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BIBLE THOUGHT
God '.created man in his ,wn .'image, in the .image of God created
he him. Genesis 1:27.
i . THE WORTH OF THE INDIVIDUAL.
A belief in the worth aiid ..capacity of the common man is a
'spiritual support to democratic institutions ." . . th,e Christian .sense
of the worth aiid saf redness of human life has been a great stabil
izer of civil liberty Walter Kauschcnbusch. .
The Chamber Of Commerce
GENUINE community effort last year resulted
jn a Chamber of Commerce in Franklin that
.'made rich returns for the -voluntary efforts and
generous contributions of a large group of citizens.
When the results are reviewed, it is gratifying to
all who shared in this (.effective work to see how
"much was .accomplished with the limited funds at
the disposal of the board of directors.
This, of course, was made possible by the hard
work of a few, whose services were freely given,
and whose only reward is the appreciation of the
people of Franklin which has been expressed by
many who have shared in the benefits.
The chamber of commerce is a civic enterprise in
which every citizen can cooperate. This year, as
never before, When the strength of the nation is
being tested, there is fresh impetus given to work
ing together in. every unit of population. A chamber
of commerce will perform a very limited service if
it is regarded merely as a board tof trade promoted
by and for business.
A cooperative .-service, by, for and of the people,
is the ideal for such an enterprise, and the success
ful working extends to all in much greater dividends
of friendliness, good will and mutual helpfulness
than can be estimated in dollars and cents.
Last year's permanent investment in the informa
tion booth and folders are a tribute to the present
board of directors and their committees, making a
basis upon which more extensive activities can be
carried out this year.
This year, with additional memberships and con
tinued work, 8 the moving spirits expect to "put
Franklin on the map" in a big way.
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Letters to Editor
Defense Begins At Home
THE Student Work program of the National
. Youth Administration, like the CCC camps, is
a youth conservation effort of the government that
has been accepted by foes a"s well as friends of the
present administration, receiving wholehearted sup
port from state and county units.
' Carried on within the schools, student aid has
not been conspicuously in the public eye, Yior does
the public know, except in a vague way, whom it
aids and by whom it is administered.. .
Some disturbing information coming to us that
Macon county was not cooperating to obtain this
aid, we set out to learn some facts. Here are some.
The student work of'NYA is not connected in
any way with other NVA work projects. It is an
outright gift to the schools of the country to en
able young people between the ages of 16 and 25
years to attend school who could not do so with-
out some financial help. Students are selected on
the basis of proven need and scholastic ability
students in Macon county come from families
whose income is only a few hundred dollars a year.
For a certain number of hours of work they re
ceive from $3.00 to $6.00 a month. This year's al
lotment to Macon county, administered through
-the state olhce in Raleigh, is $2,40, and has aided
more than SO boys and girls.
The work goes directly to the schools' benefit
clerical help, service in lunch rooms and improve
ment of property are some of the projects. In most
of the schools aided in the county, the principal
gives supervision and checks time. It involves con
siderable work.
But an amazing bit of information comes out of
Raleigh that an exception has to be made of Macon
county to enable these 80-odd young people to get
this allotment at all, because Macon does not con
form to the federal requirement that student aid
be administered by the county superintendent of
education.
These are facts that the taxpayers, parents and
other citizens are entitled to know. If President
Roosevelt's goal for all people is to include freedom
from want, none must be doomed to ignorance
because of poverty, when there is a way out..
.The government has committed itself to conser
vation and improvement of human beings as well
as of soil and trees and livestock. If a program of
national defense is to be effective in Macon county,
here is a good place to begin. We had better find
out how many through no fault of their own
have had no chance to learn, and set about to see
that every child, big and little, as well as every
adult, gets a fair chance.
Wayriesvilk, N. C.
March 25, 1941
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Editor of The Franklin Press:
Too many of our officers v are
taking the law into their own
hands, and only try to enforce
those "self-made" law, that best
suits them. This 'type' officer has
no regard for the public which
they are supposed to. serve and
protect, but - instead, as in an in
stance that . came close , home' to
nve, they endanger the lives of our
people.
Two of ray truck drivers, re
turning from Birmingham, over
Cow.ee mountain, had .several hun
dred dollars on them from the
sale of apples. On the lonely road,
a car approached from the rear
and began waving a light. My
drivers had every reason to be
lieve that a hold-up was in pro
gress, so proceeded to hide the
cash behind the heater in the truck
and kept going. The steep grade
made it necessary for them to go
in second gear at the rate of 15
miles an hour, thus giving a fast
er -vehicle an opportunity to pass.
After a short distance, pistol
shots began . to ' ring in their ears.
This gave further evidence of
hold-up, so they bent every effort
to get to a house and houses
are few and far between on Co wee
mountain. Hoping to get to a
house, the drivers felt the occu
pants of the. house might render
aid.
As bullets: pierced a tire, the
truck stopped at th,e house the j
drivers, had sighted. Along side
the truck a black sedan drove up
and out stepped two men High
way Patrolman Ed Guy and Chief
of Police C. D. Baird, both of
Franklin.
Ihe officers (if such tactics
warrant a man being called an of
ficer) threatened to put my two
men in jail for hot having stopped
when the light was waved at them
further down the mountain. Bryson
Beck, the truck driver, replied
that he had no reason to stop
merely at the waving of a light
behind him on a lonely mountain
road at 2 o'clock in the morning.
The officers- then said they had
blown the siren: When my driver
requested them to blow it then,
and when they attempted, the siren
would not make a sound. The oc
cupants of the house were th.cn
on the scene, having been awak
ened by the firing, but said they
had not heard a siren blow.
My driver said he would liave
stopped if he had heard a siren,
or recognized the car as a patrol
car.
The facts are, the officers were
not in a state patrol car; had no
siren or other symbol of authority
to identify themselves as officers.
A 32x6 10 ply tire was ruined
and Bryson Beck and Noel Hill
were put in great fear for their
lives.
rDruary e i went to franklin
to contact the officers. I did not
seek compensation for the expen
sive tire which was utterly ruined.
but went for the purpose of civ
ing light to the acts of men who
are entrusted by the public and
their .superiors to enforce the
laws of our land.
The officers were told that the
matter would be dropped without
retribution for the tire, or with
out making any charges against
them, if they would make a state
ment of the exact facts of the
occurrence to their superiors and
sign a statement to that end for
publication in The Franklin Press.
The two officers agreed to do
this, and went to the home of
Mayor Harrison, of Franklin, and
told him they were guilty of an
assault upon two innocent men
who had not, and did not break
any law.
Chief of police Baird .said he
would sign such a statement as
Patrolman Guy would cive The
Press for publication.
My truck driver and I accom
panied Patrolman Guy to the news
paper office and there he "gave
the facts of the incident for oub-
lication.
After we left town the officers
went to the newspaper, to wt r
LEGAL ADVERTISING
for attorney fees and costs; which
summons is returnable on the 21
day of April, 1941, before said
Harley Rv Cabe, Clerk of the bu
perior Court of Macon County ( at
his office at Franklin, North Car
olina.
The defendants and each of them
will .also take notice that a war
rant of attachment was issued in
said cause by said Court on the
15th day of March, 1941, against
the property of said defendants,
which warrant . is returnable be
fore the .said Court at the time
and place above named for the
r.eturn of the summons.
And the defendants will further
take notice that they are required
to . appear -'at the office of the
Clerk of the Superior Court of
said County at the Court House in
Franklin, North Carolina, and an
swer or demur to the complaint
in said action or the plaintiff will
apply to the Court for relief de
manded therein. ;
'This 19th day of March, 1941.
HA RLE Y R. CABE, :
Clerk Superior Court
Macon County, North Carolina.
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informed, and instructed them not
to publish the statement just giv
en them.
We learned from the officers'
that they were looking for a fugi- j NOTICE OF SUMMONS
tive. Neither of th,e men in my ; North Carolina,
truck were ..fugitives, nor had they Macon Cctanty.
broken any law. Had one of -the j ,n Supwior Court
nlfic(r httlltt lfillj.il nnp fi .tnv i J
men, then what? An innocent' man
fired upon by a law enforcement
officer.
vs.
. Three bullets were" taken from
the truck of the blunt nose type.
Such instances as this makes one
feel that we would be better off
without having any officers at all.
or the public ..will '-automatically
arm' themselves . for protection
against these' uniformed cowardly
vandals. If so, what will be the
result in this "land of the free"?
Yours truly,
RICHARD M. BARBER, Jr.
BRYSON BECK, Truck Driver
NOEL HILL, Assistant.
Attached Statement
On February 2nd 1, James R.
Browning, heard shots and got up.
I had been awake for more than
one hour when the shooting be
gan, and there never was a siren
blown, and Mr. Beck stopped the
truck in my yard and 1 heard him
ask. the officers to blow the siren
and it wouldn't blow.
: (Signed) James R. Browning
Officers Discover
Whiskey kIn Barn
Deputy Sheriff John Dills and
Ed (iuy, patrolman for Macon
county, found two and one-half
gallons of non-tax paid whiskey in
the barn of Ray BufTell on Satur
day afternoon.
Burrell, who lives about three miles
south of Franklin on the Georgia
road, as arrested for having the
whiskey un his possession. A two-
hundred dollar bond was posted
for his appearance at a hearing
set tor .Saturday afternoon, before
Judge George Carpenter.
Andy Haskett ; Francis C. Cary ;
O. E. Lawrence; Ellis C. Soper
and wife, Larry Soper '
Th,e Defendant, Andy Haskett,
will take notice that an action en
titled as above, has been com
menced in the Superior Court of
Macon County, North Carolina, for
the purpose of foreclosing a tax
lien on property in Macon County
North Carolina, and in which the
defendants have an interest, and
are proper parties thereto. .
It kS further ordered by the
court that the defendant, Andy
Haskett, is required to appear at
the office of the Clerk of the
Superior Court of Macon County,
North Carolina, at his office in
Franklin, on the 28 day of April
1941, and answer or demur to tiic
complaint of the plaintiff, or the
relief demanded in said complaint
will be granted. ,
This the 26 dav of March, 1941.
HARLEY R. CABE,
Clerk Superior Court
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LEGAL ADVERTISING
EXECUTRIX NOTICE
Having qualified as executrix of
VV. A. Norton, deceased, late of
Macon county, N. G, this is to
notify all persons having claims
against the estate of said deceased
to exhibit them to the undersigned
on or before the 22 day of March,
1942, or this notice will be plead
in tar of their recovery. All per
sons indebted to said estate will
please make immediate settlement.
This 22nd day of March, 1941.
BESS N. STEWART,
' Executrix
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NOTICE OF SUMMONS
AND
WARRANT OF ATTACHMENT
State of North Carolina
County of Macoa
In To Superior Court
Fred Mincey, for himself, and as"
Agent for Beulon Holland, Newell
Pcndergrass, Wymer Young, Al
fred Teem, William Berry, Hunter
Young, Lawson Shook, Wihdle
Moore, Edison Arnmons, Tom L.
Henry, Charlie Moore, Fred Rog
ers. Roy Cantrell, Leslie Young
led Higdon, Lester Mincey. Pau
Higdon, Alex Ammoas, Grayson
Higdon, J. L. Crisp, Eldon Cog-
gins, Walter, Young, A. II. Cog
gins, Lyman Corbin, John Price,
Fred Buchanan, Owen Ammcuis,
frank tnsp and Luther Stcwman,
Flaintiff.
vs.
Francis C. Cary and Cary Miner
als Company, Defendants.
The defendants above named and
each of them will take no tic that
a summons in the above entitled
action was issued against said de
fendants on the 8th day of March.
19. by Harley R. Cabe, Clerk of
the Superior Court of Macon Coun
ty, North Carolina, in an action
by the plaintiff and against the
defendants, as above entitled, which
cause of action is for the reioverv
of Eight Thousand, On- Hundred
and 85100 ($8,100.85) Dollars in
unpaid wages and overtime com
pensation, for labor and wrrk per
formed, and due under the pro
visions of the Fair Labor Stan
dards Act of 1938, and an addi
tional sum of Eight Thousand, One
Hundred and 85100 (tS.100.85)
Dollars, a liquidated damages, and
NOTICE OF SALE
State of North Carolina,
County of Macon.
Macon County, Plaintiff.
vs. ,.N
Henry Gibson
(as H. L. Gibson heir), Defendant.
Under and by virtue of a decree
of the Superior Court of Macon
County entered in the above en
titled action on the 17th day of
.March, 1941, the undersigned Com
missioner will on the 21st day of
April, 1941, at 12 o'clock, noon, at
the Courthouse door in . Macon
County, North Carolina, sell to the
highest bidder for cash the follow
ing described real estate:
An undivided 39 interest in the
following:
Adjoining the lands of T. M
Angel and others, bounded as fol
lows, viz : BEGINNING at a white
oak at the road, runs S. 15 E. 11
poles to a black oak; then S. 30
U. 37 poks to a stake; then E.
56 poles to a post oak: then S.
40 E. 74 poles to a hickory; then
IV 41 L. 82 poles to a sourwood
on top of a ridge; then N. 27 W.
with the meanders of the top of
the ridge 62 poles to. a black oak;
then Westerly with the meanders
of the ridge 72 poles to a white
oak at the road; then with the
road 20 poles to a persimmon ; then
with the road 50 poles to the BE
GINNING, containing 60 acres,
more or less.
ALSO a roadway to pass throueh
this tract of land, passing his
house out by. the fence to the
main road.
This, the 17th day of March, 1941.
R. S. JONES. Commissioner
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LEGAL ADVERTISING
NOTICE OF SALE
State of North Carolina, -County
of Maoon.
Macon County, Plaintiff.
' vs. . I
Maria Zachary; Hal Zachary and
wife, Nora Zachary; Ruth Porter
and husband, J. D. Porter; Agnes
Higgins and husband. Harry Hig
gins, Defendants.
Under and by virtue of a decree
of the Superior Court of Macon
Countv entered in the above en
titled action on the 17th day of
March, 1941, the Undersigned Com
missioner will on the 21st day of
April, 1941, at 12 o'clock, noon, at
the Courthouse door in Macon
County, North Carolina, tfe.ll to the
highest bidder for cash the follow
ing described real, estate:
FIRST TRACT: Adjoining the
lands of Frank Holand, Noah Jol
lay, Tom McGuire, the U. S. Gov
ernment and Higdon and others,
bounded ' as follows, to-wit : The
above lands entirely surrounding
approximately 156 acres and con
sisting of part of th,e ,C. C. Smith
lands and part of the Dills and
Holland lands purchased by J. M.
Russell by the said Dills and Hol
land and one-half undivided inter
est in what is known as the All
man tract in that portion of said
Allnian tract surrounded by the
first two tracts above described
and the adjoining land abov.e men
tioned, and all of said lands lying
between Frank Holland land on
East and Tom McGuire and the
U. S. Government on the West,
and Noah Jolly land on the North,
and the Higdon and U. S. Gov
ernment lands' on the South, anil
being all the tracts of land and
parts of tracts of . land known as
the White Oak Flat.?. It is ex
pressly understood that one-half
interest in the Allman tract above
mentioned is owned by Frank
Moss and consists of about 40
acres, and same is not included in
this description. Also excepting
one-half undivided mineral inter
est in the C. C. Smith tract above
mentioned.
SECOND TRACT: Adjoining the
lands of G. G. Sanders and others,
bounded as follows : BEGINNING
at a hickory near the top of the
mountain th.it divides the w-ater
of Hickory Knoll from that of
Nickajack, runs with the top of
the mountain S. 80 E. 30 poles to
locust stake, onc.e a Spanish oak
and the two corners of State
Grant 2991; then S. 37 E. 70 poles
to a chestnut oaR; then N. 57 E.
27 poles to a water oak in the be
ginning line of State Grant 2991 ;
then said lin.e N. 45 -W; 59-M poles ,
to a locust ; then S. 80. W, 70 poles
to the BEGINNING, containing
38J4 acres, more or less.
This, the 17th day of March, 1941.
R. S. JONES, Commissioner
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NOTICE OF SALE
State of North Carol!,
County i Macon.
Macon County, Plaintiff,
vs.
Henry Gibson, Defendant.
Under and by virtue of a decree
of the Superior Court of Macon
NOTICE OF SALE
SUU of North Carolina,.
County of Macon.
Macon' County, Plaintiff,
vs.
Eula Carpenter and husband, E. J.
Carpenter, Defendants.
Under and by virtue of a decree
of the , Superior Court of Macon
County entered in the above .en
titled action on the 17th day of
March, 1941, the undersigned Com
missioner will on the 21st day of
April, 1941, at 12 o'clock, noon, at
the Courthouse door in Macon
County, North Carolina, sell to the
highest bidder for cash the follow
ing described real estate:
Adjoining the lands of Herman
Dean, George Dean, John Dean
and others, bounded as follows, to
wit: BEGINNING at a stone corn
er in Herman Dean's line on top
of the big ridge it being George
Dean's N. W. corner, runs S. 13
h. 20.9 poles to a Spanish oak ;
then S. 6 V. 82 poles to a black
oak ; then S. 31 Yi W. 4 poles to a
black oak; then S. 41J4 W. 16.5
poles to a sourwood; then S. 17
W. 9.2 poles to a black oak: then
S. 3dYt E. 8 poles to a Spanish
oak; then S. 2 E. 9.3 poles to the
center of Highway No. 286; then
S. 2 E. 12.3 poles to a sycamore
on the bank of the river, George
Dean's S. W. corner; thence down
the river with its, meanders to a
maple," an iron pipe, a corner of
John Dean and the Tallassee Pow
er Company; runs N. 69 VV. 21
poles to a black oak ; then N. 41
W. 14 poles to a white oak; then
N. 49 W. 18 poles to a Spanish
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wou,,,, cntcreo in tne aoove to- oak; then N. 25 W. 9', poles to
a chestnut; then N. 4 E. 18 poles
titled action on th. 17ih A- t I
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March, 1941. the undersigned Com
missioner will on the 21st day of
April, mi, at 12 o'clock, noon, at
the Courthouse door in Macon
County, North Carolina, sell to the
highest brdder for cash the fof
lowing described real estate :
Adjoining the lands of M. N.
Angel and others, bounded as fol-
IOW.S, to-wit: BEGINNING on a
white oak on the South side of
the road and on ton of a ridae
west of Henry Gibson's house, runs
then S. 18 E. 12J poles to a sour
wood; then S. 32 W 16 poles to
a chinquapin; in tWhson's old line;
then N. 22 W. 15 poles to a
Spanish oak; then N. 20 V. 15
poles to a Spanish oak on the
bank of the road: then with said
road N. 86 E. 17 roles to thr BE
GINNING, containing 2 acre, more
or less.
This, the 17th day of March. 1941.
R. S. JONES. Commission tt
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to a black oak; then N. 27 W. 21
poles to a black oak; then N. 17
W. 20 poles to a small poplar;
then N. 7 VV. 29)i pole to a stake
in Highway No. 286; runs then S.
&24 E. 146 poles to a atone in
Herman Dean's line, witnessed by
a black oak; then S. 47 E. 6.9
poles to a black oak; then S. 68
E. IL6 poles to a black oak; then
S. 76 E. 20.7 poles to a white oak ;
then N. 6S E. 18 poles to a pine;
then N. 51 E. 17.5 poles to a
white oak on a knob: then S.
62J4 E. 82 poles to a stone in a
gap; then N. 85 F, 26J poles to
k stone, the BEGINNING, the last
calls run with Herman Dean's east
boundary line, containing 80 acres.
more or less. Embracing parts of
Sections Nos. 22 and 23 and narts
of the other tracts, ee Book E,
pages ya and 99.
This, the 17th day of March, 1941.
R. S. JONES. Commiccinnrr
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