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Big Volume
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Buying Season Started
Off Slow But Wound Up
In Big Rush On Last
Few Days
According to reports by most of
the merchants of Sylva they en,
joyed a near record volume of
sales during the Christmas shopping
season. The season got off to a
rather slow start which caused
some concern among the store
owners who had stocked large
quantities of gift merchandise but
the last week saw the stores filled
with shoppers and the last minute
rush was on. Some of the department
stores had to use extra sales
clerks during the last few days to
handle the shoppers seeking to
complete their gift buying.
The merchants are in very good
. spirits this week as they begin the
annual cleanup and inventory
work. With stocks down they are
preparing to place spring merchandise
on their shelves in preparation
for the coming spring
trade.
Some of the merchants plan to
begin annual after Christmas sales
next week which will no doubt
Include some good bargains in
merchandise for those who have
waited for tf>e 'reduction of ffeM
and winter goods.
ROAD MEETING CALLED
FOR QUALLA CITIZENS
Albert Patton who was recently
appointed to the Jackson county
"Better Roads" committee has
called a special meeting of all
Qualla citizens for Saturday night,
December 31, at 7 in the evening.
The meeting win bo held in the
Qualla school building.
Important decisions will be made
at the meeting concerning which
2 oads will be worked in the Qualla
area. Anyone having anything to
say upon roads should be present
p.t the meeting since the recommendations
of the committee will
be followed when the Highway Department
begins working on the
roads at Qualla.
Jackson Poulti
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. \ Fifty-five Jackson county farmers
visited the Gainesville, Ga.
broiler area last week to see the
latest methods of producing broiler
chicks. The group left Sylva
at 8 a.m. on Wednesday morning
by bus and car and arrived in
Gainesville around 11 o'clock.
The large commercial hatchery
, of L. A. Chemell was visited first.
This hatchery has a complete set
of new buildings, some of which
are 240 feet in length. The capacity
of this hatchery is one million,
six hundred thousand eggs. It has
an outlet in some six or eight
states for the high quality chicks
that will be produced from Jackson
county hatching eggs. Practically
all the eggs produced in
Jackson county will be marketed
here under contract. The current
price being paid for hatching eggs
is 80 cents per dozen.
It was interesting to our hatching
egg producers to learn that
this hatchery has been operating
at full capacity and has had a
good sale for all chicks produced
even during the decline in the
demand for baby chicks during the
past few weeks. #
From the commercial hatchery
the group visited the replacement
hatchery. It is from this place that
the Jackson county farmers have
been getting pullets. No employee
at this place nor any truck that
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SEE SMALL DROP
IN GROCERY BILL
Agriculture Department experts
, see a small drop in the Nation's!
grocery bill for 1950 with the
housewives probably able to save
a little out of their allowance.
But they warned that we can expect
no big tumble or sharp decline
in prices. Eggs, pork and
poultry, they said, may be cheaper
in 1950 while sugar and dairy
prices will remain about the same.
Bread and bakery prices also arej
expectp^fTcTremain steady. Grape- I
fruit will be more expensive with
oranges costing less.
A. H. Weaver In
Georgia Hospital
Mr. A. H. Weaver is a patient
at the Lawson. General hospital,1,
Chamblee, Ga. where he under-!
, went an operation last Friday for(
the removal of cataracts from his j j
eyes. Mr. Weaver is reported to [ ]
be getting along nicely and ex-11
1 pects to return to his home in 1
Dillsboro in about ten days.
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; Square Dance To Be i
Held Friday Night
The American Legion will sponsor
a square dance to be held in
the Legion hall Friday night, De- >
cember 30 from 9 'til 12 o'clock.' |
The Soco Gap string band will ]
1 play for the occasion.
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Vet Farm Training [
Instructors To Meet ]
There will be a district meeting (
of assistant teachers and Veteran
Farm program leaders at Cullo- .
whee in Hoey auditorium on Tuesday,
January 3, at 2 o'clock p.m.
i State and District leaders will take
pait in the meeting.
"The most rapid change in our
economy since 1939, and prob- i
ably the most significant, is the
tremendous increase in the money
income of the people," says Chas.
A. Burmeister of the U. S. Department
of Agriculture.
yrnen Visit Big
riler Hatcheries
! serves the replacement hatchery i ]
j is allowed to visit the commercial
| hatchery. The reason for this is i J
! to eliminate any possibility of! 1
spreading disease. Eggs hatched |
here come from Nichols Poultry <
j farm and cost 14 cents each. I
We next looked at 2200 roosters ;
of a special strain of Cornish }
Game. These were lighter colored i
than the ones we are accustomed
to seeing. They have been bred ]
or this light color so that the off- j \
spring from them will pick clean. j
when they are run through the ]
picking machines. f
At lunch time one of the better <
restaurants in Gainesville had I
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OCCIl rescrvcu uy mi. Clientcti nnv
fed the entire group a free chicken
dinner and all the trimmings !
The main point stressed by the
hatchery officials while conduct- <
ing us through the plant was that i
there must be no compromise on ,
quality of baby chicks. Before
quality baby chicks can be pro- ,
duced they must have quality eggs <
that we can produce here in our
section of heavy rainfall and cool :
summer nights. 1
More pullets will be available
to our farmers in January, Febru- :
ary and March. Farmers who are
planning to get thern are urge-i to
let the County Agent or the Agri- <
culture teacher vnow of hi* in-,1
tpntions to that airangements can 1
J be made to help him. 1
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I). S. CONSUL GENERAL at Mukden,
William J. Sebald, Gen. Douglas ]
arrival at Yokohama, Japan, aboar<
accompanied by his wife and cons
the U. S. aboard the President Wils
report on conditions in Communist
Records - Go
While most of North Carolina
and the Nation as a whole were
piling up holiday highway slaughter
records Jackson county almost
ter records, Jackson county almost
deaths occurred and only one person
was slightly injured. Our people
are to be congratulated for the
safe and sane holiday as to highway
traffic. However, the picture
isn't so good for the year as a
whole. Jackson marked up one of
its worst records for fatal highway
accidents. According to State
Highway Patrol records eight persons
were killed on the highways
in the county this year. The recDrds
show that pnly two persons
last their lives in highway accidents
in Jackson in 1948.
Jackson was not alone in a bad
record for 1949. North Carolina
piled up a slaughter record of
which we should all be ashamed,
not only ashamed but indignant
FUNERAL FOR GLENN
NORMAN, 45, HELD
SUNDAY MORNING
Funeral services for Glenn Norman,
45, who died at 7:30 p. m.
Friday following a heart attack
suffered at 7:00 o'clock that morning,
were held at the Whittier
Baptist, church Christmas Day
morning at 11:00 o'clock with the
Rev. ' Johnny Hyatt, officiating.
Burial was in the family cemeLery
near Whittier.
Moody Funeral Home was in
:harge.
Mr. Norman was a mechanic
and was employed at the Harry
Bhelton service station at the Gateway
on Highways 107 and 11-A.
Surviving are the father, R. V.
Norman, of Shoal Creek; two sisters,
Mrs. Dec Angel, Hazelwood,
and Mrs. Harry Cline, of Roset>oro,
N. C.; 1 brother, Frank, of
Canton, and half-brother, Sam
Df Willets.
4-H Club Meetings
Scheduled In January
Tom Cannon, director of 4-H
:lub work in the county, has announced
meeting schedules for
January as follows:
January 3rd 11:15 a.m. Sylva
Junior club; 2 p.m. Sylva Senior
club.
January 4th 0:15 a.m. Wilmot;
1030 a.m. Qualla and 2 p.m. Dillst>oro.
January 5th 9:15 a.m. Beta;
10:45 Savannah; 2 p.m. Soco.
January 6th 10 a.m. Balsam.
Oscar Phillips, assistant State
l-H club leader will be present at
the meetings to talk with the members
about their 4-H club activities.
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A record of which we can be|'?
proud is that the town of Sylva ^
was a law abiding community
during the holidays. Police Chief
Dillard Hooper says that his department
did not find it necessary
to make an arrest, that there were! *
no drunks or any other type of!^
rcwdiness over the week-end.
|3heritf Middleton likewise re- th
ports the quietest holiday on rec- ai
ord with no arrests being made and tc
the jail completely empty. He bi
said that he enjoyed the entire
day without a single call on Christ- is
mas Day. He remarked that while 't
Jackson people were enjoying N
Christmas in a law abiding man- E
ier surrounding counties were m
having their troubles as he could R
hear many calls over the radio si
going into the sheriff and Patrol
offices. 'oi
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Claude Adams Putnam (above),
of Keene, N. H., was chosen presi- S
dent of the National Association of E
Manufacturers at group's conven- w
tioa in New York. (International) st
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Leaves For S. America ^
John Kiser, who with Mrs. Kiser,
has been spending some time
here with Mr. and Mrs. John B.
Ensley, left Monday for New York c
rom where he will sail for Hio.^4
ae Janeiro, Brazil, South AmeriIca
to join the Morrison-Knudsen P>
Construction Company in the ^
VmfMfnjr o1 n Inrjfe hydro electric w
plant, dam and tunnel. This work w
is being done for the Brazilian
Government. cl
Mr*. Kiser plans to join her oi
husband in Rio in a few months. w
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notice pi
A representative of the Ashe- a
ville office of Social Security Ad- J*
ministration will be at the Sylva
post office at 10 a.m. on Thurs- J*
day, January 5.
IOItAMON'1 in Sylva
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UNION'S HOLIDAY i
RAGEDIES PASS
HE 600 MARK
Six hundred and eleven persons i
st their lives during the Christas
holidays according to Najnal
Safety Council figures cornled
from 6 a.m. Friday until j
idnight Monday at the Chicago
fice. The Council warns that the
;ath rate will be increased over
e New Year week-end unless
>eople have sickened of making
>rror days out of their holidays."
The council said that Christmas
)liday carnage should horrify the
ition as much as the Texas City
saster of two years ago.
Final tabulation by ^ wire serces
showed that 611 persons
ed in accidents across the couny.
Traffic deaths accounted for
!0 of the deaths. Miscellaneous
xidents claimed 124 lives, 631
ed in fires and only four were
lied in plane crashes. The low
ite in plane accidents is probab
due to bad weather having
ounded many flights.
North Carolina counted 22 killJ
and many others injured while
ie Nation was piling up its recd
of highway carnage. Jackson
>unty was fortunate in that no
ital accidents happened during
ie holidays.
New Years Day!
Ime For Fruit Cake
ind Black Eyed Peas
New Years Day! The time for
ie fruit cake, the black eyed peas
id souse meat ? the giant balls
> help old Father Time out and
ring in the baby New Year.
There is no other holiday that
so widely celebrated in the difrent
countries of the earth as
ew Year's Day. Not only among
nglish-speaking peoples but along
Mexicans, Turks, Greeks,
ussians, Chinese, Japanese, Peruns,
and Hawaiians.
How old the custom of celerating
New Year's Day is will
robably never be known but we
3 know that three thousand years
efore Christ was born the people
ho lived in the ancient country
f Babylonia kept a New Year
estival, which they called "Zaliuck",
the rejoicing in which
sted for eleven days. Another
nown fact about New Year's Day
that in Roman times there were
Lit ten months in the year but
Mdually the months of January
id February were added and the
?ar was made to begin on Januy
1st, which was held for the
icred god Janus Bifrons, or 'Twoiced
Janus", so called because
= was supposed to look back on
ic old year and to look forward
i the new one.
It was during the last three or
?ur hundred years that the fesvities
and merrymaking conscted
with the New Year may be
lid to have begun on New Year's
ve. In England and Scotland it
as customary directly as the clock
ruck twelve an New Year's Eve
r the young people to rush off
? the nearest spring of water.
rhoever lirst tasted the water
ten drawn, which was called "the
earn of the well", might look
ir good luck during the coming I
?ar.
One of the greatest enjoyed
radices in Scotland was that of
te Wassail BowL Wassail is a
ord made up of the two Saxon
ords Wass and HaeL, meaning
ro Your Health!" Directly the
ock had struck twelve the head
I the house would sip of the
arm drink in the bowl to the
salths of those around him, and
us it to the rest. Then, taking
hot kettleful of the beverage and
>me refreshments, such as buns,
read, and cheese, the company
ould visit friends' houses. On
ew Year's Day itself the boys
ould go from house to house,
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Koger W. Babson
Pvt. Frizzell And
Buddies Parade For
General Collins
Private Vance Frizzell, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Frizzell of
Sylva, North Carolina, took part
in a parade at Osaka, Japan, for
General J. Lawton Collins who is
inspecting the Far East Command.
Private Frizzell is a member of
the 27th Infantry Regiment of the
i'amed 25th Infantry (Tropic
Lightning) Division, commanded
by Major General William B.
Kean. The 27th Infantry Regiment
it stationed at Camp Sakai, near
Osaka, Japan, and is commanded
by Colonel John W. Childs.
North Carolinians
To Pay More Gas Tax
North Carolinians and tho?c buying
gasoline in North Carolina
win nave 10 pay one mure wm
per gallon State Tax on gasoline
after January 1st. State Gas Tax
will be uped from six to seven
cents at this time to help pay the
state's $200,000,000 secondary road
bond issue. The tax increase was
voted in automatically when the
state voted on the big rural road
program. The extra cent is expected
to yield an additional $7,
000,000 a year.
Whittier News
Mr. and Mrs. Zell Stillwell of
Whittier had as their guests over
the Christmas holidays, Mr. and
Mrs. Kent Crisp, daughters, Joanne
and Mary Ellen, Mr. Charles
Stillwell, of Savannah, Georgia,
and Mr. and Mrs. George Stillwell,
of Anderson, S. C.
Miss Selma Stillwell, who is
attending high school in Fernandina,
Fla., spent Christmas holidays
at Whittier with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Zell Stillwell.
Dr. Jonawasky
Officer For Nei
On January 1st an entirely new
set-up will take place in the District
Health Department. Instead
of the District being comprised of
Haywood, Jackson, Swain and
Cherokee Indian Reservation, Haywood
will be a district within itself
with Dr. Marv MichaL and Mrs.
i Alma McCracken in charge.
The new district of Jackson,
Macon, Swain and Cherokee Indian
Reservation will be under the
direction of Dr. Carl C. Jonawsky,
who will have headquarters ^in
Sylva. Dr. Jonawsky said that
there will be no change in clinics
as now set-up until after the new
district is completely organized.
The personnel will also remain
the same he said.
Dr. Jonawsky came to Jackson
county last September and now
makes his home at Cullowhee. He
formerly practiced privately and
in industry in New York City. He
is a veteran with three years service
in the European theater ol
war, and married and has three
children.
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icts Will Be
11, He Says,
to Suffer
Does Not Expect Federal
Taxes To Be Increased,
Capital to Be Encouraged
by Roger W. Babson
1. The total volume of business
for 1950 will be less than that of
1949, due primarily to the unfortunate
labor conflicts. Considering
that the innocent consumer
will be the chief sufferer and will
be obligated to pay the bills, it
seems too bad that labor troubles
should upset the applecart.
LABOR OUTLOOK
2. Even with all the threats,
there will be few wage increases
during 1950. On the other hand,
| all labor negotiations take the
? minds of both the employees and
the management off their regular
business. However these negotiations
come out, they result In
a loss from the standpoint of the
country as a whole.
, 3. There will be fewer strikes
1950 IN A NUT8HELL
General Business: Off 5%
National Income: Off 6%
Farm Income: Off 16%
' Bituminous Coal: Up 5%
Anthracite: Off 5%
Crude Oil Producta: Up 6%
8teel Output: Off 5%
Auto Manufactures: Off 16%
Bldg. and Construct: Off 7%
Natural Gas: Up 6%
Foreign Trade: No Change
Airline Pas. Miles: Up 6%
Military Activities Including
Aircraft: Up 20%
Retail Trade ($ Volume):
Off 3 % to 10%
in 1950 than in 1949, but there
will not be fewer extended negotiations
which are very expensive
in themselves.
i 4. The Taft-Hartley Law will
continue to stand throughout 1950t
! although many schemes for de'
touring this law will be devised.
| 5. The great drive against the
1 big companies will be for pensions
! and/or for sick and other bene'
fits. These will probably be help
; ful to the wageworkers and may
. aid in ironing out the business
i cycle, but they will be paid for
1 by consumers.
i 6. It is hoped that all parties will
begin to realize during 1950 that
I the real road to national progress
i is through increasing production
! and greater efficiency. This is the
! bright light we see in the labor
- situation.
COMMODITY PRICES
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Dies At Oak Ridge
Word has been received here of
the death of Mrs. Byron Marsh
of Oak Ridge, Tenn., a former
resident of Sylva, Monday afternoon
at her home following a
stroke. Mr. Marsh, who survives,
was one time a resident highway
engineer here.
Mrs. Marsh is the former Mfe*
Dorothy Hunnington of Rochester,
N. Y.
Funeral services will be held
from the Little Church on The
Hill in Oak Ridge today (Thursday),
and the body will then be *4
taken to Rochester for burial.
Besides the husband other surf
vivors are 1 daughter, Mrs. Dolly
i Hensley of Lenoir and 1 son, Byron
t Marsh, Jr. of Bryson City,
Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Thompson*
: Mrs. C. Z. Candler, Sr., and Mrs.
! C. Z. Candler, Jr. will attend the
I funeral from here,
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