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VOL. LXI1 Number twenty-four
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PCOXOMY is one of the great virtues ? and it is
a subject that more people seem to lose their
sense of proportion about than almost any other.
All too often congress, when it becomes economy
minded. slashes appropriations right and left, with
little apparent Regard for the1 long-term savings in
money itself, not to mentiort other things. A case
in> point is the. .pending Department of Agriculture
appropriations bill. Some items in that bill probably .
should be reduced; other cuts are of debatable
value; and still others are downright extravagance.
Forest management is an example, if we are to
continue our forest conservation program, we must
provide trained foresters to select, mark, and ap
praise the timber to be cut. At present, officials of
the L'. S. Forest Service report, much more timber
needs to be cut, to' make room for young trees,
than there is forest management personnel to han
dle. More, timber needs to be cut, too, to provide
lumber with which to meet the housing crisis.
Furthermore* for every $1 Uncle Sam spends for
this particular phase of the Forest Service program,
federal and local governments get back $5 in cash.
(MaCon County's share of the 25 per cent divided
among counties from the Xantahala National For
est last year amounted to approximately $9,000;
the other counties got their proportion of this 25
per cent : and the federal government got the other
7 5 per cent.)
Yet congress is cutting the funds for forest man
agement along with other items in the department's
appropriations.
It would seem just about as sensible for a mer
chant to assume that, if he stopped buying mer
chandise, he would be reducing his bills and thereby
economizing ? when actually he would be on the
way out of business.
Poor Mrs. Smith
To Mrs. W E. Smith, of East Baton Rouge Par
ish, Louisiana, The 'Progressive farmer recently
awarded $10 for the best postal card contribution
of the month.
Mrs. Smith's prize-winning card read :
"COUNTRY THINGS I HATE".
"Everything in the country! Everything about the
country!! Give me city life every time!!! I hate
mushiness."
We're glad Mrs. Smith won that prize. She needs
it. Because $10 is a small sum indeed to make up to
her for all she's missed.
Eor surely, in all her life, she never saw the sun
splash the east with color, on a winter morning, as
she brought the milk from the barn to the house.
She never felt, between bare toes, the velvety
coolness of fresh-plowed earth ... or in her nostrils
the smell of new-mown hay ... or on her tongue
the full, deep flavor of fruit just picked from the
tree.
She never had the thrill of building a dam across
a country creek.
She never knew the joy of gathering the fruit of
the summer's labor, come fall ... or the sense of
security a well-filled cellar brings ... or the simple
happiness of an evening before an open fire while
the wind roars and the snow piles up outside.
She never enjoyed the companionship of farm
animals.
She never soaked up the stillness, the quiet, the
calm of an August afternoon ... or listened to the
distant music of the creek at twilight ... or heard,
as a tired body sank into pleasant sleep, the tinkle
of a cowbell, growing fainter, ever fainter. . . .
Poor Mrs. Smith!
'Peelings'
(Following Is an excerpt from an article by Herbert
Peele, president of the North Carolina Press Association,
which appeared June 3 in his column, "Peelings", in the
Elizabeth City Daily Advance. Mr. Peele was one of a
party of newspaper people who were guests of the Frank
lin Chamber of Commerce at a luncheon here while on
a recent week-end tour of this end of the state. ? Editor.)
Sunday morning after breakfast at the inn (Frymont Inn,
Bryeon City), we went over the mountain to Franklin, one of
the most beautiful drive* of our trip, leaving a half hour
early so that we could attend morning worship at the Frank
lin Baptist church. We missed hearing the minister, the Rev.
Charles Edward Parker, who was out of town, and a layman
occupied the pulpit, but I had a letter from Mr. Parker this
week thanking me for our visit. After attending church we
drove to Kelly's Inn where, with the Chamber of Commerce
as host, we had dinner, topped by black walnut pie. This is
one of the famous eating places on the list of Duncan nines,
and in this case at least 1 applaud his judgment.
From Franklin our bus took us through Cashier's Valley,
Brevard, and back to Asheville. On this drive between High
lands and Franklin the road passes under Bridal Veil Falls and
just before reaching these falls we stopped at the famous Dry
Falls, so called because you ccn walk under the flails without
getting wet. The water in the falls doesn't strike you at all
but it churns up a mist when it hits the rocks that leaves
you a bit damp if you pass under the falls twice as I did.
Bill Arp Lowrance of The Mecklenburg Times said that the
first time he drove under Bridal Veil Falls he was traveling at
night and for one black instant as he saw the falls ahead and
could not see the road dip behind them he thought death
stared him in the face. I could imagine how he felt.
On this drive another memorable view was that of the fa
mous Whiteside Mountain near Highlands (4,930 leet) with its
1800 foot perpendicular drop.
I'll probably have more to tell you about this trip In succeed
ing columns. This will have to do for today.
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Franklin's Improvement Program
Original Proposals Of Officials Reprinted
As Matter Of Public Information
(NOTE: Shortly before Franklin voters, in December, 1945,
approved a bond issue for street, water, and sewer improve
ments, the town officials then serving issued a statement set
ting forth in detail the program of improvements that was
proposed. Today those improvements are being made, and some
persons have raised the questions: Is the program, as originally
announced, being carried out? It is the understanding of this
newspaper that the previous board sought, and that the pres
ent board is seeking, to adhere as closely as possible to the
plan as it was first made public. But since the question has
been raised, and since it has been a year and a half since the
statement was published (in the November 15, 1945, issue of
The Press), that portion of ihe statement listing the projects
is being reprinted below, purely as a matter of public informa
tion. ? Editor.)
The improvements which will be made if the people of the
town approve the issuance of bonds are as follows:
STREETS
There are several streets which have been rocked and which
have curb and gutter on them, and the money spent on them
in the past will be lost unless they are surfaced. ?The plans
are to surface the following streets:
1. West Main street from the end of the present pavement
at the Leach Apartment house to the intersection with Murphy
road at the new house being built by Lex Arnold.
2. Old Georgia road from intersection with Murphy road near
residence of Harold Sloan to intersection with Georgia road
near residence of Mrs. McGuire.
2. Hillcrest avenue from intersection with Georgia road, near
residence of H. T. Horsley to intersection with Porter street.
4. Wayah street from intersection with Georgia road, near
Cojo Filling Station to intersection with Depot street.
5. Forest avenue from Wayah street to Depot street.
6. Connecting street from West Main street to Church street.
This street to leave Main street just' east of Prelo Dryman store
and running to Church street by the Agriculture building.
7. Depot street from intersection with East Main street at
Lee Poindexter Filling Station to intersection with Wayah
street.
8. First street in East Franklin from intersection with High
lands road, near Harley Mashburn Filling Station and Big Boy
Pannell's store to the corporate limits of town.
EXTENSION OF WATER MAINS
There have been .more requests for water extensions, than
for any other work, and It is believed that a great savings can
be made by putting 6-inch mains to the corporate limits on
each of the main streets of Franklin, and making connections
from these mains. The plans are to install the following water
mains:
I. 6-inch main from the end of the present main at inter
section of West Main street and Green street to the city limits
on Murphy road. Also sufficient fire hydrants for fire protection.
2 2-inch main on street leaving Murphy road near residence
of John Cunningham to point near residence of Mrs. Wilkie.
3. 6-inch main and fire hydrants on Georgia road from pres
ent main near residence of H. T. Horsley to city limits.
4. 2-inch main on First street running west off of Georgia
road.
5. 2-inch main on Second street running west off of Georgia
road.
6. 2-inch main on street running east from Georgia road, be
ing the street leaving the Georgia road near residence of Mrs.
Harrington.
7. 6-inch main and fire hydrants on Depot street from end
.of present main near Dowdle Wholesale to Intersection of
Wayah street.
8. 6-inch main and fire hydrants on Highlands road from
end of present main at First street to near residence of Harry
Thomas and Mack Thompson.
9. 6-inch main on Wayah street from Depot street to Phillips
street.
10. 6-inch main and fire hydrants on Phillips street from
Wayah street to Forest avenue.
II. 6-inch main and fire hydrants on Old Georgia road from
West Main street to 1100 feet south of West Main street.
SEWER SYSTEM EXTENSION
1. Sewer from Harrison avenue down Green street to connect
with present sewer on West Main street.
2. Sewer from corporate limits on Murphy road to connect
with present sewer on West Main street-.
# Others' Opinions ?
THE SACRIFICE
Chic Shaheen and Thomas Upchurch, both 17, went fishing
on a lake near Raleigh. In some unexplained manner young
Upchurch fell overboard and came to the surface calling for
help. "Without hesitation," according to a news account, "Sha
heen, fully dressed, dived in and swam" to the side of the
struggling youth.
The story ends, of course, in one of those tragedies so com
mon to encounters in the water between non -swimmers and
those who would rescue them. Upchurch grabbed frantically
at Shaheen and fastened about his neck. The two boys sank
quickly out of sight. When brought to the surface many min
utes later, both were dead and could not be revived.
This little tale of heroism has a curious twist for our times.
Thomas Upchurch was a Negro. His companion In death was
a white youth. Young Chic Shaheen gave his life without fear
and without falter in a vain attempt to succor a fellow human
In distress. To point the moral where it is well known would
tarnish the beauty of this shining sacrifice. We can only hope
that elsewhere in a nation which does not divine the awful
dilemma of the South, the story of Chic Shaheen and Thomas
Upchurch will find Its place beside and above the terrible
strains and miseries of the hour.? Ashevllle Citizen.
Truth I* ftlwayi itrange? ?tranger than flctUn>.? Byron,
With the
Churches
BAPTIST
First Church, Franklin
The Rev. Charles E. Parker,
Pastor
Sunday:
9:45 a. m. ? Sunday school.
11 a. m. ? Worship.
7:00 p. m ? Training union.
8:00 p. m. ? Worship.
Wednesday:
8:00 p. m ? Prayer meeting.
EPISCOPAL
St. Agnts 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 Re* W. Jackson Huneycutt,
Pastor
10 a. m. ? Sunday school.
11 a. m. ? Worship.
1 p m. ? Intermediate Youth
Fellowship.
7:30 p. m. ? Senior Youth fel
lowship.
Franklin Circuit
The Rev. D. P. Grant, pastor
Preaching services as follows:
First Sunday:
11 a. m. ? Bethel.
3 p. m. ? Salem church.
8:00 p. m.? Clark's chapel.
Second Sunday:
11 a. m. ? Snow Hill church
3 p. m. ? Louisa chapel.
8:00 p. m. ? Iotla church.
Third Sunday:
11 a. m. ? Clark's chapel.
3 p. m. ? Salem.
8:00 p. m. ? Bethel.
Fourth Sunday:
11 a. m. ? Iotla.
3 p. m. ? Louisa chapel.
8:00 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. Hoyt Evans, pastor
Sunday:
10 a. m. ? Sunday school.
11 a. m. ? Worship.
Wednesday :
8 p. m.? Prayer meeting.
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CATHOLIC
Franklin
(At John Wasilik's Residence
Rogers Hill)
The Rev. A. F. Rohrbacher,
Pastor
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
Sunday:
2:30 p. m. ? Sunday school.
River Bend
Sunday:
2:30 p. m. ? Sunday school.
3:30 p. m. ? Preaching Fourth
Sunday, conducted
by the Rev. V. C.
Ramey.
Wednesday:
7:30 p. m. ? Prayer meeting.
Olive Hill
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.
3 p. m.? Church school.
Friday:
5 p. m.? Litany.
Franklin Methodist Circuit
(A. M. E. Zion)
The Rev. John Q. Williams
Pastor
Preaching services as follows:
First and third Sundays:
11 a. m. ? Green Street church.
2r80 p. m. ? Cowee church.
8 p. m. ? Green Street church.
Macon
Dry Geaners
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Everything Electrical
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