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lnty Will
ebration
Here N
E. Dillard Post, Amer- |
I jean Legion and the Chamber
I 0f commerce, in cooperation
I with the Town of Sylva and the
I public schools of the county, are
I planning a memorable Amistice
I Day Celebration for Sylva and
I' jackson County.
I it is planned to have a parade,
I lecj bv the Western Carolina
I band from Cullowhee. the AmerI
ican Legion, and the Boy Scouts,
I followed by school children, a
I Red Cross float, a Fire DepartI
ment Display, and other features
I at about 10 o'clock in the mornI
ing. Following the parade, there
I will be speaking at Sylva Ele
mpntarv School.
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I in the afternoon, a football
I game will be staged on the
I school grounds, and the even
nig the Legion and other former
I service men and women will
I hold their annual dinner.
Edward Bryson, commander of
I the Legion Post has appointed
I jpe Davis, Raymond Sutton, '
Walter Ashe, and others as a
' committee from the Legion to
I make arrangements for the celeI
bration. The Chamber of ComI
merce appointed A. J. Dills, T. I
I W. Ashe, H. Gibson, George
Trjcy, and A. K. Hinds as its
| committee on the celebration;
and John K. Jones ana m. u.
Cowan as a committee to secure
a good speaker.
The committees are conferring
with school and town and
county authorities, and with
other civic bodies in making the
arrangements for the parade
and celebration.
Merchants of the town have *
ordered a large number of flags
for display. 4
FARMERS MUST NOT
BE A LIABILITY IN
NATIONAL DEFENSE
"A farmer who i? forced , to
spend money for milk, pork,
Doultrv and other products he
could produce at home is a li~
ability in the National Defense
program," says Dean _ I.
Schaub, director of the" N. C.
State College Extension Service.
"Every ounce of dniry. poultry
and other such products is
needed to feed defense forces ]
iru.Army camps and industrial '
centers, and our friends who ?
are resisting aggression in Eu- i
rope," he declared.
Dean Schaub pointed out that '
the Farm Census showed that, j{
in 1939, there were no cows on
98,204 of North Carolina's 280,- 1
000 farms; no hogs on 86,604 1
farms; and no chickens on 33,- 1
154 farms.
"That means," he asserted, J
"that about one-third of our
farmers were buying milk and (
hog meat, and about one-sixth
were buying eggs, or else they 1
were doing without these es- 1
sential health foods. Either sit- !
uation is bad. ^
"For instance, if they were j
buying canned milk they were
reducing the supply available for {
export to Great Britain. If they 1
and their children were doing
without milk, they were undernourished
and no nation
achieves total strength unless all
of its citizens are well fed."
The Extension director says
that North Carolina can make
its biggest contribution to the
Food for Freedom" campaign
by seeing that every farm has
at least one cow, some pigs, and
' a farm flock of poultry. "If we
do that- we will more than meet
our eoalc rvf ;? 1 *?
ui urcreasea proauc- 1
tion sought in-1942. The aTerage
I cov/ in North Carolina produces I
3.900 pounds of milk annually.
each of the farms without a
c?w in 1939 had only one in 1942,
the state's milk production
w?uld be increased about 383
Million pounds. Wc "'are only 1
as^ed to increase our milk production
in 1942 about 81 milpounds
over 1039."
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ovember 11
SIX PERSONS KILLED
IN JACKSON COUNTY
FIRST 9 MONTHS OF '41
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Ninety-five of the 100 North
Carolina counties were charged
with one or mnr#? traffic fnt.aH
ties the first nine months of
this year, and 66 of these showed
increases over the same period
last year, the Highway
Safety Division .reports today.
Jackson County was charged
with 6 traffic deaths through
last month, against 2 during
1940.,
The only counties with clean j
records at the close of Septem- j
ber were Alexander, Avery, Dare 1
and Polk.
For the state as a whole, there
were recorded 857 fatalities dur
ing tne iirst nine monins 01 tnis
year, an increase of 37 per cent
above the 622 listed through
September of last year. This was
about double the national increase.
The counties with the worst
records in comparison with last
year are: Wake 39 against 16;
Davidson, 21 against 6; Pender,
16 against 6; Onslow, 13 against
2; Halifax, 16 against 6; Durham
20 against 8; and Cumberland,
34 against 18.
An even 100 of the 857 fatalities
occurred in the 28 cities of
the state, against 94 in the same
period last year. Those included
1ft in Phorlntfi* 19 ir? nnrham
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8 each in Raleigh, Greensboro
and Wilmington, and 7 in Asheville
and Fayetteville.
Ronald Hocutt, Director of the
Highway Safety D'viaton, said,
indications are that the October
toll will be high and may bring
the 10 months total for this year
up to the 1940 twelve months
total of 989.
NANTAHALA CO.
GETS NEW TRIAL
!N COURT HERE
The Nantahala Power Company
was granted a new trial
in its appeal from a verdict in
Jackson County Superior Court,
in which the heirs art law of J.
W. Davis, Miss Ida Moss, and W.
C. Norton were awarded $45,000
riamaorp.c fnr diversion of the
Tuckaseigee River from its natural
course, thus removing the
potential value of the property
is a power development.
The Power Company appealed
and a new trial was ordered.
Judge Barnhill, writing the
opinion, said:
That the court below permitted
the cause to be tried upon
the theory, in part, that the respondents
(landowners) are entitled
to compensation for the
diversion of the waters of
ruckaseigee river on the basis
of advantages thereby accruing
bo the petitioner (power company),
That is on the basis of
the enhanced value of its de-?1
raonlflnor from the
YtMUpiIldi u
use of the water as diverted...
"The market value of property
is the yardstick by which
compensation for the taking of
land or any interest therein is
to be measured and market value
of property is the price which
it will bring when it is offered
for sale by one who desires, but
is not obligated to sell it, and is
brought by one who is under no
necessity of having it."
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With all the British have been
able to do toward increasing
food production, they have been
able to boost their pre-war total
only about 10 per cent, giving
them 40 per cent of what they
need.
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[MOTHER OF FIVE
KILLS SELF AT
WILLETSHOME
Stark tragedy stalked in a
little home near Willets, last
Wednesday, when Mrs. Jessie
Fisher, wife of Sam Fisher, and
mother of five children, the
youngest ^nly a few month old,
died instantly of shotgun
wounds, said by the coronor's
jury to have been self-inflicted.
Officials stated that evidence
ni-i i a
onuwcu mis. r lsiier naa laKen a
20 guage shotgun and shot herself
in the head. She was 32
years of age.
Upon being called to the scene
officers of the Sheriff's department
summoned Coronor C. W.
Dills, who empanelled a jury
composed of P. E. Moody, C. G.
Middleton, T. Woodrow Dillard,
E. E. Duncan, L. W. Fisher, and
Andrew Wood. Following the in
quest, the jury returned the
suicide verdict.
T. V. A. GIVES REPORT
ON OLIVINE IN W. N. C.
At last the report of the Tennessee
Valley Authority concerning
the olivine deposits in
Western North Carolina, has
been sent to the North Carolina
Department of Conservation
and Development. The T. V.
A. report confirmed original estimates,
and claims that have
been made by the Jackson County
Journal and. the Jackson
Countv Chamber of Commerce,
that there are billions of tons
of olivine available for working
in Western North Carolina that
contain more than twenty-five
per cent magnesium.
T. Q. Murdock, of the mineral
resources division of tfie Department
of Conservation and Development
stated that the report
will be published by the Department
within the next two
months, making the details of
the deposit available to the general
public.
Thus, it may be remarked, the
campaign that Jackson county
began a few weeks ago is beginning
to bear fruit We can be
said to be getting places.
HOME AGENT NAMES
DATES FOR WEEK
Miss Margaret Martin, Jackson
County Home Demonstra- (
A 4- V* o o onnnnnnoH V>OP
i/IOll Agent, na-o ajAuuuni/^u uv?
engagements for next week, as ,
follows:
Monday, November 3, Office.
Tuesday, Cullowhee - Speed- .
well Home Demonstration Club,
with Mrs. Brady Parker.
Wednesday, Gay Home Dem- !
onstration Club.
Thursday, GlenviHe Home
Demonstration Club, at school.
Friday, Cashier's Home Demon
stration* Club, at school ,
lunch room.
Saturday, office. !
All meetings will be held at (
two o'clock in the afternoons. .
All club members are urged by
Miss Martin to make special ef- ,
fort to attend the November
meetings, as they are to be very (
important business planning
meetings.
WEBSTER WILL HAVE
HALLOWEEN PARTY
A Halloween Carnival will be
held at the Webster School tomorrow
(Friday) evening, be- '
ginning at 7:30 o'clock. Entertainment
will be provided for
everyone and prizes will be
awarded. The proceeds will be
for the benefit of the school.
LARGEST
Milk production in 1942 is expected
to be the highest on record,
due largely to a 3 per cent
increase in cow numbers and a
larger production from individual
cows.
A voluntary, non-credit course
in business personality development
is offered in the business
school of New York City college.
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County Has Had
$4,344.85 From
Social Work Fund
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Approximately $232,302.73 has
been distributed Li Jackson
County through operation of
eight of the ten divisions of the
Social Security Act, from its beginning
and through jJune 30,1941,
it is estimated, on a basis
of official figures, compiled by
M. R. Dunnagan, Informational
RprvipA Ppnrpsentative. anri an
nounced by A. I.. Fletcher,
Chairman of the N. C. Unemployment
Compensation Commission.
Normally, Unemployment Compensation,
or benefits to workers
temporarily out of jobs, is
the largest item in the program,
except in agricultural counties.
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dustries a county has, the more
jobless benefits it gets. In the
three and ene half years of
benefit payments, through June
30, these benefits reached $46,708.38
included in 6.951 checks
issued to residents of Jackson
County.
Chairman Fletcher < 4 reports
that State agencics handling
phases of the Social Security
Act cooperate with him in supplying
figures of thoir activities,
which gives him ar accurate
picture of distributions in counties
of the State. These include
the State Welfare Department,
Mrs. W. T. Bost, superintendent;
Dr. Roma S. Cheek, secretary of
the State Commission for the
Blind; Dr. Carl V. Reynolds,
State health officor; and the
Department of Public Instruc
tion, particularly t. e. JBrowne,
director of vocational education.
Old Age Assistance, help for
needy residents past 65 years of
age, in the four years of distribution,
through la*t June 30,
amounted tc^JfcM^lSyOQ in this,
county.
Aid to Dependent Children,
help for those deprived of their
normal breadwinners, amounted
to $39,557.50 in the same period
in this county.
Aid to the Blind, *n the same
48 months, amounted to $6,173.00
in the county.
In these three divisions of the
Social Security Act, the Federal
Government provides one-half
of the funds and the State and
counties one-fourth each, with a
State equalizing fund to help the
smaller nnimHoc Prinr Ton.
JillUilV/l V/UUAAV?VU( A iiVi UV/ V Mil
uary 1, 1940, these three governmental
units furnished onethird
each for Aid to Dependent
Children.
No county figures are available
for Old Age and Survivors
Insurance. Monthly payments in
this division started after January
1, 1940, due to [ a 1939
amendment,. after lump-sum
payments for three years. This
will, in due time, become one
Df the most important of the
five major divisions of the Social
Security Act.
With practically accurate figures,
it is evident, Chairman
Fletcher points out that $190,957.88
was distributed in this
county to last July 1, in four of
the five major divisions of the
Act, exclusive of Old Age and
Survivors Insurance.
The other five divisions,
classed as "services", are
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JOHN BUCHANAN IS
IN DRILL PLATOON
Charleston, S. C.. Oct. 27?
(Special to The Journal) Cadet
John O. Buchanan, of Cullowhee,
N. C. has been chosen as
a member of the Bond Volunteer,
Junior exhibition drill
platoon at The Citadel, military
college of South Carolina. Selection
was made on the basis of
a series of competitive drills.
Cadet Buchanan is the son of
Mr nnd Mrs. Corsey C. Buchan- |
an.
Halloween Party
The East LaPorte ParentTeachers
Association will sponsor
a Halloween Carnival, Friday
night at the East LaPorte
School. A ffood time is promised
and everybody is invited. Proceeds
will be used for the school.
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RED CROSS ROLL
WOIERS GIVEN
FOR THE COUNTY
Mrs. Phillip Stovall, Chairman
for Jackson County for the Red
Cross Roll Call, which begins on
Armistice Day, has named
nhoirmfin f r?r fho vorlmio can _
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tions of the countyv They are:
Business District, Sylva, Mrs.
W. T. Wise. Residential District,
Sylva, Mrs. Walter L. Jones,
committee: Mrs. Hugh Monteith,
Mrs. Crawford Smith, Mrs.
John A. Parris.
Chairman, Western Carolina
Teachers College, Miss Helen
Patton.
Junior Roll Call, Cullowhee,
Miss Cordelia Camp. Junior Roll
Call, Sylva, Frank C. Crawford.
Diiisooro, Mrs. wayne Terrell.
Webster, Mrs. J. H. Gfllis. Cashier's
Mrs. Monroe Madison.
For chairmen for the other
districts in the county one
teacher in each school will be selected
by the school and she will
select her own workers.
SUNDAY SCHOOL MEET
TO BE HELD AT EAST
FORK ON NOVEMBER 9
The Tuckaseigee Baptist Sunday
School Convention will meet
%T . 1 A _ 4. O in
uii iNuvemuer v, at c u ciut& ixi
the afternoon at Fast Fork
Church. The tentative program
has been arranged by the committee
and announced by W. G.
Womack, the secretary:
Congregational singing, conducted
by Homer Jones, of New
Savannah church.
Special music by the Friendly
Choir, East Sylva.
Minutes and roll call of Sun*
Special music, by Friendly
Choir, East Sylva.
Address, Prof E. H. Stillwell,
Western Carolina Teachers College.
Special music, Friendly Choir.
"What a weekly teachers'
meeting means to our Sunday
School", J. A. Bryson, Scott's
Creek Church.
Special music, Friendly Choir.
Appointment of nominating
committee to report at Decern
ber convention.
Announcements.
Congregational singing, led by !
Friendly Choir.
BfflRSBEINH
REPAIRED JT
drink m mm
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The bridge across Tuckaseigee
River at the foot of Dick's Gap
hill has been completed, although
the approaches have not:
The new bridge at Oullowhee, to
replace the concrete structure
that was carried rtway in the
flood of 1940, is now under conI
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struction, and the new section of
road, beginning near the home
of Mrs. Nannie McGuire, and
ending at the Dick's Gap bridge,
is now being graded
The Cullowhee bridge will be
curving and elevated on the
down river side, so as to fit in
with the new road that is being
constructed. The road will follow
the present one to the hollow
half way up the hill, and
will then turn off back of the
college, coming close to the Neg
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to cross on the new bridge below
Dick's Gap. This will take
the highway entirely off the
campus of Western Carolina
Teachers College, and it is believed
that it will materially reduce
the danger to students of*
the college and children at the
training school.
Faced with a declining supply
of available workers, farmers
have been able to keep their
hired men this fall only by
sharply increasing farm wage
rates.
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Olivine For
FARM LEADERS MEET
IN SYLVA MONDAY ON
FOOD FOR FREEDOM
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Meeting lh the Court House,
Monday morning, * committeemen
from the various sections
of Jackson county, conferred on
the Food for Freedom Campaign
in Jackson county. After hearing
discussions of the situation,
the committeemen hade their
plans for the county and went
back t o their communities,
ready to carry the message of
more food without depletion of
the soil, to the farmers of the
county. .i
They will discuss the matter
with individual farmers in every
part of the county, map out programs
for every farm that wishes
to join in the movement, and
carry out the wishes of the State
and National governments that
the farms of America produce
more of the essential foods.
It was pointed out,, that the
surplus commodities will probably
be reduced to the vanishing
point next year, and that the
people here who have been depending
upon that source for
part of their supplies, will have
to produce their own food.
It was also stressed that we
may not have a great deal to
export from the tk^ms of the
county, but that we can produce
our own food and feeds,
and thus release the things that
we now import for consumption
elsewhere.
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NFW PASTOR OF
A M m jb m m v m
M. E. CHURCH
" Rev. R. G. Tuttle succeeds Rev.
A. P. Ratledge as pastor of the
Sylva-Dillsboro charge. Rev.
Walter L. Lanier goes from
Cullowhee to Unity-Fair Grove,
while Rev. McM. S. Richey, who
has been assistant pastor at
Central chutch in Asheville,
succeeds Mr. Lanier at Cullowhee;
and Rev. B. C. Moss, student
at Western Carolina
Teachers College was named as
supply for the Webster circuit,
succeeding Rev. J. C. Gentry,
i-L.
WilO goes lO DOUVli uaviuaun.
These were the major changes
in preachers affecting Jackson
county, made by the annual j
conference, in Winston-Salem, I
last week. 1
The appointments for the district
are:
District superintendent, W. L.
tfutchins; Andrews, R. Houts,
Beaver Dam, W. H. Pless, supply;
Bethel, J. w. Blitch; Bryson
City, C. O. Newell.
' Canton?Central, W. R. Kelly;
First, J. B. Tabor; Rockwood, V.
A. Morton; Clyde, C. C Washam,
Crabtree, W. H. Neese;
Cullowhee, McMurry S. Richey;.
Dellwood, L. C. Stevens; Fines
Creek, to be supplied; Franklin,
J. L. Stokes II; Franklin circuit,
P. L. Green; Hayesville, A. J.
filemmer. Jr.: Highlands, J. S.
Higgins; Jonathan, G. M. Carver;
Junaluska, Miles McLean;
Macon, J. C. Swain; * Morning
Star, G. W. Bumgarner; Murphy,
C. B. Newton; Murphy circuit,
Alfred Smith, supply.
Pigeon Valley, E. M. Hoyle, Jr.;
Robbinsville, H. D. Gannon;
Shooting Creek, D H. Dennis;
Sylva, R. G. Tuttle; Waynesville,
J. C. Madison; Webster, B. C.
Moss, supply; Whittier, W. E.
Andrews; Missionary to Brazil,
C. W. Clay; District missionary
secretary, W. R. Kelly
Retired: J. J. Gray, J. B. Needham
Z. Parris, W. H. Pless, W.
M. Robbins, J. L. Teague, W. G.
Warren and E. K. Whidden.
University of Michigan first
undertook inspection of high
schools in the state in 1870.
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lis Of United
erested In
Magnesium
High officials in the govern- v
ment of the United States have
been approached wi*h a view to
interesting them in the olivine
deposits in this county as a
probable source of magnesium
for the defense of the nation.
The Office of Production Management
has released the following
detailed story of the
needs and shortage of magnesium:
"Think of a metal that comes
from salt water; that makes
Fourth of July sparklers spark
and flashlight powder flash and
is today a prized material for
airplanes, required in ever growing
quantities. That metal is
magnesium?and it's scarce.
Tn iq<m t.he United States
produced 12,500,00 pounds of
magnesium, and then the demand
really started. This year,
it is estimated, our production
will top 30,000,000, pounds which
will be some 130,000,000 pounds
short of the demand In 1942, according
to present plans, we may
turn out in excess of 150,000,000
pounds and still be that much
or more short of our requirements.
Our shortage is not caused by
any lack of raw material. One
source of magnesium is salt
water and the only limit to supply
is the width of the oceans. It
has been estimated that one'
cubic mile of sea water would
provide all the magnesium we
1U.
need ior any purpose, nut uic
process of extraction is intricate
and calls for a tremendous
amount of machinery and electric
power. Increasing our production
is a jo^ that cannot be .
Still, the job^is being done as
rapidly as is humanly possible.
Production capacity has been
doubled and redoubled, but so
rapidly has the demand grown
there still isn't enough magnesi
ium to go around. It's all caused
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loyed with aluminum makes the
best airplane material yet discovered,
light and tough, and
that incendiary bullets and incendiary
bombs are made from
magnesium. '> a
Great Britain, China, Russia,
and the armed forces of the
United States want multiplied
{millions of these bullets and
bombs, and the skies filled with
airplanes with which to deliver
them.
There has been, until very recently,
only one producer of
magnesium in the United States.
Acting in conjunction with the
British government and the Defense
Plpnt Corporation of the
RFC, it is rushing new plants
to completion that will double
and redouble its capacity. It ha?
also licensed for manufacture
and made technical knowledge
available to other companies
to produce magnesium
from various^jsources
The present tremendous demand
is the result of years of research
into the field of magnes- .
ium alloys. Alloyed with aluminum,
it makes a light, tough
metal that the aircraft industry
has proclaimed as its own. Mag- '
nesium is approximately one
third lighter than aluminum
and its use in aircraft results in
increased pay loads and improved
performance. ' ,
Commercial production of this
strange metal actually started in
1918, as an aftermath of World
War I. It was developed originally
in Germany and prior to
1916 our small demand for it
was met by imports When the
war stopped importation, American
production was rushed and
our war needs met.
Twenty years elasped before J
American industry got acquainted
with magnesium. Its use was
just getting well started?in
automobiles, for certain machinery
parts, and other civilian
uses calling for a light, tough
metal, when the defense emergency
arose. *
Our consumption in 1938 waa
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