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FRANKLIN. N C THURSDAY, NOV. 21, 1946
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HUNEYCUTT IS
AGAIN CHOSEN
RED CROSS HEAD
Local Chapter Officer*
Elected At Annual
Meeting
The Rev. W. Jackson Huney
cutt was reelected chairman uf
the Macon County chapter of
the American Red Cross at the
annual meeting held at the
Agricultural building Monday
night.
Others elected to serve with
Mi . iluneycuu are W. K. Potts,
ot Highlands, vice-chairman?
Mrs. Florence S. Sherrill, sec
retary; and Miss Anna leaune
Fi nland, treasurer.
The lollowing cnalrmen were
named :
Mrs Gladys Kinsland, Junior
Rtd Cross; Mrs. Robert R
R. Gaines, home nursing; Miss
Lassie Kelly, production; J. S.
Conley, disaster; Mrs. Carl S.
Slagle, nutiiuon; Carl Tysinger,
first aid; J. Horner Stockton,
finance; Weimar Jones, public
ity; John M. Archer, camp and
hospital; and the Rev. Charles
E. Parker, home service.
Members of the executive
committee, in addition to the
officers, are Sidney McCarty,
Frank B. Cook, Stacy C. Russell
and Dr. Jessie Z. Moreland, of
Highlands, and George H. Hill,
James Hauser, and R. S. Jones,
of Franklin
Mr. Huneycutt presided and
introduced George B Patton.
principal speaker of the eve
ning, who discussed the human
itarian movement symbolized by
the Red Crosss in the year of
1862, and the great work that
has been carried on since, with
considerable emphasis on work
of the local chapter.
Hearing* Set For Mcnday
In Election Law Charges
The preliminary hearings, on
charges of election law viola
tions, for J. J. Mann, chairman
of the county board of elec
tions, and James Hauser, Demo
cratic marker, are set for Mon
day afternoon. They were con
tinued until that time when
the cases came before Justice
of the Peace C. A. Setser this '
week.
50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
John Trotter and Otto Love,
a few evenings ago, racing on
their bicycles on the side walk,
ran over an old ..lady and
knocked her down, inflicting
slight injuries. The city "dads"
met and promptly passed an
ordinance forbidding the riding
of bicycles on the sidewalks.
Thus we take on city atrs.
? Many have the idea that they
are serving the Lord when they
are medling with what is none
of their business. It never makes
meanness any whiter to baptize
it and take it to the church.
21 YEARS AGO
One of our lady friends had
a varied experience of late. She
came from Cullasaja to Frank
lin by ox-power,, went from
Franklin to Dlllaboro by horse
power, from Dlllaboro to Ashe
ville by steam, from the depot
up town by electricity.
Thomas W. Bird, state com
mander of the American Legion,
w'.ll be in Franklin on the night
of November 22 and address the
Macon County post. It Is to be
hoped that all ex-service men
in the county will be present.
Mr. Bird took a prominent part
In the national meeting In Kan
sas City.
1? YEARS AGO
In keeping with a custom ob
served here for some years,
church people of Franklin will
observe Thanksgiving next
Thursday at a union service to
be held at 9:30 o'clock In the
morning at the Methodist
church.
WATAUGA: Pandemonium
reigned in the Watauga school
Tuesday afternoon when a
< small dog believed to have gone
mad or to have been suffering
from fits broke Into the build
ing and threatened to bite the
teacher and eeveral of the chil
dren
MARRIED HALF A CENTURY? This protograph of Mr. and
Mrs. R D. Brendell was taken in connection with their recent
<elebntton of their Golden Wedding anniversary at their home,
I ranklin, Route 4. Both are natives of Macjn County and
members of the Watauga Baptist church. Aged 81 and 74.
respectively, they look back upon lifetimes of activity in
church and community affairs. They had 11 children, nine of
whom are living: J, B. and F. M. Brendell, Mrs. C. C. Beeco,
Mrs. W. P. Brendell, and Miss Mattie Brendell, all of Route 4;
j Mrs. S. M. Clayton, of Greenville, S. C.; F. D. and W. M. Bren
dell, of Candler; and J. B. Brendell, of the Veterans hospital,
| Augusta, Ga.
Election Cost
In This County
Totaled $1,939
The general election held
November 5 cost the county
just under $2,000.
J. J. Mann, chairman of
the county board of elec
tions, said this week that
figures compiled by his board
show the expense of hold
ing the election in this
county was $1,939.15. The
total includes the pay of
election officials throughout
! the county, printing the bal
lots, and incidental ex
penses.
W. T. Jennings
Dies In Otto Community
At Age Of 80
William Tolvin Jennings, 80,
died at his home in the Otto
community last Thursday morn
ing at 9:30 o'clock, following an
illness of several months.
Mr. Jennings, a life-long resi
dent of Macon county, was a
farmer, and a member of the
Ellijay Baptist church. Septemb
er 11, 1887, he was married to
Miss Mary Keener, who survives
Funeral services were held at
2 o'clock Friday afternoon at
the Ellijay Baptist church, with
the Rev. Fred Sorrells, officiat
ing. Burial followed in the
church cemetery.
The pallbearers were E. N.
Keener, Woodrow Shook, Doug
1 las Young, Ellias Buchanan.
Will Keener and H J. Bates.
Surviving, in addition to his
widow, are four sons, Ed and
Vance Jennings, of Cullasaja,
Everett Jennings, of Renton.
Wash., and Wesley Jennings, of
Penaacola, Fla., one daughter,
Mrs. Jessie Donaldson, of Otto;
one brother, of Cullasaja; nine
grandchildren, and a number of
irreat-grandchlldren
Potts funeral home was in
charge of the arrangements.
4 From Franklin
Attend Meeting
Of Auto Dealers
Frank B. Duncan and Charles
Conley, of Duncan Motor com
pany, R. R. Oalnes, of Burrell
Motor company, and Robert
Mooney, of Mooney Motor com
pany, attended the meeting of
the North Carolina Automobile
Dealers association at the
Oeorge Vanderbllt hotel in
Ashevllle Monday. The Frank
lin automobile dealers had as
their guest at the meeting Her
bert A. McOlamery, this coun
ty's representative-elect.
Nine From Maoon Attend
Dinner Honoring Redden
Nine local Democratic leaders
?A. B. Slagfe, L. B. Phillips,
Oeorge B Patton, E W. Long,
Guy L. Houk, Carl S. Slagle,
Ralph Penland, Lake V. Shope,
and J. J. Mann? attended a
barbecue dinner given In Hen
derson county last Saturday
night In honor of Monroe Red
den, congressman -elect from
l this district. A few leaders from
, each eounty In the district wer<
Invited.
Macon Gets
2 Hereford
Texas Bulls
The local chapter of the Fu
ture Farmers of America has
been selected to receive one of
the registered Hereford bulls
| which E. J. Whitmire, vocation
al agriculture teacher in the
Franklin High school, recently
bought in Texas on behalf of
Sears, Roebuck and company.
The mail order firm pur
chased 51 Hereford bulls for
distribution to North Carolina
agriculture students as an ex
periment the company is mak
ing in agricultural aid, and Mr
Whitmire was sent to Texas to
select them.
The animals were brought to
Raleigh; where vocational agri
culture groups from over the
state gathered the latter part
of last week.
Mr Whitmire and a group
of his boys, bringing with them
the boys' bull and one purchas
? Continued on Page Ten
The Weather
High Low Prec.
Thursday 63 23
Friday 64 24
Saturday 64 30
Sunday 55 46 78
Monday 63 42
Tuesday 58 33
Wednesday 68 34
Rainfall for month, to date,
1 1.40 inches.
GAINES HEADS
V. F. ff. POST
FOR NEXT YEAR
Unit Plans Open Meeting
On Friday Night To
Discuss Plans
Robert R Gaines was elected
commander of Macon County
Memorial Post No. 1339, Veter
ans of Foreign Wars, at last
Friday night's meeting. He suc
ceeds Howard E. Barnard
The post will hold an open
meeting tomorrow < Friday i
night at 7:30 o'clock at the
Legion hall, when some of the
serveral projects it has under
consideration will be discussed,
and officials emphasized vhat
all veterans of World Wars 1
and 2 who served overseas ire
invited to attend.
The new officers of the post
will serve until March, 1947
Elected, in addition to Mr.
Gaines, were the following:
Lester L. Arnold, senior vice
commander; Edwin Woodraw
| Shope, junior vice-commander;
| James C. McCollum, quarter
j master; Jack H. Potts, adjutant;
Jess Frank Jamison, post advo
cate; Verlon Swafford, chap
lain; James E. Perry, Jr., sur
geon; Robert Mooney, officer of
the day; Harvey Cabe, patriotic
instructor: Grover Janvson, Ir .
historian: Bill Bryson, service
officer; Paschal Norton, legis
lative officer; Curtiss L. Pear
son. three-year trustee, Carl
Ledford, two-year trustee; John
i Lyle Palmer, sergeant major;
David H. Sutton, quartermaster
sergeant; Charles N. Dowdle,
1 guard: Woodrow Reeves and N.
Paul Love, color bearers; and
Clyde Galley, bugler.
Legion To Discuss
Caretaker's Project
At Special Meeting
The local American Legion
post, at a special meeting Sat
| urday night, will receive the re
port of a committee appointed
to confer with A. B Slagle
with reference to the proposal
of the Legion to build a care
j taker's house on the Slagle Me
morial property.
Members of the committee,
named at the meeting last Sat
' urday night, are ~ Gilmer A.
Jones. Paul Nave, John Alsup,
and William (BUI) Waldroop.
? Saturday night's special meet
i ing is set for 7:30 o'clock at
the Legion hall.
Perry T o Head March
j Of Dimes Drive Here
James E. Perry, Jr., has been
appointed Macon County chair
man for the March of Dimes
; campaign to be conducted in
January to raise funds for use
in the fight against Infantile
I paralysis.
2 Of Macon s 24 Schools
Accredited By N. C. Board
Two of Macon County's 24
public schools are accredited by
the State Board of Education,
. according to a news story, re
cently published by the Raleigh
News and Observer, on accre
dited schools in the state's 100
counties.
The two schools in this county
that are accredited are those at
Franklin and Highlands.
To be accredited, a school
must measure up to certain
minimum standards. The re
quirements, as explained by the
Raleigh newspaper, are that the
school have:
A library of at least 300 vol
umes; one teacher per grade;
j laboratory facilities suitable for
general science, if a high school;
space to accommodate its stu
dents. wall maps and charts;
and teachers holding proper
certificates.
An accredited school also
must provide a minimum of 180
days of classes, exclusive of hol
idays; at least 45-minute re
citation periods; and, ? in the
case of a high school, a four
year course of study of at least
> 16 courses.
If the general requirements
are met, It is possible for a high
school with no more than three
full-time teachers to pass the
test for accreditation
The News and Observer quote!
' Raleigh school officials as say
ing that the itandards are it
easily met that only a school
which fails to offer its pupils
1 the facilities provided in the
J state law can fail to win the
rating, but Dr. J. Henry Hlgh
; smith, director of the division of
instructional service, adds that
, "in a state of 52,000 square
j miles of territory, you find all
sorts of conditions, and it takes
some time" to bring all the
Schools "to standards for ac
crediting".
While accreditation stamps
any school as meeting certain
standards, It is of special im
portance for high schools, since
graduates of non -accredited
| high schools must take entrance
examinations for admission to
most colleges.
Macon County has four high
schools, the white schools at
Franklin. Highlands, and Otter
Creek, and the Negro Chapel
school at Franklin.
The total number of schools
in counties in this region, and
the number that are accredited,
as taken from The News and
Observer list, follow:
Cherokee: 23 schools, one ac
credited; Andrews administra
tive unit, five, one accredited;
i Murphy, five, one accredited
Clay; 7, one accredited
Oraham: Ave, two accredited
i) Haywood; SO, six accredited;
Canton, 7, four accredited,
i Jackson: 37, four accredited
? Maoon: 84, two accredited,
i twain: ?; four accredited.
Churches To Hold
Joint Service On
1 hanksgiving Eve
: a
The four franklin churches
will li ild a joint Thanks
giving service at the Meth
odist church next Wednes
day evening at 7:45 o'clock,
it has been announced.
The Kev. Charles E. Park
er, Baptist pastor, will de
liver the principal message,
the Kev. A. Kufus Morgan.
Episcopal rector, will lead
thf prayer, the Kev. lioyt
Evans, pastor of the Pres
byterian church, will read
the Scripture lesson, andt1!?
Kev. W. Jackson HuJieycutt,
pastor of the host church,
will preside.
The choir will be made
up of members of the chairs
of all four churches.
CHESTER HARRIS
DIES IN WRECK
Inquest Into Franklin
Man's Death Ordered
In Sout'h Carolina
Chester C. Harris, former
manager of the army store hare
and husband of Mrs Alta x^es
i lie Ramsey Harris, teacher in
the Franklin school, was fatally
injured in the collision of his
automobile and a big van near
Westminster, S, C., last Thurs
day. Mr Harris, who was 60
years of age, died on the way
to a hospital at Anderson.
An inquest was set for today
(Thursday i at Westminster.
Mr. and Mrs. Harris, who had
taken Mrs. R. S. O'Mohundro to |
South Carolina to tike a train,
had just put her on the train
at Westminster and were head
ing toward Toccoa, Ga., when
the van came around a curVfe.
The Harris automobile was aj- j
molished Mrs. Harris suffered
painful but not sefious injuries. :
Funeral services were held at
the Calvary Episcopal church.
Fletcher. Sunday afternoon at ?
3 o'clock, with the Rev. Mr.
Jenkins, rector, officiating Bur
ial was in the church ceme
tery.
Survivors, in addition to his
widow, include two brothers.
James C. Harris, of St. Louis.
Mo., and Roy Harris, of San
Diego, Calif.
Mr. Harris, formerly engaged
in mica mining in Jackson
county, and Mrs. Harris moved
to Franklin about two years
ago.
Catherine Norton Named
Head Of Ycuth Fellowship
Catherine Norton is the new
president of the Bethel Metho
dist church Youth Fellowship,
having been chosen at the meet
ing November 12. Other new
' officers are Mrs. Nat Phillips,
vice-president; Marie Jennings,
secretary; Mary Sue Norton,
! treasurer; and Charles Webb,
song leader. Mrs. AUie Webb is
adult counselor. The organiza
j tion will be in charge of a
Thanksgiving service at the
I church next Wednesday night.
j Macon Group Attending
District Welfare Meet
! Carl S. Slagle, chairman of the j
Macon County Department of
Public Welfare. Mrs. Slagle, Al
bert L. Ramsey, member of the
board, and Mrs Eloise O. Potts,
county superintendent of wel
fare. left Thursday morning to .
attend the one-day Western Dis
trict welfare meeting at the
Langren hotel, in Asheville. Mrs. ;
Potts is chairman of the dis- '
trict resolutions committee, and j
a member of the committee on
hospitality. The district em
braces 18 Western North Caro
| Una counties.
, Red Panthers T o Play
Clarkesville Thursday
The Franklin Red Panthers
meet the Clarkesville, Ga , foot
ball team in a Thanksgiving
game here. The contest is set
for 2:30 next Thursday after
noon at the school athletic
field.
Sc heals To Be Closed
Wednesday To Monday
Most of the Macon County
schools will take two days'
I Thanksgiving holiday, closing
! next Wednesday afternoon and
remaining closed until the fol
lowing Monday, Supt. Ouy L.
Houk announced.
REPORTS MADE
ON PROJECTS TO
BETTER SCHOOL
P. T. A. Hears Talk
By Mrs. Kittrell
On Bookmobile
Reports 011 projects designed
to improve the Franklin school
and a talk by Mrs. Helen Kit
trell, librarian of the bookmo
bile that serves this region, were
highlights ot Monday night's
meeting of the Franklin Par
ent-Teacher association, held at
the school
Arrangements have been com
pleted 10 have made repairs
that were recommended by W
F. Hart, district sanitary in
spector, in the rest rooms, in
cluding installation of a floor
drain to prevent the water's
standing on the floor in the
boys' rest room, it was reported
by Mrs. W E. Hunnicutt. In
addition, she said, the associa
tion has employed a maid to
keep the rest rooms clean.
Another committee reported
that it had interviewed County
Supt. Guy L. Houk with refer
ence to an offer made by the
Westinghouse company to in
stall, at a nominal cost, for ad
vertising purposes, a quantity
of new equipment in the home
economics department The com
mittee reported Mr Houk gave
assurance that the Westing
house offer, or one by General
Electric, will be accepted.
A third committee, which dis
cussed with the superintendent
a project for the construction
of a small building to provide
the school with a lunchroom
and to give the home enonom
ics department larger quarters,
reported that it was given no
encouragement.
Mrs. S H. Lyle reported that
the finance committee has
made arrangement for the pre
sentation of a professionally
directed, home talent musical
show at the courthouse on the
evenings of December 6 and 7.
Mrs. Marion Perce reported
total paid memberships to date
of 598, and also told of gride
parties held and planned. The
second grade, she announced,
will sponsor a radio talent per
formance at the courthouse No
vember 30 to raise money to
buy a radio for the grade. Mrs.
Pearl Hunter told of the work
of the parent education com
mittee, and Mrs. John Bulgin,
secretary, reported for the ex
ecutive committee.
The second grade rooms of
Mrs. Elsie W. Franks and Mrs.
Haughton Williams tied for the
prize for having the largest
number of parents present.
Mrs. Kittrell, introduced by
the program chairman, Mrs. Al
len Siler. told the group that
last year the bookmobile lent
nearly 90.000 books, 65,000 of
which were children's books The
total library circulation of the
bookmobile and the county li
braries in Macon, Swain, and
Jackson counties, she said, was
130,000 She remarked that a
large proportion of the books
read by children are non-fic
tion. *
The Rev. Hoyt Evans, Presby
terian pastor, 'conducted the de
votional. S. W. Mendenhall and
Mrs. J. A. Flanagan led group
singing, and Mrs. Weimar Jones,
presfdent. presided.
Seasons On Quail,
Rabbit, Grouse To
Open Thanksgiving
Next Thursday? Thanksgiving
day ? brings the opening of
seasons for quail, rabbit, and
ruffed grouse.
Quail and rabbit hunters will
find new bag liml.ts in effect
this season The daily limit for
quail has been reduced from 10
to eight, with a season limit
Of 150. There will be a d^ily
bag limit of 10 for rabbit, with
no season limit.
Seasons for quail and rabbit
will continue through January
31.
The grouse season will con
tinue through January 1, with
> a daily bag limit of two and a
season limit of 10.
Coming on December 2 is the
\ second Installment of North
Carolina's dove season, which
j will extend through January 15.
Cattle and sheep graced on
pasture treated wtth the 2, 4-D
; weed -killer have shown no
symptoms of discomfort or 111
inass. '