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71st YEAR NO. 1 12 PAGES Associated Press WAYNESV1LLE, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, JAN. 2, 1956 $3.50 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties
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497 Telephones
Installed In 1955
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VAfiiuuueu V7UUI9
Within Haywood
Forecast For '56
A total of 497 new telephones
were installed in Haywood County
during 1955, C. T. McCuiston,
county manager for the Southern
Bell Telephone Co. reported today.
Of that number, 274 was in
stalled in the wiaynesville ex
change area and 223 in the Can
ton area.
At the end of the year Saturday,
Haywood County had a total of
8,325 telephones, of which 4,225
are in the Canton area and 4,100
in the Waynesville area.
"With the continued growth of
business in Haywood County and
the extension of our lines to the
Balsam area this spring and sum
mer, we are anticipating an even
greater expansion of telephone
service in 1956," Mr. McCuiston
said.
During the year, a staggering
total of more than 9.307,500 calls
were placed through the Waynes
ville exchange alone, the Southern
Bell official reported.
This represents an increase of
5 per cent over 1954. be-added.
In 1955, Mr. McCuiston pointed
out, the Waynesvllle exchange
handled an overage of 500 long
distance calls each day and an
other 25,000 local calls ? the lat
ter over automatic dial equipment.
SIMON P. KLOSKY III. Plant
Engineer of Wellco-Ro-Search, has
just returned from a business trip
to Haiti. Colombia and Ecuador,
South America, where he visited
affiliated Ro-Search factories.
Klosky spent several weeks in
Guayaquil, Ecuador, situated right
on the Equator, and supervised the
installation of the necessary equip
ment for footwear manufacture in
the newest and most modern rub
ber factory in South America.
This new factory in Guayaquil,
Ecuador even has a beautiful swim
ming pool built for the use of the
employees of the affiliated Ho
Search company, whos e name is
"CIPE".
Klosky made the trip by air.
10 Elected
As Chamber
Direcftkf"*
Ten new directors have been
elected to the board of the Cham
ber of Commerce. The ten will
take office as the new and old
boards meet on the 10th, and elect
officers for the coming year.
There will be three directors for
each of the five divisions of the
organization. One member for each
division was "carried-over" for a
one-year term. Those just elected
in the election which ended Sat
urday are for a two and three-year
term.
The new board is as follows:
' (first named is for 1 year; second
for two years, and third for 3
years):
Merchants division ? Richard
(See C of C?Page 6)
Max Patch Has
Four-Inch Snow
Four more inches of snow blank
eted the Max Patch area Friday,
according to Major Cecil Brown at
the Salvation Army Citadel.
The snowfall also dropped the
mercury to only 10 above Friday
morning, Major Brown added
Eight inches fell at Max Patch
Friday, December 9.
License Tags Go On
Sale For Town, State
License tags wil go on sale Tues
day.
The tags are going on sale 30
days later than usual, and motor
ists have until February 15th to
display their new tags on their ve
hicles.
This new schedule applies to
both state and town tags.
Five Haywood Farms Join
Test Demonstration Group
?
Five Haywood County farms
have been chosen from a list of
20 to be Unit Test Demonstration
farms for five years. R. H. Boone,
chairman of the county UTD pro
gram. announced today.
Named by a UTD committee
were the farms of Way Abel of
Henson Cove in Center Pigeon,
Pink and Bob Francis of Francis
Cove, Julian Smathers of North
Clyde, Herbert Singletary of Sau
jiook. and Hillary and Bill Medford
?1 Upper Crabtree.
The selection of the five farms
brings to a total of 40 the number
of Haywood County farms partic
ipating in the Unit Test Demonstra
tion program sponsored by TV A in
portions of seven Southeastern
States.
In the program, UTD farmers are
askefd by TV A to serve as "test
farms" by using experimental fel
tilizers produced by the TVA plant
at Muscle Shoals. Ala.
Farmers in this state also are
Urged fo cooperate with the North
(See Five Farms?Page 6)
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$55 Donated
To Keeners In
Haywood County
A total of $55 has been raised
in Haywood County for Mr. and
Mrs. D. H. Keener, whose four
daughters perished in a fire which
destroyed thetr home In Yancey
County early in December.
The Keeners lived in Haywood
County for a number of years at
the Cold Springs lumber camp, ac
cording to Major Cecil Brown of
the Salvation Army Citadel at Max
Patch who is in charge of the fund.
Employees of the Junaluska
Supply Co. contributed $32 of the
total, Major Brown reported.
Other donations for the Keeners
can be sent to Major Bmwn, Box
629, Waynesville.
Tax Payments Are
Reported As Brisk
Bryan Medford, county tax col
lector, reported that people were
keeping the office busy making
tax payments.
The last of the past week saw
"business mighty brisk" he said, as
property owners came in to make
their annual tax payments.
Weather
PARTLY aOUOY
Partly cloudy and mild today.
Mostly fair and somewhat colder
tonight and Tuesday.
Official Waynesville tempera
ture as reported by the State Test
Farm:
Date i Max. Mln. Pr.
Dec. 29 52 30 .02
Dec. 30 r 49 29 .08
Dec. 31 _ \ 40 11
Jan. i l_ 48 12
High Temperature
Last Month Was
68; Low Was 7
The average maximum temper
ature tn the Waynesville area
during the month of December
was 51.1 and the average mini
mum was 14.1, according to re
ports furnished to The Mountain
eer by the Mountain Experiment
Station h? RatclilTe Cove.
The high for the month was 68
on Christmas day. and the low i
was 7 on December 16. Last
Christmas the maximum report
ed was 52.
Rain fell on only seven days
last month and totalled only 1.7
inches. Of that total, .29 Inch
was snow. The higher areas of
the county ? especially Fines
Creek and Max Patch?had con
siderably more snow than did the
Waynesville area.
Haywood Tax Listers Are,
Named; Work Starts Jan.
Tav lictprc fnr Havunnri CoilfltV I *"Thc li lers are:
have been named, and will begin
their annual duties on January 1, |
it was announced today by Bryan
Medford. tax collector and super
vision
Property and i>oll taxes must be
list<>d during January in order to
void penalty. Medford pointed out. 1
Listing for Waynesville will be
at the courthouse, and the Beaver- i
dam listing will be at the Canton
Chamber of Commerce.
The other listers will be at their
homes, or designated places. Med
ford said.
Ivy Hi|t Albert Slier.
Fines Creek. R. W. Green. "V
Iron DufT, Mrs. Frank Bradshaw.
Jonathan Creek, W. Roy Plott.
Crabtree. Mrs. Bob Fisher.
Cataloochee. Mack Caldwell.
Waynesvllle. Mrs. Ruth Kelly and
Wayne McCracken.
Beaverdam, Mrs. Marie Smatb
irs, V. H. Byers and Fred Williams
White Oak. Mrs. France Teague.
Pigeon. Mrs. Dave C. Edwards.
Cecil, Mrs. Howard Medford.
Clyde. Spurgeon Byers.
East Fork, Bryan Heatherly.
I
MASTER JIMMY HOLLAND takes life easy on his mother's arm
after winnine the distinction of be in* the first baby born in Hay
wood in 1956. He arrived at 3:14 a.m. Sunday murnn#; at the Hay
wood County Hospital. (Photo by Hugh Norton).
Records Set By
The Mountaineer
About 27 pounds of paper
went to each subscriber of The
Mountaineer during 1955) ac
cording to a check-up on the
records for the year.
A total of 1,(90 pages were
printed by The Mountaineer dur
ing 1955, which is a record num
ber of pages for a year. More
news was published last year
than before, and there were
more subscribers to The Moun
taineer in 1955 than at any time
during the 70-year history at the
newspaper.
Another record was set by
The Mountaineer in that there
are more people gathering news,
making pictures and writing for
this newspaper now than ever
before.
Jimmy Holland, a 7-pound, 3
ounce youngster, was the firsl
baby to be born in Haywood ir
1956. The youngster won the dis
tinction of being the first baby by
a matter of mere minute*.
Jimmy is the son of Mr. anc
Mrs. James Holland, of -Canton. H<
is the first child in the home, but
the 18th grandchild of Mr. and
Mrs. Velt Holland.
Jimmy's parents will receive i
number of gifts in the annua
"First Baby" program staged bj
local merchants in cooperatior
with The Mountaineer.
Mr. and Mrs. Holland have beer
married over four years, and Mrs
Holland is the former Miss Betty
Estep, of Winston-Salem. Mr. Hol
land is associated with his fathei
in the service station business ir
Canton, and formerly operated
the Pure Oil Station here with his
father.
The prizes which Mr. and Mrs
Holland will receive include:
Thirty quarts of milk from Bilt
more Dairy; a baby car seat from
the Firestone Store; a sterling sup
and sterling spoon for the baby
and a gold wedding band for the
mother from Reliable Jewelers:
$13 in merchandise from Belk
Hudson; a baby-bottle sterilizei
from Smith's Drug Store; free
transportation home for the baby
ar I mother in an ambulance by
(See First Baby?Page 6>
State Group Gives Approval To T wo
County School-Construction Projects
Plans Involve
Pigeon St.,
Cruso Units
| Two Haywood school projects
were approved Friday by the Plan
ning Committee of the State Board
. of Education. The projects were
for a proposed $8'J,uuo to $85,000
new Pigeon Street School, and a
$40,000 addition to the Cruso i
school.
The Stale Board of Education
will meet on Thursday to formally
review the plans and make a final
decision.
Lawrence Leatherwood, county
superintendent of education, said
this morning that the Stale Com
mittee did not hesitate in approv
ing the plans when presented to
them Friday. "They were not In
session on the matter more than
five minutes," Supt. Leatherwood
said. "They askea one or two ad
ditional questions which were not
in the survey report, and then put
their approval on both projects,"
he pointed out.
Supt. Leatherwood and board
' chairman Jarvis Caldwell went to
' Raleigh to present the plans. He
said it would not be necessary to
go to the full board meeting on
Thursday.
The proposals are for a com
pletely new Pigeon Street build
ing. A tentative draft of the plans
were included in the survey re
port made by the two Haywood
school executives on Friday.
The Cruso project calls for a <
- cafeteria, kitchen, and new heat
t ing plant.
i Both projects would be paid for
- out of funds recently allocated to
i the county from the state bond
money.
I
t Stork Worked On
1 New Year's, But
i Not On Christmas '
Although the stork worked on ?
New Year's Day in Haywood Coun- _
ty, he took a vacation on Christmas
Day. ^
A second look at the report giv
en by the Haywood County Hos- .
pital shows that three babies were J
born on Christmas Eve, two on the
day after Christmas, and three on
December 27 But not a single one {
arrived on Christmas Day itself, s,
Three babies were born Sunday, ?
January 1?all boys. J
York Rite Masons Plan
Joint Installation Friday
Waynesville Chapter No. 69,
RAM1; Doric Council No. 20,
R&SM, and Waynesville Com
mandery No. 31, Knights Templar,
will hold a joint installation at
Canton Friday at 7:30 p.m. with
Canton Chapter No. 87, RAM. and
Pigeon Council No. 29, R&SM.
ONLY BLACKENED RUINS were left at this
home on the Detlwood Road, which was swept by
a fire at 12:30 p.m. last Thursday which started
in the attic from a defective flue. The dwelling
was in the prooess of being occupied by Bulo
Carver and his family, who had moved two thirds
of their furnishings from a house next door. (An
other fire picture is on Pace 6.)
I
(Mountaineer Photo).
No Injuries Are Involved 1
[n 5 Weekend Accidents
Waynesville Had Another f
Death-Free Traffic Year ?
? Wlavnesville hunt; ud another 01
School Openings
ust Routine
Haywood schools opened this
morning, and at noon, Lawrence
Leatherwood, county superin
tedent, said "everything seems
to be moving along fine."
The only trouble reported was
one stoker sheared a pin, which
took less than five minutes to
replace.
He expects attendance to be
up to all expectations.
ehaffey Buys
Drive-In Theatre
"rom Homer West
Clayton RT Mehafiey of Clyde
ias purchased the Waynesville
)rive-In Theatre from Homer
Vest of Waynesville, it has been
nnounced.
The drive-in now closed, but
rill be open on weekends In the
icar future. Full-time operation
rill be resumed this spring.
Mr. Mehaffcy now owns the Can
on Drive-In ati the Pigeon Road
nd once was part owner of the
Vaynesville Drive-In with Mr.
Vest from the opening of the
heatrc in 1949 untjl 1953.
The drive-in is located at the in
crsectlon of the Asheville Road
nd the Ratcliffe Cove Road.
fine traffic record for 1955, ac- Iaf
cording to Chief Orvllle Noland 8(
who was compiling details of the
annual report today. tt
There was not a fatal traffic ac- C
cident in the town during 1955. It
This is the fourth time since 1950 11
that the record has been kept C
clear of traffic deaths. The last b<
traffic death was in February, d,
1951. m
Safety awa'ds were presented to oi
the town for 1950, 1952, 1953 and
1954. yl
"We hope to get another for the ai
good record in 1955, Chief Noland m
said.
"While we have had mighty fine a<
luck of getting along without any si
traffic deaths, we have had entire- jj
ly too high property damages re- ^
suiting from accidents," the chief c|
added.
The town received an award of
achievement for the Safety Check e,
campaign staged here, when 2.200
cars were checked. The town did
iU>t get first place in the state, al
though the number of cars check- j
ed doubled the number of vehic
les registered in the town.
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Film Showing Is Set b:
For Thursday At Library
A film showing for adults will be
held at the 1'iaywood County Li- ti
brary Thursday at 10:30 a.m.
The films will be selected from -
those available at the library this I
month.
No injuries were invoivea in nvt
icidents reported by the State
ighway Patrol during the New
ear's weekend, but one collision
ight have been serious had it not
sen for the persence of mind of
tie of the drivers concerned. Dam
je in the five wrecks totalled $2.
X).
Cpl. Pritchard H. Smith reported
lat Jerry Lee Poster of Henson
ove, a Marine stationed at Parris
land, S. C., lost control of his
150 Chevrolet traveling toward
anton on N. C. 110 near the Os
arne Farm road at 12:30 p.m. Sun
ay and sideswiped a 1950 Olds
lobile driven by John Carr York
I Bethel.
Foster'a car skidded for 107 -
irds and turned completely
-ound in the highway, the patrol
ian reported.
Cpl. Smith praised York for his
:tions in trying to avert a coiti
on, and said that his good driv
ig prevented what might have
sen a serious, perhaps fatal, ac
dent.
Foster was charged with reckless
riving. Damagt to his car was
itimated at $300.
Damage to York's car was plac
1 at only $50.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Smathers of
akc Junaluska and another cou
le escaped injury at 4 a.m. Sun
sy when the' 1953 Oldsmobile in
hich they were riding, driven
y Smathers. went off a sharp curve
a the Dutch Cove Road and struck
tree.
State Patrolman V. E. Bryson es
mated damage to the Smathers
(See Five Accidents?Page 6)
Civil Court Jury Panel
Named; Term Opens Jan. 9
The jury for the first and sec
ond week of the January civil
term of Superior Court has been
announced by the Clerk of Court, <
J. B. Siler.
Court will convene Monday, Jan
uary 9 vith Judge J. Will Pless of
Miarior presiding.
The panel for the first week of
court includes:
Ben C. Wells of Route 2, Can
Ion, Lewis Drye of Route 1, Can
ton; Richard L. Roberts of Beaver
dam; Vance Downs of Route 2.
Canton; Jasper Wilson of Route I,
Canton; L. K. Peek of Canton;
Claude Worley of Route 1, Canton; I
Paul Smith of Route 1, Waynesville;
Rudolph Carswell of Hazelwood;
W. T. Hawkins of Canton; Homer
R. Thomason of Canton; Manson
Owen of Route 2, Waynesville;
Walter Mchaffey of Waynesville;
Alney B. Robinson of Clyde;
Homer Galloway of Route 3, Can
ton; Frank Early of Canton; C. R.
Ward of Jonathan Creek; O. T.
Henderson of Route 2 Canton;
Frank Blalock of Route 2. Canton;
Nolan Plcss of East Fork; J. T.
Mason of Canton; Harry M. Burle
son of Hazelwood; L. C. Davis of
Hazelwood; Julius Ledford of
Hazelwood; J. W. Putman of Can
ton; Guy Moore of Route 3, Can
(See Civil Court?Pace 6)
First Baptists Set
Up All-Time Records
Lpst rear was the beat rear tn
the history of the First Baptist
Church, Rer. T. E. Robinett,
pastor, told the congregation
Sunday morning. ,
The contributions for the past
year totaled ?48.919, which is
?rer B4M more than for 1944.
The budget for 1944 Is M1.U4,
and the report shows the church
same within S2JM4 of raising the
equivalent of the current budget
last year.
The pastor told the congrega
tion that a prior payment of
92.9M was mads mi tha church
iebt in December, which makes
the debt now stand at 143,246.
The church received 66 new
members during the rear?33
by baptism, and 33 by transfer
of letter.
The church membership now
stands at 673 ad which 675 are
resident members. 146 listed as
non-resident, and 32 with ad
dress unknown.
_ The average attendance for
the Sunday school during the
year was 397, and the Training
Union average attendance was 76.
Haywood Approves Burley
Acreage Quotas, 1,030 To 30
With all polling places reporto<
ut one, results of the hurley to
acco referendum last Thursda;
how that Haywood County farm
r* approved acreage allotment
or the next three years by th<
verwhelming margin of 1,030 t<
0.
The heavy ".yes" vote recordet
i this county, throughout Nortt
arolina, and in the other sever
urley-productng states means that
llotmets. price supports, and pen*
Itles on excess tobacco will be
ontlnued through 1050.
The vote by townships, accord
1 Ing to A. W. Ferguson, county ASC
. manager 'listing afifrmatlve votes
first) was:
' Beaverdam, 125-1; Clyde, 92-1;
' Crabtree, 83-2; East Fork, 32-0;
? Fines Creek, 153-13; Iron Duff,
? 75-0; Ivy Hill. 92-2; Jonathan
) Creek, 80-3; Pigeon, 77-1; Waynes
ville, 145-3: White Oak, 24-3; and
1 Panther Creek, 42-1.
i The only area whose vote was
i not received by the ASC office by
t the close of the day Friday was
- Cataloochee, which mailed its re
i suits to Mr. Ferguson. Thirty to
bacco growers were eligible to
? vote in that area.
Jimmy Holland First Baby
Born In Haywood In 1956
Highway
Record For
1956
In Haywood
(TO DATE)
Killed 0
(1955 ? ?)
Injured..... 0
(1956 ? 9)
Accidents... 5
Loss . ?. $2,800
(This Information compiled
from records of State High
way Patrol.)