J Howell
fies
Ithday
Lel! celebrated his
I at a family picnic
|r at his home here,
grandchildren, and
Edi 'ii of Mr. How
[iit for the occasion,
i are from Haywood
daughters and sons
i Medford. Mrs. I'ete
'harlotte. Mrs Will
Barnard Dellinger,
it. Joe Howell. Gar
Mark Howell and
ias 16 grandchildren
[randchildren.
r Haywood County,
s spent most of his
i> a retired farmer
ler and is a former
e county board of
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' Directors
Wednesday
Df the board of di
i VV'aynesville Busi
ifessional Women's
?Id Wednesday night
in the home of Mrs.
n, president,
le coming year will
; ]?
wnals
I. Henry Y. Bridges
their home in Char
nding the weekend
r's parents, Mr. and
dees. They came to
dees Family Reun
heid yesterday.
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Blanton and her
tarian Ann Messer,
to their homes in
ter visiting friends
hio.
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, Sr., is spending a
lis wife and chi'dren
Hill return to Wash
tember 30 where he
erk in the Senate
m.
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I Mrs. Earl H. Bren
for Arkansas where
J a few days with
were accomoanied
rs R. P. Hackett.
1 their guests here
ting to their home
s.
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dges, who has spent
? *~eo*uelor at wi
no in Suffolk, Vir- I
ig her parents, Mr.
ink Hodges, at their
here.
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Woltz and her
Elliott, Jimmy,
Airy are visjt
nother, Mrs. T.
Gwyn went to
and aecompan
id grandsons to
Stovall, daugh
Dewey StovaU,
for Charlotte.
? the School of
erian Hospital,
raduated from
ristol, Va. last
Leon Word of
Hiss Nyla Haf
!8on, and Miss
neville, Iowa,
s of Miss Bar
ne on Timber
's*. Miss Kel
' are studenU
^sity, Green
s. Word Is a
vllle Element
INITIATED by Alpha Theta chapter of Beta Sig
ma Phi sorority Thursday night at the Jones
Farm were Mrs. Herb Turner (seated, left), Mrs.
Donald Morrow (seated, right) and (standing)
Miss Bess Francis. Mrs. David Noland, Mrs.
Arthur Paul Evans, and Mrs. J. T. Russell. Oth
ers seated are Mrs. Raymond Caldwell, elub
president.and Mrs. Jack Klopp, who eondurted a
"ritual of jewels" ceremony.
(Mountaineer Photo).
My Favorite Stories
By CARL GOERCII
_ :
Mr. Lloyd Canady, of Raleigh,
who deals in securities and other
things of a like nature, was down
in South Carolina last week on a
business trip.
The principal purpose of his trip
was to make calls on a number of
customers down in South Caro
lina.
His trip took him to the little
town of Denmark. S. C., where
lives a Mr. John D. Elliott, whom
Lloyd particularly wanted to see.
He drove around to the Elliott
home, and Mrs. Elliott told him
she was sorry, but her husband had
left the house Just a few minutes
before.
"You'll probably find him at the
warehouse." she said.
So Lloyd got back into his car
and drove around to the ware
house. He made inquiries but
coidn't find out anything about the
whereabouts of Mr. Elliott. Final- j
ly, one of the Negro workmen
spoke up and said: "Boss, I be
lieves you'll find him at the ca
nary mill."
"At the what?" asked Lloyd.
"At the canary- mill," responded
the man.
Lloyd.askq^ forvdirections, but
they were so vaguely woraed that
he couldn't make heads or tails
out of what the man told him.
Across the street was an A.B.C.
store, with the manager sitting
out on the curb, reading a news
paper. Lloyd walked up to him and
asked him if he knew Mr. John D.
Elliott.
"Very well," was the answer.
"Do you know where his canary
mill is?"
The man put down his news
paper. "Canary mill!" he exclaim
ed.
"That's right."
The man shook his head slowlv.
"I've known John all mv life, but
I didn't know he had gone in for
raising canaries." he said.
Lloyd left him and drove down
the street. He attemnted to fol
low the directions which the Ne
!ero had given him and it wasn't
long before he was in the out
skirts of the little town?and no
canary mill In sight.
Three or four colored men were
walking down the railroad tracks.
Llovd waited until they came
abreast and then made further in
quiries about Mr Elliott.
"Have vou tried the warehouse?"
one of them asked.
"Yes, I've been there."
"Maybe he's out at the canary
mill," was the next suggestion.
Lloyd breathed a sigh of relief.
So there really was a canary mill
after all.
"I just asked a white man up
town about the canary mill," he
said, "and he didn't know there
was such an establishment in Den
mark."
"Lawsy, boss; I don't know why
he couldn't have told you, 'cause
everybody knows about the canary
mill. Mr. Elliott's been runnin'
it here for ten years or more."
"How do you get there?"
This time the directions were
much more explicit. Cross the rail
road tracks, drive three blocks
straight ahead, then turn to the
left, follow that street until you
couldn't go any further, and you'd
run right into the mill
Lloyd thanked his informants
and proceeded on his way. This
time he didn't have any trouble
following directions, and in a few
minutes he tame to the mill.
Mr. Elliott was in the office, and
after Lloyd had been talking busi
ness for a while, Lloyd asked him
J71y the way.. Mr. Elliott, when
are your canaries?
For a moment the other man
didn't answer. And then, all of a
sudden, he broke into the most hil
arious kind of laughter. As a mat
ter of fact, he almost fell out of
his chair.
At last, when he was able to
control himself, he wiped his eyes
and said; "You've been talking to
some of the Negroes around town,
haven't you?"
Llovd admitted it.
"Well, that explains it. You know
how Negroes are; when they meet
jup with a new word, thev're liable
to go haywire with it. This mill is
really a veneer plant, and we start
ed it about ten years ago. But the
word 'veneer' was a new one
around here The first one of those
who heard about the new plant
misunderstood the word, and he
spread it among other members
of his race that I was about to
start a 'canary mill' and that if
they wanted a job they'd better
see me at once. For some feason
or other, the word has stuck, and
to this day, practically all of the
Negroes in Denmark refer to the
mill as the canary Plant'."
He lauvhed again, and Llovd
joined in rather weaklv. What real
2nd Lt. J. L. Michal, Jr.,
Has Interesting Duty
At Air Force Center
Tor his first assignment with the
United States Air Force, Second
Lieutenant Joseph L. Michal, Jr.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Mi
chal, Waynesville, has interesting
duty at the Air Force Armament
Center, Eglin Air Force Base. Flor
ida. Lieutenant Michal will be
lh-oject Officer of a Duns Section
? project in the Weapons and Mis
siles Branch of the Directorate of
Test Operations.
In bis new duties, Michal will
have an opportunity to employ
knowledge acquired during his six
vears of study at North Carolina
State College which resulted in his
being awarded two degrees. Bach
elor of Science and Master of Sci
ence in Mechanical Engineering.
Lieutenant Michal has excellent
preparation to contribute valuable
sendee to the mission of the Air
Force Armament Center, which Is
the engineering evaluation of all
air armament and related compon
ents.
This Center is one of ten Air Re
search and Development Command
Centers throughout the country
with the overall mission of maln
? taining the qualitative superiority
of U.S. air power.
Lucky Seven
RICHMOND. Va.. (API? It is
all sevens for William Wayne Muse
?well almost anyway.
Billy is seven years old. His
birthday is the seventh day of the
seventh month. He was born in the
seventh year of the marriage of his
parents, Dr. and Mrs. William
Muse.
Billy was the seventh baby de
livered the day of^his birth by Dr.
Edwin M. Rucker. He is the sev
enth grandchild and also the sev
enth grandson on his father's side.
There are seven letters in his
name. William and he is the sev
enth child in his mother's family
>*to bear that name.
ly got his goat, though, was when
he went back down town again. The
A.B.C. man, after he had left, had
suddenly realized what Lloyd had
meant. As Lloyd passed by the
store, the man and sereval others
grinned broadly at him. It was
evident that the story of "the can
ary plant" was spreading rapidly,
and the citizens of Denmark were
enjoying it thoroughly.
Use Mountaineer Want Ada
?
Canton Schools
1 1 ?
(Continued from page 1)
county $2.(100,000 school expan
sion program.
The list of teachers of the Can
ton school system are as follows:
High School: W. L. Hikard. prin
cipal; Boyd B. Allen, C. L. Brook- i
shire, Mrs. T. A. Cathey, Mary
Gillis, Mr?. Hilda Halliburton, |
Claude Holcombe, Virginia Holtr
claw. Cordelia Johnson, Mrs.' ?
Frankie Johnson, Mrs. Johnnie
Kcllett, C. J. Mannle, Jr., Mrs.
Robert Matthews, Mrs. Ernest
Messer, Mrs. Morrls'Mitchell, Mrs.'
W. C. Penland. Mr*. Edith Phil
lips, Mrs. Mildred Reeves. J. Boyd .
Smathers, Opal Snyder, Mrs. Ruth '
Tucker. Mrs. Douglas Walker. J. 1
C. Ward. Ethel Bailey, R. G. Bridg
man, James Rhea. Dock Wilson.
Elementary Supervisor: Miss |
AJma Browning.
Junior High; W. L. Barkby. prin
cipal; Nicholas Bonarrigo, R. L. '
Medford. Wilford Phillips, Mrs. R.
C. Loopcr, Mrs. G. W. Bohnsdahl,
Maude Blaylock, Maud Worley, i
Mrs. Jordan Neal, Mrs. P. G. Kin
ken, Mrs. Zelma Moffitt, Mrs. C. j
L. Brookshire. Nancy Hannah, Mrs. I
Rebecca Rowe.
North Canton: W. P. Barbee,
principal: Mrs. Emma Abbott, Mrs. ?
Lucile Hair, Emina Hall, Marjorie _
Hipps, Mrs. Nell Howell, Mrs. 1
Muriel Joslin. Mrs. Ruth Liner, ?
Mrs. Margaret Long. Cora Moore, /
Mrs. Emijy Morgan. Ruby Phillips, ^
Flora Mae I'ressley, Mrs. Velma
Rogers, Mrs. Fleetwood Smathers.
Mrs. Craig Whitmire. F
Pennsylvania Avenue: T. A. d
Cathey, principal; Thelma Collins, g
Mrs. Edna Ensley, Mrs. Minnie ^
Hawkins, Mrs. Pai/line Michael,
Mrs. W. R. Palmer, Mrs. W. L.
Rikard, Katherine Robinson, e
Louise Slaughter, Virginia Slaugh- s
ter. Mrs. Bill Stone, Ralph Dean. 1<
Patton: R. C. Cannon, principal: v
Mrs. Henry Allen, Catherine Cql- r
houn. Mrs. Loretta Harris. Eliza
beth McCracken. Dollie McLendon,
Mrs. Mary Reece. 2
Beaverdam: G. H. Iliops. princi
pal. Mrs. Hazel Chapman. Annie
Davies. Mrs. Norma Hitws. Mrs.
C. J Lime. Mrs. C. C. Potndexter.
Mrs. L. L Shaver. Elizabeth Stvles.
Sadie Wrallin, Anne Elisabeth War
ren.
Morning Star: E. C.' Duckett,
principal; Nelma Jean Eller, Mrs.
Taylor Hardin. Mrs. Leila Jenkins,
Mrs. Paul Wheeler, Helen Smath
ers.
Reynolds: (Colored), Ralph H.
Davis, principal; Wilbur Eggleston,
Mrs. Mary Mills, D. K. Hall, Mrs.
Leonora Reid.
Bridges Reunion
Is Held Here
Approximately seventy-five rela
I tives and friends attended the an
' i.ual Bridges Family reunion which
(was held yesterday at the home
of Mrs. John Underwood.
The Rev. John I. Kizer, pastor
of the First Baptist Church of
Hazelwood, was the principal
speaker. The Rev. T. fe Robinett,
pastor of the First Baptist Church
of Waynesville gave the invocation.
Miss Gertrude Bridges of Green
wood, S. C. was elected president
ot the family group and Henry Y.
Bridges of Charlotte was named
vice-president. Committees were
also appointed to serve for the
coming year.
A picnic lunch was served at
noon.
Junaluska Baptists
Plan Homecoming Day
Plans have been completed for
Homecoming Day at the Lake Jun
aluska Baptist Church.
The event will oe held Sunday,
September 18. The Rev. Frank
Early, pastor of the church, will
be the speaker.
The public is invited.
fyUARE DANCE
r SAT. NITE
[WAYNESVILLE ARMORY
!r MT. ALL STAR BAND WILL FURNISH THE MUSIC
t> STORIE HIMSELF WILL CALL THE DANCES
HE THREE CUTE MAJ ORETTE BATON GIRLS
IE REEVES, JANICE LATHROP AND LOU MORGAN
IRFORM FOR FIVE MINUTES AS A SEMBLE THAT THE
DANCE IS TO BEGIN.
VRE FEATURING SQUARE AND ROUND DANCING
ONE THIS WEEK DONT FORGET!
I WAYNESVILLE ARMORY
I SAT. NIGHT, SEPT. 3rd
i q tttt 19
? ADMISSION 50c TO ALL
I TAX INCLUDED
I everybody be THERE
| Dance Starts 9 O'clock
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THE
ANNUAL
APPLE FESTIVAL
will he broadcast over
W W IT
Next SATURDAY Afternoon
4:30 ? 5:00 P.M.
A portion of the 8th annual APPLE FESTIVAL
from Hendersonville will be carried coaat-to-coast
with WWITa own Hermit Edney at the micro
phone.
970 WWIT 970
CANTON, N. C. I
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BURNING PLANE WRECKS 3 HOUSES, KILLS
9?This scene of devastation was left at Charles
ton, S. C., after a burning CI 19 Flying Boxcar
plane crashed and exploded in a Negro resi
dential area, wrecked three homes, and killed
at least nine persons. The tail section of the de
molished plane shows behind truck at left. Five
of the 11 crew members were killed. Bodies of
four civilians were found in wreckage of the
houses. (AP Wirephoto)
.10 Attend Annual Picnic
Df Haywood Farm Bureau
The annual Havwood County
arm Bureau picnic, held Satur
ay. from 4 until 9 p.m. at Camp
(haub. was attended by some 110
ersons, it was estimated.
The principal speaker of the
vening, Dr. C. B. Ratchford, as
Istant director of N. C. State Col
?ge Agricultural Extension Ser
ice, asserted that the Farm Bu
eau can exert its greatest influ
nce through the support of posl
I
tive legislation.
Dr. Ratchford said farmers
should belong to a national farm
organization because <1) the group
helps to influence factors beyond
the farm boundary ? factors over
which farmers have no control ex
cept through organization, and (2)
farmers are in the minority
Among the guests at the picnic
were Will Rodgers of Greensboro,
director of organization for the
North Carolina Farm Bureau, and
Mrs. Irby Walker of Greensboro,
administrative head of the N. C.
Farm Bureau Women.
Joe Boone, president of the
county Farm Bureau, was in
charge of arrangements. A lamb
barbecue was prepared under the
supervision of Rufus Siler.
Those at the picnic went swim
ming and pitched horseshoes In
tlie afternoon and square danced
and played relay games In the
evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Hyatt, Jr. of
Spartanburg were weekend gueets
of the former's grandmother anil
aunt, Mrs. W.A. Hyatt and Misi
Nancy Hyatt.
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