft. Jackson, went off a 200-foot embankment in a car. Attending physicians say he has a blood clot on the brain. No operation is contemplated. He re mains unconscious the major part of the time. Tractor Deals Death To Rattler An annoyed rattlesnake with 14 rattles went out swinging in the middle of a road at Bethel. The snake apparently came down from the Pisgah range. It was coiled and striking from time to time at passing vehicles. Finally Jerry Autman drove his farm tractor over the rat tler's head. Bill Would OK County Home Sale A bill was Introduced in the General Assembly Wednesday by Rep. Jerry Rogers, upon request, which would give the Haywood county commissioners authoriza tion to sell the county home and farm. The bill provides that the pro ceeds from the sale of the farm would be applied to the debt ser vice fund of the county. The bill tvas sent to the House committee on towns, cities and cpunties. The county home farm, at Bethel, consists of 135 acres, plus the large building used for many years as a county home, as well as some barns. v Early this year, those staying at the home were transferred to licensed nursing homes in the area, as an economic move on the part of. the commissioners, upon recommendation of welfare agen cies, as a means of better provid ing for those staying at the. home. Conservative estimates made by some here this morning was that the farm and home would bring something like $100,000 or more. The county acquired the farm about 1900. 200 Music Students To Be Heard In WTHS Concert More than two hundred students of the WaynesvHle High School will participate in the commence ! ment concert to be presented by i the music department Friday night , at 8 o'clock in the school audi torium. j The program, to be presented under the direction of Charles Isley and Robert Campbell, will include j selections by the orchestra, the Junior. Military and Concert Bands, and the Mixed Chorus. Of spdtial interest during thej concert will be the presentation of special music awards. These will include the John Phillip Sousa award which will go to the out standing senior band student and the AMon Award which will go to an outstanding senior student in either band or chorus. Certificates will be given to the outstanding performer in each of the music groups, the juniors will receive letters and the senior will receive pins. Members of the senior class will: be admitted to the concert free of charge. There are 50 members of the orchestra This is the group that recently played before a group of Southern Music Teachers in New Orleans. The junior band has 40 pieces while the chorus is com posed of 50 voices. The military band has 40 pieces, and the con cert band is made up of 45 pieces! The concluding number on the program will be by the concert (See Concert?Page I) $101,831 Spent In County On ASC Program In 1954 A total of $101,831.53 was spent . during 1954 by the Haywood Coun- I tv Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation organization to assist I farmers in improving their tand. < according to the annual ASC re port issued here last keek. J Of that amount, $82,891.72 was spent on various agricultural prac- I < tices and the remainder, $18,939.81,| < for administration of the ASC pro- 1 gram. 1 The program In Haywood Coun- j ty. it was pointed out, "attacks soil ! I and water problems down where J l they start, on the Individual farms < of the nation. < "It is a program whereby farm- ! i ers and government work in part- t nershlp to save and Improve the i nation's soil resources The pro gram encourages farmers to furth- j i er a definite conservation program i for every farm on the basis of the 'most needed' practices first." < A report on the various prac- < tices approved by ASC included: i Practice No. 1?During the year, i 288 county farmers seeded 907 i ceres ip permanent pasture, for which the ASC paid $18,845 in issistance for the purchase of lime. Fertilizer, and seed. Practice No. 2- ? Ninety-four Farmers seeded 306 acres of per ennial legumes and grass, of which \SC shared the cost, totaling &3.308. Practice No. 3?Fourteen farm: ? ?rs treated 77 acres of cropland I ivith lime to permit the use of. legumes and grasses, with the ASC laying $362. Practice No. 6?-A total of 432 rarmers rcseeded 1.649 acres, rep esenting an - initial improvement >f an established permanent grass j >r grass and legume cover for soil md watershed protection. ASC >aid a total of $23,383 for this tractive. Practice No. 13?Seven farmers .vere given $482 to install 4.917 cet of drain tile. Practice No. 14?Ninty-five farm ers seeded 306 acres for the initial -stablishment of winter annual le gumes or ryegrass on cropland for winter protection from erosion, for vhich the ASC paid $1,000 Practire No 18?For the estab (See ASC Program?Page 6) Baccalaureate Programs Set Sunday At Six Schools 200 Doctors From 5 States < Expected To Attend Second ? Annual Assembly In June > S 1 Lon Chambers, 75, Died Today Of Shotgun Wound Lou L. Chamber*. 75-year-old Bethel farmer, died shortly after reaching the hospital this morn ing from a self-inflicted shotgun wound. Deputy Carl Setzer, investigat ing officer, said that Chambers, in ill health, had placed a 20-gauge shotgun under his left ribs, near the belt, and pulled the trigger as he stood in the yard of his home in the Rocky Branch section near Bethel this morning about 8 o'clock. Members of the family and neighbors said Chambers had been in ill health for some time and they felt this was the cause of his shooting himself, the dtputy sher iff said. ? Chambers was rushed by neigh bors to the hospital where he died while receiving treatment. Survivors include the wife. Mrs. Bessie Singleton Chambers; two sons, Elton Chambers of Asheville (See l.on Chambers?Page 3> County HDC Open House Draws 1,437 A total of 14.17 persons visited seven homes in Haywood Comity Tuesday afternoon in which open house was held in observance of National Home Demonstration Club Week. Miss Mary Corn well, home agent, said that attendance averaged in excess of 200 at each of the seven homes. She termed the program "the most successful endeavor of this type our clubs have ever at tempted. Much interest was shown all the way through." The open house sessions were held at the homes of: Mrs. Harold Hanson iMcKimmon C'lubi at Canton; Mrs. John Mor gan iCanton Homemakers> in the Bethel section: Mrs. J. L. Single ton iBethel Club' at Bethel: Mrs. Jack McCracken <Bethel Clubi at Bethel .Mrs. Will RatclilTe Ulat clifTe Cove Clubi at RatclifTe Cove: Mrs. Will Medford 'Lake Junatua ka Club> at Waynesville, and Mrs Reeves Noland i Ratcliffe Cove Clubi at Lake Junaluska. The committee in charge of the open house program was rnude up of Mrs. H. O. Champion of Way nesville. chairman; Mrs. Rankin Ferguson of the Lakeside Club. Mrs. Clifton Terrell of Bethel. Mrs. liasque Warren of Clyde, and Mrs. Paul Hyatt of the McKimmon Club. | Department Heads In Hazelwood Are Re-Appointed All departments of Hazelwood have been re-named. It was an nounced by Mayor Lawrence Davis today. Roy Stevens is the chief of police: George Bischoff is chief of the fire department. Gene Wyatt is tax collector and office man ager, while Rudolph Carsweil is town clerk. Mark Smith is night fireman, and Jerry Crawford is in charge of the street and water depart ments of the town. Tentative indications arc that < 200 doctors from five states will i be here for the second annual ; Mountaintop Assembly, which will hold a two-da\ meeting here June , 24-25. Dr Stuart Koberson, general chairman, said there is much in- < terest being manifested by the doc tors in North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and "Tennessee over the meeting Last year's as sembly was so successful that plans were made for an even broader program this year. The Assembly is sponsored by the Haywood County Academy of General Practice. The two morn ing sessions will be devoted to the meetings featuring nationally known speakers, and the afternoon turned over to recreation. The first evening the group will visit the drama at Cherokee. A special program is being ar ranged for the wives of the physicians attending. Scheduled to appear on the pro gram are Dr. Heath Denton Bum gardncr, of Temple University; Dr Courtland Davis. Jr., professor at Bowman Gray School of Medicine. Winston-Salem; Dr. W M, Nichol son. professor of the -Duke School of Medicine. Durham and Dr. John Bender, secretary-treasurer of the North Carolina Academy of Gen eral Practice, Winston-Salem. A number of pieces of local literature is being mailed to the list of doctors in the five states a bout the area and the Assembly. Registration will be handled by the Chamber of Commerce. The headquarters will again be the ?Country Club. Lamb Pool's 145 Animals Bring $2568 A total of. $2,588.45 was paid for 145 lambs sold Monday at the county's first lamb pool of 1955 at the Clyde stockyards. Sixty-seven "choice"' I a 111 h s brought a total of $1,335 or an av erage of 22 1/4 cents a pound. Sixty "good" lamhs brought $1,001.38 or an average of 20 1/4 cents a pound. Eighteen .^nimals graded "med ium" were sold for $234 or an av erage of 17 cents a pound. Consignors were Kenneth Best, Or. Frank Killian and Paul Kil lian of Macon County, M. B. Rog ers, Mrs. Welch Singleton. J. N. Powell, Jarvis Cantphell. ,loe Dav is, L. M. Cabe, Gilmer Jones of Macon County. Hilliary Medford, R. F. Rogers and Mrs. Fred Rice. 3 Trees Cut At Old School Called Dangerous Three trees on the grounds of the old Central Elementary School on Haywood St.. have been cut down by town crews with the per mission of the Haywood County Board of Education. Lawrence H. Leatherwood. sup erintendent of schools, said he gave permission for the cutting of the trees on the recommendation of Walter Mehaffey, head of the town's electrical department. The school executive explained that Mr. Mehaffey informed him that the trees threatened damage to town power lines on Boyd Ave. and were a potential menace to passers-by ?? especially during a storm. ? I 107 Graduates , Will Attend Annual Services Baccalaureate services will be teld Sunday lor all of Haywood bounty's 407 graduating seniors except at Canton High School, where the program is set for May 20 Haeca laureate programs will dart at B p.m. Sunday at Waynes ville. Bethel, and Clyde high schools, at Crablree-Iron Duff at 2:30 p.m., at Fines Creek at 11 a.m.. and at Keynolds at 4 p.m. Waynesville iPictures and list of graduates on Page 1. Section 2.i The sermon will be delivered at B p.m. in he WTHS auditorium by the Rev. Earl H. Brendall, pastor of the First Methodist Church, on the subject. "Enjoy Life and Be Useful''. The invocation and the benedic tion will be pronounced by the Rev. James Y. Perry, pastor of Grace Episcopal Church. Musical numbers will include: The processional. "Onward Christian Soldiers," and the reces sional. "God Of Our Fathers," both by Margaret Jean Connatser: the congregational hymn, "Lead On, Oh King Eternal"; and "I Walk With God" by the WTHS chorus. Bethel (Pictures and list of graduates on Page 1. Section 3.) The baccalaureate sermon will be delivered by the Rev. Kenneth C. Crouse. pastor of the Morning Star Methodist Charge. Also on the program, which be gins at 8 p.m. Sunday, are: Invocation by the Rev. L. B. George, pastor of the BethelMeth odist Church, scripture by the Rev. Henry Hope of the Bethel Presby (See Schools?Page 6) Best Greene Win Crabtree Speaking Contest Jimmy Best and Peggy Sue Greene were declared winners in the boys and girls divisions of the declamation and recitation contest for students at Crabtree-Iron Duff lfiRh School, held Tuesday night during a meeting of the PTA. Boyd Fisher was second and George Kirkpa trick third among the boys. Martha Ann Caldwell was sec ond and Jea'n Crawford and Bar bara Crawford tied for third among the girls. , Judges were Mrs. Frank Brown of Central Elementary School, Waynesville: Miss Bcrnice McEI hannon and Mr*. P. T. Phoenix of Bethel School. The contest was co sponsored by the Beta Club and the Crabtree-Iron Duff PTA. J. E. Chambers Is Reported Better James ?. Chambers. 49. of Clyde, was reported today to be resting better, and improving, following serious injuries sustained about R a.m Sunday morning in a car accident. Chambers, driving alone, is be lieved by officers to have gone to sleep, and his car left Highway 19-23 near the Haywood-Buncombe line and landed in a creelc 30 feet below the road. , Chambers suffered a mashed lung, compound fracture of the left leg. and a broken jaw. He is a patient in Mission Hospital. Ashe villc. Highway Record For ? 1955 In Haywood fTO DATE) Killed...; 1 Injured.... 30 Accidents.. 65 Loss.. $26,129 (This Information com piled from records ol State Highway Patrol.) Chest X-Ray Unit Moves To Clyde For Three Days The state's mobile X-ray unit moved to Clyde today where it will be in operation through Saturday. Next week, one unit wilt be at Canton from Tuesday through June 11 (excepting Sunday and Monday) near the Canton postofflce. and j another unit will be at the court house parking lot in Waynesvillc from lliursday through the 11th. Hours are from II a.m.* until 3. p.m. The total of persons who have received the X-rays was 1.412 at 1 the close of the day Wednesday. A total of 740 visited the rolling 1 lab at ilazelwood last Friday and Saturday. Another .672 were ex amined Tuesday and Wednesday at the Dayton Rubber Co. plant. County Home Demonstration Club women are assisting in opera tions of the mobile units. The X-rays/are given free to all persons 19 years of age or older, but younger children can have them made by obtaining permis sion from their family physician ? or the Health Department. i ? i
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