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THE FRANKLIN PRESS AND THE
utr.HLANPS MACONIAI^
THURSDAY,
OIL DEALERS
GROraRMED
Adopt Resolution Urging
Lower Gasoline and
Oil Taxes
Organization of the Jackson-
Macon-Swain County Oil Dealers
association was completed at a
meeting of the oil dealers held
Sept. 2 in Sylva, with the idea of
planning concerted action in mat
ters affecting motorist customers
of the petroleum and automotive
industri'cs.
The association, which is affiliat
ed with the North Carolina Petro
leum Industries committee, will
work in cooperation with other
county groups throughout the state.
Specific objectives included relief
from 'excessive taxation imposed up
on motorists, development of ade
quate highways at reasonable ex
pense, and cooperation with high
way users in all matters of mu
tual concern.
The following officers were 'elect
ed :
Chairman, J. C. Allison; first
vice chairman, G. F. McKowan;
secretary, W. R. Enloe; vice chair
man, J. S. Conley.
Robert G. Johnson, of Raleigh,
secretary of the North Carolina
Petroleum Industries committee, as
sisted in organizing the group and
discussed the automotive situation
generally.
The association adopted a reso
lution requesting the two North
Carolina senators and Congressman
Zebulon W'caver to use their votes
and influence toward immediate re
peal of the federal gasoline tax and
lubricating oil tax. The resolution
also urged state senators and rep
resentatives to oppose .any added
taxes on the oil and automotive in
dustries.
Calls New Registration
Of CCC Applicants
Mrs. Eloise G. Franks, Macon
county superintendent of public
welfare, issued a call this week for
a new registration of applicants in
this county for enrollment in the
Civilian Conservation corps.
Mrs. Franks said she expected
to receive soon a new CCC quota
for the county and wanted to bring
the registration of applicants ,up to
date so as to determine how many
of those who previously have reg
istered for CHrollment are still de
sirous of admission to the corps.
The call for the new registration
is for both white and colored ap
plicants.
HORN’S SHOE SHOP SAYS
WE ARE STILL MENDING
SHOES
While school days slip
And shoe soles flop.
We’ll mend the rip
And save the top,
HORN’S SHOE SHOP
Opposite Courthouse
“We Buy and Sell”
Box 212 Troy F. Horn
Funeral Services Held For
Mrs. Margaret Weaver
Funeral services for Mrs. Mar
garet Timoxena Weaver, widow of
J Q Weaver, who died luesday
at her home at Hazelwood, were
held Wednesday afternoon at the
residence and the body brought to
Franklin for burial.
Mrs. Weaver was a native of
this county, a daughter of Mrs.
Mary Jane Robinson Wells and
Frank Wells. Mr. and Mrs. Weaver
lived in the Cartoogechaye com
munity for many years, moving to
Hazelwood about 17 years ago.
The funeral was conducted by
Dr. R. S. Truesdale, of Waynes-
ville, who also conducted the rites
at the graveside in the Franklin
cemetery. Pallbearers were: Harold
Sloan, Frank Leach, Will Wal-
droop, Carl Slagle, Quince Corpen-
ing, Elmer Crawford, Jeff Enloe,
Jr., and Jule Roibinson.
Surviving Mrs. Weaver are seven
children, R. R. Weaver, Salisbury,
Md,; Mrs. J. M. Long, Weavers-
ville; Miss Waunita Weaver and
Mrs. L. H. Allison, Durham;
Charles and Ernest Weaver, De
troit, and J. L. Weaver, Hazel
wood; and four granddaughters.
Liberty Church Observes
Home-Coming Day
Home-coming Day was observed
Sunday at Liberty Baptist church
with several hundred members and
former m'embers of the church
present. This is an annual occa
sion at which friends gather at
the church from several counties
and states to spend the day to
gether.
Home-coming day was inaugurat
ed at Liberty church in 1930 with
the Rev. W. L. Bradley, John and
Walton Dalton and others as lead
ers.
The morning service Sunday was
conducted by the pastor, the Rev.
N. E. Holden, Afterwards a bounte-
0.US picnic dinner was served and
in the afternoon the crowd reas
sembled in the church for singing
by the Dalton quartet, the Raby
quartet and others,
Mrs. C. C. Herbert, Sr.,
Dies at Charleston
The Rev. C. C. Herbert, Jr.,
pastor of the Franklin Methodist
church, was notified Saturday of
the death of his mother, Mrs. C.
C. Herbert, Sr„, at Charleston, S.
C. Rev Herbert and Mrs. Herbert
left immediately for Charleston.
The regular morning service at the
Methodist church was conducted by
the Rev, Frank Bloxham, Episcopal
minister of Franklin and Highlands,
John O. Harrison
Reported Improving
John O, Harrison, prominent
Franklin resident, who has been
seriously ill with pneumonia at his
home on Harrison avenue,, was re
ported today to be greatly im
proved, His fever 'had subsided, it
was stated, and he had passed the
crisis.
SAFE FOR BABY
“Did you kill all the germs in
the baby’s milk?”
“My, yes; I ran it through the
meat chopper twice.”—The Log.
Nothing in our government is
more in need of reform than its
tax system, which is probably why
it alone escapes efforts to reform
it.
National Advertising has
made household words of
many things you use---
The same results can be attained in
your territory by using The Frank
lin Press and Highlands Maconian
as an advertising medium. You
will find regular advertising in The
Press and Maconian a good in
vestment.
'A
-All land ‘turned o„f
from cultivation ren ’
protection by ter J
humus and tree
To S,*;
don to the
wolves oi
acre
si»
iitj
man-mistreated
done its duty m tryi„;;]
humanity with food
crime,
“8, HOMEOWNERSi
py 19 the land that is
man who owns it’ „
Oliver of Oliver
Jesus found a sheep H
ed he found the an
looked after by an' i,.
the South’s eroded la„, ^
ably on rented farn,;
encourage hotii'e owner*
emptmg from taxatio,'
more in value of a hot
by the owner-provided L
the fundamental soil-j)*
forest-protecting
mended by official
thorities. We should als,i
extra tax on absentee ln|
remit this extra tax wfe
absentee owner ' '
FT. KNOX, Ky. . . . Here ^ ^goW. ^^rvault has
shortly store 000,000,^
Uncle Sam will
been built from secre^ device"tcTflood the underground
fenc6 and two water-fi led t^®ved here in fifty armored
vault in ar i?my oldier's. Insert shows workmen
Clarence Poe Proposes
Soil Program for South
Says Muddy Water Means
Loss of the Soil’s
Life Blood
More urgently needed in the
South than any political campaign
is a campaign to save the soil. As
Editor Clarence Poe of The Pro
gressive Farmer points out, when
the breasts of Mother Earth dry
up as a result of soil neglect, it is
not merely man’s physical life that
suffers, 'but life in all its highest
manifestations. Children miss edu
cational opportunities, young people
must forego marriage, old people
are harassed by fear, debt and
poverty. Dr, Poe offers the follow
ing eight-plank soil-b,uilding plat
form for the South:—
“1, ENLIST EVERYBODY,-
First of all, we must reahze that
while in the West, soil conservation
or soil saving may be enough, here
in the South it is not enough. With
us it is not merely a problem of
conserving soil fertility but also of
rebuilding soil fertility. We must
not only save what is left but re
store what we have lost. We must
arouse the interest of both land
lords and tenants, both 'business
men and farmers, both farm men
and farm women, both adults and
children, both white people and
colored people.
2. USE CLIMATE,—Our warm
climate is largely to blame for our
poor, washed soils. But our warm
climate also stands ready to help
us get rich, restored soils. If warm
weather rapidly destroys humus, it
also rapidly grows humus. If rnild !
winters help bare land w,ash away
mild winters also make it easy to
put cover crops on bare land
Warm climate uncontrolled has
made our soils poor. But we can
now use it and control it to make
them rich,
“3 MORE HUMUS.-The great
need is more humus in the soil-~
more decaying vegetable matter. In
most of the South
all helping to keep soils permanent
ly fertile,
“6, FOREST FIRES,—When man
has once improverished a piece of
God’s soil, the Almighty’s one way
to rebuild it is to put weeds, grass,
and tree growth on it, ‘More hu
mus’ is His own method and pre
scription, He uses It, Yet after He
has worked 10, 25, or SO years re
building and restoring the land’s
lost fertility through humus, a for
est fire may destroy all of it in
a few hours, ‘Fire lanes in every
forest’ must become another South-
wide farm ideal with stro.nger for
est protection laws in every state,
“7, ABANDONED CROP LAND.
proved soil-building
cleared land and forest-gj
tices on his woodlands,"
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W'ANl ED—Four pairs
wool, home knit iboot soi
P. O. Box 365, Franklin
Itp.
FOR RENT—Furnish
furnished rooms, with i
Board.—Mrs. W, G Wll
Itp
FOR RENT-F«
apartment. Call at
Tea Room.
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FOR SALE: Pine Frii
10, 12, 14 and 16 feet letj
per M.
Oak and Chestnut Fiji
10, 12,'14 and 16 feetlenj
per M.
I nch Lumber $7.00 per
Prices f. o, b, mill,
ZICKGRAF HARK
SIO—2tc—S17
really need
moVt terracing-humus
most, its spongy texture both '
sorbs soil moisture and keeps
VO 1 iig ctwa>. LJovers, vetch
lespedoza kudzu, crotalariamust.be
not m'erely grown but actually turn
ed to put more life-giving humus
into every acre.
“4, MUDDY WATER — Ar
water signals the loss of’ the
M.blcod,I,is
the sign of bleeding land AnH
2, By terraces,,
I, cropping.
must begin now
crops needed to tsV» ,
profit-making
and poultry—and 'dairying,
•lock will
manure, more soil-'holH ’
“ lioldmg pastures
Make Out a lAnt of Yo
Needs and Let
Joe Ashear Fill
And Save Money
New shipment of Dress Shirts—Latest:
stripes, checks, and solid colors, at 50c to
Sweaters for Men, Women, and Ck
All wool, wool mixed and cotton—Slif
button, and zipper typds. Reasonably pf'
Lumberjackets, suedes, leathers, pig
wool, etc. They are ready for your
Shoes and Boots jiust arrived. School
for boys and girls specially priced.
New crepe for dress suits and
They are attractive and made to suit ycui
old. 20c to 45c per yard.
When you want anything in the dry
line shoes and boots, men’s and boys
odd coats and odd pants, hats, m«n 8 ^
men s sweaters, underwear, silk or co
fact everything to wear—
Just Think of Ashea*
You can buy it cheaper and
want. Don’t think, “Well he may not W
^ive us a chance to show you, and be®’
can see and try the article on before f
oi" it. Let us be neighborly. We will
part.
Yours for service and quality,
JOS. ASHEA
“We Clothe the Family”