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VOL. LXVII? NO. 9
FRANKLIN, N. C? THURSDAY, FER. 28, 1952
TWELVE PAGES
Governor Invited To See Schools Here
Baptist Approve
New Church Plan
$200,000 Structure To Be
Built At West Main
And Highway 23
egatl0n 0f the Pirst
Baptist church Sunday voiced
bnilH?nal 0f a pr?p?sed $200,000
building program by accepting
floor plans and voting to have
snpn?/1! if Prepare complete
specifications for a new three
story church building.
Approximately $25,000 already
i,afu. n turned over to the
building fund by church mem
t^S,o aCC?,rdlng to the P^or,
the Rev. M. W Chapman. The
'? f, fur . the proposed new
building is the Baptist-awned
Jot at the intersection of West
Main street and US 23, about
fin m downtown Frank
Details of the buildii g pro
gram were presented by tht
pastor at morning worakip serv
ices the last two Sundays.
In addition to approving tfee
program Sunday, church mem
voted ^ begin ;a 150-week
tithing enlistment campaign
Monday to provide funds to
finance the church program
Brochures Distributed
Brochures, prepared by the
church building committee's
publicity unit,, were distributed
to members of the congrega
tion to more fully explain the
SmS?"!' ^?r plats WBn in
cluded In the pamphlet, and a
contrast was drawn between
present church .facilities and
those proposed.
The proposed $230,000 struc
ture Is to be thnee stories?
ground floor, first floor, and
an auditorium
capaoie of ^accommodating 600
persons. According to church
officials, the three-story edu
cational plant will provide for
a completely -departmentalized
and grades Sunday school
ample churoh offlcrs; a library :
nursery; a small chapel; Jdtch
en and dining hail; and rest
rooms on each flwor.
Will Be 108 x 156
The propwed structure is de
signed so it can be built either
?by units or departments, over
a period of years, as funis al
low, the church pastor painted
out. When complete*, the dsufld
Ing wDl meaaure approximately
1 f?f p by 108 feet wide.
It Win front US 23 and will
have five ground- floor en
trance*.
On Uie giraund floor, jfians
provide for taie Adtflt depart
ment with a total of 13 class
rooms; a five class room young
peoples assembly; ;a primary
department -with Ax class
rooms; a small chapeS seating
180; and a dining tall aad
Jdtchen.
Derails Given
The main auditorium will he
housed on the first flow, and
plans Include a choir section
seating 45 persons; a choir
room for music and robes
church office*; beginner and
nursery department*; ar^i a
church library.
A balcony section, with a
seating capacity of 198, Is pro
posed for the second floor, in
addition to a 13-room junior
department, a 12-room inter
mediate department, and dress
ing rooms.
The architect for the building
is Wellington J. H. Wallace, of
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Miss Setser Wins
Membership In 2
Honor Societies j
Miss Margaret Setser, daugh- j
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Setser, j
of Cartoogechaye, recently was
elected to membership in Pi
Tau Chi and the Zodiac Honor
society at the University of
Georgia, Athens, where she is
a student.
The former is a national
honorary society recognizing re
ligious leadership. Membership
in the latter is limited to 12
outstanding members of the
Junior class at the university.
Children
To Hear Records, Stories
Of Symphony Pieces
1 Through the cooperation of
Frank Martin, recordings have
been obtained of all the com
positions, except one, to be
| played by the N. C. Little
Symphony orchestra at the \
' children's concert it will pre- 1
| sent here March 14, Mrs.
' Krth Guffey, county school
supervisor, has announced.
Arrangements have be n
made, Mrs. Guffey added, to
p!ay the records in all the
schools of the county betwetn
now and date of the concert.
In addition, she is working
out plants so that all the chil
dren also will be told the
stories of the operas and
other 'compositions lo be play
ed
The purpose, it was explain
ed, is to give the children a
background of understanding
of flhe music they will 'tear.
Symphony's
Program Here
Is Announced
"The program for the ?concert!
of the N. C. little 8ymphony
orchestra lucre "Friday evening, I
March 14, was announced this
week.
The orchestra will present two
concerts ha Franklin on that i
Bate, a matinee at 1:30 o'clock
for children from the schools
vf the county, ana the evening
performance for members at 8
p. m. at the Franklin Metho- :
?illst church.
No membership drive ii being '
?conducted this year. Instead, !
(.memberships are on sale at five
business homes, and it is left
ito those who wish to attend the
(concert to ga to those places
and obtain their admssion
inembewfaips.
Adult menlberships, $2, are
on sale at the Nant&hala Bower
is Light company ?first floor),
Ferry's and Angel's Drug stores,
and Carolina Pharmacy, in
Franklin, and at Miss Sara Gil
der's, In Highlands. Junior mem
Jjf rships, ior students who wish
to attend the evening conoert,
en 60 cents and are obtainable
at the higSh schools.
The orchestra, which will
spend the night here tfter fibe
concert,, ns in Franklin laft
Saturday, having spent the
ni#it here, en route to Demot
es t, Ga., for a concert.
The program for the evening
concert here March 14 fallows: i
Overture from tie opera, It- 1
alians in Algiers, .by Roftsini; 1
Symphony No. Id ("Cluck"), ,
Haydn; Ballel of the Syfiphs, ?
Berlioz; Walther's Prize Song, '
Wagner; Rondo for Glass Har
monica. Mozart (fl?te, otooe,
violin, 'cello); Pavane, Ravel;
Excerpts from The Comedians,
Kabalevsky;; Knigbtsbridge
March, Ooates; Meditation, frtwi
Thais, Massenet; and Gold and
611ver Waltz, Lehar.
Mis* Murray Is
Named President
Of Woman's Club |
Miss Harriet Murray was
elected president of the Frank
lin Junior Woman's club at a
meeting Monday evening at the
Presbyterian church. She sue-'
ceeds Mrs. W. T. Jenkins.
Others named to club offices
include Miss Doris Dalrymple,
first vice-president; Miss Kate j
McGee, second vice-president; !
Miss Mamie Lee Murray, third
vice-president; Mrs Betty Sue
McKay, treasurer; and Mrs.
Louise Ledford, corresponding
secretary.
Club members voted to aban
don plans for a spring style
show, and adopted instead a
magazine subscription project
as a means of raising funds
for the club's "Children's Cloth
ing Closet" project. 5
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Cochran, I
who lost their son in a myster
ious explosion at Mount Airy,
now are asked to pay for dam
age the blast allegedly did to a
Mount Airy building.
Mr. Cochran has received a
bijl for $167.21.
'it was mailed to him after
the building's owner, Wade C.
Moody, first had sought to col
lect it from the widow of young
William Homer Cochran, Jr., the
victim of the Mount Airy ex
plosion, and then from his
mother, Mrs. Cochran, Sr., when
she was in Mount Airy, recent
ly.
The owner of the building, a j
long-time resident of Mount
Airy, also is proprietor of the
Moody Funeral Home, the und
ertaking establishment that
buried the younger Cochran. ,
Mr. Cochran already has paid
him nearly $1,000 funeral
charges, he said.
William Homer Cochran, Jr.,
vocational agriculture teacher
at the 'White Plains, school, near
Mount Airy, was fatally injur
ed In an explosion that occur
red when he stepped on the
starter of his pickup truck., as
he started to work the morning
of December 31. Police blame a
booby trap, wired to the igni
tion of his track, but no clues
hsnre proved of raflue In ttnding
the person or persons w he plac
ed the booby trap under the
driver's seat of the truck
The vehicle was parked in
front of the .apartment build
Cochran, Who Lost Son
In Blast, Asked To Pay
For Damage To Building
ing where Mr. Cochran and his
bride of four months lived The
building is owned by Mr. Moody,
the undertaker who now has i
sent the elder Cochrans a letter
asking payment for damage to j
building.
Mr. Cochran, who is Frank
lin's acting police chief, this
week made the letter public In
doing so, he remarked that he
does not intend to pay the bill.
The letter follows:
"Mrs. Cochran was down the
9th and settled with me for
the services and etc. for Bill,
all of which we appreciate very
much.
''Mrs. Cochran and Imogene
(Mrs. William Homer Cochran.
Jr.) had talked about the bill
for the repairs of the building
amounting to $167.21 and Mrs.
Cochran and myself mentioned
it, and she stated to me that
she wc.uld have to let that be
handled by her husband, that
he wt.s the boss, and since. I
couldn't talk to you, X thought
I would just write you and ask
if ytm folks would pay this, I
think that by way of the acci
detfl, and considering all the
issces involved, that I should
be compensated for the repair
of the building, and I hope that
yon will agree.
"Imogene doesn't have any
thing to pay it with, and am
sure that if she did have it
j would not be Any question as
I'tn paying it,
"I would be gj-ad hear fcrom
!?ou relative te this."
Rufus Morgan Honored; Macon
Minister 1 Of 3 Given Rural
Fellowship Award Of Church
The Rex. A Rufus "Morgan,
lector of the St. Agnts Epis
?copal church "here, was present
ni the Rural Fellowship Award
"in recognition of his outstand
ing service to the church", At
an Episcopal Clergy conference
ill Ashevilie "February 14.
Presentation of tht award,
one of three granted in 1951
try the Rural Workers' Fellow
ship of the Episcopal church,
was made toy the Rt. 3iev. M
Gkeorge Henry, .)>iShop of the '?
Episcopal diocese of "Western -
North Caro?na.
The ward, in part, reads : "A.
Rufus Margwi, -a priest in the .
Church of Ood, Slaving faith- -
fuBy served and promoted the
interests of "She Church iis town
and country areas with Godly'
devotion, enthusiasri, andiloyal
ty; having given lreely *.f his)
wlsdcm, knowledge. and telents I
in the proclaiming of the gos- :
pel ttf our Laird Jrsus Ohrist l
to those living within the areas
he h*? served . .
Mr. Morgan, who serves a
number of WeSiern Korth Lar
olina anurches, has aield par- i
{
ishes in the -diocese of South
Carolina and Western North
Carolina. He is a past superin
tendent (of the Kanuga confer
ences, a member of the execu
tive cosncil, chairman of the
department of missions and
church extensions, director of
Valle Crucis Training school,
and is one of the diocesan rep
resentatives GJ the North Caro
lina Council of Churches. He
was a df legate to the provincial
synod meeting in Birmingham,
Ala., in (October, 1961. and has
represented the diocese several
times as such a delegate.
Hatchery And Farm
Supply Concern Will
Open Here Saturday
Frankfiii HaWiiery anil Farm
Sapply company will ' ha*e open
ing ceremonies at its new $15v
?0 structure Saturday.
This new buSisess, tftiich is
jwit off East Ma.in stre-et, in
the Roy Carpentei develroment
an a, is onraied by E. M. Hunt,
3f Denton.
FLORIDA MEN ;
LEASE LODGE,
GOLF BOURSE
Will Open About May 15;
New Operators Will
Hire Pro
The Franklin Lodge and golf
course has been leased by two
Florida business men, accord
in? to an announcement made
Tuesday by the lodge owners,
T. W. Angel, Jr. and Frank B.
Duncan.
John D. Martin and S. K Gil
bert. of St. Petersburg, Fla.,
have taken a lease and plan
'o op?n the lodge for the sea
son about May 15, the owners
said.
The new operators also plan
to hire a golf professional for
the season to help promote the
r.ame in this area, they added.
Remodeling of the main lodge
and cabins is now under way
and the grounds are being im
proved.
Mr. Angel and Mr. Duncan
purchased the lodge and ad
joining property from the
George K. Bowen estate in De
I cumber, and announced then
that they hoped to lease it in
the near future. Prior to the
death of Mr. Bowen, of Chicago,
i 111., the resort was operated by
his sister, Mrs. J. M. McGill, of
! Cassadaga, Fla.
Reservations for the season
may be made by writing Mr.
Martin or Mr. Gilbert at 2531
56th Street South, St. Peters
burg, Fla
Republicans
Meet Is Set
For Tonight
A Macon County Republican
! convention, to select delegates
f to the 12th congressional district
convention, will be held at 7:30
tonight at the courthouse.
The county convention was
called by the county Repub
! lican chairman, George W.
Reece, who earlier called upon
precinct chairmen to hold pre
cinct meetings to elect delegates
to the county session. <*
This county is entitled to
send 11 delegates and 11 alter
nates to the congressional dis
trict convention, which also will
be held here. The date far that
convention is March 8.
A county convention for the
election of the county Repub
lican chairman and secretary
will be held later, Mr. Reece
said.
Committee WTO Meet
A meeting of the Macon
HCounty Cittern's Committee for
! Education it slated for tonight
Thursday i at 7:36 o'clock at
j the V. F. W. building on Palmer
[street, it hat. been announced.
IT'S LONELY LIFE"!
One-time Canadian Trapping Pals Have Reunion Her-!
i
By J. P. BRADY
"1 guess I've met more people
here in the last few days than |
I have in the past 50 years",
mused a Canadian trapper as j
he and his former trapping i
partner- relaxed under a Snade
tree near Franklin the other
iay and stirred up a full bag
Df memories gathertd when j
they were a trapping team in
northern Ontario in the eariy j
1920's.
Speaking was Douglas Mitch
ell, a former resident of New
Xork state, who went moose j
bunting in the Canadian prov
ince in 1920, fell in love with
the country, and stayed.
Listening was his one-time
trapping partner, Donald Smith,
who is now living in Franklin
ind "had sense enough to get
)ut", referring, of course, to his
Jivorcing the trapping game for
i more stable existence. He
jnderstood Mr. Mitchell's re
nark about meeting people ? a
Tapper's life is a lonely one.
You've heard people say how
?omantic a life like that must
se . . . well, rheumatic would
be a better word," ;Mr. Smith
quipped.
The reunion here a. fortnight
ago Mr. Smith's home i>n
the Highlands tighwaj was tie
first for the two mtn since
early hi the 30's, wien Mr
Smith twice visfted Mr. MitcheD
itt the Ontario bush covntry.
As the two met talked, some
times seriously and otheivs jok
ingj.y, they relived the lonely
life in the bush eountry as it
was .soon alSer the end of "World
War 1.
Talk was all memories for
Mr. Smith, who spent only
about six years as a trapper.. It
was still fresh for Mr Mitchell,
who hasn't missed a trapping
season since 1920 and mans a
fire tower in the bush country
in the summer!
Like Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Smith, |
who came here two years ago |
from Michigan, invaded the I
bush country on a vacation in
1923.
Like Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Smith j
was intrigued by the country,
so he went in partnership with 1
a one-legged Frenchman, who i
quickly threw the partnership
int% bankruptcy at the end of
the first season by sneaking off
to a nearby trading post (about
40 tailes by snowshoet one
night and returned several days
later, bleary-eyed and hroke.
Mr. Swith trapped on his own
for a while after this, until Mr.
Mitchell heard of his plight
and:
"I guess he adopted me, more
or less." Mr. Smith explained.
Meet Every 10 Days
Thus the partnership was
bom and Mr. Smith continued
trapping "with Doug's help . . .
I was a greenhorn", the two
meeting about every 10 days
for the next six years at places
where their trap lines passed
near each other. When Mr.
Smith quit the game and re
turned to the states, Mr. Mitch
ell stayed on.
"Don got to be just about the
best trapper in the country,"
Mr. Mitchell declared, and his
ex-partner returned this com
pliment with:
"Doug was the best shot I
SEE NO. 1, PAGE 7
Invited To Macon
GOVERNOR SCOTT
DRIVE PLANNED
BY RED CROSS
Annual Fund Campaign
Headed By Love, To
Start Monday
The annual American Re<
Cross fund drive will get unde
way here Monday with Macoi
County's quota set at $2,826.
Heading this year's drive i
T. T Love, of Franklin, prin
cipal of Cowee school.
The fund drive chairman sail
local workers hope to complet
the campaign by the last o
March.
The remainder of this wee]
will be spent contacting work
ers throughout the county am
distributing campaign litera
ture in preparation for open
ing the drive, he said.
Coleman M. Reece, head o
the Highlands branch, is ii
charge of the Highlands cam
paign.
Plan Meets
In 14 Farm
Communitie*
Fourteen community meeting
for farm men and women wii
be held throughout the count
during March, carrying out th
theme, "Homes Designed fo
Living", the county agent's of
fice announced this week
The joint sessions are an an
nual feature here, sponsored b
the county farm and home
demonstration agents.
Discussion at each meetin
will center on home design, in
eluding proper construction, se
lection of a building site, an
remodeling hints.
Color movies on 4-H cam
activities, last year's poultr
tour and Achievement Da
highlights, and other phases o
farm operation in this count:
will be shown at each meetini
by W. W. (Bill) Sloan, directo
of rural service and personne
for the Nantahala Power an(
Light company here. The vari
ous activities were filmed b;
Mr. Sloan during the past year
All meetings will begin at 7:31
p. m. The schedule follows:
March 3, Nantahala school
March 4, Tilltco Baptist church
March 5. Dryman's Chapel
March 6, Cullasaja school
March 7. Hickory lino!! Metho
dist church; Ma ch 10. Unioi
school; March 11, Otto school
March 12, Clark's Chapel Meth
odist church; March 13, Cowe
school; March 14. Mack Wilson'
home; March 17. Iotla school
March 18, Cartoogechaye school
March 19. East Franklin school
March 20, Patton Methodi:
church.
Select the meeting "neare;
your home and mark the dat
on your calendar so you will nc
forget", th" county agents sus
jested to farm men and womei
PI.AN BOX SIPPER
A benefit box supper an
cake walk, sponsored by th
Cullasaja Parent-Teacher assc
ciation, is planned for Satur
day at 7:30 p. m. at the schoo
it has been announced. Pro
ceeds will be used to buy play
ground equipment, it was said
SCOn THINKS
HE CAN COME
j ON MARCH 18
He And Erwin To Inspect
New Macon Buildings;
Program Planned
Governor W. Kerr Scott
this week indicated that
he will accept an invita
tion to visit Macon Coun
ty's seven new school
buildings, and part' irate
in a count . wide program
i in the nature ot a dedica
tion 01" the 11 " ' uildings.
The tentative date is
I March IX.
| He will be accompanied here
by Dr. Clyde A. Erwin. state
I superintendent of public in
. struction.
' The invitation was extended
to the two state officials by
, i Holland McSwain, county su
perintendent of schools, some
time ago, and Tuesday uover
nor Scott, in a telephone con
j versation with Mr. McSwain,
r said he plans to come here to
?j inspect the schools constructed
in this county's million dollar
s building program, and added
. that he thought he could ar
range to be here March 18. He
?j will be in Western North Caro
e lina on a road-inspection trip
{ about that time
While no details of the day's
k program have been completed,
_ Mr. McSwain said the arrange
i ment calls for the governor and
. state superintendent to visit the
. new schools at Union, cartooge
chaye, Nantahala, Iotla, Frank
f lin, East Franklin, and High
n lands. Also tentatively planned
- is a luncheon at one of the
schools, with a speaking pro
| gram and general dedication
service at another.
In his campaign for governor,
| Mr. Scott advocated state bond
' issues for rural roads and to
aid counties in building schools,
and this county received $363,
5 000 as its share of the state's
school building bonds. That
amount supplemented the $512,
:s 000 in bonds issued by this
county for schools.
y '
Service ? *tJ
Here Tomorrow It Part
Of World Movement
When Macon County people
gather at the Franklin Presby
terian church tomorrow (Fri
day) at 3:30 o'clock for prayer,
the group will be one of thou
sands the world over joining in
united prayer for guidance in
today's troubled world.
The World Day of Prayer
program here, sponsored by the
women's organizations of Frank
lin churches but for persons of
g ' all faiths throughout the coun
r ty, will be marked by prayers
1 ; and a dramatization, "Mother
j Liberty's Children". Miss Har
. riet Murray will be the program
P leader.
The meeting was set for the
3 afternoon to make it possible
for school children to attend,
. i and those in charge expressed
: the hope that business houses
? i in Franklin will close from 3:30
J ; to 4:30 so that their ejnployes
1 may attend the one-hour serr
1 ice.
. I A major purpose of the world
wide project is to help bring
e about world understanding and
s world fellowship, it was said.
: 4 Churches Here
To F.ffcrts
For C j.rvey Sunday
it Representatives of the local
e Baptist, Methodist. Presoyterian,
>t and Episcopal churrhes plan to
conduct a visitation survey in
Franklin Sunday afternoon.
Those planning to assist with
the house-to-house canvass
d | have been asked by church
ie leaders to meet at the Metho
i- J dist church at 2 o'clock.
- J In past years, churches here
1. have conducted individual sur
- veys, but this year planned to
- unite the effort, church offl
. J dais explained.