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i - ?s* IjiflWawV JHacotuan Price 6 Cents VOL. LXIV? NO. 48 FRANKLIN, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1949 TWELVE PAGES Calendar Of The Week'? EVENTS i T ESDAY, DECEMBER 1 10:30 a. m.? Baptist Ministers' coherence at First Baptist church. 1:30 p. m. ? Circle No. 2, Franklin Methodist Woman's Society of Christian Service at home of Mrs. S. W. Fendenhall. 3 p. m. ? Circle No. 1, Frank lin Methodist W. S. C. S., at home of Mrs. H. W. Cabe. 7 p. m. ? Post No. 108, Amer ican Legion, at Slagle Memorial building. 7:30 p. m. Nequassa Chapter No. 43, Order of Eastern Star, at Masonic hall. FRIDAY 7:30 p. m.? Franklin Lodge No. 452, Loyal Order of Moose, at old Legion hall. SATURDAY 9 a. m. ? Home Demonstra tion benefit bazaar opens at Nantahala Power and Light company office. 8 p. m.? Square dance (Amer ican Legion benefit) at Memor ial building. MONDAY 10 a. m.? December term of Macon ^superior court opens at courthouse. ?40 a. jn. ? Board of county commissioners at courthouse. 10 a. m. ? County board of ed ucation at cour house. 3 p. m. ? Franklin Garden club at Memorial building. 7 p. m. ? Franklin Troop No. 1, B-y Scouts, at Memorial building. 7:30 p. m. ? Presbyterian Busi ness Girls' circle at home of Mrs. B. L. McG'amery. 7:30 p. m.? Franklin board of aldermen at town office. 7:30 p. m? Baptist Training Union associational meeting at First Baptist church. TUESDAY A 7:30 p. m. ? Junaluskee Lodge No. 145, A. F. and A. M., at Masonic hall. WEDNESDAY 7 p. m. ? Franklin Rotary club at Memorial building. 7:30 p. m? Reserve unit, Sig nal Tel. and Tel. Operation company, at Agricultural build ing. Do You Remember . . . ? (Looking backward through the files of The Press) ? 50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Mrs. W. T. Potts, of High lands, has been visiting friends here during the past week. We had to "keep straight" at conference. We were quartered with four persiding elders.. Mrs. L. S. Ropes left Monday mcrning for her home in Mur phy, after two weeks spent with her father's family. 25 YEARS AGO Arrangements have been com pleted by which the stores of Bill Cunningham and J. S. Porter & Co. will consolidate. The new firm will be composed of W. C. Cunninghairi, Steve Porter, Jess Conley, and Mark Dowdle. Mr. J. C. Gibson and Robert T. Bryson have purchased the Raby farm, adjoining the farm of Mr. Bryson. General Manager Elmer Johnson of the Farmers Feder ation states that hereafter the Federation will sell at exactly 10 per cent profit. 10 YEARS AGO Mrs. Gi'mer A. Jones, super visor, has announced that the WPA rewing room will be re opened rn December 1, and will employ 25 women. Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Hlgdon, Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Bryson, Mr*. I>ola P Barrington, and MIm Lassie Kelly attended the Amer ican Legion banquet at Waynee vllle last Friday. Mr. and Mri. Paul Carpenter have moved from the Pender* grau apartment on Wait Mala itreet to their new five-room bungalo on White Oak atrnt. Macon War Dead Total 74; Public b Asked To Check List Of Names For Plaque oeveniy-iour jhucuu county men gave their lives (or their country hi World War 2, a list compiled by the Macon County Memorial association reveals. The names are to be Inscrib ed on a proposed plaque to be placed at the entrance 10 the courthouse, and Gilmer A. Jones, chairman, in making public the Ii?t, as compiled, appealed to the public to check the list to make sure it is complete and correct. "We have done our best to get a complete list", Mr. Jones pointed out, but added that names may have been omitted, mispelied, or the middle initial UIIHbbCU. XII 5UU1 Uttacs, lie RORCU that friends or relatives prompt ly supply the correct informa tion by mall. "We propose to order the plaques in the immediate fu ture", he said, "and, of course, are anxious for the list that appears on the plaques to be correct and comple e. Please write your information to Ma con County Memorial Associa tion, and please remember that it Is up to all of us to see to it that this list is complete and correct BEFORE THE PLAQUES ARE MADE." The list, as it now s'ands, Continued On Page Eight? PANTHERS LOSE TO SEV1ERVILLE Locals Defeated 19 - 13 In Their First Bowl Game After Jumping Into an early lead In their first bowl game, the Franklin High school Pan thers were defeated by a score of IB to IS by the Sevlervllle High school eleven In the "Lit tle Smoky Mountain Bowl" game, played at Sevlervllle, Tenn., Thanksgiving afternoon. Franklin's first touchdown came on a line smash by Charles Shields from the five yard line afier the ball had been placed in scoring position on a series of running plays, with Bill Huggins and Shle'ds gaining most of the ground. Following Franklin's first score, the Tennessee boys came back strong to counter twice before Franklin scored again, he talley being 13 to 6 at the half. Sevierville's first touch down was made on an end run from the 90-yard line, while the second marker came on a pass play. After impressive half-time ceremonies, both teams came back strong in the second half, each scoring one touch down. The Panthers opened a strong aerial attack with passes from John Archer III to Pattillo and Jack Norton, gaining lots of ground and being a constant threat to the boys from the the other side of the Smokies. A pass-lateral play from Archer to back Norton to Bobby Potts brought Franklin its final touchdown. Shields bucked the line for the extra point. The play was good for 40 yards total distance. Sevlervllle, with a strong run ning attack, scored on a line play to gain the winning touch down. Huggins was Franklin's out standing back, with Charles Thomas and Burton Leach star ring In the line. Following the game, the cap tain of the Sevlervllle eleven was presented with the bowl trophy? a large silver loving cup, and members of the Franklin High school eleven were given minature silver foot balls. The Franklin eleven were the guests of the Sevlervllle Lions club at a dinner following the game. 'Pouum Hitches Ride To Franklin On Bod Of Truck Franklin had a surprise visitor yesterday momfc*. And the visitor gave every Indication of being V?iW as surprised at being here as the passerby who were astonish ed to see him en Main street. Seowling at those who ap proached, be ?u quite wide awake? in contrast to his kind in ?*"?" dreams tasices. For he was an opossum. He was uliotned sitting on the bed of a track parked downtown about ? a. m. Wed nesday. Apparently be had ?pent the night on the truck, mil was still there when the unobservant driver of the ve hicle oaxne to town early Wed nesday. Presumably the ani mal was afraid ts jump while the truck was moving, sad -t-nil stub mors terrified by ths strange sights and sounds of Mala wrest. Ks asm bm?> l sd sassjt to Ws his testh i if somssbs came too elose. ! Ths Usatttjr ti ths truck 1 trim ?U Mt learned. Reports Band Drive Total Is Now $1,049 The amount raised in the Franklin school band fund driv'e through Monday totaled $1049. 56, according to a report by Prank B. Duncan, Lion club president. Mr. Duncan said the total has come in small donations, ra'her than a few large ones, and that hi has received several con tributions from people who own summer homes here but reside in other states. The Lions club also has he cided to sponsor the dime board a|&in this year, the funds ed to fc: used for welfare work in Macon County, The board will be set up and operated on Main s reet each Saturday between now and Christmas. Leake Recovering From Accidental Guns'ho" Wound Charles Leake, state game protector in ' charge of the Standing Indian wildlife man agement area, is recovering at his home from a gunshot wound suffered when he fell in a thicket and his .45 six-shooter was discharged. He was shot just belcw the right hip, the bullet coming out below the knee. The accident occurred last Tuesday, when he was alone, a mile from his home, at White Oak Bottoms. Unable to sum mon help, he used his belt to make a tourniquet, and limped home. Later he was brought t<5 Angel hospital for treatment, but is now at home, able to walk on crutches. Plan Ci-unty-Wide B. T. U. Meeting Here Monday Night Baptist Training union mem bers and others interested will hold an associational "M-night" meeting at the First Baptist church here Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock to plan the year's work, it has been announced by Evere't R. White, associational director. The Rev. H. T. Danield, pas tor of the First Baptist church at Hendersonville, will be the chief speaker. The Macon County council of Home Demonstration clubs will hold a benefit bazaar at the Nantahala Power and Light company office Saturday from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. 9 DEER KILLED: PL AN HOG, COON, OPOSSUM HUNTS 2 Move Open F'_riois On Bucks; Animals Reported Healthy Nine deer were reported kill ed !ast week, in the sccond of 'three hunts en the S anding Indian wildlife management area. The third three-day hunt will get under way tcpiorrow (Thursday). Meanwhile, three o her hunts are planned in this area ? an other deer hunt, a wild twar hunt, and a raccoon and opos sum hunt. The additional deer hunt, fi'th this season, will be con duc ed under- state manage ment on ncn-refuge te-ritory Monday and Tuesday, and Wed nesday of next week. The Fires Creek management area in the Nantahala Forest will be the scene of the hunt for semi-wild hogs, and the dates are today (Thursday), tomorrow, and Saturday. Ttvs will be the second of two hunts, the first having been held in the same area the first three days of this week. The daily bag 'iml s are one per hunter, and the permit fee is $1. The hogs are said to be descendants of domes ic swine grazed in the Fires Creek area. Hunting for raccoons and opossums will be permitted on the Santeetlah, Fires Creek, and Standing Indian wildlife man agement areas. The dates are December 5-16. Special permi's for these hunts cost $1 per hunter, with no limit on the size of the hunting par ies. Bag limits on raccoons are cne per hunter per day; there is no bag limit on opossums. Meanwhile, Nantahala Na tional Forest officials said that all the deer killed on the forest this season have been In ex cel'ent condition and apparent ly healthy. There have been no repor ts on the Nantahala of the disease, resembling black tongue n cattle, that has played havoc wi'h herds in Alabama and Eastern North Carolina. Deer killed here, it was said, have teen, on the whole, ex ceptionally large, .officials point ing out that there is plenty of browze for the anima's. Miss Johnson Resigns Baptist Post; Is To Be Married Miss Gretchen Johnson, Ma con County Bap ist association missionary worker, tendered her resignation Sundpv. t o become effective immediately, it was an nounced this week by the Rev. Paul C Nix, chairman of the association's executive commit tee. Miss Johnson is to be married, Mr. Nix explained, to the Rev. John C. Corbitt, of Anna, 111. Mr. Cortitt, who is pastor of the Lue'la Baptist church at ^he-man. Texas, is now. enrolled in the Southwestern Baptist Theological seminary at Fort Worth, Texas, working toward his bachelor of divini.y degree. After the wedding, he and his bride will finish their schooling together, and plan later to serve as missionaries. The wedding is to take place in the near future, but the date has not been announced. Miss Johnson, during her service here since last May, has worked with the 41 Baptist churches in the county. Equip Forest Towers With Shortwave Radio The Forest Service is install ing shortwave radios on all three of the forest fire towers in this section of the Nantahala National Forest, it was an nounced this week by John Wasillk, Jr., Wayah district ranger. The radio system, Mr. Wasilik explained, will make It possible for the lookouts at the fire tower* at Cowee and Pinnacle, In this county, and Yellow mountain, In Jackson, to trans mit their messages to each Jther, or to the ranger's head juarters, In two minutes. By In* tailing the radio net work, the Forest Service is illmlnatlng 10 mile* of tele phone line*. The maintenance jf the telephone lines? replac ing pole*, wire, insulator*, etc.? Mi proved expensive, and the radio network will mean a sav- . ings in maintenance costs, Mr. Wasilik said. In addition, there is the savings in time, often a vital factor in the con'rol of forest fires. With the telephone system, it took a minimum of 10 minutes for the ranger to communicate with all three towers from his headquarters; the shortwave radio cuts that to two minutes. The ranger's pickup truck al so is equipped with a shortwave radio, so that he can quickly get in touch with the fire pro tection force, even though he may be somewhere In the for est, miles away from the near est telephone. In addition, the district has portable shortwave radio* which can be oarrled by one man to foreit fires. The fire fighters thui will b? able to report their progress on a fire, direct from the scene o t ' the blaze Itself. "We have this fine radio sys tem to help protect the for est", Mr. Wasilik said, "but we are happiest when we don't have to use it to chase down fires. It costs time and money to put out fires". With the hunting season here, and with the forest litter dry, he urged all those who go into the woods to be doubly careful with wire. Illustrating the point, Mr. Waslllk said that on November 14 a hunter's fire on Trlmont destroyed four acres of game habitat, seed, and tree seedlings, reduced the area's watershed and scenic values, and caused minor damage to standing tlm ber? "all because of a carelessly discarded match or cigarette". Forest Recreation Areas Here Drew 75,000 In '49 An es imated 75,000 persons | visited Forest Service recrea tion areas in this region during the past spring and summer. The Forest Service maintains eight such spots within the Wayah Ranger district of the | Nantahala National Forest, the most popular of which is Dry Falls, jus. off the Franklin Highlands road. Next in popu 'arity is Arrowood Glade, situ ated west of Franklin, at the foot of Wayah Bald. The others are Wayah Bald, Wayah Crest, Bridal Veil Falls, Cliffaide Lake, Van Hook Lake, and Ammons Camp Ground. The 1949 crowds at these eight recreation areas were at least 10 per cent greate- than the year before, according to John Wasilik, Jr , ranger of the Wayah dis.rict. His estimates for the eight areas: Dry Falls, 40,000; Arrcwood, 25,000; Cliffside, 5,000; Wayah Bald 2,000; Van Hook, 2.000 and Wayah Crest, 1,000. No estimate is available for Bridal Veil Falls, and a relatively small number visited Ammons Camp Ground. These recreation areas are maintained by the Forest Serv ice as a pari of the "use" phase of its forest w irk. Point ing out, however, that most of the facilities were built in the CCC days, and that the Fur est Service his coinpa. ati.ely little money for their maintenance, fo: esters appealed to the public to help keep these recreat.on areas clean and sani ary ? lor use not only by the thousands of Visitors who come to the mountains during the summer seas;n, but Ly tue locai people as well. At A rowojd Glade there are facilities for swimming, picnick ? Continued on Page H?? Plan Wildlife Club For County; State Officials Cc.m'i lg A meeting to organize a j wildlife club In Macon Coun ' ty has been called for Mon- 1 day morning at 9 o'clock at ? he Agricultural building he e. Ross Stevens, of the North Carolina Wildlife Federation, and G. A. Janes, Jr., chief of the law enforcement division 1 ' of North Carolina Wildlife Re sources Commission, formerly of Franklin, wi'l attend the meeing. ' All Macon County sports- , men and other interested per- 1 i sons are invited to be pres ent, the announcement said Scores Come Horn: Frcm School For Thanksgiving Two score or mo;e young men and women of ihis county who are away at school spent the Thanksgiving holidays at home with their families. The largest group here for the holidays was made up of seven frcm the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Miss Frances Furr, T. W. Angel, III, Robert (Bob i Myers, Hall Cal lahan. Fred West, Dean Henson, ahd James Furr. Home for the holidays from N. C. State colege, Raleigh, were Kenneth Welch, Lewis Penland, 1 James Patterson, Hayes Greg ory, Tom Se ser, and Bob Tip pett. Other students who spent the : holidays here included: Misses Nancy Callahan and Helen Wilson, from Mars Hill college. Mars Hi'l. Lyman Gregory and Howard Horsley. Wake Fcrest college. Wake Forest. Louis Welch. Carson-Newman co'lege, Jefferson City, Tenn. Misses Annie Sue uonley and Mary Alice Archer, Meredi h colleee. Raleigh. Miss - Margaret Setser and Mack Setser, University of Geor gia, Athens. Misses Doris Phillips and Max ine Renshaw and Grady Greene. Brevard college, Brevard. Misses Iris Cabe, and Ruth ' Angel, and Har!ey Mo?re Stew art and Larry Cabe, Western Carolina Teachers college, Cul- 1 lowhee. Misses Elizabeth Ann Phillips and Ann Cabe, Peace ccllege. Raleigh. ? Mrs. Betty Callahan Martin and Misses Catherine Furr and Continued On Page Eight? WILL ELECT 3 ON SOIL WORK Qualified Mac.Dn Vc'ers. To Pick Conservation Supervises An election to chocse three supervisors for the Macon Coun ty Soil Conservation District will be he'd next. week ? December ; to 10. inclusive? it was announc ed this week. The establishment of a s< i conservation district covering this ecunty was au horizcd in an election last spring. Four men hive been nomi nated by petition, as provided under regulations of the sta e sail conservation organization. They are: Siler Slagle. of Franklin, Route 1; Milton Fouts, of Route 3; Charlie Sut on, of Rou'.e 2; and Owen Ammons, of Route 4 The candidate receiving the highest number of votes will serve for a period of three years, beginning January 1. 1950. The candidate receiving the second highest number of vc es will serve for two years. And the candidate receiving the third highest number wil' serve for one year. All persons qualified to vote in a general election are eligible to ballot in this election, and may do so any day from Mon day through Saturday of next week. Ballot bcxes will be plac ed at the following p'aces: Downs Feed and Grocery. Franklin; Farmers Federation Franklin: Mrs. Bessie Brown's store, Scaly; and Weaver Coch ran's s ore. Flats. The soil conservation district, it was explained, is a part of the state government, and when the organization is per fected. the three suoervisors (who will form something like a board of directors > may ask the state to assign a full-'iine man to this county to work with farmers on soil conservation. Such a s ate representative, it is understood, will be assign ed if and when the funds are available, and wi'l, upon re guest, survey and map a farm, ind offer recommendations on the best soil conservation prac tices for that particular farm unit. Archaeological Society To H~ld M^et Al Cherokee The Archaeological Society ol North Carolina, meeting west of \sheville for the first time in .ts history, wil! hold its fall ses sion at Cherokee Saturday and Sunday. The meeting will coincide with the Cherokee Indian Feast, ,o which members of the society ire invited as gues s. The society, which has about 125 members, is interested in ;xcavating some of the Indian nounds in this region. It is leaded by H. M. Doerschuk, of 31aden county, and H. C. Wil jurn, of Waynesville, is making irrangements for the Cherokee neetlng. Two sessions are planned Saturday, and one or more 3unday. FILM SHOWING POSTPONED Showing of the film, "Opera ion Mercy", at the Otto school iaj been postponed from next ruesday to Wednesday night at 1:45 o'clock. DRUNK DRIVING CHIEF OFFENSE IN THIS COUNTY 25 Face Charge At Court Term T hat Will Open Here Monday The most common criminal charge in this county is oper ating a motor vehicle intoxi cated, the docket for the De cember term of superior court, which will open here Monday morning, reveals. Twenty-two new cases wi'l face ' the Macon County grand jury at this court term, and 58 caess have been continued fr m previous courts, making a total of 80 to be disposed of, accord ing to J. Clinton Brookshire, clerk of the court. And of these 80 cases, 25, or nearly one third, are on charges of driving drunk. The next most common charge is violation of the pro hibition law. Thirteen such cases await trial. In a number of other cases, carrying con cealed weapons and abandon ment and non-support are the rharcc5 In the cne manslaughter case on the docket, John Wilev Le noir faces trial in connection ; with the death of lhe infant I child of Mr. and Mrs. Gene Bateman, seven miles s~uth of Franklin on September 24 TTie child, Tony Stephen Bateman, and his mother were thrown from their automobile, investi gating officers said, when it was struck by the Lenoir car as the Bateman car turned in to a driveway. Judge Dan K. Moore, of Sv'va, ?who held the Augus terrn here, will return to Macon County to preside over this court. Solicitor Thad D. Bryson, Jr.. will prose cute the criminal cases. Fifteen divorce suits and 11 other civil cases also come up at this court term. Civil cases, other th"n for J divorces, follow, with the at torneys listed in parentheses, th? attorneys for the plantiffs be ing listed first in each case: Frank R Leach vs R. A. Pat ton, which involves a real es'nte commission Uones and Jones; G. L. Houk and J. H. Stockton >; A. A. Siler, J. M. Gray, R. S. Jones, and Gilmer A. Jones vs | H. M. Luck, a trespass case IG. L. Houk for plaintiff; no attorneys listed for defendant i; | Nantahala Power and Light company vs L. M. Wishon and wife, a condemnation proceed ing iG. L. Houk; Jones and Jones i ; Fred Burnette and wife vs Miami Lee Car er and S. W. Carter, a cartway hearing (Jones and Jones; J. H. Stockton and T. D. Bryson, Jr.); Winton De Hart vs R. M. McGaha, in volving a property line i Black and Whitaker; Jones and Jones i ; Mrs. Mary S. Higdon vs Mrs. Harry M. Straine et al, involving dowry righ s iPanle and Garrison; J. H. Stockton); Mildred Stocktcn vs Eliza Cobb Grist, involving a real estate commission (G. L. Houk and T. D. Bryson, Jr.; Jones and Ward'; Mica Development cor poration vs T. M. Strider and company, (J H. Stockton; J. Burke Gray and Hobart L. Mc Keener > ; Benow Dills and wife vs Jesse H. Sanders and wife, a land suit i Jones and Jcnes; J. H. Stockton i ; R. F. Bowron and wife vs Silas G. Stannard and wife i J. H. Stockton and T.- D. Bryson, Jr.; G. L. Houk); David Watson . and wife vs. Egbert Bea'e and Joseph Farrish, trus tees (G. L. Houk and Harold Major; Jones and -Jones). rLfl? KI.II9UUE SALE Miss Amy Henderson's first grade at the Franklin school will hold a rummage sale, for the benefit of the grade room, Saturday morning, starting at 9 a. m., on Rankin square. WARN HUNTERS The North Carolina Wildlife Resources commission has is sued a warning to hunters, par ticularly small game hunters, not to kill more than the daily bag limit of game in any par ticular day. The Weather FRANKLIN RA1NFAI L (.\? recorded by Man*on Stiles for TVA) Wedneiday, none; Thursday, none; rriday, .80 of an Inch; Saturday, none; Sunday, none; Monday, none; Tuesday, .35; Wednesday, .17.