North Carolina Newspapers

K " \ o -k^ ? < , J50 the Year in Advance 111 the County, Sylva, N. C., Wednesday, February 16, 1927 J $2.00 the Year in Advance Outside County Park Enthusiasts Are Jubilant Tl?> of .Governor McLean t0 ,|,t. tirc:il Mnoky Mountain Na tional I'aik bill, lias been assured and lir.ill.v all opposition to its pas ^'1(, iiiivii'-ii the j**n,eral assembly dk-ipated. through amend-! wints io ilK' bill offered by its prp..j iwiii'iits. *o uir .-is the North Carolina jyen-| fnt| assembly is concerned the park j< established. The friends of tho bill anticipate no further trouble 111 j|,e lethalure. '? ? ] f!,^s'rir.>Misr the amendments is the provision t hat no part of the State b;tiul i>>i?' ()t ^-,<><^>,000 authorized iii the h'ij 11 Income available until adequate f'mds have been assured for ) the pur?,l"lst' am,s both North Carolina Pmd Tennessee which the SrretarvW the Interior shall desk?-' liate ''iueiieral development for, XatUal I'ark purposes." I'tuler tlu' aet/of Congress the See-| retarv ot the interior may accept a niiiiinaim acreage ot .150,000 "to be! administered and protected by the) National I'ark >crviee" but no "<ren-: ertl development" can be undertake:: ihitil an itrea. set at 4:28,000 acres !i:is been acquired and turned over to the! government. As oris;':ially drawn the park bill called iVr the 'ssu<> of the Stat:1'.** bonds-as soon as the State of Ten-.j nessee >lioiild acquire 75,000 acres, its' halt"of the minimum acreage that the' coveniment will accept. The amend-: nifntHolds n|> the issue of the bonds until funds have been assured to ae-i dtiire the ? minimum acreage which ' the government will take over for! general developmentVv The bill further changed to proyrae! that not alone the North Carolina! Park Commission but also the (?ov ernor and Council Oi' State must find that the necessary funds for acq uir-1 iii;; the lull develo]>ment acreage ai^e iii liaud. Tlie-A-c-siilt is that, 'although the State will authorize a.$2,000,000 bon<j! issue-. the authorizing is sO hedged that the Park' people must \first go out aiici iret art, amount of^monev w!|inli when ^uppljt-nietned by t lio' Stite appropriation Vill he sufficient! to acquire 4^8.000 acres of land in] tlutpiirk si real of North Carolina nnd; Tennessef instfctd of the 150,000 acrefsJ first contemplated. Tlu ne.t (lea; lire was accepted en thusiast iealiy hv the park advocates, however. They declared that See-1 retarv of lnteriorv)Vork had assured j them that when i^. jbecame known iliat North l aiolina was ready to put | up fi.OOO.OUO tor a national park the1 rest of the country would pro vide the additional funds necessary. fWntgrv \Y;>rk. it was said. suggest-; pJ tlie cjiaiige, and Governor McLean and Oovernor IVay were reported to to' in agreement. Although delaying the actual ac quisition of land in the North1 Caro ling park area, the bill makes pro vision lor the institution of proceed-j mis to protect the forests in the. a'<>a pending its acquisition. The pfirk eoinna.-ision, for example, may go into th(. courts and enjoin owners ironi (nutuiii' tjinber on designated P:l>k lands and according to Senator Piato Khjis, of Buncombe county, con demnatiim proceedings looking to the wquisition nf the land may be insti tuted immediately. Opposition Subsides ^itli the introduction of the amend fd bill in the Senate today, opposi tion heretofore raised against the """isurc hided and those leading ihe Movement anticipated smooth sailing ,n both the upper and lower Houses. Senator. Hancock, who in a statement Saturday had declared their opposi h'.n to the hill as then drsiwn, an "ounccd today that the amended bill have their support. They, as **'l as the hulk of the opposition in J'1 Wes had insisted on their lo support any movement that ?*ou!d insure the establishment of a ? a,ioiial park in the North Carolina '"ountain,-, tho lines of cleavage cen J^ed on the matter of "safe guard the state's ' interests" as the ?pp0sii ion put it. The linrk people seemed certain raising of the necessary funds Delegation Goes To Raleigh O l; ' * * M Franklin Press. A delegation of 12 Macon county citizens left Franklin Tuesdav for ? * J Raleigh, to appear Wednesday. ;al'tei noon at the legislative committee hearing on the Smoky Mountain park bill, and to urge favorable action on the measure. The delegation represented the county, the town, and the Franklin Chamber of Commerce',' and other cit izens went simply as individuals. Representing the county was the entire board of county commissioners composed of C. R. Cabe, Porter Pin-son, and Charles II. McClure;,ns representatives of the town were Mayor R. L). Sisk and Alderman T. W. Angel and W. L. Higdon; a(id Henry G. Robertson and Gilmer Jones, president and director, respec tively, went as representatives of Hie chamber of commerce. In addition, Tvr.uk I. Murray, clerk of the court, took a car full of citizens going simp ly as interested individuals. The matter of having representa-j tivp delegation from Macon county at the hearing was called to the at tention of tlio local chamber of com merce by telegrams from Don S.; EHas, of AsheviUe, and the Ashcvillcj Chamber of Canimerce. and the ques-j t ion was .'discussed Moonday night at a joint meeting of the board of coun-j ty commissioners, the town board,! and thp7'board of directors of the chamber of commerce. ONE LICENSE ISSUED Only one marriage license was is sued dicing the past week, that being !??W<rtO-~Neffen-Qumr tmd Gotinda Long, Indians. " Sl to supplement the state bond issue tor acquiring the' minimum acreage tor general ( development, 'will be. ;i! task that ran be quickly accomplish- J ed. They were giving?great weight to' Secretary Work^s reputed statement that wealthy philanthropic interests in the East /Would be found generous ly disposed toward the park 'propos al. Major \V. A. Welch, superintend ent of the palisades Interstate p^rk in New York and one of the( most active boosters of the Smoky Moun - tain* park project told members of the North Carolina commission that lie would place his bands on two and a halt; million dollars within, thirty days. , Governor McLean would not say this afternoon when he would make public hi* attitude toward the amended bill but he left newspaper inquirers convinced that be woul l speak out within a few days. A! statement from him will contribute ? much toward solidifying support for: the measure. Amendments To Bill j The amendments to the bill, in their' exact wording, provide that the, state i bond issue shall become available ,'when the North Crolina Park com-! I ? ? ? i mission shall find r "A?That the secretary of the, interior has in pursuance of the act) of congress designated the areas to j be acquired wit hip the states of | North Carolina and Tennessee for i ; j general development for National j park purposes as provided in said | 1 act of Congress. "R?That adequate financial pro vision has been made by or on be half of the State of Tennessee tor i the purchase of its portion of the | designated area set forth in section four hereof which lies within the I state of Tennessee. "C?That adequate financial pro ! vision including the amount appro bated here today has been made to purchase that part of the said area ' to be designated by the secretary of 'the interior lying within the state of j North Carolina" j And this further provision is add ed; 4' Section 27, after the findings of said commission as above set out 'shall have been made, and if and ' when the gov.ernor and council of state shall have also made the find ings as set out., in sub sections A. B. J and C. of Section 26 of the park, then the said bonds shall be issued as j herein provided." Sylva Rr^oses By Three Points j Sylva High School suffered J to, first defeat in 4(i consecutive games,! at the Iiands of the Ashcvillc 'Hi^'h I basketball team, Monday evening', 011 j the West jAsheville court, by a score j of 36 to 33. The game was in the elimination contest for the state high school championship, and the largest crowd, ever to witness a basket, ball game in Asheville, proiuhn.ced it one o;' tin- best and most si>ectaeiilar on?? ever played in this part of the state. A large crowd of Sylva people we?*o on hand to s<?e the game and had high j hopes of defeating Asheville High j and bounding^ on to the state chain?j pionship, although Barnes was .it i home with a sprained ankle. The sport editor of the Ashevillc j Citizen said of the game: It was a merry battle between a team well schooled in teamwork, 1 passwork and generalship against a; team composed of individual talent 1 which lias never been exceeded on any; local court. Between Fincannon, Freeze and Ensley, Sylva prcscniedtj three of the most perfect shots I haVej ever seen, but with all of their abili ty it was 110 match for thcMaroons' passwork. ' 1 Although the Maroons guarded woll; at least with a guarding they thought was sufficient to cope with their op ponents, it was sufficient in the first half, but in the second half all three Sylva sharp shooters began bombard ing the Maroon basket from all sec tions of the court and the funnyf thing about it was most of them sunk' through the mesh regardless of Uie guarding, This? barrage came down like rain tiff a roof. The ball bounced in a steady stream off the backboard and then Fincannon, the lanky Sylva cen ter would swish one through the air from mid court,' and Knslev would come charging down the sidelines to drop in english shots that no one but the'basket could stop. It did. Brown or Chakalcs, two Maroon guards, were powerless to stop tins flow audi the game soon/ emerged into a battle: royal with a handsome lead obtained; by the Maroons in the first three; periods just about wiped from the! boards. :/ + * ? .Tumping the first three periods of tlie same for the time booing', Mie fouftll opened with the Maroons hold ing anil point lead and (seeihingly in control of ;the game. Then the Sylva fireworks began to pep, and, believe us, they popped with some thing more than pla^n j>ops. Down the sidelines swept Freeze and swish went ji goal/'f)own the center came Fincannon af)-zowic-went another. Then Freeze. Then Fincannon hi id worry settle<] over the Maroon sode of the gym and caused about Vive tontrues to begin to drag. With one minute left to play the Maroons took the only alternatice i that was left. They "froze" the ball and in our humble judjinent.that was the way they advanced to the next round of the state elimination series. That one minute of "freezing" al though awkward and at one time almost costly, was Sylva's downfall, j Had they taken advantage of Ashe 1 ville's holding the ball in their ter I ritory, they might have won the game Sylva was baffled completely "lur ing the first half. Between George Rogers, Captain Paul 1 Worl?y N and Billy Estcs, Sylva saw little of the ball, despite the fact Fincannon was ; getting the tip of most of the jumps1 at center. Under the basket, the Maroons had SvLva guards wondering1 ! aplenty. First it was Rogers and then Worley coming up under the ba; 1 ket to sink crip shots that soon gave j the Maroons a heavy lead, in fact it was 10 to 1 in their favor at the end of the first period. Seven and j one-half minutes elapsed before Syl-j I va scored a point ill the opening j period and that a foul goal by Fin ' cannon. j Rogers and Worley ogain had their ' tpt-tete under the basket in the sec ond period much to the embarassnient of the Sylva team, while Brown was pulling them off the backboard with i the nonchalance and ease which should have ^encouragefl his team ; mates. Again the Maroon defense i was strong enough to hold the Sykaj Judges Webb and Stack to Hold Court The Jackson county superior court, February session, will open Monday morning with Judge J. L. Webbi pre siding. The first week will be for the trial of criminal cases, and there is said to be a big docket to be tried. The second week of the coart, Juijgc A. M. Stack will be on the bench and will be for the trial of civil cases only. BAPTIST CHURCH TO VOTE ON PASTOR It has been announced that a con ference of the members of the Bap. tist church will be held next Sunday morning, at which time the report of tl'.e pulpit committee will be vote'd upon. The report of the committee was rendered on last Sunday evening, but action was deferred until next Sunday morning, so that the entire membership of the church may have an opportunity to express their, wishes in the choice of a pastor. CANTON COMPANY GIVEN POST CARD CONTRACT BY U. S. Canton, Feb. 8?The Champion Fibre Company of Canton has been notified that it has been awarded the contract for 4,400,000 pounds of post card paper. The contract, it is be lieved will require- one week out of every month of the company's tune for several months. Two years ago the Champion com pany was given a contract for ten million pounds of postcard paper for the government, and produced this amount, it is said, withont having a single pound returned because of any defect. , A West Virginia concern tied wit'i the Canton company in bidding and was given half the contract. The good thing about selling cream from a few cows is that it brings a small income distributed over the . entire year. J. A. Frick of Rowan j County received $26 per month from' three cows last vcar. . , AN EMERGENCY CALL Every member of Sylva Methodist church who possibly ran, is iirgedj to be present next Sunday morning at the 11 o'clock service. J This is an emergency call. Come and bring some one else with you. Don't fail to be on hand.. W. M. Robbins, Pastor. team to even pdints during the stan za while Worlcy scored four, Rogers six and Scotty Chakalcs came up from behind to drop in a brace of j free, tries. Imagine the Maroons holding a score of 22 to 8 on a team with a record of 46 straight wins when they went out for their breathing spell.! Maroon fans were riding* high.' It I looked like a walkaway. It was an| utter rout. It was terrible. And as Paul Jones, who was scoring next to the writer chirped in "there's1 something out of gear here." But we lived to see that Sylva team' get in gear. And it wasn't low either' Both teams whipped into shape and! the sweepstakes were on. From eight' points Sylva quickly came up to 22 points with Freeze and Fincannon whipping them in the ring without touching it, as Rogers and Worley pounded tty? backboard with enough points to give the Maroons 11 points to the good as the third period ended the score standing, 33 to 22. Then that fateful fourth plus Fin cannon, the artist, and Freeze and Ensley, the side shot scientists. The Maroons were lucky to get the three points they obtained. Chakales was responsible for two of them by ai field goal and Estes dropped in aj foul goal for the third. It was fortu nate they had a lead. The lineup and summary: Sylva 33: Freeze 11 and Ensley 7,; forwards; Fincannon 15 center; Clay ton and Henry guards. Sub- Queen. Asheville 36: Rogers 14 and Worley 13, forwards; Estes 5 center; Chak ales 4 and Brown guards. Subs. Eber ly for Estes. Referee: Brown. Farmers Sold Millions of Truck Raleigh, Feb. 16?Farmers in this state received a total of $10,272,550 for commercial truck in 192o or 2-" percent of the value of all truck.in the United States. The 1925 truck crop value was only $8,073,840 or 2.1 percent of the total for all slates. These amounts tlo not include sweet potatoes, vegetables produced for home consumption or sold in le.->.s than car lots. Twelve thousand car loads of commercial truck were shipped from 55,450 estimated acres, which indi cates a gross return of $185.25 per acre. Lettuce had the highest per acre value, $533.80, while watermelons had the lowest, $21.65./ ?, For the past season early Irish Po tatoes ranked first in the total com mercial truck of the State. Straw berries were second and lettuce third. The outlook for early Irish Pota toes this season is not very promising. There is a possibility of heavy pro duction, due to good prices last year, cheaper seed this season, and low prices for other farm crops. Unless production is considerably reduced from the 1926 crop, potato prices are likely to Be low, due to a larvtf quantity of old potatoes on hand. It appears that early in June will be the best time to market North Caro lina potatoes, as at his time there will be the least competition from other states. Considering all commercial truck! crops sold off the farms where grown North Carolina probably doubled the above estimated value of commercial truck. If all truck grown and con sumed (including home gardens) be included, the figure would be more than quadrupled? Rirplane photo graphs taken by the Crop Reporting Service showed clearly that back yard gardens in our towns are liter ally full of various vegetables that aggregate a tremendous factor in un derstanding the small demand for fresh vegetables in our North Car olina towns. MARKETING POULTRY .. ! NECESSARY NOW ' SAYS COUNTY AGENf ? i It is always a good practice to make any one line of fanning or any cash crop on the farm run itself .so far as possible. And uow is certain ly the time for our farmers who have mixed flocks of chickens to stop keeping chickens just for their health and get busy at keeping chickens for a cash crop for they can easily be made one of our very best cash: crops on any farm that will grow! grains for feed and house and rare | for the chickens so as to give them a half chance to pay. j And no sane person will fool along with housing and caring for a flocK of mongrel mixed up poultry. We have between 40 and 50 purebred farm flocks in Jackson county now and over a thousand mixed up mon grel flocks. The mixed flocks all over the world have never paid half j the profits of a purebred flocks. So! lets use a little good business sense j about this chicken management and catch up every old hen, rooster and pullet on the place where we have the mixtry and sell them all to the j poultry car and put the money into! a brooder and some purebred chicks, j If you wish keep a dozen of thej best hens to lay eggs for home use,j but don't leave any more around j in the way of these chicks that wdlj make pullets to lay 60 cent cggs[ next fall and winter. And the purebred flocks can't be J culled any too closely now. Tlie! cooperative poultry car is a market j for every farmer in Jackson county, "with chickens of any kind on his j place. And over half the chickens in; Jackson county ought to be turnedj into cash in the next few weeks with only the best left at home. Lots ! of counties with no more poultry than Jackson have loaded a full car at! one sale day. We ought to be ashamed not to j have loaded a half ear so far. So; lets get busy and bring in those' chickens to the poultry car and hold our market. Markets have been the farmers cry for a long time. < Now Vacancy to Be Filled From This District The letter wluch follows, relative to tlie appointment, from this Congres sional district, of a young man to fill a vacancy in West Point, lias been received from Capt. Dale M. Mjeag land, recruiting officer at Fort Bragg: "There is a vacancy for a cadet at West Point which Representative Zebulon Weaver is authorized to fill from the tenth Congressional Dis trict. The selection of candidates by examination or otherwise, is entirely in his hands, and any young man who desires this appointment shoalcL address his application to him. Three men are to be named, one as a principal, one as first alternate and one as second alternate in the event of the failure of the princi pal, the second alternate if qualified will be admitted in the event of bot?r the principal and the first alternate failing. The candidate must at date of 'ad mission, which is the first week in July, 1927, be between the ages of 17 and 22 years and unmarried. Af ter getting an appointment he will need to demonstrate that he meas ures up to certain physical and ed ucational standards. His physical fit ness is determined by examination, his educational qualifications may b? determined by examination or by submission of certain prescribed cer tificates. * ? Upon admission to the academy he enters upon a four year course of study and training. The academic year extends from September 1st to June 4th, tlie greater part of the remaind er of the year being spent in camp and devoted to military training. At ..segoud year at the academy he is granted a furlough of about ten weeks, which, with the ex ception of a few days during Christ., mas week of his second, third and fourth years, is the only extended va cation which he receives. During the time that he remains a cadet, he is paid at the rate of $1,072 per an num. Upon graduation he may be commissioned as a second lieutenant in one of the branches of the Army. There arc two methods for meet ing the educational requirements for* admission to the Military Academy, viz: by successfully passing the reg ular entrance examination, or by ; submitting a satisfactory educational certificate in lieu thereof. The regular Military Academy en trance examination is held beginning on the first Tuesday in March. Eaeh candidate designated to take that examination will receive from the War Department a letter of appoint ment, and he must appear for exam ination at the time and place desig nated therein, before a board of Ar my officers convened by the War Department. The board before which a candidate is directed to appear will be the on? convened at the place nearest or moot convenient to his home or school at which he is in regular attendance. The nearest place to North Carolina is Fort MePherson, Georgia. , The educational examination Is such that a high school graduate could reasonably be expected to pass. Any further information, such aa the scope of the examination, etc., can be obtained from Representative Weaver,, the Commanding General, Fort Bragg, N. C., the Commanding General, Fort McPherson, Ga. This is considered an exceptionally good opportunity for some younf men of your vicinity, and it re quested that you give this such witk publicity as you see possible." Zeb Mauney of Cleveland County is "Shayonizing" 125 feeder pigs and found that they made even bet ter gains than Mr. Shay prophesied. I want to see how much our farm ers really care to have a market. We have to sell a market something if we keep it, so get up those old bena and roosters and bring them to your poultry ear next Saturday, February 26th and you will do your pert ta help build up a strong market for one of the best cash crops any ftta ever grew.