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VOL. LXII Number twenty-nine
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60 Million Jobs
IUST a little while ago Henry A. Wallace set
t>O,0(X),(XX) johs as an employment goal for this
country ? and got a lot of criticism for it.
At the time, Mr. Wallace indicated his belief that
the goal would be reached only by following meth
ods he favored. And his critics ridiculed the goal as
fantastically high.
Last week the census bureau reported that more
than 60, (XX), (XX) now are employed in this country.
Mr. Wallace's goal was reached, and in a relatively
short time; and it was reached under an adminis
tration whose policies have been severely criticised
by Mr. Wallace. All of which would seem to indi
cate that nobody is ever 100 per cent right.
What is much more important, though, than who
was right and who wrong is the question of whether
the goal we've reached, the way We've reached it, is
a desirable one. For the test of a civilization is not
chiefly how many people are gainfully employed,
but how they live.,
One disturbing feature of the census report on
employment, for example, is the fact that more
women ? a total of some 18.' XX), (XX) ? are employed
than at any time since the war. A peacetime eco
nomy in which great numbers of mothers have to
work, or great numbers of women forego mother
hood because they have to work, isn't necessarily a
healthy one, no matter how many are employed.
A Good Start
The general appearance Of Franklin is being
greatly improved by the mowing of banks along
sidewalks and strips between the sidewalks and the
streets.
This is the second step the town officials have
taken toward a cleaner town, the first having been
the purchase of garbage containers for the business
section.
We've still got a long way to go before we have
a clean town, but these first steps are encouraging.
The mayor and members of the board of aldermen
are entitled to people's commendation for what
they have done ? and encouragement to keep up the
good work.
"Mr. America of 1947"
They're holding male beauty contests now!
That's ri^ht ; beauty contests, for men. It tells
all about it in Life magazine. One Mr. Steve Reeves,
of Oakland, Calif., has been acclaimed "Mr^ Amer
ica of 1947". And the article in Life describing the
Chicago contest proceeds to give "Mr. America's"
various bodily measurements. The only usual de
tail omitted from such descriptions is the bust mea
surement. Strangely, too, there is no mention of
the type of beauty soap "Mr. America" uses.
* Upon his selection, 21-year old Mr. Reeves pub
licly announced: "When my muscles stop expand
ing in a couple of years, I will start expanding my
brain". There is the possibility, of course, he is as
suming something there. But after all who are we
to raise embarrassing questions involving a beauty
queen ? beg pardon! ? a beauty king?
Lewis And The Presidency
The coal miners, under their new contract, have
won vast concessions without even having to strike
for them. As a result, the political influence of John
L. Lewjs has been greatly increased, and there is
widespread speculation as to how he will use that
influence, and as to which candidate in the 1948
Presidential election can get the backing of the coal
miners' boss.
There are a lot of us, though, who will be inclined
to vote for the first candidate, Democrat or Re
publican. who publicly and flatly rejects the support
of John L. Lewis.
Water
It is said that the late Dr. J. H. Fouts, when he
went West as a young man, was driven back to
Western North Carolina by an insistent desire for
a drink of really good water. And Dr. Fouts was
not the first Western North Carolina person who
had to leave home to realize what a blessing good,
pure drinking water is.
Franklin has plenty of water now. But it has it,
thanks to the fact that the town officials happened
to find some government surplus equipment ;/thanks
to a makeshift arrangement oh the Murphy road ;
and thanks to our willingness, as a temporary,
emergency measure, to drink creek water.
? T,rue, it is filtered and chlorinated. It is true, too,
than it is better water than many cities have.
But that doesn't alter the real situation.
For the truth is that nature has given us as good
and pure water as can be found anywhere in the
world. If we don't use what nature has put here
for us. ... >
HERE'S 1947-48 BUDGET
OF TOWN OF FRANKLIN
ESTIMATE OF EXPENSES:
DEBT SERVICE I
Electric light & power bonds 48,500.00
Interest on electric L. & P. bonds 10,230.00
Street, sidewalk & impr. bonds 2.5OO.0O
Int on W & S; S & S; it Pub. Impr bonds 6,400.00
Total ........ $26,630.00
GENERAL FUND
Salaries of officials,
cleric, aldermen and mayor $2,965.00
Office supplies, telephone, rent,
printing and insurance 800.00
Audit >. 200.00
Jail fees, court costs, fines,
statistics and misc ,.... . 1,250.00
1947 prepaid taxes 2,601.82
Bills July 1, 1947 100.00
General expense .-. 700.00
Total
POLICE DEPARTMENT
Salaries, chief and night police $4,800.00
Special police and misc ... 600.00
Total 1 :
FIRE DEPARTMENT
Salaries, chief and firemen $600 00
Supplies, insurance and misc 750.00
Total .,
WATER DEPARTMENT
Salaries - $2,900.00
Power for pumps i 3,000.00
Maintenance, extensions and misc 7,731.26
Bills July 1, 1947 275.00
Total
STREET DEPARTMENT
Salaries, street cleaning and
garbage hauling . $3,000.00
Street lighting 2,400 00
Supplies, maintenance and misc 5,500.00
Total
Total estimated expenses $66,803.
ESTIMATED RECEIPTS:
N. P. & L. Co. bonds and Interest _... $18,730.00
Privilege taxes ....: 1,250.00 ,
Mayor's court, cost and fines 1,600.00
Water rents ...... 15,000.00
1046 uncollected taxes 4,300.00
Cash in hand and in bank 2,371.88
Total .. $43,251.88
Amount to be raised by tax levy $23,551.20
Total estimated receipts $66,803.08
Total property valuation $1,884,096.00
Tax rate for 1947 set at $1.25 per hundred valuation.
Others' Opinions
SMARTEST LITTLE GIRL
Little Loralne Dockins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ranse .
Dockins, comes to town with Mr. Dockins most every morning '
to clean up the streets. Loralne gets up and gets to town be
fore daylight and drives the team for her father and when he
gets behind with gathering the trash she jumps down off the |
wagon and grabs a big broom and piles up the trash as good as
any man could do it. I bet that little girl could wash dishes, set
the table, and cook a meal. If necessary. She's the smartest
little girl I know ? L. P. Cross In Clayton Tribune.
COST OF ACCIDENTS
Who pays how much in traffic accidents? A survey made by
the American Road Builders Association has just given the
ans vers.
Everybody knows that the victim pays. On the average he
was out $170 in salary. Such trifles as attorney's fees and fines f
set him back another $26. If his car was involved in the acci
dent, his repair bill came to $200 more.
When people are hurt, the figures go up. If the driver was
injured, he paid $408. Injured passengers were priced at $206 '
apiece. The man on whom it was really tough, needless to say,
the pedestrian, whose expenses averaged $468.
It almost seems as if it would be cheaper not to have acci
dents.? Morganton News-Herald.
POTATOES OR PEANUTS
We have heard a lot of questions asked about the recent
potato dumpings down In Pamlloo County and frankly we have 1
been able to answer most of them.
People wonder why thousands of bushels of the European
diet staple are being dumped out and made unfit for human
consumption, while people are starving to death by the thou
sand In the late war torn countries.
People wonder about paying high taxes to feed the starving
and to support parities while the money spent on parities Is .
dumped out to rot on the ground.
The only possible answer to most of these questions, as we
see it, is that every producer wants the government to guaran
tee him a living price for the crops he grows. In our area we
are interested in peanuts and tobacco and If we get a price
guarantee for those two crops we pay no mind to the wheat
farmer, the cotton farmer, the potato farmer, the citrus ]
growers.
The whole country can only see Its own peculiar difficulty.
None of us find time to see If the other fellow is In as bad or
worse fix than us We may have overcome isolationism In a
military sense but in every economic sense we are as isolated
as ever before.
It Is a false Idea of progress to pay high taxes to support ]
high prices. Dollar a pound tobacco profits are no more than
SO cents a pound tobacco, If 50 cents of that dollar tobacco 1* j
sucked up by price support taxes.? Hertford County Herald.
With the
Churches
BAPTIST
First Church, rranklln
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. Agnes Church, Franklin
The Rev. A. Rufus Morgan.
Pastor
Sunday:
10 a. m. ? Church school.
11 a. m.? First Sunday, Holy
communion.
Third 8unday,
Morning prayer.
8 p. m. ? Second and fourth
Sundays, evening
prayer.
METHODIST
Franklin Church
The Rev. W. Jackson Huneycutt,
Pastor
10 a. m.? Sunday school.
11 a. m. ? Worship.
I 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:
II a. m.? Snow Hill church
3 p. m. ? Louisa chapel.
8:00 p. m. ? Iotla church.
Thifrd 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:
11 a. m. ? Maiden's Chapel.
3 p. m. ? Gillespie Chapel.
Second Sunday:
11 a. m. ? Mount Zion.
Third Sunday:
11 a. m. ? Gillespie Chapel.
2:30 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.
CATHOLIC
Franklin
At John Wasilik's Residence
Rogers Hill)
The Rev. A. F. Rohrbacher.
Pastor
lunday:
8:00 a. m. ? Mass.
CHURCH OF GOD
Prentiss
The Rev. H. L. Helms, pastor
lunday:
10 a. m. ? Sunday school.
11 a. m. ? Worship.
7 p. m. ? Young People's En
deavor.
<:30 p. m ? Evangelistic service.
INTER-DENOMINATIONAL
Sloan's Chapel
Sunday:
2 p. m. ? Sunday school on the
first, second, third, and filth
Sundays.
2 p. m.? Preaching on the
fourth Sunday.
3 p. m. ? Preaching on the
first, second, and
third Sundays.
ruesday:
7:30 p. m.? Prayer meeting.
Friendship (Angel) Tabernacle
Sunday:
2:30 p. m? Sunday school.
Kiver Band
Sunday:
2:30 p. m. ? Sunday school.
3:30 p. m. ? Preaching Fourtf>
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
loper, superintendent.
NEGRO
Bt. Cyprian's Episcopal
The Rev. James T. Kennedy,
Pastor
Sunday:
11 a. m.- -Third Sunday,
Holy communion
a p. m.? First and second
Sundays, evening
prayer.
? S p. m.? Church school.
Friday:
5 p. m ? Litany.
Franklin Methodist Circuit
(A. M. E. Zlon)
The Rev. John O. Williams
Pastor
Preaching services as follows
First and third Sundays:
11 a. m.? Oreen Street church.
1:10 p. m. ? Ccrwee church.
? p. mr-Qi?a Btreti oburob.
NJ5T CH0CK1N' J
K CAREFUL WfTH
PlRE IN THE
WOODS',
Common mule sense ? Burned
woodlands produce no timber, pay
no wages, pay no taxes for woods
or schools.
LEGAL ADVERTISING
NOTICE OF SUMMONS
In the Superior Court
NORTH CAROLINA,
MACON COUNTY
vs.
S. L. MILLS,
LEONARD JACOBWITH, et als.
The defendants, S. L. Mills and
Leonard Jacobwlth, will take
notice that an action entitled
as above, has been commenced
in the Superior Court of Macon
County, North Carolina, for the
purpose of foreclosing a tax lien
on property in Macon County,
North Carolina, and in which
the defendants have an interest,
and proper parties thereto.
It Is further ordered by the
court that the defendants, S. L.
Mills and Leonard Jacob with,
are required to appear at the
office of the Clerk of the Super
ior Court of Macon County,
North Carolina, at his office in
Franklin, on the 2nd day of
August, 1947, and answer or de
mur to the complaint of the
plaintiff, or the relief demanded
in said complaint will be grant
ed.
This the 2nd day of July, 1947.
J^Clinton Brookshire,
Clerk Superior Court
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ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE
Having qualified as adminis
trator of Arry Pressley West,
deceased, 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
oh or before the 7th day of
July, 1948, or this notice will be
plead in bar of their recovery.
All persons indebted to said
estate will please make imme
diate settlement.
This 7th day of July, 1947.
W. R. PRESSLEY,
Administrator
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