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AMERICA * First, Last and Always The ylva Herald The Herald is dedicated to progressive service to Jack son ... A progressive, well balanced county. VOL. XXII, NO. 12 Sylva. N. C. Thursday, August 21. 1947 $2.00 A Year?5c Copv Farmers of County See Outstanding Projects on The Annual Farm Tour 120 Men And Women * Enjoy Day Seeing What Their Neighbor Farmer Is Doing By S. W. Conrad, Asst. County Agt. Our county-wide farm tour was held in Jackson county on Wednes day, .August 16. The farmers met at the court house around 8:30 A. M. where ar rangements had been made to get transportation. Farm there we went to the Glenville community picking up farmers on our way. The first stop after we reached Glenville was at the site where the Hamburg Farmers Coopera tive is building a warehouse to re lieve^ the marketing situation in that section. From there we jour neyed to the Big Ridge section of the community stopping first at the home of David Pruitt. There! we saw a nice baby beef being fed | by his son, Robert, for the live stock show this fall, and had a chance to inspect his modern brick; home, water system, powered by a ram, pastures and hybrid corn. Mr. Pruitt has done wonderful work with his farm and until last year was one of our Unit demon stration farmers. Our next stop in that section was at the farm of John D. Davis to inspect a field of very good Se quoia potatoes. Mr. Davis expects the potatoes in this 5-acre field to to top 350 bushels per acre. Mr. Davis was selected this past win ter to become one of our long time' unit farms in that community. Our 3rd stop in that community! was srt^The home of Deitz Fowler to' inspect a gravity water system' which he has recently installed.] Mr. and Mrs. Fowler are very; proud of their running water in | their house. The group then toured back to the Cullowhee section of the coun-i ty to the dairy barns of "Western; Carolina Teachers College where a picnic lunch was spread and lemonade was served by Mr. Stead-' man Mitchell. After dinner the tour was con tinued on the farm of Frank Brown at Cullowhee where we had 3 chance to inspect some excellent fields of corn both Hybrid and Lo cal Variety and also saw a very good pasture field of mixed grass es and Ladino Clover. Mr. Brown recently cut eight acres of oats for ?Continued on page 4 i Calendar of Events THURSDAY, AUGUST 21?The Ruby Daniel circle of the Baptist church will have a picnic at the city park at 6:30 p. m. Mrs. Porter Scroggs,, president. THURSDAY, AUGUST, 21?The Masonic lodge No. 459'will meet in the Masonic hall, Dillsboro at 7:00 p. m. Ed Bumgtfrner, W.M. THURSDAY, AUGUST 21?The Thursday Evening Bridge club will meet with Mrs. Rudy Hardy at 8:00 p. m. * FRIDAY, AUGUST 22?Monthly district meeting of Boy Scout council will be held at Jarrett Springs Hotel in Dillsboro at 7 p. m. FRIDAY, AUGUST 22 ? The American Legion post will meet at the Community housej&.t 7;30 p. m. Rev. W. Q. Grigg, com mander.. MONDAY, AUGUST 25 ? The Woodmen of the World will meet in the W.O.W. hall at 7:30 p. m. Jeff Hedden, council command er. TUESDAY, AUGUST 26?The Ro tary - club will have ? a dinner meeting in Allison building at 7:00 p. m. Dr. D. D. Hooper, president. TUESDAY, ? AUGUST 26 ? The Camp Fire girls will meet with Audrey Jane Jones at 7:30 p.m. Joyce Nicholson, president. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27?The' I Lions club will meet in the high school cafeteria at 7:30 p. m. T. Walter A.-he, president. . WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27?Oce chapter No. 139, Order of the Eastern Star, will meet in the Ma.^omc hall, Dillsboro, at 7:30 p. m. Mrs. Harry Ferguson, Worthy Matron. 4-H Club Members Attend Short Course At State College The following 4-H Club mem bers left early Monday morning along with Miss Helen Sossamon,, Home Demonstration Agent, to; spend the week.at N. C. State Col-j lege representing Jackson county, at the 4-H Club Short Course: Missi Hattaleen Frizzell of the Cope Creek Club; Robert Pruitt of the Glenville Club; Winford Ashe of; the Cullowhee Club; Harold Potts and Julian Buchanan of the Web ster Club; and Charles Crisp of the Dillsboro Club. 4-H Club members will repre-! sent each county in the State at the 15th Annual 4-H Club Week at N. C. State college. A full week of activities have been planned for the 4-H Club members including an address by Governor Cherry. Jackson County Man Grows Large Potatoes The fact that Jackson county can grow big potatoes was again proven when Mr. Ammon, who has charge j of the Farmer's Veteran Training! program at Glenville, brought four; unusually large potatoes to Thei Herald office on Wednesday. These ? potatoes were grown by Arthur Blackburn, a veteran taking the farmer training, and weigh from a pounds 4 ounces to 3 pounds 2 ounces, each. Mr. Blackburn states that he expects to -have a yield of about, 400 bushels to the acre. MAKE HOME IN KOREA ?' . * ? " m ? i j Mrs. Delonas W. Buchanan and son, Charles Delonas, left August 8 for San Francisco, Calif., where they sailed for Korea to join S-Sgt. Delonas W. Buchanan, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Buch anan of East LaPorte. He has served 13 years in the U. S. Army, having served in the Aleutian Is lands and Germany recently, and now with the army of occupation in Korea Mrs Buchanan and son have been living in Sylva with her parents, Mr and Mrs. John M. Bradley. CULLOWHEE CHURCH WILL HAVE PROGRAM SUNDAY,AUGUST 24 Cullowhee Baptist church will hold its annual Homecoming and Decoration of the cemetery on next Sunday, August 24, according to an announcement this week by Mr. George Crawford. The program-will start at 10 a. m. with the putting on of flowers. There will be worship service in the church at the 11 o'clock hour. All persons who have relatives and friends buried in this ceme tery are requested to bring flowers and participate in the services and enjoy the homecoming. Monteiths Return From Western Trip Mr and Mrs. H. E. Mon tcith returned last week from a trip of several weeks in the southern and western part of ihe United States. While away they spent .-ome time in New Or leans sight-seeing, were guests of K. Major and Mrs. Jack Warren int El Pa^o, Texas, attended the Na-' tional Lions convention in San Francisco, visited Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Duckett in Tule Lake, Calif., spent a short time in Oakland, Calif., with friends, and visited relatives in Portland, Ore. ACCUSES BREW STER OF TAKING RUNOUT POWDER SURROUNDED BY NEWSMEN AND PHOTOGRAPHERS, millionaire plane builder Howard Huches (arrow) r - that Sen Brewster, chairman of the full Senate War Investigating Committee, took a "runout p v.\'; r." as the subcommittee recessed its hearings until Nov 27 Subcommittee chairman. Fen For.^umn, scid the recess was caused by disappearance of Hughes' press agent, John W Meyer (lutcrui' ovnJ) McKe3 Has Letter From S. C. Highway Chairman, Contract Date on 107 Still Indefinite Since North Carolina completed Highway No. 107 to the South Car olina line, Jackson County citizens have been especially interested in a 15 mile unimproved section of this road in South Carolina as its completion would provide a direct artery of travel from the South into this county and the Great Smokies. The Jackson CoUKIty " Chamber of Commerce and individual citi \ zens have prevailed on the South Carolina Highway Commission to complete this section gf road as soon as possible, thereby carry ing <vj' a promise made this state when il completed its portion of the road. Mr. E. L. McKee has had con siderable correspondence with the chairman ol' the South Carolina board and last year he was given much encouragement that con struction would get underway on this road this year. However, the board chairman has been changed there and Mr. McKee is now seek ing the new chairman's coopera tion. We are carrying here portions of correspondence between Mr. FIRST THREE WEEKS I OF METER DEPOSITS AMOUNTED TO $440 The amount of parking meter money taken from the meters for the first three weeks of operation amounted to a total of $440.38. The first week they were in operation the pennies and nickels amounted to $103.31 the second week amount ed to $174.25^and the third week $162.32. Chief of Police Karl Warlick stated that out of the $440.38 only one slug was found. The slug, however, did not do the person using it any good as they will not operate the meter. Violations have not been too many, Mr. Warlick said. Annual Decoration At Coward Cemetery To Be Held Sunday, August 24 Plans have been completed. for the annual decoration of the Cow ard cemetery on John's Creek to be held Sunday, August 24. The program will begin .with a Rfifvice at the cemetery at 10:30 m. At 11 o'clock there will be a song service and sermon. JThe Rev. E. A. Fitzgerald will bring the message. Lunch will be spread at 12:00j noon, at the Methodist church; and services will continue in the afternoon at the church with preaching by ^omc visiting preach-, ers, and singing by one or more! i visiting choirs. j i A big crowd is expected for the' occasion. The cooperation of ail those interested in the cemetery will be appreciated. Robert Shelton and Robert Brown, Committee in charge SOSSAMON'S ... IN SYLVA McKee and Mr. C. R. McMillan, chief Highway Commissioner of South Carolina: Mr. McKee's letter of August 11 ?"We were informed by letter of Mr. Kircher, Regional Forester, under date of September 11, 1945.[ that the Forestry Department and your commission had jointly al-j located $210,000 for improvement! of S. C. section of Highway No. 107, available to one and two years. This was confirmed from your office, but advised that con-1 tract would probably be able to! be placed in first year. We hear rumors that you are contemplat ing placing contracts at an early date. "Will you kindly advise us if there is an early prospect of this work to begin?" Mr. McMillan's reply of Augu>t 13?"I have yours of August* 11, 1947, inquiring as to when the contract will be let on route 107. All Forestry Funds have been held up for the last several months and I don't know just when they will be released. When these funds are released we expect to get Route 107 under contract promptly." To Direct Traffic At Two School Entrances Police Chief Karl Warlick has announced that with the beginning of school'today he will direct traf fic at the two entrances the school grounds for the protection of the children who walk to school. This is a protection not given be fore, Chief Warlick said, but in the future officers will direct traf fic during the hours when children arrive and leave the school grounds Group Seeks To Produce Heifers Sired by Outstand ing And Proven Bulls M. L. SNIPES, County Agent A group of farmers interested in artificial breeding of dairy cows in Jackson county met at the courthouse in Sylva on Thursday of last week to hear Mr. F. R. Farnham, Extension Dairy Spe cialist: and Mr R W. Shoffner, District Agent with the Extension Service, explain t h e artificial breeding program and how farm ers may have then' cows bred t<> proven dairy bulls that will trans mit high milk and butter faj, pro duction i t a very small cost. Tiie interested farmers in arti ficial breeding agreed that th?> u>e of proven dairy bulls would mean much to ;il! farmers koep;ng one or more daiiv cows. Arti i'icial breeding i ?> increasing veiy rapid lv because it is the cat apest way to produce dairy hei!er- s: ed ->y outstanding bulls. l'uvir, . r< anxious to >ei in c he:!'cr.-t ...ied b> outstanding bulls because of Mu increased milk and butter la; pro duction inherited. Farmers ; t the meeting selected an artificial breeding c -mmittee consisting of lae following: W. T. Brown, Jr.: J. Slendman Mitchell: Crawford Shelton; Quinlan Hol combe; and G. B. Hutson. The committee will work out plans for artificial breeding in Jackson county. Farmers are asked to con tact the committee and give in the nur'oer of cow>. that they desire artiiicially bred. This information will help in getting the program started in the county. TRAINED DOG TEACHES TRAFFIC SAFETY Lassie, leading lady in Officer PresslevV Traffic Safety Show 11 - lustrates how traffic accident rate in North Carolina has been steadily climb.ng. Says Olficer Press ley. as he carefully lifts Lassie to floor, "We can bring down the accident rate only by being careful." The show comes to this community under the joint sponsorship of the local Police Department and Lions C!ub. and the X C. State Automobile Association. Show to be held September 2, at 11 a. m. and 2 p. m. in Sylva School Auditorium. Admission free, everyone invited. * Seeds For Pastures To Be Made Available The AAA office has received in structions to furnish pasture seeds to farmers for seeding fall and winter pastures. The government has appropriated additional funds, to seed pastures to offset the short age of the corn crop and the ex tremely high price of corn. The AAA office will issure purchase! orders for Ladino clover and or-1 chard grass to any farmer who wishes to seed "not more than five acres of permanent pasture. The government will pay approximate ly 80 percent of the cost and the farmer the remaining 21J percent. Ryegrass seed will also be fur nished for providing winter graz ing as well as winter cover crops. The funds provided for these two practices are over and above the original allocation and any farm-' er may receive these seeds, for not not more than five acres, regard- , less of the amount of material he! has previously received in 1947. | Legion To Sponsor Special Dance On Saturday, August 30 There will be a special dance Saturday night,, August 30, at the Community building for benefit of the Sylva public library. Advance tickets are now on sale for this( dance. You are urged to buy your' tickets early and help advance the cause of the library. The dance is being sponsored by the American Legion. C0URT0FH0N0R ADVANCES SCOUTS AT AUG. 14 MEET ; The Smoky Mountain District Court ni Honor was held at the Cullowhee MHhfdist h u r c h, Thursday evening. Auguvt 14, at| 7:30 o'clock. , I Kdwm Allison, acting ? hairman ?>! the Ad vai.crment Committee, W; s in chm'ge "f the Court. Avcy 'Means, New Field Exe . l. i..w IjmWic-Coun cil, of Asheville, expressed hi pleasure at being. assigned t > tin? Smoky Mountain District and promised his full cooperation in I the furtherance of the Scout Move ment for this district. Boys who were advanced to, higher ranks were: John M. Arch-! er, III, Troup 1 of Franklin, was! ad vane \ the rank of Lif< ;i Grady Parker, Troup 14 of Cul-{ lowhee, w a.-> a w v ?anted to the rank of First Class-?Boyce White, Troop 6 of Franklin, was advanced to Second Cla . Those receiving recognition for special work on merit badges were: Chas. Thoma.-, Jamta D. Conley, Dan Angel, John Allsup, D. A. Cruse, Frank L. Henry, III, Mack J^pes, Jack Kusterer, Bob Meyers, Bobby L. Potts, John Charles T h m .i s, Jack Reece, Grady Thompson, Kenneth Carpenter of Troop 1 from Franklin. William H. Wi Idroupe and Weyman N. Waldroupe of Troop fi Franklin. Grady Parker, Edwin Sutton, Edwin Norton, Orville Wike, Clar ence Wike of Troop 14 Cullowhee. Tommy Ferguson, Charles Cope, Dick Barkley, Franklin Fricks, Sylva, Troop 1. HOSPITAL NEWS A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Stewart of Speedwell on August 15. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Jones of Sylva, Route 1, are the parents of a 12 1-2 pound baby boy born Friday, Augu.-t 15. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Browning a son on Wednesday, August 13. A daughter was born to Mr. and 'Mrs. Letter Owen of Whittier August 18. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Snyder announce the birth of a son on August "18. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Gunter, Sylva, Route 1, a son on August 19. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ray Clayton on August 20. S. E. Nicholson Drowned In Glenville Lake Near Here Sunday Afternoon Was Riding With Brother And Friend When He Fell From Boat, Funeral Held Wednesday P. M. Funeral services for Spurgeon Eugene Nicho'con, 30, were held yestei dry at 2 pf m. at Wcslqys Chapel/ the R-v. T. L. Willix, of iicating. Nicho'son was drowned Sundry rf'ernoon about 2:30 p. m. when he fell from the boat in which he ;.i.s aiding on Glenville Lake v. ith his brother, Carl J. Nicholson, Charley Allen, and Pug Chester. He was reported to have been sitting on the edge near the middle of the boat, which had been made at home by Charles Allen and Andy Lee Parker, when he lei 1 over backward in the water. The boat was equipped with a '31 model Chevrolet motor. The drowning occurred near the mouth ol the dam, near the fork of Pine Creek and Glenville River, where the water is estimated to be^ to 50 feet deep. Carl Nich olson was brought to Sylva soon alter the accident by Andy Lee Parker to notify the family. The search for the body was begun Sunday afternoon and continued until the body was finally brought to the surface on Tuesday morn ing at about 8:30. Searching par ties reported that the body had been hooked twice on Monday af ternoon, about 4 or 5 o'clock, and again twice on Tuesday morning befoie it was securely hooked and surfaced. Fred Henson secured the body With hooks fastened on a rope. I Three men of the Tennessee Val ley Deep Sea Diving and Salvage Co. oi Knoxville, Tenn., arrived Tuesday morning to help with the diving to recover the body, but due to the delay caused by heavy arrived soon after the body had been brougnt to tne surface. The three Knoxville divers were Roy Allen, Harry Anderson, and Herman Myers. |, The drowned man. who was a , mechanic employed at HoQper Co., is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mis. E. o. Nicholson; the widow; four children, Harold Odell, 10, Katherine, 8, Mary Etta, 4, and Alva, (j months; two brothers, Carl K. Nicholson, and L. A. Nicholson; and one sister, Mrs. Hester Bal low, all of Sylva. Upon arrival of the body at Moody Funeral Home in Sylva, an inquest was held by Coroner C. ! W. Dills of Dillsboro. The verdict was accidental drowning. The body was then carried to Garrett I Funeral Home in Waynesville, with ; whom the deceased had burial in surance, where it was prepared for burial. ~ ? ANNOUNCES OPENING GLENN FUNERAL HOME [TODAY, AUGUST 21 | Raymond L. Glenn, Jr., an . nounces the opening of his business enterprise, Glenn Funeral Home, I for today, August 21, for business j to the public at his home on Main I street. | Mr. Glenn, a native of Jackson , county, after graduation from Syl va High school, was graduated from Mars Hill College, studied at Emory university, and was gradu al ated from the University of North . Carolina last June. During World j War II he served 3 1-2 years with the navy with the rank of phar macist mate. He was in the land I ing of troops on Normandy beach on D-day. He also served some I time in ^e Pacific theater, taking | part in the Okinawa landing and other amphibious operations. j Mr. Glenn extends an invitation to the public to visit The Home for inspection at any time. His plans are to begin at an early date issuing burial insurance. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Smith o( Dilisboro are the parents of a daughter born August 16. ; Mrs. Marie SUtton of Whittier is in for treatment. Mrs. Mary Watson, East La Porte, is doing very well while in for treatment.