The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-09-11
Many Refused To Quit Blazing Ship
CITY AND COUNTY WILL BE
REPRESENTED AT PARKWAY
HEARING in WASHINGTON
Committee Set Up to Organize Local Delegation After
Asheville Men Emphasize Importance
of proiect

A committee to organize Hen
derson county delegation as part
of a group of perhaps 400 persons
from Western North Carolina who
will attend a hearing in Washing
ton next Tuesday on the routing
of the national parkway to the
Great Smoky Mountains national
park, was set up at meeting
held this morning in the Chamber
of Commerce offices after Wythe
NJ. Peyton and B. S. Colburn of
Asheville had described in detail
the plans to present North Caro-
hna's claims to the parkway as OPP
posed to those of Tennessee's.
A special train bearing city and
county officials, heads of civic
clubs, and business and industrial
leaders of 20 Western North Car
DINA counties will leave Asheville
at p. m. next Monday for Wash
ington, and the local committee is
charged with securing as many
representatives as possible from
Henderson county. Pledges made
at the meeting this morning indi-
Gated that as many as Is persons
will make the trip from this city
and county. o. Y. Brownlee was
temporary chairman of today's
meeting, which was attended by
about 40 persons.
The committee, which is COM
posed of R. l.. Edwards, chairman,
w. M. Sherard, H. H. Ewbank, B.
Jackson, J. H. Lampley, ]. H. Vel
ton, D. Y. Brownlee and A. S.
Browning, Jr., was to meet at 2:3O
o'clock this afternoon to advance
it's plans. Chairman Edwards said
the committee will ask that the
city and county administrations,
the Kiwanis and Rotary clubs, the
larger industrial and business
firms and other organizations be
represented at the hearing. After
leaving Asheville at 7 p. m. Mon
day, the special train will arrive
in Washington at 7 a. m. Tuesday,
the hearing will be conducted by
Secretary Ickes of the interior de-
partment at 2:30 p. m. Tuesday,
the train will start back at 8 p. m,
and will arrive in Asheville at 8
a. M, Wednesday. The round-trip
cost, including Pullman fare, will
be approximately $26.
In talk of perhaps 80 minutes
to the meeting this morning, Mr..
Peyton, chairman of the Asheville
central committee, said the task
of influencing Secretary Ickes to
designate a parkway route thru
Western North Carolina is regard
ed as so important that the Ashe-
vile city council appropriated ST.
900 to organize the delegation,
and that perhaps 200 persons from
county will be on the
special train. In Washington, the
delegation will be headed by SEN
ator Robert R. Reynolds and Gov.
]. C. B. Ehringhaus.
The parkway route has been
designated as far south as Blow
ing Rock, N. c., Mr.. Peyton point
ed out, but a special committee
recommended that it be diverted
there and proceed to the Great
Smokes almost entirely in Tennes-
see. Should this recommendation
be carried out, Mr.. Peyton de-
clared, North Carolina, which
pays $40 into the federal treasury
to 81 paid by Tennessee, would
be unfairly treated and tourists
would be deprived of the great
scenic beauty that abounds in this
state.
"The Tennessee route" he said,
"would touch only one great
scenic objective, while in North
Carolina it would pass many. In
we have no intention of
trying to induce Secretary 1ckes
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