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VOL. LXVII Number 12
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Published every Thursday by The Franklin Press
At Franklin, North Carolina
Telephone 24
Entered at Post Office, Franklin, N. C., as second class matter.
WEIMAR JONES . * ?.. Editor
BOB S. SLOAN Business Manager
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MARCH 20, 1952
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We Need An Auditorium
Ji the public officials of Macon County and the
Towns of Franklin and Highlands had been at the
Friendship Tabernacle last Friday and had seen
how the more than 1,(XX) eager school children over
ran that building ? filling every .seat, then sitting
on tlie floor, jambing the aisles, and pushing
through the doors ?
If the public officials had been there, we think
a movement for an adequate auditorium here would
have been launched not later than the next\ morn
ing !
Franklin is the largest community in Macon
'County. It also is the countyseat, serving as a cen
tral gathering place for any event of county-wide
interest. But today Franklin not only has no audi
torium worthy of the name : it is about the only
community in the county that hasn't even a school
auditorium.
We need an auditorium. We have needed it for
years. It's time we made a start toward getting it.
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The Primary Nears
Four weeks from Saturday is the primary elec
tion deadline for filing for county office, and to
date only one candidate has announced.
While it is true there were more .places to be
filled in the off-year election of 1950, that year the
announcements started early in January. The con
trast is not encouraging.
'
This year a representative, a county surveyor,
and five members of the county board of education
are to be selected.
Of all the offices in the county, none is more
important than membership on the school board,
but to date the question of who shall be respon
sible for running the schools the next two years
has created little discussion. Yet whom we select
for our school board will largely determine wheth
er our Macon County schools go forward or back
ward during the next two years. Incidentally this
newspaper believes at least one woman should be
on the county board of education.
It is high time there were some announcements
for public office. '|'he people not only should have
a choice between candidates ; thev should know
who the candidates are far enough in advance to
be able to size them up.
It is the duty of good citizens, of (outstanding
men and women, to "offer for public office. If they
do noit, then certainly we will not have outstand
ingly good government. And if our government is
mediocre or poor, these outstanding citizens will
have nobody to blame but themselves, for shirking
a duty of citizenship..
More Power To Thsm!
Congratulations to the Franklin Junior Chamber
of Commerce upon receiving its charter!
And to be congratulated even more heartily are
Franklin and this community upon having such an
organization ready to go to work here ; for the
Jaycees, wherever they are, have the reputation for
rolling up their sleeves and getting things done.
There is no shortage here of jobs that need doing.
We are sure the Franklin Jaycees will do their full
share toward creating such a shortage. More
power to them !
A Lift For Today
Therefore we will not few. ? Ps. 40:2.
WHY SHOULD WE, God's children, fear even "though the
earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into
the midst of the sea; though the waters thereof roar and be
troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling there
of?" Ttw Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our
refuge.
Qiiti our anxious souls, O Lord, that we may have the flor
io^| ipiriwm of knowing Thee as our refuge and strength.
Thanks Due
The Macon County community is due thanks to
Chairman Frank B. Duncan and members of the
volunteer committee that served with him in ar
ranging for last week's concerts here of the N. C.
Little Symphony orchestra.
The more than 1,000 school children at the mati
^ nee and the approximately 175 at the evening con
cert for adults also are in the debt of the group
that made the concerts possible by voluntarily un
derwriting the project.
Finally, the entire community owes appreciation
_ to those pioneers who, during the past six years,
have worked so hard for the annual concerts of
the orchestra. It is largely due to their efforts in
" past years that last week's event came so near to
being a financial success. When they started, six
years ago, many of us (including the writer of this)
hardly knew the difference between an oboe and a
hobo ! Today there is a fast-growing interest in and
appreciation of good music, especially among the
children of the county, and these pioneer workers
for the Symphony are enti led to a large share of
the credit for this.
"Speak softly, and carry a big stick".
Today \vc are following onlv half of Theodore
Roosevelt's admonition. We are arming ourselves
with the big stick, but we still scream as if we had
only our scream to scare away a foreign bogey
man. /
Our American Civilization
Doing something about stream pollution today
so we'll have pure streams for industries to pollute
tomorrow.
Resorting to too much to drink for axpurely syn
thetic good time at a party : wondering the next
morning why the good time seems synthetic in
retrospect.
Newspapers, motion pictures, radio, and televisr
ion creating public tastes for the things they have
to offer; then shouting "the public demands it" as
an alibi for the low quality of their offerings.
? Letters
SOLDIERS WANT MAIL
Editor, The Press:
I (David S. Dills), of Franklin, am receiving The Franklin
Press, which .1 really enjoy reading, as news is very scarce
over here in Korea. My mother, Mrs. Will Dills, put in my sub
scription and is having it sent 'to me.
Some of my buddies have read it and enjoyed it also.
Two of my buddies, Pfc, Olin D. Campbell, from Iva, S. C.,
and Pfc. Robert F. Durham, f.rom Marietta, Ga., and I, from
Franklin, would like very much if you would print the in
closed picture of us in your paper. We were back on a rest
from six months' line duty. (Editor's Note: The photograph
inclosed was not clear enough for newspaper reproduction).
We sure would appreciate it if some of your subscribers
would drop us a few lines. Our addresses are:
Cpl. David S. Dills, U. S. 53029718 Co. H, 14th Inf. Regt. APO
25, c/o Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif.
Pfc. Olin D. Campbell, U. S. 53036246 Co. H, 14th Inf. Regt.
APO 25, c/o Postmaster, San Francisco,' Calif.
Pfc. Robert F. Durham, U. S. 53046280 Co. H., 14th Inf. Regt.
APO 25, c/o Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif.
Korea,
March 1, 1952.'
TH,E REASON'S WHY
Dear Mr. Jojies:
On the question that was asked you, Why are Macon County
people so interested^ in their schools? I can only speak for
myself.
First, I love my children.
Second, I love my county and state, and want them to grow
and prosper. In order for them to do so, we must have people
who work together. Good leadership and cooperation are musts
for our nation. 6ur schools teach them. It is proven by the . dif
ferent sports, 4-H clubs, and Scouts.
Third, the education we get is the foundation of .our lives.
I want our children to have a solid foundation.
Sincerely yours,
MRS. ETTA S. SIMMONS.
P. S. If you see this person again, please tell him to ask any
parent who has children in school. Any parent can give some
good reasons.
Gneiss, N. C.
March 13, 1952.
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UNDESIRABLE BUT NECESSARY .
Editor, The Press:
I have Just read your stimulating editorial on Universal
Military Training and I wish to agree whole-heartedly with
you on the undeslrabllity of compulsory military training. I
am sure that you and I have the same basic convictions on
the horror and insanity of war, and I am sure that we have
the same longings for a permanent and secure peace. I am
sure that you and I equally fear an arms race both for its
effect on International relations and Its ruinous effect oh our
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ONE OF 9,000 ? Harold T. Ramey, pressman at The Franklin
Press, is shown above feeding a sheet into the newspaper press.
Note that the photographer caught a sheet actually leaving
his hand. Even though the present equipment at The Press will
print four newspaper pages at a time, instead of two, as for
merly, there's a lot of work involved for the pressman. He
feeds an average of 9,000 of these big sheets each week.
Newspaper Shop Talk
Mostly About Us
The actual printing is one of -
the last steps in the production <
of a newspaper.
After the advertising and
news are collected and written,
the illustrations are changed
from photographs or mats into _
engravings or casts, the copy is
written, edited and headlined,
the typewritten words are
changed into type, the type is '
proofread and corrected, and
the advertising and news type v
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the metal forms for each page, c
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printing in use today. At The
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phases of the press' operation Ii
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if the best results are to be ob- c
tained. e
And the actual feeding of the v
sheets into the press is some- t
thing that looks easy, but isn't.
Each sheet, 32 by 44 inches, s
must be separated from the
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5TRICTLY
PERSONAL
By WEIMAR JONES
I'm looking for a hole to crawl
n . . . !
That prediction I made last
sreek about people hunting seats
it last Friday evening's con
ert of the N. C. Little Sym
ihony orchestra just didn't pan
lut. There were seats enough
or everybody, and some to
pare.
I won't have to crawl in very
ar, though.
Because the attendance,
hough not phenomenal, was
lood. And rarely has a group
if musicians played before a
nore appreciative audience.
Dollars and cents figures are
lot available as this is written,
mt it is clear that this year's
'ymphony concerts did not pay
heir wayi There will be a de
icit for the guarantors to make
ip.
What happened, nevertheless,
las rema'lcabl.;. It was the first
ime any community in N^rth
arolina had even dared to put
he Symphony concerts on a
o'untary basis. This community
lot only dared to try it, but
nade a s'frnificantly cood show
a?. The chi'dren's concert was
, trTn^ndo'N success, and an
stimated 175 persons in a com
laratively small community vol
nta- 'lv pa'd S2 apiece for
ymphony membership.
And the experiment was
ure!y voluntary, f.rom start to
inish. A group of business
louses and individual citizens
oluntarily underwrote the or
hestra's appearance here, and
very ticket bought was bought
oluntarily ? nobody asked any
iodv to buy one.
What does the experiment
how?
It shows, first of all, it seems
o me, that a way should be
ound to continue the children's
oncerts. When more than 1,000
hildren, from eve-y school in
he county, contribute a quarter
piece in order to attend such
n event, it is pretty good evi
ence that there is great in
erest in music among Macon's
oung citizens. Incidentally,
hat interest this pa' ticular
oncert, plus other striking evi
ences of interest in music
mong the ? children cf this
ounty, | suggests that a few
ears from now this community
lay be a real center of musical
ppreciation.
And the attendance at the
vening concert indicates not
hat there is no desire among
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? Others Opinions
NO QUARTER HERE
Probably most of us have heard of the man who, trying
hard to use correct English, said there was some things up with
which he would not put. At least he avoided ending a sentence
With a preposition, which is. one so-called grammatical error
strenuously striven against. And one I am pretty much out of
patience with. Whenever I hear a speaker carefully arranging
phrases so as to say we ought to make this country, or state, or
town, "a better place in which to live," I transpose it mentally
to a better place to live In. That's what I mean to say here
after. And the grammarians can wring their hands and gnash
their teeth, if they feel so inclined. Though there's a slim
chance of an eighteen carat grammarian ever noticing what I
write.? Mrs. Theo Davis In Zebulon Record.
Business
Making
News
? By BOB SLOAN
Being lucky enough to have
some friends in Florida, I just
got back from a visit to the
Sunny South and thought that
I would write about a few things
that struck me rather hard on
my trip.
To get to Florida, you have
to cross Georgia. For many
years I have listened to strong
advocates of "let's do everything
on the local level". All I have
to say that in Georgia you can
see how the efforts of one com
munity can be' offset by the
lack of effort in another com
munity. In this state it appears
that the highway projects are
clone completely on a county
basis. In South Georgia you find
yourself on a nice smooth ade
quate highway in a progressive
community-, you cross the coun
ty line and apparently they
don't care about roads there,
so you hold on to your false
teeth and hope that the next
county is "good road minded".
If the planing is done on a
state level at least you could
get one or two decent high
ways all the way across the
state without any breaks in the
. links.
To me, Florida is a land of
sunshine, oranges, friendly
people, more oranges, Brahama
cattle, sand and ocean, and
more oranges. It looks to me
like everyone should resolve to
drink two glasses of orange
juice a day instead of one.
After all it tasts very good, its
healthy, and it looks like that
is going to be necessary if we
take care of some of the fruit
growers who may have been a
little over zealous in their ef
forts to make sure that we had
plenty of fruit, and set out a
few too many trees. , I
A word to the wise ? If a good
tourist season in Florida means
that we should have a good
summer you folks up here bet
ter get ready, because even
though its late in the Reason
Florida is running over with
tourists. You know I don't be
lieve that the government got
all of everybody's money. I re
member passing one tourist
court with about 25 cars parked
in front and they were all late
model Cadillacs. Folks, we can
get the tourists up here, we
only have to do two things ?
make sure we have good ac
commodations, and teil folks in
the rest of the eistern U. S.
what we have.
3"t. R. C. Woodard
Arrives In Korea
For Marine Duty
. Marine Sergeant Roger C.
Woodard, son of Mr. and Mrs.
C. A. Woodard, of Waynesville,
and a grandson of Mr. and M.rs.
C. M. Rogers, of Ellijay, recent
ly arrived in Korea for duty
with the First Marine Aircraft
wing, it has been learned here.
Sgt. Woodard attended Frank
lin High school and enlisted in
the marines in February, 1950.
Prior to being assigned to
overseas duty, he was stationed
at the Marine Corps Air station
at Cherry Point.
Do You
Rem^mb ^r?
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(Looking backward through
? he files of The Press)
50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
AH candidates who expect to
run for an office would do well
to make their announcements
through The Press. It is the
twentieth century business way
to get properly before the pub
lic. The price is only $1 cash,
Invariably in advance.
The oyster supper at Mrs. J.
L. Robinson's last Friday night
netted about $14. The money Ls
to be used to pay the indebted
ness of the Tennis club.
Pax your taxes, read The
Press, and be happy.
10 YEARS AGO
A. B. Omohundro left Wed
nesday for Brownsville, Tex.,
where he ls to take a clipper
for Panama. He ls with the War
Department Canal Zone Engi
neers.
Grady May had the job of
taking the boys to play basket
ball Saturday night. He had to
pufch Andrew Cope's truck up
the Topton mountain because of
no gaaollne. (Nantahala Item.)