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I fl.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE OU
ifdrj
ITVA To Sp<
I On Four Po
I For Nations
m When the tumult and the
I shouting die, ana trie captains
I and the fuehrer depart, all of
I ^ who live in the Tennessee
I valley basin, should have plejity
I of power and cheap rates, provided
we live that long and have
I anything left with which to buy
I power at all, or any homes in
I which to use electricity, or any
I. shops with motors to turn, for
I the TVA is about to launch upon
tiie construction of four new
I pi.wer dams, two in Western
I Noiih Carolina and two in East
I iciinessee. There will be n0 deI
lay. The Office of Production
Management has called upon
I ihe TVA for more power with !
I which to turn the wheels of Na
tional Defense Plants. Thus the
I funds will be placed directly
from the Defense Appropriation
and will not have to await a
special appropriation by the
Cpngress. The schedules call for
completion of all four projects
within from twelve to fifteen
months from now.
At present, large forces of both
the engineering and ^and acquisition
divisions of the TVA
are occupying offices in Murphy
?i Wnc.il onoroo-pH in work
miu aic uuojiji ?
preliminary to construction of
I the damsLarge
crews of men of the en,,
^gingering.. division are working
on possible sites for the storage
dams, one on the Hiwassee river
near Hayesville in Clay County,
North Carolina, and the other on
the Nottley river in North Geor
gia. The other two a^e power
dam projects, one near Appalachia
below Hiwassee dam on
the Hiwassee river in Western
North Carolina and the other on
Ocoee river near Ocoee dam No.
2 in East Tennessee, about 12
miles from the North. Carolina
state line and towards Chattanooga.'
The land acquisition division
at present is taking options on
all lands that may possibly come
within the basins of the proposed
dams. Actual purchase of
properties for th's purpose will
not be made until the projects
afe given approval n.l TVA headquarters.
JACKSON'S TEN MEN
LEAVE FOR ARMY
With the memorable address
ol President Roosevelt ringing
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in men ears, ior an ui mc***
heard him on the radio the
night before, ten young men
left Sylva at ten o'clock yesterday
morning to begin their one
year's ' training in the United
States Army.
They boarded a special bus,
and left for Fort Bragg, where
they will be assigned to the
branches of the service and organizations
for which they are
best fitted.
The ten are, Paul Kilpatricjc,
Jue Phillip Hardy, Thurman Alfred
Brown, Walter Talmadge
Middleton, George Chandler
Potts, Daniel James Mathis,
James Davis Bryson, Bridger
? Taylor Maples, Robert Lee Sutt0?.
and John Arkelus Sutton.
FLOYD OWENS ILL
fr'loyd Owens is seriously ill at
toe Community Hospital. He
was stricken Saturday night
with hemmorrages from the
stomach, and was carried to the
hospital, where blood transfusions
have been resorted to, and
?ther treatment given. Mr. Owens
is employed by the ReeceHampton
Motor Company > He
Wa-s formerly with the Jackson
Chevrolet Company, the Burr?U
Motor Company, and at
Spruce Pine.
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27 Jackson People
To Get Degrees At
Western Carolina
Twenty-seven Jackson men
and women are candidates for
degrees in a class of one. hundred
twenty-five students, who
graduate from Western Carolina
Teachers College, at the commencement
exercises beginning
June 9, are:
Denver Bryson of Cullowhee;
Muriei Bryson, Cullowhee: Viola
B. Bryson, Glenville; Bernice
Cowan, Green's Creek; Mary
Bridgers Cowan, Webster; Frank
M. Crawford, Sylva; Willian G.
Crawford, Cullowhee; Miller Edwards,
Sylva; Maude C. Ensley,
Sylva; Malba Lehr Fowler, Glenville;
Grady Galloway, Whittier;
Edith Garrett, Sylva, Nimmo
Geisler, Sylva; Mary Jane Henson,
Sylva; Iris Holden, Speedwell;
Charles McLaughlin, Whittier;
Ella Mae Moss, Cullowhee;
Geneva Henson Ramsey, Cullowhee;
Reva Painter, Cullowhee;
Ruth Smith, Cullowhee; Beatrice
Btein, Sylva; Hattie Hilda Sutton,
3ylva; Susie Belle Tatham; Sylun*
T.nnise Varner. Whitter:
Gladys Winsted Watson, Dillsboro;
Katherine Brown Wells,
Cullowhee; and Hicks E. Wilson,
Sylva.
This date will mark the 52nd
commencement of the college.
Thirty-four of the one hundred
twenty-five candidates have majored
in primary education, 30
in grammar grade education, and
sixty-one in high school subjects.
One hundred twenty members
of the class are from North
Carolina, three from Tennessee,
one from Georgia, and one from
South Carolina.
Ten Fail To
Answer Draft
The Local Selective Service
Board is seeking t0 learn the
whereabouts of ten men who
registered with the board, and
who have failed to return questionnaires
that have been mailed
to them. A., J. Dills, chair- I
man of the board, stated today
that it is absolutely necessary
that these men get in immediate
touch with the board in
Sylva.
The ten missing registrants
are: Tom Bailey Mace, Ashford
Hamilton Broom, Charles Edward
Vansickle, Billy Herbert
Teague, Russell Walter Farrow,
Paul Wayne McCracken, Bill
Wright, Samuel Erb Langfitt, II,
Oscar Wood, and Amos Melvin
Wiggins.
RED CROSS TO MEET
HERE ON TUESDAYS
The local chapter of American
Red Cross will meet every Tuesday,
for work, at 10:00 o'clock
and continue throughout the
day. Both sewing and knitting
will be done and all women of
the county and community are
urged to attend these meetings,
which will be held in the home
economics department of Sylva
High School.
The work may be done at the
place of meeting, or carried to
the homes, to suit the convenience
of the workers.
The first meeting was held on
Tuesday of this week and a fine
beginning was made.
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SYLVA, NC
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Presbyterians To j
Organize Church i
Here Next Sunday
On Sunday afternoon at 4 '
o'clock a Commission from 1
Asheville Presbytery, consisting 1
of the Rev. R. D. Bedinger, D. D., J
or Asneviiie, the Rev. H. L. Pais- J
^ley, D. D., of Murphy, the Rev.
George B. Hammond, of Canton,
the Rev. Paul P. Thrower,
of Bryson City, and Elders J. T.
Bailey, of Canton, and S. W.
Black, J. A. Gray and Philip E.
Brintnall of Bryson City, will
I be at the Sylva Community
House for the organization of a
Presbyterian Church. The Rev.
Mr. Hammond will preach the
sermon. Dr. Bedinger will prei
side. The public is invited.
Beginning the following Sunday,
June 8, Mr. James B. Mac
Leod, of Lumberton, will assist
the pastor, Rev. Paul P. ThrowI
er, during the summer. Mr. Mac
Leod will be in charge of the
Sunday School which will be
conducted each Sunday, 10:00 A.
M. Either he or Mr. Thrower
will preach each Sunday evening
at 8 o'clock.
Caney Fork Citizen
Passes At His Home
Monday Morning
Hut Hooper, one of Jadsson
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county's oldest and best Known
citizens, died early Monday at
his home on Caney Fork. Mr.
Hooper, of the family of one of
the North Carolina signers of
the Declaration of Independence,
and a family that has been
identified with this area long t
before Jackson became a coun- {
ty, was born and reared on Caney
Fork, the ancestral home of r
this pioneer family.
He has been identified with '
the business and civic life of the
county for a generation, and was
the father of 21 children and a c
large number of grand-children l
and great-grand-children. j.
j Funeral services were conduct- t
ed at the Balsam Grove Baptist
I church, on Caney Fork, today, s
I and interment was in the ceme- J
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SCENES OF W. N. C. f
ARE SHOWN AT
ROTARY MEETING J
The Sylva Rotary Club, at its j
meeting Tuesday night, saw
moving pictures o f Western t
North Carolina scenes. The pic- *
tures were taken and shown by
Dr. Kelly E. Bennett, of Bryson 1
City.
The majority of Dr. Bennett's *
film was color film and the ]
scenes were very beautiful, especially
those taken in the
Smoky Park. t
Scroop Enloe gave a report on j
the organization meeting of the i
United Service club which was 1
held last Wednesday in Greens- i
boro. Mr. Enloe stated that the <
purpose of this organization will (
be to furnish recreational and i
spiritual facilities for the men
in the United States armed 1
forces.
Jack Walters toasted Dr. Har- 5
old McGuire and Chief Jarrett 1
Blythe who had birthdays last :
week. 1
Other guests besides Dr. Ben- 1
nett were R. L. Glenn, Jr., W. 3
E. Ensor, Sr., Ed Gilbert and the <
Rev. Paul Thrower, of Bryson <
City.
Students'and faculty at the
University of Rochester are con- '
ducting a "driveless drive" for 3
I $1760 to buy a desert type am- 1
bulance for Britain. J1
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RTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, M
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New Registration
Has Been Ordered
For Selectees
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The approximately one million
foung American men, who have
Decome 21 years of age since
ast October 16, or who will
reach that age before July 1,
lave been ordered by President
Roosevelt to register for selec:ivp
sprvire in the Armv on July
L, according to dispatches from
Washington.
The registration "Will be 'coniucted
by the selective service
system's 6,500 boards through)ut
the cbuntry #id the new
nen signed up in eiach area are
?xpected to be put at the bottom
)f their local draft iists in an
>rder of priority among themselves
to be detennined by a
lew national lottery.
In a proclamation fixing the
-egistration date, the president
said the action was '^required in
;he interests of the national defense"
and definejd those who
nust register as all mregister?d
male citizens ana aliens in
;he United States, Hawaii, Pugr:o
Rico, and Alaska who have
ittained their 21st birthday 'on
>r before July 1.
The July 1 date was chosen
t was understood, in order ttfat
nen registering then would have
,ime to find out before fall
vhether or not the^ might exject
to be called for'duty. This
vculd permit them to plan
ihead for their fall and winter
vork or educational schedules.
The manner of integrating
;hese new men witji the ! fiirst
jroup of draftees to each local
irea has been under consider-"'
ition here for several months.
Two principal methods were
;tudied. One called for sandviching
them among the orignal
registrants by lottery; the
>ther, for adding them to the
;nd of the lists. Officials said
,oday that the latter method
)robably would be used, f
TEN YOUNG MEN TO
30 TO ARMY JUNE 4 J
I !
The young men from Jackson ,
:ounty have been ordered by the .
jocal Selective Service Board to
jroceed to Fort Bragg, to begin j
he year's training, oil June 4.
The first three named are
volunteers. The group will leave
3ylva at 9 o'clock oa the mornng
of Wednesday, June 4, ac- 1
wording to A. J. Dills, chairman *
)f the board. - ' i
The ten selected are: Benja- J
nin Holmes Allison, Winfred
/on Hensley, Ardell Edwin Cabe,
Willie Rudolph Rice (of Mt. (
\iry, Ga.,) Daniel James Mathis,
Dee Pendleton Ashe, Robert Ray j
Sutton, James Caskle Parrar,
[of Virginia), Samuel Roy Ham- ,
nond, Alvis Bonds McCall. j
DILLSBORO FORMS
nu nnMPA\Y
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Felix Picklesimer, secretarytreasurer
of the Sylva Fire De- I
jartment,* was chosen tempor- <*
iry chief of the Dillsboro Fire 1
Department, which was organ- J
zed Monday night, and Claude
3ueen was elected assistant 1
ihief, Realis Sutton second as- 1
jistant, Wayne Terrell secretary 1
-treasurer, and Walter Messer, '
;ruck driver. 1
Other members of the organi- !
sation, whose purpose is stated
to be to augment and render
ill possible assistance to the '
volunteer fire department of I
3ylva, are James Mason, Charles
Messer, W. A. Brooks, Pete Kin"
To _
said vryignn iviesser, uuw ??.
cobs and Frank Jones.
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Charles M. Reed, Sylva's town
clerk, who was taken to Atlanta
for diagnosis and treatment,
has returned to his hon^e in Syl-*
sra, and is improving.
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Lake At Glenville
Claims First Victim
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Sunday Afternoon
The first victim of the new
Glenville lake, not yet filled,was
claimed on Sunday afternoon
when Richard Allport
Breedlove, 17 year old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Walker Breedlove,
of Glenville, was drowned while
swimming in the lake. Richard
was swimming with a small boy
on his back, when he felt himself
becoming exhausted, and
called to one of his companions
to get the boy. Young Fisher
swam to Breedlove and relieved
him of the boy. Shortly afterwards,
Breedlove sank in twenty
feet of water. His body was
recovered an hour later, and all
efforts to resuscitate him proved
unavailing.
The young man is survived by
his parents, and several brothers
and sisters. Funeral services
were held for him at Lake Toxaway
Baptist church, on Tuesday,
and interment was in the
cemetery at Lake Toxaway.
Painting Portrait
Of Prof. Madison
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A nationally and internationally
known artist is painting a
portrait of Professor Robert L.
aadTson, to be unveiled at Culloyhee
during the coming commencement
season, it was learned
today. The full plans of those
jehind the movement call for
he eventual presentation to the
jollege, of all three of the presidents
of the college, the present
jne of Mr. Madison, one of Prof,
i. C. Reynolds, and one of President
Hunter.
The funds for the Madison
portrait were started by a donation
by the class of 1941 of $100.
rhe remaining will be raised by
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trienas OI UlC cuuegc aim aumirers
of Mr. Madison, accordng
to Mrs. C. C. Buchanan, college
librarian, who has sponsorid
the movement and secured
,he present artist.
Last Rites Held
For Engineer Here
Funeral services for Bill Chester,
47 year old locomotive engineer,
who died at his home
111 Sylva, Saturday morning were
conducted at Lovedale Baptist
ihurch, Sunday afternoon. Rev. ;
Fred Forrester of Cullowhee and ]
Rev. W. N. Cook, of Webster conducted
the service. Interment 1
was in the cemetery at Love's
Chapel. 1
Mr. Chester has made j his
home in Sylva for many years,
and has been a locomotive engineer
on the Tuckaseigee and
Southeastern Railway. He is survived
by his widow, three sons,
Morris, Lawrence and Harold
Chester, all of Sylva; five
daughters, Misses Joyce and
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Dorotny unesier, mi?.
Cooper, and Mrs. Edith Hooper,
all of Sylva, and Mrs. Lewis
Beaver, of Waynesville; by his
father, L. D. Chester, of Edgemont;
three brothers, Cecil, Virgil
and Orgie Chester; and two
sisters, Mrs. Temple Green and
Mrs. Junie Chester, all of Edgemont.
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CANTON TO PLAY ALL STARS
HERE NEXT MONDAY NIGHT
The softball team from Canton
will play the Sylva All-Stars
in a game here Monday night. |
The game is sponsored by the
Sylva Fire Department.
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$1.00 A YEAR IN i
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Roosevelt P
On War Foo
Pledged To G
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Wasnington, xviay ?x-i evident
Roosevelt tonight declared
a state of unlimited national
emergency, placed the entire
Jnited States and her possessions
on a war basis, revealed
ohat the United States Navy is
now patroling the Atlantic, and
ieclared that the United States
vill not allow any invasion of
any island or any other part of
.he Western Hemisphere, and
frankly stated that the liberties
and integrity of the United
States, the Latin American Re-,
publics and the Dominion of
Canada are seriously threatened
by the Axis powers.
President's Proclamation
Whereas on September 8, 1939,
because of the outbreak of war
in Europe a proclamation was
issued declaring a limited national
emergency and directing
measures - "for the purpose - of
strengthing our national defense
within the limits of peacetime
authorizations."
u/horoQc u surppssinn of
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events makes plain that the objectives
of the axis belligerents
in such war are not confined to
those avowed at its commenceI
ment, but include overthrow
hroughout the world of existing
democratic order, and a
world wide domination of peoples,
and economies through the
destruction of all resistance on
iand and sea and in the air, and
Whereas indifference on the
part of the United States to the
increasing menace would be
perilous, and common prudence
requires that fOr the security of
this nation and of this hemisphere
we should pass from
peacetime authorizations o f
military strength to such a basis
as will enable us to cope instantly
and decisively with any attempt
at hostile encirclement
of this hemisphere, or the establishment
of any base for aggression
against it, as well as to
repel the threat of predatory incursion
by foreign agents into
our territory and society,
Now, therefore, I, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, president of the Unit- i
CANADIAN HEALTH
OFFICIALS VISITING
IN NORTH CAROLINA
i
Raleigh?Dr. Herman 8iemens
cf Alberta, and Dr. C. Doucet, of
New Brunswick, have arrived in
Raleigh, preparatory to spending
the greater part of a month in ,
North Carolina, studying public !
health methods employed here.
Each of the visiting Canadians
holds a position similar to
those occupied by county officers
in this State..They are in
this State under the sponsorship
of the Rockefeller Foundation,
and the first place they
visited in North Carolina was
the State Board of Health, in
Raleigh, where they held conferences
with Dr. Carl V. Reynolds,
State Health Officer, who
recently was elected vice-president
of the State, Territorial
and Provincial Health Authorities
of North America, of which
Dr. Frederick W. Jackson, of
Winnipeg, is president; Dr. R. E.
Fox,, Director of the Division of
County Health Work; Dr. J. C.
Knox, Director of the Division
of Epidemiology; Dr. John H.
Hamilton, Director of the Division
of Preventive Medicine,
in charge of the Board of
Health's maternal and infancy
work, and others.
Drs. Siemans and Doucet are
holding extensive conferences
with Dr. Fox; in order jto familiarize
themselves with work bes
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ID VANCE IN THE COUNTY
gency
uts Nation
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ting; All Aid
rreat Britain
ed States of America, do proclaim
that an unlimited national
emergency confronts this
country, which requires that its
military, naval, air and civilian
defenses be put on the basis of
readiness to repel any and all
acts or threats of aggression di-'
-ected toward any part of the
Western Hemisphere.
I call upon all the loyal citizens
engaged in production for
defense to give precedence to
the needs of the nation to the
end that a system of government
that makes private enterprise
possible may survive.
I call upon our loyal workmen
as well as employers to
merge their lesser differences
in the larger effort to insure the
survival of the only kind of government
which recognizes the
rights of labor or of capital.
I call upon loyal state and local
leaders and officials to cooperate
with the civilian defense
agencies of the United States
to assure our internal security
against foreign directed subversion
and to put every community
in order for maximum productive
effort and minimum of
waste and unnecessary friction.
I call upon all loyal citizens to
place the nation's needs first in
mind and in action t0 the end
that we may mobilize and haye
ready for instant defensive use
all of the physical powers, all of
the moral strength and all of
the material4 resources of this
nation.
In witness whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and
caused the seal of the United
States of America to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington
this twenty-seventh
day of May, in the year of
Our Lord nineteen hun- 1
dred and forty-one, and of
the independence of the
United States of America
the one hundred and sixty
"fifth.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.
By the president: .
CORDELL HULL,
Secretary of State. (Seal)
ing done in the eighty-one
counties and six cities in North
Carolina which give full-time
organized public health protection.
Later, they plan to go on
field trips and see, first hand,
some of the activities in progress.
"We came to North Carolina,"
Dr. Doucet said, "because this is
looked upon as a model State in
the field of public health. Our
observations, so far, have borne
out this conception of what you
are doing in North Carolina.
"Moreover," he added, "we are
particularly interested in public
health activities in the United
States at this time when we of
the Dominion and you of this
country nave so many piuU1 cum
in common, in connection with
preparations for the common
defense of the Western Hemi
sphere."
It is probable that the Canadians
will, during their sojourn
in North Carolina, visit some of
the defense areas, in order to
study the relation between these
and public health, especially in
the matter of affording protection
for the civilian population,
which has been so strongly emphasized
by Dr. Reynolds in his
recent utterances and which
claimed the attention of public
health workers and physicians
at their recent meeting in Pinehurst.
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Dr. Siemens and Dr. Doucet
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