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AMERICA rirtt, Last and Always The Sylva Herald The Kerak' is dedicated to progressiva service to Jack* | son , . A progressive* vail balanced county. NO. XXIII NO. 8 Sylva, N. C. Thursday, July 22^1948^ $2.00 A Year?5c Copy Fair Association Officers Announce Exhibit List Mail Service Balled-Up With Removal of Trains; Better Service Sought All Classes Of Mail * Running Far Behind Delivery Schedule With the removal of railway mail service on the Murphy-Ashe ville Branch of the Southern, mail delivery and dispatch schedules have become badly balled-up and this area of some 200,000 people are not getting the service to which they are entitled. Since the trains were discontinued last week Sylva has lost one of its three out-going and in-coming mails, and with inade quate equipment to transport the mail much of the parcel post mail has piled up in Asheville and is being brought out a small quantity each day, thus creating a great hardship on business firms and in dividuals who depend on this source for much of their goods and merchandise. Mr. Price, postmaster of the Sylva office, stated this week that no definite plans have been an nounced for relief of the present bad situation. It is hoped, he said, I that arrangements can be made soon for as good or better service than we had before the trains were! removed. This however, depends on action of postal authorities in1 Washington. Congressman Mon roe Redden has been in contact with Washington officials, in fact he flew up to Washington this week to take the matter up direct. It is the plan to try to get a highway mobile post office in operation so that mails can be worked along the line as was done on the mail cars.1 At the present time Sylva has only two mails going East daily, one at 11 a.m. and the other at 2 p.m., only three hours apart, thus leaving the area without an out going mail for 21 hours each day. The incoming mail from the East arrives at irregular hours, any where from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. and another around 5:30 to 6.00 p.m. Mails from the west arrive and depart at about the same hours as from the East. Tent Revival Opens Saturday At Webster A big tent revival will open Sat urday, July 24, at 8:00 p. m. at' Webster, the two Missionary Bap tist P&stor Evangelists conducting the seryices. Both pastors, the Rev. J. Doyle Miller and C. H. Green, now serving churches and former moderators of the conven tion in Haywood county, are well kncwn ministers of Haywood county. They announced the re vival at Webster is for the general good and soul winning purpose of the entire community. They see the help and cooperation of the other churches of the community in bringing the lost into any of the churches of their choice. Love Graveyard To Be Decorated On the second Sunday of August decoration of the graves of Love graveyard will be held beginning at 2 p. m. o'clock. Everyone is invited and all having friends or relatives buried there are asked to bring flowers for the graves. FARMERS FEDERATION PICNIC POSTPONED James G. K. McClure, President of The Farmers Federation Co operative has announced cancella tion of the Jackson County an nual picnic which was to have been held Saturday, July 24 at Cullowhee high school. The can cellation was made at the request of the County Health authorities because of the Polio situation. Mr. McClure stated that he hopes it will be possible to have the picnic at a later date this summer. WILLIAM L DILLARD POST STARTS 1948 MEM8ERSHIP DRIVE Rev. W. Q. Grigg, commander! of William E. Dillard Post No. 104, American Legion, has announced that its members will very ac tively participate in the 1949 mem bership campaign which begins officially August 1. There are around 2,000 Jackson county vet erans eligible for membership in the organization and it is hoped that as many as possible will be-j come members before the cam paign closes, November 11 having | been set as the closing date. Department leadm, in'outlining the 4,'49-er" plan, expres^d the hope that it "will not be neces sary" to "hound" posts throughout the year for membjpphips. The I Legionnaires are urged to meet] the following membership sched ule: Twenty-five per cent of quota' by Aug. 11; 50 per cent by Sept.' 11; 75 per cent by Oct. 11, and; over the top on Armistice Day. | The boys of the local Post are getting off to a good start and the following memberships are al ready in: Ralph H. Brunette, Mar vin L. Snipes, Hugh E. Monteith, Dr. Harold S. McGuire, John H. Morris, Henry Lee Walker, Sr.,! Chester Scott, H. P. Cathey, W. O.: Perkins, Charles N. Price, William' R: Enloe, Dan K. Moore, Felix H. Picklesimer, Fred M. Williams,' Roland H. Stebbins, Weston O. Ensley, Britton M. Moore, Charles R. Bumgarner, Raymond U. Sut ton, Dr. Grover Wilkes, Dr. Roy W. Kirchberg, Hoyt B. Roberson, Berry R. Gaither, Carl Buchanan, John S. Collins, Joe Harrison Den-, ton, Jack Cameron Allison, Rob ert V. Reed. ? I 744 Have Chest X-Ray First Day In County The first day that the State Board cf Health mobile Chest X Ray unit operated in Jackson County at Cullowhee on July 15, '744 people availed themselves of the opportunity for the examina tion. The unit will be in the coun- I ty through August 21 and it is hoped that every person over 15 years cf age will have the examin. j nion made during this time. There is not cost to the indivdual. E. M. Salley Elected Temporary Chairman Of WNC Firemen Preservatives from eight fire J. W. Fitzgerald of the Asheville departments of Western North department. Chief Fitzgerald gave Carolina met in the fire depart- the visitors some sound advice on ment hsll here Monday evening at fire fighting and the prevention 7:30 in an initial meeting looking of fires.. He urged the departments toward organizing into a Western to make regular inspection of North Carolina association, spon- building in their cities and when sored by the Sylva department fire hazards are found in closets, end headed up by Chief Bart Cope, basements and other places to see and firemen Fiiex Pickles.mer a"d that the owners clean them up. others. ? ^xt speaker on the program The meeting was opened by Mr. a.? Chief E M S8Uey, of tte Picklesimer who stated the pur- Enka ^p^ent who told of the pose of the meeting and then in- wcrk 0{ hi, department and of traduced Chief Cope who wel- new equipment he U having buiK corned the visitors. Mayor Jack C. Alison then introduced Chief (Continued to page 10) * I STREET PARADE SCENE JULY FIFTH *5 This picture shows a portion of the big crowd who were in Sylva Monday, July 5, for the annual 4th holiday celebration . It also shows a section of the mile-long parade with the prize winning float, that of the Ritz Theatre in the foreground. Cannon Brothers float was a close runner-up for first prize. The local Camp of WOW had a splendid entry as well as dozens of other firms and individuals. The young lady representing "Miss Liberty" is Miss Jo Ann Moody, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenyon Moody. Photo by wayne Deitz PRESIDENT ORDERS i DRAFT MACHINERY SET IN OPERATION Young men 18 through 25 years of age will begin registering in the new peace-time draft August 130 according to an order issued ( Tuesday by President Truman. The orders calls for the registration of all men 18 through 25 between August 30 and September 18. j | No prediction was made as to | when actual inductions would be gin but this cannot be before Sep tember 22, or 90 days after Mr. Truman s.gned the draft bill mak ing it law. | The bill provides that 18-year olds, not subject to the 21-months draft may begin enlisting in the armed services immediately. By volunteering for one year and then serving a longer period in the! reserves they may avoid the draft later. Only 161.000 of the 18 year-olds may be accepted now 1 Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey,' selective service director, empha sized that all men 13 through 25, unless already in active armed service must register. Local Lions Going To International Convention In N. Y. C. Members of the Sylva Lions Club who w.ll leave Sylva by automobile Friday for New York City to attend the International Lions Convention are: Rudy Hardy, Grayson Cope, Hugh Mon te. th and Roy Reed. The conven tion will have its first session with1 a memorial Sunday and continue through Thursday. ' The Sylva Tien plan to return by Niagara Frills, points in Canada and De troit. They will be gone about 10 3ays. Fred C. Shelton Begins Duties At Cullowhee W. T. Brown, who has been in' charge of the Veteran Training) program at Cullowhee for the past several months, resigned July 1J and has resumed his work with the Federal Hous.ng Administration in Sylva, which position, he had held for several years before going to Cullowhee. Fred C. Shelton, of Henderson ville, who has been teaching voca tional agriculture in the Hender sonville High school for six years, nas come to Cullowhee and assum ed his duties as supervisor of the Cullowhee Veteran Training pro gram. He comes to this position .veil qualified for the work, hav ng graduated with a B.S. degree rom Purdue University and has ione agi icultural work at State Tollege, Raleigh. ..... .In Sylva TO SING AT WCTC THURSDAY NIGHT Cullowhee?Adelaide Van Wey j contralto, will present a concert of American folk music in the West ern Carolina Teachers college Thursday night at 8. o'clock. Si'.e will be accompanied by Robert N. Hill. H concert will be one: of the school's regular lyceum pro. grams, and Mrs. Lilian Buchanan, chairman of the lyceum commit tee, said that the public is invited.j Miss Van Wey is the daugnter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Silver steen of Brevaid. Mrs. Silversteen has been a member of the WCTC board of trustees for many years, j The singer has sung over all the major raido networks cf tne coun-j try, has done extensive concert and (Continued on page 4) t Alvin, Texas Band Stops In Sylva Enroute to New York About seventy boys and girls,' their director, Mr. R. C. King, chaperones, and nurse, from the Alvin Independent High school ! of Alvin, Texa.-, stopped in Sylva . Monday and had lunch at the lo- . cal cafes. Leaving home Thursday, July 15, this group is enroute to New York City participate in the band concerts and parades to be g.ven by bands from various parts cf the United States and sponsored by the1 Lions clubs of their own city, held during *vthe International Conven tion of Lions July 26-29. This band was invited to go to New York by the Alvin Lions club. They are traveling in three ser.col buses. Enroute the band is giving a con. cert each day in some city in one of the states they are passing through, having ore on Surds. ^ evening in Gainsvill, Ga., and on Monday evening in Asheville. Before returning home they plan to visit Canada and make the re urn trip - through Michigan and tther northern ?tates.. ROTARY CLUB VOTES TO STAND READY TO HELP FIGHT POLIO Rotarian vV.-.yne McGuiie. chair man of the Crippled Children's v/ork ;n the Sylva Rotary club,' presented the club with a proposi tion oX- placing its energies and resources at the disposal of the county health department and lo cal physicians for any help it < might be able to render in help ing the campaign to combat the spread of poKo in Jackson county and with those who may become; victims. The proposal was made into a motion by Rotarian Hines, and seconded by Rotarian Snipes. President Cole Cannon then called lor a vote cf the members which was unanimously in favor of the proposal. This work w.ll take the place of the regular work among the crippled cnildren dur ing the emergency. N. C. WELFARE FUND TO BE INCREASED, SAYS GOV. CHERRY Plarv^ are in progress for an im mediate increase in state welfare subsistance benefits according to an announcement by Governor Cherry at his office in Raleigh yesterday. Tne amount of the special grant, the third to come from the con tingency and emergency fund for welfare work in the past 10 *ionths, was net stated. Through the grant, Cherry in dicated, his administration will solve the only problem which might have warranted the calling of a special session of the general assembly to meet inflation crisis needs. That accomplished, he said, noth ing will remain that cannot wait until the assembly convenes in Health Department Vnncunces Two Cases >f Pol;o In County Two Jackson county children are now in the Asheville Ortho pedic Home, according to an an nouncement from the county health department Wednesday morning.; The two cases developed last week end. They arc: Thomas Lee Cun-j ningham, 19 months old son of Mr. and Mrs. Weaver Cunningham of the Dillsboro community. The oth er is Arlene Bishop. 10 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Bishop, of Pumpkin Town road,1 in the Gay community. .. Both cases developed in more or| less isolated sections and the chil-j dren had not been in contact re-; cently with groups of young peo-> pie. j Large List Of Farm And Home Exhibits Planned For County's Big Fair L. P. BUCHANAN, 76 DIES IN GASTONIA Lewis P. Buchanan, 76, died at 10:15 a.m. Saturday in a Gastonia hospital. He was a retired textile man and the son of the late Charles Buchanan, Confederate veteran who died a few years ago. A native of Jackson county, Mr. Buchanan had made his home in this section for over 31 years, and at the time of his death was living with his daughter, Mrs. Emma Usery in Lowell. j Funeral services were held Sun day at 3 p.m. at the Baptist church in Lowell, of which Mr. Buchanan was at one time a deacon. Dr. J. L. Vipperman, pastor of Long Creek church, was in charge of the ser vice, and the deacons of the Low-; l?11 church served as pallbearers. Surviving are two daughters,! Mrs. Usery and Mrs. Addie San lord oi Union Section; live sons,' Charlie, Fran'k, Jasper Rkh-i .nond, o! Lowell, and Dan Iiucn-, r nan o! Cramerlon; and one -iste:., Miss Jane Buchanan of RakigM. j i Mr. and Mrs. Jonnny Cunning ham, of Sylva, attended the lun-' * ? oral, returning to their home M< n-J viay. ! Funeral Held In States ville For MSl*. Love News was received in Sylva Sat urday night of the death of Mrs. Mollie Walker Love which occurr ed earlier in the afternoon that day at the home of her nephew, Frank Deaton, in Statesville. Mrs. Love, a former resident of Sylva, wafc the widow of the late Dillard Love, a member of one of the pioneer families of Jackson county and a large property own er in North Carolina and Tenn. Coming to Sylva more than 35 j years ago when she married Mr. Love, she continued to make her home here after his death in July, 1935. Her health having failed con. siderably, she returned to her na tive county of Iredell in the spring of 1944, and had Mnce resided with relatives there. Mrs. Love was a graduate nurse and worked for a number of years, at both the State hospital in Mor ganton and Long's Sanatorium in Statesville. Funeral services were held Mon day at 1 o'clock at the home of Mr. Deaton. Burial was in the States ville cemetery. | G. B. King With Mead Corporation Mr. George B. King, wife and small daughter have arrived in Sylva to make their heme and aie now living in the Lewis home ir. Love Field. Mr. King comes to Sylva from the Dill and Collins plant, a division of Mead at Phil adelphia to be associated with the engineering department of the Sylva Division. He began his 'uties here July 1. Committees And Others Named To Help Make Fair A Success, T Walter Ashe, president of the Jacksoi County Fair Association, and h,s committees have complet anH 6 St ?f county committees and announced the list of exhibit, for the fair this fall, T Tw 1t'"mmi,,ees are as follows: T. Walter Ashe, president; Miss secretary, and Fred wniiams, treasurer. Directors-O. E. Brookhyser, y Reed, W. C. Hennessee, W T c:znjrF- c?rbin and ciaude' Entertainment and Concession* O E Brookhyser, chairman. Fell* bell 'mef' and Charlie Ca<"f Finance-Roy Reed, chairman, Jennings Bryson, and B. E. Harris. Giounds and Equipment?W. C. Hennessee, chairman, VV. V Cono and Ralph Smith. ' P ' ^ A' Gray'-_chai1*man, ? VN ? T. Brown. Exhibits J. F. Corbin, chair man. \y. t. Brown. M. L. Snipes. J i.cniium Committee ? Claude Campbell. chairman, Ro.-coe Po tfet, Frank Brown. Grayson C-jpe. and .James L. Rae, Jr. Awards wUL be made for first second and third placing of the following entries: livestock Wyk i Horae??1st?best <Mlr' work hone*. 2nd_best individual work horse. 3rd-best saddle horse. Mule? 1st?best pair mules. Dairy Cattle (any breed or mix ea) 1st?best dairy cow. 2nd? best heifer, one year and over. 3rd ?best heifer under one year. i ?best steer (6 to 15 mos, old). 2nd?best beef steer (under 6 months old) Best beef cow, best beef heifer (over 6 months). Best beef bull. Best beef herd, composed of bull cow and calf of one breed. Swine Best pig (under 6 mos.) est pig (over 6 months), best (over one year). Best purebred boar. Sheep?Best purebred ram Best ewe. Best lamb. Bcst pen> PIymouth Rock, 3 pullets and rooster. Best (Continued on page 10) Miss Snelson Is Missionary vT T"ckase'gee Asso. Miss Pauline Snelson, since June I. has been working as association ?,sslonary for the Tuckaseigee County. aSSOCiat,on ln Jackson . Miss Snelson attended Mars HilL College -and Western Carolina Teachers College and taught in the public schools of Buncombe "unty. She attended the South WoSrthnrBaPtiSt Seminary- Fort 1947 Ir3'; 8raduatin* ^ May, i?47. She taught Bible in the Public schools of Barnardsville last year. Miss Snelson fill., the vacancy caused by the resignation of Rev. Clarence Vance last November when he became pastor of one of t-e Baptist churches of Boone. State Chamber Of Commerce To Hold 1948 Convention Here Felix Picklesimer, chairman of the guests. the Convention Committee, has an-j Mr. Picklesimer stated that, with nounced that the Chamber c.f Com- the help of the citizens of Sylva, merce Executives of the various, we can make this the biggest *and organizations in North Carolina best convention that has been held, will hold their 1948 State conven- and he has attended conventions tion in Sylva September 13 ar.<i 14? in other cities. Reservations ere being made Fo* Hunter. To Meet, ^lina, Hotel, Lloyd hotel, Jarretts | Waynesville, July 24 Springs hotel and tourist courts The Haywodd - Jackson Fox and homes. Hunters Association will hold * A tour through the Smokies with meeting at the court house in W*f a picnic at the Cherokee Indian j nesville July 24 (Saturday) at Reservation is on the program with p.m. All hunters are requested t& other special entertainment for be there. C. P. Dillard, Sec.-Trtas.