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VOL. XXI, NO. 28
SYLVA, N. C., Thursday, Dec. 12, 1946
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Jackson County Man Dies In Fall From Burning Hotel
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Development of Rural Western
Carolina Discussed By Group
Jackson Citizens Take J
Part In Bryson Meeting
On Last Wednesday
The following Jackson county
citizens attended an all-day meet
ing in Bryson City last Wednesday
at which time the development of
this section into a region capable
of supporting its population was
considered: County Agent M. L.
Snipes, George Fathering, County
Agent at Large, of Asheville; Wil
liam Brown, Jr., and Miss Martha
Barnett, of the Farm Security of
fice; Charles Petitt, district forest
er, of the Sylva office; Mack Ashe,
district forest warden; R. L. Ariail,
executive vice-president of Jack
son County Bank, Newton Turner,
of Cullowhee; Harry Ferguson, of
Sylva Laundry; Paul Kirk, of
Kirk-Davis Chevrolet company, W.
C. Hennessee, of Hennessee Lum
ber company; Crawford Shelton
and Robert Varner, farmers of the
Qualla community. Of the several
counties represented Jackson had
the largest representation.
Talks were made by Mr. Axiail,
W. C. Guthrie, of the Department
of Conservation and Development,
D. E. Stewart, Assistant vice
president of the Carolina Light and
Power Company. The theme of the
liscussion was "Rural Industries
and Balanced Agriculture."
Development of the entire re
sources of Western North Caro
lina was explored by the group,
and many highly J&wtarvt 4jta?
tures came to light. For instance
it was found that Western North
Carolina is paying out more money'
for finished products than is being
received for raw materials. If the
raw materials were processed here
in the various communities a
greater cash income would be real
ized. This holds true to all types
of agriculture, including dairying
and beef cattle, as well as the pro
cess of our forest products, min
erals and other natural resources.
Similar meetings have been held
in Asheville and other communi
ties of Western North Carolina.
Enloe Moore Boys
Auto Agency Here
Announcement has been made of
the sale of the Sylva Jackson Motor
Co., dealers for Kaiser-Frazier
cars, by Lewis Bumgarner to Enloe
Moore, who assumed management
this week.
Mr. Moore, who has been a resi
dent of Los Angeles, Calif., for the
past twenty years and who has
been engaged in the automobile
business, returned to Jackson coun
ty last week, at which time details
of the transaction were completed.
Mr. Moore stated that Mr. Bum
garner will remain with the com
pany until the first of the year,
after which time he will be asso
ciated with Reece-Hampton Motor
company.
The Sylva Jackson Motor Com
pany, which opened for business in
Sylva last .April, has been located
in the lower part of the building
occupied by the Trailways Bus
Company. The offices for sales
and management will now be lo
cated on the floor formerly oc-1
cupied by the bus company and
plans are being made for the
renovation and remodeling of the
building. Work is rapidly being
completed on the lot adjacent to
Moody Funeral Home and will be
used for a Used Car lot.
Mr. Moore, a native of Jackson
county, is the son of if? la** Judge
and Mrs. Fred Moore and ha5 wide
family connections in the county.
He is a brother to Dan K. Moore
and Mrs. David Hall.
Mrs. Moore and daughter will
come here in February to make
their home. Mrs. Moore is a teach
er in the Glendale schools and will
remain to complete her year's
term.
A new soil conservation district
has been approved in Cumberland
County. Eighty-four counties of
the State are now organized in 22
districts.
Youtli Killed When AutoTurns
Over On Franklin Highway
Chimes Of Holy
Night Witt Be
Given By Baptist
A Christmas cantata, "Chimes of
the Holy Night" by Holton, will be
presented by members of the Sylva
Baptist Church choir, Sunday night,
December 22. The cantata will be
under the direction of Mrs. E. P.
Stillwell.
Members of the Baptist church
choir are: Sopranos, Mrs. v Porter
Scroggs, Mrs. Leo Cowan, Mrs.
Crawford Smith, Mrs. W. B. Brown,
Mrs. Chester Scott, Mrs. Jess Bu
chanan, Misses .Mary Cole Still
weil, Je^p Moses, Peggy Ann
Painter, Peggy Lee Price, Rebecca
Wilson, Mildred Patton, and Edna
Alien; Altos, Mrs. Roger D.ilard,
Mrs. J. B. Ensley, Misses Barbara
Bess, Docia Garrett, Spdie Queen
and Sadie Luck; tenors, C. M. War
ren, Dick Green, W. C. Hennessee,
L-cyd Cowan, and Tommy Davis;
basses, J. T. Gribble, John Echols,
Claude Jones, Chester Scott, and
W. J. Fisher.
A cordial invitation is extended
to :he public to attend.
Webster School District
Teachers To Meet
On Monday, Dec. 13
The Webster district teachers
meeting, composed of the faculty
members of the Savannah and
Webster high schools will be held
at the Webster school Friday, Dec.
13, at 1 o'clock. A special Christ
mas dinner and s^ial hour will
be enjoyed and a short business
"session will be held.
1 Funeral services were held Tues
day afternoon at 3 o'clock at Cul
lowhee for Mack Allen Adams,
21, who was instantly killed early
Sunday morning in an automobile
accident. Burial was in the Cox
cemetery.
Young Adams, son of Mr. and
Mrs. F.y Adams, of East LaPorte,
was a passenger in a car said to
have be en dr:. en by Bannister
Middle*, m, 22, of Cullowhee and
accompanied by Woodford Parker,
25, of Last Lc Forte. Middleton and
and Packer were both injured and
taken ;o Ai: gel's hospital for treat
ment. Their condition is reported
favoraoie. Middleton was held on
a charge of manslaughter.
The Adams youth, who was ac
cidentally thrown from the car,
was killed when the vehicle pass
ed over his body, crushing his head
and shoulders.
Pritchard Smith, Jr., state high
way patrolman who investigated
the wreck, said evidence showed
that the car, a 1938 Chevrolet two
door sedan, was traveling west to
ward Franklin on the Dillsboro
road at a high rate of speed. It
rounded a sharp curve safely and
about 10 yards farther on it got
out of control, leaving the left
side of the road and traveling 61
yards until the driver got it back
on the pavement, he said.
It proceeded for 56 yards on the
road and then went up an embank
ment on the right side, traveling
45 yards. It then jumped a dis
tance of 16 yards and fell back on
the highway rolling over several
times over a distance of 23 yards.
It one time, the patrolman said,
appeared that the car was 15 feet
off the ground and it was believed
that young Adams was accidentally
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SYLVA SCOUT TROOP '
IN HUNT THAT BAGS
350 POUND BEAR
Senior Scouts Get Thrill
Of Life In Two Day
Outing and Hunting Trip
It can now safely be said that
the "Future Bear Hunters of Jack
! son County" will carry on in the
good old bear hunting style set
by their eider leaders since twelve
of these boys participated in a
two-day hunt on the Big Tom Wil
son Bear Hunt club reservation
near Mt. Mitchell this week and
were on hand to see Huett Wilson
bring down a 350 pounder. The
kill being made about 2 o'clock
Tuesday afternoon.
Senior Scout Troop adviser J.
T. Bales loaded his truck up with
food, blankets, the boys and other
necessary camping equipment and
took off from Sylva Sunday after
noon for the club camp. Arriving
at the camp the boys camped out
in the open, cooking their own
j meals as required in their scout
work.
Scouts participating in the hunt
were: Jack Hennessey, who has
just received the rank of Eagle
Scout, Philip Jones, Walter Allison
Jones, Boyd Sutton, Charles Still
well, Jimmy Bales, Carroll Ashe,
Charles Tolley, Ben Sumner, JJen
nie . Reece, Harold Morgan and
Joe Wilde.
Members of the Big Tom Wilson
Club from Sylva going with the
boys and Mr. Bales were: Stedman
Mitchell, Ed Battle, C. F. Dodson,
A. J. Dills, Harry Ferguson, Dr.
Harold McGuire, Dr. Wayne Mc
Guire and Rass Barrett.
Three of the boys participated in
the drive which was over some of
the most rugged terrain in Western
Carolina, they were: Jimmy Bales,
Walter Jones and Ben Sumner.
The bear was skinned, the meat
divided among the hunters and
the hide presented the Scouts by
the Sylva members of the club.
The boys plan to have the hide
mounted and placed in their meet
ing room at the Sylva Methodist
church.
Mr. Bales and the members of
the hunting club had nothing but
the highest praise for the scouts.
They are said to have conducted
themselves like veteran hunters,
everyone, without exception, do
ing the things they were told to do
by their leaders. They reached
Sylva about 8:30 Tuesday night
in time to show their "big hide to
the members of the Wildlife club
which was holding a meeting at
that time.
Mr. Clint Dodson, on the scene
member of the hunt, will write a
descriptive article on the hunt for
next week's Herald. This will be i
good, look for it.
Paul Kirk made a business trip
to Birmingham, Ala., the first of
the week.
Le?i?? For Antarctic* Expedition
NAVY COX'N Bob O. Smith, Chattanooga, Tenn., la shown with "Major'*
and "Flit," two of the 32 doga taken aboard the Mount Olympus, flag
ship of the Navy's Antarctic expedition task force, at Newport News, Va.
Admiral RichardE. Byrd heads "Operation High Jump." (International)
FUNERAL RITES HELD
FOR CHARLIE DILLARD
Funeral services for Charlie Dil
lard, who died suddenly of ^heart
attack Thursday at his home in
Sylva, were held Thursday after
noon at 2 o'clock in the East Sylva
Baptist church. Rev. Ernest Jami
son officiated, assisted by Rev. Ed
gar Willix. Burial followed in the
Dillard cemetery. The Masons were
in charge of the rites at the grave.
Mr. Dillard, son of Mrs. Tobitha
Dillard and the late Zeb Dillar<4 of
Sylva, was engaged in the farm
ing profession and carried out
many of the soil improvements.
He was a member of the East Syl
va Baptist church and was very
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Tiro Thirdh 0fuotu
Of Seat SmIvh For
County Heached
Mrs. W. L. Jones, county Seal
Sale chairman, has announced that
two-thirds of the county's quota
of $300 has been reached and a
concentrated drive will be made
this week in an effort to complete
the amount.
Vernon Cope is in charge of the
sales in the schools and Mrs. Harry
Ferguson, Mrs. Jimmy Buckner
and Mrs. W. J. Fisher are in charge
of the sales handled through the
town. Mrs. Parker Rand heads
the drive at Cullowhee.
Dan Frady will leave Sunday
for Charlotte after spending sev
eral days with Mrs. Frady and.son,
Danny. Mr. Frady has recently
completed a school for highway
patrolmen and will be assigned to
the Charlotte district.
JACKSON WILDLIFE
CLUB HAS MEETING
Jackson County Wildlife club
r.tld a call meeting in the Wood
man hall Tuesday night at 8 o'clock
wi;h President Stedman. Mitchell
presiding. The object of the meet
ing was to discuss the work for
the new year and to start the new
membership drive. Considerable
discussion centered around the
proposed legislation to be asked
of the General Assembly in Janu
ary separating the game and fish
from the present board of Conser
vation and Development. The
sportsmen of North Carolina are
getting tired of paying ^)Ut their
money in hunting fees, permits
and other ways when the present
set-up is doing very little about de
veloping better game and fish for
the state. A huge surplus from
hunting license fees has piled up
in the state treasury and these men
want to see it used for the purpose
for which it is paid in.
A large delegation of Jackson
sportsmen expect to attend the
state meeting in Raleigh which will
be scheduled for some time the
latter part of January.
It was voted to have a regular
meeting of the Jackson club on the
second Thursday night in each
month.
Secretary Dillard Robinson re
ported 13 new members had signed
up and paid their $2 yearly fee.
Twenty or more were present for
the meeting.
This year's corn crop is not only
the largest on record, but the aver
age of quality was also unusually
high in almost every part of the
country.
Jackson AAA Committeemen Eleeted To
Direct Organization9h Work During M947
D. C. Higdon has been reelected
Chairman of the Jackson County
AAA Committee of three members
which will administer the affairs
of the AAA farm program within
this county.
Other members elected to the
county committee are: Blaine Nich
olson, Vice-Chairman, and C. P.
Shelton, third member. J. Lyman
Stewart and N. Higdon were
named alternate members.
Mrs. Ellen N. Corbin serves the
county committee as secretary, and
Miss Agnes A. Wilson is treasurer
of the association.
Mr. Higdon announces the re
sults of the community committee
men elections as follows:
Community
Barkers Creel
Qualla
Caney Fork
River
Canada
Cullowhee
Sylva
Dillsboro
Webster
Scotts Creek
Savannah
Greens Creek
Hamburg
Cashiers
fountain
Chairman
J. T. Jones
W. T. Gass
Wayne Lovedahl
Fred Smith
Mitchell Melton
John Phillips
T. C. Bryson, Sr.
Boyd Brown
W. N. Cook
L. M. Crisp
N>Higdon
J. B. Wetmore
J. Lyman Stewart
W. S. Alexander
W. C. Moody
Vice -Chairman
Arthur T. Brooks
Frank Kinsland
Luther Stephenson
Albert Jackson
Chas Parker
R.' S. Shelton
Lee Bumgarner
E. B. Monteith
Frank Cole
M. J. Henry
Carl Higdon
G. L. Green
Lawrence Cooper
Charley Passmore
W. A. Crawford
Regular Member First Alternate
Frank C. Green
H. O. Crisp
Ben Nicholson
Roy Tritt
M. H. Wood
Frank Bryson
Edd Bumgarner
J. C. Patterson
W. T. Ashe
J. D. Mills
V. C. Buchanan
Dearie Ashe
Clayborn Bryson
Isaac Alexander
A. C. Edwards
O. L. Jones
!Nick Bradley
Ransom Hooper
jj. C. Millsaps
i Dewey Broom
[Clifton Crisp
Walter Cope
S. T. Crisp
R. T. Cowan
Ode Cope
3ill Buchanan
Howell Green
Fred Bryson
T. S. Lance
Orville Henderson
Second Alternate
J. Sutton
Robert Varner
Davis Hooper
D. Denton
Boone Brown
R. M. Bryson
Thomas Hooper
Mrs. Leatherwood
Roscoe Lewis
W. H. Blanton
James Brogden
Felix Hall
Deitz Fowler
Crate McCall
Neal Tucker
120 Persons Die Saturday
In Atlanta Hotel Blaze
Funeral services were held |
Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock'
at the Tuckaseigee Baptist church
for Mrs. Annie Wike Hooper, who 1
died at her home at Tuckaseigee
Monday morning at 10:4?j o'clock.
Rev. Edgar W4111 .< officintod, as
sisted by ftev. J. E. Brown.
Mrs. Hooper, 86 years of age,
was a native* of Jackson county,
having lived in the same communi
ty all her life. She was the daugh
ter of John and Margaret Wike.
She was married in March, 1878,
to Charles Lambert Hooper, who
preceded her in death in 1922. She
joined the church at an early age
and was a consistent, loyal mem
ber all her life, though not able to
take an active part in her latter
years as she had been sick for six
years.
She is survived by four sons, Dr.
D. D. Hooper, and Fred L. Hooper,
of Sylva; J. M. Hooper and J. J.
Hooper of Tuckaseigee; 16 grand
children; 14 great grandchildren;
and one brother, Lee Wike, of East
LaPorte.
Pallbearers were: Claude Parker,
Bob Powell, John Wike, Walter
Jackson, Jack Haskctt and Tom H.
f?irr*pson.
rne Young Women's Sunday
School class had chaise of tiie
flowers.
I
Sylva PTA Meets
Tuesday Afternoon
Members of the Sylva Parent
Teacher Association met Tues
day afternoon, Dec. 10, in the audi
torium of the Sylva Elementary
school. Mrs. W. L. Jones presided
over the brief buisness session and
at its completion, W. H. Crawford,
principal of the Sylva High school
introduced Rev. W. Q. Grigg, who
spoke on "Character and Spiritual
Education."
The members of the Sylva High
school Glee club presented two
numbers to the group.
William Edgar Bryson
Buried At Cullowhee
On Tuesday Morning
Funeral services were held at the
Cullowhee Methodist church at 11
o'clock Tuesday morning for Wil
liam Edgar Bryson, 23, who
plunged to his de?nth from the 9th
l'looi of the Atlanta Winecoff hotel
as death swept on flaming wings
tlirough the building at 3 o'clock
Saturday morning, claiming the
lives ol 120 men, women and chil
dren; ten of them being from West
ern North Carolina. The Rev. R. T.
Houts, Jr. and members of the
Navy,Recruiting office of Asheville
were in charge of the rites. Burial
was in the Cullowhee cemetery.
Pallbearers were: Fred Brown,
L. H. Higdon, Elliott Norton, Henry
Ducker, Henry Pettit and John
Clayton.
He is survived by the widow, the
former Miss Vera Timmons of
Greenville, S. C.; two daughters,
Sue Ann, 4, and Sherry Nell, 2 of
Asheville; his mother, Mrs. Carrie
Bryson, dietitian at Western Caro
lina Teachers College; a sister, Mrs.
J. H. Holder of Ontario, Califor
nia; three brothers, Carson of
Webster, Wayne of Athens, Cenn.
and Gordon of Fresno, Calif.
Mr. Bryson was a natiye of
Jackson county and was educated
in the Cullowhee school. He^ had
been one of Trailways bus drivers
since 1938, except for a twenty
monfhf: period' sp<r-t, in the Navy,
most of his military service being
spent overseas. Upo.i receiving his
discharge in January nl this year,
he returred t<*iiis Job with the bus
company, his regular scheduled
run being from Asheville to At
lanta through Sylva. He an? his
wife had recently purchased a
home in Asheville and moved into
it.
On last Friday morning he left
Asheville on his run, passing
through Sylva at 1:50 p. m., reach
ing Atlanta at 7:30 and after check
ing in his fares and bus, he went
to the Winecoff where the bus
. cmpany maintained a room on a
yearly basis for its drivers. He and
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Soft Coal Miners <Back To Pits
As Lewis Bows To Government
The nation can look forward to31
Christmas with a much happier
mood as the 400,000 soft coal min
ers file back into the pits and the
much needed fuel again begins to
flow into outlets for industrial and
home consumption. In .ordering
his United Miner Workers back to
work John L. Lewis bowed to
Government regulations and *e
mands of the public and averted
a national disaster. Had the coal
strike continued much longer the
outlook for cheerful Christmas for
millions of United Stated citizens
would have been very gloomy.
The J7-day strike had already
begun to cause much hardship and
saw closing down of many indus
tries and drastic curtailment in
rail transportation. This strangle
hold on the country was about to
wreck what promised to be one
of the greatest volume in Christ
mas trade in recent years.
The announcement ending the
strike was made by Lewis in his
usual drajnatic style about 3 o'
clock Saturday* afternoon as he
sat in the Washington office of the
Union, surrounded by union at
torney and union leaders. He or
dered his men back to work under
the same terms upon which they
walked out under which will keep
them at work until April 1, 1947.
He said "coal production will con
tinue until April 1, but this does
not necessarily mean another
strike at that time."
In bowing to the Government,
Lewis said that he did not want the
Supreme court to be under public
pressure caused by hysteria and
frenzy of an economic crisis. "Pub
lic necessity requires the quantita
tive production of coal during such
period", he said. ? '; *
President Truman was preparing
to go before the nation in a radio
Christmas To Be
Theme Of Metho
dist Service 22nd
The Christmas activities of the
Sylva Methodist church include a
regular Christmas service at the
eleven o'clock worship hour on
Sunday, December 22, and a spe
cial program on Sunday evening
at 5 o'clock when a Christmas
Candlelight program will be given,
oy members of the Youth Choir.
At this time a White Christmas
Will also be observed.
On December 24, at 7 o'clock the
children's Christmas program and
treat will be held in the church
and a program by members of the
Sylva High school Glee club will
be presented.
Funeral Rites Held In
Canton For C. G. Hipps
Mrs. P. W. Kincaid and Mrs.
I Charles Snyder were in Canton,
! Tuesday, attending the funeral of
j their brother-in-law, Charles Guy
j Hipps, who died at his home in
Canton, Sunday afternoon. Kites
i were held at the First Methodist
church and interment followed in
the Bon-a-Venture cemetery.
Mr. Hipps, prominent Canton
business man and former town of
ficial, was married to the former
Miss Bonnie Sherrill of DiUsboro.
In addition to the widow he is cur*
vived by one son, Guy Hipps, Jr.,
sophomore at the University of
Tennessee; a sister, Mrs. Bruce G.
Nanney of Canton and his father,
W. R. Hipps, also of Canton.
address when the strike end came.
Lewis was afraid of this.