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VOL. XXVI?NO. 30 |I7^9( Hinds Name Chairmen Tc Campaign F Effort To Raise i $2750 To Start January 15th I Dr. A. K. Hinds, General County Chairman of the 1951 Polio i 4, Fund Drive for Jackson County, has announced committee chairmen for the various communities, industrial, business and professional people of entire county, who will direct the campaign in their respective communities. The committee chairmen are as follows: East LaPorte, Ed Bryson; Tuckaseigee, Charlie Stewart; Webster, Mrs. Hattie Cowan; John's Creek, Mrs. John Farley; Addie, Mrs. Frank Terrell; Cashiers, Mrs. L. L. Allen; Qualla, Mrs. Lawrence Cordell; Balsam, Mrs. George Knight; Willets, Mrs. Ethel Sutton; Barkers Creek, Ralph Ward; Cullowhee, Miss Alice Benton. Industry, Mead Corporation, Ralph Kemmerer, head of Public Relations, and Alfred D. Wood, President of UMWA District 50 Local 12866; Armour, Garland Jones, forman, and Ellis Frady. * Mr. Frady had a child stricken with Polio who has been under treatment at the urtnopeaic nome ^ in Asheville from just such funds as this drive will provide; County, State and Federal Agencies, Glenn Hughes; Garages and filling stations, Grayson Cope; Professional people, Marcellus Buchanan, III; Mercantile establishments, Joe Wallin; Beauty and Barber shops, Dillard Coward and Jeff Hedd e n; Out - of - town concerns doing business in Sylva, David Hall; Dance Committee, Jim Cannon; Colored C o m m u n ity, Prof. J. D. Wade andProf. Lockwood Love; Lumber firms, W. C. Hennessee; Schools, W. V. Cope; Dime Board, Mrs. John Parris. The dime board will operate several week-ends in Sylva prior to January 31. Coin containers will be placed in convenient places for the deposit of coins. | The county's quota this year is $2,750.00. Raymond Sutton, Woodj Procurement Manager of Mead. Corp., is the treasurer. FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. STEPHENS IPIVI IT AfMlf A PITft ntLIJ AI U? WAHI5 Funeral services were held Wednesday at 10 a.m. in Moses Creek Baptist church for Mrs. Vrina Nicholson Stephens, 71, of Cowarts, who died Monday at 3 a.m. at her home. Burial was in the Stephens cemetery with MoodyFuneral Home in charge. The widow of R. H. Stephens, she was a native of Jackson county. Survivors include five sons, M<?Clure, Howell, Eular, Donald and Moat Stephens of East LaPorte,' one daughter, Mrs. Dillard Wood of Cowiarts; two brothers, William and Marion Nicholson of Cowarts; two sisters, Mrs. Lucy Queen of Cowarts and Mrs. Polly Wood of Greenfield, Ohio; 19 grandchildren and nine great granchildren. Western Carolii New Dormitory According to announcement from 1 Assistant Director of the Budget < D. S. Coltrane, of Raleigh, West- ! t ern Carolina Teachers College will ] get its new $1,000,000 men's dormitory and contracts are being a- ( * warded, despite the fact that they ! were around $200,000 above the 1 amount set aside by the last Gen- 1 eral Assembly for this project. ! The allocation for the dormitory jl Th] )0 In 1 ? Committee > Direct Polio und Drive ? innuuTV ftprinco Tft ;uuum i urnoco iu BE CLOSED TWO 0/tft j All Jackson County offices^*] ! be closed from Saturdayjjj^p^^5e' cember 23 through Tuesc^^'4$' i cember 26, accojtifng t^flm an| nouncement by ^%inin^^R. Bryson, Commissioner of ^Finance. Business will resume aM usual on Wednesday the 27th Brywp Offices involved in the closing period will be *he Qommissioners, Register of Deeds, Clerk of Court, Farm and Home Agents, and Health Department. The sheriff's office will be closed but all officers will be subject to call in the event of law violations. HUGH MONTEITH HUGH MONTEITH IS REELECTED TO HEAD SCOOTS Mayor Hugh Monteith, of Sylva was reelected president of the Daniel Boone Council, Boy SooUtS of America at the annual meeting Monday night at the Langren hotel in Asheville. F. B. Gardner was renamed first vice -president.Other ^" officers elected were^B. Colkitt/^eciqpid vice-preside*^, ^Morris ^ :lripins^,, treasurer; 'Re w A. ftptdajMOT? gan. cottrrrassioner; Stnft executivej members for' a, tfcrrrt expiring in 1954: Colkitt, Wade Huey, W. E. Ensor,riCar^*)n Peyton, Monteith, W. IV McLean, FV B. Gardner and Dr. Samuel-RobiasQ^.^ - s / \ 77, x - ^ x j Dir^ctpir^^or a etfgking in - ?? e. .N..W _ ? ? ?-< _ \ i n t 1SJ51 ,&.-sL*?.mDreu L. Hmnt&\ A Pau^K^rk was named for si term expiring'in 1953.< L. Y. Biggerstaff. 'wa^C^reelect^d a trustee^or a term expiring in J954. Chosen for the national council were Harry W*..J-ftye, ^^Wnteith and Gardner.^ R. F. Moody wa^ recommended for honorwy tn?hbership. .f * 1 111 . * Cullowhee Baptist J* Chairs "to Present. Program Sunday E.M.I Th^e Caroler Junior siyd Youth choirs of Cullowhee Baptist church | will 'prei0fat a candlelight^ service of Ch|*fetifi|s ntujftbers at th??|iurch Suft&p, Decv 24 at $M pxiL The publid -is extended; a" col-dial invitation to lica? the program. "r^r ^ na To (ret : Despite l was $776,850/ and low 1)id3t ^however. totaled $963,304, or 5200,OC^. beyond the orijti&fafyjp* propriation.>.- , Contrane said that ard(q^jj200fcr 300 was saved at Western CanSHna leveral months ago<k$>n _a library Duilding. Additional moSSy bad Deen saved when bids on the Science-classroom building ran Delow the amount appropriated. E SY Syh Checks HIGHWAY COSTS IN WNC CITED BY DALE THRASH The 12th division State High ?* ? T T ^ n1 ' Vfk o V\ Way WUIUIH13S1UI1C1 , ij. uaic iiaon> at Asheville Monday urged Western North Carolina legislators to consider the greater expense of constructinJg^oads in the mountains area/in considering future I Jfprrocarm^s of road money. Mjj TlVash^fcltl it costs more money toluild^ads in th^fhountains than it does in flatter areas. He spok J a^^banquet at the George miraerbM h^tel, sponsorecLby thmOth diwionjBtate HiglyJ TURKEY SHQ}T7 Employees of Mead Corim** ation participa^F in a shooting match Wedne*y, December 20. and the prize Kc each of the men with the twoBighest scores was a turkey. tB contest was open to bona fide eH)loyees of the Mead Corporation, H^lva Division. The winner had hS choice of the tunp keys and the winner-up go^^e second bird. TlVturkey en by The Mead and the UMWA, District ou, i^ocai 12866. Each contestant furnished his own ammunition. He was permitted to fife five shots at his target. Rest distance from the target was 50 yards; off hand distance was 30 yards. Only .22 caliber rifles equipped with open sightswere allowed. Coffee brewed over an open fire was served by M6ad. Madison Election Row To Be Aired By State Board State Board of Elections has voted 3 to 2 to air th^ disputed Madison County electioz^Jfej&joublic hearing at Marshall ,tjary 8. . - ^harles M^Britt of Asheville,4 democratic^chairtttan of CH^Board, sided with Republican member^' IPressley Bropm of^Wilkessboro and Eugefie Snidfei^ of J^tagtogi in voting/or 4he^earin^. jj|arry< Jihebee of Can^^Sftid D, dE^H&^ dfrsdn, &r.< ^ Ofrafcic iijembefjr^xrf b?Is$ opposed tiFie rtf&ve. "* ^ -******&,>. T$ie dispute m-JMadison is oven the /Sheriff's^ office., -EMaTjgFtJDavis, Repdblican claiment to the office has been cited for contempt cf court on order of Judge Zeb V. Nettles. He claims that he was robbed.cf votes enough to outcount his Democratic opponent E. Y. Ponder. Cat! Leon Sutton " y* ' Passes At Savannah Funeral servic^ were held Tuesday at 2 p.m. in Washington Methodjst church for -Carl Leon Sutton. 57, who died Monday morning at his home follpwj^vfe Bering illness, ^he I^rv. J. Lawrence, pastor^ the church, offi- j cfeted, . ,-tiiafyted ^ by 4lev. C. ,Cj Wdlcfc. -BiijrUl waWn thi Wesleyanna Pallbfefcriflfrsb GuYrv$qrtnny, Roger and isa^r SctttcHfes$& D$n and Bon .J&chjman. ^Ingnfcers girls ?.1*. i/i?T.?kA,. Wfte1 ovawrta were vo'^ Sunday Sqbom^r'y^Fipiral ' Home was tn^thgj-gar ^ SurvivQj^ific^ude the lather,' W. A; $kit\pitit ifcthe home; three brother*; C^teX^&tvid a?d; Ack Sittton, otT^lif^j^ 'ftfiter, Mrs. Carrie BtKMistn, of Stf#antrth.,\ 4 "i ii^'n n ; ; >-^ ' ?^thfc*S?^reJ$0 kinds 3BT native SmA& .Moto- : tariff Natfonal Park North Carolina-Tennessee bortfei? exoaffls the numter of specie* in all' of "Europe. ? ?^ SVLVA CITV MARKET . . In AiP ! LVA ] ra, N. C. Thursday, Dec. 21, <<;<> 1 Mead To Rebuild No. 2 Machine After January 1 Is Part Of Big Modernization Program Here Continuing their program of expansion and modernization of \p.e Sylva fnill which has been underway f'jJKthe past several years jifhe Mead CorporatifeA will start work the first part oPJanuary in the^^yersion of their No. 2 paper mac^Be to the FomgdrinierU|^( The No. 1 m^^ne?as to thi^Jj|pe/oMmqPiipi^me pffst McchvBspn \f Jme No. 2 maWr\'\Je wlfcomp^Mthe major por\ipn of the imj#o J?ment program, Mead officials ^i^rthis week. Many minoroj^iefii^^restill to come, hpa^Tver. Thisi^^^^^^^^^s ^lead continues to grow anc^W meet demands for paperboard and Ma dojprlor more expe^neAanJ Wcs frAi/other Mead millsKwifl come Jo^Sylva in thadKy^y-p^ofaLJ&Sy^s is JmmJ the conver~ hSalo shop to III MAP paiivi HIIIA ULUot rUUK UAT5 FOR YULE HOLIDAYS The mechanical department of The Herald will be closed four days, Friday, Saturday, Monday and Tuesday for the Christmas holidays. The ?front office will remain open through Saturday! noon and then it will be closed Monday and Tuesday. Your Herald will be one day late for the 28th issue as the shop force will not begin work on it until Wednes-I day morning. We will appreciate any news and local items you have being sent in by mail before Wednesday or bring them in as soon as possible Wednesday morning. . This week's issue of The Herald is our largest Christmas isjjju^vever published, 24 pages in tV^Jbfctions. There are many Chnfflkg^ storjes you will enjoy ^eadinjfc^is^N&e11 as the local news andJ^Kstm^s greeting advertisemd0s local firms. ?^^e Hefafe staff extends heartie^vjgreetings and best wishes for fcf&yjUppy Christmas and prosAifrrMUB New Year to each and ^ its readers. S ^? choi/^oW^i^^ Christmas &tata \rM& For the first Vfj^e- gli^ce * pletion of exten^lVe ityjicttfa^^.xemodeling ^ftse cfto^r Methodist ^'irni n ijjffir; sical for th^ herds and toe Ma?$riH be retold in song JbJ Juices and viiCf\e jBjte^^^SethldS^m^ will be < prsgwr^E43lN>.?i,-Sun<iay, Decesttfcer S^n^^iietho^stfchurch ? Auditorium. ^tel^Voices ate Mar- ] ^ar^CAivjftr; Anne Kem- 1 ipcrer, alt$f jack-Evans ancf Tom 1 ^ fs^*?g|ar, atk! Pat Montague 1 M"^>aYilel, bass. H .' 1 ? - Jti ? ' ? ? A i >-? a _ A _ _ ? a _ _ ^lngui# in wje ^amaia ar* mar-| gtret -Candler, Annie Candler Jeaflfell? Moore, Loquita - Hplden., Rose ~J9a if; Sarah Hall, Olivi Andrews, Anne Cowan, Joyce C\&yto^, Alva fLttnkr, Edith Modre, Audrey Jones* and Janice JJoldefc, sefcranos. ^ AJtOaare A$n#iCem* merer, Ella Mae Ditniel, Alva Clnn,1 HS&na Le*h Sutton. Jyhri ^tttic^rfrc the basses. D^TL. B,,.JlMy ^nister, Je?^j Evar^jr^anist, and Ralph Kemmerer, director, are those whose specialized efforts have been most valuable. Herj 1950 24 pages, two sec o Mea SYLVA BAPTIST TO HAVE PROGRAM AND TREAT FRIDAY P.M, Members of the Congregation of the Sylva Baptist church and friends of the church will observe a White Christmas program at the church Friday, December 22, at 7:30 o'clock p.m. A program of I Christmas carolji^jill be present-1 ed in the churcW sanctuary at which time those who will mayi JuaMMtaM^gifts or items for the! needy famin^^f the community.' These will be abided to those c|U the oth^^churches and clubs IPf the conffiunit^pfbr distribution tdkhe needy onChrisUrfcis. Following the program a film will be shown in the Junior Department which will show the benptits of the Wbfte Christmas < wwin Ms ftd of nuts, candy and ' fruits. The public is cordially in-L vited to attend the program. r ii I c K| flHgjS j HBME; 1 I Br 3 I' Wm |jM Jf W. T. BROWN r hatcherYcloses : branch office W. T. Brown, Field tfiaoager^or I the Gainesville Hptdfcry, JEo f * Gainesville, Ga., hnfjrlJm hatcfeing eggs produced 9 Westmp North Carolina/ has JSmnotirnwdJJ that the branch WljiCe in Sylva J^fjs been clo^fdjor th1ftMwa|M^jmd i that he and^s famH|pjjflrmove frorr/'S^Jva to jnakeVieir home ( iry^t*$?ville a&tef me first of ' ;5^^^H?xvtf|ert far. Brown | wui to nave uiargc 01 | pippin crp,T openad c ths-j^o, located in s IftW STORES TO | BE CLOSED 25,26 Ed Nicholson, president of the s Sylva Merchants Association, has . announced that the stores of Syl- 1 va will observe Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 25 and 26 as Christmas 1 holidays. This will give all the clerks and store managers a threeday period since Sunday comcs the ^ day before Christmas this year. OFFICES TO CLOSE FOR YULE HOLIDAYS The Sylva city office will be closed two days for the Christmas holidays, closing all day Monday and Tuesday, City Clerk Carl Corbin announced today. Business will ? resume as usual on Wednesday the ? 27K 1 Jatkson County Bank will also * atfet two days for holidays, obsefiwg Monday and Tuesday, 25th |jifc|6th, opening for business on 1 MrtSksday 27th. 8 r ^n^AMON'? - ?v?v* M . a V \LD :tions this week d Emp Annual Chri From Corpo Be Given Oi ASHE REPORTS HEAVY VOLUME OJlMAIL HERE * 1 i* l ? I jrre now 01 cnrisimas carcis ana parcels began earlier than usual this year and the volume is great i and picking up each day postmaster T. Walter Asle at the Sylva office reported^Bpesday. Mr. Ashe ilk that the automa-j tic aanoellation machine showte that "^,390 pieces of mail had been cancelled from Friday the 15th through Tuesday morning at 9:30 o'clock and a record of cancella< tions is expected before all ChristHMtiUjnailing has been completed. 1 The nexF'H^w days will be the heaviest, he satoL j Extra trucks a^c helping haul J parcel post fron^^sheville thru to Munphy and even^with this 1 extra jJTp many pack?p are delayed in delivery. FA instance ruesday morning thA regular highway Poatoffice buS carried 3 )nly first mail, leaking the \ )acel post t^Jome by trucMs later. F LIB^RY BOARDf , 'AVE MEETING/ : The Fontana Realonal Library j, ioard and the I^rary boards of v Sie Tackson CoufKy Public Library,, g he Kranklia^Public Libi&ry, and he Mariana Til 1111 WlflJ Bry-| on cm wei^hostsv q^fjTiday, f )ec. JgPio the^epresei^i|itt^s and lenw Who vep?0l^Q| us in j] heMeneral ^serrAly next-month.I FhMmectinMwdsM regular board' neeftng witB reports from all four tjola^l di^ussion about g he work ancPnaads of the libraies. The^Afrpose of the meeting vas to acquaint our representa-. ives with some of the library | jroblems in mh^area so that they J hey be betteMinformed and able, OTBerve us and all of the people | tfJNorth Carolina. "Whe meeting ' trik, well attended tne^e being 19 mop\c present. Christmas refreshments of cofflfc and fruit cake were lerv^i. The libraries appreciate ntetf^t of their rjj^esentatives. SNOW AND SLICK" HIWWAYS HIT A light snowfall Tuesday night raused slippery highways and .treets ^arly Wednesday morning n the feylva area. A number of rars skidded into side ditches and lad to be pulled out. Although he fall was less than an inch t raised much inconvenience to Christmas shoppers early in the nornine. The sun soon ramp out >ut and the bad road condition '* ;oon cleared up. The storm seems o have been local as no snow fell 1 n Waynesville. Balsam Moun- \ ain Highway was dangerous for i raffic, however. < Free Tree Seedl Available To 4, < North Carolina 4-H Club mem-|( >ers have ordered less than one- ^ cnth of the free tree seedlings a- t mailable to them, according to * fohn E. Ford, assistant extension orester at State College. . Of the 1,175,000 seedlings to be j jiven to 4-H Club members, only , t6,000 have been ordered. Ford , irges that applications for the ( 'oung trees be submitted as soon ] is possible. j Only 36,000 shortleaf seedlings 1 emain to be distributed. Ford 1 uggests that those who want to >lant them and who live in areas 1 vhere these seedlings are avail- i ible should order them at once. 1 $2.00 A Year?5c Copy Joyees stmas Gift ration To 1 Friday ? nnn TV. n., M IS UC Paid Employees Of All Divisions Mead Corporation employees, of the Svlva Division, will receive nearly $17,900 as a Christmas gift from the company, Division Manager. J. R. Buchanan, announced today. "The Christmas checks are being distributed tomorrow," Mr. Buchanan said. "And our employees who have entered the Armed Services this year will receive the same amount they would have received if still here on the job." The gift was voted by Mead's Board of Directors. It amounts to $380,000.00 for all employees of the corporation. Each Christmas gift check is accompanied by a Christmas card from "Mead President Charles R. Van de Carr, Jr. His message reads: 'MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR "I wish I could be standing with ^ou right this minute, so I could land you this Christmas gift from tfead and tell you, 'Merry Christnas' in person. "You see, this is really more han a Christmas present. It's a vay of saying thank you for your iart in making 1950 a good year or all of us. Your co-oDeration n making Mead^ paper better, your /ork a cutting dowil'on waste, pride in your WHb^&lpK^ielpecl out. That's to tell you, and let bu I feel sure you'll keep if/ the jgtifed work in the years alead. 3r "But of course I can't get a ound to see all of you in Mead's nany mills. So I send you this greeting with your Christmas gift, ind hope it brings happiness to rou and your family/' 5YLVA SCHOOL HAS CHRISTMAS PROGRAM The Primary Grades of the Syl/a Elementary School, under the iirection of Miss Hicks Wilson, Mrs. Emily Tompkins, Miss Eveyn Sherrill, Mrs. Charlie McMalan, Mrs. Glenn Hughes, and Mrs. lohn Norton, gave their annual Christmas program Monday night n the Sylva School Auditorium. Mrs. George Lee's seventh grade Dupils furnished the chorus numDers for the religious scenes. Several of the High School boys and *irls assisted in the pageants. With a theme of "Christmas in Dther Lands", introduced by a :hild's dream of how Christmas is celebrated in other countries, ?very scene was lovely and the :hildren's costumes were unusually beautiful. The auditorium was packed for Lhe program and a repeat performance was given on Tuesday Tiorning to an audience composed Df the school children. finnre A ro Still H Members Dther seedlings available in the iistricts to which they were alined are: loblolly pine, 959,400; ihortleaf pine, 36,000; and white sine, 93,000. Of the 14 counties which have :aken advantage of the offer al-eady, Caldwell County leads in lumber of seedlings ordered. Club nembers in that county have oriered a total of 17,000 of which 16,500 are white pine. Cleveland las ordered the second largest lumber, a total of 12,500, all of ;hem shortleaf. Club members interested in obtaining free pine seedlings should *ee their county farm agent for further information. v M
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