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THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1941 THE FRANKLIN PRESS AND THE HIGHLANDS MACON IAN PAGE SEVEN This picture was taken from a point on the Forest Service road between Kyle and the CCC camp Nantahala River. The left hand and right hand abutments of the dam may 4U ' " M f" This shows both abutments of Nantahala Dam after they have been thoroughly cleaned, preparatory to In the upper right of the picture can be seen the large power shovels and some of the Shops of the Passengers On ' .wf.. .. . Rev. and Mrs. W. K. Morrison and children, Lois and Kirkpatrick ; passengers on the Zamzam, vessel torpedoed off the coast of France. Missionaries of the Presbyterian church in the Belgian Congo, they were returning to Africa after a furlough to the U. & Mr. Morrison is the daughter of C A. SeUer of Franklin. Residence of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Bradley on Bidwell Street, buil of Needmoje itgne quarried ia Macon County, Location of Nantahala Dam Abutments The Zamzam 0 1 for Dam Mica Supply In Macon Supports Large Industry Scrap And Sheet Mica Are i Important Products In Industry The mica industry is of special importance to Macon county due to the scarcity of deposits else where. We are fortunate in hav ing both scrap and sheet mica de posits in our county. Charley Brad ley is mining the largest scrap mica deposit in the United States. Mr. Bradley has been in the min ing business here sine 1935. Re cently he has equipped his mines with modern machinery so that processes which were done for many yeart by hand are now all done by machinery. Over 75 per cent of the nation's supply of scrap mica is found in North Carolina, and in the past five years Macon county has produced approximate ly $250,000 worth of this. We are assured of a market for the scrap mica due to the develop ment of a mica processing plant. The Franklin Mineral Product Company, Inc. here. This concern is one of six, in the entire world which produces water ground mica products. L. H. Page, manager, states that several new products have been developed by his con cern which are nsed ia connection wiU the caking, of pigments for near Aquone, looking down the be seen. i 1 actual construction of the dam. Utah Construction Company. oil paints. Over $400,000 worth of mica products have been handled by this firm in the past ten year& At the present time the loss of foreign markets has decreased the demand for scrap mica, but this is not true of sheet mica. SbMt Mica The sheet mica phase of the mica industry is enjoying the high est prices since 1918, according to Phil S. Hoyt, local mining engi neer, and is enabling Macon coun ty to become a vital factor in the nation's defense program. Sheet mica is very necessary in the man ufacturing of eletrical applicances of all tynes. The present high prices are due to the large de mand caused by the rearmament program and the removal of oar chief competitor India from the market due to war conditions. While no new mines have been opened recently, the rise in price has enabled local mining, concerns to utilize expensive machinery in reclaiming several mines. Two of these are the Bowie and the Wayah mines. Worth Carolina produces over one-half of the nation's supply of sheet mica and Macon county con tributes a large amount of this mineral which is pa the defense priority lijt, Power Company Brings r Progress To This Area Boys In Macon Camps Have Plenty To Do By MRS. CHARLES MELICHAR Do yoa happen to know a CCC DoyTTTien maybe he's already given you a pretty good picture of what his day in camp is like. If not, you've probably wondered just what sort of a life he does lead way off there in- the woods. Well, his day starts a 6 o'clock in the morning when a whistle blows. That is, it starts then . un less he's a cook. In that case he's up by four or five in the morning. You'd be too, if you had as many hungry men to feed as he does! Fancy all sitting there at long tables starving. None of your sissy appetites go with camp life. Break fast means fruit, cereal,, bacon, eggs, biscuits and 'Vhat have you." The cooks are good cooks, too. When they were assigned to their job they were sent to some place like Fort MacPherson where, there is a good cooking school. These CCC boys will make some girls swell husbands! And think of it, they actually pick up their own clothes and make their own bunks ! That's in the 15 or 20 minutes fol lowing breakfast. . Tin. Dy'i Work There is a roll call at 8 .o'clock and jobs are assigned for the day. Trips to work are -made in big tarpaulin covered trucks lined with benches. No standing up in a CCC truck, that's against safety rules. And are the men in charge strict about those rules! They won't even allow tools or gasoline to be carried in the same truck as the fellows are. There are safety meet' ings held often, too, just to be sure that nobody forgets what's what about those rules. And every job is inspected once a week to be sure that none of those rules are being broken. If they are, and something happens it's just too bad for somebody. A job lasts six hours, there's an hour for dinner, and in eight hours from the time of leaving camp in the morning the boys are back again. They clean and dress for supper and after a full day of work in the open you may be sure there had better be plenty to eat. Twice a week after supper there are organized recreation trips, and that, girls, is where your date comes in. The boys are brought to town in special trucks-with a man in charge just to be sure no one has too good a time and gets left behind! While they're in town, though, the fellows can do as they please; the time is their own. Other evenings in camp can be spent as they like in the recreation hall where there is a library, bil liard tables, and once-a-week mov ies. Oh, there is plenty to do. In the evenings there are education al classes in readin', 'ritin' and 'rithmetic and first aid, and now since National Defense is under way, if a boy is ambitious he can learn welding, machine work, etc. Saturday afternoons and Sundays (church services on Sunday morn ings) there are organized athletics, basket ball in the winter, baseball in the summer. It's a full day, full of .man's work and man's play. Lights blink out at 9:30. ' Price - supporting measures for poultry, dairy products, pork prod ucts, and vegetables will be con tinued through June 30, 1943, ac cording to a U. S. Department of Agriculture announcement. Riverview Inn One of Franklin's Matchless View of The Best Food from. WRITE FOR RATES MRS. W. H. SELLERS Franklin, N. C Household Use Trebled . And Rates Reduced 50 Per Cent In the past ten' years great prog ress has been made in the develop ment and utilization of our almost unlimited resources.- ior nyaro-eiec-tric power. In 1933 the Nantahala Power company purchased the local power' plant .from the town of Franklin. Since that time there has been' a steady growth of the use of electric power in Macon coun ty. In 1934 a line' was built from the plant at Franklin to reinforce the supply of electric power for the town of Highlands and vicinity. In 1937 the main office of, the Nan tahala Power company was trans-' ferred here from Bryson City, in creasing the regular personnel from 14: to 21. This also enabled- the company to give a more complete service and electric ' appliances. Indicative of the service the Nanr tahala Power company ha,s' render ed to the community are the fol lowing facts. The number of resi dential' customers has increased from 213 in 1933 to 684 in 1941, showing a 221 per cent increase in eight years. During the same period of years the rate per killo watt hour has been reduced from seven cents to, three and one-half cents. In addition seventy-five miles r I I..- I- 1 or rural electric power lines nave been built in the county in the past eight years. ' At the present time the com pany has a large dam under con struction at Nantahala. Looking in to the future, two great advan tages which this will give Macon county are ' an assurance of an ample power supply for future in dustrial development and a 1600 acre -lake at Aquane which will add greatly to our recreational and scenic attractions. . , Potts, Father And Sons Are True Craftsmen Among its industries Franklin can boast one that is both unique and far-famed. In the heart of town, in a long frame building filled with machines, sawdust and woodshavihgs, Mr. J. E. Potts spends his days with his two sons, Paul and Troy, making fine furni ture. , The out-put of this shop is small as factories consider quantities, but the three men are kept busy with all the odreds they can hand le. The fame, of their craftsman ship has spread far and wide and examples of their work are dis tributed throughout a number of states. ' f For fifty years Mr. Potts, the elder, has been making furniture for residents of Franklin and the surrounding countryside, and for twenty years he has been in his present shop. His wife is proud today of the furniture he . made for her before their marriage.. The men are true artists in this woodcraft. Simplicity is the keynote of their design, that simplicity which, through- fine proportion, achieves elegance and grace. Their craftsmanship is as fine as their artistry and drawers of their cab inets slide in and out at a touch. The men love the things they build; perhaps that is why each article has a beauty all its own. Their cabinets, chests, bookcases and bedroom furniture grace more and more homes of both Franklin and Highlands. The caskets they .make for residents of the county that is their home are labors of love. Foremost Inns Little Tennessee River Owner's Farm
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