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Tbe H?ral<S Is progrtuWe ?rvie# to ton ... A profresrive, balanced cpuntj. * VOL. XXI^NO. 33 Sylva, N.. C. Thursday, *Jan. 16, 1947 $2.00 A Year?5c Cmpy Glenville School Doing Splendid Work With Veteran Farm ^Trainees Ammons Says Boys Are1 Showing Interest In Better Farming Methods By L. A. AMMONS Vocational Agriculture Teacher Glenville High School Now that the war is over and Glenville High school has been able to secure an agriculture - teacher, this school is taking its place at the front in Veterans' training work. The first work to * be done was to get the veterans started in the farm training classes. At present there are 22 enrolled in class work and several more in the processing stage. Tota^ en rollment wjll probably, reach 60 by the first of March. As each boy must own or rent a farm the natural time of change is the first of the year and just now we are having many new stu dents coming in. The sooner they do come in the better as they can get lined up for the year's program of work and go along much better. At this school the teacher goes to the farm for classes and labora tory work. Tbi' teacher starts the student off by giving him a book or bulletin and assigning a lesson. The next week the teacher re turns and gives a true or false test, discussing mistakes or appli cation of things learned from the previous assignment and assigns another lesson. This is done with each student. The laboratory period is to help in any farm problem that may come up. Bookkeeping, carpentry, pruning, terraces, ditches, running W?ter incomes, making out ro tations,. treating seed, visiting fairs or experiment stations, of 3*rhat have you, is some of the worfe be ing done. This work is a school teacher's dream, as there is money for a well paid teacher, plenty of sup plies, and lots of necessary equip-1 ment, such as charts, motion pic tures, samples, books and all that goes with them. This makes the old teachers on the regular state set ?Continued on page ? Yets May Renew Lapsed Insurance Before February 1 T. W. Ashe, Veterans' Service Officer, has announced that all veterans who have let their life insurance lapse will have until February 1 to reinstate them with out a physical examination and by making two payments on the pol icy; the first to cover the period of grace and the second for the cur rent month. A statement must accompany the payment, whereby the veteran says he is in as good health as at the time the policy lapsed. After a policy has been rein stated, it may then be converted to any type. All private insurance companies are urging that the holders retain their policies. Mr. Ashe states that payments should now be sent to Richmond instead of New York. Barueh Choice WHIN Bernard M. Barueh and hit At* fellow members ot the U.S. delegation to the U. N. Atomic En m. y resigned, for thai* atomic plan was placed dl* ractly la the hands ct Warren R. Austin, chief U. S. delegate. Hare Is the most reoent portrait etf Mr. Austin, who was declared tar Mr. Barueh "thoroughly equipped# la SYLVA LIONS CLUB RAISE $300 FOR? HIGH SCHOOL BAND A crowd which overflowed the Sylva elementary school auditori um helped swell the proceeds of the Lions Club to exceed $300 when the club gave another of its popular performances, the negro minstrel, on last Friday night. Of ficers of the club stated that the net proceeds amounted to around $300 and the greater per cent of this amount will go toward spon soring the high school b?nd. ? When the Sylva Lions Club puts on an entertainment it is always good, especially if it is in the na ture of a negro minstrel. The mem bership includes some good talent, and this insures a big attendance, such as was out to see the boys perform last week. fVed Bryson Is New District Forester J. Fred Bryson of Franklin has been appointed temporary Assist ant District Forester for District 9 with offices in Sylva, to replace Edward H. Ward, who left Wednesday for New Bern. Mr. C. C. Pettit is district forester for the area. Mr. Ward, who has held the po sition here for the past six months, will continue in the same capacity for District 4 of the Division of Forestry of the North Carolina De partment of Conservation and De velopment. Mr. Bryson, before coming to his new assignment, was Forest Ward en for Macon county. District 9 is made up of eight western counties, and is one of the nine districts in the state, the pri mary purpose of each being the control of forest fires and thp con servation of the timber supplies. Big Sum Sought For Expansion At Western Carolina Teachers If the General Assembly pro vides the $4,705,325 asked for in appropriation measures introduced into the senate and house jointly Monday night, Western Carolina Teachers College will get $1,334, 200 and the balance will go to four other Western Carolina institu tions. This Jegislation, bearing the ap proval of Governor Cherry and the budget commission, is likely to have fair sailing through the As sembly, , Western Carolina Teachers Col lege proposes to spend $525,000 for science classroom^ building and $72,000 for equipment; $25C000 for men's 4ormitoi^y and $5>800 for equipment; $264,800 for library building and $40,000 for equip ment; alterations and. repairs to buildingi $75,000; extension o I water ,electric, heating and sewer (services, $40,000; and construction of driveways, walkways and park I ing spaces and landscaping about new buildings, $10,000. State Wildlife Club To Meef In Raleigh 27 And 28 The North Carolina Wildlife Fed eration an organization composed of 20,000 hunters and fishermen, will hold its annual meeting in | Raleigh - January 27-28, as an nounced Wednesday by State Exe cutive Secretary Ross O. Stevens. Ten or more members of the Jackson County club expect to at tend the meeting. Around 65,000 veterans are ap plying monthly ^for admission to Veterans Administration hospitals ror homes. _ . 1 STILLWELL RITES HELD FRIDAY AT CULLOWHEE CHURCH Funeral services for E. H. Still well, 65, were held at the Cullo whee Baptist church at 2 p. m. Friday, January 10. The,Rev. Mark Osborne, Jr., pastor of the chyirqh, officiated and burial followed in the Cullowhee cemetery. ~~ Mr. Stillwell, head of the de partment of social sciences at W.C.T.C., had been a patient at the Mission hospital since Decem ber 28, and death occurred Wednesday morning. Active pallbearers were A. K. Hinds, E. V. Deans, L. R- Taff, W. A. Ashbrook, J. W. McDevitt, N. W. Turner, Joe Wallin, N. H. Gur ley and Stedman Mitchell. Honor ary pallbearers were R. C. Sutton, F. H. Brown, R. L. Madison, H. T. Hunter, Clarence Chrisman, A. C. Hoyle, H. P. Smitlf, C. F. Dodson. George Crawfcyrd, Oscar Ensley, D. H. Brown, Roy Hamilton, A. A. Nichols, A. S. Nichols, L. A. Bu chanan, R. W. Kirchberg, Jim Price, R. D. Phillips, J. S. Seymour, H. E. Battle, John Painter, Elbert Watson, C. D. Killian, and C. C. Buchanan.' Ushers were H. E. Battle, F. H. Brown, Roy Hamiltons and J. E. Hooper. Members of the Stillwell Sunday school class served as flower girls. A native of Webster, Mr. Still well was the son of the late Joseph and Martha Stillwell. His entire lifetime was devoted to educa tional circles of the county. Re ceiving his appointment to the fac ulty of W.C.T.C. in 1903, he was second oldest in service at the col lege and in 1909 he was made head of the Department of Social Sciences. He held a Masters de gree Irom the University of Chi cago and receivecfhis B. S. degree from the George Peabody college at^Nashville, Tenn. Professor Stillwell was active in the "Cullowhee Baptist church, where hk held a membership. He was chairman of the board of Dea cons and was clerk of the church. He taught a class composed of the young women of the community and college. Surviving are" the widow, the former Miss Sallie Gertie Coward; four daughters; Miss Martha Lou Stillwell of Cullowhee, Miss Caro lyn Stillwell, who teaches in Winston-Salem, Mrs. Leonard Al len of Boiling Springs, Mrs. Kate Reeves of Leicester; one son, Da vid Siler Stillwell of Stillwell and Stillwell law firm in Sylva; two brothers, Attorney Ephriam P. Stillwfcll of Sylva, Iverson Stillwell of Webster; two sisters, Mrs. W. N. Cook of Webster, Mrs. Sadie Sut ton of Sylva; and one grandson, Billy Reeves of Leioester. This year's Catamount, the col lege annual, will be dedicated to Professor Stillwell and to Professor F. H. Brown. Jackson Tenant Purchase Borrowers To Meet At Glenville January 22nd The annual meeting of the Jackson County Tenant Purchase borrowers will be held on Wednes day, January 22, at the Glenville School House. The purpose of this event is to summarize the farm and home operations of these borrow* ers during the past year. The theme of the meeting will be "Im proved Farm and Home Practices." Group discussions will be held on good and bad points in the farm ing program of F. O. families. . Prizes will be awarded for out standing achievements. The program will start at 10:00 a. m., and close around 3:00 p. m. Lunch will be served by Glenville Home Economics Department. Mrs. -Hunter Speaker On PTA Program Mrs. H. T. Hunter of Cullowhee ^dressed memb^Ts of the Sylva Parent Teacher Association at their January meeting .held Tuesday at the Sylva Elementary school. Mrs. Hunter chose for her subject, "Cdfcservation for Happiness," and pointed out to the group that it was the extra things of life, and not the necessities, that made for happiness. Mrs. W. L. Jones presided at the meeting and a better than usual crowd was present. V. L. Cope, principal of the Elementary school, gave a final Cratth Latal* Pilot in Honpital pilot Of TMI TRANSPORT PLANE which crashed near Vineland, N. J? Capt Hubert Sheker is pictured being attended by nurse Eleanor Stan ton at the Brldgeton. N. J Hospital. Heavy snow and wind forced Sheker to unsuccessfully seek an emergency landing alter starting (pom Newark, N. J., on a projected flight to Miami with 20 passengers'and three crewmen. He missed the field and landed in a densely wooded *ection near Vineland. Three persons were killed and 18 others were Injured. Sheker suffered a fractured skulL (International) Hugh Menteith Presides At Seout Court Of Honor The Smoky Mountain District Boy Scout Court of Honor was held Thursday evening, January 9, at the Methodist Church in Franklin. Hugh Monteith, district advance ment chairman, presided. The tenderfoot candlelight in vestiture ceremony was conducted by W. C. Wall, field Scout execu tive of Asheville. Kenneth Sutton of Troop 1,"Sylva was inducted into Scouting as a tenderfoot. ?The following merit badges were awarded to Scouts of Troop 1, Syl va: Charles Cope. Conservation and Automobiling; Tommy Ferguson, Art and Horsemanship; Franklyn Fricks, Pathftoaing; Dick Barkley Pathfinding. . Winfred Ashe of Troop 14, Cullo-< whee was reviewed by the district reviewing committee for the rank of Star Scout, which will be awarded at the next Court of Hon or at Whiitier, February 13. Rev. A. Rufus Morgan of Frank lin, retiring chairman of the Smoky Mountain District, and W. C. Hen nessee of Sylva, the incoming chairman, made short talks on Scout activities during the past year and plans foi the coming year. It was brought out that the Smoky Mountain District, com posed of Jackson, Macon and Swain counties, led all districts in the Daniel Boone Council in in creased enrollment during the year 1946. Other Scout Committeemen from Sylva attending the Court were Harry Ferguson and Paul Kirk. TOMPKINS NAMED VICE-CHAIRMAN ON ELECTION LAWS When the House of Representa tives was organized and committee posts assigned last week, Dan Tompkins, Jackson's representa-' tive was found listed on a number of important committees, includ ing the vice-chairmanship of the committee on elections and elec tion laws. Senator Baxter C. Jortes, ?of Swain was named head of the same committee in the senate. Other committee posts held b\. Mr. Tompkins include appropria tions, constitutional amendments, education, game, interstate coop eration, journal, public welfare, unemployment compensation, li brary, and printing. MASONS WILL MEET AT 7:30 TONIGHT There will be a regular meet ing of Dillsboro Masonic Lodge No. 459 ,A. F. & A. M. at the hall in Dillsboro tonight, Thursday, at 7:30 o'clock. All Master Masons are, urged to attend. Visiting Masons' are extended a cordial invitation. report on the Seal Sale drive made in the county. A total of $378 was made, the quota having been set ?at $300. As yet the Cullowhee di vision has not sent in their report which will bring the amount far in excess of the quota. ?taehaon Roadn To Receive Big Stone Tonnage In an effort to avert the situa tion of last spring's muddy farm 1ft -market roads, the North Caro lina highway commission has let contracts to 10 stone and gravel crushing plants. The majority of the work is al ready under way at the plants and the deadlines are early ones, John C. Walker, Division Engineer, has stated. Nine counties will benefit from this program, included among them Jackson county, where roads at Addie will be given 30,000 tons to be supplied by the Southern Stone Company at Knoxville.' Secondary roads created a ma jor headache for stato oAtfryila aj)d local users last year. In marf? case^y the roads had bogged down to s>rch a point that farmers were unable to make the contact on the outside required for supplies for their homes and farms or to bring pro duce to market. Ford Reduces Prices On New Model Cars Henry- Ford II, president of Ford Motor Company,- has an nounced price reductions on new model Ford cars, amounting from $15.00 to $50.00. The Furd com pany president said the action was .ntended as "shock treatment" to halt "the insane spiral of mount ing costs and rising prices." Ford's action was ^commended by Government officials and is ex pected to result in stopping some of the insane price rises, they said. LEGION OFFICERS TO MEET IN DURHAM ON JANUARY 26-27 Indications are that the Ameri can Legion Post Officers' confer ence to be held in Durham on Jan- ? uary 26-27 will be the largest ever ', held in the 28-year-old history of the North Carolina Department of* j the American Legion, according to word received here from the State headquarters of the Legion in Ha-, leigh. . i The headline attractions at the conference will be National Le jjioji^Commander Paul H. Griffith, "a"veteran of both World Wars, and Mrs. Norman H. Pearl, national president of the American Legion Auxiliary. Other outstanding fig ures of the national department of the American J^egion at Indian apolis, Ind., will also attend the conference. State Legion "Commander Wil liam M. York, of Greensboro, and Executive Vice-Commander Paul R. Younts, of Raleigh, announced that the conference not only will j be attended by commanders of the I more than 350 Legion posts in the | Sitate, but also by adjutants, com ^mittee members, and other inter ested Legionnaires as well as non members of the Legion so that they may understand what the Legion ! program for 1947 is in the State. Veterans Administration board of appeals now is disposing of an average of 2,900 appeals from VA rulings monthly. A rmy Searching Party To Resume Hunt For Plane Lost In Jackson Area LOCAL MEN ATTEND ' WNCAC MEETING AT CHEROKEE TUESDAY Felix Picklesimer, president of Jackson County Chamber of Com merce, and Dean W. E. Bird, John icDevitt, and Dr. W. A. Ashbrook f Western Carolina Teachers Col ge were among the 47 persons om 13 Western North Carolina counties attending the quarterly meeting of Western North Caro lina Associated Communities held luQualla Hall of the Central In ?an school at Cherokee on Tues A number ot projects being sponsored by the organization were discussed and reports heard. Dean Bird of Cullowhee urged the immediate beginning of a mu seum on the North Carolina side of the Gresrt Smoky Mountains National park for the preservation of items pertaining to the pioneer life of the area. Plans for the pro posed museum at Cherokee to sup plement the park museum were also discussed. A report was made by George Stephens on the proposed historical pageant to be presented at Chero kee, and the association adthorized continued action on the project. Back Monroe Redden Appreciation was expressed for the appointment arranged by Rep. Monroe Redden of the 12th con gressional district with Interior Secretary J. A. Krug. The meeting will be held February 5, and it was recommended at the Tuesday meeting that at least one repre sentative irom each county in the area attend. Lunch, prepared by the How economics students of the school, was served and a group of Chero kee students sang in the Cherokee language during the lunch hour. The next meeting will be at Bre vard in April. President of the as sociation, Percy B. Ferebee of An drews, presided. M . . Will Hold Leadermhip Con fervnce in Sylra The Woman's Missionary Union of the Tuckaseegee Baptist associa tion will hold its annual Leader ship conference at the Sylva Bap tist church Friday, January 17, beginning at 10:13 a, m. Mrs. Claude Campbell will bring the devotional message and the following leaders will discuss dif ferent phases of the work: Mrs. Harry Ferguson, Mrs. Charles Al lison, Mrs. Dennis Higdon, H. T. Hunter, Rufus Phillips, Mrs. F. Cowan, Mrs. D. G. Bryson, Mrs. Roy Reed, Miss Hattie H. Sutton, Mrs. Blankenship and Mrs. C. M. Warren. Lunch will be served by the hostess church. All interested per sons are invited to attend. Sylva Field Will Be Base For Planes And 12-Man Ground Crew An intensive three day search will be begun this week for the wreckage, ot the Cessna, a two motor plane which is thought to have been forced down in a snow storm in 1944 over Rattlesnake Cove, in Jackson county near Black Ruck according to information re leased by Col. Frank J. MacNees, commanding officer at the Green ville Air Base. v A ground searching crew of twelve men from the Greenville Base and two special light search ing planes of the L-5 type from Pope Field Fort Bragg, will be used in the search. The planes were ' expected to arrive at the Sylva Airport Wednesday evening, but inclement weather prevented their arrival. Both ground and air searching parties will be based at Sylva airport. Major T. J. Hieatt, intelligence officer at the base, who has pre viously helped search for the plane, was in the flight last Thursday which -circled the area. He stated that conditions are now good to continue the search as the heavy foliage is gone and the heavy rains of the past two weeks will help melt t h e ice-encrusted rocks, which g;<ve the appearance of a 'wrecked plane dui in.? the recent search. The Cessna was enroute to Knoxville from Charlotte at the time it disappeared with four men aboard. Pieces of the plane were found last tail in the m^untaineous area, but no trace of the plane's main portions were located in sub sequent searches. ; > Ifaiphw Sponger* .. '? Bill Affecting City Office Holders Representative. Dan Tompkins has introduced a measure in the lower house to provide that cer tain officers of the town of Sylva need not be qualified voters there* in. The bill stipulates that <4the provisions of chapter 160-25 of the general statutes of 1943^ requiring mayors, commissioners, intendants of police, aldermen or otfer chief officers of the city or town to be qualified voters therein, shall not apply to the town marshal, town clerk, fire chief, deputy mar shals or othter officers or employes of the town of Sylva, except that the mayor and aldermen shall be qualified voters of the munici pality." The bill was referred to the house committee on counties, cities and towns. t Mr. Tompkins, with four other members of the assembly, left Ral eigh Tuesday night for Chicago as official delegates from the legis lature to attend the session of the Council of State Government which | meets in that city on the 16th and 17th. 1947 March Of Dimes Stages Its Fund Appeal Jan. 15 - 30 The 1947 March of Dimes, an nual fund raising drive of the Na tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis which sparkplugs the never-ceasing battle ng !nst polio, will be held January 15 to 30, it was announced today by Mrs. E. L. McKee, chairman of the March of Dimes campaign committee here. The needs for funds, Mrs. Mc Kee said, has never been greater, since the nation has just emerged from the worst epidemic of polio in the history of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, founded in 1938 to spearhead and co-ordinate the battle against this disease. * Need for Money "United Sta**s Public Health Service figures show," said Mrs. McKee, "that the 1946 polio epi demic is second only in severity to the great epidemic of 1916, the worst in recorded history. This means that not only were the Foundation and its chapters called upon as never before to supply ex pensive equipment, personnel and every other aid known to modern scicnce to the stricken, but they still must assist those who have not yet achieved maximum re covery. And there are more of these than there have ever been before. "The National Foundation also spent millions of dollars during 1946 in medical scientific research to trace the cause of infantile par alysis," Mrs. McKee explained. Iflt will costinue to do so until that cause is discovered and conquered. "The National Foundation also intends to pursue vigorously its far-reaching educational program to inform the public on precautions against the disease; what to do if and when polio strikes, and what your tyarch of Dimes is prepared to do for every American, regard less of age, creed, color or race, stricken b ythe dread crippler? and that is to provide the beet available care, regardless of cost, until maximum recovery is if* sured. ?Continued on page t ;
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