AMERICA
- The Sylva, Herald
AND RURALITE ? CONSOLIDATED JULY, 1943
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VOL. XIX NO. 30 SYLVA, N. C., Wednesday, Dec. < 19?4
$1.50 A Year In Jackson And Swain Counties ? 5c Copy
Jackson County Short $93,000 In Bond Drive
Pvt. John R. Jones Killed
In Germany Nov. 23rd
According to word received Sun
day, Pvt. John R. Jones, husband of
Mrs. Reva DeBord Jones and son of
Mrs. J. R. Jones, was killed in action
in Germany on Nov. 23.
He entered service in May, 1944,
and received infantry training at
Camp Croft, S. C. In October he
opent a furlough with his family be
fore going to Fort Meade, Md., and
Ifrien overseas. Pvt. Jones was a grad
uate of Mars Hill College and N. C.
State College. Before entering ser
vice he was employed by the Ecusta
Paper Company in Brevard.
Surviving besides his wife and
mother are two daughters, Linda and
Martha; two sisters, Mrs. R. E. Tur
pin of Sylva, and Mrs. G. F. Fitzger
ald, Ashbovo, and one brother, Pvt.
Edward C. Jones, now serviing in
ttie Pacific area.
TWO BROTHERS MEET
IN THE PACIFIC
Two brothers, sons of Mrs. W. H.
Hooper, accidentally met somewhere
in the Pacific about the middle of
November. Larry (Dock) Hooper,
?Cox of the Seabees recognized the
ahip on which his brother, Harold
Hooper, C 3-c, was serving and asked
to go aboard. He was given permis
sion and the two brothers met for the
fust time in more than three years.
Larry entered service in Dec., 1942,
ar.d his brother went in a month
earlier, Nov., 1942.
SPEEDWELL COMMUNITY
PRODUCE FOR VICTORY
The farmers of the Speedwell sec
tion are ready to get wood and build
Ores now. Crops have been reason
ably good and have been harvested.
Most every family had from one to
two large hogs to kill and the canning
is over. We are hoping to get to
feed the men in service part of what
we have stored away. Let's all buy
bonds if we possibly can and let our
boys feel like we are willing to help
win the war.
GRADE MOTHERS FOR
SYLVA HIGH SCHOOL
The following have been elected as
grade mother of the Sylva high
school:
8th Grade Girls ? Mrs. Leon Sut
ton, Mrs. Dennis Fishe*?^^
8th Grade Girls ? Mrs. Adam
Moses, Mrs. E: P. Stillwell.
8th Grade Boys ? Mrs. Frank Hall,
? Mrs. Walter Ashe. .
9th Grade Girls ? Mrs. Dan Allison,
Mrs. W. O. Soderquist.
9th Grade Boys ? Mrs. Glenn Gold
man, Mrs. Walter Jones.
10th Grade Girls ? Mrs. G. C. Bess,
Mrs. Fred Henry.
10tn Grade Boys? Mrs. Dillard,.
Mrs. John Wilson.
12th Grade Girls ? Mrs. Roscoe Po
test, Mrs. Laurence Monteith.
12th Grade Boys ? Mrs. Herbert
Gibson, Mrs. J. R. Bumgarrfer.
Mrs. W. O. Soderquist is chairman
of this group.
Funeral Services Held
For Mrs. Caroline Cagle
Mrs. Caroline Cagle, of Sylva, Rt. 1,
Sunday afternoon at the home
of her son, Houston Cagle, following
a short illness.
The funeral was held at Hemphill
Baptist Church in Haywood County,
Monday afternoon, at 3 o'clock with
the Rev. Dave Dean officiating.
Mrs. Cagle was the widow of the
late William Cagle of Haywood coun
? She rame to ? Jackson gc^nty
about fifteen years ago and has made
her home in the Willets section since.
Surviving are three sons, Houston
and Ashley, of Sylva, route 1, and
Frank, of Maggie, N. C., and one
daughter, Mrs. Jim Fisher of Olive
Hill, Ky.
PVT. WILLIAM E, COPE
IS SLIGHTLY WOUNDED
Mrs. Ollie Cope of Dilisboro has^
HEAVY SNOWFALL
BLANKETS AREA
Jackson county, like the rest of
this mountain area, is covered with
its first snowfall of any consequence.
Snow began falling early Monday
morning, but melted almost as fast
as it fell until around noon when the
temperature began to drop. Light
snow fell throughout the afternoon
and night with from two to two and
one-half inches on the level recorded
Tuesday morning.
' Streets and highways are covered
with a glassy coat of ice and snow
which makes travel of any kind dan
gerous. The snow was one of the
wet, sticky kind which clung to every
limb, twig, phone and power lines,
making a very pretty to look at but
dangerous to lines and poles.
Asheville reported a fall o?f 5
inches and rangers on Mt. Mitchell
say that 13 inches had fallen on that
peak before 2:30 Monday afternoon.
Bus travel across the Smoky Moun
tains highway to Knoxville stopped
Monday afternoon. As soon as the
highway is cleared the buses will be
gin operating again. Schools closed
Monday afternoon until the roads
clear up. .
FOURTH SERVICE AREA COMMANDER URGES
FULL PRODUCTION DUR ING XMAS HOLIDAYS
Major General Frederick E. Uhl,
Commanding General, the Fourth
Spcvice Cooirmtndr^oday appealed to
all war production plants to main
tain full schedules through the Christ
mas season.
Christmas Day only should be ob
served as a holiday, and only in plants
where continuous operations will not
be interrupted. General Uhl called
attention to the need for continued
Dperations of ^t*eh facilities as blast
furnaces and/ open hearth furnaces
producing carbon steel on Christmas
Day. /
New Year's Day should be another
day of production ? a good start to
ward victory in 1945.
Paul Cagle Promoted To Rank
Of Petty Officer Second Class
Paul Cagle, of the United States
Navy, has recently been promoted to
the rank of Petty Officer Second
Class.
He enterec^^the navy in February
of this year, and upon .completion of
his ? boot training at Bainbridge,
Maryland, he received the rate of
Petty Officer Third Class. From j
Bainbridge he was sent to the
Amphibious Training Base at Little
Creek Virginia, for advanced train
ing; from there to Houston, Texas,
and is now serving on an amphibious
ship somewhere in the Pacific.
? ? lUfnra ontpring th? gPrvireT S. C
2-c Cagle was owner and manager of
Cagle's Cafe in Franklin.
received a telegram from the war
department stating that her husband,
Pvt. William E. Cope, who is serving
with the Army somewhere in Ger
many, has been slightly wounded.
Pvt. Cope has been in service -almost
a year. He took his training in Fort
Benning, Ga., and Fort Jackson, S. C.,
then in Camp Blanding, Fla. He was
just recently sent overseas to France
and to Germany.
A GERMAN PRISONER
Mr. and Mrs. Berry - Ensley have
just heard from their son, Sgt. Julius
A. Ensley who has been a prisoner of
the Germans for the past six months.
He writes that he is in a nice prison
camp and getting along fine. They
enjoy many sports. This is the first
time they have heasd from him since
July > 1st. Sgt. Ensley has been in
service for more than three years, but
had been overseas only two months
when he was captured. His parents
have been informed that they can send
him a package weighing 11 pounds
once each sfxty days.
A recent survey shows that 18 Vi
million Victory Gardens were grown
this year, materially increasing food
General Uhl called attention to a
statement by Lieutenant General
Biehon Somervell, Commanding Gen
eral, the Arfny Service Forces, that
"unless manpower is found to meet
deficiencies in critical items like tires,
ammunition, heavy artillery, radar,
batteries and bombs, textiles and as
sault wire, we have"e^ery reason to
expect a shortage at the front."
General Uhl added: "A drop in
production would indeed be a sorry
Christmas present from the American
people to their soldiers at the front.
"I feel sure that our workers will
respond to our appeals to maintain
production schedules and to return
to war work from peacetime jobs."
7TH TANKMEN CLAIM
FASTEST SWEEP OF WAR
By MARSHALL MORGAN
Stars And Stripes Special Writer
WITH THE SEVENTH ARMORED
DIVISION ? If it wasn't the fastest
military sweep on record, the "Lucky
Seventh" Armored Division invites
unofficial correspondence to the con
trary.
Six hundred miles in 31 days ? that's
the fighting mileage clicked off by
cyclometers of Maj. Gen. Lindsay
McDonald Silvester's fighting armor
::3 it spearheaded the Allied drive to
the German border. The record ad
vance i or any one day was 65 miles.
Ir: addition, from Aug. 10 when the'
division's first tanks rolled ashore in
Fiance, through Aug. 31, end of the
21 -day period, the Seventh Armored
!'? berated approximately 150 towns
vV.th an aggregate population of 350,
000.
Brightest feathers in the Seventh's
cap are the historic cities of Chartres,
Chateau-Thierry, Rheims- ' and Ver
dun. Major battles were fought at
Chartres and ^ Cateau -Thierry. At
Melun, on the Seine, the Seventh en
countered and overcame that buga
boo of all tactical problems a river
crossing under fire.
More than 5,900 prisoners were
scooped up during the drive, and an
unestimated number of Nazi dead
marked its path.
Victory gardens in 1945 will help
assure adequate supplies 01 rruit ana
vegetables needed to maintain civi
lian nealth, efficiency, and morale.
The figures show that more than
half of the U. S. farm people live in
Lhe 13 Southern States; cultivate less
than one-third of the nation's crop
land; and receive one-fourth of the
nation's farm income.
A new chemical with a jaw-split
ting name shows possibilities as a
killer of turf weeds, say Government
research workers.
GPL. HARRY KIRSCH
KILLD IN ACTION
Mrs. Hazel Allison Kirsch received
a message Sunday from the War Dept.
informing her that her husband, Cpl.
Harry Kirsch, had died in Germany
cn Nov. 15. A week earlier she had
received word that he was reported
missing. He was a "member of the
10th 9 Armored Division, a part of
General Patton's army and was ser
ving at the front as the driver of a
heavy tank.
He is the son of Mrs. Rosa Kirsch
of Asheville and E. H. Kirsch of Holly
Hill, Fla. Others surviving are two
sisters. Mrs. Jack Purcifall of Ashe
ville, and Mrs. Lynn Myers, of Harris
burg. Pa., and two brothers, Norman
Kirsch, of the Merchant Marines,
stationed at Tampa, Fla. H and Lester
Kirsch. < *
Before entering service Cpl. Kirsch
was employed by the Southern Oil
Stores in Asheville. ^Irs. Kirsch has
been residing in Sylva where she is
employed by the Tuckaseigee Beauty
Shop.
PROMINENT SYLVA
PHYSICIAN DIES
TUESDAY MORNING
Dr. Charles Z. Candler died at his
home here Tuesday morning as a re
sult of a heart attack.
A native of Jackson county, he was
the son of the late Dr. J. W. Candler
and Mrs. Mary Mahoney Candler. He
was born April 7, 1877.
Dr. Candler has been a prominent
physician and surgeon, practicing
in Jackson county most of his life.
He served in the army in the World
War I. He was" one of the funders
of the C. J. Harris Community Hos
pital and largely responsible for its
success during the years. He was a
member of the Methodist Church, of
the Sylva Rotary Club and was prom
inently connected in the Masonic cir
cles. *
Surviving are his widow, Annie
Thomas Candler, one son, Dr. Charles
Z. Candler, Jr., three daughters, Mt\s.
J. R. Ryan, Mrs. John W. Smith, and
Miss Margaret Candler, all of Sylva,
and six grandchildren.
PFC. C06GINS KILLED
IN GERMANY NOV. 6
Another name has been added to
Jackson Co.'s casualty list. Pfc. Wood
row Coggins, 19, son of Mrs. Ethel
Coggins, of Erastus has been report
ed killed in action in Germany on
Nov. 6.
Pfc. Coggins entered service in
Dec., 1943, and received training at
Camp Blanding, Fla., Camp Rucker,
Ala., and Fort Meade, Md. He was
sent overseas in August. Surviving
are his mother, three brothers and
five sisters.
Laying houses should have one nest
for each five layers. Lack of a suit
able number of nests may lead to
c?g-eating by the birds.
County Exceeds War
Relief Fund Quota
Quota -
Sylva $2,631.00
Cullowhee 633.00
8ylva * (col ) 200.00
Addle 109.00
Cashiers 145.00
The following is a final and com
pete reports of Funds received in
Jackson's United War Fund drive
vhich began in Ooctober:
I ncluding
^ Fontana
Allocation
$4,134.66
782.79
46.08
95.84
194.93
_M&34_
Willets 145.00 200.04
Barkers Ck 122.00 156.53
E. La Porte 380 00 227.00
Mountain 109.00 21.70
Hamburg 313.00 291.76
Greens Creek 109.00 83.19
Qualla 376.00 210.21
Savannah 290.00 349.00
Dillsboro 363.00 387.68
Canada 145.00 None
Balsam 109.00 None
Caney Fork .... 181.00 None
$6f650 $7,530.75
BOND SALES LAGGING IN THE FOURTH AND
FINAL WEEK OF THE 6TH WAR LOAN DRIVE
WOUNDED IN ACTION
Mrs. Jaunita Moody Young of
Sylva has just received a message
that her husband, Pfc. Theodore R.
Young, was wounded in action Nov.
18 in Germany.
Pfc. Young is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Will Young of Glenville. He
entered service in October, 1943. He
received training at Camp Wheeler,
Ga., and Fort Meade, Md. Pfc. Young
has been overseas since March 6,
1944, and was in the Invasion of
France.
NEW OFFICERS
AT CHEROKEE
The newly elected officers of the
Federal Employees Union at Chero
kee are: Gertrude Flanagan, presi
dent; Homer Gilliland, vice-president;
Jennie Daniel, treasurer; Irma Mit
tleberg, corresponding secretary; and
John H. 1?. recording secretary.
Led Tokyo Raiders
LEADER OF the force of B-29 Super
forts that bombed Tokyo was Brig.
Gen. Emm&tt (Rosie) Q'Donnel, 38,
of Jamaica, New York. The attack
was made by the new 21st Bomber
Command of the 30th Air Force
from Saipnn, in the Marianas Is
lands, approximately 1,500 miles
southeast of Tokyo. ( Intcrnati/mal )
Our county received $1,272.32 from
Fontana Dam. Same was mailed di
rect to State Headquarters in Win
ston-Salem, N. C. The amount ac
tually raised in our County during
the drive was $6,255.43. Of that
amount $5.00 was forwarded direct
to New York City for China Relief.
Your county chairman wishes to
thank each and everyone for the
magnificant manner in which our cit
izens responded to this most worthy
cause.
Our state quota was $4,900.00. Due
to our exceeding our quota we have I
been awarded a beautiful flag in ap
preciation of the splendid work. It
is most gratifying the manner in
which the respective township .chair
men conducted their campaign, and
your chairman is truly grateful for
your contribution, and regret tfcat all
townships did not have a part in
achieving our goal.
R. U. SUTTON, Chairman
United War Fund for Jackson County
Township Leaders Are >
Urged To Push Drive
With Greater Effort
Ty R. L. ARIAIL, Chmn. of the Drive
Jackson County with a quota of
$1:16,000 had not sold but $123,000 up
t3 Saturday night. Dec. 9th, leaving
a balance to be sold during the fourth
?'I'd final week of the drive of $93,000.
Although the hardest and worst
part of the war is just beginning, the
people of Jackson County are not
buying bonds as usual. Jackson
County has never failed to make its
quota and go over in any of the form
er five war loan drives, but unless a
great surge of buying takes place
during this, the last week of the six
war loan drive, Jackson County will
next make its quota' this time.
Cashiers township is the only town
noout the county failing to make its
quota. I am not so much concerned
r.bout county failing to make its
quota as I am about the apparent at
titude of our people during the ter
rible war we are now engaged in. If
every person who has any income or
available money would come forward
and buy a bond of some denomina
tion we would not experience any
trouble in making our quota.
There is nothing I can say t^ urge
our people to buy bonds better than
to quote a message that has been re
layed to me from Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower, which reads as follows:
"Your assistance is needed and the
most important job now for the peo
ple at home is to make the sixth War
Loan drive a success. To make sure
of final victory we must redouble and
sustain our efforts, both here and
everywhere. The fighting man still
faces a grim task and he still urgently
needs much food, clothing and battle
equipment that must be bought. The
money must be :d..our men
on all fronts depend on you. Ort
half of your sons, brothers, husbands
and friends in this great war theatre
I request that you do your part to
?ee that the Sixth War Loan is vastly
oversubscribed."
A full report of bonds sold in Jack
sen County by townships will be
made next week.
CENSUS INFORMATION
TO BE WIDELY USED
The information on crops and live
>tock to be gathered by the 1945
Agricultural Census in January will
ne used in many ways by farmers and
by varied groups from Federal agen
cies to manufacturers and advertis
ing organizations.
Dean I. O. Schaub of State College,
who heads an advisory council of all
agricultural agencies cooperating with
the Census Bureau, urges that farm- ?
en. give just as complete information
as possible. He points out that the
information collected from growers
is strictly confidential and will not
be used for taxation or regulation.
When all of the information is
classified and published, it will pre
sent an invaluable digest of agricul
tural tacts. Cooperative farm as>o
c vitions can use it as a guide to m
U ,l:gent credit and as a basis i'or
marketing plans. Individual farmers;
will know better how to make acre
age changes in crops and regulate me
number of their livestock.
The agricultural census will pro
vide basic information for dealers in
agricultural products, railroads, in
surance companies, manufacturers,
advertising agencies, marketing or
ganizations, experiment station and
extension workers, and such agencies
as the Farm Credit Administration
and Soil Conservation.
In times of disaster, the agricul
tural census will provide much of the
information needed for drought re
lief, seed loans, and other rural re
l?ef agencies.
"Agriculture will be able to make
much greater progress in the future,
i r we have full information at hand
on which to make our plans," Dean
' - ?
Schaub said. "We especialy need
ail the facts in the case as we face*
changing conditions aft^: the war."
With more and more mechanical
equipment going to farms for the cul
tivation of extra acres and for lower- -
ing costs of production per unit, it's
time for the owner of the family
sized farm to think seriously of the
future. ^ ih'i