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VOL. LV, NO. 27
FRANKLIN, N. C. THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1940
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Nantahala Power And Light Go. Lets Contracts For Dams
HEALTH DEPT.
HOLDS CLINICS
Services Of Dr. Haller
And Mrs. Gaines
.Outlined
When interviewed with regard to
the activities of . the Health depart
ment Dr. E. N. Haller, newly ap
pointed health officer for Macon
county, stated that the attendance
at the venereal, disease clinic at
the office of the county board of
health' in the Ashear building was
gradually increasing. This clinic is
held every Tuesday afternoon from
1 to 3:30 p.. m. Blood tests and
examination of all local food hand
lers and servant are made at this
clinic, in addition to the regular
venereal disease treatments.
During the summer months in
fant and pre-school clinics will be
held eaidi week in various town
ships for the benefit of children
under six years' of age who need
the diphtheria toxoid, and advice
about health matters. Last week
an infant and pre-.sc.bool clinic was
held in the Walnut Creek com
munity. ,
.Service Of County Nurse
When not assisting at clinics and
at examination of the school chil
dren, Mrs. Gaines, county health
nurse, is visiting homes in rural
areas in order to render whatever
-public health service is indicated
to improve living conditions in the
homes and to improve and protect
the .health of - the family, particu
larly the. infants, children and ex
pectant mothers. This is important
because of the high death rate
among infants and confinement
cases.
The numerous activities of the
health department will be describ
ed in the near future whenever
indicated.
REGISTRATION OF ALIENS
President Roosevelt, terming it a
measure for mutual protection of
. this country and "loyal aliens who
are its guests-," signed on Monday
legislation requiring . registration
and finger-printing of all foreign
ers in the United States.
As The World Turns
A Brief Survey of Current Events In State, Nation
and Abroad.
GERMAN U-BOAT SINKS
VESSEL WITH MANY
AXIS PRISONERS
Two-thirds of 1640 German and
Italian prisoners perished and many
of the British soldiers aboard the
British steamer Arandora Star
when a German submarine torpe
doed the vessel without warning
off the Irish coast en route for
Canada. A wild death battle be
tween the Italians and Germans
for seats in the life boats impeded
the work of rescue ships.
AIR RAID CASUALTIES
IN 24 HOURS
Heavy bombings of the British
Isles by the Germans was climax
ed Wednesday with the bombing
of a moving train, and other points,
bringing the 24-hour total of air
raid casualties at 20 dead and 197
wounded. In the same period Brit
ish anti-aircraft gun, and planes
destroyed six and damaged four
Nazi planes.
BRITISH BOMBINGS
Heavy bombings pf the German
naval base at Kiel, with direct hits
reported on the German 26,000 ton
warship, Scharnhorst and its float
ing dock, resulted in several fires
and other damage yesterday.
RIOTS SWEEP RUMANIA
During the week riots sweep Ru
mania as Russia siezes Bessarabia.
Threats of further territorial seiz
ures by Hungary and Bulgaria, the
Rumanian government renounced
Anglo-French guarantees, which it
is' understood constitutes accep
tance of axis terms for-protection.
Tension has risen to panic as a
second Russian thrust into old Ru
mania threatens. Warlike measures
and drastic defence precautions are
proceeding apace to repel inva
sion. Premier Tatarescu has: been
replaced by Udlreanu, confidante
of King Carol.
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HUNGARIANS MASS TROOPS
Hungary is massing many thou
sands of men some 50 years old
on the Hungarian-Rumanian bord
er, i reported from Budapest. I
Many Guests
Served By C. Of C. And
Inquiries Answered
Business is booming at the newly-established
chamber of com
merce information bureau on Main
street. . '
Last week 158 tourists and other
visitors stopped by the little build
ing to make inquiries about the
best place in town to stay, the
azaleas on Wayah, the best road
to Knoxville, and like information
Up until June 30, 300 pieces of
mail had been sent out to people
writing to find out what possibili
ties Macon county offered, for a
vacation. '
The chamber of commerce is
planning to put up . an additional
streamer near the past office to
acquaint travelers with' the fact
that there ' is an information bu
reau further up the street, Rev.
Frank Bloxham reports.
VUitors' Book
A visitors' .'book has been placed
in the office, and owners of .hotels
and tourist homes are urged to
remind all guests' to register be
fore leaving Franklin.
According to Mr. Bloxham, the
most frequent inquuits have been
aDout places , to stay and road m
I formation. How to get through te.
Smokies is a popular question. A
lot- of Florida people, who are no
small shakes themselves when it
comes to attracting tourists, have
been passing through on their way
to Chicago) and the middle west.
"So many people who spent the
night .here have dropped by the
office the next morning ' to tell us
.how much they enjoyed their lodg
ings, and how nice everybody was
to them, Mr. Bloxham said.
Enjoyed Stay
In .his weekly radio broadcast,
"The Children's Church," last Sun
day afternoon, Dean Raimundi de
Ovies of Atlanta's Pro-Cathelral of
St. Philip, who spent last week in
Franklin, took up nearly the' whole
of his radio time telling how
much he enjoyed his stay here in
the mountains. .
The chamber of commerce, which
was organized last March, has a
paid-up membership of 123 to date.
J. E. S. Thorpe is president of
the board of directors and Mr.
Bloxham. is secretary.
BRITISH RESIST JAPANESE
Japan, afraid of Russia and tak
ing advantage of the European
situation, is proclaiming a "Monroe
Doctrine" for the Far East, and
is preparing to back up its slogan
of "Asia for the Asiatics." Pos
sessive glances are being cast to
wards French Indo-China, Dutch
Indies and British holdings; Brit
ain is resisting Japanese demands
for the closing of the Burma
Chunking motor road, "the Road
to Mandalay", over which supplies
have been passing to Chiang Kai
shek's army in China.
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ITALIAN SUBS SUNK IN EAST
Cairo reports sinking of Italian
submarines and a destroyer, which
brings the total of submarines
sunk by the British in tire East
ern Mediterranean in three weeks
of war to 13. Successful air raids
on Italian objectives on the Ethi-opiait-Kenya
frontier are reported
from Cairo.
JAPANESE THREATEN
HONGKONG
Thousands of American and
British refugees are leaving the
British colony of Hongkong on
the American liner President Cool
idge , and British ships and on
planes as " Japanese concentrate
forces on the Hongkong border.
WILLKIE PLANS CAMPAIGN
M'NARY iIN SECOND PLACE
Wendell L. Willkie, nominated
last week on the sixth ballot by
the Republican convention meet
ing in Philadelphia as the party
candidate for president, is. confer
ring with a sub-committee of the
Republican national committee as
to details of his forth-coming cam
paign. He announces that he will
make the new deal the issue of
the domestic side of his campaign.
Senator McNary of Oregon, minor
ity leader in the Senate was nomi
nated on the ticket with Wilkie
for the vice-presidency.
KNOX AND STIMSON
APPOINTMENT APPROVED
The senate naval committee has
Continued o f aft Six
De Soto
r
Cast of "Waters Flowing West", Presented at Macon Theatre on
June 26 By Miss Edith Russell, Author
Bookmobile
Begins Seventh Trip Over
County Monday
The WPA Bookmobile will be
gin its seventh monthly trip over
Macon county next Monday, July
8, Mrs. Frank I. Murray, Book
mobile librarian, announced this
this week.
This month the Bookmobile will
travel over some . 200 miles of
mountain roads, reaching around
4,000 persons who otherwise would
be deprived of reading facilities.
At present the travelling library
has approximately 1,200 volumes in
circulation, plus a number of maga
zines and other periodicals. These
are handled through self-appointed
librarians at each of the Book
mobile's 33 stops.
According to Mrs. ' Murray,
"Gone With the Wind" is the
most popular book in circulation,
along with books by Zane Grey
and Oliver Cuxwood. In non-fiction,
biographies and books on travel
and aviation are in demand.
This month's schedule is as fol
lows.. Monday, Everette Mashburn's
home; Claude Beeco's store;
Claude Morgan's home ; E. V. Am
nion's home ; Arvey Seay's home
Tuesday, Fred S. Moore's home;
Joe Setser's home; Miss NannitT
Roane's home; Jeff Enloe's home;
Geo. Stepp, Aquone; Bruce Du-
vall's store, Kyle; Clint May's
store, Flats..
Wednesday, Jim Mann's home;
Roy Sanders' home; Jess L. San
ders' home, Maple Springs; Par-
rish s store, Otto ; James Morris"
store; John Burnette's store, Scaly;
Mrs. Everett Hoglen's home, Hick
ory Knoll;. Charlie Rogers' home,
Prentiss; Sutton's home, Clark's
Chapel.
Thursday, W. T. Fouts' home,
.lotla; Duvall's store, Burningtown;
Ray's store, lotla Bridge; Rick
man's store, Cowee; Weaver Gib
son's home, Harmony; E. O.
Rickman's store, Leatherman;
Hall's store, Etna.
Friday, J. L. Norris' store ; Mrs.
C. Tom .Bryson's store, Cullasaja;
Mrs. Harriette Higdon, . Higdon
ville; Lease Bryson's store, Salem;
Willie McCoy's home, Gneiss.
Sixty Gallon Still
Captured In Kelly Cove
John Dills, deputy sheriff for
Macon county, captured a 60-gal-lon
capacity still in Kelly Cove, a
section of the Burningtown com
munity on Tuesday morning, .and
destroyed about 500 gallons of
mash.
The still was made of a 60
gallon barrel and. about six weeks
previous to this raid, Mr. Dills
had found this same still about
200 yards from its present location,
and having nothing with him to
destroy the still, shot it full of
holes, thinking it rendered useless.
These holes had been patched and
in operation again. -This time it
was completely destroyed.
Lester Crawford was assisting
Mr. . Dills in the search. No . ar
rests were made.
Rev. Wiley Conner To
Lead Revival Services
The annual revival services at
Oak Grove Baptist church, Etna,
will begin Sunday, July 21, at 11
a. m, Rev. Robert Williams an
nounced here Tuesday. Services
will be held at 11 a. m. and 8
p. m. daily throughout the next
few weeks.
Rev. Wiley Conner of Knoxville,
Tenn., will conduct the revival, as
sisted by the pastor. Mr. Conner,
a former resident of Jackson coun
ty, has been leading revivals in
Macon for more than 2Q years,
Pageant
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HUNDREDS HERE
JULY FOURTH
Many Contests Feature I
Amusements For Old
And Young
Hundreds thronged to Franklin
Thursday to attend the Fourth of
July celebration, which ranged
from various races and sports to
the baseball game in the afternoon
between the Franklin All-Stars
and the Knoxville All-Stars.
Under the supervision of W. C.
Newton and Frank Jamison the
games started at 10 o'clock and
continued until afternoon.
The winner of the $2.50 watch
for climbing a greased pole was
awarded to Bernard Woniack. In
the old man's race, 40 years or
older, first prize went to Oscar C.
Bryant, $1.50-. in trade at Cable's
Cafe; while the second prize ,of
a $1.00 shirt at Joseph Ashear was
awarded to Harrison Pannell. G. F.
Burrell came in third.
In the egg race by the ladies,
Mrs. Carl P. Cabe won the $1.50
comnact from Pprrv's Dnur ctnrp
as first prize, and Miss Margaret
Franks was winner of second
prize, a bottle of perfume at
Angel's Drug Store. Others in the
race included Mrs. Frank L. Hen
ry, Jr., Mrs. E. C. Soper, Frances
Tallent, Emma Potts and Mrs. S.
J. Porter.
Boy' Race
Tommy McCoy, son of Mr. and
Mrs. B. V. McCoy, of Etna, won
a $1.50 knife, donated by Reeves
Hardware store as first prize in
the tricycle racje; second prize
was won by "Nink" Henry, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Henry,
Jr., of Franklin, which was a $1.00
knife given by the Macon County
Supply company. The other con
testant was Jimmy Rogers, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie M. Rouers.
of Franklin.
In the race by the small boys,
Charles Lee West, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Hubert West, of West's Mill.
was winner of a pass to Macon
theatre for a week for rolling
the peanut in first with his nose,
while Frank Roper won the $1.00
ticket at Cable's Cafe for coming
in second. . -
Horse Shoe Pitching
Claude Duvall, of lotla. and Wade
Stockton, of Franklin Route 3,
were declared the champions in
the Jiorse shoe pitch inn contest
which lasted more than an hour.
The prize was a $3.00 ticket in
trade at Cagle's Cafe. Twenty
four contestants participating in
the pitching went down in defeat
before these two champions, in
the 12 games out of 14 pitched.
Others pitching were Hubert
West, Harrison Pannell, Ben Har
rison, Jimmy Stovers, Richard
Guest, Raymond Womack, Sam L.
Frady, "Buddy" Stanfield, James
McCall, Carlyle Shepherd, H. A.
Wilhide, C. L. Potts, Garland Du
vall, Wayne Duvall, Kenneth
Cruise, Huford Burch, Robert
Sloan, R. L. Houston, Jim Corbin,
Ross Dean, C Hedden, Ben Mash
burn, William Sanders, Fred Buch
anan, Lowell Mason, Austin Roper,
Frank Collins and Lex Angel.
Although there were threatening
showers in the early morning, no
rain marred the pleasure of the
day, and no accidents or arrests
were reported. , .
PACKARD TO BUILD
AIRPLANE MOTORS
The Packard Motor company
tentatively agreed to take the
contract for 9,000 Rolls Royce air -
Work To Begin At Once On
Nantahala, Glenville Projects
De Soto Celebration
Committee Reports
The committee in charge of ar
rangements for the De Soto cele
bration which took place on June
20 wishes to acknowledge the as
sistance extended to them in enter
taining Franklin's guests on that
day. Many expressions of appre
ciation have been received from the
Colonial Dames and other guests
tor the cordial reception and cour
tesies extended to them on the oc
casion ot the unveiling of the
marker ' coiiimemoratinc the De
Soto trail through Macon county.
Messrs. lomlin and Gailey uave
the use of the Macon Theatre for
the address by John Temple
Graves II, and also for the pre
sentation of the historical pageant,
"Waters Flowing West", present
ed by the author, Miss Edith Rus
sell. The Harrington-Russell Page
ants organization of Asheville sup
plied the principal members of the
cast, all of whom gave their serv
ices. To Miss Russell especially is
due appreciation for her valued
contribution to the celebration.
Girl Scouts under Mrs. Charlps
Meliohar and' Boy . Scouts under
James Hauser : contributed many
"good turns", and the Methodist
church loaned their piano for the
occasion. Oscar Bryant furnished
the canopy at ' the unveiling.
i. W. Angel, Jr., presents the
following financial report of the
local committee :
Keceipt, ticket sales $34.40;
mncneon $1J.4U; Mrs. Frank E,
Jennings, $10.00; J. S. Conley,$1.50;
Lions Club $5.00; other donations
$10.15; total, $74.45.
Expenditures, luncheon $27.50:
moving piano $1.00; costumes for
pageant and expenses of Barring
ton-Russell Studios ' $45.95 ; total
The chairmen serving on the
local committee were. T. W. Am?el
Jr., James Averell, Rev. Frank
tifoxham, Mrs. Gilmer Jones, Mrs
Richard Jones, Mrs. Charles Meli
char, Mrs. J. W. C. Johnson.
Little Theatre
Plan To Give First Play
July Z4th
The Highlands Little Theatre
held its organization meeting and
tryouts for the first plav lune
27 at Helen's Barn, and it was
felt that there was quite a re
sponse in our immediate commun
ity. However if there are other
people who would like to take part
in the acting this summer-or as
sist with the production, they will
be very welcome at rehearsals,
which are being held each after
noon at 3 o'clock, at Helen's Barn,
The Little Theatre is not trying
for a subscription' membership this
year but is expecting everyone in
terested in being active to show
up, and the whole community to
come to see the play.
The honorary president of the
group 'is George A. Townsend, and
the board of directors are as fol
lows: director, Arthur Little; busi
ness manager, Mrs. Jack Wilcox;
publicity manager, Miss Winnie
Eskrigge; production managers;
Misses Eleanor and Elsie Terhune;
property managers, Misses Peggy
Polhill and Leonce Wall; technic
al managers, John Kaufman and
Jack Wilcox.
The Little Theatre feels that it
is extremely fortunate in having
as its director for the first play
Arthur Little, who comes to High
lands from directing the Macon,
Ga., Little Theatre during the past
season.
This summer's first production
will be "The Late Christopher I
Bean", the highly entertaining play
of the late Sidney Howard, and
will be given the night of July
24, and the afternoon of July. 25.
Slagle's 'Guernseys Sell
In Georgia
Sheriff A. B. Slagle's registered
Guernsey cattle are in great de
mand down in Georgia.
According to a report from the
American Guernsey Cattle club,
Peterborough, N. H., Mr. Slagle
has sold five animals lately, a
bull to G. C Lewis of Hartwell,
Ga.; a bull to the Carnsville Lions'
club of Carnesville, Ga.; a bull
to J. A. Cobb of Hartwell, Ga.;
and a bull and a cow to' J.
Thomas Sewell of Lavonia, Ga.
plane motors which Henry Ford
refused because 6.000 were fnr
lc - eat Britain,
Largest Hydro - .Electric
Development In N. C.
In 20 Years
Contracts were let Monday by
the Nantahala Power and Light
company for the construction .of
the Glenville and Nantahala hydro
electric projects, the largest hydro
electric development within the
state in 20 years.
T.hjJ building of the Nantahala
hydroelectric project in Macon
county was let to the Utal Con
struction company and the Glen
ville project in Jackson county to
the Morrison Knudsen company.
The Nantahala Power and Liuht.
company has already begun con
struction of lines to both dam
sites to transmit " power "for .the
construction operations, it was
learned today at the Franklin of
fices. These two developments Within
the basin of the Little Tennessee
river will have the highest heads
of any hydro-electric projects in
the United States east of the Rocky
mountains.
Fcr Defense And Commercial Use
The two projects, at Nanta.ha.ia
in Macon county and at Glenville
in Jackson county, will furnish
electricty for customers in this ter
ritory and also for producing alum
inum, now being used extensively
in the national defense program.
They are the first dams to be built
in the Birmingham district (Sonth-:
eastern United States) since the
national power policy committee
was asked to work closely with
vital defense industries.
The contracts were let following
approval of. the projects by the
Federal Power commission, which
stated that the company did not
require a license for either of the
hydro-electric developments.
Approval has also been given by
the Tennessee Valley authority and
the North Carolina Utilities com
mission. Work Begin At Once
Work on the two projects will
begin immediately. It is anticipated
the Nantahala project will require'
two years to complete, the Glen
ville project 15 months.
The Nantahala development will
consist of a dam havinn a maxi
mum height of 200 feet, which will
create a reservoir with a usable
storage capacity of 130,000 acre
feet. The water from the reservoir
will pass through a tunnel to a
power house five miles away, also
located on the Nantahala river. '
giving the project a total hea1 nf
999 feet.
The Glenville development will
have a dam 140 feet in height and
a . reservoir with a usable storage
capacity of 68,000 acre-feet. As in
the case of the Nantahala develop
ment, the water from the Glenville
reservoir will be conducted through
a tunnel three miles dong to a
power house on the banks of the
west fork of the Tuckaseegee riv
er. The total head of the Glen
ville development will he 1,215 feet.
The dams will be earth-faced,
rock fills. Cubic yards in the Nan
tahala dam are estimatel to be
1,829,000, while the cubic yardage
in the Glenville dam will be 458,000.
While officials of the Nantahala
Power and Light company gave no
information .concerning the costs
of the two projects, it has been
unofficially estimated that in ex
cess of $10,000,000 will be ex
pended. Federation Picnic At
Franklin School July 20 '
Macon county's annual Farm
ers Day and Picnic, sponsored by
the Farmers Federation, will be
held Saturday, July 20, at the
Franklin school, James G. K. Mc
Clure, president of the Federation,
announced this week. Everybody
in the county is invited to come
and bring a well-filled basket.
Beginning at 10 a m. with music
by the Farmers Federation string
band, the morning's program will
consist of short addresses and
musical specialties. Following the
picnic lunch at noon, foot races,
relay races, husband calling con
tests and other games will be held
with appropriate prizes for the
winners.
All Macon county choirs, quar
tets, and other singers are invit
ed to take part in the two hours
of singing that will begin prompt
ly at 2 p. m. Song books will be
given the winning choirs, and cash
prizes will be awarded to quartets
"id ginger.