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tk* jAmkii# f*"4 ??: < tub ,L > iEltr ^Higblainb* JRantntait Published every Thursday by The Franklin Press At Franklin, North Carolina VOL. LX1V Number II WEIMAR JOMEB. jl. JMltor BOB S. SLOAN ... ? Business Manager gr . "V. . . ?* " j . ' . ? Entered at Post Office. Franklin, N. C., as second class matter. Telephone No. 24 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Ona Year. _..r ; $2.00 Si* Months $1.29 Three Months...... - ? ? ... .73 Single Copy....'.'. . ? .0# ' dfcituary notice*. carda of thanks, tribute* of respect, by individuals, lodge!. churches, organizations oe societies, will be regarded as . advertising and inserted at regular classified advertising rates. Such notices will be marked "adV." in compli ance with tile postal requirements. Our Next School Board ? pRTKNDS of education in Macon County are ' ? pleased to note that Mt. Tillery T. Love has tiled for the county board of education, fhtv* "break ing the ice" as guards thai particular public office. In past years places on the five-member board too tin en have gone by default ; it has e,yen happen ed that a candidate was "filed" by his friends, just at the filing deadline. / It is to be hoped that Mr. Love's announcement will be followed by others, so that there may be a wide choice in the selection of board members: fpr no job in the county is more important than that of the five members of the county board of education. As friends of education in this county look over the county for possible candidates, and later look over the field of candidates in selecting five to Vote for, it will be worth their while to consider what the responsibilities of the next school lx>ard will be. It should Ik- remembered that the school board to be nominated in the May primary will not be appointed until the 1951 general assembly convenes, and will not take offiec until April, 1951 ? more than a year from now. By that time, the school building program prob ably will be completed, or virtually completed. The vnen to be nominated in the May primary. "therefore, will not face the problems of construction ; their problems will have to do with what jjoes on inside the buildings we then will have constructed. Their task will not be the building of physical structures, but the building of a schooj system. It is not for this newspaper to attempt to suggest to the voters what individuals should be selected to serve on the school boardrlt seems proper, however, t,o make some general observations on the KIND of men and women we .should choose. ; The suggestions that follow are offered in no sense as personal criticism of the members of the present board ? they probably would be the first to agree with these suggestions. It seems obvious, in the tirst~piace, mat ai icasi ?one member of the county board of education should have a child or children in .school ? no member of the present l>oard has. Since* women have far more to do with children than men. and since the great majority of our teach ers are women, it also seems obvious that at least one member of the board should be a woman. And it would seem desirable to have the member ship dis>t ributed geographically. Three of the five members on the board immediately preceding the present one came from the northern end of the county : three of the five on the present board live in'.Frauklin township. A better distribution would seem desirable ; of course, however, the quality oi the membership is of first importance. ' But more vital than any of those considerations are the character and the attitude of the members They should be men and women who command county-wide respect. They should he persons gen uinely interested in education, and who have inform ed, ox will inform, themselves about present-day ed ucational problems and trends, as well as the purel) lotal situation. ...And they should Ik men and women who are pre emme'ntly fair-minded. For their first and most important iob will be th election of a county superintendent, and in discharg ing that responsibility their one and only objec should be to. employ the best superintendent to lx found. " ? VVe will not get the best superintendent availahl if the board is made up of men and women who ar pledged, even in their own minds, to elect any par ticular person, or not ta elect any particular person The only way to get the best superintendent avail ablfe is to put on the board men and women who wil go into office with open minds ; who will deliberate ly set .out to get applications from far and near; an< who will carefully study the list of applicants, an then employ the mart? whether it be the presen superintendent or someone else ? best fitted to giv u? here in Macon County a school system second t none, . of ^ Let1* Hivt k lib v ^ : Wfi with ttfpjteUliir oddfi and Urania ~4qjjH?s, with itk dust iHci lis Carnival air, is typical bf rurar-Anitriea. It is a pleasant and fitting climax to a .summef's work. And it does things to a com munity that nothing else can quite do. . We ought ' t<V have - an annual 'fair in Macon County. It would be an eyc-ttj>ener for us ail. The men in town would learn, first-hand, something about the remarkable progress that is being made on Macon County farms, and the farmers ? and the rest of us ? would be amazed at the variety of wealth and of in dustrial and commercial development that such an event would demonstrate. Furthermore, a fair would make neighbors of the man on Cullasaja and the man on Cartoogechaye, of the man in Horse Cove and the man in Covvee: and of the man in town and the man on the farm. Let's have a fair! And right now is the time to start planning for one next fall. Hendricks Ramsey In the death of Hendricks Ramsey in Asheville last week, Western North Carolina lost a remark able personality. Mr. Ramsey was well known among "old timers" in railroading in this region, but in more recent, years was proof reader on The Asheville Times. In that position he did an unusual job; for Mr. Ram- j s?ey knew Western North Carolina and its people, [ and he was not content merely with eliminating typ- I (?graphical errors ? he wanted the facts right, too. ' It was not unusual for him to leave his work to go j to the city room to explain to a city editor or a re porter that "this can't he right, because so-and-so married so-and-so, and this is their son-in-law", j His keen memory and helpful attitude saved report er* and city editors from many blunders. To his friends, however, Hendricks Ramsey was more than a man who did his job well; it was as a man that they loved him. He probably was as com-" pletely lacking in the foibles of human vanity as anyone in North Carolina. His keen sense of humor was never better than when he was laughing at himself. And while his humor usually was kindly, where others were involved, he had the faculty, as few men have, .of revealing the false. He could de stroy an artifical distinction, or demolish a holier than-thou attitude, with a single simple comment, or a direct question. He was an amazingly genuine human being. The 51st State The national house of representatives has passed a bill to grant statehood to Alaska. A similar bill for Hawaii is pending. Under this legislation, Alaska would become the 49th state, and Hawaii the 50th. We .suggest for the 51 st Southern Appalachia. The mountain region of the South, strentching from West Virginia into Georgia and South Caro lina, is distinctive. It has little in common with the Piedmont and Coastal Plain areas of the six or seven states in which it lies. It's topography, its soil, its industries, its social custom, and even the way its people think and speak and act are different. The 51st state should be Southern Appalachia. Letters . . . FOR ALL OF MACON Editor, The Pres?: After our victory for the school bonds I feel that Macon County will be a much better place to live. I wish to thank everyone who worked In this campaign, and I assure you that within the next ten years we will be reaping a reward for our work. Nantahala No. 2 Is now, and will continue to be, in favor of anything that Is good for Macon County. If the people of this county will continue to vote for the things that are good for all of Macon County, never again will progress drag in the dust. Yours, WEIMER COCHRAN. Flats, N. C. !? I Others' Opinions NO. 1 TEST FOR CADI DAT FS , We have now passed from the Atomic Age to the Super Atomic Age. The destruction of civilization, if not of the human race, is a very real danger. In this situation the No. 1 test for every candidate for the United States Senate or Congress should I*, "Does he OjLjloes he not favor such International action antf cooperation as'yfil, e save humanity fjrom World War in?" If he doqp not favor sucti? international action, Opt Instead urges America to "go It alone" ? ?"go it alone" over the precipice of war? then no other quality t he possesses should make ahy right-thinking patriot or parent > ' vote for rach a man. Fortunately; both our present North Qar " ollna' Senators have come out strongly for such international actlob. We hope all who blindly oppose such action will have e their eyes opened? Progressive Farmer. e RAINFALL Sometime ago when the Georgia Power company made their I. report' of the rainfall for IMS showing that Ra'bun county hud I a rainfall, of W.87 Inches, some, of us began to Htmder If toe report would not show that Rabun was the wettest county In II the United States. It has been reported here for many years that "only, one cdttnty in the sta'M had a heavier rainfall and ,i that county was -in the State qf Washington. In order to settle , the matter I sent' an Inquiry to the Weather Bureau, in Wash d ington, for Information. I have just heard from them and they it have given the average rainfall for the State of Washington and the average for Oeorgla. According to their bulletin, the c average for Rabun county I* 70.M over ft period of 18 years. 0 In the State of Washington there are 37 counties with an aver l|i Abort that of JUbun eounty. There art eleven counties out TmE STORY or TMC OMMM 0T THE WEST-OT THE TAMIN* or A WILD COUNTRY AND TMC ESTABLISHMENT or LAW AMD ORDt R BY THE COURAGE, DETERMINATION AND SKILLS Or A COMPARATIVELY FEW MEN ? LIVES TODAY AS ONE or AMERJCA'S MOST VITAL TRADITIONS. Kusrieas A LESSO/V THt Earlier generations learned part or the Story through TRAVELING 'WILD WEST "shows. Today, we reuve this exciting period through radio, motion pictures and television, the re enactment OF THE OPENING or THE WEST SERVES not only AS ENTERTAINMENT BUT AS A REMINDER OF THE PART PLAYED BY MEN WITH VISION, COURAGE AND SELF-RELIANCE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR COUNTRY. > West POETRY CORNER Conducted by EDITH DEADERICK ERSKINE Weavervllle, N. C. Sponsored by Aeheville Branch, National League of American Pen Women MISTY MORNING Mountain, oh Mountain, where have you gone? I saw you last night and all day? Your top was so fuzzy with hemlocks and pines, Your sides were soft velvet and gray. This morning I looked and I only saw mist As dense as a wall! yet I know Behind that thick veil you hide and are kissed By the sun ? but he's everyone's beau! MIRIAM WHITEHEAD. Black Mountain, N. C. there that have an average of more than 100 Inches annual rainfall. Of course Rabun has the highest rainfall of any coun ty in Georgia. ? L. P. Cross in Clayton Tribune. (EDITOR'S NOTE ? At Coweeta, In Macon County, the total last year was 145 inches.) , WHERE DEMOCRACY NEEDS STRENGTH Maybe there's no such thing as a non-political public office. But there are some governmental positions which, in the name of safeguarding public rights, ought to be kept as far from part nership or factionalism or any form of petty politics as human ly possible. -And heading the list of these offices which should not be mixed up with what we commonly refer to as "politics" are the positions on a county election board. The sad story is that traditionally throughout North Caro lina local election board members have been selected more on the basis of political alignment than on integrity and ability. The trouble lies In the method of selection. While county election board members are appointed by the State Board of Elections, the state agency with few exceptions names men recommended by party executive committees In the counties. For example, Johnston County's election board is composed of two Democratic members appointed upon recommendation of the county's Democratic Executive Committee and a Repub lican member appointed after reoommendation by his party's executive committee. It is only natural to expect a party committee to give a preponderance of weight to one's fitness politically, In making a choice for an election board position. This doesn't mean that ability and integrity are wholly ignored, but too ofteii these qualifications are regulated to the background. In counties like Johnston, where there Is intense lntra-party rivalry, the faction In control of the party executive committee usually sees to it that the enemy faction has no representa tion on the election board. ? Smithfield Hearld. THE MOTORMAN AND THE MORTARMAN Why raise a lot of commotion about a mere 29 persons killed in a train wreck on Long Island, while we're plotting the method to slay thousands of thousands with a single Instrument of. death? Oh! say some ? those were civilians and Americans who suf fered and died in the train wreck. Well, whit kind of blood Is going to run out of the Russians . . or Chinese or Germans or Frenchmen or Englishmen who die the first H-bomb? ~ ; i '-Tftaybe. it':' will' be human blood. The same kind and the same color tfcst ran out of those few pitiful people who died on Long ? Island Friday. Sunday was* the anniversary of Itoo Jima. Ask any Marine whet cam* off that landing alive If death Is any different for an American and a Jap. Ask him how horrible it Is for 29 persons to die at one time. The train, motorman who steered the living to the dead on Long Island- will be tried for manslaughter. Why shouldn't the jnotarman who lobbed the shell Into the huddle of a dozen Japs on Iwo Jima be tried for manslaughter? ;We don't expect an answer, the way the world is there Is no iiTOu've got tp say, "The Japs threatened our democracy. ?cTh*y bombed Pearl Harbor. They would have landed on the coast /of California." ? All th?t Is true. But? wouldn't it be possible to organize the world on a plan whereby murder would be murder and manslaughter would be manslaughter either in uniform or out of Uniterm. . . . After all, maybe a uniform doesn't change a man's conscience and death Is an Intimate tragedy wherever it occurs. Maybe a man doesn't die any more comfortably in a uni form than he does in a passenger train.? Clmtand (County) Times, ig-Tinrrni \a LVOAL AOmmtlNQ NOTICE OF WORTH CAROLINA MACON COUNTT Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain deed of truat executed MlnnUU?C'r?!eaV?land *nd wUe 3 C'eaveiand, to Ralph C. Price, Trustee, and Jeffer ?on Standard Life insurance Company, dated June 17 1949 ?nd recorded In Book 43, at page #0 In the office of the Register m _.PC?ds for Macon County, hvrvl!*C,r0i1??; and "nder and by virtue of the authority vest ed to the undersigned as sub stitute trustee by an Instrument Oi writing, dated the leth day of January, 1950, and recorded X"5. I?*e 285 in the he Re(rt?ter of Deeds luT. if.?n.Pounty- North Caro default having been made In the payment of the indebted thereby secured and the said deed of trust being by the terms thereof subject to fore ofTn ")ereof tor the purpose of satisfying said indebtedness, the undersigned substituted mlhn6* WlV. offer for sale at * auction to the highest J?r cash at the court Sin,00^ !n 1Prank,ln. North HWelVe ?'clock ????. i day of March, 1950, of tS?nVeyed ln 8ald deed liJ^n Ui K*; "i"6 lylne and be ing ln Highlands Township Ma con County. North Ca,olin? and fXws CUlarly descrlbed " fhEOiNNlN? at a stake on the North bank of Mill Creek m ~ Town ot Highlands, North Carolina, said stake be ing the Southwest corner of a tract of land deeded this day to Maurice Cieaveiand by Bessie A. Cieaveiand, et a) an.d runs with West line of said tract N 14 degrees E 226 hfnir10 ?, sttke on the South bank of Foreman Road thence with said road as fol lows: S 88 degrees 20 min utes W 10 feet; N 76 degrees 35 minutes W 71 feet; N 64 degrees 15 minutes W 214 t*1' iJ 48 de8rees 30 min utes W 39 fee t to a stake 8 78 degrees 05 min (S79 Leet 10 the cer>ter of Mill Creek; thence up cen ter of said creek, with its meanders,, to a point direcUv opposite the beginning com er; thence N 14 degrees E to the point of BEGINNING. Be ing a portion of a tract of land deeded to W. M. cieave iand by Highlands Land Com pany, known as Lots Nos. 97 ?nd 98. lot No. 97 described iooc dated December 3, 19 25 and registered in Deed L"f. Page 497. Lot No. 98 described in deed dated August 1, 1925 and registered rvJlS0 o 14, page 20?- Macon Jxmnty Records. This tne 8tn aay 01 * eoruary, 1950. O. L. HOUK, Substituted Trustee. F16? 4tc ? M9 NORTH CAROLINA MACON COUNTY Under and by virtue of the power of sale vested in the undersigned trustee by deed of trust executed by James W. Beck and wife Beulah E. Beck, dated May 17, 1947, and recorded in the office of Register of Deeds for Macon County, North Caro lina, in Book of Mortgages and Deeds of Trust B. & L. No. 2, page 107, said deed of trust hav ing been executed to secure cer tain indebtedness therein set forth, and default In the pay ment of said indebtedness hav ing been made, I will on Mon day, the 13th day of March, 1950, at 12:00 o'clock noon, at the Courthouse door in Frank lin, North Carolina, sell to the highest bidder for cash the fol lowing described land: All the land described in a deed from Oeorge Wilson and wife Louise Wilson, to James W. Beck and wife Beulah E. Beck, dated April 24, 1941, and recorded in the office of Register of Deeds for Macon County, North Ctftolina, In Deed Book 0-5, at page 53; and being all of Lot No. 312 and part of lot No. 310 and 314 in the Town of High lands, North Carolina, on the South side of Chestnut Street. This 8th day of February, 1950. GILMER A. JONES, Trustee. F16? 4tc ? M9 ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE Having qualified as adminis tratrix' of Joe Webb, deceased, late of Macon County, N. C., this Is to notify all persona having claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 15th day of February, 1950, or this notice wilt be plead in bar of their recovery. All per sons Indebted to said estate will please make Immediate settle ment. This 17th day of February, 1960. ? GERTRUDE WEBB, i Administratrix. F23? 6tp ? M30 lay: 1 saw it advertised In the Frees"
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