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Til E S Y L V A II E RALD Published By THE HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY Sylva. North Carolina The County Seat of Jackson County J. A. GRAY and J. M. BIRD Publisher*. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Entered at the post office at Sylva, N. C., a? Second Cla>s Mail Matter, as provided under the Act of March 3, 1879, November 20, 1914. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In Jackson County $2.00 Six Months. In Jackson County 1.25 One Year, Outside Jackson County 2.50 Six Months, Outside Jackson County 1.50 All Subscriptions Payable In Advance x" Nortii mss Associa; ' - O--' To Crack Down On Old Cars ? If you have neglected to nave your mo tor vehicle inspected by one of the State Motor Vehicle lanes, or have had your car inspected and received a red, rejection sticker, you will not be permitted to op erate such automobile or truck on the highways of North Carolina after Tues day, August 31. This is the final deadline for motor vehicle owners in Jackson county to operate without displaying the blue approved sticker. This information was given The Herald Monday of this week, and is a warning from the Stal^ Highway patrol that such vehicles will be removed from the roads. Owners of these cars will have a chance to have the inspection made ti*om August 12 through 19, which is the last week the lane will be in operation in the county this year. Those who wish to continue us ing these cars and trucks will have to have this inspection made during this time, or else go to some other county where the lane is operating orr or before August 31. You will not be permitted to drive your unapproved vehicle after Aug ust 31. This inspection is being made as a part of the Staie s concerted efforts to reduce the tremendous highway death and in jured record.. A law requiring this inspec tion was passed at the 1947 session of the general assembly and it is a protection lor everyone using the highways. Be sure and know that your, car is in good mechanical condition at times, and then drive it safely. A SPLENDID SAFETY RECORD ? Both management and employees of the Sylva Division of The Mead Corpora tion are to be congratulated upon having attained a perfect 12 months "no lost time accident" record. Having won the National Safety Council's Safety award for mills of this type, is indeed a record of safety of which they should be justly proud. The citizens ot Sylva and Jack son County extend hearty congratula tions and hope to see the mill go on through another year to win the award again. i In winning .this award every man em ployed by the mill has shared. If they had not been safety conscious, alert work men they could not have possibly attain ed this record. The paper making industry is considered a most hazardous industry. There are hundreds of ways workmen may become seriously or critically in jured if they are the least bit careless on the job. Some very serious accidents have occured at the mill in the past. But with the safety program now conducted by management, participated in by labor, these accidents are becoming more rare each year. As the employees of the mill celebrate their achievement today The Herald ex tends very best wishes for a continued Safety Record. Serving A Great Need ? When the Asheville Orthopedic Home was established some 12 years ago it was principally for the treatment of the crip pled children of Buncombe county. It soon won popular recognition through out Western North Carolina and its foun ders and managers offered its services to the crippled children of all Western North Carolina, with monthly clinics held in Bryson City in order to locate children from the surrounding counties who needed hospital treatment. The usefulness of the Home has grown out of all proportion to what the founders ever dreamed of. Frank Barber, of Ashe ville, one of the moving spirits behind its establishment, told the Sylva Rotarians INSIDE WASHINGTON n.l'NDERJET RATED HIGH ? It hasn't gotten the headlines because the World War II Lockheed Shooting Star hed a running- start. But the Republic Thunderjet is the Air Force's jet "sweet heart"' now. xur K>ree chiefs are enthusiastic about the plane's easy controllability and out standing stability. It has been learned that in ail the hundreds of hours of flight testing only two pilots have been killed. This is an unusually low cost in life in the testing of new warplanes, especially jets which still aren't fully understood. ? 1 * DEMOCRATIC SENATE? ? Prac tically no realistic Democrat believes the Truman-Barkley ticket will win in No vember. But they have fervent hopes of capturing control of the Senate. They would have to pick up four seats now held by Republicans. There are 18 GOP places to be filled and the Demo crats feel that if they can enter strong candidates in selected spots they may have an outside chance of winning. With Senator Barkley as No. 2 "man on the national list, the Democrats see a possible victory in Kentucky where Sen ator Cooper, Republican, is up for elec tion. ICKES FOLLY? ? The government has a super-de luxe radio broadcasting studio of which it would like to be rid. > Authorized by former Secretary of In terior Ickes, it is located on the top floor of the new Interior building. It has red plush carpeted floors, ela borate balconies and thick plate glass enclosures. Commercial firms can't use it because it is federal property. And no government agency wants it. The State department turned down suggestions that it be utilized for "Voice of America" broadcasts. These programs are sent from New York and San Fran-1 cisco where foreign broadcast facilities are readily available. "'TED" ? A former member of the New Jersey state legislature thinks that Thomas E. Dewey's initials are just asi adaptable to headlines as the familiar FDR.. - : But, as far as he's concerned, "TED" is only the beginning. He's trying to con-! vince some 1,000 editors that they should expand this to "Teddy." .His idea probably doesn't have much chance of clicking. "TED" suggests, "Teddy" all right. But that, in turn, sug gests "Roosevelt." And that might lead to all kinds of confusion. POLITE SUGGESTIONS ? The State: department is not receiving exactly the anticipated response from its new "sug-x gestion box." The box is set up in the or nate lobby of the new building ? built originally to house the War department when Secretary George C. Marshall was chief of staff. Above the box is an ornate sign, 10 feet high by 20 feet long, begging "any! suggestions." It is all part of a new pro motion plan, designed to result in the. more efficient operation of the depart-1 ment and its foreign service. Employes and foreign service officers may make suggestions for which they will receive from $10 to $1,000 in prizes. Thus far, suggestions have asked to know why the cafeteria food couldn't; be improved, why the department could n't be moved back from its remote site in "Foggy Bottom" and similar minor mat ters. The most pungent has been one ad dressed to Marshall, saying, "Why don't you resign?" Tuesday evening of its founding and of the work and growth of the Home. The work of the Home' in rehabilitating crip pled children and children stricken with polio, has been so effective and its ad ministration so successful that indivi duals, clubs, labor unions and other groups have been willing to put funds into it for carrying on the work. The Home is now filling its greatest nee;d in that it is equipped and able to relieve the suffering of so many polio victims, while without this treatment, these children might become permanent cripples, prob ably-many of them failing to survive at all. * That is one project that we recom mend to all Jackson county citizens. Your funds, large or small, toward its opera tion will do much to help some one's child, probably your own. Tin* Evervilav 4 omiMklloi* By R b V. HERBERT SP-AUGH. D. D. I: y -u h.?w an '/.ni'-reiving spirit h. c i ..a. '~o. ? hat>? and jealousy y c. n t e\ v>! v ur prayer to get ;.:iy hiH.^e; t the ceiling. A letter lri<m .? correspondent ;s now i^n my dc">k to wnich 1 would like to give full personal reply, but trv: address is lacking. It ;s a long recital by a young woman, of wrong done ;ier by a young man with whom she war deeply in love He left her, and now she writes c? s k i n g prayer that "God will make him so mis erable that he can have no rest day nor night until he comes back to me and begs for mercy and for giveness. A prayer like that from one who breath's such a spirit can expect no answer from Gcd. One pray ing such a prayer can't even get half way through the Lord's pray-; er, which in the middle reads,' ? Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us." Such a prayer, however, does bring an answer, but one of an en tirely different sort. Hatred, bit terness, and an unforgiving spirit art deadly poisons, which not only dry up the springs of happiness, but bring one toward a premature grave. We think of love and hate as qualities of disposition, but they are far more than that. They are dynamic emotions which enrich or destroy life. I When we enter a room cr join| a group of people where they hate one another, we can quickly feel it in a sense of friction. When we go into a home where there is love and understanding the atmosphere too is apparent and uplifting. I often sense both as I move around among people^ I can even feel, when I go into large! groups whether they are friendly or hostile. It is told that among certain Walter B. Thomas Named Jiead Of Odell School * -Walter B. Thomas, son of Mrs. isola Thomas of Sylva, and a former resident of Sylva, has'ac cepted the principalship of the W. R. Odell school in western Cabar rus county, and with his wife and four year old daughter, has gone there to make his home and as sume his duties. Mr. Thomas is a graduate of Western Carolina Teachers college' and completed his work for his| Master's degree at the University | of North Carolina at the end of| the recent six weeks summerl school at that institution. Walter, as he is known to his i many friends here, goes to his! new job highly recommended from W.C.T.C., U. N. C.. the county board of education Forsyth county, wh re he taught for eight years ?nd from the board of education in Cherckee, having been princi pal of the Hiawassee Dam school for. the past five years. Nick Hennessee, editor of the Concord Tribune, writes Mr. Thom as that he is to be congratulated upon being chosen principal of the Odell school. He succeeds J. C. Purser who resigned recently to become principal of the David Townsend school in Davidson county. y'iw^e tribes in AT:ua there is a| v o: cau?i!".? the death of an ..>? o *\v bv making an image of! him, then .-ticking pirs or spears| i;:tw wir.-.t would be the vital spot; it were the actual victim. Then I !i ey -? ej to it that word of this] reaches him, while they con- i cent rate all oi' their hatred upon him. Travelers among these savages tell us the method worked, and explain that it is probably fear on the part of the one who is hated that brings on death. Fear, hatred, jealously, bitter ness, s lf-pity are all deadly pois ons. Those who cultivate such slowly kill all happiness and con tentment out of their lives, even tually commiting suicide, athough they may actually die of some dis tase. Back of that disease is a deadly emotional poison. The writer of this letter will get a terrible answer to her prayer unkss she changes her attitude. God gave an answer to this when He said, "Love your enemies; pray for them which spitefully use you." TIMBER TALKS By W. C. HENNESSEE This issue and the two following will contain information princi pally for the farmer who plans to do some timber cutting during the "lay by" season. First, we will suggest the best and simplest means of selecting trees that are to be cut, second, how to tell how much volume is in each tree, and third, how to determine how much the tree is worth. To begin with, let us assume you have forty acres of timber. You want to know whether the tim ber is ready to be cut. Here is a good rule of thumb to follow in determining your answer. (1) Are many of the large trees dead in the tops7~T2) Are the white oak and poplar twenty-two inches large in diameter, the red oaks and chestnut oak eighteen inches, the post oak, scarlet oak and. hick? ( ory sixteen inches? (3) Do the trees , stand closer together than the av-, erage diameter plus six feet (for; example twenty-eight feet apart, for twenty-two inch white oak,! twenty-four feet for eighteen inchj red oak, etc)? If the answers to, all of these questions is "yes" a portion of your timber is ready to ( be harvested and you should make immediate plans to begin logging. Before you do any actual logging, though, you will want to know how much to cut and where to sell it. The next issue will tell how the volume of trees is measured. Every tree is a money tree when properly 'harvested. LET'S KEEP JACKSON COUNTY GREEN! CARD OF THANKS .We wish to thank our many friends and neighbors for the kind, ness and sympathy shown us dur ing the sickness and death of our dear mother, also for the beautiful floral offering. Aunt Ellis Bry i son's Family. Secretary of Agriculture Bran nan hcs again urged farmers to in crease the nation's future meat supply by holding back, rather than selling, enough bred sows and gilts now on hand to increase the fall pig crop by at lease 10 per cent. ANNOUNCING New Shipment of Crystal GLASTONBURG Crystal In LOGAN AND SANDRA Patterns Visit Our New Store And See Our wide Selection of Jewelry, Crystal and China - - Gifts DEPENDABLE JEWELERS ? Edmond J. Nicholson ? James Lee Harris, Owners NantahalcL.National Forest Paying Dividends In Timber Schools and roads in sewn North Carolina, counties will share in the income resulting lrv.ni the cutting of timber on the Nan tana la Nation al Forest du.:ng the fiscal year end ed Jane 30, E. W. Ronshaw, Forest Supervisor, reported today. The outstanding record of accom plishment during the war and post war years has been maintained in a very satisfactory manner, Su pervisor Renshaw declared. He said that private operators cut 42 million board feet of timber's for which they paid the federalj government $101,000. This com-' pares with almost identical vol ume cuts during Fiscal Years 1946 and 1947. It is the third time in the history of the Forest that tim-j ber sale receipts have exceeded a hundred thousand dollars. On a regional-state basis, the, National Forests cf North Carolina,1 the Nantahala and Pisgah, ranked third in the Southern Region with a combined cut of 65,453,000 board feet valued at $257,300. North Car olina was out ranked only by the Mississippi National Forests with a cut of 91,140.000 board feet and Arkansas with a cut of 67,982,000 board feet. Sometime in January, seven counties in which the Nantahala ?National Forest is located will re ceive approximately $25,000 of the year's timber income, since 25% of gross receipts from the National Forests is returned to the state in lieu of taxes for distribution to the counties in which the National Forests lie. Another 10%, $10,000, will be available to the Forest Service for construction and main tenance of roads within th2 Forest. The balance is returned by the U. S. Treasury^ the Supervisor stated. Among the larger purchasers of s^wtimber were Zickgraf Lumber Company. Franklin, X. C., Lake To.\. \\\ y Lumber Company, Eng lisr Lumber Company, and Gen net: Lumber Company oi' Abbe ville. X. C\. and W. M. Hitter Lum ber Company. Hayesv.lle, X. C. A larg? portion of the timber volume cut from the Forest was in tiie form oi' chestnut extracted wood, which was consumed by Champion Paper and Fibre Co., Mead Corporation and Teas Extract Company. More important than the stumpage values paid into the U. S. Treasury and returned to the counties is the estimated S1 ,? 400,000 which was paid out in the National Forest Counties fcr labor and services in logging and pro cessing this timber. Mr. Renshaw said that the U. S. Forest Service policy of efficient forest fire protection and good timber management practices on the * National Fcrests is rapidly ..building up the Nantahala Forest to a highly productive state. This upward trend in timber produc tion should continue for many years to come and with it will come growing support to local in dustries and communities depen dent upon National Forest timber, he declared. 323 timber sales ware made on the Nantahala National Forest dur. rng the past fiscal year. A total of 7,437 Tar Heel farm ers and veteran trainees visited the five tobacco research stations in the State on organized tours dur ing the month of July. Read for profit?use for re?u.,A" HERALD WANT ADS. The MEN'S Store Summer CLEARANCE Sale MEN BUY NOW AND GET off ON THE FOLLOWING: YEAH 'ROUND TROPICAL WORSTED SUITS, SUCKS, SPORT COATS, ft SHIRTS. FAMOUS BRAND NAMES SUCH AS B.V.D. WING, CROSS hi / i COUNTRYSPORTS WARE, THESE BAR ' ? i I* GAINS AWAITrYOU. . ~ / ?' The MEN'S Store 1 .7 Main Street Sylva, N. C.
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