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FRANKLIN, N. C.. THURSDAY, DEC. 7, 1944
$2.00 PER YEAR
Sixth War Loan Drive
Lagging In Macon County
Co-Chairman Jones Now
' Asks Greater Effort
Of AH Workers
Qllmer A. Jones, co-chairman
of the Sixth War Loan Drive in
Macon County, said on Thursday
that the total of sales in series
"E" bonds had only reached
$22,000 to date, which is far
short of the goal of $104,000.00
in this series.
Mr. Jones further stated that j
the sales were very disappoint
ing and that he was extremely
worried over the fact that more
people throughout the county
were not more interested in
buying, as the demand for am
munition, planes and other war
supplies were in a greater de
mand than ever before. It is not
like giving ones money away, he
said, it is merely loaning It to
the government to purchase the
necessary needs and to help get
our boys and girls back as early
as possible.
One American group were
heard to say that they had al- \
ready shot their quota of am
munition. What is our quota in
BONDS in comparison to the
lives our boys are giving?
S. LIEUT. SETSER BACK
WITH SQUADRON IN ITALY 1
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Setser of
Franklin route 1; received a let
ter on Friday morning from
their son, Second Lieutenant
George H. Setser, who was re- \
ported to be missing in action
since November 6, over Austria,
had returned to his squadron
in Italy on November 28.
Lieut. Setser, who was a co
pilot on a B-24 bomber, tyld
his parents that he bailed out
over enemy territory and that
some of the people in Austria
who do not love Hitler any bet- |
ter than we do, helped him to
make his escape. He also said)
that with the exception of los
ing a few pounds and having
blistered feet from the long
trip, he was alright.
A letter received from Com
manding General stated that it
was engine trouble that caused
Lieut. Setser to have- to Jwil 1
out.
Franklin Grammar School
Roll of Honor
Pupils who have the merit of ,
Honor Roll in Franklin Gram
mar school, ftfr months of Oct.
and Nov., are as follows:
Grade Three: Mrs. Esther
Wallace, teacher ? Launa Bate
man, Charles Baldwin, Dorothy
Henry, 'Jean Blaine, Raymond
Ledtord, Doyal Henson, Marie
Bingham, Dorothy McKay.
Grade Four: Mrs. C. 41. Fouts,
teacher ? Laura Lyle, Merits An
gel, JUlla Moody. Jack Love.
Grade Five: Mrs. Hamphill,
teacher ? Lesker Greene, Eu
gene Patton, Bobby Tysinger,
Mary Ann Killian.
Grade Six: Mayberl Moody,
teacher ? Christine Hall, Mary
Sue Potts, Donald Brown, Frank
Henry, John Charles Thdmas,
Beverly Christy. Freda Holland,
Marlam Sherrlll.
Selective Service
Macon County Men Leave
For Induction
The following men were for
warded to Camp Croft, 8. C.
on November 34, for prcinduc
tlon physical examination:
Charles Terrell Tallent, Char
les Ellis Allen, Cecil Henry Day.
Samuel As tor Ashe, Virgil Fred
Crisp, Warren Jewel Orant, Or
val Franks, John Howard My
ers, Jay Lloyd Stanley, Carl
Lewis Chastain, Virgil H. Tal
lent, Kyle Theodore Watts.
? Paul Gray Ward, James Lo
gan Sanders, Roy Jackson Cbr
bln, Harvey Ronald Barnes,
Bert Henry Baldwin. Henry
Horace Hurst, Earl Wilson Ma
son, Bob Franklin Burch, Lon
zo Woodard. Bennle B. Halre,
Gordon Hez Dills, John Robert
Anderson, Vernon Luther Hol
land, Aaron Hall Miller, Roy
Price, William Franklin Blllin
gsley, Cameron Woodrow Frank
lin.
Clyde Dover Lakey and Char
les Odell Roper who were listed
on this call were transferred to
othtr Local Boards for exam
ination.
Christmas Seal Sales
Going Well Says Chm'n.
George H. Hill, chairman of
the Macon county annual
Christmas Seal sales, has an
nounced that the sehls have
been distributed through the
rural districts and that the
sales in the Franklin school
and vicinity, the only reports
on sales, he has had to date,
have gone beyond his expec
tations.
Mr. Hill said that approxi- I
mately $50 worth of Seals has
been sold by the children of
the Franklin school, and that
he felt sure that the rural dis
tricts were as equally success
ful in their sales.
Mr. Hill further urged the
citizens to buy Seals and called
the attention to the fact that
75 per cent of the proceeds
would be kept in the county to
aid anyone afflicted with this
treacherous disease and help in
the prevention of its spreading.
Buy Christmas Seals and help
in this unending fight against
tuberculosis.
Farmers Attenticn Ca!!H
To Limestone - Phosphate
All limestone and phosphate
that has been received through
the Macon CDunty AAA Office .
should be spread prior to Jan- '
uary 1, 1945, according to Rob
ert Fulton, chairman Macon
County AAA Committee.
December 31, 1944, is the end
of the 1944 Program Year and
all conservation materials that
have b?sen received through this
office should be used at once
so that credit may be given
under the 1944 Program, Mr.
Fulton pointed out.
"Proper use of this material 1
will constitute full payment. If
material is not used prior to
January 1, 1945, it will be nec
essary to transfer the material
to the 1945 Program and the 1
farm will not be eligible to 1
receive as much material in 1
1945 as it would be if the ma- 1
terial was used -during the 1944 I
Program Year," Mr. Fulton '
stated.
"As soon as material is spread
a report should be made to the '
county office, and if total farm >
material allowance has not
been taken up in those mater- :
lals, the applicant may at this
same time, sign application that
will enable him to receive pay
ment that has been earned by
carrying out other approved
practices under the 1944 AAA
Program."
NEWS OF OUR
MENwWOMEN
IN UNIFORM
Marine Pfc. William Rogers kickman, who has been in ser
vice in the South Pacific for the past ' 32 months, has been
returned to the states and is now visiting his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. William P. Rickman, at their home in the West's Mill
section of Macon county. I
Marine Rickman is a member of the Marine First Divis
ion and took part in the Peleliu invasion. He and Pfc. R. J.
Van Dyke, of Appleton, Wis.', art the two communication men
using the telephone on Peleliu Island. They are trouble shoot
ers, working just back of the front lines on a telephone wire 1
that had been cut. They had just found and repaired the 1
break and were reporting that the line was alright again.
S/SGT. TROY L. CRISP
S/Sgt. Troy L. Crisp
Wounded In France
Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Crisp,
Df Franklin route 3, have re
ceived word from the War De
partment that their son, Troy
L. Crisp was seriously wounded
In action in France on Novem
ber 13.
S/Sgt. Crisp, who entered
the armed forces on October
26, 1942, took his basic training
at Camp Blandlng, Fla.. and
was serving in the infantry.
He spent a 15-day furlough at
his home in February prior to
his going overseas in March.
He wears the expert rifle medal
for marksmanship and the in
fantry expert combat badge for
his outstanding and courage
ous duty while in combat.
Pvt. Calvin Coolidge Morgan ]
Pvt. Calvin Coolidge Morgan,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Mor
gan of Franklin, route 3. who
has been taking training at
Jackson, Miss., has been trans
ferred to San Fresno, Calif.
Pvt. Morgan is a graduate of
Franklin high school and en
tered the armed forces on June
21, 1943. He has also taken
training at Oulfport, Miss, and
Atlanta, Oa.
A sawmill turner is more es
sential than a shipyard welder.
WMC declared recently.
Sailors recently extinguished
a forest fire in Idaho. Their
buddies are trying to start a
fire in Tokio.
The largest single owner of
American forest land is the
Federal government.
Buy at Least an Extra $100 Bond Today!
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Crusade For Christ
Program By Methodist
Classifications
Annou.xeJ By Local
. e i; oard
The following classifications
are announced by the Local
Selective Service Board:
1-A: Eugene Robert >Younce,
Lloyd Zachary, James Billy
Gregory, William Roy Ander
son, Norman Grady Cabe, Ly- ?
man Wilson, Eugene Albert i
Southard, Robert Lee Alexan- .
der Gibson, col., D. C. Rogers,
Charles Junior -Crisp, Wra,
Clyde Roane, Markos Newton ,
Snyder, James Paul Vinson, El- ,
bert Herman Hedden, Donald ;
Gordon Houston, John Erwin '
Hamer, Edwin Edgar William- .
son.
2-A: Guy Edward Clouse.Wm. I <
Herschel Talley. I c
2-B: William Lightbourn J
Gibb. s
4-F: Lon Stanley Mack.
4-A: Don Lee Shuler, Don|
Franklin Watson, Edward '
Brown, Dan Washington Henry, 1
Edmon Lafayette Henson, Coyle 1
Edgar McFalls, Wm. Bingham, ?
Lester Marvin Cochran, J. R.
Bell, John Wilburn McCall, J*
Thomas Earl Cabe, Robert;
Lloyd Norton, Orron Baldwin ?
Holland. I jj
Heavy Sentences Imposed j,
In Macon Cnunty Ccurt r
Macon county court adjourn- J
ed on Tuesday following a two- "?
lay session with Judge Zeb. V. j c
Nettles, of Asheville, presiding.
The most of Monday was ta- j f
ken up with divorce cases and c
the trying of Jerry Cochran, t
negro, who was charged with e
murder in connection with the F
ratal shooting of Tom Ben Mc- ; 8
Donald, negro, at the home of ! r
tht latter near * the. Iotla C
Bridge on October 4. Cochran t;
plead guilty to the charge of P
second degree murder and was e
sentenced to 25 to 28 years in
State prison. J
Judge Nettles further ordered s
that Cochran be given a men- r
tal arid physical examination
ind that the defendant be con
fined either at Dix Hill or the
5tate hospital, depending on the
diagnosis of the examining phy- 1
sician. This sentence was the
heaviest imposed on anyone.
Divorces were granted in the ;
following cases: Elizabeth
Wright Prince vs. Clement A.
Prince; Oscar Conley vs. Nina
L. Conley; Willie Dean Owenby
vs. Carl Owenby, all of Macon
county; Jrene Turpin Rogers vs
[. G. Rogers, of Graham coun
ty; and Juanita Looper vs. Ed- [
gar Looper, of Cherokee county.
Robert Williams plead guilty
to the charge of larceny, and
was sentenced to the common
jail of Macon county for a term
of 12 months and assigned to
work under the supervision of |
the State Highway and Public
commission.
Walter Deal, who was tried
for involuntary manslaughter
in 1942, and given a sentence
of three to five years in State
prison if he failed to pay the
court the sum of $712.
William Parker tried for as
sault with intent to commit :
rape on a Macon county girl,
was called and the prisoner was |
duly arraigned upon the charge j
set forth in the bill of indict- j
ment to which the defendant j
plead not guilty. Attorneys for !
the defendant tendered a plea
of assault with intent to com
mit rape, which plea was ac
cepted by the Solicitor for the
State. Upon hearing the evi- j
dence in the case, he was then j
sentenced to the state prison |
at Raleigh for a period of not j
less than five years nor more
than seven years.
Start Anti-Inflation
Grocer-Consumer
Campaign
In this Issue of The Press will j
be found advertisements which
starts on the Grocer-Consumer
Anti-Inflation Campaign in Ma
con county.
At a meeting of the Public
Relations Panel held Thurs
day evening In the War Price
and Rationing Board office, re
port! were given by various
committee members on the
Macon Methodist Begin
Movement To Raise
$25,000,000
Methodist of Macon County
are being called to take part in
raising $25,000,000 for world re
lief and reconstruction, the
first phase of the denomina
tion's nation-wide Crusade for
Christ program of post-war ser
vice. according to ah announ
cement made by Rev. W. Jack
son Huneycutt, minister of the
Franklin Methodist Church.
The appeal to the congrega
;ions of the county, for which
-he goal is $3,800, began last
3unday, Mr. Huneycutt an
nounced. The Methodist con
?regations here are part of
learly 8.000,000 members of
11,000 churches in. the United
States who are participating in
he four-year, five-fold Cru
>ade.
Expenditure of the Crusade
und by the regular, general
igencies of the Church will
jrovide for "feeding the hun
:ry, clothing the destitute, and
reeing the minds arid spirits
if the ignorant, the underprivi
eged. the driven and dispos
essed." Mr. Huneycutt said,
rhree-fifths of the fund has
>een allocated for the "rebuild
ng and rehabilitation of hu
nan life" in' foreign countries,
line-tenths in war-devastated
treas and the rest in other
nission fields. The balance will
>e , used for emergency, war
aused needs in this country.
Other phases of the Crusade
or Christ program call for
ontinued education in and ex
iression of opinion for "co-op
ration. among nations in the
>ost-war world." renewed evan
;elism efforts with special em
ihasis in 1946, education for
Christian Stewardship of abili
y, time and money, and im
irovement of Sunday School
nrollment and attendance.
"The Crusade for Christ is
/lethod ism's organized respon
e for assuming its part in
neeting the unsettled condi
ions and vast staggering needs
reated by the second World
Var," Mr. Huneycutt stated.
Having proved its will to live
n the face of all enemies, the
Church is now ready to give
iractical and spiritual food to
he hungry both of its own
lousehold and others through
ut the world without disun
ion of race, creed or color."
vork that has been accom
>lished in enlightening people
is to the necessity of checking
:eiling prices and stopping in
latton. ?
In this nation-wide campaign,
lousewives will play a big part
>y shopping with ceiling prices
n mind and by talking prices
with their grocers. Only in this
way, that is, by cooperation,,
vill prices be kept down. Now
s the time to"~gt$irt. because
t wasn't until several -months
ifter the Armistice that p'ftees
ioared and Inflation really
itarted. Do, your part to help
;he fight on the home front!
Mayor's
Proclamation
Whereas, the price ceiling;
are essential to the wartime
welfare of the citizens ' of
Franklin and of the mer
chants who serve them.
Whereas, as during the
First World War, military
victories will not immediate
ly remove dangers of disas
trous inflation, and
Whereas, for some time t?
come we will face inflation
ary dangers that could rap
idly destroy from within the
very security our Armed
Forces are fighting to pro
tect.
Therefore, I, Mayor of
Frainklin invoke each citizen
to participate whole heart
edly in the Franklin Grocer
Consumer Antl - Inflation
Campaign by frank and
friendly adherence to out
ceiling price program.
J. O. HARRISON,
Mayor,
Town of Franklin.