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q____ q Published Twice-A-Week In The County Seat of Haywood County At T he Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park ^ c
71st YEAR NO. 81 16 PAGES Associated Press ~ WAYNESYILLE, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPT. 27, 1956 ~ $3.50 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties
Presbyterians To Enlarge Church, Seek $80,000
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United Fund Campaign To Start Monday
Portrait Of John Haywood
Ti Be Unveiled Saturday
Portrait To
Be Placed In
Courtroom
A portrait of John Haywood, first i
treasurer of the State of North '
Carolina, for whom Haywood Coun
ty was named, will be unveiled at
special ceremonies in the Court
house Saturday morning at 11
o'clock.
The portrait will be unveiled by j
John Haywood Davis, great-great- j
g: eat-grandson of John Haywood, I
The presentation will be made by
Archie K. Davis, whose wife is the i
former Miss Mary Louise Haywood. I
Jonathan Woody will be master j
of ceremonies and Senator William |
Medford will accept the portrait on 1
behalf of the county.
Special music will be presented
by the Waynesvill? Township High
School mixed chorus, under the
direction of Charles Isley.
The Rev. J. W. Fowler. Jr. will
give the invocation and Adm. W.
N. Thomas will pronounce the
benediction.
Serving as pages will be Mari
etta Campbell. Susan Moody, Lynn
Ktlpatrick, and Carey Howell, all
members of the Joseph Howelt Sc^-T
ciety, Children of the American
Revolution.
Members of the Haywood family
w ho are expected to attend the un
veiling are Mr. and Mrs. Archfe
Davis and their children. Archi
bald Hilliard. Louise Bohnson,
John Haywood, and Thomas Whit
mell: Mrs. Davis's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. T. Holt Haywood, Sr.. T. Holt
Haywood, Jr., and Alfred Williams
Haywood.
Special committees under the 1
general chairmanship of Aaron! ?
Prevost have planned a full day's f
program for the entertainment of \
the visitors. j
Walter Taliaferro J
Gets Army Discharge j ?]
Walter Taliaferro, Sp/3, has re- J
ceived his discharge after two
years in the Army and has return- j
ed to Waynesville accompanied by
his mother. Mrs. Janie Love Talia
ferro.
1 the past year Taliaferro
has stationed at Fort Ord,
C'alifflf^a and made his home with
his mother in Monterey.
A PORTRAIT of John Haywood, for whom Haywood County was
named, will be unveiled at a special program here Saturday morn
ing, at 11 o'clock. Mr. Haywood was North Carolina's first State
Treasurer,
.4-County Rural Health
inference Slated Here
4rs. Rogers, 106,
o Be Honored
The annual Rogers Reunion
ivill be held at the home of Mrs.
R. A. Justice Sunday, Sept. 30th.
The occasion will honor Mrs.
R. N. Rogers who will celebrate
ler 106th birthday Oct. 1st.
All friends and relatives of the
Rogers family are invited to
'ome and bring a picnic lunch.
Details are being completed for
the 14-county Rural Health Con
ference here April 3rd. according
to Br. Hugh Matthews, chairman
of the State Medical Society com
mittee on Rural Health work, as
well as chairman of the district
committee.
Dr. Matthews said plans are to
have between 500 and 1.000 people
from the 14 counties in the district
attend.
The final program details will be
worked out at a special meeting
set for October 23 in Asheville. On
the 11th Dr. Matthews will attend
a state meeting in Raleigh. There
will be five district meetings in
the stale starting after the first of
the year, with the one for this area
slated for the last of the series.
The tentative program will cover
wide and varied topics, including
safety, mental health, hospital in
surance and sanitation. The plans
call for the program to begin about
9:30 after a 30-minute period for
registration, and the session con
tinue until about 3:30.
The rural health conferences be
gan eight years ago. and have prov
en most profitable throughout the
years, with interest increasing.
The counties included in this
area are: Bcncombe, Henderson,
McDowell, Burke, Madison. Polk,
Transylvania. Haywood. Jackson,
Macon. Swain, Clay, Graham, and
' Cherokee.
Officers Have Cold, Wet
Wait For Escaped Convicts
Haywood officers and others}
had a cold, wet wait at Cove Creek j ^
gap Monday night, as reports P
came through that six heavily l'
armed escaped convicts were en- c(
route to Waynesville from New- c<
port over NC 284.
Setting up road blocks at the Cl
gap were Sheriff Fred Campbell,
Cpl. Pritchard Smith, Chief Or- e:
ville Noland, Patrolman Harold "
Dayton. Supt. Jerry Rogers, Prison r<
guard Fred Gentry, Lt. Johnson, ?.'
Sgt. T. A. Sandlin, using two sa- tl
trol cars and two prison trucks. >
The officers waited until word *
camea that the men thought to be c<
the escaped convicts were not
them at all. The report came i
bout after two men robbed a man
near the state line just inside
m
ennessee. And the tact that two
atrolman chased two stolen cars
irough Newport, gave Cocke
Junty officers a feeling that it
auld be the escaped convicts |
?om the Yancey county prison
imp.
Just about the time the officers |
upected the convicts to arrive al
?e gap in the thick fog, and cold
lin. a car drove up. the same col
r as tfie one which Tennessee of- i
cers felt the convicts were using
The driver of the car stopped J
hen he saw the road block, and
ilmly asked "What's the matter?"
The Florida car was occupied bv
W couples and children, just
(See Officers Wait?Page 8>
The (
Weather |;
UNSETTLED
y
Decreasing cloudiness with ris
ing temperatures. G
Official Waynesville tempera-j $
ture as reported by the State Test jj
Farm: r
Date Max. Mln. Pr.
? Sept. 24 73 55 1.09
Sept. 25 63 51 1.03?CJ
Sop? ?C 51 47 3 31 '
Jnited Fund Unit Receives
Checks For 100 Of Budget
Every' organization participating|in the United Fund last year has
?ceived 100 per cent of their budget request, Russell Fultz, presi
ent of the United Fund here said today.
Checks for a major part of the budget were mailed earlier this
ear by J. B. Siler. treasurer, and the balance has been paid.
Organizations paid, and the amounts, included: Boy Scouts $2,447;
lirl Scouts $2,447; Orthopedic Home for Polio, $8,000; Red Cross,
4.975; Clothes Closet, $150: WTHS Band $2,500: Waynesville Lions
lealth. Christmas Cheer Fund, sight conservation, $2597, Crippled
hildren. $750:
Woman's Club Christmas tree, $150; Cerebral Palsy, $1,000; Physi
Jlly handicapped. $350; Hazelwood Lions Christinas Cheer Fund and
igiit conservation. $750; Carol Inns United. $1,773.
Woodard
Names All
Committees
|
Everything was in readiness this
1 morning for the start of a ti-day
' United Fund campaign, starting
Monday morning to raise $31,297.
Charlie Woodard, campaign chair
man. announced.
Fourteen groups have been set
up for the one-week campaign, and
more than 200 people are expected
to actively participate in the cam
paign, Chairman Woodard said.
Headquarters will be establish
ed in the L. N. Davis office on
i Main Street with a corps of office
j workers on duty, headed by Wood
ard from early to late each day.
The budget this year is much on
the same pattern as that of last
year, with 24 different agencies
included in the $31,297 budget.
Russell Fultz, president of the
organization, announced today that
the third cheek had been mailed
to all agencies participating last
year, which was in payment of
100 per cent of the budget for the
first year.
The budget for this year in
cludes:
J Boy Scouts of America $2,500
! Girl Scouts of America 2,299
American Red Cross 5.175
Clothes Closet Assn. 250
Waynesville High School
Band 1.500
Waynesville Lions Club?
Welfare and Christmas
Cheer Fund 2.900
Crippled Children's Fund 800
Woman's Club Christmas
Tree Fund 150
Hazelwood Lions Club
Welfare and Christmas
Cheer Fund 800
TB Hospitalized Patients
Clothing Fund 250
Kiwanis Club Underprivi
leged Children 290
Crabtree-Iron Duff High
School Band 500
i Waynesville Area Polio and
Orthopedic Fund 5.000
Cerebral Palsy . 250
"Carolinas United 1.488
Emergency Fund 2.500
j Operating Expenses ... 1.800
I Pledge Delinquency 2,845
* Includes Children's Home So
ciety of North Carolina, U. S. O.,
I United Seaman's Service. National
j Traveler's Aid and American So
1 cial Hygene.
Division chairmen and workers
i have been named as follows:
Advance gifts ? the Rev. Earl
Brendall and M. L. Sadler, co
(See United Fund?Page 8)
J. E. Henderson
Dies At Home
In Canton
James'E. Henderson. 73. a form
; er superintendent of the Cherokee
Indian Reservation, died Tuesday
about 5:30 p.m. in his home in the
Beaverdam section after a long ill
ness.
Henderson had served in the
reservation office for about 16
years prior to his retirement from
' government service a number of
years ago.
He had also been active in civic,
school, church, and political af
fairs of Haywood County for many
years.
A native and lifelong resident
j of Haywood County, he was a son
| of the late Drayton and Mary
(See J. E. Henderson?Page 8)
JAMES E. HENDERSON
CHIEF OF POLICE Orville Noland is shown holding the pistol
taken from the body of Billy Clark Robinson, who was fatally shot
late Monday. On the table is the .2'! rille which officers said Wal
ter R. "Buck" S'orris used to shoot Robinson. (Mountaineer Photo).
Officers Acquire Pistol
Taken Off Murdered Man
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Football Contest
Entry Deadline
Is 5 P. M. Friday
If you're entering any of The
Mountaineer's weekly football
contests this season, don't forget
| that the deadline for entries is
j 5 p.m. Friday.
If entry blanks are sent
through the mail, they do not
actually have to be in this office
j by 5 p.m. Friday, but must be
postmarked no later than that
1 time.
Winner of the weekly contest
! will receive S15 in cash from
The Mountaineer,
September
I Civil Court
Term Ends
Alter disposing of 34 more eases.
Judge Zeb V. Nettles of Ashevtlle
adjourned the September civil
session of Haywood County Super
i ior Court Monday afternoon.
Among cases ordered non-suit
i ed were;
Lennivee Williams vs. Walter
Williams; Robert S. West vs.
Angelina West; Lassie Watson Vs
Eastern Insurance Co ; N. W. Gen
nctt et al, vs. W M. Hampton;
Beulah F Buff vs Glenn Buff;
l J. R. Robinson vs. Maye Cutshaw;
I Frank Smith vs. Bruce Huskey:
Amelia Hill Driver vs. MeAdoo
Diiver; Andy Hannah vs. Neoma
Hannah; Ethel Taylor vs. Herbert
J. Hi!' R. E. Sentelle. administrat
or of Elizabeth Sentelle Rogers
and R. E. Sentelle, executor of the
I estate of J. Boone Sentelle vs. L.
G. Sentelle; Herman R Stamey,
by his next friend, vs. William Nel
son Pressley; James Mann, (trad
ing as the Wayncsville Art Gal
lery, vs. Railway Express Agency;
individual suits of Frank Fergu
(See Court?Page 8)
Tlio first murder in WaynesviRe
since October 1947 took place
Monday afternoon when Billy
Clark ? Robinson. 29-year-old Ashe
villo cafe operator, died an hour
and So minutes after two .22 bul
lets entered his body at 6:115.
Walter R. "Buck"' Norris, 68
year-old construction worker? ad
mitted firing the two shots which
hit Robinson, Waynesville police
said. Norris told Officers lie fired
through the front door of his
home on Franklin St., as Robinson
tried to enter, after making
threats, and putting his hand in
side his shirt as if to draw a gun
One bullet entered about the cent
er of the 200-pound man's chest
and the other just under his left
arm.
Norris was bound over to Super
ior Court by Mayor J. IF Way in
police court Wednesday under
$2,000 bond. Norris made the bond
i this morning.
Assisting Chief of Police Noland
in the 48-hour investigation were
1 Sheriff Fred Campbell, Cpl.
1 Pritchard Smith and SB1 Agent 1'.
i H. Kitchen.
Held in jail until the police
court hearing Wednesday after
noon were two companions of Rob
? inson at the time of the shooting.
Both were released under $500
j bond as material witnesses ?
;Jatnes Ensley, 21, Clyde, and
James Garren, 28, of the Phillips
! yille section of Canton.
Ensley and Garren, at the hear
ing Wednesday, gave virtually the
same testimony as to events lead
(See Murder?Page 8>
3 Ki wan is. Mem bets
To Attend Convention
The Kiwanis Club of Waynes
I ville will be represented by three
members at the 1956 convention
of the Carolina* Kiwanis District
at. Charleston, S. C., October 7-9,
it has been announced.
Attending from here will be
A. I). Harrison, Kiwanis president:
Hye Sheptowitch, past president,
; and Koger Ammons.
The Charleston meeting will at
j tract delegates from 116 clubs in
North and South Carolina, repre
! senting a membership of nearly
1 8.000. (
I
Deer And Ducks Arrive At
Lake Junaluska For Winter
A half-grown fawn is enjoying the woods in and around Lake
Junaluska, it was learned today, as several people reported seeing
the fleet-footed animal scampering about.
Also arriving for the winter, are hundreds of ducks, who have
enjoyed the water, and free feeding of the Assembly for several
years.
The fawn was first seen in Rogers Cove, in the hog lot of Layman
Winchester, and later Henry and Earl James, Assembly employees,
saw the fawn scamper from Lake Shore Drive near the apartments.
Game Protector Williams is asking that no one molest the deer,
but to call him?GL 8-8500?and he will take it back to the preserve
on Fines Creek. It is believed the fawn's mother might be nearby,
and the two were perhaps chased from the preserve by dogs.
Drive Set
For Month
Of October
A drive will be launched, start
ing Monday, by the congregation of
t li e Wa.vnesville Presbyterian
j Church to raise $80,000 to finance
: construction of a new wing on the
i building.
The drive is scheduled to con
ti"Uc through the month of Oc
tober.
According to church olTicials. the
proposed extension would enlarge
(he sanctuary 525 feet, offering an
| added seating capacity of 100, and
also will provide an educational
unit of 5.450 square feet, with
rooms on three floors.
The campaign goal of $80,000
is to be added to a fund of $10,000,
which has been raised thrdugh
regular church channels during the
i past several years.
General chairman for the fund
drive will be 11 P. McCarroll.
Chairmen of various divisions in
clude Aaron Prevost, YVhitener
Provost, Dan Watkins, Mrs. Dan
Watkins, Ilallett Ward, Joe Emer
son Rose, Albert Abel. James L.
El wood, and W. S. McCall. Ac
tivities of the drive will be co
| ordinaled by R. L. Prevost. Sr., and
i the Rev. Calvin Thielman, pastor
: of the church.
Selected as a motto for the cam
paign has been a verse from First
Chronicles. 22:14. which says in
part: "1 have prepared for the
house of the Lord in abundance
. . that thou ntavest add thereto."
The Waynesvillo Presbyterian
Church was organized on Novem
ber 28, 1875, with a charter mem
bership of eight under the pasto
i rate of the Rev. B. T. Towies. The
church building was a white clap
board structure of one room, the
! sanctuary serving for both churct
and Sunday school, as well as othei
church needs of the time.
In 1905 litis building was mov
ed across the street to the site of
the Dr. Sam Stl'ingfleld residence.
I and later on it was moved again
to a location across Main Street
below the Gordon Hotel where it
still stands, converted into a pri
i vate home.
; The present building was dedi
cated on February 3, 1907, with
'one hundred and five members,
under the pastorate of Dr. C. 11.
Campbell.
In 194,7, shortly after Rev. Mal
colm Williamson, became pastor of
the church, educational facilities
were added in the basement.
The present enrollment of the
Waynesville Presbyterian Church
is 820 members, with a Sunday
school membership of 148. At this
'time, the church has lti deacon.'
| and ft ruling elders.
Haywood County YDC
Meets Here Saturday
Haywood County Young Demo
crats Club will meet at 8 p.m. Sat
| urda.v at the courthouse to elect
, new officers and delegates to the
j Slate Democratic Convention.
Walter Clark of Canton will pre
side.
MISS LINDA BOONE
Linda Boone
Is Chosen As
Good Citizen
Linda Boone, daughter <it Mi
and Mrs, Robert H. Boone of Fran
cis Cove, lias bo-en.selected bv the
students and faculty of the Waynes
ville Township High "School to rep
j resent the school and the Dorcas
Bell Love Chapter. Daughters of
the American Revolution in the an
nual Good Citizenship contest
sponsored by the North Carolina
Society of the DAR
As the "Good Citizen,'' Miss
Boone will answer a Citizenship
Questionnaire, furnished by the
DAK, which will be judged with
those of Good Citizens representing
i other DAR chapters in the district
? State winners will be selected from
? district winners and will be award
? ed $100 bonds.
The questionnaire, adopted by
the DAR this year, is a substituh
for the scrapbook which Good
1 Citizens leave formerly been requi:
ed to compile The Good Citizen is
chosen from the girls in the - .mm:
' class on a basis of qualities of
I leadership, dependability, and >erv
?ce.
Announcement of Miss Boone as
the recipient of the honor ws
made this week by Mrs. J. H. Hov.
i ell. Jr.. citizenship chairman of the
local DAR chapter.
Miss Boone, who holds a high
scholastic rating,, is also outstand
ing in the music department of the
school. She is serving her third
year as accompanist for the chorus
. fand has represented the school as
; a pianist in the State Music Con
test where she was given superior
| and excellent ratings.
{ During her freshman and soplio
? more years. Miss BoOne w as a
: member and an officer of the Stu
dent Council. She has been a mem
' j ber of the Future Homemakers of
j America for three years and a
member of the Sub-Deb and Tally
I Ho Clubs for two years.
A member of the Franci- Com
Methodist Church, she is church
'pianist and a teacher in the Sun
day School.
Miss Boone's exceptional ability
as a pianist, has placed her in de
> mand by ^ivic groups and her com
munity service includes frequent
appearances as accompanist and
soloist.
Baptist Pastors Will Meet
Here; New Officers Named
I The Haywood Baptist Pastors
Conference, which has been meet
: ing at the Clyde Baptist Church at
! 11 a.m. each Monday, has voted
j to hold meetings in the future at
10:30 a.m. at the First Baptist
Church of Waynesville.
At the next meeting of the Bap
tist ministers, a tape recording oi
an address given at the Southern
Baptist Convention meeting in
Kansas City this summer will be
presented. The address, entitled
"Our Fiercest Enemy" i alcohol
ism Vis by Dr. Millard J. Berquist
pastor of the First Baptist Church
of Tampa. Fla.
At their meeting this week, the
clergymen elected the Rev. Johr
i Smith, pastor of the Dutch Cove
Baptist Church, as the new presi
dent of the Haywood Baptist Pas
tors Conference, succeeding the
Rev. Paul Mull, pastor of the Bar
berville Baptist Church.
Other officers elected were:
The Rev. Garrett Propst, pastoi
of the Oak Grove Baptist Church
vice president: the Rev. T. E. Roh
inett, pastor of the First Baptisi
Church of Waynesville, secretary
and the Rev. George Mehaffey
| program chairman.
I Other retiring officers are;
I The Kev. Elmer Green, associa
| tional field worker, vice president;
: Rev. Smith, secretary, and the Rev.
Otto Parham, pastor Of Aliens
] Creek Baptist Church, program
chairman. 4
! Highway
i Record For
1956
In Haywood
(TO DATE)
Killed 4
(1953 ? 1)
Injured .... 78
(1955 ? 73)
Accidents.. 153
r (1955 ? 139)
Loss ... $49,720
t (1955 ? $37,726)
? (This informatios ccmpilrd
? from records of State High