i.i : SYLVA HERALD
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Tnu HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY
Sylva, North Carolina
~~vie County Seat of Jackson County
J vA. Cand J. M. BIRD Publishers
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Entered at the post office at Sylva, N. C., as
Second Class Mail Matter, as provided under the
Act of March 3, 1879, November 20, 1914.
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) DR. H. T. HUNTER
In the passing of Dr. H. Tyram Hunter
Jackson County lost one of her outstand?
ing adopted citizens, and Western North
" Carolina and the field of education a man
who has done much to build a better
educational system with greater advan
tages for the youth of this area. Dr. Hun
ter was a man who lookecPttKead to the
many opportunities afforded by modern
? education. He devoted the greater part
of his life to the things that would help
bring better opportunities to more peo
ple of North Carolina. The best years of
his life were spent in his work as head of
Western Carolina Teachers College.
With the observance of its 50th anni
versary in 1939 came also plans for a
huge development program for the col
lege which, under his direction grew in
size and advantages until this year it has
the largest student body in history.
Dr. Hunter's talents were not all used
at Cullowhee. He gave liberally of his
time to civie and religious matters of the
entire section, and was in demand as a
speaker and advisor on many occasions.
His work in the Sylva Rotary club, the
C. J. Harris hospital, the churches and
? schools of the county will long be re
membered.
Dr. Hunter took a personal interest in
each student of the college, especially
while in |chool, and as for as possible
kept in touch with them after they enter
ed the business world. He could call
most of them by name, and was never too
busy to discuss their problems with them
and to offer his advice and services.
All Jackson County is saddened deeply
at the passing of this true citizen and
friend and will long remember the ideals
for which he strove. '
BETTER SCHOOLS FOR COUNTY
We wish to congratulate the members
of the County Board of Commissioners
and Board of Education on their inaugu
ration of a plan for a county-wide school
building and improvement program for
our county. This being one ofui^ major
needs of Jackson county we feel that the
majority of the citizens of the county
will receive the news gladly and will be
ready to back such a program with their
support and influence.
Many of us have realized for a long
time that the county is sadly lacking in
adequate school buildings and equip
ment, and that if our county is to remain
one of the progressive counties of the
state, ^ building program will have to
be adopted. Our county officials* have
also recognized this need. They have
been wanting to do something about it
but for various restrictions of materials,
funds, etc. have been unable to start the
work. They feel, like many Others, that
we should delay no longer in star/ting the
.building program. To be able to carry
it through the citizens of the county are
going to have to lend their support. The
Herald believes that when they are call
ed on they will respond wholeheartedly.
BETTER BEEF IN JACKSON
Jackson County is as well adapted to
the growing of high grade beef cattle as
any other county of Western North Caro
lina and should be in a position to measure
right up along with the other counties in
beef cattle production. However, the beef
industry has not been pushed in the coun
ty. Our county agricultural leaders real
ize this and have started a program that
will promote the beef industry.
An illustration of what a 14-year old
boy can do with a beef type calf is car
ried in the Herald this week. In less
than 10 months R. L. Pruitt, of the,
Glenville 4-H club produced .an 800
INSIDE WASHINGTON
Special to Central Press
WASHINGTON?President Truman
finds himself in the middle of the tough
est squeeze play of his white House ca
reer as the related issues of foreign aid
and high domestic prices boil toward an
inevitable crisis in coming months.
White House aides and the top echelon
of the administration are busily at work
trying to develop a program whioh will
strike a balance between spiraling food
and other prices and the necessity of
maintaining European governments to
keep them from, chaos and Communism.
Any course to be pursued will require
congressional action unless the chief exe
cutive decides the situation is too explo
sive to bring it up for solution. But in
action, the responsible capital sources be
lieve, may well result either in a run-a
way domestic inflation or a disintegration
of pro-democratic governments in west
ern Europe?possibly both.
Mr. Truman has been long committed
to a program of American-supported re
lief for Europe's ailing economy. Should
Congress fail to back his policy, it is like
ly that commodity prices would halt
their upward climb?probably drop
sharply to relieve the present clamor a
gainst the high cost of living.
The long-term cost of such solution,
however, might well be the establish
ment of an entirely new balance of pow
er lineup in Europe, with Russia in con
trol of the heavy side of the international
scale.
POWERFUL POLITICAL WHIRL
POOLS and eddies are churning in the
wake of the abortive Eisenhower^for-pre
sident boom, disavowed by the Army
chief of staff, but thundering louder day
by day in Rebublican circles.
Should a Taft-Dewey stalemate or any
other combination of the political num
bers result in an Eisenhower "draft" at
the GOP national convention next vear,
the result would be an almost certain
"draft" of Defense Secretary James For
restall as President Truman's running
mate.
Obviously, the Democrats would feel I
that they must counter an Eisenhower
ticket with a man whose war record was
almost as brilliant. The Democrats will
claim Forrestal's record as wartime Un
dersecretary, then Secretary of the Navy,
is as distinguished as Eisenhower's.
Forrestal, in event of an Eisenhower
nomination, will have no choice but to
run with Truman. He will be told it is
his duty. At present, Forrestal is con
tent to be the nation's first defense secre
tary, but an Eisenhower nomination
would change all that.
Strong feeling now exists in the GOP
that if "Ike" is "drafted" to head the tick
et, either Minnesota's former Harold
Stassen or California's Gov. Earle War*
ren must be his running mate.
Stassen is believed willing to run with
Eisenhower. Should Warren decline,
certain GOP elements would go after
Speaker Joe Martin.
SENATOR ELMER THOMAS (D),
OKLA., has returned from Europe con
vinced that the world would be better off
economically if all countries adopted the J
gold ounce as the monetary unit.
He says the problem now is very much
like that of the 13 states after the Revo
lutionary war. Each had its own type of |
money. He says some states -used nails,
others tobacco, still others wampum. I
They had trouble-because states using
nails could not get wampum to trade
with wampum states. They cured their
troubles by adopting the same standard
of money?the dollar.
Thomas declares that if all nations
adopted the gold ounce as a standard,
European countries would not have the
"dollar shortage", ailment from which
they now suffer. \
The senator has laid Jlis proposal be
fore the United Nation^ Food and Agri
culture Organization."
pound baby beef which sold at a fancy
price on the Ashevilie baby beef show
grounds. Other boys in the county
can do as well..
With the growing of better pastures
the beef industry in Jackson county
should become a profitable business.
The Herald extends its heartiest con
gratulations to young Pruitt and pre
dicts a bright future for him as one of
our coming farmers. We also commend
the members of the Merchants Associa
tion. in backing tofe program by buying
young* Pruitt's calf. *
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LAATIC "PGL.^ S2ASON
The Everyday Counsellor
By REV. HERBERT 8PAUGH, D. 0. *
"But I was right, dead right!
I was going into that intersection
first. I had the right of way ?
that truck driver should have
stopped when he saw me ? I
was right, dead right!'"
"Yes dear - you always were
right - the other fellow was al
was wrong. That's why we're
here."
This conversation, reported be
tween two gravestones, appeared
in a TOCCOA RECORD (Georgia)
advertisement appealing for safe
and thoughtful driving on the
highway. It is expressive of the
reasoning of many who drive our
highways, and remind me of an
epitaph I once
read, "Here lies
the body of Dan
McKay. He died
maintaining his
right of way. He
was right, dead
right, as he sped
along. But he's
just as dead as
if he'd been dead
wrong."
THE TOCCOA RECORD is one
of many newspapers throughout
the nation which is conducting a
vigorous campaign for safe and
thoughful driving on our streets
and highways. Automobile traf
fic is one of the nation's greatest
headaches. It is filling our hospitals
and graveyards at an uncomfort
able rate. Too much of it is caused
by an attitude of. mind reflected
in this advertisement. ?
? While we wrestle with selfish
ness in every corner of life, it
seems to become more prominent
when we get behind the wheel of
an automobile. There are many
drivers who are scrupulously po
lite on foot, but the minute they
get behind the wheel of an auto
mobile they leave politeness on the
ground. There's many a driver
who will stand back to allow an
other to precede him in entering
a door, but when he's in an auto
mobile he rushes unceremoniously
ahead. He may even have the legal
right of way, but he reaches the
hospital and perhaps the grave
yard just the same.
Professor Joad, the English
Jackson County Boys
Enlist In Army
According to information re
leased by the United States Army
and Air Force Recruiting Sub
Station at Franklin, three Jack
son county poys have enlisted in
the regular army recently. They
are Cluade E. Winstead and Char
lie B. Stanley of Sylva and Billy
B. Bradley of Whittier, Rt. 2. All
have enlisted for a three-year
period.
Enlistments are now being made
.for direct assignments to the Third
Army area. Veterans ot the Arm?,
Navy, Marines or Coast Guard
may enlist for direct assignment to
the European Theatre.
During the year ending June
30, 1947, the Farmers Home Ad
ministration loaned 28,297 new
borrowers a total of $33,699,372
for adjustment loans. In addition,
70,940 borrowers already on the
program were provided additional
adjustment loans to continue or
expand their farming operations.
These- subsequent loans were for
$36,26^,829. *
philosopher, was once conversing
with a certain Indian sage in
praise of the technical marvels of
our generation. "Yes," replied the
Sage, "you can fly through the air
like birds and swim in th? sea like
fish, but how to walk upon the
earth as a man you do not yet
know!"
We have outrun ourselves in
the race for mechanical achieve
ment, and have left the man far
behind. Unles% we^pause and con
centrate on improving the man who
operates the machines we have
invented, we face sure and utter
destruction.
Books come and books go, but
the Bible goes on forever, still the
greatest book on human relations.
It teaches us how man can live
happily and safely with man. It
teaches us that our most impor
tant lesson is to learn how to live
in right relations with our God
and our fellow man. Its "Golden
Rule" is still the Number 1 rule
for us to learn. The next time you
pass a graveyard, you might think
I of that.
Calendar of Events
Dillsboro Masonic lodge will
meet in the Masonic hall, Dills
boro at 7:30 p. m. Ed Bumgarn
er, W.M.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17 ? The
Woman's Society of Christian
Service will meet in Allison
building at 7:30 p. m. Mrs.
Harry Hastings, president.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 20 ? The
Sylva Home Demonstration club
will meet with Mrs. R. U. Sutton
at 3 p. m. Mrs. R. U. Sutton,
president.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 20 ? The
Woodmen of the World will meet
in the W.O.W. hall at 7:30 p.m.
Jeff Hedden, council commander.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21 ? The
Woman's club will meet with
Mrs. Paul Kirk, at 7:30 p. m.
Miss Hicks Wilson, president.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21 ? The
Rotary club will have a dinner
meeting in Allison building at
6:30 p. m. Dr. D. D. Hooper,
president.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22?The
Lions club will have a dinner
meeting in the high school cafe
teria at 7 p. m. T. Walter Ashe, I
i
president.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22?Oce
chapter, No. 139, Order of the
Eastern Star will meet in the
Masonic hall, Dillsboro, at 7:30
p. m. Mrs. Harry Ferguson,
president.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23?The
Ruby Daniel Circle will meet
with Mrs. Felix Potts at 7:30 p. m.
Mrs. Porter Scroggs, president.
LOOKING BACKWARD
From the Fllaa of The Rurallte
of 15 yeare ago
Jackson County Superior court ?
opened here Monday morning with
Judge Hoyle Sink presiding and
Solicitor John Queen prosecuting
the docket.
A banquet for all former stu
dents and present and former fac
ulty members of Western Carolina
Teachers College, who attended
the meeting of the Western Dis
trict of the North Carolina Ed
ucation association, was held Sat
urday, October 15, at the S and
W Cafeteria, in Asheville. Several
members of the college faculty
appeared on the program.
Five hundred Jackson county
people heard Clyde R. Hoey of
Shelby when he spoke Monday at
the courthouse under the aus
pices oi the Young People's Dem
ocratic clubs of Jackson county.
Three hundred and forty-three
students have enrolled for the fall
quarter at Western Carolina
Teachers College. The enrollment
Increase over the fall quarter of
last year being 231. Forty-four
North Carolina counties and five
other states are represented in the
student body.
Three hundred citizens of Jack
son county came together in a
meeting to hear Jake F. Newell,
Republican candidate for United
! States senator, speak Thursday
I afternoon at the Jackson county
I courthouse.
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