North Carolina Newspapers

STANDAJID PTG CO ' - ? SSKSEy *"?* "rm WBMM , ?tr^r ? The M^iynesville Mountaineer ? Published Twice-A-Week In The Countv Seat nf rrttlUrT^ Vt uTn A Al * JLlLXlX ?? ** - ? * 79th YEAR NO. 49 14 PAGES Associated Pr7, ? ~ ? Eaateiy Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park ' ~ ? WAYNESVILLE. N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 20, 1955 r~j?? D Q ' : ' $3.50 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Countfei VOOD COUNTY'S HEALTH DEPARTMENT is expected to MTln; its offices from the basement of the courthouse to lew health center on U. S. 19A-23, between Waynesville and jsnaluska next week. Before the department moves, how \ ever, the health center must be inspected and accepted by the architect, county commissioners, and a representative of the North Carolina Medical Care Commission. (Mbuntaineer Photo) . " v Saywood County Budget etails Published Today iywood Invested $30,375 Savings Bonds In May I. Massiey. U. S. Savings i Chairman for Haywood j today announced that the mowing of U. S. Savings NBtipued to set a peace time i (or North Carolina, this county, sales for May (30,375.000 and for the first mths of this year, cummula lies were $213,456.25. monthly sales report releas ( North Carolina Savings Director. Walter P. John howed that for the seventh Utire month. U. S. Savings iriHaalii firnlun have u> ?SmlrTo to 35% * over Brsponding months of the Hiyear. The combined sales Bk E. and H Bonds totaled ?H for the month of May ?Ming a 35% increase over ?fc month of last year. ? oimmulative sales for the Br months of this year bio $24,739,630.75 which is d the 1955 quota and repre ITr increase over the same i of last year. ?ive counties in North ? have achieved 50%, or of their annual sales quota, lenburg County leads in >Bar volume with over $2, sold so far this year, fol V Buncombe with over $1, . Forsyth with over $1,383, d Guilford wjth over $1, hr Hours Ha [Begin (Thursday Bfr Story Hour will begin ???ywood County Library w morning at 10 o'clock V continue each Thursday A**t the summer. hours are a project of ^mville Homemakers and F of the club will serve as f^rs. All children, pre W* through the third grade, ?S. O. Champion, president I Homemakers, will be in ??n the first Thursday. She r| the stories, "Casey Joins B"*8'' by Dorothy A. Dobias Peter Rabbit Fooled ? by Thornton W. Bur L ? < l^ry hour will be held in rren'i> Room at the library. F Baermann left today for ? where he will spend two ??business. He will be join ? Mrs. Baermann. Young Man Got An Education The Hard Way? A young man wanted an edu cation so badly that he went 28 miles to high school, finished often he was 23. He borrowed the money for tuition, and worked in the sum mer carrying brick to pay it back. V You'll enjoy reading ifee tejfc . story of Judge Felix E. Alley, which start# today on page one of the second section, this issue. Funeral Rites Are Held For J. B. Leatherwood Funeral services were conducted yesterday afternoon in the First Methodist Church for Joseph B. Leatherwood, 79, retired farmer, who died early Friday morning in the Haywood County Hospital j following a brief illness. Officiating were the Rev. Earl H. Brendall, pastor | of the church. ? The Rev. Hobart ' Shope, the Rev. j Grady Barringer, and the Rev. Don Payne. Burial was in Green Hill Cemetery. Members of the Woodman of the World were hon orary pallbearers. The following nephews served as pallbearers: R. C. Francis, Tom Howell, Sherrill, Hugh, Jack, and Guy Leatherwood, Frank Leather wood, Jr. and George Bradley. Mr. Leatherwood, a native and (See Leatherwood?Page C) County To Play Host To Firemen Firemen from Canton and Clyde together with the Champion Pap er and Fibre Company will be host to a quarterly meeting of the West ern Carolina Fireman's Associa tion at Camp Hope Wednesday, Junl 29. In addition to the host groups, Waynesville and Hazelwood fire men will also attend the WNC ! meeting. The detailed budget for Hay wood county for next year Is being published in this issue today. The budget, calling for an ex penditure of $1,687,460 for the coming year, sets the tax rate the same as last year of $1.75. The present assessed valuation is $39,121,000, with a total of the budget to be raised from taxes a mounting to $616,155. A comparison of this year's bud get requirements and that of last year are shown in the oficial pres entation in today's issue. The officials have been work ing on the budget for the past few weeks, and had requests for $56, 000 more than last year. Officials said the increase of about $926,000 I in assessed valuation together | with "cutting corners" had en L 1 t ? dl - 1,11 |jL ? . ? aou-cr uwiii to nortr uw ibx ?nr?* to $1.73. The largest single item in the budget is for public assistance, which includes old age benefits, aid to dependent children and aid to totally disabled. This fund to tals $$32,017. The welfare admini stration totals $40,742. The school fund calls for $229, 775 for the county'schools, and $69,729 for the Beaverdam schools, while a total of $129,347 is desig nated for debt service for the two school systems. Kiwanis Club Will Send Two To Convention Hye Sheptowitcb, president, and Bay Pleiness, vice president of the Wayncsville Kiwanis Club will represent the club at the 40th an nual convention of Kiwanis Inter national at Cleveland June 26-30. They will be accompanied by their wives, The Waynesville delegates will join more than 13,000 other Kiwan ians at what promises to be the largest convention in the organi zation's history. The convention will be held in Cleveland's Muni cipal Auditorium as the high spot in Kiwanis' 40th anniversary year. The first convention of Kiwanis International was also held in Cleveland. At that time, the orga nization boasted 16 clubs. Today, there are over 4,000 Kiwanis clubs in the United States, Canada, Alaska, and Hawaii. Principal speakers at the five day meeting, in addition to Kiwanis International President Don E. Engdahl, will be Ezra Taft Benson, secretary of agriculture; A. D. P. Heeney, Canadian ambassador to the United States; and Gen. Nathan Fi Twining, chief of staff, United 1 States Air Force. * '^N.' J Mher k. SHOWERS f cloudy and warm with * tftarnoon thundcrshow ?nd tomorrow. ' Waynoavtlle temperature ?kd by the State Test Max. Mill. Pr. 78 43 ... 77 45 ... 74 47 75 58 49 Porchlight Clothing Drive To Be Held Tuesday Night Winter and summer clothing ? especially children's wear ?> will be sought Tuesday night by mem bers of the Waynesville lodge of the Moose in a porch light drive for the local Clothing Closet. Collections will be made by the Moose from 8 until 19 p.m. Tues day. Mrs. Roger Walker, chairman of the Clothing Closet, said that the drive is being made at* this time because area residents are stor ing winter clothing and preparing summer clothing for wear. She urged the contribution of excess - ? ? '* | or surplus clothing, to be used by the underprivileged. The present supply of clothing in the "Closet" on the third floor of the courthouse is nearly de pleted. she added. Persons who wish to donate clothing Tuesday night are asked to leave their porchlight on. Any one who is overlooked during ttu> drive may call thp Red Cross of fice and have their contributions picked up. If possible, clothing given Uf the Closet should be clean and mend ed, if necessary ? ' S ' T : :?>> ?* .. ? Health Center To Be Inspected Friday Morning The official inspection of the new Haywood County Health j Center will be conducted at 10-a.m. Friday, it has been announced. The inspecting party will in clude the county commissioners, architect William Moore Weber of , Raleigh, a representative of the state's Medical Care Commission, : and contractor Clarence M. Mor rison of Shelby. The Haywood County Health Department will start moving into its new quarters on U. S. 19A-23 next week. The present office at ! the courthouse will be kept open , through next Wednesday, June 29, j however. TVA Tour To Alabama J Announced Haywood County's TVA demon stration farmers are invited to go | on the second annual tour to Muscle Shoals. Ala., July 20-23, according to Albert L. Ramsey, assistant county agent. A bus carrying demonstration i farmers from 15 Western North Carolina counties will stop at the intersection of U. S. 19 and 19A-23 near Lake Junaluska at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 20, and return here Saturday, July 23. On July 21 a meeting of TVA farmers from seven. Tennessee ! Valley states will be held at Muscle Shoals. The next day, the group will go on a tour of Wilson Dam and the fertilizer plant in that ! area. On Friday, the tour will head j for Nashville, Tenn., stop at sev | eral demonstration farms, the [Hermitage lAnd/cw Jackson's ? home). After staying overnight in I Asheville, the group will return | home Saturday. [ Total cost of the trip, including | meals, lodging, and transportation i is $37, Mr. Ramsey said. TVA farmers interested in mak I ing the trip are asked to get in | touch with the county agent's of flee. Spring Sneaks Back ? ? r To Mountain Region By BOB CONWAY i Mountaineer Weather ' Prognosticator We don't guarantee anything, ? but it appears that you can put your long handles back in moth balls again?for a while at least. Spring seems to have reutrned to the mountains. There's no doubt about it, the weather during the first two weeks of June has been on the goosepimple side. Temperature records taken at the Mountain Experiment Station bear out that fact. For instance, the average mini mum tampers tore from the 1st through the 15th has been only 48 degrees ? and. according to our third-grade arithmetic, that's only 16 degrees above freeling. For the same period, the aver age high has been only 73, which is hardly sunstroke weather for this time of year. ... The low for the month thus far came on June 1 when the mer cury nosedived to 37 ? a scant five degrees from the point where water becomes Ice. During the night on that date, frost was reported in the high elevations of the county ? including mile high Cataloocher Ranch. The highest temperature the first two weeks was 81 degrees on June 8. The rainfall total for the first half of the month has been 1.28 inches. In discussing the recent cool spell, many local residents ap parently have forgotten that we had a similar Recurrence last year?only It didn't last as long. On June 8, 1954. the ther mofneter showed a low reading of 41 degrees. Other minimum? at that time were 45, 47, and 48. However, whereas the first part of Juno this veOr provided only three days in which the temper ature reached the 89 mark, that figure was exceeded IS. times last June in 18 days. In 1954, the average maximum was 81 legrees and the average minimum 52. From now"on, according to the weatherman. Well have the kind ?f weather that makes the Cham ber of Commerce happy and most of the rest of us. ? I*?1 ? Three Haywood Residents Injured In Eight Weekend Traffic Accidents Boy Struck By Cab On Main Street Three persons were hurt in {eight traffic accidents investigated during the weekend by the State Highway Patrol and Waynesville police. David Smith, 7, son of Mr. and Mrs. Neeson Smith of Short St., Waynesville, suffered a fractured collarbone when he was struck by a taxicab as he ran across the street in front of the First Bap tist Church at 10:50 a.m. Sunday. The cab, owned by Potts Taxi, was driven by Harold Dean Smath ers of Hall Top road, according to Police Chief Orville Noland. The chief said that David was | coming from Sunday school when he was struck. The cab was travel ing at a comparatively slow speed as it had stopped to discharge a passenger shortly before the mis hap. The boy was treated at Haywood County Hospital and released. William Ben Ray of Barnards ville, driving a 1951 Chevrolet pickup truck, suffered lacerations ; of the left arm and left eye and ! bruises to the left leg when his I vehicle overturned into a creek on U. S. 19 near the Queen farm at 1:30 a.m. today. Ray told Patrolman Harold Day ton of the State Highway Patrol that he went to sleep at the wheel of his truck. Damage to the truck, called "a total loss," was estimated at $700. Jack Warlick, Route 1. Waynes ville, escaped with slight cuts gnd I bruises when his 1947 Ford struck a light pole on the Aliens Creek road just after he turned off U.S. 19A-23 at 6:45 p.m. Friday. Warlick has been charged with driving under the influence of al cohol and wll] appear at 4 p.m. to day before Mayor J. H. Way of Waynesville. Damage to his car has been es (See Wrecks?Page 6) Presbyterians Open Mid-Week Services Seventy-two persons attended the first mid-week prayer service at the Waynesville Presbyterian Church held last Wednesday. The service marked the first in a series of discussions on "What Presbyterians Believe" by the pas tor, the Rev. Calvin Thielman. The mid-week services will be held at the Presbyterian Church here each Wednesday at 8 p.m. Clyde Building-Loan Declares Dividend A dividend of 3% per cent per annum has been declared by the Clyde Building and Loan Associa tion by the organization's board of directors. The action was taken by the board at its meeting at Clyde last week after hearing a report by the secretary on the association profits for the first six months of 1955. GROUND BREAKING ? Left to ri*ht, Jerry Alexander, Hazel Kansey. Mr. Norman Freel. Mrs. J. K. Westmoreland, Mr. C. Boone Aledford, Mr. J. E. Wilkerson. Mr. Norman Moore, Mr. H. A. Helder, Rev. Cecil Hefner. (Fances' Photo Service.) , ........ , . Most County Farmers Not Eligible For Wheat Voting , 1 ',7' , ? ? Carrier Pigeon Stops At Lake ? ! Owner Is Sought A carrier piiran?either lost or AWOL ? is enjoyinr life at Lake Jtataluska. The bird wa? found by Charles Phillips, who turned the beauti ful pit con over to James W. Fowler, Jr., superintendent of the Assembly. The bird is now cared and the owners are being 1 sought. The bird had a band on his lee with the code W-DC 2321 AU 53. ' Several laymen have specu lated as to bow and why the bird flew to Lake Junaluaka. One sur mised that perhaps some TV beams of a Western film rot the pireon off the track, while anoth er staunch supporter of the Lake mused: "Any wise bird knows Lake Junaluska is the place to be in the summer." Anyway. Supt. Fowler would I like for the rirhtful owner to have the pireon. Men Arrested At Soco On Liquor Charge James Nelson Treadway of Bry son City and Luther Murphy of Cherokee have been bound over to the October term of Superior Court In Jackson County on charg es of transporting and possessing non-tax-paid liquor. The two were arrested last week by Cpl. Pritehard H. Smith of the State Highway Patrol and SBI Agent P. R. Kitchen of Waynes ville on Soco Gap in Jackson County, near the Haywood County line. The two officers stopped the men and found their car to be con taining 1 gallons of whiskey. The car is owned by a resident of Cosby, Tenn. The nation-wide wheat referen dum will be held this Saturday, but indications are that no Hay | wood County farmers will be ? eligible to cast a vote. A. W. Ferguson, ASC county manager, said that only those pro ducers who intend to plant 15 acre* or more of wheat in 1956 are eligible to vote in the referendum. The largest plot of wheat in Haywood County at present Is 1A acres in West Pigeon, Mr. Fergu son disclosed. However, the ASC office will be open all day Satur day to receive any ballots which may be cost. Top wheat counties in Western North Carolina are Ashe and Allegany counties, which border Virginia It was recently announced from [ the state ASC office in Raleigh that Haywood County's 1956 wheat allotment will be 74 acres. The state figure for next year is 281, 739 acres ? down slightly from the 1955 total of 284,547 acres. Bloodmobile To Come Here Next Tuesday The American Red Cross Blood mobile from the Asheville region al center will visit Waynesville Tuesday, June 28, it has been an nounced. The mobile unit will operate in the basement of the First Metho dist Church of Waynesville from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. The sponsoring organization, Haywood Post 47 of the American Legion, will seek to attkin a goal of 125 pints during the Blood mobile's visit. J. T. Russell is in charge of arrangements for the Legion. The Red Cross Gray Ladies will assist in the operation. < Commencement Set Comemnccmept at the East Waynesville Baptist Church vaca tion Bible school will be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday, it has been an nounced. A picnic for the pupils of the Bible school will be held Thursday. Canton Church Breaks Ground M I For New Plant Members of the Central Metho dist church in Canton broke ground Sunday morning for the $150,000 educational building, on the lot ad joining the new sanctuary. The construction of the project will begin at once, and according to C. B. Medford, chairman of the building committee, tentative plans are to have the structure complet ed within about six months. He said John C. Norrts, Wajmesviite, could be in charge of construction. ?Rev. <5mfC. Hefnef, pastor, was v assistedby Rev. Jerry Alexander, with the members of the building committee and trustees also taking part. The choir provided special music for the occasion. The first part of the services was held in the sanctuary and the ground breaking took place on the lot where the new educational building is to be erected. The new unit will be located on the old church building site ad jacent to the sanctuary which waS completed a few years ago. The old brick building has been razed to make room for the new, which will contain adequate classrooms and other facilities needed in the educational program of the church. Harrell's Opens Drive-In Window The first drive-In laundry and cleaning Window west of Gastonia will be opened this week by Har rell's Laundry on Depot St. To provide this service, the establishment has constructed a structure measuring 15 by 22 feet, made of concrete blocks, covered with bricks. * Starting July 1, the drive-in window, will be open from 7 a.m. until 9 p.m. daily except Sunday. Doctors' Won't Be In On Friday, Saturday Mtywood County doctors will not be in their offices this Friday or Saturday because of the sec ond annual Mountaintop Medi cal Assembly which will be held in Waynesville this weekend, ac cording to Dr. Jack B. Davis. Emergency calls, however, will be taken at Haywood County Hocpital. the doctor said. Cathey, Bradshaw Win Top Prizes In 4-H Dress Revue v.-1 ? ... ? *- 1 (See Picture, Pate 3) Ann Cathey of Canton was the senior winner of the annual 4-H Club Dress Revue at the court house Friday, while Gall Bradshaw of Fines Creek was junior winner. As the senior winner. Miss Cathey will represent Haywood County in the state dress revue in i Raleigh July 25. As the junior winner, Miss Bradshaw was award ed a prize of dress material from the Cloth Shop of Waynesville. Ribbon winners in the various clashes were: School dresses (junior* ? Gail Bradshaw. blue ribbon; "Mary Chambers of Lake Junal'uska, red. ribbon, and Judy Plemmons of Saunook, white ribbon. School dresses (senior)?Frances Conard of Fine* Creek, blue rib bon. Best dress (junior)?Gail Brad shaw, blue; Barbara Ferguson of Fines Creek, red. and Joan Jones of Wayne6ville, white. Best dress (senior)?Ann Cathey, blue; Joretla Clarke of Fines Creek, red. Play outfit (junior)?Mary Cham bers. blue; Joan Jones, red, and Patricia . Kirkpatrick of Fines Creek, white. Play outfit (senior) ? Jorcttu Clarke, blue, and Martha Ann Caldwell of Crabtree, red. Tailored suit (junior) ?- Gail Kirkpatrick of Waynesville, blue, and Barbara Ferguson, red. Tailored suit (senior) ? Martha Caldwell, red. (See Dress Revue?Page 6) Highway Record For 1955 In Haywood (TO DATS) . Killed.... 1 Injured.... 45 Accidents.. 91 Loss.. $34,632 piled fron records ol State Hi?iiWay Fatr.l.) ?>- $" ^ d?