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FRANKLIN, N. C- THUKEDAT, FEB. 1?, 1W
TWELVE PAGES
School Bond V ote Set Few Next Tuesday
COUNTY BOARD
OF ELECTIONS
IS NOMINATE!!
Mann And Mist Kelly,
Higdon Head List*
Recommended
The Macon County Democrat
ic executive committee, at a
meeting here Saturday night,
voted to recommend J. J. Mann,
of near Franklin, Miss Lassie
Kelly, of Franklin, and Walter
A. Bryson, of Highlands, for
membership on the county
board of elections.
And at a meeting Tuesday
night, the Republican executive
committee recommended A. R.
Higdon, of Franklin, present Re
publican member, Thad Cloer,
of Franklin, Route 2, and Roy
Mashburn, of Franklin.
The Democratic committee
was instructed to recommend
three Democrats, listed in the
the order of preference, from
which two will be chosen by the
state Democratic executive com
mittee for appointment, while
one will be picked from the
three Republicans recommend
ed. The formal appointments
will be made by the state board
of elections.
Since it is customary to fol
low the recommendations of the
county executive committees, it
is assumed that Mr. Mann, Miss
Kelly, and Mr. Higdon will be
appointed.
Members of the present board
are Mr. -Mann, chairman,
and J. Robert Parrish, Demo
crats, and Mr. Higdon, Repub
lican. Each county board of
elections in this state Is made
up of two Democrats and one
Republican.
The Macon board to be ap
pointed by the state board of
elections will be responsible for
holding the primary election
May 27 and the generaP election
in November. The board will
hold office for two years.
Attending Saturday's Demo
cratic meeting were Chairman
Tom Johnson, Miss Kelly, vice
chairman, Mrs. Lester Conley,
secretary, and the following
eight of the 12 precinct chair
men:
C. Gordon Moore, Franklin
Continued On Pace Bight?
I
Do You
Remember . . . ?
(Looking backward through
the files of The Press)
50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
On account of high waters,
no mall came from Dlllsboro
yesterday morning.
Harris Brothers received a new
steam pump last week for their
mica mine at the H. H. Raby
place.
Mr. Thos. M. Slagle, of Car
toogechaye, is now In the mark
et for the purchase of paregoric.
It's a girl.
25 TEARS AGO
Advertisement:
You people have read a lot of
stuff lately about cheap sugar,
cheap ginghams, cheap sheet
ing, cheap coffee, cheap hose,
and son an ad infinitum. You've
seen the signs out on the side
walk. Well, Bill Cunningham to
going to make somebody revise
those signs ? or take 'em in. I've
sold- you people BARGAINS In
my life, scads and splathera
tions of 'em, but never before
have I crawled out on a limb
and then sawed It off behind
met For two days I am. going
to do Just that little thing. And
If this don't make 'em sit up
and beg for the light IH eat
every a- tide I have advertised
?yes, eat 'e?.t raw and without
seasoning I ? Bill Cunningham,
The Cash Store. *
10 YEAR* AGO
Franklin's new sewage dis
posal plant was put into opera
tion February 1.
MUs {Catherine Vinson, who to
f music training at Bannor
ient tM week-end With
rents, Mr. and Mrs. J, ft.
NEXT POSTMASTER j
T? - T ?
ZEB MEADOWS
Mr. Meadow*, 27-year old navy
veteran who made the top grade
an the civil service examination,
has been recommended by Rep.
Monroe M. Redden tor post
master at Franklin. The ap
pointment awaits the formalities
of Presidential nomination and
confirmation by the senate.
C C TO HOLD
DINNER FEB. 25
Sen. Graham's Address
To Feature Annual
Gathering
The Franklin Chamber of
Commerce Will bold Its annual
dinner meetlhg Saturday of next
week,' with Senator Frank P.
Graham as guest speaker.
A capacity crowd is expected
to attend the dinner, which Is
set for 7 p. m. at the Slagle
Memorial building. The meet
ing, originally scheduled for last
month, was postponed until
February 25 when Senator Gra
ham was detained In Washing
ton on official business.
The address of Dr. Graham,
junior U. S. senator from this
state and former president of
the University of North Caro
lina, is expected to be the
highlight of the meeting.
Other features will include
the election of directors and
reports. Mrs. Virginia Jones,
secretary, will report on the
organization's work during the
past year, and B. L. McGlam
ery, a director, will J 1st high
points in this community's
progress in the last 12 months.
An announcement probably will
be made, t*x>, on developments
in the plan to form a merch
ants' organization as a branch
of the chamber of commerce.
Chamber President Frank a
Duncan will serve as toastmast
er for the occasion.
Five directors are to be elect
ed for the coming year. A nom
inating committee has selected
a slate of 12 from which to
choose the five. The 12 nomi
nated are T. W. Angel, Jr., W.
C. ' Burrell, Bob Sloan, Prelo
Dryman, Claude Bolton, E. J.
Whitmlre, Jr., W. W. Reeves,
Ted Reber, R&fe Teague, L H.
Continued On Page Eight?
Macon Polio
Fund Total
Only $1,538
Macon County contributions
to the I860 March of Dimes re
ported to Chairman J. Clinton
Brookshlre totaled $1,538.17.
This is less than half of the
$3,666 total raised in this coun
ty last year for the fund to bat
tle polio.
A number of reports, however,
were not In, Mr. Brookshlre said.
No report had been received
from Highlands, which usually
contributes heavily in this drive,
two or three schools were yet
to be heard from, and the coin
collectors had not been emptied
and the money counted.
The campaign originally wu
scheduled to aloee January 11,
but wl? continued for two
wMto, until tart Monday.
MACON SEVENTH
IN PAYMENTS TO
THOSEJPRED
Social Security Office
Announces Figure*
For This Area
Figures just released by the
Asheville field office of the So
cial Security Administration
show that Macon County ranks
seventh in average monthly
payments to retired workers,
age 65 or over, in the 17 West
ern North Carolina counties
which comprise the service area.
The average monthly check to
such workers in this county Is
$20.34.
As of June 30, 1949, a total of
1713 retired workers were on
the benefit rolls in the area, of
which 35 were in this county
Only workers who have been
employed in jobs covered by thr
law for approximately half thr
calendar quarters from January
1, 1937, the effective date, to the
date they attain age" 65, arr
eligible for benefits upon re
tirement from covered employ
ment. The average payment to
all retired workers in the area
is $21.87 per month.
According to D. W. Lambert,
manager of the Asheville office,
benefit payments are lower in
this section because many work
ers are not employed ful! time
in Jobs covered by the law. Ag
ricultural labor, domestic work
in a private home, self -employ
ment, and other jobs do not
count in figuring benefits. Low
er wage rates are also a factor,
when compared with other sec
tions of the nation.
btevens coy,
13, Succumbs
To Leukemia
Thirteen-year old Aaron W.
Stevens, Jr., lost his months
long fight for life last Saturday
at Angel hospital.
The boy was the victim of a
rather rare disease, lymphatic
leukemia, a blood stream affec
tion. The disease, In which the
white blood cells destroy the
red cells, invariably is fatal,
physicians say.
Aaron, ill for six months, had
been kept alive by repeated
blood transfusions.
His battle for life had drawn
the interest and sympathy of
people in all walks of life here.
A fifth grade student at
FrankHn school, he was the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron W.
Stevens. Other survivors inrlude
two brothers, Robert Horace and
William Alfred; two sisters,
Beulah and Pauline; - the ma
ternal grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Ray, of Franklin,
Route 2; and the paternal
grandfather, H. S. Stevens, of
Raleigh.
Funeral services, directed by
Bryant funeral home, were con
ducted at the Clark's Chapel
Methodist church at 3:30 o'clock
Sunday afternoon, with the
Rev. D. B. Martin, pastor, and
the Rev. C. E. Murray officiat
ing. Burial was in the church
cemetery.
LAKE V. SHOPS
For Register of Deeds
Mr. Sbope announced this
week that he is a candidate to
succeed himself as Macon
County register of deeds, sub
ject to the Democratic primary
May 27.
J. BLAN CHARD BRENDiE
For Sheriff
BRENDLE SEEKS
SHERIFFS POST
Lake SHope Announces
To Succeed Self
As Register
Two more candidates this
week entered the 1950 Macon
County political arena, when
they announced their candidac
ies for public office, subject to
the Democratic primary May 27.
They are J. B. (Blanchard)
Brendle, who becomes the third
man seeking the Democratic
nomination for sheriff, and
Lake V. Shope.
Mr. Shope is a candidate to
succeed himself as register of
deeds.
Although the primary still Is
more than three months away, 1
this week's announcements |
bring to seven the number
avodedly in the races for Demo- !
cratic nominations ? one for rep- '
resentative, one for register of,
deeds, two for clerk of superior
court, and three for sheriff. I
The two who previously had
announced for sheriff are Har
ry Thomas and Lester L. Arnold, i
Mr. Brendle, a teacher, Is now 1
principal of the Watauga school. |
Continued On Pare Eight
STATE COLLEGE
COACH TOTALK
HERE APRIL IS
Cue, Basketball Head
Coining; Rotary Will
Honor iLocal Squad
Everett Case, head basketbol'
coach at N. C. State colleg<
Raleigh, will address a dinnct
meeting of the Franklin Rotar
club April 19, at which member
of the Frank'in High school
boys' basketball squad will b<
honor guests.
Coach Case's appearance wa1
arranged by W. W. (Bill) Sloan,
Rotary vice-president, and the
club, at Its meeting Wednesday
night of last week, confirmed
the arrangement calling for the
April 19 date.
Mr. Case, who has put out
some excellent teams in recent,
years, and whose State college
squad Is now said to rank about
eighth in the nation, also will
show some basketba'l motion
pictures. Among the movies to
be shown will be one of the re- I
cent games played in Madison
Square Garden, New York, when
State defeated Long Island uni
versity.
A limited number of dinner
tickets will be available to non
Rotarians.
State college aiumni will be
given preference in obtaining
these tickets, it was decided,
under an arrangement similar
to that by which University of
North Carolina alumni were giv
en preference in buying tickets
for the recent appearance be
fore the Rotary club of Coach
Carl Snavely, of the University.
Detailed arrangements for the
dinner meeting will be made by
a committee, named by Rotary
President E. W. Renshaw Wed
nesday night, made up of W.
N. Sloan and W. A. Hays.
Will H
P.T.A. Meets
The Franklin Parent-Teacher
association, at its February
meeting, again will honor the
oldest mother present. The
meeting will be held at the
school Monday evening at 7:30
o'clock.
Tribute also will be paid to
the teacher present who has
taught the longest period, and
to the mother who "has had the
largest number of children in
school at any one time.
The meeting, similar to a pro
gram held last year, will be a !
Founders' Day observance,
marking the 53rd anniversary
of the organization of parent
teacher work.
Mrs. R. S. Jones will review
the -history of parent-teacher
work, and the school band will
be present and play several
numbers.
Following the program, a so
cial Hour will be held.
Mrs. C. N. Dowdle, the presi
dent, will preside.
ASK ANY OLDSTER!
_ Tuesday Was Groundhog Day
: AND HE SAW HIS SHADOW I
Did the groundhog see his
shadow day-before-yesterday?
He did! He did, at least. If
he came out any time after 11
o'clock Tuesday morning, be
cause Tuesday was February 14,
and February 14 Is groundhog
d*y.
And for the groundhog to see
his shadow on groundhog day
well, everybody knows what
that means, it means six more
weeks of winter.
Now hold on a minute. Let's
get a couple of things straight.
Did we say "more weeks of
winter"? Our apologies to all
concerned! What we meant to
M7 wm M?ix weeki of winter".
That "more" Just got In there
by accident.
And did we say "day-belore
yesterday"?
We did. Exactly that! For all
the really well-informed people
know that groundhog day is
February 14. Why it's been that
in the mountains of Western
North Carolina for generations!
Any oldster hereabouts will toll
you he never heard of ground
hot dfcy on February 2 until
recent years.
And where did this newfang
led Idea of groundhog day being
February 3 come from? Why,
from the dally newspapers! And
where did they get tt? Why,
from their newspaper feature
services. And where are those i
feature services written? You
guessed it ? In New York City.
And who, we'd like to ask
you, In New York city knows
anything About a groundhog?
A New Yorker wouldn't recog
nize a groundhog If he saw one.
Most of 'em, In fact, probably
think the woodchuck really U
some kind of a hog.
February 3, my eye I Ground
hoc day U February 14. Of
course it lal And Just to prove
It, look at the weather I
The tun cajn? out bright and
warm Tuesday. The groundhog
MMHN 01 r?N P0l*?
HEADS DRIVE
REV. C. E. MURRAY
Mr. Murray, Methodist pastor
here, has been appointed Ma
con County chairman for the !
1950 fund campaign of the
American Red Cross. The drive
is set for the first week in
March. Working with Mr. Mur- 1
ray will be a fund campaign
committee made up of B. L. Mc
Olamery, E. O. Crawford, Mrs.
Bob Sloan, the Rev. Hoyt Evans,
and Mrs. Frank I. Murray, Jr.,
the two latter ex-offico. Mr.
Evans is chairman of the Ma
con County chapter, and Mrs.
I Murray Is executive secretary.
HERE'S WHERE I
| MONEY WILL GO
I Proceeds Of BoikI Issue
To Be Used To Build
Eight Schools
If Macon County voters, In
Tuesday's special election, ap
prove the Issuance of $514,000
in county bonds for school build
ings, the county board of edu
cation has announced it will
build eight schools.
Those eight schools will con
tain a total of 83 classrooms.
Each will have a lunchroom. I
The three high schools will
each have a combination audi
torium-gymnasium.
And the grammar schools will
have an auditorium.
In a signed statement last
week, the board members an
nounced the locations and sizes
of the various schools, and
pledged themselves to:
Begin construction of as many
of these schools as possible as
quickly as money from the sale
of the bonds becomes available.
? Continued On Page Eight
Lions Club
Unanimously
Backs Bonds'
The proposal calling for the !
Issuance of (514,000 in bonds by
Macon County for the purpose J
of building schools was endors
ed unanimously by members of
the Franklin Lions club at their
regular meeting Monday night.
The resolution was offered,
following a short talk by a
member of the school board,
who pointed out the need for
new buildings and the fact that
money is required to make im
provements.
Paul Russell, vice-president,
who was presiding in the ab
sence of president Frank B.
Duncan, pointed out that It Is
the policy of the club not to
take a stand on political issues,
but alter several members of
the club expressed the idea that
the school bond issue was a
non-partisan, non-political mat
ter, the vote was taken.
Following the meal, skits
were presented by member* of
the Franklin Cub Scout peeks
? nd talks were made by Ross
Zachary, local cub master, John
Alsup, chairman of the local
Scout executive committee, and
the Rev. A. Rufus Morgan,
member of the district Scout
executive committee, on local
Scout work, in obeervanee of
Nation*) scout week, I
PR OPOSE ISSUE
OF $514,009
FOR 8 SCHOOLS
Question To Be Decided
By Majority Of Vote*
Cast lei County
PERTINENT FACTS
On Bond Election
DATE: Tuesday, February
21.
HOURS: 6:30 a. m. to 6:30
p. m.
THE QUESTION: Shall
Macon County issue $514,000
in school building bonds?
THE RESULT: To be de
termined by a majority of
the votes cast.
Macon County voters will go
to the polls next Tuesday to
decide whether this county shall
issue $514,000 in school building
bonds.
The e'ection is county-wide,
and the result will be determ
ined by a majority of the votes
oast.
The proceeds of the proposed
bond issue, if it is approved by
the voters, will be used to con
struct eight new schools in this
county. The total cost is esti
mated at $875,000 but this coun
ty is to get $361,000 from the
state for its building program.
The schools it is proposed to
build are: Cartoogechaye ele
mentary, Chapel (Negro), East
Franklin elementary, Franklin
High school. Highlands elemen
tary and high school, lot!a ele
mentary. Nantahala elementary
and high school, and Union ele- ,
mentary. (The East Franklin
school would serve Millshoa.1
township and East Frankihi,
and the Franklin high school
would serve all the townships In
the county, with the exception
of Highlands, Flats, and Nanta
hala.)
The eight schools, when con
structed, would give the county
a system of 11 schools, three
having already been built ? those
at Otto and Cowee, built dur
ing the WPA days, and that at
Cullasaja, which was completed
last fall.
No new registration was re
quired for this election, but the
registration books were kept
open for the registration of
those whose names were not
on the books. The registration
of new voters was reported as
light. The registration books
closed last Saturday, and Sat
urday of this week has been
designated as challenge day.
The polls in the county's 13
precincts will open at 6:30 in
the morning and close at 8:30
in the evening.
Issuance of the bonds will not
require an increase In the tax
rate, Chairman W. E. (Oene)
Baldwin of the board of county
commissioners has announced.
The reason, Mr. Baldwin ex
plained, is that the county'*
tax valuation has so greatly in
creased (it has doubled in seven
years) that the present tax rate
will take care of interest and
principal payments on the $514.
000 bonds, as well as the coun
ty's present debt.
The present tax rate, on the
current valuation, brings in
Continued On Pace Eifkt?
MRS. WALDROOr ILL
The condition of Mrs. Betty
Leach Waldroop, who has been
seriously ill at the home of
her son and daughter-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. (BUI I Wal
droop for the past week, Wed
nesday was reported as critical.
The Weather
Temperature* and precipitation for Hi*
paat seven days, and the tow temperatura
yesterday, as recorded at tfaa Coweeta Ex
periment station.
High Low Pet.
Wednesday 45 22 traee
Thursday 54 89 22
Friday S3 22 .7?
Saturday 64 si .OS
Sunday 52 S2 tract
Monday M 4? .11
Tuesday 67 53 211
Wednesday S? .44
FRANKLIN RAINFALL
(At rtfprdtd Vy Mutton Stlta far TVAJ
Wednesday, trace; Thursday,
.10 ot an inch; Friday, it; Sat
urday. .10: Sunday, none; Mon
day, .04; Tuesday, M; Wadass.
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