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VOL. LXI? NO. 25
FRANKIJN, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 20. 1946
*2.0# FEK YEAR
PLAN THEATER
MEET SATURDAY
IN HIGHLANDS
Community Organization
Hold Try-outs
To Map Program And
The Highlands Community
theater will hold its casting try
outs and general organization
meeting (or the 1946 season at
the Highlands Museum Satur
day evening at 8 o'clock, it was
announced this week.
The Community theater, first
organized in 1940, is being re
vived this season, following two
war years during which it did
not function.
Miss Jane Reese, of Atlanta,
who will direct the theater this
summer, will arrive in High
lands in time for the meeting,
It was said.
All persons Interested in the
details of play production, act
ing, stage management, stage
lighting, etc., are invited to par
ticipate in Saturday night's org
anization meeting and try-outs,
it was emphasized.
The ? Highlands Community
theater Is headed by Kenyon
Zatirier, president. Mrs. Jack
Wilcox is business manager.
R. E. Lee Joins Staff
Of Nantahala Forest
Robert E. Lee a few days ago
joined the Nantahala National
forest staff here as supply
clerk. Mr. Lee, whose home Is
Chattanooga, Tenn., came to
Franklin from a Forest vice as
signment in Mississippi. His
family is now in Etowah, Tenn.,
but he plans to bring them here
as soon as he can find a place
for them to live.
50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
The fishing party returned
Wednesday from Nantahala.
They report a catch of over
three hundred trout.
Candidates' announcements
just one dollar in advance. A
gold dollar, a silver dollar, or
a greenback Wm. will put your
name before the voters.
There is going to be one sound '
money delegate in the approach
Democratic convention: Kope I
Ellas, Esq., of Macon. If he j
isn't careful, they will catch
him as a curio and put him in
the state museum. The News
and Observer says: "The Macon
Democratic convention instruct
ed Kope to vote for free coin
age at 16 to 1, first, last, and
all the time."
25 YEARS AGO
On Friday night of this week,
June 17th, there will be at the
courthouse in Franklin, an old
time Fiddlers Convention. It is
hoped and expected that all the
fiddlers in Macon County and
adjoining counties will come
with their fiddles.
On last Saturday afternoon
two Interesting ball games were
played on the ball ground at
West's Mill. The first between
Cowee and Needmore proved a
very close game. At the end,
the score stood 8 to 9 in favor
of Needmore. The other game,
between the Oak Orove and
Watauga teams, was also in
tensely Interesting. The Watau
ga team won 9 to 2.
10" YEARS AGO
There are only six Confeder
ates living in Macon county, a
check-up of the pension list re
vealed this week. It also reveal
ed that pensions are going to
20 class "A" widows, 12 class
"B" widows, and one class "B"
negro body servant In the coun
ty.
"Uncle Elbert" Watson, 93, of
Olenvllle, accompanied by Mrs.
Watson, are visiting at the home
of Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Fouts this
week. "Uncle Elbert", celebrated
his 93rd birthday anniversary
In March.
Bitten by a spider believed to
be a Black Widow, while work
ing last Friday, Tom McDowell,
of Otto, became critically 111 and
was taken to the Angel hospital.
He responded to treatment and
wm dUralaaed Monday.
John W. Roar.e
Ttkii Oath As
Commissioner
John W. Roane, newly ap
pointed member of the board
of county commissioners, took
the oath of office at a call
ed meeting of the board Mon
day. The oath was admin
istered by Mrs. Edith C.
ttyrd, assistant clerk of the
superior court.
Mr. Roane was appointed
by the other two commission
era earlier this month to fill
out the unexpired term of the
late Charles L. Blaine.
The board adopted resolu
tions of respect for Mr.
Blaine, who had served as a
commissioner for the past 12
years.
HOULARRESTED
IN LIQUOR CASE
Officers Report Finding
More Than Gallon
In His Auto
Guy L. Houk, of Franklin,
was arrested on a liquor charge
by Sheriff J. P. Bradley and
Night Policeman H. C. Thomp
son about 10 o'clock Wednesday
night.
He was released on his own
recognizance, Sheriff Bradley
said Thursday, for his appear
ance at a hearing before Mayor
T. W. Angel, Jr. A time for the
hearing had not been set
Thursday afternoon.
Sheriff Bradley said he and
Policeman Thompson were driv
ing over town looking for a
liquor car, when they saw Mr.
Houk, in his parked automobile
at the rear of the courthouse,
a bottle in his hand.
They investigated, he added,
and found five unopened and
one opened ' fifths" of bottled
in bond whiskey. The law, the
sheriff pointed out, permits pos
session of not more than one
gallon.
The whiskey was seized, Sher
iff Bradley, said.
On Thursday, no warrant had
been served, the sheriff said,
but explained that it will be
served later, probably by Police
man Thompson.
Dean
Named County Chairman |
Of Republican*
John Dean, of the Rabbit
Creek section, was elected chair
man of the Macon County Re
publican executive committee,
at a meeting of the committee
last Saturday at the courthouse.
Mr. Dean, a former chairman,
succeeds A. R. Higdon, who re
signed from the post.
The committee also named
Claude Patterson as precinct
chairman at Otto, to succeed
Lonnie Henson, resigned.
25 Young People
From This County
Go To Conference
Sixty-nine young pco.ile and
workers representing Union
Sunday schools in North Caro
lina and Georgia attended the
annual Young People's Bible
conference at the Lake Louise
Conference grounds, Toccoa, Ga.,
June 10 to 17. >
The conference, under the di
rection of the American Sunday
School union, Is one of many
held each year to bring Chris
tian leadership training to rural
boys and girls.
A highlight of the week was
a radio broadcast over station
WRLC, Toccoa, and guided tours
through the Le Tourneau plant
and TOccoa Falls Bible college.
The following young people
representing Union Sunday
Schools In Macon County at
tended the conference: Salem,
Manuel Holland, Kenneth Clark,
Mary Sue Norton, Nancy Grant,
Sallle Grant, Elsie Sondhelmer,
Betty Ann Frady, Carolyn Bry
son, Edwlna Bryson, and Ma
qulta Rogers; Sloans Chapel,
Kelly Moses, Wallace Elliott,
Andrew Carpenter, Cylde Nor
ton, R. L. Cunningham, Nora
Lee Carpenter, Pauline Keener,
and Margueriette Smart; Friend
ship tabernacle, Iris Long, Don
ald Henson, George Phillips, and
Billy Mason; River Bend, Nell
Baldwin and Tracy Tallent; and
Sunrise View, Jo Doris Dockery.
T. H. Callahan left last Sat
urday for a week's business trip
| to N?w York.
J. T. BRYSON
KILLED AS CAR
FALLS 30 FEET
Auto Man Fails To Meet
Fishing Appointment
With Brothers
When Joe Taylor Bryson, 38,
left his Cullasaja community
home last Saturday morning, it
was agreed that he and his two
brothers, John A. and Marion
Bryson, should meet at a point
on the Cullasaja river later in
the day for an afternoon's fish
ing.
The brothers were there wait
ing, but Mr. Bryson met sud
den death on his way to the
spot.
A little late for his appoint
ment, he was believed to have
been hurrying, and at a sharp
curve on the Franklin-Highlands
highway his 1937 Plymouth
automobile left the road and
plunged 30 feet into Buck Creek.
Mr. Bryson, the son of Mr. and
Mrs. William M. Bryson and a
veteran of World War 3, suf
fered a broken neck.
The wreckage of the automo
bile and the body of iu driver
was discovered by Harold Moses,
who notified the authorities.
At the inquest, held that aft
ernoon, the coroner's jury, im
paneled by Coroner George Wal
lace, found that he was instant
ly killed. 1
Members of the jury were C,
A, Setser, Wade Arvey, Paul
Potts, Andrew Gregory, Sam
Frady, and Hoy Roland,
Sheriff J. P. Bradley, Deputy
Walter Dean, and Highway
Patrolman Pritchard Smith as
sisted the coroner in investigat
ing the accident.
Mr. Bryson, body and fender
man at Burrell Motor company,
had left his work about 3 p. Bl
and the accident was believed
to have occurred a short time
later- ,j
Funeral services were held
Monday afternoon at the Salem
Methodist church. The Rev. D.
P. Grant, pastor, officiated, as
sisted by the Rev. Fred Sorrells
and the Rev. V. C. Ramey, both
of Cullasaja. Interment follow
ed in the church cemetery.
The pallberares were Sammy
Bryson, Lex Vanhook, Lease
Bryson, Vernon Bryson, Roy
Holland and Bill Bryson.
Surviving are his widow, the
former Miss Margaret Viola Tal- ?
lent; one daughter, Jean; his ?
parents; his two brothers; three
sisters, Mrs. Alfred Holland, Miss i
Annie Bryson and Mrs. Briscoe
Dills, all of Cullasaja; and his
grandmother, Mrs. J ? T. Bryson. |
Potts funeral home was in
charge of the arrangements. |?
Will Display 1
Equipment Of
Parachutists
A recruiting team of the 82nd
Airborne division, Parachute In
fantry, will display equipment
used by airborne troops on the
public square here June 28, 29,
and 30, it was announced this
week by Sgt. Blaine Livingston,
head of the army recruiting sta
tion here.
Twelve parachutists of the
82nd division will aid in the dis
play of the equipment, which
will include parachutes, equip
ment bundles, rifles, carbines,
Browing automatic rifles, pist
ols, sub-machine guns, machine
guns, mortars, bazooka rocket
launchers, 75 millimeter recoil
less rifles, flame throwers, gas
masks, field rations, radios and
a glider tow-rope containing
enough nylon for 50,000 pairs
of stockings.
The recruiting team is dis
playing the equipment to en
courage enlistments in the reg
ular army. Direct enlistments
for the Paratroop Infantry are
being accepted, Sgt. Livingston
said.
Thomas Varborough celebrated
his 84th birthday at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Bennett,
Franklin, Route 3, last Sunday.
A birthday dinner was enjoyed
by the following of his friends
and relatives: Mr. and Mrs.
Lawrence Ramsey and Billy;
Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Bennett; Mr.
J. T. Bennett of Sylva; Mr. and
Mrs. William Swafford; Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Cunningham; and
a granddaughter, Miss JCstelle
Bennttt of Murphy.
MISS DOROTHY WALKER, of
Klkins, has arrived here to serve
?s ohoir director of the Frank
lin Baptist church through the
summer months. After work at
Flora Mac Donald college, she
transferred to W e s t m i nster
fhioir, Princeton, N. J.t where
she has been a student for two
rears, majoring in voice and
conducting, with piano her mln- j
>r subject. The Frainklin church
is building a new choir loft and
i new organ hag been ordered.
BRYSON IS SHOT.
JAIL BROWNING
Brother - In - Laws' Row
Ends With 1 In Jail,
One In Hospital
Charlie M. Bryson, of Sylva,
s In the Angel hospital, suffer
ng from gunshot wounds, and
lis brother-in-law, Bob Brown
ng, was arrested and placed in
lall Thursday morning by Sher
iff J. P. Bradley, charged with
;he shooting. The trouble was
laid to have occurred late Wed
nesday afternoon at the home
jf Browning's father, Will
Browning, near the top of Co
nee mountain.
Bryson, said to have been shot
vith a double-barrel shotgun,
las some 35 wounds in the face,
:hest, and arm. His condition
vas reported by the hospital to
>e satisfactory.
Sheriff Bradley said that Bry
an told him Browning was
Irinking at the time, while
drowning, when he was arrested
it his father's home, was quoted 1
is saying the quarrel arose over I
i woman.
UKlit DIVERSION
SECTION REPEAL
Oil Men Oppose Highway
Fund Use For State's
General Purposes
The Macon County Petroleum
Industries committee, at a din
ner meeting at Riverview inn
Monday evening attended by oil
men, automobile dealers, public
officials, and other invited
guests, adopted a resolution
favoring repeal of the provision
in the state revenue act per
mitting diversion of highway
Funds to the general fund when
necessary.
The resolution was adopted at
the conclusion of a talk by S.
Gilmer Sparger, of Raleigh, ex
ecutive secretary of the North
Carolina Petroleum Industries
committee.
Mr. Sparger told the group
that available highway revenues
are adequate to finance the
state's most ambitious road
building program during the
next few years. During that pe
riod, he said, more than $100,
000,000 will be available.
He argued that it is neither
good statemanship nor just to
use taxes paid by motorists on
gasoline, etc., for any purpose
other than road work, and it
was brought out in the discus
sion that 18 states have adopted
constitutional amendments pro
hibiting diversion of highway
funds to the states' general
funds.
Under the section of the law
discussed, Mr. Sparger said.
North Carolina general assem
blies may divert three per cent
of the gasoline tax to general
expenses of the state.
From 1940 through 1945, over
15 million service men and
women took out National Serv
ice Lit* Insurance .In th<
amount of 9148 billion.
T own Bond Election
To Be Held Tuesday
$1,200
Donated Toward Purchase i
Of Police Car
Citizens of Franklin are don
ating funds to buy a fully
equipped police car for the
town officers.
So far, approximately $1,200
has been contributed. Chief
Homer Cochran said. He added
that- the automobile, when pur
chased. will be given to the
town.
Franklin has no town police
car, and Officers Cochran and
H. C. Thompson have been us
ing their own automobiles.
The car, when fully equipped,
will cost about $1,400, Mr. Coch
ran said, adding that persons
who have not contributed, but
wish to do so, are asked to get
in touch with him or Mr.
Thompson.
It is planned to equip the car
with police siren, two spot
lights, back-up light, fog lights,
heater, and other accessories,
Mr. Cochran said.
Hoyt Evans
Presbyterian
Pastor Here
The Rev. B. Hoyt Evans, who
for several weeks has been
serving the Franklin Presby
terian church as supply, has
been called to become pastor
of the church, and has ac
cepted the call, he announced
this week. y
Mr. Evans, who was graduat
ed from Princeton Theological
seminary this spring with the
degree of bachelor of divinity,
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben
H. Evans, of Weaverville.
Before entering Princeton, he
was graduated from the Flat
Creek high school in Buncombe
county, Mars Hill college, and
Davidson college. He entered
Princeton under the navy V-12
program, taking training for
navy chaplaincy, and when
the program was discontinued
at the end of the war, he con
tinued his studies there. While
there, he served as assistant
pastor of the Ridgevlew Presby
terian church, West Orange, N. J.
Members of the church here
have not been notified when
he will take up his new duties
as permanent pastor, but he is
expected to fill the pulpit Sun
day.
The call was extended to him
a fortnight ago.
?Yorks
Arrested; Officer Finds
18 Gallons In Car
Three persons were arrested
Monday night when Patrolman
Pritchard Smith, Jr., found 18
gallons of non-tax paid whiskey
in the automobile they were
driving. They were captured on
the Highlands-Franklin high
ghway, headed south, a few
miles out of Franklin.
Those arrested are Mr. and
Mrs. Charlie C. York and Mrs.
Fred York, all of the Cowee
Mountain section. Also in the
car were two small children,
Mr. Smith said.
The man was placed in jail,
while the two women were re
leased on their own recogniz
ance for appearance at a hear
ing held Tuesday by C. A. Set
' ser, justice of the peace. At the
hearing, all three were bound
to superior court. The Charlie
Yorks gave a cash bond of $200,
and Mrs. Fred York made a
justified bond of $300.
The liquor was stored and the
automobile is being held pend
ing the order of the court.
Dr. I. O. Schaub, Extension
director at State college, who
"remembers when", says that
postwar conditions now sharp
ly parallel those existing in
| 1919.
The government has offered
J to buy farm wheat at any price
which may prevail between now
and April 1, 1947, in a move to
supply food to gralnless foreign
| countries.
Only In the central and
! southern portions of China Is
rice a staple article of diet.
284 Affirmative Votes
Needed To Authorize
$120,000 Issue
Since a total of 567 Franklin
persons are registered for next
Tuesday's special bond election,
at least 284 voters ? a majority
of those registered ? must go to
the polling place, in the court
house and vote in favor of
bonds, if they are to be issued.
It is proposed to issue $120,
000 in Town of Franklin bonds
for extension of water mains
and sewer lines and for street
improvements.
A special registration was re
quired for the bond election,
and Registrar John H. Thomas
announced that, at the end of
the registration period last Sat
urday 567 had registered.
The notice of election and
bond ordinances, passed by the
board of aldermen at a meet
ing May 14, call for issuance
of bonds as follows:
$70,000 for extending water
mains and installing additional
hydrants.
$20,000 For Sewer Lines
$20,00 for laying addition: 1
sewer lines.
$30,000 for resurfacing street.,.
The polling place, on the sec
ond floor of the courthouse, will
be open from 6:30 a. m. to 6:30
p. m. Tuesday.
George Dalrymple and John
M. Moore were appointed by the
board as judges of the election.
Saturday, June 22. will be
challenge day.
At the election last December
11, it was proposed to issue.
$80,000 in bonds.
Town Is Growing
Since that time, however,
members of the board of alder
men pointed out in calling an
election on a $120,000 bond is
sue, there has been much build
ing done in Franklin; the board
has constantly received new re
quests from home-owners for
water and sewer lines; and
water mains in addition than
those anticipated last December
now are required to provide for
the town's growth, in so far as
industries are concerned.
It was added that the $120,
000 bond issue . is designed to
take care of the growth of the
town in the near future, as well
as to provide for pressing im
mediate needs.
Other Election Ruled Out
The law affecting Franklin
bond issues, as interpreted by
bond attorneys, requires a spe
cial registration for such an
election, and an affirmative vote
by the majority of those regis
tered. An election, held here last
December, on the issuance of
bonds was ruled Invalid because
it was carried only by a ma
jority of those voting, and not
a majority of those registered.
The ruling was based on an
old local statute, and the pre
vious election was held invalid
despite the fact that the North
Carolina law for other towns in
the state requires only a ma
jority of those voting, and de
spite the further fact that the
general law requires that only
proceeding questioning the val
idity of such an election must
be begun within 30 days after
the date of the election.
Attend Hearing
On Motor Freight
F ranchise Rights
Mayor T. W. Angel, Jr., Frank
B. Duncan, and Mark L. Dowdle
went to Asheville Tuesday to
testify before a representative
of the State Utilities commis
sion in favor of the granting
of a franchise to the Blue Ridge
Trucking company, of Asheville.
to furnish motor freight serv
ice to Franklin.
The firm seeks the right to
haul motor freight from Ashe
ville to Sylva, Sylva to Bryson
City, Sylva to Franklin, and
Bryson City to Franklin.
The application met opposi
tion, and the petition was taken
under advisement by the com
mission.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence C.
Franklin, of Washington, D. C.,
have been here visiting Mrs.
Franklin's parents. Mr. and Mrs.
W. T. Fouts, of the Iotla com
munity. When they left Thurs
day morning to return to their
home, they were accompanied
by Mlu Deiste Mae FouU.