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FSA FARM OWNERSHIP BORROWERS REVIEW PROGRESS
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N. -C. Wildlife Feder
ation Holds First
Annual State Meet
T. N. Massie Named Vice 1
Chairman Of District Nine
Greensboro, Jan. 26 ? Delegates
to the first annual meeting of the
North Carolina Wildlife Federa
tion, incorporated, at Sedgefield,
near Greensboro, on January 23
and 24, went home determined to
intensify the drive for members
and to educate the public gener
ally about the federation's objec
tives.
P. K. Gravely, Rocky Mount to
bacconist, was elected president,
succeeding Col. Frank E. Page
Greensboro, who was made hon
orary president and elected a di
rector for life.
The three new vice-presidents
are Wayne Bramlette, Asheville;
A. C. Davis, Greensboro, and S. B.
Coley, Raleigh. The Constitution
was amended to provide for three ,
instead of two vice presidents, rep
resenting! the mountain, central and
coastal areas of the state.
* E. J. Stoker, Greensboro, was
re-elected secretary-treasurer, and j
Ross O. Stevens, Raleigh, execu- I
tive director, was re-named with
recommendation that his salary be
increased.
The delegates re-affirmed the
federation's objective ? separation
of the division of game and inland
fisheries from the state depart
ment of conservation and develop
ment. It was unanimously agreed
that in order to make a successful
fight in^ the 1947 geq?3?l Msrm i
bly f or separation, the federation's.'
, membership must be built up aikf
the citizens of the state fully in
formed of their big stake in the
program for better management of
the wildlife resources.
' Game and fish programs in
Pennsylvania and Michigan are
( the patterns on which the North
Carolina federation has based its
objectives. Seth Gordon, executive ;
director of the Pennsylvania game j
commission, and Fred A. Wester- ,
man, in charge of the fish program j
in Michigan, spoke to the annual
meeting on their respective plans. (
Both Gordon and Westerman :
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WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS
HOLD FIRST ANNUAL
MEET IN CHAPEL HILL
Herald Is Member Of
Exclusive Group
Of N. C. Weeklies
Meeting in conjunction with the
North Carolina Newspaper Insti
tute in Chapel Hill and Duke Uni
versity last week, the North Caro
lina Weekly Newspaper Associa
tion held its first annual session
Friday afternoon at the Carolina
Inn.
Officers were elected and by
laws and constitution adopted.
Curtis W. Russ, of Waynesville was
elected president of the associa
tion.
The new group which was or
ganized a year ago last November
has a membership of 51 weekly
newspapers, almost a third of the
entire number of Weeklies in the
state.
The purpose of the organization
is a "planned systematic program
of improvement of the member
papers, including circulation, busi
ness practices, reportorial and edi
torial contents, and typographical
appearance."
The National Audit Bureau of
Circulation now shows that North
?appliaa if tied for second, place
In the total number of weekly
members in that organization for
the entire country. North Caro
lina has a higher percentage of
A. B. C. weeklies and semi-week
lies than any other state.
The Sylva Herald is a member
of the Audit Bureau of Circula
tion.
Emory Olin Ensley, S 2-c
To Receive Discharge
Emory Olin Ensley, seaman, first
class, Sylva, N. C., is being dis
charged after honorable service in
the Navy, at the personnel separa
tion center in Little Creek, Va.
Jackson , 5 Other Counties Will
Receive $36,800 From Forest
The Nantahala National forest1
has announced that the six coun
ties in which the forest lies par
ticipate in a fund of $36,600.78 as
their share of the gross receipts of
the forest for the fiscal year of
1945.
The fund, which represents 25
per cent of the gross receipts of the
Nantahala forest, is prorated to the
counties on the basis of acreage
lying within the forest.
The counties participating in
this fund are: Jackson, Swain,
Macon, Cherokee, Clay, and Gra
ham.
Payment has been made by the
U. S. treasury to the state treas- ]
urer of North Carolina for distri
bution to the counties.
An additional 10 per cent of the
gross receipts ? $14,720.31 ? is
available to the U. S. Forest serv
ice for the construction and main- !
tenance of roads and trails on the
national forests within the state. !
Practically all of the income on
the Nantahala forest was from the
sale of timber stumpage, it was ex
plained. Other sources of revenue
were from grazing, mining and
other land use permits.
The sale of timber involved was
cut between July 1, 1944 and June
30, 1945 and was virtually all ear
marked for use in the prosecution ;
of the war. In addition, the cutting
of this timber stumpage provided
employment to many people, and
% raw materail for the local wood
using industries, officials pointed
out.
I
Sylva Elementary School
Makes Donation To
Polio Campaign
Mr. W. V. Cope, principal of the
Sylva Elementary school has in
formed the Herald that the school
has again gone over the top in its
donation to -another of the many
worthwhile causes that it has been
called upon to contribute to in the
past few months.
This time it was the Polio cam
paign. The school gave $104. AU of
this amount was raised through
voluntary gifts by the students and
teachers, and represents more than
10% of Jackson County's quota.
Mrs. Norton's second grade led
with $22*48, but each room made
a liberal contribution to this wor
thy cause.
Mr. Cope and his corps of teach
ers deserve much credit for the
splendid work being done by them.
Among other drives to which the
school has contributed are the Red
Cross, the Junior Red Cross, the
Tubercular Seals, and the United
War Fund.
Mrs. M. W. Whitmire
Critically 111 Following '
Major Operation
Mrs. A. D. Parker has received
a message that her sister, Mrs. M.
W. Whitmire, (the former Miss
Mattie Mae Shelton) of Midland,
Texas, is critically ill, following a
major operation In San Anfelo,
Texas. I
KEEP OUR AMERICA GREEN
iMMf imnr '-Mf i
keeping America green is an Industrie! end civic objee*
live that ie sweeping through the foreet states of the nation.
Thirteen states ere now enlisted in a "keep green" move
ment, designed to keep fir# out of the woods and off the
ranges. Ten of theee states wined the program during IMS
and eight more are expected to initiate similar plana early
In 1946.
Starting in Washington atata a few years ago under
the slogan "Keep Washington Green", the program is based
upon recognition thst Are is forest enemy No. 1, and that ?'???
chief mum of forest Arts U man's carelessness. A quarter
of them art started by careless cigarette smokers alone.
Today, Oregon, Montana, Minnesota, Virginia, North
Carolina, Mississippi, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Massachusetts, Connecticut snd Rhode Island have similar
programs ia effect, enlisting ths joint efforts of state for
estry departments, industry, fsrmers, labor, women's clubs
and other civic groups who understand the fact that efforts
of owners of forest lands to product trees for future supplies
<">n be nullified by fire.
Methods For Better f orest Practices
And Fa rest Protection Discussed At
Forestry Meet in Raleigh Last Week
JACKSON DRAFT
OFFICIALS ARE
RECOGNIZED
Orie E. Monteith and Lewis
Cannon went to Asheville Friday, 1
January 25th to be present at a
ceremony in the Buncombe county j
courthouse at which time they
were presented medals for their |
service in connection with the draft
board.
Gov. R. Gregg Cherry and
Brigadier General J. Van B. Metts
presented the awards to those
men who have served on various
draft boards for two years or more. j
The draft officials in this, as in
other counties, have served with
out pay for more than two years.
A third member of the board,
John Morris, who has also served
for more than two years was un- ?
able to be at the ceremony, due
to illness. I
Fred Wendt Passes
In Veterans Hospital
Fred Wendt, a veteran of the
first World War died Monday j
afternoon at a veterans hospital '
in Atlanta, Ga., acocrding to news
received here.
Mr. Wendt, a native of Alaba- j
ma, resided in Cullowhee a number j
of years and was employed by the
TV A as an engineer. He recently
moved to Commerce, Ga.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs. ,
Clara McGuire Wendt of Cullo- ,
whee, and three small children,
Johannah, Nancy and Fred Walk
Methodist Church To
Honor Returning Veterans
I
Members of t h e Methodist
church will honor returning serv- j
ice men of the congregation on '
Friday night, Feb. 1st at 7 o'clock
in the Allison building with a sup
per.
Each serviceman may bring one
guest and members of the church
will pay $1.00 for their plate.
Please notify the committee in
charge if you will be there.
More farm fruits are in prospect
for civilians in 1946 than in 1945
and canned fruits will be much
more plentiful. .
'Local Men Attend Two- 1
Day Meeting Of N. C.
Forestry Association
Mr. Cmirles E. Pettit, district
forester of the Sylva office, Mr. J
Mack Ashe,' Jackson county for
est and game warden, Mr.* A. H.
Weidlich, manager of the Log Ca
bin Association in Jackson coun
ty, and Mr. Raymond Sutton, of
the wood division of the Mead
Corporation, attended the two-day
meeting of the North Carolina
Forestry Association held in Hal- '
eigh last Thursday and Friday, j
They also attended a meeting and
banquet of the Society of American
Forestry Association held Friday
night.
The most important points dis- j
cussed at the Forestry meeting
were better forest practices as to
cutting and harvesting the ma- j
ture timber, development of new
stands of timber and means for a
more adequate fire protection
program.
At the banquet Friday night the
group heard Mr. Eshmyer, etomol- .
ogist for TVA, discuss the fish and
game situation of the state in re
lation to the forest. Mr. Eshmyer
pointed out that fish and game
proprogation and protection is so
closely related to forest conditions
that the two are inseparable. He
said that North Carolina cannot
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MRS. IDA COTTER
Mrs. Ida Cotter, 87, who diod at
her homo in Cullowhee, Jan. 19th
following a long lllneee. Funeral
?ervloee were hold in the Cullo*
whee Met hod let churoh wftere oho
was a member. .. t
POLIO DANCE HELD
TUESDAY EVENING
With Mull, Swann and Robin- |
son furnishing the music and Glen ;
McHan of Waynesville calling the
square dance held at the commu
nity house Tuesday evening to
raise funds for the Polio drive
was a huge success.
A large crowd from Sylva artd
neighboring towns attended and
the cornmittee in charge, composed
of Mrs. W. L. Jones and Mrs. J. A. !
Parris, report that they cleared a
n.ee amount which will greatly j
help toward raising Jackson coun- j
ty's quota.
Bass And Shad Placed
In Glenville And
Other Lakes In WNC
Three truck loads of Bast
and 8had have been placed in
Glenville, Fontana and 8an
teetlah Lakes in a re -stocking
program being carried out by
the Wildlife club of Jackaon
county in cooperation with
TVA.
Mr. T. N. Massie made two
trips to Norris Lake with his
truck and the 8tate Fish Hat
chery at Balsam sent one truck
which brought the fish to the
lakes week before last.
One load of bass and shad
were placed in Glenville. The
bass being 6 to 19 inches and
the shad, a food fish for the
bass, 10 to 12 inches.
The Wildlife clubs of the
Western counties are making
a determined effort to see that '
the lakes and streams of West
ern North Carolina are stock
with game fish in order to
make Western North Carolina
a real fisherman's paradise.
U. S. E. S. Offices To Be
Closed All Day Saturday
Mr. C. E. Thompson of the U. S.
E. S. office in Sylva has announced
that beginning MonBay, January
28th the office will be operated
on a five day week schedule. It
will be closed ail day Saturday.
Persons reporting to the office on
Saturday will please report the
following Monday, February 4th.
Anyone wishing service in this
office may call Monday through
Friday* ,
1 Records Show Average
" FSA Borrower Has Net
Income Of Over $1200
CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE TO ELECT
NEW OFFICIALS
It has been announced that bal
lots will be cast for the election of
officers for the Chamber of Com
merce February 11th through Feb
ruary 16th. Those candidates list
ed are: Joe Popperwell, W. T.
Wise, F. H. McNeely, Everett Har
ris, Felix Picklesimer, W. H. Craw
ford, Cole Cannon, J. A. Gray, Roy
Reed, H. J. Landis, Homer Davis,
Crawford Shelton, Harold Mc- |
Guire, Jeff Hedden, Dr. Ashbrook,
Roscoe Poteet, Mach Ashe and
Harry Ferguson.
Nine of these eighteen candi
dates will be elected to serve for
the coming year.
There will be ballots and boxes
provided at each business house in
the town and the public is urged
to cast their votes on the days
named. 1
Former Jackson Resident
Passes In California
Mrs. Lora Wilson Savoie, for
mer Jackson county resident re- I
cently passed away at her home
in Redlands, Cal., where she had i
made her home for the past 22
years. Mrs. Savoie was a native of
the Speedwell section of Jackson
county, the daughter of the late
Mp. and Mrs. William M:MVifc?on.
She was first married to Zeb
Rhea of this county. In 1903,
with her family, she went to Okla
homa, later going to California,
where she spent the remainder of
her life.
She is survived by several chil
dren living in California, one
brother, S. E. Wilson, of Speed
well; one sister, Mrs. Beulah Bry
son of Florida.
She was an aunt of Mrs. R. U.
Sutton and Roy Dills of Sylva.
Sunbaths have been found to be
greatly beneficial to the health
and growth if calves, according
to specialists of the State College
Extension Service.
'Jackson Supervisors Tell
Of Outstanding Work
Of Former Tenants
FSA Farm Ownership Borrow
ers were guests of the GlenviUe
school on Friday. January 25th.
The occasion was the annual busi
ness meeting of all borrowers in
Jackson County who purchased
farms through the Farm Security
Administration. The purpose of
this annual event is to review the
activities of each farm family dur
ing the past year. The program
theme for the day was Better
Farm and Home Practices as an
aid to Farm Ownership.
Official figures were presented
to the group by W. T. Brown and
Martha B. Barnett, FSA supervi
sors. It was explained that many
of these former tenants have done
outstanding work in farm and
home management as revealed by
detailed records of income and ex^^_
penses. For example, W. C. Moody
of Speedwell received an income
of $3,013.00 during the past year.
It was emphasized that this far
mer had six different sources of
income in excess of $50.00 which
indicates that Mr. Moody is not de
pending on cabbage alone to pay
for his farm. "We need a more di
versified farm program in Jack
son County," stated Mr. Brown,
"especially among our farm own
ership farmers."
The report further revealed that
the family of W. A. Crawford at
Erastus has done u outstanding
job of practical farming during the
past year. At the end of the year
this family w^s $1,244.00 ahead on
farm payments.
The following figures were pre
sented to the group by the FSA
supervisor for Jackson, Swain and
Graham County:
Average size of Farm Owner
ship Loan ? $2362.00.
Amount average borrower is
ahead of scheduled payments ?
$213.80.
Average net worth gain during
past year ? $513.00.
Average worth of livestock, feed
and farm equipment on each farm
?$1188.00.
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Jurors Drawn For February
Term Jackson Superior Court
Funeral Rites Conducted
For Mrs. Jane Watson
Funeral services were held for
Mrs. Jane Watson at the Pine
Creek cemetery Sunday, Jan. 20th
at 2 o'clock with the Kevs. Frank
Heed of Highlands, and R. C. Mor
gan of Erastus, officiating. *
She died at the home of her
daughter, Miss Lessie Watson of
Norton on Jan. 19th at the age of
95.
In addition to her daughter she
is survived by two sons, M. R. of
Six Mile, S. C., and Grover Wat
son of Norton, seven grandchil
dren, three great grandchildren,
one half brother, Jack Stewart of
Norton, three half sisters, Mrs.
Sallie Moore of Franklin, Mrs.
Etie Heed of Cashiers and Mrs.
Ida Ashe of Sedro Wooly, Wash.
"Aunt Jane" as she was affec
tionately known to her friends and
relatives was a devoted and active
Christian. She professed faith in
Christ at the age of 11 and joined
the Hamburg Baptist church at
Glenville 84 years ago. She moved
her letter to the Yellow Mountain
Baptist church 6 years ago.
"Aunt Jane" lived to see four
wars and told of burning pine knots
for light to spin and card at night
and of the deer that roamed the
Hamburg Mountain. She was a
resident of Hamburg her entire
life.
Sandhills peach growers are
moving to protect themselves
against losses to. worms this yeas.
? At their meeting on the first
Monday in January the Board of
Commissioners drew names of
Jackson county citizens to serve
on the jury of the February term
'of Jackson County Superior court
?which will convene Monday, Feb
ruary 18, with Judge Wilson War
lick, presiding. John M. Queen, of
Waynesville, will represent the
state.
The jury list is as follows:
Ben Hooper, Cullowhee; Nor
jman Nicholson, Wolf. Mtn.; D. A.
! Phillips, Cowarts; R. L. Knight,
? Cullowhee; Tom King, Barkers
Creek; J. J. Cowan, Cullowhee;
Zeb Jones, Cashiers; Mitchell Mel
ton, Argura; Roy Datton, Sylva; F.
L. Ward, Barkers Creek; Jim L.
Price, Cullowhee; Roger Coward,
Webster; Bill Stephens, Cullowhee;
Rufus Watson, Cullowhee; Ernest
Penland, Webster; Hal Green,
Greens Creek; Carl Buchanan,
Sylva; John Sheppard, Sylva;
Blaine Nicholson, Cowarts; Frank
Crawford, Sylva, R. F. D.; Ira
Jones, Barkers Creek; Don Dills,
Cullowhee; Grady Cline, Speed*
? well; V. V. Ensley, Webster; Char
lie Snider, Dillsboro; Ulus Cog
gins, Erastus; Frank Fricks, Syl
va; Luther Wike, East La Porte;
R. E. Dills, Sylva; John M. Wike,
East La Porte; J. H. Cline, Cullo
whee; Bob Powell, Tuckateigee;
Lee Estes, Greens Creek; Merri
ett Hooper, Cullowhee; T. C. Bry
son, Jr., Sylva; C. M. Martin, Qual
la; Oscar Ensley, Cullowhee; Id
ler Hall, Qualla; David Worley,
Qualla; Frank Rijd ten, Oay; Bar*
ley Lewis, Webster; Frank Rail*
Qualla. --r