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9 fattkli ti JoiV redTP CROSS Join RED "fr CROSS PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL INDEPENDENT VOL. XLIX, NO. 49 FRANKLIN, N. C, THURSDAY, DEC. 6, 1934 $150 PER YEAR NEW OFFICIALS ARE SWORN IN Board Reappoints Patton As Attorney at First Meeting 1 . With a minimum of formality, Macon county's new board of com missioners assumed office Monday morning for a two-year term. The old board, comprised of Walter Gibson, chairman, E. W. Long and Gus Leach, wound up the affairs of their administration last week and gracefully turned over the reins of government to the incoming members Monday. Frank I. Murray, clerk of court, swore in the new board E. B. Byfd, chairman, F, H. Potts and C. L. Blaine. Mr. Murray also swore in other county officers Monday C. Tom Bryson, reelected as register of deeds: A. B. Slaule. reelected as sheriff; J. H. Dalton, reelected as surveyor, and C. M. Moore, re elected as coroner. Then Mr. Mur ray administered the oath to Har lev R. Cabe. his former assistant, and automatically retired himself after serving the county as clerk - of court for 14 years, seven months and ten days. . The board then proceeded to pass on bonds of various county officers. C. Tom Bryson made bont, of $5,000 as clerk of court and in an equal amount as county accountant, a position which goes with his office at a stipend of $50 a month, under terms bf"a law en acted "by the last general assembly. Sheriff Slagle posted a bond of $5,000 as sheriff, $25,000 as county treasurer and $25,000 as tax collec tor. Harley R. Cabe supplied a bond of $10,000 as clerk of court The coroner and the county sur veyor made bands of $2,000 each. C. P. Bradley of Smith's Bridge township qualified as a constable and made bond of $1,000. George Patton was reelected county attorney at a salary of $24( a year, and Mr. Cabe was appoint ed juvenile judge at a salary o $90 a year. The juvenile judgeship customarily goes to the clerk of court. Members of the board are paid $4 a day for each day they are in session, the amount, however, not to exceed $12 a mbrtth. The board adjourned to mee again Friday of this week. To Reorganize Legion To Elect Officers Saturday Night A special meeting of the Macon county post of the American Le gion, at which reorganization of the post and election of officers are scheduled to take place, has been called for 7:30 o'clock Satur day night, December 8, by Alf R Higdon, post adjutant. The reorganization, Mr. Higdon explained, is planned in prepara tion for a big membership drive, A membership contest is to be waged between the Macon county post and the Murphy post. Plans for the membership campaign and a big legion feed will be discussed at the meeting Saturday night. Mr. Higdon said news about the bonus also would be discussed. He urged that all war veterans attend the meeting. District B. Y. P. U. Meeting To Be Held A district B. Y. P. U. meeting will be held at the Iotla Baptist church Sunday evening, December 9. at 7:30. This includes all B. Y. P. U.'s in the ' county north of Franklin. Economic Balance between Agriculture and Industry One of TV A's Chief Goals EDITOR'S NOTE - This is the third of a aerie of four articles on what the TV A is doing and plant 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 prove especially interest ing to readers of this news paper. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Back o the whole TVA experiment is one basic problem. And in a solutioi of this problem the planners see a lesson that can be applied to the solving of a great national econom ic problem. That problem is the proper balancing of agriculture and industry. In the Tennessee Valley the planners ran into the problem that affects the South much more than it does the rest of the nation al though nation-wide in scope. There was a lack of balance between agriculture and industry. Wages were low, said men in industry, because the agriculture governed the economic set-up. Wages were low because basic prices in agri culture were low and without a TIE EXTENDED FOR ROLL CAII Red Cross Drive Still Far Snort of Goal of 300 Memberships The campaign for Red Cross memberships will be continued for a few days longer to give the workers a chance to make a clean up canvass of their districts and to allow the workers in the county time to make a more thorough canvass, according to a statement by the Rev. J. A. Flanagan, chair man of the Roll Call for the coun ty. The Roll Call thus far has fallen far short of the expected goal of 300 memberships, the quota for the county. Only about one-half this number has been reported to the chairman as yet. Early indications were that this number would have been reached, but the campaign has lagged toward the close. As yet no report has been received from the canvass made in High lands and from several of the workers in the rural districts. It is still hoped that with these re ports the Macon Cocnty Chapter may make a more creditable show ing. The following memberships have been reported to the chairman since the last issue of The Press: Gus Leach, Miss Nora Leach, Mary Hayes, (col.), Mrs. J. P. Noland, Mrs. Len Sloan, Mrs. W. L. Keene, Mrs. Haag, Mrs. Jess Sloan, Earle Meacham, Mrs. F. S. Sloan, D. D. Rice. North Macon Association To Meet Friday The North Macon Betterment as sociation is scheduled to hold an important meeting at 7:30 o'clock Friday night in the Cowee school. J. E. Lancaster has been invited to address the meeting. A. W. MacLean, president of the associa tion, has requested that all mem bers attend, as matters of interest to everyone living in Cowee town ship will be discussed. SPECIAL OFFICER Fred Blaine was sworn in Wed nesday morning to serve as a spe cial policeman in Franklin during the Christmas holidays. prosperous rural population indus try could not pay high wages and give full time. ' Planning a Balance It is a fact that the southern in dustrial towns draw their help from surrounding hill country. The farmers will come down to the towns and work any number of hours for a mere pittance, will put up with poor living conditions and any kind of working arrangement in order to get a little cash. Again the TVA experiment spreads to take in this problem with the others. The Bureau of Relations of Agriculture and In dustry under W. R. Woolrich has set out to plan a balance between the farmer and the factory work er and to build up the standards of each. They recognize, say these men, that statement regarding the rela tion of agriculture and industry is true. But they deny that it is true in the somewhat hopeless sense that many have believed. Already there is .noticeable in the South the work of forces that are beginning to' break down this bar rier. Too many men have recog nized the problem for it to remain the same. In fact, throughout the (Continued on Page Five) Long Holiday Schools To Be Closed Three Weeks Macon county school children and teachers this, year will have three weeks Christmas vacation, instead of the customary twoweeks mid term leave. Schools throughout the county will close Friday, Decern ber 21, to reopen on Monday, Tan uary 14, it was learned this week from M. D. Billings, county super intendent of education. He ex plained that this action was taken to conserve a rapidly diminishing supply of fuel for the schools. The longer Christmas holiday will make it necessary to. extend the closing date in the spring from the last week in April until the first week in May. DRYS TO HOLD MASS MEETING Cale K. Burgess To Ad dress Gathering Here Sunday A mass meeting for the citizens of Cherokee, Clay, Jackson, Swain, Transylvania and Macon counties will be held in the First Baptist church, Franklin, at 2:30 o'clock, Sunday afternoon, according to an announcement by the Rev. J. A Flanagan, secretary of the United Dry Forces in Macon county. The speaker for the afternoon will be Cale K. Burgess, of Raleigh, out standing layman and aggressive lead er of the temperance forces in the state, whose subject will be "Law Enforcement." Accompanying Mr. Burgess will be Dr. and Mrs. J. C. Owen, of Asheville, recently elected directors of temperance in the 25 western counties of the state. Dr. Owen will be remembered in Macon coun ty as a former pastor of the Franklin Baptist church and until recently the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Murfreesboro, N. C. Dr. and Mrs. Owen will be engaged in the work of organizing the dry forces in these counties and of promoting the educatonal work of the temperance movement in schools, churches and clubs. Drv Program Mapped Meeting in Raleigh on October 19, the hoard of trustees of the (Continued on Page Seven) Lindbergh Nursemaid TRENTON, N. J. . . . Betty Gow (above), nursemaid to the Lindbergh baby at the time of the kidnapping, is returning from Scot land to testify in the trial of Bruno Hauptmann for the child's murder. W PLACED I EMPLOYMENT Edwards Reports on Work Of Reemployment Service Since establishment of the Ma con county office of the National Reemployment Service here on August 30, 1933, with John W. Edwards as manager, 1,347 men and women have been placed in employment in various capacities, according to information obtained from Mr. Edwards this week. Mr. Edwards has been in con tinuous charge of the office since its establishment. The reemploy ment service is an emergency or ganization launched by the ad ministration, under the supervision of the department of labor, to aid in restoring normal conditions. Citing that the local reemploy ment office has been open 385 working days from August 30, 1933, to December 1, 1934 Mr. Ed wards estimated that its daily average for finding jobs for men and women was three and a half. 352 VeU Employed Of the total number of individ uals placed in work by the of fice, the reemployment manager continued, 352 were war veterans, 975 .men without service records, and 20 women. The term "temporary job," as used by the service, means a job that will last less than a month, and a "regular job" is one that lasts for a month or longer. The Macon county office has found regular jobs for far more men and women than temporary ones. The records of the office show that 883 of the jobs given to applicants were regular aiyj 464 were tem porary. About 20 of the tempo rary jobs were f two days and less in duration, while many of the remaining 444 jobs lasted for one week to three weeks. A large number of the regular jobs have run from four to six months and a number longer. During the life of the Macon county office many different sourc es of employment have been found. The National Recovery Act has been the means of furnishing the majority of placements. The fol lowing agencies have furnished the number of jobs as listed: Nanta hala National Forest, 376 men ; Civ il Works Administration, 328 men and women; Public Works Admin istration, 411 men; the Tennessee Valley Authority, working through the CWA, 39 men on three pro jects in Macon county; and gain ful employment has been secured for 193 men and women through private firms and individuals. Veterans are given preference on PWA work and they drew approx- (Continued on Page Eight) BOND ELECTION DATE NOT SET Preliminary Steps Toward Calling Vote Taken By Council Preliminary action was taken by the town council at its regular meeting Monday night toward call ing an election on the issuance of bonds to finance the construction of a new water supply system, street improvements, extension of the sewerage mains and installa tion of a sewage disposal plant. Approval has been given by the Public Works Commission to an application filed by the town more than a year ago requesting a grant and loan of. $122,000 for these pub lic improvements. Before the work can commence, however, the bonds and improvement plans must be passed upon by the state local gov ernment commission and the de partment of health, and the voters of Franklin must authorize the is sue in a special election. Notice of the election must be advertised for 30 days before the election can be held. Election Date Not Set As it requires a majority of the registered voters for approval of a new issue of bonds, the town coun cil is planning to call a new reg istration for the special election. Pending the settlement of various preliminary routine matters, the date for the election has not been determined; but it is thought like ly it will be not earlier than the middle of January and possibly not until the. early parf of February. Ordinances setting forth the pur pose of the town council to call an election for approval of the bonds and the proposed projects were introduced at the council meeting Monday night, but the council can take no action on them until later. First it will be necessary for the local government commission to pass on the bonds and the state board of health to approve plans for the water and sewage disposal systems. George Dean, town clerk, and R. S. Jones, town attorney, were authorized to prepare the necessary information and send it to the local government commis sion. Another committee, consist ing of Broadus Pendergrass, a member of the council, and Mr. Dean, was appointed to make a statement of the town's indebted- ness and financial status, which, in accordance with the law, will be kept on file in the town hall for public inspection. Meet Again Monday The council adjourned until next Monday night, when it hopes it will have heard from the local gov ernment commission and will be able to act on the ordinances in troduced. No opposition to the bond issue was voiced at the council meeting. The basis for issuance of the bonds is the offer of the Public Works Administration to make an outright grant amounting to 30 per cent of the cost of labor and ma terials for approved projects and to purchase bonds issued by the muni cipality for the balance of the nec essary funds, the bonds to bear in terest at four per cent and to be payable over a period of 30 years. Cost of Projects The Harwood Beebe Engineering company of Spartanburg, S. C, has estimated that the proposed im provements for Franklin would cost approximately $122,000 and it is figured that a federal grant for the project would amount to about $34, 000, leaving a balance of $88,000 to be financed through the issuance of town bonds. The work would be let to con tract with wages and hours of la bor specified by the Public Works Administration. The basic PWA wage for common labor has for merly been 45 cents, but it has not been learned here whether this has been changed.
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