Advisory Committee for Great Smoky Mountain National Park, Nov. 20, 1925

To Create Smoky Mountain Park. . . An Advisory Committee of 30 Has Been Named

Asheville, N.C., Nov. 20 (AP)—An advisory committee of 30, numbering among its members some of the foremost men and women of North Carolina and Tennessee, has been named to sponsor the movement to create in the Great Smoky Mountains a national part of pre-eminent rank. The membership of the committee was made known today through the office of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park purchase fund campaign.

In accepting membership on the advisory committee, the men and women comprising it expressed their enthusiastic approval of the movement to initiate the purchase of the park lands, which are to be turned over to the federal government when Congress authorizes the establishment of the park.

Among those who, in their acceptance of a place on the committee, expressed hearty sympathy with the plant to acquire the Smoky Mountains for the use of posterity were United States Senators F.M. Simmons, Lee S. Overman, Representatives Zebulon Weaver, A.L. Bulwinkle, and Charles L. Abernethy, Josephus Daniels, editor of the Raleigh News and Observer, Wade H. Harris, editor of the Charlotte Observer, Mrs. E.L. McKee, president of the North Carolina State Federation of Women’s Clubs; D.W. Blair, United States Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and R.E. Simpson, general manager of the Southern Railway system.

Other North Carolina members of the advisory committee are Governor LA.W. McLean; Representative R.L. Doughton, Laurel Springs; former Governor Cameron Morrison; Julian A. Price, Greensboro; E.W. Grove, Asheville; W.C. Boren, Greensboro; Santford Martin, editor of the Winston-Salem Journal; John A. Cecil, Biltmore; and H.S. Ward, Washington. The Tennessee members of the interstate advisory committee comprise Governor Austin Peay; United States Senators L.D. Tyson and Kenneth McKellar; Representatives J. Will Taylor and Carroll Reese; Paul Kruesi, president of the Southern Perro Alloys Company, Chattanooga; Judge M.M. Allison, president, Dixie Highway Association, Chattanooga; Rogers Caldwell, president, Caldwell and Company, Nashville; Henry E. Colton, Nashville; C.P.J. Mooney, publisher of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, T.A. Cox, Johnson City; J.P. Lupton, Chattanooga; and Mrs. J.Y. Johnson of Knoxville.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Friday, Nov. 20, 1925

newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn92073201/1925-11-20/ed-1/seq-1/