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VOL. LXII? NO 4
FRANKLIN, N. C.. THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1947
$2.00 PER YEAR
BEER AND WINE
VOTE PROPOSED
BY M'GLAMERY
Bill Pending In House
Would Call Election
For May 10
i Macon County voters will go
to the polls Saturday, May 10,
to vote in the first alcoholic
beverages referendum in this
county In 14 years, if a bill
pending in the general assembly
becomes law.
The measure, introduced by
Representative Herbert Mc
Glamery the latter part of last
week, provides for a vote In
this county on the question oi
whether beer and wine shall be
legally sold within the con
fines of Macon County.
The measure, which also
would apply to Cherokee and
Clay counties, was jointly spon
sored by Representatives Mc
Olatnery, H. M. Moore, of Clay
county, and W. Bruce West, of
Cherokee.
As is customary with legisla
tion of this nature, the bill was
referred to the house committee
on finance.
Under terms of the measure,
voters in each of the three
counties would pass upon the
legal "manufacture, possession,
transportation and sale of wine
and beer". Beer is now legally
sold in this county, but sale of
wine is illegal.
No New Registration
No new registration of voters
would be required, under pro
visions of the bill, and the elec
tion would be held under the
general election law. If the ma
jority should vote against beer
and wine, sale, possession, and
transportation of those bever
ages would become illegal 60
days after the date on which
the vote is canvassed and the
result declared.
Mr. McGlamery announced,
shortly before he left for Ral
eigh, that he proposed to sub
mit the issue to a vote of the
people.
Law Voted In 1933
Should the measure become
law and the election be held,
it will be the first time that an
alcoholic beverages issue has
been submitted to Macon Coun
ty voters since 1933. In that
year, the question of calling a
state convention to repeal the
18th amendment, and of elec
tion of delegates to the conven
tion, was before the voters.
In this county, Alex Moore, a
dry, defeated the late Dr. S. H.
Lyle, favoring repeal, by a vote
of 2,396 to 563. This county,
? along with the state as a whole,
voted against holding the con
vention.
In 1939, following repeal of
the 18th amendment, the gen
eral assembly legalized the sale
of beer and wine throughout
the state. The legislature of
1945, however, gave the county
commissioners of the various
counties the right to say
whether or not wine should be
legally sold, and the Macon
County commissioners adopted
a resolution outlawing wine.
Dry 30 Years
Until 1939, Macon had been
?Continued On Page Eight
U. D. C. TO MEET
The Macon County chapter i
of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy will meet on Tues
day evening at 7:30 o'clock at
the home of Miss Nora Leach.
Do You
Remember . . . ?
(Looking backward through
the files of The Presi)
50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
The first quarterly conference
for the current year was held
at the Methodist church Mon
day afternoon. The assessment
for the presiding elder and the
preacher In charge Is $575.
25 YEARS AGO
The following men are to be
Installed as Junior stewards In
the Franklin Methodist church
next Sunday morning: Alvah
Pwarce, chairman, H. T. Sloan,
W. N. Sloan, W. T. Moore, J. S.
Robinson, R. L. Porter, Steve
Porter, H. W. Cabe, D. R Davis,
R. W. Shields, Mark Dowdle.
10 YEARS AGO
The freakishly warm weather
for January has brought out
peach blOMoma In totat sections
of tht county,
Franklin, 50 Years Ago, Was
Thriving Town Of 300 People
With 33 Business Enterprises
Franklin, 50 years ago, was a
town with a population of 300
and 33 business enterprises
within its corporate limits, ac
cording to a survey made at
that time by W. A. Curtis, then
publisher of The Franklin Press.
This growth had taken place
over a period of about three
quarters of a century.
Also in this community there
were six lawyers, five doctors,
five resident preachers and three
schools.
The governing body of the
town consisted of N. P. Rankin,
mayor, and a board of commis
sioners composed of J. C.
Wright, W. R. Stallcup, W. H.
Higgins, H. G. Trotter, and J.
R. Pendergrass. W. W. Rankin
was town marshal.
Among the business enter
prises were 15 mercantile firms.
One of the leading stores, Mr.
Curtis reported, was H. G. Trot
ter and Son, whose senior mem
ber, H G. Trotter, started do
ing business in Franklin in
1868 ? 78 years ago. Mr. Trot
ter at that date was connected
with W. N. Addington and com
pany. Iij 1872 he purchased the
More Than $300
Donated In Week
To Polio Fund
With more than $300 on
contributions received the
first week, James E. Perry,
Maoom county polio fund
chairman, reported that the
1947 drive is well under way.
Mr. Perry said that 2,500
dime cards have been dis
tributed to tjhe school chil
dren of Macon county and
that he feels sure that
"their splendid cooperation"
will Assist greatly in push
ing this year's March of
Dimes over the top.
The chairman added that
he felt sure that this year's
quota of $1,215 will be
reached at an early date,
but he urged that everyone
get their contributions in
soon in order, tlhat the drive
be closed.
PTATo Place
Stone Around
School Here
At its monthly meeting Mon
day night, the Franklin Parent
Teacher association voted to
purchase crushed rock to be
spread at the south entrance of
Franklin school building, and
decided to sponsor the appear
ance here of the North Caro
lina Little Symphony. About 100
persons attended the meeting
held at the school.
The guest speaker was Dr.
Carl D. Killlan, head of the de
partments of psychology and
education at Western Carolina
Teachers college and state P.
T. A. chairman of visual edu
cation. He emphasized the ad
vantage of the use of motion
picture films in teaching, and
illustrated his talk by showing
a film on Mexican children.
Mrs. E. L. McKee, of Sylva,
who had been scheduled to
speak, was ill, and requested
Dr. Killlan to fill the engage
ment for her.
The local association has just
been placed on the state P. T. A.
honor roll, it was announced by
the president, Mrs. Weimar
Jones. She explained that honor
roll listing Is based on Increase
In paid membership and on at
tendance.
The meeting opened with
group singing, led by S. W.
Mendenhall and Mrs. J. A. Flan
agan. The devotional service
that followed was conducted by
the Rev. Charles E. Parker,
Baptist pastor, and the Rev. A.
Rufus Morgan, Episcopal rector
here, led In prayer.
The door prize, a pair of Ny
lon hose, was awarded to Mrs.
Mary Byrd.
Benefit Box Supper
To Be Held At Cowee
A box supper and cake walk
will be held at the Cowee school
Saturday night at 8 o'clock, It
has been announced. The event
la to raise money to be con
tributed to the fund to fight
Infantile paralysU. Strln|ra
mualo will M ttaturtd,
firm.
John C. Wright, whose mer
chandise purchases in 1896 to
taled $14,000 for his general
I store, did the largest volume of
business.
R. L Porter, W. T. Potts and
J. R. Pendergrass were also well
known merchants at that time.
Catering to the ladies were
two millinery shops, operated by
Mrs. Laura Robertson and the
Misses Florence and Emma
Curtis.
The total volume of busi
ness done by the marchants for
the year 1896 was estimated by
Mr. Curtis at $45,000.
Practicing lawyers were George
A. Jones, A. W. (Wint) Horn,
John Mann, Kope Elias, J.Frank
Ray, and Fred S Johnson.
Dr. J. H. Fouts, who is still
practicing medicine here, and
Drs. S. H. Lyle, C. E. McCoy,
J. Robert Bell, and G. B. Law
rence were the doctors at that
time.
Mr. Curtis lists Dr. W. H.
Higgins as the one "surgeon
dentist" of the community.
Manufacturing interests were
represented in the community
? Continued on Page Three
MACON FARMERS
SELL 2 MILLION
POUNDS OF MILK
Highlights Of Extension
Work In County Cited
In Annual Reports
Macon County farmers last
year sold more than two mil
lion pounds of milk.
The total figure, as reported
by the county agent's office,
was 2,241,535.
Of this amount, 1,344,581
pounds -was grade A milk, mar
keted in and out of the county.
The remaining 896,954 pounds
was milk sold for manufactur
ing purposes outside the county,
chiefly through Coble Dairy
Products, Inc.
Other highlights of the an
nual report of the county
agent's office here:
The owners of 50 flocks of
chickens in this county now are
selling hatching eggs.
The acreage in alfalfa in 1946
was double that the year be
fore, while 250 acres were seed
ed with Ladino clover and oth
er legumes and grasses.
Cooperating farmers in the
six TV A watersheds in Macon
ordered 1,796,800 pounds of
phosphate. In addition, Macon
farmers obtained during the
year about 6,000 tons of lime,
37,700 pounds of ammonium ni
trate, and additional quantities
of phosphate from other sources.
Seventeen registered Guernsey
calves were placed with boys
and girls through the extension
oflice's sponsorship plan, 10
Guernsey calves were sold at
promotion sales by local dairy
men for more than $300 each,
26 good grade calves brought
In from Missouri, and four
farm boys bought registered
Guernsey calves.
Four Grade A dairy barns
were built during the year.
A summary of 15 unit demon
stration farms showed an in
come of $885 per farm.
The home demonstration
agent's report showed that of
fice reaches, directly or indi
rectly, 70 per cent of the coun
ty's farm families Other fea
tures of her report:
Seventeen home demonstra
tion clubs have 404 enrolled.
Fourteen training schools for
adult leaders were held during
the year.
Five women sold a total of
$1,098 worth of farm produce
at the local curb market here.
Eight homes installed water
systems, 92 reported Improved
housing conditions, 22 farm
women kept home accounts, and
250 reported making changes in
food production.
11 4-H club girls entered the
county dress revue, four at
tended and one participated In
the district revue, and one girl
had an exhibit on display at
the state fair.
JESS CONLEY ILL
J. S. Conley, who suffered a
heart attack last Saturday, re
main* critically 111 at hi* home
on KirrUon tvtnue.
PARKER NAMED
TO HEAD RED
CROSS DRIVE
1947 Quota Of $2,410
To Be Sought Here
March 1-31
The Rev. Charles E. Parker,
Baptist pastor here, will lead
the 1947 Red Cross fund cam
paign in Macon County.
Mr. Parker has been chosen
as fund chairman by the exe
cutive committee of the Macon
County chapter of the Red
Cross, it was announced this
week by the Rev. W. Jackson
Huneycutt, chapter chairman.
The campaign will be con
ducted March 1-31, with a quota
of $2,410 for this county. This
compares with $3,450, the 1946
quota, which was oversub
scribed.
Mr Parker, Mr. Huneycutt,
and Mrs. Bob S. Sloan, home
service secretary, attended the
Red Cross regional meeting in
Asheville January 23.
Say School
At Highlands
Is Tire-Trap'
The recently organized High
lands Memorial post of the
American Legion has gone on
record as declaring that the
Highlands school "is a fire-trap
of the first water, an engraved
invitation to disaster."
A new school for Highlands
is one of the 1947 goals the
post has set for itself, accord
ing to a printed statement it
ha? distributed throughout the
county.
The post's statement follows:
"To fight a war is not a
pleasant thing, tp fight a war
for an ideal is not a pleasant
thing, but in fighting a war
with a feeling of Tightness, in
fighting a war for an ideal, a
certain satisfaction is realized.
Out of the grim and dirt, out of
the blood and heartbreak and
lonesomeness, a certain noble
ness is acquired. As a group of
men who have fought a war we
would that we could feel that
having fought is not enough. We
know in oUr hearts that to have
fought is not enough. We know
that as citizens of the greatest
country on earth, ours is the
greatest responsibility on earth,
that our duty to God and to
man can never be quite ful
filled.
"It is with this duty in mind
that we have joined ourselves
? Continued on Page Three
All Officers
Of Bank Of Franklin
Are Reelected
Directors of the Bank of
Franklin, at a meeting Friday
night of last week, reelected all
officers of the bank.
The officials are:
C. F. Moody, chairman of the
board; M. L. Dowdle, president;
R. S. Jones, vice-president; H.
W. Cabe, cashier; and George
Dean, Grover Jamison, Jr., and
J. C. Jacobs, assistant cashiers. ,
The directors, all reelected, \
had previously been chosen by
the stockholders at a meeting
January 8.
Gilmer A. Jones
Named Member Of
Bar Ethics Body
The council of the North Car
olina State Bar, at a meeting in
Raleigh last Friday, elected
Gilmer A. Jones as a member
of its committee on ethics.
Mr. Jones, who Ls dean of the
Franklin bar and twentieth
Judicial district member of the
council, returned from the
meeting Sunday.
No preaching service will be
held at the Highlands Presby
terian church Sunday morning,
since the pastor, the Rev. J. B.
Davidson, Is away on vacation.
Sunday school will be held at
10 a. m. and Christian Endeavor
at 0:30 p. m. as usual.
Radford Jacobs, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Gene X* Jacobs, of Frank
lin, Rout* 3, left Saturday for
Chicago, 111., where he now
holds a position with a Chicago
mall order company. For the
past five months he has been
?mplqrtt it the Macon theater.
Van Raalte Unit
Nears Completion
The Weather
High Low
January 16 58 50
January 17 55 45
January 18 48 41
January 19 48 45
January 20 58 45
January 21 53 25
January 22 44 15
Rainfall for 7-day period, 5.36
inches.
Rainfall for year to date,
10.01 inches.
WOULD CHANGE
HAULERS' FEES
McGlamery's Bill Seeks
To Exempt Macon From
Overloading Charge
In line with the legislative
program he outlined on the eve
of his departure for Raleigh,
Representative Herbert A. Mc
Glainery has Introduced a bill
to exempt private or contract
haulers who are "bona fide res
idents of Macon County" from
the state law which adds an
additional motor vehicle license
charge for trucks that are over
loaded.
The measure, which has been
referred to the house committee
on roads, would base the license
fee upon the truck capacity,
rather than the load.
The state law fixes an "ad
ditional tax of $3 per thousands
pounds in excess of the licensed
weight of the vehicle."
Under Mr. McGlamery's bill,
"the maximum fees that may
be charged for registration and
licensing of such trucks shall
be the manufacturers' gross
weight capacity". These fees
range from 30 to 80 cents per
hundred weight for private '
haulers, and 75 cents to $1.40
per hundred pounds gross
weight for contract haulers/
Before he left for Raleigh, Mr.
McGlamery said he felt the
state law works a hardship on
the. men who haul acid wood
and do similar part-time haul
ing.
A similar measure, applicable
to Clay county, has been intro
duced by that county's repre
sentative, H. M. Moore.
High Waters
Flood Bridges, Halt
School Buses
Following a week of almost
continuous rain, streams reach
ed flood stage in many sections
of the county Monday. Between
three and three and one-half
inches of rain fell in the 24
hour period from Sunday morn
ing until Monday morning.
Schools were closed at Frank
lin, Otto and Cowee due to the
roads becoming impassable and
the impossibility of operating
school buses on some of the
roaas serving these schools, ac
cording to Q. L. Houk, county
superintendant of schools.
A11 schools reopened Tuesday
morning as the flood waters re
ceded quickly.
For a while Monday the Phil
lips bridge, the bridge crossing
the Tennessee river at Prentiss,
and the road in the Burning
town area were flooded. All
were passable by Tuesday noon,
according to Joe Setser, state
highway maintenance superin
tendent.
While large sections of bottom
land were flooded in some parts
of the county, very little dam
age was done.
Directors
All Reelected By Building
And Loan Association
Stockholders of the Macon
County Building and Loan As
sociation, at their annual meet
ing last Thursday night, re
elected all of the association's
10 directors:
The directors are H. W. Cabe,
H. L. Bryant, J. 8. Conley, H.
T. Sloan, A. B. Slagle, M. L.
Dowdle, W. E. Hunnlcutt, Rob
ert Fulton, George A. Mashburn,
and L. C. Calloway.
The directors will meet Feb
ruary 14 to elect officer* tor
tlM coming year.
'Machine Installation,
Interviews To Start
Early Next Month
That portion of the Van
Raalte plant under construction
in East Franklin is expected to
be completed by the first week
in February, and installation of
motors and machines will be
started as soon as the building
is ready for occupancy, it was
announced this week by E. W.
Maebert, manager of the Van
Raalte plants at Franklin, Bry
son City, and Blue Ridge, Ga.
At the same time, Mr. Mae
bert said, Interviews with ap
plicants for employment will
start. Between 70 and 80 per
sons will be employed on a
glove operation that will include
both sewing machine and hand
work on ladies' dress gloves
?made from synthetic fabric
yarns.
Norman Blaine, of Franklin,
has been employed by the com
pany as personnel counselor
and will be trained as assistant
to Mr. Maebert for both per
sonnel and office administra
tion duties. Mr. Blaine and T
J. Oriffis will conduct the apti
tude tests and interviews, start
ing in early February, Mr. Mae
bert said.
Meanwhile, resumption of
construction on the remainder
of the building is planned for
May or June, depending on de
livery of building materials, as
well as machines, with comple
tion of the plant possible in
the late fall or early in 1948.
At capacity, the mill will em
ploy between 150 and 200 per
sons.
In addition to the glove
making, the 12 or more persons
now employed in the Leach
building on a hosiery mending
operation will be transferred to
the new plant, where they will
continue their present work.
That department will be in
charge of Mrs. Jeannette Elliot,
of Franklin, as soon as she
completes her training under
Mrs. Edith Wishon.
A1 F. Mirek, formerly of the
Dunkirk, N. Y., Van Raalte
plant, will be in charge of ma
chines and responsible for pro
duction at the new plant, Mr.
Maebert said, adding that sev
eral experienced instructresses
will assist in the training of
operators and will select several
local girls to be trained for in
structress duties. .
In explaining the employment
plan, Mr. Maebert said that
persons who signed the Van
Raalte application blanks at the
Leach building, as well as those
who signed the employment sur
vey in the fall of 1945, will be
notLfied by mail with regard to
interviews and aptitude tests,
and that application blanks
filed by others will be welcomed
and considered.
It was emphasized that the
purpose of the aptitude tests is
to determine the applicant's
best abilities, with a view to the
most intelligent placement of
each person.
Various factors that still are
uncertain, particularly in re
gard to machine deliveries,
make it impossible at this time
to say positively which Van
Raalte product will be made in
the still uncompleted portion of
the mill, it was said. Mr. Mae
bert explained, however, that
the possibilities include expan
sion of the glove making unit
for the sole manufacture of
that product; or a combination
of several other Van Raalte
products, such as hosiery and
underwear.
Dewey Gregory Badly
Hurt In Truck Mishap
Dewey Gregory, 40, of Gneiss,
was critically Injured when a
truck In which he was riding
overturned Thursday at 10 a. m.
near the Rock House at Gneiss.
The truck was driven by Bill
Tllson. Mr. Gregory received
Injuries to the chest and several
fractured ribs. He was taken to
the Angel clinic for treatment
where his condition was said to
be serious.
LEGION auxiliary to meet
The American Legion Auxili
ary will meet Tuesday night at
8 o'clock, with Mrs. Gilmer A.
John,