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wizm Ifiikhvfo Mtco m*n Price 6 Cents VOL. LXV? NO. 40 FRANKLIN, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1950 TWELVE PACKS ^ x ? BRPffiSPPii9RRR8QRIR{ WNIIIIIim!t!1KiinB9BBBBBKnKlfmmiMmmB?mmMMmMmmKMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm MODERN 'BETSY ROSSES' AT WORK ? With the approach of United Nations Day, October 24, home demonstration club women here are making United Nations flags. The photo above was made Friday at the meeting of the Macon Council of Ho me Demonstration clubs. The flag-making, in which the silk screen method is used, is an educational project of the clubs. One of the flags is to be presented to the , board of county commissioners, to be flown, along with the United States flag, from the courthouse. Flags will be made for other organisations desiring them, the only charge being the cost of materials, it was ex plained. In the picture, left to right, are Mrs. Ralph Bradley, newly elected president of the council, Mrs. Dan Reynolds, county citizenship leader, Mrs. Homer Greene, clothing leader of the Carson's Chapel club, Mrs. Florence S. Sherrill, county home agent, .and Mrs. Graham Grindstaff, county clothing leader. SILER HEADS BOARD The Board of Stewards of the Franklin Methodist 'church held its first meeting for the new conference year Monday night and elected officers for the year. A. A. Siler was elected chair man of the board, W. W. Sloan, vice-chairman; William Katen brink, secretary; and Henry W. Cabe, treasurer. 50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Next week is court here and all who oweth the Press any thing, either on subscription or advertising, will please come in settle, as it takes money to run a newspaper in this part of the world as well as anywhere else. So come along brother and pay your share. Sheriff Roane, who was shot on the 24th of last month, is improving, we are glad to state. The mica business is on a boom in Macon now. At a meeting of the Demo cratic executive committee of this county Monday, Hon. J. F. Ray was e'ected sub elector for for Macon county. Judges to hold the senatorial primary were appointed, a list of which will be published later. 25 YEARS AGO It is going to be pretty dif ficult for any set of map mak ers to keep secret the existence of a concrete road from Frank lin to Sylva. This road is now under construction and will be finished within a year or less time. An Oakland sedan parked at the top of Main Street hill last Sunday decided to test its speed capacity. Consequently, it quiet ly moved off down the hill, gathering momentum as it pro ceeded. Near the bottom of the kill this shiny Sedan saw an electric light pole to its liking, knocked the pole down, jumped Palmer street and landed against a tree in the yard of Mr. W. C. Cunningham's resi dence. No one was hurt during the wild race. Deputy Sheriff B. C. Munday is able to be on the street, after being wounded some days ago by an alleged whiskey runner.' 10 YEARS AGO Brevard High used Franklin's Red Panthers as a stepping stone to their third straight win of the season here last Friday, decisively walloping Coach Hawkins' eleven to the tune of 24-0. Mayor J. O. Harrison, honor ary chairman, has announced the appointment of J. Horner Stockton and Mrs. J. W. C. Johnson as co-chairmen of a Franklin committee for the an nual nation-wide Bowl of Rice Party campaign. State Asked To Take Over Road By Lake The Macon county board of education, which met Monday morning, voted to send a letter to L. Dale Thrash, tenth divi sion highway commissioner, re questing the State Highway commission to take over for maintenance the Nantahala lake road, after Guy L. Houk, school superintendent, told the board the road was "unsafe for school bus travel." The road goes through Wayah Gap, skirts Nantahala lake, passes through Kyle, to the Nantahala community. Accord ing to Mr. Houk, the road is being maintained at the pres ent time by the Forest Service. He told the board that he had personally inspected the road and that wash-outs on the lake side of the road make it unsafe for travel, and he pointed out that, at some points, traffic is one-way because road fills have given way and fallen into the lake. Mr. Houk said he could see no reason why the lives of "our school children should be in jeopardy" when traveling over the road. Board members also agreed to notify Ronald Green, 'Asheville architect, to draw plans for the proposed Iotla, Slagle, and Un ion schools, and submit them to the board for approval as soon as possible. Mr. Houk announced that one additional teacher has been added to the faculty at the Chapel (Negro) school, bring ing the total number to three. Divisional Baptist Meeting Will Be Held Here The Bryson City division of the Business woman's federation of the Baptist Woman's Mis sionary union will meet at the First Baptist church here to morrow (Friday) evening at 7:30 o'clock, it was announced this week by Mrs. Hylda Shep herd, general secretary of the Mary Tipton circles here. About 100 persons from busi ness women's circles in the di vision, which embraces Chero kee, Clay, Graham, Swain, Jack son, and Macon counties, are expected to attend. Miss Helen Gibson, of Bryson City, is di visional president and will pre side. Miss Ruth Province, of State Baptist headquarters In Raleigh, will be the guest speaker. SQUARE DANCES CANCELED The benefit square dances which the Otto Parent-Teacher association has been sponsoring each Friday night at the Otto school will be discontinued un til further notice, it has been announced. Cancellation was caused by the conflict with the football games Friday nights. Boy Falls From Kin's Tombstone, Is In Hospital Billy Fink, of Gastonia, three-year old grandson of Will Rogers, of Highlands, suffered a broken leg amd a crushed chest Sunday when he climbed on his grand mother's tombstone at the Buck Creek cemetery, and the stone, loosened from its base, fell on him. He was brought to Angel clinic, where his condition yesterday was reported as serious. He is expected to re cover, it was added. Mrs. Dowdle Die*; Funeral Held Monday Funeral services for Mrs. Sal lie Lorena Dowdle, 70, who died Saturday night following a short Illness, were held Monday at 2 p. m. at the Asbury Methodist church. Burial was in Rush cemetery. The Rev. L. C. Stevens, pastor, and the Rev. Robert L. Poindex ter, officiated. Mrs. Dowdle, a native and lifelong resident of Macon Coun ty, was born February 22, 1880, In the Iot!a community, the daughter of John and Mrs. El len Byrd Campbell. She was a member of the Asbury Metho dist church, and was married to George Dowdle in 1898. Mr. Dowdle died 13 years ago. Surviving are 'four sons, Ralph Dowdle, of Sedro Woolley, Wash. ^Arthur Dowdle, of Dillard, Ga., Route 1, Fred Dowdle, of Frank lin, and Howard S. Dowdle, of the U. 8. Navy; six daughters, Mrs. Floyd Brooks, of Harrimon, Tenn.; Mrs. Fred Vinson, of Scaly, Mrs. Clarence Thurmond, of Rabun Gap, Ga., Mrs. Lewis B. Hargett, of Richmond, Va., Miss Georgia Dowdle, of Atlanta, Ga., and Miss Ellen Dowdle, of Franklin; two sisters, Mrs. Nellie Continued On Page Eight? Says History Will Create Love Of Land "Instill In your young people the hiatory or your county, of their heritage. If they knew the history of the people of Macon County, they would have a greater love for their county", D. L. Corbitt declared at Tues day night's annual meeting of the Macon County Historical society at the courthouse. Mr. Corbitt, head of the di vision of publications of the N. C. Department of Archives and History, was guest speaker at the. meeting, attended by about 40 parsons Following the public meeting, members of the society, at a business session, reelected all ] the organization's officers for j the coming year. The officers are Miss Laura M. Jones, presi dent, Ed McNish, vice-president, E. W. Long, treasurer, Miss Ce clle Gibson, secretary, and Rob ert Fulton and Miss Lassie Kel ly, directors. Mr. Corbitt told the society that the greater the variety of its objectives, the wider would be the interest in its work, and he suggested tours to historical points in the county, the col lection and preservation of old diaries and letters, and putting on paper the recollections of older persons in the community. He remarked that the minutes of the pleas and quarter ses sions court, which he said were on record in the courthouse here back to the early 1800's, and later of the county commission ers, the tax records, the cen sus records, the laws, and sta tistics contain .much of the his tory of the county, but, in addi tion, information about the churches, the schools, the roads, and, most of all, the people also is needed to fill in the history Continued On Page Eight? N.C. SYMPHONY ! CAMPAIGN WILL STARTJJESDAY Annual Members' Drive To Bring Orchestra Here Planned The sixth annual member ship campaign of the North Carolina Symphony Society in Macon County will be launched Tuesday. Memberships finance the ap pearance here each spring of the N. C. Little Symphony or chest- a for two concerts, an evening performance for mem bers, and a free matinee for Macon County school children E. J. Carpenter is president o! the Macon chapter of the so cietv, ?"id Miss Laura M. J oner is membership campaign chair man. In announcing that this year's membership campaign will start Tuesday, Miss Jones asked that a'l workers meet at her home on the Georgia road Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock. Those who find they cannot attend the evening meeting are asked to come to Mr. Carpenter's ol fice in the Bank of Franklin building Monday afternoon be tween the hours of 2 and 5 to obtain their materials and in structions. Memberships this year are $2, the same as last season, and it was pointed out that a mem bership not only entitles the holder to attend the evening concert here and helps make possible the free concert for children, but that it also en titles the holder to attend reg ular concerts of the orchestra anywhere in the state. Letters are going out this week to those who are being requested to work in the cam paign, and In making the list of workers public. Miss Jones Continued On Pace Eight? Panthers Lick Indian Team By 34-0 Tally A high-riding Panther eleven, sparkled by Backs Henry and Shields, scalped the Cherokee Indians 34-0, on the local field last Friday night before an es timated 2,000 football fans. The versatile Atkins boys sur prised fans by playing the first half of the game running out of a single-wing* formation, in stead of the usual "T-" forma tion, and then converted back to the "T" the second half. The Panthers massed an impressive 20 points in the first half, and collected the remaining 14 points in the final half with the second string playing most of the time. The Indians never threatened to move the Panthecs out of the win column and the Frank "Nink" Henry-Charles Shields combination proved to be too much for the Cherokee eleven, although many fans predicted that the Panthers were due for an upset. Henry picked up 109 yards in n'-ne trys with the ball, and Shields totaled 105 yards in the same number of carries.' Franklin kicked off to the In dians and, after running four plays without picking up a first Continued On Fare Eight? Town send, Who Served In Korea, Describes That Land As 'Mountainous As Nantahalas' "Korpa is as mountainous as the Nantaha'.as." That comparison, on a Macon County level, suggests why the United Nations experienced dif ficulty in gaining grounds in the first phases of the war in Korea. The compaiison was made by William B. Townsend, Franklin restaurant owner, and he wasn't just talking through his hat. or j playing the role of "arm chair j analyslst". Mr. Townsend knows j first hand. He has the "Mr." on his name now, but up until Jan uary of this year, he was Cap tain Townsend, with a hitch of 20 years under his belt in the regular army, which included occupation duty in Japan, and many trips into Korea on army business. The ex-army captain, who Li still on the Inactive list, strikes one as being a veritable "In formation Please" on the Orient. He was stationed with the army at Fukaoka, Japan, as assistant supervisor of the Kyushu divi sion of the Third Military Rail way Service, and had occasion to visit Korea many times, be fore the North Korean Com munists moved across the 38th parallel and started the war now in progress. Mr., or Captain, Townsend's first visit to the "land of morn ing calm" ,was in October, 1946 and he entered the port of Pusan, whjch today is the main port of entry for United Nation troops and supplies. "As a harbor for ocean going vessels," Mr. Townsend said, "Pusan wasn't very good." Port I facilities, he pointed out, were I several years behind the rest of the world, and large vessels weren't able to enter the har bor. Only shallow draft vessels, could move up to the piers and unload cargo. "The first thing that impress ed me about the city of Pusan," he said, "was' the lack of any form of sanitary facilities . . . | nothing modern." There were ! modern facilities, he declared, at the railroad station and hotel, but for the most part the people didn't know what a modern bathroom was. Pusan was extremely congest ed, he said, with narrow paved streets, dotted with hovels and "holes in the wall" which housed concessions and eating Continued On rage Eleven? KILLED IN KOREA ROBERT L. ROGERS, JR. SEEK CRUSADE SIGNERS, FUNDS Macon People Are Given Chance To Help Break Down Iron Curtain Crusade for Freedom scrolls are being put at leading busi ness places and in the schools, and are being given to civic clubs, and persons who wish to help in this effort to break down the Iron Curtain are in vited to do so at once, Henry W. Cabe, county chairman, said this week. Interested persons may back the campaign by doing either or both of two things: By signing the scrolls as a token of their faith in democracy and free dom; and by contributing mo ney, from one cent up, to aid in the operation and expansion of the campaign to get across the truth to the people under Soviet domination. _ ?./. . The campaign in Highlands will be handled by the High lands Rotary club. In connection with the appeal for cash donations, Mr. Cabe, pointed out that if people all over the United States contrib ute, even though their dona tions are small the total raised will be great. The money will be used chiefly for the opera tion of Radio Free Europe, a privately-sponsored radio de signed to "meet the big lie (of the Soviets) with the bigger truth". It seeks to supplement the work of the State depart ment's Voice of America. The nation-wide Crusade for Freedom, which will end Sat urday, October 14, is headed by , General Lucius D. Clay, and has the support of President Tru man and American leaders in many lines of endeavor. James G. K. McClure, of Asheville, Continued On Pace Eight? Franklin P. T. A. Wins Attendance Prize At District Meet The Franklin Parent-Teacher association won the $5 prize for haying the largest percentage of "membership from the great est distance present at Tues day's district P. T. A. meeting in Asheville. Franklin had six representa tives, Mrs. Allen Siler, president, Mrs, C. N. Dowdle, Mrs. .R. S. Jones, Mrs. Roy M. Biddle, Mrs Emory Hunnicutt, Mrs. Edgar Angel, and Mrs. Weimar Jones. Two of the Franklin delega tion were appointed to district committees. Mrs. Slier was nam ed on the Invitation committee, and Mrs. Weimar Jones was ap pointed chairman of the min utes approval committee. Start Work On Cross Street Between Main And Palmer A new street is being cut and graded from East Main street, beside the post office, through to Palmer street (U. S. 23). E. J. Whitmire, Jr., chairman of the town board street com mittee, said the street will be 17 feet wide after paving, and will be one-way, from East Main to Palmer. The State Highway commis sion is doing the work and the cost will be charged to the Town of Franklin account. Paving, he said should begin around Oc tober 15. ROBERT ROGERS IS FIRST MACON DEAD IN KOREA Body Of Franklin Youth To Be Brought Back Home For Burial Pfc. Robert L. Rogers, Jr., 18, son of Mrs. Thomas H. Moore, of Franklin, died In Japan Sep tember 19 of wounds received hi action in Korea. He was the first Macon County serviceman to lose his Mfe in the Korean conflict. Mr. and Mrs. Moore received i telegram fiom the Defense department Satu. day night, no tifying them of their son's death. They were notified Septem ber 23 that Pfc. Rogers had been "slightly wounded" in ac tion in Korea on September 12, and a week later they received the .message that he had die! September 19. They have re ceived no information about th<j nature of his wounds. He pre sumably was taken from Korea o a hospital in Japan. Yesterday Mr. and Mrs. Moore were informed by the Defense department that the body will be returned to the States as soon as transportation Is avail able. No definite funeral plans will be made, Mr. Moore said, until more detailed information is received about when the body will arrive in this country. Pfc. Rogers entered the serv ice September 8, 1949, and went overseas in July. Mr. and Mrs. Moore received a letter from him postmarked September 10, saying that he was back from the Korean front lines for a two-day rest. A member of the First Calvary division, he received his train ing at Fort Jackson, S. C., and Fort Benning, Ga. While jit Fort Benning, he several times visit ed his parents here, the last time in June*. Born August 17, 1932, at Bilt more, he was the son of Robert L. Rogers, a veteran of World War 1, who died in 1934. Young Rogers came to Macon County as a child, and attended school at Iotla, Franklin, and Oak Ridge, Tenn. He was a member of the Baptist church at Lau rens, S. C., and was active to the young people's organizations of the Baptist church here, when he was in Franklin. Survivors include his mother and step-faMier; two brothers, C. Richard Rogers, of West chester, Penna., and Gerald L. Rogers, of the Naval Air Base at Monterey, Calif.; two sisters, Mrs. Charles E. Morrow, of Woodruff, S. C., and Mrs. Joe Carson, of Oak Ridge, Tenn.; and a half-brother, Jimmy Moore, of Franklin. 20 From Macon Attend Democratic Rally At Sylva Twenty persons from Macon County attended the twelfth district rally of the Democratic party in Sylva Tuesday after noon. Highlighting the rally were speeches by Gov. Ken Scott, Congressman Monroe Redden, and Willis Smith, Democratic nominee for the U. S. senate. Those attending from this county were W. E. Baldwin, Harry Thomas, E. J. Whitmire, Jr., Harold Enloe, R. S. Jones, Miss Kate McGee, Lake V. Shope, E. W. Long, M. L. Dow dle, Clyde West, Jake Waldroop, Frank I. Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Slier Slagle. Mrs. Lester Conley, Lester Waldroop, Jess 8hope, Charlie Sutton, Lloyd Waldroop, and Erwln Pattern. The Weather Temperatures and precipitation for die past seven days, and the low temperature yesterday, as recorded at the Coweeta Ex periment station. High Low Pet. Wednesday 69 37 00 Thursday 61 44 trace Friday 72 50 - 00 Saturday 75 51 00 Sunday 75 54 00 Monday 79 50 00 Tuesday 75 39 00 Wednesday 40 00 Franklin Rainfall (As recorded by Mtmoa S?i>M for TV A) Wednesday, none; Thursday, none; Friday, none; Saturday, none; Sunday, none; Monday, none; Tuesday, none; Wednes day, none.
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