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FUUmTUEE fO. ^ trMTlRE HOME AT City Tin^ pRYSO^ElTY, bf V*tOM ** Swain Farm Men & Women To * */ Adopt Nat. Living Controi P!an County Farm And Home Agents To Meet With Neighborhood Committees n _ Next week Program Planning Com mittees from 48 Swain County neigh borhoods will meet in their respective localities to discuss the various war measures, plans and regulations—to fit them to each neighborhood for maximum effort. In addition to plans for a general discussion of sugar ra tioning, probable rationng of truck mileage, of fertlizers; the groups will discuss in detail the National Plan for Controlling the Cost of living and its adaptation to the rural families of each Swain neighborhood. Farm men and women realize per haps more than any other group the destructive force to democracy of in flation. They remember far too well the period following the last war when flour was 70% higher than it is now— when lard was 80% higher—streaked meat sold for twice as much at it does new—coffee was out of sight and other necessities were priced accord ingly. American citizens have learned from past experiences that inflation lulls us to sleep and keeps us drugged until many businesses go bankrupt and individuals lose all they possess. Inflation affects the average Ameri can citizen in at least the following ways: Inflation makes people think they have more buying power than they really have. Inflation tends to get individuals into debt for things they cannot pay for quickly. Inflation gets farmers and others into the habit of living above their income. Inflation increases taxes and public wot. Inflation reduces tendency to save; it discourages thrift Inflation establishes prices higher than normal, causing people to adjust their spending ot a level which they cannot maintain. Inflation means higher prices which make it hard for low income families to buy what they need. Inflation makes dollars cheaper. They will not buy as much. There fore, we have to borrow and mort gage the future for a much longer time. It is the hope of nearly every Amer ican citizen that we will be able to avoid inflation—we can providing there is a nationwide compliance with the program to control the cost of living. We can, providing, every citizen makes an honest effort to un derstand this program and applies its principles to his Held living. Realizing the need for a better gen eral understanding of this and other war time programs, the Neighborhood Program Planning Committees will discuss plans to keep their neighbors clearly and properly informed con cerning all war time programs. To quote President Roosevelt from hrs address of April 27: 'There is one front and one battle where everyone in the United States —every man, woman, and child is in action and will be privileged to remain in action throughhout this war. That front is right here at home. The price of civilization must be paid in hard work and sorrow and blood. The price is not too high. If you doubt it, ask those mllions under the tyranny of Hitlerism." Efficient action on the home front requires organization, planning, and unified action the same as at the battle front. Swain County men and women with their neighborhood com mittees, their community committees, and the Central Planning Commit tee for the county are organized for planning and a unified action. Gas Rationing May Be Nationwide By July 1 Nationwide gasoline rationing, more for the purpose of saving tires than gas, seems to be a surety by July 1st. It also appears that when you buy your auto use tax stamp in July that you will have to register the serial number <^f the tires on your car, and any extra tires you might have. Uncle Sam now has a record of every civilian. Their age. weight, etc., were furnished when the sugar registration was made—and from this basic information he now has the dope. So may come rationing on clothes, food and other items. Polling Places To Open And Close By War Time Potttng ptaces in Swain county and the rest of North Carotina wifi open and cioae by Eaatern War Time for Saturday# pri mary, it waa announced by State Eiection Officiate in Rateigh Tues day. The poita wit! be open be ^ tween the houre of 6:30 A. M. and 6:30 P. M. CR!SP AM G!RS0M ARE REPORTED MtSSMG !N PH!UPP!NEACT!OM Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Crisp re ceived a telegram last Thursday from the War Department stating that their son, French O. Cri§p, who was with the froces in the Philippines, was missing in action. All the men in the battle of Bataan and Corregidor not accounted for are reported miss ing by the war department. It may be that Mr. Crsip is held prisoner by the Japs. French left Bryson City one year ago today, May 28, for Fort Bragg and became a member of Co. B. 803rd Engineers, after a few weeks at Fort Bragg he was sent to Fort Belvar, Va., and on October 4th he sailed from Angel Island, Calif., on the President Cleveland by way of Hawaii and Wake Island for the Philippines. After landing at Fort Statsenburg, Pampan ga, P. 1., he was sent to Manlia and of course followed the Rghting force into Bataan. The *ast news Mr. and Mrs. Crisp had from their son directly was on Nov. 18th. Mr. Joel Gibson also received a wire from the WarDepartment tell ing that his brother, Robert Edgar Gibson, is missing following the fall of Bataan. Mr. Gibson is the son of the late, Mr. and Mrs. Mann Gibson, and is a brother of Mrs. Vinnie Carter and Mrs. Ransom Messer. He is a veteran of World War I and has been with the regular army in the Philip pines for sometime. The wire did not state whether he had been killed or is now a prisoner of war. PRESBYTENAM GROUP TCMEET!MXMQXY!LLE The Eighty-Second General Assem bly, Presbyterian church m the Unit ed States, will convene in the 150 year-old First Presbyterian church, Knoxville, Tenn., at 7:30 olclock Thursday night, May 28, to continue through a six-day session. This Assembly has been designated the Religious Education Advance As sembly in view of the fact that the four-year movement of the United Religious Education Advance will-be launched by the executive commit tee of Religious Education and Pub lication at a featured program Satur day night at 7:30. State NYA Head Goes Into Military Service - Raleigh, May 26.—State NYA Ad ministrator John A. Lang of Carthage and Raleigh will report to Fort Bragg Saturday, May, 30, for induction into the United States Army as a buck private to undergo the basic training leading to officer's training school. Warren T. Davis, Jr., of Nashville, present deputy State NYA Adminis trator, wll become Acting Adminis trator in the absence of Mr. Lang. Power Company Moving To New Office Here Mr. J. A. Sutton, local manager of the Nantahala Power and Light Com pany, stated Wednesday that a force of men are now engaged in moving the office and warehouse supplies of his company from the Main street of fice to new quarters in the building on Everett Street, which was recently vacated by the postoffice. Mr. Sutton stated that they will be ready to do business in the new office at once. OYER MtLUON OOUARS PA!0 TO 0L0-A8E0 AMO SURVtYORS OMR!MG '41 Awards of monthly benefits under the Federal old-age and survivors insurance system were made to 4,790 persons in North Carolina during the year 1941, according to D. W. Lam bert, manager of the Asheville office of the Social Security Board. These awards represent benefits totaling $63,966 a month, he sad. In addition awards of lump-sum death payments totaling $188,324 were made to 2,027 individuals in the State last year. Included in the monhtly benefits awards, he said, were 1, 386 for work ers past age 65, representing total payment of $25,948 a month; 272 for aged wives of workers eligible for benefits—$3,557 a month; 2210 for children of retired workers or of de ceased workers—$21,551 a month; 110 for aged widows of deceased workers—$1,918 a month; 676 for widows with young children—$10,566 a month; and 36 for parents of de ceased workers—$426 a month. - - Mr. Lambert said that throughout the country awards of monthly bene fits to workers past 65 had not in creased this year as might normally be expected, partially as a result of better employment opportunities for older workers in war production. Thousands of workers who are eligi ble for old-age and survivors insur ance payments have not claimed their retirement benefits because they prefer regular jobs with good pay instead of the modest income provided under the old-age and survivors in surance system. "Many of these old er workers," he said, "will receive larger benefits when they do apply, because they are now earning higher wages than they did in the past. On the other hand, there are some work ers, 65 years old and over, who are receiving lower wages now than they did formerly. These should go to the office of the Social Security Board and and out whether or not it would be to their advantage to Hie an applica tion for benefits at this time." \ _"* Mr. Lambert explained that benefits are based on average monthly wages, but the law permits a worker who has reached the age of 65 to Hie his claim and thus "freeze" the amount of his retirement benefits even though he does not intend to retire immedi ately, and does not expect to clam benefits until he gives up his job. Total payments made to people in North Carolina during 1941 under the old-age and survivors insurance system amounted to $1,304,000, in cluding $550,000 to retired workers, $66,000 to aged wives, $329,000 to children, $20,000 to . aged widows, $143,000 to widows with young chil dren, $5,000 to parents of deceased workers, and lump-sum death pay ments totaling $186,000. 3 Men Sentenc Prison For Se Martin, Hilton And Piott Given 1 to 5 Years, Bames Found Not Guilty Three of four Georgia men charged with setting forest fires in Swain and Graham counties were convicted in U. S. district court here Tuesday afternoon and sentenced by Judge Yates Webb, of Shelby, to serve from i to 5 years in prson. Judge Webb sentenced James Henry Martin, 18, to serve five years and gave Knox Hilton, 20, and Hugh A. Piott, 35, a year and a day each. The fourth defendant, William Bames, 19, was found not guilty* All four of the men live in or near Hiawassee, Towns county, Ga. Trial of the case began when court convened at 9:30 A. M., with the first government witness being Charles Melchior, supervisor of Nantahala National Forests, with office in Frank lin, who told of the search for the men. He said that in "three minutes after I saw smoke, and heard that fires were burning in Nantahala for est along the highway, I started out to find them. "I followed the fires from Robbins ville to Deal's Cap where they ended. I saw a Ford car and talked with four men in it. They all gave me false TVA numbers, and dll but Bames gave me false names. They told me they knew nothing about the fires, and didn't see them set. I checked for five days, contacting Mr. dnd Mrs. Wayne Smith of Murphy, who drove behind this car from near Bobbins ville to Deal's Gap, .and saw the men throw out something and immediately smoke would rise, and fire start, and went to Georgia to try to find Hilton, who has left his home. I went to Fon tana dam site where the other three ialked with them, and they still denied any knowledge of the affair." Mr. Melchoir said all the fires were on the right side of the highway ex cept one. He read the testimony of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Smith and said he got the number of the -license tag from Mrs. Smith who had copied it. He said he went to the Nantahala Power and Light Company, learned that power was turned off for seven hours on April 6 because a transform er worth* $4,000 was destroyed, besides other damage. No power was avail able in Robbinsville, Andrews, Top ton, and Blue Ridge, he said, adding that the cost of fighting the 23 fires, which burned over 5,000 acres of government property and 3,000 acres of privately-owned property was more than $15,000, not including the timber loss. MART!N TAKES STAND James Martin then took the stand. (Continued on page 4) LARGE NUMBER OF SWAM COUNTY STUOENTS HAVE PERFECT ATTENDANCE RECORDS A large number of children attend ing public schools in Swain county have been listed as having pereftc attendance. One, Rosa Lee Carson, a member of the tenth grade at Al mond, has a record of seven years of perfect attendance. By schools, these students are: Alarka, Irene Lindsay, Ray Barker, Matthew Brooks, Dave Herron, Wil liam Cochran, Glenn Earls, Rufe Oliver, Essie Hughes, Lois Parris, Alda Woodard, Dorothy Fortner, Lee Herron, Alene Barker, Addie Cochran, Betty Jean Earls, Jeanette Ledford, D. C. Earls, Jessie Oliver, Gladys Jones, Fannie Ledford, Lillian Earls, Evelyn Barker, Cecil Dorsey, Wessley Herron, Clarence Ledford, Ruthie Barker, Ruby Coch ran, Bobby Dorsey, Enoch Cochran. Almond, Margie Evelyn Phillips, Jack Webster Tabor, Eva Nell Bailey, Frank Byrd, J. B. Stevenson, Mildred Tabor, Dessie Mae Allen, Merrell Jen kins, Wendell Owenby, Freda Mae McCall, Geraldine Orr, David Allen Beame, Herman Breedlove, Manota Guess, H. W. Ammons, John Edwards, LouiseEdwards, Billy Crisp, Clara Bell Tabor, Lionel Totherow, Fred Byrd, Sidney Ball, Hall Battle, Mamie Bell Kirkland, H. D. Monteith, Max ine Dills, Bemice Freeman, Deaver Orr, Pauline Byrd, Mary Ruth Gold en Sidney Barker, Marjorie Orr, Leonard Mashburn, Clova Lee Mash burn, Cecil Carroll Totherow, Marie Crisp, Helen Dills, Bobby Totherow, Judson Enloe, Clyde Bates, Maurice Ashe, Alma Jeanne Ammons, Ray Moore, Christine Orr, J. Lee Ashe, Rosa Lee Carson, Louise Smiley, Mary Jo Totherow, Nell Jenkins, Nell Smiley, Louise Heaton, Louise Enloe, Della DeHart, Jimmersign Bailey Summers. Bushnell, Maxine Monteith, Vernell Brooks, Ruth Jean Cole, Bobby Mon teith, Glenith Crisp, Joretta Monteith, Betty Jean Gass, Inez Monteith, Blanche Calhoun. Swain High Group Swain high, Bryson City: Faye Louise Beard, Bertha Calhoun, Thel ma Jones, Anne Ray, Pauline War ren, Virgil McDonald, Max Abbott, Iverson Bradley, Bayless Crisp, Port er Crisp, Edwin Monteith, Hazel Brown, Walla Mae Buchanan, Mil dred Cagle, Pauline Lovingood, Bertha Smith, Alta Jean Watson, Ray Prendle, Jack Sherrill, Mary Jo White, Jackie Lewis, Mary Ellen Cole, Dorothy Davis, Helen Goodson, Oneal Muse, Bobby Stallings, Dan Conner, Donald Cole, John Cope, Harold Davis, Eugene Elliott, Joe Estes, Lois Gregory, Betty Lou Moffitt, Ruby Swain, Blanche Thomas, Virgie Lee Thomas, Elisabeth Tisdale, Aileen Welch, Estelle Bradshaw, Helen Cloer, Jean Childers, Pauline Crisp. Bryson City elementary, Patricia Carson, George Moore, Irene Steven son, Gwendolyn Thomas, Beauford Cochran, Gaynell Woody, Winona Shook, James Ensley, Evelyn Kirk land, Carreen Maddox, Juanita Shook, (Continued on page 5) sd To Federat [ting Out Fires PURCHASE OF WAR BONOS FOR MAY MORE THAN 00U8LE0 Swain county citizens purchased a total of $8512.50 in War Bonds dur ing the first three weeks of this month, reports Mr. S. W. Black, chair man of Swain County War Bond drive. These bonds were purchased through the Bryson City Bank, the Bryson City postoffice, the Whittier ahd Cherokee postoffices. The re port is for May 1st through 22nd. The amounts sold by each place is as follows: Bryson City Bank—May 1 to 8, $1218.75; May 9 to 15, $2775.00; and May 16 to 22, $1200.00, total of $5193.75. Bryson City postoffice—May 1 to 8, $48t.50; May 9 to 15, $525.00; May 16 to 22, $393.75, total of $1406.25. Whittier postoffice—May 1 to 8, $131.25; May 9 to 15, $18.75; May 16 to 22, $93.75. Cherokee postoffice—May 1 to 8, $206.25; May 9 to 15, $1293.75; May 16 to 22, $168.75, total of $1668.75. FARM PEOPLE AFFECTED V!TA!iYBY!NFtAT!ON "Farm people who study President Roosevelt's seven-point program to control the cost of living will recog nize in it an attempt to prevent the disastrous results Which followed the upward spiralling of prices during the Orst World War," says Dean 1. O. SchaUb, directpr of the State College Extension Service. "Every person who farmed from 1318 through the early 1920's will want to avoid infla tion of prices, land values, and other things that led to mortgages which scores of farmers have never been able to lift," the agricultural leader declared. Dean Schaub said that President Roosevelt's program is designed to, "not only control the cost of living, but to: (1) Prevent a few from get ting rich at the expense of many; (2) make it possible for the poor and rich to share alike in the products avail; (3) help prevent a serious depression after the war, such as paralyzed America following World War 1; (4) maintain, insofar as possible, desir able social and economic conditions for our soldiers and sailors to return to after winning the fight for Amer ica's freedom; and (5) cause much of the war debt to be paid as we go.'" The Extension director listed eight reasons why farmers dread inflation. "First", he said, "inflation creates a feeling of prosperity whcih is not sound. It tends to get farmers into debt for such things as land and ma chinery, which they cannot pay for quickly. Third, inflation gets farmers into the hafbit of living above their income. Inflation increases taxes and public debt. It reduces tendencies to save and discourages thrift. Sixth, it es tablishes a price level higher than normal to which farmers adjust their level of living and outlook on life, which cannot be maintained. Inflation means higher prices which make it hard for low income farm families to buy what they need. And finally, it makes dollars cheaper. Therefore, farmers have to borrow— rave to mortgage for the future. Man Bound To Court On Shoplifting Charge A white man about 40 years of age, giving his name as Clifford Pow ers of Asheville, was arrested on the streets here Tuesday afternoon by Chief of Police E. H: Corpening after he had been suspected of taking arti cles from Bryson City stores. Chief Corpening had been suspicious of the man's actions for a day or two and when arrested and arranged for trial before Justice J. Allen Glenn he had certain articles of goods lifted from the stores of Fred DeHart and Belk's store. Among the articles were shoes, ties, shirts, and other items which he placed in a shopping bag after making small purchases. He remains in Swain county jail in default of $300 bond required by Justice Glenn for his appearance at the JvJy term of court. SATOROAY'S PRMARY W!LL BE HOTLY CON TESTED AFT A!R Much Interest In Race For Sheriff, Five Candidates Unopposed Considerable interest is being shown in the coming Democratic pri mary for Saturday, May 30, with the race for sheriff taking the lead. G. H Martin, incumbent, is opposed by Frank Hyatt, present clerk of court for the office. Both men are making a very strong race. Five candidates are able to sit back and take it easy until the November campaign as they are unopposed— McKinley Edwards for representa tive; D. P. Shook and Stokes Thomas for county commissioners; H. H. Welch, for coroner; and P. O. Elliott for Justice of the Peace. On the ticket for clerk of court are Harold H. Sandlin and Henry J. Truett. In the race for register of deeds is the incumbent Locke Woodard and three new men who are: Franklin D. Kirkland, E. J. (Mutt) Seay and Porter G. Styles. Three new men are seeking the office of chairman of the board of commissioners. They are: V. L. Cope, Robert Hyatt, who is a member of the board, and R. D. Estes. Swain county has two men seek ing district offices. Baxter C. Jones is a candidate for solicitor against John M. Queen, incumbent of Waynes ville. Edwin Whitaker is opposed in the state senate race by A. Lee Pen land, of Hayesville. Gardner Woodard and Tom Kirk land are opposing each other for the office of township constable. SEEKS HEEEECTMM John M Queen of Waynesville, veteran solicitor of the 20th judicial district, announces his candidacy for renomnation by the Democratic party as solicitor in this issue of The Times. Times. Mi*. Queen has been in Bryson City this week in the interest of his can didacy, greeting his friends. He Stated that he is running on his record in office which is known to all. Jus tice and fairness in the enforcement of the law and the performance of his duties has always been his aim, he said. Mr. Queen's ability as a trial lawyer is attested to by all who have witnessed his work as solicitor in the courts of the district MEWS BMEFS R. C. Head To Give Nursing Course Mrs. Elmer Carlson will be in the auditorium of the Bryson City court house Monday, June 1, between 2 and 4 o'clock P. M. to receive applications from Swain county women who de sire to take the Red Cress Home nursing course which she will teach. CC Directors To M eet Friday Nighth, June 5th W. T. Martin, president of the Chamber of Commerce has called a meeting of the director; of this or ganization to meet Friday night, June 5th at 8 o'clock in the informa-: tion booth and office. Beik Makes Change Of Interior Of Store Belk's Department Store here has improved the looks of their store by changing their office and infant's de partment. The office and and cash ier's desk is now more in the center of the building with the infants de partment being remodeled in {be place where theh office formerly oc cupied. Private McCianahan Returns To Fort After Vis t Home Private France McClanahan of Alarka who has been on a week's leave because of the accident to his brother, Fred Smith, who had both legs broken in an automobile acci dent, two weeks ago Sunday morning as he was returning to his work at Fontana, left Tuesday to return to [his company at Fort Benjamin Har ) risen, in Indiana.
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