VOL. LTVI? NO. M FUNKUN, N. C, THURSDAY, NOV. 15, 1951 TWELVE PAGES
These Were "Left Over' . . .
' ? Staff Photo by J. P. Brady
It's been "standing: room only" for many Franklin High sc?tool students the past week, after
moving into their new building last Thursday. There just aren't enough seats to go around,
especially in study halls.
Temporary bleachers in the gym-itudy hall of the aid building enabled all to find seats, but
without the bleachers, there Is a shortage in the new structure.
In the photo above, taken Friday during a study period, about 35 students are sfrown stand
ing in the back of the room; another IS were out In the halt
Similar situations will confront Macon students when they move into other new schools, ac
cording to County Supt. Holland McSwain. Present funds will not permit equipping the new build
ings adequately, he said.
The situation at Franklin high now has been ironed out temporarily .by splitting study halls
between three ifcoms.
CHURCHES PLAN
TRAINING WORK
County - Wide Methodist
School Will Open
Here Sunday
A county-wide training school
for men, women, and church
youth of Macon Methodist
churches is set for Sunday
through Wednesday of this week
at the Franklin Methodist
church.
Church officials have an
nounced that special courses will
be offered each evening at 7:30
o'clock, under the sponsorship
of the Conference Board of Ed
ucation and churches in the
Franklin area.
I A special course for adults
will be taught by Charles W.
Phillips, of Greensboro, widely
known in education and church
/ circles.
Mrs. Robert E. Early, of
Highlands, will conduct a Bible
course for workers with nur
sery, kindergarten, primary, and
junior children. The Rev. R.
Delbert Byrum, of Murphy, will
give a course on "What it means
to be a Christian".
Mrs. Corbin,
Once Home
Agent, Dies
Mrs. Adelaide Bulgin Corbin,
Macon County's first home dem
onstration agent, died Sunday
morning at the home of her
sister, Mrs. W. B. McOulre, of
Franklin, after a long Illness.
She was 67 years old.
Funeral services were held
Monday morning at 11 o'clock
at the Franklin Presbyterian
church. The Rev. Evans, pastor,
- and the Rev. J. Q. Wallace, a
fornftr pastor, officiated. Burial
was in Wood lawn cemetery.
Mrs. COrbin, who returned to
Franklin to live in 1949, after
spending a number of years In
Diamond, Mo., was born Oc
tober 18, 1884, the daughter of
* W. O. and Mrs. Virginia Moore
Bulgin.
Prior to her marriage in 1925
to Arthur Faster Corbin, of
Gouverneur, N. Y., who died in
1940, she taught in Macon
Macon County schools. As this
county's first home agent, she
was responsible for the organi
zation of the first 4-H club In
the county. She was a member
of the Presbyterian church.
Surviving, In addition to Mrs.
McOulre, are a brother J. Ran
dolph Bultfn. of Franklin, and
a number of nieces and neph
6WS.
The following deacons of the
Franklin church were pallbear
ers r
Theo Siler, John B. Ray, Hor
ace Nolen, Bryant McClure, T.
H. Fagg, and Oeorge M. Slagle,
Jr.
Arrangement# ware wider the
' AtmNm of fttta tami honu.
Churches Plan
Union "Service
In Highlands
A union Thanksgiving serv
ice, of the four Highlands
churches will be held st It
o'clock on Thanksgiving day
at the Methodist church, it
has been announced.
The Rev. John C. Corbltt,
pastor of the Baptist church,
will preach the sermon, and
the other pastors will assist
in the service. '
This will be the fourth con
secutive community Thanks
giving service held in High
lands.
NeirWeHis
Giving More
Than Other 4
Franklin's new well, complet
ed November 7, is pumping
more water per minute than
the town's other four wells com
bined, town officials report.
After the Virginia Supply and
Well company finished drilling
operations, a 36-hour pump test
showed that the 300-foot well
was producing approximately
200 gallons of water per minute.
In April of this year, when a
thirsty Franklin was almost to
the point of counting its water
supply by drops, the four old
wells were able to muster up
only 7,608,500 gallons for the
month. At 200 gallons per min
ute, the new well can produce
8,640,000 a month? about a mil
lion gallons more than the other
four.
The new well Is near the Lit
tle Tennessee river, behind the
Friendship Tabernacle. The
town leased the 25 by 25 foot
tract from Herbert Angel In
September, after the site had
been approved by a state geo
logist and a health officer.
Solid rock was struck at 6f
feet, and piping was not need
ed from that point on, the drill
ing crew .reported.
When coupled with the old
wells, town officials expressed
the opinion that Franklin's 60C
water consumers will be amply
supplied for the next three oi
four years, at the least
Rapid population growth
within the town limits in the
past 10 years has put a heavy
drain on present facilities.
Tobacco
Grading Demonstration Is
Planned Tomorrow
A tobacco grading demonstra
tion Is scheduled for tomorrow
(Friday) morning at 9:30 o'clock
on Mrs. Bartlett Bennett's farm
In the Iotla community. County
Agent S. W. Mendenhall an
nounced Tuesday.
A government grader will be
present to help Macon tobacco
growers get top prices for their
tobacco, he said.
Persons wanting transporta
tion to the Bennett farm are
asked to to a* tbe county
H?t'i HUm * I * JR.
21 MARRIED MEN
CLASSmi-A
Macon's Draft Board
Acts To Conform
With Order
Twenty-one Macon County
married men with no children .
holding 3-A selective service
cards, were reclassified 1-A ?
available for military service ?
by the local draft board last
week, W. N. Sloan, board chair
man, has announced.
Reclassification of 3-A's to 1
A conforms to a recent order
received here from national se
lective service headquarters.
Following are married men
reclassified 1-A:
Rondal Conley, Rozell M. Mc
Coy, James B. Roper, Floyd T.
Black, Ed T. Talley, David W.
Shields, Emory L. Scruggs, Ed
gar L. Younce, Howard W.
Southard, Larry Cabe, Tom C.
McKay, Beauford D. Welch, Al
fred J. Thomas, Earny South
ard, Eugene V. Wood, Hobart
Burnette, John W. Crunkleton,
William W. Keener, Roy Roper,
Charles R. Wood, Claude N. Cur
tis.
Also placed in 1-A were Ber
gen B. Hall, Franklin D. Carpen
lng, Eugene Johnson, Arland
McCall, Randolph L. Cabe, Av
ery J. Mashburn, Eugene Norrls.
Classified 1-C (member of the
armed forces) were Kenneth A.
SEE NO. 1. PAGE 6
LOCALS LOSE
WAYNESVILLE
GAME, 41 TO 1
Clash With Clyde Here
Friday Night Will
Close Season
The supercharged Waynes
ville Mountaineers ran out of
numbers on the score board
Friday night in Waynesville as
they powered through the
spunky Franklin High Panthers,
41 to 7.
Waynesville, leader in the
Blue Ridge conference, opened
its scoring spree after an ex
change of fumbles and at the
end of the first quarter led the
out-clased Panthers 20 to 0.
With the clock showing less
than a minute of playing time,
the Panthers, sparked by Full
back Pat Pattillo, took some of
the sting out of the lop-sided
score by powering down the
field from the 50 for a touch
down and extra point which
erased the 0 that had been star
ing them in the face all night.
Friday night on the home
field the Panthers will close out
this season against Clyde High.
Pattillo, picked by many as
the outstanding player of the
Waynesville game, bulled down
the field behind the do-ar-die
Panther line for the score. Dick
Mashburn went over for the
extra on an end sweep.
Although on the losing end
of the score from the start,
Coach Ralph (Chuck) McCon
nell's charges, outweighed al
most 20 pounds to the man,
showed plenty of fire and kept
trying for the come-back.
Mashburn fumbled the kick
Home-Coming Program
Planned At Halftime
The Franklin High-Clyde
High football game Friday
night will be "Home-coming
Night" for Franklin alumni, it
was announced yesterday by
the Laurel Leaf anrnfol staff,
which is sponsoring the event.
Half-time festivities will in
clude the crowning of a home
coming queen and a musical
program by the Franklin
band.
After the game, an open
house Is planned at the new
high school building, it was
said.
Kickoff time for the game is
7:30 o'clock.
off and the Mountaineers re
covered on the Franklin 20, only
to lose it on the first play,
when their star fullback, De
Weese, bobbled the ball. The
Panthers lost the pigskin on
their first play out of scrim
mage and DeWeese drove over
from the 4 for the Mountain
SEE NO. 2, PAGE 6
A group of Franklin Future, Farmers of America and Wayne
Proffitt, vocational agricultural teacher, are shown above fitting
a calf for entry in the annual Fat Stock Show and Sale, which
opened near Enka Tuesday. Macon F. F. A. and 4-H clubbers en
tered 31 animals in the show. (L to R) Paul Killian, F. F. A.
president, Fete Setser, Edwin Nolen, Mr. Proffitt, L. A. Moore,
and Dan Moore,
48 MORE MILES
OF PAVING DUE
Thrash Lists Secondary
Macon Highways To
Be Blaclctopped
Macon County has received
12.3 miles of paving on second
ary roads, under the state road
program, and another 48.6 miles
will be paved as soon as pos
sible, according to Highway
Cojnmlssloner L. Dale Thrash.
The 10th highway division
commissioner, in a letter to the
Macon board of county com
missioners,, briefly summarized
road work In this county, up to
November 1, and listed roads
due for paving with this coun
ty's share of road bond money.
In the letter Mr. Thrash said:
i'Xt will take all of next sum
mer and part of the 1953 sum
mer to finish the program. The
roads (those to be paved) are
not listed in the order in which
they will b? paved. Some will
be first, and some must be
last. . . ."
Following Is the list and miles
per road:
Patton road, 5.2; Rabbit
Creek road, 6.2; Tessentee road,
2.7; Iotla-Burningtown road, 5.2,
SEE NO. 3, PAGE 6
Franklin P. T. A.
To Hold Monthly
Meeting Monday
The monthly meeting of the
Franklin P. T. A. will be held
Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock
in the library of the new school
building.
Dr. Carl C. Janowski, district
health officer, will show a film
entitled "The School That
Learned to Eat".
Miss Ethel Hurst, lunch room
supervisor, will talk briefly on
what the P. T. A. can do to help
the lunch room program.
This Navy Man Made His Chicken Farm
Dream Come True; It Has Paid Off, Too
Photo by J. P. Brady
PtUottal hihhlin egg producer* get in line for their morn
ing chow m their owner, ex-nary chief Harry Pangie, of Frank
Ha. Mt 4, hands en* rattans. Better* tt or not, there an 7H
femur Ml* !? the Ml
Pangle Pays Off Debt,
Then Nets $2,300 ,
First Year
* Get a bunch of regular navy
men together in a bull session,
and nine out of ten times the
topic of conversation will be
"that chicken farm I'm going to
buy when I retire".
But few of those chicken
farm dreams ever materialize!
There's a rather successful ex
ception, however, in Macon
County.
Harry Pangle, of Franklin,
Route 4, who spent 21 years and
four months with Uncle Sam's
navy, has his chicken farm, and
In just one year he has proven,
to his own satisfaction, at least,
that the hatching egg business
definitely is the most profitable
agricultural enterprize in Ma
con County at the present time.
Before he and Mrs. Pangle, a
Macon County native, moved
here in April, 1949, his only
association with a chicken had
been over the dinner table. In
fact, the retired chief aviation
machinist's mate admits he
knew nothing at all about farm
ing, much less the chicken busi
ness.
His successful first season
with chickens took him out of
the red side on the ledger, and
this year be has expanded his
SB MO. 4. PAQI ?
Next Week's Press
To Be Issued Day
Ahead Of Schedule
Because of the Thanksgiv
ing mail holiday, next week's
issue of The Press will be pub
lished 24 hours earlier than
usual.
With no mail delivery on
the routes Thanksgiving day,
most rural readers of The
Press would not receive their
papers until Friday, a day
tote, if the paper were pub
lished at the usual time.
Next week's issue, therefore,
will be put in the mail on
Tuesday night, for delivery
Wednesday.
Advertisers and persons who
have news matter for next
week's Press are requested to
obsei've a Monday noon dead
line.
Flag-Raising
Ceremony To
Be Held Later
The Green Pastures flag-rais
ing ceremony and presentation
of awards to Macon County
farmers, which was tentatively
scheduled for November 10 at
the Agricultural building, will
be held some time in the spring,
County Agent S. W. Mendenhali
said this week.
He explained that the Green
Pastures honor flag, won by Ma
con for being one of the 10
best pasture counties in the
State, has not arrived.
The county agent also point
ed out that spring would be
more appropriate time for such
a ceremony, since it could serve
as a kick-off meeting for plant
ing and improving more pas
tures in 1952.
Grouse Dog
Field Trial
Is Planned
The Standing Indian Wild
life Management area will be
the scene of North Carolina's
first grouse dog field trial No
vember 24 and 25.
Entries are expected from
North Carolina, Tennessee, and
possibly Virginia and South
Carolina, according to O. D.
Biddy, president of the Western
North Carolina Field Trial as
sociation, sponsor of the trial.
Headquarters will be set up at
White Oak Bottoms, in Macon
County, 16 miles west of Frank
lin.
The trial will be run over 17
courses, through well populated
grouse territory, it was said.
Drawings for the trials are
set for November 23 at 9:30 p.
m. at Panorama court.
All blooded bird dogs, quail
as well as grouse, may be en
tered in the trials, Mr. Biddy
said.
Judging the trials will be
Howard D. Pavey, of Flint,
Mich., B. O. Sn\ith, of Pitts
burgh, Pa., and Gene Galloway,
of Marienville, Pa.
Cartoogechaye P. T. A.
To Meet Monday Night
The Cartoogechaye Parent
Teacher association will hold Its
monthly meeting Monday night
at the school at 7:30 o'clock. It
ha* been announced.
MACON YOUTHS.
PRIZE CALVES
AT STOCK SHOW
31 Animals Entere d By
4-H And F. F. A.
Groups Here
BULLETIN
(By Staff Correspondent)
Macon County swept
he field at yesterday's
Western North Carolina
?at Stock Show near
near Enka.
James Setser's calf was
adjudged the grand cham
pion of the show, and
Johnny Tippett's animal
won the reserve champion
ship.
Of the 31 animals en
tered by Macon 4-H and
FFA members, 30 won
blue ribbons, and one a
red ribbon.
Of the six steers in the
finals, five were from this
county.
Macon's 31 entries was
the largest number from
any one county. Haywood
wac next with 30.
A total of 97 calves were
entered in the show.
*
Twenty-eight Future Farmers
of America and 4-H clubbers
and their 31 prize beef and
dairy calves left Monday for the
17th annual Western North Car
1 olina Fat Stock Show and Sale.
The event, under the spon
sorship of the Western North
Carolina Bankers association,
opened Tuesday at the Hominy
Valley H*- -se and Hound Club
Livestock pavilion, near Enka.
Judging was held yesterday
(Wednesday) afternoon, and the
sale Is set for 1 p. m. today.
More than 90 animals were en
tered.
In charge of the Macon group
, is Wayne Proffltt, vocational
i agrieultural teacher.
I Local F. F. A. and 4-H'ers In
' elude L. A. Moore, Dan Moore,
Pete Setser, Edwin Nolen, J. D.
Hastings, Leroy Peek, Howard
Cantrell, Bill Fouts, Tamar
Houston, Bruce Houston, John
ny Tippett, Paul Kllllan, Johnny
Killian, Frank Kllllan, Jr., Ken
neth Taylor, Jerry Sutton,
Charles Gibson, Richard Gibson,
Billy Harper, Victor Teague,
Bobby Teague, Ray Henry, Jim
Ayers, Wayne Gregory, Cnarlea
Gregory, Joe Taylor, Jack Tayl
or, and Larry Ferguson.
The show was judged by Dr.
E. R. Barrick, assistant profes
sor of animal husbandry at
North Carolina State college.
Bart Pendergrass,
Aged 6, Dies After
Tonsil Operation
James Bart Pendergrass, only
child of Mr. and Mrs. J. &
Pendergrass, died about 4 a. m.
Tuesday, following a tonsilec
tomy Monday.
The little boy. a??"1 "5, this
year had been attending Mrs.
Joseph Fouts' kindergarten.
Funeral se- <"es were held
yesterday (Wednesday)., at 2 p.
m. at the Franklin Baptist
church, with the Rev. M. W.
Chapman, pastor, officiating,
assisted by the Rev. C. E. Mur
ray. Methodist pastor. Members
of the Nequassa chapter. Order
of the Eastern Star, served as
flowerbearers.
Surviving, In addition to the
parents, are the maternal
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray
B.adley, of Franklin, Route 3.
PLAN BAKE MIX
A bake sale, sponsored by the
St. Agnes Episcopal auxiliary, la
scheduled for tomorrow (Fri
day) at 9 a. m. at the Child
ren's shop, It has been
nounced.
The Weather
Temperatures ud HihrfuUoa far *a
pot KYen clajrv and the In MmMM
rewentey. u recorded ?t the Cnm
.Trimern atatioa.
Hteh Low Pet.
Wednesday 41 31 3.01
Thursday 48 38
Friday 63 14.5 ....
Saturday 88 21
Sunday 8# 33
Monday 57 3#
Tuesday HUM
Wednesday ? ? H M