North Carolina Newspapers

1 p.oo .4 l'EAR IN ADVANCE OUTS M Bronghton, MSpeak At De wDam At P0 U with Governor J. M. BrouRh I" ton and Congressman Zebuion M leaver as the chief speakers / J m the new Oienville Dam will be i formally dedicated at appropri- I are exercises next Monday. Thp -? "' ?] he introduced by/c IH Govern"* ?? - p Hiden Ramsey. 0 I The exercises will begin at I 1#15 p. m. Following the a<J- e I dre^ by the Governor, there will r I be an inspection of the power a house and a trip to 'he dam and I the lake. On returning to the b I power house the dedication will U I be concluded, and lefreshments c I will be served at the power s I hollSe and dam. d The ceremony will signalize n I die completion of the develop- f I Dielu which will furnish 30,000 1 I hor^e power from Jackson coun- r I ,jj's Tuckaseigee river to be a I transmitted to the aluminum s I urks at Alcoa, Tennessee, and I it \s suited that this power will 0 I be used to add 11,000,000 pounds ^ I to the nat ion's annual produc- r I tirr of aluminum. fligineers, business men, and 11 r public officials will come from < f many parts of tl\e nation to take K [ part in the ceremonies. They will come from Asheville to ^ Glenville by bus. * 1( With a pressure of more than t 500 pounds to the square inch, the water from the Glenville j (bin. with a gross head of 1,215, t highest east of the rockie^, will 2 pour to the turbine at the power L Hnwn thft t IlOUSt*. liutt .. ? !? nver from'the dam. The tur- t line, with 257 revolutions a ' r minute is connected with a 60 j cycle, three phase generator, | ( and will create electric energy j a to be transmitted over 37 miles ! of high tension lines to Nan- fc tahala, and SanUetlah, and j a from there to Alcoa. j 2 I The water pouvs through three and a half nr.les of steel ( pipe and tunnels through rock a mountains. The dam creates a 2 H* 1.400 acre lake in the very heart, of the famous Hamburg Valley. The main dam is 150 feet high, with a base 800 feet thick., and is 900 feet in length, where it 4-U.rx TunVn fAirrQn onH om. J Liuooco Lilt i \ pounds it. just "below the mouth , C of Pine Creek. ^ Onion Skin Falls, just below ^ the dam, has been destroyed, and only a trickle *of water now v drops from the rocks- where the s mighty High Falls of. the Tuck- = aseigee roared their way to the seas, from countless generations. 8CHiHlU IS HOST 10 SUNDAY SCHOOL MEET On Sunday the Baptist Sunday School Convention of the Tuekaseigee Association will meet with Ochre Hill Church, beginning at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. The program committee has worked out the fol-, lowing tentative program according to W. G. Womack, the secretary: Congregational song led by the choir leader of the Ochre Hill phiiroVi 1? v.*U4 Vll. Devoiional conducted by Mr. Grandy Norman of the Ochre Hill church. Special music by the Buff | Creek quartet. Roll Call of Sunday schools. Special music by the Buff Creek quartet. Address by Rev. Nando Stephens Pastor of the Buff Creek Special music by the Buff Creek quartet. Short talks by all ministers Present. Announcements. Congregational song led by he choir leader of the Ochre^ church. i . i ' ' . 1 1 ; , \ ' J; Pj)t Jl JIDE THE COUNTY Weaver To dication Of i !_ *1 w wer l^iant 1 STEW FLAG RAISED AT EAST LAPORTE LAST FRIDAY AFTERNOON | A handsome, new| United >tates flag was raised to the top >f the new pole, in front of East iaPorte school, last Friday vening, with appropriate cere Homes oy tne American Legion ,nd the Boy Scouts A group of school children led >y Mrs. Crawford sang "Amer:a the Beautiful" and "Ameria". Mr. Dan Tompkins, repreenting the American Legion, ielivered an address on the neaning and proper uses of the lag and the courtesies due it. 'hen, as four Sylva Scouts aised the flag, everybody stood t attention, and the children ang, "God Bless America." Mr. George Lee was in charge f the Scouts, and Mr. T. Walter Lshe and Mr. Dan Tompkins epresented the Legion. IOME AGENT GIVES SCHEDULE FOR WEEK Miss Margaret Martin, Home Lgent, has announced the folowing schedule for her work for he week beginning October 13: Monday, October 13, Sylva lome Demonstration Club at he home of Mrs. Ed Grindstaff, ! p. m. Tuesday, October 14, Beta lome Demonstration Club, at the lome of Mrs. Joe Sutton, 2 p. n. Wednesday, October 15, John's "reek Home Demonstration Club it school, 2 p.m...Thursday, October 16, Dills>oro Home Hemonstration Club, it the home of Mrs, C. C. Mason, ! p. m. i . Friday, October 17, Pressley ;reek Home Demonstration Club it the home of Mr^ John Wilks, ! p. m. Saturday, office.. f ????????? , CIRCLE TO MEET The afternoon circle of the /fethodist Woman's Society of ^hristan Service will meet next Vednesday, instead of Wedneslay of this week, it is announced ?y officers. The place of meeting /ill be announced at the church ervice Sunday morning. r j DEBUTANTE D Mmtwr 4iBWn . ? ^|mhk hh s|s > 1 THERE are no "play-girls" among Canadian debutantes these days. ; All young Canadian women are in (war-work of some kind, many of them in industry. Typical of the debutante class is Miss Joan Holland of Montreal. Prominent in the 4-social life of the younger set in that .?ity, she gets out of bed at 6:30 o'clock each work-day morning and Ian hour later reports for duty in the hell-case manufacturing plant where she joins her fellow-workers, men and women, making, inspecting and (Britain. Canada is turning out anu I of millions of rounds per year. ' ' I , ; flcliSO) SYLVA, NOB ilBB^y :iS^:W::S:::S^^::S:::^?^:-:S:^^S:::v^^S^MHI bUUM^:::-888^>>:^:::v::::::-;:::^::i^::.::::::-J^v:v:::::>::::aM?ggag? ^ S ?' /=". s. SK&f/sJ Fred S. Sloan, Western district farm agent since 1936, has been promoted to State Agricultural Program Leader. CUBAN COUPLE PLANRANCHIN WHITESIDE COVE Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Aman of Havana, Cuba, are planning a large cattle ranch on land recently purchased by them from Warren S. Alexander, in the Whitoside Cove. A part of the onn o ipo froof cnlH hv Mr Alex OUU L vi uyv ander, lies directly beneath the Devil's Court House in one of the most picturesque spots in Western North Carolina. Mr. Aman is in the sugar refinery machinery business in Havana. He expects to make his summer home on trie property he has just bought, and upon his retirement from Cuba, to make it his permanent home. Mr. and Mrs. Amen and their daughter, Miss Katherine Aman are spending several months in Highlands. M. BUCHANAN IMPROVING Mrs. M. Buchanan, Jr., who has been with her husband, who has been seriously ill at the Veterans' Hospital in Lexington, Ky., returned to Sylva, Tuesday, and reports that Mr. Buchanan is considerably improved. Mrs. Buchanan will return to Lexington Friday. arc urn RTT UILj TTT7TT Uld ? ' gfiT5? >4? RH' l^B I P^^ <is H& Wl ijvjfl pMp^^H ** B Passed, by Censor stamping shell cases for beleaguered munition of various types at the rate " ' : < 1 ' 11 ' . it f|u ?TH CAROLINA, J* OCT DISK FARM AGENT IS GIVEN NEW POSITION Fred S. Sloan of Frahklin, Western district farm agent since 1936, has been, appointed State Program Leader of the N. C. State College Extension Service, and J. C: "Jack" Lynn, Haywood County farm agent, has Kaon nomoH tn QIIPPPPH SlfW.11 uuc.li iianiv/u wvr as Western district agent, it was announced today by Dr. I. O. Schaub, Extension director. John W. Goodman, assistant Extension director, said that Wayne A. Corpening, assistant agent in Haywood for several years, will take over Lynn's post as Haywood agent* The changes will become effective immediately. Dr. Schaub also announced that J. P. Leagans. a former farm agent in Alexander County, will assume direction of the State Agricultural Planning wor?, formerly called Land Use Planning. Leagans will have the title of Extension specialist in agricultural planning. J. F. Criswell, recently resigned as the leader of this Planning project to accept the position of Bureau of Agricultural Economics leader,, in his native State of Texas. While in North Carolina Cris well helped with the "program development work. However, rapidly changing conditions in agriculture necessitate the full time services of a program planning and development leader, Dean Schaub explained, and Sloan has been assigned that job. Sloan is a native of Macon County, where he was reared on a farm and attended the pubUc schools , of franklin.* He was graduated from N. C. State College in 1928 with a B. S degree in agriculture. While in college, he was elected to membership in Alpha Zeta, honorary agriculture fraternity, and Lambda Gamma Delta, honorary judging fraternity. He was editor of "The Agriculturist", student magazine his senior year, and was president of the Student Pair in the fall of 1927. Upon his graduation, Sloan worked in the Fruit and Vegetable Inspection Service in Eastern North Carolina in the summer and fall of 1928. In March, 1929, he was named farm agent in Macon County. In January, 1936 he was appointed assistant Extension specialist in horticulture, working in Western Mnrt*i Carolina. He was made district farm agent in May, 1936. Lynn was born at Tigerville, Greenville County, South Carolina, only 12 miles from the North Carolina line. He was graduated from Clemson College in 1933 with a B. S. degree in agricultural edi^cation. While in college he was elected a member of Alpha Tau Alpha, honorary fraternity. During the 1923-34 school year Lynn , taught vocational agriculture at Madison, S. C. He was appointed assistant farm agent in Yancey County, N. C., in 1935. The next year he went to Mitchell County as farm agent, in July, 1939. Both Sloan and Lynn are married, and Mr. and Mrs. Sloan have a daughter. Sloan will move his office from Franklin to the State College campus in Raleigh. The site of ] Lynn's office as Western district agent has not been derided upon. BILL MOODY PLANS NEW FUNERAL HOME Bill Moody, mayor of Bryson City, is planning a new and modern funeral home at Bryson City, according to the Bryson City Times. The building will be erected on the north side of Myers street, and will tie con- I structed of brick, 30 by 48 feet, two stories. The firtt floor is to contain an office, and a reception room and chapel, with capacity for 100 people, back of the reception room. I I " * I 9 * : ntij % OBER, 9, 1941 d.C.LiNM J. C. "Jack" Lynn, Haywood Pmmf.v farm acpnt. sinnA 1Q3Q VVUiiWJ ** v*^v?av WMAVV AVWV | will succeed Sloan as Western district agent. JIMMY SUTTON IS MANAGER OF NANTAHALA JOB J. A. Sutton has been made office and plant manager for Bryson City, by the Nantahala Power Company, which recently completed negotiations for the purchase of the Bryson City Municipal Electric Power Plant from the Smoky Mountain Power Company. The Nantahala Power Company, a subsidiary of the j Aluminum Company of America, has headquarters at Franklin. Mr. Sutton, is a Jackson county man, who has been with the Nan- j tahala people in Franklin for sev- j eral years. WHivr. vrtt.KS HAVF. The Senior League of the Sylva Methodist church went on a hay ride Monday evening in Freddy McLain's wagon. They drove to the outdoor picnic ground, established last year by the Jackson County Recreation Unit, on the old road between Sylva and the river. There they enjoyed a weiner roast, and returned to Sylva about 10:30. Twenty one young people enjoyed the occasion. RETURNS FROM DUKE Mr. Kenyon Moody, who recently underwent a serious operation at Duke hospital has re turned to nis nome nere, wxicre he is convalescing. ElijahOwer To Serve T For Slaying Elijah Owen was sentenced to serve thirty years in the State Prison, in superior court here, Tuesday, after he had entered a plea of guilty of second degree murder in the death of his brother, Wiley Owen, -at their home in Canada township on the twenty-sixth of last July. The grand jury brought in p. bill of indictment at 2:15 charging Owen with the murder. He was arraigned by Solicitor John M. Queen, and bis council, Hayes Alley, immediately tendered the plea of guilty of secnnd decree murder which the State promptly accepted; and before 3:30 Elijah Owen had been sentenced to the thirty year term in State prison. His sister, Miss Selina Owen was the bnly fitness except Sheriff Leonard Holden, and she told how^ Elijah had been drinking and had tried to force Wiley to go and get a gallon of I liquor which had been hidden, |and then had got a single barreled shot-gun, loaded it with buchshot, and fired the. load into the body of Wiley as he sat in? a chair on the porch of their mountain home, forty-five miles | ' I ourna $1.50 A YEAR IN A1 Chamber 01 Moves To S< For Magnet SYLVA TEAM TO PLAY WAYNESVHjLE FRIDAY (By Orvil Coward) 3Che victorius Golden Hurricane of Sylva High, fresh from defeating Brevard last Friday night with a 7 to 0 score, will go over to Waynesville Friday to engage the Mountaineers. The Hurricane has had a successful season, defeating Mars Hill High 10 to 0, losing to Murphy 12 to 14, and defeating Brevard 7 to 0. Sylva has high hopes and good chances of winning the Blue Ridge Conference , championship this season. Eight lettermen are playing with the Hurricane. The line-up is heavier than it has been for the last two or three years. The back- , field is small but fairly speedy. Morgan is the best punter seen on the home field in the last few seasons. . , The : Hurricane will tangle with Candler, Friday, October 17. The Candler team is coached by Clyde Peek, a graduate of ] W. C. T. C. This will be a good game. Sylvans, ctme out and watch the Hurricane blow 'em away.. * The starting lineups for the games have been: Aiken, 1. e; Chester, 1. t; Shephard, 1. g; Phelp, c; Ensley, r. g; Cope, r. t; Arrowood, r. e; Morgan, fb; Rector, qb; Cagle, r. hb; Wo macg, 1. no. QUALLA P. T. A. MEETS ON FRIDAY EVENING The Qualla Parent Teaches Aggtirito m e t Friday evening!" with hin. LawfCftee Qordell, the president in the .the chair, and Mrs.4Prank Hall as secretary. The president appointed the following to serve on committees: publicity, Mrs. Kinsland; hospitality, Mrs. Jim Hughes; lunch room, Mrs. Bob Howell. They were appointed to replace members who could not serve. The president gave a few high lights of the district meeting in Canton. Mrs. Cordell and Mrs. Frank Hall represented Qualla at the meeting. Miss Glydn Callahan sang, "God Bless America", after which Mrs. Fraank Hall presented Mr. Dan Tompkins, who gave a most interesting and enlightening talk on "International Relations. ^ _ J iSentenced kirty Years His Brother from Sylva. She told how she had pleaded with Elijah to not have any trouble with Wiley, and had followed him through the yard, holding on to his arm, trying to prevent the very tragedy that occurred in a few minutes. Sheriff Holden stated that Miss Owen told the same story, almost word for word, on the stand that she told him on the evening of the tragedy. He stated that when he arrived at the Owen home, Wiley was lying dead on the porch, and that he arrested Elijah as he lay asleep upstairs in the same house. Solicitor Queen stated to the court that the crime had all the elements of first degree murder, but that he had taken the plea 1 because he anticipated that a j jury would have held that Elijah | was intoxicated and therefore unable to deliberate and premeditate. Lee McPherson f>nd Harry Price were each given two years on a charge of larceny and receiving. William Franklin drew 4 months and a reyokation of (CoiktiBBed on back page) i . . t v. i \? " I 1 I )VANCE IN JACKSON COUNTY ( * :* Commerce icure Power iium Plant The Chamber of Commerce of Jackson County is moving to work out the power situation in order that the conditions may be met whereby the magnesium plant can be brought into being at or near Webster. A group of interested members of the chamber met last evening and made plans of pro- ? cedure in Raleigh and Washington. It has been authoratively re *? i xi i ported mac tne oniy imng umt now stands between financial backing of the OPM and the magnesium plant for Jackson County is the fact that most of the power from this area has already been ear-marked for aluminum production at the mills at Alcoa, Tennessee. The government wants and needs magnesium, and there is little doubt that we have it here and can produce it at perhaps less cost than any of the other plants that have either been authorized or are contemplated. In fact, it is believed that the best bet the government has for substantial increase in magnesium output is from the Jackson county mines. It is also admitted that magnesium is as vital as aluminum in the National Defense, and is needed as badly. One thing that makes the proposal more attractive than the ordinary emergency defense ? plant is that magnesium is rec- ' ognized as the coming metal, and that means that the plant, if established would be a permanent industry for Jackson county and Western North Carolina, and not one that will ekwe whtn- t&e emergency is over. Mfrgnksium, in its various forms has many commercial and agricultural uses. The sulphate of magnesium now being produced at Webster is being sold profitably as fast as it is produced at the test p'.ant L The mill that is contemplated with OPM help, if power can be , r secured, would employ approximately 3,000 men permanently. REPORTS GIVEN ON SCHOOLS RV r.RAUIl IIIRY I Ill UllflllU (J(J111 A committee of the grand jury, investigating the schools, made a most favorable report of the physical condition of the county's school property. The report was signed by A. F. Arrington, C. D. Carres, David H. Rogers, and G. E. Bumgarner. The report is as follows: We the undersigned committee members of the Jackson County Grand Jury after an investigation, have found that all recommendations of the former Grand Jury have been duly met. We also find that two new school buses have been added each year for the past two years and that bus drivers have been examined by the State Highway Patrol and licensed to drive school buses as required by law* All school bus drivers are adult drivers. All buses are in good mechanical condition. Considerable improvements have been made in the Webster school building to care for the home economics department! A new brick building, which Is nearing completion, is being constructed at Balsam to replace the building which has been in a deplorable condition for a good many years. There is also a new school building which is almost complete and is now being used in the Savannah section of the Webster District. Plans are under way to begin a new building at Barker's Creek (Continued on back page) / I'M