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fanners Of
[picnic Here
The Jackson County picnic of
Farmers Federation will be
heid Saturday, July 25, at the
gylva His11 School, this year.
The picnics, as usual, will be
open to everybody living within
the county. Every family is invited
and urged to bring a well
filled picnic lunch basket and be
prepared to spend the day. A
i.wifnt.inn is extended to
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I any musicians in this county to
I take part on the program in the
I morning.
The meeting will get under
I way at 10 o'clock in the mornI
in*, with music by the Farmers
I Federation String Band. The
I string Band and any other muI
sk'ians who wish to take part in
I in the program will play as the
I crowd gathers and after this
I some brief talks will be made.
I speakers will be announced
later
Choirs, quartets, and other
I singers will -sing competitively
I and song books will be given to
[ the winning choir and prizes will
be given to the winning quartets.
This year the Farmers Feder- !
ation picnics will be especially
devoted to the war programs for
the farmers. Every part of the '
picnic possible will be used to ex- I
plain and encourage the farmers
part in our great national war
effort. Mr. McClure said. War
bonds will be stressed and a
special committee will jbe appointed
to get pledges for war
bonds.
Committies from various parts
cf Jackson County are as follows:
Svlva: Chief Jarrett Blythe,
I Jack Johnson, Mrs. Fred Blythe,
Sherman Taylor, J. B. Driver,
Adam Moses. Richmond Deitz,
Dr. A. S. Nichols, Dr. Grover C.
Wilkes. Floyd Carden, Grady
Smith, Louis Hair, Bob Howell,
W. E. Bird. Prof. K. L. Wood, Rev.
G. George.
Cullowhee: Rufus Cook, Tom
Ccx. Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Hunter,
Mi', and Mrs. Lewis Ammons,
G. P. Ferguson.
Savannah: Mr. and Mrs. John
C. Jones. Robert Jones, Sam Buchanan.
David Sutton, Mrs. R. O.
Higdon. Lynn Burrell, Joe Bishop.
Dillsboro: Mark Jarrett, Mont
Cannon. S. T. Crisp, G. R. Mills.
Addie: R. M. Crawford, J. B.
Cogdill, Lewis Blanton, Joe Allman,
T. C. Bryson.
Balsam: John T. Jones, L. M.
Crawford. Price Dillard, L. N.
Crawford
I Webster: George Rogers, Frank
Ailman, W. N. Cook, D. C. Higdon.
Clarence Vance, Horace
Ltwus, Ernest Lewis.
East LaPorte: Bill Watson,
Mrs. Thomas Wike, Claude Parker.
Sam M. Parker, O. D. Moses,
Rufus Parker, Mr. and Mrs. Will
Smith. J. E. Brown, Walter Jackson,
Albert Jackson.
Caney Fork: Nelson Henson,
R C. Hunter, Vance Hooper, Roscoe
Hooper, John Cook, Eric
Coward, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Nicholson.
John Lovedahl, D. H. Moffett.
Edwin Brown, Thad Brown.
Canada: Bud Brown, John
Brown. James Woods, Robert
Brown, Norman Nicholson, Charlie
Brown, Claude Wike.
Hamburg: Jim Bryson, Rev.
Will Breedlove, Vernon Coggins,
Lloyd Coggins, Fred Henson.
Mountain: Marion Moody,
Henry Barnes, John H. Stewart,
Fred Brown, Joe Henderson,
Charlie Norris,
Cashier's: Mrs. J. K. Stoddard,
paul Diliard, T. A. Dillard, Miss
Margaret. Martin, G. R. Xackey.
Wilmot: Novice Ward, John
Bumgarner, Jode H o 1 c o m b e,
Dnr-lr * Turn i-? 11 T>
?v-o. wculuii, will oraaiey, dciiPn
Bumgarner.
Barker's Creek: Joe Messer,
Mrs. Jewel Revis, Jelly Bradley,
J?hn Jones, Ralph Ward, General
Jones, Baxter Nations, Dock
Gibson. Chandler Elders, Cornells
Ashe, Mr. and Mrs. Ownby
?ef>k. Dill Brooks.
Bill's Creek: Wiley Bramlet,
Jim Turpin, Fred Sutton, Jess
^rley. Thad Styles, John Brown,
?His Styles.
Keep 'em Flying! Buy War
-Ads and Stamps. _
Stye $i
SIDE THE COUNTY
County To
On July 25
Motorists Are
Registering
For Gasoline
Motorists throughout the east
are registering today, tomorrow,
and Saturday for their permanent
gasoline allowance books.
The county school authorities
have taken over the task of the
registration in this county, and
teachers are doing the work as
a patriotic service.
Everybody who has the proper
credentials, that is an automobile
registration card and a use
stamp good for the year July 1,
1942 to July 1, 1943, will be issued
an "A" card by the registrars.
All persons who think they
are entitled to more than the
minimum allowance will then
fill out a blank requesting additional
gasoline and will carry it
to the rationing board, where it
will be passed upon.
The "A" cards will have 48
units which are supposed to last
the motorist from July 22, 1942,
to July 1, 1943. The value of each
unit will change from time to
time as conditions require; but j
at present it is believed that each i
unit will be worth 3 and 9-13 j
gallons of gasoline. This is fig- i
ured on the basis of 15 miles per j
gallon and will permit each
automobile to be driven approximately
1,000 miles during the
period from July 22, 1942 to
July 1, 1943.
Price Administrator Henderson'
said the new East Coast
coupon system for gasoline rationing
will grant a fraction
more per week than temporary
"A" cards, but the conditions
that must be met to obtain supplemental
rations under the
permanent system are so strict
that motorists will have to get
along on the minimum.
Charles Osborne
Returns To Navy
Charles Osborne, who was on
T.ovinortnn when she went
VV?* ** w... - -
down in the Coral Sea, and who
has returned to the Navy after
spending a short leave at his
home in Dillsboro, has written
his mother expressing his appreciation
of a surprise picnic
party given him by friends and
neighbors.
Mr. Osborne said: "It is a bit
difficult to express my appreciation
of the courtesy shown me
by the people of Dillsboro and
Sylva. I will say it was the most
glorious three days I ever spent.
"I wish to thank each and
every one who participated in
giving a picnic in my honor. It
was a treat to hear Mr. Tompkins
speak to us, though what he
said wasn't very comforting, it,
was full of truth, and everyone
should bear in mind what he
said.
"Please tell Mr. Tuttle I regret
not seeing him. Received
his letter. It was the nicest I
have received.
"My trip back wasn't as tire
some as going, evidently because
I was not as anxious to get back
as I was to get home. I arrived
here at base about 12 o'clock
Friday night. Hope to be transferred
soon."
GOLF TOURNAMENT
The Bryson City golfers will
engage the local players in a
tournament at the Riverside
Golf Course, on Sunday afternoon,
according to an announcement
made today by Mr. Fred
Andrews.
The tournament will start at
2 o'clock.
RECOVERED
Animals killed in England during
bombing raids are butchered
as soon as they are found, in
some cases even before the "ajl
J pleat" .signal.h?$ been sounded.
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service a* the north- and'tout
vital link in the north-south traffi
porting key Army, Navy, and Ii
well with service men at the scoi
Fifty Men To Go
To Army Soon
The Jackson County Selective
Service Board will send fifty
young men to the army to begin
their training, within the
month, it was announced at the
office of the board this morning.
This is the largest single
contingent that has yet gone
from the county.
The young men who have b?en
selected to begin their service
this month are:
Parson Wesley Kincaid, Jr.*
Oarl Moore Williams, Joseph
Chester Williams, Vernon Floyd
Martin, Arthur Arnold Smith,
William Howard Warren, Robert
Carl Bradley, Charles Oldridge
Frazier, Mont Hadley Stephens,
Charlie Elbert Wilson, John
Frank Brown, Hobert Wattie
Brown, Elijah C. Fortner, Cecil
f l av>v-% DuoVtonon Paul
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Snipes, William Lee Cowan, Joseph
George Crowell, Luther
Mills, Charlie Mansoe Franklin,
Ross Blackfox, Ira Homer Nations,
Henry Grady Woodard,
Venoy Jewel Settlemyre, Fred
Hooper, Robert Russell McMaj
han, Irving Welch, Kermit Pressley,
Thomas Jefferson Gunter,
Ralph Lewis Worley, James Ross
Griffin, Shirley Mathis, Richard
Freeman McFalls, Charles Roscoe
Wike, Alonzo Lyle Jones,
Cecil Passmore, William Buster
Burch, James Eldon Jones, William
Woodrow Fowler, Frank R.
M c A v o y, Clinton Buchanan,
Britton McKinley Moore, William
Thomas Evans, Glenn Hobert
Robinson, Garrett Littlejohn,
Charles Martin, Jim Phillips,
Rufus A. Moore, James Olin
Buchanan, Andrew B. Allison,
Clarence Odis Austin.
The exact date when any of
these young men. will leave has
not been disclosed, and cannot
be published, under censorship
rules. However, a going away
party and refreshments will be
served them at the time of their
departure, by the United Daughters
of the Confederacy and the
American Legion.
ENSEMBLE TO BE AT
SERVICES SUNDAY
An ensemble composed of Miss
Elizabeth Anne Hunter, cello;
Mrs. Anne Bird Engman, pianist;
j Miss Jane Elliott, first violin;
. Miss Dorothy Sue Sutton, second
j violin; and Miss Helen Bird, vi|
ola, will render a concert of sacred
music at the regular Sunday
evening service at the Community
Park.
The sacred music will take
the place of the Sunday evening
sermon at the interdenominational
service.
It is hoped that a large number
of people will join in the enjoyment
of the beautiful, wor
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shiprui music, m ? ?
worshipful setting.
CARS
The 34,000,000 motor vehicle."
in the United States, serving
130,000,000 people, are ridinf
themselves off the road at th<
rate of 3 V2 per cent a month.
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ldustrial personnel between east-coast pr
res of camps along its route.
On The Tar Heel Front ^
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In Washington
By ROBERT A. ERWIN J
And FRANCES McKUSICK 1
Washington?Gasoline ration- '
ing remains the most popular
subject of conversation in North ; c
Carolina and other Eastern Seaboard
States. Like the old gag
about the weather, there's a lot I(
being said about it and very lit- i J
tie being done.
Governor J. Melville Brough- j
ton, who went on the warpath j <
when the rationing program I
first began, took up the cudgels ]
again when the price of gasoline
was raised 2y2 cents to cover the |
cost of increased transportation ]
chiefly by tank car from the oil ,
fields. .. j
The Governor wrote Price Ad- \
ministrator L e o n Henderson, <
protesting vigorously, and then }
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wrote every memoer 01 me itu n
Heel contingent in Congress ask- | ]
ing them to do something about j
the situation, including getting j
after Henderson. i
The C6ngressmen held a meet- ]
ing, dispatched Representative j
Harold Cooley, of Nashville, to
the Senate Appropriations Com- j
mittee to get Henderson who was ?
testifying there. Henderson, with j
his usual cigar in hand and ]
handful of cigars in pocket,
agreed to come along, so Cooley i
led him to the Ways and Means <
Committee office to Representa- 11
tive Bob Doughton in the Capi- ?
tol. i
There, Henderson and Representatives
Doughton, Cooley, j
Bonner, Barden, Folger and ]
Weaver talked for about an hour. (
Henderson insisted there wasn't 1
a lot he could do right now about i
the price situation. He didn't ]
close the door against a possible j
price reduction, however, but at ]
the same time he said it would |:
be difficult to enforce an in
crease in non-rationed states on <
the ground they were not served :
by the same oil companies dis- ]
tributing petroleum products in ;
the East. 1
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The only bright spot in the
| picture was announcement of , ]
Representative John H- Kerr |
thit OPA had promised hew ra- 3
, tioning regulations would authorize
issuance of supplemental ,
gasoline cards to farmers who
haul tobacco to market in their ,
own automobiles and trailers.
The question of adequate gaso- '
line for this purpose was raised
by scores of Tar Heel farmers in
letters and telegrams to Washington.
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' The Southern States Industrial
Council, organized to boost
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industrial development soum 01
the Mason-Dixon Line, .has
formed a committee composed of
a member of Congress from each
* Southern State to help aid small
? business.
The Tar Heel delegation has
elected Representative John H.
Folger as North Carolina's man
on the committee. Among other
j things, the group. will seek to
r solve shortages of materials and
r will pass out information on
? specifications for war products
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oduction centers, and is popular ai
Rural Areas Urged
To Share Rides
Raleigh, July 7?Residents of
mailer towns and rural comnunities
were urged today by
James S. Burch, State War
Transportation Secretary, to use j
;heir own initiative in forming
>hare-ride clubs.
Burch pointed out that the
campaign to save tires on wheels
vas well organized in the larger
;owns, through local War Transportation
Committees and Air
Raid Wardens of the OCD, but
juch organizations did not exist
in all smaller centers nor in
rural areas.
"However," he said, "most of
the State's population is still in
rural areas, and it is very imnortant
that the share-ride
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movement be extended into
these sections. I earnestly urge
;ounty farm agents, PTA groups
ind similar organizations to initiate
local campaigns. There is
nothing complicated about forming
a share-ride club?it is simply
the formalizing of good
neighborliness, and North Carolina's
rural population is composed
of good neighbors."
Burch said he believed the
people in the country and in
small towns had a larger stake
in tire conservation than did
people in larger communities.
'Transportation is vital to our
rural communities, not only because
larger distances are involved
but also because few
small communities have public
utility facilities.
"Every reliable authority now
admits no new tires are in sight
for civilian cars or trucks for
Dver two years, and it will be a
svise community which now sets
up workable machinery for the
preservation of its wheels. They
have gofr to last a long time. Rural
residents, in addition to sharing
car rides to go to market, to
work, or to church, have a great
fr? r?nnl fchpir trucks
jppUl l/uilltj W ? ?
for farm work, the hauling of
produce and delivery of needed
supplies. Every truck that returns
home unloaded is a liability
nowadays."
The transportation secretary
reminded that persons who
formally organize car-ride pools
may cite this in support of petitions
for additional gasoline
coupons.
SELLING STAMPS IN
THEATRE BUILDING
The Ritz Theatre and the
Young Woman's Club are joining
in the daily sales of war
bonds and stamps. Each day
and night, in the lobby of the
tn6aire, a yuung wuman nuiii
the club is seated at a desk to
sell the stamps and bonds to the
patrons of the theatre.
CITY TAGS ON SALE
A number of Sylva city tags
for this year have not been sold.
Everybody who has not bought a
city tag is urged to do so. This
is not compulsory, but it is a
means by which the volunteer
fire department raises funds for
the work of that department.
Tags can be bought at Campbell's.
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$1.50 A YEAR IN Ai
Committee (
To Pass On
Will Open pfew
Scrap Salvage
Drive July 13
The WPB said a new and
greatly intensified campaign to
salvage vital scrap materials will
be formally opened July 13, because
the only way the U. S. can
meet materials requirements of
war production is to collect every
last bit of scrap from every farm
and home, and from every commercial
enterprise and industry
in the country. * The iron and
steel industry has raised abbut
$1,500,000 and the glycerin industry
about $500,000 to finance
national advertising to stimulate
scrap collection, the Board said.
The Farm Implement Industry
has offered to assist the coun- J
try's 12,000 state and local sal- i
vage committees in the collection
of rural scrap. Materials to be
sought in particular are iron and
steel, rubber and waste fats. J
The . Rubber Scrap Salvage
campaign will close at midnight
July 10. The Public Buildings AcU I
ministration reported 15,000
pounds of scrap rubber were
salvaged from Federal Buildings
during the first two weeks of the
campaign. The War Department
said the Army faces a 250,000 ton
rubber shortage by the end of
1943, but present plans do not
include military requisitioning of
civilian tires.
MANY SELECTEES
REJECTED BY ARMY
The current high rate of rejections
of selectees at the induction
station is disturbing to
the public mind. This is understandable
since the public is so
vitally interested in every phase
of Selective Service. There is a
satisfactory exDlanation for it
and the public is entitled to that
explanation.
Prior to January 1, 1942, complete
physical examinations
were given the selectees by local
board examining physicians. After
a few months of experience
these physicians were passing
men who very closely met the
Army's requirements. Rejections
at the induction station at that
time were almost entirely of men
with borderline conditions, men
who had contracted diseases between
the time of their local examinations
and the time of their
delivery for induction, and men
rejected as a result of the chest
X-rays which were never a part
of the local examination.
Under the regulations now in
force, the local examining physicians
do not make a comprehensive
examination. In fact,
they make only a casual "screening"
examination and are guided
by a list of defects, one part
of which sets forth non-remediable
physical conditions
which manifestly disqualify the
selectee for all military service,
and the second part of which
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OUTPUT OF NEW SHIPS
LESS THAN SINKINGS
The Maritime Commission said
shipbuilding has not yet equaled
total sinkings, but delivery of 60
ships totaling 730,000 tons by
American shipyards in June set
a new world's record for steel
ship construction and represented
an increase of 450 per cent in
volume of construction since
Pearl Harbor. The War Shipping
Administration reported the U.
S. will operate between 2,200 and
2,600 merchant vessels this year.
ICE CREAM SUPPER
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All lev ci cam ?? ?
held on the lawn of the school
house, at Dillsboro, tomorrow
(Friday) night, the proceeds to
be used for the fire company.
Other refreshments will be
sold, as well as ice cream, and
the Dillsboro firemen hope for a
large attendance and liberal
patronage of the affair.
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Test Farm
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The Jackson County Chamber . !
of Commerce has just been informed
that a committee on the
relocation of the Mountain Test
Farm will leave Raleigh on July
20, and will come to Sylva and
Cullowhee to consider the location
near Western Carolina
Teachers College. The committee
will be headed by W. Kerr
Scott, Commissioner of Agricul
ture.
The exact date of the visit of
the committee to Cullowhee has
not, been learned, but Mr. John
R. Jones, manager of the Chamber
of Commerce, has been definitely
informed that the committee
will come to Sylva and
Cullowhee.
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The State sold the mountain
test farm to the United States
government for the purpose of
erecting the veterans hospital,
which is now under construction
there. A number of counties put
in their bids for the test farm
and proposed locations. Buncombe,
Henderson, Haywood and
Ashe counties are said to have
offered" locations. Jackson proposed
a location near Western
Carolina Teachers College, and
that a close cooperation between
the college and the test farm be
maintained. It was argued in the
brief that the Chamber of Commerce
committee submitted that
the site is ideal in that it con
tains tne acreage aesirea, it naa
practically every type of soil encountered
in the entire mountain
area; and that the surplus
from the farm could be sold to
the college and and college students
could be used for seasonable
labor on the farm. This, it
was stated, would be a distinct $
advantage to the farm and
would aid many worthy students
in working their way through
college.
A close cooperation between
the agriculture and science departments
of the college and the
test farm was proposed, coupled
with a plan to be submitted to
the board of trustees to take advantage
of the situation, should
the farm be located there, and
effect an expansion of the agricultural
courses at the college.
The Jackson County Chamber
of Commerce Committee that
has been working on the plan is
composed of A. J. Dills, R. L.
Ariail, T. Walter Ashe, Dan
Tompkins, G. R. Lackey, and Dr.
H. T. Hunter.
Baptist Ministers
Will Meet Monday \
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The Western North Carolina
Ministers Conference, an orsrani
zation of the Baptist preachers
of the western counties of the
State, will meet next Monday
at Scott's Creek church at Beta.
Rev. E. P. Baker is president, and \
Rev. B. S. Hensley, secretary of
the organization. j
The tentative program has
been prepared and published, as
follows:
Meeting at 10 o'clock, there
will be a fifteen minutes praise
and worship service, conducted
by Rev. W. H. Fitzgerald. At 10:15
Rev. H. O. Hammett will discuss
"Scriptural methods of soulwinning."
At 10:45, Unscriptural
methods of soulwinning, will be
discussed by Rev. J. E. Brown.
There will be special music at
11:15. At 11:20, the aftermath of
I a revival will be discussed by
Rev. H. K. Marsteller. Lunch
will be served at noon.
Reconvening at 1 o'clock, the
conference will engage in a
praise and worship service conducted
by Rev. J. G. Benfield,
followed by a discussion of the
subject of, forming pastoral
fields, by Rev. Geo. W. Davis. At
1:45, Rev. W. W. Marr will discuss,
the deacon and his work.
Following special music at 2:15,
Rev. A. B. Cash will deliver an
inspirational sermon.
Total fruit production In the
1942*43 season will be nearly as
large as the bumper 1941-42 production,
according to latest estimates
of the U. S. Department
of Agriculture.
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