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VOL. LXVI? NO. 38
FRANKLIN, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1951
TWELVE PAGES
NUTRITIONAL
PROGRAM FOR
SCHOOLS SET
Officials Say Instruction
Will Begin When
Schools Open
A nutritional program, includ
ing classroom instruction for
school children and refresher
courses for elementary teachers,
will be put into practice with
the opening of Macon County
schools this fall.
The announcement was made
this week by Dr. Carl C. Jano
wsky, district health officer, and
County School Supt. Holland
McSwain.
The new program was outlin
ed at a meeting of state health
and county school officials here
last Thurcday.
During October Miss rfina
Corbltt, assistant nutritionist
with the state health depart
ment in Raleigh, \?(ill instruct
special courses . in nutrition for
Macon County elementary teach
ers and public health nurses,
the health officer said.
Teachers and nurses will in
turn instruct school children
through classroom work, he
added.
After October Miss Corbltt
will be here at Intervals to su
pervise the program.
Officials meeting to outline the
program Included Dr. Janowsky,
Miss Corbltt, Dr. Bertyn Bosley,
chief nutritionist of the state
health department, Mrs. Louise
East, district supervisor of pub
lic health, Mr. McSwain, Mrs.
Elizabeth Ouffey, Macon County
elementary school supervisor,
and Mrs. Frank Shope, public
health nurse.
Primarily, Dr. Janowsky said,
the program Is designed to
teach school children the es
sentials of good health through
proper diet.
MOFFTTT RITES
HELD SATURDAY
Pfc. Floyd W. Moffitt
Buried At Arlington
Cemetery
Funeral services for Pfc. Floyd
W. Moffitt, Macon County's first
casualty in the Korean war,
were held Sunday afternoon at
2:30 o'clock at the Hickory
Knoll Baptist church.
After the service here the
body was taken to Fort Myers,
Va., for burial in the Arlington
National cemetery.
The 21-year-old soldier, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Moffitt, of
the Hickory Knoll community,
was killed in Korea August 15,
1950.
Officiating at the service here
was the Rev. Hoyt Evans, pas
tor of the Franyjn Presbyterian
Church and chaplain of the local
Americaii Legion post. Members
of the Legion post served as
pallbearers.
Surviving include the parents;
two brothers, S. Sgt. Ben Mof
fitt, with the U. S. Air Force in
Japan, and Sgt. Frank Moffitt,
with the air force in Alexandria,
Va.; four sisters, Mrs. Ruther
Keener, of Alexandria, Va., Bet
ty, Georgia, and Jean Moffitt,
of the home; and the maternal
grandparent*, Mr. and Mrs. W.
H. McCall, of Cashiers.
Arrangements were under the
direction of Bryant Funeral
home.
Two Rattlesnakes
'DunProwling' Here
Rattlesnakes are on the
prowl again, but a couple of
them are "dunprowling".
Neal Penland, of Franklin
* and Waycross, Oa., killed a
granddad rattler on Cowee
Bald last Thursday that Mea
sured 47 inches in length and
had 14 rattlers and a button.
Grady Dalton came by The
Press office last Thursday and
related, how he killed a 38 and
a half Inch rattler on Fred
Arnold's land at Cowee. The
snake, Mr. Dalton said, waa
six inches around in the larf
est place and had nine rat
lers and a button. It waa dis
covered by Mil. Burgess Shel
ton and her children as they
were picking blackberries and
Mr. Dalton waa calted to kUI
It.
Pictured above are the proud parents of Scouts Herbert McKelvey and Ben Edwards, taken just after the boys received
scouting's highest honor, the Eagle rank, last Thursday evening at a court of honor at the Franklin Methodist church. (L to R)
John W. Edwards, his son 15-year-old Ben, John D. Alsup, who made the awards, 14-year-old Herbert, Mrs. R. E. McKelvey, and
Mr. McKelvey.
MRS. WILSON
ROWER SHOW
TOP PNER
Tri-Color Awards Go To
Mesdames Thomaason,
Mitchell, Smith
Mrs. Q. M. Wilson was sweep
stake winner in the eighth an
nula Highlands Flower show,
sponsored by the Highlands Bio
logical stabiorv1 Saturday and
Sunday, in the Museum of Na
tural History building.
Mrs. E. M. Thomasson and
Mrs. Brandon Smith tied for
the tri-color award in the ar
tistic arrangements division, and
Mrs. Clarence E. Mitchell won
the tri-color award in the divis
ion of' horticulture.
The show was acclaimed by
many as the "equal of any big
city show", and Mrs. Byron
Slsmonson, chairman, and her
committees were praised by the
sponsors for their fine spirit of
cooperation and the artistic
grouping of the exhibits.
Exhibitors winning blue rib
bons in the various divisions,
some of them several "blues" in
each division, were Mrs. Fred
McNesse, Miss Peggy Potts, Mrs.
Byron Slmonson, Mrs. Elliot
Caziarc, Mrs. James Herkey,
Mrs. Robert Reese, Mrs. Charles
Quinn, Mrs. T. M. Dechman,
Mrs. Sarah Crunkleton, Mrs. Ida
Henry, Miss Rebecca Nail, Sam
Baty, Mrs. J. E. Root, Miss Mar
guerite Ravenel, T. M. Dech
jnan, Mrs. C. A. Merck, and
Mrs. Bob Moore. Forty red rib
bons and 33 white ribbons also
SEE NO. X. PAOE 6
Blood Donors
Needed; Unit Stops Here
August 28
Defense needs are draining
heavily on the nation's supply
of blood and Red Cross officials
this week expressed the hope
that Macon County would turn
out in force to donate when
the Bloodmobile stops in Frank
lin August 28 at the Presby
terian church.
Persons who donated when
when the Bloodmobile was here
in February and May can safe
ly donate this time, officials
said.
According to Ernest C. Knight,
a representative of the regional
blood center In Ashevllle, frost
bite victims from last winter's
fighting in Korea still need
blood for treatment, and he
emphasized less than a 10-day
supply Is on hand for the whole
country.
He said If the Korean war
ended today the country would
still need donations for at least
a year and a half to care for
this country's wounded, since
no plasma has been stockpiled.
It takes two and four-tenths
pint of whole blood to make
one pint of pluma.
Since the first of the year
Macon County donors have con
tributed SM plots.
Like Snake
Rare, Medium, Well Done
Or 'A La Clinker'?
How do you like your
SNAKE, rare, medium, or well
done?
Mrs. Fred Woods, of the
Gneiss community, might
oblige you should your taste
lean toward snake "a la clink
er". She opened the oyen of
her stove last week and found
a SNAKE, species unknown,
cooked to a cinder.
Our guess is as good as an
other as to how the reptile
got into the oven. Maybe it
had ambitions of becoming an
electrician!
FLOOD RELIEF
DONATIONS LOW
Only $14 Of $195 Goal
Raised ; Requests
Contributions
Pointing out that only $14 of
Macon County's $195 quota for
flood victims In the Mid-West
has been raised, the local Red
Cross chapter this week Issued
a special plea for donations.
Tomorrow (Friday) at 8 p. m.
the Franklin Junior Woman's
club will give a benefit bridge
and canasta party at the Agri
cultural building and the pro
ceeds will be turned over to the
country's flood fund.
A rampaging Mississippi river,
at its highest flood level in 107
years, last month left thousands
in the Mid -West homeless. The
job of providing relief for the
people was shouldered -by Red
Cross and quotas were assigned
to each chapter in the United
States.
"These people need our assis
tance desperately," Mrs. J. Ward
Long, secretary of the local
chapter, emphasized, "and X feel
sure that we in this county
want to do everything possible
to help them get back on their
feet again."
Of the $14 raised thus far,
Mrs. Long said $11.25 was
donated by the congregation of
the Franklin Presbyterian church
in a special offering.
The secretary asked all per
sons wishing to donate to the
fund to either leave contribu
tions at the Red Cross office in
the Bank of Franklin bidding
or mail them to the office.
Any ~ donation, regardless of
how small, will be appreciated,
she said.
RESIGNS POSITION
Mrs. Virginia Sloan Swain,
formerly of Franklin, extention
specialist in family relations at
N. C. State college since 1944,
has resigned the position to be
come vocational home economics
teacher at Needham Broughton
High school In Raleigh.
Mrs. Swain organized the state
family life program for North
Carolina's home demonstration
club women.
She Is the daughter of Mrs.
W. W. Sloan, of Franklin, and
a slater of W. W. (BUI) Sloan.
MACON TOWNS
WILL RECEIVE
$13,473 jiT. AID
Preliminary Powell Bill
Allocations Are
Announced
Macon County's two towns,
Franklin and Highlands, stand
to receive approximately $13,473
for street aid under provisions
of the Powell BUI, according to
a preliminary report received
from Raleigh this week by
Charles O. Ramsey, Franklin
town clerk.
Franklin, with 14 miles of
streets falling under provisions
of the bill, will receive about
$9,165, while Highlands, with
8.12 miles, will get approximate
ly $4,308.
Amounts may vary slightly
when the final computations are
made, the report stated.
The allocation each qualifying
municipality In the state is to
receive was computed on the
basis of relative 1950 population
and relative mileage of non
state system streets complying
with the 1951 legislative act.
According to the report, the
total allocation is $4,543,096.44,
raised by the six-cent state gas
oline tax. The amount was
equally divided for computing
on the basis of population and
mileage.
One half, $2,271,548, was then
SEE NO. 2, PAGE 6
Kindergarten To Open
September 4 At Church
A kindergarten school will
will open at the First Baptist
church September 4 under the
supervision of Mrs. Joseph W.
Fonts, it was announced this
week.
The school will be in session
each day for nine months, with
hours of 9 a. m. to 1 p. m.
Parents wishing to enroll
children In the school are ask
ed to telephone Mrs. Fouts at
228-J, Franklin.
Youth Recovering
From Stab Wounds; Aunt
Charged
Mrs. Edith Lequire, of the
Patton settlement, was arrest
ed Friday morning after stab
bing her 15-year-old nephew
with a butcher knife.
The boy, Donald Klrkland, son
of Mr. and Mrs. T. N. Kirkland,
also of the Patton settlement,
was stabbed In the chest, shoul
der, and arms, and was rushed
to Angel hospital In a critical
condition. The hospital report
ed yesterday that the boy was
recovering satisfactorily. He was
given five blood transfusions,
Dr. Ed Angel said.
According to the arresting of
ficer, Deputy Sheriff Newell
Pendergrass, Mrs. Lequire said
she was at her mail box and
young Klrkland ran over her
with a bicycle and then drew
a knife. She fought back in
self defense, she said.
Mrs. Lequire was released on
$1,000 bond. A preliminary hear
ing Is set for Saturday morn
ing.
Houts To Preach
At Mt. Zion Church
The Rev. Roy T. Houts, of
New Market, Tenn., will con
1 duct a week of nightly services
at the Mt. Zion Methodist
church beginning Monday eve
ning at 7:45 o'clock, it was an
nounced this week. Services will
start each evening at 7:45.
Mr. Houts has been conduct
ing services for the past two
weeks at Maiden's Chapel and
Gillespie's Chapel.
Gneiss Folks Collecting
Money To Buy Arthritis
Victim A .Wheel Chair
Residents of the Gneiss cum
in inity are collecting money for
a very special fund.
They're hoping to raise
enough money to buy Mrs. Fred
Woods an aluminum wheel
chair. Mrs. Woods has been un
able to walk for more than 16
years because of arthritis.
300 Attend Annual Flower Show;
'Calendar Display7 Outstanding
Saturday afternoon and eve
ning an estimated 300 persons
took time out to view flowers
and floral exhibits on display
at the Agricultural building.
The occasi9n was the Macon
County flower show, sponsored
annually by the Franklin Oar
den club, and 150 entries In 25
classifications were entered this
year.
The most outstanding feature
of the show was the "calendar
display" ? Individual floral ar
rangements depicting each
month in the year. Each table,
arranged by an individual, won
a blue ribbon.
Roses entered by Mrs. Prelo
Dryman, of Franklin, won the
sweepstakes prize.
Winning entries were as fol
lows:
Tuberous Begonias: Mrs. 8. W.
Mendenhall, first and second
place. Artistic arangement, Mrs.
E. S. Purdom, first, Mrs. Allan
Brooks, second. Modern arrange
mfint, Mrs. Joseph Kahn, first,
Mrs. Harve Bryant, second. Col
or arrangement, Mrs. J. Ward
Long, first, Mrs. W. M. Dal
.rymple, second. Large Zinnias
mixed, Mrs. J. Victor Wilson,
first, Mrs. W. M. Dalrymple,
second. Large Zinnias, one col
or, Mrs. C. H. Bolton, first.
Small Zinnias, mixed, Mrs. Jene
Jacobs, first, Miss Frances Furr,
second. Small Zinnias, one col
or, Miss Frances Furr. Mixed
Flowers, Mrs. E. S. Purdom, first,
Mrs. J. Ward Long, second,
Marigolds, Mrs. W. A. Rogers,
first, Mrs. J. Ward Long, sec
ond. Vegetables and Fruit, Mrs.
John M. Archer, Jr., flrit, Mrs.
Allen 8tler, second. ChUdran'a
Arrangement, Martha Angel,
llrst, Jane Long, second, and
Judy Blaine, third. Shadow
Boxes, Mrs, J. Ward Long, first.
Miniature, Miss Frances Furr,
llrst, Miss Jane Long, second.
Asters, T. H. Dechman, first,
Mrs. B. L. McGlamery, second.
Snapdragon, T. H. Dechman,
first, Miss Mary Willis, second.
Miscellaneous, Mrs. Gene Jacobs,
first, T. H. Dechman, second.
Qladloll, mixed, T. H. Dechman,
first, Mrs. Gene Jacobs, second.
Gladioli, one color, Mrs. J. Ward
Long, first, Mrs. S. C. Leather
man, second. Dahlias, mixed,
Mrs. R. C. Morgan, first. Dah
lias, one color, Mrs. R. C Mor
gan, first and second. Yellow
1 Flowers, Mrs. J. Ward Long,
first, Gary McKelvey, second.
Potted Plants, Mrs. Joseph
BB NO. 3, PAGE ?
Officer? Catch Two
Escaped Convicts
MURDER CASE
HEADS COURT !
SESSION HERE
August Term Convenes
Monday; Rudisill
To Preside
Interest here during the Aug
ust term of .superio \ court,
which convenes Monday morn
ing, in the Macon County court
house will 'center a uun I : tir
murder trial of Jamos Theodore
Woods ind'rtori at. Hi- A-iril
term for the May, 1950 slaying
of a Macon County logger.
Woods was arrested near Can
ton last month, climaxing a
uj months search u y oiiuie s,
following the Indictment.
New developments in the yp-r
old death of Grady Ray, a 43
vear-old logger of the Kyle
community, reopened the case.
The new evidence has not been
disclosed.
Ray's body was found in the
yard of a Kyle resident May
17, 1950, and a coronor's jury,
not satisfied with the evidence
presented at the time, inserted
a provision in its verdict where- |
by the case could be reopened
if additional evidence warrant
ed such action.
Presiding will be Judge J. C.
Rudisill, of Newton.
The criminal docket consists
of 67 cases, 29 of them .o
drunk driving.
ESTIMATED 1.030
ATBAPTISTMEET
Two-Day Session Highly
Successful Stockton
Says
Approximately 1,000 Baptists
attended the two-day session of
I the forty-eighth annual meet
I ing of the Macon County Bap
tist association last Thursday
j and Friday, and J. Horner
Stockton, moderator, described
the meeting as highly success
ful.
For the first time this year,
the association met at two dif
| ferent churches. Thursday's ses
sion was held at the Franklin
Baptist church and Friday's as
I the Watauga Baptist church.
All association officers were
SEE NO. 4, PAGE 6
Annual Farm
Tour Shows Good Farm
ing Practices
Led by County Agent S. W.
Mendenhall, an estimated 50
automobiles and trucks, loaded
with people, yesterday toured
Macon County for an Inside pic
ture of good farming practices.
The annual farm tour this
year featured stops at a number
of Macon farms, a ditch blast
ing demonstration, and a show
ing of Future Farmers of Amer
ica and 4-H beef and dairy
calves.
Dinner was served by the
women of the Iotla and Burn
ingtown home demonstration
clubs at the Iotla Baptist
church.
Search Continues For Two
Men Still At
Large
Two o' ths eight long-term
convicts that reaped from the
Jackson County prison camp
last Wednesday night were cap
tured here by Macon County
law enforcement officials.
Six of the eight who made
the break from a prison cell
block have been apprehended.
Captured here were Earl B.
Brigman, 20, of East Llmberton,
and Clnude Hill, 31, of Kinston.
Still at large are A1 Turner,
44, of Roan Mountain, Tenn.,
and Bennie Reynolds, 29, of Ma
con, Ga.
Turner, serving 14 to 18 years
for manslaughter, brazenly
bluffed his way by a Jackson
County officer Friday evening,
just outside Franklin, accord ng
to the sheriff's o flee. The wily
convict convinced the officer he
was a local farmer and slipped
through the cordon.
Bloodhounds failed to pick up
the trail of the convict over
the week-end. Ye>teiday (Wed
nesday! officers expressed the
opinion that Turner is no long
er in this area.
Brigman, sentenced to five to
12 years in 1949 for rtibbery with
firearms, was caught by Ma
con officers and highway pa
trolmen about 11:45 Thursday
night at a road-block on the
Bryson City highway just out
side Franklin. Brigman and
two other men? believed to be
Hill and Turner ? jumped from
I a stolen automobile as they ap
proached the road-block, offic
ers said. Brigman was captured
45 minutes after abandoning
the vehicle.
Highway Patrolman C. M.
Byrd arrested Hill Saturday
morning about 9 o'clock after
being tipped off that a strang
er was trying to hitch a ride
to AsheviUe on a milk truck
leaving from the Nantahala
creamery. Hill made a break
for it after the patrolman
' stopped him on East Main
I street, hut was caught after a
j short chase through the Bap
tist lot and around Roy F. Cun
ningham's store on Palmer
street. Hill Is serving six to
eight years for breaking, enter
ing and larceny.
Both of the escapees have
been returned to the Jackson
camp, Sheriff J. Harry Thomas
said.
Another prisoner, Garland J.
Deaver, escaped from a road
gang in Jackson County Wed
nesday and was picked up near
Brevard by highway patrolmen.
The sheri f's office described
Turner as follows: About five
feet, 10 inches tall, weighs 13S
to 140, stoop shouldered, slender
face, blue pyes, gray hair, tatoos
on arms, and walks with a limp
In the left foot.
SEE NO. 5. PAGE 6
Zoning Body
Elects Sloan
As Chairman
At an organizational meeting
Friday night, Franklin's newly
appointed zoning commission
stressed that "the full coopera
tion of the public is a necessity
if a suitable zoning plan for the
town is to be worked out", and
announced that all meetings of
the commission would be open
to the public.
The commission began laying
preliminary groundwork by
electing W. N. Sloan its chair
man and B L. McGlamery,
The Weather
Temperatures and precipitation for tke
past seven days, and the low temperature
yesterday, aa recorded at the Coweeta Ex
pefiment station.
High Low Pet.
Wednesday 88 58 .24
Thursday 88 81 .02
Friday 88 60 .14
Saturday 89 62 trace
Sunday 86 61 .01
Monday 88 58
Tuesday 90 61 .10
Wednesday 58
Franklin Rainfall
(Aa recorded br ?l*ni S'ilee far TV A)
Wednesday, none; Thursday,
none; Friday, .12; Saturday,
none; Sunday, J5; Monday,
none; Tuesday, .10; Wtdn*?d*y,
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