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IS ADVANCE IN THI
wH^TT
ImSixty Boj
B^Kpung i--en linci young wo- j
be g^n diplonzas from j
school at the ccrr mence- /
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R^Hprises, which wUl Degixi
n^H exercises of the comwill
be the annual decrecitation
contest for I
R^^BJrude Pill* McKee Medals, J
I Kid'Darters of Con*
Bfl $.: boys end five girls will
the contest, which beI^^Fc3y
evenii- o . 8 o'clock, in
si.no'1 auditorium.
Sun'-iy intern x>n, Rev. P.I
I^^R;url cehver th* commenceI^^P^nflon.
exercises wdl be held at
f afternoon, with Charles j
B^K^ as valedictorian; and i
B Mlson as salutatorian.
Itxircises Wal be held '
^ vyciccl .viondny evening, at
lieCiii/ -? Houk wi.l deliver
adcrtss.
u;ll be presented I
/^Hv evening, at 8:00 o'clock.
John Beauregard I
t ,ij?-asaccidently killed on
E^v a: Ela Saturday was I
Ism Qualla lor interrment on
b/3/ierncn. A large crowd atL
fie funeral. The service was
Ltfj by Rev. J. L. Hyact and
r^d V'atson. He lived at
ft for several years before movafia.
He was honest, truthful,
[, ready to help in every time
n He was 77 years o* age.
:'ion Ce ray Sunday School
teniae: with the Q^alla SuniJ.:al
Co .t a ion at the Baptist
,i Sinday afternoon. Several
?* ;- I.,Iks were made anu
Kjselection: were sung by the
Brings Qu . t-et. A lai?e nujnK~i
present.
- and Mr?. H. G Ferguson spent
fcjtl--end at the Mission Horpitai
IVshevilie visiting their daughter
I ' is ben. very ill for the past
i d iys,
bn April 4th a large crowd of
alii. Citizen's, eighty o;- more, per15s,
vent to Syi.a to ask that a new
ti)j. bu-'ding be erected Quajla
n early date. As the "Authori*
t approved the project, we are
17 opeail that the new building
ill gr. under way during the comjs.
2ner.
If McRae Crawford and Mr.
McLaughlin were dinner
?f nf AT*. r u u ir\r\c .^undav.
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l|h T. H. Ferguson ai.d Miss GerHc
Ferguson visited relatives at
boil Saturdc y.
ft- f.. M F >ghes of Canton spent
P v.:e.>.end at Mr. JC. HcyeU?'
|fc W, A. IIyr.it of Spruce Pipe,
fcteC her sister Mrs. Oscar Gib-?
P v'ho in* tuk ng tree unent in
. Community Hospital in Sylva.
I Mrs. \lien V urd visited her mo titer
fc. Rogers an i sisti - Mrs. Stiles
F'Db: Creek, xno arc seriously ill.
^ T W. McLaughlin and family
R uoved to their home in Quaila.
A and Mrs. Glenn Ferguson and
s. V/ayne and Hugh Ferguson
rvlat.v--s at HayesvLle.
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r' and Mrs. G. C. Crawford at^
the funeral of Mrs. Crawr
1 ^le, Mr. Wilkie McHan, a1
,Jid Thursday of last week,
s. Fred Bryson and Mrs. Wayne
t have recti red let ers from theii
llds saying they had reached
ton. Wash., and we?e eafpecti
& U, Wvik nqou. Mr. 3fy$9r
'h. Hyatt left here the 15th.
5-f fed McH.ee an4 two chjldrer
hst^r are visiting her faothGr
Lona Green,
a^d Mrs. G. C. Crawford wen
V"' :,londay,i
^ school closed Friday, th<
t amercement exercises wer?
Jj1 ^ 'Ji3c'a> night.
"^h, fo.- the Journal and it
?t" worKeFs!
Nve lived in Jackson Count;
vft -orty years and have read an(
.uted news items from time t
*,J ?'ir pape.- though it had othe
r * and other pejitgrs.
a atives cad friends attend^
ft*, 1 es *or ^~r' Henry Teagu
Wk i M'iUe Tuesday. Mr. Teaiu
h* automobile accider
atV- * on the highwa
' His wife, jVXts, ?ara Joijfl
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> Graduate |
rs And Girls
TODAY aod
TOMORROW
(By Frank Parker Stockbridge)
GRANDMOTHERS . . . know
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| It has been one of my pet beliefs x
for years that some day the grand- i
rrjritKorc rtf Amonirtn
I iuvw*vi VA Uiiviica VYUUU gcv vu*
gether and take over the management
of everything, including Gov- :
ernment. They'd make a better job <
of it than we men have done so far, ;
and wouldn't spend near as much 1
money doing it.
Thirty-nine grandmothers, all of i
them in business in Chicago, have ;
with the avowed purpose of showing
the world that grandma's place i| i
not in the chimney-corner. They
have the sensible idea that women .
-^et more sense as they grow older* ,
They certainly know more about ;
auman nature after they have raised ;
a famiiy an d me ;ried them off than I
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most men ever learn. i,
A world run by grandmothers <
would be no place for loafers. It ;
would be well ordered, comfort- ,
able world with a lot less fighting
going on in it, but with a lot more real
work.
NEWS by phone
I We Americans are not always the .
~ Un.iA Kvirrht irlaac A Pfiris
.rsi IU lldvc ung uii iuvuu. ? ?
iewspaper has developed a telehone
news sdrvice which might <
/ell be adopted by the press of
.merica. i
In Paris if you want the lfttesj ,
,ews you don't have -to iook at th$
lay's radio pi ograrn to see what
,tation is broadcasting news at the
noment, or call up some newspaper
.vhere you don't kr.ow anybody and >
Ije made to feel tha tyou are an inpertinent
intruder when you ask
vhat has happened. You merely call
information One' or if it's a dial
phone, you dial "i" F-I:' and you.
^et, without delay, a three minute '
bulletn giving the ' iieadline stuff
of the past few hours. '
Three and a third million calls for
this service were made last year. It
? rniw onlv the "regular
IUSI,
' ' > price
of a phone call?abqut twp
cents in American money. It made
money for the telephone service and
goodwill for the newspaper supply
ing the news .
SMELLS , , , t recall the past
Driving across the wooden bridge
which crosses the Matanzas Hiver
above St AugusLne, I was suddenly
transported in memory to my
childehood home in Maine. The tide
was out, and the odor which arose
from the mud-flats, a mingled odor
of decaying seaweed, dead clams and
salt water, was precisely the odor I
used to smell at low tide in Portland
Harbpj;.
I belieye the pi sfpelj
the strongest men.eqry of any of the
five senses, A sudden whiff pf a
long forgotten odor brings up dormant
memories of places, persons
and events of many years ago, The
j scent of harness soap, not long ago,
?carried me back to New Engand barn
and a sorrel mare named "Jessie"
that I used to have to curry as a boy.
Crossing the Capitol rotunda in
i Washington the other day my nose
j picked up a scent which took me
I back nearly sixty years, to my first
isit tp ^shjn|U}p as a smajl frpy.
The Capitoi stiff iwjfo sfljpe >s
n 1881. It is thp samg smell that all I
tate capitols and most city halls
: iave. It is the characteristic odor of
politics.
? THOUGHT .... with body
A few weeks ago I commented
I aere upon the fact that intensive
, nental work cayse? aetuaj jabysjcal
i fatigue, so are fo$p''and
body linked- It occurpd tq me;, and
i I find psychqlqgists ^grce ^ith iqe,
f that the opposite is qlsq {rue, gt }pgsf
to the exfettt thgt we fa a great* deal
t of our thinking with eur bodies,
"" 1 "Vkriiif the world
A child ICE ru.i uk/umv ? ?
2 has just come to live in not alone
? through his hands' and feet and all
[the rert of his body. The sensations
s | of cold and heat are mental reactions j
[ to physcal causes. We have brpjns
ji ; in our Hnger tips, and we learn
3 'through them that objects are hard0
(or soft, smooth cr ro igh, that knives
fj are sharp and reck, heavy. Those
I impressions are sLo: cd in the brain
3 so that we dwn't have to handle siich
^ j things a second time to know their
e {qualities; our eyes tell us.
Jk Just a? there can be' no brain
' apart from a body so the brain canI
ngt reach j^s fuEest development
jwihout the help of the body. A perjson
has hot reached his fullest possi
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SYLVA BAPTISTS ~
TO ENLARGE PLANT
The first Baptist Church will begin
construction for additional space
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lux uie use 01 me sunaay scnoois
and Young People's Department of
the church, according to plans perfected
at a Churchmen's Conference
held Sunday Morning.
The expansion program of the
church will cost approximately $1,800,
and will be of two stories with
floor space of 26 x 28 feet for main
floor and will be so arranged that it
can easily be turned into a dining
hall. The new building addition will
begin at the corner oi the auditorium
and will run back 26 feet. The basement
will contain class rooms, heating
plant and two rest rooms.
The building committee consists
of G. H Cope, A. J Dills, S. H. Monteith,
J. T. Gribble, and Mrs. Roy C.
Allison. Finance: John R. Jones,
John B. Ensley, George Womack,
Mrs. C. L. Allison, and Miss Sadie
Luck.
The church selected J. V. Hall, Mrs.
John R. Jones, and Mrs. John B. En?ley
as a committee to wrange for both
a 50th anniversary of the church
celebration, this summer.
May Day At School
The Sylva Elementary School will
present its May Day exercises at 5:00
o'clock Thursday afternoon of next
week, with Evengeline. Coo^. $s th$
Queen of the May, ^une Bess as Maid
of Honor, and the boys and girls of the
seventh grade as the court,
The e:-u idses,' which will include
the maypole dances, a coronation of
the Queen of the May, dances and
songs, will be held on the outside of
the building, weather conditions permitting.
Pure 0 1 Company Oens Safety
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in L'UUilCLUUll vyihj u>v * A v.
wide interest in promoting safety
on the highways, the Pure Oil Comoany
and the Skyline Oil Co.mpany are
conducting a Drive Jafely Orusac^
and are offering $ 1,000 in cash prizes
during this month for the best 1Q word
slogan on safe driving.
There are ?5 prizes in all, with
$250 for the first prize, $1QQ l'qr th?i
second, $75 fur the third, $25 for the
fourth to the tenth, $10 for 11th to
the 25th, and $5 for 26th to 75 th prizes.
Judges for the contest are Dr. William
H. Frazier, Dr Shelton J. Phelps
Clarance C. Kuster. The contest
is open only to persons holding driver's
license cards issued by Nort|,
Carolina or South Csrplipa.
It is understood that another contest
yyilj fye held in May? and one each
month through November.
Entry blanks may he obtained
^ ? ' CI' UAn afrtfnvlinp
at any -ru4P W4 wt' kvi
to D. M. Hall the Skyline Oil Company,
WILEY L. MOORE
President Pure Oil Company
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ble mental development until he ha^
learned how ihings ieel tis well how
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HOUSES . . . . . by Ford
Henry Ford is tackling the housng
problem in his own orignal
. He has announced \ js to buUd
1 a model ewnmunitj on his 90,000
acre plantation at Ways, Georgia,
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UNA, APRIL 14, 1938
County Republicans
Hold Convention
?
The Republican Party of Jackson
! county will hold its nominating convention
at the court house in Sylva
on Saturday of this week, at 2 o'clock
in the afternoon.
j The convention was called by John
j B. Ensley, chairman, and Cyrus H.
j Nicholson, secretary.
I Hon. Jake F. Newell, of Charlotte,
! Republican candidate for Senator
Robert R. Reynolds' seat in the United
States Ser ate, and Vonno L. Gudger,
Republican candidate for Con|
gress front this district, will speak {
at the convention,
A county c hairman and county secretary
will be elected and the convention
will consider the selection
and endorsement of candidates for
the various county offices.
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WASHINGTON
Washington, April 14 (Antocaster)
One peculi.ir thing about rumor and
scandal is that when all the facti
are disclosed the truth is seldom as
scandalous as the preliminary bally;
hoo has led people to expect. The real
! senasational scandals pop up with*
out much preliminary advertising.
A situation now exists in
ington which seems likely to pro- (
vmHa a crroHpmonqtratifWi at
! both the pjrspeeding statements.
There has been so m\ich ^lk about
undisclosed tWWpttP
, and graft ip conniption with T, V, A.
! that goseipmongera are predicting
I that the blowoff, when the Congressional
Investigational Committee
gets into action, will make more of
a sensation and send more people '
I to jail than did the Teapot Dome
oil exposures. But experienced observers
here discount that notion.
That all is not well inside of T. V. A.
everybody realizes, but thatj any- !
I thing like conspriacy to defraud the
: Gtrvernmefit or to" sabotage the f
'activities of the T. V. A. will be disclosed
is regarded as quite unlikely. !
Old Age and Politic^
Where the big scangfj \vi^ break,
it is \yh}spered' by the wise onea,
wijl be in the administration of the
Social Security Act. And there it in
not expected that an investigation
will disclose the alighest irregularity
in the conduct of the Security
Board itself, but a great deal of
irrgeularity in the handling of Federal
funds by the State adminitratiooa.
For a large part of the Federal
' money collected by excise taxes on
payrolls for Unemployment
by direct income taxfg on 'workers
for Old Age benefit^ and by general
taxation for did Age relief, which
is something quite different, is
handed over by the United States
to state commissions for d^^^u^on*.
j The first; public
funds are being wrongly used came
from Oklahoma, where the rapid
I rise in the number of people on the
old age pension lists and the corresponding
increase in the flow of
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Federal money into tne staie, siarieu
an investigation by the Social Security
Board. The investigation
is not yet finished but it has
been reported that taP
poure<^ ?jut feEU & ?13
fa fae thousands of personi
>vi\9 ape m\ in need, but who are
favored by certain politicians.
Social Security Benefits
No evidence has been made public
that similar wasteful an$ improper
methods prev^ in other states,
but Washy^ton" is digging deep into
I the facts, with a corps of field workers
trying to find out what is going
on, not only in the matter
bursements foj oJ$ jm&m hut
i in payments under
mtian ot the complicated
Soeisl Security Act, while at the
same time a rising tide of resentment
against the use of the old age |
benefit taxes, taken out of wastes
earners pay envelopes, is ?c?wing into
something resgj^teiwg a tidal wave.
Ulster tlfo Social Security Act
provision Is made for many different
kinds of philanthropic activities.
Employers are taxed to create %
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I tuna 10 t'6 aisinuuLtx^ yjr s^ie.
ihorities to yy parF wages to men
ar\d -women who have been laid off
their jobs. Employers and employ-,,
ees alike are taxed for old an- |
nuities?called "ben^ite* In, th,e law.
Then the; EwbraJ, (^yeoirpent, out
of general i^yeniies, undertakes tp;
match,, dollar for dollar, all mopey.^
[ paid by a state for pensions +& Use j
indigent aged^ That the phase of i
I the Act which the Oklahoma
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S. T. McGinnis
Passes At Oteen
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t S. T. McGinnis, 48, of Sylva, died
Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock
in the veterans hospital at Oteen of
bronchial pneumonia. He became
ill last week and was taken to the
hospital.
m m ?m 1 _
Mr. jncmnmi was a veician ux j
the World War serving overseas. He
was gassed while fighting.
Mr. McGinnis came here frcfm
Commerce Gjl, about 15 years ago.
Since coining hare he has engaged
in the garage business and recently
had been connected with the Allison
Motor company.
The funeral services were held Friday
afternoon aft S o'clock at the
Blacks Creek Baptist church in Commerce,
Ga. Interment was in the
church cemetery. The Rev. Mr. Collins
of Commerce and H. M. Hocutt
of Sylva were In charge.
He It survived by his widow; six
children: Walter, S. T., Hugh Lee,
Kathleen, Eugene, and Hilda, all of
Sylva; one brother, T. D., of Maxey,
Ga., ?nd ten sisters: Mrs. J. H. Patterson,
of Sylva; Mrs. C. N. Woods,
Elmer Woods, Mrs. Webb Reiding,
Mrs. R. B. Minnish, Miss Era McGinnis
end Miss Ester McGinnis, all of
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morning hits* immuc ruui wun,
of Watkinaville, Ga.; Mrs. L. L. Frix,
Candor; and Mrs. Ed Chapman, of
GiUavOkb Qa.
Looking Backward
In Jackson County
49-30-20 years ago
Tudaseigee Detmocrat April
24,1889
Jackson Acadamy Roll of Honor.
IOmoo Pauline Morris, Ella Butngarner,
Maggto Ezandle, and Annie Lizzie
Japrtt, sad SUaralie A Wolff,
fflba clcrL*:^ exercises of the Cullowhe
Acadamy, (Rev. T. C. Buchanan,
principal,) take plac# on Friday
pert, cnrrnifnciryg th the forenoon.
The foundation atone of a new
Methodist Church, South, to ba meted
at Speedwell will be laid Wednesday,
2lay 1, ill the afternoon. Rev.
F, Slier, Rev, B. G. Wild, and others
? in ?*ir? rmrt in the Droceedinas.
WIU WIW K w
We noticed the following lawyers in
attendance upon Court at Webster
this week: W. W. Jones, ^fcemas A. I
Jones and Locke ffraita, AshevilleM
W. B. and 9. Ferguson, Ex Judgfl
J. C. teudgcr, O EL Smathexs, W. La
Norwood, lolkrltor Moody. Ws^vwM
ville; R. L. Lastherwood, A.< FryeJ
Charleston; J. F. Hon. Kop?
Elias, George A J^ss,'franklin; At J!
toru^y flask, Hendarsonville; ?aC!
a m^jtyng ef the Board of Director.^of
ju^son Celiac Henderwmvillei j
Rev. J, B Boone tendered his resig-|j
ation a* president of the Faculty. AH
resignation was unanimously adop-I
ted, requesting him to withdraw hisl
resignation. It Id not known yetl
whether the board will succeed re-1
taining him. ?There hay^ been but 8
ten deaths in ^ptwflh during $
toe ^fi'iW.nAaheville's newfc
the Ivmdag Journal, made |
ite initial uggwuaeea under the ed-jj
itorial maneg?t of Mr. Theodore!
Hobgod, on the 19th Inst ? Afeeser. I
Robert Finlty and J. D. kelson have I
opened at No. 49^ North Main Street, I
the first yftptaaeia produce commi-'
saiga bmtnws ever established in
Asbevllle. ?The first charge <# ke
was taken from the Greer^teore Ice
Factory Monday, A?*# Sth. The
works are gyqpwgwed a success. ?
Rev-, ft. a Baptist minister of
^cjuisburgh, hap announced the invention
of a system of electric com-\
municationo . bet afoui trains run
ning or standing. It has motived the
endorsement of E$U*a and other
leading elatiMlBl who say that it
will r^yohxtloalat the business of
?*i& dispatching ?Near Wadesfcaro
is a silk factory, employing 4ft white
girls between the age^ of 7 and 12.
The raw silk is sWwed in bales that
weigh 200 ppuarta and sells for $5.50
per pc^nd This is, perhaps, the Qft*
ly'ailk factory in the state,
Jackson Coggty ^ouraa} For
April 24, 190ft
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rain, a good crowd assembled to hear
Rev. Gilbert T. Rtwe and Hon. J. H.
Tucker on Saturday at the Methodist
here. Some special prohibition
music was rendered by the
chior. Rev. W. B. Creasman sang a
very impressiev solo. ?The Ettttsboro.
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Mason Files For
Office Of Sheriff ;
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With the announcement of the candidacy
of Sheriff Mason to succeed i
himself as Sheriff of the county, and
of Hon, T. C. Led better, to again
represent the county in the General
Assembly, the political situation in
[Jackson county took on renewed in- ?
; terest during the week. < ' '
Both announcements have been ex? ; ,
pec ted, and in fact it has been gen- 4
erally understood that Sheriff Mason ? .*
would again be a candidate. Mr.
Ledbetter had made no statement \ ,
until within the past few days, but j
many of his friends had believed I
that he would again offer for the
General Assembly.
Fred Sutton, of Qualla, announced i
some time ago that he would be a *
candidate for Sheriff, and has been
actively campaigning. So far he is
the only opponent that has come for- j
ward against Sheriff Mason. 5
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Garland Dillard, of Beta, and Dan *
Tompkins are both avowed candidates
for Representative, the posi- ;
tion nqw held by Mr. Ledbetter.
Some aetivitv has been noticed in 1
the county in the campaign of R. Lee- $
Whitmfre, of Henderson ville, to unjseat
ttie veteran Congressman from \
this district, Zebulon Weaver. \
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A spirited race between Baxter C. *
Jones fend Solicitor John M. Queen. }
tor the solid to rship of this district t
has developed. > Over
in. Haywood it is said that ^
Cbasta} Coghuns, Canton attorney,. $
and J&mes R. Boyd, Waynesville
banker, will be opposing candidates
[for the State Senate. J
I In t?e Register of Deeds race six *v v41
candidates have developed. Mrs. *
Margaret Sherrill Roane, present ini^Sibeht,
has announced that she will
.again make, the race, and Earl Reed,
Beta; W. Use Benson, Sylva; Roscoe I
Higdon, Savannah; Doug Davis, Webster;
and "Glenn Hughes, Cullowhee, j
(have " aU entered the lists for this i
position.
Clerk of the Court Dan M. Alison I
will not again be a candidate, and i
Adam Moses, of Sylva; Frank C. *
Crawford, Sylva; Jennings Bryson,
Beta; and Roy M. Cowan, Webster., j
are candidates for this position. ^
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Count# Finance Commissioner j_
D.. Qawan likewise will not be a can- ?
didate, and J. H. Lang, of Mountain,, ,
and W. Vernon Cope, of Sylva, have i
Announced that they are aspirants
Kbr that important position.
T While Sheriff C. C? Mason ha.-,
bade no formal announcement o.
rata candidacy ^ it ifi generally undermod
that ha will seek renomination;
bond Sutton, of Qualla, is opJ
R. C. Howell, of Qualla, and Ckrrc:
fisher, of Hamburg are candidates to.
Succeed themselves aa county cpmtaissioners,
and Ed, Fisher, of Beta,.
Is also a candidate for commissioner11IJI"
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Bird Heads Syiva Bdirian
I W. Ernest Bird, Dean of Western
Carolina Teachers College waa elec ted
president of the Sylya Rotary
Club, at the meeting held on Apru
4.
' Reginal Enloe was elected vicepresident;
Raymond U. Sutton, Secretary-Treasurer;
and S. W. Xnloe,.
Cole Cannon, T. N Massie, Clyde Blair,
and Ralph C. Sutton, directors.
Don Bestor And His Orchestra
To Play For Easter Dance.
| In Asheville
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Don Bestor and his orchestra of
Jello fame and rated by papular
vote one of the ten bast hands oC
the country, will play for an, Easter
dance in Asheville Tuesday, night ;
April the 19th at the Cvplin* Wgrehouse,
dancing will begin at ?30.
Don Bestor 'is playing repeated en*
gagement at P. I. and Washington
Lee Universities for their spring
dances*
Don Bestor's orchestra featured
with Jack Benny for several year.;
on the General Tires and Jello programs
one of the leading hours on the
air, v
When the Hotel Roosevelt, Hew
York, sought a band to follow Guy
Lombardo; they selected Don Beetc.; >
he remained at the famous Rooeevt'i
Grill several months with a coast i<>
coast network broadcast Don Bettor
has one novelty which he discovered
called the vibraharp, he i
was the first one to see its possibilities.
When Bestor starts playing it
the dancers flock around him to
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