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V fl in advance out 6ommittee m Effect OfPr, On Counti Dl W. p. McGuue, chairman J of the Committee on Transports^'"" and Highways . 0f the Jjuckson County Chamber 0f J Commerce, called a meeting 0f j jjjS committee, Tuesday even iut,'. at which the present sit' Taclrson I || nation as n ax. | ?01111 ty and Western North | Carolina was discussed. . I The members of the commit| tee look with considerable misI aivings and apprehension at the I plans, recently announced in | I Seville papers for the construction of a wide highway from Asheville, via Soco Gap, I to the Great Smoky Mountains national park. The committee lwjs unanimous in its opinion I that the construction of this I road would adversely affect I practically all of Jackson Coun| (v, Lake Junaluska, Waynesville, uzel wood, Babam, Macon I County, Henderson and Tran sjivjnia counties, and would I be cf no appreciable benefit to county, Cherokee coun jx or Graham county. In fact, Ifc committee was of the opin- j [ion that it would benefit nobody except possibly Buncombe 'county, and that the widening of the present highway from Asheville, via Canton, Waynesville. Sylva, and Cherokee to the I park would be of as great benefit to Buncombe as the proposed new highway. With this in view, the committee authorised sub-committees to get in contact with people and organizations in the other counties affected; and with Highway Commissioner Percy B. Ferrebe?, and Chairman, Ben Prince, to press the point that the important matter so far as tourist high- j ways is concerned in this region ; at the present time is the widening of U. S. 19 from Canton to Bryson City. | It was pointed out before tfie \ committee that the construc- i i tion of the proposed road would I adversely affect the values of I thousands of dollars of property ; [along the present route to the I Great Smokies, since many peo- | 'pie, believing that the highway would remain as the permanent route, have invested! in tourist camps, tourist homes, filling stations, and hotels' for the accommodation of the tourists. While, on the other hand, 't was pointed out, there are no . investments of this character ?r practically none, along the r?ute that is proposed. P a ^ _ . . _ 1 ANION IS HOST 1NMY TO ISTRICTIT. A. l A number of Sylva and Jack- 1 son people are planning to be ] Present at the annual meeting of the Parent-Teachers Con- i ?ress of the First North Carolina ' district on next Wednesday, October 1. I Mrs. r. u. Sutton of Sylva, District Director, is scheduled to preside at the meeting, at . I *hich Mrs. J. S. Blair, of ElizaI tethton and Mrs. Clyde R. Hoey ; I be among the list of speakI ers. | Tn m me theme of th* P. T. A. in North Carolina this year is: Childhood and Youth in a j H ^mocracy." f kenyon moody in 1 &ijke hospital Kenyon Moody, who went to ^>ke Hospital a few days ago tor observation and treatment, *rv/ent an operation, from 'Mch he is reported as recoverMrs. Moody and his sister, Mrs. Davisson went to Durham ^Rvediately upon being notified ltle operation. I \ I'' " ' . SIDE THE COUNTY "" Considers jposed Road es Of West NAVY OFFERS GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO MEN IN THIS COUNTRY With the appointment of The Jackson County Journal to assist the Navy in arivine ambit ious young men information: about opportunities the two ocean Navy offers them in technical training and advancement as they serve their country in its emergency, there is expected to be a stimulation in interest in the Navy and in enlist- 1 ments, although Jackson County and Western North Carolina have already contributed more men to the armed forces than ! perhaps any other similar area in the United States. At the suggestion of Secretary of the Navy Knox, The Journal will be of every assistance possible in giving information to the young men of this area concerning the opportunities that' the Navy offers them. According to an announcement made public in Washington, a limited number of additional men between the ages of | 17 and 50 will be given a chance by enlistment in the Navy or j Naval Reserve, to get to the top, with big pay, in jobs which by I their antitiide. and as a rpsnlt. of examination they show themselves fitted, from among nearly (Continued on page 4) PREFERENCE TO BE GIVEN VETERANS OF WORLD WAR ON WPA Veterans' preference in \frPA employment has been strengthened in the WPA appropriation < act of 1941-42, it has been an- i nounced in Washington, according to the American Legion i paper. Effective August 1, world i war veterans, their wives and \ widows are exempt from the 18 month limitation on WPA employment. Veterans have a similar general preference regardless of relative needs. Disabled veterans receiving compensations also are made eligible for WPA employment up to a point where their total income would be substantially equal to that of a WPA worker without compensation from any other source. The WPA is working out regulations for the application of : preference rights included in < the new bill. j ? : 1 COUNTY HOME AGENT | GIVES SCHEDULE Miss Margaret Martin, Jack- 1 son County Home Agent, has 1 announced her schedule* for next week. ( On Monday and Tuesday,''j September. 29 and 30, she will be in her office and on visits to ] homes. * 1 Wednesday, October 1, the Gay Home Demonstration Club 1 will meet with Mrs. J. B. Wetmore, at 2 in the afternoon. Thursday, October 2, Glenville j Home Demonstration Club, 2 P. M., at school. Friday, October 3, Cashier's 1 Home Demonstration Club, at school lunch room, at 2 P. M. | - ? A cho will Saturday, uciuuci OA1V WW . be in her office at Sylva. ? TIME CHANGES BACK SUNDAY MORNING / The State of North Carolina j will change from Daylight Saving Time to Eastern Standard Time next Sunday morning at 2 o'clock. All services at the Sylva churches will be held Sun-' day by Eastern Standard Time, and the industries and mercantile establishments will operate o n Eastern Standard Time, beginning Monday morn' .J % , ' . I ' ' * 1 . . V ' ^ ^ " SYLVA, NORTH MANY VKSrORS SEE T BEAR IN SMOKY PARK A four year old female bear, bearing a victory "V" upon her breast has appeared on the North Carolina side of the Great Smokies, and is frequently seen along the highway to Newfound Gap. J. B. Owen, now of Knoxville, but late of The Journal force in Sylva, took a snapshot of the bear, Tuesday, showing trie DiacK bear with a large V on her breast. The rangers of the Great Smoky Mountain^ National Park have named the bear Victoria. Mr. Owen took the picture as she was standing on her hind legs, with front paws upon the hood of an automobile. With Victbria, is a male cub, also with a "V" on his breast, though the letter is not as large as that of his mother. There is much speculation among the superstitious as to just what is the meaning of the "V" as it appears in the Smokies. Does it portend a victory of the oppressed peoples of the world over the Germans? Peoples in the occupied countries have found many ways of 1 spreading their "V" campaign. 1 By tapping out the figure on tables and walls in the Morse code, by playing the Fifth Symphony, by painting the "letter on walls and even on the backs of i German soldiers, by holding up the hand in salute with first : and index fingers held so as to form a "V" in salutation, and by many other means the campaign has spread throughout distressed Europe; but free North Carolina is the only 1 State so far reported as having ; _ "ir>> T)A?v.nno piuuuucu a v ucai. rciuapo it is the natural instinct of these ; children of the forest for free- ( dom, that accounts for the ap- 1 pearance of the "V" in the 1 Great Smokies. Perhaps It 1 means that the world will yet ' be free. STORAGE I'M BEING FINISHED ; FOR PAPER Mill 4 The new-warehouse1 and stor- ) age room at the Mead Paper { Corporation's Sylva plant is , nearing completion. The struc tural steel is all up, and masons are rapidly bringing 1% L brick walls to the proper height. ; The construction of the new i warehouse, which adjoins the ( mill proper, and will be really a part of the main building, was made necessary because the , capacity of the mill was recently almost doubled by the instal- ; lation of new and additional , machinery. The old storage space was utilized for the installation of the machinery, which is now in operation. BEAUTY AND BARBER SHOP MADE MODERN _________ I The Bon Ton Beauty Shop and the City Barber Shop, located in the Bryson Building, have [' been making extensive rearrangements during the week. Separate booths for each customer have been constructed so that each one can find privacy in attractive surroundings while waiting for the dryers to complete the hair treatments. ? The barber shop part of the establishment has been moved to the front of the building, where it is cut off entirely from i.i? narinr and the whole U1C ucauujr pw?, of the interior has been refinished. " : Beginning at the barber shop, the individual booths of the beauty parlor go the full length of the building, on both sides of a hall way. k f: . "s"" ; - 1 1 ' m t Con - i ' ? ' V t y\ i , CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPT il AS WORLD EVENTS | j UNFOLD I mess By dan tompkWsssssIi ??? !*': THE RUSSIAN jsituation becomes more critical, as fighting continues from the Arctic lOcean to the Black Sea. As this i? written, persistent reports come over the radio that the Germans have penetrated to Leningrad and that fighting is raging in the streets of the city# Germans claim to be in the outer districts of the city, and a British radio listening post picked up a Moscow broadcast admitting that there is fighting in the streets and calling upon all the mote1 than four million soldiers and citizens there to resist to the death the German assault. German reports say that the great city of Leningrad will suffer the same fate as Warsaw, as It will be pounded mercilessly by artillery and airplanes until it capitulates; Further south Kiev, the third ' largest city in the Soviet country ip in German hands, and the Germans are pressing forward to consolidate their victories and to try to give a knock-out blow. Thp Crimea is cut off from the rest of Russia. But, from all the conflicting reports, it is certainthat the Russian armies are still intact and are still able to resist strorjgly. In oth^r words, the disintegration of Russia, which the Germans hoped to accomplish, has not yet happened, and it is certain also that the Russians are making the Germans pay a tremendously heavy toll in material and blood for every advance that 'they make. So rages along a front more than r> AAA l . _ i.?. _ <s,uuu mnes long, one 01 tne bloodiest battles in all human history, as Communists and Nazis fight tor the mastery. But, strange things .happen, and It so happens that the Soviet troops and the Soviet people are at this time bearing the brunt Df the fight to save Freedom in fhe world. The picture is none too rosy, and it is freely admitted in England thar. Russia is in sore distress. OIL is the one commodity that Hitler must now have to continue his war machine rolling, in whichever direction he orders it to go. Oil to run his tanks, his planes, his submarines, must be forthcoming in greater quan-. i ities than he has access to if he is to keep his engine of destruction and oppression running. So, ive may soon see Russians and Britishers battling in the Caucasus to try to keep the German armies from the oil fields of the Near East. That is one of the ?oals of Hitler in his Russian campaign. For oil he would sacrifice the lives (*f countless thousands of German soldiers. Men can be produced in Ger? 1 - AA11T1. many and in uic uwu^tcu yuui*- | tries; but oil cannot, in sufficient quantities for his purposes. THE SEAS separating Eurasia from Africa, including the Suez Canal, are prizes that dangle temptingly before the eyes of Hitler. The weather in the North of Africa is improving, and all indications are that the next front to be established will be there. If the British .take the initiative, and drive into the French colonial possessions west of the Italian territories along the j Mediterranean, it is predicted. that seventy-five per cent of the African French will join the British cause. But, the Germans and- Italians may take the initiative, driving into Egypt and also with the assistance of Bulgaria, through Turkey, thus attempting to drive the British from the whole Mediterranean area, and then push on beyond Suez to clear them out of the shores of the Red Sea. BULGARIA, without the ap? -- I * ? proval of the Bulgarian peopie, may join the Germans, in an assault upon Russia and Turkey. That is likely, if the successes in Russia continue in magni^ tude. At the same time, Japan, which country'has been more or less quiet for several days, is said to have an army of a million men poised and ready to strike Russia in Siberia, if. the ' '--I ' 7 .. it, . ' {.. ' ;t-s. * ff ii ' ] i into 5 EMBER 25, 1941 MM OLD JOBS SACK IF REJECTED Selective Service registrants who are rejected at Army induction centers because they do not meet Army physical standards should be reinstated in their former jobs, General J. Van B. Metts, State Director of Selective Service, declared today, instructing all local boards to utilize every facility at their disposal to aid these men. Pointing out that the Selective Training and Service Act ronnlroc fnrmnr IV/^UAIVW AVTAAAAVA. V^Al^AV/J^lO V\J iV instate men inducted into the Nation's armed forces who satisfactorily complete their military training, Director Metts asserted that employers likewise have a moral obligation to reinstate former employees uho were not j actually inducted but who had patriotically answered a call for service. He said: "A man who responds to the call for military training is ful- , filling his obligation to his country. When, for some reason beyond his control, ne cannot be inducted into the Nation's armed forces, he must be considered as having dicharged his responsibility under the law and should be protected in doing so. Every effort must be made to prevent hardship in such cases." Director Metts emphasized that the mere fact that a selectee has been rejected by the Army does not mean that he is physically unfitted for his civilian occupation. Army standards ne puimeu uui?, arc veiy caciuling due to requirements of the training program and the possible hospittf Nation' or petitions for those who break down. For those reasons, he iterated, only a comparatively small percentage of eligibles cati qualify for induction. While State Selective Service I Headquarters is advised that j Continued on page 2) ;REEDliNS;f BOARD ELECTS! ALLISON CLEM . 1 Charles M. Reed nas resigned his position as town clerrf, because of ill health, he stated to The Journal, today; and Roy C. Allison has been ^elected by the Board of Aldermen to f$l the vacancy. Mr Reed's health is imnroved: . but he has been unable to return to his work regularly for several weeks, and Mr. Allison will hold the position until such time as Mr. Reed's health will permit him to return to work. Mr. Allison is one of the town's leading business men and citizens, and was until recently, when he sold the business to the Sylva Supply Company and the Eagle Five and Ten Cent Stores, head of the Jackson Hardware' Company. HAS OPERATION David Thomas, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. David Thomas, and a student at Sylva High School, underwent a head operation at Duke hospital in Durham. He is reported as recovering nicely. His brother, Mr. Fred Thomas, who was at home on vacation from Washington, D. C. accompanied him to Durham? ' ?o rinoa T* f/1 U-erman suutcooca uppvw. ? make prospects of such a venture successful. AMERICA and Britain are preparing to rush supplies to the beleagured Russians as rapidly as possible, to k^ep the Soviets in the war as long as possible, realizing that Russia is a bulwark between them and a final Hitler conquest of the world. ' ' ~ ; i v/!. ' ; t / ' our m ONE DOLLAR A TEAR Lack Of Vov Establishmei Industry Ii . Is the fact that much of Id Western North Carolina's power Cl is now going to Tennessee for the enrichment of that State, as aluminum is being turned out fcj for the National Defense, stand- ^ ing in the way of the erection h of; a Sixteen Million Dollar ^ Magnesium Plant in Western h North Carolina, near Sylva? This is the question that many w lniormea oDservers arc asking, Q| upon the basis of Information that they have gathered here ^ and there. Application has been made jj for the OPM to back the con- n( siruction of a- plant to extract tithe magnesium from the olivine ii: ores that abound in this county. Gillis and Pawel have^been car- fc( rying on extensive research work ^ at Webster for a long number iU of months. Today they are p] turning out and shipping com- ij( mercially sulphate of magnes- p( ium, from the experimental 3fi plant that is in operation. They p( nave applied for articles of incorporation, and have been in w contact with the OPM. It is cc reported reliably that the OPM p] is entirely satisfied with the ti feasibility of the plan for pro- 01 duping metallic magnesium from fr the ores, of which we have moun- di oains in Jackson County. In p] fi|jt representatives - of the fr OPM have been to Webster and ti have investigated the plant is n now operating. Other represen- tc tatives of the OPM are expected ir within the next few days to tc make doubly sure of the thing ir that they have already express- u: ed assurance, that is the met- o^ sHte^magaesium can-toe wttftrct- V( ed from the olivine, just as at p; present sulphate of magnesium p: is being obtained. Or rather, ir that the sulphate of magnesium p; can be changed into metallic magnesium. 1 si Magnesium is one of the pi metals that the government b< needs sorely in the National De- ol fense effort. Magnesium and m Aluminum are the principal p< metals that the government hi must have. The OPM has put tl up the money for plants in New w Mexico, Ohio, and other places, is in sums of money going above al one hundred millions of dollars, m and it is admitted that as yet ai there will be a magnesium short- th age. It is also*demonstrated, of- w ficials say, that magnesium can be produced at ten per cent less tl cost here than at tite other N plants the government; has al- is readv financed, for the reason S3 the nickel biproduct will amount I th to sufficient to reduce the pro- | m MRS. ROOSEVELT TO 1 SPEAK TO WOMEN fl SATURDAY EVENING , Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt ? will speak to the women of the aation from Hyde Park, Satur- 1 day eveening at 7:30. according to Mrs. Jessie Cordell, Democratic vice-chairman of this county. The occasion will be a picnic for Dutchess County, New M York, women, and the address n( will be heard over the Red Net- tl: work of the National Broad- 01 casting Company. Mrs. Roose- th velt will speak on the National rf Defense- ; / di ? m JUDGE CATHEY TO BE ? SPEAKER AT REUNION o" OF BRYSON FAMILY U1 fe Judge Sam Cathey of Asheville, well known blind attorney, will be the principal speaker at R - - - ? ? ?i the reunion of the Bryson iam- \ ily on October 4. This will be the twenty-fifth annual reunion of this prominent family to be held at Scott's c Creek Baptist church jit Beta. ^ . * ' df ^There is no finer way than the ^ American way. Let's keep it that m way. Buy Defense Bonds. I bt r' ^ iff ' : '/ . ' I "\^p| ' ' '; J.^..' :km * I . 1 I : ~.| " . :; I IN ADVANCE IN THE COUNTY * c. ier Blocks it Of Big i County uction cost to at least ten per ent. It was intimated in Washing)n that the whole thing hinges pon the power situation. If le pl&nt near Sylva is estab? - -? -ii-l A A it. M J snea eiuier suine tu uiuuaa.nu orse power of electric energy lat is now going to Alcoa will ave to be diverted to the Sylva k lant, or that amount of power ill have to come from some ther source. It was also intimated in Washington that the OPM can 3t order the diversion of the orth Carolina power that is 3w going to Tennessee; but lat the people of North Carola can get it done. In other words, it is definitely Sieved in informed quarters lat the erection of a magnesim plant near Sylva, at the aproximate cost of sixteen miljn dollars, which would give jrmanent employment to some 000 men,' hinges upon the c )wer situation. The aluminum plant at Alcoa as built, so we understand, to >nsume dump power. But, the ants there are running full me, and using large quantities ' power, much of Thich comes om North Carolina from the im at Santeetlah, and other Laces, and will soon be coming om (iienvine, ana irom wanihala. All of this Western orth Carolina power is going > Tennessee, and is being used l producing what conceded ) be vital defense material. But l so doing, it may be that the se of North Carolina power ver in Tennessee is also preanting the erection of "a huge lant at Sylva, which would roduce a material that is adlittedly just as vital as that roduced at Alcoa. One solution that has been lggested is that the Canada rong of the Tuckaseigee River * harnessed for the production ' the power needed for the Lagnesium plant; and it is minted out that a power plant ere could probably be ready by le time the magnesium plant as ready to begin operating. It believed that it would take sout nine months to have the Lagnesium plant completed, id that the Canada prong of le river could be harnessed ithin a like time. At any rate, it is believed that le po^er situation in Western , orth Carolina is the thing that holding up the erection near flva of one of the largest plants lat is possible to locate in the oun tains. irmnnrcrc df IlLlllUUlUIU UI IISTRICT MEET IERE OCTOBER 1 The district meeting of the ethodist church of the Way;sville District will be held at le Community House in Sylva ~ i October first. It was expected lat about ninety persons repisenting the churches of the strict will be present at the eeting. Rev. Mr. Stokes of ranklin will preside at the eeting in the absence of Bish) Claire Percell, who will be lable to be preesnt at the conrence. I. BUCHANAN JR. IS ^COVERING AT ETERANS' HOSPITAL M. Buchanan, Jr., who has ?en in the Veterans' Hospital i Lexington, Ky., for several onths, and who recently un;rwent a serious operation lere, is reported as improving, rs. Buchanan is with her husind in Lexington. / -rL ^