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PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL IMDEPEJYDEMT
VOL. LI, NO. 8
FRANKLIN, N. C., THURSDAY, FEB. 20, 1936
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EAGLEBADGES
Andrew Jones and Chas.
Slagle Given Coveted
Awards
Franklin Boys Win Scout Honors
Eagle scout badg'es, the highest
award in scouting, were presented
to two P'ranklin iboys, Andrew
Tones and Charles Slagle, at the
Smoky Mountains district court ot
honor held Monday night ni the
Presbyterian church.
The .awards were impressively
made by George B. Patton, mayor
of Franklin, who presented the.
badges to the mothers of the boys,
Mrs. G. A. Jones and Mrs. 'A. B.
Slagle, who then pinned coveted
awards on their sons.
Large Audience Present
The audience at the court of
honor filled the church auditorium.
A number of other awards also
were made, consisting of promo
tions and the presentation of merit
badges.
The court of honor was opened
with an invocation toy the Rev.
J A. Flanagan, o'f Franklin, a ^flag
ceremony and the singing of “My
Country ’Tis of Thee.” Members
of the Franklin troop then gave
a sketch of scouting, outlining the
requirements of the six scout ranks.
A. M. Adams,' of Cherokee,
presided over the court of honor.
Seven boys were inducted ^ as
tenderfoot scouts by A. W. Allen,
of Asheville, scout executive O'
the Daniel Boone council, which in
cludes the Smoky Mountains dis
trict; eight boys were promoted to
second class scouts, the Rev. C.
C. Herbert, Jr., making the
awards; two scouts were promoted
to the rank of first class, the
awards 'being made by Dr. W. t-
Furr; and 27 merit badges were
presented by the Rev. Mr. Flana
gan.
Win Promotions
Franklin scouts promoted at the
court of honor were Clyde John
son, .Alex Moore, Jr., and Glen
Tallent, tenderfoot scouts.; John
Andrew Setser, seco.nd class, Ly
man Higdon, first class. Twenty-
one merit badges were awarded to
Andrew Jones, Charles Hunmcutt,
Charles Palmer, J. C. Cunningham,
Julian Poliakoff, Harry Higgms,
Charles Slagle, Willie Bryant,
Harold Roper and Eugene Furr.
Delegations were present at the
court of honor from Bryson City
and Sylva, .as well as from Frank
lin. Scouts from Cherokee and
Cullowhee were unable to attend
on account of the weather.
The Franklin scout troop is plan
ning to celebrate next mo,nth the
anniversary of it!s establishment.
The March meeting of the court
of honor is scheduled to be held
on the fourth Monday of the
month at Bryson City.
Dr. J. M. May Is Patient
In Angel Hospital
Dr. J. M. May, Hayesville phy
sician, is in Angel hospital under
going treatment for a stomach
disorder. His condition is good,
Dr. Furman Angel reported today,
but an operation will be necessary.
V
ANDREW JONES
CHARLES SLAGLE
-Courte.sy Asheville Citizen-Times
Meeting Called To Form
Trade Body at Highlands
WAYAH TO HAVE
STONE LOOKOirr
Forest Supervisor Plans
Improvements on
Mountain Top
Plans for New Chamber
Of Commerce To Be
Discussed
Legion Supper
Postponed Indefinitely
An oy.ster supper planned for
ex-service men of Macon county
at the Scott Griffin liotel Sat
urday night has been indefi
nitely postponed, it was an
nounced today by (!. A. Jones,
commander of the Macon county
post of the American Legion.
Mr. Jones said the postpone
ment was made .necessary on
account of the fact that Burgin
Pennell, of Asheville, state vicc
commander of the legion, had
cancelled his acceptance of an
invitation to address the war
veterans at the supper.
Although the supper has been
postponed, Mr. Jones said the
legion post would hold its reg
ular meeting in the legion hall
at 7:3() o’clock Saturday night.
Franklin
Produce Market
LATEST QUOTATIONS
(Prices listed below are subject
to change without notice.)
Quoted by Farmers Federation, Jnc.
Chickens, heavy breed hens
and fryers; lb 14}4c
Chickens., light weight; lb. .. 12>4c
Eggs, doz 2Sc
Irish potatoes. No. 1; bu. .. 7Sc
Corn, ibu 6Sc
Wheat, bu 90c
Walnuts, hulled; per 100 lbs. $1.00
Quoted by Nantahala Cr«amery
I Butterfat, lb 30^c
Due to the increasing popular
ity of M.acon county’s majestic
Wayah’ Bald ,as a point for
mountain sight-seeing, a new stone
observatory is to be erected there
this spring, it was announced this
week by Philip H. Bryan, super
visor of the Nantahala National
Forest.
The stone observatory, replacing
a 30-foot wooden lookout tower,
will have an enclosed platform, in
which a panoramic map will be
placed so that the many points of
interest viewed from the tower
may ,be readily identified.
This project, Mr. Bryan said,
will be part of the recreational
development program undertaken
by the forest service with labor
from CCC camps.
Commands Fine Views
Wayah Bald commands one of
the ibest views obtainable of the
Great Smoky MiOuntains and the
valley of the Little Tennessee
river. An excellent forest service
road, connecting with state high
way No. 28, winds to the summit
of the mountain, more than 5,300
feet in elevation.
Thrilling vistas of mountains,
valley ;and towns may be had
from almost every turn of the
road. From the top of the moun
tain one can see three states be
sides No'rth Carolina—South Caro
lina, Georgia and Tennessee.
Among the more widely known
m'Ountain peaks, which can be seen
on clear days are Clingman’s
Dome, Siler’s Bald, Mt. Kephart,
Mt. LeConte, in the Smokies,
Whiteside Mountain, Standing In
dian .and Rabun Bald in the Blue
Ridge and Nantahala ranges. Be
low Franklin nestles sublimely in
the valley with the Little Tenn
essee meandering through fertile
fields and woodlands, forming here
and there great horseshoe curves.
Thousands of people from every
part of the country visit Wayah
Bald each year to view and to
photograph the vistas it affords.
J. L. Young Employed
By F,arm Federation
J. L. Young, well known Macon
county farmer and poultry dealer,
has .been employed by the Farm
ers Federation, Inc., it was an
nounced this week by Lawrence
Ramsey, manager of the federa
tion’s Franklin store and w.are-
house.
Mr. Young will work outside of
the store most of the time, Mr.
Ramsey said, his duties being con
cerned principally with the buying
and marketing of poultry and
produce for the federation.
BY. MRS. T. C. HARBISON
(SpecijJ to The Press Maconicin)
HIGHLANDS, Feb. 19—Plans for
re-establishment of a chamber of
commerce in Highlands will be dis
cussed at a meeting called for 7:30
p. m. Thursday, February 27. All
interested residents, especially the
business men and women of the
town, a.re urged to attend the
meeting, which will be in the town
office.
Notices of the meeting are being
sent out .by the Rev. Frank Blox-
ham, rector of the Episcopal
church, who has taken an active
interest in civic affairs of High
lands since his residence was
changed from Franklin to High
lands last autumn. Mr. Bloxham
has recently been obtaining in
formation relative to the organiza
tion of a chamber of commerce
from similar trade bodies in other
communities.
Many Inquiries Received
il’ncidentally, it has been noted
that this meeting is ibeing called
almost exactly five years after an
other meeting, which was held on
Feb. 25, 1931, at which the no
longer existing chamber of com
merce was established. Since the
time when this former chamber of
commerce ceased to function, let
ters requesting information about
Highlands have been referred to
the town office for attention. Last
year over 200 such letters were
answered through the town office
during the tourist seasQ.n, and a
number of others were passed on
to various individuals for atten
tion. The states from which these
letters were received indicates
that Highlands is known over a
wide territory. Most of the letters
were from Florida, but inquiries
in varying number were received
from North Carolina, Georgia,
South Carolina, Alabama, Louisi
ana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Texas,
New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois,
Michigan, Virginia, West Virginia,
Arizona and the New England
states.
Highlands is primarily a resort
town, and with this constantly in
creasing number of requests as to
what Highlands has to offer, (at
least half a dozen have been re
ceived since the New Year) it must
be realized that we as civic minded
citizens and business men and
women must form an organized
cooperative body, and attempt to
make and put into operation vari
ous civic plans in time for the
coming tourist season. We .also
need in some way, to insure the
life of the .body once it is organ
ized.
FOOD SlIPPUED
THOSEJN NEED
Distribution of Commodi
ties Handled by Wel
fare Office
A statenient issued this week by
]\lrs. Eloise G. Franks, Macon
county welfare superintendent, an
nounced that distribution of food
to needy families of the county,
which was discontinued when the
emergency relief office closed in
the fall, had been resumed under
the direction of the welfare office.
The statement also announced
the appointment of .a director of
applications to work in conjunc
tion with the welfare office, whose
duty it will be to investigate the
eligibility of .applicants for work
on federal works projects.
Mrs. P’ranks’ statement follows:
“Distribution of commodities to
the needy by the Maoon county
welfare department began last
week. Macon county was the first
of the one hundred counties of
North Carolina to deliver the food
to clients.
“Meat, flour, dried milk, and
prunes are among the foods that
are being distributed to those who
are on relief.
“Miss M.ary E. Quinlan, of
Waynesville, N. C., formerly with
the ERA office in that city, has
been appointed by Mrs. W. T.
Bost as director of applicatio.ns
here.
Work ,Is Limited
“Although the impression is
quite general that with the open
ing of these certifying agencies in
the county welfare departments all
unemployed people can be certified
and immediately assigned to work,
(Continued on Page Eight)
Juniors
To Hold District Meeting
Here Friday
Representatives of the 11 coun
cils of District No. 1 of the Jun
ior Order of United American Me
chanics are expected to come to
Franklin for district initiation ex
ercises to be held in the hall of
Cullasaja council starting at 7:30
o’clock Friday night.
The meeting was called by C.
W. Snyder, Jr., field secretary for
the order, who said this will be
one of a series of Washington’s
birthday initiations being held
simultaneously throughout the
state.
A feature of the meeting will
be an address by radio by Monroe
Adams, of Statesville, state coun
cilor, at 10:30 p. m. from station
WBT at Charlotte.
Dr. W. P. McGuire, of Sylva,
is deputy .state , councilor for the
first district, which embraces Clay,
Graham, Jackson and Macon
counties. There are 543 members
in the 11 councils of the district.
LOST IN WOODS,
WOMANFREEZES
Dies of Cold on Moun
tain; Daughter Recov
ering in Hospital
Mrs. Jolui Parker, about 55, of
Uabun county, (ieorgia, and her
16-year-old daugiiter., Minnie, lost
their way while trying to cross the
Nantahala mountains on foot Mon
day night. Next morning workers
from the Coweta forest experiment
station, in the southern part of
Maco.n county, found the two
women huddled together under a
tarpaulin tean-to left in the woods
by CCC iboys. The elder woman,
frozen as rigid as a board, was
dead and her daughter was un
conscious, her hands and feet
badly frozen.
The girl was still unconscious
when brought to Angel Hospital
in Franklin several ho-urs later;
but she responded to treatment
and is expected to recover. She
remained unconscious for 20 hours.
Dr. Furman Angel reported. He
said gangrene was likely to de
velop in some of her toes; but
said otherwise her condition was
goo'd.
The body of the mother was
brought to Franklin and relatives
were notified. The funeral was held
Wednesday at the Cartoogechaye
Baptist church.
Scantily Clad
The story of the women’s suf
fering was pieced together Wed
nesday. They' had set out Monday
from their home--on Betty’s creek,
just across the line in Georgia, to
carry food to Mr. Parker, who
was hunting stock in the vicinity
of Standing Indian mountain in
the Nantahala range. It was not
extremely cold when they left
home and they wore only sweaters
in addition, to their customary
clothing.
They lost their way during the
day and became drenched in the
rain. Several miles above the
Coweta experiment station they in
quired directions of Tom Shope
as to hiow to reach Wallace Gap.
Mr. Shope put them on the right
trail and gave them directions to
their destination, .a distance of
about 12 miles from their home.
Overtaken by night the women
lost their way. They stumbled up
on the canvas lean-to and, ex
hausted from hours of wandering,
they took refuge under it. Early
Tuesday morning the temperature
dropped precipitately and the
women lapsed into unconsciousness
before realizing their extreme
danger.
The spot where the women were
found is Reynolds Cove, a riigged,
isolated section of the mountains
about four miles of the experiment
station, which is 4 miles off high
way 285 and about 12 miles south
west of Franklin. The women had
made about half the distance of
their trip, but they had traveled
over far more ground. Being with
out matches, they could not start
a fire.
The experiment station workers
who found the women notified
Sheriff Slagle, who, with Deputy
John Dills, went to the scene.
Identificatio.n of the women wa«
made by two of their neighbors,
Mrs. Bede Norton and Miss Fan
nie Norton. The Parkers moved to
Betty’s creek from Clay county,
North Carolina, about a year ago.
Besides her husband and her
daughter, Minnie, Mrs. Parker is
survived by three other daughters,
Wilma and Selma Parker and Mrs.
Beasley, and two so,ns.
Mrs. R.M.Rimmer Attends
Funeral of Relative _
Mrs. R. M. Rimmer, of Frank
lin, left Tuesday morning for
Columbus, Ga., to attend the fu
neral of her sister-in-law, Mrs.
Louis Rigdon, who died Monday
afternoon.