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Macottian PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL IjYd epejvdejv r DL. LI, NO. 27 FRANKLIN, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1936 $1.50 PER YEAK ILMER FOREST trackhosen irt of Nantahala Forest To Be Memorial To Famed Poet Certificate i. 4,000-acre tract of virgin timb- in 'the Nantahala National For- has been selected as the site the Joyce Kilmer Memorial pest, which will serve as a living nument to the author of the St beautiful tribute ever written trees, it was learned Wednesday an announcement from Joseph Kircher, of Atlanta, southern ■ional forester. establishment of the memorial est has been authorized by Sec- ary Wallace of the department agriculture. The action was )nsored by the Bozeman B.ulger ;t of the Veterans of Foreign ars. Selection of the tract, which ; in Graham county, was made the Kilmer memorial committee er a preliminary examination of lilable areas throughout the intry. Dedication on July 30 Vir. Kircher, who will be respon- k for the administration and )tection of the memorial forest, d the area will be dedicated on ly 30, eighteenth anniversary of ; day on which Sergeant Joyce Imer was kill'cd in action in ance. The dedication program is ing arranged by Paul A. Wil ms, of New York, chairman of 2 memorial committee, rhe area selected for the Kilmer emorial Forest constitutes the en- e watershed of Little Santeetlah :ek, a few miles from Robbins- le. The area is accessible over leral highway No. 129 from loxville which joins federal high ly No. 19 between Asheville and urphy at Topton. Rook) Being Built The Kilmer Memorial Forest will available to the public for rec- atio.nal use and the forest service cently obtained permission from e Indian service to build a short ur road through a portion of the lerokee Indian reservation to ike the area reasonably accessible, lis road will be completed in time r the dedication ceremony on July Lying a few miles from the ■utbern boundary of the Great noky Mountains National Park, e area consists of one of the lest stands of virgin tirnber to ; found in any of the 154 national rests throughout the United tates and the scenery and botanic- interest are unrivalled. Not a ngle tree in the area will ever II before a woodsman’s axe. orester Kircher said. The memor- 1 will also be administered as a ildhfe sanctuary. The northwest of the memorial is trmed by the rugged Unaka ountains. The outstanding moun- .in peak near the area is Stratton aid, 5,400 feet in altitude. The •ea will afford visitors a rernark- ile opportunity to see a little- fiown territory that is one of the 'tw remaining examples of the iagnificent hardwood forests which jvered the slopes of the Appa- [chians when Cqlumbqs discovered le new world. jNpayly half of the trees found in le area arp poplafs and red oak, he largest tree measured so far a poplar 80 inches in diameter, 'oresters estimate its age at mo're ,ian 200 years. The largest red ik recorded for the area has a iameter of 60 inches. Specimens of white oak, chestnut, (Continueci on Page Eight) Awarded Macon Red Cross For Passing Quota The Macon ooimty chapter of the American Red Cross has been awarded an honor certificate, which is to be ■■fram'cd and hung in some public place, for surpassing its quota in the Red Cross roll call for 1936. The certificate was sent to the Rev. J. A. Flanagan, chapter chair man, with an accompanying letter from Cary T. Gryson, national chairman, in which he said; “1 wish to congratulate you and to extend our sincere thanks and best wishes , to everyone who help ed to make your roll call a suc cess.” Macon county’s quota in the roll call was 2(X) memberships. A total of 214 was reported, the largest number, )klr. Flanagan said, since 1923. This did not include member ships later recorded through emer gency ooiitrlbutions for the relief of tornado victims at Gainesville, Ga. A final check-up of donations for this cause, Mr. Flanagan said, showed a total of $889.63. maiTservice HERE IMPROVED Earlier Deliveries Made Possible by New Motor Route HOOD ASSAILED BY MCJONALD Elias Debt Settlement With Central Bank Is Cited New P. O. Hours Windows To Be Closed at 1 P. M. Saturdays l^etterment Association ^ ■ 0 Meet Friday A meeting of the North Macon ■etterment association is scheduled ,5 be held at the Cowee school at o’clock Friday evening of this 'eek. Supper will be served by IJides of the community. All mem bers are urged to attend. 4 I A new mail service for Franklin, providing three hours earlier de livery on a large volume of first and second class mail from the south and east, including Atlanta morning newspapers, went into ef fect yesterday. This mail is brought to Franklin by motor from Cornelia, Ga., leav ing Cornelia at 6:45 a. m. and ar riving here at 10 a. m. Hitherto, mail from southern points, includ ing that transferred from trains on the Southern railway, did not arrive in Franklin until it was brought by the Tallulah Falls rail way at 2 p. m. The train delivery service will continue as usual, but will be con siderably lighter. ' Inauguration of the motor deliv ery of mail from C.ornelia is ex pected to facilitate the handling of mail in thp pastoffice through re lieving the early afternoon load up on the mail clerks and distributing the sorting throughout the day. It also will provide more prompt posting of outgoing mail. The mail now will leave Franklin at 10;IS a. m. instead of waiting for the de parture of the “T. F.” train at 3:05 p. m. Contract for this motor route, which covers a distance of 98 miles, serving a number of other com munities besMes Franklin and Car- nelia, has been awarded to John C Grant, of Cornelia, for a period of four years at $1,289 a year. He is permitted to carry passengers. The contract covers the handling of first and second class mail, special delivery, special handling and per ishable goods; but does qot call for the handling of general parcels post items. Macon Theatre Has Special Program for 4th S.. H. Lyle, manager of the Macon TTieatre, has planned a spe cial bill for the entertainment of theatre-go'ers on July Fourth, and to accommodate the crowds he has announced that the theatre will open promptly at 10 o’clock in the morning and continue showing un til midnight. The feature pictare will be Z.ane Grey’s “Desert Gold” with Larry Crabbe, Tom Keene, Marshal Hunt, Monte Blue and Raymond Hutton. Extra attractions will be a Popeye comedy, “Ship Ahoy,” and the first installment of a new seria thriUer, “The Adventures of Frank Merri- well." (From June 29 Issue of The Ral eigh News and Observer) Dr. Ralph W. McDonald, candi date for the Democratic nomination for the Governorship, last night re newed his attack ujwn (jurney P. Hood, State Banking Commissioner, appointee of Governor O. Max (jardner and Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus. Dr. McDonald, preparing for a week’s campaign schedule of speak ing 'engagements issued this state ment : “Tile News and Observer’s in vestigation of the Don Elias settle ment with the Central ISanking and Trust Company of Asheville has re vealed the condition as worse than I had charged. “I had asked Gurney P. Hood, Max (Gardner’s appointee as' Bank ing Commissioner, to admit or deny that Don Elias, vice president of the Citizen Times Company, had been permitted to settle a debt of $743,- 000 to a closed bank in Asheville for the trifling sum of $6,000, on which $1,200 had actually been paid. “Don Elias personally and the Asheville Citizen-Times have threatened a libel suit against The News and Observer and other pap ers which carried my statement. “Refusing to back down without an investigation. The News and Observer found the facts to be that Don Elias was permitted to settle obligations of $755,499,0fj for $4,8(X), on which only $1,500 has been paid. “The News and Observer very properly refused to assume respon sibility for my charge that this transaction was a reason for the support which the Asheville news papers are giving to the candidacy of Clyde R. Hoey for the governor ship. “The facts as they now stand re vealed by the recorjls are: “1. Do:n Elias owed in obligations to the Central Bank and Trust Company a total of $755,499.06. “2. He^ was permitted to, settle this dgbt for $4,8(X). “3. Only $1,9(X) has actually been paid to the Bank receiver. “4. Gurney P. Hood, Max Gard ner’s appointee as Banking Commis sioner, approved and requested court approval of the $4,800 settlement. “5. Don Elias is the vice presi dent of the Citizen-Times Publish ing Company. “6. The Citizen and Times .news papers are editorially supporting Clyde R. Hoey for Governor and opposing very bitterly my candidacy. “7. Clyde R. Hoey is the brother- in-law of Max Gardner, who ap pointed Gurney P. Hood to the Banking Commissionership. “8. Thomas L. Johnson was a member of the Debt Adjustment Committee which recommended the settlement of Don Elias’ $755,499.06 debt for $4,800. “9. Thomas L, Johnson’s law firm received $24,591.24 in fees for rep resenting Gurney P. Hood and the receiver of the clos-ed Central Bank and Trust Company for the period November 19, 1930 to December 31, 1934 alone. “10, This amount of fees is more money than any depositor of the Central Bank and Trust Company has received to date, although the Bank closed with approximately $17,000,000 in deposits on November 19, 1930, almost six years ago. “It is niOt necessary for me to draw any conclusions from these facts. The facts speak for them selves.” Starting this week, the Franklin postoffice will close at 1 p. m, each Saturday, it was announced by Postmaster T, W, Porter, The Franklin office has been sup posed to close Saturday afternoons all along, Mr. Porter said, but it was for the convenience of the pub lic by rearranging hours of the em ployes and adding half a day’s ex tra work for the ])ostmaster him self. Postal authorities recently notified ^Ir. Porter that all second class postoffices were required to close for half a day Saturday and that in the future all public wind ows should be closed at 1 p. m. The j)ostoffice lobby will remain open as usual until 9 p. m., outgo ing mail schedules will be met and incoming mail will be put in the boxes. EXPECT LIGHT VOTE SATURDAY Political Interest Lagging Since First Primary June 6 A heavy vote is expected in Franklin township, but a very light vote is forseen for Macon county as- a whole m Saturday’s second Democratic primary. As customary, people from all over the county are likely to grav itate to town, rain or shine, for the Fourth of July, although no enter tainment program has been planned here for the Fourth this year. This is expected to re.sult in fairly heavy balloting in Franklin but will cut down the number of votes cast in other townships. Macon is expected to remain in the Hoey column, as in the first [)rimary, but supi).OTt'ers of Ralph W. McDonald for the gubernational nomination said they believed their candidate would get a larger per centage of the votes than he did on June 6. Neither Mr, Hoey nor Dr, Mc Donald has been to Miicon since the first primary and interest in the campaign has waned consider ably. Clarence E. Blackstock, of Ashe ville, former state senator from Buncombe county, is scheduled to speak at the courthouse at 8 o’clock tonight in behalf of Dr. McDonald. Miss Virginia Ramsey spent the week of the Rhododendron Festi val in Asheville with her sisters. Misses Lola and Jessie Ramsey, who are attending summer school at the Ashebille Normal and Teachers college. Barbecue Picnic Held on Middle Creek A barbecue picnic was held on the Middle Creek road Saturday, July 27, marking the completion of the graveling of that road from Otto, a distance of three miles. The occasion held a greater sig nificance to, the many people who are served by this road than any thing occurring in that section for many years—the fact that they can go and com« at any time, regardless of the weather conditions, without the sad experience of sinking in the mud means a great deal. It is good to see this mucli Neg lected work going on, and it is hop ed that it will continue until all the important by-roads throughout the county have been graveled. Funeral Services Held F or Sam Cunningham Sam Cunningham, 45, of Franklin, died at 11 o’clock Sunday night of an attack of heart disease after an illness of several months. Funeral services were held Mon day afternoon at the lotla Meth odist church, with the Rev. C. C. Herbert, Jr., pastor of the Frank lin Methodist church, officiating, Mr. Cunningham, a well known farm'er, is survived ‘by his widow, who before marriage was Miss Sadie Wood, five children and one brother, Jim Cunningham, of Franklin. SUNDAY SCHOOL REVIVALSTARTS More than 1,000 Attending Nightly Meetings in County A Baptist Sunday school revival and enlargement campaign began in .Macon county Sunday af tirnoon, when representatives from 22 churches in the .Macon association, met in the h'irst Baptist church in Franklin to receive a group of 25 Sunday school workers furnished by the Bai>tist Sunday school board of Nashville, Term., and the North Carolina Mission board. Heading the party of Sunday school workers are L. L, Morgan, who recently succeded Perry Mor gan as state Baptist Sunday school director, and Mrs. John Lane, state intermediate worker. Take Religious Census. The work began in the Macon ass.O'ciation with the taking of a religious census Sunday afternoon. The purpose of the census was to provide Sunday schools w’ith infor mation enabling them to determine who should be enrolled in their classes. Study classes are being conducted each week by the trained workers in the individual churches. Atten dance at these classes was reported to have been more than 1,(KX) at the meetings Tuesday night. In these classes the workers arc leading discussions o-n Sunday school administration and teaching, Bible study, and soul-winning. At 2:30 on Monday' afternoon delegations from the Sunday schools gathered in a centra! meet ing at the Franklin Ba])tist church and heard reports from the classes in each of the churches. 'ITie meet ing was presided over by M r. Morgan, who also made tlie prin cipal address. Airs. John Lane also spoke. These central meetings will be held each afternoon this week. Last week in the Tuckaseegee Association an average of over a thousand people attended the classes each night. A great deal of inter est was created in more effective Sunday school methods. One of the chief goals set by the associational Sunday schools was the winning of the more than two thousand non- Christian people discovered by the census among the Baptist constitu ency in the Tuckaseegee associa tion alone. The workers and their churches in the Macon as.sociation are: Irene Jones, Highlands; Darrell Middle ton, Ellijay; Martha Kyle Pittman, Cartoogechaye; John Lane, Cowee; Harry Wood, Coweta; Evelyn Brock, Prentiss; Bill Hill, Pleasant Hill; Annie Taylor, Newman’s Chapel; Wilma Phillips, Wells Grove; Ruth Snipes, Clear Creek; Elizabeth Lassiter, Higdonville; Jack Blount, Holly Springs; Virgin ia Lambert, Watauga; Robert Wil son, Ridgecrest; Mrs. John Lane and Edna Dawkins, Franklin; Jose phine Turner, lotla; Lewis Morgan, Oak Grove; Clyde Glosson, Sugar- fork ; Francis Currin, Burningtown ; Heber Peacock, Tellico; Mary Chandler, Rainbow Springs; Jesse Wester, Mt. Hope: Franklin Produce Market LATEST QUOTATIONS (Prices listed below are subject to change without notice.) Quoted by Farmers F«deration, Inc. Chickens, heavy breed hens 14c Chickens, light weight; lb. .. 12c Fryers, heavy weight, lb 18c Fryers, light weight, lb 16c Eggs, doz 20c Irish i>otatoes, No. 1 (old)., bu. $1.25 Corn, bu 90c Wheat, bu 90c Green beans, bu $1.00 Quoted by Nantahala Creamery Butterfat, lb i 27c ,