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I h e Commencement play,
tutu- Clodhoppers", will be
given on May 19, with a c?st consistinii'
ol' ' John Robert Dills,
Geneva Frady, Maxine Reagan,
David Thomas, Hilliatd Revis,
Kate Harris, and Dorothy Mae
Led i ord.
Cla^ Day Exercises, in the
form uf a pageant, "The Gateway".
will be given on May 20,
at - o'clock in the afternoon.
The characters in the pageant
will be John Hyatt, Maxine
Reagan. Nannie Sue Hedden,
Helen Jones, Robert * Ferguson,
Walter Warren, Roy Ensley, Dorothy
Dalton, Catherine Cogdill,
Inez Howell, Betty Stafford,
Aunes Wilson, Kathleen McGtn
hiss. Margaret Bird, Bertie
Moore. Mary Catherine Monteith.
Cordelia Allen, Annie Nell
Brown, and Hadley Kilpatrick.
Gail Martin and Charles Kilpatrick
are the class mascots.
Opportunities Are Found
In Camps Of The CCC
The opportunities for boys to
learn trades and prepare themselves
for good jobs that are being
ottered by the Civilian Conservation
Corps,.were pointed out
by Captain Miller, Mr. Rosser
and their associates at Camp 411,
to a group of Jackson. County
citizens, today. Training is given
the boys in forestry, stonecutt'ing,
automobile mechanics
carpentry and wood-working,
bee cult u r e, poultry raising,
cooking, baking, and a number
of other trades and avocations.
Many boys who have completed
their period of enrollment have
sonp into private employment
at. handsome wages.
Schools are maintained, beginning
with the rudiments of
reading, writing, and arithmetic,
for those boys who have little or
no education, and they go on up
to the higher branches of the
educational field.
I Recreational facilities are varied
and ample. The foods is excellent.
Medical care is at hand,
and uood quarters are provided
for the enrollees.
At the present time almost any
boy within the 17 to 24 age limit
who desires to do so can enr?H
in the C. C. C., for the enrollments
have been falling off, due
t? the increase in employment,
and the enlistment or induction
,,f many, young men into the
armed forces.
Youno men of those ages who I
have been t.lirnpri Hnmn hv fV>P
I army because of minor physical i
defects or because of illiteracy,
can enroll in the Civilian Con- I
^rvatipn Corps. There the han^icap.s
that kept them out of
itTaimy can be rem?ved'in
Thcjre is room at the C. C. C.
for many Jackson county
toys, if they wish to enroll, it was
Pointed out
Twenty-five chaperones and
66 to-eds from Stephens colle{;o'
Columbia, Mo., ,recently
a tour of the west.
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I Former Governor Clyde R.I
I Hoey. one of the greatest living
I orators, will deliver the comI
niemvment address at Sylva
I uioh School, at the graduation,
exercise- to be held on May 20,'
according t0 a statement releasecj
(iy Mr. Louis Hair, the principal.
Tlit; exercises will begin at 8
oVlock in the evening. Miss Margaret
Bird will deliver the salutatory:
Mias Maxine Reagan, the
valedictory, and Mrs. E. L. McKiv
will- introduce Governor
Hoe}'. The diplomas will be delivered
by Superintendent Moses,
and the medals will be awarded
by Principal Hair.
The commencement exercises
will been; at 2 o'clock Sunday '
afternoon. May 18, when the
baa-a reate sermon will be delewivd
by Rev. George B. Clemnu.i.
oin1. of the most popular
paoiirs who ever served in Syl
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Paper Mill Increases
uutput 60 Per Cent
Through Expansion
As announced in The Journal
of February 6, in which it was
stated that "Expansion in the
mill of the Sylva Paperboard
Company will be. made within
ihe next few weeks", the capacity
of the mill is expected to be
stepped up approximately sixty
per cent, at the completion
of the expansion program now
under way. The installation of
machinery and certain alterations
in the mill is now in progress.
The cost of the expansion
will reach about a quarter of a
million dollars, it is stated, and
the contracts for all the work
have been awarded, and the
personnel, some sixty men have
.liready been employed.
It is belived that the alternations
and installation of machinery
will be completed by August
1.
There has been a steady increase
in the volume of paperooard
demanded from the mill
for the past several months, and
the quarter million dollar expansion
was deemed necessary
to care for the demands for the
products of Sylva's paper mil.
QUALLA
(By Mrs. J. K. Terrell)
A .Jpirthday dinner reception
was given at the home of Rev. J.
L. Hyatt, Sunday, in honor of Mr.
C. P. Shelton and Mrs. J.L . Hyatt
After services, Sunday, Rev. W.
E. Andrews was a dinner guest at
Mr. H. G. Ferguson's. He left for
Concord in the afternoon, where
he will spend the week, returning
Saturday.
Married, on April 19, in Columbus,
Ga., Miss Janey Reagan, of
Qualla to Mr. James Giles, of
Fort Benning, Ga.
v Miss Maxine Reagan of Qualla
is valedictorian and Miss Margagaret
Bird, oj Qualla, salutatorian,
of the- graduating class of
Sylva High School, this year.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hughes
spent the week end with rela
tives in Murpny.
Mr .and Mrs. Luther Hoyle visited
relatives in Hayesville, Sunday.
Mrs. D. C. Hughes and children
spent Tuesday with Mrs. Burton
Bumgarner.
Mrs. Ottmer Rhoem, of Hayesville
is visiting Qualla relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kinsland
spent Sunday at the home of Mr.
Hubert Blanton.
It was announced Sunday that
Dr. Godsey of Asheville will
preach at Olivet next Sunday afternoon.
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It was also announced that
there will be a Mother's Day
programme at the Baptist
church, next Sunday morning.
Mrs. J. H. Hughes wishes to express,
through The Journal, her
heartfelt thanks to her many
friends for their kindness, help,
and sympathy to herself and
family, during her recent serious
illness, from which she is slowly
recovering, at this writing.
Students Will Enter
Contest Next Wednesday
airis and three boys will
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enter the declamation and recitation
contest, next Wednesday
evening, May 14, for the Gertrude
Dills McKee Medal.
The medal is supplied by Mrs.
McKee and i^ presented each
year at commencement time, by
the B. H. Cathey Chapter, United
Daughters of the Confederacy.
The exercises will be held at
the elementary school auditorium,
beginning at eight o'clock,
and the public is invited. Several
numbers will be sung by the High
School Glee Club, and the minuet
will be danced by a group ol
' high school students.
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John Wilson Heads
Student Body At
Western Carolina
Cullowhee, April 7, (Special)?
Johnny Wilson, son of Mr. and
Mrs. John H. Wilson of Sylva,
was elected, Wednesday, by a I
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body to be president of next
year's student government at
Western Carolina Teacher^ College.
Mr. Wilson, an incoming
senior, has attended Western
Carolina for the last three years,
and is a major in business education.
During the last two years
he has been an active member
of the student senate and has
served this year as vice-presi*dent
of the student government.
Last week, in another election,
he was chosen by the student
body to be business manager of
the college year book, "The Catamount".
Charles Guy Reed of Sylva was
elected editor-in-chief of The
Catamount, the college annual.
Senators chosen to serve next
year with President Wilson from
the incoming senior class are:
Frankie Colins, Canton; Carlton
Wells, Murphy; and John Jordon,
Murphy: from the junior
class, Charles Frazier, Canton;
Jack Roberts, Jupiter; and Bill
Hardy, Sylva: and from the
sophomore class, Nell Scott, Cher
okee, and Paul Sutton, Sylva.
Catherine creasman or uteen,
was elected editor-in-chief of
"The Western Carolinian", college
newspaper; and Marion Arnold,
of Seville, Florida, its business
manager.
Ten Draftees To
Be Called May 28
A call has been received by the
Jackson County Selective Service
Board for ten men, to go to
Fort Bragg on May 28, A. J. Dills,
chairman of the Board reported
today.
The men iwll report ot the
Board in Sylva and transportation
by bus will be furnished to
Fort Bragg.
It was reliably reported in
Army circles today that July 1
will be set as the date for the
registration of the approximately
one million young men who
have become of age since October,
when the youth of the nation
Was enrolled for selective
service. It is stated that the men
who register at that time will be
called into active service within
a few months after registration.
GIBSON REELECTED
MAYOR OF SYLVA
H. Gibson, Sr., was reelected
mayor of Sylva, for a third term,
and W. J. Fisher, W. T. Wise, S.
A. Carden, Walter L. Jones, and
W. E. Grindstaff were elected aldermen,
at the municipal election
held Tuesday. They were the
democratic nominees. There
were no opposition candidates.
Eighty-six citizens of the town
cast their ballots.
Two new members of the board
of aldermen were elected. They
are Mr. Grindstaff and Mi*. Carden.
Mr. Fisher, Mr. Wise, and
Mr. Jones are member of the
present board.
Charles M. Reed is expected
yto be reelected as town clerk, and
it is believed that Chief of Police
Middleton and Patrolman John
O'Kelly will hold their posts on
the police force.
Three Negroes Will Go
To Fort Bragg May 22
Hilliard Norman, Andy Coward
Jr., and Ellard Eugene Riley,
three Negro volunteers, will leave
Sylva on May 22 at 7:30 in the
morning, to begin their one
year's training as selectees in
the United States Army.
This county's quota of Negro
i selectees has been filled by voll
unteers, and there are other
Negroes on the waiting list, ac:
cording to A. J. Dills, ch'airman
of the Selective Service Board.
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Western Union
Office Becomes
Relay Station
Sylva's Western Union Telegraph
office, of which Mrs. J.
D. Moore is the manager, is being
enlarged, so as to becjme
the relay station for all Western
Union Offices west of Sylva.
It is stated that four* operators
will be employed through
the year, and additional ones
will be utilized during the tour
ist season.
A duplex machine, through
which messages can be sent and
I received at the same time, and
three straight printers, are being
installed, to care for the
business originating in the Sylva
office, and coming through
from Murphy, Andrews, Bryson
'City, Utah, and Highlands.
Telephone lines have been
leased, over which the Utah and
Highlands messages will come,
it is stated.
Lackey Tells Rotarians
Of Plans Of Council
The Sylva Rotary Club at its
meeting Tuesday sight, heard
"Garland Lackey in a talk on
"Jackson County's Part in Na^
tional Defense". Mr. Lackey eXf
plained the purpose and aims of
the recently-organized Jackson
County Worker's Council. He said
that the Worker's Council Ms
composed of those connected
with the various governmental
agencies in Jackson county, such
as the WPA, NYA, FCA, etc., and
that it is the aim of the council
to do everything possible to aid
National Defense.
Mr. Lackey stated that it has
been agreed that one of the best
ways in which Jackson county
can aid in the National Defense
"program" is to increase .its crops,
and that 2,200 cards have been
sent out to farm families in the
county, asking that they raise at
least 75 per cent of their food
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ready responded affirmatively,
Mr. Lackey said.
The only guest at the meeting,
Edgar A. Poynton, of Washington
; D. C., who is the director of construction
in the Indian Service,
was called on for a short talk.
Mr. Poynton said that, due to the
tDefense Program, Washington is
working at fever heat, and that
government employees are answering
the call of their country
100 per cent.
Mr Poynton spoke very highly
of the people and of the scenic
beauty of this section.
Bill Ensor, secretary of the
club, who had a birthday last
week, was toasted by Jack Walters.
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Will Give Mother's Day
Program At Cullowhee
A program committee, composed
of L. A. Buchanan, Glen
Hughes, Lyda Caldwell, and R.
D. Phillips, has arranged a
Mother's Day program for Cullowhee
Baptist church.
Rev. P. L. Elliott will preside
at the meeting; and the following
program will be carried out:
Song, congregation.
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Golden Key Quartette. r
Scripture Reading, P. L. ElliottGolden
Key Quartett.
Address, by the pastor Rev.
Fred Forester. .
Song, congregation.
Prayer.
Former Sylva Boy Is
Mayor Of Bryson City
E. H. (Bill) Moody was elected
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field of four candidates, in the
municipal election, on Tuesday.
The runner-up was Kelly E. Bennett,
druggist and former state
senator.
Mr. Moody is a son of Mr. and
Mrs. P. E. Moody of Sylva, and
operates Moody's Funeral Home
in Bryson City. He moved from
Sylva to Bryson City a few years
ago.
Sophomores at Stratford col.jlege
recently staged a fashion
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Mrs. Evans Goes
To Buncombe After
14 Years Here
It was learned today that Mrs.
Harry Evans has been chosen as
Home Demonstration Agent for
Buncombe County, and that she
expects to leave Sylva about May
31, to assume her duties there.
Mrs. Evans has lived in Jackson
county for the past 19 years,
and has served as Ijome demonstration
agent here during 14
ytars of that time. She is popular
throughout. the county, and is
Known by the Extension Service
as one of the best, if not the very
best home agent in North Carolina.
Her wide acquaintance in
the county and her intimate
Knowledge of its possibilities, its
problems, and its needs, coupled
with her unusual ability in her
field, wiU make her place difficult
to fill. However, it is stated
that the extension service and
ohe county are in communication
with a young woman who
is adequately prepared to take
up the work. . ;
During the past few years,
more than one attempt has been
made by Buncombe authorities to
secure Jackson county's home
agent; but Mrs. Evans has hereto-foie
turned down all offers.
But, at this time, Mrs. Evans accepted,
at the insistence of the
State College Extension Service
and because of the fact that her
husband, an employee of the
Southern Railway System, is stationed
at Asheville.
ihe county authorities and the
people of - the county will regret
exceedingly to lose Mrs. Evans as
the County Home Agent, it was
stated in Sylva today.
D. D. Wall Dies
Alter Short Illness
D. I). Wall, a resident of Jackson
County for several years,
ditu, April 14, in the Angel hospiial,
at Franklin, following a
short illness.
Funeral services were conducted
in the Speedwell Methodist
church, of which he was a member,
with Rev. J. C. Gentry officiating.
He was well known and
held in high esteem by his many
friends.
He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Cora Wall, five children, Edley,
Fate,, Kenneth and DorotHy,
all of Speedwell; Mrs. Robert
Lemming, of Franklin; one
grand-daughter, ana iour Drotn- i
ers, Will John and Charlie, of
Trenton, Georgia; and Daufus
Wall, of Andrews.
Honorary pallbeares were: Dr.
Edgar Angel-, Messrs. J. R. Hooper,
W. A. Hooper, Sam BUchanan,
| Z.-V. Watson, Mac Pressley, Robert
Shelton, Gola Ferguson,* Edward
Bryson, R. M. Bryson, Shirley
Wilson and Dr. D. D. Hooper.
Glenn Funeral Home was in
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family cemetery.
Former Sylva Pastor
Passes In Asheville
Rev. J. W. Kesterson, former
pastor of the Sylva Baptist
church, died in an Asheville hospital,
Tuesday night, at the age
of 66. Funeral services were eonducted
from the First Baptist
church of Hendersonville, Thursday
afternoon at 3:30.
Mr. Kesterson had a large circle
of friends in Sylva and Jackson
county.' He is survived by
his widow, Mrs. Looney Cowan
Kesterson; tw0 sons, Jeter and
i Napoleon Kesterson, and two
I granddaughters.
Relatives from here who attended
the funeral were, Mrs.,
j F. M. Crawford, Mr. L. D. CowI
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Miss Helen Cowan.
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SATURDAY IS BANK HOLIDAY j
Saturday, May 10, being Confederate
Memorial Day, and a legal
holiday in North Carolina,
The Jackson County Bank will
be closed all day, officials announce.
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Caney Fork
Elect;rificati<
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Preparedness Day
Patriotic Meeting
To Be Tuesday
With the general theme of,
"The Battle For Freedom", a preparedness
day program for Jackson
county has been planned by
the Committe for the Denfense
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4 o'clock, the college Glee club,
and the college band, under direction
of Mr. Tracy and Mrs.
Gulley, will give an open air concert
in Sylva.
Following that a great mass
meeting will be held at the auditorium
at Cullowhee. Mrs. E. L.
McKee will speak on, "The Battle
of the American Home"; B. C.
Moss, on "The Battle of Youth",
and Dr. Parker, on "The Battle
of Christianity".
A number of selections will be
presented by the glee club and
the band.
Farm Families Must
Produce More Food
It was pointed out at the meeting
of the Jackson County Defense
Committee, Monday afternoon,
that there is great need for
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produce more of their own foods
and feeds than has been done
for the past few years. The Coun
ty Agent's Office has sent out letters
to many families asking
their co-operation in the defense
effort by producing at least seventy-five
per cent of the fopd
consumed by the family. The
committee is anxious to have the
cards returned at once, enrolling
as many families as possible in
the defense campaign.
Those familes that have been
receiving foods from the surplus
commodities stores are being encouraged
to plant gardens, raise
poultry and hogs, and in every
way possible relieve the necessity
for continuing to apply to the
commodities rooms for any arti- I
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duce at home on the farms or!
gardens. It is deemed imperative
that families become self-contained
,or as nearly so as possible
as soon as they can, not pnly for
their own security and health,
but from patriotic motives.
All farm families are being urg
ed to produce a large per cent of
their foods and t0 store up the
foods and feeds.
Great Britain is already cabling
upon the United States for
pork, poultry products, and other
foods, and it is planned to increase
the production of poultry
and eggs by at least fifteen per
cent in the United States during
the current year.
That by producing more foods
and feeds the rural population
moto Q arrpnt. contribution to
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Rational Defense, it is pointed
olit by the Department of Agriculture.
Charts showing the normal
food requirements for a family
of five, and how to produce those
foods and conserve them, in the
interest of the family health, are
available at the office of the
county agent. ,
The committee in Jackson
county is composed of representatives
from the Board of Commissioners,
the Board of Education,
the County Agent's Office,
the Home Demonstration Agent,
the Health Department, the Welfare
Department, Farm Security i
Administration, The Jackson
County Journal, The American '
Legion, and the civic club* j
THANKS AND APPRECIATION
We wish to thank our many
friends for their great sympathy
and kindness shown us in our recent
bereavement of our loved
one, who is gone, arid for the
beautiful floral offering..
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Citizens of Caney Fork township
have been making plans
and are working toward electrification
of the farms of the
township, under the Rural Electrification
Authority, it was
learned, this week. The plans
have reached the point where,
it is stated, it is assured that
they will go through.
Mr. J. C. Moore, of the R. E. A.
is in the county making a survey
of the situation, and it is
thought that the plans include
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UUUlWIlg up itu W1C tup UA LI1C
Balsam mountains, with the
North Pigeon project, which has
been in successful operation for
several months, and with the
Glouster project, over in Transylvania,
through Canada township.
If the plan matures as it
is being mapped out, it is prob
able that Canada will also be
included in the project, it is
stated.
The,Upper Pigeon people obtain
their power through connection
with the Carolina Power
Company, it is understood. If
the Caney Fork and Canada
projects mature, and if the pow- !>|
er comes through the same
source as that in Pigeon and ^
Glouster, there will be three
power companies furnishing
electricity in Jackson County.
The Dillsboro and Sylva Elec- j:?
trie Light Company was the
pioneer in this county, beginning
operations in Sylva, Dillsboro,
and the surrounding communities
many years ago. That
company still serves the territory
in which it began operating,
and has extended its lines
to serve other communities in
this part of the county.
The Nantahala Power Comnonv
nwn pr nf t.hp frlpnvillp
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project, serves most of the central
and southern parts of the
county.
It is understood that the plans
for Caney Fork and Canada are
for the power to come from the
Carolina Power Company, whose
lines now -come tQ Balsam, in
this county, and are the source
of the power distributed in up- \
per Pigeon, in Haywood, and
Glouster, in Transylvania. "
W. N. C. Fruit Crop
Expected To Be Large
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That Jackson county and
Western North Carolina will
have one of the best fruit years
in all our history, is being freely
predicted by farmers and ex.
perts.
The bloom on all trees and
bushes, ber.y vines and the like
is more profuse this year than
it has been in many; and the
bloom on most fruits is so far
along in this county that a '
heavy frost would do little damage.
It would take a freeze to do
material damage.
The need for more foods and
feeds to be. produced and canned,
is being stressed by the governments
of State and nation,
and the people of this county
are making preparations to can
unusually large amounts of the
fruit and berry crops that are >
promised in such profusion.
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fernaps uicxc <xic icw j;ioi,co
where the women on the farms
and in the homes do more canning
than in Western North
Carolina, in normal years, and
the people of the county are expected
to largely increase their
usual output of canned fruits,
berries, and vegetables this
year.
SONG SERVICE TO BE HEID
AT METHODIST CHURCH
The evening service at the Sylva
Methodist church, at 8 o'clock
Sunday, will consist of a song
service, led by Mr. Felix A. Luck.
The public is invited.
TOURING THE WEST
Mr. and Mrs. Grayson Cope,
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Giles, Miss
Kathlyn Sutton, and Miss Edith
Alley left Sunday for a tour of
the west, carrying them as far
west as California.
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