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VOL. XIX NO. 7
SYLVA, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1944
$1.50 A Year In Jackson And Swain Counties ? 5c Copy
$65,000 In War Bonds Sold
During Rally Here
Sylva Baptist Welcome
New Pastor And Family
In First Service Sunday
REV. C, M. WARREN OF
COWPENS, S.C. ARRIVES
TO BEGIN PASTORATE
A, large congregation at the First
Eaptist church Sunday morning wel
comed their new pastor, Rev. C. M.
Warren, and family to Sylva. A union
service was h?ld at the church Sun
day evening at which time the mem
bers of the Sylva Methodist church
joined their Baptist friends in a furth
er welcome to the Warrens.
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Rev. Mr. Warren came to Sylva
from Cowpens, S. C., where he was
pastor of the First Baptist church of
that city. He was a member of Ex
ecutive Committee of the Broad River
Association; Associate Superintendent
and Director of teacher training of
the Broad River Sunday School As
sociation, and Chairman of the Red
Cross War Fund Drive and of the
General War Fund Drive for Cow
pens.
Mr. Warren has an A.B. degree
from Furman University, Greenville,
S.C. and Th.M. degree from the South
ern Baptist Theological Seminary,
Louisville, Ky.He completed a post
graduate Seminar in field of Religious
Education at the Seminary under Dr.
G. S. Dobbins, and taught in the pub
lic schools of South Carolina for sev
eral years.
Mrs. Warrer - 1. ?.* alified to
assist hex hu . ? 1 his pastorial
work. She received her education
at the University of South Carolina,
and at the Seminary in Louisville.
She Taught for~several years in the
public schools in South Carolina. She
served as president of the local W. M.
S. for several years.,
Mr. and Mrs Warren have one small
daughter, Sybil.
DISTRICT AGENT SAYS
LARGEST 4-H CLUB
CAMP TO BE BUILT
F. R. Farnham, district county
?gent, said in Asheville Monday that
tentative plans have been made for
establishing in the mountain section
the largest 4-H club camp in North
Carolina and one which would serve
every section of the state.
The camp project whcih would be
established jointly by the extension
service of N. C. State College and the
North Carolina department of agri
culture, is getting the enthusiastic
support of State Commissioner of
Agriculture W. Keer Scott and other
leaders.
The camp will be located on the
new State Test farm in Haywood
county.
Ashe And Tatham Are
Serving Together In
New Guinea Area
Zeb Ashe, son of Mrs. Felix Ashe
of the Green's Creek section of Jack
son county is now serving in New
Guinea as a cook for a non-combat
unit. His home is now in Winston
Salem, where his wife, Mrs. Carrie
Ashe, resides. In a lettter to a sister of
Corsey Tatham, alio of Green's Creek,
Mrs. Ashe wrote that her husband
and Corsey Tatham had met on the
boat going over. They had been boys
_ together, but this was the first time
they had seen each other in eleven
years. They are both stationed on the
island of New Guinea seeing each
? Pthei often nnrt nnjoying it bq much
TRANSFERRED
Howard Robbins H. A. 2-c, son o i
Mr. and Mrs. James Robbins has been
transferred from Norfolk, Va., to
Harvey Point at Hertford, N. C. He
is a hospital apprentice, working at
present in the dispensary as a doc
tor's TMflper.
FIRST BAPTIST PASTOR
REV C. M. WARREN
DEGREE WORK AND
ORPHANS NIGHT IS
MASONS PROGRAM
Degree work will be the principal
part of the program for the meeting
of the Masons of Dillsboro Lodge No.
459 A. F. & A. M. at its meeting
Thursday night, July 6, at 8 o'clock.
This will also be orphanage night.
All members are urged to be pres
ent. Visiting Masons will be wel
come.
ATTEND HOOPER FUNERAL
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Wilder of Lon
don, Ky., J. W- Wilder and Henry
Scales of Akron, Ohio, are visiting
in Sylva this week They came down
to attend the funeral of Herschel M.
Hooper.
INJURIES RECEIVED IN
FALL ARE FATAL FOR
HERSGHEL M. HOOPER
Former Resident of County,
Had Lived In Akron
For 26 Years
Herschel M. Hooper, 60, son of
Mrs. Annie Wike Hooper, and the
late Charles Lambert Hooper, died
Thursday, June 6, at City Hospital,
Akron, Ohio. Death resulted from a
fall received a few days before.
Mr. Hooper is a native of Jackson,
being born at Tuckaseegee June 5,
1884, but had lived in Akron for the
past twenty-six years, where he was
employed by the Good Year Tire ana
Rubber Co.
On Saturday evening funeral ser
vices were held at Longs Funeral
Home in Akron, conducted by Rev.
Myers Cough, pastor of the First
Baptist church of Akron.
The body was then brought on
Monday to the home of his brother,
Dr. D. D. Hooper and Mrs. Hooper
in Sylva.
At this time funeral arrangements
are incomplete awaiting the arrival
of his son Lt. (jg) John L. Hooper,
who is traveling by plane from the
South Pacifir area.
Mr. Hooper is survived by his wife,
Bertha Ensley Hooper, one son, Lt.'
(jg.) John L. Hooper, of the U.S.N.R.
stationed somewhere in the South
Pacific, his mother, Mrs. Annie Hoop
er, of Tuckaseegee, and three broth-*
crs, Dr. D. N. Hooper and Fred L.
Hooper, of Sylva, and J. J. Hooper
and Monroe Hooper, of Tuckaseegee.
PRESBYTERIAN SERVICE
NEXT SUNDAY
Rev. G. Coleman Luck will preach*1
at the Presbyterian service to be held
in the Episocal church building next
Sunday afternoon, July 9, at 6 o'clock
'Vhe public is cordially invited to at
t r d, Rev. Mr. Luck is pastor of the
M hota Memorial Presbyterian
c' urch, Marietta, Okla. He and Mr:.
I. itck are visiting relatives in Sylv?.
ARIAIL CONFIDENT JACKSON WILL MAKE
5TH WAR BOND QUOTA BEFORE DRIVE ENDS
Ambition To Place
Bond Into Hands Of
Every Wage Earner
I am greatly pleased with the pa
triotic response of our people at the
rally during the Fifth War Loan
Drive. i
It is not possible at this time to
give complete figures of all sales in
Jackson County during the dirve but
I am safe in saying that Jackson
County is well on the way to making j
its quota and I am confident we will
go over the top before the end of the
drive on July 8th.
Jackson County's quota of $264,000
has been broken down by allocation
of quotas to each of the fifteen town
ships in the county. A complete
record is kept of all bond sales in
each township and a complete tabula
tion and report of sales made in each
township will be published in the
near future.
It is my ambition to place a bond
of some denomination in the hand of
every person in Jackson County who
has any income or available funds
at all and that every township in our
county will make its quota^ and go
over the top before the end of the
drive on July 8th.
The Fifth War Loan Drive officially
closes on Saturday, July 8th, for sale
of all types of bonds except for in
dividual Series E Bonds. All Series
Bonds bought during the month of
July will be counted in the Fifth War
Loan Drive.
Rmnft tmimahipg the COUnty have
just about made their quotas while
some ar^ still considerably below
their quotas. I sincerely hope that
each township will make its quota
and go over the top by Saturday, July
1 8th. We are still behind on the sale
of E Bonds and it is urged that the
sale of E Bonds be pushed with re
newed vigor during this, the last
week of the drive.
A complete report of sale in each
township will be published in next
week's paper.
First Jackson County
Invasion Casualty
ROBERT T. GARRISON
^he first telegram revived at the
Sylva office telling of a casualty of a
Jackson county boy in the present
European invasion reached here last
Friday, when Mrs. Robert T. Garisou
received a message stating that her
husband, Pvt. Robert T. Garrison, had
been slightly wounded on June 6th,
the first day ot the invasion.
The message said she would be ad
vised as to his condition as other in
formation was received. Pvt. Garri
son is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis
Garrison of Sylva. He has been in
service since~Septgnibei , 1940, having
trained and served at Ft. McClellan,
Ala., Camp Shelby, Miss., Fort Ben
rung, Ga.t and Camp DXx^ TT YT He
took his overseas training at Johnson
City, Fla. before sailing last February
for duty with an Infantry unit.
BIRTH OF SON ANNOUNCED
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Anders, of
Tuckaseigee, announce the birth of a
son, Orville, on June 23.
MISSING IN ACTION
PFC. HERMAN F. BAILEY
Mrs. T. C. Cannon received the
following message Wednesday after
noon from the Adjutant General:
'The Secretary of War desires me to
express his deep regret that your son,
Pfc. Herman F. Bailey has been re
ported missing in action since June
six in France. If further details or
other information are received you
will be notified."
Pfc. Bailey is the son of Mrs. May
n.e B. Cannon of Sylva and Frank F
Bailey of Chattanooga, Tenn. He was
inducted into the service in Decem
ber 1942 and volunteered for para
troop duty. He took his training at
Omp Toccoa, Fort Benning an^
Camp Mackall, as a member of the
51st Parachute Division. He was also
a qualified demolitionist.
He was a graduate of Sylva High
School and attended Western Caro
lina Teachers College. Before enter
ing the service he was employed at
the Naval Research Laboratory in
Washington, D. C.
Mrs. Cannon had another son wh/i
ftsb belonged to th6 paratroopers and
died while training at Fort Benning
r? few hours after he had made his
Flth jump which qualified him for
hi, wings, which were later given_tCL
lus mother. Mrs. Cannon received th*
following citation from the President
of the United States recently for her
son Frank. "In grateful memory of
I-vt. Frank F. Bailey, Jr., who died
ir? the service of his country at Sta
t'on Hospital Fort Benning, Ga., Oc
tober 9, 1942. He stands in the unbrok
en line of patriots who have dared to
clie that freedom might live and grow
and increase its blessings. Freedom
lives and through it he lives in a way
that humbles the undertakings of
most men." Signed Franklin D.
I cosevelt.
JARRETT IS ABLE TO
VISIT PARENTS AT
DILLSBQRO HOME
Mrs. Robert P. Jarrett, who was
seriously injured in an automobile
wreck last September in Atlanta, and
v ho remained in a critical condition
for several months, has recovered suf
ficiently to bie able to visit his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Jarrett at
Jurrett Springs Hotel in Dillsboro. Mr.
r.iid Mrs. Jarrett will arrive this week
to spend the month of July with their
parents at Dillsboro.
40,000 Pounds Of Crimson
Clover Seed Received
In Jackson County
Mr. D. C Higdon, Chairman
of the Jackson County AAA
Program has announced that 40,
000 pounds of crimson clover seed
has been made available for
farmers of Jackson County
through the AAA Farm Program.
Any farmer who has signed the
Farm Plan Work Sheet with the
AAA Program and hat not tak
en up all of his allowance may
receive this material by applying
at the AAA Office.
DEWEY AND BRICKER
HEAD G.O.P. TICKET
Governor Thomas E. Dewey, of
New York, is the Republican's 1944
nominee for President by a crescen
do first-ballot vote of 1,056 to 1. The
lone vote against Dewey was cast for
General MacArthur by Grant Ritter,
Wisconsin Dairy farmer.
Nominee Dewey began at once to
map a national campaign, manifestly
concentrating its early fire on the
"tired, quarrelsome, one-man" gov
ernment of the New Deal.
The broad outlines of the appeal
v/hich Mr. Dewey ? and his vice
presidential running mate, Gov. John
VV. Bricker, of Ohio ? intend to make
to the nation in the coming months
stand out clearly in the wake of an
acceptance speech, set a tone of calm
confidence, put youth over age, and
pledge to the American people and
t" America's allies prosecution of the
war with every resource and full as
sociation in building the peace.
BEE STING FATAL
TO CHEROKEE WOMAN,
MAN ALSO VICTIM
Funeral services were held
Saturday afternoon at Birdtown
cemetery for Mrs. Hildred Enloe,
35, a resident of the Cherokee In
d i a n Reservation, who died
Thursday as a result of having
been stung by bees
Mrs. Enloe, stung about the
head, face and arms while work
ing with her bees, died shortly
after returning to the house. Her
husband, who was injured last
week when his team of horses
became frightened and ran away,
had just returned home from an
Asheville hospital when the bees
attacked his wife.
The second bee sting victim
was William David Ross, 67, a
Yancey county farmer, died Sat
urday at noon at his home in the
Pensacola section about two
hours after being stung severely
by numbers of bees.
2nd Lt. W. R. Enloe is here from
Aberdeen, Md., spending several days
with his parents.
FARMERS FEDERATION TO HOLD WAR RALLY
AND BOND SELLING PICNIC JULY 22
The Farmers Federation War Rally
Picnic in Jackson County will be held
at Sylva on Saturday, July 22.
Announcement of the picnic was
made this week by James G. K. Mc
Clure, president of the Farmers Fed
eration, who announced that the
county agent, a Farm Security Ad
ministration representative, and those
in charge of War Bond sales in the
county will be invited to participate
in the celebration.
WhiW the sale of bonds and the all
out production of food for victor^wilT
be stressed throughout the day, there
v. ill be ~pTenTy~of fun and entertain
ment, Mr. McClure said. All quar
tets and choirs and individual mu
sicians are invited to sing or play
during the day. Pender Rector and
flu? Farmers Federation String Band
will be present.
Each faimly is invited to bring a
picnic dinner. The usual watermelons
and lemonade will be furnished free
by the Farmers Federation.
Mr. McClure will preside as usual,
and the Rev. Dumont Clarke, religi
ous director of the Farmers Federa
tion, will supervise athletic contests
during the lunch period. - ^
Mr. McClure will tell of the prog
ress of the Farmers Federation some
time during the day, and the Rev. Mr.
Clarke will tell of the spread of the
Lord's Acre movement for financing
cf the rural church. There will be no
long speeches at any time, Mr. Mc
CIuic said.
The program will start at ten o'
"cIocR 'ahd will continue until twelve?
Watermelons and lemonade will be
served after those present have had
an opportunity to eat their lunches.
Athletic contests will be held follow
ing the serving of the watermelon
and lemonade. The program in the
afternoon will consist mainly of sing
ing by the congregation and individ
ual performers.
WOUNDED SOLDIERS AND MILITARY BAND
FROM MOORE GENERAL HOSPITAL PARTICIPATE
Little Moody Girls Are
frirst Bond Purchasers
Honoring Lt. Nedlick
Joan and Doris Moody, nges 9 rind
12 years, respectively, were the first
t><?nd purchasers at the big bond s.ilo
rally held here Friday nftrrrwv,; Th?<
sum of $65,000.00 in war >?-.?,.!
sold during the rally, V I ? ?,,i
chairman of the Jackson cou;. j ?Var
Finance Committee, stated Monday,
The War Bond Sales Rally wjU
sponsored by Mr. Ariail and his staff,
and the William E. Dittard Am extent ?
Legion Post No. 104. This team
has been most successful in putting
over the county's previous bond quo^ ?
tas. Mr. John Corbin is commander
of the American Legion Post and
takes an active interest in the work
oi\the Legion.
The Bond Rally parade began
promptly at 4 o'clock at the west end
of Main street, moved up Main and
around the depot to the Community
House. Taking part in the parade
were: Members of the American Le
gion, Moore General Hospital mihta
r j band, County War Bond Commit
tee chairman and staff, Fire trucks,
and boy scouts and girl scouts.
On arrival at the Community
House the band assembled in front
ard below the speaker's stand and
opened the program with playing the
National Anthem. Seated on the
speaker's stand were officers and en
lifted men from Moore General Hos
P'tal, Mr. Ariail, Mrs. Dan K. Moore,
chairman of the Woman's Division of
the county committee, Hugh Mon
tcith, co-chairman, and members and
officers of the Legion post.'
Mr. Monteith introduced Mr. Ariail
who told the large crowd the purpose
of the rally and that Jackson county's
5th War Bond quota was $204,000.00
in sctual cash, not the face value of
the bonds at maturity. "Our Jackson
county boys are fighting today on alt
the battle fronts of the world; they
are depending on us at home to sup.
j. iy them with the necessary supplies
rnd equipment which they must hav ?
tr win the victory.. These men face
death or injury every hour; they aro
doing this willingly for the sake o!
a free America. You are asked to bu ?
' ?r Bonds and more War Bonds. This
as little as you can do for them. So,
U e purpose of this rally today is to
stimulate sales of War Bonds in
Jackson county.
Mr. Ariail then introduced Lt. Mar
vin L. Golden of West Virginia, who
presided during the remainder of the
program. Lt. Golden introduced the
next speaker, Lt. Ralph Nedlick, of
Eellville, Kansas, a veteran of 14
months overseas, with combat ser
vice in North Africa, Tunisia and Sic
ily. Lt. Nedlick urged his hearers to
BUY WAR BONDS, STAY ON TH?
JOB in war production plants. He re
lated the experience of several sol
diers in the earlier days of the fight
(Continued to page 7)
Frank Coggins, 88, Of
Cullowhee, Dies At
Home Of Daughter
Cullowhee. ? Frank Coggins, 88,
died at the home of his daughter, Mrs,
J R. Stephens, at Cullowhee, Jun<!
R7 following an illness of several
weeks.
Funeral services were held Friday
morning, June 16, at 11 o'clock at the
Speedwell Baptist Church. The Rev.
S. S. Fox of Speedwell and Rev Da
vid Wilson of Salem, S. C., officiating.
Burial was in the Speedwell cemetery.
He was a member of the Baptist
church.
He is survived bj eight children;
N. F. Coggins of Cunpning, Ga.; P. L,
Coggins of Cullowhee; T. M. Coggini
of Tuckaseigee; David Coggins of
Speedwell; Mrs. Claud Wilkes of Wil?
lets; Mrs. Frank Bry Epnof Salem, 3,
and two sisters, Mrs* Mary Wilke*
and Mrs. Eliyr.ia Gabe.
UNITED DAUGHTERS
The B. H. Cathey Chapter, United
Daughters of the Confederacy will
meet Thursday evening at 8 o'clock
with Mrs. Felix Picktarizner at he?
home.