I. IN ADVANCE OUT
Baptists Of
Holding Asi
jleet At. Be
T1)l. Tmk.useigee Baptist As,
ntion is opening its one hun*
ind thirteenth annual sesdrfC
'.hiS morning, at Balsam
,il0n c'uiroh. with Rev. T. F.
Sr as moderator, and Rev. W.
11 TV Moving order of busily
> w;i> adopted by the comI
niirt?v
Tir.i' :ti iV ?uoming session:
id oi). l1! uiso and Worship.
j;) jo Knrollment of messen|?e:<
organizations; recogI
[,; !,in of victors and new PasIti
!??' port of Executive
I and application of
' jo -it). appointment of commitI
;tt' m jll.lt or.
10 ;,ii Report on Religious LitI
er;- ,i. K. Brown.
\\ i.). Music. r - .
I ;; :'ii. Introductory Sermon, G.
If Tia-:"'
I;1 iin. I aneh.
.4::-':,\.?on Session:
I i s.isii*. and Praise.
1 j-i Orphanage, D. G. Bryson.
! -?;? Hospital. G. C. Teague.
: in. Minister's Relief and ReB
S. Hensley.
: :C< Kvauiiolism, W. N. Cook.
3 mi. christian Education, P. L.
3 l\> B.iptist Training Union,
. I ijflla Brown.
Miscellaneous and Adj.jununen!.
N M-ssion to be arranged
by * ill* Association.
Fr.day. Morning Session:
y 30 Praise and Worship.
9 40. Reports on Credentials,
m lv m iMoper.
45. Reports on Missions;
I Stare Missions, B. S. Hensley;
I Missions. E. W. Jamison;
I F-ieinn Missions. Geo. Womack.
10 00. Discussion on Missions,
in 4>. Report on Temperance,
I'll if). Sermon. A. J. Herring.
11 43. Report of Nominating
I Committee and Election of OfI
1100. Lunch.
Arernoon Session :
115. Praise and Worship.
1 :10. S:ate of the Churches,
I L H Crawford.
1 4"). Sunday Schools, C. O.
2 10. W. M. U? Mrs. Margaret
I Su'tun
2:35. Memorials, W. T. Rogers
I ?> 00 Finance Committee, W. H.
3 15. Tune, Place, and PreachI
er
I 3-0 Committee on Resolu3:j0.
Miscellaneous Business.
Adjournment.
KM IVAL MEETINGS
in baptist churches
CLOSED last week
i'.e simultaneous revival serv
e' -n the Baptist churches of
county closed last week, the
in Sylva closing on Sunday
evening a large number of conyersions
in the various meetings
r-ave been reported. At the close
the evening service here Sun^y-i.seventeen
candidates were
CaPUzed by the pastor of the
cr'urch. Rev. G. C. Teague. Elev vere
baptized at Webster,
tnirty-t'ive at Lovedale and eight
' Cullowhee. At every church
Additional numbers are to be
"aPtized.
Hcv. w E. Pettit, who cont'd
the meetings in the Sylva
U?urch. left for his home in Old
Monday.
Webster School To Have
Home Economics Class
Webster school will havt
4 Vf)catioiial home economics dePartnifnt
tmv ia eoVinnl VP3.1
|.f .v/i tilt J
0 The teacher, Miss Man
'tomon.s i* back again in Webler
and will visit all her stuej^s
before school opens. Sh<
s that each girl talk with he]
^?ther and have one or mor*
*0rne Pr^jects in mind.
J1)C Jl
SIDE THE COUNTY
County Are
sociational
ilsam Grove
Webster Child
Dies Sunday
In Savannah
Betty Sue Sorrels, three year j
i old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John Sorrels, of the Little Sa;
vannah community of Webster
township, was drowned in Big
Savannah Creek, about four
o'clock Sunday afternoon. It is
i stated that members of the Sorrels
and others had been to a
baptismal service on Savannah
earlier in the afternoon and were
returning to their home. Some
older children were swimming in
the creek below where the child
was drowned, and the little girl
broke loose from her companions
and ran to the creek, stating I
i that she was going swimming. |
She is said to have jumped into j
i the creek at a point where the |
water is some five feet deep, and
was drowned before she could |
be rescued. The body was re- j
j covered about an hour later, and j
all attempts to resuscitate were S
| futile.
A coronor's jury returned a
! verdict that the death of the
1 little girl was from accidental j
drowning.
George Smith j
Passes Away |
In Hospital
. I
George M. Smith died Sunday !
morning in a hospital in John- j
son City, after a four weeks ill- i
! ness. I
Mr. Smith was well known in ;
Western North Carolina, where
he was a traveling salesman for
i rrjany years. He was a World War
I veteran, who saw service over- j
I seas, and was a Legionnaire. He |
| is survived by his widow, Mrs. \
! Vera Self Smith, two brothers,
and one sister. His widow is the j
daughter of the jate Dr. and
j Mrs. Wm, Self, of Webster, and
I she was born and reared there.
SOCIAL SECURITY MAN
WILL BE AT CITY HALL
HERE ON TUESDAY
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A representative of the Ashe- |
ville field office of the Social
Security Board will be at the
Clerk's office, City Hall in Sylva, j
on Tuesday August 18, at 10:30
a m
Wage earners who have work- '
ed in a job covered by the Social j
Security Act since December 31, |
11936, and have attained the age j
j of 65? may be eligible to file
| claim for themselves, their wives,
j or minor children, whether they
; have an account number or not.
| Surviving relatives of deceased j
j workers, such as widows, child- i
i ren, or arents, or if none of the j
above, persons who have paid
funeral expenses, may be eligible
i j to file claim. I
t In addition, persons who have
need of social security account
, numbers or other information
; | pertaining to the Act are invited
: to meet this representative at1
11 the time and place mentioned. !
TO CLEAN CEMETERY
- I
^ The cemetery at the Lovedale
Baptist church will be cleaned
off and beautified on Friday,
August 22, and Saturday, August
23. All persons interested are
invited to be on hand.
CULLOWHEE CEMETERY
F
r The Cullowhee cemetery will
- be cleaned off and beautified on
- next Monday, August 17. All per3
sons having relatives buried
r there are requested to be present
j with suitable tools with which to
work.
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On The Tar Heel Front
In Washington
By ROBERT A. ERWIN
And FRANCES McKUSICK
Wo oViinnrf ay> 4c? o nroM ?
TT aoillllguuil XlltlU iO GL gV/il
eral tendency in Washington
these days to look for more big
things to happen after the election.
Likewise there has been
quite a bit of complaint from the
general public on the ground
that things that should be done
now are being delayed until the
votes are counted in the Fall.
One of these coming events,
whether or not it was really
timed to coincide with the election,
will be the distribution of
allotment checks to the dependents
of soldiers under the new
allotment act.
To be perfectly fair to the
Army and to Government financial
agencies, the establishment
Qf a system for payment of these
allotments to the relatives of 2,500,000
soldiers is a tremendous
job that cannot be done in a day.
The Army contends it justifiably
will require several months, and
that the election has nothing to
do with the date for the first
payments.
Some forecasters predict a
stepping up in selective service
calls for army service, with the
drafting of more married men to
meet, higher quotas. The Administration
also is expected to ask
Congress for authorization to
draft young men of 18 and 19
years.
On the financial side, it is anticipated
that the Treasury Department
may ask Congress to
pass a general sales tax, a withholding
levy or compulsory savings
measure to bring in more
revenue for the war effort.
As for the war, it remains to
be seen whether there will be a
second front in continental Eu
rope tnis year, rne urmea nations
are pledged to open' one.
However, they already are maintaining
a most important second
front in North Africa, the loss
of which would open .the Near
East and its oil to the Germans
and assure defeat of the Russians
in the vital Caucasus.
If a second front comes, you
may rest assured it will be without
warning, timed to surprise
the Germans as much as possible..
United Nations strategists
are determined that any new
fronts shall be well prepared, to
assure victory and to avert an
unnecessary disaster that might
help pave the road to defeat or
prolong the war.
As for North Carolina, the
State already has more military
establishments of all branches
of the armed services?the army:
navy, marine corps and coast
guard?than virtually any other
state in the country, or at least
on the Eastern Seaboard.
This isn't all. North Carolina
is due to get more of these establishments.
They are definite'
? ' 1 ? \T7r\ nori't foil Vfkll
ly in nie wuin-a. ??c ^an v ?w.? j ~~
about them until they break
and then only for local consumption
in the affected localities.
"North Carolina has an idea!
climate and is strategically situated
in the Eastern Unitec
States" said an Army officer whc
was discussing the State's greal
role in national defense. "Youi
weather is seldom too cold ir
the winter and you have a fine
seashore area, your land is good
in fact you have everything t(
offer."
Yes, there is plenty in th<
works for North Carolina. Th<
new projects affect chiefly thi
Eastern and Piedmont section:
of the state.
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The Army always has had f
warm spot in its heart for Norti
; Carolina, and this warm spo
I grew warmer when field maneu
! vers were held in the State las
; summer. Soldiers who slept an<
' cimill Q fori hnt.t.ip nver the Sand
| OiillUAU.UUV4 MM>vv?w w
hills and the Piedmont fount
' themselves received with th<
best of Tar Heel hospitality, an<
as a result, thousands of then
j later returned to pay visits t
j their former hosts.
Things may be quiet on Capi
tol Hill these days, but fcha
doesn't stop the parade of visit
ing European soverigns, now i]
exile while the United Nation
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? oo 1ROLINA, THURSDAY, AUG1
OFFICIAL UNI
WAR B(
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug.
Secretary of the Treasury, tod*
Bond Quotas for the 3,070 coi
$815,000,000. j
The August .quota for the S
750,000. '
In arriving at the county qu
Department took into consider
incomes which in turn cause i
during the twelve-month perio
Hereafter actual Bond sale*
compared with quotas on a cu
by which sales fall short of or
will be added to or subtracted f
Quotas by counties are:
Alamance, $146,900; Alexander,
$11,800; Alleghany, $4,300; Anson,
$102,600; Ashe, { $25,400; Avery,
$9,700. f'
Beaufort, $59,300; Bertie, $48,400;
Bladen, $22,200; Brunswick, $9,800;
Buncombe, $304,800; Burke, $65,000.
Pnharpn# $ 15ft Oft fl- Paldwpll. $73.
200; Camden, $8,800; Carteret, $61,600;
Caswell, $11,400; Catawba,
$192,700; Chatham, $34,600; Cherokee,
$41,100; Chowan, $15,700; Clay,
$1,900; Cleveland, $129,200; Columbus,
$50,400; Craven, $105,200; Cumberland,
$186,000; Currituck, $6,200.
Dare, $13,300; Davidson, $124,500;
Davie, $25,700; Duplin, $38,500; Durham,
$224,200.
Edgecombe, $318,400.
Forsyth, $664,300; Franklin, $27,100.
Gaston, $309,800; Gates. $24,300;
Graham, $3,700; Granville. $71,700;
Greene, $13,900; Guilford, $670,400.
Ifalifa-x, $104,500; Harnett, $69,300;
Haywood, $57,400; Henderson, $79,600;
Hartford, $40,400; Hoke, $19,500;
Hyde, $5,600.
Iredell, $95,200.
Jackson, $17,700; Johnston, $64,100;
Jones. $5,100.
Teachers To Meet
I
!
At School Here
On August 22nd
The teachers of* Jackson coun- 1
ty will hold the first general
teachers meeting of the year,
next Saturday morning, August
22, at 10 o'clock in the auditor- '
ium of the elementary school, I
according to announcements
sent out from the office of Su- j
perintendent A. C. Moses.
Plans for the coming year's
, work will be made, and general
discussions of the school prob- j
; lems will be held.
-1 Every teacher in the county is ;
, expected to attend the meeting, I
;! and every principal will also be
; I here. A meeting for principals
. is planned at the same time.
LOCAL MEN ENLIST IN
UNITED STATES NAVY
' i
i a ovtatrillo fStnpp.ia.1) ? Enlist
t | noiivt > >?,
ments in the United States Navy
;! for the state of North Carolina
, during the month of July were
l | greater than ever in history, it
was announced today. I
Chief Baskerville stated that!
i the following men were among j
, those accepted by the Asheville
office last month: George Reaves
Prescott, husband of Martha
1 Clement Prescott, of Sylva; Wil- I
- liam Murphy Harris, son of Call
lie Collins Harris, of Cullowhee;
) Willard Ensley Freeman, of Sylt
va.
Chief Baskerville will again be
I j in Sylva on August 17, at the Post
*! Office. Any young men who wish
? to join the many fine boys from
} I this county who are now serving
in the Navy, are urged to talk
5 j to Chief Baskerville.
' j ?
5 REUNION POSTPONED
3 |
j The members of the Macon
I county Bryson family which
II hold their annual reunion every
? i August, have postponed the rej
union for the duration of the
" | war.
i ' ?t?
- Woman's Society To Meet
1 I
e The Woman's Society of Chris- !
i tian Service will meet in the
i Charles L. Allison Educational
0 Building, next Wednesday at 8
o'clock.
A free will offering will be
- taken at the meeting for supt
plies for the Allen Home, in
- Asheville.
n
s Keep 'em Flying. Buy War
1 | Bonds and Stamps.
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nto J
UST 13, 1942
TED STATES TREASURY
TH CAROLINA
)ND QUOTAS
ft AUGUST
10.?Henry Morgenthau, Jr.,
ly announced the August War
mties in the nation totalling
tate of North Carolina is $9,iotas
for August the Treasury
ation major factors affecting
significant variations in sales
d. ;
s in the various states will be
mulative basis. The amount
exceed quotas in any month
rom quotas for future months.
Lee, $85,600; Lenoir, $120,300; Lincoln,
$85,600.
McDowell, $62,500; Macon, $21,.
700; Madison, $12,800; Martin, $57,900;
Mecklenburg, $945,300; Mitchell,
$9,700; Montgomery, $37,300;
Moore, $60,600.
Nash, $29,100; New Hanover. $364,700;
Northampton, $44,400.
Onslow, $18,600; Orange, $116,600.
Pamlico, $5,800; Pasquotank, $98,300;
Pender, $20,000; Perquimans,
$22,800; Person, $37,200; Pitt, $173,300;
Polk, $18,400.
Randolph, $84,000; Richmond,
$92,000; Robeson, $132,700; Rockingham,
$129,100; Rowan, $195,900; I
Rutherford, $71,100.
Sampson, $136,600; Scotland, $52,900;
Stanly, $102,800; Stokes, $9,800;
Surry, $78,700; Swain, $11,700.
Transylvania, $19,200; -Tyrrell,
$4,200.
Union, $98,800.
Vance, $52,200.
Wake, $559,100; Warren, $28,400; |
Washington, $16,500; Watauga, $21,400;
Wayne, $163,000; Wilkes, $50,. j
600; Wilson, $192,100.
Yadkin, $13,600; Yancey, $11,800.
U. S. Treasury Department
j| QUALLA \\
* _*
(By Mrs. J. K. Terrell)
The body of Mrs. York Howell,
who died at Whittier Friday,
August 7, was taken to Haywood
and interred in the cemetery
near Waynesville, on Sunday afternoon.
Rev. J. L. Hyatt assisted
in the service. Many relatives
and friends from this section attended
the funeral Mrs. Howell
has many friends at Qualla. The
Howell family lived here for
many years. Her three daughters
who still live here are Mrs. H.
G. Ferguson, Mrs. Frank Owen
and Mrs Oscar Gibson.
Revival services at the Baptist
church closed Thursday
evening. There were about twenty
conversions. There is to be
a baptizing on the fourth Sunday
in August.
The Bible school, conducted by
Rev. W. E. Andrews, assisted by
Mrs. J. L. Hyatt, closed Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Summerall,
of Indiana, are stopping with
Mr. and Mrs. Garland Oxner, for
a few weeks. He is a veteran of
World War I. He was seriously
wounded in battle.
Mrs. Martha Rhinehart and
children are visiting relatives at
Canton.
Mr. Harry Martin is spending
several weeks at Echo Hills,
Trenton, N. J., where he has
charge of a boys' camp.
Miss Ollie Hall, of Erlanger
Hospital, Chattanooga, Tennessee,
is visiting among relatives.
Mr. John Herschel Ferguson
returned to Fort Jackson, after
a few days' visit with home
folks.
Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Shuler called
at Mr. Jesse Blanton's Saturday.
j
Miss Gertrude Ferguson, who
is teaching at Almond, spent
the week end at home.
SYLVA YOUNGSTERS
TO STAGE CARNIVAL
A number of the young girls
and boys of Sylva, aided by Mrs.
John Wilson Smith, are perfecting
plans for a carnival, to be
Hoirt nn the used car lot of Al
lison Motor Company, on Main
Street, Saturday evening. Admission
to the grounds is free
and the proceeds from the attractions
of the carnival will go
to the USO. The young people
having the affair in charge are:
Margaret Ann Ryan, Virginia
Madison, Thelma Poteet, Dorothy
Hennessee, Jeanne and
Joanne Barrett, Francis Buchanan,
Walter Allison Jones, Jimmj
! Bales and Jack Hennessee.
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OWOtft
$1.50 A YEAR IN AT
Blackout H<
Successful
First Attem
County Tire
Quotas Cut
For Month
The acuteness of the rubber
situation has again forced a reduction
of the tire quotas for the
use of civilians in the United
States. The tires that are available
will be restricted to essential
use in connection with the
war effort.
The Jackson county rationing,
board now has on hand approved
applications for the following:
169 new truck tires, 242 recaps
for truck tires, 17 new passenger
tires, and 6D passenger tire
recaps. It is estimated that
some 40 trucks are now idle in
the county because there are no
tires with which to outfit them
and put them into service.
In view of the situation, the
Sylva Paperboard Company and
Champion Fibre Company officials,
and the Jackson County
Rationing Board have been in
correspondence with the rationing
officials, and are trying to
work out a plan whereby the
j trucks hauling wood can be put
! into this essential work.
I
The marketing season for cabbage
and beans, and other pro- |
duce from the vegetable section
of the county has about arrived,
! and the rationing board and ;
county agent's office are perturbed
about the marketing situation.
However, it is believed
that this will be taken care of
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tnrougn inicw cowing mc
produce and through pooling of
trucks in the local communities.
On August 6, the office of the
rationing board in Washington
was broken into, and 1450 gasoline
rationing books were stolen,
the local board has been notified.
The books stolen are: Class B.
Nos. 302501 to 30300. Class 8-1,1
Nos. 691750 to 69200 and 97051
to 9800. Class S-2, Nos. 428401
to 428600.
Schools Will
Open For Fall
August 27th
The schools of Jackson county,
except those that have been in
operation for several weeks, will
open for the fall term on Thursday,
August 27.
The schools to which students
are not transported by bus are
already in operation^ but the
larger schools will open on August
27. For some time the problem
of bus repairs and tires held
the opening date in suspense,
but it was tentatively set a few
weeks ago. It now appears that
the difficulties have been overcome
and that the schools will
definitely open on the date set.
I Thousands of children will
troop back to school, and the
teachers will be at their desks.
There will be a number of new
faces in the school rooms of the
county this year, as many of the
! teachers are either in the armed
' forces, or are away from home
I engaged in war activities and
| industries. .
I
; JACKSON DELEGATES
;1 ATTEND P. T. A. MEET
| Mrs. R. U. Sutton, director of
r district number 1, and Mrs. Er!
nest Lewis, of the Webster Par,1
ent Teacher Association, have
Ireturned from Greensboro,
j; where they attended the Parent
.! Teacher Institute. Mrs. Lewis
, represented the Webster organii
zation and the County Council.
Mrs. Lawrence Cordell and her
, I mother, Mrs. Martin, of Qualla,
. were also in the party, but due
I; to circumstances they had bo
. turn back.
r
Thrnw Yotir Scran into the Fight
(VANCE IN JACKSON COUNT! jj
?re Pro ves 1
Trial For i
pt Of War
! J
All Western North Carolina
I
had its first test blackout on
Monday night, and the experiment
was pronounced a great
success, as citizens, Civilian Defense
Officials, police, sheriffs,
county and municipal officials,
State Highway Patrol, and other
aaonpipc nnnrdinated in making;
? w
the test. The Army was supposed
to cooperate, but the signal
from Charleston that had
been carefully prearranged,
never came through, and Civilian
Defense Officials, gave the
signal from Asheville.
Dan Tompkinsr chairman of
civilian defense in this county,
congratulated the Chief Air Raid
Warden, and the other officials
upon the efficiency of the blackout.
He observed the effects from
the court house. Within less than
two minutes after the whistle
at the paper mill and the fire
siren on the town hall had be- '
gun the alarm, not a light was
visible in the city. Air raid wardens
cruised the city and found
but two violations. One apartment
on Courtland Heights,had
the lights blazing and the windows
open; but the warden called
the attention of the occupants
to the fact that there was ablackout
in progress, and the
lights were extinguished. The
family occupying the apartment
didn't know that there was to be
a trial blackout, and therefore
failed to observe the order when
the signal came. In a small
building near the city hall one
light had been left burning and
the building was locked; and it
was impossible to get> inside to
extinguish it.
A few flares from, the lighted
cigarettes, a few matches struck,
and the flash of one "flashlight
were all that was visible from
I
4-U a rtAiirf VlAllCO Tf i Q hp.
I 11 Ulli UIIC V/UUl u nuuovy. u ikj MV
lieved that some people were unaware
of the fact that cigarettes,
and cigars are not to be
smoked in the open during a
blackout, and that they did not
realize the great distance from
which the glow of a match or a
cigarette can be seen in the
darkness. But, the test, for efficiency,
quickness of action, and
coordination of efforts of the
citizens and the officials, was almost
100 per cent perfect in Sylva.
The hospital was permitted to
keep its lights burning, since
there is no means of darkening
the windows. It was theoretically
blacked out.
Reports from Dillsboro, Cullowhee,
East LaPorte, Webster and
other communities in the county
showed the same efficiency
with which the blackout was effected.
Auxiliary police were on
hand, the highways were patrolled,
and all cars stopped and
their-lights put out.
O. E. Brookhyser is the chief
air raid warden of the county.
The police work in the city was
under the direction of Chief of
Police Griffin Mjddleton, and
that in the county under command
of Sheriff Leonard Holden.
The fire department with its
recently trained auxiliary firemen
reported with the utmost
promptness ot the fire station,
ready for action.
When the all clear signal was
sounded, about thirty minutes
after the alarm, the lights came
back on as speedily as they went
off, and the citizens took up
their business where it had been
suspended a short time before.
Mayor Gibson was high in his
praise of the cooperation of the
people and the Civilian Defense
Units.
INTERESTED
I Clay County farmers are showing
a .great deal of interest in
a 2ood dairy nrogram for the
i county, reports G. O. Farthing,
I farm agent of the N. C. State
'College Extension Service.
To make one pound of aluminum
requires as much electricity
I as is used in the average Ameri
lean home over a period of three
or four days.