North Carolina Newspapers

I ^ ^70 A YEAR in advance outs I Kites For F] I Sylva Parat I HeldTuesda I Funeral services for Frank F. -Bailey- Jr.. son of Mr. Frank F. Bai!t\v of Knoxville, and Mrs. I Maytr.o Bailey, of Sylva, werfc I held iff re at the Baptist church I Monday afternoon, and inter- ! mt.n: was in the Keener cemeu.rv \vi:h William E. Dillard Post I Legion conducting a | mil-W Iuneral Rt.v. R- G. Tuttie conducted t;10 service at the church. You:i- Bailey, who was the ( fcasualty of the war from , Sylva. died Saturday at Fort Bennmsr. Georgia, after he had completed his last training parachute jump. He made a safe , }and::u: and was running to the ; truck when he was stricken ! and rushed to the hospital where everything possible was done. 1 However. death came before the arriv.i! of his people from Sylva. < Bailey who was 22 years ? of a^e. enlisted in the army and h vela:::eered as a paratrooper. ( Mrs. Bailey received the fol- ( lowinu le'ter from General Howell. the commandant at Fort Fort Benning, Ga. , October 10, 1942 I Mr>. Mayme B. Bailey, I Sylva. North Carolina. My dear Mrs. Bailey: j I am enclosing herewith a i graduation certificate for your) son. Private Frank F. Bailey, Jr.,1 which shows that he completed the prescribed course of train- j inu far a parachutist in the United States Army. Under separate cover I am sending to you the qualification badge which is j presented by this school. This badiie. which is commonly re- , for red u> as "wings," is very J litsihiy thought of among soldiers. and is proudly worn by j al; cii:al:iit-ci parachutists. I am sure evidences of your > .... courage and ability w:Y. bf treasured for your- |, sfli. 11 Th:> y.'img man made an ex- [ ceetel;. fine record in this I school. and he was a credit to you .k v. ell as to the Army. His St\Td.frI;. qualities as well as his special abilities were above the average. A.s.vi;-.].^ you of my greatest .sy.T.pa' iiy for you in the loss of your son. I am S.'jcrrely yours, 0 P. II f.'.'r 11. Brig. Gen., U. S. A. | Commandant. VESTAL ADVISES USE OF WHEAT OR BARLEY FOR FEED VG HOGS .Surplus whe; has made through the Commod'.y Credit Corporation for feed ;i livestock. Ellis V. Vestal, Ex.swine specialist of N. C. Sti :f- College, says wheat can be sub>':f'.it.cd for 30 to 50 per cent of '.he ?rain ration in feeding hc<^.s. The Government wheat is beil1", made available in North Cctriij;:ia at $1.00 per bushel dur""i October. The shortage of Co:'i :s acute in some sections f i Uif r/ate, and the CCC distribuiifm of wheat for feed will farmers reach their meat production goals in the Food*or-Freedom program. ' 'Ground wheat is about 10 per F'-'U better than shelled corn," S:u(* Vestal, "but the cost of ; i r i 111 usually increases its C,JV- by ten per cent. Corn can be on the ear or shelled, but should be ground because n,,-s clo not chew it sufficiently whf'!i they are hungry." Vf.-st ;ii ;iiso explained that pigs "A'lif,at have more of a tende!u\v *0 n;o "off feed" than do l(ri corn as the only grain. ^:i Uu? other hand, hogs fed wheat and supplements Rain id per cent faster than pigs 1|-(1 c'ini and supplements. I.iko com, wheat is deficient in vilamin.s A and D, as well as anij}i(. proteins and minerals. h'Tefore, wheat should be fed a protein supplement, and i miIH'ruls and gr?en pasture. Elje I) IEDE THE COUNTY rank Bailey rooper, Are y Afternoon On The Tar Heel Front In Washington By ROBERT A. ERWIN And FRANCES McKUSICK Washington?Army and Navv defense establishments, war production plants and Federal agencies that are being moved out of Washington constitute the chief attractions for communities and areas that hope to derive direct benefit from the war. Sandhills North Carolina scored again when the War Department announced establishment in the Hoffman area of Richmond County of a training center for the Airborne Command, to be set up on 66,000 acres of Government-owned land. This announcement ended at least temporarily the hopes of the Goldston section of Chatham County, near the Lee County line, for establishment of an air< base there. It also ended months of excitement and widely circulating rumors in the two sections involved. Representative William O. Bur- j gin of the Eighth District, who | had conferred frequently with j Government officials about the | Hoffman project, was the first | to announce it, although Senators Bailey and Reynolds turned! un with statements on it later j the same day. Western North Carolina, thus far rather neglected in economic benefits of the war, received one break in the Senate version of j the pending tax bill which lists sheet mica as a strategic ma- j terial and the companies mining it therefore exempt from rigid j provisions of the excess profits j tax. Sheet mica is exceptionallyj valuable as insulation in fuse \ blocks and radios and scores of other things, because of its heat k resistant qualities. Mica has been mined in the Tar Heel mountains for decades by rather primitive j methods. The Government could ( hardly expect private capital to install modern machinery and j go to other heavy expense with sale of mica assured only for the duration, without some sort of inducement. The strategic materials amend- j ment, reported out by the Sen- ; ate Finance Committee of which j. Senator Bailey is a member,' must be approved by the House j and Senate conference when the 1 tax bill goes to conference for 1 ironing out of differences in the j House and Senate versions of 1 the measure. Speaking of Federal agencies, 1 three important ones already have been moved to North Carolina?the Tobacco Tax Unit of the Bureau of Internal Revenue to Greensboro and Fourth Civil Service headquarters and the Army Directorate of Flying Safety to Winston-Salem. This helps clear the way for further consideration of what Asheville has to offer in available office space and housing for a Governmnet agency. A check at the Federal Office of Decentralization, which is handling transfers, shows that the Government is giving serious con * A nitilln nnH nfVl or sioeration mj nsncvmc ClllU V/VAAV/A ^ Piedmont and Western North Carolina cities. Second Lieutenant James H. Pou Bailey, son of Senator Josiah ! W. Bailey, has 'been assigned to duty at Camp Butner near Durham and Oxford. Bailey recently graduated from the Field Artillery School at Fort Sill, Okla., after having undergone preliminary training at Fort Bragg. He previously had volunteered for induction after serving as an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Lt. Bailey is now on furlough, most of which he is spending at home in Raleigh. He is scheduled to report to Butner this week. * * * One of the main events of re?Continued on Page Three }- ( ticliso! SYLVA, NOB I =? , L "WE'LL BE v-'H / - : v :-^??g??3 ^KPHb|r^;' 111 K& jkr' HI1! ?L*; .J>*mtk- >Jh3*i . . . says Kay Truwell, an inspector in a Canadian aircraft instrument factory, whose all-seeing eye is shown in the above picture peering j through the magnifying glass she j uses to detect flaws in the finished products of her plant. grior to the war, the Dominion's instrument production was insigni- j ficant. Today, having created a giant war industry which is turning out large quantities of aircraft, ships, tanks, guns, and other weapons, Canada may well look with pride also to the expanding instrument industry she has developed to implement her war program. In scores of plants, from coast to coast, thousands of skilled hands are now assembling countless types of in- ? struments for planes, naval vessels, < land ships, and artillery. From < shops, both large and small, flows a i steady stream of devices: radioloca- ] tors, submarine detection equip- < ment, wireless equipment, 30 types \ nf oiorlitinnr nnrl Ar\finn 1 incti'iinifiTlta / aim upuv-ai iuoli uiuuuvu, v 14 types of special military and naval instruments, 2 types of binoculars, thousands of precision Instruments for war industries, and several types of aircraft instruments such as. the airspeed indicator shown in ihe upper left photograph. Jackson County '] Boy Promoted , At Panama City c Panama City, Fla.?Promotion e to Staff Sergeant of Warren H. a Green at the Army Air Forces 0 Flexible Gunnery School at Tyn- ( dall Field was announced at a Post Headquarters. \ His mother is Mrs. Alline Jenk- q ins, of Sylva, N. C. t The field where the soldier is stationed is the largest of three q similar schools where young Americans who have volunteered ^ for the training are turned into p fearless and feared foes upon a battering through a rigorous five t weeks course. jReward of men graduating a from the school is a sergeant's rating up, flying pay, and above all the privilege of wearing the f new chest insignia of gunners, their 'Silver Wings' which brand them a member of a fraternity t highly respected by veteran Nazi t and Japanese airmen as a deadly triggerman. r A fortnight of classroom in- .( struction here precedes all sorts , of range firing, commencing ^ with shotgun skeet shooting and g winding up with firing machine ^ guns {rom a moving stance at a ? moving target. Finally, they blast away from the buisness end of a g machine gun aboard an airplane. ^ They're shooting at a flowing t target being carried behind another ship and they must record j a sufficient number of bullet punctures to be adjudged pro- cr ficient. c CAREY REED NYDER t WILL ENTER TRAINING x AS AVIATION CADET * Carey Reed Snyder, son of t Rev. and Mrs. George C. Snyder, ( will leave Sunday for Nashville, Tenn., where he will begin train- < ing as a flying cadet. Mr. Snyder i enlisted some months ago and i this week received orders to re- 1 port at Nashville. He has been a i clerk in the local post office for i the past year or two. i Mrs. Snyder will reside with i her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Brant- < ley, at Spring Hope, during her < husband's absence. J t /? I , * * ; & r# ? g* _J rr f , | y j | f? ,01 O ctf ?% t-i tn ? -ma *0 , <u ?-J *** Q) ~ ij S UBSDAY, OC1 fig u35 ===== 1 ? - V* - SEEING YO i I_ Ej^BWW)gl|W^|^Mpf^P|)|^^B^B3||| :i rui-^i r I rM v x^s, ^K^SlS :';^flBK^;^ jjifr One of the most significant developments in Canada's wartime instrument industry has been the creation of a huge Government>wned and operated project administered by Research Enterprises Limited. Said to be the most modern plant of its kind in the world, his factory produces optical glass >f the very highest quality, an inlustry completely foreign to Canada )efore the war. In addition, it nanufactures a wide range of op^ ' J * Aha :,, ucai auu eieumutti mc wuuvi instruments. and electrical devices for the thre* services. The firm employs 3,500 men and women, many rRANSPORTATION 30ARDS TO BE SET JP IN COUNTIES ' County Farm Transportation Committees will be appointed in ach North Carolina county to ssist farm truck operators and thers who haul farm supplies r? onH from farms in making .pplications for Certificates of Var Necessity as required by the )ffice of Defense Transportaion, according to the State JSDA War Board, with head[uarters at State College. October 22, 23, and 24, have >een designated as National 'arm Truck Registration days, ,nd at this time operators of all rucks must register their veticles in order to continue oper.tion on and after November 15. The county committees will be omposed of five members and our alternates who also will be harged with the responsibility >f developing farm transportaion conservation programs in he counties. The chairman of the County JSDA War Board will automatcally serve as chairman of the bounty Farm Transportation Committee, or he may appoint mother member of the County LAA Committee to serve as :hairman. Two other farmers vill represent the principal and ;econd most important, types of arming carried on in the coun;y. In addition, one member will epresent the irucK transporia-ion services for agricultural :ommodities in the county, and mother member will be a local iealer of farm supplies. Alterlates will be named for each of -he members except the chairnan, and all members will serve vith compensation. Headquarters of the commit;ees will 'be the offices of the bounty USDA War Boards. This step was taken by the DDT in order to conserve existng transportation facilities, and vill govern the miles that may je operated and the loads that nust be carried by all vehicles iffected by the order. Approxinately 1,500,000 of the more than j,000,000 vehicles affected by the Drder are used in transportation if farm products and farm supplies. , J I into 3 OBER 15, 19&2 -n -T1 M ' - ?t ? U, ADOLF" WMp1 of them highly skilled technicians. Orders, filled or on hand, total over $100,000,000. Women workers play a role of paramount importance in the Do IIIIIIIUII a W CXI HldLI U1IIC11L pi Ugiaill, Their deft fingers are eminently suited for the intricate precision work required in instrument making. Pretty Alma Lizotte is one of the thousands, of girls engaged in this industry. In the lower right picture she is sh^wn inspecting the machine on which she fashions parts for aircraft instruments, her eyes well protected agaiust flying steel particles. Funeral Rites For Mrs. Higdon Held Tuesday Morning Funeral services for Mrs. Laura Bishop Higdon, 86, were held at the Zion Hill Baptist church of which she had been a member for a number of years, on Tuesday morning. Mrs. Higdon died at her home near Gay on Sunday morning, after several weeks' illness. Interment was in the church cemetery: i Mrs. Higdon was born in South Carolina on July 8, 1856, the daughter of John and Louisa Bishop. She moved to Jackson county about 53 years ago and in 1889 was, married to A. L. Higdon, at Cullowhee. Mr. Higdon died several years ago. She is survived by three granacnuaren. MISS HUNTER MADE WAAC OFFICER Miss Marthalou Hunter, daughI ter of Dr. and Mrs. H. T. Hunter ! of Cullowhee, was recently grad! uated from the WAAC Officers' ; Candidate School at Fort Des | Moines, Iowa. Previous to her appointment to the Officers' Candidate School Miss Hunter was a technician in the State Laboratory of Hygiene in Raleigh. Miss Hunter was formerly a student of Western Carolina Teachers College. She took work also at the University of Arizona, at Duke University, and at Johns Hopkins University. For two years Miss Hunter taught science in the Celeste Henkel high school near Statesville. KEROSENE DEALERS TO REGISTER HERE 1 Kerosene and fuel oil registra' tion of dealers and retailers for ; Jackson county will be held at i the Rationing Board office on Thursday and Friday, October i 22, and 23. Each person selling ; kerosene or fuel oil must regist ter on one of these dates, if they intend to continue to sell these products. 9 ourno $1.50 A YEAR IN AD Half Million Scrap Is Gat In Drive On High School * At Cullowhee 1 Collects Scrap j Cullowhee?On Thursday students, faculty members, and patrons of the Cullowhee high school collected and weighed in 46,454 pounds of steel, iron, aluminum, copper, zinc, ' and other scrap metals which brought the school's total to date to 63,454 pounds, over thirty-one tons. Trucks donated for the day s by the highway department, by r Western Carolina Teachers Col- 2 lege, and by private citizens, ? carried eighteen loads from the school building to Sylva, where * scrap was weighed and accredit- s ed to the school. The use of an c acelylene torch lent by the high- s way department facilitated the 1 dismantling of pieces of metal v too large to be lifted into trucks. 5 Much of the scrap had been i brought to the school building, t Hundreds of pounds of the I scrap had been brought to the ? school building piece by piece 1 during the last two weeks by c children who walked or rode 1 buses. Several hundred pounds 1 had been hauled by boys and * girls pulling small wagons or y riding bicycles. A number of citizens had assisted children by ( bringing quantities in cars and J | trucks. ? Scrap included a cane mill, * iron rails, fenders, a copper still, j stoves, lamps, pipes, bed steads, saws, sausage mills, flat irons, J axes, raises, shovels, picks keys, springs, horseshoes, skates, plows kettles, pans, scissors, coffee pots, and tanks. Two families 1 who owned garages donated several hundred pounds of automo- j bile parts;, another gave a log ' trailer which contained over a ton of iron. One small boy ' brought bumpers from his fath- ( er's car. < Some of these articles came , from Cullowhee, others from i Speedwell, still others from Cane , Creek, Pressley Creek, Wilson Creek, Tilley Creek, Weyah Hut- j ta, Long Branch, the River Road and from Tuckaseigee, Caney J Fork, and other coves and valleys.. V ( FIVE JACKSON COUNTY STUDENTS ENROLLED AT MARS HILL SCHOOL ] Five students from Jackson are j among the 802 students enrolled - - - ii r,n ? at Mars Jnni conege mis mu. Those from Jackson county are ] Jo Anne Barret, of Dillsboro; J Orville Dillard Coward, Mary 1 Kathryn. Monteith of Sylva; Mary Wilda Varner, Gladys Freda Reed of Whittier. 1 Those enrolled at Mars Hill this year come from 91 counties of North Carolina, 19 states, District of Columbia, and China. The states represented are: Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisana, Maryland, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Washington. FATHER OF SYLVA MEN PASSES AT FRANKLIN Robert Irwin Womack, aged 73, died at his home in Franklin, Wednesday afternoon after a long illness, and was buried in the Franklin cemetery this (Thursday) afternoon. The fu-neral rites were conducted by Rev. G. C. Teague, pastor of the Sylva Baptist church, and Rev. J. L. Stokes, II, pastor of the Methodist church at Franklin. Surviving are five sons, and four daughters, three of whom, w n v. n and H. L.. live in " ^ > ? ^'1 ? r Sylva. One of the two brothers who survive, A. D., also lives in Sylva. -1 * * '' f ' : ^ VANCE IN JACKSON COUNTY Pounds Of hered Here Thursday If Hitler and Tojo could have :een what was happening in "jmlrsnn flnnntv nn Thursday. hey would have had no doubt hat the people of America are nad and are determined in this var, determined to have victory hat is absolute and complete. They would have seen further hat the people in a Democracy ire capable of cooperative volmtary effort that beats the -otalitarian compulsion. Men, women and children vent to work in earnest to get he scrap material that Uncle Jam needs to feed the furnaces hat are making the metals for ihips and planes and guns, the ubber of boats and gas masks ind tires, the steel for tanks and funs. All day long trucks were haulng, and the people were asiembling. Sixty trucks, working >n a voluntary basis, piled the icrap materials up at Sylva and Cast LaPorte for shipment, and vhen the day's work was over >67,853 pounds had been weighed n, to bring the county's total up ,o 1,425,259 pounds. It-was imjossible to haul to the scrap piles ill the materials that had been issembled. The battle for scrap continues, and next Tuesday has )een appointed as the mopping lp day, to bring Jackson up to ,he full quota of the county,' vhich is 1,936,600 pounds. All business houses in the ;ounty were suspended, and the schools declared a holiday, as the jreat hunt for scrap was on. In,o the woods the men went to :ut up saw mill boilers, and other ?- ? J ? 1 U >% #1 V* A An leavy material uia,t na,u uccn abandoned. From the creek ranks came railroad irons that Had been buried for years by the floods. From the homes and nills and business houses were Drought large and small pieces for scrap to add to the total. Much of the materials were those that had been assembled it the school houses by the children. Everybody agreed that Jackson county had done a good job, and would complete the task. With the county in second place with a per capita accumulation Df junk of 74 pounds per person, it was agreed that the quota can and will be reached, and perhaps passed. OLIN REED QUALIFIES AS RADIO OPERATOR AT FORT KNOX, KY. The item of news which follows was clipped from the Catawba News-Enterprise, and will be of interest to readers of The Journal. Young Reed was born here and graduated from the local high school. He has a large number of relatives and friends in this county: "Private Weston O. Reed, son of Rev. and Mrs. W. C. Reed of Maiden, has been given his diploma at Fort Knox, Ky., where he has been graduated as a v Qualified radio operator. He has been in service since April and has been identified with the Communication department of the Armored Force. Having completed the fourteen-week course, Reed will return to his original unit to become part of the intricate 700-radio communication system used by each armored division." REV. R. G. TUTTLE ADDRESSES ROTARY CLUB AT BRYSON CITY Rev. Robert G. Tuttle, pastor of the Sylva Methodist church, was the speaker at the Rotary -e t?_ C1UU Ui JDxycyuu v^iuy i?nw wcc&. Mr. Tuttle was selected by the Sylva club to be the exchange speaker with the Bryson City club, the spreaker from the Bryson City club to be selected later. The chairman of the program committee of the Sylva Rotary club, Mr. Raymond Glenn, accompanied Mr. Tuttle to Bryson City and was also a guest of the Bryson City Rotarians. .... .. .i..