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NO. XXIII NO. 10
Sylva, N. C. Thursday, August 5, 1918
$2.00 A Year?5c Copy
William E. Dillard Post
Installs New Officers At
Meeting With Auxiliary
Membership Drive On,*
Club House To Be Re
modeled And Enlarged
At the last meeting of the Wil
liam E. Dillard Pest of the Amer
ican Legion No. 104 the members
of the Legion and Ladies' Auxiliary
enjoyed a joint gathering, which
included installation of the new
officers for 1948-49. A most de
lious watermelon feast was en
joyed as part of the refreshments.
The social gathering was a real
success and another will be sched
uled at an early date.
Officers installed at this meet
ing were:^ F. M. Williams, Com
mander; R. O. Wilson, 1st Vice
Commander; D. V. Frye, 2nd Vice
Commander; George Sloan, Ad
jutant; Venoy Reed, Finance Of
ficer; W. Q. Grigg, Chaplain; Ed
Bryson, Sgt.-at-Arm; T. Walter
Ashe, Service Officer. L. H. Hig
don, Membership, and M. L.
Snipes, Historian.
Committees appointed: Member
ship?L. H. Higdon, Chairman; O.
E. Mcnteith, and D. M. Tallent.
Finance?Vrtaoy Reed, chairman;
Felix Picklesimer, and Raymond
Sutton.
House?George Sloan, chairman;
Ralph Green, R. L. Glenn, Jr.
Legal?Dan Tompkins, chairman:
Dexter Hooper.
Publicity ? Felix Picklesimer,
chairman; M. L. Snipes.
Service Officer?T. Walter Ashe
Visiting?W. Q. Grigg, chairman
Woody Hampton, Bud Monteith,
and D. V. Frye.
American?John F. Ccrbin
chairman; Britton Moore.
Athletic?Porter Scroggs, chair
man; Paul Warren and Clyde Rec
tor.
Building?R. U. Sutton, chair
man; R. O. Wilson^tT fl. Hi'&don,
Ed Bryson, Britton Moore.
Dance?R. O. Wilscn, chairman;
Joe Ted Wilson, R. L. Glenn, Ralph
Green and George Sloan.
NEW MEMBERS
A continued list of new and re
newed memberships for 1949 are:
Dexter Hooper, Frank Bumgarner,
Michael Strong, Thomas L. Clay
ton, Harold B. Morgan, Sr., Porter
R. Scroggs, L. H. Cannon, Dr. T. D.
Slagle, David S. Stillwell, Joseph
M. Allison, Edward W. Wilson,
Paul L. Warren, Frank Allman,
William W. Buchanan, Joseph F
Wilscn, Joseph Howard Revis, Ed
ward Watson, Carl L. Cagle, Jr.,
Woody R. Hampton, Charles C.
Pettit, Ervin C. Buchanan, Dan'
Swanson,' Joseph Carl Corbin, Ed
Brycon, Thomas E. P.cklesimer.
James Hubert Potts, Jr., W. Q.
,Grgg, and Robert E. Allison.
This brings the list up to date as
has been turned over to -the Ad
jutant through Tuesday, August 3
TO REMODEL CLUB HOUSE
Since securing the Community
buildir.g frcm the town to be used
as Legion headquarters a remodel
ing plan is underway which calls
for installation of a heating sys
tem, new roof and other extensive
repairs ard enlargement.
Body Of T-4 Bowers
Returned To States
The bedy of T-4 Benjamin Al
bert Bowers, 27, son oi' Mr. and
Mrs. F. M. Bowers, of Tuckaseigee
arrived in Sylva Tuesday evening
at 7 o'clock by Moody Funeral
Home ambulance from the railroad
at Asheville.
T-4 Bowers died in the South Pa
cific June 2, 1945. He was induct
ed into service January 16, 1943.
Funeral service will be held Fri
day at 3 p. m. from the home and
burial will be in the Laurel Branch
cemetery near Bryson City, with
the William E. Dillard Post in
charge of the graveside rites.
Rev. Charlie Conner will offi
ciate.
Surviving are the parents, four
brothers, Joe, of Cashiers; David,
Pink and Jessie, of Tuckaseigee. I
Also two sisters, Sarah and Bobby,
of Tuckaseigee.
Heavy Rains Cause
Damage In Sections
Of Western North Car.
Although continued showers
since last Saturday through Tues-|
day night put streams of Jackson
County to bank-full no flood dam
age was reported. Hard rains in
Transylvania and Henderson sent
streams out of banks to do con
siderable damage to crops, espec
ially truck crops in Henderson
county. Sylva citizens Welcomed
the clearing skies Wednesday1
morning.
CHEST X-RAY UNIT
TO BEGIN WORK IN
SYLVA THIS ft.M. \
The St3te Board of Health mo
bile unit for making chest X-rays
in Jackson County, will begin work
in Sylva today at 1 o'clock, and
will continue to operate here
through August 21. The hours for
examinations are from 11 a. m. to
5 p. m. daily except Monday. Hun
dreds of Jackson citizens have had
X-rays since the unit began oper
ating in the rural communities
July 15. |
Hampton Named To
WNCAC Committee
Wocdy R. Hampton, of Reece
Hampton Motor Company, is one
of the members of a committee
appointed last Friday in Hender
sonville by the Western North
Carolina Associated Communities
fcr the purpose of investigating
reasons for the closing of the Ashe
ville office of the state Wildfire
Resources commission. Kelly Ben.
nett of Brysor. City and G. C. Rich
r.rdson, of Hendersonville are the
other members cf the committee.
The national sweet potato crcpi
is the smallest sir.ee 1924. A har
vest oi 50 million bushels is indi-?
cated.
WCTC Farm And Home Week
Cancelled For This Year
CULLOWHEE ? The first an
nual Farm and Home Week pro
gram, scheduled to have been held
at Western Carclina Teachers col
lege August 9-13, has oeer. callled
off unt.l next year on recommenda
tion o. state health authorities.
Ti:e executive committee, of the
event, whicn wrs expec*ed to draw
some 3,000 persons irom 12 West
ern North Caroiina counties, reach
ed the decision at a meeting in the
Gecrge VinderbvJt hotel "in Ashe
ville Monday night.
Amo::?? speakers scheduled to ap
pear on t:'.c oio.^n.m were \V. Kerr
Scott, Dv.:r civt c nominee ;or gov
ernor; Dr. Ciy.lo A. Erwin, state
suneri/.'endc-.it of public instruc
tion, <.nd Ser.a'^r James Po:>e. a
director cf the Tennessee .Valley
authority. ^
Tie committee decided to present
the same progr. m, as nearly as
possible, on August 19, 1949. The
event is sponsored by the college
with close cooperation by the North
Carolina Exter.s.ca service, the
s:ate department of vocational edu-'
cation and the Tennessee Valley,
authority.
Member? of the committe which
met in Asheville Monday night are!
W. B. Hc-rrill. chairman, Tal H.j
Stafford, Mr.>. Pauline Hotchkiss I
R. W. Schoii'r.er, H. Bueck, A. J.
Hutchins, F. H. Erown, Jr., and W.
B. Coll.ns.
Counties affected by the post-1
pcnement are Graham, Clay, Cher
okee, Swain, Jackson, Macon
Hay v.* o .^d, T r. r.s y 1 va n i a, Bun combe
Hender.on, M::and Yancey
W. C. Norton Discharged
From Sylva Hospital
Friend,: of Mr. \V. C. Norton cf
Cullcwhee, w/.o ra>- been a pat.er.t
in Harris Community hospital for
several dav>. will be glad to know
that he has improved sufficiently
to return to his home on Monday
afternoon. Mr. Norton is 92 years
old and this is his first real s$k
ne.rs.
Science Applied To N. C. Forest
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Developed through cooperation of the Duke Univer
sity School of Forestry with the Farmers Mutual Ex
change, a program has been instituted for applying
scientific forestry practices to the woodlands areas of
J individual North Carolina farms. One of the many
I participants in the new program is Mr. J. H. Martin of
Hillsboro, Route 1, who is pictured above measuring
one of the large pines growing in his properly thinned
stand.
Wildlife Commission Warns
'Against Illegal Game Take
Executive Director Clyde P. Pat-;
ton of the N. C. Wildlife Resource?;
Commission warned today that ac_i
ticn may be taken to prohibit per-|
sons from taking young deer fori
the purpose of keeping them as
pets.
North Carolina law makes it il
legal to take any game bird or
game animal at any time except
during open season without first
having obtained a special permit
to -do so. The word "take" as de
fined by law means pursuing,
shooting, hunting, killing, captur
ing, trapping, snaring, or netting
"Although special permits to
keep game birds or animals are is
sued in some cases where the in
tent is to keep such birds or ani
mals for propagation purposes, no
permits will be granted to keep
deer as pets," Patton said. "People
often find fawns bedded down in
woodland areas, and because the
parent animals are nowhere in
sight, assume-that the fawns have
been deserted or orphaned. In
nearly all cases where fawns are
found by themselves in-the woods
the p:rent animals are somewhere
about and will take care of their
your.g if left unmolested.
"Fawns naturally have a lean,!
emacirted appe: ranee, and this
fact o.ten le.:ds people to mis-di
rected efforts of kindness which.]
however well-meant, are illegal."!
Although deer are relatively!
easy to raise in captivity, they fre
quently become a nuisance and of.,
ten dangerous when they reach!
maturity.
5 Jackson Men Leave For
Two Weeks Army Training
T-4 Wiiliam C. Collins, S. Sgt.l
Dennis C. Higdon, Jr., T-3 Frank
W. Moody cT-4 Hoy W. Middle-i
ten, left Saturday for Fort Bel-j
voir, Va.. follow.ng orders from
Third Ar ry h?adqusrters in Fort
McPner>o . G- .. to report fcr 15 i
;tays speci..l training.
NEW JEWELRY STORE :
TO OPEN SATURDAY i
Messrs. Edmond J. Nicholson'
and Jam?s Lee Harris are the
jwrcrs ci".d operators of a new
jewelry st??re. t< be known ; De
t) h.ive it.
formal op'-oins Saturday mornimf
at U oVi^.'. Toe* new st>re w;!i
jarry all lines of items us'j;.1'\
; rrieci 1:1 a .-tore of tr.is type. T icy
wi'.l ;1>j do uaivj.i ur.d jewelry
rep irirg.
Mr. Nichols ,n formerly operated
Nicholson's repair shop .n the bus
station building.
The new stnre is located in the
".Id Svlva Pharmacy building next
'o Wallio's Sr.oe store.
Jackson Has No New
Cases Of Polio ?
Jackson County still remains
in the low bracket of polio cases
with only three cases which de
veloped two weeks ago. These
patients are reporting to be
making good progress at the
Asheville orthopedic hospital,
and will soon be able to return
to their homes. The two children
sent to Ashevilie Monday of this
week did not have polio, physl
cians of the hospital reported.
They returned to their homes.
Names For Draft Board
Certified To Raleigh
Jackson County will have the
same draft board as it had during,
World War II if the members re
cently recommended for the post
accept the jcb. The men named
to serve are: C. C. Buchanan, O.
E. Monteith and D. L. Robinson !
J. H. Morris was named as appealj
agent. I
Following confirmation from
Selective Service headquarters m
Washington and Raleigh and ac
ceptance by the men the office
will be set up here.
FUNERAL SERVICES
FOR S. SGT. JAMES
RERUN BUMGARNER
Funeral services for S. S'?t. James
Berlin Bumgarner, whose body
will arrive in Sylva te-morrow,
August 6, will be held Sunday af
ternoon at 3 o'cloc k at the home of
his mother, Mrs. R. C. Bumgarner,!
Whittier, Rt. 1. Rev. Jrhn L. Hyatt,'
pastor of the Wilmot Baptistj
church will officiate. assisted by i
Rev. Charles K. Parker and Rev.
Henry Cochran.
P. 11 bearers will be .-elected from
the American Legion and he will i
he buried with full military honors,
in charge of tne American Legion,
of Sylva.
Burial will be in the Bumgarner |
cemetery.
St;t. Bumgarner. born on N'ovem-;
her 30. 1912. was 32 years cf agej
:.t the t me of his de< til.
He entered ?rrv;ce .n November.'
we -1 oversets in July. 1S4?,
w< s wounded February 1J.
:.?i die J the f liu.vir.4 fi: .y, wi.iie
ervn.g wi'h General Pa'ton's ar
>?> V
? *? ? )
Surviving aie the mother; lw<.
brothers, Marshall of Ann Walt.
W. Vn.j and Glenn of Matthew?.
W. Va.; four sisters, Mr.-. L. BJ
Hooper, Hazelwcod, Mrs. Keryor
Hyde, Maryville, Tenn., Mrs. O.
rar Bryant and Miss Frankie Bum
garner of Frankl n.
3 CAPTURED IN
MACON CHARGED
WITH ROBRERY !
$20,000 Bonds Are Set
For Their Appearance
In Franklin Court
Franklin ? Floyd L. Phillips. 3f>.
* 1
and nis wife. Bonnie Phillips, 23.)
ci' M.ddlesboro, Ky.. and Bnrn,
Garlard, 22, of Cumberland Gap,!
Tenne-see. waived preliminary
I
herring before Magistrate Moore,
in Franklin Monday, on separate
warrants charging them with
breaking a*nd entering and safe
cracking and the possession of bur
glary tools.
Bonds were set at $20,000 each
fcr their appearance at Macon
county court August 23. Mrs. Gar
land waived hearing on a charge
of possessing burglary tools and
bond was set for her appearance at
$50tt
The four were arrested by Pri
chard Smith, Jr., State Highway
patrolman, and C. D. Baird, chief
of police of Franklin, last Tues
day after Phillips had asked pat
rolman Smith the direction to
Highlands. When Smith asked to
search his car, Phillips fled on foot
and was captured after a short
chase.
The Phillips couple and Garland
are charged with entering Potts
Brothers store in Highlands on the
morning of July 10, at which time
$2,000 in cash and checks were
stolen. Two wrecking bars, a crow
bar, a rock hammer, chisels, pun
ches, blackout flashlights, gloves
and a loaded revolver were found
.n the automobile.
* Mrs. Phillips confessed to the
Highland robbery and to several
<th(T> in Western North Carolina
The men were moved to the Bry
son City jail, while the women
were lodged fti tlie Macon county
jail.
Postpone Phillips
Annual Reunion
It has been announced that the
annual reunion of the Phillips
family at Cullowhee, which has
usually been held the 3rd Sua<
day in August each, year, will not
be held on this date this year due
to the polio situation. If it is de
cided to hold the annual gathering
later in the fall announcement will
be made through The Herald.
MRS. ELLIE BRYSON
PASSES AT NORTON
Mrs. Ellie Pratt Bryson, 74,
widow of the late Will A. Bryson,
died at her heme near Norton,
early Sunday morning.
Funeral services were held at
the Wesleyan Methodist church at
Glenville at 11 o'clock Sunday
morning. The Rev. Gertrude Farm,
er, pastor of the church, officiated.
Burial was in the Glenville Com
munity cemetery.
Pallbearers were Howard, Ar
thur and Roy Blackburn, Buddyj
Holcien, Lloyd- Hooper and Roy!
Moody. i
Surviving are three sons, Frank,]
Arthur and Everett; a daughter.'
Mi:s Edith Bryson. all of Norton: 1
two sister-. M: >. Lura Daniels J
and Mrs. Na.'n.e Sat: >n of Little!
Rock, Arkan. as; a::d two giand-.
children.
Garrett Funeral Home of Way
nesviile was m charge of arrange
ments.
CONGRESS EXPECTS
TO WINDUP SPECIAL
SESSION TUESDAY
Republic.' r. rong/essmen l;egan aj
drive yesterd y t?> end tlie spe'iall
>e.-sion, ci 1..i by President Tru
na , by r.e::t Tuesday.
Little w .- accomplished as the
; >p:.s;r.g r.i.tic- wrangled over
s*?ch m^u'.r> a- p< l!-tax and civil
rights oils, ic't.r.g t/e m?:e im
.rf i i.- ? :: - V iM' lat ion, ho'Js
i.,:< r : , >ver a: a:.other se
School Hus Drivers' School'
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?There will be a bus drivers'
school held at the school bus gar
age on August 12 at ten o'clock in
the morning. The purpose of this,
-chool is to try-out and test anyi
new drivers that are to operate!
buses for the first time. All new]
David 31. Hall Will Open
Law Offices Here Today
For General Practice
. ?
Free Clinics Available To
Jackson County People
Fviilowing is a 1.>t 01 t..e tree
clinics available to the ci'izens"^?!
Svlva and Jacket n county.' giving
the days and oflice hotfrs. We
siloes: you clip this list k r.d save
!<>r ready reference.
Sylva ? Every Tuesday. Dr.;
Michals Hours, 1:00 p.m. to 3:30
p.m.; County Nurse Hours, 8.30
a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ? Every Satur
day, County Nurse Hours, 8:30 a J
m. to 12 noon.
Cashiers ? Every Thursday. I
County Nurse Hours, 1:00 p.m. tc,
4.00 p.m. ? Every Third Friday.'
Dr. Michal, 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.i
Bryson City Court House ? Or- j
thopedic Clinic. Every 3rd Sat-,
urday, 9:00 a.m. to 12 noon.
Asheville Eye Clinic ? City)
Hall. Every Tuesday and every,
other Friday, by appointment.
Asheville Child Guidance Clinic,;
City health department ? Every ?
Monday morning, 9:00 a.m. to 12'
noon.
Asheville Mission Hospital ?!
Every Tuesday, 9:45 a.m. to 11:30
a.m., Cancer Clinic.
The County nurse reports 400
h.ive completed immunization a-,
gainst typhoid, diphtheria, whoop-1
ing cough, and smallpox during
the first three weeks of the clinics
in Jackson county.
CURB MARKET FOR
SYLVA TO OPEN !
HERE AOGUST14
At a meeting of the J'nck>on
County Council and members of
the Curb Market committee held
in the courthouse Tuesday morn
ing it was aranged to have thej
formal opening of the curb mtf-|
ket in Sylva August 14 at 8:30 a.m.
The market Will be located on the
\vacant lot next to Moody Funeral
home.
Further announcement will be
made next week.
Local Lions Return
From Nat. Convention
The four delegates from the
Sylva Lions Club, Hugh Monteith,1
Grayson Cope, Rudy Hardy and
Roy Reed, returned Monday night
from the Internatic nal Liors con
vention held in New York City.
The delegates report a most sue-'
cessful meeting, with much ac-i
complished and great plans laid I
for the~~commg year to carry onj
the work sponsored by the Lior.s
clubs all over the world.
The local men saw several big-j
league ball games, as well as most
of the more familiar landmarks of
the big towry, such as Radio City,
Rockefeller Center, St;.tue of Lib
erty. etc.
drivers are required to attend this
school.
Overcomes Great Physical
Handicap, Leads Classes
At University Of N. C.
Overcoming a great physical
nandicap oi paralysis in~ his legs
c; used from a bruise in play on the
athletic field during his young
school days in Sylva, David Hall,
son of Mrs. Ed;tn Moore Hall, and
trie late David M. Hall, has success
tully completed his University
training in the Law School with
ranking honors, and is now ready
to begin the general practice ot
law. Mr. Hall will formally open
office here today on the street
floor of the building formerly oc
cupied by Blue Ribbon Shoe Shop
on Main street.
In preparing himself for law Mr.
Hall is carrying out a traditional
profession of members of his fam
ily. He is a nephew of Judge
Dan K. Moore, grandson of the
late Judge Fred Moore, great
nephew ol the late Judge Walter
E. Moore.
The young attorney began hU
education in the public schools of
Sylva and after his accident he
was accepted as a special student
at the University of North Caro
lina in 1943. His first year at the
university was in pre-medicine and
then he changed the next year and
was accepted as a special student in
the law school. In June 1947 he
received a certificate of law from
the school and successfully passed
the State Bar in August, 1947. He
then went back to, the University
lor a year's post-graduate work
\vhere he received an LLB in law,
tf.e first ever to be granted a spe
cial law >tudent from the school.
While at the University he was
active in various capacities. He
was president of Phi Delta Phi,
"Jiorforary: teffcl fraternity at the
University. He received two
copies of American Jurisprudence
lor the highest grade the first year
in class; received Phi Delta Phi
award in senior year lor leader
ship and scholarship; was president
of the Inter-dormitory Council:
chairman of council of presidents;
member and chairman ol Dean's
advisory council; member board of
directors of Graham Memorial'
member cabinet, and secretary
treasurer of Law Association.
Mr. Moore was able to carry all
this work despite his having to
use a wheel chair to get about from
activity to activity.
He married Miss Sarah McCol
lum, of Bradenton, Fla., formerly
head of a hall of nursing at Duke,
who later studied for two years at
the University. Mr. and Mrs. Hall
will make their home in Sylva.
Egg^prodtfctiori per hen was the
highest <wjvrecorti during June, but
the total of five billion eggs was
the ?m:ille.>t for the month since
1942, because of a decrease in the
number of layers.
Theatre In The Sky To Present
"The Drunkard99 At Cullowhee
The "The;.tre In The Sky" com 'Mother, Mrs. Wilson.
pany of Waynesville will present
a special perlormance ol "Trie
Drunkard" Thursday, Aug. 5, at
the Hoey Auditorium .11 Cuilfewl.ee.
The play will be spons red by the
Boy Scouts 01 Cullowhee.
The cuitain will rise at 8:30 and
tickets i.re on s. ie at tne bo\
.jiiice, T..j entire production is
under the diixvti n of Maur:ce
Geoflrey, fnunde;* of tr.e "Theatre
In T.h- Sky".
"The Drunkard" was first pre
sented by P. T. Barnum at the
Boston Mu>eum in 1844 and has
since been revived thousands of
times all over the world. The play
.vill bf? perfo mei here with all
I of thr? mei 'dr m. tic effec ts'of ;he
:jinctffii* h ce::t.?;y. Pe.nuts will
. jc s- 'Ivi I). v.vet n .-cenes and au
diences can tnrew them at the
, v.ilain. Tr.e play m 4 acts and
12 scenes with live speciM stat;e
settings designed by Elma Ilene
Geoffrey and Ivan Lynn.
George Pillette plays the title
role and Ehvyn Dearborn appears
as Lawyer Cribbs, the villiain
Ella Beth Hurst plays Mary with
1 Virginia Shields appearing as her
Doreen O'Neill Curtis will play
Agnes, the mad sister, a role she
played for an entire season in the
Miami production of the "Drunk
ard".
The large east also includes Don
ald E. Vogt, Melvin Pomene. Rob
ert King, Ivan Lvnn. Nancy Floyd.
Betty Lee Gibson, Juanita Collins,
James Davis, Jewell Campbell.
Valerie Lee Kaufman, Franklin
Thornton, Faye Szeraine Kaufman
Marcella Louise Geoffrey and W
Lawrence Benson, Marion Robin
son, pianist, plays the musical score
of the production.
Talent featured in the Ohio in
| eludes Miss Ida Lou Gibson, of
Wiivnesville, < Charles Isley, music
j director of Waynesville High
Schol, ar.d Miss Martha Metzger.
of Tampa.. Community singing led
by Mr. Benson will Mature songs
popular at the turn cf the century.
Tnis will be the first presenta
tion of "The Drunkard" in West
ern North Carolina and will prove
highly entertaining to both old and
young.
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SOS8AMON'S In Sytvft