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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 <M
younger men register, the pro
portion of single men who have
not served with the armed
forces is expected to be larger.
During the first two days of
registration, 100, most of them
In the 25-year group, register
ed; 151 were given registration
cards Thursday and Friday of
last week, the days set aside (or
34-year olds; and on last Sat
urday and Tuesday of this
week, the days fixed for reg
istration of men 23, 141 signed
up.
Yesterday and today (Thurs
day) men born in 1926 will reg
ister; those born In 1927 will
register tomorrow and Satur
day; those born in 1928 will
register September 13 and 14;
those born in 1929 will register
September IS and 18; and those
born In 1930, prior to Septem
ber 19 of that year, will regis
ter September 17 and 18.
Meanwhile, preparations were
being made at the draft board
office to mail questionnaires to
registrants who are unmarried
and are not veterans.
Space Rented For Extra
.Classroom In Highlands
School authorities have rent
ed floor space over Doyle's self
service grocery, across the street
from the Highlands school, to
be used as an additional school
room this year.
Highlands this year was en
titled to an additional teacher.
County Supt. Guy L. Houk ex
plained, and no room was avail
able in the school building
there for another classroom^
The space in the two-story
frame building was rented from
C. J. Anderson, the owner, for
$200 for the school year. A par
tition has been taken out to
provide a single, large room,
Houk said. The second floor has
two exits.
The rental will not be paid
by the county board of educa
tion, but by the Highlands dis
trict school committee from
funds derived from rental of the
school auditorium for theatre
purposes, the superintendent
said.
The auditorium is rented to
O. P. Summer, who is principal
of the Highlands school, for
theatre purposes, with the und
erstanding that its use as a
theatre is not to interfere with
any school needs.
Mr. Summer pays a sliding
rental, varying with the season,
that ranges from $25 per month
for the three mid-winter months
to $200 per month in mid-sum
mer, Mr. Houk said. All of the
equipment was purchased by
and is the property of Mr. Sum
mer, Supt. Houk added.
Half A Dozen Octogenarians
Prove 'Life Of Party' At Tea
Approximately half a dozen
ladles who had passed their
80th birthdays, all of them ac
tive, alert, and keenly inter
ested In everything that goes
on in today's fast-moving world,
were among the guests at a
tea given Tuesday afternoon by
Mrs. James A. Cook and Miss
Harrlette Klnnebrew, at the
Slagle Memorial In honor of
their aunts, Mrs. George A.
Jones and Mrs. Lee Crawford.
(The number of those past 80
of course must be an approxi
mation, for what mere reporter
would dare g6 about at a tea
asking the ladles present their
ages!)
The affair was In the nature
of a birthday event, Mrs. Jones
having celebrated her 80th mile
stone August 25, while Mri.
Crawford was 84 Tuesday. To
them and to two others-Mr*.
Myra Allman, 84 last Saturday,
and Mrs. Betty Waldroop, who
will be 82 next Sunday? the
some 80 guests present sang
"Happy Birthday".
Nobody had a better time
than the octogenarians, and
Mri. Crawford was especially
active? ahe helped lead a Vir
ginia Reel, played a number of
piano selections (Including
"Turkey In the Straw"), and
[?tM and Mri. Harold T. Sloan
sang "Whispering Hope" as a
duet. With Mrs. H. W. Cabe at {
the piano, Mrs. Sloan sang "O ,
Promise Me", and the entire j
group, for the benefit of the
oldsters, sang "Silver Threads |
Among the Gold". Mrs. Cabe I
also played a number of piano
solos, and Mrs. Weimar Jones
and her pupil, Miss Freda Slier,
played Brahms' Hungarian
Dance No. 6 as a piano duet.
Mrs. Reby S. Tessler and Miss
Laura M. Jones assisted the
hostesses in entertaining, and
Miss Caroline Crawford and
Miss Elizabeth Jones and Mar
garet Mitchell Crawford and
Margaret Jones, granddaughters
of the honorees, served.
Smith, Roane Buy
Refreshment Shop
The Refreshment shop, situ
ated next door to the Macon
Theatre, changed hands the lat
| ter part of last week. The busi
ness was bought from Parker
Norton by Kills Smith and Curt
Roane. The new owners, who
are redecorating this week, said
the business will contlune under
the same name. No beer or other
alcoholic beverages will be sold,
they MM.
Padlocking
Proceedings Against
'Dugout' Planned
Linking L. G. Appley, socially
prominent Highlands resident,
with Ashevllle's liquor-gambling
racket, allegedly headed by
Vaughn Cannon, Solicitor Thad
D. Bryson, Jr., has issued war
rents for Fred J. Can.i^n,
Vaughn Cannon's brother, Fred
Morris, and Appley, and an
nounced he will Institute pro
ceedings to padlock Highlands'
"Dugout".
The "Dugout", formerly own
ed by Mr. Appley, sometime ago
was sold by him to FrPd (' r
..on and Morris. Recently, It Is
said, it has been manat^
Mr. Applfey.
The warrants charge viola
tion of the prohibition laws and
operation of illegal g?mbi ng
devices. Efforts to find the de
fendants and serve the warrants
have been unsuccessful, Sheriff
J. P. Bradley said yesterday.
The padlocking proceedings,
Mr. Bryson said, will be insti
tuted In Macon County and
brought before Judge Dan Mooie
in Sylva next week.
Mr. Bryson, apparently refer
ring to the situation in Ashe
ville, where private prosecution
was employed, commented tnai
he will handle the cases him
self.
F ence Issue I
Again Before
Town Board
bo2^p?nt??*rs ?f the
meeting Aes<?y "1^'
gs&L^s?.
Hons request for water ?nH
onea"tSeTnce-'0m E,bert'8t"<*
B^t ?f cltlzen8
Kinsland, "S "??. Arthur
board to ask that^a w^teTm-n
lands^wa^
snsrsLTt
HmlSVj'S'ZSJi ?? ?'?
at least ?ted out that
servZ^ot families would be
e^more^Se^l
build In ThiTaTea in ' T** t0
future. he near
lsed f k the '
don a e work would be
the nil en they coulcl obtain
A 2 necef8ary for the Job
thi/secLr U P,anned for
thfh? 5tUes appeared before
rjj* . board and reported that
lies Seen 'thT "ne"' whlch
fieh??1Ph BUlg'n ^^'sieet'
as WUk,rst4hetWnin0nthhe 22
Mly^partlallv VlS'?n ' had b~n
ed the HPrirmfeUng had dlrect"
ein thof . wrlte Mr- Bul
8in that unless the fence was
moved within io davs Thf
town would move it and th*
mayor was directed to take th!
Proper steps for its rem?ll Z
necessary, af the end of the
that' V?0* Mr StUes saw
fastened to Tra* 18 at Present
Rowing within the*1 right-of
^d mem^Ud SL?jJ&
BB'B
M*Phemt.td d^cusslon between
snJ? -sut
, "lcf- Mr. Stiles countered sav
lng that ^ere was no error fn
Continued on Page Eight
Higdon Family To Hold
Annua] Reunion Sunday
'pie annual Higdon familv ?.
place^Jun
of tht and 'riends
family are Invited to
come and bring picnic baskets.
PLAN RUMMAGE SALE
jwl? k?*1 chapter of the
Eastern Star will hold a rum
Sa^rd? ?n the publlc "Quare
about B o m?iZlln?' starting
about 9 a. m. Funds raised will
I? ^ard building a hospC
?? the Masonic and Eastern
SUr home at Omneboro"
BOARD WILL BUY
SITE FOR NEW
ELLIJAY SCHOOL
Orders Materials Bcugiit
For Heeating Plant
At Cowee
The county board of educa
tion Monday authorized pur
chase of a building site lor
the proposed Ellijay consoli
dated school and Instructed the
county superintendent to order
the materials for a heati.ig
system in the Cowee school.
| The site chosen for the Elll
I Jay school is known as the
I Alice Thompson property. A
j tract of approximately seven
acres, it is situated at the junc
tion of Highway 64 and a road
that runs along the right Side
of the Cullasaja river. Nearby
are a number of other road in
i tersectlons. The property (aces
I the highway from a point uear
Burt Mashburn's mill to the
j upper Cullasaja bridge.
Supt. O. L. Houk told the
; board he had a 30-day option
on the property from the own
er, DeWltt Thompson, for $2,
500, and the board authorized
him to proceed to exercise the
option. Meanwhile, the board
agreed to his suggestion that
he obtain bids on the grading
that will be necessary before
construction can start.
Under thp plan worked out
by Mr. Houk several years ago,
it is proposed to consolidate at
the new school, when it is built,
Oold Mine, Pine Orove, Higdon
ville, Salem, and Mashburn's
Branch schools. It also will
serve a group of children who
formerly attended the old Beth
el school, but now go to Frank
lin.
Bob Sloan brought up the
subject of the heating sys.cm
for the Cowee school, which was
built In 1941-42, and which con
tains a boiler, but In which o
heating system has ever b_en
Installed. Mr. Sloan made tlie
point that the walls are bo. ;
smoked by the stoves now ,.i
use, and said he felt the jou . t
Cowee should be completed.
Mr. Houk told the board It
may be months before pi;.c,
radiators, etc., can be obtained.
The board members agreed tii.it
the material should be ordered
now, so that the heating system
can be installed when materials
are obtained.
The latest estimate on Instal
lation of steam heat In the
Cowee school, the superinten
dent said, placed the cost of
materials at $3,655.77, which in
cludes a stoker.
The motions to buy the Elli
jay site and install the Co we 2
heating system were made by
Mr. Sloan and seconded by
Frank Browning. Chairman C.
Gordon Moore presided. Tho
other two members of the boaid
were absent.
Mr. Houk told the board that
E. J. Carpenter, Jr., of Frank
lin, who has been studying :.t
Western Carolina Teachers col
lege, Cullowhee, has been em
ployed to fill the vacancy in
the prlnclpalshlp at Kyle.
In response to a question froi.i
Chairman Moore about employ
ment of Miss Nora Moody, for
mer principal of the Iot.i
. school, Mr. Houk said M \'s
Moody was not under contract
to teach In this county and
that there was no position such
as she desired vacant.
21-Year Old Man
Of Oak Dale Area
I* New Polio Case
Howard Swafford, 21, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Harley Swafford,
of the Oak Dale section of Ma
con County, Sunday night was
taken . to the AshevlUe Ortho
pedic home. Physicians diagnos
ed his Illness as poliomyelitis.
Since his Is the only case
from this county now In the ac
tive stage, schools will open this
morning as scheduled.
Reports from Ashevllle are
that Mr. Swafford's condition
U good.
Temperatures and precipita
tion for the past seven day*,
and the low temperature yes
terday. as recorded at the
Coweeta Experiment station,
follow:
Wednesday 81 57 .00
The Weather
High Low Prec.
Thursday
Friday ...
Saturday
Sunday .
84 SO .00
78 SO .00
68 58 1.17
70 68 .87
82 62 .45
78 58 .06
Monday ...
Tuesday ...
Wednesday
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