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fAGE TWO THE FRANKLIN PRESS AND THE HIGHLANDS MACON IAN THURSDAY, FEB. 27. 1941 Nantahala National Forest m Did You Know That Fourteen forest fires have oc eurred on National Forest lands this year. These fires were caused by brush'burning, rights-of-way clearing, warming fires, smokers, and incendiarie.s. Unusually dry weather conditions and the open whiter have caused extremely hazaidous burning con ditions. A deficiency .of more than SO per cent rainfall ; exists this, year.. Although the open winter has been a boon to the farmer and construction worker it has resulted in numerous fires. The numerous forest fires have diverted CCC enrolle&s: and Forest Service officials' from ' worth-while projects. State laws prohibit the abandoning of brush fires and warming fires before they are ex tinguished. Abandoning live fires is under penalty of the law. Forest fires caused destruction in the woods and make the coun tryside less attractive in the woods and make the countryside JeS attractive to tourists and visitors. Baptist Women To Hold Season Of Prayer The Woman's Missionary Society of the . Franklin Baptist church will observe the season of prayer for Home Missions in a three day session, beginning on Wednesday, March 5, and continuing through Friday. : . The first meeting will be held at the church at 230 on Wed nesday afternoon. Mrs. J. Horner Stockton wdl be in. charge ot tne program. On Thursday afternoon at the same hour the meeting will be held at the Baptist pastonum with Mrs. R. M. Kimmer leading the program. . On Friday afternoon the pro . gram will be led by Mrs. Frank Reece and the meeting will be held at the church. During these sessions an offering will be taken for Home Missions. All members are urged to attend. , LEGAL ADVERTISING ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as administrator of Fred Montony, deceased, late of Macon county, N. C, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the. undersigned on or before the 11th day of Feb ruary, 1942, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. Ail persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate settlement This 11th day of February. 1941 MORRIS BUSH. Administrator. F13-otp M20 EXECUTOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as executor of Arthur K. Wopdmin, deceased, late of Macon county, N. C, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 11th dav of February. 1942, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make im mediate, settlement. This 11th day of February, 1941 JOSEPH D. FARISH, Executor. F13 6tp M20 .'.,. ' Windy Gap S. S. Building Erected A building, 24 by 38 feet, wa.s erected during the past week' by the citizens of the Iotla and Windy Gap communities, to enable the people who live at a distance from the churches to have a Sunday school of their own. This building, which is a boxed structure, has a seating capacity of approximately 200 and was used last Sunday for the first time. Despite the fact that the Stove had not been put ui, nor the door hung, there were 82 present for Sunday ischool Sunday afternoon, Howev.er, these two essentials will be taken care of this week. Soon two extra Sunday school rooms will be added to help take care of the large attendance. 1 . Owing' to the number of people who live at such a distance from the churches that they are unable to attend regularly the citizens' pf the Windy Gap, community oryanj ized a neighborhood Sunday school. During the past summer they met in the homes, until the increased, attendance demanded a building. Mrs. A. S. Solcsbee, widow of the late Rev. A. , S. Sole.?bee, a widely known Baptist minister and a former representative to the General Assembly from this coun ty, donated the ground and the citizens erected the building. It will be known as the Windy Gap Sunday school and Will he held on each Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Officers are Paul Swaf ford, sup erintendent; Miss Ollic Duvall, secretary-treasurer; Miss Julia Rice,, intermediate teacher; Mrs. Earl Ward, unior teacher; Mrs. Lee Tallent, beginners' teacher, all of the Iotla Baptist church, and Alex Moore, adult teacher, of 'the Franklin Baptist churcht Missing at His Own Birth Mrs. Grace Armstrong, 35, is shown in Park Falls, Wise., hospital as nurse Mary Besaw holds her baby boy. The expectant mother was being taken to a hospital for confinement when the car went into a snow ditch. At the hospital it was discovered the child had been born but had disappeared. Search found the child in the snow drift where the car had skidded. The infant was nicknamed "Snowball." Lake Emory By MRS. O. V. MINCEY W. G. Hyatt has been confined to his home with influenza for the past week, but . expects to return to his work at Canton soon where he has been employed for several years. We are proud to report that Mrs Beaufort Downs is improving from a Serious case of influenza. Mr. and, Mrs. Lon Thompson visited Mrs. Thompson's mother near Clayton, ( la., . Sunday after noon. Mrs. Harriett Sanders is able to be by her fireside once more, after being confined . to her bed for -several weeks from a fall. Rev. C. C. Welch filled hi.s ap pointment at Ridge Crest Satur day night and Sunday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Sheffield have returned to their home after spending a week with Mr. and Mrs. Downs. Miss Betty Snyder spent the week-end with her cousin, Miss Geneva Buchannan. METHODISM'S DAY OF COMPASSION Emergency Million Sunday, March 2 Parachute Found On Co wee Mountain Edd West, while working on Cowee mountain, found a parachute last week which had lodged in. a tree. Attached to it he found a weather forecast for February 18, 1941 from Tennessee. According to directions on the report, he sent it to Washington, D. C, for which he will receive $1.00. He is allowed to keep the parachute. $?50,O0O to II 1 ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as administrator of Geo. W. Stepp, deceased, late of Macon county, N. C, this is to notify all persons having' claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 10th day of Feb ruary, 1942, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate settlement. This 10th day of February, 1941. CHARLES HIGDON, ". Administrator F13-6tp M20 EXECUTRIX NOTICE Having qualified as executrix of W. T. .McDonnell, deceased, late of Macon county, N. C, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 6th day of Febru ary. 1942, or this notice will be . plead in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate settlement This 6th day of February, 1941. ticia McDonnell Executrix Fl-6tp M20 North Carolina Babies Smothered By Parents RALEIGH, Feb. 26. Fifteen tiny infants wereither smothered to death by bed clothing or died of suffocation when sleeping parents rolled over on them, during the month of January, this year, ac cording to reports received by the State Board of Health's Division of Vital Statistics, of which Dr. R. T. St imp son is the director. During every year there . are about 75 such deaths in North Carolina, attaches of the Vital Sta tistics Division point out. Of the 15 victims reported last month, eight were white and seven were Negro babies. ' "These figures should cause par ents to stop and think, for .every fatality of this nature is preven table," commented Dr. G. M. Coop er, assistant state health officer, in charge of child health services for . the state board of health when the matter was brought to his attention. ' "In the first place, babies ought to have separate beds. There are several practical ways by which infants could be kept warm," e he went on. "Where parents are un able to purchase kiddy-coops, or beds in which babies may sleep, they would do well to improvise sleeping places. They might use a clothes basket, for example, or an open bureau drawer. In any event, the infant should he well coveted, and if the weather is severely cold and cover scarce. warm water bottles or warm salt bags could be so arranged as to prevent chilling. Be sure the water bottles, or .salt bags, are warm not hot. Certainly, no child should be al lowed to le suffocated when this can be prevented, even among the most underprivileged. $750,000 to Aid British Methodism If f $500,000 for Ovr-Stas Relief I . if ' f 4 If " '' " I J v. $250,000 to Meet Social and Religious woods of Our Boys in Training st A million dollars for camp service and overseas relief will be sought March 2, the first Sunday In Lent, when local Methodists join their fellow members In 43,000 churches, large and small, country and city. In a simul taneous, sacrlflciaJ offering for war sufferers and for use In and near camps tor the moral and spiritual welfare of our soldiers and sailors. Several denominations are using this day for similar purposes. This Week In Defense LEGAL ADVERTISING ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE Having qualified as administratrix of John May, deceased, late of Macon county, N. C, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 7th day of Feb- f lmi J, jTtt ur iuis iiuulc ui im plead in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate settlement. This 7th day of February, 1941. LOLA C MAY. Administratrix tuto-iua w EXECUTRIX NOTICE Haying qualified as executrix of William D. Barnard, deceased, late of Macon county, N. C, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 28th day of Janu ary, 1942, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate settlement. This 28th day of January, 1941 ELLEN BARNARD, Executrix J30-6tp M6 EXECUTRIX NOTICE Having qualified in Macon Coun ty, N. C, as executrix of Samuel Prioleau Ravenel, deceased, late of Charleston, S. C, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said deceased to ex hibit them to the undersigned oo or before the 15th day of January, 1942, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. AH per sons indebted to said estate will plea make immediate settlement This 15th day of January. 1941. BEATRICE W. RAVENEL, Executrix. 2J-6te-F27 that within a week he hoped to make public a : "Home Defense" program to be administered by the States and local communities in such a way that every. American could mane his contribution. .ThirtyScrsM Million At Work OM1V Associate Director Hillman said 37,000,000 persons are now em ployed in non-agricultural indus try an increase of 2,200,000 since last May, and the greatest in crease in any similar period. Sec retary of Labor Perkins , said survey of 11 key defense indus tries revealed "at least one-half of the plants covered were operating at least six days per week' and nearly (jO per cent of the workers were averaging 9.1 hours of over time. Selective Service President Roosevelt amended Selective Service regulations so a registrant "may be transferred to another local board for classifica tion if he is so far from his local board as to make complying with notices a hardship, or if a ma jority of the local board cannot act on his case because of dis qualificationor if a majority of the members because of any con flicting interest, bias, or other rea sons, withdraw from consideration of the registrant's classification.' The Office of Production Man agement announced that food trade employees will be considered for duty in the Subsistence Branch of the Army when inducted. Array Strength The strength of the Army today was estimated by the War Depart ment at: 876,000 officers and men, including 14,000 Regular Army of ficers, 14,000 National Guard Of ficers, 34,000 Reserve Officers. 454,000 enlisted men in the Regular Army, 223,000 National Guardsmen, and 128,000 drafted men. The Depirtxnent announced that President Roosevelt announced f although the general policy is not to continue officers on duty for more' than 12 months without their Consent, .Medical Reserve Officers who volunteered for active duty now may be ordered to further ac tive duty . wifhout their consent. Additional physically fit and spe cially qualified retired enlisted men, the Department said, will be ordered to duty when desired to serve in Corps Are3 Commands., Defense Indtutry The Federal Reserve Board of Governors reported that industrial production in January was 139 percent of the 1935-39 average "because of increased activity in making aircraft, machinery, ships and other defense products." OPM Director Knudsen stated that plane production in January reached 1,- 036957 military planes and 79 commercial planes and estimated that 1941 production would total 18,000 planes. Brig. Gen. Bar- zynski, describing the standardise lion and inierchangeability of truck parts for the Army, said delivery is now at the rate of 3,500 trucks a week and soon "4,000 a week and then 4,500 a week." New Plants For Arm Equipment The Navy Department announced contracts totaling $13,183,000 with 16 firms for the expansion of ship building facilities. The War De partment announced award of ap proximately t4.uaj,uuu to seven firms for construction of new plants or plant expansion. Farmers And Defease The Department of Agriculture stated that through 7,000 "grass roots" planning committees in 1, 500 counties, farmers are "cooper ating with the Defense Commis sioner in supplying" basic informa tion on agricultural economy, lo cating defense industries in rural areas, and the possibilities of de veloping compleroental agriculture in South America. Cowee School Reported by Pupils W,c are .--Sorry to say that a large t number are leaving Our community ! for employment. Among these are: ! Hugh Burrell' and Weaver Hol j brooks for Virginia, Gaud Leath ' erman and t.lovd Parrish for De troit, Mich. A daughter, Thelma Lee. was born to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Tip pet t, February 21, on Mason .Branch. , . .The farmers of bur community met at the Cowee school last week. The women also met for t'l'ir monthly club meeting. Some stu dents entertained them with some pieces on their toy orchestra. Rev. N. B. Stokes, a missionary who has been in China, Japan and Korea, pave- an address at the Snow Hill Methodist church Feb ruary 23. It was enjoyed by a large crowd from both churches. Quite a few have been sick with influenza in our community, but all are on . the improving list. Reva Mac Clark who underwent an op eration in Angel hospital, returned home Thursday. T. C. Bryson who has' been 'in the hospital is reported to be im proving. He returned to his sis- The Debt " The President signed legislation raising the debt limit to $65,000,000 and authorizing issuance of wholly taxable Federal securities. Treas ury Secretary Morgenthau said the way . had been prepared for is suance next of almost $1,300,000,000 in bonds and- notes. Starting March 5, the Secretary said, an additional $100,000,000 would be added each week to Treasury funds through; increased offerings of 30-day notes. . Gneiss - By MRS. F. E. MASHBURN W. A. Keener broke both bones in his left, arm just above the wrist when he fell on ice on the road near A. A. Ma.shburn's. Ernest Hedden, son of Will Hod den, is a patient in Angel hospital suffering from a broken leg. Arlie Hedden, son of Will Hed den, is a patient in Angel Clinic. He' had an operation on his head. Howard-Keener, who is employed at Nantahala dam, visited his fam ily last week-end. Funis Mash-burn of the U.j S. Army went to Fort Moultrie Tues day. Claude Houston has returned home from the Angel Clinic. He had an infected throat. Mrs. A- A. Mashburn lias been Franklin. i . Luther McCall is moving his fam ily into the house formerly occu pied by Mrs. Fanny Moses. Mr. McCall has repaired the house be fore moving in. Miss Eula Mashburn is staying at Franklin with her aunt, Mr. Furman Corbin. Miss Ella Mae Leopard of Cul lasaja visited her parents, Mr. and . Mrs. Ransom Leopard recently. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Henry and two sons of Ellijay visited Mr. and Mrs. Howard Keen,er Sunday. was a welcome visitor Monday on Walnut Creek; Buleon Peek split his foot while splitting acid wood last Saturday. ter's, Mrs; Earnest Pressley, Sat urday, February 22. Theodore Raby was. taken to the hospital for an operation. Dorothy Holden, who has been very ill for some time, is begin ning to recover and may soon re turn to school. - Uncle Tom Raby is still improv ing. . i : FFABFOiVER W4 1915 YARDS ON nSftf lMllVcoMf p Vgp M FOft QUICK. COCO WEATHIR VTARTS TRY (tsso) You'll Love These Mew Low lice! inn n j Jl u U H for your casual clothes! $3.95 AND Casuals... with a look that's vividly new.' Smart SADDLE TAN CALF! ELASTICIZED GAB ARDINE with GENU INE SNAKE! MARA CAIN! and others! Soft and supple.. .good-look ing low heels., wonderful for walking! BLACK! SADDLE TAN! BLUE! BROWN! CANYON TAN! Just a few-from our many new styles! AAA tsC E. K. Cunningham & Company THE SHOP OF QUALITY"