' Population
Jackson County?20,000
< Sylva and Area ? 4,000
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VOL. XXIV?NO. 2
Jacksor
Sylva N
, Event To Combine
' Good-Will With
Trade Event
The buying public of Jackson
and surrounding counties will
have an opportunity to buy mer-|
chandise of all kinds at real bargain
prices next Thursday, Friday
and Saturday, June 16, 17, and 18,
when the merchants of Sylva offer
the thrifty shopper thousands of
bargains in the 3-day Merchants
Assciation sponsored "Opportunity
Days", a Bargain Festival. The
name, "Opportunity Days" for the
event is just what it implies, opportunity
for you to buy many
items at real money savings, both
for cash and on time. Next week's
issue of The Herald will carry advertisements
for twArfierchants,
announcing literally/thousands of
special money-saving values to
be offered to the public during
these three days.
' Combined with the trade and
bargain event will be a real welcome
and good-will feature of the
occasion. Sylva Merchants are
extending a most cordial welcome
to every citizen of the county to
visit their {stores during these
1 days, whether you buy or not, they
want to become better acquaint- ^
ed with you, and you will profit"
by knowing them better, v, ^
4 A large number of real worthwhile
prizes, some cash, and other
merchandise will be given at
a drawing Satifcrday afternoon,
- -? A A .AA ^1.1 ^ -1.
June IB, at b:bu or *;uu o cxvck. .
exact hour to be announced next
week. These prizes are being provided
by the Merchants and will
be given by the Association as a
whole. Lucky number holders
will be the winners of the prizes.
Each merchant will start giving
. lucky drawing tickets with $1.00
or more sales on Saturday, the
11th. These tickets will be collected
Saturday afternoon the 18th
for the public drawing on the
streets. Save your numbers and
be on hand for the drawing for
some people are going to get some
very valuable prizes.
Remember Sylva's big "Opportunity
Days", June 16, 17, and 18,
and take advantage of the many
bargains to be offered by the merchants.
STATE ROAD PAVINS
EQUIPMENT MOVED TO
> WHITTIER CAMP
A large number of trucks, trailers,
rollers, and other equipment,
making up the Highway & Public
Works Commission paving unit,
were brought to the Whittier prison
camp from the project recently
completed on U. S. 64 between
* Cashiers and Rosman. This equipment
will be used in black topping
the Webster road in the near
future, a project already allocated
before the new bond issue
election. It is also expected that
the equipment will be used to do
other paving projects in the county
which will be authorized under
the new $200,000,000 road bond
money, of which Jackson county
has been allocated $1,534,000.00.
Scotts Creek To Start
Bible School June 13
Officers of Scotts Creek Baptist
church have announced that plans
are underway for conducting a
two weeks Daily Vacation Bible
at the church, beginning
Monday, June 13. Mrs. B. S.
Hensley, wife of the pastor, will
t be principal of the school.
All children expecting to attend
L the school are asked to register
V at the church on Friday, June 10,
in order that actual school work
may start Monday morning.
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CLAUDE CAMPBELL
IS SYLVA LIONS
NEW PRESIDENT
Claude Campbell was elected
president of the Sylva Lions club
at the regular meeting June 1.
Other officers elected are: Edwin
Allison, first vice-president; W.
T. Brown, Jr., second vice-president;
J. P. Stovall, third vicepresident;
Martin Cunningham,
secretary-treasurer; Roger Dillard,
assistant secretary; Felix Picklesimer,
assistant treasurer; Ralph
Smith, tail twister; Dennis Barkley,
Lion tamer. j
The new officers will be installed
at a Ladies' Night meeting June j
29. Exact details as to time and
place will be announced at a j
later date.
All Lions are urged to be present
at the next meeting June 15. j
The Lions will honor the Boy j
Scout Troop of Sylva at their din- i
ner meeting at this time. j
FUNERAL FOR MISS 1
DIXIE WAY SHULER
HELD TUESDAY A. M.
Funeral services for ftfiss Dixie
Way Shuler, who died Sunday
nrLorr^ing following a long illness,
were held at Wilkesdale Baptist
Church Tuesday morning at 11
o'clock with the pastor, Rev. Jarvis
Underwood, assisted by Rev. j
Leonard O. Prosser, pastor of the
Sylva Church of God, and Rev. |
L. P. Knecht, pastor of Tabernacle,
QoiromfW nav AHvpV?tist. nffiriat- I
ing. Burial was in the Lovefield I
cemetery.
Active pallbearers were Bob ]
Higdon, Larry Mull, Grady Wood- '
ard, Dave Frady, Charlie Camp- 4
bell and Charles Dean. '
Members of the Wilkesdale Sun. <
day school class of which she was ,
a member, served as flower girls. '
Surviving are the mother, Mrs. i
Tressa Shuler, one brother, Jim .
Shuler, of Wyoming; six sisters,
Mrs. Sallie Blackwell of Thermopolis,
Wyo., Mrs. Harry Cagle and
Mrs. Earl Cagle, of Dillsboro; Mrs. (
Ollie Biddex, of Sylva; Mrs. Ben
Lee Long, of Detroit, Mich., and
Miss Birdell Shuler, of Durham. ;
1
Miss Sutton Again
Recipient Of
University Scholarship
M'icc Sara Joan finttrvn hflR been
again notified of her award of
the Alyse Smith scholarship for
the 1949-50 school year at Duke
University. Miss Sutton has just
returned from Duke where she
studied this year to spend the summer
with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. R. C. Sutton, at Cullowhee.
Miss Sutton made the Beta honor
roll and the Dean's list the last
semester at Duke. She was on the
Publication Board of the Methodist
Student Fellowship, a member
of the Music Study club, in
charge of Aycock House Publicity
Bulletin, a member of the House
Committee of her dormitory, and
a member of the Duke University
church.
Sylva People T# Attend
State Legion Meeting
Mrs. John A. Parris, Mrs. Lawrence
Cordell, Mrs. Jessie Freeze,
and Mrs. D. M. Tallent will be among
the delegation that will participate
in the American Legion
Convention which will be held at
the Sir Walter Hotel in Raleigh
June 17 through the 21 according
to an announcement here today.
Sylva business men who have
made arrangements to take part
in the convention are Richard O.
Wilson, newly-elected commander
of the local post, George Sloan,
Dexter Hooper, D. V. Fry, D. M.
Tallent, Dan Tompkins, F. M. Williams,
E. C. Pressley, L. H. Higdon,
Ed Bryson, and Britton
Moore.
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New Look at 105
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ON HER lU5th birthday, Mrs. Hannah
EL Carson is still "the eternaJ
feminine" as she gets a special
hair-do for a party at CharleroiMonessen
Hospital in Pittsburgh.
Helping fix the coiffure is nurse
Elm a Niemela The centenarian was
specially anxious to "look pretty"
for her son, Joseph, a mere youngster
of 82, and her daughter, Mrs.
EL Allman, 76. (International)
A. L. HARRIS, VICTIM
OF FALLING TREE,
BURIED MONDAY P. M.
Funeral services were held
Monday at 1 o'clock p. m. at
Tuckaseigee Baptist church for
Abraham Lincoln Harris, 60, of
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i ulivosicgcc wiiu was miicu wucu
struck by a falling tree he was
cutting near his home on last
Thursday afternoon. Burial was
in the Mathis cemetery. The Rev.
Marshbank, pastor, and Rev. Marvin
Moody, pastor of Wesleyan
Methodist churchy officiated.
Moody Funeral Home was in
charge.
Mr. Harris' death was termed as
an accident by Jackson County
Coroner H. S. Dills and no inquest
was deemed necessary.
Surviving are the widow; four
sons, Frank, Calvin and Tolven
Harris, of Argura, and Robert
Harris of Washington State; four
brothers, James Harris, of Walhalla,
S. C.; Shuford and Ben Harris,
of Argura, and Les Harris, of
Wolfe Mountain and four sisters,
Mrs. Margaret Hoxit, of Forest
City; Mrs. Ruby Hoxit, of Brevard;
Mrs. Mary Galloway, of Wake
Forest and Mrs. Delia Berry, of
Franklin.
Western Car
Dr. Clyde A. Milner, president
of Guilford College, told 116 graduates
at Western Carolina Teachers
College that the hope of the
world today lies in the integrity
of the individual.
His address highlighted the institution's
60th commencement
program Monday morning, after
which 108 Bachelor of Arts were
presented graduates from 29 North
Carolina counties, South Carolina,
Tennessee and New York.
Dr. Milner remarked that in
making a contribution to the world
in a time of stress, "we as individuals
feel we are very small and
live in a very little nook of the
world."
But everyone, he said, has the
privilege and responsibility oi
making "a momentous decision'
that will have widespread effect
Should the approximately 300,00C
students graduating in the United
States this year take this attitude
he declared, it would have a tre
LVA I
Iva, N. C. Thursday, June 9,
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WCTC BOARD NAMES I
IWHITMIRE CHAIRMAN,
FACULTY ELECTED
Governor Scott's new board of
trustees for Western Carolina
ton/,v,ot<c pnlloao HpIH thpir first
1 UCll.11^1 O VViiWgV * w* v? v?.. ? meeting
at the college on last
Thursday night at which time they j
organized by electing E. J. Whitmire,
Vocational agriculture !
teacher, as chairman and Mrs.
Charles E. Ray, Jr., of Waynes- i
ville, as vice-chairman.
The board also elected the faculty
for the college for the coming
year, but did not take up the
election of administrative officers
at this meeting. j
FUNERAL FOR MRS.
W. B. MORRIS WAS
HELD HERE MONDAY
Native Of County And
Former School Teacher,
Died At Hospital Sunday
Funeral services for Mrs. W. B.
Morris, 74, who died Sunday, June
5, at C. J. Harris hospital following
an illness of four weeks, were
held Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'- ""
clock at the Sylva Baptist church, I
with the pastor, Rev. C. M. War- ?
ren, and Rev. Thad F. Deitz, officiating.
Interment was in the ^
Keener cemetery.
Moody Funeral Home was in a,
charge of arrangements.
Pallbearers were: Charles Ginn, g,
Bud Reed, Lee Walker, T. Walter c<
Ashe, Olin Ensley, Dillard Cow- rr
ard. n
Flowers were in charge of Peggy
Jo Sutton, Doris Whitaker, Joan la
Cagle, Cloyce Bryson, Madge Hen- tl
son and Bobby Nelle Ensley. t<
Mrs. Morris, a native of Jack- c<
son County, the former Miss Arrilla
Parker, daughter of the late C
Billy and Jane McClure Parker, te
graduated from Cullowhee Nor- ti
mal, now Western Carolina Teach- L
ers College, and taught in the tl
public schools of the county for a p
number of years until she was
forced to quit due to poor hear- e:
ing. She was a member of the n
Sylva Baptist church for 30 years, y
Surviving are the husband, W. E
B. Morris, one son, Roy Morris, of E
Sylva; one daughter, Mrs. Vollie ei
Fincannon, of Sylva; two brothers, tr
J. O. Parker, Sylva, and A. T. H
Parker, Hayesville, and five grandchildren
and two great grand- ?
children. j
MOTORISTS WARNED a
Automobile owners whose last E
names begin with letters H through \
K are warned that they must
have their drivers' licenses re- t<
newed by June 30. o
olina Awards
mendous effect in bringing about L
changes for the better throughout o
the world. C
The graduation program opened C
with the college mixed octette o
singing "Were You There," Professor
A. C. Reynolds, former pres. q
ident of Western Carolina, pro- c
nounced the invocation and the ii
octette sang "Lo, a Voice to Heav- o
en Sounding." r
Dr. Milner was introduced by \
Acting President W. E. Bird and a
following the address the honors v
, were announced and degrees con- ^
ferred by President Bird. Then the o
Alma Mater was sung by the audi- c
ence and the seniors filed out of C
the auditorium. J
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fUJINUW (jKMUUM I to
; Six students were graduated I
' with high honors, having made a
two and one-half quality points for ?
I each hour of credit earned. They
I were: Luther Bailey of Faust, J
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, 1949
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Bargaii
WORLD FLIER CRI
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BRITISH AVIATRIX Mrs. Richard Mori
plane "Next Thursday's Child" as sh
is Jack Ellis, American navigator (or
Civil Aeronautics Administration off
it was not registered, Mrs. Morrow-'
C.A.A. said the English woman has
and is liable to fines up to $4,000.
i
iions To Hold State
Convention June 19-21
With the state-wide Lions In?rnational
convention to be held
t Wrightsville Beach June 19, 20
nd 21, still three weeks away,
ver four hundrect and fifty deleates
have already reserved acammodations,
convention Chairlan
Harris Ligon announced last
ight.
"It promises to be one of the
irgest conventions ever held at
le resort", Ligon said. "It might
>p the attendance of other state
inventions of the past."
Lions from every corner of North
arolina are among those regis>red.
It is expected by convenon
time that over one thousand
ions will be on hand for the
iree-day sessions of business and
leasure.
Heading the list of dignitaries
xpected to be present are Interational
Director Roy P. Herold,
Wheeling, West Virginia, Director
dward H. McMahan, Brevard,
>r. D. J. Whitener, District Govrnor,
31-A, C. E. Kerchner, Disic
Governor, 31-B, and Joe W.
fnnH District Governor. 31-C.
Ragle's Dime Store
las New Manager
Mr. B. S. Baker, of Lenoir, has
ssumed his duties as manager of
agle's 5 & 10c store, replacing
Ir W. E, Hayes.
Mr. Hayes has been transferred
d Winnsboro, S. C., as manager
f Eagle's store in that city.
116 Degrees
,ina Flynt of Hamlet, B. T. Gannt
f Lawndale, Florence Houts of
!ullowhee, Charles W. Ross of
'lyde, and Dorothy Louise Tilley
f Cullowhee.
Graduating with honors, with two
uality points for each hour of
redit, were 13 students. This group
ncluded: Carl Edwin Allman, Jr.,,
f Dillsboro, Virginia Gallemore
Lrnwell of Greenville, June
Vright Brown of Lexington, Howrd
Thomas Collins of Waynesille,
William Douglas Davis of
Jars Hill, Juanita Rebecca Dills
f Cullowhee, Charles W. Edwards
if Cane River, James A. Frazier of
Canton, James N. Hawkins of Suit,
ruanita Brown Smith of Murphy,
iVilliam H. Smith of East LaPortc,
Setty Jean Woody of Cullowhee,
ind Louie A. Zimmerman. Jr.. of
Marshall. ,
Students receiving Bachelor of
\rt degrees were James Edward
Zowen of Lowell, Virginia Ed(Continued
on page 10)
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ie lands in Chicago. In rear cockpit
the round-the-world flier. Although
Icials impounded the plane because
rait took off for Buffalo, N Y. The
created an "international incident"
(International Soundphoto)
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4 oILVA HUT) Ur
FOR EAGLE SCOUT
AWARD TONIGHT
Four Sylva boys will be awarded
the rank of Eagle Scout, the
highest rank given in acouting, at
the District Court of Honor which
will be held in the Sylva Methodist
church tonight, Thursday, at
7:30 o'clock. They are: Franklin
Fricks, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Fricks; Tommy Ferguson, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ferguson;
Lambert Hooper, son of Dr. and
Mrs. Fred Hooper, and Dick Barkley,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis
Barkley.
The Court will be in charge of
advancement chairman, W. E.
Ensor, of Cherokee, and the Eagle
awards will be presented by Mayor
Hugh Monteith, president of the
Daniel Boone Council. All the
troops in the Smoky Mountain
District will be present for the
Court. W. A. Allen, Chief Scout
Executive of Asheville, will also
be present.
Parents of scouts, and the general
public are invited to witness
the court in action, which promises
to be the biggest ever hjld in
Sylva.
Ramsey Buchanan, Jr.
Awarded Scholarship
Ramsey Buchanan, Jr., son of
Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey Buchanan
of Sylva, and salutatorian of the
senior cla <s of Harriman high
school, Harriman, Tennessee, who
graduated with the class on May
27, was awarded a medal and
scholarship given by the Bausch
& Lomb Company for outstanding
achievement in science during his
high school years. This was one of
five $1500 scholarships given by
the company.
Ramsey, who has been visiting
his parents here for the past few
days left Asheville Wed. by bus for
Miami. Fla., where he will take a
plane Saturday for Los Piedras
Amuay Bay, Venezeula for a three
months stay with his sister, anc
where he will be employed as ?
surveyor with an oil company
He will return to his home this
fall to enter N. C. State College
Visiting Ministers To
l t
rreacn aunaay
In the absence of the pastor
Rev. John Kincaid, there will b<
a visiting minister in each of th<
following churches of the Webstei
charge Sunday: Speedwell at 11
J^clock, Johns Cr?ek at 2:30 p.m.
and East La Porte at 7:30 p.m.
Jackson County i
Ideal For Farming,
Industry, Tourist
$2.00 A Year?5c Copy
Issues
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1 Precinct Votes
Solid For Bonds;
BO Per Cent Vote
Jackson County citizens went
to the polls last Saturday and by
dusting their ballots let it be
known they are overwhelmingly
in favor of better roads and
schools. One precinct, Canada
No. 1, left no doubt about their
desire for the Governor's "Go
Forward Program", the entire vote
(64) was in favor of both road
and school bonds. Two other precincts
did almost as well. Of the
/*
43 votes cast in Mountain precinct
41 were for road bonds, 2
against, and 39 fox school bonds
and none against; River No. 2 was
another, almost solid, in favor of
the issues. Of the 24 votes cast
22 were for the road bonds, 2 against,
22 for school bonds, and
1 against.
Sylva citizens were unwilling
to go against the interest of their
rural neighbors and cast a heavy
vote for both issues. Sylva North
voted 492 for road bonds to 35
against, 515 for school bonds to 12
against. Sylva South did equally
as well, casting 642 for road bonds
to 90 against, 669 for school bonds
to 36 against. Every precinct in
the county voted heavily for both
issues, giving the total county vote
for road bonds as 3,794 and only
393 against; 3,770 for school bonds
as compared to 291 against. For
some reason the votes ran 24 more
for roads than for schools, while
.elsewhere the trend was the other
Wo.- .
In the general election last November
a total of 6,934 votes were
cast for the three candidates for
Governor. The road and school
bond election brought out 4187
votes, or almost .00 per cent of
the vote of last November, which
is quite remarkable in an election
of this kind.
MRS. PHILLIPS. 74.
DIES AT THE HOME
OF MRS. W. L. HENSON
Funeral services for Mrs. Sallie
H. Phillips, 74, who passed away
Friday, June 3, were held at the
Sylva Baptist church on Sunday,
June 5. Rev. C. M. Warren, pastor,
and Rev. Jonathan Brown of Tuckaseigee,
officiated. Interment was
in Cullowhee cemetery.
Pallbearers were: T. E. Reed,
Lyda Caldwell, R. L? Xeever,
Waitsell Henson, Bedford Ensley,
and Charley Crawford.
Mrs. Phillips, widow of the late
Samuel H. Phillips of Asheville
where Mr. and Mrs. Phillips formerly
made their home, died at
the home of her sister-in-law,
Mrs. W. L. Henson, with whom
she had made her home for tne
past 11 years. She was the last
surviving child of the late Philip
i and Mary Allison Henson of Cullowhee.
In childhood she joined
the Cullowhee Baptist church but
, at the time of her death was a
; member of the Sylva Baptist
; church where she was a faithful
! member until last September
' when illness forced her to become
inactive. She had been confined
; to her bed for the past eight weeks
- prior to her death.
Survivors include: a stepdaugh1
ter, Mrs. O. C. Bryson of Ashe'
ville; a stepson, C. B. Phillips of
1 Greenville, S. C.; a stepgrandson,
* B. C. Means, of Washington, D. C.,
1 and a large number of nieces and
nephews.
Out of town relatives and friends
here for the funeral were: Mr.
and Mrs. Claude Henson, Mr. and
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Mrs. Ben Henson and daughter,
Betty, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Keever,
, Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Bryson, all of
? Asheville; Mr. and Mrs. Waitsell
j .Henson of Hendersonville; Mr.
r and Mrs. B. C. Means and daughL
ter, Sandra of Washington, D. C.;
, and C. B. Phillips of Greenville,
S. C.
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