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PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL INDEPENDENT
VOL. L, NO. 38
FRANKLIN, N. C. THURSDAY, SEPT. 19, 1935
$150 PER YEAR
CONTEST CLOSE
AS END NEARS
Work This Week Likely
To Decide Winner of
Big Prize
"Unless someone steps out and
gets a big bunch of extension sub
scriptions this week and thus turns
the tide in their direction, this will
be one of the closest finishes I
have seen in twelve years of run
ning campaigns," declared the man
ager of The Press-Maconian cir
culation campaign today.
The campaign manager, inter
viewed this morning, admitted that
this one had him just a little bit
jittery.
"I don't like these closely con
tested campaigns," he declared. "1
always feel that it is not quite as
hard a blow for a member to lose
by a wide margin as it Is to lose
by just a nose, realizing that by a
little more effort they could have
overcome the slight lead. I know
that if I were in a campaign race,
I would not feel half so bad at
being handed a full sized licking
as I would if someone nosed me
out at the last minute by the nar
row margin of just a few sub
scriptions." 4 Leader Close
"Unless present conditions are
materially changed by this week's
results," he continued, "there will
be several mighty sick people
when the judges etxdtit ' the votes"
and announce the winners on the
night of September 28th. There
are at least four members, any one
of whom could win the first prize
by the right sort of effort from
now until the finish; but the fact
remains that one of that number
will have to be content with a
$25 prize instead of five hundred
dollars."
The prize ballots, of which due
notice has been mailed all active
workers, will probably do some
thing to clarify the situation. The
member who can have a lead if
only one dollar next Saturday night
will automatically be credited with
300,000 extra votes. The second
highest will get 200,000 and the
third 100,000 free votes. So this
week it isn't just a matter of try
ing for the $500; it develops into
a race as to who among the four
leaders is going to be the "goat"
and get one of the smallest prizes,
while the others, with only a
slight margin ahead, will get the
three larger prizes.
Public Cooperation Asked
Subscribers should most certain
ly do what they can to help these
earnest workers during this week.
They are working for a bigger
stake and working harder than
ordinary commission collectors who
represented the paper before the
campaign started. iThey deserve
the unstinted cooperation and help
of every subscriber in their earn
est efforts to win a big prize in
this campaign. Your subscription
may mean several hundred dollars
to any of them; it can only mean
a few cents commission if one per
sists in holding it up to give to a
mere commission collector after the
campaign.
The management has tried to be
lenient in enforcing the rules
which were plainly printed at the
beginning of the campaign. But in
fairness to those who have work
ed every week during the cam
paign, no one who fails to make a
report next Saturday with at least
enough to make up the weeks they
have missed will be considered
eligible for either prize or com
mission. And it is at the discre
tion of the campaign manager
whether they can now be reinstat
ed or not. The rules were printed
and given to every member when
they joined and they must be enforced.
Jamboree
Outing at Golf Club Prov
es Big Success
Although visitors were not as
numerous as anticipated, the jam
boree at the Franklin golf course
last Thursday turned out to be
such a success that officials of the
course are planning to make it an
annual event. By staging the all
day sports event earlier in the sea
son they hope, in the future, to
attract more people from out of
town.
Major Carmack, of Tampa, Fla.,
who has been spending the sum
mer here, scored a 78 to win the
handicap , golf tournament in the
morning. Winton Perry turned in
an 84 for second place and J. E.
Perry was third with 86. Eighteen
golfers teed off.
In the afternoon R. D. Sisk car
ried off the honors in a "Goofy"
golf tournament, which can be de
scribed only as "goofy," by turning
in a score of 49 for seven holes.
One of the unique features of this
event was a hole, the seventh, on
which everyone was awarded a
hole-in-one certificate. No one
could miss making it, for a groov
ed channel led the ball right into
the cup over a course 220 inches
long.
Honors in a tennis match in the
afternoon between employes of the
Nantahala National Forest and em
ployes of the Pisgah Forest went
to the visitors. The local tennis
players split with the visitors in
four single matches; but the Pis
gah men won one doubles set-to
while another one was called on
account of darkness.
A feature of the swimming dem
onstration during the afternoon
was a demonstration of life-saving
by local scouts in which a scout,
fully dressed, "rescued" another
scout. Winners 6T"1he swimming
events were:
Relay race: Harold Baldwin and
Charles Hunnicutt. Two-lap race,
Andrew Jones. One-lap race for
boys, Charles Hunnicutt. One-lap
race for girls, Lillian Jones. One
lap under water race, Andrew Jones.
Half lap under water, Harold Bald
win. Diving, C. S. Brown. One
lap race for boys under 12 years
old, Victor Perry.
LOCAL ELEVEN
TO PLAY SYLVA
First Encounter of Season
Is Scheduled for
Tomorrow
With W. C. Reeves, new mathe
matics teacher, as coach, the
Franklin high school football squad
is being whipped into shape for
what promises to be its best grid
iron season in several years. The'
eleven's first game of the season
is scheduled with Sylva high at
Sylva tomorrow afternoon.
When Coach Reeves issued a
call for recruits Monday a week
ago more than 30 boys reported.
Although a number of the boys
had not had previous football ex
perience, the coach was well pleas
ed with the interest shown and
thinks he has sufficient material
to produce a good team.
The season's schedule is not yet
complete, but five games have been
definitely carded and several oth
ers are pending. The schedule, as
it now stands, follows:
September 20 at Sylva; Septem
ber 27 open ; October 4 Sylva at
Franklin; October 11 open; Oc
tober 18 at Bryson City ; October
25 at Brevard (tentative); No
vember 1 at Andrews; November
8 open; November 15 Bryson
City at Franklin.
Negotiations also are under way
for a game with Hayesville and
one with Asheville School. Gro
ve Jamison is . manager of the
team,
Press-Maconian Launches
Presidential Straw Vote
OUR NEXT PRESIDENT - POLL
This newspaper is cooperating with 2000 other
newspapers in making this nation-wide poll.
VOTE IN ONE BLOCK ONLY
Do you favor the re-election of
(yes)
Or, do you favor the nomination, by the Democratic party, of some
Democrat other than President Roosevelt?
(FIR8T
(8ECOND CHOICE)'"
.(((ItllllMtlll 4. ((
(THIRD CHOICE)
Do you favor the election of a Republican?
(ye)
If you are in favor of a Republican,
(FiRST 1 CHOICE)
(SECOND CHOICE) "
(THIRD "CHOICE)
Or, if you favor the organization of a third party, whom would
you want this new party- to nominate?
(FIRST
(SECOND
(THIRD
Every reader of this newspaper may vote. No reader is required to
sign his name. Vote now and mail the ballot to this newspaper,
Plans To Improve Forest
Playgrounds Announced
Small Lakes To Be Built
At Vanhook Glade
And Arrowood
Plans for further expansion of
the recreational facilities of the
Nantahala National Forest, em
bracing the construction of two
small lakes, were outlined by John
Herbert Stone, forest supervisor,
on a show-me tour conducted in
the Macon county area of the res
ervation last Friday.
At the public camp site at Van
hook Glade on state highway No.
28 between Franklin and Highlands
Mr. Stone revealed to those going
on the tour that the forest service
intended not only to improve and
enlarge camping facilities, but al
so to establish there a home site
development and to erect an eight
foot dam across the Cullasaja river.
This dam, to be built with CCC
labor, will back water up the river
2,000 feet, making an ideal small
lake for water sports. A beach
and bathing house also will be
constructed. Use of the lake will
be entirely free to the public, in
accordance with the forest service
policy of making no charges for
its recreational facilities.
Popular Camp Ground
The Vanhook Glade camp ground,
situated in a beautiful white nine
grove, already has been admirably
developed. The Civilian Conserva
tion Corps has constructed there
14 stone fireplaces, an incinerator
for the disposal of refuse and mod
ern, sanitary latrines. Water is
piped to the grounds from a tested
mountain spring. Mote than 500
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President Roosevelt?
(no)
CHOICE)
(no)
whom do you wish nominated?
CHOICE)
CHOICE)
CHOICE)
ACCEPTS CALL
TO PASTORATE
The Rev. W. M. Burns, pastor
of a Baptist church at Cave City,
Ky., has accepted a call to the pas
torate of the bust Baptist church
of Franklin, it was announced this
week by the church's board of
deacons. He is expected to as
sume his new charge the first
Sunday in October.
Mr. Burns, a native of Barnes
ville, Ga., is a graduate of Mercer
University, Macon, Ga., and of
Louisville Seminary, Louisville, Ky.
He attended hfercer at the same
time the Rev. E. R. Eller, whom
he succeeds as pastor of the Frank
lin church, was a student there.
He received his degree from Louis
ville Seminary last spring.
Mr. Burns has been in the Bap
tist ministry for fourteen years and
has served as pastor of the Cave
City, Ky., church for three years.
He is 35 years old.
Mrs. Burns is a native of Ma
con, Ga., and also has studied at
the Louisville Seminary. They have
one child, a daughter about 10
years of age.
before their pwj(
informed a
industrial im
that they may
in the broad movJ
world the advantai
Joins 2,000 Other Week
lies In National Pre
Convention Poll
Months earlier than ever before
in this generation, our national
pre-convention political pot is boil
ing. Even though the national con
ventions of the major political
parties are still some nine or ten
months away, citizens of the Unit
ed States, north, south, east and
west, are giving attention to the
political outlook for 1936 when
presidential candidates will be nom
inated, party platforms drawn and,
what promises to be, intensive
campaigns waged.
Who those candidates will be and
what kind of platform of govern
ment they will stand upon is the
subject already tantalizing the minds
of voters of all political faiths and
beliefs. Such discussions are heard
at every hand with preferences, in
candidates and opinions on govern
ment freely expressed.
The situation is brought about,
no doubt, through the fact that the
people of the United States are to
day more government-minded than
we have ever known. This is as a
result of the last half dozen years
of struggle through a national eco
nomic upheaval and consequent at
tempts at re-adjustment.
Be that as it may, in the lan
guage of the street, the questions
of the hour and heard at every
turn are: "What do you think of
the political outlook for 1936? and
who do you think will be our next
President?"
In the wide variance of replies
offered to that question comes the
opportunity to conduct a nation
wide pre-convention poll, the re
sults of which will so doubt be of
great interest to voters everywhere.
We Are Joining In
To the end, that the publishers
of The Franklin Press and The
Highlands Maconian are of the
opinion that such a poll will be of
great interest to its subscribers,
this newspaper has agreed to help
conduct the poll. The poll is nation-wide,
with some 2,000 news
papers throughout the United
States cooperating.
Every attempt is being made by
all of the cooperating newspapers
to conduct the poll along non-par
tisan lines. Voters are not asked
to sign their names. They are ask
ed only to express a preference for
candidate and party ; to express a
choice which will help show the
political leanings of voters through
out the country at this time.
No matter what your party pref
erence may be, wouldn't you like
to know how your fellow-citizens
throughout the country are view
ing the 1936 political situation?
As citizens and voters we would
like to know and that is why this
newspaper has agreed to cooperate
with the 2,000 other , newspaper
publishers, who are of like opin
ion, in conducting the poll.
In an adjoining column will be
found a ballot which we are of
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George Bulgin' s New Shop
Now Open for Business
Ceorge Bulgin has completed
construction of his new machine
and blacksmith shop and is now
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open jor ousmess. ine new snop,
equipped for welding, general ma
chine repairing and blacksmith
work, is located on highway No.
28 near its intersection with the
old Georgia road. Mr. Bulgin was
able to salvage very little of the
equipment from his old shop, near
the Nantahala Creamery, which was
burned about two months ago. .
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