Advertising
In This Newspaper
Pays
Home Stores
Carry Your Shopping
Needs
PROGRESSIVE
LIBERAL
INDEPENDENT
VOL. LV1, NO. 31
BRUTAL ATTACK
ON TOM LEACH
''
Simons And Bates Held
Pending Outcome Of
Injuries
Tom Leach, 73, well known Ma
con citizen, was brutally attacked
Saturday night, July 26 between
8.4S and 10 o'clock by two or more
assailants and received critical in
juries. Two local boys, Arvil Sim
ons and Tommy Bates are being
held in the local jail without bond
pending the outcome of Mr.
LeachV injuries.
According to officers in charge
of the investigation Mr. Leach was
seen talking to Simons in front of
the postoffice building shortly be
fore 9 p. m. One witness states
that she saw Mr. Leach and Sim
ons start around to the rear of
the postoffice building. Evidence
has been found to show that a
struggle took place on the grounds
just behind the postoffice.
Police officials think that the
victim was attacked there and then
taken to a vacant lot behind Kay's
store on Palmer street, where he
was again beaten either with a
pair of knucks or an iron bar. He
was left here presumably in an
unconscious state. Mr, Leach's pipe
and false 1 teeth were found behind
the store. Also there was a large
. pool of blood and other signs of
a struggle.
About 10 p. m. Mr. Leach came
to the front of Rays store and
summoned aid. He was so badly
mutilated that . Mr. Ray, who has
known Mr. Leach for many years,
did not recognize him! John Dills,
deputy sheriff, was summoned and
he took the wounded man to Angel
hospital where he received treat
ment for his injuries.
Dr. Ed Angel stated that at the
time of his entrance' into the hos
pital the patient's condition was
very , critical. He had received a
fractured skull, a lacerated scalp,
numerous face wounds and his
right eye had been gouged out, be
sides the loss of a great amount
of blood.
Dr. Angel stated yesterday, how
ever, that Mr, Leach's condition
was greatly improved and that he
: thought the patient would recover.
Simons and Bates are still being
held in jail without bond. Both
were arrested Sunday morning as
Simons had been seen in com
pany with Mr. Leach just prior
to the time of his attack and at
the time of his arrest a great
many blood stains were found on
his clothing. Bates had been a
constant companion of Simons
throughout the day and was seen
with him betwen 8 and 9 o'clock
Saturday night.
Rotary Club Hears
Kircher On National
And Forest Program
Joseph C. Kircher, regional for
ester for the United States Forest
Service, in an address to , the
Franklin Rotary Club on Wednes
day, July 30 at their weekly lunch
eon meeting, discussed . the part
that the national forests through
out the South are playing in the
national defense work.
The speaker pointed out the need
of wood for airplane production,
rosin for explosives, etc He also
stated that in the past year two
' billion feet of lumber has been
purchased to be used in defense
work.
Young People To Hear
. Stanley Jones At Lake
Junaluska Next Sunday
' Dr. E. Stanley Jones, world fa
' mous missionary, author pf "Christ
of the Indian Road" and many
other publications, will speak at
the vesper services at Lake Jun
aluska next Sunday afternoon.
A large group of young people
from the Franklin Methodist
church will attend.
Hamers Leave Friday
For Jackson, Miss.
The many friends -of Mr. and
Mrs. John Hamer regret their re
moval from Franklin. They will
leave Friday for Jackson, Miss.
Mr. Hamer has been promoted to
the U. S. Forest Service office in
that city from the Nantahala Na
tional Forest headquarters here,
where he has served for the past
three years,
Farm Tour
And Livestock Show Wil
Be Held August 13
Many of our farm men and wo
men, have already indicated their
desire to be present and take part
in Macon county's farm and home
tour and livestock show, Wednes
day, August 13. Interest in thi
day has grown until it is one o
the biggest days of the social and
educational activities during the
year. Last year approximately 500
men and women took a day off
and help make this event a wond
erful success. It is hoped that there
will be even . more to spend the
day with us this year, There should
always be a great deal of good
come out of any event that will
bring people together to enjoy as
sociation, renew friendships and to
receive educational values. The
motorcade will leave the Agricul
tural Building at 9 o'clock old time
or 10 o clock day light saving time.
The tour will continue until lunch
time. Transportation will be furn
ished for every qne who desires to
go.
Lunch' At Arrow cod'
Lunch will be prepared by the
Missionary Societies of the Meth
odist and Baptist churches of the
Cartoogechaye community and wi
be served at the Arrowood Glade
on the road to Wayah Bald.
Immediately after lunch . the
Motorcade will move; to A. , B
SLagle's Dairy barn where the live.
stock show will be held. Everyone
going on the tour will certainly
want to stay for the show since
indications are that it will be the
best that has been held. Anyone
living in Macon county who has
an animal or animals that will fit
any or all of the classes of the
show should enter them and help
make the show the best that has
ever been held. '
BEN WOODRUFF
HEADSC. OF C.
Succeeds James Averell
Who Goes To Atlanta
August 10th
Ben W. Woodruff, vice-president
of the Board of Directors of the
Franklin Chamber of Commerce,
has succeeded James Averell as
president, and L. H. Page has
been elected vice-president.
James Averell, . assistant super
visor of the Nantahala National
Forest for the past four years,
will leave ' for his new position in,
Atlanta, Ga., as assistant regional
forester.
Mr. Averell has also resigned as
director of the Lions Club and
secretary-treasurer of the Appala
chian section of the '. Society of
American Foresters.
Navy Recruiting Station
To Open Here August 4
The regular monthly Navy re
cruiting station will be established
at the postoffice, Franklin, from
August 4 to 6, inclusive. An un
limited number of applications will
be received for enlistment in the
Regular Navy, enrollment in the
Naval Reserve, and also enlistment
of negroes in the Regular Navy
as mess attendants.
The age limit for enlistment in
the Regular Navy is 17 to 30, in
clusive. Those not selected for in
struction in a trade school are
ordered to sea duty shortly after
completing recruit training. '
,The requirements for enrollment
in the Naval Reserve have been
considerably lowered, the age limits
being 17 to 50, inclusive. Naval
Reservists will be released from
active duty as soon after the pres
ent National emergency as their
services can be spared. -
Those,, who enroll-in the Naval
Reserve ..may select tthe particular
branch of service they-dcslr, such
U aviation,' ; raflio, clerical, v ma
chinist, electrical, carpentry, store
keeping, etc., and enter active ser
vice immediately. In addition, those
possessing a trade or profession,
may be enrolled in the Naval Re
serve at a rating commensurate
with their ability and at a month
ly rate of pay of from $60 to $99
per month.
Received B. S. Degree
From W.CT.C
Mrs. Pearl Corbin, of Otto; Miss
Alice Bennett, of Iotla, and Edwin
Young of Franklin Route 2, re
ceived the B. S. degree from
Western Carolina Teachers college
at Cullonhee on Wednesday of the
past week.
FRANKLIN, N. C. THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1941
Macon's Largest
i
The above. ' young men left .Franklin on July 22 for induction into
the U. S. Army at Fort McPherson, Ga, This photo was taken just
before they left. Front row, left to right : C. T. Shepherd, T. 'w.
Brown, G. A. Shuler, W. L. Elmore, G. H. Gibson, H. C. Houston.
Back row, left to right: C. W.ConSey, V. R. Crawford, L. H. Mc
Kinney, J. J. Gilbbs, J. C. Jacobs, W. S. . Johnson, J. O. McDowell,
R. L. Byrd, E. B. Parker, B. E. Brown, and V. A. Cunningham.
I'huto by trtsp
Macon. Selectees
Receive Assignments
Of the 17 Macon county selec
tees who left Franklin on Tue,s:
day, July 22, for the induction
camp at Fort McPherson, Ga., an
nouncement has come from the
War Department, adjutant's office,
of the following placements:
Sent to Eglin Field, Fla., are
Burco E. Brown, 51st Air Base
Squadron ; Thomas W. Brown, 67th
Material Squadron ; Robert L. Byrd,
67th Material Squadron;;, Vernon
A. Cunningham, 67th Material
Squadron; Wm. E. Elmore, 67th
Medical Squadron; Edwin B. Par
ker, 51st Air Base Squadron.
Joseph J. Gibbs has been as
signed to the 88th School Squadron
and George H. Gibson to the Me-
hanical and Res.' Airplane De
tachment, both at Barksdale Field,
La.
William S. Johnson has enlisted
in the Air Corps and will prob
ably be assigned to one of the
southern fields.
V! R. Crawford returned last Fri
day on account of failure to pass
the physical examination. Place
ments of pthers of this group will
be published as soon as received.
Press Wants News
Of Men In Service
The Franklin Press and High
lands Maconian requests friends
and relatives of young men who
are taking part in Uncle Sam's
military program to phone or write
the Press office any information
they have concernirig their acti
vities. ; ' . v . v .
We are offering, the special suh
scription rate of 90 cents per year
to men in service. .' .
Franklin Wins From
Hayes ville; To , Play
Spruce Pine Sunday
Franklin won their fifth and
sixth straight games here Sunday,
defeating Hayesville in the Tri
State League as "Big Dan" Reyn
olds "fogged 'em" across the pan
to keep live hits well scattered in
the opener and win by 7 to 3
"Doug" Holsanback set them
down with two bingles to take the
night-cap 9 to- 3. English started
the second game but .got into
trouble in the first inning by walk
ing the first four men, forcing a
run across. With the bases loaded,
Holsanback was called in and
struck out the next three batters.
From theTe on out, he had them
hog-tied and muffled as he struck
out 16 of the 21 men that faced
him. Audrey, new catcher for
Franklin starred at bat, getting
four, hits out of six trips to the
plate.
The Spruce Pine team comes to
Franklin Sunday for a twin bill
on the local field starting at 2.30
p. m.
Press Staff Loses
W. S. Johnson To Army
William S. Johnson, publisher and
manager of The Franklin Press
and Highlands Maconian, was in
ducted into the Army last week,
from Fort McPherson, Ga, having
enlisted in the Air Corps. '
Carl P. Cabe, operator, will be
manager of the shop in his" ab
sence and Bob Sloan and Mr. Cabe
will have charge of the advertis
ing. Liston Sams, formerly of
Asheville, is compositor, and Nate
Pennington is in charge of presses
and bindery work.
Group of Selectees
""I
State 4-H Champion
mm
mmm
wmm
- ;
Emma Lu Hurst Macon county
4-H winner with perfect score in
Health Contest, also won the State
Championship at Raleigh this Week.
EMMA LU HURST
IS 4-H CHAMPION
Macon Girl Wins State
Health Contest And
- Trip To Chicago
Miss Emma Lu Hurst, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Hurst,
Route 1, was chosen the health
iest 4-H girl in North Carolina
Wednesday when she won the
state-wide 4-H health contest be
ing held in Raleigh the first part
of this week. She will be given a
trip to Chicago to represent North
Carolina in the National 4-H
Health contest to be held there.
Miss Hurst is 15 years old, 65
inches tall, and weighs 124 pounds.
In the district contest held in
Asheville June 9 she received a
perfect health score of 100. As the
news was , received here' late last
night we were unable to obtain
the exact score Miss Hurst ' made
in the state contest.
Scrap Aluminum
Pouring In
The Macon county "Defeat Hit
ler With Aluminum" Committee
with Fred Cabe, chairman, an
nounced that the first week of the
campaign to collect scrap aluminum
to be used for armament produc
tion had been successful and that
large amounts of material has been
placed in the "Victorv,'' boxes on
the square.
Mr. Gabe stated, "White we are
very pleased with the cooperation
shown the past week we hope that
everybody will redouble their ef
forts and that every article of
scrap aluminum in the county
would be collected by next Sat
urday." '
West Reunion To Be
Held August 10
A family reunion will be held at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. J.
West on Green street on Sunday,
August 10. All the descendants of
the late Newton West are invited
to attend and bring picnic lunch.
The W. M. U. will meet at the
Baptist church next Thursday at
3 o'clock with Mrs. R. M. Rimmer
in charge.
J
Lions Roar
And Hear District Gov
Craig At Arrowood
Monday night, July 28, tl
Franklin Lions Club and tliei
ladies met for their regular meet
ing of the club at Arrowood Glade
After a hot day, the cool evening
air and fine facilities provided by
the Forest Service at Arrowood
were enjoyed by all.
Lion Cagle was master of the
dinner table and supplied a rich
assortment of sliced cold meat,
salad, olives, watermelon, lemonade
and everything that a picnic should
include.
Ditrict Governor Pre Mm t
J. Milton Craig, newly elected
Lions District Governor for West
ern North Carolina, was; , present
with Mrs, Craig and their two
cluldrein from. Mt. Holly Mr Craig
is superintendent of the River
Bend plant of the Duke Power
company. The Craigs have just re
turned from the Lion's Internation
al convention at New Orleans, La.
Ihey praised the cool air of Ma
con county and the beautiful coun
try surrounding Franklin.
Lion Craig said that 11.000 Lions
attended the New Orleans conven
tion, making it second in size only
to the American Legion convention
Two hundred delegates attended
from North Carolina. Since the
Lions organization was founded in
1917, the various clubs have en
gaged in 58,000 activities.
Largest Service Club
There are 147,000 Lion members,
making it the largest service club
in the world. He urged the Frank
lin Lioms to attend the next year's
convention, which is to be hejd in
Toronto, Canada.
The evening ended with group
singing led by Lions Sutton,
Omohundro, McGlamery and Mrs.
Crawford.
Child Suffers
Unusual Accident
Hattie Sue Ledford, 4-year-old
daughter of Howard Ledford, sus
tained an unusual injury at
Franklin Saturday afternoon.
The child was standing behind
a truck with her hands on the
bumpers, the truck started and,
probably from fright, she held on
to the bumper and was dragged by
the truck for a quarter of a mile.
A filling station operator saw the
truck go by with the child hang
ing on to the bumper. When the
truck was finally stopped it was
with some difficulty that the fill
ing station operator was able to
pry the child's hands loose from
the bumper.
Her condition is serious.
Well Known Writer
Here For Vacation
Occupying. 'Tip Top" cabin at
Franklin Lodge are Col. and Mrs.
Clyde S. Ford, of Sarasota, Fla.
They are enthusiastic over the
beautiful drives in every direction,
pne of their chief pleasures while
vacationing here being their ex
cursions of discovery of new paths
with fresh vistas and surpassing
views.
Mrs. Ford, who is a well known
writer for the Saturday Evening
Post and other magazines under
her maiden name, Lucy Stone Ter
rell, says that she has enjoyed
browsing in . the library here and
expressed interest in the gifts of
books from Mrs. Angie W. Cox,
which has supplied material that
is unusual in variety and quality
for small town library. Mrs. Ford
says she is especially enjoying the
study of the birds around their
cottage at the ledge and on their
frequent drives through ' the for
est Tuberculosis Clinic In
Franklin August 12 and 13
; The North Carolina State Board
of Health has arranged to conduct
its annual tuberculosis clinic Aug
ust 12 and 13 in Macon county.
Dr. William N. Peck, state clinic
ian will hold the clinic from 9 a.
m. to 4 JO p. in. Tuesday, August
12 and from 8:30 a. m. to 3:30
p. m. Wednesday, August 13 in
Franklin, in the office of the coun
ty health department in the Ash
ear building. The purpose' of this
clinic is to discover and diagnose
early cases of tuberculosis so that
treatment can be begun at once.
All persons living in the house
with a case of tuberculosis and all
persons who have any signs or
symptoms of tuberculosis should
make appointment at Health De
partment office or with county
nurse.
$1.50 PER YEAR
MACON BUDGET
FOR 1941 AND 1942
Slightly Larger Than
Last Year; Tax
Rate Same
The budget for Macon county
for the coming fiscal year as ap
proved by the county conmiission
ers ha.s been sent to Raleigh for
approval by the local government
commission.
The new budget provides for a
total expenditure of $83,459, which ;
is $1,192 more than last year's
total budget. This amount is di
vided into'' appropriations for the .
general fund, the special fund and
debt service fund.
Estimated revenues under'' these
heads are reported as follows:
General Fund: Aclvalorem taxes,
1,000; sundry revenue, $3,000: sur
plus allocated to budget, $1,100:
total, $12,100.
Special Fund: Taxes ad valorem
pauper, $3,500; courts and jail,
$2,600; health, ''.$2,600; social se
curity, $9,500; forest' funds, $750;
contributions to social security
fund by State-Equalization Fund. '
$5,209; total, $24,159. .
Debt Service Fund. Taxes ad
valorem general, county, $41,606;
Franklin Township, $7,374- intan
gible tax, $700 ; totals $49,680.
the same tax levy will be made
as last year, $1.30 divided as -fol-.
lows; ' '
General county, .15; health, .05:
courts and jail, .05 ; social secur-
ty, .18; poor or. pauper. .05:
schools, current expense, .03; debt
service, .07 ; debt service, general
county, .72; total county-wide lew.
$1.30. Debt service, Franklin town
ship, .34.
The general fund, one of the
three chief divisions provides
for. the upkeep of the courthouse:
salaries of county attorney, 'farm '
and home demonstration agents,
and clerical salaries and supplies.
Money from the special fund
covers many items under the heads
above. Tffe debt service fund is
used for the retirement if the
$896,000 issue of county bonds in
Uu7. which mature June I, 1967.
Commissioner Of Indian
Affairs Lauds Cherokee
T r i b e Administration
'The Cherokee Indians have a
model of good government," said
Mr. John Collier, commissioner of
ndian affairs for the United States
government. "Their government is
based on a cooperative corporation
which was one of the first of its
type to be found in the United
States.
The corporation buys land which
is assigned to the members of the
tribe according to their needs. If
the owner does not use the land
properly the land reverts to the
tribe. . ' .,
The Cherokee Indians have their
own tribal courts, councils and
legislature which regulate their
own affairs. Their basic govern
mental principle is to distribute
the tribe's resources according to
the individual member's needs."
When questioned as . to the
growth of this country's Indian
population the commissioner stated
that the Indian population was in
creasing faster proportionally than
any other race in the United States.
This, however, is not true of the
Cherokees, who have shown very
little growth in the past 30 years.
"The Indian Reorganization Act
passed in 1934 which has as its
aim the promotion of local political
and industrial democracy for the
many different tribes lias done
more for the Indians than any
other governmental act, the com
missioner stated. Under this act
the Indians are allowed to regulate
their own domestic, political, and
social problems while the federal
government lends a hand with hos- .
pitals, schools, roads, and some
times assists in buying land.
Mr. Collier, who has been Com-
missioner of Indian Affairs, since
1932 is vacationing in Franklin at
the Franklin Lodge and Golf .
Course. He has been in this area
several times before, but this is
his first vacation here.
Revival Services At
Mt. Hope Church
The Rev. George W. Davis, pas
tor of the Mt. Hope Baptist church
on Cartoogechaye, has announced
that a series of revival services
will begin at this church on Mon
day night, Aueust 4, at 8 p. m.
The Rev. R. F. Mayberry, of
Rhodhiss, a former pastor, will be
in charge of the preaching. The
public is invited to attend.