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franklin Tftrt&z ?ni ?ke BRigkiatifts JKaxjmxzm i Published eiery Thursday by the Franklin Press At Franklin, North Carolina VOL. LXII Number three WEIMAR JONES Editor-Publisher Entered at the Post Office, Franklin, N. C? as second class matter Telephone No. 24 Obituary notices, cards of thanks, tributes of respect, by in dividuals, lodges, churches, organizations or societies, will be re garded as advertising and inserted at regular classified advertis ing rates. Such notices will be marked "adv." in compliance with the postal regulations. One Year Six Months ... Three Months Single Copy .. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 ; $1.00 60 Something Is Wrong THK State of North Carolina, which operates the public schools, has a surplus of $50,000,000. Vet the principal of the Franklin school has had to appeal to patrons to contribute funds to pay the school's electric light bills! His letter explains that "we have used up the allotment already". The state allots funds for electricity, just as it does for fuel, on a per pupil basis. In other words, it assumes an absurdity. It allots funds on the theory that Franklin will have as many bright, sun shinv winter days as the winter resort of Pine hurst ; and that the average winter temperature in Franklin will be as high as that in Wilmington? But that is onlv half the picture. Macon County also has school funds. It levies a tax of seven cents on the $100 valuation, for the specific purpose of paying current expenses of the schools. In addition, court fines, forfeitures, etc., go into the countv school fund. The seven-cent tax is estimated to yield about $7,000, and the school fund received more than $6,000 from a single term of superior court last year. Yet the principal's letter to patrons states: "The county cannot pay for these extra lights because there was no provision made for them in last year's budget?" Why was no provision made? Doesn't every good budget provide for just such contingencies1 as this one? * * * Something is wrong. The electric light incident is only one in a long series. Something is wrong in Raleigh. We, here in Ma con County, working alone, cannot remedy the state situation ; that's up to the people of the whole state. But something is wrong in Macon, too. And the state can't solve our problem. It belongs to us. What can we do? As a long-range proposition, we might well start off by insisting that the county board of education meet often enough to know what is going on ? at the least, that it comply with the law which, says it must meet not less than four times a year. And to get immediate action, we might call for a public meeting of both the retiring and incoming members of the board, so as to give citizens an op portunitv to state their grievances and their prob lems, and to offer their suggestions as to remedies. Present indications are that the people of Macon will get action only when they demand it. "... Remained To Pray" Last spring when it was proposed to bring the North Carolina Little Symphony to Franklin, there was considerable skepticism about the whole project. Wasn't it too large a financial undertaking for a community of this size? Was it worth the money? Were there enough music lovers in Macon County to make it worth while? Who wanted to hear "a lot of high brow stuff", anyhow? etc. But most of those who came to scoff figuratively remained to pray. It not only was put over financially, but the spon soring organization had a little surplus. Before the concert began, every seat had been sold, with peo ple clamoring for standing room. And persons who attended in the confident expectation of being bored were among those most enthusiastic in praise of the project. People with no musical training what ever ? and that means most of us ? were surprised to find themselves delighted with the program, even the most classical selections. Last year a lot of people bought tickets out of a sense of duty. This year they will buy for an en tirely different reason ? simply because they want to hear the concert. Make the moit of yourself, for that U all there if of you. ?Emerwn. Others' Opinions <^HECK If the General Electric airmen are going into an extensive program of making snow by dropping dry ice through the clouds, we serve notice that the air above our sidewalk belongs to us We want them to keep out.? Milwaukee Journal. "HITS NAIL ON HEAP" The Franklin Press points out in an editorial, the lack of a planning program for the development of the county and town in the face of the fast development of both. The Press hits the nail on the head, and what is happening in Macon and Franklin is also true right here in Waynesville and Hay wood County. ? Waynesville Mountaineer. MIGHT BE SURPRISING For some time I have been planning to take a census of the town just to see what the weekly pay roll Is here, but have not had the time to do it. Most every day you can hear some one say what we need is a payroll when in fact we have a good sized pay roll now. Without taking time to count suppose you hand me a guess as to what It amounts to weekly. The one guessing nearest to the correct amount will get a free copy of my almanac. ? L. P. Cross In Clayton Tribune. CANDY COSTS The people of the United States have developed a sweet tooth to a higher degree than ever because candy sales, by dollar volume, have never been so high. It is estimated that sales by all manufacturers for this year will exceed $600,000,000. This seems like a tremendous amount, but it boils down to slightly more than $4 a month per capita. This is equivalent to about thirteen cents a day and if you think the amount is high, consult any boy or girl between the ages of ten and fifteen years. ? Kernersville News. PROFESSOR E. H. STILLWELL Edgar Herman Stillwell, teacher and social scientist, had his roots deep in Western North Carolina and drew upon his native region for the equipment which a teacher and scholar requires. Like many a good schoolman, his educational interests were broad and his experience in teaching ran back to the very foundations of education ? the public school. Western Carolina Teachers' college suffers a loss in his death which the whole mountain region will share. Professor Stillwell had contact with literally thousands of students over the years from 1899-1902, when he taught in Jackson County, until the last school year, when he rounded out more than four decades of association with Cullowhee, latterly as head of the depart ment pf social sciences. English literature and history were Professor Stillwell's fields of interest, and he concentrated on the latter from 1915 on ward. He found tLtpe apart from his classroom duties to write and publish important historical material on the mountain region from life-long and intimate knowledge of its sources. A modest, quite, devout man, utterly dedicated to the service of his community, Edgar Herman Stillwell will be remembered best as a good teacher who left his stamp on many young lives. In an era when the art of teaching is so little empha sized in higher education, that is perhaps a tribute beyond p>-ice. ? Asheville Citizen. CAN ARTISTS' GLAMOR BRING HEALTH TO N. C.? Can North Carolinians attain a workable good health pro gram by ballyhoo? The Greensboro Daily News, in sober mood, thinks not and declares, "Good health is not going to be sold like toothpaste or soap in North Carolina." In which comment there is food lor thought. There is, beyond doubt, a serious need in North Carolina for more hospitals, more doctors, more nurses and better public health facilities. Unquestionably the legislature should appro priate ample funds for the protection of health. But it must study the matter coolly and carefully with a view of obtain ing maximum benefit? to health from the amount spent. It should guard against inadvisedly tossing money down rat holes. It must take its time, devise a sensible health program, and let the ballyhoo go down the drain. Glamor and radio hoopla are all right in their places, but where the serious matter of health is concerned, they can well be left out of the picture. For, while the public is greatly en tertained by the song-and-dance, the wise-crack artist and the Hollywood celebrities, it has come to take the bill of goods they glorify with several grains of salt. Usually, the Hollywood hot-shot pushes a product, not for any love of humanity, but for cold cash or publicity. The public knows this only too well. Therefore, there is the danger that the North Carolina Good Health association's glamorized cam paign may leave a blase public cold. This, even though the artists backing it may be on the level. Fortunately, legislators headed for' Raleigh are sharply di vided on the best means of promoting good health, and a large number of them are undecided on the proper procedure to be taken. Hence there is a good chance that a worthwhile program can be molded after calm deliberation, sans radio crooners and glamor boys and girls. ? Raleigh Times. FIREWORKS AND FIREWATER From several quarters of the State news has appeared In the papers that legislators are planning to introduce bills banning the sale of fireworks in their respective baliwicks. With their purpose and desire to rid their communities of exploding firecrackers through the Christmas season and the possible saving of several of the hapless from personal injury from using gun powder and dynamite as playthings, the Herald is in full sympathy. But whether legislation will accomplish the purpose or not is another matter. Hertford county's experience during the past year is con vincing that local option in banning fireworks sales will not stop people from procuring them and popping them off in for bidden territory. This county banned fireworks sales last year. The legal ban on the sales had exactly the same effect that the prohibition agaLnst the sale of whiskey in Hertford county had to keep folks from buying and drinking whiskey. That ef fect was that the folks who wanted fireworks went out of the county, bought them, brought them back, and popped them off at wasteful and extragavant expense, doubtful pleasure to themselves and the disgust of those whose nerves were frayed and shattered by the explosions. This w.as the same as did the folks who wanted the doubtful and expensive pleasure of hav ing Christmas liquor for themselves and their friends. And, if they had not been able to go out of the county and buy them, these people who enjoy the dangerous and sometimes annoying pleasure of shooting off firecrackers would have bought their firecrackers from mailorder houses. The folks who wanted liquor would have made, sold and bought it by blockade methods. All of the above Is simply another way of saying It U a very hard thing to control the pleasures of the public by legis lation and prohibition. Shooting fireworks and drinking liquor are examples? Hertford County Herald. Tl? education forma the common mind; Just a* the twig Is bant the tree's Inclined. -fopt, LEGAL AD' NOTICE OF SALE NORTH CAROLINA MACON COUNTY Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained In a certain deed of trust executed by Oerald W Cornelius and his wife, Mildred S. Cornelius, dat ed the 28th day of September, 1946, and recorded in Book No 39 of Mortgages and Deeds of Trust, at page 145, in the office of the Register of Deeds of Ma con County, North Carolina, de fault having been made in the payment of the indebtedness thereby secured and said deed of trust being by the terms thereof subject to foreclosure, and the holder of the Indebted ness thereby secured having re quested that same be foreclosed, the undersigned trustee will of fer for sale and sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, at the times and places hereinafter mentioned, the real and personal property conveyed in said deed of trust, the same being In Highlands Township, Macon County, North Carolina, described as follows: REAL PROPERTY: The land described In the deed from Rebecca Harris to Gerald W. Cornelius, dated 14 November, 1945, and recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds of Macon County, North Caro lina, In Deed Book N-5, page 299. PERSONAL PROPERTY: Delta Disc Sander and ac cessories, No. 422576. Delta belt sander and ac cessories. Delta 12" lathe and acces sories, No. 385935. Delta 10" lathe and acces saries. Assortment of hand tools. Delta Drill - Grinding at tachment, No. B66Y893311 Delta 14" Band Saw and ac cessories, No. 404020. Delta Wood turning tools. Stanley bench planes. Delta Rip Saw and acces sories, No. 309225. Delta scroll saw and acces sories, No. 379614. Delta Drill Press and ac cessories, No. 321467. Delta Jointer and accessor ies, No. 314210 Delta Plane Bit Grinder. Delta Moulding Cutters. Stanley Router No. C5387A. Delta Tool Grinder. DeWalt Saw and attach ments, No. 43730. Parks Planer 12" x 4". Binks Spray Outfit. Shop Fan (Exhaust) Dado heads. Bench clamps and vises. Construction Tools. Shop lights, switches and other equipment. Cut-off Saw, No. 2077455 Sanding Machine belt. Surveying Level and Trans it. Miscellaneous items of mer chandise, such as lamps etc. One 1946 model l'A ton Ford Truck, Motor No. 699-T 819858. The real property above de scribed will be offered for sale and sold at the courthouse door in Franklin, Macon County, North CarolLna, at 12:00 o'clock noon on the 1st day of Febru ary, 1947. The personal property above described will be offered for sale and sold at what Is known as the Prefab Shop on Pine Street, in the Town of High lands, Macon County, North Carolina, at ,1:00 o'clock P. M. on the 1st day of February, 1947. This the 1st day of January, 1947. J. H. STOCKTON, Trustee J 9 ? 4tc? J30 EXECUTRIX NOTICE Having qualified as executrix of Cheater C. Harris, deceased, late of Macon County, N. C., this Is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 30th day of December, 1M7, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. All persons Indebted to said estate will please make Immediate settle ment. This 30th day of December, 1946. ALTA RAMSEY HARRIS, Executrix. J2 ? 6tp ? Ffl ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE Having qualified as adminis tratrix of William A. Dills, de- , ceased, late of Macon County, N. c , this is to notify all per sons having claims against the estate of said deceased to ex hibit them to the undersigned on or before the Uth day of December, 1M7, or this notice will be plead In bar of their recovery. AU persons indebted to said estate will please make Immediate settlement. This 10th day of Deoember, IMS MR*. WILL DILLS, Administratrix. With the Churches BAPTIST First Church, Franklin The Rev. Charles E. Parker, Pastor 8unday: 9:45 a. m. ? Sunday school. 11 a. m. ? Worship. ? :30 p. m. ? Training union. 7:30 p. m. ? Worship. Wednesday: 7:30 p. m. ? Prayer meeting. EPISCOPAL St. Afnes Church. Franklin The Rev. A. Rufus Morgan, Pastor Sunday: 10 a. m. ? Church school. 11 a. m.? First Sunday, Holy communion. Third Sunday, Morning prayer. 8 p. m. ? Second and fourth Sundays, evening prayer. METHODIST Franklin Church The Rev. W. Jackson Huneycutt, Pastor 10 a. tn. ? Sunday school. 11 a. m. ? Worship. 0:30 p. m. ? Senior Youth fel lowship. 7 p m. ? Intermediate Youth Fellowship. Franklin Circuit The Rev. D. P. Grant, pastor Preaching services as follows: First Sunday: 11 a. m. ? Bethel church. 3 p. m. ? Salem church. 7:30 p. m. ? Clark's chapel. Second Sunday: 11 a. m. ? Snow Hill chu/ch. 3 p. m. ? Louisa chapel. 7:30 p. m. ? Iotla church. Third Sunday: 11 a. m. ? Clark's chapel. 3 p. m. ? Salem. 7:30 p. m. ? Bethel. Fourth Sunday: 11 a. m. ? Iotla. 3 p. m. ? Louisa chapel. 7:30 p. m.? Snow Hill. West Macon Circuit The Rev. P. E. Bingham, Pastor Preaching services as follows: First Sunday: 2 p. m. ? Maiden's Chapel. 11 a. m. ? Gillespie Chapel. Second Sunday: 11 a. m.? Mount Zion. Third Sunday: 11 a. m. ? Gillespie Chapel. 2 p. m. ? Maiden's Chapel. Fourth Sunday: 11 a. m. ? Mount Zion. PRESBYTERIAN Franklin Church The Rev. B .Hoyt Evans, pastor. Sunday: 10 a. m.? Sunday school. 11 a. m. ? Worship. CATHOLIC Franklin (At John Wasilik's Residence-^ Rogers Hill) The Rev. A. F. Rohrbacher, Pastor Second Sunday: 8:00 a. m. ? Mass. INTER-DENOMINATIONAL Sloan's Chapel Sunday: * 2 p. m.? Sunday school on the first, second, third, and fifth Sundays. 2 p. m. ? Preaching on the fourth Sunday. 3 p. m.? Preaching on the first, second, and third Sundays. Tuesday: 7:30 p. m.? Prayer meeting. Friendship (Angel) Tabernacle Sundays 2:30 p. m. ? Sunday school-. Second Sunday: 3:30 p. m. ? Preaching service, conducted by the Rev. V. C. Barney." Olive HU1 Sunday: 2 p. m. Sunday school, E. A. Roper, superintendent. NEGRO St. Cyprian's Episcopal The Rev. James T. Kennedy, Pastor Sunday: 11 a. m.? Third Sunday, Holy communion. 2 p. m.? First and second Sundays, evening prayer. 5 p. m.? Church achooL Friday: 6 p. m. ? Litany. Franklin Methodist Circuit (A. M. E. Zion) The Rev. John O. Williams Pastor Preaching services as follows: First and third Sundays: 11 >a. m. ? Green Street church. 2:30 p. m.? Cowee church. 8 p. m. ? Green Street church. ATTENTION! LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE WILL MEET BACH THURSDAY NIGHT At 7:10 L?k? V. Shope, Sec
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