AMERICA
First, Last and
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VOL. XXIL, NO. 49
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The Sylva Herald
Sylva, N. C. Thursday, May 6, 1948
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Two Patrplmen Die In Plane Crash At Andrews Port
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Commencement Program For Sylva High Announced
Activities To Begin Sunday
Witt Baccalaurate Sermon
By Rev. W. H. Wakefield
Commencement Program4
Tuesday Afternoon In j
Ritz Theatre Building
W. H. Crawford, principal of
Sylva high school, has announced
that final plans for the commence
ment exercises have been com
pleted and everything in readiness
for the opening program on Sun
day afternoon at 2:30 o'clock when
the annual baccalaureate sermon
will be preached from the Sylva
Baptist church, with the Rev. W.
H. Wakefield, pastor of the Pres
byterian church, delivering the
message.
The service will start with the
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FUNERAL RITES FOR
MRS. WALT REID
Mrs. Wait Reid, 68, wife of Wait
Reid, died at her home a* Sap
phire Standay, April 25, at 4:50 p.
m., after a long illness.
Surviving are her husband, one
daughter, Mrs. H. A. Pell, Jr., of
Cashiers, two sons, Charlie, of Bre
vard, and T. W. at home, two sis
ters, Mrs. Sallie Moore of Franklin,
and Mrs. Ida Ashe of Sedro Wool
ley, Wash., and one brother, Jack
Stewart, of Norton.
Funeral services were held-Tues
day afternoon at 2 o'clock, at the
Lake Toxaway Baptist church. In
terment was in the Reid Cemetery
at Oakland.
Flower girls were: Verna Lee
Smith, Sue Geesen, Lessie Ann
Reid, Margaret Reid, Junetta Pell,
Willine Fugate, Mrs. Gene Bryson,
Mrs. Brad Pell, Mrs. Earl Crunkle
ton and Mrs. Victor Sigmon.
Pallbearers were: C. F. Reid,
Carlos Reicf, Harold Reid, Jack
Geesen and Frank Smith.
Mrs. Reitf joined the Yellow
Mountain Baptist church Sept. 1,
1896. In young womanhood she
was active in church work, but
in her later years she was unable to
attend church services, due to ill
ness. ' She listened daily to the
sermons on the radio.
She enjoyed the company of her
many friends, and especially en
joyed little children. She was
known to them as "Aunt Etta."
She is our great loss but heaven's
gain.
BEACHAM ANNOUNCE
PROMOTIONS AMONG
BAND STUDENTS
N. R. Beackam has announced
two musical programs to be given
socn lor the purpose of raising
funds for Sylva band. The first
will be at Q p.m. May 8th in Hoey
Auditorium at WCTC and the sec
ond at 3:00 p.m. May 14 in Ritz
theatre building.
The following people have been
promoted in the Sylva School
band: Caroline Moore to S/sgt.,
Tom Mcrris to S/sgt., Edith Moore
to S/sgt., Neill Wilson 2nd Lt., Pat
Montague to Top/sgt., Leah Sut
ton to sgt. Betty Hurst to Sgt. of
Drum majorettes.
The band plans a carnival near
the 4th of July and again near
Labor pay to raise funds so that
the public need never be bothered
for funds again unless an emer
ge icy arises. The band will alsc
s Dnsor certain parties and con
t is and trips for the same pur
1 io. A vaudeville act is being pre
1 red for the same purpose to play
in various tneatres in this area
ck ring the summer.
8O8SAMOtt'S . In 8ylva
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WGTC PLAYERS TO
PRESENT PLAY 19TH
Cullowhee ? "Chicken Every
Sunday" will be presented by the
Western Carolina Players Wednes
day, May 19, at 8:30 p.m. in the
Western Carolina Teachers college
auditorium.
The play is built around life in
a boarding house in Arizona; the
characters are a typical group of
boarders.* It is based on the novel
of the same name, by Rosemary
Taylor, and was dramatized by
Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein. It
was first produced in the Henry
Miller theater in New York in 1946.
The novel was a best-seller in 1943.
Maxie Wright, Highlands, is
starred as Mrs. Emily Blachman,
the proprietor of the boarding
house. Doug Davis, Mars Hill, plays
opposite her as Jim Blachman, her
husband.
The story deals with the efforts
of Mrs. Blachman to make a liv
ing with her boarding house so
her family can eat while her hus
band wildly speculates in street
car lines, laundries, banks, and
arroyos. Humor is provided by the
interplay of extreme character
types. i
WOW To Place Plaque
At Birthplace Of
Late Joseph Cannon
!'*yn ? -Trying
Speaker Joseph W. Martin of
the House of Representatives will
pay tribute to the late Joseph G.
Cannon, former Speaker, when a
granite boulder with a bronze
memorial plaque is dedicated near
Cannon's birthplace on the Guil
ford College campus, Sunday af
ternoon, May 16.
Speaker Martin will come to
Greensboro by plane Saturday af
ternoon and return to Washing
ton late Sunday night.
The memorial plaque has been
placed by Greensboro Camp No,
26, Woodmen of the World. It will
oe presented for about a thousand
VVocdmen of Guilford county by
?arrar Newberry, president of the
Woodmen Society, of Omaha, Ne
braska and accepted by Dr. Clyde
A. Milner, president of Guilford
College, on behalf of the college,
the New Garden Monthly Meeting,
and the community.
Miss Mary Slizabeth Cannon will
unveil thefmemorial and Congress
man Carl T. Durham, Sixth Dis
trict, will introduce Speaker Mar
tin. The Guilford College a cap
pella choir directed by Dr. E. H. F.
Weis will sing, and the Uniform
Rcrk company of Camp No. 302,
K.nnapolis, will perform the
Woodmen dedicatory rites.
Robert B. Dixon, consul com
Ti'trder of Greensbcro Camp No.
26, is chairman of the reception
committee and Melvin T. Oakes,
of /ne committee of arrangements
fo." the event. Marshall P. Vaughn,
adviser lieutenant of the Greens
boro Canrp, and J. B. Collins, its
financial secretary, also will take
p;.f>in the program.
PRINCIPALS FOR
JACKSONiCHOOLS
ANNOUNCED TODAY
The office of the Board of Edu
cation for Jackson county has re
leased the names of principals for
Jackson county public schools for
the school year 1948-49 as follows:
District No. 1?Sylva high school^
Ralph L. Smith, of Hayesville.
Sylva elementary school, W. V.
Cope. Barkers Creek, Wm. H.
Crawford. Beta, Mrs. Gertie Moss.
Addie, W. G. Dillard. Willets, Mrs.
Jimm e Sutton. Balsam, A. C. Dil
lard.
District No. 2 ? Wilmot, Mrs.
Irene Raby Clayton. Qualla, Mrs.
Lois E. Martin.
District No. "3?Cullowhee, C. A.
Hoyle.. Tuckaseigee, Mrs. Fannie
M. Brown. John's Creek, R. O.
Higdon.
District 5. Glenville, F. I. Wat
son. Cashiers, Buren Terrell.
District No. 6 ? Webster, M. B.
Madison. Savannah, A. H. Bryson.
Colored consolidated, J. Wm.
Wade.
SYDNEY FERGUSON IS
NAMED CHAIRMAN OF
MEAD CORP. BOARD
George H. Mead Retires,
Other Officials Promoted
At Recent Board Meeting
J. Hamsey Buchanan, general i
manager of the Sylv.a Division of
Mead Corporation has been advis
ed of recent changes and promo
tions of top officials of the corpora
tion as follows: George H. Mead
of Dayton, Ohio, has retired as
chairman of the board and was
elected to the newly created office
of honorary chairman at the an
nual meeting of the directors. His
action Was in line with the long
standing policy of the corporation
which specifies 70 years as the age
cf retirement from active partici-i
pation in corporation affairs. Mr.
Mead will continue in an advisory
capacity in the affairs of the com
pany as chairman of the executive
committee.
FERGUSON NEW CHAIRMAN
Sydney Ferguson of New York,
former .president, was named
chairman of the board in Mr.
Mead's place. C. R. Van de Carr,
Jr. former executive vice presi
dent was named president, J. O.
Mason, former operating vice pres
ident, was promoted to executive
vice president, and H. E. Whitak
er to operating vice president.
Other changes in the official
personnel were the election of Al.
H. Mahrt, former treasurer, as a
vice president, and naming George
Robinson as treasurer.
Local Doctors Attend
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State Meeting
Dr. R. W. Kirchberg of Sylva,
and Dr. H. L. Bacon of Bryson
City left Sunday for Pinehursti
where they are attending the N.'
C. State Medical Society annual
meeting. They will return Fri-i
d.:y.
REV. R. T. HOUTS
REV. LUCIUS EVANS
TO ASSIST IN RE
VIVAL AT CULLOWHEE
Beginning Sunday, May 9, the
Cullowhee Baptist Church will
be engaged a in series of evangelist
meetings with the Rev. Lucius
Evans, pastor of the Central
Baptist Church, Charlotte do
ing the preaching. Evening
I services will be conducted
at 8:00 o'clock, and the music
will be under the leadership of
I Rev. M. R. Osborne, Jr., of Cullo
whee. Special emphasis will be
given to congregational singing.
Prayer meetings are being held
simultaneously throughout t h e
community on Tuesday and Thurs
day night of this week under the
sponsorship of the Women's Mis
sionary Society, and on Wednes
day evening there is a general
service of prayer at the church.
Mr. Osborne expresses a real
hopefulness for a revival season
which will be of lasting value to
the religious life of the church and
community, saying that he is great
ly encouraged upon the evidence
of such wide-spread interest on
the part of the people and their
apparent willingness to co-operate
in the promotion of this series.
; Sylva Baptist To Be Host
For Regional B.T.U. Meet
The 10th regional B?ip:;s: Train
ing Union convention will be held
at the Sylva Baptist church on
Friday and Saturday, May 7-8.
Registration will begin at 3 p. m.
Friday with a fee of 25 cents per
person registering. This meeting
, includes all the training unions in!
the churches of Jackson county andi
all counties west. ''
Mr. Everett White, president, of'
i Franklin, will be in charge of the
meeting.
Harvey T. Gibson, B.T.U. secre
tary for North Carolina, will at
tend \he meeting along with other
state leaders. The meeting will
adjourn after the afternoon ses
sion on Saturday.
Homes will be provided for the
delegates with breakfast in the
homes and dinner will be served
at the church Friday evening and
Saturday at noon.
All churches in Jackson county
are especially urged to send dele
gates to this meet.ng.
Miss Beimer, Rev. Houts
To Give Concert of
Classical Music
Cullowhee ? Western Carolina
Teacher<ucollege will present Miss
Mary Jo Beimer, music instructor
at the school,% and the Rev. R. T.
Houts, Jr., pastor of the Cullo-J
whee Methodist church, in a piano!
concert of classical music Tuesday!
n.ght, May ll, at 8:30 ;n the college'
auditorium.
Mr. Houts is also a member of
the college music staff, havingj
taken over some of the late Prof.
Florian Lindberg's duties.
Miss Beimer and Mr. Houts' con
cert will include work by Haydn,
Schulbert. Schumann^ Brahms,
Ravel, Debussy, and Gershwin.
M.ss Beimer's last two concerts at
the college?last winter and winter
before last?were well-attended
2nd well-received.
CLUB MEMBERS HAVE
DISPLAY OF HOME
MADE ARTICLES
The Home Demonstration Club
members of Jackson County are
displaying an exhibit of various
home made articles in Massie
Furniture Store window, celebrat
ing National Home "Demonstration
Week,May 2nd - 8th.
The articles were made and do
nated by various club members as
follows:
| Mrs. Marion McDonald?Cullo
| whee Club quilt; Mrs. Tom
Ycung?Cullowhee Club - bridge
cover; Mrs. F. N. McLean?Cope
Creek Club - cane chair bottom;
Mrs. Ellen Bryson?Sylva Club -
i crocheted spread; Mrs. Ralph Eng
land?Victory Club - crocheted
1 mat - cook book; Mrs. John Hyatt
I ?Qualla Club - wood rug; Mrs.
! W. H. Wakefield?Beta Club -
I knitted baby outfit; Mrs. Eula R.
j Beck?Qualla Club - -crocheted
, sprend - chair back; Mrs. Robert
' Lee ^Loves Field Club - croch
eted bed .spread.
SYLVA LAUNDRY
I RESUMES DPERATION
, AFTER CLOSE-DOWN
R. F. Jarrett-, of Dillsboro, new
i owner of the Sylva Laundry and
I Dry Cleaning pjant here, has re
1 opened the plant for regular opera
i tion. Mr. Jarrett purchased the
I business from Harry Ferguson
? shortly after the plant was closed
j due to a strike of certain employ
I ees. The plant has remained closed
for some two months, pending set
' tlement of the union demands. Mr.
Jarrett stated Monday that he
hopes to have the plant in full op
eration at once. Mr. T. J. Gribble
is plant manager.
i Home Laundry School Set,
For Friday, 7:30 P. M.
j A school of home laundering will
be conducted by Miss Frances
Warner, factory trained in modern
laundry practices, in Sossamon's
Furniture Store, Sylva, Friday,
May 7, at 7:30 p. m. It is open to
the women of Sylva and Mr. Sos
samon has announced that refresh
ments will be served and door
prizes will be given.
Mjss Warren will discuss soap
and detergents, conditioning water!
j for home laundering, new fabrics
and how to wash them, various
types of soils and stains, and re
lated topics. She will demonstrate
modern laundering practices with
tfie Bendix Automatic Home Laun
dry, washer, dryer and ironer.
Well qualified to conduct the
school, Miss Warner took a special
training course conducted by Ben
dix Home Laundry Institute at
South Bend, Ind. She is the home
service director lor S< uthern Ap
pliances, Inc., a di.-tributor of Ben
dix Home Appliances, Inc.
At the close of her demonstra
tion Miss Warner will answer
questions on home laundry prob
lems.
MARY JO BEIMER
Joe B. Davis of Webster, One
Of Two Fliers Killed When
Plane Crashes On Take-Off
LOVES CHAPEL TO
HAVE REVIVAL
A series of revival services will
begin at Loves Chapel Methodist
church Sunday evening, May 9 at
7:45 o'clock with the Rev...John
Kincaid, pastor of the church, do
ing the preaching. Services will be
held each evening, beginning at
7:45 o'clock. Special music is b*
ing planned for these services.
Group prayer meetings are be
ing held this week in various homes
of the community in preparation
for the revival. v
A cordial invitation is extended
to everyone to come and help make
this the best revival of the church's
history.
Mother's Day Service
At Cullowhee Church
A special Mother's Day service
'will be held at the Cullowhee Bap
tist church Sunday morning at 11
o'clock. The Young Married Wom
en's class of the Sunday School
will be in charge of the service,
with the choir, under the direction
of Dr. H. P. Smith, rendering'spe
cial music. Dean W. B. Harrill of
Western Carolina Teachers College
will deliver the principal address.
Pritchaiii Green lias Per
fect Attendance Record
PHITCHARD (PUNK) GREEN,
of the Savannah school has attend
ed school for seven years with a
perfect attendance record. From
the time he entered the first grade
until now, as he is finishing the^
seventh grade he hasn't been ab-i
sent a day. He is the son of Mr.,
and Mrs. Lon Green of Green's,
Creek and will finish the seventh
| grade May 7. With his good at
tendance record, he is also a good
student and a good citizen and
takes an active part in 4-H club
work.
Bank To Be Closed
Monday, May 10, For
Memorial Holiday
Officials of The Jackson county
Bank have announced that this
bank will be closed all day Mon
day, May 10, in observance of Me
morial Day, which is a legal holi
day. No business will be transact
ed and those wishing to do any
banking business for Monday
should do it before the bank closes
at noon Saturday. The regular
business hours will be resumed
Tuesday morning.
Beta P.T.A. Has
Annual Dinner
At me !a.-t meeting of the Beta
Parent Teacner association on
Monday evening, May 3, the annual
banquet was held with Mrs. A. H.
Ginn presiding. Sixty-five mem
bers were present and Mrs. Maude
Reed's room won the prize for hav
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Galloway At Controls,
Had Just Gotten License,
Davis Was Veteran Pilot
Funeral rites were held at Web
ster Baptist church at 2:30 p. m.
( Wednesday for Joe Bob Davis, 22,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Don Davis,
who was instantly killed at 2:10
Monday afternoon in a plane crash
at the Andrews-Murphy airport.
Burial was in the Webster ceme
i tery. Moody Funeral Home was
in charge of arrangements.
Pallbearers were members of
the State Highway Patrol in this
area, including Jones, Sandlin,
\ Lindsay, Lunsford, Guy, Roberta,
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FUNERAL RITES FOR
JOHN C. FRIZZELL
Funeral services for John C.
Frizzell, 64, of Webster, who died
in the C. J. Harris Community hos
pital Sunday, May 2, after a long
illness, were conducted Tuesday
morning at 10:30 o'clock at the
Webster Methodist church. Rev.
W. N. Cook and Rev. M. Kincaid
were the officiating ministers. Bur
ial was in the Webster cemetery.
Survivors include the widow,
Mrs. Dean Mason Frizzell; an
adopted son, John Curtiss Frizzell;
three sisters/ Mrs. Vtarence Buciv
anan, Webster, Mrs. Julia Stc vart,
Erastus, and Miss Nan Frizzell,
Arlington, Va.; and two brothers,
Lawrence Frizzell, New York City,
and Will Frizzell, Bluffdale, Texas.
Pallbearers were Jack, Herbert
and Wilbur Buchanan, Jack and
Gene Allison, and William Rogers.
Honorary pallbearers were Frank
Key, Frank Allison, Will Morgan,
R(,y Buchanan, Arthur Allman,
Sieve Owen, and Mr. Oliver. Nieces
were the flower girls.
Pre-School Clinic
To Be May 11
The pre-school clinic for the
Training school at Cullowhee will
be held Tuesday, May 11, in the
first grade room of the school.
The boys and girls of the first
grade will be hosts and hostesses
for the younger children and their
parent.
All mothers are urged to come
and bring the children who will
start to school next year. A spe
cial program is being planned for
them. This meeting, being spon
sored by the Parent Teacher asso
ciation, will begin at 9 o'clock.
Miss Anne Knotts is chairman.
WGTC HAS CAMPUS
RADIO STATION
Radio station WCCT?"West
ern Carolina Catamounts of the
Air"?went on the air formally at
10 o'clock Monday night, April 19.
The first broadcast of the sta
tion was devoted to news, and
transcribed music. The station was
to have been formally dedicated
but due to the absence of Presi
dent Bird and Dr. Carl D. Kiilian,
faculty sponsor, the dedication was
postponed. WCCA will operate as
a trail station in the intercollegiate
broadcasting system, according to
Frank Murray, of Franklin, tem
porary manager of the station.
The station is controlled and op
erated by students of Western Car
olina Teachers College. Its present
broadcast schedule calls for being
wn the air 10 to 11 p.m. Monday
through Friday.
The station was built by two
WCTC students, Phillip Hollifield,
Robbinsville, and John Ray Holt,
of Fort. Both have studied with the
National Radio Institute of Wash
ir.stcr., D. C.