North Carolina Newspapers

v.. IT . Tn&? ' . V COVERAGE This Newspaper Goes To Every Corner of Macon County w AID YOUR STATE In restoring wild-life; Obey the game laws. PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL INDEPENDENT VOL. LV, NO. 38 FIRST P. T. A. MEETING HELD W. H. Finley Makes Good Report Of Progress; Fine Program Members of the first district Parent-Teacher. Association made plans to assure the organization of . a vital role in the life of ' the school and community this year, at their first meeting here last Monday following a challenge to active service to meet the needs of the time by Mrs. Fred Slagle, president.. . Tlie Rev. Frank Bloxharn Jed the devotions taking as a text for a brief talk the following verse from F.liilippiuus. "Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, ; whatsoever things -are lovely, what soever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things." - Mrs. Cantey Johnson welcomed the new members, which was grac iously responded to by Mrs. Philip Green, a new member of the fac ulty. ' Mrs. Lola Barrington, chairman, gave a happy introduction to each one having a part on .the program. J. Horner Stockton, local attorney and school patron, spoke on the subject of "Preparing Youth for Democracy." His address is printed in another column. Mrs. "James Averell sang and played, receiving tan enthusiastic encore. Patriotic .songs were led by Rev. Philip Green.' In his report to the parents and teachers W. H. Finley, superin tendent, stated that all class rooms in high school and elementary buildings had' been painted since the. pupils voluntarily began rais ing funds for that purpose last year. Although much credit is due the pupils: for getting this much needed work started,, Mr. Finley said, it should be rerhembered that a large part of the total cost of getting the work done was born by the county office of education. Besides the class rooms the high school auditorium has been paint ed. Since school began last year new plumbing has been refitted throughout, improving the general appearance and sanitary conditions of the entire .school plant. The moral of the student body is high. The enrollment at the Franklin school was reported to be 994 at the present. The total enrollment is expected to reach or exceed 1,000 by the end of the first school month. Four hundred fifty-one are now enrolled in the elementary school . (first seven grades), and 543 are now enrolled, in the high school. The elementary enrollment is slightly less and the high school enrollment is slightly more than at this time last year. -. Mr.. Finley expressed regret, that on account of the smallness of the auditorium it was impossible to hold chapel exercised! for the ' study body, but that time was al lowed for the teachers to have a brief devotion in the individual rooms. Mrs. Slagle announced that she would appoint a committee at the request of Mr. Finley,' to work out plans whereby all pupils would have an opportunity to share in some chapel exercises. . ' Mrs. Slagle also appointed com mittees for the year as follows; Membership : Mrs. R., S. Jones, chairman; Mrs. C. L. Cartledge, Mrs. Carl Tysinger, Mrs. Gilmer Crawford. . Program: Mrs. J. C. Barrington, chairman; Miss Mayberyl Moody, Mrs. Virgie Ramsey. Finance: Mrs. John Wasilik, chairman; Mrs. John Archer, Mrs. A. R. Higdon, Mrs. J. A. Flana gan, Mrs. Albert Ramsey. Girl Scout: Mrs. Gorddn Moore, chairman; Mrs. L. H. Page, Mrs. Zeb Conley. Publicity: Miss Underwood, chair man ; Mrs. Carl Slagle. Safety: W. H. Finley, chairman. A delightful social meeting with refreshments served under the di rection of Mrs. T. J. O'Neil, gave opportunity for mothers to meet new teachers and each other. Verlin Swafford Buys Peoples Market Verlin Swafford resigned as man ager of the Dixie Store here this week to take over the operation of the Peoples Market which he recently purchased from Tony Welch. The business will be known as Swafford's Market and Grocery Store. He is being assisted by Furman Waldroop. "I intend to handle first-claw groceries and meats, and I invite all my friends to come in and see pc," Mr. Swafford laid. Rev. Mayberry Leaves Next Week For Rhodhiss Charge The Rev. R. F. Mayberry, widely known Macon county Baptist min ister, will leave next Tuesday for Rhodhiss,, where he has been call ed to become pastor of the Rhod hiss Baptist church. Because of the host of friends Mr. Mayberry has throughout the county, he has arranged to preach his farewell sermon in the Frank lin Baptist church here on Sunday evening at 7 JO, instead of at one of the four churches in his charge. The public is invited to attend this service on Sunday evening. A native of the Eastern section of North Carolina, Mr. Mayberry came to Macon county about eight year.s ago from Jackson county. He had been pastor of the East Baptist church at Sylva prior to his coming here. During his stay here he has been pastor of the Cowee, Iotla, Sugar fork and Mt. Hope churches. He has served as assistant mod erator of the Macon county Bap tist association and as secretary of the Baptist ministerial association for the past two years. Also as associational . Sunday school super intendent for one year. He is not ed throughout the county as a re vival leader. Mr. Mayberry received his edu cation at the South Mountain In stitute and at Western Carolina Teachers college at Cullowhee. Baptist Sunday School Convention The Macon County Baptist Sun day School Convention will meet at the Friendship Tabernacle in Franklin on Sunday afternoon, September 22, at 2 :30 o'clock, it has 'been announced by Paul Staf ford, president. , The program will open with a congregational song, followed by the devotionals led by Ralph Angel. A talk will be made by the Rev. R. F. Mayberry. Vocal selections will be rendered by the Angel quartet. The Rev. C. F. Rogers will deliver the principal talk of the afternoon, using for his theme, "Sunday School's Responsibility to New Converts." The public is invited to attend. As The World Turns A Brief Survey of Current Events In State, Nation and Abroad. LONDON The largest city in the world this week was hidden under a tremendous pall of smoke as large scale Nazi air-raids continued with unabated fury. Bombs rained ('own on the fashionable West End sec tion as .well as on more thickly crowded tenement areas. A large delayed-action bomb rell near his toric St. Paul's cathedral, which undoubtedly would have destroyed it, had not a daredevil squad of Royal engineers carefully dug it up and carted it away to be ex plodel in a deserted marshland. Buckingham Palace was hit sever al times with minor damage.' Brok en water mains and sewage sys tems constituted a major hazard with several cases of typhoid re ported. Yet the morale of the Brit ish people remained at its heroic pitch. Official sources denied that ap preciable damage had been done to military and supply depots, food .supplies, or transportation facili ties. Yet foreign observers 'noted a slowing down in Britian's air plane production, while asserting that the Royal Air Force still re mained master of Britain's skies. German losses, both of pilots and ships still outweighed the English, while a good percentage of British pilots shot down were able to para chute safely to earth. Meanwhile the British military arm was giving good account of itself. The heaviest anti-aircraft fire of the war blasted Nazi raiders from the sky. Royal Air Force squadrons abandoned their attacks on Berlin to drop their bomb loads on the opposite .shores of the English Channel where Hitler's ships and men are reported concentrated, still awaiting the fav orable moment to launch a full scale invasion of England which experts say must come within the next few days if it is to take place before next spring. Heavy shore batteries on the English and French coasts exchanged vollies of shell. And for the greater part of the week a freshening gale in the Channel barred any Genua at FRANKLIN. N. C. THURSDAY, SEPT. 19, 1940 FOOTBALL TEAM TOOPENSEASON Panthers Will Meet Long Creek Academy Here Friday Afternoon Handicapped by lack of heavy practice due to the late arrival of uniforms, Franklin High's Red Panthers will open the gridiron season here .Friday against Long Creek (S. C.) Academy aH 2:30 p. m. Nine lettermen make up the nu cleus of the squad of 26 players Coach J. C. Hawkins has been steadily drilling for the past few weeks. Hawkins, a graduate of Appalachian college where he play ed football under Coach Flucie Stewart, succeeds W. C. Newton as head football coach this year. Considering the lateness of the arrival of our equipment which slowed up practice considerably, the boys are shaping up pretty well," Coach Hawkins said. "We've got a tough schedule, but we ought to make out as well if not better than last year." Fullback Fred Guest and Left Tackle Curly Pennington will 'serve , as co-captains of the 1940 Red Panther Special. Returning letter men are: Ends, Claude Lcathernian and J. C. Cunningham; tucklasy Curly and Golman Pennington; guards, D. L. Johnson and Grover Arvey; backs, Clarence Brooks, Roy Fouts and Fred Guest. With a veteran line and three seasoned backs remaining from last year's successful . team, Goach Hawkins should be able to look forward to the Panther's raw meat .schedule, including such formidable opponents as Georgia Military Aca- demy and Waynesville, with a certain degree of optimism. The game against Long Creek Academy tomorrow is expected to go a long way toward shaping the team up tor a stiff battle with Brevard High here next week. The starting lineup will prob ably be: Cunningham, le; G. Pen nington, It; Johnson, Ig; Garner, c ; Arvey, rg ; C. Pennington, rt ; Leatherman, re; Brooks, qb; Guest, fb ; Fouts, rh ; and Houk, lh. In addition, Terrell Ashe, Claude Ashe, George Tessier, prank Brown, Jr., Paul Huscusson and George Moore will ' probably see action, Coach Hawkins said. tempt at invasion for the time being- BERLIN .The controlled German presses asserted Thursday that Great Brit ain would pay "in English blood, in English tears, in English mis ery," for her bombings in the Ruhr and indicated that Germany would, no longer limit her bombing to purely military objective's. Meanwhile another well-informed German spokesman said last week that Britain must hand over Lon don to the armed force of Germany or see it suffer the fate of War saw. Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering, whose presence in France along with other important Nazi military chiets lends credence to the be lief that an attempted invasion of England is impending,' flew over the British capital in a bomber and reported that he was well sat isfied with the German airforce's showing. CAIRO . Italy,, the long inactive member of the Axis, this week launched what appeared to be a full-fledged attempt to cut the British lifeline by capturing the all-important Suez canal. Columns of motorized Italian troops under Marshal Gra ziani fought their way beyond Sidi Barrani, almost 60 miles inside Egypt from Libyo. The British fought a retreating, guerilla-type action, apparently content to let the Italians advance into the des ert, necessitating the maintainence of vital supply lines. The British airforce found no trouble in driv ing off Italian air attacks and in bombing Italian bases of supply in Libya and Egypt. And Thursday Britian's Mediterranean fleet swung into action, bombing the Italian's newly won jositions at Sidi Bar rani. ROME Axis plans for "important politic al territorial changes in the Balk ans brought Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop to Rome (C tfo 4 faa Eiffct) Rev. Flanagan Presbyterian Pastor Goes To Whitmire, S. C. The Rev. J. A. Flanagan, pastor of the Franklin Presbyterian church, announced to his congre gation Sunday that he was leav ing shortly for Whitmire, " S. C, where he will be pastor of the Whitmire Presbyterian church. Mr. Flanagan came to Franklin direct from the seminary in Co lumbia, S. C, 14 years ago and has been pastor of the local church here continuously since. He also served as pastor to the Morrison Presbyterian church four miles south of Franklin. Mr. Flanagan has Deen director of the young people's conferences at Montreal for a number of years and stated clerk of the Presbytery. Not only has he served in his various church duties, but he has always taken an active interest in civic organizations. He has served as ; president of the. Rotary Club, assisted in Boy Scout activities, chairman of the local Red Cross . roll drive and other offices in the Red Cross work. ' Mrs. Flanagan, who came to Franklin as a brides. has served as president of the Woman's Auxili ary vice-president of the Parent- Teachers. Association and one of the workers in the Daily Vacation liible schools held annually. Chamber Of Commerce To Hold General Meeting A, general meeting of all mem bers of the Franklin Chamber of Commerce for the purpose of re ceiving reports and for a general discussion of the work will be held in the courthouse next Tuesday, September 24, at 8 p. m., Rev. Frank Bloxham, . secretary, an nounced this week. All members are urged to attend. Mrs. Irene Bryson Is Named County Chairman At Postmasters' Meeting At a dinner meeting for p,ost mastresses of the eleventh district held in Sylva last Saturday night, Airs. Irene Bry.son of Cul lasaja was chosen to serve as county chairman of Macon county for 1940. Mrs. Bryson was chosen by a nominating committee who named S. K. Yelton of Spindale district chairman, as well as selecting coun ty chairmen for each of the 13 counties in the eleventh district. J. H. STOCKTON ADDRESSES PTA Speaker Discussed The Preparation Of Youth For Democracy The Franklin Press is ulad to print the following address by J. Horner btockton, local attorney, in answer to a number of requests by those who heard it at the meeting of the Franklin Parent-Teacher Association last Monday afternoon. the speech follows: What is Democracy ? Simplv phrased in the words of Lincoln, it s government of the people, by the people and for the oeonle." "Preparing" means making ready or fit for something. What are we making ready for? Our greatest inheritance is Amer icanism and Democracy. We are a Democracy, but it is on trial. It is probably at the crossroads. Every emergency brings compen sating opportunities. Right now, our country is facing the immediate calling out of millions of young people to the .service of the coun try in various phases. In these days of emergency the one group vitally affected above every other group is our young people. Preparation For Defeat Whether war comes to our land or not, we are apparently commit ted to a program of preparation and defense which will, to say the least, affect definitely the entire age span of the young people's group. Eight years a generation of young people. They will be called upon to give time and ener by, to bend every effort, to pre pare in every way to meet threat ened conditions facing our country. They will train, they will study, they will drill and maneuver. Our country cafls for youth and it has been well said, that what you want this country to be the next gener ation, put it in the schools now! Today is yesterday's pupils. So our discussion today is how to prepare youth. The concern of parents, teachers and all good Americans today is for youth, for it L youth who will bear most of (Coatiooad a Paf Twa) Peacetime Conscription Bill Passed; Signed By Roosevelt Major Part Of Street Improvement Complete ; Fowler Is Released The major portion of Franklin's street improvement program has been completed, Town Clerk Geo. Dean said this week. Jim Fowler, city engineer for the improvement program, was releas ed by the Town Board of Aldermen last Saturday. According to Dean, there is still two or three months more work to be dqe, including finishing curbs, gutters and sidewalks on East Main street, and sidewalk repairs on Harrison avenue. Sever al streets in Bonnycrcsl will he graded and covered with gravel, necessitating operating the rock quarry .for several months yet. Work on the streets was begun in March. . "We'll get all done that, we plan ned to do under the program budg et, and may be. a little more, Dean said,, MANY STUDENTS COLLEGE-BOUND Total Number Is Under Last Year's Record However Slightly less in number than last year's . record college enrollment from this counts, the following Franklin and Macon county boys and girls are amojfg those leaving for the nation's higher institutes of learning this, week: . Henry Cabe, Jr., H. E. Church, Jr.. - Charles. Slagle. Albert L. Ramsey, Jr., -Mack Patton, Bnown low Addington, Kenneth Cabe, George Patton, Dennis Penland, Silef Slagle, Carter Hurst, Mack Setser and William, Corbin. to North Carolina State College, Ral eigh; Miss Audrey Conley Eugene Furr, John Crawford, Jimmy Perry, Lyman Higdon," Jr., Harold Sloan, Jr., Andrew Jones, and Bobby Sloan, to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Miss Betty Rogers, Miss Dorothy Morrison, .Miss Leeida Beshears, iliss Dorothy Sloan, Miss Edith Ricknian, Miss Dorthy Blumenthal, Miss Doris Corbin and Miss Frances Hurst, to Woman's Col lege of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Miss Virginia Tessier, Miss Eu genia Duncan, Miss Hazel Bradley, Miss Edith Poimlexter, Frank Fleming, Jr., Fritz Waldroop, Lex Arnold, Zeb Meadows and Wayne Bradley, Brevard College, Brevard. Kenneth Conley,' Lewisburg Col lege, Lewisburg; Jack Tessier, University of Louisannia, New Or leans, La.; Milton-Sanders, Massa chusetts Institute - of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., Miss Ruth Hig gins, Brenau College, Gainesville, Ga.; Harry Higgins, Jr., Clemson College, Clemson, S. C ; Miss Otel la Bryson and Miss Kate McGee, Cecil's Business College, Asheville; Miss Dorothy Jones, Miss Lane Porter, and Miss Lillian J.ones, Peace Institute, Raleigh; Miss Lo- lita Baldwin and Clinton iroiAi shire, Western Carolina Teachers" College,. Cullowhee. (Editorial note: The list above is as near complete as a two-week survey could make. If any students have been omited, we will be glad to list them next week.) Poindexter Reunion On Iotla Sunday . The annual reunion of the Poin dexter family will be; held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bud Poin dexter on Iotla this Sunday, Sep tember 22. All relatives and friends of the family are cordially invited to come and bring basket lunches. Local 4-H Club Girls In District Dress Revue F"ive Macon county 4-H Club girls modeled in the district dress revue which was held' at the West ern Carolina Fair in Henderson ville last Tuesday. Barbara Hurst of Franklin Club won second place in the General Wear group of dresses ' by wear ing a blue woolen school dress which she has made at very little expense. Miss Hurst will attend the State Dress Revue in Raleigh Oc tober 4, where she will enter the 4-H Club State Contest. Mattie Pearl Bryson, Myra Slagle, Betty Jane Waldroop, and Fannie Mae Setser also modeled dresses that represented their clothing projects for the year 1940. $1.50 PER YEAR Wednesday, October 16th Is Day Set For. Registration Peacetime coiiscription -affecting approximately 10,500 men between the ages of 21 and 35 became the law Monday as President Roose velt' set his signature to the Burke VVadsworth bill. i A - moment later he set October-. 10 as the day .on which all men within the age limits will be regis tered, and called on the governors of the several states to ' provide "suitable and sufficient places of registration and to 'provide' suitable and necessary registration iioards." (No official word - had been re ceived here Thursday but it was thought that Governor Hoey would set up a three-man hoard, consist ing of the clerk of the superior court, the superintendent of schools, and the chairman of the county hoard of elections, to recommend a non-partisan draft board of three members for this county). Each man registering will be giv en a card bearing a number certi fying that he is registered for mil itary service as part of the system for checking on draft dodgers. Then, probably around October 30, a public lottery will be held in Washington at- which time numbers will be drawn from a jar. If. a registrant's number is drawn, he will receive from his board a ques tionnaire. His answers will be the basis of his classification he will be placed in the "one" category if he is eligible and has no depen dants. The registrant will then take a physical examination and if found acceptable will be classed as "one A." When the call tor men comes, the board will fill the quota with men in this classification., "Appeals may be taken from the county board to a district board by either the potential draftee or the government appeal agent, who will look after the interests of both! the government and the registrants. If the registrant is inducted into 'federal service, he will be reex amined by army physicians and be gin his year's service. War department officials estiv maded that men between 21 and 35 make up 14 per cent of the popu lation, and only one out of 40 of these would be drafted this year. -On that basis, less than 75 men from' this county will likely see military service this year. Rozzelle Will Conduct Last Revival Service In Tabernacle Friday A capacity audience, the largest thus far in the present revival series, filled Angel Tabernacle Sun day night to hear Rev. Excelle Rozzelle, pastor of the First Meth odist church;. Gastonia, who is conducting the revival services under the spoasorship of the Ma con county ministerial association. The concluding service will be held at the Tabernacle Friday night of this week. A large crowd is expected to hear Mr. Rozzelle's final address. The volunteer choir Will be under the direction of Rev, and Mrs. Phillip Green. Mr. Rozzelle addressed the reg ular Rotary Club luncheon Wed nesday morning. Members of the ministerial association were the guests of the Rotarians for the occasion. , ALL-STARS WIN ONE: JE ONE Season Closes With Game Against Robbinsville Here Sunday Handling a pitching assignment for the first time this season, "Banjer" Sutton kept nine hits well scattered to collect a 5-3 win for the All-Stars in the first game of a double-header here last Sunday afternoon. The second game was called at the end of the seventh' inning with the score tied at 4-4. In the first game. Archer, New ton and Duvall led the All-Stars with two hits each, while Gentry was the only Baker to get more than one hit The Bakers were handicapped by the absence of "Goon," their first-string catcher, who became separated from the team in Sylva. , "Gomez" McCollum. held the Bakers to six hits in the nightcap, while his teammates, trailing by three runs until the last half of (Coqtinuad oa Pan Eight)