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VOL. XX NO. 28 SYLVA, N. C., Wednesday, Nov. 28, 1945 $1.50 A Year in Jackson And Swain Counties ? 5c Copy
Roosevelt Memorial Bond
Week December 3 Thru 8
BRYSON REPORTS ON PROGRESS OF ONITED
WAR FUND DRIVE, ALMOST $2000 SHORT
Chairman Urges Donations
Be Made At Once To Bring
County Up To Its Quota
The following letter written to
Township chairmen by Mr. Jen
nings A. Bryson, chairman of
Jackson County United War Fund,
shows that the fund is short of
our quota of $6,200.00 by nearly
$2,000. The letter gives a complete
report on the drive thus far.
The letter is as follows:
Dear Township Chairman, Super
visor and Solicitor:
We are now trying to close out
the United War Fund of Jackson
County. Will you make every ef
fort to get all monies in within
the next week or ten days so we
might make our final report to
the state.
If we do not read) our quota
this year, it will be the first year
that Jackson County has failed. If
you know of any person who has
not given, will you contact them
at once. Please turn all your
money over to Mr. W. J. Fisher,
cashier of the Jackson County
Bank as soon as possible.
Below you will find the quotas
and the amount # solicited and
turned in to date by each town
ship. How does your township
stand? Has it reached its quota?
Township Quota ^mt. raised
to date
Barkers Creek ....$150.00 60.95
Canada 90.00 4.00
Caney Fork 125.00 26.90
Cashiers 175.00 220.30
Cullowhee 650.00 494.51
Dillsboro 375.00 298.53
Greens Creek .... 100.00 65.91
Hamburg 300.00 204.18
Mountain 75.00 0*Q?|.
Qualla 250.00 64.08
River 250.00 139.66
Savannah 325.00 297.49
Scotts Cr. (Addie) 125.00 40.25
Scotts Creek (Willets) *
175.00 90.80
Scotts Creek (Balsam)
90.00 11.10
Webster 335.00 166.25
Sylva 2,510.00 2,221.09
Colored 100.00 10.00
Total for County $6,200.00 4,416.00
? Trusting that you will cooperate
with us in this final effort, I re
main
Yours very truly,
Jennings A. Bryson, Chm.
Jackson County War Fund.
Pfc. James P. Swayngim
Receives Discharge
Pfc. James ?. Swayngim, son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Swayngim of
Cawarts has received his honor
able discharge at Camp Bowie,
Texas on Nov. 1, after almost four
years service in the U. S. Army.
Pfc. Swayngim received his
training at Camp Grant, 111., and
saw 14 months overseas action.
He is entitled to wear the good
conduct medal and has three stars
to his credit.
He plans to return to his home
in Cowarts.
Pvt. Kenneth Terrell
Discharged From Army
Pvt. Kenneth Terrell of the army
air corps has been given his dis
charge at Scott Field, 111., where
he had served for eight months
as an instructor in teletype school.
He had been training as a cadet
until the end of the war discon
tinued that program and he was
dismissed. He will enter school
next fall.
Prevent TB
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Buy Christmas Seals
1946 License Plates To Go
On Sale At Cogdill Motor
Company December 1.
It has been announced by Cog
dill Motor Company that all 194b
License Plates will go on sale Sat
urday, December 1, 1945.
Carolina Motor Club Branch
Offices are urging that people buy
their tags early in order to avoid
a rush and delay in getting tags
as offices are required by law to
keep regular hours.
Tags will be issued upon pres
entation of the following:
1. '46 Registration Cards or if
not available
2. '45 Registration Card and if
neither of the above are avail
able
3. North Carolina Certificate of
Registration.
The 1946 Registration Cards
were mailed out in third class
mail and those not called for at
the Post Office have been turned
over to the local Motor Club at
Cogdill Motor Company. So if you
have not received your 1946 Reg
istration card, it may have been
turned over to our office and same
may be had by calling for it.
SOCIAL SECURITY
REPRESENTATIVE
TO BE HERE DEC. 6
A representative of the Ashe
ville field office of the Social Se
curity Board will be at the Post
Office in Sylva, N. C. on Decem
ber 6, 1945 at 10:30 a. m.
Wage earners who have worked
in a job covered by the Social Se
curity Act since December 31,
1936, and have attained age 65,
may be eligible to file claim for
themselves, their wives, or minor
i children, whether they have an
account number of ] not. Surviving
relatives of dceased workers, such^
as widows* children, or parents,
or if none of the above, persons
who have paid funeral expenses,
may be eligible to file claim.
In addition, persons who have
need of social security account j
numbers or other information
pertaining tfi the Act are invited
to meet this representative at the
time and place mentioned.
| Son Born To Mr. and
.Mrs. A. H. Merrill
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Merrill of
Eagle Lake, Fla. announce the
birth of a son, John Arthur, on No- j
vember 20th. Mrs. Merrill is the j
former Miss Olive Coward of Syl- j
va.
GEN. MARSHALL
STEPS OUT AS CHIEF
OF STAFF OF ARMY
In a ceremony 'witnessed by
rver 20,000 people General George
J. Marshall stepped out Monday
as army chief of staff with a sa
lute from President Truman as
the man whom the nation owes
its World War II victory and its
future.
The President said, "he takes
his place at the hea<J of the great
commanders of history," as he be
stowed upon Marshal the equiva
lent of a second Distinguished
Service medal ? the nation's high
est nor combat decoration.
Mr. T;uman hailed Marshal as
the man who exercised greater
influence than anyone else in the
strategy that brought allied vic
tory over Germany and Japan.
He read word-for-word the ci
tation by which (Marshall was
awarded the Oak Leaf Cluster to
h*s World War I Distinguished
Service medal. Mr. Truman called
it the "most important honor" he
(ever had presented.
Marshal accepted the award "as
the agent of those who made it
possible for us to stand here to
day in peace and Thanksgiving ?
the soldiers of the great American
. rmy of this war."
Miss Lucille Wilson
Resigns From Position
At AAA Office
Miss Lucille Wilson has tendered
her resignation as chief clerk and
secretary of the Jackson County
AAA offices and has accepted em
ployment with the Allison Motor
Company. Miss Wilson has been
connected with the Triple A offices
for the past nine years and much of
the progress and advancement
made in that time can be credited
to her interest in agricultural de
velopment in the county. She will
begin her new duties at Allison
;Motor Company on Dec. 1.
Mrs. John F. Corbin will re
place Miss Wilson as clerk and
secretary. Mrs. Corbin comes well
qualified for thework as she has
been connected with the office as
treasurer for several months.
3-Sgt. Crawford Is
Discharged From Army
S-Sgt. Archie Crawford re- j
ceived his discharge Nov. 12th at
Fort Bragg and is at home with
his wife, Mrs. Ruth Pangle Craw- I
ford and young son. Sgt. Craw
ford was in service for two years
and nine months, the last nine
months being spent overseas with
the U. S. Air Force.
Sylva Eleven Ends Sue
cessful Gridiron Season
After a two-year lay-off the
Sylva High Golden Hurricane
finished a successful season by
topping Bryson City 31-7 Thanks
giving day. Coach Leonard Huff,
who has been affiliated with Syl
va schools several years, is high
ly pleased with his young inex
perienced charges. Jim Ryan,
quarterback for the Hurricane,
has been a poten^ factor from the
season's beginning. Luther Norton
has been the team workhorse,
scoring 60 points. Jim Nicholson,
tackle, and Tommy Farmer have
excelled in the line. Their scores
and opponents scores are as fol
lows: Hayesvile 13, Sylva 0;
Franklin 6, Sylva 6; Bryson City
7, Sylva 0; Spruce Pine 0, Sylva
6; Cranberry 0; Sylva 13; Hayes
ville 0, Sylva 13; Canton 44, Syl
va 13; Brevard 21, Sylva 0; Frank
lin 6, Sylva 19; Bryson City 7, Syl
va 31.
Other members of the first
string are, Jack Hennessee, Ken
neth Hooper, Kent Coward, Ben
Sumner, Billy Cagle, Luther Nor
ton, Cub Dillard, , Jack .Bumgar
ner, Hal Wilson and Dennis Nor
ton.
The Sylva Golden Hurricanes
are anticipating a successful bas
ketball season.
Edward E. Bryson H. A. 1C
Now Stationed In Japan
Edward E. Bryson, H. A. 1-c,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bry
son of Cullowhee, who has been
!n the navy since January, 1945,
has now sailed for Japan.
His parents received a letter
L'rom him, written from Pearl
Harbor in which he tells of his
first experience of seasickness and
a later one states that he has been
at Okinawa, which is a sea of
mud.
The ship he: is serving on has
'a ken a load of nurses to Japan
and will bring back wounded
service men and women to ' San
frc.ncisco, Cal.
Mrs. Edward Bryson
Convalescing From
Recent Operation
Mrs. Edward Bryson is con
valescing after a serious opera
tion at the Duke hospital, and is
now at home.
She wishes to take this oppor
tunity to thank her friends for
the lovely cards and letters sent
her, and to thank the members
of the Ruby Daniels Circle of Syl
va for the handkerchief shower
given her.
REID TO SERVE AS
PASTOR OF SYLVA,
BRYSON CHURCHES
Presbyterians Without
Pastor For 2 Years
The Rev. Milton P. Reidt of
Johnson City, Tenn., has accepted
a call to the pastorate of the Bry
son City Presbyterian church, and
will begin his ministry in that
community wtih a morning, service
Dec. 2. He was extended a call
at a congregational meeting Sun
day.
Mr. Reid suceeds the Rev. Chas.
M. Robinson ^ who left the Bryson
City church in Dec., 1943, to become
a chaplain in the navy. Chaplain
Robinson is still in service some
where in the Pacific. Mr. Reid, in
his duties at Bryson City, will
preach every Sunday morning at
the Presbyterian church. Special
arrangements will be made for
services to be announced later at
Presbyterian students at the West
ern Carolina Teachers College at
Cullowhee.
Mr. Reid was discharged from
active duty as a naval chplaii^
July 13, after having served from
Nov. 1942, when he was commis
sioned at the the Naval chaplain's
school, at Williamsburg, Va. He
IS a native of Oklahoma, and re
ceived his education at King col
lege% Bristol, Tenn., where he was
graduated in 1932 with a degtee
of bachelor of arts, and at Louis
ville Presbyterian Theological
seminary, where he was graduated
in 1945 with a degree of bachelor
of divinity.
Mr. Reid served as a minister of
the Alma and Charleston churches
in Arkansas from 1935 until 1941,
and in charge of group of churches
in Micaville, from 1941 to 1943, at
which time he volunteered as a
chaplain in the navy.
He was married Oct. 17, 1945, to
Miss Eleanor Reeves Carlock of
Johnson City, Tenn. Mrs. Reid was ,
graduated from the East Tennessee
State college with the degree of
bachelor of science in, 1940.
During his service as a chaplain
Mr. Reid was chaplain of the U*.
S. Naval hospital at Norfolk, Va.,
working with the sick and the
wounded. He also served in con
nection with the commissioning
and conversion of the USS Briareus
and for 18 months was chaplain on
this vessel on duty as a repair ship
in the South, Central, and Western
Pacific. After returning to this
country, he was at the U. S. Naval
Station, Norman, Okla., until dis
charged.,
ASHEVILLE FIRM
GETS SOCO GAP JOB
+
State Highway officials in Ral
eigh announce that the Asheville
Construction company was the
lbw bidder for surfacing 11 and
1-2 miles of the Cherokee-Soco
Gap road in Jackson and Swain
counties at a figure of $115,063.
PFC. HOUSTON
VISITS PARENTS
Pfc. Ennis T. Houston^ who has
just returned from a year's duty
in the European theater, has been
visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
B. Houston at their home at
Tuckaseegee. Pfc. Houston expects
to receive a discharge soon.
SYLVA MAN IN GROUP
FINDING DAMAGED
JAP WAR SHIPS
Harry F. Bumgarner, ship's
service man, second class, USNR,
Route 1, Sylva, N. C., sailed into
Japan's Kure naval base, second
largest in the empire, with the
men of the USS Mt. McKinley,
when that vessel moved in with
other ships under Hear Admiral
Lawrence F. Heifsnider com
mander of amphibious forces for
the Western Japan area to land
occupation troops in October.
No evidence of a naval base was
visible until members of the crew
headed for shore in small landing
boats. The boats entered a chan
nel that became more narrow as
it wound itself in behind the hills
facing the sea. Then the channel
suddenly widened into a bay,
which had been hidden from the
sea by sheltering hills.
In the harbor, the men of the
Mt. McKinley found 13 damaged
end beached warships, among
them the battleship Haruna. All of
the stricken ships had fled toward
shore to be beached to <avoid sink
ing when the carrier planes of the
U. S. fleet swarmed over the hill
tops in the closing stages of the
war. The visiting bluejackets
found the city, itself, a place of
ruin, filth and poverty, and most
of them agreed they were happy
to return to their ship.
TRUMAN NAMES GEN.
MARSHALL SPECIAL
ENVOY TO CHINA
Former Chief of Styalf General
George C. Marshall was appointed
special envoy to China on Tues
day by President Truman, fol
lowing the resignation of Major
Gen. Patrick J. Hurley. Hurley
resigned the post with bitter de
nunciation of career diplomats
and a warning that a third "world
war was "'in the making." ,
Hurley issued an 1,800 word
statement virtually unprecedented
in diplomatic history. He charged
unnamed professional diplomats
with wrecking U. S. foreign pol
icy. Instead of backing democracy
and unity in China, he said, they
"sided with the Communist armed
party and the imperialistic block
of notions whose policy it v/as to
keep China divided against it
self."
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Mrs. Paul Womack attended the
annual conference of Carolina
Motor Club officers held in Char
lotte this past week.
COUNTY IS LAGGING WITH ONLY ABOUT
40 PER CENT OF E BOND QUOTA BOUGHT
J. H. McLean Killed In
Logging Accident In Ore.
James H. McLean, 28 son of
Zeb McLean of Greens Creek was
killed in a logging accident in
Tillamook, Ore., Thursday, ac
cording to information received
here Saturday.
The young man spent most of
his life in Jackson county prior to
enlisting in the navy in April,
1943. He received an honorable
discharge from the service Nov.
5 this year.
Surviving in addition to his fa
ther are his step-mother; three
I sisters, Mrs. Ralph Tatham of Gay,
Mrs. Norman Holland of Greens
Creek, and Mrs. Edward Bryson of
Cullasaja; two brothers, Jadk and
Robert McLean of Baltimore Md.
The body is expected to arrive ?
here next Thursday and funeral
services will be held at East Fork
Baptist church Thursday. Burial
will follow in East Fork cemetery.
CLOTHING COLLEC
TION DATE SET FOR
JANUARY 7 - 31
Fosmer President Herbert
Hoover declared today that "there
are certainly one hundred and fif
ty million people in Europe alone
who are dreadfully underclad as a
result of the war." He appealed
to the American people to start
putting aside now all the service
able used clothing they can spare
for donation to the Victory Cloth
ing Collection for overseas relief,
January 7-31.
Mr. Hoover, who was adminis- .
trator of American relief activi- '
ties during World War I, said:
"With the current shortage of
fuel overseas, suffering will be
"doubled. Tens of thousands of
children are unable to attend
school forjack of shoes. American
families' cannot give too much." J
He pledged utmost personal
support to the January nation
wide clothing collection on behalf |
of UNRRA (United Nations Relief '
and Rehabilitation Administra- j
tion) for the relief of the needy
and destitute in war-devastated
lands. Henry J. Kaiser is national
chairman of this collection as he
was of the United National Cloth
ing Collection last spring which
provided clothing, shoes and bed
ding for 25,000,000 war victims in
Europe, toe Philippines a n d
China.
Jackson Red Cross Unit
jTo Be Saluted Over Air
!
Ten Students To Attend
Student Legislature
At Raleigh Nov. 30
Cullowhee ? Ten students from
Western Carolina Teachers Col
lege will be members of the ninth
Annual Student Legislature which
meets in Raleigh November 30
through December 1. The legis- 1
? lature, sponsored by the Forensic
! Squad of State College serves as
I a medium of experience in th?
I processes of government and pub
lic speaking.
L. H. Halliburton of Hamlet is
student leader of the group. Others
attending are Charles Neill, Cher
ryville; Jake Schoonderwoerd,
Enka; Warren Barnes, Robbins
ville; Maxie Wright, Highlands;
Paul Carlock, Enka; Nacy Potts,
Highlands; Joe Henry, Sylva*
Madrie Galloway, Brevard, and
jl^an Hall, Brevard.
Clarence Chrisman, Prolesor at
Modern languages is faculty ad
visor of the group.
Growers in Pamlico and Car
taret counties are testing two new
types of cabbage, Round Head No.
1 and No. 2, which are said to be
resistant to bolting and cold 1
weather damage.
The Jackson County Chapter of
American Red Cross will be sa
luted Saturday, December 1, at
6:16 p. m. over radio station
VVWNC from Asheville, N. C. in
the fifth of a series of five broad
casts on the roll played by the
Western North Carolina Chapters
in the American Red Cross pro
gram at* home and abroad. This
recognition is for outstanding
work in First Aid and Water
Safety rendered by this chapter.
Two other chapters of Western
North Carolina, Madison County
and Macon County, also will be
cited on this program.
The salute to the Jackson
County Chapter is the final broad
cast in the series over station
WWNC. This program, as in pre
vious broadcasts, emphasizes the
need of a greater number of Red
Cross workers that will be neces
sary to carry on Red Cross serv
ices to men still in the Armed
Forces, to Veterans and their fam
ilies, and to civilians both in the
United States and foreign coun
tries that have been devested by
war.
Other broadcasts over station
WWNC have stressed Red Cross
service to veterans, to men in the
armed forces, civilian relief over
seas and the future plans of the
American Red Cross.
Chairman Ariail Urges
Special Effort To Increase
Victory Bond Purchases
The United States Treasury De
partment has issued a bond to be
sold to "E" bond purchasers dur
ing the Victory Loan drive and
has designated this bond as the
Roosevelt Memorial Bond. This is
a special $200 bond sold only to
"E" bond class or purchasers,
which are the individual inves
tors. Many of the communities of
North Carolina have had what
they called Roosevelt Memorial
Bond days or weeks at which time
special effort was made to sell
this bond. Jackson county is hold
ing its Roosevelt Memorial Bond
special drive during the week of
Dec. 3 through the 8th which is
the date the Victory Loan drive
officially ends. However, "E"'
bonds of all types, including the
special $200 Roosevelt Memorial
bond bought through the month
of December will be credited to
the county's quota of $108,000.00
which is the county's E bond
quota. The over-all quota is $175,
000.00.
Mr. R. L. Ariail, chairman of
Jackson's War Finance commit
tee, who has conducted the six
previous War loan drives with
great success, is very anxious that
the citizens of Jackson . county
make a special effort to buy all
the "E" bonds possible during the
next few days in order that the
county may get out of the 40 per
cent class and be able to again
report "the quota made." In all
the previous drives Jackson coun
ty has more than made the quota
assigned. ?
>> Mr. Ariail calls to the attention
of the citizens that this is the last
and fmal bond drive in which
people will be called on to buy
Government bonds. They are the
best investment in the world to
day, the people have the money,
the Government needs the money
in order to bring our boys home
and to care for those remaining
in occupied countries and for the
sick and wounded in the many
hospitals, buy bonds today and
help supply the money needed and
also help Jackson county again
make its bond quota. ,
STREAMS HERE TO
BE REPLENISHED
Restocking of Jackson County
streams and lakes will result in
the forest fire prevention and
'timber thinning' campaign of ed
ucation thru the schools here, it
is stated in a bulletin from the
Southern Forestfire Commission,
Birmingham 5, Alabama, who are
offering free forest posters, films,
booklets to farmers and teachers
of the County who request them.
"Fully three-fourths of the fish
in Southern brooks and creeks,
and lakes have been killed or run
|*out by lye poison after rains flood
the watersheds that have been
burnt over ? too often the lye-pot
ash poison swooping in during
spawning season," the statement
avers.
Included in the valuable and
free material furnished by the
Commission and associate groups
on request by local citizens are:
"Trees of Tomorrow," "John
Bunyan Quiz," and posters. Write
American Forest Products Indus
tries, Inc., 1319 Eighteenth St.,
? NW, Washington, D. C.
Large fade-proof fence post and
tree- posters and stickers: U. S.
Forest Service, Glenn Bldg., At
lanta, Ga.
"Woodland Wonders" litho
graphed education booklet: Allis
Chalmers Mfg. Co., Milwaukee 1,
Wis., Box 512.
"Thinning instead of skinning"
posters and stickers: SOS Com
mission, Inc., Birmingham 5, Ala.
Samples of the various publi
cations and signs are being sent
to the local school authorities and
also the local Farm Bureau FecU
eration of t&e County, tlia
ment concludes. '>
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