Net Paid CIRCULATION Last Week 2991 JRacomatt Children often hold a marriage together ? by keeping the par ents too busy to quar rel with each other. ?Franklin P. Jones. 72nd Year ? No. 40 Franklin, N. C., Thursday, October 3, 1957 Price 10 Cents Sixteen Pages CORN ON THE COB Frank Burnette, of Route 3, is holding a whoppin' big ear of corn he grew. There are 29 rows on the ear, it weighs one and a half pounds, is 10 inches long, and 10 inches around at the center. Other large ears, but not quite as big, are piled below. The corn is a cross of Jarvis Prolific and Hawkins Prolific and Mr. Burnette's been planting it for four years now. He's getting about 150 bushels to the acre. Naturally his corn won a blue ribbon at the county fair. For Secondary Roads ? Macon Allocation Totals $24,868.60 Macon County is getting $24, 868.60 as its share of the special $2 million secondary road fund recommended by Governor Hodges and approved by the last General Assembly. The 10-county 14th Highway Di vision, of which Macon is a part, is receiving a total allocation of $164,169.60. Only one other county is getting County Ahead In Savings Bond Sales With better than three months still to go, Macon County already has reached 93.9 per cent of its 1957 dollar goal in the combined sale of Series E and Series H US. Savings Bonds. Through August, sales here a mounted to $183,980.17, according to H. W. Cabe, volunteer chair man. This eighth month total is 93.9 per cent of the goal, he said more money than Macon. That's Henderson County, with an alloca tion of $28,306. The funds will be used on coun ty road improvements on the basis of need during the current fiscal year. A formula based on the unpav ed rural roads in an individual county, divided by the total miles of unpaved rural roads in the state, was used by the Secondary Roads Department In allocating the money to the counties. How the funds will be used will be left to the discretion of the division engineers and the individ ual county boards of commission ers, subject to the review of the Secondary Roads Department and the Director of Highways, accord ing to Highway Director W. P. ?Babcock. The other counties In the 14th Division, and their allocations, are Cherokee, $20,848.40; Clay, $9, 41620; Graham. $8,272.20; Hay wood, $16,759.60; Jackson, $20, 791; Polk, $15,668.20; Swain. $6, 665; Transylvania. $12,574.40. A.S.C.VOTE SCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY Committeemen For Communities Will Be Picked Here Tuesday will be election day for the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation program here. Community committeemen in each of the 11 A.S.C. communities are to be elected from a list or nominees prepared recently. Polls will be open from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. Three committeemen will be picked for each community. The chairman and vice-chairman of each automatically becomes the delegate and alternate delegate, respectively, to the county-wide convention, which is set later in the month. A county A.S.C. com mittee will be elected from among the delegates attending the con vention and it will be this group's function to oversee the A S C. pro grams during 1957. Polling places for the election are as follows: Franklin. Agricul tural Building; Cowee, Rickman's store; Burningtown, Parrish store; Ellijay, Estes service station; Mill shoal, Holly Springs Community Building; Cartoogechaye. Huscus son's store; Smith's Bridge, Par rish store; Nantahala, Bateman's store; Flats, Scaly Post Office: Highlands, Talley's store: and Sugarfork, Willie Moses' store. Invitations For Dedication Have Been Sent Invitations have been mailed to some 200 persons for the dedica tion dinner of Angel Hospital's new out-patient clinic wing next week, according to Dr. Angel, med ical director. The special b?nqu?t is set for Oct. 11 in the high school cafe teria. Highlighting the program will be an address by Dr. C. C. Car penter, dean of the Bowman Oray School of Medicine of Wake For est College, Winston-Salem. Dr. Carpenter's topic will be "Private Enterprise and Its Con tributions to the Development of Good Medical Care in North Car olina". An open house is set for the afternoon at the hospital and the public will be allowed to inspect the new out-patient wing. Open house hours will be 2 to 5 p. m. and the Rev. S. B. Moss will con duct a brief dedicatory service at 3 o'clock in the new $300,000 wing. GETTIN' A BRUSH-OFF A contented pup relaxes while retting the brush from her young mistress. Gall Proffitt, who was making sure aer pet would shine in the pet show Saturday at the county fair. The pooch didn't cop a blue ribbon in the show, but that doesn't mean she's not blue-ribbon in Gail's eyes. Gail is the daughter of >Ir. and Mrs. Wayne Proffitt, of Franklin. FETED AT DINNER PARTY ? Rebers Celebrate 63rd Anniversary Mr. and Mrs. Ted Reber enter tained with a dinner party at their home on Wednesday, Sept. 25, honoring Mr. Reber's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Fred W Reber. on VISITOR TELLS CLUB ? Pushing Self-Government On Some Is A Mistake All over the world, the Brit ish and Americans are making the mistake of pushing self government on peoples who are not ready for It, Dr. Herbert C. Periera told the Franklin Rotary Club last Thursday eve ning. A Canadian, educated in England, Dr. Periera spoke against a background of 10 years in Kenya, British East Africa. He is In this country When The Railroad Starred ? Macon Has Its Memories, Too There's a touch of nostalgia sweeping Macon County as the magic wand of Hollywood waves over Buncombe and Transylvania counties while Robert Mltchum films his boot-legging movie, "The Whippoorwill". For, like a faded star in the world of celluloid. Macon County has memories of days when that famous man of frontier, fantasy, and future. Walt Disney, almost overnight tossed the Tallulah Palls Railway here Into the na tional limelight by using its ancient track and trestles for his thrilling Civil War epic. "The Oreat Locomotive Chase". It was Just two years ago this month that Disney pushed por tions of this county and north Oeorgia to center stage and trans formed the aging and nondescript Tallulah Falls into a "star". But that was two years ago. Today, the "star" is a fallen one. There's no magic, no glitter, just memories. Memories of lanky and soft spoken Fess Parker, who starred as J. J. Andrews, leader of the band of Yankees that stold a train in an attempt to sabotage the old Western and Atlantic Railroad. Remember how the children flocked around the big and easy-going Texan, who never was too busy to loft an admiring boy or to give an autograph or answer a question? And how he and Stan Jones, the fellow who wrote "Shrimp Boats", would sit behind the hotel set at Prentiss and har monize? And how he wanted to get away from being "Davy Crock ett"? Memories of handsome and rug ged Jeff Hunter, who proved he's just as tough as the character he played in the movie ? the conduc tor of the stolen train, who help ed run down the fleeing Yankees. He chased them on foot, by hand car, and by train. Remember how the director kept shooting over and over and over the scene of Jeff running down the track, stumbling on cross ties, after the stolen train? Memories of Mr. Disney himself, who kept appealing on location dt Intervals to make sure the realism l\e demands In all his pro ductions wis still there. Trains are a boyhood love with him, you'll SEE NO. 1, PAGE 8 to study conservation of water resources, and was here to vis it the Coweta Hydrologic Lab oratory. "The idea that a community works best if the authority rests with the people" is basic ally a British and American concept, he said. And he em. phasized that it developed slow ly, over centuries, in the Anglo Saxon civilization. Furthermore, it grew in an atmosphere of Christianity. "Democracy will work only when the people have adopted in their every-day lives the standards of Christianity", he believes. Without such stand ards, "the rule of the majority can be a dangerous and a grim thing, as we have seen in Af rica". In Kenya, he said, the peo ple's lives have altered little in a thousand years. "But we are trying to bridge not only the gap of hundreds of years, but also to jump the gap of Christian standards". In dealing with primitive peoples, he believes, Christian ity must come first; self-gov ernment later, after the people are otherwise prepared for It. "We (in Kenya) are being pushed not only by our left wing at home (in England), but by the United Nations, which, to the rest of the world, is an American-controlled In stitution." Always, he said, when self SEE NO. 2, PAGE 8 .their 63rd wedding anniversary. Out-of-town guests here for the occasion were Mrs. James R. Thomson, of Chappaqua. N. Y.. Miss Doris Ann Reber, of Bryson City, and Mrs. Mary Helen Foster, of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Mr. and Mrs. Reber received many telegrams, telephone calls, and gifts during the week of their celebration. Fair Is Success In Spite Of Rain In j'ite of rain the second day. the third annual Maeoii Countv Fair wrote its own history and fair officials already are pointing to a bigger and better event next fall. Held Friday and Saturday at Franklin High School, the two-. lav fair was a success even before the doors opened'' to the public at noon Friday. In the first place. 307 individuals am! organizations entered a total of K77 different items in the fair and there were 3N special booth exhibits erected by com munities, 4-H clubs, and 'other organizations. Upwards of 5.0()0 are estimated to have visited the gymnasium, where exhibits were on display. And the fair ha