Macon Highway Safety
Record for 1948 to Date
(Fr?n Salt Highway Patrol rccurda)
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best investment yet found.
VOL. LXIII? NO. 21
FRANKLIN. N. C.. THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1948
Election Called On Beer And Wine
i I . "
PLAN TO X-RAY
CHESTS OF ALL
MACON ADULTS
Will Be Free; Campaign
Launched Tc Raise
$800 For Expense
A movement to provide a
Tree chest X-ray for every per
son 15 years of age cr older in
Macon was launched at a meet
ing of state, district, and coun
ty health authorities with in
terested local citizens at the
county health office here
Thursday evening of last week.
Health officials pointed oul
that an X-ray is the simplest
and surest way to ascertain if
a person has tuberculosis, and
that X-rays in many cases will
show the presence of the dis
ease in time to start treating it
early, thus making a cure eas
ier and much more probable.
The group chose Pritchard
Smith, Jr., as chairman, and
Mr. Smith later named an ex
ecutive committee to work with
him. On that committee are B
W. McGlamery, J. Ward Long,
Frank B. Cook, of Highlands,
Claude Bolton, and Misses Caro
lyn Cory and Ann Ray, home
demonstration agent and assis
tant agent, respectively. Wayne
Faulker was named secretary of
the organization.
Under the program, X-ray
service will be made available
through the district l Macon,
Haywood, Jackson, and Swain
counties) health department and
the State Board of Health. The
State Board will furnish four
mobile X-iay units, a doctor,
technicians, and supervising
clerk.
Irganizations and individuals
in the county are being asked
to raise funds to pay for
clerks, an educational campaign,
and follow-up work. About $800
wtH be required for this pur
pose, it is estimated, and rais
ing this fund is the first task
of Mr. Smith and his commit
tee.
The plan calls for the four
mobile X-ray units to come to
this county the latter part of
July or the first of August, and
? spend as much time here as is
required. The units will visit
various sections of the county,
so that no one will have to
travel a great distance to be
X-rayed.
The X-rays, which take about
two minutes to make, will be
free, and each person X-rayed
will be mailed a report on the
result of the X-ray. Facilities
ai?o will be provided for fur
ther examination in cases where
the X-ray indicates presence of
tuberculosis.
At a second meeting of the
health office Tuesday night of
this week, plans were worked
out in more detail, and the
county was zoned and workers
selected for each zone to seek
funds to make the campaign
possible, and to urge everybody
to take advantage of the free
X-ray service.
A third meeting of workers
and others Is to be held next
Wednesday night at 7:30 at the
Agricultural building, at which
(Urns will be shown and health
talks will be heard.
Those attending the meeting
at which it was decided to
launch the campaign Included
Mr. Smith, Mr. Faulkner, John
M. Alsup, Mrs. Frank Shope,
county health nurse, Miss Ray,
Mrs. Ollmer A. Jones, Mrs. K. |
R. Oaines, Miss Alma Mc
Cracken, health district super
visor, and Miss Frances Korne
gay, of the State Board of
Health's division of tuberculosis
control.
Do You
Remember . . . P
(Looking backward through
the fllea of The Frew)
SO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
Messeis. W1U and Noah Little
field received two ooop? of In
dian game chicken* last Thur?
day from the Watauga poultry
yard* at Elizabethton, Ttnn.
There were a cock, four pUlltU,
and a ehtek.
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PRECINCTS
Millshoal . 35
Ellljay ........ .. 39
Sugirfork 6
Highlands 192
Flats 8
Smithbridge t 79
Cartoogechaye '.... 64
Nantahala No. 1 15
Nantahala No. 2 10
Burningtown 21
Cowee .....i /...... 127
Franklin 486
TOTAL 1,082
State Survey Indicates
What Macon Folk Think
About N. C. School System
Pick Miss Bryant
To Represent This
County At Event
Miss Virginia Bryant, of
Fi_n?tlin, has been chosen
by the Franklin Chamber
of Commerce to represent
lUUvoa County at the Rho
dodendron Coronation ball,
to be held in the Asheville
city auditorium Saturday,
July 10.
One young woman from
each county in this region
T~ Is being selected to attend
the social event, which is
sponsored by the Rhododen
dron Brigade of Guards.
Each will be formally pre
sented to the Royal Rhodo
dendron Court. Accompany
ing each of the county's
representatives will be two
mars,hals, selected by her,
and Miss Bryant has chosen
Jack Angel and Clell Bryant,
both students at the Uni
versity of North Carolina,
to serve as her marshals and
escorts.
Miss Bryant, the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. W. <J.
Bryant, is employed as sec
retary at Duncan Motor
company.
Holiday
I"iO Be Observed Monday;
Meetings Postponed
Since July 4 this year falls on
Sunday, next Monday will be
generally observed as a holiday.
Public offices and most business
establishments In Franklin will
oe closed all day Monday.
The county board of commis
sioners, the county board of ed
ucation, and the Franklin
board of aldermen, all scheduled
to meet Monday, will hold their
meetings Tuesday instead.
County offices in the court
house (except the sheriff's of
fice), the county health depart
ment, the Franklin town office,
the post office, and offices of
the county agent and the coun
ty home demonstration agent
all will be closed Monday for
the holiday.
In Highlands, where summer
is the busiest season of the
year, most places will be open
Monday as usual.
Can File Claims
For Compensation
On Wednesdays Only
Claimants for unemployment
compensation and readjustment
allowances hereafter will file
their claims here on Wednes
days. Representatives of the
State Employment service and
the Unemployment Compensa
tion commission, who previous
ly have been here each Wed
nesday and Friday, In future
will be In Franklin on Wednes
day's only, It was announced by
S. X. Bates, eufployment rep
resentative.
Mr. Bates added that, In fu
ture, aptitude tests will In giv
en only on the first and third
Fridays In each month, instead
of each Friday as tn the past.
Questionnaire Replies
From This County
T abulated
(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is
the first of three stories on
the results of a public ques
tionnaire on North Carolina
education.)
What does the average North
Carolinian think of the state's
public school system?
Seeking the answer to that
question, the State Education
commission? which is makiqg
the survey of education in
North Carolina that was order
ed by the last general assem
bly?prepared a public question
naire that was published In
April in the state's newspapers,
among them The Franklin Press.
Seven main questions? some
of them with subquestions?
were asked:
How good do you think the
schools of North Carolina
should be? Would you be will
ing to pay the taxes necessary
for better schools? What do you
think about salaries now being
paid teachers In North Carolina?
For what purposes should
school facilities be used? Which
(of four general subjects)
should receive more emphasis in
the schools of North Carolina?
In your opinion what are the
two or three most serious weak
nesses or handicaps of the
schools of the state? In your
opinion what are the two or
three strongest or best features
of the schools of the state?
The figures on the answers
have been tabulated, and a
number of news stories about
the results already have been
published In the press of the
state.
Now a compilation of the re
sults from this county throws
light on what the average man
or woman In Macon County
thinks ibout the North Carolina
? Continued on Page Six
scon. VICTOR.
WON IN MACON
BY 322 VOTES
212 More Ballots Cast
In County Than In
First Primary
Macon County, in last Satur
day s run-off Democratic pri
mary election, gave W. Kerr
cott, of Alamance county, 322
of the approximately 34,000 ma
jority by which he won the
party s nomination for governor
over State Treasurer Charles M
Johnson. The official vote an
nounced by the county board of
14M-?niSh Sday' was: Scott,
1.404, Johnson, 1,082.
32" T nrst tl1ne in ^e
32-year history 0f the North
?Continued on Page Eight!
4 More Macon
Men's. Bodies
On Way Home I
The bodies of four more Ma
theirCTty S?ldierS wh?
' , f , ,lives overseas during
World War 2 are on the way
home, it has been learned here
They are T. sgt. George C
Gray, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jim
Pf,. JJy' of Frankiin. Route 2,
Pfc. George D. Elliott, son 01
Roi'.talld of8' Walter Elliott, of
son nf u J0hn G Hauser,
SSnwi Mrs Be"y Hauser, 01
Franklin, and Pfc. George T
tfn' rn?'jf>nt?f Mrs IIa H Mar
tin, of Route 1.
North r*frr,nhre are ai"ong 137
ed fmm th p nS return
ea from the European Theatre
Operations aboard the U. S
?t/"ansporl Greenville Vic
i>d in py origtnal|y were bur
ied in France. The body of a
Olin?hwaCe0n County man. Pfc
Oline W. Stanfield, whose re
turn was announced last week
also is aboard the transport. '
Pfc. Elliott died July 14 1944
bitu:UnofSTiVed J 9 in the
Datue of Normandy. Funeral
plans have not been announced
R" Hauser was killed at
XT' ^Ptember t
While the date of thp
funeral will be determined bv
arrival of the body in Frank
wtll he6 afrMCe fnd interment
d?t bI,at,M0Unt zlon Metho
U. buried ' WhCre hiS father
^rtin was killed in ac
tion in France August 30 1944
win:1 9rrvnd
tery ? Ralejh NaU?nal Ceme'
a^gt. Gray. "" aVa"able
The next of kin of all thnce
on board will be notified in ad
of nthe?f thC date of the "rival
of the transport in New Ynrii
and of date of the arrival of the
remains at the places desie
natcd by the families for funer
al services and burial.
n^PPr,?P.r'ate ceremonies will be
"l a am on ^hW Y?rk port at
arrives day the shiP
New Deal Agricultural
Policies Here To Stay,
Says Former AAA Head
Regardless of which party is
in power, the basic principles
of aid to agriculture put into
effect by the New Deal are here
to stay, tn the opinion of
Chester C. Davis, AAA adminis
trator under President Roose
velt, who was here Tuesday.
The heart of that program,
Mr. Davis explained, is soil con
servation and price support
Such changes as may be made
will be aimed at improvement
of administration, he added.
Head of the triple A from
1933 to 1938, Mr. Davis now is
president of the Federal Reserve
Bank of St. Louis, and he
talked with enthusiasm of the,
results of studies his bank is
making of long-term loans
mad* to aid tha conservation of
soil and of water.
isolatloniMn as a political
philosophy la dead In th# mid
west, which at om time was the
cprt ot Isolationist Mntlmsnt,
the Federal Reserve Bank presi
dent said. ''The people I talk
to, from all over that region,
recognize we have a responsi
bility in world affairs which
we should not, and cannot,
shirk."
Mr. Davis was in Franklin
with his son, Chester S. Davis,
feature writer for the Winston
Salem Journal-Sentinel, who
was gathering material for a
feature story on the Nantahala
National Forest.
After spending the entire day
in the forest, accompanied by
Supervisor E. W. Renshaw, the
Winston-Salem newspaperman
expressed pleased surprise at
th? great recreational develop
ment and possibilities of the
forest.
He smilingly expressed aston
ishment "that Ashevllle has any
touriiU, because you tollu over
? Continue# on Eight
NEXT GOVERNOR? W. Kerr
Soott, 52-year old Alamance
county farmer and former state
commissioner of agriculture, was
assured of a four-year term as
governor of North Carolina
when ,he defeated Charles M
Johnson for the Democrats
nomination in last Saturday's
second primary. If elected, as i;
taken for granted, in this fall's
general election, he will take
office early next January.
WILL PRESENT
PLAYMONDAY
Highlands Theatre Will
Give 2 Performances
Of 'Dear Ruth'
"Dear Ruth", the opening
play of the sixth season of thi
Highlands Community Theatre
will be presented at the High
lands Theatre next Monday
July 5.
The afternoon performanci
will start at 3 p. m., and th<
evening performance at 8 p. m
With the exception of on
actor, who counts Highlands a
his second home, this will bi
an all-Highlands cast.
Included in the cast are Miss
Mama Cobb, Herbert Paul, ant
Ralph Mowbray, veteran Com
munity Theatre players; Mist
Martha Cobb, who will be mak
ing her debut in theatrical
work; and Craig Cranston, pro
duction manager for the pas.
two seasons, who will be seer,
oh the stage for the first timi
by Highlands theatre-goers. Am.
Anderson, Elizabeth Newton
and Arnold Keener, who ari
well known to the audiences ol
Highlands school plays are ap
pearing for the first time with
the Community Theatre. Miss
Foy Perry, new to the Hi^h
lands Cjn.iuun.ty grou.), wo.a
ed wun ihe l.ivei^iu j Liu t
The:.i,re and the Gcuw.n the
atre, both in Chicago.
Miss Winifried Eskrigge, pub
licity manager, has announceo
that all seats will be reseivei
and that the price of admissioi
will be $1 for adults and 5i
cents for children under 12
Tickets will be on sale everj
morning this week in front o.
the post office.
New Well
#
The digging of the Town o.
Franklin's deep well, on the
Dan Bryson property, in Easl
Franklin, has been completed, 6
temporary pump has been in
stalled, and it is hoped to havt
the well connected with the
town water system within about
a week, it was learned yester
day from Mayor T. W. Angel,
Jr.
The well, which will be the
fourth in operation, is pumping
approximately 50 gallons of
water per minute, c.nd w.ll in
crease the town's water supply
by about one-third. The well is
550 feet deep.
Before water from the nev
well can be pumped into the
mains and thencj the water
tanks, a four-inch pipe liiu
must be laid from the well to
the nearest mtin, on tha fciylvi
highway, a distance of abjut
500 tect.
Six Franklin youths? mem
bers of the senior Boy Scout
troop here? left Saturday for
Jacksonville, Fla., where they
will be gueete, along with other
Senior Boy 6couts, at the Naval
base there for 10 days, in the
rup are Jimmy Conley, Prank
Henry, III, John Alsup, Jr.
:Alvln Stiles, Bob Myers, and BU'
| Yarbrough.
MACON VOTERS
TO BALLOT ON
ISSUE AUG. 28
New Petition Checked
And Approved By
County Board
A special county-wide elec
tion to determine whether beer
and wine may be legally sold
in Macon County yesterday was
called for August 28.
The election was ordered by
the county board ot elections,
in response to a petitiorf asking
that the issue be submitted to
a vote.
The election board checked
the petition and Wednesday
formally found that the requir
ed number of qualified voters
had signed it.
This is the second time a
beer and wine election has been
called in Macon County.
The first election was to have
been held last February 14 hut
was halted by a court order
signed by Judge II Hoyle Sink
in Asheville, February 11. The
injunction was issued upon a
complaint alleging irregularities
in the petition which asked lor
that election.
Under the law providing for
county and municipal elections
an the issue of legal sale of
beer and wine, such an election
may not be held within 60 days
h.0tany/eAgUlar e,ecti?n, and the
nl 0 , ugust ^ the earliest
time since last February, at
which such an election could be
held .since the first primary
came on May 29 and the sec
ond on June 26.
The law requires that the pe
tition seeking the e.ection must
oe signed by 15 per cent ox ,he
voters who voted for go.euior
ThJ f general election.
That figure is 7?6, a,id the
ooard of elections tound that
?nore than that number of qual
tiUon VOters had si6ned the pe
The petition was circulated by
dv,, V ,forces organization, in
*hich H. H. Plemmons, Walter
Dean, and C. J. Mouney have
been among the active leauers
It was presented to the board
Jf elections Wednesday o, last
weeK.
No new registration is requir
ed for the beer and wine vote
but the registration books will
f? ?Pfn at the polling places,
tor the convenience of those
not registered, on three Satur
days- July 31, August 7, and
August 14. At other times dur
ing that period, voters may ree
nter at t..e iw.g ?.aIV ,'mB
August 21 w.,! tv ^hai .n, u
Registrars anj ji.Jfc , lti. Jie
special election be lia,-ied
th!frh i' Man'*1' chairman of
the board of elections, said
connection with regi^ra
U) rhletISSUed a PlLa U voU'*S
to check promptly lo Kee u
they are registered, anu u uoi,
to register as soon as the boons
open rather than wan uuul
that fh ?f th? eleCUt-'" a.'W jlllu
y are n0t ^egisteieu ana
therefore cannot \ou?.
If the majority 01 the vou.s
cast opposes legal sale of beer
and wine, such sales vvui
outlawed, effective 60 days' twm
th/ date of the election. If ..ic
majority, however, lavors icyul
sale, licensed dealers may con
tinue sales, as at present.
Beer and wine became legal
in this county by legislative en
actment of 1943. At' pn-uent,
however, only beer is legally
sold in this county, since i. J
wine licenses are 1.1 i i.
E. W. Renshaw, supervisor of
the Nantahala Nation a Forest,
and the Rev. A. Rufus f.-organ,
of Franklin, were nmong the
speakers on the t.mo-da/ pro
gram of the Appalachian Trail
conference at Fen tan a Village
last week-end.
The Weather
Temperatmto and precipita
tion for the past seven days,
and the low temperature yes
terday, as recorded at the
Coweeta Experiment itat.on,
follow:
Max. Mln. Prec.
Wednesday .... 87 50 03
Thursday 89 67 .01
Friday 88 56 .00
Saturday 00 5G .00
Sunday 85 81 ,S7
Monday tS 57 ,14
Tuesday M oa 1.2a