Population Jackson Countv?20,000 w * Sylva and Area ? 4,000 NO. XXIII NO. 13 m Herald Jackson County Ideal For Farming, Industry, Tourist Thursday, August 2(>, 1948 32 00 A Yoa**?Copv Wen 18 Through 25 Must Start Registering Monday Excavation Started For New Wing At C. J. Harris Hospital As Part Of Expansion Plan New Wing Will Provide * Much Needed Room As Demand On Facilities Continues To Increase A power shovel began operating Monday morning excavating for the erection of a new wing to C. J. Harris hospital building. The work on the new wing is to be pushed as rapidly as possible in order to have it ready to take care of the ever increasing demands for more bed space at this hospital. The new wing, to bf located on the back of one of the present wings, will be 74 feet, six inches long by 33 feet wide. It will pro vide for two large wards, four private bed rooms, two baths, nurse's station and large 12 x 33 foot solarium. It will be of brick and concrete construction with basement which can be converted into as many rooms as for the first floor. This is part of the enlargement program for the hospital as an nounced seme time ago. Plans also call for a large room to be built underneath the present lobby as an emergency receiving room. W.th more new physicians and surgeons coming to locate in Sylva and as Sylva becomes the medical center of Western North Carolina,] which is new a definite pian of a group of local physicians, the de mands on the hospital become greater all the time. Other wings will probably have to be built in the near future to take eare of, the needs here. llie^Sylva hos pital is also serving the greater part of Swain county at this time, j which creates more demand on the facilities. Funds for the expansions must come from the people locally and all contributions to the project will be appreciated by the hospital trustees. DR. CHEEK OPENS OFFICES IN NEW. - FERGOSON BUILDING ^Sylva's new medical clinic cen ter, located on the second floor of the new Ferguson building on Main street, has been joined by another specialist. Dr. Pratt Cheek, ?Jr., opened his office in the center Tuesday cf this week for the prac tice of mediciner specializing and limiting' his'work to the eye, ear, nose and throat, including bron chosopy, with is the removing of objects from the bronchol tubes and lungs. Dr. Pratt is son of Dr. and Mrs. Pratt Cheek, Sr. cf Gaines ville, Ga. He received his pre medical training at Duke Univer sity, Durham, and University of Georgia, Athens. ? He entered Emory University School of Me dicine in 1936 and graduated with degree of doctor of medicine June, 1940. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta social frat rnity and Phi Chi Medical fraternity. .Dr. Cheek served his internship and residency in eye, ear, nose and throat at Grady Memorial hospital, Atlanta, frcm July 1, 1940, :o June 30, 1944. During World War II he served in the Medical department of the U. S. Navy with rank of Lieu tenant (senior grade) and spent 20 months in the Pacific area, part of which was serving as chief of the eye, ear, nose and throat service, U. S. Fleet Hospital No. 114, Samar, Piiillipine 'slands. After being discharged he prac ticed in Gainesville, limi ed to eye, ear, ^nose ard thro:.t until August this year. Wnile prac ticing in Gainesville he s rved as Secretary-Treasurer of tre HaM County Medical Scciety. He married the former Miss Mary Eleanor Young, of Selma, Alabama. They will make their home in Sylva. F.F.A. BOYS HAVE TWO-DAY FIELD TRIP OVER TEN COUNTIES Several members of the Sylva Chapter Future Farmers of Amer ica spent Wednesday and Thurs day touring through ten North Carolina count'es, returning to Sylva Thursday night. Counties were: Buncombe, Haywcod, Yan cey, Avery, Watuaga, Madison Ashe, Burke -and McDowell. This part of the state was selected be cause of the similarity of farming to our own county of Jackson. In addition to visiting outstand ing farms, herds and projects, such other educational interests as Blowing Rock, Linville Caverns, Blue Ridge- Parkway, etc., were visited. The boys carried blankets and slept on the long grass pastures of Ashe county. During the night a rabbit race took place through the damp with the rabbit jumping over the boys but the dogs refused to follow. The trip was made possible by the cooperative effort of the boys in hauling scrap paper and card board,3 picked up in S;*lva and sold to Mead Corporation. CHEROKEE INDIAN FAIR TO BE HELD OCTOBER 5 THRU 9 The 31st annual Cherokee Indian Fair will be held this year, begin ning October 5 and continuing through October 9, five days of events including ? Indian dances, archery and blcwgun contests, In dian Ball games, square dancing and string band contests. Exhibits will include agricultural, Women's and Indian Aris and Crafts. Friday, October 8th, has been set as de as school day. All chil dren attending school will be ad mitted free on this day. This will include high school students. Saturday, October 9th, will be Children's JDay. All children 11 years of age and younger will be admitted free on this day. The Indian ball game on this day will be played ,by two teams of beys from elementary schools on the reservation. STATEMENT BY HALCYON CLUB The Halcyon club, which served as hostesses and prepared the bar becue dinner served to the North Carolina Areo club on Saturday' evening at the Community house, would like to make the statement that "they did not make any profit from the dinner, but felt amply epaid for their efforts by the ad vertising that Sylva got through the meeting. The feclub did not go intc it to make a large amount of money but were working to help 'he town and town officials to put this undertaking over in a big way. JACKSON HAS NEW CASE OF POLIO With the illness o: Dorothy Mes ser, 6-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Messer, of the Rhodes Ccve community, diag nosed as polio, brings the county^ total number of crses for the sum mer to six. The Messer child be came ill Aug. !9 but was not seen by a doctor until Monday the 23rd -when it was taken to t'-^e Ortho pedic home in Asheville. While the health department says that there is yet no cause for alacm over the situation .here, it does stress the fact that young children should -be kept at home, and all children becoming ill from any cause should be kept away i from other children. 25,000 VISIT SMOKY PARK MUSEUM AT SMOKEMONT SITE More than 25,000 persons have already visited the pioneer mu seum which was opened in mid summer at the ranger station at Oconaluitee, near Smokemont. The new museum will remain open daily until Labor Day and then five days a week to about November, or as long as public interest justifies. It will be open each summer hereafter, the Na tional Park Service says. The pioneer museum emphasizes that in pioneer days of the Great Smoky Mountains the rule was, "Make it yourself or do without." Articles fashioned out of what ever materials were handy are dis played in the museum, which takes up the main lobby and an addi tional' room of the ranger station. They are grouped in nearly a score of classes. Jn one group the visitor sees how the settlers made hoes, plows,' rakes and other agricultural im plements from wrought iron. Har-| mered cn a home forge is even a! smr.ll child's "eye hoe", so called because of the ?ye for the handle. Other iron articles were beaten into shapes for the home. Still others were made from leather and even from grasses and corn shucks. The permanent collection was gathered by park officials and oth er interested persons during the last sccre of years. A number of items were gathered by Charles No Meat Shortage Here The 21-pound channel catfish * displrved here by O. E. Brookhy =er, caught out of the Tuckasei gee river last week by Tom Ar wrod, along with three others, making a total weight of 64 pound-, should help bring down the price of meat in this area. Ac cording to "old timer", the above 37-inch speciman is one of the largest taken from the river in n long time. Gr.ssman, a park architect now xvi'h the Dlue Ridge Parkway. It is one unit of a sys'.em which eventurlly will include a natural history museum at prrk head quar ters near Gatlinburg and possibly tome i it Id exhibits along roads and '.rails. JACKSON AND SWAIN GROUPED FOR TVA TEST FARM PROGRAM Due to a cut in TVA funds ap-' ?y.\ printed for 'arm te.-t wurl: in; .at' T-ennUssee River watershed - t ? v v.:c.i includes the counties Western North Carolina, a num ber of count es are being grouped .ogeiher and will be served by or.e assistant farm agent, instead of agent for each county as in the pasTT The new set-up places Jac!;san ar.d Swain counties under ?ili F1 ke, who has been at work in Swain county for few years, 't is not known whether Mr. Flal'.e I a iii make his headquarters in 3r>son City or Sylva. J. L. Rae, who came to Jackson :ust two months ago as assistant gent, is being transferred to Al leghany county as asst. farm agent, le came to Jackson county from - Vashington county. 4-H ClubsTo Hav7~ Annual Dress Review Saturday, Sept. 11 The 4-H clubs of the county will h?ve their annual dress re view at the courthouse on Sat urday, Septemb r 11, at 10:30 o'clock. All the 4-H club girls are urged to complete their en tries ana have them on hand for the review. Competent judges will select the best dress , es from tKe entries and awards will be presented the winners at this time. Much interest and keen competition is being ex hibited by the girls of the va rious clubs. N.C.Aero Club Visitors Are Given Full Week-end of Fun And Entertainment Several Thousand See i Air Show Sunday P. M., Barbecue, Dance Enjoyed. Around seventy pilots in 24 | planes arrived in Sylva Saturday! afternoon and Sunday for a week- | end of entertainment sponsored! by the town of Sylva and Jackson' County Chamber of Commerce. The visitors registered at Hotel Carolina and received identifica tion badges printed in gold with a~small airport and planes in one corner and N. C. Aero Club, Aug ust 2$, 23, 1948, Sylva, N. C., ,in the other corner with space for the guest's name below. The first thing on the program was a big barbecue dinner, served in the' city recreation park by the Hal cyon club, followed by a square dance at the community building. Both the barbecue and dance were joined by a large number bf local people who helped give the visit ing flying a good time. A motor-cade of a large number of cars, piloted by State highway patrolman Charles Lindsay, took the visitors to Newfound Gap and Clingman's Dome Sunday. Sunday afternoon a number of the visiting pilots put on an air show at the Sylva port before a crowd estimated at 2,000 people. Amcng the features of the show .vas a demonstration of "how not to fly'' by Charles Vestal of Salis^ bury, a veteran of 20 years of fly ing. Dwight S. Cross, of Huntsvil'e, who wrs a pilot-instructor during World War I. congratulated offi cials of the Tr wn of Sylva and the Jackson County Chamber of Com merce for sponsoring the two-day convention and expressed the be lief that it will become an annual affair. Mayer Allison has received a let ter from R. S. Northington, vice president cf Piedmont Aviation. Inc., Winston-Salem, in which he je&pressed appreciation on behalf of the members of the organization for a very enjoyable week-end in Sylva. Towns represented were Salis bury, Reidsville, Huntsville, Con cord, Charlotte, Mt. Holly, Wilm ington, N. C., and Greenville, Aiken, Trenton, and Spartanburg, S. C. CURB MARKET CHANGES DAYS AND HOURS TO OPERATE IN SYIVAj. Those in charge of the Jack son County curb market, which has operated in Svlva the last two Saturday mornings, an nounce a change in the time that the market will be open. In the future the market will open at 2 and close at 5:30 each Friday afternoon. The market i? open to any farm family wishing te sell their produce, poultry, but ter and eggs. Herald To Publish Special Edition On September Ninth The Herald will publish a spe cial 24 page^ probably more, edi tion Sept. 9 and will ba known as Jackson County Chamber of Commerce Welcome Edition, in which the North Carolina Cham ber of Commerce Executives, meeting here in a three-day con vention, will be welcomed to Jackson County and shown i iOmj.) tr.is u--?e w at JacK son County and Sylva have to offer in Industry, Agriculture, and Scenic Attractions. f..is iis-e win be mailed to all members ot "the Association oe.ore t ey come to Sylva on the 12th for their convention wnich will er.cl on the 14th. S ncc it w.li be impossible for tt.e pjc.Iis.ers or Mr. Pickle Simer, wr.o is helping work up l e cc t en, to see everyone we urgently requect t .?? o & e who would like advertising ce ir, this issue to see us o^ce a? work on this special issue will be started this week. We also want every piece in the ccunty keeping tourist list ed so please see that the name of your place and what you have to offer, is sent to us at once. SOSSAMON'S . In Sylva - Sylva Woodmen Attend Degree Encampment At Lebanon, Tennessee The Sylva camp ol Woodmen of the World degree team attend ed the Uniform Hank Encamp ment held at Lebnr.on, Tennessee, August 12 through 15. The team vvas under the leadership of C. pt. J. C. Brown of the Sylva Camp. The Sylva men en:ered a number -f comoetitive games and contests, vinr.ing 1st and 2nd place in some. .7cntests entered consisted of horse shoe pitching, softball, swimming ;:tc. The Sylva te;;m won 2nd place n the floor work during initiatory vork. Those attending "from Sylva ?.vere: Ernest and Clyde Bumgar ner, Danny Allison, Jr., Jack Hen. lessee, Bud Parker, Roy Parker, 3en Sumner, Jimmy Resor, Philip "ones .Olin Jackson, Johnny Bry op, Carrcll Ashe, Olvoid Fox, Jack Alexander, Douglas Jordon nd Wesley Warren. EUROPEAN CHILDREN RELIEF QUOTA FOR JACKSON IS LAGGING The drive for the re'icf pf chil dren in Europe has rr.n'ie splendid progress in the state, many of the counties having already raised their qu~'n, but Jackson has 1 alien very much behir.d :n raisi.ig her quot . The Federated clubs of North Carolina have given fine coopera tion in sponsoring this drive, wh en /-as been continued to November, t is urged that all clubs and in dividuals who have not already contributed send your donations :? t once to Mrs. R. U. Sutt n, coun ty chr.irman, or to Mrs. Roger Dillard, vice-chairman. The following contributions have i been received. The Cullowhee Woman's club $32.38; the Lions club, $10.00; the Twentieth Cen tury club, $15.00; the Halcyon club, *50.00. 1948 Act Requires AH Males In This Age Group Not Now* In Service to Register Locally SYLVA VETERAN FARM TRAINEES VISIT EACH OTHERS FARM By JOHN F. CORBIN Agriculture Instructor "Seeing is believing"?one cf ht? latest trends in education is > isu. 1 education. If that be good I suppose see.rg whal your neigh bor i> doing is even bet'er. The 60 Sylva Veteran Farm trainees are divided into tcree ' groups with T. W. Ashe, C. D. Deitz and Dennis Berkley e ch supervising a g.oup. Recently a fiirm tour was held in which all the men in a group visited all the ijrms and projects 01 his lei low clas>men. ' These visits were an inspiration and satisfaction to all cm Kerned. YVe believe this tour will mean more in encouragement and >11111 uiat.on than anything that could have been done during the same' length of time. We are contiden* that r.t\? r 1. the history of the countv has t.i?Tc oeen as many line larm pr..c'ues put ip.to operation as this grv up is doing. Farms iii.ve bee n drain ed, erosion retarded, forest fires prevented, land tested and limed (Continued on page 10) RAYMOND NATION BOUND TO COURT ON 1ST DEGREE CHARGE Raymond Nations, 23, who was placed in Jackson county jail Sun day afternoon, August 15, follow ing the fatal shooting of Donald Bradley, also 23, of the Wilmot community, was given a hearing before Justice James Turpm last ir.st Friday morning and bound over to the October term of Jack son Superior court on a charge of tirst decree murder, without the privilege of making bond. It was shown in the preliminary trial that Natirns went a mile and a half to secure the gun with which he shot Bradley, having all this time to consider the act he wrs about to commit. Following the shooting Nations placed. Bradley in his automobile and drove to Sylva with the in tention of taking Bradley to the hospital. His motor failed on the hill near the' jail and he asked help to get the wounded man to the hospital. Chief of Police Rob ert Ensley investigated at this point and found Bradley already dead. He* placed Nations unde.1 arrest and lodged him in jail. Along with Natirns was Eunice Bradley, of Asheville, who was also placed in jail as a material witness. She was released under bond at the hearing. ?*? Ben S. Forkner Taken i By Death In Georgia Mr. Ben S. Forkner died of Firemen's Association, spoke on the fraternal and insurance bene fits cf the association. j Max Monday, assistant fire chief ; of Charlotte, spoke on the advan tages of the fog type fire hose nozzle rather a straight nozzle. Those attending from Sylva in cluded Fire Chief W. B. Cope, Felix Picklesimer, Boyd Sossamon, Jack Allison, O. E. Brcokhyser, repre senting Armour Leather Company and the Sylva department, and Joe Deitz, chief of the Mc:d Corpora t on department.