Population Jackson County?20,000 Sylva and Area ? 4,000 The Sylva Herald Jackson County Ideal For Farming, Industry, Tourist VOL. xxra?NO. 28 Sylva, N. C. Thursday, Dec. 9, 1948 $2.00 A Year??c Copy Sylva Lions Club Observes Twelfth Anniversary Sheriff's Department To Have 2-Way Short Wave Radio Communication N Police Car of Sylva Also To Be Equipped With Set Station Will Reach State Patrol Station At their regular meeting Mon day, December 6, the bpard o1 commissioners for Jackson Coun ty authorized the purchase and installation of a two-way shorl wave radio communication sys tem for the Sheriff's department As soon as the equipment, which has already been purchased, ar rives it will be installed in the jail and the jailer will look aftei it. Sets will be installed in both the Sheriff's and deputy's cars County authorities stated Tues day that the date for beginning the use of the equipment depends -on deliver and installation. The town board of Sylva has authorized installation of a set in the police car which can be used in cooperation with the sheriff's department in combating crime and lawlessness of any type. The new station will have pow er enough to reach the State High way Patrol station at Swannanos and will be used in cooperation with the patrol. REV. RAY SWANK OF BREVARD COLLEGE IS METHODIST SPEAKER Brevard, Dec. 6?At the invita tation of " Flrst^ Me&foci^ Church, of Sylva, Rev. Ray Swink, of the Brevard College Depart ment of Religious Education, wil] talk about Brevard College at the morning service Dec. 12. Accom panying him will be a mixpd quar tet composed of Betsy Ross ol Pleasant Gardens, Eleanor Orr oi Charlotte, Max Warlick of Rai eigh, and Jerry Crawford ol Greensboro. This quartet will render the anthem "God So Loved the World". The offetory, "Some one Had Prayed", will be sung by Betsy. Ross. Ann Smith of Bre vard, a music student of Brevard ^ College will play all of the music, including a prelude and postlude. This program is the result of cooperation between Brevard College and the churches. Through these services, experience is given ? to the many students who plan lives of Christian service, espe cially in the ministry of music. Also, the churches become better acquainted with the work of Bre vard College. This service is un der the direction of Mr. J. P. Porter. North Carolina's hybrid seed corn crop, this ye;.r is 58 times a.-' large as it was five years ago. USE OF CHURCHES, HALLS APPRECIATED BY SYLVA SCHOOL I wish to express my own ap preciation and that of the students 3f the Sylva elementary school I to the congregations of the Bap tist and Methodist churches ir Sylva and to the members of the vVoodmen of the World and Ameri. :an Legion for the use of the churches, Legion and Woodmen lalls as classrooms for the sev eral hundred students who found themselves thrown out of their school building last February when it was condemned, as un safe by Judge Phillips. We realize that it was quite a sacrifice on the part of the church es and other organizations to have to permit their buildings to be used as public schools, but you have all responded In this emer gency in a most noble way, which has saved the day for the Sylva school. We wish to thank the Sylva high school seniors who volunteered on last Friday afternoon to go to these buildings and scrub floors, windows and walls in order that they might be left as clean as they were found. We are proud to report that we are now settled once more in our ? tgpWty remodeled building and can ' begin to do real classroom work. Ralph L. Smith, principal. HI600N NAMED AAA COMMITTEE CHMN. The Jackson County AAA Con ' vention has elected D. C. Higdon of Sylva as chairman of the AAA Committee for 1949. At the same time Blaine Nicholson of Cowarts was elected vice-chairman, P. C. Shelton, of Whittier was elected ' regular member; J. Lyman Ste ! wart of Norton, was elected first alternate and Carl Higdon of Gay was elected second-alternate. The county convention is com posed of a representative from fifteen communities in the coun ty. Mrs. Helen N. Corbin was elect ed by the newly elected county committee as secretary to the com mittee, and Miss Agiles A. Wil son was elected as treasurer. Red Miller To Be Lions Club Speaker Rui ?j;orls ecli'or of the \shevi!'o Citi en, will be guest rKeep North Carolina Green" Movement Backed By Bankers Whereas: The North .Carolina Bankers Association fully recog nizes the value of our forests, soils and mineral resources in the ec onomic progress of our state; and for many years has given its sup port, through the agricultural ac tivities of the Association, to their conservation and development. We have been greatly disturbed, however, by the wanton waste of forest resources, and the un controlled burning of forest acres which have caused monetary loss running into millions of dollars annually, throughout the years. The KEEP NORTH CAROLINA GREEN movement is the first earnest effort that has been made to enlist our entire citizenry in a forestry development program. Wherefore, in view of the facts herein before set forth, be it Re solved: By the North Carolina Bankers Association, its Agricultural Com mittee assembled, this 17th day of November, 1948. That any industry o! such tfres 2nt magnitude and future pi 'entialities is profoundly impor tant to the further economic prog ress an J development of North Carolina: The the KEEP NORTH CARO LINA GREEN movement is worthy of the support of the individual membership of this body, and we enthusiastically commend its ob jectives; That the North Carolina Bank ers Association will lend its sup port and influence to the passage of any sound and progressive leg islation that may be sponsored by the KEEP NORTH CAROLINA GREEN movement, which may be designed to further promote and develop forest resources within our state; and That a copy of this resolution shall be presented to: Program Di rector of KEEP NORTH CARO LIN GREEN, Executive Director of N. C. Forestry Association, the N. C. Forester, the N. C. Extension Division, and Agricultural Com mittee minutes. Announcement has been made by Oscar Lovedahl, chairman of the Board of Elections of Jackson County, that a special election has jeen called for Saturday, Decem ber 18, to vote on a candidate for senator, to succeed the late Mrs. 2. L. McKee. The election will be jailed in all five of the counties of the district on the same date. This being Jackson's time to nominate and elect a candidate .he Democratic executive com "nittee will meet in the court house Saturday, December 11 at 2:30 for ?he purpose of nominating a can didate to appear on the ticket. The Republican party has the iame privilidge but no announce nent has come from the party that a candidate will be named, in fact a leading Republican party lead er stated Wednesday evening that nothing had been done about the mattes. Harriman Arrives ROVINO ambassador (or the Eco nomic Cooperation Administration in Europe, W. Averill Harriman is shown at he arrived at the White House (or coherences with Presi dent Truman'and Secretary of State George Marshall. (International) The total circulation of chil-' dren's books of tht_> Jackson Co. Library for the month of Novem ber was 2476 books. Tr.is is almost ? triple the circulation of any other single month for both adult and children's books. This large in-' crease in the number of books, as well as the number of children reading the books, is due' to the Book Club project which was be gun in Oct. by the librarian, Mrs. Mae Stallcup. To become a member of the Di brary Book Club one is requir ed to read 20 books of specified classifications, information on which may be obtained from the librarian. Since the beginning of the project fifty-one boys and girls have applied for membership in the club. A number of these have completed the reading of their 20 books. A complete list of these names will be published in next week's issue of The Herald. 300 Attend Woodmen Family N ght Supper { Members of the Sylva W.O.W> AAA ELECTION HELD, COMMITTEES NAMED IN 15 COMMUNITIES The Jackson County AAA elec tion held on Thursday, December 2, resulted in the election *>f cof mitieemen from fifteen communi ties in the county to serve for the year 1949. The following farm men were elected to serve their respective communities: Barkers Creek ? J. T. Jones, chairman; Frank C. Greene, vjce chairman; Tolvin Ward, regular member; Arthur Brooks, 1st al tenate; T. J. Buchanan, 2nd al ternate. Qualla ? W. T. Gass, Frank Kinsland, Fred Ferguson, Jeff Thompson, and Robert Varner. Caney Fork ? Wayne Love dahl, John Farley ,Alvin Moore, Harry Brown, Howard Wood. River ? Fred Smith, J. C. Mil lsaps, W. A. Jackson, D. Denton, and E. L. Lanning. Canada ? Mitchell Melton, G. C. Wood, Walter Melton, J. J. Brown, and Ranzie Mathis. Cullowhee ? Edgar Moore, John Phillips, Robert Shelton, Lonnie' Dills, and Davis Bryson. Sylva ? T. C. Bryson, Sr., Lee Bumgarner. F. E. Parker. W A. Cope, Thomas Hooper. Diiisb ro ? Boyd Brown, E. B. Monteit... Fivnk Jacobs, and Lcwi^ Cochran. W(;i-st r ?Frank Cole, Charlie; f. v.ix'.j. .T. Ashe. I^ul C-iWii.-i,! r,\ 3iL r ../an. ? Swf.tt- ('v:1 L. M. fris;"*. J. 1 D. Mills. !.:> :.!H Hiil. K.-jj^rt i I. ?. - j .un, r.tui Ji:n Alcody. Saw.':, .a.i ? P'erry Buchanan, V. C. Luc/anan, Guy S'jtt >n, Jim Johnson, and B. C. Buchan ?n. Greens Creek ? G. L. Green, Carl C^gle, Dearie Ashe, Joe Green, L. C. Estes. Hamburg ? J. L. Cooper, J. L. Stewart, Franklin Fowler, Mack J. Stew; rt. and Fred A. Bryson. Mountain ? W. C. Moody, A. C. Edwards, W. A. Crawford, Or ville Henderson, Ernest Bumgar ner. Cashiers ? W. S. Alexander, T. S. Lance, Edward Fowler, Charlie Passmore and Ernest Lom bard. One delegate from each com munity attended the county Con vention held December 3 in the AAA office. speaker on the Lions Club pro gram next Wednesday evening. Coach James Barnwell and mem bers of the Sylva Golden Hurri canes will also be special guests of the club at this regular meeting, Roy Reed, president of the club, announced Wednesday morning. Lodge and their families and guests, numbering over 300, en joyed the semi-annual ladies and family night with a delicious chicken and oyster supper, which was prepared by the men of the lodge and served by them, assisted by their wives. The banquet was held in the American Legion build ing, formerly the community building, Monday evening at 7 o'clock. Jeff Hedden, Council Com mander, was master of cere monies. He introduced Briiton Moore, District Commander, who talked on the value of Woodmen of the World in relation to what the Camp stands for and what it has done in the community. Everett Harris, secretary, pre sented several individual awards to a number of the members. The group was also entertained by the "Mountain Ramblers", a five member string band, com posed of local talent. cuuSwheTbaptist CHURCH TO PRESENT CANDLELIGHT CAROL SERVICE 5:30 SUNDAY The Cull .whee Baptist Church will present a Candlelight Carol service at 5:.V) St,mJay, Dec. 12. The combine:! eh. irs .of the; ? nurch, v.Mi h (?(?], ] i an cn-i zombie of ni tv ;.;(vv,i -v jcf.s< !j: - it::ipnto i . t. c v.( rvico. Both' tiio Junior a:/' c ,;.-s wi.j ?Scrip*.u.r:il selection and Christ-' nms music h,v- been v.oven ruoj 1 Christmas st ry v^i'n viii un fold against an appropriate back-1 ground of c. ndle light and soft I music. rhe sOioists for the Candlelight Carol Service a e Mrs. Vi-ginia Barnwell, Mr. Bronson Matney, Miss Maxine Barbour. Mrs. Barn well will be heard in "How Beau tiful Upon The Mountain," by Wil son. Mr. Matney will sing a spir itual, ' Sweet Little Jesus Boy", by1 MacGimsey. Miss Bnrbour will sing "Night of Nights", by Van de Water". The accompanists are Mrs. Zula M. Smith and Mr. Clayton Curtis. The Marshals are Miss Annie Duke Wheles, Chief Marshal; Rob Crawford, Jim Ramsey, Velma Ramsey, Paul Monroe, Ruth Hyatt, H. B. Hyatt, Harry Corbin. public is cordially invited ifo attend the service. i SOSSAMON'3 |n 8ylv, BOOK IN MEMORY OF MRS. McKEE IS OFFERED LIBRARY Mrs. Mae Stallcup, librarian of the Sylva library, has received the following letter from Mrs. Dale! Lee and her mother. Mrs. Candler, i of Murphy, which reads in part as follows: ?'Mv mother and I would like to place a book in the Syl-vu library in memory ol Mrs. K. L. McKee. Will you please make a suggestion? We had "Tae Big Fisherman" by Lloyd C. Douglas' in mind unless you have this and prefer some thing else. Please advise." The letter was signed by Martha Can- ; dler Lee. MRU. E. BAIN IS i TAKEN BY DEATH AT i 6 P. M. WEDNESDAY ! Following an illness of -almost' three years Mrs. Isabel Keener Bain, wife of E. E. B;iin, Jr., of Sylva died at C. J. Harris hospital :vt fi o'clock Wednesday evening where she nad born a p:itient for he pas? I'our weeas. Her death was n?-i : j. .(>::.?( c'( i. ! Ten'a1: o funera. ar angements are f.?r t m a> ? ? 1" ' e ;?eld at '. e S v ! . M? i i a r I: 2:30 V. i y ?< ; ? ? -'i. \vi! a bu; ial ..*> '.. t ( ( .: 1 '?) >'. T if' j :)a' . \.\ O. (;i ;will of- ! ' 1 S na i . aaC I'.o w: :irl, one j son, E?iWi rd, T7*"o aauga!eis, Mrs.l Henry O. Brady, 'Jr., wife of LtJ Coi. !i..:dy, (?: Monteray, Calif., and Mrs. Jam;.- i'. !v.i;er-. nf Btv soa City; the mother, Mrs. J. W. , Keener: and brother, J. E. Keener, of Sylva. Mrs. Bain was born and reared in Sylva, She attended Sylva High school and Greensboro College for Women. While a student in her third year she was married to Ed ward E. Bain. Mr. and Mrs. Bain lived in Greensboro for 17 years then Columbia, S. C., and Tampa, Fla. They then moved to Sylva three years ago this month. SYLVA MEN GET DEER ON WAYAH Sherfff Griffin Middleton and B. E. Lloyd were lucky on their deer hunt on Wayah in Macon Co. Tuesday when each bagged a buck. The sheriff got a 10 point fellow which weighed 175 pounds. Lloyd bagged a 100 pound spike. Assisting The Blind Has Been Outstanding Work Of Club Since Beginning FUNERAL RITES FOR MRS. SUTTON; 62, HELD WEDNESDAY Funeral services were held at Long Branch Ba*ptrst church Wednesday at 2:00 o'clock p. m., J or Mrs. Amanda Elizabeth Brown Sutton, age 62, who died at C J. Harris hospital Sunday morning following an extended illness. Rev. C. M. Warren, pastor of the Sylva Baptist Baptist church, officiated, assisted by Rev. Oscar Beck. In terment was in the Franklin cem etery Active pallbearer were nephews of the deceased Honorary pallbearers were: Charlie Thomas, Claude Queen, Carl Davis, Robert (Bud) Ensley, Theodore Snyder, and A. H. Weav. er. Flower girls were: Mrs. Drake and Mjss Cabe of the hospital, Jo Meta T^rpin, Mildred Brown, Peggy DeariXMrs. Buster Solesby, Mis. Ralph QKPer^^ftid Mickey Farmer. Surviving are the husband, 3a lias Sutton, three daughters, Misses Effie and Kathryn Sutton, ??nd Mrs. Albert Brooks, all of DillsborO; three sons, Realis, of Dillsboro; S. Sgt. John A. Sutton of Army Air Force, and Bruce M. Sutton, of Charlotte; one grand daughter, Mary Elizabeth Brooks: six sisters, Mrs. Meta Turpin. Dillsboro, Mrs. Alice Green, Speed well, Mis, Nora Cireen, Greens Creek; Mrs. Bell Farmer and Miss Bessie Brown, of Canton, and one biother, John Brown, of Dillsboro. Cullowhee Methodist Choir To Present Christmas Pageant On Sunday evening, December 12, 8:00 P. M.. at Cullowhee Meth odist Church, the choir of the church, members of the student group will present a Christmas pageant entitled "The Shepherd's Star". The pageant uses the fa miliar Christmas story, and a background for the dramatic ac tion is furnished by Christmas music. The dramatic action of the page ant is under the direction o; Mi-,s Mabel Tyree, a member of th? faculty of Western Carolina Teach ers C )llege. and the choir is under t o (In-: ct ion v. Mi.-. Gir't.'i Kfi'-r. a; d staging ' '' ?: ' ?'1t-. ci: rect ion < ?f Frank Murray. i 1 lie same h.-s been o! ? 1 : r. ;?! e . I.,.,, y> a:x by t. :e 1 ?*' :mi?j dramali ? groups of v- ?' be ' ? ' i. i' : ,.'i ;.ppet.i ; n Lf, Club Has Been Power Behind Many Civic Projects In County The Sylva Lions Club observed' its 12th anniversary with an ap propriate program at the regular "O bi - weekly meeting Wednesday evening, December 1, with Lion Hugh Monteith as master of cere monies. President Roy Reed, presided. The clfib* met in the high school cafeteria where a delicious dinner was served to the large group of members and special guests.' All former presidents of the club and all charter members pres ent were recognized. Mr. Monteith revieved the wwk. of the club during its 12 years of very active work and service to the community. Assistance to blind of this and other commtmi ties has been one of the club's | main projects. Some of the activi ties of the club during its history in addition to the work with the blind includes many civic projects such as: Sponsoring softball teams* preparing ard giving Christmas baskets to needy persons, erecting, road signs, sponsoring air shows, donkey ball games, Federal music project, beds for hospital, help in ? chamber of commerce drives, raised $1100.00 for new fire truck, sponsored carnival, sponsored rat extermination campaign, installed coca-cola machine in courthouse, paid for operation for blind man, started blind man in business. Bought flag for colored scout troop, sponsored eye clinic, going away party for draftees, helped pay for furniture in hospital, op erated dime board, sponsored scrap iron collection, -aided in Red Cross drive, gave negro ministrel, sold $15,225.00 in war bonds, built booth for hitch hiking men, paid for operation for child, sponsored Red Cross workroom, sponsored collection of 10,369 pounds clothing for needy of Europe. Donated to cancer drive, held 43rd consecutive meeting of 100% attendance, voted to sponsor high school athletic program and raised $600, dedicated Mark Watson Field, helped to sponsor high* school band, gave negro ministrel and netted $300, equipped play ground at community park, agreed to donate $20 per month to Ashe ville blind clinic. These are just a few of the many things' the club has done. Si?:ce its organization the club h: s pu:chased 156 pair of glasses f??r peivons who could not afford t<> pay lor t;;ci.- own glasses. The club has had over 400 people ex amine,! ;<>r glasses. For causes other than blind work ?th<- Hun has d'?:i;.lcd the sum of ? | ?2.753..%. Qualla Students Are Served Big Thanksgiving Dinner Through the cooperation of the! \ school children, parents, lunch room workers and teachers, the children of the Qualla school were served a bountiful Thanksgiving dinner on Thanksgiving day. One hundred and ninety-one persons were served a heaping plae, con sisting of the following delicious food: Baked turkey and dressing, creamed potatoes, and gravy, cran berry sauce, green beans, frozen salad, hot rolls, milk and pump kin pie. The mothers of the school chil dren very graciously helped out by sending 32 pumpkin pies, al ready baked, and the school is very grateful to them for this kindness. The lunch room workers were assisted in preparing and serving this meal by Mrs. Thad Patton, Mrs. John Cathey, and Mrs. Claude Denton. Visitors at meal time were Rev. O. E. Thorne, James Hall, and Claude Denton. In the afternoon a Thanksgiving program was given in the auditor ium. The program consisted of piano numbers by the pupils in Mrs. Ben Cathey's music class, poems, songs and a playlet re lating to Thanksgiving, and a most interesting talk by the Rev. Thorne, pastor of the Shoal Creek Metho? dist church. >. Rev. Thorne spent the entire Is day at the school and in the morn ing he talked to the various up- S per-grade rooms on astronomy. Mrs. T. U. Beck and Mrs. Hdn w Cathey attended the Thanksgiving program in the afternoon. The school wishes to exptm its appreciation to everybne Who v* helped make the day a very happy one.