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Sylva, North Carottna
The County Seat erf Jeokeon County
J. A. GRAY and J. M. BIHD......._ .Publisheri
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Entered at the post office at Sylva, N. C., as
Second Class* Mail Matter, as provided under the
Act of March 3, 1179. November 20, 1914.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
One Year, la Jackson "County 42.09
Six Months, In Jackson County 1.25
One Year, Outside Jaokson County 2.5?
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A Ski Resort Area?
A Sid dub is in the process of being
organized in Jackson county. Citizens of
DiSsboro and Sylva have made their intentions
known and are going about the
matter in a businesslike manner.
Clubs have previously been organized
in Tennessee which use the snow packed
hills at Indian Gap for their pleasure. As
in times past, we here in the Mountains
of North Carolina are the last to discover
our own advantages ? but better late
than never. Our folks are waking up and
discovering that polished pieces of lumber
referred to as 44Skis'' do just as nicely
on North Carolina snow as anywhere
else!
In addition io the recreational facilities
this "new-found" sport will bring to
our own people it seems worthy of mention
that other sections of the nation have
jirofrted greatly by the "ski trade". Anyone
who has ever attended a moving
picture has viewed the extensive tourist
facilities which do a thriving business in
such areas as Washington State and the
Great -Lakes section, drawing tourists
from hundreds of miles around for weektrmc
and frnm all over the nation for
longer stays.
It seems certain that were Sking lodges
available in the vicinity of Indian
Gap, tourists from all over the Southeast
would come to partake of the sport. If
such were the case, this area could be
built into a year around tourist area ?
and would that be bad?
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What A New Road Would Mean . . .
The talk and ^planning continues for a
new highway which would run in the
gexgeral direction of the present Cullowhee
highway, ^on through Cashier and
thus into South Carolina. Such a road
would be the biggest boost Jackson county
could receive &t this time.
Such a route would connect the county
directly with the rich winter resort areas
which lie not far fae^toixd the South Caro?
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lina line. Uasmers nas aireaay ieit me
benefit of the tourist trade from that direction
? but a mare suitable highway,
coupled with a desire and will on the part
of county citizens to "sell" the county to
outsiders as a good summer resort area,
would be of great benefit to everyone.
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Background of Roger W. Babson
American business has no more inspiring
personality than Roger W. Babson,
internationally-known business commentator
and investment adviser. An
outstanding feature of his philosophy
has been his life-long insistence on the
importance of religion in business*
Born in 1875, reared in an old-fashioned
atmosphere of hard work and hustle
on a farm in Gloucester, Mr. Babson
went to the Massachusetts Institue of
Technology. Upon graduating in 1898,
r he turned instinctively to financial and
business activities.
Mr. Babson founded Babson Institute
for men; and, in cooperation with Mrs.
Babson, developed Webber College for ,
women, ? both nationally-known educational
institutions. Here voung men
and women may concentrate more'in the
fundamentals nr?4 Ip^s on tho frills of
business.
More recently he founded "Utopia
College" for men, located in Eureka,
. Kansas, the center of Mr. Babson's "Magic
Circle". He is also reviving an interest
in Sir Thomas More who ? 400 years
- ago ? outlined in his "Utopia" the only
solution to our problems. Only this year
Jbe has been active in the establishment
of still another medium of service to the
public, the Gravity Research Foundation,
located at New Boston, New Hampshire.
k>. To millions of newspaper readers, Mr.
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THE SY]
New
Year's Greeting
The publishers and staff of The Herald
extend best wishes to everyone in Jackson
County and to our readers and supporters
elsewhere for a Happy New Year,
carrying with it throughout the 365 days
continued health, happiness, and prosperity.
We especially wish to thank ouf friends
for the many fine compliments expressed
to us during the year for our efforts
in bringing to you a good newspaper and
also for the fine support we have received
from the business firms in advertising
and commercial printing. We feel that
the benefits have been mutual and that
thereby the Herald is enabled to contribute
greatly to the general welfare of
the community.
It is our hope and plan to enlarge the
services of this newspaper to this community
during the coming year. With the
loyal support of our friends we feel confident
that we can make The Herald more
worthwhile as a community builder.
During the month of December we
prepared and published 72 pages of news,
features, farm information, society,
church notices, pictures, and advertisements.
To print this large number of
pages, which when reduced to column
inches adds up to 10,080, has been quite
a task, but one we have enjoyed, although
it did mean burning of the mid-night oil
at times.
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A Good Year . . .
Jackson Countains can look back over
the year just passing and mark it down!
on their memory record as having been
a good year. Much progress has been
made along many lines of endeavor, es-j
pecially in the agricultural field. It was,
during the early summer <of this year
that the Hatching Egg program was mapped
out and put into operation. Within a
few months a large number of the farmers
who entered this type of farm program
began getting their first eggs. Some
;jU,UUO pullets are now entering the laying
period or are about to start laying.
Educationally, Jackson county like
practically all other counties in the state,
has lacked adequate school buildings. (
Last year the people <of Jackson county
gave the county school board the "goahead"
signal in school building improvement
by voting in favor of bonds
for buildings and repairs. Some progress
has already been made: the Sylva
Elementary building has been remodeled
and placed in U9e again; the new building
at Barkers Creek to take care of Wilmot
and Barkers Creek children is rapidly
going up. Plans for other new buildings
are in the making.
Several new building have been completed
or are in process of construction;
Scotts Creek Baptist church members
are about to complete a large educational
building of brick, steel and concrete
construction. Which will nrmriHc -o
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ate facilities for the large Sunday school
of that church; the Sylva Presbyterian
church had its formal opening the latter
part of November; the Sylva Methodist
church members are making plans for
remodeling and modernizing their
church. A number of churches in the
rural areas have made improvements.
The largest single construction in Sylva
this year is the Dan Allison building
on Main Street; Hoyt Robinson is about
to complete a four unit apartment building
in the City Park area. Several new
nomes have been built in the town and
county this year, and some 25 farms have
built laying houses for hens in the hatching
egg program.
We can all be thankful that the county
suffered no disasters such as fire, flood,
wind storms, or serious epidemics. Generally,
the health of our citizens has been
very good.
We can look forward to the new year
with hope and confidence and the deter
mination to continue to improve the living
standards of our people. It is hoped
that the new year may see the various
communities enter beautification and
improvement programs, such that will
make Jackson one of the most attractive
counties in Western North Carolina.
iTab;,orl 1:; Vnown hy his, familiar
weekly stories on business which, appear
in more than 420 papers throughout
North America. Of unbounded energy,
Roger W. Babson has probably done more
than any^ other man to bring statistics
to life, to instill a broader vision in businessmen
,and to publicize the ups-anddowns
of the business cycle.
Mr. Babson's annual Business and Financial
Outlook is being published in The
Herald this week. It gives his views on
what he thinks we may expect in 1950.
LVA HERALD AND RUAAI
EVENTUALLY, WH
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The Every da;
By REV. HERBERT
As 1949 corses to ^ a close we ^
dual freedom.
But we also should be thinking
about the direction in which we
are going and what we are doing
to preserve the freedom of the individual
man. T. D. Kemp, Jr.,
in his column NC?W which I make
a habit to read profitably, offers!
some very serious food for thought
in his December Uth column.
"Two powerful warnings against
the road we are traveling came
Iram important men last week.
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., head of Gen-|
eral Motors, one of this nation's
greatest organizations, tells a
Chicago audience that we are
'slowly but surely losing our lib-1
erties and are traveling the road I
to slavery. If we turn back the I
pages of history we find indelibly
inscribed thereon the fact that
human progress is synonymous
with^ human freedom. It is only >
when men were free to exercise f
their initiative, their talents, their <
ambitions, and the incentive of j
individual advancement that civilization
really began and has since
developed.'
"And Dr. Vannevar Bush, the j
eminent scientist, tells an audience!
M.l.T. that Soviet Russia is
hnilHina a hicr urar mor>V-* i?-?a nn^
vt k/?5 Ui ItiUViiAll^ OllU I
will use it against us when and if*
'the Kremlin gangsters' think they!
can (defeat us. 'And a people bent
on a soft security, surrendering
their birthright of individual selfreliance
for favors, voting themselves
into Eden from a supposedly
inexhaustible public purse, supporting
everyone by soaking a
last-disappearing rich, scrambling
for subsidy, learning the arts of
political logrolling and forgetting
the rugged virtues of the pioneer, |
will not measure up to competition
with a tough dictatorship,' he
said.
"When, you wonder, will the
American people awaken? ...1
We are the last great nation on!
earth seeking to preserve the pri-'
vate enterprise ideal, the last that
stands against world domination'
by the Communists. It seems in-1
credible that so many listen to
the politicians and propagandists
who would soften us up for the
kill.
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"in Washington's Smithsonian
Institute . . . there is displayed a ?
completely reconstructed dodo 1
bird; the last of which died in the 1
17th century. The dodo bird, once r
powerful, became extinct because c
MUGGS AND SKEETER
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y Counsellor
8PAUGH, D. D.
ts life was too easy . . . Though
lot pleasant to tliink about, what
lapped to the dodo could happen
o us."
Too many of us are being taken
ip with the idea that the world
>wes us a living, looking to a
>enevolent government to provide
hose things which our own intiative,
effort, and courage should
>rovide under the direction of Alnighty
God. We need to remember
the advice of Oliver Cromvell,
"Trust God and keep your
x>wder dry." The national motto,
'In God We Trust," is still on the
:oin of our land. We had better
>ractice these mottoes and pracice
them hard.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The third edtion
of Dr. Spaugh's little book
>n successful living '*The Pathway
o Contentment" is now available.
Orders may be sent to The Everyiay
Counselor, Box 6036, Charotte
7, N. C. The price is $1.00
postpaid. It also may be secured:rom
your bookstore.
BAN YOU REMEMBER?
5 YEARS AGO
The school house at Tuckaseigee
vas completely destroyed by fire,
rhe Sylva Fire Department wasrailed
but due to the distance the1
Eire was beyond control. |
OPA has asked housewives to
destroy old Ration Books in preparation
for the issue of the new
aooks.
Mrs. E. Curry entertained employees
of Bowers Dept. Store and
guests with a X-mas party and
iinner at Jarrett Springs Hotel.
Quests were Mrs. D. M. Tailent,
Mrs. Ous Holman, Mrs. Woodrow
Middleton, Mrs. T. C. Bryson and
Mrs. Ernest Torok.
The members of the Lion's Club,
and Boy and Girl Scouts will collect
paper in both the residential
and business districts of Sylva.
Dr. and Mrs. Grover Wilkes entertained
on Wednesday evening
with an informal musical. Two
piano compositions were played
oy Mrs, Paul Ellis and Mrs. Wil-!
kes.
Lt. George Perkins of Dillsboro
married Miss Francis Esser of;
Laremore, North Dakota.
Home from college for the vacations
are Miss Anne Warren from'
Furman, Miss Patsy Bailey from
Womans College, Miss Mary Margaret
Seay from High Point Colege,
Miss Ann Cowan from Bre/ard
College, and Miss Jean Bar ett
from Greensboro College.
Toxaphene is now recommend?d
for the control of ticks, lice,
lornflies, and sheep ticks on all
ivestock except dairy cattle. This
naterial is of special value in the
:oTitrol of ticks.
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By Miss Li
It has been found that a num-|
ber of conditions must be satisfied
before success in reading simple
passages or stories can reasonably
be expected. In some studies
the role of intelligence has,
been stressed; in others, emphasis
has been given to the significance J
of maturation, motive, language,
development, or experience. Investigators
no longer attribute rea- <
din ess to a single item such as
mental age. It is now generally1
conceded that readiness is a de-|
velopmental condition depending
upon the combined operation of a
number of related factors such as
home background, physical status
and growth, mental maturity, emotional
and social growth, inter
ests, attitudes and experiences.
1?I understand that the -children
sometimes make scrapbooks,
build toy forms, dramatize family
activities, or go on trips to the
places of interest in the community.
What do these activities accomplish?
The reading-readiness program
is so planned that it provides many
experiences for children which
supplement and extend the ideas
they bring to school. Some children
have had more varied experience
than others before they
come to school. The activities of
the readiness program helps all the
children gain a common background
of experiences and ideas
needed to read the printed page
with understanding.
This same principle ? of providing
activities and experiences
which will help children to understand
and interpret what they
read ? is applied by teachers of
all grades. Many of the group activities
your child engages in contribute
either <$jtrectly or indirectly
to his progress in reading by
arousing interests which bootts
will help to satisfy by building up
a background of experiences and
vocabulary which will make his
reading more enjoyable and meaningful,
by giving him an opportunity
to try out for himself ideas
he has found in books.
2?Reading books are different
today. What is the purpose of the
beautiful pictures?
Your child's first little rqading1
book, first pre-primer of the Basic
Reading Program, looks and is
different from the first reader
you had as a six-year-old. Notice
how colorful, how realistic, how
appealing the pictures are. But
there is more to these pictures than
glamour.
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Thursday, Dec. 29, 1949
Hi The School
icille Hunt
Look carefully and you will see
that this first little pre-primer is
made up of a number of stories.
Something happens in each one.
Often it is amusing; always it
holds a child's interest. Note that
the very limited vocabulary is not
sufficient to tell a story in itself.
The plot of each story is carried
in the pictures, and the words
which the children read tell what
the characters in the pictures are
saying.
The children enjoy looking at,
thinking about ,and then talking
about the pictures together in the
classroom. Then it's a natural thin#
to turn to the printetf Vords and
read what the characters are saying.
^
! By the end of the first gradey
the words the child reads are telling
all or almost all of the story.
But pictures continue to be important
in stll our basic readers.
At all levels, the pictures are
planned as visual aids to good
reading. ?
OVER 20,000 COWS
BRED ARTIFICIALLY
More than a 70 per cent increase
was made this year over
1948 in the number of Notth Carolina
cows bred under the artificial
insemination program, reports
John F. Brown, extension
?- - A _ * % _11 .
aairy specialist at state ^ouege.
An estimated 21,000 werejbred
in 1949 as compared with only 12,
600 last year, Brown says.
Anson and Jackson are the latest
counties to organize artifical
breeding associations. With these
two units, Brown says, the State
now has 50 associations serving
farmers in 56 counties.
East La Porte News
Miss Hattie Burrell has returned
to Charlotte to resume her work
with the American Hardware Company
after spending the Christmas
holidays with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. General Burrell.
James Wike, a student of State
College, Raleigh, spent the Christmas
holidays with his parents,'
Mr; and Mrs. Homer Wike.
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Burrell and
little son, Johnny, of Dillsboro*,
spent the holidays with Mr. Bur*
rell's parents, Mr. and Mrs. General
Burrell.
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