Population
Jackson County?20,000
Sylva and Area ? 4,000
The Sylva Herald
Jackson County
Ideal For Farming,
Industry, Tourist
VOL. xxra?NO. 28
Sylva, N. C. Thursday, Dec. 9, 1948
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Sylva Lions Club Observes Twelfth Anniversary
Sheriff's Department To
Have 2-Way Short Wave
Radio Communication
N
Police Car of Sylva Also
To Be Equipped With Set
Station Will Reach State
Patrol Station
At their regular meeting Mon
day, December 6, the bpard o1
commissioners for Jackson Coun
ty authorized the purchase and
installation of a two-way shorl
wave radio communication sys
tem for the Sheriff's department
As soon as the equipment, which
has already been purchased, ar
rives it will be installed in the
jail and the jailer will look aftei
it. Sets will be installed in both
the Sheriff's and deputy's cars
County authorities stated Tues
day that the date for beginning
the use of the equipment depends
-on deliver and installation.
The town board of Sylva has
authorized installation of a set in
the police car which can be used
in cooperation with the sheriff's
department in combating crime
and lawlessness of any type.
The new station will have pow
er enough to reach the State High
way Patrol station at Swannanos
and will be used in cooperation
with the patrol.
REV. RAY SWANK OF
BREVARD COLLEGE IS
METHODIST SPEAKER
Brevard, Dec. 6?At the invita
tation of " Flrst^ Me&foci^
Church, of Sylva, Rev. Ray Swink,
of the Brevard College Depart
ment of Religious Education, wil]
talk about Brevard College at the
morning service Dec. 12. Accom
panying him will be a mixpd quar
tet composed of Betsy Ross ol
Pleasant Gardens, Eleanor Orr oi
Charlotte, Max Warlick of Rai
eigh, and Jerry Crawford ol
Greensboro. This quartet will
render the anthem "God So Loved
the World". The offetory, "Some
one Had Prayed", will be sung by
Betsy. Ross. Ann Smith of Bre
vard, a music student of Brevard
^ College will play all of the music,
including a prelude and postlude.
This program is the result of
cooperation between Brevard
College and the churches. Through
these services, experience is given
? to the many students who plan
lives of Christian service, espe
cially in the ministry of music.
Also, the churches become better
acquainted with the work of Bre
vard College. This service is un
der the direction of Mr. J. P.
Porter.
North Carolina's hybrid seed
corn crop, this ye;.r is 58 times a.-'
large as it was five years ago.
USE OF CHURCHES,
HALLS APPRECIATED
BY SYLVA SCHOOL
I wish to express my own ap
preciation and that of the students
3f the Sylva elementary school
I to the congregations of the Bap
tist and Methodist churches ir
Sylva and to the members of the
vVoodmen of the World and Ameri.
:an Legion for the use of the
churches, Legion and Woodmen
lalls as classrooms for the sev
eral hundred students who found
themselves thrown out of their
school building last February
when it was condemned, as un
safe by Judge Phillips.
We realize that it was quite a
sacrifice on the part of the church
es and other organizations to have
to permit their buildings to be
used as public schools, but you
have all responded In this emer
gency in a most noble way, which
has saved the day for the Sylva
school.
We wish to thank the Sylva high
school seniors who volunteered on
last Friday afternoon to go to
these buildings and scrub floors,
windows and walls in order that
they might be left as clean as they
were found.
We are proud to report that we
are now settled once more in our
? tgpWty remodeled building and can
' begin to do real classroom work.
Ralph L. Smith, principal.
HI600N NAMED AAA
COMMITTEE CHMN.
The Jackson County AAA Con
' vention has elected D. C. Higdon
of Sylva as chairman of the AAA
Committee for 1949. At the same
time Blaine Nicholson of Cowarts
was elected vice-chairman, P. C.
Shelton, of Whittier was elected
' regular member; J. Lyman Ste
! wart of Norton, was elected first
alternate and Carl Higdon of Gay
was elected second-alternate.
The county convention is com
posed of a representative from
fifteen communities in the coun
ty.
Mrs. Helen N. Corbin was elect
ed by the newly elected county
committee as secretary to the com
mittee, and Miss Agiles A. Wil
son was elected as treasurer.
Red Miller To Be
Lions Club Speaker
Rui ?j;orls ecli'or of the
\shevi!'o Citi en, will be guest
rKeep North Carolina Green"
Movement Backed By Bankers
Whereas: The North .Carolina
Bankers Association fully recog
nizes the value of our forests, soils
and mineral resources in the ec
onomic progress of our state; and
for many years has given its sup
port, through the agricultural ac
tivities of the Association, to their
conservation and development.
We have been greatly disturbed,
however, by the wanton waste
of forest resources, and the un
controlled burning of forest acres
which have caused monetary loss
running into millions of dollars
annually, throughout the years.
The KEEP NORTH CAROLINA
GREEN movement is the first
earnest effort that has been made
to enlist our entire citizenry in
a forestry development program.
Wherefore, in view of the facts
herein before set forth, be it Re
solved:
By the North Carolina Bankers
Association, its Agricultural Com
mittee assembled, this 17th day
of November, 1948.
That any industry o! such tfres
2nt magnitude and future pi
'entialities is profoundly impor
tant to the further economic prog
ress an J development of North
Carolina:
The the KEEP NORTH CARO
LINA GREEN movement is worthy
of the support of the individual
membership of this body, and we
enthusiastically commend its ob
jectives;
That the North Carolina Bank
ers Association will lend its sup
port and influence to the passage
of any sound and progressive leg
islation that may be sponsored
by the KEEP NORTH CAROLINA
GREEN movement, which may be
designed to further promote and
develop forest resources within
our state; and
That a copy of this resolution
shall be presented to: Program Di
rector of KEEP NORTH CARO
LIN GREEN, Executive Director
of N. C. Forestry Association, the
N. C. Forester, the N. C. Extension
Division, and Agricultural Com
mittee minutes.
Announcement has been made
by Oscar Lovedahl, chairman of
the Board of Elections of Jackson
County, that a special election has
jeen called for Saturday, Decem
ber 18, to vote on a candidate for
senator, to succeed the late Mrs.
2. L. McKee. The election will be
jailed in all five of the counties
of the district on the same date.
This being Jackson's time to
nominate and elect a candidate
.he Democratic executive com
"nittee will meet in the court house
Saturday, December 11 at 2:30 for
?he purpose of nominating a can
didate to appear on the ticket.
The Republican party has the
iame privilidge but no announce
nent has come from the party that
a candidate will be named, in fact
a leading Republican party lead
er stated Wednesday evening that
nothing had been done about the
mattes.
Harriman Arrives
ROVINO ambassador (or the Eco
nomic Cooperation Administration
in Europe, W. Averill Harriman is
shown at he arrived at the White
House (or coherences with Presi
dent Truman'and Secretary of State
George Marshall. (International)
The total circulation of chil-'
dren's books of tht_> Jackson Co.
Library for the month of Novem
ber was 2476 books. Tr.is is almost ?
triple the circulation of any other
single month for both adult and
children's books. This large in-'
crease in the number of books, as
well as the number of children
reading the books, is due' to the
Book Club project which was be
gun in Oct. by the librarian, Mrs.
Mae Stallcup.
To become a member of the Di
brary Book Club one is requir
ed to read 20 books of specified
classifications, information on
which may be obtained from the
librarian. Since the beginning of
the project fifty-one boys and girls
have applied for membership in
the club. A number of these have
completed the reading of their 20
books. A complete list of these
names will be published in next
week's issue of The Herald.
300 Attend Woodmen Family N ght Supper
{ Members of the Sylva W.O.W>
AAA ELECTION HELD,
COMMITTEES NAMED
IN 15 COMMUNITIES
The Jackson County AAA elec
tion held on Thursday, December
2, resulted in the election *>f cof
mitieemen from fifteen communi
ties in the county to serve for
the year 1949. The following farm
men were elected to serve their
respective communities:
Barkers Creek ? J. T. Jones,
chairman; Frank C. Greene, vjce
chairman; Tolvin Ward, regular
member; Arthur Brooks, 1st al
tenate; T. J. Buchanan, 2nd al
ternate.
Qualla ? W. T. Gass, Frank
Kinsland, Fred Ferguson, Jeff
Thompson, and Robert Varner.
Caney Fork ? Wayne Love
dahl, John Farley ,Alvin Moore,
Harry Brown, Howard Wood.
River ? Fred Smith, J. C. Mil
lsaps, W. A. Jackson, D. Denton,
and E. L. Lanning.
Canada ? Mitchell Melton, G.
C. Wood, Walter Melton, J. J.
Brown, and Ranzie Mathis.
Cullowhee ? Edgar Moore, John
Phillips, Robert Shelton, Lonnie'
Dills, and Davis Bryson.
Sylva ? T. C. Bryson, Sr., Lee
Bumgarner. F. E. Parker. W A.
Cope, Thomas Hooper.
Diiisb ro ? Boyd Brown, E. B.
Monteit... Fivnk Jacobs, and Lcwi^
Cochran.
W(;i-st r ?Frank Cole, Charlie;
f. v.ix'.j. .T. Ashe. I^ul C-iWii.-i,!
r,\ 3iL r ../an.
? Swf.tt- ('v:1 L. M. fris;"*. J. 1
D. Mills. !.:> :.!H Hiil. K.-jj^rt i I. ?. - j
.un, r.tui Ji:n Alcody.
Saw.':, .a.i ? P'erry Buchanan,
V. C. Luc/anan, Guy S'jtt >n, Jim
Johnson, and B. C. Buchan ?n.
Greens Creek ? G. L. Green,
Carl C^gle, Dearie Ashe, Joe
Green, L. C. Estes.
Hamburg ? J. L. Cooper, J.
L. Stewart, Franklin Fowler, Mack
J. Stew; rt. and Fred A. Bryson.
Mountain ? W. C. Moody, A.
C. Edwards, W. A. Crawford, Or
ville Henderson, Ernest Bumgar
ner.
Cashiers ? W. S. Alexander,
T. S. Lance, Edward Fowler,
Charlie Passmore and Ernest Lom
bard.
One delegate from each com
munity attended the county Con
vention held December 3 in the
AAA office.
speaker on the Lions Club pro
gram next Wednesday evening.
Coach James Barnwell and mem
bers of the Sylva Golden Hurri
canes will also be special guests of
the club at this regular meeting,
Roy Reed, president of the club,
announced Wednesday morning.
Lodge and their families and
guests, numbering over 300, en
joyed the semi-annual ladies and
family night with a delicious
chicken and oyster supper, which
was prepared by the men of the
lodge and served by them, assisted
by their wives. The banquet was
held in the American Legion build
ing, formerly the community
building, Monday evening at 7
o'clock.
Jeff Hedden, Council Com
mander, was master of cere
monies. He introduced Briiton
Moore, District Commander, who
talked on the value of Woodmen
of the World in relation to what
the Camp stands for and what it
has done in the community.
Everett Harris, secretary, pre
sented several individual awards
to a number of the members.
The group was also entertained
by the "Mountain Ramblers", a
five member string band, com
posed of local talent.
cuuSwheTbaptist
CHURCH TO PRESENT
CANDLELIGHT CAROL
SERVICE 5:30 SUNDAY
The Cull .whee Baptist Church
will present a Candlelight Carol
service at 5:.V) St,mJay, Dec. 12.
The combine:! eh. irs .of the;
? nurch, v.Mi h (?(?], ] i an cn-i
zombie of ni tv ;.;(vv,i -v jcf.s< !j:
- it::ipnto i . t. c v.( rvico. Both'
tiio Junior a:/' c ,;.-s wi.j
?Scrip*.u.r:il selection and Christ-'
nms music h,v- been v.oven ruoj
1 Christmas st ry v^i'n viii un
fold against an appropriate back-1
ground of c. ndle light and soft I
music.
rhe sOioists for the Candlelight
Carol Service a e Mrs. Vi-ginia
Barnwell, Mr. Bronson Matney,
Miss Maxine Barbour. Mrs. Barn
well will be heard in "How Beau
tiful Upon The Mountain," by Wil
son. Mr. Matney will sing a spir
itual, ' Sweet Little Jesus Boy", by1
MacGimsey. Miss Bnrbour will
sing "Night of Nights", by Van de
Water".
The accompanists are Mrs. Zula
M. Smith and Mr. Clayton Curtis.
The Marshals are Miss Annie
Duke Wheles, Chief Marshal; Rob
Crawford, Jim Ramsey, Velma
Ramsey, Paul Monroe, Ruth Hyatt,
H. B. Hyatt, Harry Corbin.
public is cordially invited
ifo attend the service.
i
SOSSAMON'3 |n 8ylv,
BOOK IN MEMORY
OF MRS. McKEE IS
OFFERED LIBRARY
Mrs. Mae Stallcup, librarian of
the Sylva library, has received the
following letter from Mrs. Dale!
Lee and her mother. Mrs. Candler, i
of Murphy, which reads in part
as follows:
?'Mv mother and I would like to
place a book in the Syl-vu library
in memory ol Mrs. K. L. McKee.
Will you please make a suggestion?
We had "Tae Big Fisherman" by
Lloyd C. Douglas' in mind unless
you have this and prefer some
thing else. Please advise." The
letter was signed by Martha Can- ;
dler Lee.
MRU. E. BAIN IS i
TAKEN BY DEATH AT i
6 P. M. WEDNESDAY !
Following an illness of -almost'
three years Mrs. Isabel Keener
Bain, wife of E. E. B;iin, Jr., of
Sylva died at C. J. Harris hospital
:vt fi o'clock Wednesday evening
where she nad born a p:itient for
he pas? I'our weeas. Her death
was n?-i : j. .(>::.?( c'( i.
!
Ten'a1: o funera. ar angements
are f.?r t m a> ? ? 1" ' e ;?eld at
'. e S v ! . M? i i a r I:
2:30 V. i y ?< ; ? ? -'i. \vi! a bu; ial
..*> '.. t ( ( .: 1 '?) >'. T if' j
:)a' . \.\ O. (;i ;will of- !
' 1
S na i . aaC I'.o w: :irl, one j
son, E?iWi rd, T7*"o aauga!eis, Mrs.l
Henry O. Brady, 'Jr., wife of LtJ
Coi. !i..:dy, (?: Monteray, Calif.,
and Mrs. Jam;.- i'. !v.i;er-. nf Btv
soa City; the mother, Mrs. J. W. ,
Keener: and brother, J. E. Keener,
of Sylva.
Mrs. Bain was born and reared
in Sylva, She attended Sylva High
school and Greensboro College for
Women. While a student in her
third year she was married to Ed
ward E. Bain. Mr. and Mrs. Bain
lived in Greensboro for 17 years
then Columbia, S. C., and Tampa,
Fla. They then moved to Sylva
three years ago this month.
SYLVA MEN GET
DEER ON WAYAH
Sherfff Griffin Middleton and
B. E. Lloyd were lucky on their
deer hunt on Wayah in Macon Co.
Tuesday when each bagged a
buck. The sheriff got a 10 point
fellow which weighed 175 pounds.
Lloyd bagged a 100 pound spike.
Assisting The Blind Has
Been Outstanding Work
Of Club Since Beginning
FUNERAL RITES FOR
MRS. SUTTON; 62,
HELD WEDNESDAY
Funeral services were held at
Long Branch Ba*ptrst church
Wednesday at 2:00 o'clock p. m.,
J or Mrs. Amanda Elizabeth Brown
Sutton, age 62, who died at C J.
Harris hospital Sunday morning
following an extended illness. Rev.
C. M. Warren, pastor of the Sylva
Baptist Baptist church, officiated,
assisted by Rev. Oscar Beck. In
terment was in the Franklin cem
etery
Active pallbearer were nephews
of the deceased
Honorary pallbearers were:
Charlie Thomas, Claude Queen,
Carl Davis, Robert (Bud) Ensley,
Theodore Snyder, and A. H. Weav.
er.
Flower girls were: Mrs. Drake
and Mjss Cabe of the hospital, Jo
Meta T^rpin, Mildred Brown,
Peggy DeariXMrs. Buster Solesby,
Mis. Ralph QKPer^^ftid Mickey
Farmer.
Surviving are the husband,
3a lias Sutton, three daughters,
Misses Effie and Kathryn Sutton,
??nd Mrs. Albert Brooks, all of
DillsborO; three sons, Realis, of
Dillsboro; S. Sgt. John A. Sutton
of Army Air Force, and Bruce M.
Sutton, of Charlotte; one grand
daughter, Mary Elizabeth Brooks:
six sisters, Mrs. Meta Turpin.
Dillsboro, Mrs. Alice Green, Speed
well, Mis, Nora Cireen, Greens
Creek; Mrs. Bell Farmer and Miss
Bessie Brown, of Canton, and one
biother, John Brown, of Dillsboro.
Cullowhee Methodist
Choir To Present
Christmas Pageant
On Sunday evening, December
12, 8:00 P. M.. at Cullowhee Meth
odist Church, the choir of the
church, members of the student
group will present a Christmas
pageant entitled "The Shepherd's
Star". The pageant uses the fa
miliar Christmas story, and a
background for the dramatic ac
tion is furnished by Christmas
music.
The dramatic action of the page
ant is under the direction o; Mi-,s
Mabel Tyree, a member of th?
faculty of Western Carolina Teach
ers C )llege. and the choir is under
t o (In-: ct ion <?f T. Houts, .Jr.,
r " ;iie church. Co-turning
: . j j is 'i: dor t'it ree'i >v.
Mi.-. Gir't.'i Kfi'-r. a; d staging
' '' ?: ' ?'1t-. ci: rect ion < ?f
Frank Murray. i
1 lie same h.-s been o!
? 1 : r. ;?! e . I.,.,, y> a:x by t. :e
1 ?*' :mi?j dramali ? groups of
v- ?'<?* C' niina Ti achers Col
'( i' nas been ,'oand t > be
' ? ' i. i' : ,.'i ;.ppet.i ; n Lf,
Club Has Been Power
Behind Many Civic
Projects In County
The Sylva Lions Club observed'
its 12th anniversary with an ap
propriate program at the regular
"O
bi - weekly meeting Wednesday
evening, December 1, with Lion
Hugh Monteith as master of cere
monies. President Roy Reed,
presided.
The clfib* met in the high school
cafeteria where a delicious dinner
was served to the large group of
members and special guests.'
All former presidents of the
club and all charter members pres
ent were recognized.
Mr. Monteith revieved the wwk.
of the club during its 12 years of
very active work and service to
the community. Assistance to
blind of this and other commtmi
ties has been one of the club's
| main projects. Some of the activi
ties of the club during its history
in addition to the work with the
blind includes many civic projects
such as: Sponsoring softball teams*
preparing ard giving Christmas
baskets to needy persons, erecting,
road signs, sponsoring air shows,
donkey ball games, Federal music
project, beds for hospital, help in
? chamber of commerce drives,
raised $1100.00 for new fire truck,
sponsored carnival, sponsored rat
extermination campaign, installed
coca-cola machine in courthouse,
paid for operation for blind man,
started blind man in business.
Bought flag for colored scout
troop, sponsored eye clinic, going
away party for draftees, helped
pay for furniture in hospital, op
erated dime board, sponsored
scrap iron collection, -aided in Red
Cross drive, gave negro ministrel,
sold $15,225.00 in war bonds, built
booth for hitch hiking men, paid
for operation for child, sponsored
Red Cross workroom, sponsored
collection of 10,369 pounds clothing
for needy of Europe.
Donated to cancer drive, held
43rd consecutive meeting of 100%
attendance, voted to sponsor high
school athletic program and raised
$600, dedicated Mark Watson
Field, helped to sponsor high*
school band, gave negro ministrel
and netted $300, equipped play
ground at community park, agreed
to donate $20 per month to Ashe
ville blind clinic. These are just
a few of the many things' the
club has done.
Si?:ce its organization the club
h: s pu:chased 156 pair of glasses
f??r peivons who could not afford
t<> pay lor t;;ci.- own glasses. The
club has had over 400 people ex
amine,! ;<>r glasses.
For causes other than blind work
?th<- Hun has d'?:i;.lcd the sum of ?
| ?2.753..%.
Qualla Students Are Served
Big Thanksgiving Dinner
Through the cooperation of the!
\
school children, parents, lunch
room workers and teachers, the
children of the Qualla school were
served a bountiful Thanksgiving
dinner on Thanksgiving day. One
hundred and ninety-one persons
were served a heaping plae, con
sisting of the following delicious
food: Baked turkey and dressing,
creamed potatoes, and gravy, cran
berry sauce, green beans, frozen
salad, hot rolls, milk and pump
kin pie.
The mothers of the school chil
dren very graciously helped out
by sending 32 pumpkin pies, al
ready baked, and the school is
very grateful to them for this
kindness. The lunch room workers
were assisted in preparing and
serving this meal by Mrs. Thad
Patton, Mrs. John Cathey, and
Mrs. Claude Denton. Visitors at
meal time were Rev. O. E. Thorne,
James Hall, and Claude Denton.
In the afternoon a Thanksgiving
program was given in the auditor
ium. The program consisted of
piano numbers by the pupils in
Mrs. Ben Cathey's music class,
poems, songs and a playlet re
lating to Thanksgiving, and a most
interesting talk by the Rev. Thorne,
pastor of the Shoal Creek Metho?
dist church. >.
Rev. Thorne spent the entire Is
day at the school and in the morn
ing he talked to the various up- S
per-grade rooms on astronomy.
Mrs. T. U. Beck and Mrs. Hdn w
Cathey attended the Thanksgiving
program in the afternoon.
The school wishes to exptm
its appreciation to everybne Who v*
helped make the
day a very happy one.