The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-13
NEWSPAPER MEN ROYALTY ENTER
TANNED IN A WONDERFUL REGION

TAlNED in A WONDERFUL NESlON
The Times-News is delighted to give
Waynesville credit for doing one of the
best Jobs of convention entertaining that
has ever come under our observation, when
the North Carolina Press Association as
sembled there last week. sln,v& n.
Much Of the success that attended the
meeting is credited to the editor of The
Waynesville Mountaineer, w. Curtis Russ,
general chairman of the entertainment or
ganization. Editor Russ is former citizen
of Hendersonville and employee of The
Times-News, and this newspaper IS 6 par
ticularly proud of his record in managing
the convention, of his success in publishing
one of the best weekly newspapers IN the
mountain area, and of the recognition &C
corded him by the Press Association in his
election to the office of Vice President for
the ensuing year. ~ ..-.
Several columns of The Times-News
would be required to detail a summary OF
the press convention and all of the delight
full features of entertainment provided by
the people of Waynesville, the other towns
of Haywood county and some of the towns
of adjoining counties. In Haywood the
towns of Canton, Clyde, Junaluska and
Hazelyood united with Waynesville IN
making a splendid success of the conven-
ton. SYLVIA, Bryson City and Cherokee
made a substantial contribution to the en-
tertainment program; and the people from
CantonSto Newfound Gap and Chngman's
Dome in the Smoky Mountains National
Park received the visitors with character
istic North Carolina interest and hospi-
tally. 50.
Features of the convention were the visit
to the great plant of the Champion Fibre
Company at Canton; the motorcade trip to
Newfound Gap and Cingman's Dome in
the Park, and the luncheon and entertain
ment features which followed at Cherokee,
not to mention the regular entertainment
features at Waynesville. .... .s.-
The people of Waynesville and all the
region visited by the newspaper men COM
pletely demonstrated their readiness and
preparedness for receiving and entertain
ing strangers; and it was observed by the
visitors that the region is in the tourist
business in big way. Thousands OF peo-
pie are fvisiting the Park and, of course
travelling into the surrounding country; IN
addition to the thousands who annually GO
to that section of the State to spend the
Summer or for shorter visits. S.. ,-
A paved road is now open all the way
from Hendersonville to Newfound Gap and
while ske highway on the Tennessee side
of the Park from the Gap to Gatllnburg
has not been completed, we were Informed
that the trip to that place from the top OF
the mountains. can be made. with little
trouble 80. -.. -s-.ra
ThelSkyland Drive, designed to follow
the mountain tops through the Park, has
been graded and rocked for a distance Of
Ia miles to Clingman's Dome, and is II
daily use. This road is to have hard sur
face and when completed will be one o.
the most impressive in the country, fo1
both highway engineering and construction
and scknic effects. -..tt -.
The:people of this city and section, in s.
far as possible, should take advantage o.
opportunities to travel to the Park, w t,lssi
is one .of the. country's foremost wonder
lands'E and Hendetsonville. and, this. sec
ton SHOULD promptly formulate and per
feet systematic and definite plans for con
tactina the tens of thousands of peopll'
from avery part of the United States wh'
are ndw visiting the Park. of this, .nor'
later. -