Pace two
Nantahala
National Forest
Did
You
Know
That
The signs used on . the National
Forests throughout the South are
made in Franklin. There is located
in Macon county 'at the Wayah,
Depot, eight miles west of Frank
lin, the Nantahala Sign shop of
the Southern . Region ot the U. S.
Forest Service.
Sigas of a wide variety are man
ufactured here. Tin signs, carved
signs, stenciled, signs, free-letter
signs, cardboard signs all are made
here.
Signs are constructed for a va
riety of purposes. Directional road
slat signs are turned out in the
largest quantity. Carved shield
type signs commonly used to mark
the boundaries of National Forests
along highway are built at the
Wayah Depot. Embossed metal
signs are constructed on a special
machine and are used for labeling
plants and trees. Carved rustic in
formational' signs are .built, the
"carved" fetters being cut but by
a special electric routing machine.
Cardboard free-hand lettered signs
. in artistic makeup are also . pro
duced. Four sign painters and carpen
ters are continually employed in
the production of signs.. They work
in a well-equipped shop contain
ing a . band saw, planer, ripper,
sander, spray guns, and a variety
of special equipment. Approximate
ly 65,000 board feet of lumber are
used annually. Local grown woods
are used exclusively. Yellow poplar
is used in large quantities, with the
native oaks coming a close second.
The Nantahala-sign shop is truly
one of the mast interesting indus
tries located in Macon county. It
is also a medium of advertising
native woods throughout the south.
STATE"
OFFERSPRIZES
' Farmers And Housewives
Invited To Send
Exhibits
The North Carolina State Fair
in Raleigh , will be held this year
October 8 through 12, as announc
ed by the N. C. Department of
Agriculture.
Many premiums are being offered
of interest to farmers, stock rais
ers, farm women,' students of vo
cational agriculture and other
groups.
. Ham And Bacon Prize Offered
Premiums totaling $75 will be of
fered in the "Ham and Bacon di
vision of the 1940 exposition, but
emeries will be limited to North
Carolina farm-cured meats, Swaf-
far said. Exhibitors winning prem
iums will be required to furnish
their curing recipe and handling
information.
"Hams weighing from 10 to 20
1 pounds will be given preference,
the meat specialist! said. Hams
shoulders and bacon will be judged
on the basis of weight, trim, sym
metry, flavor, color, texture, pro
portion fat to lean ant marbling."
Prize For Homemaker
Homemakers skilled in cooking,
canning and preserving are invited
to show canned fruits, vegetables,
pickles, relishes, jams, preserves
and calces.
Premiums will be offered in the
Women's Department to the
amount of $1,099.
Vocational Day
"Vocational Agriculture Day"
will be October 10 and all students
will be admitted free who are
wearing the traditional "skull caps"
designating .their membership in a
vocational school. More than 10,
000 students will participate in ex
hibits.
Ten booths featuring home pro
ject work of students, livestock and
livestock judging contests will be
features of the vocational program
Two large silver loving cups, to be
awarded in the judging contest,
will be presented by Commissioner
of Agriculture W. Kerr Scott
Displays by Future Farmers of
America will, be judged on the
basis of educational value, attrac
tiveness pd simplicity. The voca
tional exhibits will include swine,
dairy and beef cattle.
Home economics, rehabilitation
and industrial education programs
will also be, featured in the vooa
tional education departments.
The Fair management has also
"booked" prominent entertainment
features.
Expenditures In N. C
For National Defense
Contracts and expenditures for
the period June 13 through Aug
ust 31, 1940, for National Defense
work in the State of North Caro
lina amount to $7,223,357.74.
This makes a total of contracts
awarded for the Army of $3,642,
479.96, and for the Navy of $3,
240,700.78. From Work Projects Ad
ministration funds, $310,177.00 have
been awarded, and from the Office
of Education, for the Defense
Training Program, the awards have
amounted to $30,000.00.
Cartoogechaye
By MRS. JOE SETSER
Mr. and Mrs. Wenfred Brendell
left Sunday for their home in
Drexel, N. C, where Mr. Brendell
is employed in the Drexel Mills.
Mrs 1 Brendell (the former Miss
Josephine Martin) has 'been spend
ing some time here with her moth
er, Mrs.. Jeff Martin.
Mrs. Chas. Nolen is quite sick at
her home.
The ladies of this neighborhood
who have been filling cans with
tomatoes and tomato juice for the
flood victims in Jackson county
wish to extend special thanks to
Miss Moody and the boys, in her
room for their help in gathering
the tomatoes. This was a big part
of the work and the boys helping
were : Sanford Dills, Fred H. And
erson, George Crawford, Dale
Docey, R. L. Roper, J. L. Kirby
and Maiden McConnell.
Miss Lucy Slagle, accompanied
by Miss Mae Culpepper, spent last
week-end with her father, T. M.
Slagle.
Agnes Waldroop Displays
Find Of Snake Eggs
Agnes Waldroop, daughter of
Lester . Waldroop of Prentiss,
brought in an interesting specimen
of snake eggs last Thursday. Her
brother, Neil Waldroop, discovered
them while ploughing near their
home Wednesday afternoon.
Nine white eggs, sticking togeth
er .in a cluster, and each about the
size of a partridge egg, furnished
an interesting specimen for study
in Miss White's biology class of
which Agnes is a member. Three
of the eggs were broken and live
snakes found in two of them. The.
remaining six. were brought to The
Press office, where we are glad
to put the story in the paper but
not the eggs in the window where
it is the custom to exhibit various
other, kinds of natural phenomena.
The owner of the eggs stated
that Mr. Whitmire of the agricul
tural department, who said the
eggs were King snakes, would
hatch them in the department's in
cubator. Of the 39 CCC camps now operat
ing in North Carolina, 13 are under
the direction of the U. C. Forest
Service and eight are under the
National Park Service.
OUR DEFENSE
(One of a Series Prepared by National Defense Advisory Commission)
The United States Navy
The U. S. Navy, which stretches'
round the world, from the lush har
bors of the Virgin Islands to the
bleak reaches of the Aleutians, is
truly our first line of defense.' To
hold that line requires trained per
sonnel which includes men who
command the bridge of a battle
ship and others who can fit dental
bridgework. There must be airplane
pilots and submarine commanders.
There must be men who can ma
neuver a fleet of battleships across
a million square miles of ocean,
and others who understand the care
of feeding of sump . pumps. Prac
tically every known occupation is
needed in the Navy. And the
wherewithal to carry on that ac
tivity must te on hand, ready for
use. It is the function of the Na
tional Defense Advisory Commis
sion to see that the Navy gets the
supplies it requires.
All the Navy business originates
in a twenty-one acre building, hast
ily erected in 1917. In this build
ing is the Secretary .of the Navy,
Frank Knox, and Assistant Secre
tary, Lewis Compton. They are
surrounded by sailormen who have
reached the top of the heap on
the ' long voyage that started
tween decks as midshipmen, by
way of the quarter deck of a de
stroyer, to a cruiser, to a battle
ship, to Commander-in-Chief of the
fleet, and eventually to the number;
one sailor s job, Chief of Naval
Operations.
The Naval Bureau
The Chief of Naval Operations
oversees 'the activities of the nine
major naval bureaus; His word can
send hundreds of U. S. ships to
any ocean on earth. To his desk
comes the intelligence information
gathered around the world. The
closely guarded war plans are in
his care. He, is the center of the
Huge organization.
The next biggest eun of the
xavy is the General Board. This
body represents the wisdom of the
Navy, the Senior Admirals: avail
able to the President and the Sec
retary of the Navy for advice on
naval affairs. Then come the nine
Naval Bureaus. Each bureau exists
to serve one or more needs of the
fleet.
the largest is the Bureau of
Navigation. It educates the offi
cers at Annaoolis. It mn h
Hydrographic Office, and the Home
tor iwulors in Philadelphia, It keeps
time at the Naval Observatory.
And it has the service oath of al
legiance of John Paul Jones and
the complete record of every sea
faring man who has served the
Navy since. It is responsible for
the training, assignment, and wel
fare of all Navy men.
The Bureau of Ordnance arms
the Navy both offensively end de
THE FRANKLIN PRESS AND
CONSERVATION MONTH
On The Farm and in The Home
Here are timely suggestions from
State college specialists for the
month of October:
A. D. Stuart, seed specialist, says
early planted small grains have a
distinct advantage over later plant
ings in the matter of yield, a fact
on which growers should capital
ize. If the wheat, oats, and barley
sown are, not resistant to smut,
the seed should be treated. Then,
too, all seed planted should have
germination and purity tests.
Robert Schmidt, associate horti
culturist of the experiment station,
reminds growers to harvest their
sweet potatoes before the heavy
frosts which come first during the
last days of October. Careful har
vesting will prevent much bruising,
which, in turn, will reduce storage
losses. The potatoes should be grad
ed in the field, packed in crates
or baskets, and placed in storage
with as little handling as possible.
Farmers who are interested in bet
ter .seed could improve -their own
stock by selecting seed potatoes in
the field at digging time.
Lloyd Weeks, extension tobacco
specialist, says tobacco growers can
make substantial savings by taking
apart their tobacco flues and
treating them with waste niotor
oil. After receiving a coat of oil,
the flues should be placed on tier
poles in the barn. Such ' treatment
will cause them to last three to
four times as long,
fensively. It designs, buys guns and
ammunition, armor and torpedoes,
depth charges ' and chemicals of
war. .;.-
The Bureau of Ships is respon
sible for the general design, struc
ture, strength, and seaworthiness
of all ships in the Navy, and for
the engines that drive the vessels.
In addition, it designs such items
as machine guns and gas masks,
mine sweeping equipment, and op
erates the new experimental model
basin built with WPA funds near
Washington, where the new types
of war designs may be tested.
The Bureau of Aeronautics must
provide the fleet with powerful and
efficient naval air service.
The Bureau of Supplies and Ac
counts must acquire the material,
fuel, and other necessities of the
Navy. ..".'.
The Bureau of Medicine and Sur
gency provides medical care for the
Navy and Marine Corps, and is
represented not only in this coun
try, but in outlying territories and
aboard every Navy vessel in active
commission. .
The office of the Judge Advocate
General, who really ought to be
called the Judge Advocate Admiral,
is the legal part of the Navy.
Aside from keeping the Navy out
of the toils of the' law, this office
interprets the bills and resolutions
of Congress and helps with the
proposed legislation arising in the
Navy Department.
Th. Naval Rm
Like the Army, the U. S. Navy
has a Reserve. It consists of 16,
000 officers and 65,000 enlisted men
(including the Marine Corps Re
serve) ready to step into their
positions on fighting ships. First
is the Fleet Reserve, men who
have served with the fleet. These
ex-service men, with the regular
naval forces, are the backbone of
our expanded fleet.
There is still one branch that
can't be overlooked in running the
Navy. That is the Marine Corps.
This component of the naval serv
ice exists primarily to support the
fleet, but in case of national emer
gency the marines are called on
for duty.
Members of the , Marine Corps
are really seagoing soldiers respon
sible to the Commander-in-Chief.
Of course, there must be a large
establishment ashore to keep the
fleet afloat, and ready for any
thing. The National Defense Advis
ory Commission helps the shore
stations get what the fleet needs
in steel, in machinery, in fuel, in
arms and ammunition, in food and
clothing.
A SHIP IS BUILT
A fleet is an organization that
comes alive when men have sweat
and strained, trained and calcu
lated deep in the boidi of their
THE HIGHLANDS MACON IAN
John Arey, extension dairyman,
passes along a couple of . sugges
tions. First, he says dairy herds
should be culled this month. Me
dium to low producing cows which
paid only a small profit on pasture
this past summer will not pay
when placed on high-priced winter
feed. Second, he urges farmers to
attend county and .state dairy cat
tle shows this fall. The show ring,
he says, is the place whert 1 breed
type standards are fixed. It is al
so a splendid place for breeders to
compare their animals and to ad
vertise their surplus stock.
E. C. Blair, extension agrono
mist, adds a good word for winter
cover ' crops. "Farmers who have
not seeded winter cover crops and
annual legumes, jsuch as Austrian
winter peas and hairy vetch,
should do so by all means this
month," he says.
October is a' busy month for
poultrymen because the old poultry
year overlaps the new, says T. T.
Brown, extension poultry man. Some
of the things the poultry (grower
should do how are: Select next
year's breeding pen or mark the
birds -to be selected later; keep
the hens and the pullets separated ;
house the pullets; make a gradual
change from a growing mash to
a laying mash; check for drafts in
the laying house; and don't over
crowd birds.
fighting ships across a million
square miles of ocean, across a
space of years. A fleet is an or
ganization of men and ships.
A ship is a cross between a fort
ress, a bridge, a locomotive, a rock
ing horse, a skyscraper, and a
human being. The ineides Of a
fighting ship are more complex
than those of a human being, but
no 'work, of man has an exterior
more ponderous and formidable. It
is put together otj a set of building
ways, with two or three cranes
Those cranes, with a thousand men,
lift a, billion pieces of steel into
place, and weld them fast. Under
the blue white hissing heat of the
flaming arcs, a ship is forged from
the first stringer laid for the keel,
till she comes fully alive, a unit of
our fleet.
The story starts a long way back
of that point. It starts in the Navy
Building in Washington, where the
General Board sketches out the
needs of the fleet. The delibera
tions of this august body go to the
President, who embodies them in
message to Congress. The Congress
approves the money.
Ihe scene moves back to the
white concrete Navy Building,
wnere the naval designers dream,
calculate, and sketch the new ship.
Before the designers here and at
the yards are through, thev will
nave arawn a.uuu exact pictures of
a billion pieces that make ud the
ship. When they finish, they have
designed something that will float
right side up. But more than that,
tney have designed a rigid vessel,
but one which will yield when the
sea twists its frame. Two waves
may lift her ends like stretcher
carriers, leaving thousands of tons
of machinery and guns hangin? un
supported. Nothing must hreak.
The punch of a gun that kicks a
ton shell twenty miles, the more
than 100,000 horsepower heave of
the engines all must be balanced,
loreioid, and provided for.
Thirty Tons Of Bkmrint
The final result of the pencil
pushing is a set of general draw
ings which will be expanded to
cover some thirty tons of blueprint
paper, before completion. These
general drawings are send to a
building yard which may be a navy
yard, if there is space on the navy
yard ways. Or it goes to one of
the private shipbuilding companies
that have the hard-won 'know how'
experience in building a vessel of
this size.
Ihe plans come to rest in the
mold loft, a huge open room where
the outlines of the ship are laid
down tull size on the floor. Over
this floor swarms a small armv of
a . -
lottsmen, men who have spent their
uves on their knees, buildintr up
wooden templets. Templets are full
size models of every strineer. every
plate, every piece that makes a
ship's hull. These templets em
body every hole, every twist every
bend that goes into the curves of
ship.
What Make A Ship?
A ship is 93 percent steel. But
it is also copper, aluminum, lead.
sine. It it wood and cork. It is
asbestos, cement, glass, plaster, wall
board, and insulating board. It is
awnings, mattresses, and springs.
It is doors,, shutters, and window
sash. It is heating' and ventilating
equipment. And it is that little
pump, tucked away 23 feet below
the deck, that delivers three squirts
of oil every minute to ,onic vital
portion of the machinery."
When all the material for the
million and one different parts is
assembled, - construction can begin.
To see a ship being built, figure on
settling down at; the yard for two
or three' years. Building ships is
not a production line job. It is a
job involving the skills of thou
sands of men applied to putting to
gether the most complicated mov
ing object that man can build.
The job starts with 'the ceremo
nial laying of the keel, with a
frock-coated, high-hatted, white
gloved "Honorable", jack hammer
operator. .That is about the last
glimpse of the "riveting hammer,
for today more and more welding
is being used in ships. Not that a
shipyard is the quietest place on
earth, for in the order business of
the boiler shop; the hammering bell
of a travelling crane will echo the
thunder of isledge on metal, as a
hundred men beat machinery from
raw steel. In another shop, a half
thousand skilled machinists polish
steel blades of the whining tur
bines. Others polish the twenty
five foot bronze petaled flowers
that will be propellers. A roaring
torch smacks to life at a big steel
tube, a "jim crow" bender warps
it to the exact twist of a templet.
Meanwhile, on the ways, the
steel framework of the ship begins
to grow by a young forest of steel
arms reaching skyward. Six months
pass. The inch thick steel plates
begin, to. form the bottom skin of
the ship. As this covering ap
proaches the water line, it grows
heavier and heavier with eleven
inch thick blocks of shell-resisting,
specially- fabricated, heat-treated
steel going into place to stop enemy
shells. Above this point, the armor
thins down again until it reaches
the deck, where it thickens up to
catch dropping shells, dropping
bombs, and other falling metal.
The welders, the riggers, and the
Steel workers have almost disap
peared. Far down below decks the
ship painters are worming their
way through every compartment.
These are followed by the electric
ians and the plumbers, fitting the
miles of wire and more miles of
Pipe necessary to keep this floating
fortress afloat and moving, to keep
it lighted, heated, an ventilated.
She looks like a ship now. She
is ready to .launch. The shin-
wrights and carpenters have built
a cradle -under her, and she slides
down - the greased ways, into the
water, pushed by a champagne bot
tle, followed by the cheers of
friends. She is half way along the
road to being a unit of the United
States Fleet.
CATTLE SALE
Wednesday, October 9th
MARK DOWDLE BARN ON
GEORGIA ROAD
Buyers From Many Sections
BRING YOUR CATTLE
SALE STARTS PROMPTLY AT 11 O'CLOCK
SPE
25 Off
A certain lot of young men's suits,
single and double breasted blues,
greys, and brownsvery stylish.
Sizes 34 to 42
TO CLOSE OUT
WE NEED THE ROOM
25 Off
$19.95 Suit for . . . ... $14.98
$17.50 Suit for .. . . .. . .... $13.12
Get your Suit from this special lot
and save money
WE HAVE OTHER SUITS FOR
YOUR SELECTION
Joseph Ashear
"We Clothe the Family"
FRANKLIN, N. C
THURSDAY. OCTOBER 3, 1940
Mrs. Franks Leaves For
Week Of Conferences
Mrs. Eloise G. Franks, county
superintendent of public welfare,
left here Sunday to attend the fol
lowing welfare conferences and in
stitutes: Twenty-first annual public wel
fare institute, Chapel Hill, Sep
tember 29 to October 4.
Annual convention of the national
society for cripple children of the
United States of America, Inc.,
Battery Park Hotel, Asheville, Oc
tober 5 to 10.
Meeting of county welfare board
members, county superintendents of
public welfare and state board of
charities and public welfare, Ral
eigh, October 9.
Examinations For Civil
Service Positions
The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced open
competitive examinations for the
positions listed below. Applications
must be on file with the Commis
sioner's Washington office not later
than October 24- if received from
persons in states east of . Colorado,
and October 28, 1940 from persons
in Colorado and states westward.
All salaries given are . subject to
a itimmviu ueuucuon oi oyi per
cent.
City planner, $3,800 a year, Na
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission, Washington, D, C. Ap
plicants must have completed a
four-year college course in archi
tecture, civil engineering, landscape
architecture, or city planning. They
must also have had professional
and city planning experience.
Plant pathologist, $3,800 a year;
also associate, $3,200 a year ; as
sistant, $2,600 a year; associate
plant geneticist, $3,200 a year; and
assistant plant geneticist, $2,600 a
year; various .optional branches.
Employment is in the Bureau of
Plant Industry, Department of
Agriculture. Applicants "must have
had appropriate college study and
experience.
Junior engineer,. $2,000 a year.
Employment is in all branches of
engineering except aeronautical and
naval architecture and marine en
gineering. Applicants must have
course at a recognized college.
Full information as to the re
quirements for these examinations,
and application forms, may 'be ob
tained from the post office here.
Good Food
Whether a full course
dinner or a sandwich
is prepared here to suit
your taste.'
CAGLE'S CAFE!
A. G. CAGLE, Owner.
FRANKLIN. N. C.
)We Appreciate Your Patronage
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