PROGRESSIVE
LIBERAL
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LI, NO. 24
FRANKLIN. N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1936
$1.50 PER YEAR
ICON VETS TO
ET VAST Sll
Lie of Bonus Bonds Due
ext Week Placed at
Over $150,000
How Macon County Voted in Democratic Primary
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rment of the bonus will bring
orld War veterans of Macon
y adjusted service bonds with
al cash value estimated be-
I $150,000 and $200,000, with
ents' to individual veterans
ging about $500, according to
i Higdon, adjutant of the
,ii county post of the American
-service men in this county
xpecting to receive their bonds
Higdon estimated the aver-
payment at $500 on the basis
jplications for the bonds filed
igh the legion. Many ex-serv-
nen had compensation credits
thousand to fifteen hundred
rs, but loans advanced to them
deducted. But some veterans
have not borrowed against
adjusted compensation will re-
; bonds amounting to more
a thousand dollars.
Higdon said approximately
ipplications for the bonus bonds
been filed through the Macon
ty Legion post; but this does
represent the full number of
ervice men in the county qual-
to receive bonus bonds, as
y veterans sent in their appli-
ms through other channels,
•ocedure to be followed in cash-
.bonus bonds will be explained
meeting of the Legion post at
o’clock Mo.nday night in the
ion Hall on Main street. Mr.
don said all ex-service men are
ted to attend. A. R. Karling, a
ler post commander, will be in
-ge of the meeting. Refresh-
,ts will be served and Frank
don, chairman of a committee
charge of arrangements for
,ic, has promised a real treat.
said arrangements had been
I'C to have Bill Lamb and his
dren, famous for their moun-
1 music, render a program.
County Ballot
FOR STATE SENATOR
K. E. Bennett 54
G. W. Cover 91
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
R. A. Patton 67
]. Frank Ray
FOR SHERIFF
A. B. Slagle ^27
W. C. Arvey 19
State Ballot
FOR U. S. SENATOR
J. W. Bailey 127
R. T. F’ountain 13
David L. Strain ^
W. H. Griffin 2
FOR GOVERNOR
Clyde R. Hoey 127
Dr. Ralph W^. McDonald 17
Sandy Graham 2
John A. McRae *1
FOR LT. GOVERNOR
Paul Grady
George McNeill
W. P. Horton
FOR SECRETARY OF STATE
Stacey W. Wade
M. R. Dunnagan
Thad Eure
FOR AUDITOR
11
17
106
21
9
111
George Ross Pou
Baxter
109
Durham 1^
Chas. W. Miller ^
Williard L. Dowell °
FOR TREASURER
Charles M. Johnson
Helen Robertson Wohl
FOR SUPT. .INSTRUCTION
Gilbert Craig
Clyde A. Erwin
A. B. Alderman
FOR COM. AGRICULTURE
W. Kerr Scott
W A. Graham
for CONGRESS (11th Dist.)
Zebulon Weaver
W. Bruce Fisher
16
117
5
117
22
132
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Highlands
Flats
Smith’s Bridge
Cartoogecliaye
Nanta. No. 1
Nanta. No. 2
Burningtown
Cowee
Franklin
123
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200
58
19
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PAnORSUGLE
ARENOIINATED
County Helps Give Hoey
Plurality in Race For
Governor
1117
846
1176
1132
1856
457
1527
386
52
69
1525
530
217
15
.314
328
1137
666
225
944
1028
383
266
160
1461
322
388
1168
239
1016
882
390
W BONUS BONDS
LL BE DELIVERED
ostmaster T. W. Porter made
ilic yesterday a statement ex-
ining the method of delivery,
tificatio'n and payment of ad-
ted service bonds for World
ir veterans. His statement fol-
rs:
)ate of mailing :—The bonds will
dispatched beginning June 15
16 from 12 postoffices. It is prob-
e that bonds for delivery in
s county will be dispatched from
ashington, D. C., or Atlanta, Ga.
dateiof receipt will depend on
: transit time between the mail-
' office and this place,
ilertificatio.n of requests for pay-
;nt:—Adjusted-Servlce bonds may
redeemed on and after June 15,
36. Although they earn simple in
rest at (the rate of 3 per cent per
num, no interest is payable on
y bonds redeemed prior to June
, 1937.
Veterans who desire to cash their
inds must sign the request for
iyment(io-n the back of the bonds
the presence of a certifying of-
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WORK SHEETS
MADE BY IJ
Fine Record
Cash Payments Offered to
Farmers tor Soil
Improvement
Nearly 1,000 Macon county farm
ers have filled out fork^sheets the
first step_ to 1*^^ j have just been pubhshed jn the
Made by Macon County
High School Pupils
Last winter an examination on
hterature, reading, English usage,
mathematics, general science, and
American history was prepared by
the North Carolina College con
ference and given to the 11th
grade high school pupils of the
state. Results of this examination
PUBLIC WANTS
BEINGSTUDIED
Consumer Purchase Survey
Is Well Under W,ay
In County
Franklin
Produce Market
LATEST QUOTATIONS
(Prices listed below are subject
3 change without notice.)
iuoted by Farmers Federation, Inc.
-hickens, heavy breed hens 13c
-hickens, light weight; lb. .. He
^ggs, doz 18c
yish potatoes. No. 1; bu. ..$1.00
'Orn, bu 85c
^heat, |hu 90c
Quoted bv Nantahala Creamery
^utterfat, lb 25c
for benefits under the new
eral soil improvement P™gram, ac
cording to S. W. Mendenhall,
county farm agent. on has
Pointing out that June 20 has
been set as the deadhne for f.hng
worksheets, Mr. Mendenhall urged
that all farmers in the county who
iave not yet executed these orms
to do so at once. He ^xplam
that the work-sheets, which list the
;,“ber of acre. i. "X
on each farm last year, do not ob
hgate those filling them out m any
'^'^‘Since the soil improvement pro
gram started,” the farm agent con
tinued “it has been ahered so
to make it easier for every farmer
to qualify for the cash payments
offered. I do not want ^mer
in Macon county, to miss this P
portunity of receiving these pay-
Ss.,^ I hope all who have not
filled out worksheets will
™^ie^of‘our farmers nnght not
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Norman Evans Injured
In Motor Accident
Norman, Evans, of the lotla c^-
munity, who has been at a Cmhan
Conservation Corps camp a JJa
lonega, Ga., was seriously ‘"jure
In L automobile wreck Sunday
May issue of the North Carolina
High School Journal. Pupils in 699
high schools were tested, the numb-
ier of pupils being nearly 19,000.
Of the 99 counties reporting, Macon
holds the second highest score.
Polk county is first with a score
of 99 per cent and Macon next
with a score of 97.4 per cent.
Scores made by some of the other
counties: Buncombe, 88.5 per cent;
Swain, 86.5; Graham, 85.9; Chero
kee 85.5; Haywood, 83.7; Clay, 82.1;
Jackson., 79; Guilford, 85.7, W^ake,
81.8; Johnston, 82.9; Brunswick,
67.9; Bladen, 66.8.
in an a
night between
Gainesville, Ga.
Dahlonega
Gibson Family To Meet
Sunday Near Asheville
The annual reunion of the Gib
son family of Western North Caro
lina is to be held Sunday at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hol
brooks, seven miles west of Ashe
ville, according to Mrs. Frank I.
Murray, secretary of the family
organization.
“Aunt Betsy Jane” Grant, of
Macon county, who is 96 years old,
is the oldest living member of the
family.
The Holbrooks home is about
half a mile from highway No. 10
on the Straw’s Creek road. Those
traveling to the reunion by train
or bus should get off at Acton.
The study of consumer purchases
being conducted in this locality
under the direction of Mrs. R. M.
Rimmer, county supervisor, is part
of a nationwide survey launched
by the Works Progress Adminis
tration to determine what the gen
eral public wants to buy.
“Such information,” Mrs. Rimmer
explained this week, “is necessary
as a basis for iHeasuring changes in
the cost of living from one period
to another, and will also be used
for various other purposes by busi
ness and labor groups, consumers
and civic organizations. At the
same time this information will aid
state and federal agencies in plan
ning and carrying on their work.
“About one half of our farm
homes have been visited and in
the continuation of our study all
homes will be visited. This work
has been in progress for the last
two and a half months and it is
hoped that it will continue for
soipe time.”
The work is being conducted by
13 field agents and five editors,
who tabulate the information glean
ed by the field workers, under the
supervision of Mrs. Rimmer.
W. B. McGuire Reported
To Be Improving
W. B. McGuire, who has been
seriously ill at his home on the
Georgia road, was reported Wed
nesday to be greatly improved.
Flocking to the polls Saturday in
greater numbers than had been ex-
jiected, Macon county Democrats
renominated A. B. Slagle for sher
iff, gave R. A. I’atton the nomina
tion foT representative by a small
margin over J. Frank Ray, incum
bent, and helped to pile up a
plurality for Clyde R. Hoey in liis
race for governor.
Slagle won over his only oppon
ent, W. C. Arvey, with 1,856 votes
to 457.
I’atton won from Ray by 44
votes, polling 1,176 ballots to Ray’s
1,132.
Macon county gave 1,117 votes to
Kelley E. Bennett, of Bryson City,
and 846 votes to G. W. Cover, of
Andrews, in the contest for the
nomination as state senator for the
33rd district. Bennett carried the
district by a safe margin.
Interest in the state ballot cen
tered on the gubernatorial race and
Hoey workers, strengthened by
state highway employes who took
a holiday to work at the jjolls,
were largely responsible for get
ting out a big vote.
Slightly more than 2,300 ballots
were counted, only 3(X) short of the
number cast in the record-breaking
Democratic primary two years ago.
The ootinty’s Democratic registra
tion was 3,250.
The county gave Hoey 1,52.5
votes; Dr. Ralph W. McDonald,'
the anti-sales tax candidate, 530;
Sandy Graham 217, and John A.
McRae 15.
Hoey Noses Out McDonald
Complete state returns gave Hoey
193,933 votes, McDonald 189,451,
Graham 126,650, and McRae 6,837.
Early in the week it was report
ed that McDonald would call a
second primary, but o'fficial notice,
to this effect had not been report
ed today.
United States Senator J. W.
Bailey, who did not make a single
campaign speech, was an easy victor
over his three opponents. State re
turns in this contest, except for 19
missing precincts, gave : Bailey 238,-
244; Richard T. Fountain 175,835;
William H. Griffin 23,543, and Dav
id L. Strain 13,06^. As Bailey has
a clear majority over all three, a
second primary will not be nece,S-
sary.
Weaiver Wins Ea&ily
Congressman Zebulon Weaver,
who was about as inactive in the
pre-primary campaign ,as Senator
Bailey, also was an easy winner.
Two hundred and thirty-nine of the
250 precincts in the 11th congres
sional district gave him 37,454 votes
to 10,362 for W. Bruce Fisher, of
Andrews,, who advocated the Town
send plan o'f old age pensions.
Grady Holds Lead
With 76 small precincts still miss
ing, and the returns official from
80 counties, the lieutenant gover
nor’s race was inclusive, a run-off
I)rimary July 4, however, being as
sured.
Paul Grady, president pro tem of
the senate, was leading, and it ap
peared he would enter a second
contest with W. P. Horton, legis
lative veteran, but the third man,
George McNeill, of Fayetteville,
was less than 10,000 votes behind
Horton.
The standing in the lieutenant-
governor’s race was: Grady,^154,887;
Horton, 132,058; McNeill 123,855.
Incomplete unofficial returns
showed only two state officers,
Charles Johnson, treasurer, and
Clyde A. Erwin, superintendent of
public instruction, to have comfort
able majorities.
Commissioner of Agriculture, W.
A. Graham trailed W. Kerr Scott,
Grange leader, by 10,000 votes, with
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