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The Board of Directors of the ^
gvlva Chamber of Commerce,
meeting Tuesday evening, voted
m .011 a county-wide mass
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meeting of all the citizens, for I
^e purpose of presenting rec- I
H onimendations to the Governor I
I regarding the appointment of a I
Highway Commissioner for this I
I highway division.
A few weeks ago, the entire '
I North Carolina Highway and [1
public Works Commission re- 11
signed, leaving the matter of I'
appointment of a new commis- IJ
sion entirely in the hands of the I'
incoming governor. 11
There has been some criticism I
by Senator Howell of Buncombe J J
I and others, regarding the ad- Jj
I ministration, or rather distribu- I <
tion of the Highway Funds in I*
I this Division. The people of I <
Jackson county, who have been I
watching the situation through- I*
I out the division for the past I(
I twenty years, are conversant I*
I with all the facts, and the I(
I Chamber of Commerce is call- I]
ing them together for a general IJ
discussion of highway matters. IJ
B Members of the directors of the !1
II Chamber have oeen watcnmg
f the controversy with consider- 1
r able interest, and have feared {
that the statements that have 1
been made may mislead the people
of the State, and the personnel
of the new Highway '
Commission int0 believing that 1
Jackson and some of the other |
counties in the Southwestern |
part of the State have received
more than their share of the
highway work and funds, and
thus prejudice the case of those 1
counties. 1
It was with this in view that *
the directors of the Jackson <
Chamber of Commerce have
called the citizenship of the *
county to meet at the court
house in Sylva, at 2:30 on the
afternoon of Tuesday, March
2b. in order that the case of
Jackson and the other smaller
counties in this division may be
placed squarely before the Governor
by the citizenship of this
county.
All citizens of the county are
invited and urged to be present
at the meeting. Directors of the
Chamber of Commerce' consider
this one of the most important
meetings that has ever been *
called in the county, and are
anxious that the court room be
filled with citizens from every
part of Jackson.
Mrs. Gulley To Preside
At State Music Meet
Cullowhee, Mar. 12 (Special)?
Mrs. Charles G. Gulley, instructor
in voice and Dublic school 1
m u s i c at Western Carolina J
Teachers College, will preside
over the public school r
music forum at the state teach- c
I efs' meeting to be held in Ashe- 1
ville during April. She will also
speak on the subject "Primary ]
Activities as a Basis for 1
Thoughtful Music Study."
Thirty children from the college
will be used in the demon- j
Oration and will make the trip ]
the bus. Miss Anne Rabe will \
be in charge of dramatizing ]
Mother Goose Rhymes. Mrs. ]
Evelyn Coward will assist with
the children's choir, and Mrs. J. '
Whatley will direct the Sym- i
Phonet Band. Miss Edith Cherry ,
act as pianist for the children's
songs.
Glee Club To Sing
Cullowhee, Mar. 12 (Special)
The Schubert Glee Club of Western
Carolina Teachers College
sing two numbers at the
^tethodist Church for the 11
0 clock service on Easter Sun*
% The selections are taken
from the Cantata "Light of the
World" by Ira Wilson and will i
?e directed by Howard McDevitt.
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Mfs. Charles G. Gulley will
"Hosanna!" by Granier.
ss Dorothy Thompson will accompany.
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leting Called
se Directors
George C. Hooper
Passes Saturday
Night At Speedwell
Funeral services for George
Coleman Hooper, 62 year old
prominent citizen of tlje Speedwell
community, were conducted
Monday at the Speedwell
Methodist church, by Rev. J. C.
Gentry, preacher in charge of
uue weDsier circuit.
Mr. Hooper, , a member of a
prominent Jackson county famLly,
a native of the county, and
i life-long resident here, died
it his Speedwell home, Saturiay
night.
He is survived by his widow,
seven children, Mrs. David Sut,le
of Asheville, Mrs. David Bry;on,
Hazelwood, Mrs. Nora Hall,
)f Snow Hill, Maryland, Mrs.
Robert Wilkes, Speedwell, Cicero
hooper, Hazelwood, and Carr
HLooper, Speedwell; by two sia:ers,
Mrs. Sam Buchanan,
Green's Creek, and Mrs. James
Parker, Cowarts; by one brother,
Ben Hooper, of Speedwell,
ind other relatives.
Sylva To Have
Feldspar Market
The recently appointed chamDer
of commerce committee to
arork out ways and means of
establishing the Western North.
Carolina feldspar market at
Sylva has held several meetings
md a number of conferences
vith representatives of outside
feldspar buyers.
The idea of the feldspar market
is to have one day each week
iesignated as market day at
vhich time buyers will be present,
and producers of feldspar
n any quantities can sell their
product for cash. Heretofore
>nly larger producers have been
ible to find a market for their
eldspar.
The committee, which is comjosed
of A. F. Clbuse, chairman,
r. Cole Cannon and H. E. Ferguson,
has made definite ar angements
with representatives
>f feldspar buying concerns to
>e present. Mr. Charles Price,
las donated the temporary use
)f a siding at Beta, to get the
narket started and the Armour
father Company has tendered
he use of its weighing scales at
10 cost.
The exact opening date has
lot yet been determined, and
he committee has requested
hat interested parties comnunicate
with Mr. A. F. Clouse,
:hairman, at Sylva ,for infornation.
LOCAL SPORTSMEN
WILL HEAR FURR
Dan Furr, President of the
tforth Carolina Hunters and
Fishers Association will address
the Jackson County Hunters and
Fishers Association at the Woodmen
of the World hall, next
Tuesday evening at 7:30, and
will show one of the best pictures
on trout fishing ever filmed.
The public is invited, and
there will be no charge. Every
member of the club and every
person interested in the propagation
of wild life in the county
is invited to be present.
Negro Baptists
Express Appreciation
The members of Liberty Baptist
church, colored, through
Joe Smith, pastor, and the board
of deacons, has issued a statement,
thanking the people of
Sylva and Jackson for their
support in raising funds for the
erection of a new church building.
A total of $538.65 has been
raised.
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: Last Rites Held For
Mrs. Ellis Painter
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Funeral services for Mrs. Ellis
Painter, 60 year old member
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ui a piwiicci oau&ouu v/uuuujf
family, were held Saturday at
Lovedale Baptist church, and
interment was in Old Field
cemetery at Beta. Mrs.
Painter was instantly
killed when she was struck by
i a West Transportation Company
truck, on the highway at
Beta, Thursday morning. She
had just stepped from an automobile
when the truck loaded
rwith dynamite struck her.
Mrs. Painter, a daughter of
the late T. J. Fisher, had been
twice married. Her first husband
was Brown Pilgrim Sherrill.
She is survived by her husband,
Ellis Painter, one son,
Stokes Sherrill, Arlington, Wash.,
four daughters, Mrs. Dillard
Cope, and Mrs. Vernon Cope, of
.Qx/Ivq AArc Monmi Ailrpn Dar
rington, Wash., and Mrs. Lewis
Buchanan, Mt. Pleasant, Maryland,
by one brother, Guy Fisher,
Sylva, eight sisters, Mrs.
Howard Fisher, Blackfoot, Idaho,
Mrs. Nannie Cunningham,
King's Mountain. Mrs. Cole Ridley,
Waynesville, and Mrs. S. H.
Monteith, Mrs. Florence Aiken,
Mrs. J. A. Reed, Mrs. Jesse Jones,
and Mrs. Thad Reed, all of Sylva,
and by a number of grandchildren
and other relatives.
Sheriff Takes
(Two Boys To
Training School
Sheriff Leonard Holden- returned
Tuesday from Concord,
where he took twQ Sylva boys,
Henry Barnes and Hilton Horns1?
4-Via t o otonn Tfalninp
Wy t tU 111U u av/iwv/ii a * w 0
School.
The two boys, both under 16
years of age, were tried before
' R6y M. Cowan, Judge of the
Jackson County Juvenile Court,
cm charges of breaking and entering
a store, larceny and receiving,
and were sentenced to
ffche school for a term of two
years, or as long as the authorities
of the school think is necessary
for the good of the boys.
Cogdill Building
Business Building
The Cogdill Motor Company
is beginning the erection of a
home of its own, on Mill Street,
at the eastern intersection with
Main Street. The new building
I is designed to house the business
of the company, which includes
the sales and service of
Dodge and Plymouth automobiles
and trucks, and the garage
service of all makes of motor
vehicles.
S. C. Cogdill and Ray Cogdill,
his son, are the owners of the
business and of the new building.
CULLOWHEE CHURCH
TO HONOR BACH
Cullowhee, Mar. 12 (Special)?
On March 30 the Cullowhee
nVmrnh will hnnor the I
IVlCbliUUMV witUivu .. ?J
memory of Johann Sebastian
Bach at the 11 o'clock service.
The Reverend Walter Lee Lanier
will speak on the life of Bach,
who has made a contribution to
religious music which has never
been surpassed by any other
composer and rarely equaled.
Mrs. Virginia G. Fisher of the
music faculty at Western Carolina
Teachers Collgee will play
on the violin "Air for the G
String", The Halcyon Chorus of
. the college will sing "Sleepers
Wake!" and another old chorale
will be played by the college orchestra
with Mrs. Fisher direct*
ing. Mrs. Charles G. Gulley,
i voice teacher for the college, is
director of the chorus. Misses
, Anne Bird and Dorothy Thompson
are pianists. f
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Baptists Call
New Pastor
The Sylva Baptist church issued
a call to Rev. G. C. Teague
to the pastorate of the church
to succeed Rev. H. M. Hocutt.
Mr. Teague has been pastor of
the Baptist church at Granite
Falls for the past nine years.
He is a graduate of Wake Forest
College, and has a wife and
two small children. Mr. Teague
is expected t0 assume the pastorate
' of the Sylva church on
April 1.
At that time Mr. Hocutt will
go to Asheville, where he has accepted
a call to the pastorate of
Reed Memorial Baptist church.
When Mr. Hocutt resigned, a few
weeks ago, the church appointed
J. T. Gribble, A. J. Dills, Edwin
Allison, Mrs. Herbert Bryson, S.
H. Monteith, Mrs. John B. Ens
ley, and Miss Margaret Wilson
as a pulpit committee, and the
committee recommended the
election of Mr. Teague.
Baptists To Meet
At Addie On j
March 28th, 29th
The Fifth Sunday, or Union
meeting of the churches of the
Tuckaseigee Baptist Association
will be held at Buff Creek
church on March 28th and 29th.
The general theme of the
meeting will be: "Our Covenant"
and the following program has
been- arranged:
10 A. M-?Call to Order;; Organization;
Devotional, G. M.
Parker..
10:30?A review of Associational
work and needs: Mrs. Allison,
of W. M. U.; Clarence
Vance of Sunday School week;
Lyle Ensley of B?fl\ U. (Ten minutes
each) - :V- > - rr-t- 11:30?Sermon
by Reverend
Dillard Wood.
12:15?Lunch; Give Brother
Hocutt Farewell Handshake.
1:15?Devotional Leader appointed
on the grounds.
1:30?Church Discipline; The
Bible is the Guide, Troy Rogers.
2:00 "Our Church Covenant",
T. F. Deitz.
2:30?Some instructions for all
new members?H. M. Hocutt.
3:00 If Members Break the
Sabbath Day, What??O. J. Beck.
Saturday Program
10:00?Devotional ? D. C.
Hooper.
Reports of committees; business.
10:30?"The duty of the
church if a member straysJohn
Hyatt.
For open discussion after
Brother Hyatt sjaeaks.
11:30?Sermon: "The Best
Method of Church Discipline"
W. N. Cook.
12:15?Lunch.
1:15?Song by Buff Creek
Choir; Devotional; Leader appointed
on the grounds. |
1:30?"Salvation is from God",
E. W. Jamison.
2:00?"The Blood of Jesus"?
J. E. Brown.
2:30?Our Associational Revivals?Fred
Forester.
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Baptist Training Union
Convention March 28-29
Several car loads of Baptist
Training Union Workers are expecting
t0 attend the Baptist
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Training union v>uiivc?wun w
this region at the Franklin Baptist
Church next Friday and
Saturday, March 28-29. The program
will begin at three o'clock
on Friday afternoon.
Talks will be made by a number
from the Training Unions
in the churches of the Tuckaseigee
Association. Miss Maxine
Slaughter of Raleigh, the State
Intermediate Leader for Training
Union Work, will appear on
the program several times. Rev.
J. A. Herring of China will speak
on Friday night.
To Build New Home
Dr. and Mrs. Harold McGuire
have razed the'old house on the
point of the hill overlooking
Jackson Street, preparatory to
the erection of a new home.
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Fourteen Jackson
Men Will Go To
Fort Bragg 26th
Fourteen Jackson County men,
eight volunteers and six draftees
will leave here on March 26 for
Fort Bragg to begin their year's
trainng in the United States
Army, according to A. J. Dills,
chairman of the Jackson County
Selective Service Board. Seven
men were drafted, but another
volunteer, Eugene Tilley.
of Speedwell, asked t0 be sent
after the order drafting the
seven had been issued.
The volunteers who will leave
on next Wednesday are: Daniel
McMahan, James Watzel Bradley,
Earle Ashe, John Luther
Taylor, Howard Paul Fugate,
Lewis Camaden Fugate, Homer
Ray Fullbright, and Eugene Tilley.
The seven men who were
selected from their order numbers
were: Charlie T. Woodring,
Robert Hall, Willard John
Wheatley, R. O. Watson, Clinton
Jones, Robert Wiliam Queen,
and John Robert Nations. The
two alternates selected are
Charlie Briton Nations, and
Joseph Rudolph Sharpton.
This is the first time since the
Selective Service Act was passed
that it has been necessary to
draft anyone from this county,
because the quotas have heretofore
been filled by volunteers.
Another call for eight men
from this county to leave on
April 5, has been issued.
P. T. A. Will Plan
Beautifucation At
Webster School
The Webster Parent-Teacher
Association will make plans for
further work in beautlfication
,f the school grounds, at its
meeting to be held on Thursday.
March 27. The meeting will
be at three o'clock in the afternoon,
with Mrs. Ernest Lewis,
the president, presiding.
A special program is being
planned, and a nominating committee
to select officers next
year, will be appointed.
It is stated that the association
now has the largest number
of paid members that it has
had at any time since its organization.
Singing Convention At
Sylva School Sunday
The Jackson County Sunday
Sieging Convention will meet
next Sunday, March 23, at the
Sylva Elementary School building,
with singing beginning at
10 o'clock.
Special groups that are expected
are: Hendersonville
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Grove Quartet, Williams Quartet,
Pigeon Valley Ladies' Quartet,
Smoky Meuntains Quartet,
Harmony Quafertet, and many
other singers.
All persons interested in more :
and better singing are invited
to come.
Friday Is Parent's Day
At Sylva High School
Parent's Day will be observed
tomorrow, Friday, at the Sylva
High School. All parents who
.have children in the high school
are invited to visit the school
and the class rooms, and to have
lunch at the school cafateria.
Following luncheon, an audiovisual
education film will be
shown.
Porpnts's dav at the elemen
tary school, last Friday, is reported
to have been most successful
and enjoyable, with a
large attendance on the part
of the parents and patrons of
the school.
ANIMALS
During 1940 cattle and sheep
showed substantial increases,
hogs a rather sharp decrease,
and both horses and mules small
decreases, reports the U. S. Department
of Agriculture. .
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$T7ocTCYE aiTeO
Legislature,
Three Bills
By Local Re]
J. T. Gribble Jr.
Rnrlintoc At
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Flying School
J. T. Gribble, Jr., son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. T. Gribble, of Sylva,
was among the 310 fliers who
graduated last week from the
idvanced flying school at Kelly
?ield, Tex^,s. Mr. Gribble received
silver flying wings and a
commission in the United States
Army Air Cprps.
The new1 officers, spent ten
weeks at primary flying schools
and then were transferred to
Randolph Field where they received
65 hours of basic flying
training. This training also included
ground instruction in
meterolo,gy, aerodynamics
theory of flight, maps and map
reading, navigation, communication
and military drill. They
were then promoted to Kelly
field where they received advanced
training on modern basic
combat ships, including 70 hours
of formation, instrument and
navigation flying day and night.
Schoolmasters Are
Guests Of Qualla
P. I. A. Friday
The Qualla P. T. A. entertained
the School Masters Club of
Jackson county at the Qualla
school on' Friday evening.
Fourteen members of the club
were present, and Superintendent
A. C. Moses and two members
of the leal school committee,
J. Jode Holcombe and Mr.
J. C. Hayes, were guests.
The table was beautifully
decorated with green and ^white,
the colors of St. Patrick's Day.
The meal was served by candle
light.
After the delicious meal, a
short business session was held.
The principal topics for discussion
were the retirement of
teachers, and the hiring of
teachers without certificates for
a iv?rr trnor
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WEDNESDAY EVENING
All members of the Lion's
Club, living east of the city
limits presented the program at
the regular meeting, at Jarrett
Springs Hotel, Wednesday evening,
with A. W. Wilson presiding.
Everett Harris gave the statistics
on the blind in the county. The
Club quartet sang two selechions;
J. P. Stovall told of what
he club has done for the community;
Lawrence Reed gave his
:npressions of personal benefit
'rom membership in the club;
)on Fisher read a poem; and
innings Bryson read two origlal
poems.
To impress the members with
,ie need of blind persons, each
lember ate his dessert with his
yes blindfolded with his nap.in.
Fifteen members of the
Bryson City club were present.
The Lion's Club is the spon
sor of "Amateur Night", to be
held at- the Sylva school auditorium
next Friday evening,
March 28, at 8 o'clock. Any persons
desiring to enter can see
any member of the committee,
which is composed of A. W. Wilson,
Phil Stovall, and G. C. Cope.
The proceeds will go to the work 1
with the blind in the county.
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The Woman's Society of
Christian Service will hold a
food sale, Saturday, beginning at
10 o'clock in the morning. Dresschickens,
eggs pies, cakes, home- .
made candies and other articles
of food will be on sale by these
ladies.
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Dan K. Moore, Jackson County's
representative in the General
Assembly, has returned to
his home and office here, following
the adjournment of the Assembly,
on Saturday night.
Mr. Moore introduced three
bills. One was State-wide in its
effect, and provided that farmer
owners of trucks can haul farm
and wood products for themselves
and their neighbors without
obtaining for hire license.
The tw0 local bills affect the
Log Cabin Association, and the
emoluments of the Clerk of the
Superior Court. The Log Cabin
Hill ronnn 1 c of nfnf/* 1 nOT
u".i ivpgau out Oliai/UliC UJ. XVO I
which exempted the real estate
of the Association from taxation
in the county. The other
empowered the Board of Commissioners
to pay the Clerk of
the Superior Court a salary of
$50 a month for his services as
Judge of the Juvenile Court. All
ihree of these bills passed both
houses and were ratified.
Mr. Moore served as a member
of the following committees:
Corporations, Courts and Judicial
Districts, Education, Engrossed
Bill, Federal Relations,
Finance, Judiciary No. 2, Manufactures
and Labor, Propositions
and Grievances, and Salaries
and Fees.
Deitz To Inspect
U. S. Navy Planes ji
Charles S. Deitz, who is the
son of Rev. and Mrs. T. F. Deitz,
one of the Jackson county boys
in the Navy, is flying to New
York from San Diego, California
this week to inspect new planes
tor the Navy. Charles has been
in the Navy for fourteen years
and has been stationed on the
U. S. S. Enterprise for the past
year. Before that he was at
ground school for pilots in Pensacola,
Fla. He has been promoted
several times since he
finished at Pensacola, and is beginning
to learn that all these
years of struggle and study have
not been in vain.
Methodist Services
Sunday Evening >
The young men and young
women of the Sylva Methodist
church will be in charge of the
services, Sunday evening, with .
Dr. Harold McGuire as chairman
nf the arrnntrpments.
Good music, good speaking, * |l
and a spiritual service are
promised. The pastor preaches
two Sunday nights during the
month, and lay members of the
congregation have been arranging
the evening services for the
other Sundays.
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P. T. A. WILL SEE
A ONE-ACT PLAY
Members of the Sylva ParentTeachers
Association will witness
a one act play, produced by
the dramatics club of the high
school, under the direction of
Mrs. cnester scott, ai me meeting
of the association, to be held
next Tuesday evening, March
25, in the auditorium of the
graded school. These young people
recently won the honor of
reaching the semi-finals in the
Western Carolina Dramatics
Tournament. It is hoped by the
officials of the association that
the attendance will be large.
The meeting will be called to
order at 7:30.
EASTERN STAR
OFFICERS ELECTED
Oce Chapter, Oreder of the
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J&as&eru fOVHL, au a icvcuv moving
elected Mrs. Ruby Bumgarner
as worthy matron; M.
Y. Jarrett, worthy patron; Mrs.
Ben Lessing, associate matron;
Mrs. Cole Cannon, associate patron;
Mrs. F. I. Watson, secretary;
Mrs. M. Y. Jarrett, treasurer;
Mrs. Doris Barrett, con- *
ductress; and Mrs. Lena Parks,
associate conductress.
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