PROGRESSIVE
LIBERAL
IJ^DEPEJVDEJfT
, LI, NO. 40
FRANKLIN, N. C., THURSDAY, OCT. 1, 1938
$1.50 PER YEAR
UN SWELLS
OT^AMS
ch Damage Reported
Result of Unusual
Rainfall
e heaviest downpour of ram
rienced in this section in re
years sent Macon county
ms on the rampage Tuesday
washing out ,a number of
1 bridges, making many rural
; impassable and damaging
, to a considera'ble extent,
ter recording half an inch of
all Tuesday morning the
her station at Lake Emory
by Luther Anderson register-
47 inches Tuesday night, mak-
a total of 4.97 inches in less
24 hours. Two inches of this,
as stated, fell between 9:30 and
3 o’clock Tuesday night. It was
to be tSie 'heaviest precipita-
recorded since the Lake Emory
;her reporting station was
Wished several years ago.
Bottomlands Flooded
le Littk Tennesee river went
of its banks at Franklin early
Inesday morning and kept ris-
until .about 11:30 o’clock, when
overed the bottomlands in the
lity of the railroad depot and
backed up Town creek to T.
Angel’s barn.
he Franklin Hardware com-
y’s saw I mill was flooded more
1 waist deep. The water lapped
the floorboards of Fred Cabe’s
le—eight inches higher than it
; in the freshet following last
ter’s heavy snows and rains.
CoVS Mianoioned
'n the eastern bank of the river
Franklin several cows were ma
ned in a pasture until young
's in bathing suits led them to
sty through water so deep that
cattle had to swim.
'odder stacks, hay, pumpkins and
er produce were swept down the
;r.
i. water main connection was
iken near town pump No. 2 and
eral homes in the vicinity were
hout water until the connection
s restored. Mssanwhile the brok-
line had nearly 'emptied the
m storage tanks.
Pwo bridges on Middle creek and
2 on Tesenta, a new concrete
ucture, .were reported washed
t. Several other bridges through-
t the county, including one on
bbit creek, also were reported
shed out or badly damaged.
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Supply Pastor
Appointed for Highlands
Presbyterian Church
(Special to the Press-Maconian)
HIGHLANDS, N. C., Sept. 30.—
Air. Robert UuPree, a senior
student at Columbia Seminary, De
catur, Ga., has been called by the
Highlands Presbyterian church as
stated supply for the next eight
months.
Mr. DuPPree, who preached here
last Sunday, will come to Highlands
twice a month to conduct services,
.and another young man from the
seminary will preach here on al
ternate Sundays. Besides holding
services on Sunday mornings, they
also will be present for the mtet-
ings of the Christian Endeavor
society on Sunday nights.
CHANGES OCCUR
ON MAipTREn
Cunningham Moves Store;
New Furniture Store
Coming
County Officials Hopeful
Of Refunding $900,000^ebt
Franklin-High To Meet
Murphy in First Game
Of 1936 Season Friday
ommission Authorizes
arge Forest Purchases
Dispatches from Washington
[eport that the forest reserva
tion cotiimission, meeting Wed
nesday at the capital, approved
the addition of 117,320 acres to
the Nantahala national forest
at a cost of $59,408. The pur
chase areas in each of the coun-
t'6s in the forest were not
listed.
UPranklin
Produce Market
latest quotations
(Prices listed below are subject
5 change 'without notice.)
Quoted Ijy Farmers Federation, Inc.
'hickens, heavy breed hens 12c
-nickens, light weight, lb. .. 10c
^fyers, heavy weight, lb. .. 12c
'fyers, light weight, lb 10c
doz ;.. 2Sc
-orn, bu 9Sc
^heat, hu $1.00
bu ...$1.10
otatoes, ^o. 1 $1.15
Quoted fcy Nantahala Creawiery
^utterfat, lb 30c
Franklin’s Main street is under
going numerous changes.
E. K. Cunningham & company,
one of Franklin’s oldest mercantile
establishm'ents, moved this week
from the Higgins building to the
J. T. Moore building near the
postoffice. The Moore building, re
cently bouj^t by T. W. Angel, Jr.,
had been rennovated and redeco
rated.
Another change on Main street
is expected in the next month, it
having been reported that Dr. Fur
man Angel and Dr. Edgar Angel,
who have bought the Franks build
ing, adjoining the Moore building,
had leased the structure to Sylva
business men who intend to estab
lish a furniture, store and under
taking establishment in Franklin.
The Farmers Federation, Inc.,
which occupies one of the two
storerooms in the Franks building,
is planning to move into the Mc
Coy building on Palmer street.
The Doctors Angel, it was stated,
plan to make many changes and
improvements in the Franks build
ing for the new tenants.
Work is expected to start this
week on adapting the McCoy build
ing on Palmer street for the Farm
ers Federation store.
Meanwhile work is progressing
on excavating the basement for a
new building to be erected by the
Leach brothers on the lot between
the Macon Theatre and the Angel
building. The new structure will tie
in with the walls of adjoining
buildings, llie builders plan two
storerooms, each with a basement;
but have not announced whether
they will build a second story.
4-H Club Calf Show
To Be Held Saturday
A 4-H club dairy calf show will
be 'held in Franklin Saturday
morning, starting at 10 o’clock
with a purebred Guernsey heife
calf offered by the Franklin Ro
tary club to the boy or girl hav
ing the best calf in the s-how.
S. W. Mendenhall and b.
Alexander, county agents express
ed the hope that enough interest
would be shown in the show to
warrant making it an annual everit
They also voiced the hope it would
encourage interest in sending a
judging team and a class of calv
r the state fair at Raleigh next
With hopes high for a success
ful season, the Franklin high school
football team, a light but fast
bunch of youngsters, will open its
schedule at 3:30 o’cloek Friday aft
ernoon in a gjame with the Murphy
high eleven at Murphy, A crowd
of local football fans, young and
old, is to accompany the team. A
tough game is expected, but the
Franklin boys are hopeful that their
speed and drive will overcome Mur
phy’s advantage of weight.
The entire squad of 24 players
will go on the- trip. The probable
starting line-up was announced to
day by Frank Henry, coach, as
follows;
Ruel Waldroop, full back; Frank
Higdon, right halfback; Roger Am
mons, left halfback; Jimmie Perry,
quarterback; Dan Wilkie, right
end; Johnnie Slagle, right tackle;
Charles Setzer, right guard; Wil
lard Pendergrass, center; Charles
Slagle, left guard; Charley Palmer,
left tackle; Bobbie Patillo, left end.
The team averages 1.35 pounds per
man.
Dennie Penland, who was expect
ed to play at one of the end posi
tions, pulled a knee ligament at
practice Wednesday and will not be
able to enter this game, and, it is
feared, any others this season.
Coaches are Frank Henry, Pro
fessor Lee and Roger Sutton, who
has been drilling the linemen. The
squad has been in practice on the
high school field for the past three
weeks.
A schedule of eight or nine games
is planned. On Friday, October 9,
a game is scheduled with Cornelia
at Cornelia, and' on the 16th the
first home game is to be with
Bryson City.
Senator Bailey
Pays Visit to Franklin
On Western Tour
Josiah W. Bailey, North Caro
lina’s senior senator, stopped in
Franklin for an hour Wednesday
morning while making a tour of
Western North Carolina, chatted
briefly with local Democratic lead
ers and motored on to Highlands,
Highampton, Rosman and Brevard.
He was accompanied by Don Elias,
co-publisher of the Asheville Citizen
and Times.
Mr. Bailey came to Franklin from
Bryson City, where the night be
fore he made a campaign address
urging the reelection of the Demo
cratic administration, declaring that
“this is the year to hold fast to
Roosevelt, who has brought us to.
still waters and prosperity to Amer
ica.”
Senator Bailey had been invited
to speak at the weekly Rotary club
luncheon, but declined on account
of a conflicting engagement at
Highampton.
WILL OBSERVE
MEMliALDAY
Juniors To Have Special
Exercises for Dead
October 11
Agreement Believed Near
With the Principal
Bondholders
year.
Mrs. Mabel Ray Buys
Hallie’s Beauty Shop
Mrs. Mabel Ray announc«l th;
Week the purchase of tallies
Beauty shop in the Ashear huildin|
“L Mrs. Halli. ;
devote her entire time to a ^au^Y
shop in Atlanta which she Iwugni
early in the summer.
Good Prices
Paid at Franklin Cattle
Sale Wednesday
Tuesday night’s heavy rain, which
washed out a number of bridges
and made rural roads impassable
in some sections of the county,
reduced to a minimum the number
of cattle offered for sale Wednes
day at the second auction of the
season at the Franklin stockyards.
But a large number of buyers were
present and the beeves and feed
ers brought good prices.
R. A. Patton, auctLoneer, reported
80 head sold with price of 4 to 5
cents for heifers, 4J/4 to 6 ccnts
for steers, 21^4 to 4^/^ for butcher
cattle, and 7^ to 8 cents for veal.
One buyer was said to have
bought a cow in the morning and
run i.t back through the pens in
the afternoon, selling it at a profit
of $11.
Another cattle sale, Mr. Patton
announced, will be held on Wed
nesday, Oct. 14.
Half of Australia’s papulation
of 6,350,000 lives in capital cities
and another 15 per cent in provin
cial towns. The remaining 35 per
cent provide more than half the
produce of the commonwealth.
^lacon county lodges of the
Junior Order of United American
Meckanios will conduct their an
nual memorial service in honor of
Juniors who have died during the
past year at the Cowee Baptist
church on Sunday, October 11, with
Cowec council No. 493 acting as
host to members attending from
other ^dges.
The program for the day’s ex
ercises was announced this week
by T. M. Rickman of the Cowee
lodge. He urged all members of
the order in the county to attend
and to bring their families and
friends., requesting that they also
bring picnic lunches.
After the regular Sunday school
hour, the memorial exercises will
start at 10:45 o’clock in the morn
ing with opening remarks by Jack
Stribling, follojved by a welcoming
address, appointment of a commit
tee on time and place for the next
meeting, interspersed with prayers
and songs. The Rev. Mr. Acre,
pastor of the Franklin Methodist
charge, is . to preach. ^
After a picnic dinner, to be
served at 12:15, there will be an
other service with addresses by
members of the various lodges in
honor of their deceased fellow
members.
CCC Lowers Minimum
Age Limit to 17 Years
Mrs. Eloise G. Franks, Macon
county’ welfare superintendent, an
nounced this week that, she had
been notified that Macon county’s
CCC quota had been increased a,nd
that the minimum age for admis
sion to the conservation corps had
be?n lowered from 18 to 17 years.
The maximum .age of 29 for junior
enrollees remains unchanged.
The lower minimum age will
open the way for many young men
in this county to enroll in the CCC.
All desirous of joining the conser
vation corps who have not recently
registered ywith the welfare officer
were urged by Mrs. Franks to do
so this week. She said the new
quota would be made up in a few
days. Only members of. relief fam
ilies are eligible.
Macon county officials are hope
ful, as a result of a conference in
Raleigh last week, of obtaining an
agreement with bondholders for re
funding the county’s indebtedness
of approximately $900,0{X) at a low
er rate of interest and over a
longer period of years.
if the plan, of refinancing pro-
poS'Cd by representatives of the
county is accepted by a majority
of the bondholders;, it W’ill save
the county many thousands of dol
lars. C. Tom Bryson, register of
deeds and clerk of the county
board of cofmissioners, estimated
that should this plan be made ef
fective it would mean a saving of
approximately $200,000 over a per
iod of 30 years, and at the outset
w’ould reduce interest payments
about $10,000 a year, besides cut
ting in half outstanding default on
bond coupons.
Agreement Near
Representatives of the county
and of the major bondholders came
very near agreement at the con
ference in Raleigh. The difference
at the close of the c®nf«rence was
one-fourth of one per cent in the
rate of interest, it was reported.
The bondholders’ representatives
proposed refunding over a 30-year
period, it was stated, at five per
cent interest and indicated that
they were willing to accept 50
cents on the dollar on past due
coupons. The county had asked ^ a
reduction of the interest from its
present average of 5.64 per cent
to four per cent. The bondholders’
representatives countered with a
suggested rate of 4.75 per cent; but
the county officials felt that they
could not accept a rate above 4.50
per cent. The difference, in terms
of dollars, is about $2,250 a year
in the early years of repayment.
Defaults Total $170,000
The county’s defaults at this time
on both coiupons . and principal
amounts to approximately $170,000,
according to Mr. Bryson. The
Woodmen of the World and Royal
Neighbors of America, principal
holders of the county’s bonds, con
trolling more than 50 per cent, hold
a judgment against the county for
$76,000 on defaulted payments; but
against this the county has a de
posit of $39,0(X] in the W^achovia
Bank and Trust company at Ashe
ville.
Mlust Repeal Tax Limit
If a refunding agreement is
reached, and county officials con
fidently except that one will, de
faults not covered by cash will be
refunded along with payments not
yet due. Tlie big majority of the
bonds now outstanding against the
county fall due during the 40’s,
and the last in 1956. If the re
funding goes through, new, bonds
covering a thirty-year period, will
replace the present bonds.
County officials confic\ently ex
pect their proposal will be accepted
by the bondholders. In this event,
Mr. Bryson said, a tax rate of.
not more than $1.20 should prove
adequate to cover both the county’s
bond obligations and its general en-
penses. The present rate of $1 on
the one hundred dollars valuation
falls short of meeting bond obliga
tions ; but this rate is limited by a
local law enacted by the last gen
eral assembly. Bondholders have in
dicated that this law must be re
pealed before they will finally ac
cept any refunding plan.
Macon county was represented
at the conference in Raleigh by the
entire board of county commis
sioners—E. B. Byrd, chairman; C.
L. Blaine and Frank Pott.s—C. Tom
Bryson, clerk of the board, and
George B. Patton, county attorney.