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VOL. LXV? NO. 33 FRANKLIN, W. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1W TWELVE PAGES
Accused Killer Of Girl To Be Tried Here
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Take Part In Unveiling Of Marker
Special guests at the unveiling of the Wedgwood marker, on the Bryson City road, last Friday are
shown above, gathered around the marker. Left to right, they are William S. Powell, of Raleigh, the Rev.
Hoyt Evans, Carroll Rogers, Try on, Miss Annie Reece, New York City, McKinlcy Ross, Cherokee, Hen
sleigh Wedgwood, direct descendant of Josiah Wedgwood, Mrs. .Sadie S. Patton, Hendersonville, Dr.
Christopher Crittenden, Raleigh, and the Rev. A. Rufus Morgan, Franklin.
PLAN BARN DANCE
The Parent-Teacher associa
tion of the Otto school, will
sponsor a barn dance at the
school tomorrow (Friday) night,
Mrs. Ralph Henson, association
president, has announced. Pro
ceeds from the dance will go in
to the P. T. A. fund.
PLAN REUNION
The Polndexter family will
hold a reunion at the old J. L.
Polndexter home, Iotla, Sunday.
Do You
Remember . . . ?
(Looking backward through
the files of The Preaa)
SO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
Mr. W. N. AUman met with
the misfortune to have a fine
mare killed Sunday evenhig by
lightning striking his'stable. Mr.
Allman has lost 11 head of
horses by accident since 1883.
Mr. W. W. Sloan left yesterday
for Walhal'a, S. C., to bring his
mother and sister home.
Uncle "D" Cunningham went
to Highlands and Sapphire the
latter part of last week on a
horse trading tour.
25 YEARS AGO
There are indications of a
very successful meeting now in
progress at Clark's Chapel. Rev.
W. M. Smith is doing very ef
fective preaching.
Pursuant to a call Issued by
Mayor R. D. Sisk, a large con
gregation of Franklin citizens
assembled at the Court House
last Friday afternoon at 2
o'clock to pay a last tribute to
our departed President, Warren
G. Harding.
10 YEARS AGO
Bearing the names of 150
Franklin Citizens, a petition re
questing that material aid be
extended to Great Britain in her
present crisis was mailed to
Senator Robert R. Reynolds and
Congressman Zebulon Weaver
In Washington yesterday.
The Lions club announced
this week that it had signed a
contract with the Wolfe Amuse
ment company to bring' a car
nival here for a week, August
28-31. ?
Construction is already under
way on the new Asbury Metho
dist church at Otto.
Bill Reece, 13, a Future Fann
er of America, brought a twin
peach into The Press office that
throw* the twin cucumber In
the shad*.
LIST TEACHER
ASSIGNMENTS
Additional One Brings
Franklin School's
Total To 35
An additional teacher has
been added to the Franklin
schools, bringing the total num
ber to 35, according to the
teacher assignment list made
public by County School Supt.
Guy L. Houk.
Following Is a list of teachers
for the coming year in the Ma
con County school system.
Franklin: R. G. Sutton, Mrs.
{Catherine M. CNeil, Miss Annie
Bailey, Mrs. Lois F. Fulton, Mrs.
Frances K. Beck, Edwin T. Wil
liams, Harry C. Corbin, Mrs.
Marie G. Stewart, Miss Roberta
Enloe, Wallace Martin, Mrs.
Myra S. Waldroop, Ray Lowe,
Mrs. Katherine P. Matthews,
Samuel F. Beck, Mllburn Atkins,
Richard Stotts, Clayton Ramsey,
Robert J. Angel, Mrs. Virginia
Ramsey, Miss Mayberl Moody,
Mrs. Lola S. Kiser, Mrs. Marga
ret Ramsey, Mrs. Margaret
Flanagan, Mrs. Edith S. Hemp
hill, Miss Edna Jamison, Mrs.
Pearl Hunter, Miss Esther Wal
lace, Mrs. Kate Williams, Mrs.
Elsie Franks, Mrs. Lovicla J.
Moses, Miss Amy Henderson,
Mrs. Margaret Bradley, Miss
Elizabeth Meadows, Mrs. Gen
evieve Barnard, Miss Alice D.
Weaver.
Iotla: Mrs. Marie Roper, Miss
Lollta Dean, Mrs. Mildred Rich
ardson, Mrs. Bertha Smart, Mrs.
Minnie Tallent, Mrs. Jessie Wil
liams.
Union: Mrs. Lucy Bradley,
Mrs. Gay Teague, Miss Grace
Carpenter.
Clark's Chapel: Mrs. Hazel
Sutton, Mrs. Lucille Wurst.
Holly Springs: Miss May Mc
Coy, Mrs. Nancy Taylor.
Oak Ridge: Mrs. Vernon D.
Higdon, Mrs. Kathryn Ramey.
Watauga: John B. Brendle,
Mrs. Gladys Klnsland.
Cullasaja: William G. Craw
Continued On Page Eight?
Construction
Of Nantahala School Is
Started
Contracts for the four new
?choola, Franklin high. East
Franklin elementary, Highlands,
and Nantahala, were executed
Thursday, and construction
workers have already started
work on the Nantahala school.
County 8upt. Guy L. Houk has
announced.
Work on the other three
?choola should begin shortly, ha
Federation's
Picnic Is Set
For Saturday
The annual Macorn County
Parmer's Federation picnic will
be held Saturday, at the Cul
lasaja school, with string music,
comic stunts, and farm inform
ation highlighting the affair,
James O. K. McClure, Federa
tion president, has announced.
Mr. McClure said that the
best collection of talent ever
assembled by the farm organi
zation Is scheduled to appear on
the program, including Howard
Nash, "the one-man band", who
plays 17 different instruments
at once; "Smiling Red Raper;
Steve Ledford, ace fiddler from
Little Rock Creek; Patsy Messer,
agile Canton acrobat; Mrs. Bas
com Lamar Lunsford, Jr., well
known ballad singer; Alex Hous
ton, youthful ventriloquist; and
many other entertainers.
Local musicians, quartets and
choirs are especially invited to
appear on the picnic program.
This year for the first time, ac
cording to Mr. McClure, a cash
prize of $100 will be .awarded
for the best specialty entertain
ment number presented at any
of the Federation picnics. A sec
ond prize of $50, and third
prize of $25 also will be award
ed. Fiddlers, banjo players,
string bands, choirs, and quar
tets, and any other type of en
tertainers are eligible for these
prizes, which will be awarded at
the end of the picnic season,
he said.
Mr. McClure will act as mas
ter of ceremonies, and the Rev.
Dumont Clarke, director of the
Federation's religious depart
ment, will make a report on the
Lord's Acre movement. Joseph
Higdon, Federation treasurer,
who handles the purchase of
Commodity Credit tobacco for
the Federation, also will speak.
A grand prize of $25 is offer
ed for the truck which brings
the largest load of people to any
of the 16 Federation picnics
this summer. This prize, Mr.
McClure said, will be awarded
after all the picnics have been
held and will be in addition to
the regular prizes for the larg
est truckload at each picnic.
Crawford-Hogsed-SUgle
Joint Reunion Planned
The Crawfords. Hogseds, and
Slagles will meet in Joint fam
ily reunion Sunday, August 27,
at the Lions' pavilion on Lake i
Chatuge, near Hayeaville, it has
been announced. All members of
the three families are invited i
(o cum, bringing basket lunch. 1
BULGIN WINNER
OFSWEEPSTAKES
300 Attend Flower Show;
Visitors Are Present
From 19 States
Approximately 300 persons,
Including visitors from 19 states,
attended the Frank' In Garden
Club-sponsored flower show,
held at the Agricultural build
ing Saturday.
Randolph Bulgln, of Frank
lin, was the sweepstakes winner
In the colorful show of flowers,
with his dahlias.
Entries in the show were from
all sections of Macon County
and blue, red, and white rib
bons were awarded the winners.
The ribbon winners in the
show are as follows:
Dahlias: (largest and finest)
Randolph Bulgln, blue ribbons;
Mrs. I. T. Peek, red. Dahlias
(mixed), Mrs. A. R. Higdon,
blue; Mrs. John L. Crawford,
red.
Zinnias (large), Mrs. Frank
Reece, blue; Mrs. Frank M. Hig
don, red; Mrs. James E. Perry,
Sr., white.
Zinnias (small), Mrs. Frank
Reece, blue; Mrs. Gene L. Jac
obs, red; Mrs. W. E. Furr, white.
Roses, Mrs. R. G. Lickenstein,
blue; Mrs. Frank M. Higdon,
red; Mrs. Prelo Dryman, white.
Yellow Flowers, Mrs. B. L. Mc
Glamery, blue; Mrs. W. W.
Sloan, red. ? _
TWO-TONE ARRANGEMENTS,
Mrs. B. L. McGlapiery, blue;
Mrs. T. W. Angel, Jr., red; Mrs.
Allan Brooks, white.
Gladioli (large), Randolph
Bulgin, blue; Mrs. James E. Per
ry, Sr., red.
Gladioli (mixed), Mrs. Roy G.
Beshears, blue; Mrs. Frank Hig
don, red.
Marygolds, Mrs. T. W. Angel,
Jr., blue; Mrs. Virgil Watkins,
red.
Modern Arrangement, Mrs. Al
len Slier, blue; Mrs. Frank M.
Continued On Pare Eight ?
WEDGWOOD CLAY
PIT MARKER IS
UNVEILED HERE
Descendant Of Famed
Artist Is Speaker;
125 Attend
More than 125 persons were
oresent at the unvielin? of the
historical marker, design^ ne:
the site of the Macon County
"'ov pit rom ?n ?; '
Wedgwood, the famous English
ceramic artist who changed not
tery making from the grotesque
to the beautiful, obtains ? i?*c
tons of white clay in 1767.
Henslelgh Wedgwood, fifth
feneration descendant of the
famous Englishman, unveiled
the marker, which Is the ?00th
to be erected in the state show
ing points of historical Interest,
in a roadside ceremony at the
intersection of N. C. 28 and
Co wee road.
"X have the honor to dedicate
this marker to the memory of
two great men, Wedgwood and
Griffiths," said Mr. Wedgwood
"May I venture to hope that all
who pass by and read this in
scription may derive inspiration
from their achievements."
Mr. Wedgwood said that his
ancestor's popularity in this
country was dueJ to the fact
that he typified that well-be
loved American character, "the
Local Boy Who Made Good."
"He was born of humble par
entage, but he died the friend
of great men and an ardent
champion of civil liberties," he
said.
He quoted William E. Glad
stone as saying of the English
potter: "He was reared without
culture, and converted a Rude
and Inconsiderable Handicraft
into an Elegant Art and an im
portant part of National Com
merce."
William S. Powell, research
associate of N. C. Archives of
History, spoke on North Caro
lina's marker program.
He said the marker program
was started in 1635 and that
about 35 markers were being
erected each year. Research for
the inscriptions, he said, is done
by the State Department of Ar
chives and History, and the in
scriptions themselves are passed
upon and written by a group of
historians from the University
of North Carolina, Duke uni
versity, Wake Forest college,
Davidson college, and State col
lege.
"It will be a good day for
North Carolina when we are
able to cease erecting markers
Continued On Page Eight ?
History Repeats . . .
After 183 years, history is
about to repeat, and the Macon
County clay pit, from which
Josiah Wedgwood obtained clay
for his china in 1767, is again
going to relinquish clay for
Wedgwood wares.
After the dedication ceremony
of the Wedgwood marker last
Friday, Guy L. Hook took Hen
sleigh Wedgwood, fifth genera
tion descendant of the potter,
and some of the guests at the
unveiling up to the old Rick
man mine at the head of Cowee
creek where Thomas Griffiths
removed five tons of clay for
Wedgwood 1(3 years ago.
According to .Mr. Houk, Mr.
Wedgwood asked him to send 54
pounds of the white clay to the
Wedgwood corporation in Eng
land.
The Hickman mine at present
is being worked for strip mica
by Goodlow Bowman and Gene
Panell.
Capacity Crowd Attends
Macon Baptist Meeting
Tne sugariork Baptist church
was filled to capacity last
Thursday and Friday when the
Macon County Baptist associa
tion held Its forty-seventh an
nual meeting there.
The session was presided over
by J. H. Stockton, who welcom
ed. the large crowd attending
the two-day affair.
"It Is our purpose to promote
Clod's program here on Earth,"
ha told the capacity crowd, "tor
people are channels through
which HU program Is advanc
ed."
Highlighting the morning of
the first day was the election
of officers for the coming year.
Mr. 8tockton was reelected
moderator for the eighth con
secutive time. The Rev. C. C.
Welch was elected vice-modera
tor; Mrs. Pearl Corbln, clerk.
Mi <? Mae McCoy, assistant
Con tinned On h|i Eight?,
WU1 Be Tried Here
? Courtesy Ashevllle Citizen.
CURTIS SHEDD
24 OF 53 CASES
DRUNK DRIVING
Superior Court To Open
Here Monday; Pless
Will Preside
Drunken driving cases will
dominate the criminal court
docket when the Macon County
Superior court convenes Monday,
with Judge J. Will Pless, of
Marion, presiding.
Out of 53 cases on the dock
et, made public by Clinton
Brookshire, superior court clerk,
24 involve charges of operating
motor vehicles under the influ
ence of intoxicants.
The names of 54 jurors" for
the court session were drawn
July S at a meeting of the board
of county commissioners and
included two women, Mrs. Mack
Franks and Mrs. John C. Wright,
both of Franklin.
The first 36 jurors drawn
were summoned for duty the
first week of court, and from
this number the 18-member
Continued On Page Eight ?
Farm Progress
Seen On Annual Macon
Tour
Approximately 400 Macon
County farmers, faim women,
and business men met at the
Agricultural building yesterday
morning and accompanied S. W.
Mendenhall, county agent, on
the annual Macon County farm
tour.
More than 75 cars and trucks
composed the motorcade which
toured the farms of Walter
Gibson, Iotla, Woodrow Gibson,
West's Mill, and Fred Hannah,
of the Patton Settlement. Good
ladino pastures, alfalfa, corn,
livestock, and a hay barn dryer
were seen on these farms.
Stops were made at the voca
tional agricultural building at
the Franklin High school, where
4-H club members and Future
Farmer^ of America had beef
and dairy cattle r6n exhibit. At
the Quincie Corpening farm the
group looked over purebred Jer
sey cattle and inspected dairy
and feed barns.
Lunch was served by the
Slagle Parent-Teacher associa
tion and the proceeds from the
meal went to the Slagle school
lunchroom fund.
The farm tour is a coopera
tive project of the Extension
service and the Vocational agri
cultural department, and is held
each year to note the progress
made in agriculture on Macon
County farms.
Draft Board
Office Is Opened Here;
Mrs. Jones Clerk
The local draft board opened
its office in the new Burrell
building last Friday, and the
registering of men under the
selective service act of 1948 has
begun, according to W. N. Sloan,
board chairman.
Mr. Sloan announced that the
appointment of Mrs. Ollmer A.
Jones as clerk has been approv
ed, but the official appoint
ments of board members have
not yet been received.
Office hour* are 9 to 1, Mon
days through Fridays.
MURDER TRIAL
SET FOR THIS
TERMOFCOURT
3. C. Man Confesses
In Girl's Slaying
Near Highlands
' ' ' 9
Curtis Shedd, 29-year old ex*
convict, wll! be tried at the
August term of superior court
he e for the slaying of Johnnie
Mae Boyter, 14.
Shedd Sunday led officers to
the bodies of the girl and her
ister, Jo Ann, ft, at a spot near
Highlands.
Picked up for questioning
a'ter the body of John Boyter,
38, of Walhalla, S. C., father of
the two girls, was found by a
hunter just across the state line
In Georgia August 9, Shedd
Sunday morning finally con
fessed, authorities said, and
and then led them to the plt^ce,
on the Hlghlands-Dlllard road,
where the bodies of the girls
were found. The triple s'aylngs
occurred August 3, authorities
reported.
Boyter's body was riddled with
shotgun shot, and the two girls
had been strangled.
Shedd was removed from the
Gainesville, Ga. jail, where he
was being held, and brought to
North Carolina Tuesday by So
licitor Thad D. Bryson, Jr. and
Sgt. T. A. Sandlin, of the N. C.
State Highway patrol, and was
placed in an undisclosed jail to
await trial.
The move came after Solic
itor Bryson had conferred with
Solicitor General Winton Owen,
of Toccoa, Ga., about the mur
ders, and the Georgia officials
released Shedd to North Caro
lina for trial. Solicitor Bryson
and Sgt. Sandlin has been aid
ing Georgia and South Carolina
officials in investigating the
triple slaying.
Meanwhile, Judge J. Will
Pless, of Marion, who will pre
side at the court term opening
here Monday, Tuesday appoint
ed R. S. Jones, Franklin attor
ney, to defend Shedd, and an
Inquest was held the same day.
It is a court rule in North
Carolina that no man be plac
ed on trial for his life without
being represented by counsel, so
that he may be assured of such
protection of his rights as the
law provides, and so that all
evidence in his favor may be
brought before the jury.
The corner's jury, impaneled
by Coroner O. L. Blaine, found
that "Johnnie Mae Boyter, 14,
came to her death August 3 by
strangulation at the hands of
Curtis Shedd" and that "her
sister, Jo Ann, 8, came to her
death by choking either by the
hands of Curtis Shedd or John
Boyter, her father".
Members of the jury were
Charles Rogers, Lawrence Cron
kleton, Arthur Rogers, Bill Mc
Call, Dave Rogers, and Grady
Bryant.
Solicitor Bryson said Shedd 's
case probably will not be tried
until the second week of court,
in order to give officials time
to summon a venire, which
probably will number 150 ner
sons, from which a jury will b?
picked. His announcement fol
lowed a telephone conference
with Judge Pless.
Shedd's arrest followed dis
covery of the partially decom
posed body of Boyter August 9
by a hunter In a heavily wood
ed area just inside the Georgia
line, near Clayton. He was pick
ed up for questioning after po
Contlnned On Page Eight ?
The Weather
Temperature* and precipitation for the
past seven days, and the low temperature
yesterday, as recorded at the Coweeta Ex
periment station.
High Low Pet.
Wednesday 78 48 .03
Thursday 79 55 .01
Friday 80 54 .03
Saturday 84 47 trace
Sunday 80 54 00
Monday 73 61 .03
Tuesday 82 50 .04
Wednesday SS .IS
Franklin Rainfall
(At rM.rded kr Mraon SHt*. far TV A)
Wednesday, none; Thursday.
.01 of an Inch; Friday, .01;
Sunday, none; Monday, .OS;
Tuesday, ,08; Wednesday, 41.