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AMERICA First, Last tad Always The Sylva Herald ======= AND RURALITE? CONSOLIDATED JULY, 1943 VOL. XVIII NO. 49 SYLVA, N. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1944 The Sylva Herald , winner of First Place of S\ C. Prma Association 1943 General Ex cellence Award. $1.50 A Year In Jackson and Swain Counties ? 5c Copy 6 Cars Potatoes To Be Shipped FromHere Need More Workers For Mica Mines, Say Washington Officials North Carolina Mines Fall ing Short of Capacity Be cause of Labor Shortage. WASHINGTON? The operation of mica mines in western North Carolina must be stepped up to meet the failure of imports to keep pace with war requirements. This was revealed today by Paul V. McNutt, War Manpower com missioner, when he announced the need for additional workers in North Carolina mines. The WMC chief warned that mica, copper, lead, and molybden um must be kept coming from the mines to insure the strategic ma terials necessary. Forty per cent of the total ad ditional workers needed, McNutt said, are for North Caroliha mines. The special mica recruitment pro gram, which has been under way for a number of months in that estate, is largely responsible for the present relatively satisfactory con ditions, but operations cpu]d be ex panded considerably if the laboi needs were met. Needs of radio and radar produc tion will lead to a serious short age of high-grade mica unless workers can be found. Require ments for 1944 will be higher than in 1943 and, it is feared, will be greater than the supply. "The main reliance will be on imports, but domestic operations in North Caro lina, and elsewhere in the United States, must be stepped up," Mc Nutt saidi_ "A few hundred addi tional workers would fill the sin gelshift labor needs of the more productive mines, but the location o ? the mines is making recruitment difficult." RevTw. N. Cook To Be Honored At Webster Church There will be a service in honor of the Rev. \V. N. Cook at the Webster Baptist church on Sunday, April 30th at two p. m. The program is as follows: Hymn, "All Hail The Power of Jesus' Name." Congregation. Special music, Miss Mildred Cowan in charge. Invocation. Scripture. Prayer. Biographical sketch, pastor. Appreciation of Rev. Cook as a Denominational Worker, Rev. B. S. Hensley. Appreciation of Rev. Cook ,as a citizen, Hugh E. Monteith. A Pastor's Wife Plays a Big Part in His Career, Mrs. Chas. L. Allison. Hymn. Personal offering. Benediction. Methodists To Hold Meeting At Cullowhee 28th The district meeting of the Wo men's Society of Christian Service will meet with the Methodist church at Cullowhee on Friday, April 28th. Mrs. J. R. Long, of Bryson City, district president, will preside. Mrs. A. L. Thompson, of Greensboro, conference corresponding secre tary, and Miss Nina Troy, return ed missionary from China, will be the outstanding speakers of the meeting. The service will begin at 10 o'clock a. m. Lunch will be served by the Cullowhee women for 60c per plate. James W. Jiles Is Now Captain Mrs. James W. Jiles has just been informed that her husband has been promoted from First Lt. to Captain. He has been in the Army for four years and has serv ed overseas since last December with a quartermaster corps. Be fore going overseas he was sta tioned at Fort Screven, Ga. Mrs. Jiles is living with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Reagan, at Whittier. Mrs. Colvard, of Pikeville, Tenn., spent the week-end with her niece, Mrg. Dan K. Moore. Legion And The Auxiliary To Meet On Friday The American Legion and Auxil iary will have a combined meeting on friday evening, April 28th at 8:00 o'clock. The meeting will be held in the auditorium of the Sylva Elemen tary school. At this time the Legion Auxil iary will have a guest speaker from the U. S. Recruiting Office in Ashe ville, Lt. C. T. Bush pf the Recruit ing office, will be in charge of the program and will introduce the speaker of the evening who will tell of "The Women's Part in Win ning the War." The public is cordially invited to attend, especially women who wish to have a part in winning this war. Democrats Of North and South Wards Organize The Democrats of Sylva North and South Ward^ had a joint meet ing Saturday afternoon at two thirty at the Court House, a large number attended the meeting. The following were elected as officers and members: South Ward: Executive Commit tee, Chairman, S. A. Carden; Vice Chairman, John H. Hooper; Sec retary, Hicks Wilson; Members, Charlie Reed and M. D. Cowan. North Ward: Executive Commit tee, Chairman, C. E. Smith; Vice Chairman, A. J. Dills; Secretary, Edith Moody; Members, O. E. Mon teith and J. L. Hair. Junior-Senior Banquet Held The annual Junior-Senior ban quet was held Friday evening at the Community House. The build ing was beautifully decorated car rying out the theme for the ban quet, "Hitch Your Wagon To A Star." Rev. R. G. Tuttle was the guest speaker; other guests were: Mrs. E. L. McKee and A. C. Moses, Supt. of Schools in Jackson county. Bobby Terrell, president of the junior class was toastmaster. Other student speakers were: Louise Pax ton, Freda Haskett, James Madison and John McElfresh. Music was furnished by Larry Mull and Wallace Swann. The waitresses were dressed in blue and white, and they gave seve ral musical numbers. Cullowhee Group Presents A Play The eighth grade class of the McKee Training School of West ern Carolina Teachers college pre sented on Friday evening in the Hoey auditorium two one-act plays, "Who Gets The Car Tonight?" and "Child Wonder," directed by Lee Miller, demonstration teacher of mathematics in the training school. Taking part in the play, "Who Gets The Car Tonight?" were: James Wike, Billie Styles, J. R. Dills, Mary ' Soderquist, and Dan Phillips. Characters for "Child Wonder" included: Dafrell Tilley, Doris Ensley, Arbie Cook, June Parker, Jesse Flake, and Dixie Stephens. During the intermission between the plays Mary Jo Massey gave a blaek-face demonstration of jitter bugging. Sgt. D. L. Hooper, Jr., lit Texas For Training Sgt. David L. Hooper, Jr., of "The Pines", son of Col. ami Mrs. D. L. Hooper, Cullowhee, has arriv ed at Texas A. A M. for a course of Army Air Forces instruction prior to his appointment as an Aviation Cadet in the Army Air Forceg. During this period he will take numerous academic courses, as well as elementary flying training. Upon completion of the course he will be classified as a pilot, navigator or bombardier and go on to schools o? the Fying Training Command for training in these specialties. Reported Missing PVT. EARL C. McCLUCKIE has been reported missing in action in the Asiatic area since February 21, according to a message receiv ed by his grandmother, Mrs. Flor ence Buchanan, of Webster. He entered the service in May, 1943, and was first stationed at Fort McClellan, Ala., later being sent to Fort Meade, Md. He serv ed in the infantry in North Afri ca before going to Italy. Mrs, R. U. Sutton Is Chairman Of State PTA Unit At the annual convention of the North Carolina Congress of Par ents and Teachers held in Durham last week, Mrs. R. U. Sutton, of Sylva, was named chairman of edu cation for home and family life. Mrs. Sutton has for many years been an active worker in P.T.A. circles. She served as president of the Sylva P.T.A. for two years and as director of the first district for four years. Mrs. Allen Luther, of Asheville, succeeds her as di rector of this district, which now has a membership of more than 8, 000. The N. C. organization has for the first time in it's 25 years exceeded the 100,000 mark in membership. C. W. Phillips, of Greensboro, is the capable president. Two of the principal resolutions passed at the meeting were for the better com pulsory school laws and to make the war bonus for teachers a per manent increase in salary. Mrs. Buchanan Returns From Visit In Florida Mrs. M. Buchanan, who has been in Florida for the past few months, is in Sylva visiting relatives for a few days before going to Burl ington to visit her son, Ralph Buch anan and family. Mrs. Buchanan will return in May to open her home here for the summer. While away she will also visit her sons, H. E. and Carl Buchanan, in Hen dersonville. NOW IN MARYLAND Pvt. James R. Sellers, who went into the army in November, 1943, and took his basic training at Camp Wheeler, Ga? has now gone to Fort George G. Meade, Md., after spending a 10-day furlough with his wife and young daughter, who are making their home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Sellers, of WTillets. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Fred Henry, of Detroit, Mich., announce the birth of a daughter, Sharon Elizabeth, on March 19th, at the Henry Ford Hospital. Mrs. Henry is the for mer Miss Wenonah Askev, daugh ter of Mrs. Frartik Brown, of Sylva. Mr. Henry is a former Waynesville resident, the son of Mrs. J. B. Henry, of the Dellwood road. Mrs. Frank Clouse returned last Friday from Hat Springs, Ark. 100 Pounds Of Waste Paper Goes To War Every 100 pounds of waste paper turned in to the Victory Waste Pap er Campaign can be quickly con verted into vital war materials. F. M. Crawford, chairman of the Jackson county Waste Paper Cam paign, today pointed out that each 100 pounds of waste paper will make: 11 Protective bands for 1,000 bombs. 17 Protective bands for 500 pound bombs. 20 protective bands for 250 pound bombs. 50 Cashing* for 75mm. shells 50 V-boxes for food and equip ment. 100 Casings for average size shells. 100 Fin locknut protectors for bombs. 115 Cartons each containing ten 20mm. shells. 20Q Containers for field rations. 200 Containers for blood plasma. 650 Cartons for U. S. Army K rations. 1,105 Cartons each containing fif teen 50 calibre bullets. 1,470 Boxes for emergency life boat rations. 2,041 Cartons containing one life preserver light. 2,128 Cartons each containing fifty 45 calibre pistol bullets. 2,911 Cartons containing ten car tridges for inflating lifeboats. "All kinds of paper that comes, into the home ? old newspapers and magazines, paper cartons and wrappers, and waste basket paper ? are needed immediately as a raw material for the manufacture of these essential war items," the chairman explained. Schoolmasters Club Hear Dr. Willis A. Parker The School Masters Club met on Thursday evening. April 20, at seven-thirty in the Allison build ing of the Methodist church, with a Ladies Night meeting. W. V. Cope, president of the North Carolina Educational Asso ciation Jackson county unit, pre sided. F. M. Crawford, chairman, presented A. C. Moses, Supt. Jack son County Schools, who in turn introduced Dr. Willis A. Parker of Asheville, who talked on "Post War Education." There were 40 present. Mrs. Sutton Returns From State PTA Meet Mrs. R. U. Sutton has returned from Durham, where she attended the annual Spring meeting of the North Carolina Congress of Par ents and Teachers. HOME ON FURLOUGH Pvt. Jackson Lee Cordell has re turned to his post after spending a seven-day furlough with his wife, the former Miss Hazel Cooper, and baby daughter, Jacqueline, of Qualla. His wife and daughter with Mr. ? and Mrs. Wade Cordell and Mrs. Cooper, accompanied him to Ashe ville, where he- left by bus for Fort Meade, Md. ON LEAVE HERE Cpl. Bailey Z. WThitt, who is sta tioned with the Air Corps in Moun tain Home, Idaho, is spending a furlough with his wife, the former Miss Frances Allison, in Sylva, and his mother in Mars Hill. IN GREENSBORO Sgt. Joseph C. Thompson, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Thompson, of Sylva, has been transferred from the Carlsbad Army Air Field, Carlsbad, New Mexico, to Greens boro. Pfc. I. G. Hood, of Seattle, Wash., is spending several days here with hvs wife, Mts. Wilma Turpin Hood. Rotarians And Lions Heard Major Alexander Brown Here Last Night Maj. Alexander G. Brown, pub lic relations officer of the weather win# of the army air forces, with headquarters in Asheville, was the principal speaker at a joint dinner meeting of the Sylva Rotary and Lions clubs last night. Speaking on "Weather and the War," Maj. Brown explained the functions and importance of the a'my weather service and told of several recent instances in which the weather factor has ftffured pro minently in major military opera tions. Moore Bryson, a civilian employe of the intelligence division of the wing, introduced Maj. Brown. S. W. Enloe served as program chairman. Extra Canning Sugar Can Be Had By Filing Request May 15-16 In Hospital PVT. ('ARM IE E. SMITH, husband of the former Miss Pearl Pressley, of Speedwell, has been a patient in the Billings General Hospital for the past few weeks. Pvt. Smith volunteered for ser vice July, 1940. He has been sta tioned at Fort Jackson, S. C., I Camp Hood, Texas, Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., Camp Forrest, Tenn., and Camp Atterbury, Ind. i His wife and small daughter, I Louise, are with her mother, Mrs. ! Rffie Pressley, at Speedwell at the I" present time. . !Dr. Huebner To Direct Summer Music Center Dr. Use Huebner, musicologist of the Out-Of-Door-School, Sara sota, Florida, has been chosen di rector of the Smoky Mountain Mus ic Center to be held at Western Carolina Teachers college during the first summer session, it was an nounced by Dean W. E. Bird, who has been named director of sum mer school by President H. T. Hunter. The music center has been phfVm ed by Dr. Huebner, Dean Bird and the music faculty of the college in order that musicians and music lovers throughout this section may have the opportunity in a Master's School of music either for credit or for pleasure courses concerning all phases of music, and to hear weekly concerts, lectures and musi cal programs. Dr. Huebner is a native of Vien na, Austria, where she attended the Music Staits Academy and won the medal of highest merit. Dr. Huebner is one of the foremost ex ponents of the Leschetisoky meth od, having been assistant to that great teacher. She also studied under Anton Duorak and Edward Gritg, playing at the age of thir teen the latter's Concerto under his own conducting. In her teaching she has been associated with Bu zoni, Godorusky, and Marx. For some time Dr. Huebner served as music director for the Institute Liszt and head of the piano de partment for the Mariveum. Later in America she affiliated with the Master Faculty of the college of M u sic in Cincinn at L Be fore going to Sarasota Dr. Huebner was con nected with the Cape Cod Insti tute of Music. Assisting Dr. Huebner with sum mer program of music will be Mrs. Charles Gulley, chairman of the music staff at Western Carolina Teachers college, who has studied music at Columbia University and studied voice with the late Herbert Witherspoon, director of the Metro ?politianr" During" the past year Mrs. Gylley has served as student advisor of the North Carolina Fed erated "Music Clubs^. Violinist for the music center will be Miss Rachel Rosenberger who holds a Master's degree in music from the Eastman School of Music. Miss Rosenberger for several years has been a first vio linist in the North Carolina Sym phony for which she has frequent ly played solos. Mrs. H. iE. Monteith returned from Canton last Thursday after spending several days with her father, Mr. McClure. All persons needing more than five pounds per person of canning sugar, will have the 15th and 16th of May to make application to get up to 25 pounds per person, it was announced here by the war price and rationing1 hoard. Those failing to make application on either May 15th or 16th, will have only five pounds. Stamp No. 40 in War Rationing Hook Four is good for five pounds only, and if more than that amount is required, then application must be made on either May 15th or 16th on form R-323. The board has not completed plans for having registrars to m^et at the appointed places of registra tion, but these places will be se lected and announced later. The regulation as received here this week, sets out that no extra sugar for canning can be granted unless applications are made either May 15 or 16 and on the special form prepared by OPA. Any member of the family can make application for all the family, provided War Ration Book Number Four fur each person accompanies the application. The registrars will remove stamp No. 37 out of War Rook No. Four. If the stamp for any reason has been removed, no extra sugar will be given. The No. 37 stamp is required before the certificate will be valid. Woman's Club Has Interesting April Program The Woman's Club met on Tues day, April 18th at the home of Mrs. Zeter Snyder. Mrs. Walter Jones, president, presided over the business meeting. Each member was urged to bring a book to put on the hook shelf in the Sylva Library that the club is sponsoring. The yearly report was passed among the members for any re vision that was needed. The meeting was then turned over to Mrs. Jimmy Buckner who was in charge of the program. Mrs. Buckner presented Mrs. E. L. Mc Kee, who gave a review on the "A postle." T he hostess assisted by Dorot hy Hennessee and Mrs. Earl Padgett, served a delicious salad and sweet course. Miss Buchanan Honored At Duke Miss Edith Buchanan of Cullo whee, was among the 75 students recommended for fellowships, scholarships and assistantships in the Duk ? University Graduate School according to an announce ment by I Jean Calvin B. Hooper. Miss Buchanan is a graduate of Meredith College, was named Ang ier Duke Memorial fellowship. She will do graduate work in English. Miss Buchanan was a teacher in the Sylva high school for several years, and all of her friends in Sylva and Jackson county are very proud of h<r. Navy Recruiter Coming May 2nd Chief Signalman C. J. Rhine hardt of the Asheville Navy Re cruiting Station will establish a Re cruiting Station in the Post Office at Sylva, on May 2, and will accept applications from men 17 years of age and 38 to &0 for service in the Navy, and from iomen from 20 to 36 for enlistment and commission in the WAVES. Revival To Start" In East Sylva A series of revival services will be held at the East Sylva Baptist church beginning Sunday mornine, April 30. Rev. L. L. Johnson from Mag nolia, will be the speaker each evening assisted by the pastor, Rev. E. W. Jamison. Mr. Johnson is the father of Miss Gretchen John son, our missionary in the Tucka seegee association. Everyone is cordially invited to attend the services. $2.20 Per Hundred Pounds Paid At Car For Potatoes About $6,000 Worth Of Surplus Potatoes Will Be Shipped Soon. Randal B. Etheridge, head of the Markets"Division of the State De partment of Agriculture, has an nounced that plans have been com pleted for the movement of appro ximately 80 carloads of Irish po tatoes from the mountain counties of North Carolina. .Six of the carloads are to go from Jackson county, the report from Raleigh said. He said that efforts on the part of the department's marketing specialists to move the surplus of the 1043 crop from the Asheville North Wilkesboro area have re sulted in the establishment of a plan by the Commodity Credit Cor poration to purchase all potatoes in this section, grading U. S. Number 1. Guy \V. Capps, of Creeds, Va., will be in charge of the purchase program for CCC, according to Etheridge, and the potatoes will be bought at a set price of $2.20 per hundred pounds on the car. The State Department of Agri culture sent two inspectors into the Asheville section recently and at least one more inspector will be sent into this area next Monday. No plans were announced rela tive to the disposition of the pota toes after their purchase from the growers, but it is understood that they will eventually go for military use. "They wilT be moved as rapidly as they can be handled by our in spectors," declared JEtheridge. He udded that farmers having pota toes will be assisted by the inspec tors in grading, packing and load ing their product. Plans now call for the move ment of around 3,500,000 pounds, with each car bringing around $<>00. The locations from which pota toes will be shipped and the num ber of cars from each are as fol lows: Franklin 4; Sylva f>; Way nesville 10; Asheville 0; Hender <onville 4; Brevard 3; Marshall 2; Burnsville 2; Spruce Pine 30; North Wilkesboro 5; and West Jefferson, 7. 7 From East La Porte To Receive Diplomas Tonight Closing exercises will he held at East La Porte school this evening \\t eight-fifteen o'clock, with Hugh E. Monteith, of Sylva, as the prin-v cipal speaker. His subject will be? \ "Aft' r the Armistice ? What?" \ Invocation will be by the Rev. J. B. Fitzgerald, pastor of the Metho dist church, and diplomas will be presented by A. C. Moses, Supt. of Jackson County School. The class play, a comedy entitled, "Henry's Mail-Order Wife," by Freda Graham Bundy, was given April 14th in the school auditorium. The class is composed of seven members. Miss Mildred Lazelle Adams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Adams, is valedictorian and Thomas Griffin Jackson, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Jackson, is saluta torian. Music will be under the direction of Mrs. Davie C. Sutton. Members of the class are: Miss Adams, Jackson, Troy Eugene Queen, James Ralph Cole, Mack Donald Romine, Louise Middleton and Harold Lafayette Waters. Sylva To Have 2 Valedictorians The high school is very proud of Joy Stillwell and Jeanne Barrett for being valedictorian. During the four years of high school their average has been exceedingly high. Both girls had nearly the same average, with only two points dif ference. The averages 94.5629 and 94,563.1 The girls don't know which is their average. This is the first time that Sylva High has had a double valedictorian and we hope that in the years to come others will make as good students as these two. GOES TO WASHINGTON Cyrus H. Nicholson, local attor ney, who for the past two years has been employed as Senior Aba tractor for the TVA, left Monday for Ellensburg, Wash., wheat be has accepted a position as exami ner of land titles for the Kittitas County Abstract Co.
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