North Carolina Newspapers

STANDARD PTG CO c^np-Mo-ao 8 rim a LOPIAVHjj RT Si The Waynesyille Mountaineer ipfc ^ n Published Twice-A-Week In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park ^ ^ tfEAR NO- 45 12 PAGES Associated Press WAYNESVILLE, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 6. 1955 $3.50 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Countie& tOf Freeze-Damaged is Likely To Recover [iabvey c. brown L PETE BERTOCCI College dents In ay Meet ihaluska RO college students and Mlors of 12 states are Ike Junaluska Tuesday iRtday leadership train ttnce at the Methodist Witbeastern summer as ?ey C. Brown, Nashville, R direct the conference He is associate secretary (irtment of College and I Religious Life at the I Board of Education. Rerence dean is the Rev. Barefield of Mississippi College, Hattiesburg, ?d the daily platform a Dr. Peter Bertocci of Rversity. Bible studies I by Dr. Jack S. Boozer, PWsity, Atlanta, Ga. pristian Alternatives to fc" is the general theme ping, one of six regional p for college students pored this summer a |auntry by the Metho p Movement. Pgram features training ft education, including ^evangelism, missions, Peation, public relations fcts Enroll I Vacation I School ftlment at the annual va p school of the First peh was 170 as the 2 p began this morning. p Robinett, serving as pat of the school, said ?larger enrollment than opening day. W has a faculty of 32, J'bour sessions are be lly from 8:30 until 10:30 1 week, from today until W is catering to stu ^ to 16. FS I CLOUDY and warm today p with scattered thun ft ^ the afternoons. IF*ynesville temperature Ipthe State Test Farm. Max. Mln. Free. V>..... 76 39 _ ft- 79 39 ft 80 42 ? ft' 81 48 ? Most shrubbery damaged by the late March freeze probably will re cover, County Agent Virgil L. Hol loway predicted today. Because of the "recuperative" powers of the plant, county resi dents arc advised by Mr. Holloway not to dig up apparently dead shrubbery until late summer or fall. Later on. the plants may show signs of life, he added. This same advice has been giv tn by John Harris, horticulture specialist at N. C. State College, who also cautioned home owners against hasty removal of the dam aged shrubs. The apple crop situation, how ever, remains as pictured after the freezf. The county agent said that there will be a few more ap ples than originally expected, but that the commercial crop is vir tually a total loss. On the bright side is the dis closure that this year's burley to bacco plants are better than aver age. Although it was feared earlier that there would be a shortage of good tobacco plants in the connty, there now appears to be a surplus, Mr. Holloway said. Plants are generally as good as those in the past and often cVen better. Some early plants were killed by the cold snap, but the majority survived, the county agent pointed out. Wool Pool Opens June 13 At Asheville The only wool pool scheduled in this area will be held at Ashe ville Monday, June 13, and Tues day, June 14, according to Virgil L. Holloway. The pool will be held at the Carolina warehouse on Valley St., where wool will be graded quickly and producers paid by check sooq *#ter. Receipts will also be given "to entitle producers to ASC assist ance. To obtain higher prices, Mr. Holloway advised sheep growers to roll wool with the fleece side out' and tie it with paper twine. No reservations are necessary for selling wool at the pool, the coun ty agent added. Atkins To Complete Course At Rutgers Joe Jack Atkins, assistant cash ier of the First National Bank of Waynesville will return during June to The Graduate School of Banking at Rutgers University for his third summer session. With this session, which will be held on the university's campus at New Brunswick, N. J., June 13 through 23, he will complete his course at the school. Mr. Atkins Is one of over 1,050 bank officers who will attend the two-week session of the school, which is sponsored by the Ameri can Bankers Association. This stu dent body ? from 42 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, China, and Cuba ? represents a capacity enrollment The Graduate School was found ed in 1933 by the ABA to provide an opportunity for advanced study for experienced bankers. Ratcliffe Cove Apple Tree Blooms Twice Although early growth on 29 of his 30 apple trees was killed by the late March freeze, Joe Gaddis of Ratcliffe Cove expects to get about SO bushels from an unusual second bloom on one tree. The apples are of the Yellow Transparent variety. County Agent Virgil L. Hollo way said Saturday that there will be a few more apples this sum mer than originally expected, but added that the commercial cro? is still virtually a total loss. ? .... ? MRS. ROBINSON MRS. TILLMAN . MRS. E. U. ROBINSON and MRS. J. FOUNT TILLMAN will be the principal guest speakers at the fifteenth annual meeting of the Woman's Society of Christian Service of the Methodist Church this week at Lake Junaluska. Mrs. Robinson, of Gallatin. Trnn., is southeastern president of the WDCS and Mrs. Tillman of Lewis burg, Tenn. is a national vice president of the Woman's Division of the Methodist Board of Missions. Methodist Women To Meet j This Week At Junaluska 1 Church St., Too Has Brighter Look It appears that not all the face lifting in Waynesville's business section is taking place on Main St. At present. Church St. also is sporting a brighter look. On the north side of the street, the fronts of six business buildings hare been given a new 1 coat of paint ? including Cent ral Cleaners, Hyatt's Plumbing Co., the Bicycle Shop, the Hat Shop, Hyatt's Lades' Shop and City Barber Shop ? the latter featuring red, white, and blue at the entrance and gray farther up the street. The other places are all white. On the other side of Church St., Ray's Supermarket and De partment Store has completed the Macktopping of its parking lot. t CDP Directors, SCD Supervisors To Meet Tuesday Directors of the Haywood Coun ty Community Development Pro gram, and chairmen of CDP groups in the various communities will meet with supervisors of the coun ty Soil Conservation District at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the court house. Among matters to be discussed will be Haywood County's partici pation in the Carolina Power and Light Company's "Finer Farms" program on soil conservation. Each of the three soil supervis ors will select one county com munity to enter the contest, which begins July 1 and ends next June 30. April Sales Tax Collections Show $4,300 Increase Sales tax collections in Hay wood County during: April ex ceeded those of the same month last year by more than $4,300, according to official figures pub lished in "The Retailer" by the North Carolina Merchants Asso ciation at Raleigh. The tax collections in the county last month were $32, 948.53 compared to $28,419.85 during April, 1954. This total of $32,748.85 in sales tax represents approxim ately $150,000 in retail business. In neighboring Henderson County, of similar size to Hay wood, April tax collections to taled $28,725.19. ? Reports of sales taxes are con sidered as one of the most reli able and accurate "barometers" of business conditions in an area. The fifteenth annual meeting of t the Western North Carolina Con-! ference of the Woman's Society I of Christian Service of the Metho dist Church will be held at Lake | Junaluska, Wednesday. June 8. | through Friday, June 10. Theme of the meeting will be "Where Your Treasure Is". The three-day event, will open ! with a Communion Service Wed nesday at 2 p.m. conducted by Adm. W. N. Thomas, dean of Mem orial Chapel, and the Rev. E. K. McLarty, pastor First Methodist | Church, Salisbury. This will be; followed by a Love Offering. Miss Ethel Bost, missionary to Japan, and Mrs. E. U. Robinson, president of the Southeastern; ! Jurisdiction of the church, will ! speak Wednesday night. Miss Eleanor Hickok. rural work- i er at Cherokee Mission, will be the speaker at a service beginning at 9:45 Thursday morning and the an ' nual Greensboro College luncheon I will be held at 12:45 p.m. i Featured on a program Thursday j afternoon, beginning at 2:30 ; o'clock, will be Mrs. T. V. Goode. j district secretaries of promotion, Mrs. Claire Lennon, superintendent of Allen High School. Mrs. Marion Wooten of Bethelhem Center, j (See Methodist Women?Page 61 i ( Two Fox Hounds Added To List Of Dogs Poisoned Two other dogs have been added i to the list of those poisoned by an | unknown person at Ratcliffe Cove i last week. One fox hound owned by Charlie Smith died, but another fox hound Owned by A. Gaddis recovered. A third dag, also a fox hound and owned by Homer West is cur rently missing. Ernest Chambers, county dog i warden, said,last week that a fox hound, a blooded beagle, a farm dog, and two pets were poisoned by strychnine last week. All but one died. Three Farm Agents To Attend Conference County farm agent Virgil L. Holloway and assistant agents ; Homer Sink and Bob Tippett will altcnda a two-day conference on beef cattle and pasture research at Laurel Springs, near West Jeffer son, N .C. Two other assistant agents ? Cecil Brown and A1 Ramsey?are at N. C. State College this week J taking an in-service training course ' in agriculture. Final County Car-Check Total Reported At 2,958 * The total of cars Inspected in the recent voluntary inspection in this area exceeded the total registra tion in Waynesvllle and Hazelwood by approximately 500, according to a report by Chief of Police Orville Noland. The total of vehicles inspected in the towns was 2,033!. the chief said. Waynesville's registration is esti- ' mated at between 1,100 and 1.200,. while Hazelwood's is approximate-1 ly 3p0. I Another 926 cars and trucks were inspected in the Canton area. A total of 297 vehicles were re jected at the checking lane here, but 72 had repairs made and were reinspected and approved later. Chief Noland said one report of the inspection will be sent to the safety division of the State Depart ment of Motor Vehicles at Raleigh this week and another to national safety officials. Haywood Cancer Fund Tops Quota Last year $84 was raised in Hay-j wood County for the Chancer Cru- j sade. This year two women's or- , ganizations in the Canton and Waynesville areas joined forees to raise a total of $2,739.96 This figure is $534 over the county's 1955 quota of $2,205. At Canton the Happy Homemak ers Home Demonstration Club rais ed a total of $1,688.24. while the Waynesville Business and Profes-. sional Women collected $1,051 72. I Mrs. Harold Smothers headed the Canton drive, and Mrs. Rebckah Murray the one here. Mrs. Halmond Cook is the president of the Happy Homemakers: Miss Mary Cornwell headed the Waynes ville B&PW while the cancer drive was in progress. Together with' Haywood's $2,739 these totals were reported by near by WNC counties: Jackson, $943: Macon, $729; Transylvania. $1,500: Madison. $1, 211, and Swain. $896. A portion of the money raised for the Cancer Crusade in North Carolina will remain in the state to finance the cancer-detection : program. The remainder will go to I the American Cancer Society to be used in research to determine the cause of the nation's No. 2 killer disease. Second Lamb Pool Slated For June 13 The county's second lamb pool of the year will be held at the1 Clyde livestock yards next Monday.! June 13. it has been announced by ' Virgil L. Holloway. county farm : agent. Producers intending to enter i lambs in the pool are asked to notify The county agent's office not j later than Thursday. June 9. At ? the last pool. Mr. Holloway said.; several lambs were rejected be- j cause of the fact they had not been i entered on time. The county agent advised farm- j ers to move all lambs weighing. 80 pounds or more, and to have fhe animals at the' Clyde yards by the railroad at Morgan St. between 7 and 10 a.m. June 13. Mrs. Thompson's Mother Dies In Milledgeville M^. and Mrs. C. G Thompson and son. Bill, are in Milledgeville, , Georgia, where they went to at tend funeral services for Mrs. Thompson's mother, Mrs. A. T. Fraley. Mrs. Thompson was with her j mother when she died Friday ; morning. Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon. The Thompsons are expected to return tomorrow night. Level Of Incomes Higher In Haywood Than Average (Special to The Mountaineer) NEW YORK ? A bigger propor tion of Haywood County families are in the "have more" category and a smaller percentage in the "have less" group than is the case 1 in most parts of the South Atlantic ! States. That is the conclusion made evi dent by a break-down of incomes t the country. The copyrighted study, made by Sales Management. J in each of the 3,070 counties of shows the percentage of families , Falling- into various income brack- , cts. It shows whether the reported ( "average income" for each county ;' represents a combination of a i small number of families in the J, very high income class together with a large number with depress- 11 ed incomes, or whether the aver age represents incomes more even- | ly distributed throughout. In Haywood County the latter 'i situation exists. Over 37.1 per cent j | of the local families have spend- < able income, after payment of , | taxes, of $7,000 or more. This compares favorably with \ the situation in other parts of the t South Atlantic States, where ( families in that earnings class s comprise 33.5 per cent. In the ( State of North Carolina, they con- : | stitute 28.1 per cent. ' ( The local picture makes for bet- < (See Income?Page 6) ' f N.C. Specialists To Conduct Poultry Field Day Tuesday Poultry specialists from N. C. State College will be at the Moun tain Experiment Station Tues day to conduct the annual West- i ern North Carolina poultry school, which will open at 10 a.m. I The event is for poultry pro- < ducers from all WNC counties. 1 Lunch will be available on- the grounds. < Virgil L. Holloway, coounty farm agent, said that the State College < specialists will discuss the latest information and the results of re- I cent experiments dealing with both broiler production and laying < flocks. The program will include: 1 10 a m. ? Welcome by C. D Thomas. I * 10:15 a.m.?Pouliry sitaution in ' WNC, R. S. Dearstyne. 10:45 a.m.?A feeding program, . E. W. Glazener. 11:15 a.m. ? Broiler production panel, conducted by W. G. An- { irews, including producers from t Madison and Buncombe. 1 11:25 a.m.?Facts about the new ;gg law, f. B. Morris. ( Afternoon?Discussion and tours. C. F. Parrish in charge. 1 p.m.?Questions and answer j f period. 1:45 p.m.?How to vaccinate. Dr. j 2. R. Border. 2:15 p.m.?Using home grains in 1? ceding. J. W. Kelly. 2:45 p.m.?New breeds for bril- J ?r production. W. L. Blow. Commissioners Are Hearing Budget Requirements Today From All Boards In County C. F. VAUGHN, JR. C. F. Vaughn, Jr. Is Drowned In Sanford Lake Funeral services were held Sun-1 day afternoon in the First Metho-. dist Church of Marion for Charles Fred Vaughn. Jr., who was drown ed Thursday afternoon while swim ming in a lake at Sanford, N. C. The Rev. Cecil Hcckard officiat ed and burial was in Oak Grove Cemetery at Marion , 1 Pallbearers were Hardy Stin nett, Bail Hicks, Phil Sutton, j Charles Alley, Charles Plemmons, I and Wilson Medford. Honorary pallbearers were mem bers of the Sanford Moose Lodge j Vaughn was the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Fred Vaughn of Waynes ville and previous.y Had been em- ! ployed by radio station WHCC1 here. He had also been employed 1 by radio stations at Marion and Siler City and went to Sanford as a radio announcer. Vaughn resigned from his radio (See Vaughn?Page 6) Health Department Office To Close Friday Members of the staff of the Hay wood County Health Department , will attend a meeting of the West-' ern North Carolina Health Asso ciation at Morganton Friday, ac- j cording to Mrs. Rubye Bryson, pub lic health nurse. The department's office in the j basement of the courthouse will be closed Friday, but the laboratory on the ground floor will remain open, she said Board To Study Requests More Before Acting County boards were presenting their proposed budgets to the Board of Commissioners this morn ing. preparatory to compiling the county-wide budget and tax rate. This morning the county board of education, and the Beaverdam School Board presented the com missioners with their estimated needs for the coming year. This afternoon the Welfare de partment and Health Department are slated to present their estimat ed budgets. Each agency discussed their needs, item by item. The board of commissioners were not taking definite action, but will give study to each budget, it was explained. The Beaverdam Board, througii Superintendent Rowe Henry, asked for an increase of about $1,100, be cause of the opening of the new Junior High building, and the tact that all seventh graders of the district will be brought to the new unit next year. The new Canton junior high building is part of the county-wide school expansion pro gram. Supt. Henry said about 230 seventh grade students would enter ! the junior high school this fall. This afternoon, the Haywood County Library Board of Trustees also met with the commissioners on several matters, including the proposed budget for next year. As soon as the Commissioners decide on the amounts for each department, then the tabulation of all needs will be computed, and the tax rate Jor the coming year., announced. The commissioners are also i scheduled to draw the jury for the I July term of criminal court this afternoon. notanans Hear Plans For Sunday At L. lunaluska Rotarians heard plans for Hay wood County Day to be held Sun- 1 day at Lake Junaluska. The pres entation was the program on Fri- ! day, as James W. Fowler, Jr., superintendent of the Assembly, : gave a tentative outline of plans. Others taking part and discuss ing the highlights of the program included Senator William Medford, W Curtis Russ and Jonathan H. i Woody. Senator Medford will meet Governor and Mrs. Hodges as they arrive Sunday morning for the 42nd annual event. The chief ex- , ecutive will be presented by Woody at the 11:30 services. Plans have been completed for using the Cherokee III to trans port those who park near the de pot to the auditorium, while spec- ' ial buses will be run from the Lake Junaluska school parking area to Ihe auditorium. These services of transportation will be free, the committee announced. Haywood police and highway pa- ! trol, working under Everett Mc- 1 Elrov, chief at the Lake, will | handle the parking. A picnic dinner following the services will be spread under the trees next to the auditorium. Gov ernor Hodges is scheduled to be ?in speaking shortly after noon. Much interest is being shown in he event, and Ned Tucker, execu tive secretary of the Chamber of ; Commerce, said WFBC-TV was sending a camera crew here to re- ; ?ord the event. There wiil be , ? lumerous newspaper folk here j ?overing the event, as well as ' several radio stations making >roadcasts. j RALPH SUMMERROW President-Elect of Hazel wood Lions Lions Name Committeemen At Hazelwood Appointment of 14 committee chairmen for the Hazelwood Lions Club was announced by President Ralph Prevost at the organize- A tion's last meeting. They were: Membership. Fred Harron: li- ^ nance, Walter Sherrill; constitution and by-laws. Bob Smathers; pro gram, Glenn Wyatt: attendance, Talmadge Woodard; publictty. H. blind. Luther Gitliland: health and welfare. Charles McCall: civic im provements, Gene Wyatt; safety. Boiling Burress: Lions education. Ed Boone; boys and girls work, J. C. Burrtll. and wildlife, Noble Ar rington. Mr. Chase reported on the re sults of a recent meeting at the Chamber of Commerce on the handling of stray dogs in Hajwood County, and after a discussion it was voted to endorse the proposals for handling of the animals. Mr. Summerrow disclosed the Hazelwood Lions Club now has 33 members. Canton VFW Post, Auxiliary Install Officers Jack Abbott was installed as commander of Edwards-Clark-Mcs ser Post 5198. Veterans of For eign Wars, Canton, at ceremonies Saturday night at Mount ValU-y Inn. Mrs. Elsie Smith was also in stalled as president of the post's auxiliary. Other post officers installed were: Carl Gillis, senior vice com mander; Joe Thompson, junior vice commander: J. L. Sprinkle, quartermaster; the Rev. J. Clayton Lime, chaplain, and Or. H. A. Mat thews, surgeon. Other auxiliary officers install, ed were: Mrs. Rowena Murr, senior vice president; Mrs. Jean Smathers. junior vice president; Mrs. flas kew Warren, Jr.; Mrs. Boyd Med ford. conductress; Mrs. Howard Smathers, patriotic instructor; Mrs. Jimmy Deaton; Mrs Clyde Sharp, trustee for one year, and Mrs. Jack Scroggs. Loranzo Smathers of Canton ind Mrs. Roberta Varner of Hen (See Canton VFW?Page 6> Haywood Chest X-Ray J Program Closes This Week Both mobile units will be in op eration from 11 a.m. until 9 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Saturday, the last day. Mrs. Rubye Bryson, public health nurse at the Health Department, pointed out that food handlers and . teachers must have the X-rays made as required by state law. She also urged that all children who have been in contact with TB sufferers be examined after re questing permission from their physician or the Health Depart ment. The county's chest X-ray pro ;ram starts its final week Tuesday ind will continue through 9 p.m. Saturday. As of 5 p.m. last Saturday, the ounty total was 7,529. Canton's mobile unit at the post ifiice examined 206 persons Wed tesday, 273 Thursday. 279 Friday, ind 171 Saturday. The Waynesville unit at the ourthouse parking lot reported a ota I of 616 X-rays made from 2.30 p.m. Thursday through 5 p.m. Saturday, ? Highway Record For 1955 In Haywood (TO DATE) Killed ... I 1 Injured.... 37 Accidents.. 76 Loss.. $29,812 (This information com piled from records ol Stale Highway PaireU