VOL. XXIV?NO. 46
Merchants F
Community
Sales Event
Tickets on New Car
Hundreds of Big
Bargains Offered
Hundreds of bargains will be
offered the buying public of Sylva
and vicinity in a big three-day
Community Goodwill event to be
sponsored by the Sylva Merchants
during the latter part of April.
Definite dates for the event will
be announced in next week's issue
of The Herald. In connection
with the Community Goodwill event
the Merchants are going to
contribute to the benefit of C. J.
Harris hospital fund. All persons
buying $10 or more of merchandise
will be given a ticket and
chance on the new 1950 model automobile
being sponsored by the
Ladies' Auxiliary of the hospital.
This brand new car will be disposed
of on May 13 when the Auxiliary
holds Hospital Day in Sylva.
Be sure and watch The Herald
for the big Community Goodwill
Days announcement date. Your
Sylva Merchants are going to have
plenty of real bargains to offer
during these days.
Make your plans to attend this
big bargain-giving event. When
you buy at home you are helping
promote a bigger and better com*
faiunlty.
Save tires, Save gas, Save time
. . . buy in Sylva during Community
Goodwill Days.
DISTRICT HEALTH"
' OFFICIALS HAVE
MEETING HERE.
The office staff of She District
* Health office was host to Mrs.
Louise P. East, Consultant of
State Health Service and Wm.
. Broadway, State Sanitation Engineer
serving in Western North
Carolina, at a luncheon at Jarrett
Springs hotel "Tuesday at
noon.
The State officers and District
officers met in the courthouse for
a business meeting at which time
health and sanitation work was
discussed.
Those attending the meeting
other than Mrs. East and Mr.
t-> _ J j i. r\_ si o
uauway xuciuueu. ur. v.. v^.
Janowsky, District Health officer;
Miss Violet Mann, County Health
Nurse, of Jackson; Miss Mary
Olliver, Cherokee Indian Reservation;
Mrs. Elsie Guffey, State
health nurse; Mrs. Doris Hicks,
Swain County; Mrs. Edith Conley,
Secretary Health department.
Macon County; Miss Juanita
Meadows, Swain County; H. T.
B.P.W. Club To
End Project
The G. E. Washer and G. E.
Ironer will be disposed of Saturday,
April 15, at 3 p.m. at T.
N. Massie Furniture Co. by the
Business and Professional Women's
club of SylvaThis
is for purchase of anesthesia
machine for local hospital.
Agricultural L
Discussions On
A group of insecticide dealers
and Agricultural leaders of Jackson
County assembled at the
Courthouse on Thursday evening,
April 6th, for a discussion of insects
and recommended control
measures. The discussion was led
by T. M. Drobrovsky, Extension
Entomologist, N. C. State College.
Mr. Drobrovsky pointed.out thai
one of our newest insects of economic
importance in Western
North Carolina is the screw wonr
which attacks all livestock. The
maggot of the screw worm worki
in live flesh as well as in dead
The worm can be prevented anc
controled by use of "Smear 62"
which is obtainable from loca
druggists. It is highly recommend'
ed after all operations which breal
the animals' skin, such as dehorning,
castrating, and cuts fron
/ fences.
In discussing DDT as a hous<
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THI
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lanning Big
Goodwill
This Month
?
Sylva FHA Girls To Be
Pages At State Meeting
Wanda Green, Dorothy Ann
Ashe, Cloyce Bryson. and Doris
Jones have been selected from
Sylva high school to act as pages
along with 16 girls from six other
high schools in the state at the
State Convention for the Future
Homemakers of America which
will be held in Raleigh at Hugh
Morrison High School on Saturday,
April 15. Twenty high school
girls, members of Future Homemakers
of America from seven
schools make up those selected
for pages.
Representing the Webster Chapter
at the Convention will be Lou
Annie Cabe -and Barbara Deitz.
Betty Jean Tolbert, and Jo Ann
Henson will represent Cullowhee.
Betty Jean will fashion a play suit
at the convention.
Mrs. Willa Mae Scroggs, Sylva
High school FHA adviser, and Mrs.
W. B. Harrill, Cullowhee chapter
adviser, will accompany the girls
lo Raleigh. They will return on
Sunday, visiting places of interest
to and from Raleigh,
JACKSON CITIZENS
INVEST $9,675 IN
BONDS IN MARCH
W. J. Fisher, Savings Bonds
Chairmen for Jackson County announced
today that total U. S.
Savings Bonds sales in the county
for th* month of March amounted
|fc*g?75.00. Of this total $9,675.
ftb were in Series E Bonds; $(none)
Series F Bonds; and $ (non) in
Series G Bonds.
Total Savings Bonds sales in the
10P counties in North Carolina
were as follows: Series E $3,215,143.75;
Series F $197,820.50; Series
G $1,128,800.00; Total $4,541,764.2$.
In connection with the Spring
U. S. Savings Bonds Campaign?
the Independence Drive ? May
15th through July 4th?the county
chairman said that preparations
*Cre going forward both nationally
and locally for a short concentrated
drive.
In North Carolina 27 leading
civic, fraternal, veterans' and
women's organizations recently
met in Raleigh at a planning conference
for- spearheading the
drive. Letters from the ^presidents
or commanders of thes&or
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ate cut text tijr uciug
sent to local organization heads
urging that each group cooperate
with County Savings Bonds Chair3
men.
A Series E Bond quota for the
Independence Drive will be assigned
to each county at an early
date.
Collitis, Macon County Sanitatarian;
C. B. Thomas, District
Sanitarian; Terrell Grant, Swain
County; Mrs. Juanita Phillips
Jackson County, and Mrs. Robert?
S. Sauter, School Health Nurse
for the district.
<eaders Hear
i Pest Control
t flies control the specialist indicated
that flies do become resistant
> to DDT after continuous applica?,
tions. He recommended the chang|
ing to other sprays, when there is
I evidence of this developed resisi
tance. Methoxychlor is a new fly
spray which is safe if used accord'
ing to the manufacturer's directions.
i
i Other insect pests with their
* control listed by Mr. Drobrovsky
; included: cattle grub, 1.5 percent
. rotenone dust; peach tree borer,
1 paradichlorobenzene applied at
base of tree; apple tree borer, DDT
] sprayed on base of tree during
summer; flea bettle, $ percent
t DDT dust or liquid DDT spray;
tobacco bud worm* arsenate of
i lead with lime; and termites in
buildings, cresote and pentachlors
phenol.
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Sylvi
JEWS-ASA*S JOIN I
' V i
11 bk
IN ROUTI TO A MEETING of the Palest!
one carrying the flag of Israel, march i
resented 11,000 laborers in 34 towns
"Mapal". politically similar to British
CARL ALLMAN AND
SON TO OPEN NEW
AUTO AGENCY
DeSoto And Plymouth
Cars Will Be Sold By
Dillsboro Firm
Carl E. Allman, Sr., and son,
-dnjal lis 1* ? J 4U^
V**11) VI"., Xl?vv MVCI1 awaiMVW VIIV
Agency for DeSoto and Plymouth
cars and will open their agency
at Dillsboro in the near future. |
They will be agents for these two
popular cars Js this area.
file new jflrm, which will be
knpwn as AJKmaxa^fotor Company,
|iMl occupy the Jarrett building
In Dillsboro, which is now undergoing
cftnplete renovation for office,
dhow room and shop. The
shop will be modernly equipped
to take care of minor and major
adjustments to cars and trucks.
Mr. Allman is an experienced '
automobile man, having had ten 1
years as salesman for two of Sylva's
leading auto firms.
Carl E. Allman, Jr., is at present
teaching in Yadkinville High
school and plans to continue teaching
at present. He will join his <
father in the business at a later ]
date.
Watch The Herald for further <
announcements. i
Board Names I
Judges For Prii
J. C. Passmore, chairman of j
Board of Elections for Jackson j
County has announced the appointment
of Registrars and,
Judges for holding the coming ;
Democratic primary and election
his fall. The appointments were
made at a meeting of the Board
on Saturday, May 8.
Registrars and Judges for their
respective precincts are as follows: i
Cashiers ? Everett Lombard,
egistrar; Judges Bradburn Pell
'D) and T. S. Lance (R).
Hamburg ? Tom Holden, registrar;
Judges Frank Bryson (D) and
Buren Reynolds (R).
Mountain ? Frank Bryson, Registrar;
Judges A. C. Edwards (D)
ind Jennings ,Tucker (R).
"Rivror Mn 1 T. D Moodv. TPC
istrar; Judges R. G. Powell (E>)
end Eugene Lanning (R).
River No. 2 ? Thomas Wike,
registrar; Judges Roy Potts (D)
and Claude Parker (R).
Canada No. 1 ? Hexter Brown,
.egistrar; Judges Ralph Broom
(D) and Claude Wike (R).
Canada No. 2 ? Hayward Shelton,
registrar; Judge* Mllas Galloway
(D) and CJeve Wood (R).
Cullowhee ?- Henry L. Tayter,
registrar! Judges Wood Smith
and J. R. Watson (R).
Cahey fork ? John Cope, registrar;
Judges Mont Stevens (D)
and Dillard Hooper (R).
Webster ? Jim N. Cowan, regs'rar;
Judges Harley Lewis (D)
and Carl Allman (R).
A Savannah ? Harley Buchanan,
registrar; Judges Cicero Cowaft
(D) and Herman Cabe (R).
Greens Creek ? Joe Green, regSYLVA
CITY MARKET . . In A1P
LVA ]
ft, N. C. Thursday, April
IN LABOR LCAC,{S
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ne Labor League, Arab delegates,
;hrough Nazareth The Arabs rep,
The League is a branch of the
Labor party. (International)
CUB SCOUTS TO HOLD
BIG COUNTY FAIR
Hurry, Hurry, Hurry to th<
Big County Fair. The Sylva Cul
Scouts at their monthly pack meet
ing will hold a county fair. A1
exhibits and games will have beer
made by the boys. There wil
also be other types of entertainment
to suit the tastes of all ag<
groups.
See the Wild Man from Borneo
beautiful dancing girls from exotic
places, the Strong Man, handiwork
and games of chance.
Come one, come all to the Legion
Hall on Thursday, April 20 a
7:00 p.m. Admission is free.
The Cubs have worked hard t<
get things togethdfr for this show
Your support will spur them 01
to bigger and better things.
Rev. Ralph Nix Is New
Pastor at Webster-Dillsborc
Rev. and Mrs. Ralph Nix anc
their four children recently movec
to the Baptist parsonage at Dillsboro.
Rev. Mr. Nix is pastor oi
the Webster and Dillsboro Baptis
churches, and came here from
Edneyville.
The parsonage has been redecorated
and other improvements
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iittue uu vne prupeiiy.
legistrars And
mary Election
istrar; Judges Lyndon Cabe (D)
and Jim Hall (R).
Barkers Creek ? Jehue T
Jones, registrar; Judges Dewej
Beck (D) and Walter Brooks (R)
Dillsboro ? Willie Sutton, registrar;
Judges Ray Ensley (D) anc
E. B. Monteith (R).
South Sylva ? Mrs. Glenn Davis,
registrar; Judges John Hooper
(D) and Lewis Bumgamer (R)
North Sylva ? Wess Barnes
registrar; Judges W. H. Crawforc
(D) and Dewey Ensley (R).
Scotts Creek No. 1 ? Louii
Blanton, registrar; Judges Mila
Shuler (D) and W. H. Snyder (R)
Scotts Creek No. 2 ? Ashle:
Cagle, registrar; Judges Jacl
Queen (D) and Ode Robinson (R)
Scotts Creek No. 3 ? Georgi
Bryson, registrar; Judges George
Knight (D) and Fred Cogdill (R)
Qualla ? Grady Martin, reg
istrar; Judges W. L. Enloe (D
and Ed Bumgarner (R).
Church Fellowship
Supper April 20th
The officers of St. Jahh*S Epis
copal church of Svlv* Will be hos
to the men of the official board
of the church** of Sylva at th
quarterly Chutch Fellowship sup
per meeting on Thursday, Apr
20 at o'clock. The meetin
will b# held in the Allison buildin
of the Sylva Methodist churc
with the members of the Ladie
Auxiliary of St. John's in chan
| of the supper.
j In order that the ladies rm
know how many to prepare f<
the men of each church are urge
to notify their own pastor on or b<
fore Monday the 17th whethi
they will attend or not.
Her;
13, 1950
Scotts Cre
Gives Ove
Education
FOX SAID TO BE
IMPROVING AFTER
BLOW ON HEAD
t
Marvin Fox, 19, of the Norton
community of this county, is in
Mission hospital, Asheville, suffering
from a compound fracture
of the skull said to have been
caused by a blow on the head with
a rock in the hands of Vero Buchanan,
17, of Erastus. Buchanan is
being held in the Jackson county
jail pending the outcome ol
Fox's condition. Fox is said tc
be making slight improvement al
this time.
Fox, who remembers nothing
that happened after Saturday
afternoon, went in his injured
condition to the home of Virgil
Rogers of Erastus, according t(
investigating officers. Rogers tool
the youth to the home of Fox'j
father, who then took him to the
3 Asheville hospital.
3 Sheriff Middleton said that in"
vestigation led to the conclusior
* that Fox and Buchanan had beer
i
] drinking.
Webster Ho
9
Christella Estes, left, and Darl
I
high school grade averages, have
of Webster high school.
Miss Estes, daughter of Mr.
Creek, is finishing high school w
95.8. She will represent the class i
Miss Collins, daughter of Mr.
i be the salulatorian of the class,
twenty units and an average of 9J
ANDREW G. HASKETT
; FUNERAL HELD IN
: MACON ON MONDAY
Andrew Coleman Haskett, 78
of Speedwell died at the home o
his son, A. J. Haskett in Sylva 01
Easter Sunday, April 9, followinj
5 an illness of two months.
5 Funeral services were held Mon
^_day afternoon at 2 o'clock a
^ Mountain Grove Baptist churcl
c in Macon County with Rev. D. C
Hooper, pastor of the Speedwel
O ? ... ,
' .baptist cnurcn, oniciaung, as
e sisted by Rev. G. E. Scruggs, past
of Lovedale Baptist church an
Rev. Lee Crawford of Maco
* County,
Pftllh??lr?rs were grandson:
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Allison Announces
" Precinct Meetings
Dan M. Allison, Chairman c
k
the Democratic Executive Commi'
e tee, has announced that counl
r" precinct meetings will be held
l* each precinct in Jackson Coun
on Saturday, April 29 at 2:00 o
clock p.m. for the purpose of pe:
^ fecting the organization and f
s electing delegates to the Coun
*c Convention which will be held
the courthouse in Sylva on Sa
urday, May 6, at 2:00 o'clock p.:
Dr Following this meeting at 3:00 c
?c* clock the executive committee w
meet to name a chairman,
er
SOS8AMON'S in *yl<
\LD
;ek Congre
r $2500 Tc
1 .
at Duiiam|
*
Cats, Appalachian
Meet Friday, April 14
With two losses in as many
starts the Catamount baseball
team will try to even the score
against Appalachian as they get
their first trial against Conference
competition. The Cats bowed to
1 North Georgia in the season's opener
11-6 and was blanked by
Wofford 5-0.
Coach Tuck McDonnell will go
1 with Lefthander Jam?es Pardue
Friday in an effort to enter the
win column. Pardue suffered a
shellacking in his first outing and
| will be out to prove that he has
the goods to produce.
The hitting has been the difficulty
thus far in the season and
McConnell has jostled his lineup
[ in an effort to ram runs across the
r plate. Bromo Selzer, Don McKen1
zie, and Clyde Pressley have been
I hitting the ball at a mid-season
) clip but can't find any runners on
t the sacks at the right time.
5 The same two clubs meet again
i <?utiirHr?v unH MfTnnnol] nlnn? tr
toss freshmen righthander Bill
Davis. Davis entered the game
with Wofford in the second inn1
ing and blanked them the rest ol
1 the route.
Game time is slated for 3:30.
nor Students
T ./It
ene Collins, right, by virtue of their
been selected as the honor student!
and Mrs. Alonzo Estes, of Greens
ith twenty units and an average ol
as valedictorian.
and Mrs. Wiley Collins, of Gay will
She is finishing high school with
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1.5.
Body Of Mrs. Rogers
Taken To Atlanta, Ga.
For Burial
The body of Mrs. Earl Rogers o
Webster was taken to Atlanta
Ga. Monday for funeral service
j and burial. Mrs. Rogers, the form
^ er Miss Katherine Walden, die?
in the C. J. Harris hospital Easte
Sunday afternoon. She had beei
a patient in the hospital for th
t past two weeks,
kj Surviving are \he husband; on
; J small daughter,' Kathy; the par
II; ents, Mr. and Mrs. John G. Walder
.1 and one brother, of Atlanta.
j Gold Medal A
* Mead at Anni
j A highlight of Paper Week 1
New York in late February wi
the annual award of the Tap]
^ Gold Medal ? for 1950 to Georj
Houck Mead, who is now the hor
"j orary board chairman of Mes
j Corporation after 50 years in th
i company.
,y! Since 1933, Mr. Mead has be<
" active in Washington in goveri
I ment affairs as an industry re]
tv | resentative ? the most promine
j one from the paper industry
and his most recent appointme
" j was to the ECA advisory boarc
T I This G. H. Mead is not to I
..., confused with the George Wils
Mead who heads one of Wisco
sm's biggest paper industries
Consolidated Water Power & Pa
$2.00 A Year?5c Copy
gation
ward New
& Sunday
Easter Services
Draw Large
Attendance
i The members of Scotts Creek
Baptist church observed Easter
Sunday with a Sunrise service, a
large attendance at Sunday School
and the 11:00 o'clock Worship
hour and by exceeding a goal of
$2,500.00 given toward the build- '
ing fund.
[ Fifty or more of the members
braved the chilly weather to gather
at Old Field cemetery for the
sunrise service which was in charge
of Tom Clayton and Roy Reed,
i with the pastor. Rev. B. S. Hensley
giving the devotion.
At the 10:00 o'clock Sunday
, hour 322 were in attendance. Over
i 300 gathered for the morning wor!
ship hour service.
The congregation had set a goal
t for raising $2500 on Easter Sun>
day toward the building fund. A
[ total of $2504.08 was received at
i this time.
Rapid progress is being made
: on the new educational building
which was started with the breaking
of ground on March 8, 1949.
J The building is expected to be
ready for use about June 1. This
building is of brick construction
84 by 64 feet, two stories with
heating system in basement. It
contains 40 class rooms, 4 large
department assembly rooms, li
brary, office kitchen and pastor's
study. * When completed it will
one of the most modern church
^educational buddings in Western
1 S#ortflftCaf?olina.
MANGUM TO HEAD
FARM BUREAU
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
R. C. Mangum, Henderson, was
chosen April 6 at a meeting of the
North Carolina Farm Bureau
Board of Directors in Raleigh aa
1950 Membership Chairman.
The board also voted to set 80,000
members as the minimum
[ quota for the 1950 campaign. A
total of 76,258 members was en~
rolled last year.
r The worth <jaronna f arm Bureau
Executive Committee recommended
to the Board that Man<
gum be named and the approval
i was unanimous. He will head the
organization's fall membership
campaign but between now and
the time of the drive will spearhead
formation of individual
county and community Farm Bureau
campaign units.
Upon the recommendation of
f the Executive Committee, the
l? Board voted unanimously to hold
s a "Farm Bureau Workshop" in
- Raleigh before July, probably in
d June, at which farm men and
r women would convene. Presir
dents and Secretaries of County
e Bureaus, Membership Chairmen,
Commodity Committee leaders and
e all others interested will take part
- in the meeing, with National and
1, State Farm Bureau staff members
conducting day-to-day sessions.
warded Ge. H.
ial Paner Week
- ^
m er ? although the two gentlemen
is once got their heads together and
pi decided they were probably reje
motely related "way back when**,
l- Sometimes they are called Geow
id "Ohio" Mead and George "Wisat
consin" Mead to distinguish one /
from the other,
in The grandfather of G. H. was
i- in the paper business in 1946. The
p- grandson returned to his birthnt
place, Dayton, O., in 1877, to be?
come a tour worker at the Meed
nt mill, 11 hours on the day shift
i. or 13 on the night shift. The 20be
year old saw his need for chemison
try and mechanical engineering, so
n- left the mill for more schooling
? and added to his Hotoart degree a
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