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VOL. LXII Number thirty -nine
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They Want To Stay
1 F has been repeatedly stated in this column that
^ most Macon County veterans of World W ar 2
want to stay at home,' that these G. l.'s, given half
a chance, will remain in Macon County to provide
the all-important vision and energy that only youth
can bring to a community.
How strong is the pull of home on these young
men is illustrated by some , figures recently given
the Franklin Rotary club by K. J. Whitniire, who
heads the G. I. on-the-job farm training program in
this county.
There arc now 108 men on this program. They
will testily that it is no "gravy train"; it means
work. But nearly 1U0 are on the waiting list, hop
ing to enroll the first of January.
Another indication of how seriously these men
are trying to make good 011 the farm is the fact
that a group of 12 rides 45 miles to attend classes.
These boys are doing things for this county, too.
Eighty-seven own farms, and -10 of these 87 have
built or arc building new homes. Sixty-six, or we, 11
over half, of the 108 have electricity in their homes,
and most of the remainder are prepared to light
their homes when electricity becomes available in
their neighborhoods.
llow little wi3 have done for them is indicated by
the fact that their formal education averages about
the fifth grade.
So much for the young men on the farm.
What about the others, equipped by choice and
training for other work? Are we going to do some
thing to keep them here in Macon County, or are
we going to let circumstances force them to take
their talents elsewhere?
The President Jckes
F.ven the President of the United States finds
himself a hit shaky when he "has to talk to a
hanker" !
At least that's what President Truman laughing
ly told a group of hank commissioners last week
when they took time out from their convention to
call <iii him. And after their tour of the White House
he told them that they had just seen "the finest
prison in the world".
All of which seems to indicate that Mr. Truman
is blessed with that saving sense of humor without
which, as he said, a President would he in a had fix.
(Which one of the rest of us wouldn't?) For a good
sense of humor, more than anything else perhaps,
tends to keep us sane. Furthermore, the quantity
and quality of our sense of humor largely determ
ines whether we are of big or small bore.
Mr. Truman explained his description of the
White House as a prison by remarking that a
President is a prisoner of the public. And then he
added a remark that indicates that he has that
naive honesty that usually goes along with a sense
of humor. But most Presidents, he said, like it.
The President has been criticized for not seeming
to take the present world situation seriously enough.
But, recalling Lincoln, a lot of people are inclined
to be thankful that the man who is our chief execu
tive in this critical hour is one who has a sense of
humor.
Using What We Have
"Usefulness of native atmosphere in attracting
people is illustrated in the success story of Penland
School of Handicrafts, Mitchell county",* remarks
the X. C. State News Bureau.
"Miss Morgan", it continues, "reports registra
tions this season from 35 states, Canada, India.
Last season 68 applications were rejected for lack
of space. This year, between 300 and 400 were
turned away."
The "Miss Morgan" referred to is Miss Lucy
Morgan, native of Macon County, and sister of the
Rev. A. Rufus Morgan and of Mrs. H. E. Freas, of
Franklin.
Miss Morgan long has done just what the News
Bureau urges other North Carolina communities to
do ? "use the interesting things we have to make
North Carolina a more attractive state". And it
might well be added that, by so doing, we will make
it more attractive and interesting for us at home as
well as for our visitors.
? Others' Opinions ? /
MUSSOLINI'S SON
Mussolini's son, who once wrote how beautiful it was to drop
bombs on Abyssi'nlans, may soon have a chance to take up his
art career again in an American plane.
He is currently being driven around Argentina in a govern
ment car and hailed with Fascist salutes in Peronland, to
which the U. S proposes to supply free arms and military in
struction. ? New Haven (Conn.) Union Times.
BACK IN BUSINESS
It looks like the Young Democrats are getting set for the
next general election. Activity of the organization was limited
curing the war years, but now there Is a comeback with lots
of determination on the part of the group.
An active organization does more than just get votes during
an election. Such a group stimulates Interest all during the
year, keeps the personal contacts, and becomes united on
peneral policies.
From here it looks like the group Is getting ready to keep
the cause of the Democrat party constantly before the people
of this county. ? Wayne-sville Mountaineer.
I WASHING WEALTH AWAY
The latest of the annual Inundations of the Mississippi River,
which has perpetrated damage calculated in excess of $500,
000,000 to the soil, crops, highways, railroads and cities In
Illinois, Missouri and Iowa, as well as the loss of some lives,
once more brings to focus the need for an over-all regional
program to save the most valuable of our national resources,
the top soil of the nation, which is being washed down the
rivers to the sea at a tremendous rate.
This requires an integrated program of dams, hydro-electric
power projects, irrigation, soil conservation and reforestation.
? St. Louis Labor Tribune
STARTING ROAD FROM THE .DAM
For years the people of Bryson City have been looking for
ward to the construction of the road from Bryson City direct
to the Fontana Dam, as promised by the government when
they took over the lands for the Great Smoky Mountains Na
tional park.
Well, the contract was let for the first short spot of some
thing more than a mils starting at the dam and coming this
way. Work has actually been started on construction and it is
sincerely hoped it will be steadily carried on and other sec
tions added to the program.
It is generally believed that the next move will be to start
construction at the Bryson City end and gradually extend it
to meet the oncoming effort. Even if it takes two c.r three
years to carry this project to completion it will be worth
waiting for and encouraged by the start it will incite further
interest in securing a road direct into the center of the park
from Bryson City. ? Smoky Mountain Times.
REPAIRING AN OLD HOUSE
Did you ever try to repair an" old house and make a modern
one out of it, and find that when you get one thing done
there are two more things that need doing worse than the one
you did I have an old house ever at Five Points which I had
planned to do a little work on and modernize it a little, but
I find that before I get through with it I will have becomed
old fashioned, down and out and run down at the heel. Web
ster's old Blue Back Speller said that when an old house was
torn down that it was no small job to remove the rubbish, but
I believe that I could remove the rubbish easier than I can
repair one. There is just one advantage about working over
there ? I can sort of keep the Burrells and the darkies out of
my turnip patch. You remember that last winter they ate up
my turnips and all the time kept promising me that they would
bring me a mess of meat so that I Could have a mess of greens
but they never did bring the meat and the first thing I knew
I had no turnips or meat either. ? L. P. Cross in Clayton Tribune.
A PLANETARIUM FOR N. C.
People who passed through the campus this week saw the
beginning of the Morchead Planetarium, the gift to the Uni
versity of John Motley Morehead of the class of 1891. The J. A.
Jones Construction company of Charlotte has the contract.
The time needed for the completion of the job is estimated at
a year and a half. .
The building will sit opposite, and a little way east of, the
opening between the Alumni building and the Graham Me
morial and will face the central square of the campus. It will
cross the Senior Walk that runs west from the rear of the
Episcopal church.
The first thing done, in preparation for the construction,
was the removal of several trees from the site. Stout framing
was placed around nearby trees to protect them from damage
during the building operations.
Then a force of post hole diggers and carpenters went to
work on the erection of a high board fence to enclose a large
triangular area around the site. This fence runs along the
west edge of the walk down the Old East to the Episcopal
church, along the south side of the old Barbee place and the
grounds of the Graham Memorial, and south along the rear
of the Alumni building to complete the triangle. The only
campus walk that is blocked by the fence is the Senior Walk.
Material Is to be stored in the enclosure. An office and a
supply house for the contractor, temporary wooden buildings,
will be put up on the Graham Memorial lot. The stone wall
running parallel with the Senior Walk is being removed and
the stones are being used for the repair of the wall between
the Battle-Vance-Pettigrew dormitory group and the Hill
Music hall. ? Chapel Hill Weekly.
UNIVERSAL MILITARY TRAINING
It looks like the war-jingoes can't get It through their thick
skulls that we are now living in the Atomic Age and that all
their previous military plans and methods are as out-of-date
as the proverbial dodo. If war Is to continue, It will be Atomic
War In spite of all anybody can say or do. Men have always
used the latest and most powerful weapon, and if another war
comes thej* will do it again. So why bother to train and equip
a few thousand or a few million foot soldiers when one atomic
boom dropped right In the middle of such an army would wipe
It out so completely that you couldn't find a grease spot?
We are still strutting and bragging about having the atomic
bomb as our own exclusive secret, and we tell the world that
we are now turning out bombs a thousand times more de
structive than any that have yet been used. Some of our top
scientists tell us that two bombs such as we have now, If set
off simultaneously, could make the whole United States unin
habitable.
Now what in the heck would an army of a million men do
with a think like that? Just get wiped out. That's all. A million
men with rifles and machine guns would be Just as helpless as
one man with a bow-and-arrow.
Oh, but they say WE'VE got the bomb, and no other nation
has It. Who in the dickens knows what other nations have?
Would they be likely to broadcast it to the world the very
minute they got It? We didn't, as you can well remember. The
first anybody knew of It was when we hit Hiroshima So any
one of a half-dozen nations may this very minute be piling up
atomic bombs Just like we are.
We won't have any more use for big armies than a hog has
for saddle-pockets. We will only need a small number of well
trained flyers to drop our super-bombs on the enemy country.
And, mind you, we will have to drop them FIRST. If we don't
we will not drop them at all.
Now ain't that a purty dickens of a mess for this well-known
ball of mud to get Itself into? And yet that's exactly where
we stand If the war-Jingoes are allowed to have their way.
Universal military training I
Nothing more utterly tonne has ever been Imagined.
-"OulUord College Lucky Dog.
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MACONIAN PUBLISHED
WEEKLY AT FRANKLIN, N.
C., FOR OCTOBER 1, 1947.
State of North Carolina
County of Macon ss.
Before me, a Notary Public in
and for the State and county
aforesaid, personally appeared
: Weimar Jones, who, having been
duly sworn according to law,
deposes and says that he is the
publisher of The Franklin Press
and The Highlands Maconian
and that the following is, to
the best of his knowledge and
belief, a true statement of the
ownership, management (and if
e, daily, weekly, semiweekly or
triweekly newspaper, the circu
lation), etc., of the aforesaid
publication for the date shown
in the above caption, required
by the act of August 24, 1912, as
amended by the acts of March
3, 1933, and July 2, 1946 (sec
tion 537, Postal Laws and Reg
ulations), printed on the re
verse of this form, to wit:
1. That the name and address
of the publisher, editor, manag
inp editor, and business manag
er is Weimar Jones, Franklin,
N. C.
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Jones, Franklin, N. C.
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ers, mortgagees, and other se
curity holders owning or hold
ing 1 percent or more of total
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other securities are William S.
Johnson, Charlotte, N. C., and
the estate of Mrs. J. W. C. John
son, Madison, N. C.
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WEIMAR JONES.
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fore me this 19th day of Sep
tember, 1947.
CECILE GIBSON,
Notary Public
(My commission expires De
cember 22, 1947.)
TRUSTEE'S SALE
Notice Is hereby given that
under the power of sale given
in a deed In trust executed by
D. E. Worley to the undersigned
Trustee, Dated July 24, 1942, and
lecorded in Book of Mortgages
and Deeds of Trust 34, page
575 in the 'office of the Regis
ter of Deeds for Macon County,
North Carolina, default having
been made In the payment of
the debt secured thereby, and
the holder of said debt having
demanded that the undersigned
Trustee exercise said power of
sale, and sell the property
thereby conveyed, as provided
in said deed In trust.
THEREFORE, on Saturday,
October 25, 1947, at Twelve
o'clock Noon at the Court House
door of Macon County, North
Carolina, the undersigned will
offer for sale and sell to the
highest bidder for cash, that
certain lot of land in the Coun
ty of Macon, State of North
Carolina, more particularly
bounded and described as fol
lows:
All those certain pieces, par
cels or tracts of land situate, ly
ing and being In Macon County,
North Carolina, fully described
In a deed of conveyance made
by Universal Liquidating Com
pany to the said Oay Qreen
dated July 1, 1936, and duly
registered In the office of the
Register of Deeds of Macon
County. North Carolina In Deed.
Book A-5 page 349, but EX
CEPTING HOWEVER, from this
conveyance all lands conveyed
by the above mentioned deed,
located In Jackson County.
North Carolina, and EXCEPT
ING ALSO from this convey
ance that certain tract located
In Macon County, North Caro
lina, fully described In a con
veyance from William Browning,
to Cowee Mountain School, Inc.
by deed dated May SO, 19X7, and
duly recorded Ui the office of
the Register of Deeds for Ma
con County, North Carolina In
Book X-S, page 585. and EX
CEPTING FURTHER all por
tions of said lands so located in
Macon County, North Carolina
awarded to William Browning
by Judgment of the Superior
Court of said County in a suit
wherein William Browning was
plaintiff and Oay Green and
Rocky Face Mining Company
were defendants entered on the
day of May, 1941. Ref
erence is hereby made to the
above deeds and to the above
mentioned Judgment for full
particulars.
And being the same property
conveyed by Oay Green and
wife to the said D. E. Worley,
this conveyance being made to
secure balance of purchase
money.
This sale as above set forth
will be made subject to any and
all Hens and encumbrances
against said property and to
any and all taxes or assess
ments which are a lien against
the same, and the highest bid
der will be required to deposit
five per cent of the amount
bid with the Trustee on the
date of sale.
This, the 22nd day of Sep
tember, 1947.
EUGENE C. WARD,
Trustee.
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ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE
Having qualified as adminis
trator of Sheridan N. Reed, de
ceased, 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
on or before the 5th day of
September, 1948, or this notice
will be plead in bar of their
recovery. All persons Indebted to
?said estate will please make im
mediate settlement.
This 5th day of September,
1947.
W. L. REED,
Administrator.
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ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE
Having- qualified as adminis
trator of Mrs. Emma Childers,
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 undersignea
on or before the 13th day oi
September, 1948 or this notice
will be plead in bar of their re
covery. All persons Indebted to
said estate will please make im
mediate settlement.
This 13th day of September,
1947.
J. R. CHILDERS,
Administrator
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National Forest Timber
For Salo
Sealed bids will be received
by the Forest Supervisor, Frank
lin, North Carolina, up to and
not later than 2:00 p. m. No
vember 3, 1947 and Cpened im
mediately thereafter for all live
timber marked or designated for
cutting, located on an area em
bracing about 360 acres within
the Brushy Fork Unit, Greens
Creek watershed, Jackson Coun
ty, Nantahala National Forest,
North Carolina, estimated to be
226 M feet B. M. more or less of
hardwoods and softwoods. No
bid of less than $17.00 per M
for white oak; $1500 per M for
northern ifed oak; $14.00 per M
for white ash, $9.00 per M for
red maple; $7.00 per M. for
black oak and chestnut oak;
$5.00 per M for pitch pine and
scarlet oak and $3.00 per M for
hickory and black gum will be
considered. In addition to prices
bid for stumpage, a deposit of
$1.00 per M feet for all timber
cut will be required for sale area
betterment. $500 must be de
posited wllh each bid, to be ap
plied on the purchase price, re
funded, or retained in part as
liquidated damages, according to
conditions of sale. The right to
reject any and all bids reserved.
Before bids are submitted, full
Information concerning the
timber, the conditions of sale
and the submission of bids
should be obtained from the
Forest Supervisor, Franklin,
North Carolina.
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