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Pie l^igMan^ JRaconian rHOUh'KSSIVE UhkR.lL I.YJ)K/'h'Ar/)/:.Yr VOL. LX? NO. 50 FRANKLIN, N. C., THURSDAY, DEC. 13, 1945 S2.00 PER YEAK COUNTY WILL VOTE ON BONDS Franklin Bond Issue Approved By 4-1 Vote $80,000 For Improvement Program Authorized By Election The $80,000 Franklin bond is sue for street, water, and sewer # improvements was overwhelm ingly approved in Tuesday's special election. The vote was approximately four to one in favor of the bonds. The total vote cast was ex tremely light. On the three proposals, the vote stood: For street bonds, 180. Against, 45. For water bonds, 177. Against, 42. For sewer bonds, 177. Against, 43. Only about one-fourth of the registered voters participated in the election. Of the 805 persons registered for the election, only 225, or slightly less than 28 per cent, voted on the street bond issue, while the total vote on the water and sewer bonds was even less. As a result of the election., the board of aldermen has the authority to issue $34,000 in bonds for street improvements; $33,000 for extension of water mains; and $13,000 for exten sion of sewer lines. In addition to the $34,000 just authorized for street work, a bond issue of j $9,000 for street Improvements j was approved by the voters in a special election several years ago, so that the board will have _ available a total of $45,000 for that purpose. At a special meeting of the board Wednesday morning, the ballots were turned over to the aldermen by the election of ficials. The board canvassed the vote and formally certified that each of the three proposals re ceived a majority of the votes | cast. With the proceeds of the bond sale, the board plans to surface 'unsurfaced portions of West Main street, old Georgia road, ^VHlllcrest, Wayah, Forest, and Depot streets, First street in East Franklin, and the street connecting West Main and Church; lay six-inch water mains on each of the town's chief streets to the corporate limits, with smaller mains mak ing connection with the larger ? Continued on Page Six Do You Remember . . . (Looking backward through the files of The Press) SO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Dr. W. B. Moore died at the residence of Mrs. Sloan at 10 o'clock of Tuesday night of last week. Some people act like their i debts were like coffee, and I ^ would settle themselves in time standing. 25 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK The board of aldermen last j Monday unanimously elected I Dr. C. D. Baird mayor of Frank lin. to succeed Hon. Gilmer A. Jones, who resigned to accept appointment as solicitor of the twentieth judicial district. Dr. 8. H. Lyle left Sunday for a trip to Washington and other points in the north. John Corbin. Jr., of Culla saja was the prize winner in the Red Cross baby contest. 10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK The Macon county warehouse and store of the Farmers Fed eration. Inc., will be formally i -opened Saturday in the Franks Building on East Main street. Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Marett ex pect to leave Highlands on Sun day for Atlanta, Smyrna, and Calhoun, Qa? to celebrate their golden wedding anniversary. Miss Cora Lee Hlgdon, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Hlgdon of Hlgdonvllle, and Mr. Howard t' Moore, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Moore of Ellljay, were quietly married In Franklin December 8, 3-INCH SNOW, YEAR'S FIRST, COVERS AREA Streets And Highways Slippery; Schools Are Closed Three to four inches of snow fell here Thursday morning, the first of the winter for Frank lin and most of Macon county, although Highlands had report ed a similar fall Tuesday of last week. Starting shortly before day light, the snow fell fast, in big flakes, but about 9 o'clock turn ed to sleet, mixed with rain. Streets were slippery, and the morning saw several automo biles in difficulty as they at tempted to negotiate the hill on West Main street, some of them stalling, backing to the foot of the hill, and trying again, while others reached the top of the hill with the aid of pushers. Wise motorists, unless they hacj chains, avoided the hill on East Main street, travel ing by Palmer street instead. With the temperature still hanging around the freezing point at noon Thursday there was danger that streets and highways would be icy Friday morning. With school buses unable to operate, the Franklin, High lands, and most other .schools were closed Thursday, and Supt. Guy L. Houk said the larger schools will not reopen earlier than Monday. The snow followed by only 24 hours the coldest weather of the winter here, thermometers here having registered eight to 10 degrees Wednesday morning. The Weather bureau forecast for this region, received by tele phone by the Nantahala Na tional forest headquarters here, said the weather would be mild er Friday, probably with light rain in the morning, and de creasing cloudiness later in the day. Stockton To Head March Of Dimes Drive In County J. H. Stockton, Franklin at torney, has been appointed di rector for Macon county for the annual "March of Dimes" campaign. The appointment was made by Ralph McDonald, state director. The "March of Dimes" is the means for raising funds for the nation-wide fight against in fantile paralysis. Mr. Stockton announced that the appeal for funds will open Monday, January 14, and con tinue through Wednesday, Jan uary Si. Baptist Sunday School Officers Tc Meet Dec 18 A meeting of the Baptist As sociational Sunday School of ficers will be held in the Frank lin Baptist church on Tuesday afternoon, December 18, at 2 o'clock, it has been announced by Sanford. Smith, president. This meeting is being ar ranged to make available in formation, received at a re cent mating 'held in Morgan - ton. which is of particular in terest to superintendents and officers in their work. Plans also will be made at this meet ing for the Sunday school pro gram for 1946. Transportation expenses will be paid, at the rate of three cents per mile for the round trip, for as many as two cars from each association. This is the same as the offer made for the Morganton meeting. The meeting at the Franklin church is scheduled to last two hours, and Mr. Smith said It Is very Important that all officers and superintendents attend, Macon ACA Committee Announced i . The names of the 65 mem ! bers of the Macon County Ag I ricultural Conservation associa [ tion, who were chosen in a re cent county-wide election, were | announced this week. Following their election, the I committee members met in the 1 AAA office and reelected Miss I Bernice McDowell as secretary and chief clerk and Mrs. Mary j B. Justice, as treasurer of the J association. Robert ? Fulton, } chairman, A. C. Patterson, vice chairman, and B. W. Justice, regular member, were reelected to those offices at a county convention at the AAA office. The members of the commit tee, named in the county-wide J election, are listed below. In I each case, the first name listed l is' the chairman; the second, the vice-chairman; the third, ! the regular member; the fourth, the first alternate, and the fifth, ' the second alternate. North Franklin: D. M. Ben- , nett, R. L. Poindexter, Thomas Sloan, Ed Tippett, and Frank ; Plyler. Southeast Franklin: Cnarles ' A. Rogers, J. Ned Teague, Charles C. Sutton, Harley Cabe, ' and H. W. Rogers. South Franklin: Thad Pat- ' ton; Everett White, Rufus Wells, P. C. Swanson, and Harley Stew art Mill Shoals: Walter Taylor, Fred Fox, Paul Ammons. J. L. Huggins, and Jack Cabe. Cartoogechaye : W. N. Dal rymple, Eugene Crawford, John Roane, J. H. Brookshire, and ? D. M. Sweatman. , Ellijay: Fred Corbin, Troy , Shook, Wiley Clark, Marion , Bryson, and John Taylor. j Sugar Fork; Fred Henson, D. j M. Rogers, Mrs. Faye Mashburn, ] E. M. DiUs, and W. I. Houston. Highlands: T. M. Keener, Glen . Shuler, Jess Keener, Dan Ed- i wards, and R. J. Cobb. . Flats: H. R. Penland, Mrs. ] Irene Fisher, Toliver Vinson, H. i C. Miller, and M. S. Burnette. , Smithbridge: T. M. McDowell. J. L. Justice, J. J. Gray. T. J. Ramey, and E. M. Nichols. I Nantahala: J. R. Shields, Clint ; May, Carl Bateman. Homer 1 Passmore, and C. B. Owenby. Burnlngtown : Carl Morgan, ? W. R. Parrish, Fred Ledford, E. ] B. Byrd, and L. P. Roper. Cowee: J. E. Allen, Mrs. S. C. Leatherman, Wood row Gibson, < H. R. Morrison, and J. A. Brog- ] den. 1 1 Eastern Star Will L Hold Meeting And Christmas Party j Nequassa Chapter No. 43, ' Order of the Eastern Star, will I hold its regular meeting on 1 Thursday night. December 20, at 7 o'clock in the Masonic Hall. The annual Christmas party will follow the business meet ing and will be held at 8 o'clock in the Agriculture build ing. The members of Junaluska Lodge, No. 145, A. F. & A. M? ; have been invited. , The program committee will arrange for an exchange of gifts , which the Eastern Star mem bers will bring. It is hoped that all members will be present. Presbyterian Services For December Listed The Rev. C. R. McCubbins, pastor of the Franklin and Mor rison Presbyterian churches, has announced the schedule of services at those two churches for the remainder of December as follows: Franklin? Sunday school at 10 a. m. and preaching service at 11 a. m. ** Morrison ? Sunday school at 2:15 p. m. each Sunday and ( preaching service at 3:15 on the fourth Sunday, which falls on December 31. MACON'S BOND SALES STILL BELOW QUOTA But County Ta Be Gi\ Credit For Sa'ss Up To December 28 Macon county still isn't over the top in the purchase of Vic tory Bonds, but Henry W. Cabe, county chairman for the Victory Loan campaign, announced yes terday that this county will re ceive credit for E , "F , and "G" bonds bought through De cember 28. The Macon county overall bond total through December 8? the d$te that had been set as the fdrmal close of the campaign was $135,000, the Federal Re serve bank in Richmond, Va? reported. This is $30,000 short of the overall quota of $159, 000 ^ Sale of "E" bonds showed considerable increase since the report of December 1, but the county still was short of its "E" bond quota. The Federal Reserve total, as of December 8, gave Macon county credit for $62,343 in E bonds, or not quite two-thirds of the county's "E" bond quota of $101,000. Mr. Cabe said, however, that "E" bond sales made since the figures were compiled in Rich mond would run the total to about $70,00. and expressed the hope that the remaining $31,000 can be sold before December 28, so that this county can be list ed as having met the quota as- , sighed it. I, Mrs. Foster Taken By Death At Home ( Of Daughter Here 1 Mrs Alice Elizabeth Foster, 1 , 77 died at the home of her j , laughter , Mrs! Myrtle WatUns, , in Harrison avenue last Friday i ifternoon at 5 o'clock, follow- , ing an illness of two weeks. 1 She had been in ill health for more than a year 1 Mrs Foster, before marriage, . i was Miss Alice Patterson of , Clayton, Ga. For several years | < she has made her home with i her daughters. She wasamem- . ber of the First Methodist , church in Toccoa, Ga., where she lived for a number of years, i Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock it the Toccoa Methodist church. The Rev. Mr. Patterson, former pastor, and the Rev. Mr. Cherry, , pastor, officiated. Interment fol- < lowed in the city cemetery. i Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. C. R Browning, Bryson City, Mrs. Watkins, Franklin, Mrs. C. A. Merck, Toccoa and Miss Mae Foster, Seneca, S. C., three sons, Col. S. M. Foster, San Diego, Calif., the Rev. John Emerson Foster, Clarkes uurg W. Va., and the Rev. A. P. Foster, Jr., Lakeland, Fla.; : 21 grandchildren; 11 great- i grandchildren; and one brother, , Milfred Patterson, Chattanooga, Tenn. Mrs. Conley, 83, Taken By Death In Tesenta Section Mrs. Cordelia Gudger Conley, 83, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Will Rogers, in. the Tesenta section of Macon county, November 30, following an illness of three years. She was a life-long resident of Macon county and was mar ried to George Conley, who pre ceded her in death nine years ago. She was a member of the Dryman Chapel ' Methodist church. Funeral services were held De cember 1 at 11 o'clock at the Dryman Chapel church, with the Rev. V. N. Allen, pastor, officiating. Interment followed in the church cemetery. The pallbearers were Truman, Tommy Lee and D. L. Rogers, Neville Buchanan, Herschell Keener and Kenneth Buchanan. Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Rogers, 10 grandchildren, and a number of great-grand children. Bryant funeral directors were In charge of arrangements. County Is Facing Acute Shortage Of Ccal This Winter With Macon county allotted less coal than it received last winter, and with several hun dred servicemen already back home, this county faces a serious coal shortage this winter. L. B. Phillips and Rufus Snyder, losal dealers, said this week that they will ge. only 80 per cent as much coal this winter as they re ceived last year, and Holi (R. S.) Sloan, veterans serv ice officer, pointed out that this winter some 500 vet erans, many of them married and with families, will need fuel. In view of the situation, he has appealed to the solid fuels administrator at Char lotte. "Unless local coal dealers receive an additional amount of ooal", Mr. Sloan wrote the Charlotte administrator, "these veterans will certain ly will be out in the cold". Mrs. P. West 81, Dies At West's Mill Mrs. Pallie Ruth Parrish West, Bl, died at her home at West s Mill Saturday night about 9 [/clock, following a serious ill ness of only three days. She bad been in ill health for se veral months. Death was caus ed from pneumonia. A life-long resident of Macon i county, she was born on Sep- | tember 24, 1864, the daughter the 'late Mr. and Mrs. Na- i thaniel Parrish. She was mar- ; ried to Jess L. West, Sr., who iied 32 years ago. She was a [ member of the Snow Hill Meth odist church and had attended church and took a part in all | church activities as long as her 1 health permitted. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Snow Hill Meth odist church. The Rev. D. P, Grant, pastor, officiated, as sisted by the Rev. W. Jackson Huneycutt, pastor of the Frank lin Methodist ch,urch, and the Rev. C. C. Welch, pastor of the Cowee Baptist church. Inter ment followed in the church cemetery. The pallbearers were J. L. West, III, Charles Owens, Clyde Smith, Lewis Smith, Jr., Clay ton Ramsey and Henderson Calloway. She is survived by nine chil dren, C. N. West and Dr. J. L. West, of West's Mill; Harry H. West, of Norfolk, V&., and W. Floyd West, of Ibapah, Utah; Miss Vonnie West and Mrs. Clara Owens, of West's Mill, Mrs. J. L. Smith, of Cullowhee, Mrs. Nannie Browning, of West's Mill, and Mrs. Zeb V. Gibson, of Winston-Salem; 18 grand children; four great-grandchil dren; three sisters, Mrs. J. E. Calloway, of Franklin, Mrs. Dan Lyle, , Peck, Idaho, and Mrs. Mamie DeHart, of near Win ston-Salem; six brothers, Ed, James, John, and George Par rish, all of Franklin, Route 3, Will Parrish, of Brysan City, and Wade Parrish, of Ibapah, Utah. Potts funeral home was in charge of arrangements. MISS STEPPE DIES Miss Ruth Steppe, 19, daugh ter of Craig Steppe and the late Mrs. Steppe, of Aquone, died in the Angel Clinic here Thursday morning. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Kyle Baptist church. BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION TO BE HELD The Macon County Baptist Sunday School convention will meet at the Oak Orove Baptist church, on Sunday afternoon. December 10, at 2:30 o'clock, it has been announced by San ford Smith, president. All Sunday schools in the county are urged to send dele gations, and the public is in vited. BALLOT DEC. 18 ON $400,000 FOR SCHOOL ISSUE Funds Would Be Used For New Buildings In Nine Communities Macon county voters will go to the polls Tuesday to determ ine whether this county shall issue $400,000 in bonds for new school buildings. The bond issue was proposed by the county board of educa : tion to carry out a program worked out by Supt. Guy L. Houk and the board for the. modernization of the physical plant of the county's school sys tem as a whole, and the county commissioners called next week's special election, at which the voters will act on the proposi tion. The program calls for the consolidation of the 23 schools i how operated in the county into | 10 white and one Negro sclvxjl, and for the construction of i new, modern buildings in eight communities in the county. The new buildings would be situated in the following areas: Cartoogechaye, Mill Shoal. Nan tahala, Highlands, Union Skeenah-Prentiss, lotla-Burn ingtown, Ellijay-Sugar Fork, and Franklin. In Franklin, the plan calls for a new Negro school and for ad ditional facilities and space at the white school. The other two of the 11 pro posed schools would be situated at Cowee and Otto, both oi which communities have build ings that are comparatively new. In presenting the program to the people, the board of educa tion points out that Macon county has erected no new school buildings since 1926, with the exception of those at Co wee and Otto; that the pres ent buildings were designed for another day, are too small, and many of them dilapidated; and that the consolidations which the building program would make possible would assure a minimum of one teacher for every grade in all 10 white schools. At present, the board said, only two of the 25 schools now in operation have as many as one teacher per grade, while 14 schools have not more than two teachers altogether. It is proposed to issue 30-year serial bonds, and the authori ties anticipate that they can be sold, on the present market, at an interest rate not to ex ceed four per cent. The board also sets forth that, at a four per cent inter est rate, a tax of 28 cents on i the $100 valuation would amor ! tize the bonds, and that it ] would be necessary to increase the present tax rate by only 10 cents per $100, since a 17 cent rate now is being levied for capital outlay for schools. The present debt of Macon county is $535,450, while the as sessed valuation is $9,714,756. The present tax rate is $1.10 per $100 valuation. The $400,000 "in bonds it is proposed to sell is the maximum amount the county is permit ted to issue at present, under the law as applied to this coun ty's present debt and valuation, officials said. The election will be determin ed by a majority of the vote cast. No new registration was ?Continued On Page Six Parent-Teacher Meet Set For Monday Night The Franklin Parent-Teacher Association will meet in the high school auditorium on Mon day night at 7^30 o'clock for its monthly meeting, it has been announced by Mrs. J. H. Stock ton, secretary. I. B. Hudson, superintendent of the Andrews school, has been invited as guest speaker for the occasion. Another feature of the program will be a number of Christmas carols rendered by the High School Glee Club. The Rev. A. Rufus Morgan, presi dent, will preside. Members of the Franklin Lions club have accepted an in vitation to attend the meeting in a body. Any interested per sons, as well as members, are Invited.
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