PROGRESSIVE
LI, NO. 20
LIBERAL
FRANKLIN, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1936
IKBEPENBEKT
$1.50 PER YEAK
rmers urged
ACTJJICKIY
nty Agent Ready To
;lp Them Qualify For
New Bounties
mers of Macon county were
toy the county farm agents
week to act promptly if they
; to take advantage of the
payments offered under the
soil conservation program,
j first step to be taken to
[y for the federal bounties is
pply for what is called a
(sheet.” Many Macon county
:rs already have filled out
sheets, according to S. W.
lenhall, county agent, and are
pleased with the prospects of
,’ing federal benefits for their
:ipation in the soil conserva-
program.
Mendenhall urged those who
not filled out worksheets to
to the farm agent’s office
■e courthouse at their earliest
;nience.
$10 Minimum Bolunty
1 dollars is the minimum
iy to be paid farmers who
ly under the conservation pro-
but many will receive much
r amounts. At least one farm-
ho .already has qualified, Mr.
ienhall said, will receive $200.
e following circular letter was
to farmers of the county this
by Mr. Mendenhall and his
tant, S. D. Alexander;
he opportunity is now here
ou and every other farmer in
>n county to qualify for a
payment under the new soil
;rvation program,
tiis will not be so to do
ou might think, but it is im-
ble for us to explain it to you
letter since we do not know
lumber of acres that you have
he different crops on your
l>o»i’t Delay
I order to be of the greatest
ce to you and help you get
most from th« program vve
arranged to have some one in
jffice all the time to help you
)Ut a work sheet and to ex-
to you how you can get the
;y from this program. So come
be County agent’s office the
time you are in town (don t
too long) and fill out a work
do this takes very little time
is no "way tbinding upon you,
it may mean several. dollars
M,! payment to you. Unless you
t> this application for cash pay-
(H't, there is no way for you to
iny money.
his is very important and
^%d be done by every farmer
"^‘lacon county becauS'e in this
you have everything to gain
^nothing in the world to lose.
'"'lOmc to the County agents of-
at once, so that you can find
,jj,Ciow to get the most money out
lis program.”
To Address Voters
PICK HIGEANDS
FORCONVENTION
South CaroUna Associated
Press Club Ccming
June 11
Visits Franklin
RALPH W. McDONALD
Mr. .McDonald, who is seeking
the Democratic nomination for gov
ernor in opposition to Hoey and
Graham, is scheduled to speak at
3 o’clock ]\londay afternoon in the
Macon county courthouse. The
Winston-Salem man, who is leading
in a newspaper straw poll being
conducted in the state, is campaign
ing on a platform of opposition to
the sales tax and “machine” con
trol of the state government. Roy
F. Cunningham, Franklin merchant,
is handling his campaign in this
county.
DEMONSTRATION
CLUBS TO MEET
400 Women From Seven
Counties Expected At
iiession Tuesday
wet
o?ts. Jean Dillon, of Waynesville,
rvisor of public health nursing
.,;his district, was here Tuesday
"^iscuss public health work with
Nellie Nash, counTy health
About 400 women from seven
counties are expected to gather in
Franklin Tuesday of next week for
an .annual meeting of the district
federation of Home Demonstration
clubs, according to Mrs. T. J-
O’Neil, Macon connty home dem
onstration agent, who is in charge
of arrangements for the meeting.
The meeting is scheduled to open
at 10 o’clock in the morning at the
I'ranklin* high school.
The counties to be represented
are Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Swain,
Macon, Jackson and Haywood.
Luncheon will be served after
the morning session by membeis
of Macon county Home Demonstra
tion clubs.
Mrs. O’Neil announced the pro
gram as follows :
“A Tour including: A Trip to the
I.and of Long Ago—A Visit with
My Friends of the Present—A
Glimpse into the Future.”
.Invocation.
A talk by Miss Ruth Current, dis
trict home demonstration agent.
An address by Dean Schaub,
state director of extension work.
Anyone interested is invited to at
tend, Mrs. O’Neil said.
Bids Open
But Contract Not Yet Let
On Highway No. 286
(Special to The Press-Maiconian)
HIGHLANDS, May 13.—Between
2(X) and 300 newspaper men and
women are expected to come to
Highlands June 11 for the last two
days of the annual convention of
the South Carohna Associated Press
club.
William E. C.onzales, publisher of
the Columbia, S. C., State, and
chairman of the club’s executive
committee, .notified Highlands
people this week that the commit
tee had decided to open its ^annual
meeting with a business session in
Anderson, S. C., on June 10 and
the following day to motor to
Highlands for the remaining two
days of the convention.
it was chiefly through Bob King,
proprietor of King’s inn, that the
executive committee of the press
club decided on the trip to High
lands. Other places bidding for the
convention were Spartanburg and
Myrtle Beach.
The South Carolina Associated
Press club consists of members in
the Palmetto state of the Associat
ed Press, one of this country’s
great news-gathering organizations.
Selection of Highlands as a meet
ing place for the club is expected
to bring much valuable publicity to
this mountain resort.
Convention headquarters will be
at King’s Inn and Mr. King has
asked Dr. E. R. Gilbert, president
of the chamber of commerce, and
J. E. Potts, town clerk, to cooper
ate in planning an entertainment
program for the visitors. Definite
plans for entertainment have not
yet been completed, but a chicken
barbecue, a square dance and num
erous short tours are being dis
cussed.
M. R. DUNNAGAN
FEW SEEKING
COUmV JOBS
Democrats To Have Only
2 Contests for Local
Offices
A candidate for secretary of
state, !Mr. Dunnagan visited Frank
lin last Friday and, after talking
to some of the political leaders,
said he was well pleased with his
prospects of support in .\lacon
county. Mr. Dunnagan is opposing
Stacy Wade, incumbent, and Thad
Eure, both of whom are from
“way down east.” Commenting on
this, he said: “Eastern pohticians
are in almost absolute control of
the state government and they look
to the west for only two things—
money and votes. W^ould it not be
fair for the western and Piedmont
sections, which pay two-thirds of
the taxes and cast two-thirds of the
votes, to have more officers and
employes on the state payroll.
Dunnagan, a newspaper man and
war veteran, comes from Winston-
Salem.
ila':
Franklin
d(ii*rocIuce Market
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Campaigning
Pou Visits Franklin In
Race for Auditor’s Job
George Ross Pou, candidate for
the Democratic .nomination for state
auditor, came to Franklin today on
a campaign tour of the western
counties.
Mr. i’ou, who formerly was head
of the state’s prison system, has
been practicing law in Raleigh for
several years. ^
His opponents for the auditor s
job are Baxter Durham, incumbent,
and Charles W. Miller, of Asheville.
“I’ve got nothing against Mr.
Durham, Pou said, “but he has
been in the auditor’s office in one
capacity or another for more than
30 years. A lot of folks think it is
time for a change, and 1 would
like to have the job.”
While he was connected with the
prison system Mr. Pou was in
strumental in the location of a con
vict camp near F'ranklin.
CLINIC TO BE
HEIMAY23
Free Examination Offered
For Pre-School
Children
T. M. Strider, Nashville, Tenn.,
contractor, was reported to have
been low bidder for grading and
surfacing of 9.2 miles of highway
No. 286 from the lotla bridge to
the Swain county line at the open
ing of sealed proposals by the
state highway and public works
commission in Raleigh last Thurs
day. The amount of the bid was
not learned here.
Before the contract for the work
is awarded, the bid must be ap
proved by federal authorities in
Washington, as the money for the
project is to be provided by the
federal government.
State highway contracts custom
arily call for commencement of
work within 30 days after aw^ard
ing of contract.
Promoted
F. S. Sloan Made District
Farm Agent
Promotio.n of F'red S. Sloan,
former Macon county farm agent,
to the position of district farm
agent in charge of county agri
cultural activities, was announced
Tuesday in Raleigh by Dean I. O.
Schaub of the N. C. State college
extension service.
Mr. Sloan, since January 1, has
been extension specialist in pro
duction of horticultural crops in the
western counties. In his new posi
tion he will direct extension work
in Avery, Mitchell, Yancey, Bun
combe, Henderson, Transylvania,
Haywood, Jackson, Swain, Macon,
Clay, Cherokee, Madison and Gra-
1 ham counties.
Miss Nellie Nash, Macon county
public health nurse, this week urg
ed that all young children in F'rank
lin and vicinity, especially those
who will enter school for the first
time next fall, should be brought
to the free clinic to be held Sat
urday, .XI ay 23, at the Franklin
school.
“Starting to school for the first
time,” said Miss Nash, “is a great
adventure in the life of a little
child, and the least we can do for
him is to see that he is physically I
fit and ready to take advantage of j
the education offered him. I
“This clinic is designed primarily
for children who will enter school
for the first time in September,
but parents having younger children
may bring them if they wish to do
so.”
M. D. Billings, county superin
tendent of schools, G. L. Ho.uk,
Franklin school principal, and mem
bers of the local school faculty are
cooperating with the new county
health unit in conducting the clinic,
Mrs. S. E. Eaton is chairman of a
group of workers and will assist
Miss Nash in conducting the clinic.
Dr. Sisk, of Waynesville, director
of the district health department,
will be present at the clinic, Miss
Nash said, to examine children and
to advise their parents concerning
any defects found.
Vaccination to give protection
against diphtheria and smallpox will
be available to all desiring this
service, Miss Nash added, urging
that all children between the ages
of six months and six years be
given the adv.antnage of this im
munization.
Arrangements will be made to
hold similar clinics in every section
of the county during the latter
part of May and the first half of
June, Miss Nash said.
Macon Democrats voting in the
June 0 primary will have the short- «
est county ticket to mark that they
have seen since the days when the
party chose its nominees in con
vention.
With only two contests for
county offices—the offices of sher
iff and representative—the cam
paign and primary arc likely to be
the most uninteresting in many
years as far as local politics is
concerned.
When fhe deadline for qualifying
as candidates came at () o’clock
Saturday afternoon o.nly 10 Demo
crats and seven Republicans had
filed their notices with J. K. .Mor
rison, chairman of the county board
of elections. As the Republicans
who filed were all unopposed in
their own party, there will be no
lU'pnblican ticket in the primary.
Slagle, Ray Opposed
The Democratic contests will be
between A. B. Slagle, incumbent,
and Wade C. .A.rvey for the job of
sheriff; and between J. Frank Ray,
incumbent, and Robert A. Patton
for representative in the general
assembly.
C. T. Bryson is unopposed for
the Democratic nominatiion for
register of deeds, while C. M.
Moore and John H. Dalto.n are the
party’s only candidates for the po
sitions of coroner and surveyor,
respectively. Ed B. Byrd, present
chairman of the county commis
sioners, and Charles Blaine, a mem
ber of the board, are seeking re-
election on the Democratic ticket;
but F'rank H. Potts, of Highlands,
also a member of the present
board, did .not file for reelection.
1Tie third Democrat running for
commissioner is C. A. Bryson, of
Cowee.
The Republican Ticket
In a county convention held sev-
•cral weeks ago the Republicans
nominated two men for each of the
offices of sheriff, register of deeds
and representative, and it appeared
that a Republican primary would be
.necessary. When the filing dead
line came Satcrday, however, it was
found that several of the Repub
lican nominees had dropped out of
the picture and the Republican ca>n-
didates who had qualified were
without opposition, obviating the
necessity of a primary, l-'ollowing
is a list of the Republicans who
filed:
A. S. Solesbee, of Franklin,
Rt. 3, for representative; R. F'.
Henry, of F'ranklin, for sheriff; T.
G. Dean, of Etna, for register of
deeds; A. J. Gribble, of Franklin,
for coroner; James Holbrooks of
West’s Mill, for chairman of the
board of commissioners, and J. J.
Corbin, of Ellijay, and Marshall
Burnette, of Scaly, for commission
ers. No Republican candidate for
county surveyor will be in the
race.
Mr. Solesbee represemted Macon
county in the general assembly for
one term several years ago. Mr.
Henry, the Republican candidate
for sheriff, is a former Franklin
chief of police.
Library Meeting Called
For Monday Night
The annual meeting of the mem
bership of the Franklin library has
been called for 8 o’clock Monday
night of next week by Miss Lassie
Kelly, president of the library. The
meeting is to be held in the library
rooms in the Masonic building on
Church street Any persons inter
ested in joining the library, as well
as those who already are members,
are invited to attend. Officers for
the ensuing year are to be elected
and plans for improvement of the
library discussed.