PACE TEN
THE FRANKLIN PRESS AND THE HIGHLANDS MACONIAN
THURSD^y
BLIND SURVEY
IS Un WAV
James Penland, Hayesville, ^
Conducting Study in
This Area
Public Heedth Work Soon
To Be Started in County;
SanitcU'y Inspector Named
"Nix On Fight Game
Herbert l'l«nmoTis, form«rly as
sistant district engineer for the
Works Progress Administration,
has been appointed sanitary in
spector for Alacon county under
the county’s new (lublic liealth pro
gram, it was announced Wednes
day by Dr. C. N. Sisk, of Waynes-
ville, district health officer.
Appointments of a bounty public
health nurse and of a health of
ficer, who will be in charge of j)ub-
lic liealth work in both Macon and
Jackson counties, are yet to be
I made. i)r. Sisk 'expressed the hop'
** district who that he would soon be able to coni-
is M'fferinK from badly impaired , piete the personnel of the Macon
i he state commission for the
blind, which is conducting an ex
haustive survey of the number of
blind people in North Carolina and
their needs, has appointed James
i’enland, of Hayesville, to conduct
the survey in seven western coun
ties, including Macon.
On a recent visit to Frankhn
Mr. Penland said it is his purpose
to contact, if possible, not only eouiu.es, are yei lo ue la uv ?u
° I made. Dr. Sisk 'expressed the hope | agencies
CVtTV IK'TssOn in Vjic i'licfr-i/'t .« . ..
sight. J he counties to be covered
by Mr. f'enland, in addition to
Macon, are Cherokee, Clay, Gra
ham, Swain, Jackson and Transyl
vania.
In order to plan an intelligent
anl effective program of assistance
for persons with defective visioji,
Mr. J'enland said, it is first neces
sary to know their number, the ex
tent of their visual disability and
their individual situations. With the
aid of churches and schools, local
civic clubs and other interested
persons, Mr. I’eniand hopes to
comjiile a list of all persons in his
territory who are unable, through
ji(X)r sight, to read, even with the
use of glasses. He is anxious to
include in this list children as well
as adults.
Cards for the listing of persons
with defective vision are being cir
culated by the schools and
churches. But, lest someone be
overlooked, Mr. Penland has re-
(juested that any persons krwnv'ing
of individuals handicapped by ser-
i')us impairment of sight to notify
him, listing the names, addresses
*uk1 other information concerning
.■-iich individuals.
In many instances, .Mr. Penland
said, persons suffering from blind
ness can be given corrective treat
ment. And in many other instances,
lu’ said, persons who are unable to
I'c self-sustaining on account r>f
tlieir inability to see can be made
.^clf-.supporting through vocational
training.
county unit.
Offices for the county health
unit will be provided by the county
in the Higdon house on f^ast Main
street.
Mr. Plemmons, the sanitary in
spector, is formerly of Macon
county, having been reared in the
Cowee community. For the past 17
years he has ni^de Asheville his
home. Until recently he was assist
ant district engineer for the PWA.
His duties will include dairy inspec
tion, which is required for Grade
A milk ratings.
A five-year program has been
outlined for puhlic health work in
the county at an estimated cost
of $5,200 a year, of which the
county has agreed to appropriate
$l,5(Xi. The balance of the funds are
to be supplied by state and federal
The jirogram inchuk's
and
public school health clinics —
dental examination a( school pupils.
M. 1). Billings, superintendent of
schools and a member of the
county board of health, said to
day that it was !>lanned to hold a
school clinic this spring if the per
sonnel of the county health unit
is comi)leted .befoTe all of the
schools have closed.
A
f
“Negotiations are „
to determine whethf
site on tn.e Little T.j
I acquired ]/'
that, if negotiation;,
ably, the Fontana '
fore the FTowler
Store and 2 Residences
Condemned by Inspector
One store building, two resi
dences and a .number of '^mailer
structures—barns, sheds and ga
rages—have ibeen condemned by
Paul Potts, Franklin building in
spector, as -especially dangerous in
case of fire.
One of the residences, on the
northeast corner of Main street
and Harrison avenue, belongs to
the tofwn itself. The other resi-
dence condemned is the old Ix)ve
house at the rear of the Dowdle
building. The store condemned is
the ^lunday building recently
PULLMAN, Wash “Dad told
me to go in for athletics, but to
stay away from the fight game,”
said Je.ss Willard, Jr. (above),
as he came out for iootball ai^
track at Washington State coJ-
kge. The son of the former heavy
weight champion stands 6 ft. 2 in.
and weighs 196 pounds.
TVANOWSEEKS
to do what the law’ requires of
me.”
Mr. Potts said the law not only
directs him to pass upon plans for
new structures, but also upon ad- ,
diti.'j'ns and repairs to houses and '
buildings. Within the fire zone, he |
said, the law fonbids the consfrhc- |
tion of frame structures, limiting:
new buildings to those of brick and money ibe appropriated for the F"on-
ing the latter the ?
structed of the three^i
recommended in th' ^
sequence is
Fontana dam would
larger storage and j'1
nomical site.”
The TVA report, „,J
request of Congresf '
Little Tenness^,^']
JN* 01 the ^
Americas developn,e„,;
ah, Cheoah, ana «
boated near the Te ^
Carolina state bounda''
O^Pnalit^Tm^^
afing an old classic i„'j
Classifies
Advertisen^
canned fruit juices
FOR SALE-Barred,’
chicks, blood tested.
for delivery Monday,
per hundred.—MRS l |
A2-ltp •• Rt. 4,'FraJ
FOR SALE-At a I?
residence on West ,\1«
I Six-room house with
' veniences. In first class'
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GEO.T.S.
tile construction.
Ihe town board is empowered,
he said, to require owners of con
demned buildings to repair them
so as to meet state specifications,
and, in event the owners fail to
do so after having been given 10
va
cated by the Farmers Sutiplv com- ' i m
pany. The two residences are oc-i Se/thTc„ T"'"’
order the condemned buildings torn
down and place
cupied.
Potts w’as appointed building
inspector by the town council last
year, but he was not formally noti
fied af his appointment until a few
weeks ago.
“When I learned of it,” he said,
‘T began investigating to find out
w'hat my duties were. If I am go-
'm going
Mr. Penland, himself blind, is a
fine example of what a blind per- ^ we:
son can accomplish. I-fe owns and to be inspector, well
"perates the telephone system in
( lay county, operating the switch
board in addition to supervising the
company’s business. In place of
li.tjhts which are used as signals on
the ordinary telephone switchboard,
Mr. Penland has gongs^ or bells, all
tuned differently. He knows everv
bell on the board and, too, can
1 ecognize any of his subscribers
by the sound of their voice over
the wire.
WELFARE WORK
IS DIpSSED
(Continued from Page One)
xTviccs were discussed by Miss
l.ily Mitchell.
Other Speakers
Other speakers taking part in the
program were: K. Eugene Brown,
director of the division of institu
tions and corrections, on the sub
ject of juvenile delinquency; Dr.
Crane, state psychiatrist, on the
maladjusted individual; Foil Essex,
who is in charge of parole prison
ers in this section; and Miss Loula
J>unn, WPA field representative.
Mrs. Eloise G. Franks, Alacon
county superintendent of public
welfare and retiring president of
the district welfare organization,
presided at the conference. A'wel
coming address was given by M.
]). Billings, county superintendent
of schools. G. L. Houk presided at
a luncheon served in the basement
of the church by the ladies of the
missionary society with Mrs. W. B
Zachary at chairman.
Mrs. Arthur Harrill, of Ruther
ford county, was elected president
of the conference for the coming
year, and Mrs. G. W. Kirkpatrick,
of McDowell county, was elected
secretary.
STATE POLITICS
IN FULL SWING
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lowed to run unchecked and un
challenged long enough and that
■ the time has come to start shoot-
I ing holes in a lot of the campaign
j balloons he has been sending up.
Reports indicate that the Hoey
managers are now busy assembling
ammunition w'ith which to puncture
the McDonald balloons and that
j they will start popping awav verv
I soon.
Waiting on Each Other
I The only reason Hoey and Gra
ham have postponed taking any
-^'cDonald this kmg is
the belief that each has been wait-
ing for the other to open fire, in
the belief that in the long run the
one who said the least and made
the fewest people mad would get
most votes—admitted to be
a lien upon the
property for any expenses incurred.
The law requires the inspector
to condemn “every building which
shall appear x x x to be especially
dangerous because of its liability to
fire or i,n case of fire, by reason
of bad condition of walls, overload
ed floors, defective construction, de
cay or other causes x x x.”
■ that he cannot show where he is
I going to get this money. They al-
' 'hat a great many more
ot his plattorm planks can be brok-
t^e P'^esentation of
tl>e facts But m the meantime n
verv^toi has had
Aiakinf '"l>P°sition and has been
thS m I P>-°gress, and
that unless other candidates open
up on him, he is goinr to bo
very hard to stop. “
tana project in its stead, is not, of
course, known, but, in view or to
day's recommendation, it would .ap
pear that the latter is the case.
In the 105-page report of prog
ress and plans for unified develop
ment of a navigation and flobd
control program for the I'ennessee
River watershed, filed with Cong
ress today, the Authority described
at length its plans for both the
fow'cr Bend and Fontana dams.
4 Dams Mentioned
Of the Hiwassee river, the TVA
report ^said a “reasonable and eco-
Irom XI ur-
ph_v, :s. tQ mouth of -the
nver could be secured by construc-
ti'>n of lour dams .besides the
FOR SALE-Refrigil
good condition. Has iceo;
50 pounds. W'lll sell re;|
MRS. E. K. CUNS'I
Harrison Avei
A2--ltc ' Fraili
FOR SALE—Eggs for'
from 2-year-old big Enf
fiedigreed White Leghorn|
ting of 15 for 75 cents'’
for $1.00 i
MRS. WADE,
Rt. 3, Frants
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the
Kood political strate^'.“XcMrdbgry
the Hoey managers have been hop
ing and praying the Graham forces
while th"V'°r ^^Donald
while the Graham managers have
een sitting tight hoping the Hoev
howitzers w^uld open fire on the
renches of the Scotch school
teacher from Jllmois. Since it is
agreed that the Graham forces have
niore to gain and less to lose bv
tavrtL's r
ha\e, the beh.ef m most circles here
now i.s that the Hoey managers
are going to be forced to Hake the
f'Rhting McDonald. '
Carmacks Return
Expect Many New Visitors
Here in Summer
-Major J. F. Carmack and Mrs
laU™"'par7‘“T'^, '^e
spending the wmterin Sda,lS
minff pool for iUr. swim-
h iuoi lor the season, has a)
e^s a?r -P-vt
w/i! recreational center
When weather permitted a cTew
ot workmen were nut .
the course putting
play. ^ shape for
-'iajor Carmack said “The
rams have caused very UuL 7
>ng and I expect tha7t^
te better thifyea V
result of the winter’s sno
"•inter and they "exi^feT"^
new visitors to comfT
summer. here next
Fowler Bend project, for which
money has been appropriated, and
which IS described as the “best
storage on the Fliwassee river,” the
r^-poa recommends a project at
Charleston, 20 miles above the
mouth, which would control 2 230
ar"^,,?‘'f f.'^’^^tershed; another
at Austral, 4o miles above the
mouth, which would carry the run
off from 1.220 square mUes, and a
a Appalachia, near th^ Tenn
ed at more length. The report said
t hes entirely within Cherokee
» ZTZ 'f"
feet per second. As to fl^i
whileout that'
as J00\STe™'™r!e
recorded during tU f
September, 1925 a m
000 cubic feet had
in 1920 and an recorded
>80,000’cubi feet" °
considered “remotelv
w ij . “™‘ely possible.”
St.iy , Navigation
, speaking of the Pr. 1 «
the report said it S
prove navigation o,n the H
and Tennessee - Huvas
COW FOR SAU
Eight-year-old Jersey aij
Sw'iss Cow. Gives 4^4 gjfj
a day on small quantity(
See N. A. Gibson, 2 ir
of F'ranklin off highway
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SALESMEN WANII,
MEi4 WANTED for ■
l^outes of 800 families,
hustler should start eart
weekly and increase ra
today. Rawleigh, Dept M
Richmond, Va.
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OLIVE
IS
im~
•ssee
T),* TT ^ ^ -'-iCiJonald. j-
at niaintain I Mrs. Cunninpham J
ui exceedingly vul- ' Mr« P ™gnam and
onlyYa. “he Cr.wford Relur„
^lississippi river'below
will reduce the fl, Cairo, and
in the m '-^‘er
“The Fow'ler Rp '/T ’'^'^ervoirs.
substantial aid in "fl I""
has a control. It
storage nn, .
^.000,000 acre-f»..^'"‘;“y about
lent fo;
above.
— Ly
cient for compiet’
''■aters from above."””*'"'
Fowler'Be
t'on with Its operatic ’’'f “«nec-
gation and flonH ^°r navi-
power'°yst:„‘"'- ^
Morris, Fo^4er
"ram river dams th,^\i
wstallation’s for “no
After fTs desTrL^"'^^*-
project r
^ ’■«IK)rt said:
■A Swiss watchmaker, Georges
r.elation, has perfected an electric
watch that is driven by a tiny
storage battery.
failed t. show how L rgoi^g I Mrs
ppf nnr, r\r^ . tO i
HI ncAv taxes
i and
- across nis nroE-ram ' "ave been snpnrl;„ ^^""'ford, who
calling for the repeal of the sales i Mexico return h
ax, "'hich reduce the state’s I Wednesday \frs r franklin
revenue ^ year, a^d j ^er healthVas
1 gicduy improved.
revenue $10,000,000 a
more money for schools and for
about SlFoolmnrequire j Women hve ion?
$15,000,000 a year more, but laccording to LsiranTe statistic
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range with farm product^
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Peas, Spinach, Radish,
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Highest germination and
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