Pb* ISjighlan^s: Baconian U.S. WAR BONOS PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL INDEPENDENT * VOL. LVIII? NO. 5 FRANKLIN, N. C., THURSDAY, FEB. 4, 1M3 N. C. Weekly Roundup CARRY THAT .CARL)? All North Carolina ii\en between the ages of 18 and 45 who are subject to class ification under the Selective Ser vice Act are (notified that after Feb. 1 they will be required to carry classification as well as registra tion cards at all times. Failure to do so may result in prosecution in the Federal courts, and the res|>Qnsibility of securing a class ification card ? which states tliia4 the registrant l>as been placed in 3- A, 1-A, 4-F or whatever it may be ? f?sts with tike individual. If for any reason (lie lias not re ceived a classification card, or lias lost the one sent him, he should immediately tell his local board. WARNING? Automobile owners are da-utioned this week that much damage may result from tihe use of an ti- freeze solutions con taining chloride and other salts. Materials being used in some anti freeze solutions corrode parts of the auto engine, water pump and radiator, Presence o not use aluminum) and allowing it to boil slowly on a stove until tlhe liquid has evapor ated. A substantial residue of salt provides evidence that the com pound is a brine solution which should be removed from the rad iator. OPE'N FOR REPAIR ? Good rvews to all fanners in North Carolina is a new amendment of the War Production Board raising the quota lor the production of repair pats fror f&rni machinery from 130 per cent of the average annual net sales of repair parts during 1940 and 1W1 to 160 percent. WPB says the change is the result of its iVfemrinattofl thiM adquate sup plies of repair parts be available for farmers in 1943, particularly since the production of new ma chinery has been drastically cur tailed. It is expected that every madhine on a farm that can be used to advantage will be repaired and put into good working con dition, and to accomplish this, more than ordinary quantities of repair ports ore being made avail able. NO SANTA CLAUSE TODAY Any North Carolina employer who pays the 5 percent Victory Tax on behalf of his employees, without deducting it from their pay en velopes, mu?4 first obtain priority approval mrtn the War Labor Board, for WLB has ruled that tlw tax payment by the employer constitutes a wage or salary in crease, and thus requires approval under wage and salary stabtfcea tion.. NO RIDEiRS! ? North Carolina has responded in an exrremely sat isfactory manner to the ban on pleasure driving, according to tUe State Office pf Price Administra tion. A survey shows an over-all drop of about AS peroent on State highways since the ban went into effect. As a result, depot wagons, backboards and buggies whirh haven't seen the-4ight of day sinre 1915 ore now almost becoming a common sight aepin on country roads and suburban streets. IT'S GOT TO BE GOOD, OR ELSE I ? Any person who buys a Jicw car or truck can Test assur ed tl?M his purchase is going to be in good running order, for the War Production Board ihow re quires that ?he vehicle receive s|>ecial conditioning prior to being turned over to the purchaser for use. 1*1 addition, OPA requires the seller to furnish a certificate stat ing that pre -deii very operations have been performed and also furnish the purchaser with a copy of the check-list showing that the work has been done. FUNDAMENTAL* .ASSISTANCE ? Farmers who have been some what concerned about the restric tions on the sale of rubber boots and rubber work shoes have been given some enpotuogement by the State OPA n#iich says: "Because their work has to do with supply ing food ? which is the home {font's amunition ? we tMMtt the farmers of the State to realize .they will be given every consideration by the local War Price and Ration ing Boards." Pvt. Wade McConnell is ?ww ?UfeMd at Fort Jackaon, S. C. Point Rationing Explained By The Block Leader* Miss Gladys Maxwell 'has been appointed Director of the Citizen's Service Corps which will under take the work of instructing homes in point rationing amd kidred prob lems resulting from war regulation of food ajid other commodities. This organization is part of the Civilian Defense, and will be sed largely of wiv.es of the war dens as block leaders. This group will be permanent for the duration, and will serve whenever it is nec essary for housewives and others to have information or assistance in regard to rationing and kin* dred problems. Miss Maxwell states that full plains of the block lead ers will be outlined next week. Classifications Given By Local Board For Selective Service The Local Board has announced the following classifications of reg is* rants: In I-A: Joseph B. Hoglen, Don Marsliall Cat*e, Zebulon Wilburn Canley, Jr., J. D. Beasley, Andrew Garhnd May, John David Leath erwood, James linton Smith, Claude Wayne Holland, James Wilmer Passmore, R. L. Gregory, Zeb Weaver Lakey, Herman Pernell Sorrells, Frank Baldwin ; In II-C : J. D. Dayton ; in 4-F, George Robert Rochester and Geo rge Clifford Arrant. The following were re-classified : From 4-F ta 3-A, George Mc Donald, colored ; from 3-A to IV-H, Charles Alexander Williams; from 4-F to I-A, David Marion Sanders and Berton Arthur Corp ening; from II-A to I-A, Morris Edison Gibson; from 3-A to IIA, Roy Wheeler Morton; from I-A to 11-A, Claude Siler Waldropp. Dor man Dale Gibson. The following were rejected at the Induction Station, from the January 8 call, and placed in 4-F : Melvin Alfred Cody, Harold Gor don Woody, Jesse Lyle West, Jr., Johnnie Lawton Talley, John San ders, Hunter Pritchard Roland, Charlie Bingham, William St*ll Baughn, Pulaslca Sylvester Castle The following were accepted from the January 8 call and are ptaced in I-C: Charles Otto Ar vey, Don Owenby, Joseph Bernard Hen son, George Lyman McCon nell, Joe Glenn Meadows, William Porter Pierson, Eugene Norman Clampitt, Cecil Poindexter, Euell Cordell Owens, Arnold Lee Pass more, Frank D. Shultr, Oscar Janie# Ledford, Charles Emmet t Roper, Robert Lawson Carpenter, Jr, George Lee Guffey, Fred Gar kand Duvall, Willard Jesse Moody, Frank Alex Gibson, Hayes Eugene Houston, Jess Willard Johnston, Robert Haywood Frazier, J. B. Franklin Anderson, Frank Soles bee, Jack Harvey Head, Horry Jackson Duvall, Arthur Allen Tur pin, James Har grave Ptarridh, Dock Levi Chile, Jr., Roy Lee Jones, Joe Mashbum, Harry Haworth Hedden, Canary Franks, Warren G. Owcnfcy, Nelson Jones, Julian Bun Kiser, Wayne Reginald Van hook, Wallace B. Shepherd, Char les Radford Owens, Charlie Wade Ro|?er, Earl Moody once, John L. Angel, Ralph Monroe Henson, Al bert Nathan Panmngton, Maurice Edward Norton, Carl Herbert Owenby, Arvel William McCall. Gene Cabe, 9 Succombs To Long Illness Gent R. Cabe, nine-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Weaver Oabe, died at hit home Sunday morning, January 31. He had been ill for a year with heart trouble. Every thing possible was done to save the life of this beautiful boy. .The hereaved family have the sympa thy of the entire community. Funeral services were held Tues day morning, February 2, at 11 o'clock at the Holly Springs Bap tist Church. The Rev. Robert W. Williams read the service ; tie was assisted by the Rev. Dt. J. L. Stokes, II. Burial took place in ithe church cemetery. Hi* pall-bearers were H. D. Cor bin, Jr., Qarenc* Corbin, Arthur Cabe, and Robert Cabe. Surviving are the parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. Weaver Oabe; four sisters, Bertha, Iris, Shirley, and Akin, who m a member of the WAVES and is stationed in N*w Orleans; and four brothers, James, Arthur, Earl, end Ernest Cabe. Bryant funeral directors made the funeral arrangement*. GEORGE SLAGLE RITES AT HOME Franklin Citizen Pum After A Brief Illness George McPherson Skagle, 73, died at his home it 12:15 o'clock Friday morning, January 29, and final rites were held at the home at 11 o'clock Saturday morning. The Rev. A. Rufus Morgan, sec tor of St. Agnes Episco|*tl church assisted by the Rev. J. L. Stolces II, of the Mefhodist church, con ducted . the service. Burial was in the Franklin cemetery. Mr. Slagle was a life-long resi dent of Macon county, the son of El am and Amanda Crawford Slagle, and was born at the ok) family home on Wayah road, on4 of the oldest and most beautiful farm tomes in the coirvty, oil April 13, 18 tf). The place is now occupied by a sister, Miss Slagle. He was a member of the Franklin Presbyterian church. Mr. Slagle was married on Octo ber 8, 1909, .to Miss Rosadell Holmes of Newman, (in. He was always devoted to his home, whioh is one of the attractive farms on the outskirts of Franklin. He also engaged in the lumber business. For the last few years his health has not been robust, but he was not seriously ill until after suffer ing from a case of flu since last Thanksgiving, after which he had a heart attack and spent some days in the hospital. Surviving art his widow and five ohildren ; George M., Jr., of Frank lln. Miss Alice Slagle of Franklin, Mrs. Claude Bolton, of Modesto, Calif., Mrs. Thomas A. Fagg, of Franklin, and John R. Slagle, of Nantahala; three grandchildren; one brother, Thomas M., of Franklin, Rt. 1, and one sister. Miss Anne Stagle. -Mrs. Jane P. Justice - 92, Dies On Tesenta Mrs. Jane P. Justice, 92, a resi dent of Macon County for n*a.ny years died at live home or her son, Vance Justice, iw the Tesenta section of the county, Friday tnoniuig at 8 o'clock. Mts. Justice, a great grand mother, had been ill for severed months. Two works ago she fell and fractured her hip. She was the widow of Samuel H. Justice, a confederate veteran, who died 18 years ago. Mrs. Jus tice was a member of th,e Tesenta Baptist church. Funeral services were held at the Tesenta, Methodist church Sat urday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The Rev. John Baty of Highlands of ficiate!; burial was in the church cemetery. Surviving are four children : Vance and Horace, of Tesenta, Mrs. Lelia Lewis of Walhalla, S. C, and Mrs. Montgomery Rus sell, of Highlands. Mrs. Justice leaves seven grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, and three great -great-grandchildren. The pallbearers were C. S. Calx, Lloyd Justice, Osaar Carpenter, Lynn Stiwinter, Everette Patter son, and Mann Norto.n. POLIO DRIVE NOT COMPLETE Chairman Shope Reports Quota Of $348.00 Lake V. Shope, chairman of the Infantile Paralysis Fund for Ma con oounty, reports that bit is gratified by the interest and re sponse o i citizens, and that the county quota of $348.00 is in sight when all reports and collections come in. Already receipts from Fnuiklin total $201.50, and Highland's final report as announced by Mrs. J. E. Massey, chairman, amounts to $10&4& Some of the rural chairman are yet to be heard from, and the Rotary club and others in town, Mr. Thorpe reports. J. J. Mann is assisting Mr. Shope. The bunco party given at the Agriculture building last Saturday night, of which Mrs. Carl P. Cahc was chairman, netted $20.70., .The business firms of Franklin contributed through the page ad vertisement in the Press, which netted around $88. March -of Dimes tags sold on the street by Caro ling Leach and Caroline Lang brought in the sum of $33.70. The final report will be made next week. Men In Service Cadet John Lyle Palmer, who lias been visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James A. Palmer of Franklin, has returned to Santa Ana Air Base, Calif., to resume training in pre- flight school as a Bombardier. After completion of ?tiairiinK he will receive his com mission in tfie Army Air Corps. Cadet Palmer enlisted December, 1941, and after five months train ing at the Ohio Institute of Aero nautics, he was sent to Fairbanks, Alaska, as a member of a repair squadron until recently called to commence his training as on Air Gadet. ANGEL BROTHERS ARE ARMY INSTRUCTORS SEYMORE JOHNSON FIELD, N. C, Feb. 1. ? Herbet B. Angel and Ralph V. Angel, both sons of Mrs. A. A. Angel, Fnuiklin, N. C., have recenly been appointed junior instructors in the airplane mech anics school here, Brigadier Gen eral Walter J. Reed, commanding general of Seymore Johnson Field, has announced. v Hiring civilian instructors, for the Technical School here enables skill ed enlisted men now servwig as instiuctors to apply for combat duty in grown crews of the Army Air Forces, General Reed said. Technical experienqe in airplane mechanics is not essential, General Reed pointed out. Herbert was manager of a monument company, and Ralph was a teacher before appointment. Pvt. Htrel Sanders, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Sanders is now stationed at Fort Jackson, S. C. He volunteered for service Nov ember, 1942. David Griggs of the U.S.N, is now waiting orders to sail after completing a six-weks course in Richmond, Va. Pvt. William L. Shope, son of Mr. and Mrs. Z. V. Shope is now stationed at Gamp Tyson, Teran. Cpl. Wade T. Peitz is spending a ten-day furlough with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Deitz, of West's Mill. He is stationed at Fort Benning, Ga. ? ? Pvt. Grady M. Holland and Pvt. Dewey W. Holland, brothers, are stationed alt Fort Benning, Ga. TTiey are sons of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Holland of GneUs. They also have a son, Cpl. Charlie R. H' '"""'V f-Tiewhere overseas. Emory Moslhburn of the School of the Air, located in Alberqueque, New Mexico, is visiting his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. A A. Mash burn, at Gneiss. Cpl. William S. Johnson, of the Headquarters Squadron, stationed at Santa Maria, Calif., spent four days fast week at home with his mother, Mrs. Jk W. C. Johnson. The remaining ten days of his two weeks furlough was spent on the trip across the continent and return. Cpl. Johnson is a partner in The iFranklin Pre$s and mvos business manager prior tQ enlist ment in the Army Air Corps in June, 1941. The family of Sgt. Ray Moffitt who is overseas in the Pacific area, ihave received a letter from him written on Christmas Day, reporting that he was well and happy, and is (hoping to be home before another Chrisitmas. This is his third year in the D. S. Mar ines. Mir. and Mrs. Robert Henry of EUijay have 'two sons in service, John C. Henry, statioedn in Ire land. and Walter Lee, stationed in Africa, Red Cross War Fund Drive Will Begin March First : : : * ? Men Leave For Induction Thursday Morning Below is m list of the selectees and volunteers who left Thursday morning for induction: The volunteers are : Silas Jen kins, Robert Greer Skates, Michial John Zemba, Glen Thomas Smith, Warren Grover Kller, William Hbx vey Hastings, William Fred Court ney, Robert Lee Williams, Arvil Joe Sknonds, Allen /ones Green, Carl E. Itowdte, and Jiames Boston. The selectees are: Clint Herman Wilson, L. M. Johnson, Henry Ar thur Cleveland, Buren Van Owen by, T. C. Rogers, Robert Leo Sanders, Toliver Barnett Wilson, Onley Weaver Webb, Thomas Wil lard Crisp, George Mack Bing ham, John Harvey Roper, Carey Leon Re,ese, Henry Percy Webb, R. L. Scott, Atlas Nelson Wilson, Cairol Emmctt Pendergrass. Jacob Carl Mason, Alvin Augusta Younce, Willnoiu J. B. Collier, Law rence Berlin Welch, John Harv* Swafford, Carol Camemn Mason, Tearl Fiwioe Ashe, Zeb Vance Lakey, JohnHarve McConnell, Jr., Warren Edison Hedden, Samuel Eugene Tallent, Joseph L. Keener, Ted Veroe Cabe, Charlie Mathis, John Denver Gregory, Charlie Frank Mashburn, Lenex Tom Webb. , Harve Lee Brown, Burl Wayne Kay, Robert Paul Ray, James By ron Foster, Walter Raleigh Dowell, Mack Owen Sanders, Jiames Forest Johnson, Thomas Kinsland Samuel Luther Snyder, Lyle Alonzo Til son, Jacob Astor Waters, William Leon Sellers, Herman William Norton, George William Roper. Rufurs Collier, Willard Nelson Carver, John Henry Burch, D. L. II intaiil. Hatymnxt WsllU Wood, Howard Theodore Brendle, Frank Burnette Watts, John Henry Wood, and Johnnie Clyde Reeves. The following selectees from other boards ore being sent by the local board here : Rex Duval), Gaston ia ; Horace Alvin Davis, Bayboro; Thomas Kay McConnell, Winder Haven, Fla. The Franklin Garden Club will present each man with a gift prior to leaving. Square Dance Sponsored By Fire Dep't Nexit Friday Night The Franklin Fire Department will give a square dance in the Leach building, in the vacant store 1 next to The Tavern, on Friday evening, beginning ait 8 o'clock. There will be good string band music, and, a good time is promis ed to all. This promises to be one of the most enjoyable entertainments of the winter. When the IFire De pqrtment boys put on a party, it is always a success. Proceeds will be used, usual, for the improve ment of the local fire fighting equipment The firemen and junior firemen give their services through their organizations of volunteers, and not only answer cails to ex tinguish fires but serve in many ways in promoting fire preven tion. There is no more important or useful community group than the men who make up Franklin's fire fighting force, and they deserve the wholehearted support of all. FINAL REPORT BOOK DRIVE Committee Pleased With 336 Books For The Service Men J. E. S. Thorpe, oltairman of the Victory Bpok campaign in Maoon county, reports that 336 books and 366 magazines were received during \