THE SYLVA HERALD Published By ' THE HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY Sylva, North Carolina The County Seat of Jackson County J. A. GRAY and J. M. BIRD Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Entered at the~~post office at Sylva, N. C., as ? -Second Clas.s Mail Matter, as provided under the Act of March 3, 1379, November#20, 1914. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In Jackson County $2.00 Six Months, In Jackson County 1.25 One Year, Outside J.tck?>n County 2.50 Six Months, Outs.de Juckscn County 1.50 All SUbscJfcp'.i ms Payable In Advance . - ? ' . At The Cross Roads The people of Jackson County are at the cross-roads, or should we say at a dead-end road. We were brought face to face with this fact Tuesday afternoon when our largest elementary school build ing in the county was ordered padlocked because of being unsafe for use. This order might have applied to several oth er structures now being used as class room buildings, such as the Beta and Dillsboro schools, which are nothing more than wooden fire traps, but when it comes to this brick building that has been in use only 19 years, it appals us. School officials of the county have realized for some years that the buildings are in &<ad condition and that new build ings are needed. The present school board has given the matter considerable study and have proposed a building pro gram. This, however, will take money, much more.money than the school board can raise unless the citizens of the coun ty authorize a bond issue through an elec tion. Taxpayers have been reluctant to respond to such a plan, consequently nothing has been done to remedy this bad situation. Now something must be done at once and there appears no way out other than a bond issue with which to raise the neces sary money. The state is not going to step in and build our schools, even if some' idly think it will. This may be brought about within a few years from now, when enough counties send repre sentatives and senators down to Raleigh who will pass such a measure. The rich er counties, however, are not going to favor such a law. The Jackson County school board is now unable to even meet its current op erating expenses; it is operating with a huge deficit, an inherited condition at the time they came into office brought about by unbusiness-like methods in the past and also trying to operate on too small a budget, a condition which should not have been allowed to exist. It is high time that the people of Jack son County were aroused as to the true status of their school system and become informed of facts that bring about such conditions. Unless the citizens of Sylva and Jack son county wake up and get busy about our school situation, we are going to be, and that day seems to be at hand, in a pitiable plight. Our children's futures are at stake. First In Furniture Many North Carolinians think of their State's industry chiefly in terms of to bacco and textiles. But furniture manu facturing is no small enterprise in North Carolina. In fact, according to Seidman and Seidman, of New York, certified pub lic accountants for the industry, this State now leads the Nation in the manufacture , of furniture, taking over iho rank which _ until recently was held by New York. The postwar peak in furniture produc tion has not yet been reached, states Frank E. Seidman of the accountant firm, and 1948 may be even a better year than 1947 which saw the industry boom at a $1,500,000,000 annual rate. But he ap pends the warning that economic history reveals that furniture production, like the price of land, "is among the first to go down and the last to go up." In the Nation the industry now com prises 5,000 separate operating units, about eighty per cent of which employ less than fifty persons. Last year the total output a manufacturers' prices was twenty-seven per cent over 1946. While it has its risks and hazards, the INSIDE WASHINGTON | WASHINGTON ? The appointment of George V. Allen, a veteran career diplo-' mat who has worked tiext door to the So- \ viet Union in the Middle East, to handle j the "Voice of America" program has many State department employes wor-1 ried. f | They have been running the* "Voice" j their own way and, according so some reports, very satisfactorily. However, they fear that Allen may lop many of them off the payroll to make way for men who have worked in the area around the Iron Curtain and been subjected to Rus sian radio propaganda. Actually, Allen was put on the job pri marily on the chance he would put up a better argument for more funds for the "Voice" with Congress than his predeces sor, William Benton. However, Marshall wanted him also because he felt that a diplomat with a good background could do a more effec tive job in meeting what has been des cribed as Russian "lying"' about Ameri can motives in the Marshall Plan and in foreigh policy generally. NAVY DISAPPROVES?The Navy is burned up about the presidential aid pol icy commission recommendation that its! transport service be merged with the Air I Force's Air Transport Command. One high naval aviator said. "It would be all right if they would let us have an equal say about management. But they won't. Because the Air Force is bigger and has a better 'in' at certain places, we'll be sunk without a trace." He cited the commission's own report in defense of NATS. That document re veals that the Naval Air Transport Serv ice, with one-fourth of the airplane and one-fourth of the personnel of ATC, flies four-fifths the ton miles covered by ATC. WOODRING MAY GET JOB?The re-: cent departure of former Secretary of. War Harry Woodring for an extended tour of Europe has brought rumors that he may take an active part in the admin istration of the Marshall Plan. The former Kansas governor said he was making the journey as a "private citizen" just to "have a look around." However, he conceded that he would weigh conditions as he found them against proposals for aid as envisioned in the Marshall Plan. Additionally, Woodring said he would attempt to visit all European countries from Italy to Sweden, including excur sions to Trieste and Vienna, but would attempt to penetrate the "iron curtain" or enter Russian satellite countries. Washington recalled that it was Wood ring who appointed Geri. George C. Mar shall as Army chief-of-staff over the pro tests of the late President Roosevelt. In fact, Woodring was so certain that he1 had the right man for the right job that' at one point he threatened to resign his cabinet post unless FDR approved Mar shall's promotion. - TO GLAMORIZE DISHWASHING ? j The Agriculture department has tackled! perhaps its most difficult task. It hopes to convince the daughter of the American household that dishwashing is a privilege, I not a tiresome chore. i It has thrown its vast resources at the j problem as the result of a 4-H club poll which revealed that 11 girls out of 12 consider scrubbing the family china their1 most distasteful job. Agriculture is promoting such slogans i as "bend at the knees instead of the back'' j and "use a tray to save kitchen trips." It promises a report by spring on its glam orization performance. furniture industry, on the face of the sta tisics, appears to have a place for the small but efficiently operated unit. Many of the North Carolina plants are small, although some of the largest and most successful plants in the Nation are locat ed in High Point and other North Caro lina towns and cities. Our presently thriving furniture indus try has grown out of the foresight, initia tive and enterprise of Norths Carolina citizens largely and the conditions and resources favorable to woodworking plants which exist in the State. Its growth and prosperity in the future depends to a very great degree upon the wise hand ling, development and proper exploita tion of our forestry resources which feed the furniture and other wood-working plants of the commonwealth.?Winston Salem Journal. "HIGHEST OFFICE IN THE I AND The Everyday Counsellor 3y REV. HERBERT SPAUGH, D. D. Do you take your worries and problems to bed with you at night: II you do, you have a bad habit. The purpose oi a bed is for rest and sleep. It is not a device to enable you to go over the day's worries and pro blems, plan to morrow's work, i n a reclining posture. Eugene R . Smith, Mecklenburg county (N.C.) school principal, took his troubles to bed with him one night and re gretted it beiore he got out of bed the next morning. The Charlotte Observer (N.C.) reports that one of Principal Smith s bus drivers backed a school bus into eight-year-old Billy Brown, seriously injuring him. Ac cording to the news story, ''all day Thursday and Friday the matter worried Mr. Smith. Friday night he had worked himself into such a state that he had a nightmare. He dreamed he saw the little boy just behind-the bus and made-a mighty heave to get him and drag him to safety. The mighty heave carried Mr. Smith right out of bed into the dresser across the room. He awoke with a tearing pain in his shoulder. A visit to a hospital X ray machine showed he had a brok en shoulder bone . . . yesterday both victims of the bus accident were doing well." | Not all of us throw ourselves out of bed, wrestling with the pro blems which we took in with us, but many of us do a bad job at sleeping. Under such circumstan ces, restlessness provokes many things. Some get up, pace the floor, smoke, read a book, or go to the i efrigerator and get something to | eat. Others lie there and think what j a terrible thing it is not to be able to sleep. And the net result is more sleeplessness. Recruiting Officer Announces Vacancies In Army And Air Force T-Sgt. David R. Calhoun, Frank lin Sub-Station of the United | States Army and United States Air Force Recruiting Service announc ed today that he has received an allotment of vacancies to be filled in many different Air Force Bases throughout the United States. The vacancies, which are for former servicemen only, call for many dif i Ierent military occupational speci alties and for all different grades. The bases at which assignments are open are: Marshall Air Force Base, Kansas; Lawson Air Force I Base, Georgia; Turner Air Force Base, Georgia; Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina; Bergstrom Air Force Base, Texas; Langley [Air Force Base, Virginia, Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina; and Greenville Air Force Base, South Carolina. Former servicemen, who are in terested in enlisting in the Air Force and obtaining one of these assignments, should contact the local recruiting sub-station or any recruiting sergeant for full infor mation. Kudzu can be used for grazing hogs as well as dairy and beef ani mals. As a feed it ranks along with alfalfa. No matter how hard the day has been, no matter how many pro blems we face, how many we'll have to face tomorrow, it is sheer folly to take all these to bed with us. They are poor bedfellows. This is one of the contributing factors to tension and nervousness. Almighty God so created man kind that about a third of his time is required to be spent in rest and sleep. Rest restores the body and mind, puts it into condition for the next day. Those who strain and ever use their bodies and minds usually end up in a hospital where they spend days and weeks in bed. Lack of rest and sleep is one of the contributing factors to many modern ailments. Any physician will tell you that. If you can't sleep at night, you had better do some thing more about it than take sleeping pills. Try the Bedside Shelf, If you want to know more about this, write the Everday Counselor, in care of the newspa per in which you read this, enclos ing a self-addressed, stamped en velope, and the Bedside Shelf method will be sent to you. Agricultural Conservation Program tf Jackson CumMty Urges Use ?i Limestone Applying, limestone to farm land is one of tber flour practices that has been selected from the State Hand Book to apply to Jackson County in 1948'. The credit rate for applying limestone to farm land is 32.70 per ton for bulk lime de- j livered to the farm. The farmers part to pay at the time he places the order with the County Office is $1.95 per ton. The County PMA Committee has made arrangements this year for these farmers that prefer bag j lime. They can now get it through j this office by paying $1.95 per ton at the time they place their order and they will get the same' credit rate of $2.70 per ton as the | bulk lime. The bag lime would, be in 100 pound paper bags and it j would be necessary for the farmer i to haul the lime from a warehouse ! I here in Sylva to his farm. The County Committee feels that there is still a lot of farm land and pastures that need to be limed in Jackson County and they are i hoping the farmers who need lime will be sure and show their inten tions of using lime on their 1948 Farm Plan and come to the County Office and place their order for Jacks** Men Enlist In Amy And Air Force The iolioirtnfe Jackson county young men have enlisted, through the Franklin recruiting station, in the U. S. Army and U. S. Air Force, according to a release from that office: Dock H. Turpin, Sylya, U. S. Air Force; James E. GUffey, Sylva, Ilth Air Borne Division; Elarvey C. POw?ll, Sylva, 13th TC Car Co., Fort Bragg. same. We are now ready to take orders for limestone, either the bulk lime or the bag lime. WOODMEN OF THE~! WORLD j I Life Insurance Society I i I i I Fraternity Protection Service BRITTON M. MOORE Sylva Representative Svlva, H. C. r MARKETING it li Ms Meatless meals needn't be treatless meals! Because it's easy to ~ive old Lenten standbys "the new look." All you need is a nock of ideas like the ones I'm going to pass on to you today, and a stock of fine foods from your thrifty A&PV ALLURE-RING FOR LENT Want mighty contentin* Lenten eating for 4? Sift 1*4 cups flour; measure and sift again with 2 tsps. baking powder and % tap. salt. Add % cup cubed MEL-O BIT AMERICAN CHEESE from the A&P, and blend. Combine 1 well-beaten egg, % cup milk and 1 tbsp. melted shortening. Add to dry ingredi ents, stirring till all flour is moist. Bake in greased qt. ring mold in hot oven, 425?F., 25 minutes, or till done. Fill with creamed vege tables. Serve at once. BUN DAY BEST For the tastiest treat in a month of bun davs, serve piping hot JANE PARKER HOT CROSS BUNS! They're delivered to your A&P fresh daily all during Lent, which is one reason they're the hit of the season. There are many others, too ... as you'll discover when you taste these fluffy, fruit filled buns with their creamy icing crosses. Try them soon! TONY MACARONI To make a Yankee Doodle Dandy dish that'll be a feather in your cap, cook 1 cup A&P's ANN" PAGE ELBOW MACARONI ac cording to pkg. directions. Drain. Put % macaroni in greased cas serole; add lVfc cups flaked salmon and 1 cup medium white aaucc. Add remaining macaroni and another cup of white sauce. Sprinkle with H cup grated cheese, ar.d bake in moderate oven, 375?F., about Via hr. Serves 4. SPIRIT OF '76 SALAD When can't you beat a drum? > When it's a Washington's Birth- j day salad made like this: To % lb. of cream cheese, add 2 tbsps. of I A&P's ANN PAGE GARDEN i RELISH, and , , beat till smooth. For each salad, ^ ,.3^^ spread mixture about 1 inch thick between 2 tomato, slices,and arrange strips of green pepper diagonally across filling. Serve with ? c^s?ed' drumsticks made of pieces of celery topped with stuffed olives. Serves 6. cizr Meet the new standard of Big-Car beauty! It's here, in Chevrolet's Bodies by Fisher?finest bodies mode?available only on Chevrolet arxJ higher-priced cars. You'll find Chevrolet rides more smoothly on all types of roads due to the famous Knee-Action Ride; and, You'll enjoy H+g^Car performance, too, when you own a Chevrolet; for It brings you Valve-in-Head engine performance, found elsewhere only in more expensive cars. Keep your present car in good running condition by bringing it to ?fs for skilled service, now and at of course, Knee-Action is found only regular intervals, pending delivery on Chevrolet and costlier cars. of your new Chevrolet. Men and women everywhere agree: Only one is No. 1?only Chevrolet is first?in all-round value as in popu larity. Consequently, more people drive Chevrolets than any other make, according to official nationwide regis trations; and more people want Chev rolets than any other make, according to seven independent nationwide surveys. Here, in the new 1948 Chev rolet, is record value. For new and even more luxurious styling, colors and appointments have been added to all of Chevrolet's other advantages of BIG-CAR QUALITY AT LOWEST COST1 / CHEVROLET /k CHEVROLETIS FIRST! Kirk-Davis Chevrolet Co., Inc. PHONE 57 SYLVA. N. C.

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