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ITHELP OUR 3 4 KOMWUNI^ ? VOL. XXV?NO. 3 WILLIAM E. vlvgSgjffi i jiff y jpi, ^ Shown above are the officers at a recent meeting of the post. W. Q. Grigg, Post Chaplain; Fred to right, Felix Picklesimer, 1st Vi Finance Officer; Lee Walker, Ad Ground BrokenFor Parkway Road In Soco Gap Area Marking the first major parkway construction West of Asheville since the end of World War II, informal groundbreaking,, cere<naiM> Violrl TnaeHaw rm thp Have Successfu The Home Demonstration clubs of the Western District have just completed a very successful craft school. This school was held at the new 4-H club camp near Wayneville Which consists of 26 cabins, administration building and bath house. . A swimming pool is now being constructed. The camp cabins are built on a thickly wooded hillside and each cabin s named m ? A ? - ? i- ? ? Vii i < * Lr o\f?> xur a tree, sucu as ua*v, w, hemlock, dogwood, etc. They are furnished with double bunks and each cabins will accommodate 12 persons. This was the first schoo or camp to be held for the club women in this State and about 60 women took advantage of the opportunity to stay in the cabins. Fifteen counties were represented. Three cooks were hired to do the cookI ing and the Home Agents acted as waitresses. One of the rules of . the camp was that no club member was to go near the kitchen 01 lUUiUCO VVCiC ilbiu A uvouw^ w> ?'? Black Camp Gap - Heintooga spur, which will ultimately connect * with the Blue Ridge Parkway. When the new spur is completed, officials pointed out, the number of curves on the road which leads to the overlook will be reduced from 107 to 57. Construction is in charge of the Gatlinburg Construction Company and the project is financed by an appropriation of $150,000 vot?d by Congress. Approximately one year will be required to complete the work on the six-mile stretch. Among chamber of commerce officials from the various towns< attending the ground-breaking was Ff?1ix Pirklesimer. Dresident of Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. DVBS Most Successful The DVBS commencement program was held at the First Baptist Church on Friday, June 9, at 7:30 p.m. A very interesting program was rendered with each department giving a part. Certificates were given to all pupils. A very interesting display of beautiful handwork by the children was made. There were 140 who registered and 126 who enrolled. There was a daily average attendance of 94. A mission offering of $50.00 was given to buy Bibles for Japanese boys and girls. The orgarfization wishes to express their thanks to all who helped in making the DVBS most successful. The ice cream cone originated a half century ago at the St. Louis World's Fair. 4 __________ Home DemonsI I Thi DILLARD POST OFFICER Kb "''?I yl!r::::::::^^^^^^^^My: of William E. Dillard Post of the i Seated front row, left to right I Williams, Historim; ?)an Tompki ice Commander; Dr. D. M. Rarney, jutant, and Darrance Tallent, Masl l Three Jackson County Men Get Degrees At N. C. State College Three young men from Jackson County were members of the graduating class at State College, Raleigh, when the 61st commencement was held Sunday afternoon, | June 11. They were: John Charles Resor, son of Mrs. Jas. Resor and the late Mr. Resor. i Mr. Resor was awarded a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering degree. As a student of N. C. State, he was a member of American Institute of Chemical Engineers. ( Joe Tucker Evans, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Evans, of Cullowhee, received his degree as Bachelor of Science in Forest .Management. He was a member of the Forestry Club. UoycTJames Engman, of Cullowhee, was awarded a degree of Bachelor of Electrical Engineer ing, Mr. iLngman was a memoer ^of American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Local Women Attend Grand Chapter Mrs. Dexter Hooper left Tuesday for Greensboro to attend the Grand Chapter*^of the Eastern Star. Mrs. Hooper is Worthy Matron of the Oce Chapter, Dillsboro. Mrs. Hazel Carlson of Cherokee and Mrs. Ella Moore of Sylva left Sunday to attend the meeting. They are also members of the Oce Chapter. 386 Register At WCTC Miss Addie Beam, registrar of Western Carolina Teachers College, announced on Tuesday that 386 students had registered for the first term of the summer session which began June 12. Both graduate and undergraduate courses are being offered at each session. The graduate courses are ! offered under the sponsorship of |4 he University of North Carolina TXTPornl iwo _ | a I n COW.ll l vai viiiia jl ca\.iivi o w?< iege. tration Clubs d Craft School do any kind of house work. Classes in wood carving, broom making, ceramics, hooked rug making, stenciling and copper craft were held each morning from 9:00 till 11:00. Afternoon classes were ty-om 2:00 till 4:00. Instructors were expert craftsmen and teachersfc A tea was held each afternoon at 4:00 o'clock. A program 9f stunts, games, and songs was eihjoyed each night. A disi play cf the crafts made was held Friday morning with copper be! 'tng ,^he most popular item. Manj beautiful trays, nut bowls, flower r>M<4 nlofoc U!Oro moHtf 1 awu t'iatvg nv>v t ar^d displayed. i /Mrs. W. G. Dillard of Sylva was ' tpe only Jackson county membei who remained over for the entire ! Session. Mrs. Dillard majored ir popper. She also made brooms i c lid some wood carvings, and made ! 1 inoleum block prints. t Miss Mary Johnston, Jacksor (Continued on page 12) \ 1 : Syi \ i Sylvi S FOR 1950 I I I \merican Legion who were installed are: Col. Lee Hooper, Commander; ns, Service Officer. Back row, left 2nd Vice Commander; Leon Shook, :er at Arms. i Cherokee Drama i Rehearsal 'Round i ^The Clock Cherokee, June 14?Around the : clock rehearsals were ordered the second day by Harry Davis, director of the Cherokee Drama, "Unto These Hills", which went into j production here at Mountainside | Theatre June 5 for a summer run opening July 1 with nine suces! sive performaneces. A n^nimum cast of 75, includ- i ing three Cherokee Indians in major roles, from eight states (North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, South Carolina, Texas, New I York, Massachusetts, and Penn-1 sylvania) this week were assign| ed 132 roles calling for 220 cos- j tumes. At week's end two of 14 scenes, covering 250 years in the action of the two-act saga-drama, " the coming of DeSoto and the rejection of war-invitation from Tecumseh, were pronounced rough-finished. Workmen utilized rehearsal lights at night to place seats on j ; the stone tiers of the 3,000-seat1 | Theatre ('&nd state highway crews | commenced black-tapping entry iroads and the 800-car parking area. ' A steady stream of reservation orders by mail was augmented at week's end by dial system telephones, the ,first installed in the ! Great Smoky area, at the Theatre wno nave not already joinea aur} ing this year are invited to be' come new members. If you have 1 joined during this year that is for the entire year. ! 1 SYLVA CITY MARKET . . in AAP . : and in the general offices in ' Cherokee, Courtesy Hut on NC N 107 (the trans-Smoky Park high' way) at the Theatre entry road . intersection. Reports from Great Smoky Park headquarters at Gatlinburg, Tenn., indicate a substantial in crease this summer over the million-and-a-half users of the Park in 1949. A recent report from ! North Carolina Advertising Division showed slightly more than a twenty per cent increase in ac-; commodations throughout the state, with nearly thirty per cent reported for the Great Smoky area. W/nn/1 t>mtr Rmrcnn VTUUIUVTV J >3V11 Graduated From U.N.C. | Mr. Woodrow Bryson, son of r Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Bryson of Cul| lowhee, was graduated from the University of North Carolina with an A.B. in Political Science. In the middle of July Mr. Bryson expects to enroll at George Washington University, Washington, D#i ! cC Of C Memberships Now Coming In Officers of the Chamber of Commerce announce that mid-season memberships are coming in nicely and that the drive will close soon. Those who have not taken membership during this year are urged to do so at this time. Only those r.vfl 1 a, N. C. Thursday, June 15, 1 Funeral Rites For Mrs. Mark Jarrett Held Monday P.M. Funeral services were conducted at 2 o'clock p.m., Monday, at Jarrett Memorial Baptist church, Dillsboro, for Mrs. Minnie Snyder Jarrett, wife of Mark Y. Jarrett. Burial was in the Parris cemetery. Members ol Oce Chapter No. 139;^ Order of the Eastern Star, participated in the services which were conducted by Rev. W. N. Cooke, assisted by Rev. C. M. Warren and Rev. Ralph Nix. Mrs. Jarrttt, 66, died Saturday at 8:30 p.m. at C. J. Harris hospital where she had been for several days. She had been quite ill for the past year. Pallbearers were: Harry Jacobs, F. B. McFee, Jr., Bobby Allen, Robert Messer, Wade Jarrett, and Edd Boone. Flowers were in charge of members of the Eastern Star. Mrs. Jarrett was the daughter of the late H. R. and Eleanor Snyder. She was a member of the Jarrett Memorial church, a charter member and Past Matron of the Oce Chapter No. 139, Order of the Eastern Star. Survivors include the husband: two daughters, Mrs. Ralph Whitworth of Asheville, and Mrs. R. D.-Sutton of Dillsboro; two grand-1 sons, Harold Jr. and Larry Morgan; three brothers, C. A. and J. T. Snyder of Dillsboro, and W. L: Snyder of Canton; five sisters, Mrs. j F. B. McFee, Alcoa, Tenn., Mrs. R. D. Randall and Mrs. W. O. Allen, Canton, Mrs. W. L. Robinson, Rock Hill. S. C., and Mrs. F. T., Jacobs, Dilhooro. / FOURWUREpj 3-CAR COLLISION Four^persons .were treated at C. i J. Harris' hospital Saturday for | injuries received in a tnree-way | auto accident in the Moody Bottom section Saturday afternoon. ! Those who received treatment were Lonzo Jones, 57, of Waynesville, driver of one of the cars: Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Crawford and daughter, Gloria Jean, 8, all of Waynesville. C. D. Lindsay, state highway patrolman, who investigated, said the three cars involved included the following drivers: James A. Reed, 62, of Sylva; Jones; and Charles J. Cope, 21 of Sylva. The cars which Jones and Cope were driving were traveling in opposite directions, while Reed, traveling through the old highway, formerly 19-23 that leads through the Negro section, was traveling toward Asheville. j Sylva Men To Attend WNC Safety Meeting Officials of the Mead Corporation, including Ramsey Buchanan, general manager, Raymond Sutton, Ralph Kemmerer, Mike Strong, Jackson F. Dunn, Joe Dcitz, Charlie Smith will attend the Western North Carolina Safety Council educational meeting at David Miller Junior High school in Asheville on Friday night. Tom Mason is president of the organization and a large number of industrialists from all Western counties are expected to attend. The featured speaker will be J. Frank Huskins, chairman of the North Carolina Industrial Commission. Southern Handling Express By Truck Herbert Gibson, local agent for the Southern Railway System, has announced that the railway company has inaugurated a highway trailer express service between Asheville and Murphy. Authority was granted the company by the State Utilities Commission to use the truck system. Officials believe that they can render quicker service by the truck than by having the express car come out with the freight train. Mr. Gibson says that the trailer truck leaves Asheville each morning after train No. 15 gets in from New York, bringing express from this train to this section. This was not done by the freight as it leaves Asheville before 15 arrives. A truck also leaves Murphy each morning, meets the trailer truck in Sylva where express is transferred for delivery west of Sylva. 3er/ l950 New Telephc Observed At B +>M* -.\ +sj/ |- H + -**&-? jhT i pl^ *| K Vice Chief McKinley Ross, of the the first long distance call over the tem at Cherokee which was opened Davis, general manager of the Che which will open July 1 at Cherokee iT' Around 40 Attending Clerks School Here A two weeks school for retail store desks opened here Monday morning with around 40 local clerks attending the ty/o daily sessions. The school was brought to Sylva by The Merchants Association and is the first of its kind to be held in this section. Miss Putmann, an experienced director of this type of work, is in charge. Classes are held each morning in the basement of the Sylva Baptist church. Officers of the Association are highly pleased with the of the school thus far. They also wish to thank the members of the Sylva church for use of the base ment for this school. FARM BUREAU HOLDS QUARTERLY MEETING The Jackson County Farm Bureau held a quarterly meeting in the County Courthouse, "Saturday morning, June 10th with president, J. E. Brown in charge. During the business session the following resolutions were adopted: (1) To work for an additional set of buyers for the Asheville Burley Tobacco Market (2) To support the Jackson County Milk Producers Association in its efforts to promote the use of Jackson County produced milk (3) To support the Jackson County Artificial Breeding Association. A report was given on the State Farm Bureau Convention by president J. E. Brown; vice president Winston Cabe; and Farm Bureau Field Representative George G. Farthing. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Brown left Asheville early Tuesday morning, June 13th to represent the Jackson County Farm Bureau at the Presidents' and Secretaries' Conference held in connection with the workshop of the Associated Women of the Farm Bureau in Raleigh, June 13th and 14th. Funeral Services Held At Beta For Sam Wiley Monteith Funeral services were held Monday, June 5, at Scotts Creek Baptist Church for Sam Wiley Monteith who passed away Sunday, June 4, following a short ill i^ss. Revs. B. S. Hensley, George Snyder, and T. F. Deitz officiated. Burial wasi n the Old Field Cemetery. Mr. Monteith was 95 years old and a native of Jackson county. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Artie Davis Monteith, and four daughters by a former marriage, Mrs. Tennie Moore, Mrs. Sarah Norton, Mrs. Nellie Norton, and Mrs. Mel Dean, all of Sylva. There are also ten grandchildren, twenty-two great grandchildren, and two great-great grandchildren. 1 SO88AMON'S In Sylva ILD j >ne Exchange Cherokee 0 Hppl \ Cherokee Nation, is shown placing new dial telephone exchange sysSaturday at noon. Seated is Hai ry rokee Drama, "Unto These Hills", Allen S. Sutton Claimed By Death i Wednesday A. M. Allen S. Sutton, 64, died at C. J. Harris hospital at 9:30 Wednesday morning after an illness of several weeks. Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at the Ochree Hill Baptist church and burial will be in the church cemetery. Rev. C. L. Crawford, assisted by Rev. Thad Deitz and Rev. Robert Parris, will ofiiciate. Nephews will serve as pallbearers. Mr. Sutton, a retired contractor and farmer, served as deputy sheriff of Jackson County under Sheriff James Buchanan when the county seat was at Webster and also under Nelson sutton aner mei seat of government was moved to| Sylva. He was chief of police in Sylva from 1923 to 1926. Surviving is the widow, the former Ethel Snyder; three daughters, Mrs. Jack Ledbetter and Mrs. Edwin Knight, of Sylva, and Mrs. Kenneth Kenki, gf Pittsburg, California; two sons, Guy and Billy Sutton, of Sylva; two sisters, Mrs. Alice Allen, Leeds, Ala., and Mrs. R. J. Clayton, Hazelwood; also six grandchildren. Stupka To Give Illustrated Talks Beginning Monday, July 10, and continuing through August 28 Arthur Stupka, naturalist of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, will give illustrated talks1 each Monday evening at 8:15 at the Cherokee Indian School, Cher- ; okee. His talks will be of special interest to nature lovers and oth- j ers interested in the trees, flowers, tinr) nnimale in tVi*? na r Ic Uil UO) OilU ?? % mm . area. Hamilton Suca As Sylva High Sylva High School teams will dress out this year under the regime of a new coach?Pee Wee Hamilton, Western Carolina gridiron great, who was named head coach and athletic director at the high school when James R. Barnwell turned in his resignation last week. Barnwell resigned the job after two successful years as head coach in order that he might go on to the University of North Carolina and work off his Master's Degree. It will take a full year of studying for Barnwell to get his master's, so to do a good job of it he turned in his resignation as head coach. The announcement of Hamilton's appointment to the job was made shortly after Ralph L. Smith, Sylva High principal, accepted Barnwell's resignation. The announcement also knocked in the head any existing rumors that Pee U7aa mioVit rotnrn tn Car i ? PATRONIZE! ? local mm HiSCHANTCI $2.00 A Year?5c Copy e Opening 'n Saturday ? \Tew System Will Provide Phones "or Business, Homes Saturday, June 10, was a Red _,etter Day for Cherokee with the >pening of the new dial telephone exchange. This thriving tourist enter, and home of the Eastern iand of the Cherokees, will now lave adequate communication :ervice with the outside world. Opening of the new dial system ,vas celebrated at a luncheon session at Boundary Tree Coffee Shop it noon Saturday with leaders of carious groups in Western North Carolina present. Percy Ferebee of Andrews, president ol Western North Carolina Associated Communities, was toast master and called attention to the community improvements in the Cherokee section during the past three years. Lynn D. Garibaldi of Cherokee, president of the Western North Carolina Telephone Company and director of several other telephone exchanges in North Carolina, pointed out that the Cherokee system was put irT in record time, which was rushed in order to be ready for use in connection with the presentation of "Unto These Hills", a drama of the Cherokees which opens July 1. Mr. Garibaldi congratulated the WNCAC for its part in promoting new enterprises and creating new machinery to carry them to completion. Mr. Joe Jennings, superintendent of the Cherokee Indian Reservation, expressed appreciation to all individuals and organizations which cooperated in installing the new exchange. "Within a short time", Mr. Jennings said, "Indian families will be enjoying telephone service in their homes." TM?yrfrs.n?it to secure the new syifem was discussed by Harry Buchanan of Hendersonville, president of the Cherokee* Historical Society. Other speakers were Ross Caldwell, of Cherokee, R. E. McKelvey, manager of the telephone system. Following the luncheon the 40 people present for the occasion went to the new office and information booth of the Cherokee Drama, Unto These Hills, where the f irst call over the new system was made. Vice-chief McKinley Ross called Stanley Winbourne, chairman of the State Utilities Cmmission, of Raleigh, and John Provinse of Washington, D. C., assitant commissioner of Indian Affairs, who were invited to attend the drama this summer. Others on the program were Kermit Hunter, author of the Drama; Harry Davis, general manager, Carroll White, business manager. Carl Sink. Dirblic rela tions director, John Parris, author of a new book on the Cherokees. The Sylva Herald, Franklin Press and Smoky Mountain Times were weekly newspapers represented. Others present were: Henry Bradley, Chief of the Tribal Council; Morroni French ot ?Continued on page 12 zeds Barnwell School Coach olina this fall to again pilot the single-wing formation that won the North State Conference football championship for Coach Tom Younc and the Catamounts for the first time in history last fall. Hamilton spent a year at WCTC before the war, then stayed in I the U. S. Navy for two years before returning to the Catamount gridiron where he proceeded to write new phrases into the WCTC and North State Conference record books. He led Western Carolina to iti two most successful seasons in history during 1948 and 1949 when the Cats won seven games and lost three and then won eight and lost two respectively. Hamilton is ! well known and well liked in ^ Sylva and Western North Carolina Other than the coaching dutiesj he will take over Barnwell's posi1 tion as recreation director for th* 'Continued on page ft) f> -S
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