H $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE OUT
I Four Cand
I Unopposed
I As Filing I?
six candidates in the Demo
era tic primary are uhopposed
H s(:uu1 as the Party nominees
m [0r the utlives in the November
ejection. The date for filing no.)i
candidacy expired at 6
(t,vlOi-k last Saturday.
The unopposed candidates are:
Slate- Senate. Mrs. E. L. McKee;
member of the General Assembly.
Dan Tompkins; Clerk Superior
Court, Roy M. Cowan; and
Register of Deeds, Glenn Hughes;
coroner, C. W. Dills, and county
surveyor, J. Lyman Stewart.
For sheriff there are two candidates
in the field. Sheriff
Leonard llolden is opposed by
Fred Sutton.
There are three candidates for
chairman of the Board of County
Commissioners. T. Walter Ashe,
[lie present incumbent is running
to succeed himself, and
John H. Morris and Frank Hall
qualified as candidates for this
office.
There are four candidates for
the two posts as part time commissioner.
Cleve Fisher, a present
member of the board is a
candidate, and the other three
i Chris Passmore. of Cash
Iier's Valley, Ed Fisher of Sylva.
and W. S. Fowler of Hamburg.
R C Howell, a member of the
present board qualified as a candidate.
but withdrew his name
on Tuesday of this week. Mr.
Howell stated that he had decided
that he would not again
make the race.
John H. Long and Mack V.
Breedlove are candidates for
membership on the Board of Education.
opposing the present
board, which is composed of C.
E. Smith, John H. Hooper, John
Deitz.'J. H. Middleton, and D. H.
Stephens, all of whom are candidates.
Mr. M. D. Cowan, veteran political
leader of the county, who
had announced his candidacy
for the nomination for sheriff,
allowed the time to elapse without
filing his candidacy with the
board of elections. In a statement
which he released, Mr.
Cowan stated: "This is to announce
that I did not file in the
primary race for the sheriff's
office of Jackson county. Circumstances
over which I have
no control have forced me to demHo
t/-? i-nn T hmoV* t A to IrP
I' nut iu 11411. A YY I'll*
this opportunity to thank my
many loval friends who have so
generously uiven me their support."
The statement was signed
by Mr Powan.
church at scott's
( reek has record
attendance sunday
Scott's Creek Baptist church
set another record last Sunday,
with an attendance of 258 people,
and a collection of $19.15.
The nifiht service and the Young
People's Union were also well
attended, as was the teachers'
Meeting, held during the week.
The assistant teachers took
charge of all classes at the Sunday
School, last Sunday.
There is preaching service
twice each month, on the second
and fourth Sundays. Rev
? S. Hensley is pastor, and J.
^ Bryson is superintendent of
lhe Sunday school.
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training school
it?r methodists
1n training school for Methodist
teachers and workers wil]
be held at the Sylva Methodist
church, beginning May 10 and
continuin? through May 13. At
lhe school, Rev. MacMurraj
tehev will teach the classes for
y?un^ people; Miss Elizabeth
^'Ver. those for teachers and
Sunday School workers; and Dr
. lrkp.itrick, those on Methodism.
In order for the school to meet
s^ndard requirements it is necPS,Sary
that a minimum of 4?
attend the classes, work^
f?r credits. All Methodist
interested are invited bj
J Sylva church to attend th<
*hooi.
tyt It
SIDE THE COUNTY
idates Are
In Primary
$ Completed
G. 0. P. CHOOSES
STILLWELLAS^
nnifiTfrir i r i nrn
lUUIW LtAUtK:
1
E. P. Stillwell, Sylva attorney, ,
was elected chairman of the Re- j
publican executive committee j
for Jackson county, at the ,
j county convention held in Sylva j
last Friday afternoon. Hugh E.
Monteith was chosen as secre- j
| tary, Mr. Stillwell succeeds John
; B. Ensley as head of the G.O P. j
in the county.
At the convention a ticket was ,
| nominated and the names of the
nominees were filed with the
board of elections on Saturday.
W. C. Hennessee was nomi- j
nated for State Senator; S. C. j
Cogdill, for Representative; E.
A. Bumgarner, for Sheriff; Fin- ]
j ley Arrington, Clerk Superior
Court; Bennie Reece, Register of ,
nooHc- Phiirips Hpnslev. chair
; man of the Board of County ]
I Commissioners; J. H. Painter,
! coroner; S. M. Parker, surveyor: ]
and W. H. Snyder and Calvin
i Wilson, county commissioners. ]
The convention nominated A.
i D. Parker for chairman of the ]
i board of commissioners, and Mrs.
Bennie Reece, for register of ]
I deeds, but they both declined f he
, nominations because they felt ;
I they could not serve, and the
committee filed Mr. Hensley and
Mr. Reece to take the place oi
the convention nominees.
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CIRCUS COMING TO
SYLVA SATURDAY
Elephants, ponies, funny
clowns and pretty girls will all
be included in the offerings of
Beers-Barnes Circus, scheduled
to play two performances in Sylva,
Saturday.
The show will have 25 trained
animal acts, and included in the
many features will be Chubby
Teddy Bear with a human brain,
Madam Tillie Troup with performing
ponies, monkeys and
dogs; the Louis Troup of premier
girl wire-walkers; the three
Rathburn Sisters, aerialists; Bozo
and Toby, clowns who are appearing
for the first time with
, any circus, having come direct
1 1. Xlfolf
from tne screen aim muiu,
Davis and his Wyoming Rambi
lers, real cowboy band, singers,
! rope spinners and dancing girls.
IS. ALLISON IS
NEK P. 1.1. HEAD
I Meeting for the last session
of the school year, the Sylva
Parent-Teacher Association
elected Mrs. Dan M. Allison as
president, on Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. Harry Ferguson was elected
vice president; Mrs. Claude
. Campbell, secretary; and Mrs.
' Herbert Gibson, Jr., treasurer.
1 With the president, Mrs. Edgar
Duckett, presiding, the meeting
was opened with a short devotional,
conducted by Mrs. Dan
Tompkins.
J The High School Glee Club,
I under the direction of Mrs.
Grover Wilkes, presented three
j i numbers.
; Mrs. Duckett gave an interr
j esting report of the meeting of
. ] the North Carolina.^Congress of
i Parents and Teachers which met
[ recently at High Point, and
which was attended by Mrs.
. Duckett and Mrs. R. U. Sutton.
The association vated to send
t one or more delegates to the P.
t1 a fnct.ttiit.o in ChaDel Hill,
A lit ittUV?VMWV ? #
> this summer.
There was an interesting ext
hibit of art work which has been
T done by students, from various
f grades, taught by Miss Annie
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SYLVA, NO
StoIe
NAMED HHI THE
H4YF1 FHTinN
1111 1 I UliUVllVM
The Jackson County Board of
Elections has appointed the prelinct
election officials to serve
in the primary on May 30, and
in the General Election in November.
Registration books will be open
?ach Saturday before the primary,
and all persons eligible to
vote, who are not already registered
in their proper precincts
should see the precinct registrar.
The officials appointed by
precincts are named below, the
name of the registrar appearing
first, followed by the Democratic
judge, and the last named
is the Republican judge:
Barker's Creek: Ben Jones,
Lon Segle, Lonnie Sutton.
Canada No. 2: Mitchell Shelton,
Plumer Painter, Cleve Wood.
Canada No. 1: Ralph Broom.
Joe Middleton, Bob Brown.
Cashier's Valley; Lynch Diliard,
Bud Lombard, Buras Alexinder.
Cullowhee: Oscar Norton, Shiriey
Wilson. John Watson.
Caney Fork: Oscar Lovedahl,
Jim Potts, Howard Wood.
Dillsboro: W. A. Sutton, Ralph
rilll- 1 n....
LMii.s, meuuure onyuei.
Green's Creek: Joel Wetmore,
Lyndon Cabe, Elsie Sutton.
Hamburg: Fred Bryson, Dewitt
Leopard, O. L. Lanning.
Mountain: Walter Bryson, Ab
Edwards, Clifton Moody.
Qualla: Thad Patton, Willis
Enloe, Dave Worley.
River No. 1: Leon Moody, O. D.
Moses, Jr.I%S. M. Parker.
River No. 2: Oscar Wike, Lonie
Watson, Haygen Hamilton.
Savannah: R. O. Higdon, Dave
Bishop, Herman Cabe.
Scott's Creek No. 1: RojTMan^
ton, W. E. Bryson, Rob Parris.
Scott's Creek No. 2: Price Dillard,
Rufe Keener, Fag Henry.
Scott's Creek No. 3: Geo. Bryson,
George Coward, Bryson
Beck.
South Sylva: John Henson,
Leon Sutton, S. C. Cogdill.
North Sylva: Ben N. Queen,
Bedford Parris, Raleigh Warren,
Webster: D. C. Higdon, Rogers
Coward, W. C. Cagle.
VICTORY DRIVE FOR
BOOK ON IN COUNTY
FOR MEN IN SERVICE
Forty-seven books have been
collected by the Sylva school
from its patrons, to contribute
to the Victory Book Drive. The
drive was organized to provide
reading for men in service.
Mrs. C. C. Buchanan, librarian
at Western Carolina Teachers
College is chairman of the Campaign
in Jackson County. The
Campaign is sponsored jointly
by the American Library Association,
American Red Cross and
the United Service Organization
The goal is 10,000,000 books
to be distributed among soldiers
sailors and marines. Type ol
books wanted:
Applied Psychology; Current
Affairs, English Grammar;
Arithmetic; Algebra; Geometry;
Trigonometry; Calculus; Up-toDate
technical books, published
not later than 1935; Accounting
Shorthand; Business and Salesmnnchin
Phntnirranhv: Car
ilianouijj , ? 1 ? ,
toons; Novel and Play Writing;
Sports; Poetry and Individua
Plays; Geography; Travel Book?
of the last ten years; Biography;
Modern History; books aboul
music; and good modern Novels
All text books donated must be
in current use. Simple reading
matter for men who did nol
finish graded school is alsc
wanted.
Money to buy books may b<
donated instead of books, if preferred.
Books donated will b<
collected within the next tw(
weeks. A box for the books ha.*
been placed at the Western Autc
Associate Store.
It is requested that donors pui
their names and addresses ir
the books donated.
Any additional informatior
may be had from Mrs. C. C. Bu
chanan, at Western Carolin?
Teachers College.
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NO TIN IN 1
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11
THE name "tin hat" is just a pet
army name, carried on from the
last war, for the steel helmet which
the army wears in battle. Ther; is
no tin in a tin hat. It is made from
a very special type of armored s:eel
which is capable of withstanding a
steel-jacketed revolver bullet fired
at a distance of only 30 inches.
Another feature about these steel
MRS. JOHN W. SMITH
| PASSES AWAY FRIDAY
j AT HOME NEAR SYLVA
Mrs. John W. Smith died at;
her home near Sylva, last Tri- |
day afternoon after a long ill- j
ness, at the age of 62. Born and
I reared in Sylva township. Mrs.
I Smith had spent practically her
j entire life here. She was a
daughter of the late Joseph $ind
Edith Dlllard Cope.
Funeral services were conducted
Sunday afternoon at Scott's ;
Creek Baptist church, by the j
pastor, Rev. B. S. Hensley, and
Rev. W. N. Cook. Interment jwas
> in Old Field cemetery. j
Active pall bearers were Roy
? Dalton, Herschel Ashe, Vernon
Cope, Shirley Ensley, Ray Cog1
dill and Homer Cope.
Mrs. Smith is survived by her
husband, five sons, Lejwis,
Charles, Roy, Carl and Alfred
Smith; one daughter, Mrs. Troy
Davis, all of Sylva; one sister,
Mrs. Robert Walls, of Wayjiesville,
and by several grand[
children.
I MEN FORTY - FIVE
TO SIXTY-FIVE
Tn Dcr.icTiiD
: IU ULUId I Lll
All men between forty-five
5 years of age and sixty-five, will
' register under the selective iierv- j
ice act on next Monday, April
27, according to notice sent} out'
: from the Jackson County Se-|
I lective Service Board.
I The notice sets forth the pro
clamation of the - President of
1 the United States and the bov>
ernor of North Carolina, declar
ing April 27 as registration day
for all men who were born on
I or after April 28, 1877 and on or
1 before February 16, 1897 to reg
ister under the Selective Traini
ing Service Act of 1940.
t The board has designated the
following places of registration,
- and appointed the following
> people to be in charge of the
t registration:
> Cashier's school, Buren Terrell;
Glenville school, F. I. jvati
son; Tuckaseigee school, Mrs.
- Fannie M. Brown; John's Creek
> school, G. C. Cooper; Cullowhee
) Training School, Edward Bryj
son; Webster school, R. P. Bu)
chanan; Savannah school, R. O.
Higdon; Sylva Community House
I J. C. Allison; East Lajporte
i school, D. M. Hooper; Wolf Creek
school, Elwyn Queen; ^ead
i Paper Corporation office, ?ylva,
-1R. U. Sutton; Armour Leather
11 Co. office, Sylva, O. E. Btook?Continued
on Page Two
itto li
RIL 23, 1942
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IN HELMETS \ I
?
p" '
^ ; : I
f i I
H
v" flfll H^v
helmets is that they are non-magnetic.
This prevents them from interfering
with some of the delicate
instruments which are used in
range finding, etc. The picture
shows a small portion of a day's
output of steel helmets in a Canadian
factory. As well as equipping
her own .troops, Canada is making
these helmets for the forces of the
United Nations all over the world.
WAR SAVING BONDS
COMMITTEES NAMED
BY COUNTY CHAIRMAN
The Jackson County War Savings
Bonds Committee, met yesterday
afternoon in the office of
R. L. Ariail, the county chairman,
and adopted plans for the
canvass of the county for pledges
to_purchase bonds, to be held
'early in May, under plans of
the Treasury Department and
the proclamation of Governor
Broughton.
Local committees for each
township in the county were appointed
by Chairman Ariail.
These committees will meet and
appoint workers in the several
townships, and add members to
their local committees where
they think it advisable.
The local township committees
appointed were: Barker's
Creek, Jahu Jones, Lon Revis,
Ralph Dills.
Qualla, Mrs. Jessie Cordell,
Mrs. Frank Hall, Ed Bumgp.rner,
Jarrett Blythe, J. O. Fisher, Jr.
Scott's Creek: C. P. Dillard,
W. O. Robinson, Mrs. George
Knight, N. R. Christy, Mrs. Don
Cogdili.
Sylva: H. Gibson, H. E. Monteith,
Dan K. Moore, G. R. Lackey,
T. N. Massie, E. L. McKee,
Vernon Cope, Mack Ashe. In Sylva,
committees will be appointed
tr? ronrocpnt t.hp oivir rlnbs. the
women's clubs, the American
Legion, and other organizations.
Cashier's Valley: J. C. Passmore,
Mrs. Marshall West, Mrs.
Joe Wright, W. S. Alexander, M.
B. Madison.
Hamburg: F. I, Watson. Mrs.
T. L. Monteith, Clayborne, Bryson,
H. D. Fotoler, Mrs. Lyman
Stewart.
Mountain: Mrs. Pearl Stewart,
Fred Brown, J. H. Long, Marion
Moody, Mrs. John A. Stewart.
River: Roy Mickels, Mrs. Joseph
Keyes, McKinley Hooper, T.
E. Middleton, Mrs. Lythe Hooper.
Canada: Cleve Wood, Mrs.
Onia Shelton, A. L. Brown, Ransom
Shelton, Mrs. Mitchell Melton.
Caney Fork: Blaine Nicholson.
Oscar Lovedahl, John L. Wood
Mrs. Luther Stephens, Mrs. Ben
Nicholson.
Cullowhee: Edward Bryson, B.
B. Long, W. W. Bryson, R. L.
Knight, Mrs. David Brown.
Webster: Mrs. John H. Morris,
Mrs. L. C. Cannon, Dennis
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mguuu, Ciliitou UV n ?U, ?v?,f . r ' '
N. Cook.
Savannah: R. 0. Higdon, John
Deitz, Joe Bishop, Calvin Wilson,
Mrs. Sue Bryson.
Green's Creek: Ransom S.
Cowan, Golman Green, Bragg
Allison, Mrs. Joel Wetmore, Mrs.
O. V. Cagle.
Dillsboro: J. C. Cannon, W.
R. Enloe, J. E. Barrett, Mrs. P.
?Continued on Page Two
ntritft
$1.50 A YEAR IN A
Registration
Rationing
Week As D<
FOREST FIRES DO
ICHDMUIiEK
THIS COUNTY
0
Forest fires have raged in
parts of Jackson County during
the past week, burning over
hundreds of acres of land and
doing incalculable damage to
timber and game. One great fire,
said to have started in the Big
Cove section of Savannah township,
swept over Dead Timber
Ridge, to the head of East Fork,
Roaring Hole Knob, Shell Ridge,
and on to the headwaters of
Pressley Creek and Tilley Creek.
| Fire fighters under direction of
: County Warden Mack Ashe and
' Forest Rangers of the Nantahala
National Forest have been opposing
the flames day and night.
C. C. C. men, WPA workers, hired
! workers and volunteer men have
' been meeting the flames; but the
fire continues on, as we go uj
press.
Another fire in the Qualla seci
tion of the county, near the
Great Smoky Mountains National
Park, started on yesterday,
and is not yet under control.
It is believed that the fires in
this and other counties have
done more damage during the
past week than has been done
to the forests of Western North
Carolina in many years. The dry
weather and the wind have ?ontributed?
U* -ihe at 4fte
flames, and the fact that the
sap has just risen in the timber
renders it especially susceptible
to damage.
Two persons have been arrested
in the Pisgah National Forest
charged with setting out
fires; and three have been arrested
in Swain and Graham.
All three of these are young men
I fmm ripnrp-ia and one of them
is said to have confessed to FBI
operatives that he started 23
fires in the Nantahala National
Forest. The damage of the fires
to the nation's timber lands, and
to power supply was so great
that Federal Bureau of Investigation
operatives were called in
to help track down the fire-bugs.
Atl least one of the men may be
charged with deliberate sabotage
because fires he is said to have
started interfered with the flow
of power to defense plants, and
with the construction of dams
for defense work. Conviction on
that charge would bring a maximum
sentence of 30 years.
BROWN RITES
HELDJRIDAY
Funeral services for N. C.
Brown, prominent farmer of this
county, were conducted last Friday
afternoon at Dillsboro Baptist
church by Rev. W. N. Cook
Rev. B. S. Hensley, and Rev. T
F. Deitz. Active pall bearers were
Claude Queen, Robert Queen
Walter Burke Sherill, Jame.?
Potts, Claude Pangle, John C
Sutton, Jr., and David Cagle
Honorary pall bearers: W. A
Sutton, A. J. Dills, J. R. Dills, C
W. Dills, Leonard Holden, Jennings
Bryson, T. W. Ashe, Roy
Cowan, Glenn Hughes, A. C,
Moses, Dr. R. W. Kirchberg, Dr.
Grover Wilkes, J. H. Potts, F. I.
Watson, J. C. Cannon, M. B. Cannon,
T. W. Keever, R. F. Jarrett.
G. W. Terrell, M. Y. Jar
rett, C. A. Snyder, James Mason.
Theo. Snyder, Frank Jacobs, J.
C. Sutton, Weaver Mashburn,
R. E. Barrett, John Parks, P. W
Kincaid, Dr. S. L. Crowe, Dr. G.
W. Murphy, S. T. Crisp, S. W.
Enloe, Prank Crawford, W. R,
Sherrill, Guy Leatherwood, John
Wilson, Garland Lackey, C. H
I Kirkman, Griffin Middleton, A.
?Continued on Page Three
I
I
lDVANCE IN JACKSON COUNTY
i For Sugar
Starts Next
balers Apply j
I
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The machinery for sugar rationing
in the county has been t
set in motion by the Jackson
County Rationing Board, composed
of W. R. Enloe, M. B. Cannon
and Harry Ferguson, the
school authorities of the coun
ty cooperating. Ail tne members
of the rationing board, and
the county defense chairman,
met with Theodore S. Johnson,
j state defense chairman in Ashe|
ville, Monday, and received instructions
regarding the rationing
system.
All wholesale and retail dealers,
and institutional and indusI
trial users of sugar will register
on next Tuesday and Wednesday,
at the designated school
I nearest them. They will appear
! with the information as to how
much sugar they sold or used
last year, and the dollar value
of sales, in the case of retail
grocers, and the average inventory
of sugar on hand. After
registration they will be issued
certificates and purchase
stamps. Hotels, cafes, boarding
; schools, hospitals, prisons, ana
other industrial and institutional
users of sugar must register
on the above dates, along with
the wholesale and retail dealers.
The designated registration
places for next Tuesday and
Wednesday, with the name of
the person in charge of registration
appear below.
Sylva High School, Louis Hair;
Cashier's Valley school, M. B.
Madison; Qualia school, W. Howard
Crawford; Dillsboro school,
Mrs. Virginia Cannon Terrell;
Savannah school, R. O. Higdon;
Webster school, Paul Buchanan;
k a y-Tinoi, Mrs.?George
KnightlEast LaPorte' school, T.
L. Wike; Cullowhee Training
School, A. C. Hoyle; Glenville
school, Mrs. Kate P. Hryson;
Tuckaseigee school, Mrs. Fannie
Brown.
The registration of the priva^
consumers of sugar will be on
May 4, 5, and 6, and the announcement
of the schools where
the people can register will be
announced later. At that time
the heads of all family units
Will register iui i/iicxi lainuicii,
and will be issued ration cards
for the purchase of sugar. All
persons having on hand more
than 5 pounds of sugar for each
member of the family will be
! denied registration until the
surplus sugar is consumed. No
person can deal in sugar or buy
it for family or institutional use
until after registration.
It is indicated that each consumer
of sugar will be allowed
one-half pound per week for the present,
after registration.
Mr. M. B. Cannos has been appointed
custodian of sugar in
this county by the rationing
board.
It was stated that provision
for the purchase of sugar for
home canning will be made after
the registration of the private
consumers.
NO RECAPPS ISSUED
; IN COUNTY LAST WEEK
%
i There were no certificates is
, sued for recapping tires by the
. Jackson County Rationing Board
last week. It was explained that
, no blank certificates were avail5
able for the purpose, either in
. Sylva or Raleigh.
New truck and bus tires were
. issued as follows:
One tire and one tube to Garland
Owen, Wolf Mountain, mail
' carrier.
Two tires, J. A. Mehaffey, Balsam,
acid wood hauler.
Two tires, one tube to Kelly
Hall, Green's Creek, acid wood
hauler.
Two tires, four tubes, Houston
? '? i?ii? -ii
, uagie, syxva; ior naming on,
vine.
Two tires, Ernest Potts, Norton
for hauling acid wood, lumber,
, and produce.
Passenger cars: two tires and
, two tubes to A. B. Queen, Sylva,
R. F. D. mail carrier.
Buy War Saving Bonds and
Stamps.