AMERICA- The Sylva,Herald

AND RURALITE.CONSOLIDATED JULY, 1943

TK* zyiv* Htrmld,Firwt Pi§m ./ S. C.Association 1948 G*n*rai Km-cellencs Award,

VOL. XIX NO. 30 SYLVA, N. C., Wednesday, Dec. < 19£4 $1.50 A Year In Jackson And Swain Counties.5c Copy

Jackson County Short $93,000 In Bond DrivePvt. John R. Jones KilledIn Germany Nov. 23rdAccording to word received Sun¬

day, Pvt. John R. Jones, husband ofMrs. Reva DeBord Jones and son ofMrs. J. R. Jones, was killed in actionin Germany on Nov. 23.He entered service in May, 1944,

and received infantry training atCamp Croft, S. C. In October heopent a furlough with his family be¬fore going to Fort Meade, Md., andIfrien overseas. Pvt. Jones was a grad¬uate of Mars Hill College and N. C.State College. Before entering ser¬

vice he was employed by the EcustaPaper Company in Brevard.

Surviving besides his wife andmother are two daughters, Linda andMartha; two sisters, Mrs. R. E. Tur-pin of Sylva, and Mrs. G. F. Fitzger¬ald, Ashbovo, and one brother, Pvt.Edward C. Jones, now serviing inttie Pacific area.

TWO BROTHERS MEETIN THE PACIFICTwo brothers, sons of Mrs. W. H.

Hooper, accidentally met somewherein the Pacific about the middle ofNovember. Larry (Dock) Hooper,¦Cox of the Seabees recognized theahip on which his brother, HaroldHooper, C 3-c, was serving and askedto go aboard. He was given permis¬sion and the two brothers met for thefust time in more than three years.Larry entered service in Dec., 1942,ar.d his brother went in a monthearlier, Nov., 1942.

SPEEDWELL COMMUNITYPRODUCE FOR VICTORYThe farmers of the Speedwell sec¬

tion are ready to get wood and buildOres now. Crops have been reason¬

ably good and have been harvested.Most every family had from one totwo large hogs to kill and the canningis over. We are hoping to get tofeed the men in service part of whatwe have stored away. Let's all buybonds if we possibly can and let our

boys feel like we are willing to helpwin the war.

GRADE MOTHERS FORSYLVA HIGH SCHOOLThe following have been elected as

grade mother of the Sylva highschool:

8th Grade Girls.Mrs. Leon Sut¬ton, Mrs. Dennis Fishe*?^^

8th Grade Girls.Mrs. AdamMoses, Mrs. E: P. Stillwell.

8th Grade Boys.Mrs. Frank Hall,. Mrs. Walter Ashe. .

9th Grade Girls.Mrs. Dan Allison,Mrs. W. O. Soderquist.

9th Grade Boys.Mrs. Glenn Gold¬man, Mrs. Walter Jones.

10th Grade Girls.Mrs. G. C. Bess,Mrs. Fred Henry.

10tn Grade Boys.Mrs. Dillard,.Mrs. John Wilson.

12th Grade Girls.Mrs. Roscoe Po¬

test, Mrs. Laurence Monteith.12th Grade Boys.Mrs. Herbert

Gibson, Mrs. J. R. Bumgarrfer.Mrs. W. O. Soderquist is chairman

of this group.

Funeral Services HeldFor Mrs. Caroline Cagle

Mrs. Caroline Cagle, of Sylva, Rt. 1,Sunday afternoon at the home

of her son, Houston Cagle, followinga short illness.The funeral was held at Hemphill

Baptist Church in Haywood County,Monday afternoon, at 3 o'clock withthe Rev. Dave Dean officiating.

Mrs. Cagle was the widow of thelate William Cagle of Haywood coun-.She rame to.Jackson gc^nty

about fifteen years ago and has madeher home in the Willets section since.

Surviving are three sons, Houstonand Ashley, of Sylva, route 1, andFrank, of Maggie, N. C., and one

daughter, Mrs. Jim Fisher of OliveHill, Ky.

PVT. WILLIAM E, COPEIS SLIGHTLY WOUNDEDMrs. Ollie Cope of Dilisboro has^

HEAVY SNOWFALLBLANKETS AREAJackson county, like the rest of

this mountain area, is covered withits first snowfall of any consequence.Snow began falling early Mondaymorning, but melted almost as fastas it fell until around noon when thetemperature began to drop. Lightsnow fell throughout the afternoonand night with from two to two andone-half inches on the level recordedTuesday morning.' Streets and highways are coveredwith a glassy coat of ice and snowwhich makes travel of any kind dan¬gerous. The snow was one of thewet, sticky kind which clung to everylimb, twig, phone and power lines,making a very pretty to look at butdangerous to lines and poles.

Asheville reported a fall o»f 5inches and rangers on Mt. Mitchellsay that 13 inches had fallen on thatpeak before 2:30 Monday afternoon.Bus travel across the Smoky Moun¬

tains highway to Knoxville stoppedMonday afternoon. As soon as thehighway is cleared the buses will be¬gin operating again. Schools closedMonday afternoon until the roadsclear up. .

FOURTH SERVICE AREA COMMANDER URGESFULL PRODUCTION DUR ING XMAS HOLIDAYSMajor General Frederick E. Uhl,

Commanding General, the FourthSpcvice Cooirmtndr^oday appealed toall war production plants to main¬tain full schedules through the Christ¬mas season.Christmas Day only should be ob¬

served as a holiday, and only in plantswhere continuous operations will notbe interrupted. General Uhl calledattention to the need for continuedDperations of ^t*eh facilities as blastfurnaces and/ open hearth furnacesproducing carbon steel on ChristmasDay. /New Year's Day should be another

day of production.a good start to¬ward victory in 1945.

Paul Cagle Promoted To RankOf Petty Officer Second Class

Paul Cagle, of the United StatesNavy, has recently been promoted tothe rank of Petty Officer SecondClass.He enterec^^the navy in February

of this year, and upon .completion ofhis £ boot training at Bainbridge,Maryland, he received the rate ofPetty Officer Third Class. From jBainbridge he was sent to theAmphibious Training Base at LittleCreek Virginia, for advanced train¬ing; from there to Houston, Texas,and is now serving on an amphibiousship somewhere in the Pacific.¦.lUfnra ontpring th» gPrvireT S. C2-c Cagle was owner and manager ofCagle's Cafe in Franklin.

received a telegram from the war

department stating that her husband,Pvt. William E. Cope, who is servingwith the Army somewhere in Ger¬many, has been slightly wounded.Pvt. Cope has been in service -almosta year. He took his training in FortBenning, Ga., and Fort Jackson, S. C.,then in Camp Blanding, Fla. He was

just recently sent overseas to Franceand to Germany.

A GERMAN PRISONER

Mr. and Mrs. Berry - Ensley havejust heard from their son, Sgt. JuliusA. Ensley who has been a prisoner ofthe Germans for the past six months.He writes that he is in a nice prisoncamp and getting along fine. Theyenjoy many sports. This is the firsttime they have heasd from him sinceJuly > 1st. Sgt. Ensley has been inservice for more than three years, buthad been overseas only two monthswhen he was captured. His parentshave been informed that they can sendhim a package weighing 11 poundsonce each sfxty days.

A recent survey shows that 18 Vimillion Victory Gardens were grownthis year, materially increasing food

General Uhl called attention to astatement by Lieutenant GeneralBiehon Somervell, Commanding Gen¬eral, the Arfny Service Forces, that"unless manpower is found to meetdeficiencies in critical items like tires,ammunition, heavy artillery, radar,batteries and bombs, textiles and as¬sault wire, we have"e^ery reason toexpect a shortage at the front."General Uhl added: "A drop in

production would indeed be a sorryChristmas present from the Americanpeople to their soldiers at the front.

"I feel sure that our workers willrespond to our appeals to maintainproduction schedules and to returnto war work from peacetime jobs."

7TH TANKMEN CLAIMFASTEST SWEEP OF WAR

By MARSHALL MORGANStars And Stripes Special WriterWITH THE SEVENTH ARMORED

DIVISION.If it wasn't the fastestmilitary sweep on record, the "LuckySeventh" Armored Division invitesunofficial correspondence to the con¬trary.

Six hundred miles in 31 days. that'sthe fighting mileage clicked off bycyclometers of Maj. Gen. LindsayMcDonald Silvester's fighting armor::3 it spearheaded the Allied drive tothe German border. The record ad¬vance ior any one day was 65 miles.

Ir: addition, from Aug. 10 when the'division's first tanks rolled ashore inFiance, through Aug. 31, end of the21 -day period, the Seventh Armored!'. berated approximately 150 townsvV.th an aggregate population of 350,-000.Brightest feathers in the Seventh's

cap are the historic cities of Chartres,Chateau-Thierry, Rheims- '

and Ver¬dun. Major battles were fought atChartres and ^ Cateau -Thierry. AtMelun, on the Seine, the Seventh en¬countered and overcame that buga¬boo of all tactical problems a river-crossing under fire.More than 5,900 prisoners were

scooped up during the drive, and anunestimated number of Nazi deadmarked its path.

Victory gardens in 1945 will helpassure adequate supplies 01 rruit anavegetables needed to maintain civi¬lian nealth, efficiency, and morale.

The figures show that more thanhalf of the U. S. farm people live inLhe 13 Southern States; cultivate lessthan one-third of the nation's cropland; and receive one-fourth of thenation's farm income.

A new chemical with a jaw-split-ting name shows possibilities as akiller of turf weeds, say Governmentresearch workers.

GPL. HARRY KIRSCHKILLD IN ACTIONMrs. Hazel Allison Kirsch received

a message Sunday from the War Dept.informing her that her husband, Cpl.Harry Kirsch, had died in Germanycn Nov. 15. A week earlier she hadreceived word that he was reportedmissing. He was a "member of the10th 9 Armored Division, a part ofGeneral Patton's army and was ser¬ving at the front as the driver of aheavy tank.He is the son of Mrs. Rosa Kirsch

of Asheville and E. H. Kirsch of HollyHill, Fla. Others surviving are twosisters. Mrs. Jack Purcifall of Ashe¬ville, and Mrs. Lynn Myers, of Harris-burg. Pa., and two brothers, NormanKirsch, of the Merchant Marines,stationed at Tampa, Fla.H and LesterKirsch. < *

Before entering service Cpl. Kirschwas employed by the Southern OilStores in Asheville. ^Irs. Kirsch hasbeen residing in Sylva where she isemployed by the Tuckaseigee BeautyShop.

PROMINENT SYLVAPHYSICIAN DIESTUESDAY MORNING

Dr. Charles Z. Candler died at hishome here Tuesday morning as a re¬sult of a heart attack.A native of Jackson county, he was

the son of the late Dr. J. W. Candlerand Mrs. Mary Mahoney Candler. Hewas born April 7, 1877.

Dr. Candler has been a prominentphysician and surgeon, practicingin Jackson county most of his life.He served in the army in the WorldWar I. He was" one of the fundersof the C. J. Harris Community Hos¬pital and largely responsible for itssuccess during the years. He was a

member of the Methodist Church, ofthe Sylva Rotary Club and was prom¬inently connected in the Masonic cir¬cles. *

Surviving are his widow, AnnieThomas Candler, one son, Dr. CharlesZ. Candler, Jr., three daughters, Mt\s.J. R. Ryan, Mrs. John W. Smith, andMiss Margaret Candler, all of Sylva,and six grandchildren.

PFC. C06GINS KILLEDIN GERMANY NOV. 6Another name has been added to

Jackson Co.'s casualty list. Pfc. Wood-row Coggins, 19, son of Mrs. EthelCoggins, of Erastus has been report¬ed killed in action in Germany on

Nov. 6.Pfc. Coggins entered service in

Dec., 1943, and received training atCamp Blanding, Fla., Camp Rucker,Ala., and Fort Meade, Md. He was

sent overseas in August. Survivingare his mother, three brothers andfive sisters.

Laying houses should have one nestfor each five layers. Lack of a suit¬able number of nests may lead toc£g-eating by the birds.

County Exceeds WarRelief Fund Quota

Quota -

Sylva $2,631.00Cullowhee 633.008ylva * (col ) 200.00Addle 109.00Cashiers 145.00

The following is a final and com¬pete reports of Funds received inJackson's United War Fund drivevhich began in Ooctober:

I ncluding^ Fontana

Allocation$4,134.66

782.7946.0895.84194.93_M&34_

Willets 145.00 200.04Barkers Ck 122.00 156.53E. La Porte 380 00 227.00Mountain 109.00 21.70Hamburg 313.00 291.76Greens Creek 109.00 83.19Qualla 376.00 210.21Savannah 290.00 349.00Dillsboro 363.00 387.68Canada 145.00 NoneBalsam 109.00 NoneCaney Fork .... 181.00 None

$6f650 $7,530.75

BOND SALES LAGGING IN THE FOURTH ANDFINAL WEEK OF THE 6TH WAR LOAN DRIVEWOUNDED IN ACTION

Mrs. Jaunita Moody Young ofSylva has just received a messagethat her husband, Pfc. Theodore R.Young, was wounded in action Nov.18 in Germany.

Pfc. Young is the son of Mr. andMrs. Will Young of Glenville. Heentered service in October, 1943. Hereceived training at Camp Wheeler,Ga., and Fort Meade, Md. Pfc. Younghas been overseas since March 6,1944, and was in the Invasion ofFrance.

NEW OFFICERSAT CHEROKEEThe newly elected officers of the

Federal Employees Union at Chero¬kee are: Gertrude Flanagan, presi¬dent; Homer Gilliland, vice-president;Jennie Daniel, treasurer; Irma Mit-tleberg, corresponding secretary; andJohn H. 1?. recording secretary.

Led Tokyo Raiders

LEADER OF the force of B-29 Super-forts that bombed Tokyo was Brig.Gen. Emm&tt (Rosie) Q'Donnel, 38,of Jamaica, New York. The attackwas made by the new 21st BomberCommand of the 30th Air Forcefrom Saipnn, in the Marianas Is¬lands, approximately 1,500 milessoutheast of Tokyo. ( Intcrnati/mal )

Our county received $1,272.32 fromFontana Dam. Same was mailed di¬rect to State Headquarters in Win-ston-Salem, N. C. The amount ac¬tually raised in our County duringthe drive was $6,255.43. Of thatamount $5.00 was forwarded directto New York City for China Relief.Your county chairman wishes to

thank each and everyone for themagnificant manner in which our cit¬izens responded to this most worthycause.

Our state quota was $4,900.00. Dueto our exceeding our quota we have Ibeen awarded a beautiful flag in ap¬preciation of the splendid work. Itis most gratifying the manner inwhich the respective township .chair¬men conducted their campaign, andyour chairman is truly grateful foryour contribution, and regret tfcat alltownships did not have a part inachieving our goal.

R. U. SUTTON, ChairmanUnited War Fund for Jackson County

Township Leaders Are >

Urged To Push DriveWith Greater EffortTy R. L. ARIAIL, Chmn. of the Drive

Jackson County with a quota of$1:16,000 had not sold but $123,000 upt3 Saturday night. Dec. 9th, leavinga balance to be sold during the fourth.'I'd final week of the drive of $93,000.Although the hardest and worst

part of the war is just beginning, thepeople of Jackson County are notbuying bonds as usual. JacksonCounty has never failed to make itsquota and go over in any of the form¬er five war loan drives, but unless agreat surge of buying takes placeduring this, the last week of the sixwar loan drive, Jackson County willnext make its quota' this time.Cashiers township is the only town-

noout the county failing to make itsquota. I am not so much concernedr.bout county failing to make itsquota as I am about the apparent at¬titude of our people during the ter¬rible war we are now engaged in. Ifevery person who has any income oravailable money would come forwardand buy a bond of some denomina¬tion we would not experience anytrouble in making our quota.There is nothing I can say t^ urge

our people to buy bonds better thanto quote a message that has been re¬

layed to me from Gen. Dwight D.Eisenhower, which reads as follows:"Your assistance is needed and the

most important job now for the peo¬ple at home is to make the sixth WarLoan drive a success. To make sureof final victory we must redouble andsustain our efforts, both here andeverywhere. The fighting man stillfaces a grim task and he still urgentlyneeds much food, clothing and battleequipment that must be bought. Themoney must be :d..our menon all fronts depend on you. Orthalf of your sons, brothers, husbandsand friends in this great war theatreI request that you do your part to«ee that the Sixth War Loan is vastlyoversubscribed."A full report of bonds sold in Jack-

sen County by townships will bemade next week.

CENSUS INFORMATIONTO BE WIDELY USEDThe information on crops and live-

>tock to be gathered by the 1945Agricultural Census in January willne used in many ways by farmers andby varied groups from Federal agen¬cies to manufacturers and advertis¬ing organizations.Dean I. O. Schaub of State College,

who heads an advisory council of allagricultural agencies cooperating withthe Census Bureau, urges that farm- «

en. give just as complete informationas possible. He points out that theinformation collected from growersis strictly confidential and will notbe used for taxation or regulation.When all of the information is

classified and published, it will pre¬sent an invaluable digest of agricul¬tural tacts. Cooperative farm as>o-c vitions can use it as a guide to m-U ,l:gent credit and as a basis i'ormarketing plans. Individual farmers;will know better how to make acre¬age changes in crops and regulate menumber of their livestock.The agricultural census will pro¬

vide basic information for dealers inagricultural products, railroads, in¬surance companies, manufacturers,advertising agencies, marketing or¬ganizations, experiment station andextension workers, and such agenciesas the Farm Credit Administrationand Soil Conservation.

In times of disaster, the agricul¬tural census will provide much of theinformation needed for drought re¬lief, seed loans, and other rural re-l»ef agencies.

"Agriculture will be able to makemuch greater progress in the future,i r we have full information at handon which to make our plans," Dean' »Schaub said. "We especialy needail the facts in the case as we face*changing conditions aft^: the war."

With more and more mechanicalequipment going to farms for the cul¬tivation of extra acres and for lower- -

ing costs of production per unit, it'stime for the owner of the family-sized farm to think seriously of thefuture.

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