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FRANKLIN, N. C? THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1947
SHIFTS MADE
IN FRANKLIN
P0L1CEF0RCE
Baird Appointed Chief;
Fhillips Night Man;
Cochran Dropped
C. D. Baird was named chief
of police of Franklin, and Tom
runups was appointed night
policeman, at Monday niguts
meeting of the board of alder
uian.
Mr. Baird, who has been serv
ing as night policeman, will
succeed Homer Cochran as
cntef, and will have the day as
signment.
The board was informed that
Mr. Baird had resigned as nignt
policeman, and Mayor T. W
Angel, Jr., read the applications
of four men. Mr. Phillips was
chosen from the group.
The point then was made by
a member of the board that Mr.
.Baird was entitled to the chief's
position and to day work, on
the ground that he was injured,
several years ago, while serving
in that capacity, and entered
the army when he recovered
from the injury.
Mr. Baird was called and ask
ed if he would accept the chief's
post, and when he answered in
the affirmative, the board voted
to give Mr. Cochran notice, as
of March 1, and to appoint Mr.
Baird.
The board also:
Granted a beer license to K.
F. Montague, of the new Dixie
Grill.
Took under advisement an of
fer of property owners on First
street, in East Franklin, to pay
$300 of the cost if the town
would extend the sewer line on
that street to the corporate
limits.
Denied Bob Sanders' applica
tion for license to operate a
pool room at the rear of his
beer parlor on West Main
street. Mr. Sanders previously [
had been granted a license to ,
operate a pool room on the
second floor of the building, {
but explained, in filing the new
application, that the space on j
the second floor will not be
available for sometime.
North Carolina has been al
located more than 100 thousand
gallons of tomato juice and 120
thousand pounds of peach jam
for school lunchroom use.
Do You
Remember . . . ?
(Looking backward throuf h
the files of The Press)
50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
Messrs. J, R. Davis and M. T.
Rhinehart of Waynesville have
bought the drug store of D. L.
Garland and will continue the
business under the name of the
Franklin Pharmacy.
We have been visited by the
coldest snap of the winter dur
ing the past week. Thursday
morning the mercury stood at
three degrees at sunrise. Friday
morning it was eight degrees be
low zero, and at zero Saturday.
25 YEARS AGO
Mr. Paul Newman has com
pleted the building for his new
steam laundry on Palmer street
and everything Is now ready for
Installation of the machinery,
which is expected to arrive' next
week.
Several weeks ago the cows
at the Methodist Orphanage
home at Winston-Salem was
condemned on account of tu
berculosis and had to be killed.
At the suggestion of Mr. F. 8.
Johnston, a collection was taken
at the Methodist Sunday school
to buy a new cow for the In
stitution. The amount needed
was $50, which was- over-sub
scribed and sent to the orphan
age
10 YEARS AGO
P.igld enforcement of Frank
lin's one-hour parking ordi
nance on Main street was order
ed by the town council Monday
night, after it had received a
petition signed by 30 Individuals
and business concerns request
ing that something be done
about congested traffic condi
tions.
The petition, which has been
circulated by W. T. Moore, also
requested that the board take
action concerning the widening
of Main street. The board plac
ed the matter under advlae
mint.
NEW POLICE CHIEF? C. D.
Baird was named Franklin chief
of police by the board of alder
men Monday nirht. He will suc
ceed Homer Cochran.
PICK PATTERSON
AS CO-OP HEAD
Farm Organization Will
Seek To Sell $15,000
Common Stock
? 1 ?
A. C. (Claude) Patterson, of
Tesenta, was elected for a term j
of one year as president of the !
newly organized Macon County J
Farmers Cooperative, at a meet
ing of the organization's direc
tors last Monday.
They chose Robert Fulton as
vice-president, and Walter Tay
lor as secretary-treasurer.
The board Is made- up of
nine directors, who were chosen
earlier in the day by stock
holders of the Cooperative. Di
rectors elected, in addition to
the three later turned as offic
ers, are Jim Ramsey, Harley
Stewart, R. C. Enloe, J. I. Vin
son, J. D. Burnette, and George
Gibson.
The nominating committee
had nominated E. R. White as
a director, but a motion, made
by Mr. White, that Mr. Vinson's
name be substituted for his,
was carried. Mr. White had
served temporary treasurer since
the initial meeting.
The stockholders, at their
meeting, adopted the by-laws
submitted, and then carried a
motion, by the close vote of 45
to 41, that nine directors
should be elected. The motion,
made by Mr. Vinson, was sec
onded by Walter Gibson. The
stockholders also voted approval
of a motion that three of the
directors should serve terms of
one year; three two years, and
three years.
S. W. Mendenhall read the
financial report of the Macon
County Mutual Soil Conservation
Association, which the Cooper
ative succeeds, and the report
was adopted.
Mr Mendenhall, county agent,
also made a talk, discussing a
100-Bushel Corn club, hybrid
corn, alfalfa hay, Ladino clover,
and orchard grass.
The directors, who set Febru
ary 15 as the date for their
next meeting, adopted a goal of
$15,000 common stock to be sold,
to provide operating capital for
the new organization.
Mexico Club
Has 500 Items For Its
Rummage Sale Feb. 8
The members of the Mexico
club have collected about 500
articles, from clothing to a
violin, from books to perfume,
for their rummage sale, it was
announced this week.
The sale is to be held Sat
urday, February 8, at the Agri
cultural building, across the
street from the Episcopal
church. The doors will open at
10 a. m.
Every piece of clothing has
been put In the best possible
condition. Many of them are
practically new, and they range
In size from garments for in
fants to adults.
This sale is the first of the
activities the Mexico club has
planned In an effort to raise
money to pay for the trip the
members hope to make to Mex
ico this summer.
Their next event will be a
Valentine square dance at the
Franklin High school Friday
night, February 14.
O. L. Houk, county superin
tendent of schools, spent the
first part of this week In Ral
eigh on business pertaining to
tn* ichooli.
NAZI ESCAPEE
WILL BE HEARD
IN TALK HERE
Seger T: Be First Of 4
Rotary Lecturers On
World Affairs
The first of a series of four
speakers on world understand
ing, who are being brought here
by the Franklin Rotary club,
will appear Friday of next week,
and the other three addresses
will be heard on succeeding
Fridays ? February 21, February
28, and March 7.
Each of the lectures will deal
with some phase of world un
derstanding.
Next week's speaker will be
Oerhart Seger, a native of Ger
many, whose topic will be "Get
ting Together in Europe."
Editor, author, and lecturer,
| Mr. Seger served in the Ger
man air corps during World
War 1. "A former member of
the German Reichstag, he was
arrested when Hitler came to
power, and spent three months
in jail before being sent to a |
Nazi concentration camp. After
six months in the concentra
tion camp, he escaped, in De
cember, 1933, and came to the
United States the following
year. He is now an American
citizen.
He was one of the witnesses
at the Nuremberg trial of war
criminals^ and has addressed
270 of Rotary International's
Institutes of International Un
derstanding.
Mr. Seger and the other
four lecturers will each speak
twice, at 1:45 In the afternoon
to high school students, and at
7:30 in the evening to adults.
All the addresses will be at the
Franklin Methodist church.
Tickets for the evening lec
tures may be obtained from any
member of the Rotary club.
Topics of the other three
speakers will be "Getting To
gether in the Orient", "UN, Ve
hicle of World Cooperation?",
and "Cooperation or Confusion
in Ten-Mile-A-Minute Travel?"
The purposes of the series of
lectures, Rotary officials have
explained, is to bring a clearer
understanding to those in at
tendance of the difficulties in
the way of world cooperation
and ' of how those difficulties
may be met.
Will Rock
Cemetery's
Driveways
The State Highway commis
sion has agreed to place crush
ed stone on the driveways of
the Franklin cemetery, it was
learned this week from Repre
sentative Herbert A McGlam
ery.
At the suggestion of Gilmer
A. Jones, Rep. McGlamery call
ed on Highway Commissioner A.
H. Graham in Raleigh, and Mr
Graham told the Macon rep
resentative that he would be
glad to comply with the request.
? Continued On Page Eight
Average Family
Income Doubled
Here In 5 Years
Family income in Ma I' on
County in 1945 was more
than double the average in
1940.
Figures recently made
public by the State Plan
ning Board ;1idw that in
1940 the average family in
this county received $788,
compared with $1,847 in
1945. This is an increase ?'
134.4 per cent. In compari
son, income for the average
family in North Carolina in
creased only 110.1 per cent
during the same period.
Thus average family incline
in this county increased 24
P"r cent more than that of
the average family in the
state.
On the other hand, pur
chases by the average fam
ily in this county amounted
to only two-thirds that of
the average family in the
state.
In 1945, the latest year
for wftich figures are avail
able, total retail purchases
by the average Macon fam
ily were listed at $972.18, as
compared with $1,483.76 for
the average North Carolina
family.
DEATH CLAIMS
MRS. INGRAM
Widow of Former Sheriff
Dies At Daughter's
Home In Clayton
Mrs. Charles L. Ingram, 76,
died at the home of her daugh
ter, Mrs. Garlin Tomlin, of
Clayton, Ga., Monday night at
6:15 o'clock, following an illness
of several years.
Mrs. Ingram was the widow
of Charles L. Ingram, who was
widely known throughout Ma
con County, having served as
sheriff for a number of years
and as a representative from
this county in the state legis
lature, and as postmaster.
Mrs. Ingram was born in I
Asheville, on October 29, 1891
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs
J. P. Gaston, of a pioneer
Buncombe county family.
She came to Macon County
as a bride in 1891 where she
spent the rest of her married
life as an active member of the
community in church and civic
affairs, residing on the Ingram
farm. Mrs. Ingram was a mem
ber of Nequassa Lodge of the
Order of Eastern Star and of
Bethel Methodist church. In
1941, she moved to Clayton to
live with her daughter, Mrs.
Tomlin.
Funeral services were held at
the Bethel Methodist church
Thursday afternoon at 2:30
o'clock with the Rev. D. P.
Grant, pastor, and the Rev. T.
H. Weelis, pastor of the Clayton
Methodist church, officiating.
Burial followed in the Bethel
church cemetery.
Pallbearers were Harold Cabe,
Harvey Cabe, Fred Cabe, George
R. Pattillo, John Bulgin, and
Alex Deal.
Honorary pallbearers were
? Continued on Page Eight
Macon Had Only 4 Forest
Fires Last Fail On Private
Lands; Only 8 Acres Burned
Macon County had only four
forest fires on privately owned
lands, and those four burned
over only nine acres, in the
period from July 1 to December
31, according to figures com
piled by the North Carolina
Forest service.
Only one other of the eight
cooperating counties in this dis
trict had a smaller acreage
burned over.
The State Forest service, it
was pointed out, protects 852,
793 acres of privately owned
forest land in the eight coun
ties, and of this total, only 356
acres were burned over during
the past season. This was an
average of 67.81 acres per for
est fire.
Transylvania was the only
county with a better record than
Macon. The former had one for
est blaze that burned over one
fourth of an acre.
Figures tor the other counties
follow:
Cherokee, eight fires, 13
acres; Graham, six fires, 61
acres; Haywood, six fires, 148
acres; Jackson, ilx fires, $4
acres; and Swain, three fires,
49 acres.
The excellent record was made
possible, according to Carr Bry
son, Macon's county forest war
den, by the educational work of
the Forest service, plus the as
sistance and cooperation of pri
vate citizens, who have helped
by reporting and fighting firej
in the forests.
Mr. Bryson called attention
to the fact that the law re
quires all persons to obtain per
mits to burn brush, ditch banks,
etc., in or adjoining woodlands.
Permits may be obtained from
Mr. Bryson, the U. S. forest
ranger at Franklin, the register
of deeds office, A. B. Brown at
Scaly, Floyd Ramsey at Tellico,
Andrew Gregory at Gneiss, John
Edwards at the Coweta Experi
ment station, W. W Cochran at
Flats, or at any lookout tower.
Persons given permits, the
warden added, are responsible
for their fires, and should burn
only after 4 p. m? at a time
when the wind la not blowing,
and when the woods are not
d?n|troudy dry.
Mercury Hits
5 As Winter
Strikes Here
Macon Coi^nty this week had
the coldest weather of the win
ter, with the temperature tumb
ling down toward :xro.
The U. S. Weather bureau
thermometer here stood at b -
degrees above Wednesday morn
ing, G L. Houk, on lai ?u...
i observer, reported.
The cold, wnicn struck sud- j
denly, was punctuated by intsn
winds and snow flurries Tues
day, and Wednesday morning
about half an inch 01 snow wuo.j
on the ground, the first real j
snow of the winter. As a re- ?
suit of the snowfall, many auto
mobiles had diificulty Wednes
day morning in climbing the
town hills here.
The low temperatures came I
on the heels of unusually mild
weather, which made the cold
even more biting than it ordi
narily would have been.
The thermometer, after stand
ing in the fifties, fell rapidly
Tuesday. Mrs. Joe Setser. TVA
The Weather
High Low Prec. j
January 30 62 55 .88
January 31 55 32
February 1 58 25
February 2 51 16
February 3 ........ 50 18
February 4 48 26
February 5 29 5 .U4*
* About one-half inch of snow,
but only .04 of an inch when
melted.
weather observer, reported from
the Cartcogechaye community
that the mercury tumbled 14
degrees ? from 44 to 30 ? in the
period between 6 a. m. ana
noon.
Thursday the weather had
moderated considerably.
82 Here Draw
$968 Monthly
In Benefits
Eighty-two persons in Macon
County are receiving social se
curity. benefits amounting to
$968.18 per month, figures com
piled by D. W. i^aiiioeii, manag
er of the Asheville office of tne
Social Security administration,
show.
In addition to these monthly
payments, Mr Lambert saia,
lump sums totaling $469.23 have
been paid in the past six months
to survivors not eligible for reg
ular payments.
The beneficiaries in this coun
ty who receive monthly pay
ments fall into four groups.
Twenty-nine retired workers
draw a total of $ 69.23 per
month.
Eight retired workers' wives,
aged 65 or over, receive month
ly payments totaling $54.10. ?>
Ten young widows, with chil
dren under 18 years of age, are
paid $122.91 per month.
And 35 children, under 18
receive checks amounting to
$321.94.
Although every effort is made
to inform persons covered by
the social security act of their
rights under that law, a number
of monthly payments are lost by
persons otherwise eligible be
cause they delay filing, or fail
to file, claims for those bene
fits, Mr. Lambert said.
"It is necessary that a claim
be filed for benefits," he said.
"They do not come automatic
ally to otherwise eligible per
sons. A Macon County person
who Is qualified to receive bene
fits must apply for them, and
the place to do that is the
Asheville office of the Social Se
curity administration.
"There is no charge whatso
ever for the services performed
by the Social Security adminis
tration offices. People desiring
information or advice on social
security matters relating to ac
count numbers and claims for
benefits under the old-age and
survivors insurance program are
urged to get in touch with the
Asheville office.
O. Max Gardner, gov
ernor of North Carolina
from 1929 to 1933, and
recently appointed U. S.
ambassador to Great
Britain, died of a heart at
tack early Thursday
morning, it was learned
here. Mr. Gardner was 65.
1
6 MAKE ESCAPE
BY SAWING BARS
AT PRISON CAMP
Break Occurs In Late
Evening; Recapture
One Near Otto
Six men escaped Wednesday
night between 7 and 8 o'clock
from North Carolina state pris
on camp 1009 located just out
side of Franklin. One man,
James H. Kenady, was recaptur
ed Thursday morning about 10
a. m. in the vicinity of Otto.
The men made their escape
possible by sawing through
several bars which guarded a
window in their cell block, ac
cording to J R. Overton, camp
superintendent, who discovered
they were missing.
Those escaping were James
H. Kenady, of Davidson County,
who had a sentence of 15 yeais
for second degree' murder;
Kelley Sherlin, Buncombe Coun
ty, sentenced 18 to 60 months
for larceny of an automobile;
Robert Birchiield. Buncombe
County, 3 to 5 years for break
ing and entering; Marshall
Greenway, Iredell County, 13 to
15 years for highway robbery;
Otho Williams, Guillord Coun
ty, 4 to 6 years, breaking and
entering and receiving stolen
goods; Clacy Eads, a veteran
from Indiana who was sentenc
ed to 18 months for larceny
and carrying a concealed wea
pon in Buncombe County.
Mr. Overton said that the of
ficials had received information
which led them to believe that
the Buncombe County man
might be recaptured in the vi
cinity of Asheville Officials
there have been notified.
Dryman And Long
Leave Far Conference
In Washington
Prelo Dryman and E. W.
Long left Thursday morning
for Washington to attend a
conference of Western North
Carolina civic leaders with
Secretary of the Interior Krug
and other officials of the de
partment.
The North Carolina group will
seek development of the North
Carolina side of the Great
Smoky Mountains National park
and completion of the tfiue
Ridge parkway.
The two Franklin men joined
other Western North Carolina
leaders in Asheville, where the
party boarded a Pullman car
reserved for the trip.
Mr. Dryman, who was Rep.
Monroe M. Redden's Macon
County campaign manager In
last spring's Democratic prim
ary, and Mr. Long were invited
to attend the meeting by Mr.
Redden, who arranged for the
conference.
Polio Quota
Is Oversubscribed) By
More Than $400
Macon County's quota for the
infantile paralysis fund has
been over-subscribed by approx
imately $400, according to James
E. Perry, county fund chairman.
About $520 raised in the
Highlands community put the
drive over the top, Mr. Perry
said.
Contributions from the Otto
community of $75 and from Co
wee of $150 brought the total
raised throughout the rest of'
the county to approximately
$1,100.
Mr. Perry expressed apprecia
tion to those who assisted him
in. handling the campaign, and
to air who contributed.
Nantahaia Benefit
Nets $77 For Polio
Fund, Work Books
A cake walk and local talent
plays featured a benefit pro
gram presented at the Otter
Creek High school at Nantahala
last Thursday night.
The net proceeds amounted
to $77.91.
The performance was given to
raise money for the polio fund
and to provide work books for
students in the grammer grades.
Of the total, $55 was given the
polio fund, with the remaining
$22.91 reserved for the work
books.
The white oil from which cold
creams are made Is a highly re
fined, odorless, colorless oil
made from specially selected
crudM.