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Short JReport Issued By County Grand Jury The report of the H?vwoo<1 County grand jury made to Judge IMn K. Moore Wednesday after noon wan one of the shortest de livered by that body in tome time The report makes no reeommen d.itions and does not mention the charge made by the grand jury during the November and Febru ary terms at criminal court con cerning bootlegging in the vicinity of Wayneavilie Central Elementary School. In the past two months the sheriff and his deputies and Way nesvilie police hava made a num ber of raids on bootlegging estab lishments with resultant court ac tions against violators of liquor laws. -The grand Jury made this report concerning its inspection, of sev- j cual county structures and Institu- < tiijns: County Court House -The Court House,appears to be in.good condition. The County Jail ; was clean. There were 29 prison- j en. 26 men and 3 women. Prison Camp -There were 82 prisoners quart- I -** - ?I -mi . ?? .? . c ;? | I ered at the Prison Camp. They , stated that they were being well fed and well treated. The Prison I Camp was clean and in good con dition. Canton Jail The Canton Jail was clean arid in good conditior. There was one j prisoner. County Home The County Home is in the pro cess of being sold!- Properly ad ; vertised public auctions are plan ned in the near future to dispose of the Real Estate, farm equip I ment, etc. The 14 former inmates have heen removed to Nursing homes in Clyde, Canton, Hazelwood and Webster. These Nursing Homes are State licensed and under the gupr ervlsion of the State and County Welfare Dept., Mrs. Sam Quean, Superintendent. Mrs. Queen stat ed the patients are very well satis-' fied under tha present set up. Respectfully submitted this the ' 13th day of July, 1955. FLEETWOOD SMATHERS Foreman of the Grand Jury. My Favorite Stories Bjr CARL GOERCH where,' we asked Mr. Ferrin OOwer. as we passed his garage on ! Salisbury Street, Raleigh, "did you get the dog?'1 Mr. Gower was holding the ani mal on a leash. It was a French hull; an unusually pretty dog. "'Just bought him for ten dol- j lars," was the answer. And then be told us how the sale had come about. This man had walked into his ] place ef business about half an hour before, bringing the dog with him. He aaid he was a major in the reuerve corps and that he had been sailed for active duty. "And you know," continued Perrin, "he sat down by the win dow over there, and the tears came to hia eyes as he told me how much he hated parting with his dog. He'd had it ever since it was a puppy, and they had never been separated. However, there was no place hi the army for Jeff, so it wau nesussarv to leave him behind. "Se went on to tell me that un der ordinary circumstances, he k wouldn't sell the dog for a hun I dred dollars. But the thing he was f primarily interested in was to itAe sure the dog got a good home. I told him I'd give him ten dollars. He didn't want to take it 1 first, but Anally said that he had to leave town on the next bus and i he reckoned he'd have to accept tho ten. "I thought he never would get away from the dog. He sat there, with the dog*9 head in his hands, and it was just about as sad a part in* as I've ever seen In all mv life. I almost got to crying myself." it was a very interesting story. The dog whined once or twice while Perrin was speaking and also looked around as thoueh search ing for his departed master. ""Almost enough to break a man's heart," said Perrin. French bulls have always been our favorite breed of dogs. We told Mr Gower that wt'd give him ten bucks for the dog. provided he'd let us take the animal out to the r house and see tf it would De an right with the family. "Go ahead," said Perrin. It wasn't all right. The head of the household said she wouldn't have another dog under any cir cumstances. And. while the con versation (or rather, monologue), was in progress, Sport came trot ting into the room, fbok one out raged and indignant look at the stranger and jumped on him with all four feet. It was quite a job, getting them separated. That settled it. We took Jeff and left the house at once. It was with sincere regret that we drove back down town and left the dog with Mr. Gower again, ex plaining what had taken place. "That's all right." he said, "may |be the same thing'U happen when 11 get hdme." We didn't see him until a couple .of days after that and naturally ! made inquiries about the dog. ( "Don't mention that dog to me." he said, "I wish I could lay my .hands on the guy who sold him to me." "What happened?" we aaked. , "Well. I took the dog home, and the family didn't seem to object very much, so it looked as thouah we'd keep him. And then, tho following morning, a delivery boy from the Person Street Pharmacy came uo to the front door. The in stant the dog saw him. it jumped all over him. barking uo a storm. The bov looked at Mrs Gower and I asked her where In the world she had found his dog He exnlalned I that the dog had been missing for three davs and evidently had been stolen. To prove his point, he made the animal do half a doien tricks, and Jeff obeved his Instructions in i every one of them. I \ "When I got home for supper. I was told what had taken place. And when I thought how that unprin cipled reprobate had sat in my garage and had pretended to be grieving so sincerely about having to part with his little pet?well, it Wins Jet Race MAPFY Lt. Col. James A. Poston, of Columbus, Ohio, gets a hearty kiss from him star Anne Francis on. his arrival in Detroit to win the Ricks Memorial Trophy Race from Ontario, Calif. Poston, competing with 21 other jets, raced the 1,945 miles in an F-84 in three hours, 32 minutes at an average speed of 548.505 miles per hour. Contestants were all from the Air National Guard. made me hot all over. "The next day, I talked to the boy and explained to him how I had put out ten dollars, and that if 1 hadn't bought the dog, he prob ably never would have seen it again, and that I thought perhaps he and his folks might want to pay part of the ten dollars back. He said he'd let me know, and that's the way things stand at the pres ent time." That made us feel rather glad that we hadn't bought the dog when we had a chance to do so. The following day we saw Mr. Cower again. "What's the dog's status now?" we inquired. He shook his head ?gloomily. "There isn't any dog," he said. "What do you mean?" we asked. "That dog is causing more trouble and worry than any ani mal I've ever seen," he said. "Some time late yesterday afternoon he decided to leave home, and hasnt been seen nor heard of since. 1 called up the delivery boy but he swore that he hadn't seen him It now looks as though I'm definite ly out ten dollars, and that both the boy and I are out the dog." "What about the major?" we asked. Mr. Cower cussed briefly; Need less to say. the major hasn't been in evidence since the sale took place. And so. as things now stand the whole proposition is in more or less of a muddle Mr Cower savs he's thoroughly disgusted with the entire business, and we can't say' we blame him. 1 SliDoery Deal FREnOKTA. Kv. (AP) ? Oil'* j well with farmer Malcom Boone ; but the town's civic clubs have troubles. The clubs raised monev for Fredonia's first waterworks an^ arranged to drill on Boone's land. But oil was strupk and the nro- , iect was abandoned after the cl?t? had sDent SI 300. Boone leased 1 acres to an oil comnanv, which wil' drill for oil. not water. Johnson, Owens To Clash At A-W Speedway Sunday Modified and sportsman division ' stock car drivers will return to 1 , Ashcvil|e - Weaverville Speedway ! Sunday afternoon for another 65 lap racing program and another track battle between Joe Lee John son of Chattanooga, Tenn., and Cotton Owens of Spartanburg, S. C-, appears in the making. A field of some 25 drivers are | expected to open the program with time trials at 2 p.m. Two 10-lap | heat races, a 15-lap consolation and a 30-lap main event are sched uled. Johnson, the tall Tennessean who wrested the A-W track leader ship from Owens last month, has driven h i s Cadillac powered Chevrolet to two victories on this track this season. He finished sec ond to Owens in another race. Johnson also holds the track speed record. He turned the one- ' half mile oval in 24 seconds flat. Owens, who racked up an early season lead at Asheville-Weaver- ; ville in his Chrysler-powered Ply mouth, refused to run in the last I race here because of the muddy condition of the track. As a result, ! I ' Johnson won the race and forged Into the lead. Owenk, with two victories, is in position to recap- | ture the lead-Sunday should he win the race. Top competition wil Ibe afforded this co-favored due by Banjo Mat thews of Ashevilie, Speedy and Jimmy Thompson of Monroe, Banks and Mutt Simpson of Con cord, Bill Widephouse of Midlands, Dink Wldeiihouse of Concord, Bunk Moore df Monroe, Fireball Roberts of Daytona Beach, Fla., and Tommy Boger of Concord. Matthews* stil winless on the A-W track despite his high posi tion in NASCAR's national point standings, switched to the Grand National citur two races last week but wUFbe driving his modi- 1 tied Ford Sunday. RobertSyjghp won one race at A-W this season is expected to be back in his Cadillac-powered Chev rolet. J tray Thompson will be In a ChrysIer-powjghri Plymouth. Promoter SEne Sluder w ill be paying a 32.(ljh purse in this race. I which is MMpkned by NASCAR. | - ' A young baseball manager came j to town and taught a lot of us some good philosophy. He is Harry Walker, of the St. Louis Cardinals, and he said on his first visit here to Brooklyn, that if his men did i the best they could, "well, that's it." Walker learned his philosophy the hard way. In 1948 his 5-year old son died after being hit by a car. He was the Walker's only son, and it shook the family mighty hard. Finally, he learned, he says, that you take the tough breaks, then forget them, because there's nothing you can do about them ?after they've happened." A wife was tearfully seeing her husband off for New York City at the Milwaukee airport. She kept telling him to write her often. He had other ideas of communi cation. "Don't you worry a bit, honey," he called. "I'll wave at you from the Steve Allen show Friday night. If you miss me there, don't panic. I'll be in Gar roway's window on Monday for sure." # Was impressed by the enthus iasm of Roland Gammon, formerly of Maine, who will be one of New York's busiest young executives this summer. First he will help importantly with the first Biennial Convention of the Council of Lib eral Churches in Detroit in Au gust, where the subject will be, "Man's Confidence in Himself." Then Roland, showing that he has plenty of said confidence, will take off for Europe guiding a group of visitors on an appealing tour of Scotland, England. France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Den mark, under the auspices of the Cultural Travel Foundation. Understand that some news-' women got together recently in Washington with President Eisen hower, and showed him how wo men folks can dig up things that men never even dream of. They revealed to Ike, for example, that when Postmaster General Summer field was a kid in school, he mis behaved one day and as punish inent was sent to the cloakroom by Ihe teacher. While thus incar cerated, he proceeded to eat up the teacher's lunch. Secretary of De fence Charles Wilson, former auto executive, as a child, was riding in a buggy with his mother, they came upon a stalled car?and he ! yelled out the old maxim, "Get a horse!" ' i Seems like we keep learning | something new all the time about past events and people. NOw a new book, "From Lexington to Liberty" by Bruce Lancaster I (Doubledayi relates that Francis Marion, "the Swamp Fox" of the j Revolution who "lit" all over the Carolinas, regularly drank undi luted vinegar. Maybe this was an odd habit?Marion was an unusual fighter?but it was also practiced by the Roman Legions "who valued it as an antiscorbutic." (I looked up this last word and it means "medicine to prevent scurvey.") Bob Kane, official of the F. H. McGrnw construction "Company; i showed up at a press conference in Boston an hour late because he didn't realize that the bean town is on daylight saving time. He decided to do something about it, so got up a card and map showing which states do and which don't have daylight time in the summer months. Now his company gives these usefvri'items away. Bob also tells me that all the money for restoration of the Old North Church steeple in Boston, which was blown 4dwn by a hurricane, has been rai&d?mostly by the patriotic efforts of school children throughout (he country. Horace Greeley said "Go West, young man!** yet he stayed in the East. Part 'Off that time, before he came ttf New York, he was a printer's devil at East Poultney, Vt. where Iyeecently visited. A lively couple^ '? there who took Greeley's advice'? in reverse ?; came from California and took | over a charming, historic hostelry j named Eagle Tavern, where Gree- ' ley once stayed, and before him, ! A DOUBLE FEATURE CATCH was made at Duck Hole on the Nantahala River near the post office by Jeff Deavers, a Gatlin burg fishing guide, who was about to net an eight-inch rain bow trout when it was sudden ly swallowed by a riant brown trout. A battle of more than an hour followed since Deavers was using only a four pound test line. The brown trout which weighed pounds and meas ured 32 inches, finally drown ed from being unable to close its mouth because of the tail of the rainbow. Clauson, Johnson Win Throwout | Golf Tournament A four-hole throwout tourna ment was sponsored by the wo men's division of the Waynesville Golf Club Wednesday morning. Hazel Clauson won In the 13-hole class with a net of 58. while Roddy Johnson took the nine hole award with a net of 31. Prizes were presented to the winders at a luncheon following the tournament. New Peach Types SOUTH HAVEN. Mich. (AP) ? : Sunhaven and Richhaven ? two t n^w varieties of peaches develop- , ed by Stanley Johnston at the South Haven Agricultural Experi ment Station ? were introduced {his year. Both originated from ; crossing of the Redhaven and SH 50. Both varieties are bright red and , gold, averaging 2V4 to 2inches ; in diameter. The Sunhaven ripens 10 days earlier than the Redhaven 1 currently the first Michigan peach i of commerical importance. Johnston says the Sunhaven. tertds to be clingy until it is fully ripened and is intended only for fresh market channels. The Rich haven is a dual purpose peach, i rated excellent in commercial , canning tests. A touch, thick skin protects it well in shipping. Trees are large, vicorous and self-fertile. Some of them weath-' ered a freeze of November. 1950 which killed off about half of southwest Michiean's peach trees. Count on getting 16 to 20 stalks ! of asparacus in a pound. This' amount will serve three to four Dcrsons?depending on what the 1 veeetable is served with. For a j sDringtime lunch, offer the drain ed cooked stalks on hot buttered toast and too with ? cheese sauce ?nd sliced hard-cooked eccs. SDrin kje the eec slices with paprika or minced parsley. t Ethan Allen. In this storied house, Captain William Watson of our Revolutionary army proposed the following toast: "The Enemies of our Country! May they have cob web breeches, a porcupine saddle, 1 a hard-trotting horse and an eter nal journey!" Hazelwood Will I Travel Saturday To Meet Enka Halted by the weatherman last Saturday when Martel Mill* was scheduled to appear here, Hazel wood hopes to get back into WNC Industrial League action this Sat urday at Enka against the Rayon ite?. Either Spunk Cagle or Ray Hooper will pitch for th_ locals. In two previous games with Enka, Hazelwood has split with the Rayonites. At present, Hazelwood owns a 5-fl record. Baseball ResJ PONY LEAGUE Garret's 7, Unagust 5 ] Five Points 16, Dayton l. By NANCY DAVIS Pitchers were Styles for gusta and Holder for Garri Main hitters were Burrd Stevens for Unagust i and 1 and Holder for Garrett's. In the other game. H. | and V. Green were pitcher Five Points and Mills for q, Main hitters for Five Point, George and Green and Mill Dayton. George hit the only homeri contest RAY'S ?topS ANNIVERSARY SALE ?ri features a ?' >4" WORK SHQ ONLY 3.8| rI ALSO ON SAI ? Children's Sandals ? Women's Sandals I ? Men's Dress Oxfords AND FOR GARAGE MEN Or For Any lob J Oil Resistant OXFOI ? Cushion Insole 5 * ? Cushion Arch ] *950 Value *7 I You don't have to mail order! You can buy them at I RAY'S srol JjSjj Racks and Stacks of SLACKS i, ' In All Sizes 28 to 50 $495 TO $995 I Name Your Favorite Color and Fabric ---We Have It! I ?? ' ijr ALTERATIONS FREE! 1 sksit shirts *1" ?3951 TURNERS STORE \ KING OF THE WELTERS - - By Alan Mover mt Barents ton v*a*s. CMPti'T HAVB AM/ c/mctf ml tub t/tle BOOT g/r,W' /MP T> 'Apmg/f W ? BASIL/0, | m new if A * WELTER ? % RING, WILL HAVE A \ LONGER RE ISM THAU His FHEPECESSORS TO PAYS THANKS To COTS WHICH WJLL KEEP HJM OUT , OF ACTION, BOTHES GOT THE STUFF TO STAYoN THE THRONE WrrNOOT HELP LOST Between Balsam and Hazel wood, about 11 a.m. Wednes day.; a dark blue zipper bag containing man's clothes. Lib eral award if returned to The Mountaineer. Want Ads FOR SALE?7 lots, SO ft. * 125 ft., near Long's Chapel"" Church at Lake Junaluska. Ideal housesites, reasonably priced. Contact Ed , Aiken at Biltmore Dairy. J 14-18 HOUSE FOR SALE: 5 rooms. Living room, modern kitchen, 2 bedrooms, bath, utility room. Attached garage. Concrete ter race. All hardwood floors. Forc ed hot air oil furnace. Finished in Redwood. Beautiful land scaped grounds. Bordered by ter raced rock walls. Extra large lot. located on Assembly St. Priced to sell. Call GL 8-5340. WANTED?a mar or men that is able to do a good days work at reasonable price. Such as cut ting locust and blackberry briars, cutting ditches and cov ering them with rock and dirt, and perhaps some with tilling. Leave your answer at The Moun taineer office. 4 14 FOR SENT ? One three-room apartment. Call Howell Qn> ford. 6-3S35. J 14-tf I
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