CIRCULATION LAST WEES Mil Year Ago Last W?ek - 25*5 itWf tt Iff, l^iablanV JSaconinn PRICE 10 Cents VOL LXVII? NO. 32 FRANKLIN, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1952 TWELVE PAG1 Youth Dies In Plunge Monday Over Waterfall Recover Body Of Tourist In Pool At Base Of Dry Falls A 19-year-old sightseer slipped and plunged 125 feet to his death over Dry Falls late Mon day morning before the horri fied eyes of his wife, mother and father, and younger broth er and sister. Volunteers recovered the body of J. B. Kilby, Jr., of Augusta, Ga., from a deep pool at the base of the falls at 2:45 p. m. ? some three hours after the youth plummeted over the falls, a top scenic attraction in Ma con County that annually draws thousands of visitors. An estimated 100 persons lin ed the steep banks of the can yon below the falls as men searched for the body. Many tourists unsuspectingly came down the winding path to view the falls, only to learn of the tragic accident. Young Kilby and his family were returning from a week end visit in Knoxville, Tenn., their former home. The youth's 18-year-old wife, Virginia, begged him not to walk out over the falls, accord ing to persons on the scene at the time of the accident. He apparently slipped on the moss coverecf rocks at the top of the cascade. An eyewitness, the Rev. R. E. Brown, of Raleigh, superinten dent of the Raleigh Methodist district, said in a statement to Jack Laros, Highland district ranger, that he heard a scream about 11:30 as he reached the first turn in the path leading to the falls and turned in time to see young Kilby topple over the brink. The minister said the youth flipped in the air, struck the rocks below head first, and then disappeared from view in the water below. The distance from the top of the falls to the rocks where he hit first is about 75 feet. The body was found in a small seething pool carved out by the falling water some 50 feet be low that point. Sid Carter and Willard Crisp, both of Highlands, some of the first on the scene, dived for the body in a large pool below the falls for more than an hour. Mr. . Carter received treatment for cuts and bruises suffered in his search for the body: Radioman Third Class Earl Baty, of Highlands, on leave from the navy, located young SEE NO. 2, PAGE 12 Floridian Racks Up Hole-ln-One On Local Course Ernest C. Wilkinson, of West Palm Beach, Fla., Joined the ranks of golfdom's fabulous ' here last Thursday afternoon when he chalked up a hole in-one on the local nine-holer. Mr. Wilkinson, a guest at the Franklin lodge, laced a fire iron shot into the cap on the 153-yard No. 4 hole. He round ed out the day's play with a two over par 38. JacK Martin and Stotts Gilbert, owners of the lodge, were playing with the Flor idian when he made the one in-a-million shot. The Weather The week's temperatures and rainfall, as recorded in Franklin by Manson Sales, I*. S. weather observer, and at the Coweeta flydrologic Laboratory: COWEETA Temperatures . High Low Rain Wednesday 92 60 Thursday 84 60 trace Friday 81 62 .05 Saturday 85 60 .12 Sunday ' 88 52 Monday 86 57 .24 Tuesday 84 61 .21 Wednesday 61 .12 FRANKLIN Temperatures High Low Rain Wednesday 94 64 Thursday 88 65 .28 Friday 82 65 44 Saturday 88 63 .10 Sunday 90 55 Monday ... 88 60 .03 Tuesday 88 65 1.23 Sen. Kefauver Guest At Highlands Club, Leaves Today Sen. Estes Kefauver, of Tennessee, a leading, but un successful contender for the Democratic presidential nom I ination, is a guest at the Highlands Country Club. The amiable senator, whose name has almost disappeared from newspapers since the nomination of Got. Adiai Stevenson at the party's Chi cago convention last month, is just resting ami playing golf, the club reports. He arrived Friday and plans to leave sometime today (Thursday). MAYORISSUES STATEMENT ON SEWERCHARGE Says Move Made As Way To Financing More Facilities Mayor W. C. Burrell this week issued the following state ment in explanation of the de cision of the Franklin board of aldermen to make charge for sewerage service: '.'Due to the fact the disposal plant which the Town of Franklin is now using is badly in need of repairs and is in adequate, the tdwn board de cided that, like most other towns in Western North Caro lina, they would have to put on a sewerage charge to maintain the sewerage system and pro vide for the increasing number of customers. "The town board felt the sewerage charge was the only fair way to provide for mainte nance and expansion of the sys tem, whereas had the necessary funds been raised by addition al taxes those who did not use the sewerage system would have been taxed. "We are sorry this explana tion did not get in the paper earlier. Due to my absence from town, I was unable to get it in last week's paper." RAISE GIVEN GARBAGE MEN Town Board Authorize! Clerk To Advertise Back Taxes In regular session Mondaj night the Franklin board oi aldermen: (X) authorized Town Clerk C. O. Ramsey to advertise delin quent 1951 taxes. (2) granted town garbage employes a $10 a month raise. (3) accepted a bid submitted by Radford Jacobs, offering the town a 12 per cent discount on gas and oil. (4) accepted a bid submitted by Macon Construction com pany to furnish and deliver gravel for town paving projects at $1.50 per ton, provided Alli son Construction company would standby its bid of 60 cents per square foot for pav ing. The town plans to use Powell bill funds this year to pave Macon avenue, Green street, and others, depending on how far the money goes. In accept ing Macon Construction com pany's gravel bid, the added provision was made in view of Allison's bid to furnish gravel for $2.50 per ton and paving for 60 cents per square foot. Mayor W. C. Burrell was asked to call the Allison company to SEE NO. 3, PAGE 6 PLAN BAZAAR A bazaar ? featuring hand made things, including foods will be sponsored tomorrow (Friday) at 10 a. m. by the Women's Society of Christian Service of the Franklin Meth odist church at the show room in the Nantahala Power and Light company building, it has been announced. BAPTISTS OPEN MEETINGTODAY Plan First Session This Morning At Oak Grove; Friday At Iotla Representatives from Macon ^ County's 42 Baptist churches ? will gather this (Thursday) j morning at the Oak Grove church for the opening session ' of the association's 49th annual meeting. Tomorrow they will meet at ' the Iotla church for an all-day j session. Today's session gets under j way at 10 o'clock and features a number of reports on the as sociation's work this past year. Special speakers slated for the opening session include Dr. W. K. McGee, director of the de partment of religion of the N. C. Baptist hospitals; M. A. ! Huggins, general secretary of j I the Baptist state convention; ; W. C. Reed, general superin- j tendent of the state Baptist orphanage; L. L. Carpenter, ed itor of the Bibical Recorder; and B. Frank Hasty, a member of the staff of Wake Forest college. Tomorrow's session, which begins at 9:30 a. m., in addition ' to reports, lists addresses by the ? Rev. Charles E. Parker, a for mer pastor of the First Baptist i church here, who is represent ing the Council on Christian Education: M. H. Kendall, rep resenting Mars Hill college; and James M. Hayes, superintendent i and chaplain of the state Bap tist homes. Moderator J. Horner Stock 1 ton will preside ever the two day meeting. 1IT IK Welling Uels First Cluster For War Duty , Capt. M. G. Welling, who re j cently returned from duty in Korea, has been awarded his . first cluster to the Bronze Star . medal for meritorious service in , Korea, according to an army announcement received here. In Korea Capt. Welling was commander of Company K, 7th Infantry regiment, 3rd division. His wife is the former Miss Katherine Godwin, of Frank [ lin. | A veteran of World War II, I he wears the Purple Heart and l the second award of the Com bat Infantryman badge. He re ceived the Bronze Star cluster In recognition of service in Ko rea from February 1 to June r 15, 1952, the announcement ' said. NO DRAFT CALL Macon County will receive no draft call in September, ac cording to the local selective service board. A five-man induction and 22 man pre-inductlon examination contingent will be sent to Knox vllle, Tenn., Wednesday. ?Stiff Photo by J. P. Brad' A 19-year-old sightseer Monday slipped and plunged to his death over Dry Falls, Macon's top scenic attraction on US 64 between Highlands and Franklin. The arrow in the photograph shows the approximate spot where he slipped? the dotted line indicates his path of fall to the rocks below. (See Page 12 for photograph of volunteers searching for his body at the base of the falls). Are Opening Flower Show In Highlands Mrs. Byron Simonson, chair man of the ninth annual High lands flower show, has an nounced the completion of final plans for the show to be held at the Museum of Natural His tory building Saturday and Sunday. The committee calls atten tion ' to several new classes in the schedule. One is a class called "Highlands Favorite Flower Pot". The Southern Highlands have given us many j quaint customs and sayings, among them, "making a flower pot",, a saying used to indicate an artistic arrangement of flowers, usually containing mix ed flowers, simply arranged. It is also thought of as a "summer bouquet". This class has been added in recognition of the ability of many individuals to make an artistic "flower pot" or "summer bouquet", the com mittee said. A class for novices, those who have never won a blue ribbon in an artistic division of a ! SEE NO. 2, PAGE 6 'HILLBILLY DAT BIG SUCCESS Highlands Out-Shines Hollywood; Plan Day As Yearly Event (See Pictures on Page 6) Highlands out - Hollywooded Hollywood's "typical" hill-billies Friday in an hilarious all-day "shindig" that apparently made Dogpatch a rank amateur til the realm of hillblllylsm. Not only was the "highest In corporated town in Eastern America" filled to the brim with uninhibited, raklshly - dressed townspeople and vacationers, even motorists just passing through became intrigued by the activities and stopped for the day, invading stores in search of glneham, flop hats, overalls, bandanas, (anything with a movie hillbilly flair) and joined in the fun. It didn't take long for the uninitiated, those "pore on fortunate human beans" dress ed in every-day clothes, that It was "Hillbilly Day" in High-j lands and that those not dress ed accordingly were (sob> des-| SEE NO. 1, PAGE 6 FLYING SAUCERS, YOU. SAY? Shucks, those things are outdated around Macon County. Flying teacups are the vogue here now. C. Ranks Finger, locaJ attorney and vice-president of the Franklin Javcees, is shown above piloting the latest model across town square on his way to the courthouse.' But, don't take it seriously, it's just a trick shot turned out by The Press photo grapher. "" " V > .>*? Years First Polio Victim 1 'Doing Fine Macon Comity's first polio case for the year was reported this week by the local health department. Wanda Jeanette Willis, two year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Willis, of Iotla, was taken to the Ashevllle Or thopedic home Friday where her illness was diagnosed as polio, Yesterday (Wednesday) the healtta department reported she was "doing fine". WANTS KIDS TO ATTENDCOWEE School Board's Action Protested By Rote Creek Delegation A delegation of men and 'women appeared at Monday's meeting of the county board of education to protest the hoard's recent decision to send children in the Rose Creek community to Iotla school instead of Co wee. September 3 was set as the opening date of county schools. An over-all classroom short age in the school system is be hind the board's action in send ing Rose Creek children to Iotla school, according to Chairman Bob S. Sloan. He explained that both Iotla and Cowee schools have eight classrooms, and added that an increase in attendance this year will make it necessary to hold (?lasses in the school auditor iums. If Rose Creek children were nllowed to attend Cowee school this year. Mr. Sloan said it ivould mean that 10 classes would be held at Cowee and anlv eight at Iotla. "We have attempted to even things up." he explained, "by having nine classes at each school. It seems right to equal ize it rather than have over :rowded conditions at one school." During the meeting, a male nember of the delegation re narked, "our kids go to Cowee, SEE NO. 1, PAGE 12 , -ARM TOUR SLATED FOR NEXT WEEK Vill Feature Livestock And Community Visits, Agent Says The annual Macon County i'arm and Home tour is slated August 15 and this year will leal primarily with livestock tnd progress made by commun ties in the W. N. C. Rural Community Development con ?8t, according to County Agent J. W. MendenhalL As In the past, everyone In Jje county, businessmen and farm men and women alike, Is nvtted to make the tour with lie county agent and review he county's agricultural prog ress. Special emphasis will be plac id on both beef and dairy cat tle and stops will be made in the Carson Chapel and Holly Springs communities. Both com munities are entered In the rural development contest. Lunch will be served by the Holly Springs women at the new community center. A small sharge will be made. Following lunch those attend ing will assemble at the voca tional agricultural building at Franklin High school for a beef and dairy cattle shew. The motorcade will get under way at the Agricultural build ing promptly at 9 a. m.. the county agent said. DRAMA GROUP IS ORGANIZED Murray Picked Temporary Chairman; Plan To Give 'Dear Ruth' The Community Players, amateur theatrical group vas organized here Tuesday night, and plans were made to pre sent "Dear Ruth", Broadway and motion picture comedy, as the organization's first produc tion. Tryouts for this first of a-, proposed series of plays will be held the evening of August Iff,, and it is hoped to present "Dear Ruth" the last of August or early in September. Frank I. Murray, Jr., was: chosen temporary chairman of the new organization.. . A second meeting will be held at the Nantahala building next Tuesday night to perfect the organization and make de tailed plans for the first pro duction. The Community Players Is a non-profit organization, which will seek to stimulate Interest In dramatics, give local talent a vehicle, and provide enter tainment for the community, It was explained. Waterless \ Weaverville Gets Help From Franklin An almost waterleas Weav erville rot a helping band last week from Franklin ? an other small town that knows what it means to have its water supply approach ten. Hard-hit bv the drought, WVav^nril1' nln' Ti'le^s west of Ash(vi!'?, borrowed a pumpinp and purlfvi-n outfit from Fr~nk'in to hu Id up its dirp'ni'h'ne lvr.'er vooly. The loan ra'j'cln't have , come from a more under standing: town. Onlv last year Franklin was a'most down to its last drop ??' water during a dry soell. A new well solved it' problem. S'.fAUT KT' MON SLATED Thf cr\ r' - reunion will ' 1 - : iv at 'lie old h' - i:\mily sathering. REVIVAL ST \KTS A '.'""k-Ionu yoi'h revival ?er;e star' . S'lrv'ay evening at the Firs* Baptist church with preaching bv *he church pastor, the Rev. M W. Chapman. Serv ices nr? planned nightly at 8 o'clock.