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Franklin, N. C., Thur*day, June 20, H57
\V e have forty million
reasons for failure, but
not a single excuse.
? Rudyard Kipling.
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Twelve Pages
Dr. Morgan Named
'Minister Of Year'
Local Episcopal
Minister Honored
By Publication
A Macon County native and
widely-known Episcopal clergy
man. Dr. A. Rufus Morgan, is
named as North Carolina "Rural
Minister of the Year" in the July
issue of The Progressive Farmer
magazine.
Dr. Morgan served in a number
of pastorates in North Carolina
and South Carolina before return
ing to his native county in 1940.
Since then, he has had charge of
from three to 11 churches and has
established several new ones, in
cluding one on the Cherokee In
dian Reservation. He now serves
the Cherokee church, one at
Sylva, and three in this county,
St. Agnes. St. Cyprian's, and St.
John's.
His active schedule includes ser
vice on the Town and Country
Committee of the North Carolina
Council of Churches, and for sev
eral years he has been a member
of the Southern Advisory Com
mittee of the National Council of
Churches. Last year he served as
president of the area committee.
This is the ninth year that rural
minister awards have been pre
sented in Southern states by Em
ory University, in Atlanta, Ga?
and The Progressive Farmer to
preachers who have given out
standing service to farm people.
Committees
Named For
Series Here
Franklin ministers have se
lected committees to prepare for ?
the annual Interdenominational
revival series at Friendship Tab
ernacle the week of July 7-13.
They are:
Parking: Horace Nolen, chair- 1
man. Paul West, Roy Biddle, Jr., 1
and Robert J. Korte. 1
Music: Mrs. Margaret Cooper, i
SEE NO. 2. PAGE 12
Dr. Morgan
New Episcopal
Minister Here
The Rev. John Westervelt
Tucker, a June graduate of
Bexley Hall Divinity School of
Kenyon College, Gambler, Ohio,
arrived in Franklin Sunday to
succeed the Rev. A. Rufus Mor
gan as minister of St. Agnes
Episcopal Church.
Mr. .Morgan will retire Octob
er 15 from St. Agnes. However,
he will continue as minister of
churches In Cherokee anc( Sylva
which he now serves on a once
a-month basis.
A minister since 1913, Mr.
Morgan has been pastor of St.
Agnes since 1940.
The new minister attended
Brevard College and received
his undergraduate degree from
Catawba College. From there, he
went to Kenyon.
He and Mrs. Tucker are living ^
In Mr. .Morgan's cabin, on Car
toogechaye, until the rectory,
Located next to the church, Is
ready for them. Mrs. Tucker is t
the former Miss Maybelle En- t
nan, of Ashevllle. Mr. Tucker v
SEE NO. i>, PAGE 12 H
Houts And
Goldston
Changed
Methodist Pastors
Assigned To New
Conference Jobs
R. T. Houts, Jr., pastor ol
Highlands Methodist Church
and R. J. Goldston, of West Ma
con Circuit, were the only two
Macon County ministers whose
appointments were changed
Monday at the 1957-58 Western
North Carolina Methodist Con
ference at Lake Junaluska.
Mr. Houts will go to Murphy
Methodist Church, after serving
in Highlands for three years. At
Murphy, he will succeed the
Rev. A. L. Maxwell, Jr., who
goes to Sylva.
Mr. Goldston, who has served
West Macon Circuit for three
years, Is going to Thomasvllle's
West End Methodist Church.
There, he will succeed the Rev,
Gene H. Little. Mr. Little will
take over the Highlands church.
Succeeding Mr. Goldston on
the circuit Is Earl T. Crowe, a
student at Emory University,
Atlanta.
The Rev. Sherman Beird, who
has been assisting the Rev.
Glenn Anderson on Macon Cir
cuit, joined the conference and
was assigned to Whlttier charge.
The Rev. J. C. Sorrells, who
lives out on Cowee but serves
3ylva Circuit, was returned to
his assignment.
The Rev. Frank C. Smathers,
Waynesvllle district superinten
ient (the Waynesvllle district
ncludes Macon County), will
serve for another year.
Other Methodist ministers in
;he county who were returned
vere the Rev. S. B. Moss, of
?Yanklin Methodist Church; the
lev. R. L. Poindexter, of Frank
in Circuit; the Rev. Paul Heaf
ler, of Snow Hlll-Iotla; and the
lev. Glenn Anderson, of Macon
Circuit.
Moving day for the ministers
vill be next week.
SOCIAL SECURITY VISIT
The last of this month's visits
ly a Social Security representa
ative will be made Tuesday. He
rill be at the Agricultural Build
ng, Franklin, from 9 a. m. to 2
IN FARAWAY ALASKA ?
Teacher Finds There's A New Frontier
There still are a few frontiers
left about the world, and a
Macon County man and wife
are just back from two years
of living on one.
Meet Wllford W. Corbln and
Mrs. Virginia Lorenz Corbln,
late of Wales, Alaska, where
Mr. Corbln taught Eskimos in
a one-room school (not Igloo,
he Is careful to point out; "the
Eskimos don't live in igloos").
The trip home was by plane
and the Corbins report the con
trast In Wales and Macon
County as startling. When they
left, It was snowing. Five weeks
ago today, Mr. Corbln was wal
rus fishing. The tall trees and
dense foliage of Macon scenery
seem queer after months of
snow and ice and only scrubby
stunted vegetation.
They Like It
But don't get the idea the
Corbins didn't like it. They did.
In fact, they're tentatively
planning to return In the fall.
What drew them there initial
ly, Mr. Corbin says, is the higgl
er salary paid teachers In
Alaska by the U. S. government,
which operates the school for
the Eskimos.
What is drawing him hack,
he adds, is a fondness for the
Eskimo people and a sense of
adventure that comes from liv
ing in a virgin country where
there are few white men or
white men's ways and ideas.
He is disappointed at the
lack of knowledge among Amer
icans about Alaska. Disappoint
ed, too, over the disinterest.
But he's doing his share to
bring both knowledge and Inter
est.
From their two years at
Wales, the Corblns have more
than 1,000 color slides of the
area, its people, and its wild
life. He has shown many of
these at private gatherings a
rourid the county, as well as to
the Higdonvllle community or
ganization.
Listening to Mr. Corbin, a
person would hear something
like this:
There are 120 in ,our village
and we are the only Americans.
SEE NO. 4, PAGE 12
? Franklin Pre.ts Photo
'Jim' With His Leg In A Ca*t
'Jim' Learns Something About Boxers
"Jim Crow", the celebrated pet crow of the Harrc L. Bryant
clan in East Franklin, really ha.s something to crow about.
"This business of being a family pet can have its rough
moments," the talkative crow informed a reporter this week.
"Look at this Lame leg of mine," 'Jim' urged. "Busted clear
through . . . man! what a life us pets .do lead."
"Care to tell me the whole story, 'Jim'?"
"Story Man, I could give you enough to write four vol
umes . . . anyway, there I was playing in the back yard with
the kids, you know, kinda working off the old spare tire
around the middle, when wham! this great big Boxer starts
batting me around like a Badminton bird. Brother!"
"A Boxer Jumped you?" v .
"Yeah, one of those dogs with a pushed-in face. He be
longs to Lee Poindexter."
"Well?"
"Well, the next thing I know I'm over at Dr. J. H. Fisher's,
he's the vet down the road, and he's telling 'em that my left
leg is broken. Edward Bryant, he's the one who brings me my
chow, is pretty well shaken up? or is it, all shook up?over me
having to wear this big splint the doc made. Me? I've learned
that any boxing I do from here on out won't be with a Boxer."
Workers To Make
Exhibit For Fair
The job of preparing the
"challenge exhibit" for the 1957
N. C. State Fair in Raleigh is
Macon County's.
It will be made under the
supervision of the Local Agricul
tural Workers' Council, of which
Wayne Proffitt Is president, and
will be for the western district.
A Raleigh official, John W.
Crawford, who is with the pro
gram planning department of
the extension service at N. C.
State College, met last Thurs
day with members of the work
SEE NO. 1. PAGE' 12
Ail-Night Singing
Set At Cartoogechaye
The annual summer all-night
singing wil be held tomorrow'
(Friday), beginning at 7:45 p. m..
at the Cartoogechaye Church of
God
All singers are invited to at
tend and participate. The public
is invited.
SING AT WINDY GAP
The fourth Sunday sing will
be held at the Windy Gap Bap- 1
tist Church Sunday starting at ?
1:30 p. m? according to Lon
Thompson, president, who in- <
vites the public and all singers 1
to attend. t
The Tell-Tale Marks Of Vandalism Are Being Found In Picturesque Wayah District Of Nantahala Forest
a ( ? Pr?M stair Photo
A heavy concrete bench at WajnJi Crest has been broken,
probably by vandals pounding on it to break fire wood.
, ? f*r*u SUff Phot#
Vandals h??e ripped out wood and roofing from this shelter 1
I
at a camping area. For what? See next picture. I
-Pt.? flta* enow
To build a fire, that's what, as evidenced by this picture of
roofing found by Joel Cawthorne, of Franklin, and The Frtxm
photographer. (See complete storjr on vandalism in the Wayah
Distdict on Page 3 of this issue.)
Plans For Fourth
Here Shaping Ud
'Frontier Day*
Events Slated;
Beauties Enter
A festive Fourth of July witt
plenty of entertainment Ls ir
store for Maconlans and visit
ors.
Under the planning of mem
bers of the Franklin Jaycees
the many activities of the day
long celebration are dropping
into place.
By special proclamation, the
Fourth will be "Frontier Day"
in town and everyone is being
urged to join the spirit of the
occasion by dressing as they did
in the old days.
Hall Callahan, "Frontier Day'
chairman, this week reported a
number of prizes are to be giv
en in connection with a variety
of mountain contests.
These contests, which will be
held at the west side of the
courthouse, include hog calling
a clothes hanging race for wom
en, greasy pig. greasy pole, sack
wheelbarrow, and tire rolling
races, log sawing and chopping
contests and many others.
Prizes are also being offered
the man and women wearing
the most authentic frontier
clothes; the oldest man and
woman present; and the parent
with the most children.
As an added attraction for
the young people, a watermelon
eating contest is to be staged,
he said.
Roy M Biddle, Jr., chairman
of the "Miss Fourth of July"
beauty contest, a feature of
night activities. Tuesday report
ed more than 25 business firms
had registered contestants for
the contest.
He said he expects to have
about 50 beauties competing for
the title
Merchants Plan
'Sidewalk' Trade
Event June 28
Franklin merchants are get
ting ready for their big sum
mer trade promotion, "Side
walk Carnival", on June 28.
And, they'll actually take to
the sidewalks to sell merchan
dise in the one-day sale.
Each of the 62 participating
merchants will have tables of
bargain items on the sidewalk
outside the stores for the bay
ing public to look over, ac
cording to Sam Gibson, chair
man of the chamber of com
merce committee sponsoring
the trade event.
In the event of rain, the
chairman said the bargain
tables will be just inside the
stores, "as close to the side
walk as they can put 'em
without getting things wet."
Mr. Gibson said the "Side
walk Carnival" l? something
entirely new to Western North
Carolina. If successful, it will
become an annual thing, he
added.
TO GIVE 'HARVEY' ?
Community Theatre Group
Is Revived In Highlands
. HIGHLANDS? The Highlands
Community Theatre, inactive
since 1950, Is resuming its sum
mer activities here, and will
present the first of a series of
plays July 3, 4, and 5.
The announcement was made
this week by Jack H. Wilcox, the
organization's president.
He explained that the Town
of Highlands requested the
theatre's reactivation, as a part
of the town's effort to provide
recreation and an opportunity
for creative activity. The the
atre's long-time policy has been
to use local amateur talent,
under expert direction.
Ttte^town has refurbished the
old school building, formerly
used as a theatre, and the com
munity organization plans to
rent or buy lighting equipment
modern In design and suitable
for dramatic productions.
The first production will be
"Harvey", a comedy said to
have been one of the most suc
cessful of the past decade or
JO.
It will star James Reese, who
:ame up from Atlanta to play
with the Community organiza
lon in 1940 and 1941, and is
Mr. Reese
now a professional actor who
has had Important roles In
stage, television and screen pro
ductions. He will come to High
lands from New York to work
with the summer theatre group
here.
The second play of the sea
son. "Gaslight" will be present
ed July 17, 18, and 19. A total
of four or five productions Is
planned for this year.
Fred Allen, who served as di
rector in 1950, Is returning to
direct this season's plays.
Prior to 1950, the Community
Theatre for many years had an
important role in Highlands'
summer activities.
The. Weather
The week's temperatures and rainfall below
ir e recorded In rranklln by Midimi Stilaa,
U. S. weather observer: In Hlrhlanda by
Fiidor N. Hall and W. C. Newton. TV A
observers; and at the Coweta l^rdroloffta
Laboratory. Readings ara far the 24-hour
period ending at 1 a.m. of the day listed.
FRANKLIN
Wed.. June 12 91 60 .00
Thursday 89 61 00
Friday 85 62 .00
Saturday 89 61 .00
Sunday 89 54 .00
Monday 84 64 .50
Tuesday 86 64 .31
Wednesday 63 .00
HIOHLAND8
Wed.. June 12 84 60 .00
Thursday 82 56 .00
ft-iday 78 58 .00
Saturday 78 54 .00
Sunday 83 56 trace
Wonday 78 60 .31
Tuesday 81 61 .33
Wednesday 56 .00
COWETA
Wed.. June 13 90 57 .00
Thursday 87 58 .00
Friday 83 58 .00
Saturday 87 57 .30
Sunday 87 59 .0*
Monday 85 89 .90
Tuesday 87 83 .73
Wednesday 59 JO