AMERICA t First, Last and Always w?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