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j ' i I VKAR IN ADVANCE IS ' Work Unde 10.5,000 Gi M Element IlilJ Serve Both Green's Creek and Savannah / Townships I^ork began this week on the ^ $45,000 school building, at ^'s Creek. The building, lCh is being erected by the A, and sponsored by the JackCounty Board of Education, be of native stone, and will he largest and costliest stone ling to house an elementary 0lt yet erected in Western h Carolina. though the building will be reen's Creek township it will i the two townships of Saah and Green's Creek. Pour ils will be consolidated and d to the new building, when completed. The schools will ,y, East Fork, Zion Hill, and Point. The children from iese schools will be transd to the hew school, beginnext year.. building will contain eight yftns, a library, office and (urn. There will be a conilk entirely around the and rest rooms and joms will be built inside ding. Ie estimated cost 01 rne siruc is set at $45,000,' and it is estimated that sixty men be employed for approxily nine months. , owhee Township Asks i To Cullowhee Gap 1 Bryson, Lee Hooper, Ed in, T. C. Ledbetter, Prof. :t L. Madison, Henry Taylor )ther citizens of Cullowhee ship appeared before HighCommissioner McKee Monseeking construction of a from Speedwell to the Maxjunty line, connecting with oad on the Macon side of towees, that comes up from ly. Dan Tompkins, repreiag the Jackson County uber of Commerce, stated a committee from the nber has recommended the truction of the road, and the Chamber is officially id the project. . McKee stated that the 'Mt nlonc noil for f Vi u Im 1r-V?*w yiuiio VAU iV/i W**V *AAA mediate surfacing of a loop up Pressley Creek a d down Tilley Creek, so that the school bus can transport the children from that locality, to school at Cultowhee. It was pointed out that this will leave a link of possibly not more than a mile and a half to be completed to the gap of the mountain, and engineers were instructed to go over this hnk and make estimates and ^commendations. ? - Legumes Have Place In State's Pastures Corn is the only crop grown Btore extensively than pastures in North Carolina. But pastures do not receive near the attention corn, cotton, tobacco, sn|aU grains and other crops. & L. Lovvorn, State College a8ronomist, says that "the ex| Panded liVPStrv>lr nrnry?nVM In ? vwWVA piugiaui *** W1 SQuth that everybody Is talking about depends on cheap feed, I and pasture is the answer to that problem." With few exI cePtions, no livestock industry has ever permanently survived that did not depend to a large I on grazing and hay crops, he says. I "We have more than a milI hon acres of cleared pasture land in North Carolina," the ^ronomist continued, "but a Sreat deal of it is not worthy of the name. Successful pastures ^ust include legumes in the sod. ^Perimental results bear this The agronomist advises the ^ of lespedeza unless the soil is ln a good state of fertility, in Jhich case white clover will dc ' - . , 1 ' ' ,4. ' ' ' l\)t 3d rHE COUNTY rWay On 1 *eens Creek ary School I DTrnil AVIV nrfimri XvilXiO HELD THURSDAY Rev. Oscar Nix and Rev. Carlyle Morgan conducted the funeral service, last Thursday, for Burt Buchanan, 81 year old citizen, who died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Charles Moses, : at East LaPorte. Interment was ( in the cemetery at Yellow Mountain. * Mr. Buchanan, known as "Uncle Burt," is survived by his widow; six children, Will of Yellow Mountain, Mrs. Moses of East LaPort, Mrs. Drucilla Henderson, of Lake Toxaway, Mrs. Bertha Evitt of Yellow Mountain, Mrs. Laura Stewaft of Cashiers, and Mrs. Emma Coggins of Erastus; three brothers, Ross of Norton, Jack and Manual, both of Hazelwood; a sister, Mrs. Elbert Houston of Salem, Ore.; 58 grandchildren and 48 great grandchildren. DALLAS GRAY SHOT; JOHN SMITH IN JAIL Dallas Gray, aged and wellknown Dilsboro Negro, was taken to the hospital, suffering shot- < gun wounds in the back and neck Tuesday afternoon, following an altercation engaged in at Dillsboro. John Smith, another Negro, was arrested and placed in Jail by Highway Patrolman Ray Ervin, pending the outcome of Gray's wounds. It is not known what the dispute between 4he two-Negroes arose about. Overflow Crowd Attends - Baptist S. S. Convention j An overflow crowd attended the Tuckaseigee Baptist Sunday School Convention held at Cashiers Baptist < Church last Sunday afternoon. Clarence Vance, presided at the meeting. The devotional was conducted by Rev. Mr. Cloer of Cashiers. Special music was rendered by the Cashiers choir. A feature of the program was a program put on by the Young Ttonni* of Scott's Creek Church under the direction of Mrs. W G. Dilard. ] Reports were made by the churches that have held Vaca- ! tion Bible Schools this summer, more having been held this summer than any year'previously and it is planned to have an even larger number of these schools in the association next j year. , Ellis Beasley of East Sylva ; brought a stirring message on the subject, "The Challenge of i Reaching Adults in the Sunday < School." i < y Rev. E. P. Baker, pastor of the First Baptist church of Andrews ' was present and spoke briefly. P. I. Watson of Jarrett Memorial Church, Dillsboro was ; elected as vice-president, of the 1 convention to fill out the unexpired term of C. R. Browning, ' Jr., who has moved to Asheville. The next meeting will be held with the Speedwell church, the second Sunday afternoon in September, at 2:30 o'clock. ? - A TVJ j1 Davis Infant wcs Month After Birth William Cabot Davis, the month old child of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Davis, of Charlotte, died Monday morning, at the home of , his grandparents, Mr. and Mr$~ ' W. R. Sherrill. N i Rev. T. F. Deitz conducted a . short service at the Sherrill i home, Tuesday morning, and 1 interment was in the Keener i Cemetery. i Mrs. Davis is a daughter of i Mr .and Mrs. Sherrill, and was > visiting her parents here at the time of the birth of the baby. I CAROLINA, AUGUST 15, 1940 lackson County To Get 3 Additional Buses Tkis Term ijj^.-' Will Bring Total Number For County To Twenty-One 4 k * \ ' SYLVA NORTE Baptist CM Elects 1 Officers For New Year In Annual Conference I. V. Hall Re-elected As i Superintendent Of Sunday School At the annual church conference, held Sunday morning, t ;he Sylva Baptist church elected t ihree new deacons, It. C. Moore, i jr. H. Cope, and J. B. Owen. The 1 )ther deacons are Chester Scott, c i. E. Monteith, Frank Crawford, \ T. V. Hall, J. D. Moore, and George Womack. i Other officers elected were: t sunaay school superintendent, 1 r. V. Hall; Church Treasurer, i Dlaud Jones; Training Union 1 Director, Hattie Hilda Sutton; i Dlerk, Leonard Allen; Pianist, tfrs. John R. Jones; Assistant " Pianist, Lucile Reed. The ushers are Leonard Allen, Britton Moore, Edwin Allison, ind J. B. Owen. Assistant ushers ire Frank Crawford, and Paul Cesser. ; John R. Jones, S. H. Monteith, j. P. Allen, Reed Queen, and Mrs. H. E. Monteith compose the Property Committee. The Finance Committee is ;omposed of J. T. Gribble, J. B. Snsley, A. J. Dills, Raymond F M Crawford. Georere tfomack, Mrs. Herbert Bryson, Vfrs. H. E. Monteith, and Mrs. S. L. Wilson. Members of the Fellowship Committee are: L. C. Moore, J. V. Sail, Mrs. R. C. Allison, Mrs. L. L. Ulen, and Mrs. H. M. Hocutt . ] The Social Service Committee 5 composed of J. T. Gribble, d. E. Monteith, Mrs. A. J. Dills, md F. M. Crawford. The church appointed J. B. I Ensley, G. H. Cope, J. K. Allen; 1 r. V. Hall and Mrs^X, L. Allen,^ is Messengers to represent it at i ;he Association, meeting at * Vfoses Creek, this week 1 The following disclosures were ( nade by the yearly reports to i ihe church conference: The membership shows a gain < )f fourteen over last year making i :he total membership at the end y jf the year 349. ] The Sunday School has aver- ] iged 131 in attendance, a slight i decrease but the Sunday School i Dffering reached the total of j ?1382.87, a gain of over 10 per l :ent over the previous year. ] Total receipts or tne cnurcn amounted to $3462.94 which was a gain of about one hundred dollars over the year before. The training Union, Brotherhood, and Woman's Missionary Union all showed evidences of good work and steady growth. Jackson County Has Distinguished Visitors There have been at least two groups of distinguished North Carolina visitors here within the past few days. The first, composed of Tom Bost, dean of the State Capital's newspaper writers, Mrs. Bost, Director of the State Department of Public Wel-i fare Commission, was piloted to Clingman's Dome and through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, by Cary Henson, Jackson County's iSuperinten- j dent of Welfare. ! < The second group, composed , of Senator W. B. Rodman, Rep- ' resentative John Caffey, Senator ] Clark and other members of the Advisory Budget Commision, went to Cullowhee, for a discussion of the budgetary needs of the college. They stopped at The Journal office on the way to Cullowhee, and made arrangements for Dan Tompkins to accompany them on a trip through the park. This was the first trip any of these distinguished North Carolinians had ever made to Jackson county, or to the park. Cullowhee Church To Clean Up Cemetery The annual cleaning up of the Baptist church cemetery, at Cullowhee, will be hext Monday, and all persons who have relatives buried there are urged to be present and assist in a general clean-up. _ . 9 / -vjJSr Jackson County is to have hree additional7 school buses his year, according to a statenent by County Superintendent doses. Ttis will bring the total )f the transportation buses in lse in this county to twenty-one. { Twelve additional miles of . oad have recently been added io the transportation system, Mr. j Moses stated. This additional , nileage will be on Fisher Creek, 1 donteith Branch, and various , )laces in the eotinty. 1 ' ] ruckaseigee Baptist Association Begins At ' Moses treek Today Meetipg at 10 o'clock this norninfc the Tuckaseigee Bap- i ;ist Association, in its one lundreg and eleventh session, leard ?r. Fred; F. Brown, pastor >f the^First Baptist church of Towv> oriH o n o fivo A^uu.f ?*AV* c* iiauivv )f this .county, in the introduc-ory setmon. The session was >egun Alth a devotional service, ed by the moderator, Rev. T. F. E)eitz, wfco will preside over the iwo-da&'session. FUNERAL SERVICES FOfo MRS. SUTTON s ft [ . A large concourse of friends jatherfd at the Jarrett Memorial Baptist Church - in iMtiafeoro, heir last respects to Mrs. N. L. Sutton, relict of the late Nelson L.. Sutton, former sheriff of this :ounty, and for years one of its nost prominent citizens. Mrs. Sutton passed on Thursiay, after having been ill for a few days. The funeral service vas conducted by Rev. Thad F. Deitz, pastor of the church, and ttev. H. M. Hocutt, pastor of 3ylva Baptist Church. Mrs. Sutton, a splendid woman of retiring disposition, had been a member of the Baptist church in Dillsboro for many years, and vas known as a force for good in the community, in her quiet way. Interment was in the Parris Cemetery; and Highway workers opened the main highway aetween Sylva and Dillsboro, which had been closed for several weeks, due to the fill approaches to the overhead bridge ?i?~ ? 1. nftar fViQ r>QiHnOf uaving duiui) wnv ^/uTm^ was laid. These J workmen, through respect to the memory [)f Sheriff and Mrs. Sutton, did a hurry-up job,, working overtime to get the highway open for her funeral. Surviving are two sons, Deck, af Sylva, and N. L., Jr., of Virginia; three daughters, Mrs. Herbert Whitraer, of Marcus Hook, Pa., Mrs. P. G. Ensley, of Newport News, Va., and Miss Frances Sutton, of Sylva; one sister, Mrs. Sue Grumbless, of China Grove; two half-brothers, J. J. Mason, of Dillsboro, and D. T. Mason, of Beta; and one half-sister, Mrs. Lena Luther, of Andrews. Baptist Training Union Plans Rally Tuesday j - - ?.<?j. A SpGCiai D&ptUiii iiaiiiing Union Rally will be held at Bryson City next Tuesday afternoon and night, August 20. The Rally is for all the Training Unions in this 10th Region. The meeting will begin at three in the afternoon and close at nine that night. All those who go are requested to take their own supper. The group will eat together in picnic style. It is hoped that a group will go from every union. A total of 28,467 drivers' licenses had been revoked by the North Carolina Highway Safety Division through June 30, 1940. | p - -v- - - jg mil Flood Di Severe j Than Growing Crops Damaged ( Along Tuckaseigee River Great damage was done to s growing crops along the river, i TbP steam shovel with which 2 Morrison-Knudsen Company was jetting gravel for construction work at their camp, was overturned. A log jam below the dam site, near Glenville, was dynamited, to release the backing flood waters. Some families were forced to abandon their homes at Cullowhee and Dillsboro. Electric Plants Flooded The hydro-electric plants of Western Carolina Teachers College and of the Dillsboro and Sylva Electric Light Company were flooded, but service was uninterrupted. Flood waters reached above the w'ndows of tjie home of Guy Leatherwood, and the cabins at the Leatherwood camp, above Dillsboro. The furniture was removed from these buildings, and it is reported that there was no permanent damage done to the buildings. Workmen began clearing out the mud and trash at the camp Tuesday night, as soon as the waters had subsided sufficiently. I All the new cabins at Carter Williams' Old Mill Inn and Camp were flooded. I The water came up above the windows, and the hew cabins had the appearance T of boat houses. The county roads up both sides of the Tuckaseigee from Webster 1 Bridge were flooded. Highway officials reported the fill beside the Cedar Creek Bridge was washed away. It was impossible to determine how many structures on the county roads were washed away. Slides on the highway between Frank- ' lin and Highlands stopped traffic in that direction. Telephone communication be- : tween Sylva and East LaPorte, Cashier's Valley and Highlands ! was interrupted. Temporary 1 communication was made with East LaPort in the afternoon, but the lines were not repaired to Highlands until 9:30, Wednesday ' morning. This telephone line is the only means of wire communication with Cashier's, Highlands, and the important resort region of Southern Jackson and Macon counties. All telegrams out of that region are telephoned to Sylva and sent 1 X irom me western union wnuc here. No estimate has been made of the damage caused by the flood in Jackson county; but it is certain that is lacks a great deal of being as heavy as that in the counties to the east of us. Henderson, Transylvania, Haywood, : Buncombe, McDowell, and up- 1 per Rutherford were hard hit. At no time was it impossible to reach I Tuckaseigee from Sylva. In fact a reporter from this paper' made the trip in an automobile, early in the afternoon. Water was across the highway at the golf course, at the old John T. Wike place, and just west of Dr. Brinkley's home. At no place was the water deeper than three to three and a half feet on this highway. It was also possible to travel west from Sylva, though the water was about three feet deep on the highway just east of Barker's creek. Highway workers 1 were stationed at all these points ' and warned motorists that they traveled at their own risk. The only highway in the county that was completely blocked by flood waters, was between Dillsboro ^nd Franklin. The reporter made the trip over this < road about noon, but by one o'clock, the water had risen near the electric plant at Dills- 1 boro, and near the Leatherwood < (Continued on Back Page) F T. I , L' . ' "y. ' . . _ . mrnal $2.00 A TEAR IN ADVA? image Is fn .1 acksn V* \ . '* . ' Nearby < D.I.O. APPEARS IN JACKSON COUNTY The C. I. O. has come to Jackion county. How long it will renain, what it will do, how great i foothold it may get in this :ountry, remain to be disclosed jy the unfolding of events. The other day we made a short irip up the river from Sylva to Cashier's Valley. To our utter istonishment, we saw a large sign by the road, in front of the 3aptist church at Tuckaseigee, vhioh read: "C. I. O. Meeting." Really, that is about all we mow about the C. I. O. coming lere, though we had heard runors, that the C. I. O. was trying ;o muscle in on the construction )f the dam at Glenville. and ;hus obtain its first real footlold in the mountains of Western North Carolina. We might as well have an understanding here and now, just in the beginning. When this dam is being constructed, when the nation is bending every effort to prepare for the national defense, the cards hereabouts might as well be laid upon the table. Western North Carolina has an * fn connro cnmp ftf jppui lUlJihjr l/VJ , OTVU1V uvuaw v. the industrial plants that are to grow out of the defense program. A few weeks ago, we suggested that decentralization of industry was one of the vital links in the-national defense, and that" (Continued on Back Page) ' * ' ? < v Qualla Citizens Ask For Bridge Across Tuckaseigee Citizens of Qualla township, and members of the c ounty board of education, Chairman Charles Smith, of the board, Superintendent Adam Moses, and Chairman T. Walter Ashe, of the County Board of Commissioners appeared before Highway Commissioner E. L. McKee, Monday, asking that a bridge be construct ed across the Tuckaseigee River, at the Thomas Farm. It) was pointeu uut uiau uicic are forty school children living on that side of the river, who should be able to go to the elementary school at Shoal Creek, and, that by reason of the lack of means of crossing the Tuckaseigee, people of that community are cut off from the highway, from the school and the churches of their tiwnShip. Commissioner McKee and District Engineer John C. Walker spoke of the necessity of surfacing the present road with gravel or crushed stone, so that the school bus can transport the children to school, either via Wilmot or Whittier; but it was stated that there are seven grade crossings on the road, and that at least three of them are extremely dangerous. The Rural Delivery route for the United. States mails goes over this road at present, and it was stated that | the carrier has frequently to leave his car, and carry the mail on his back, using the railroad as a footpath. The construction of the bridge, it was pointed out, would not relieve the situation, * nnnPftmMl so rar as tuc memo en w wuw?Mv?>f The engineer was instructed to look into the matter immeditely, and it was estimated that a footbridge might be strung across the river, so that the children could reach the bus on the highway, and that the present road may be somewhfet altered and sur faced. However, the present bridge across the river, at the foot of the hill from Dick's Gap, is soon to be replaced with a two-way concrete bridge, and Commissioner McKee intimated that this bridge might be moved to Qualla and placed where the delegation stated the need Is urgent. * * t \ I ** .11 ... X. s I I '* ! ; Id OUTSIDE THE COUNTY > Less >n Area bounties . Steady Rain First Of Week Swells County Streams 1 The tropical hurricane, which M lashed the coasts of South Carolina and Georgia with great fury broke against the mountain ranges of North and South Carolina, bringing torrential rains, which turned, the mountain streams into raging torrents, Tuesday. A steady rain through most of Sunday night, Monday, and Tuesday, swelled the streams; and the center of the storm broke upon the Blue Ridge and the points where the Balsams, Cowees, and Black Mountains join the Ridge. Although that"portion of Jackson county north and west of the Blue Ridge was less hard hit than most portions of Western North Carolina, the WEBSTER ROAD ONLY ROUTE OUT OF 8YLVA TUESDAY AFTERNOON Temporary 116, the road through Webster, old county seat of Jackson county, was the only road open over which people could travel = otdr of-i8yhr*,^wayiiesville, and Lake Junaluska, Tuesday afternoon and Tues- . day night. When the flood waters of the Tuckaseigee river covered the highway near the Dillsboro Bridge, and above Barker's Creek, all traffic was routed through Webster. The Webster bridge is the highest structure across the Tuckaseigee River. At the same time traffic was blocked between Waynesville and Canton by flood conditions on the Pigeon River and its tributaries. It was possible for people to leave the mountain area via Webster, Franklin, and Clayton, and hundreds of them traveled this route, all of which is paved except about four miles. through Webster | township. Tuckaseigee River reached the highest stage since 1928. Flood waters from both the Canada and Hamburg prongs of the river, which come down the Blue Ridge, were augmented by raging Caney Pork Creek. The other two main tributaries of the Tuckaseigee in this county, Scott's Creek and Savannah Creek, neither reached flood stage.' Scott's Creek, coming down from the Balsams, was considerably above normal water level, but at no time reached the flood stage. Savannah was not unusually high at any time during the day. Trestles Wash Away The first structure across the river to go was the Wayehutta WfiricrA Tt went out early in the morning, and when it struck the south end of the Ashe bridge, near the golf course, that span of the Ashe Bridge crumpled with the impact and floated away down stream. Both trfestles of the Tuckaseigee and Southeastern ?Railway Company across the Tuckaseigee washed away during the , morning. The one at East LaPorte went out first, and a few minutes later the trestle near the old clay factory caved under and went down the river. ~ ' Still the waters continued to rise. The crest of the flood at East LaPorte was reach by one o'clock in the afternoon but it did not pass Webster and Dillsboro until mid-afternoon. r - ' ,sl v...m