CIRCULATION Net Paid Last Week 3063 Wi* 'ftiiWbrafa Baconian ON THE INSIDE ? WHO'S BEEN WHERE AND TOR WHAT? Staff correspondents of THE PRESS keep the Inside pages of this newspaper alive with news about your friends and neighbors Read the Inside feaijes from top to bottom and you'll know Macon County. 74th Year ? No. 27 Franklin, N. C., Thursday, July 2, 1959 Price 10 Cents Twelve Pages THIS FLY-IN business is catch ing on. The N. C. Aero Club plans to visit Bryson City and attend "Unto These Hills" July 17-18. FOR THOSE OF you wondering about the "Indian" walking the streets in town Saturday threaten ing to scalp everyone, he was a Macon Theatre come-on for Disney's movie "Tonka". IT LOOKS like, after four years, the county could put a little water to the colored drinking fountain on the square. The white fountain, for that fact, could use some repairs. THE 'SMOKY Mountain dog gers' are working their way to Hollywood. The PRESS got a card from them from New Orleans, where they were visiting Bourbon Street and the French Quarter. ANDY REID has opened his rhodolite mine on Mason Branch for the season. For the benefit of you "rockhounds" who don't know where it is, try going four and a half miles out NC 28 and watching for the signs that turn right. SPORTS MINDED Maconians don't hesitate to follow the races; be they In Daytona Beach or Waynesville. Looks like some enter prising promoter around here would open up a stock car race track to catch racing drivers in N.C., S.C., and Georgia. CAB PASSED through town Friday. A parrot in a cage on the front seat was giving wolf whistles to either women, or men ? depend ing upon the parrot's sex, which was undetermined. BEAUTY CONTEST judging is getting to be the vogue. Harold Corbin and Sam Gibson have been invited by Holland McSwain to judge the contest being held as a feature of the Wagon Train Cele bration in Murphy Saturday. THERE SUBE are a lot of those foreign cars on the road. Franklin probably has more of them than any town its size in this section. THE CULVERT WORK at the foot of Town Hill is moving fast again. They say it won't be long now! LEE WOODS hopes to have the heated pool at his Town Motel in operation by the Fourth. PLENTY OF FOLKS are brave ly facing the heat wave with a smile. They're the ones who said last winter they wouldn't com plain when the welcome warmth replaced the chilling cold. THE TOWN has a neat little gadget that marks parking lines and the like. It can be operated by one man. Talent Revue Slated Here Plans for a local talent pro duction, "The Red Stocking Re vue were announced this week by the Franklin Junior Woman's Club. The president, Mrs. Harold Cor bin, said three performances will be presented, one in Highlands and two in Franklin. The High lands show will be July 30 in the high school gymnasium, and the Franklin shows will be July 31 and August 1 at ESst Franklin School. 1 A cast of 100 will be in the show. A director from New York City is expected to arrive, about the middle of the month to direct the production. Miss Esta Mae Childers is chair man of the project. Proceeds from "The Red Stock ing Revue" will be used by the club to finance a number of pro jects. including the purchase of shoes for needy school children, and the "Children's Clothing Closet". A Murphy player is out at first. 1-71 (Staff Photo) IN TRI COUNTY LEAGUE ? All Stars On Top By a score of 14 to 1, the high-riding Franklin All-Stars broke the tie for the top spot in the Tri-County League in a game with Young Harris, Ga., on the local diamond Saturday after-, noon. A large number of fans were on hand for the game, which also was broadcast over the local radio station. Sunday afternoon here, the All-Stars continued their winning ways by soundly defeating the Murphy All-Stars 16 to 3. This Saturday, the Fourth of July, Franklin will take on the best five players from each team in the league In a special All Star game. It will be held at the East Franklin diamond, begin ning at 2:45. In the Young Harris game that put Franklin ahead in the league, Bobby Womack led the team in the hitting department, with three for -five. Under the skillful coaching of player-man ager Orady Corbin, the All-Stars managed to score 14 runs with 16 hits. Norman Seay hit two triples, and was the winning pitcher, He was relieved in the last inning by Orady Corbin. Suaday's game moved slowly because of the heat, but the All-Stars apparently didn't notice it. They pounded out 16 runs. Bobby Gregory and Harold Corbin led in the batting, getting two for two and three for four, respectively. The Seay brothers, Roger and Norman, shared the pitching duties and gave up only seven hits. NO SURVEY YET ? US 64 Highway Project To Gneiss Is Approved A relocation 01 a nine-miie section of US 64 from Franklin to Highlands has been pro grammed for 1960-61 by the State Highway Commission. F. L. Hutchison, 14th division engineer, said yesterday in a tele 5 Maconians Injured Near Hickory Saturday Five Macon County resident were taken to Richard Baker Hospital in Hickory following an automobile accident early Satur day night, June 20, caused by a driver who failed to stop at a red light. Henry Passmore, of lower Car toogechaye, his wife, Roberta, and their infant daughter, Janie, and Mr. and Mrs. John Passmore, of Cowee, were returning from Win ston-Salem where they bad gone to get their mother, Mrs. John Passmore, who had been in the Baptist Hospital there. Both bones of Henry Passmore's leg were broken in two places; Janie suffered a broken thigh: and his mother suffered a broken leg. His wife and his father, suf fered only minor injuries. Another passenger suffered a broken knee. The car in which the Passmore's vere riding belonged to a M Haskett, of Hickory, the other passenger. Both cars were demol ished. BIBI.E SCHOOL Vacation Bible school will be held at the Riverview Methodist Church beginning Monday. July 6. at 9 am., and continuing through July 10. Gerald Wilson, Methodist ministerial student, will assist with the classes. Ao Aaijs "MR. MACON! AN ' Hi-ya. Neighbors : (luess about the best thing I can say, what witl the Fourth of July coming* is: Don't attend your "own funeral. DRIYK ("ARK ? fully: And I thank you, Mr. Maconian pnone interview mu no survey of the proposed project has been made. The commission's approval served merely to make the pro ject official, he explained. The US 64 project was one of 21, seven in Western North Caro lina, approved by the commission. A total of $35,000,000 was allo cated for the projects. Mr. Hutchison said no construc tion figure can be set for the Macon County job until the survey has been completed and bids re ceived. The survey probably will be done this fall, he said, since survey crews in his division no-? are busy. There also is a possibility the new location will be surveyed from the air ? a technique being used by the state since it acquired an airplane equipped to photo graph the terrain. BY JUDGE SLOAN - Railroad Issue Put To I.C.C. Judge Boyd Sloan, at the publi! healing Monday into the aband onment, of the T^llulah Falls RaJ way, tossed the issue to the Inter state Commerce Commission, ru! ing that he lacks jurisdiction tc pass on the 1933 certificate foi abandonment. Held in Gainesville, Ga? a large delegation of business men from here attended the meeting to pro test the abandonment of the 57 mile line that serves this area. The judge instructed the op posing attorneys to draft an ordei for him to sign directing the rail way receiver, H. L. Brewer, oi Cornelia, Oa., to ask the I.C.C for a ruling on the status of its 26-year-old abandonment permit Southern Railway owns the line which has been in recelvershit since 1923. Judge Sloan said he may pass on the ruling of the commission after he hears from It, or th< decision may go on to a three judge federal court. Partial abandonment was urgec by officials of the Georgia Publl( Service Commission and the Georgia Department of Commerc? June Sets Marrying Record June, the storied month for bride's, has broken all records here In the marriage license department. As of last Thursday (the 25th), 19 muriate licenses had been issued by the register of deeds ? an all-time high for any month here! Most of them were issued to local couples. Now in his 19th year as register of deeds, Lake V. Shope says he's "never seen anything to beat H since I've been in office." He recalls the June Issue Is larger than the total of the first four years he was In office. Licenses have been issued to John Southards and Maybeli Co wart; Clyde Jones and Ruth Ann Crane; John H. Henry and Sarah L Tailent; John W. Angel and Hettie EUse T alley ; James E. Henson and Alfreda Cook; David F. Patterson and Marion ?inns (of St. Petersburg) ; An drew P. Holben and Marilyn Ka line (of Miami) ; Clarence Owens and Mary Johnson; Johnny E. Holland and Ann Alice Arnold; Lloyd J. Stanley and Joyce Ann McDowell; Charles P. Moses and Barbaretta Ruth Henson; John McNeely Dubose and Martha Ann Stockton; Frank R. Meech and Patricia Louisa Phillips: Olln Houston Blanton and Em ma Jean Fisher I of Jackson County I ; Jerry L. Young and Petty Jean Wyalt: James R Biter (of Seneca, S. C.) and hula P. Pack, of Pembroke. Va.l; Nelson Eugene Dowdle and Mildred Juanita Cassada; Mac Davis Stanfield and Geneva Patricia Lcdbetter; and James E. Williamson and Mildred E. Corbin. ixi|i|'irw|iiii it, 'I'll1 " : LITTLE AND BIG A little boy, Jimmy Perry, 9, caught himself a milt lily bi| rainbow trojt Saturday morning on Wayah. It took h;m mr.ri thatn 10 minutes to land the fish, which weighed a pound ant a half and was lp Inches lung. Jimmy, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. K Perry. Jr., says he started fishin? "a long lime ago", but he'1 never cuught anything lik? that trout. ' Staff -Photoi on the grounds tnat the portion of the line in North Carolina is responsible fur the line s linan cial troubles One spokesman described th>' situation in North Carolina as a case of the "tail killing the dog.'' The local "Save the Railroad" committee was represented at the hearing by lawyers J. Horner Stockton and G. L. Houk. Attending from here, in ad dition to the lawyers' were Bob j S. Sloan, committpe chairman, j Mayor W. C. Burrell. W W. ' Reeves, Grant Zickgraf. Wayne ' Faulkner, Clyde Clark, RuTu-i f Snyder, L. E. English, J. C. Jacobs, j Woodrow Dowdle, Sam Morrell, I and W. A. Hays. ) i rv Hp* ?> Dig lime I Calls Team The "big time" is calling the Carson Cloggers. and they plan to answer with their best dancing skill. Sunday, July 5. they've been in vited to dance on the. "Stars of Tomorrow" show over Channel 11, WLWA, Atlanta, Ga? at 5:30. Thr show's master of ceremonies. Freddie Miller, also wants the team to audition for a trip to New York and a national show in August. The Cloggers also have been Invited to dance the third week in July at "State 4-H Week" in ii Raleigh. t, 4-H Boys On \ Way To Raleigh j Pour 4-H clubbers will be in Raleigh July 6-7 (or state com- ] petition, after placing third in ? dairy cattle Judging in a district contest Wednesday of last week In - Fletcher. ] The local team, composed of Robert Enloe, Charlie Enloe. Billy Hughes, and Doug Teague, tied ' for third place with Madison. The team got 1,037 points out of a possible 1,200. Kenneth Perry, assistant agent, ' will accompany the team to Ra- ' kigh. Registering ? About Double i For Tourists Tourist registrations at the Franklin information booth are running about double to last year, according to the executive secre tary, Mrs. Lasca E. Horsley. She said this has been true since the booth opened for the season June 1 A majority of those stopping by the booth want information j on the Co wee Ituby Mines, Mrv Ilorsley said ' $2,148 Raised , i - For Chamber A total of $2,143 has been raised .so far in the '59 member ship drive of the Franklin Cham ber of Commerce. ( This constitutes a little less ; than a third of the $7 500 operat- j | Int? budpet approved by the men;- ) bership earlier in the \?-ar. Mrs. Lasca E. Hor: ley. execu- ' g tive secretary, this w.eek reported j that five volunteer workers still ' ??> have not turned in eontirbutions j from their areas! Vets Commander To Discuss Meet i Commander Car. y li I'atton , ?' wiil speak on the activities of the slate convention last \w. t\ih Hook. 1 lil?\ ma vs RBI NION I Til" Dryman renri . .! V.fld a', the honie of Karl D:yrti ui < Sir c'.tV.. July 5. F. iei.c5 <::d ! ?' t tl* cs are urged to ultir.d. Charlie and David Enloe . . . Top 4-1 1 Gardners ( Staff Photo) cousins Win 4-H Contest Cousins have tied for first plare 11 the annual 4-H Garden Con est. They are Charlie and David !nloe, both of the Cartoogechaye ?H Club. Charlie js the son of Jr and Mrs. Harold Enloe. and David's patents are Mr. and Mrs. Albert Enloe. Second place also was a dead ock between Carol and Linda raylor, of Holly Springs, anrl Jewel Pox. of Mountain Grove, rhird place was won by Dennis Bryson, of Cullasaja. Judges were Mrs. Thurman Kenry. of Burningtown, and Mrs. /ernon Bryson. of Cullasaja. Prize money totaling $30 was >ut up by the Macon County lural Community Devtlopment Council. Oters competing in the annual nntest were David Corbin. Van ttorta, Michael Bryson. George Shepherd. Alex Corbin. Branda Hoses. Gall Holland. Kenneth Reynolds. Bill Enloe. and Johnnie iurst. GAME IN AFTERNOON - Fourth Celebration Is Scheduled Here Baseball, square dancinii, a beauty contest, and many other forms of entertainment will feature Macon County's celebra tion of the Fourth of July. Practically all business estab lishments plan to close for the day Saturday, so employes can take part in the fun here, or visit friends and relatives in other sections. Free Game East Franklin School will be CLOSING FOURTH All Main Street merchants in Franklin have decided to clone Saturday, the 4th. to join in celebrating the holiday. They'll be open, however, Monday for business a a usual. Some basinemm, it is under stood, will remain open Satur day, but will close for the holi day Momiuy. SCORES RUN HIGH ? Franklin Golfers Defeat Bryscn City Hera Sunday Although the heat of the after noon k? pt scorus hi h. Franklin ;o.lfer& munaued to rfeftat 15: ' ;j;i ZTity oh th ? local links S'in4 ' . The victory a'cn-ed it Brjscto City a coupe of w*. ? ?< back. I.ow score of the after noon. 8"). jy-is earned I y a Fiu'.klin p\?y ? 1*0111 Mitchell, of D:.' toi.a M n h. [?'la . who is vaoatioinnx h,ei< Pliiyejs complained that, th" , heat slowed their names anil ?a used them to mi s :? lot of . hots The . temperature stayed in th tiiith 80 s alio low 90' ; nokt of t)i alt moan, and the abs'tic? of .1 f.iolin.u ir.ountain brc"/e m m!v the l:t at leavy. Although 40 ? > if ..-. l>|;r . (i. only < ? .*' bmii'-. v. t ? rai dv.I as si o! ? :.t :? m f u}> Other l'-w s oi* ? ? .John M A hi r. Jr . !?'. ai-khn , 1' Bii' Li.n: !,ai;a r. I . v .oil G t,v. HI. J. id: V'ltharns. i 3 1 " v . > i Cj v ; ? ]<,j W lk or Piar.K'Mi, i'M . WUi'i.iim'Oii. Franklin. i.4 IV' M ?? forr!. Bryvn c.'ry. <\\ llui f'i Con.1 tan