HH JANE DAVIS is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe
rb? announce her engagement to Luther C. Mttehem, .
i Hade Mitrhem of Lowell, N. C. and the late Mr. Mit
PfOfmber wedding is planned.
(Photo by Sherrill's Studio).
MR. AND MRS. NORMAN BRADLEY of Maggie Valley announce
the engagement of their daughter, Joan Katherine, to Billy Charles
Henline, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Henline of Clyde. The wedding
plans are incomplete. (H. B. Norton Photo).
DEATHS
[ G. BURGESS
i Burgess, 79, a retired
lit the home of a son,
less of Waynesville
to afternoon following
| Illness,
n$ % native and life
it of Haywood County,
lite Austin and Emily
rjess He was a mem
Weisant Balsam Bap
io addition to Grady
the widow, Mrs. Rosa
m; another son, Har
iri Waynesville RFD
W, Norman Burgess
Dim of Waynesville
iter, Holland Burgess
Be JTO 3; a sister.
Gowns of Waynes
?dchildren, and 19
Ifidren.
*th*s were held at
day at the Pleasant
list Church. The Rev.
rd. the Rev. O. J Beck
i J T. Underwood of
f burial was in Red
Kry
[pallbearers were Roy
John Ruff, Arthur
and Kenneth Smath
?t Clark.
*?Y INFANT
nest Harvey, infant
>nd Mrs. Ernest Ray
Harvey of Waynesville, Route "1,
died Thursday in the Haywood
County Hospital.
Graveside rites were held Fri
day afternoon in Crawford Mem
orial Park with the Rev. George
Mehaffey officiating.
Surviving, in addition to the par
ents. are the paternal grandmother,
Mrs. Mary Harvey, and the matern
al grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Kel
ley Frady, all of Waynesville, Route
1.
Crawford Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
MRS. ANNIE BASS
Mrs. Annie Bass, 64, Canton, died
at 4 a.m. Sunday in an Asheville
hospital.
She was a native of Haywood
county and a daughter of the late
Joseph H. and Louisa Smathers
Russell.
Survivors include her husband,
Ralph E. Bass: one son, James
E. Bass; Raleigh: three daughters,
Mrs. Albert Harris, Canton; Mrs.
W. P. Shattuck, Asheville; Mrs.
Geraldine Davis, Asheville; three
brothers, Fred S. Russell, Ashe
ville, Dr. J. M. Russell. Canton;
Grove C. Russell, Asheville; three
sisters, Mrs. S. T. Moses, Waslj
ingtonj D. C., Mrs. Dora Kinsland,
Canton, Mrs. C. R. Ross, West
Asheville; and two grandchildren.
Funeral services will be conduct
ed at 11 a.m. Tuesday in the Can
ton Central Methodist churcfi by
the Rev. Cecil Hefner and the
Rev. J. C. Lime. Burial will be in
the Bon - A - Venture cemetery.
Nephews will be pallbearers.
The body will be taken to the
home and will lie in state at the
church 30 minutes prior to the
service.
MORRIS L. KELLY
Funeral services will be held
Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. in the chapel
of Crawford Funeral Home, Can
ton, for Morris Lee Kelly, 56. of
Canton who died Sunday following
a long illness.
The Rev. Horace L. Smith and
the Rev. Kenneth Crouse will offi
ciate and burial will be in Craw
ford Memorial Park.
A native of Georgia, Kelly had
lived in Canton 29 years. He was
an employe of the Champion Paper
and Fibre Co. and was a member of
the Canton First Baptist Church.
Surviving are four sons. Roy of
the U. S. Army, stationed in Ko
rea, Ernest and Joe of Toccoa,
Ga., and Morris Kelly, Jr. of Can
ton; one daughter, Mrs. R. W. Mu
niz of Miami. Fla.; two brothers.
Larry Kelly of Canton and Robert
Kelly of Canton. Route 2: and three
sisters, Mrs. Emory Smith of
Clarksville. Ga? Mrs. Levi Sims
of Gainesville, Ga., and Mrs. Zadie
Jordan of Milledgeville, Ga.
Arrangemens are under the di
rection of Crawford Funeral Home?
Operations Pay Off
SUNSET, Utah (AP)?After 37
years and 22 operation, Joseph L.
Wells knows what his wife and
eight children look like..
And, he adds, "I never realized
before that fite hydrants are red."
Wells was born with a cleft
palate and hairelip, and a visual
defect which grew worse as he
grew older. It-threatened to result
in total blindness.
But* today he has normal vision,
with the aid of mild corrective
lenses. His eyesight was restored
by two corneal transplant opera
tions. The first was performed
at Stanford Hospital at Palo Alto,
Calif, three years ago. The second
was done last April.
In addition to the eye operations,
he has had 20 operations to correct
the defects in his mouth and nose.
Some of them were the result of
assistance from the Vocational Re
habilitation Division of the Utah
State Department of Public In
struction.
Before getting his present job
at the Naval Supply Depot, Wells
had to work at manual labor, al
though he held a degree from
Brigham Young University. Now
he is looking forward to a job
more in line with his university
training.
Almost five million farms out of
the national total of more than six
million have some cattle. Hogs are
grown on nearly four million and
sheep on almost 600,000 farms.
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iUCTION SALE
VAYNESVILLE ELEMENTARY
SCHOOL PROPERTY
WILL BE OFFERED AT AUCTION
?DNESDAY Qfl AT 2:30
VEMBER... uU P M
M Be Held On The Property - Corner Haywood St. and Boyd Ave..
Waynesville
Hoperty Has Been Divided Into Lots, or Will Be
Sold As A Tract.
-O-IUriO-h. M-o
Sale Conducted By
Haywood County Board Of Education.
1955 U.S. Barley Crop
Smallest In Five Years
The sales season for the 1955
burley tobacco crop, smallest In
five >eaK, opens Tuesday in the
eight-state marketing belt while
growers anxiously await a decision
on the size Of 1956 plantings.
Secretary of Agriculture Benson
must announce 1956 acreage allot
ments before Thursday.
The 1955 crop, produced under a>
25 per cent rollback in acreage, is
described as light weight, thin bod
ied 'with good color and smoking
quality.
In brief, here are market condi
tions:
Sales centers ? There are ap
proximately 350 auction ware
houses at 60 markets in Kentucky,
Tennessee, North Carolina, Vir
ginia. West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana
and Missouri. All points report
heavy receipts, with most houses
filled to capacity.
Dates ? The markets open Tues
day and continue through Dec.
21. Auctions will resume Jan. 3
after the holiday recess. The pre
holiday sale is expected to account
for 71 per cent of the?crop. Last
year in 16 selling days before
Christmas, a record 66 per cent of
the gross crop was marketed.
Hours ? Daily auctions are
scheduled at tjiree and one-half
hours, beginning at 9 a.m. Central
Standard or 10 a.m. Eastern Stand
ard Time. This rate limits auctions
to 1,260 baskets daily for each set
at buyers or a maximum of 302,400
pound* dally fdr each set on mar
kets that operate on a poundage
baaia.
Weight ? The new crop is fig
ured at t47?4 mi)lioii pounds small
er than last year or 56V4 million
below the 1944-S3 a vet-age The all
time record was 663.9 million
pounds last year, averaging $49.92
a hundred, the prices was the
smalleat ip four years, yet the
fourth highest on record.
Price <? The support of $46.20 is
20 cents a hundred below last year.
Individual loan levels ? by grades
range from 11 cents for best green
nondescript to 67 cents for choice
buff lugs. Rates were changed one
cent a pound on about half of the
grades from last year. Most lugs
and flyings and a few tan leaf
grades were lowered while most
tips and best nondescript were
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raised.
, A central Kentucky waitlnwi
man. who declined to be identified
by name, mid the burley la weigh
ing from 100 to 900 pttands an acre
lighter than last year.
The harvest had been estimated
at 1,590 pounds an aere as com
pared to a record 1,899 pounds last
year.
This warehouse source said he
expected an orderly market, with
full sales at least until the Christ
mas recess but did not believe the
announcement of 1956 quotas
would affect the market.
Another source said the tobacco
in some sectors, particularly North
Carolina, is weighing heavier than
in Kentucky's Blue Grass region.
The U. S. Department of Agri
culture has announced an increase
of 100,000 tons in the total sugar
quotas for the continental United
States for 1955.
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