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fThe reappointment of Highly
commissioner E. L. McKee
was urged upon the Governor by
the citizenship of the county,
meeting in the Court House
Tuesday afternoon. The meeting
was called by the Board of
nirpftors of the Chamber of
IJL/1A VV- Commerce,
when it became apparent
that the animadversions
coming from one or two of the
large counties of the division are
endangering the chances that
Jackson and some other counties
of the mountain area may have
of securing the completion of
their highway systems, under
the next administration of highway
affairs.
a resolution setting forth the
facts and requesting the Governor
to reappoint Mr. McKee
was adopted by the mass meeting
and will be forwarded to the
Governor.
Ten of the fifteen townships
of the county were represented,
and a large number of people
of the county were present.
Whereas, the General Assembly
of North Carolina has made,
if necessary for the Governor j
of North Carolina to appoint
the entire personnel of the
North Carolina Highway and
Public Works Commission; and;
Whereas, when the present
Commissioner of this Division
entered upon his office, four
years ago, there were a number
of links in the State Highway
System in the counties of this
Division that were uncompleted,
I and other primary highways
I that were in need of modern I
ization and widening," presenting
B a problem calling for- ability,
W patriotism, and State-mindedV
ness, and;
I Whereas, the present Commissioner
has served the entire
State and Division in a capable,
statesmanlike, and impartial
manner, in the distribution and
allocation of the highway funds
as between the several counties
of the division, Keeping in mina
the needs of the Division as a
whole, and the completion of a
highway system for the whole
people of the State, and in
.carrying out the will of the General
Assembly that a system of
paved highways be constructed,
connecting all the county seats
and the State institutions; and;
Whereas, the term of office to
which the present Commissioner
was appointed would not have
expired for another two years;
now therefore.
Be it resolved, by the citizens
of Jackston County in Mass
meeting assembled, at the the
Court House in Sylva, on the
25th day of March, 1941,:
1. That we recommend to and
urge upon the Governor of
North Carolina that he reappoint
our present Commissioner,
Hon. E. L. McKee, to the position
that he now holds, believing
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Lins action wouiu uc ac***,
iust, and right, in keeping with
the best interests of the State
and the counties of this Division,
and that such action would
meet with the general approbation
of the people who are conservant
with the facts of the
P^sent administration of the
highway affairs in the counties
this division.
The resolution urging the reappointment
of Mr. McKee were
unanimously adopted, after a
number of citizens had expressed
gratification over the work of
tile present highway administration,
and had stated that
Mr hp criven the
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at sylva school
April 4 has been designated as
PrG-schooi day, by the ParentTeachers
Association, and all
children who expect to enter the
*tool at the fall term are expected
to be present.
Mrs. Harry Hasings is chairDlan
of the committee in chargc
?t the arrangements.
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Fourteen Men Go
To Fort Bragg
Wednesday, 26th j
Fourteen young men from <
Jackson county ^eft Sylva, yesterday
morning for Fort Bragg (
to begin one year's training in (
the United States Army. Ten of ,
these were volunteers, and four j
were drafted, according to A. <
J. Dills, chairman of the local \
Selective Service Board. And, ^
this is the first time since the (
enactment of the Selective Serv- j
ice act that men have ben draft- ^
ed in this county. Heretofore
the. entire quota of each call j
made has been filled with volunteers.
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The ten volunteers this week <
were Earl Ashe, Daniel McMa- ?
han, Watzel James Bradley, \
John. Luther Taylor, Howard t
Paul Fugate, Lewis Camden Fu- (
gate, Homer Ray Fullbright, Eu- ^
mill r\ i J
gene niiey, uonaia ueaver ,
Hensley, and Frank Rogers Bry- J
son. The four who were selected
under the Selective Service Act
were Robert Richard Hall, Wil- !
lard John Wheatley, Clinton 1
Jones, and Vollie F. Lanning.
Two other calls have been j
made made for men from this <
county to be sent to camp during
April. On the eighth, 15 young j
men will leave by bus for Fort ,
Jackson, South Carolina. An- '
other call has been made for
12 white men and 2 negroes, to j
leave between the 20th and the
22nd, for Fort Bragg. - - "j
District U.D.C. !
To Meet Here !
Plans are being made by the
B. H. Cathey Chapter United !
Daughters of the Confederacy,
for the entertainment of the 1
District Convention in Sylva on
April 29. j
Mrs. R. O. Everett, State President,
Miss Anne Wilson, District
Director, and other distin- (
guished members of the organi- (
zation are expected to be in Syl- 1
va for the meeting.
Luncheon will be served at the (
Community House, and a committee
composed of Mrs. John (
A. Parris, Mrs. R. U. Sutton, Mrs. .
W. O. Soderquist, Mrs. John H. ,
Wilson, Mrs. E. L. Wilson, and
Mrs. Ellen Bryson have been appointed.
The committee on decoration
of the tables and the
Community House is composed (
of Mrs. H. E. Monteith, Mrs. ,
Harry E. Ferguson, Mrs. M. Bu*
t_ Uo1d? nillnrri. '
cnana.ii, oi., who. uwwi ^??,
Mrs. Walter L. Jones and Mrs.
A. H. Weaver.
The business sessions will be
held in the Methodist cnurcn,
and Mrs. Mary Cowan and Mrs.
J. Robert Long will be in charge
of decorations at the church.
Sponsors Ritual Contest
Glenville, March 22 (Special)
?The Smoky Mountain Federation
of the Future Farmers of
America sponsored a ritual contest
at its regular meeting, held
in Sylva, March 19. Seven Chapr>?jrt
wit.b first Dlace
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going to the Glenville chapter.
The following participated:
Tom McGuire, President, J. C.
Robinson, Vice-President, Carter
Reid, Secretary, Earl Bryson,
Treasurer, Jasper Fisher, RePorter,
and B. T. Maples, Adviser.
CARD OF THANKS
i We, her children who are
away, wish to express our sin[
cere thanks to thofce showing
i sympathy and kindness at the
death of our beloved, mother,
Mrs. G.JE. Painter.
S. R. Sherrill
; Mrs. E. H. Aiken
Darrington, Wash.
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I. Claude Allison
Named Chairman Of!
Easter Seal Sale
Claude Allison of Sylva has
been named Chairman of the
Easter Seat Sale for crippled
children in this county.
Half of the proceeds of the
sale will remain in the hands
of the county committee for the j
lid of our own children, and ]
half will be sent t0 the State j
office for assisting those whom j
i county committee cannot
serve. .. j
Some counties already have j
?staDiisnea cimics ior ineir s
irippled children, and the State
supported Orthopedic Hospital
it Gastonia, to which the more
serious cases are sent, also has *
i splendid record 01 service. But f
;he Orthopedic Hospital has fa- \
:ilities for only 160 children, and a
here are now more than 300 on i
;he hospital's waiting list. /
A recent federal report says "
tforth Carolina has 62,000 physi- 1
;ally maimed residents. Of these J
17,000 are listed on the Social l
Security records at Raleigh, *
showing that many belong to
;he lower economic levels. There ^
ire more than 300,000 crippled
children in the country as a
vhole, and it is estimated that
ipproximately 10,000 of these are
n North Carolina.
Mrs. J. Melville Broughton, t
tforth Carolina's First Lady, who *
s vice-president of the North 1
Carolina League for Crippled z
Children, has issued, an appeal *
in behalf of the Easter Seal k
Sale.
"The North Carolina League
for Crippled Children is doing
i great and useful work and
Reserves the support of all our
people," Mrs. Broughton's statement
says. "The humane and
[constructive.program of this or- ?
ganization, its' fine "TecorS^ of T
service and its plans for reach- *
ing out and helping an even <
larger number of crippled child- *
ren will undoubtedly receive a 1
generous and sympathetic re- 1
sponse from the public. (
"As vice-president of the Lea- 1
?ue I wish to exert all the in- <
fluence possible for the success ?
Df the Easter Sale of Seals; for
this source of revenue is the i
Beta Club Aids Britain
In its aid for Britain cam- '
paign, the Beta Club of Sylva
High- School has placed boxes
at convenient places in the
stores in Sylva for the reception
of tin foil. Miss Mary Alma
Wilkes states that all persons
are requested to preserve the tin
foil from cigarette packages,
chewing gum and the like, and
to deposit it in the boxes provided.
The young people will
gather it up and ship it to the
proper places.
BUSY
If weather conditions are favorable,
the Granville County
terracing unit will turn out a
record amount of work this
spring, reports Assistant Farm
Agent W. B. Jones.
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3rth^arolina7~thursday;
dinner speaker
Senator Scott W. Lueas of Hinois,
prominently mentioned
or the Democratic nomination
or vice-president last year, who
vill deliver the principal address
it the annual Jstckson Day Dinler
in Raleigh on Friday night,
Ipril 4.
Lucas Will Be j
League's sole reliance lor iunas
which are tragically needed."
Mrs. Doyle D. Alley, president
of the North Carolina Congress
of Parents and Teachers; Dr.
Clyde Erwin, State Superintendent
of Public Instruction;
Dr. Frank P. Graham, president
of the University of North XJarolina;
Charles M. Johnson, head
of the Local Government Tax
Commission; Ben Roberts, president
of the North Carolina
Banker Association, and Hay- j
wood Duke, president of the j
Hotel Association, are among a t
number of the State's prominent
citizens who have endorsed the ]
Campaign. j
For the last several years the ]
Easter Sale in this State has ,
been conducted by Major Char- ,
les H. Warren of the Department ]
of Public Instruction, but this
spring finds Major Warren on j
Duty at Camp Forrest, Tenn.,
and Charles E. Mcintosh of j
Chapel Hill, Executive Secretary ,
of the League, has been placed !
in charge of the campaign to ,
raise the tragically needed j
funds.
Principal Speaker
\t Annual Dinner
Raleigh, March 26?Several
lationally known figures in the
Democratic party will attend
he annual Jackson Day Dinner
,0 be held here in the Sir Walter
iotel on Friday night, April 4,
iccording to Joe L. Blythe of
Charlotte, Chairman of the
State Jackson Day Committee.
Among those who have ac:epted
invitations to attend the
linner which is being held to
lelp raise funds with which to
vipe out the defict' incurred last
rear in the successful efforts to
re-elect Prudent Roosevelt,
ire: National Democratic Chairrian
Edward Flynn, United
States Senator Scott W. Lucas
>f Illinois, Richard J. Reynolds;
treasurer of the Democratic National
Committee, Comptroller
L.indsay W. Warren, Former
governor O. Max Gardner, A. D
^olger, National Committeeman;
Congressman A. L. Bulwinkle
tnd others.
Senator Lucas, who was promnently
mentioned for the nomilation
for vice-president at the
Democratic convention last year
it Chicago, will deliver the
Drincipal address. A world war
veteran, Senator Lucas helped
3ut across President Roosevelt's
'arm program in the early years
)f the New Deal while the Senator"
was a member of the House
)f Representatives. As a member
)f the House's Agricultural Agricultural
Committee, Lucas was
nade the spokesman of a bloc ol
iifty congressmen representing
the corn and wheat farmers oi
the middle west.
. After serving two terms in the
House, Senator Lucas was nomilated
for the Senate in 1938 and
Deat his Republican opponent by
i majority exceeding 100,000 despite
unusual efforts to defeat
tiim.
"Senator Lucas, a friend ol
labor as well as the farmer, is s
?ood speaker, a man who hai
knowledge of what he talkf
about," said Chairman Blythe
'Also, he was a staunch supporter
of the "aid to Britain'
bill that recently became law
We consider ourselves fortunate
v-iirvi nVmirmnn Flvrin
Treasurer Reynolds and the resi
with us on the night of Apri
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PRISON CHAPLAIN
WILL SPEAK HERE
Reverend Mr. Watts, Chaplaii
of the North Carolina Statj
Prison, at Raleigh, will speak or
rehabilitation plans for prison
ers who come out of camps an<
jails, at the Baptist church ii
Sylva, Monday night, March 31
The public Is invited to th<
meeting.
Mr. Watts is a very forcefu
speaker. He spoke at a meetini
of citizens at the Whittier Priso]
Camp, last fall. The prisoner
served dinner to the group, am
Mr. Watts was the speaker fo
the occasion.
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County Welfare
Board To Be
Re-appointed
Re-appointments to the county
welfare board will be necessary
before the first of April under
new legislation enacted by
t.Vip 1941 General Assembly, al
though it is possible no change
may be made in the present
board set-up. .
Chairman of the local board
now is Mrs. E. L. McKee, and A.
J. Dills and G. C. Turpin are the
other two members.
One appointment is made by
the State Board of Charities and
Public Welfare and one appointment
by the Jackson county
commissioners with the two ap.
pointes selecting the third per,
son with whom they will be as:
jsociated in supervising the local
welfare program.
Before this year the commissioners
could not name one of
. their own number to sit on the
welfare board, but the new law
- makes possible such an appointment
if the county governing
' body so desires. Previously the j
commissioner's appointee had to
be a person not connected with
the board of commissioners in
any way.
The appointment this month
1 by the commissioners will be for
, a term of tw0 years running
1 from the first of April, while the
. State Board appointee's term
will cover three years, and the
third member selected by these
i ? ? ill trAor QllK
J LWU Will SCiVC iUi UilC J . uuu
sequent appointments will be for
terms of two years in the case
, jf each of the three members. Prior
service on a welfare,
joard will not prevent the appointment
of a member under
| the new set-up, but in the future
v members cannot serve more
han three terms or six conI
secuUve years.
Between now and the first of
Ipril the State Board of Chari'
?ies and Public Welfare will meet
11 Raleigh to make 100 appoint.
inents, one for each county
joard.
The new welfare board will
' have the duty of selecting the
superintendent of welfare who
will take office July 1 for an indefinite
term under the merit
system soon to be installed and
; required by the Federal government
if the State and counties
' continue to receive funds under
. the Social Security Act.
| Before this year the superin|
tendent was chosen for, a two!
year term by the commissioners
and the welfare board in joint
| session. Under the new act a
superintendent can be relieved
| of duties only upon presenta-1
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Teachers Selected For
WCTC Summer School
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Cullowhee, Mar. 24 (Special)? i
I Teachers on the regular staff at
r Western Carolina Teachers Col
lege who have been asked by
' Director W. E. Bird to teach
academic courses, direct workl
shops, or supervise hobby shops
i in the college summer school
5 from June 14 to July 24 are: Miss
5 Alice Benton, Miss Nelle Bond,
. Dr. A. L. Bramlett, S. O. Bran
don, Frank Brown, Mrs. C. C.
' Buchanan, Miss Cordelia Camp,
. Mrs. Evelyn Coward, Miss Kathi
leen Davis, E. V. Deans, Jr., C.
, F. Dodson, P. L. Elliott, Mrs.
fc Charles G. Gulley, A. K. Hinds,
1 James Howell, C. A. Hoyle, Miss
Trixie Jenkins, Miss Maude
Ketchem, Miss Laura Jean McAdams,
Dr. Frederick Neuman,
Mrs. James Parker, Miss Anne
OftTTWAnr TP TT ?
ti2lOCyf O uxin ocjriuuui, u. x*.
well, N. W. Turner, Miss Mabel
Tyree, Mrs. James Whatley, and
1 Dr C. D. Killian. \r
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I P. T. A. Study Course
1 To Be Held Friday
1
The Parent Teachers Associa5
tion Study Course will be helc
tomorrow, Friday afternoon a'
J 3:30 at the school building. Mrs
g George Tracy and Miss Editl
a Buchanan will conduct th<
s courses, according to Mrs
d George Lee, who is chairman -ol
r the committee in charge of the
work.
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South Carol
To Begin In
Of Highway
Kite Tournament
To Be Sponsored
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Rules for kite tournament to 1
be held Saturday, March 29 at ]
2 o'clock on the Sylva Golf 1
Course. ]
Girls and boys 16 years and
under shall be eligible. Each 1
contestant shall be allowed one (
assistant to help the flyer get {
the kite into the air. No contest- 1
ants who have not been regis- 1
tered shall be permitted to participate.
All contestants must be
registered not later than Wednesday,
March 26. No contestants
shall be permitted to fly
kites before the tournament begins.
tfime allowed for flying
kites will be 20 minutes after
kites are in the air. All kites
must be handmade. Contestants
must . furnish own string in
measured balls of 1,000 feet,
'{ites which are fouled and
nought down unfairly may reume
play. All contestants must
)e at site of tournament by 1:00
?'clock. Prizes will be awarded to
he girl and boy flying the highist
kite. Prizes will also be given
:or the most artistic kite and to
the youngest contestant. Immediately
after this tournament
there will be a father-son tournament.
There will be no registration
for this. The public is
cordailly invited.
Rotarians ,5.ee
Scenic Pictures
A moving picture of scenes in
the Western United States was
the feature of the program at
the Sylva Rotary club meeting
Tuesday night. Part of the film
was in natural color and scenes
of the Grand Canyon were very
beautiful.
. Another phase of the movie
dealt with the Navajo Indian
Reservation located in Arizona
and New Mexico. It depicted life
on the reservation and this part
was educational as well as en
teitcuiiiiig. 1
Program Chairman Sam Gil- I
liam and Clyde Blair, both of [
whom, are well acquainted with
.he section shown in the picture,
naae explanatory remarks in
connection with the movie.
\,a>ne Terrell, one of the 1
newer members, made a short 1
talk on "Fellowship and Rotary."
h. U. Sutton, president of the
^iub, announced that the next
meeting will be held at 7 o'clock
instead 0f 6:30 o'clock. New officers
will be elected at this 1
meeting. Mr. Sutton appointed
Louis Hair, Mont Cannon and C.
A. Hoyle as a nominating committee.
This committee will
nominate two persons each for
the office of president, vicepresident
and secretary-treasurer,
and ten for director, five
of whom will be selected.
Scroop Enloe, chairman of the
"Ty Hunter-For-Governor" committee,
announced that letters
have been mailed to all clubs
in the district reminding them
to support Mr. Hunter for district
governor at the district
meeting at Camden, S. C. in
April.
Jack Walters toasted Ty
Hunter and C. A. Hoyle whose
birthdays occur before the next
meeting.
John Ryan, of Cherokee, who
operated the moving picture
equipment, was the only guest
at the meeting.
NOTICE OF SERVICE
There will be Communion
Service at St. John's Episcopal
Church next Sunday morning,
March 30, at 11 o'clock. Rev.
Raymond McBlane, rector, will
conduct the services.
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nproveinent
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- Highway 107 in South Carolina
is on the program for immediate
improvement, according
to advice received from the
Chief Highway Commissioner of
that State. The plan is to im
prove ana pave tne highway
from Oconee Park to the/ Jackson
county line. It is already
paved from Oconee Park to our
adjoining county seat of Walhalla.
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This will make 107 the through
and nearerst highway from
Charleston, Savannah, Augusta,
and Columbia to the Great
Smoky Mountains National
Park, to Knoxville, Cincinnati,
and Chicago. It is planned to
jive the road a federal number
as soon as practicable. The numoer
from the Tennessee line to
Walhalla is now N. C. and S C.
L07.
Called a few years ago the
1-C's highway, as it is the road
t0 Cincinnati, Chicago, Charleston
and Columbia, the highway
looms larger as one of the main
trunk highways of the United
States. People in Sylva and ih '
Walhalla envisioned the possibilities
of this highway many I
/ears ago, and it was called the
Wade Hampton Memorial Highway,
since it follows the route
of the old Sloan's Turnpike, the
road over which Wade Hampton
traveled from Cashier's Valley
to Columbia to assume the leadership
for the redemption of
South Carolina, following the
reconstruction period.
Sloan's turnpike was one of
the oldest roads leading into
the mountains of North Carolina
from South Carolina. Over
it came the Hampton's the Calhouns,
and the others who established
in Cashier's Valley one
of the first summer, resorts in
the mountains of this state.
With the opening of the Great
Smoky Mountains National Park
and the construction of the
highway to Newfound Gap and
to Knoxville, it readily became
apparent that this was the logi
cai route 01 travel irom mucn 01
the Southeastern United States
to the Great Smokies and the
middle west. A quarter of a century
&go, the Journal began the
agitation for the completion of
this road from Walhalla to Sylva,
and pointed out that the
route through the Great Smokies
to Tennessee and the middle
west was the logical one for the
establishment of a great trunk ;
highway. Within the past few /
months the North Carolina part
of the road was completed from ?
Sylva to the South Carolina
Line, via Western Carolina
Teachers College and Cashier's
Valley. South Carolina authorities
had - repeatedly promised
that they would njeet North
Carolina's highway at the State
line, whenever this State builded
the road to that point. Now the
news comes from South Carolina
that the promise is about
to be carried out, and that Western
North Carolina, South Carolina,
and the nation are to have
a great highway, through Jackson
county, across the Smokies
and connecting two important
oz??tinnc r?f thp United States.
VAVAAU VA V**v
Mrs. Dan K. Moore
Heads Greek Relief 1 J
Mrs. Dan K. Moore has assumed
the rhairmanshiD of the
Greek Relief Fund in Jackson
county, and has called a meeting
of the committee at the
Carolina Hotel, next Tuesday
evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. C. A.
George, of Waynesville, will be
present and present the facts
of the situation to the committee.
The other members of the
committee are: T. N. Massie,
Frank Massie, E. L. McKee, R. L.
Arial, Dan Tompkins, S. W. Enloe,
W. R. Enloe, Claude Allison,
Louis Hair, Dr. H. T. Hunter,
Mrs. David M. Hall, Edgar
Duckatt, and John Worth McDevitt.
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