PROGRESSIVE
LIBERAL
INDEPENDENT
VOL. L, NO. 37
FRANKLIN, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPT. 12, 1935
$130 PER YEAR
PRESS OFFERS
EXTRA BONUS
$10 To Be Paid for Larg
est Subscription Re
port This Week
The Press-Maconian Circulation
Campaign is now in its seqond half
and the management, in order to
create additional interest among
the members, is offering as a
special prize for this week only,
Ten Dollars in cash to the mem
ber who turns in the best report
in dollars and cents, covering this
week's activities. This is a little
campaign within itself and has no
bearing on the winning of any of
the regular prizes at the end of
the campaign.
Every member is on an equal
basis tp win this extra cash prize,
since past results in the campaign
have no bearing whatever on it.
And the same subscriptions that
are turned in this week to win this
extra cash prize will be piling up
thousands of extra votes toward
winning one of the main prizes at
the end of the campaign on Sep
tember 28. Just a little extra ef
fort this week will not only pull
down this cash prize but put some
member forward in their race to
win " the big prize at the end of
the campaign.
Standing Close
The members themselves, if they
were privileged to see the results
of every worker so far, would be
amazed at the extremely small dif
ference between several of the lead
ers, When it is considered that
the first prize winner will get $500
in cash or an automobile, while the
second will get only $100, the de
ference between the two leaders, if
it were not against the rules to
name it here, would seem like a
very insignificant figure. In fact
it is just a matter of What a few
days of real effort would result in
for any member of the drive.
Not a single member has put
very many hours daily in the
work; while every one would ad
mit that the first prize is well
worth full-time effort. The fact
remains that in just two weeks
and two days someone will have a
check for $500-and at the same
moment someone else is going to
be repeating those sad words "it
might have been" for after it is J
all over there are several who will
realize that they could have gotten
in as many subscriptions as the
judges will announce as the win
ner of first prize.
But then it will be eternally too
late. In the twelve years ex
perience of the campaign manager
he cannot recall one where it
would be as easy for some one
right now to get out and grab
that big prize, as is the case in
this campaign. There are at least
five members, either one of whom
can have their name written on
that big check if they only want
ed it bad enough to get out and
work two weeks for it.
And, while second prize is $100,
third prize is only $50 and fourth
prize is only $25. And the margin
of difference between these is
simply almost nothing. Five mem
bers almost have their fingertips
on that $500 check but two out y
of that five will have to content K
themselves with onlv $25 and the
realization that they could have M
been "tops" had they only tried, p.
No one has enough lead to even
feel the slightest confidence in
winning, so the field is still wide
open for five of the members.
Whether they will "wake up" and
avail themselves of this opportunity
that will not come again, to pick
up $500 in cash so easily, remains
to be seen.
To make good uncooked icing
thorough beating is necessary. Too
much sugar and too little beating
makes brittle, hard icing.
Italy Pouring Troops
NAPLES, Italy. . . .' The above picture is no unusual scene here these
weeks as Italy embarks its crack divisional troops for the Ethiopian front
Photo shows "8ila" division embarking on the steamer Gauge.
CATTLE SALE
BRINGS $2,000
Prices Range from $2.50 to
$6.50 at First Auction
Of the Season
Livestock growers of Macon
county Were paid something over
$2,000 for 126 head of cattle sold
Wednesday in the first auction ot
the season at the Franklin stock
yards. Prices ranged from $2.50 to $6.50
per hundred pounds.
Buyers were present from Hick
ory, N. C, Haywood county, N. C,
and from Georgia and Tennessee.
Bob Patton and Bob Davis, who
conducted the sale, said they plan
ned to hold another sale on Wed
nesday, October 2.
Plan Tour
Forest Service To Conduct
"Show-Me" Trip
A "Show-Me" tour of the Nanta
hala National Forest will be con
ducted tomorrow by officials of the
forest to acquaint those invited to
go on the trip with the work the
forest personnel is doing in con
servation, timber stand improve
ment, roadside beautification and
the development of the forest's re
creational facilities.
Those going on the tour will
meet at the office of the forest
supervisor in the Ashear building
at 9 o'clock in the morning. They
will then visit Cullasaja Gorge, the
Vanhook Glade camp ground and
inspect a white pine plantation
on Skittle Creek. The party will
be entertained at lunch at Camp
NC F-9 of the Civilian Conserva
tion Corps. After lunch the pic
nic grounds and the fish rearing
pools at Arrowwood Glade, the
Wayah supply depot and Wayah
Bald will be visited.
naivesunu the annual era
which runs into hundreds of thou
ands of bushels in this state,
now an important industry, accorq
ing to R. W. Graieber, extensKj
forester at State College.
Only a few years ago great quan
tities of the nuts were allowed to
waste, but now they are being sold
in the shell and as cracked kernels
in grocery, candy and drug stores
almost everywhere.
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Shepherd and Dalton
Families To Meet Sunday
The Shepherd and Dalton fami-
lies of Macon county will hold a
joint reunion Sunday, September
15, at "Aunt" Lou Shepherd's home
ih the Cowee community. The oc
casion also will be in celebration J
of Mrs. Shepherd's birthday anni
versary. All relatives of the two
families and their friends are in
vited to attend, and all are urged
to bring basket lunches.
to Ethiopian Front
LEGION BUYS
ALLMANBLDG.
Plans To Use Second Floor
Of Structure as
Meeting Hall
Arrangements were completed
this week for the purchase by the
Macon county post of the American
Legion of the Allman building from
the Junaluskee Masonic lodge,
which recently bought the proper
ty at a foreclosure sale. The price
involved in the deal was not an
nounced. The main floor of the building is
now used as a storage room by
the Western Carolina Telephone
Company. The Legion plans to
use a large room on the second
floor of the building, a brick struc
ture on the north side of West
Main street, as a meeting hall. The
first meeting to be held in the new
quarters is scheduled for 8 o'clock
Friday night of this week. Gilmer
Jones, post commander, has sent
out circular letters urgiing all le
gionaires and world war veterans
to attend.
The post plans to sponsor motion
picture programs at the Macon
Theatre to raise money for neces
sary repairs to the building and
to buy equipment. On Monday and
Tuesday of next week it will spon
sor "The Mighty Barnum," featur
ing Wallace Beery.
Pierson Quite
Resigns Post as Mayor of
Highlands
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(Special to The Press-Maconian)
HIGHLANDS, N. C, Sept.
11. At the regular monthly
meeting of tine board of com
missioners of the Town of
Highlands Monday night, the
resignation of S. P. Pierson as
mayor was accepted, and S. E.
Potts was appointed to succeed
him. David Wiley was appoint
ed by the board to succeed S.
E. Potts as commissioner.
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body types the who
a feeling of substantia was Miss Viola York; seven ch.l-
dren, Mrs. Leah Mae Bryant, Ath-
The Ford gives you ens, Ga.; Ruth, Kate, Edward, Ed
, , - sel, Albert and Joseph Harold Hall,
because of the compa all of Charlotte ; four brothers, El-V-8
engine an exel bert and Bernard Hall, of Royal
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takes up less space ill four sisters, Mrs. Scott Brank, of
permits more of the cJ Weaverville; Miss Ruby Hall, of
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Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, perhaps
the most widely known anti-Chris-
tian lecturer, was the son of a
Presbyterian minister.
Plans Drawn for
Improving Rural
Roads of County
Roads Listed under
Works Progress Project
Followiing is list of secon
dary Maoon oounty roads' ten
tatively selected for improve
ment under a Works Progress
"Administration project proposed
last Friday:
Camp Branch, Lower Bum
ingtown, Rose Creek, Matlock
Creek, Ellijay, Onion Mountain,
Walnut Creek, Nick-a-Jack,
South Skeenah, Waldnoop Road,
Windy Gap Road, Bird Gap
Road, Wayah Road, Betty's
Creek, Upper Iotla, Horse Cove
(from present surfacing to South
Caarolina line.)
None of these projects, it was
stated, will be undertaken un
less the people living along the
roads are willing to cooperate.
It was also said that other roads
might be added to this list.
SAYS SLAGLE
FINE SHERIFF
Secretary of N. C. Sher
iffs' Association Lauds
Macon Officer
A. B. Slagle, now serving his
third term, was praised as "one of
the best sheriffs in North Caro
lina" in a letter received by The
Press-Maconian from John R. Mor-
is, secretary and treasurer of the
State Sheriffs' Association. Mr.
Morris' letter follows in full:
"1 would like to say a few words
about your sheriff, A. B. Slagle,
whom the sheriffs of North Caro
lina have learned to love and ad
mire in the number of years we
have come in contact with him.
"We want to say that we believe
that Macon County has one of the
best sheriffs in North Carolina, and
we all know that he is one of the
best shots in the State, when it
comes to target-shooting, as he has
always carried offithe first hon
ors. In fact, when the fellows
find out that Slagle is' there and is
going to shoot, they give up all
hope of winning the first prize.
"We enjoy having men of high
type like Sheriff Slagle with us
at our conventions, and Macon
county is well represented."
Funeral Held at Iotla
For Rufus Hall
Funeral services for Rufus Hall,
37, formerly of Macon county, who
died at his home in Charlotte at
2 o'clock Sunday afternoon after
suffering for three days with a
severe carbuncle on his neck, were
held at 4 o'clock Wednesday after
noon at the Iotla Methodist church
in this county. The Rev. J. A.
Flanagan, pastor of the Franklin
Presbyterian church, officiated.
Mr. Hall is survived by his moth
er, Mrs. Ella D. Hall, of Franklin;
his widow, who before marriage
nampiuu, va. ; ami muss iuui
Hall, of -Newport News, Va.
Pallbearers were Joe Palmer, W.
T. Moore, J. S. Conley, Joe Setser,
Frank Reece and J. D. Franks,
$125,000 WPA Project Is
Mapped out at
Conference
Tentative plans for grading and
surfacing 75.6 miles of secondary
roads in Macon county at a cost
of approximately $125,000, all of
which is to be suppliied by the
Works Progress Administration,
were drawn up at a conference in
the courthouse Friday of county
officials and representatives of the
Asheville district office of the
WPA. Carrying out of the pro
ject, it was stated, is dependent on
final approval of the plans by state
WPA authoritiies in Raleigh and
the cooperation of the fanners of
the county.
W. M. Douglas, of Brevard, one
of the district WPA representa
tives attending the conference, lat
er told The Press-Maconian he was
confident the project would be ap
proved and that the money would
soon be made available for com
mencing work. He emphasized,
however, the necessity of obtain
ing the cooperation of persons liv
ing along the roads to be improved.
Work 400 Men
The project, as tentatively agreed
upon, calls for grading and sur
facing of 16 diifferent rural roads
in all sections of the county, and
the employment of an average of
400 men and 20 teams for one year.
This is in addition to a project
previously proposed, calling for the
grading and surfacing of 64.4 miles
of roads in the county used by
school buses and rural mail car
riers. This project has been esti
mated to cost $62,839.50.
If both projects are finally ap
proved and carried out, nearly all
of the roads in the county will be
placed in first class, all-weather
condition.
At Conference
Attending the conference last
Friday were C. Tom Bryson, clerk
to the board of county commis
sioners; M. D. Billings, superinten
dent of schdbls; H. H. Plemmons
and C. M. Douglas, representing
the WPA, and Roy Plemmons, dis
trict highway maintenance engi
neer. Security wages, it was stated, will
be paid to all persons employed on
the projects.
Undertaking of the road projects
submitted last Friday, it was stat
ed, will be contingent upon the
people wanting them sufficiently to
be willing to cooperate with the
WPA.
All labor costs, or rather, man
hours, will be paid in cash every
15 days, it was explained, and such
items as dynamitie, tools and part
of the team hire will also be paid
by the federal government through
the WPA.
"People who live in communities
that need and want work done,"
Mr. Douglas told The Press-Maconian,
"will be sailed upon to
furnish some of the teams for work
and the rock to be crushed and
placed on the roads. The crushing
of the stone will be done by the
state highway commission at no
cost to the county.
"Thus, rdads in communities that
want them will be built by labor
paid for by the WPA and the
people who will most benefit by
the roads will not be asked to
put out any cash whatever. In ad
dition to this, the jobs thus created
will take care of the unemployed
in the several communities and in
this way will help the county in
general."
Relief Soon To End
It was also pointed out by the
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