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Macotttan PROGBESSIVE LIBERAB mi) EPENBEN T DL. LI, NO. 28 FRANKLIN, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1936 $1.50 PER YEAR EFENDSEUAS NOTEPAYMENT torney Explains Debt Adjustment With Closed Bank om July 6 Issue of Tiie Raleigh News and Observer) homas L. Johnson, of Asheville, nber of the Debt Adjustment nmitt'Ce of the Central Bank and St Co., of Asheville, and at-, lew for the Stale Banking De- tment in the settlement of the ;btedness of Don Elias and .rles A. Webb, which were in- ,’cd in the political campaign closed, has written The News Observer the following letter eference to his part in the mat- [ read with amazement the ement of Dr. Ralph McDonald, published in the Raleigh News Observer, on June 21, charging Banking Department and charg- me, as a member ol the firm representing the Banking )artme.nt at Asheville, with fraud collusion in connection with the ^promise settlement of the in- tedness to the Central Bank and 1st Company of Mr. Don S. IS, Mr. Charles A. Webb and s. Jessie Webb and the Ashe- e Citizen and the Asheville i‘es. The statement was false to cor« and was patently malicious [ designed and intended to in- 5 the candidacy for Governor of norable Clyde R. Hoey. 1 did answer the statement at the e because 1 thought it better wait .until after the second pri- ry, when the heat of the cam- gn would have subsided. The true facts are: 1. That the Asheville Citizen and Ashevill'e Times both made full 1 complete settlements with the ik and the statement of Dr. Mc- nald with respect to these news- )ers is, therefore, false. 2. The major portion of the in- )tedness of Mr. Elias and Mr. 1 Mrs. Webb were incurred by lorsements. 3. Mr. Elias and Mr. and Mrs. ebb, by reason of the collapse of : boom in Asheville, had lost all !ir property and nothing ocmld ^e been collected by legal pro- ;s, but all three of the parties )mitted to me, as attorney for ; bank, offers of compromis'e. I dined to assume responsibility in inection with said offers and, ac- rdingly a meeting was called of ; debt settlement committee, which 1 been appointed by Mr. Hood, ich committee was composed of '. Gilbert Morris, of the Wa- •)via Bank and Trust Company, 3ge J. G. Adams, of the First itional Bank and Trust Company, Asheville, myself and Mr. S. J. nsdale, who was at that time uidating agent of the bank. AfteT full and complete investigation, : debt settlement committee iched the conclusion that nothing ild be collected against either of J parties and that, since they had k their property, the settlements fered were fair, and the com- (Continued on Page Eight) 23 Home Loans Made in Maccn County, Totaling $56,962 More than $3,0(X),(X)0,()00 has been loaned to more than a million dis tressed home owners in the United Stales since June, 1933, by the Home Owners’ Loan cor])oration. Of that amount $31,394,471.12 has been loaned in North Carolina to approximately 12,500 hom'C owners. Of the total amount loaned in North Carolina $56,9()2.94 has been loaned to 23 distressed home own ers in !Macon county. Under the iionie loan act a fif teen-year loan at five per oc.nt was granted distressed home owners while the holders of their defaulted mortgages received HOLC bonds backed by the federal treasury. The work of the Home Owners’ Loan corporation has shifted from “lending” to “collecting” and the job is far frotn being completed, but the state manager, Robert AL Gantt, of Durham, reports that there have been no foreclosures out of the 23 loans made in ^lacon county. Only ill foreclosures had been made on HOLC mortgages in North Carolina as of June 30. COUNTY LEVY SET AT $1.05 Increase Made Necessary By Public Health Activities ^ Franklin iProduce Market LATEST QUOTATIONS Prices listed below are subject I change without notice.) ■pted by Farmers Federation, ,Inc. gckens, heavy breed hens 13c fickens, light weight; lb. .. He 'yers, heavy weight, lb 18c yers, light weight, lb 16c |gs, doz 20c #h potatoes, No. 1 (old), bu. $1.25 kn, bu. 90c lieat, bu. 90c ■ luot»d by Nantahala Creamery Jtterfat, lb 27c INSPECTION OF HOTEISSTARIS Restaurants and Lodging Houses Subject to Regulation The hotels, tourist camps and restaurants in Macon comity are either cleaning up, i closmg up, or being indicted, according to John E. Floyd, district sanitarian super visor for the state board of health. Sanitary inspections are being made periodically, in accordance with the requirements of the state hotel and restaurant laws. A hotel, within meaning of the act, is any place where transient guests are lodged for pay. A restaurant with in meaning of the act, is any place where food is prepared and served to the public for immediate con sumption. All these places are re quired by the state board of health to meet requirements of the law. Hotels and restaurants scoring from 90 to 100 points are awarded grade “A”; 80 to 90 grade “B”, and 70 to 80, grade “C”. Those places scoring less than 70 are subject to prosecution, .unless the management discontinues operating until the nec essary improvements are made to comply with requirements of the law. Mr. Floyd advises that anyone expecting to operate a hotel or restaurant should communicate, be- •fore beginning to operate, with the local health department, or with the state board of health, for rules and regulations regarding such places. Regular Inspections Made The periodical inspection of hotels and restaurants, explained Mr. Floyd is simply a safety meas.ure, required by law, for protection of the public. Every town and ooiAity should welcome it and every hote and restaurant should realize tha it has all to gain and nothing to lose by these inspectio.n?, which hold them up to certain standards of cleanliness and safety, and there by make them more attractive and inviting to tourists and the travel ing public. Experience indicates, he savs that time and effort spent on cleanliness and other .attractive features in connection with hotels and restaurants will pay_ for it self many times over in '"creased patronage. As a matter of fact, l e added, the public will spend its money where it thinks its health will not be in jeopardy, and the best way to know this, is by he certificates and rating issued by-th state board of health, posted m such places. A county wide tax rate of $1.0.5— five cents higher than last year— was voted for 1936 at a called meeting of the county commission ers Thursday morning. The in- 'crease was made necessary to pro- ,vide for the county’s new ])ublic health unit. With a valuation of ,ai)l)roxiniate- ly $5,520,000, the levy of $1.05 on the $100 valuation will raise nearly $58,000. In addition to the oountywide tax, special township road bond levies were voted for two town ships—Franklin, 25 cents, and High lands, 10 cents, the same as last year. Under a local act of the last legislature, the countywide tax levy was limited to $1 on the $100 valu ation for 1935 and 1936; but this limitation does not apply to the special levy of five cents for ])ub- lic health purposes. H‘OW Levy Is Divided Under tlve new rate 15 cents is for the county’s general fund, 5 cents for paupers, 5 cents for jail and court expenses, 8 cents for school debt service, 4 cents for cur rent school expenses, 5 cents for public health, 3 cents for capital outlay, and 60 cents for general debt service. Last year’s rate i)rovided 57 cents for general debt service and 3 cents for public health. Other div isions of the levy are the sam'C this year as last. The general debt service levy of 60 cents is estimated to yield enough revenue to meet interest payments due on county bonds, but not enough to reduce the principal. County officials are ho]>ing that by next year, when the tax limitation will have expired, it will be pos sible for them to work out with bondholders a plan for refunding the county’s bonds. Thus ■ far the bondholders have declined to con sider a refunding on the grouiifl that they could not accept new bonds as long as the^ tax rate is limited by law. Payments About Same C. Tom Bryson, county tax list ing supervisor, said today that al though the countywide rate has been slightly increased, the amount of taxes to be paid by individual property owners will be about the same in most instances. He 'explain ed this by pointing out that valu ations Itave been reduced through expanding the $300 personal prop erty exemption to include livestock as well as hous'ehold furnishings. Baptist Leaders To Meet In Franklin July 17 Members of the enlistm'ent and promotion committee of the Macon Missionary Baptist association are to gather here Thursday, July_ 17, in the Baptist church. The state of the churches in the Macon as sociation will be discussed and plans made for the work of the denomination for the coming, year. The time of the meeting is 2:30 o’clock in the afternoon. This meeting of Baptist leaders was called by the Rev. J. C. Pipes, of Asheville, state missionary, and M. A. Huggins, Raleigh, who is general sceretary of the North Carolina Baptist state convention. The chairman of the promotion committee in the Macon associa tion is E. B. DeHart. It is hoped that the several churches compos ing this area will have representa tives here for this Franklin m^eet- ing. Wins Nomination CLYDE R. HOEY AUGUST COURT JURORS DRAWN Judge Harding, Charlotte, To Preside; Term Starts Aug. 24 Jurors for the August term of Macon county superior court, which is to convene Monday, August 24, for a two-weeks mixed session, were drawn Alonday at tlie regular monthly meeting of the county board of commissioners. Judge W. F. Harding, of Charlotte, is sched uled to preside over the session. A light criminal calendar but a heavy civil calendar are expected. F'ollowing is the jury list for the ,'Kugust court term; , First week—L. J. Mdody, J. M. Raby, D. E. Chastain, J. B. Sand ers, C. S. Potts, W. D. Elliott, J. B. Elmore, Leonard Horne,' W. C. Sheffield, J. R. Shields, W. A. Mc Connell, J. W. Anderson, W. R. Corpening, W. C, Taylor, G. L. Garland, Roy Arnold, Luther Shep herd, J. K. Conley. Second week^G. C. Calloway, G. C. .Conley, Ed Welch, Tom Brown, Fred Bryson, J, H. Vanhook, H. H. .McDowell, R, H. Bennett, Alex Sp'inkle, W. T. "Roper, J. L. Bald win, Ellis Grant, Floyd Potts, Harley Stanfield, Denver Holland, Lawrence Anderson, Leslie Camp bell, Herbie Bradley. To Reorganize Young Democrats To Get Ready for Campaign Miss Elizabeth Slagle, president of the Young Democrats of Macon county, has called a meeting of the group for 3 o’clock Saturday after noon in the courthouse. Principal business before the meeting. Miss Slagle Said, will be reorganization, the election of offic ers and the formulation of plans for the club to take an active part in the fall political campaign. Dave'H. Harris, of . Canton, who was recently appointed reorganizer for Young Democratic clubs in the western counties, is expected to be present at Saturday’s meeting. Delegates will be named at this m'eeting to attend the state conven tion of Young Democrats to be held at Greensboro starting July 17. HOEY CARRIES COUNTY, STATE Wins With Majority Of 53,934 Votes Over iJr. McDonald Complete but unofficial state re turns from Saturday’s run-off pri mary gave Clyde R. Hoey, of Shel by, a majority of 53,934 votes over Dr. Ralph W. McDonald, of Win ston-Salem, in the race for the Democratic nomination for governor. .VI aeon couiity contributed 1,362 votes to the Hoey majority, the of ficial vote for the county beiiij^ 1,711 for Hoey and 349 for Mc Donald. This was even a larger lead for the Shelby lawyer than he had in this county in the first primary on June 7, when his ma jority over McDonald was 995, al though some 6(K) fewer votes were cast in the run-off. Cofunty Helps Winners Macon county voted for the win ners all the way through the ticket in the second primary. It gave VV. P. Horton 1,447 votes to 398 for Paul (irady in the contest for the nomination for lieutenant governor, and Thfid Eure 996 votes to 8.56 for Stacey Wade in the race for the nomination for secretary of state. The unofficial vote for the state as a whole was reported by the daily newspapers Wednesday as: For governor—Hoey 2W),813; Mc Donald 212,879. F'or lieutenant governor—Horton 217,652, Gardy 206,751. F'or secretary of state—Eure 233,- 751, Wade 192,082. Abslentee Voting Heavy The vote was far lieavier Satur day than had been expected. Be cause the election came on the F'ourth of July it had been predicted that the total would not likely ex ceed 4(X),000, but it jjassed that fig ure by nearly 80,000. Absentee voting was at a new high. The board of elections re ported in Raleigh that 110,(XX) ab sentees had been issued, but in- formatio.!! was lacking as to the ex act number of ab&entees actually voted. Commenting on the election, Dr* McDonald Tuesday dispelled specu lative repoi^ts that he might run for governor in the fall election as an independent. “We have gone a long way to ward winning our fight for the principles on which our case is founded,” Dr. McDonald said. “Let our slogan continue to be ‘we have just begun to fight’ for these principles. .1 have always been a Democrat, and I shall remain one. Our fight is within the Democratic party.” Carl Festa, who has been con nected with Angel hospital for sev eral years, left Thursday for a months’ vacation with friends- in Philadelphia, Pa., and New York. Postoffice To Close At 2 P. M. on Saturdays Postmaster T. W. Porter announc ed yesterday that the Franklin post- office would close at 2 p. m. each Saturday afternoon in the future instead of at 1 p. m. as previously announced. He said this extension of one hour of the time the post- office windows will be open should afford plenty of time for patrons of the office to transact their business before the afternoon mail is posted. Second class postoffice are suppos ed to close for half a day on Sat urdays. ^ Burns Appointed Chaplain In Reserve Corps The Rev. W. M. Burns, pastor of the F'irst Baptist church of Franklin, has gone to Fort McClel lan, Ala., in response to notification of his appointment as first lieu tenant and chaplain in the officers reserve corps of the United States army. He was assigned to the 322nd infantry, detached troops, and ord ered to report at F'ort McClellan for a period of training between July 5 and 18. During th^ World War Mr. Burns served six months as first sergeant and from 1929 to 1934 he was a second lieutenant in the 81st in fantry division of the officers re serve corps. Pupils of Mrs. Higgins To Give Recital July 14 The music pupils of Mrs. Harry S. Higgins will appear in recital at the Courthouse in Franklin Tues day evening, July 14, at 8 o’clock. The public is cordially invited. Regulation of all forms of trans portation seen by Eastman.