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? lju News Most Of m TWT 0 lHE WAYNE SVILLE MOUNTAINEER ?S2=?rr--???*? ~ ? ?f^Si!1V !" "** WAVNB8VILLB. N. C.. MONDAY AfTMNOON, JCN? MM rr,, , - -E. O *<i.o0 In Advance In llaywood and Jackson Countici |?yernor Heard By; DOO At Haywood j [unty Day Event , the world over are (,r spiritual satisfaction; g something higher than k the)' can provide them jovei nor Luther Hodges silence of some 2,000 at he 42nd annua! Haywood Oav at Lake Junaluska " ief executive said that e have seen two World have had a dreaded fear rd since 1946, and arc ?topic of North Carolina, rest of the world, are fun |y religious and are in ja seeking sources of help themselves," he continued, id the recent achievements Billy Graham's series of i in the British Isles and ( from the international nemor Hodges cited some experiences he had while the government in Europe dustrial rehabilitation pro erWorldWarH. He said that the United States fer the best we have to the lunate people of the world. Untied by pointing out that ipinion, this country has etty well since we moved Kition of world leader. He however, that "the United til tends to be impatient. I to settle everything by tsda.v. when a man like d India is willing to wait IK n ?or Hodges, in discussing Bit and citizens, said that le provides the help for and affords them inspira ough it is often felt that the other way around, jeople are very often (the thinking of politi I in many instances almost t thinking of statesmen, rasp of public problems h," he said. b. like the church, has pod and bad," he went on I as he put stress on the religious faith in meeting ten on the local level, as Pate, national and inter levels. i thinks of of s trying to get selves, he went Is are often too hat the public erstand." he failure to from the fact en do not take i went on to ex found that the serves a man upports vhis ac d with the atti s of the state as in by the hun ok the office of imber, two days the late Gover ead. "By actual of the messages se, "we are pray ' aid the sad news stead's death, I to come to my in prayer, being completed oath of office, I service include e urgent need, I ration and guid lr prayer, and I r by having fol Ice of calling on nd not just lcan * ;es did not make nee to desegrega to mention it is ?ms of his admin Ihe services, while nds and reporters, ed to go over the hen a special com junty Day?Pge 8) r CLOUDY d continued mild y. Max. Min. Prec. 68 49 .28 67 50 .07 70 58 .49 ? 67 54 ? Big Attendance Seen For Medical Meeting Here Prospects for a large attend ance at the second annual Moun taintop Medical Assembly here | June 24-25 are encouraging. Dr. ' Stuart Koberson, general chair man, has announced. , | He said advance reservations, i, plus inquiries from others, gives 1 reason to believe there will be || 200 or more attending the five- | state meeting. Four nationally-known doctors will be speakers during the two day session, which will' be held j at the llazelwood school auditor ium. The group will attend the Cherokee drama on Friday night, and stage their annual banquet on Saturday night. Runaway Car Strikes Truck On Depot St. I A "runaway" 1954 Buick ? j whose owner was not identified I immediately ? struck a soft drink truck on Depot St. in Waynesville I at 11:45 a.m. today. I Waynesville police reported that the Buick was parked, out of gear, i j in front of Coffey's used car lot. j ] When the brakes on the car ap- : | parently gave.way, the vehicle roll- j ed forward, struck a small pole in ' the car lot, then careened on down the street where it collided with a Seven-Up drink truck from Ashevillc. Police had the car towed to the [ Taylor Motor Co. lot and then be- ' : gan a search for the owner. Thus ; 1 far. he or she has not been found, j Damage to the Buick was esti ' mated by police at $250 and to the ' j truck at $50. I ' ' Local Secretaries i Chapter Installs Mary Sue Crocker Miss Mary Sue Crocker of Haz- j elwood was installed as president [ of the Mountaineer chapter of the j National Secretaries Association at , , a meeting at the Jones Farm last j week. Miss Crocker was re-elected j to the post. Other officers installed were: Miss Mary Medford. vice presi dent: Miss Betty Ann Burnett, re | cording secretary: Miss Joy Woody. ' I corresponding secretary; and Miss ', | Betty Jo Crocker, treasurer. Mrs. ; R. B. Patterson of Canton was the installing officer. The Secretaries also selected ? Miss Audrey Wyatt as delegate to the national convention of the NSA in Chattanooga in July and named ' Miss Burnett as alternate. During a business session, a re- ' port was made on the state Secre- ' taries convention at Hickory in j' May. i 1 Chamber of Commerce Board Meets Tuesday Directors of the Waynesville Chamber of Commerce will hold 1 their regular monthly meeting at 1 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Towiv Hall, it has been announced. President Dick Bradley said that ' the Chamber's membership drive is proceeding satisfactorily and that ( a report on its progress will be 1 made at the meeting Tuesday. I J GOVERNOR HODGES pins a flower on the coat lapel of Jonathan Woody, who introduced him. and James W. Fowler, Jr., looks on from the left, and Rev. Jackson W. Iluneycutt, district superin tendent, who presided, enjoys the comments. This photo was made after the services. Some 3.000 attended the 42nd annual llaywood County Day at the Lake. (Other pictures on front pace second section and Pages 2 and 6.) " i Officials Hope Haywood School Building Program Completed By September 9 Men Go To Knoxville For Induction Nine Haywood County men left here this morning for Knoxville and induction into the armed forc es. They were: Bobby Dan Duckett of Canton, Glenn Browning of Lake Logan. James Furman Emory of Maggie. Troy Edward Hargrove and Edwin Ira Mann of Bethel. Frederick Spurgeon Brown of Lake Juna luska. James Robert Ferguson of Chestnut Park Drive, Waynesville: Joseph Francis Edwards. Love Lane. Waynesville; and Donald Eluood Caldwell of Jonathan Creek. Eleven other men were sent to Knoxville for pre-induction physi- : cal examinations. The next meeting of Selective 1 Service Board 45 will be next Mon day. June 20. Moose Members To Attend Event Honoring Hodges ? Waynesville Lodge No. 1733. of Lhe Loyal Order of Moose will join with 56 other Moose lodges and 35.000 Moose member in North Carolina Sunday, June 19, in Ral eigh for the mass initiation of more than 1.000 members as a testimon ial to Governor Luther H. Hodges of North Carolina. Included in the activities of the day will be the dedication of a new Moose lodge at Raleigh. Seven different motorcades origi nating from as far west as Way nesville and as far east as Wil mington and Morehead City, will dart arriving in the capital city it 10 a.m. The Wayhesville Moose lodge i*. expected to send approximately five car loads of members to Ral eigh, according to Marion Cooper, governor of the local lodge. Final Total Reaches 10,016 As Chest X-Ray Survey Ends I Haywood County's mass X-ray ? survey for 1055 ended Saturday t with a total of 10,016 persons ex- t aniined by personnel of state mo-; ' | bile units which have been in the c county since May 13. t From May 26 through Saturday, 3.576 persons were X-rayed by one f unit located in Waynesville at the 4 courthouse parking lot. 1 From May 13 through Saturday. 6.440 persons were examined by * I the other unit at Hardwood. the r Dayton Rubber Co., Clyde and S j Canton ^ I The final figure of 10,016 exeeed- J C nl by nearly a tnousand the lua.i otal of 9.000-plus, but was under lie anticipated figure of 12.000. leavy rains have fallen here fre juently since the mobile units have ?ecn in Haywood County. Saturday proved to be the big rest day for'both units. A total of 138 were X-rayed in Waynesville bat day and 324 in Canton. Clerks at the mobile labs were i ,trs Frank Kirkpatrick, Mrs. Kath- ? ?rine Duvall and Mts. Lawson lummerrow in Waynesville and <frs. Hohart Carter. Jr.. and Mrs. I *lnra Sharp Smith In Canton. County school officials are ' look ing forward" to having all school plant additions completed in time for the new school term this fall, it was learned from Lawrence Leatherwood, county superinten t dent of education. "I hope we will bP in the new plants. throughout the county." Supt. Leatherwood said. Projects now under construction, as part of the county-wide expan I sion program, includes: A lunchroom at Fines Creek, costing about $42,000, just about t completed, except for minor paiut ! ing. Three additional classrooms. East Waynesville, costing about $35,000. well under way. Six classrooms, new plumbing, and new boiler, at Hazelwood. cost ing about $74,000. has a substan tial part completed. The new Junior High School in Canton, representing an invest ment of about $450,000. will be ready by September. A new gym and cafeteria at Crabtree-Iron Duff, costing $138. 000. will be ready by the opening of the new school term. A drain through the lower part of the grounds of Central Elemen tary school scheduled to start at once, should be completed within a short time, will cost about $5,000. Supt. Leatherwood said he also hopes to soon move the shop from two classrooms in the Clyde build ing to the former gym building. A new gym was built last year. Lions Club Hears Talk By Rogers ; * 1 The path a bill takes through the f North Carolina House of Represen- j j tatives?from Its introduction to , final passage?was discussed at a meeting of the Waynesville Lions ! Club Thil sday night by Rep. Jerry | Rogers of Hazelwood .a member of | ! the club. Rep. Rogers explained that ex tensive work is done on bills in the various committees and added : that compromises are often neces sary when amendments to bills are suggested in the Senate. During its recent session, the legislature passed more than 1.300 bills, the I lawmaker said. After serving at Raleigh. Rep. i Rogers said he found the General ' Assembly to be a "place of work" instead of a "social gathering" which some people believe it to be. It was announced at the Lions meeting last week that installation } of the club's officers will be held t Thursday, July 7, and installation of district officers here the follow ing Thursday. July 14 j Ernest Edwards will be installed ! as president of the local club on ' the 7th, while Lawrence Leather wood of Waynesville will become district governor on the 14th. Jurors For July Term Of Criminal Court Are Named -rr- '?"? ?? _ ? ... .1 -r-j H III ? ... - J _ Speed Limit In West Waynesville Reduced To 20 The speed limit on llifhway 19A-23 in West Waynesville has been reduced from 35 to 20 miles an hour. Chief of Police Orville j Noland has announced. "The steady building and de velopment of the area into a business district has made it nec essary to reduce the speed limit in the area by 15 miles an hour," Chief Noland said. Green's Cash Grocery Opens At Hazelwood i > A new store in Hazelwood? Green's Cash Grocery ? is now open for business on Main Street ?across from the Hazelwood post ofTice. Offering a full line of groceries, meats, and produce. Green's Cash Grocery will be open on weekdays except Wednesday from 7:30 a.m. until 9 p.m. Wednesday hours will be 7:30 a.m. until 6:30 p.m. The new store is owned and op erated by Everett Green, while Warren Mills will be in charge of | the meat department. I Forty-five Haywood citizens have l>oen summoned for jury duty for i the first week of the two-week term j of criminal court, which will con I vcne Monday. July 11. Judge Dan K. Moore will preside over the term, which has a heavy docket, and includes one man i slaughter case, growing out of an 1 automobile wreck. From the 43 named for jury ser vice the first week will come nine who will be drawn and named to the Grand Jury. Nine members were named at the February term. Fleetwood Smathers is foreman of the Grand Jury. First Week Clyde H. Marcus. Waynesville; ' Milton Brown. Clyde; Paul R. Hen derson. Beaverdam: Miss Laura Wright, Canton; C. C. Williams, Lake Junaluska; Lloyd Mull, Route 1. Waynesville; Mack Caldwell. | Waterville; Davis F. Smith. Hazel- ( wood; Henry R. Vance. Route 2, | Canton; Bryon Rider, Route 1, i Waynesville. < Robert Davis. Route 1, Waynes ville; T. F. Sharp. Canton; James | B. Lowe, Route 2, Clyde; Ralph < C. Cook. Clyde; Lloyd Revis. Route | 1. Canton; Stanley B. Childs, ( Waynesville; Gordon K Hendrix, j Route 1. Waynesville: Albert L. ^ Sutton. Beaverdam: Jonah Brown. ^ Route 3. Canton: Flo>d Grant, ; (See Jurors?Pace ' Completion Of Health Center Is Expected By End Of Week South-Wide Delegates At Lake Opposing All Forms Of Racial Discrimination Haywood County Drivers Behave During Weekend Most of the time no news is NOT good news for i newspaper. Today, however. The Moun taineer joins the State Highway patrol and Waynesvllle police in noting and approving an un usual fact: There were no traffic accidents reported in Haywood county during the weekend. "That's news in Itself," as Cpl. Pritehard H. Smith of the High way Patrol pointed out. In the past two months, a record number of 10 traffic acci dents were investigated one weekend and seven another. The first part of last week, policemen and patrolmen reported five mis haps on streets and highways of the county. Fly-Control Exhibition Set Thursday Haywood County dairymen and other interested farmers are in vited to a special ^demonstration of fly-control methods to be held at 9 a.m. Thursday at the L. C. Davis farm at Iron Duff, accord ing to County Agent Virgil L. Hollow*}-, i t Conducting the demonstration will be Gaorge Jones, in charge of entomology at N. C. State College, and W. L. George, dairy specialist at State College. In the last year a number of new insecticides have appeared on the market which look "very promis ing", Mr. Holloway said. Many of these new chemicals will be dis cussed and demonstrated with the purpose of finding out which ma- | terials afford the most control with the least trouble and expense and are yet safe to use. To gain the maximum effective ness in the use of new chemicals to control flies and other insects, methods of application should fol low manufacturers' recommenda tions. These new methods will be stressed at the demonstration, the county agent said. Aldermen Give Tentative OK To Dog Shelter Tentative approval of Waynes ville's participation in a proposed animal shelter in Haywood was given by the town's mayor and aldermen at a meeting Thursday afternoon. The town officials said, how ever, they believed the shelter should be a county project and that the county commissioners should take a lead in its establish ment. Mrs. Elaine Hudson, chairman of the new* county humane committee, appeared before the board hcOe Thursday in behalf of the shelter ' and at Hazelwood Tuesday night. ' She has disclosed she will con fer with the county commissioners I at their next meeting. June 20. Delegates to a South-wide Metho dist student conference at Lake Junaluska have gone on record opposing all forms of racial dis crimination and pledging their sup port of the Supreme CJourt's de cision on segregation, i The group also reiterated the request of previous student con ferences that swimming privileg es at the Methodist summer as sembly grounds be extended to Negro delegates to youth and student meetings. The request was embodied in a general resolution on segregation j | adopted without opposition by 37S 1 delegates from 90 colleges and ' | universities in nine southeastern j | states. The group includes nine | Negroes. The eight-day confer- 1 ence. sponsored by the Methodist Student Movement, ends tomorrow. The resolution was drafted b> ; the conference steering committee 1 and read to delegates by the chair-1 j man, Jack Crawford of Birming ham. Ala., a student at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. "We wish to reaffirm the tradi tional stand of this conference in that we oppose racial discrimina-1 tion in all forms as contrary to the ' gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ." j the resolution declared. "Under one God. Father of us all. we are brothers. We grieve over ? barriers which would prevent us | from uniting as an inclusive felkiw 1 ship. We are noting with deep : interest and prayerful thanksgiv i ing the signs of progress in this ; area of Christian concern, among.j them the Supreme Court decision I declaring unconstitutional racial I segregation in public schools. We | hereby pledge our cooperation in our own state areas as this op- ? portunity for democracy is faced." With reference to the local swim ming ban. the students pledged themselves not to swim "until those In authority remove the restric tions." ! The resolution stated: "Seeking to face honestly a specific issue' which has arisen during our reg- j ional Leadership Training Confer- I ence. we would bring to the atten tion of the Board of Trustees and ' other officials of the Lake iuna luska Assembly the earnest appeal of this conference for fair treat ment of all students of the Metho- j dist and ecumenical Christian fet-' lowschip regarding the use of fa cilities." The statement commended the trustees for 'the progress that has been made under then- leadership and for the developments in recent years that have enabled us to meet as an exclusive student fellowship, wit If delegates invited from all our campus groups in the southern states." The students emphasized that "in j previous years we have asked, and we now repeat our request with a new sense of urgency, for a cor rection in regulations that would make it possible for us to main tain our unified and unbroken fel lowship while on the grounds of the assembly." Negroes are among delegates to several summey conferences of j youths and students sponsored by various general boards and agen- ' cies of the Methodist Church. Full 1 fellowship is observed in their meetings with the exception of ' (See Racial Statement?Pace 8) j Installation Of Window To End Construction Work Construction of the new Hay wood County Health Center on U. S. 19A-23 between Waynesville and Lake Junaluska is expected to be completed by Friday, according to A. F. Hoppes. foreman for the Clarence Morrison Construction Co. of Shelby, contractor on the : job. \ The only thing not finished in the new building is the installa tion of a large window on the west side of the structure. The window is supposed to arrive here today or tomorrow and then be put into place shortly. .Before the Haywood County Health Department can start mov ing into its new quarters, however, the building must be inspected and accepted by the architect, county commissioners, and a representa tive of the state's Medical Care Commission. This inspection prob ably will take place the first of next week. Ground was broken for the health center November 10, and construction began soon thereafter. At that time, Dr. S. W. Jabaut was county health officer. Dr. Jabaut died unexpectedly at Ashe ville April 18 after attending a public hearing on the Pigeon River Road. The original expected cost for the new health center was $56,000. Appropriations for its construction were made by former county com missioners C. C. Francis. Frank Davis and Jarvis Allison after over whelming approval of-the project was voiced at a mass meeting here last summer. ^ Measuring Of Burley Land Begins Measurement of burley tobacco acreage in Haywood County is now in progress- and will continue through July, according to A. W. Ferguson, ASC county manager. Last week 18 representatives of the ASC started measurement of burley acreage and a total of 25 are expected to be working by the middle of this week, Mr. Fergu son said] Field supervisor of the program is Carl Ratcliffe. Agents doing the measuring are using large aerial photo maps covering some two square miles. Acreage wil be determined by ground measurement, but compu tations wil be made at the county ASC office, which will notify pro ducers of the figures obtained. Growers over their allotments will have 10 days in which to make a request to destroy their excess tobacco. If this is not done, those farmers will receive a red card which wil prevent their receiving the market support price on their burley crop this winter. A penalty of 37 cents wil be charged on all excess leaf. No penalties will be made, how ever, if producers request permis sion to destroy their excess and do so under ASC supervision. Last year, the measurements dis closed that 25 percent of the county's farmers were over their burley allotment. Of this number. 7 percent chose not to destroy their excess tobacco and paid penalties on the markets. HAZELWOOD LIONS TO MEET The Hazelwood Lions Club will meet Tuesday night at Timbes Brothers Restaurant, according to in announcement by President Clyde Fisher. ? i James E. And Joe Massie Purchase Drive-In Theatre jj Clothing Drive Being Planned A porchlight drive to gather cloth ing for the Waynesville Clothing Closet at the courthouse is being planned for next week, according to Mrs. Roger Walker, president H the organization. The tentative date for the drive lias been set for Tuesday. June 21. she said. All types of summer and winter clothing wil be sought ? especial ly children's wear, including shoes. If possible, the clothing should be .?leaned and repaired, Mrs. Walker laid.1. j James E. Massie and son, Joe Massie, have purchased the Smoky Mountain Drive-In Theatre near the Dayton Rubber plant. The i purchase was made from Henry Miller. Joe Massie will be active man ager of the theatre, while James E. Massie will be active manager of the Park Theatre here. The two own a drive-In and an indoor threatre in Bryson City, while Mr. Massie is owner of the Indoor theatre in Sylva and owns half of the Sylva drive-In. The new owners of the 300-car I drive-in said there would be no changes in personnel, or policy and that their plans were to provide the best of films at all times. No purchase price was announc ed Highway Record For 1955 In Haywood (TO DATE) Killed...: 1 ' ffir Injured.... 40 Accidents.. 81 Loss.. $31,012 (This Information com piled from records of Stale Wehway Patrol.)