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VOL. LXVII? NO. 36
FRANKLIN, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPT. 4, 1952
TWELVE PAGES
Macon Gets
Large Share
Of Receipts
Macon County soon will re
ceive a $12,569.08 check from
the state treasurer? its share of
Nantahala National forest re
ceipts for the fiscal year end
ing July 30, 1952.
This year's amount represents
an increase of about 50 per
cent over last year's, which
came to approximately $8,000.
Each year the Nantahala for
est, with offices in Franklin,
turns over 25 per cent of its
receipts to the state, which in
turn allocates a proportionate
share to each county having
forest service land within its
boundaries, according to Forest
Supervisor E. W. Renshaw.
Macon, with 147,598 of the
Nantahala forest's total acreage
of 440,353 gets the lion's share
of the receipts over the six
other counties ? Cherokee, Clay,
Graham, Jackson, Swain, and
Transylvania ? having forest
acreage.
Graham, with 105,519 acres, Is
second to Macon and this year
will receive $8,985.74.
The forest supervisor explain
ed this week that increased
timber sales and stumpage price
rates received for national for
est timber were responsible for
higher allocations this year.
Total allocation to the seven -
county area Is $37,499.38, as
compared with $26,318.87. for the
fiscal year ending July 30, 1951.
On the basis of the increase,
the total allocation amounts to
.085 cents per acre for the
counties.
( Macon's share will be pro
rated to each county fund ?
debt service, 8 per cent; gen
eral fund, 34 per cent; and
school fund, 58 per cent, 38 per
cent going to capital outlay and
20 to current expenses.
Following are the amounts
i ? the other six eligible counties
will receive. Forest acreage ap
pears in parenthesis:
Cherokee (80,872) $6,886.86;
Clay (58,040) $4,942.54; Graham
(105,519) $8,985.74; Jackson (27,
601) $2,350.43; Swain (15,873)
$1,351.71; and Transylvania (4,
4, 850) $413.02.
Younce Awarded
Ribbon For Duty
On Korean Front
For service in Korea with the
47th 'Viking" Infantry division',
Cpl. Joseph Younce, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Granville Younce, of
Franklin, recently was awarded
the Army Commendation ribbon
with medal pendant at Camp
Rucke?, Ala., the army has an
nounced.
The Macon County corporal, a
veteran of 10 months in Korea,
previously has been awarded
? the Combat Infantryman's
badge, the Purple Heart, and
the Korean Service Medal with
two battle stars.
The latest award, made for
service in Korea with Company
F. 9th Infantry, 2nd division,
was presented by Major General
Norman Hendrickson, com
mander of the 47th Infantry
division.
Prior to entering service in
November, 1950, Cpl. Younce
worked at the Bank Hosiery
Mill in Hildebran.
The Weather
The week's temperature? and rainfall. ? .
recorded in Franklin by Manson Stiles, '
V. S. weather observer, and at the Cpweeta
Hydro!opic Laboratory:
COWEETA
Temperatures
High Low Rain j
Wednesday 79.5 43
Thursday 74 52 .22
Friday 69 50 .164
Saturday 84 64 .003
Sunday 79 64 .171 !
Monday 85 54.5 .002
Tuesday 81 62 .228
Wednesday 46 .03
FRANKLIN
Temperatures
High Low Rain
Wednasflay 81 47 .... I
Thursday 75 55 .26
Friday 70 54 .20 !
Saturday ...., 86 64 trace
Sunday 81 67 .69
Monday 86 63 .... !
Tuesday 80 62 .36
GOVERNMENT
TAKING LOSS
FOR MINERS
Speaker Say Mica Could
Be Bought In India
For One-Third
The federal government could
buy mica from India for stock
piling for about one-third of
what it Is paying domestic pro
ducers, but is taking the loss
in order to help the miners in
this country, H. E. Harman, Jr.,
regional director of the U. S.
General Service administration,
told a meeting of mica miners
Irom over the southeast, at the
courthouse here Tuesday.
The government has set aside
$26,000,000 for domestic mica
purchases, he said. If it is all
spent, the subsidy to. domestic
miners would be about $16,090,
000.
Mr. Harman, who was one of
four speakers, remarked that
this is noted as a large mica
mining area, but said only small
amounts of mica are being re
ceived from this county. With
.reference to the government's
rule that no amount less than
46 pounds will be purchased, he
said miners could pool their
output in order to get the 46
pound minimum.
In reply to a question from
Harry Patton, he said he knew
of no plan to establish a sub
depot here. The depot for this
area is at Spruce Pine.
He also said he knew of no
plans to relax the standards of
quality, the percentage of mica
"stain".
Some of those attending the
meeting said it was not possible
to mine mica profitably under
the present rigid quality stand
ards, and, following the discus
sion, a meeting of representa
tives' of the National Miners as
sociation, with headquarters
here, and of the Southeastern
Miners association, of Spruce
Pine, was held, at which ways
to get the standards lowered
were discussed.
A committee was appointed to
confer with like committees
from the New Hampshire and
Pacific Coast areas, with a view
to sending a delegation to
Washington to urge a modifica
| tion of the standards.
| Those elected to the commit
tee are Sam Phillips and Frank
: Phills, of Spruce Pine, N. H.
1 Knight, of High Point, Harry
Buchanan, of Brevard, and Roy
H. Fouts, of Franklin.
W. S. Flint, head of the mica
program in the southeast, with
headquarters in Spruce Pine,
said the inspectors and buyers
will do all possible to teach
producers how to prepare mica \
for sale, and announced that a i
buyer and an inspector will j
spend three days here, starting |
next Monday, for the purpose, j
Miners who wish to be shown i
how to trim their product prop- |
erly should bring their mica to i
A. W. Reid's shop in East
Franklin Monday, Tuesday, or
Wednesday, he said.
Also speaking at the meeting |
were Carl Buchanan, chief buy
er for the Spruce Pine depot,
and Gayl Young, inspector,
from Washington.
Mr. Fouts, secretary of the
National Miners association,
presided and introduced the ,
speakers.
Several County
Teachers Receive
Master's Degrees
At least five Macon County
teachers received master's de
grees at college summer gradu
ations recently.
R. G. Sutton, Franklin super- j
vising principal, Carl Talley, of i
Highlands, who teaches at Nan
tahala, and Mrs. Gladys Kins
land, who has been teaching at '
Cowee, this year, obtained their i
master's degrees from Western |
Carolina Teachers college, Cul
lowhee, and Edwin T. Williams,
of the Franklin High school, j
and his wife, Mrs. Ruth Stew- ;
art Williams, teacher at Iotla, j
received masters' from Peabody
Teachers college, Nashville, I
Tenn. i
Mr. Sutton was a member of
the first four-year graduating
class at Cullowhee, receiving his
B. S. degree in 1932, and this
summer was a member of the
first class given master's de
grees by W. C. T.i C. ?
Addington, Macon Native
Named Ashe County Agent;
One Of Youngest In N. C.
Brownlow Addington, Macon
County native, has just been
named county agent in Ashe
county. Only 30 years old, he is
one of the youngest county!
agents in the state.
Mr. Addington, the son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. W. Addington, of j
near Franklin, has served as as
sistant agent in Forsyth county
for the past four years, and he !
was the subject of an illustrated !
feature article in a recent issue
of The Winston-Salem Journal.
Mr. and Mrs. Addington, the
former Miss Virginia Tessier, |
daughter of Mrs. Reby S. Tes- !
sier, of Franklin, and their two j
children,, Albert and Rebecca
Louise, have moved from Win
ston-Salem to Ashe county, and
Mr. Addington took up his new
duties there September 1.
The Winston-Salem newspap
er's feature refers to Mr. Ad
dington's given name, "Alex
ander Brownlow". Relatives here
explained that the Brownlow is
for a minister who visited here
many years ago, and the Alex
ander for the late Dr. Alexand
er Brabson, well known Macon
County physician.
The feature story in the Win
ston-Salem paper is reprinted
below:
What makes a county farm
agent?
A. B. Addington, assistant in
Forsyth for the past four years,
has become a full-fledged coun
ty agent in his own right.
At the prime age of 30 years,
he is one of the youngest coun
ty agents in the state ? and will
serve as such in the top live
stock county in the state, Ashe.
A peek into "A. B.'s" personal
background makes this upward
step seem quite logical and in
evitable.
Listen to the talk of farmers
and agricultural leaders who
have known him during his
years of work in Forsyth, and
that logic is confirmed.
Across the state in Macon
County, where North Carolina,
South Carolina, and Georgia all
manage to rub farming elbows
jijst one county short of Ten
nessee, the countryside still re
members a certain "I >oc Brown
low" ? a patient, cheerful, faith
ful old country physician oi the
old school ever ready to go, day
or night, to serve a person in
need of his skill.
Get A. B. Addington to talk
ing about his own early days .
on the Macon County dairy
farm of his father, and some
how the name of old Doc
Brownlow creeps, willynilly, into
his talk.
"Does the 'B' in your initials
mean, then, that you were
named after Dr. Brownlow?"
"Just call me A. B." says A. B.
But he gives his big head a
shake, smiling reminiscently.
"He was a great old fellow, that
doctor."
Still, you are left with the
impression that the B oi his
name means Brownlow ? and
Forsyth dairymen, beef cattle
farmers, swine growers poultry
men, and general farmers alike
have come to hold a common
opinion during the past four
years, when a problem arises:
"See A. B. Addington. He'll help
you on that."
How and why this young
farm agent can and does help
when called upon can be ans
wered by about three points:
1. When he wag six years old,
his father taught him to milk
by setting him first at the busi
ness end of his hardest milker.
"Learn to milk this one ? and
the rest will come easy," he said.
2. He possesses an abundance
of energy, a cheerful enthusi
asm, a ready belief that almost
j any problem can be solved.
3. An earthy person, he likes
the farm ? but likes it better as
I improvements can better the
lot of the farmer.
Getting rid of the hardest job
first apparently became a habit
' with young A. B. soon after
SEE NO. 1, PAGE 12
DOUGLAS IS
SURE TOUGH
Douglas L. Sanders is a tough
little eight-year-old.
Miraculously, he's very much
alive and reported recovering
after:
tl> touching a 7,200 volt pow
er line near his home Sunday
morning, and
(2) being thrown to the
ground from a 40-foot power
line pole by the shock.
Attendants at Angel hospital
yesterday (Wednesday) said
Douglas, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Dillard Sanders, of Franklin,
Route 2, suffered only burns on
his hands and feet and is re
covering satisfactorily.
The eight-year-old's fall was
broken by a heavy growth of
honeysuckle at the base of the
1 pole.
- ????? ^ /. P. Brady
Members of the local America.n Legion Jun ior baseball team were guests o( honor at a ban
quet Friday night at Slagle Memorial given by the Legion post, sponsor of the team. The program
following dinner featured brief talks by Legionnaires and the showing of a fir-'.eball fi'm.
IS AWARDED 1
SCHOLARSHIP;
Miss Hannah Leaves
Today To Study
In Virginia
A $1,647 scholarship from the |
National Foundation of Infan
tile Paralysis has been awarded
to Miss Lucille L. Hannah,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred I
Hannah, of Franklin. Route^ 1. \
Miss Hannah, a 1952 gradu
ate of Woman's College, Uni
versity of North Carolina, was
one of 95 students in the Unit
ed States chosen to receive a
scholarship in physical therapy. 1
She received her degree in
physical education from Wom
an's college.
In preparation for training in
physical therapy, Miss Hannah
worked this summer as a coun
selor and waterfront director at
Camp Sky Ranch, a camp for ,
physically handicapped children j
at Blowing Rock.
She will leave today (Thurs
day) for Richmond, Va., to ent
er the Baruch Center of Phy
sical Medicine and Rehabilita
tion of the Medical College of
Virginia, an affiliate of William :
nd Mary college.
I
Macon Couple
Takes Alaska
Teacher Jobs
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Stamey. |
of Cullasaja, recent graduates
of Western Carolina Teachers |
college, and their 14-month.s-old i
daughter. Rebecca, left by plane (
August 19 for Aniak, Alaska,
where they have accepted
teaching positions. r
Aniak, a town of about 65
families, is situated on the Kus
kowim river, which is fed by
melting snows from North
America's highest peak? Mount j
McKinley.
The Stameys plan to teach [
in the Alaskan town for two '
years and if they like it will j
probably make it their home.
In a newly erected school at,
Aniak, Mrs. Stamey will teach
the primary grades, Mr. Stamey |,
serving as principal and gram- 1
mar grades teacher. Their pu
pils are made up largely of chil
dren of civil service workers and !
a few Eskimos.
STOCKTONS PLAN REUNION
i ; ,
The annual Stockton reunion \
is planned Sunday, September :
7. at the old Stockton home ;
p. nee on North Skeenah, J. H. ;
Stockton, president, announced
this week.
LEGION TEAM
IS HONORED
Guests At Friday Event
Presented By Local
Organization
Fifteen members of the lo
cal American Legion Junior
baseball team were guests of
honor at a banquet Friday
night given by the Legion post,
sponsoring organization of the
team.
A program following the ban
quet featured brief talks by j
Fred Vaughn. Legion post com- !
mander, C. -Banks Finger, as
sistant coach of the team, and i
Frank Plyler, chairman of the j
post athletic committee.
A baseball instructional film
obtained from the University of
Seorgia for the occasion, also
was shown.
The Legion junior team,
formed in this county for the
tirst time in May, wourd up
*'itn only three wins. l;s against
12 losses. However, even this
jox score is impressive for a
lew team, considering that the
ocal team's chief opponents
nailed Irom Asheville and Can
:cn, two cities that have had |
SEE NO. 2, PAGE 6
Negro School.
Plans Ready
For Approval
Construction of a new Chapel
(Negro) school will get under
way Immediately following ap
proval of final plans by the
state board of education, ac
cording to County School Supt.
Holland McSwaln.
The plans will be sent to
Raleigh this week by Architect
Lindsey Gudger, of Asheville,
the school superintendent said.
In regular session Monday
morning, the county board of
education discussed selling .the
Fines collected during the
August term of superior court
here totaled $3,243.15, accord
ing to Miss Kate McGee, clerk
of court. By law, court fines
go to the county school fund.
Franklin High vocational agri
cultural department's slaughter
house and using the funds to
buy Industrial shop equipment
for the department.
The slaughter house, built in
1946 when E. J. Whitmire was
vocational agricultural teacher,
is now being refilled by Frank
lin Frozen foods, it was brought
out at the meeting. Should the
structure be ?old, a provision
probably will be included in the
sale agreement giving the agri
cultural department use of the
slaughter house at least one
day a week, according to Bob
S. Sloan, board chairman.
Mr. Whitmixe explained to
the board that when the
slaughter house was built there
was a definite need for one, but
he added that several private j
businessmen have built houses [
since then, and expressed the j
opinion that the agricultural
department would profit more j
by .selling the building and us- !
in-; the money fpr other pur- j
poses.
The boa-d p!.">!is to study the,
legal aspects of ?ucli a sale and
make a decision at a. later da.te. j
A petition protesting the ;
board's action to send Children i
i' the Rose Creek community
to Iotla school instead of Co
wee was presented by Fufman
Welch and Beulon McCali: The j
two men indicated that the i
children in Rose Creek would !
5 to Cowee "or no where". j
The board stood by its decis- 1
i;n to send the children to
Iotla, maintaining that such a
shift would cause crowdedness
at Cowee and would leave va
cant classrooms at Iotla.
OPENING AGENCY
Lewis Patton, blind veteran of-*
World War II and graduate o:
the University of North Caro
lina. this week announced that
he is opening r.n insurance
p.sency at his home on Golf
view drive and is prepared to
handle life, automobile, fire, ac
cident and health, and all forms
of liability insurance. Mr. Pat
ton, a B-29 bombardier holding :
the rank of captain, was blind- 1
ed June 7, 1945 in a raid over I
Japan when his plane was rak- i
eel by gunfire from an enemy <
plane. 1
SCHOOLS OPEN
ON WEDNESDAY;
LIST TEACHERS
Many In New Teaching
Posts; 125 Teachers
And Principals
ihe .penmg cf Macon Coun
ty '& 11 schools :esterday i Wed
nesday* morning found 19
icr.erj, and principa.s in new
surroundings ? ar.d some 3,800
school kids back in surround
ings they've been trying to for
get all summer.
But, as the old saying goes,
"what's done is done", and the
1952-53 school year Is officially
under way. The system has 125
teachers and principals this
year.
A number of teachers and
principal*, several entering the
Macon school system for the
fjnt time, are at new posts,
either through promotion or
transfer to a new school.
Principals: R. g. Sutton,
ftanklln principal for the past
four years, recently was elevat
ed to principal No. i of the
Franklin school district and C.
R. Lowe, coach and teacher at
Franklin High last year, step
ped up to the prlnclpalship of
the Franklin schools.
Harry C. Corbln has taken
over the princlpalshlp of Union
school, succeeding Mrs. Lucy
Bradley, who resigned her prln
clpalship but Is still teaching
at Union. Mr. Corbin taught at
Franklin High last year.
Harry Moses has taken ever
as principal at Iotla school,
succeeding Mrs. Marie G. Roper,
resigned, who still is teaching
at i the school.
A newcomer to the system. F.
N. Shearouse, recently was
named by the county board of
education to fill the princ:ral
ship at the Highlands school
following the resignation cf O.
F. Summer, who held the post
for 21 years. Mr. Shearouse was
principal at Hot Springs last
year.
Teachers: In new surround
ings at Franklin High this year
are Mrs. Frances Beck. Harold
Davis, of Lauada. Mrs. Juanita
Lowe, Mrs. Frank Martin, ?>!rs.
Mary E. Sloan, ar.d Hcmer
Wike. of East Laport.
Miss Lois Keener, who taught
at Highlands last year, is at
Cullasaja school: Mrs Jessie C.
Horsley, who taught at Car
toogechaye during the 1S31-52
year. Is at Union: Miss Alice A.
Slagle, Cowee teacher last year,
is at Union; Alex Arnold, of
Forsythe county, is new at Co
wee; Miss Nora Moody, a form
er teacher in the system who
studied in Colorado ttfis sum
mer, is at Iotla; Edgar Carpen
ter, Jr.. of Bryson City, former
ly cf Franklin, is at his new
teaching post at Iotla; Miss
Grace Carpenter, who taught at
Union last year, has been trans
ferred to Cartoogechaye; Mrs.
Ann C. Ramsey, of Franklin, is
new at Cartoogechaye; Mrs.
Ruth Sursavage, of Andrews, Is
new at Nantahala school; and
James W. Fisher, of Burke
county, Mrs. Mary Miller, and
SEE NO. 2, PAGE 12
Public Invited
To Benefit Meal
At Louisa Church
A special, benefit dinner ? to
which the public is ir vitec' ? r.'!!l
feature a meeting or tfcg Car
son ?'ural communltv c'.erelop
ment council Monday h'rht at
the Louisa Chapel Met.hc.list
church, according to Fred Bry
son, president.
Froceecis from the suocer will
be earmarked for painting the
Louisa church, one of two In
the community. The sunper,
wh'ch vili start at 7 o'clock,
will be served by the '.vcmen of
?he c'virch.
The Carson community is one
of two in th? county entered in
the W N C. Rural Community
Development contest. Prior
meetings of the council have
been held at the Carson Chapel
Methodist church.
REINION PLANNED
The Corbin reunion is sched
uled for the first Sunday In
September (Sept. 7) at the
nome of Dewey Corbin, it has
Deen announced. All descen
dants of John and Nancy Mc
:iure Corbin are invited to at