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(1st ^ EAR NO. 81 12 PAGES Associated Press WAYNESYILLE, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, OCT. 8, 19.">6 $3.50 In Advance In Haywood and Jackson Counties
Bank Votes
To Increase
Capital Stock
Shareholders of the First Na
tional Bank have voted to increase
the capital stock of the 54-year-old
institution from $50j000 to $100,000
by a stock dividend, it was an
nounced today by J. E. Massie,
chairman of the board of directors.
The group also voted to split the
stock, 10 for 1, and have 10,000
share^^and sell an additional
2,0i>i^l?es, Massie reported. The
m ?s of stock will be sold
for 1*5*31), which will bring in
$75,000 new money for the capital
account of the bank. After the sale
of the new stock the bank will have
12,000 shares outstanding.
The common capital of the bank
will be $120,000, with a surplus of
$355,000, together with a substan
tial undivided profits and reserve
account.
This is the first "new" mnnev
brought into the bank since it was
organized in 1902, Chairman Mas
sie pointed out.
"The trading area of the bank
is expanding rapidly, and it was
felt, by the board of directors,
advisable to increase the capital
account of the institution," Chair
man Massie continued.
The present shareholders of the
bank have until October 15th to
purchase the new stock. It was
felt, that all the stock would not
he acquired by them, and some of
the new stock would be available
to others. The general belief
among the officials is that new
stockholders will be added to the
present number.
The new stock Is expected to be
issued October 25th.
The Comptroller of Currency,
Washington, has indicated he will
give formal approval of the plan,
and the formality of approval is
expected after the transaction is
completed later this month.
Jonathan Wody, president, said
? today, "the plan of expansion by
the board will strengthen the bank
and increase our loan limitations.
The program will enable us to take
care of our customers, and to make
loans up to $50,000. It is definitely
a step forward for the bank in
rendering better service to the
area which we now serve."
The report of condition of the
bank, published today, shows as
sets 'of $6,876,638.
Waynesville Band
Will Enter Bristol
Contest Saturday
The 80-piece Waynesville Town- ;
ship High School marching band i
will leave here early Saturday
morning for Bristol, Va.-Tenn. to
p;frticipate in the annual South
eastern Band Festival in the "Twin
Cities."
The band will participate in the
marddng contest for an individual.
n^JBripetitive rating.
r'^fcjVaynesville musicians will
pre^* the same show at Bristol
which will be given at the WTHS
Enka game this Friday night.
C. D. KETNFR. orchardman - packer, inspects
three different kinds of modern packaging of ap
ples, which is growing in demand on the market.
On the left is the 4-pound hags?packed in poly
ethylene bags; on the right, the "pack and fill"
boxes, where the apples present a beautiful pic
ture as the box is opened, and in the lower center,
the tray park?each apple is in a small cup in a
tray,
(Mountaineer Photo).
Modern Apple Packaging
Selling Haywood Fruit
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Haywood apple growers are fol
lowing the trends of the market,
as they are stressing quality and
attractive "eye-appealing" pack
aging.
The two factors are bringing in
additional dollars to the orchard
men who are "going modern". At
tractive packaging is adding many
dollars to each shipment of apples.
, A number of orchardmen are
using three different kinds of
packaging, fur. their quality ap
ples, and some even four:
1?The "face and fill" box is
the bushel size box that has all the
apples on top packed evenly, and
make a striking picture when
opened;
2?The next popular pack is
known as the "tray pack." This is
also a bushel box that has trays
which hold individual apples,
: similar to the cartons used for
I eggs;
! 3?The polyethylene bags, for
"eye-appeal" and easy shopping,
and
4?The western hard box. where
each piece of fruit is wrapped in
waxed tissue and carefully placed
in a box.
"The new type packaging is
holding business," according to C.
I). Ketner, an orchardman and
packer, who also grows many
acres of vegetables for the fresh
market.
Orchardmen now realize that in
the highly competitive apple mar
ket, that the modern packaging as
now being done in Haywood, has
meant the difference between
"sales" and "no sale." Without re
sorting to the packaging as the
market wants, there would be
thousands of bushels of Haywood
apples still in crates awaiting buy
ers, it was pointed out.
"Merchants are buying more ap
ples on the unit basis today than
ever," Ketner said. "13y that, I
mean the buyers like to know the
exact number of apples in each
box, in order that they can ac
curately figure the selling price.
(See Apples?Page 6)
Workers Completing United
Fund Pledge Assignments
A large number of United Fund workers were completing
their assignments this morning, as the campaign was being pushed
in every section of the community,, it was pointed out by Charlie
Woodard, campaign chairman.
Many reports had not been turned in this morning, and the
records showed about 25 per cent of the $31,000 goal had been
reached.
Woodard said most of the workers were planning to complete \
their assignments today and Tuesday and make a final report.
Headquarters are in the L. N. Davis office.
Yanks Win;
Larsen Hurls
Perfect Tilt
Don Larsen, Vankee right
hander, pitehed a perfect game
for New York today as the Am
erican League champions whip
ped the Dodgers, 2-0, and took
a 3-2 lead in the World Series.
This was the second no - hit
game in World Series history and
the first in which no one got on
base. Larsen faced only 27 Dodg
ers.
Among hits off Brooklyn hurl
er Sal .Maglie was Mickey Man
tle's third home of the series.
Paid attendance at Yankee
Stadium today was 64,000.
Tomorrow the Yanks and
Dodgers will move back to Lb
betts Field in Brooklyn.
Baptist Mission
Study Institute
Set Here Friday
A mission study institute on
?Japan for the Woman's Missionary
Union of the Haywood Baptist As
sociation will be held at 7 p.m. Fri
day at tfie First Baptist Church
in WaynesvUle.
At the institute, background
material and teaching plans will (
he presented for books of each
age group.
I)K. LANCASTER AT HOME
Dr. N. F. Lancaster was dis- j
charged from the Mission Hospital,
Asheville, Saturday, where, he has
been confined five weeks following
a heart attack. He has returned
to his home in Mills River.
His physician said he would be 1
unable to do any work for six j
months.
Many Outstanding Exhibits Will Be
Feature Of HD Achievement Days
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......ujvua ui vi.-uors are expect
ed to visit the Armory Tuesday and
Wednesday to see the exhibits of
Haywood County's home demons
tration cluhs as they hold their
sixth annual Achievement Day pro
gram.
Each of the county's twenty
eight home clubs has arranged a
booth to represent a part of the
over-all theme, "Planned Family
Living".
Work on the booths was com
pleted today and judging will be
gin at 10 a.m. Tuesday. The ex
hibits will bo open to the public
Tuesday from I p.m until 10 p.m.
and on Wednesday from 9 a.m. un
til 10 p.m. Merchants and civic
leaders have been issued a special
invitation to attend Tuesday night.
An unusual feature this year
will be an International Exhibit
which will occupy the center of the
Armory and will represent the
combined efforts of all the clubs.
This Exhibit is an outgrowth of a
study of foreign countries which
has been carried on during the
year with each club studying a dif
ferent country.
The Achievement Day program
this year will be a change from the
custom of the past several years in
that it will be a separate event
from the Tobacco Festival. The
Merchants Association is sponsor
ing the event.
Miss Mary Cornweil. county
home agent, announced that judg
ing of tbe booths will be made
by the Danish System and blue,
red. and yellow ribbons will be
awarded according to score. Cash
prizes will be awarded for club
scrapbooks and a tri-color ribbon
will be given to the club winning
the highest combined scor? on
booth, International Relations ex
hibit, and scrapbook.
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SUNNY
The
Weather <4^7
h&fej
Sunny, not so windy and rather
cool today, Tuesday, generally
fair and cool.
Official Waynesville tempera
ture as reported by the State Test
Farm:
Date Max. Min. Pr.
Oct. 4 -75 56 .03
Oct. 5 75 55
Oct. 6 73 52 .01
Oct 7 70 54
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HAYWOOD GOP leaders have set UP headquarters in Tanton. They will meet
Tuesday to formally organise a Young Ilaywood Republican club, at the head
quarters.
HAYWOOD DEMOCRATS have this for their Canton Headquarters, and a place
on Main Street here that U open and will be completely decorated sometime this
week. (Mountaineer Photos!.
Joe Reinertson To Build
200 Homes In Waynesville
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Two hundred homes will be built in Waynesville during the
next several years by Joe Reinertson, owner of the Rocky Knob
Farm on the Eagle's Nest Road, it was disclosed today.
One home already has been completed, another will be fin
ished in 10 days and a third in 30 days. Ground is also being bull- ;
dozed now for additional home sites
Most of the 200 homes will be erected in the Chestnut Park
section on Sylvan Drive, Mr Reinertson said.
The houses will be of frame construction, will lx- built from
modern plans and designs, and will contain either two or three bed
rooms?mostly the latter. Mr, Reinertson said.
Among individual features of the homes will be: forced-air
oil furnace heat, built-in cabinets, walk-in closets with sliding
doors, hardwood floors, plaster walls, garage or carport, basement
if requested, city utilities, and paved roads.
The price range on the homes to be constructed will range
between $8,500 and $15,000, he added.
Associated with Mr. Reinertson in the building of the homes is
! Bonner Rabb of Grandview Heights, who will act as superintendent
! and manager.
Extending - Widening Wall Street Is
Next On Agenda For Town Aldermen
Survey Is
Ready For
New Project
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An engineer's blueprint extend
ing and widening Wall Street all
the way to Assembly Street is ex
pected this week, (< C, Ferguson,
town manager said.
Wall Street runs parallel to
Main Proposals are to extend !
Wall Street from Pigeon Street all |
the way through to Assembly, wid
ening the present street in some
places back of business houses.
Ferguson termed the project as J
the next one for the town, and
"Our most important street job."
The street would provide more |
parking space, and take a lot of {
traffic olf Main Street. Ferguson
pointed out. <
Paving crew s have finished pour- | J
iiig some two-and-a-half miles of
asphalt at a cost of about $18,000.
This leaves less than two miles of 4
unpaved streets in town. Ferguson
said, with more than 35 miles ,
paved.
Among the streets just paved
included the Cemetery Streets, j
streets around the golf Course, ' I
Reservoir Jlijl. Park Drive, aiid ;
Craven ltoad. ; i
Town forces are expected to start i
in about 30 days, putting in a j i
sewer line in the Ninevah and
Auburn Road areas, at a cost of |
about $15 000, Ferguson pointed <
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The street forces have just fin- ! |
i-hed installing a sewer line to 1 t
Ctgigusta's new plant, by laying ;
the line under the Southern Rail- j (
way Tracks near the Smoky Moun- i ?
tains Fertilizer plant.
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Applications For Absentee
Ballots Being Accepted
The Hoard of Flections began t
icrepting applications for absen
ce ballots from civilians today, ac- ?
?ording to John R. Carver, chair
can. Applications from service
personnel have been accepted prior
o this time, and some lit) ballots 1
live been mailed.
Chairman Carver said any per
son who knew now thej would not
be in the county on November 6th.
;'<;uld make application for an ab
--nice ballot, either in person, or i
through a near relative. The dead-,
line is C p.m. November 3rd.
Persons who become ill between
November 3 and election day, can
ipply for an absentee ballot with
a physician's certificate. Carver ex
plained.
Registration books will open
Saturday, and will remain open '
until sunset Saturday, October 27.
Carver said. Persons who will be
uut of the county during rogistra
tion period can register with the i
chairman any time prior to the
27th. it was explained.
The Flection Board office will
remain open daily 9 to 12, and 1
In 5 from now until the election. (
The registration books will bo
distributed by the board to the
it gistrars on the 10th.
Persons who have moved to new
precincts must register for the
election. To he eligible to vote,
a person must live in a precinct
30 days prior to the election.
Clyde Woman
;
Takes Second
Football Contest !
Mrs. Lawrence Morgan of >
Clyde won The Mountaineer's J I
second football contest of 1956 i
and a cash prize of $15 by pick- j,
ing correctly the results of 11 (
out of 12 games during the week
end.
Her prediction of the com
bined score of the Waynesville
Ilendersonville game was 13
points?the exact total of the |
7-6 contest. Her only miss was
on the Make Forest-Virginia
1 game, which was won by the \
Cavaliers. . i
Three other persons in the .
contest missed only one game.
| and 17 missed two. '.|i
Bloodmobile Due
At Dayton Rubber
Plant On Thursday
The American Red Cross Blood- i1
mobile will visit the Dayton Hub- j
j ber Co. plant here Tuesday.
The Bloodmobile will be in op
eration in the new wing ol the 1
rubber plant from 7 a.m. until 9
a.m. and from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m.
The goal for Hie Bloodmobile's '
visit to Dayton Rubber will be 200
pints.
Mrs; Ben Coikitt will serve as
j Gray Lady chairman, assisted by ,
j Mrs. Boyd Owen.
i C. OF C. BOARD TO MEET
The board of directors of the!
Chamber of Commerce will meet !
: Tuesday. 7:30. for their regular j i
monthly meeting. C. G. Thompson. 1
i president, has announced.
W. O. Goode,
Minister, Dies
[n Asheville
The Rev. Watson O. Goode, 80. a
retired Methodist minister who i
vas a former pastor of the First
Methodist Church here, died yes
erday morning in an Asheville
mspital after a brief illness.
He held various pastorates for
j0 years including Asheville, Mar
on, Morganton, and Hickory. His
ast pastorate was the French (
(See W. O. Goode?Page 6)
7 Injured
In Saturday
Collision
Seven persons were injured in
;i three-car collision in front of the
Dellwood Motor Court on U. S. 19
at 7:15 p.m. Saturday.
Patrolman Harold Dayton of the
State Highway Patrol said that (
none al the injured apparently was j
hurt seriously hut that two were
hospitalized John Allen llyers, 16
Route 2. Waynesville, who suffer
ed lacerations of the head and
face, rnd Charles Derwood Smith. ]
also of Dellwood, who had concus
sions and abrasions.
Others injured were: Lee Lewis, '
4(i, ot Maggie. lacerations; Mrs. i
Catherine Dyer Lewis, his wife, I
mouth, nose, shoulder and knee I
injuries; the Lewis' son. Johnny 1
Jerry, ti. bruises, and two daugh- 1
ters, Patsy 10. and Betty Jean, 8.' l
bi ujses.
Patrolman Dayton reported that '
a pickup truck driven by Myers '
struck the rear of a car driven j
by Frank L. Lunsford, 16, of Ashe- j
viUe. then swerv ed and collided j <
Ivad on with the Lewis car. i1
Myers was charged with reckless
driving.
Damages were estimated at 5750
lo Myers' truck, at $'250 to the N
Lunsford car. and at $150 to the ?
Lewis car. (
Participating in the invostiga
(See 7 Hurt?Page 6) I
L. E. DEVOUS
DeVous Is
Again Head
Highlanders
1. E. DeVous was re-elected
president of the Haywood High
anders for his sixth term, at the
pnnual meeting, when Carl Henry
*as named vice president, and
Mrs. Inez DeVous. secretary-treas
prer.
C M. Stokes, M. L. Sadler, and
Fred Henry were named members
)f the board of directors, with S.
fi. Conriatser, director to the W
V C. Highlanders, and Robert W.
Winchester, alternate.
The group; in reviewing the past
season, heard reports of business
increases for members from 30 to
100 per cent, and plans were made
Tor the coming year for additional
promotion, and activities.
DeVous said the general in
crease in business this past season
?vas attributed to: effective pro
motions; cooperation among mem
bers; more travel, and the Lake
Junaluska programs of more con
ferences.
' The members worked togeth
er this season to the advantage
of everyone, and thus took care
of every visitor roming into the
area." the president continued.
The next meeting is slated t<>
iliscuss the stepped-up promotion
plans for 1957.
Isley Will Judge
Bands At Spartanburg
Charles L. Isley, Jr., director of
the Waynesville Township High
School music department, will re
turn here tonight from Greens
twiro where he attended a meeting
tif the North Carolina Music Edu
cators Association, of which or
ganization he is vice president.
On Tuesday, Mr. Isley w ill e>
to Spartanburg, S. C., to judee
marching bands at the Spartan
burg fair.
Sgt. Miles Stamey
Arrives From Japan
Sgt. Miles Stamey arrived l.i.-t
veek from Japan and is here to
ipend a 45-day leave with his p.o
mts, Mr. and Mrs. M, G. Stamey
Sgt. Stamey, who was attached
he 1st Marine Air Wing, has been
tospitalized in Japan for the pa-t.
seven months following an aircrait
jccident in which both of his legs
Acre broken.
He has been serving in the Ma
rine Corps four years and has been
n Japah 20 months. He will re
port to Cherry Point following hi
eaVe at home.
Highway
Record For
1956
In Haywood
(TO DATE)
Killed ..... 4
(1955 ? 2)
Injured .... 85
(1955 ? 77)
Accidents.. 156
(1955 ? 147)
Loss ... $51,010
(1955 ? $62,575)
(This Information compiled
from records of hUte Ufch
?M Patrol.)