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t FURNITURE FOR THE B J--M* ^ X. w — rB1--—^ r-. Invest In America. I b — Brvson utv l imes |BROWN,NG FURNITURE ^ J contribute Red Ceo„ | , '■"_ vi*1'1 !■' MaaaBBigaaaaaaj_ , The Only Newspaper Published in Swain County ^ ■■■■ -If VOL. LV-NO. 6 ~ BRYSON CITY, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 2,1942 ___ ____ _ $1.50 A YEA* Two Counties Seek Shuttle Train Service To Fontana * ~ Swain High School Honor Students Reading from left to right are Amy Franklin, Peggy Hicks and Faye Beard, honor students of the Senior class of Swain High School. Miss Franklin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Franklin, Jr., averaged 96 on^ her work during, her four years of high school. Miss Hicks and Miss Beard each averaged 94 on their work. Miss Hicks is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hicks and Miss Beard is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Beard. MAN KILLED IN FIRST FATAL ACCIDENT ON FONTANA DAM JOB I - The first fatal accident to occur on TVA’s huge Fontana dam project was at 11 o’clock Monday raornnig when Ernest McDowell Cuthbertson, 47, of Nebo, McDowell county, was killed in a truck accident. Investigating officers said that Cuthbertson, a riggerman employed by TVA in unloading heavy trans formers from a truck attempted to get on the moving truck, slipped and fell and was run over by a truck r, _ which was close behind the one he I1 was trying to get on. The body was brought to Moody Funeral Home where it was prepared for burial and was takeh to Marion Tuesday morning by Mr. Moody. Mr. Cuthbertson, who was unmar ried, is survived by his mother, Mrs. ^ Adeline Cuthbertson, of Nebo. R. C. First Aid Committee Meeting A meeting of the committee togeth er with'the instructors of the Red Cross First Aid has been called for Friday evening at 5 o’clock in the courthouse. Plans are to be made at this meeting for Standard Red Cross First Aid courses to be put on im mediately;: Miss Bennett In State Dramatic Festival Cullowhee, March 28—Jean Ben nett, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Kelly E. Bennett of Bryson City and a stu dent at Western Carolina Teachers College, took a part in the play “Suppressed Desires” by Susan Glus pell and George Cram Cook which was given at a preliminary contest held annually at the State Dramatic Festival at Chapel Hill on Saturday, March 14. E. T. MOODY PASSES AT WHITTIER HOME Funeral services for E. T. 'Moody, 76, retired merchant and coal dealer, who died at his home at Whittier early Sunday morning, were held at the Whittier Methodist church Mon day afternoon at 3 o’clock with the Rev. W. E. Andrews and the Rev. jphn Hyatt officiating. Special music was rendered by a v nephew, Roy Miller, of Ashehville. Interment was in the old Whittier cemetery. Mr. Moody, a native of Haywood county, came to Swain county about .40 years ago. For many years he was secretary-treasurer of the Whittier Sunday school. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Fal i lie Miller Moody; two daughters, Miss P Thelma Moody, of Whittier, and Mrs. J. C. Lime, of Trenton, N. J.; a broth er, Fred, of Waynesville; four sis ters, Miss Laura Moody and Mrs. Ftla Davis, of Waynesville, Mrs. R. F. Francis, of Hendersonville, and Mrs. John Owen, of Virginia, and two granddaughters. SHOOK AND STYLES ANNOUNCE FOR OFFICE Mr. D. P. Shook has announced his candidacy for nominatiQn for re-elec tion as a member of the Board of county commissioners. iMr. Shook is a farmer and lives one and a half miles above Bushnell. He has been county commissioner for the past six years. Mr. Porter G. Styles has announced for the office of Register of Deeds, and is seeking the support of the voters in the May 30th Democratic primary. He is connected with the Ashe Thomas store and auto sales and service business here. FUNERAL RITES FOR EARL MONTEITH ARE SET FOR 3 THIS P. M, Funeral services for Earl Mon teith, 33, who*died at 11:20 o’clock Tuesday night at the Black Mountain Sanatorium', will be held this after noon at 3 o’clock at the First Baptist church with the Rev. W. H. Covert, pastor, officiating, assisted by Rev. Mr. Watson, pastor of First Baptist Church of Black Mountain, and Rev. "Horace Dorsey. Interment will be in the Bryson City cemetery. Moody Funeral Home was in charge of ar rangements. > Mr. Monteith had been in ill health for some four,or five months and had been in the hospital for four months. Before his health gave way he was a valuable employee of the Carolina Wood Turning Company. 'Mr. Mon teith, a native of Swain county, was a faithful member of the Bryson City Baptist church and very active in all the work of the church. He is survived by his widow, the former Miss Essie King, of South Carolina; two small sons, Larry and David, also his father and step-moth er. Mr. and Mrs. George Monteith, three brothers, Glenn, Harry and Ed ward and two sisters, Mrs. James Cline and Miss Eyelyn Monteith, all of Bryson City. Active pall-'bearers were: Carroll Wright, Claude Patterson, Ralph Woody, Ray Wright, Commodore Cas sada, Carroll Sparks, Honorary pall-bearers were: Irving K Stearns, R. Q. Woody, Rollins Jus tice, Harley Welch, McKinley, Ed wards, Carroll Gibson, Troy Wright, Walter B. Bostic, John L. Orr, Dr. D. R. Bryson, John Welch, Thad Wilson, Dr. John Woody,’ Edd Hyde,Ben Lol lis, and Williarp Medford. 1 Those in charge of flowers were: Mrs. R. Q. Woody, Mrs. Ralph Woody, Mrs. Banner Lewis, Mrs. Troy Wright, Mrs. Nancy Orr, Mrs. Carroll Wright, Mrs. Amy Morgan, Mrs. Anne Grant, Mrs. A. H. Myers, Mrs. Jack Keeter, .and Mrs. Walter Gossett. Paper Enormous amounts of paper are being re leased fo rother uses by the change- over of automboile and elec trical-appliance plants to war pro duction. New Highway Maps Being Distributed — The Times is in receipt of one of the new 1942 State Highway maps which has been designed by the High way and Public Works Commission. One hundred thousand of these maps are being/' distributed through the larger hotels, tourfet .bureaus, chambers of commerce, tapring bu reaus of metropolitan papers and other agencies disbursing travel in formation. The 1942 map has been fully cor rected' to include highways on which construction work is scheduled, to be completed next summer. On the re verse side of the map are twelve highly colored picturs, four of which are of scenes of Western North Car olina. U. S. TO BUILD THREE MILLION DOLLAR ARMY HOSPITAL IN W.N.G. Site Chosen By Army En gineers Is on State Test Farm Announcement was made in wasn ington Tuesday that the Government hahd selected a site on the State Test farm between Swannanoa and Black Mountain to erect a large army hos pital. Cost of the hospital will de pend on the type of construction, whether it be of cantonment type or of a permanent nature. Govern ment officals said that $3,000,000 to ?o,000,000 will be spent on construc tion and an additional $1,000,000 for equipment. Present plans call /or construction of buildings to house 1,520 patients, but the plaps are so drawn that other buildings can be added to increase the capacity to 1,700 beds. The hos pital is expected to be completed within three to four months after ac tual construction begins. All the local labor available will be used on the construction, it was said. When completed, the hospital, de sciibed as a general hospital for treat ment of sick and wounded soldiers of World War No. 2, will be one of the largest operated by the army. A full-«time staff of some 1,500 per sons, including 200 medical officers, will operate the hospital. The state has agreed to sell the Federal oGvemment hte 105-acre site Federal Government the 105-acre site ed. Approximately 20 acre? of priv ately owned land adjoining the test farm will be acquired. After the .105 acres is sold there will be approximately 225 acres of the test farm left. Norton Myers in Hospital Mr. and Mrs. Caney F. Myers went to Knoxville Monday to b ewith their son, Norton Myers, who underwent ar. operation for removal of his ap pendix that day in a Knoxville hos pital. Norton is a sophomore in the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. His condition is reported to be very good. * Easter To Be Busy Day At First Baptist Church Easter Sunday is being looked for ward to by the people of the First Eapti^t church as a day of high priv ilege. The morning service will be in keeping with the Easter occasion, and will include observance of the ordinance of the Lord’s Supper. At 8 o’clock in the evening, a group of intermediate girls will render a spe cial Easter Cantata entitled ETER NAL LIFE, with music by Fred B. Holton. Very fitting for the close of the Easter day will be the baptismal service which will follow the Can tata. Sunday school will be held at 10 A. M., and the Brotherhood and Training Unions will meet at 7 P. M. In all of these organizations there are departments for all ages, and every body is cordially invited to attend. PLANKING FOR A BETTER SCHGOLLUNCHROOM PROGRAM FOR 1942-43 County Garden And Canning 'Program For The Schools Pooling Community Resourc es. Better Plans for Receiving Exchange Produce From Parents. 1 TOr SCHOOL PATRONS FROM: COUNTY SUPERINTEN DENT OF SCHOOLS, SCHOOL PRINCIPALS, AND COUNTY LUNCH ROOM SUPERVISOR: Realizing the importance of food at all times, we the people of Swain County and- the parents of youths of the country and of the future genera tion, have a very definite part in the present defense program of our na tion. We have in Swain County 3,000 children in the schools. These chil dren spend on an average of nine hours en route to school and at school during eight month of the year, which is more than half of the children’s daily waking hours. With this in mind, we have given careful consid eration to a plan whereby we may hope to feed better school lunches to more of our children during the (Continued on page 8) Board Announces Names Of People Allowed Tires The names of those allotted tires and tubes by the Bryson City Tire Rationing Board No. 87-1 for the month of March have been announced by J. C. Keeter, dlerk to the board. They are: Passenger Car U. S. De partment of Agriculture, 2 tires; Dr. John C. Weiters, 1 tire and 1 tube; Mrs. Doris Hicks, county health nurse, 1 tire and 1 tube; O. C. Turner, dep uty marshal, 1 tire and 1 tube. Truck tires—Russell Smith, 2 tires and 1 tube; Henry McCoy, 4 tires and 3 tubes; Andy Estes*, 2 tires; Oscar Woody, 2 tires and 1 tube; Hartman Hombuokle, 4 tires and ^tjtfbes; Os 'car Wilson, 2 tires; Swain County 'Board of Education, 18 tires and 10 tubes; Raymond Owl, 3 tires and 1 tube; Paul Marr, 1 tire and 1 tube; I. B. Jenkins, 6 tires and 4 tubes; Fred Parton, 2 tires and 2 tubes. Re-cap Truck Tires—B. Burrell, 4; W. H. Marr, 2 C. R. Shook, 2; and Sam Cook ston, 2. Claude T. Parrish Elected Director of Federation Claude T. Parrish of Bryson City, Route 1, was elected a director of the Farmers Federation, Inc., at the annual meeting of the stockholders o£ the cooperative in Asheville last Saturday. Mr. Parrish has served on the advisory committee for the Swain County warehouse since its beginning and he will represent Swain County on the board of directors of the Fed eration through 1944. • ■ .I .i .—■".I. ■ ■■ •• 1 Tires V Quotas of new tires rleased fort passenger automobiles under OPA rationing in the first three months ait this year showed a reduction of al most 95 percent from the total in i the same months last year. TIRE RATIONING, ROAD CONDITION AND LACK OF HOUSING FACILITIES AT DAM SITE MAKE RAIL SERVICE OF VITAL IMPORTANCE _?_•___ __I Alarka And Bryson City Pre School Clinics Announced Dr. C. N. Sisk, district health of ficer, has announced that on Wed nesday, April 8, the pre-school clinic will be held at Alarka. On Wednes day, April 15, the clinic will be held in the Bryson City school. These clinics are held for the ex amination of all children who plan to enter school next fall. Vaccina tion for diphtheria and small pox will be given free to these children whose parents desire it. April Ushfered In With Low Temperature The first day of April came in ac companied by a low temperature of around the 20’s and with a heavy frost. It was also the same this morning, the 2nd. All fruit and many of the wild plants and shriibs have been retarded in budding and bloom this spring due to the continued cold weather. Very little garden work has been done and farmers are getting behind with tfyeir field crop land preparation. Repblicans Of Swain Co. To Hold Precinct Meetings On April 9th The Republicans of Swain County will hold precinct meetings on Thurs day, April 9th, and elect delegates to the Swain County Re,-publican con vention to toe held in the courthouse at Bryson City Friday night, April 10th, at 8:00 o’clock. DEATH CLAIMS 0. P. BURLINGAME AT HIS PROCTOR HOME . 90-Year-Old Citizen Had Lived In Swain County Since 1903 Funeral services were held Sun day afternoon at 2 o’clock for Orson Paul Burlingame, 90, who died at his home at Proctor Saturday morning at 4:30 o’clock after an illness of three years. The services were held in the home and burial was in Bone Valley cemetery. Moody Funeral Home was ih charge of arrangements. Mr. Burlingame was born in RaCine, Wis. He resided at Colum bus, Ohio, before coming to Western North Carolina in 1903 to be connect ed with the Ritter Lumber Company. He was connected with the Ritter Co. for 25 years. He and his family lived in Bryson C ty until 8 years ago when they moved to Proctor. Surviving are the widovt, the for mer Miss Lillia L. Brooks, of Proctor; four daughters, Mrs. C. F. Taylor, of Roberts Dam, Ala.; Mrs. E. W. Poos, of Mobile; Mrs. Marie Brown, of Mary vile, Tenn., and Mis$ Naomi Burlin game, of Proctor; three sons, Paul, of Stanton, Calif., and David and Orson, of Maryville; four grandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. Jennie B. Mace, of Cleveland, Ohio. Killed In Automobile Accident In Ala. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Nelson, of Ela, have receved word from their daugh ter, Mrs. Jerry Winston, of Mont gomery, Ala., telling of the acciden tal death of her husband, Jerry Win ston, who was instantly killed in an automobile wreck on March 27. Be sides the widow, the former Miss Wilma Nelson, Mr. Winston s sur vived by a young son. Trees ABljroximately 100,000 trees fur ttfchegbby the TV A have been de livered;#) ■farmers of Jackson Coun ty this. year, for improving eroded farm land,''I'rejports Assistant Farm j Agent CV&'^ckey. I Whitaker, Edwards And Massie On Committee To Carry On Work For Train Service A committee composed of Senator Edwin B. Whitaker and Representa tive McKinley Edwards, of Bryson City and T. N. Massie, president of the Chamber of Commerce of Sylva was appointed at a mass meeting held in the courthouse Monday night to contact the TVA, Southern Railway and Utilities Commission officials for the purpose of having a shuttle train service established between Bryson City and Fontana for the purpose of transporting workmen to and- from the Fontana dam project. The people of Swain and surround ing counties, especially those wishing to work at the dam and live at their homes, have realized the need for the shuttle train service. The rail road company was asked to put on the service, which it has so far re fused to do. Talk and the request was about all that had been done prior to last week when with the Inability to secure tires for those now wearing out on cars and trucks used to trans port men, the gas rationing and the long, hazardous drive over No. 288 has caused a great demand to be made for the service. With this in mind a meeting was called by the chamber of commerce for the purpose of getting somft action started toward having the train put on. The meeting was held in the court house Monday night with the court room being filled to capacity with Swain county citizens, TVA Officials, and Jackson county representatives. W T. Martin, president of the Cham ber of Commerce opened the meeting, which followed several selections be ing played by Swain Hi band. J. A. Gray told briefly what work had been done and the need for the train. SEE NEED FOR TRAIN W. E. Elmore, chairman of the Board of County Commissioners told of his conversation wtih Governor Bioughton in which thevgovernor as sured him of his interest in the mat ter and cooperation in helping es establish the train service. He also told of the need of the service and the advantages it would be to the dam project and to Swain coujity. iMcKinley Edwards followed with a convincing talk on the need for the service. Mr. Edwards Stated that he had been living in Bryson City ior 21 years and during this time and for possibly 10 years prior the citizens oi Swain county had been looking (Continued on page 4) SWAIN TO SEND MEN TO ARMY CENTER A large number of Cl rs 1-A men will leave Brson City wi. nn the next week or so to be inducted into the army . Those leaving are: Paul Robert Williams, \larka; Elia Wolfe, Ravensford; Clmgman Wes ley Painter, Judsonf James Boyde Dugan, Cherokee; Leslie Woodrow Shuler, Alarka; Clyde Selma Hyatt, Wesser; Burgin Sutton Burhneli; Hosia Clarence 'Medford, city; Eulis Tipton, Fontana; Paul Lowell Wiggns, city; Robert Jackson Cordell, city; Charles D Johnson, Cherokee;. Willard John Burns, city; Vynoi Tipton, Fontana; Trby Cordell Williams, city; Ira Jo seph Wiggins, city; Sam Virgil Cal houn, Bushnell; Joe A. Shuler, cuy; Howard Wayne Rhinehardt, Chero kee; Vernon Jenkins, Proctor; Ber. Harrison Grant, Wesser; Will. a. Woodrow Wiggins, city; James Harky Lequire, Jitdson; Prince Woodro.v Clampitt, Alarka; Vaster Welch, Bushnell; Emmett Jamas Seay, city; Frank Hardin Burns, cr.y; Wilson Welch, Ravensford; Earl E„ ward Ashe, Judson; Ralph Lucas D^kart, Need more; Jackson Mason, cuy; Cornelius Benjamin Kirk:.:. <, Bushnell; Smath ers Calhoun, R \ ■ siord; Paul J. Catt, Cherokee; and Wnuam Harvey Breed love, Needancre.
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