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V" ? . ?_ III ^?ncn ^ - ' Con?* *ra. ? ... / "* i ffce Ifamkttn If I## Ijig^tan^ Baconian Price 6 Cents VOL. LXV? NO. 21 FRANKLIN, W. C- THURSDAY, MAT 25, 1950 ? TWELVE PAGES PHONEC OMPANY , ASKS AUTHORITY TO RAISE RATES $26,000 More Annual Revenue Needed, Body Told The Western Carolina Tele phone company, which serves Franklin, Highlands, and other communities In this area. Is seeking a rate increase. Russell E. McKelvey, general manager, appeared before the N. C. Utilities commission Tues day, asking authorities to in crease rates, according to a Ral eigh dispatch. Mr. McKelvey yesterday afternoon had not re turned to Franklin, and details were not available. The company, it is under stood, has not had a rate in crease since it was organised, many years ago. Mr. McKelvey told the com ? mission that the company needs to raise its rates in order to meet increased operating costs. The increases sought would boost the company's revenues in North Carolina (It also oper ates an exchange in Clayton, Ga.) by an estimated $20,470 annually. Citing the program of expan sion under way, the firm, which has its headquarters in Frank lin, stressed, the point that it needs additional capital to con tinue the proposed improve ments, and that it cannot at tract capital .unless its income is large enough to Insure a profit over operating expenses. The company operates ex changes at Franklin, Highlands, Sylva, Cashiers, Bryson City, and Cherokee, in North Caro lina, and the one at Clayton, in Georgia. The petition to the N. C. Utilities commission ap plied only to the exchanges in this state. Archer Will Addrea* Industrial Power Meet John M. Archer, Jr., president of the Nantahala Power and Light company, has been in vited to address the Carolina Industrial Power conference at Charlotte June 9. The topic of Mr. Archer's talk will be "Our Industrial Power Opportunities". Do You Remember . . . ? (Looking backward through the files of The Press) 50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Call on Coly Guess for pas turage. Flour 65 cents per quarter sack. E. C. McConnell's.? Adver tisement. J. L. Barnard put between 14, 000 and 15,000 feet of lumber into the Tennessee River, near J. T. Moore's, Monday morning to float to near Almond sta tion, and then take it out to be delivered at. the station. Credentials were issued last Saturday to the following vet erans as delegates and alter nates to the Louisville (Con federate) reunion: Delegates, N. P. Rankin, W. A. Curtis, Wm. McKee, H. G. Trotter, and M. L. Kelly; alternates, T. R. Gray, C. L. Luther, G. A. Jacobs, L. H. Enloe. 25 YEARS AGO Attorney G. A. Jones went to Raleigh last week in the inter est of a concrete road from Franklin to Sylva. He saw Mr. Page and Mr. Stikeleather and made tentative arrangements concerning the road. On his re turn, he submitted the state's proposition ^o the Macon Coun ty commissioners, and they ap proved the same. The proposi tion is: Macon County to loan the state $150,000 to be repaid from funds of the next bond issue two years hence. The county will have to pay the In terest on this amount. Mr. Edgar Angel, who is at tending a medical college in Philadelphia, is home on a visit. II YEARS AGO At a meeting of the board of directors of the newly formed Franklin chamber of commerce, the following officers were elected: J. E. 8. Thorpe, presi dent; Ben Woodruff, vlce-pres ldent; Re*. Frank Rotarians Assume Responsibility Of Uniforming Band The Franklin Rotary club has assumed responsibility for seeing that the school band here is uniformed. The c'ub voted to take over the project, following inves tigation by a committee pre viously appointed to obtain information and make recom mendations. The committee reported that in many cases members of the band will be provided with uniforms by* their parents, and thus it will be necessary for the club to raise funds to buy uniforms for only about 30 of the approximately 65 in the band. The uniforms will cost about $50 each, the committee re ported. The method of raising the funds has not been de cided upon. The uniforms, chosen in consultation with Band Di rector S. F. Beck, will con sist of trousers (for boys and girls), coats, and caps, and will be solid red, except for a white stripe down the outer side of the trousers. Softball Gets Off To Good Start; Attendance Heavy Softball got under way in Franklin for the summer with a group of high scoring games. In the opening game of the season last Friday night, the Forest Service defeated the Nantahala Power and Light Company by a score of 16 to 3. In the second game of the twin bill, the Franklin Rotary club defeated Zickgraf Hardwood company by a score of 16 to 8. Monday night the Power com pany team defeated Van Raalte by the high score of 25 to 11. In the second game of the eve ning, the Forest Service defeat ed Zickgraf by a 5-3 score in the best played game to date. Games for "the coming week are: Friday night, 7:60 p. m., For est Service vs. Van Raalte; 9:00 p. m., Power Company vs. Franklin Rotary: Monday night, 7:30 p. m., Zickgraf vs. Van Raalte; 9:00 p. m., Franklin Rotary vs. Franklin Lions. Attendance at games, which are played at the school, this season has been better than average, and fans have report ed that a faster brand of soft ball is being played this year. Mrs. Cabe Has Been Serving As Pianist For Finals 14 Years When Mrs. Henry W. Cabe takes her seat at the piano Friday evening at the Macon Theatre to play for the Frank lin High school graduation, ' it will be her 14th time as pianist for the school finals here. Mrs. Cabe first served as pianist for the commence exercises in 1936, and she has missed only one year since? the spring of 1944. For at least 10 years, she has used the same muisic for the processional and reces sional, the marches from "Aida" and "Tennhauser", re spectively, so that these selec tions have become traditional with Franklin High school graduations. Legion Auxiliary Poppy Sale Set For Saturday The annual poppy sale of the American Legion Auxiliary will be held here Saturday, it was announced this week. A number of girls will be on the uptown streets, selling the flowers, which recall the war sacrifices in Flanders. Funds raised are for work with disabled veterans of both world wars and with needy children of veterans and non-veterans. Macon Circuit To Hold Quarterly Meet Sunday The quarterly conference for the Macon Methodist circuit will be held at the Mulberry church Sunday, it was announced this week by the circuit pastor, the Rev. L. C. Stevens. Dr. C. N. Clarke, of Waynesville, district superintendent, will preach at the 11 o'clock service, and the conference will be held imme diately afterward. Dinner will be <t-. ved on the grounds at f PLAOUES WILL BE DEDICATED Memorial Day Ceremony Honoring War Dead Set For 11 A. M. Plaques honoring the memory of Macon County's dead of two world wars will be dedicated In a Memorial Day ceremony In front of the courthouse. The service is set for 11 a. m. next Tuesday. The streets will be Mocked off for the ceremony, and all Franklin business houses have been asked by the American Legion Auxiliary, which Is In charge of the program, to c'ose from 11 o'clock until noon. The plaques, "erected by the people of Macon County", have been placed on the front of the courthouse, at either side of the entrance. They carry the names of the 90 young men from Macon County who went out from their mountain homes in defense of their country ? and did not return. Fifteen gave their lives in World War 1, and 75 in World War 2. The ceremony will open with the playing of the national an them by the Franklin school band, and Miss Marie Jennings will read a poem, "Will We For get?" The Rev. Hoyt Evans, chap lain , of the American Legion post here, will lead in prayer, SPECIAL INVITATION Next Tuesday's ceremony here in dedication of the plaques honoring Macon County's war dead is open to the general public, and rela tives and friends of the 90 men whose names appear on the memorial tablets are espe cially Invited. after which a male quartet ? 8. F. Beck, S. W. Mendenhall, Richard Sloan, and Phil Mc Collum? will sing a selection. The address will be delivered by Guy L. Houk, who will be presented by Mr. Evans. Following a second band se lection, the ceremony will close with "Taps", a trumpet solo by Mr. Beck. The program was arranged by an Auxiliary committee made up of Mrs. C. N. Dowdle, Mrs. Gilmer A. Jones, and Mrs. John L. Crawford. Arrangements have been made to block Main street from Harrison avenue to the court house and Iotla street back of the courthouse. All-Stars' Defeat Toccoa In Game Here, 8 To 3 The Franklin All-Stars open ed the baseball season here last Sunday by defeating the Toc coa, Ga., "All Stars" by a score of 8-3. Stewart, Franklin pitch er,, turned In an excellent early season performance striking out 12. Price, locals first baseman, tied the ball game In the fourth in ning with a home run with Hol brooks scoring ahead of him. At the time Toccoa was lead ing 3 to 1. The local "All-Stars" will play Highlands Sunday on the High lands field. Herbert Hyde Named To Head W.C.T.C. Student Body Herbert L. Hyde, of Franklin, Is the new president of the stu dent body at Western Carolina Teachers college, Cullowhee. He was chosen in a recent student vote. Mr. Hyde, a rising senior, Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ervln M. Hyde, of Bryson City, but now considers Franklin his home. He Is the husband of the former Miss Kathryn Long, of Franklin. Mr. Hyde has served this year as editor of The Western Caro linian, W. C. T. C. newspaper, and recently was elected to the college student government sen ate. SCHOOL PLAY PRESENTED The play, "Tom Sawyer", pre sented at the Otto school was enthusiastically received at its first presentation at the Otto school last Friday night. Scen ery for the play was made pos sible by Lawson Shook, whose store loaned the furniture nec essary for the play. Swan Resigns Power Firm Post; Sloan, McGlamery Promoted The promotions of two mem bers of the staff of the Nanta hala Power and Light company here, and the resignation of a third have been announced by John M. Archer, Jr., president of the firm. W. V. Swan, superintendent of distribution and transmission lines, has resigned to acept a position with the Line Material company, in Atlanta. Mr. Swan and his family will leave Frank lin lor Atlanta between June 15 and July 1, It Is understood. The jnen promoted are B. W. McGlamery an<J W. W. Sloan. I Mr. McGlamery, who has been ! serving as new business agent, ! has been promoted to the posi tion of manager of the firm's retail department. Mr. Sloan, rural service super visor, has been named personnel director. He has assumed the duties of the latter post, In ad dition to those of rural service supervisor. No successor has yet been rjamed to Mr. Swan, Mr. Archer said. Teacher List For 1950-51 Made Public The list of Macon County pub'ic school teachers reelect ed for next year was announc ed this week by Supt. Guy L Houk. All the teachers in the county system were reelected except Mr. and Mrs. J. c. Hawkins, who resigned, Mr. Houk said Mr. Hawkins taught high school mathematics, and Mrs. Hawk Ins the first grade, in the Franklin school. The teachers are chosen by the local committees of the three school districts, and ap proved by the county superin tendent and county board ol i education.. The teachers chosen for the schools in District No. 1 (the Franklin district) follow: Robert G. Sutton, Mrs. Kath erine M. O'Neil, Miss Annie Bailey, Mrs. Lois F. Fulton, Mrs. Frances K. Beck, Edwin T. Wil liams, Harry C. Corbin, Mrs. Marie P. Stewart, Miss Roberta Enloe, Mrs. Myra S. Waldroop, Mrs. Genevieve W. Whitmire, Mrs. Katherine P. Matthews, Samuel F. Beck, Milburn Atkins, Clayton H. Ramsey, Robert J. Angel, Mrs. Virginia B. Ram sey. Miss Mayberyl Moody, Mrs. Lola S. Kiser, Mrs. Margaret H. Ramsey, Mrs. Margaret R. Flan agan, Mrs. Edith S. Hemphill, Miss Edna Jamison, Mrs. Pearl Hunter, Miss Esther Seay, Mrs. Kate H. Williams, Mrs. Elsie W. Franks, Miss Amy ? Henderson, Mrs. Margaret M. Bradley, Miss Elizabeth Meadows, Mrs. Genev ieve M. Barnard, Mrs. Marie G Roper, Miss Lolita Dean, Mrs Mildred Richardson. Mrs. Bertha C. Smart, Mrs Minnie S. Tallent, Mrs. Jessie I S. Williams, Mrs. Lucy C. Brad ley, Mrs. Gay B. Teague, Miss Grace Carpenter, Mrs. Hazel P Sutton, Mrs. Lucille K. Wurst, Miss May McCoy, Mrs. Nancy J. Taylor, Mrs. Vernon D. Higdon, Mrs. Kathryn Jones, John B. Brendle, Mrs. Gladys Kinsland, Mrs. Georgia H. Young, William G. Crawford, E. R. White. Miss Mattie Brendle, Mrs. Katherine A. Crawford, Mrs. Jimmie Tucker Sutton, Mrs. Mattie M. Keener, Mrs. Lovicia J. Moses, Mrs. Myrtle F. Keener, I Mrs. J oyce J. Cagle, Emerson G. j Crawford, Weaver Shope, Mrs. (Maybur H. Norton, Mrs. Eunice C. Siler, Mrs. Beatrice M. Alley, Mrs. Lola R. Howard, Mrs. Fan nie M. Arnold, Mrs. Pauline C. Holland, Mrs. Hazel C. Norton, Mrs. Mary S. Byrd. James Norman West, Mrs. J. C. Horsley, Miss Betty Jeanette Harrison, Mrs. Fleta M. Blaine, Mrs. Alice B. Plyler, Mrs. Mil dred Swafford, E. J Carpenter, Mrs. Martha C. Shields, Mrs. Nina T. McCoy, Miss Alice Slagle, Miss Helen Browning, Mrs. Merle P. Dryman, Mrs. Sel ma H. Dalton, Mrs. Dora G. Carpenter, Mrs. Lily C. Moody. Negro teachers (Chapel school: G. L. Hines, Mrs. Ber tha L. Hines, Mrs. Emma L. England. Teachers reelected in District No. 2 (Nantahala) are: Continued On rare El** WILL GRADUATE 83 FRIDAY NIGHT Reid To Be Speaker; Band To Play; Admission To Be By Ticket : SECTION ON GRADUATION | For other Macon Connty school graduation news, see ! second section of this issue. | Eighty-th-ee Franklin High school seniors, representing many Macon County commun | ities, will receive their diplomas tomorrow (Friday) evening, as the graduation exercises at the Mac"n Theatre bring down the curtain on the 1849-50 school year here. The program is set tor 7:30 o'clock. As has been customary for | j several years, admission will be '.my ticket only. Since no audi torium in Franklin will accom modate the number who always wish to attend the commence ment programs, the school al- I lots six tickets to each senior, I to be distributed as he or she wishes. Highlighting this year's grad uation will be an address by | Paul A. Reid, who only recent ly was installed a6 president of Western Carolina Teachers col lege, Cullowhee. Another feature oi the pro gram will be selections by the school band. Miss Sarah Dalrymple and Miss Jo Ann Hopkins, both of , the Cartoogechaye community, ? are this year's honor students, | and will deliver the valedictory J and salutatory addresses, re spectively. With the audience seated, members of the graduating class will enter the theatre to the march from Verdi's "Aida". That and the recessional, the j march from "Tannhauser", are j traditional in Franklin High | school commencements. Mrs. Henry W. Cabe will be pianist, as usual. ! Following the singing of "America" by the audience and , the invocation, by the Rev. Hoyt i Evans, Miss Hopkins will deliver ' the salutatory, and Curley Walker will play "Chanson | Moderne" as a clarinet solo. President Reid's address will ?come next, after which the school band will play Sigmund Romberg's "Stout-Hearted Men". Principal R. G. Sutton will present the awards and certi ficates, and County Supt. Guy L. Houk will confer the diplom as. | Miss Dalrymple then will de liver the valedictory, the sen iors will sing their class song, | and Mr. Evans will pronounce the benediction. I Marshals for the commence ' ment events, selected on a basis of scholastic standing, are the following juniors: | Miss Carolyn Bryson, Dudley Conley, and the Misses Una | FINALS SPEAKER PAUL A. REID Mr. Reid, who recently was in stalled as president of Western Carolina Teachers college, Cul lowhee, will deliver the com mencement address to the Franklin High school graduat ing class Friday evening. The exercises are set for 7:30 o'clock at the Macon Theatre. Crawford, Luanne Gibson, Bar bara Gribble, Barbara Sue Hol land, Connaree No'en. Mariann Sherrlll, Mary Ellen Slaudemlre, and Ann Teague. Music is under the direction of S. F. Beck, band and choral director, and details of the commencement program were vorked out by Mrs. Marie Stew art, of the high school faculty. Heavy Primary Election Vote Seen Saturday Races For Sheriff, U. S. Senate, School Board Center Of Interest With the races for sheriff, U. S. senator, and county board of education the center of in terest. Macon County voters will sro to the polls Saturday to select party nominees in the biennial primary election. The candidates picked Saturday will run in thp general election this fall. This year's primary is unusu al, in that a local Republican contest is to be decided at the polls. The Republican usually agree on nominees prior to the primary election. The preelection registration ? established at 200 ? is consider ed indicative of a heavy vote. Both the Democrats and Re publicans will select their nomi nees for sheriff in Saturday's primary. The four-way Democratic con test is between Lester L. Arnold, former restaurant man and one ! time register of deeds, J. B. Brendle. teacher, L. B. Phillips, coal dealer and service station owner-operator, and Harry Thomas, for many years man ager of the Farmers Federation ; here. The Repub'ican contest is be tween J. P. Bradley, who now holds the office, and Walter M. Burch. I The race for the Democratic nomination for U. S. senator al so is a four-way affair, although the candidacy of one ? OUa Ray Boyd, pig breeder of Pinetown? is not taken seriously by po j litical observers. Most students of North Carolina politics con sider that the race lies be tween Frank P. Graham, the in cumbent, and Willis Smith, though R. R. Reynolds, of Ashe ville, a former U, S. senator, is i conceded to be an able vote getter, and a heavy vote for Reyon!ds might result in a sec ond primary. Dr. Graham, former president of the University of North Car olina, was appointed to the of fice upon the death of Senator J. Melville Broughton. Mr. Smith, I Raleigh lawyer, is a former president of the American Bar ; association. Eleven persons ? 10 men and one woman ? are seeking the Democratic nominations for the five seats on the county board of education. (A single person, Mrs. O. C. Hall, of the Scaly community, is filed for the Re publican nomination i . The 11 are Mrs. Betty Leach j Alexander, office worker, of Franklin, J. F. Browning, Cowee township farmer, Robert B. Du : Pree, Highlands minister and former teacher, Fred A. Ed wards, Highlands merchant. Walter Gibson, farmer of ! Franklin township, T. T. Love, of Nantahala, Nantahala Power and Light company employe, Ray E. Norton, Highlands engi neer, C. Gordon Moore, of Franklin, state highway com mission employe, Charles W. Nolen, of Cartoogechaye, who is connected with Nolen and Har rison Electric company, Robert S. (Bob) Sloan. Franklin news paperman, and J. C. Sorrells, of Cowee township, who is a part ! ner in Mashburn-Sorrells com pany, automobile dealers. Mr. Browning, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Gibson, Mr. Moore, and Mr. Sloan are members of the pres ent board, of which Mr. Moore Is chairman. Considerable interest also has been shown in the races for the Democratic nominations for Political Advertising Is Omitted This Week In keeping with its policy, The Press this week carries no j political advertising. The policy, established short ly after the present manage ment took over the paper, is to publish no political advertising in the issue immediately pre ceding an election. The purpose of the rule is to prevent any party or candidate from using the newspaper to make last minute charges that the opposi tion would have no chance to answer through the paper. representative from this county and state senator from this, the 33rd, district. Interest in the state senate race is heightened here by the fact that Macon has a candidate for that office, for I the first time in 18 years. Each i of the other counties ? Chero kee, C'.ay, Graham, and Swain ? in the district has furnished at least one senator during that period, and one county ? Swain ? has had the senatorship five times. The candidates are R. 8. Jones, Franklin attorney, Kelly E. Bennett, Bryson City drug gist and former state senator from this district, and Lyndon E. Conley, an employe of Con ley's Drug store in Bryson City. Two candidates from Graham county ? H. F. Carpenter and Baxter Campbell? filed for the office, but both withdrew in favor of Mr. Jones. The race for representative lies between c. Tom Bryson, 1 Cullasaja merchant and former register of deeds, and C. A. El more, of Cowee, former teacher. The other three local and dls ; trict contests are for clerk of ' superior court, places on the board of county commissioners, and the solicitorship. The candidates for clerk are 1 J. Clinton Brookshire, of Car toogechaye, who holds the of fice now, and Miss Kate Mc Gee, now employed in the of fice of register of deeds. Five are candidates for the two places on the board of com missioners: W. W. Edwards, Highlands hotel man, John W. Roane, Cartoogechaye farmer, C. C. Stamey, Smithbridge farmer, Sam J. Waters, lumber man of Nantahala, and L. W. Rice, Sr., retired Highlands business man. Mr. Edwards and Mr. Roane are the present com missioners. W. E. Baldwin is unopposed for renomination as chairman of the board of commissioners. in the race for solicitor of this, che 20th, judicial district, Thati D. Bryson, Jr., of Bryson City and Franklin, the present solicitor, is opposed by A. A. Rice, Sylva attorney. On the state Democratic pri mary ballot, the voters also will choose between Emery E. Denny and Oscar O. Efird, for associate justice of the supreme court, a post now held by Mr. Denny, and Waldo C. Cheek and Hoke R. Bostian, for commissioner of insurance. Mr. Cheek is the present commissioner. The polls will open Saturday morning at 6}30 o'clock and close at 6:30 in the afternoon. Miss Moses Named To N.C. Collegiate Press Body Office Miss Phyllis Moses, of this county, has been elected gen eral secretary of the North Car olina Collegiate Press associa tion, it has been learned here. Miss Moses, rising sophomore at Western Carolina Teachers college, Cullowhee, is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. P. N. Moses, of Cullasaja. She was elected to the sec retary's position at a recent meeting of the Collegiate Press association held at Woman's college, Greensboro, which she and two other W. C. T. C. stu dents attended. Miss Moses has served this year as freshman reported on The Western Carolinian, W. C. T. C. newspaper, and for two quarters has been the publica tion's circulation manager. Peyton Here In Interest Of Reynolds' Candidacy Wythe M. Peyton, former Asheville postmaster and wide ly known in Democratic circles in Western North Carolina, was in this county Monday in the interest of the candidacy of Robert R. Reynolds for U. 8. senator. Mr. Reynolds, a former senator, Is one of four in the race for the Democratic noml 1 nation.
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