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VOL. LIX? NO. 33
FOUR MACON
CASUALTIES
One Killed, One Missing,
Two Wounded In
Action
SGT. LEWIS B. Bl'IE
Sgt. Lewis B. Buie, husband
of Mrs. Pauline Buie, was killed
August 8 In the Azores.
Sgt. Buie is a native of Broad
way, N. C., and is a graduate
of the Boone Trail high school.
After his graduation he was
with the Forest 8ervice in Ashe
ville, and was transferred to
Franklin five years ago where
he was employed at the Cowee
experiment station..
Sgt. Buie married Miss Pau
line Welch, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Floyde Welch of Franklin,
July 20, 1941.
Sgt. Buie entered the service
March 24 1943. He received his
training at the following places:
basic at St. Petersburg, Fla.;
radio training at Scott Field,
111., gunnery school at Tynaall
Field, Fla.; and advanced flying
at Westover Field, Mass.
Sgt. Buie was a radio opera
tor gunner on a B-24 Liberator
and went overseas about Aug.
1, 1944.
LT. HAROLD T. BRIDGMAN
Lt. Harold T. Bridgman, Jr.,
son of Rev. and Mrs. Harold
T. Bridgman, Sr., of Columbia,
S. C., formerly of Highlands,
has been reported missing In
action over Hungary, July 27.
Lt. Bridgman is formerly of
Highlands.
He graduated from Black
Mountain high school in 1941.
He attended Hampton-Sydney
college, in Virginia and later
N. C. State in Raleigh where he
majored in architectural engi
neering and was a sophomore
there when he enlisted in the
air corps. He received his basic
training in Miami and received
his wings at the San Marcos
Navigation school, Texas.
Lt. Bridgman is the second
son of Rev. and Mrs. Bridgman.
He has five brothers, two of
whom are in the service and
one sister. He was born in
China where his parents were
missionaries until 1940.
Lt. Bridgman has been In It
aly since early in July as a
navigator of a B-24. It is sup
posed that he was among the
missing when U. S. bombers at
tacked the Manfred Steel and
Armament works near Budapest,
Hungary.
PFC. VICTOR H. SMITH
Mr. and Mrs. Harley A. Smith
have been notified by the War
Department that their son, Pfc.
Victor H. Smith was seriously
wounded on July 27th in the
European theatre of operations..
Pfc. Smith entered the service
last September and has been
overseas three months with a
glider division.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith have an
other son, Wiley H. Smith with
an Infantry division in France,
who was wounded on the hand
sometime ago.
PFC. DANIEL GARRETT
Pfc. Daniel Garrett, son of
Elsie B. Clark of route 3, Frank
lin, has been wounded in. the
European theatre of war ac
cording to a message received
by his mother.
CHAS. N. (JOE) DOWDLE
Mrs. Charles N. (Joe) Dowdle
has received word that her hus
band, recently reported wound
ed In action is now In a naval
hospital , He
is suffering from injuries to his
back and ankle.
MR. LEON B1LLINGTON
IN A LOCAL HOSPITAL
Mr. Leon BUUngton, employe
of the Franklin Press composing
room who has been 111 for some
weeks, was removed from . his
hotel room today and entered
Angel hospital for treatment.
Relatives of Mr. BUUngton,
Mrs Gertrude Cole, a sister of
Oloversvllle, N. Y., and Mrs.
Elizabeth Jolley, an aunt, of
Brooklyn, N. Y . are visiting with
Mr. BUUngton and will probably
remain in Franklin for about
two weeks.
Pvt. James Ledford, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Oeorge Ledford,
has recently been home on a
ten-day furlough. Pvt. Ledford
has been stationed at Camp
Wheeler, Oa. and is now a pa
tient at Moore General hos
pitaV-Pwannanoa.
Clean up Underway
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Franklin Holds Clean up
Campaign This Week
Housewives, Cafe Owners
And Merchants, Will
Citizens of Franklin this week
were asked to cooperate with
city officials and employees in
carrying out a resolution of the
August 14 to 19 "Clean-up
board of aldermen Jbo make
Week."
Because of the Infantile epi
demic throughout the state, this
year's clean-up campaign was
even more necessary as health
authorities believe that flies are
one of the greatest carriers of
the polio virus.
As part of the campaign the
Franklin merchants and house
wives were cautioned not to
place trash, rubbage, and garb
age in streets or sidewalks by
a city ordinance.
The proclamation of the town
council proposing "C 1 e a n-Up
Week" reminded residents of
Franklin that the campaign
depended upon each citizen co
operating.
Since Franklin depends in
large part on tourist business, it
is important that the town be
kept neat and orderly. This in
addition to the tact, of course,
that public-spirited citizens wish
their town clean and orderly,
residents were reminded by
prominent citizens.
NEWS OF OUR
M EN w WOMEN
IN UNIFORM
PFC. AND MRS. BILL GIBSON
Pfc. Gibson stationed In Arizona
Pfc. Bill Gibson, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Ben Gibson of Culla
saja, is now stationed at Yuma,
Arizona.
Mrs. Gibson was the farmer
Miss Electa Belle Keffen, of
Arizona.
Cpl. J. W. May is home" on
furlough visiting his mother,
Nora H. May, of Flats.
Neabert Long recently spent
a ten-day furlough with Mr.
I and Mrs. George Ledford of
Prentiss Re la stationed at
i Cjunp Peary, V*.
PVT. WYMER J. GIBSON
Recently Arrived Overseas
Pvt. Wymer J. Gibson, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Ben H. Gibson of
Cullasaja has landed safely
overseas according to a message
received here.
He entered the service in No
vember 1943 at Fort Jackson, S.
C. and received his basic train
ing there. Prior to entering
service he was manager of the
Champion Shoe Shop In Frank
lin. ? * ?
Pvt. Clyde Southards, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Southards,
of Franklin, route 2, Is home
on furlough from Planclee,
New Orleans.
? Continued on Page Six
J. H. Stockton Heads
Macon Baptists
At the 41st annual session of
the Macon County Baptist as
sociation. which met attheOold
Mine Baptist church Thursday
and Friday, August 10th and
11th, J. H. Stockton, attorney
of Franklin, was elected Mod
erator for the coming year, and
Rev. J. I. Vinson was elected
Vice-Moderator.
Other officers elected were
Sanford J. Smith, clerk and
treasurer and Mrs. M. J. C.
Higdon, historian.
Rev. J. I. Vinson was named
to preach the associational ser
mon next year and Rev. Gor
don E. Scruggs to preach the
missionary sermon. There are
38 churches in the Macon As
sociation and every church re
ported at this session.
The association will hold its
next annual session with the
Holly Springs Baptist church.
American Legion Poppies
Sold In Highlands
The American Legion Auxi
liary annual poppy sale was
conducted at Highlands on
August 15th under the direc
tion of Miss Ruth V. Carter and
Mrs. W. C. Newton as chair
men, with most gratifying re
sults.
The poppies were sold on the
streets with the following wom
en assisting: Misses Margaret
Yarbrough, Peggy Appley, Lil
lian Gong, Mary Bascom Cook,
Mama Cobb, Catherine Saussey,
Sarah Hall, Paula Price. The
sale of poppies conducted at
Franklin each year on Memorial
Day but it has been the cus
tom to have it later in the sea
son at Highlands.
Proceeds from the sale of
these popples goes towards
helping families and children
of the veterans of .World War I.
Highlands Methodists
To Hold Conference
Rev. W. L. Hutchins will be in
Highlands to hold a quarterly
conference of the Highlands
Methodist church at 8 o'clock
Sunday night. All officials are
urged to attend.
U. D. C. TO MEET WITH
MRS. LESTER CONLEY
The United Daughters of Con
federacy of Macon County
Chapter will meet on Mon
day evening at 8:30 o'clock at
the home of Mrs. Lester S. Con
ley with Mrs. W. M. Parrish as
sociate hostess. All members are
urged to attend.
Cook eggs at moderate tem
peratures because all protein
feeds get tough and leathery
when ooo ked at too bifhfthMt.
August Superior Court
To Begin On Monday
: I
HARLEY R. CASE
Killed this morning in an auto
mobile accident.
HARLEY CABE
KILLED TODAY
Car In Head-on Collision
With Truck On the
Georgia Road
Harley R. Cabe, former clerk
of superior court, was killed In
stantly at about 4:30 o'clock
this morning when the auto
mobile he was driving had a
head-on collision with a truck,
about seven miles south on the
Georgia road.
Cabe, who was serving as yeo
man second-class In the Navy,
was home on leave this week.
He was evidently returning home
when the accident occurred.
The car which Yeoman Cabe
drove was almost demolished.
The truck was a Georgia Mo
tor Express freight truck and
was driven by Paul Reeves of
Asheville. As soon as possible
after the accident, Reeves
caught a ride into Franklin and
asked the sheriff to hold an in
quest.
The coroner's jury reported
the accident "unavoidable". Ob
servers on the scene said it
was apparent that the car driv
en by Cabe had rounded the
curve on the wrong side of the
highway.
? Continued on Page Eight
MOOSE POSTPONE
ANNUAL PICNIC
The annual picnic of the Loy
al Order of Moose scheduled to
be held the last Sunday In Au
gust has been canceled on ac
count of the polio situation, H.
C. Fouts, governor and J. Mann,
secretary, announced this week
Classifications
The following classifications
are announced by the local Se
lective Service Board:
1-A: Buren Leopard, James
Paul Vinson, William Bert Neal,
Charlie James Bowers.
2- A: William Dee Hodgin, Sam
L. Brooks, Glenn Harrison Tal
lent. John Willie Cog.lill, Wei
mar Edison Young, Jasper Ben
jamin Green, Dillard Almond
Sanders, Lawrence R. Ledbetter,
Carl Roosevelt Welch, Carl Hen
ry Medlin, George Carl Hurst,
Joseph Arnold Garrls, Ira Law
ton Keener, Glenn Dill Mann,
Robert Columbus Bowers, Lloyd
Williamson, Rutherford Hayes
Snyder, James R. L. Estes, Clyde
Edgar Crisp, John Doke Clark.
Dorman Dale Gibson.
2-B:| Victor Author Shidle,
Harry William Baty, J.ames Clar
ence Crisp, Frank Burrell Mof
fitt.
1-C: T. J. Sorrells. Verles
Clinton Wishon, Archie Lee
Dlehl (col.) , Arthur Noal Dowdle,
Norval Wood row Norton.
4-F: Furman Fuller Stiles,
William Algie Bolick, J. D. Led
ford (col.).
2-A-H: Richard Walter West.
Wiley Rogers Stockton, Clinton
Theodore Holland.
2-C-H: Arwood Arnold Lee.
4-F-H: Adam Butler Jenkins.
Howard Logan Stewart.
4-A: Robert Alex Arrant. ,Toh->
William McCoy, Henry Newell
Hooper. Lewis Jackson Orewrv
James Festus Farmer. Everette
Andrew Patterson.
? Continue on Pap U?ht
Nine Civil And Six New
Criminal Cases On
The Docket
The August term of Macon
County Superior Court will be
gin on Monday, August 21, with
Judge Zeb V. Nettles of Ashe
ville, presiding.
The civil docket includes nine
cases, five of which are divorce
cases.
The criminal docket includes
six new cases and some con
tinued from the last term of
court.
The criminal cases will begin
on Monday and the civil cases
will be tried beginning on Wed
nesday.
Christmas Packages T<&
Servicemen Overseas Can
Be Mailed After Aug. 15
"Do your Christmas shopping
early," has long been a cry
made to the public, but this
year the plea is, "Mall your
Christmas packages to overseas
soldiers early."
Lt.-Col. Hartley B. Dean, 4th
service command postal officer,
points out that soldiers' yuletide
packages will be accepted for
mailing as early as August 15
and no later than October 15.
"People are advised to mail
their Christmas packages as
soon as possible and not wait
for the deadline. With millions
of men overseas and with more
millions of gifts which will be
sent to them? getting all par
cels to their proper destination
in time for Christmas is going
to be a tremendous task. The
sooner the post office receives
these packages the better the
chances are for th soldiers to
entov Christmas on December
25th."
WAR NEWS
SUMMARY
New Invasion of Southern
France Goes
Well
The war news continued to
be favorable bo the United Na
tions this week as our troops
continued advancing in most
sectors.
In Southern France, the re
ports from the new beachheads
established between the French
naval base at Toulon and Can
nes on the Riviera were excel
lent. Troops under the com
mand of Mai. -Gen., who led
the conquest of Guadalcanal in
the Pacific, have swept through
the ? Nazi outer defenses and
have established a seventy-two
mile beachhead. In less than
forty-eight hours they had lib
erated more than 500 miles of
enemy territory.
In northern France the Am
erican forces under the com
mand of Gen. Patton, according
to the Nazi radio, were less
than thirty-five miles from the
French capital ? Paris ? today.
In the last forty-eight hours
in this sector, IOjOOO men had
been captured more than 50,000
others were surrounded in the
pocket made by converging Brit
ish and Canadian columns to
the north and American forces
to the south.
The news from the Eastern
front was not so good this
morning. The Russians were
still hammering away at the
defenses of the Nazi troops cut
off from Germany by the Rus
sian push-through to the Baltic
at Riga.
However, on the Polish front,
the Russians had been repulsed
by a strong Nazi counter-at
tack which had forced them to
give up one of the small towns
east of Moscow.
In the Orient, American air
forces stationed in China con
tinued to hammer Japanese
supply lines in China's south
ern, Hunan Province. The
Chinese forces were launching
a powerful attack to retake
Hengyang, important rail Junc
tion northwest of Canton.
In Burma, the bitter fighting
continued with the Allies push
ing further along the railway
soutbweat of Myitkyina.