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NX SYMPHONY
TO PLAY TWICE
HERE MARCH 21
Children'* Concert To Be
Free; Tickets For
Adults On Sale
The North Carolina Little
Symphony orchestra will pre
sent two concerts here Friday,
March 21, it was announced
this week by Miss Nora Moody,
local Symphony Society chair
man.- .
The orchestra, which played
to enthusiastic audiences here
last spring, will present a pro
gram (or school children at a
free concert at 1 p. m. The eve
ning concert, set for 0:30, will
be open to all members of the
North Carolina 8ymphony so
ciety. Memberships are $2 for
adults, 75 cents for high school
children.
Tickets purchased at the box
office will be $2.40.
Both concerts will be given at
the Macon theatre.
All the schools In the county,
Miss Moody said, have been in
vited to send their proportion
ate share of children to the
free concert at 1 o'clock. A sec
tion has been reserved for Ne
gro school children.
Memberships (the equivalent
of tickets) are available from
members of the home economics
class of the Franklin High
school, the Girl Scouts, members
of the Junior music club, or
from any member of the local
Symphony committee. They also
are on sale at Perry's drug store.
Members of the Symphony
committee, in addition to Miss
Moody, are E. J. Carpenter, the
Rev. W. Jackson Huneycutt,
John M. Archer, Jr., Mrs. Gil
mer A. Jones, Mrs. H. W. Cabe,
Mrs. Weimar Jones, and Mrs.
O. F. Summer of Highlands.
The North Carolina Symphony
orchestra, which is sponsored by
the state, last year gave 104
concerts before 100,000 persons.
The orchestra, already national
ly recognized, is directed by Dr. 1
Benjamin Swalin.
Max Greene, In Navy, Is
Stationed At Trinidad
Berver M. (Max) Greene, of
FraAklin, fireman first class,
who has been serving aboard '
the U. S. 8. Cadmus since last j
June, is now stationed in Trin
idad, it has been learned here
by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. 1
Homer C. Greene.
50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
At 3:30 o'clock last Wednes
day evening at the home of the
bride's parents Miss Mary Add
lngton was united in marriage
to James A. Porter. The mar
riage vows were given only In
the presence of the Immediate
relatives and* a select coterie of
friends. The Ceremony was most
Impressively performed by Rev.
T. E. Wagg, presiding elder of
the Franklin; District.
Mr. C. H. Hay of Waynesvllle
commenced opening a stock of
goods In the Johnston store be
neath The Press office Monday.
The store will be under the
management of L. O. Davis.
25 YEARS AGO
The Board of Aldermen of the
Town of Franklin met In reg
ular session with Mayor T. J.
Johnston, presiding. The follow
ing aldermen were present: H.
W. Cabe, E. S. Hunnlcutt, W. L.
Hlgdon, John C. Wright, 0. D.
Balrd, and R. D. Slsk.
Upon motion of E. S. Hunnl
cutt, seconded by John C.
Wright, the following resolu
tion and ordinance was unam
lously adopted and passed:
Ordlnanoe authorizing the Is
suance of ten thousand dollars
of bonds by the Town of Frank
lin to build a town hall and a
fire bouse.
N It TEARS AGO
k Franklin had its first Main
' street fire in several years early
last Saturday morning when a
blaze was discovered in the rear
of the building occupied by the
Macon theatre. Damage to the
building was estimated at about
mo.
$9,398 Paid Macon
Farmers Under AAA
Planting Program
Checks amounting to 15,
452.88 Cor seeding permanent
pastures, winter cover craps,
small grains, and lespedeza
under the 1946 AAA pro
gram have been received by
Maoon County farmers, it
was announced this week by
Mrs. Mary B. Justice, sec
retary of the local Agricul
tural Conservation Associa
tion. The checks are m uled
from Richmond, Va., and
about $3,945.91 more is ex-'
pected to be mailed .within
the next month, she said.
The county has received
four cars of phosphate to
date, and 560 of the 3.380
tons of lime ordered has
been delivered.
HALF RED CROSS
FUND IS RAISED
Macon Has Good Chance
To Be First W.N.C.
County To Report
With more than half of the
county's 1947 Red Cross fund
quota already reported, Macon
County has a good chance to
be the first Western North Car
olina county to get "under the
wire" In this year's Red Cross
campaign, the Rev. Charles E.
Parker, county fund chairman,
said this week.
With this in mind, he urged
all workers to complete their
c&nvasses promptly, and to
make their reports by the end of
this week, if possible.
The total reported through
Wednesday, Mr. Parker said,
was $1,223.75, or slightly more
than half of the county's $2,410
quota lor 1947.
Prompt and thorough can
vassing, plus early reports, will
assure the raising of the quotas.
It is believed, and quite possibly
will pat this county out in
front In reporting Its total rais
ed, Mr. Parker emphasized.
The campaign leaders In the
various sections of the county
are:
Holly Springs, Mrs. Leferts
Higdon; Cowee (West's Mill), E.
J. Carpenter; Oak Grove, Frank
Browning and Mrs. Ferd Mor
rison; Leatherman, Mrs. Ruby
Gibson; Telllco, Bobby Ramsey;
Upper Cartoogechaye, Mrs. Carl
Slagle and Mrs. Joe Setser;
Lower Cartoogechaye, Fred
Moore; Burningtown, Mrs. J. R.
Parrish, Jr.; Mashburn Branch,
Mrs. Mary F. Peek; Watauga,
the Rev. Lee Crawford; Buck
Creek school district, W. E. Mil
ler; Pine Grove and Walnut
Creek, Mrs. Faye Mashburn;
Higdonville, Mrs. Lovlcia Moses;
ElUJay, Walter Young; Gold
Mine, Mrs. Myrtle F. Keener;
Union and Morrison, Jack Nich
ols; Otto, J. J. Mann; Ridge
crest, Gordon C. Smith; Co
wee ta, John Edwards; Iotla,
Paul Swafford; Kyle and Otter
Creek, Clint May; Patton Set
tlement, Harley Stewart; Culla
saja, Mrs. C. T. Bryson; Frank
lin, Mrs. J. H. Stockton; and
the Negro section, Andrew Ray.
Dr. McFall
To Be Speaker At PTA
Meet Monday Night
Dr. Walter T. McFall, Ashe
vllle dentist who Is widely
known as a public speaker, w^ll
address the Franklin Parent
Teacher association at its meet
ing Monday night.
"His subject will be "Building
Health Dividends (or the Fu
ture".
A social -hour and tea will
follow the program.
The meeting will be held at
the school, starting at 7:30.
Will Take Applications
For Jobs With Van Raalte
Starting Thursday of next
week, and every Thursday until
further notice, the N. C. Em
ployment service will accept ap
plications from women for em
ployment with the Van Raalte
company, It has been announc
ed. Preliminary aptitude tests
will be given at the time. The
employment service representa
tive will be In the Agricultural
building.
MBS. JARRETT ILL
Mr*. J. Frank Jarrett, who suf
fered a stroke about two weeks
ago, Is critically 111 at her home,
the Jarrett Springs hotel In
Dllsboro. Mrs. Jarrett, the ter
mer Miss SaUle Wild, is a na
tive of Mseon County.
DR. J. H. FOUTS.
PHYSICIAN HERE
52 YEARS, DIES
Active At 82, He Succumba
To Heart Attack; Rites
Held On Monday
Dr. J. H. Fouts, practicing
physician here for more than
half a century, died last Sat
urday.
Despite his 82 years, Dr.
Fouts had made his usual
rounds during the day, and had
just finished writing a pre
scription at his home when he
suffered a heart attack about
6:30 p. m. He died at 9:20.
Reared on a farm In the
Iotla valley, he was by turns a
farmer, a blacksmith and wagon
maker ? the trade of his father
and his grandfather ? a school
teacher, and a miner. At 18, he
went to Texas to seek his for
tune, but his desire for good
water and his love of the moun
tains soon brought him back
home.
ay me tune ne reacnea nis
middle twenties, he was in po
sition to enter medical school,
and he was graduated from
Vanderbilt university at the age
of 30. Returning to Franklin, he
began the practice of medicine
the following year ? a practice
uninterupted until a year ago
when he suffered a serious ill-*
ness of about three months'
duration.
Funeral services were held at
the Franklin Baptist chjirch
Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
The Rev. Charles E. Parker of
ficiated, assisted by the Rev. W.
Jackson Huneycutt, the Rev. A
Rufus Morgan, and the Rev. B.
Hoyt Evans, Franklin ministers,
and the Rev. Ben J. Mclver, of
the First Baptist church,
Burnsville, with which Dr Fouts'
son, Dover R. Fouts, is affiliated.
Active pallbearers were Mar
shall Fouts, Joseph W. Fouts,
Remon Fouts, Ralph Fouts,
Leonard Campbell and John
Campbell, all nephews of Dr.
Fouts.
Honorary pallbearers were Dr.
Ernest R Fisher, Dr. Edgar
Angel, Dr. Frank Justice, Dr.
Furman Angel, Dr. H. T. Hors
ley. Dr. R. M. Rimmer, Dr. Jos
eph Kahn, Dr. Walter Furr, Dr.
G. B. Woodward, Dr. Frank Kil
lian, Dr. J. L. West, Sr., Dr.
Ben Grant, and Furman Cor
bin.
Interment was in the Frank
lin cemetery. The funeral ar
rangements were under the di
rection of Bryant funeral home.
Survivors include his widow,
the former Miss Leah Ashe; his
son, Dover R. Fouts, of Burns
ville; three grandsons, D. R.
Fouts, Jr., of San Paulo, Brazil,
John M. Fouts, a student at
the University of North Caro
lina, and Daniel Watson Fouts,
of Burnsville; three brothers,
William T., G T., and S. E.
Fouts, all of Macon County;
one sister, Mrs. Emma Campbell,
of this county; and an aunt,
Mrs. Addie Drenning, of the
Burningtown section. He was
first married to Miss Arlesa
Watson, of Jackson county, who
died in 1919.
John Harvey Fouts, the son
of William R. and Lucinda
Fouts, was born November 5,
? Continued On Page Eight
Bolton Eiected
To Perm's Post
With Light Firm
Claude H. Bolton was
elected secretary-treasurer
of tihe Nantahala Power and
Light company at a meet
ing of the board of direc
tors of the company here
Monday.
He succeeds W. C. Penn,
who retired February 28
fi jm active service.
Mr. Bolton, formerly of
Badin, has been with the
Nantahala firm for 18 years,
and came to Franklin when
the company moved its of
fices here from Bryson City
In 1931.
He formerly was chief
clerk, is being succeeded in
| that position by J. Ward
Long, while Doyle Blaine
stepped up to the position
of assistant chief clerk, the
post formerly held by Mr.
bong.
SLAGLE AGAIN
ON FARM BOARD
Federation Stockholders |
Name Committee At
Annual Meeting
Carl 8. Slagle was reelected a
director of the Farmers Feder
ation at the annual meeting of
Macon County stockholders In
the organization, held at the
Federation store here Wednes
day afternoon. ?
The stockholders also reelect
ed the following as members of
the advisory committee: Mr.
Slagle, chairman, ' Lawrence
Ramsey, Jerry L. Franklin, J.
S. Conley, Elias Ammons,
Charles A. Rogers, J. N. Teague,
The Rev. James I. Vinson, Ed
Byrd, Charles W. Henderson,
James R. Holbrooks, and Robert
Bennett. Weaver Gibson was
named as a member of the com
mittee to succeed Adrian Howell,
who has moved out of the
county.
The meeting, attended by be
tween 75 and 100 persons, was
marked by talks by the Rev.
Dumont Clarke, who discussed
the Lord's Acre movement and ?
commented on its progress in
this county; Max Roberts, head
of the Federation's poultry pro
gram; Frank Byrd, manager of
the Bryson City store, who has
just been promoted to field su
pervison of the western district;
and Harry Thomas, manager of
the Franklin store.
String music, vocal solos, and
clog dancing provided entertain
ment.
Chairman Slagle presided, and
Mr. Vinson pronounced the In
vocation.
Hall Constructing
Building To House
Sign, Paint Shop
W. L. Hall is constructing a
modern block building at his
home on the Highlands road,
near the airport, to house his
sign and paint business. The
building, one-storey in height,
will have about 500 square feet
of floor space, Mr. Hall said.
He plans to complete the struc
ture within about a week.
When equipment and mate
rials are available, Mr. Hall
plans to manufacture and repair
Neon signs, he said.
Says Progress Being Made
Toward Cooperation In Air
"Aviation represents both a
treat and a promise", and re
markable progress ? progress
about which the general public
has heard little ? has been
made toward international co
operation In the air, Col. Nath
aniel F. Silsbee declared In ad
dresses here last Friday.
Col. Silsbee, the fourth and
last In a series of lectures
on International understanding,
brought to Franklin by the
local Rotary club, addressed a
high school audience at 12:50
o'clock, and spoke to adults at
7:30 in the evening. Prior to
the talks, he showed a film
dealing with Jet propulsion.
Citing the fact that Jet-pro
pelled aircraft that will travel
600 miles per hour la now In
existence, the speaker pointed
out that the developments In
aviation are themselves among
the strongest arguments for In
ternational cooperation.
Functioning organization! have
been set up la the past (aw
years, he pointed out, for co
operation In the Midi of Inter
national civil aviation and of
international air transport. These
developments in the air, he re
marked paralell the organiza
tion of the United Nations for
political cooperation, the Bre
ton Woods agreements on the
monetary and economic level,
and the United Nations Scien
tific and Cultural Organization
to promote cooperation along
those lines. ,
While Russia is not a member
of the avaiatlon organizations,
Col. alls bee expressed the con
viction that, out of self-interest,
she will Join them within the
next few years.
The speaker was Introduced
by Ouy L. Houk, the Rotary
club's International affairs
chairman, and Mr. Houk, at the
conclusion of the address and
question period, presented Har
mon H. Onuse, club president.
Mr. Onuse expressed the Rotar
l&na' gratification at the suc
cess of the lecture series, and
the hope that the club can
iponior similar lectures next
HIT
Highlands Limits
Bill Is Killed By
House Committee
Highlands To
Elect Mayor,
5 Aldermen
Highlands voters will go to
the polls Tuesday, May 6, to
elect a mayor and five alder
men.
The election was called, as re
quired by law, by the board of
aldermen, at an adjourned ses
sion held Monday night.
Candidates for the offices are
required, to be eligible, to file
notice in writing with the town
clerk on or before Saturday,
April 12.
The board appointed H M.
Wright as registrar (or the elec
tion, and Weldon Paul and T.
B. Picklesimer as judges. While
no new registration was order
ed, the registration books will
be open, beginning Saturday,
April 12, and through Saturday,
April 26, for the registration of
any new electors living In the
town who are entitled to regis
ter and whose names are not on
the registration books. For this
purpose, the registrar will be
at the town office on Saturday,
April 12, Saturday, April 19, and
Saturday, April 26.
April 26 will be challenge day.
The polls will be open on
election day from 6:30 a. m, to
3:30 p. m.
Like Franklin, Highlands'
municipal elections are nonpar
tisan.
The present town officials are
W. H. Cobb, mayor, and Wade
3utton, S. E. Potts, L. W. Rice,
H. S. Talley, and Harry A. Holt,
aldermen.
Farmers' Meet
To Be Held Saturday
At Courthouse
An important meeting, (or all
Farmers in Macon County, will
ie held at the courthouse at
10:30 a. m. Saturday, it was an
nounced this week by Robert
ftilton, chairman, and Walter
Taylor, secretary-treasurer, of
;he new Macon County Farm
;rs Coiperative.
The purpose of the meeting,
they explained, is to inform
everyone of just what has been
lone in the organization of the
:rs Cooperative.
Every farmer who is interest
id in establishing better mark
ing facilities for farm com
nodltles, as well as a farmer
>wned store to buy farm sup
nlies, should attend the meet
ng, Mr. Fulton and Mr. Taylor
rommented. "Come prepared to
isk questions and acquaint
yourself with what has been
lone and what is planned",
?hey urged.
H. L. Meacham, manager of
he Allied Farmers Cooperative
it Asheville, parent organiza
tion of the county cooperatives
jeing organized through this
?egion, will be present to answer
luestions.
School Bond Election
Validated By Assembly
The general assembly has
validated the Macon County
election, held in December,
1945, in which issuance of
$400,000 school bonds was
authorized. The validating
bill, introduced by Rep. Mc
Gkamery, was passed by the
senate this week. It had
passed the house earlier.
Rep. McOlameny was heard
on the radio today (Thursday)
morning at 9:15 o'clock. Mr. Mc
Glamery, with legislators from
Dare, Cartaret, and Granville
counties, took part In a round
table discussion carried over the
seven North Carolina radio sta
tions of the Tobacco Network.
Rep. McOlamery, with Rep.
Moore, of Clay county, has in
troduced a state-wide bill which
would empower the state board
of pharmacy to authorize the
sale In general stores of certain
non-poisonous domestic reme
dies, such as aspirin and milk of
magnesia, and of certain poison
ous remedies not dangerous to
puMlo hotitti, such m Iodine.
Map Measure Reported
Unfavorably; Pass
Clerk's Fay Bill
The bill to extend the corpor
ate limits of 'Highlands was kill
ed In committee Wednesday.
Representative Herbert A. Mc
Olamery appeared before the
house committee on counties,
cities, and towns, to which the
measure had been referred, to
offer a substitute bill calling
for an election on the question
of extension, but the committee
gave the substitute bill an un
favorable report.
Mr. McGlamery presented both
sides of the question to the
committee members. He placed
before them communications in
favor of the bill from High
land town officials and two pe
titions ? one signed by persons
inside the corporate limits and
one by persons in the area af
fected ? in opposition to the ex
tension.
Kills Survey Measure
The same committee also re
ported unfavorably Rep. Mc
Glamery's bill to authorize the
| recording of a copy of the orig
inal survey of the town of
Highlands. The committee ac
tion followed submission by Mr
McGlamery of an amendment
to the map bill, which would
have provided that "this act
shall not affect any pending
?litigation".
Mr. McGlamery spent last
week-end at home, and Satur
day was in Highlands for con
ferences with town officials and
citizens of the town and sur
rounding tenritory.
A third Highlands bill intro
duced by Rep. McGlamery is
pending before the house com
mittee on finance. This measure
would authorize the Highlands
town board to levy special as
sessments against property own
ers on specified streets for
street and sidewalk improve
ments, without the requirement
of a petition from the property
owners affected.
Clerk BUI Passed
Mr. McGlamery's bill to pay
the Macon County clerk of su
perior court a salary of $900 per
year for his services as juvenile
court judge was passed by the
senate Wednesday. The measure
already had passed the house.
The present salary paid the
clerk for his juvenile court
duties is $90 a year.
Mr. McGlamery said the com
mittee gave him no reason for
its action In unfavorably re
porting the two Highlands mea
sures. He pointed out, however,
that it might have been influ
enced in killing the extension
measure by the fact that a bill
is now pending which would set
up machinery under which
towns and cities could extend
their corporate limits without
the necessity for an act by the
general assembly.
Offered 2 Weeks Ago
The three Highlands bills were
Introduced two weeks ago at the
request of Highlands officials,
but action on the two killed
Wednesday was deferred by the
committee when opposition de
veloped.
The extension bill would have
extended the corporate limits
from the present three-quarters
of a mile, north, east, south,
and west of the intersection of
Main and Fourth streets, to a
mile and a half in each of the
four directions. The result would
have been to multiply the
square miles inside the limits
by four ? from 2V? square miles
to nine.
The original bill would have
changed the limits by legisla
, tlve enactment. The substitute
I bill which Mr. McOlamery of
fered the committee would have
i left the decision to an election,
| in which both the qualified vot
ers inside the present limits
and those In the area It was
proposed to annex would have
participated. Opponents of the
measure pointed out that, in
such an election, a large num
ber of summer. home property
1 owners In the affected area
would have had no voice, since
their citizenship la elsewhere.
Action on the two Highlands
bills was deferred by the com
mittee, following receipt by Mr.
McOlamery of ft telegram from
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