|1 .50 YEAR IN ADVANCE IN THE COUNTY
? iVA, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, FEB. 21, 1936
9L00 YEAR IN ADVANCE OUTSIDE THE COUNTY
Relieve Blackwood Land
Will Soon Be A Part Of
>antahala National Forest
.. u| io scil. which those who
, working on the matter for
"? , , , n i J i > an- sun- will Ik- ae
the {?ovrnmu-nt, was signed
,fs ,.f tho Blackwood Lunt
!V ' t;!iiy , Saturday, whereby the
, "',.w"irai-t of land, lying
t :i:uy Fork and Canada
along the Caney Fork
will IhTOine a part of the
^ National Forest, at an
fi Mliu-Uwoml tract, which in
t i,.,. -diii- of the finest mountain
r.'.t vome of the highest ele
ii Western North Carolina,
' v-lu-iw of the Great Smoky
jrjjaius National Park, is one ot
V, i ,nu'ts ot liHul 0VCl
? l.v the government in this
*. ! '1 , N. . t when the State turned
' of the park, that j.t
W iMUH'-.l. to the Government.
1 '[. tti:th^tood that negotiation
,,-<s for the acquisition of
In forest, extending tin
Wun.l:n-v the Balsam range.
1 ...r tlnou-M the IMot t Balsams ami
to Piek v rreek. plating in Jackson
., ... oil.' ->t' the most magnificent
.^on* ?'! :!'l the National Forest..
' \\Vu out, acquire^ the government,
' \x is \ii;?Vr-i:ood, will immediately
tain :1k' development of the forest
bdi/tliiiC numerous all-weather road.
jfom the towns, and the State High
ways to the tops and along the top.
d 'the mountains, reforesting, and
other matters, making the forest ac
cessible to the tourists and to the
people of the neighboring comities.
Tentative plans arc said to call for
the establishment of some three oi
tour Civillian Conservation Corps
camps in the county, and other prep
arations for exploiting the forest.
( The lands of the Blaekwood Lum
ber Company, upon -which the gov
ernment now holds an option, :
it is believed it will exercise, reach
to the summit of the Caney Fork
Balsams, and it is through it that
it is proposed that the parkway,
reaching from the Shenandoah Na
tional Park t? the lireat Smokies,
will traverse for many miles, own
ing up to the t? ur.>t.-> >ome of the
most magnificent .-'?eiu-ry in Eastern
Arm rica, and a '?'< "(h-rtuhy beautiful
mouiraiii i 'ittr.i v '.!??! is known only
:n ;!;?? a:-: ri . : ;'::s and adjoining
coy:/ ? .?! : ?? ( :<w of the more
? i '??!> ?? , ! tourists,
i v !r.uds of the Plott
. :n?jU n d by the fiovern
aiul it is stated
?v ? .'!; |n;> :ii ally closed, with
c!i of the Davi-> tract,
.... - in, s Black Rock, Yellow
-F: ?. \\ a t rv.i n*k Knob and other high
. i.- in -i:e Plott Balsam range,
; ???? wliirh negotiations arc now
? '?it--, the government will
? ? x^t nd the Nantahala Forest
' > that territory, or will
? ranker the Iwnds from the National
f ?!??.' -r, t|?. (}n-jit Smoky Mountains
N*;i'-i>'Kt! Park. In eit'lier event, and
i' :i!?h-ars to make little difference
which it is called, the government
'' <?>' ! open for public use, will
iiiHiulc the whole of the Balsam
will l>e traversed by the Park
way, will be developed for tourist
purpose and the use of the people
"I 'his si-e.tion, and Balsam Cap will
i? eoiue, to all intents, and purposes,
the <'::t rjuicc to the Park, being as it
on the railroad and on High
>Viiy No. 10, where the Parkway
cn.sM-s them, and with the Great
Slunk *- Mountains National Park lv
!n- I-, the immediate North and tho
f aiicy Fork Balsams1 section of the
National Forest lying to the imroed
'>'!?? South.
It is freely predicted that this,
'?"iipicd with the forest acquisitions
in the Southern end of the county,
a!re}u]y famed as a summer resort
area without a superior any*"' here,
should and will make Jackson county
the morit important tourist country in
Astern America, if not in thy world.
NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS?
C. C. Cole, Charleston, S. C.
Rev. 0. L. Granger, Sylva.
Blackwood Lumber Company, Easjt
Li Porte.
RENEWALS?
Mis. S. C. Allison, Sylva
C. E. English, Hazel-wood.
B. L. Monteith, Glenville.
R E. Wilson, Speedwell.
Mrs. Evelyn Coward, Cullowheo.
Mrs. Sara Bryson, Balsam.
E. L McKee, Sylva. _
40 YEARS AGO
Tuckaseige Democrat, Feb. 20, 1895
The weather has greatly improved,
and it looks now as if a regular thaw
had commenced.
Clerk of the Court Cowan and Miss
Mabel St ill well were over from Web
ster, this afternoon.
< Mr. C. F. Buffum, of Dillsboro,
s|xmt. a while with us Saturday even
in?v' ?
Mr. J. M. Rigdon, having sold his
interest in the store at Olenville, to
his partner, Mr. W. A. Fowler, has
bought out Me-srs. Smith & Morris
and returned to Sylva.
A large meteor about midnight at
tracted inuch attention on Tuesday
night of last week, throughout the
entire south. It was very brilliant
and made the streets of Atlanta as
bright as noonday.
A private letter from Col. S. A.
Jones, President of the Aluminum.
Corundum and Copper Co., informs
us that the wretched weather has
retarded his arrangements for re
turning to North Carolina, but he will
be here ami set things to going as
.-oon as spring opens.
In spite of the breakdown of the
sleigh-riders on last Thursday, they
picked their flints and tried again
the next day with complete success.
A sleigh was rigged up and with four |
horses attached, a merry party went |
over to Webster. The sleigh was i
used until Sunday, after which there
was more mud than snow in the roads.
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Thr friends ocf Hirn. XrmiflrRa^,'
Representative from Macon county,,
are justly gratified at the brilliant
and patriotic stand he has taken in
the present legislature. His immed
iate constituents should be proud of
him. ;?->
. The fusionists have agreed upon a
county government and an election
bill. The county government bill pro
vides practically for the election of
part of the Commissioners and the
appointment of others to see tha.f
those elected do not do any devilment.
The election bill appropriates the en
tire (10 sections of the present demo
cratic law and absolutely gives to the
dominant party the control of elec
tions. The 6 per cent interest bill is
now u law, but does not go into ef
fect until 30 days after the Legisla
ture adjourns.
Che?1apoake Bay is frozen from
shore to shore.
INVITATIONS MAILED FOR
BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
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Invitation.-; have been mailed by
Western Carolina Teachers College
to the high schools of Western North
Carolina inviting them to participate
in the Eleventh Annual Invitation
Basketball Tournament to be held
March 7, 8, and 9. This tournament,
sponsored by the college, provides a
fitting climax for the basketball sea
son in Western North Carolina.
(
Last year nineteen boys and fifteen
girls teams competed for "honors the/,
wore finallv won by the Sylva boys
and Bethel girl-i. The Bethel girls
have carried off championship homers
for five successive veal's.
College officials are expecting Mm'
tournament this year to be the big
gest and best in its history. The list
of schools invited this year by coun
ties are as follows:
Macon: Franklin and Highlands.
Clay: K!f and Havesville; Cherokee:
Andrews and Murphy; Graham: Rob
binsville, Stecoah and Taixjoa; Swain:'
Almond, Bryson City and Cherokee ,
Jackson, Cullowhoe, Glenville, Sylva
and Webster; Haywood: Bethel, Can
ton, Clyde. Fines Creek and Waynes
villc; Transylvania: Brevard and
Rosinan; Henderson, Dana, Ednev
ville, Etowah and Fletcher; Bun
combe: Barnardsville, Candler, Flat
Creek, Red Oak and Swannairoa. A
maximum of sixteen boys and sixtce :
girls teams will be admitted. Wester::
Carolina Teachers College will fun:
iah officials for the tournament and
entertainment for players until theis J
team is eliminated. -
BILL APPROPRIATES
THREE MILLION FOR
HIGHWAY PURPOSES
: 2
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(By DAN TOMPKINS)
Passage by the House of the bill
appropriating three million dollars of
the Highway surplus to be used ini
mediately tor const ruction and main
tenance work ou the highways of
the State, is generally considered the
mast important business transacted
by the General Assembly during the
week. ;
The bill, however, cannot be rati
i'ie?l until minor differences are
ironed out between tilie bill as it was
originally passed by the Senate, and
iis it passed the House. This, it is
?thought, will not consume a great
'deal dt time and with the differences
between the twd houses on the bill
settled, tlK1 signal will be given to
the Highway and Public Works Com
mis-iion to go ahead. ^
It is generally known that the high
way work has suffered during! the
past year because of lack of sufficient
maintenance money, and particularly
has that fact been seen by tliose who
live along, or those who have'liad oc
casion to travel upon the side roads
or lateral roads, leading off from the
main highway^ into the great eoun
tryside, where most of North Carolina
lives. There an* also, as has been fre
quently pointed out, important high
ways in the State, an instance of
whiich is Highway 106 in Jackson
county, that have never been complet
ed, and from the lack of completion
of which, whole counties and sections
of the Strftc are suffering.
Now, while the General Assembly
is sweating over the problems of
raising revenue, rebalancing budget^
and making appropriations for
schools, State Dejxartments, Institu
tions, and other agencies of the State,
and while wets and drys ar^guarrel
ing over the
Works Commission, can proceed fcith
the business of building and repair
ing roads, using for the first time
in two years, State money for road
construction.
The battle between the wets and
drys over fhe Hill bill, which pro
vides for a referendum ujK>n the
question of North Carolina going into
the wholesale and retail liquor bus -
nestj, is being waged before commit
tees of the General Assembly, today,
Wednesday.
It is not generally believed by ob
servers trat the Hill Bill has a gre.,t
deal of a chanc- of passing, and it
is considered as still ffitore unlikely,
in view ?f the referendum of 1933
aHd its most surprising results, sur
prising, that is, (o the wets, that the
people would ratify the bill at the
polls, even if it should pass the Gen
eral Assembly. It is from the siand
point that, with so recent an expres
sion of the jH'ople in t'he que-tion, it
is useless to put the State and the
counties to the expense of another
wet and dry election, 'that the drys
are making one of their most power
ful anl convincing arguments.
The Senate, on Tuesday, passed,
without a dissenting vote, the bill to
ban slot machine gambling devices
from the State. The bill, which will
become law thi-i week, when ratified,
makes it unlawful to own, transport,
jK):-'sess or operate slot machines that
can be used for gambling purposes.
The bill is modeled after the New
York law, which is said to have been
most effective in ridding that state
of the gambling machines.
Bill* introduced:
To repeal law exempting church
property from taxation, unless it is
actually used for church purposes. .
To authorile the State School Com
mission to set aside a fund from
which payment is to be made of $600
for hospital and medical bills foi
children killed or injured while rid
ing on a school bus.
To require safety glass, in all ve
hicles used for hire or for school buses
To exempt from State, county, and
city licenses, all shows at fairs.
To bring occupational diseases
under the benefits of the Workman's
Compenr?tion Act.
To make robbery with firearms ?
capital felony.
To prohibit use of money from
gasoline and license tags for any
purpose other than construction or
nkaintenance of highways. _
To reqeire midwives to obtain li
cense.
To allow sale of estates in entirety
whe?n wife or husband beeomea man
DRUNKEN DRIVERS
WORST CRIMINALS,
JURY IS CHARGED
"Drunken drivers, and hit-and-run
drivers are the moat dangerous crim
inals at large in our State," ^aid
Judge Rousseau, in his charge to the
grand jury, Monday morning. " 1
had rather meet a man with a shot
gun, crazed with the desire to kill,
than to meet a drunken driver on the
highway," continued the Judge. He
asserted that nine out of ton cases on
the court docket arc there because of
fiquor, and that of the people killed
and injured on our highway, nine out
of ten are made to suffer because of
liquor. The Judge was also severe in I
the criticism of bootleggers and boot
ing.
John Candler Brown, of Sylva, was
chosen foremau of the grand jury, W.
S. McGonnell, Webster i.- officer of
the jury, and the members arc: J.
C. Woodring, Lloyd Hooper, Wes Al
lison, C. M. Martin, iGleri.i Hughes,
J. E. Monteith, Estes Green, R. E.
Dills, W. E. Grindstaff. B. 1). Black
burn, John K. Jones, G. i . Hooper,
J. R. Brown, A. C. Bar: W. T.
Cook, T. J. Powell and J. i. Prince.
MUELLER CASE SET FC I TODAY
The case charging Hrf>e t Mueller
with being a hit-and-run :river, re
sponsible for the dea!th of Mitzie
Ruth Bumgarner, little d. lighter ot
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bui garner of
Sylva, on Highway No >0., early
this month, was set for rial this
morning
The case charging Prank Rhinehatr
with perjury is scheduled to be
called this morning, according to an
nouncement made by Solicitor Qw.ecn.
WILLIAM LEWIS OF WEBSTER,
IS TAKEN BT DEATH SUNDAY
Ly William Lewi* died, gt hjs home at
o'clock following an illness of more
than two years. He was C5 years of
age.
Mr. Lewis is survived by his wid
ow, five sons, Ernest, Rosooe, Har
ley, Neil and Arthur, and five daugh
ters, Mrs. Homer Buchanan, Mrs.
Charles Frizzell, Mrs. John Green,
Mrs. Henry Pangle, of Dillsboro, and
Mrs. Julius Buchanan. Another daugh
ter, Mrs. Dexter Hall, died several
months ago.
The funeral rites were conducted
Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock at
the Webster Baptist chun h with the
Rev. W. N, Cook, pastor, officiating,
Burial was in Stillwell cemetery near
Webster.
D. D. BUCHANAN DIES AT
HIS SAVANNAH HOME
D. D. Buchanan died at his home
in Savannah township, Sunday night
at 9 o'clock. He had been ill several
nionltbs.
Surviving are his widow and five
children, John Wesley, of East Fork,
Mrs. W. A. Taylor, of Glenville, Mrs.
J. M. Price, of Cullowhee, Mrs. Cole
Allison and Mrs. Gay Sutton, of
Green's Creek. Also surviving are
one sister, Mrs. Mary M^ore, of Har
rington, Wash., and 18 grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at the
East Fork Baptist church, of which
Mr. Buchanan was a member. Tues
day morning at 11 o'eloc':. The Rev.
Thad F. Deitz and the U ?v. William
Buchanan officiated. Burial was in
East Fork cemetery.
HARDEE TO PREACH TO
NEGROES AT Ot LLOWHHB
Rev. R. M. Hardeo, pastor of the
Cullowhee Methodist church, will
preach at the Negro Meti enlist church
at Cullowhee, next SuncL* y afternoon,
at 3 o'clock. The Negro church has
invifted the student body of Western
Carolina Teachers College, as well as
the other white people of the com
munity, to attend the rervice.
MINISTERS TO i?EET
The Jackson Ceunty Ministerial
Association will meet at the Baptist
church at Cullowhee, on the first
Monday morning in March, from ten
to twelve o'clock. It is said, by those
in charge of the meeting, that a
challenging program is being pre
pared, and the ministers of the eounr
ty are urged to be present. Rev. I. K.
Stafford is chairman of the program
Many Sentences Imposed
In Superior Court Here;
Other Cases To Be Tried
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Johnny Jones Sentenced
To Serve 7 To 10 Years
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Johnny Jones was sentenced to
serve from 7 to 10 years in the
State prison, by Judge Rousseau,
in Superior Court, yesterday after
noon, after he had entered a plea
of breaking, entering, and robbing
the home of Velt Wilson, last month
Albert Keever, oftDillsboro, was
convicted of receiving stolen prop
erty, in having bought a clock and
a pistol belonging to Mr. Wilson,
part of the loot from his home
from Johnny Jones, and was sen
tenced to serve a term of not less
than 2 nor more than 4 years in
the State prison.
Jury Returns True Bill
Against Roy Wilson In
Death of C.C.C. Member
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The grand ji#y brought in a bill
of indictment, yesterday morning
?"barging Roy Wilson, well knowi
Sylva man, and employee of tin
Sylva Paperboard Company, witi
being the hit-and-run driver wh<
struck down three CCC member
killing one and seriously injuring tw;
others.
The cast' was set for trial nex I
Monday morning. Dan K. Moore, de
fensc counsel moved for continuanc<
until the May term, but the Judg<
overruled the motion. Bond for Wil
son was act at $1500; and R?y Moi
ton, alleged owner of (he car wa
placed under $200 bond as a materia)
witness for the State.
Eugene Zito died in the C. J. Har
ris Community hospital, Sunday night ,
and John Kerney and Julius Porkwya
^^gfefiovering ^r?ia 8er"m3
"by an automobile, about 7 o'clock
Sunday nigUt, on Highway No. 10.
near the Western limits of Sylva
Cash Clark, young Sylva man, ob
served the injured men on the High
way and rushed them to the hospital.
All three men were members ol
Civillkin Conservation Corps 1211 at
Smokemont, and are said to hav<>
been walking on the highway when
they were struck down.
Roy Morton, lineman for the West
ern Carolina Telephone Company,
with home and headquarters in Sylva
was placed under arrest early Mon
day morning by officers investigating
the case, when it was learned that
a Ford coupe, with both headlight.- |
Smashed, and with leaking radiator
which was found some little distance
from the scene of the tragedy, stand
ing on Highway No. 10, near t h<
home of Dan Tompkins, was the prop
erty of Morton. Morton, it is aaid,
informed officers that he had leaner
his car to Roy Wilson, and that Wil
son hid it in his possession at the
time of the tragedy. Near noon Man |
day, Wilson was placed under arrest j
at the Sylva Paperboard Company's!
plant, where he was working, and
both men were held pending investi
gation of the affair by the Jackson
oounity grand jury, which convened
Monday morning. Wilson is said to
have staged to officers that he lefi
the car standing on the Main street ;
of Sylva, and that someone had ;
stolen it, asserting that he was no*,
the operator of the dearth ear.
The Pord coupe, when first ob-j
served by others, was standing on .
the highway, headed toward Sylva,
There were tracks indicating that ?
some one person had jamped from ;
the car and crossed the lawn of Mr. .
Tompkins, making his escape that ,
way. It so happened that there was
fresh dirt on thv bank of the high
way, and also same distance across
the lawn, and it was easily observ-;
able that this was the means of es
cape of the driver, and that then
was bat one person in the coupe aft
the time it was abandoned.
The body of Zito, whose home is
1032 E. 212th Street, Bronx, New
York, was prepared for transporta
tion and burial at the funeral par
lors of P. E. Moody. The entire
Qamp, numbering several hundred
men and offieers, assembled at the
railway sta/taon in Sylva at noon,
Tuesday, as an escort for the body
of young Zito, and stood with bared
heads and et attention as it was
placed aboard the train and took de
paxtnre for his home city, consigned
to Ids motto, Mrs. Maria Zito.
Judge Rousseau handed out numer
ous road sentences in superior court
here, beginning Monday, most ui'
which were cases involving liquor,
drunkenness, drunken driving, man
ufacturing, transporting, or retailing.
Cecil Queen drew a sentence of 3
months on the roads on a charge of
operating an automobile while intox
icated. He had a suspended sentence
of two years on a charge of disturb
ing religious services hanging over
him from a former term, and lh<j
Solicitor moved that the sentence I).'
put into effect, but Judge Rousseau
continued the motion until the next
terra.
Hyman Sutton, well-known Sylv.i
youlth, drew a term of nine months .m
the roads, and a suspended sentence
of an additional two years, not to In
effective if he does not break the pro
hibition laws for four years, after ii-'
had given up the fight, while his trial
was in progress, and entered a plea
of guilty of ti"ansj)orting and possess
ing liquor.
L. L. Cope drew a sentence of
days for operating an automobile
while intoxicated, and a fine of
and the cost for carrying concealed
weapons.
Ed Cop#, transporting, four m-mti.s
on the roads, and an alditional i I
months s-uspended sentence up m
good behavior for two years.
Roy Buchanan, operating an an'o
mobile while intoxicated, $50 and tie
costs. He proved a good character
and that he had never been in conrr
before.
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Tom Amnions, manufacturing, :w.?
years, suspended upon eood behaviot.
Tom Clark, Willie Clark, E. L. K<?;?
inson and Port Jones, transporting.
Tom and Will drew 90 days each,
with an additional suspended sentence '
of 12 months. Robinson was fined .
of 6 morjftfe) ? iiiHr
12. Tom Clark drew an additional
30 days on a drunkenness charge.
Demos Wood, carrying conceak-:!
weapons, prayer for judgment co;
tinued. '
Fred I'ruitt, carrying concealed
wea]>on.s, $50 and the costs.
Claude Wike, violating the prohi
bition laws, judgment suspended up
on payment of the costs. He prove*:
an excellent character through his
previous life.
Thad Bradley, violating the pro
hibition laws, 6 ^pontlis, and 18 a
months suspended, J|br two years on js
good behavior.
W. S. Collins, Wayne Jarreit, IL
F. Boone and Mack Boone, violating
the prohibition laws. 30 days each, &
suspended for 12 months on gorxl he- |jj
havior and payment of the costs. They
only had a little for drinking pur- ^
poses.
Don Stevens, operating an automo
bile while intoxicated, fi month ^,:s
pended upon payment of $75 and ;?]
the corfts, and on condition that ho
do not drive an automobile for t wo ,
years.
Jake Arrowood, Tom Arrowood, |
and W. B. Dillard, playing; stud
poker. Tom and Dillard $10 and the
costs each. Jake was also tried for
an assault, und had a previous sus
pended sentence hanging over I 'm.
He drew 12 months on t r- .i<ls, . 'id
four months suspended sentence i. ft
hanging over him when he conies
back home.
G. C. Fox, operating an au;omo!?i!?
while intoxicated, prayer for judg
ment continued. His wife is sick and
has a young baby.
Jack Snyder and Fred Wilde, trans
porting. Wild was found not guilty,
and Snyder drew a sentence of 12
months, suspended upon payment of
the costs and good behavior. The
Judge stated he thought Wild the
guiltier of the two, but that there !|
was no evidence to support his belief, fa
and that Snyder had just started in !||
the business, and he would give him ,'*
a chance. Snyder was caught with IS ;j
gallons of liquor in Wild's car.
Nelson Beck, assault on his sister- f
in-Iajw with an axe, 6 moiths.
Bo Cox, John Henry McDowell
and Jess McDowell, three negroer
charged with an affray. John Henry
was found noit guilty, and the other
two drew 30 days each, suspended t
upon payment of the costs.
Jim Woodrinq:, violating the pror U
hibition laws. He had but 1 piati
which he said he was taking to fl jl
sick man. He drew a suspended
teoM at 12 months. ?
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