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VOL. XXII, NO. 8
Sylva, N. C. Thursday, July 24, 1947
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$2.00 A Year?5c Copy
Crawford Releases
County Faeulty List
Crawford, Hoyle, Watson, j
And Madison Are Elected
Principals of High fch'ools
Teachers for Jackson county
schools lor tne school year 1&47
48 have been announced by coun
ty Superintendent Frank Craw
ford as follows:
SYLVA HIGH?Wm. H. Craw
ford, principal; Frances Luce,
Agnes Henson, Doris Long, Willa
Mae Scroggs, John F. Corbin, Wm.
Garrett Buckner, Alice Weaver,
Elma Donnahoe, Mary R. Cowan,
and Guy Sutton.
SYLVA -ELEMENTARY?W. V.i
Cope, Juanita F. Davis, Mae Free
man Fortner, John Crawford, Mrs.
J. F. Freeze, Annie Louise Madi
son, Margie Shuler Hughes, Hicks
Wilson, Bertha Cunningham, Eve
lyn Sherrill, Olive Halt Norton,
Evelyn Parker McMahan, Emily,
W. Tompkins, Stella Bryson Cow
an, and Norma Painter Lee.
BARKERS CREEK?Kathlyn F.
Jones, Tallie P. Fulbright, and
Lucy Brown.
DILLSBORO?Lillian J. Madi
son, Elizabeth Warren, Arlin Fow
ler Evans, and Iris Holden Sher
rill.
BETA ? Gertie Moss, Maude
Baker Reed, Lucy Crawford, El
wyn Q. Deitz, and Mattie Mae
Hensley.
ADDIE?W. G. Dillard and
Lenoir N. Stack.
WILLETS?Mrs. Jimmie Sutton
and Jessie W. Shields.
BALSAM?A. C. Dillard, Kath
leen B. Greene, and Alberta Shinn
Monteith.
WILMOT?Irene Raby Clayton,
Ethel Collins, and Geraldine Ward.
QUALLA?Lois E. Mcjrtin, Lucy
M. Hall, Harriett H. Jenkins, Jen
nie Cathe^,, Betty Price Harris,
and Louise Hyatt Edwards.
CULLOWEE Training School?
C. A. Hoyle, principal; Winnie M.
Killian, Nelle Elizabeth Bond,
Clair Olson, Ben Battle, Thelma
H. Harrell, Hilda Tallent Olson,
Carolyn B. Ellis, W. T. Brown,
Paul Murphy, Fannie Goodman,
Edyth Walker, Alice Pope Rand,
Martha Lou Stillwell, Wilhelmina
B.* Snipes, and Annie C. Knotts.
WHITE ROCK?Lewis J. Smith.
TUCKASEEGEE ? Fannie M.
Brown, Lessie Reid Pell, Janie
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Farm Families
Urged To Help In
Safety Program
"Family participation in year
round farm safety" is the theme
of the 1947 observance of Nation
al Farm Safety Week as set forth
in President Truman's proclama
tion which set the week of July
20-26 as the dates for the fourth
annual observance of the week.
"I urge farm people everywhere
to set aside a specific time during
National Farm Safety Week for
family discussions of methods for
the prevention of accidents, in or
der that these producers of the
Nation's food may live and work
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Cullowhee Troop No. 14
Make Two-day Hike
In Smoky Mountains
The Boy Scouts of Troop No. 14,
Cullowhee, took a two-day hik
ing trip in the Smoky Mountains
Park on July 21 and 22. The boys'
began their trip at Newfound Gap,
and hiked East for ten miles to
the overnight shelter at Peck's
Corner. On Tuesday morning,
they turned down toward* Smoke
mont and arrived there on Tuesday
| afternoon. It was the first trip
many of the boys had made into
that section of the Park, and all
seemed to enjoy it.
The Scouts making the trip were
Winfred Ashe, Owen Dale Wil
liams, Edward Sutton, Clinton
Dodson, O. V. Cagle, Anson Mit
chell, Grady Parker, Clarence
Wike, and Orville Wike. They
were accompanied by Charlie Bird,
scoutmaster, and R. T. Houts, as
sistant scoutmaster.
Commerce Body to
Hear State Officer
at August 6 Dinner
It has been announced by Jack
son County Chamber of Commerce
officials *hat Harry J. Krusz, pres
ident of the North Carolina Asso
ciation of Chamber of "Commerce
Executives, will cojne to Sylva
Wednesday, August 6, for a dinner
meeting with the members here,
and that he will speak to the body
at that time. President Krusz will
be making a scheduled' visitation
trip to clubs in this section of the
state at this time.
ELECTRIC SHOCK
KIUS BROTHER ? OF
LOCAL CONTRACTOR
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Lyda Caldwell, of the contract
ing firm of Lloyd and Caldwell of
this city, was called to Asheville'
Saturday due to the death of his,
brother, M. J. Caldwell, 23, of ]
Marshall, who died in an Asheville
hospital Saturday afternoon fol
lowing shock from a high power
electric line on which he was work
ing near Montreat. Young Cald
well, an employe of the Haynes;
Electric company, was said to have
been working on a pole with sev
eral other electricians at the time
of the accident. Mr. Caldwell is
said to have reached up to take
hold of a wire above his head
without first putting on his rub
ber gloves. The wire is said to
have been carrying a potential of
7,200 volts. His hand was knocked
loose by the shock, but his safety
belt kept him from falling., His!
companions lowered him to the
ground and futile efforts to resus
citate him were made.
Funeral services were held Tues
day afternoon in Marshall.
Annual Federation Picnic To
Be Gala Event Here Saturday
The annual Farmers Federation
picnic for Jackson county, a gala
event of music, games and enter
tainment, will be held at Sylva
high school grounds Saturday,
July 26, it has been announced by
James G. K. McGuire, president
of the federation.
In addition to the annual report
of activities of the federation dur
ing the past year, the program will
include music by the f^mers
Federation string band and by
by many musicians of Jackson and
surrounding counties. All musi
cians, singers, choirs, and quartets '
are especially invited to attend
and participate in the program.
Athletic games and contests, with
prizes for the winners, will be held
on the field during the lunch hour.
Prizes will also be offered for the
largest family present and for the
truck bringing the most people to
the picnic.
Featured on the program will
be Alex Houston, young ventrilo
quist of Hendersonville, and the
federation.hen, which waddles onto
the stage to the tune of "Cacklin'
Hen" and calmly lays an egg for
all to see.
Watermelon and lemonade will
be furnished free by the Federa
tion.
Birth Announcements
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Shuford of
Brevard announce the birth of
twins, a boy and a girl, on Sunday,
July 20, at the Transylvania hos
pital, Brevard. The babies have
been named Frederick Joel and
Evelyn Elizabeth. Mrs. Shuford
is the former Miss Betty Bird,
daughter of J. M. Bird of Sylva.
Mr. and Mrs. Bird were in Brevard
Monday, going over to see Mrs.
Shuford and babies.
Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Cunningham
have announced the birth of a
daughter, Carol Irene, on Thurs
day, July 17, at Rowan Memorial
hospital, Salisbury. Mr. Cunning
ham is connected with Lilius Jew
elry in Sylva.
PRAYS FOR CURE AT LOURDES SHRINE
CRIPPLED Si NCI BIRTH, Sally Ann CLeary, 12, of Pittsburgh, Pa., Is
shown in a wheelchair (extreme left) praying amid the white-gowned
girls of the procession, at the famous Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes,
St. Agnes. France. Sally Ann was accompanied on her plane trip
by her mother and 21 other American pilgrims from the Pittsburgh
area. Between prayerti at the shrine, the girl bathed in the miraculous
shallcw pool in the Grotto of Lourdes. (International)
Brown and Moore Going
To WOW Encampment
Omaha, Neb., July 22?Company
M, 137th Regiment, Uniform Rank,
Woodmen of the World Life In
surance Society, of Sylva, com
manded by Captain J. C. Brown,
Jj\, will go to Camp Toccoa, Toc
coa, Ga., this week-end to attend
the district encampment of this
semi-military Woodmen organiza
tion, July 28 to August 2.
Brigadier General Barrington T.
Hill, mayor of Wadesboro, N. C.,
the camp commander will direct
the week's training program.
Company M will be attached to
the First Battalion, Second Pro
visional Regiment, commanded by
Major R. Frank Patterson, Kan
napolis, N. C. Other companies,
of the battalion are from Shelby,
Kannapolis and Kings Mountain,
N. C. They will compete with
twenty other companies from Geor
gia, South Carolina, Florida, Ala
bama and Tennessee for trophies
-to be awarded in field drill, floor
work and athletic contests.
Sergeant Major B. M. Moore, of
Sylva, will serve on the staff of
the Second Regiment.
W. C. Braden, national' secretary
of the Woodmen Society and com
manding general of its Uniform
Rank, and Adjutant General E. E.
(Blue) Howell, both of Omaha,
will review the camp activities and
award trophies and prizes to com
panies and individuals in field
drill, floor work and athletic
events. Dr. Herbert B. Kennedy,
-Omaha, medical director of the
Woodmen of the World, will serve
as surgeon general at the encamp
ment.
JOHN 0. DAVIS HAS
PROSPECTS FOR 1800
BUSHELS OF POTATOES
Eighteen hundred to 2,000 bush
els of Irish- potatoes on five acres
of land is John^D. Davis' estimate
for his crop this year. Mr. Davis
lives on Big Ridge in Hamburg
township where he has been grow
ing fine crops of potatoes which
he places on the early Atlanta
market each year., He grows the
Sequyo variety.
There are a number of fine crops
of potatoes in this section of the
county this year, according to
county agent M. L. Snipes, who
says that farm crops of all kinds
look especially good at this time.
SPONSORS OF
NATIONAL HIGHWAY
SAFETY PROGRAM
Bakers' Service Station, Dillsboro
Russell and Middleton Service Sta.
Olivine Products Corp.
Monteith's Service Station
Fulmer Motor Company
Hooper Motor Company
Jackson County Bank
Sylva Supply Co.
Dillsboro and Sylva Electric Co.
Gulf Oil Corporation
Holden's Service Station
Cannon Bros., Gas and Oil Co.
Mead Corporation
Shell Service Station
Cogdill Esso Service Station
Fisher's Gulf Service Station
Lewis Esso Service Station
Central Esso Service Station
Central Shell Service 8tation
CRAWFORDSAYSBAND
INSTRUCTOR TO BE
CHOSEN NEXT WEEK
An instructor for the Sylva band
will be chosen within a week or
ten days, W. H. Crawford, super
intendent of city schools, sf.id early
this week.
Several applications have been
received for the post, and one will
be selected as soon as the most
competent man can be decided
upon. ? Band practice will begin
immediately on arrival of the in
structor, probably about August 1.
Lovefield Shell Station
And Mill Change Owners
Fred Russell and Woodrow Mid
dleton have been operating the
Shell Service Station at Lovefield
since they purchased it from
Charles Evans about April 1. Mr.
Russell and Mr. Middleton also
carry a line of staple groceries,
breads, and cookies.
In connection with the service
station and grocery store, they own
and operate an electric corn mill
where freshly ground meal may
be purchased at all times. They
also do custom grinding. They
carry a complete line of Statesville
Milling Co. feeds, shorts, cotton
meal, oats, dairy feeds, hog ration,
scratch, and laying mash.
Mr. Russell and Mr. Middleton
are co-sponsors of the National
Highway Safety advertisement
carried in this issue Of The Her
ald.
Service of Sacred Music
At Sylva Baptist Church
There will be a special service
of sacred music at the Sylva Bap
tist church at 3 p. m. on Sunday
night. The choir will present the
program of music in dedication of
the new choir robes which they
have just obtained. The regular
morning service will be held at
11 a. m.
JOHN H. BUMGARNER
IS TAKEN DY DEATH
AT HIS HOME AT BETA
Funeral services for John. H.
Bumgarner. CO, who passed away|
at his home near Beta at 6:30 Men-)
day mi?;ning. following an illness]
of only a few hours, were held
Wednesday afternoon at 2:00 o'
clock. Burial was at Dillsboro.
Re\'. F. P. Blankenship and Rev.'
B. S. Hen-ley. officiated. Moody
Funeral Home was in charge of
arrangements.
Mr. Bumgarner was a life-long
resident of Jackson county and a
carpenter by trade. He married
the former Miss Vadie Deitz, who
survives.
Also surviving are five children,
Mrs. Opal Lee,Hyatt, of Salisbury;
Mrs. Alma Groves, Gainesville,
Ga., and Guy Willis, Calvin, and!
Ralph Lewis Bumgarner, of Sylva;
and one brother Dave Bumgarner,
of Dillsboro.
"Aunt Cindy"Love,
101, Former Slave,
Buried Wednesday
"Aunt" Lucinda Love, one of
Jackson Co.'s most beloved colored
women, passed away at her home
in Dillsboro Sunday afternoon. She
was 101 years, 4 months and 25
days old, at the time of her death.
Funeral services were held Wed
nesday afternoon at the River
View Baptist church.
"Aunt Cindy", as she was af
fectionately known by all her
j friends, was a native and life-long
resident, of Jackson county. She
! was born February 25, 1836 and
. was sold at the age of four to Col.
Thaddeus Bryson for $450 and
made her home with the Bryson
family until November, 1865, when
she married .Joe Marion Love. They
had the distinction of being the
first colored couple ?{V>!ly
married after their emancipation.
She was the mother of five chil
dren. Only one, Rosa Lee, with
whom she made her home, sur
vives. Surviving are also seven
grandchildren , 22 great nrand
children, and several great great
grandchildren.
"Aunt Cindy" was in remark
ably good health unt.l a sho:1 time
before her deailr:?~~Tter eyesight
was dim but her mind was clear
and keen and she enjoyed reminis
cing and telling the stories of the
past.
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SHOWN AT PHONI in her Chicago
home It Mrs. Sylvia Wallis, 28, wife
of Ernest D. Wallis, one of the two
ex-Army sergeants who are being
held by the F.B.L in connection
with the theft of atomic bomb data.
She declared that her husband is
innocent and that she will stand by ;
him. (International Soundphoio) i
Campfire Girls Leave To I
Spend Two Weeks at Tocoa i
Eight Campfire girls left Mon
day morning to spend two weeks
at Camp Tocoa, Ga., a camp for
Campfire Girls. The uirls leaving
Mofcdav we: o Patsy Buckner,
Edith Moore, .To n (Vgriill, Gail
Webber, Audrey Jane Jones, Leah
Su'? on, Anne Cat hey, and Linda
SU. n of Wayne vil.e.
They were accompanied to Camp
Toe by Mrs. Dan Moore, Mrs.
D. M. Hall, Mrs. Ray Cogdill, and
Mrs. R. U. Sutton.
Glenville Farmers
Form Market Co-op
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Hugh Monteith Attends
Lions Meet In Frisco
The Sylva Lions Club mot at
the Sylva high school cafeteria on
Wednesday night, July 16, with
T. Waller Ashe, president, presid
ing. /
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The program for the meetingt
was in charge of Jennings Biyson,
international councellor, w h o
briefly reviewed the duties of the
different committees of the Lions
Club.
Lion Hugh Monteith left last
week to be the official delegate
from the local club to the Lions
International Convention which'
will be held -in San Francisco, i
| Calif., July 2^ 29, 30, and 31. Lion'
Monteith" was accompanied on the
trip by Lioness Monteith, who
| was delegated by the local club to
keep her husband "in the straight
and narrow way during this con
| vention."
I Future W.O.W. Meetings
To Be On Monday at 7:30
At the last regular meeting of
the Woodmen of the World on
July 21, it was decided to move
the meeting hour of the W.O.W.
up thirty minutes, to make the
hour in the future 7:30 instead of
8:00, as it has been in the past,
j The next regular meeting will
j be Monr'ay night at 7:30 p. m.
Rev. and Mrs. J. B. Tabor and
daughters, Rebecca and Nancy
Ruth, returned last Thursday to
their home in Forest City after a
few days visit here with Rev. and
Mrs. W. Q. Grigg. Rev. Mr. Tabor
is a former pastor of First Metho
dist chrch in Canton.
PICKLESIMEft SAYS ^
j THEATRE IN SKY CAN I
BE YEARLY EVENT
The Theatre in The Sky opened
, its five weeks engagement here
last Friday night with the Broad-1
way Qmnedy "Stepping Sisters."I
Although there was not a very'
large crowd out for the first por-j
formance it was well received and
thoroughly enjoyed by every one,
?.i 1 agreeing that it was the best of
it.- kind ever presented in Sylva.
We are very fortunate in having
entertainment of this kind in a
town of this size and the people
should take advantage of this op
portunity. If we have a success-1
ful season this summer we can
make it a yearly event.
This same play in New York
would cost as high as thre? or
four dollars a performance. You
can see it in Sylva for only 75
cents for adults and 35 cents for
children.
Be sure and see the next per
formance, Lombardi, Ltd., on Fri
day at 8:30 P. M.
Felix Picklesimer, President
Chamber of Commerce
Cooperative Seeks To
Have Better Outlet For
Section's Truck Crops
Kinnoi-y of ||l(, r?lonviii0 -,r'nrnl
district met in their third meeting
lust Thursday night and decided
on a permanent organization to
provide a house and market lor
the truck crops or this famous
trucking section.
Directors for the organization
who were elected are J. C. Robin -
son of Glenville, Neal Tucker of
I ine Creek, Will Stiwinter of Mill
Creek, John Paul Norton of Nor
ton, Hayes Hooper of Big Ridge
Kenneth Moore of Cedar Creek*
and John Will Hooper of Cashiers!
Mr. Hooper was elected to serve
as chairman of the board at a later
meeting.
The name chosen for the organi
zation is the Hamburg Farmers
Association.
More than one hundred farmers
signed up as members the first
night, and it is hoped, that even
tually every farmer in the section
will be a member. Each member
ship share costs ten dollars. It is
not a stock company.
At a meeting of the board of di^
rectors on Tuesday, the members
took an option on a building place
between the stores belonging to
Mr. Monteith and Mr. Reynolds in
Glenville. ^The space is 250 front
feet, offered by Mr. Monteith and
mj. Reynolds at a very reasonable
figure. Members will be expected
to give free labor for the building,
and some are donating time and
timber.
j The directors are hoping that
funds will be made available fast
enough to have the building fin
ished by the first of September.
The plan of operation is to pay
cash on delivery of produce. Cash
will be bortowe^ in*
stead of selling stock to obtain
the money. Those handling*
money will be bonded and all the
usual safeguards will be used to
make it an up-to-date organiza*
tion.
1 lie State Marketing Division
will .send a man from Raleigh to
help prepare a constitution and
by-laws and attend to the jncor
poiation papers.
"w/v /o Svvurv
Auto I'iwnttvm
Mm Aoiv Friday
Examinations for drivers li
censes have been changed from
from Wednesday to Friday for
the Sylva area, Patrolman C* D.
Lindsay has announced. The
examinations were scheduled for
each Wednesday but they will
take place each Friday, begin
n,rig at 9 a. m. and continuing
""til 5 p. m. at the Jackson
county court house.
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Reed of
Kinston spent several days this
week with Mrs. Reed's parents
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Parker, aTd
other relatives.
j Theatre In The Sky Presents
| Second Performance Friday
The "Theatre in The Sky" will)
present the brilliant stage suc
cess, "Lombardi, Ltd." as their
second production of the season,
under the direction of Maurice
Geoffrey, Friday at 8:30 P M. at the
Elementary School Auditorium in
Sylva. The series of plays is
sponsored by the Jack-on County
Chamber of Commerce.
"Lombardi, Ltd.," written by
Frederic and Fanny Hatton, was
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immediate success when first pre
sented in New Yor. The iriginaT
i production ran over 800 perform
ances with Leo Carrillo in the lead
in role of Tito Lombardi, the dress
the play is the scene in which Mr.
revolves.
Dave Chamberlain, Guest Artist
with the company this week, will
appear as Tito and Ella Beth Hurst,
last week as Lady Cheworth
Lyne in "Stepping Sisters" plays
his shop assistant, Norah. Mr.
Chamberlain, formerly on the
professional stage and now busi
ness executive of a large Florida
concern, will come to Sylva for
this one appearance. He is a char
ter Member of the Tampa Little
Theatre, one of the largest com
munity groups in the South, and
has played the role of Tito more
than forty times.
Daisy, a new manniquin in the
e>tablishment, will be played by
Jean Argyle, and Jean Ann Brad
ley and Faye Rollins, making her
first appearance with the com
pany, will appear as Muriel and
Yvette. One of the highlights of
the play i sthe scene in which Mr.
Chamberlain creates a gown "Sun
shine After the Rain", in view of
the audience, draping the materials
on Miss Bradley as his model.
Fredric Gadette, who drew
laughs for his characterization in
last week's play, will appear as
Ricky, millionaire Vernvcelli King,
who falls in love with D~i>y. Miss
Argyle and Mr. Gadete a.*e both
from Hollywood, where they have
appeared in numerous st< ?e plays
and motion picture roles.
David Cromwell appears as
Robert Tarrant, Broadway play
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