VOL. XXIII?NO. 23 The Sylva Herald Sylva, N. C. Thursday, Nov. 4, 1948 > - I Jackson County Ideal For Farming, Industry, Tourist $2.00 A Year?5c Copy TRUMAN J. C. Henderson Observes89th Anniversary Attributes Long Life To Hard Work, Plenty Of Exercise In Open John Calhoun Henderson, who makes his home with his daugh ter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Nicholson at Webster, cele brated his 89th Birthday anniver sary on Saturday, October 23. A birthday dinner, in his honor, was given by Mr. and Mrs. Nicholson. Mr. Henderson, a life-long resi dent oi' Jackson County, spent his early boyhood days in Hamburg Township, coming to Webster in early manhood. His parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. William Hender son, came to Jackson county from Buncombe county. Their forefath ers came from Scotland. Several Henderson brothers came to A merica and settled in New Hamp shire and Mass. Two of the broth ers later c? me South, one to South Carolina and the ottur to Ashe ville and then to Henderson county for whom the county was named. Mr. Henderson attributes his long life to hard work and plenty of exercise. He has been a very successful farmer. Mr. Henderson has been married three times, his first wife was Miss Delpha Wilson Peters and to this-union were born five children. His second marriage was to Miss Sara Jane Taylor, and to this union were born two daugh ters. His third marriage ' was to Miss Margaret Ruby., One child, a son, Frank, was born to this union. He is a cousin to James A. Cathey, no:td minister and writer. Mr. Henderson served two terms ?on the County Board of Education was chief deputy under Sheriff J. A. McClain. He was a Justice of the Peace for six years. Mr. Henderson has been a life long Democrat, adding that he had ?always voted a straight ticket. He has been a member of the Baptist church for 60 years and a Master Mason for 65 years. He has served ?on the Jackson county Grand Jury for years and was foreman a num "ber of times. Mr. Henderson's mind is excel lent, his eyes exceptionally good, but hearing poor. He thinks he has his second eye-sight, can now read ^without glasses. To show how ac tive he is for his age he quite fre quently walks from Webster to Sylva. Kerr Scott, New Governor Of N. C., Fears No Precedents One thing is certain about Wil liam Kerr Scott, North Carolina's new governor?he doesn't let pre cedent stand in his way. State tradition says that Tar Htel governors must alternate be tween natives of the east and west. Since outgoing Gov. R. Gregg Cherry is' from Gastonia, in the west, his successor should neces sarily come from the east. However, Scott, from Alamance county, generally considered in the west, broke through the geographi cal barrier and battled his way into the chief executive's chair. Although he ran second in the May 29th Democratic primary, he nevertheless won the runoff against State Treasurer Charles M. John son. In the six-man first primary Johnson led by 170,141 to 161,293. However, in the runoff, Scott polled 216,384 votes to'Johnson's 183,920. Scott was the first man to win a runoff who didn't place first in the first primary. Scott was born April 17, 1896 on the Melville farm near Haw river in Alamance county. At 18, while a high school senior, he was mana ger of the Hawfields community fair, operating it on a successful financial basis. . Graduated At State He graduated from N. C. State college in 1917 with honors. He was a big man on the campus, was president of his junior class and was a member of the cross-coun try team. In 1920-30, as agricultural agent for Alamance county, Scott organi zed what at that time was the world's largest Jersey calf club. In 1930-33, while master of the state Grange, he accomplished the lead ing organization record in the na tion for the Grange in the 57 years of its existence. His 11 years as state commision er, 1937-48, were equally spectacu lar, Scott's friends called him the man "fwho took the sand out of fertilizer, the sawdust out of feed, the grits and cracked rice out of sausage, and short measure out of scales and gasoline pumps." In 1937 he was presented the Progressive Farmer award, 'The Man of the Year," as the state's outstanding agricultural leader. Scott resigned as agriculture Commissioner to run for governor. During his gubernatorial campaign he called for a special session of the | legislature "to deal with the crisis of the public schools," publically charged the Tidewater Power com pany of Wilmington with retarding ! the development of the port of Wil- j mington by its "excessive rates,"! and declared he was against is-! suing "any bonds of any purpose" j until "the huge state surplus" is I (Continued on page 10) Democra s Win Schools Take 38.3 Per Cent Of All State Funds The public schools took 38.3 per cent of state expenditures during I 1947-48, an analysis of statements | on the condition ot the three State i funds ? Agriculture, Highway and 1 General ? issued by the Budget ! Bureau shows. i Expenditures from the General Fund were 56.3 per cent of the total; highways expenditures rep resented 43.1 per cent of ihe total; and agriculture .6 of one per cent. I Educational, charitable and cor rectional institutions, departments courts, State aid, etc., took 18 per cent of th2 56.3 per cent from the General Fund after deducting 38.3 per cent for the public schools. Total expenditures from all sources, the Budget Bureau state ments show, amounted to $163,651, '544 ? $1,027,417 from the Agri cultural Fund, $70,605,889 from the | Highway Fund, and $92,018,238 from the General Fund. The total expenditures for public schools a mounting to $62,655,102 came from the General Fund. An analysis of the General Fund alone shows that the public schools received 68.1 per cent of the total expenditures from this fund. This is slightly less than the proportion received the year before when the public schools took 71 per cent of all expenditures from this fund. WALLACE VOWS PROGRESSIVES TO FIGHT ON Hrnry A. Wallace failed to win r s'ngle electoral vote for president but he vowed today that his Pro gressive party will fight on. He said the party "will now pro ceed to organize state by state, city hy city and district by district." Ultimately, he predicted, it will re place either the Republican or Democratic party as one of the country's two strongest parties. Asked whether he would be the party's presidential candidate again in 1952, he replied: "That's a long way off;" Despite his electoral showing, Wallace's popular vote hurt Presi dent Truman's chances in such key states as New York, New Jersey and California. PRESIDENT r HARRY. S. TRUMAN won the election for President of the United States in a clear-cut ma jority in Tuesday's election. This was Mr. Truman's first r time to appear on the national ticket for this office. He ran as vice-presi dent with Roos.velt in 1944 and then stepped into the President's! office on the death of Roosevelt j in Apr 1, 1945. His powers as ai I vo?e-getter were unknown na- I ?ionally until this week when he' virtually won the election himself | is v ry few leading Democrats campaigned in his behalf and most! of the big daily papers were fori Dewey. SHERIFF TAKES MAN, GAR, LIQUOR Sheriff Griffin Middleton cap ture Vernon H. Lance, a 1948 Olds mobile and 12 gallons of liquor on highway No. 23 near Dillsboro Monday afternoon. The car, ac cording to Lance, belonged to H. T. Deweese, of Culberson, Chero kee County. It was used to run liquor between North Carolina and Georgia points. Lance posted a cash bond of $200 from himself and $750.00 for the automobile, or a total of $950. If the bond is forfeited the money will be turned over to the school fund. WNC Returns Monroe Redden To Congress The mountain counties of the U2th congressional district returned Rep. Monroe M. Redden of Hender sonville to Washington for a second term and gave strong support to all Democratic candidates in yester day's general elections, according to incomplete returns from two-thirds of the 1988 voting precincts. GOVERNOR W. K&RR SCOTT was elected Governor of North Carolina in Tuesday's general election by a huge majority over his Republican opponent, George M. Pritchard. Scott's vote in Jackson county stands unofficially at 4333 to Prit chard's 2326. EACH CANDIDATE RECEIVES A LARGE MAJORITY OF VOTES North Carolina went to the polls Tuesday and elected a full Dem ocrat slate of candidates includ ing a Governor, U. S. Senator, twelve Congressmen and other state olt'icers. Large majorities were given each candidate. The unofficial vote for State 01 f cers in Jackson county shows Scott, Democrat for Governor, 4333 and Pritcharci, Republican, 2326. Scott for Governor, ran ahead of Truman by over 400 votes, indicating that some of the Democrats voted for Dewey, as he ran ahead of Pritchard by around 200 votes. For United States Senator, J. Melville Broughton, Democrat, re ceived 4224 to John *A. Wilkinson, Republican, 2348. The vote in the county of Congressman of the 12th District held pretty much along party line, with Monroe M. Red den, Democrat gathering in 4234 votes to W. W. Candler, Republi can, 2344 votes. Dan Moore, on the state ticket for Superior court judge, was un opposed and received a big vote in his own county of Jackson. Two other Superior Court Judges, i Chester R. Morris of the 1st Dis trict and F. Donald Phillips, of the 13th, were also unopposed. *? Tha Progressive candidates for State office, all received light votes in Jackson county. Dewey Congratulates Truman On Victory Gov. Thomas E., Dewey con ceded the election of President Truman early Wednesday aft ernoon in the following tele- | gram: "My Heartiest congrstu lations on your election and every good wish for a successful < administration. "I urge all Americans to unite i bshind you in support of Ivsry ; sffort to ksep our nation strong and fraa and to establiah peacs in tha world." MRS. MCKEE AND MRS. HUNTER ARE HEARD BY PTA MEMBERS Mrs. E. L. McKee and Mrs. H. T. Hunter were the speakers on the program lor the Sylva Parent Teacher meeting held in the high school building last Thursday night. Mrs. McKee gave a report on the district meeting of the As sociation, which was held in the J .Sandhill high school building in Buncombe county on Thursday, j October 7. She then introduced| Mrs. Hunter, of Cullowhee, who poke on "What Does The PTA: Mean to You?" A large group of members at-' tended and heard the speakers and j transacted routine business during the opening business session. At a previous meeting the As-1 sociation voted to employ Mrs. Ma el P. Stallcup to make improvements j in the library. Announcement was ( made that Mrs. Sol Schulman had offered to pay her salary for No vember. Philadelphia Vets Stop Over Here John Collins, Charles F. Sieg fried, Louis Milano and their wives] oi Tiago Post No. 319 American Legion, of Philadelphia, Pa., stop ped over for a night at Lloyd hotel while on their way back home from the Miami convention. These men have all served their post as com mander. They weie shown places of in terest in the county? by Felix Picklesimer. SOSSAMON'S in Sylva 1 ???? i *1LS+' ' ? ? N. Ck Voters Apparently Split On Amendments VICE-PRESIDENT kBrifiiaifiiMflHiiiHiBaMH! . ALBEN W. BARKLEY, veteran Senator from Kentucky, became :he Nation's new vice-president as a result of the Democratic victory | in the general election Tuesday. The country has been without a vice-president since Mr. Truman succeeded the late President Roosevelt as President. Barkley has made an able Senator from his home state, being a strong sup porter of the policies of both Roosevelt and Truman. He will ;idd strength to the national ad- j ministration as vice-president. BROWN NAMED NEW ! LEGION COMMANDER i S. P<-rry Brown, 56-ye.ir-old Texan from Beaumont, was elect-i ed national comander of the A-1 I merican Legion at it's 30th annual convention in Miami, Florida,! ? i Thursday, October 21. He succeeds' James F. O'Neil. | Attending the convention from Sylva, representing William E. Dillard Post No. 104, were: Rev. W. Q. Grigg, D. M. Tallent, Felix J Picklesimer, Dexter Hooper and Dan B. Hooper. ______________________ ? Dillsboro School Has Halloween Carnival On Thursday night the Parent Teacher association of Dillsboro sponsored a Halloween carnival at the school building. The fun be g. n around 7:30 with several at-! tractions. Among them were bin go, cake walks, fish pond, food sales and the crowning of the beauty queen. Miss Martha Brown received this honor. $164.90 was cltared which will go into the school treasury. Funeral Held Funeral services for former Rep. Zebulon Weaver, 78, who died in an Asheville hospital Friday, were held Sunday ; f'.crnoon. The veteran congressman, with a rccord of 23 years service to the now 12th district was deated two years ago by Monroe M. Reuticn. Congressman Weaver played a big p.jrt in promoting legislation for establishing the Gr^nt Smoky .vIour.ci.ini. ."i.il Results as to the outcome of the vote on the four proposed consti tutional amendments in North Carolina remained in doubt as we go to press. Incomplete unof-I ticial returns from less than half the state's 1.956 precincts showed voters slightly/ favoring incre; sed pay for state legislators. A g; eater margin also favored 1 he p: oposed to permit the state'. spi-i ia! and bond elections to be .c.Tiied by simple majoriti s, thu f.im nating the "vote against reg istration" provision. Voters apparently were against two other amendments. One would have removed the debt limit im posed on the state, counties and citi s. The other would have giv en the counties the right to levy in creased amounts to taxes for gen eral purpose. BROWN AND MCKEE WIN IN COUNTY BY BIG MAJORITIES Mrs. E. L. McKee, veteran legis- I 'atur, candidate-lor State Senate, n the 82n tTJJiatvict, ' and-FrafiWj Brown, Jr., of Cullowhee Demo-! cr;>t for the lower house, won clear- 1 rut majorities in the county. Mrs.' McKee ?- received 3976 vot s. j Hodges, also Democrat for State) Senate in this district received i 4034. Their opponents, Republi cans Davis and Griffith, received 2224 and 2174 respectively. I Brown, Democrat, won over Hugh Monteith, Republican, lor the house, by an unofficial count of 1652. Brown's vote was 3909 and Monteith's 2257. i John E. Henson, for Clerk of Court, filling the unexpired term of the late, Roy Cowan, was un opposed and received a big vote. T. D. Bryson, Jr., was unop posed for Solicitor of the 20th Dis trict. He was appointed to this post after tbe death of Baxter C. Jones, who was appointed to fill the unexpired term when Dan K. Moore was appointed Judge. All figures in this week's edi tion are unofficial. The election officials will meet today at 11 o' clock to canvass the vote and make their official, return, which will then be c.rtificd to the State Board of Election. L Dewey Concedes Defeat As Trumaa Gets Electoral Vote Majority Thurmond, Wallace Fail To Stop President As Major Parties Capture Most Of Vote Harry S. Truman was re-elcted president of the United States with a clear-cut majority in one of the greatest political up-sets in recent years. Although losing the state of New York and Pennsyvania, the president gathered in over 300 of the 531 electoral votes, (266 being required to win.) Dewey, slated by all political experts to win by a landslide, trailed the president from the -very beginning of the count-out, with Truman's majority" growing larger as final precincts were heard from. Dewey conced ed defeat in a stateihent shortly before noon Wednesday. The president went to his home in Missouri to cast his ballot and remained there until after the elec t on. According to his own state ments. made at various times dur ing the strenuous campaign, he believed that he would be elected. Early in the campaign he told an audience that the next president would be a Democrat and that he was that Democrat. Few people, however, believed that he had Vfiry llittie, 'if uny to win . . . ttitfs the political up-set. North Carolina went strong for the president as well as all other Democratic candidates. The unofficial vote for president in Jackson county, with two pre cincts missing, Canada ftfsL 2 and River No. 2, gave TrUnruJn 3915, Dtwey 2,494. Thurmond, \Dixie crat, 146 and Wallace, Progressive* only 17. }~ A tabulation of the official jcoun ty vote by precinct will be Carried in The Herald next week. Resource-Use Conference To Meet November 12 R. L. Weaver, program director of Resource-Use Education faa North Carolina, will be the speak er at a Resource-Use conference to be held at Western Carolina Teach* ers college Friday, November IX W. B. Harrill, acting dean aC Western Carolina Teachers col lege, and chairman of the west ern area for Resource-Use, safe! that principals and teachers from all parts of Westerfi North Carolina would be invited. Reports will be given on work being dona in public welfare, soil conservation* forestry, and other public service programs. Parade9 Banquet9 And Dance To Feature Armistice Program Armistice Day, November 11th,I will be observed next Thursday in Sylva with a parade and several* other events The parade will form* at the Community Building at 1:00' p.m. and will commence at 1:30. Route of the parade will be from the foot of Courthouse steps, east on Main street, to railroad cross ing at far end of town and return same route. Parade will disperse at the foot of Courthouse steps. All Ex-Service men of Jackson county and all members of the American Legion William E. Dil lard Post No. 104 are urged to be present at the Community House for formation of the parade at 1:00 p.m. All such men please wear a ^ri'orm if at :.M possible; if not, ! wear an American Legion Cap, or come anyway. Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, jind Cr.mpfire Girls are invited to take part in the parade. Sylva High school band will lead the parade, under direction ol Mr. Dcr. Cclc. Following the parade at 3:00 p.m. a football gamr is scheduled. Mars H 11 High school will play Sylva 1 Ij'gh school on Mark Watgon Field. A banquet will be held at the Community building at 6:30 p.m. for all ex-Servicemen and Women and wives and husbands. Tickets will be on sale this week by mem bers of the American Legion and Auxiliary at $1.00 per plate, or may be purchased at the Commun ity House next Thursday night. Any one who wishes to donate produce in exchange for the $1.00 plate may do so by turning such produce into L. H. Higdon at Cul lowhee or to George Sloan, at ; Southern Railway Depot, Sylva, I before 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 9. ! Produce which will be accepted is as follows: Hens on foot; canned beans; Irish pot. butter; apples; eggs; cabbage; pickles; and bacons Immediately after the banquet, W. B. H