standard pTr , 1' D t-omp?4*0.230 C? ^'svjllekJ tilM s* ? ? ? ? ^ n d ??a 55 The Wayne syille Mountaineer j Published Twice-A-Week In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park ^ Q NoT% 11 PAGES Associated Press WAYNESVILEE, N. C, MONDAY AFTERNOON, NOV. 21, 1955 $3.50 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties hdge Patton Will Hear County Farm Issue ? * + + v ^ -I. _?_ * * \nta Claus to Make Annual Visit Here Fridaul de Set; lane Will > Prizes ant to get the Christ early this year, be on 1 a.m. Friday on the t of either Waynesville od. time, the North Pole's lent ? Santa Claus ? a pre-Vuletide visit to to talk with children lie route he will follow as Eve. aus will first arrive in ains by plane at the Hendersonville Airport t picked up there by lentine in his gray r Cub. ie air the jolly old in the red suit will drop st in the rural areas over Waynesville and ? telling about his Friday. Some of the [ worth one silver dol ented to the Chamber re office before Decem one will be worth $10. II land at an air strip on ;reek and will then be Five Points in Hazel re he will board fe fire a ride down ?he Main Hazelwood, Out to the nd then down Waynes b Street to the court jourthouse, Santa will itn and also distribute bubble gum. tint in the parade with (let will be the junior marching bands of Township feigh to make the Christmas Iter and brighter in local merchants have new street lighting dis :h will he installed and by Friday or Saturday, 2 or 3. >n to the regular strings ich of the town's "white poles will bear individ b, making Waynesville's fction for the holidays [hted ever. kes in Waynesville and wiU have their Christ indise in by this Friday Play windows will fea uletide heme. FIRST PRIZE in electronics exhibits at the recent North Carolina State Fair was won by Kyle Edwards (left* and Tom Garrett, stu dents in V. F. Burgess' electronics class at Waynesville Township High School. Second, third, and fourth prizes also were won by adult students in YVTIIS evening classes in electronics. , (Mounaineer Photo). : 1 Four - Part Program Planned For WTHS Concert Tuesday Must Be Spring, Strawberries Are Ripening. . A number of people "Rave found June apples on tbeir times this November, hut it remained for Mrs. Robert Henry of Balsam Road, to pick three flints of strawberries from her berry patch Thursday afternoon. The plants were well covered with leaves, and there remains a number oF green berries. The plants are the everbearing vari ety, and usually stop bearing a bout the last of July. Mrs. Henry has about 250 plants. She carried the berries to work at Dayton Rubber Friday and divided them with co-work ers in her department. A four-part program for the fall concert, to be given by the Waynes ville Township High School band, orohestra. and chorus at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the high school aujli flbrium was announced today by Charles L. Isley, music director. Featuring the WTHS orchestra, the first part of the program will include: "Trumpet Tune and Air" by Pur cell; two sketches by Grundman? "Poem" and "Impromptu Dance"; "The Surrey With the Fringe On Top" from "Oklahoma!" by Rod gers, and "The Typewriter" by An derson. The band will then take over for the following numbers: March "Gloria" by Losey; "Chor ale and Fugue in G-Minor" by Bach; spirituals "River Jordan" by Whitney, trumpet trio, (Ben Sloan, Jr., Leon Turner, and Bruce Clark), "Fantasy for Three"; an American rhapsody, "Cabins," by Gillette; "Polevetsian Dance" by Borodin, and "Be-Bop Session" by Walters. Part III will feature the Waynes ville chorus with these selections: "Your Land and My Land" by Romberg; "Make America Proud of You" by Ades; "Count Your Blessings" by Berlin; spiritual "Let Us Break Bread Together"; "Thanks Be To God", arranged by Cain, and "God Bless America" by Berlin and Ringwald. For the final part of the program the band and chorus will combine for "Prayer of Thanksgiving," ar ranged by Johnson. The school's annual Christmas concert will be held this year on Thursday. December 16, featuring the WTHS chorus in a costume presentation. ping Drive For Needy Idren Set November 29 * for children's cloth lade by the Waynesville the Loyal Order of be next Tuesday night, 29, instead of this Tues reported last week. *e members will start >nd make calls at all re porch lights are left ersons who are missed clothing picked up by Marcus Electric Co. in I GLendale 6-8610. e wll be made to bene 'nesville Cloththg Clos ?ock of children's cloth-1 en depleted for several I of the present cold ? need for clothing for I eged children is "des cording to Mrs. Roger I esident of the Clothing 1 y needed, she said, are I Mts. sweaters, pants. I k and underwear for I lldren, and teen-agers Sh school age. Mrs, R. s. Roberson at-1 Duke-Wake Forest foot- I and visited their son, I itudent at Wake Forest ,er the weekend. Next Issue Of Mountaineer To Be On Wednesday The Mountaineer will be pub lished Wednesday afternoon in stead of Thursday, in order that all employees may have Thanks giving at home with their fami lies. All news copy for the edition should be in the office by 9:30 Wednesday morning. Church notices should be in by 5 p.m. Tuesday. Firemen Make Run Waynesville firemen made a run at 6:30 p.m. last Thursday to the McClain residence near the intersection of Highways 19 and 286 on the Dellwood road. Only smoke damage was caused by the overheating of an oil stove in the living room. . ? This Week's Grid Contest Last Of 1955 This week's Mountaineer foot ball contest will be the last of 1955. This year's contests have drawn a record number of en tries and have been marked by perfect scores for the first time. Among winners of the 915 first prize have been women and boys. f 1 } ber 'artiy aouoY Partly cloudy and warm ^rn?<*i Tuesday part *th lltUe change in M in. Pr. '? 26 - 62 20 52 33 ? 23 Blue Ridge Spelling Bee Slated Tuesday At Bethel The first annual Blue "Ridge Conference spelling bee will be held at the Bethel School auditor ium at 8 p.m. Tuesday, according to Principal C. C. Poindexter, who will act as master of ceremonies for the event. Among the contestants will be: Ben Lippen ? Sunbeam Eth' ridge, D?"id Etheridge, H .iry Digby. and Randy Simp^ , alter nate. Bethel ? C? . t?iy Bramlette, Wilda Grugau, Janice Frady, and Kenn- . n&Ncill, alternate. Bretfard ? Gfcil Bonnell and Tommy Jones. Hendersonville?Jeanette Blair, Rose Pastore, Janet Jackson, and Mike Sinclair, alternate. Way.iesville ? Joyce Cody, Roy Lee Kulbright, George William son, and Wayne Finger, alternata. Judges, pronouncers, and word lists will be provided by Western Carolina College. A trophy for the event will be donated by Kurt Gans Jftloi of Wayne*viU?*. Thanksgiving Union Services Planned By Six Communities In The County Court Convenes With 400 Cases On Docket; Judge Announces One-Day Recess Mrs. Payne Wins Second Grid Contest Mrs. John H. Payne, 322 Mar shall St., Waynesville, won her second Mountaineer football contest this year by naming the winners in 11 out of 12 weekend football contests. Her only miss was the Kentucky - Tennessee game, won by the Wildcats in an upset. 23-0. Early in the season, Mrs. Payne won the $15 prize with a perfect score. Two other contestants?James William Cutshaw and Iris Jaynes both of Waynesville ? also missed only one, but Mrs. Payne was closest to the combined score of the Duke-Wake Forest game. Twenty-one contestants miss ed only two games. This week's contest will he the final one of the 1955 season. 2 Cars Go Off Roads; 2 Hit Ice Two cars went off steep moun tain sides, and suffered extensive damages, while two others skidded on ice, and were damaged, but no injuries were reported in the four cases, according to Ratrolman W. R. Wooten, investigating officer. The 1951 Chevrolet of Ralph David Jenkins, was a total loss, after it crashed 150 feet down the White Oak mountain. Jenkins and his son were driving along in the cold rain early Saturday morn ing, before dawn, when the lights on the car failed. Jenkins called to his son to get out, and about that time the car started down the bank. Jenkins jumped out just as the vehicle started down the mountain. Patrolman Wooten said the loss was-about $400. Jenkins said he was going about 15 miles an hour at the time of the accident. Shortly before 3 p.m. Saturday, the 1952 Buick of James Cleveland Caldwell, rolled off Coleman mountain, and was damaged about $400. Patrolman Wooten said the car ran out of gas and Caldwell wenf (See 2 Cars?Page 6) The two-week term of superior court convened this morning, with a docket of about 400 cases, one of the heaviest in the last 20 years. Judge Dan K. Moore, upon open ing court, announced that due to the heavy docket, that court would recess for Thanksgiving, and re sume work on Friday morning. Solicitor Thad D. Bryson, Jr. told The Mountaineer that he did not feel he would get to anything but the.smaller cases between now and Wednesday. "I haven't made a definite sched ule yet, except to see how we get along in the next few days of clearing the docket of misdemean or cases. The chances are we will not get to the two murder cases growing out of hutomobile acci dents, the re-trial of Burl Warren, and the assult cise of A. Fowler until later in the two-week teem," he explained. The solicitor handed Fleetwood Smathers, foreman of the Grand Jury, a huge ptack of bills for that body to beg|n their work. This is the same grand jury thai served in July, fijine new members will be named in Febtuary. Solicitor Bryson called for those cases involving violations of traf fic charges, where the defendants wanted to enter a plea of guilty. The court spent most of the morn ing clearing such cases from the docket. The jury for the two-week term is as follows: Jurors for the first week arc: (See Court?Page 6) Two Hurt When Stove Explodes Two local men were painfully burned, when a flash explosion of an oil stove on which they were working exploded about noon Fri day. Hugh Potts, owner of the Gulf station at the corner of Balsam and Aliens Creek roads was burn ed about the face and hands, while Limuel Phillips, an assistant, suf fered burns on the arms. The stove had been giving trouble, and the men had dis mantled the unit to clean it out. together with the flue. When they turned the oil back on to start the fire the explosion took place. The fire was confined to the stove and no other damage was reported. Both men were discharged from the Hospital noon Sunday. Mystery Surrounds Fire Near Canton The fire that destroyed the home of Rufus Swanger on the Allen Farm road south of Canton last Monday is believed to have been started by two unidentified men who claimed to be termite exterm inators, according to a report made by Lester Ward, secretary treasurer of the Clyde Fire Depart ment. Mr. Ward said Swanger's son-in law related this story: Two men. driving a green pick up truck, came to the Swanger home and asked to examine the dwelling for termites. Mr. Swange^ gave his permission and the men reported later that they found evidence of termites in the attic and asked that they be allow eu to take proper control treasures. The homeowner told the men to go ahead and they proceeded to the attic to start work. A short time later they rushed down to Mr. Swanger oh the first floor and told him that the house was on fire and that they were going for a fire en gine. However, they were never seen or heard of again. In the meantime, the Swangers called Canton firemen and when they were unable to answer the alarm, summoned the Clyde Fire Department. The Clyde firemen made the run. hut found the roof falling in on tbeir arrival. However, they fought the fire, using water from the fish pond at the home of a neighbor. Hank Al len. Most of the furniture and home furnishings, on the ground floor wer< ?aved. but those on the top L*?jr were destroyed, the iW Fire?I*age *> ? EARL MASHBURN Suggestion Wins $10,000 For Chemist At Wellco Wellco's famous suggestion sys tem, according to H. W. Rollman, President of the Wellco-Ro-Search organization, has again paid off handsomely for sqioeone ? this time, Mr. Earl Masliburrt, Assist ant Chemist of the companies. He has been awarded the highest sug gestion-award made by the com panies, for submlttiftg'un excellent idea, which, according to Mr. Roll inan, makes a sponge rubber sole far superior to anything known heretofore. Mr. Mashburn has been with the Wellco - Ro-Search organization since its inception in 1941, and has traveled extensively in foreign countries, setting up affiliated Wellco - Ro-Search plants. The cash award In the amount of $10,000.00 is being paid in five yearly installments of $2,000.00 each. United Fund Now Above $27,439.75 Several major reports are slat ed to be made later today or early tomorrow on the United Fund campaign, according to Dave Fel met, campaign chairman. The oth er reports made over the week end brought the total to $27,439, against the quota of $38,841. "I talked to some of the work ers early today as to these major reports, and they asked for a few more- hours to compile the de tails," Felmet announced. It is understood that many of the workers are making plans to finish their work within the next few days. Some were delayed for vari ous reasons, Felmet said. Union Thanksgiving services will be held this week in Waynesville, Hazelwood, Clyde, Canton and Lake Junaluska. Three will be on Wednesday night, the other two on Thanksgiving morning. Services in Waynesville will be at the First Baptist Church at 9:30 p.m. Thursday, with the Rev. James Y. Perry, rector of Grace Episcopal Church, bringing the principal message. The Rev. T. E. Robinett, host pastor, and the*Rev. Earl H. Bren dall, pastor of the First Methodist Church, also will participate. The Rev. Calvin Thielman, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, is now out of town, but his church will be represented at the services. Special music will be presented by members of choirs of the four Waynesville churches, under the direction of Charles F. Isley of the First Baptist Church. Hazelwood's services will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Haz elwood Baptist Church, with the Rev. L. E. Wiggins, pastor of the Hazelwood Methodist Church ,as the principal speaker. Also on the program will be: Welcome by the Rev. Pete Meisner of the Seventh-Day Ad . ventist Church, scriptures by the Rev. William H. Marquis of the Presbyterian Church, prayer by the Rev. John Ivan Kizer of the Haz elwood Baptist Church, and bene diction by the Rev. Avery Peek of the North Hazelwood Baptist Church. Rev. Wiggins also will pronounce the invocation. Special music will include three hymns, "All Hail the Power," "Come Ye Thankful" and "Higher Ground," and a selection by the choir, not yet announced. , During the services an offering will be taken and turned over to the Hazelwood Boosters Club to aid underprivileged children for Christmas. Canton's services will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Central Methodist Church, with six ministers participating. The Rev. Ben Ray of Calvary Baptist Church will speak on "Thank God for Our Country;" the Rev. Kenneth Crouse of the Morning Star Methodist Church and president of the Canton Min isterial Association will speak on "Thank God for Our City," and (See Thankglvign?Page 6) Grolden Harvest Drawing Jackpot To Contain $575 The jackpot for the second "Golden Harvest" drawing to be held at 4 p.m. in front of the courthouse will contain a total of $575. Only a portion of the jackpot, however, will be given away. Prior to the drawing, an an nouncement will be made as to the relative value of the1 various colors of the tickets. Only one ticket will be drawn and the win ner must be present to claim his prize. Tickets are obtainable from the following participating merchants: ? ? ? No Definite Date Set At Court Today ? \ Judge Dan K. Moore, in open court this morning, explained that ?ince he had already heard one in junction complaint on the sale of the 140-acre county home farm that he was making an order for this second hearing to go before Judge George B. Patton, of Franklin. The courtroom was packed as Judge Moore opened court, and took up the restraining order pre venting the sale of the farm just as soon as the grand jury and regular jurors had been sworn in. "I have heard the case once, and have formed and expressed sn opinion. I would not feel like hearing the same matter again," Judge Moore explained. *'There Is a good pcfssibility, that unless the restraining order is dissolved there will be procedures for taxing those bringing) the in junction with damages and costs." he pointed out, referring to the fact that the commissioners through their attorney Grover C. Davis announced they would enter a counter suit for perhaps $25,000 damages. The case will be heard by Judge Patton at such a time that is con venient with him. Judge Moore explained and then agreed that he would set out in the order that the hearing not be set until after the current two-week term of Hay wood court, for the convenience of the lawyers in the case. Judge Moore said there is little material difference in the present injunction complaint and the one ? , Which be heard on Oetober ,7. Grover Davis, county attorney, said he wanted to make a state ment in court and before the pub (See County Farm?Page 6) Three Areas On Parkway Now Closed Three sections of the Blue Ridge Parkway in Western North Caro- ' lina are closed for the winter seas on. They are: Mount Mitchell to Bull Gap; Wagon Road to Beech Gap, in Ptsgah National Forest; and the Soco section of the Park way (not the Soco Highway) from Soco Gap to Black Camp Gap. The road to Heintooga will be closed also though not a part of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Other sections of the Parkway in Western North Carolina will re main open for the winter but are subject to closure due to weather conditions. New Chimes Dedicated By Clyde Church New chimes, presented to the Central Methodist Church of Clyde, were dedicated during the morn ing worship service, conducted by the pastor, the Rev. G. C. Starr. Jr. The chimes were presented to the church by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Haynes of Clyde in honor of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fulmer Haynes and Mr. and Mrs. Hilliard Mpody. The chimes are now being used with the organ, with Miss Janice Smathers as organist. Later the church plans to purchase an out side amplification unit with funds obtained by donations. Wrecked Plane Removed From National Park Depths MembeH of the Civil Air Patrol of Knoxville-Johnaon City were scheduled tp dismantle the yellow Piper Cub plane of Dr. Samuel Sullenberger on Sunday and pack it out to Walnut Bottoms. Mark Hannah, Park Warden, said plans were all set for the group to hike the four miles from Walnut Bottoms to the base of Mt. Guyot and take the undamaged plane apart. "Not even the propeller was broken, or a window cracked," Hannah said. The plane landed in a low tree, and easily slid to the ground when a ranger cut down the tree. The neaitsl point a truck can get to the plane which carried the i Tennessee doctor who was missing three days, is at Walnut Bottoms. Members of the Haywood Air Patrol had hopes of receiving the Plane, since two members, Me Connley Ford, Clyde, and Charles Balentine, Waynesville, were the first to sight the missing yellow plane. The two were among those looking for the lost craft, and spotted It just as the doctor walked into the ranger's station four miles away. The two Haywood men were flying about 4,000 feet when they first spotted the craft, and then dropped lower to determine if there was any signs of life about the wreck. They flew to the (See Plane?Fuse St ? 1 ??^I