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i AMERICA First, Last and Always Herald The Herald is dedicated to progressive service to Jack son ... A progressive, well balanced county. VOL. xxn, NO. 27 Sylva, N. C. Thursday, Dec. 4, 1947 $2.0(1 A Voor r~. Ballots Mailed for Election Of Directors for Jackson County Chamber of Commerce Nine Member Board To Be' Named From 27 Candidates Will Take Office Jan. 2 Ballots for the election of a board of directors for the Chamber of Commerce were mailed this week to members of the organiza tion. Each membership received a ballot which was to be returned to the secretary by December 3. The ballot contains the names of 27 candidates, with 9 to be elected to constitute the new board. After election the new board will name its president from the nine. The president of the Merchants divi sion of the organization is automat ically a director of the Chamber of Commerce. The candidates are divided into three groups. Of the first six three are to^lSe" elected. Of the second group of four one is to be elected. Of the third group of seventeen, five are to be elected. The twenty-seven candidates on the ballot are: 1st group, Bpyd Sos samon, Hugh Monteith, Woody Hampton, Paul Kirk, W. C. Hen nessee and Reg. Enloe. Second group, Ed - Battle, L. G. Hidgon, Keith Hinds and Ralph Sutton. Third group, Rudy Hardy, Dexter Hooper, Grayson Cope, W. J. Fish er, Velt Wilson, T. N. Massie, R. U. Sutton, Chester Scott, Bill Wise, Tom Wilson, Frank Hall, Dennis Higdon, Wayne Terrell, Charles Stewart, Brady Parker. The new directory will take over January 2nd with a joint meeting with the old board. FIVE WGTG STUDENTS TO ATTEND ANNUAL CONFERENCE DEC. 6,7 Five Western Carolina Teachers college students are scheduled to attend the annual student confer ence sponsored by the American Friends Ser\ ice Committee and The North Carolina Council of Churches December 6 and 7. Each day's con ference will be separate and com plete in itseli: the Saturday confer ence will be heid at Johnson C. Smith university in Charlotte, and the Sunday meeting will be at the University of North Carolina. W.C.T.C. student delegates to the conference will be Gene Hanne mann, Fredricksburg, Tex., presi dent of the student senate; Jo Pry er, Bear Wallow, president of the women's house government; Ver ifelle Hall, Leicester, and Nellie Runyans, Shelby, both of whom ? served on the school's Religious Emphasis Week committee last year, and Mike Plemmons, Mar shall, president of the International Relations club. Miss Pryor, how ever, has indicated that she may not be able to attend the confer ence. The conference (the two one day conferences will duplicate each other), "an adventure in applied Christianity," has as its main theme "The Road to Peace." This theme will be broken up into four "work shop" topics for discussion ? "Or ganization of Peace," "Spiritual Bases for Peace," "Struggle for World Power," and "Economic Bases of Peace." Principle speakers at the confer ences will be A. J. Muste, Pres byterian minister who has just re turned from Europe; Dr. Stuart Crawford Announces Student Honor Roll for Sylva High At the end of the second semes ter of Sylva High school the fol lowing students have been named on the honor rolls. Those making 93 and above and entitled to the A High honor roll are for the first term: Jimmie Lee Blanton, Eugene McClure, Naomi Hooper, Derel Montieth and Eddie Lou Terrell; for the second term: Betty Anne Queen, Clarise Hpxit, Kenneth PoUs, Jimmie Lee Blanton, Naomi Hooper, Doris Middleton, Lacue L$1 Terrell, Derel Montieth, Hat ^?dftean Frizzell, Fran* Crawiord and Eugene McClure. Those nsmed on the B honor roll and making an average of A with not more than one B we;e the following, for the first term: Betty Anne Queen, Betty Jean Queen, Jackie Shields, Clarise Hoxit, Kenneth Potts, Mary Cole Stillwell, Barbara Ann Fisher, Joanne Moody, Annie Ruth Na tions, Barbara Sue Ensley, Hatta lean Frizzell, Frank Crawford, Western Crawford, Helen Mea dows, Betty Jean Bryson, Doris Middleton and Evelyn Parris; for the second term: Frankie Fisher, Mary Cole Stillwell, Joanne Moody, Barbara Ann Fisher, Jackie Shields, and Annie Ruth Nations. W. H. Crawford, principal, states that the students are making pro gress in their studies, that scholar ship is being improved constant ly. CULLOWHEE BAPTIST MAKE IMPROVEMENTS Following a recent conference vote concerning the establishment of boundary lines for the Cullo whee Baptist cemetery, the prop erties committee has begun an extensive plan of improvement of the church grounds. Involved are such items as the planting and cul tivating of grass, laying off and grading a semi-circular walk from the proposed parking area to the cemetery entrance. The cemetery is to be bounded by a series of per manent markers with inter link ing chains and fronted by appro priate shrubbery. It is the desire ofthe committee to line the walk ways with small boxwood, which are to be given by members of the congregation and other friends of the church. The landscaping blue print is on display in the church, and the preliminary phases of the work have been started. Mrs. Samantha Collins 111 At Her Home Mrs. Samantha Collins, 90 ^year old, better know to her friends as "Aunt Sis" became critically ill on Monday, November 26. She is the j at the home of hpr grandson, Pink | Collins, where she has been living for some time. Up until about ten months ago, when her health failed and her hearing and vision became im paired, she had been most active, i did all her housework, including 1 the cooking. She has had a very good memory an$l was an interest ing conversationist. She is the grandmother ol Wil liam C. Collins, part owner and operator of the Maple Springs Cafe. Funeral Rites For Pfc. Woodrow Coggins | Funeral services for Pfc. Wood row Coggins, whose body was re turned from overseas to Sylva Wednesday; 'December 3. will be i held to-morrow (Friday) after noon at 2 o'clock at the Double Springs Methodist church with Rev. Marion Moody and Rev. George \\>b conducting the service. Pfc. Coggins, born August 8, 1923, was 21 years of age at the time he was killed in action in Germany on November 6, 1944. He entered service December 15, 1943. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Ethel Coggins; three brothers, Vernon, Vaughn and Weaver of Eras'tus; five sisters, Mrs. Jerdie C. Bryson, Mrs. Bessie Mae Moss, Misses Edna, Rosa Lee and Maqu eta Coggins of Erastus. The W. E. Dillard post, American Legion, will have charge of the graveside rites. Nelson, dean of Howard Univer sity's department of religion, who has recently returned from a year's stay in India, where he did relief work for the Quakers; Dr. Frank Hanft, professor in the law school at Chapel Hill; Dr. Neal Hughley, professor of . economics at North Carolina college in Durham; and James McMillan, Charlotte attor ney and world government advo cate. Student organizations at more than 20 North Carolina colleges and universities will send delegates to the conference. TRU. /AN ADDRESSES SPECIAL SESSION OF COK S ASSERTING THAT THI TREND toward inflation is "alarming" and is getting worse, President Truman asks the special session of Congress lor sweeping and unprecedented peacetime powers to control prices and wages and to ration all products which basically affect the cost of living. He also asked $597,000,000 interim aid for Europe. On the rostrum behind the President are Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg (left), President Pro Tem of the Senate, and Rep. Joseph W. Martin, Jr., Speaker of the House. (International Soundphoto) One World Or No World At All, Theme Of Talk By Dr. Daniel Foling Dr. Daniel Poling spoke to a large group of students, teachers, and interested citizens at the Breese auditorium, Cullowhee, Wednesday afternoon. Dr. Poling, in his very forceful manner, spoke frankly on the issue of compulsory military training, proving the ad vantages, and discounting very practically the arguments against it. The truth that Dr. Poling would have his hearers gra^p and live by is tiiis: in this constantly shrinking (scicntil'ically speaking) world there must be unity?"one world or no world at all". To attain this one world oj' unity?there must bo unity in un>elfishness. love, truth? in Christianity. ??? i i Young Hunter Bags Hawk, Squirrel With One Blast From Gun The distinction of the adage that "I killed two birds with one shot" goes to R. L. Warren, Jr., except, mind you, one hap pened to be a squirrel. R. L. Warren, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Raleigh L. Warren of Maple Springs ? squirrel hunt ing on Stump Mountain Thanks giving day ? saw a large "fowl" soaring overhead, fired his 12 gauge shotgun, and found he had bagged a hawk with a 50 inch wing spread, ? and believe it or not ? in its talona was a ?quirrel. Chamber Of Commerce Directors To Meet President Felix Picklesimer has announced a meeting of the direc tors of the Chamber of Commerce to be held Friday night at 7 o'clock in the office of the organization in the Lloyd Hole] building All mem bers of the board are urged to be present. Mrs. Kemps Will Appear In Vocal Concert Dec. 9 At Western Carolina Mrs. John Kemps of Asheville j will appear in a concert of vocal selections at Western Carolina Teachers College on Tyesday aft ernoon, Dec. 9, at 1:30 o'clock. She will sing a group of German Lieder songs and also a French and English group. She will *Hso give a short sketch of the Lieder songs she uses. Mrs. Robert S. Carroll of Asheville will accom pany her at the piano. Mrs. Kemps was born and reared in Europe where she received her vocal training, having studied un der several famous teachers and did considerable concert and oratori um work. She was the first sing er to be invited to sing over Radio Helvernum, Holland's largest sta tion. Her speciality is interpretive Lieder singing and her repertoirs includes a large range of selections in English, French, German, Ital-. ian, and Dutch. Mrs. Kemps came to America in 1929. She teaches voice modula tion and Lieder singing to a num ber of pupils at her home in Enka. William Thomas Smith, around I j 35, was taken in custody by Jaek | son county officers last Sunday j in the Big Ridge section of the county and placed ?n Jacksc.n county jaii to await authorities* i from the State of Virginia where he is wanted as an escaped .convict. Siieri11 Griffin Micidicton, De | puty Frank Allen ??nd St.tie Hign | w ay Patrolman W. T. Unj.-ci. made I the arrest. Smith was t.ikcn on j j -u.-p.uon ii tor ;,c l.i-l -el to producc . crtain pa; o s ieque?tod i;> trie i M:cer>. He Aav e an ah* name and , alter questioning admr.ied to tin* |i>;'I'ker> that r.e w,?. an I from Central p. i>on < ; Virginia I w",ne w.i* serving 30-year I 1 *ei m for larceny and forge. y. Ik in d been at l.berty since April 10. th.s year and i, ,nr to Jackson ! county in Sei'tfi loei. 11; i:... . :n! worl;.:ig a* < : 1 job- in il.c Hig Ridge sec".io . Christmas Seals ... Your Protection Against Tuberculosis Plans Completed For Red Cross Seal Sale Plans have been completed for I the annual Red Cross Seal Sale to begin Monday, Dec. 5. W. V. Cope, principal of the Syl vu Elementary school, will be school chairman. Working with him will be the other teachers of the county. The committee named to work in Sylva is as follows: Mrs. Ray mon Stovall, Mrs. Frank P. Craw ford, Mrs. Claude Williams, and Mrs. Jake Bales. The Camp Fire girls will have charge of the sales each evening at the theatre. Some of the things done during the past year with money derived from former seal sales are: gave $100 to lunch rooms in the county when federal aid was stopped last spring; bought cod liver oil for un dernourished children, bought ma terials for tubercular patients, and sent several patients to Black Mountain for examinations. Your support of the sales will be appreciated by those in charge and those selling, but much more will it be appreciated by those for whom it will be spent. Mrs. Walter L. Jones is genera county chairman. 8O88AMON'S . . . The Gift Store ?w Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Cope Observe 49th Wedding Anniversary Mr. and Mrs. J. Walt Cope ob served their forty-ninth wedding anniversary at their home on Cope Creek on Monday, November 17. Their children, grandchildren and a number of friends called during tne i.iternoon to congratulate and wish them many more years of ik ppiness Mrs. Cope, the former Miss Amanda Watson, and Mr. Cope wore -married in 1998. They have oei*n ln'elong residents of Jackson 0 amt y. ^ ' | Tree Seedlings Are ] Available For Farmers 1 Of Jackson County There are a limited quantity of seedlings available to Jack son County farmers for planting during the late winter or early Spring of 'O-iF. These seedlings are made a\n. ?ir, ie to farmers free thro. M1 tne TVA. However, in order to secure seedlings '"through trie TVA it will be nec .siary fcr farmers to make out their applications for trees by January 1. 1948. Farmers may make out their applications now either at the County Agent's office or in the office of the District Forester. Applications may be made at this time for the following seed* lings: Shortleaf Pine, White Pine, Yellow Poplar, and Black Locust. Wakefield Will Speak To Presbyterian Students Presbyterian students of West ern Carolina Teachers college will meet in the parlor of Moore dormi tory Friday evening at 7 o'clock. The Rev. W. H. Wakefield, pastor of the Sylva Presbyterian church, will address the group. About 30 students are expected :o attend. Second Grade Presents Thanksgiving Program For the weekly chapel program | at the Sylva Elementary school, the second grade taught by Miss Hicks Wilson, presented a Thanks giving program on Wednesday af ternoon, November 26. Each child in the room had a part on the program which consisted of a pantomime, The First Thanks giving, several songs suitable for1 the holiday season and a playlet entitled, Pumpkin Pie Saves the Day. Osbornes Assist In Revival At West Asheville Baptist Rev. Mark Osborne, Jr., was en gaged from November 17 through 26 in a series of evangelistic meet ings at the West Asheville Baptist church. Each morning at 8:30 Mr. Osborne spoke over radio station WLOS. The last four days he was joined by Mrs. Osborne, who as sisted in pre-service conferences ?ach night with junior boys and girls, and in the special music dur ing the regular worship service. Cullowhee Choir to Present Pre-Christmas Concert at Baptist Church Sunday 8 p.m. LUCIUS L. COPE, 79, PASSES AT HOME NEAR WILLETS Lucius L. Cope, 79. lttired farm er, died at his home near Willets Sunday following an extended ill ness. Funeral services were conducted | at the Addie Baptist church Tues- j day afternoon at 2 o'clock with the Rev. Lawerence Crawford and the Rev. Oscar Beck officiating. Inter ment was in the Addie cemetery. Pallbearers were Fred Mull, John Monteith, Joe Miller, Ode Robinson, Else Henry and Roy Green. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Nancy Lindsay Cope; two sons, Fred Cope of Sylva, R. F. D. No. 1, and Tom Cope of Sedro Woolley, Wash.; six daughters, Mrs. James Clayton, of Flat Rock, Mich., Mrs. Berdell Keener, of Waynesville, Mrs. Lawrence Phillips, of Frank lin and Mrs. A. D. Nichols, Mrs. Hobart Hance and Miss Marjorie Cope all of Sylva, R. F. D. No. 1; one brother, J. W. Cope, of Cow arts, 24 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Dr. W. A. Mathews To Serve At Cashiers Clinic Dr. William A. Matthews, who has had an office in Highlands since last May and practiced his profession in that community, will beginning Monday. December 8, be at the Cashiers Clinic from 9:00 a. in. each morning tii.l 12.00 noon, except Sunday. He w..! be at his Highlands oflire in :n 2:00 to 5:00 oc;??cl\ each Iternuon. Cpli \ttvM(ls Brother s Funeral C'pl. Weaver Stile> ! Albuquer qme, New Mexic > wa? called home :<? .ttend tin i'uneral of ins brother, Si;*. Gilbert v.bose body ? rt turned irom ovc i as for rial a! Quali:. Saturday, No vember 22. Mis.. St lie- and little (i.ai^htei . v. in) e been at home v. it!> !iei parent-. Mi. and Mrs. A. !.. Southard, leturned to Al i.u(|iu .rffu.e with C'pl. Stiles. Annual Concert Is One Of Highlights Of The Christmas Season The Cullowhee Baptist church will present the Choir in a Pre Christmas Concert Sunday even ing, eight o'clock, December 7, at the Cullowhee Baptist church. The Chun is composed of fifty mixed voices, representing five Mates and sixteen North Carolina counties. There are thirty women and twenty men in the Choir. This will be theii second public appear ance for the present scholastic year. They will be heard on a short concert tout during the winter and spring months, as well as in a con cert of sacred music at Cullowhee sometime in April. The Rre-Christmas Concert is the story ol Christmas according to scripture. Suitable music has been selected and arranged to har monize with the Christmas story. The Choir will be heard in the singing ol Christmas anthems, car ols, hymns of the church, and the Hallelujah Chorus. Miss Virginia Gallemore, soloist, will sing "How Beautiful Upon the Mountain" as a scriptural scene in the Christmas story. She will be assisted by the Choir who will sing "Joy to the World" as a sort of echo comment on the scriptural scene. Miss Max ine Barboui, assisted by the Choir, will do the music pertaining to the scene, Bethlehem. Rev. Mark R. Osborne, Jr., pas tor ol the Cullowhee Baptist Church, and Mrs. Osborne will be heard in a duo arrangement of "O Holy Night." Mrs. Osboine, soloist, will also >mg "Gesu Bambino (The Infant Jesus) The All Gin Choir will be heard in <iri Knghsh carol, "As It Feli Uooii o Night. " Here is portrayed the C?w .i-t J.,iT?{. wi'i p;>od i'-1 . '. ad dling clothe . .i:,'. a u.nger; thi.o \ ; f tit; n-Min in the Ion. T.*u : s. ene in the Christmas story, "T"ne Lorrl God Reigneth," will be pre.-ented in words and nuis.c as the full Choir sings the "ILiileluj.j; Chorus." The public- is cordially invited to attend the concert. From Beer and Wine Tax Raleigh, December 1, A check for $8,774.16 has been mailed to Jackson county as its share in the first distribution of income from increased taxes on beer and wine, according to information released by the State Department of Reve nue. Of this amount $8,580.23 was dervived from beer and $198.93 for wine. Of this amount the town of Sylva received $726.77. The 1947 legislature doubled the crown and stamp taxes on beer and unfortified wines and directed that half of the collections be distribut ed to counties, cities and towns which permit the sale of these be verages. The new tax rate went into effect July 1 and this first distribution of revenues is from collections for July, August and September. Future payments to local government units sharing in the tax will be made annually. Jackson Funeral Rites For Mr. B. B. Keller Funeral services ft?: B. B. Kel ler, who died at the home of his sister, Mrs. L. M. Bateman, in Nor~ folk, Va., liist Sunday morning, were held Tuesday aiternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Cuilowhee Meth odist church with the pastor, Rev. R. T. Houts, assisted by Rev. Mark R. Osborne, Jr., conducting the service. Interment was in the Cui lowhee cemetery. Pallbearer^ were George Craw ford, Shirley Wilson, Rufus Phil lips, Lewis Bumgarner, Bob Bry son, and Dr. John Painter. Surviving are three sons, Mal colm and Harold of Sedro Wool ley, Wash, and Clyde of Elsinore, Cal.; three sisters, Mrs. L. M. Bate man and Mrs. N. S. Welch of Nor folk, Va., and Miss Myrtle Keller of Baltimore, Md.; and two bro thers, Harry Keller of Knightdale, N. C., and Charlie Keller of Ya kima, Wash. Mr. Keller was the son of the late R. M. and Mell Keller and had spent his boyhood and early manhood at their home at Cuilo whee. He lived in Seattle, Wash ington for several years and then returned and spent much of that time in the hospital before going to his sister's home a few months ago. Application Blanks Ready For Filing For Tobacco Acreage D. C. Higdon, Chairman of Jackson County AAA, advtaes 1 that application blanks have | been received in the local AAA office to be filled out by farm era who wish to fife for a tobaoeo allotment for 1948. The eloelitfl date for making application Is February 1st., 1948. Warren Announces Sermon Subjects Fo At the morning services during the month of December, Rev. C. M. Warren, pastor of the Sylva Baptist church, will present a ser ies of sermons, dealing with various: phases of Christ's life. On the first Sunday his subject will be "Christ, the Son of God ?- His Deity"; the second, "Christ, the Son of Man ? His Humanity"; the third, ,4Christ, the Son of Mary ? His Virgin Birth"; and the fourth, "Christ, Series of r December A the Suffering Son ? His Love". The evening services will be made up of special messages and programs. On the first Sunday evening Mr. Warren will speak an "The Voice of Jesus", on the ate* ond a special program of sacred hymns will be presented; the a?? nual program of Christmas will be given on the third Sunday evening and on the fourth the sub ject for his message will be The Mind of Jesus".