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AMERICA First, Last and Always The Sylva Herald The Herald is dedicated to progressive service to Jack so* ... A progressive, well balanced county. VOL. XXI, NO. 9 SYLVA, N. C., Thursday, August 1, 1946 $2.00 A Year?5c Copy The Federation Picnic Attended By (Mr 1500 Foiwteea Musi^ Groups1 Are Featured At Outing More than 1,500 people turned out in the rain Saturday for the annual all-day picnic of the Far mers Federation held in the high school auditorium here. The day was spent mostly in musical en tertainment; fourteen different musical groups sang and played. James G. K. McClure, Farmers Federation president, served as master of ceremonies, assisted by James McClure Clarke, Federation field secretary. The Rev. Dumont Clarke, head of the Religious de partment, represented the Lord's Acre movement and a new move ment for Christian recreation. Three of the five Drake sisters led the entertainment program. Joy, Dixie, and Bunny were pres ent to sing; Dot and Becky have not yet returned from the Pacific 1 coast. The five girls, with their father, Ned Drake, have been en tertaining and making motion pictures in Hollywood and other Pacific coast towns, from Cali fornia to Canada. Their home is in Hendersonville. Aunt Samantha Bumgarner of East Syjva, and Sebe Cope of Green's Creek, both veteran per formers of mountain music, were present. Aunt Samantha played, her banjo, and Sebe his fiddle. Both are quite old; a contrast was provided by 4-year-old Sherry Lee Franklin, daughter of Mrs. Mildred Franklin of East Sylva, who sang. Johnny Rhymer, Gaither Rob inson, and Frank Nanney repre sented the Farmers Federation in string music. Frank and Corbert Reed, both Farmers Federation employees in Buncombe county, sang. Slim Moody and his Mountain Playboys, also of Buncombe coun ty, played and sang mountain music. Besides Mr. Moody, the band consisted of Elmer Lowe, Glenn Porche, Eddie Rayr.es, and Bud Burrell. An all-service quartet, fresh out "of the riavy, played. It consisted of Van Coggins, German Jones, Clyde Pressley, and Fred Williams. Per ry and Kenneth Rhodes of Dills boro, Robert Bramlett and Ralph Biamlett of Dillsboro, and Lyle and Clyde Hall of Green's Creek, made up three more musical groups which entertained. Miss Nora Mae Pierce of Speed well, who has danced at the pic nics since she was a small girl, danced again. Radford Harper, of Fairview, ex-sailor, danced. In quartet competition held in the afternoon, the Speedwell quar tet won first place. It was com posed of Ray Fox, Weaver Fox, Hailey Fox, and Oscar Ashe, with Betty Jo Moore at the piano. Other quartets competing were the Whittier Cherokee Indian quartet, composed' of Jim Con seen, Tom Jumper, Caroline Con ?Continued on page 4 DAMAGES ARE PAID TO CAFE MANAGER Ernest ^Lyons, alleged prin cipal in 'a knockdown-dragout tusale in a local restaurant two Saturdays ago, paid to Jerry Parker, co-manager of the es tablishment, the sum of eight dollars last week for damages to fixtures. According to Justice of the Peace Morriss, no warrant has been brought against any of the participanta in the fight, since none of the eyewitnesses desire to press chargea. The fight is said to have start ed when Lyons allegedly made what witnesses described as a ?"wisecrack" to a girl seated at a table in the restaurant on the afternoon of July 20. The girl's brother, Dock H. Turpin, inter vened, witnesses report, and a fight ensued. Three of the par ticipants received minor cuts and bruises, and Lyons was whacked over the head with a chair. Housing Space Is Needed For Vets At the request of Western Caro lina Teachers college, the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce is making a survey in an effort to locate rentable room space for veterans who plan to attend the college next fall. If you have an additional room in your home in or around Sylva, you are requested to notify Caro ? lyn Lewis at the Chamber of Com merce office and supply the fol |k>win? information: i "kow many rooms will you have ! available after September 15? How many young men will your i rooms accommodate? Approximately what rent per month per veteran would you charge? fc . Gurley Becomes Member Of Sylva Rotary Club Xeatus H. Gurlcy of Cullowhee, engineer and superintendent of buildings and ground* at WCTC, became a member of the Sylva Rotary club at the organization's regular meeting last week. Mr. Gurley, who served in the navy during the war, was pre viously steam engineer for the Mead corporation at Harriman, Tenn. REVIVAL SERVICES AT SHOAL CREEK Beginning last Sunday evening and continuing throughout the week there will be a series of services at the Shoal Creek Metho dist church each evening at 8 o'clock. Rev. R. L. Young will bring the messages. All are urged to attend. Twenty-Six Examined At Eye Clinic Held Here Last Week A total of twenty-six people was examined at the eye clinic held Thursday at the Sylva Baptist church. The clinic, which was sponsored jointly by the health and welfare departments and the Sylva Lions Club, began at 9 o'clock and continued throughout the day. Of the number of people seen, twenty-two were children and four were adults. Reports showed eleven patients needed glasses constantly or for close work; six were recommended for squint sur gery; three referred - tor further medical examination and six pre scriptions written for glasses, four of these being paid for by the Lions club. Two of the three adults at the clinic were referred by Miss Wil liams, blind case worker. One operation was scheduled?the removal of a growth from the eye of an adult patient. The clinic was conducted under the supervision of Dr. Ruth Leon ard of the Charlotte Ear, Eye, Nose, md Throat hospital, who served as clinician; Miss Kay Reed John son, medical case worker for the State Blind Commission, assisted by Miss Helen Trexler, also medi cal case worker of this organiza tion, and Mrs. J. R. McCracken, district health nurse. Mr. Sea grove, representative for the Southeastern Optical Company of Charlotte, supervised all measure ments and fittings. The Lions Club makes yearly surveys on persons needing eye attention. All applicants must then be approved by the County Wel fare superintendent, G. C. Henson. the person fitted is unable to pay the minimum charge. ~ The committee for Sight Con servation is headed by W. T. Wise and has for members, C. M. War ren and Frank Crawford. The arrangements for last Thursday were made by the Lions Club and G. C. Henson. The C. J. Harris Community hospital worked in close cooperation by furnish ing needed materials. SOSSAMON'S ... in Sylva COMMUNITIES GROUP TO MEET AUGUST 8 AT CULL0WHEE A dinner meeting of the West ern irclina Associated Commu nities .vill be held in the college dining room at Cullowhee on Aug ust 8 for the purpose of lining up projects to be fostered by the group, it was announced this week by W. A. Ashbrook, the unit's rep resentative from the college com munity. WNCAC was formally set up at a meeting at firyson City on July 17 for the purpose of furthering the resources and attractions of Western North Carolina and in cludes representatives from Ashe ville, Brevard, Waynesville, Sylva, Cherokee, Highlands, Franklin, Andrews, Murphy, Robbinsville, Bryson City, and Cullowhee. Percy Ferebee of Andrews was elected chairman at the Bryson meeting. Charles Hay of Waynes vlllc \v~j elected vice-chairman, and C. M. Douglas of Brevard was chosen secretary-treasurer. The group nas formed a set of resolutions in which it will en deavor to cooperate with various agencies of the state and federal government in order to further ;:rcjec:s in the Western part of the state, plan more extensive adver tising for the section, attract more industry to this part of the state, further the; development of the highway system, promote hunting ' and fishing in the region, and bet i ter tourist facilities through an | educational campaign. Huntsville, Alabama Scouts Grateful To Sylva For Hospitality Miss Fay Marshall, Girl Scout Executive at Huntsville, Alabama and three lady assistants with 32 Girl Scouts of the Alabama city, spent Tuesday night at the com ? n*y.nity They were j also accompanied by Mr. W. B. I Whitefield, Scoutmaster lor 23 : years of that city. The Scouts and ! their leaders were, traveling in a i well equipped bus sponsored by ? the .American Legion Post of Huntsville. i Miss Marshall stated that they I left Huntsville July 22 and had .visited Washington, where they were greeted by President Tru man, and stopped at many ether points ot' interest enroute. They expressed themselves as being very grateful to the city ot Sylva for the privilege ot sleeping on their own bed rolls in the com munity building after stopping here with slight motor failure. They got their bus repaired and left Wednesday about 10, expect ing to reach Huntsville Wednes day night. | VFW Group Will Set Up Post At | Meeting Ton igh t , A . post of Veteran? of Foreign \V: rs will t>e instltlited~here to-' night at a meeting in the court house, Fred Williams, temporary quartermaster and committeeman lor the group, has announced. The group will select officers at the meeting, and anyone joining i within the next ninety days will j automatically become a charter | member. Application blanks are ! available from the organization's ! ccmm.tteemen: Williams, Britton 1 Moore, Alvin Nicholson, and Joe Bob Davis.. The number of the post will be 18060, and the name of the unit : will be selected after the organi zation's institution. The move to organize a VFW post in Sylva began after a visit to this town by Coy Newport and James T. Davis, of department I headquarters in North Carolina, | and department representatives ; will be present to aid in the elec i tiorT of officers and in the institu tion of the post. J The organization was born in 1899, following the Spanish-Amer ican war and is organized into ' three main divisions: the local post, | the state department and national ! headquarters. | A paid service officer is located in every state in the Union and handles claims for all veterans. The nearest officer for the Sylva post is iocatcd in Wins; on-Salem. j COUNTY YOUNGSTERS TO VIE FOR AWARDS ; Jackson County's eight entries in the 1946 National Junior Vege table Growers Association produc ! tion-marketing contest will help 'supply North Carolina's fresh vegetable requirements this sum mer. These youthful g:.:uer.ers are competing with boy^ and girl> throughout nation f?>r Sfi.000 in it;.tc, section: 1, regional and na *1uru! award- \n ?\ :i:d by A & I1 Fox1. Store.', .wording 'o Prof. Grant B; Snyrkr, Massnchu.-eit.-' State College, adult advis >r -.>f \:w group. Sc:".oI4.r.i;j win.es will b? announced ' i.ic a.. :!;.a twelfth annu: 1 a nventi >n in ? ton, Decernbe. ?.? and 7. ; J ckson County m ?.i.vle Waae J. A.'iiir.ons and Wini fred J. Ashe, buth of Cullowhee; Billy D.4Sc?ign Hoyt H. Smith, both of Speedwell; Wayne E. Hooper and Lloyd C. Hooper, both of Tuckaseigee; Ted Stephens and Vernal L. Wike, both of East La Porte. i FUNERAL RITES HELD FOR THOMAS MOODY | Final rites were held last Fri day morning at the Love Field cemetery for Thomas Jerry Moody, 54, who passed away here July 23. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Lena Cowan Moody, two sons, ; Frank and Cowan, two grandchil dren, his father, John Moody, and | one brother, Len. ' Pallbearers were: Weaver Mash burn, Griffin Middleton, Walter j Ashe, Fred Moody, Glen Hughes, land Jarvis Crawford. j The Moody Funeral home was | in charge of arrangements. State Baptists Vote To Accept Reynolds Offer ! Wake Forest College may be I moved to Winston-Salem. This is made possible after the North Carolina Baptist state -convention voted overwhelmingly to accept j the Z. Smith Reynolds foundation offer of a $10,750,000 endowment | of Wake Forest College upon the removal of the institution to Wins ton-Salem. THE HERALD S NEW SUBSCRIPTION RATES Effective today subscription rates for The Herald are as fol lows: In Jackson and 8waln coun ties per year?$2.00. In Jackson and Swain coun ties six months?$1.25. Outside of Jaekson and Swain one year?$2.50. Outside of Jackson and Swain tix months?$1.50. . O. J. Leslie Sells Shoe Repair Business Mr. O. J. Leslie announced this , week that he had sold the business of the Blue Ribbon shoe repair shop to Messrs. David Parker and Bob Mashburn who took over the business Tuesday. Mr. Leslie operated the repair shop in its present location for the past 16 years. He had been in the shoe repair business for 23 years. He stated that he had other busi ness plans in mind which are not1 ready for publication. WELFARE HEAD SAYS JACKSON OLD AGE FOSTER JSilLLED_J G. C. Henson, county welfare iUperiniendent, has announced! that Jackson county has its quota : tilled ard is exceeding its monthly I allotment for old-age assistance, i Seventy-five applications are pending and new cases are being received daily which cannot be ac cepted due to the lack of funds. This condition was caused due to the 1944 State Legislature not ap propriating or having provided adequate funds. Twenty-five per cent of this fund is paid by the state, 25 per cent by the county and 50 per cent by the Federal government. Welfare department heads are hopeful that the next legislature will do something to remedy this situation. Old-age assistance is designed to help people 65 years of age or older who have no means of sup port and who are in need and who meet several other eligibility re quirements. Old-age assistance is not a pension; it is an assistance fund designed to help meet the needs of needy people. ANNUAL RYE GRASS IS AVAILABLE NOW The Jackson County Soil Con- ! servation association has received ?. shipment of annual rye grass rnd urges all eligible farmers to call at the AAA office and obtain their tickets for the seed. F?\e giv.si .i a winter cover crop, and farmers are requested to seed their crop land with some sort o? winter cover crop in order to con serve soil ana increase produc tion. The association announces also that quantities of Austrian winter pea seed and crimson clover are ?till on hand. More Sugar Expcctcd In Near Future Top lood oti'ieials of the Gov ernment in .Wi.shihqton promised Tuesday thai American housc <ou .i expect to find move ? ? ' 1 the grocer's shelve.* in tiv near i'uu.iv. Cleos ^ > D.c e. head of the a^n (ifpir-mentV: ,vigor bianco, '' f '' ' i hi house of ?vp ;\-cr.ta;. v't's lood shortages om mi tee, that relief in the ea.-t ?voulfi come "almost immediately." . Dice sta'eil tnat an increase ot sugar imports in eastern mar kets will result in erlief of the -urrent sugar shortage. This will be good news to the lousewives who have been unable :o can and preserve valuable fruits for winter food supplies due to lack of sugar. The blackberry crop, however, will probably be gone before sufficient sugar can cj secured. Sylva stores have been short on sugar for several months. Dr. H. P. Smith Has Operation Dr. H. P. Smith, professor of history at Western Carolina Teachers College underwent an operation Tuesday, July 20, at Harris Community hospital. He is resting comfortably but is unable to see visitors. YOUNG HERD BULL The above picture was taken at the farm of Ralph Hunter of the Caney Fork section. The bull, purchaaed about three months ago from the Bar-R-Ranch in Condorado, Kansas, ia registered in both the Polled and Horned Hereford associations, and according to sev* eral well-known cattlemen la one of the best Compressed Herefords In Western North Carolina. The bull is now 14 months of age and will weigh approximately 1050 pounds. Gritl Practice Begins On August 26 At Cullowhee 258 REGISTERED AT CULLOWHEE SESSION Registration was completed at Western Carolina Teachers Col lege last week, and 258 students had signed up for the five-week term, the second session of the summer term. A breakdown of figures by groups shows that there are 153 regular college undergraduates enrolled, 73 being veterans. Sixteen students are taking work at the high school level, and 89 i veterans are enrolled in refresh er courses. Due to the fact that renova tions will be made in the col lege dining room, the second session is scheduled for five weeks instead of six weeks, with six-day week. Dr. W. A. Ashbrook is acting dean in the absence of Dean W. E. Bird. 4-H Club Picnic, Tour On August 7 The 4-H club tour and picnic, Scheduled for Aug. 7, will indue! a visit to the State Test farm and 4-H club camp site near Waynes \\lle, Miss Josephine Johnston,, home demonstration agent, an nounced this week. All 4-H club boys and girls and their leaders and advisors are in vited to attend and bring footl that can be served picnic style. The group will .meet at the courtnouse in Sylva on Wednesday morning, Aug. 7, will depart for *.h? 4-H camp site at 9:30. a. in., nd will return in time for all members of the group to return home before nightfall. Production Of Meat Shows Large Increase UALI'IOH ? N 'i?"i-\vi.io me: t ";>? 'lurt.'M undo. r*'U..il mwj>Lv ! ? f.;i- ' wt? < .vli; - .L.'.; - < ..)t jii'O 3 I l.lMIU.UtiO :) U.' ! . I ) '; ? (.' nl n c ti.i' i T ' V P-'Ui: i? >! .?). ii.1"? i . 43 p .' athat ? a. ?? du;T . i..1 c i ? ? pond ? g t k yea v. S!: '.tg!-!1:-?r cattle undo; PVder. i inspection was c.*ti.vi 4 -d . t !)4'\ 000 head, 29 per cent ab.Ae la>; week and 33 per cent above a year ago. | Beef production was calculated at 173,000,000 pounds, compared with 130.000,000 a year ago. Hog slaughter shows an even greater gain, and is estimated for the week ending July 20 at 1,048, 000 head, which was six per cent greater than the slaughter a week earlier and 66 per ce:it greater t.ian the slaughter for the cor responding week a year ago. ?-"Smtity ftxp&eteit To Turn Out For Drills Turn Young, athletic director and head football coach at WCTC, announced yesterday that foot ball practice is expected to begin on August 26 with about seventy players. Two men from last year's team, Frank Harden and Hobe Collins, will return to the gridiron, and all but five of the remainder of the squad will be freshman vet erans. "It will be a green team, and it lacks experience," Young said, "but as we move along, we will no doubt show improvement. The team has good possibilities because we have a lot of heavy men ex pected to show up," he declared. Coach Young informed that ren ovations in the college dining room may set the practice date back a few days, but he asserted that the school would do its best to follow the ruling of the North State con ference and begin practice by August 26. The college has been promised the installation of lighting equip ment by September 20, and Coach Young said that since the first home game will be held on Octo ber 5, there should be plenty of time for its insta'lation. "Unless something unforeseen happens," Young commented, "we should have light.-* foi ?<ur home games, all of which will be held at night." It has been announced that the first game ol the season will be held Sept. 20 in High Point with High Point college, a North State I conference game. Young will be assisted as head coach by Marior. MacDonald and ; Franklin Gudger, assistant coaches. ! Gudger is a forme* three-letter >man at the college. i Young announced tnat.-the ath letic depa; iment has purchased the i best in ;.iii!etic equipment. Pants and line'- i 1 i t u-vrJ in games 'are e< ! 'red silver, a!.^'s t.io helmet l ijv ? i)! par..t>p<*. typ?.- worn i by arr.v. airi : . ? \ r.-.e.T.:-: jc ,'m \ i i?? ? v >:1< ? ' -, purpie u niunLci m . ^Ir.. Ne;.v d.t?.!> ? : tiliV ' w.;i . ' ? ? .-if . . ?. t : \j A.. !!V. .? ? . epilU t i. ? i : ;ne **. - ?. a!:; i< c'i.v .. oil ire. - * _ ? r. ?? * "* "We hgpe to give t;;-. Ian.-, their m-ney's w.'itr. < : good iootbaU (team thi.- yiur. Coach Young | concluded. "We'll \v:n some and i lose some, but we'll aive a good I , j account of ourselves in every ! game." he promised. | Following is the schedule for the ! WCTC team: < | * Sept. 20?High Point?there? night. *<> . J. ' - $ Sept. 28 ? barson-Newman Jefferson City, Tenn?afternoon. t Oct. 5 ? ^uscullum?Cullo whee?nt. ?Continued on page 8 New Hunting Regulations Are About Same As Previously %/ RALEIGH, July 27 ? N o r t h , ignated by the Division of Game Carolina hunting regulations for and Inland Fisheries upon further 1946-47 will be substantially the investigation. same as those for last season, fol- , The board reestablished, after a lowing action of the Board of lapse of several years to allow its Conservation and Development at restoration, an open season for one the July meeting at Morehead ! species and lengthened the ,sea City. ,son for another. The daily bag Shortening of some seasons was 1 limit for squirrel was revised to adopted by the board. The deer , allow the inclusion of two fox and bea" seasons will be 15 days ! squirrel in the daily bag limit. The less than in 1945-46, and a week i trapping season for otter was in was taken from the quail, rabbit, I creased from 15 days to one and ruffed grouse seasons. Deer1 month. hunting will be allowed only in j Changes in fishing rules also and east of a line composed of i were adopted. The board abolished Northampton, Halifax. Martin. Lthe^closed season on all species of Pitt, Lenoir, Duplin, Sampson, I same fish excep^ trout, with the Harnett, Lee, Moore, Hoke, and j understanding that during the Robeson counties. I spawning season certain areas will The board also revised bag | be designated as spawning areas limits for some species. The sea-I and closed temporarily. Size lim son bag limit for deer was reduced its for all varieties of pan fishes from three to two (males only to be taken). The daily bag limit for quail was reduced from 10 to eight, with a season limit of 150. For the first time a daily bag limit for rab bit was established?10. Turkey hunting will be closed except for the Roanoke River area and for certain counties to be des were removed, and the size for black bass was standardized at 10 inches for the entire State (pre viously the limits had been 12 in ches in the east, 10 in the west). Close of shad season was estab lished as May 1, instead of May 10. The season will open March 1, as usual.
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