North Carolina Newspapers

I ^~Z~YEAR IN ADVANCE OUl J Western Ca Celebrate fi I Da y On Ne (Xiie annual homecoming at Western Carolina Teachers Col' lege will get under way at ten o'clock. Saturday morning, marking the fifty-second year of the foundation of the institution by Prof. Robert L Madison and a group of citizens of Ctillowhee.v Featurintr the celebration will be the presentation to the college of the portraits of the three presidents of the scnooi at niau A M.. by the various class offiJers, and their acceptance by D. Hiden Ramsey, chairman of the board of trustees. Following that Mr. Ramsey will conduct the ceremony honoring Prof. Madison. Dr. Frank P. Graham, Mrs E. L. MeKee, and Governor Hoey. the four people for whom the college has named its new buildings. Lunch will be served free to the alumni and guests of the college at one o'clock in the col- i lege dining hall. I At three o'clock the Homering football game will be- J iin on Hunter Field between Western Carolina and High ! Point College. Jonathan Woody, president of tho'-ilnmni association, will nrp side at the annual banquet at 6 30: at which time Mrs. E. L. McKee will be the principal speaker. Mrs. Gulley and Mrs. Fisher are in charge of the special music for the occasion. The day will close with the alumni dance in the Breese gymnasium. Those who' have watched the growth of the college under the I present administration know that its expansion in every direction has been little short of phenomenal. The school has increased in value since he became president from a plant; valued at $200,000 lo one worth approximately 1,500,000 dollars. The enrolled college students have increased from less than 50 in the fal] of 1938 to approximately 500 during the last year. The graduates have grown from eight in the normal class of August, 1924, to the degree class of 1944 in 1940.'Fur-j thermore. the personnel of the faculty has grown during this ! time from a membership of : twelve to 41 teachers. The pres- j ent administration has also j witnessed the standardization of i the college, its acceptance by the North Carolina College conference, and its admittance' to the American Association of Teachers' Colleges. At nresent. it I is being considered for admittance to the Southern Association of Colleges and Universities. Western Carolina Teachers College is rapidly and definitely assuming a commanding place in the educational leadership of Western North Carolina! . r When the orchestra plays "Home Sweet Home" at midnight as the finale of the day's colorful program, the fifty second homecoming celebration at Western Carolina Teachers College will come to a close. . Chapman Speaker At I Annual Dental Meeting I Dr. w. Kermit Chapman, of I Sylva, president of the First I District Dental Society of North' I Carolina, presided ?.t the twenI ty-first meeting in Waynesville, I Monday and Tuesday, and deI livered the annual address, on I Monday. I The meetings were held at I Hotel Gordon. 1 Oyster Supper I The Qualla P. T. A sponsored I ari oyster supper on Saturday I niSht, October 18, in connection I an operetta, "The MadI caP", given by the school. The I ^roceeds from the supper will I Je used for the purchase of I books. '* . I I I ' 'I ! El)t li SIDE THE COUNTY rolina Will ? 'I [omecoming xt Saturday TOURNEY TO BE HELD AT CULLOWHEE NEXT MONTH O N i CAMPUS I. Cullowhee, (Special) ? Plans are being completed for the sixth annual Western Carolina dramatics tournament to be held on the campus of Western Carolina Teachers College Friday and Saturday, November 7-8. * 1 The event will be sponsored by the Western Carolina Players who will award a trophy to the winning play and gold med- j ' als to the most talented boy and ! ! the most talented girl player. I I An all tournament cast of ten ! 'characters from the players ; will also be named. Any . high school in North | Carolina is eligible to enter a one-act serious drama in the i tournament upon the payment of a two dollar entrance fee. The college as host to the i visiting casts during the two I days will provide rooms and j meals free for participating I guests. "Child Wonder" by Pete Wil- j liams, produced by the Hendersonville dramatics club and directed "by Mrs. Waller Allen won first place in the tournament j last year. Gold meaais ior outstanding performances were awarded to Jack English of Hendersonville, and Eleanor Israel of Candler. MR. MOSES MEETS WITH F. F. A. GROUP (By Orville Coward) Adam C. Moses, Superintendent of Jackson County Schools, met on Tuesday with tho Fourth , Section, Future Farmers o f America Club. He was the prin- i cipal speaker and talked on citizenship. He said that he was sold on the idea of vocational agriculture in the schools, and commented on the early success of the chapter, and the | arrangement of the agriculture dpDartment in the 'school. Reeves Kitchen, Hobert Henry and Wilburn Cope, opened the meeting with a song. Short talks were made by Carl Davis and Orville Coward. Following Mr. Moses' speech, the trio sang another song; and Mr. Corbin, teacher anql organizer of vocational agriculture here, showed the department library. The meeting was closed with the Salute to the Flag by the members of the club. mm of movie theatre has been begun i ??With the huge task of excavating having been finished by Ferguson and Parks in record time, the work of laying the foundation and the erection of the new moving picture theatre for Frank Massie has started, and will be rushed to comple"'HViin riinPtv daVS. WU11 muiua U? ^ m The Junaluska Supply Company, of which Jerry Liner is manager, has the contract for erecting the building, which will be the newest and best moving picture theatre in Western North Carolina. It is believed that the building will be ready for occupancy before the first of the year. RISING ? * At mid-September- levels, retail food costs were 110.8 per cent of the 1935-39 average, the highest level since January, 1931 reports the U. S. Department of Labor. J . ' 4 ' 1 n m s * >ip 2v icksyi SYLVA, NOR' GEORGE BRYSQN INTERRED HERE LASTTUESDAY George W. Bryson, native of Sylva, and a member of one of Sylva's first families, died at his home in Biltmore, Sunday night, following a stroke of paralysis. Mr. Bryson, who was 60 years of age, had been in ill health for several months. He was a son of the late Capt. A. W. Bryson. one of the earliest residents of Sylva, and grew to young manhood here. He later engaged in business at Canton, at Sunburst, in Tennessee, and last in Biltmore. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Maude Davis Bryson, formerly of Bryson City; four daughters, Mrs. Hubert Teal, Raleigh, Mrs. Dan Luther and Misses Gertrude and Joyce Bryson, of Asheville; four sons, Robert A. Bryson, Raleigh, George W. Bryson, Jr., Fort McPherson, Bill Bryson, Knoxville, and Charles Bryson, Asheville; one granddaughter, Martha Teal, Raleigh; one sister, Mrs. Carrie McKee, of Brevard, and one brother, R. Edward Bryson, Asheville. Mi. Brjdten was a Mason and a member of the Methodist church, in Sweetwater, Tennessee. Funeral services* were conducted at Berryman Funeral Home chapel, in Asheville, Tuesday morning, by Rev. F. O. Dryman, and interment, was in the Keener cemetery jn Sylva, Tuesday afternoon. LETTER FROM IHIIMMV PiDDIC Wllilll M. X lAAMHAIJ IN LONDON The following excerpts from an interesting letter written by Johnny Parris, over-night editor for the United Press, in London, to his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Parris: "I hope that you are well and happy. Had a letter from Jean this last week with some pictures that she took while down there with you all. They are very good. I certain^ would love to be there. Those mountains lnnk wonderful. Here it is so early in the morning and in just another hour I will be off work and will be on my way home to get some sleep. I rather like this new shift which is from midnight until 8:00 A. M. I was made overnight editor several weeks ago and New York office is rather pleased with the job I am doing. I have had quite a number of congratulatory cables from them saying that my dis patches were swell and were getting good play throughout the country. Yesterday, we had our regular Sunday baseball game?or soft ball, I should say, at Regent Park. Thfe American Newspaper Correspondents played members of the U. S. Army and Marines from the embassy here. Yesterday's game was the best we have had. The British Broadcasting Company came out to do a broadcast of it. We went into the ninth inning trailing by four runs. It looked like we were beat. Walter Kerr of the New York Herald Tribune came up and hit a home run. That put us iust three runs behind Then Charlie Collingwood of Columbia Broadcasting Company got a hit. Bill Giblin of the American Red Cross and Bill Downs of United Press struck out. That made two outs and lis still three runs behind. Bob Lewis, of the American Red Cross, playing second base for us, got a hit and drove Collingwood in. Bill White of the Herald Tribune got a single. That put the tying run on base and I came up to bat. The first ball came over just a wee bit high on the outside and I ste\ ped into it really got hold of it and slammed it over the right fielders' head for a home run and the eld ball game ? J.-lEffcl'' ' " ?b'*r I i Con ' rH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCT IAS WORLD EVENTS I UNFOLD I 8S8By DAN TOMPKINS 869888$ AN AMERICAN naval ship is torpedoed with the loss of eleven lives. An American freighter flying the flag of the United States, is sent to the bottom of the South Atlantic. Another American-owned merchantman, flying the flag of our sister Re I public of Panama, it attacked and sunk. "Piracy", says Secretary Hull. "Piracy", says President Roosevelt. "Millions of Republicans are determined that the ugly smear of extreme isolationism be wiped from the face of their party", says Wendell Willkie. And the number of isolationists in and out of Congress grows smaller day by day Millions of people are relearning the fundamental principles of international law and decency, of foreign policy, upon which our country based itself from the beginning. Millions of people are learning the fallacy 1 of the doctrine with which we _?u?i j i were qonuiiuuuaiy uiucuiateu, | and which kept us out of the League of Nations, the doctrine that men and nations can live unto themselves alone. < JAPANESE newspapers, b y front page editorials, and otherwise, are trying to work the Japanese people into a lather, with stories of encirclement of the empire by Russia, England and America. Th^at followed a great exodus of German tourists and diplomats into Tokyo, and the successes of German arms in Russia. Add it all up, and it is easy to seo that Ger- ! many is trying mightily to force the issue between America and Japan in the Pacific area. But, the conservatives in Japan are still fearful of the results. The Japanese papers fail to tell their readers^ that if there, is an encirclement of Japan, it was brought about by war-like attitudes, and aggressive campaigns of the Japs against their neighbors and our friends. America would like nothing better in the Pacific than to have peace in the Orient, with free trade for all nations and friendly inter20urse between us and the Nipponese. (But, Japan, an Axis partner, and the beginner of the present age of aggression, would have none of it. MOSCOW still holds outMwith i he Germans some sixty miles away from the great city; and the Russian stand is believed to be holding the German onslaught back from the city, and the snows have come again as the great and ancient ally of Russia. It is probable that Moscow will hold out until spring. But, the German successes further south are a cause of worry and alarm. As town after town and city after city falls, the Germans are drawing closer to the Caucausus with its vast stores of oil. GERMAN troops and supplies have crossed the Mediterranean to Africa, and it is believed that an assault upon Tobruk is in the offing, which if Buccessful would give the Germans aft Atlantic base, only 1,800 miles from the American continent. MOSES MADE OFFICER IN SCHOOL GROUP Adam C. Moses, superintendent o f Jackson county schools, 'was named as vicepresident of the western district North Carolina State School Board Association, at a meeting of the association in Asheville, Monday night, j Jack Messer, of Haywood, was elected president of the group. crowd went wild and I was proclaimed the hero of the day.*I was then called to the BBC microphone to say a few words since I am also captain of the Correspondents team. It was some fun. I got four hits out of five times up yesterday and have been hitting for that average in all the games we have thus far played. We are tlue to play the Embassy team again (Continued on page 4) ... * 4 ntij 1 OBER 23, 1941 P. T. A. HEARS MRS. LUTHER IN TIMELY TALK An inspiring address by Mrs. Allen Luther, of Asheville, State Chairman of Education for Home and Family life, was the principal feature of the meeting of the Sylva Parent-Teacher * m-_ a i t_ i. ? # associanun, xuesaav nigm. Mrs. Edgar Duckett, president of the local association, presided at the meeting, which was held in the evening, in order to encourage the presence of as many of the fathers of school children as possible. Rev. G. C. Teague lead a devotional, reading the passage of Scripture in which Jesus Is described as "growing in stature and in favor with God and man", and using it as a basis for discussion of the normal growth of a child, physically, mentally, and spiritually. A report of the district meeting at Canton was made by Miss Annie Louise Madison. Miss Joan Barrett favored the group with a piano solo, "Amaryllis". Announcement was made of a meeting of P. T. A. workers of this county, to be held at the Sylva school on November 7, and those attending the meeting were invited to have dinner at the school cafeteria. ^ When the attendance, count was made, Miss Belzora HoWen's primary grade, Mrs. Freeze's elementary grade, and Mrs. PIqiiHp ramnhpll'? Vtiorh room were found to be the attendance winners. Mrs. Dan M. Allison, chairman qf th,e hospitality committee invited all those present to go to the home economics room for refreshments, wfiere coffee and sandwiches were served. ARMISTICE DAY CELEBRATION IS BEING PLANNED William E. Dillard Post, American Legion, the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, and other organizations are planning a celebration of Armistice Day in Sylva. | j. iic i/cxiv<xlive picuia iiiuiuuc a, parade, of veterans. National Guardsmen and others, the decoration of all the stores and the streets with bunting and American flags, patriotic addresses, a dinner for former service men and women, and the widows of veterans, and1 a football game at night on the high school gridiron. Ed Bryson, commander of the Legion post, and John R. Jones, manager of the Chamber of Commerce, together with committees that have been or are to be appointed, will work out the details. The Town of Sylva, through Mayor Gibson, has expressed a desire to make the day as enjoyable as is possible, and the town will co-operate with the Legion and the Chamber of Commerce in the effort. STUDENTS WANT NEW nrvrkrrn at t onn aTvrrTTMr > rUUlDAIili OAAl/IUiU There is a movement on foot among the boys and girls of Sylva High School to secure a football stadium for the institution. There has been a great deal of interest in the sport here in recent years, and the crowds attending the games is increasing rapidly. The boys and girls point out that a stadium would further stimulate interest in the sport and in the school not only among the younger people of the community, but also with the older ones. ournn $1.50 A YEAR IN A] Texas Magn Calls For R From Olivii W. N. C. METHODISTS HOLD CONFERENCE IN WINSTON - SALEM The Methodist preachers of Western North Carolina, their wives, and a large number of lay delegates from this part of the State, are meeting this week in Winston-Salem, for the annual Western North Carolina Conference. Rev. and Mrs. A. P. Ratledge left Monday morning. Rev. and Mrs. Walter Lee Lanier left on Monday also, while Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Gentry left Webster on Sunday afternoon. Mr. Ratledge has completed four years at Sylva, and. if the usual custom is followed, he will be sent to another charge this year, and another minister designated for Sylva. It is believed thak Mr. Lanier will return to CuUowhee. Mr. Gentry, ^though he has been at Webster but one year, expects to be sent elsewhere, as he has so requested, due to the health of his young daughter, which he believes will be improved by a lower climate. MISS COLLINS TAKEN BY DEATH AT CLYDE Miss Nell Collins, 64 died at her home in Clyde, Monday of ? pAlUno mac <X Iiei&l b Ubtau&. IVllOO V/UUUIO naa the daughter of the late Joseph A. Collins, and Mrs. Collins, who moved from Webster to Clyde years ago. Mr. E. L. McKee, of Sylva, is her Uncle, and Mrs. Hannah Hall, of Cullowhee^ her aunt. Funeral services conducted at Clyde, Tuesday afternoon . CANTON MEETS SYLVA HERE FRIDAY NIGHT A real high school football game will be staged on the local gridiron, when Sylva High meets Canton, Friday night. I A feature of the game will be the arrival in Sylva of the Canton High School band, of 60 pieces, which is coming under the sponsorship of the Lion's Club of Sylva. The band and players will arrive about 6 o'-clock and will g.t to the Community House, where the Sylva P. T. A. will serve sandwiches and drinks to the young visitors from Canton. BOV IS WOUNDED mini uiQTAmi IYIIL11 iMdimiLll FOR GROUNDHOG Gerald Cowan was shot and severely wounded about five o'clock Saturday afternoon, when he was accidentally shot by John Wesley Buchanan. Mr. I Buchanan stated that he mistook the boy for a groundhog, when he saw him moving through the weeds. The young man is the 14 year old son of Mrs. Oliver Cowan, and the accident occurred when Mr. Buchanan was hunting near the Cowan home, on the East Fork of Savannah creek. Mr. Buchanan orougnt me boy to Sylva where he was treated at the office of a local physician, and then taken to a Franklin hospital. About fifteen shot gun shot took affect in the boy's abodmen. MUTTON Raymond Garris of Rt. 1, Deep Hun, Lenoir County, has mutton for the larder, wool for the market. He recently bought eight grade ewes and a purebred Hampshire ram. - m ' i i ] DVANCE IN JACKSON COUNTY esiuin Plant 4. aw Material le Deposits n (By Dan Tompkins) A plant for the production of magnesium, recently authorized by. the Office of Production Management and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, to be erected in Austin, Texas, has already called upon pro ducers here to furnish raw materials from North Carolina olivine, it has been revealed. It was taptically admitted that the supply of raw materials in Texas is inadequate for the operation of the twelve million dollar plant, and the operators turned to North Carolina olivine as a source to supply the twothirds additional raw material for that plant. It has also been revealed that another plant, already authorized, has made the same request for raw material from North Carolina olivine. The trouble is that the freight to these plants would be more than the value of the raw material; and, as the Governor of North Carolina stated to a group recently, North Carolina has been feeding the cow too long already, and somebody else milking her. We want to milk this cow in North Carolina. Not a single defense industry of any appreciable size has been .. located in Western North Carolina. We are confident that in the instance of olivine for the production of magnesium, we have everything that the government could wish. We have unlimited supplies of olivine. We have sulphate deposits of known extent from which we can produce all the sulphuric acid necessary for producing the magnesium sulphate' from the' ^iUyine. Our materials are available. They are in close proximity to the railways They are located along excellent roads. We have the water power necessary for all the electric energy that would be needed. We are close to the great manufacturing centers. And, we are confident that we have the process already developed for the production of metallic magnesium from olivine. But one thing is now needed, it is pointed out here, and that is an investigation by competent authority of the processes, which we confidently believe would lead to approval of the entire project. Mr. Arthur H. Bunker, Chief of Aluminum and Magnesium Branch, Office of Production Management, in a letter to Senator Bailey, states: "We have given considerable attention and thought to the possibilities latent in the olivine deposits of North Carolina in the manufacture of magnesium. I can assure you that the difficulties in this regard are by no means confined to the availability of power but stem in the conversion of magnesium silicate into the chlorine on a large and continuous scale." Mr. Julius H. Gilhs, at the pilot plant of the Olivine Products Corporation at Webster, has already done what the authorities said was impossible, and is daily producing magnesium sulphate from olivine ores on a commercial basis, by treating the olivine with sulphuric acid. He has repeatedly asked the Office of Production Manage ment to send experts to Webster for a demonstration of his further process of converting magnesium sulpha t? into magnesium chloride. Mr. Bunker, it was remarked here today, may have given considerable thought to the possibilities. Tn fact it is a safe bet that he has done so; but it is pointed out that so far he has not gone sufficiently into the exploration of the possibilities to send experts to Webster to see with their own eyes that it can be done. In the meantime organizations and individuals in Sylva are continuing to press for a (Continued on page 4) * ' J # t i &