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i f ) A YEAR IN ADVANCE OUTS ampaign Jva Clean is Been ] ffort to make Sylva the town in the State has itiated by the town gov- I t and the Jackson Counnber of Commerce, acto statements issued by Jones, manager of the of Commerce, and H. I ** 1 I Gibson, mayor 01 oyiva. gyery effort will be made, during the rest of July to clean up every unsightly place in and , around Sylva, especially along the highways, roads and streets. The advertising that Sylva Will have from being beautiful and neat, at a time when thousands are passing through, will be of inestimable value, it is stated. All property owners are called upon by the town and the Chamber of Commerce to put their property in order by removing trash, mowing weeds, and doing everything possible to make the town look its best.. Allen Branch Goes On Big Rampage Allen Branch, just outside the city limits of Sylva, reverted to type, yesterday and went on a rampage. This branch, which in the past' has been the bad actor among all the branches and creeks flowing down from the Balsams, has frequently overflowed fields, roads and the Southern tracks, lived up to its ancient reputation, when a heavy rain fell at its source, and the branch rushed down in a torrent, flooding the highway covering it with debris., blocking the passage of trains on the Southern, and flood waters sur rounded residences in the vicinity, overflowed gardens and lawns, and generally repeated its historic performances. Freight trains were delayed for an hour and a half; though Allen Branch was not as high as it has been on other occasions. Tuckaseigee Association To Meet At Ochre Hill The one hundred and twelfth session of the Tuckaseigee Baptist Association will be held at Ochre Hill Baptist church, in Scott's Creek Township, on August 14 and 15. . Rev. T. F. Deitz, Moderator, and Rev. W. N. Cook, clerk, have announced the following as the tentative program: Thursday Morning 10:00 Enrollnqjent, organization, recognition'of visitors. 10:30 Religious Literature, W. H. Smith. 11:00 Introductory Sermon, Rev. L. H. Crawford. 12:00 Lunch. Thursday Afternoon 1:15 Christian Education, F. I. Watson. 1:45 Hospitals, L. D. Cowan. 2'15 Orphanage, R. F. Jarrett. 2:45: State Missions, Rev. W. N. Cook H 13:15 Foreign Missions, Billard Woods. 3:45 Home Missions, ReV. G. C. Teague. Miscellaneous Business and Adjournment. , Friday Morning 9:45 Devotional. 10:00 State ot Churches, Rev. Fred Forester. iO'So Temperance, E. W. Jamison. 11:00 w. M. U., Mrs. C. L. Allison. 11:30 Inspirational Address B. s. Hensley. 12:00 Lunch. Friday Afternoon 1-15 Devotional. 1-30 B. T, U., Miss Mildred! I^wan. 2:00 Sunday School, Clarence Vance. 2:30 S. c. I., J. T. Gribble. 2:45 Miscellaneous Business ^ Adjournment. Wi ~ ' j Uje 1 IDE THE COUNTY ?????? To Make Lest Town inaugurated HOME AGENT II) BEGIN WORK ON FIRST OF AUGUST Miss Margaret Martin, who has been selected to succed Mrs. Harry L. Evans as Home Agent in Jackson County, will begin her duties here on August 1, according to an announcement from the office of the Board of County Commissioners. Chairman T. Walter Ashe expressed himself as feeling that the county has been fortunate in securing Miss Martin for this position. Miss Martin comes here from York county, South Carolina, where she has served in a similar capacity for the past five and a half years. The Rock Hill Evening Herald has the following comments regarding Miss Martin: "Miss Margaret Martin, York county's quiet and efficient home demonstration agent the past five and a half years, is leaving the county the first of the month to return to her native Tar Heel state t0 become agent in Jackson county. She in u .J.J win ue suucecueu m iur& cuiuity by Miss Eloise Johnson, now agent in Cherokee county. Announcement from the office of Miss Juanita Neely, district home demonstration agent, said today: "Miss Margaret Martin, Home Agent of York County, has resigned her position in order to accept similar work in Jackson County, North Carolina. Her resignation will take effect on August 1. "Miss Martin has served in Home Demonstration work in South Carolina 14 years, eight and one-ljalf years in Bamberg County and five and onehalf years in York County. Her friends and co-workers in the state regret that her new work takes her away from South Carolina. . "Miss Martin has served the rural people of York County faithfully and efficiently and much that she has done will remain as evidence of her valuable service. The rural people 1 and her many friends of the county wish for her continued success and much happiness in i her new position. "Miss Martin will have headquarters in Sylva, North Carolina, the county seat of Jackson County/' , I Pastors' Resolution Lauds Rev. B. S. Hensley The Buncombe Pastors' Con-j ference recently adopted a resolution commending Rev. B. S. Hensley, present pastor of Scotts Creek and Jarret Mem-1 orial churches. The resolution, prepared by J. B. Grice, as committee, and signed by L. E. Ludlum president and O. L. McGinnis, secretary of the conference reads as follows: Whereas, after several years of faithful service as pastor of the Big Ivey and the New Found Churches, the Rev. B. S. Hensley has gone to the pastorate of * ? nni? the Scott's Creek ana tne jluiisboro Baptist Churches in Jackson County, North Carolina. And, whereas, during his long pastorate in the Buncombe Association, he has proven himself most efficient in pastoral leadership and soul winning, and a regular attendant of our Pastors' Conference. Therefore, be It resolved that the Buncombe Baptist Pastors' Conference commend him to the fellowship of our Jackson County Baptists. ClClSOl SYLVA NO? BAPTISTS MEET, OPPOSE H OALL GAMES Send Resolutions To Board Of Education ! The Sunday School Convention of t.hp TiintasAioroo Ponflof I W-W" W- A JWU^/UlOl/ Association, in its meeting at Shoal Creek, on July 13, adopted a vigorous resolution protesting against playing baseball on Sunday on the school property of Jackson County. The resolution, signed by J. E. Brown, chairman of the committee, W. N. Cook, and Jennings A. Bryson, and by Clarence O. Vance as president of the convention and W. G. Womack, as secretary, reads as follows: We, the Sunday School Convention of the Tuckaseigee Baptist Association meeting in regular session with Shoal's Creek Baptist Church on July 13, 1941, do hereby protest most vigorously against Sunday Baseball on the school grounds of Jackson County. We therefore respectfully send the following Resolutions to the honorable Board of Education and to the Mayor and Aldermen of the Town of Sylva. 1. That in keeping with the Holy Writ, the Sabbath is to be kept holy unto the Lord. 2. That the above officials take immediate action to prohibit such Sunday amusements that would lower the moral standard and dignity of Jackson County.' 3. That we invite the cooperation of the said officials to confer with us at any time we may be of service. MIL IS NAMED OFFICER OF BANK AT SPRUCE FINE R. L. Ariail executive vicepresident of the Jackson County Bank, has been named executive vice-president of the Bank of Spruce Pine to assist the regular staff of the bank, according to a statement made Wednesday by officials of the Spruce Pine institution. The step was made necessary because of the increased volume of business of the bank, which now has resources of more than $600,000, officials said. Mr. Ariail will spend some time in Spruce Pine each month in connection with the affairs of the bank. Mr. Ariail, who has had many years of experience in the bank*ing business, came to Sylva in 1933 as cashier of the Jackson County .Bank. Since that time the resources of the bank here have increased from approximately $300,000 in May, 1933, when Mr. Ariail became associated with the institution, to approximately $1,500,000 a t present. Mr. Ariail was elected executive vice-president of the J&ckson County Bank in October 1940, and will continue in that capacity but will also devote some time each month to the Spruce Pine institution. ICE CREAM SUPPER There will be an ice cream supper at the Dillsboro school next Wednesday night, July 30, sponsored by the Dillsboro and Sylva Fire Department^. Ice cream, lemonade, and cake will be served. Dr. Frank H. Sommer has been dean of the New York University for 25 years. r. v ' . >; LTH CAROLINA, THTCBSDAY, JtJl tl EVENTS UNFOLD I THEMSELVES I By DAN TOMPKINS KSBSSS ' Each week, each hour; each day, 1 is hectic as the unfolding of the mightiest drama and most stupendous events in human history pass in review before the men and women, boys and girls, who read the papers or listen to the radio. ROOSEVELT has called upon the Congress of the United States to declare.} a state of emergency, and to hold the National Guardsmen and the Se- , lppfooe 1M tVio Arm^r InnorAr than AVVVVVU All VliV AMMMy, *WMQV* the year for which they were summoned to serve. Of course the President Is right. There should be n0 hesitation about it. The most important of all considerations at this time is the saving of the -Republic and insuring the perpetuity of democratic ideals slnd institutions. The situation is as acute as it was when the call was made, if not more so. Every trained man should be filing to stand fc>y. If there are ^dividual cases where a man miist come home, the army will discharge him upon proper application and adequate proof, that has always been the policy Qt the army. It would be foolislj to disband the fire department* as long as the conflagration Blazes on, and , the flames come nearer and nearer to our hpuse. REYNOLDS, chairman of the Military Affair^. Committee of . the Senate, refised to support the bill t0 allov the President ( to requisition private property when deemed necessary for the National Defens i. The bill, as a safeguard, exp iojtly provides that the powers Shall cease within two years, and. that the owners of the shall be adequately cogipe&sated. We draft mef*,rttf<rlTO8E?Ftrifcrrt tetWJr striking and holding up the National Defense. Then why should Bob object to the conscription of needed property? Is property worth more than men? Is it so holy that it must not be touched, even in the defense of the Nation? Tommy rot. Bob's excuse is that he is fearful that the President will become a dictator. More tomnjyrot. When the world's greatest tyrant and dictator must be stopped, or the whole world brought under his power, it is silly to trump up such a far-fetched idea. America won't stand for a dictator, either in Washington or Berlin. Bob worries about Washington, while the rest of us are keeping nnr pvps and ears set for Berlin. vt** At the same time, Dorothy Thompson says that if there is a Nazi in the United States, Bob is it, and states emphatically that Senator Reynolds as head of the Military Affairs Committee is worth many divisions to Hitler. SOUTH AMERICA has been the scene of attempted Pustch for the Nazis, and Hitler is very wroth at Bolivia for scotching the, snake before he struck, at the same time contending that he has no designs upon this hemisphere. Anybody who has been watching South America must have been apprehensive for a long time. Roosevelt and the South American governments beat Hitler and his South American Nazis to the dr&w. Hitler doesn't like that. SPAIN AND PORTUGAL may be the next nations to fall to Germany, if and when the Russian campaign is ended successfully. It seems written in the stars that Germany Will move , in that direction next, before attempting to finally strike the knock-out blow at Britain and . America. Roosevelt has seen this probability for a long time. That is the reason why he has referred often to the Azores and Cape Verde Islands. They are the southern stepping stones to America across the Atlantic, just as Iceland, Greenland, and Newfoundland are at the north. If Hitler moves toward Spain and Portugal, Roosevelt will undoubtedly beat him to those islands just as he did to the (Continued on Back Page). T *' Mil-? I -:i- ;jV.-. ntn J " i ,Y 1A, 1941 EIGHT Of (IUUU raiirara ARMY SERVICE Five Of Volunteers Under 21 Years Of Age I Of the twenty young men from Jackson county who left Sylva Monday morning for Fort McPherson to begin their year's training in the United States Army, three were new registrants, men who have become of acre sinr*e last fk?tnh?r onrf mhn registered on July 1. All three volunteered their services and were accepted, having passed the physical examination. They are Riley Birchfield, John Carneal Wilson, and Charles G. Fox. Five others of the twenty are volunteers under 21 years of age. i Their names are John Lindon Cabe, Lyman Garland Parris, Kenneth Willie Wall, William Robert Burress, and Howard Odell Jones. One other volunteer, who is registered in the first registration, is Harry Crule Long. Howard McDevitt was selected from Madison County; and Carl Wilson Galloway, T. A. Pressley, David Robert Harris, Jennings Moody Tucker, John Oscar Lovedahl, Walter Wade Buchanan, Roy Edward Brown, Oscar Norton Henson, William Earle Rogers, and Willie Clyde Sellers, from Jackson. With Oscar Henson in charge as leader, and Roy Edward Brown as assistant leader, the grqfcip boarded the bus in Sylva at 11:45 Tuesday morning, and TWO BILLIONTH DOLLAR LOANED TO IOWA FARMER The two billionth dollar to be loaned by production credit associations will be included in the loan of Martin Paulson approved this week by the loan committee of the Newton (Iowa) Production Credit Association, according to word received . today by John A. Hudgens, president of the Asheville Production Credit Association. Since Mr. Paulson doesn't have use for his money until July 23rd and wants to save 12 days interest, he will not receive the actual check until July 23rd. It is understood that the Newton Production Credit Association is planning a special observance of this occasion. Mr. Paulson intends to use norf nf his loan to nurchase two bred sows to help increase pork production in cooperation with the Department of Agriculture's Food for Defense Program, which is endeavoring to get farmers to produce more pork, dairy products, eggs and some vegetables, to meet the needs of the British and our own defense program. Mr. Hudgens stated that the Asheville Production Credit Association, which serves farmers in Jackson County, as well as those in Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Macon, Madison Mitchell, McDowell, Swain, Transylvania, and Yancey counties, has made loans amounting t0 $511,808 since its organization back in 1934. This is part of the two billion dollars loaned by the 525 associations in the United States. He explained that all of this money loaned by these c* operative iredit associations has been on the approval of the farmer members of their boards or directors and the way that farmers have repaid these loans has shown that the directors have a 'i . * V . v ' ' f I . ' : ourtto ONE DOLLAR A YE, North Caro Daylight S On Next Si i FEDERATION TO HOLD PICE ON NEXT SATURDAY The annual Jackson County Farmers Federation picnic will be held at Sylva High School on Saturday, starting at 10 A. M. and lasting all day. Musicians, singers, and entertainers from all over the county and many other parts of Western North Carolina will perform on the program. Numerous special acts will be put on, and the Farmers Federation string band, led by Pender Rector, will lead in the merriment. G. R. Lackey, Jackson County farm agent, James G. K. McClure, president of the Farmers Federation, and the Rev. Dumont Clarke, director of the Lord's Acre movement, will make brief talks. Foot races will be held for the boys and girls, and there will be a tug-of-war for the men with two teams of six each pulling for the prize. Families attending are requested to bring their own basket lunches, and watermelons and lemonade will be supplied in abundance by the Federation. In the afternoon a singing convention will be held for the choirs and quartets of Jackson county. The winning choir wil] receive' a complete set of new song books and will represent the county at the big round-up Federation picnic at Swannanoa August 16th. The winning quartet will also be given new books and will sing for Jackson County at the big district picnic of the Federation at the State Test Farm in August. Three cash prizes will be given Saturday for the men who bring the largest number of people to the picnic on their trucks. Robert Jones of Jackson County is the present record-holder for all Federation picnics, having brought 120 persons to the Sylva Federation picnic last year. Awards will also be made to the longest married couple, the most recently married pair, the man with the longest beard and the largest family present. "Every family in Jackson County is warmly invited t0 the picnic," according to Max M. Roberts, Farmers Federation picinc director. Revival Meeting T o Start A t Cullowhee A revival meeting will begin at the Cullowhee Baptist church Monday night with Dr. a. u. Kinnett, pastor of the First Baptist church of Burlington, assisting the pastor, Rev. Fred Forester and doing the preaching. The three adult classes of the Sunday School will have charge of the service, Sunday night. Community prayer meetings are being held at Byrd Fullbright's Tuesday night, at the church Wednesday night, at Merritt Hooper's Thursday night, and at Elbert Watson's Friday night. The pastor will preach Sunday morning. The church just closed a vacation Bible School with more than 90 children in attendance. Miss Louella Brown acted as superintendent. A double-barreled toxoid which creates immunity against diphtheria and lockjaw is being used in California. Sympathetic understanding of farmers' credit problems which enables them , tQ make loans suited to their individual needs. ' . M I " . :: j MR IN ADVANCE IN THE COUNTY lina To Start aving Time unday Night All North Carolina will move its clocks up one hour earlier Sunday night, and begin the observance of daylight saving time, Monday morning, according to proclamation by Governor Broughton. The proclamation is r in line with a request by President Roosevelt that the Southeastern States observe daylight saving time, in order to conserve electric power, needed in defense work. Under gubernatorial proclamation, the counties, municipalities, corporations and individuals in the State are urged to go to work an hour earlier until September 28. This would make a day's work come to a close an ' hour earlier, and theoretically would save an hour's electricity in the homes of North Carolina. All the Southeastern States are cooperating in the movement except Georgia. Governor Talmadge has refused to issue a similar proclamation. >. City and county officials here have wired the Governor that the county and the Town of Sylva will operate on daylight saving time, beginning at midnight on Sunday. There will be no change in the hour of services in the. Sylva churches next Sunday; but the services will be held on daylight saving time, beginning Sunday, August 3. ? In his proclamation, Governor. Broughton called attention to the statement in the request by President Roosevelt, that "sudies . indicate that the extension of [ Daylight Saving hours would re| suit in a reduction in peak loads L and saving of electrical energy , which could be diverted to national defense." \ People in Sylva expressed themselves as approving the ac. tion of the Governor, and it is I believed that all businesses will use the Daylight Saving time. , The Mead Corporation and ! Armour Leather Company, Syl >_ mill Vet 3 < >vvo laigco), uiuuouico, vrui begin operating on Daylight ! Saving time on Monday morning ( in compliance with the proclamation of the Governor, official* , of those corporations stated to a representative of 'JThe Journal this morning. L. J. Broyles 111 At Webster Home J. Louis Broyles, one of the county's oldest citizens, is seriously ill at his home in Webster Mr. Broyles became ill on Saturday, but improved somewhat during the next two days, though his daughter, Mrs. L. C. Hall, was summoned from her home in Hattiesburg, Miss. On yesterday his condition became worse, and was described as be- ing serious. Mr. Broyles was for many years a merchant at Webster. At one time he was chairman of the County Board of Education, 9 I 1 4.1 ?~ 1U? ana nas ueen acuvc in uic wum of the Methodist church and the Masonic order for more thin sixty years, since coming to this county from Tennessee, when a i young man. I ? : Mrs. R. U. Sutton Urges 8. Members To attend The Parent-Teacher Institute t Mrs. R. tr. Sutton, director of District No. 1, North Carolina Congress of Parents and Teachers is urging all Parent-Teach er associations In her district to have representatives present at the PTA Institute which is to be held at Chapel Hill on August 4-8. "The success of our parent teacher work depends upon, trained leadership and every officer and interested member . will be greatly benefited by ati tending this . institute/' Mrs. Sutton tald, * - - -