Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-05-14
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
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Raleigh, May 14.-Tennessee is get
ting ready to renew it's drive to get
part of the park-to-park highway-the
| Blue Ridge Parkway-built in Ten
| nesseee and holds two aces up her
sleeve to North Cardinals one, ac-
cording, to reports being heard here
| 10th from Washington and the west
ern part of North Carolina. In fact,
I Tennessee has never let up in it's eff
J, forts to get part of the parkway di-
Evertedv over through Tennessee, so
| that the main entrance to the Great
Smoky Mountains National Park will
be on the Tennessee side at Gatlin-
, burg instead of ON the North Caro-
! lima side at Cherokee it is maintain
: ed.
But the ace cards which Tennessee
is now prepared to play, as compared
to only one held by North Carolina,
!, is that Tennessee is prepared to offer
President Roosevelt two votes in the
s Senate for his Supreme Court reor-
ganization plan--or almost any other
measures he wants enacted-while
Forth Carolina can offer only one
Senate. vote for the court plan-and
the parkway
In: other words, Tennessee is pro-
posing that the President and Sec:e-
tary Harold L. Ickes of the Depart
ntent of the Interior now spank San
ator Josiah w. Bailey by taking at
! least 100 miles of the parkway away
) from North Carolina and putting it in
Tennessee, by assuring the President
that he can depend upon the votes of
the two senators from Tennessee for
his court program, which Senator
Bailey is opposing tooth and nail On
ly Senator Robert r. Reynolds, of
North Carolina, is supporting the
/ PRECEDENT in his court reorganization
plan. Some are already commenting
| that Senator Bailey may really have
chosen "the hardest way" if as a re-
suit of his opposition to the President,
/ he will be the cause of North Caro-
! lima losing the parkway, at least from
Asheville on to the park For if Ten
nessee manages to get the parkway
diverted into Tennessee north of
Asheville, so that the main entrance
to the Great Smoky Mountains Ma
tional Park will be in Tennessee in
stead of North Carolina, the western
= counties will not again come to Sen
ator Bailey's rescue, as they did last
spring. Without the heavy vote he got
in the western part of the State, SEN
ator Bailey would not have been nom
mated in the primary last June, it is
generally agreed.
There has been increasing uneaei-
ness among those interested in the
parkway, especially in the area from
Asheville westward to the park, for
many weeks because of the unwilling
, ness oft he National Park Service
even to consider doing any construc-
ton work in this area This uneasi-
ness was greatly increased last week
when the National Park Service re-
vealed that Secretary Ickes had or
dered four new surveys started along
four other routes from Asheville west,
and designating, only two of these.
: The belief now is that two of these
routes cross over into Tennessee north
west of Asheville, near Waterville,
and will then follow the Tennessee
side of the line to Gatlinburg, al
though park service officials vigorous
ly deny this. s~ II
There is no doubt, however, that
the Tennessee politicians are using
every trick in their bags to persuade
the President and Secretary Ickes to
! re-route the parkway from Asheville
/, and divert it into Tennessee, both be
cause they think they are entitled tc
part of it and because they think thi
would be an excellent way to spank
Senator Bailey for kicking over thu
traces and for teaming up with the
Republicans and reactionary Demo
Gratis in the Senate against the su
preme Court reorganization plan.
is also agreed that the President an
Ickes know that two lucious and de
pendable Senate. votes are pot to be