Asheville Citizen-Times from Asheville, North Carolina • Page 2

Hv Southern Hell: TOE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN. ASHEVILLE, N. C. Saturday, July 27, 1957 $68,550 Expansion Planned In Pisgah ProctorFree On Bond In Bryson Dynamiting Lake Powhatan and North Mills River areas, new proposed recreational area including a new one on lower Davidson River near the ranger station, and planning for development of recreation facilities at Balsam Lake. A total $16,000 will be used for tilie construction of new shelters, bath houses and rest rooms.

Two new bath houses each will he constructed at Sliding Rock, North Mills and Lake Powhatan. The present water systems will be expanded at Sliding Rock, North Mills River and LaVe Powhatan at a cost of $3,000. A total $33,500 is for complete rehabilitation of Lake Powhatan and North Mills River. The fund will also cover the cost of adding 10 new units "to the recently completed recreation area at Sunburst. From this amount also will come funds for maintenance of the other recreation areas in the Pisgah White rines, Pink Beds.

Coon Tree, and Davidson River and for roadside tables. Plans are now to expand the aroas by 114 picnic tables. The average annual visitation to Ihe present areas is now set at 750.000. BREVARD, July 26 -Through Operation Outdoors, a five-year program set up to modernize and expand existing national forest facilities, the. Pisgah District of North Carolina National Forest will receive a recreation budget of $68,550 for the next fiscal year.

Ranger Ted Seely said this compares with the meager sum of $5,100 appropriated last year. The increase is due largely lo the fact that the Pisgah district is the third highest in recreational use of any national forest district in the United States, Seely said. Because of this the chief of the forest service has set up a special study of the three districts. William C. Asher, forester, is now working on this survey for the Pisgah, The amount of the budget appropriated for the survey is $2,000.

Of the total appropriated for next year Seely said $12,500 has been designated for clean-up alone. A planning survey will cost To be considered in the survey are: Expansion for Sliding Rock, rehabilitation and expansion of which have occurred at or near the plant and in the general area of the Alarka community west of here since July 1. One explosion July 1 near two power transformers' at the plant knocked out window panes at the plant and damaged an exterior wall. Another explosion during the night of June JO-July 1 damaged an unoccupied auto belonging to a non-union plant worker. No property damage was reported from other attempted and actual dyna-mitings and no personal injuries occurred in any.

Many of the furniture plant's workers live in the Alarka area and adjecent communities. At the plant today, company president Thurman Leatherwood reported, only three to four union pickets were on duty, and 103 workers were at their jobs during the plants single shift. He said operations were about normal. The strike of the 125 workers started April 15 when negotiations failed to produce a new work contract. The management reopened the plant June 20.

Bryson reported FBI agents conferred here today with him. Sheriff Jenkins and Stale Bureau of Investigation Agents P. T. Kitchen of Waynesville, and Claude Davis of Asheville. BRYSON' CITY.

July 2ft-Ncal Proctor, 30, charged with an attempted dynamiting on a road near the home of furniture plant worker, was freed from jail here about 11:30 p.m. yesterday after posting $10,000 bond, Solicitor Thad D. Bryson Jr. said today. He said the bond for Proctor, In jail since his arrest Wednesday, had been raised by friends and neighbors, and was approved hv Superior Court Clerk Henry Truett.

Proctor is charged specifically wilh attempting to destroy a building by the use of explosives. Sheriff I. B. Jenkins said an unexploded charge of five sticks of dynamite, the percussion cap exploded, was found on the side of a road near the home of Virgil Davis, a member of the striking Local 251, United Furniture Workers of America, working at the picketed Carolina Wood-Turning Co. plant.

Proctor is a member of the Union. Bryson said no preliminary hearing has been set as yet for Proctor. He also said the investigation is continuing "on an intensive scale and matters are developing" in the series of attempted dynamiting and the explosions -Citizen Photo-Joni programs. They appear each Thursday night at Pisgah View Ranch. The Enka festival is sponsored by the Enka High School Boosters Club Inc.

and will be in the school auditorium. FEATURED IN THE PROGRAM of the Hominy Valley Square Dance Festival at 8 p.m. today will be this fast-moving Candler square dance team. These young folk have appeared on many Shortage May Affect Interstate Link Cemen Supply Nearly Exhausted Belgian Congo 'On The Woman Missionary Declares Edwin Brown Junaluska Library To Be Dedicated $80,000 Center Planned HENDERSON VILLE, July 2B-Soiithern Bell Telephone Co. announced Inday plans for the construction of an $80,000 plant work center on the Old Spartanburg Road, The new plant will include a modern office building, parking sheds for motor vehicles and a storage building.

It is being constructed by the Carolina Contracting Co. for P. M. Dielz, who will lease it to the company. CONTINUED GROWTH The building is necessary, officials said, because of the continuous growlh of telephone service here.

The company is also making a large addition to the ccnlral office building on Church Street and that is ncaring completion. Since additional dial equipment was placed in service on July 7 some 400 telephones have been added and the company now serves 9,375 telephones in this county. The new center is expected to be completed by Oct. 13. It will provide air-condilioned office quarters for the plant manager and clerical forces, for the sup ervising construction foreman, rppair foreman, line and cable foremen as well as parking area and other facilities.

i f). J. WOODY D. J. Woody Appointed To RC Post David J.

Woody, district supervisor in charge of safety for the Southern Bell Telephone has been named first-aid chairman for he Buncombe County chap ter of the American Red Cross He succeeds Robert Howe, for mer district ranger of the Blue Ridge Parkway here, who was transferred to Yellowstone Na tional Park. The appointment was an nounced by J. D. Brown, chair man of safety for the ARC in Buncombe County, who said that, the Civil Defense Administration has requested Red Cross chapters to greatly expand their first-aid programs. In his new post.

Woody will be in charge of organizing junior, standard, and advanced first-aid courses and providing instructors. A qualified Red Cross first-aid instructor himself. Woody is a graduate of the Lighty Duly Pes- cue School, conducted at Ihe Na lional Civil Defense Training Center, Olnoy, Md. Woody, a native of Madison County, served four years in the Navy and three years in the 82nd Airborne Division Reserve. He has been with Southern Bell since 1941.

Mr. and Mrs. Woody and their four children reside at 52 Princeton Dr. Buncombe Bar Adopts Schedule Members of the Buncon.be Bar Association last night passed a motion adopting a fee schedule at their second quarterly dinnet meeting in the Grove Park Inn. The schedule, it was explained had been set up by Ihe North Carolina Bar Association and is designed as a pattern by which attorneys may follow in charging fees.

Shaw Says Principal corporation a amendments added by the 1957 General Assembly lo the stale's 1938 Revenue Act were explained here yesterday by Stale Revenue Commissioner Eugene G. Shaw. Shaw spoke before the Cnro-linas-Virginia chapter of Tax Executives Institute ending a two-day meeting in Grove Park Inn today. The new tax laws affecting corporations are not reductions In rales of franchise nr income hut are primarily a more reahslic approach In measurement of corporate activities in North Carolina, Ihe commissioner said. t'ndrr Ihe new laws, Ihf slate's nwn domestic corporations will receiv the same treatment as foreign corporations thus "encouraging them to retain their day, and was told that the cement shortage has had a serious effect on road construction in the Durham area.

C. S. Neilson of Troitino and Brown, said his firm is getting all the cement it needs because it is supplied by a Knox-ville company, which is not involved in the strike. However, he explained, whereas cement normally has been shipped the same day Ihe order is received, there are now delays ranging from one lo two weeks. Lawrence Merchant of the Merchant Construction Co.

said his company has not felt the effect of the cement-makers strike and expects none at the present. Margaret Taylor, secretary at Asheville Contracting said ACC projects in Jackson, Macon Transylvania, and Burke counties are proceeding without delay. Church Tends Baptist Board RIDGECKEST, July 26 A Baptist Sunday SchonI Board officer here tonight tragedy comes when a church promotion program forgets lo go after people after using advertising and church bulletins. Dr. James L.

Sullivan, sec-rctaryJtreasurer of the hoard, addressed the Sunday School conference. He will speak also at 8 p. m. Saturday. Other speakers Saturday will be Herman L.

King, superintendent of Sunday school administration for the board; and W. A. Harrcll. secretary of the board's department of church literature. Dr.

Sullivan also told the audience tonight the tendency of the church is to flounder. The sinner, he said, doesn't know his own need and isn't able to analyze his own heart. Vale Kcsidrnl Crash Victim VALDESE. July J6 Harold Dean Rhoney, 21, of Vale RFD 3, was killed instantly about 10 p.m. today when a motorcycle on which he was riding was struck in the rear by an automobile on US Highway 70-61, even miles east of here.

Stale Highway Patrolman R. G. Thompson of Valdee, said Rhoncy suffered a ruptured kidney, multiple abrasions of the head and a possible fractured skull. He was dead on arrival at a hospital. Thompson said he arrested Frank Thomas Icard, 33, of General Delivery, Valdese, and charged him wilh manslaughter.

He will be given a hearing in Valdese Tuesday. Stick With For Ihe harassed building supply houses, Ray Nichols of Atkins-Harper Lumber Co. put it simply, couldn't be shorter. If there's a bag of cement in Asheville, I don't know about it." He added, "Our supplies have been exhausted for a week or 10 days, and we have no early prospects of getting any more." Cecil Murray, assistant manager of the sales department at Lowe's Hardware, commented, "The situation is critical; we have sv.ept the floor." A spokesman for Products Co. of Asheville.

maker of concrete building blocks and other concrete construction products, said that production at the firm's Biltmore plant has been cut 50 per cent and that it is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain shipments. To Flounder, Officer Says "Only whrn he is quickened to life." he said, "is he acquainted with God's love. The only way this can happen to him is for us to go alter the sinnpr." Banker Finds Flat Rock's Lost Dollar FLAT ROCK. July 26 The dollar bill taken from the Flat Rock Playhouse's showcase eaTly in June turned up at a Henderson-ville bank week. Robroy Farquhar.

playhouse managing director, advised tonight. The d.illar had been especially treasured because it was the first received in Hie building campaign staged for the modernization ct the Vagabond riayers' summer theater in 1951. Farquhar sa'd Harry F. Wil-liams, a cs.wirr at the S'ate Trust who had hren on the watch for it. discovered it in a stork nf hills received al the hank.

Where it had travelled aft- I er it disappeared from the show-jcase couldn't be determined, how-i ever. Farquhar said Williams declined Ihe $23 reward which had been offered In whoever found it but was prrsuaded to accept $25 worth of tickets to Vagabond plays. The FVnt Rock Playhouse sea-son continues through Aug. 31 with a play a week scheduled. JENNINGS GLASS COMPANY, INC.

WIWI.EMI.F RKTAIL 110 S. Miln SI C. iTnnn rnos'ts alcmivi'm WINDOWS A so Atvsixr.j Phnnra SIM nr Mill Nlrbl The Bunch Join The Crowd! SWIM IN THE LARGEST POOL IN 7 STATES (The Pcople'g Choice) MONTR EAT. July 26 Speaking tonight at the World Mission Conference Mrs. Leighton M.

Mc-Cutchen described the Belgian Congo as being "on the go." Mrs. McCutchen was formerly a missionary to the Congo now executive secretary of the Board of Women's Work for the Presbyterian Church, U. C. This past spring she made an extensive tour of the mission stations in the Congo. She spoke in amazement of the hustling cities wilh their tall, modern buildings which 20 years ago were nothing but sleepy, sprawling villages.

"Doing away with their fetishes Historical Tour Set Tour Planned FOREST cm', July 26-Plans have been completed for an historical tour of McDowell County Sundav. Clarence Griffin of For est City, vice president of the North Carolina Society of County Historians, the sponsoring agency, announced this week. Miss Doris Hill, of Marion, is in charge of local arrangements and has announced the day's schedule. The tour will begin Sunday at 9:30 a. m.

members and guests of the society will gather in front of the McDowell County Courthouse al Marion and form a motorcade. A stale highway patrolman will lead Ihe group on its visit to most of Ihe county's historic spots. Visits will he made lo Cathey's Fort in Turkey Cove, to Gillespie's Gap. where the Kings Mountain "Over the Mountain" men assembled before that Revolutionary battle; then to the old home at Joseph McDowell, for whom the county was named: and next a trip lo the old Jonathan Carson home on Buck Creek where the first county courts were held. The motorcade will proceed to Old Fori, site of Gen.

Griffith Rutherford's camp prior to his campaign to destroy the Cherokee nation in the early days the American Revolution. From thence Ihe group will return by "The Glades." Lunch will be served at Lake Tahoma at 1 p. m. All members and guests are expected to bring a picnic lunch. Cold drinks and coffee will be served there.

The significance of McDowell Counlv history will he explained in a short talk by W. R. Chambers during the luncheon. Other dignitaries nf McDowell County are expected to speak briefly at various points during the lour. A program will he available lo all making the tour, giving the agenda, also some historic (acts connected with each point.

Supplies of cement in Asheville building supply firms apparently are now exhausted, but the nation wide shortage has had little ef fect on local contractors. Among agencies concerned wilh road building, only the Slate Highway Department may have to curtail construction projects because of inability to obtain cement a situation brought on by a month-long strike in the cement industry which has cut the nation's production 75 per cent. W. M. Corkill, 13th Highway Division engineer, said yesterday that work on a new section of interstate-system highway in Burke County, from near Morgan-ton westward to the McDowell County line, may have lo be halted unless the highway department receives more cement.

Corkill added he talked with highway officials in Raleigh to Canton Chief Is Injured In Accident 1 CANTON. July 26-Folice Chief i W. N. Stroup of Canton, suffered a back injury about 10:30 a.m. today when a State High-I way Patrol car in which he was a passenger and another vehicle collided three miles east of here.

A passenger in the second car, Mrs. Walter D. Cronkright, of St. Petersburg, suffered a cut over one eye and a slight fracture of collarbone. Both Stroupe and Mrs.

Cronkright received dispensary treatment in the office of a Canton physician. The patrol car was being driven by Pfc. W. R. Woolen of Canton, and the other vehicle was being operated by Walter D.

Cronkright, 73, husband of the injured woman. Cronkright was arrested and charged wilh making an improper turn, failure lo yield richt of way and driving on the wrong side of the road. Police said the Cronkright car was traveling we.t on Highway 19, made a left turn, cut across the path of the patrol car which was being operated east. Police estimated damage to Ihe Cronkright car, a new Hudson at $600 and the patrol car, a 1956 Ford, at $500. Neither Woolen or Cronkright were injured in the crash, it was reported.

Concert Band To Premiere A Symphony BRF.VARD, July 26 The Transylvania Concert Band will per form the world premiere of "LitUe Symphony For Band" at ft: 15 p. m. Saturday, and Composer Cecil Effinger1 Ihe University of Colorado will conduct. Another guest conductor will be William D. Revelli of Ihe University of Michigan Rand.

In 1956, Revelli made a six-monlhs tour of Europe, conducting major bands Ihrre. Efflngcr has wri'len more than 60 performed works which have been heard throughout Ihe country. He has invented a musical typewriter whirt has greatly simpilifcd the copying of scores and parts. The program will include, in addition to Ihe Effinger work, "March om a an by Gucntzcl; two etudes by Scriabin and Davis; Jenkins' "American Overture For "Andante ct Scherzo" by Bnrat and Lillya, trumpet soloist Emerson Head; Invocation of Alberich from "Das Rheingold" by Wagner and Cail-lict; Grape Festival from "Italian Sketches" by Gallios and Ma-lone; "March Micigan" by Goldman: and "Highlights of Kurt Weill" by Weill and Ynder, VOGUE FURRIERS CAROLINA'S LEAPING ri'rlllirn 42 Haywood St. AH-47M A feature of the dedication will be the unveiling of a painting of Brown.

Author To Speak At Lake Junaluska LAKE JUNALUSKA, July 26-Mrs. Wilma Dykoman Stokely, Asheville and Newport, authcr, will speak at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Lake Junaluska Woman's Club's eighth anniversary meeting here. Mrs. Stokely will discuss some of the Western North Carolina lore she reported in her non-fic-lion honk, "The French which was published in the Rivers of America series by Rhine-hart.

She was awarded the 1955 Thorn-at Wolfe Memorial Trophy Cup for "The French Broad," and las! year received a Guggenheim fellowship to further her historical mountain research. She also has had several short stories published. Wife In Lallicr Over Soap Noles Seeks Divorce PATERSON, N. July 26 WV-A woman charged in a divorce suit today that her husband would not communicate with her for long periods of time except for occasional terse notes in soap on the bathroom mirror. Mrs.

Frances Palknw nf Haskell also accused her hwfiand, Thomas P. Palknw, of taunting her and their three children by threatening to fly over their home with described as a female flying companion. The suit filed in Superior C'nirt contends Palknw indulged lavishly in such hobbies as flying, mo'-torryoling, motoring and taking pictures. The couple were married in 103a. She charges extreme cruelty from 1943 lo 195K.

Three Youths Admit Slaying ALTNATA, July 26 H-Police said today charges against three youths in the robbery slaying of a Georgia Tech associate professor probably would be presented to the jury next Tuesday. Dr; William K. Pursley, 32. a native of Clover, S.C., was beaten and robbed of $15 July 19 and died the next day of a fractured skull. The three youths were arrested last night and are being held in city jail for suspicion of robbery.

Police listed them as Paul Francis Ardeeser. 19, Andrew Joe Evans, 19. and Donald Gordon Little 17. Dfleclive O. L.

Adams said one nf Ihe. charges police, would seek would be robbery by open force and violence, a capitol offense in Georgia. Adams said Ihe trio signed statements admitting Ihe robbery after they stopped Pursley lo ask directions and got into a fight. Patton Will Speak At Masonic Picnic MOCKSVILLE, July 26 in -North Carolina Attorney-General George Patton will be Ihe featured speaker at the 77th annual Maonic picnic here in Clement Grove on August 8. Walter Anderson, chief of the State Bureau of Investigation, will accompany Mr.

Patlon and appear on Ihe morning program. Proceeds of the picnic go to the Oxford Orphanage. and witch doctors the Congolese are becoming much like any American Negro," she said, and expressed concern as to whether the church will be as interested in these people in their new role. "Are we mobile enough in' our thinking to meet this new situation which the Congo offers and is our concept of the church adequate for today in the Congo?" The annual World Mission Con ference is this year being attend ed by some 1,300 young people and adults frcm throughout Ihe South. The conference will con tinue through July 31.

Convert Tonifiht In Montreal Series MONTR EAT. July 26-Mable Smith, soprano, and David Smith, baritone, will be featured Saturday at 8 p. m. in the Montnjat Summer Concert Series. Saturday night's program will include a performance of the light opera "La Serva by Pergolesi.

Also as part of the program, Mrs. Smith will sing folk-songs of the mountains of North Carolina, and Smith, Irish fclk-songs. Both are graduates of Westminster Choir College of Princeton, N. and are now on the faculty at Carson-Newman College of Tennessee. DR.

CECIL PLESS Dr. PI ess Jr. Will Practice Dcnlislry Here Dr. Cecil A. Pless Jr.

nf Asheville, recently discharged from the Air Force, has begun the practice of dentistry at 801 Flatiron Building. A graduate of Ihe University nf North Carolina and the university's School of Dentistry, Dr. Pless served for two years at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida. He is married lo Ihe former Grace Gordon of Leaksville and has one daughter. Ihe new standard, "North Carolina is falling in line with the predominate method of taxing corporations engaged in a multi-state business." Last nighl, some 35 delegates attending Ihe meeting broiled steaks at the hotel's barbecue pit Bnd were entertained by barbershop quartet singers.

Shaw, who plans to rclire as commissioner this fall, received a silver bowl from the lax executives In recognition of his "outstanding work" in the high state office. The presentation was made by Harold R. Cory nf Beacon Manufacturing Co. Howard Walker of Drexel Manufacturing presided at both sessions. Today the exenitives will put business aside and lake lime for round of gnlf at the Country Club of Asheville, fat mm LAKE JUNALUSKA.

July 2fi-The Edwin L. Brown Memorial Library, named for a prominent Asheville businessman and Methodist layman, will bededicated at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Kern Youth Center of the Methodist Summer Assembly. The Rev. Dr.

Lee F. Tuttle, superintendent of the Winston-Salcm Methodist District and secretary of the assembly board of Trustees, will preside at the service. He was chairman of a Southwide fund campaign to building the the $100,000 youth center, opened last year. The dedicatory address will be given by the Rev. Emmett K.

president of Brevard College and Brown's nephew. The library, focal point of the lakeshore center, was given by Mrs. Jane Brown McLarty in honor of Brown, her first husband. He was owner of the former Brown's Book Store, an Asheville institution for many years, and a leading layman of the Western North Carolina Methodist Conference. BISHOP JOHN RRANSCOMR fleftl of Jacksonville, and the Rev.

Dr. Mark Depp, pastor of Centenary I i Church, Winston-Salem, will be the speakers tomorrow in th main auditorium of the Lake Junaluska Methodist Assembly. Bishop Branscomh, vice president nf the assembly board of trustees, will sneak at. the annual Junaluska Day observance at 11 a.m. The.

service will commemorate the assembly's 44th anniversary. A special offering will be taken in the interest, of a building project. Dr. Depp will speak at 8 p.m., and again Monday at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m.

Can-Can Dance In Court Wins A Girl 2,520 LEWES, F.ngiand, July 2fi Hi A Can-Can dance in court by two nisht club beautiee last night convinced a judge today that a Can-Can dancer's hack injuries are worth 900 pounds 2.520. The bewigged justice awarded that amount to 20-year-old Beverly Anne Wood, who claimed she had been unable to dance since she was injured in a stage collapse in December 1954. Sheila Joyce. 21, and Janet Reynolds, 18. were, produced at the hearing to show the kind of movements a Can-Can dancer can make.

In fishnet stockings, briefs and sweetens they gyrated madly around the courtroom and at the end the judge led the applause. He said he wished all his cases were as 'entertaining. WE DELIVER! BAREFOOT TATUM DRUGS, Inc. imH, At, rfej 0 Tax Laws Realistic CHUCK WAGON SWIMMING POOL North Carolina charters," he said. The new tax measurements lake Into account: property, (representing invested capital payrolls, (representing humnn labors); and sales (ultimately representing profits).

Allocations for corporate Income and franchise taxes before revision of the act were based on property, manufacturing costs and sales, Shaw said. Previously the sales factor was based on where Ihe sale was consumaled and tinder revision, the sales factor is dependent upon where the goods are sent, he explained, Commissioner Shaw said that thesa measurements have been recognized In 81 of 32 atales having enrporaus Income tax structure tind that adopting ALSO POOL FOR CHILDREN Chuck Wagon Restaurant 100 Feet From Pool Z. VJ LOCATED 8 Miles South Asheville on U. S. 25 Owned gi Operated By Ben R.

Ples OPEN EVERY fRIDAY I.