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AMERICA t First, Last and Always w?<? The Sylva Herald The Herald is dedicated to progressive service to Jack son ... A progressive, well balanced county. VOL. XXII, NO. 4 Sylva, N. C. Thursday, June 26, 1947 $2.00 A Year?5c Copy Big Program Completed For July 4th Celebration Here National Safety Highway Program Inaugurated by Publishers Association Intensive Effort Is Required To Curtail Highway Traffic Deaths (By MaJ. Gen. Philip B. Fleming, General Chairman of the Presi dent'! Highway Safety Confer ence) Last year 33,500 persons died in automobile accidents in the United States. That fact may not register very strongly, Afte~all, 33,500 is just a figure. ? Maybe you can visualize the ex tent of the slaughter a little better if you will imagine that many peo ple lined up in parade formation and marching from noon to sun down to pass a reviewing stand. Or, suppose all those people had been killed at the same place? in front of your home, say. Then you could have stood on your front porch day and night, week in and week out, and witnessed a cjeath on the average every 13 minutes. That's as many people as live in such a city as Elkhart, Indiana, or Paducah, Kentucky, or Watertown, Massachusetts. They are all dead now, killed in accidents that could easily have been avoided. Hun dreds of thousands of orphans, widows and bereaved parents are left to mourn in every city in the land. Ev: ao, 1946 was not our worst year for traffic fatalities. All things considered, the record for that year was pretty fcood. The most tragic year in motoring history, was 1941 when 37,512 persons were killed. That was the high point to which traffic fatalities had stead'ly climbed over a 30-yeaf periocr* be^ ginning about 1912 when 1,758 died. After 1912, the popularity of the-automobile grew, and so did tt>e number of deaths. Year by year the number killed increased with a few exceptions?notably during the war when gasoline ra tioning drastically curtailed driv ing. After Japan surrendered and gasoline rationing was abandoned, fatal accidents shot upward. In the first four or five months of last' yeaT, people were being done to death in such staggering numbers that it was confidently predicted the fatality list would exceed that for 1941. So when I say that the record for 1946 was "pretty good," what I mean-is that it might have been much worse, that the rising curve of fatalities was turned downward, and *that the number killed in proportion to miles driven was substantially less than in the ?Continuing on page 7 ?. Sutton And Fisher Injured When Jeep Gets Out Of Control j Billy Sutton and Harvey Fisher i were painfully but not seriously hurt early Friday evening when the Jeep in which they were riding failed to make the turn toward the : cemetery at the foot of College I Hill. The two boys were taken to C. J. Harris hospital and several stitches were necessary for closing the gashes. Fisher was reported to be driving at the time of the acci dent. Although Sutton was thrown through the windshield onto the hood of the car, Fisher was more severely cut, suffering lacerations on the face. No estimate was made of the damage to the Jeep, but city po licemen report that it was con siderable. The Jeep did not turn over, but remained at an angle on the hill. ESCAPED CONVICT TAKEN AS HE SLEPT NEAR DILLSBORO Emmet Cook, about 30, escaped convict from the Whittier prison camp, was captured early Tuesday morning by Sheriff Griffin Mid dleton and Patrolman C. D. Lind say as he lay sleeping on top of a ridge near Dillsboro. Cook, up from Mecklinburg county for murder, escaped from road4 j$?ng while woflc in the Canada section of the coun ty. Two other men who escaped at the same time were captured in Haywood county last Friday. Sheriff Middleton received a call about 5:30 Tuesday morning from j Dillsboro residents ,who saw Cook making his way through the brush up the ridge. Blood hounds were placed on the trail and within a $ew minutes led the officers to Cook. Officers statedMhat he was 'in a complete state of exhaustion, having wandered about the coun try for a week with little food to eat. STORES WILL CLOSE FOR JULY FOURTH All stores and business places in Sylva, except cafes, hotels and drug stores, will be closed all day July 4th for this annual holiday and the celebration to be staged here on that date. Asheville Fire Chief Fitzgerald > To Speak At Firemen's Meet The annual dinner meeting ajjd installation of new officers of the Sylva Fire Department will be held at Maple Springs cafe Monday eveniiy, June_ 30, at which time J. C. Fitzgerald, chief of the Ashe ville Fire Department, will be the principal speaker. E. M. Salley, su perintendent of Enka Corporation and chief of the Enka Fire De partment, will also appear on the program. City officials, members of the police and sheriff's depart ment, and state highway patrol men will be special guests at the. dinner meeting. At a recent election meeting all of the officers of the department were re-elected and a .new assist ant secretary was added to the list. The officers to be installed are: W. B. Cope, chief; Tilghman Bass, assistant chief; G. C. Cope. 2nd as sistant chief; C. E. Campbell, sec retary-treasurer, W. R. HamjJton, assistant secretary-treasurer, and D. M. Tallent, fire marshal. Chief W. B. Cope and fireman Felix Picklesimer returned Sat urday from Durham where they attended the three-day state fire man's school where approximately 350 firemen from all over the state were present. The school was urfder the direc-?| tlon of State Fire Marshal Sher wood Brockwell with classes in the Durham Armory. Practical dem onstrations in fire fighting were presented at the drill tower in Durham. The Durham fire depart ment played a prominent part in the fire tower demonstrations. The Sylva firemen stated that they gained much valuable information at the school which will be passed on to the other members of the department in regular meetings each week. 585 Arrested In May By Game Protectors RALEIGH, June 23?Fish and game protectors of the Division of Game and Inland Fisheries made 585 arrests during May, according to records in the office of C. D. Kirkpatrick, Chief of law enforce ment. Violators paid $3,253 in fines and $3,185 in court costs. Five cases of dynamiting fish headed the month's report. Each of the defendants was ordered to pay the minimum fine ? $100 ? and court costs ranging up to $20. QUSZZED IN BLUDGEON MURDER READY TO BC MTURNSO to Lynn, M&*s? for questioning In connection with the bludgeon murder o1 Harry Rosen, Lynn, Mass., manufacturer, Herbert Douglas (left), a former merchant seaman; lira. Laura Shurger Douglas and her son, Roy Shurger Jr., 15, are shown following their apprehension by police authorities in Ithaca* R 1 Rosen was found beaten to deathjn the office of his plant (International Soundphoto) Contractors Start Remodeling Interior of Jackson Co. Bank The Merchants Construction * Company of Asheville, contractors in charge of remodeling the inter ior <?f The Jackson County- Bank building started their carpenters to work last week remodeling the basement and main floor which they plan to complete within 90 days, officials of the bank an nounced Monday. The work of remodeling the basement and installing several hundred safety lock boxes will be completed first, and then remodel ing of the mair-banking room will be sttCrtefif. Mdtgarf Manufacturing company of Charlotte will have charge of installing new fixture and equipment in the bank. An oH furnace will be installed to replace the old coal stoker type heating system. The remodeling job is expected to cost around $25,000. Banking hours will continue as usual during the construction pe riod, with the carpenters doing their work at night. The directors of the bank 're cently passed a resolution doubling the capital stock of the institution. It has also received permission from the state banking commis sion to open a full power bank at ..Highlands. For the past 12 years this bank has maintained a tellers window at Highlands. MAIN STREET WILL BE BLOCKED FOR JOLY 4TH PARADE The police department has an nounced that Main street will be blocked to-alMraffic and parking Friday morning, July 4th and re main blocked until after the pa rade has returned to its point of starting. All east and west bound ktraffic will follow Mill street dur ing this time. The department re quests cooperation of the citizens during this short period of a few hours so that there will be plenty of room and no delay in the pro gram during the morning hours. City Council Places Order For Three New Traffic Signal Lights Meeting Friday night, the board of Aldermen ordered three new traffic lights to be installed at in tersections on Mill street and a caution light at the school house, Mayor Jack Allison announced this week. The three stop lights will be placed one at each end of the street at the two intersections of Main and Mill streets and one at the intersection near the depot. A taxi license was refused by the Aldermen to John Cline, Jr. An in vestigation was ordered on the ap plication of Theodore Dills for a beer license. An investigation, of every water j | outlet was ordered to find and re- i Sylva Band Calfed To Practice For July ' 4th Street Parade Through the effort# of the American Legion and the Town of Sylva Sammy Beck, who di rected the 8ylva high school band last spring, and who accomplish ed so much with the boys and girls during that time, has agreed to practice with the members of the band in order to have them j ready to leAd the 4th of July .1 street parade. Mr. Beck has asked that all members of the band who can meet him at the City.Hall on Friday afternoon at ; 5 o'clock to begin practice. Mr. i Beck plans to practice with the boys and girls each afternoon until the 4th and to be with them in the parade. He is doing this I work for the American Legion ! and the town^without pay. I \invtff Children Operated On For j | Tonmii item ovals \ Approximately ninety children benefited from the two two-day tonsil clinics held in Sylva school building on Tuesday and Wednes day of the past two weeks. The I clinics, sponsored by the Health 1 Department, have been held an- j nually since 1938. Ages of the children, ail of whom ; were from Jackson county, ranged i from five to thirteen years. Dr. J. R. MeCracken, eye, ear. . nose and throat specialist, of 1 Waynesville was surgeon, assisted by Dr. Thomas. Stringfield, anes thetist, also of Waynesville. Other clinical assistants were: j Dr. N. H. B. Michael, supervisor, i Mrs. Alma McCracken, P.H.N.! (Public Health Nurse), Mrs. Ruby Bryson, P.H.N., Mrs. Elaine T. Gill, 1 P.H.N., all of Waynesville; Mrs.; Doris Hicks, P.H.N., of Bryson ' City; Miss Mary P. Oliver, P.H.N., 1 of Cherokee Indian Reservation; Mrs, Josephine Gaines, P.H.N., of Franklin; and Mrs. Lina Padgett, P.H.N., of Sylva. Children who attended the clin ics were operated on in the morn ings and remained overnight, sleeping in the gymnasium of the school on cots, under the care of a night nurse. Everything was re ported to be running smoothly Wednesday morning. About a quarter of a million vet erans reinstated their lapsed Na toinal Service Life Insurance poli cies with Veterans Administration during 1946. _ pair leakages in order to save the city water supply. In order to force I payment of overdue water rents, the Aldermen decided, water sup plies will be cut off if accounts are more than three months overdue.! SENATE OVERRIDES. 1 PRESIDENT'S VETO ON LABOR BILL 68-25 Coal Miners Go Out In Protest; Steel Production Curtailed Disregarding President Tru man's last minute appeal the sen ate voted Monday to override the veto of the labor bill by a vote oi 68 to 25. In his last appeal to the Senate to sustain the veto, Truman stated, "I feel so strongly about the labor bill which the Senate will vote on this afternoon that I wish to reaf firm my sincere belief that it will do serious harm to our country. "This is a critical period in our history and any ; measure which will adversely affect our national unity will render a distinct disser- ! vice not only to the nation but to the worjd." Labor lost no time in showing j its dislike for the new law by j staging protest strikes. Over 210. 000 soft coal miners are now idle ! as wildcat strikes spread through- j out the mines. ^ The nation's steel industry slash- j ed production as a result of thel miners strike which will soon see | coal stocks dwindling and further i cuts in steel production antici pated. JOHN H. CRAWFORD BURIED IN CLAY CO, j TUESDAY AFTERNOON Funeral rites for John H. Craw ford, 78, who died June 22 at his home in Sylva, were conducted at Ledfords Chapel near Hayes ! ville in Clay County, Tuesday af ? ternoon,. Burial was in the church cemetery. Rev. W. Q. Grigg and Rev. C. W. Benson, of Bethel, of ficiated. Moody Funeral home was in charge. Pallbeare rs were. R. C.' Allison, A. O. Allison, 'Frank Bumgarner, Holmes Cagle and Ernest Pen land of Sylva. arid Bob Tiger, Wilbur Mingus and Frank Chambers oi Hayesville. ' Mr. Crawford had been in a critical condition f< r four months prior to death on Saturday. He was born and reared in Clay county where he m. dc his homo i until about four years "ago when his farm was taken by TV A to in- ' cTude Chatuga Jake. He then moved with Mrs. Crawford to Syl va to be near his children. When they first came to Jackson county they lived at Beta, later moving to ? Sylva. Surviving are the widow, three sons, Custer of Madison, Ga., Leon ard of Hayesvilje and Frank, of^ Sylva; three daughters, Mrs. Jeff Hedden, Mrs. Jim Resor and Mrs. B. F. Reed, of Sylva; one brother, R. W. Crawford, of Hayesville; two 1 sisters, Mrs. Joe Penland, Blairs- ' ville, Ga. and Mrs. G. T. Berrong 1 of Fort Worth, Texas; 10 grand children, and one great grandchild. \ Famous War Leader J Becomes College Head Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the j man who led the allied armies to.i victory in World War II, now army chief of staff, has announced his retirement from military life to ac cept the presidency of Columbia University in New York City. He will take up his new duties with thd university next year. He suc tfteds Nicholas Murray Butler, who retired as head of the nation's largest school, in?1945. Eisenhower had been looked to as possible presidential timber ^y both Democrats and Republicans, but has staunchly maintained that he is not interested in a political I career. COUNTY OFFICES TO CLOSE JULY 4 AND 5 j\11 county offices at the court house will be closed for two days July 4th and 5th for the 4th week end holiday. Street Parade, Air Show, Band, Baseball, Beauty Content Part Of Events Police To Assist Chamber Of Commerce In Tourist Information In an effort to see that as much information1 as possible relative to Sylva, Jackson county, and the surrounding area sets into the hands of tourists and others desir ing this service, the police depart ment is cooperating with the Chamber in distributing the ma terial through its office on Main street. The police office is open 24-hours per day and can render this service after the Chamber of fice has closed at 5 o'clock. Many people come through after that hour who could not get this infor mation otherwise. THIS IS SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FOR BIG I JULY 4TH PROGRAM 10:00 a. m.?Parade toassemble at schoolhouse 11:00 a. m.? Air Show opens pa 'rade . - ? 11:05 a. m.? Parade leaves foun tain, proceeds through Main street, going to East Sylva, then return through Main street to school house 12:30 p. m.? Bathing beauty con test , 12:30 p. m.? Lunch counters open 1:00 p. m.?Greasy pig 1:05 p. m.?Greasy pole with prizes at top 1:30 p. m.?Bingo stands open 2:00 p. m.?Fireman's drill 2:15 p. m.?W.O.W. Degree team i field workout ? 2:30 p. m.? American Legion' 2:45 p. m.?Baseball game?Hia wassee All Stars vs. Sylva Ball, clufc 3:00 p. m.? Fat man's race 3:10 p. m.?Boy Scout drill 3:30 p. m.? Horseshoe pitching; quariet singing; string music; dancing and other events 1947 Ford to be given away at end of ball game. Glenn Hooper, blind man, who was started in business by the Lions club, will draw the lucky numbei'. 7:30 j). m.?Street dance 9:00 j). m.?Fire works Wr take this opportunity to thank each one taking part in this Fourth of July celebration and we sincerely hope that everyone has qnjoyed this holiday. Mrs. Charles M. Reed is in New York this week buying fall mer chandise for Hale's. Store Owners Asked To Decorate Windows And Display Flags At the regular monthly dinner meeting of the Merchants Associa tion held at' Hotol Carolina, last ThuTsday plans were made for putting on a 4th of July celebra tion in Sylva. All members pres ent were enthusiastic about the plans for the occasion and, after a general outline of events for the day and evening on the 4th, the group met again that night and completed the final details and scheduled the events. There will be several main at tractions during the day, one of which will be a grand street ^pa rade to start the day's activities at 11 a. m. Other attractions will in clude a bathing beauty contest, raffling off a brand new 1947 mod el Ford automobile by the Sylva Lions Club, a huge display of fire works that night, catching the greasy pig, climbing the greasy pole, foot rac^s, horse shoe pitch ing contests, Bingo with prizes, baseball game, quartets and string music, and a big square dance on the street that night. The street parade will feature 30 or more beautifully decorated floats, entered by the various busi ness?firms of Sylva, one from Western Carolina Teachers Col lege and one of Cherokee Indians from the Reservation; also in the parade will be ladies on horseback, members ol the American Legion*, boy and girl scouts. A number of local people will be dressed as. clowns to create "fun along the parade route. All entrants in the parade will t gather at the Sylva high school ground at 10 a. m. and the parade will start sharply at 11. It will proceed up Main street to the new intersection of 19-23 and 107 and return over the s&me route. The beauty contest will follow imme diately after the parade. All quartets and string bands of the county are asked to be on hand and enter into the day's events. It is hoped that the Sylva high school band will be in shape to lead the street parade, if not the committee plans to get an out of town band for the occasion. Plenty of food will be available as the cafes and hotels wil be open, and a food and drink stand will be in operation by the women's clubs of the city. Plan to spend the day in Sylva^ where plenty of entertainment awaits all ages. . Swannanoa 4-II Camp Opens Agqin To Club Boys And Girls The State 4-H club, camp at Swannanoa, used by military forces during the war years, has been re turned to civilian use and the clubs of Western North Carolina will re sume their summer outings again in July. The Jackson County clubs will spend a week at the camp July 28 through August 2. Club member^ from Macon and Swain counties will also be at the camp at this time. The Jackson county boys and girls will meet at the courthouse in Sylva at 9:30 a. m. Monday, July 28 and return at noon on Saturday, August 2. Boys and girls who plan to go to the camp are re quested to notify either Miss Helen Sossamon. county home agent, or M. L. Snipes, county farm agent, as ^oon as possible in order that 1 transportation and reservations ' may"be arranged. The camp will provide a staff j consisting of a director, life guard, j cooks and other necessary person ! nel. % The following is a list of food and other things that will be neces sary for the members to bring: | Half cup lard, 2 pound fryer or i hen, alive; 1 pound ham or 1 1-2 pounds bacon, 2 dozen eggs, 1 gal lon fresh or 1 quart canned snap . beans or peas, 1 large head cab bage or two heads lettuce, half gal lon potatoes, 6 carrots or beets, 3 large onions, 1-2 pound sugar, 1 glass jelly, jam, preserves or honey, 2 dozen molasses cookies or one large cake, 1-2 pound butter in jar, 1 quart canned or one gal lon raw apples, 1-2 gallon corn meal, 1-2 gallon flour, 1 quart can ned tomatoes or 6 raw tomatoes half ripe, 1 pint cucumber pickles or 6 medium size cucumbers, camp fee $2.50. Transportation and mis cellaneous expenses $2.50. Other articles to^take: Two sheets, one blanket, one pillow and case, tow els, soap, and other toilet articles. Movies At WCTC As a recreational feature for summer students at Western Caro lina Teachers College, movies are being held Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday evenings from 7.30 to 10:30 in the Student Union Build ing. There is no admission charge. ? North Carolina's production of rye is estimated at 264,000 bushels for 1947, compared with 275,000 bushels produced in 1946.
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