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Established 1885 Oldest North Carolina Newspaper West of , Buncombe County m 1802 Circulation Affording Advertisers Thorough Coverage of Macon County PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL INDEPENDENT If. mm I , I I I I I I I I t Rat il I I I I'LI'J 1 :l VOL. LVI, NO. S CONGRESSMEN SEE PLANTS V Proportionate Share of Defense Industries Proposed A meeting of North Carolina's delegation in Congress, called by Senator Bailey considered pos abilities of developing , national defense industries in the state, in a move for a greater share in de iense spending. Munitions plants in the west and shipbuilding facilities on the coast were dis cussed. Efforts to locate a munitions plant in Old Fort was reported to the meeting by J. T. Anderson, of the state department of conserva tion and development representing Governor Broughton.' A site and building is reported offered. Wmtw Gin TVA Power Representative Weaver, of Ashe ville, said there were a number of sites in his mountainous district available for munitions plants, pointing out there were many pro terted vallevs and ample power. Weaver, discussing available TV A power, expressed the opinion power Kenerated at TVA dams' in North Carolina should be used for industries of that state instead of "beine shipped to Tennessee. Representative Barden of New Bern, and Bonner of Washington, outlined the advantages of their districts for shipbuilding facilities. Bailey Citm Unequal Share Bailey reiterated his belief the state was not receiving its propor tionate share. Estimating defense spending would total $25,000,000,000. he expressed doubt North Caro lina's share would exceed $250,000, 000. . He added that on the basis of population North Carolina was en titled to $640,000,000. "When the bill is paid North Carolina will pay her chare of about $700,000,000." he said. "Un less we get something like that amount, we are going to be the loser." Dr. Bellingrath Will Preach Sunday Dr. George Billingrath, president of the Rabin Gap-Nacoochee In dustrial school, wiFl deliver the sermon at the 11 o'clock Presby terian service here Sunday. The public is invited to attend. Influenza Closes Mulberry School Owing to the epidemic of in fluenza in the Mulberry commun ity, the school closed last Monday. A two teacher school, there were only 11 pupils in both rooms Monday. As The World Turns A Brief Survey of Current Events In State. Nation and Abroad. INVASION THREATENING BRITAIN Secretary of War. Stimson said that the probability of an untimate British victory would be overwhel ming if Britain survives the crisis of the expected German invasion attempt this spring and summer; He told the senate foriegn re lations committee that enactment of the lend-lease bill would go far toward stiffening the morale neces sary for Britain to survive that crisis. In addition, he said the bill wolld afford the United States a chance by that time to re-arm. BRITAIN WILL FALL WITHOUT U. S. AID Great Britain, China and Greece cannot continue to fight armed forces of the Triple Alliance un less President Roosevelt's "lend lease" bill is approved. Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgen thau, Jr., told congress. STATUS OF LEND-LEASE BILL The house foriegn affairs com mittee approved a mid 1943 time limitation and other amendments to the lease-lend bill while Secretary Stimson told a senate committee (hat the measure might save the British Navy if England fell PRESIDENT GREETS -LORD HALIFAX President Roosevelt broke all precedents when when he steamed put into Chesapeake Bay to greet Uoti Halifax new Sritits An Draft Board Receives Volunteers And Registrants i The local, board of registration announces the following additional natness of registrants received at the office" -this week; Volunteer, Billy Carl Long, Route 2, Frank lin; new registrants, George Mc Donald, Franklin and Earl Thomas Elliott, Highlands. According to Chairman Erwin W. Long, any single man,, regis tered or not registered for selec tive service training, who is over 17 years of age, wishing to vol unteer for a year's military train ing will please call at the local draft board and do so. Anyone under 21 years of age wishing to volunteer are notified to bring their parents' permission in writing with them. The local office expects the call for the next quota of registrants during the next 30 to 40 days to exceed,, the number of volunteers. So far Macon county's quota has been filled with volunteers.. Marketing Label For State Products RALEIGH, Jan. 29. A plan for increasing farm income in North Carolina through the adoption and promotion, of a broad agricultural merchandizing program and use of a proposed uniform label to denote farm products of quality was pre sented by the State Department of Agriculture Tuesday, January 28, at a meeting of growers, pack ers and others. An elaborate exhibit of merchan dizing methods and advertisement programs successfully used in the State of Maine were shown at the meeting at which Sturges Dorrance of New York City, president of a nationally - known merchandizing counsel firm, was . the principal speaker. Governor Brough ton, Senator L. V. Ballentine of Wake7"and"Kp.'L. L. Burgin of Henderson, .chairmen of the General Assembly's agricul tural committees; State College Ex tension Service officials and other state leaders attended. Commissioner of Agriculture W. Kerr Scott, commenting on the mar keting proposal, said that "obvious ly North Carolina needs and must have a broad merchandizing pro gram for agriculture if the farmers are to receive a just share of the consumer's dollar,'' Adding that "our farm products are relatively un known in the great market centers of the nation today, and in order to successfully compete wtih. pro ducts of other states and secure the appreciation of quality products grown by- our farmers, it seems most necessary that we adopt some uniform label that will attract the buyer's eye." '., bassador, who arrived riday on a British Warship. WILLKIE TOURS LONDON IN RAIDS Wendell Willkie is spending strenuous days in London, touringg ruins and bomb shelters talking to people in all walks of life, and conferring with leaders of the government while incendiary bomb ing is again resumed by Germans after a 10 days lull Willkie intends to return by plane late next week ahead of his schedlle. BRITAINS CAMPAIGN IN AFRICA On five fronts war rages in Af rica. The British have taken Italy's Libyan base of Dernia and are driving towards Benghasi.; Gen. De Guaile's "Free rench" mechan ized units and camel cavalry swept 225 miles into southern Libya, des troying the Italian garrison at the oasis of Marzuck. British air forces gave support in Eritrea and Ethiopia where Emperor Haile Se lassie is leading his former sub jects against the Italians. Italian Somaliland haj been bombed and penetrated by patrols from Kenya. Bristish colony to. the south. MET AX AS, CREEK PREMIER, DIES General John Uetaxas, Greek premier, who has directed her victorious defense, died last Tues- FRANKLIN, N. C THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1M1 Navy's New Chief Rear Admiral H. E. Kimmel was named commander-in-chief of the. United States Fleet in a sweeping' reorganization of America's sea' forces. Currently commander of the battle force, he will succeed Vice Admiral James O. Richardson. The Atlantic patrol force is being elevated to the status of a full fleet. Fine Insurance) Rating Changed Advances of 25 per cent will be made, on fire insurance rates in Franklin, where electrical defects have been established, has been announced by the N. C. Inspection and Rating Bureau at Raleigh. Notices have been received by the mayor, the city electrical in specter and fire insurance agents of Franklin from the bureau that the rates would- be increased on buildings not complying with regu lations. The owners of buildings recent ly inspected who receive notices from the inspector pointing out electrical defects are urged to have corrections made immediately so that their rates will not be ad vanced. Dr. Beecher Joins Staff Of Angel Hospital Dr. G. H. Beecher, of New York City, who came to Highlands tin first of January as a resident phy sician, has accepted a position on the medical staff at Angel hos pital. Dr. Beecher, who has had exten sive medical experience, will spe cialize in urology. He was gradu ated from the University of Wis consin in 1932 with the degree oi Doctor of Philosophy. In 1937 he was graduated in medicine from the medical scliool of McGill Uni versity in Montreal, Canada. Lions Club Holds Ladies Night The Franklin Lions celebrated "Ladies Night" last Monday eve ning, entertaining wives and guests at Panorama Courts with a de lighful dinner party. . Thad D. Bryson was toastmaster at the after dinner festivities which were enjoyed by all. One interest ing feature was a question-and-answer contest. Mrs. Jack San ders won out, standing up to the last question, Bill Johnson coming out second. A ham was auctioned off, the proceeds going to the work of the club. The music lead off with the singing of "the Star Spangled Banter", with Mrs. Ave rell presiding at the piano. Nantahala National Forest Did You Know That m The . Governor of North Carolina this month received a check from the U. S. Treasury in the amount of $14,094.53, representing one fourth the value of the timber cut from National Forest lands in North Carolina during the fiscal year ending July 1, 1940. The Nantahala National Forest contributed $8,450.64 of this total, better than one-half of the total sum, althongh the Nantahala acre age is only one-third of the total National Forest land in North Car olina. Macon county's portion of these receipts will be approximate ly $3,500.00. This money is to be used by the county . for schools and roads. Of an the timber sale receipts for timber cut on the Nantahala National Forest, one-fourth is re-' turned to the counties in the for est for roads and schools; In ad dition, 10 per cent is returned to the Forest Service for the con struction of roads and trails within the National Forest i " V" 1 I ' J ' I ? - 1 Crop And Feed Loans Now Available Here S. R. Tiffin, Jr.-, field supervisor for the emergency crop and feed loan office, announced "today that emergency crop and feed loans for 1941- . are available to farmers in Macon county and . applications for these loans are now being received in Franklin -at clerk of the super ior court's office. As in the past these loans will be made to farmers whose cash requirements are .small and who are ineligible for a loan from other sources including production credit associations. Money will be loaned to meet the applicant's necessary cash needs for preparing and cul tivating his crops or for purchasing or producing feed for livestock. Borrowers who obtain loans for production of cash crops are re quired to give as security a first lien on the crops financed and, in cases for loans for the purchasing or producing of feed for livestock. a' first lien on the livestock to be fed. Bills Passed And Pending In Assembly In Past Week In its third week, the 1941 Gen eral Assembly passed one impor tant measure, providing for con gressional redisricting, and virtu ally passed another relating to the letting of emergency highway' con tracts for national defense. Other important legislation was introduc ed featuring a number of measures dealing with transportation and transportation facilities, and in par ticular the bill to provide retire ment pensions to scliool teachers and state employees.' The highway contracts bill would permit the Highway and Public Works Commission to let Contracts for national defense highway pro jects without competitive bidding. Sent to the House Committee on Education; a 24-page bill provides both for old-age retirement and for disability pensions for teachers and state employees, to be financed through joint contributions of em ployers and employees. Highway Mmurtt Ten highway measures, many af fecting transportation, were intro duced. Perhaps the most important to local units is a bill appropriating $3,000,000 from gas tax and license tees during 1941, 1942 and mi tor highway improvements in cities and towns throughout the state. The allotment would be made on population and state highway mile age ratios, and although the money would be used primarily to improve highway streets, the balance may be applied to streets forming Con necting links- with the highway or county system, or farm-to-market roads. . Other measures related to trans portation would: place a 90-day minimum Sentence for second con victions for driving drunk or untie. the influence of narcotics ; require school bus drivers to secure cer tificates of fitness and competency from county school bus chief me chanic as well as from highway patrol ; . and, because of its value to national defense transportation, make the injuring, capturing or killing of any homing pigeon a misdemeanor. Othar Bills lataroducad A bill to provide an annual fund of $100,000 to aid and equalize pub lic library service in the state was introduced, as was one making mandatory the revocation of t he beer license of any person who sells beer to an intoxicated person. Another public act,, which would probably affect only Clay and Cherokee counties, would extenu tax exemptions enjoyed by N. C. electric membership corporations to similar out-of-state organization serving N. C towns and rural com munities, if the N. C REA finds that state companies cannot feas- bly supply the communities. First among bills of legal sig nificance is an effort to reduce the punishment for first degret burglary, first degree murder, ax son and rape from death to ' liic imprisonment, when recommended by the jury. Another measure would allow divorced women to resume the name of a prior deceased hus band, or her maiden name. In the interests of sanitation a measure was presented to dispense with the requirement that the Holy Bible be kissed in taking oaths, whUe another biHwas offered pro viding for the purchase of $20,000 worth .of pocket editions of the New Testament to be given by the state to army draftees. The Senate received a measure calling for the installation of an elevator or escalator, in the State Capitol Building, and both Houses passed a resolution ' calling attention to the week of January 23 as "Pea 8 Week." John May Dies From Auto Accident The funeral of John May, 32, of the Kyle section, who died last Friday night of a broken neck suffered in an automobile accident, was held at the Briartowh Church last Saturday afternhon. Rev. T. D. Denny officiated andburial was in the church cemetery. . The accident occurred on Thurs day night, when his automobile rolled down a 50-foot embankment near his home, landing in White Oak creek after turning over sev eral time's. -The accident was due to a slippery road, it was reported. A cousin, noy juay, wno was also in ;.. it . the car, was uninjured. The deceased was a member of the Briartown church. He was em ployed on . the Nantahala dam project. Surviving are his widow, two small children, his mother, Mrs. Mark May and four brothrs, Ebb, Carl, Grady, and Britt May. World turns Parkway Bids Asked For Six-Mile Sector Iiids on a six-mile section of the Blue Ridge Parkway .between Soco Gap and Witch (iap in;" Jack.'in and Haywood counties will be re ceived in Washington February 20, tne Highway Commission was in formed last week. The sectors in question extend through the Cherokee Indian Res ervation and their construction will mark the end of a long dispute with the Indians over right-of-way through their lands. The Highway Commission met its share of the parkway burden by settling with the Indians for $40,000 in cash and a road between Soco Can anil Cherokee. . ESTABLISHED NEW OFFICES On Account Of Fire Damage The mattress project will resume work Monday morning, February 5, in its new quarters in the'Andv Reid building near the river bridge on U. S. 23, Sam Menden hall, county farm agent, an nounced today.. Mr. Mendenhall .stated that the offices of the farm agent and his assistant, and of the AAA are doing business as usual in the Agricultural building, : since that part of the building was not dam aged by the fire that occured on January 18. FSA I Leach Building K. F. Montague, of the Farm Security Administration, announces that offices have been establish ed on the second floor of the Lcarh building over the Tavern. Home Demonstration Headqlarteri Mrs. Florence S. Sherrill is mak ing her headquarters at present in the curb market building belong ing the Macon County home de monstration clubs. The county commissioners will take early steps to repair the building as soon as insurance ad justments and other preliminaries can be settled, it was leared today. Highway Comm. Resigns Pending Reorganization Broughton Asks Assembly For Term Of 4 Years With Governor's Following the resignation last week of the state highway commis sion, Governor Broughton will ask the general assembly to reorganize the state highway and public works commission so that the terms of the chairman and members of thta body will expire with his won, it was announced Monday. The governor confirmed reports that he planned such action, but declined to state whether the pro posed reorganization would include a change in the present number of 10 highway districts. . Four-Year Terms : Under his plan, the chairman and members of the commission would be appointed for four-year terms. This would mean that in the ' future each governor would appoint his own commission, with out either legislative reorganization or the voluntary resignation of the old commission. In Broughton's case, the com mission appointed by Governor Hoey, with staggered terms of ix years, resigned voluntarily, so that he might appoint his own body. "I would not want to make ap- $1.50 PER YEAR CELEBRATION AND BENEFIT For Infantile Paralysis On President's Birthday Tonight A large crowd is expected to attend the President's , birthday party tonight at the" Panarama Courts when a square dance is plannel by the' Franklin committee. The proceeds will go to the funds for the nationwide fight against infantile paralysis under the auspices' of the National Foundation established by Presi dent Franklin D. Roosevelt. One half will go to the national fund and one half remain in the county to help local cases. In Washinton and from one end of the country to the other biirth- i day parties will be held tonight in honor of President Roosevelt's 59th birthday. The president, himself a victim of the dread "polio", will . speak over all the major networks tonight at 11;24 p. m. Screen stars from Hollywood, have arrived in Washington to at tend the ball tonight, but the President will celebrate quietly at the White House with a dinner and birthday cake. Ernest Dills Wins High Score in FFA Contest The seed judging team of the Franklin Future Farmers of Macon County won first place in a contest held at Sylva,' with Macon, Clay, Graham, Jackson, Swain and Hay wood counties competing. The team from Bethel in Hay wood County, won second place and the team from, Hayesville Clay County won third place. Ernest Dills, of Franklin, was. high " scoring boy of the contest, Ned Clark, of Bethel, was second high and Sam Ramsey, of Franklin was third high. Ariail Elected Director ' Of Jackson County Bank At the meeting last week of the board of directors of the Jackson County Bank, R. L. Ariail,' exeo tive vice-president, was added to the board of directors.. The following officers ' were elected for the ensuing year: S. W. Enloe, president; R. L. Ariail, exe cutive vice-president; E. L. McKee, . vice-president; R. W. Harris, vice president; W. J. Fisher, cashier; W. W. Bryson, assistant cashier; Thomas A. Cox, secretary; R. L. Ariail, assistant secretary. Vice-president . Ariail reported to the stockholders' meeting that the bank deposits and resourses show ed a gain of more than 23 per cent during the year, stating that deposits had increased from $991, 000 at the beginning of the yeajr to $1,253,000 at the close. The bank paid a dividend of ten per cent to the stokholders on December 10, anr ten per cent of the capital stock was added to the surplus ac , count. The Jackson County Bank has a branch bank in Highlands. ning beyond my own term," he said. "Consequently, it is my plan to ask the legislature to make the terms run for four years." "No PromiM" ' Governor Broughton .said that he had made no promises or com mitments, and that he did not ex pect to name the commission or its chairman for several months. "As a matter of fact, I haven't even made up my mind who's go ing to be on it," he added. Mentioned for the post of chair man are Senator Ben Prince of Hcndersonville, former Senator Wilbur Bunn of Wake county to succeed Frank L. Dunlap. The eastern North Carolina cham ber of commerce has urged the appointment of an easterner, stat ing that Frank Page of Raleigh, head of the first commUsion, was the only chairman who had lived in the east. Others mentioned for the, post are Commissioners T. Boddie Ward of Wilson, T. Max Watson of Spindale and Tom Wolf of Albe marle, and former Chairman Capus M. Waynick of High Point. Broughton said he had not re ceived any letters of endorsement. He added: "And I'm not asking for any." , pointments to the commission rua-
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