North Carolina Newspapers

I 52.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE OUT M Glenville J I Making EIe< For Alcoa crowd of people / II yeiuii; a from Jackson and adjoining counties, and notables from other states and from Australia, Governor J. M. Broughton pushed the button that'started the machinery of the power house below Gienville turning, Monday afternoon. A speakers stand was erected on the new' lawn, and below the newiy landscaped hillside. Bedecked with bunting,, and with the flag of the United States at one end and that of North Carolina at the other, the speaker's stand rose above the crowd seated on the lawn. j. e. s. Thorpe, president- of Nantahala I Power and Light Company, was master of ceremonies. The principal address was by Governor Broughton. who was introduced by D. Hiden Ramsey. Other speakers were D. J. Bleifuss, engineer,* S. K. Colby, vice-president of the Aluminum Con>pany of America, and Sir Herbert Gepp, of Australia. Other notable visitors were Col. W. J. Tompkins and Mrs. Tompkins, I of Washington, representing the United States Army Engineers, A. P. Hall, J. D. Van Deventer, S. A. Lauver, W. G. Bowman, | H. W. Hunt, J. K. Keeg, R. O. , Self, and L. V. Sutton. Each of these people represented power and light companies, this Alumi- ' nnm Comoanv. Allis-Chalmers, I trade publications, or Utilities Commissions. Preceding the ceremonies, a lurrcheon was served at High Hampton Inn, and following them there was a reception at Pine Tops, the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. S. Thorpe, in Cashier's. Liter a dinner was served at High Hampton, at which S. K. Colby, vice-presidcnt of the Aluminum Company was toastmaster. The new power house, using the waters from the Glenville dam, carried by penstock through the mountains, will | generate 120.000,0^0 killowatt hours of current pe~ year, which goes to Alcoa, Tennessee, for the production of 12.000.000 pounds of aluminum each year. SYLVA WILL TACKLE CANDLER HIGH HERE ON FRIDAY EVENING (By Orville Coward) Coach Huff will send his charges against the Candler" high team, on the local field, Friday night. Car.dler is supposed to hbve a hard-hitting team, although Waynesville defeated Sylva last week 34-6. our spirit is still alive. Coaches Huff and Watson have been stressing line work for this week's game. Tin- Hurricane line is plenty heavy and hard-hitting. There wasn't an outstanding lineman ' from Sylva in last Friday's game. Sylva's backfield is a clicking machine, when it gets started rolling. Their practice has been concentrated mainly on line drives, this week. The Sylva fans certainly followed the team last Friday. There were l(j0-150 Sylva fans in Waynesville, Friday night. The cheering section was very good. Sylva has played four games this season, winning t,wn ?nd losing two. They still have five Rames to play. Sylva did not take on Cand. ler last season, but Coach Clyde Peck probably has a particular reason to beat Sylva.. because ?1 his four years' schooling in Jackson County. When Candler comes over why not bt- on hand to see our boys try to avenge their recent defeat? The admission will be 15 cpnts mul 35 cents Friday 17th, al 7:30 p. m. German invasion of Russia has cut Belgium's food supplies to a Point which leaves a calorie deficit of go per cent among youths and adults in urban communities. | I v -,'y ei)t SIDE THE COUNTY )am Begins i ^tric Power ; . J Aluminum 1 , \ U. S. Building World's Finest Fighting Planes t ( The American aircraft indus- c try is now turning out the finest 2 fighting planes in the world, t according to Robert A. Lovett, Assistant Secretary of War for x Air. , . c This statement was borne out t by Walter Leckrone, a writer a for the Scfipps-Howard news- <c papers, who made a lengthy c survey of military aircraft pro- [ duction. He said America is c building the "four fastest and e deadliest fighting planes the i world has ever seen." c Two of these new ships are c the Bell Airocobra (the Army's f P-39) and the I.onkheed P-38. t The P-39 has been tested at s speeds above 400 miles an hour 2 and at an altitude of 15,000 feet. It mounts the heaviest armory of weapons ever carried by a light plane?eight machine guj^s and one 37 mm. cannon. A ; single shell from the cannon is ; powerful enough to blow an enemy aircraft out of the sky. j The P-38 was decribed by Air j Secretary Lovett as "the fast- i est military plane in the world today." The Republic and the Curtiss plants are also building new interceptor and fighting ships. i The Army has four new types of bombing planes coming off the production lines. One of these is the Douglas A-20, which has* a speed in excess of 300 miles and is said to be the best of its class in the world. -The two medium bombers are the North American B-25 and the Martin B-26. Jn describing these ships, Air Secretary Lovett said. "Each carries a crew of five. With a top speed only slightly less than certain famous fighter i t.vnps pnrrpnt.lv uspd nhroad. the I "Jfvu ? ?J , J B-25 has range, speed and load " abilities superior to any foreign ? medium bomber. The Martin c B-26 has a slightly higher top \ speed than the B-25 and its | high cruising speed makes it the fastest bomber of Jts class in the world." I The production schedule on ^ (Continued on pa;e 2) t lirai WEDNESDAY 0N: STREET IN SrtyA i ? James Denton, 69. of Kenne- ^ beck, S. D., fell on Allen Street, ( ? - i. _ J ^ i. ^ M yesterday morning, striken with a heart attack as he was on his way to the office of a local physician, and died before he could be gotten into the doctor's office. Mr. Denton was visiting his f brother, D. Denton, at Tucka- ! seigee, and the two men had come to Sylva yestorday morn- 1 ing. Mr. Denton stated to his J brother that he was feeling un- . well and thought he should call on a physician while in Qylva. . His brother accompanied him and was with him when the at- . tack came. The body was taken . to the Moody Funeral Home. The funeral service and interment will be at Tttckaseigee. Mr. Denton was a native of ] Towns county, Georgia, but had j been making his home in South Dakota for a number of years. He is survived by two children, both of whom Mve in Iowa. MOTHER OF 11 MAKES J FIRST VISIT TO SYLVA i i . ' J Mrs. Walter Mathis, resident 11 of Canada township, whio is the 1 mother of eleven children, made 1 the first visit of her life to Syl- 1 va, the county seat of her coun- I ty, on yesterday. J / .. ' ' ' % * ' *v i chsoi V SYLVA, NOR CAT CAME BACK AFTER YEAR OF WILD LIVING The cat came bacK. Yes, a cat hat lived at the Sylva Supply Company was sen! to Macon :ounty, more than a year ago md turned loose in the mounains. For better than a year titty remained away: but, Satirday morning when employees >f the Sylva Supplv opened up, here sat the old cat atop her iccustomed place cn a counter. She had entered by the small ?4- 4U? 11 l 11 J ai iiuic at wic iccir in uie ouiiang, where she had been ac:ustomed to find ingress and jgress to the building. She was poor, skinny and emanated, but otherwise the :lerks saw only their old feline riend. Now she has a good home or the rest of her life. She can ;tay at the Sylva Supply as long is she wishes, if she could find ler way back home after a rear's absence. 6ome of the em)loyees think that she tried one vinter in the woods, and when he frost began to make the air iomewhat sharp, she began to :ompare the winter in the Ma:on county woods with her ormer winters in comfort of the >ylva Supply building, and itarted for home. Furman Dilard, manager of the meat market department states that it ;hovvs the superiority of the neat he sells, and that the cat >egan to pine for his meats, and lit the trail for home as fast as our cat legs could carry her. However that may be, the Sylra Supply cat is back home igain after a year's absence. JULLOWHJ^CEtlBDF JUNIOR WOMEN MEET The Cullowhe^ Junior Wo nan's Club held its October neeting last Monday night with hisses Lillian and Virginia Mes;er. The girls received the new ^ear books, which Miss Messer ind Miss Anne Bird had made. 5ome of the girls planned to ittend the District Club meetng in Murphy, on Tuesday. Miss Anne Bird was chairman >f the program. She presented tfiss Elizabeth Anne Hunter, vho talked on the subject, "How o Give a Good Party." Those present were, Misses Vnne Bird, Carolyn Stillwell, Jllian Green, Jojuan Galloway, rene Germ, Lojuan Galloway, Jetty Henson, Elizabeth Painter, Betty Price, Thelma Smith, md Mrs. George Tracy. The next meeting will be held >n November 3, with Misses lelen Painter and Virginia tfickels as hostesses. 12 CHILDREN GIVEN GLASSES AT CLINIC At an eye clinic, held yesterlay at the Sylva school, the ;yes of fourteen children were jxamined by Dr. J. R. McCrack?n, of Waynesville, and twelve of ;hem were fitted with glasses, tfrs. Padgett, the county health lurse, selected the cases for the ;linic, which was sponsored by /he North Carolina Commiss on for the Blind and the Sylra. Lion's Club. There are twen;y additional children on the vaiting list for examination. Mrs. Padgett stated, and Dr. McCracken will examine three )f these each week. BUMGARNER HURT IN CAR WRECK FRIDAY Lewis Bumgarner suffered jroken ribs and lacerations, and s in the hospital here recoverng from his injuries, and Ray Dogdill, Oscar Gates, and Miss Stta Lee Carnes were given first lid and returned to their homes following an accident involving ;wo automobiles, one driven by Mr. Cogdill and the other by Mr. Gates, two miles east of 3ylva, Friday night, at about LI o'clock. v ' . './ ' , \ ; 23? iv - * %/ r ' ' ;|V ' f* ' ' [ V it Con - f ' 1 . 'i' - i . : * 'j TH CAROLINA, THURSDAY^ OCT< Club Meeting At Murphy Is Sjiccess I I The meeting of the Federated Women's Clubs of this district, in Murphy on Tuesday, is reported as being a mosb successful one. The meeting was held in the Methodist church. The] day opened with an enjoyable .icoffee hour held in the parlor of the church, where coffee was poured from a beautifully appointed table. . - I The meeting was called to order by Mrs. David M. Hall, district president. The principal addresses of the day were delivered by Mrs. P. R. Rankin, State president, anj Mrs. Clarence Beasley. Mrs. Rankin was introduced by Mrs. E. L. McKee, former State president An enjoyable feature of the day was the singing by the Bryson City High School Glee Club, under the direction of Miss Elizabeth Phillips. Mrs. Dan Moore, president of the Twen tieth Century Club of Syiva, acted as chairman of the courtesy committee, and very graciously thanked the ladies of Murphy for their many courtesies and their nospitality. The attendance prize, a leather secretary's book, was won by the Junior Club at Cullowhee, of which Miss Anne Bird is president. ; J/Among the Sylva ladies wlio went to Murphy for the event were, Mrs. Phil Rtovall, Mrs. Harry Ferguson, Mrs Walter Jones, Mrs. Roscoe Poteet, Mrs. David M. Hall, Mrs. Dan K. Moore, and Mrs. Dan Allison. MOSES IS NAMED V1MAD0F VEST DISTRICT A. C. Moses, superintendent of public instruction for Jackson county was unanimously elested vice president of the Western division of the North Carolina Education Association, at its meeting in Asheville.j last Friday. A large number of teachers from Sylva and Jackson county attended the meeting. MISS CURRIN IS HERE CONFERRING WITH \ i CULLOWHEE Y. M. A. Cullowhee, October 14 .(Special)?Miss Mary Currin, state young people's leader of the Baptist Church has been at Western Carolina Teachers Col'? < ? ??i J ? | lege ior several ua.ys> luiucung I with the council members of the Young Womaris Auxiliary at the college and helping them plan their .activities for the school | year. i Accompaying Miss Currin, 'was Miss Pearl Johnson, Baptist Missionary to Peking, China, who after spending seventeen years on the foreign field of service is home for a furlough until December 7, at which time she plans to return to China. Miss Johnson has spoken on ! several-different occasions dur- | , ing. her visit to CulJowhee on j the Culture of Clr.na and that , country's changing customs as j well as various aspects of the Sino-Japenese war. RITES HELD HERE FOR ENSLEY BABY | ? ! Sybil, small daughter of 'Mr.: j and Mrs. Verlea Ensley died in | a local hospital, Sunday morning, after a short illness. Funeral services were conducted Monday afternoon at the home of the child's parents; and interment was in the Shoal Creek cemetery, with Rev. G. C. Teague, pastor of the Sylva Baptist church, officiating. The little girl is survived by her parents, and three sisters. Patsy, Nancy, and Sue. Mr. Ensley is , manager of the Fanners Federation in Sylva. . L i i K . V. lltll 1 DBER 16, 1941 fr SYLVA P. T. A. MEETS TUESDAY P. M. AT SCHOOL The Sylva Parent-Teachers Association will meet at the high school, Tuesday at 7:30. The meeting is being held in the evening so that the fathers can be present.. A most interesting program has been planned. The speaker will be Mrs. Allen Luther of Asheville. Mrs. Luther is State Chairman of Education for Home and Family Life, for the P. T. A., and fs also publicity chairman for this district. She is a most interesting and -fnroefnl sneaker Her snppphps are characterized by sparkling wit. There will be several stringed instrumental selections under direction of Mrs. Grover Wilkes. After the program, refreshments will be served by the hospitality committee. PAUL BUCHANAN DIED LAST WEDNESDAY FROM HEAT STROKE Paul Buchanan, 19 year old son of Mr. and Mis Omer Buchanan, died last Wednesday afternoon, from a heat stroke. Funeral services were conducted Friday by Rev. E. w. Jamison. Interment was in the Stillwell cemetery. The young man had just recovered from an attack of mengitis, and had been squirrel hunting in the morning and had done some work at home. In the morning, and had done some work about the place. In the afternoon he engaged in a game of horse shoe pitching with aOttw -fr toada-,the game was in progress he was suddenly stricken with the heat. He died a few hours later. Snrvpv Of Tmnsnnrtatinn On Highways To Be Made All farmers and others who own trucks are to be asked to help the War Department in its transportation planning for national defense, reports John W. Goodman, assistant director of the State' College Extension Service. M. L. Wilson, director of Extension work for the U. S. Department of Agriculture, has asked the cooperation of all State Extension Services in the survey to be made. Each truck owner will receive in the next few days a special National Defense inventory card, Goodman explained. He will be requested to return the card (potage free) with information regarding the make of his truck, kind of body, capacity, time of year the vehicle is most urgently needed in the owner's business, and whefher in an emergency he would be willing to hire or lease it to a Government agency. The purpose in collecting these records, Goodman said, is more effective planning of highway transportation in the assembly of defense-industry materials, delivery of military and civilian supplies, relief of dock and terminal congestion, and ^ m : j_? M*i ^ movement or passenger urnixiu in emergencies. "England was forced, in the midst of the war, to make'an inventory similar to the one the United States is nbw about to begin," the Extension leader declared, and he added: "I am sure the farmers of North Carolina will cooperate in this survey since it seems vital to the preparedness of our country for any wartime emergency that might arise." The North Carolina Highway Traffic Advisory Committee of the War Department will send out the-inventory cards. A Sim- | ilar survey will be madq of. buses. C. H. Goslen, who saved three acres of crimson clover for seed year, heads a long list of Forsyth County farmers who are saving legume and hay seed for future use. , . Ai ';*r - ' ' ? : > \ i'y '\ ? ,'J our no $1.50 A YEAR IN AD Governor I Otyer Magne Prospect Inr S. E. VARNER TO HAVE PART TIME IN &YLVA S. E. Varner, deputy collector j of internal revenue will hold an < office open in the post office building in Sylva on the second Thursday in each month, for , the purpose of assisting employ- i ers in making out the returns on i their social security taxes, he has announced. Mr. Varner may be in Sylva on other dates, by special appointment he stated. Mr. Varner said, In an interview with The Journal: It has recently been brought to my attention that a great number of employers of one or 1 more persons are not making 1 Social Security Tax Returns and paying the tax as required by 1 law. I have contacted a num- I ber of employers who stated that they were under the im- : pression that unless they had in their employ five or more per- 1 sons they did not have to pay this tax. Those employers evidently have this confused with the Workmen's Compensation Aot which is a North Carolina State Law. There is absolutely no connection between the two. All employers who employ atiyone or have employed anyone since January 1, -937 (other than labor on a farm or domestic help in a private home) are required to make the quarterly returns and pay the Social Security Tax on their payrolls. This applies to salaries, wages,. for personal services. It includes all kinds of work, such as Boarding Houses, Rooming Houses, Repair work, etc. I \am requested to see that these matters are all brought up to date at the earliest possible date. The fact that the returns have hot been filed and ll-? ?ni/l <1nAO nnf In ono. MIC W*A uuvo uw? way release the employer from the tax obligation. The longer this is put off the greater will be the penalties and interest. I am in my office, Room 9t Post Office Budding, Brevard, on Monday of each week from 8:30 A. M. to 12:00 and from 1:00 P. M. to 5:00 P. M. and on (Continued oil page 2) H8019, GETS PRISON TERHi ASSAULT ' - . Charlie Bryson, 19-year old Webster Negro, was sentenced to serve not less than 12 nor more than 15 years in the State Prison, by Judge Bobbet\, after a jury had convicted him of an attempted criminal assault upon a four year old white girl. i The attack occurred in a barn on a farm near Sylva, and the appearance upon the scene of a young white man caused the Negro to flee. He was arrested I shortly thereafter by the sheriff's department and placed in ; jail, following a preliminary hearing. After a short hearing in Superior Court, the jury promptly returned a verdict of guilty and the young Negro was sentenced for the long term by Judge Bobbett. < The child who was the intended victim of the brutal at- 1 tempt was of one of the prom- ] inent Jackson county families. J While the people of the county i were outraged and greatly in- < censed by the attempted attack < upon the girl baby, there was no ' evidence of any disposition to J take the law in, their own hands. The tropical bamboo tree is ] the most versatile of all world < plants. ! 1 VANCE IN JACKSON COUNTY Enthusiastic 1 isium Plant I rhis County ilj _ ? - !:l The weight of the office of the Governor of North Carolina will be placed behind the proposed .olivine development in this county, and to secure adequate power for its operation, Governor Broughton told a group of Jackson County citizens representing the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, at High Hampton Inn, Monday night. The Governor stated that the machinery of the State would be immediately put to investigating the possibilities, by reports from the State Geogolist, and that if those reports are favorable, he will move rapidly toward the exploitation of the olivine deposits, by approaching agencies of the federal government to induce them to send competent men here to investigate the process and the possibilities of producing metallic magnesium for defense purposes from the Jackson County olivine deposits. At a meeting with the State Department of Conservation and Development it was shown that there is no question of the fact that olivine occuris in Jackson county in very large quantities. After the matter had been discussed to the board by Mr. J. H. Gillis, Dan Tompkins, and the State Geologist the board adopted a resolution requesting the proper federal authorities immediately make an investigation and report on the feasibility of i I producing inagnesium from the before the Governor at High Hampton was composed of S. W. Enloe, as chairman, T. N. Massie, Dr.. W. P. McGuire. Dan Tompkins, M. D. Cowan, M. B. Cannon, Thomas A. Cox. John R. Jones, J. H. Gillis, Dr. H. T. Hunter, E. L. McKee, T. Walter Ashe, and Douglas D. Davis. R. O. Self, clerk to the North Carolina Utilities Commission, who was born and reared at Webster, was also present at the conference with the Governor. The committee that conferred with the Board of Conservation and . Development in Asheville was composed of T. Walter Ashe, M. B. Cannon, Dan Tompkins, T. N. Massie, and J. H. Gillis. Mr. Gillis and his associates who recently incorporated the Olivine Products Corporation, have spent the past, four years evolving a process of extracting magnesium sulphate from the olivine ores, and of changing that to magnesium chlorate, from which metallic magnesium is produced. Magnesium is admitted to be one of the most vital metals for the national defense, since it is used # in the manufacture of airplanes and explosive bombs. Mr. Gillis has submitted plans to the Of- ? fice of Production Management . for the erection of a plant for the production of 30,000 tons of metal magnesium annually. Such a plant would cost ap- '* proximately seventeen million dollars and would give employment to from 2,000 to 3,000 men ? permanently. Mr. Gillis and others interested have been trying to induce: the O. P. M. to send competent engineers and fchemists to Webster, to be present at a demonstration of his process of converting magnesium sulphate to magnesium nitrate, from which the metal monmooinm ic nmvlnnoH Af nroo UJ VUUWVA. AAV |/lVO~ ent the pilot plant at Webster is producing appioximately a ton a day of magnesium sulphate. Hitherto it has been stated that unless some 40,000 horse power of electifjfe energy can be found for the' Operation of the plant, thatr'ft wuold be useless to send chemists to see a demonstration of the process. Local people who have been Interesting themselves in the project through the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, (Continued on page 2) t x, I! II H