Macon Highway Safety Record for 19i8 to Date (From State Highway I'atrol records) KILLED I INJURED ? Do Your Part to Keep These Figures Down! 3ft* Ifigblanbji JHacoman 6 Cents VOL. LXIII? NO. 37 FRANKLIN. N. C? THURSDAY, SEPT. 9, 1948 PLANS ARE LAID FOR EDUCATION MEMORIAL FUND Legion Committees Nam ed; All To Have Chance Tc Take Part With September 20 set as the date to begin accepting _ contri butions to the Macon 'County Memorial Education fund, plans were made by the local post of the American Legion, at Its meeting Thursday night of last veek, to. set up an organiza tion that will seek to contact every person in Macon County. In discussion of the project, several Legionnaires suggested that every person in Macon County should be given an op portunity to do hh or her "bit" toward this men.oria.1 to the Macon County youth who ga\e their lives for their country. The money contributed is to go Into a fund, interest from which will be loaned to worthy Macon County students to en able them to obtain a higher education. With a view to reaching as many persons as possible, the following committees were set up, the first-named in each case being the chairman: schools: W. H. Finley, Bob Sloan; civic organizations and business establishments, D. O. 9 Allison, John D. Alsup, and Clyde Galley; churches, E. O. ? Crawford, the Rev. Hoyt. Evans, Arvel Parker, R. E. (Bob) Lee; initial gifts, chairman to be named, A. R. (Alf) Higdon.Mrs. Joe Setser, and O. L. Houk; I veterans, Robert L. Porter, Lon j Dalton, Frank Reece, Harold Enloe, Erwin Patton, Dan Rey nolds, and George Cabe. Other business discussed dur ing the evening was the organ ization of a county-wide Amer ican Legion Junior league base ball for next summer and the holding of a Legion picnic din ner on September 19. Scout Court Of Hjner Is Postponsd Indefinitely The Boy Scout court of honor for the Smoky Mountain dis trict, which had been scheduled for tonight (Thursday) in Sylva, has been postponed indefinite ly. The postponement was as a precaution against polio, it was explained, since new cases of the disease have developed In Jackson county. Do You Remember . . . ? (Looking backward through the files of The Press) SO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Capt. C. J. Harris' new roller mill turned on the water Mon day -and is now ready for busi ness. It 1S? the first roller mill for Macon County. All the ma chinery is first class and up to date. It adds a new Industry to our community. Workmen have been progress- I lng pretty well with the- new ] parsonage during the past week. They have the frame up and the sides boarded, and com menced nailing on the shingles. 25 YEARS AGO With the departure of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Flnton and Miss Ed wlna Behere on Monday, the first season of the Artist colony in Franklin came to successful close. The other members had returned to their homes- in va rious parts of the United States during the previous week. Owenby school Is progressing quite nicely under the leader ship of Rev. Jud Smith. Al though he Is quite a bit crowd ed, he Is doing some splendid work for us. It TEARS AGO Highlands played a double header with Franklin Sunday and Monday, losing the game at Franklin by a score of 12-2, and defeating Franklin In High lands on Monday with a score of 18-14. Mrs. Douglas W. Nichols, Jr., entertained with a party Friday honoring her son, Douglas, on his fourth birthday. Those at tending the party were: Patty Lou Phillips, Martha Ann Stock ton, Julia Moody, Nancy Jane McCollUm, Barbara Stockton, Betty Horsley, Mike Wlese, Bobby Tyslnger, Allen Cartledge, Pat PattUlb, Robert Flnley Bardy Archer, Max Henderson, BUly Zlokgrftl and Hot for, Commissioners Asked To Provide Funds For Stadium A delegation appeared before the board of county commis sioners, at Its meeting Tuesday, to ask the commissioners to appropriate funds to build a stadium on the grounds of the Franklin school. The commissioners heard the delegation, but did not commit themselves on the proposal. The group represented the four civic organizations ? the Rotary and Lions clubs, Amer ican Legion, and Veterans of Wars? which are cooperating to construct a first class athietic field at the school heie, the first phase of which is the building of a 500-seat stadium. Members of the delegation ex pressed the view that the school is county property, and that the athletic field here would serve a large proportion of the coun ty's children, especially the high school population. The commissioners also pass ed on three road .petitions and handled routine business. Petitions asking the state to take over for maintenance the , Wlnglna Place road, near High j lands, the Moss-Hullard road, in 1 Sugarfork township, and the Carpenter road, on Commission er creek, near the Georgia line, were forwarded to the State Highway and Public Works com mission. A bill from Frank Hyatt, Bry son City jailer, for $86 was ap proved. The bill was for keep ing Floyd L. Phillips and Bern Garland, Macon County prison ers placed in the Bryson City jail for safe-keeping, both of whom recently escaped, was ap proved. Dr. Rimmer Dies; Rites Held Friday Dr. R. M. Rimmer, pharmacist at Angel drug store for 20 years, died at Angel hospital Wednes day night of last week after a long illne&s. He was 53 years of age. Dr. Rimmer, who was a na tive of Person county, was grad uated from the University of North Carolina irt 1920, and came to Franklin in 1926 after several years' with Blantley's drug store in Raleigh. He was well known 'here, and had many friends throughout the county. He was a member of the Ma sonic order, of the North Caro lina Pharmaceutical association, and of the First Baptist church here. , Dr. Rlmmer's death followed sulphuric acid burns suffered May IS. Survivors include his widow, the former Miss Alice Rigdon, originally of Tifton, Ga.; his mother, Mrs. J. M. Rimmer, of Mebane three brothers, Walter L. Rimmer, of Mebane, Graham B. Rimmer, of Greensboro, and J. M. Rimmer, Jr., 'of Martins ville, Va. Funeral services were held last Friday morning at 11 o'clock at the First Baptist church, with the pastor, the Rev. Charles E. Parker, and the Rev. D. P. Grant, pastor of the Franklin Methodist circuit, of ficiating. Interment was In the Franklin cemetery. Active pallbearers were Lee Barnard, Quince I. Hauser, T. W. Angel, Jr., Fred Cabe, W. J. (Bill) Blaine, and John Kuster er. Potts funeral home was In charge of the funeral arrange ment*. Home -Coming Program Planned September 19 An all-day home-coming pro gram will be held at the Burn lngtown Baptist church Sunday, September 19, staring at 10 a. m. The program, which will open with music by the choir and prayer, will be featured by a talk by J. H. Stockton, Ma con Baptist association modera tor, musk by the Iveryready choir of Bryson City, and ser mons by the pastor, the Rev. C. C. Welch, and the Rev. C. E. Parker, Of the First church here. The afternoon devotional will be conducted by the Rev. a. A. Cloer. Dinner will be held on the ground* at noOn. I PLAN REUNION AND PICNIC The Angel family reunion ' and the Mashburn's Branch pic nic will be held Jointly at the ' Mashburn's Branch school 8un County's Tax Valuation Jumps $286,000 In Y ear To Pass 11-Million Mark The taxable valuation of prop erty in Macon County Increas ed by more than a quarter of a million dollars during the ! 1947-48 fiscal year, figures made public by Lake V. Shope, county tax supervisor, show. The increase of $285,442 push ed the county's total beyond the 11 -million-dollar mark. This year's total Is $11,053,893, as compared with $10,798,551 last year. The exact valuation figures were not previously available, awaiting the report of the State Board of Assetment, which sets the valuation figures for cor porations. All Macon County corporation valuations remained at the same figure as last year, with the exception of the Western Carolina Telephone company. That firm's taxable valuation was reduced by the board from $28,595 to $23,422, a cut of $5, 173. Nantahala township, where the Nantahala Power and Light company has hydro-electric de velopments, with a total tax valuation of $4,093,785, Is the county's richest township in the value of taxable property. It's taxable wealth represents 37 per cent of the county's totai. Franklin township stands in second place with $3,210,953, and Highlands is third with $1,434, 415. The figures for the county's other eight townships follow: Cow ep, $429,400. MUlshoal, $415,885. Smlthbridge, $389,005. EUijay, $344,985. Cartoogechaye, $342,525. Burningtown, $152,295. Sugarfork, $142,380. Flats, $98,365. The compilation of tax values is by races, and the break down by races shows that Ne groes own property valued at $50,205, or slightly less than one-half of one per cent of the total. Property owned by Ne groes is confined to four town ships, Franklin, MUlshoal, Elli- | jay, and Cowee. 392 Registered To Date For Draft; 68 Available A total ot 392 young Macon County men had registered for the draft at the end of Tues day's registration. Of this number, only 68 are unmarried and are non-veter ans, and therefore are subject to the draft under present reg ulations, it was said at the draft board. The number avail able for draft represents 17 per cent of the total registered to date. The men registered so far, however, are in the 25, 24, and 23 year old groups,' apd