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Group To M
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South Carol:
Dinner Meeting At
Sunset Farms 5:30
Friday Evening
The Jackson County Chamber of
Commerce, Merchants Association,
and Jackson County Tourist
m Association are jointly sponsoring
a tri-state meeting of members of
civic groups, including South Carolina,
Tennessee towns, Sylva,
Cherokee, Cullowhee and Cashiers
in North Carolina for the purpose
of promoting a motor-cade to be
made sometime in- September. The
trip is to be made over Highway
107, south over the new highway
from the N. C. State line to Walhalla
and other cities in South
Carolina. The group will also
discuss the possibility of a Federal
number for Highway 107, and
possibly a name for the road leadino
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The meeting will be held at
the highest and most specta11
with a dinner, the out-of-state
visitors being guests of the Sylva
organizations.
Mr. Felix Picklesimer, president
of the Jackson County Cham-1
ber, and principal promoter of the
project, has announced that representatives
of the towns and
Chambers of Commerce from Gatlinburg,
Tenn., Anderson, Clemson
and Seneca, S. C., have already
accepted the a invitation, and
that representatives from Knoxville,
and Severville, Tenn., and
Greenville and Walhalla, S. C.,
are expected to accept.
a Also attending the meeting will
be Joe Jennings, Superintendent
of the Cherokee Agency, and Ross
Caldwell, of the Cherokee Historical
Association, Carl Sink, Carol
* White, and Kenneth Hunter, of
"Unto These Hills", and McKinley
Ross, vice chief, of Cherokee;
Paul A. Reid, president of Westy
ern Carolina Teachers College,
-? ?"?Dean W. E. Bird, and representative-elect
Frank H. Brown, Jr.,"1
of Cullowhee; W. L. Lewis and
Henry Konkle, of Cashiers; H. E.
Monteith, Mayor of Sylva; Jennings
Bryson, Finance Commissioners;
Ed Nicholson, president
Merchants Association; Harry Ferguson,
president Rotary Club; W.
T. Brown, president Lions Club;
William McKee, Chamber of Commerce;
Col. Lee Hooper, Philip F.
Lee, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bumgarner,
Tourist Association, and J. A.
Gray, John Parris, and Larry
Mull, of the press.
The group will leave the Farm
at 7:30 p.m. for Cherokee to be
special guests of "Unto These
Hills."
PMA Committeemen
Dinner And Tour
l Committeemen of the Jackson
County Productidn and Marketing
Administration met in the courthouse
at 9:30 Wednesday morning
for an instructional course in the
v work for the coming season. J. H.
Enloe, District Fieldman, was
present to give the information.
At noon the members and others,
numbering around 40, gathered at
the Legion Home for a dinner prepared
by the members of the Legion
Auxiliary.
Following the dinner the group
left for a farm tour during which
time pasture demonstrations were
studied on the farms of Lee Bumgarner,
Frank H. Brown, Jr., and
C. P. Shelton.
State Wildlife .
Commission Tt
Richard O. (Dick) Wilson, chairman
of the Fish Committee of
Jackson County Wildlife Club,
after a visit to the Wildlife Hesources
Commission office in Rall
eigh, announces that a crew of
State fish experts will be in Jackson
County the week of September
3rd for the purpose of making an
analysis of Lake Glenville. As a
^ result of this analysis scientific
measures can be taken to improve
the fishing in this lake.
The interest that the State is
taking in the improvement of fish
I Thi
[eet To Plan
)ver 107 To
ina Points
FRANKLIN GARDEN
CLUB WILL STAGE
FLOWER SHOW 12TH
The annual flower show, sponsored
by the Franklin Garden
" ? ' * 1- -1 J ? A. At 1 A .
UlUD, will De neia ai me agncuuural
building in Franklin on Saturday,
August 12, it has been announced.
The show will be open to the
public from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. All
Jackson County and Sylva persons
interested in this type of
show are cordially invited to attend.
Any person in Macon County is
eligible to compete in the event,
and the Garden Club officials said
I it is hoped there will be entries
from communities throughout the
county.
Mrs. T. W. Angel, Jr., is in
charge.
JACKSON COUNTY
DEPIIRI IP AN PI MR
nut uuLiunn ukvw
to hear hamlin
Lewis P. Hamlin, Republican
Chairman of the 12th Congressional
District, will be the principal
speaker at the regular meeting of
J*ackson County Republican Club
at the courthouse in Sylva Friday
night, August 11, at 8:00 o'clock.
Jeff Hedden, President of the
Club, states that important matters
are to be taken up during the
meeting and he urges a full attendance
of the members.
niles to oe heard
in folk music
Program at wctc
John Jacob Niles, noted composer
and singer of American folk
music, will present a program of
folk tunes- at Western Carolina
Teachers College at 8:00 p.m.,
I August 22, in-the Hoey Auditorium.
Frank H. Brown, Jr., of Cullowhee,
president of the Farm and
Home Rocnd-up which Ts to be
! held at the college on August 22
and 23, has announced that arrangements
have been completed
for the program to be attended by
1 the farm families which will be
present on the campus at that time.
Niles is appearing as the lyceum
offering for the second summer
session of Western Carolina Teachers
College. Earlier in the sum!
mer, Jesse Stuart, famous Ken'
tucky author, lectured as the first
selection of the lyceum commit|
tee.
i John Jacob Niles was born and
. grew up in Jefferson County, Ky.
1 He began his musical education
' early, on his father's knee.
I Niles has spent nearly twenty
! years of his life collecting and recording
ballads, Negro spirituals,
and other folk tunes. Part of his
collection has been added to the
Library of Congress in Washington.
Using one of his three home
j made dulcimers, Niles accomI
panies himself a? he sings the early
1 ballads and songs of American
| folklore.
Resources
> Study Fish
ing in Lake Glenville is evidenced
by the fact that Mr. Cornell, Chief
of the Fish Division of Wildlife
Resources Commission, will fly
here on an inspection trip while
the analysis is in progress.
Because of th^e developments
the regular August meeting of
the Jackson County Wildlife Clut
has been postponed, and in its
place a call meeting of the club
will be held in early Septembei
while the field men from the Commission
are here.
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Sylv;
YEAGER RETURNS
TO SYLVA HIGH AS
BAND DIRECTOR
Rehearsals To Start
Monday At 9 A. M.
In School Bandroom
Patrons of Sylva school will be
glad to know that Harold C. Yeager
has decided to return to Sylva
as school band instructor. Mr.
Yeager was here for a few weeks
last spring, following the resignation
of Ben Cole and while here
he became very popular with the
students and citizens of the comtint
ftr
lliuiuw/
r Ralph L. Smith, Sylva District
school Principal, announced Monday
that Yeager had accepted the
position again this year and that
he will be here Monday morning,
August 21, to begin band rehearsals
at 9 o'clock in the school band
room. All band students and those
planning to take up band this year
are urged to be present Monday
morning.
Mr. Yeager has been taking special
work at the University of Indiana
during the summer.
Mr. Yeager received his A.B.
and Masters degrees at the Carnegie
Institute of Technology,
Pittsburg, Pa., and had several
years experience in the field of
music, having served a supervisor
and teacher in the Wimber school,
Pennsylvania and the Greenville
high school, Greenville, Miss.
Mr. Yeager served three years
in the United States Army during
World War II. His home is in
Spartanburg, S. C.
Lots In New Section
Of Cemetery Available
The town of Sylva officials have
announced that all of the lots in
the old part of the city cemetery
have been sold and that the 77
lots in the recently annexed addition
of 2 acres purchased from A.
i J. Dills, are now available. In
I fact 21 of the 77 new lots have
! already been purchased. The lots
I in the new section are 20 by 20
I
feet and are available at $50 per
lot. The lots on the old part were
only 10 by 20 and sold for $25
'each.
Tar Heel Legic
rUnlo These H
CHEROKEE, N. C., August 12-J
Legionnaires from five Southern
- States are expected to join comrades
of North Carolina in a special
"Legion Night" celebration
August 25th at the 45th performance
of Kermit Hunter's great
Cherokee Indian Drama, "Unto
These Hills". ^ '
Felix Picklesimer, vice-commander
of the William E. Dillard
;Post 104 of Sylva, said Legionnaires
from Tennessee, Georgia,
Kentucky, Virginia and South Carolina
are being urged to attend the
Tar Heel Legion celebration.
"We hope," he said, "that Legionnaires
from these states will
make a special effort to be with
us, and we are especially anxious
to have a good representation from
every post in North Carolina."
I "Legion Night" is being sponsored
by the Sylva Post through
the cooperation of Cherokee Drama
officials. Reservation for seats
should be made to Picklesimer or
Carol White, General Manager of
"Unto These Hills", Cherokee, N.
C.
Among the top Legion brass of
, North Carolina who will attend
the celebration are Hugh Alexander
of Kannapolis, North Carolina
Department Commander; Beaman
Pinner of Asheville, Fifth
Division Department Commander,
and the Rev. Quay Grigg of Sylva,
State Department Chaplain.
State Department officials will
be entertained at a dinner at the
Legion Hut in Sylva and will proceed
from there to Mountainside
Theatre here for the drama perJ
formance.
. Legion Calls Off
Saturday Night Dances
. Due to the small crowds that
attend the Saturday night dances
> the American Legion will discona
tinue them. However, the regular
, Tuesday night dances will con.
tinue.
8YLVA CITY MARKET .. In AAP
LVA ]
a, N. C. Thursday, August 1
Mead Sponsors
Safety Course
H. S. BAUCOM, Safety Director
for the North Carolina Industrial
Commission, will conduct a Safety
Course, sponsored by The Mead
Corporation, beginning Monday,
August 14 at 4 p.m. in the Sylva
elementary school auditorium. Mr.
Baucom will lecture each day for
five days and the lectures will be
illustrated by movies and slide
films.
The showing of the film, "The
Miracle of Paradise Valley" will
take place at tfce opening session.
It is highly recommended by those
who have seen it and is especially
interesting to women as well as
men.
The course is intended primarily
for industrial workers and
foremen, but family members are
invited. Employees attending all
sessions will be awarded a certificate
by the State of North Caro- i
lina. I
i
Bids Asked For Moving
Postoffice Equipment
T. Walter- Ashe, postmaster for
the Sylva office, has announced
| that the postoffice department is
seeking bids from local citizens for
moving the office equipment of
the Sylva office to the new building
which will be ready for occu-(
pancy some time in October. Bids
should be submitted to Mr. Ashe
as soon as possible. * I
?
>n Night At
ills" Sponsored
y
Dr. and Mrs. T. D. Slagle
I To Leave For S. America
Dr. and Mrs. T. D. Slagle and
two of their children, Lois and
Ned, left today for Miami where
they will board a plane for Medellin,
Colombia, South America.
The party will drive to Miami and
will fly on one of the SMA Airline
planes.
The Slagles will visit Mr. and
Mrs. Dennis Powelson in Medella,
Colombia, until Labor Day. Mr.
? U. ^ mona Oor
ruwcisuu iO II1C U^tl a UUII
! of the SAM Airline.
Norma Slagle met her sister,
Betty Slagle from Garberville,
California, at the Knoxville air,
port yesterday.
Two other Slagle children, Tommy
and Phil, will visit with relatives
in Franklin while their parents
are visiting in South America.
Dr. Hitter Attends
Audio-Visual Meet
Dr. Paul Ritter of Western
Carina Teachers College represented
the college at the AudioVisual
Convention held in Chicago
on July 27 through August 2. A
review of audio-visual progress
for the past 50 years was presented.
A contrast of the primitive
silent films and the new modern
films was reviewed.
Later Dr. Ritter attended the
Frequency Modulation Convention
held at the Indiana University,
Bloomington, Indiana, which was
held on August 3 and 4.
Mrs. Paul Ritter accompanied
Dr. Ritter.
CANCER CLINIC TO MEET
at C. J. Harris Hospital, in 8ylva,
Friday, August 11. Registration
from 9 to 10:15 a.m. The
Division of Cancer Control The
N. C. State Board of Health
provides examinations for cancer
to women above 35 and men
above 40 years old and to any
person of any age with symptoms
suggestive of cancar.
Her;
LO, 1950
wow present"
flag to whiteside
mountain, inc.
The Stars and Stripes now wavej
over Whiteside Mountain, one ofi
I
the highest and the most specta-,
cular peaks in Jackson County.
The flag was raised Sunday when
Cashiers Lodge of the Woodmen;
of the World presented it to offici-.
als of Whiteside Mountain, Inc.
About 200 members of the Cashiers
Lodge held a picnic at Whiteside
camp ground and following
the picnic they proceded to the.
top of the mountain over the new
motor road recently built by the
Corporation.
! The flag was presented by Mayor
Hugh Monteith of Sylva, and was
received by Dr. W. R. Matthews,
of Atlanta, Ga., president of White'
side Mountain, Inc.
Color bearers were: Clyde Bumgarner
and Cladie Loggins, of Sylva.
The flag was the first to
be placed on top of the mountain
since its development. Following
the flag raising ceremony a tour
of the development was conducted.
Attend Rural Fire
Fighting School
Bart Cope, Chief of Sylva Fire
Department, and Dick Wilson^ a
member of the Department, air
tended a Rural Fire Fightings
School held at State College in
t Raleigh last week. The school was
i sponsored by the State at the
I instigation of Governor Scott. Its
purpose is to promote better rural
fire protection.
New Post Office
I Schedule Is Announced
I Beginning Monday, August 14J
the Sylva Post Office will operate
on a new schedule according to
T. W. Ashe, Postmaster.
Office hours will be from 8:30
a.m. to 5:30 p.m. with out-going j
mail as follows: (Hour mail closes)
7:00 a.m. West, Higfo*% PrtH
Office to Atlanta via Murphy.
10:00 a.m., East via Asheville
11:00 a.m., Cashiers-Webster
3:30 p.m., East via Highway
Post Office to Asheville
3:30 p.m., West to MurpTiy
4:30 p.m., To East La Porte and
Webster
Incoming mail:
8:00 a.m. from East via Asheville
9:45 a.m. From Webster
10:15 a.m. From Murphy
10:30 a.m. From Cashiers
3:30 p.m. From East La Porte
and Webster
4:00 p.m. From East via Ashe-'
ville
4:30 p.m. From West via Highway
Post Office.
Ttfckaseigee Baptist S. S.
Convention To Meet
The Tuckaseigee Baptist Sunday
School Convention will meet
Sunday, August 13, at 2:3(T with
the Shoal Creek Baptist Church.
All Sunday Schools in the county
are ufged to attend this meeting, j
The program will include the
message, "Plan Now, Reap Later," j
by the Rev. Ewell Payne of Cherokee.
Mr. Johnny Hyatt will deliver
the devotion. Mr. Charles
Ginn will discuss the Sunday
school planning. Special music
will be conducted by Mr. Cary
Reed Snyder.
Former Sylva Resident
Dies In Tennessee
Haywood York, 75, died at his
home in Etowah, Tenn., on July 26.
Funeral services were held the
following day at the Etowah Baptist
Church; interment was in the
church- cemetery.
Mr York a formpr resident of
Sylva, will be remembered here
by a number of people as the contractor
who was in charge of the
construction of the Jackson County
Courthouse. He was also a
maker of hand-made furniture.
The deceased was an uncle of
'Mr. Lyle Ensley of Sylva. He is
Mr. Lyle Ensleyo f Sylva. He is
survived by three sons and two
daughters, all of Etowah.
t Mr. Jim Ensley of Sylva was
among the out-of-town relatives
attending the funeral services.
SOSSAMON'8 In Sylva
\ldJ
Automobiles
Be Driven T<
Of Whitesid*
SELECTIVE SERVICE *
BOARD OPENED HERE j 1
MONDAY MORNING I
D. L. Robinson, chairman of Jack- ti
son County Selective Service Board b
No. 51, has announced that this h
board was activated again Mon- 4
day morning, August 7, at 9 a.mVt;
located in an office over Leader v
Department store with Mrs. Olive tl
Wilson as the clcrk. Office hours s<
will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. each p
day. . jli
The board members are D. L.
Robinson, chairman; O. E. Mon-|"
teith and Felix Picklesimer, mem- t(
bcrs. I
All young men are required to
register with the board as they,
become 18 years of age. ! q
The board has not. received a N
draft quota for July and August. ^
but expects to be given a quota at j
any time. 11.
GROUNDBREAKING
MONDAY FOfl NEW ?
ufpti> Dim mug
vvuiu uuiluiiiu i;
Ground breaking for the new G
million dollar science-classroom j tl
building at Western Carolina I a
Teachers College will take place j p
on Monday. Yesterday engineers! e
and workmen were busy getting e
the ground lined up for {he dig- n
ging. Huge excavating apparatus
and concrete mixers are arriving
at the building site. ^
Mr. Lattimore, engineer, stated c
that local help would be employ-^
ed to construct the building.
MISS SADIE LUCK '
APPOINTED TO. <
LIBRARY POST ;
A new library board has been r
appointed, by the county commis- p
sioners, to direct the activities and a
policies of the Jackson County f
Piihlir Uhrarv. to succeed fee I c
members whose terms of office s
expired with the fiscal year of ^
1949-50. The new board is com- t
posed of Britton M. Moore, chair- ?
man; Jennings A. Bryson, treas- <
urer; Mrs. Harry R. Hastings, Mrs. ^
Gordon Reed and W. T. Wise. 1
At a meeting of the board, held j
recently, Miss Sadie Luck, who has 1
been acting librarian since the resignation
of Mrs. W. G. Stallcup
took effect the first of April, was ^
elected librarian for the ensuing
year. (
Beginning August 15, the library (
will be open from 12:30 to 5:00 o'- ,
clock every week day, except
Wednesday. The change from the ,
Wednesday to Saturday opening
is being made in order that the
numbers of people from over the
county who are here on Saturday !
may have an opportunity to get
books from the library. As there
are very few people in town on
Wednesday, it is thought that no
inconvenience to anyone will result.
The loan of the books is free to
the people of the town and county.
A fine of two cents a day for books I
for adults and one cent a day for
(Continued on page 12)
Board Of Aide
Curtailed Use (
At a special meeting of the
Board of Aldermen of the town
of Sylva on Tuesday night for the
, purpose of discussing the critical
, water shortage it was ordered that
everyone do all they possibly can
to conserve water and use it only
for essential purposes.
All persons are ordered not to
' water lawns, gardens nor wash
' cars or use water for anything
except absolutely essential purposes.
i
The intake of water at the city;
PATRONIZE!
* LOCAL
dCRCHAimq
$2.00 A Year?5c Copy
Can Now
3 The Top
d Mountain
icenic Wonderland
Made Available To
3ublic First Time
With the opening of a motor
oad to the top of Whiteside Mounain
another scenic wonderland has
een opened to thousands who
eretofore were unable to see this
930 foot peak except from a disance.
Now they can ride to the
ery top in their cars from where
hey command a view of 40,000
quare miles of mountains and
lains of North and South Carona,
Georgia and Tennessee. From
he parking area one may see five
akes, three waterfalls, five fire
Dwers and many other points of
lterest.
Whiteside Mountain is located
nidway between Highlands and
Cashiers, N. C., on U. S. Highway
lo. 64. The Mountain is famous
ecause of its cliffs, the highest
n Eastern America. (A stone
rirown from its crest will drop
,800 to 2,000 feet straight down).
Whiteside rises into the sky as
mammoth finger projecting from
he Blue Ridge divide at the east
rn border 01 tne mgnianas pia:au,
the highest and only tableand
of its kind east of the Rockies.
Geologically, Whiteside is one of
hie oldest moutainsin the world,
nd several millions of years ago
rojected into the sky much highr
than it does now, bare of its
xquisite flowers, ferns and magificent
trees.
For many years the question of
whether a road to the top of
Vhiteside could be built was disussed.
^ few said one could be
>uilt, more said it couldn't, most
rfdB*!- really Know. In 1948 an
ngineering party, starting irom
he top, blinded by the overgrowth
if bramble and hampered by the
teep and rough terrain, discovred
after several attempts -that
f one critical point atop" a 200oot
cliff on the western slope of
he mountain could be reached, a
oad could be built. From this
mint downward a center line on
i 10 per cent grade was chosen
or trial. For a quarter of a mile
;oundings disclosed nothing but
:olid rock, but continuing downvard,
still on a 10 per cent grade
he victory was finally won. The
;urvey ended in the termination
)f a country road. The chief engineer,
Major C. D. S. Clarkson,
J. S. Army retired, advised the
Darty to "go find a millionaire"'
Decausc of the quantity of rock.- i
Faith and hard work built the
oad, for no "millionaires" were
'orthcoming. Most of the diffi:ult
quarter-mile is a "through
:ut" into Folid rock of the hardest
type. Holes were cut into the
side of the mountain as deep as
16 feet, and the amount of dynamite
used ran into tons.
Over half of the funds needed
in the beginning of the development
came from local citizens,
many of whom belong to families
of the first settlers of this region.
Whiteside stands for them as a
bulwark overlooking a history of
struggle and sacrifice?and faith
in a land belonging only to God
and themselves.
i ne new roaa is a ion roaa ana
is open every day to the public.
The development is known as
Whiteside Mountain, Inc.
rmen Orders
Tf City Water
water resevoir is the lowest it has
been in years, caretakers say.
The board stated that no water
is to be used for washing the
streets from the city supply. Water
from. Scotts Creek is available for
street washing. The water in the
city swimming pool has not been
changed and will not be changed
during the critical period, the
board stated.
Citizens are urged to check their
homes and business places for
leaks and if any are found to haw
them stopped at once,
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