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AND RURALITE ? CONSOLIDATED JULY, 1943
Association 1943 Genera)
ecllence Award*
VOL. XIX NO. 9
SYLVA, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1944
$1.50 A Year In Jackson And Swain Counties ? 5c Copy
No Infantile Paralysis Cases In Jackson
County
THOSE ELIGIBLE FOR OLD-AGE AND SURVIVORS
BENEFITS ARE URGED TO FILE CLAIM FOR PAYM'T
I
D. W. Lambers, manager of the
Asheville office of the Social Security
Board today called attention to the
fact that there may be people in this
section who- are -losing -payments? of -
Old-age and Survivors Insurant be
cause they have not filed claims for
benefits. Some of them are young
widows of insured workers; some are
the children of deceased workers and
some are aged men and women. The
Social Security Act requires that a
* claim must be filed before benefits
are paid.
Mr. Lambers explained that in ad
dition to the monthly benefits, paya
ble to the insured worker who retires
at age 65/ or after, the Old- Age and
Survivors Insurance system provides
monthly benefits for his wife, if she
is 65 years or over and to his children
under age 16 (18 if in school and un
married). Monthly benefits are pay
able to the widow of an insured
worker who dies, regardless of age,
provided she has in her care, his chil
dren under 16 (18 if in school and
unmarried). Old- Age and Survivors
Insurance may be paid to an insured
worker's widow, if she is 65 or more,
or when she reaches age 65, (if she
does not remarry). The field manager
said that he sometimes finds a case
where a widow received a lump-sum
payment following the death of her
husband three or four years ago, and
although she has since a v*
65 she has not apphed ior tne month
ly benefits for which she is eligible.
More than $16,000,000 a month in
Old-Age and Survivors benefits were
pai<l out during the year 1943, with
900,000 persons receiving benefits. An
increase of 62 per cent over the previ
ous yfear is shown in the number of
widows' benefits paid in 1943.
Mr. Lambers stated that the Social
^Security BoarCr stands ready to pay'
benefits to all those who qualify for
payment, and anyone who has reason
to believe that he or she is eligible
for benefits should visit the nearest
office of the Social Security Board.
"No matter where you work or live,
you're not very far from a Social Se
curity Board field office or one of its
pcirt-time service points," he said.
lastrItes FOR J. 0.
FISHER HELD AT
SGOTTS CREEK
Funeral services for Mrs. J. O.
Fisher of Whittier were held Wed
nesday morning at 11 o'clock on June
12, at the Scotts Creek Baptist church.
Rev. B.S. Hensley, pastor of Scotts
Creek church, Rev. T. F. Dietz and
Rev. C. C. Washam, of Andrews, con
ducted the service.
Pallbearers were Charlie Fisher,
Frank Hall, Ed Fisher, W. J. Fisher,
and Mr. Phillips, of Andrews.
Mrs. Fisher was the widow of the
late Oscar Fisher, native of the Scotts
Creek community of Jackson county.
She is survived by two sons, Pfc.
James O. Fisher, and Capt. Carl Byrd,
now stationed somewhere in England,
and two sisters, Mrs. Delia Love
Phillips, of Andrews, and Mrs. Lexie
Love Palmer, of Franklin. *
MORE SWEET POTATOES
THAN IRISH IN 1944
RALEIGH, July 17.? The Crop Re
porting Service of the State Depart
ment of Agriculture estimates that
the sweet potato yield in North Caro
lina this year will be larger than the
commercial Irish potato crop. The
forecast for sweet potatoes was set at
6,800,000 bushels as against 6,177,000
for Irish potatoes.
If prospects hold, North Carolina
will rank second in 1944 in the pro
duction Of sweet potatoes:. Georgia -is
? put-ln-flrst Place with 7.540.0<W) hush,
els.
? The yield of sweets for the nation
was placed at 66,393,000 bushels.
Mrs. Minsch Visits Jackson
After 25 Years Absence
Mrs. Ethel Minsch of Phoenix, Ari
zona, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Cor
delia Raines. This is Mrs. Minsch's
first visit to Jackson county in twen
ty-five years. Mrs. Minsch is a native
of this county.
Jap Prisoner From
Jackson Writes Parents
EASTHLA PORTE ? Mr and Mrs.
T. F. Middleton of Tuckaseigee re
ceived a message July 10 from their
son, Pvt. Talmage W. Middleton, 25,
who has been held prisoner of war by
the Japanese government since the
fall of Bataan in May, 1942.
The message is on a postal card
bearing no postmark or date, written
from the Hoten Prisoner's of war
camp, Hoten, Manchuokuo. It is type
written and bears the signature of
Fvt. Middleton which the parents
recognize as that of their son.
This is the first message from Pvt.
Middleton since September, 1943. It
reads in part: "Dear Dad and Mother
have received mail from home. Was
very happy to hear. Would like to be
back and take up where I left off.
Tell Beckie I still remember. I'll be
seeing you. Love." He also mentions
an uncle and "other relatives.
Pvt. Middleton entered the army
May 28, 1941, and was attached to an
engineer's outfit which was sent to
the Philippine Islands.
WHEAT CROP TOTALS
g asR nnn bushels
. 1 . statis
tician with the State Department of
Agriculture, reported that North Car
olina's wheat production this year is
9,486,000 bushels, the largest wheat
crop on record.
Parker attributed the record-break
ing quantity of wheat to the unus
ually large acreage and the big yield
per acre.
The acreage this season was 558,000
acres, the* lafg&t \stn ce 1919* whferi
621,000 acres were devoted to wheat
The yield per acre this year was 17
bushels compared with 12.5 bushels
in 1943.
Iredell county led in ~ production
with approximately 450,000 bushels.
Clayton Returns
To Duty
John H. Clayton, Painter 2-c, who
has spent 18 months in the Caribbean
area, recently had a thirty day leave,
most of which he spent in Cullowhee
with his mother, Mrs. John H. Clay
ton. He has now gone back to New
York City for reassignment. Mr.
Clayton, or Johnny as he is affection
ately known to his friends, graduated
from Cullowhee High School, with the
class of J935, and until going into ser
vice two years ago he was a local
painter.
When he was stationed at Trinidad
Mrs. Roosevelt visited his station.
Seeing him painting a ship, Mrs.
Roosevelt complimented his work
and asked him how he liked the
Navy. He answered her in his good
natured, witty way, "Well, to tell
you the truth. I'm a civilian at heart."
The First Lady replied, "Yes, L sus
pect a number of us sue.
Seaman Joe Green Is
Visiting Parents
Joe O. Green, H. A. 2-c of the US
Navy is spending a ten day leave
with his parents, Mr and Mrs. F. E.
Green of Green's Creek. He is a grad
uate of the Webster High School. He
volunteered for service May 2, 1944,
end took his training at Camp Peary,
Va., where he will return for further
orders.
Fate Wall Wounded In
Invasion Of France
Mrs. Fate Wall of 'Speedwell, who
has two sons in the U. S. army, re
ceived word a few days ago that one
son, Pvt. Fate Wall had been slightly
wounded in action in France. Pvt.
Wall was inducted into the army in
March, 1942, at Fort Bragg, N. C. He
'also trained at Camp Claiborne, La.
He landed in England in September,
1943 and went into France with the
Kenneth Wall In New
Guinea Since June
invading forces.
Pvt. Kenneth Wall volunteered in
July, 1941 and was inducted at Fort
FcPherson Ga. He was stationed at
Barksdale Field, La., Kirkland Field,
N. M., Seymour Johnson Field, N. C.
and San Francisco, Calif., before go
ing overseas. He landed in New Gui
nea in June 1944. He is with the Army
Air Force.
Phillips Serving With
Air Force In England
Sgt. Clark J. Phillips, son of Mr.
and Mrs. T. Luther Phillips of Cow
arts, Jackson county, is now in Eng
land, where he is serving with the
army air forces.
Sergeant Phillips entered service i
in November, 1942, and receieved
training in Fresno, Calif. He later
entered the army air forces' technical
training school of aircraft instruments
at Glendale, Calif, where he graduat
ed. A graduate of Cullowhee high
school, he was employed by the Na
tional Cash Register company, Ashe
ville, before going into service.
Tuckaseigee Baptist
To Hold Union Meeting
The Union meeting of the Tucka
seigee Baptist Association will con
vene with Glenville Baptist church
Friday and Saturday, July 28 and 29.
Edgar Bishop is moderator. It is
urged that representatives from all
churches be present as this is the time
for election of officers for the ensuing
year.
STATE MUSEUM GETS
TWO EGGS IN ONE
RALEIGH, July 17.? An egg
measuring eight inches in cir
r nee was given the State
Raleigh, Harry Davis, Museum
director reported. Davis said the
large egg contained a yolk and
another egg of Normal size. The
hen which laid the egg weighed
five pounds, according to Davis
by Jack Lemmel, of
STIMSON INSPECTS
NORMANDY FRONT
United States Secretary of War
Henry Stimson has visited the battle
zone in Normandy and accompanied
by Lt. General Omar N. Bradley, in
spected the entire area under con
trol of U. S. troops, it has been an
nounced.
He visited organizations and evac
uation hospitals and made a tour of
the beachheads. At Cherbourg Mr.
Silmson thoroughly 'inspected the port
and details of the rehabilitation of its
facilities, now in full swing.
L. P. Jackson Is Assistant
Pastor At Methodist
Church During Summer
L. P. Jackson of El Paso, Texas,
who is in his second year at Divinity
School at Duke is here directing
Eible School and Youth Activities in
the Sylva Methodist Church.
He is acting as assistant minister
for five weeks and did preach at the
eleven o'clock service last Sunday.
He will take his own church year af
ter next.
ily and Mrs. Dan E. Bishop left on
Allman And Clayton
Meet In England
In a letter to his sister, Mrs. Min
nie Green of Sylva, Pfc. Joe Allman
stated that he had arrived safely in
England. Just arter arriving he met
ar. old friend and school mate, June
Clayton, also of Sylva, who had ar
rived about the same time.
Five Point Program For Far East
Born and reared in China, and
for twenty-one years a mission
ary of the Presbyterian Church
in that country, Rev. George A.
Hudson, author of this article
speaks with authority about Chi*
na and the Far East.
Prior to Pearl Harbor, Mr.
Hudson was stationed at Kashing
where, for one full year, he was
the only American resident and
the only Protestant missionary in
the city. He was taken into custo
dy by the Japanese military and
was interned for seven months In
a concentration camp serosa the
river from 8hankhal. On Decem
ber 2, 1943, he arrived In the
United 8tstss aboard the repstri
? at ton aMpr Oripehelm, ?
Audiences throughout the coun
try have been stirned by" the grip
ping story of Mr. Hudson's expe
riences. With his keen knowledge
of the Fsr Esstern situation, he
outlines In this srtlele the bssis
of a psrmsnent pesoe in the Ori
ent. ? C. Dsrby Fulton.
On my return to the United States
upon the repatriation vessei "Grips
holm" last December I was asked by
American Government officials,
"What do you consider to be the
basis of a permanent peace in the
Far East?" I replied with a Five Point
Program as follows:
I. THE UTTER DESTRUCTION
OF JAPANESE MILITARISM
The destruction of Japanese mili
tarism is the first step. I mean by that
statement the putting down, and if
necessary, - the extermination of the
Japanese military machine, the mili
tary government and the military
caste of Japan, with safeguards that
Japanese militarism shall not rise
again. Such action is essential if
there is to be any freedom or any
decency of living in the Far East
Such action is necessary for our own
security as well ? "Pearl Harbor" is
not forgotten.
panese Occupied Territory of China,
an d~ aTte r fravtrrgr ^witnessed? the-ruttw
lessness and brutality of Japanese
conquest and rule, I am constrained to
say without passion, but with entire
conviction, that the Japanese military
and the military government of Japan
are not fit to rule. They are not At to
rule any people,, not even their own
people. They are BIGOTED, puffed
up with pride, intoxicated with their
possession of power. They are
CRUEL as evidenced by their ruth
( Continued to last page)
J. W. RHINEHART
DIES AT WEBSTER
Funeral Services Were
Conducted Wednesday
At 2:30 O'Clock
WEBSTER ? T. W. Rhinehrrt, 62.
vell-knjv/n Webster merchant, died
i.t his home Tuesday morning fol
lowing a brief illness. He had been
in ill health for about two weeks, but
his condition became suddenly critical
shortly before his death Tuesday.
He had been in the mercantile
business in Webster a number of
years and was a member of the board
of stewards of the Webster Method
ist church.
Funeral services were held at the
Webster Methodist church Wednes
day afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, the
Rev. Ernest Fitzgerald and the Rev.
W N. Cook officiating. The body
was taken to the church at 2 o'clock
and remained there until the hour
cf the service.
Active pallbearers were Herbert
Fotts, David Cagle Earl Cagle, Gen
eral Sutton, James Mason and O. V.
Cagle.
FJower girls were Rosella Monteith,
Mildred Cagle, Mildred Potts, Fran
ces Potts, Mrs. Bonnie Cagle, Dorothy
Cagle, Hannah Cowan, Ida Ann
Rhinehart and Myrtle Davis.
FINAL RITES FOR WILL
HI6D0N HELD TUESDAY
AT ZION HILL CHURCH
Funeral rites for Will Higdon, 91,
who died Monday, July 9, after a
short illness, were held Thursday
morning at ten o'clock, with the Rev.
Ernest Jamison officiating. Inter
ment was in Zion Hill Baptist Church
cemetery.
Mr. Higdon is survived by six chil
dren, Anner Green, Ida McMahan
and Fred Higdon of Gay, R. L. Hig- |
don of Sylva, Etta Cope of Flats, N.C. I
and Jennie Cope of Hamilton, Wash.,
40 grandchildren, 60 great garndchil
dren and 5 great grandchildren.
Mr. Higdon was a temperate, hon
est and upright man, lived a clean
life and had a host of friends who
honored him.
BROUGHTON SAYS HE'S
JUST RUNNING FOR FUN
North Carolina's Governor J. M.
Broughton, stated in Chicago yester
day that he isn't running against
anyone for the office of vice-presi
dent, "just running," he claims, "for
the fun of it."
His name, however, will be placed
in nomination by former Governor
Clyde R. Hoey, and his floor manager
is another former governor, O. Max
Gardner.
In a two hour stop over in Washing
ton Broughton told reporters that the
"Deep South" would support Roose
velt for a fourth term no matter who
^waa his- running male. He said that he
feared, however, an unpopular vice
presidential candidate might hurt the
Democratic Uelfct" Imsuch ? border
states as Oklahoma, Kentucky, West
Virginia and Maryland, where he said
a few . thousand votes might swing the
state.
REVIVAL SERVICES TO
BE HELD AT WEBSTER
Revival services will begin at the
Webster Baptist church Sunday, July
2?. The pastor, Rev. Forest Blank
enship, will be assisted by Rev. John
Freeman, of Almond.
BOARD OF HEALTH
ADOPTS MEASURES
TO COMBAT SPREAD
Children Under 16 Required
To Remain At Home, Not Tu
Attend Public Gatherings
At a recent meeting of the Jackson
County Board ol Health, being awaie
that there are no cases of infantilis
paralysis and hoping by these mea.w
ures to prevent any cases, the follow*
intf regulations were adopted: that
all children under sixteen years at
age be confined to their own premises
until further notified, and that same
be debarred from all public gather
ings, as well as public streets, in*
eluding theaters, churches, Sunday
srhools, recreational parks and aU
public assemblies. Further, that aU
persons knowing of children coming
from infected counties be asked to
leport same to the County Health Of*
fice, so that quarantine can be pufc
into effect immediately.
It was felt that the above regula*
tions were necessary due to a wide
spread epidemic of infantile paralysis
throughout the State. All parents are
asked to cooperate to the fullest with
the Health Officers in preventing tin
epidemic in this county.
T. W. ASHE, Chairman
Jackson County Board ot Health*
W. 0. MONTEITH
OF JACKSON IS
TAKEN BY DEATH
Funeral services for Wilbur Oscar
Monteith, 57, retired carpenter of the
Cashiers Valley section of Jackson
.ccmoty, who Uhy*?xiay wMle
v. siting relatives in Greenville, S. C,,
were held Saturday at the Glenville
Baptist church. Burial was in the
church cemetery.
Active pallbearers were "Lawrerrc^
Louis, Thomas and Laughton Mon
teith, Jeff Russell and Lyman Stuart.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Sarah
V'ilson Monteith, one son, Harold, in
the navy in the Pacific theater; a
daughter, Elise, of Cashiers; three1
brothers, Juney of Bowling Green,
Fla., and Charles and Thomas of;
Glenville; and his mother, Mrs. Sarah
Jumerson Monteith.
Garrett funeral home of Waynes
ville was in charge of arrangements,
JACKSON MEN TAKE
PRE-INDUCTION
PHYSICAL IN JULY
Jackson County Selective Service
Board sent the following list of men
to Camp Croft during this month for
their pre-induction physical examina
tion:
Nathan Carl Norris, Don Fisher,
Jeff Davis Laws, Philip Kalonuhes
kie, Lee Albert Fox, Wilfred Pless
Tucker, William Donald Bradley,
J; mes Carl Seago, Eldon Bartley
A?he, Lyle Galloway (V), Calvin
Cucumer, Warren Columbus Evitt,
Melvin Melton, Charlie Nicholson
Morgan, Jr., Hayes John Harrison
Settlemyre, Roy Glenn Buchanan, Jr.,
Talmadge Richard Bryson, Dillard
Cleveland Mathis, Louis Allen Wood
ard, S. T. Gentry, L. B. Ensley, Wil
liam Alvin Morgan, Uyless Robert
N athis, Frank Howard DeBusk, Ray
mond Earl Lusk, Scroop Coleman A1-.
l.son, Harold Lloyd Wiseman, Har
old Milton Keever (V).
Jefferson Standard
Shows Gain First
Half <)f-nife-3Pear ?
Mrs. John R. Jones, local represent**
t'.ve for the Jeffersun Standard Clfe
Insurance Company, Greensboro, has
received notice from her home office
announcing a net gain of $19,250,000
I In life insurance in force during the
first six months of the year to bring
I the company's total insurance in force
to $522,000,000.
New business paid for amounted t&
$29,100,000 which wa a an increase of
14 per cent over the same period Uft
year. The company's goal for 1944 It
a net gain of $33,000,000.