TOPPING HERE WILL LETJAN. 31 Mile* To Be Paved This Y?ar; V.vuh Outline s Plana racts for blacktopplng sect.ons of road In this totaling 12.3 miles, are tor letting January announced by L. Dale division highway corn ier, at a meeting held at urthouse here last Thurs other projects, totaling are to be put in shape year for blacktopplng in P Mr. Thrash said. roads to be let to con this month are: road, 2.1 miles. - atherman Gap road, 3.6 tier and Porter road, 2.8 Cove road, 3.8 miles. .411 will be 16 feet wide. The nine roads listed by Mr. Thrash to be graded, etc., this year, so they will be ready for laclctopping in 1951, are: Tesenta, 2.7 miles: Flat Moun tain, 2.3; South Skeenah and Jones Creek, 2.2; Clark's Chapel, 4.6; Ellijay, 4.7; Rabbit Creek, 6.2; Patton, 5.5; and Iotla, 2.9. Meanwhile, George Stalcup, county highway foreman, out lined some of the road work that is now under way in this county. The Onion Mountain road, he said, is being graded from the school to Highway 64, a distance of about 9.5 miles, and then will be graveled; a stretch of -the Ellijay road is being prepared for blacktopping in 1951; com pressor drilling is under way on the Younce Creek road, and a bulldozer will start work on .that road a little later; and work will begin in a fortnight !ng this year. After the robds to be let to contract for blacktopplng this .? had been listed and dis cussed, Mr. Thrash called for a vote on whether the list was satisfactory, and a motion was r""te and passed that the list ' . approved by the meeting. le conference was called by V jThrash primarily for mem btiJ of the county's advisory ror<| committee, but about 150 -tabns, from all sections of county, were present, and Continued On Page Eight? Do You Remember rf (Looking backward through the files of The Press) 50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Miss Mary AUman went to Bryson City last Wednesday on a visit to Mr. John Everett's family, and then to Webster and Sylva to visit friends. Town Marshall reports four I arrests last week for being | drunk and disorderly. 25 YEARS AGO The directors of the Citizens | Bank met last Monday and re viewed the work of the bank for the post year. It was found that the bank had had a very prosperous year and a six per cent dividend was declared and -? six per cent surplus was set tilde. On account of his health, D. W. Blaine resigned as presi t Sent, and Sam L. Franks was fleeted in his stead. R. D. Sisk waa elected first vice-president, 3. W. roper second vlce-presi dent, and J. S. Conley secrs Wu?. 1* TEAM AGO R, L Bryttn, former managsr ?f Mm Sprues Pin* Hotsl, at SpTUOS Pint, with Mrs. Brvson granddaughter, MUs Joan ~ ii have moved to franklin, after the flret of f*bru? . will opttftte the Scott. . hotsl, whiflh thiy rt* pttrthAsed. ? FOOTBALL SPEAKER ? Carl G. 8navely, above, head football coach at the University of North Carolina, will be the chief speaker at the banquet at which the Franklin Rotary club will honor members of the 1949 Franklin High school football squad. The banquet will be held at the Slagle Memorial bul'ding the evening of January 25. Famed Player Of Ping Pong Here Tonight Lou Pagliaro, world champion table tennis (ping pong) player, will appear in pub.ic exhibition at the Franklin school this (Thursday) evening, under spon sorship of the Franklin Rotary club. Generally considered the world's leader in this indoor sport, Mr. Pagliaro for three consecutive years was the Unit ed States national singles cham pion, the first man ever to win the honor three times in a row. Many persons have seen Mr. Pagl&tt0''lto rftfttton picture shorts. He is now on a nation-wide tour. His exhibition partner is Ham ilton Canning, himself interna tionally famous as a ping pong player. Tonight's exhibition is set for 7:45 o'clock. The admission1 charge is $1 for adults, 35 cents for school children, both amounts including the federal tax. An exhibition for children at the school will be put on by Mr. Pagliaro and Mr. Canning this afternoon, Arrangements for the exhibi tion were made by a Rotary committee made up of Grant Zlckgraff, Harmon H. Gnuse, Jr,. and S. W. Mendenhall. Cook Heads Baptist Pastors' Body In W. N. C. The Rev. W. N. Cook, of Franklin, was chosen moderator of the Western North Carolina Baptist Ministers conference, at a quarterly meeting at the First Baptist church here Monday. Mr. Cook succeeds the Rev. 8. L. Lamm, of Bryson City. v The Rev. Gordon Scroggs, of Sylva, was elected Vice-moder ator, and the Rev. Charles B. McConnell, of Cullowhee, was named clerk and treasurer. All of the 24 associations in the area were represented at the meeting. The program was made up of talks by the Revs. D. D. Gross, L. G. Elliott, C. M. Warren, J. Alton Morris, W. C. Pipes, and Paul Nix. The Rev. Edgar Willix conducted the de votional, and Mr. Lamm pre sided. The next meeting is to be held at the 8cotts Creek Bap tist church, in Jackson county, April 10. Stockholder* Reelect All Bank's Directors Stockholders of the Bank of Franklin met In annual session yesterday and reelected all di rector*. Th* director* are A. B. siagle, M. L. Dowdle, H. W. Ctbe, Fred M. Arnold, Grover Jamison, Sr., R. S, Jones, and L B. Liner. The directors planned to meet late yesterday to elect officers of the bank for the coming yeftt 5EH. GRAMS ADDRESS Will MJSHT WB C Of C. To Hold Ansvual Dinner Session Next We3 contraceptive visits were BMde. 81* mid-wives ware registered { for lnetruetton, * meeting was i held for mid -wives, attended by || five, and three visits were made for mid- wife supervision. '< The eertlce to pre-echool ehtu , Cen tinned Ob hp El*ht- , OUT FOR SHERIFF ? Harry Thomas, above, Is the first can didate to enter this year's Ma con County political contests. Mr. Thomas anounced this week that he is a candidate tor the Democratic nomination lor sher iff. Post Office Show Gains In Receipts Gross receipts at the Frank lin post office during 1949 showed a gain of $1,201.20 over the total for 1948, figures com piled under the direction o. G. W. Long, postmaster, show. Postal receipts are gene, ally considered a fairly accurate barometer of business condi tions. 1949 was the third consecu tive year that the receipts of the local post ofiice have shown Increases. The total for last year was $24,418.85. This compares with $23,217.65 In 1948. The figure for 1947 was $21, 779.91. The total in 1946 $21,090.08. In terms of percentage, last year's receipts showed a gain of nearly five per cent over 1948; the 1948 figure revealed an in crease of nearly seven per cent over 1947; and the 1947 gross was a little more than three per cent greater than that in 1946. Debate To Mark Monday Night's Meeting Of P. T. A. Miss Roberta Enloe will be in charge of the program at Mon day's meeting of the Franklin Parent-Teacher association, set for 7:30 o'clock at the school. Miss Enloe has been empha sizing debating among her high school students, and a student debate will mark the program Monday night. The question to be discussed is, Resolved, that the President of the United States should be elected by a direct vote of the people. Miss Ann Teague and John Phillips will uphold the affirm ative, while Misses Connaree Nolen and Betty Lee Moore will be the negative speakers. Baptist Women Plan Leadership Meet January 24 A leadership conference will be held by the Woman's Mis sionary unions of Macon Coun ty Friday of next week at the First Baptist church here. Included on the program wi'l be discussions of methods of conducting the organization's work and of the associatlonal officers to be elected at the annual meeting. Persons Interested in promot ing the work of the Woman's Missionary union are invited. Each person Is requested to bring one article to help furn ish the picnic lunch which will be served at the church. Plan Cartoogechaye Road Meat Tonight At 8 A Cartoogechaye community meeting to discuss secondary roadi will be held at the Slagle School at S o'clock tonight (Thursday), The meeting ?m sailed by J. H. Brookehire, that . jommunlty'i member Of the jountjr advisory road eommtttM. BONDS TO TAKE NO EXTRA TAX. BALDWIN SAYS 55 Gei.-ts 1? AvaiUvlo In Present Levy And $140,000 O* Hmrd Issuance ol the proposed <514, 000 in county bonds for build ing schools will requite n. in crease in the current county wide tax levy of $1.10 on t!;e $100 va uation, W. E. ene' Baldwin, chairman of the boa*d of county commissione s. an nounced this week. Meanwhile, the appl cf tlon > for app oval of the proposed bonds, required by law to b* filed with the Local GovenUi ment Commission, Raleigh, wr forwarded to the commission bjc g R. S. Jones, county attorney . i last Friday. ^ ' Mr. Ba'dwin explained thaSr the county is now levying 4T^ cents lor debt service, which more than sufficient to take care of the outstanding bonds? A total of approximately $14?,l 000 in fact, has been accumuJ lated in the debt service sink fund. 1 In addition, he said, the pre lent levy includes 12 cents to ' school capital outlay . It wa from this capital outlay levy" plus court fines and forfeitures, that funds were accumulated to build the Cullasaja school. I Thus the county wi'l have ? total of 55 cents to apply on debt. On the present calculation i of $12,175,109, that will bring in an annual revenue of approxi mately $67,000. The present bonded Indebted i ness of the county has bccnfl reduced to approximately $589,- J 000, of which about $118,000 Is for schools. This debt is being i reduced at the rate of &pproxl-a ; mately $25,000 annually. The in- ^ terest, which is in addition to? ! these principal payments, this p year amounts to $20,965.50, but the total for Interest decrease* o I each year as the principal reduced. ? In commenting on the fact ^ that the bond issue, would re quire no Increase In the county wide tax levy, Mr. Ba'dwin also remarked that the exti a tax of 15 cents now being paid by per sons who live in Franklin town 1 ship soon will be a thing of the past. This tax is to retire old road bonds issued by the town ishlp That debt now has been ! reduced to $26,000, and about $12,000 has been accumulated In that fund. One more levy after this year may be necessary to complete raising this $20,000, Mr. Baldwin said. After that, people of thU township will pay the same tax as those in other parts of the county. (An exception, of course, is the town taxes levied on 1 property within the limits of the towns of Franklin ? and High lands.) 1950 PMA Committee Is Chossn A county committee for the Production and Marketing ad ministration in this county has been selected as follows: Robert Fulton, chairman, Carr Bryson, vice-chairman, Carl Morgan, regular member, Cecil Parker, first alternate, and J. R. Shields, second alternate. The committee was named by dele gates chosen from communities throughout the county, at a meeting held at the Agricultural building December 16. This group is charged with the responsibility of advising and assisting of Agricultural Adjustment Administration In Macon County on its policies. Following their election to serve for this year, the group decided that farmers who have had two years' experience grow lng burley tobacco may file ap plications for new I960 allot ments. The applications most be filed by January SI, according to the board. THORPE IMPROVING J. 1. ?. Thorpe, who under went a major operation in a New Orleans hospital eomettme ato, has entered Mission hoe pita: Asheville, for tree tin en t. He was reported yesterday to be improving