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LXV? NO 48
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FRANKLIN, N. C, THURSDAY, NOV. 3?, 195?
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FOURTEEN PARKS
WEATHER SNAPS
-9- YEAR RECORD,
LOW OF 3 NOTED
Unofficial 14 - Below I*
Reading Reported
At Highlands
Winter descended upon Ma
con county with all the fury of
Lr_ a ruffled hen this week, and
Saturday found people, heavily
overcoated, fighting off the
worst November cold spell re
corded in this area in nine
years.
A catting wind, accompanied
by snow, which paralyzed most
of the nation's industrial cen
ter*, smacked the temperature
tfown to the vicinity of zero
Saturday and Sunday. The Co
wee ta experimental station list
ed the minimum temperature
for the two days at 3 and 4
above zero. Highs for the two
~ coldest days were 18 degrees
Saturday, and 30- Sunday.
Rangers at the station said
it was the coldest November re
corded at the experimental for
est since the station was set
up In 1934. At one point in the
forest, It was said, the mercury
clipped to 8 below zero. Rangers
wona* around the clock keep
ing Ice from forming in the 31
stream gages so accurate re
cords could be kept.
Unofficial reports from High
lands said that the temperature
went to 14 below Saturday
morning, and two or three
Inches of snow feU there.
In Franklin, steaming radi
ators or pleading calls for fuel
oil and coal pointed out those
Individuals who neglected to lay
in an ample supply of fuel, or
to fill radiators with anti
freeze.
Plumbers are still working
overtime to catch up with burst
' pipes, which, after the thaw,
sent many housewives to phones
in search of someone to stop
"Old Faithful" from playfully
apewljift all over the house.
Many Maconlans were strand
ed In other towns when bus
service was halted because of
Icy roads over the mountains.
Those who have returned ? and
many are still waiting for bet
ter weather before giving it a
try ? tell hair-raising tales of
eerie skids on ice, cars In
ditches, and narrow escapes.
Thus far, no fatalities have been
.reported.
E. J. Carpenter, principal at
Cowee school, was snowbound
In Lexington, Ky., and finally
made it back home Wednesday
morning.
Miss Mildred Bryson, who vis
ited in Elizabeth ton, Tenn.,
Thanksgiving and intended to
return to Franklin Sunday, fin
ally arrived by bus Monday
nijht.
The Nona community center
workshop, slated for Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday, was
postponed because of the weath
er, and the Highlands school
play, "Here Comes Charlie", was
postponed for the same reason.
Chty L. Houkl school superin
tendent, said the schools at
Highlands and Nantahala had
? to be closed. Highlands was
shuttered Monday, Tuesday,
and Wednesday, and there was
no reading and writing on Nan
tahala Monday.
Busses lan off schedule but
managed to get through to
Franklin and the malls all ar
Coa tinned On Page Eight?
PLAY POSTPONED
The Highlands high school
)tinlor play, "Here Comes Char
lie", schedu'ed to be presented
tonight (Thursday), has been
postponed because of weather
conditions. The play will be giv
en December 7, weather permit
ting, hit has befen announced.
The Weather
Temperatures and precipitation for die
past seven -lays, and the low temperature
yesterday. a? recorded at the Coweett Ex
periment station.
Wednesday 52 28 .02
Wednesday 11 00
Franklin Rainfall
(JU morded by Itanon S'iln (? TV A)
Tuesday, none; Wednesday,
none; Thursday, none; Friday,
none; Saturday, iy2 inches
enow; Monday, none; Tuesday,
?one; Wednesday, none.
Tue-day
High Low Pet.
S3 23 trace
Thursday
Friday :..
Saturday
Sunday ..
Monday .
Tuesday
61 24 00
53 28 .04
18 3 00
30 4 00
32 23 .01
40 21 00
Yule Dime Board
To Be Set Up Here
Saturday Morning
A Christmas Dime Board,
sponsored by the Lions club,
will be set up on the Square
and will ro into operation
Saturday, Paul H. Russell,
Lions president, has announc
ed.
The dime board is an an
nual Yuletlde project, stared
by the organization, with the
proceeds used to -buy Christ
mas gifts for under-priviledf
ed children in Macon County.
Mr. Russell said the board
will operate every Saturday
until Christinas, and will be
moved from the Square to the
front of the Macon theatre .
every Wednesday night, for
the convenience of theatre
goers who would like to
donate.
V. F. W. Post
Here Is Now
In New Home
It has taken a number of
weeks and approximately $2,200
in extensive alterations, but the
new Veterans of Foreign Wars
club room now is out of the
blueprint stage.
The organization hold its
first meeting in its new "home"
last Wednesday night. The post
purchased the building, on West
Palmer street, formerly occupied
/by Wayah Industries, and for
a number of weeks workmen
have been revamping the in
side, turning it into an ideal
meeting place.
Prank Plyler, commander of
the post, said the organization
hopes to make the new club
room available to school chil
dren at least one night a week,
under the supervision of V. F.
W. members.
"If our plans go through," he I
said, "it will give the school
childreh some place to dance
and hav$ parties.'"
Plans also Include letting
other organizations use the club
room as a meeting place for a
small fee, he said.
Inside alterations, Mr. Plyler
said, include the installation of
two bathrooms, stuccoed walls,
a partion setting off a 30 by
40 foot meeting hall, putting
celotex on the ceiling, and a
new paint job on the floor and
walls.
Future plans, he said, call for
the installation of a snack bar
and juke box, for dancing.
The V. F. W. auxiliary made
drapes for the windows and
donated $18 toward the pur
chase of chairs for the meeting
hall, he said.
Alterations will be completed,
Mr. Plyler said, as soon as
weather conditions permit
workmen to repaint the outside
and grade a parking lot. As
soon as the work is completed,
the building will be open for
semi-public use, he said.
Nonah Center Workshop j
Postponed To Next Week
The special workshop at the
Nonah Community center, plan
ned for Monday, Tuesday, ahd
Wednesday of this week, was
postponed because of bad
weather conditions and will be
held next Monday, Tuesday, and i
Wednesday, it has been an- i
nounced.
PLAN SQUARE DANCE
A benefit square dance will be
held at the Otto school Satur
day night from 8 to 11:30 p. m.,
sponsored by the P. T. A.
LIONS OUTLINE
PLANSFORMAIL
DELIVERY HERE
House Numbering Project
Next Step In Club's
Campaign
The Lions club, at a meeting
Monday night, projected long
range plans for a program to
get house-to-house mail deliv
ery in Franklin, by lnaugerat
lng a house numbering project.
As a followup on recently
completed projects in the same
vein, which brought about the
naming of Franklin city streets
and the erection of street signs,
the club announced plans for
making a map showing city
streets, with a'.l houses and lots
numbered.
Paul H. Russell, president,
said the map will be submitted ;
to the board of aldermen for 1
approval as soon as It is coon- :
pleted. The map should prove j
to be useful, he said, when ,
Franklin applies for house-to- !
house mail delivery.
The map layout, he said, will
be done by H. H. Plemmona,
using the base map at the Nan
tahala Power and Light com
pany for an outhne. The power
company map, he said, is com
plete up to 1944 in regard to
city streets, and Mr. P.emmons
will bring the Lion map up to
date, lnc.uding the numbering
of houses.
District Governor Hugti Mon
teith, of Sylva, Deputy 'District
Governor Lawrence Leather
wood, of Waynesville, Zone
Chairman Hieroynnus Bueck, of
Murphy, Dale Lee, president of
the Murphy Lions club, Loren !
C. Davis, secretary of the Mur- i
phy Lions, Herbert Angel, of
Waynesville, Tom R. Kirkpat
rick, of Candler, and G. B.
Woodward, of Sylva, were pres- '
ent at the meeting Monday. j
Death Claims
Mrs. Bingham
At Age Of 89
Funeral services for Mrs. Ro?
etta Nebraska Bingham, 89, who
died Wednesday morning, No
vember 22, at the home of a
son, W. R. Bingham, of the Pat
ton settlement, after a long ill
ness, were held Thursday after
noon at 2 o'clock at the Gi'les
pie Chapel Methodist church on
Upper Cartoogechaye.
The Rev. Mrs. R. H. Hull of
ficiated, and burial was in the
church cemetery.
Mrs. Bingham was born June
2, 1861, the daughter of Wil
liam and Alphallne Ledford
Hodgins. A native and lifelong
resident of Macon county, she
was a member of the Gillespie
Chapel. In 1887 she was .married
to C. L. Bingham, who 4led SO
years ago.
Surviving, in addition to her
son, are one daughter, Mrs. Ivie
Williamson, of Franklin, Route
1; one brother, Charlie Hodgins,
of Prentiss; one sister, Mrs.
Annie Jeanetta McClure, of
Clayton, Ga., and 22 grand
children, and 12 great-grand
children.
Pallbearers were Charlie and
Dick Bingham, Odell, Clarence
and Wilburn Hodgins and
Luther Thomas.
Potts funeral home was in
charge of arrangements.
Santa Claus Coming To Franklin;
Writes He'll Be Here Saturday
A special communique re
ceived this week from Santa
Claus, date-lined the North
Pole, said that the jolly, red
nosed fellow wi'l arrive in .
Franklin Saturday morning.
He explained that he plans
to make a last-minute check on
the behavior of the children in
Macon County before returning
to the North Pole to complete
his "good children" gift list.
Santa said, if the weather
permits, he will land at the
Franklin airport in the special
plane that will leave here for i
the North Pole sometime Thurs
day to bring him on his visit.
Should he be fog or snow
bound, the plump old gentle- ;
man Mid, probably with a
twinkle in his eye, "I might
Just ride in on the nearest mow i
?loud, but you tan bet ol' 8apt? <
will be there."
Mr. Claus said he had plan
ned to bring his reindeers and
sled on his pre-Christmas visit
to Franklin but decided not to.
He went on to explain that
Prancer and Dancer were help
ing the elves make toys, and
that Donner and Blitzen were
putting a new paint job on his
sled, and couldn't get away.
"Anyway," he said, "my rein
deer are going to have plenty
to do _ Christmas night pul'lng
that b'ig sled loaded with pres
ents, and I'm putting on a lit
tle weight too."
"Tell all the kids to mind j
their p's and q's", he said, "and j
111 see them In Franklin Sat- 1
urday".
The announcement wu re- ;
celved by the Franklin Mer
chant* association.
Draft Board Given
Preinduction Call
For 31 For Dec. 29
The local draft board re
ceived a pre-induction call
for 2* men Friday, and Men
day received an amendment
to the call, boosting the
number juf men to 3*.
W. N. Sloan, chairman, said
the group is scheduled to leave
December 29 by bus for Char
lotte and undergo exam na
tions. preliminary to induc
tion into the army,
^en making up the call
will be notified by mail this
week, he said.
Panthers Win
Over Clayton
In Last Game
A slow starting Panther
eleven caught fire' In the third
quarter, punched across three
quick touchdowns, and downed
a scrappy Clayton, Oa. eleven.
28 to 20, in a Thanksgiving Day
non-confe-ence .scrap that end
ed the 1950-51 football season
for the amazing Panthers.
The locals, who at the start
of the season were given little
chance to make the headlines,
finished the year with a seven
win, one-loss, and one-tie rec
ord. They lost only to Swain
High, who emerged conference
champions by virtue of the
Panthers' tie with Hayesville. j
More than 1,500 fans left the i
Thanksgiving dinner table to i
attend the final game of the
season.
The Panthers took the wraps
off the game in the first quar- 1
ter when the swivel-hipped
back, Bobby Potts, ripped loose
from the backfield and squirm
ed his way 50 yards for a
touchdown, Quarterback John
(Pardyi Archer toed the ball
through the uprights for the
first of four good conversions.
Clayton snapped back in the
first quarter, when End Henry
Bickers recovered Archer's fum
ble on the Franklin 38, and
th ee pass plays later, one for
the extra point, the two teams
were dead'ocked at 7 all.
In the second period the two !
teams settled down until Clay- I
ton started a downfield drive
that ended In paydirt and put
them ahead. Taking a Panther I
punt on their own 20-yard j
marker, the Clayton eleven I
moved for 80 yards, then gave
the ball to Fullback Bobby Bow
en who smashed his way over
from the five. The extra was no
good.
Trailing behind at half-time,
the Pant he-s emerged from the
dressing room, took the field,
and started sparkling to the
tune of three talleys in the
third period. Bo Norton dug his
way over, Archer's kick was
good, and the Panthers led once
again, 14 to 13.
Then the Panthers started an
all-out drive to put the game 1
on Ice. Richard Jones recovered '
a Clayton fumble on the Geor
gia 31, the Panthers ran one
running phjj, and Archer took
to the air on a faked running
play, tossed one in the end zone i
to Pat Patttllo for the talley, 1
Continued On Page Eight?
New Auto Tags
Of Red And White To Go
On Sale Tomorrow
North Carolina's "new look''
license tags for 1951 will go on
sale December 1, Verlon Swaf
ford, manager of the local of
fice of the Carolina Motor club,
announced this week.
Motorists who purchase plates
before the first of the new yea'
will add a "Christmasy" touch
to their cars, since the 1951
tags display red numerals on a
white background? a far cry
from North Caro'ina's almost
perennial black and orange li
cense plates of bygone years.
The local motor club o' flee
is situated in the back of the
Western Auto Store.
A motor vehicle estimate
made recently by the North
Carolina Department of Motor
Vehicles, covering automobile
registration from January 1,
1950 to October 1, showed that
Macon county ranked fifty
seventh among counties in the
state, with an estimated 3,080
registered motor vehicles and
trailers.
The total registration for the
state was listed as 1, 124,411 ve
hicles, Including trailers. Meck
lenburg - county ranked fir ft,
with (4,126, the eurrey showed.
30 MEN TO LEAVE
HERE THURSDAY
TO ENTER ARMY
First Draft Contingent
From Macon Since
Korean War
W. N. Sloan, chairman of the
making up this county's first
draft contingent since the start
of, the Korean war, wil' leave
Franklin this ( Thursday i morn
ing for Charlotte, where they
will be sworn into the army.
W. N. Slaon, chairman of the
local draft board, said the
group is scheduled to leave at
8:15 by chartered bus from the
Square.
Although the board has re
ceived a number of calls for
men from this county for pre
inductlon examinations, this
marks the llrst actual indue- j
tion of men from here since i
the board was reactivated in .
July, in answer to the United I
States speed-up call for a '
standing army.
The names of the men who j
make up the contingent were i
announced as follows:
Neville Oscar Buchanan,
C'arence O'Neak Wilson, Gilmer
Harry Henson, Orvel Franks.
Harold Rogers, Deveraux G b
son, Harley Lyle Stanfield, Jr.,
Rass L. Huggins, Eugene Wal
lace Waldroop, Fred Hugh
Kinsland, Urban Alexander
Pendergrass, D. L. Rogers,
Thomas Ligon Creswell, Cecil
Arthur Morgan, Ralph Bell,
George Eme-son Crawford. Wil
liam A. Berry, Mack Pierson
Neely, William Haro'd Keener,
Wiley Howell Smith, Oeorge Ed
gar Guest, James Marshall Tal
lent, Charles Curtis, Jr., Earl
Herbert Cabe, James Augustus
Seay, Frank Louis Greenwood
(Negro), James Roy Rickman,
Bobby Claud Conley, David
Samuel Dills, Paul Blaine Craw
ford.
More Than Score
Of Deer Killed In 3-Day
Hunt Here
Twenty-five deer ? possibly
more, since bag data is incom
plete ? were ki'led by hunters
inside the Fires Creek, Wayah,
and Standing Indian areas dur
ing the three day hunt, Mon
day through Wednesday of last
week.
E. W. Renshaw, supervisor of
the Nantahala forest, reported
that five deer were killed in
Monday's hunt in the Fires
Creek area. Results of the
Tuesday and Wednesday hunts
were not known.
In the Wayah a-ea, nine deer
were bagged during the three
davs, he said, and hunters
killed 11 in the Standing Indian
area Monday and Tuesday. The
number killed on Wednesday
in that area was not known.
The next scheduled hunts' in
the areas will be December 7,
8, and 9, he said.
Garden Club's T acky
Party* It Postponed
The benefit "tacky party" the
Franklin Garden club had plan
ned for tomorrow ( Friday i eve
ning has been postponed, it was
announced this week. A new
date for thei event will be an
nounced later.
Urges Ridgetop Road In Park
From Newfound To Deal's Gar
A Western North Carolina
movement to make more of the
<"*res>t Smokv Mountains Na
tional Park available to the gen
eral public was suggested by
W. N. S'oan at last week's meet
ing of the Franklin Rotary club.
Mr. 81oan is thoroughly fa
miliar with the park, having
surveyed most of it. He headed
a survey party, back in 1912.
which covered most of the Ten
nessee side of the park, at a
t'me when it was proposed to
buy that area for the U. S. For
est Service. Later, he was in
charge of the survey of the
North Carolina side when It
was being acquired by this state
for transfer to the federal gov
ernment as a national park.
While the park is the most
popular one in the country, Mr.
Sloan remarked that It has rel
atively few roads, much of It
being quite inaccessible, except
to the hiker. The entire south
ern end of the park is without
roads, he pointed out.
He suggested that the contour
is such that a ridge top road
could be built, without serious
scars, from Newfound Gap to
the highway at Deal's Gap. at
the southern park b mndarv.
Such a road, about 35 miles i.i
length. In many places would
be we'l over a mil? high, he
said. For practical purposes, it
would in e'fect be an extension
of the Blue Ridge Parkway, he
suggested, adding that it would
i bring some of the finest sec
tions of the park within reach
of the average person.
Mr. Sloan said he had as
sumed. when the federal gov
ernment took over the park,
that a road would be built into
the southern end of the area,
but that at present there are
no plans for such a drive, and
that it appears the people here
In Western North Carolina will
have to Initiate a movement for
it, If such a . highway la to be
ooiutrvotttf.
Trial Of Shedd .r
In Murder Of 2
Set For Tuesday
Sanderstown
Dogs Are Quarantined
Till January 1
A quarantine on all dogs in
the Sanderstown section of the
county until January 1, 1951,
was imposed this week by the
local health department.
Several dogs in that district
have died from rabies and
others have been put to death
because they were rabid, it was
said. A calf, be'leved to have
had rabies, died recently, of
ficials said.
Owners are warned to con
fine all dogs, and any dogs
found running loose during the
period of quarantine will be de
stroyed by an officer of the
law, officials said.
All Officials
Of Red Cross
Named Again
All officers of the Macon
county chapter of the American
Red Cross were reelected for
another year at the annual
meeting of the chapter Tuesday
night at the Frank'in Presby
terian church.
Upon recommendation of the
nominating committee, the Rev
Hoyt Evans was renamed chair
man of the county chapter. W.
R. Potts, vice-chairman. J. C.
Jacobs, treasurer, Mrs. Gladys
1 Kinsland. Junior Red Cross
chairman, Mrs. R. R. Gaines,
i home nursing, Miss Lassie Kelly.
I production. E:"J. Whitaker; tfls
' aster, Carl Tysinger, first aid.
J. H. Stockton, finance, Mrs.
| Lester Conley, publicity. R. E
McKelvey, home service, John
J Edwards, water safety.
Members reelected to the ex
ecutive committee were Lake V.
Shope, Weimar Jones, John M
Archer, Jr., James L. (Jimmyt
Hauser. Frank B. Cook, Stacey
C. Russell. Charles J. Anderson,
j Lonis Edwards, the Rev. Robert
E. Early, the Rev. A. Rufus
Morgan, the Rev. C. E. Murray,
and the Rev. M. W. Chapman.
J. Horner Stockton, finance
chairman, made a yearly re
port on the financial standing
of the chapter and announced
that the chapter's balance Is
$596.34. R. E. McKelvey. home
service secretary, reported that
the county chapter averaged
approximately 30 cases a month
during the year. Mrs. G'adys
Kinsland announced that in the
recent Junior Red Cross drive
school chi'dren sent 100 gift
boxes overseas to needy chil
dren, and during the year col
lected clothes for needy chil
dren in Macon County.
Miss Lassie Kelly, production
chairman, said her committee
knitted 24 pairs of socks, 24
sweaters, and 24 beanies. She
pointed out that there have
b'>en a number of requests for
sewing from hospitals caring
for men wounded in Korea.
A film, entitled "When Dis
aster Strikes", was shown at
the meeting.
Special Venire Likely;
Pies. Will Preside
At Court Term
The murder trial of Curtis
I Shedd, 29-year-old exconvlct and
i confessed slayer of three, will
be the outstanding case on the
I criminal docket when the Dt - ?
cember term of supeiior cou: ?.
convenes here Monday mornin.;
I at 10 o'c'ock, with Jutlge J. Wi 1
i Pless, of Marion, presiding.
Shedd's trial, which was sot
i for the August term of cou. i
and then continued because o t
| the death of Solicitor Thad V.
! Bryson's father, probably will
get under way Tuesday morn
ing, Solicitor Bryson said this
, week.
A special venire of not lers
than 50 men, from which (o
select a jury to try the Sheciil
case, probably will be picked
Monday morning, he said.
"The situation is just about
j the same as it was in August. '
the solicitor said, when asked
i if there were any new develop
ments in the case, which creat
, ed marked interest over most
of the Southeast during the
August term and filled the Ma
con courtroom to capacity.
Since the continuance, the
slight, blonde-headed Shed',
who lived in Walha'la, S. ( ,
and has a record of armed rol
bery in Georgia, has been con
fined in the Waynesville jail
awaiting trial in connection with
the August 3 slaying of John
Boyter, 38, of Walhalla, 8. C ,
and Boyter s two daughter.",
Johnnie May. 14, and Jo Ann, !..
Shedd, who made a number
of confessions, was arraignr I
August 22 on two counts of
murder . . . both in connection
with the death of the two girls,
who were killed near Highland?.
He will not stand trial here for
the slaying of Boyter. since
Boyter supposedly was killed In
Georgia.
I oneua s aeiense wi i t>e tiana
led by Gilmer A. Janes and R.
S. Jones, of the Franklin law
firm of Jones and Jones. The
attorneys were appointed to act
In Shedd's behalf by Judge
Pless, who presided over the
August term, when it was found
that the youthful defendant
was unable to employ counsel.
Shedd was picked up for
' questioning August 9 after the
'! shotgun-riddled body of John
Boyter was found bv a himter
in a heavily wooded area just
across the Georgia line. He and
Boyter attended a trade school
together In Walhalla and it was
reported that he was seen in
the company of Boyter and the
; girls on the day of the slaving
Sunday, August 12, Shedd
made a confession, the first of
a series, to the murders, and
led o f ice's, who had been
combing the mountain area
around North Caro'ina, South
Carolina, and Georgia join,
for the girls, to a spot on the
Highlands-Dillard road.
There he showed officer*
where the bodies of the glr's
were hidden. They had been
thrown into a ravine near the
i Highlands garbage dump and
lay about 150 feet apart. ThJ
oldest had been thrown over a
small cliff, and the youngest
was found behind a log, the
body partially covered with
leaves and a slab of wood.
Autopsy reports showed that
; the older girl had been strang
| led, and the younger one had
! been choked to death with her
own dress sash.
It was then that Shedd be
gan changing his confession. He
at first told officers that he
had choked both of the gir's,
but c hanged his story when he
was confronted with the fcu
i topsy report on the youager
, girl. He then admitted that, in
1 the excitement of the moment,
i he may have used the sash to
choke her, but never admitted
Cootlnned Ob r>|( Eight
Judge PIe.? Will
Swear In County
Officers Monday
It has keen learned that
Judge J. Will Plen, Jr, 'will
?wear In all Ma eon County
officials elected in the No
vember election, whoa he con
vene* court lion Mendoy
i