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VOL. XXI, NO. 13
SYLVA, N. C., Thursday, August 29, 1946
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State V F W Posts Will
Seek New Members
Local Post Commander J
Sounds Unit Intentions
In Sylva the Herman and Frank
Bailey Post No. 8060 is joining
with the 131 other VFW posts in
North Carolina in a drive to bring
every eligible overseas veteran in
the state into membership in the
Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post
Commander Joe Clyde Fisher, has
announced.
"In North Carolina, the Veterans
of Foreign Wars has expanded
from a total of 55 posts and 4838
members on July 1, 1945, to a total
of 132 posts and 17,460 members
on August 15, 1946. The local post
of the VFW hopes to keep pace
with this tremendous growth in
the state as a whole," Commander
Fisher said.
"The North Carolina Depart
ment of VFW has enlarged its
service to veterans through the
operation of a full-time service of
fice with a staff of four persons
in the Regional Office of the Vet
erans Administration in Winston
Salem to file and expedite the
handling of claims for all veterans
whether members of a VFW post
or not. In addition, the state de
partment sponsors the sale of pop
pies in posts throughout the state
with the proceeds being used for
the relief of needy and disabled
veterans and for the maintenance
of the VFW home for widows and
orphans of deceased members at
Eaton Rapids, Michigan. T^is is
the only home maintained by a
veterans' organization for needy
families of its deceased members.
"The veterans of World War II
are not seeking and do not want
handouts or favors," Commander
Fisher declared, "but the men who
won the war the hard way do de
mand and are entitled to an op
portunity to resume their normal
places in society in a status equal
to that held at the time they en
tered the service and equal to
those whom the civilian necessi
ties of war required to remain in
non-military capacities."
"This war's veterans are inter
ested also in good government and
the Veterans of Foreign Wars will
take a non-partisan and non-po
litical interest and activity to
achieve the best government pos
sible ir> the interest of all citi
zens," he concluded.
SLIGHTLY INJURED IN
MISHAP WITH TRUCK
Ellis Frady, 14, bicyclist, was
slightly injured last week on Main
street when he attempted to dodge
an oncoming vehicle while going
around a grocery truck reportedly
parked over half of the street.
Frady, seeing that he could not
make it around the parked ve
hicle with safety, crashed into a
door of the grocery trailer and
hurt his head. He received first
aid at the office of a local doctor.
LOCAL FIRM FACES
CHARGE UNDER OPA
The State OPA ha* filed suit
for $22,887.75 in treble damages
and temporary injunction against
the Allison Motor company for
alleged overcharges in the sales
of used cars.
State OPA Director T. S.
Johnson said last week that the
defendants will appear before
Judge E. V. Webb of Shelby to
morrow to show cause why the
injunction should not be ordered
to prohibit the firm from fur
ther sales in violation of price
control orders.
The local firm is charged with
the sale of 24 used cars for over
$7,000 in excess of OPA ceiling
prices, with the failure to keep
proper records, and with the
failure to report all used-car
sales to the Sylva price control
board.
EMPLOYMENT OFFICE
WILL BE CLOSED
FOR LABOR DAY
E. E. Bates, representative of the
Unemployment Compensation com
mission in the district covering
Jackson county, announced this
week that UCC and USES repre
sentatives will not be at the court
house on Monday, September 2,
Labor day.
The next,-day for the filing of
claims and allied matters will be
on Thursday, September 5, Bates
announced.
Blanks Available
At Post Offi ce
Terminal leave blanks, to be used
for compensating the ex-service
men and women who were sepa
rated from service under honor
able conditions for the furlough or
leave time at the time of their
separation, are now available at
the post office in Sylva.
T. W. Ashe, American Legion
service officer will be at the court
house in the county commissioner's
office to assist in filling out leave
blanks. The Bailey post of Vet
erans of Foreign Wars has an
nounced that the information booth
to be set up in the post office will
be put in the commissioner's office
instead. A representative of the
VFW will be on hand there with
Mr. Ashe to aid all veterans in re
gard to filling out the blanks.
It is announced that all claims
must be supported by submitting
discharge certificate for each sep
aration under honorable conditions
since September 8, 1939. These
documents may be originals, photo
static copies, or C9pies certified to
be true copies by State or local
officers authorized to so certify.
(Continued on Page 6)
American Legion Is Host
To Veterans and Their Wives
Members of the William E. Dil
lard Post 104, American Legion,
were hosts last Friday night, at
their regular meeting, to all vet
erans and their ladies in the coun
ty, with a weiner roast at the Sylva
Community house.
Following the supper, members
and guests assembled in the club
house for an address given by Dan
Tompkins, who spoke on the his
tory and future objectives of the
Legion. Mr. Tompkins stated that
all legislation beneficial to veter
ans had been suported by the
Legion and that in many cases
legislation had actually been writ
ten and pushed through passage by
the Legion, both in the state and
in the national congress.
T. Walter Ashe, service officer
for the Legion, explained the pro
cedure in filing application for ter
minal leave pay. He added that he
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would be available in his office
at the court house to assist any
veteran in the filling out of forms.
Mr, Ashe reported on the steps
that had been taken toward estab
lishing and training a band for
the Sylva school. This project,
which is being sponsored by the
local post, is in co-operation with
Western Carolina Teachers college,
who will assume two-thirds of the
salary for an instructor. Mr. Ashe
gave assurance that the project
I would be instituted.
Mrs. Dan Tompkins, president of
the American Legion Auxiliary,
gave a brief report on what that
i organization is doing and extended
j a cordial invitation to all eligible
; women of the county to become
members.
Ed Bryson, a past commander,
j presided over the meeting, in the
1 absence of Commander of L. H.
t Higdon.
TP I,IMAM MEETS PRESS AT QUONSET
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WAVING HIS HAT for the benefit of photographers, President Truman
is pictured talking with reporters, after he landed from the Presidential
yacht, the U. S. S. Williamsburg, at the Naval Air Station in Quonsct
Point, R. I. The yacht docked near the Essex type aircraft carrier
Philippine Sea?partly shown at left. (International Soundphoto)
Bailey Bros. Show
Has Three Herds
Trained Elephants
T'aret he Zc of performing ele
phants will be among the attrac
tions offered by the Bailey Broth
ers circus this Saturday at the
Moody Bottom showgrounds at
two and eight p. m. for one day
only.
The big fellows, said to be the
most intelligent of all animals, are
a never-ending source of interest
and amusement to circus fans, say
circus men. Elephant men call
them "rubber cows," yet the circus
elephant performs a multitude of
tasks around the circus, both me
nial and complex.
The circus elephant, always the
center of attraction, are all trained
and put through their routine by
girls.
Many reportedly well known
stars of the white tops are with the
Bailey group this year, including
Rudy Rudinoff, horse trainer, the
Henderson Trio, the Hollywood
Aerial Ballet with 24 girls in the
air, Captain Engerer and his cage
ful of fury, La Bonde Troupe,
liberty horses, trained ponies, dogs,
and a small army of clowns.
Doors open at one and seven
p. m., performance starting one
hour later in each instance.
TO FINISH PLANS
FOR SCHOOL BAND
A meeting will be held Monday
evening at seven-thirty at the
high school to complete plans for
a music instructor, the procure
ment of band instruments and the
formation of a band at the local
high school, W. H. Crawford, Sylva
High principal, announced yester
day.
At the meeting of interested
citizens held last week, Mrs. Gro
ver Wilkes presented plans for the
procurement of an instructor and
band instruments. The teachers
college has offered to pay two
thirds of the instructor's salary,
utilizing two-thirds of his teach
ing time, and the county has of
fered to pay the remaining one
third of his teaching time.
The William E. Dillard post of
the American Legion will work on
the -project and investigate the
possibilities of getting instruments
and making plans for funds with
which to purchase them. A com
mittee composed of T. W. Ashe,
R. O. Wilson and Venoy Reed will :
carry out the Legion's intentions i
in regard to the matter.
All interested citizens are in
vited to attend the meeting Mon
day.
Funeral Services
Held For Shuler,
Shot Last Week
Final rites were held last Sun
day afternoon at Caney Fork for
Cecil Shuler, 42, Sylva taxi driver
; who was shot through the bt.ck last
Thursday afternoon.
Cecil Lovedahl of Cowarts is
I being held in the county jail in
| connection with the shooting.
Lovedahl, carrying a rifle, is re
ported to have stopped Shuler's
cab last Thursday afternoon, emp
tied it of its passengers, climbed
into the back seat, and directed
Shuler to take him to Sylva. Love
jdahl's rifle discharged?it is un
determined whether accidental or
intentional?and the round passed
through the back of the front seat
into Shuler's back.
Lovedahl, an overseas veteran,
was discharged under the army's
Section VIII provision, a ruling
providing for the discharge of those
mentally unfit.
Shuler was making a routine
trip over his mail route when the
shooting occurred.
The Rev. Ransom Phillips offi
ciated at the funeral, and burial
followed in Balsam Grove ceme
tery.
Surviving are the widow, the
former Miss Dorothy Parker; his
father, James C. Shuler of Cow
arts; one son, David; one daughter,
Louise; one brother, Winton of
Cowarts; two sisters, Mrs. Shirley
Cook of Cedro Wooley, Wash., and
Mrs. Johnny Mathis of Sylva.
Garrett funeral home of Waynes
ville was in charge of arrange
ments.
TWO JACKSON BOYS
SELECTED TO ATTEND
STATE FOREST CAMP
Jack Cope, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Dillard Cope of Cope Creek and
Clifton Taylor, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Taylor of Speedwell
left Sylva Sunday night to spend
the week at Smgletary Lake Camp,
a forestry camp for farm boys lo
cated in the Bladen Lakes State
Forest near Elizabethtown in
Bladen County.
This is the first year of the for
estry camp for farm boys and is
limited to 50 boys. We are delight
ed that the State Forester and the
Forester of the Extension Service
selected two Jackson county boys
in making a selection of 50 boys
in the state to attend Singletary
Lake Camp.
SOSSAMON'S ... in Sylva
THREE CONCERTS TO
BE PRESENTED- HERE
BY N. C. SYMPHONY
Performances Set For
Between December
And March At School
The North Carolina Symphony
orchestra will give three concerts
here in the near future, according
to an announcement this week by
Mrs. Grover Wilkes and Mrs. Paul
Ellis, who have been soliciting
funds to finance the presentations.
The orchestra will present three
concerts, two for children, some
time between December and
March at the Sylva Elementary
school auditorium. More definite
arrangements will be made when
the orchestra makes up its budget
and list of tours. >?
The move to bring to Sylva the
North Carolina symphony, the only
state supported symphony in the
United States, originated at an ad
dress by Dr. Carl Swalin, orchestra
director and head of the Depart
ment of Music at Chapel Hill, at
a meeting of the local Rotary club
last week.
? Mesdames Wilkes and Ellis re
ported that the public roponso to
the possibility of having the or
chestra heard again in the county
was overwhelming.
LOCAL STORES CLOSE
ON LABOR DAY; TO
STAY OPEN TUESDAYS
?. Boyd Sossamon, president of the
Sylva Merchants association, an
nounced this week that local stores
will be closed o.. L. L>or day, Sep
tember 2, and will begin rem: ining
open all day every Tuesday.
This was decided at a meeting
of the association Tuesday at the
city hall. Store* plan to .emain
open all day Tuesday until M-.ne
time next spring, when they will
probably re.-ume the summextirnc
custom of closing one afternoon a
week.
Lt. Col. And Mrs. Smathcrs;
Sail For Europe
Lt. Col. and Mrs. Ray K. Smath- j
ers sailed last Friday from New |
York on the U.S.S. Alexander for
Europe. Colonel Smathers, after
several months active duty in the ;
European area, returned to the
United States on a business trip j
and visited his mother and other
relatives while here. He is now re
turning to duty on the European
continent and his wife is accom
panying him.
Mrs. Smathers is the former Miss
Helen Warren of Sylva,' sister of
Mrs. Frank Clouse and Walter,
Paul and Raleigh Warren.
HURRICANES PREPARE
FOR TOUGH SEASON ;
Guy Sutton, new coach of Sylva j
Hign's Golden Hurricanes, said j
this week that he is putting his ]
squad of thirty through exercises j
and get ing ready. "We will proba- j
bly hold our first scrimmage this
Thursday," he disclosed.
Over half of the Hurricanemen
are returnees from last year's sea
son, and several are ex-service
men, Coach Sutton announced.
"We have a good start for a basis
in both line and backfield," he
declared.
Sutton says that the team's two j
toughest games this year will be I
the battles with Waynesville and |
Canton, the Waynesville game I
coming up on schedule uncomfort- ;
ably early.
John Crawford is assistant1
coach.
The coach said that all of the
squad's home games but one will
be held under lights. The excep
tion is the Thanksgiving game on
November 28 against Bryson City.
The schedule for the Hurricanes,
with two dates still open, is as fol
lows:
Sept. 13, Hayeaville, here.
Sept. 20, Wayneaville, there.
Sept. 27, Marshal, here.
(Continued on Page 6)
Event To Include Three
Days, Featuring Exhibits Ol*
4-H Clubs, Home and Farm
BOARD MEET FRIDAY
OF ATHLETIC CLUB
Interested citizens are invited
to attend a meeting tomorrow
night (Friday) at seven at the
Sylva High School of the board
of directors of the Smoky Moun
tains Athletic association, Roscoe
Poteet, president of the board,
disclosed this week.
New officers of the associa
tion will be elected to replace
those now in office and whose
terms expire August 31.
President Poteet declared that
the organization has had a suc
cessful athletic season, especial
ly in regard to high school sports.
The association is in charge of
sponsoring and arranging nearly
all athletic contests in the coun
ty.
The members of the board of
directors are as follows: Poteet,
president; Grayson Cope, vice
president; Felix Picklesimer, sec
retary; John Henson, treasurer;
Velt Wilson, W. T. Wise, and W.
H. Crawford.
TESTS FOR VETERANS
WILL BE GIVEN ON
FRIDAY AT COLLEGE
Dr. Carl Killian of Western Car
olina Teachers college announced
yesterday that the college will give
college iovel general educational
development tests for veterans in
the .McKee building Friday morn-J
ing at 8:30.
Wterans planning to take the,
tc?t.s are requested 'o bring their I
discharge pape.'s" with them.
Cu I low I we Cancels
Waynesville Plans
Plans lor an off-campus WCTC
study center at Waynesville went
awry and were completely can
celled last week.
The college had made arrange
ments in Waynesville for buildings
and was setting plans for teachers
and other details, but it was found
upon preparing a contract with the
State Steering committee and the
Veterans Administration that the
school could not meet all the re
quirements of the contract at this
late date.
Dr. H. T. Hunter, president of |
the college, said that the numerous
problems on the Cullowhee cam
pus due to school opening in the
next few weeks would make it
impossible to solve the problems
confronting the Haywood project.
The shortage of teachers was
given as another major reason why
the contract conditions could not
be met.
i Exhibits To Be Shown
On Dillsboro School
Grounds Sept. 12,13,14
Farm men and women, and 4-H
boys and girls of Jackson county
are urged to participate in the
Achievement Day exhibits to be
held September 12, 13 and 14 on
the grounds ol the Dillsboro
school.
Farm Agents, L. M. Snipes, and
Geoige Conrad, and Home Agents
Miss Josephine Johnston, and Miss
Helen Sossamon, together with the
cooperation of Mrs. B. E. Gray,,
county chairman, have released:
the following premium lists for
Jackson county Achievement Days:
The first day will be lor the set
ting up and judging. The two fol
lowing days will be devoted to ob
servation by the general public.
| Especially are the fiirm men, Home
| Demonstration clubwomen and
4-H'ers urged to set up their ex
hibits in the space set aside for
them.
There must be entries by two
persons for any specific item be
fore a prize can be given. Com
petent judges from out of the
county will make the selections of
which products take the prizes.
Thoic will be a merry-go-round
and a Ferris wheel, half of the
Home Demonstration clubs to be
used on their county project.
The premium list for the wom
en i a follows:
Premium List
CLASS A?QUILTS?-1 cotton
npplicjue, .50; cotton patch work,
.50; wool patch work, .50; silk
patch work, .50; pieced, .50; finest
quilting by hand, .75; sweepstakes,
$5.00.
CLASS B?SPREADS ? Tufted,
.50; crocheted, .50; knitted, .50;
coverlet, woven, .50; Afghan, knit
ted, .50; Afghan, crocheted, .50;
counterpane, .50; sweepstakes/
$5.00.
CLASS C?HANDWORK?Cro
cheted luncheon set, 1.00; knitted
luncheon set, 1.00; crocheted lunch-*
eon cloth, 1.00; embroidered
luncheon cloth, 1.00; 1 pair em
broidered pillow cases, 1.00; 1 pair
pillow cases with crochet, 1.00; em
broidered towel, .50; woven lunch
eon set, 1.00; woven handbag, .50;
sweepstakes, $5.00.
CLASS D?PICKLES?-Cucum
ber, .25; bread and butter, .25; to
matoes, .25; peach, .25; pear, ,25;
chili sauce, .25; pepper relish, .25;
mixed pickles, .25; chow chow, .25;
Catsup, .25; sweepstakes, 1 glass
coffee maker.
CLASS E?JELLIES -? Apple,
?25, grape, .25; plum, .25; blackber
ry, .25; crabapple, .25; sweepstakes,
1 glass coffee maker.
CLASS F?PANTRY SUPPLIES
?Country butter, .25; 1 dozen
eggs, .25; tcacakes, .25; Angel's
.Food cake, 1.00; Chocolate cake,
I ?Continued on page 12
Thirty-Day Extension Posted
On Sugar Ration Stamp 49
Jackson county housewives, in
their eternal pilgrimage to sugar
counters, may or may not be re
lieved to hear that the OPA has
posted an extension on spare stamp
49 through September 30, instead
of August 31, as originally sched
uled.
The extension was granted, OPA
in Washington said, because of lo
cal shortages which have prevent
ed housewives in some areas from
using the stamp. The agency said
spare stamp 51 will be good for
five pounds of sugar during the
October-December quarter.
The sugar stamp announcements
came as the administration's eco
nomic high command sought to
reconcile the differences between
OPA and the agriculture depart
ment on the level of ceilings to be
reestablished on meat animals
Thursday.
The agency announced that a
processor ceiling on all canned to
matoes have been increased 14
cents a dozen on number 2 cans,
effective immediately. This will
eventually boost consumer prices
in grocery stores two cents a can
in addition to a 2-cent increase
granted previously.
In a third move the OPA re
moved price ceilings from baby
foods and junior foods, including
pre-cooked dry cereals.
Sylva Lions To Be Guests
At Waynesville Tonight
The local Lions club will be
guests of the Lions club in Waynes
ville this evening at a supper.
Following the supper the goft?
ball teams of the two clubs Will
play a return game. The Wayaes*
ville club took the first match last
week at 30 to 26.