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SYLVA, N. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1943 $1.50 A Year In Jackson and Swain Counties ? 5c Copy
SALES REACH $50,000 HERE
T. Walter Ashe Heads
Labor Mobilization
Board For County
All Abie-Bodied Men Be
tween 18 and 55 Must Get
Jobs and Stick To Them.
T. Walter Ashe was appointed
Monday by Governor Broughton, as
chairman of the Jackson County
Labor Mobilization Board. This
new organization will begin to func
tion within the next few days, it
was announced.
Mr. Ashe is chairman of the
hnard f>f f mintv PAmmigainnnn nnH
announced other members of the
. board as follows: G. R. Lackey, H.
Green, Dan Tompkins, G. C. Hen
son, Paul "Ellis and D. G. Bryson.
The board will meet this week
and name a chairman for each
community in the county.
The new organization will be
charged with the responsibility of
seeing that every physically able
? man between-^8~and--&& 4s at work.
Those who are not working will
be reported to the county board,
and a rigid investigation made of
the case. After the ^investigation,
the person is determined able to
work, will be offered work by the
Employment Service. Failure to
accept such work, or enter other
work, will result in a warrant be
ing issued.
"The law now has teeth in it,
and every able-bodied man between
18 and 55 might as well make up
his mind to get a job and stick to
it," one member of the board ex
plained.
Tfye list of community chairman
and committees will be announced
in the near future by Mr. Ashe.
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Schedules For^
Demonstration
Clubs Announced
Monday, September 20, Sylva
Home Demonstration Club . with
Mrs. A. J. Dills, 3 p. m.
Tuesday, September 21, Qualla
club at 3 p. m.
Cashiers Nutrition class ? p. m.
Friday September 24, Agents
training school, Franklin.
Cope~~Creek community meeting
at the home of Mrs. Joe Popelwell,
6 p. m.
Monday, September 26, Victory
Home Demonstration club, 3 p. m.
with Mrs. Grady Smith.
1 Tuesday September 27, Cashiers
Nutrition class, 7 p. m.
Friday October 1, Cashiers Hom<gf
Demonstration Club with Mrs. Sam
Power.
Saturday, October 2, County
Council of Home Demonstration
' Clubs, 10:30 a. m.
Raymond Glenn
Will Operate
StovalPs Cafe
Raymond Glenn, well known
Sylva business man, became man
ager-operator of Stovall's Cafe
Monday morning.
Mr. Glenn has leased the business
from Mr. and Mrs. Phil Stovall.
Mr. Stovall will devote his time
to sawmill interests in Georgia for
the present, it was said.
, The new manager stated that lio
changes would be made in policies,
and that the best foods and service :
would continue to be featured. The
business will open about six every
morning and close about eleven at
night.
Henry L. Harris
Given Honorable
Army Discharge
Pvt. Henry L. Harris, son of Mr.
and Mrs. C. O. Harris, of Sylva,
who was in the U. S. Army at Camp
Roberts, Calif., has been given an
honorable discharge. He is now
at hisfhome in Sylva.
He enlisted in the Army June 29,
1940 and was given his discharge
last week.
He is now employed by the Meade
Corp. He says if he can't fight he
wants to do something that will
mean just as much toward winning
the war. He also said he "would
like to be back in the army fight
ing to smash Hitlerism."
Big business has always been able
to frighten littb business into "co
operation."
Enrollment At
4Mtowhee Still
Growing; At 225
Dr. H. T. Hunter announced yes
terday that the fall enrollment at
Western Carolina Teachers College
was 225, with additional students
; enrolling all along.
Dr. Hunter felt that the total
Twould reach 250 before the end of
I the month. At commencement last
spring the enrollment was 240, and
college officials believe the number
of students will at least reach that
figure.
Rev. L, Ludlum
To Speak Here
Friday Evening
The Rev. Lewis Ludlum, who has
been doing Mission work in the
Wilmington and other defense areas
for the Baptist State Convention,
will speak at the 'Sylva Baptist
church Friday evening at 8:30. All
members and friends of the church
are urged to a$lend.
On Thursday evening at 8:00
o'clock all circles of the W. M. S.
and the Y. W. A. will meet at the
church for a special program on
State Missions, this week being the
week of prayer for State Missions.
Rev. Ludlum will also speak at
the quarterly meeting of the asso
ciational W. M. U. at Lovedale
, churclk Saturday raoxning at 11:3&
90th Birthday
Observed By C. J.
Harris On 11th
Many friends of C. J. Harris,
pioneer business man of Jackson
j county and founder of many of its
leading business institutions, will
be interested in the fact that he
celebrated his nintieth birthday on
Saturday, September 11. Mr. Har
ris makes his home with his son,
Robert W. Harris, and Mrs. Harris
in Biltmore Forest, Asheville. He
has been^confined to bed for the
past several years and is in very
I frail health.
Fewer Judgments
Taken For Taxes
Less than 300 Judgments w = re
'taken by Jackson county against
property for unpaid 1940 taxes, it
I was learned yesterday.
This is about half of the usual
j number, and is the smallest number
I of judgments taken for any tax
jyear in 12 years, according to T.
| Walter Ashe, chairman of the
board.
The delinquent tax list for 1942
property taxes was off one third
over previous years, it was explain
ed.
Pvt. Jessie L. Shelton
Has Been Overseas 17
Months; Given Promotion
?*
4 Pvt.. Jessie L.. Shelton has been
promoted to private first class at a
South Pacific "Army base, where he
is with a field artillery unit.
His mother is Mrs. Mellie Shel
ton, of Cullowhee. .
Pvt. Shelton has been overseas
| for 17 months.
The Nazis will be "retreating
according to plan" when the war
ends.
$6,125 Pledged For
New Baptist Church
Efforts Being Made To
Raise $10,000 For New
Building; $2,170 Was Cash.
A total of $6,125 was pledged
in the first week of the Building
Fund Drive at the Sylva Baptist
church.
The first week of the drive ended .
Honor Roll Shield Will Be Unveiled On 23rd
par rait
ft? Be Unveifed..
SFCftKE*
Hon. R. Gregg Cherr/
Building Program Is
Announced By Church
| Rev. B. S. Hensley, pastor of
I Scott's Creek Baptist church, one
I of the largest charges in Jackson
county, has just announced plans
tfor building a brick veneer educa
tional building as an adjunct to the
church structure.
Ground will be broken, said the
minister, within the next few weeks
for this supplement to the already
impressive plant, situated about
two miles from Sylva, just off the
Waynesville highway.
The church officials were fortu
i in securing, before priority
restrictions, enough material to
(proceed with what is intended as
only a beginning for betterment
? of -fefee entire physical unit.
After a pastorate of slightly over
j two years, Mr. Hensley describes
progress at Scott's Creek as indi
cative of a live membership which
advances even amid war-time han
jdicaps. ' j
Selective service has taken 75 to
80 members, to say nothing of de- ;
fense workers, Mr. Hensley point- |
ed out, addwig that today his charge
has the only standard Sunday
school of all the 44 Baptist church- j
es in the county.
i' In alluding to future programs i
the minister stressed the remarka- j
ble activity of this department, 1
stating that the spiritual effective
ness of any church is readily ap
praised by the quality of its Sun- ,
day school. ,
He cited the fact that with ap
proximately 450 communicants,
there are 275 Sunday school at
tendants, an increase within the
Sunday. The month of September |
is being devoted to securing cash I
and pledges. It is hoped that $10,- |
000 can be raised within twelve i
months to start the fund for a new
church.
Of the $6,125 pledged last week,
$2,170 was paid in cash, and the
remainder is to be paid within
twJve months.
past two years of about 165. The
adult classes give special satisfac
tion, as they show an impressive
percentage of young^nrm??ied_cou
I pies whose enthusiasm he describe
!es as most inspiring.
I Quite recently the church began
operation with Mr. Hensley as full
time pastor ? this a direct out
growth of increase both numerical
and spiritual, he explained. There
are now weekly Sunday School
teachers' meetings, while the Bap
tist Training Union, at present
numbering 90, a department ori
ginally designed for young folk
but later opened to ail ages, is in
particularly flourishing condition.
The Sunday school is in charge
of Jennings A. Bryson, superinten
dent, with Clyde Fiske as assistant.
The church pianist is Mrs. Hoyt
Parris, while Roy Dalton is B. T. U.
director. Mrs. Margie Reed and
Mrs. Joe Sutton are heads respec
tively of the two missionary cir
cles. Mrs. W. C. Cox being coun
selor of Young Women's Auxiliary.
The choir is tinder direction of
Eugehe Fisher.
Head of Girls' ^Auxiliary is Mrs.
Joe Sutton, Mres. Garland Dillard
being leader of the Sunbeajns.
Chairman of the board of deacons,!
is D. G. Bryson and Everett Har
ris is church treasurer; Mrs. George
Snyder, church clerk.
Meeting hours are: Sunday
school, 10:30 a. m.; church, 11:30.
Evening services are at 7:15 for
the B. T. U.; church at 8:15.
The church building, sitauted on
spacious grounds with a beautiful
well tended lawn, where out-door
events are held, is 70 years old,
the minister said.
However, the congregational or
ganization at Scott's Creek boasts
an age of 110, Mr. Hensley said,
with a history and traditions im
pelling the interest of Jackson
county and beyond.
Jarretts Injured In
Automobile Accident
Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Jarrett of
Dillsboro, fcave received word that
their son and daughter-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. Robert P. Jarrett of At
lanta, Ga., have been seriously in
jured in an automobile , accident
there. Both are patients at Grady
hospital in Atlanta.
Everything In
Readiness For
Unveiling 23rd
Last minute details were being
completed this week for the formal
unveiling of the Honor Roll Shield
here Thursday, September 2ttrd.
John F. Corbin, commander of
the American Legion, the organi
sation ? sfioiisoring the Shield and
unveiling, announcrd-yealerday that
everything was in readiness ?
the event, which is expected to
bring several thousand people to
Sylva.
The program will start at two
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Floridian Back After
44 Y ears T (ri\4&keJThis
His Permanent " Home
|? W. S. Maxwell came to Sylva 44
years ago, just after the Spanish
American War. As a result of
that visit he is back here today
looking for a home. John R. Jones,
| local real estate man, and alert
chamber of commerce secretary,
last Wednesday escorted Mr. Max
well into the Herald office with the
welcome announcement that Mr.
Maxwell will probably become a
resident for at least the major part
of each year, as a place has been
found, which seems to fill the bill
admirably.
Mr. Maxwell, who in is own
words, "fell in love with Sylva,"
before the town of the present cen
tury, expects to take up official
residence here, though his Florida
interests will continue to demand
his attention for a number of
months each year.
"Yes, I fell in love with Sylva," I
said Mr. Maxwell, "its been a long
time ago, we had just ended the
Spanish war. Think of the changes
in the world since then, but one I
thing has never changed ? my recoN j
lection of this lovely mountain town
w'ith people so hospitable, courte
ous and helpful, th^y^have been
remembered all these years."
Mr. Maxwell has been in Western
North Carolina many times since
his first visit; has been near Sylva; j
has passed through, but circum- 1
stances prevented him from stop
ping until September, 1943. I
Fifty - Five
Jackson
Men Enter
Service
Fifty-five men were" accepted
from Jackson county during the
month of Soptemlvr for service i n
the aimed forces.* In the group
were eight volunteers.
i
Th?<o volunteering for service
in the army wcie: Joseph Frede
rick Wilson, Charles Ro^cr Nix,
1 ) ;iv ? < 1 - F rank Buchanan ; in th<?
| ?> ?? vv . ( ha rle< IT Parker, F ra nTT
j Henry NVvius, Frederick Sam A!|i
? ?' i ' ' < I Clyde C'ftarles Vance; vn
the uijines. George Nelson Craw
1 ford.
I
< M ' c? s were as follows, in the
anny: John Baxter Ensley, James
i Robert Moore, Delos Dills, Leroy
, Jenkins, Silas Wayne Caldwell,
William George Wchh, (Jay Wac
hob, John Richard Crisp, Horace
Ray McMahan, John Wilson Nor
! ton, Denver 'Palmare Bryson, Har
lold Eugene Dillai'd.
i Charlie Robert Bumgarner, War
ren Steven Rice, Claude Henson,
Vaughn Messer, Jackson. Lee Cor
dell, Roy R. Adams, Claude Rog
ers, Solomon Queen, Tom Hast
ings Kelly, Everett G. Lombard,
Spurgeon General Queen
Thad J. Watson,. Cecil Shuford
J*axt^in;, John Walter Shelton,
| GeoTge Morrison Green, Luther
! Vaughn Broom, Clifford Dee Moses,
i and Alvrn Roger ? Hoyhn
Entering the navy were: Wood
| ford B^L Melt on, Ernest Ralph
! Jones, Avery Alonso Bradley, Carl
1 Basson Seabock, James Eldon
f Jones, William Kay Kenney, Al
. hert Frank Carden, Lloyd Wilkes
; owan, and William Howard Buch
* anan.
Roy Lom Norton, William Ed
vf n Bryson, J. H. All man, John
v<>\, Enloe Hudson Deitz, David
Lee Cabe, Charles Wells Bird, and
loward Clifton Fisher.
Surprise Blackout
Was Successful
The surprise blackout staged
here Thursday night about 9:!J0 was
termed v< ry successful throughout
the area, by civilian defense lead
rs.
The state officials has forwarned
of the probable change in routine
*stgr*Alii__from previous test black
louts, and The~^signals were some
i.what. confusing to ~s()rfre-~4iuUvM
1 uals, but the complc tc**blackouT
regulations were followed in a most
satisfactory manner.
He declares that he finds the
same Sylva spirit the same delight- 1
j ful hospitality, the same desire to
be helpful.
Mr. Maxwell, whose hobby is
gardening, plans to give that a
major part of his time here. With
a twinkle in his eye he said that
his neighbors in Florida could sel
dom beat him in vegetable growing.
That friendy competition would be
a welcome in the mountain home.
Members of his family share Mr.
Maxwell's fondness for Western
North Carolina, and all look for
ward to become residents of Sylva.
Mrs. Maxwell is in Hendersonville
at the present. He spoke with
pride of two sons in the service,
Private Russell Paul Maxwell, in
Alaska, and Pvt. W ? S. Maxwell,
Jr., now assigned to a training
camp in Mo. There are two dau
ghters, Mrs. Lorraine M. Haughy
of Washington, and Miss Dorothy
Maxwell of Miami.
"We look forward," concluded Mr.
Maxwell, "to like in your town
which is as clean, desirable and
beautiful a place as any one could
wish."
Mr, Maxwell said that his sons
share the enthusiasm for the moun
tain country. Of course, new con
ditions make permanent plans
vaflrue for all service men. However,
each member expects to .spend as
much time in this locality as future
circumstances^ will alldw.
40rr Of Quota
Has Been Met,
> Ariail Reports
$74,000 To Be Invested In
I ? Bonds In 13 Days If Jack
j_son Reaches $124,000
Quota.
i Jackson county has invested
about $50,000 in war bonds this
month against the quota of $124,
000, it was announced yesterday at
noon by R. L. Ariail, permanent
I chairman of the Jackson County
War Finance Committee.
\ The Third War Loan drive start
ed last ? Thursday, and interest is
'growing in the campaign, as the
'Jackson county war bond committee
determines to reach the quota.
Mr. A'riail spent Monday in the
county, visiting schools and work
ing- with teachers. --in getting the
students interested in buying and
"s lling bonds and stamps.
Mr. Ariail lias offered prizes in
bonds to the Jackson school student
.who sells the most in bonds and
stamps, and also the second high
est. Another cash prize is offered
tliv school selling the largest num
ber of bonds and stamps. The win
ner will be determined on a pro-rata
basis, using the school enrollment
as the working basis.
The chuyches of the county have
been" asked by Mr. Ariail to give
special recognition to the campaign
during the month af^srime service.
The schools throughout the coun
ty will have special programs em
phasizing the importance of invest
ing in bonds and stamps.
"Only 13 days remain for us to
! invest $74,000 in bonds in order
to reach our goal," Mr. Ariail stat
ed yesterdajft'.V "It is important and
essintial that every citizen of Jack
son county renew their efforts^^and
<To~JTisT a little more"in order that
we attain our goal."
There are four disbursing agents
in the county, Th-- Jackson County
Bank, The Sylva Post. Office, The
'Cullowhee Post Office and the Post
Office at Cashiers.
Those working with Mr. Ariail
'in the campaign include; Mrs. Har
ty E. Ferguson, chairman of the
| woman's division; T. N. Massie,
charge of Sylva and Dillsboro; A.
C. Moses, in charge of the campaign
I in county schools; Louis Hair, in
charge of*Sylva schools; Paul Buch
|anan, in charge of the W'ebster
school; C. A. Hoyle, at Cullowhee
Training School; and Frank I.
Watson, the Glenville school.
Raymond U. Sutton has charge
of industries and payroll groups;
(i. R. Lackey, in charge of rural
districts; Dr. A. W. Ashbrook, has
charge of Cullowhee, East La Porte
and that immediate area.
Speakers available for any com
munity rally, include Dr. H. T.
Hunter, Mrs. E. L. McKee, Hugh
Monteith and Dan Tompkins.
Qua rterly Conference
Set For Sunday At
I^ove's Chapel
The fourth quarterly conference
of the Webster Charge will he held
at Love's Chapel Methodist church
next Sunday morning at 11 o'clock.
Rev. W. L. Hutchins, District Sup
erintendent, will deliver the mes
f
?
we nope to have a large delegation^
from all the churches in the charge.
-
I The people of Germany, Italy and
Japan were willing and anxious
to share the loot of war, promised
them by their leaders; they must
expect to share the burden of de
Jackson's Bond
Quota Is - -
$124,000
feat.
$125,000?
?$120,000
$110,000?
?$100,000
$ 90,000?
? $ 80,000 ^
$ 70,000?
? $ 60,000
$ 50,000
$ 30,000 ?
$ 10,000?