THE' FRANKLIN PRESS AND THE HIGHLANDS MACON IAN
THURSDAY, FEB. 17, 1838
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Franklin Wins
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All-Stars and High School
Take Two Games
The Franklin All-Star and, the
high school five struck their stride
last Friday night at the high school
gym and took two games from
Glenville. !
The first game was between the
All-Star teams of Franklin and
Glenville, and the score was 30 to
22. The game between ,the high
school teams went to Franklin 35
to f.
The lineup was as follows:
Glenville (22) Pos. .Franklin (30)
Robinson (10) ...F...... Bush (4)
Pell (8) F. Dalrymple (8)
Bryson C Archer (2)
Moore . .G.. Russell (11)
Hooper. (4) . . . . . .G. . . . Dowdle (1)
Subs : Franklin, Sutton, Perry (4),
Barnard.
The lineup :
Glenville (35) Pos. Franklin (16)
J. Thomas (9) ...F.... Higdon (4)
Wright (7) .F. Fouts (4)
Dillard (13) C. Letterman (6)
Rogers (4) ....... G Talley (2)
Lnnning (2) .G. ........ Roper
Subs: Franklin, Cunningham.
"Deestrick Skule"'To
Be Given March 4
' The "Deestrick Skule," a scream
ing comedy, will be given on Fri
day, March 4, at the courthouse,
at 8 p. m. The full cast of char
acters will be published nextwxk
vgxop iof yuuug 5ncT old of
""Tranklin will take the leading parts.
An old-fashioned spelling bee will
be a feature 9f the performance,
in which any and all spellers in the
audience will be invited to par
ticipate. Appropriate prizes will
whet the interest of spellers and
audience. This preliminary notice
is given to enable all to get out
their old blue-back speller, and
brush .up. Watch The Press for
future announcements and remem
ber the date. ,
T. F. Railway Gives v
Figures On Expenditures
The. following figures show the
amount of money spent by the
'i'allulah Falls Railway, along its
line, during the last five years and
should be of interest to the people
who are served by the railway : .
Salaries and Cross . Bridge
Yr. Wages Ties Lumber
1933. $61,756.35 $6,115.01 $3,277.50
1934 61,453.04 9,259.36 3,017.09
1935 67,887.00 9,244.00 4,509.26
1936 69,675.00 9,140.34 4,274.2
1937 72,038.15 16,659.71, 7,031.43
$332,809.54 $50,418.43 $22,1.09.55
Total of the above expenditures
is $405,537.62, representing money
paid out to employees and local
people along the line.
Classified
Advertisements
FOR SALE Tobacco canvas, 4c
per yard SANDERS' STORE.
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'WANTED - Fresh hams and
shoulders, 10 to 12 lbs. Market
price paid. Mrs. W. H. Sellers,
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. PERSONAL Anybody interest
ed in Christian Science, please write
P. O. Box 441,. Franklin, N. C.
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LOST On the streets of Frank
lin in January, one gray overshoe.
Finder will please return to Horn's
Shoe Shop and receive reward.
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FOR SALE Five -acres with two
room house and barn, on John Siler
Mill Creek, five miles from Frank
lin, on Highway 28. Will sell at a
bargain for cash. Henry -Dotson,
Franklin, Route 1.
FOR SALE Ever-bearing red
raspberry plants 25 for 50c;
50 for. 80c; 100 for $1.15; 500 for
$5.00; 1,000 for $9.50. Will be on
sale at Farmers Federation or A.
L. McLean, Franklin, N. C. ,
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FOR SALE 92 Acres land on
Cowee Mountain, Macon county,
fronting the hard surface highway.
Rev. J. H. Brendall, Rt. 3, 'Box
440, Greensboro, N. C.
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Bob" Bartlett
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1ant. "Bob" Bartlett, explorer w
mJrnl Yenrv. receiving the National
Williams, new national president of
the award for teaching Camp Fire
when they met in New York to descr
exploring and other fields.
ADDITIONAL
FRANKLLCL-
SOCIAL ITEMS
xlr. and Mrs. John Archer and
duugnter left Tuesday for West
Palm Beach, .Fla. Mr. Archer plans
to return to his home here .this
week, while Mrs. Archer and
daughter will remain . for. a . couple
of months. '
Mrs. Lyman Higdon spent the
first of the week in Atlanta, Dry
ing new spring goods for the
Frances Shop.
Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Hoilman
and Ted Clark, of . Winston-Salem,
came in Tuesday to be with Mrs.
Hoilman's and Mr. Clark's mother,
Airs. Carrie Clark, who has pneu
monia at her home on Oak Grove.
Harry Holt, Jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Holt, is quite ill at his
Home at Highlands with, double
pneumonia.
Miss Florence Stalcup, home
demonstration agent for the Caro
lina Power and Light company in
Asheville, spent the week-end here
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
George Stalcup.
Noah Blaine, of Sedro Wooley,
Wash., is here on a visit to his
brother, C. T. Blaine and family
on Harrison avenue. Mr. Blaine
has been in the West for 37 years,
this being his third visit back here
during' that time. He finds that
Franklin has grown rapidly since
his visit here in 1921
John F, Cunningham and Bill
Cunningham have returned to their
homes here after a trip to Norfolk,
Va. While there Mr. Cunningham
was in the .U. S. Marine hospital,
where he underwent examinations
and. treatment.
Jake Cloer, 79, who underwent
an operation at Angel hospital for
mastoiditis recently, has been re
moved to the home of his son, the
Rev. George- Cloer, on Franklin
Route 4, and is reported to te get
ting along nicely.
Births
Mr. and Mrs. Ardeh G. Taylor
announce the .birth of ,a- son, Leon
Freeman, at their, home at West's
Mill, on Tuesday; February 15.
On Thursday, February 10, a
son, Billy E., was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Oliver H. Moses, at their
home, on Ellijay.
A daughter, Villa Virginia, was
born to Mr. and Mrs. Spurgeon M.
Holland at their home at Cullasaja
on Tuesday, February 1.
Mrs. J. R. Berry Buys
Hallie's Beauty Shop
Mrs. J. R. Berry, has purchased
Hallie's Beauty Shop in the Ashear
building and has changed the name
of the establishment to the Darling
Beauty Shop.
Mrs. Berry announces that the
shop will be closed next Mondav
in order to install new equipment,
but will be open for business on
Tuesday, February 22, and she in
vites her friends and the public to
call and see her in her new place,
Wins Award
went to tne North pole with Ad-
Service award from Mrs. Elbert
the
Camp Fire Girls. He was given
how to tell of their achievements
Girlb
be their activities in life saving,
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ARM AID BILL
NOW IN EFFECT
President Signs Measure
Designed To Assist
Agriculture
I I
President Roosevelt Wednesday
signed the $440,000,000 crop control ;
bill, opening the way to an agri
cultural program designed to stab
lize farm income and at the same
time protect the consuming public
from price-grouping on foodstuffs.
Simultaneously the chief executive
issued a statement detailing the
new deal's fight on behalf of. the
iarmer And . declaring "the- act. rep
resents the winning of one more
battle for an underlying farm policy
that will endure." .
. He added that the bill is 'not
perfection but it is the constructive
product of the able , and sincere"
work of many men" and he called
on the nation to "resolve to' make
it an effective instrument to serve
the welfare of agriculture and al
our people."
Secretary of Agriculture Henry
A. Wallace said he would put thi
vast plan into immediate operation.
The bill provides :
1. Continuance of the AAA soi
conservation program and estab
lishment of its objectives as a pari
of permanent farm policy represent
a national investment in soil fer
tility and insurance for the natioi,
of future abundance of food and
fiber.
Designed For Ample Con u mp t on
2. National acreage allotments are
established at levels designed tc
give production ample for domestic
consumption, exports and reserve
supplies, and payments are made to
encourage farmers to produce up to
these national allotments.
2. Loan provisions in the law en
courage systematic storage of sur
pluses of big crop ygars for use
Political
Announcements
I hereby announce myself a can
didate for nomination by the Dem
ocratic party in the June primary
for the office of Senator, from the
33rd District in the General As
sembly of North Carolina.
If nominated and elected I shall
endeavor to serve the people of
this District faithfully and to the
best of my ability and to strive un
ceasingly toward the protection and
promotion of the interests of all
the people of this District and of
Western North Carolina.
I Will appreciate your support of
my candidacy.
GUY L. HOUK
,T hereby announce myself a can
didate to succeed myself as Rep
sentative of Macon County in the
next General Assembly, subject to
the action of the Democratic Pri
mary. Your support and influence
will be appreciated.
R. A. PATTON.
in years of shortage. The govern
ment is authorized to advance inch
ney as loans to enable farmers to
hold surpluses until needed.
4. Marketing quotas backed by
penalty taxes on sales inv excess of
quotas can be used, subject to ap
proval of a two-thirds vote of the
producers voting, to secure general j
participation of farmers in a pro
gram designed to hold surplus sup
plies off the market until, they are
needed.
'5. Release of corn supplies from
storage under marketing quotas is
provided to meet any shortage tl at
develops either on the farm, in the
country or in the case of national
need.
6. Crop insurance for wheat, start
ing with the 1939 crop, will give
the wheat producers and the bread
supplies of the nation better pro
tection against drought. Gradual ac
cumulations 61 wheat paid in by
farmers as insurance premiums will
contribute a major part of the ever
normal granary supplies of wheat.
Stabilize Livestock .IikI jtry
Wallace said that the .plan will
build up carry-over, supplies of feed
which should stabilize the live
stock industry and protect both
consumers and producers against
such price extremes as those caus
ed in 1934 and 1936 by shortages
arising from drought.
Administrator H. R. Tolley, of
the agricultural adjustment admin-,
istratiort, who will be in charge of
the program, said that he will con
tinue it along the same lines as fie
present soil conservation plan with
further "efforts to decentralize ad
ministration by giving the farmers
as much authority" as possible. ,
Tolley said corn allotments would
be announced as "soon as possible"
-vhile 'wheat allotments will be an
nounced July 15. Rice is exempted
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Matches 55c 10c
Prunes MefZSize 25c
RmSO Packages 25
Campbell's Tomato
Soup
2
Table Salt Boxes 10c
Salted Soda "
Crackers 10c
Cheese Fu Cream lb- 2 1 c
F IQUr 48-lb. bag
Shprtening 2 S
Health
Soap 3Cak 10c
Life Buoy or Lux s
Soap 3 for 20c
Sliced Breakfast
Bacon
from. marketing quotas next year
while acreage allotments are not set
until Dec. 31 of each year.
The quota for-flue-cured tobacco
.will procably be 700,000,000 to 710,
000,000 pounds and must be an
nounced within the next few days,
Tolley said.
Rev. S. R. Crockett To
Preach Here Sunday
The Rev. S. R. Crockett, of Route
1 Franklin, will preach at the 11
o'clock service in the local Presby
terian church, in the absence of the
pastor, the Rev. J. A. . Flanagan,
who will be in Bryson City and
Andrews assisting in the installa
tion of the Rev. Paul P. Thrower,
newly elected pastor of the Bryson
City and Andrews Presbyterian
churches.
Old-Age Claims Average
$U.75 In This State
Claims for lump-sum payments
under the old-age insurance plans
of the social security act were cer
tified during January at the rate
of 23 per working day in North
Carolina, Graham Martin,: manager
of the Asheville field office of the
social security board, announced
today. During January, a total of
$10,871.47 was certified for payment
to 524 claimants workers who
reached the age of 65 and the
estates of workers who .died. The
average amount of each payment
was $20.75, a very appreciable in
crease over the average claim paid
six months ago. .
Throughout the country during
January a total of $745,691 was cer
tified for payment to 23,538 claim
ants. The average amount of each
claim was $31.68 or almost double
the average of $17 for all claims
paid up to the end of last August.
Cans 5C
PerLb -
30c