North Carolina Newspapers

I p.00 \ YEAR IN ADVANCE 0U1 I Service Men I To Be Honored I Here Sunday A service honoring all the men from Jackson county now servi:iti in the armed forces of the I miicd States will be held SunI fiay afternoon at 3 o'clock at the I auditorium in Sylva. The public generally has a cordial jMv::ation to the service and the I f;i: !:t*rs and mothers, brothers I ;i:!Ci sisters, wives and sweetI liearN of the men will be the I of honor. h\ v Nane Starnes of Ashex\\\' will deliver the message.. Appearing also in the program be Rev. G. C. Teague, who u;:i pronounce the invocation; I)A>] Tompkins, representing the American Legion; Rev. Thad F. representing the Ministers' Conference, who will introduce t:;s- speaker; and Rev. Robert G. irrle. who will pronounce the benediction. Mrs. C?rover Wilkes will be in charge of the music. The program has been arr.-.n-red for the Legion by Rev. K s Hensley, who is the chapla,. i of the local Legion Post. Caleb Haynes Links State W itli Thialand An interesting sidelight to North Carolinians is the story uf Colonel Caleb V. Haynes, who is the commander of the bombuisr squadron in China. Colonel Haynes is a North Carolinian, and he is more. He is a very special link between this State and the Orient, from whence came his distinguished ancestor, Chang. One of P. T. Barnum's original Siamese Twins. From Siam came Chang, and Colonel Ilaynes. his grandson, has headed more than one bombing attack upon Siam, in the united effort to drive the Axis terror from the orient. Pahvas T. Barnum brought I Fan .i!id Chang to this country I Im'.'ii S..un. and exhibited them Ow 'iifl Cinmocn Turin o 99 TVlOV i< " ?.i\ OUliUtOt X v> Alio. x F uvre ,)Mf. ()f chief attractions, :ir.cl 11'?:n that time every pair 1' joined together, have been called "Siamese Twins." After making much money in their long career yl* the show business. Eng and Chang, who took the name "Bunker" from their business manager, married fvVu sisters. Misses Yates, of Wiike.s county and settled upon adjoining farms on opposite sides of Stuart's creek, in Surrey county. They would live at fne home for a week and then move over to the other for a wefk. Both couples had children, .'uid their descendants are num' runs in that part of North Carolina. One of the children oi flung and his wife was named I.izzie. When she grew to young vomanhood, she married Caleb II. Haynes, who still lives in Mount Airy, and is the father ol f'ol. Caleb Vance Haynes, the ' inniiander of the bombers in China. WKBSTER SCHOOL AIDS WAR EFFORT Jn a high school chapel program, September 17, Mrs. Katf ivhitiehart and her home room Seventh grade, sold $22.60 worth "I war stamps. At the close ol f^Kipel. the high school votec "iiunimously to operate a "Shan America" program which wil sponsor a stamp booth in th< - liool building' throughout th< school year. SAILOR VISITS HERE Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Pattersor had as their guests this week Mis. Bill Harrison of Commerce (ia . and her brother, Ellis Min Nish, who was here on an eigh c,:ty leave. Mr. Minnish is sta tioned at Norfolk, where he re ' ently finished his boat train in the Navy. Upon his re turn he will be sent to sea. ilje J rSIDE THE COUNTY * On The Tar Heel Front In Washington By ROBERT A. ERWIN And FRANCES McKUSICK Washington?Mrs. Sarah Alley Smithson, secretary to Representative Zebulon Weaver, of Asheville, has been" one of the busiest secretaries on Capitol Hill lately. In addition to her official duties, she had to arrange t.H COD H f TITr* r\ f V\ r\ r* r% V* 11 r* r\ v-* /-v^f wv ouwu vwu U1 I1C1 LllllUlCXl uil of college. Her son, Doak, a junior at Christ School, Arden, N. C. was first to go. Nellie, aged 18 left at 3 o'clock one morning for the University Women's College at Greensboro, where she is taking an extensive course in dietetics'. Mariana, who is 16, and a senior at Hyattsville High School in suburban Maryland, will go to the Women's College next year. "It is awfully lonesome without the children," mused Mrs. Smithson, "but I brought my niece, Bettiy Morrison of Asheville back with me, so she'll help fill in the gap." Miss Sarah is one of the most I active women we know. While i she was at home in Asheville ! this summer, she took care of ! much of Mr. Weaver's congressional mail, kept house for her three children and entertained a continual stream of company. ! * No one is very cheerful these I days on Capitol Hill. Times | change so quickly with each maijor military victory or loss that, ! as Representative Graham A. Barden, of New Bern so aptly ' expresses it, "you can't take a ! chance nowadays on even exj pressing an opinion about a bill until time to vote on it." By the time a Congressman's expected ! vote has been published in the newsDaners. something may have happened in Lybia or Stalingrad which will make him completely change his mind on the matter, | he said. However, most of the North Carolina delegation agree that it's not a question of being cheerful nowadays. It's a question of facing facts, and if said facts aren't good, to act?ACT. We can't expect business as usual, ! and anyone who thinks it will continue that way has some sorry bumps coming. , "We have no right to think I about happiness, nor to com| plain about loss of luxuries" Representative Carl T. Durham recommends. "We must realize things will be worse before they j are better, and accept gratefully 1; what we have now." Way back when, during the first New Deal, the United States was taken off the gold standard. Congressional leaders thought j no single commodity would evei - become such a subject of con troversy and take up so much - space in the newspapers as that glittering metal. Now during the ' first half of the year of our entrance into the War, the publicity surrounding certain stra tegic materials makes gold seem ' like a ham actor with an in 1 ferior press agent. J Perhaps the most worried man over the rubber situation in the Tar Heel'group is Representative 1 Carl T. Durham, of Chapel Hill a member of the Military Affairs Subcommittee which has beer investigating all sorts of strategic materials over a year anc a half. "Doc" Durham, as he was call" ed by half the population ol 5 Chapel Hill when he managed - a leading drug store there, ha.* 1 talked and warned and worriec f about rubber for months. Hav* ing an excellent background o: J laboratory knowledge underwrit* ten by his pharmaceutical acJ tivities, "Doc" predicted earl] - this year that it would be impossible to manufacture enougl synthetic rubber to fill civiliar and military demands becaus* there was an additional shortag< j of tempered steel which must b< used in the construction of synthetic rubber manufacturing plants, because of its chemica t action. After explaining just how thii - action takes place?a disciosuri - we could not follow too well, hav - ing had no chemistry in ou ?Continued on Page Two flcliSOJ SYLVA, NORTH Can Open N ' 'it^ $f3Kk^ lltt: t^nl IN the fight against U-Boats, the Royal Canadian and American i Navies are cooperating as a unit in North American Waters. i In Canadian munition factories i war/workers are speeding produc- < Leads Group 1 Discussion At r National Meet Miss Cordelia Camp, president t f At %T i.1. /-^ 1 1 nU A ? oi me iNonn uarunria unaptci j of Delta Kappa Gamma, led a group discussion on "Federal s Legislation for Education" at the 11 national convention in St. Louis t the last week in August. Attending the meeting with Miss Camp n were Miss Nelle Bond and Miss r Fannie Goodman. e Following a custom of long n standing for each state to pre- o sent the fraternity with a figurine of a pioneer woman in edu- j, cation, Miss Goodman, recording Q secretary for the State Chapter, j. presented for North Carolina a a figure of Miss Minnie Haliburton, g teacher and author of several j- i ?1_ _ ? ?i: 16X1/ DOOKS OH rtfitUULg. "The fraternity numbers j among its membership," says Miss Camp, "some of the finest ^ [ women engaged in education in ( the nation today. Contacts in a meeting of this kind," she says, . "are most inspirational." ! PICKLESIMER JOINS [ UNITED STATES NAVY < i Felix Picklesimer will leave r Sylva tomorrow (Friday) morn- f ing for Raleigh, to enlist in the ( i United States Navy. He has been f a clerk in the Sylva Post Office r for several years, and will be . assigned to the Naval postal g > service as a petty officer, sec- c i ond class. * I LETTER RECEIVED c FROM PVT. HIGDON \ { t The following much appreciated letter has been received II from Pvt. V. B. Higdon, who is c j now stationed at the Marine ' i Corps Aviation Service School at ( Jacksonville, Fla.: ' 1 "I wish to express my feeling 3 for the kindness you nave snuwa [ in sending me your fine paper. 1 I surely appreciate the paper, 1 and assure you that it is ac- 1 cepted with the same spirit with 1 which it is given." 1 5 i ! j EAST LAPORTE P. T. A. ! ; TO MEET ON FRIDAY 1 The Parent-Teachers Associa- < tion of East LaPorte will meet j s on next Friday afternoon, at 4 ; 2:30. Rev. Robert G. Tuttle, pas- ] - tor of the Sylva Methodist < r church, will be the principal 1 speaker on the program. < i Coi CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEP ers for Naz Km, ^jjjSj^ tlon to keep up the supply of deptl charges. Insert at right shows s worker in such a plant assemblinj screw tops for the charges. At left a depth charge officer directs th< crew as they hoist a lethal packag< BLACKOUT FOR ENTIRE STATE TUESDAY NIGffl There will be a blackout fc he entire State of North Caro ina next Tuesday night betwee even and twelve o'clock, accord ng to civilian defense authori ies. The alert will be sounded 1 ninutes before the blackout pe iod begins in order to giv verybody ample opportunity t nake preparation for the black >ut. Everybody in North Carolin s supposed to observe the black ?ut. All traffic except utilit ?uses and trains will be stoppec md no lights will be shown fror iny home or building. DONATION OF BOOKS HADE TO LIBRARY )F LOCAL COLLEGE Cullowhee, Sept. 23 (Special)One hundred and fourteen vol imes, concerning the history an Ti i rlrpi lterature 01 *>, Jreece, and Rome, were donate o the college library last sum ner by Reuben B. Robertsoi jresident of the Champion Fibr Company of Canton and the ma or whom Robertson Hall i lamed. Every one of these books is i jood condition. Mrs. Lilian Bi :hanan, head librarian, sai< 'This is the first donation to th ibrary which I consider wort ;ataloging." The entire collectio las been catalogued and will t ised as reference books on hi* ,ory and literature. They shoul )e especially valuable to studeni )f ancient history. Some of the most importar )nes are King and Hall's "Hii ;ory of Egypt," a magnificer [3-volume set; Budge's "Osir ind the Egyptian Resurrection; Sard's "Pyramids and Pro? ess;" Bell's "The Spell ( Servot:" Steindorff's "The R< igion of the Ancient Egyptians 3aikie's "The Story of the Ph? roahs;" Wey's "Rome;" Maha: fy's "Rambles in Greece;" Pater 'Marius the Epicurean;" Glac stone's "Time and Place of Hon ;r;" Hawes' "Crete, the Fon runner of Greece;" Abbott 'Greece in Revolution;" Bai rows' "The Isles and Shrines < Greece;" and Mahaffy's "Wh< Have the Greeks Done for Moc srn Civilization." ti | ' [? ib I TEMBER 24, 1942 ;i Tin Fish KiSH Official Canadian Government Photot i of T.N.T. into the depth charge l thrower for special delivery to a submarine raider lurking below. * When these depth charges, known as "ash cans," explode they throw i up a geyser of water a hundred 3 feet into the air. Miss McAdams Will A nnpfl r T T JL -M. M. X V/MJL Before SAMLA ?r ' ' Cullowhee, Sept. 23 (Special)? n "Roberto Brenes-Mesen, a Transplantic Mystic" is the title - of the paper Miss Laura Jean McAdams, head of the modern 5 language department of the col-. _ lege, will read before the South e Atlantic Modern Language Asso0 ciation at Columbia, South Caro_ lina, the latter part of November. a Miss McAdams made a special _ study of four Costa Rican mysy tics this summer under the dij rection of Dr. James O. Swain of n' the University of Tennessee. The invitation to read this paper at the Samla was offered at his recommendation. In December Miss McAdams will read a paper on Omar Dengo before a national Spanish meeting at Washington, D. C., if the meeting is not cancelled 'on ac_ count of transportation difficul_ ties. d Besides doing a special study /, of the Spanish writer this sumd mer Miss McAdams also did some i? pen and ink illustrations for a i, book by Dr. Grover Wilkes. She e was also elected associate editor n and art editor of "Scimitar and is Song," a poetry magazine published at Jonesboro, North Caron lina, by Mrs. Lura Thomas Mctoair. 1 i ? ATHLETIC FEES AT n W. C. T. C. TO BE USED ,e FOR SCHOLARSHIPS 3d ts Cullowhee, Sept. 23 (Special)? In a mass meeting of the stult dent body last year the students voted to use one-half of their ^ athletic fees for scholarships to students entering the Naval V-l .? program. The fees which amount to approximately fifteen hundred dollars make available thirty, fifty-dollar scholarships. Although some scholarships i- have been awarded, all recipients f- will not be notified until the fi's nal physical examinations have 1- been given in Asheville and i- Charlotte. 5- Matching this fund established 's by the students is a sum of $500 r- set up by the faculty and em3f ployees of the college to provide it fifty-dollar scholarships to out1 j standing members of the fresh| man class. ourna $1.50 A YEAR IN A1 James M. Wo Sheriff Foui Highway Ne* 328 Students Represent 8 States At W.C. Three hundred and twenty eight students have enrolled at Western Carolina Teachers College to date, Miss Addie Beam ' announced here Thursday?118 men and 210 women. By classes, the enrollment runs 105 freshmen; 75 sophomores; 74 juniors; and 74 seniors. Eight states besides North Carolina are represented in the student body?Kansas (6), South Carolina (4), Florida (1), Michigan (1), Tennessee (3), Georgia (1), Massachusetts (1), and Virginia (1). Of the thirty-eight North Carolina counties represented, Jackson heads the list with 60 students; Buncombe is second with 35; and Madison third, with 23. Other counties in order of students enrolled are Graham, 19; Haywood, 18; Macon, 17; Henderson, 15; Swain, 13; Gaston, 12; Yancey, 11; McDowell, 10; Cleveland, 9; Mitchell, 8. Cherokee, 6; Guilford, 6; Lincoln, 6; Anson, 5; Clay, 5; Rutherford, 5; Transylvania, 5; Duplin, 3; Wayne, 2; Forsyth, 2. Caldwell, 1; Carteret, 1; Craven, 1; Cumberland, 1; Davie, li Granville, 1; Hoke, 1; Iredell, 1; Jones, 1; Montgomery, 1. Polk, 1; Stanly, 1; Surry, 1; Union, 1; and Wake, 1. EMERGENCY LOANS ABBTNOW BEADY FOR FARMERS IN COUNTY Emergency crop loans for 1943 are now available to farmers in Jackson County, and applications for these loans are now being received at Clerk's office, Court House by R. F. Hemphill, field supervisor, of the Emergency Crop and Feed Loan Section of the Farm Credit Administration. This early opening of the loan program in Jackson County is part of a plan recently announced by the Farm Credit Administration, whereby emergency crop loans are being made available to assist farmers to comply?with the program advocated by the Extension Service, Agricultural Adjustment Administration and County War Boards, which urges the planting of fall cover crops, soil building and soil conserving crops to reduce the effects of the anticipated shortage of fertilizer for the 1943 crop year. These loans will be made as in the past to farmers whose cash requirements are relatively small and who are unable to ob tain from other sources including production credit associations loans in amounts sufficient to meet their needs. As in former years, the loans will be made to meet the applicant's necessary cash needs in preparing for and producing his 1943 crops. Mr. R. F. Hemphill pointed out that eligible farmers desiring to do so might apply now for loans to take care of their crop production needs for the entire 1943 season. Loans may include immediate advances to the borrower to meet his cash requirements this fall; such as the planting of cover crops, soil building or soil conserving crops. Mr. Hemphill also said that the balance of the approved amount of the loan will be disbursed! when the borrower needs it to finance his spring crops. Interest at the rate of 4 per cent will be charged only during the period the borrower actually has the use of the funds. Farmers who obtain loans for the production of cash crops are required to give as security a first lien on the crops financed. In India there are only thirtysix cities with a population of j more than 100,000. >VANCE IN JACKSON COUNT* rley Former id Dead On ir His Home Mr. James Worley, former sheriff of Jackson county, was found dead on the highway near his Qualla home, Tuesday afternoon. It is stated that his son, Oscar Worley, had accompanied his father from his home down to the highway a short time before a traveling salesman notified him that the body of an elderly man was lying on the highway. The death of the former sheriff was attributed to a heart attack. He suffered a severe heart ailment a few years ago, and his health had not been good since that time, although he had been able to leave his home and to engage in some activities. The 76-year old former sheriff was born in Buncombe county, and served as a deputy sheriff there before removing to Jackson, more than half a century ago. He served here as a deputy sheriff under the late Sheriff D. G. Bigham, who became his father-in-law. He was elected sheriff in 1908 and was reelected in 1910, being the first Republican sheriff that the county ever had. He was defeated for the office by the late Sheriff James W. Buchanan, in 1912; and was again a candidate, opposing the late Sheriff Charles C. Mason, in 1932. For many years he was a United States Deputy Marshal, and was one of the county's most prominfent citizens for fifty vears or more, and was well known throughout Western North Carolina. He moved from Webster, which was then the county seat, to Qualla, in 1912, and operated a large farm there whieh he and his father-in-law, Sheriff Bigham had purchased jointly. Funeral and interment were at Qualla, in the family cemetery. Mr. Worley is survived by four sons, David, Oscar, and Charles Worley, all of Qualla, and Ralph who is serving in the United States Army; by three daughters, Mrs. R. E. Owen, of Waynesville, Mrs. Fred C. Sutton, of Sylva, and Mrs. W. C. Martin, of Bryson; by two sisters, Mrs. Mantie Fanning, of Black Mountain, and Mrs. Lelia Randall, of Washington, D. C.; and by a number of grandchildren and other relatives. Baskerville High In -Praise Of Work Of Sylva People T Chief William Baskerville from the Navy Recruiting Station in Asheville spent Friday in Sylva talking to interested men and boys about the Navy. While here he personally thanked the Jackson County committee for the fine work done in recruiting for the USS Asheville replacement crew. "Mayor H. Gibson, J. C. Allison, Fred Hooper and Postmaster Charles N. Price did a fine job of navy recruiting," Chief Baskerville said. The Asheville navy station has a large supply of new navy books and will gladly mail copies to all interested persons. Write a card to Navy Recruiting Station, P. O. Building, Asheville, and the book will be mailed at once. Chief Baskerville urged all men and boys who will enter the service to investigate the navy programs. All persons classified in A-l by the Selective Service Board can volunteer for service in the Navy up to the last lew days Deiore induction, and do not need a release from the draft board. The Navy offers 48 trade schools, $50 starting pay, with clothing, food and lodging, free dental and medical care and rapid promotions. Postmaster Price and Fred Hooper have navy consent papers for boys under 21 years of age, and will gladly explain the navy program.