PLAN CALLS FOR
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groups of parents from all parts
of the county seeking better school
facilities. The Board conducted a
county-wide survey in October of
last year under the direction ol'
W. F. Credle. State S^ho<ol Build
ing Supervisor, to determine what
the trend has been a> U> increased
attendance, building conditions,
etc., over a 10-year period. The
survey revealed that in almcst
every school in the county enroll
rnent h?4 increased steadily, that
practically every school is now
inadequate as to number of class
rooms and physical repair. It was
at this time that the> court con
demned the Barkers Creek build-,
mg as unfit for us.
Following an exhausive study of
the survey report Mr. Credle re
turned to Sylva in January with
members of a sub-committee on
State planning of plans and plants,
nd with an architect, Supt. Rob-(
inson of Buncombe county schools,'
and Dr. Hammond cf Federal De
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/Saturday, April 10
STRANGER FROM PANCA CITY
CHARLES STARRETT AND SMiLEY BUfcNETTE
OWL SHOW?
PERILOUS WATERS ?
DON CASTLE AND AUDREY LOtfG
Sunday, April 11'
CROSSFIRE"'
ROBERT YOUNG AND ROBERT MITCHUM
Monday - Tuesday, April'12 - 13
THE FABULOUS TEXAS
WILLIAM ELLIOTT AND CATHERINE McLEOD
Wednesday, April 14
MOM AND DAD
Hygienic Production
3HOW8 FOR WOMEN ONLY?2 AND 7 P. M.
MEN ONLY AT 9 P. M.?ADMISSION 50c
All Children not In arms will have to purchase a ticket to enter
any performance at this Theatre.
Recreational Directors
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ting across, such a program that
will bless nut only Svlva folks but
the beys and g.rls t at a^rr.e down
from the beautiful hills as well.
The program needs some money
but has a good bit already even
befcre the drive starts. We're all
i tired of DRIVES so this committee
I does not p*an to make one. How
i ever, we serve NOTICE that Mrs.
Wiinia Jone> at r.jme or oifice,
and Mr. Gr-yson Cope at home
or office will accept ycur contri
butions to the City Recreation De
partment. Here's what we will do
with the money:
1. Enlarge and put in perfect]
condition the Swimming Pool by
June 1, 1948.
2. Help the Lion's Club install
their $1500.00 worth of swings and
park equipment that is already in
Sylva to be put together.
3. Assist the American Legion
as they assist us in remodeling
and running the Club House for
games, dances, parties, concerts
of our band, and the many other
things a City or Legion owned
clubhouse should do and be.
4. Furnish tennis, miniature
golf, pony riding, picnic area, and
see that it's all kept in good con
dition and supervised.
5. Hire a good teacher who will
give all his summer and lots of
his winter to seeing that it all goes
along as it should!
6. Try to attract and help all
tourist, country youth, and city
children to enjoy life in Sylva more
that ever before.
If you feel these are worthwhile
projects help this committee by
turning in to them thru Mr. Cope
or Mrs. Jones some of the money
that you would otherwise have to
pay in income taxes. Such gifts are
I tax-exempt. Please help us at once
and join the several who hav al
ready done so with no request on
. our part. Thank you.
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partment of school buildings and
together they visited every school i
in the county except Cashiers and
Glenville. It was Mr. Credle's
opinion that the proposed building
program could be carried out with
an estimated expenditure of $600,
000.00. Members of the commit
tee estimated it would cost $750,
000.00 to one million dollars.
COUNTY-WIDE PLAN
This plan included: consolidation!
of Barkers Creek and Wilmot into
standard elementary school; Dills
boro and Dix Creek into standard
elementary school; consolidation of
Beta, Addie and Willets into stand
ard elementary school, with mod
ern new building in each district;
building of a new school at Cash
iers; additions and repairs at Glen
ville: petition state highway com
mission to repair roads in Canada
district so that five one-teacher
schools could be consolidated into
a standair?Pt?+effientary school. It
was Mr. Credle's opinion that the[
State would authorize three or
four high school teachers to pro
vide a sub-standard high school
in Canada township, to be sub
standard only as to number of I
teachers, but standard as to sub-i
jects taught. Mr. Credle said that
this was the only township (Cana
da) in the entire state without
high school facilities, and that this
proposed type of school is work
ing out well elsewhere in the State.
I The pi ns further provided for;
J consolidation of Webster and Sylva
High schools with a modern new
building located some place in
East Sylva, this would provide one
of the better high schools in" the
Calendar of Events
Thursday, April 8?Smoky Moun
tain District Court of Honor, Boy
Scouts of America, will be held
at the Method.st Church at 7:30
p. m. W. E. Ensor, advancement
chairman in charge.
Friday, April 9?The B. H. Cathey
Chapter c f the U. D C. will meet
with Mrs. Dura Collins at 8:00
' p. m. Miss Bertha Cunningham
as joint hostess.
Friday, April 9?Cub Pack meet
ing at 7:30 p. m. in the Allison
building. Britten Moore,, cub
master.
Friday. April 9?The Woman's
Auxiliary of the Presbyterian
Church will meet with Mrs. M.
C. Cunningham at 7:30 p. m.
Mrs. Charles Pettit. president.
Tuesday, April 13?The Sylva
Parent Teacher association will
meet at the Methodist church at
2:00 p. m. Election of officers
for next year will be held at this
time. _ Mrs. W. L. Jones, pres.
Tuesday, April 13?Campfire Girls
will meet in the Scout Hall at
7:00 p. m. Patsy Buckner in
charge.
Tuesday, April 13?The Sylva Ro
tary Club will meet at 7:00 p.
m. for the weekly dinner meet
ing in the Allison b.uilding. Dr.
D. D. Hooper, president.
Wednesday, April 14?Oce Chap
ter No. 139, Order of the Eastern
Star will meet in the Masonic
Hall in Dillsboro at 7:30 p. m.
Mrs. Hazel Carlson, W. M.
Thursday, April 15 ? Dillsboro
Lodge No. 459 will meet in the
Masonic Hall at 7:30 p. m. J. C.
Cowan, W. M.
State; to build a gym and an audi
torium at Webster for a standard
elementary school; add to the Sylva
High school building to be used as,
additional elementary building; re
pair and painting of other schools
such as John's Creek, Qualla, and
Savannah making them into stand
ard elementary schools.
ACTION QUICKENED
With the closing of the Sylva
elementary school by court order |
the Beard's original program was!
considerably up-?et as the loss of!
this large building demanded im
mediate plans for replacement'
either through repair or a new,
building. The Board had no funds
with which to do either so mem
bers made a trip to Raleigh seek
ing authority to call a bond elec
tion for the estimated $600,000.00
as estimated by Mr. Credle. They
were informed that Jackson coun
ty could not legally issue over,
$480,000.00 in bonds which caused
further revisions in the original
plans. To be able to issue and sell
bonds on the market complete I
plans, stating definitely where and
for what the money is to be used,
has to be made to the bond buy
ers. In order to clear the way for
the calling of a bond issue the
board set up a new plan as fol
lows: Call for a bond election for
the issuance of $480,000.00 to be,
used in a new building for Bark
ers Creek and Wilmot with an es
timated cost of $150,000.00; alter
ations and repairs to the Sylva
elementary building to make it
usable at an estimated cost of $50,
.000.00; consolidation of Beta, Ad
die and Willets school and a new
building estimated to cost $200,
000.00; alteraticns and repairs to
the Glenville school, estimated to
cost $25,000.00; alterations and re
pairs to the Cashiers school es
timated to cost $30,000.00 This
would take most of the $480,000.00.
But the board plans to use only
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FILLET OF
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Mrs. Padgett Has
Church Circle Meet
Mrs. Earl Padgett was hostess to
the meeting of the Carrie Rhodes
Circle of the Woman's Society of
Christian Service of the Sylva
Methodist church at her home on
Monday evening. Mrs. Frank P.
Crawford offered prayer and pre
sented Mrs. Dan Tompkins who
>poke cf the importance of the
rural churches and the paj-t they
told in the Christian work' of our
county.
During the social hour in charge
of Mrs. O. E.. Monteith, Mrs. Pad
gett served a salad course, cake
and coffe..
Mrs. Raymon Stovall, chairman,
presided with fifteen members
present. Mrs. Frank Fricks invited
the members to meet with tier
for their May meeting.
Attends Grand Opera
Mrs. Charles G. Gulley, director
cf music education in the Training
school of Western Carolina Teach
ers College, attended Grand Opera
in Atlanta, Ga., during the week
end.
The operas given included Car
men, Lucia, La Boheme, and
Rosenkavalier.
PERSONALS
Miss Martha Barnett, State as
sistant school lunch room super
visor of Winston-Salem, visited
friends here Sunday. Miss Bur
nett was accompanied by Mr. and
Mrs. Norman Burnett of Burns
ville.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kirk spent
the week-end in Norfolk and
Portsmouth Va.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Corbin and
Mr. and Mrs. George Painter spent
the week-end in Charleston, S. C.
where they visited some of the
famous flower gardens.
Mrs. Frank P. Crawford had as
her guest last week her sister, Mrs.
Charles R. Pinston, of Asheville.
Mrs. J. D. Blaine of Clayton,
N. C., visited friends in Sylva Mon
about half this amount, if and when
avialable and hold the other half
($280,000.00), for the purpose of
matching dollar for dollar State
aid school building funds, if and
when they become available. It
is the opinion of many that the
next General Assembly will pro
vide funds for aiding counties in
school building programs. The only
way Jackson can participate in
such funds is by having money onj
hand with which to match state
funds. j
If the money is provided through1
a bond issue the Board plans to
do only the most necessary work
immediately, which is the erection
of the Barkers Creek ? Wilmot
school, and repair the Sylva ele
mentary building until after the
General Assembly meets in Jan
uary.
If the election for the bond is
sue fails to carry the board will
then petition the County Commis
sioners for a direct school building
tax levy for money with which to
build and repair the condemned
buildings. There is nothing else
that they can do.
Maisie Queen Spear Is
Married To Seaman Young
Mrs. Maisie Queen Spear was
married to Seaman 2-c Frank
Young of Bakersville in a cere
mony performed at the Nurses
Home of .The C. J. Harris Com
munity hospital, in Sylva at 8 P.
M. on the evening of March 31.
Rev. W. Q. Grigg was the officiat
ing minister.
The living room of the Nurses!
Home was decorated with bowls of
.nixed spring flowers. An ar
rangement of red roses and white
carnations was placed on the man
tle, flanked by lighted white tap
ers in seven branched candela-j
brum. .
"Because" by D'Hardelot,
4Traumeri" by Schumann and
"Clair de Lune" by DeBussey were
played prior to the ceremony, and
"Ave Maria" was played softly
during the ceremony.
The bride wore a navy blue
gabardine suit with navy and white
accessories and a corsage of white
roses and white violets. She was
attended by her young daughter,
Miss Agnes Spear, who wore a
navy taffeta dress with a corsage
of white carnations.
The couple left immediately fol
| lowing the ceremony for a wedding
i trip to Jacksonville, Fla., after
l which the bridegroom will return
to his station .in Panama Canal
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The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. C. Whittier.
She has been]^|^M^jt%ft the C.
J. Harris Coinmunity Hospital for
several years.
Mr. Young is a veteran of sev
eral years service with'the navy,
most of whieh lime- he: has been
stationed in Panama.
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Claude M. Love of
Asheville were visitors in Sylva
Monday.
East LaPorte News
Miss Dorothy Lee Romire of
Asheville spent the week-end with
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wike.
Miss Erma Barnes spent the
week-end in Canton, visiting Mr.
and Mrs. Johnnie Belcher.
Mrs. Susie Zachary is improv
ing after having been ill at her
Home tor the past week.
Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Hamilton and
daughter, Katherine, returned
from Big Stone Gap, Va., Friday
after having been called there by
the death of Mrs. Hamilton's broth
er.
Too Late To Classify
FOR SALE ? Used cook stove,
with water coil. Hotel Lloyd,
Sylva, N. C. 45
TYPEWRITER FOR SALE?Royal.
Brand new. They're still hard
to get, and at present we have only
one in stock. The Franklin Press,
Franklin, N. C. 44 45
Notice of Republican
County Convention
The Jackson County Republican
Convention is called to meet at
the Court House in Sylva at 2
o'clock P. M. on Saturday April
10, 1948.
The purose of the convention is
to perfect a county organization
and recommend candidate for the
various county offices for the elec
tion in November.
All republicans are urged to at
tend.
J. R. Long
County Chairman
April 1-8
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