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Elijah Owen, held in Jackson l|
county jail without bond since f
last July, will face a charge of I'
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brother WiJey Owen, when
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ty convenes at Sylva, next week !
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office of the prosecuting attor- j
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John Coggins and Wilbum <
Coggins are charged with - the i
murder of D. D. Wall at a saw j
mill on Pine Creek, last April.
They were released on a $3,000 ?
cash bond, pending trial. ' . i
There are twenty-n^ne ca^es (
0f operating an automobile j
while intoxicated on the docket; <
seven larceny cases; 1 bigamy j
case; nine charges of violating <
the prohibition laws; two seduc- 1
tion cases: two cases of disturbing
public worship, 2 affray ;
cases. Two abandoment cases, I ]
to charges of forgery, one I ;
;harge of public nuisance, two j j
resist cases, six cases of simple i
assault, seven cases of assault, ]
cases of assault with a deadly
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less driving, five for non-support.
three of carrying concealed
weapons, three of assault on
a female, and two for f and a.
Judge Bobbett is scheduled to
preside over the court, which is
for the trial of both civil and
criminal cases, and John M.
Queen will prosecute the docket.
HOME AGENT GIVES
SCHEDULE FOR WEEK
Miss Margaret Martin, Home
Demonstration Agent for Jackson
County, has announced her
schedule for the week beginning
next Monday, as follows:
Monday, in office* Tuesday,
Cullowhee - Speedwell1 Home
Demonstration Club, meeting at j
the home of Mrs. Frank H. |
Brown, at 2:00 P. M.; Wednesday,
Addie Home Demonstration
Club, at the home of Mrs. Dorcas
Parris, at 2:00 P. M.; Thursday,
Lovedale Home Demonstration
Club, at the home of Mrs. Hester
Henson, at 2:00 P. M.; Friday,
Willets.Rnl m Hnmo Hpmnn. r
I ' stration Club, at the home of
Mrs. George Coward, at 2:00 P.
M.; and Saturday, in office in
Sylva.
I. EllisiON
I DIES MONDAY
III UllFiNIA
G. J. Robinson and other reI
latives here have been notified
of the death, Tuesday, in Bakersfield,
California, of Cecil
Edward Robinson. Mr. RobinI
son, a native of this county, has
been in California for some
time. He was a veteran of the
World War.
Relatives here have issued instructions
for his body to be
returned to Sylva for interment.
1 president hunter
visits rotarians
Cullowhee, (Special) H. T.
Hunter, president of Western
Carolina Teachers and governor
the ninety-first district of
tarians this week visited Rotarians
in Gaffney, S. C Granite
Falls and Hickory. At Hickory
where Senator Pepper of Florlda
and Mr. Hunter were guests
at a reception, Mr. Hunter spoke
on the subject, "My Privilege as
a Rotarian," and Senator Pep^er
talked on the world crisis.
Urmg his visit to Hickory Mr.
Unter also enjoyed a party at
e lake and golfing with fel- I
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REGISTRANTS OVER 28
MUST CONFORM TO
ORDERS OF BOARD
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Although deferred by law
from actual military training,
Selective Service _ registrants
;vho are more than 28 years old
must conform to orders from
;heir local board or be liable to
penalties prescribed for delinquents,
General J. Van B. Metts,
State Director of Selective Serv
ice, cautioned them today.
While the amendment to the
Selective Training and Service
\ct of 1940 recently adopted by
Congress precludes induction of
men who were 28 years of age or
Dlder on July 1,1941, these registrants
must live up to the other
obligations imposed upon them
oy the Act, the Director said.
Questionnaires must be filed
it the request of the registrants'
local boards, he declared, and
any registrant who fails to comply
with such requests may be
considered as a delinquent and
be liable to fine or imprisonment,
or both, under the penalty
clause of the Act.
Although registrants who
were 28 years of age or older on
July 1, 1941, must fill out questionnaires,
Director Metts said,
when it becomes evident that
they are deferred because of age,
they will be placed in the proper
deferred classification by their
local boards.
It is intended, he declared,
that hereafter registrants who
are deferred by reason of age
will continue to be classified in
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istrants, except that they will be
given no physical examination,
and except that those of such
registrants who are being classified
for the first time and who
are not classified into Class IV,
Class III, or Class II will be
classed in Class I-H. Those of
such registrants who are classified
into Class I or Class IV-E
before becoming entitled to de-'
ferrment by reason of age, will
be placed in Class I-H and Class
IV-E-H respectively upon becoming
entitled to deferment by
reason of age, Director Metts
pointed out.
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QUALLA
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By Mrs. Jf. K. Terrell
It was announced that there
will be a Singing .Convention at
Qualla on the First Sunday in
October, which is the 5th.
Rev. J. L. Hyatt preached at
the Baptist church Sunday
morning, from the text, "All
things work together for good
of them that love God " He also
preached Sunday evening.
The September meeting of
_ TT n???Ar,ctrot.lnn Club
tne xiuinc i/ciuuiAMv*MV.%r.. _
met with Mrs. Golman Kinsland.
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Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Howard
Reagan on September 16, a son,
Thomas David.
Mrs. Prank Owen and son,
Robert, and Mrs. Oscar Gibson
and son, Gene, with Mrs. Howard
Ensley of Sylva, spent the
week end with the relatives in
Lenoirk
Mrs. R. F. Hall of Whittier and
Mrs. Lois Snyder of Sylva visited
Mrs., J. E*. Battle, who has
been worse for the past two
weeks. [ *
Mrs. Roxana Carter of Hodges,
S. C., has been sick for several
days at the home of Mr. W. F.
House, but is improving.
Miss Margaret Bird and
Messrs John Hyatt, Jr., Harry
Martin, and Terry Jo Johnson
r?r?l 1 pctp at Cullo
are atteuuuis
whee.
Mr. and Mrs. Winifred Hughes
and Mrs. C. M. Hughes returned
to Canton after a visit with relatives.
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Agriculture marketing news now
is being distributed through the
use of televisiort by a New York
radio station.
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Charley Bryson, 18 year old
Negro, of near Webster, is being
held in the Jackson county
jail, charged with an attempted
assault upon a tour year old
white girl of a prominent Jackson
county family.
The attempted attack occurred
at a barn upon a farm be-...-if
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longing to the little girl's family,
last week. It is stated that
the cries of the child brought
a white boy to the scene, and he
drove the Negro away.
The little girl told her mother
about the affair and the. Negro
was promptly arrested and placed
in jail to await trial at the
term of superior court, which
begins next week.
Few people in the county knew
of the affair, or that the Negro
had been arrested upon such a
charge. .
TOME TO
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OCTOBER TENTH
Twenty one young Jackson
men will leave on October 10
for Fort Bragg to begin their
training in the United States
army, according to information
released today from the Jackson
County Selective Service Board.
The twenty-one men are,
Claud R. L. Callahan, George
B. Sloan, Jr., Frederick Eugene
Deitz, Joe Columbus Higdon,
James Paul Davis, Hayes Ray
Connor, Riddell Jasper Breedlove,
Virgil M. Humphrey, Edgar
Dale Norton, Carl Winford
Mashburn, Alvin EJwood Smith,
Frank William Sherrill, James
Pink Cagle, Ransie - Lambert
Mathis, Carl McDonald Brooks,
Fred Homer Sims, Frank Hayes
Bumgarner, John Mitchell Cabe,
Ira Wood, Harvey Eari Higgins,
Paul Roscoe Painter. Of these
Sloan, Breedlove, Bumjfjarner,
Cabe, Wood, Higgins and Painter
are volunteers.
They will leave by bus at 7
o'clock next Friday morning.
INVENTORY
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All the nation's state motor
vehicle registration agencies are
conducting an inventory of
trucks and buses for possible
emergency use.
Dellwood Pa
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That the cut off from Lake
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ing a short route to the Great
Smoky Mountains from Asheville
will be constructed, and
the plan for widening Highway
19 through Waynesville and
Sylva will be carried out as soon
I as funds and material can be
made available, was about the
gist of what Highway Commissioner
Percy B. Ferrebee told a
group of citizens representing
chambers of Commerce from
Waynesville, Bryson City, andSylva,
at a conference in his office,
on Monday morning.
Mr. Ferrebee stated that a
survey had been ordered from
Canton to Dellwood so that the
cut off road that is to be constructed
in the near future will
be properly and permanently
located. The whole plan calls
for a road from Canton through
Deliwood to Soco Gap and
thence to Cherokee, which wUl
leave Waynesville and Sylva,
and intervening .points, as well
os that Dart of Jackson county
from Sylva to Cherokee, off the
short route east and west from
and to the park. Mr. Ferrebee
expressed himself as being tre
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aWgBy DAN TOMPKINS assess!
MASS MURDER of patriots in
the occupied countries, especially
Czechoslavokia, and waves
of seething unrest throughout
the continent, show just how
the New Order is being received
with jubilation by the populace
of the countries upon whom it
has been forced. Of course, the
Germans say the executions are
for the crime of treason, treason
being opposition to the
grand New Order.
WINTER WAR in Russia is
admitted as the probability in
Berlin. The Germans will drive
as far toward the Caucasus as
possible before the hard winter
comes, and then consolidate
their positions for a defensive
warfare until spring comes
again. Thus Germany would
hold the vast and rich territory
she has conquered during the
present Russian campaign and i
be ready to drive further, if Hit- j
ler deems it expedient when
the weather opens up again. In
the meantime, he could release
vas tarmies for blows, simultanvast
armies for blows, simultaneously,
at Suez. Gibraltar, and j
MR. CHURCHILL, speaking to
the Briitsh Parliament, TTas
stated that Hitler has sufficient
man power and munition^ with
which to drive at all three of
these points at once, if he wishes,
and warns that the danger to
Britain of an invasion has by no
means passed. He, however, apparently
believes that the greatest
danger, when Hitler digs in
for the winter in Russia, will be
to the Mediterranean area, as
he anticipates that this vital
route of supply for the democracies
will be attacked at Suez
and through Spiain at Gibraltar.
At the same time, he apparently
believes that the African coast
/?mint.rv will hp the scene of
major battles, as the Axis tries
to take charge of both sides of
the Mediterranean. The only
weakness Mr. Churchill sees in
the German armaments is in the
air, not that there is any shortage
of airplanes in the Axis, but
rather that there is a scarcity
of trained fliers to man them.
Otherwise, Mr. Churchill sees
the German strength as powerful
as ever, and re^dy and able
to strike in three directions at
once.
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may be expected to
flare up larger than ever when
the winter calls an armistice on
the Russian front. Then the
Germans will renew their attacks
upon shipping to the British,
and America will be again
drawn close to the scence of
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of the whole park
area, and stated that the money
for all this work should not
properly be charged to the division,
but to the State funds as a
whole. Included in the plan, he
stated, is the widening of the
present Highway 19; but he also
stated that defense work will
probably delay that construction
for some time. Only such
stretches as can be done will j
have to be taken ^are of he
stated, and in the meantime the
engineering work will be completed
so that the work can go
ahead when the proper time
comes for the expenditure of
money on large scale construction.
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The group from Sylva, Waynesville
and Bryson City had
stressed to the Commissioner
the necessity for widening No.
19, from Buncombe west
through the counties of Haywood,
Jackson, and Swain. They
reauested that this work be
given priority over any other in
this division, especially that
from Canton to Dellwood, expressing
the opinion that such
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Congressman Zebulon Weaver
will be the principal speaker at
the dedication of the Glenville
dam, which will occur sometime
the early part of this month, according
to information from Mr.
J. E. S. Thorpe, president of the
Nantahala Power and Light
rtnmnariu
The inauguration of the Glenville
hyrdo-electric project will
be held at the power house, and
the program will include lunch
at High Hampton Inn, a brief
dedication ceremony, and a tour
through the mountains to the
Nantahala development, followed
by dinner at High Hampton.
Other prominent speakers will
be on the program, and men
well-known in the State and
Nation will be here for the ceremonies,
it is understood.
STATE NEEDS MORE
MILK AND EGGS
The North Carolina "order"
under the nation's 194^ plan for
record expansion of lood output
will be. for less wheat but
more milk and eggs, E. Y. Floyd,
state AAA executive officer at
State College, reports.
"Despite some recent, inconsistent
reports about Britain
having 'plenty' of food," Mr.
Floyd says, "the British have left
absolutely no doubt but that
they need enormous supplies of
all foods except wheat, and
American agriculture has agreed
to tackle the job of furnishing
those suoDlies. Our own state
job, with first emphasis on increasing
egg and milk production,
will be to boost the output
of just about all foods by
approximately 15 per cent."
North Carolina representatives
of every U. S. Department
of Agriculture agency, led by
State College Extension and
AAA men, started this week a
campaign which will include
visits to every farm in the state.
The purpose of the farm visits
will be to outline production
needs to every farmer, analyze
each farm's l?nd and equipment
and then to give the farmer a
concrete 1942 plan under which
the farm's food production can
be expanded without excessive
expense to the farmer.
Other "basic" food commodities
which Tar Heei producers
will be asked to "bear down on,"
Mr. Floyd adds, are beef and
pork. North Carolina farmers
have never oroduccd sufficient
supplies of milk, eggs,^poultry,
beef or pork to feed their own
state's population. "Tha^ makes
the need for increases doubly
important," says the AAA le^der.
"The 1942 food drive Is strictly
a voluntary proposition," Mr.
Floyd declares, "and farmers
will be asked to cooperate with
the plan only after they have
been shown why increases are
needed and how their prices will
be protected through the Summer
of 1943 by government buying."
HOWELLS ENTERTAIN
ENGLISH SEMINAR
ON FRIDAY EVENING
. Cullowhee, (Special)?Mr. and
and. Mrs. James Howell entertained
on Friday evening the
members of the English Seminar
at their apartment in Davies
Hall. Mr. Howell, who had the
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for the group Percy Van Dyke
Shelly's book, "The Living
Chaucer". Following the . program
a social hour was enjoyed
and Mrs. Howell served refreshments.
| Present for the meeting were
! Professor P. L. Elliott Dean W.
E. Bird, Miss Mabel Tyree, Miss
Anne Rabe, and Elbert C. Duckett,
new teacher,of freshman
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Because of a conflict with the i
meeting of the, annual Singing 1
Convention to be held at Qualla (
on next Sunday, October 5, the 1
Jockson County Central Singing i
Convention will not hold a meet- i
ing on that date, as has b^n
nreviouslv announced. ?
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Mr. R. G. Phillips, president of
the Jackson County Central
Singing Convention, says, in his
announcement: "Due to the annual
Singing Convention held
at Qualla on the first Sunday in
October, the Jackson County
Central Singing Convention will
not hold its monthly Singing
Convention on this date, as announced
heretofore, but will give
way to the Qualla Convention,
and will be glad to aid it in any
way we can. But on the first
Sunday in November ^re-^ill hold
our monthly convention with
the Scott's Creek Baptist church,
at 2 o'clock. All persons who can
sing are invited, and those who
would like to hear some good
singing are asked to attend, and
to tell others who, they think,
would like to attend."
MRS. AMMON MADE
DIETITIAN AT WCTC
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Cullowhee, (Special) Mrs. L. A.
Ammon of Cullowhee has just
accepted at Western Carolina
Teachers College, the position of
dietitian, a vacancy made at
the college recently by the resignation
of Mrs. Dkniel (X Tate^.
the form?f Miss Mary Elizabeth
Maddux, who had for twelve
years, held this position and had
as well taught various courses
in home economics.
Mrs. Ammon, for fourteen
years a resident on the campus
at the college, where her husband
is manager of the college
farm, is , a native of Detroit,
Michigan. She received her
home economics training a t
Thomas Normal Training School
in Detroit. For four years she
was dietitian in the Tucson
Indian Training School in Tucson,
^Arizona. Mr. and Mrs. Ammon
are now occupying an
apartment in Moore Dormitory.
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MPHVNEEE
Mrs. David M. Hall, .district :
president of the North Carolina :
Federated Clubs will preside at <
t?e annual district' meetings, to
be held in Murphy on October i
14, beginning at 10 o'clock in the
morning, eastern standard time.
The meeting will be held at
the 'Methodist church in Murphy,
and will close with a luncheon.
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A number Gf Sylva women are
planning to attend the meeting.
On the program will be Mrs. P.
R. Rankin, State president, Mrs.
Clarence Beasley, second vicepresident,
and other prominent
jlub women of the State.
RAISES 32 STACKS HAT , C
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has put up 32 stacks of
fine hay this year, he reported
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says that ?ie believes the
treatment; ofc his land with lime
and phosphate increased the
hay production by thirty per <
cent.
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J. R. Powell, Fayetteville dairy
farmer, has installed pasterizing
equipment to take care of
milk from his 50 cows.
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With the receipt of further Information
from Washington, it
becomes more and more apparent
that the lack oir sufficient
aower to operate on a large scale
s the principal thing that is
lolding up the immediate allocation
o f sufficient defense
'nnris tn prfto.t a larere mill near
Sylva for the production of
nagnesium from olivine ores. <
It is admitted that there is
sufficient quantities of the mineral
here to justify =fche expendi;ure.
In fact it is believed by
;hose informed upon such maters
that the magnesium in this
:ounty that goes with the olivine
ores constitutes the largest
mown deposit in the United
States, if not in the world. We
lave mountains of magnesium
in Jackson county.
It is also admitted that magnesium
is one of the vital war
naterials, as vital as any. But,
;he difficulty appears to now be
;he reallocation of some 40,000
norse power of electric energy
from the aluminum industry
from plantstalready in operation
to a new plant. A large part of
the electric I energy that is now
being used in the aluminum industry
in Tennessee is produced
from the rivers in Western
North Carolina. Soon other
power will begin to flow to
Tennessee from North Carolina.
notably from the Glenville development
and the Nantahala
development, in Macon county.
It is understood that, the power
from these projects, one of
which is located in Jackson
county will, to a large extent, go
to Tennessee under the present
allotment. The
problem of the magnesium
plant' near Sylva therefore
appears to be either to find new
sources of power, to the extent
of 40,000 horse power, or the reallocation
of that amount of
power, to be ready for consumption
here within approximately
nine months.
In . the meantime, Senator
Bailey, Congressman Weaver
and others in Washington,
working along with the North
Carolina Department of Conservation
and Development, are
trying to iron out ?11 the difficulties
that present themselves,
In an effort to secure the magnesium
plant for JftQl^pn county.
Dispatches from Raleigh
state that Governor BrOughton
has asked for the reallocation of
North Carolina power to the development
of magnesium plants
in Western Nortn carouna.
The rOlivine Products Corporation
has just been granted
papers of incorporation by Secretary
of State Thad Eure, for
the purpose of going ahead with
the development at Webster, Julius
H. Gillist Berte H. Gillis and
M. Louise Buchanan are the incorporators.
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been working at the plant at
Webster for many months, and
various Experiments have been
made and laboratory tests taken
to prove the feasibility of the
process they invented for extracting
magnesium from the*
olivine ore. In fact magnesium . sulphate
is at present being .
produced commercially at the
test plant at Webster. The Olivine
Products Corporation has
rJnmnnftfru t.pri to the OPM that
they can produce magnesium
sulphate, that the magnesium Sulphate
can be carried on
through the process of mag- ^
nesium chloride to metal majg-., V
neSium, which is the essentiai " "*r '
war material, and that tfc can '
be produced in large quantities' / i ii?
here cheaper than can be done.-**-- ,?
elsewhere for the reason that
the nickel by-product will reduce
the cost of production of
metal magnesium.
80, upon the power situation
seems to hang the possibility of
the erection of a $16,000,000
magnesium plant near Sylva,
which would permanently employ
3,000 men.
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