SyJva Dance Team Makes
Good Showing In Festival
The Sylva square dance team
last week entered the Mountain
Dance Festival in A>heville which
gathered dance team? and mu
sicians iruin all the caunt.es and
states in this >ection 01 the coun
try. Although the team did not
win in the highly competitive con
test, it made a good showing and
received much applause and ad
miration from the spectators, as
well as much publicity in the
Asheville papers.
The present team was started
about 1^44 by Mrs. E. O. Masii
burn and Larry Mull, both well
known local authorities on square
dancing. Because of pressing
business activities. Mull dropped
the team and Mrs. Mashburn is
now both manager and trainer of
the team.
Since it was organized the team
has received a great deal of pub
licity and it has been acclaimed as
one of the best in this section.
Jacksonians who saw the team
when it gave an exhibition on the
night of July 4 at the time of the
street dance are well aware that^
the team has worked hard to dance
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as well as it did on the open street.
Music lor the team's dancing has
been furnished by Wallace Swann
.? 11cl the Soco G,.p string band of
Sylva since the team was originat
ed. At the- present time the Jiond
is in Waynesville.
This will make the fourth time,
the team has entered the Moun
tain Dance Festival in Asheville.:
win event which receives publicity
throughout the country. In addi
tion to appearing in the festival,
the team has been called to give
exhibitions at various other towns j
including Highlands, Cherokee In
dian Fair, Western North Carolina
Fair at Henderson v?Uc, Canton,
Gatlinburg, and Marion, - and was
called back to the two latter places
for the second time.
The American Legion has spon
sored the square dance team fori
a great part of the time', and it is
now known as the American Leg- |
ion dance team.
Much of th?" credit for the suc
| cess of the team goes to the caller,
Shuford Cagle, who also is a mem
ber of the team. He has spent much
time and effort in keeping the team
organized and is in large part re
sponsible for it. Expenses for the
team's trips are often paid
in part by the members of the
team itself, and members of the
community who "are interested in
the team often help furnish trans
portation.
Members of the team are as fol
lows: (listed in couples) (1) Shu
ford Cagle, caller, and Joan Mash
burn, leading lady, (2) Red Steph
ens and Betty Maney, (3) Carol
Thompson and Sis Jacobs, (4) J.
H. Almond and Nancy Canipe, (5)
Randall Goldman and Tot Jacobs,
(6) Earl Morgan and Wanda Davis,
(7) Lyman Parker and Shorty
Bryson, (8) Red Monteith and
Jessie Ray Bryson, and (9) Jim
Shuler and Doris Ann Estes.
The latter two, Jim Shuler and
Doris Ann Estes, are new mem
bers of the team, having been se
lected last week to replace two
members who were forced to
leave the team. According to Mrs.
Mushburn, the personnel of the
i team :> constantly changing in this'
way ;.s some leave and are re
placed by new members.
There are eight couples on the
regular team, and the two new
members will be substitutes.
Mrs. Mas'nburn, the present
manager! lias been connected with
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DUTCH TROOPS, INCLUDING AMERICAN-TRAINED COMMANDOS, opened an offensive against the Indonesian
Republic, after the failure of long-deadlocked independence negotiations. The Dutch forces seized all Repub
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Surabaya (3) and Palembang (4). Sumatra. The Dutch Army is estimated at 120,000 men (International)
EXTENSION SERVICE
RELEASE SUMMARY
OF 1946 ACTIVITIES I
"A Good Year of Peace and
Progress" was realized in 1946 by
Tar Heel farmers and homemak
ers, according to the title and sub
stance of the annual report of the
North Carolina Agricultural Ex
tension Service, released this week
by Director I. O. Schaub.
As the director's report to the
people of the state, it views the
Extension Service record in twen
ty-eight pages of interesting, read
able sections on all of the phases
of farming, homemaking and youth
programs. Thirty-eight photo
graphs, taken in all parts of North
Carolina, illustrate the report.
The record for the first year of
peacetime farming since 1940
shows that 241,550 farms and 147,
656 farm homes" made definite
changes in practices toward better
farming and homemaking. Of the
state's 287,989 farms, according to,
the 1945 census, county or statej
college personnel visited 150,5821
different farmsteads, and answer
ed 648,933 office and telephone in
quiries for assistance. More than
286,000 farm families were in
fluenced by some phase of the Ex
tension program.
A total of 369,939 adults attend
I square danie teams for about 11
i years. Sever;-! members of the
present team have been with it
[.quite a time, among them
?Joan Mashburn who is the leading
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lady.
EAST LA PORTE NEWS
(Last Week's Letter)
The annual graveyard decora
tion was held at the Wike ceme
tery last Sunday. A large crowd
attended and a picnic lunch was
served on the lawn of Mr. Lee
Wike.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cope of Sylva
visited Mr. E. P. Williams Sunday.
Friends of Mrs. Joseph Keyes
will be glad to learn that she has
returned to her home from the
Sylva hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Bryson of
Burnsville were visitors here last
Sunday. The Brysons are former
residents of East LaPorte. Their
daughter, Anna Lee, returned
home with them after attending
summer school at Cullowhee.
Mrs. Susie Zachary spent last
Wednesday and Thursday in Syl
va with Mr. and Mrs. Kit Zachary.
Mr. and Mrs. Davis Potts will
return to Asheboro Wednesday* to
make their home after having lived
here for several months.
The graves at the East LaPorte
cemetery will be cleaned on Sat
urday, August 2. It is hoped that
people having relatives buried
here will attend.
* Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Cole of
Pickens, S. C., visited Mr. and
Mrs. Guy Wachob Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Siniard of
Brevard were over Sunday to at
tend the decoration of the Wike
cemetery.
Richard Mc Kee \\ ho has been
I visiting his .-ister, Mrs. Cyrus
Nicholson, left Sunday tor Detroit,
Mich., Paul Barnes, who has been
visiting here for two weeks, re
turned to Detroit with him.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Rogers of
New York are visaing relatives
here. Mrs. Rogers is the former
Miss Nell Moody.
Thomas Wike made a business
trip to Greenville, S. C., Monday.
QUALLA NEWS j
Mrs. Tom Massie of Hazel wood
spent Sunday with Mr. Phil Crisp I
and Miss Dora Crisp.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Hyatt of
Asheville were the guests of Mr.l
and Mrs. Zell Stillwell and family
Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Kinsland and
daughter, Linda, of Asheville and
Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Callahan and
son. Harold, were Sunday guests
of Mr.' and Mrs. Jim Sitton.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bradburn
visited Mr. and Mrs. Selph Kim
sey and family Sunday afternoon.
Mr. C. O. Jenkins of Swannanoa
visited Mr. C. W. Jenkins Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Crisp and
Mr. and Mrs. Zell Walker and fam
ily visited relatives in Hickory
last week-end.
Mr. D. C. Hughes and daughter,
Shirley, spent the week-end with
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hughes at
Murphy.
Mrs. Carl Hoyle spent the week
end with relatives in Asheville.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kitchen were
guests of Mr. and Mrs. J, K. Terrell
on Sunday.
Mrs. G. A. Kinsland spent Sat
urday with her sister, Mrs. Joe
Bradley, at Cherokee.
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Denton and
family and Mr. Joe Denton of
Blowing Rock, Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Oxner, Mr.t and Mrs. Edward
Blanton and family were guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Estes Talbert and
family Sunday.
ELECT CHURCH OFFICERS
Officers which were recently
ed more than 23.000 method dem
onstrations while rural youth re
sponded 651,036 strong to swell at
tendance at more than 18,000 dem
onstrations for young people.
Total membership in the state's
1,955 4-H Clubs was listed at 95,
483 and 56.021 farm women mem.?
bers of 2.221 home demonstration
clubs sold farm products valued
at $2,237,465.
Singing Convention
The Central Jackson Singing
convention and the West Haywood
Singing convention will meet
jointly at Balsam Baptist church
Sunday afternoon, August 3, at
1:30 o'clock.
All singers in the two communi
ties are urged to attend.
R. D. PHILLIPS, President
Jackson Co. Singing Convention
Mrs. H. L. Walston returned to
her home in Fayette.ville last week
after having visited her sister,
Mrs. L. P. Allen and Mr. Allen at
their home here. Mrs. Allen now
has as her guest another sister,
Mrs. R. L. Plummer, of Savannah,
Ga., who will be with her and Mr.
Allen for several days.
Friends of Mr. L. P. Allen re
gret to learn that he continues ill
and confined to his bed at his home
here.
elected at the Shoal Creek Baptist
church are as follows: Mr. L. J.
Rodgers, pastor; John Hyatt, Jr.,
superintendent; Miss Helen Mea
dows, ^secretary; Hubert Callahan,
clerk; and Mrs. Jim Sitton, treas
urer.
Massie Attends Wild
Life Federation Meet
T. N. Massie, local furniture
dealer and wild life enthusiast, at
tended the session of the North
Carolina Wildlife Federation in
Asheville Monday and Monday
night. Bart Cope, district game
warden, attended the night session
also. The meeting was held on
the roof garden of the Langren
hotel.
Carl D. Shoemaker of Washing
ton, D. C., representative of the
National Wildlife Federation, was
the principal speaker. Mr. Shoe
maker, a former newspaper pub
lisher, emphasized the necessity
of the new commission from the
standpoint of protection and urged
close relationship between the
sportsman and the farmer.
All wildlife problems are local,
Mr. Shoemaker pointed out, and
warned that if you don't have the
right management of land you are
not going to have wildlife.
"You as sportsmen qf North Car
olina must work out your owti
salvation on your own land, and
then you will have wildlife."
The important thing is to keep
up the interest, Mr. Shoemaker
said, and the way to do this is to
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but not on the screen. At a party at
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ORDER
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Winter Days Ahead.
JACKSON COAL & LUMBER CO
Phone 38 Sylva; N. t
A Statement To Our Customers About Resale
PRICES of PRODUCTS
Built by International Harvester Company
Here at Harvester we are con
cerned over the fact that a
growing number of our prod
ucts are appearing on the re
sale market at greatly inflated
prices.
As manufacturers, we try to
produce at the lowest possible
cost. We cannot set the prices
at which our products?trac
tors, motor trucks, farm im
plements, refrigeration, and in
dustrial power equipment?are
sold. We can and do suggest
list prices which the great ma
jority of our dealers adopt as
their retail prices.
$20,000,000 Price Reduction
Our basic price policy was
publicly stated in March, 1947,
when we announced price re
ductions at the rate of approxi
mately $20,000,000 per year
on our products. At that time,
Fowler McCormick, Chairman
ol' the Board, said: "any price
IS TOO high IF IT can BE RE
DUCED."
Practically all of our dealers
cooperated with this policy and
passed on the savings to their
customers.
The objective of the price
reductions was to make it pos
sible for customers to buy our
products, which they need so
badly, at lower prices. Natu
rally, this purpose is defeated
when our products are sold by
anybody at inflated prices,
IH Production at
All-Time Peak
inflattu pi ices are caused by
the difference between supply
and demand. To increase sup
ply, we now have the greatest
number ol employes in history
on our payrolls?almost 90,000
in the United States, as against
about 60,000 prewar. Large
new plants are getting in to pro
duction In Louisville, Evans
ville, and Melrose Park. A
fourth will soon be In opera
tion in Memphis. The men and
women now employed are
turning out the greatest quan
tities of 1H products of all
kinds that we have ever made.
These are also the finest prod
ucts we have ever made, and
recognition of that fact is an
important contributing factor
to the demand for them.
Distribution to Dealers
But even record-breaking pro
duction is not sufficient to give
your dealer?and other IH
dealers?enough products to
meet today's demand. We have
tried to make the fairest possi
ble geographical allocation of
our products so that every
dealer would get a fair share,
and we know that dealers, in
most cases, have tried earnestly
to make the fairest possible
distribution to their customers.
But we also know that many
of our products?far too many
?are .being resold at inflated
prices. The public criticism and
resentment of these resales are
of real concern to us, as we
know they must be tn our deal
ers, because such reactions en
danger the good will of both
the dealer and the Company in
any community.
Distribution to Customers
Experience shows that many
IH new products are being re
sold by users who decide they
can continue to make out with
their old equipment after they
have had an inflated offer for
their new equipment. To elimi
nate this, many dealers are
taking measures to be sure that
equipment purchased is for
their customers' own use and
is not to be resold.
Nearly all IH dealers, we be
lieve, are now using the basis
of present nbed as their pri
mary guide for the sale of
scarce products. The customer
whose need is real and urgent
is not likely to resell.
What Price Should
You Pay?
While it may take a little more
time to get delivery, we urge
our customers to consider all
of the factors mentioned here,
before paying more than the
list price for any IH product.
Any IH dealer or branch can
furnish the suggested list price
for any IH product.
We know that the over
whelming majority of III deal
ers are as much opposed to in
flated prices as we are. In the
public interest, we have al
ready asked their cooperation
?and are now asking the co
operation of customers ? in
CGiiwcUng this situation.
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