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ytai' in Advance in The County. Sylva, N. C., Thursday, May 8,1930 $2.00 Year in Advance outside the County aII to* ''A' ''<?hu / 1 ilev, chiiiri?:'" 01 I he county I tiicin Kvniiri\?' Committee, t'or! t, '<? >imir?'.si names tario?> \ oil ices Jo If,! rith the hour* I elections,j f ,tf i>rim:iry law. f (teiifiiti""- the c:i!l lor which j ? will h? hehl in ilio Court' f j? Svlm "? *:<I nr.la v. Mav, j ?> (tVllK'fi f?r IV ''liVpilili.au futility! niw/fu? ?' > _ 1 loini'iitio" "I f'?? l?t'|>iil>li?'an . ,t .bik<nn Count \ is horohy / ji) HKff ?" f'"' '"ml r Toil so; -|,j, V. -'it - ??Vliwk i'. A/., I ?[iml.it. U*'i> I?i li. lO'iO, for li Oiiiri'* ami '?? iraiisacf such hthjiii'" :l> "l:l( "'???' before >ivnfioH. j n#'Wn?i/.nion- will j)|oaso j fgtirf oi r l? i - cull mul ihev aro/ lid be irptvseinai :,t the Con ihi miniri'il h\ our Nfato I !)i |)nr;im'/arinii. / wlial imitation i> <VI011<I0<] to hdii\ miii nil li'i'iiMii-aiis aro ht hf invent a i n'ii> fon von-' M'l 1.1 I'.11l ill ^Uytfosf ii|i? fi ji ficiiof :iiiil nil other l>iisjii(<s^ rfmvntiou. J. R Eifrlcv, i Liirinaii. SUS SHOWS BIG SYLVA GROWTH Irt.ii! !:',V ii -Htsill vltlatio of nil. h* ;l ,OW'1 i.,- ,i?- ?.;?? li'lhlh, ilbl '"l''H' '??'!? H> *?!)> ncarlv !?? ?. ?m. ami finite limit- <?! <"<? ,mvn )rt.'ih?\ >anif ai? ;i a> in 10*20, lawij hccii mhir.i il. i> the ii, ?urn) i'l ih. ci West- j North ('aroli'iii- Hu- township ^wn'mon- Thait 1??m? .hirinu' tl*| ifar i*riini. In !?*-" the ]h>]>u1u-I oi Svlva notfii-iii ' wa- 2,2 l-J, jt present il i t fll pRicliesll) I'lTccnt. w F?>ik town"11! ? h;i? 1 ,.'tS4 Hit- a* C(iiii|i;irc(l' with SO 7 i" ^ivamuili township r?'jK>rt?'<l i i> foiiipir.>1 with TO:! in 1920 frs Creek townslijp s71 in 19M0 Ml1 in l!i'2i?; IIiiiiiliiir-4 township in iMrt anil S|:: in Hl'JU; River ;hi|> 1.2112 in III in | i| l"0 i' : si-nu'- fieck town-li i 11 1, ii IWrt an,| | l;!l |?V_>0. U TO FILL METH ODIST PULPIT. SUNDAY it"* I'Imhit hi the pa-tor, who Wnctiiiii ;i >cj-ic< of mcctinprs in Mrthixlist clnu'.li at Cnllowhoo, the - ni tin- Metliod kiirrh<s in S\ I vii and Dillshoro ^wetipiwl l?v \ i~tinir ministers 'J inoriiinir utul cu-iiim;. >? Mark (}. Tattle will pieac'n 'ira in the moniinu at 11 o'clock. Hfv. Tha>l K. Dcit/ will preach ill>bnro in the ( veiling at 8. <>' - Simday m-IihoU <>t the charge w'??ie ;,t In a. in. The Kp k llil^atrnc will meet in the Nt i o'clock. 's Mother's I lay. Wear a 'r proper color and go lo ?h with mother it yon can, or if Bn '0I,!I01' have her with you, ?*o "nnry of |10r IVE PAGEANT AT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, SUNDAY ^ .\115cls ?ri Men-) " .is the "i a |*geaut to l>c ijivcn at the Riptist church, next Sunday tl.-by die Woman's Missionary '? The pasatu presents the work hy the Uaptist Hospital '"Mon-Salcm. There arc nine Gratters in (lie pageant, seven s twelve chihlron. Visitors *&h invited, ami all mom ??? urged In tin so, } ^Ws Day i?i t'erinS for the j- *?rk at the Daptist hospital '?km iollnwiii'j; the program ' wornin? service will carry out ipiril ?f Mother's Day. The mu *rn>l,u. e\c., win lx- appropriate f ftl''*(t>ion, assembly <>l the \\. Y. , he ?iv en over to a play ' ^ Murray .l.mior IV Y. P. '",'t Wlt'islm, ?i' Mis. lohl. ?nes Ir 1, . , 11 nose iMMiunu; to the cv V*rv"Y *iU come at 7.45 they m,,? this 1,eat as well a> ?Ven l?V the \Y. M. U. at i THE WEEK (By DAN TOMPKINS); I rom Rangoon to Mandalay there is a great stir ami uproar following the arrest of the Indian patriotic and religious leader, Mahatiua Uand hi, by British civil officers, follow ing his eampiign of passive resist ance to Knglish rule. What will event uatc nobody knows; but twisting the tail of the British Lion has ever proved disastrous, except in the in stance when part of our ancestors ^ot away with it. What practically all thinking pco pie ex|M'i'ie<l happened, Saturday andj Monday, when the stock market! broke again, sending many stocks' tumbling downward. The effects oft the gambling fever' that swept over America, up to last October, coupled with wide-spread unemployment and discontent, will he felt for a long time vet. A long list of the leading econom ists in America have joined in a pe t it ion of protest against the passage, o.*' the pending tariff bill, alleging that it.would result in increased un employment, do further serious harm to the injured farmers, and seriously affect American business and rela tions in foreign countries. Republi can standpatters reply that econom ists have always opjmsed the |K)licy of protective tariff, which is true. It seems to me, that the strain that higher tariffs would plaee uj?on our foreign relations would cause any congressman or senator to think se riously before voting for the bill, in view of the fact that the past elev en years l.ive brought us much unpleasant feeling among our neigh-' bor nations of the world; to say nothing of the economic fallacy that a |>eop!c can tax themselves rich. v ! J osia h Williams Bailey has made 1 n trip rbmafch Wtiffrertrinr, Madi^OTf, | and some of the other western coun j ties, during the past week. Mr. Bailey has much strength in practi ! cally all the western counties in hi* j campaign to defeat Senator Sim mons for the Democratic nomination for United States Senator. The United Slates Senate, yester day afternoon, defeated the confirm ation of John .1. Parker, of Charlotte, as associate justice of the Supreme Court by a 3J) 41 vote. Despite the i fact that Parker is a leading North Carolina Republican, both Democrat ic senators from this State supported him, and Senator Overman was one of the leaders in the fight for his confirmation. All North Carolina was ; behind Judge Parker; but the Asso ; ciation for the Advancement of Col i ored People, ami labor organizations i stirred up the row that resulted in j his rejection. Water, Copper, Schools By Col. Wade Harris) Charlotte Observer, May 2, 1930 The mountain breezes have fresh ened np over all that section of the State embracing the Georgia- Tenn-1 essee corners, above which the Great Smoky Mountain range stands senti nel for cattle and chickens, orchard and dairy, have been Hilling the farm er's pocket book, while springing np ot industrial enterprises is spreading a smile over the face of the country. I P to the time good roads made pen etration of that section of the. State it was a penned-up treasure house. Good roads invited the people to come in, and development of tremen dous importance is fast following. The old Murphy Division of the Southern liailway Company, long built, and highways of recent con st met ion have to be relocated in, many-mile sections to make way to water reservoirs and power plants, and tractors are hauling long strings of copper ores from the mines to rail road transportation from Sylva to the smelting plants in Tennessee, pending the erection of smelting plants convenient to the newly-de veloped mines in Jackson, Macon, Haywood and Swain counties. These reservoirs and ]>ower plants are un der development by the American Aluminum Company, and the extent of this particular industry may be grasped in the statynncnt that an in vestement of $100,000,000 will be nec essary to carry the projects to com pletion. The location of the dams?there are six in the scheme?is best indi cated by it marking on the State Highway map. The ' Little Tennessee ' River, starting in Macon County and forming the dividing line between ? <4raham and Swain, is made to give a good account of its waters before leaving the State. The first dam in the aluminum company's system is located at Topoea, just inside the State line. The second is at the point j known i\a Yellow Creek. The third, completed some months ago and form | ing a lake thai is shown on the State ! map, backs water to Tiobbinsville; the fourth is located at Topton, at the point of the V running down from Bryson City on the East and Robbinsville on the west. The fifth is at Bushnell, and it is this dam that will back water to covei4 the lower ' part of Bryson. The sixth dam will be located on Highway No. 106 that j connects Sylva with No. 28 af Casli i icr's Valley. The1 impounding of these waters has an interesting possibility lor Swain Contny. Bryson City will be the Capital of the smallest land area in the State, for the rescrvoins will rover about ono-fourth of the farm ing lands, and the wooded areas of the Smoky Mountains National Park will constitute the larger part of the visible Inads. The aluminum people have pajd top juices for such lands as were necessary for their develop ment and in most, instances the own ers were only too glad to sell out. As a matter of course this invest ment of $100,000,000 in damming the rivers is not intended for the mere purpose o? forming dams. These waters thus caught up are to be uti lized in running the wheels of indus trial plants. The aluminum officials are rather close-mouthed about their plans, as must be necessarily the ! case, pending the working out of de tails, but enough is k^iown to indi cate location around the power plants of industries of various kinds, in ' eluding the one which will run in i production of the new metal which ! is a cross between iron and steel and which will play an important part in automobile manufacture. An enorm ous pay mil is in the making over a territory that will take in Transyl vania, Haywood, Jackson, Macon, Clay, Cherokee, Graham and Swain counties, in which circumstance the people can readily see the dawning of a new day for that, part of the State. in the <1ays ''before the war" I considerable |>ecking around was I fay wood counties for copper. Veins done in Jackson, Macon, Swain and worked in a crude way, produced ores heavy in copper. But there was no smelters and no transportation, and only the tradition of these mines remained. A few months sigo the big copper interests of Ducktown, and the United States Smelting and Re fining Company camy along investi ! gating. What they discovered set them to digging. Tuesday last the Observer saw a shipment of 17 car loads of ores from mines on High way 28T>, between Sylva and Frank lin, showing values of around 35 per j cent in lead, 17 per cvnt in zinc and 8 to 10 per cent in copper. Hard by | on the same highway, the copper j miners are working in a creek bot ! tom a thousand feet below. The de i vclopments have encouraged the cop per people to the hope of establish ing the industry on a profitable bas is, and that necessarily means con struction of smelter plants to save I transportation costs. A force of 00 i hands is now working in the Cullo ! whcc mine in .Tackson County. Tt was suggested to one of the operators that if news of discovery of copper ores as rich as those now heing worked in .Tackson and adjacent counties should have come from the West. Which Way? By Albert T. Reid ^zzimTMrz ? W r^ys^-? ir AKTlt*1' 40 YEARS AGO TUCKASEIGEE DEMOCRAT May 7, 3890 The. municipal election held here Monday resulted in the election of Gen. E. R. Hampton for Mayor, O. B. Coward, R. M. Davis, M. H. Mor ris, J. R. Frizzell and H. P. Brendle for commissioners, and J. D. Sitton for marshal. A petition was circu lated and signed during the day ask ing the county commissioner* to order an election to be held on the question of issuing license to sell whiskey here. The petition was pre sented to the commissioners who, very projwrly, refused to make the order, as they had no authority un der the law r to do so. Geo. R. B. Vance delivered the commencement address at the Ham burg Hig'n School, which was written np for the Democrat by J. H. House. H. f{. Queen and D. M. Presslev de* livered original orations. The ques tion resolved that missionarv ehter v ? * prises have done more to promote civilization than commerce, was de bated by H. C. Harris, E. C. Hedden, H. R. Queen and D. M. Pressley. Prof. Pinckard delivered the certif icate of proficiency to Miss Ella Robinson, the first student to com plete the course. Rev. B. X. Queen pronounced the benediction. Hon. Kope Elins has accepted the invitation to deliver the address at the close ot' f'ullowhee High Seliool. Miss Carrie I'crry of Walhalla, S. 0., is visiting Miss Frances Bann). Maj. Thompson, the master of the Illinois State (Grange, has quit the Republican party because of its shams, and joined the Democratic party as offering the only hope to the oppressed farmer. Senator Blackburn has introduced a bill to admit Arizona Territory to the Union. Senator Beck of Kentucky died in Washington last Saturday. He was an active member of the Senate, and did perhaps more than any other Democrat in shaping legislation. With Senator Vance he represented the minority on the Committee on Fi nance, and it was because of his ill health that so much work was thrown on Senator Vance as to cause the loss of his eye. The proposed Nicaragua canal to unite the Atlantic and Pacific oceans will cost $65,000,000.00. The distance j is 109 miles, but only 29. miels of j canal will have to be dug. there would have been a rush there similar to the gold rush of the 49rs. And that, it was agreed, is exactly what would have hap]>ened. It is a very good prospect that this copper mining in the western part of this State is going to bring ndditiona fame to North Carolina. And throughout western Nortl Carolina, education is keeping the pace with agriculture and industry? perhaps a little ahead. One would be led to believe so after a look at the transformation that has been going on around thei former Cullowhee State Normal?former, because that, institution has lost its old name, and is now forging forward under the name of Western Carolina Teachers College, -but under the same able leadership of Dr. H. T. Hunter, its president. The State has a million dollars invested in the buildings that adorn- the hill on which the Cullo whee institution is built. It is rather difficult to establish the greater ob ject of President Hunter's pride?( the coverage of grass and flower, shrubbery and trees he has given the lawns surrounding the buildings, or the new $100,000 dormitory for girls just being finished, whose chief fea ture, aside from its beautiful archi tectural design, is an actuality in fire-proof construction. It stands on the crowning elevation enclosed in saucer-shape by the towering ranges of the Cowees, Balsams, Xantahalas and Smoky Mountains. It is called Robertson Hall, in honor of Reuben Robertson, who was an active offic ial from 1925 to 1930. Other build ings are the .Toyner building, con struction in 1913, named after Dr. J. Y. .Toyner, great pioneer in North Carolina education; the Davies Ball; the Madiosn building; the Walter E. Moore Dormitory, costing $200,000, VESTAL RETURNS FIRST OF JUNE E. V. Vestal, County Agent of Gh-eene County, has been chosen as County Agent for this county, and will arive about June 1 to assume his duties here. Mr. Vestal is well known in Jack son, and is thoroughly familiar with the work here, having served with C. W. Tilson, in the capacity of a-s sistant county agent, during the greater part of last year. He went from here to Greene a few months ago. Following the resignation of Mr. Tilson, who went to Durham as the head of the Durham Mutual Ex change, negotiations have been in progress between the commissioners of this county, the State Extension Service, and tlie Greene County authorities to effect the release of Mr. Vestal by the commissioners of Greene, and his return to Jackson. Chairman Ernest Keener of the County comi8sioners was notified today,"that Mr. Vestal will begin the work in Jackson on June 1, at a cast to the county of $1,400.00 a year, the salary of the county agent hav ing been reduced because of the gen eral business depression. CULLOWHEE ESSAY WINS FIRST PRIZE IN STATE Miss Hannah J. Cox, of Cullowhee High School, has been notified that her essay on "Develop a Suitable Woodland Taxation Policy for North Carolina" has been awarded first prize in the State-wide contest re cently conducted in the high schools. The winning of the contest entit les Miss Cox to a bronze medal pre sented by the American Forestry As sociation, and wins for Cullowhee High School the school medal for one year, in addition to the priaqjpjf, $10.00 in gold ,which Miss Cox i&L receive. is a central heating plant; dairy unit a laundjry and a library to which ad ditions are being constantly made, a full-time librarian being employed. The farm surrounding the school is an interesting unit in its equipment One of the prettiest tennis courts in all the land is of daily utilization, and at Cullowhec is located the cmnm ;non boys' basketball team. The very atmosphere around Cullowhec breath es educational inspiration. And is was at Cullowhec that the editor took off his hat to admirjstra.tors, teach ers and young ]>cop1e for the hand some recognition of the things The Observer may have been able to do for the western section ?f the State, a special feature being a song by the college class of young women dedi-, cated to the paper, followed by a motion song for which any moving picture producer would be willing to pay a good sum. At Sylva the editor ran into a story become all too common in the State?that of a closed bank, but ? t' with an nnusnal incident in connec tion. It seems that last Friday there had been "a rnn" on the Tuekasee gee Bank. To save itself, the institu tion closed its doors and sent for the State bank examiner to go over its books. Next day the Jackson County Bank, across the way, posted a bit of reassuring information in its win dow. It showed deposits Friday of $486,347.33. Deposits Tuesday, $557 508.30, a gain of .$73,000. People who might have been inclined to doubt, were invited inside where, on a table J was piled stacks of currency, gold I and silver. This incident restored con fidence in the community pnd added [ strenght to the belief that the flosed bank would re-open after the work | of the examiner was concluded with all deposits safe and none the worse for the experience. ?. , The -commercial, indaatipa] and so cial interests of Sylva are being up held by an energetic Chamber of Coin racree, which, at. the. CflJJowhee ban quet, submitted an inspiring state ment of accomplishments for the past year. The prosperous condition of the Sylva Chamber of Commerce was es tablished tbrragh ijt$ cooperation with Jackson County. It is actively engag ed in promoting county interests a-, is is in looking after town affairs. The Sylva folks take pride in a newly-established institution known as the Harris Library, wbieh is al (Please Tarn To Page 2)
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