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LIBERAL - INDEPENDENT
PROGRESSIVE
VOL. L, NO. IS
744 ENROLLED
IN ERECLASSES
Illiteracy Diminishing at
Interest Grows in
Adult Classes
The emergency relief educational
program which was started in Ma
con county on a small scale last
fall has grown in to a countywide
movement that bids fair to reduce
illiteracy to the barest minimum.
When the work got under way
last September there were only four
EKE teachers in the county and
a few scattered classes, some. of
them consisting of only a handful
of people. Now there are 28 ERE
teachers in Macon county and 744
men, women, boys and girls are
enrolled in their classes.
The work is progressing so satis
factorily that T. G. Dean, county
chairman of the EKE program,
hopes that this county will send a
representation of three or four hun
dred pupils to Asheville on June 1
for a commencement celebration to
be held for EKE pupils in all of
the western counties. President and
Mrs. Roosevelt have been invited
to attend the exercises.
Ask Cooperation
In a statement made public after
a conference of EKE teachers in
Franklin Saturday, Mr. Dean re
viewed what had been accomplish
ed by the teachers and asked for
public support of their work. He
said:
"We are now making an appeal
to the people of Franklin and Ma
con county for donations of books
and magazines. We want free
clinics for pre-school children. We
need an advisory committee of
energetic,, bustling, hustling men
and women. We are calling for
volunteers. .. Will you please get
out and learn of our work and be
a member of our advisory com
mittee." Headquarters Opened
ERE county headquarters have
been opened in offices over the J.
B. Pendergrass store on West Main
street, with Mrs. T. C. Justus in
charge.
The ERE classes are held five
or six days a week, usually in the
evenings, and consist of five or
more pupils. Some of the classes
are said to have an enrollment of
65. Some of the pupils have had
the equivalent of a third grade
education, but many of them have
had no education at all.
The teachers are paid $12.50 a
, week and are required to give 20
hours each week to the work, but
many of them work much more
than that.
Reviews Work
Reviewing the program, its
achievements and plans for the fu
ture, Mr. Dean said:
"The work in this county started
last September with four teachers.
It was pioneer sailing for them.
Yet they went out and began
teaching in earnest while no one
in particular paid very much atten
tion. Still they went on, accom
plishing things which have not di
rectly come to the notice of the
public in general, but which will
live on in the lives of those with
whom they came in contact.
"Today, probably you have no
ticed, the attitude of the public is
changing. People no longer look
on EKE teaching merely as a re
lief situation. The teachers no
longer regard it as a sinecure.
From every part of the county
complaints are coming in that they
are being slighted somewhat be
cause we have been unable to
place teachers in every locality.
F.very community which is fortun
ate enough to have a class is en
thusiastic. Students from sixteen
to 93 years of age are enrolled in
these classes.
"To date there are twenty-seven
white teachers and one colored
teacher in lacon county. A total
of 744 white students have been
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Delays Announcement
Of Examination Results
G. L. Houk, Franklin school
principal, has postponed an
nouncement of a list of pupils
who passed the high school en
trance examination held on
March 23. It "had previously
been stated that the list prob
ably would be ready for pub
lication in this week's Press
Maoonian. Mr. Houk said he had decid
ed to withhold the list for the
time being. He did not say
when it would be made public.
As soon as available this news
paper wiH publish it
HOSPITAL GETS
DUKE DONATION
Angel Institution Receives
$5,891 for Free
Patients
A gift of $5,891 to Angel Hos
pital, Franklin, was included in a
list of allotments from the Duke
Endowment fund announced -in
Charlotte Tuesday. A total of
$965,894.05 was distributed by trus
tees of the foundation, established
by the late James B. .Duke, to
institutions in the two Carolinas.
Of the total, $853,186 was appro
priated for 105 hospitals, and 112,
708.05 for 46 orphan homes.
Aid is alloted to non-profit hos
pitals on the basis of $1 a day per
bed for free patients.
TAX LISTING
DEADLINE SET
E. B. Byrd, chairman of the
county commissioners, and C. Tom
Bryson, supervisor of tax listing,
announced today that Saturday,
April 20, would be the deadline for
listing property for 1935 taxes. Any
listings delayed until after that date
will be subject to a 25 per cent
penalty, they said.
Mr. Bryson said that one town
ship, Nantahala, already had turn
ed in its list book complete and
that most of the other townships
had nearly complete listings. He
expressed the hope that all the
list books would be turned in next
week.
Listing this year got under way
promptly on April 1 and property
owners have been more prompt
than usual in retaurning their tax
abstract sheets.
Frank Leach, tax lister for
Franklin township, will be at the
courthouse all next week to re
ceive listings not yet returned. Mr.
Bryson will take listings for any
outside townships whose books
have been turned in.
Air To Order
Hospital To Install Condi
tioning Equipment
Dr. Furman Angel, medical di
rector of Angel Hospital, announc
ed Wednesday that he has let a
contract to the Westinghouse Elec
tric company for installation of air
conditioning equipment in the hos
oital. "This is the first hospital in
this state," he said, "to take this)
step for the comfort of its pa
tients."
Child Seriously 111
From Bee Stings
Suffering from innumerable bee
stings, Charlie Scruggs, aged 2,
was reported in a serious condition
at Angel Hospital Wednesday.
The child was stung by the ordi
nary variety of honey bees while
playing around a bee hive. The
stings were so numerous that they
poisoned his system.
FRANKLIN, N. C, THURSDAY. APRIL
Passage of Works Relief
Bill Assures More Work
In Nantahala Forest Area
Enactment of the works relief
bill, carrying appropriations of $4,"
880,000,000, gives assurance of
early undertaking of a vast public
improvement program in which
western North Carolina and Macon
county will be certain to partici
pate. Detailed plans of public works
projects to be undertaken in this
section have not been announced,
but passage of the bill is expected
to hasten work on the park-to-park
highway and to result in new pro
jects in the Nantahala National
forest and other federal lands in
western North Carolina.
A site already has been selected
for a new Civilian Conservation
camp in the Cowee community and
plans are under consideration for
location of another camp at the
Coweta experiment station. It is
thought likely that several other ,
camps will be established in the
Cooking School To Be Held
Here Tuesday, Wednesday
APRIL COURT
OPENS MONDAY
McDonald Brothers To Be
Tried for Robbing
Service Station
With Judge J. A Rousseau, of
North Wilkesborc, presiding, the
April term of Macon county su
perior court is scheduled to con
vene Monday morning for a two
weeks criminal and civil term.
Outstanding case on the criminal
docket is that of John and Walter
McDonald, brothers, of Charlotte,
charged with sticking up Bill Pen
land, auto service station manager,
and robbing him of $40 on Febru
ary 9. Unable to meet bond after
a magistrate's hearing, the brothers
have been held in the county jail.
A heavy civil docket is scheduled.
The grand jury named at this
term of court will serve for a year,
under terms of a bill enacted by
the current legislature.
Auto Parking Spaces
Are Enlarged
The town street cleaning depart
ment, under the direction of R. F.
Henry, police chief, was busy this
week marking parking spaces on
Main street.
"We are making the spaces larg
er this time," Chief Henry remark
ed, "so no one should have any
excuse for not being able to park
their cars within the lines. The
spaces are six feet with and 17
feet long. That is plenty of room
for anybody to drive into, and
hereafter I am going to be pretty
strict with drivers who leave their
cats partly in the parking spaces
and partly out."
U. D. C Chapter To Hold
Plant Sale April 20
The Macon county chapter of the
United Daughters of the Confeder
acy will sponsor a plant sale on
Saturday, April 20, in the store
room on the Munday Hotel prop
erty on east Main street, it was
announced this week.
A variety of rooted shrubs, both
annual and perennial blooming
plants, and a number of cut flow
ers will be offered for sale.
11, 1935
Nantahala Forest.
John Herbert Stone, supervisor
of the Nantahala Forest, expressed
the opinion that expansion of the
forest would be continued on even
a larger scale than in the past two
years; but said he had not received
any definite instructions from
Washington as to what was to be
done under the works relief pro
gram. The forest recently has
made large land purchases and
others are under consideration.
Improvement of these acquisitions
through the construction of roads
and trails and the ejection of fire
lookout towers will afford work
for many men. It has not been
learned, however, whether this work
will be done by the Civilian Con
servation Corps, local labor, or by
a combination of both.
It is thought very probable that
the office and administrative staff
of the Nantahala Forest will be
considerably increased.
Public Invited To Classes
At Utility Company's
Office
A Kelvinator "Cook with Cold"
school will be conducted in the of
fices of the Nantahala Power and
Light company next J4he post-
office Tuesday and Wednesday off
next week, according to an an
nouncement by C. W. Allen, local
manager of the utilities company.
Classes will be conducted each
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock by Miss
Grace Johnston, of Gastonia, who
has received special training in
this work. The classes are open to
the public, Mr. Allen said. Refresh
ments will be served and prizes of
fered each afternoon.
Miss Johnston is a graduate of
the Woman's College of the Uni
versity of North Carolina and has
studied in the Kelvin Kitchen
school in Detroit, where she learn
ed many new and helpful ideas on
food preservation, preparation and
serving.
Miss Johnston conducted a hos
tess school here a year ago which
attracted much interest among
Franklin women.
Church Cleaning Day
Set for April 16
Tuesday, April 16, has been set
aside as church cleaning day at
the Franklin Methodist church.
Ladies of the congregation have
been requested to meet at the
church for cleaning the interior of
the building, and the men of the
congregation have been asked to
bring tools and assist in cleaning
the church grounds.
Macon County Tax Bill
In Senate Committee
RALEIGH, April 10-Representa-tive
Ray's measure to allow Ma
con county and the "municipalities
therein" to refund their tax sale
certificates has been referred to
the senate committee on judiciary
No. 1. It passed the house last
week. It, would allow five-year
notes for face amount of taxes for
the years 1927-31 to be given be
fore April 1, 1936, and allows fore
closure of taxes for these years to
be instituted any time before Oc
tober 1, 1936.
Ruth Taliey, 4, Dies
At Rainbow Springs
The body of Ruth Talley, four-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Will Talley of Rainbow Springs,
who died of pneumonia Monday
afterjnoon, was taken to Waynes
ville for burial Tuesday.
$1.50 PER YEAR
CAUCUS TICKET
IS UNOPPOSED
Only 7 Candidates Seeking
Equal Number of Town
Offices
A "cut and dried" town election
looms for Franklin on May 7 with
only seven candidates running for
the seven offices to be filled.
George B. Patton is unopposed
for mayor, and so are the follow
ing candidates for aldermen : T.
W. Angel, Sr., G. E. Brown, J. O.
Harrison, H. S. Higgins, J. A. Pal
mer and W. C. Wilkes.
At one time before the deadline
for filing notices of candidacy it
appeared that there would be a
lively contest for the aldermanic
positions. Fourteen men announc
ed they would seek positions on
the board; but, one by one, eight
of them withdrew.
Caucus Held
With the exception of one man,
all of those whose names remain
on the ticket were said to have
been approved at a series of secret
caucuses. The membership of the
caucuses was said to consist of
leaders in the recent successful
fight against issuance by the town
of sewer and water improvement
bonds.
The purpose of the caucuses, it
was stated, was to select a town
administration that "will spend no
money."
Those Who Withdrew
Harve Bryant, one of the early
candidates to file for the board of
aldermen, asked his name to be
withdrawn shortly after he learned
that, should he be elected, the
business firm of which he is a
member would be disqualified from
bidding on town supplies. Others
who filed for aldermen and later
cancelled their notices were J. E.
Rice, W. B. McGuire, I. T. Peek,
W. F. Curtis, Nathan Pennington,
R. D. Sisk, present mayor, and E.
W. Long.
The deadline for withdrawing
notices of candidacy, first set for
Saturday, was moved forward to
Monday on a new interpretation of
the election law, which sets the
time at 30 days prior to the elec
tion. As this fell on Sunday, it
was held that candidates should be
allowed to file on Monday.
Although all candidates are un
opposed, it will be necessary to
hold a formal election to comply
with the statutes.
Federal Building Must
Be Finished in 250 Days
Construction of Franklin's hun-dred-thousand-dollar
federal build
ing must be completed by the con
tractor in 250 calendar days, ac
cording to information received by
T. W. Porter, postmaster.
Contract for the building was
awarded in Washington recently
and Mr. Porter has been informed
that B. Gallimore, of Greensboro,
was the successful bidder. It has
not been learned when he plans to
begin work on the project. Mr.
Porter said today that the site for
the building, the former home site
of Alex Moore, had been cleared
and he had notified authorities in
Washington that everything was in
readiness for the contractor to start
excavation work.
To Stock Game Preserve
With Quail, Pheasants
Dr. "Furman Angel announced
Wednesday that, in cooperation
with local game authorities, he had
ordered 20 ring-necked pheasants
and eight pairs of Hungarian quail.
The birds are to be released on
his private game preserve and in
various parts of Macon county.
GOES TO ATLANTA
Mrs. Hallie Russell, proprietor of
Hallie's Beauty Shop, left Monday
for Atlanta to take the Georgia
examination for licensing cosmetol
ogists, and to study new ideas in
beauty work.