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Champion Magazine
No full textThis 38-page publication titled Champion Magazine was created in 1981 and is issue number 9. The magazine examines the impact that the Carolina Division of Champion Paper and Fibre Company had on the region, its economy, its folkways and its people since its founding in 1906 and includes a variety of articles and photographs.-:==:o::-::--- NUMBER 9 -----------j( , The Champion Magazine ,) f------------------,,..A--=c=-=E--1:- r
Seventy-five years in Carolina.
It w-as in 1906 that Peter G. Tho111son
arrived in North Carolina's Haywood County to
survey the virgin forests of the Great Smoky Mountains.
Champion's eventual decision to build a mill there, near the tiny mountain cove of
Pigeon Ford, marked the beginning
of the forest products industry
in western North Carolina, and to
some degree, of the New South.
This story examines the impact of
the company on the region, its
economy, its folkways and its people-
people like James A.
Trantham, a man in comfortable
equilibrium between two seemingly
contradictory worlds.
Trantham is a supervisor of shipment
control at Champion's pulp
and paper mill at Canton, North
Carolina, and he lives in a 200-yearold
house that served as a patriot's
command post in a pivotal battle of
the Revolutionary War. When he
is not working at the mill, Jim
Trantham builds exquisite musical
instruments-fiddles, banjos, guitars,
and dulcimers-from the walnut
and native red spruce of the
surrounding Great Smoky Mountains.
He is also an introspective
man who thinks a great deal about
the meaning of his home community
and its place ln modern times.
"There are trade-offs in everything;'
he says. "That is one of the
lessons of our world. It was a
mixed blessing, the coming of
industry to western North Carolina,
one of the last strongholds against
modernity. If your main interest
is nostalgia, you might lament the
loss of some of our old ways.
"But practically, when Peter G.
Thomson of Cincinnati brought his
new Champion Fibre Company
Canton's No.12 paper madJine in 1932
(facing), the most efficient unit of its lime.
to Canton in 1906, it meant that
the people of the Pigeon River
watershed could, at last, rise above
the subsistence level and gain a
measure of assurance and selfesteem.
The people here had been
cut off and ostracized for too long
by both the state and federal governments
ever since the end of
the Civil War:·
Haywood County was ignored
because it was poor and isolated:
geographical ly, it is like an
immense, leaf-shaped bowl poised
at the western extremity of North
by H.R. Meier
H.R. "Bud" Meier is Champion's
manager of public relations,
midwest area
Photography by Tom Hollyman
Carolina. The bowl tilts toward the
nonh, and Tennessee. Through a
gap in the mountains, the Pigeon
River discharges the waters of its
hundreds of tributaries toward the
lVA lakes. The rim of the bowl is
comprised of the most scenic
mountain ranges in all of the eastern
United States: the Great Smokies
to the north, the Newfound
range to the east, the Pisgah Ridge
to the west and the Balsam Mountains
to the south. Between, like the
veins of a leaf, are narrow stretches
of comparatively smooth land:
"balds" on top of the ridges and
miniature valleys or "coves" lying
near the base of the mountains.
Old Haywood County placenames
tell of the rugged topography.
Rabbit Skin is a section of
poor, thin soil. Tite-Run, on a
stream near Clyde, is a section of
road so narrow that it was difficult
to drive the cattle through. Sher-in
(Shut-In) is a point on the
Pigeon River choked by rugged
hills, which had stoppe9 the logical
route of the highway for years.
Those highways were nonexistent
when Thomson, seeking a
dependable supply of high-grade
spruce pulp for his paper and coating
machines in Hamilton, Ohio,
stepped from a dusty day coach on
his first visit to Canton. The tiny
community of 400 was then the
next to last stop on the Murphy
Branch of the Southern Railroad-
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Tbe porrraiiS of mountain
people (left) were made
~v the great American
realist, Doris Ulmann
0894·1934). Ulmarm
tram/led tbrottgh North
Carolim1 in the late 1920s
and early 30s, seardJing
out people wbose cbarac·
ters and faces expressed
a sbared qualily-which
Ulmtlllll called "genuine·
ness. " Sbe hoped her
pbotOgraphs would sbow
tbe t'ariety and beauty
of tbe mountaineers'
bandic:rafiS and suggest
that if tbey were prouided
uWIJ a market, the people
mfgbt sun•it•e. Ulmann:~
primary goal was the
recording and preserva·
tfon of tbe images of
a people sbe feared were a
dying breed. But despite
precartOtiS economic
CO/UliliOIIS, lbe people pra.
t•alfed Mrs. Carrie jolly
(rigbl) is tbe wife of retired
Cbampion Roy jolly
Pbotographed at ber
Mountabl Rest, Soutb Carolfna
bome in 1977 at
tbe age of 80, Mrs. jolly's
presence reflects tbe
same "genuineness" of tbe
Ulmann porrraus,
one generation
later
It bas been more tban 100
years since tbe passenger
pigeon (abol'e) u·ould
darken tbe skies of the
sowheastern United Slates
The species, e.winct since
1914, gave its name to tbe
Pigeon Rwer; tbe main
watercourse of Haywood
County and a major
arteryfor Cbampion 's mill
at Camon Alrbougb the
bird is gone, tbe area
Still abounds with wildlife:
[zsb of man)' kinds inhabit
the regions lakes and
strear1ts, deer and bear
compnse a significant big
game population, and
numerous small creatures
prowl tbe upland forest
two brave streaks of steel through
perhaps the richest forestland
in America.
And how the forest dominated!
Farmland around Canton at the
wrn of the centurv sold for as little
as 75 cents an acre. Although the
counl)r paid a bounty of two dollars
for each "wolf's sculp" (scalp),
insolvents seemed almost as
numerous as taxpaying citizens.
Farm wages for a ten-hour day
were a dollar for skilled men; 35
cents and dinner for women; 10 to
25 cents for children, accordjng
to age and size. Wheat sold for a
dollar a bushel, smoked side meat
brought 12V2 cems a pound, eggs
were 10 cents a dozen and a blacksmith
would charge only a nickel,
or nothing, to sharpen the plowshare
of some poor farmer.
The ear ly settlers of Haywood
County were short of coin, but they
pos!)essed energy and determination
in abundance. Many were Scot·
tish Highlanders, Germans and
Irish who rumbled down into the
region via the "Great Philadelphia
Wagon Road" or Oed up from the
malarial tidewater flats of the
coastal plain, across the central
Piedmom Plmeau to the enfolding
coolness of the Blue Ridge.
The most numerous of these
immigrants were the "Scotch-Irish:·
a term which refers to those Lowland
Scots who were forciblv relo·
cared to the North of Ireland by
England's King james 1. Larer, they
moved to America in droves, driven
by famine, economic hard times,
and "rack-reming" landlords.
Often clannish and firmly set in
his ways, the Scotch-Irishman had
this prayer attributed to him: "Lord,
grant that I may always be right,
for Thou knowest I am hard to turn:·
Of his proverbial thrift it was
said, "He keeps the commandments
of God and every other good thing
he can get his hands on:· Presbyt:eri·
anism, of course, was his religion.
Horace Kephart, in his book, Our
Soutbern lfigblanders, tells of
an elderly CO\'C lady who, when
asked if there were any Episcopalians
around, replied, "J don't know.
but Him's got the skins of a lot
of varmints up in Lhe loft. 1\lebbe
you can find one up thar"
With their flint)· character, these
Scmch-lrishmcn had, by necessil)•,
become dediC'.ued, hardworking
citizens of their new country and
region by the time Peter G. Thorn-
Many early settlers of Haywood County
rumbled down into the region via the
"Great Philadelphia Wagon Road."
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son arrived on the North Carolina
scene. They made great contributions
ro the body politic as well as
churches and schools. Fierce warriors
and dedicated agriculturalists,
they also possessed a wealth of
mechanical skills. Capable coopers,
joiners, wagon makers, smiths, and
wheelwrightS awaited Thomson 75
years ago at the ford of the Pigeon,
where large scale pulp and papermaking
would gain their first major
foothold in the South.
Born of this stock, Jim Trantham's
kin have resided in North Carolina
for 150 years. He recalls from the
conversation of his father and
grandfather how naturally Champion
fit into the community.
All of the old-timers recognized
Peter G. for the tough, canny Scot
that he was-a survivor who had
overcome plenty of adversity, a man
who wasn't about to abandon the
people who had helped him prosper.
"My dad, Artis;· reminisces
Jim Trantham, "was a foreman in
the chestnut extract plant at Canton
when the blight shut it down in
1951. The company found a spot
for him as supervisor in the tree
nursery at Willits, North Carolina.
Benevolence like this was not
lost on the employees:'
By this time, Reuben B. Robertson,
Sr., Thomson's Yale-trained
son-in-law- both an attorney and
an engineer-was firmly in command
of Champion's Carolina operations.
He had come to Canton,
promising to spend 60 days. At the
end of 60 years, he had become
the driving force in what today is
Champion International Corporation:
a man completely trusted, as
few outsiders were, by his employees
from the coves, runs, hollows
and towns of Haywood County.
Pressed ro reflect further on the
unique quality of life around Canton,
Jim Trantham says, "As an instrument
maker and folklorist, I would
have to say that industry here has
actually helped in the survival
of tradition by nor intruding too
much, politically or socially, on the
life of its employees and the surrounding
community. Folk art
forms-which include dance, the
old ans and crafts, and music-are
as alive and well in Haywood
County as any place in the u.s:·
In nearby Waynesville, location of
a Champion plant for the extrusion
of plastic onto Canton paperboard
for Champion's DairyPak division,
and a large "cut-size" paper operation,
Clarence Donaldson gives
e loquent expression to the folk art
tradition . Donaldson, a tender on
the No. 20 paper machine at Canton,
is one of the region's most
honored wood-carvers. His work,
"cut our;· as he calls it, from black
walnut and yellow poplar of the
region, speaks to the people and
occupations of the Blue Ridge:
blacksmiths, woodchoppers, moonshiners
and just plain Old Codgers.
Quick to point out that these
pieces are not caricatures, Donaldson
says proudly, "They're not
dumb people, not ignorant. People
from outside the Appalachian
region still think of hillbillies, like
the Hatfields and the McCoys, the
old feuds and all. They think that's
all there is down here. But time
is gonna prove 'em wrong!"
Donaldson is a second generation,
30-year employee of the company
who allows that he was "raised
and bred on Champion:· He sheds
some light on the folk tradition
when he uses the word "communication"
to describe the energy
that flows between his knife and
the wood he carves: "It's ajeeling
between you and the piece you're
working on. To me there's nothing
more beautiful than wood. The fact
is that man just can't duplicate it.
Seems like a piece of wood appreciates
you and you appreciate it'
Folk art still
flourishes in
Haywood
County. jim
Trantham (right)
and son Chris
make dulcimers
at home.
Coopers, smiths, wagon makers, and wheelwrights
joined Champion to become pioneers
in the South's first pulp and papermaking operation.
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Appreciation for Donaldson's
work is now widespread. It has
been circulated in the Smithsonian
Institution's collection of Deep
South folk art and is on display at
the Appalachian Folk An Museum
in Asheville, North Carolina.
If wood carving is silence made
tangible, then clog dancing is the
oral tradition brought to stereophonic
fever pitch. Picking them up
and laying them down at 140 beats
per minute in perfect time with
the fiddle and banjo, their heels
and toes augmented by metal shoe
taps, Canton's Rough Creek Cloggers
speak thunderously with their feet.
Director Bob Phillips, supervisor
of communications and community
relations at the Canton mill, gets
no argument when he says, "There
are no fat clog dancers!" He
explains that clog is an Appalachian
variant of the square dance, with
traditional figures and accompany·
ing calls, bur in ultrafast time as
opposed to the daintier, mincing
"cowboy" or "country-western"
square. Clog also reflects the ethnic
heritage of the region-deriving
from Scottish Highland dancing by
way of the Virginia reel, also the
Irish "Caley" jig and the incorporation
of some Black tap dancing
steps. Typically, a Canton dogger
keeps his or her back stiff while
"walking the king's highway;' promenading,
doing the do-si-do or
performing some other figure tO
the calls of Carroll Nelson and the
rocketing fiddle and banjo of
"Chinese Breakdown" or an equally
frenetic tune.
In their five years as a group,
these two dozen dancers (of whom
16 compete as a team) have captured
most of the prestigious
square dancing championships in
the Southeast. In addition ro Director
Bob Phillips, four ocher
Champion employees are Rough
Creekers: Harold Black, Frank Ford,
Tim Smathers and Gene Belt. Phillips
is right: there is not one fat
clog dancer among them.
Under the old ways in Haywood
Coumy, square dancing was the
only social event that both sexes
could regularly join in. Other activities
were segregated by gender
and were often more work than
play. The men had their logrollings
and barn raisings; the women
their bean stringings and quilting
bees. The quilting art has survived
to a remarkable degree in the
Canton-Waynesville area, and still
follows many time-honored patterns
brought ro the highlands by
the Anglo-Saxon forebears of
today's quilters.
At a recent quilting bee in the
Newfound Community home of
Mrs. Elza Whitted (she is the
mother of two Champion employees),
five ladies proudly displayed
some of those patterns: the dahlia,
basket, Dresden plate. fence row,
and pansy. Then the ladies took
their places about a huge frame
dominating the living room and
resumed stitching on a king-size
quilt showing all of the 50 United
States together with the state flowers.
(North Carolina's bloom, the
dogwood.) QuiltS as time-consuming
to make as this one command
up to 300 in today's marketplace.
Mrs. Whitted's circle dedicates
the proceeds from its sales to Newfound's
Zion Hill Baptist Church.
The talk at Mrs. Whitted 's circleof
family, friends, schools, and
community-must have been an
echo of those other quilting bees
so many years before. Long the
only all-female form of amusement
and recreation, the bee could also
serve a utilitarian function. When a
young lady decided to make her
first quilt and the women of the
community gave her a quilting bee,
the event served as an informal
engagement announcement.
Conversation at the bee, which
could also be likened tO the modern
bridal shower, was predominantly
"girl" talk: advice (sought or
otherwise) to the prospective bride
on the mysteries of matrimony. The
young lady's finished quilt represented
her membership in a loose
but very real society of hard work
and high standards of achievement.
More than one observer has said
that Lhere was no time for nervous
breakdowns in that society.
A keeper of the work ethic, Elza
Whitted says, "If I didn't have a
hobby, l'd get in a car and loafer
Champion
.wmpler of early
scene5 (left)
Peelin8 bark by
band for old
sulfite mill at
canton
Homes for
employees of
lumbet· camp at
SLmburw, now
Lake logan.
F1brel'ille, early
company hous·
ing, 11ear tbe
Canton mill
Early loggc.n
lil•ed in mountain
cabms,
tbey cut and
flumed logs to
Canton null
Retired OJamPIOn
crane
operator Claude
Warren (rigbt)
W1tb au· -cured
burley m
tobacco bam at
Cecil Community
Many
0JampiOilS in
tbearea are
e.y-pert farmers
and gardeners.
Timber and
tobacco are
among tbe
area's leading
casb crops.
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Tbe wood carvings of Clarence Donaldson,
a Canton paper madJine render, baue been
circulated by tbe Smithsonian. He glues
new life to a venerable folk tradition.
somewhere:· Her adroit switch on
the verb "loaf" is a pure example of
how the spoken language of the
Blue Ridge retains its authentic
regional character without departing
too far from standard English.
(Indeed, it could be argued that the
language is less debased here,
because of its affinity to the original
tongue, than it is in the bureaucracy
of government and corporations,
and in much of the media.)
This is not to say that Elizabethan
English is still spoken locally. But
the apt and colorful speech of
the Southern highlands can still be
heard in Haywood County. Champion's
Bob Phillips, referring to
a small, independent sawmilling
operation that would be termed a
"peckerwood" in most lumbering
areas, calls it a "fist and skull" operation-
most appropriate for a
marginal installation of its kind. A
locution still occasionally heard
around Canton is to "brogue it"-a
verb meaning walk, coined from
the word brogan, for the shoes
once worn here. Bodaciously,
meaning bodily or entirely, is still
encountered too, but the user nowadays
is probably being self-consciously
rural, or just plain cute.
In an easy North Carolina drawl
that underscores his concern for
the future of Canton, urbane Hazel
w. Ramsey speaks of Champion
and its relation LO the community.
His conversation reflects the close
ties between the ci ty and the com-
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An ultra fast AppaladJian variant of the
square dance, clog demands superb physi·
cal condition. Canton's Rougb Creek clog·
gers speak thunderously witb their caps.
pany. Ramsey, who is serving his
third term as mayor of Canton
( population 4700), retired from
Champion in 1976 after 39 years of
service with the company-the
last 15 as director of safety. Sitting
in his office in Canton's ultramodern
city hall, his wall adorned
with a coveted 1980 "Community of
Excellence" award from the governor
of North Carolina, Ramsey
has an ideal vantage point from
which to view Champion's historic
impact on the area.
He recalls Champion's primacy in
its concern for the health, safety
and economic welfare of its
employees: longevity bonuses for
all workers, pioneering wage incentives
to stimulate productivity, company-
paid medical bills and
hospitalization for accident victims.
And he details the Champion Relief
Association: "It administered the
company store, delivering coal
or firewood to the homes of company
employees at a fraction of
the price charged by other vendors.
A percentage of store profits was
paid back to worker-members in
cash or negotiable scrip at the end
of the year. Champion would
donate idle land so the association
could till it at a profit. And if a wage
earner was really up against it, the
association would tide him over
uoril better times:·
Such paternalism has gone the
way of the passenger pigeon, after
which the area's dominant river was
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The ladies of Mrs. Elza
Whilled's circle (above)
work on an "All-American·
quilt at a bee in ber Newfound
Community bome.
Patcbwork quilts are
tbe nations oldest artform;
tbe bees provided rw·al
women their only opporttt·
nity to socialize. In the
early days of Haywood
County they also afforded
a young girl an important
rite of passage: her decision
to make her first quilt
often served as an informal
announcement of ber
engagement to he man·ied.
Mrs. Coy Pressley (facing
pctge) sells finished quilts,
rugs, and otber handiwork
at her gift shop in tbe
Cecil Community.
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Champion and the city of Camon have long shared water from the company's reservoir aJ Lake Logan, typical of the cooperation between tbem.
named. But Mayor Ramsey sees a
modern parallel in the traditional
cooperation between the company
and his city. Canton has first call on
the water it and Champion share
from the company's reservoir at
Lake Logan. The community and
corporation have long swapped, in
emergencies, such vital equipment
as valves, hoses, connectors, etc.
Taxpayers (of which Champion is
the largest, contributing some
500,000 per year to city coffers)
also enjoy significant savings by the
city's buying at discount certain
bulky commodities-salt for snow
removal is one-through the Canton
mill's purchasing department.
Canton and Champion entered
the age of environmentalism
Mayor Hazel Ramsey's three terms have seen
sisnificant growtb for Canton and receipt
of a coveted community excellence award.
together when, in 1965, the company
began treating effluent from
the municipal sewage plant in
the mill 's wastewater treatment
facilities-saving the citizens millions
of dollars in sewage costs
over the years.
In the meantime, the historic mill
at Canton-the first in the world
to produce fine white paper from
Southern pine-has kept pace with
the nation 's stringent environmental
requirements, spending or committing
more than $50 million in
recent years to upgrade its pollution
abatement equipment and
to remain in compliance with all
applicable regulatory standards.
Today, mill production averages
more than 1600 tons per day,
..
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Canton and Waynesville products meet a multitude of today's paper needs; the mill payroll
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