AMERICA First, Last and Always VOL. XXIL, NO. 49 ? r i The Sylva Herald Sylva, N. C. Thursday, May 6, 1948 If* ' ?* The Hera*^ is dedicated to progressive service to Jack* son ... A progressive, well balanced county. $2.00 A Year?5c Copy Two Patrplmen Die In Plane Crash At Andrews Port * * * * ? ? * + 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 ?Continued on pag* 12 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 9 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 i 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