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I Commerce 1
I For Shuttle 1
I Svlva To Fo
The Jackson County Chamber I]
V of Commerce has been working I
I through the Tennessee Valley I'
I Authority to secure the opera- I
I tion o/ a shuttle train between I
I syJva and Fontana when the r
I work on the dam begins. A sur- I'
I vey has been made, and it has 1
been found that approximately jJ
II 000 people can De nousea in
and around Sylva, in addition to J
the large number of men in
Jackson County who have applied
for work with the T. V. A.
on the Fontana project.
It Is believed that the operation
of the train will help to
jojve the housing problem for ;
workmen on the project,
and it is hoped that it can be 1
arranged for the train to leave
Sylva in the mornings, take the ;
men to their work, and return ,
in the evenings.
It is estimated that it will require
four years to complete the |,
project; and it is believed that
irge numbers of the people who
jork at Fontana will make their .
:emporary homes* in and near
Sylva, if arrangements for the
train service can be completed.
1,700 JACKSON BOYS !
AND GIRLS JOIN
THE RED CROSS
Cullowhee, Jan. 9 (Special) ?
According to an announcement |
made todav bv Miss Cordelia
Camp,' chairman of the Junior ,
Red Cross for Jackson county, I
approximately 1700 students in
Jackson county have joined the
Junior Red Cross and have made !
a contribution of one penny or I
more to the organization. Eleven
schools at this time have be- \
come members. They include!
Sylva elementary school, Cashier's,
Qualla, Willets, Green's
Creek. Glenville, Dick's Creek, i
Beta, East LaPorte, Cullowhee
elementary and high school, and
the Jackson county colored
school.
IThe students in the various
schools -are working on sundry
projects to aid the nation in defense.
One class, the eighth i
grade at Cullowhee high school,
sponsored by Dr. A. L. Bramlett, j
is collecting scrap paper which j
the children plan to sell. With 1
the proceeds from their sales i
they plan to buy defense stamps
which will belong to the class.1
1 - - . i
Before Christmas each grade in
he training school adopted one
or more soldiers from Jackson
County and sent them Christmas
greetings and gifts.
wilson returns to
army saturday
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John H. Wilson, Jr., who was j
transferred to the enlisted re- I
serve a few months ago, and who i
has been a student at Western
Carolina Teachers, attempting to
complete his senior work and receive
his degree befort returning
to the service, has been ordered
back to Fort Bragg on Satur- .
day.
ql'alla p. t. a. buys
a $25 defense bond
|
The Qualla Parent - Teacher ,
Association, meeting last Friday |
evening, January 9, held an "All |
Out For Defense Program". The 1
topics for discussion were Democracy
and Defense. Miss Alley
read an interesting article on
"Democracy Should Begin At
Home".
The association decided to
raise $15 for the Red Cross by
collecting all scrap iron, magazines,
paper, etc., and by selling
Kardpn 1
?.. a.nu nuwer seea.
The Association voted to buy
a $18.75 Defense'Bond this
month.
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food stamps added approximately
$8,000,000 worth of
arm products to the diets of 3,3(to,000
persons eligible to revive
public assistance during
Member.
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ilDK THE COUNTY
3ody Works
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Train From
>ntana Dam
PARENT - TEACHERS
MEET NEXT TUESDAY
The Sylva Parent-Teachers
Association, meeting at the
school next Tuesday afternoon
at 3 o'clock, will hear Mlaa Alice
Benton, of Western Carolina
Teachers College discuss the wte
Df leisure time in the Defense
Dvnnrpa m
L lUgl Ulll.
The meeting will be opened
with a devotional conducted by
Rev. Robert G. Tuttle, pastir of
the Sylva Methodist church.
Kent Coward, a well-informed
student of the seventh grade
will talk on, "This World of
Ours".
MAJOR COX SAYS
rHANK THE FOLKS
Major Thomas a Cox, who is
stationed at Salt Lake City,
Uiah. has telegraphed his father,
Hon. Thomas A. Cox of Cullovvhee,
to please express to the
people of the county his appreciation
of the gift box from the
home folks at Christmas time.
Mrs. Lee Leopard
Died At Home
On Monday Night
Mrs. Lee Leopard died at her
home here Monday night at
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li:3U IOllUWUlg a, iicm b avva^n..
Mrs. Leopard, who was 48 years
of age, had been in ill health
for some time, but her death wfts
unexpected. ' ? >
Born in Bay City, Michigan,
Mrs. Leopard is survived by her
husband; three brothers, John
and Fred Hein, both of Mascot,
Tenn., and Carl Hein, of Dearborn,
Mich.; and four sisters,
Jennie Payne, New Market,
Tenn., Mrs. Annie Sewell, of
Tampa, Fla., and Miss Elsie Hein,
of Dearborn, Mich.
Funeral services will be held
this afternoon at two o'clock, at
East Sylva Baptist church by the
pastor, Rev. Ernest Jamison. Interment
will be in the Keener
cemetery.
TO CELEBRATE
LEE-JACKSON
DAVIN SCHOOLS
Prof. Robert L. Madison, whose
old home was in Lexington, Virginia,
and who knew General
Robert E. Lee personally, and
who grew up with the traditions
of General Jackson, has been
invited by the B. H. Cathey
Chapter, United Daughters of
the Confederacy, to be the principal
speaker at the Sylva
schools, next Tuesday, when the
annual Lee-Jackson Day celebration
will be held.
The exercises will begin at
12:45 in the afternoon, and the
public is invited to join with the
schools in the celebration. Patriotic
songs will be sung, and
other patriotic exercises engaged
in, under direction of Mrs. Ernest
L. Wilson, who is chairman
of the committee in charge ol
the celebration.
TWENTY STUDENTS
LEAVE FOR WAR
Cullowhee, Jan. 13 (Special)?
A patriotic feeling has swept th
campus of Western Carolina
Teachers College. After Christmas
the college lost about twenty
boys.
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OI inu gruup, IWU nviv
son County boys: Ray Cowan, ol
Webster, and James Howell.
Western Carolina Teacher.'
College regrets the loss of thesw
boys, but feels that they hav<
jleft for a worthy and loya
' cause.
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STLVA, N?i
JOHNNY PUBIS
MS DM
L010N IN WAR
John Parris, Jr., who Is a foreign
correspondent for the United
Press, now located in London,
has written his father and
mother, Mr. and Mrs. John A.
Parris, whose home is in Sylva,
about conditions in London during
the war. The letter was written
on December 15, Shortly after
the United States was dragged
into the war by the attack
by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor.
"Phins im and kppn smilincr
Well come through again with
those broad stripes and bright
stars still shining, and our flag
still there to wave forever over
our land of the free and the
home of the brave. I know these
are trying days for you, but remember
that all my thoughts are
of you and that I love you with
all my heart?more than all
jelse in the whole wide world.
It was inevitable that we
should come into this flaming
! conflict which Britain and Rub*
sia have fought and are fighting
so magnificently so that
such men as Hitler and Mussolini
may never rise ag&in. Japan's
cunning attack on us came
like a bolt from the blue. It
rather staggered me, just as it
must have staggered you there
in the states. The blow those
little yellow men struck was
hard, but we are a hard bunch,
and we dont go down under that
first blow or a million such
blows. We are measuring our
blows now and one day weH
start doing a Dempsey after he
was knocked through the ropes
by Firpo only to come back and
beat the Argentine into m bloody
pulp.
I'm more proud than ever that
I am American. That flag we
bare our heads to when it passes
is more symbolic of freedom and
! the things for which our people
| have lived and died than ever
before. It's flying from buildings
along Fleet Street and the
Strand now. Britain feels more
closer to us now. We are side by
side in a common cause. It's a
fight to the finish this time. So
don't despair. The folks of this
glorious country have set an example
of spirit and courage for
you. Russia has shown you what
j perserverence really i s?what
faith in liberty and the right to
i live as you wish means. Take
heart and do your bit to keep
those ramparts we watch forever
standing, steady and strong.
We Americans here in Britain
have watched you, the slumberI
ing giant awake. We, who know
! what war is, are feeling those
j tense moments you are going
through. We smiled a bit perhaps
as the news kept coming
| in of air raid alerts on the west
I coast and in the New York area,
lit wasn't that we didn't realize
I the situation was grim and grave
j and serious for you. But you see,
j the folks here know what the
1 real thing is nice, Tneyve uvea
through blitzes the like of which
I hope and they hope you never
experience. They've seen tfceir
homes blasted into splinters and
powdered clay and sand and
twisted steel and blackened ashes.
They've pipked up their loved
ones broken and lifeless, bruised
and dazed. But each time they've
[turned their eyes to the sun,
straightened their tired, stooped
shoulders and thanked God they
could still carry on. And that's
I what we must do, too, should our
skies ever become blackened
with blackness of swastikas and
crescents of rising sons.
We here in London have been
given a respite from Slap-H&gpy
- Herman's boys across the chsn>
nel. But we dont expect it to
l last. Only last night as I sat
. watching Clark Oable in "Honky
Tonk"' there flashed upon th?
screen these words: "An Air Bald
Alarm has just sounded. If you
r care to remain In the theatei
you may do so." You knew ai
3 you sat there that this was Whal
? vnn knew was coming sooner 01
j later. Your mind went back U
1 those nights when bombs blasted
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11 WH<INA, ;#B>MDAI, JAN
[AS WORLD EVENTS |
. UNFOLD I
KSBj DAH tOMHOHS W8S8B
Mac ARTHUR'S artillery broke
up the heralded mass attack of
Japanese mechanized columns
upon his stronghold in the province
around Mfcnila. The deadly
fixe of the Americans destroy-1
ed enemy batteries, upset the
plans for clearing the Island of
Luzon of Americans, and resulting
heavy Japfc&ese casualties,
with lifht casualties reported
on the American Side. Superior
guns and superior marksmanship
made up h| large measure
for the lack of *& support and
Mfeduafc* numbers of American
and Filipinos in ineeting the assault.
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KUALA LUMFUtt capital of the
federated Malay states, and
Rubber Capital of the world was
surrendered to titoe Japanese by
the British, after huge rubber
stores had been destroyed. The
Japs have kept up their average
of advancing 15 miles a day toward
Singapore ever since the
first troops landed on the Malay
peninsula. But '
INCREASING ACTIVITY on
the part of the allies is beginning
to make itself felt, and the
advanoe on Singapore may begin
to slow down as more and more
RAF fliers take to the air in the
130 miles that still remains to
be traversed before the fighting
for the actual occupation of
Singapore comes.
SINGAPORE is the key to all
the east. Upon it must be based
the British and American naval
units to operate in oriental
waters against the Japs. Here is
the one point that dominates
the Philippines, the Dutch East
Indies, Australia, and that
stands between the Japanese
and the vast domains of India.
That Singapore is threatened
4 cannot be ttonlfctl; trofrthftfr Sin*
gapore will fall to the Japanese
has not been proved. There will
be much fighting yet before vital
Singapore follows Manila as an
occupied city of the Nipponese.
GATHERING STORM in the
j south will inevitably spell the
doom of Japan. Japan must oe
destroyed and disarmed. The
forces for the knockout blow will
forgather m Australia, and move
northward. In the meantime, the
allied forces are striving mightily,
with inadequate preparation,
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PAN AMERICAN
UNION OFFERS
STUDENTS CASH
1 - *- rv n To? 1 1 1
w&sninf toil) i-f- u aii. * *?
Students of twenty-one American
republics are invited to
make a study of Inter-American
affairs as part of a hemisphere
forum under the auspices of the
Pan American Union, it was announced
today by Dr. L. S. Rowe,
director general of the Union.
Two ftrar-year university
scholarships, each valued at $6,060.00
are offered for the best
papers submitted, after study
and discussion, one scholarship
to be given for the best paper in
English, the other for the best
presentation in one of the romance
languages of Spanish,
Portuguese or French. Papers on
the subject "What Inter-American
Cooperation Means to My
Country" must be presented to
school officials by Pan American
Day, April 14, 1942. All high
school students are eligible.
The announcement was made
f by Dr. Rowe on the eve of his
' departure for Rio de Janeiro,
where In company with the
' counselor of the Union, Dr. Wil;
Ham ganger, he will attend the
' meeting of foreign ministers oi
i the tw?nty-one countries mem1
bers of the Union, which opens
i in the Brazilian capital on Jan'
uary 15. It is believed that the
\ conclusions of the roreign minis;
ters of the American republic*
will serve as a source of infor)
mation for students seeking
1 background material for theii
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UARY 15, 1942
NEW OFFICERS
ARE INSTALLED
BY WOODMEN
Sylva Camp, Woodmen of the
World, installed the new officers,
at a meeting held on January
4. Paul Womack was installed
as Council Commander;
Emerson Phillips, Advisory Lieutenant;
Jeff Hedden, as Escort;
B. E. Harris, Financial Secretary;
Lloyd Queen, Watchman;
Dillard Coward, Sentry; and T.
F. Dillard, Banker.
Prior to the installation, an
oyster supper was held, at which
some 45 woodmen were present,
and in which great enthusiasm
for the lodge and its work was
evidenced.
At the meeting on January 11,
the Woodmen decided to take
$75 from the treasury and buy
a Defense Bond, and to purchase
other bonds in the name of the
Camp as funds are available.
The Camp is cooperating with
the work of the County Agent's
office in collecting scrap metal
and paper for the National Defense.
Mrs. Alice Long
Aged 83, Dies At
Cullowhee Home
Funeral services for Mrs. Alice
Long, who died Sunday morning
at her home near Cullowhee,
were conducted at the Cullowhee
Baptist church, Monday afternoon,
by Rev. P. L. Elliott, and
interment was in the church
cemetery at Cullowhee.
Mra T Jtnir whn U/aS 83 VfiftrS
ot,Ate, 1? mptto
B. Long, Cullowhee postmaster,
! and J. Robert Long, prominent
citizen of Bryson City and well
known Methodist layman. She is
also survived by her husband, by
; four daughters, Mrs. Joe Shook,
Cullowhee, Mrs. Jarvis Davis, St.
Helens, Oregon, Mrs. J. A. Tabor,
Coconut Grove, Fla., and Mrs.
Ransom Cowan, Green's Creek
I by one sister, Mrs. Jane Hyatt,
of Brasstown; two brothers,!
| John Stephens, Cullowhee, and
! Adolphus Stephens, of Cowarts;
by ten grand-children; five
great grand-children, and a host
| of other relatives and friends.
FARM LABOR SURVEY
TO BEGIN ON MARCH 1!
Raleigh, Jan. 14?A cooper- !
ative farm labor survey "to be !
used in vital national defense I
j planning" will be conducted be- j
j ginning March 1 by the Pederal;
State Crop Reporting Service as
! the supervising agency, Prank
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Parker, ieaerai si>au3uicmii ui ;
the State Department of Agri- !
culture, announced today.
An allocation of $20,000 by the
United States Department of Agriculture
will be used to make
! the survey in North Carolina one :
; of two states in the Nation sei
lected to conduct a farm labor
enumeration program. Indiana
| has been designated as the other
1 State to make the survey.
"The present emergency and
drain on farm labor by defense
forces makes it imperative that
agricultural agencies and leaders
be informed as to the availability
of farm workers," Parker
said. "Information gathered
will be used also in acquainting
defense agencies with the labor
; needs for farmers whose efforts,
| it has been said, 'will win the
war and write the peace'."
J. J. Morgan, statistician of
the Department, viewed the sei
lection of North Carolina as one
of the two states to conduct the
1 survey as va distinct recognition
of the State's achievements
i in agricultural statistic work."
' North Carolina, through its
nf Acrrietll
SliHbC L/cpcu vi(>v?? v. ?0
; ture, is the only Southern State
making an annual farm census
i survey and the Federal-State
Crop Reporting Service of the
t Department ranks No. 3 in the
. Nation.
; More than 30,000 farmers will
be contacted through the mails
and by workers in connection
mtm
$1.50 A YEAR IN A
Twenty-Fiv
Jackson Le:
Bragg On
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DR. ASHFORD IS NEW
TEACHER AT W. C. T. C.
Cullowhee (Special) A new
teacher added to the teaching
staff at Western Carolina
Teachers College is Dr. Mozell
Ashford of Watts inville, Geor-?
gia. Dr. Ashford is demonstration
teacher for the fifth grade
in the college training school, a
position held for a number of
years by Miss Trixie Jenkins,
who is now on leave of absence
because of illness. During the
fall quarter Mrs. Edgar Ducfcett,
of Sylva taught the fifth grade
for several weeks until the vacancy
was filled by Mrs. Walter
Lee Lanier of Cullowhee. However,
when the Reverend Lanier
was called to Thomasville to
preach, Mrs. Lanier resigned to
accompany her husband.
Dr. Ashford, having studied
in outstanding colleges and universities
both here and abroad,
has an unusual and varied educational
background. After receiving
her A. B. degree from
Florida State Woman's College,
she was awarded a scholarship
to Clark University, Worcester,
Massachusetts, to study sociology,
psychology, and philosophy.
Upon the recommendation of
Clark University's president, Dr.
G. Stanley Clark, and on the
basis of her master's thesis
"Bergson's Concept of Consciousness,"
Dr. Ashford was
awarded the Ives Fellowship In
philosophy at Yale University.
After studying a year at Yale,
she passed her examinations for
the Ph. D. degree in psychology
and philosophy and was reap pOltttfed
TOT THe IVeS Fellowship,
but gave it up in order to accept
a teaching position.
Two years later Dr. Aahford
received a scholarship for study
at the University of Paris where
she studied psychology under
Pierre Janet, philosophy under
LeRoy, and attended Du Ma's
Clinic in psychisatory.
Upon her return from Europe,
Dr. Ashford became a supervisor
in training school and a teacher
of psychology in the Florence
Alabama State Teachers College.
After three years Miss Ashford
was given a leave of absence
to study problems of temperment
with the late Dr. William
McDougall of Duke University.
Returning to Florence State
Teachers College, Dr. Ashford
continued teaching there for
four years, during which she
gave her entire time to the laboratory
school studying creative
activities of children from the
mental hveriene DOirit of view.
In the year 1940-41 Dr. Ashford
attended Vanderbllt University
and was awarded her
Ph. D. degree in philosophy,
with minors both in the field of
sociology and in the field of psychology.
BRAMLETTS HEAR
FROM SON IN THE
ROYAL AIR FORCE
Dr. Bramlett has had a cablegram
from his son, Kenneth
Bramlett, who has just arrived
in England as a lieutenant in
the Royal Air Force. Lieutenant
Bramlett sailed from Halifax on
November 27.
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FRESHMEN ELECT OFFICERS
The freshmen class of 1941-42
at Western Carolina Teachers
College elected class officers
Thursday, January 8.
Those elected were: Owen
Lyndly, president; Clare Olson,
vice-president; and Elizabeth
Ann Hunter of Cullowhee, Secretary-Treasurer.
The new Naval Medical center
near Bethesda, Md., includes 250
acres of land.
4-V?a mirrrov
W1U1 UK ountj,
Other agencies cooperating in
the survey will include the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration
and the Statistics Laboratory
at State College.
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I
DVANCE IN JACKSON COUNTY
e Men From
ft For Fort
W ednesday
Twenty-five young men from
this county left by special bus,
yesterday morning for Fort
Bragg to be inducted into the
United States Army. Of this
number three were volunteers,
and the other twenty-two were
selectees. This is the first contingent
of selectees that has
been sent from Jackson County
since the United States entered
the war, last month.
The three volunteers were Ed- t
ward Earl Greer, Merrill Johnson,
and Thomas D. Garrett.
jonnny ueiia rnmips was piacea
in charge of the contigent by
the local selective service board,
and had in his charge, in addition
to the three named above:
Gub Columbus Moss, Richard
Will Taylor, Adam Lawrence Buchanan,
Dewey Queen, Rufus
Wayne Wood, Glenn David
Mathis, Daniel Joe Farmer, Os- .
car Wood, Floyd Eugene Carden,
Quinton Thomas Churchwell,
Paul Hayes McCracken, William
Daniel Coward, Charles Lindsay
McMahan, Thomas Clingman
Cole, Jasper Howard Mathis,
Jack Clifford Hyatt, A Wilson
Hunter Reed, and J. D. Coggina.
Three of the twenty-five were
sent to the army from their
present addresses, having moved
from this county since registration,
and were inducted by
transfer. They are Fred Homer
Sims, from Orange County, Florida;
Norman Morris Humberson,
from Somerset, Pa.; and Paul
Green, from Snahanish County,
Washington.
One of the men is a Cherokee
Indian, whose home is ,on Soco.
He is Hunter Reed, a member
of the Eastern Band of Cherokee
Indians.
i Each of the men was presented
with a New Testament, bound In
olive drab, by the Red Cross and
the Sylva Methodist church.
U80EfiRUTUt
HOSPITAL AID
BV CIVIC CUIUS
The W. A. Enloe Chapter, v
i United Daughters of the Conjfederacy,
is sponsoring a reorganization
of the Hospital Auxiliary
for the C. J. Harris Community
hospital, and is asking
each of different social and
civic clubs in the county adopt
a room at the hospital to supply
with curtains, lamps, vases,
scarfs, and other referbishment,
to make the rooms more at
tractive to the patients.
Already the W. A. Enloe
Chapter, United Daughters of
the Confederacy, and the Afternoon
Circle of the Woman's Society
of Christian Service of the
Sylva Methodist church have
adopted a room in the hospital.
It is asked that people who live
on the farms of the county
bring donations of canned
fruits, vegetables and the like to
the hospital when they have
these commodities to spare, thus
very materially aiding in the
work of the hospital, which, it
is pointed out, is the property
of all the people of Jackson
county, and by the same token,
the responsibility of all of them.
WILL TEACH KNITTING
Mrs. Ollie Banks, of the Jackson
County Recreation Program,
has stated that if any people
are interested in leamlrfr to
1 1 " * il? O-Jl n-?,B .k. arrill
KIU(< lur LUC rvcu v/xuoot uic ww
I be glad to arrange classes for
instruction in the art.
LIMITED
Farmers and packers of farm
products will find it necessary /
to change their packing and
shipping practices because of
limited supplies erf container
material such as burlap or cot!
ton fabric bags.