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PROGRESSIVE
LIBERAL
INDEPENDENT
VOL. L, NO. 35
FRANKLIN, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1935
$1.50 PER YEAR
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STATES ROAD
LINK INSPECTED
Highway Officials Take
No Action on Pro
posed Project
A delegation of state highway
officials visited. Highlands Friday
afternoon of last week and inspect
ed the North Carolina link of the
Thiee-States roaid with view to the
possibility of hard-surfacing It.
The Three-States road, named
so because it connects three states,
North and South Carolina - and
Georgia, is one of the most im
portant arteries of tourist traffic
leading to Highlands. It is the
most logical route to the popular
mountain resort for a very large
percentage of visitors from South
Carolina, Georgia and other south
ern states.
Working ton Georgia Link
Work is now steadily progress
ing on improvements to the Geor
gia link of th 'road and Highlands
people are urging, that the six-mile
stretch from the Georgia line to
Highlands be hard-surfaced! As
yet, however, the' Ndrth Carolina
Highway and Public Works com
mission has taken no definite ac
tion on the project. A wide sur
faced road already has been built
over the South Carolina link of
the highways whidh connects High
lands " with Walhalla, S. C The
North Carolina section is covered
with loose crushed stone - and
stretches of the road are difficult
to travel in bad weather.
Officials who inspectd .the road
Friday were Capus M, Waynickr
chairman of the commission; J. C.
Walker, division engineer;" P. L.
Threckled, assistant administrator
of the eighth North Carolina dis
trict of the Works Progress Ad
ministration; R. G. Browning, state
highway locating engineer; and
Highway Commissioners Frank W.
Miller,. Ross M. Sigmon, Julian
Wood and W. C. Woodard.
Official Entertained
.After the inspection tour the
visiting officials were entertained
in the evening at the Highlands
Country Club. Representative resi
dents of Highlands were present,
including Scott Hudsoti, president
of the Country Club; J. C Mell,
L. M. Brown, W. W. Sullivan, T.
G. Harbison, W. W. Edwards, W.
K. Stringer, Robert Tyre Jones,
Jr., R. W. Crenshaw, F. H. Potts,
and J. E. Potts.
. Hold Reunion
Cunningham and Campbell
Families Meet
The Cunningham-Campbell re
union was held Sunday, August 25,
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John
F. Cunningham on Franklin Route
1. Approximately 75 relatives and
friends were present.
After the picnic dinner on the
lawn, the Rev. C. C. Herbert, Jr.,
pastor of the Franklin Methodist
church and principal speaker for
the occasion, spoke to the group.
The following officers were elect
ed for the coming year: George
Dowdle, president ; W. R. Cunning
ham, vice president; Mrs. Rumby
Ray, treasurer ; and Mrs. W. R.
Cunningham, secretary.
The meetings were organized
several years ago in honor of the
late "Aunt Sallie" Cunningham, the
oldest member of the two families.
She was a Campbell before her
marriage.
Sheriff Slagle Wins
Shooting Award
For the third time, Sheriff A. B.
Slagle carried away top honors in
the pistol shooting contest staged
at the North' Carolina Sheriffs'
convention held this year at Hick
ory. Mr. Slagle has won three first
prizes and one second with his ex
pert shooting,
Schools
Open at Franklin and
Highlands Monday
A standard business ' course will
be offered in the Franklin high
school, which, with the elementary
and Highlands consolidated school,
will open Mnday morning, Sep
tember, 2.
The business course, limited to
about 25 students, will cover the
entire field, according, to G. L.
Houk, principal.
Confirmation' on an athletic in
structor has not been received, and
a decision regarding a football
team will be made the early part
of next week, MrrHouk said.
Prior to the opening, carpenters
and plumbers are working on the
buildings, remodeling and repairing
in several places.
REV. MR. ELLER
Baptist Pastor Leaving
Monday To Assume
New Charge
The Rev. Eugene R. Elkr, form
er pastor of the First Baptist
church of Franklin, plans to leave
next Monday for Pelham, Gau, to
become pastor of the First Baptist
church of that towji.
A farewell union, service of the
Franklin churches was held at the
Baptist church Sunday night, when
tributes of esteem and apprecia
tion were paid Mr. and Mrs. El
ler. With the church filled almost
to overflowing, the Rev. C. C. Her
bert, Jr., pastor of the Methodist
church, and the Rev. Frank Blox-
f ham, rector of "St. Agnes Episcopal
church, gave brief talks, and a let
ter was read from the Rev. J. A.
Flanagan, Presbyterian pastor, who
was unable to attend on account of
absence from town.
Ritdhie To Preach
Pending the acceptance of a new
pastor who has been called to the
charge, services are planned each
Sunday at the Franklin Baptist
church. A. J. Ritchie, principal of
the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee school,
will conduct the morning service
next Sunday at 11 o'clock, and the
Rev. 1 J. A Bryson, of Columbia,
Mo., has been invited to hold both
the morning and evening services
on Sunday, September 8. Evening
Services also are planned for next
Sunday. (
Resolutions Read
At the morning services last
Sunday, marking the close of Mr.
Eller's fourth year at Franklin, the
following resolutions were read:
Jn the light of a realization that
all human ties and relationships,
however pleasant they may be,
must ultimately beifoken, we have
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Another Free
Subscribers Given Chance
To Help Favorites
Win Prize
Next Saturday night ends anoth
er important period in. The Press-Maco-nian
Salesmanship Campaign
for those who are really serious
in their efforts to win one of the
major prizes. On that date an
other extra prize vote period ex
pires, during which 240,000 extra
votes will be crediited on each and
every $30, worth of subscriptions
turned in. That is at the rate of
8,000 evtra votes per dollar and is
still about four times as many votes
as the same subscriptions will
count later in the campaign.
This week the mailing lists have
been corrected, and it has been
ascertained by a careful check that
only about two out ol ten poten
TRIBUTES PAID
MAN DROWNcD
AS DAM BREAKS
Highlands Man Loses His
Life In . Stream Near
Pine Mountain
Funeral services for Velma A.
Calloway, of Highlands, who was
drowned Thursday afternoon, Aug
ust 22, at Pin.e Mountain, nine
miles from Highlands, were held at
the home of his father, A. J. Cal
loway, at Norton, .Jackson county,
at 11 o'clock Friday morning. The
Rev. C. R. McCarty, pastor of th
Highlands Presbyterian church, of
ficiated.. Mr. Calloway, who was 35 years
old, was drowned when the dam
of a small lak'e which he was build
ing suddenly collapsed. He was
standing on' top of the dam at
tempting to remove some logs
when the embankment gave way.
His body was recovered by Charl
es Johnson and Bill Teague, both
of Highlands, about a mile down
stream more than an hour after he
was drowned.
Surviving Mr. Calloway are his
widow, his parents, a sister, Mrs.
L. D Woodard, of Boone, and oth
er relatives of Highlands and vi
cinity. WP A ENGINEER
COMING MONDAY
The plan of financing public im
provements urrtter the Works Prog
ress Administration will be dis
cussed by Herman Plemmons, of
Asheville, district WPA engineer,
at a public meeting in the court
house at 2 o'clock Monday after
noon. All interested persons are invited
to attend and anyone desirous of
proposing a WPA project is re
quested to do so at this meeting.
Members of the County Board of
Commissioners have signified their
intention of attending the meeting
and it is thought likely that town
officials of Franklin and Highlands
also will be present or represented.
According to information receiv
ed from Washington, it is highly
important that any proposed WPA
projects be submitted immediately,
as deadlines for applications have
been set.
Tack Hoclson left for his horn
in Winston-Salem Saturday afte
a visit wnn nis Kicuiuiaiuci, jav.
Cansler, Sr .and other relatives oi
iotla.
Miss Audrey Conley left Satur
day for Canton, where she will
spend several days visiting her
cousin, Mrs. R. V. Conley.
Dr. and Mrs. Tames M. Freeman,
of Lavonia, Ga recently spenti
several days visiting Mrs. rree-j
man's sister, Mrs. W. L. Higdonj
at her homy pp Miin
Vote Period Ends Saturday
tial renewals have yet been se
cured on the rural routes out of
Franklin. In fact, subscribers are
daily coming into The Press office
and renewing their subscriptions
who have not even been approach
ed by any member of the cam
paign. Seven such subscribers were
in the office on a single day this
week, none of wffom, according to
their statements, had been solicited
for a subscription.
Neglected Opportunities
These office payments represent
neglected opportunities on the part
of the campaign members. When
office payments are made without
any request to credit to a cam
paign member, such credit cannot
be given to anyone.
The campaign manager has a
plan which he will be glad to give
to any serious club member where
by she can within the next four
Rices Leave
To Dismantle Macon Mica
Plant in Few Weeks
Mr. and" Mrs. D. D. Rice and
family left Thursday for Johnson
City, Tenn., where they will make
their home in the future and where
Mr. Rice now has under construc
tion, a new mica grinding plant for
the Southern Mica company. Mr.
Rice is president and general man
ager of the company.
The company's grinding plant at
the lotla bridge will continue in
foperation for several weeks more,
with Mr. Rice's father, J. E. Rice,
in charge. When orders now on
hand are filled, it was stated, the
plant will be dismantled. Twenty
to forty men have been employed
by the company for some years in
mining and manufacturing mica.
The elder Mr. Rice and his wife
plan to leave Franklin the middle
or latter part of September for
Spruce Pines, where he will be in
charge of operations at a new mine
which will supply mica for the
Johnson City plant.
JURY SUBMITS
SCHOOL REPORT
Scores Water Supplies and
Bad Sanitary Con
ditions In a report submitted Friday to
Judge Wilson Warlick, presiding
judge, the Macon county Grand
Jury deplored the sanitary con
ditions of a majority of the rural
schools, as well as the conditions
in the county building.
Dividing into groups, the jurors
visited rural schools of the county
and the various county buildings,
and in their repoTt laid special em
phasis on the need for better sani
tary conditions, pointing out that
several schools had neither toilets
nor water, while many had very
poor sources for obtaining water.
In the Otto school, there were
neither toilets nor water, as was
the case at the Academy school,
where the water, though available,
was bad. Clark's Chapel "and Low
er Tesenta schools possessed no
water, and that at Fair View, Wa
tauga, Mountain Grove, Salem,
Mashburn Branch, Patton, Union,
Mulberry, Upper Tesenta, Hickory
Knoll, Burningtown, Liberty, and
Harmony was either bad and in a
few cases, too far from the build
ing. As a whole, toilets in the schools
were in bad condition, many hav
ing only one. Most of the build
ings were in fair shape, though
several were declared to be in bad
condition, the Aquone school being
in "very bad condition."
weeks earn $500 in cash. It will
be div.ulged in full to anyone who
is interested enough to call for him
at the office.
The fact that more new sub
scribers than renewals have thus
far been turned in by the mem
bers demonstrates the fact that .no
systematic canvass of the territory
has been made, the workers mere
ly enlisting new subscriptions Wher
ever they happen to. run across
them.
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Subscribers to The Press who
wish to renew and credit their re
newal to some member should send
their, remittance direct to The
Press office mentioning the club
member whom they desire to fa
vor. Such subscriptions will be
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bers and they will receive full cred-
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HIGHWAY WORK
SEEN JJKELY
Prospects Bright for Early
Start on Surfacing
No. 286
After appearing before the State
Hityhwav and Public Works com
mission in Bryson City Saturday
ni(rht a delegation of Macon coun
ty men returned home encouraged
over the prospects ot early im
provement of highway -No. 280 trom
Franklin to Bryson City.
Members of the delegation re
nnrted that Caous Waynick, chair
man of the commission, said the
roadt would be hard-surfaced but
did not commit himself as to when
work on. the project would be un
dertaken.
Funds Allocated
TAst winter the highway com
mission allocated funds for com
mencing the project, but work has
been delayed pending completion
of a new survey of a course for
the road. State highway engineers
are rtow conducting this survey,
following pretty closely the present
route. Engineers of the Nantahala
Power and Light company had
previously surveyed a proposed
route carrying the road across the
Cowee mountains to Alarka in
Swain county.
It has been reported that the
commission was not satisfied with
this route on account of heavy ex
pense entailed in grading a new
road over the mountains. Mem
befs of the delegation which went
to Bryson City expressed the opin
ion that when the road is surfaced
it probably will follow the present
course very closely. Some of the
worst curves and grades will like
ly be eliminated, they said, but the
route will not be fundamentally
changed.
Members of Delegation
Members of the Macon delega
tion appearing before the highway
commission, which last week made
a tour of inspection of highways
in the western counties, were
Geofge Patton, mayor of Franklin
and county attorney ; Sheriff A. B.
Slagle, Ed Byrd, chairman of the
county commissioners; Representa
tive J. Frank Ray, and Frank I.
Murray.
. Officials of the Nantahala Power
and Light company have requested
the highway authorities to select
a route on a higher level than the
present road in backwater areas of
the proposed Needmore dam. It
was stated that the power com
pany may start construction of this
dam within a few years.
Members of the Swam and Ma
con county delegations told the
commission that what they were
interested in was hard-surfacing of
No. 286 and they were not par
ticular as to the route to be fol
lowed. . .
Going; to Brvson City from High
Hamnton Inn. in Tackson county.
members of the highway commis
sion passed through Macon county
Saturday but did not stop in Frank
lin, as they had been expected to
do. The Macon delegation got to
gether late in .the afternoon, at
the suggestion of Swain county
residents, and went to Bryson City.
One group of highway commis
sioners, headed by Chairman Way
nick, followed highway No. 285 to
Dillsboro and proceeded from there
to Bryson City, while another group,
including R, G. Browning, locating
engineer, was reported to have
gone to Bryson City via No. 286.
Phillips Erecting
New Service Station
L. B. Phillips, owner of the Log
Cabin Motor company, has leased
the Kingsberry lot at Porter and
Palmer streets and started con
struction on the site of a modern
automobile service station. Con
crete approaches are now being
laid. Work is to start soon on
the station, which will be built of
native stone.