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Paid Circulation 3189 Average for November 196* 3)i<ihlaitb4 HUttmimt ON THE INSIDE ? % Be well informed read THE PRESS from cover to cover 75th Year ? No. 48 Franklin, N. C., Thursday, December 1, 1960 Price 10 Cents Sixteen Pages HEINZ ROLLMAN, unsuc cessful Congressional candi date on the Republican ticket, has squelched rumors that he will move his shoe factory from Haywood County because h he failed to carry it in the election. He says he's a "local boy" and has never entertain ed a thought of leaving Hay wood. Shucks! We heard he was moving the factory to Macon . . . GET THOSE books and mag azines ready for "Operation Library" this Saturday. This will be a great boost to the local library and everyone can contribute to this worthy drive. DONT FORGET to return those Christmas Seals checks right away to the local TB. association. And, if you want more seais, get in touch with k Sam Gibson. WHO COULD have request ed a more beautiful Thanks giving week end than the one just ended? THOSE OMINOUS low clouds and rain Tuesday made it look like winter really is here. However, the warm tem perature suggested that things were a bit messed up. DOESN'T THE Indian Mound look good now that the grass has come up in the areas that were graded? More im provement money is needed and if you're so inclined you can mail it or drop it off at Manson Stiles' station. THIS NEW Biddy Basketball League sounds Interesting. >' Boys that stay busy, particul arly in athletics, don't have time to get in trouble, not to mention the valuable exper ience they gain. MACONIANS Interested in seeing the annual county fair develop should consider It their duty to turn out for the fair association R>eeting next week and speak their piece on ways to improve It. MRS. HJUDA Olson's class at Franklin Elementary is once again calling for used toys so they can repair them for needy children at Christmas. Any donations may be left at THE PRESS office. AUXILIARY MEETING The American Legion Auxil iary will hold Its December meeting Monday night at 7:30 at Miss Lassie Kelly's. Mrs. Ion Datton will serve as co hostess with Miss Kelly. u? hat's doing? JAYCEES: First Monday. ZlckgraJ's Lumber Co.. Third Monday. Dillard House, DIUard. Oa., 7:00 p. m. .ROTARY : Every Thursday. 6:30 p. m? Slagle Memorial Building. LIONS. Second and fourth Mondays. 7 p. m., Slagle Me morial Building. JUNIOR WOMAN'S CLUB: Fourth Monday. 7:30 p. m., Ag ricultural Building. V. F. W.: Second and Fourth Wednesdays, 8 p. m., VF.W. Post Home on Palmer Street. VJ.W. AUXILIARY: Second Monday night, 8 p. m.. at post home. AMERICAN LEGION: TOrd Tuesday, 7:30 p. m., Slagle Memorial Building. BUSINESS AND PROFES SIOAM. WOMEN'S CLUB: Fourth Tuesday at 7 p. m . a* the Normandle. Friday: Franklin High vs. N&ntahala High. Franklin gym. 7:30 p. m MorxSay : West Macon Orange. Pat ton Community Building. 8 p. m. Monday: Franklin Garden Club. 2:30 p. m . high school cafeteria. Tuesday: Macon County Fair Association. 7:30 p. m . Agricul tural Building. Nantahala Power Seeks Rate Boost THE TWO wicked half-sisters of Cinderella berate the unfortunate girl for her clumsiness tn a scene from La Cenerentola, as performed by the National Grass Roots Opera Company. IN FRANKLIN GYM - Opera Appearing Here Tomorrow The Nation Grass Roots Op era Company, which has contri buted greatly to a new interest j in opera throughout the nation, will give two performances to morrow (Friday) of La Cener- , en tola (Cinderella) in the gym- [ nasium at Franklin High ? School. Under the sponsorship of the Franklin Music Study Club, the company will perform a free matinee at 1 o'clock for school children and another at 8 o'clock for adults. Hoy M. Biddle, Jr., is in charge of arrangements for the music club. The roster of this nationally famous troupe lists singers from North Carolina, Virginia, California, Missouri, New York, Oregon, Maine, and the Dis trict of Columbia. Most of the young singers have college de grees or the equivalent from music schools and most of them have enjoyed consider able experience in opera as well as concert, oratorio, and television. . / Admission at the evening Performance will be $1.25, ac cording to Mr. Biddle. Organized right here in North Carolina (Raleigh), the National Grass Roots Opera Company has proved to be a haven for young professional singers desiring experience. Bach season, auditions are held in New York and Raleigh and only the most outstanding voices are chosen. Over one hundred young Overflow Expected? A safe was delivered by truck to the Bank of Frank lin in mid-afternoon Monday. "How about that," quip ped a bystander. "Kennedy i hasn't even been inaugurat ed and they're having to make room for keeping the money." ( American singers of past sea sons have found the exper ience they gained with this group has beerl of the greatest value to their careers. Some of these singers have appeared with the New York City Opera, NBC Television Opera, New Orleans Opera House, Shreve port Opera Company, Wagner Opera Company, and numer ous other opera groups and light opera companies through ou this country and Europe. 4-H Leader Wins Area Program Mrs. Vernon Bryson, CuUa saja community 4-H leader for the past five years, has been announced as winner of the western district 4-H Leader Re cognition Program. As the top area leader, she receives a $25 Savings Bond. Macon County has another district winner In Miss Patsy Oorbin. a member of the Franklin 4-H Club. Patsy was judged best in the clothing project and also was named a runner-up in the state event. She is is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Oorbin. Two county 4-H clutibers also placed tops in the junior divi sion in the area. Genie Enloe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Har old Enloe, of Cartoogech&ye, won the corn meal muffin con test and Carol Ann Taylor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Taylor, of Holly Springs, was best in canning. OTTO DANCE A square dance will be held Saturday night at Otto School under the sponsorship of the P.-T.A. Music will be by Hun ter Young's Band. Refresh ments will be served in the kitchen and the public is invit ed to attend. ?? BUT FOR HOW LONG? Tallulah Falls RR Stubbornly Goes On Even in the face of Friday's authorization by the Interstate Commerce Commission for abandonment, the picturesque Tallulah Palls Railway stub bornly refuses to go under. But. the big question is: "For how long?" In a telephone interview jesterday (Wednesday) morn ' ing from Cornelia, Oa.. the Tallulah Falls' receiver. H. L. ; Brewer, oonfesaed he didn't ? know how long the 57-mile line J can continue operating. "How long' I can keep going I Just don't know ... so far I I've been able to." At present, Mr. Brewer is | complying with a federal court ' order tamed last month by Judge Boyd Sloan instructing Tallulah Falls Railway to pay Southern Railroad weekly for Its freight services. However, Mr. Brewer said he is cutting corners on other expenses to meet the weekly demand and said "the time Is coming when I can't stretch things any more." What can be done to keep the old Tallulah Palls opera ting? An increase in freight would go a long way toward assuring its continued operation. Mr. Brewer said, and he has high hopes of this additional rev enue coming in to help mat ters. Prom an Industrial develop ment standpoint, the receiver said the railroad could offer sl ices superior to others. "That's beautiful country you people have up there." Mr. Brewer declared, "and it lias a tremendous potential." As for the I.C.C. ruling on abandonment of the line by its owner. Southern Railroad, he described it as one more step toward abandonment. Judge Sloan is scheduled to take court action on the I.C.C. ruling before another move can be made. "I've been managing to oiper ate (the railroad' since 1933." Mr. Brewer said, "and with the help of you people, by riving us more business, I think we can keep on going . . . I'm going to keep trying anyway." BISHOP IS SPEAKER - Methodists Coming Here Sunday For Conference Bishop J. Waskom Pickett, a retired bishop of the Meth odist church and perhaps the best-known American In India, will be the evening preacher here Sunday when the Frank lin Methodist Church is host to the WaynesvlUe District Con ference. Get to begin at 3 o'clock, the conference is expected to at tract nearly 250 pastors and representatives of the district's 35 charges, comprising 88 churches, and a membership numbering more than 11,700. Dr. Frank C. Smathers, dis trict superintendent, will pre side at both the afternoon and evening sessions. Supper arrangements at the high school cafeteria are being handled by the women of the host church under the leader ship of Mrs. H. Bueck, presi dent of the Woman's Society of Christian Service. The evening session, includ ing Bishop Pickett's talk, also will be held in the cafeteria where ample seating Is avail able. Special music for the evening program will include a soprano solo by Mrs. Charles W. Oldney, acompanied by Bishop Pickett Mrs. L. J. Neal, organist-pian ist of the church. The afternon report and planning session will be held at the church. A son of Texas by birth and of Kentucky by boyhood resi dence and education, Bishop Pickett has spent 46 years in missionary service in India ? 21 years as bishop. He was the one American who was requested to help the new India In the writing of her national constitution. One of his major contribu tions to the Christian cause in India was made more than 20 years ago when he studied the so-called "mass movenjents" to Christian Council and the In stitute of Religious and Social Research, founded by John D. Rockefeller. The study still is an authority in the field of Christian approach to peoples on the outskirts of the Hindu faith. Bishop Pickett was acquaint ed with Mahatma Gandhi for many years and is a friend and adviser of many of India's leaders. He is author of "Chris tian Mass Movements in India" and "Christ's Way to India's Heart." Now living in Atlanta, he is serving as professor of missions at Boston University for one semester each year and Is con sultant on evangelism for the Board of Missions of the Meth odist Church for the remaind er of the year. AT FRANKLIN HIGH - - Cage Season Opens Tonight Franklin High's 1D6M1 bas ketball season opens tonight (Thursday) night in the local gymnasium with the lads and lassies taking on another Ma can County high school. Nan tahala. The girls will make their de but at 7:30 and the boys game will follow. The admission will be 75 cents for adults and 35 cents for children. Lights are burning late in the gymnasium this week as the coaches. Mrs. Rose Oorbin, and C. K. (Ike) Olson, ready their charges for the opening clash. Mrs. Oorbln gives her first team as Mary Lou Cabe, Jessie Carpenter, and Dorothy Stock ton, forwards, and Janice Bow man, Jewel Ftax, and Wanda Houston, guards. Alternating between the two positions will be Linda Leatherman. Coach Olson is pinning his hopes on senior forwards Doug Baird, Wayne Justice, and David Simpson and senior guards Turner Bryson. Tex Corbln, Jim Franklin, and Ken Hall. Juniors slated for plenty of action are Ronnie Higdon, center, and guards Jim Wil liams and Arvil Holland. Sopho mores Include forwards Sonny Burrell and Larry Cabe, cen ter Doug Franklin, and guards John Swan and Jim Cabe. i Basketball League For Boys Slated A Biddy Basketball League for boys is now being organiz ed in the Franklin area under the sponsorship of the athle tic committee of the Franklin Jayceen. The chairman in charge, Robert W. Moore, this week said a nine-game schedule Is now being worked out. Oemes will be played on Saturday afternoons. Boys nine through eleven years are eligible to play. A boy who has celebrated his 12th birthday since August 1 is still eligible to play under the rules. Mr. Moore said. Coaches of the teems will be Tommy Raby, Harold Henry. ! Bd Shatley, the Rev. Fred I Outhrie, Genet Lloyd Stamey, I I and Bob Carpenter. Crossed Fingers Permitted Crossed fingers will be per missible Saturday In Ashe vi lie when a group of Maconlans sits down for lunch in City Auditorium. For at this, luncheon, being sponsored by the W.N C Rural Community Development Coun + + + STORY TOLD The story of rural com munity development work and Its social and economic Impact on Macon County may be found Inside this Isaoe. + + + cil, the winners of the 1960 area rural contest will be an nounced. Macon County's prize-win ning Co wee community is one of 13 competing for some $2,000 in prize money and the honor that goes with being number ed among the best communi ties in Western North Caro lina. A delegation of about 25, in cluding Cowee's officers and extension service personnel, is expected to attend the lunch eon. Judges of the area contest visited Cowee last week. , WOMEN OUTFIT A CHRISTMAS DOLL A complete wardrobe for a Christmas doll ha* been madr by home demonstration ; Hub women, who are shown working above. The doll will be sold and the money will be used for the special etfueatioa cJua at Frankfin School. Working on the doll are (L to R> Mrs. Fred Palmer, Cullaxija club, Mrs. Floyd Martin, f ranklin club, Mm. Pritchard Husse'l, Cullasaja club, Mrs. Mac Moffltt, Pattern dub, Mrs. W. N. Dalrymple, Cartoofe rhaye club, and Mrs. Ralph Can? il i. Watau ;a club, who is county clothing trader. I .Stuff Photo) Average Less Than Seven Cents Per Day For Residential Users Fair Group To Elect Leaders An election of officers will receive top billing Tuesday night when the Macon County Pair Association holds a plan- ! ning session for the coming year. j The meeting, to which all officers and community and civic representatives are urged to attend, is set for 7:30 at the Agricultural Building. Cecil Parker, of Oartooge chaye, Is now serving as presi dent. An evaluation of the '60 county fair is slated, along with some advance planning for the '61 event. 'Stolen' Car Is Found ' In a comedy of circum- . stance and red faces. Junior Prultt has his "stolen" car bark. Saturday night, Mr. Prultt, who works for Burall Motor Company as night wrecker man, emerged from his apart ment over the motor com pany and discovered his automobile missing. He had left H. as usual, keys in the ignition, out front, lie alert ed the police. The "stolen" car was spot ted at a skating rink. A young woman emerged from the rink and climbed in the car. Somewhat em barrassed by police <he had this story to tell: Her automobile was being worked on at Burrell's and she was told that a company car would be left out front for her use while it was be ing repaired. So, she simply drove off in Mr Pruitt's ear, thinking it was the one left far her. Still Found By Deputies Saturday A 25-gallon still was destroy ed Saturday afternoon on the ; head of Matlock Creek by Chief ; Deputy Newell Pendergrass and Deputy Van Prazier. The officers found no whis key at the still site, but destroy ed about 220 gallons of mash. They said the still wus not lr. operation at the time and no arrests were made. Nantahala Power and Light Company today (Thursday) ap plied to the N. C. Utilities Com mission for its first general rate increase in 30 years, one tliat will increase Nantahala 's net income by approximately Jn>80.000 annually. John M. Archer, Jr., Nanta hala president, said the in crease. applicable to all custom ers, will average out to slight ly less than seven cento a day to residential customers and will improve the utility's net income by approximately $460, 000 a year. Nantahala 's president em phasized "that the request for a rate increase is independent of Nantahala 's expressed inten tion to sell its power distribu tion facilities to Duke Power Company." Long Delay He said Nantahala has delay ed "too long" in seeking rate increases that would have af forded it the opportunity to come closer to earning a rea sonable return on the value of its plant. "However," he said. "We are still interested in transferring our distribution facilities to Duke because we believe that the future growth and inter ests of Western North Caro lina would be best served by integrating the Nantahala sys tem with another larger one capable of developing more economically additional firm power to n>tet the needs of the area." The proposed sale of Nan tahala's facilities has been hanging fire for more than a year. Explaining that th? increase being requested is the mini mum now required by the com pany for maintaining Its pres ent service level, Mr. AreiK-r said that even with the propos ed increase the low rat* of re turn on the value of the com pany's plant will make It diffi cult, If not impossible, to at tract capital for investment in the future expansion of the utility system. Still l-owrr He also pointed out that even with the proposed in crease, Nantahala's rates will still be lower than they were 30 yearn ago. During this pe riod, the company has lowered its average rate to residential customers from 8.9 c?nte per kilowatt-hour to 1.87 cents per kilowatt-hour while the num ber of customers served has in creased from approximately 400 to more than 14,000. The low rates enjoyed by Nantahala's customers, he said, are among the lowest of any privately-owned utility in the US. Mr. Archer said they have been maintained despite con struction of new facilities in volving higher labor, material. BEE NO 2. PAGE ? The Weather Th?* w??k's temperature* and rain fall arp recorded In Frank lin by Man.?on Stil^K, lT. S. w?*nth? ?-r obmrvfr; In IliK'ilandH by Tii 1or N Mall an?l W. ('. Newton, TV.* obM?-rv? rn; nnd a! the Cowe ta llydruldRlc laboratory. R**ud Iii^'h ar?* for the 34-hour period ending at 8 a. fn. of the day lint# <1. FRANKLIN High Lew Rain Wed., Nov. 23 60 49 .65 Thursday 59 49 .06 Friday. 66 45 00 Saturday 66 32 00 Sunday 65 35 00 Monday 72 36 00 Tuesday 64 42 .06 Wednesday 25 .05 COWETA Wed , Nov. 23 69 34 .92 Thursday 58 48 .04 Friday 56 40 00 Saturday 65 28 00 Sundny 65 32 00 Monday 65 34 trace Tue.sday 70 46 .32 Wednesday 63 24 00 HIGHLANDS Fri., Nov. 25 58 35 * Saturday 56 27 ? Sunday 60 37 * Monday 61 54 * Tuesday 56 40 * Wednesday 20 ? ? No Record.