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AMERICA First, Last and Always the Herald The Herald is dedicated to progressive service to Jack son ... A progressive, well balanced county. VOL. XXI, NO. 14 SYLVA, N. C., Thursday, Sept. 5, 1946 $2.00 A Year?5c Copy Farm Projects Studied In Home Water Systems, 3 Pasture Work Out standing Projects Visited Jackson county farm agents and home demonstratoin agents held their annual county-wide farm tour on Tuesday of this week with a number of farmers and the Fu ture Farmers of America class of boys of Sylva high school, their instructor, Mr. John Corbin, and others making the trip. The group left the courthouse shortly after nine o'clock and made the first stop at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Andy Queen on Cope Creek where they were shown Mr. Queen's new brooder and laying houses. The brooder, completed in April, .is 18^2-^t square^jwell built for sunlight, and ventilation. It is electrically heated and lighted. Mr. Queen and his son, Clyde, did most of the work which held the cost down to a nominal sum. They raised 500 young chicks in the brooder this spring. The pullets are now well on the way to mak ing laying hens. The laying house is now under construction and will be completed by the time the young pullets are ready for laying. It is 20 by 40 feet and will take care of 250 hens. The Queens are growing New Hampshire Reds and White Leghorns. After viewing the Queen project the group then drove to the Whit tjer section where they inspected Q. E. Holcombe's grade A dairy. Mr. Holcombe is doing a splendid piece of dairy work, milking 17 cows and selling grade A raw milk. The next stop was at the grade A dairy of Mr. Burton Bum garner, who is milking 12 cows. Beth men are doing w< in pastures and grain growing for feed to be consumed on their farms. The next stop was on Savannah creek where the model home of Mr. and Mrs. Mack Hall drew much praise from the group. Also the fine field of hybrid corn being grown by Mr. Hall. He planted the Tennessee 10 White variety and as it now stands is es timated to produce over 100 bu. per acre. Anyone interested in building a farm home for comfort and convenience will do well to visit the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hall. Leaving Mr. Hall's place the mo torcade drove through, the Web ster community and stopped at the farm of Mr. John W. Ashe near Cullowhee to see his program of * strip cropping. In the field in spected he had alfalfa, on the steepest part, than a strip of to bacco, a strip of grass, and then com. All these crops were grow ing nicely despite the dry weath er. There was no evidence of erosion due to the strip cropping system. (Continued on Page 6) Leatherman Reunion To Be Held Sept. 15th The annual Leatherman reunion will be held Sunday, September 15, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Leatherman at Leatherman, N. C. All relatives are urged to come and bring basket dinners, which will be served picnic style at the noon hour. DISTRICT GOVERNOR, HOLT MCPHERSON, IS GUEST OF ROTARIANS Holt McPherson, Governor of the 194th District Rotary Interna tional, made his official visit with, the members of the Sylva club Tuesday evening. Governor Mc Pherson met with the board of di rectors at 5:15 and then addressed the dinner meeting at 5:45. The club moved its meeting hour up in order for Mr. McPherson to make the Highlands club meeting at 8:30. Governor McPherson told the club members that Rotary Inter national has a vital place in fos tering good-will and international understanding in helping to build a permanent peace among nations. At its International meeting at Atlantic City in June the organi zation went on record as being fully behind the United Nations Organization in its work for peace. The speaker went on to say that the lack of understanding between this nation and Russia today is costing the United States over $19,000,000,000 per year just to keep prepared in case of war, and if war should come the cost in loss of life and destruction of material wealth would be disastrous. Ro tary must play its part in the world crisis today, the speaker said. He complimented the Sylva club on its youth service work with the Scouts and the crippled chil dren clinic. WCTG REGISTRATION SEPTEMRER10-13 Registration will begin at West ern Carolina Teachers college on September 10, with the commence ment of freshman and transfer ori entation, which lasts through the twelfth. Upperclassmen will register on Friday, September 13, and classes will begin the following day. Freshmen and transfer students will gather in Hoey auditorium on the tenth to be greeted by Dr. H. T. Hunter, president of the college. The placement and classification program will follow at 2:30. Interest Growing In Achievement Day Program For County Interest continues to grow in preparation for- holding a three day achievement program at Dills boro schoor grounds on September 12, 13 and 14. The large premium list published in the two previous issues of The Herald will draw a large number of exhibits. Home and Farm agents and Mrs. B. E. Gray, of Dillsboro, are in charge of arranging for the event. C Of C Directors To Meet Friday At 7:30 President Felix Picklesimer has announced that there will be a meeting of the directors of the Chamber of Commerce at 7:30 o'clock Friday night, September 6, in the Chamber of Commerce of fice. Higdon VrgesFarmers ToCarry Out Their Conservation Work In an effort to obtain maximum j conservation with the $43,597.00 fund that has been made available \ to Jackson county farmers through the 1946 Agricultural Conservation Program, D. C. Higdon, chairman Jackson county AAA committee, today urged farmers to follow! through on their conservation work that was approved on their 1 farm plans last spring. "We fully realize that many conditions may have prevented farmers from performing the prac- ; tices as originally planned," he ? said. In such instances, Mr. Hig- | don said that the County Commit-j tee is anxious to render every as- i distance by helping these farmers | in selecting substitute practices. Farmers finding it impossible to carry out their original practices or to substitute others are being urgently requested by Mr. Higdon to inform the AAA Committee im mediately so that the funds allotted to their farms may be transferred to neighboring farmers who need additional assistance and are in a position to carry out more prac tices. Practices which still can be car ried out in Jackson County this fall according to good farming methods are: Applying lime and phosphate; seeding winter cover Crops, seed ing permanent pastures and re seeding permanent pictures. How Artist Pictures New Navy RESULTS of the Bikini experiments do not foredoom the Navy, according to Admiral W. H. P. Blandy, commander of Operations Crossroads. They merely point to a complete new designing of all naval vessels; strength ening hulls, reducing superstructures, and shielding crews and guns. Artist Louis Biedermann gives his conccption of such ships In action. The vessels will probably be powered by atomic energy and fire atomic jr-?u.pf,rr)ns t>e usccTextorsively () LABOR DAY PASSES QUIETLY IN JACKSON Sylva and Jackson county returned to normal activity After a three day ob servance of Labor Day. Stores, public offices and a few busi nesses closed on Monday. The day was observed quietly and despite the unusual heavy traffic on the roads, county of ficers report that traffic acci dents were held to a minimum. Most of the celebrations con sisted of family events, visiting, picnics and motor outings. Eating places in town report a large number of people, the majority being tourists passing through town. MISS SMITH TO TRAIN WITH SEEING-EYE DOG Mr. Lewis Smith of Sylva and his daughter, Miss Daisy Smith of Sylva and Cullowhee left last Monday for Detroit, Mich, where they will visit their sister and aunt, Mrs. Tracy Lee Davis and family. After a week's visit Mr. Smith will return home and Miss Smith will go to Rochester, Mich, to train with a seeing eye dog. Af ter completing her training, Miss Smith and her dog will return to Sylva and Cullowhee to continue her studies at W.C.T.C., where she has been a student for the past two years. Frank And Herman Bailey Post, 8060, Will Meet At Courthouse Friday Evening Commander Joe Clyde Fisher has announced that the Frank and Herman Bailey Post No. 8060, Vet erans of Foreign Wars, will hold a regular meeting Friday evening, September 6 at 7:30 o'clock in the courthouse. Commander Fisher urges a full attendance of the membership, which now numbers over 90. Mr. Fisher stated that the na tional membership is now more than 2,000,000 active members and that the local post is joining the i national organization in a mem bership drive at this time. The Jackson county post, he stated, should have twice the members it now has. All honorably discharged over seas veterans are eligible to be come members of this organiza tion. Mr. Fisher stated that to join now a new member can come into | the organization for $5, which pays! his dues through 1947, thus getting the last quarter of this year free. | SOSSAMON'S ... in Sylva LARGE NUMBER OF VISITORS IN SMOKIES A total of 226,663 persons in 52,802 vehicles visited Great Smoky Mountains National park during August, park ' headquar ter? said Tuesday. That is the i highest number for months, but I is only two-thirds the number who visited the park in August, 1941, the top travel year. Travel from the North Carolina side in creased. Travel during Labor Day week-end was lighter thai^ for the previous Sunday when there were 24,117 in 5,766 vehicles. No serious accidents were re ported. "One woman had a spill on a motorcycle at the loop," said John Morrell, park ranger, "and a motorist was bumped from be hind when he stopped to read a sign in front of park head quarters." Ready Cash Made By Farmers From Sale of Pine Cones Charlie Evans, county forest warden, reports that the N. C. Forest Service has successfully completed its fall white pine cone collection, with many of the coun ty residents participating in the collecting. The cones were collected while still green and shipped to either | the I. H. Holmes nursery near Brevard or to the TVA nursery at | Clinton, Tenn. Some of the cones were taken after the trees had been cut for saw logs, but in many cases the collectors climbed the trees and nicked the cones from the tree J tops. After reaching the nursery the cones are dried and threshed to remove the seed, then placed in cold storage until they are planted to produce white pine seedlings i for reforestation throughout the: state. A total of 485 bushels of cones { were collected at two dollars per j bushel. The state bought 300 bush- ' els of these seeds; TVA, 110 bush els; and the Virginia Forest serv ice 75 bushels. Among those collecting white pine cones were M. W. Breedlove, C. G. Rogers, Duff Alexander, Jo cum McCall, Jamts Rochester, Dewey Crowe, Adrain ?Fowler, C. W. Bridges and W. M. McCall of Cashiers; Nick Potts and R. O. Hedden of Norton; and Fred L, Bryson and Bud Bryson of EraS t'JS. Dr. Hunter Expects 500 Enrollment FUNERAL RITES HELD) ON MONDAY MORNING FOR W. E. GRINDS! AFF Funeral services were conducted Monday morning at eleven o'clock at the Sylva Baptist- church, for William Edward Grindstaff, 65, who died at his home early Satur day morning following a heart at tack. The body lay in state from 10:30 until the time of the service. Rei^C. M. Warren, pastor of the Baptist>church and Rev. W. Q. Grigg, pastor of the Methodist church officiated. Burial followed in the Keener cemetery, with the Masonic order in charge of the rites. Active pallbearers were J. Ful ler Brown, John Morris, Dan Alli son, Bill Fisher, Harry Buchanan and Chester Scott. A native of Bakersville, Mitchell county, Mr. Grindstaff was the younger of the two remaining sur vivors of his immediate family. He came to Sylva about thirty years ago and had taken an active part in the Baptist church, of which he' was a member. He was a member of the Masonic lodge No. 459. For the past twenty-live years he has served on the town board. Mr. Grindstaff was employed with the Asheville Mica Company, the firm with which he had been associated the last 40 years. Surviving are the widow. Mrs. | Minnie Green Grindstaff; one son, j Harold Grindstaff of Chicago, 111.; a sister, Mrs. Thomas Davis of Ma- , lion and two grandchildren BROWN ANNOUNCES CHANGE IN FSA ORGANIZATION The functions of the FSA and the Emergency Crop and Food Loan section of the Farm Credit Administration have been com bined to make up the Farmers Home Administration act of 1946, according to an announcement made this week by W. T. Brown, FSA Snpervisor. Mr. Brown fur ther stated that consolidation is to be effective on or before Novem ber 12. The administrator of the Farm ers Home Administration will be Dillard B. Lassiter, who has been FSA administrator since January, 1946. As in the past, county commit tees will have an active part in the program, and will review all ap plications for eligibility of appli cants. It is especially emphasized that loans made under this act will not be in competition with private or cooperative lending agencies. Production and subsistence loans will be made as in the past for livestock, feed, fertilizer, farm equipment and supplies, and other farm needs. The interest rate is five per cent. These loans will be in lieu of Rural Rehabilitation loans under FSA and Emergency Crop and Feed loans under FCA. Tenant Purchase loans will be made to eligible persons to buy, repair, or improve family size farms. Only farm tenants, farm la borers, share croppers and other individuals who obtain, or recent ly obtained, the major portion of their income from farming are eligible, except with respect to veterans. Preferances are provided for persons who are married or ! have dependant families. Where : practicable, preferences are to be | given to persons who are able to j make a down payment. Any veter- j an who was not dishonorably dis charged and who wishes to farm as a principle occupation has pref- j erence over non veterans; if he is I eligible with respect to industry, 1 experience, and character. All outstanding loans under FSA and Emergency Crop and Feed j loans of FCA will be supervised and collected by the Farmers Home Administration Act. Mr. Brown stated that for the present no change in personnel would be made in the local of ;ice. PASSES SUDDENLY W. E. GRINDSTAFF, above, passed away suddenly at his home here early Saturday morn ing. Funeral services were held Monday at 11 o'clock at the First Baptist church in Sylva. GROUP MEETS FOR HIGH SCHOOL RAND PROMOTIONAL WORK | Thirty people were present at t!?c meeting Monday night, nt Die Sylva school house for the piu pose of promoting a school band. Mrs. Grover Wilkes was named chairman of the group and a fi nance committee appointed, which included liarry Ferguson, Dr. R. IW. Kirchberg, R. U. Sutton, Philip jStovall, and Charles Reed. Three members of the American Legion, Walter Ashe, Dick Wilson, and Venoy Rrcd were named to form an investigation group for band instruments lrorn the War] Surplus Board. It was further discussed .'it the | meeting, the possibility of stcur- | ing a full time director for Sylva. i The group adjourned, to await a call meeting, when members of the j functioning committees could work 1 out further plans. SYLVA METHODISTS TO HOLD REVIVAL , MEETING NEXT WEEK A series of revival services will be held at the Sylva Methodist Church next week with services each night at eight o'clock. The service on Sunday night will be at 7:30. All people of the conlmunity are invited to attend. There will be a period of gospel singing dur ing each service, and Rev. Paul Townsend of the Waynesville Methodist Church will do the preaching. Mr. Townsend has had wide experience in preaching in this Conference, and served his ! country for more than four years | as a naval chaplain. A great deal ! of that time was spent aboard ship. Federal funds for the school j lunch program averaged $7 per i pupil last year and there was about $11 per pupil furnished by States and localities. Five-Day Pre-Session .Conferences f)n Wednesday Of This Week President H. T. Hunter has an uoneed that a'total of 500 students, an increase of 100 over last year is expected to enroll lor the fall quarter of Western Carolina Teachers College, which is sched uled to open for registration, Thursday, Sept. 12. The Fresh men Orientation program will be 8>n on the loth ;ind continue trough the opening date. A five-day I're-Session Confer ence, originally intended to be held ' Junaiuska, will convene at the college, beginning on Wed nesday of-this-week, The theme chosen for this year's conference wil be -Past war Adjustments In Our College Life" and will in clude the following students and rTu|ty ,mbci.s on (he program; Clair Olsen, Thelma J. Finch, Sam Gibson Queen, Howard"" Collins, Vada I.yda, Charles grazier, Mary Moody, Mary Craw ford, A1 Phillips, Maxie Wright Maggie Alice Sandlin Crisp, Nancy' Blanton, Russell Byrd, Howard gerton, Lane Arlington, Ben w'li ?t ?^a"'')ur'on, Jean Hall, Jean Woody, Madrie Gallo way, John S. Seymour, Tyson Cathey, Anne Albright, Anne Ham. m?nd* W E? Bird, and President and Mrs. Hunter. Wednesday's program will be devoted to a review of last year's meeting, discussions of problems and appointments of committees, w b? presided ovei' by Dean W. E. Hird. Clair Olsen, Thelma Joyce Finch and Russell Bird will preside over the Thursday meeting which will consist"*of ways of meeting cur rent problems. Friday will be given over to how student government units may aid in the problems, and the part publications pHiy in the adjustment progrem. Freshmen orientation will leature the Friday evening program. Presidents of the or ganizations, Maxie Wright, L H Halliburton, and Howard Edger ton will preside. Saturday will include an all-day trip and Saturday evening com mittee reports will be made ancft unfinished business brought to ai close. The 1946 fall term of Western Carolina Teachers College will be marked with the return of all fac ulty members who were veterans of the past war and include Prof% A. K. Hinds of the Mathematics department; Newton W. Turner* associate professor of Geology; John Worth McDevitt, former | alumni secretary, now college bur (Continued on Page 6) Sylva Lions Are Guests ' Of Waynesville Club Two local Lions, Howard Ball and W. T. Brown, were guests of the Waynesville club fast Thurs day evening at the Haywood club's Ladies night. The softball game scheduled be tween the teams of the two clubs was postponed due to rain The game will be held in the near fu date at 3n as"yet_undetermined 600Attend Home-Coming At Scotts Creek Baptist Church Approximately 600 people were present Sunday for the annual Homecoming Day of the Scotts Creek Baptist church when they heard Rev. Wiley Conner, 82 year old, former pastor of the church deliver the sermon. Three hundred and fifty people were present for Sunday school, of which Jennings Bryson is superin tendent. The afternoon program featured an address by Rev. W. N. Cook of Webster Baptist church and Frank Jarrett of Dillsboro. Mr. Jarrett spoke on the various Baptist In stitutions in the state and the fu ture of these institutions. The Krockery Quartet of Cor nelia, Ga. presented a program of music and Homecoming Day was :lo?ed with the presentation and 1 a tribute paid to the veterans pres ent. Tables were arranged, outside and dinner was served picnic style. The Scott's Creek Baptist church is one of the oldest churches in the county and holds the record Sof having the largest active Sunday school. Rev. B. S. Hensley is pas tor of the church. Norton Reunion To i Be Held Sunday The Norton Reunion will be held i Sunday, September 15th, at the lower cemetery in Whiteside Cove. A picnic dinner will be enjoyed at the noon hour. Mrs. Frank Brown of Cullowhee is president of the group.
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