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VOL. XXV?NO. 20 Wl gull\,J Wll H VKU* v? > . - drunk. Fined $150 and cost. Theodore Jenkins, plead guilty to assault on a female, prayer for , judgment continued. Murel Francis Cole, found guil- , ty of operating a vehicle withoutlicense, $25 and cost. William McClure and John Lance, called and failed, forfeited; (Continued on page 12) REPUBLICANS TO HOLD PISTRICT RALLY AT HICKORY OCT. 18 Statesville, N. C., Oct. 7?James ** T3 T?. DnnnVtlinori cfota AVX? y Uii) U iAVH A A %J VVA VV chairman, announced here today the appointment of William E. (Bill) Stevens, Jr., of Lenoir, as state publicity chairman for the party. Mr. Stevens will work in close cooperation with Glenn F. Ireton, director of public relations at Republican state headquarters here. Stevens and Ireton will huddle today at Lenoir on the next issue of the North Carolina Republican News edited by the former. Contents for the October mid-month edition will highlight the gigantic * 10th District rally scheduled for October 18 in Hickory, where the keynote speaker will be Robert Kunzig, District Attorney for the {r State of Pennsylvania, and former 4 prosecuting attorney at the Nur< emburg war crime trials. Jackson Citizen Crusade For Hundreds of Jackson county people are joining with millions of other American citizens in expressing their belief in democracy and freedom by signing the Free dom Scrolls of the Crusade ior Freedom. The freedom scrolls bear the following words: "I believe in the sacredness and dignity of the individual. "I believe that all men derive the right to freedom equally from God. "I pledge to resist aggression and tyranny wherever their may appear on the earth. .4 "I am proud to enlist in the Crusade for Freedom. 441 am proud to help make the Freedom Bell possible ... to be * a signer of this declaration of Freedom ... to have my name included as a permanent part of the Freedom Shrine in Berlin . . . and to join with the millions of w.u.\ Large Crowd Daily Sessioi Term Of Suj Judge Pless Of " i Marion , Hall Trial Now On A two-weeks mixed term of JacKson county superior court i convened here Monday morning with Judge J. Will Pless, of Marion, presiding and Thad D. Bryson, Jr., of Bryson City, representing the State. Ralph Hunter was namecl foreman of the grand j 1 jury. , A big docket of criminal cases,!; the majority of which were for , liquor and traffic violations, took up the greater part of Monday and Tuesday. - < James Richard Hall, 26, was arraigned before the court late Tues- ( day evening and heard his indictment on two capital counts, for rape and murder, the grand jury having returned true bills charging Hall with the two capital offenses. The Herald was able to get the results of a few of the cases dis- I posed of and will carry a complete list of the court's activities next week. I Among the cases disposed of were: Virgil Watson, entered a plea a* >niiUt, nv\ a rat* nf rfriulnff =: Sy] Sylva T A Thi V. Disi Is Attending as Of Oct. aerior Court REPUBLICANS TO HAVE BARBECUE AT QUALLA 27TH Velt Wilson, chairman of the Republican party of Jackson Co. has announced that the committee on arrangements for a big Republican rally and barbecue tp be held at Qualla school on Friday, October 27, is completing plans for the rally. The speaker for the occasion is yet to be selected, he said. An outstanding Republican leader will be selected for this occasion, he said. Although this is the second in? community rallies and barbecues' to be held in the county it is to; be county-wide and all Republicans in the county are urged to attend The name of the SDeaker will be annourrced later. C. VANCE BRYSON, 88, DIES AT CULLOWHEE I HOME OCTOBER 4TH ! Funeral services >were held last Friday in the Cullowhee Methodist church for C. Vance Bryson, 88, who passed away at this home in' Cullowhee on Wednesday night. Rev. R. T. Houts, Jr., pastor, of?j ciated and burial was In the churlh cemetery. Moody Funeral Home of Sylva was in charge. Mr. Bryson, known as "Uncle Vance", was a native and life-long resident of Jackson County. ; He was a member of the Cullowhee Methodist church, a beloved :itizen, and arden supporter of Western Carolina Teachers Col-; lege, for more than 40 years ac ? in Uic ctllHontc I'UIIilUUUdtlllg 111 111J ilViUV tfvw>viv???u attending the college. He was a retired farmer. t Surviving are two daughters, Mary Ann Angel, of Waynesville; Mrs. Eller Monteith, of Glenville;. one son, William H. Bryson of Goldsboro; eight grandchildren, 12 great-granddhildren and several nieces and nephews. New Dates For Legion Square Dance Announced Those in charge of the regular weekly Legion square dance have announced that due to the small attendance these dances will only be held monthly in the future. The dates set for the monthly dance is the last Tuesday night in each month. The next one to be Tuesday, October 31. is Signing reedom Scrolls men and women throughout the ?J -- nnnpo rtf Prop _ wunu WUU I1U1U uic vouov Wi. * *vvdom sacred." These freedom scrolls will go with millions of signatures to the Freedom Shrine in Berlin. . It is people speaking to people, and not government speaking to government. The communist government says one thing but that the American people believe something else. These freedom scrolls will meet that big lie with a big truth. It will demonstrate that our own faith in freed onj is a burning and fighting faith that we know that our own way of life is better than the Russian way of life. European nations will inevitably u ? * ? iiT^oiVi Ar Vi Ott YU ill iiavc IU WUUV9C nuvuiv* wivj ?. follow Russia or America. Our most respected leaders, General Eisenhower, General Marshall, General McArthur, Gen?Continued on page 12 j' * i New Pastor At ? ; :IHIiffi^M s DR. L. B. HAYES, above, and* Mrs. Hayes have arrived in Sylva to make their home. Having been sent to Sylva as pastor of the Sylva Methodist church by the Western North Carolina Conference, which met recently in Asheville. Dr. Hayes preached his firitt^sermon here last Sunday morning. Dr. and Mrs. Hayes have two sons, K. Rockwell Hayes, now teaching in North Western State College, La. He received his Doctor's Degree at the University of North Carolina this summer. L, B. Hayes, Jr., is a third year medical student at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Dr. Hayes is well known in Western North Carolina, having been for three years pastor and builder of the Franklin church, . and was District Superintendent of the Waynesville District some years 'ago. He was pastor of the Hawthorne Lane Methodist churnh in Pharlotte and six vears Dis trict Superintendent of the Greensboro District. While there he was given the Doctor of Divinity degree by High Point College and has for the last four years been pastor of First Methodist church, Hendersonville. Mrs. Hayes was the former Miss Margaret Rogers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam L. Rogers of Franklin. Dr. Hooper Has Eye Operation In Chattanooga Dr. D. D. Hooper is reported to be recovering nicely following an operation on one of his eyes last week at Erlanger hospital in Chattanooga, Tenn. He was accompanied to Chattanooga by his daughter, Mrs. Loyle Nash and son, Loyle, Jr., and his son Dexter Hnnfwr Mrs Nash and son re mained in Chattanooga with her father and Dexter returned to Sylva on Monday. Another son, Dr. C. M. Hooper, who lives in Chattanooga, is also with his father. Grady Parker Thanks Firemen Of Sylva Mr. Grady Parker of the Speedwell section wishes to thank the members of the Sylva Volunteer Fire Department for answering a call to his farm Sept. 30, when his barn and 50 tons of hay were destroyed by fire. The firemen were unable to have the building because of the headway gained before they reached it. They did, however, place a hose in a nearby stream and threw water on the blaze. The barn, practically new, was vimrth arniinH 45.000 and the 50 tons of new hay caused a considerable loss to Mr. Parker. Certified seed has high germination, contains a minimum of weed seed, is relatively free from seed-borne diseases, and is cleaned and graded. SYLVA CITY MARKET .. In AAP LVA ] l, N. C. Thursday, October 1 )g-Rol tylva Methodist Hf|& <s\, ; ?t& " * ' w^^lS,-..*. .. .. WsaaK; 2m. : -. iv. !S K!^OK wq^?W' :?:v . ' ' . fl B^B HB^P^: RS^^R Hk : YOUNG REPUBLICAN CLUB TO HAVE MEETING TONIGHT Jeff Hedden, president of the Young Republican Club of Jackson County, has announced a regular meeting of the club for tonight at 8 o'clock in the courthouse in Sylva. Mr. Hedden said Lhal Lhis Ls to he an ifrmnrtant Ifiiaw vw W ?... business meeting and he urges all Republicans of the countv to be present. There will be uniy one more regular meeting before the general election, he s&id. The speaker for this meeting was not announced. Clubwomen PI Meeting In Ro The annual meeting of District One of the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs will be held Friday in the Methodist Church in Robbinsville with the Graham County . Woman's Club and the Graham County Junior Woman's Club. Mrs. Lula Bales and Mrs; Blanche Ghormley are presidents of the hostess clubs. The district includes the federated clubs Swain, Haywood, Jackson, Mason, Clay and Cherokee Counties, and officers include Mrs. Lan iviman ui ^ujiuwucu, president; Mrs. Roger Dillard of Sylva, vice-president, and Mrs. Stedman Mitchell of Cullowhee, secretary. Registration will begin at 9:30 a.m., at which time coffee will be served. The program will begin at 10 o'clbck. Mrs. Ed Anderson of West Jefferson state president of federated clubs, will make the principal address, using as her topic "Marshaling Our Resources for Security and Peace." Mrs. Arthur Greene of Ahoskie, second vicepresident, will discuss club reports and essential poins for honor rating of clubs. Reports will be given by club presidents in the district as follows: Konnaheeta Club, Mrs. D. E. Pulliam, Andrews; Canton Woman's club, Mrs. Nbah Swofford, Canton; Clyde Woman's Club, Mrs. C. E. Brown, Jr., Clyde; Cullowhee Woman's Club, Mrs. Rosser Taylor, Cullowhee; Murphy Woman's Club, Mrs. Robert Easley, Murphy; Graham County Woman's Club, Mrs. T.nro* Roioc Pnhhinsville: Halcyon Club, Miss Nancy Allison, Sylva; Twentieth Century Club, Mrs. J. Claude Allison, Sylva; Sylva Woman's Club. Mrs. Gordon Reed, Web ster; Waynesville Woman's Club, Miss Louise Ballard, Waynesville Andrews Junior Woman's Club, Mrs. Burke Wood, Andrews; Canton . Junior Woman's Club, Mrs. Thomas Goodman, Canton; Mur Herj L2,1950 I . XT. Ling in DEMOCRATS TO HEAR MOORE AND ALLEY AT' GLENVIlLE MEETING The Democrats of the Glenville area are planning a big speaking . rally at Glenville school house Saturday night, October 14 at 7:30 o'clock with former Superior ? - ?* a n?.. court judge renx xl,. uii Waynesville and Dan K. Moore,' resident Judge of the 20th Dis-1 trict of Sylva, as the speakers.' Judge Alley, now retired, a na-1 tive of Jackson County, and Judge1 Moore are both interesting speak-! ers. They will have a message all Democrats will want to hear. AH members of the party in the county and any. other citizens of :he county arc invited to hear i these two men. Cpl. Bowman Receives /njury In Korea Miss Mildred Ward of Whitticr has received word that Cpl. Tommy Bowman of the U^S. Army was slightly wounded in Korea on Sept. 19. Cpl. ,Bowman has served' one year and four months in Ja- , pan and Korea with the 25th Di- ! visioh as ambulance driver. Cpl. Bowman is the son of Mrs. Gracie, i Bowman of Cherokee and the late s Mr. Bowman. j < ( Firemen Appreciate Check From Mr. Parker ! In most cases when the Sylva Fire Department is called to combat a fire they have been able toi save the property. Sometimes the owners have shown appreciation by a token payment. Other times ( riA nav ic fnrthrnmine. The mem- i1 fL+J .w bers of the Department are extremely grateful to Mr. ^Grady Parker for a check fo -jr 1C?> presented to them this week in ap- 1 preciation for their efforts in answering the call to his farm at the time his barn was burned. an District bbinsvilte ^ ii phy Junior Woman's Club, Mrs.1 Howard Moody, Murphy; Graham; County Junior Woman's Club, Mrs. \ Zflanche Ghormley; Sylva Junior: Woman's Club, Mrs. Jean P. Bryson, Sylva, and Franklin Junior; Woman's Club, Mrs. M. L. Atkins, Franklin. | Lunch will be served in the; basement of the Robbinsville Methodist church with members of the Woman's Society of Christian Service in charge. A number of ladies of the Sylva and Cullowhee clubs are planning to attend the meeting. YEAGERTALKSTO > PTA GROUP, BAND GIVES PROGRAM The Sylva Parent-Teacher Association met Monday evening, Oct. 9, in the auditorium with aj record number in attendance. Ap-i ' * -1 ? onrl I proximately <uu unw auu { teachers gathered to hear an enjoyable program presented by Mr. Yeager, band director, and his 28-piece band. Mr. Yeager gave a most infor-j mative talk on the importance of | the sections of the band and called on the individual sections for a few measures to illustrate his j point. He particularly stressed) .he importance of the bass instruments and told of the need for such instruments by the Sylva band. Following his illustrated talk, (Continued on Page 6) Rev. W. H. Wakefield Returns To Work Here Rev. W. Hoyt Wakefield, pastor of the Sylva Presbyterian church, and Mrs. Wakefield, will return: ; to their home here this week alter , a few weeks' vacation in Tennessee. SO88AMON'S in ftytva r t r\ \LmU ere Sal Semi-annual To Convene 77th Meetin , I Log-Rolling Speaker m. ^^^Hi::%::::;;:"?: ?*v5^ ' jH m%^mUKsB&, HI B&r&'/:,::::'8B^^^^ik^:^| Hon. Staton P. Williams, Head Sentry of Woodmen of the World ind prominent attorney of Albenarlc, N. C., will be the principal speaker at the 77th semi-annual -og-Rolling convention in Sylva Saturday. WNCAG TO MEET IN CANTON OCTOBER 24 Tlie regular quarterly meeting of Western North Carolina Associated Communities, originally set for October 17, has been moved up one week to October 24 at Canton Hotel in Canton, with a lun cheon at 1:00 o'clock and the business meeting to follow immediately. The meeting is expected to be over by 4:15 or 4:30. Those from Jackson county expecting to Utend the luncheon are requested lo see Felix Picklesimer on or before the 12th. ? Shooting Film To Be Shown At Wildlife Meet A feature of the meeting of the Jackson County Wildlife Club which is scheduled to be held in tht American Legion Hall, Friday evening, October 13th, at 7:30 o'clock, will be the showing of a thirty minute sound color movie entitled '/Making of a Shooter". This movie is a history or a xaxner who wants his son to know all the angles of shooting. Many beautiful scenes are shown and some very interesting-close-ups of some of our shooting champions in action give the audience an intimate insight into the "know-how" of shooting. This film will Improve the markmanship of both the beginner and the experienced shooter. The public is invited to attend. Dr. Reid WillE: Amendments U On an invitation extended b> the Jackson County schools, State Highway Department, and other State employees, Dr. Paul A. Reid, President of Western Carolina Teachers College, will talk on the five proposed amendments to the State Constitution to be voted or in the November 7 general election. All persons interested in these five amendments are invited to hear Dr. Reid. The committee said, "While our chief interest is the amendment to safeguard the Retirement Fund of the above State employees, wc also favor the other four amendments. You are not only invited but you are urged to hear Dr. Raid ekplain the amendment affecting retirement." * The committees from all of th? county precincts of Jackson havi received their information bj mail. They will be glad to dis% 4 N$Z J \sy $2.00 A Year?5c Copy turday l Convention Here For g At 3:30 * Williams To Speak At Banquet To Be Held At ft:.HO P. M. The Western District of the North Carolina Woodmen of the World will hold its 77th SemiAnnual Log Rolling convention in Sylva on the afternoon and night ' ol Saturday. October 14. The convention will open* at 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon with the Woodmen meeting in the Sylva High School Auditorium and the Ladies Circle meeting at the Woodmen of the World Lodge. The night session will begin at 6:30 o'clock with a banquet at the American Legion Home. The Honorable Staton P. Williams, head sentry and prominent attorney of Albemarle, N. C. will be the speaker at the banquet. Mr., Williams is widely recognized as one of the finest speakers in North Carolina and every one is sure to enjoy his talk. Sovereigns Nick T. Newberry, State Manager and Hiram A. Melvin, Assistant State Manager will be present. The Sylva Camp of the^ Woodmen of the World has arranged a very intersting program with quite a variety of entertainment and is expecting one of the "largest crowds ever to attend Western North Carolina Log Rolling. Plan now to attend this convention and make your reservations for I the banquet. TURKISH TOBACCO I MARKET FOR AREA St I tun Ulil.ZD J A Turkish Tobacco market will be held in Sylva on Wednesday, October 25. Growers of the new type leaf are encouraged to prepare their crops for market by that date if weather conditions permit. Caution is given against baling tobacco that is insufficiently cured or in too high order for safe keeping. Damp leaves mold quickly in the bales. Molded leaves are almost worthless. Leaves in proper order for baling should rattle slightly and should contain barely enough moisture so as not to break when squeezed in the hand. If bales already prepared Bird, Lois Martin, Hiilard Howell. ' WEBSTER ? Joe Rhinehart, ' Ernest Lewis, Marcellus Buchanf (Continued on page 12) ^ should come into questionable case, they should be dried by a stove. Fifteen Jackson farmers have grown the new type of tobacco this year. More than 100 bales have been produced. The average bale weighs 18 to 20 pounds and is bought according to grade price. Local growers averaged as much as 97c per pound last season. kplain Proposed i Group Tonight ' i cuss this amendment with you. The precinct committees are as follows: ?j SAVANNAH ? Bill Buchanan, 1 Lyle Clarke and Homer Jones. !' NORTH SYLVA ? Clyde Fish l-, er, Kenyon Moody, Hugh MonI teith, Claude Campbell. ' SOUTH SYLVA ? June Pell, liJoe Wallin, Mack Ashe, Mrs. Rog' er Dillard, Ed Nicholson. SCOTT'S CREEK NO. 1?Harry > Allman, Alden McClure, Isaac j Brooks. [| SCOTT'S CREEK NO. 2?Rufua Keener, Mrs. Elsie Henry, Ode , Robertson. II SCOTT'S CR?EK NO. 3?Allen [ Crawford, John T. Jones, Geosge , Knight, Hubert Ensley. I OUALLA ? Miller HalL Henry .
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