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VOL. XX, NO. 34
SYLVA, N. C., Wednesday, Jan. 9, 1946
$1.50 A Year in Jackson And Swain Counties ? 5c Copy
ARNALL PROMISES
COMPLETION OF
HIGHWAY NO. 60
According to the Cherokee
Scout, Murphy's progressive
weekly newspaper, Governor El
lis Arnall, of Georgia has prom
ised to complete the 8 mile link
of unimproved road of Highway
No. 60 from the North Carolina
liije through Mineral Bluff, Ga.,
to the junction of Highway No. 2
which leads from Blue Ridge to
Blairsville. This is a link of road
all western North Carolina is in
terested in as it is a direct route
into this section from Atlanta and
other southern points. Tourist
travel has been avoiding this route
due to this bad piece of road. In
stead of coming into the Smoky!
Mountain area through Murphy,
Bryson City and Sylva, they have
been going arouiid through Chat
tanoga and Knoxville and into
Gatlinburg.
Governor Arnall told the Fan
' nin county representative and the
Kiwanis club of Blue Ridge last
week that the road would be com
pleted this summer.
M'PHERSON OFFERED
BY SHELBY ROTARY
CLUB FOR GOVERNOR
OF NEW DISTRICT
The Shelby Rotary club has en
dorsed one of its members, Holt
McPherson, for governor of the
new 194th District of Rotary In
ternational. The new district em
braces 27 clubs in Western North
Carolina from Charlotte to An
drews. The old 190th district of
which Stanley Black of Bryson
City is Governor, included clubs
in upper South Carolina and
Western North Carina.
" McPherson is vice-presiclerft and
managing editor of ? the Shelby
Daily Star.
WASHED-OUT BENT
DELAYS TRAIN 18
Passenger train No. 18, Murphy
to Asheville, was delayed here an
hour and twenty minutes Monday
morning while section men re
paired a weakened trestle in the
Sylva yard. Excessive rainfall
Sunday night sent Scotts Creek
on a wild rampage causing one of
Ihe temporary wooden bents to
wash out making the trestle un
safe for trains to move over it.
Workmen have been engaged in
putting in a new steel trestle at
this point and had not completed
the job when the heavy rain came.
A coffer-dam built around the
trestle was also washed out. The
double header freight going to
Murphy was also delayed several
houx$.
Lt. Com. E. J. Duckett
Released1 From Navy
Lt. Commander Edgar Duckett,
Mrs. Duckett and two children
spent a few days last week visit
ing friends in Sylva and Cullo
whee. ,
Lt. Com.-. Dockett, USNR, sta
tioned for more than three years
in California, has been released
to inactive duty and after spend
ing about two months in North
Carolina will return to Northern
California where he will engage
in growing seed potatoes.
Before entering service he was
employed as electrical engineer at
Western Carolina Teachers Col
lege and later served in the same
capacity with the Mead Corpora*
tion in Sylva
The Ducketts left Monday for
Waynesville to visit his parents
and will later go to Goldsboro to
visit Mrs. Duckett's mother and
other relatives.
Hugh Monteith To
Address Webster PTA
An address by Hugh Monteith
on "Parental Delinquency" will
feature the meeting of the Web
ster Parent-Teachers Association
which will be held in the Webster
school house on Tuesday night,
January 15th at 7 o'clock. v
It is hoped that as many parents
as can will attend this important
meeting.
Receives Discharge
T-5 Lesker D. Buchanan, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Buchanan
of Gay, and husband of the for
mer Miss Alice Rogers of Cullo
whee received an honorable dis
charge from the U.-S. Army Dec.
16th at Fort Bragg.
T-5 Buchanan spent thirty eight
months in the Army, nineteen
months of this being overseas duty
? in the European theatre. He en
tered service Oct. 20, 1942, first
going to Fort Bragg and from
there to Camp Campbell, Ky.,
whehre he was stationed for about
ten months before going to the
Tennessee Maneuver Area. Re
turning to Camp Campbell he was
sent to the Port of Embarkation
and landed in England in April,
1944.
T-5 Buchanan saw action in
France, Belgium, Holland, Czecho
slovakia, and Germany. He was
stationed in Mannheim, Neurnberg
and Wurzberg. Going to Marseil
les, France, he sailed for home on
the SS John Ericson and arrived
Dec. 10, 1945.
He holds the Good Conduct
medal, the ETO Ribbon with five
battl? stars, and his company re
ceived the Presidential Citation.
He served in the 315th Infantry of
the 79th Division and Tor a time |
was a member of Gen. Patton's
Third Army.
Prior to entering service he was
employed at Fontana Dam.
Mrs. Roy Tritt Returns
From California
Mrs. Roy Tritt of East La Porte
recently returned from Palm
Springs, California where she
spent several weeks with her
daughter, Mrs. Jack Lasley. How
ard, the small son of Mrs. Lasley,
accompanied his grandmother to
California and will remain there
with his parents.
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COLE ENSLEY, 84
PASSES AT HOME
Funeral services were held
Tuesday morning at 11:00, Janu
ary 8, at the Scotts Creek Bap
tist church for Cole Ensley, 84,
who died at his home Sunday
morning following a brief illness.
Rev. B. S. Hensley, Rev. T. S.
Deitz, and Lawrence Crawford of
ficiated at the services.
Nephews served as pallbearers
and deacons of the Scotts Creek
church acted as honorary pall
bearers.
Surviving are two sons, Humph
rey and Bedford Ensley of Sylva
and four daughters, Mrs. Charles
Crawford, Mrs. A1 Anderson and
Mrs. T. C. Bryson, Jr. of Sylva,
and Mrs. Carl Campbell of Can
ton, 28 grandchildren, and 11
great-grandchildren.
Major Harold S. McGuire
Resumes Denial Practice
Major Harold S. McGuire and
family arrived last week from
Winter Park, Fla. and both Ma
jor McGuire and his wife, Dr. Pat
sy McGuire have resumed their
dental practice in Syiva.
Major McGuire has been in
service for 41 months, stationed at
Orlando, Fla., where he was con
nected with the Regional Station
Hospital Dental Clinic. He is on
terminal leave until February
26th when he will be placed on
inactive status with the U. S.
Army.
NATION DOUBLES
VICTORY LOAN
The Treasury Department
in Washington has announced
that Bond sales in the Victory
Loan campaign almost dou
bled the quota.
The department's figures in
the final report on this, the
eighth and last war loan,
showed sales reached $21,144,
000,000 or 192 per cent of the
$11,000,000,000 goal.
Individuals purchased a to
tal of $6,776,000,000 or 169 per
cent of the $4,000,000,000 suota,
and E-bond purchases $2,204,
000,000, or 110 per cent of the
$2,000,000,000 sought by the
treasury.
The wprld carry-over of cotton
stands at 26.5 million bales as
compared with 22 million bales
before the war.
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NEW CITY TAGS ON
SALE AT CAMPBELL'S
Sylva citizens can get their
new 1946 city auto tags at
Campbell's Ice Cream shop in
the Ritz theatre building. Mr.
Campbell, chief of the Sylva
Fire Department is handling
the sales of these 200 tags for
the department. All funds de
rived from the tags go into
the treasury of the Fire de
partment to help defray inci
dental expenses. The tags are
the same color as the state
tag, yellow letters on black
background. They sell for $1
each. Buy one and help the
boys of the department with
their big job of protecting
your property.
R. N. HENSON RITES
HELD AT COWARTS
R. N. Henson, 71. of Cowarts,
well-known Jackson county live
stock grower, died early Friday at
the Sylva hospital following a
brief illness.
Funeral services were held at
11 o'clock Saturday morning at
Cowarts Methohdist church, with
the Rev. E. A. Fitzgerald officiat
ing. Graveside rites and burial
were in Pole Creek Baptist church
cemetery, near Candler.
Active pallbearers were Louis
Bumgarner, Luther Stfephens,
Benjamin Nicholson, Blaine Nich
olson, Bernard Brown, and How
ard Wood.
Mr. Henson had long been a
leading member of the Methodist
church in Jackson county, and for
many years served as superin
tendent of the Methodist Sunday
school at Cowarts.
He was a son of the late Wiley
Henson and Deborah Mease Hen
son of Haywood county.
Surviving are six .children: Mrsr
D. M. Hooper of Asheville, Frank
Henson of Canton, Grady Henson
of Sylva, Hilliard Henson of Ashe
ville, Way Henson of Cowarts, and
Mrs. John W. Summers of Cow
arts; his stepmother, Mrs. Lethia
Sellers Henson of Candler; two
brothers, Matt Henson of Long
Beach, Calif., John Henson of Wil
mington; 'six sisters, Mrs. Lydia
Rhodarmer'of Canton,. Mrs. Lona
Clemmons of Hayesville, Mrs. J.
C. Clark of Candler, Mrs. Tallie
Massie of Candler, Mrs. H. P. Is
rael of Candler and Mrs. Glenn
McFee of Asbeville.
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VICTORY PULPWOOD CAMPAIGN
tElje ^Ceralft
In recognition of the valuable contribution this
newspaper has made to the nation's war pro*
gram by its efforts to increase the production
of pulpwood.
WAX PRODUCTION
FUNERAL RITES FOR
DR. W. H. WOODY
HELD TODAY AT 2 P. M.
Prominent Cullowhec
Physician Failed To
Survive Operation
Funeral services were conduct
,ed Wednesday, Jan. 9th' at 2
o'clock at the Cullowhee Methodist
church for Dr. W. H. Woody, 48,
who died at the Franklin hospital
January 6th after a brief illness.
Burial followed in the church
cemetery. The Masonic Order No.
358, of which he was a member,
had charge of. the rites and the
Rev. R. T. Houts, Jr., of Cullo
whee and the Rev.- E. A. Fitzger
ald of Webster officiated. The
body lay in state at the church
for an hour before the funeral.
! Dr. Woody was a native of
Yancey County, a son of the late
A. A. and Lydia M. Woody, of
Green Mountain, N. C. He was a
graduate of Berea College, Berea,
Ky. and the University of Louis
ville Medical College. Receiving
his M. D. degree in 1924 he prac
ticed medicine in Pike county, Ky.
and Bakerville, N. C. Coming to
East La Porte in 1924 as physician
to Blackwood Lumber Company,
i he also did private practice in the
I county and moved to Cullowhee a
year ago where he continued his
work.
Dr. Woody was a member of the
Methodist church and the Masonic
Lodge No. 358.
He is survived by his widow,
three daughters, Betty Jean, Mary
Joy and Marjorie, all of Cullo
whee; two brothers, Dr. L. W,
Woody of Spruce Pine, John P.
Woody of Green Mountain, three
sisters Mrs. Boyd Johnson and Mrs.
Cluade Hughes of Green Moun
tain, and Mrs. Joe Witson ol' Tip
ton Hill.
Active pallbearers were: Thomas
Wike, Felix Hooper, Ralph Hunter,
Roy Hamilton, Edward Battle, and
Fred Hamilton of East LaPorte
and Cullowhee.
Honorary pallbearers were: Dr.
Edward Angel, Dr. D. Justice, Dr.
Corbin and Harvey Griffith of the
Franklin hohspital staff, Dr.
Grover Wilkes, Dr. A. S. and A. A.
Nichols, Dr. D. D. Hooper, Dr. Roy
Kirchberg, Fred Hooper and John
Norton of Sylva, Claude Parker,
John Wike, Dr. C. A. Peterson, Dr.
W. L. Williams Dr. Harld Bacon,
Dr. E. A. Gouge, Dr. H. T. Hunter
and John Painter.
Flower girls were: Dorothy Sue
Sutton, Ruth Sutton, Rebecca
Smith, Jaunita Dills, Edna Hughes,
Mary Marguerite Hughes, Mary
Alice Cowan, Mrs. Edmond Long,
Mrs. Fred Hamilton and Mrs.
Davis Zachary.
CIVIC GROUPS URGE
REPRESENTATIVES
TO BACK PRESIDENT
In accordance with the request
of President Truman that individ
ual efforts be made about the la
bor and economic situation, mem
bers of the Sylva Merchants As
sociation and Chamber of Com
merce dispatched wires Thursday
to North Carolina Congressman
Zebulon Weaver and Senators
Clyde R. Hoey and Josiah W.
Bailey, asking them to legislate
laws toward the control of strik
ing, in an effort to avert a more
critical shortage of merchandise.
An impromptu meeting of the
Association, following the address
of the President resulted in this
action. Jackson merchants, feel
ing the nationwide shortage made
their first step toward alleviating
it.
Hogs need ui be treated for lice
during the winter months because
the lice may tite carriers of twine
pox.
Secretary of. Agriculture An
derson has tabbed the U. S. farmer
with the "refpoM^bfiitiet" of plen
tiful production and market ex
pansion in 1946.
Jackson Named Meeting Place
For New Health Unit Set-up
Western North Carolina
Cullowhee January 14th
The Western North Carolina
Rrp'ist Confcrcrc0 which is meet
ing at the Cullowhee Baptist
church on January 14th has se
lected as the theme of the day's
meeting "The Preacher and His
Call." The yearly theme will be
"The Preacher and His Mission."
The morning conference will
include:
10:30 ? Devotional, Rev. John
Freeman, Bryson City.
10:50 ? Business and introduc
tion.
11:10 ? Explanation of program,
C. M. Warren, Sylva. I
11:15 ? "Considering God's Call,"1
Rev. Edgar Willis; 1
11:35 ? "Answering God's Call,"
Rev. Cardine Green, Canton.
11:55 ? Message, Rev. J. Alton
Morris, Murphy.
12:30 ? Benediction and lunch.
At the afternoon conference the
program will be as follows:
1:45 ? Devotional, Rev. C. C.
Welch, Franklin.
2:00 ? Report of committees.
2:10 ? Round table discussion.
"My call and response" led by
Rev. L. G. Elloitt, Waynesville.
2:50 ? Special music and hymn.
3:00 ? Message, Dr. H. T. Hun
ter, Cullowhee.
3:30 ? Adjourn.
MILAS PARKER IS
CLAIMED RY DEATH
Funeral services for Milas Par
ker, 72, well known retired Sylva
business man and farmer, who
died Wednesday night at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. Tilgham
Bass, were held Saturday after
noon at 1 o'clock at the Sylva Bap
tist church. The Rev. C. M. War
ren and Rev. H. M. Hocutt were
in charge of the rites and mem
bers of the East La Porte Masonic
Lodge participated.
Members of the Ruby Daniels 1
class served as flower girls and
buiial waS in the Cowarts ceme
tery. , I
Honorary pall bearers were
James G. K. McClure, Dr. A. S.
and A. A. Nichols, Church Crow
ell, J. B. Ens ley, Frank Jarrett,
B. C. Campbell, Ellis Super, John
McElroy, Houston Moffitt, E. P.
Stillwell, HugU Monteith and R. L.
Madison.
Mr. Parker, long active in civic
affairs of the county has been in
ill health for some time. A na
tive son of the county, he had lived
most of his life in the Cowarts
section. At one time he was an
employee of the Asheville Citizen
Times and also served as United
States Deputy internal revenue
collector.
A graduate of the Cullowhee
Normal School, now W. C. T. C.,
Mr. Parker taught school for a
number of years in the county.
He was instrumental in bringing
a branch office of the Farmers
Federation to the county and one
time served as director of the or
ganization.
He is survived by three daugh
ters, Mrs. Tilghman Bass, Mrs.
Edgar Queen of Portsmouth, Va.t
Mrs. Charles McMahan, of Sylva
and one son, J. B. Parker of Syl
va; one sister, Mrs. A. A. Stephens
of East La Porte and one grand
daughter, Donna Gail.
Many Farmers Have Not
Filed Practice Reports
According to Mr. D. C. Higdon,
chairman of the Jackson county A.
C. A. there are a number of far
mers who have not filed their re
port for practices carried out in
1945. All farmers are urged to
come by the AAA office at once
and do this if they wish to receive
aid through the program in 1946.
Also any payment that maty be
due them for practices carried out
in 1945 must be signed for.
In recognition of agriculture's
vital interest in the disposition of
surplus property, an Agriculture
Policy Committee has been ap
pointed by the Surplus Property
administration.
Five County Unit
Organized Under
New Act Of 1945
Legislature
At a meeting at Jarrett
Springs Hotel, held last Friday
night, January 4, a five-county
health unit was established in
compliance with the ruling of leg
islation passed by the 1945 gen
eral assembly of health clinics.
George A. Brown, Jr. of Hay
wood county was elected perma
nent chairman of the group, Dr.
C. N. Sisk, who has served as
district health officer since the
work was organized_several_years
ago, was named district health
officer under the new set up, and
I the four ex-officio members to be
appointed by Dr. Carl Reynolds,
secretary of the state board of
health were: W. L. Latham, of
Bryson City, Superintendent of
Swain County schools, T. Walter
Ashe, Chairman of the Jackson
county Board of Commissioners,
W. E. Baldwin of Franklin, chair
man of the Macon County Board
of Commissioners and Verne P.
Clement.
In addition to the above mem
bers the law requires that four s
other members be named, a physi
cian, a dentist, a registered phar
macist and a public spirited citi
zen. Thsoe members rae Dr. Har
old Bacon of Bryson City, physi
cian, Dr. A. P. Cline of Canton,
dentist, and Dan Moore of Sylva,
public member. Due to the ab
sence of ex-officio members from
Transylvania and Macon the
druggist which will be named
from one of those counties has
not yet been appointed.
JACKSON. COUNTY NAMED
AS MEETING PLACE
Jackson county has been select
ed as the meeting place for this
unit due to its strategic and cen
tral location.
The reorganization of the health
plan was made in order to better
I .serve the counties involved which
arc Macon, Swain, Haywood,.
Jackson and Transylvania. Prior
to this set-up each county had its
own public health system, operat
ing under a county board of offi
cers. With the change an inter
exchange of health practices are
I made available.
ASHE AGAIN HEADS
CLOTHING DRIVE
IN JACKSON
T. Walter Ashe has again been
appointed chairman of the nation
wide Victory clothing drive which
started January 7th. The Sylva
Lions and Rotary club will spon
sor the drive.
In an effort to relieve the crit
ical shortage of clothing in war
torn countries, the United States
is making the second drive to pro
duce garments for these countries.
The first, in April, was completed
successfully, both in the county
and nationwide.
All garments should be in us
able condition and clean and
should consist of wearing apparel,
bedding, household linens, shoes,
and lengths of material. It is par
ticularly requested that infants
and children clothes be sent. Cot
ton garments must be clean but
do not have to be ironed. All
shoes and hose should be securely
mated and tied.
Mr. Ashe has not yet named co
chairman and committee members
who will work with him, but an
nouncement of these will be made
next week. Collecting depots and
agents will also be named.
While his six brothers were in
the armed services, Bryan Coates,
a 4-H club boy of Johnston Coun
ty, won a $200 scholarship in the
national 4-H field crops contest.
Sunrise has proved to be the ;
highest yielding strain of barley >
over a three-year peroid at the '
Piedmont Experiment SUfka at
Statesville.