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8%* IfabUttta Baconian \Ol. LXIV-NO. 17 FRANKLIN, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL tt, IMt TEN PAGES Macon To Get $250,000 N. C. School Aid ? ~ _ i " 1 Calendar Of The Week'? EVENTS ? Data for this column should rcaoh The Press by not later than n o o * Tuesday. In order to keep the calendar accurate, secretaries of organizations are requested t o notify the newspaper promptly of changes in the time or place of meetings. FRIDAY, APRIL 1? 3 p. m. ? Two-day regional Baptist Training Union conven tion opens at First Baptist church. ? 7 p. m. ? Franklin. High school Junior-Senior banquet at Slagle Memorial building. SATURDAY 10:30 a. m. ? Macon County Council of Home Demonstration clubs at Agricultural building. .7:30 p. m. ? Teen-age club par.y at Hotel Heam. 8 ?>. m. ? Dance (American Legion benefit) at Memorial building. MONDAY 10 a. m. ? County board of education at county superinten dent's office in courthouse. . 10 a. m. ? County board of commissioners at register of deeds office in courthouse. 10:30 aT m. ? Maoon County Baptist Preachers' conference at First Baptist church. 7 p. m. ? Troop No. 1, Boy Scouts, at Memorial building. *7:30 p. *m. ? Franklin board of aldermen In town office, Bank of Franklin building. TUESDAY 1:30 p. m. ? Pickle-making demonstration at Agricultural building. 7:30 p. m. ? Junaluskee lodge No. 145, A. F. and A. M., at Masonic hall. WEDNE?**"" " 7 p. m. ? Franklin Rotary club at Memorial building. PLAN RUMMAGE SALE The Woman's auxiliary of St. Agnes Episcopal church will hold a benefit rumage sale on Main street in Franklin Satur day, beginning at 9 a. m. -A Do You Remember . . . ? (Looking backward -through the (ilea of The Press) ?? - ? SO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK In the town election Monday, the fallowing ticket was elected: H. G. Trotter, mayor; E. K. Cunningham R. L. Bryaon, Geo. A. Jones, W H. Higgins, and C. C. Smith, commissioners. The number of votes cast was 38. Quoted from the Brevard Leader: A. C. Morton, our geni al friend, came in Friday with his bride. He was happily mar ried to Miss Emma Jolly, of Cul - lasaja, Macon County, on the 20 h instant, and brought his blushing bride, a beautif ul young lady of 22 summers, back to Brevard with him. A colored school house in a Georgia county has this sign: "Nothing But the phlted States Langwidge Teached Here". 25 YEARS AGO Mr. W. T. Latham, of An ? drews was visiting friends here last Saturday. This week closes one of the most successful terms in the history of the Iotla high school. At the commencement exercises next week one of the largest classes ever graduated from the school will receive diplomas. The members of the graduating class number 10 ? Oda Pouts, Ruth Roland, Ruth Stillwell, Ethel Stillwell, Nina Tippett, Betty Lou Holbrook, Wan do Fouts, Buford Fouts, Bill Bryson, and Paul Sanders. ' > 10 YEARS AGO Luther Wilson Hauler, 89, well known citizen of Franklin, died Sunday morning at his home on the Georgia road. Mr. and Mrs. Guy L. Houk, Mr. and Mrs. James E. Perry, Mr and Mrs. J. S. Conley, Dr. and Mrs. Walter E. Purr, Rer. j. A. Flanagan, W W. Bkmn, John Cunningham, and Lester Henderson attended the district convention of Rotary Interna tional at Spartanburg Monday and Tuwdty General Town Clean-up Planned In Highlands The Highlands board of town commissioners Iras officially de signart<ed next week ? May 2 through 7 ? as general clean- up week for Highlands. The action of the board was in response to requests from many citizens, and is <m cooperation with the Highlands Rotary club in its campaign to make High lands more Mtiwtiwe to its year round citizens, as well as its many summer visitors. For the aleaov-up to be success ful, members ot the board ex pai ned, it must have the interest and active cooperation of every citizen. , By designating a particular week for the campaign, it was explained, people are assured that any refuse collected at their places of business, residence, or on their vacant lots will be pick ed up by town- trucks and hauled away. The comnxs&ionens 'h;,pe the trucks will be kept busy, al' day long, every day next week. With public support, officials said the movement can result in giving Highlands a reel "face lifting". In omdeb to facilitate the dis posal of refuse, citizens are ask ed to place their collections in places easily accessible to the trucks. The movement for a general! ele<an-<up in Highlands grew out of a talk made by Dr. O. C. Skinner president of Rabun Gap-iNacoo chee school and a Highlands home owner, before the Rotary club last morybh. The club im mediately accepted the challenge and has been actively in promot ing the plan since. 250 Expected Here For 2-Day B. T. U. Regional Meeting Approximately 254 young persons from six counties in this end of tjbe state aire expected here Friday fpc the opening at 3 p. m. of the two-day regional Baptist Training union convention, to be held at the Franklin Baptist church. SmtaM also will be held Friday evening and Satur day morning. ' Speakers will include the Bev. J. Alton Morris and the ? Bev. C. El Parker, of the i Murphy and Franklin churches, respectively. Ever ett B. White, of this county, is regional director. Mission Body To Hold Meet In Highlands The annual meeting of the Mac on County Women's Missionary society will be held with the H'lgNaimdfl Baptist church Wed nesday of next week, starting at 10 *. m. Speakers from outside the coun ty who will appear on the pro gram -will be Mrs. E. H. Corpen intf, divisional superintendent. Miss Laura Ftances Snow, state worker, end Miss Irene Cham bers, field representative of the, Baptist Home Mission board. A copy of the program will .be mail ed to each society in the county, it was explained. In addition to those who maike 'he trip in their own cans, the First Baptist church's bus is ex pected to taike about 35 passen gers. The bus will leave the franklin church ait 8:45 a. m., and those wishing detailed informa tion about transportation may obtain it by calling Mrs. W. N. Cook at Telephone 180-J of by writing her at Franklin. - All women frotn the Baptist churches throughout the county, and pastors of all churches, are invited, Mrs. Cook said. Eaah per son attending is asked to bring food lor a picnic lunch. Miss Hayes Head* Women Of Church In Presbytery MlM Elsie Hays, of Franklin, Is the new president of the Wo men of the Church of the Ashe yille Presbytery. She was elected at the meet ing In fcfontreat Tuesday. Nantahala High Seniors To Present Play Friday A play, "Payln' The Fiddler", will be given at the Nantahala High school Friday night at 7:30 o'clock. The play, a comedy, wUl be glrtn toy the senior class, and proceeds will be used toward the expense of the Junior-Senior U. S. OFFICIAL TALKS TO LIONS Lamar Caudta DUcu?*es Work Of Justice Department Lairuar Caudle, M. S. assistant attorney -g-erte:ial in change of the tax <Ju vision, spoke to the Frank lin Lions club and guests at the regular meeting Monday night ait the Slagle Miemeroiad building. Mr. Caudle explained the work ings of the Justice department and its effect on the people, throughout the country. Briefly, ithe speaker outlined the work of the five divisions at the department. He pointed oui that the anti-trust department is an economic division wthdch pro tects the little mam from conspir acy of combines and monopolies when he goes to buy, it beu^( a crime to conspire to fix prices. The assistant attorney -general stressed the* idea that the anti trust division was doing work which woulft help to prevent the return of 1932 when, accoidinig to man)* statisticians economicsts, 200 combines set prices on a maj ority of products throughout the United States. The criniinai . division, Mr. Caudle said, handled 89 thousand cases in 1944. However in 50,000 of these cases, as true hillls were not found, the public heard noth ing about them. In describing tile work of the tax division; the deportment which 'he 'heads, Mir. Caudle said that only 20 per cent of the caseL are connected with tax fraud, tht rest of the work being involvec with civil cases. Mr. Caudle urged persons whu have tax problems to take therr. up direct with the department. He promised that he would have at many conferences with a persoi. as are desired, provide dthat i new conference was not a repeti tion of the one the day before." The speaker, a graduate o: Wake Forest college, who was ir charge of tax matters for the de partment of justice for 28 west em North Carolina .counties, i well acquainted in this amea H< singled out Representative Mon roe Redden for praise, saying the assistant democratic whip in tht house of representatives is be coming a power in' congressional.' circles. Mr. Caudle was accompanied nere by Oh angles Price, forme- M S. Manshailil for this district. Mr and Mrs. Caudle and Mr. Price were the guests of Dr. and Mrs Edgar Angel during their stay here. Our Rdgrets Due to ? machine break down Tuesday, which earn ed a 24 -hour halt In opera tions, this week'* Issue of The Press is tote Machine raiders. Ths management regrets this unavoidable de i?r. COURT TERM HERECLOSES Nantahala Power Firm Wins In Cherokee Damage Suit The April term of Macon su perior court ended at mid-after noon Thursday, after a Jury had found that the plaintiffs in a suit against the Nantahala Pow er and Light company were en tit' ed to no damages. The cose grew out of a power line's fail ing on the home of the plain tiffs, Etta Roland Forrister, Shelby Jean Forrister, and Oay Roland, in Cherokee county. The plaintiffs sued for $59,000. The ease in which Frank R. Leach sough a ome-half untarest 26 lots in the Franklin goli ?ourse sub-division and approxi mately $1,700 in cadh from R. A. (Bob) Pattern resulted in a mis trial. The suit grew out of a dispute over division of the sales profits fromn the sale of the golf course xoperty about a year aigo. Mr. Leach and Mr. Patton were asso ciated m conducting the sole. A jury gave L- 3. FMlips a verdict ir? has syiit against Edwin GIB, N- C- ogwwniaswDnr of rev enue. Severs! mowths ago the state, attagtag thai Mr. (Pihiilips, FranWm coed dealer, was opera ting truck* lor hire, ordetied him to obtain for hire licence plates. Vbf. Phillips denied that the trucks were operated for hiire, $1,100 TO SCHOOL FUND The Macon County school, fund will receiT* more than a thousand dollars from fine* and forfeitures al the April term of superior court. The records of the clerk of court show $900 forfeited in bonds, and approximately $200 col lected in fine*. Under the all fine* and forfeiture* 90 to the schools. and the state issued am execution and coWected $427 from Mr. Phil lips. He paid the amount uinder protest, and filed suit. The jury rendered a verdict im his favor, and the state was or dered to return the $427. Attor neys for the state filed notice of appeal to the supreme court. The suit Forrister agadnet the power company was transferred here from Haywood county, to which county the plaintiffs mov ed subsequent to the elleged electric line damage in Cherokee. Originally, four suits ? fan $20,000. for $20,000, for $15,000, and for ? Continued on Pane Six C. Of C. Booth O n Main Street Opens Far 1949 Season The Franklin Chamber of Commerce Information booth will, open for the season Satur day at mvoon. It was decided to open the booth now, in view of the no ticeable Increase In the number if tourists on the road, the fact that tourist places here re port a decided pick-up In busi ness, and the maTked Increase In the number of persons In quiring about places to stay, President Frank B. Duncan laid. The booth, situated on the with side of West Main street, will be kept open by Secretary Frank I. Murray dally from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m., and on Sun days from 11 a. m. to 8 p. m. Meanwhile, Mr. Duncan said, the campaign for 1949 members of the chamber of commerce Is proceeding satisfactorily. The response has been gratifying, he added, most business firms and Individuals expressing their desire to see sufficient funds provided to enable the chamber to carry out Its 1949 program. The organization's board of directors will meet the middle of next week for a progress re port on the membership cam paign and on the Franklin booklet which Is to be published by The-frankHn Press, under the chamber's sponsorship, and to so over final plans for this year's newspaper advertising, road signs, and other projeets. Voters To Choose Town Officials In Franklin And Highlands Tuesday Vole rs in Frank! m and Hign Lsaii wiil go to live polls in the two towns Tuesday to elect may- I ors and boards oi aide* men to 1 serve for the next itwo years. The contest in Franklin is fori membership on the board of' add L-rmen, but m Highlands two aire on the rice far mayor, and 12 are canctdaites for the five seats on thai town's board of commissiarv 318. In Franklin the five incumb ents and four other candidates are out for aldermen. Six are to be elected. There is no contest for mayor here, H. W. Cabe, canh ier of the Bank of Franklin, be ing the only candidate. He will succeed Mayor T. W. Angel, Jr., who did not stand tcr re-election. The nine who filed for seats on the Franklin boar* of aldermen are: W. C. Burrejl, automobile deal er, whose home is on the Georgia road; incumbent. W- H- (Jtusseffl.) Cafce, erg:n-?er for the Namtahala Powv and Light Company, home Geo gia road section; incumbent JS. J. Carpenter, teacher;; home Harrison avenue. J, C. Crisp, photographer; home Bonny Crest. Erw4n Patton, farmer; home West Main Street; incumbent. . L. B. Phillips, csal deal e i; home West Mam Street; incum bent. W. W. Reeves, hardware mer chant; home Georgia road. Verkxn Swafford, aulomobile parts merchant; home Breyon City roed. E. J. Whitmire, Jr., teachar; home Bast Enamklin; incumbent. In Highlands, the race far may or is between W. H. Cobb, 'hard ware merchant a afA builder, who is a former mayor, and William P. Pierson, ineal estate and insur ance deader. Mayor James O. Beale did not file for reelection. Of the five members of the present Highlands boaird of com missioners, J. D. Burnett e and Sidney McCarty are not candi dates for reelection. The 13 who seek the five seats on the boar d ore: C- J. Anderson; Jeter Buch sr?3T?: the Rev. R. B. DUPree; Ty dar N. Hall; W. A. Hays, incum bent; Barry A. Ho'it; Dr. C. F. Mitchell; Edward Potts, incum bent; Joe Reese, incumbent; L. W. Rice, Sla; Ed M Rogers; and D. W. Wiley. The polls in both towns will op en at 6:30 o'clock Tuesday mom limg and will close at 6:30 p. m. NEW EDUCATION BOARD TO MEET Will Organize, May Pick County School Head Next Monday The foun men and one woman who will constitute the Macon County Boatd of education' for the next two eyairs will meet Monday morning to organize and take up the election of a county r superintendent of -public instruc tion for a two-year term begin ning next July 1. The five members of the new board wiil be sworn in by J Clinton Brookshire, clerk of sup erior court, and then are expect ed to elect a chairman. Follow ing these preliminaries, the first business is expected to be elec tion of a county superintendent. The meeting, called by Coun ty Su<pt Guy L. Houk, secretary to the board is set for 10 a. m., in the sufpe:i!ntendent's office in ?!ihe courthouse. The five who will take office Monday as board members were nominated in the Democratic primary in the spring of 1948, and were officially appointed by the 194S general assembly near rbhe dose of its session. They are: Fred Edwards, of Highlands; Waited Gibson, of Franklin, Route 3; C. Gordon Moore, of Fi-anklin; Mrs. Florence S. Sherrill, of ?Franklin, Route 1; and Bob S. Sloan, of Franklin. Mr. Edwards and Mrs. Sherrill suceed Promk Brownm? and E. B. Byrd an the board. Mr. Gibson and Mr. Sloan will begin their I second terms Monday. And Mr. ! Moore, the present chairman of the board, will start on his fifth i term. Baptist Minister* To Hold Meet Here Monday The Macon Oounty Baptist Preachers' conference will be held at the First Baptist church here Monday at 10:30 a. m. The Rev. Thad Deitz, of Sylva, will be the chief speaker. Rawlelgh Guffey Will conduct the devo tional. CARNIVAL DELATED The carnival, sponsored by the Franklin Lions ciub, which was to have opened a one-week en gagement In Franklin next Mon day, has been delayed, and will not reach here until a week later, May 9, Lions 61ub officials announced ywUnUy. Juniors' Banquet Honoring Seniors To Open '49 Finals The 1949 round of com menoemsnt rnnli vO gel un der way with the Franklin High school Junior-Senior b-nquet. to be held at the Slagle Memorial building Friday erening at 7 o'clock. More than 200 persona are ex pected to attend. Music. reading*, and a d?nce skit will feature the program. Alrin Stiles. Junior class president .will welcome the 87 seniors, and Hall Callahan, senior president, will re spond. Death Takes J. A. Conley At Age Of 88 Joseph A. Conley, widely known Macon county main, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. H. O. Cozad, Thursday morning of last week, aiftert a long Harass. He was 86 years of age. Mr. Conley, retired farmer, was bom and reared in this county, and had spent his entire life here. The son of Charles P. and Mrs. Rebecca Patton Conley, h? mar tied Miss Laura Pointer iin 1882. He had made hi? home wuth Mrs. Cozad since his wife's death in 1924. Survivors include another daughter, Mrs. Edgar E. Wat kins, of Albany, Ga.; a son, J. S. Con ley, of Franklin; two brothers, Lester S. Conley, of Franklin, and W. L. Conley, of Franklin, Route 1; two sisters, Mrs. Ellen Crawford, of Franklin, Route 1, and Mrs. Frank Calloway, of Franklin; seven grandchildren, and 10 great -grandchildren. Funeral services wane held ait the FVamklim Methodist church at 3 o'clock last Friday afternoon, with the Rev. A. C. Gitobs, pastor, and the Rev. A. Riufus Morgan, Episcopal minister, officiating. In terment was in the Franklin cemetery. Pallbearers wene Henry W. Cabe, Ed Whitaker, James A. Hauser, Robert Blame, Harmon H Gnuse, and Paul Wert. Funeral arrangement* were un der the direction of Bryant fun eral home. WILL INCREASE BUILDING FUND HERE TOSaOOO Slagle Discusses Laws Passed By Assembly On Return Home Macon County will receive $250,000 from the State of North Carolina for its school building program. This quarter of a million dol lars, plus the $400,000 Macon County school bonds authorized, will give school authorities here $650,000 for building schools in this county. In addition, Macon will share in the proceeds of the proposed $25,000,000 state bonds it is pro posed to issue for building schools, provided the people of the state approve the bond issue at am- elec tion to be held this summer. While the exact amount this county would receive from Oie state bond issue is not known, it share, it is estimated, would be well over $100,000, bringing the county's school building fund to a total of more than $700,000. The $250,000 state aid can be obtained by this county, regard less of the outcome of the state wide bond election, and is avail able now, Representative Carl S. Slagle explained Monday. Mr. Slagle returned home Sunday night, fallowing adjournment of the 1949 general assembly Satur day. The $250,000 now available is I this county's share, he said, of $23,000,000 from the surplus in the state treasury aippropriated by the legislature far school buildings, and is to be divided equally among the state's 100 counties. The people of the state, as a result of legislation enacted by the assembly, adso will vote on Governor Scott's .proposal to is sue $200,000,000 in bonds for building ?anm-to-market roads. Tied in with the road bond issue question is that of a one-cent irv- v crease in the gasoline tax. As tb hill finally was enacted, the g" ' t a* increase will not go into feet unless the $200,000,000 tor. bond issue is approved. If the road bond issue is ap ? '. proved at the ejection, this coun- 'N* ty's shaire will be $1,600,000, Mr. ^ Slagle said. Looking back on the session of 94 legiisla/ture days ? the fourth longest general assembly session in the history of the state ? Mir. ? Continued on Pace Six Albert Ramsey Named As Preakhnt Of Rotary Club Albert L. Ramsey was elected president of the Franklin Rotary club at last week's meeting, held Wednesday evening at the Slagle Memorial building. At the regular election of officers, a week earlier. Grant Zickgraf had been chosen as president for the coming year. Mr. Zickgraf, however, who was not present at the time of his election, last week wrote the club that It would be impossible for him to serve. The new president, who makes his home in the Iotla commun ity, Is Macon County supervisor of the Farmers Home Adminis tration. He and the other new officers of the club will assume their duties at the first meet ing in July. Temperatures and precipita tion for the past seven days, and the low temperature yes terday,, as recorded at the Coweeta Experiment station. Wadc?d*y ? 47 The Weather Thyhsday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday "High Low Prtc. 65 25 .00 62 44 .00 75 SI M 23 M> T 75 41 .00 75 26 .00 70 30 .00