fSHr The Waynesville Mountaineer =#3= ii | Published Twice-A-Week In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park ^ ??? [nh~YEAR wTtr 12 PAGES Associated Pnu WAYNESvTLlE, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, july 4, 1955 3 J *850 ln Adv>nce ln "aywood and Jackson Countka own, Area rowded pr Holiday irth .of July activities in the esville area today will in a baseball game on the S field, rides all day on the lesville High grounds, a > at Lake Junaluska at 7:30 p. nd fireworks at the lake at p.m. parade also was held begin at 10 a.m. at Allen's Creek ol and ending at WTHS where ; and concessions are being ated by the Hazelwood Boos Club until midnight tonight, eeds will go for various com ity youth projects and the nesville High band, i the Waynesville High dia d, it'll be Canton vs. Hazel 1 at 3:30 p.m. in a Western b Carolina Industrial League ;?the second meeting of the in between the two Haywood ity towns. Hazelwood edged >n. 7-6. last Wednesday. Lake Junaluska tonight, is will be presented to win Df athletic events at 7:15 and de. "Sergeant York," will be i in the assembly auditorium 0 eworks, sponsored by busi len of Waynesville, Canton .ake Junaluska, will be set off 9 30 p.m. from the south end e lake near the youth center pite showers which fell ghout ihe mountain area in aTrttty Sunday, "traffic was :ed at a record level for a h of July weekend and tour tablishments hung out their acancy" signs carUy. annual celebration of the 1 in Western North Carolina marred by tragedy Sunday , Ing when a large swinging* e collapsed at Cherokee, kill wo women, and injuring 40 j persons. I ins Club ? Install 14 w Officers teen officers ? including nt Ernest Edwards ? will tailed for 1955-56 by the; iville Lions Club Thursday at Spaldon's Restaurant stalling officer will be Al t-oome of Asheville, retiring pr of Lions District 31-A. r officers to be Installed lames E. Fender, first vice j lit; M. T. Bridges, second ?sident; Ben Phillips, third | psident; Charles Reed, sec-1 ?Chick Fowler, assistant sec I James H. Howell, Jr.,1 kr; J. C. Jennings, Lion j Bill Swift and Charles Bal- | Tail Twisters; W. L. Turner rank Kirkpatrick, directors |t> years; Roy Parkman and Angel, directors for one fher member of the Waynes Lions Club, Lawrence B. |rwood, will be installed as pw district governor here py, July 14. 300 Added To Town's Mail Routes Some 300 Waynesville area resK dents, formerly on rural mall routes, are now receiving city car rier service as a result of an ex tension of service which went into effect Friday. Now being served by foot carrier are patrons on portions of South Haywood St., Daisy Ave., Clifton St., Ridgewood St., Charles St., North Hill St.. Johnson Hill, Park Drive, Sims St., West Marshall St., and Vance St. On the new routes served by mounted carrier are residents of East Marshall St., east of the town limits, East St., Sunnyside, Hill side Terrace, Highland, Broadview, Overbrook, Galloway, Keller, and Summit streets. The added work caused by the extension of city carrier service will be handled by a new tempor ary substitute carrier and a "classi fied" clerk-carrier, according to' Postmaster Enos Boyd of Waynes ville. 'Finer Farms'! Contest Now In Progress Communities in eight Western j North Carolina counties ? includ ing three in Haywood ? are en tered in the Carolina Power and Light Company's "Finer Farms" contest, which opened July 1 and will continue through June 30, Haywood County communities participating are Pigeon (East and West Pigeon), White Oak, and Up per Crabtree. Other counties in the contest are Avery, Buncombe, Henderson, Jackson, Madison, Mitchell and Vancey. The contest is being sponsored "to help speed the adoption of soil and water conservation princi pals on more land," E. N. Pope, contest director, said last ^veek. Winners will be selected on the basis of soil and water conserva tion improvements and will re ceive $2,800 in prize money. (See Finer Farms?Page 5) Cherokee Swinging Bridge Collapses; 2 Dead, 40 Hurt A Tennessee and a Georgia; woman were killed and 40 persons were injure^, some critically, when a swinging bridge collapsed at Cherokee about 11 a.m. Sunday. The bridge linked the main highway with the other side of the Oconaluftee River where Chief O. B. Saunooke operates gift shops and several other tourist attrac tions. It was estimate^ that approxi mately 100 persons were on the bridge when it fell some 20 feet into the shallow, rock strewn river. The dead were: Mrs. Henry Haile, Jr., 35, of Daisy, Tenn., near Chattanooga, who was struck a severe blow on the head, and Mrs. Lawrence Rainwater, 38, of At lanta, Ga., who suffered internal injuries. The seriously injured were tak en to hospitals in Bryson City and Sylva. Others received first-aid treatment at Cherokee and were released. There were no Western Carolinians among the injured. News of the tragedy spread quickly and persons from through out Western North Carolina and Tennessee drove to the scene Sun day afternoon, causing the already heavily traveled highways to Cherokee to become jammed. At one time, traffic was tied up for a distance of six miles from the res ervation community. Iywoo d Baptist Pastors k That Haywood County y Be Held On Week Day lay wood Baptist pastors re Bunanimously passed a reso ^Baskin^ that the annual Hay ^B'oui'v Day bo held on a ^Bay instead of Sunday, and ?lternative, that the program Bn the afternoon, If held on K>astors. in their resolution, ^B pointed out that the staging of Haywood County Day at the morn ing worship hour on Sunday morn ing interferred with the set pro grams of the churches. The annual event Is usually held on the first Sunday in June but was staged this year on the second Sunday due to the inability of Governor Luther Hodges, speaker, to get here prior to the 12th. The resolution was signed by Rev. W. G. Rhinehart, president and Rev. G. H. Shopc. Jr., secre tary. The resolution is as follows: "Whereas, we believe in the pro ; motion of Haywood County Day as i a day for fellowship among the 1 people of Haywood County, and "Whereas, we believe in the I benefits derived from the exper I (See Merwiw* Hip** i fip I) tie | ther I HOT Bally fair and hot today and B with a few afternoon or B thunderahowers STRESSING THE IMPORTANCE of driving safely during the Fourth of July weekend is this wrecked car placed by the State Highway Patrol at the intersection of V. S. 19A-23 with U. S. 19 near Lake Junaluska. Several such demolished vehicles were placed on display in Western North Carolina as a special holiday project of Highway 1 Patrol Troop E. Although this siq commemorates the death of Charles W. Gidney of Canton in a wreck at Clyde in May, the car actually was the I one driven by Mrs. Betty Poppas of Canton, which went over a bank near Canton High School and was badly damaged. Patrolman W. R. Woolen stands by the vehicle. (Mountaineer Photo). i ' ' I County Produces \ y I Freak Of Nature As usual, Waynesvilie is right along in line with the other cities that exploit Siamese twins. Fur man Stinnett brought to The Mountaineer a Siamese twin ? of uhe floral family. - A -double -cVgrk red dahlia had Its counterpart compactly joined from the outdf leaves to the tip end of the stems/ This freak of nature created quite a bit of interest by those 6ho saw it. ? "" ' .... NO FIRE DAMAGE The fire department answered a call to Lake Junaluska about 5:30 Saturday, when an oil water heat er backfired and sent soot and smoke out of the boiler room of the Junaluska Apartments. Felix S to vail, fire chief, said there was no damage. Damaged Cars Are Holiday Reminder To Drive Safely 1 * . v , ? 1 1 Three badly damaged cars, in volved in wrecks in Haywood County recently, and two ambu lances bearing caskets and flow ers have been placed at strategic ' locations on county highways to j eeotion drivers to drlrii safelv dw ! ing the Fourth of July week-end. The wrecked cars were at the intersection of U. S. 19A-23 and 19 I near Lake Junaluska. on the four lane highway at the western limits ; of Canton, and at t*he intersection 1 I of the Soco Road and the Jona j than Creek highway. The ambu I lances were at Charlie's Place in Waynesville and at Dcllwood. v These vehicles were placed on major highways of Western North Carolina as a special project oi Highway Patrool Troop E. Each i of them bore a sign reading: "One Killed, Drive Slowly." Patrolmen at the scene have been passing out cards reading: "You are now entering the most scenic, yet definitely the most cogk gested section of North Carolina. ??HW^-^wjsh you a pleasant and" "We- res^ecHu^y' request your "2. TJiih't fallow too ejpSely. "3. Don't pa\ ok bills and curves. I "4. Don t drive on the wrong side of road. "5. Be alert today and be alive tomorrow." Three Hurt fti4'L?ie Highway Carmen Way Arrington, 36, of Panther Creek was arrested on charges of driving drunk, (hit and run. and driving after his license had been revoked following a col lision of his 1949 Plymouth with a 1953 Oldsmobile, driven by Mrs. Ora Lee Price Sheehan, at 7 p.m. Sunday. Cpl. Pritchacd H. Smith of the Highway Patrol reported that Ar rington's car, two feet over the center line, sideswiped the Shee han car as the latter was going north near the Crabtree-Iron Duff School. Arrington failed to stoEle^-uait. arrested about an hour Jeter by Cpl. Smith who found thfcjte-run suspect trying to hide AHm the bark porch of his hoincil He was placed in the jail under a $1,000 bond. ???? Damage to the Oldsmobile was estimated at $300 and to the Ply mouth at $100. The persons we?e injured in a co'lision on the four-lane highway at the intersection of the Jones Cove Road at 11.30 p.m. Sunday. Hurt were: Boss Olllr of Spruce Pine and Ruby Needham and Rose (See 3 Hurt?Page 5) Governor Hodges Will Not Intervene On Pigeon River Interstate Decision; News Spread Fast About Road In Area The news of the Highway Com mission in designating the Pigeon I ? River Road as the route for the . nterstate system spread fast here !J ast Thursday afternoon. |. The first news break came in a " flash to The Mountaineer from ; Raleigh when a pre-arranged call from the highway commission came through shortly after two a'clock. Civic leaders who have been i close to the project were on hand ! at The Mountaineer waiting for j the word from Raleigh. When the I call came through, the leaders j watched over the shouldeg of the , reporter as he wrote the first para- ! graph and then in a joyful mood | went to the courthouse to begin spreading the word. The Mountaineer was all set to ' go to press and the story was put , into type as fast as it was written. ] and shortly thereafter, the papers were on the street. Friday morning the four mayors and chairman of the board of com missioners sent the 14 members of the commission and Chairman A. H. Graham the following tele gram. "We are convinced the future will prove the w ladom of the High way Commission in concurring with Tennessee highway authori ties in selecting the Pigeon River v' ? nessee. The message was signed by F. C. Green, chairman, board of county commissioners, i. H. Way. Mayor of Waynesvllle, Gerald Fish, mayor of Clyde, Lawrence Davis, mayor of Hazelwood and Bruce Naiiney. mayor of Canton. ; RALEIGH (AP> ? A statement )y Gov. Hodges indicated he has 10 intention of stepping into a controversy over a route for an nterstate highway system between iVestern North Carolina and rennessee. The State Higbway Commission las approved a route along the Pigeon River and rejected a pro losal that it give more study to in alternate route along the 'rench Broad River. Asked for comment on a report hat he had requested the com mission to survey the French Broad route. Gov. Hodges said lhat he has "no authority to reverse a decision by the State Highway Commission." "I have not ordered any survey made for any highway project, but when the Pigeon River matter was brought to my attention I told the highway chairman that I favored a survey of both the Pigeon River and French Broad routes," the Governor said. Hodges said he had been "in formed and advised by the high way chairman that an exhaustive engineering study of all proposed or suggested routes has been made, both from maps and in the field, before the final decision was made by the commission." &:outs Plan T? Bnnrh InWew Mexico * Jren Boy Scouts from the Daniel Boone Council, witja Rudolph Cars well as their leader left on Satur day for the Philmont Boy Scoi\t Ranch In New Mexico where they will spend two weeks. The group includes two boys irom Ashevllle, one each from Murphy, Franklin, and Sylva, and the following from Waynesvllle: Mark Feichter, Charles Balentine, Stuart Scruggs, Johnny Carswell, and Mike Byrd. Mr. Carswell, who is scoutmaster of Hazelwood Troop 5, was chosen by the Daniel Boone Council to accompany the boys at the expense of the council. The Scout Ranch is provided for Explorer Scouts (those over four teen years of age) and is visited by around 10,000 boys during the summer months. It covers an area about the size of Haywood Coun ty with the lowest altitude about 6,500 feet. According to Stephen Woody, who went to the ranch last sum mer and is the only Scout from Waynesville who has made the trip so far, the boys will spend most of their time hiking in the mountains on the ranch. The first few days are spent in training so that the boys may become accus tomed to the high altitude, after which they will go on an 8-day hike. Burros are provided to help carry provisions and camping equipment. . . I luesday Is Last Day Of Ccfrnival Df Bargain Event The third day of the July Bar lain Carnival nil cpntinue here Tuesday, the Merchants Associa tion announced. The event got under way last Friday for the 3-day period. Shopping was brisk Friday and Saturday, and indications were that the last day of the community-wide program would prove very satisfactory. Frank Moore, president of the Merchants group said this was the first of several community wide programs planned for this year. fames Kilpatrick New Rotary Head, Succeeds Ray | James Kilpatrick became presi-{ dent of the WaynesvHle Rotary j Club Friday, succeeding William S. Ray. Ray gave a brief history of the j year's Work, which included the Club sponsoring three major cam4 paigns of raising money lorjal All three campaign umMWINMI exceeded. Ray am Priced. The board >;