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VOL. XXI, NO. 42
Sylva, N. C. Thursday, March 20, 1947
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City of Sylva Places Order
Etnyer Street Flusher,
Delivery Expected Soon
Modern Equipment Has"
Many Features For
Street Cleaning, Fire
Fighting
One of the biggest problems of
the street department of the Town
of Sylva has oeen in trying to keep
the streets clean with inadequate
equipment and personnel ? two
aged colored men with push
brooms, brushing up the paper and
trash early each morning. These
men work faithfully in all sorts of
weather and do the job as best
they can with the equipment with
which they have to work. But it
is impossible to remove mud from
the streets which when dry changes
.into dust which whips up with the
passing of each car and truck to
settle dowrl^ again in stores and
buildings.
The town board has decided to
do something about the situation
and has placed an order for mod
ern street washing equipment. This
new equipment, the Etnyer Street
Flusher, purchased through the
North Carolina Equipment Com
pany of Raleigh, comprises a thou
sand gallon capacity tank, pumps,
hose, sprays- and other accessory
parts. The flusher will wash a
width of 42 feet at one time, using
600 gallons of water per minute
to drive the dirt and other trash
before it. It will not flush water up
on the sidewalks and against store
fronts as when washed with hose
attached to fire hydrants. Besides
being a street cleaner, the flusher
can be used as an auxiliary fire
fighti^ unit as it carries a booster
pump and extra hose. This will be
an advantage in fighting fire out
of reach. "f f'T. I i
The flvsher is to j?e mounted on
a new Ford truck chasis purchased
from Reece-Hampton Motor Com
pany, inc. here. The truck will be
driven to Oregon, 111. for installa
tion of the flusher equipment by
factory experts. Delivery is ex
pected within 60 to 90 days, town
officials stated this week.
P.T.A. To Be Organized
At Tuckaseegee March 21
Mrs. R. U. Sutton and Mrs. E. L.
McKee of Sylva will be at the
Tuckaseegee school house, Friday,
March 21, at 2:30 p. m. for the pur
pose of organizing a Paren{-Teach
ers Association. Mrs. Sutton will
assist at the organization of the
group and Mrs. McKee will deliver
the afternoon's address.
All parents and others interested
in the school are cordially invited
to attend.
Operating four days on six farms,
the Granville County Terracing
Unit constructed 20,000 feet of ter
races, disked twenty acres, and
built two miles of road bed.
S. G. SOLONS SAY
ROAD CONTRACT TO
BE LET THIS YEAR
The State highway commis
sion of 8outh Carolina has ear
marked $2,010,000 of hiQhway
funds to be used in grading and
surfacing the 15 mile link of un
improved road from the North
Carolina state line near High
Hampton to Mountain Rest, S. C.,
connecting with the paved high
way at Walhalla and points
South and Southwest. The con
tract is to be let this summer,
according to a statement in a -
letter to Representative Dan
Tompkins from Senator J. L.
Rowland and Representatives J.
Pat Wiley and J. A. Knox of
Oconee County. The letter was
in reply to the letter Mr. Tomp
kins had written the South Caro
lina SoJons in the interest of the
road.
43 ACRES OF FOREST
BURNED IN JACKSON
SINCE JANUARY 1ST
Brush Burning Permits
Available At Convenient
Locations For Citizens
Fred Bryson, project leader of
district 9, has announced that lour
forest fires have occurred in this
county since January 1; two being
caused by smokers, one by a debris
burner, and one \yas incendiary.,
FYompt actibn on* these'fires Kept
the total acreage of burned timber
down to forty-three acres. Of the
252.857acres of timber in the
county, 36,416 acres is federal own
ership and 216,441 state protected
areas.
In an effort to make it more
convenient for those who are going
to burn, Mr. Bryson has announced
that he has put burning permits
into several more communities,
thereby making it easier to obtain
them. They may now be secured
at the following places: District
Forester, Sylva; County agent, Syl
va; Ode Robertson's store, Willets;
Frank Brown, Wolf Mountain; Wil
liam Taylor's store, Yellow Moun
tain; Harve Powell's store, Tucka
seegee; Neal Tucker, Erastus; Wal
ter Hooper, Cashiers; Ed Battle,
Cullowhee; McCoy's store, Glen
ville: Mitchell Melton, Argura; and
Charles Evans, county warden.
The Forestry office stated that
100 per cent of the fires in Jackson
county this season could have been
prevented and urges the closer co
operation of the people in fire pre
vention.
Music Lovers This Community
Have Great Treat In Store I
If the Little Symphony, composed
of personnel from the North Caro
lina Symphony Orchestra, wins its
audiences as completely as it did
the State Legislators in Raleigh,
music lovers of this community
have a great treat in store for them.
The Little Symphony, which
launched its current season with
?the concert
sembly, is now in the midst of its
longest tour to date. It will appear
here tonight at 8:30.
When members of the Little
Symphony descended upon the
Governor and the Legislature their
purpose was double. They wanted
to give tangible proof of their mus
leal skill to the Lftghlfltm mi
whose support they so much de
pend. And they wanted to express
personally their gratitude to the
State for its??ast support and en
couragement.. ^
Though the song the sirens sang
was not exactly "Can't you give us
anything but love, Baby?" their
brief program opened with the
Strauss' waltz, "Wine, Women and
Song." This appetizer relieved the
stuffiness of the packed house and
set the pace for the lively numoers j
to follow.
The program was characterized
by lightness and smoothness?as ,
if to free the Legislators' minds
for a busy week to' follow. In
. Strauss' "Clear Track" the Sym
I phony recreated, with a sharp
j bugle ca]l and the rhythm of race
I horses, the exciting atmosphere of
| the racetracks. This number end
| ed the program, followed j|y eager
, shouts of "More!" from the law
makers.
The ovation encouraged the
ThP nonrort umn n nnmapl*
of the longer programs given free
for school children and by mem
bership for adults. Already this
season, the players have noticed
the increased interest in music on
the part of children who heard the
Symphony last year. This atten
tiveness is gratifying and in itself
refutes the arguments of those who
contend that great music is over
the heads of children.
In olden times, rulers often kept
court orchestras for private con
certs. The concert for the popularly
electecLLegislators and the follow
I up wflh a state-wide tour for chil
I di^n and grown-ups?are seen as
democratic symbols that the North
Carolina Symphony finds its
'courts' not with an exclusive ww
; but among the people at large.
The friends of John A. Parris
. will be glad to know that he
I improved after a long illness at
home in Sylva. .
TRIO ARRESTED FOR
BREAKING, ENTERING,
AUTOMOBILE THEFT
Car And Part Of Goods
Recovered Ry
And Haywood Officers
Three young Haywood county
white men are in jail in Waynes
ville following their arrest by the
.police and sheriff departments of
Haywood county early Saturday
morning. The men are Cleve B.
Caldwell, Bobby Caldwell and
Raymond Green. They are being
held in jail in Haywood county
I awaiting trial for theft of an auto
mobile, and for trial in Jackson
county on the breaking, entering
I and robbery charge. -
Sheriff Griffin Middleton, depu
ties of his department, and State
Highway Patrolman Charles Lind
| say ytv. -rc! the ball to rolling which
ion lo :..e . .. t>t of the men shortly
after t.iey a ere alleged to have
broken in'.w ...e store of Gene Lan
ning at TucKuse?gee, sometime af
ter mid-night Fridrj*. Goods taken
from the store included a cash
register, ccat^, and other goods.
Patro'.r-K.n Lindsay recovered the
t. -leri 1937 Ford car near the scene
of the store robbery. The car was
taken in Haywood county, driven
to Tuckaseegee where it got out of
commission, and was abandoned by
the trio. One of the men is charged
with the theft of a Euick automo
bile in Waynesville, taken some
time before the robbery of Satur
| dny morning.
? T>.e me:, entered the store at
Tuckaseegee by breaking the glass
jf the door, and in, doing so one of
the men cut his hand. Officers
found blood stains about the store
and in the Ford car. Blood stains
were also on the goods recovered
in possession of the men when they
were arrested.
C**amber Of Commerce
To Compile Tourist
Accommodations For 1947
The Jackson County Chamber of
Commerce will mail to each home
that has heretofore been engaged
in keeping tourists a questionnaire,
and it is hoped that each person
I will fill out the questionnaire im
mediately and return. The? infor- |
mation contained will be com
piled and put,in booklet form and
made ready for distribution before
the tourist season opens.
It is also requested that any
homes who have not previously
had rooms available for tourists,
but who plan to operate this season,
list their openings with the Cham
ber of Commerce.
This booklet will be mailed to
prospective tourists of this section.
Chamber of Commerce officials
state that the questionnaire will be
mailed around April 1st.
SIDEWALKS ON MILL
STREET TO GET NEW
PAVEMENT SOON
The town of Sylva is making
plans to resurface the sidewalk
back of the buildings on Mill
Street. Town officials stated Tues
daythat the work will get under
wayin the near future. The pave
ment on this sidewalk has become
loose and broken from much use
in the past. Many heavy ^.trucks
pull up on it to unload produce
which has caused much of the
breaking up of the surface. Now
that morg fraffici5Lxauied^^^4rki?J
street it is dangerous to walk on
the street pavement in order to
avoid the mud and rough pave
ment of the present sidewalk. Two
additional street lights will be
included in the project, officials
stated.
Holidays At Home
Mr. and Mrs. Orville Coward ar
rived Sunday morning to spend
the spring holidays with their par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Dillard Cow
ard here and Mr. and Mrs. John
Potts at Highlands. Mr. Coward is
a law student at the University
of North Carolina. He and Mrs.
Coward make their home in Pitts
boro. Thry wrrc accompanied
home by Kent Coward and Jimmy
Gray, who attended the Sylva -
Mt. Airy basketball game in Wins
ton-Salem Thursday night, going
on to Pittsboro to tfisit Kent's
brother, Orville.
FUNDS FOR 4-YEAR
MEDICAL SCHOOL AT
U. N. C. APPROVED
Committee Favors
For $1,334,200
The joint appropriations com
mittee of the General Assembly,
without an opposing voice, ap
proved the appropriation of $3,
790,000 for an expanded four-year
medical school at the University
of North Carolina.
Expanding the two-year medi
cal school into a four-year school
was regarded at 4 he beginning of
the session as one of the most con
troversial issues before the gener
al assembly. An imposing number
of members were regarded as op
posed to plans to locate it at Chapel
Hill. ?- ? ? '
W.C.T.C. Funds Approved
The appropriation committee ap
proved Western Carolina Teachers
College request for $1,334,200 for
buildings and other permanent im
provement:; at the college. It also
approved huge' sums for other
(schools and colleges.
Joe Swayngim Elected
To Ayrshire Association
The unanimous election of Joe
Swaynyim of Sylva to member
ship In the Ayrshire ^Breeders'
Association has been announced
by National Secretary C. T.
! Conklin of Brandon, Vt. The
ancestors of Mr. Swayngim's
herd of dairy cowj-trace back to
the neatner - covered hills of
County Ayr, Scotland, from
which the breed derives its name.
There are new more tha?) 20,000
herds of Ayrshlres in the United
States.
Ground Hog Han |
Come Out To Stay
The traditional G weeks in
fluence of his majesty, Mr. Ground
Hog, over the weather ended Sun-~
day, and believers in the ground
hog "superstition" are now confi
dent that spring is on the way.
However, the snow flurries con
tinue to fall.
This year the ground hu^ saw
his shadow in the bright sunshine
of the morning of February 2nd,
and according to tl.e old belief
went back in his hole to stay 6
weeks. He was due to come out
again Sunday to stay, the weather
by this time having modified suffi
ciently for him to abandon his win
ter home. All agree that his con
trol over the weather during Feb
ruary and the first part of March
was all that his most loyal ad
vocates could "point to with pride,"
or wish as proof. He truly gave this
section a dose of real winter.
MRS. S. B. GANNON
TAKEN BY DEATH
SUNDAY MORNING
Funeral services r Miy. Eva
Brown Cannon, 63. v/l o died Sun
day morning at the i.ome of her
son, Sam E. Cannon, Jr., follow
ing several months' illness, were
held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock
at the Sylva Methodist church,
with Rev. W. Q. Grigg, the pastor,
officiating. Burial wes inthe Web
ster cemetery.
Mrs. Cannon ,the widow of the
late S. B. Cannon of Spruce Pine,
was- a native^ of" Jaokmm .Cminly 1
being the daughter of the late Al
bert Brown and Lou Coates Brown
of Cowarts, pioneer citizens of the
county.
After graduating from the Cuilo
whee Normal and Industrial
School, now Western Carolina
Teachers College, Mrs. Cannon
taught in the public schools of this
county before her marriage to Mr.
Cannon in 1910.
In t911 they moved to Spruce
Pine, where she had resided until
the death of her husband a few
years ago. There she took an ac
tive part in civic and religious cir
cles, being a member of the Spruce
Pine Methodist church.
PallDearers were Henry Brown,
Robert Brown, Wayne Terrell,
James Cannon, Frank Brown, Jr.,
and Winston Fclt._
Honorary pallbearers were'
Holmes Bryson, W. B. Kester, Wil
liam McKinney, Fred Dale, Paul
kose, Aubey Harrison, Charles
?Continued on pago 10
Lions Club And Town Of Sylva Sponsor
Buying Of Play Ground Equipment For
I n sta 11 a 11 o n ! ti Th? Ci ty P3f k"H e r?~
MartthaH Arrivvtt In Miwosv
REACHING MOSCOW tor the "Bid Four" Council ot Foreign Ministers,
Secretary of State George C. Marshall (left) and members of his party
are greeted by Andrei Vyshinsky, the Soviet deputy foreign minister
(right, foreground). Marshall stated he would press for a treaty to keep
Germany permanently disarmed. (International Radiovhoto)
REP. REDDMl URGES
GASH PAYMENT FOR
TERMINAL LEAVE
The following statement by
Congressman Mi rme Hi dd?*n re
garding terminal Serve pay 1--r \et
erans was received by The M-yrrld
this week in !eu? r ironi Mr. Ked
den. We believe UiO statement will
be of intercut fo the veterans ol"
Jackson count /.
"During the i)a-;l two or three
weeks I have I. ?! evei.u letters
from veterans n.Urested in immc
date payment ? ! terminal lea\e
pay."
"Recently i m. t'e a spee? 1 or the
floor of the }foti^o calling to the
attention of tlv members that
bill authorizing rash payi *ent ol
terminal leave was introduced in
Congress on Janu* ry .'i. and that
more than nine weeks had expired
without the committee t<< which
the bill was referred taking any
action whatever. I further called
to the attention of the House the
fact that a discharge petition had
been filed asking that the com
mittee considering this bill be dis
charged and tbrt the bill h&i
brought before the House for im
mediate passage. When this pe
tition is signed by at le; st 218
members the commit tec* will be
fliscn.irgcd and the bill brought up
for passage.
"If veterans interested in receiv
ing immediate cash payment of
thee bonds would ha- c their Post
Commander write to the Chairman
ol the Committee on Veterans Af
fairs of the House of Represen
tatives, Washington, D. C., and
urge that the bill be given imme
diate consideration, I am sure it
will hasten the matter to a con
clusion.
"There is no reason why these
veterans should not be paid now. ]
The money is in the budget await
ing action of the Congress. Com
missioned officers of the Armv re
ceived their terminal leave pay in
cash ana were not required to ac- I
cept bonds or. to wait two years
for Congress to act. I see no reason
why other veterans should be re
quired to wait any longer."
LEGION AUXILIARY
WILL HAVE DISTRICT
MEETTN ASHEVILLF
- A combined meeting of the
Nineteenth District and Area Five
of the American Legion Auxiliary
will be held in Central Methodist
church, AshevilJe, March 20, be
ginning at 2 p. m. Mrs. L. A. Gos
sett, District Comrr itteewoman,
heading the 19th district, of Hen
dersonville, will be in charge of
the meeting.
At the evening session a banquet
will be held for the Legionaires
and Auxiliary" members. District
winners in the Legion Oratorical
contest which was recently held in
Andrews will compete for the Area
award.
MRS. M. W. WHITMIRE
TAKEN BY DEATH AT
HOME IN TEXAS
I
Mrs. M. W. Wh.tinire died at her I
homo in Midland, Tc.\a::, Wednes
i day, March 12, ;ftii- a year's ill
iicvs. Funeral sc ices were hold
J Thai -d.iy afterriot'ii in the Firsi
Methodist churcl. in Midland.
?Mrs, WhHmiie w.^ a native of
Jackson county be longing to one
<>(' iho pioneer families. Her par
ents were the 1; to Mr. and Mrs.
W. P.-Sholton of Whittior. whore
Mrs. Whitniiro w?:?- torn and
roared.
She was a gradu;... <>< what is
now Western i <."?!.?: Toaoher:.
| College in the cio.-s <A 1897 and
taught in the schc ?!s of Jackson
county until .her marriage to Mr.
Whitmire, a native 01 Transylvania
county, July 22, 1901. They loft
immediately for Midland, Texas,
where he had already established
a home. She has made five visits
back to North Carolina, the last
one be ing in 1939.
Mrs. Whitmire was a life-long
member of tne Mt lh<>di.-l church
and was always interested in the
good, the true, and the beautiful.
Making hooked rugs was her hob
by in which creation she was a real
:11*1 i I.
She is survived by h?T husband;
'.wo sons, Major M. \V. Whitmire,
Swings, Rides And
Other Equipment To '
Arrive This Spring
The Sylva T.ioni club, in con
junction wi h the town of Sylva,
has anpomued that playground
equipment lor the City Park, has
been ordered liom the American
1-L yg} our.d Kuuipment Compiiny
ol' Anderson, Indiana, and delivery
is expcrVd by early summer.
TUe idea^ which originated sev
eral months ago in the Lion? Club,
will m<nk mc of the greatest steps
forward for Svlva in several years,
it vs.11 include the equipment for
another tenm- courts installation
of three outdoor furnaces, fftur
tables, slides lor bo/h adult and
children, swings-Xseesaws and
merry-go-round.< The furnaces
will be constructed along the same
line* as those that are now usecfin
the Great Smoky Mountain Na
tional Park: of heavy timber sunk
deep in the ground. This will
eliminate all possibility of being
turned over or broken. The swifjgs
and slides will be of heavy steel
construction, and the merry-go
rounds will i.ome in two sizes: on?
for smaller and one for larger chil
dren and will eat '? accommodate
twenty-live to thir'; persons.
The use of the pia; ground will
be live lor *?? th Ciui?'j'e;i and
adults, and it hoped by members
of the Lions club and Town Board
that a supervisor ran be obtained
to worlt jointly at the Municipal
Swimming Pool and playground.
Landscaping w.il be dune at the
it f?? hoped that later
the project can be expandea to
include woi k on the community
house and its furnishing.; and to
enlarge the use of the club house.
?TU+e Lions club and the town of
ficials have long felt the need for
some adequate recreatior- 'l facili
ties for the youth of the town and
county and feel thdt providing a
well equipped and free playground
will partly anrwer the current
problem.
Lion committeemen woo have
been named >e the commi'tpc In
charge are Roy Reed, Everett Har
ris, and Woody Hampton. Town
Hoard members' are II. Gibson,
mayor; W. L. Jones, \V. T. Wise,
Walter A-lie, Chester Scott, and.
Arthur Carden.
Jr., and H. C. Whitmire of Mid
land; two daughters, Mrs. Ben
Galliday of Midland and Mrs. W.
C. Blackburn of Houston. Texasj
seven grandchildren; a bi other,
Crawford P/Shelton ot Whittier;
and lour sifters, Mrs. John L. Hy
:111. Whittier. Mrs. W. \J. Wike,
C'.illo-vhc e, Mrs. A. D. Parker,
Svlva, at)d Mrs. Eva Green, A.?he
vi'.lo.
Mrs. Padgett Announces Dates
For Immunization Clinics
Mrs. Lina Padgett, county health
nurse, has announced that she will
be at the Willetts school at 9:30
p. m., March 21, and at the Addie
school at 1 p. m., March 21, to hold
an immunization clinic for typhoid,
and whooping cough for
children from 6 months and up.
In compliance with the state law,
a certificate is required of each
child before entering school, show
ing that he has been vaccinated
against certain children's diseases,
and Mrs. Padgett has arranged the
f aIIa iii in rt nrrj.,,c/?Haa1 ^>1 i n 1p G/?K/irl ?
t"Wvitwr t. ttlttx* jt. 11 vu
ule, beginning March 26 and going
through April 16: Qualla, March 26;
Barkers Creek, March 27; Dills
boro, March 31; Savannah, April
3; Webster, April 10; John Creek,
April 14; Beta, April 16. These pre
school clinics will begin at 9:30
p. m. and are for children 6 months
to six years.
Mrs. Padgett states that, the State
Board of Health suggests the fol
lowing schedule to be the most sat
isfactory.
At 3 months of age, vaccination^
for smallpox.
At 6 months of age, begin com
bined whooping cough and diph
theria and continue for a total of
three doses at monthly intervals, or
At 6 months of age, plain wnoop
ing cough in 4 doses at weekly In
tervals AND
At 9 months of ?ge, plain diph
theria toxoid lor 2 or _3_.da*es Bi
monthly interval^
At 2 or 2V2 y^ars, booster doses
of combined or of each of tnc tox
oids, diphtheria and whooptng
cough.
At 5 years of age, another book
er of the toxoids, and repeat the
smallpox, if the smallpox vaccina
tion is repeated every 5 to 7 years
there is rarely a second "take"
(scar)
Sometime between the 3rd am)
6th years, a series of 3 typhoi^
doses, given at intervals of a wed*
or ten days. It >8 necessary to
booster the typhoid immunity by
giving a dose of typhoid vaccine
each year. It is strongly urgecj
that the first, the series of 3 dose^
be given before the child enters
school.
Mrs. Moore Improving
Mrs. Maggie P. Moore is recov
ering following an operation at
Mission Hospital in Asheville sev
eral weeks ago. Mrs. Moore is em
ployed a& a teacher at Barksr^i
Creek.