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?^TaPVAKCB IN THR OOPNTY SILVA, NOBTH OABOLINA, THUE3DAY, JULY 8,1937 :Z, Schools Scheduled ?! Begin 1937-38 Term Monday' August Second L^ofJu^onoou:^,!,,. ' ,hl, l?.. -Sylva school.), an li^l to <?}>?? tl>r lLo faJ t0"?: <?'W" ' " " bMn ' fjoi" tlio * \. poarJ of Ki!u?-*ti'>n. JUtV.ro, for -?J year* th?> j; li:0st <>! tlv district-. in th* *!f I,alv b^opmuiK in August, Jji'jsvlvft, I)illsbow?, iai'd Cul 'tlu.v h:iv. not opn ed untii iP>. nter. jjngiTY WILL RAISE COUNTY TAX RATE ?liar?-ot' tlx1 old age socu ir aii'l <i J?* t children iw>L-t # .rill ni'cfs -ilitti' n raise in th (,r f. rli'.s yi ;ir oJ* .M4 on the $100 Lj -jon iii pr?|H-riy, tu ral'o the ^tr', is.liiii.ttn! contribute cf yi-pr (It .-t' two jniipoues, *(*<5 rd tj,) r/fttistics b&* the BJird ??f rh/iriti.n >md Publir. M:ar. Jit'u-r a .-ui vry of flie entire (it. U- km! estimates that 175 per fi'u tfc Minify aw eligible to iv. jivo'i! :!(.'? ?.-s:-'t iji^. ,nnd that 160 i'.! - ri will b- triv^n u;d ?:<ler the njl#<iirity a t and if is upon thi. lin'.'.fi" th.'it (lit1 < .t as" of .0(534 in ir is h.i-.'i|. riu. ;ijJ to the blind |I;U wo SMI3l|. ;i l JMOtinnal ; ?, '? ii > si iin.*i,f ,'d. Til.. ?,? fro mm in tho St.ifi', if i. ^fJinatoil, ! i'V0,-ifu.. a total expondituftt ")..S:Mt?2 f.?r tli.* i?xt fiscal year. r..f!.'!i:il, Stafe, and 'ouaty fuf?l? QUALLA IV- Mm J, K. Terrell) M-Pb i' -nwl'ord is conduct I, -iv;,I .scryic-s fit the Qu*ll* If! vii-i| fji'irpli this work. h. W .l Bo,'k lit Tncmlnv for Kmiiu, P'tor spending ? ''Wl i villi Mrs, J. H. R?agan a/M 4i>. I' 1 Kii;jT Ui <1 ,lfillshtor? IillJC li.j.tvlifl, Ouliiorilia, uro vi?lt u? ruaMvo.;, >'i 1 (! Mr.;. V.'inl'wd Hughes and C. M. llufios of Canton ?po"t <n.? with Qualla relatives,1 dr. v. II. Iloylt. ucfWi pank'd th?n d' ? r. :id Mr*. J. M. Hughes, Mr?. Uij:lu>, Mrs. Horace Howell i :;.s Kr. >ik Hu*tle attended the :it A^htvi lc. ?'E. Batt1 e and Wilm* Bu'?s >p nt Wt week with relatives i'1 rio(,tt\ I Vii. iVrry Job son of Chc,rok^e 'i'1 '1 \!r>. l.uthtf lloyle. ' ^ Boyi I. . Wurd and Mr. Jak? >?' 'I ' tiarot'.i* -pent ih-"* week 1 Mr J. K. battle's. ?'U- Huuh-s eall^l on Mi^ h* ? Ki* itor. ?''??? L). ('. Hughes nnd J)i*op 4l, who f.iv <ptployevl afc A slur ? ' >D'4i tin- VM-fc t'Tltl vjtli hflip* ijf'i, ' ?.?"* "'kuN and Ted Kill*" l^rnlMwi Mrs. 0 M. On,?. Hi.tujt .lulitvii and ch'W^i' * '.In visited Mr. and Mi's. D. M. r-'j'f. Friday. 1-'1 Kmntv-s Unph.R enllo.1 Lit Mr. ?Morroll ,s) Moi day. 'I"'a nml 0. C. Hughe.-,Jr, visit A 'll|iKd. IIwt'.k.s at Cherokee. ,, 'u Auni.? Uzzio Terrell visited ? Ur ru?lt* F?v(rusol. s<" ltt*<Ul, Emma, end Mr v Hoyl <>i Thomasville ere vi* arr?nf: r -1 ativi-s. lii: 4-U Ctnhs of Jacfcsoa County f Ke.ro Moml-y for Swan&n '.J thf?ir annual encampment. Ilarrv Evans, honw jjg^nt. ' ''? Garland Lackey, county t. ?ill f^(i ty, groups from Jack "?lty. , ' " otht?r counties that will ' 'j^Mnt -1 (lt tl>e ?'>campirjent i <? Mac- - - U 'i' 'it, Clay end Graham. BOY WINS HEALTH CONTEST TOR DI8T1I0T lV! 5)0:1 t'i Mr. ? ^ n^cf Sylva, won in th? d;s *'?nt <-st which wa^ h?M ;' ?yn^vk\\N v. ton\\y. Tn August *1U vv"i'l tfi Bftl^'Sh, will coTujv^to with thfl win* /* ?n Sj?vfnl districts fo1" 11' fhampiorisli ip fWlt J..;, #r Crop^ cqns?rve water' fpn^ jL aud provide AiflV tow* ^ *V*r4 weeks Won Jr^ *? M*4* up & _ L_ l _J _i > Roosevelt Is Still Ace High With People Of Nation Washington, JuJy7?Ju?t how fai the Presidential picuic on Jefferson Island ha* boeji "effective in restor ing harmonious relations bot ween the Congressional loaders of tho Dcjr.o " ratio Piarty and ,thy Chiof Executive is sti'I uncertain ?, but the probability is that much of tta irritation be^ twwu Capitol Hill and thj \Yliit< llouilc )m been alleviated. Mr. Roo&evclt i? a mag^r ol ?o filiation, and when 1-e askeo >vyry Democratic Senator ,:md rep <e*cata|ive to eonio to JetLjrson Is md C!ub for the throb (lay ouiing i was a for.gone conclusion that nany of them wuuld coino bnck wait v>sh resistance to White House poll ios tlitwi when they went. NV)t everyone imi,tod accepted.' Many members of both hour os d?', iot want to bo r. conoilod, and thcw.>, l?ic;o\ri.Vd\ previrfcV nr.ga6prae*it | >vhieh prev nted th in freu goimr to! leftVwon island. - v, Kvon those who totally disngr.o with the President <>ii major i.-Bu-a lu.ive always 1 found it difficult tn ftaad out agair-it Mr. lloosovolt's porsolal persuasive charm. |t Li ijet utre.tching tlu> facts 1> ; ny thq no oecupa^' of the White House in liq'f a century, at least, ha* a joyed such in enormous personal popularity, as ,!o(\j Franklin IX Roosevelt, Tho fact thnt great" masses of the people feel a personal jiffeetion for him, even though they have never ie?n hin'j -tiXfopt in the movies or PYftf . , - - - ... ft# ing with reealoltrant leffisto'ora, who are acutely conscious that however sharply they may dlsflgr.e with th< Prcisideni 'a policie s, their emtstit u ol|ts back homo love Mm. .Vot for n:eny yonrs has there been a Prcaident whom so ninny every day < :,tiAcns w.mtcd to k p iu person and shak(> hands with, jf po-sib 10. Ac cording to figures etw.plled by '.he official usher of the Whito Houpo President and Mrs. Roosowlt shook hand* with 10,650 porsof s as the Wl: it<? Howe I aft year. In .addition, however, to tike ones; who had tho oppoif unity of sheking ,the Pnwidential hand, there were more than 650,000 sightseers who :?ot a look at tho inside of the WliUe House during tho yoor. About e third of them callcd on th??^ Con gressmen for cttr^s of introduction, wjjjch oro always freely grafted tp Yisjtftfs h0Tqc,"lHlt the othef two-thirds just walked in and strpjied ?bqut tho public j-pomi, of tho oxeeuptiVv! ^lapsion. The pnsent White Huiso fiaamly tlivMffor, ha.-? 1 ad l<us private life than any of it# prcdv^essora, Hc4d?s nearly <1000 uninvited guests slroll Ing through the White Houte parlors every day, Mr. and Mrs. Hooseveli in ono year served toa or oither refreshments to 22,953 persons, din ners or formal luncheons to mor? than 4,000 others, and bave bad 31P ?ersons as over night Rrtests iu the W hi,te House. One result of thy growing realiza tion that the personal popularity o Mr. Roosevelt among the rank ?n< file of the voters han hocn in no wa( I'm>ishod is a I vcly reeurrenee of gossip centering on the possibility of his reiiominution in 1040 for third t>rrrj. That suggestion has been put forward publiply by more or less irresponsible persona, but ha? met wiAh no open approval from th White House. On tho other han<l. Micro have been no expressions of disapproved, Some nuwirbers of tho Cab'not have boeii putting out "f'oVrs" among nwspaper mer., 1o gat their opinio ?i <* rniiig the chancy of such c rc n in'iiation, provided the Prosi do -t wer^ receptive. Gossip has it thu.1 they are gs1 orally reporting that the pjifWb is slight unless tho world be t comes involved k', another penerol war, Nevertheless, the third-term talk porslsta. . At th.>sanie time, however,wt'H-in forrred obajrvci*.; po.n,* to signs ind: eating .'in their opilion< that *li> Ad reinifxati<ri is grooming Govseraor Earl* of P?BA?y'w ia a# it^ 1940 HOSPITALIZATION INSURANCE GROUP GOMES HEBE TO WORK Randcnts of Sylva rod Juok or. county are given an opportunity to join tl<. hospital Saving Association rf]1 Caroli,ut- which sponsors th,. Two-Cents-A.Djiy' plan for payi. g hospital bills. Miss Lil|y Montgom ^^r l'field supervisor of tn<s Association, is iv^ Sylva "this week w th? purp?*^ ~oT explaining the benefits of membership to prospec tive members. Tl:0 H\>&i?ital Sav i g A ?? cial ion of Noirth Carols a ha?, its m ain offico in Chapel Hill, and is cj.trol'ied by the North Carolina Hospital Association ewty ali<l the N'or.tli Carolina Mc,.i rial Soci'Hy. It is a non-pvoftt <vs?e! ition, sot up wiitIt a gra't of fnnd 'rom the Onko Foundation. It.j nb '?>et is to prov'di* an o <y p!an f r >' oolo of ordi- nrv tin ans to be in position to meet theirjiospital bil .*'-, when such an wvjorpency aritep. Complete ) format i m may be oh l?inod from Mx-a Montgomery, who ?? tho guesl of Miss Oraw CoM-n nt C. J Hni-rin Community llopit*! or from Misa Gold#. MRS. W. W. WATT PASSES Friend* here rero'vvd the -ad in telligence of the posing i i Charlotte of Mre. W. W. Watt. Aire, y??tt has many ftlviufc ? Ny'va and Jack on lot ty. havim rpent mapy summers berp ley has lftely come to the p-."n( a u roft?ptivo caadttjjto. It is taken for gim^d ho re, that the Preside l.ial election of 1IH0 wi 1 b? a'imo ,t is overwhelmingly Bem ?w tie a? thu|i of 193f. Thoivj ip less toeaug of certainty about the Co - gi\'8sioii>'i( ,s dt 1938. The Re publican ^irategy, ao far that has bpi 'ii foi'ii atlit-te I, i; to pilt up tho ^tnf'tgent possible fight fur every Congressional net flrra'y held*' u d to cooperate wi ll disgruntled and conservative Democrat^ in the! effort to P# tiro Democratic ktfdi dates?one regular and oje N\w T>pJ. ,ill.|hlji(inH in diatiid? it Vteenis po&siblu to split the Demo cratic votiTfiy tldg meant. Muefcliinne, vigjijipnH und'lrcov*jr effort of various k'ndf an' bcvnjr made to bring about a reorganiaa ijtyi of th^ RepuMk*rai Parly and set up a na,tionnl leadership iu der which party members cj?/' b, rallied. Sen |i??r Arthur Vn?dmhurg of Michi jra i comes near, r today to being the actual kinder of his party thail j? y other o e ntan, not ox'ejawling ?T?br. Hamilton, ChsUmu/? of the Republi can Natid ul ConnritKc. The r. al hope of the dyed-in-thc-wio! R. pub lican politicians, however, 's to bri,:? about a coalition between tfce'.r party and the conservative wing of i Dc miocitaey. Ther,' is little hopfi (if tbat, t bsen; cr ; hi^ro say, Vo long a? % fe^bli can badleans a?y towlird the ?fiw TJpal Th reform. (pinfn fm *?** ' Sylva Has New Water Supply To Be Cut In Today Sylva V. additional water supply was turned Into th..> mai s tl'i; rcorni g, iuercasing thr quant iv of water llowing through 1 lie ;sy: teni by approximately a e-third, accord ing to official*. Tl:? new supply, coni ng from n ? < Piuf-acfc, was arranged for with the National Fores,t Service, as tlu- laud ift own?d by tho.Fedeift G >v. rnm? n< ?? n part of tlioXji" hi! a!a Na 'on il IWt. Tie n v." instillation v.;;.*? do.ir jointly by the Tr w . and ih"1 W rk ? Progress Admini;trntioi\ The t .\mi has repairs I the mains and it i; snu! the supply of water fur Syl\Ti will Jje adequate, v,yen during the drv?^t weather. rHB BOARD OF ALDERMEN Jj MAKES RECOMMENDATION Tho Sylva Board of Aid"nr.cn, at ts ragnlar meeting la* week, took Ognie*1 ce of the fact th;it th;s is i he time of y ar when .logs are, mo* ,Ufeeptiblo to the disease culled pabie< and reeotnniend d h?'t the fol- , jpwing be ohscrv. d: j 1. When a d<>S has he.? exposed to ibie>, the own,'i- of such animal liould keep same confined for a [period of >lire.t? weeks. , 2. Wlt'ii a person or i'ti anim il 1ms been bitten by a ?l?:g or ?Jher animal ring itah'fcs, tho health ulTieer ^d* bp unified at one*-. ?* ? .Do not kill a dog that l?i!es a? H>n, but confine it until it is <1-fl nltd$ determined wh.ther or not tho ftcg h mad. * OWliers ?'"i> requ 4 ? d to provide tlpii^Ntogswith collar and ifiea t&0tn^i|g, as I the policemen have b: en iatfrtHted to dispose of stray dogs. ^ (By Mrs. D T. Knight) Mr. and Mrs. Tom Cope announce the birth of n ten jmuiikI boy. Ife ar rived Thursday, July 1st, and his name is David Houston. At present he Is at thw home of his grand pare "ta, Mr. and Mrs. "John Coward. Mm. J. R. Warren, Kiity Lee Cow ard and Betty T.rui<l Jones '.vent to Sylva, Flriday Mrs. 0. K. Iloitrt i ami son, Oz<\ of Atlante., arc ot-eupying their sunime' home, 'Giwn Pastures". New arrivals in RaHough Ilili, i elude Mrs. J Fi. Dixon and ifV'y from Jacksonville^ Mr. Jan^ 8tHr roek ^ d family of West Palm B>*aeh' Mr, and Mrs. John Ruskin, Atlanta, the Hipps, Dunns', and others from Daytona B:ach, Fla. Th.-? Fourth passed uff very <pdotly' here. (Pleaap tnrn to p^fe 3) Fill lU'liWJl. 'Who Qets Stung by A. B. CHAP1N Sylva Boy Slugged And Robbed Wednesday Night TODAY and TOMORROW (By Frank Parker Stockbridge) SHIPS . ', . government's job President Roosevelt lws suggested that our Tav^s'.avo new battl bip luioht 'l ? bll111,' by (iuvt i'n-i.'.'lit ib'ivy yards, because 'i ho bids by private contractors an too high. That wou'd be i o novelt y. For neeriy a century all naval <-ra 11 w:. . iuilt in erov emma t yard.-, dow-i 10 iht. tim: ir? n S '4 :; began t-r. l rpaec w; o^i. ones i I ac.'e Srji: sti. 1 owns the larges* j ;;lipply of raw materials 1> r bui ding wood&i ships. Tluft is the livo-oak : forest oia Rantu li osa Sound, '-ear Pq sacola. No timber equal to live ' r.ak for | in:b r> r.nJ 'kne-e" ot ; wooden ship?. has ever hert i foun.l So President John Qui rt y Adams bought this gn at .stand of live-oak !.timber a) d mud.* it a \ union?,nt re-i serve for th) navy's use. It is still Inderal property. | Tho omy use that ha. M.-n m,?de of it. ft: recrn,t 'y..?rs was to supply the tiraberg to repair i''e famous frigate ("Constitution*' and to make "O'd Iiuaigidea" seaworthy ag^in. I We shall probably ;.owr'build any moro woiulf ti war ships, but :tli| Roy Scouts, who have ihe priviji'ge of CSg&tiftg in the I'iw-Oiik forest, get something worth while out of it CGCKLlfSSS . . manufacture own fl . my i*?e nt trave's around *he South I havo had the safisfaetion ot seeing Sum,, of *r?:y own predictions ooml; true in a big way. S: vea jvars ?go in this eohuun I.lirst predicted that tIl,; air-ouditioning of houses, stores, offn".;'' and factories was going to become a great indufj ry. It was a njdW idea then. Now mow than 500 companies are, making and totalling Idgfe.' '1T "Tiwir riding ffff!Wff 'WW South i:i air-conditioned trains sieeping in sir-** ndition?d ho el rooms eating in air-co""ditioned res taurants, tradJ 'g in air-conditioned Stores, visiting in air-condijioiwd homes and i' J^p^ting air-conditioned facjtoriea. It is litemlly tnie w't have leaned to make our own weather? indoors. What we <:eed now" air-cOitdi tkmod automobiles. \Ye have headers % aw in cold weather, and I was told by a man who had just drive"' from California to Florida that tka roads across the gi^at American Desert there are filing tta+kmM which soil *"dry iee" to n*o (arista to pat inside ears and ivduc-j the tonperature 15 or 2ft d gives fhqUW tbooghit of that was a gn ins. Wm ...... fertilize Ot* of the tmt things th,* Pilgrim Ifciketa learned Iron the friendly George McLain, 15 year old sou of ilr and Mrs. Fred N. McLain, was robbed of all but 8.00 of the $60 "jack-pot" money, 15 mi'-utes after lie won it, a,t the Lyric Theatre, last night. You) g McLain drew the jack pot and started to his home, which is on the Syha school property, ot which hs father is core-taker. He stated that before he reached the property, he saw an au tomobile turn int.), tlij school drive way from the highway, so, instead of following the driveway at the east side of the high school building, he started through the p!aygrou< d on the play ground on (he West o i' tha building^ and had just turned the the weqt of the buildig and lia<( just turned the corner,when he li.anl a step behind him. He start.<i to turn to see who was behind bin:, but b for* he could tur> l:is hend ho was struck on top of hl> hoed and felled to the ground. The money::of all being iu one pocket, the robber failed i o s" cure the total amount. Youlg Mel ITlin, filter ho- recover <j sutYently, started walking back to. . ward the main part of town, a was picked up by friends and tak. i to a physician, and the officers noti fied. An inve.stigatioa Was immediately begun by police and highway patrol officer?*. Yoir g McLain 's halt was found where lie was felled and rob bed, and a Fowl coupe, bearing a 1937, North Carolina 4D?7484" tag was standing deserted in th; drive way beside ;in opyr.i window of 1 h? school building, dust why an empty automobil^ .should be oil the school property and at the scene of ia high way robbery, is puzzling police. Officers aiie said to be proceeding on. the assumptionJhat ^bgj^gtayd crime p#rpeti5t^vS9^1IIWPBWae^ itt, his usual route home and naeans of travel. It is also assumed that more than o e person was implicat ed, from the fact that the youth wai attacked on the opi>osite side of the building from that which he usua ly passes it going to and from home. BROTHER OF SYLVA MAN DIES Fri, nds of the Freeze family here will regret to learn of the dea'h. laft Saturday, of Mr. R. P. Frecz ?. prominent citizen of He dersonville Mr. Freex>, ;i brother of .T. F. Frc<ze of Sylva, died following n*n appen dicitis operation. Indians was that ttTe way to mak* India*:! com grow was to put a mack erel in each hill when the seed was planted Fish aHo slill tlic l>est fer tilizer for ma? y crops- In Nova Scotia, many years ago, I saw farir is spr-i:idi:ig young lobsters on their fields a' d plowing them usder. All aliong the Southern coast of tho li. ited State?., from North Caro lina clear arouT'd :o the Gulf Sta'f-s, i-a.*eh:ng uKiuhaden a'Kl other small fish for fertilizer is a big industry. rii.se ll->h m i in huge "schools" and millions of tons of them are nettel every year and brought to factori ; ;t'ong shore, to bo ground up for plan,t food. All life began in the sea, and il is to the sea that we look l<o sus tain life on land. POSTAGE .... increase Wkd.i Benjamin Frank'in Po-lma-^er General it cost a shilling ?Wut 25 cents, to send a letter fron: I*hiLa?!*'lpliia to Boston, by a mail if ? -? ngi-r, ijiding horseback '1 he rat" enme down to ten cm (ts about 10<? years a;r<>. Then, as steamboat and .stage lines i: crea^cd it wdS reduc d to five cents. The first postage stamp i:.sued the 18l0's, were five cents By the 1850's, the letter rat,; oarrc dawn to three cents, ?' d ther,. it stood for thirty years. ] can well remember wha.i letter postage reduc <] to two cents, i:i 1883. It eljn hed to thro? c rts. in the SpanisN war and the World War. a d then a f.;w year, ago when the depre-sio h;t us. Now th:re is a strong movejr-?i:t to put letter postage back to 2 cents Why not T It is r,<jrt the object of tb> Post Office to earn a profit x>r even lo eovor ''~pense?. It exists to give the people tka best possible service ,y i ho le.ist possible cost. Tho Po%t Office deficit is something TV. n vcr been able to worry atoat I would be oopcrnad if the Poet Of? fee ever earned a profit. ^ lam To ?m 2)
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