North Carolina Newspapers

TODAY'S SMILE Days'" The w4ynesyille mountaineer sge Published Twice-A-Week In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National ParV *Ment ? . ? 6 EAR NO. 58 24 PAGES Associated Press WAYNESV1LLE, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 21, 1955 $8.50 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson"CountieT * ? : I ' ?G A SIGN on one of the two out-of-state farm tour t Ld.iv morning were those three assistant farm agents C Kht) A. L. Ramsey, Bob Tippett and Cecil Brown. Mr. d ?ned the tour group, while the other two rematnel be- ^ ?king out of a bus window is A. B. Robinson of Canton, puking his 10th trip with the county group. (Mountaineer photo). b i Tour En Route Wisconsin Dairvlands \ 3 Show August And 13th | annual Carolina Jubi ow will be held here i d 13. it was announc C. C. League, presi lywood County Horse j tion. Inc., sponsor of < Ion walking horse of ' llinas will again be will he the closing ' e show, League said. j 0 and 200 horses are be entered in the pointed out. king I had a call from [olina horseman Pbout pd he is bringing sev Itries," League said, lowers is general man show, and Ed Sims as iger. id that some addition (nts were being made >r the show, and that j were being set up to even larger crowds j which was estimat 10.000 spectators for jtbits on the two days. 22 Pistol i >spitalizes Resident hie, colored, was hos p.m. Wednesday from ihot wound inflicted tnnie, at their home town section "of Can e told Deputy Sher ell that the shooting accident'* that took an argument with o was shot in the >elow the knee, was aywood County Hos ell is continuing his f the accident. By W. C. MEDFORD c CHICAGO ? (Special)?Eighty- J nine Haywood countians on a 12 state farm tour visited the Union r Stockyards in Chicago this niorn- j ing and the Museum of Science 0 and Industry in nearby Jackson ^ Park and then left for the famed a dairylands of Wisconsin. The group is scheduled to spend r the night tonight in La Crosae, J Wis., and then go on into Minne- a sola and South Dakota. ? -? J With their ranks swelled by several last-minute additions, the J county's 12th annual out-of-state farm tour group left the Haywood courthouse at 6:19 a.m. Tuesday * in two large air-conditioned buses 1 and a private car. s The Tar Heel travelers had F lunch in Corbin. Ky., and dinner in Hamilton, Ohio, where they t were guests of the Champion Pap- p er and Fibre Company. 1 The Carolina caravan left Way- ii nesville in the midst of a fog, but it lifted before the group reach- c ed Cherokee. ii Two more persons joined the v tour at Cherokee and another at d Knoxville, bringing the total to 89. n The weather in Kentucky was hot, but a heavy rain near Win- }' Chester cooled the air. '? After traveling for 402 miles, the tour passed through Cinctn- h (See Farm Tour?Page 8> tl Nine Camps In Haywood Have Capacity Of 915 Clyde Lions Club Will Hear Wooten State Highway Patrolman W. R. Wooten will be the principal speak* er at a meeting of the Clyde Lions Club at 6:30 p.m. Friday at the Central Methodist Church. Guests will include Lawrence Leatherwood. district governor; W. E. Michael, deputy district gov ernor, and F. E. Shull, chairman of Lions Zone Three. A. R. Leatherwood, newly elect- i ed president of Clyde Lions will preside at the meeting. incic are mne camps in Hay-1 wood, with a capacity of 915 camp ers, according to the latest statis tics available. These include: Camp Daniel Boone, owned by ' Daniel Boone Council -of Boy , Scouts of America. The camp has i a capacity of 130. and is for boys of Scouting age. The camp opened in 1920. Camp Hemlock. Maggie, for boys ' I 6 to 17, has a capacity of 65 and 1 was opened in 1944. The camp is : owned and operated by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Crum. 1 Camp Laughing Owl, Waynes ville. has a capacity of 40, and is operated by James A. Hudson. The camp is for boys, and was opened J in 1934. . < Camp Alverno, Waynesville, is ? directed by Sisters of St. Francis . of Assisi for girls from 5 to 16. I The camp has a capacity of 73r"iftid was opened in 1940. Camp Dellwood, Maggie, also t operated Joy Mr. and Mrs. Fred , Crum, is for girls 6*17. The camp has a capacity of 65 and was open- ' ed in 1926. ' Camp Junaluska for girls, at Lake Junaluska, Miss Ethel McCoy s director, is for ages 8 to 18, and j lias a capacity of 165. The camp . was opened in 1912. Skyland Camp, Clyde, for girls. . lias a capacity of 80, was opened t In 1917. The directors are Miss Helen Hemphill Harris, and Miss Prances Harris Brown. i The eighth camp, which is now ( owned and operated by the Metho- t list Assembly is Camp Adventure, . lust across the highway from the t west shore of Lake Junaluska. The :amp has a capacity of 150, and t s used by various churches for a n ?See 9 Camps?Pare 8) > f 11 Burley Planting fted To County ASC Pof farmers plant :o after measure Ids have been re JC, A. w. Fergu fcsTn-r-rr 1 U - . I HOT iy and hot with scat rshowers today and 'aynesville tempera ted by the State Test Max. Min. Pr. < 85 BO 1.00 87 62 .01 . 80 84 .05 I - - * ? son. county manager, said today. The reports have been made by , other farmers in the communities , involved, Mr. Ferguson explained. When such unauthorized planting , is discovered, he said, the ASC County Committee is required to reduce a farmer's allotment the ( following year by the amount of \ tobacco be has planted illegally. , Such growers also get a red mar keting card, Mr. Ferguson pointed ] out. which means that they will not j receive price supports on'their to- ] bacco and also must pay penalty ] on all excess lea/. Discussing reports of wildfire < infection of county burley, Mr. < Ferguson said that considerable j damage may be caused to the Hay- i wood tobacco crop and that the < prevalence of the fungus disease 1 Is ;'!?*<! in -tome areas." Recreation Registration Will Begin Registration books will open at I a.m. Friday in Waynesville and iazelwood for the recreation bond ilection in the two towns August 9. The books wil remain open un il July 29 from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. laily and from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. iaturday at the Waynesville fire tation and the Hazelwood Town fall. The registrar for the precinct t the fire station, Waynesville, is drs. Ruth Kelly", with R. L. Coin nd Henry Davis, judges. The Al ens Creek registrar is Vance Muse idth Charlie Duckett and Hilliard 'age, judges. Voting will be at the tllens Creek school for that pre in?t. Hazeiwooa s voting place is the own hall, with Mrs. Raymond Crawford registrar and Mrs. Ru lolph Carswell and Mrs. Carroll Vhitner, judges. Two issues will be at stake in he elections. The first will con ern the issuance of $136,500 in ionds by Waynesville and $38,500 iy Hazelwood for the purchase of and and construction of a civic ecreation center. The second will be to authorize he two towns to levy a tax of not nore than 10 cents on each assess d valuation of $100 on taxable iroperty. The recreation center would in lude a playground, swimming tool, and youth center, all under egular supervision. The recreation bond election was equested early this year by a tecreation Commission, made up if Waynesville and Hazelwood resi lents, headed by Dr. Boyd Owen is chairman. [own Officials Plan To Reopen Animal Shelter A temporary dog shelter will be established oa the grounds of the rown of Waynesville's dump in a hed built five yean ago for that lurpose. The announcement was made his week by Mrs. Elaine Hudson, 'resident of the Haywood CoUnty lumane Society, following a meet rig of county commissioners. Mrs. Hudson said the couAty ofTi ials agreed to a proposal of Way esville aldermen that the town rill pay Ernest Chambers, county og warden, to supervise the ani lal shelter and to answer calls pncerning d. gs within the town imits. This arrangement, she said, 5 a temporary one. Mrs. Hddson added that the town as also agreed to make repatirs to he shelter on its property. NEW OFFICERS of the N. C. Park Commis sion were elected here Monday as the annual ? meeting was held. Left to right: Frank H. Brown, Jr., of Cullowhee, vice chairman; Senator Wil \. I liam Mfdferd, chairman, Waynmlllr, and C. M. Douglas, of Brevard, re-elected secretary. ? ? (Mountaineer photo). Eight-Day Midsummer Clearances Open In Waynesville Area Friday Pisgah Parkway Link Closed 6 Days Each Week The link of the Blue Ridge Parkway Wagon Road Gap 'will be open only on Sundays, it was announced today. Contractors are preparing to pave the 11-mile link from Wagon Road Gap to Bench Gap, and that work, together with sloping the newly cut banks, prompted officials tc announce the closing until the work is completed. Ranger J. L. Orr said the three contractors are pushing the work on the project. Haywood Institute Reunion Set A reunion of former students, teachers, and friends of Haywood Institute will be held Sunday, Au gust 7, on the old institute grounds, it has been announced. i'he reunion program will in clude: Picnic dinner, 1 p.m.; session. "Do You Remember?"; erection of a marker, and discussion of plans for a 1956 reiinion. The event is expected to attract 20C persons, according to Mrs. Lee Evans, chairman in charge of ar rangements. Friends of the institute are in vited to attend and bring a picnic basket. County Cannery Schedules Set Fines Creek's cannery will open for the season Tuesday morning, according to Mrs. Rufus Siler of the Board of Education office, who supervises county canneries. The schedule for next week in the other three canneries is: Waynesville, Tuesday; Bethel, Wednesday; and Crabtree, Friday. The schedule for the following >veek will be announced later, Mrs. Siler said. Bargains and bargains ? many j unusual?feature the community wide Mid-Summer Clearances of local stores starling Friday morn ! ir,g . Tne eight-day event will continue through July 30. The community-wide sales event is being termed the "thrift era" of the year for shoppers in this wide area, served by local mer chants. According to Ned Tucfcer. execu tive vice president of the Chamber of Commerce, a survey of the busi ness district today points out sharp ly why Waynesville is fast becom ing one o! the top shopping cent ers in Western North Carolina. A wide selection of merchan dise was found at regular prices ranging up to 25 per cent under prices for comparable merchandise in larger shopping centers. For the summer clearance sale starting j on Friday, new merchandise of well-known brands is being mark ed as much as 50 per cent under regular prices. These prices were found to be from 10 to 25 per cent under sale prices for the same brands elsewhere. "Lower over head here in Waynesville makes these prices possible," one mer chant said. Another leading merchant re ported: "Much of my merchandise is to be sold below actual cost. I expect to be sold completely out I in less than a week?we are al ' ready having calls for fall merchan ( dise and we want to put our fall | lines on display." All of the merchants interviewed talked in terms of lines well known to "brand conscious" shoppers throughout the country. These j items included shoes, hose, sheets, ' house dresses, and party frocks, and all items of clothing for the entire family. A supplier of building materials was very emphatic in his claim that top quality building materials could be bought here in Waynes ville for cash prices equal to any in Western North Carolina. NOT THE SAME HENKV The Carl Henry who forfeited a $150 bond in Superior Court last week here is not the Carl Henry who owns the Twinbrook Resort at Maggie. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Ratcliffe an^ young son, Carl, Jr., tire leaving Saturday for Daytc.a Beach, Florida where they will spent a ten-day vacation. ? Methodist Leaders From Nine Southeastern States In Ministers' Meeting At Lake Methodist pastors and district >uperintendents of nine southeast ?rn states, plus numerous visitors rom other sections, are attending he annual Ministers Conference vhich opened last night at the ^ake Junaluska Assembly and con lnues through Tuesday Pastors and district superintend -nts are meeting separately for lusiness sessions, workshops and liscussion groups and come togeth er at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. for joint ilatform hours in the main audi- , orium. , The pastors' section Is headed . iy the Rev. Millard C. Cleveland, ninister of First Methodist 1 'hiirrh, Tampa. Fla southeastern ' president. The Rev. James A, Fish er of Brownsville, Tenn, is presi dent of the district superintend ents' section. Bishop Arthur J. Moore, Atlanta, Ga? was the guest speaker at the opening session. He will speak a gain tonight at 8 o'clock, at 11 a.m. | tomorrow and Saturday, and at 8 p.m. Sunday. Dr. G. Ray Jordan, professor of homiletics at Emory University, Atlanta, spoke to the group this morning, and he will speak again it 8 p.m. tomorrow. Bishop William T. Watkfns. Louisville, Ky., will ! precch Sunday at the 11 a.m. ser- , vices. j Dayton Rubber Also Gave $1,000 Towards Survey The Dayton Rubber Company, through A. L. Freedlander. presi dent, rave (1.0M towards the surrey conducted here about 1> mouths ago for a recreational center. This fact was not mentioned in a recent account of the his tory ot the Recreation Commis sion, and the (115101 bond elec tion set for August 9th. There was 92,990 contributed to corer the coat of the surrey. One thousand each by Dayton Rubber, and Ilelns Rollman. The survey was made by Charfes Grares, recreational en gineer of Atlanta. A detailed report of the survey was Bled with the 11-man Commission at the time. Many Haywood Highway Projects Are Completed x-t vboi auiuuui ui lutiuwuin i> underway and being completed in the Fourteenth Highway Division during thjs summer, Commission er Harry Buchanan of Henderson ville said today. During the month of June, a total of 39.6S miles of mountain roads in the Fourteenth were im proved. Buchanan commended highway forces upon their fine work. In Haywood, the following 14 foot wide county roads, and their lengths, were strengthened with two inches of additional stone: Fines Creek, two miles; Rabbit Skin, 1.5 miles. The following roads, and their lengths, were re graded from eight feet wide un improved to 26 feet wide and pav ed with traffic-bound macadam, 14 feet wide; Muse Road, 0.43 mile; Sales Road, 0.15 mile; Shelton Cove, 0.5 mile; Downs Mill, 0.4 mile; Owens Road, 0.25 mile. Wal nut Ford was regraded from eight feet wide unimproved to 26 feet wide and paved, 16 feet wide, for 0.1 mile. Four other county roeds, and their lengths, were strengthen ed by the addition of two inches of traffic-bound macadam; Inman Church 'Road, one mile; Panther Creek, 1.5 miles; Beaverdam Mountain, 1.5 miles; and White Oak. one mile. Otner Cove Road was regraded from eight feet wide to 26 feet and paved 12 feet wide with traffic-bound macadam for 0.5 mile. Golf Course Road was re graded from 18 to 26 feet wide and paved 16 feet wide with traffic hound macadam or 0.3 mile. All this road work was done by high way maintenance and road oil forces. vir;? u ttivii uiTioivii iicauquai itis in Sylvs, the Fourteenth is composed of Haywood, Henderson, Polk, Transylvania, Cherokee, Clay. Gra ham. Jackson, Macon and Swain counties. C. G. Page is division engineer. C. W. Lee Is assistant division engineer. P. J. Dupre is district engineer at Henderson ville; E. L. Curtis is district en gineer at Bryson City. The Rev. and Mrs. J. E. Yountz of Winston-Salem, formerly of Waynesville are spending a vaca tion at the Junaluska Apartments at Lake Junaluska. 'id* c PFC Chambers v Leaves Hospital I Army PFC Samuel Chambers, | \ 19, of Cecil, injured in an auto- 1 mobile accident last May 7, left * Walter Reed Hospital in Washing ton. D. C. this *oek. n He was accompanied home by o his mother. J Chambers, home on weekend c leave from Ft. Jackson, S. C., was a hurt when his car left the road p above Lake Logan. i, ? f, IRON DUFF SINGING gET a v A sing will be held at the Anti- ri och Baptist Church in Iron Duff at 8 p.m. Saturday. ri All singers and the general pub- h lie are invited to attend. o< Wildfire Threatens Haywood Tobacco The cool, damp climate which - has enveloped Haywood County g for the past several weeks has brought about a severe attack of * wildfire on county burley tobacco | beds, A. L. Ramsey, assistant farm agent, said today. Wildfire has been reported from all sections of the county and prac tically all fields have suffered at least slight infection, the agent < pointed out. 1 The only hope for control. Mr. Ramsey said, is a change in the weather toward a warmer, dryer atmosphere. The assistant agent described wildfire as a fungus, soil-borne disease w hcih thrives in a cool, S t moist climate. 1 Unless the weather docs get I warmer, he added, county burley producei-s face losses in their fields i running from 5 to 50 per cent of 1 their expected yield. To avoid the spread of wildfire, Mr. Ramsey advised county grow ers: _ 1. Do not cultivate or hoe in- ; I fected tields. 1 2. Do not visit infected fields of 1 ^ others if your fields have not been g attacked. 3. When It is necessary to work ? in infected field, work first in those areas least infected. A new variety of tobacco. Bur ley 21. is showing slight signs of o wildfire infection, Mr. Ramsey v said, but apparently will have d I enough resistance to withstand I ' the attack. r As a possible control measure, streptomycin sulfate is being spray- ? ed experimentally on wildfire ' areas by county agents, but re- 1 suits are not yet available. c The invasion of wildfire is gen- ' eral throughout Western North 4 Carolina burley-producing areas. ' but most counties have not been ' < as hard hit as Haywood because ' of their lower elevations, Mr. Ram- I sey explained One report has' also been rocelv- ' ed of black shank in a tobacco field ^ in the Hemphill section of Jona than Creek ? a plot with a past ( history of the infection. Black shank is regarded as the * worst of all tobacco diseases since it leaves the soil almost perman- ^ efitly infected, the assistant agent 11 pointed out. |? NEAL KELLY Selly Will Seek State 1-H Office Neal KeMy of Bethel, president f the 4-H Club county council, >111 be a candidate for vice presi lent of the state 4-H council at taleigh next week during the an lual 4-H Club Week program. A rising senior at Bethel High ichool and the son of Mr. and drs. R. O. Kelly of Route 3, Way lesville. Neal has been a club offi cer at Bethel for six years, partici >ated in all four of the county's i-H exchange trips, trained and ed the county 4-H square dance earn to the National 4-H Congress n Chicago, won the county 4-H >ublic speaking contest thrre imea and the district contest imr.fr IAS been, a member of the coumy 1-11 judging team for two years. He is also a. member of the Beta ?lub at Bethel High School, Dem ilay chapter,- a varsity player at SHS in footbail and basketball, 'resident of the Waynesville sub istrict of the Methodist Youth Fel 9\vship and a member of the West rn North Carolina Methodist 'outh Council, and a former Life >cout. In 1954 he represented Haywood ounty at a Red Cross leadership raining course at Gulfport, Miss. Neal was selected as a candidate Dr state 4-H club office by a youth ommittee made up of farm agents nd assistant agents from the i'estern District. Joys Charged Vith Thefts In Vuto 'Graveyard' Three boys, alt aged 13, who live ear Lake Junaluska. were placed n probation this morning by uvenile Judge J. B. Siler on harges of theft of property from Waynesville junkyard. Deputy Sheriff Gene Howell re orted that the trio has been tak lg radios and other accessories ?om wrecked cars in the "auto lobile graveyard" on the Ashe ille road owned by Leroy Har (& Deputy Howell recovered two idios and other auto parts in the odie of one of the boys, but three ther radios are still missing. 11 CDP Community Tours To Be Held During August n. scneauie or n. naywooa County CDP tours and picnics starting August 3 and ending Au- at guest 27, has been announced by Bob Tippctt. assistant county agent. <? The list includes: Wednesday. August 3 ? Fines Creek at Iron Duff. Friday. August 5?Upper Crab tree at White Oak. Saturday, August 6 ? Hatcliffe Cove at Allen's Creek. Tuesday, August 9?South Clyde at Thickety. Wednesday, August 10 ? West, Pigeon at Francis Cove. Saturday. August 13?Iron Duff at Saunook. Tuesday. August 16 ? Thickety at Upper Crabtree. Wednesday, August 17?Francis Cove at Ratcliffe Cove. Thursday, August 18?White Oak at West Pigeon. Saturday. August 20 ? Allen's Creek at Fines Creek. L. Saturday, August 27?Saunook South Clyde. Highway Record For 1955 In Haywood (TO DATE) Killed 1 Injured ... 57 Accidents 109 Loss.. $43,021 (This Information com piled from records oJ State Highway Patrol.) v ? ...1)