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
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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
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Life Insurance Society
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Fraternity Protection
Service
BRITTON M. MOORE
Sylva Representative
Svlva, H. C.
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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.
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You'll enjoy H+g^Car performance,
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It brings you Valve-in-Head engine
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PHONE 57
SYLVA. N. C.