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llix Monteith, were conducted
yesterday afternoon at Scott's
Creek Baptist church, by Rev.
Thad F. Deitz. Mrs. Monteith
passed on at the Community
Hospital. Monday afternoon, following
a short illness.
Surviving are her husband,
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Mrs. Wesley Barnes, and Mrs.
Robert Harris, and three sons,
Hobson. Lyman, and Owenton
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Potash Lacking
In Most Soils
Farmers are thinking of their
1941 fertilizer needs, and J. R.
Piland. associate soil chemist of
N. C. State College, reminds
growers that the majority of
North Carolina soils are deficient
in potash. This is especilly
true, he says, in soils where cotton.
corn, tobacco, and vegetable
crops of the Coastal "Plain are
grown.
"In the fertilization of cotton
where cotton rust is prevalent,
the use of fertilizers containing
5 ro 8 percent potash has materially
increased yields," Mr.
Piland reports. "Sometimes, unIder
severe conditions of rust,
side dressing with potash has
proved beneficial."
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The chemist says that, in general,
the soils of the poastal
Plain are relatively low in their
potash reserves, especially under
conditions of inadequate fertilization.
Tobacco has a high requirement
for potash, and usually
there is a noted response
of the crop to this element with
regard to the quality of the leaf <
produced. The tobacco fertili- <
zer grades now recommended" !
seem to furnish sufficient pot- <
ash for the production of the 1
crop in most soils. <
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Included in the largest class
of Flying Cadets ever to complete
their basic flight training
at Randolph Field, Texas, scheduled
to graduate froml the "West
point of the Air" during Christi
mas week is J. T. Gribble of SylVa
Two hundred eighty future
Pilots of the expanding Air
CorPs, including eleven others
from North Carolina are being
transferred to the Advanced
Plying School at Kelly Field for
a frnal ten weeks of instruction
before receiving their wings and
conimission as Second Lieuten- j
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The others from North Carolina
are: ,
. Griffin R. Beatty, Stanley; <
Charles L. Bowman, Route 3,
Hickory; Llewllyn H. Couch Jr.,
*02 E. Houston St. Monroe; Robert
P. Elliott, Rich Square; Har^
E. Ferguson, 908 W. 5th St.,
Charlotte? Russell J. Fitch, 925
Dayton, High Point; Frank C.
t'0*, Staley; Robert R. Hatch,
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)n sale at Campbell's Candy an(j
m sale at Campbell's Candy v& ]
Shop. The tags sell for $1.00 jq
each, and the proceeds go to
the support of the volunteer fire We<
department. yea
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504 N. George St., Goldsboro; mui
Tames B. Kendrick, 205 N. 4th insf
3t., Albemarle; Horace Palmer, A
Tr., Littleton; Rudolph B. Waltirs,
Bladenboro are among the'
12,000 new Air Corps officers to anr
3e added to the newest branch tior
)f national defense during the ial
coming year. will
Classes start training every calf
five weeks under the accelerated will
training schedule that trans- Flyj
forms young college men be- $75
tween 20 and 27 into full-fledged qua
military aviators in thirty-five coir
sveeks. Sixty-five hours flying ten;
time in ten weeks on. primary the
training planes prepare them bar
for the second phase of training pile
either at Randolph Field or one ten
r?f two other basic flight schools. C
More than 350 low wing mono- wit
planes with a top speed of 175 get
miles an hour are in daily use eng
at Randolph Field alone where eng
4,200 Cadets will be trained this req
year. Seventy hours additional poi
flying time is logged during the for
secondary phase of training, tra
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What will it bring?
J. Fisher
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. J. Fisher, one of the oldes
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township, is seriously ill, fol
ing a stroke of paralysis, o:
inesday. Mr. Fisher is 8
rs of age.
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The Aii
:h of it at night or under th
;rument flying hood,
n innovation in the genera
Corps training program wa
lounced recently. In addi
i to training fliers,13,600 aer
navigators and bombardier
be turned out during eacl
rndar year. These graduate
receive the same pay as.i
ing Cadet during training
ner month, in addition b
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rters and food. They will b
imissioned as Second Lieu
ants as will the pilots. Pay o
navigation officer's and bom
diers will be the same as fo
its, $205 per month plus quar
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ertain selected college me]
h a technical education wi
a nine month's course i1
;ineering and airplane an
;ine maintenance. Physics
uirements are high, it wa
nted out, but not as high a
those applying for pile
ining. '
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n Tuesday night a few hours be9
fore the Year 1940 became history.
The speaker was Rev. G.
_!F. Rogers, pastor of the First
iBaptist church at Franklin.)
Mr. Rogers' talk was in line
with the coming of the New
' Year and he ^rought out many ,
interesting and helpful reminders.
He pointed out that the New
Year was not only the door to 1
opportunity, but also the door to i
opposition and obligation. His
informal manner and remarks
; which showed deep thinking deI
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Besides the speaker, Charles I
Thompson, guest of T. N. Massie, li
was the only other visitor. ' ,
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For Winter Quarter
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Students and teachers are returning
to Western Carolina
Teachers College from their
homes and holiday trips, for J
the opening of the Winter Quarter,
which begins this morning.
* Presbyterians To Hold
Services Sunday
e The Presbyterian worship ser- (
vice will be conducted at the ;
Sylva Community House Sun- ]
s day, 4:30 P. M. Rev. Paul P.
Thrower of Bryson City, will '
conduct services regularly each ,
1 1st and 3rd Sunday at this hour \
s j during the winter months. The i
a public is cordially invited to at- <
>y tend these services.
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f' Hamburg Church i
The dedication of the new 1
r Hamburg Baptist church, and a
home coming of the former (
members will be held Sunday.
[I The new church is located on ]
n the new highway, and is one of <
d the most beautiful country>'
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olina. Mrs. Clayburh Bryson is
clerk, and Rev. W. N. Cook is pastor
of the church.
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Former Sylva Girl
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Mrs. Annie Laurie Greiner
C. A. Ridley's Daughter
To Speak Here Sunday
Mrs. Annie Laurie Greiner, izecj missions in every country
Methodist Missionary and evan- they yigited, crossed Europe in
gelist, Will spea&. at th^MjB^h"^ tn Ti}ylrffir wVypr**
odist church, Sunday night at f0un(j pre-war tension at its
7:30, and the public is invited peak. "You had to have three or
to the service. four passport pictures to get
Mrs. Griener, is the eldest across the border," said Mrs.
daughter of the late Dr. Caleb Greiner, for the Turks were susRidley,
famous Baptist preachr picious of everyone. In Transjorer
and lecturer. She lived in Syl- dania Mrs. Greiner was most imva
during her girlhood and has pressed with the Petra caves,
many friends and relatives in hewn out of solid rock cliffs by
Jackson County: Mrs. Greiner is the Edomites in Old Testament
spending the week end as the times and capable of giving shelguest
of Mrs. M. Buchanan, Jr. ter to 500,000 persons. In PalesAnnie
Laurie Ridley, who lived tine she followed the Via Doloon
Courtland Heights, and at- rosa, Christ's route from the
tended school here when she was time of his arrest to his death,
a girl, has become a world traveler,
missionary, and evange- Llkes chma
list. She inherited her father's Next to India, Mrs. Greiner's
winning and attractive rtianner favorite country is China. She
and eloquence in the pulpit and went deep imand with Christian I
on the lecture platform. missions in that country andi'
Early in 1937 Mrs. Greiner set "heard the rumblings of war on
out with Miss Anna E. McGhie, all sides." Japan was a much
well-known Akron, O., mission- different story, though the Japary,
on an evangelistic mission anese she believed to be more
that was to take her around the anti-British than anti-Amerilworld,
visiting every civilized can.
country and a number which "What is the possibility of '
weren't. She returned to the conflict between the United 1
United States eight months ago, States and Japan?" she was '
after dodging wars and war- asked. t
lords on three continents. Her answer - was more or less,
Now she'd like to go back. But ypical of Americans who have 1
the State Department says No. -eturned only recently from the J
That's all the more unfortunate )rient, for Mrs. Greiner saw |
because of all the lands Mrs. "apan as an exhausted military
Greiner has visited she likes jower. "The Japanese were surIndia
the best?the best to the jrised by China's resistance,
point of thinking of it as hat is, the military clique had
"home." Until the war ends she lot contemplated it. As for the
san't go home again. people, they don't know as much
Mrs. Greiner was in India ibout the war as we do in the
when the present war broke out, United States. Christian Japbut
she had been a witness to anese believe that their country
religious strife in Palestine. In- will do everything to avoid a
3ia, she feels, will stand by clash with the United States.
Great Britain. The Mohamme- The pale celebration of the war's
ians are strongly pro-British, anniversary when I was in Jabut
the attitude of the Hindus pan convinced me that the peois
antagonistic and probably de- pie do not share their leaders' ,
pendent upon Mohandas K. military ambitions," said Mrs.
Gandhi. "The nation worships Greiner.
him," said Mrs. Greiner, "but I Adventure In Africa
firmly feel that he is the great- In Africa she found advenest
enemy of Christianity in the ture?nights deep in the jungle
world today." While in India among hostile tribesmen and
Mrs. Greiner and Miss McGhie with jungle animals nearby. In
established the South India Bi- Kenya Colony, a British posble
institute, an inter-denomi- session on the east coast of Afri- ,
national school, John Wesley in ca, the mission had no church ,
doctrine. ' bell. It called native worshipThe
two missionaries, whose pers to the huge tent, pitched on j
venture was voluntary although the edge of the wilds, with a ,
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To Open Monday
Schools in Sylva will open on
Monday, January 6, according to
a decision made on Tuesday by
the county board of education.
The schools were scheduled to
open on Thursday of this w ek;
but the authorities, after making
a survey of the situation, decided
that it would be bette- to
wait until Monday, giving i~iore
of the children an opportunity
to recover from the measles.
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Volunteers Again Fill
Jackson's Draft Quota
Jackson County has been called
upon to furnish 15 men to report
to Fort Bragg for one-yoar's
training, under the peace time
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conscription act. Again uie
volunteers have filled the
quota, and it will be unnecessary
for the board to draft any nen.
The fifteen will report to Fort
Bragg on January 17. The 1 st of
men who have volunteered for
service is: Dennis R. Ensley Sylva;
Dillard L. Robinson, Willets;
Glenn Hooper, Cowarts; I imer
T. Shelton, Wolf; Mtn.; Verlin
H. Owen, Sylva; Ellis P. Galloway,
Wolf Mtn.; Finley Denton, Whittier;
John H. Ferguson, Whittier;
Ray W. Cunningham. Sylva;
Thomas Barker, Sylva;
Ralph J. Connor, Dillsboro;
James C. Moss, Erastus; and
Wiley R. Sorrells, Sylva.
Wiley R. Sorrells, Henry Mtthis,
Lyman Hal Keener, Clifford
Keener, Clifford Keener, James
Edgar I^opkins, Charles Andrew
Sorrells, and Lloyd Painter, all
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Will Take
Intelligence To
Mee Traffic Tell
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"It's going to take a lot of in^
telligent planning and coordi- \
nated effort on the part of a
lot of individuals and organizations
to check the current upward
trend in traffic accidents
in North Carolina," Ronald Hocutt,
director of the Highway
Safety Division, declared this
week.
Reporting that provisional fig- ,
ures indicate a toll of aproximateiy
1,000 killed and 9,000 injured
on North Carolina streets and
highways during 1940, Focutt .
pointed out that accidents in
the state since last August have
taken an upward trend which
appears liable to continue into
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l/lic new icai.
"This slaughter must be stopped,
and I pledge a more vigorous,
effort on the part cf the
Highway Safety Division toward
reducing traffic accidents
during 1941/' he said. "But we
can not do the job alone. The
traffic problem is largely a local
problem, and definite steps
toward eliminating accidents
must come, for the most part,
from enforcement officials, educational
leaders and interested
organizations and individuals in
each and every community in
the state.
Hocutt said there was considerable
safety activity on the
part of many groups in the state
last year, but that much of this
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activity was Ol Wie xiaoix-m-i/iic
pan variety.
"Safety activity, to be most
effective, must be carefully
planned, assiduously carried out
and well coordinated," he stated.
"Another thousand North
Carolinians who are now living
will be dead and thousands
whose bodies are now whole will
be maimed and crippled by the
end of this year unless every ,
person in North Carolina resolves
to do something and then
actually does something to make
our streets and highways safer
during 1941."
The safety director said his
services and those of his field
workers are available in assisting
any groups sincerely interested
in helping to reduce this
state's traffic toll.