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AMERICA First, Last and Always The Sylva Herald The Herai^ is dedicated to progressive service to Jack* ? son ... A progressive, well balanced county. VOL. XXIII, NO. 2 Sylva, N. C. Thursday, June 10, 1948 $2.00 A Year?5c Copy Legion Auxiliaries Of Districts 19 And 20 To Meet In Sylva June 14 Mrs. Chadwick, Dept. Head Of Morehead City, To Be Principal Speaker The final plans for the annual meeting of the American Legion auxiliary of the 19th and 20th districts, which will be h?ld in Sylva on Monday, June 14, have been announced by Mrs. Fred M. Williams of Sylva, 19th district committeewoman, who will pre ' side. The meeting will be heldj at the Methodist church, beginning at 11 A. M. , A number of officers will be present and take part on the pro gram. Mrs. Floyd M. Chadwick, department president of More head City will make the princi pal address of the day. Others i to be present will be Mrs. Allen Luther, vice-president, of Ashe ville and Mrs. Dewey Clymer of Reidsville, national defense chair man. Rev. W. Q. Grigg, pastor of the Methodist church, will give the invocation. The Pledge of Al legiance to the Flag will be led by a member of the Hendersonville unit, and someone from the Ffcrest City unit will lead the Preamble. Mrs. Jessie Cordell, president of the Sylva unit, will bring greet ings from the local unit and Mrs. C. A. Bales will bring greetings from the 20th district. Dan Tomp * kins will extend greetings from the W. E. Dillard post, American Legion and as commander of the district will bring words of greet ings from the district. The response will be given by Mrs. Gilmer Jones, of Franklin and the 20th district. Pages for the day will be Miss Leah Sutton and Miss Melba Cor dell. Musical numbers will be given by Rev. and Mrs. Tom Houts of Cullowhee. A committeewom an for the 20th district will be elected at this meeting. A large representation of members from the 19th and 20th districts is ex pected to attend. The 19th district includes Bre vard, Forest City, Hendersonville Rutherfordton and Sylva. Making up the 20th district are Andrews, Cherokee, Franklin, Murphy and Robbinsville. Schedule For Cancer Control Picture John's Creek, June 18th, School house (2:00 p.m.). Glenville, Cashiers, June 22nd. Glenville School (3:00 p.m.) Webster, Lovesfield, June 23rd, Webster School, (3:00 p.m.) Cullowhee, Pressley Creek Tuckaseigee, June 24th, Cullowhee Auditorium (2:30 p.m.) Qualla, June 25th, Schoolhouse, (2:00 p.m.) Balsam, June 28th, Schoolhouse (2:30 p.m.) Gay, June 29th, Community House (2:30 p.m.) Sylva, Cope Creek, Beta, Vic tory, July 1st, Theatre (2:30 pjn.) ! EAST FORK BAPTIST j CHURCH TO OBSERVE j HOMECOMING ON 13TH Homecoming will be held at East Fork Baptist church June 13. Preaching will be held at 11 a.m., followed by lunch. In the afternoon memorial ser 1 vices and decoration will be held at the cemetery. This is the community in which I was born and grew up and where all the eventful things of my life took place. School days, first Sun day school I attended, my first church membership, my first and last courtship, this last ship launch ed in the habor of matrimony where it has been docked for six ty-two years with no orders to sail the restless sea of divorce ment. So I am going back home the 13th , "To the pine clad hills and the sparkling rills Where the chestnut and ivy" grow, The shady dell to the deep old well The Summers of long ago. chimney tall The fire place all aglow Where we romped and sung and played In winters of long ago. To the dear old church, thehouse of God, Where the people I used to know Would sing and pray the livelong day On Sundays of long ago. I am going back home, I am go ing back home, I am going back home today." T. F. Deitz. Fire Destroys Home Of Dave Arrowood Thursday night about 11:30'the* town was aroused by continuous blowing of the fire alarm siren. The firemeri responded quickly but not soon enough to save the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Ar rowood. It was reported that the fire started from a pan of ashes that had been taken from the stove and left sitting on the back porch. The house and practically all the contents were a total loss, the damage estimated to be about $3,000. This was one of the worst fires Sylva has had for several years and we realize what our fire de partment means to the town. If it had not been for the town water wagon the store on an adjoining lot would have burned also, but the wagon was used to haul water to the scene. Although all the merchandise was moved out of the store the building was saved and the family is now living in it until they can rebuild their home. There was no insurance on the house. Sylva Recreational Park Undergoing Face-Lifting James Barnwell, newly elected* athletic coach for Sylva high school, and recreational director and manager of the Sylva recrea tion park, under the direction of the community recreational com mittee, and a crew of workmen are engaged this week in making re pairs and improvements to the swimming pool, dressing rooms, tennis court and other work at the park. The swimming pool has been thoroughly cleaned, repaired and painted. The broken cement bor dering the pool and dressing rooms has been resurfaced with new ' cement. The bath house has been painted inside, new grills put in and other repairs made. Mr. Barnwell expects to have the center ready for opening the latter part of this* week. An all-round recreational pro gram is being mapped to provide wholesome recreatipn for the young people of the community. i Spaugh On Vacation For Two Weeks Herbert Spaugh, D.D., author of The Everyday Counselor, a weekly column in this newspaper, is tak ing a two weeks' vacation at this time and his column will not ap pear on June 10 and 17, Francis Buchanan Wins Junion Tennis Title Francis Buchanan of Sylva and Asheville won the junior tennis tournament played in Asheville Friday through Sunday. In the semi-finals he defeated John Sha ver 6-2, 6-2, and in the finals Buchanan won handily over Bill Bridges with scores 6-1, 6-1 to an nex the junior title. Francis formerly lived in Sylva with his mother, Mrs. M. Buch anan, Jr. He is the grandson of Mrs. Belle Buchanan and nephew of Carl Buchanan and spends much of his vacations here with them. ROBERT S. GREEN, 81 CLAIMED BY DEATH At HOME TOESDAY Funeral For Prominent Citizen Held Wednesday Afternoon At John's Creek Church Funeral services for'* Robert Slagle Green, 81, who passed away at his home in the Cowarts com munity Monday following a long illness, were held Wednesday af ternoon at 2 o'clock at the John's Creek Methodist church, of which he was a member. The Rev. A. B. Kincaid, pastor, officiated. Inter ment was in the church cemetery.; Pallbearers .were Lyle Hooper, Way Henson, Paul Swayngin, Da vis Hooper, Hobert Brown, Con rad Hooper. Flower girls were young ladies of the church and community. Glenn Funeral Home was in charge of arangements. In early manhood Mr. Green taught school in the public schools of both Georgia and North Caro lina. He was a member of the Ma sonic Ledge for over 42 years and in June 1940 was made honorary member of Lodge No. 358 at East LaPorte. He was a member of the Methodist church since early childhood and for many years serv ed as Sunday School Superinten dent. Besides being active in church work and community activities, Mr. Green was an excellent musician. He is survived by the widow, Mrs. Sallie Hunter Green; four daugh ters, Mrs, Clara Gilbertsnn of Serirn Woolley, W??j1i.m Mrs. Fanny Yost of Durham, Mrs. Marguerite Revis of We'avefville, and Miss Sallie Irene Green of Laurinburg and two. sons, Robert Daniel Green of the' home and John Paul Green of1 Richmond, Va. Doctor Dunham Visits Waynesville And WCTC Waynesville ? Dr. Franklin Dun ham, chief of radio and assistant commissioner, U: S. Office of Ed ucation, was a week-end guest at St. John's rectory. He was accom panied by his wife and son Frank lin, Jr. Doctor Dunham called at the local radio station WHCC and gave two lectures at Western Car olina Teachers college, Cullowhee. June 7 and 8. Doctor Dunham has been in ra dio work since the very inception of radio broadcasting. He was ed ucational director of the National Broadcasting company from 1929 41;. executive director of the Na tional Catholic Community Service from 1941-43; special consultor to the Secretary of War 1943-45; as sistant U. S. commissioner of ed ucation and chief of radio, U. S. Office of Education, since 1945. S. S. Convention Will Meet With Tuckaseigee Church The Sunday School convention of the Tuckaseigee Baptist associa tion will meet Sunday afternoon, June 13, at 2:30 o'clock. The pres ident, Rev. W. N. Cook, will pre side. The message will be brought by Rev. Wayne Deitz, the new pastor at the Dillsboro and Web ster Baptist churches. FUNERAL SERVICES HELD TUESDAY FOR MRS, ANNIE G066INS Funeral services for Mrs. Annie Coggins, wife of Victor Coggins, of Speedwell, were held at the Dou ble Springs church Tuesday, June 1, at 2:30 o'clock. Rev. George Webb officiated and interment was in the Double Springs ceme tery. Mrs. Coggins passed away at her home on Sunday afternoon, May 30, after an illness of several months. She had been critically ill for the past eight months. She is survived by the husband; five sons, Lawton, Freeman, Mark, Cecil and Redell, all of Speed well; lour daughters, Mrs. Winnie Moss of Glenville, Mrs. Hazel Stewart and Mrs. Trudie Donald son of Speedwell and Miss Azalee Coggins of Norfolk, Va.; six grand children; one sister, Mrs. W. J. Nicholson of Cowarts; three broth ers, Joe M. Connor o? Tuckasei gee, Charlie C. Conner of Webster, and Ellis Conner of Sylva; and a host of friends and relatives. Moody Funeral Home was in charge of funeral arrangements. Auxiliary Speaker . .:..3wsmsr . .zA 1 Mrs. Floyd M. Chadwick, depart-' ment president of the American; Lrgion Auxiliary, of Morehead City, will make the principal ad dress at the two-district meeting to be held in Sylva Monday. 13-YEAR OLD BOY SERIOUSLY INJURED IN TRUCK ACCIDENT Robert Lewis Ward, 13, son of Clifton Ward, received a broken right arm, broken jaw bone, and skull fracture about 1:30 Wednes day afternoon when the truck in which he was riding ^sideswiped a beer truck just outside of the city limits near' the old pole yard. Young Ward was accompanied by his falher, a brother, and his uncle, Joe Ward, owner of the truck, to the forks of the river for a load of wood. When approaching the beer truck, which they stated was parked on the pavement, and at tempting to pass oncoming ve hicles, they were forced to hit the beer truck. The two boys were in the bed of the truck back of the cab and Robert was on the side that hit, the impact knocking him down In the truck bed. The boy was rushed to Harris hospital where attending phy sicians termed his condition as serious. ^ Picnic And Bingo Party Monday, June 14, 6:30 P.M. The first in a series of projects for raising $1250.00, the amount asked of the Federated clubs of Jackson county for the starving children of Europe, will be a ben efit picnic at trie City Park and followed by a Bingo party in the Community building on next Mon day evening beginning at 6:30 o' clock. This project is being spon sored by the Halcyon club, Mrs/ Roger Dillard, club president, Mrs. Dillard is also vice chairman of the seven Western counties of which Sylva is included. Mrs. T. A. Case of Murphy is chairman of this group of counties. The entire | project for raising funds for the relief of the . starving children of Europe is headed by the United Nations. Tickets are now on sale at .50 each. Miss Lucile Ensley Finishes Training Miss Lucile Ensley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bedford Ensley of Sylva, has completed training at Childrens and Gallinger's hospi tals in Washington, D. C. She is al so a graduate of Biltmore and Mis sion hospitals in Asheville. Miss Ensley plans to take a post grad uate course. * SOftSAMON'S In Sylva FUNERAL RITES FOR , LABURN NATION 22, i HELD AT WILMOT Jackson Youth Die. In Darrington, Wash. After Illness Of Few Days Funeral services were held Sun day afternoon at 2:00 o'clock at the Wilmot church lor Labiirn E. Na-1 t ons, 22, who died in a Darring ton, Wash, hospital May 31 fol i lowing ix short illness. Rev. John L. Hyatt officiated and burial was in the Wilmot cemetery. Pallbearers were Joe Ward, Hu bert Bumgarner, Hugh Nation, R. L. Nation,. E. Bryson and Richard Jones. * : Flower bearers were cousins of the deceased. Mr. - Nation had been working in the timber business in Washing-1 ton for the past several months and became ill only a few days before1 death. He is a son of Claude Na-j Hon and the late Lillie Seagle Na tion of the Wilmot community. Young Nation was a veteran of World War II, having served two and one-half years with the U. S.i Navy in the Pacific. , Surviving are his father, step mother, three brothers, Reagal Nation, of Darrington; Claude, Jr., and Cecil at home; five sisters, Mrs. Roy Woodard and Mrs. Vance Buchanan, Glenville; Mrs. A. D. Parker, Baltimore, Md., Cherry Lee and Wilsie at home, and his grand-?' parents, Mivand Mrs. Tom Seagle/ of Wilmot. ~~j The body arrived by train Sat-j urday, accompanied by a brother,! Reagal Nation, who makes his home in Darrington. JOE G. MIDDLETON CLAIMED BY DEATH I Funeral services will be held to I day, Thursday, at 11 a.m. for Joe C. Middleton, 62. who passed away at 3:45 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at C. J. Harris Community hospi tal, following an illness of sev-1 eral weeks. The body was taken' to the home Wednesday afternoon where it remained until taken to the cemetery where the funeral 1 service will?be conducted by Rev. Lawrence Crawfi rd, pastor of Ochre Hill Baptist church. | The following nephews of the de ceased will act as pallbearers: Jo seph Ashe, Alvin Middleton; Joe Middleton, Orville Middleton, Ran son Middleton, and T.. Walter Ashe. Flower girls will be grandnieces of the deceased. Surviving are four brothers, Fer ry, Will, Jim and Lee Middleton,' all of Tuckaseigee, and one sis-1 ter, Mrs. John N. Ashe, of Web-j ster. Also a number of nieces and nephews. Mr. Middleton was a son of the! late Mr. and Mrs. David W. Mid-' dleton. Prior to becoming ill Mr.i Middleton had been employed as a guard at the Whittier State pris on camp for a number of years. Moody Funeral home is in charge of arrangements. LAST RITES TO BE HELD TODAY FOR PVT. KENNETH WARD Final rites will be held Thurs-' day, June 10, at 2 p.m. for Pvt. Kenneth J. Ward, whose body was returned to Sylva for burial from France, where Pvt. Ward was killed in action while with the 142nd Infantry, 36th Division, No vember 14, 1944. Pvt. Ward, who lived in the Wil mont section, attended Sylva High school. He entered the service in May, 1942, and was 21 years of age when killed. The funeral will be held at the Wilmot church, with the Rev. J. L. Hyatt officiating. The American Legion will conduct services at the grave. Pvt. Ward, in addition to his mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Narvie Ward, is survived by seven sisters; Mrs. Elenor Cook, Web ster; Mrs. Ruby Morgan, Dayton, Tenn.; Mrs. Pearl Hollingsworth, Hendersonville; Mrs. Frankie Dean, Sylva; and Margaret, Rozelle, and Dorothy of Rt. 1, Whittier; live brothere; Charles, Jack, Joe, Frank lin, and Ray, all of Rt. 1, Whittier. Three Jackson County Men Escape Injury When Plane Crashes On Soco RUN-OFF PRIMARY IN1 GOVERNOR'S RAGE IS j OFFICIALLY GALLED ! Announcement from RaleighJ states that the State Board of El ections. in a recent meeting, re viewed the May 29 Primary votes in the Governor's race and declar ed that Kerr Scott was entitled to j a run-off electio'n with Charles' M. Johnson in the race for the j Democratic nomination for Gover-1 nor . The board had already been m-j formed that Scott wanted a sec-1 I ond primary. The Board announc-j t ed that Johnson received 170,141) votes in the first primary and that! jicott received 161,293 a lead lor, ! Johnson of only 8,848, until an er- j I ror discovered in the Haywood I county total boosted Johnson's to-1 tal by 903 votes. | The second primary will be held I Saturday, June 26. W. H. Moody 111 After surviving an accident suf fered in 1922 such as few people would have, recovered from, and [Then going on to make a living for I*himself and family, W. Hoyt Mood-' | y is now quite ill at his home here following a stroke of last summer | and again this spring. Mr. Moody lost both legs at the knees when he was run over by a' switch engine May 19, 1922 and doctors held little hope for his sur vival. H? recovered, however, and] a.ier some months and with the use of artifical limbs, was able to get about. Wheji he became able to work he was .t leather finisher at the then Sylva Tannery, now Armour Leather Company plant for seven years. Then for a num ber of years he was engaged in the Operation of a .-tore, grist mill, and filling station, Cullowhee road. Following this business he was en gaged in the retail and delivery of ice. During the past six or seven years he has operated a small farm near Sylva and has had the contract with the Southern Rail way and Railway Expre.-s Agency for pick-up and delivery of freight and express here in Sylva. Al though for the past few years he has been unable to lift heavy ob jects he would drive the truck and have a helper do the loading and unloading. At one time, however; he was able to balance himself on his artifical limbs and lift more i ? Jfian the average man. One instance he recalls with in terest was that of a man who ask ed him to help repair a flat tire. After the tire was repaired and placed on the car this man said to Mr. Moody, "I would not have ask ed you for help but I only have one good leg," To this Mr. Moody replied, "I have neither leg." Th/? ? WCTC Secures Camp Site On Cullowhee ? Western Carolina Teachers college has secured tit.c to a 7-acre camp site on the shore of Lake Glenville, President W. E. Bird announced Thursday. The land was bought from the Nanta hala Power and Light company. Purchase of the property grew out of discussions held at the pre session conference of student lead ers and faculty members last sum mer. School officials had been interested in the project for years, but until the 1947-48 school year no specific effort had been made to buy th;? site. The camp site is located in a cove at the southeastern end of the lak?, near the dam. Lake Glen ville is in the southern part of Jackson county, near Cashiers. The property was secured thru the efforts of President Bird, who has been working on the project i ever since he became acting presi dent at the death of the late Dr. H. T. Hunter last fall, and Ralph C. Sutton, business manager of 1 Skillful Handling Of Plane By Clark Saves Men From Serious Injury The long standing safety record <>f the Sylva Flying Service was slightly shattered Sunday after noon when une of its planes was in the lirst crash of any kind in over four years. Although the plane, a Waco type craft, carrying the pilot and two passengers crashed in a wooded area in Soco Gap the men were only slightly scratched. Cashurs Clark, pilot of the plane at the time of the accident and one of his passengers, Ken Nichols both have private flying licenses.^ The third ry.an was Ed Moore who wa.s net a pilot. The men probably owe their escape without serious injury or deatKto the skillful han dling oi the plane by Clark, one ol Johnn> Watson's trainees. Mr. Watson, owner of the Waco plane and operator of Sylva Flying Ser vice is responsible for the good safety record of the. field. He is thoiough in training of his pik>t3 and demands that all safety meth ods be strictly observed. The men took off from the Sylva liold to fly over Cherokee, through Soco Gap and Waynesville. They had passed over Cherokee and headed toward Soco Gap when the carburetor of their engine began to ice up which caused the ship to loose altitude and in his effort ot thaw out the ice Clark lost more altitute. !}y this time the plane was too low to pass through the gap and in an effort to circle and turn back the landing gear struck a tree. Clark seeing that a crash was ineveitable pulled the nose of the ship up and let it settle in the timber rather than nose into the mountairf. The three men ^limb ed out and walked the 100 yards to Highway 19 where they were picked up by highway patrolman O. R. Roberts, who had been no tified of the crash. The plane was declared a total loss and was valued at about $1 400. ARNOLD WITH MOODY FONERAL HOME HERE Carl W. Arnold, formerly of Thomasville where he was engag ed in the concrete block business, and later with Vogler's Funeral Home in Winston-Salem, has tak en a position as embalmer with the Moody Funeral Home here in Sylva. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold have mov ed to Sylva to make,their home. Approximately 400 persons at tended the 1948 poultry field day held at the Willard Test Farm in Pender County. man was aghast and apoligized to Mr. Moody for having called on him. Seven-Acre Glenville the college. President Bird said officials of the Nantahala Power and Light company, especially company Prts.dent J. E S. Thorpe and his secretary, Carl Boling, were most cooperative and friendly in their desire to help the college obtain the property. The camp site will be available to students and faculty members at the beginning of the first slim mer session of the college, which starts Monday. With an altitlde of more than 3,000 feet, and with in a few miles of the crest of the Blue Ridge, the site is accessible by car and bus. It is ideal for boating, camping, and fishing for trout, bass, bluegill, and crappie. "There are no immediate plans for building a camp on the site,* said President Bird, "but the col lege is hopeful of being able to fall upon some plan in the near future to get a building pieced on the grounds for the purpose of eamp ing and holding student-faculty 1 conference*?' i
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