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Lav Local ijf
, Introduced
I (By Dan Tompklna)
Fa eijh. Jan. <8.--The Joint ComI
-r.it c ?s on A ppropriations has se'
Tiiu" Jay. Ja;. 19. as the date to,
I ^ P'yentoHon of thecUinw
I &< ollna Teachers Co!I
: x . >r .. .11- , nance during the next
I b'tr.r i::n. t k expected that tlx
| fees r'.a c oj lege, an increase fro.r,
aa%V?Aa 4-U
C *4 ' ^ N "*S' '^uu tA-,v me
" : ,! ;jr as ' '- Cler.eral Assembly
I ". ^ tlic 1*0 is a great deal
,,i;,,i u this proposed in:!.
. t . State's colleges, In
s ;: i'nn'ies to the students
u,. i \ the State. Rep*esenta
Y-rmp'-uns got tire Assistant
I):r* r of tin Budget, in question,
- n: beV;C the Appropriations
0>r..in ttce. to agree that a Student
Lmn fund, set up at each instiution,
v.i .i.i be a practical method of assigns
tr.e --tudtnts to pay the prop.;sci
InortviM ... if the General As.
. . '.jId. ona.'t the proposal of
tl-.e h Bureau into law.
Ojt of Sta:e S'urient:: May
Pay nor^
S, . ? th< e-.it-01-the-?i >trt stu- j
denfr ?'*e ran. in re is little
-Mi.i-ng prognvr "1 C jvrhee v ill
i, -a'.'.y ir.crtvsc ? u r.timber of st\i-j
den** fhere. and :t anticio tied tl-r.t!
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the " u .re of the sc ? .ol. The j
o.u .poses that the S.-ite
-i tc .935 for the support]
of tr- *.,".Oi?l fi r .he hist 3'ear of ihe i
burn .n t r.n i T/.01 for 4ho second
year, h.w.uver. in the Hi.-1 year's!
a;vir..,>ri.:ion there is a matter of ;
Si hi -) i<n' improvements in the j
Iv.arrr .ustcm of the college, wrucn ;
v.oi!d actually give slightly more
lor maintenance the second year than {
The budget anticipates that the j
college will have receipts of its own [
-cmoun uig to ?lTir,?65 Iht tlrst yesr
sna l .'ight increase to $122.*540, the
ecor \ yar, v. hich added to the
prcp< \i appropriation would gi/e
the i?-??itution 5196,340 and $192,0*0
respectively far operation during the
Ho order to raise the rece.4
the connate amount, ti.e
h'.C; . > -opor-cs doimlin^ the iu?tiw
'u I' .t tneii luiti . fcofe will l"%
" -i mjreased. At least that is
h>* p -vc;t unor of tiic Go leral As ii'Vin
injJer the proposed increases,
there vouli} be a little matter ol
1 A) 1 \ ** , h of IV-ID riAAnl p
i jua ?.???*- r r~
1 it Norh Ca.oi'na would have to
co.*i*r: u'2 Iowa'd the education o?
I v.i m- deri students at Chap
I Hi.i ::i v student body th3i
I at pi--., at is e are 921 students,
v\C it vvili r\ ;t ihe people of the
I State. '97 per student,over ana
I P.bovt t .e receipts of the University,
to ,\it h ope y ear's exposure to
ti'?...er i..^. dor. to these noii-re^iI
oi"us. wen iincrr the proposed int.'t
.> o. tv it ion.
Vor.y-.i.i's Bill Favors Veterans
Vpt.rn.v will be particularly inI
tcnsut p a bid. inti oduecci by Dan
"b. ;/ ; < A Jac'tson, providing that
I 'hey Slk i be given preference in ftllI
ing all positionr and jobs by the
I State, a:id all its departments, inH
sUtutiou.s and their agents, in all
I hinds ot employment. This bill also
I pmvidv. tint in ail exam'.nations to
fill po.-iiio.-.:: .n North Carolina, the
I veir:uaL who served honorary in
I the Ait y. Navy. Marine Corns, or
Kurrei, Corps, shrill be gicen a prefI
erentia lating ' " 10 percent. This!
? 1! Wc*nt .o the c ??V'ittee on Untnv I
P-'uy.r.ew Compe ls Con, nead.d by
jl Hepresohuuive R. G. Cherry, who i
I Fe*./ Local B '.ls if". VVrrt
C'C. . w '.i t usi'a! p: O'-'^uW
St' -
, V-\< <'fl J Sins- I
, so jc.r not been j
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t'l . ft 'cti .s ally cow*i?huw
? ^'inniluced to th.-^
^Be"tCfC4 i\.l Assembly. It13 d ^ ^ I
Jnat tv re will be some; bu M
ftcir.b#* ; liom the west have a
ling Uiat the fewer local bills they
introduce, the better off they a
pe' pie will be.
One ol the first matters tha^fcp
in the House was that concern1
. the present tax ol $10 on retailer
J>: garden seed. There seems to ha^
\eral dissatisfac 110*1 amo
, ^jnong 0 farmers, gardenem,
a^jn.T'.h: us, ihrougnout the State, Wi ^
Mfhat t? ;( enacted two years ago.
SJbsol.it. .y prohibited hundreds ox
Sjountry lTHichsnti from selling see
p\ - ).q was to create a fun ^
1 i. toclicn, thus insuring S00
v c (armers and gardeners
f J-'re b;:: v.ont to the Committee 01
where it has teen ^orL
>m every angle, a id ax
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Os For West
In Assembly!
Journal CorrcsjKjnslent Win-"
teriDjj Ir Florida \
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Mrs. D. T. Knight, who has be*
purnishing The Journal with a week. !
news-letter from Ba'sam, for a nun.
?er of years is \vi;h hjr daughte"
Miss Nannie, sp>nc ng the winter ir
Orlando, F?a.. wit! her son ard
dadughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. j
John Knight Mi- tvtvo
o-* v* * . muva Am o, I
came up rmd ^pent Thanksgiving at
Balsam and Mrs. D. T. Knight and i
Miss Nannie accompanied them home.
We are printing part of an interesting
letter which we received from
Mrs. Knight this week:
"Orlando is correctly called The
City Beautiful', so manay lovely
flowers and handsome homes, etc.
At Christmas, the decorations all
over the city were lcvely.
"Arbor Day we attended the unveiling
of a monument erected in
memory of Orlando Retves who was
killed in 1835 by the Seminole Indians,
and for whom Orlando was
name:1.. The pror.vam was very inj
teres!?.ig. The r. cmorial rests in
licike Kola Park 1. ai hie spot where
\
I ne w:.b killed, a d wrw donatc-d by
j tne cnildren of C vrrokee Junior hign
: school. My olaerh. grandson, age 13,
I attends this schorl.
"This is a busy c:iy. So many cars
parked in and near tne business districts
that you wonder if anybody
i stays at home.
! oit i nr. i n rilnncnrn fn YY\id t
X t ULti I CI j^/iV.UJU4 V. W AAIV ?v
send the Balsam news items to Tin
Jouinai and nope to do so agai.
soon."
R. F. Jarrett Is Winner
G? i'rize
Mr. R. F. Jarrett, proprietor..o ;
Jarrett Springs _
V/as the winner "of ^ienny ol I a
prize, offered by tiie AsheviHe Citi zen,
for the oiviest, best preserve^
copy of the Noith Carolina Citizer.
or ecleccssor of tr.e Asheviile Citiixi.
Mr. Jarrett's cc ">y \vs dated* Nov.
10, 1370, and ni.ifber thirty-nine cf
Volume 1.
Mrs. O. J. CofY n, v-fe. of Professor
Coff ?. of the S of Jo trnalism
of the Universi4*-' ')f Ncith Carolina.
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eniKtiniffcri u *vl ich was dated I
OUUltuiwu u V..J. .
June 2, 1870, hi t the copy was not '
so well preservt d as was the copy
owned by Mr. Jarrett.
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Mr. S. PT. P.fmVth whc ^as beer
confined to hi* hmn.f here for the
oast several months because of a
broken leg ha? recovered sufficiently
tr. be out again with the aid of
crutches.
present, the result is a ?ubs*Jtiite bill,
wl ich reouires tlm wh^ir-qpiers to
put a ?1 stamp on ?ve;"" 1 v of seed,
and which renu'ros rvc rchants
who sell less than .? 10-1 "'er'b of seed
to pay a tax of $1. The funds that
would be thus raised would be earmarked
for seed testing and inspection
by the Department of Agriculture.
Many people believe that the
department would have more money
for this purpose under the proposed
act than it now gets, and that the
small merchants will again enter the
seed selling business. At any rate
something will be done to relieve
the farmers living *r.r from town and
( the country march-cits from the
I present intolerable -'tuation.
I Representative G:enn Palmer, of
Haywood, himself a dairyman, was
particularly intere3ted in the dariv
* of Agricul
ana rarni w
ture Kerr Scott, at Haw River. Mr
Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. Patton, of
Macon, Mr. Penland of Clay, Mr. FJleanor
of Gates, and others, were
quests of Mr. and Mrs. Scott, at their
home at Haw River. Sunday.
Mr. Patton and Mr. Scott ta.'k the j
crme language when it comes 'to
tows and things appertaining to a
' :nry, and both of them had a great
j 'me visiting the pasta os and barns
! Mrs. Margaret .Sherrill Roane ar?
j i\cd in Raleigh Saturday from
Sylva. The former Jackson county
register of deeds has accepted a posiI
lion in the enrching ofdcc, under
| Secretary of State Thrd JSure.
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Birthday Ball To Be
Held January 30th
j J. Claude Allisbn, county chairman >
' of the President's Birthday Ball Com(
mittee, has announced that the ba$
1 will be held on Monday night, Jan*
ray 30, beginning at 8:00 o'clock, at
he Community House. Vincent
.Vright's Orchestra will furnish the
nusic. Mr. Allison said: "One-hail
of the proceeds will be sent to Warrt^
Springs and one-half will be kept
here, for local help for crippled children,
which will be distributed by the
crippled children's clinic, held each
Ijnonth, at Bryson City."
' The President's Ball is held each
year on or near President's birthday,
in communities all over the United
States, and the proceeds from the admission
fees are used for the benefit
of children afflicted with infantile
paralysis and in the. effort to eradicate
the disease.
Offers Prize For Best Nftte
School Paper
Cullowhee, Jan. 16, . (Special)?
The Pondragon Literary Club of thf
training school of Western Carolinr
Teachers College, well in its seventh
successful year, has for its new sponsor
Mss Mabel Tyree of Lexington.
Kentucky. Miss Tyree became teacher
of English in the high school this
year. This club was begun by Mrs.
Kenneth Wood, of Cullowhee, who
acted as its sponsor for six years.
At its first meetir-t several days
ago, the following effk ^rs were elected:
president, Virgnia Mikels; vice
^resident, Robert Loe Davis; chaplain,
Theresa Parker; and critic, Juanita
Hamilton. Robinette Tritt, Juanita
Hamilton, and Gertrude Ensley were
mmcd on the program committee.
\?ter an exciting aid thoroughly
tumorous initiation, twelve members
v ore taken into the club.
I 2 club has undertak en is the pubirati
m of a school piper. The first
c ,ue of this publication, composed of
i-v pages or new concerning
embers of both the training school
and the college, appeared Friday afternoon.
Articles inclu led club news,
the college building program, notes
an practice teachers, editorials, jokes,
locial items, sports, o iginal pc^ms,
and a Mr ch-of Tirae section.
Since the paper is as yet unnamed,
a contest for naming it will be held,
and a prize is being offered by Mr.
C. A. Hoyle, principal of the training.
hcol, to the person who names the
npcr.
The editorial staff for the school
ewspaper is composed of Gordon
ii'ryson, Editor-in-Chief; Warren
i.ooper, Business Manager; Anne
"ird, Social Editor; Ben Battle,
? ?" Pnmlp
ports .tailor; Dean uawimu,
.ditor; J. W. Earley, Jr. Typist; and
he following reporters: Columbine
Iritt Middleton, Margaret Edwards,
Mary C. Bryson, Helen Phillips, Car
men Nickleson.
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>L1NA, JAN. 19, 1939.
Jackson County Girl Has
Post In College Club
Greensboro, N. C.?Miss Virginia
Egerton, of Mills Spring, will serve
as president of the Collegiate FourH
club group at Woman's college of
the University of North Carolina for
the coming semester after elections
held this week.
Other officers named to serve with
Miss Egerton include: Misses Marj
Frances Thompson, Durham, vicepresident;
Olive Briggs, Burnsville
jecretary; Kattie Lee Regan, Lumi
>erton, treasurer; Helen Whitlock,
Wadesboro, program chairman; Olive
iVilliams, Statesville, finance chairman;
Katherine Dawson, New Bern,
social chairman; Elizabeth Handle,
[Kings Mountain, publicity chairman;
tad Helen Higdon, Webster, mem
vOersnip chairman.
Brotherhood To Entertain
Members of W. M. S.
The Brotherhood of the Sylva Baptist
church has invited the members
of the W. M. S. to be their guests at
a special inspirational and social
meeting to be held in the basement
>f the church on next Tuesday night,
January 24, at 7:30. All members of
he Brotherhood are urged to be
'resent, and all members of the W. M.
are ordlally invited.
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Jackson Program
The birthdays of General Robert
E. Lee and General "Stonewall" Jackson
were commemorated, by a program
presented under the auspices of
the B. H. Cathey Chapter, United
Daughters of the Confederacy, in the
elementary school auditorium, today.
The principal feature of the program
was an address, by Mr. E. F. Watson,
prominent attorney of Burnsville, and
son of the only living Confederate veteran
in Jadison county, Mr. Elbert
j^atson, of Gienville. ' - ? -,
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Webster School Presents
Operetta
The Glee Club of Webster high
school presented an an operetta, "The
Gypsy Rover," under the direction
of Mrs. Burch Allison, on last Friday
evening. The Glee Club was assisted
by Mrs. Paul Buchanan, of Webster,
and Dan Cooke, of Western Carolina
Teachers College. Those taking the
other speaking parts were Velma
Buchanan, Ottis Deitz, Faye Byrd,
Bill Perkins, Leo Cow*n, Lavenia
Rogers, J. D. Morgan, David Thomas,
York Painter, Morgan Buchanan, Ida
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Jean Allison, Marion i>ee mauisuu,
Love Louise Owens, Howard Allman,
Kenneth Davis, and Bobby Parker.
The proceeds will be used to purchase
maps for both the elenmen. and
high schools, required by the Department
of Education fipr the standardization
of the school. A special effort
is being made this year by the Webster
achool to meet the requirements
for standardization.
yme, Sweet Hon
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W. C. T. C Invited
To Enter Contest
Cullowhee, Jan. 16, (SpecialMiss
Mary Elizabeth Maddux, head
of the Home Economics Department
at Western Carolina Teachers Collegehas
recently received an announcement
from the Textile Enineering
School of State College al
'.aleigh that the students of her dejartment
are invited to enter an aniiial
style show which it will sponsor
ater in the spring.
Students entering the contest will
nake garments form fabrics woven by
.he Textile department, samples oi
.vhich Miss Madux has already re
ceived. Stylists and textile experts,
judging"the* originality displayed in
the finished outfits, will award, two
grand prizes for the two most original
entries. Other prizes will also be
awarded to one student from each
college.
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Union Meeting To Be At
Moses' Creek
The Union meeting of the Tuckaseigee
Baptist Association will be
held at Moses' Creek Baptist church,
on Friday and Saturday, January
27-28.
The program which follows has
been arranged for the meeting:
FRIDAY
10:00?Song and Devotion?Charley
Conner
10:15?Enrollment and organization
10:35?Christian Fellowship?T. F.
Deitz
11:00?Sermon?W. M. Breedlove
12:00?Lunch
1:15?Song and devotion?M. L.
nooper .
v. 1:30?Th^ Lee* Condition-of the
Unsaved?Frank Btuffigarner
2:00?The Power of God's Grace
in Salvation?Ernest. Jamison
. 2:30?The Sufficiency of God's
Grace for the Redeemed?J. L. Hyatt
3:00?The Bigness of God's Task
for the Redeemed?Fred Forester
SATURDAY '
10:00?Song and devotion?R. C.
Morgan
10:15?Business
10:30?A Revival Among Southern
Baptists?J. L. Rogers
11:00?Revival Sermon?Joe Bishop
12:00?Lunch
1:15?Song and Devotion ? Ber
Cook
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1:30?-Tne i_urse ui utc
Traffic?W, N. Cook
2:00?The Sabbath, a Holy or Holiday?Floyd
Womack
2:30?A Ministry to the Tourists?
P. L. Elliott
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ADVANCE OUT SIDE TEE COUBTf
irsT , ohn Watson
Has Passed Away
Mrs. John Watson, affectionately
khown as "Aunt Rhoda", passed
away, at her home here, last Thurat
d&y, following a long illness and funeral
services were conducted at 2:00
o'clock Friday afternoon, at the Bap
, lisi cnurcn. ttev. ti. M. Hocutt and
Rev. T. F. Deitz conducted the serv*
ice.
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Mrs. Watson, who was 85 years of
. age, was a charter member of the
, Sylva Baptist church and was one of
the four charter members still living
' when the church celebrated its fiftieth '
1 anniversary, last summer. Married
on December 30, 1870,~~by Esquire
Levi Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Watson
had just passed the sixty-eighth anniversary
of their wedding. Mra.
Watson was, before her marriage,
Miss Rhoda Parker.
Besides her husband, Mrs. Watson
is survived by her children: Mrs. R.
A. Painter and L. M. Watson, of
Sylva; Mrs. John Phillips, of Canton,
and Ed Watson, of Pantego; one sister,
Mrs. Tabitha Dillard, of Sylva; twenty
five grandchildren and forty-eight
great-grandchildren.
Interment was in Keener cemetery.
Large Number On
College Honor Roll
Cullowhee, Jan. 18, (Special)?
iW a Vm mrl Arm rti? .
V_VX Ulc iuui Jiuuui rria unu unt oiudents
enrolled at Western Carolina
Teachers College during the fall quarter,
over two percent made Alpha
honor roll and almost eleven per cent
made Beta honor roll. To be placed
on the Alpha honor roll, a student
must make a minimum of forty qua- :
iity points during.. ?he_ quarter; foe . }
che Beta KenorrSnr it is "necessary to v
make a minimum of thirty-two points.
\ccording to an announcement by
Miss Addie Bean, registrar for the
;ollege, the following students have
nade the Alpha honor roll: Jean- ^
iette Dillard, Sylva; Sue Haigler,
-ia^rfesville; Jane Greenlee, Mt. Mitchell?
Vera Jones, Cedar Mountain;
Led filler, Cullowhee; Charles Moody
Waynesville; Thurman Perkins, Goldooro;
Pauline Pressley, Speedwell;
ind Mae Wilkinson, Gastonia.
Those making Beta were: Edna
Vdkins, Reidsville; Elizabeth Ammon,
Jullowhee; Helen Ammon, Cullowhee;
velyn Bowman, Robbinsville; Cathrine
Boyd, Fletcher; Mary Louise
rnendle, Bryson City; Emerson Craw:>rd,
Cullasaja; Agnes Dalton, Ridge"
rest; Mary Delle Davis, Andrews;
,Iary Ellen Davis, Almond; Alwayne
ielozier, Candler; Lucile Dills, Sylva;
;uy Ensley, Sylva; James Fred Fore,
handler; Melba Fowler, Glenville;
dary Kathryn Gardner, West Ashe/ille;
Helen Gibson, Bryson City; El/ira
Greenlee, Mt. Mitchell; Helen
Ireenlee, Mt Mitchell; Mrs. Catherine
"'ranks Henry; Franklin; Brawdus
I fill, Swiss; Jeone Hyde, Robbinsville;
./race Leatherwood, \Waynesville;
Villard Lovingood, Marble; Charles
icCall, Lake Toxaway; Charles Mcaughlin,
Whittier; Horace Meredith,
Oco . Polio MidHIp?
| iiax:uiu v^viitgc,
on, East La Porte; Mabel Morgan,
. Vingate; Alan Newcomb, Candler;
lien Kimery Perkins, Goldsboro;
heodore Perkins, Goldsboro; Marion .
'osey, Horse Shoe; Gay Stewart, Rob- ,
>insville; Evanell Thomasson, Bry;on
City; Doris Tweed, Marshall;
Vinnie Wilkinson, Gastonia; Porter
larland, West Asheville; and Bea
ollifield, Spruce Pine.
Western Carolina Teachers College
as one of the 14 chapters of the Alha
iPhi Sigma National Scholastic
raternity in the United States. It
as the only chapter in North Carolina
nd one of the four east of the Mississippi
river.
At the regular monthly meeting of
the Alpha Phi Sigma next Friday
night the following students will be
initiated to membership: Pauline
Pressley, Edna Adkins, Leone Hyde
and Cua Belle Micfdleton. Those
students are eligible either for having
been valedictorian or salutatorian
of their class in high school or for
having met the college scholastic reAlfVlAy
VlAriAV ml 1
quu CJircil U3 1UI UU1U1 liUHVl i vu AV/A
two successive quarters.
Miss Alice Benton is sponsor of the
chapter of Alpha Phi Sigma at Western
Carolina Teachers College. She
holder one of the four offices of the ^
natkxfel fraternity being historian.
.MiarJ&dith Wilson of Bryson City is
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