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FRANKLIN, N. C.. THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1946
$2.00 PER YEAR
FRANKLIN LETS
CONTRACT FOR
IMPROVEMENTS
Asheville Paving Firm
, Bid Of $105,568
Accepted
Contract for Franklin's street,
water, and sewer improvement
program was awarded to the
Asheviiie Paving company, t>f
Asheville, for $105,507.75, when
the bids were opened by the
board of aldermen August 22.
Only two bids were submit
ted The bid of the E. H. Hines
Construction company, of
Greenwood, S. C., the other bid
' der, was $114,976.50.
The construction work will be |
begun as soon as materials be
come available, officials of the j
Asheville Paving company said,
but they added that it will be
Impossible to start the paving
and water extension work be
fore next spring. No steel pipe
. i.s available now, they said.
It is hoped that the project I
to extend the sewer system can
be begun this fall, but even
terra cotta pipe is difficult to
obtain, it was said.
The funds for the work will
come from a town bond issue
authorized by a vote of the peo
ple in an election held June 25.
At that time, a total bond is
sue of $120 000 was voted. The
program calls for expenditures
not to exceed $70,000 for ex
tending the water mains and
installing additional fire hy
drants; $30,000 for street pav
ing; and $20,000 for extending
the sewer lines.
Slagle
Starts Work On Scout
Memorial Building
A B Slagle this week began
work on the Charlie Slagle me
merolial ? a Boy Scout-Commun
ity building of native stone, to
be jan^uctetl, .oa ? the .wBQ(kd
hill just back of the Nantahala
creamery.
Grading for the drive, which
will circle the hill, has been '
finished, and excavation for the
building is about completed, Mr. ]
F.lagle said. I
Stockton Family Will
I'o'd Reunion Sunday
Th" Stockton family reunion
will be held at the old Stockton
home place on North Skeenah 1
next Sunday. This is. the first
meeting since the outbreak of
the war, and all members of
this family are urged to be pres
end and bring a basket lunch.
50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
John Trotter has just receiv
ed a new bicycle. It's the first
dogon'd thing to get the editor
of the Press down and get on
top.
Mr. Wm. Penland, a highly
respected citizen of Macon coun
ty, died at his home a few miles
out of town, at 9:30 o'clock
Monday night, at the age of 81
years. It is a singular coincL- (
dence that he and his wife
were both born in the same [
month. January, and both died !
In tile' same month, August.
25 YEARS AGO
Tellico: We are having a good
school. Miss Evle certainly
knows how to use the "hickory
tea."
FLATS: The stork unloaded a
fine girl with Mr. and Mrs. L.
A. Boone on the 16th inst.
Mr and Mrs Zeb Conley an
nounce the birth of a daughter,
on Friday, August IB, 1921.
1* YEARS AGO
A Macon County lodge of the
Loyal Order of Moose will be
organized Friday night at 8
o'clock at a meeting In the Odd
Fellows Hall. Twenty-five or
more applications have been re
ceived, while an original quota
of 50 had been set.
A large wooden tabernacle on
Wayah street is being pushed to
completion this week under the
direction of the Rev. A. A. Angel,
Methodist minister and tomb
stone manufacturer, and will be
formally opened at a service to
be held at 3 o'clock Sunday
afternoon. - ?
14,307 Volumes Lent
By Franklin Public
Library During Year
A total of 14,307 volumes went
Into Macon County homes from
the Franklin Public library dur
ing the fiscal year ended June
30, the report of Mrs. Frank I.
Murray, the lLbrarlan, shows
The total number of volumes
in the library at the end of the
year was 8,019, of which 494
were added during the 12-month
period.
Nearly half of the volumes
circulated are children's books.
The report shows that the to
tal of 14,307 was made up of
1,310 adult non-fiction; 6,370
adult fiction; and 6,627 child
ren's books.
The books in stock are: 4,308
for adults, and 3,648 for chil
dren. The library also sub
scribes to two newspapers and
eight magazines.
The library is open daily from
1 to 5 p m., except Saturdays
and Sundays.
Mrs Murray also pointed out '
the service of the bookmobile, ,
sponsored by the Fontana Reg
ional Library board, and serv
ing Macon, Jackson, and Swain 1
counties. The bookmobile, dur
ing the year ended June 30,
covered a distance of 10,524 ]
miles, carrying books to all sec
tions of the three counties, and |
made a total of 1,204 Book-lend- j
ing stops
The following books have been .
shelved by the Franklin library .
recently: j
Portrait of a Marriage, Buck; j
America Is In the Heart, Bui- |
osan; My Lady of Cloves. 1
Barnes; Woman as Force in
History, Beard; Blood of the ?
Lamb. Baker; This is Goodbye.
Beauer; The Unreasoning Heart, I
Beresford-Howe; Lady in the i
Tower, Burt; The Life Line, (
Bottome; Washington Tapestry,
Clapper; A House in the Up- :
lands. Caldwell.
This Side of Innocence, Cald
well; Deborah, Castle; The
Long Year, Chidester; The Bit
ter Box, Clark; Religion in Rus
sia, Casey; Volcanoes, New and
Old, Coleman; Year One, Dele
hanty; Country Heart, Dick;
Lawrence Vane, du , Mauier;
What Way My Journey Lies,
Fenton; Lord Hornblower, For
ester; The Popular Medical Enc,
Fishblen; No More a Stranger,
Fisher.
Omit Flowers, Please, Gaines;
Through the Storm, Gibbs;
Yankee Storekeeper, Gould;
Shadow on the Trail, Gray; Oh
Dear, What Shall I Wear, Gar
nell; Robert Gordon, M. D.,
Harris; Bright Arrows, Hill;i'
Hawk's Flight, Hull; Iran, Haas;
American, . Hagedorn; Faster,
Faster, Horn; The Innocent Mrs.
Duff. Holding; The Great Prom- i
ise, Houston.
The Cherokee Strip, James; !
Still to the West, Jones; Skin- ,
ny Angel, Jones; Land of the !
rorreones, Kelland; I Chose I
Freedom. Kravehenko; The ;
Great Divorce. Lewis; Cousin i
from Fiji, Lindsay; Peace of j ?
Mind, Liebman; The Member of;
the Wedding. McCullers; A
Treasury of Antiques, McBride, j |
Our Own Kind, McSorley; Then
and Now. Maugham; Spotlight
Miller; Mink Coat, Norris. j
Antioch Actress. Perkins;
Wake of the Red Witch, Roark; ,
[f You Ask Me. Roosevelt; j
Starling of the White House, j
Sugrue; Foretaste of Glory,
Stewart; . Burma Surgeon Re- ]
turns, Seagrave; Old Doc, Sei- !
fert; A World to Win, Sinclair;
rhe Idea of Christ in the Gos- 1
pel, Santayana; Flags of All I
Nations. Smith; Aloha, Temp
ski; Winter Meeting, Vance:
General Wainswright's Story ?
Wainswright; and The Foxes of
Harrow, Yearby.
The Weather
High Low Prec.
Thursday 86 64
Friday 87 60
Saturday ... 81 61 2.27
Sunday 81 60
Total rainfall to date, this
month,, 2.74 inches Total to
date, this year, 42.98 inches.
Reunion Held
By Sloan As
52 Gather
The eight children of Mrs. J.
S. SIosjh last week were at home
together for the first time in
25 years.
To celebrate the occasion, Mrs.
Sloan and her family enter
tained descendants of the late
William and Timoxena Sloan at
a picnic dinner family reunion
at ? the Sloan home Friday.
Fifty-two persons ? representing
four generations ? enjoyed the
family gathering.
Attending from out of town
were W N. Sloan and Miss T
Sloan, of Atlanta, Mr. and Mrs.
J. R (Dlckt Sloan, of Pelham.
Qa., Mr. and Mrs Jess Sloan,
of Pelham," Ga., Carter S. Sloan
and his son, Pat, of San Seba,
Texas, Mrs. I. L. Gaston ancl
son, Dewey, of Lenoir City,
Tenn.. Miss Eleanor Sloan, of
Lewlston, Idaho, Mr. and Mrs.
F. M. Tessier and son, Walter,
of Baton Rouge. La , Mr. and
Mrs. W. S. (Bill) Smith and
children, Billy and Patricia, of
Baton Rouge. Miss Harriette
Klnnebrew, of Atlanta. Miss Cal
leene Crawford, of Washington,
D. C , and Miss L. M. Jones, of
Raleigh.
All of the Sloan children have
returned to their homes, except
Miss Eleanor Sloan, who will
be here untLl next week.
Cub Scouts To Have
Picnic Meet Saturday
A Cub Scout pack meeting,
picnic, and overnight camp will
be held at Camp Lumpkin on
Saturday night, it was announc
ed this week by Cubmaster R
E McKelvey.
A11 cubs and parents will
meet at the Methodist church
at < p. m. Saturday, bringing
lunch for the picnic.
The earth la surrounded by ?
blanket of air 100 mllta deip.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
78 60
83 57
82 57
Church Heads :
Are Named By
Methodists
At the fourth quarterly con
ference. held at the Franklin
Methodist church Sunday the
following stewards were elected
to serve for the ensuing year:
T. W. Angel. Jr., Robert Blaine, i
C. N (Joe> Dowdle, Dr. W E. |
Furr, Harmon H. Gnuse, James I
Hauser, Guy L. Houk. E. W
Long. Sam W. Mendenhall. Paul
West. W. W. Sloan. E. J. Whit
mire, H. A. Wilhide, Russell
Cabe, Richard S. Jones, W S.
Katenbrink. and Rutherford
Snyder, all of Franklin; and
Earl Cabe, George Conley, Fred
Moore, Jess Shope, George Stal
cup, Henry Waldroop, Homer
Green, Nelson Waldroop and Edd
Wallace, all of Carson's Chapel |
The honorary stewards are
Marcus L. Dowdle, Jess S. Con
ley, Henry W. Cabe. Harold T. ;
Sloan, C. Gordon Moore, A. B. '
Slagle and T. W Porter, Sr.
The reserve stewards are Jess .
S Conley. Harold T. Sloan and ,
William V. Swan, and the com- ,
mur.ion stewards are Mrs Carl ,
Tysinger and Mrs. Fred Moore.
Sunday school superintendents ,
chosen are George H. Hill, for j
the Franklin church, and Horn
er Greene for the Carson Chapel (
church.
Presidents of the Youth Fel- ,
lowshlp elected were Neal Moon- ,
ey, Franklin, and Horace Led- ,
ford, Carson Chapel, and the ;
adult counselors for the inter
mediates are Mrs. John D. Al- '
sup, Franklin, and Mrs. Florence
S Sherrill, Carson Chapel.
Directors named for the Gold
en Cross societies are Gordon
Moore, Franklin, and Adolph
Zoellner, Carson Chapel.
Trustees for the church prop
erty are Harold T. Sloan, C.
Gordon Moore, Joe DoWdle, Dr.
W. E. Furr, A. B. Slagle, T. W.
Angel, Jr., Nelson Waldroop,
Paul West and Edd Wallace.
Maaon Family To Hold
Reunion Next Sunday
A reunion of the Mason fam
ily will be held Sunday at the
home of Oscar Mason, of Frank
lin. All relatives and friends
are invited to come and bring
basket lunches.
Half the American annual
food bill of 20 billion dollars
will be spent for quick frozen
foods within ten yiari. i
INDIAN MOUND
DRIVE LAGGING:
$435 DONATED
Lei* Than Third Of Total
Sought Raised So F ar ;
Time Expiring
Twelve additional donations,
received by Treasurer J. C. Jac
obs during the past week, have
brought the contributions to the
Nikwasi Indian Mound fund to
a total of $435
This lacks $65 of being one
third of the $1,500 sought to
buy the property on which the ;
Indian Mound stands, just west
of the Little Tennessee River
bridge, so that the Mound may
be preserved
The latest donors are E. C.
Rankin, Miss T. Sloan, W. N.
Slcan, Mrs. J S. Sloan, Mrs.
Ellen Hurst. Mrs Louise Sewell, |
L. B Phillips, Miss Laura M
Jones, Mrs. Gilmer A. Jones, G.
Lyle Jones, B C. Dendy, and
Miss Freda Siler.
The campaign for contribu
tions got under way several
weeks ago, following organiza
tion of the Nikwasi Indian
Mound association, which pro
poses to buy the property by
public subscription and deed it
to the Town of Franklin, with \
the town serving as a sort of i
trustee to insure the Mound's (
preservation. The association >.s 1 ,
headed by the Rev. A. Rufus '
Morgan. j (
W. Roy Carpenter, the owner ,
of the property, agreed to sell '
It for $1,500. provided purchase
is made by August 31. .
Name Thorpe
District Head
For USO Drive '
Appointment of" j. e. S.
rhorpe, of Franklin, as district '
chairman of the 1946-47 U.S.O . !
campaign, has been announced i
oy North Carolina's lieutenant
governor , L. Y Ballentine. who
is state campaign chairman J
Seven counties are embraced ,
in the district U.S.O. organiza
tion, which Mr. Thorpe will '
head. They are Macon, Chero
kee, Clay, Graham, Haywood,
Jack*on, and Swain. County
chairmen will be named for
each county in the district prior 1
to opening of the actual drive 1
which is scheduled for October '
The 1946-47 drive will be the
last U. S. O. campaign it has '
been designated by President)
Truman and other national I
leaders as the "See-It-Through"
campaign. As the D. S. O di
rectors have announced USO
will complete its wartime, de- '
tnoblization . and reconversion
services December 31, 1947.
Last year funds for the oper
ation of USO were raised as a
part of the National War fund ,
This year the USO campaign is ! ,
separate and distinct, as activ- '
ities of the United War Fund
will terminate at the end of
December of this year.
In emphasizing the impor
tance of the work to be done
by the USO during 1947, Lt.
Governor Ballentine pointed out
that some 59,000 North Carolina
men and womep are still in
service or In hospitals, "and
they need the program carried i
m by the USO. We cannot let ,
them down. Many of them are 1
serving in foreign lands, thou- ,
sands of miles from home and ,
some are in lonely out-post hos
pitals. We, I am sure, will not
let them down."
Fishermen Come
Home With Bag
Of Gray Fcx 1
T. W. Porter and Cecil Pen
dergrass, both well known as
fishermen, Tuesday had the un
usual experience of going fish
ing and coming Home with a
IOX
They fished in the lake at
Aquone, where they reported
they had fair luck, and were
driving home shortly after dark
when they noted a gray fox in
the road. Apparently blinded by
the car lights, the fox failed to
get out of the highway and was
struck and killed by the auto
mobile.
The fishermen? turned fox
hunters ? stopped, picked him
up, and brought him home
The United States has ship
ped about 20S.000.000 bushels of
wheat abroad for famine relief
in the last tlx month*.
Baby Squirrels
Are 'Adopted'
By Mother Cjt
John Houston, 14, son of
Mr. and > Mrs. Garfield
Houston, of the Buck Creek
section of this county, re
cently found three baby |
squirrels, when he cut a tree
while getting out saw logs.
The mother was nowhere to
be seen, and the boy took
the babies home with him. ,
The question of feeding ,
the squirrels immediately
arose, but the problem was
quickly solved. I
A mother cat of the Hous- |
tons came to the rescue, j
took over the squirrels as
foster children, and feeds ,
and carries them around (
just as she does her own. j
And the young squirrels are j ,
thriving. ,
COUNTY RICHER j
AS COURT ENDS '
$6,456 Paid In Fines, |
F orf eited Bonds ,
And F ees i
Macon County is $6,456 richer t
as a result of last week's crim- |
inal superior court, figures com- |
piled in the office of A. R Hig- (
don, clerk of superior court, t
show. 1
Of this total, $6,319 goes to
the county school fund, and ?
$137 to the county's general v
fund. ' 1
As a result of court, orders, c
the county collected the follow- i
ing sums: -
Forfeited bonds, $3,125. c
Fines, $2,950. v
Solicitor's fees, $244.
Jury tax, $137. c
It is the last-named amount ?
that goes to the general fund. ,
Mrs. Henson
Taken By Death At Her
Home Near Franklin I J
Mrs. Lucille Henson, 68, wife \
Df James D Henson, died at f
their home. Franklin, Route 3, t
Tuesday morning at 11:45
a'clock, following an illness of s
two months, the funeral services j
were held on Wednesday after- ]
noon at 3 o'clock at the Tellico i
Baptist church. The Rev. Jud- <
son Smith, pastor, officiated, i
and burial followed in the _
church cemetery.
Mrs. Henson. the former Miss
Lucille Cragg. had lived in Ra
bun county, Georgia, until 1939
when she moved to this county.
She was a member of the First (
Baptist church in Atlanta, Ga. (
The pallbearers were Dutch (
Dills. Jim Stewart, R L. Hall,
John Gribble, Jim Tallent and ]
Alfred Tallent. i
Surviving, in addition to her ^
husband, are two sons, Joseph | (
and Luther Henson, of Turtle- j j
town, Tenn.; one daughter, Mrs
Pearl Justice, of Franklin; Route (
J; and 11 grandchildren.
The arrangements were under
the direction of the Bryant fu- ^
neral home. i .
Mrs. Pendergrass
Dies At Her Home In
Kyle Section
Mrs. Sarah Cope Pendergrass.
53, wife of George Pendergrass,
af the Kyle section, died at her
home Tuesday morning at 1
D'clock. following an illness of
an week.
Mrs. Pendergrass, a native of
lackson county, was a daugh
ter of the late Mr. and Mrs
Andy Cope Following her mar
riage to George Pendergrass
about 35 years ago. she has re
sided in Macon County. She
wJas a member of the Flats
Baptist church.
Funeral services were held at
the Aquone Baptist church on
Wednesday morning at 10
o'clock, with the Rev. T. D.
Dendy, pastor, officiating. In
terment followed in the church
cemetery.
The pallbearers were Joe
Wright, Thurman Carter, Grady
Ray. Carl Bateman, Fred Pen
dergrass, Willie Pendergrass.
Surviving are her husband;
one daughter. Miss Mary Pen
dergrass: one son, Claude Pen
dergrass, both of whom live at
the home; two brothers, John
Cope, of Aquone, and Ange
Cope, of Jackson county; and
two sisters, Mrs. Jane Haney,
of Franklin, Route 3, and Mrs
Tlney Webber, of Gastonia.
Bryant funeral directors were
In charge of the arrangements.
AWARDS $1,000
TO MRS. SLOAN
IN POWER CASE
Another Jury Returns
$3,500 Verdict For
Fractured Leg
In the suit of Mrs. J. S. Sloan
against the Nantahala Power
and Light company lor alleged
.vater damage, a jury late Wed
nesday awarded a verdict of $1,
100 to Mrs. Sloan Counsel lor
the plaintiff filed notice of ap
peal to the state supreme court.
Completion of that case con
cluded the August term of Ma
con superior court ? the first in
several years that the court ses
>ion have continued into thf
second week.
In another damage suit, a
ury this week returned a ver
lict of $3,500 in lavor of Barry
Hawkins of Horse Cove, against
;he Smoky Mountain Trailways.
The suit grew out of a motor
vehicle accident in which Mr.
iawkins suffered a broken leg.
The injury was received in the
collision of a Trailways bus. on
vhich the plaintiff was a pas
senger, with a motor vehicle of
he Carr Lumber company, and
wth were named as defendants,
)ut at the conclusion of the evi
ience. Judge Zeb V. Nettles,
jresiding, dismissed the action
is to the Carr Lumber company.
The Sloan-power company case
;rew out of the raising of the
vater level of the power lake
lere by one foot in 1943. The
company, when it increased the
weight of the dam. condemned
;uch of Mrs. Sloan's land as was
lamaged by the resulting higher
vater level.
The case first went to a jury
>f view, which awarded Mrs
Sloan $2,500 in damages. Both
he plaintiff and the defendant
ippealed from that verdict, and
he case then came up for trial
n superior court.
The plaintiff alleged that the
falue of 15 acres of bottom
and was destroyed when the
vater was backed up another
oot The defendants alleged
here was no damage.
Three divorces were granted
it this term of civjl court:
Fames L. Brown from Vivian
Brown; Ora Lee Deryberry from
William Deryberry; and William
3rady. Crawford, Jr., from Mary
luth Crawford.
rhis State Gains
1,460 Industrial,
Commercial Firms
? *
North Carolina had a net gain
>f 1,460 industrial and commer
:ial firms and 14,746 workers
luring the fiscal year ended
lune 30, 1946, roughly the first
?econversion year, as measured
jy the net increase of firms
jovered by the Unemployment
Compensation law, it is revealed
jy Henry E. Kendall, chairman
)f the State Unemployment
Compensation commission.
During that year 1,216 firms
vith 53.090 covered workers re
ared from UC law coverage,
vhile 2,676 new firms with 67,
136 covered workers were
jrought under coverage. S. F.
Campbell, director of research
ind statistics, pointed out that
?etirement may mean that firms
:onsolidated, and that new cov
;rage may be old or consolidat
;d firms, or firms with fewer
,han eight workers which may
lave come under coverage, vol
untarily or involuntarily, dra to
?elationship with other firms.
These figures, however, bear
>ut the known condition that
nany small firms have started
justness or industry in the
state since the war ended
Smokey Says :
OROWIN'TRHS IS EASIER. THAN
GROWIN' CORN- ALL rHAT>
NfCWARV-JUsr ntKMTFKt'/
*Wtv
aoSSoii.
Troll are a crop that mm no
cultivation, only fir* protection.
Repeated harvest! over the yeari
can be taken from woodland! fivro
Juit rtaionable fan, J