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Kelp OUR* VOL. XXV?NO. 16 Wester Bloodmobile Sylva Septet] Citizens Urg . Give Blood For * Men Now Fighting Korean War Mrs. Dan K. Moore, Chairman of Jackson County Red Cross Unit, has announced that the Red Cross Bloodmobile from the Asheville Bloodmobile center, will visit Sylva on Thursday, September 28 for the purpose of receiving blood donations. The demand for additional quantities of bloo^ is very urgent at this time, Mrs. Moore said. With the fighting in Korea, our soldiers are constantly in need of blood, if lives are to be saved, and is only through the loyalty of us at home who are willing to give our blood for their sake, that many of theml will be saved. Thousands of lives, were saved during the last war from the blood furnished by their buddies and those back home. Already two shipments of blood from the Asheville unit have been sent to Korea for our fighting men. Jackson County has a very poor record in blood donations. We % have furnished only a maximum of 54 units while our neighbor counties, with smaller population, have done much better. Swain ^ county gave 83 units, Graham county 96 units and Hazelwood in Haywood gave 104 units. With the increased demand for blood all counties have been asked to increase their quoUte" > by 25 per cent. Jackson County has never yet reached her quota. Are we going to fall down on this imporant job this time? Two of the officers in charge of the Asheville unit, Col. Wright and Homer Kidd, will speak to the Rotarians on Sept. 19 in the interest of the bloodmobile's visit to Jackson on the 28th. Dan Tompkins Is Seriously 111 In WT a WW 5i._1 veteran s nospuai Dan Tompkins, former newspaper publisher, and representative of Jackson County, now District Commander and Jackson County Service officer of the American Legion, is in a serious condition at Moore General Veteran's hospital at Swannanoa. Mr. Tompkins entered the hospital September 4th for treatment and his condition became serious Tuesday of this week. * Rummage Sale The ladies of the Svlva Presbyterian church announce that they will hold a rummage sale on the street near Massie Furniture store ^ Saturday, Sept. 16. Webster School Memorial Hono At a meeting of the Webster High School, pupils were elected to represent each grade in the steering committee. The purpose of this committee is to bring the sti*dents' problems to the faculty and arrive at a solution to the protflems. Also, to better the school in any way. The members who were elected to serve on this committee are Billy Sutton, Bobby Bumgarner, Joyce Monteith, Evelyn Hyatt, Billy Joe Cowan, and Nita Deitz. Joyce Monteith was voted chairman of this corrujiittee. The first thing the committee plans to do is to raise enough t money for a war memorial for Webster School. This war memorial will be dedicated to the boys of the Webster district who y served in the last war and especially to those who paid the supreme price, the giving of their lives. This drive has been talked about before but has never before I Th] n Carol ! To Visit aber 28th, ed To Help SYLVA MEN ATTEND G OF C EXECUTIVES MEET IN CHARLOTTE Woody Hampton, member of the Board of Directors of the North Carolina Chamber of Commerce, and Felix Picklesimer, President of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, attended the State meeting of the North Carolina Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives in Charlotte Sunday and Monday of this week. The executives enjoyed a fine program of business, and the hospitality of the city of Charlotte. The 60 odd members attending the annual meeting were taken on an air trip over Charlotte, Mooresville, Statesville, Concord and Kannapolis in one of Eastern Air Lines Constellation planes. After the air trip they were taken on an automobile tour of the Queen city When it came to the election of officers for the new year Mr. Picklesimer was elected a member of the Board. Others elected were, new president, Charles L. Cullers of Kinston; vice president, G. C. Meads of Elizabeth City; Secretary-Treasurer, R. D. Warwick of Statesville. Other board members elected were: Floyd Kay of Charlotte, Julian Metz of Fayetteville, James W. Dixon of Greensboro, Pat Treadway of Lumberton and Tom S. Jenrette of North Wilkesboro. The executives selected Fontana Village as the next year's meeting place which will be some time in August Sol Schulman's Father 111 In New York Mr. Sol Schulman, of Schulman's Department store, returned home Sunday from New York where he had been for the past several days at the bedside of his father, Mr. I. S. Schulman, who underwent a major operation there last week. Mr. Schulman says that his father is recovering very nicely. Boys Leave For gaAa1 ITlt'VUlllC UVIIUUI Robert Allison, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Allison. Tommy Ferguson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ferguson, Roy Kirchberg, son of Dr. and Mrs. Roy Kirchberg, left Wednesday to re-enter McCallie school for boys Chattanooga, Tenn. Also leaving with them to enter MsCallie for the first time was Charles Reed, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Reed. Sponsors War ring WarHeros been really put underway. The memorial will consist of three parts: a large stone, out in front with a flagpole and two benches in the background. Location of this memorial is to be on the front lawn of the school grounds where everyone traveling the soon-to-be-newly paved road will get a lovely view. Other students who will help with the drive are Lou Annie Cabe, Mary Jo Barron, Barbara Lou Sut ton. Edward Henson, uiauaine Monteith, Dorothy Deitz, and Nancy Ensley. All veterans, friends of the school, or anyone wishing to contribute may make contributions by mailing them to THE WAR MEMORIAL FUND, at the Webster High School. Also contributions may be made through any member of the steering committee. These members will have letters of identification and receipt books. ? ; l\ e Sy: Syl lina To Enlists In Air Force | CLAUDE MARVIN ALLISON,: j son of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Allison ( of Whittier, has enlisted for dutyj in the United States Air Force. He| left Sylva last Thursday for San | Antonio, Texas, where he will be, 'stationed at Lackland Field for his basic training. Young Allison is a graduate of! Sylva High school and attended! Bearea College. Berea, Ky. He did outstanding work in high school nad at Berea and is expected to do well in the air force. DANIEL 0. SNEED DIES SUDDENLY WHILE AT WORK Daniel Osco Sneed, of the Birdtown Community, Cherokee Indian Reservation, died suddenly Monday afternoon while working alone in a hay field. Jackson County Coroner, H. S. Dills, pronounced death due to a heart attack. With the passing of Mr. Sneed 1 the Cherokee Indian Reservation lost one of its best known and | most respected citizens. He was| born in Graham county March 10, 1879, the son of John and Sarah Levin Sneed. Except for a few years in his early life spent in Graham county and a short time at Old Fort, Sneed spent his life farming on the Reservation. He is survived by his widow, j Mrs. Alice Rogers Sneed; three sons, Kenneth, of Birdtown community, John and Mack of Cherokee; two daughters, Miss Charlotte Sneed of Birdtown and Mrs. S. W. Kearney of Asheville; two brothers, Campbell and Manco Sneed, both of Cherokee. Burial was in Bethel cemetery] in Qualla community on Wednesday. BRIDGES TO BE A SPEKER FOR DEMOCRAT MEET | Henry L. Bridges, Auditor for the State of North Carolina, will be the principal speaker at a county-wide Democratic meeting to be held at the courthouse Thursday night, September 21, at 8 o'clock. At this time plans will be made for a big barbecue and rally to be held in the near future, Dan M. Allison, county chairman, announced. Sylva Students Hear "The Melody Four" The Sylva School students were entertained Tuesday, Sept. 12, with a program from the Carolina Assemblies, . "The Melody Four", sponsored through the school activity program. The music was enjoyed by the first grade thru the high school. The entire program was different from any the students had ever seen. Bells were placed on the table and the players would select them according to tones and then play beautiful melodies. They also rang lovely chimes. Solos and quartets also were sung by the group of accomplished entertainers. 8YLVA CITY MARKET . . In A4P LVA ] va, N. C. Thursday, Sept. 1 Start CITIZENS URGED TO | GONSTRIBUTE TO GIRL SCOUT FUND All citizens who are interested in promoting the expansion of girl scouting in Jackson county are urged to contribute financially to the program within the next two1 weeks. This extension of time has been granted our volunteer! ^workers who are canvassing th<* county during the drive. Jack-j son County's quota is $500 which! Is used, primarily, to pay the sal-1 ary of our Nantahala Area field worker, whose job it is to train i local adult troop leaders. Without: good leadership we cannot hope to I have interested girl scouts. Part of the funds raised will be; used for maintenance of the girl scout's camp, also for various other phases of the work. Don't neglect our girls. Scouting is fun as well as good charac ter Dunaing ior every gin wno is a scout. DISTRICT HEALTH STAFF ATTENDS STATE MEETING Dr. J. H. Janoweky, District Health officer, C. B. Thomas, District Sanitarian and Mrs. Carl Phillips, District Clerk, and Miss Mary Oliver, nurse on the Cherokee Indian Reservation, attended the Annual meeting of North Carolina Public Health Association in Winston-Salem on September 7, 8 and 9. Wall-eyed Pike Best Fish Suite Lake, State Sui At a joint meeting of the Blue Ridge Wildlife Clubs and the Jackson County Wildlife Club held at the Glenville Schoolhouse on Thursday evening, September - 7, Mr. Duance Raver, Jr.. made a preliminary report on the results of the survey being made by a fiveman WildUfe Resources Commision crew. Mr. Raver discussed the methods used in obtaining various . data necessary for a complete analysis of a lake, such as: tempature readings at various depths in all sections of the lake; the determination of the amount of oxygen at all depths in every section of the lake; samples taken from the lake bottom at various places to determine the quantity and quality of the fish food available; the I study of the streams which feed the lake to determine the quality of the water and also to determine if they provide suitable areas for spawning. Next, the survey crew obtains ; samples of the fish population by use of gill nets and by poisoning small areas of the lake. By study ing the fish obtained in this manner under microscoDe in the laboratory, it is possible to determine which species are doing well and growing rapidly and which species are growing very slowly under present conditions at Lake Glenville. It is also possible to determine which species, if any, is reproducing satisfactorily. Although some time will elapse before all the information is correlated and final conclusions reached, Mr. Raver did discuss the lack of suitable conditions for spawning. Since most of the streams pour over falls into the lake, it CANCER CLINIC TO MEET at C. J. Harris Hospital, in 8ylva, Friday, Sept. 15, Registration from 9 to 10:15 a.m. The Division of Cancer Control The N. C. 8tate 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. FiERi 4, 1950 Class V f 94 Years Young * i i' i V**' Vv O/lah*E^CTHBO ^ " ?lifl| ;B. X: ' | The many friends of Mr. Will C. I Norton, above, will be wishing | him a happy birthday on Sunday j when he observes his^94th anni- j versary. Friends and relatives | will gather at Mr. Norton's homej near Cullowhee to spend the day j and have dinner with him. . ,. . J Mr. i\orton is me oniy living i member of the original board of j Trustees of Western Carolina Teachers College. He was at one, time sheriff of Jackson County ' and has served as County Commissioner. He is one of the best] loved and most highly respected | citizens of Jackson County. Wild cherry, otherwise known as black cherry or chokecherry, is one of the 10 most poisonous ! plants in North Carolina, accordI ing to specialists at State College. * White Bast, d For Glenville' I rvey Reveals is impossible for the fish to get up these streams to spawn; pnd if they spawn in the shallow areas of the lake, the eggs are likely to be lost if the level of the lake is! lowered. Mr. Raver discussed the possibility of stocking two types of fish that do not require spawning beds but strew their eggs through| out a lake. These two species are the wall-eyed pike and white bass. In other sections of the country, ! both these species are held in I high esteem by sportsmen as game i fish. They also make excellent eating. Mr. Raver spoke of the bcautij ful scenery surrounding the lake and .the lake's importance as a recreation area. He assured the clubs that the Wildlife Resources Commission would do everything ' in its power to improve the fishing in Lake Glenville. FOUR SYLVA MEN ENLIST IN NAVY Four young Sylva men left Sunday night for Columbia, S. C., for ; their final examinations for en: listment in the Navy. The men I leaving were: Billy Cagle, son of i Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Cagle, Hal WilJ son, son of Mrs. J. H. Wilson and the late Mr. Wilson, Jack Bum' garner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Bumgarner and Wesley Warren, __ - r * ?_ 1 Tlforr-nn ! SO OI ?vir. dllU rnia. reiui I The young men notified their families Monday night that they I oassed all tests and would report , to Great Lakes Naval Station at I Great Lakes, 111., immediately for their boot training. Before leaving for service Billy' was route man for Nantahala Creamery, of Franklin, Hal recently returned home from Wyoming where he held a position and Jack and Wesley arc recently out of school. More than 200,000 forest, woods, and range fires occur in the United State each year. S08SAM0N 8 In ftylva \LD I fork Sc Around600! Registered i Vacation Pe NATIONS PROMOTED TO LT. COLONEL Oscar T. Nations, senior instructor of the Asheville unit of the Army Organized Reserve Corps was promoted from the rank of major to lientenant colonel in \ . at ~ J~ . nit' iviuiKuty, Lt. Col. Nations is a native ol Jackson County. He first entered the Army in 1928 and served as executive officer at Moore General Hospital (now Swannanoa unit of the Oteen Veterans Administration Hospital) during part ol World War II. REPUBLICAN CLUB TO MEET TONIGHT Jeff Hedden, president of the Young Republican Club of Jackson County, has announced a meeting of the club for tonight at 8 o'clock in the county courthouse. This is to be a general meeting, Mr. Hedden said, in which candidates for the various offices will tell of their plans for carrying on the campaign for the coming election. Also a general discussion will be had on a time and place for a big barbecue soon to be held by the club. . SYLVA SCHOOL LUNCH ROOMS GETTING NEW EQUIPMENT Ralph L. Smith, District principal of the Sylva schools, has announced that he expects to have the Sylva school cafeteria open and ready for serving hot lunches on Monday, Sept. 18. Mr. Smith said that the cafeteria is being remodeled and new equipment installed which has been needed for a long time. "We are proud to say that we.will soon be able to have a good place for the students tc eat. How often we have heard, 'ar army marches on its stomach', il our student are not properly nourished they cannot do theii best work,". The future of oui nation is built around our children therefore we must prepare therr for it by giving them the best thai can be had, by that, we do noi mean giving them the things tha are not good for them but all the education and training they car mn mnc4 rfi Vifirr llll'IClUiC W IIIUJl v v lliv.ll good nourishment as well as gooc surroundings," Mr. Smith said. It will be announced on Friday Sept. 15, if the lunch room wiL not open on Monday. Jackson Touri Maps Plans Fi A concentrated campaign to giv< Jackson County's Number Oni revenue collector ? the touris business ? a much-needed shot ir the arm is being planned. Meeting at the Region Hut Monday night, the Jackson Count: Tourist Association adopted i resolution to proceed with plan for a winter-and-spring advertis ing and promotion campaign. The program, aimed at makin, the nation's tourists more Jack son County-conscious, will b formulated during the next si weeks. Col. Lee Hooper of Speedwel president of the association, tol members that Jackson County J faced with economic isolation un less steps are taken immediatel to attract tourists to this imme diate section. "There is not only need for campaign abroad but right here s \ [patronize! mjjdcalmm JMtRCHiwiyj $2.00 A Year?5c Copy iturday Students Are Is Summer ;riod Ends * Large Number Of New Faculty And Department Heads | Western Carolina Teachers Col' lege will open actual class work > on Saturday midst a great bustle i of activity connected with tht li building of the new Science Classroom building and other buildings 'I called for in the three and a half I million dollar building program. ; President Paul A. Reid has an inounced that everything is in i i readiness for the actual starting of rlawwnrk nn Sntnrrlnv The enrollment. President Reid, said is expected to be about the | same as last year, around 600 stui dents. With many of the GI's I I completing their courses last spring they have now left the campus. Students from the various high schools of Western North Carolina and elsewhere have supplied students to fill the ranks. The Freshman and transfer orientation program began at the college on Monday with a luncheon at the cafeteria at 12:30 o'clock. On Tuesday night at 8 p.m. the President's reception for Freshmen and Transfers was held in Moore Parlors. At 8 o'clock on Friday night open house will be held for Freshmen and Transfers with refreshments served at the Methodist and Baptist churches. -Football practice began-September 1st and Coach Tom Young has been putting his squad of some 85 men through the works during the few days that have been fit for practice. He expects to take a strong team down to High Point Friday for the opening game with High Point College. : LEGION MEMBERS ATTEND BREVARD RALLY MEETING Attending the rallv membership > meeting of al] Western North Cari olina posts at Brevard last Thurs[ day night from William E. Dillard r Post were, Commander Col. Lee Hooper, Lee Walker, Dair Swan son and Felix Picklesirrier. State f Commander Hugh Alexander of i Brevard was the principal speaker t for the dinner meeting held at the t Brevard American Legion Met morial building at 7:30. 1 ???????????????? i Deer Hunting 1 Mr W. B. Cope, District Game Protector, has announced that he has received application forms for , the .deer hunts in Western North 1 Carolina. These applications may be secured at Mr. Cope's home. st Association ir Promotion 5 home/' he said. "Filling station 2 operators and merchants must be t made to realize that they derive 1 just as much benefit from tourists as do the tourist establish ments." f During a lengthy but enlighten\ ing discussion, it was pointed out s that the tourist business has be come the Number One business in Jackson County, just as it has in g the state of North Carolina. The association called a meete ing for a week from next Monday x to elect officers for the coming year. 1, It was decided that as soon at d the new officers take over every is effort will be made to launch the i- advertising and promotion cam* y paign. "Such a campaign/' Colonel Hooper said, "will mean dollar! a to everyone in the county, directly it (Continued on page 12) -1 * cM
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