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VOL. xvm NO. 34
AND RURALITE ? CONSOLIDATED JULY, 1943
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SYLVA, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1944
THE SYLVA HERALD
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War Essentials Demanding More Wood
A
Largest Sum Yet
Given Jackson To
Invest In Bonds
R. L. Airail, Chairman,
Calling Township Commit
teemen To Map County
Wide Campaign Plans.
"Our hardest jcb of meetings a
war bond quota is ahead," said R.
L. Ariail, chairman of the war
bond campaign in Jackson county,
yesterday, as he announced the
quota for ths Forth War Loan drive
was $225,000.
Mr. Ariail is calling committee
men from every section of the coun
ty to meet this week, possibly
Thursday, and discuss ways and
means of staging a successful cam
paign.
Jackson county has met every
bond quota, month in and month
out, as wall as the three spccial
drives.
For the Third War Loan drive
last September, Jackson county had
a quota of $124,000 and went above
the mark to invest $192 000 in
bonds before the drive ended. ,
"Th? bonds this time must coihe
from the small investor," the local
chairman said, as he pointed out
that banks were not permitted to
invest in bonds to count on this
drive. Families who have saved
back a little money would b? doing
double service to invest it in bonds
at this time. The money will help
carry on the expenses of the war,
and at the same time bring in
about three per cent interest, if
left to maturity.
The organization meeting will
work out all details for carrying
the campaignMnto every nook and
corner of ths county. Plans are to
solicit every person and to get
them to invest in bonds during the
campaign, which starts January
18th and continues for a month.
"While $225,000 is a lot of money,
it is possible to get that much in
vested in bonds in Jackson county
during the drive. The people of
Jackson are patriotic, and will
back our fighting men in every
way possible," Mr. Ariail said.
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13 Jackson Boys
Added To List At
Selective Service
Thirteen Jackson county boys
became ? 18 during Decembrr, ac
cording to the report made by the
local office of the Selective Ser
vice.
Those rrgistered are:
James Earl Childers, Whittier;
Kay Abot Middletojn, Argura; Clyde
Holden Rice, Cashiers; Edward
Henry Shook, Glenville; Carve
Evan Pell, Cashiers; Avery Man
ual Wood, Whitti'r; James Guy
Williamson, Rt. 1 Whittier; Frank
Earl Williams, Whittier; Barlos C.
Ashe, Tuckaseigee; Raymond Hom
er Jones, Rt. 2 Whittier; Joseph
B&bert Davis, Webster; L. C.
Wilson, Sylva; John Cecil Craw
ford, Cullowhee.
Mrs. Allison Is
President Of
Baptist W. M. U.
'The afternoon circle of the W.
^ V[. U. of the Sylva Baptist church
h W its business and social meet
ing Wednesday afternoon with Mrs.
G. K. Bess.
During the business hour the
officers for the new year were
elected as follows: Mrs. C. L. Alli
son, prrsident; Mrs. Dillard Cow
ard, vice president; Mrs. W. FE.
Pet tit, secretary* Mrs. C. L. Smith,
treasurer and Mrs. G. K. Bess,
community missions chairman.
The calendar for the year was
read and approved. All members
were urged to attend the meeting
of officers of the societies of the
district to be h id In Brysun City,
Tuesday, January 11.
^ Mrs, C. L. Allison had the de
votional, bated on the watchword
for the year, "That the generation
to come may know."
The hostess served r:freshments
.during the social hour.
Mrs. M. Buchanan has returned
to Hendersonville after visiting her
sisters, Mrs. R. P. Potts and Mrs.
8. W. Bryson.
Mrs. E, LJMcKee and!
R. U. Sutton Head
Paralysis Campaign1
Chairman
MRS. E. L. McKEE is chairman
of the annual Infantile Paralysis
Campaign in Jackson County. The
drive will be during the last two
week? in January.
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Tommy Wise,
First Qiild Born /
Here This Year
As far as can be learned, the
first baby bom in Jackson
county in 1944 was William
Thomas Wise, Jr., 7^ -pound
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. T.
Wise. The baby was born on
January 2nd at the C. J. Har- |
ris Community Hospital. Both
mother and son are doing fine.
Mr. Wise is general manager
of the Armour Leather Com
pany here. This is their .first
child.
Methodist Women \
Meet With Mrs. Stovall
For Monthly Meeting
The Annie Cowan-^Circle of the
Woman's Society of Christian Ser
vice of the Sylva Methodist church
was held last Wednesday with Mrs.
J. P. Stovall. The new president,
Mrs. J. H. Gillis, presided. Other
officers to serve with her are: vice
president, Mrs. W. O. Soderquist;
secretary, Mrs. S. W. Bryson;
treasurer, Mrs. T. E. Reed. Mrs.
Stovall was named hostess chair
man and Mrs. R, G. Tuttle, litera
ture chairman. ,
Mrs. Tuttle had the devotional
and Mrs. E. L. McK:e presented
the program, both using the sub
ject, "A song in a strange land."
The hostess served a delicious
salad course.
Methodist Pastor And
Laymen Attend Meeting
Rev. R. G. Tuttle, O. E. Brook
hyser, Paul Kirk and T. N. Massie
attended the Methodist Mass Meet
ing in Charlotte on Tuisday. This
meeting was the beginning of a
Crusade for Christian World Order.
Similar mass meetings are being
held all over the nation.
Mrs. Sadie J. Long left Friday
for H:ndersonville after spending
a few days with her son, J. R. Long
and Mrs. Long.
Township Committees To
Be Named By Chairman
and Vice Chairman At
Early Date.
Mrs. IE. L. McKee has been
named county chairman of the
annual nation-wide Infantile Para
lyse drive, which will be staged
i during the last two weeks of Jan
uary. The appointment came this
weejc frcm Dr. Ralph McDonald,
state chairman.
Raymond U. Sutton was named
vice chairman of the drive in the
CQuntyt~"
Mrs. McKee announced yester
day that an organization meeting
would be held this week, and defi
nite plans made for staging a suc
cessful campaign in the county.
There is little likelihood that t^e
annual dance or ball will be held, it
was said.
Committeemen in every town
ship in the county will be named,
and plans made for an extensive
drive.
Half of all the funds raised in
the county will be kept here for
work among th? crippled, in both
corrective, medical and rehabilita
tion WOTk.
The movement started a number
of years ago, wi*h observance of
PtesWent ' Roosevelt*^ ^birthday on
January 30th. The proceeds rais
ed were sent to the Warm Springs
Foundation which was making ap
extensive study of the treatment
and cure of infantile ^ paralysis.
Much progress has been mad? dur
ing the past few years, and those in
charge of the work felt that the
annual campaign should be con
tinued for years to come, even if
the usual dances and balls usually
staged on the President's birthday
were not held.
Held By Japs
W. CARR ? HOOPER, former
3yhra school teacher, has been a
prisoner of the Japs since the
1 fall of Manila in January, 1942.
, He has been in the Philippines for
the past 12 years. For six year3
he taught English in the schoo's,
and when war broke out was in
charge of payrolls for the Singer
Sewing Machine Company. He is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Vance
Hooper, of East LaPorte.
Mr. and Mrs. Tritt
Observe Their
57th Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Tritt, of
67tn wedding anniversary Jan
uary second at their horn? in
East La Porte, where they
have Hived for the last 48 years.
They have six living ch ldren,
Rey L. Tritt of East La Porte,
Mrs. W. M. Br^vn of ClintolV^
Tenn., Mrs. Jesse Mallonee of
Yakima, Washington, Henry
and Carl Tritt of Pensacola,
Fla., and Mrs. Willa Coward
of Greensboro. They aho have
a host of grandchildren and
several great grandchildren.
Legion Auxiliary Here Names
Committees For Active Program
The newly organized American
Legion Auxiliary held its first
meeting Friday night at the court
house. Mrs. Dan Tompkins, presi
dent, presided over the meeting.
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Sgt. Kenneth B. Reid, who is with
the Medical Ditachment at Fort
Bragg, was called home due to the
illness of his grandfather, D. L.
Bryson. Sgt. Reid and Mrs. Reid
spent the Christmas holidays with
Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Reid.
Miss Sadie Queen has returned
from Kentucky where she was call
ed on account of the serious illness
of her sister-in-law.
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Dr. and Mrs. C. M. Hooper and
young son were in Atlanta, Ga.
last week.
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Ray Seayn of the U. S. Navy,
spent a few days last week with
his sister, Mrs. VUt Wilson and
Mr. Wilson.
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Cpl. Evelyn Sherrill is visiting
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.
R. Sherrill. She is on her way to
Third WAC Training Center at
Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.
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The many friends of Mrs. Edith
Hall will be glad to know that she
is improving after an operation
January fourth at the C. J. Harris
Community Hospital.
During the business session plans
were made for the active partici
pation in th; work of the local post
and a planned program of work
in the community.
The president announced an in
complete list of committees to serve
in different phases of the work.
The committee chairmen are as
follows: Americanism, Mrs. R. U.
Sutton; child welfare, Mrs. J. B.
Wetmore; community service, Mrs.
Joe Davis; legislative, Mrs. Walter
Ashe; membership, Mrs. Walter
Jones; Pan American study, Mrs.
.Eugene Parker; poppy day and re
habilitation, Mrs. John Parris;
publication and publicity, Mrs. Gil
bert Bess; war activities, Mjs. Dan
Allison; program chairman, Mrs.
John Corbin.'
Bank Gains OvezJialf
Million In Deposits
Deposits in the Jackson County
Bank showed an increase during
the past year of over a half mil
lion dollars, according to the an
nual statement made at the close
of business on December 31.
This fain in deposits during the
vear, represents more than twjee
the total deposits the bank had on
Dumber tt, 193*. .ceordin* to
?he comparison statement made by
the bank.
Deposits in the bank here on De
cember 31, 1943, totaled $2,381,
706.87. The trtfal assets of t'*e
bank stood at $2,492,711.97 on th2
same date, the statement shows.
The bank has made steady gains
every year.
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56 Jackson Men Are
Accepted For Service
Eleven Volunteered For
Service: Army Got 41;
Navy 41; And Marine
Corps 2.
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Fifty-six Jackson county men
? were accepted for military scrvice
during January, according to the
list just made public by the local
( office of the Selectice Service.
| Of the 66 men, eleven were vol
unteers. Eight of the volunteers
will report to the army, two for
naval duty and one for the Marines.
The largest number w?re sent
to the army. Forty-one in all, in
cluding the 8 volunteers. The
Navy received 13, including two
volunteers and two ^ere sent to
the Marine Corps, with one a vol
unteer.
Those volunteering and assigned
to the army were: Georg; Cochran,
Zebulon Weaver Cunningham, Wil
14e Wood I row Watson, Alfred Smith,
Jr* Felix Elbert Bumgarner, Dan
I Killian Moore, Richard Dinton Sut
ton and Edward Wayne Hawkins.
* Others going to the army w:re:
Charlie Hooper Mathis, James
Weldon Guffey, William Edgar
Cope, Walter Bernard Campbell,
Sewell Thomas Davis, David Allen
Parris, William Thomas Madden,
James Thaddas Davis, Charl.s
Ilomer Fugate, J. B. Stiwinter, Len
Huffman Higdon, Walter Brooks,
Edgar Nicholson Fincannon, An
derson Parker, John Cltffeitd Cbti
ders, ftbtfV Powell' f
Guy Monroe Zachary, Shirley
Ray Beck, Lonis L'e Austin, Clyde
Bryson, Roy David Woodard, Harry
Hensley, Daniel Dewey Sharp,
Harold Gordon Hall, Lloyd Ken
neth Jones, Robert Harold Ensley,
Samuel Hubert Ferguson, Frank
Howard Buchanan, Hayes Jack
son Bryson, Warr:n Verlon Mathis,
Roy Blackburn, James Weldon
Shuler, Thomas Bragg Cowan.
Those volunteering and assign
ed to the navy were: Gilmer Lyle
McCoy and Charles .Walter Hyatt.
Others going to th; navy were:
Frank Crawford, Wayne Carl
Stanford, Cleo Wesley Hunter, Vel
dee C. Ashe, George Wilson Brown,
Richard Thomas Monteith, Lyman
Ashley Powell, L^e Roy - Aiken,
Henry Glenn Manous, Howard
Candler Robbins, Roy Candler Mc
Clure.
Manuel Glover Johnson was the
volunteer assigned to the Marine
Corps. Ths other Marine is Oscar
Odell Chastain.
Mrs. R. U. Sutton To
Address Savannah PTA
The Savannah P. T. A. will have
a meeting Thursday, January 13
at two o'clock. A special program
has been planned with Mrs. R. U.
Sutton, of Sylva, as guest speaker.
All parents are urged to b: present.
I The many friends of E. L. Mc
Kee will be sorry to hear that h =
i has been sick for the past week.
I His condition is improving.
EDITORIAL
1944, The Decisive Year
Nineteen hundred and forty-four may be the de
cisive year of the war. The Pacific offensive already is
under way, aimed at the heart of the enemy ? Tokyo.
In the Atlantic and Mediterranean, the Allies are poised
for a concerted attack upon Hitler's European Fortress,
are even now administering their first shattering blows.
In hundreds of ways and on scores of fronts, pulp
wood is hastening the day of reckoning.
Flying Fortresses rain destruction over Nazi Eu
rope; their deadly bombs contain explosives made of
pulpwood. Allied fighters inch their way through South
Pacific jungles ^aiding their ad vance are supplies pack^_
ed ill paper products and dropped by parachutes manu
factured from pulpwood.
If you can swing an axe, you can speed victory.
Every cord of pulpwood you cut means more smokeless
powder, more blood, plasma containers, more shell cas
ings . Every cord cut now brings victory nearer. y
As the tempo of our attack increases, bo does the
need for pulpwood. V
Cot the Axis down ? NOW! " \
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In Italy
'PVT. LLOYD B. WILLIAMS,
who is now serving with the arm
ed forces somewhere in
Pvt. Williams was included into
the army in February, 1943. He
tnf)k his basic training at Camp
Hood, Texas, from there he was
sent to Greenville, Pa., then he
served in, the North African cam
paign,and is now serving in Italy.
jlPvt. Williams is the son of John
Williams, of East LaPor^e, and
?fore-ti&terinj? the army Ijje was
employed by the Mills Manufac
turing Company, Woodruff, S. C.
He attended school at Cullowhee.
County Hit By
7-Inch Snow Fall
All main highways in the county
were reported cl ar of snow and
ice yesterday, and schools resumed
classroom work Tuesday morning,
following suspension on Monday
due to condition of roads through
out the county. A 7-inch snowfall
was recorded here over the week
end, with the snow continuing to
fall until after noon Sunday.
Melting snow on Sunday after
noon turned into ice Sunday night
when the mercury slid down below
15. The ice covered sidewalks and
highways brought travel to a mini
mum.
Cars with chains were able to
travel, and so far, no accidents
have been reported.
The heavy snowfall added much
water to the Sylva water supply
reserve.
'MR. JARRETT BETTER
Mrs. J. F. Jarrett and son, Clyde,
have recently returned from At
lanta, Gn., where they visited Rob
ert Jarrett, who has been critically
ill for several months. They re
port that his condition is improved.
Raymond L. Glenn, Jr., PHM 3/c,
stationed at Camp Bradford, Vs.,
is spending a ten day pass with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray
mond GUnn.
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Cpl. Robert V. Reid who is in
the Medical Detachment stationed
at Camp Phillips, Kansas, spent
the Christmas holidays with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Reid.
Orr Wants Unit
Cut For Every
Man In Services ?
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Assistant County Afent
and Forestry Specialist 'a
Urge Wood Be Cut Now. M
By KAY ORR
Assistant County Agent ^
There is a great shortage of
pulpwocd and chestnut acid wood
throughout the nation and this is
an item which is vitally important
in the winning of the war.
Since each of us is interdkted in
Jackson county men who are in
the service; we could render a great
service and probably save one of
their lives by each cutting one unit
or cord of wood for one of the men
in service.
| ' In our county we- have a mill
which is making paper and it is the
type of pap:r which is practically
all going direct to the war fronts
carrying food, clothing, blood
plasma, ammunition and the many
other necessary war implements.
This company as you all know
is the Meade Corporation, which'
produces paper from chestnut
wood. This type of paper is too
heavy to make newsprint and mag
azine paper but is made into cor
rugated boxes in which all of the
material mntioned above is ship
ped to the war fronts. Not only
do. they obtain paper /from chest
nut but as a by products tannic
acid is taken from this wood and
tannic aeid has been declared by
our government as the seventh
most vital war material in the
United States today. The tanic
acid is used by tanneries in the
tanning of leather for shoes and
other necessities of .our fighting
men. The M ade Corporation is
furnishing tannic acid to the local
unit of Armour Leather Co., for
this purpose. So you can see that
our J6cal companies are playing a
big ^art in our war effort -
Soveral years ago the chestnut
blight hit our chestnut timber and
killed it all, the damage running
into thousands, and thousands of
dollars. Since the chestnut is dead
it is deteriorating fast and too, for
rest fires are destroying it fast, we
should put it to use before it is des
troyed and now we can obtain more
for the wood than ever before.
Now our local company uses 165
units or cords of chestnut wood
every 24 hours, six and one half
days per w ek or about 1072 cords
and about 4HOO cords a month so
you can see that they use an enor
mous pile of wood in one month.
The ricks of wocd in their yard
don't mean so much for if the
supply was cut off or cut down,
which is possible now because of
roads and conditions, this
plant could be shut down, which
would mean less corrugated paper
containers to ship, maybe even to
your boy, friend or relative, the
food, blood plasma and other things
he might need on the war front.
From Jackson county there has
be n sent abeut 1650 boys and I
believe we should make it our slo
gan for the next few months, "One
cord of wood for every Jackson
county boy in service." Let's real
ly producs this wood which will
help so much in the war effort.^
Remember this appeal is being
made in the interest of getting
more pulpwood produced. So that
our boys can have tha important
things they need on the war fronts.
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Dedication For
Methodist Men
Set For The 16th
The Dedicatibn Service for the
service men of the Sylva Metho
dist church which was schedule^
to be held on January ninth has
been postponed until Sunday, Jan
uary 16, due to the weather.
Hospital Completes
Best Year In History
i
t The past year was one of the
best, from every standpoint, that
the C. J. Harris Community Hos
H. Carter, superintendent.
During 1943, the hospital records
?how:d 328 operations were per
formed. Of this total, 243 were
.major operations, and 8& clas'si
? fied as minor. _
The nuraery^ifa** busy place it
tv~ Uvu>' ' x>?pital' during the year,
^ being born.
L? arrivals* 14 were
children of men in service.
The fourteen cases participated
in the new aid priven by the jrw
rrnment to help in such cases. The
benefits started here for wives of
men in service in October. Mrs.
Carter was of the opinion that
more would take advantage of this
government aid durtatfr the present
year.
More patients were eared tor Hi
1948 than at any time staff thi
hospital has bee* In operation, It
waa aaid.