VOL. XIX NO. 32
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AND RURALITE ? CONSOLIDATED JULY, 1943
SYLVA, N. C., Wednesday, Dec. 27, 1944 $1.50 A Year In Jackson And Swain Counties ? 5c Copy
Scouts, Lions
T o Collect Scrap Paper
On Friday
SEABEES OBSERVE
3RD ANNIVERSARY
OF WORK AND FIGHT
Jackson Men Are Serving
With New Arm Of
Navy Service
The following is a letter we have
received from S. F. 1-c Robert Sher
rill, who . is serving in the Pacific
Theatre. S. 1?. 1-c Sherrill is the^son
of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Sherrill and
the husband of the former Miss Iris
Holden, of Speedwell. He has been
in service about eighteen months and
overseas .since Sept., 1943.
Dear Editor:'
As one of the home town men now
serving with the Seabees overseas, I
hope you will be interested in print
ing the little news item below, which
was prepared by one of our fellows
in commemoration of our birthday,
j Dec. 28. It will give us and our fam
< ilies back home a great deal of satis
faction to know that the Seabees are
being remembered. Thanking you
ior your cooperation. I am,
Sincerely,
ROBERT SHERRILL, S. F. 1-C
The third anniversity of the
"workingest, fightingest bunch of
men" in the nation's armed forces,
the Navy Seabees, will be observed
en Dec. 25 by 240,000 officers and
men of the United States Naval Con
struction Battalions.
Born just three years ago after the
Pearl Harbor disaster, with an auth
ored strength of 3,000, the Seabees
*ori their spurs at Guadalcanal and
have been with the assault troops in
every major American amphibious
operation. They can now boast that
they built the net work of air and
naval bases in the Pacific that push
ed the Japs back 3000 miles; that
? iivcy developed jvxphibious ..jacrlip
ment and technique that helped carry
the day on the African, Sicilian, Ital
ian Normandy beachheads.
Every commissioned Construction
Battalion is either currently overseas
or has completed a tour duty; many
battalions are on their second tours.
Seventy-six percent oi the Seabees
are now outside the continental limits
of the United States; only 9,000 es
sential men have never seen loreign
service.
As General Douglas McArthur
wrote in a letter to Seabees chief
Vice-Admiral Ben Moreel, "The only
trouble with your Seabees is that you
don't have enough of them."
Hooper Completes Basic
Training On Submarine
Otto D. Hooper, 18, seaman ^l-c,
son of Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Hooper,
Sylva, N. C., has completed basic
training at the Submarine School,
Submarine Base, New London, Con
necticut, for duty with our growing
lieet of underseas fighters.
Seaman Hooper will be entitled to
wear the twin dolphin insignia of the
Submarine Service after further ex
perience aboard a submarine during
which he must demonstrate to his
commanding officer that . he is fully
qualified to carry out the duties of
his rate. The insignia is regarded as
? a mark of distinction throughout the
Navy.
Hooper attended Cullowhee High,
where he was squadman in football
and baseball. He has been^ in the
Navy since last March and had pre
liminary training at Bainbridge, Md.
Ciyil Service Recruiting
Ag ent To Be Here
Frederick Sheetz, ?ivil Service Re
cruiting Agent, will be in the United
States Employment Offiee, on Jan.
1, 2 and 3 for the purpose of inter
viewing applicants interested in work
in the Navy Shipyards.
AP Correspondent,
John Parris, Cables
Christmas Greetings
Rev. R. G. Tuttle has received the
following cablegram from John Par
ris: 0 '
R. G. Tuttle, Sylva, N. C.
On behalf boys and girls from home
who are over here this to say through
you to all our families and friends
Merry Chfistma* and our thoughts
ever with you, John Parris.
Herald Force Takes
Two Days Off
You are receiving your copy of
The Herald late this week due to
the fact that printers are human
too and need' a little rest occas
ionally The two days taken this
week were the only ones we have
had this year. The daily grind
was beginning to wear the force
down, especially after the extra
heavy work of the past month.
We appreciate your patience and
are now ready to begin serving
you. regularly for another year.
LOWELL C. ENSLEY ^
KILLED BY GAR
Lowell C. Ensley, 31, formerly of
Sylva, who has been employed for
some time in a shipyard at Bruns
wick, Ga., was instantly killed when
he was struck by a car driven by a
hit and run driver while he was
crossing a street near Brunswick, it\
has been learned here by his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Ensley. Funeral
arrangement under the direction of
Garrett Funeral Home of Waynes
ville were incomplete Monday night.
He is survived by his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. C. Ensley, the widow,
ire former Miss Lidia Haskett, three
children, Billy, Bobby and Kenney;
one - sister, Mrs. Sam A. Potts and
three brothers, Vearl V. of Sylva;
Walter C. of the U. S. Army and
Jack W of the U. S. Navy.
CRUSADE FOR CHRIST
MASS MEETNGS TO BE
HELD IN TEN DISTRICTS
The Conference Council of the
C>x?t"ade for Christ has completed
plans for conference-wide mass meet
ings in all the districts of the Western
North Carolina Conference, Jan. 8-12.
Two teams of visiting speakers will
be used. Team number one is com
posed of Bishop Schuler Garth, Miss
Ruth Lawrence. Mrs. E. L. McKee
and Mr. Edwin L. Jones. Team
number two consists of Bishop Clare
Purcell, Dr. W. C. Yang, Dr. Walter
C. Gum and' Mrs. E. L Rice.
The Waynesville district meeting
will be held at Cullowhee on Jan. 8.
The first session will concene at the
Methodist Church at 3 o'clock. This
meeting will be addressed by Dr.
Walter Gum, Superintendent of the
Norfolk District of the Virginia con
ference, and by Mrs. E. L. Rice, wife
cf the Resident Surgeon at Hugh
Chatham Memorial Hospital, Elkins.
Dr.* and Mrs. Rice have served a
term of years as missionaries to
China. .The second session will be
gm with a banquet at the college at
7:30 o'clock. Prof. Guy L. Houck,
District Lay Leader, and Prof. Homer
Henry and Dean W. E. Bird, Associate
District Lay Leaders, are in charge
cf the Laymen's Banquet. It is
hoped that at least 400 official lay
men from the district may be present.
In order to accomplish .this each
minister and each lay leader will
have to urge every member of
their board of stewards and every
member of their local Crusade Coun
cil and any other interested layman
to attend. Each pastor is expected
to send to Dean Bird by January 1st
the number of laymen who will at
tend from his charge.
Larry Mull Leases
Stovall's Cafe
Larry Mull, well known local res
taurant man, has leased Stovall's
cafe, effective Dec. 18. He succeeds
Mr. Wallace Swan.
Mr. Mull has had a great deal of
experience in operating cafes and
eating establishments. He has work
ed in Canton, Waynesville, Bryson
CltyaiTd Washington, D. C. He was.
cafeteria manager at T.V.A. Fontana
for two years.
Mr. Mull states that he will cater
to business people and his policy will
he to serve good, wholesome food at
reasonable prices.
; The future progress of the poultry
industry . in North Carolina lies
largely in reducing mortality and in
creasing the performance of indivi
duals in the flock, says Prof, Roy
Dearstyne of State College.
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^ More Power to You!
YOU KNOW how a snowball
gets bigger and bigger as you
roll it along. That's the way we
want it to be with you. As 1945
rolls along we hope that with each day your
opportunities will become bigger and better
? and that each day will add measurably to
your store of blessings, w
" THE SW.VA HERALD
Spends Furlough In Oregon
Mack H. Ensley, F. 2-c, has return
ed to Farrigut, Idaho, after spending
a five-day furlough with his brother,
Logan, and other relatives of Port
land, Oregon. Be ford, entering the
service Aug. 26, 1944, he was em
ployed by the Albina Shipyard Co.
of Portland.
JACKSON CASUALTIES
Word has been received of the
death of T-5 Bascombe S. Hensley,
Jr., son of Rev. B. S. Hensley of
Sylva. The message stated that the
young Sylva soldier was killed on
Nov. 27 in action on Leyte island
in the Philippines.
Cpl. Hensley attended Western
Carolina Teachers College and work
el at the Ingalls shipyards in Missis
sippi before he entered service Aug.
9, 1943.
Besides his father, Cp!. Hensley is
survived by four sisters and one broth
er. Mrs. Albert F. Gordon, of Ashe-*
ville, Mrs. L. B. S^nford and Miss
Martha Hensley of Charlotte, Miss
Betty Hensley of Sylva, and Seaman
2nd class M. C. Hensley, now stationed
near Berkeley, Calif.
Wounded In Action
Pvt. Harry J. Callahan, son of Mrs.
Liza W. Callahan, of Sylva has been
reported wounded.- No particulars
were given.
Pvt. Clyde J. Hall, son of Mrs. Eve
lyn L. Hall, of Dillsboro has been re
ported wounded.
Pfc. James K. Messer of Whittier
has also been reported wounded in
action. He is the son of James Mes
ser Whittier Route 1.
Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Green of Gay
"Rave Just beer notified by the War
Dept. that their son, Pfc. Joseph R.
Green, was slightly wounded in Ger
many on Dec. 7th. This is the sec
ond time that Pfc. Green has received
wounds as a result of enemy action.
He has been in the service for more
than two years and overseas a year.
S. Sgt. Darrell Mitchell is visiting
his parents, Mr. and Mrs.' Irvin Mit
chell, of Cullowhee. Sgt. Mitchell is
stationed with the Army Air Corps
at Camp Kissimmee, Kissimmee, Fla.
FUNERAL SERVICES
HELD FOR J. C. HOOPER
Funeral services for J. C. Hooper
of Tuckaseegee, who died at his home
nere Tuesday morning, were held
Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at
the Tuckaseigee Baptist church with
the Rev. J. E. Brown officiating.
Burial w as in the Moses cemetery
here.
Mr. Hooper was a native of Jack
sc n County and a prominent citizen
and farmer of 'thjs section. He wus
affectionately called "Uncle Jim" by
all who knew him.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Agatha Moses Hooper, one adopted
son, Fred Smith, his wife, Marie Dills
Smith, and their two children, Peggy
Jean and Shirley, also two brothers,
kJohn and Bill, of Speedwell. "Uncle
Jim" had just passed his 73rd birth
day a few days before his death.
A NAVY RECRUITER
WILL BE IN SYLVA
ON JANUARY 4TH
"Men with experience in one or
more of the eight construction fields
listed below are urgently needed in
the Seabees now", Lieut. W. W. Temp
lir?, Jr., Navy recruiting officer, de
clared today. ^
The "urgent need" category, ac
cording to the recruiting officer, in
cludes line and station electricians,
winchmen, hatch bosses, carpenters,
particularly those with extensive
building experience, welders, black
smiths, pipefitters and plumbers, -and
equipment operators, including bull
dozer, crane and carryall operators.
Man between the ages of- 17 and
50 are eligible to apply, and applicants
possessing the required qualit^^t-ions
will be rated as petty officers, the
rate received depending on the na
ture and extensiveness of their' civi
lian experience. .Drafta'go men will
be issued letters of directed assign
ment to the Navy. *
The recruiting officer said that all
men who wish to apply can file their
applications at any Navy recruiting
station in the state. They are located
in the post office buildings in Ashe
ville, Charlotte, Greensboro, New
Bern, Raleigh, Salisbury, Wilming
ton and Winston-Salem. When ap
plicants visit recruiting stations? for
an interview and to file applications,
they should have with them letters
of recommendation from previous
employers, giving a brief outline of
their civilian experience.
In addition to the openings stated
above, Lieut. Tomplin said that men
who "are draftsmen, riggers, surveyors
or stevedores are wanted also. Men
accepted for any of these openings
will be rated petty officers.
Children Given Party
In Asheville
Members of the Sylva Rotary
club carried eight crippled children
that have been receiving treatment
to Asheville to the Orthopedic Home
lor a Christmas party.
Pfc. John Allman
Recovering From Wounds
Mrs. John C. Allman of Addie has
htard from her son, Pfc. John (Joe)
Allman who was wounded in astion
in France. Pfc. Allman has been
removed to a hospital in England
and is recovering from his injuries
nicely. He was wounded in the left
leg. He writes that the doctors and
nurses are of the best and that .he is
receiving excellent attention.
Tuckaseigee School House
Destroyed By Fire
The school house at Tuckaseegee
wi s completely destroyed by lire on
Wednesday. The origin of the lire
is unknown but is thought to have
started in the attic from a flue or
live wire. At the time ol the fire the
children had been dismissed. The
building w;is foui rooms and was only
partly covered by insurance. The
Sylva Fire Dept. was called but due
to the distance the fire was beyond
control.
MRS. POWELL
IMPROVING
? Fr iends of Mrs. Bessie Powell \y i 1 1
be glad to hear she is slightly im
proving at the Oak Ridge Hospital
alter being seriously burned when her
?tr?.iler>?aught fire Dec. 6. Her family
wish to extend, thru this paper, their
sincere appreciation tor ;il! kindness
; n<l sympathy shown through her ac
cident. , V
1'fc. Burton Brown Injured *
In France ,
Mrs. Burton Brown of Dillsboro has
been notified by the Red Cross that
her husband, Pfc. William Burton
Brown, has been seriously injured in
a truck accident somewhere in France
where he was serving with a quarter
master unit attached to the Air Corps.
The message stated that both legs
were broken and that he was badly
shaken up. The date of the accident
is unknown.
Pfc. Brown has been in service,
since Feb. 3, 1943. He was ' firstr-SjBnt
to Camp Croft, S/C., then to Tent
City, Fla., for six weeks. From there
he went to Hammer Field, Fresno,
Cal., and to Camp Pinedale, Fresno,
where he trained with a Signal Corps
outfit, until he was sent overseas in
November of last year. He first
landed in England where he was sta
tioned until Sept. at which time he
was sent to France. He was 'in the
90th General Hospital when the mes
sage was sent.
Mrs. Brown is the former Miss Dor
cas Greene. They have one daughter,
Martha Louise. '
Christmas Service Held
At Tuckaseigee
A Christmas service was held at
the Tuckaseigee Baptist Church on
Dec. 24. The Rev. Edgar Willix,
pastor, was in charge of the program.
The young people presented plays
and dialogues. A spceial song was
sung by Kay and Laverne Hooper,
small daughters of Mr. and Mrs. D.
M. Hooepr, of Tuckaseigee. After
the program gifts were distributed.
Christmas Program Held
A Christmas progfam was held at
thf Wesley an Methodist Church at
Tuckaseigee on Thursday, Dec. 21.
Rev. Marion Moody of Erastus read
the story of the birth of Christ and a
program of songs, dialogues and reci
tations followed. Miss Gertrude
Frrmer, pastor, distributed gifts to
all.
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SCOUTS WILL START IN
BUSINESS DISTRICT
AT 1 0'CLOCK, LIONS
WILL START AT 3
On Friday afternoon, Dec. 29, the I
members of the Lions Club and Boy \
and Girl Scouts will collect paper iit
both the-residentaL and business dis
trict of Sylva.
The scouts will begin at 1 o'clock
to gather the paper in the business
district and place it on the street. The
Lions will assemble at the Fountain
al 3:30 and will collect the paper from
the residental district.
: Every family in Sylva is asked to
save the scrap paper during the holi- *
days and place it at the front door of
their homes before 3 o'clock on the
29th.
If the business houses will save as
much paper as they have room to
store the boys will get it soon after
1 o'clock on the 29th.
If all the people of Sylva will co
operate in this drive for this one day
we will be able to turn many hun- *
dreds of pounds of paper back into
the war effort.
Lions, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts
will all meet at the fountain at 3:30
P. M.*
JOE t7bumgarner
PASSES IN ALASKA
According to a message received
recently by Mrs. J. C. Bisenet of
Whittier Route 2, her urn-le, Joe T.
Bumgarner, died Dec. 13, in Ketchi
kan, Alaska, following a lingering
illness.
Mr. Bumgarner was born March
17, 1884, in the Wilmot section of
Jackson county, and lived there until
ii?? was seventeen years old, when he
w*nt U) Uuoktown, Tenn., where he
\ as engaged in copper mining. Later
iie went to Washington and was em
ployed in the timber business there
and in British Columbia until about
twenty when he went to Ketchikan
i.ivd lived there the remainder of his
liJC. '
Surviving are the widow, one daug
ler, two step-dattffhters* and six sis
ters, Mrs. Leona Buchanan, Whittier
Route 2, Mrs. Ellen" Ashe, Sylva, Mrs.
Cordelia Ward, N. Canton, Ohio, Mrs.
Ida Fisher, Anaconda, Mont., Mrs.
Martha Ward, Buckley, Wash., and
Mrs. Mary Buchanan, Bellingham,
Wash.
NEW RATION RULES
IN THE MAKING
The housewives of the nation were
asked ty OPA Tuesday to destroy all
invalid ration stamps in order to
prevent voided stamps from being -
used in food purchases either thru
accident or design, in violation of
OPA rules.
OPA assured housewives that red
ration tokens will continue good for
meats, fats, cheese and butter. Gro
cers will continue to give them as
change for red ration stamps. The
u>e of the blue ration token now is
banned, having been discontinued in
October. /
The ration stamps invalidated.
ol 12:01 Tuesday morning, and^which
OPA asks that you destroy are: red
stamps A8 through Z8 and A5 through
P5; blue stamps A8 through Z8 and
tA5 through W5; sugar stamps 30, 31,
32, 33 and 40, along all hom^canrttng^_
coupons outstanding.
Stamps continuing to be good and
those to be made good are: red stamps
Qb, R5 and S5 which became valid
December 3. Red stamps T5, U5,
V5, W5, and X5 will become good on
December 31. Blue stamps X5, Y5, Z5,
A2 and B2, F2 and G2 will become
good on January 1. Sugar stamp 34
Another sugar stamp will become
good on Feb.^l> ? .
SYLVA SOLDIER
PROMOTED IN ITALY
WITH THE FIFTH ARMY, ITALY
? Sergeant Willis D. Cooke, son of
Mrs. Mamie D. Cooke, who lives in
Sylva, North Carolina, has been pro
moted to technical sergeant. He is
serving with a quartermaster unit of
Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark's
Fifth Army in Italy.