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It H Help Rid Jackson County of Tuberculosis . . Buy Christmas Seals! ? * i VOL. XXVI?NO. 28 Jacksoi Jackson Cou Drawn To E Miirrler Tria N. C. And Georgia Officers Tell Of "Confession" ' FRANKLIN ? Trial of Curtis Shedd, charged with thle strangulation slaying of two Sisters, got under way in Macon Superior Court Tuesday afternoon, before a packed?but orderly ? courtroom. The 31-year-old former convict of Walhalla, S. C., is charged withj murdering Johnnie Mae Boyter, 14, and her sister, Jo Ann Boyter, 8. Shedd has signed a statement that he also killed the girls' father, John Boyter, 38, but he ? is not being tried for this slaying at present. Woody Wilson, Georgia Bureau of Investigation special agent, j testified Shedd told him and other j officers that he killed the two girls in Georgia and brought the bodies to North Carolina. Wilson said Shedd took officers to the scene near Highlands where the bodies were found and dementi strated how he killed Johnnie t Mae. Shedd told officers he raped Johnny Mae twice before killing her, Wilson said. The Georgia officer added, however, that the defendant had changed his story several times. Wilson said he came into the case when Boyter's body was found in Georgia near the North Carolina line. The agent testified that Shedd told him Jo Ann Boyter had been killed by her father. Mrs. Christine Boyter, widow of the slain man and an expectant mother, testified that Shedd had raped her in the presence of Johnny Mae. Mrs. Boyter said Shedd had known her husband while the two ' attended a veteran's training school near Walhalla. S. C. She said the first time she saw Sredd was when he came to her home for a visit. She said she, her husband and Johnny Mae asked him to take them to a cir. cms; that he presumably started to take them but stopped on a bridge. ? ' *? ^ oni/4 tsoyier icn iriti auiu, one; oaiu, and while he was gone Shedd threatened her and Johnny Mae with a knife and then raped her. Mrs. Boyter said she, her husband, Johnny Mae and Shedd were out all that night and that the following morning was the last time she saw her daughter alive. Mrs. Ida Pace of West Union, S. C., mother of Mrs. Boyter, with whom the slain children had lived, tearfully identified articles she said belonged to Johnnie Mae. She said that after the two girls failed to return, she talked to neighborhood children, who reported they had seen them get into a car with Shedd. She said she went to see Shedd but that he denied knowing anything about the children. Others who testified Tuesday (Continued on page 8) Defense Depart For Double An Jackson County Red Cross heads announce the urgent call by the Defense Department upon the Red Cross to double its blood collections during December to provide the greatly increased quantities of blood needed for processing into plasma for military use. Blood is now being collected at the rate of over 90,000 pints a mcnth. To meet the demands, the t 1 Cross will have to increase piLfcnt collections by nearly 100 per cert inr December. The armed for, os and 2 J00 civilian hospitals are new Leing served by the Red I Thi i Farme inty Jury C [ear Shedd j il In Macon L 1C ;y< Marcellus Buchanan j fc Moves Law Office ins Attorney Marcellus Buchanan P( III has moved his law office from sc over Sylva Supply to the second story of the new post office build- jar ing, occupying two rooms, one ?' facing on Main Street and one as adjoining on the left side next t0 to Allison's used car lot. | til Also occupying the new building are the offices of the Draft w Board and U. S. Army and Air,?c Force Recruiter, and James A.! Turpin, Justice of the Peace. j J Cullowhee Baptist o;_ _ unoir 10 omg i The Cullowhee Baptist Choir fj will be heard Sunday morning,1 ^ December 10, in a pre-Christmas service at the Cullowhee Baptist O Church. Dr. H. P. Smith is choir pi director. j m FUNERAL SERVICES 1 [FOR MRS. HENSON ? HELD AT WEBSTER * Funeral services were held Mon- ta day afternoon at 3 o'clock at the?T home in Webster for Mrs. Hester Henson, 86, who died at the home C of her son, Roy Henson in Webster D Sunday afternoon. Burial was in ol the Long family cemetery at Web- J<* ster. Rev. S. J. Lawrence, pastor of Loves Chapel church, of which tc [the deceased was a member, of- cc "iciated. se Moody Funeral > Home was in charge. 1 Pallbearers were the following J grandsons, Bud Reed, Jack Henson, Charles Warren, James, Billy a and Harold Potts. f Flower girls were granddaughters of the deceased. "| Mrs. Henson, the widow of John I Henson, who passed away some 45 years ago, was a native of Hay- . wocd county, but spent the greater C Dart of her life in Jackson county, j Surviving are three daughters, i Mrs. T. E. Reed and Mrs. Walter j Warren, of Sylva; and Mrs. Hu- * bert Potts, of Dillsboro; three sons, Frank Henson, of Sylva, and 13, Roy and Rufus Henson, of Web| ster; two brothers, Leon and John ^ Long, of Franklin, and one sister, q Mrs. Mary Bumgarner, Webster, p and a large number of grandchil- p dren and great-grandchildren. pi PAYNE ARRESTED ON |? CAR THEFT CHARGE " Oliver Pajrne, of the Tuckasei- S1 gee area of Jackson County, was ^ arrested as he abandoned a stolen car near Tuckaseigee late Sunday 01 . evening. Making the arrest were ti I Deputy Sheriff Frank Allen and 1 State Highway Patrolman Hayden Ferguson. Payne was also 0 charged with driving drunk and T without operators license. He is "( beinc held in Jackson County jail y I at Sylva. 1 ?? ? Intent Calls o nount of Blood * (Cross National Blood Program. ! The December call is the firs' ^ , Defense Department step in build- ? ing a stockpile of plasma for military needs. "Monthly collections ^ will be increased as rapidly, a* ' processing laboratories are prej pared to receive and convert the blood into plasma and serum albumin. j Blood is being sent daily frorr s 36 Red Cross regional collection ' centers and participating blood banks to processing laboratories at Philadelphia, San Francisco, and ! Los Angeles. 4 Syi Sylvfi rs To Vi iOUNTY GETS GALL < OR 35 MEN TO IKE PHYSICAL I m mw 9 m m m -w m mmmm Jackson County Selective Serve Board reports a call for 35 3ung men to leave Sylva at 8 clock this morning, Thursday, >r Charlotte for physical examiations and to be classified for )ssible armed service. Mrs. Wilin, clerk to the board, said that 1 the men have been notified id should report to the Sylva fice before 8 o'clock Thursday ; bus and meal tickets will have i be provided each man before me to leave. A call for men to be inducted ill be announced soon, Mrs. Wil>n said. IHRISTMAS PLAY 0 BE GIVEN BY iULLOWHEE GROUP The Wesley Foundation of the ullowhee Methodist church will -esent Henry Van Dyke's Christas Story, "The Other Wise Man", 1 Sunday night, December 10, at ^ p.m. The play is an original ramatization, written by Rev. R. ( . Houts, Jr., of this well known * ory. 1 Members of the Methodist stuent group on the campus of West- a *n Carolina Teachers College will a< ike leading parts in the play. a hey are: i Jo Anne Sutton, Bill Reid, q harles Bagwell, Bill Honeycutt, ?ve Whitesides, Bill Banes, Dor- K thy Dodson, Bobby West and T ? - rv anet Kooeson. A cordial invitation is extended & ) all friends in the surrounding immunity to attend this special irvice. Directors Of Of Commerc Picklesimer mI. Lee Hooper ~ Samed Vice Pres., v Kemmerer Sec. ' At a joint meeting of the memers of the new and retiring mem- ' L ers of the Board of Directors of j Jackson County Chamber of s ommerce held Monday night n elix Picklesimer was re-elected C( resident cf the organization, a h osition he filled so well during ic past year. Col. D. Lee Hooper.; p new board member, was elected ^ ice-president and Ralph Kem- ^ lerer, another new member, was q lected secretary - treasurer, to n jcceed retiring member William IcKee. |c The board discussed the possibly j f( f some kind of a special celebra- j iX on next summer on the occasion h f fhe 100th anniversary of the or- jT anization of Jackson County, ig resident Picklesimer, J. A. Gray h nd John Parris were named on a p Dmmittee to make further study ps f the matter. Mr. Parris was tl amed chairman of the commit- , a ?e. The Industrial committtee will ^ Dntinue under the chairmanship d f Sol Schulman, with Dr. W. A.!Q ishbrook and John Parris as com- g littee members. f. The board is composed of Felix g icklesimer, Sol Schulman, J. A.' rray and Dr. W. A. Ashbrook, hold vers from last year, and new _ lembers, Ralph Kemmerer, John arris, Col. D. Lee Hooper, Velt /ilson and Dr. Harold McGuire. The board adjourned to meet ic 2nd Monday night in Janury, since the 1st Monday night /ill fall on New Year's Day. At lis meeting other committees will e named and plans made for the nnual membership drive. ^ In 8ylva LVA ] i, N. C. Thursday, Dec. 7, 1 pte On ( Zocke9 29, Is j Youngest To ! II 'dead Legion |1 ERLE COCKE, JS. J Dawson, Georgia National Commander The American Lepon Erie Cocke, Jr., of Dawson, reorgia, unanimously elected Naonal Commander at the Los Aneles national convention, made is first visit as the Legion's chief ( > North Carolina where he ad- j ressed a meeting of the 16th Dis- j ict in Sanford on December 1. . Cocke spoke in the, high school < uditorium following a full day of ( ctivities which included a parade, j part of the annual Christmas j istival, crowning of the beauty \ u?en, and a banquet. . Dprlftrinfr that "nurs is a fiffhtinc f )b,M Commander Cocke accepted' 1 he American Legion's highest < ffice, pledging to pursue a pro- ] ram of "peace through strength." c Commander Cocke, a 29-year c Id veteran of World War II and i ?Continued on page 8 t _________ r Chamber ; e Re-elect President i SINK SAYS VI WILL ! (AVE NO MERCY ON ! S. LAW VIOLATORS j: Raleigh, Dec. 5?Judge H. Hoyle ink, of the Superior Court of < forth Carolina, stated in open ] Durt that any person convicted in ( is court for violation of the Em-I loyment Security Law "can ex-1. i j ect no mercy from me or from le Court," while presiding over le November term of the Stanly ounty Superior Court in Albe-j' larle. The case was the charge that idney J. Ritchie had filed claims J 3r benefits and had drawn $120 i overpayments, as a result of aving been employed while drawig the benefits. He was found ' uilty and the judgment was that e serve 60 days on the roads and ay a fine of $200 and the costs. ( To provision was made requiring ne refund of the $120 overdrawn, 1 s is done in most such cases. The case was brought into court y James C. Bradham, ESC claims eputy, stationed in Concord and i perating in that area. Judge ink, stating that he was not too amiliar with the Employment j ecurity Law, kept Mr. tsrannam n the witness stand for half an (Continued on page 8) CANCER CLINIC TO MEET at C. J. Harris Hospital, In 8ylva, Friday, Dec. 8. 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 cancer. rlERi 950 Commit COMMISSIONERS i MAKE NO CHANGES IN COUNTY SET-UP One of the first official acts of nisiness taken up by the Board of bounty Commissioners following heir taking the oath of office for heir new four-year terms on Monday, was that of making reappointncnts of the various positions and igencies. There were no changes nade in a single instance. Tom Clayton remains as County Audi-j :or and Tax Collector; C. C. BuchI man as County Attorney; and Dr. Urover Wilkes as County Physician. All agencies sponsored by the county jointly with the State and Federal Government, remain just as they were regarding the personnel. They are the Farm and Home Agents and assistant agents, and the PMA office. i I NEIGHBORS SEEKING i FUNDS AND HELP FOR HARLIE SIMS FAMILY Friends and neighbors in the1 county and in Sylva are this week : seeking funds and aid for the famly of Mr. and Mrs. Hartie Sims ind for their six year old son,! Charlie, who had his arm pulled | )ff in a skidder accident early. Qef fall Thp Sims familv hav-1 ng suffered the loss of their home 3y fire before the son's horrible accident, have not sought help from their friends but their burden las touched the hearts of everyone and they are receiving aid. 3ut not enough so far to * ike care )f Little Charlie's hospital and ioctor bills, although the doctors md the hospital are contributing heir share to the worthy cause. The little fellow, who has surprised the doctors and nurses in lis rapid recovery, has been in he hospital since Sept. 30, the Jay he tripped and fell into the ;kidder his father was operating ind he will have to remain in the hospital fcr some time. Those in Sylva contributing to ;he aid of this family are leaving their gifts with Mr. Herbert Landis, who has been named treasjrer for the local contributions. Ml persons who would like to nelp little Charles in his gnllant fight should see Mr. Landis, a nember of the family or Mr. AnJrews, manager of the hospital. [VTAthur Can Halt ? - ? ? ? Ked Hordes, some Officers Think Some high military sources have I insisted that the position of UN, Forces in Korea is not hopeless; and flatly denied there is any plan : Tor a general withdrawal from Lhe embattled peninsula. They think that MacAnhur, eventually will be able to establish1 his shattered defense lines and halt the gninding advance of the Chinese Communists toward the South. This statement came after Gen.( Bradley, chairman of the joint Chiefs of Staff, told senators that i American troops trapped in north-] east Korea by the rapid Red advance now have reached a point where they can be evacuated. Cullowhee PTA To Moet Friday. "^e Cullowhee PTA will mee\ Friday, December 8, at 7:30 p.m. * ' 1 A at ine i raining ocnuui. simu Christmas film, "The Night Before Christmas", will be shown. Rev. C. B. McConnell will preside and Dr. Freida Anne Greider will be guest speaker. There will also bo a selection of readings and poems on the program. The average loan rate for 1950crop burley tobacco is 45.7 cents a pound. This is 90 per cent of the parity price as of October 1. 1950. SVLVA CITY MARKET . . In A&r \LD * teemen Three Farm Community' To Carry Or + Sylva PTA Will Meet Monday, Dec. 11 At 7 P.M.! It has been announced that Sylva Parent-Teacher Association vviilj meet at 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 11, instead of 7:30 as is the usual hour.. The meeting is being moved up 30; minutes on account of the Wallv' Fowler Oak Ridge Quartet which will play at the elementary audi-j torium that night. PARRIS FUNERAL RITES HELD AT WILLETS MONDAY ! Funeral rites for Fidellis (Dill)| Parris, 72, were held at Mount Pleasant Baptist church near Willets on Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Burial was in the Crawford cemetery. A native of Jackson County, Mr. < Parris was a well-known farmer, of the Addie community. He was a son of the late William and Mar- | garet Cogdill Parris, and was a faithful member of the Mt. Pleas-, ant Baptist church. He is survived by the widow, Mrs. Lela Cocdill Parris: two sons. Jake and Glenn Parris, Balsam; two daughters, Mrs. Claude Gil-1 reath, Wilkesboro, and Mrs. Kelly Hyatt, Whittier; four brothers, Manley, Nelson, John,, and Ed?^?ti Sylva; two sisters, Mrs. Laura Laney, Bryson City, and Mrs. Dale Shepherd,* West Asheville; 12 grandchildren and 13 great grand children. The body was in charge of Gar-. ret Funeral Home. TRUMAN'S PRESS ! SECRETARY DIES President Truman's press secretary and life-long friend, Chas. G. Ross, 65, died of a heart attack while sitting at his desk in the White House on Tuesday. He had just completed briefing nearly 50 reporters on the momentous talks between President Truman and tsritisn rrime minister v^ienitriu Attlee. Ross was still sitting at his desk making a recording for a radio net-work, when the attack occurred. The President's personal physician said that Ross had had several minor attacks during the past few months, and that death came instantly. Baptist Choir To Give Cantata A Christmas Cantata, "The Choir of Bethlehem", by Benson, will be presented on Sunday evening, December 17, at the First Baptist Church by the members of the church choir. An invitation to attend is extended the public. Tnrlcsnn Clniini/ m wv m ms ^?m ww * w w Oath Of Office Surveyor And Coroner Only New Men To Take Office This Year A large number of citizens gathered at the courthouse Monday morning to witness the taking of the oath of office by the county officials before John Henson, Clerk of Superior Court. The ceremony was very simple and held in the Clerk's office. Mr. Henson was sworn in first by Justice of the Peace John Morris which made him eligible to administer the oath to the other officer holders. Taking the oath first was Jennings A. Bryson, Commissioner of * Only 13 More Shopping Days Until Christmas. Do Your Shopping In SYLVA ir $2.00 A Year?5c Copy Dec. 14 ters In Each ro Be Picked i Program Polls Will Open At 9 A. M. At 16 Places In County Farmers of Jackson County on December 14, will have an opportunity to elect the committeemen who will administer the Agricultural Conservation Program, price support, acreage allotment, marketing quota and other production program in 1951. Elections will be held as follows: Barkers Creek ? Lewis Davises Store. Qualla ? Qualla School. Caney Fork ? John's Creek School. River?E. L. Lannings Store. Canada?Jess Brown's Store. Cullowhee?Cullowhee Post Office. V Sylva ? P. M. A. Office. ~A Dillsboro ? Dillsboro Post office Webster?Cannon's Store. r Scott's Creek ? W. O. Robinson's Store. Savannah ? Gay Community Building. Green's Creek ? Ebb Hall's Store. Hamburg ? E. W. McCoy's Store. Cashiers ? Charlie Hooper's Store. Mountain?Erastus Post Office. Cashiers ? Char-lie Hooper's ' At t'lese elections farmers will vote for three members of a community committee and a delegate to the county convention where a county committee will be elected. According to J. L. Stewart, Chairman of the Jackson County Production and Marketing Administration Committee, no farmer who is eligible to vote should pass up the opportunity to "voice" his choice of the three farmers in his community best qualified to ad minister farm programs in 1951. In the chairman's words "The coming year can be expected to call for decisions and actions which will demand the most able leadership available. This places the responsibility of electing able committee on the shoulders of the farmers in each of the 15 communities in Jackson County. "Without mounting defense activities, problems having to do with obtaining fertilizer, seed, construction materials, transportation, etc., can be expected to increase. At these elections, the farmers in each of the 15 communities in the county will have the responsibility of electing committeemen who will help make the local decisions on these materials. "These elections put it squarely up to the farmers of Jackson County." Polls will be open from 9:00 a. m. to 6:00 p.m. on December 14. Nominations will be held when a sufficient number of farmers have gathered to make the nominations. PLEASE GO TO THE POLLS AND VOTE. THIS IS AN IMPORTANT rr Tr?/^nr>T/^WTi | 1 1W11 . y Officers Took Monday A. M. Finance, swearing allegiance to both the United States and North Carolina Constitutions. Part Time Commissioners, Ed Fisher and M. V. Breedlove and Mr. Bryson were then sworn. Mr. Bryson having to take both the Finance Commissioner and regular Commissioner oath. This was followed in order * 1 by Glenn Hughes as Register, C. G. Middleton as Sheriff, A. E. Brown as Surveyor and Jack F. Cooper as Coroner. > Brown and Cooper were the onlynew officers as all the others were re-elcted, having held four year terms, preeeeding the new term. which started with taking the oath. -t. A .1
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