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R"'1 " ? ? 1 WAYNESVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 26. 1955 a , ~ D
: : ? 1 03 $3.50 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Count* i '
'
igers To Succeed Swift
Prison Superintendent
?PW*PUP?
W. F. SWIFT JERKY ROGERS
SOGERS has been named superintendent of the State
tap at Hazel wood, suceeding Capt. W. F. Swift who is
lick leave, prior to his retirement soon.
Ird Has Power To Sell
bty Farm Without New
State Attorney Says
?All Set To
Ll Decision
pool Case
In of Waynesville will
? appeal of the decision
|Dm K. Moore relative
Hknhip of the Central
I school property, it
B|t today from Mayor
Hd appeal was riven at
^d the decision by
Bin, attorney, acting
?tartan, town attorney.
Ilbore ruieo in favor
?b board of education,
?tat involving the $40,
Hd property.
?? session of the
Bmrt is in August, and
?r the case will be
? it that time.
IAuto
Total
751
iiy vehicle in
(tearing an end
area, the total
ihecked stood at
rednesday. The
51. i
125 more ve
tcd by the end
when the pro
[tleted.
ere inspected at
oh on Boundary
th 101 approved,
loday was 63 ve
il 55 passed.
i3 vehicles went
ing lanes in four
ille and one at
hampered opera
tive days,
ea wound up its
i alter inspecting
:heck lanes have
policemen, high
mechanics from
i members of the
h School Safety
j A bill recently introduced in
the General Assembly, giving the
; county commissioners authority to
i sell the county home and farm,
1 and putting proceeds into the debt
service fund will not be enacted
into a law. This came from Rep.
Jerry Rogers yesterday, who .intro
duced the bill by request several
weeks ago.
Rep. Rogers learned after in
troducing the bill, that a ruling
had been made in 1945 on a simi
lar matter by the attorney gener
al's office, and because of that,
decided with Senator William Med
ford against pushing the Haywood
bill into a law.
The Haywood board's next
scheduled meeting is Monday, June
6th, and there is a possibility that
the matter wil be discussed at that
time.
Rep. Rogers in a letter to Chair
man Faraday Green, said: ,
"In regard to legislation con
cerning the county home proper
ty, I find from the ruling of the
Attorney General that we have
laws giving the County Board of
Commissioners authority to sell
property such as our Haywood
County home property.
"I introduced the bill, as you
well know, in the absence of Sen
ator Medford because I knew if
we did not get the bill in on that
date that we would not be able to
get it through the two Houses.
Then after talking with Senator
Medford. he felt that we already
had a statute to take care of the
above property mentioned and af
'er our talk I asked the Attorney
General for a ruling. I am send
ing you a copy of the letter that
Senator Medford and I received.
(See County Home?Page 2)
Saunook 4-H Club
To Give Play Friday
The Saunook 4-H Club will pre
sent a play entitled "The Begin
ning of a 4-H Club" at 7:30 p.m.
Friday at Saunook School.
The proceeds will be used to de
fray the expenses of a club mem
ber who will represent Saunook
on the Exchange Club's trip to
Weld County, Colorado in June.
The play will be under the di
rection of Miss Phyllis Hartman.
Capt. W. F. Swift
To Retire After
21 Years Service
Jerry Rogers has been named
superintendent of the State Prison
Camp, at Hazelwood, succeeding
Capt. W. F. Swift, who is retiring
after 21 years of service in that
capacity.
William Bailey, director of State
Prisons, told The Mountaineer
from Raleigh, that Mr. Rogers
would assume the post just as soon
as "he got through in the Gen
eral Assembly".
The date was originally set for
May 15th, with the understanding
that the appointment would not
interfere with Mr. Rogers' duties
in the Legislature.
Capt. Swift, on sick leave since
April, will be 65 in September, and
has been granted a sick leave un
til that time, due to the extra time
he has accumulated undcf- state
regulations.
Dock Suderth, of Murphy, is act
ing as superintendent until Mr.
Rogers formally takes charge, it
was announced.
Director Bailey said: "We know
we are getting a good man in Mr.
Rogers. He has had experience in
law enforcement work, and we
feel fortunate in having a man like
him to join the Prison Department.
We hate to see Capt. Swift leave,
but he requested it because of his
health, and the fact that he is near
ing the retirement age. He has
worked hard, and faithfully as
superintendent for these 21 years."
Capt. Swift became superintend
ent in April 1934 of the 75-man
camp. The camp was built in 1932,
and was first set up as a short term
camp for whites, with the late
Sheriff J. F. Cabe as superintend
ent. In March 1934 It was changed
to a camp for colored felons and
has remained that ever since.
There ifc one man stUl in the
camp that went thero in 1934, Capt.
Swift said, and another who served
a term, got out. and in a short time
was right back, and has been* in
prison since 1935.
There have been about 1,000
prisoners in the camp during the
21 years Capt. Swift served as
superintendent.
The camp has 13 guards,
sergeant of the guard, assistant
superintendent and superintend
ent.
Rogers has served on the police
forces of all four Haywood towns.
For the past two years he has serv
ed as attendance officer for the
Haywood county Board of Edu
cation, getting a leave of absence
last January to go to the General
Assembly as Haywood's represent
ative.
He also was with a medical sup
ply for two years, as representative
of this area. He resigned his trav
eling job to become attendance of>
ficer.
Lawrence Lcatherwood, county
superintendent of education, said
they had a notice of resignation
from Mr. Rogers as attendance of
(See Prison Camp?Page 2)
ASC Officials Attend
Meeting At Asheville
The ASC county committee and
personnel of the ASC office at the
courthouse attended an area meet
ing of Agriculture Stabilization and
Conservation officials at the
George Vanderbilt Hotel in Ashe
ville Tuesday and Wednesday.
Horace Godfrey, state ASC ad
ministrator, and Clyde R. Green,
chairman of the state ASC com
mittee, were in charge of the meet
ing.
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Commencement Finals At
WTHS Set For Tonight
Diplomas will be awarded to 14f>
seniors at Waynesville Township
High School at commencement ex
ercises at 8 p.m. tonight in the
WTHS auditorium.
Tonight will mark the fifth in a
series of county graduation pro
grams. Tuesday night, 26 seniors
at Crabtree-Iron Duff High School
were graduated. Last night, 57 re
ceived liplomas at Bethel, 33 at
Clyde, and 17 at Fines Creek.
Still to come are Reynolds'
graduation Friday night, Canton
High's next Wednesday, and St.
John's of Waynesville June 5.
At Waynesville High School to
night, addresses by members of
the graduating class will include:
Salutatory. by Don Shaw, vale
dictory by Ted Rogers, and orn
tions, "Youth of Today" by Betty
Jo Shope and "Claaa of 1955" by
Robert Leslie Hooper.
The class will be presented by
principal C. E. Weatherby and
diplomas will be awarded by dis
trict superintendent M. H. Bowles.
Also to be presented are the DAR
Good Citizenship Award, Beta
Sigma Phi Award, and the More
head Scholarship Award.
The invocation and the benedic
j tion wijj be pronounced by Vhe
Rev. J.' \^. Fowler, superintendent
of the Lake Junaluaka Assembly
and past president of the WTHS
Parent-Teacher Association.
The processional, "Pomp and
.Circumstance," and the recession
| (See Commencement?Pare ?>
HHHHKMK mHHHM
SAME HONORS?M years apart. uecenuy when uavid Beck,
risht, cave his declamation, "The New South" before the Rotary
Club, it brought back memories of 46 years ago to N. W, Gar
rett, left, who also won first place at the Waynesville high school
with the same subject. The two enjoyed talking over the "anxious
moments" of a contestant in such events, and found that the ex
citement, tension, has not chanced over the 46-year period.
(Mountaineer Photo).
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Courthouse, Area Plants
To Nark Holiday Monday
Property To
Be Sold For
Taxes Soon
Formal notice was given this
morning that property on which
1854 taxes have not been paid will
be advertised on June 15th.
This "warning notice" was
made by Bryan Medford, tax sup
ervisor of Haywood county.
Property has in past years been
advertised in August, Medford ex
plained, but a change in the law
and tax year schedule, makes it
necessary to advertise in June.
He warned that those who failed
to pay their taxes at once would
(lave penalty and other costs add
ed.
Car, Truck
Hit Head On |
At Intersection
The intersection of the Aliens
Creek road and U. S. 19A-23 was
the scene of a head-on collision at
10:15 a.m. Tuesday between a 1950
Ford driven by Eddie Ray Cald
well, Route 2, Waynesville, and a
1951 Ford pickup driven by
Lawrence James Franklin of Way
nesville.
Franklin suffered severe bruises
and possible internal injuries and
was admitted to Haywood County
Hospital. Caldwell was not injured.
Patrolman James Turner of the
Waynesville police said that Cald
well pulled out of a service station
driveway just as FrankMn was at- j
tempting to make a left turn from
the main highway into the Aliens
Creek road.
Chief of Police Orville L. No
land said that no charges have
been made pending the outcome of
Franklin's condition, but indicated
that charges will be made.
Damage to the passenger car
was estimated at $300 and to the
truck at $250.
The county courthouse, state of
fices, Waynesville area industries,
and postofflces will be closed
Monday in observance of Memorial
Day, a national holiday, it has
been announced.
Stores, banks, and the town hall
will be open as usual.
Industries to close Monday in
this area are Dayton Rubber, Well
co - Ro Search, Unagusta, A. C.
Lawrence, and Royle-Pilkington.
The Champion Paper and Fibre
Company plant at Canton, how
ever, will work a full schedule.
Other county agencies which
will close in addition to those at
the courthouse are the public li
brary and the welfare department.
The Haywood County Bank and
Building and Loan offices at both
Canton and Clyde will close Mon
day, but those same institutions
will remain open in the Waynes
ville area.
Special Memorial Day services
will be Conducted by the Ameri
can Legion at Green Hills Ceme
tery in Waynesville and by the
Veterans of Foreign Wars at Bon
A-Venture Cemetery between
Clyde and Canton.
The Rev. J. Clayton Lime, pas
tor of the Canton Presbyterian
Church and a member of the Naval
Reserve, will speak at Bon-A-Vent
ure at the program beginning at 4
p.m. Sunday.
The public in invited ? espec
ially Gold Star parents ? to Ser
vices both here and in the Can
ton area.
Sentelle Escapes
Serious Injuries
John E. Sentelle of Waynesville,'
a familiar figure on Main St. in
his wheelchair, escaped possible
serious injury Tuesday when he
attempted to cross the street be
hind a truck which was backing up.
Several women saw his plight
and called to him, but he was un
able to hear them because of par
tial deafness. One of the group,
Mrs. J. C. Bright of Clyde, ran to
him and pulled his wheelchair up
on the sidewalk.
He suffered a cut on the hand
when he put out his hand as the
truck backed up before pulling out
of a parking place.
Salk Vaccine Put Through
Severe Tests, Fender Says;
"Be calm, and don't let hysteria
guide your thoughts and actions,"
Dr. James E. Fender told Rotarians
is he discussed the Salk polio vac
cine, and polio in general.
The speaker traced the history of
poliomyelitis, pointing out that ear
ly this century it was found that
polio was caused by a Alterable
agent. This agent, he explained,
could be reproduced in the mon
key.
There are three strains of polio
virus, and are labeled as type I,
II, and III. Immunity to any one
strain protects against all others
within the same group, Dr. Fen
der explained. "It is possible," he
said, "for the disease to occur
more than once in an individual.
But," he went on to explain, "since
the infection is so widespread and
paralysis is so unlikely to occur, a
person rarely has more than one
form of paralytic polio."
In explaining the strains of polio
virus, the physician made a com
parison by showing that Brahma
and Hereford are both species or
breeds Of cows, yet both are differ
ent, in action, and live and thrive
under entirely different condi
tions. -
The study of polio virus was
hampered for many years by the
fact that the research required
cumbersome and expensive use of
monkeys. Progress in research
really began when it was found
that the virus could be grown by
a tissue culture process.
Dr. Fender went on to explain
that polio Is among the most com
mon infectious diseases, the in
cidence, he said, being comparable
to that of measles.
"Obviously," he continued, "(hen
paralysis is statistically rare. Still,
polio creates great anxiety among
(See Salk Vaccine?Pace ?>
? 7*T v , ? ?. " VjA
Five Cited For Possession
Of Liquor After Raids
3 Traffic
Accidents
Investigated
After investigating six accidents
last weekend and 10 the weekend
previous, county law - enforce
ent officers have been able to re
lax somewhat the last several days.
Highway patrolmen have investi
gated orly two accidents, while
Wayncsvilie police reported a
third.
Shortly after midnight Tuesday,
a 1950 Oldsmobile, driven by Bob
by Joe Holland of Canton, swervel
off U. S. 19-23 a mile east of Can
ton and plunged into a creek on
the south side of the highway.
Patrolman V. E. Bryson of the
State Highway Patrol reported
that Holland's car went off the
pavement on the right side, roll
ed 161 feet, veered diagonally a
cross the highway 114 feet, went
another 103 feet on the left side of
the highway, overturned twice and
then rolled 44 feet up the creek
bed before coming to rest on its
top
Holland was pulled out of the
car by Jerry Lowe, according to
Patrolman Bryson. He suffered
cuts and a bruised right shoulder.
He will be charged with driving
under the influence of alcohol.
The Canton area was the scene
of another accident when a 1950
Chevrolet driven by Bruce Leroy
Smathers of Canton and a 1941
Chevrolet truck driven by William
Carroll Nelson, also of Canton,
collided at the entrance to the
Hannah coal yard in West Canton
at 7:45 p.m. Tuesday.
Nelson was charged by Patrol
man Bryson with failure to yield
the right-of-way.
Damage to the pasaenger car
was estimated at $150. The truck
was damaged only slightly, the
patrolman added.
(The accident investigated by
Waynesville police, which took
place at the intersection of High
way 19A-23 and the Aliens Creek
road, is reported in a separate
story in this issue.)
County 4-H Club
Public Speakers
To Vie Saturday
County 4-H Club public speak
ers will compete at 10 a.m. Satur
day at the courthouse for a place
in the district eliminations at
Asheville in June.
The organization's annual speak
ing contest will be held in con
junction with the May meeting of
the 4-H county council, with presi
dent Neal Kelly in charge.
Summer activities also will be
discussed by the 4-H members?in
cluding the coming visit of the Ex
change Club to Weld County, Colo
rado.
Water And Light
Bills Must Be
Paid On Time
Water and light patrons of the
Town of Wlaynesville stand to have
their utilities discontinued upon
failure to pay their bills promptly.
The board of aldermen in a
special order, has given notice
that they will disconnect, without
further notice, any user of lights
or water, whose account is delin
quent for the prior month, and is
not paid within 10 days after the
bills are mailed.
REV. WILLIAM H. MARQUIS (
DR. WALLACE BROWN
Dr. Brown
Appointed To
Health Post
Dr. Wallace Brown of Waynes
ville has been named as temporary
health ofl'leer of Haywood County
to succeed Dr. 8. W. Jabaut, who
died of a heart attack in Asheville
April 18.
Dr. Brown, the son of Mr. and
Mrs. George A. Brown, Jr., will
finish his internship at City Hos
pital in Akron, Ohio, the first of
July. Before reporting here, how
ever, he will work for one month
with the health department of an
other North Carolina county?on
assignment by the State Board of
Health. 4
Dr. Brown's appointment was an
nounced Wednesday by Garaday C.
Green, chairman of county com
missioners. The appointment is a
I temporary one because Dr. Brown
| expects to be called into service
i as a U. S. Navy officer sometime
in the future. He has already been
commissioned in the Naval Re
serve.
The doctor was graduated from
Waynesviile Township High School
in 1947, from Wake Forest College |
with honors in 1950, and received
his medical degree from the Uni-1
versity of North Carolina in 1934.
He has been interning in Akron
since last July.
Dr. Brown is married to the
former Eunice Fisher of White
ville. N. C. They have one eight
months-old son.
Kiwanis Club
Presents Awards
To 10 Students
Ten students at five Haywood
County high schools?five boys and
five girls?have been named by
the Waynesviile Kiwanis Club to
receive the organization's annual
achievement awards.
Not limited to seniors, the award
is based on improvement in schol
arship.
The recipients for 1955, accord
ing to Charles Edwards of the Ki
wanis Club, are:
Waynosville?Tommy Parris and
Jeanette Goodwin.
Clyde?Billy Jack Fugate and
Iva Ann Deaver
Bethel?Vincent Hall and Hazel
Henson.
Crabtree-Iron Duff ? Frances
Sanford and Steven Walker.
Fines Creek?Virginia Ledford
and Hugh Presnell.
Rev. Marquis
New Pastor
At Hazel wood
The Rev. William H. Marquis, a
native of Charleston, W. Va., and
i recent graduate of Columbia
rheologk-al' Seminary in Decatur,
Ba., will begin his new pastorate
it the Hazelwood Presbyterian
Church Sunday.
He replaces the Rev. Archie C.
Braham, who resigned at Hazel
vood in January to accept the
>astorate of a Presbyterian Church
it. Rock Hill, S. C.
Befori entering the seminary,
lev. Marquis attended the Uni
versity bf Cincinnati and Morris
iarvey College in Charleston. He
ilso served in the Navy for si*
ears during World War II iti both
he Atlantic and Pacific theatres
in an admiral's "flag" (staff) and
iboard a troop transport.
He Is married to the former
Gwendolyn Bevis of Charleston. *
Law Introduced
By Rogers Aids
Local Officers
j i
Five area residents have been
charged with violations of liquor
laws as the result of a series of
raids conducted recently by the
sheriff and his deputies. Waynes
vil'e Police, and state highway
patrolmen.
First to be cited was Lorine
Dalton of Daisy Ave., who was
chargel with possession df five
Pints of whisky, 10 empty pint bot
tles, and two empty fifth bottles
?fter , raid by Sheriff Fred Camp
bell. Deputy Gene Howell, and
State Patrolman Harold Dayton
She is scheduled to appear be
fore Justice of the Peace J J
Ferguson at 1:30 p.m. today.' ac
cording to the sheriff. This will be
the first case to arise here under
the provisions of the recently en
acted law whereby a defendant
can be charged with the sale or 1
possession of liquor on circum
stantial evidence.
Commenting on the raid of the
Si -Thu'n Sherlfr Campbo"
said. This liquor was found in
rZ, , ? h?Uses in U,e v'cinty of
Centra! Elementary School, and is
one of the places presumably re
rrT^ i? 0VWO occasions by the
Grand Jury in its report. We have
been advised that this new law will
enable us t0 get evidence to bring
violators into court. This is the
hrst case."
Homer Patton of Waynegville
already has been bound over to
Superior Court by Mr. Ferguson
or possession of non-tax-paid li
Hr?wh?n Ch"rges made bF the shei
\n h?.wrep?rted he arrested Pat
s?,lrtWBondwJlSeth.?t,^ider ""
'n
Deputies Gene Howell and Carl
raided th P?!'ceman GuV Messer
raided the residence of Mrs Alice
Jackson on Daisy Ave. where they
reported finding a gallon and three
^?nerS non-tax-paid liquor a
small amount of red whisky and'flo
y,'* <?' '?-p.id C
ith stamps indicating that they
*2 PU,rchas6d 1" the past 30
days. Several empty shot glasses
Raids?Page 6)
Haywood's
Chest X-Ray
Total Tops
3,000 Mark
The county's total in the cur
j^" "la*s *-r?y surrey has now
Sored ' mark' " has 1,06,1
More than 800 were examined
at Canton in the first two days of
Ihc^mob", X-iay UV. ?
Another unit opened at the
courthouse parking lot here todav
and examined 123 persons from
t0 a.m. until 12.40 p.m.
Both the Canton and Waynes
yille units will be open until June
'e*iePt Sundays and Monday si
from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. daily.
A total of 2,014 persons were X
rayed during the unit's visit to
Hazel wood, the Dayton Rubber Co -
plant and Clyde.
X-rays are given free to all per
sons 15 yeare of age or older. But
children younger can be examined '
by obtaining permission from their
family doctor or the Health De
partment.
B MEET TUESDAY
? Scouts will meet at
??Tuesday at Central
?^nool. according to
?jj^nian Robertson.
I'UfcSBI
WARM
tf and warm with a
late afternoon and
Utundershowers to
IV 1
iMwille temperature
^ the State Test
l Ma*. Min. Pr.
h ?0 59 .03
| "J6 57 .03
I 7a 5ft .07
Highway
Record For
1955
In Haywood
(TO DATE)
Killed.... 1
Injured.... 37
Accidents.. 74
rLoss ?. $29,229
(This Information com
piled from records ol S
State Highway Patrol.)