North Carolina Newspapers

I grr-XTIN ADVANCE OUT J R. R Etheri< W estern N. Used In Air I r Bnuv Ethridge, director of I the Nor'h Carolina Department I of Consf'-'vation and DevelopI nient. h-iS called the attention I u.,nrv J. Kaiser, the champion 01 1" west ^ust shipbuilder and proposer of the project of a fleet t- hum' transport air ships, to the possibilities of North Carolina 01:?me as a source from wiiich to obtain large quantities 0l- Uiih; metal for his project. Mr. Ethndite invited Mr. Kaiser to .send li s engineers to North Carolina and investigate this liuic. '.'.e\v source of magnesium. j;u> source was developed and ;ts potential value as a prftducer t.f nuunesium, by Gillis and pawel at Webster. The largest deposits of olivine j;;d dunite are to be found in jaeksan county, and the people i;rre have been pressing for a plant to develop this large source i-i the vital war material, which Mr. Kaiser will have to obtain if his project is carried through. Etheridge called to his atten| tion a rather dry and academic publication of the department, which reported the result of a survey by the TVA and the N. C. Department of Conservation and Development. The survey revealed that 230.000.000 tons of "high grade" olivine occur in a deposit in Western North Carolina and Georgia, with total reserves of Arnr billion tons. Olivine is called by engineers the 'best-known source" of magnesium. The high grade N. C. ores will yield 48.07 per cent magnesia, according to the TVA report, and recent extraction m e t h o d s. already exploited abroad, have been pronounced practicable. Magnesia is used in many forms, one of the most important as an aueii: in incendiary bombs. North Carolina olivine, which appears to be a yellowish-green sandstone, currently is being | mined as a refractory and for conversion into epsom salts (sulpha:? magnesia). About 10,000 '.ors are shipped annually. Bat the mineral is most potenf tiallv valuable because of its undisputed magnesia content. As metallic magnesia, the deposits may well solve the battle for light metals for airplanes, according to Etheridge. Metallic magnesium is one-third lighter than aluminum, and in alloy of nickel and copper, much stronger. It can be produced cheaper, too. according to reports at the Conservation and Development office. \Vifh Other Minerals The attractive thing about southern olivine, Etheridge said, that it occurs along with nickel chromite, and vermiculite. Engineers recently surveying the deposits think the by-products would yield all the elements needed for metallic magnesium except for the small amount of copper required. This is nearby in North Carolina mines. Metallic magnesium at present is boin6 produced mostly from sea water and brine wells, .' huh have a limited capacity, Etherid"*? said. Isaac Van Horn, veteran minerals expert of Ashet?ild the department that made from olivine at'd similar ores is now being built in!.') German and Japanese planes. According to a recent article 'n a 'f'f,hnical magazine, the Ax's nations in 1941 produced about '[J Pt*r cent of the magnesium hou-h production plans in the ^itf,d States have been stepped uij suDsiantially. promoted to sergeant Panama City (Special)? Pronation in RTade of 67 enlisted men was made known to day at P?st headquarters of the Army Air Forces Gunnery School at Tynduli Field. Amoi^ those promoted to Sgt. was Warren H. Green, son of r and Mrs. James Green, of Sylva. %\)t 3< 'SIDE THE COUNTY Ige Suggests C. Ores Be, Transports K p H. Nicholson * Is Killed At i S; Celina, Tenn. B * t] Harry Nicholson, well known ij Jackson county man, was killed instantly, when he fell from a scaffold at Celina,, Tennessee. Mr. Nicholson was employed by Morrison - Knudsen Company, and was engaged in removing the wooden forms from around concrete, when he fell twenty- ^ five feet, and struck on his head. _ a A son of the late Thomas s: Nicholson, and Mrs. Nicholson, ^ of Caney Fork, Mr. Nicholson p was a member of one of Jack- ^ son county's prominent families, y Until recently he was the head of the Works Progress Adminis- ! p tration in this county, and was p I well known throughout the c ' county. p Mr. Nicholson is survived by p his widow, one small child, by o I his mother, one sister, Mrs. Le- J | nore Stack, of <jowarts, and five J i brothers, Raymond R. Nichol- I i son, of Sylva, former register of i e ! deeds of Jackson county, John j n and Burder Nicholson, both of j u I Ohio, Eugene Nicholson, of Cow- | s I arts, and Ed Nicholson, of Bre- j li i vard. ! v Funeral and interment will be \ J at Cowarts. I o Army Accepts ; Sixty-One Of u * c August Quota \ r c oivft?_Ana nf tViP vnnnfy men VJ1A ujr Ulil, Wi >uv J D ; sent to the induction center by 1 j the Jackson County Local Se- 1 I lective Service Board in Aug- s ust have passed their physical r j and other examinations and will 1 be inducted into the army at r the close of the fourteen days' s furlough given them. f The sixty-one men are: Cecil c Lovedahl, Charlie T. Woodring, ? George Fisher, Willie Burt Hyatt, Ned Odus Haskett, Bert J. Hensley, Carl Kenneth Nicholson, Wroe Haney Brown, Frank Crisp, David Cucumber, Darrell V. Mitchell, Garland Solis Green, ' Victor Bertie Moss, Ernest Paul 1 Minnish, Charlie Lee Hoyle, J James Clare Hooper, Grover Sheridan Kilpatrick, James Paul J Revis, John Vester Hoyle, John- . ny Odell Johnson, Roscoe Rob- 1 inson, Sherley H. Franks, James r Leonard Collins, Ernest Dell Beck, James Henry Messer, Lyman Brooks, Theodore Moore, Lloyd Claud Davis, Glenn Hoop- " er, Enoch Harris, Oscar Wood, Sebe James Nations, Sherman William Carter, Carl Hill Lewis, . Malvin . Candler Jones, Paul Tnnps Shatlev. Simon Peter Ma- . ney, R. L. Ridley, Hubert Brown, Fred Wesley Ashe, Alonzo Lyle * Jones, Lyman Dick Haskett, Ar- 1 thur Arnold Smith, Kermit ( Pressley, Henry Earl Wood, j Ralph Lewis Worley, James Rass Griffin, Jim Phillips, Richard Freeman McFalls, Glenn Hobart . Robinson, Clinton Buchanan, 1 Weaver Delmond Fox, Lawrence Ray Corn, Raymond Bradley, Andrew Jackson Hamilton, Clyde i Leroy Loudermilk, Clyde Loftin 1 Crisp, Kenneth Cameron Cowan, ^ and Olis Wayne Fugate. ENLOE CHAPTER TO MEET WITH MRS. A. D. PARKER j 1 The W. Enloe Chapter United j Daughters of the Confederacy i will meet with Mrs. A. D. Park- i er, at her home on Courtland i Heights, on Thursday of next j week, SepteniDer o. SHEEPSKINS It requires 12 shearlings, or sheepskins to outfit an Army ( pilot, reports the U. S. Department of Agriculture. lchsot SYLVA, NORTI A Week Of The War War Production Chairman Felson announced the War Prouction Board is rerating every roject in the war program to ecure the "maximum impact on he enemy now." Combat planes, articularly bombers, are at the op of this new list, Mr. Nelson aid._ Chairman Nelson reported the r. S. is now producing munitions hree and a half times the rate i November 1941, the month beore Pearl Harbor. July prouction, he said, was 16 per cent bove June production, but 7 er cent snort 01 production Drecasts made at the beginning f July. "The big job ahead of s right now is to bring our rogram into balance and make ure that we use our materials nd facilities as wisely as posible," he said. "This means that re must redouble our efforts, articularly on the low spots, if ^e are to make our goals by the ear's end." Craft production increased 11 er cent in July over June outut, Mr. Nelson said. Although ombat plane production rose 6 er cent, it was not up to exec tations. He also reported: verall ordnance production in uly increased 26 per cent over une output, and was very close o schedules; antiaircraft guns xceeded schedules by "a wide largin;" merchant ships were * ip 6 per cent and "nearly on f chedule for the month;" de- F iveries of major naval combat < essels were ahead of those in une and "considerably ahead J f forecasts." Foreign Relations President Roosevelt and Sec- f etary of State Hull sent mes- ^ ages of solidarity to Brazil as t XI Ml A. hat country Decame uie iirst < >outh American nation to de- J lare war on Germany and Italy. s The President said Wendell L. g Villkie will tour Europe and the j iear East as his special repre- j entative in order to correct the j mpression in those places that J. S. production is not all it s hould be. Mr. willkie will carry nessages from the President to foreign Leaders, including Prenier Stalin. The President isued a statement that the per>etrators of "bart>aric" acts in 1 occupied countries "will have to tand in the courts of law" in he same countries in which >arbarism now rages and answer n those courts for their crimes. Army and Navy The War Department said it vill inaugurate this Fall a volmtary preinduction training J >rogram utilizing existing facili- _ ?i ?ii ?? IJ les 01 scnoois ailU cunegca I/O neet present and future needs or properly trained personnel , n the armed forces. Out of every J 00 men inducted into the army, tbout 63 are assigned to duties equiring specialized training, he Department said. The Army ;aid it is organizing and trainng port battalions (composed j nostly of former Stevedores) for luty overseas to insure prompt landling of U. S. military equip- r nent for forces stationed ;hroughout the worM. The Department said checks in paynent of allowances to dependmts of enlisted men of the army, covering the first applications to 3e approved, will go out shortly ^ ifter September 1. The Navy announced recruit- * ng of enlisted personnel of the Women's Naval Reserve will be*in September 11, and training ivill start October 9 at the Uni/ersity of Wisconsin, Indiana University and Oklahoma A. and 1 M. college. Selective Service Selective Service Director Hershey said draft boards will be- 1 - * - 1 ?in calling men witn aepenaem-s i before Christmas. He said single men with "secondary" dependents, such as aged or crippled i relatives, will be called first; < married men whose wives work, next; then men with dependent 1 wives; and finally men who have < wives and children. He said the reservoir of 1-A men throughout the country is "practically exhausted." Selective Service headquarters said Class 1-B (men fit for limited military service only) ?Continued on P&ffe Three i Con K CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUG I T"' ' ' H Kv.i W^ ' -J :j|| 81 : :ra:l THE power and precision with r which the roller bends a steel \ plate into a perfect circle to make i a depth charge reflects the spirit t of Canada's war program. It will be i closed at both ends, waterproofed { md filled with high explosives, to be 1 loaded aboard a ship of the Royal t Canadian Navy engaged in ridding ( [he Atlantic waters of Nazi sub- t marines. With the growing need i for manpower in the armed services, < war industries and agriculture, i Canada':, new selective service l policy is directing workers in "non- t pssential" categories into war work < as curtailment am* restrictions on 1 civilian goods make an Increasing I number of workers available. In the 1 next year 200,000 volunteers will be 1 required for the armed services: J thou>ands will be called up for com- 1 pulsory military service and 100.000 i bounty To Send 73 Men To Army During September Seventy-three men will go rom Jackson county to the Lrmy in September, according o announcement made by the Selective Service Board today. )f these, 5 are volunteers. They ThomlApp Bum ;arner, William David Deitz, lalph John Connor, Johnnie joudermilk, and Bickett Claude Jryson. The other sixty eight selectees ire: Wayne Rufus Deitz, Lewis Laayette Parris, Elbert Mathis, fed Littlejohn, Amos Melvin Viggins, Colie Mearn Aiken, Silrio Guerra, Charles Martin, Alrin Wilson Cabe, John Dee Bryion, Gemes Carr Harris, James Viley Shuler, Charles Dehart Vomack, Rufus A. Moore, John 3igmeat, Alvin Eugene Stewart, 3enjamin Franklin Hornbuckle, "red Alexander Pressley, James }tha Parton, Volney Ulys Nich>lson, Bascom Carl Bryson, John iarold Clayton, Wade Lyle Mills, laven Adam Williams, Ralph William Hensley, Gordon Wesley Veaver, Guy Thomas Segle, Hal rames Beasley, George Fred ioyle, Walter E. McCall, Glenn Dallas Moore, John Mitchell AlKorf Ahorham Arnmnns yduc, niuci i/ uuvittuiii ........ Jasper Nathan Ashe, Charlie tfoore, Jean Adams, Roscoe Nel;on Bryson, B. F. Pressley, Wilard Walter Turpin, Fred William 3rown, Garrett LittlejohA John Vfarshall Hooper, Robert'Glenn Turpin, Fred Stewart, Theodore Mills, Elmer Hugh Bryson, 3eorge Holmes Prince, Joseph Roscoe Green, James Don Ashe, Fred Bigwitch, Harlan Jack Reed, Warren G. Harding Hall, Willard Albert Brooks, Joseph Welch Oocumma, Robert Cope, Cameron Lee Buchanan, Grover Robinson, Wiley Ray Greene, Robert Lloyd Brown, John Edwin Henson, Shirley Mathis, Britton McKinley Moore, Hugh Vincent Ferguson, Eugent Lanson Nich3lson, Paul J. Cogdill, James Gruy Hoyle, Roy Douglas. Davis, Bradburn Francis Pell. MRS. BESS HOSTESS TO U. D. C. CHAPTER Mrs. Gilbert Bess will be hostess to the members of the B. H. Cathey Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy, at her home on Main street, on Thursday afternoon of next week. EGGS Nearly IY2 billion dozen eggs must be produced in the U. S. during the remainder of 1942 to reach the wartime goal. trtg $ UST 27, 1942 i. -r lN is fighting I If I '/MM i i ij ;^8| g ? MM Passed by Censor nen and women must be found for v&r industries. Recognizing the teed for maintaining farm produc* !/%? Ihfl trnvornmon t hag granted ndeflnite postponement of military lervice for agricultural workers. They may enlist as volunteers in he armed forces but must not ac:ept non-agricultural work without ipecial permission. Training center ind placement services have been ?stablished to introduce more wo* lien into war industry and transportation may be arranged to an irea where women workers are reluired. Men fit for military service letween 17 and 45 years are barred from accepting employment, in a long list of restricted occupations which include almost every civilian lob not connected with war work. Cvery Canadian is affected in somt measure by the regulations. Local Church To Have Period Of Prayer On Sunday Rev. Robert G. Tuttle, pastor of the Methodist church here, has announced that beginning Sunday, a period of silent prayer and meditation will be held, at the church each Sunday morning, from 9:35 to 9:50. At this time the church will be open and familiar hvmns will be play ed softly. Anyone taking advantage of this period of meditation may meditate or pray in the pews or at the altar, and may come and go as he desires. Mr. Tuttle said: "The church feels that, in this period of individual and national tension, that many individuals would appreciate such a period of silence, that they might, with others, join in unuttered prayers. One might wish to remember loved ones who have been called away; or our nation and its leaders in this time af crisis; or those suffering innocently, throughout a bleeding world; or that the church might reveal to men the true Will and the Way of the Father, and that the services of the day might be blessed with His Presence. All, of any denomination, are invited to this period of prayer." Delivery Table Is Given To Hospital By Woman's Club The C. J. Harris Community Hospital has just received a delivery table of the very latest and best that could be obtained, and as good as is owned by any hospital. The table came as a gift from the Woman's Club ol Sylva, of which Mrs. Charles Thomas is the president. The club decided several months age to make this gift to the hospital, and the order was placed more than five months ago. However, due to war conditions, the table has just been received. Mrs. Carter, superintendent ol the hospital, stated that the ' ?. +? hQ fJlfl nospiwu U> vciy piuuu vu wb ?.v owner of such splendid equipment, and is very grateful to the club for having donated it. BRITAIN Great Britain is now producing two-thirds of its own food as compared with one-fourth before the war. Private parks golf courses and other public sites are being ploughed up tc grow more food. Stat? ^lt>ra ottrno $1.50 A YEAR IN A Jackson Coi Open Thui Several Con C. A. Miller Passes Away In Lynchburg I Charles A. Miller, 65 year old rodHonf nf fivlva nassed lUllll^l AVU1UVAAV WA r away yesterday morning at his home in Lynchburg, after hating been in ill health for some time. The body will arrive in Sylva today for funeral and interment. Moody Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. . Mr. Miller came Jiere with his family several years ago from Big Run, Pennsylvania, and he was in charge of the tannery in Sylva as superintendent for several years, before his health forced his retirement. He is survived by his widow, three daughters, Mrs. Bennie Reece, of Sylva, and Mrs. Bob Moody, and Miss Pauline Miller, of Lynchburg, and by two grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at the Funeral Home, tomorrow (Friday) afternoon, at 2:00 o'clock, conducted by Rev. G. C. Teague. Active pall bearers will be O. E. Brookhyser, J. Claude Allison, Chester Scott, W. T. Wise, Sol Schulman, and J. C. Cannon. Honorary pall bearers are Ben Queen, V. R. Riley, Dave Karp, Fred L. Hooper, Dr. D. D. Hooper, Dr. C. Z. Candler, C. B, Thompson, Dr. A. A. Nichols, Dr, A. S. Nichols, Paul Warren, W. D. Warren, Raleigh Warren, Olin O Williams, Jeff Hedden and Charles M. Reed. Medical X-Ray Unit Will Be In Sylva Soon By M. F. TRICE The army of the United States and the mica mines of Western il- " -1 KnfVi In frroQ 1 iXOrui Vitruiuia ttic uuuj m need of man power. The armj has had a higher priority rating thus far and each passing month has seen more and more able bodied men inducted into oui armed forces. The drain on the man power resources of this and other communities has resulted in an acute labor shortage. Ever such essential work as producing mica for war purposes is being hampered by the call of the military services. In order to continue the production of mica i1 is going to be necessary to employ men who have never worked in mines. Some of this laboi will come from farms, some frorr older workers, and some froir among those who have lost job.' because of firms going out ol ' business as a result of the wai effort. In order to obtain employment in a mica mine a man must pas: a medical examination that h ' given to determine his fitnea for such work. The N. C. Work? man's Compensation Act state: [ that "... it shall be the dut] of every employer . . to providt 1 prior to employment, necessar: 1 examination of all new employ 1 ees for the purpose of ascertain ; ing if any of them are in an; degree affected toy .silicosis or peculiarly susceptible there to ... " The North Carolina Industria Commission, administrator o 1 the Workmen's Compensate ! Act, and the State Board o Health, have jointly assumed re ? sponsibility for the examinatioi of workers. The traveling X-ra: unit and examining crew will bi in the Sylva area before long for the purpose of examinini , every male person who may wan to work in a mica mine. This ap t plies to persons who want to be 1* A.. gin^worfc at once as weii as u those who can't begin now, bu > who will want a job later. It ma; ?Continued on Page Three \ ir* mpDYANCE IN JACKSON COUNTY mty Schools rsday With Lrses Added The schools of Jackson county are opening today with twelve grades, for the first time in the history of the North Carolina Educational System. A number of new courses will be added, including North Carolina history. 1 course in scie\:e, 2 courses In mathematics, 1 course in spelling, and one in physical education. A course in Spanish has been added in some of the high schools. A vocational home economics course has been added at Webster, which gives one vocational teacher in every high school in the county. Superintendent Moses stated that a greater number of the teachers hold A certificates than did last year. "Approximately 95 per cent of the teachers in the county now hold 'A' certificates," Mr. Moses stated. The schools and the principals and teachers appear in the list below: SYLVA HIGH SCHOOL: Louis Hair, Mrs. Mary Scott, Mrs. Felix Potts, Miss Mary Henson, Mrs. Julia Chapman, Miss Louise Henson, B. C. Moss, Mrs. Sally Mae Campbell, Mrs. Sarah Adkins, J. F. Corbin, Miss Osa Belle Middleton, Mrs. Lulu Mae Bryson. SYLVA ELEMENTARY: F. M. Crawford, Mrs. J. F. Freeze, Miss Annie Louise Madison, Mrs. Rhoda C. Watson, Mrs. seima d. Middle ton, Miss Nimmo Geisler, , Miss Belzora Holden, Mrs. Norma P. Lee, Miss Evelyn Parker, Mrs. Emily W. Tompkins, Miss Bertha Cunningham. BARKER'S CREEK: Mrs. Kathleen F. Jones, Miss Jennie [ Cathey. DILLSBORO: Alliney H. Bryson, Mrs. Evelyn J. Sutton, Mrs. Virginia C. Terrell, Mrs. Dorothy , B. Higdon. Mrs. Louise Thomas. BETA: W. Vernon Cope, Miss Ruby Phillips, Mrs. Annie Lizzie Hoyle, Mrs. W. G. Dillard. WTLI.ETS: S. J. Phillips, Mr.c Alvin Fullbright, Miss Man' Frances Sutton. BALSAM: Alvin Fullbright Lucille Dills, Mrs. Alberta Monteith. ! CANE CREEK: Mrs. Geraldine L S. Payne. ; GREEN MOUNTAIN: L. J. Smith. * WILMOT: Mrs. Lois Martin J Mrs. Lucy M. Hall, Mrs. Harriett H. Jenkins. QUALLA: W. H. Crawford, Miss j Hicks Wilson, Mrs. Mary Cowan, Mrs. Elma Donnahoe, Miss Evelyn Sherrill. J EAST LAPORTE: D. M. Hoop' er, Mrs. Davie Sutton, Mrs. Ger' trude A. Fisher. JOHN'S CREEK: G. C. Cooper, " Lora Alice Long, Miss Janice ' Hooper, Mrs. Lenoir N. Stack, T. F. Middleton, Irene Green. ; ROCKY HOLLOW: Homer H. Wike, Hazel Abernathy. 1 OAK RIDGE: Mrs. Gertie W. \ Moss. * SOL'S CREEK: A. C. Dillard. WOLF CREEK: Lucy Brown. : CHARLEYS CREEK: Mrs. Maui Sherrill. J ROCK BRIDGE: Mrs. Will * Breedlove. I TENNESSEE GAP: Mrs. Tal* ley Fullbright. GLENVTLLE: F. I. Watson, M 5 B. Madison, Thelma Smith, Elo^ ise Zimmerman, B. C. Nave, Da' vid Pruett, Mrs. Kate P. Brvson * ?Continued on Page Three 7 Several From County !? Enroll at Cullowhee Among the young people from 1 this county who have registered f at Western Carolina Teachers 1 College for the fall quarter, f opening September 8, are Wanda - Jo Dills, Sylva; Hilda Buchanan, 1 Webster; Bobby Hall, Sylva; f Kate Harris, Sylva; Philis Cagle, 5 Greens Creek; Sue Hedden, Syl'? va; Mary Allison, Sylva; Virginia I Clark, Gay; John Crawford, Sylt va; Maxine Reagan, Whittier; - Margaret B. Rentz, Whittier; - Donald Seagle, Whittier; Cole? man Jones, Sylva; Marjorine t Stalcup, Whittier, warren Moody 7 Speedwell; Thelma Jones, Whittier. * " i ' - r* - ? V. Liir^SLU Ali