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VOL. XXII, NO. 1
Sylva, N.?C. Thursday, June 5, 1947
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Aldermen Ask For Resignation of City Police and Clerk
American Legion Elects New
Commander, Other Officers
At Meeting Friday9 May 30
Rev. W. Q. Grigg Is New'
Commander Of William
E. Dillard Post ^ v
Rev. W. Q. Grigg w .9 elected
crmmander of the William E. Dil
lard Post of the American Legion
of Jackson County at a regular
meeting cf members of the post on
last Friday night in the community
building. The post flso elected
other officers for the ./ear as fol
lows:
Fred M. Williams, 1st vice com
mander; Richard O. Wilson, 2nd
vice commander; George B. Sloan,
adjutant; Marven L. Snipes, chap
lain; Robert V. Reed, finance of
ficer; T. Walter Ashe, service of
ficer; Dan Tompkins, historian;
Edd Bryson, sergeant at arms; L.
H. Higdon, membership, retiring
commander. Williams. Snipes,
Ashe, Tompkins, and Bryson are
veterans of^ World War No. 1, the
others are World War No. 2..
The fMlowing were named as
delegates to the State convention
to be held at Carolina Beach the
14, 15, 16 and 17 of June: L. H.
Higdon, Rev. W. Q. Grigg, Dan
Tompkins, D. M. Tallent, and Edd
Bryson.
The installation of the new of
ficers will be held at the next reg
ular meeting on June 27. All mem
bers and their families are urged
to attend.
Chamber Of Commerce
Membership Continued
President Felix Picklesimer
states that the curre^
drive for thte Chamber of Com
merce is running behind and that
the organization will be glad to
receive new members at any time.
Regular meetings are held every
first Friday night of each month
which are open to the public. Sug
gestions bearing on t^e activities
of the organization will be gladly
' received.
Since publishing the member
ship list last week the following
new members have come in: Mead
Corporation, Hooper Drug Store,
S. W. Enloe and son, distributors;
Pet Dairy, Eagles 5c and 10c store,
Cannon Bros., Southern Lumber
Co., Carl's Cottages, Jane's and
Dot's Plant Shop, Mrs. J. R. Jones,
Sylva Herald, T. Walter Ashe, Dan
K. Moore, Trailways Bus Station,
. Campbell's Ice Cream, Ed Ervin,
/Maple Springs Tourist Cottages
and Cafe, Jarrett Springs Hotel,
D. G. Bryson, Sunset Farm, John
Henson, W. L. Jones, Charlie Ev
ans, Sylva Radio and Electric
Shop, and M. L. Snipes.
CULLOWHEE HIGH
STUDENTS RECEIVE
AWARDS AT FINALS
A number of scholarships were
announced Friday evening at the
annual graduation exercises of
Cullowhee high school. They in
cluded:
Irene Phillips and Olin Boone,
best citizens; Lowaine Mashburn,
valedictory medal, French medal
and Reader's Digest award; Doris
Ensley, salutatorian's medal; Jesse
Flake, first prize for essay on
"peace and French achievement
medal, achievement medal in his
tory and declamation medal; Irene
Phillips .and Clifton Taylor, read
ing prizes; Dennis Norton and
Edna Earl Sutton, best actor and
actress.
Jerdie Ada Ferguson, recitation
medal; Darrell Tilley and Mary
Sue Zachary, athletic medals;
Marjorie Woody, Cecil Ward and
Leyall Bryson, scholastic awards;
Ted Stephens and Ruth Houston,
best accounting sets; Joe Crawford,
Edwin Norton, Carrie Burrell and
J. W: Bridges, handwriting awards;
Lloyd Hooper, Austin Hooper,
Dorothy Hooper, Delma Middleton
and Baxter Wood, showing most
improvement during the ?ear.
Candidates For Diplomas
Students receiving diplomas
were: Zane Arrington, J??sie Ray
Bryson, Loyall Lee Bryson, Eliza
I beth Ann Chester, Winona Cellar,
Earl Denton, Clinton Dodson, Doris
June Ensley, -Willa Bess Holden,
Ruth Hooper, Olin Boone Jackson,
Mary Lowaine Mashburn, Orville
E. Middleton, Marietta Millsaps,
Ruth Mincey, Nina Lou Mitchell,
Betty Jo Crawford Mpses, Luther
Hooper Norton, Billie Styles
I Parker, ? Charles Dallas Parker,
j Lydia Irene Phillips, Jchn Nelson
Shelton, Billy Gene Smith, Edna
Earl Sutton, Rufus Clifton Taylor,
Marian Marcelle Tritt, Cecil Clay
Ward, Betty Leigh Wood and Iva
Jane Wood.
DR. SLAGLE RETURNS
i TO OPEN OFFICES
, Dr. T. D. Slagle returned to his
home here last week after taking
six months of special work at the
graduate school of medicine of the
University of Pennsylvania. Dr.
Slagle plans to resume his prac
tice of general surgery here about
June 15, with offices in the Cole
building.
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Appropriation Bill For Farm
Program Slashed by Congress
Senate consideration of the De
partment of Agriculture 1948 ap
propriation bill is expected to be
gin this week, with a stiff fight
anticipated as farm supporters
seek to . restore the drastic cuts
imposed when the bill was passed
by the House last week.
Hardest hit by the House bill
were the soil conservation pro
gram in which a budget of $301,
720,000 has been set up and $165,
614,290 authorized; the school
lunch program, for which $75,
000,000 was requested and $45,
000,000 authorized; and the crop
insurance program, cut from a re
quested $19,330,000 to $11,000,000.
The tobacco marketing quota
program, which has paid for itself
in the collection of penalties, was
left by the House as set up in the
Department of Agriculture budget.
Should the Senate follow the
lead of the House, the primary ef
fect in this county would be a
virtual end to the soil conserva
tion work as administered by the
AAA, and a sharp reduction in
the school lunch program. Tobacco
price support would not be af
fected:
The outlook in the Senate, how
ever, is more favorable to agricul
ture. Indications have been that
the soil conservation funds would
be increased to approximately 80
per cent of the amount requested,
to a figure near $240,000,000.
While Congress acts, the soil
conservation program has been
called to a halt in the country.
Lime and phosphate purchases
hTSVe been stopped, and the in
tensive pasture improvement pro
gram that got off to such a good
start is feared to have received an
injurious blow.
Secretary of Agriculture Ander
son, in a statement on the House
appropriation's committee's action,
calls it "a sharp cut at the inter
ests of the American farm family
and the general welfare." He states
that his department has 10.000 less
employees and is operating on a
smaller budget than in 1940.
The soil conservation cut, assets
Secretary Anderson, is a violation
by Congress of its own contract.
"The Department was authorized
to set up the 1947 ACP program on
a 300 million dollar basis."
He calls the decrease m funds
for the school lunch program "in
consistent" with the recent defi
ciency appropriation passed by
Congress to aid the program this
year.
Xssist inif En tlaptist it
ASSISTING IN REVIVAL AND BIBLE.SCHOOL
Rev. and Mrs. G. N. Smith, above, of Georgetown, Ky. are assist
ing Rev. C. M. Warren, pastor of the Baptist church, irf a series of re
vival services. Mr. Smith is doing jhe preaching fcr the revival, and
Mrs. Smith is directing the choir and serving as principal of the Daily
Vacation Bible school. Services are held each evening at 8 o'clock.
LIONS TO RAFFLE NEW
FORD CAR JULY 4 FOR
RENEFIT CITY PARK
For the past several weeks
members of the Sylva Lions club
have been selling tickets as chances
in the drawing of ?a new Ford au
tomobile. The number drawing
will be held Friday, July 4. You
do not have to be present to be
eligible f^jr the winning number.
The funds derived from the sale
of tickets will be used to help buy
playground equipment and for
other improvements in,' the City
community park. .
Those who Jnave not purchased
tickets can <jlo so by contacting any
member of the club.
Hotel#,' Cut en Say
Food Handier#
?Svhooi Hen 'fit
The two food handlers' confer
ences, which were held in Wayn?s
ville and in Cherokee fhe latter
part of May, have produced notice
able results in dining rooms, lunch
rooms, and other fcodhandling es
tablishments throughout Jackson
County, County Sanitarian Officer,
Charlie Thomas,, revealed this
week. Over one hundred and fifty
employees and managers of Jack
son county eating places attended
the two conferences. *
Employees were asked to attend
three classes, which were under
the direction of the U. S. Public
Health Service, and those estab
lishments having one hundred pex
cent attendance by their employ
ees were presented with certifi
cates. The classes took up practi
cal problems of foo^fh and ling, such
as prevention of spread of germs
and disease by extermination of
flies, more careful washing of
dishes, and personal hygiene.
Mrs. W. F. Monteith, owner of
Park Lunch Room, had this to say
about the conference: "The food
handling conference was certainly
a good thing. It was well worth
the time of every person who went.
I actually think the employees
learned to serve the customers bet
ter."
Paul Kilpatrick, an employee of
Velt's Cafe, also believed the con
ference effective: "Although we
knew many of the things we saw
in the movies shown at the con
ference, it was impressed more
deeply on us and we became con
scious of cleanliness while we
worked. It emphasized many points
we previously did not notice about
sterilizing dishes and caring for
food."
Mrs. C. E. Closman, manager of
Hotel Carolina Coffee Shop, said
this about the conferences: "I
think the school was an excellent
idea because it made both opera
tors and employees conscious of
the problems involved in handling
food. They should be held at in
tervals in the ^furtrre ?o that new
employees can also benefit from
them. Sanitation can be explained
but the Health Service pictures
certainly make a difference. We
have noticed a big difference in
W. B. HARRELL IS NEW
FACULTY MEMBER AT
WESTERIUAROLINA
W. B. Harrill, educational direc
tor with the Veteran's Adminis
tration at Winston Salem, will be
come a member cf the faculty at
Western Carolina Teachers College
in September, according to Presi
dent H. T. Hunter. Mr. Harrill will
be an associate professor of edu
cation and director of personnel
and guidance at the college.
After graduating at Wake For
est College with a bachelor of arts
degree, Mr. Harrill went rto the
University of North Carolina and
obtained his master's degree in
education. He then went to the
University of Chicago and studied
for one year. He has been princi
pal of several high schools in east
ern North Carolina. Before taking
his present position with the Vet
eran's Administration, he was
principal of Fayetteville high
school at Fayetteville.
Attend National
Convention In St. Louis
The national convention of Al
pha Phi Sigma was held Monday
and Tuesday in Melbourne Hotel,
St. Louis Missouri. The following
left here Saturday to attend the
convention: Miss Rebecca Lee,
delegate and president of Zeta
chapter, Western Carolina Teach
ers College; Miss Annie Laura
Mulkey, past president of Zeta
chapter; Miss Kathleen Davis,
sponsor for Zeta chapter; and Jim
my Gray.
Miss Alice A. Benton is acting
4feional president cf Alpha Phi
Sigma. Zeta chapter was organized
during school term 1930-31.
The party from Sylva and Cullo
whee expect to return from St.
Louis sometime today.
Young People Will Attend
Camp For Intermediates
Frank Flicks and Pat Montague
will leave Saturday morning to at
tend a camp for Intermediates at
Camp Carlyle, between Hender
sonvillt and Bat Cave. The camp
is sponsored by the Western North
Carolina Conference of the Metho
dist Church. Mr. Carl King and a
staff of young men will direct
classes and activities, which in
clude swimming, mountain hiking,
handwork classes, and lectures.
They will spend a full week at the
camp. ?
THE PRESS
The American Revolution, that
cost $370,000,000 probably will still
be remembered when the 1947
Federal budget of $37,000,000,000
is forgotten.?Louisville Courier
Journal.
We can't string along with
Gandhi who wouid withdraw the
citizens vote on reaching the age of
50, just when one's prejudices are
netting. &ood.- Detroit News.
service since our employees at
tended the conferences."
One hundred per cent of the
employees of each of these eating
places attended the conferences.
POLICE PATROL GAR
ORDERED PURCHASED
BY CITY ALDERMEN
Parking Fine On Mil!
Street Changed To
To Be Strietly Enforced
The ik aTy ele;ted Board <>i
Alc'.ermen in i:.- meeting last
Ti'.uisday rrght voted appropria
tions concern.ng the city police,
city gaebage o liection, and the city
fwimming pool, Jack Allison,
maycr. announced this week.
The Board voted money to buy
a police patrol car as soon as de
livery can be arranged, he said.
The car, of a make to be deter
miner by price and delivery date,
is to be used to facilitate enforce
ment of traffic laws, and other city
laws.
A reduction jn the fine for park
ing on Mill Street, the street be
hind Main Street on which the bus
station is- located, from $10 to $3
was made by the Board. With the
reduction the city police were in
structed to strictly enforce the law
for parking in an effort to alleviate
the congested traffic condition on
this street.
To prevent the circulation of
disease germs and disagreeable
j odors, the Board recommended that
Sylva citizens obtain closed gar
bage cans. In addition the town
trash truck will have the sides of
j from falling oil the truck.
j the truck bed raised to keep trash
Mcney was appropriated by the
: Board of Aldermen to buy a chlor
j ine tester, which will assure a uni
I lorm amount of chlorine in the
I water in the town swimming pool.
! Closer control of the chlorine sup
ply, they said, would prevent eye
irritation. *
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Webtttvr Svhoit!
tiraduatvtl Thirty
Thrvv Oft .llfff/ i!i
The Baccalaureate Sermon for
Webster school was held at Savan
nah school auditorium on Sunday,
May 11. The Reverend W. Q.
Grigg, pastor of Wie Sylva Metho
dist Chuich, wasNjhc speaker to.
the afternoon.
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At the graduating exercises on
May 15, thirty-three seniors were
presented high school diplomas.
The speaker for the evening was
Mr. Phil Elliott, president of i
Gardner-Webb Junior College.
Mr. J. E. Brown presented
awards to the following students:
valedictorian, Clemard Buchanan; i
salutatorian, Margaret W o r 1 e y; I
best citizen, boy, Clemard Buchan- I
an; best citizen, girl (tied), Eve-1
lyn Davis and Gladys Sutton; best!
athlete, boy, Worth Bryson; best ,
athlete, girl, Darlene Collins; reci- 1
tation, Dolores Allison; declama
tion, Earl Morgan; journalism,
Clemard Buchanan; music, Eliza
beth Ann Cannon; home economics,
Bnttie Mae Deitz.
The seniors presented with di- i
plomas by Mr. A. C. Moses, super- j
intendent of Jackson C o u n t y |
schools, were: Agnes Allison, Dean i
Allman, Marcella Bishop, Kamp- ;
ton Bradley, 'Hamilton Bryson,
Worth Bryson, Clemard Buchanan,
Margaret Buchamfh, Elizabeth
Dale Bumgamer, Caro Cole, Gene
: Cowan, Helen Cowan, Evelyn Da
! vis, Nathan Davis, Brittie Mae
Deit^, Ila Raye Deitz. Kenneth
De/tz, Onn Bee Deitz, Reba Green,
Mary Jo Hall, Pauline Hall, Myr
' tie Hyatt, T. C. Lewis, Dorothy
; Mason, Herbert Mills, Ray Mills,
| Lewis Monteith, Margaret Worley,
(Virginia Nicholson, Johnnie Paint
ler, Hattie Shuler, Gladys Sutton,
i and Lester Wilson.
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S. S. Convention To
Meet At Big Ridge
i
i. The Sunday school convention
! cf the Tuckase;gee Baptist associa
tion will meet with the Big Ridge
Baptist church near Glenville
' Sunday, June 8, at 2:30 p. m.
Rev. Mark Osborne, pastor of
"The Cullowhee BSptist church, will
J be the spea tyr.
All churches in the association
i are expected to send representa
tives to this meeting. Everyone is
i cordially invited to attend.
Termination Of Services W ill
Become Effective As Of June
15, New Chief Clerk Named
MRS. EVELYN ROYAL COW.
ARD has retired after forty-three
years as teacher in the public |
schools of the state. Mrs. Coward \
has been associated with the teach- |
er training program at Cullowhee j
since 1914. (Story on page 8).
Corbin Reports Farmer
Veterans flaking Good
Progress With Work
Mr. John F. Corbin, agricul
ture instructor at Sylva high
school, who is In charge of vet
eran s' fvm ers training, reports
favorable progress for the forty
five veteran farmers of Sylva t
school district who have been
attending classes at the test farm
just out of Waynesville. Mr.
Corbin and the veterans go to
Waynesville twice each week
for the classes, Tuesday niyht
and Saturday morning. They
receive training ?nd Instruction
in methods in raising livestock,
poultry, and growing orchards
by observing methods used on
the test farm.
Halcyon Club Will Raffle
Waffle Iron At Massie's
Store Saturday Morning
T o Sylva Halcyon Club will
ra!!le ofT a waffle iron on Satur
day, June 7, at 4:00 o'clock. The
di awing will be held in front of
Mussic*Furniture Store.
.The Sylva high school band will
play a selection at the time of the
drawing. Proceeds from t)je
chances will be donated to the
band.
Those persons wishing to pur
chase chances may do so by con
tacting any member of the Sylva
Halcyon Club.
Warlick To Be New
Chief Of Police; Moore
Resigns As Attorney
At a special meeting of the board
of aldermen on Saturday, May 31,
with Mayor Jack Allison and four
of the five beard members pres
ent. an order was entered on the
minutes naming -W. L. Jones clerk
of the to\vn^~T7T Sylva to replace
T. Walter Ashe now serving in
that capacity. The change in offi
cers to become effective' Tuesday,
July 1.
The board also entered an or
der on tlie minutes discharging the
present police force, whifch in
cludes Don Davis, Chief; James
Mason and George Evans, police
men, calling for their replacement
in two weeks from May 31.
At a regular meeting on Thurs
day, May 29, the board voted 4
to one to retain the present police
force and raised the chief's salary
$10 per month and ordered the
purchase of a police patrol car for
the town. The order regarding the
police was rescinded at the Satur
day meeting.
Warlick To Be New Chief
At the .special meeting on Sat
urday, May 31, tne board named
Karl W. Warlick, of Valdese, as the
new chief of police. Mr. Warlick
is said to have had 15 years in law
enforcement work with city police
forces, F.B.I, and S.B.I. He has a
wife, one son and one daughter,
who will come to Sylva with him
to make their home. Other police
officers have not as yet been
named, but a number of applica
, tion* are being considered,
i Daji K. Moore Resigns
!. Dan K. Moore, city attorney for
the former board and elected by
the present board in tl^e same po- -
sition, has resigned.
Dan K. Moore, attorney for the
town under the former board and
who was appointed by the new
board to continue in that capacity,
has notified Mayor Allison of his
intention to resign, giving as his
reason as being in sympathy with
the policies of the former admin
istratiAU^-No-one has been named
to replace Mv. Moore.
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U.D.C. Meeting Postponed
The meeting of the B. H. Cathey
chapter, United Daughters of the
' Confederacy, which was scheduled
to meet Thursday evening, June
5, has been postponed and will
meet Thursday evening, June 19r
instead. The meeting will be with
Mrs. W. O. Soderquist.
Improvements At City Park]
Sponsored By Town and Lions
The recreational program for the
town of Sylva, sponsored jointly
by the town of Sylva and the
Sylva Lions club, in which the'
sponsors have each appropriated
$750.00 for a total of $1,500.00 to
buy playground equipment for the
city park, the erection of picnic
tables, furnaces and tennis courts,
is progressing nicely and the
equipment is expected to arrive
around June 15. This will be in
stalled as soon as possible for the
benefit of the youngsters this sum
mer.
The two tennis courts, now un
der construction will be one of the
most welcome improvements when
they are completed. Workmen I
have leveled ground near the
creek which runs by the park, op- T
posite the Community House, for
one court and cleared the old ten
nis court, which had been allowed '
to deteriorate, for a completely
r.ew court. The workmen are now
hauling sand and clay for the base
of the courts to be ready for use as ;
soon as drying, packing, and roll* !
ing can be finished. When the two
courts are completed, they will be
the best clay courts that can be
made.
Four picnic tables and three
barbecue pits are^ready for use
now. The tables are located on the
side of the park along the creek
bank; the pits arc convenient to
the tables for picnickers wishing
to cook. Arrangeemnt of the
tables has been planned so that
they will be in the shade in the
morning to make the picnicing
more pleasant. To complete the
picnic equipment, President Ros
coe Poteet of the Lions Club stated
that plans are being made for the
building of a fountain near the
furnaces and tables.
As a border and screen several
hundred balsam trees, three to
four feet high, have been set out
from the City Hall around the edge
of the park to the Community
House. Next year more trees are
to be planted to enclose the park
and Community Center.
Equipment for a recreation
ground for children has partially
arrived, and more is expected at
any time. Slides, swings, and other
playground equipment has been
ordered for some time and it is
expected to arrive in time to have
it ready for use within the next
few weeks. This equipment, when
i4 arrives, will fill a badly felt
need for recreational facilities for
children in Sylva.
The new improvements which
the Town and Lions have made,
with the modern Community
House and swimming pool, make
up a city park which any city
would be proud to owiv