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VOL. LVI1, No. 38
Victory Leaguers
Won Last Sunday; Play
Here Sept. 20
The Smoky Mountain League
All-Stars dropped a 9-3 decision
to the Victory League All-Stars
Sunday at Asheville, wherj the
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victory leaguers cashed in on
two big innings.
The Smoky Mountain line-up
outhit the Victory Leaguers, 7-6,
but the latter took better ad
vantage of their opiwrtuuiities to
cross the plate.
Koy Tatham of Andrews, who
obtained two hits out of two
trips to the plate, led the Smoky
outfit at bat, while Fox who
netted two qut of five led the
Victory All-Stars.
The same line-up- will meet
Sunday at Franklin on the local
diamond, starting at 2:30 p.m.,
which will be the last baseball
game for the duration and a
chance for the fans to see some
of the best amateur and semi
pro baseball players in western
North Carolina.
H. D. Council
To Meet With Leaders
Next Saturday
'Hie Council of Home Demon
stration clubs will have a joint
meeting with all women neigh
borhood leaders Saturday, Sep
tmeber 19, at 1 :30 p.m. in the
Agricultural building.
Mrs. J,. S. Gray, president of
the Council, will report on the
State Federation meeting which
she attended August 16 and 18 in
Raleigh. The Rev. J. C. Swaim
will conduct the devotional.
Annual Achievement day is to
be held Saturday, October 24.
Mrs. Gray will explain recom
mendations made at the State
Federation, whereby neighborhood
leaders cain arrange for group
meetings in their respective
neighborhoods where no Home
Demonstration clubs are organ
ized, v
Junior leaders in 4-H clubs will
give a brief program on their
work for the past year. Betty
Jane Waldroop, as a part of
rural electrification project, will
give a demonstration on "Home
Lighting."
Barbara Hurst, who has kept
the family farm and home ac
counts for the year, us one of
her projects, will explain the ad
vantages of keeping accounts, of
all farm and home income. Myra
Slagle will model a hand-woven
dress that has been a part of
her craft projects. Emma Lou
,Hurst will report on refinishfng
furniture as a part of her room
improvements project.
All neighborhood leaders, Home
Demonstration club members and
other interested persons are
urged to attend.
Forest Service Equipment
Transferred To War Dept.
Army Trucks Moved
Much Machinery To
S. C. Air Base
A number of huge Army
trucks have been seen parked in
Franklin lately. They were sent
to haul much of the road-building
equipment of the (CC camps
stored at the Wayah depot of
the Nantahala Forest Service to
the new air base at Greenville,
S. C, for maintenance work on
the base, according to Louis B.
Anderson of the Forest Service
headquarters here.
Mr. Anderson stated that -this
is being done in accordance with
the act of Congress transferring
(CC equipment to tre War de
partment at tre beginning of tre
fiscal year. The machinery re
moved included a power shovel,
scrapers, tractors, rippers, struc
tural steel and a lot of smaller
equipment.
The Greeraviile air base, which
is now being used, is said to be
the first of its kind being de
signed in the form of a triangle
with sides seven miles in extent.
The pictures of Cpl. A G. Las
siter, Jr., and Pfc. Joe Spencer
Latsiter, brothers of Mrs. K F.
Montague, of Franklin, recently
appeared in the home paper of
Battleboro. Cpl. Lassiteer, 19, is
somewhere in the Pacific, and
Pfc Lassiter. 18, is at present
nawned st Eiiatets City,
WAR BOND
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C. OF C. DINNER
TO BE SEPT. 29
Officers To Be Elected;
Good Season Reported
By Secretary
A general meeting and dinner
of the Franklin Chamber of Com
merce has been announced by
the Board of Directors to take
ptace wir Tuesday evtjshig, Sep
tember 29. The time and place
will be announced in next week's
paper.
The directors, who held a
meeting last Monday night, ex
pect to make this meeting an
enjoyable event, and urge all
mem bers to hold the date in
mind. Reports of the successful
season will be made by the sec
retary, ee Guffey, and other of
ficerss for the coming year will
he elected.
Mr. Guffey states that the
tourist season has been much bet
ter than expected, especially for
the hotels and boarding houses.
There were fewer transients and
tourist omes did not have as
good a season on that account
Renewals of memberships which
have not been previously ac
knowledged are J. S. Gouiey, Miss
Amy Harrison, Angel Clinic and
Refreshment shop.
All Persons
Should Apply For Birth
Certificate
C. Tom Bryson, register of
deeds for Macon county, urges
all persons in Macon county born
before November, 1913, to apply
at once for a delayed birth cer
tificate. Now that so many occupations
and jobs require the filing of
a birth certificate as a proof of
citizenship, all persons should
have their births recorded by the
State Bureau of Vital Statistics,
Raleigh, and also in the county
courthouse for present or future
need. Blanks may be obtained
from Mr. Bry son's office in the
courthouse.
Mr. Bryson states that an ap
plicant shoulld bring documents
which may be used as proof of
birth. These records must be
over five years old. Two docu
ments made before applicant was
four years old, or three or more
otherwise. Documents which may
be used as proof are hospital or
physician's records, family Bible,
baptismal, cradle roll or other
church record, school record,
printed notice of birth in news
paper, record of census, marriage
license, voting, tax-paying or em
ployment record, insurance policy
military record, sworn statement
of parent or any other trust
worthy evidence over fire years
old.
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Surgical Dressings
For Red Cross Planned;
Volunteers Needed
Mrs. J. E. Perry, surgical
dressing chairman, announhes that
beginning next Tuesday, Septem
ber 22, the surgical dressing
room, directly over the Tavern
in the Leach building, will be
open through Friday from 2 p.m.
until 5 p.m. The first quota for
the Macon county chapter of
45,000 dressings has been received
ar.d a nnmhfr of volunteer work
ers are needed.
Mrs. Perry urgently requests
that all who can give their time
to this "work will come to the
room at te appointed time. "This
is a large quota and it has to
go out an time, states Mrs.
Perry. Workers are required to
wear clears wash dresses or
smocks and also head coverings.
Walter R. Watkins
Rites Held Sunday
Funeral services for Walter R.
Watkins, 63, prominent farmer of
the Cullasaja enmmunity, were
held at the Sugartork Baptist
church Sunday afternoon. The
Rev. Oscar Nix of Satukth, Gau,
officiated, assisted by Rev. Rob
ert W. Williams. Interment was
in the church cemetery.
Mr. Watkins died Friday morn
ing, September 11, at the state
hospital in Morganton, where he
had been taken only a few days
also ill and unable to care for
before. He had been ill for over
a year. Prior to his going to
the hospital, he had a stroke.
Mrs. Watkins was also ill, and
unabe to care for her husband.
The day after he was taken to
the hospital she also suffered a
stroke of apoplexy and was
brought to Angel clinic. She is
still unconsciousness and does
not know of the death of her
husband.
Mr. and Mrs. Watkins had
developed one of the most inter
esting little places in the county
in the Peach Creek section across
the Cullasaja river at Gneiss.
They had converted part of their
farm into a nursery, and for
some years have done a thriving
business, especially among the
people of Highlands where they
hadmany friends. They had no
children.
Mr. Watkins was born May 7,
1879, the son of the late Lonnie
and Angeline Burnett Watkins,
and had lived in the Cullasaja
community all his life. He was
married to Miss Emma Holland,
also of the Cullasaja community.
He was a member of the Pine
Grove Baptist chursh.
The pallbearers were Prek)
Dryman, Charles H. Sundheimer,
Buelin Stan field. Bill Til son,
Grady Holland and Lex Angel.
Surviving are the widow; three
brothers. Perry and Athur Wat
Ions of Cullasaja, and General
Watkins of Franklin, and Vir
ginia, and two sisters, Mrs.
Frank Holland and Miss Hattie
Watkns of Cullasaja.
A Mission study program will
be given at the Baptist church
Thursday, September ?4, at 10
C, THURSDAY, SEPT. 17, 1942
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CAROLINA
U. S. Treasury Official War Bond
Quotas for September
September Quota for State, $9,750,000
Governor's War Bond
Proclamation
A proclamation by Governor
Broughton naming September
as "Salute to Our Heroes
Month" in connection with the
campaign of the theaters to
sponsor safe of a billion dol
lars in war bonds and stamps
was released here recently.
The proclamation pointed out
that Secretary of the Treas
ury Morgenthau had called an
motion picture theaters of the
nation to spearhead the drive
and noted that "no commun
ity is too small or too large
to fit info the plans of this
campaign."
Gov. Broughton stressed the
importance of the campaign
and urged every citizen of the
state to make some contribu
tion to its success.
Paul D, Amsbary, manager
of the Charles store here,
"jumped the gun" on the Sep
tember campaign yesterday and
bought a thousand-dollar bond
without solicitation. Mr. Ams
bary said he did so because
he wanted to be first to buy
a bond in the "Salute to Our
Heroes Month" campaign.
Franklin P.T.A.
To Meet Monday
The Franklin Parent - Teachers
association will meet at the
school next Monday, September 21,
at 4 p.m. The new president,
Mrs. Carl Slagle, will preside and
Mrs. Lola Barrington, chairman
of the program committee will
have charge of the program. This
is the first meeting of the Fall
session, and all mothers of school
pupils are cordially invited to
attend. The welfare of children
under war conditions will be the
general theme for the year.
E. B. Page, N. C Selective
Service, Visits Franklin
E. B. Page from state head
quarters of Selective Service vis
ited the local board Thursday. Mr.
Page, who has visited this office
twice before, stated that the rec
ords of the office, were in good
shape and expressed satisfaction
with the work of this local
board. He left in the afternoon to
visit the boards in Clay and
Cherokee counties, and will go to
Graham county Friday. He is
visiting all boards in the western
end of the state.
Get Health Certificate
To Work In Mica Mine
It is expected that the mica in
dustry in this county will grow
considerably in the next few
months. Persons interested tn se
curing jobs with the msnes must
have health certificates.
-Dr. Vestal from the State
Health department will be in
Bryson Gty Thursday, Friday
and Saturday, September 10, 11
and 12, of this week. Persona
interested in taking this examin
ation, whether employed or not,
please report to the United States
Employment office located in City
Brysoa City.
Men In Service
" 1 Marine
Pfc. Mack S. Setser
Son of Mr. and M,rs. joe Set
ser, of Cartoogechaye. He is witli
the Marines, now in the Pacific
area. He sailed from Norfolk ir.c
Jul.
To Win Wings
Allan Davis, JV.
Allani Davis, Jr., grandson of
Mr. and Mrs. John Dills, of Cul
lasaja, is scheduled to receive his
"Wings" at Kelly Field, Texas,
soon. He graduated from radio
school at Scott Field, III., and
then transferred to Texas, where
he was promoted to the rank of
Sergeant and where he began his
training as aviator. He volun
teered in 1941.
--
Roy Carpenter, who was in the
Navy during the last war, is
happy to be back again to serve
in this war. He was recently ac
cepted and given the rating of
third-class petty officer, and at
present is stationed at the re
cruitir.g station, South Annex,
Barracks No. 8, Division B.
--
Pvt John Andrew Setser of the
Army Air Corps, who has been
visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Lawrence Setser, has been as
signed to a bombardier squadron
in Meridian, Miss. He has com
pleted his trailing as a mechanic
at a California air base.
--
Corporal B. Davis of Camp
Claibourne, La., is spending his
15-day furlough with his mother,
Mrs. Katie Davis, and his wife.
--
Robert W. Norton, son of R. L.
Norton, is now in the Air Corps,
stationed at St. Petersburg, Fla.
Joe C Bradley, son of Mrs.
S. E. Bradley, of Otto, has been
transferred from Camp Jackson,
S. C, to Camp Wheeler, near
Macon, Ga.
--
Seth L. Cabe, son of Mrs.
Grady Bradley, of Otto, has been
promoted from private to cor
poral. He is stationed at Fort
Ord, Calif.
Pfc Jesse Paul Shuler, son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Shuler, is
stationed in New Caledonia. Mrs.
Shuler and Mrs. (Catherine Hol
brook of Leatherman were in
town last Friday and reported
that they ha just received a let
ter saying that he was well.
--
Pfc William S. Johnson of the
headquarters squadron of the Air
Corps at Luke Field, Ariz., has
recently been promoted to cor-
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Local Board
Issues New Classification
And Re-classification
The Macon County Selective
Service board at its regular meet
ing last Monday inight, issued the
following list of classification ai d
re-classification of a number of
registrants.
Those classified first time ar.d
placed in 1-A (fit for general
military service) were: John
Harry Potts, George Turner Mc
Phersom, Tyle Gay Roper, Koscoe
Jenkins, Alfred Leopard, Irviii
Andrew Craue, Arthur Vinson
Garrett, James Frank McCall,
Clyde Leslie Cliastain, o li n
Woodrow Edwards, Harley Bry
son, (colored); Orin Wayne Day.
)ewey . Vinson Linen, John Led-
i'ord (colored); Ural Keil Mt
Connell, Charles Harild Martin,
William Jennings Bryan Jones.
Placed in 2-B (first classifica
tion) : Henry Dickson Corbir Jr.,
William LeRoy Hamby.
In 3-A (men with dependents):
John J. Deal, R. L. Parrish, Lee
Poindexter, Lloyd James Cook,
(colored); Jafes Albert Kell, Jack
Elwood Jacobs, DeWitt Talinage
Thompson, Vernon Ruel Nichols,
Curt Allison Roane.
In 4-F (physically unfit for
servire) : Roosevelt Scruggs, (col
ored) ; James Lawrence Ander
son, Carl Ervin Huggins, Furman
Theodore Sanders, Homer Fox.
Reclassified were; Herry Pe
Webb from 1-A to 4-F; Ralph
Woodfi,n Watson frof 1-A to 2
B; John D. Kinsland, Crawford
Dayle Buryess, Percy Randolph
Norton, Howard Marshall Cun
ningham from 3-A to 1-A; Rob
ert Bell from 4-F to 1-A.
Classifications
And Re-classifications By
Local Board Recently
The following classifications and
re - classifications were recently
made by the local board :
In Class 1-A (available and fit
for general military service)
John William Bryson, David Lee
Fox, Chalmers Hill Mashbnrn,
John Richard Tyler.
Classified in 3-A (men with de
pendents) Riley Solsby Owens,
Charlie Martin Grant, James Love
Hauser, Everette Benjamin May,
Arthur Montgomery Morgan, Jim
Dewey Henry, Verlon Wiley Poin
dexter, Charles Louis Corn, Roy
Kinsland, Walter Albert Norton,
Arthur Dave Rogers, Fred Davis,
William Homer Mashburn, Lyman
Tillman Calloway, Sheridan Mc
Kinley McCoy.
Classified in 4-F (unfit for mil
itary service) Charles Eraser
Redden, Jr., John Butler Collins.
The following were re-classified :
From 1-A to 4-F Everette Lee
Shuler. The following were placed
in 1-C, following induction or en
listment Mitchell Ashear, Mack
Slagle Patton, Lewis Patton, Aus
tin Thompson.
Re-classified from 3-A to 1-A
Harvey Cabe, Jay Laslie Dowdle.
Dills' Bloodhounds
Land Thief In Jail
H
John Dills, deputy sheriff, who
nwns a pair of potent blood
hounds, was called to help solve
a Georgia chicken-stealing case
early last Sunday morning. A
number of fine, big hens had
disappeared Saturday night from
the chicken house of a Mrs.
Dotson of Wylie, Ga.
The North Carolina blood
hounds did the job successfully,
tracing down the culprit while
three pots of chicken stew were
merrily boiling on the kitchen
stove. The party indicated by
the dogs was safely lodged in
jail with additional circumstantial
evidence of the right color of
chicken feathers to further im
plicate him.
CLEVELAND SMART
BACK FROM EGYPT
Cleveland Smart, whose family
came . from Macon county, ar
rived in Franklin last week en
route to visit his wife near Bry
son City, after traveling from
Cairo, Egypt, to Miami, Fla. in
33 hours.
This "magic carpet" trip was
taken on- a routine flight of a
Pan-American Airways ship with
which Mr. Smartt has been a
mechanic for several years. Like
all commercial airways, thee
ships are now under the direction
of the government. Mr. Smant
has been in the heart of the
fighting zone in the Egyptian
campaign. After a visit to his
fWfli'j: be expects to return.