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Tuckaseigee
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Schools Ovei
Miss Snelson And T
Miss McLean Will
Help. With Work \
Vacation Bible Schools are in
progress in the Tuckaseigee Baptist
Association. The following schools
have already been held: Wolf
Mountain (Mission); Wolf Creek;
Heady Mountain; Little Savannah;
Old Savannah; and Scotts Creek.
The following are now in progress:
Jarrett Memorial; Sylva, First;
Fall Cliff (Misson).
The following churches will be
conducting their own schools during
June and July: Cashiers;
Hamburg; Tuckaseigee; Cullo
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whee; J-.oveaaie; weoster; wu?.w>dale;
East Sylva; Buff Creek. The
dates for these schools will be
announced by the churches.
Miss Eunice McLean, a North
Carolina girl, comes to the Association
June 10 to assist the Associational
Missionary, Miss Pauline
Snelson, conducting Vacation Bible
Schools. Miss McLean is the j
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Simeon
McLean of Council, North Carolina.
She comes with a high recommendation
as to her consecration and
ability as well as a wide field of
experience.. She is a graduate of
Campbell College and CarsonNewman
College. During her two
years at Carson-Newman she
worked in Mission sponsored by
the First Baptist Church ' of Jef*
ferson City, Tenn. Last summer
Al VML. i _
sne aia vacation cioie ocawij
work under direction of Home
Mission Board in Kentucky.
The following schools are schedf
uled in which either Miss McLean
or Miss Snelson will serve as prin-1
cipal: |
June 11-16, Wilmot, Shoal and
Hyatts Chapel; June 18-23, Mottr
Creek, John's Creek, Balsam
Grove, and Zion Hill; June 25-30,
Big Ridge, Rockdale, and Barker's
Creek; July 2-7, East Fork, Long
Branch, Dick's Creek; July 9-14,
Pine Creek; July 16-21, Cedar,
Neddy Mountain, Oak Ridge, Sol's
Creek. July 30-August 4, Greens
Creek, Calvary, Yellow Mountain;
August 6-11, Balsam.
A few of the churches have yet
not given a date for their schools.1
Your Associational Missionary is
very anxious to have a school in
every church this year. Please
contact her if you do not have a
school scheduled in the above list.
BLANTON FAMILY ,
hpiiiiiaii nri n
Htumun ntLu
The D. K. Blanton family reunion
was held at the family cemetery
at Robbinsville Sunday
where both the father and mother
are buried. All surviving children
attended. They were J. C.
s Blanton and G. M. Blanton of
Knoxville, Tenn., Mrs. Eston Cagle
of Sylva, Mrs. Fred Patterson of
Andrews, Mrs. Horace Lovin of
Philadelphia, Tenn., and Mrs. John
' Adams of Padena, Ga.
South Carolina
Build9 Surface
The State Highway and Public Works
Commission received bids
oil 26 highway projects on May 30
with 8 of them being in Western
North Carolina and one in Jackson
County.
The Jackson county project
calls for grading, paving and
structures on Highway 116 from
a point on NC 107 South of Sylva
to a point on US 23 South of Dillsboro,
with a total milage of 3.23.
Suber & Co., of Whitmire, S. C.
were low bidders getting the grading
and paving for $101,482.90,
and structures for $28,202.15; G.
E. Crouch Co., Asheville, moving,
buildings, $11,950.
I Date for starting work has not
been announced but it is expected j
to get underway in the near future.
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* nate some bad curves and a steep |
section near Webster. i
8VLVA CITY MARKIT . . In AAP
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Miss Eunice McLean will come '
to Jackson County Saturday, June ;
10, to assist Miss Pauline Snelson, j
Associational Missionary, in conducting
Vacation Bible schools in <
the Baptist churches of the coun- j j
ty. Miss McLean is the daughter I
of Mr. and Mrs. Simeon McLean
of Council, N. C.
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Road Bond Money
Spent In Jackson
W. M. Corkell, Division Engineer,
reports the expenditure of
$243,732.49 of Secondary Road
Bond money in Jackson County
thru April 30, 1950.
KIDS OFFERED FREE
AIRPLANE RIDES FOR
'FATHER'S DAY'
vlt looks like the kids rather than
Dad of the Sylva area may get
the breaks next week in observance
of Fajh^r's Day, according
to an announcement made this 1
week by Johnny Watson, owner
and manager ol Sylva Flying Ser?vice,
at the Sylva airport.
Mr. Watson says he's offering a
free ride to any boy or girl whose I
father takes a demonstration
flight lesson or sight-seeing ride
Qn any day between Monday, June
12 and "Father's Day" which this
year comes on Sunday, June 18.
"Knowing that there are lots of
kids in Sylva and vicinity, who'^
want to take an airplane ride, we
thought we could give them a
break by making this offer of a
free ride on the occasion of Father's
Day," Mr. Watson said. "We
are also anxious to have the Dads
visit our field and take a turn at
handling the controls of an airplane
themselves."
ORPHAN8 GET FREE RIDE8
Mr. Watson also announced that
he will give a free ride to all orphan
children who would like to
ride. Realizing that these children
could not share like the others
with parents, he is giving these
less fortunate children a break by ,
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giving mem a nue wnuuui uvivcw >
being bought.
~Firm Will
Webster Road
M-S Thad B. Deitz
With Army Reserve
Office In Winston
A 20-year veteran of the regular
army and a former resident of
Pittsburgh, Pa., have been assigned
to the Army Reserve Office in
Winston-Salem as replacements
for two men transfered. One of'
the two men sent to Winston is
Master Sergeant Thad B. Deitz,
of Sylva, going from ForVBenning,
Ga. to his new post. Sergeant Deitz
is the son of Rev. and Mrs. Thad
F. Deitz of Beta. j
Sgt. Deitz enlisted in the army
in 1930 and will complete 20
years' service in July. He plans
to stay in "four or five more
years". He served in the Philippines
during the war and recently
has returned from a three-year1
tour of duty in Germany. He has
been stationed at Fort Benning,
Ga., since his return. Mrs. Deitz
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Sylv
HEARTATTACK IS
FATAL FOR MISS
FANNIE GOODMAN
Critic Teacher At WCTC
For 24 Years; Was Native
Of Rowan County
Funeral services were held Wedlesday
at 11 o'clock at Back
Sreek Presbyterian church, Mount
LJlla, N. C., for Miss Fannie Goodnan
who riit?d at 4 D.m. Monday
af a heart attack just after having
participated in the Sixty-First
Commencement of Western Carolina
Teachers College, where she
had been a critic teacher in the
Training School for the past 24
years. During this time she was
given a year leave of absence for
study.
Miss Goodman was preparing to
leave the college with her broth- |
er, A. K. Goodman, of Mount Ulla,
when she became ill. The College j
physician was called and she died
while he was at her side.
The body was brought to Glenn
Funeral Home in Sylva and prepared
for burial and taken early
Tuesday morning to her old ffbme
at Mount Ulla by a Mooresville
Funeral Home. *
miss Liooaman was a graduate j
of Salem College and received her;
masters degree from George Pea-,
body College, Nashville, Tenn.
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TUCKASEIGEE
BAPTIST S. S.
MEETING JUNE 11
The Tuckaseigee Baptist Associational
Sunday School Mass
Meeting and Officers Council
Meeting will be held wtih the
Scotts Creek Baptist Church, Sunday,
June 11 at 2:30 P.M.
Mr. F. ?. Parker, Associational
S. S. Superintedent, announces
the following program:
Hymn, "How Firm A Foundation";
Devotional, led by Tom
Clayton; Prayer; Announcements
and Business; DEPARTMENTAL
CONFERENCE AS FOLLOWS:
Cradle Roll, Mrs. Garland Jones;
Nursery, Mrs. Vernon Cope; Beginner,
Mrs. Willie Monteith; Primary,
Mrs. Jack Henson; Junior,
Mrs. Kate Bryson; Intermediate,
Miss Hattie Hilda Sutton; Young
People, Roy Reed; Adult, Edwin
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Allison, .extension ueparuncni,
Ralph Parnell; General Officers,
F. E. Parker.
After the conferences the group
will assemble for the following
program: Hymn, "Rescue the Perishing";
Prayer; Special Music;
Message, "Summer is Harvest
Time", H. A. McGlamery.
JACKSON FARM
BUREAU MEET SET
SATURDAY 10 A.M.
The officers of the Jackson
County Farm Bureau: J. E. Brown,
president; Winston Cabe, vice
president; and Rogers Shelton,
secretary and treasurer, have arranged
for a meeting at 10:00 a.
m.t Saturday, June 10th in the
County Courthouse and urge that
all who can do so attend this important
meeting. George G. Farthing,
Field Representative of the
North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation,
will bring a message to
he group regarding State and Na
uonal activities in agriculture.
Notice To Cherokee
Essay Contestants
All those wishing to enter the
essay contest on the Cherokees will
find at the Public Library rules
governing the contest. Also special
materials are being assembled
which may be borrowed at
the library.
Those entering the contest must
have them in not later than July
15.
Members of the Twentieth Century
club will act as judges for
the contest.
President Truman has proclaimed
the week of July 23 to 29 as
National Farm Safety Week.
was the former Miss Viola Thorpe
of Sylva.
8O88AMON8 In 8yWa
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LVX1
a, N. C. Thursday, June 8, 1J
WILLIS SMITH CALLS '
RUNOFF IN SENATE i
RACE WITH GRAHAM j
After keeping the voters of the J
State in suspense since learning |
that Senator Graham was lead- f
ing in the race for U. S. Senate |
in the June 27th primary, Willis ij
Smith, Raleigh Attorney and run- |
ner up in the primary, announced i
Wednesday at noon that he has ij
fnr a <5Prr?nd nrimarv which i
will oe held on Saturday, June 24. |
In the four-way race for the j
Senate seat Graham led Smith by j
a vote of 53,383 but lacked 5,635
votes of having a majority. Robert
R. Reynolds of Asheville was
third man in the race with Olla
Boyd running a slow fourth.
A strenuous campaign is expected
to be waged by the supporters 1
of both Graham and Smith and 1
the outcome will be doubtful un- 1
til the votes are counted. (
COBLE DAIRIES OF
MURPHY BUYS GRADE
G MILK IN JACKSON ;
Farmers of the Qualla and Soco 1
communities of Jackson County
and sections of Swain_ County have
organized a Grade C milk route. ]
The milk is being bought by Coble !
Dairies of Murphy. The route i
has been developed in the Qualla I
area of Jackson with anticipation ;
that producers will extend the
route into other sections of the I;
County in the near future. The
market is available to all areas
that will produce sufficient volume
of milk to allow transports- 1
lion ai an wununuuii cost.
S. C. Hospital Head
| Studies Harris Set-Up
! Mr. James Felts, Field Repre- <
sentative of Duke Endowment, j
Hospital Division, and Mr. C. E. j
I Bullard, administrator of the i
Hampton County hospital, Varn- \
ville, S. C., spent Tuesday at the! i
Chamber Of
Mid-Season j
I
Drive Now L
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In order that the business firms*!
of Sylva and area failing to become
rpembers of the Jackson
Courrtty Chamber of Commerce
during the early spring membership
drive, may do so, a mid-season
drive is now on. Checks may ,
i be mailed to the Sylva office of the
| organization. Members of the'
board of directors will also call
1 on those who have not yet joined
; for their membership,
i The organization is doing all it
i can to induce more industry to
locate in Jackson county. Several
advertisements have been run in the
New York Times from which
. a large number of inquiries have
been received. More contacts
with manufacturers are to be
made in the near future by the
Industrial Committee.
~ The organization is working
closely with the newly organized
Tourist Association in the interest
of tourists. Much interest along
this line is shown and good rei
&ylts are expected.
I The work of the Chamber of
] Commerce is /everyone's business,
| not just a faithful few. Do your
i part by becoming a member at this
time.
Twelve Weeks Graduate
Work Available
At W. C. T. C.
Dr. H. P. Smith will again be
head of the graduate work sponsored
by the University of North
Carolina of Western Carolina
Teachers college this summer. Two
summeV sessions, or twelve weeks,
of graduate work will be given.
All graduate credits earned in
these units of work may be transferable
to the Graduate School
at the University of North Carolina.
Graduate students may later
transfer earned credits to the
Graduate School of Western Carolina
Teachers college, plans for
which are now underway.
Indications are that there will
| be a full enrollment this summer.
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In Cherokee Drama
iiiipp'
RALPH SMITH, principal^of
the Sylva ^chools, will be cast as
the friendly, understanding bartender
in "Unto These Hills", a
drama of the Cherokee, which will
have its premiere July 1.
Daily Vacation Bible School
To Open At Webster
The Daily Vacation Bible School
will begin at the Webster Baptist
L-hurch Monday, June 12, and continue
through June 17.
Mrs. Dan Cowan is principal
with the following faculty assisting:
Mrs. Nell Fullbright, Mrs. V.
N. Dillard, Mrs. Pauline Cowan,
Miss Betty Lou Cowan, Miss Jes-.
sie Farmer, Miss Lucy Farmer,
Miss Francis Morgan, Mrs. Clint
Morgan, Miss Lahoma Deitz,
Mrs. i;iauae cowan, Mrs. ixiroeri
Dillard, Mrs. Margie Moore, Miss
Clara Nix, and Mrs. Ralph Nix.
The school will be held in the
afternoon beginning, at 2 o'clock
each day.
Farm and Home Week will be
held at State College, Raleigh, Jul^
31-August 3.
C. J. Harris hospital here studying
the administration system of
the Harris hospital. They were
shown the operation s^t-up here
by Administrator William Andrews.
' Commerce_
Membership
n Progress
LONG CHASE ENDS
IN CAPTURE OF
TWO MEN. WOMAN
Two men and a woman, chased
over North Georgia, Western North
Carolina into South Carolina were
captured Monday and Tuesday.
Identified by FBI as Edward
Clyde McAllister, a former convict
from Huntsville, Ala., was
seized in a light truck near Chesnee,
S. C., Monday. Carl Baskin
Hensley and his red-headed wife,
Martha Louise Hensley, were
captured near Cowpens, S. C.,
Tuesday. Officers found them
asleep at the home of a friend in
the South Carolina village and
took them in custody without resistance.
The trio began their wild flight
after over-powering a Tennessee
State Highway trooper, taking his
patrol car near Chattanooga. The>
were chased through Georgia, ther
Hayesville and Murphy where the
trail was lost until Mon. where it
was picked up again in South Carolina.
They signed extraditior
waiver and were returned to ChaLanooga.
PMA Community Committeemen
To Meet
The State Director of PMA, G
T. Scott, has scheduled a meetin*
for community committeemen foi
the Tenth District to be held al
the County Courthouse in Brysor
City Friday, June 9th. J. H. Enloe
District Fieldman, will be in charg?
of the meeting and representative!
from the State office will attend.
Jackson county will be represented
by three committeemer
from each of the fifteen townshipj
in the county, and the three county
committeemen. J. L. Stewart o
Vnrtnn i.Q Chairman of Jacksoi
county committee.
SLIT|
Parrish Give
Poultrymen
Management
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Poultry Field Day
At Test Farm Set
For Next Thursday
The Poultry Field Day at the
Mountain Test Farm, near Waynesville,
has been scheduled for
Thursday, June 16th, beginning
at 10:00 a.m. The program will
Include a tQj^r jot th$ poultry
research projects now being conHurtari
at th? farm Alsn rHu- .
I
cational field meetings will be
held in which the information
gained through the studies will
be presented to those attending.
Farm families of Jackson County
are invited to attend the field
day. The program will be helpful
to family flock owners as well
as hatching flock owners. Farm
women are also invited to attend.
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106 Get Diplomas i
At WCTC Monday
Cullowhee ? 106 students from
five states and twenty-six counties
in North Carolina received de- i
grees at the sixty-first Annual;
Commencement Exercises held
Sunday and Monday (June 4 and i
5) at Western Carolina Teachers
College. Fifteen of these students
are from Jackson Coonty.
I Major General Samuel L. Howard,
USMC, was the speaker at
the Graduation Geremony neia
Mon. morning at 10:00 o'clock in
the Hoey Auditorium. General
Howard was awarded the Navy
Cross for heroism while in command
of the Fourth Marine Regiment
on Bataan and Corregidor. |
! . He was a prisoner of the Japanese
for three years during
, World War II. At present he isj
President of the Nav&l Examining
Board, U. 8. Marine Corps,' utyA'
Presdient of the Marine Corps
; serve Examining Board in Wash"
ington, D. C.
The Baccalaureate Sermon on
Sun^ morning at 11:00 o'clock |fij
the Hoey Auditorium was deliver-1
I ed by Dr. Rupert McGregor, President
of Montreat College and
! Preparatory School. He has serv-:
ed in that office since 1947.
Other events on the graduation
: program included a tea for Seniors
and their guests, given by the
faculty at 4:30 p.Sunday, at
the home of Pres. and Mrs. Paul A.!
Reid; a concert by the Music Department
instructors, held in Hoey
Auditorium at 8:00 p.m., Sunday;
and a Senior-Faculty Breakfast
held at 8:00 a.m., Monday, on the
West Terrace of Moore Dormitory.
M rc Fnrfnpr
Given Citation
Mrs. J. G. Fortner was one of
one hundred graduates of Brevard
College who were recognized by
the college Saturday evening,
May 27, at a special meeting for
, outstanding achievements since
graduation from the college. Mrs.
, Fortner was cited for ^outstanding
i achievements in the field of Education.
McKee Family (
; In Memory OJ
Announcement has been made
1 by Rev. W. Q. Grigg, Pastor of
- the Sylva Methodist church, that
L the family of the late Gertrude
' Dills McKee will honor her mem1
ory by the presentation to her
' church of a concert pipe organ.
The donors of the memorial gift
will be E. L. McKee, husband,
William D. McKee and E. L. McKee,
Jr., sons of Mrs. McKee.
Following consultations with
I music authorities, arrangements
r have been completed with the
I Reuter Organ Company, of Lawi
rence, Kansas, for the installation
, of a modern church pipe organ,
? designed especially for service in
s the new auditorium and chancel
which are in process of construe
tion.
i The instrument will include an
oicrVit_ronlr Q rron tromon t r\f Arffon
> V-* a* jn UA A U4i|^v?iAVilw V4 W 0O?i
. pipes, with tone openings in the
f chancel. A versatile range of musii
cal voicing and tone variation will
i suit the organ for use in all phases
BWBowmi
local mm
wtBcwamj
$2.00 A Year?5c Copy
3S Jackson
Pointers On
; For Profit
Fresh Water, Good
Feed, Culling Are
Essential Points
i
Poultry producers of Jackson ^
County joined together for a discussion
of poultry management
practices at the County Courthouse
. Tuesday morning of^ this
week. The discussion was led by
C. F. Parrish, Extension Poultry
Specialist, Agricultural Extension
Service.
Mr Pnrrieh ctrr??j5;pH 0nod man
agement of the flock as a means
of increasing the margin between
the selling price of eggs and the
production costs. The Specialist
offered the following recommendations
as means of avoiding summer
moults and gaining greatest
production from the flock: (1)
Supply the birds with plenty of
fresh drinking water, (2) Keep
the house comfortably cool, (3)
Feed a good quality feed, and (4)
light the house at night as a means
of extending the working and eating
hours for the birds.
The afternoon session of the
meeting was held at the home of
F. W. Tudor, Speedwell community.
where the group discussed
flock culling procedures. Mr. Parrish
pointed out the observations
used in determining whether birds
have been, are now, or can be expec
ted, to lay eggs. Tests have
proven that hen's capacity to produce
eggs can be judged quiet accurately
by observing the body
development, comb development
and the color and shape of the
eyes. Hens that do not show definite
prdmise of laying consistently
should be marketed immediately
since they do not pay their feed
bill.
WHDLIFE MEMBERS
PROTECT, NOT KILL
Persons in the county who have
been accusing members of the
Jackson County Wildlife Club of
poisoning dogs just don't know
these wildlife members. They not
only protect game and fish, or try
to, but protect good dogs. No member
of the club in the county would
stoop so low as to put out poison
for a dog or anything else. Only
a few people in the county would
do a thing like that. This would
be "a person who cared little for
dog or man as the poison might
just as well reach some innocent
I child or valuable dog.
No . . . those who accuse the
wildlife members of poisoning
their dogs, if there have been any
poisoned, will have to look elsewherp
for the guilty one.
Notice
The local office of the AAA will
be closed Friday, June 9, that the
personnel may attend a District
meeting to be held in Bryson City
on that day.
jrive Pipe Organ
Mrs. McKee
of the church service, including
solo, choral, and congregational
music, prayer accompanyment,
and special organ concert presen,
tations.
The two-keyooard organ con'
sole will be finished in oak to
blend with the internal architec1
' ture and finish of the church.
Reuter Company craftsmen, who
are considered by music author!i
ties to be outstanding in the proi
duction of fine pipe organs, will
begin work on this installation immediately;
and dedication of the
finished instrument is expected
to take place within . several H
months.
During her many years of ser,
vice to her church, Mrs. McKee,
who, herself, was a musician,
maintained an especial interest ix?
i the musical phases of the worship
i services. Her extensive participation
in church affairs led to tha
selection of this organ as a fitting
tribute to her memory.
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