North Carolina Newspapers

' n ' F j ? t today's smile r?r-1 The Wayne sville Mountaineer News All Ine lime. . opened by mistake D u Published Twice-A-Week In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park 0__ ? 71st YEAR NO. 3 8 PAGES Associated Press WAYNESVILLE, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, JAN. 9. 1956 |3.50 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties Junaluska Extends Program Season 3 Weeks ? ??????*???* ???*?*! County Farm Suits Began Today In Civil Court \ 50 Persons Called As Witnesses BULLETIN: Judge Pless and the four law yers in the County Home Farm case were still in conference at 3 this afternoon. Unofficial reports were that there was little likelihood of the ca?e getting started with testi mony later today. About 50 witnesses have been summoned to appear in the case. The dual suits over the sale of the 140-acre county home farm be gan in civil court this morning be fore Judge Will Pless. Judge Pless called for a confer ence of the four lawyers in the case at 10:55 and the five spent an hour and a half in the judge's chambers discussing the case. Judge Pless ex plained,that he could learn more in an hour's time in conference with the lawyers than he could in sev eral hours of testimony after start ing the case. This ease Is by consent, not a jury trial. The first 55 minutes of court this morning was spent in checking the docket, in which six cases were continued and 9 are left open of the original 36 on the docket. Two divorces were granted this morning, prior to the calling of the county home farm ckse. The attendance at court this morning was far less than expected. A large number in attendance were summoned as witnesses in the case. The 108 plaintiffs who filed a complaint and got an injunction stopping the sale of the county home farm hope to get the re straining order made permanent, while the commissioners, as de fendants. are asking for dissolution of the order, and have filed a $25, 000 damage suit, plus costs against the plaintiffs for stopping the sale. MONDAY, JANUARY 9 Motion Docket Trial Calendar Joe Browning vs. E. L. Weis singer, Weissinger Lumber Co. Ray Haynes et al. vs. Board of Commissioners for Haywood Coun ty. TUESDAY, JANUARY 10 Jack Redmond vs. Grover C. Clark. Olson Ledford vs. Arthur C. Grant, Jr. J. B. Maiden, Allied Roofing Co. vs. Tom J. Frazier and Ruth Fraz ier. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY II R. L. Parks vs. Sue L. Parks. Dovie Randolph vs. N. C. State Hy. & PWC. Dovie Randolph & W. W. Cairnes vs.N. C. State Hy. & PWC. THURSDAY, JANUARY 12 Jerry Liner, Junaluska Supply (See Court?Page 8) Officers To Be Elected Tuesday For C.ofC. The newly elected board, and 1955 board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce will meet Tuesday night and organize fyr the new year. The directors will name a presi dent, vice president, secretary, treasurer abd an executive vice president. Richard Bradley is president. Ten new directors were recently elected?two from each of the Ave divisions. Five directors were car ried over from the last board, and eight members will be appointed, representing various organizations in the community. The Weather CONT'D COtD Suhnday and cold today. Tues day, fair with sluwly rising tem peratures. OfTitial Waynesville temperature as reported by the State Test Farm: Date Max. Mln. Pr. Jan. 5 59 14 " 6 65 17 - 7 48 - 24 ? 8 32 15 Lions Hear Former GE Executive Steps in the manufacture of electric light bulbs were explained at a meeting of the Waynesvllle Lions Club Thursday night by M. J. Hamner, retired executive of the General Electric Corp. The speaker pointed out that parts for GE light bulbs are made in several different plants and then assembled at the firm's Cleveland plant. Mr. Hamner, a former Cleveland resident, now lives at Balsam. During the month of December, Waynesville Lions sold 504 fruit cakes for a profit of $521, which will go into the club's sight-con servation fund. The Lions also outfitted 120 needy school children in clothing and shoes before Christmas with $1,200 granted to the club by the United Fund. Former Hotel Clerk Arrested On Theft Charge Wiley Moore, 40, former night clerk at the LeFaine Hotel, has been bound over to Superior Court by Justice of the Peace J. J. Fer guson on a charge of theft of $115 from the hotel the night of Novem ber 8. Bond was set at $500. Of the $115 that Moore is ac cused of stealing. $101.72 belonged to Frank Williams, an employee of the Open Air Curb Market a cross the street from the LeFaine and a resident of the hotel. Moore was picked up by sheriff's deputies on the Balsam Road in Hazelwood. He later told the officers that he has been in Florida for the past several weeks. Carolina Mutual Moves Offices To Larger Quarters The Carolina Mutual Insurance and Real Estate Co. has moved its offices from 110 Main St., Waynes ville, to larger quarters at 283 Main St., in the building formerly oc cupied by the Food Store. Established in 1945. -Carolina Mutual in 1946 built the building on Main St. now occupied by the Rayette Beauty Shop, where tfie business remained until 1952, when a move was made to 110 Main St. The firm is now being managed by Miss Pearl Leslie Johnson, who recently purchased the business from her father. R. N. Johnson. Mr. Johnson is still connected with the Arm on a part-time basis. After the Food Store vacated its former site on Main St., the build ing was partitioned and one side was occupied on the first of Decem ber by Roy Moseman. blind mer fSee Carolina Mutual?Page 8) Hazelwood Postal Receipts Down Due To New Ruling Because of a new postal regula tion restricting the size and weight of parcels from one first-class post office to another flrst-class post office, total receipts at the Hazel wood postoffice during 1955 were down $13,156.01 from 1954. accord ing to Postmaster Thurman Smith., Receipts for the year just past were $58,263.34, in comparison with $71,419.35 during 1954. Money order business at Hazel wood, however, showed an Increase of from $193,855.42 for 1954 to $202,853.04 for 1955, the postmaster reported. i Mr. Smith added that the Hazel wood postoffice sent out 8,427 bags of parcel post from July 1, 1955 to December 28, 1955. During the pe riod from December 1 to Decem ber 23 this year, 2.014 bags went out. The peak of the Christmas rush was reached at Hazelwood on Mon day, December 19 when approx imately 8,500 pieces ,of mails were cancelled during the day. Canton Reports Record Postal Year For '55 A record business year at the Canton post off ice during 1955 has been reported by Postmaster C. W. Burrell. Stamp sales during the year to talled $60,123.58 as compared with $58,744.71 for 1954?a gain of $1, 378.87. During the month of December alone, 185,800 2-cent stamps were sold, which shows an increase over the same period a year ago of 5, 000. Stamps of the 3-cent denomin ation were 50.100, or 5.100 more than the same period of 1954. Money orders issued during the year Just ended totalled $622,740.51 ?an increase of $6,379.13 over the 1954 figure. Total fees on money orders written amounted to $7, 139.55. November Tax [Collections Show Sharp Increase November sales tax collections in Haywood County this year exceed ed those for November, 1954, by a total of $7,436.16. according to fig ures in "The Retailer," published by the North Carolina Merchants Association. Collections this November were $43,089.27 as comparel with $35, 653.08 for the same month in 1954. In October, 1955, collections of $54,168.81 were listed by "The Re tailer". 4-H'ers Get Records Hazelwood 4-H Club members received their project record book and health-improvement records at the organization's January meeting Friday. The records were distributed by Cecil Brown, assistant farm agent in charge of boys 4-H work, and Jean Childers, assistant home a gent in charge of girls 4-H work. Tennessee Is Again Leader In Visitation To Smokies Tennessee visitors to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park again led all other states in park visitation during 1955 with a total of 48 per cent, according to figures released by the National Park Service. North Carolina was second with It.4 per cent and Georgia third with 6.3 per cent. A Northern state?Ohio?edged out nearby South Carolina for fourth place by one percentage point?4.4 to 4.3 per cent. Other top states on the visitation list to the Great Smokies during 1955 were: Illinois 2.8% Michigan : 2.6% Kentucky 2.4% Indiana 2.3% Florida - 2.2% Alabama *1.9% Virginia 1.7% Forty-eight per cent of visitors to the Pacfcht 1955 entered from the GatlinburiT"eTrtrance, while 33 entered from Oconaluftee on the North Carolina side. Another 13 per cent entered at Townsend, Tenn. It was reported last week that total attendance in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park set another new record last year with 2 581,477 visitors as compared to 2 526,879 for 1954 The peak in attendance in 1955 was reached during the month of July when 008.610 persons throng ed into the park?setting an all time record for a single month. The low for 1955 was last Febru ary when only 35,273 visited the park. _ _ L. B. George, Jr. Loses Fight For Life Ten-year-old LeRoy Brunson George, Jr., of Canton, Route 1, lost his battle for life against a rare heart condition. He died Fri day at Vanderbilt Hospital, Nash ville, Tennessee following a major operation. The youngster's parents, the Rev. and Mrs. LeRoy B. George, took him to Nashville last Tuesday i? the hope that the operation would help the failing heart. Dr. Hugh Matthews, the family physician who accompanied the Methodist minister and his wife, said the boy had been growing steadily worse and could not have lived over a year or two without the operation. "I'm certain the family would do it again if they had the chance," he said, adding that the operation, though serious, was not rare. He said about 10 doctors participated in the surgery. They discovered the heart was too badly damaged to permit it to be restored, the family doctor said. Matthews said young George was born with two heart defects? coorcation of the aorta, or a stric ture of the big vessel leading from the heart, and openings in parti tions of chambers around the heart Neither is unusual, he ad ded, but the combination is rare. Memorial services for the child were held at the Scarritt College Chapel at 9 a.m. Saturday. Funeral services will be conduct ed Tuesday at 11 a.m. at the Me morial Chapel at Lake Junaluska The Rev. Frank Smathers, Dr Elmer T. Clark, the Rev. L. E Wiggins, and the Rev. Carlock Hawk will officiate. Pallbearers will be James Ed wards. Turner Vance, W. W. Tran tham, Harley Wright, Dr. H. A. Matthews. John Taylor. Phillip Edwards, Ronald Free, Eddie Cabe and Terry Swain. I Honorary pallbearers will be members of the Haywood County , Ministerial Association. The body has been taken to the home at Lake Junaluska where it will remain until it is taker to the chapel to lie in state 30 min utes prior to the service. Surviving in addition to the par ents, arc the maternal grandmoth er, Mrs. E. E. Dacus of Rock Hill. S. C. The family suggests that those who wish may make contributions to Dr. Elmer Clark for the estab lishment of a memorial to youth in the Methodist World Council program, instead of sending flow ers. The memorial would be es tablished at the children's build ing at Lake Junaluska. Dr. Clark is secretary of the Methodist World Council. Arrangements are under the di rection of Wells Funeral Home, Canton. Haywood Births Decreased, Deaths Increased In '55 Births showed a decrease and deaths an increase in Haywood County during 1855 as compared with 1954, according to figures list ed by Miss Dot Whisenhunt, rec ords clerk at the Health Center. Births last year, however, ex ceeded deaths by a total of 611. Births for 1955 declined 44 from the 1954 figure of 888 to 844. Deaths increased 34 from 199 in 1954 to 233 in 1955 A total of 10 stillbirths last year also was reported. 4 Accidents A.re Reported By Patrolmen Four weekend traffic accidents in Haywood County were reported today by the State Highway Patrol. None involved injuries. Paul Baxter Moore of Route 2. Canton, driving on old U. S. 19 at the Medford Farm at 12:30 a.m. Saturday, lost control of his 1950 Ford on a curve, causing the ve hicle to skid and overturn off the left of the highway. Moore was charged by Cpl. Prit chard H. Smith with reckless driv ing and driving without an oper ator's license. Damage to his car was estimated at $100. ? At 1:50 p.m. Saturday on the Lake Logan road, a mile from Bethel, a 1950 Chevrolet, driven by Barbara Woody, of Route 3, Canton, ran into the rear end of a 1950 Chevrolet pickup truck driv en by Eugene Reece, also of Route 3, Canton. Neece told Patrolman Harold Dayton that he stopped his truck to pick up a rug he had dropped. Miss Woody was charged with following too closely. Damage was estimated at $75 to the passenger car and at $5 to the truck. A collision at 11:15 p.m Saturday in front of Saunook School on Highway 19A-23 involved a 1951 Chevrolet pickup, driven by Daniel W. Blanton of Balsam, and a 1949 Plymouth driven by ^esse Howell, Jr. of Sylva. Patrolman Dayton reported that Daniel pulled out of a side road and turned left into the path of Howell's car. The former was charged with failure to yield the right of way. Damage to the truck was set at j $75 and to the passenger car at $100. A 1953 Chevrolet, driven by Paul Thomas Grogan of Cruso, collided with a work bus driven by Bobby Lee Heatherly of Cruso on High way 276 at the intersection of the Hunger Creek road at 7:40 a.m. to day. Grogan was charged with fail ure to stop at the stop sign. Damage to the passenger car was set at $300 and to the bus at $50. Six Haywood County Men Enter Service Six men who volunteered for the draft left here today for Knox ville and induction into the armed forces. They were: William Moody, Jr., and Paul Thomas Mehaffey of Maggie, Franklin Kirkpatrick of Candler, formerly of Canton: Clint Mull of Aliens Creek, James Eugene Cagle of Route 2, Waynesville. and George Willard Cogdill of Balsam. After the d'-parturc of the draf tees, a meeting of Selective Ser vice Board 43 was held at the courthouse. Community Meet Slated Wednesday At Fines Creek A community meeting will be held at the Fines Creek School at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday to discuss ln creasihg farm, income in Fines Creek community with additional agricultural enterprises. The meeting will be sponsored by the Fines Creek Graage and the Fines Creek CDP. Speakers will be: Charles Pugh, farm management specialist from N. C. State College, who will dis cuss long-range outlooks on vari ous farm commodities; Virgil L. Holloway, county farm agent, and Albert Ramsey, assistant agent. To be discussed will be sheep, small fruits, Turkish tobacco, or chards, and other enterprises. Haywood 10th In State I In Farm Numbers Gain i Haywood County ranks first in ' Western North Carolina and 10th . among the state s 100 counties in the percentage of increase ot de- ' crease in the number of farms in ' the state from 1950 through 1954 , according to figures published in , the latest issue of the University of North Carolina News Letter. .hF'1os!3 ^Ued Were ,aken from the 1954 Census of Agriculture. For the four-year period. Hay- ; County had "n average of 2, 818 farms?an increase of 1 2 per ' cent. F i Only 18 of the state's counties had gains. Person County led with , a.091 farms?an increase of 26 2 per cent. On the bottom of the list of the 100 counties was Gaston County with 1.762 farms _ a de crease of 27.4. Buncombe County, with 4.303 farms and an increase of 0 9 per cent, was tied for 11th place with Bertie County. Madison County was 14th with 3.482 farms and an increase of 0.7 per cent. Transyl vania was 74th with 968 farms and a decrease of 11.4 per cent, while , f"f*r4on County was 86th with 1.998 farms and a decrease of 16 5 Concerning the decrease in the number of farms, the News Letter commented: 'There is nothing to be alarmed about in the decline of farms in North Carolina. We are finally fol ?w'n? 'he national trend. In the United States the number of farms reached an approximate peak about 1910 and remained rather constant for the next 25 years. The decline in farms set in af ter 1935, at which time the Census reported 6.812.350 farms. The num ber of farms had declined to 5,382 - 162 in 1950. The total for 1955 has not been reported. Preliminary re ports are out for about 30 states nearly all of which show fewer' farms in 1954 than in 1950. North Carolina has experienced a loss of from 288,508 farms in April 1950 to 267.906 farms in No vember 1954. This means a loss of 20,002 farms, or slightly under 5 farms per year for the four and one half year period. "While there has been a steady decline of farms in the United States, and in almost every state during the last 20 years or so North Carolina has shown in creases. In fact, North Carolina is the only state in the Union that of farms from 1950 *nd *r?m 1945 t0 The 1920 Census reported 269 l.?L "T" in North Carolina; the i?.W Census reported 288,508 farms. The 1954 report of 267,906 is almost identical with the 1920 number During this same period, he nation lost more than one mil lion farms, representing a decline of some 20 per cent in number of farms. ,?,Th"e 'here wa? a decline in the total number of farms, there was an increase of about 2,000 in the number of farmers cultivating from to 9 acres. There was a decrease in all other brackets up to 200 acres of cultivated land per farm. e was an increase of 209 farm ers cultivating more than 200 acres each. This again is following the national trend." Boosters Meet Thursday The Haze I wood Boosters Club will hold their regular meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Hazelwood Presbyterian Church Farm Record' Book Check ? Underway Thirty - four Haywood County ! unit test demonstration farmers < will have their 1955 record books ( checked today and tomorrow at the f courthouse by representatives of t N. C. State College and the TVA. Submitting their records are / demonstration farmers R. H. e Boone, D. J Boyd, Jule Boyd, ( Porter A. Broyles, T. D. Brummitt, ( J. E. Burnett, W. J. Campbell, , Prank Christopher, Harper Eaven- , son, Charles W. Edwards, Buford \ Ferguson, Paul W. Ferguson. Hugh Francis. R. C. Francis, Clyde Gor rell. Leland A Garnett, J. Sam 1 Jackson. James Kirkpatrick, John ' H. Kirkpatrick, Guy Medford, F. L. ' Leopard, William Osborne, D. D. Reid. Roy A. Robinson, Cassius ' Rogers, Mark Scott, George H. ' Smathers, L. M. Sherrill, Frank ' Sorrells, Van C. Wells, O. L. Yates, ' C. L. Allen, Joe Davis, Cash Med ford. J. L. Rhodarmer, Luther < Smathers. and Ellis Wells. I Examiners are Charles Pugh, 1 farm management and marketing ' specialist from N. C. State College; ' Roy Isley, TVA assistant agent for < Swain, Macon, and Jackson coun- ' ties, and W. 14. Anderson, TVA assistant agent for Yancey, Mitch- < ell, McDowell, Ashe, and Avery counties. i Records submitted by the test demonstration farmers are used by county and state extension agents in formulating North Carolina agri cultural programs and recommend ations. The 34 farmers also give dem onstrations of recommended prac- 1 tlces in their individual communi- ' ties. 1 For keeping records and giving ' demonstrations, the farmers are 1 given TVA fertilizer at reduced cost. Named last month to participate 1 in the 1956 test demonstration program were Herbert J. Singie tary. Pink and Bob Francis, Hillary and Bill Medford, Way Abel, and Julian Smathers. Scheduled to leave the program this year are R. C. Francis, Clyde Gorrell. and William Osborne. Assisting in the test demonstra tion program in the county are as sistant farm agents Albert Ramsey and Eugene McCall. Toastmasters Meeting Set Here Tonight Ray Ellis, Charles Underwood, and Clifford Harrell will be the speakers at a meeting of the Waynesville Toastmasters Club at 7 p.m. Monday at Spaldon's Res taurant. Al Marshall will be toastmaster. Walter Francis will give the invo cation, and Homer Justice will is sue the instructions. Jack Felmet will be table topics master, Wayne Rogers will be table 1 topics evaluator, Robert Hall will be grammarian, and John Reeves master evaluator. Evaluators for the Individual talks will be Virgil Smith, Ted Stackpole. and Al Hunt. Canton Lions Finish Busy, Profitable 6 - Month Program Senator William ? Medford will address the Canton Lions Tuesday night as they meet at Glenelle's for their flrst meeting of the year. The club, in a review of activ ities of 1009, showed the comple tion of over 100 projects. C. A. Smith is president of the club, and listed flrst among the ac complishments was six months of perfect attendance. Other accomplishments include: continued sponsorship of the Can ton high school band; raising funds on Labor Da/; broom sale netting $570; conducting annual camp for handicapped boys and girls from State School for Blind, in coopera tion with Champion YMCA; fur nished chairman of Finer Caro lina program; netted over $400 from sale of light bulbs for work with blind; pledged $250 to sup port Haywood Clinic for the Blind. At the last meeting the club' auctioned off the 4-H baby beef re cently bought by the organization. The sale netted $49 It was announced that a group of boys from Asheville School, under the direction of Sol Cohen will pre sent the program for the last meet ing in January. k _ Biggest Year In History Is Predicted Advance reservations, and the >utstanding program for Lake Jun ? luska this season caused J. W. fowler, Jr., superintendent, to pre lict this morning, "the best and liggest year in the Lake's 43-year itstory." More than 30,000 visited the _,ake during 1955, and Supt. Fowt sr felt today that this all-time ?ecord would be shattered during 1956. when the season will be three o four weeks longer. The program at the Lake begins Hay 31 this year, with a national ?onference of the Women's Divis on of Christian Service and Dcle Eates attending from all parts of he nation. The program calendar of the Assembly is packed with confer ences until September 18th when he world-wide Women's Division if the Board of Missions meet. This ?onference is expected to bring in several hundred delegates from iround the globe. Motel reservations are coming in fast, and Sunday School groups ire fast taking Camp Adventure for a week or two week period. The Jurisdictional Conference will be held July 11-15, and will iring in about 3,000 delegates, supt. Fowler said. This confer Mice covers nine Southern States. In August the popular Candler -amp Meeting will bring to the Lake platform Dr. Billy Graham md Dr. William E. Sangster, of London, the latter often spoken if as the "Billy Graham of Eur ipe." Both have been at the Lake on previous programs. In Sept amber this World Metho dist Council sarin meet for a 12-day session, bringing members and delegates from all parts of the world. Supt. Fowler said that the com pletion of the $250,000 Lambuth Inn addition would be ready in (See Junaluska?Page 8) 4-H Council, Exchange Club Meet Saturday The Haywood 4-H Club county council will hold its January meet ing at the courthouse Saturday at 10 a.m. with president Bernard Ferguson of Fines Creek in charge. Slated for discussion are vari ous 4-H activities such as summer camps, exchange trips, radio pro grams, and plans for National 4-H Club Week, to be held in March. After the meeting of the coun ty council, the 4-H Exchange Club will meet to elect officers and to discuss plans for entertaining a group of 4-H membres from Weld County, Colo., this summer. The Haywood exchange group visited Colorado last summer. Local Merchants Vote To Continue 'Golden Harvest' Waynesville area merchants participating in the Golden Harvest trade promotion voted last week to continue the program for three more months and changed the date of the weekly awards from 4 p.m. Tuesday to 3 p.m. Saturday, in front of the courthouse. Next awards will be made on Sat urday, January 14, from a total fund of $714. The Golden Harvest program is being supported here by 35 mer chants. Highway Record For 1956 In Haywood (TO DATE) Killed....:; 0 (1955 ? ?) Injured....; 0 (1953 ? ?) Accidents..; 9 Loss ... $3,305 (This information compiled from records of State High way Patrol.)