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Sylya Herald
AND RURALITE?CONSOLIDATED JULY, 1943
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First Flaee of N. C. Prem
Association 1943 General Ea
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VOL. XIX NO. 44 SYLVA, N. C., Wednesday, March 21, 1945 $1.50 A Year In Jackson And Swain Counties?5c Copy
"GF Readjustment Allow
ances For Returning War
Veterans Are Explained
Questions Answered As to
Eligibility, Amount And
Duration, Of Payments (or
Returning Servicemen
. (This is the second of a three-part
series of questions and answeres deal
ing with Veterans' Readjustment Al
lowances unoer the Federal "GI
BILL OF RIGHTS." Clip this for
future reference.)
RALEIGH, N. C., March 19.?In
handling veterans' claims for read
justment allowances, now available
under the "GI BILL OF RIGHTS,"
for weeks while the Veterans are
without employment, the Unemploy
ment Compensation Commission is
toeing asked varied questions. Some
at those most frequently heard, and
tfae answers, follow:
Q. What is the Readjustment Al
lowance Program?
A. It is a plan now in operation
providing weekly payments to dis
charged veterans for weeks of unem
ployment, the maximum being $20 a
Week for 52 weeks.
Q. What are the first steps to be
taken by a veteran seeking a read
justment allowance?
A. They are as follows:
(1) Report to nearest -United States
Employment Service Office with
official papers showing discharge
from active military or naval
service of the United States.
(2) Register for work.
(3) Make application for readjust
ment allowance.
(4) If eligible, fitak,initial claim for
allowance.
Q. How is the application and initial
claim processed?
A. Applications and initial claims
are fnrwarded *o tiv* Cent*** Office of
the Unemployment Compensation
Commission of North Carolina in Ra
leigh, where they are examined. If it
is found that the eligibility require
ments have been met, a notice to this
c&ect is sent to the local office where
the Veteran made his application and
will be delivered to him in person.
For each week of unemployment re
ported to the Central Raleigh Office
e< the Commission, a pay order will
be authorized, and a check made out
to the Veteran. Checks are mailed
(Continued on page 4)
BIBLE SCHOOL CONFER
ENCE TO BE HELD
The Tuckaseigee Baptist Associa
tional pastors and church leaders are
urged to be present at the, vacation
Bible school conference to be held
March 22nd at 10:30 P. M. at the Bap
tist church. Mrs. Myers Motly apd
Mrs. Winn from the Baptist Sunday
cchool board will be leading the con
ference.
Greens Creek Soldiers Meet
At Pearl Harbor
Five boys from the Greens Creek
section of Jackson County recently
met in Pearl Harbor. The three
ah<?wn in the above picture are Carl
Cagle of Greens Creek, Edgar Thom
as Turpin, S. 1-c, son of Mrs. Tommy
Turpin of Greens Creek and Carlin
T. Cabe, brother of Mrs. Berry Gaith
er and Miss Lillian Cabe, of Sylva.
The cfther two boys Avere David H.
Turpin, Yeoman, another son of Mrs.
Tommy Turpin and Silas Buchanan,
S. 1-c, son of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson
Buchanan, of Greens Creek.
Mrs. McKee Will Serve
On Advisory Board Of
Cancer Control Group
Mrs George E. Marshall, state com
mander of the .North Carolina Di
vision of the Field Army of the Amer
ican Cancer Society, has announced
the appointment of a number of lead
ing citizens of the state to serve on
the advisory board of the society,
among them being Mrs. E. L. McKee
of this city.
Mrs. Marshall said this week that
the North Carolina Division is knee
deep in the busiest year of its exis
tence. This year, it will have active
units in all of the stated 100 counties.
In addition there will be local units
in the cities and town. Most of
these are already busy with the de
velopment of their plans for their
participation in the ninth annual edu
cational and enlistment campaign,
which will open on Easter Sunday
and continue through the month of
April.
MRS. DEITZ DIES AT
HOME OF DAOGHTER
AT CULLOWHEE
I Mrs. M. L. Deitz died at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Elbert Watson,
at. Cullowhee Thursday, March 8.
"Aunt Josie" had been ill for the
past year but seemingly had been no
worse until just a few hours prior to
her death.
She was born Sept. 25, 1859 being
85 years, five months and 11 days old
at the time of her decease. She was
married lb ^fartin L. Deitz and to this
union were uorn 11 children, three
of whom are deceased.
At an early age she became* a
Christian and joined the Old Field
Baptist Church, now known as the
Scotts Creek Baptist Church. She
lived a devoted Christian life which
was manifested daidly during her
sickness by her patience, kindness,
especially to children, cheerfulness
and willingness to do whatever she
thought best.
She is survived by eight children,
Mrs. Alice Watson, Mrs. Annie Potts,
Mrs. Polly Jane Dillingham, all of of
Cullowhee, Mrs. Hattie Brooks, Elma,
Wash., Mrs. Chassie Mathis, Cardova,
N. C., Mr. L. C. Deitz, Baldwin Park,
Cal., Mr. F. C. Deitz, Asheville, Mr.
M. L. Deitz, Jr., Hazelwood, 72 grand
children, a number of great grand
children and six great-great grand
children, two brothers, Mr. John
Cope, Cowarts, and Mr. Fate Cope,
Williets.
Interment was in the Cullowhee
cemetery with Rev. T. F. Deitz and
Rev. L. H. Crawford officiating.
Pallbearers were: Grady Burch,
Jan Allen Alvin Ashe, Zebb Moss,
Tom Deitz and Ollis Mathis.
RFC. JAMES E. AIKEN -
MISSING IN ACTION
Pfc. James E. Aiken, son of Vess
Aiken, of Cowarts has been reported
missing in action since Dec. 9 ac
cording to word received from the
War Dept.
Pfc. Aiken has been in service for
more than a year and has been over
seas for six months.
Mr. Aiken has one other son in ser
vice, Pfc. William Aiken who is in
Germany. He has been overseas 18
months and was wounded in France
Sept^ 1944. He^ was sent to an Eng
lish Hospital but is now back at his
post of duty.
GERMAN SOLDIERS
DESERTING RANKS
GESTAPO SAYS
German prisoners captured by the
Allies say that hundreds of German
soldiers are deserting and have
jammed mountain hideouts in Ger
many and Austria. They insisted that
the Gestapo was carrying out threats
to kill the families of men taken
prisoner without being wounded.
The deserters, the prisoners said,
were seeking to evade detection until
the war ends.
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1 ST LT. JOHN F. DWYER
KILLED IN ACTION
Mrs. John F. Dwyer of Cocoa, Fla.,
has been notified that her husband
1st Lt? John F. Dwyer. who had been
reported missince since Oct. 3rd was
killed on the same date.
Lt. Dwyer was bombardier on his
ship which was shot down near Nurn
berg, Germany. - Other members of
the crew are reported tc^be prisoners
of the German Government.
Lt. Dwyer^as a memfcei^jof the In
ternational Guards before Peairl Har
bor and first served with the Infantry,
then being transferred to the air corps.
He received his training. at Santa
Anna, Cal., Las Vegas, Nev., Carls
bad, N. Mexico, and Avon Park, Fla.
He has been overseas since July,
1944, and had completed twelve mis
sion Lt. Dwyer had received the Pres
idential Group Citation and Mrs.
Dwyer has been presented his Purple
Heart posthumously.
Mrs. Dwyer, the former Miss Bleaca
Dee Painter, daughter of Dr. and Mrs.
J. B. Painter, of Cullowhee.is a mem
ber of the facutly at Cocoa, Fla.
Cpl. .Lawrence A. Rogers
Wounded In Germany
Mrs. Erma Rogers of Cullowhee has
received a telegram from the war
department stating that her son, Cpl.
Lawrence A. Rogers, has been slightly
wounded in Germany on Feb. 21.
Cpl. Rogers has been with the 115th
Infantry and has been overseas since
Oct., 1942. He has been in the army
since August. 1941.
Mr. Rogers has three other sons and
a son-in-law in service. William K.
Rogers, CPHM of the U. S. Navy
serving in the South Pacific, Frank
Rogers S. 3-c, of the U. S. Navy, Little
Creek, Va. Cpl. Eugene Rogers of
the Army serving in Germany and
son-in-law, T-5 Lesker Buchanan,
of the army serving in France.
LARD SET ASIDE
ORDER CHANGED
Raleigh, March 19.*?Because avail
able supplies of lard are proving in
sufficient to meet essential civilian
needs in some areas, the recent lard
ing under Federal inspection has been
rescinded for North Carolina and
several other states, the War Food
Administration has notified the State
Department of Agriculture.
As originally established, the reg
ulation required all Feredally in
spected packers to set aside seven and
one-half pounds of lard for each 100
pounds of live pork slaughtered.
NOTICE
The Jackson County Singing Con
vention will meet at Scotts Creek
Baptist Church Sunday, April 1, at
2 o'clock P. M.
Sylva Fighter Pilot,
Winner Of Bronze Stars,
Home On Furlough
at'
Lieutenant Fred L. Thomas, USNR,
of Sylva, North Carolina, has returned
from a tour of combat duty in the
Pacific, where he flew a fighter plane
based on one of the Navy's baby car
riers. *
Attached to Composite Squadron
11, Lieutenant Thomas piloted a Gen
eral Motor-built WILCAT. He flew
several combat missions and partici
pated in numerous strikes against such
targets as Saipan," Guam, Tinian,
Palau, the Philippines and China. This
was his second tour of duty in Pacific
waters.
The 26-year-old pilot is the son of
Mrs. Dave Thomas of Sylva and was
educated at the Western Carolina
Teachers College, where he competed
in baseball, tennis and swimming. He
entered the Navy in November, 1942,
and received his flight training at
Anacostia, District of Columbia, and
Jacksonville, Florida.
Composite 11 was the first CVE
squadron to return to the United
States after action with the Third
Fleet in its historic sortie into the
China Sea in January.
The unit's aircraft flew a total of
6,460 hours in the combat zone. Per
haps its busiest engagement was the
Tinian operation in July. The fight
ers and torpedo bombers launched
five strikes on this island in the Mari
anas in direct support of the invad
ing ground forces. Their bombs and
rockets crushed Japanese gun posi
tions, pillboxes, ammunition dumps,'
trucks-and tanks.
Following its operations in the
Marianas, the squadron was assigned
to the important task of escorting our
fleet oilers.
The baby flattop which Composite
11 called home during its cri^e in
the Pacific came through the Decem
ber typhoon unscathed. The squad
ron lost only three men, a pilot and
his two aircrewmen, as a result of
enemy action.
At the present time Lt. and Mrs.
Thomas and three months old daugh
ter are visiting his mother, Mrs. Dave
Thomas. He will be here until March
27 after which date he will be sta
tioned in Jacksonville, Fla., where he
will be assigned to Instructor duty.
Lt. Thomas has been recommended
for the Air Medal with two bronze
stars.
MEMORIAL SERVICES
TO BE HELD FOR
PVT. ALFRED SMITH
Memorial services will be held for
Pvt. Alfred Smith of Sylva at the
Scotts Creek Baptist Church Sunday,
March 25, at 3 o'clock.
Pvt. Smith was killed Oct. 15 in
France and is buried in a military
cemetery in Lorraine. France. At the
time of his death he was serving with
the 2nd Infantry.
Pvt. Smith was tne son of John W.
Smith and the husband of Mrs. Gracie
Queen Smith. Besides the father and
widow he is survived by three chil
dren, Johnny, Betty and Joan; four
brothers, Lewis, Charles, Roy and
Carl of Sylva and one sister, Mrs. Troy
Davis, of Detroit, Mich.
County Completes Quota
Of Red Cross Kits
The Jackson County Chapter of the
American Red Cross finished its quota
oi Army kits and Monday sent its
last shipment of 206 kits to Hunter
lFeld, Ga. ?
In all the chapter has made and
equipped 445 kits, at an average cost
of $1.00 per kit. Mrs. Harry Ferguson
was chairman.
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Polio Drive Chairman Sutton
Makes Report On Campaign
Vic. Roy H. .Morris Wounded
In Battle Of Iwo Jima
Word has been received by Mr.
and Mrs. Roy B. Morris that their
son, Pfc. Roy Harold Morris, has been
wounded in the battle of Iwo Jima
and is in a hospital somewhere in the
Mariannas. He lias been in service
since Sept. 10. 1943, and trained in
Parris Island Navy Yard, Philadel
phia, Penn., and Camp Pendleton,
Oceansides Cal., before going over
seas in January of 1944. He has been
in four major battles in' the Pacific.
He is a veteran of the fourth Marine
Division.
MR. FREEZE TAKEN -
BY DEATH MONDAY A. M.
J. Frank Freeze, 65, died at 8 o'
clock Monday morning in Angel's
Hospital, Franklin, following an ex
tended illness.
Mr. Freeze, a native of Cabarrus
county, came to Sylva in 1918 from
Hendersonville where he had been en
gaged in tne mercantile business be
fore /becoming depot agt. in Canton.
He served as agent for the Southern
Rw. in Sylva for a number of years.
Since retiring he has operated the
Freeze House, a tourist home in Sylva.
He is survived by the widow, Mrs.
Jessie Williams Freeze, one son, Sgt.
J. Frank Freeze, Jr.,' with the U. S.
Army, stationed at Camp Polk, La.,
one grandchild, c Pat Montague of
Sylva, one brother. Albeit Freeze of
Cherokee and two sisters, Mrs. F. U.
Rogers and Mrs. Fred Taylor of Ka^
napolis.
Funeral arrangements are incom
plete pending the arrival of the son.
AMERICAN FLAG NOW
FLIES OVER IWO JIMA
The American flag was raised over
Iwo Island Wednesday within 750
miles of Tokyo, signifying tactical
conquest of its bloody eight square
miles although Japanese still are re
sisting to the death. More than 20,
000 Nipponese already have died
there.
The Navy said 200 to 400 yard gains
further compressed the Nipponese to
ward the sea at the northernmost end.
In a formal ceremony, the United
States government officially took
possession of an island so close to
Japan that it is governed as an in
tegral part of a perfecture in the
homeland., ,
The Navy made no mention of
American casualties?a figure not
brought up officially on Guam since
that supplied for the first three days.
It was 5,732 including 644 killed.
Later Navy Secretary Forrestal in
Washington placed the marine dead
at 2,050.
SGT. GILBERT R. STILES
KILLED IN ACTION
Word has been received that Sgt.
Gilbert R. Stiles, son of Mr. and Mrs.
H. C. Stiles, was killed in action in
Germany on Feb. 28, 1945.
At the time of his death he was
serving with an infantry unit.
SCHOOL OF EVANGELISM
BEING HELD AT SYLVA
A school of Evangelism is being held
ct the Baptist Church this week. The
opening session was held Monday
evening at 7:45 o'clock and will con
tinue each evening through Friday.
Mrs. J. S. Farmer' President of
the Baptist State W. M. U. is leading
the ladies of the church and com
munity in the study of the book,
" Helping Others To Become Christ
ians". Mrs. Farmer will bring inspir
ational messages Wednesday and
Friday evening.
The men are studying' " How To
Win To Christ", under the supervision I
of Rev. L. G. Elliott, pastor of the j
First Baptist Church, Waynesville.
The Intermediates are being led by
Rev. T. F. Dietz in a study of
Witnessing For Christ.
Miss Gretchen Johnson, Jackson
County missionary, is leading the
Juniors in the study of "Living For
Jesus."
The following report of money re
ceived during the recent Infantile
Paralysis drive has been submitted
for publication by the county chair
man. Mr. R. U. Sutton:
Com. Chmn. Ami
Diilsboro, Mrs. M. B. Cannon -50.05
Dillsboro School, Prof. Bryson 8.30
East LaPorte, Mrs. Keys 35.00
Sylva Busi., Mrs. Jerter Snider 115.0(1
Sylva, dance, Mrs. Walter Jones 58.00
Sylva Hi school. Prof. Hair 22.10
Rylva Rotary Club 35.00
Sylva Lions Club 37.00
Sylva Elem. school Prof. Cope 45.00
Cashiers school 10.00
Sylva, Gov. Agencies 22.00
Sylva E. Bap. Ch. Rev. Bishop 26.26
Mrs. E. L. McKee "10.00
Glenville school, Prof. Watson 18.00
Cashiers, Prof^ Watson 24.04
Webster school, Prof. Crawford 28.00
Sylva, Mead Corp. & Emp. 125.00
Qualla School, Prof. Martin 11.25
Cullowhee School, Prof. Hoyle 36.11
Misellaneous 24.93
Tuckaseigee School 8.00
WCTC, Cullowhee, R. C. Sutton 54.50
Savannah Sch., Prof. Crawford 29.41
Total net proceeds r $832.95
50% retained for Jackson Co. $416.47
50% remitted to Nat. Fund 416.48
NOTE: Amount raised by local
theatre not yet reported to chairman.
R. U. SUTTON,.
County Chairman
SYLVA ELEMENTARY
SCHOOL FIRST TO REACH
RED CROSS QUOTA
A. J. Dills, vchairman of the Red
Cross War Fund drive, announces
that Sylva elementary school was tne
first to achieve its quota and turri in
the money raised in this dnve under
the direction of the principal, Mr. W.
V. Cope and his efficient corp of
teachers. With a quota of $200.00 the
school raised $275, approximately
every child making a contribution.
Willets and Webster also did a
grand job and were the second and
third schools to raise their quotas.
The county as a whole is doing a
splendid job. It is urged that every
one do his part and help our county
go over the top in this most worth
while cause.
PFC. PAUL WOMACK
WOUNDED IN ACTION
Mrs. Payl Womack has received
v/ord from her husband, Pfc. Paul R.
Womack, " that he was wounded
in action on March 2 and has under
gone an operation in a hospital in
Belgium where they removed a shell
from his leg. He was later moved to
Paris where he is now receiving treat
treament at an army hospital.
Pfc. WomacK entertained service
in September, 1943, and has served
overseas for a year. He trained at
Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., and was
with the 9th army of the 60th com
bat engineers when wounded.
AIRPLANE MECHANIC
Sgt. Robert Lee Seago above, son
of Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Seago, of Speed
veil is now serving with the Army
Air Corps ground forces as an air
plane mechanic at Tonopah, Nevada.
Sgt. Seago entered service February,
1943, and holds diplomas from the
airplane mechanics school at Keesler
Field, Miss., and Consolidated Air
craft school at San Diego, Calif.