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VOL. LV NO. 24
BRYSON CITY. N. C. THURSDAY, AUGUST 6 1942
21.59 A YEAR
CM THE TAR HEEL FRONT
!N WASMNGTON
BY ROBERT A. ERWIN AND
FRANCE8 McKU8!CK
Washington—This week brought
something of a general exodus of
members of the North Carolina con
gressional delegation from war-weary
Washington to the peacefulness that
only home can bring, when the House
of Representatives started its three
day recesses with the promise that no
major legislation would be considered
during this time.
All of the members asserted, how
ever, that they would not take full
advantage of the informal Congres
sional recess which is slated to last
until September. Representative
John H. Folger of Mt. Airy, for in
stance, says he doesn't believe he'll
^ be able to stay home for more than
a few days at a time. Although there
will be no legislative matters to at
tend to at the Capitol, he says there
are plenty of other things to keep
him busy.
Representative Herbert C. Bonner
of Little Washington also may find
himself in the Capitol for a large part
of the recess, for he is the ranking
Democratic member of a subcommit
tee of the House Merchant Marine
committee appointed to investigate
the cancelling of the Higgins Boat
contract at New Orleans. Bonner
left this week for New Orleans where
he and other members of the group
will conduct hearings.
After these hearings have been
completed in that city, the sub-com
mittee will probably continue its
work in Washington for an indefinite
period.
En route to New Orleans, Bonner
stopped at Edenton to address the
American Legion there on the occasion
of its installation of post officers.
Representative Robert L. Dough
ton, oldest member from point of
service, and one of the youngest in
energy work, was in high spirits when
talking about his return home.
"Yes, I'm going home for a while—
not because I'm tired, you understand,
but because I feel I ought to get ac
quainted with folks again," he replied.
"Don't know how long I'll stay—
maytbe just a short time, since I'm such
a stranger down there. Maybe I'll
get frozen out," he laughed. 111
have to consult Mrs. Doughton, too,
and see how things go. The odds
are, however, that Farmer Bob will
imd plenty of official business to call
him back to the Capitol long before
the tentative date of September 1.
One piece of good news came out
of the hopper for farmers this week.
An order was issued by Joseph B.
Eastman, Director of Defense Trans
portation, which relaxes certain regu
lations pertaining to the "back door
trucking order for the period of Aug
ust I to October 31. Tobacco farm
ers, truck gardners, fruit growers and
in fact all those persons whose living
depends upon the fruits of the soil
will be benefited. \
"One of the most important re
quirements which is cancelled for
farmers during this period is the one
requiring that this year each motor
truck operate less than 25 per cent
of its total mileage during the cor
responding calendar month of 1941,"
f explained Representative Folger, whp
has vigorously protested against the
application of the original order to
farmers. "Farmers under this amend
ment are also excluded from the reg
ulation that not more than one de
livery^ may be made from any one
point of origin to any one point of
destination during a 24-hour period.'"
Another highly important regulation
which has been waived for farmers
during this period is that they need
not rgeister for a return trip load to
fill their trucks ^n the way back to
their farms from their desination,
Folger said.
Represenatives Cooley, Durham,
William O. Burgin and John H. Kerr
were among the other Tar Heel con
gressmen who several weeks ago took
up the plight of the farmer under this
order, with the Office of Price Ad
ministration. They all expressed
satisfaction that the order had been
rescinded for the harvest season.
A If Representative Robert L. Dough
V ton, the dean of the North Carolina
congressional delegation, is a typical
example of the beneficial influence
of spending ones early years on a
fabm, then we believe all doctors
should prescribe this life as a guaran
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LAY AND COMPANY
HAVE GRANO OPEN!NG
OF NEW STORE HERE
Most Modern 10 Cent Store
West Of Asheville WiM
Open Doors at 9 A M.
Lay And Company, Inc., will open
their modem new 10 cent store here
in Bryson City Friday morning, at 9
o'clock. The new store is located in
the modem new brick building on
Main street just completed by Miss
Jess Shank and Mr. Thurman Leath
erwopd.
Lay and Company opened their
fhrst store in Athens, Tenn., Jan. 3,
1925. They have enjoyed a continuous
growth and now have nine stores in
four states which a volume of busi
ness that enables them to buy mer
chandise direct from the manufactur
er, at the regular ^chain store price,
thus passing this saving on to thfir
customers.
Mr. M. B. Lay, one of the six
brothers in the 10 cent store business,
will make his home in Bryson City
and manage the local store. Mrs.
Lay and their daughter will move to
Bryson City later.
Will Assist In Revival
The Rev. E. F. Baker, above, pastor
of the First Baptist church of An
drews, will come to Bryson City Sun
day to asssit the Rev. W. H. Covert in
a two weeks' revivaf meeting, begin
ning at the First Baptist Church Sun
day evening at 8 o'clock.
The pastor and congregation of the
local church have been working for
the past week in preparation for this
meeting, which is expected to be of
interest to every one.
Services will be conducted each
moAiing and evening. The public is
cordially invited to attend.
Funeral Services Conducted
For Mrs. Breedlove .
Mrs. B. A. Breedlove, about 68
years of age, died at her home in
Peachtree, Cherokee county, Satur
day, August 1, at 9 A. M. o'clock after
a brief illness. Funeral services were
conducted at the Peachtree Baptist
church of which Mrs, Breeddlove was
a member, and interment in the
church cemetery. Rev. Thomas Truitt
officiated.
Surviving are her husband; five
sons: Claude of Norfolk; Grayson of
Almond; Walter, of Canton, Ohio;
Fred and Troy, of Murphy; nine
daughter: Mrs. C. L. Turbin, of Moun
tain City, Va.; Mrs: E. D. Griffin, of
Murphy; Miss Edith Breedlove, of
Hickory; Miss Jessie Breedlove, of
Andrews; and Miss Sara Breedlove,
of Bryson City; one sister, Mrs.
Martha McElrath, of Almond.
Mr. and Mrs. Breedlove and family
were former residents of Swain coun
ty.
Governor To Talk On
Scrap Campaign
W. T. Hyams, chairman of the
Swain County Salvage committee,
urges all citizens who can get to a
radio to listen in to Governor Brough
ton's talk on the Salvage Campaign
tonight at 8 o'clock as he officially
launches the scrap salvage drive in
North Carolina. This is a matter of
the utmost importance to every pa
triotic American, and the governor will
have information on the subject that
we should know.
Men are dying for the Four
Freedoms. The least we can
do here at home la to bay
War Bonds —1C% for War
Bonds, every pay day.
FMtSTLAOY V!S!TSW.M.C. FARMERS
Photo shows Mrs. Eleanor Roose
velt, wife of the President of the
United States, learning about the
Lord's Acre Movement. The Rever
end Dumont Clarke, head of the Re
ligious Department of the Farmres
Federation, is explaining at left,
while James G. K. McClure, president
of the Federation, is looking on at
the right. The Lord's Acre Move
ment, developed under auspices of
the Farmers Federatipn, is growing
throughout the rural church of the
world, and every year dozens of in
terested persons from foreign coun
tries have come to Asheville to study
it. Photo was m^tde in the Asheville
office of the Farmers Federation
when Mrs. Roosevelt visited the
Farmers Federation recently.
Verdict Against Nazis
hr Rooseveit's Hands
President Roosevelt's special mili
tary commission has rendered its ver
dict against eight alleged Nazi
saboteurs who landed in this coun
try from German U-boats and turned
it over to the president for his final
action.
The president is not expected to
announce the verdict for several days,
however, the wording of a commu
nique issued by the commission indi
cated that some, if not all, of the men
had been convicted.
Large brown envelopes containing
the evidence and findings of the com
mission were carried to the white
house by Major General Frank R.
McCoy, head of the military commis
sion of seven generals. Accompany
ing McCoy were Major General
Myron C. Cramer, Judge Advocate
General; Oscar Cox, Assistant Solicitor
General. Mr. Cox is a son-in-law of
Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Black of Bryson
City; and Colonels F. Granville Mun
son and John M. Weit of the War
Department.
J. B. Woodard Resigns
As Night Policeman
Mr. J. B. Woodard recently tendered
his resignation as city night police to
the town board which has been ac
cepted. Mr. Woodard is resigning to
accept a position as warehouse fore
man wiht TVA. The city board has
appointed Mr. Odis Sitton as tem
porary night police and he began his
duties last Saturday night. Mr. Sit
ton is on duty from 6 P. M. to 6 A. M.
except Saturdays when he comes on
a few hours earlier.
Smokemont Baptist
Church To Hold
Annual Home-Coming
An event of much interest to hun
dreds of former residents of the coun
ty. is th eannua'l home-coming of the
Smokemont Bapitst church which will
be held at this church next Sunday,
August 9. '
All members and friends are urged
ta be present and bring a picnic
Lunch. The sermon at 11 o'clock will
be delivered by a former citizen, the
Rev. Wiley Conner, now of Knoxville,
Tenn. Other speakers will appear on
the program.
Godsey To Preach Sunday
Rev. W. A. Godsey will preach
Sunday afternoon at the courthouse
at 3 P. M. The public is invited to
attend.
MY DAY ...
Farmers Happy As Co
Operative Boosts Incomes
By ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
En Route Campobello, New Bruns
vick, Thursday—
Yesterday I lacked the space in
which to tell you about something in
Asheville, N. C., which interested me
very much. That was the Farmers
Federation. It takes in all the west
ern, mountainous part of the state
and has 21 warehouses, plus a cen
tral warehouse in Asheville. .
We spent an hour Tuesday morn
ing looking over the Asheville plant.
At the poultry project, chickens are
hatched from the best eggs that can
be obtained, and every young cockerel
sold to a mountain farmer today,
comes from a strain in which the hens
have a record of laying at least 250
eggs a year! when you cnosider that
the breed of hens has grown so pool
around this section that 60 eggs a
year was die average productoin, you
can see what a difference that would
make. This enterprise has developed
into a flourishing business. A licensed
inspector grades and candles all the
eggs coming in, and there is a market
waiting to buy all that can be ob
tained from the farmers.
The Federation members have
tremendously improved their dairy
stock. They buy and seM the best
seed obtainable. They run a school
which boys attend for a year while
they are paid a substantial wage.
They have taken over a small
handicraft project known as the
Treasure Chest, which now sells
hooked rugs to many of our larger
shops in big cities. When Mr. Mc
Clure, the head of the Federation,
tells you that at one time the average
farmer saw less than $85 a year in
cash in that section, and that today
they pay many a man more than
$1000 or $1500 a year, you see what
a difference the Federation has made
in the farm family's' standard of liv
ing in this section.
Marr And Cordell Leave
Fcr Pearl Harbor Base
James Cordell and Kenneth Marr
left Sunday by automobile for Knox
ville where they took the train to
Chicago and from there they will go
by fast train to the west coast to take
a boat for Pearl Harbor Naval base
where they will be employed with the
Utah Construction Company on a
government project.
They were accompanied as far as
Knoxville by Mrs. Marr and Mrs.
Cordell who returned that afternoon.
Home Demonstration Club
Meetings For August
Bryson Branch, Monday 10, at 8:00
P M. with 'Mrs. Ruth Sherrill.
Almond, Tuesday 11, at 2:30 P. M.
Place to be announced.
Needmore, Wednesday 12, at 7:30
P. M. at Hightower school.
Grassy Branch, Thursday 13, at
7:30 P. M. at Grassy Branch church.
Judson, Friday 14, at 8:00 P. M. at
the community building.
Ela, Monday 17, at 8:00 P. M. Place
to be announced.
Cold Springs, Tuesday 18, at 8:00
P. M. at Cold Springs church.
Wednesday, 19, Agents conference
at Franklin.
Whittier, Thursday, 20, at 8:00 P.
M. at Methodist Hut.
Arlington, Friday, 21, at 2:00 P.
M. with Mrs. Ethel Welch.
Curb market open each Saturday
form 9:30 to 1:00.
LOCAL NTKEMS ARE GUEST OF STAMOARU
0!L Of MEW JERSEY AT D!NMER MEET!MG
R. T. Hammett Tells OOf
Company's Relations With
German Co. and About Re
search In Synthetic Rubber
Some 50 local citizens were guests
at a dinner meeting given by the
Standard Oil Company of New Jer
sey last Thursday evening at the
Brookside Grill, at which time they
heard Mr. R. T. Hammett of the com
pany explain the company's relations
with the I. G. Farbenindustrie of Ger
many. Mr. Hammett's talk, in part,
is as follows:
A Ait? CtglCtTllAClU. LFCb WCC1A biiC nJKaiil-A
ard Oil Company (N. J.) and the 1.
G. Farbenindustrie of Germany was
consummated in 1929, years before
Nazism and Hitler were of political
consequence in that country. At that
time Germany was at peace with the
United States and great efforts were
being made to effect its rehabilitation.
The principal process which was ac
quired by Standard from I. G. was
hydrogenation. By adapting and im
proving this process in the years since
1929, we have been able and have
made many valuable inventions that
nave directly contributed tojthe War
Effort in America. Out of this pro
ess originally purchased from the
German Company has been developed
methods by which 100 octane avia
tion gasoline can be furnished in
abundance for the armed forces of
the United Nations.
As far as is known Germany and
Japan have no such fuels available.
No planes which have been shot down
with gasoline left in their tanks have
been fueled with gasoline better than
91 octane.
This fuel superiority of the Untied
Nations means that our planes ac
tually develop 20% more power with
a 30% fuel saving and can climb
higher, fly faster, range further and
bomb heavier than can the planes of
the enemy.
Toluol from which TNT is made is
also being produced by the petroleum
industry by a synthetic method based
on these old German processes and
perfected by Standard Oil. It is con
servative to say that three out of
every five bombs used by our air
forces will be made possible because
of this discovery.
Other special products, while little
known, are of extreme importance.
Outstanding among these is Para tone
which is used in every hydraulic sys
tem in every fighting machine of the
United States: Battleships, cruisers,
destroyers, submarines, tanks, figur
ing planes, bombing planes, etc.
In connection with synthenc rub
ber Standard Oil spent $12,000,000 o^
its own money in research to improve
on the synthetic rubber manufactur
ing processes originating in Germany
and has from the beginning of its re
search endeavored to interest the
larger rubber companies in uns pro
duct. Since January, 1939, the Stand
ard Oil has worked very closely with
the Army and Navy Munitions Board,
the Chemical Warfare Service, the
National Defense Counsel and other
Government agencies with the hopes
of finding a means by which syn
thetic rubber could be developed on
a larger scale than could possibly be
undertaken by any private company.
The investment required in the
plants to produce the raw material
for the estimated annual military and
minimum civilian requirements of
this country is nearly one billion dol
lars. No large scale program was
undertaken by the Government be
cause no one believed that we would
be cut off from the supplies of na
tural rubber in Malay and the Neth
erlands East Indies where rubber was
available in large quantities and could
be delivered to the United States at
a price substantially lower than the
cost of manufacturing synthetics.
It is interesting, however, to note
that private industry did develop
with its own capital synthetic rubber
production in the amount of twenty
five thousand tons per annum in the
United States prior to our entry into
the war which was equal to the syn
thetic rubber capacity of Nazi Ger
many at the time they marched into
foiana.
The erection of plants for synthetic
ru-bber are now under way and it is
estimated that 300,000 tons oi synthetic
rubber will be produced in the United
States in 1943 and that 600,000 tons
will be produced in 1944.
(Continued on page 5)
S!SK HOUSE DAMAGED
BY F!RE !N BLAZE EARLY
SUNDAY MORNtND
Fire, said to have originated from
3 cigarette carelessly smoked in bed,
jid several hundred dollars damage
to the house owned by Dr. C. T. Sisk,
located north of the railroad, and
occupied by a number of TVA families
and roomers. The fire was discov
ered by one of the families on the
tower floor about 4 o'clock Sunday
morning. The alarm was turned in
and the fire department responded
immediately but not before the blaze
had made considerable headway. It
was soon brought under control with
the result of considerable damage to
the sleeping porch and the second
story of the building. -
Some insurance is carried on the
large building, Dr. Sisk said.
FUNERAL MIES HELD
TUESDAY FDR MRS.
PARMS OF ELA
Funeral services of Mrs. Essie Poz
tell Parris, 45, of Ela, wife of Baxter
Parris, who died Sunday, were held
Tuesday morning at the Ela Baptist
church with the Rev. Johnny Hyatt,
pastor, officiating. Burial was in the
family plot in the Morrow cemetery on
Deep Creek.
Mrs. Parris was taken to the Frank
lin hospital Sunday morning and died
at 2 o'clock that afternoon. She had
been in ill health for sometime. Death
was caused by a heart attack.
Mrs. Parris was an active member
and worker in the Ela Baptist church.
Mr. Parris is a valuable employee
ci the Carolina Wood Turning Com
pany. Members of the company at
tended funeral and sent beautiful
flowers.
Surviving are her husband; one
daughter, Miss Geneva Parris; her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Postell,
of Topton; four sisters: Mrs. Olive
Duvall and Mrs. Britt Smith, of Nan
tahala; Mrs. C. A. Moles, of Tellico .
Plains, Tenn.; and Mrs. T. J. Hamp
ton, of Topton; and a brother, Blair
Postell, of Lenoir.
J.L. WALTER RET!RES
FROM !N0!AN SERVtCE
Cherokee, Aug. 3.—Approximately
1,000 Cherokee Indians and employes
o: the federal government on the
reservation gathered at Jarrett Blythe
park an the banks of the Oconaluftee
rvier Saturday and paid tribute to
John L. Walters, chief clerk of the
agency, who is retiring in two weeks
after a service here of 28 years.
Mrs. Walters was also honored.
Chief Jarrett Blythe, of the tribe,
paid tribute to their loyalty and ser- -
vice.
Clyde M. Blair, reservation super-!
intendent, presided at the ceremony.
In behalf of the department of the
interior, Mr. Blair said that Mr. Wal
ters has been one of the outstanding
employes of the U. S. Indian service.
McKinley Ross, vice-chief, trans
lated the speeches into Cnerokee for
the benefit of the alder Indians who
do not understand English.
Mr. Walters has completed 36 yea%
n the "Indian service. He begag <&i$
work in the service at Carlisle. -They
came to Cherokee 28 1-2 years ago.
Mr. Walters has served as chief clerk
during this period and has been very
popular among members of the tj&R&s.
He also has served for a number of "
years as secretary-treasurer of the
Cherokee Indian Fair Association,
Mr. and Mrs. Walters plan to leave
Cherokee September I and will go to
Asheville to make their home.
August Tire AHotment
For Swain Announced
The state of North Carolina as a
A'hole received a larger allotment of
tires for the month of August thaq
tor July. *r
Swain county's quota is as follows:
New passenger tires, 8; recaps, 12;
new tubes, 9; new truck tires, 40; re
caps, 32; tubes, 44.