AMERICA
First, Last and
Always
'VOL. XXII, NO. 40
The Sylva Herald
? Sylva, N. C. Thursday, March 4, 1948
The Herald is dedicated to
progressive service to Jack*
son ... A progressive, well
balanced county.
Jackson 4-H
Club Observing
National Week
Annual Affair For
Girls And Boys
Gets Underway
National 4-H Club Week will be
observed throughout the nation on
March l-7th, with "Creating Bet
ter Homes Today for a More Res
ponsible Citizenship Tomorrow,"
as the theme.
The surest way of creating bet
ter homes and a more responsible
citizenship is through a program
which has as one of its objectives
the training of rural youth to learn
by doing and this in turn helps
them to accomplish the 4-H Mot
to, "To Make the Best Better."
National" 4-H Club Week is set
aside throughout the nation to
place emphasis on strengthening
and expanding 4-H Club work. Jt
brings to the attention of the par
ents, the civic leaders and the gen
eral public more about 4-H Club
twork and its objectives. It is also
an inventory week when young
people review their 4-H club ac
tivities and see how they can be
improved.
? The purpose of the 4-H Club is
to teach rural boys and girls from
10 to 21 years of age the better ag
ricultural and homemaking prac
tices and the finer and more sig
nificant things in rural living.
Bural people make up the bulk of
the population in Jackson County
and North Carolina, so a program
that touches this big and vijal part
of our life is of vast importance to
all of us. 4-H Club work develops
rural leadership, community pride
and spirit. It builds young men and
women who know how to conduct
meetings, organize community pro
jects and who know how to judge
crops, livestock and products on
the farm, also helps the members
to appreciate home responsibilities
and enable tto to- better
homemakers.
The 4-H Club had its origin in
this State more than a quarter of
a century ago. It grew from a
small corn club, organized by a
group of rural boys into the largest
youth organization in the world.
In North Carolina, we have reach
ed a new high in 4-H with an en
rollment of 106,131 members and
in Jackson County last month we
had the following number of 4-H
Club members present at the joint
monthly meetings: 311 boys ? 440
girls, and in addition to this a few
members were absent. This or
ganizational enterprise is building
for a finer and greater North Caro
lina. It is training the heads ? the
hearts ? and the hands of tomor
row's citizens and is giving these
future leaders better health.
JUDGE WEBB RETIRES
AFTER 28 YEARS ON
FEDERAL COURT SEAT
After 48 years in public life, 28
of them as Judge of the Western
District of North Carolina, Judge
Edwin Yates Webb, of Shelby re
tired Monday, March 1. Judge
Webb mailed notice of his retire
ment to President Truman from
his home in Shelby last week.
His letter to the President reads
as follows:
"Dear Mr. President:
I have been a United States Dis
trict Court Judge for the Western
District of North Carolina for
more than 28 years. I am now
more than seventy years of age;
and this is to inform you that, ef
fective nfext Monday, March 1, I
am taking retirement as provided
for in Section 375, Title 28, U. S.
C. A."
Under the retirement act, the
federal judge can be relieved of
his duties by an additional judge.
Such an additional judge for this
district is expected to be named
by March 15 with Judge Webb con
tinuing to hold^ourt as he chooses,
maintaining his chambers at Shel
by, and being entitled to sit on the
Circuit Court of Appeals as in the
nast.
Judge Webb was appointed to
the Federal bench by President
Woodro^ Wilson in 1919 and since
that time has not missed more than
15 days from his legal duties.
PRINCIPALS IN MEAD DIVISION CHANGES
Paul C. Ellis, left, and J. Ramsey Buchanan, Division General
Managers of The Mead Corporation plants here and at Harriman, Tenn.,
are principals in management changes being made in the Corporation
plants.
Mr. Buchanan. General Manager oi the Harriman plant since 1929,
arrived in Sylva the first of this week for two weeks' observation of
the plant here after which he will return to Harriman. On April V
Mr. Buchanan will return to Sylva to assume his duties as general
manager of the local plant.
Mr. Ellis, who has been General Manager of the Sylva Division
for ten years or more, will leave shortly after April 1 for Lynchburg,
Va., to become head of the Corporation's plant in that city. Mr. and
j Mrs. Ellis and their two children, Peggy and Tony, will move to Lynch
I burg to make their home. Mr. and Mrs. Buchanan, both natives of
| Sylva, have two married daughters and a son, Ramsey, Jr., who will
| finish high school this spring. They will make their home in Sylva
after April 1.
ASHE ON VETERANS'
RE-EMPLOYMENT
RIGHTS COMMITTEE
Richard S. Hulme and David E.
Sigmon, Assistant State Service
Officers, and T. W. Ashe, Local
Service Officer (Acting), have
been named Veterans' Reemploy
ment Rights Committeemen for
Jackson County, according to an
announcement made today by Hugh
W. Bradley, Field Representative,
VRRD, United States Department
of Labor. Certificates of Appoint
i ment have been issued to these
I Committeemen and they are now
prepared to aid veterans in obtain
ing reemployment and seniority
rights to which they are entitled
under the Selective Service Act.
.These Committeemen will serve
voluntarily in giving advice and
assistance to veterans who feel
that they have reemployment prob
lems involving restoration in their
old jobs or seniority and accrued
benefits on the job and to those
who have been laid off or dis
charged without cause before com
pleting one year of employment
to which they are entitled.
"Every effort will be made to
adjust all cases amicably," Mr.
Bradley said. "This is in keeping
with the policy declared by Sec
retary of Labor Schwellenbach and
Robert K. Salyers, Director of the
Department's Veterans' Reem
ployment Rights Division. Litiga
tion will be resorted to only when
there appears to be a violation of
the veteran's rights which cannot
be resolved otherwise. It is be
lieved, however, that such cases
will be rare."
Dillsboro People Plan
Sunrise Service At
Parris Cemetery Easter
Easter Sunrise services will be
held at 5:33 o'clock Sunday morn
ing, March 28 at the Parris ceme
tery at Dillsboro, with elaborate
ceremonies planned. The Rev. W.
N. Cook will conduct the service,
assisted by Rev. C. H. Green and I
Rev. Elmer Green. A group of sing
ers from West Canton Baptist
church and a number of other sing- I
ers will be on hand. A beautiful!
and impressive program has been
arranged. Arrangements have been
made with local florists for a sup
ply of wreaths and other flowers
to place on each of the lots. All
persons having relatives and
friends buried in this cemetery
are requested to contact Mrs. P.
W. Kincaid, phone 247W and as
sist with the decorations of the
graves. The public is extended a
cordial invitation to attend the
program. ^
? The mayor anCt aldermen of the
town of Dillsboro are trustees of
this beautiful little cemetery. Mr. J
C. A. Snyder and Mrs. P. W. Kin
caid are in charge of the up-keep '
and beautification. Under their di
rection this cemetery has become
one of the neatest and well kept1
of any in Jackson county.
John E. Henson Will
Make Race For Clerk
John E. Henson, acting Clerk of
Court for Jackson County, an
nounced this week that he will
seek the Democratic nomination
for the two year unexpired term
of former Roy Cowan, who died in
December 1946. Mr. Henson was
appointed by Judge Felix E. Alley
on the 28th of Jafmary7T947 to
fill the vacancy left after Mr. Dan
Cowan, brother of Mr. Roy Cowan,
resigned after serving for a few
weeks.
Mr. Henson is the son of Mrs.
Henson and the late W. L. Henson.
He was educated in the Sylva
schools and the University of
North Carolina. He is a former
chairman of the Board of Elections,
active in party circles and civic af
fairs.
Home Demonstration
Club Meets
The Cashiers Home Demonstra
tion Club held its regular meeting
Feb. 24 at the home of Mrs. Selma
Bryson.
Mrs. Sam Bryson, club president,
presided, and the club collect
was given.
In the absence of a Home Agent
and a program, the club had a
display and study of hand work
made this past winter by the va
rious club members, along^ with
a social hour. Selma Bryson, hos
tess for the afternoon, served a
sweet course.
The club will meet March 23
at the home of Mrs. Loui Allen.
Revival Services At
Glenville Church
Revival services will begin Mon
day evening, March 8, at the Glen
ville Wesleyan Methodist churcn
and continue until March 21. Serv
ices will be at 7 o'clock each eve
ning. Rev. W. E. Bowie, pastor of
the Brevard Wesleyan Methodist
church, will be the evangelist.
Everyone is cordially invited to
attend these services.
FUNERAL SERVICES
FOR BAXTER C. JONES
HELD IN BRYSON CITY!
Native of Jackson County,
Died of Heart Attack At
His Home Friday P. M.
Bryson City, $peciaj ? Baxter
Columbus Jones, 62, solicitor of ,
the 20th judicial district and form- j
er state senator, died o: 'a heart
attack at 3 o'clock Friday after- |
noon at his home here. He was |
stricken at 12 o'clock. !
I
Mr. Jones, long a prominent
member of the Swain County bar. J
had served at only one court term
s.nce being named recently to the '
; post of solicitor. That was in his
native Jackson County. He re- j
linguished the post oi 33rd dis
1 trict senator at the time he wa?
made solicitor.
He succeeded Dan K. Moore?oi'
Sylva as solicitor when the latter
i was named superior court judge
to take the place of Judge Felix
E. Alley of Waynesville.
1 "Xn outstanding Western North
: Carolina dry leader, Mr. Jones had
j represented both Swain County and
j Jackson County in the lower house
of the general assembly.
He was active in the affairs of
the Bryson City Baptist church,
the American Legion, the Masonic
Order and other organizations.
Mr. Jones was born in Jackson
County Aug. 6,' 1887. He was grad
uated from Western Carolina
Teachers college in 1914, and at
tended the State university in 1919.
He was in the armed forces in
World War I.
He served three terms as rep
resentative in the general assem
bly ? one from Jackson County,
1915, and two from Swain Coun
ty, 1935 and 1937. He represented
the 33rd senatorial district in the
1947 assembly.
He has been Swain County at
torney 16 years, a member of the
State Hospitals Board of Control
since 1945 and chairman of the
Swain Board of Public Welfare
since 1937.
Funeral services were held in
the Baptist church, with the Rev.
] S. L. Lamm, pastor, and the Rev.
| W. Herbert Brown officiating. The
j body had lain in state in the church
i from 6 to 3 o'clock.
Masonic services were held at
the graveside in the Bryson City
cemetery, with John L. Ocjr_and
Warren L. Lathan of Oconee Lodge
,No. 427 in charge.
! Surviving are the widow, Mrs.
Emma May DeHart Jones; one
step-daughter, Mrs. Gladys DeHart
! Leonard, of Bryson City; two
grandchildren, Baxter and James
Leonard, twins; two sisters, Mrs.
| Andy Reed of Franklin, and Mrs.
Frank Tatham of Gay, Jackson
County; four brothers, Ellis C.
Jones, prominent Asheville attor
ney, George of Lorris, S. C., Lon
nie of Portsmouth, Va., and Jay C.
of Gay.
Laundry Workers
Remain On Strike
The employees of the ^Sylva
Laundry and Dry Cleaning plant
here, who went out on strike Mon
day, February 23, are still out,
according to an nnn< uncement from
Laundry officials Wednesday. No
immediate settlement ol' the dis
pute is in sigh;, it was stated.
Dills Announces
Red Cross Fund
Workers To Head
Drive In Jackson
National Drive Made Each
March: Seek To Raise
Sum for Disasters, Relief
The month of March is designat
ed for 1948 RED CROSS FUND
DRIVE and the following people
have been named as leaders in
their respective communities. Each
community leader may appoint as
many helpers as they wish to car
ry on a successful campaign. It
is urged that organizations for the
different communities be complet
ed at once so tne campaign may be
closed. Quotas for communities
have been reduced this year. The
Red Cross needs funds to carry
on the relief work caused by dis
asters over our nation and to help
our service men in the armed
forces and in hopsitals in the many
veteran facilities in the United
in the armed forces of the Nation.
Make it a point to respond free
States. We still have 2,000,000 men
ly to this cause when your com
munity worker gives you the op
portunity.
The names of leaders for the dif
ferent communities are given be
low. We are using school district
for units, and in most cases the
heads of the schools are appointed
leaders for the school unit.
Sylva High School, W. H. Craw
ford; Sylva Elementary School, W.
V. Cope; Barmers Creek, Mrs.
Lucy Brown and Ralph Ward;
Beta, Mrs. Gertie Moss; Addie, W.
G. Dillard; Willets, Mrs. Jimmie
Sutton; Balsam, A. C. Dillard; Wil
mot, Mrs. Irene R. Clayton; Qual
la, Mrs. Jessie Cordell.
WCTC, Keitn Hinds; Cullowhee,
C. A. Hoyle; ^Vhite Hock, Lewis J.
Smith; Tuckaseigce, Mrs. Fannre
M. Brown; Johns Creek, T. F. Mid
dleton; Sols Creek, Mrs. Oma Shel
ton; Wolf Creek. Mrs. Pearl Hig
don; Tennessee Gcjp, Mrs. Olivia
Galloway; Rock Bridge, Mrs. Clara
B. Webb; Glenville High School and
Elementary School, F. I. Watson
and David Pruett.
Double Springs, Mrs. Maggie P.
Moore; Cashiers, Buren Fowler;
Webster, M. B. Madison; Dillsboro,
Mrs. Lilliam J. Madison and W.
C. Queen; Savannah, John T. Jones;
Colored Consolidated School, J.
William Wade.
DRAWING OF NEW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Above is tiie architects drawing of the Sylva Presbyterian church
4..- it will appear when completed. The members of the congregation
plan to start construction work on the building about March 15. All
| the onck for the building and much of the other materials have been
ordered. Breaking of the ground for the foundation will be marked
: with special ceremonies. The church will be located on a lot recently
' purchased in the City park area of town.
Davidson College Chorus To
Present Concert At Cullowhee
The Davidson College Male*
Chorus will present a concert in
Hoey auditorium at Western Car
olina Teachers college Tuesday
night, March 9, at 8 o'clock. The
concert, sponsored by the lyceum
committee of WCTC, will be the
chorus' last in a tour which will
have taken it through Florida,
Georgia, and SoutK Carolina.
The chorus will be directed by'
Earl F. Berg. Buford Goodman,
Kannapolis, will be accompanist.
The group has broadcast over
a nation-wide CBS hook-up from
New York, Richmond, and Phila
delphia, and for several years was
featured on a series of broadcasts
over the Dixie network of the Co
lumbia Broadcasting system.
Composed of 50 voices, all but
one of whom live south of the Ma
son-Dixon line, the group is rated
as one of the finest male choruses
in the South. It has grown, under
the leadership of Mj\ Berg, James
Christian Pfohl, Director.of music,
and former Director Thane Mc
Donald, from an amateur octette
more than 50 years ago to its pres
ent stature.
Mr. Berg, who, in addition to
directing the chorus, serves as an i
instructor in general music at Da
vidson, was graduated from Con
cordia college in Moorhead, Minn.,
and has studied at the McPhail
conservatory in Minneapolis. He
has also studied extensively in New
'York, including five years under
j Helen Steele and 18 months at the
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Cullowhee Pastor To
Attend Confcrcncc
The Rev. and Mrs. M. R. Os
borne, Jr., of Cullowhee will leave
Monday morning, March 8, for
Louisville, Ky., where they are to
attend the Pastors' Spring Confer
ence which is sponsored each year
by a special foundation contribut
ed to the Southern Baptist Theo
logical Seminary located in that
city. The conference again this
year provides a program of
eminent speakers from the religi
ous and academic world and is
expected to draw a large number
of ministers from the south-east
ern phase of the Southern Baptist
convention.
In addition to their b;iby daugh
ter, Betsy, the Osboin.es will be
accompanied by thp Rev. S. L
Lamn of the First Baptist Church
at Bryson City. They will return
in the latter part of the week.
COUNTY RABIES
INSPECTORS TO
BE SELECTED
By C. B. Thomas,
District Sanitarian
All persons interested in being
appointed as official rabies in
spectors are invited to attend a
meeting in the court room of the
Jackson County Courthouse, Sat
urday, March 13, at ten A. M.
A general discussion will be
held on proper vaccination pro
cedure. and the laws applying to
inoculation.
The law pertaining to rabies .in
oculation of all dogs states that
the time of vaccination " shall
begin annually on April first and
shall be completed within ninety
(90) day? frcr. the date of begin
I ning the vacciiua.i r. in the several
counties."
I
| Provision is also made for the
\ IviUmg pf - stray dogs, dogs not
1 wearing official metal tags and
the confinement of suspected dogs.
After appointments are made a
list of the inspectors will be pub
lished for the convience of dog
owners.
Miss Runyans Is Winner of
Cullowhee Baptist Award
Miss Nellie Runyans of Shelby;
a Senior at Western Carolina
Teachers College and a four-year
member of the Choir, was award
ed the Cullowhee Baptist Choir
Award for 1947-1948 following the
rehearsal last Friday evening.
The Choir Award, a beautiful
gold choir pin with chain and safe
ty guard, was given by Dr. and
Mrs. H. P. Smith, the Director
and Organist of the Choir. It was
presented to Miss Runyans by Miss
Kathleen Moss, Vice-President of
the Choir.
Miss Runyans is an outstanding
member of the Choir. During the
four years she has been affiliated
with the Choir, she sang in more
than two hundred church services,
Sunday school, and Baptist Train
ing Union services, concerts and
rehearsals. Her college and church
activities may be summarized as
follows: a member of the College
Chorus, the International Relations
Club, Home Economics Club, Bap
| list Student Council, President
of the Y. W. AM President of The
Cullowhee Baptist Choir, and As
sistant to the Director, 1946-1947,
I 1947-1948.
j In addition to the Cnoir Award,
Miss Runyans was presented a
Bible, and a fi:ty dollar scholar
, ship by the Choir and some friends.
I She has maintained a high stan
t dai d of excellence, and has been
a most faithful and loyal mem
I ber of the Choir.
Miss Runyans will be featured
| in a vocal duet with a member of
the Choir in concert at Cullowhee
this Spring. That will be her final
J concert appearance with the Cullo
whee Baptist Choir.
Glenville Pastor Resigns
Rev., J. H. Hadaway, pastor of
the Glenville Baptist church, has
tendered his resignation to become
effective the last Sunday of July,
1948. Rev. Mr. Hadaway has
served this work a little more than
two years.
! Drive For Fire
| Prevention
i Launched Here
Sixth Annual Drive
Started Monday
For North Carolina
The sixth annual Cooperative
Forest Fire Prevention Campaign
was launched Monday in North
Carolina by State Forester W. K.
Beichler, as part of the nation
wide campaign being announced
simultaneously in 11 southern
states.
Prepared by the Advertising
I Council, Inc., in cooperation with
; the State Foresters and the U. S.
Forest Service, the campaign will
; use posters, window cards, booK
j marks, blotters, radio programs,
j sponsored ads, pamphlets, and
i other material in an educational
[relfnrt to reduce forest fire losses.
The familiar "Smoky Bear" will
afojear again on this year's post
ers, to warn that "Only you can
prevent woods fires." In a rev
erent pose on his knees, with ani
m.il.s of the forest gathered around,
Smokey voices the keynote of this
year's campaign in hfs prayer ". . .
find please m;ike people careful,
amen."
Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and
Jack Benny, have also joined up
in this year's campaign, and will
appear in cartoon sketches to drive
home a few simple facts of the
forestry situation ? that the job
is urgent, that nine out of ten woods
fires are caused by people, and
that the prevention oF such fires
is a job for each of us, now.
State Forester Beichler said that
the opening of the campaign is
timed to hit the early spring fire
season. He said that last year the
stffte had 2,668 woods fires, which
burned 166,745 acres, and caused
an estimated $248,420 damage. He
credited last year's campaign with
preventing even greater losses. He
said this year's dri"?? v/ould be a
vigorous effort to build a senti
ment among the people that would
ultimately eliminate most man
caused fires from our woodlands,
and to prevent a possible fire dis
aster such as Maine had last year.
Mr. Beichler said that effective
ness of the campaign would depend
upon the cooperation of indivi
duals, business firms, and other
agencies in giving wide distribu
tion to the fire prevention mes
sages.. Last year valuable assist
ance was given by the Extension
Service, American Red Cross, city
and county governments, public
schools, Boy and Girl Scouts, clubs,
radio stations, . newspapers, mer
chants, and many others, he said.
This year, State Forester Beich
ler is calling upon every citizen
and agency in the State of North
Carolina to assume their respon
sibility and to offer their services
where possible. Many will be call
ed upon directly for assistance.
Others wishing to help should write
to the State Forester.
FFA AND VETERANS
PREPARING TO SET
2500 APPLE GRAFTS
Twenty-five hundred apple grafts
are now being made by the stu
dents of the Future Farmers of
America class and the veteran
farm trainees of the Sylva school
according to an announcement of
John H. Corbin, head of vocation
al t.-aining of the Sylva high school
and director of Vetefran farm
training in this area.
The FFA boys and the veterans
have gone to Haywood and other
apple growing sections and brought
back a large supply of Scion wood,
limb cutting from healthy apple
trees of the variety of apples want
ed. This scion wood is being graft
ed on to stock, roots of crab apple,
i brought frona Wisconsin, in pre
paration for setting for young ap
ple trees to be transplanted at the
proper time to permanent orchards.
! Mr. Corbin stated that the 2500
grafts will set some 50 acres or
more in trees.
I Ralph Shular of the Willets com
munity, has prepared over 200
grafts to use on his farm. Others
are preparing 150 to 200 and more
each for their farms.
j The method ' of grafting, Mr.
| Corbin stated, is the same as the
. big commercial nurseries use.
j tOSSAMON'S
In Sylva