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Join CROSS Join redHH CROSS mmmmmmmmmamm PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL INDEPENDENT VOL. XLIX, NO. 48 FRANKLIN, N. G. THURSDAY, NOV. 29, 1934 $150 PER YEAR 4 Y A FUNERAL HELD FOR C S. BROWN .ii-i Manager of Scott Griffin Hotel Dies of Heart Infection Clarence Samuel Brown, 48, man ager of the Scott "Griffin Hotel for five years and one of Franklin's most popular business men, died of acute heart infection in the Uni versity Hospital, Augusta, Ga., at 9:50 o'clock Thursday night of last week. With, Mr. Brown at the time of his death were his wife and son, C. S. Brown, Jr., and the latter's wife. Mr. Brown was ill six weeks, but his friends did not know his condition was serious until after he entered the Augusta hospital on October 30; His illness started with an attack of influenza and this was followed by the heart infec tion. Until the day he left Frank lin he maintained his customary geniality and little did his acquain tances realize that his days were numbered. A few days later Sword came from Augusta that Mr. ferosvn's condition was critical and Ifrs. Brown, her son and daughter went to Augusta to be with him. Funeral Saturday The funeral was held at 9:30 o'clock Saturday morning at El liott's chapel in Augusta, where Mr. Brown formerly had lived for 17 years. The Rev. Dr. M. M. McFerrin, pastor of the Green Street Presbyterian church of Au gusta, was in charge. The body was taken to Bartow, Ga., for bur ial in Mr. Brown's family burial ground. Mr. Brown was born April 29, 1886, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Toliver S. Brown, in Jefferson county, Georgia. As a young man he went to Augusta and became actively identified with the commercial, civ ic and social life of that city. He was a charter member of the Augusta Exchange club, a past chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias and a member of the United Commercial Travel ers. Boosted Franklin Mr. Brown came here with his family in October, 1929. and leased the Scott Griffin Hotel. Jovial and accommodating, he made many friends. He took an active interest in boosting Franklin and several years ago, after efforts to organize a chamber of commerce here had failed, he undertook to act as a one-man bureau of information, replying to letters of inquiry and disseminating literature about Franklin and Macon County. This he did without remuneration. Surviving Mr. Brown, besides his widow and son, are f6ur brothers, C. C. Brown, of Montgomery, Ala. ; D. T, Brown, of Dublin, Ga.; J. A. Brown, of Mount Dora, Fla. ; and L. M. Br.own, of Binghampton, N. Y.; and one sister, Mfs. Blair Poore, of Belton, S. C. Miss Monteray McGaha Dies at West's Mill Miss Monteray McGaha died at her home at West's Mill last Thurs day night at 8 o'clock after an ill ness of several months. Death was attributed to a sudden attack of heart disease. Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Cowee Baptist church, of which she had been a member since childhood. The Rev. W. L. Bradley was in charge. Active pallbearers were nephews of the deceased, as follows: Claude Roper. Fred McGaha, Arthur Shep herd, Wiley Roper, Lester Conley and Frank Roper. Surviving are one sister, Mrs. Joseph Shepherd, of Leatherman, and one brother, W. A. McGaha. West's Mill, and a number of n'o-cs and nephews. Campaign Lags Red Cross Roll Call Still Far Short of Goal Only 15 new memberships were reported during the past week by workers in the annual Red Cross roll call of the Macon county chapter, bringing the total number of members recruited since the drive started on November 11 to 135 less than half of the goal set for the county. A number of the workers had not reported, however, and it was hoped and expected that when they submitted their reports a much bet ter showing would be apparent. No word had been received from High lands and also from several other sections of the county as to the outcome of this year's roll call. It was felt certain that Highlands would turn in a large number of memberships. The county's quota is 300 memberships. following is a list of the new members reported during the past week '. T. W. Angel, Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Porter, James Portej, Thomas Porter, Jr., E. B. McCollum, Mrs. Claude Russell, Jim Palmer, Joseph Ashear, W. B. Lenoir, Elmer Craw ford, Miss Elizabeth Cabe, G. L. Houk, Miss Helen Burch, Paul Carpenter CONVICTED OF MANSLAUGHTER Bradshaw and Norton Are Sentenced in 'Brack' Norton Killing Herbert Bradshaw and Edgar Howard, charged with murder in connection with the mysterious death the night of August 21 of Thomas "Brack" Norton, were found guilty of manslaughter by a jury in Macon superior court Sat urday morning. Judge J. Will Pless, Jr., sentenced Bradshaw to serve from five to eight years and Howard three to five years in the state penitentiary at Raleigh. How ard served notice of an appeal to the state supreme court. The jury received the case at 3:30 o'clock Friday afternoon and after remaining out for some time reported it had not reached a ver-, diet, whereupon Judge Fless in structed it to continue its delibera tions and report Saturday morning. Defendants Take Stand Trial of the case started Thurs day morning. The chief prosecu tion witness was Sam Howard an uncle of Edgar Howard, who told of seeins: two men carry a man's body to highway No. 285 in the Mulberry section and place it on the road. This was following a chicken roast in the community at which Howard, Bradshaw and Nor ton had been present. The defen dants went on the stand Friday morning. They admitted they had been at the chicken roast and that Bradshaw and Norton had engaged in a fight, but they said the two men later had become friends. They claimed that when they last saw Norton he was going down the highway toward Georgia to get some liquor. Norton's body was discovered late at night by a group of negroes. The body was stretched across the highway and at first it appeared Norton had been the victim of a hit-and-run driver, but at a coro ner's inquest testimony was given discounting this theory. Norton's neck had been broken and he was otherwise injured, but there were no hlood marks on the paving where he ' was found. Bradshaw and Howard were arrested a few weeks later and held in jail with out bond pending their trial. Court Adjourns Court was adjourned Saturday a short time after Judge Pless sen tenced Bradshaw and Norton.' Progress Made by TVA In Stupendous Task of Restoring Soil and Forest EDITOR'S NOTE This it (he second of a series of four articles on what the TVA it doing and plans to do, written by a staff correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, in ternational newspaper published in Boston. As Macon county is in a tributary area of the Tennessee Valley, these articles should pnove especially interest ing to readers of this news paper. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - As the great experiment of the TVA goes torward the eyes of many men are upon the silt-colored waters of the mighty Tennessee. There, they know is flowing the fertility of upland meadows, of slopes that once were rich and fertile, but are now gouged by the torrential rains and the rushincr freshets down to the bare bones of subsoil and rock, Back of this appalling waste of fertility is the story of decades of slip-shod arid ignorant methods of iarming, oi tne nard pressure ot tnrougn tne valley that echoed with falling prices and vanishing mar- the activities of men who worked kets. For it is an acknowledged to harness its flowing. And even fact that your uneconomic farmer while these echoes were coming in- is the poor farmer, the man who to being the Forestry and Soil strives to wrest a meager living Erosion Control Division began its out of a land and has no choice work. but to take everything from the Under the direction of Mr. Ed land and give nothing back, to (Continued on Page Five) Much Significant Information Found in County's Tax Report Gets Buck Chief Henry Brings Down 150-Pound Deer A fine two-year-old buck, weigh ing approximately 150 pounds, was shot by Police Chief R. F. Henry last Friday while hunting in the '"J Cartoogechaye section a mile or more from the Wayah game ref uge. It was the third deer report ed killed in Macon county since the season opened. Chief Henry sighted a drove of deer in the vicinity of Carl Slagle's farm. Following them, he managed to get in a position with the wind blowing toward him instead of to- ward the deer and crept up close enough to get a shot at one of the bucks with his shotgun, which was loaded with No. 2 shot. He used Anas ac thpv arp nnt allowed in hunting deer in western North Carolina. The deer season was closed in UIo .nntr fnr fivp rr civ vpars K., ,.,o nnpnpH aorain this vPar r. u.-.i li r r,. ic December 15. Franklin Girl Honored As Textile Designer A silk brocade desiened bv Miss Annie Will Siler. of Franklin and New York, has been selected for White polls listed, 2,238; negro display as an outstanding example polls listed, 38. of textile achievement in a current The valuation of Franklin town exhibition of American industrial ship was shown as $2,078,824; of art at the Metropolitan museum in Highlands, $762,145. Npw York Citv k Livestock listings were as fol- It is the second time that Miss Siler, a daughter of Mrs. F. L. Siler' of Franklin, has been sig- nally honored as a textile design- Four years ago a sample of her work was chosen for display in an international exniDit. inis was a design in sports goods and was used for upholstering airplanes Box Supper To Be Held At Allison-Watts School A box supper will be given at 8 o'clock Saturday night at the Allison-Watts school, according to an announcement bv J. D. Bren (11c. Snecial nr'sic will be furnish ed. The public is invited. farm every available inch regard less of its suitability. So it was that fields of corn and sorghum slanted toward the sky line, impoverishing the earth, and worse, laying it open to the rush of the freshets that carried it down to stain the swollen flood of the onrushing river. So potential corn and cotton went down to choke the bed of the river, make more dis astrous "future floods even as it de nuded the land. Misuse of Land Millions of acres throughout the South bear dreary witness to the misuse of land areas. Forests were ripped away from slopes that never should have been denuded and in a few years were changed into bar- ren gullies incapable of bearing crops, to lay stark and forlorn un- der blazing sun and torrential rain, This is hut one nf the nrnKlemc that the TVA found facing it in the valley it had J chosen to work I out its gigantic experiment. Down through the valley flowed the giant, Total Taxable Valuation Of Macon Listed at $5,629,764 Much interesting and significant information regarding Macon coun-! ty is contained in a report prepar- J ed for the state board of assess-! a. j j ii- . i dn mauT5 PUDUC in s wee uy v-. i uiii uiyauii, register ui deeds and clerk of the county board of commissioners. Besides showing a total assessed valuation for the county of $5,629,764 for the vear 1934. the renort also solits this valuation into various classi- f,catl0ns- Hfe are some of the facts glean- ed from the report: Acres of land listed, 216,703 ; valu- atf $.J1-W. Manufacturing properties listed outs1 incorporated towns, valua- llOS V' Acres of mineral, timber, quarry and waterpower interests listed, 1.260; valuation, $84,957. Number of town lots, 1,815; valu- atlon- $1,1 19. ! Total valuation of real estate, $4,619,758. Total valuation of all livestock, $202,419. Value of automobiles and motor vehicles, $83,145. "Ratal value of all personal prop- ertv above exemptions, $1,010,006. lows : 665 horses, $30,858; 977 mules, $48,755jacks and jennets, one only, $75; 4,530 cattle (other than milk cattle) $28.035 ; 4,199 milk . cows, WV; nogs, ?iu,5U; t.JOV sheep, $3,344 ; 38 goats, $115. Sunday School Convention X D U U C 1 0 Be Held Sunday The Macon county Baptist Sun- day school convention will be held at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the lotla Baptist church, according to an announcement by E. B. De - hart, associational superintendent, Mr. Dehart uroed that everv Bap- tist cht'rch in the county send dele- spates to the convention. BOND TRADES SHOW PROFIT Transactions of Retiring Commissioners Reveal Big Saving " 1 1 A book profit of $11,995 for Ma con county is revealed in a study of bond transactions made by the retiring board of county commis sioners during the past two years, The Press-Maconian learned this week. This profit was made in pur chases and trades for county bonds .bearing future maturity dates. In addition, the board also has met payments amounting to a consider able sum on bond principal and in terest due before it took office or falling due during its tenure. Ex act figures on this were not avail able this week, pending a final cnecic-up, oi tne county s recoras preparatory to the assumption of office Monday by the incoming UnrA The greater part of the profit made by the county commissioners on bond transactions was made possible by the discovery, soon af ter they assumed office of $21,880. 10 of Macon county funds on de posit in the Central Hanover Bank and Trust company in New York. On close investigation, it was stat ed at the courthouse this week, it was found that $10,500 of this amount had been placed with the bank as interest on an $80,000 bond issue supposed to have been made in 1914 but found not to exist. After it was discovered that such an issue had never been sold, this $10,500 was invested in $21,985 of Macon county obligations, which were retired. These were bonds bearing future maturity dates and were offered to the county at less than half of their par value. This single transaction meant a l i e-i. i i 11 0K Pror" IO ine uni UI toj. rui ujcuuuic, 11 icuum amount of principal upon which to pay interest in the future. The balance of $11,380.10 found on deposit in the Central Hanover Bank and Trust company, after having been with the bank nearly three years when found idle and intact, was transferred to the cred it of bond interest in default be ginning with January, 1932. The retiring board also has liqui dated a large part of the notes which were in the county's pos session when it came into office. Included in these notes was paper taken over from the Bank of Franklin for frozen deposits. The board exchanged $8,000 in notes, including interest, for an equal amount of county bonds, re tiring the latter with future inter est coupons. The board also ac- cepted $2,000 of county bonds in exchange for $1,490 of frozen assets in the Highlands Bank. This trans action netted a book profit of $510. In another transaction, not in volving bonds, however, the board exchanged $2,000 of notes it held for rear estate, which it in turn sold to the county board of educa tion at the same price, the land being a needed addition to the j Franklin school site. The proper- ty consists of 15 acres, known as the Bidwell tsact, in the rear of the Franklin school. ine new Doara oi county com missioners, consisting ot E.a rjyra, chairman, F. H. Potts and C. L. Blaine, will be sworn in next Mon- J Vj.i -rr: I uay. uitr county ouicers naineu in the rectnt election also will be sworn in Monday: Harley R. Cabe as clerk of court, succeeding Frank I. Murray; C. T. Bryson for an- other term as register of deeds; , A. B. Slagle for another term as sheriff ; J. H. Dalton for another term as county surveyor, and C. M. Moore for another term as coroner.