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AMERICA First, Last and Alwmy? The sylva H ER A L D THE SYLVA HERALD Dedicated To Progressive Service To Jackson County VOL. XVIII NO. 29 v AND RURALITE ? CONSOLIDATED JULY, 1943 ~SYLVA, N.~C.7 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1943 $1.50 A Year In Jackson and Swain Counties ? 5c Copy / Shoppers From Nearby Towns Coming to Sylva Several Sylva merchants report- . ed this week that Christmas shop- , pers from a wide area are coming | here ^Jaily. One merchant reported heavy sales to a group from Knoxville who had heard of the complete stocks here. Another said he had served customers from Waynes ville, Franklin and Bryson City during the past few days. Christmas business was brick j here over the week-end. "People are buying earlier this year, but we anticipate v a large number of last minute shoppers as usual," one Sylva merchant said. 1 Several merchants have visited markets in the past few weeks and bought extra stocks to carry them through the holidays. S. R. Fullbright Buried Friday At Cullowhee funeral services were held Fri- | day afternoon at two o'clock for Samuel Roscoe Fullbright, 64, who passed away early Wednesday i morning at his home at Cullowhee. I Rev. Fred Forster of prexel, and Rev. Cecil Heffner, of Winston Salem, were in charge of the ser vices. The services were held at the Cullowhee Baptist church, with interment in tile Cullowhee ceme tery. Mr. Fullbright was taken ill sud denly and passed away within a few hours. He was a well known carpenter of this county. He is survived by his widow, the former Miss Bertha Painter, and three daughters, Mrs. Geneva Styles, and Mrs. Frances Jones, of Cullowhee, and Mrs. Edith Ham ilton, of Lenoir City, Tenn. Two brothers, J.phn Fullbright, of Sylva and Byrd Fullbright, of Cullowhee. Moody Funeral Home had charge of the funeral. Jackson County Students Make Red Cross Items Fifty traction splints have been made by boys in the manual train ing departments of Cullowhee Training school and * Sylva high school for the Red Cross, it has been, announced by Miss Cordelia Camp, Junior Red Crpss chairman. Children of the Cullowhee, Web ster, Sylva and East La Porte schools have made a unit of Christ mas decorations consisting of 1,30# pieces. Children of the Cullowhee school are making a wool afghan for a convalescent soldier. Nine schools in the county con tributing to the Junior. Red Cross work have raised $9.98 in cash. Methodists Plan To Enlarge Their Evening Services - Plans of the Methodist church ate to stress the evening services during December, according to Rev. R. n. Tuttle. pastor. The junior board of stewards will b-> sponsors of the services, and Miss Margaret Candler is | trai^'nc a junior choir to provide music for the night services. P?v. Mr. TutMe announced that beginning Sunday, the evening ser vice^ will be held in the church ?u^itonum . instead of the Allison Blading. Oroun Held Meeting Here Saturday A meeting of the Children's Workers of the Waynesville Dis tri^4- and the ministers and their wivo^ w^s held Saturday morning at 10 o'clock. The motViing meet in cr \vac devoted to the work of the children, they had a luncheon hour and the afternoon was de- . voted to the plans of the ministers. There wa? a special meeting of the ministers' wives. fol. A"-* Mrs. Sirathers Visit Here Lieut. Col. and Mrs. R. K. Smath - ers have been tte guests of Mrs. Smathers' sister, %Irs. A. F. Clouse and other relatives here. Lieut. ? Col. Smathers has been stationed in Puerto Rico for two years, and Mrs. I Smathers has be^n residing in At- , lanta. Lieut. Col. Smathers is the i son of Mr. and Mrs. Smathers of Canton. i Local Gardener Has Watermelons R. E. Benton, of Dillsboro, Has Another Melon He Plans To Cut^ii r is tin as. The family of R. E. Blanton had thret -fourths of a home grown watermelon Sunday. The staff of The Herald had the remainder of the melon. Mr. Blanton planted the melons late, in order to have thtrn for "fall eating." He pulled them just be fore the first heavy freeze and stored them in cardboard boxes. 'On cold nights hi kept them inside , the house, while the remainder of j the time he kept them on the porch. I He has one more melon which he i hop:s to serve on Christmas Day.' He has already eaten the other , three. The melon was a little dry, and the meat was not as red ripe as the , averag . Other than that, it was everything that could be expected from a watermelon. | Mr. Blanton planted a real late ! summer gard.n to supplement his I early spring garden. The dry , weather caused most of his late garden to burn. He got several bushels of tomatoes just before frost. With average seasons, Mr. Blan ton believes that two gardens can be grown with success in this area. Three Jackson Men Are Sent To Camp Wolters % j | Three Jackson county men have just reported at Camp Wolters, ' Texas, an infantry replacement training center, to begin training as infantrymen. have ' bsen^ ^s^dlSPto^b^^ talion stressing rifle, ? . Pvt. Bannister R. Middleton^jJOu of Mrs. Dorcas Middleton, of Cullo* whee, has been assigned to take special training in hreavy weapons. Well Known Lumberman Of This Section Dies ? Mr. and Mrs. L. E. McKee and Mrs. Joseph Kee, attended the fun jeral of W. W. Croushorn, of Bre vard, on Monday afternoon. The deceased was general manager and secretary- treasurer of the Carr Lumber Company for more than 30 years. * * He passed away Saturday night in an Asheville hospital. His firm had extensive lumbering operations throughout this area. 52,086 Fave Lost Their License For Violating Highway Traffic Laws The total revocations of drivers license hit more than 52,000 this I week, as 105 for the week were add- 1 ; ed. As in the past, about 99 per cent j of the license revocations were due | | to motorists driving drunk. In North Africa vjjwwx* j. . ?ji.i m mm* pi UWWJ u J fi Jim? P? V J A C K SON GREENE, son of Mr. and Mrs. Estes Greene, of Green's Creek, entered the service of his country re year an'o this week. He is now stationed in North Africa, after having trained at Camp Phillips, T'p 77 1 e ?? G. M'ade, Md., and did considerable work on ma neuvers in Tennessee. He went from here to Camp Crcft. He at tended Wehster hifrh school. News Editor Of The Herald M R S. HELEN ALLISON HOOPER assumed her duties this ; week as news editor, and assistant | business manager of The Sylva ! Herald. Photo by Donnahoe's Stu dio. Mrs. Hooper Is News Editor Of The Sylva Herald The publishers of The Herald are today announcing the addition of Mrs. Hehn Allison Hooper as a member of the staff. Mrs. Hoop er will be news editor and assistant business manager of the paper. She assumed her duties this week. Mrs. Hooper is a native of Sylva, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Claud Allison. She returned to Sylva in August when her husband, Lt. (jg) J. L. Hooper was trans ferred from the States to a Naval Air Station in the Soutfc Pacific area.- ? The new news editor of The Her ald has had much experience in the business and professional world since her graduation from Woman's College of the University of North in Akroi^ Ohio, with ra tectueCT age ney , and before to^lv*was with a physician/ gathering news, Mrs. Hooper 'will tfevote much of her time assisting in the advertising department of The Herald. k r . I f ^ * . ^ Captain Cooke Here On Brief Week-End Visit i Captain Dan B. Cooke left Sun day after spending a few days with his parents^ Rsv. and Mrs. W. N. [Cooke, of Webster.; Captain Cooke was scheduled to report to Norfolk Monday and go on active sea duty. He has been in service over a year, and prior %> entering service was in the office Qt Ecus ta Corpora tion. He is a graduate of Western Carolina Teachers College. : ? v Lt. H. E. Bryson Promoted To Captain Lt. Herbert IE. Bryson, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Brydbn, of Syl va, has recently been promoted to the rank of Captain. Capt. Bry- ! | son has been in service for the past two years and is now stationed at ! Elgin Field, Fla. He formerly served for some time at Headquarters of the Ord nance Department in Washington, D. C., and later at Redstone Arsen Huntsville, Ala. ? , j His wife, the former Mis* Sue Allison and young son ase here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Allison. Smoky Mountains Hill Bil!'?s To Give Program ? At .'iylva School Tonignt The Smolcy Mountains Hill-Bil lies will pre&ent a program at the Sylva Elementary schooFihis even- ' ing ^at 7 o'clock, * The entertain- ! ment is being sponsored by th? j Sy!va-Beta Club and a nominal ad- j mission will be made, |pfc. Lloyd B. Dillard Spends Furlough Here S Privace First Class Floyd B. Dillard spent a nine-day furlough rpeintly with his parents, Mr. and : Mrs. Dave Dillard. Pfc. Dillard entered the service in February of this year and was inducted at Fort , Bragg, where he has since be n ! stationed. He is attached to the , Field Artillery TJnit. Office Manager iOf The Herald MRS JOHN H. WILSON has been office manager of The Sylva Herald for the past month. Photo by Donnahoe's Studio. Mrs. Wilson Has Charge Of Two Departments Mrs. John H. Wilson has been with The Herald for sometime, in the capacity as office manager. Mrs. Wil ;on is well known through out Jackson county, and a promin ent civic club worker and official. She is a former school teacher. Mrs. Wilson will have charge of the circulation department of The Herald as well as the office supply department and stationery lines. She will also continue in the capacity of assisting in gathering local news for the paper. Mrs. Wilson has had newspaper experience, and has done consider able reporting. Sylva And Bryson City Split Twin ? Bryson xJity 36 &> a game played here last Fn day nigh?? ' In a second game the . Bryson City all stars edged out a victory of 23 to 20 the Sylva all stars by playing Off a tie in an extra period. *^v-* Cooper and Hughes ledf. the scor ing for Sylva high WH&"' Cooper scoring 10 points and Hughes ac counting for 9."' For the Bryson City all stars, Myers and Woodard were top scor ers With 9 and 8 points respective ly,^ whilei Fisher and R. Phillips each scored 8 points for the Sylva team. Sylva high hopes to continue their winning ; streak when they meet Webster next Wednesday afternoon. The line-up; Pos Bryson City (23) Sylva (22) F Estes (2) Cooper (10) F Robinson Bryson (8) j C Dugan (1) Phillips (4) , G Webb (2) Hughes (9) \ G Marr ? Wilson (6) Subs ? Bryson City, Gibson (2) Martin, Brcnnel, Crisp (2). SylvaH Henry, Buchanan. The all star line-up: Pos Bryson City (23 Sylva (22) F Brown (2) Cagle F Myers (9) Fisher (8V C Mitchell (4) B. Phillips (1) G Dean R. Phillips (8) G Woodard (8) . Sumner .Subs ? Bryson City, Malina. Sylva, Cole (5). Webster P. T. A. Sends Books To Men In Service The Webster Parent Teacher As- j *ociation has ^nailed to Mrs. J. W. Burke, state Parent Teacher trea- | surer, twenty-five books given by | Webster P. T. A. members and ? Webster pupils as Christmas gifts ? to the men in service. It is under Mood that Mrs. Burke is_ to for ward these gifts to the men at I Fort Brpgg. The c mmitfee responsible for ' r-ollecting and buying these books j was composed of Mrs. Bannister ' Madison, Mrs. Claud Cowan and j Miss Sue Tathnm. <17 In nvMrras Seals Bought At Webster School Webster teachers and pup;ls ( have bought $17.00 worth of the ' Christma* Seal; f^at are sold ca^h , year to aid in the national fight , against tuberculosis. Scout Officers Will Be Named Thursday Night District Meeting Will He Staged At Jarrett Springs Hotel Thursday At 7 P. M. The district committee of th? Smoky Mountain District of Bn\ Scouts will hold their annual meet ing at Jarrett Springs Hotel, Dills boro, Thursday evening, Dec. 9th at 7 p. m. H. E. Monteith, district chairman, will presid;. Along with several important matters to be discussed, o twicers for the new year will be elected. This district is composed of Swain, Macon and Jackson and has eight troops with 168 members. There are 57 adults doing scout work in the district. During the past year 110 boys advanced in rank in. Scouting. ^ Funeral Held For Mrs. H. A. Reynolds At Glenville Tues. Funeral services were held yes terday afternoon at the Glenville Wesleyan Methodist church ? for Mrs. il. A. Reynolds, (who passed away at her home in Glenville Sun day night following a short illness. - Ths Rev. R. C. Kendricks was in charge. Interment was made at the church cemetery. Mrs. Reynolds, the former Miss Ethel Moody, was the daughter of the late Francis and Mary Moody. She was an activs member of the Glenville Methodist church. Mrs. Reynolds is survived by her hus band, H. A. Reynolds, her daught ers, Mrs. Bonnie Bryson and Miss Dolly Reynolds, both of Glenville; a son, Sgt. Buren Reynolds, with the army in Italy; on? grandson; three sisters, Mrs. Ida Moss of Cul lowhee, Mrs. Anrng Hooper of Speedwell and* MrlCcMa Henson of Erastus; and three Wrothers, Eldon Moody of" Sylva, Marion and Clifton Moody of Erastus. fSf? The ^uckaseigee Baptist 9unday School Convention will convene with the' Scotts Creek Baptist Sunday afternoon, Dec. 12th at 2:30. Officers for the new year will be elected at this time. All the Sun day Schools are requested to send representatives. "It is hoped that all superinten dents in the county will be present fox this meeting," Clarence Vance, president said yesterday. Br. H. T. Hunter of Cullowhee, will be the principal speaker. ?*X/S Willard G. Stallcup, Jr., of Wofford College, Spartanburg, spent the week-end with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Stallcup and his wife, who was the former Miss Marie Edward** who is now a teacher' in the Swjdtt county high school. In South Pacific PETTY OFFICER. Re. KEALI& I). SUTTON,' of DiHsbpro, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Hutton, in in the Navy, now stationed at the Base Hospital, New Caledonia, in the South Pacific. Seaman Sutton volunteered in the Navy a year apro this month, and served for six months on Guadalcanal before beinp: sent to Yew Caledonia. Ho was inducted at Camp Peary, Vn., and later went to Gulfprr1 Miss., and Port i Hueneme, Calif. Ref- rc entering the service, he owned and onerated the Greystone , o ifro nt p? ill boro. One Man Killed, And One Injured In Mica Mine Explosion Here Makes Good ; JLiNNi C). JACK SON, of East i I. a Porte, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Jackson, has just returned to his base in Salt Lake City, ; Utah, after spending his first fur lough home since entering the Army Air Corps in February of this year. Sgt. Jackson worked on his parents' farm before entering service. He attended Cullowhee i high school and made excellent rec- j ords both at school and since enter ling the service. He has received training at bases in St. Augustine, j Fla., Amarillo, Texas, Las Vegas, Nevnda, and is now at Salt Lake j City. 18,609 Persons Visited Park In PtfSfrf^ember ^--Tttbugh approximately 18,609 persons visited the Psrk in No vember, this total was only 59 per oeijt as great as that for November, | 1942. ? In spite of restrictions on trJ*Yelr some 39 per. cent of the visitors came from states other than Tennessee and North Caro lina. The visitors came from 32 [known different states,, ... Travel is estimated by compari son of actual travel counts made at | certain periods of the month with I actual travel counts tfiade at the corresponding periods of the pre ceding year. I Through the three entrances, a total of 3,224 V$al vehicles, carry ing 11,296 persuris/^sited the park, a decrease of 65 peK^ent under a year a#o, and 2,290 foreign vehicles carrying 7,313 persons, visited the park, a decreasd^of 1 per cent under a year SLg<f. Opt. and Mrs. Tidmarsh Visit Former's Mother ,k Captfliu anrf Mrs. H. A. Tid marsh *trere the guests over the week-end of the former's mother, Mrs. Av, H. Carter. Capt. Tid I marsh was en route to Camp Croft, having recently been dismissed I from a government hospital. | Capt. Tidmarsh, West Point (graduate tn the class of 1941, who ' is a parachute jumper, is recover j ing from A knse injury. J. SinGrine- Convention Group To Meet 19th The newly organized Jackson County Singing Convention will i hold their first convention at the ; Savannah school it two o'clock . on Sunday, December 19, according to Robert M. Jones, president. ?*' ! Mr. Jones announced that plans had been" made to meet tfe*> third Surday in every month. The place 'of meeting will be in different sec tions of the county^ The^ conventions will feature se lections ~ hy choirs, quartetts and duets. AH lingers and persons in terested in singing, ane invited to | attend. ?, J. e! Dfeitz is secretary of the | convention, John R. Jones Home Fr->?i Asheville Hospital John R. Jones, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, has recov ered sufficiently front a r?cent ser ious illness to be brought to his home here. He has been at the Mission Hospital, in Asheville. Men Were Drilling In Mine To Set Off Dynamite When Accident Took Place. Hiram Ashe, 21), of Speedwell, was fatally injured and Lindon | Cabe, 51, also of Speedwell, is in the local hospital in a serious con dition as the result of an explo sion Saturday morning at a mica 1 mine near Speedwell. Mr. Ashe was taken to the C. J. Harris Community Hospital here, hut his condition was critical from the fir-'t and he died on Saturday night around 10 o'clock. The men are said to have been "m _tho process of drilling in prep aration for placing dynamite charges for blasting at the time <>f the explosion. Officials were of the opinion that the men had <inu'k a charge of dynamite that failed to go ofr in a previous , charge. The mine where the accident oc curred near Speedwell is operated by Garrett Ruben. Funeral services were conducted for Mr. Ashe on Monday afternoon at the Speedwell Baptist church with Rev. George Snyder officiat ing. Burial was in the cemetery nearby. Mr. Ashe is survived by his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Garland Ashe; his widow and four children, two of whom are five-month-old twin sons, all of Speedwell, and a nura ber of brothers' and ' sisters. The Moody Funeral Home of Sylva was in charge of the' ar rangements. 2 Traffic Deaths Here In October SweHed NrC. Total Of the 82 persons killed in traffic accidents in North Carolina during October, two were from this coun ty, it was reported this week by the Safety Division of the State Highway T) e par tmeitXT~ The rate for October of this year . shows an increase of 20 per cent, the report shows. Of the totaF- killed Jn the stat*, 21 were pedepjfcrjans, 27 were kill ed by motor vehicles, 6 by train, t by bicycles, 2 frbm a fixed object, 13 ran off the roadway and 9 over turned on the roadway. Two of the number fell from vehicles and wer? killed. | ? ' ? j Webster Sthool Joins In Junior Red Cross Work Webster school has met the re quirements for 1943 membership im the Junior Red Cross, Miss Hannah Cowan, the school Ked Cross chair man. has announced. j All elementary grades have join ed as home rooms, and the high I school has joined as one group. A total of $21.89 has been sub scribed ^fn memberships. Part of , this money has been sent to the national organization and the re mainder has been k^pt by the ! school to spend on school Red Cross projects. jCarolina Players Sponsored By Local Club Women The play, "The Great Big Door jStftp," which is being presented by I the Western Carolina Players from Western Carolina Teachers Col lege, is to be presented Friday evening, the 10th instead of the ^original date, du? to the illness of Fofie of the leading characters. The appearance of the player | here is being sponsored by the ! members th? Twentieth Century iClub. The performance will start promptly at 8 o'clock. Miss Thelma Ashe Starts Monday To Work For Draft *Board Miss Thelma Ashe assumed her duties as assistant clerk to the Jackson county draft board on Mon day morning. Miss Ashe returned over the week-end from Camp Patrick Henry, Va., where she has j held a position for the past six 1 months. She fills the position for merly held by Mrs> Edith Moody, 'who resigned. Do Your Christmas Shopping And Mailing Earl y This Yedti \ MM
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