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I Jackson Coi
I lack Home-(
I For "'Food F
I The place of the farm in this I
m ivar Ls the production of "Food
for Victory". Dean I. O. Schaub I
oi State College, and other iead
'ho N. c. Agricultural ExJ I
I tension, including our own countv
farm njient, say that/farmers
0f this county generally are deficient
in production of
such essential food products as
garden vegetables, milk pork,
poultry and eggs.
From the last Federal census
comes proof that a large number
of farms in Jackson County are
without gardens, cows, hogs and
chickens. The 1940 census shows j
that there are 2.565 farms in the
county.
The census report also reveals
that 230 farms were without
gardens, 498 farms did not keep
J cow. 1244 farms had no hogs,
and 368 were without a single
chicken
This is the first war-time
task of farm people," Dean
Schaub declared, "to see that |
every farm has a garden, at least
one cow. and some hogs and
chickens. These are all vital to
the health and welfare of rural
people. Our farm families must 1
be well-fed before they can expect
to feed the rest df the Nation,
and our Allies, in the fight
for freedom."
The 1940 census listed 278,276
farms in North Carolina. Eighty"
O 4PV 4 An
nine per cent 01 mem, or
had gardens, leaving 31,149 without
gardens. Those farms which
did have gardens valued them
at a total of $14,773,625, or an
average per garden of $60. Figured
at the same average value,
the 31,149 farms without gardens
lost" $1,869,000 by their failure
to. jinct jjjjgii
fruits.
The State census showed that
65 per cent, or 179,816, of the
[arms kept cows; 69 per cent, or ;
191,672, had hogs; and 88 per,
cent, or 245,122, kept some chickens.
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HOME AGENT GIVES
WEEK'S SCHEDULE
Miss Margaret Martin, Jackson
County Home Agent has announced
her itinerary for the
first week in March, as follows:
Monday?Office.
Tuesday?Cullowhee - Speedwell
Home Demonstration Club
with Mrs. F. H. Brown, 3 P. M. .
Wednesday?Gay Home Demonstration
Club with Mrs. Sam
Buchanan. 3 P. M.
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Demonstration Club, at school,
3 P M.
Friday?Cashier's Home Demonstration
Club at school lunch
room. 3 P M.
Saturday?Office.
Monday. March 9 ? Sylva
Hunif Demonstration Club with
Mrs. Wilma Jones, 3 P. M.
ql'alla 4-h club has i
monthly meeting
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?Bv Jack Alley)
The Qualla 4-H Club met at
Qualla school, at 10 o'clock on
, the morning of February 18,
with forty-seven members preset
and three visitors, making <
a tofal attendance of 50.
Assistant County Agent C. H. i
Kirkman. Jr., gave a talk on
RTOWino o am Wioc I
?e> '< gaiucu, anvi .
Margaret Martin, Home Agent, |
tal^cl on making note books \
the 4-H projects.
Thp criticism was given by
Virginia Mae Ward. We are tryln8
to make the best better so
l'n,e criticism was shorter than
usual.
iollowinp' nrocram was
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l>resented:
Son8. America.
rhe Defense of America, Jack
Alley.
The Garden, by Ruth Hyatt.
"Garden Sass' by club girls.
?ints on growing a Garden, by
Mr- Kirkman.
Ashing ton, by Oleta Howell
u"d ^aVe Hudson.
S?ng, The Star Spangled Banner.
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iinty Farms
&rown Food
or Victory"
SUNDAY SCHOOL
CONVENTION AT
HYATTS fHAPFI
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The Tuckaseigee Baptist Sunday
School Convention will meet
at Hyatt's Chapel, at 2 o'clock in
the afternoon, on March 8, according
to announcement by W.
G. Womack, the secretary.
The program committee has
announced the following tentative
program: i
Congregational singing, led by
choir leader of Hyatt's Chapel.
Devotional conducted by
Johnnie Hyatt, Jr., Shoal Creek
Church.
Special music, Barker's Creek
Sunday School.
Minutes and roll call of Sunday
Schools.
Special music, Barker's Creek
Sunday School.
Address, R. F. Jarrett, Jarrett
Memorial church.
Talk, H. S. Queen, Hyatt's
Chapel.
Special music, Barker's Creek
Sunday School.
Announcements.
Congregational singing, led by
Hyatt's Chapel choir leader.
BAPTIST YOUTH GIVE
rAKTi r uiv r/ioiuiv
Cullowhee (8pecial) - The
Baptist Student Union at Western
Carolina Teachers College
????? party, honoring the 5U&erend
Mr. J. A. Herring, newly
chosen minister for the Cullowhee
Baptist church, and Mrs.
Herring on Wednesday evening
in the parlors of Moore Dormitory
at the college. An informal
hour of fun was enjoyed by approximately
fifty students and
faculty members. Ellen King, j
second vice-president of the
Baptist Student Union, and social
chairman, directed the
games. Miss Genevieve Tate
played on the piano incidental
music for the occasion. Refreshments
of apples and candy were
served. In charge of general arrangements
for the party was
Miss Kathleen Davis, faculty
sponsor of the union.
COMMTTEE OH i
NUTRITION IS
NAMED HERE
The Chairman of Civilian Defense
in the county has announced
the appointment of a Nutrition
Committee composed of
Miss Margaret Martin, Home
Demonstration Agent, Mrs. Earl
Padgett, County Nurse, Miss
Louise Henson, Cullowhee, Mrs. |
N. Don Davis, Webster, and Mrs.
M. B. Madison, Cashier's Valley.
PTA TO HAVE STUDY
COURSE TUESDAY
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The Sylva Parent-leacner /association
will have a study
course, under direction of Mrs.
John H. Wilson, next Tuesday,
March 3, at the school, beginning
at 11 o'clock. Dinner will be
served in the school cafeteria.
The subjects to be studied are:
"Defense Begins Wt Home", and
"Children In A Democracy".
PRESBYTERIAN WILL
HEAR DR. BEDINGER
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Dr. R. D. Bedinger, of Asheville
will conduct Presbyterian
services here next Sunday afternoon
at 4 o'clock.
The public is cordially invited.
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SYLVA, N0R1
TOURIST VBU
EXPECIED TO BE
GOOD ID AREA
A good tourist season in 1942
is predicted for the mountain
area of North Carolina by economists
and observers. There are
several unfavorable factors, but
more that will be conducive to
good tourist business, it is stated:
It is also believed that there
will be a reversion to the oldtime
summer boarder class of
tourist business that has been
largely superceded by the real
tourist who is here tonight and
gone tomorrow, with another of
his species to take his place.
There will not be so much
travel from place to place
throughout the tourist regions as
has been the case in recent
years. This will be true because
of the rubber shortage and in
order to conserve gasoline..
But, as was the case before
the advent of the automobile, it
is believed that many people
from the lowlands will come to
the mountains, locate for the
entire summer and spend the
season at one place. The head of
the family thus located, will return
to his work, and make aa
frequent week end visits to them
as he finds possible, probably
coming by bus.
The travel through the Great
Smoky Mountains National Park
will probably show a sharp decline:
but that will not mean
that the tourists are not in the
mountain area. Many people who
have been spending their vacations
on the coast, fishing and
bathing, will this year avail
themselves of the facilities of the
mountain streams and lakes.
People from this part of the
United States who have been
making trips to the west, tc
Mexico, or to New England, will
this year conserve their rubber
by spending their vacations
in the mountains.
It is pointed out here that if
we had horses for hire in large
numbers on this side of the
Great Smokies, many thousands
of people would this year really
see the park, riding through it
at their leisure and enjoying the
vastness of this wilderness, in
stead of following the customary
drive to Newfound Gap or out
to Forney Ridge.
All the evidence seems to add
up to a big summer boarder season
for the mountains, and a
sharp decline in the conventional
tourists.
MAGAZINE WILL BE
PUT ON PAID BASIS
STARTING MAY 1942
Increasing cost of production
and the growing demand for the
publication "North Carolina
Wildlife Conservation", official
organ of the Division of Game
and Inland Fisheries of the Department
of Conservation and
Development have made it necessary
to place the circulation on
a paid basis, Hinton James
State Game and Inland Fisheries
Commissioner, announced today.
j Starting in 1937, the demand
for the publication has growr
to such an extent as to give il
a present circulation of aboul
j 9,000 monthly.
I Mr. James, in announcing the
change in policy, said the growing
circulation is putting a constantly
heavier drain on the
State Game funas, wnicn ne Delieves
should be met partlj
through a small subscription let
of 25c annually from those receiving
the magazine. Thi<
charge, which goes into effect
with the May, 1942 issue, he explained,
will defray only aboul
one-half of the cost of printing
and mailing.
GOES TO MARINES
fialph Kelly Morgan, son oi
Mr. and Mrs; B. R. Morgan, recently
enlisted in the Unitec
States Marines, and left on Wednes
to begin his training ai
Paris Island, S. C.
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.I7R0M the yotmf men who used 1
* on the enow-covered hills of Can
of sU troope who are second to n<
eport made it eaej for these men t
of flfcHnf from a pastime to the stl
hare proved their value in Iceland a
to demonstrate their merits in oth
photographs show a platoon of ski
vho would be very difficult to spot
MISS PATTON ASKED
TO SERVE AT THE 1942
ARTS CONVENTION
1 Cullowhee (Special) ? Miss
Helen Pat ton, of the division of
art at Western Carolina Teachi
ers College, has just been asked
to serve on the membership
committee for the 1942 conveni
tlon of the i^ontheastern Arts
, Convention. J- ^ i
? %e1convention^6f which lire
Mary Loath Stewart of the Womans
College of the University
1 of North Carolina is chairman
will be held at the O. Henry
hotel in Greensboro on March
! 5, 6, and 7. The association i?
! composed of members who teach
i art in public schools and college;
' in the Southeastern States and
; of any other people who are ini
terested in art.
According to a program re'
ceived here, a varied and inspiring
program of exhibits, addresses,
and discussions have been
I planned for the convention by
Dr. Gregory D. Ivey, head of the
i art department of the Woman'j
college of the University ol
North Carolina.
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Annual Meet
Of Farmers To
Be Saturday, 7
1
f The annual meeting of the
Jackson County stockholders ol
1 the Farmers Federation will be
held at the Sylva Federatior
i warehouse on Saturday, March
, 7, at 2 P. M.
Music will be furnished by the
Farmers Federation String Banc'
and refreshments of hot coffee
I and doughnuts will be served
l James G. K. McClure, president
; of the Federation, will speai
; briefly and report on the year'2
business, and there will be short
) I talks by other officers of the
. Federation.
THOMAS APPOINTED
; AVIATION CADET
Fred Lowell Thomas of Syhva
is among 386 men just appointee
1 as Aviation Cadets in the United
States Naval Reserve, and be?
' gan training February 19 for apk
pointment as an ensign in th<
f Naval Reserve.
The new cadets have completed
preliminary ellminatior
flight training, and are now engaged
in the advanced course al
r naval flight training center*
. throughout the country.
SOAP
t The average American uses 2J
pounds of soap annually.
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Passed by Censor
:o spend their winter weekends skiing
ada, the Dominion has created a bods
Dne. Loose experience in this populai
3 adapt themselves to the conversion
erner purposes of war. Already they
nA minv thAuundi of them are readv
er theatres of war if necessary. Tha
troop* on manoeuvre! and a sniper
4-H PROJECT WINNERS
ARE ANNOUNCED BY
STATE 4-H LEADER
1 Names of six 4-H Club project
champions for 1941, all winners
I of one-year scholarships to N. C.
, State College, were announced |
. this week by L. R. Harrill, State !
i 4-H Club Leader.
They are; Henry Van Harmon
/ oTBerttrvt3cro?ity, the best to.
bacco gorwer; Charles Cone of
r Nash County, corn champion;
Franklin Batten of Johnston
I County, cotton; Tim Byrd of
i Sampson County, horticulturist;
; George R. Waller, also of Samp!
son, .poultry; and Howard T.
5 Blalock of Durham County, calf
I club champion.
Van Harmon, Cone Batten and
Byrd will receive State college
. scholarships from the makers of
. Arcadian Nitrate of Soda,
. through H. L. Meacham of Rall
eigh. Waller, the poultry champ,
ion, T^ill be rewarded. by the
> Farmers Cooperative Exchange
. (FCX), of which M. G. Mann of
r Raleigh is general manager.
! Blalock's scholarship was nona1
ted by the N. C. Cottonseed
Crushers Association.
The Bertie County tobacco
' king jnade 1,416 pounds of fluecured
tobacco on his club acre,
) and realized a net profit of
$350.68. Young Cone averaged
' 118 bushels of corn per acre, on
three acres. He made a profit of
$61.75 per acre.
Franklin Batten produced .2,f
371 pounds of seed cotton, and
| 889 pounds of lint. His profit
[ was $177.15. Tim Byrd grew lima
{ beans as his 4-H horticultural
project, and from his club acre
he produced 116 baskets of
: beans. His total profit was $142.1
95.
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George Waller kept a flock of
I New Hampshire chickens, in.
eluding 42 hens and 130 pullets.
! He reported a labor income of
J $70.72 from the project, and at
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his laying flock. Howard Blalock,
the Durham County boy, kept
three dairy animals in 1941?a
cow, a bull, and a heifer. He has
been conducting 4-H livestock
projects since 1937. p
1 MOVE TO NEW HOME v
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Lessing have
[ Just moved into .their jjew home,
recently completed on the corner
of Jackson and Maple streets.
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TEXTILES
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war requirement 1941 United
States consumption of the four
: major textile fibers ? cotton,
! wool rayon, and silk?broke all
V; previous reccords.
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$1.50 A YEAR IN i
Civic Club
Will Hold
Internatio
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SOLE SlIRVIVOS
OF SOOTHS M
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1399 UN MUNI) AI
Elbert Watson, Jackson county's
sole surviving Confederate
Veteran, will be 99 years of age.
on Monday, March 2.
Born in this county on Marcji
2, 1843, Mr. Watson has speiit
nearly all his life here. His home
is in Hamburg township, on the
new highway near the waters of
Glenville Lake. Of all the number
of brave men who went from
this county in the 60's to defend
the State against the encroachments
of the federal government,
Elbert Watson alone remains.
He saw service with the
armies of Lee in Old Virginia,
and was wounded at Petersburg.
Returning to his home following
the surrender at Appamatox,
Mr. Watson made his
home at Glenville and became
active in the affairs of the community
and the county. For
years he operated his farm and
an inn at Glenville. After the
death of his first wife, he left
Jackson county for a short time
and made his home at Burnsville
with his son, Hon. Franklin
Watson; but soon returned to
his home county, where he now
lives.
His faculties are unimpaired,
except for a slight deafness, and
he can remember much of the
early history of the count; and
wr people, as well as first hand
information regarding the operations
of the Confederate armies
in Virginia.
DILLSBORO SCHOOL
COLLECTS SCRAP
The children and teachers of
the Dillsboro Elementary school
collected scrap paper and metal
ampunting to $6.80. The money
wa? turned over to the Red Cross
of Jackson County. Every student
took part in the campaign,
and were supported wholeheartedly
by the citizens of Dillsboro.
LITTLE GIRL'S
DEATH IS SHOCK
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The community of Sylva was
shocked at the death, after a
brief illness, on Saturday night,
of little Polly Painter, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. George Painter.
The little girl, a student in the
second grade at Sylva school,
was particularly well known and
loved by the people, because of
her bright and smiling face. She
was at school Friday, and Saturday
night death came to her.
The funeral service was conducted
by Rev. G. C. Teague,
Rev. R. G. Tuttle, Rev. H. M.
Hocutt, and Rev. W. C. Reed, at
the Baptist church, Monday afternoon.
Interment was in Keener
cemetery.
The little girl is survived by
her parents, and her older
sister, Peggy Painter.
Pall bearers were Frank Bailey
Jr., Harry Allison, Burrel Henson,
and Ralph Henson. .
DR. WELLS TO CLOSE
OFFICE WEDNESDAY
Next Tuesday will be the last
day that Dr. M. E. Wells, chiropractor,
will have his Sylva office
open until the end of the
war, he announced today. Dr.
Wells who Is a member of the
Reserve Corps, has been called
to active duty with the armed
forces, he stated. *
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Institute On
nal Subject
, The Sylva Rotary Club, with
' the assistance of the Lion's Club,
^ Western Carolina Teachers College
and the Cherokee Indian
Reservation, Is sponsoring an
Institute of International Understanding.
Consisting of a series
of four meetings, the Institute
will present outstanding
authorities in certain fields of
International affairs. Following
the formal address will be
forum periods in which members
of the audience may ask ques- %
tions of the speakers.
According to Superintendent
Clyde Blair, of the Indian Reservation,
who is president of the
- Sylva Rotary Club, the purpose
of the Institute is to give the
citizens of the community a
clearer understanding of international
affairs. Informed and
world-traveled speakers will discuss
some of the outstanding
problems confronting the world
today, and the relation of these
problems to our individual lives.
The Institute is a study course
in world affairs for the young
people of the community as well
as for adults, and in addition to
the public forums in the evenings,
the speakers will bring inaspiring
messages to the high
schools of Sylva, Cullowhee, and
Cherokee.
The Institute will be conducted
each Friday for four consecutive
weeks, beginning Friday,
February 27. One speaker will
come each week. Taking part
in the Institute program will be
Dr. Allen D. Albert, of Illinois,
past president of Rotary International,
and assistant to the
% president lor the Chicago Cen^BBp
veler, who has already participated
in nearly a hundred Institutes
sponsored by Rotary International
and Rotary Clubs; F.
Wilhelm Sollmann, member of
the German delegation to the
peacd conference at Versailles,
member of the German Parliament
during the Republic; Manoah
Leide-Tedesco widely known
artist and lecturer. All of these
men have traveled extensively
and have long been students of
international affairs.
" Dr. Allen D. Albert will open
the series of Institute programs
at Sylva, speaking in the, auditorium
of the Graded School, on
Friday, February 27, at 8:00 P.
M. He will address the Sylva and
Webster High School students at
2:30 P. M. <
District Governor H. T. Hunter
states that the Rotarians and
Lions and their guests will have
tickets to the lecture given in
the Institutes; but that the public
is cordially Jhvited. "In fact,"
stated Governor Hunter," the
Rotarians and Lions are giving
service to the schools and citizens
of the county."
WESLEY CLUB MEETS
AT CULLOWHEE
Cullowhee (Special) ?The
Wesley Club, religious organization
at Western Carolina Teachers
College, met Monday evenin
the student union building
with Miss Doorthy Thompson,
president, presiding. Meeting
with the Wesley ciud, serving
refreshments, and assisting with
the program were the members
of the Women's Society of Christian
Service.
The program for the evening
Included: "Prelude", a piano
solo, by Anne Bird;- hymn, "In
Christ There Is No East or .West"
by entire group; scripture read.
lng by Edna Roberts; prayer by .
Martha Perkins, and a vocal solo
by Essie Mae Hall. The main
talk entitled "Mormon Religion"
was made by Kathryn Darby.
An outstanding feature of the
program was the showing of a
fcoda chrome film strip "In the
Top of the Mountains", showing
illustrations of the Mormon
country. This feature shown by '
Miss Anne Hammond was secured
through the Guidance
Clinic of the college. "S
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