SCHOOL LAND
OWNERSHIP
IS DSPUTED
May Heirs Contesting
Boards Right To
Property
Ownership of the old Nanta
hala school property, recently
put up for sale at public auc
tion, is in dispute, it was dis
closed at Monday's meeting of
the county board of education.
Contesting the school board's
title to the tract in the Nanta
? hala township are the J. M. May
heirs, being represented by at
torneys J. Horner Stockton and
C. Banks Finger.
The school board claims own
ership by a condemnation pro
ceding filed in the clerk of
court's office June 25, 1923, ac
cording to Board Chairman Bob
S. Sloan.
In a letter to the chairman,
Mr. Stockton explained his
clients' stand:
"I believe that if you will in
vestigate this matter thorough
ly you will find that my clients
do have a title to the property
and entitled to the possession
thereof, since the school has
been abandoned. It was being
used for school purposes with
the permission of the owner and
with the agreement that when
It was ceased to be usec\ for
school purposes the board of
education would have no fur
ther right thereto, so I am in
formed "
According to records in the
clerk's office, a petition re
questing that the tract be con
demned was filed by the board
of education May 21, 1923. Dam
ages were assessed by a three
man jury at $200 before the
final proceeding was filed in
June of that year.
At Monday's brief session, the
board named a three-man com
mittee to oversee the sale of
five school lots behind the new
Hlghlajids school, with the final
approval of any sales resting
with the board. Appointed were
Walter Bryson, education board
member, Fred Edwards, and
Sid McCarty.
Following the business session
board members visited the
Chapel (Negro) school property
and tentatively selected the site
for a new school. County School
Supt. Holland McSwain said the
new structure probably will be
erected between the present
building and the highway in
order to provide ample space
behind the school for a play
ground.
C. Of C. Member Drive
Gets Under Way Today
The annual membership
solicitation for the Franklin
Chamber of Commerce will
get under way this (Thurs
day) afternoon, it was an
nounced yesterday. B. L. Mc
Glamery heads the drive.
Win In Race For School Board
CLAUDE W. CABE
NIGHT PATROL
IS PLANNED
BY ALDERMEN
Adopt Privilege Tax
Schedule At Brief
Meeting Friday
A systematic night patrol of
Franklin was mapped and the
1952-53 privilege tax schedule
was approved at a brief called
meeting of the board of alder
men Friday night.
The board's regular meeting
Monday night was cancelled be
cause a mnnber of aldermen
planned to be out of town.
Under a system outlined by
aldermen, the town's night
policeman will patrol the town,
checking in at certain "key"
stations with a watchman's
clock. The stations were not
disclosed for security reasons
and aldermen said the police
man would be instructed to
stagger his rounds and not
establish a definite pattern to
the patrol.
The privilege tax schedule,
which annually raises about $2,
500, was revised to cover new
businesses that have gone into
operation here in the past year
before being approved.
A faulty sewer complaint at
the home of Phil McCollum was
turned over to Water Superin
tendent Herman Childers for
immediate corrective measures.
A request for gravel on Lyle
street from Mrs. Joseph W.
Fouts, who plans to operate a
kindergarten at her home, was
placed with the street commit
tee far investigation.
The board set its next meet
ing date at June 16.
SPEAKER SAYS U. S. VICTIM
OF SINISTER COMMUNIST PLOT
The United States is the vie- I
tim of a sinister plot by Com
munists and Socialists to "con
trol the minds, bodies, and
souls" , of its citizens, Robert J.
Putnam charged in a talk at a
combined Rotary-Lions club
dinner meeting at the Slagle
Memorial building Wednesday
evening of last week.
Mr. Putnam is public relations
director for the Champion Pa
per and Fibre Company, Can
ton.
* Using a series of printed
posters to illustrate his talk,
Mr. Putnam, speaking with the
fervor of a religious evangelist,
held his audience for more
than an hour.
Taking as his topic, "Our
Problem", he said the problem
of America is to "recognize the
danger of materialistic Social
ism and Communism to our
American way of life and to
act accordingly."
The problem, he said, was j
pointed out at a freedom <orum <
at Harding college, Searcy,
Ark., at which four objects were i
outlined: i
"To identify encroaching So- .
cialism and Communism;- to
point out the superiority of the .
American way of life; to under
stand the American way of life; j
and to preserve the American .
way of life". j
Using the words '"socialism" (
and "communism" almost inter
t!".o cald:
"Their end objectives of ab
solute control by a central gov
ernment are identical. The
means used to achieve this goal
are different", but. "both groups
believe that the end justifies
the means. So Communism, So
cialism, internationalization, or
whatever you want to call it,
means in the end the same ?
absolute control by a central
government. It has been said
that the Socialists prefer to do
it by ballots, the Communists by
bullets."
Mr. Putnam lumped together
such figures as William Z. Fost
er, Communist party leader in
this country, H. Stephen Raush
enbush, long-time U. S. govern
ment employe and now with the
United Nations, Rabbi Stephen
Wise, and Harold L. Ickes.
He referred to a meeting in
Washington in 1931 of "156 of
the leading Socialists, Commun
ists, Russian sympathizers" and
said their legislative program
'later rushed through Congress
is almost identical with the
world plan of the Sixth World
Congress of the Communist In
ternational".
Highlight quotations from the
talk:
Country after country has fal
len "as a direct result of the
party in power ? the .rulers ? at
tempting to provide greater ben
efits to more people through
SEE NO. I, PACE ID
JOHN M. ARCHER, JR.
NEVILLE BE Y SON
A. A. SILER
J. c. SORRELLS
Names Of 137 Pupils Appear
On Franklin's Honor List
The names of 137 pupils ap
pear on the honor roll for the
final grading period of the year
in the Franklin schools, Prin
cipal R. G. Sutton, announced
this week.
To be eligible for the honor
roll a pupil must maintain an
average of 90 in class work, the
principal explained.
The roll follows, by grades:
Fourth: Max Gladweli, Ar
thur Hays, Douglas Slagle,
Brenda Cunningham, Barbara
Duncan, Virginia Guffie, Jane
Long, Jo Ann McClure, Marga
ret Simonds, Doris Sprinkle,
Gary Calloway, Sandy Kinney, i
Tommy McCollum, John Phil
lips, Anne Dean, Joyce Pender- [
grass, Willie Jean Sprinkle.
Fifth: Ruth Tallent, Katrina
Elmore, Ann Hall, Nancy Siler,
Ann Sutton, Frances Whitting
ton, Jaqueline Clark, I twain
Horsley, Rebecca Reeves, Judy
Wurst, Barbara Wallace, Grace
Wilkes, Dickie McWilliams, John
Killian, Edward Shope, Billy
Davis, Dick Wallace.
Sixth : Franklin McSwain,
Gary McKelvey, Joann Burrell,
Claudette McNeal, Perry Wig
gins, Catherine Emory, Wayne
Taylor, Rachel Brown, Beverly
Bryson, Carolyn Dowdle, Myrtle
Dryman, Janet Greene, Louise
Long, Susie Kate Mashburn,
Betsy Russell, Frances Tallent. i
Seventh: Luana Baker, Ran- j
dolph Bulgin, Lewis Cabe, Edith j
Christy, Helen Cochran, Jackie |
Dockery, Billy Gosnell, Evelyn 1
Joines, Margaret Jones, Richard
Patton, Jeanne Russell, Jim Ty- !
singer, Clyde Wiggins, Tom
Hunnicutt.
Eighth: Bill Mendenhall, Mon
roe McClure, Bobby Stanfield
John Tippett, Marjorie Moody
Ruth Snyder, Paulette Ward
Beverly Stockton, Tommj
Gnuse, Joan Dryman, Dale Ed
wards, Tom Hunnicutt.
Ninth: Mildred Childers, Car
olyn Cochran, Jake Henry, Bet
ty Hurst, Leonard Long, Joar
Henderson, Caroline Reece
Anna Setser, Shirley Shepard
Jessie Stiwinter, Carol Stock
ton, Edna Earl Stoudemire, Vir
ginia Swanson, Bobbie * Graj
Tallent, Martha Vinson.
Tenth: Charles Conley, Lou
etta Browning, Jean Blaine
Clara Anderson, Betty Jennings
Raymond Ledford, Eugene Mc
Donald, Holland McSwain, Jim
mie Sher.rill, Carlene Sorrells
Norma Jean Welch, Annette
Dalrymple, Ruth Edwards, Bet
ty Jean Henson, Marilyn Hig
don, Thad I towdle, Richard Gib
son, Max Henderson, Clyde
Houston.
Eleventh: Joyce Baldwin,
Myra Crawford, Annie Ruth
Dekn, Shirley Dean, Mildred
Gregory, Ann Hays, Bryan Hurst,
Selma Ann Ledford, Jack Love,
Kenneth McMeans, Julia Moody.
Ray Moses, Max Phillips, Lee
Poindexter, Barbara Pannell,
Patty Phillips. Nancy Ramsey,
Evelyn Ray, Peggy Solesbee.
Twelfth: Don Henry, Char
lotte Love, Georgia Nell Mc
Donald, Martha Afin Stockton,
Clara Jo Waters, Joyce Welch,
Johnny Dills, Lesher Green,
John Henderson
Three Changes
In Local Bus Schedule j
Are Announced
Three bus schedule changes
have been made ? one elimin
ating a long wait in Asheville
for passengers Franklin-bound,
it has been announced.
In the past, the earliest bus
out of Asheville for Franklin
has been 2:10 p. m., causing
bus travelers to spend a morn
ing of thumb-twiddling in the
big city. Under the new sched
ule, a bus will leave Asheville
at 6:15 a. m., arriving here at
8:35.
Another bus will leave Frank
lin for Asheville, via High
lands, at 9 a. m., arriving at
11:59.
The Asheville -bound bos
which formerly left Franklin
at 1 p. m. now leaves hare at
12:85 p. nt, reaching Ashe
v:!!? at 3:25.
Announce New Closing
Hours For Post Office
Lobby, Starting June 16
The Franklin post office lob
by will be closed at 7 p. m.'
week days and at 6 p. m. Sun
days, starting June 16, it was
Announced this week.
At present the lobby is being
closed at 9 p. m.
E. W. Long, postmaster, an
nounced this week that he has
been authorized by the post of
fice department to close the
front dootrs to the lobby at the
earlier hours.
REUNION PLANNED
The Gibson reunion will be
held Sunday at the home of
Mrs. Nancy Carden in the Lib
erty community, Mrs. Frank I.
Murray, secretary, has announc
ed.
Mrs. Carden Is the only living
direct deacendent of the John
Stewart Gibson family of 15
children.
Umstead Wins Macon
And N. C. Majorities
Catholic
Bishop Purchases Lot Fori
Church Here
A Catholic church is expect- j
ed to be built here in the near !
future.
A lot on the northeast corner 1
of Wayah Street and the old
Georgia Road was sold last
j week by Mr. and Mrs. Frank B.
Duncan to the Most Rev. Vin- ,
cent S. Waters, of Raleigh, bis- !
hop of the Roman Catholic j
diocese of North Carolina.
Sale price of the lot, accord
ing to documentary stamps on
a deed filed with the register ;
of deeds, was approximately
$4,000.
PAYS TRIBUTE 1
TO WAR DEAD
V. F. W. Post Conducts i
Special Service At
Union School
The local Veterans of For
eign Wars post paid tribute to
the country's war dead at a
special Memorial Day service
Friday morning at Union school.
At a ceremony preceding the
special service, the school was
presented a flag pole by the
post and an American flag by
the newly-formed Union Boy
. Scout troop.
More than 75 attended the
joint Memorial Day feature,
which began at 8 o'clock, and
the program included a talk by
' the Rev. R. L. Poindexter and
the pledge of allegiance by
members of the Scout troop.
1 Mrs. Lucy Bradley, Union
principal, accepted the flag and
flag pole on behalf of the
' school. '
' Giving flag poles to Macon j
? schools is a V. F. W. project. I
W. W. Reeves, commander, said \
the post hopes to present poles
to all schools before the be- j
ginning of the next school year, i
Cullasaja school received one at
1 a recent May Day ceremony.
W. Sierks, 82,
Way ah Lodge
Owner, Dies
News of the death of William
Sierks, of Wayah Bald lodge,
has been received by Mrs. Glad
ys Penland, of the lodge.
Mr. Sierks, native of Holland I
and one-time ship captain, died j
Thursday morning of last week
in St. Francis hospital at Miami,
Fla., following a long illness. He
was 82.
Funeral services were held in
New York Monday, and burial
was on Long Island.
Mr. Sierks came here from
Miami for the summers for a
number of years before build
ing Wayah' Bald lodge. The
structure, with a capacity for
about 25 guests, has been in
operation four or five years.
Mrs. Sierks, it is understood,
will arrive here soon to open
the lodge for the season.
In addition to his widow, Mr. j
Sierks is survived by a daugh- j
ter, in Florida, two daughters
in New Jersey, and a son in
New York, all by a former mar
riage.
SING PLANNED
The regular second Sunday
singing convention will be held
at the Newman's Chapel Baptist
church at 1:45 p. m., Gene i
Southard, secretary - treasurer, I i
has announced. ' :
WINS NOMINATION
W. B. UMSTEAD
Legion Team
Wins Opener
At Cherokee
The American Legion Janior
Baseball team scratched off the
first of a 12-game series Mon
day afternoon by walloping
Cherokee 27 to 7 over at the
Indian village.
Seeking revenge for the smart
ing defeat, the Cherokee lads
came here yesterday (Wednes
day) afternoon for Franklin's
first home game of the season.
Outcome of the game was not
known at press time.
Sparkplugging the locals to
Monday's win was Left Fielder
Richard Russell, who racked up
five hits in six trips to the
plate and scored four runs. His
sixth trip was a walk.
Moundsman Roger Tallent,
who gave up 10 hits in five in
nings, and Short Stop Dan Gib
son both blasted out four hits
in four trips.
Wayne Stewart replaced Tal
lent in the hurling department
and allowed only four hits in
four innings, putting the eame
on ice with seven strike-outs.
The box:
Franklin AB H R
Womack, 2b 5 2 3
Russell, If 6 5 4
Gibson, ss 4 4 4
Phillips, cf 7 3 1
Renshaw, c 7 2 3
Hunnicutt, 3b 6 3 3
Raby, lb : 5 2 2
Poindexter, rf 2 12
Tallent, p 4 4 4
Siler, 2b 3 0 1
Mendenhall, If 0 0 0
Mehaffey, cf 2 0 0
Fenney, If' 10 0
Hunnicutt, 3b 110
Gnuse, lb 0 0 0
Stewart, p ^... 10 1
Swindell, rf 10 0
Corbin, rf 0 0 0
Totals 55 27 27
Burning Truck On NC 28
Extinguished By Firemen
The local fire department was j
called about 8:30 a. m. yester- I
day (Wednesday) to extin
guish a burning truck about
two miles south of Franklin on
NC 28. Damage to the truck,
owned by Dickerson, Inc., a
concern doing road work in the
county, was not determined. J
OFF TO SCHOOL
Miss. Doris Gribble, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Gribble,
Df Franklin, Route 2, and Miss
Lucille Edwards, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Edwards, of
Franklin, Route 3, left Satur^
lay for Atlanta to enter Adol
phe's Harper Method Beauty I
;chool.
Mule And Car In Dispute;
,Mule Killed, Driver Hurt
Which has the right-of-way |
on the highway, a car or a ]
mule? | (
James Shields, of the Blos
somtown community, wound up
in the hospital after an enT 1
counter with one of the balky
creatures about midnight Mon- '
day on the Georgia road and
he probably has the answer. i
His car and the mule met '
headon. The mule lost!
' I '
Mr. Shields received treat
ment at Angel clinic for glass <
cuts and neck injury, suffered
when the mule was bounced
aver the car hood and into the'
windshield by the impact. He
was released Tuesday. ,
Damage to hia 1950 auto- t
mobile was estimated at $300. t
rhe mule waa owned by Paul t
Tojglns.
I
B r y s o n , Cabe, Siler
Sorrells, Archer On
School Body
In the Democratic primary
Saturday, Macon County fol
lowed the lead of the rest of
the state in giving former U. S.
Sen. William B. Cmstead a
green light ;or '.he governor
ship. j
The 57-year-old Durham at
torney collected 1.1 19 of Macon's
2,020 votes casr . to edge out
former Superior Court Judge
Hubert E. Olive, who received
821. A third candidate, Manley
R. Dunaway, of Charlotte, got
23 votes.
A second primary seems as
sured to settle .he races of
lieutenant governor. state Su
preme court associate justice,
the congressional seat from the
12th district, and the 33rd dis
trict state senator seat.
Should a run-off materialize,
it will be held June 2R.
In the 12-candidate fight here
for the nomination to the five
member county board of edu
cation, Neville Bryson. tn -High
lands, led the field with 1,044
votes. Others receiving nomi
nation and their vote were
Claude W. Cabe, of Ottc S?2;
A. A. Slier, of Franklin. <71;
Incumbent J. C. Sorrells, c.' Co
wee, 936; and John M. Aieher,
Jr., of Franklin, 907.
In the four races that may
be run off in a second pr J.' ury,
the top men were: Luther if.
Hodges and Roy Rowe, in the
lieutenant governor's race;
George A. Shuford and Frank
M. Parker, In the 12th congres
sional district race; Dr J. H.
Crawford and R. B. (Jaci- iC or
phew, in the 33rd district sen
atorial race; and R. Hunt Park
er and William H. Bob'utt. for
associate justice of the state
supreme court. ? ? ?
In the local school board
race, unsuccessiul candidate;
1 and their vote were Calvin Ro
; land, of Franklin, 638; Mrs. Roy
Phillips, of Highlands, 529; Mrs.
Joseph W. Fouts, of Franklin,
415; W. C. Calhoun, of Franklin,
Route 3, 676; Charles A. Jacobs,
of Nantahala, 810; Incumbent
! Charles W. Nolen, of Car'.aoge
chaye, 773; and James R. Mor
ris, Jr., of Dillard, Ga., Route 1,
259
Voting here was comparative
ly light and spasmodic. The un
official count-out was complet
ed about 1 a. m. Sunday. Pasti
i elections have turned it \tvtb
an all-night and Sunday affair,
j In the 33rd district, senae
race, Claude Deyton received
the backing of the county with
I 615 votes, but Dr. Crawford and
Mr. Morphew battled it out in
Swain, Cherokee, Clay, and
Graham, putting Mr. Morphew
close enough to call for a run
| off. All three candidates were
from Graham this year under
; a district rotation bill pa?sed
j in the 1951 general assambly.
In a telephone interview yes
terday i Wednesday i Mr. Mor
phew said he would be in the
running if a second primary is
called.
The 12th congressional dis
trict race for the seat now held
by Rep. Monroe M. Redden,
who is retiring, saw Mr. Shu
ford keep a slight lead in the
three-man field, but not a ma
jority. Friends of the runnerup,
Mr. Parker, say he probably will
enter a runoff.
In this race, Macon threw
its support behind the loser, L.
Dale Thrash, former 10th di
vision highway commissioner.
The count here was, Mr. Thrash,
690; Mr. Shuford, 676; and Mr.
Parker, 287.
In a statement this week,
Mr. Thrash said he would throw
his support behind Mr. Parker
if a second primary is called.
C. Tom Bryson, this county's
representative to the 1951 gen
?ral assembly, who was unop
posed in the primary, received
1,346 votes.
Sgt. Evans Returns
To New Mexico Base
After Furlough Here
S. Sgt. carl H. Evans, Jr., has
?eturned to Holloman Air Force
>ase, New Mex., after spending
i furlough here with his wife
ind family, of Franklin, Star
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