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"American L
To Be Speci:
Cherokee Dr
William E. DiUardt:
Post To Play Host
To State Members
William E. Dillard Post 104
American Legion of Sylva and
Jackson County will be given
State-wide recognization on Fri*
day evening, August 25, when
Hugh Alexander, State Department
Commander, and W. Q.
Grigg, Department Chaplain, a
member of the local post, will be
guests of honor at the local postj
meeting, beginning with a six o'clock
dinner, served by the Legion!
Auxiliary at the Legion Home,1
followed with the Department
Commander's message.
After the meeting those who care
to will attend the "Legion Night"
showing of the Cherokee Indian
Drama, "Unto These Hills", at
Mountainside theatre at Cherokee.
A motorcade will leave the Legion
Home, escorted by Highway
Patrolmen, at 7:30, and the Legionnaires
and their families will
attend the drama in a body, seated
in reserved section of the theatre.'
Mrs. Mildred R. Rhyme, president
of the American Legion Auxi-!
liary of Hickory, will also be a!
special guest of the Legion Auxi-|
liary and will attend the Drama
witfr ^Auxiliary members. This
special night at the drama will be
for Legionnaires, Lesion Auxiliary.
' members and their families.
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All Legionnaires interested in
tickets to the Drama are urged
to see Felix Picklesimer in Sylva,
- or Carol White, General Manager,
at Cherokee. You are urged to do
this at once as the drama has been
selling out each night and it will
be nice to have all the Legionnaires
seated in a body.
Our membership drive is going j
slow. So far we only have 51 new
and renewal memberships for 1951.'
It is hoped that we can double I
this number by September 1st.'
Attend the meeting next Friday
night, August 25, become a member
and go to see the Drama.
Legion members from other posts
of the area expected to attend this
meeting. All Am. Legion members
will be admitted to the Drama on
this special "Legion Night" no
matter where they are from, provided
they have made prior reservations.
CAPTAIN LAMBERT
GALLED BACK TO
ACTIVE DUTY
Captain Hugh N. Lambert, Jr.,
of Cherokee, has been called back
into active service in the Air Crops.
* He reported August 14 at Keesler
Field, Biloxi, 'Miss., for two days
processing and to receive orders.
Captain Lambert, an Air Corps
reserve, served in World War II,
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missions over Europe. Following
his 32nd mission he was called
back to the States as instructor on
B-29's at McDill, Fla.
Following his discharge from
regular duty he has been operating
Cayuga Trading Post at Cherokee.
Work On Glent
Addition Progr
Contractor William B. Dillard,
of Sylva, is making good progress
in the erection of a large new
addition to the Glenville high
school plant. Murphy Electric
Company, of Murphy, has the contract
for the electrical work and
E. M. Lloyd, of Sylva, for the
plumbing and heating.
The new addition of steel, block
and brick, will contain four stand- <
ard size class rooms, lunch room 1
to seat 250 students, library, lab<
oratory and standard size gym- 1
nasium. A new heating plant will
be installed for both the new and <
old building and new electrical 1
fixtures will be installed through- <
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Dr. David E. Price has been appointed
as Associate Professor ol
Music and Band Director at Western
Carolina Teachers College, ac.
cording to Paul A. Reid, College
president, and will assume his
duties with the opening of the
1950-51 school year on Septembei
11.
Dr. Price, 32 years old, is the
sixth instructor holding a doctor's
degree to be appointed to the
WCTC faculty this summer and if
the second doctor to be added tc
the music department staff.
Price received his B.S. and M.A
degrees from the University ol
Minnesota. He is receiving his
Ed.D. degree from the University
of Colorado this August.
He has had four years of teaching
experience in elementary and
secondary schools and has taughl
music method courses at the university
of Colorado. ?
During World War II he served
in the Army where he attained the
rank of Major. His work was aj
an operations officer supervisin*
the training and employment ol
troops.
Dr. Price is married and has one
child.
- Other instructors holding Ph.D.'i
who have been appointed this summer
are Dr. Frieda Anne Grieder
Dean of Women; Dr. Richard Renfro,
music; Dr. Benton Naff, chemistry;
Dr. A. K. Hines, math; and
Dr. .Taft Botton, Director of Student
Teaching.
Bickett C. Bryson,
31, Is Recalled To
Duty With Air Force
Bickett C. Bryson, 31 and single,
of Glenville, who had three years
service in World War II, has received
telegraphic approval of hi*
application for re-call to active
duty in the United States Air Force
He has been ordered to report tc
Keesler Air Force Base, Biloxi
Miss., on August 18. At Biloxi he
will be enlisted as Technical Sergeant,
assigned to the 8th Air
Force at Carswell Air Base ir
Texas.
A good management practice or
pastures is to spread the droppings
by dragging the field.
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out. A new sewage disposal system
is also being built.
The old building contains 15
class rooms, including home economics
and agricultural departments.
The school has a good commercial
department, and excellent
equipped shop for vocational students.
There are 17 teachers in the
Glenville system, with 6 cf them
being in the high school department.
F. I. Watson is principal of
the school.
Work on the new addition started
several weeks ago and v/ill not
be completed by the time school
opens August 30.
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I GLENN DAVIS DIES
OF HEART ATTACK
IN WASHINGTON
Body To Reach Webster
Saturday, Funeral Sunday
At 2:30 P. M. At Webster'
Relatives here received word
Monday evening of the sudden
death of Glenn Davis, 43, in Lester,
Washington. Mr. Davis died of a
heart attack on Monday, Aungust
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The body is being sent to the
home here and is expected to arrive
Saturday. It will be taken
to the home of the deceased's sister,
Mrs. Lewis Cannon and Mr.
Cannon where it will remain until
one hour before the funeral on
Sunday afternoon at 2:30 at Webster
Methodist church. The body
will lie in state from 1:30 until
2:30 p.m. Accompanying the bodyj
from Washington will be Mr. Nat
Snyder, an uncle of the deceased, '
of Sedro Woolly.
Pallbearers will be members ofj
the Sylva Camp WOW who will I
also have charge of the graveside!
rites.
Pallbearers will be Lee Dillard,'
Morgan Dillard, Love Dillard, Dave!
Dillard, Ralph Dillard and John
D. Davis.
! Honorary pallbearers will be
- members of the Sylva Camp of
' w.o.w.
Nieces of the deceased will have
' charge of the flowers.
Mr. Davis was foreman for the
[ Sound View Pulp and Lum-|
b e r Company, o f Lester, a t
the time of his death, and also
[owner of Davis Furniture Store
| in Sylva. He had made his home
'.In Washington for some 20 vears!
' except for three years here in
' business. He returned to Washington
in May to resume his work
' there. He was a son of the late
Joseph and Etta Davis, of Webster.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs.
Leona Dillard Davis and two children,
Lewis and Glena Kay; four
j brothers, Don, Doug, and Wood,
all of Webster and Whit Davis, of
' Asheville; two sisters, Mrs. Lewis
Cannon, and Miss Myrtle Davis,
^ of Webster.
JOHNS CREEK PTA
' PUNS IMPROVEMENT
TO SCHOOL CAMPUS
The members of Johns Creek
school Parent-Teacher Association
has issued an urgent plea to citizens
of the community and to ad
j joining communities to meet at tne
Johns Creek school house on TuesI
day, August 22nd at 9 o'clock a.m.
for the purpose of cleaning up the
school play grounds and the in-'
i stallation of play ground equip-'
1 ment.
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{ All persons who can furnish
chains, ropes or locust posts are
i asked to bring them on this date
? so that the grounds and play equip
ment may be put in good condi;
tion before school starts on August
> 30.
Superintendent Cope and Su>
pervisor Miss Hunt will be on
? hand to help supervise the work.
* All parents of children who
will attend the school are urged
' to come.
REPUBLICANS
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ANNUUNUtSLAIt
OP CANDIDATES j
At a meeting of the Republican
Club of Jackson county, held
in the courthouse on last
Friday night, the names of candi-!
! dates for the various county offices
were released.
' Jeff Hedden, President of the
i Club, and Velt Wilson, chairman >
of the executive committee, re'
leased the following slate of candidates:
W. C. Hennessee, Repre;
sentative; Brady Parker, Sheriff;
Vernon McHan, Clerk of Court;
Gerome Phillips, Finance Com- <
missioner; Bob Long and T. S.
Lance, part time Commissioners;
Glenn Ward, Register of Deeds,
and Julius Mills, Coroner.
The next meeting of the party
will be helci Thursday, August 24,
at 8 p.m. All meetings in the future
will be on every other Thursday
night.
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To Speak At WNC F
Bi i#
Dr. James H. Hilton, dean of
and director of the North Carolina
and Mrs. Harriet Pressley, womenwill
be the principal speakers at
Carolina Fnrm and Home Roandu
College, Cullowhee, August 22-23.
Farm And Hon
Field Day At H
JACKSON EXCEEDS
QUOTA FOR BOND
SALES IN JULY
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County U. S. Savings Bonds
Chairman, Mr. W. J. Fisher, announced
today that Jackson County
exceeded its quota of $25,000.00
for the Independence Drive with
sales of Series E Bonds amounting
to $26,262.50. The Savings Bond
Drive began May 15th and closed
July 17. The County chairman
further stated that the quotas for
North Carolina and for the nation
also had been achieved. The
state quota for North Carolina was
$7,057,000 and sales for the Drive
period were $7,353,171.50. The1
national qftota of 650 millions was
topped by 66 millions.
North Carolina ranked 31st among
the states in the nation with
respect to percentage of quota
achieved \with 1&4.2 percent.~The~
national average was 110 percent.
Pennsylvania led the nation with
a percentage of 129.9 percent.
"We are proud that our county
and state are among those who
went over the top in the Independence
Drive," Mr. Fisher said, ,
"and I want to take this opportunity
to thank everyone who assisted
in the campaign?civic, fraternal,
veterans and women's organizations,
newspaper and radio
stations, industrial and business
concerns, and the many individuals
who made possible this splendid
accomDlishment. I
"Let's continue to help strength-'
en our personal security and the
security of our country by the reg-,
ular purchase of U. S. Savings
Bonds. No one was ever sorry that
he saved," Mr. Fisher concluded.'
Democratic Rally
Set For August 25
At a meeting on last Saturday
of the* Democratic Executive Committeevand
Democratic candidates,
seeking offices in the general election
this fall, it was decided to
hold a county-wide rally in the
court house in Sylva on Friday
night, August 25. at 8 o'clock.
Judge Felix' E. Alley has been
secured for the speaker for the
rally. The rally will be in con-!
nection with a meeting of the
Young Democrats. Every Democrat
in the county is cordially invited
and also urged to attend this:
rally.
Plans will probably be made at!
this meeting for other meetings,1
snr?akin0 rfatpc and Dossiblv a
barbecue sometime later in the
fall.
Dan M. Allison, chairman of the
executive committee, will preside
at the rally meeting August 25th. |
CANCER CLINIC TO MEET I
at C. J. Harris Hospital, in 8ylvi,
Friday, August 18, Registra- !
tion 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 cancer.
SYLVA CITY MARKET . . In A4P
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17,1950
arm-Home Roundup
agr^ulti^ at N. C. State College
i Agricultural Experiment Station,
s editor of station WPTF, Raleigh,
the second annual Western North
ip at Western Carolina Teachers
le Round-up
[ooper Farm
l One of the attractions of the
second annual Western North
Carolina Farm and Home Roundup
to be held at Western Carolina
Teachers College on August 22
and 23 will be the farm and home
field day on the farm of Robert
C. Hooper of Speedwell. '
The field day, to be held the
second day of the meeting, will
include demonstrations of floor
finishing, clothing storage facili
ties, kitchen remodeling, alfalfa
seeding pasture seeding, construction
of poultry range shelter, and
use of poultry equipment.
Hooper, an Am. Vet. of World
War II, is married and has one
three-year-old son. His 83 acrefarm
was chosen because it was so
typical of many of the mountain
farms in this area.
The two-day Roundup is expected
to attract better '50GO
people from Buncombe, Cherokee,
Clay, Graham, Haywood, Hender-j
son, Jackson, Macon, Madison,'
Swain, Transylvania, and Yancey
The mermng of?the first day!
will be devoted to talks by DrJ
James H. Hilton, Dean of the
School of Agriculture at North
Carolina State College, and by
Mrs. Walter Pike of Hendersonvillee
and Dr. James G. K. McClure,
president of the Farmers
Federation, Asheville.
The afternoon will be taken up
by classes in agronomy, poultry,
dairying, home-making, and home
L/CduuiiLd nun.
Feature event of the day will be
a concert by John Jacob Niles,
noted American folk singer. Farmers
and their families will be the
guests of the college for the program.
Preceeding the concert a dress
review sponsored by the 4-H, PHA,
and Home Demonstration Club
members of the represented counties
will be presented in the Hoey
Auditorium.
PHILLIPS REUNION
SET FOR SUNDAY,
AUGUST TWENTIETH
Announcement has been made
that the annual reunion of the
Phillips families will be held Sunday,
August 20, at the Dan Phillips
home place on the Cullowhee
Road.
Relatives and friends of the
family are urged to comc and bring
basket lunch for the all-day affair.
Speech making, singing and
greeting old and new friends will
be the order of the day.
Van Der Maaten To
Be Presbyterian
Speaker Sunday A.M.
In the absence of the pastor,
Rev. W. H. Wakefield, now on vacation,
the pulpit of the Sylva
Presbyterian church will be filled
at the 11 o'clock hour Sunday by
Rev. C. E. van der Maaten, pastor
of the Green Cove Springs Presbyterian
church, Green Cove
Springs, Fla.
Rev. and Mrs. van der Maaten
are spending their vacation in
Sylva at this time.
308SAM0NS in Sylva
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RESUME BUYING '
GF PULP WOOD
IN THIS AREA
Mead Firm To Purchase
All Hauled To Yard
In Franklin
The Mead Corporation, which
stopped buying pulp wood in Feb.,
1949, has announced that it is resuming
activity and will purchase,
until further notice, chestnut,
pine and other pulp wood, five
days a week at the Franklin yard.
The present price on chestnut
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utii v t i cu tu biiv j ai u u ^ a
cord of 128 cubic feet, subject to
inspection .and measurement at
' the time of delivery.
I Paul Gates, Kingsport, Tenn.,
field representative for the Mead
Corporation, said that the price is
about 20 cents under the price
paid in 1949, but that there will
actually be a savings to those selling
wood, since they haul the
wood to the Franklin yard instead
of to Sylva as in the past,
i "At the present time," Mr. Gates
said, "we will be able to handle
all wood that is hauled in."?
Franklin Press.
MACON TO START |
WORK ON FOUR i
NEW SCHOOLS i
William B. Dillard. general con
tractor of Sylva, will begin work
this week on four new school
buildings in Macon County. M*-|
con's school building modcrniza:
tion program, started some time
| ago, will include a modern high
, school building at Franklin, con-|
taining 19 classrooms, lunchroom,
library, principal's officer"teach-1
ers' lounge, first aid room, and
home-making department; an elementary
school for East Franklin
with 10 classrooms, principal's office,
auditorium, and lunchroom;
a new building at Nantahala with
12 classrooms, principal's office,
lunchroom, auditorium and gym|
nasium; and a 16-room building
at Highlands, with principal's offfice,
lunchroom, office, and auditorium-gymnasium.
The four buildings are to be
"class A construction, fully fireproof."
The cost will be around
c*nf\r\ n/\A
| $ / uu,uuu.
Kitchen Finds Much
Progress Made Here
Since Leaving In 1919
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I Leaving Jackson County in the
j fall of 1919 for Sweet Home, Oregon,
Harlowe Kitchen returned
last Tuesday for the first time for
a month's visit with his mother,
Mrs. R. G. Snyder and sister, Mrs.
T. K. Guthrie and other relatives.
While visiting in The Herald office
Mr. Kitchen commented with
amazement on the great progress
along all lines that has taken place
since he left the county. He could
hardly get over the fine highways,
leading in all directions, the
improved country roads, nice
homes, business buildings, tourist
centers and great strides in agriculture.
It is his opinion that
Western North Carolina has made
Sylva Firemen
ToWNC Firenn
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The quarterly meeting of Western
North Carolina Firemen's Association
will be guests of the Sylva
Firemen on next Monday,
August 21, at 7 p.m. for a dinner
meeting at the Legion Home.
The Association embraces fire
departments from Tryon, Spruce
Pine and Black Mountain west to
! Murphy, including 23 towns and
industrial fire departments.
The Association was organized
two years ago with Bart Cope,
Chief of the Sylva Department, as
| its first president. The first meet
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Meeting At Sunset
Farms On Friday
Representatives of Towns, Civic
groups and State Highway Commissions
of South Carolina, Tennessee
and North Carolina, upon
an invitation by Felix Picklesimer,
President of the Jackson County
Chamber of Commerce, met for
a dinner meeting at Sunset Farms
on last Friday evening at 6:30 o'clock,
and to attend the Cherokee
Indian Drama, "Unto These Hills",
as guests ?f the Drama.
The purpose of the meeting was
to promote a Knoxville, Tenn., to
Anderson, S. C. motorcade, including
towns and communities
along highway 71 in Tennessee
and 107 in North Carolina. The
group also discussed the plans for
having a Federal Highway number
placed on this road, leading
from Knoxville, across the Smokies,
through Sylva, Cashiers, Anderson,
S. C., and to Augusta, Ga.
Following the dinner a roundtable
discussion was carried outat
which tinr\e much enthusiasm
was displayed by all attending.
It was decided to hold another
such meeting in Anderson, S. C.
in the near future and then move
on to Gatlinburg for a third meeting.
Dale Thrash, North Carolina
highway commissioner, was the
first one to speak. He pointed out
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that more meetings snouia oe
held to dicuss the many ways in
which the average citizen could
help in establishing the Federal
highway. He referred to other sec(Continued
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FUNERAL FOR B. R.
MORGAN, 83, HELD
HERE ON SATURDAY^
Funeral services for Belton
Robert Morgan, 83, who died Fri- %
day, August 11, at C. J. Harris
hospital, were held Saturday at
the Sylva Baptist church, with
burial in Keener cemetery. Rev,
C. M. Warren, pastor, officiated.
Mr. Morgan had been ill for about
six months.
j Pallbearers were: Geo. L. Painter,
R. U. Sutton, Joe Deitz, Floyd
Sumner, Crawford Smith and Alvin
Ashe.
Honorary pallbearers were:
George Womack, T. Walter Ashe,
' Griffin Middleton, and J. A. Fin?
i cannon. ~ \
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Philathca Sunday School class.
Mr. Morgan was a member of
the Baptist church and a native
of Buncombe County but had made
, his home in Sylva since 1905. He
was formerly employed by Sylva
Tannery, now Armour, Leather
Company, also the Mead Corporation.
He retired in 1940.
Surviving are: the widow, Mrs.
Theodocia Kelly Morgan; 3 daughters,
Mrs. A. C. Yonally, Eustis,
Fla.; Mrs. J. Frank Ray, Washington,
D. C., and Mrs. Boyd
Brendle, of Sylva; 2 sons, Harold
and Ralph, of Sylva. Also 5 grandoh
ilHrf>n
greater progress than any other
part of the country during this
period of time.
Will Be Host
en's Association
ing was held in Sylva.
Dan Merrill of Brevard is the
present president, and E. M. Sal*
ley, Supt. of the Enka Corporation,
is vice president.
Mayor Hugh Monteith, of Sylva,
will welcome the visiting firemen,
and talks will be made by H. S.
Baucom, Safety Director of the
North Carolina Industrial Commission,
and J. H. Bailey, Kingsport,
Tenn., honorary member, former
assistant chief of Asheville Fire
Department, now representing
American La France Fire Fighting.
Equipment Company.
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