y.n, Chadboum; Miss Don-, na Lee Hartman, Mount Airy; Mfss Judy Moss- Hickory; Miss Elaine Gibson, Stanfield; Mias Martha Lynn Henry of Charlotte; Miss Melba McCall of Asheville; Miss Sharon Waldo of Skyland; Miss Flcka Stephanie Yarborough burham; Miss Susie Harrlll of Spindale; JMlss Carol Elaine Smith of Wllmlrgton; Miss Elizabeth Graham of West Jefferson Then there is still one to be entered from Newland mak ing a total of twenty-one lovely young ladies who will compete for the Miss Rhodod endron title and cxwn now being worn by Miss Judy Bry ant of Spray, N. C One of these young :adles will carry back to her hometown a title that is almost unmatched by any other beauty pageant in the south. Along with it will go a SIOOO 00 scholarship to the school of her choice awarded by Mr. J. E. BroyhiU, Presi dent of Broyhlll Furniture Company of Lenoir. She will receive a new white converti ble for her travels during her reign as the Flower Queen. A $500.00 wardrobe designed by Tanner’s of North Carolina, a gold wrist watch given by the Citizen Times publishing Company in Asheville, also the famous Blanton Trophy and a S3OO 00 scholarship to Blanton’s Business College in Asheville. A years exciting travel plus many smaller awa~ds not yet confirmed. This Is a part of a fantastic success story which has been written by a small, but dedi cated lions Club in a town with about 300 population In Western North Carolina start ed in 1947, to focus attention to the world’s largest natural dfspay of purple rhododen dron only twelve miles’ from No. 43 JO the county seat of Bakersville in Mitchell County, it has grown now to what seems to be perhaps one of the best known events in the south land if not the nation. Miss. Judy Bryant, who will c her successor on Saturday, June 26th will have complet- — ed more than 100,000 miles traveled in the short span of a year. She has traveled in five contients and from coast to coast in the United States. • She has told the Variety Va cationland story everywhere she has traveled. What is in store for the new Queen, we -•- wou d guess, much of the same thing, many personal appea-ances are already sch eduled for her. The Rhododendron Festival officials feel that the bloom in the gardens will be at it’s peak during the week of the event. Parking facilities on the Roan were recently im proved by’ the U. S. Forest Serv:ce which should elimi nate any traffic problem to and from the Gardens. Judges for the Junior Miss Pageant have not yet- been announced,, however the Jud ges for the sehrof pdgeaflt Are; Mr. Walter Thomas, MGM Pictures; Mr. W. W. Hoy, Rutherfordton; Mrs . Ruth Sisson,' Chattanooga, Tenn.; Mr. Reese”® „ /Charlotte, and Winston-Sa.em, N. C. Rsv.Hilliard To Greensboro, Rev. Warner Comes Here LAKE JUNALUSKA, N. C—, Bishop earl G. Hunt, Jr., who presides oyer the Charlotte Methodist Area, today < (June 13) announced the appoint ments of clergymen to the pulpits of the Western North Carolina Methodist Conferen ce for the 1965-66 church year. The bishop read the list of appointments following deliv ery of a Conference Sunday se mon before more than 2,000 worshippers at the Con ference’s closing session in Stuart Auditorium here. Among the appointments are about 200 clergymen who wl l be moving to new pastor ates. The "remainder of the mote than 750 clergymen who preach in the Conference will return to their present char ges. Rev. R. F. Hilliard who has been pastor of Higgins Mem orial Methodist Church for the past four years will go to Lowe’s Chapel in the Greens boro District. Joseph M. G. Warner will come to the Burnsville Chur ch. He is coming from Oakley Chureh in Asheville. • Rev. Hilliard will leave for his new pastorate next .week and Rev. Warner will arrive in Burnsville then.