AMERICA First, Last and Always The Sylva Herald The Herald is dedicated to progressive service to Jack son ... A progressive, well balanced county. VOL. XXI, NO. 4 SYLVA, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1946 $1.50 A Year?5c Copy Citizen Sounds Urgency Of Need For Numerous Changes Figures Show Jackson Leads In Buying Power But Writer Discloses Lags Elsewhere This week The Herald received a letter from a citizen who re quested that we withhold his name. The letter bears upon so many of the problems that are in need of urgent solution, that the editor has decided to publish it. However, the following is not to be taken so much as the approximate opinion of the staff as the opinion of a citizen vitally interested in the | welfare of his community. The letter follows: Recently released figures based on estimates from a survey by Sales Management Magazine offer the following comparison of "ef fective buying income" in 1945 in some of the westermost counties of North Carolina as follows: County Eff. Buying Inc. Jackson $8,085,000 Transylvania 7,152,000 Cherokee 6,803,000 Macon /. 6,411,000 Swain 3,253,000 Graham 2,480,000 Clay 964,000 The foregoing figures represent but a single instance of the lead ership of Jackson over any other county west and south of Haywood ?insofar as most statistical com parisons may be concerned. M&ny another similar comparison would further emphasize this fact. How ever, that is as far as the matter goes in far too many very impor tant respects along other and dif ferent lines vitally affecting the future welfare of the county. The point is this: despite Jack-> son's pre-eminent position in mat ters statistical relating to-the group of counties under consideration, ;his county has of late years fallen far behind practically all, if not all, of the others in the very im portant matter of securing a pro portionate share of the patronage accorded the group by government, both state and federal. Thereby, Jackson county has become the red-headed stepchild of the entire state bf North Carolina, almost. The economic and prestige-bear ing favors of which Jackson has most certainly not had equitable and, commensurate share add up to a most impressive sum total both in dollars and in the instangi bles of political, social, and cul tural recognition?the intangibles reaching deeply into the field of publicity of a favorable nature in quantity, quality, and consistency. Following are a few of the many instances of Jackson's failure to receive its share of recognition: I. For several years past, Sylva's post office receipts have entitled the town to a Federal building, and to mail delivery by postman (or postmen, possibly, thus offering not one but two fairly good jobs for some of the town's citizenry). II. The authorities of the state highway department have been ?Continued on page 8 TEST POLL REVEALS THREE TO ONE VOTE FOR SUNDAY MOVIES The straw ballot conducted last Saturday at the fire station showed three to one in favor of Sunday movies. The move to sound out public sentiment on the matter of Sunday shows was conducted by a group of citizens who are interested in the opinion of the public in regard to the matter, and does not neces sarily mean that there will be Sun day movies. (It will be noted in another ar ticle in this issue that the Chamber of Commerce wants it clearly un derstood that it is not interested in trying to promote Sunday movies.) The first try at a- straw vote was (Jjscarded after the group con ducting the poll decided that there was too much wholesale soliciting of votes on the part of private in dividuals. Previously, all citizens of Jackson county were eligible to vote, but in the second ballot vot ing was restricted to residents of Sylva, sixteen years or more in age. Rev. Osborn Speaks At Lions Club Supper The Sylva Lions Club held a Ladies' Night supper and the an nual installation of new officers at the Balsam Springs Hotel last Wednesday and heard the Rev. Mark Osborn, Jr., pastor of the Cullowhee Baptist Church and speaker for the evening, urge that all civic clubs work to the end of improving the morals of the na tion. Hugh Monteith made the pre sentation of awards, and Jennings Bryson installed the new officers. The new president of the group is Roscoe Poteet. Approximately seventy - five members and guests were present. Job Placements For May Announced In District Mrs. Mary Walker, district rep resentative for the United States Employment Service, announced last week that sixty-seven job placements had been made in Jack son, Swain, and Macon during the month of May. Approximately 18,000 claims for unemployment compensation were filed by the service during the same month from Jackson, Macon, Graham, and Swain. Record-Book School Slated Tomorrow A record-book school for all farm men and women keeping books in connection with the Tenn essee Valley Authority will be given tomorrow at 10 A.M. at the county courthouse by C. B. Ratchford of the North Carolina Extension ser vice. Rotarians Entertain Ancl Install Leaders At Party The Rotary Club held a Ladies' Night party and installed its new officers Tuesday night at a meet ing at Fairfield Inn. The new president is Bill Ensor of Chero kee. Speeches were made by several members of the organization, and feift favors were given to the ladies. The other new Rotary officers are: Dr. D. D. Hooper, vice-presi dent^ Raymond Sutton, secretary treasurer, and Stedman Mitchell, sergeant-at-arms. The directors are Paul Ellis, Bill Fisher, Harold McGuire, Paul Kirk, and Keith Hinds. The outgoing president is Ralph Sutton of Cullowhee. Chairman of the Club Service committee is Delos Hooper. The other committees are as follows: Attendance, Don Cowan, chair man, Herbert Landis, and Lewis Cannon, Fellowship, Arthur Weld lich, chairman, Charles Gulley, and Herbert Gibson; Program, Paul Kirk, chairman, Paul Ellis, New ton Turner, and John Worth Mc Devitt; Classification, Reg Enloe, chairman, and Dick Slagle; Mem bership, Wayne McGuire, chair man, Mont Cannon, and Alonzo Hoyle; Rotary Information, W. Ernest Bird, chairman, H. Ty Hunter, and Scroop Enloe; Rotar ian Magazine, Cole Cannon, chair man, and Grover Wilkes; Public Information, Andrew Gray, chair man, and'Bill Ashbrook. Community Service, Harold Mc Guire, chairman, Sam Gilliam, Dee Parker, Marvin Snipes, Stedman Mitchell, and J. C. Allison; Service, Keith Hinds, chairman, T. N. Mas sie, Jonah Dills, and Harry Fer guson; and International Service, C. C. Buchanan, chairman, Q. Grigg, John Seymour, and Don Moore. TRUCK-AUTO WRECK LEAVES TWO INJURED The trailer of a freight truck driven by R. P. Hagen of Little Hock, Ark., slid out of lane while rounding a curve just east of Addie on Friday afternoon, crashed into an oncoming car and seriously in jured Mrs. C. E. Morris of Niles, Ohio, and her niece, Miss Ruth Davis of Hubbard. Ohio. Mr. C. E. Morris escaped with minor bruises, and the driver of the truck was uninjured. Miss Margaret H. Burrall of Phoenix, Artz., driving behind the Morris Cc.r, bumped into the rear of the front vehicle, but she was not hurt. A Murphy abulance on the way to its home office and driven by W. H. Gose of Murphy, happened to pass soon after the accident and rushed the injured to the hospital in Sylva. Witnesses stated that a light rain had made the road slippery and that the truck, rounding a curve to the left, slid partly across the road and imo rhG approaching car. Mrs. Morris, driving, suffered a compound fracture of one arm and serious bruises_about the ribs. Miss Davis suffered a spinal injury. Both are expected to recover. Mr. and Mrs. Morris and their niece of Asheville and Huntington, were returning home by way of W. Va., from a trip to Florida. Two Day Program Is Arranged For Baptist Church A two day program has been ar ranged for the Baptist Union meet ing to be held at the Hyatt's Chapel Baptist church, June 28 and 29. The Friday program will begin j at 10 o'clock a. m. with the de^ votional conducted by the pastor of tiie church and followed by a business session. Rev. J. E. Brown will present the introduction of the program theme and at 11 o'clock Clf.rence Vance will give the introduction sermon. | Following lunch the afternoon session will open with the devo tional by Ernest Jamison. C. M. Warren will speak on "The Pas tor's Responsibility to the Service man." A short selection of music will precede an address by Mark Osborne, Jr. on "The Layman's Responsibility to the Serviceman." The Saturday program will open at 10 o'clock a. m. with the devo tional conducted by Ralph Brad ley followed by an address by W. N. Cook on "The Church's Build ing Program In the Post War World." Songs and worship will follow and the program will be concluded with an inspirational message by T. F. Deitz. F. P. Blankenship is chairman of the committee in charge. Other members are T. F. Deitz, Edgar | Willix and J. E. Brow!}, Second Lecture On India Is Given by Dr. McKee Dr. W. J. McKee of the Univer sity of North Carolina and visiting professor at Western Carolina Teachers College gave a second lecture on India on Tuesday morn ing at Hoey Auditorium. Dr. McKee, who has spent fif teen years in India, gave the lec ture after numerous requests from the student body and faculty. Agents Hold Meet On Feed Shortage M. L. Snipes, county agent, and George Conrad, assistant county agent, attended a meeting of agents of the Western District held in Asheville last Thursday for the purpose of discussing the feed shortage. The group decided to delegate the responsibility for elimination of the shortage to each county agent. H. A. Powers of the TVA spoke on the relation of the TVA to the feed program. R. W. Schaffner, district agent from Raleigh, conducted the meet ing. Head Southern Groups Two officials of the N. C. Deartment of Agriculture were recently chosen to lead the activities of Southern agricultural and scientfic groups. D. 8. Coltrane, left, Assistant Commissioner of Agriculture since 1937, has been elected president of the Southern Feed Control Officials, while Dr. E. W. Constable, State chemist, right, has been made president of the Association of Food and Drug Officials of the Southeastern 8tates. Dr. Constable has been director of the Pure Food division of the agriculture department since 1943. PLANS ARE SET FOR WEEK OF HOLIDAY Plans for a Fourth of July cele j bration to be sponsored by the local fire department finally got under way last week as former fire ^hief Charlie Campbell announced a list of events for the week of July first to the sixth. Mr. Campbell stated that events to be held at Mark Watson stadium I will include the shows and rides jof the Carolina Amusement Com pany, fireworks, greased pole and greased pig contests, free acts, and a parade of floats that will take place on the morning of the Fourth at 11 o clock. The parade will 01 iginate at the school grounds and will proceed down Main street and return to the poin: of origin. Several organizations and con cerns have enteied applications for entering floats, and Mr. Campbell ui gos all groups that Wish to c-ntcr tloats to contact him as soon as possible. i Stress Efficiency j And Quality In '46 4-H Dairy Program In converting to peacetime dairying. 4-H 'joys and girls are emphasizing c;:iciency and qual of m.lk production. This is re flected in the preliminary reports of members participating in the 1946 National 4-H Dairy Produc tion Program. Through the program, 4-H'ers receive not only valuable training and profitable experience, but an opportunity to win county, state, sectional and national recognition. They learn how to select founda tion animals, develop a construc tive breeding program to increase milk production, balance rations, provide adequate pasturage, and keep records. They also learn how Bang's disease, mastitis, grubs and parasites may be controlled. Incentives to achieve outstand ing records in 4-H dairy produc tion are provided in the form of j merit awards. These comprise medals to first and second place county winners, and $25.00 U. S. Savings Bonds to eight state cham pions. Trips to the 25th Anniver sary National 4-H Club Congress are also offered by Kraft Foods Company to 10 sectional winners, six of whom will be selected to re ceive the national award of a $200.00 college scholarship. This is the 10th consecutive year of the program, which is directed by the Federal and State Extension Services. County extension agents in North Carolina will furnish complete information. Name Of Writer Wanted If the person who wrote a let ter to the editor and signed it "An interested citizen" would like to have it printed, he must submit his name to the Herald. His name will be withheld if he so desires, i but this newspaper does not pub lish letters without knowing the identity of the author. During the last 45 years fer- j tilizer nitrogen in the United States ! has increased from 62 to 826 thou- , sand tons. SOSSAMON'S ... in Sylva ! MARINE RECRUITERS ! WILL BE IN SYLVA Through an error in the report j received by The Herald from the ! Marine Corps Recruiting Service a story of last week stated that! recruiters would be in Sylva at j jw P'M unii'i' mi'i y lu^.ni^di.y | | during June. The report should I have stated Monday as the day ' ! xV'"icn S-S&'. Silas Whittington and ! iSgt. Anthony A1 fieri wul'd be at' , the post office from 9:30 A.M. to | 3:30 P.M. | \ oung men between the ages of seventeen to thirty inclusive will be accepted for terms of en listment for two, three, or four years. Seventeen-year-olds must .have their birth certificate and the consent of their parents. Men oi' eighteen to twenty-one d^ not ?need parental consent as /.-ng 4>., J selective service is in force. j For the first lime in ?;;c v .of :he corps young men.are eligible | for enlistment into trie Aviation l Arm of the service. Duties in this branch include the following: ::il>t. !v?mb. rdier, navigator, aerial ? phoio^raphf r. gunner, radar !?eh |n;c.?n, and airplane mechanic I j Daily Vacation Bible School Closes The D..i!y i,n Bible School < f the Sylva Bapt:>t Church elo>ed l?.st Fi iday, June 21, with a picnic at Smokemont. The picnic was enjoyed by the pupils and faculty of the school. The Bible School was of great help and benefit to all the pupils and faculty. There were 87 enroll ed, with an average attendance of 64. An offering of $36.50 was given for China relief. The fol lowing faculty served in a very efficient way: Miss Mary Catherine Monteith, Principal, Mrs. Chester | Scott, Secretary-Treasurer, Be ginner Teachers: Miss Emily Shields, Mrs. Bart Cope, Mrs. De Hart; Primary Teachers: Mrs. J. B. Ensley, Mrs. Charles McMahan; Junior Teachers: Mrs. Crawford Smith. Mrs. Dillard Coward; Inter mediate Teachers: Mrs. Chester i Scott, C. M. Warren. The Com mencement Exercises were held 'Sunday at 8:00 P.M. The follow ing program was rendered: i Recessional Call to Worship i School Motto ; Offertory?Offering Prayer of Thanks in Song ; Salutes to Bible and Flags I Songs Together Parts by Departments Presentation of Certificates Hymn?"The Light of the World ? I Is Jesus" j Closing Prayer i Processional I | Cope Elected New Chief By Firemen The Sylva fire department elect ed Bart Cope its new chief after j a supper held at Maple Springs on Monday night. The other officers are: Tilghman Bass, first assistant chief; Gray son Cope, second assistant chief; Ailjney Bryson, sec rttary-treas urer; Dick Green, assistant secre tary-treasurer; and E. M. Tallent, fire marshal. The former chief is Charlie Campbell. 19,000 Yets Placed On Jobs This Year By USES C OF C GROUP WILL j MEET IN CILLS80B0 I Felix Pickle-.- rr.cv. pre.- Jen: o: the C:.timber f C >n rv/ix-e, }??;>> j ani".i>uTi\. i. *. ?!. >. i. ? 11 .? >un y | will be ."li t. to :. ?? Oao/cers of | Cumme: ,'e of *.me .veste.r! North 1 Carolina coun les toi.:ght at seven I o'clock at the Jarrett Spring.- Ho- j tel in Dillsboro. , This is the second of a series of I joint meetings of regional coop eration among the counties of Bun combe, Haywood, Swain, Hender son, Transylvania. Clay. Cherokee, Graham, and Jackson. The Gra ham group will be represented by their Lions Club, since there is no Chamber of Commerce in that county. A dinner?is scheduled for seven o'clock, and the meeting is ex pected to begin an hour later. The Hon. Francis J. Heazel, chairman of the Regional Coop eration Committee, and Robert J. Putman, assistant manager, are ex pected to be present. Scotts Creek Daily Vacation Bifble School Concludes Friday ?The Dail.y VaLation Dibit1 school of the Scotts Creek Baptist church c;.me to a close, Friday afternoon, June 21. Commencement exercis es were held Sunday evening at 8 o'clock. - The school has had a total en rollment of 140 with an average attendance of 110. The following ladies have served as instructors during the session. Intermediate Department: Mrs. Roy Reed and Mrs. Dennis Fisher; Primary Department: Mrs. Law rence Reed, Mrs. Craig PannoCl, tMr?. Charlie Firher ?.nd Mrs. Vc. 1 n Parker; Junior: Mrs. Joe Davis, I Mis. Eugent Fi-her. Mrs. Clinton ? Robinson, Miss Jack.tiecn South 'chol As!?e, M;ss Georyi.i Ii'. nton and Mi.-s Bar !bara Joe <>k. Mrs. Charlie Smith has been in charge of the music and M.s. B. S. IK-n.-hy 1.:is served a. p..:ie!p i ! of the school. Mrs. Jones Is New Clerk.. At Local Wire Office i Mrs. H. L. Jones, who left Sylva ; in 1943 to work for Western Union in Laurinburg, is now working ! temporarily as clerk-operator in j the local telegraph office. | She is the daughter of Mrs. Delia I Hall of Sylva. i The Western Carolina | Baptist Pastors' Conference ly The Western Carolina Baptist Pastors' Conference will meet with the Cherokee Baptist Church on the Cherokee Indian Reservation on July 8. A very good program | has been arranged. The service will begin at 10:30 A.M. The ladies of the church will serve dinner. All pastors are urged to attend this conference meeting. " New Employer Relations Program Accelerates Work Placements R. C. Godv .?\.*e Veterans' Ejnolayme?11 R. . ! ?,? t.:*..ve for the Veteran.* En,;. yr/u: Service, reports that 19,332 war veterans were placed on jobs duri/ig the first live months ot this year | through the activities of his serv I ice and that of the United States ' Employment Service. I The inauguration of the Job De velopment and Employer Relations Program in recent months, through I United States Employment Service I offices in which Veteran Employ ment Representatives participated I has accelerated these job place Iments. Mr. Godwin stated. Mr. Godwin points out that while in ^lay, 4,571 local veteran place ments were made, and 41 placed in j areas other than those in which i they registered for work, still the 81 local United States Employ jment Service offices in the State have a backlog of 33,131 active I applications of veterans for jobs. t Employers listing all of their job | openings with the United States I Employment Service, are helping , to hold this number down. I The preponderance of veterans : activities is indicated by the fact | that of the 261,895 reception con tacts in the local United States Employment Service offices in May, 171,111 or more than 65 per cent of the total, were visits from w?.r veterans, naturally, many of them were repeaters. During May, 9,112 new applica tions lor Jobs were made by vet erans and 9,414 referrals were made to jobs. Of those referred, 4.612 placements on jobs were verified. Of the new applications for jobs 757 were made by disabled vete^n* Of this number 404 wei . .eiewred to jobs and 238 of turn placed in ga nful employ rr.ent. Ti.i>. . I Lm\ i Unitrd S'atos Employment So: vice <(nce personnel held 22, I 22.3:52 . finti :v.ews, and 688 coun seling'iiitci \ iev. a witn war veter ' ans. , Tn their (florts to find suitable 'jobs !<>>? all veterans .seeking work, j the United States Employment , Service <>f!ice personnel made 3.256 visits ti) 2,311 different cm - I ployers, largely in tnc interest of ( finding or developing jobs for war | veterans, Mr. Godwin reports. J" - ? *rr (H. E. Monteith, Jr., Discharged From Navy Hugh E. (Bud) Monteith, Jr., arrived home Tuesday after re ceiving his discharge from the U. S. Navy at Norfolk on Monday. He entered service in October, 1943, and after training at Bain bridge, Md., was sent to New London, Conn., to the submarine base. ^ He was later attached to the Submarine Atlantic Fleet Repair Division and has been stationed at New London most of the time. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Monteith. He is planning to return to school this fall. Mrs. E. E. Brown Sells The Print Shop To Mrs. E. E. Brown, owner and operator of the Print Shop here in Sylva, has sold her equipment and business to the Herald Pub lishing Company. The trade was completed Tuesday of this week at which time The Herald took pos session of the property. All the business will be carried on in the Herald building as the Jackson County Bank plans extensive re modeling of its building, includ ing the basement where the Print Shop has been located for a num ber of years. Mrs. Brown's husband, the late Mr. Everett Brown, established the Ruralite and Print Shop in April, 1926 which he operated until his death January, 1932. Since that time Mrs. Brown, with the assist ance of Leon Picklesimer and members of her family, continued to publish the Ruralite and do commercial printing. In 1943 Mrs. Brown sold the Ruralite to C. W. Herald Co. Russ and Marion Bridges, pub lishers of the Waynesville Moun taineer, at which time the name was changed to The Herald and Ruralite. Mrs. Brown retained the Print Shop and continued to do job printing. The Herald & Ruralite was pur chased from the Waynesville firm in 1944 by J. A. Gray and J. M. Bird, who are now the publishers of the Herald, and who have re cently added new equipment to their job printing department to take care of the business formerly done by the Print Shop. Pool Open At Night Lewis Wilson, manager of the Sylva swimming pool, has an nounced that the pool will be open every evening from 7:30 to 9:30. The pool was opened last Tuesday evening for its first night-time period.