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VOL. LXVIII? NO. 17
Court Unofficially
Closes Saturday
Judge Gwyn Finishes
Dockets ; Cases
Are Listed
The April term of superior
court, which opened here Mon
day of last week unofficially
closed about 8 o'clock Saturday
night when the jury returned
Its verdict in the last case list
ed on the civil docket.
Judge Allen H. Gwyn cleaned
out the criminal side of the
term Wednesday of last week
and the remainder of the week
was spent in trial of civil mat
ters. 1 t
Officially the term is not over
until Saturday, leaving the way
clear to resume the ^session in
the event some pressing matters
warrants such action.
Five divorces were granted by
the court during the civil ses
sion and the judgment of non
suit was handed down in the
following three cases on the
civil docket: Nell Dowell Moses
vs William Moses, jr.; Edna
May Sumner vs Charles M.
Sumner; Seth Norton vs Melis
sa S. Norton.
Other civil dispositions in
cluded :
Lois E. Burnett vs Glenn West,
A s h e v i 1 1 e Motor Express,
Inc., and Calvin Roland, Jr.;
plaintiff awarded $1,100.
Helen Fuller vs Donald Bur
nett, Glenn West, Atlanta
Asheville Motor Express Inc.,
and Calvin Roland, Jr.; plain
tiff awarded $600.
Jesse Sanders, et als, vs Dew
ey McConnell and wife, Nina
McConnell; plaintiff awarded
$85.
Rosa Anne Hill, petitioners, vs
Helen Hill Norris Thornton, Bur
well Thornton, Hazel Hill Sloan,
Willit P. Sloan, and Sarah Helen
Hill Meacham, and Richard W.
Meachan, defendants; jury trial
waived, court decreed Rosa
Anne Hill owner of one undi
vided one-eighth interest in
tract of land in Horse Cove.
Helen W. Riley vs Richard
Holt; plaintiff allowed 45 days
to amend original complaint,
defendant allowed 30 days to
answer.
William L. McCoy vs Stella
McCoy; Crawford McCoy sub
stituted as administrator of
estate.
H. H. Willis and wife, Alice
M. Willis vs Zickgraf Hardwood
Company, Inc.; plaintiff award
ed $1,125.
The following cases were con
tinued: Echel Rowland vs Sam
Passmore and wife, Dorothy
Passmore; A. A. Siler and wife,
Lucille Siler, vs J. R. Parrish.
Criminal dispositions follow:
Turner Eugene Ramey, Jr.,
larceny and breaking and en
tering (three counts), 15 months
suspended five years, costs. De
fendant ordered to deposit $1,
000 bond for appearance at
April, 1958 term, paying amount
at rate of $5 per week into the
clerk of court's office for five
years. At end of five years,
money to be refunded.
John Ramey, larceny and
SEE NO. 1, PAGE 12
Methodists Plan j
Week Of Services
Here Next Month
Methodist churches in this
county plan a week of evange- I
listic services May 3-7 in con- j
nection with the Methodist '
Evangelistic Mission of the 1
Southeastern Jurisdiction.
Guest preachers during the '
series will be from Virginia 1
under a preaching-visitation ex
change with ministers of the
Waynesville district.
The Rev. C. B" Murray, pas
tor of the Franklin Methodist
Church, left last Thursday for j
King George, Va., where he
will hold evangelistic services^
at the First Methodist Church. .
When the May series opens, j
the Rev. Owen T. Kelly, pastor !
of the First Methodist Church j
In Hopewell, Va., will conduct
services at the Franklin church, j
The Waynesville district also |
plans a district youth rally in I
Bryson City on May 2, with Dr. j
Mack Stokes, of Emory Univer
sity, as guest speaker.
During the week of May 3-7,
services will be held at the
Highlands, Asbury, Bethel, and
Maiden's Chapel churches. Vis
iting pastors at these will be
aaoonnced next week.
WELCH ELECTED
V. F. W. LEADER
District Meets Sunday
Here; Others Get
Offices
R. E. i Tony) Welch, of the
local Veterans of Foreign Wars
post, has been named district
commander of (the 17th V.F.W.
District, which embraces Bun
combe and all counties west.
He was elected here Sunday
R. E. WELCH
afternoon at a district meeting
attended by 93 V.F.W. and aux
iliary members.
Ed Williams, also of the Ma
con post, was elected district
quartermaster-adjutant and C.
Banks Finger, local attorney,
judge advocate for the district.
W. W. Reeves, past command
er of the local post, was named
chief of staff for the district.
Auxiliary members, who held
their meeting at Slagle Memor
ial Building, reelected Mrs.
Elizabeth McCollum as the dis
trict senior vice-president.
Following the business ses
sion, auxiliary members served
refreshments at the post home
on Palmer Street. Mrs. Jessie
Sutton, of the Macon auxiliary,
was in charge of arrangements.
Registration
Ends Saturday
In City Races
Saturday is the last day vot
ers may register if they expect
to cast ballots in the May 5
elections in Franklin and High
lands. Saturday also will be
challenge day in both towns.
Franklin voters may register
in the town office in the Bank
of Franklin building. The High
lands' books will be open in
the town office in the commun
ity recreation building.
Saturday's filing deadline in
Highlands brought out three
,men in the mayor's race and
13, including one woman, for
' the five-member board of com
I jnissioners.
' Two men are seeking the
mayor's post in Franklin and
eight have filed in the alder
man contest, including the in
cumbent six-man board.
All posts in the two towns
are for two years.
Highlands Mayor W. H. Cobb,
who is ending his fifth term,
filed for reelection and will be
opposed by H. S. Taliey and
Henry A. Cleaveland. Three
members of the incumbent
Highlands board of commission
ers are seeking reelection ? Tu
dor N. Hall, Harry A. Holt, and
Luther W. Rice. Charles J. An
derson and C. Edward Potts
did not file for reelection.
The woman filing in the
Highlands election was Dr. Jes
sie Moreland Hedden, dentist.
Others seeking seats are J. A.
Hodges, Joe Reese, Carter Tal
i ley, Carlton Cleaveland, John
W. Paul, F. A. Edwards. Steve
I Potts, .Frank Crane, and John
H. C. Perry.
Mayor W. C. Burrell, who is
serving the unexpired term of
the late Robert M. Dillard, is
opposed in Franklin by C. Banks
Finger, attorney.
Members of the incumbent
board of aldermen, which filed
as a body at its April meeting,
are Verlon SWafford, J. C. Jac
obs, A. G. Cagle, Frank Martin,
Oscar Ledford, and Erwin Pat
ton.
Bill Horsley, Franklin restau
rant otoner. and T. T. Love,
Cowee School principal, filed in i
j the alderman race on April 11, j
the Franklin deadline.
Bill introduced To Divide
Township Into 4 Precincts
Macon Rep. Walter Dean in
troduced a bill in the house of
representatives on April 14 "to
require the board of elections
of Macon County to divide
Frankiin Township into four
voting precincts."
In dividing the township, the
bill stipulates the elections
board must take into considera- ,
(ion ( 1 1 population, (2> number
of registered voters, (3 1 number
of voters that should be alio
cated to each precinct. <4> dis- |
tance to be traveled by voters i
in precincts, (5> convenience
and availability of precincts to |
voters, (6 1 travel expense, and
(7) other relevant factors.
The bill, which also provides
for a new registration of voters
when the new precincts are j
established, was sent to the ;
committee on elections and ;
election laws.
Just Part of a Story
?'-rraakHn Pre s flwtx,
I j
This picture is just part of a story ? but it illustrates how |
the upper rooms at the Macon County home arc heated. There I
are no stoves in the upper bedrooms, the heat from a stove in t
the lower bedrooms rises through registers in the floor and s
heats the upper ones. Mrs. Roy Biddle, standing in a lower bed- )
room at the home looks up through the unique, but unsatisfae- I
tory, heating system. Mrs. Biddle was one of several to visit the
home Friday. For conditions as this group saw them, turn to the I
seven -picture spread om ttoe home on ttie inside of this issue. c
New Macon Education Board Sworn
In Monday; Sorrells Is Chairman
? Staff Photo b\ J. P. Brady
The new Macon County Board of Education, which was approved by the legislature this
week, was sworn in Monday evening in the county school superintendent's office by Miss Kate
McGee, clerk of superior court. Members are (L to R) Claude W. Cabe, John M. Archer, Jr., W.
N. Bryson, A.' A. Siler, and J. C. Son-ells, -who was named chairmaji.
School Wins
Music First
At Field Day
Franklin High School's music |
department made a clean sweep
in music events at the 7th An
nual High School Field Day at j
Western Carolina Teachers Col- |
lege Friday and Saturday, win
ning the school's only first |
place .
The high school placed sec- ;
ond in both the Exhibit and |
Literary divisions. More than
100 students participated in the
two-day event, which was spon
sored by the college.
Music students received a
total of 59 points to win the
first place. *
Music Director S. F. Beck's
students placed as follows:
Instrumental: (Solos) Nancy
Angel, flute, good; Bryan Hurst,
tuba, superior; Norma Jean
Welch, baritone, excellent;
Richard Dryman, trombone, ex
cellent; and Bill Zickgraf, trum
pet, good. (Ensembles i Flute
quartet, Nancy Angel, Beverly
Stockton, Cissy Dowdle, and
Julia Waldroop, good; trumpet
quartet, Bill Zickgraf, Jack Love,
Frank McSwain, and Lewis
Cabe, good; brass sextet, Charl
es Baldwin, bass. Norma Jean
Welch, baritone. Richard Dry
man and Holland McSwain. Jr..
trombones, and Jack Love and
Bill Zickgraf. trumpets, excel
lent; trombone quartet. Norma
Jean Welch, Bryan Hurst, Rich
ard Dryman, and Holland Mc
Swain, Jr.. excellent. (Piano So
los) Laura Lyle, pupil of Mrs.
Margaret Cooper, good. Piano
Duets' Carlene Sorrells and
Ann Hays, pupils of Mrs. Wei
mar Jones, superior.
,Vocal Ratings: (Solos) Burt
Crawford, tenor, good; Betty
McCall, alto, good. (Ensembles i >
Girl's trio, Jean, Joy, and Nan- !
cy McCollum. pupils of Mrs. j
Margaret Cooper, excellent:
Boy's quartet, Sam Holland, j
Bryan Hurst. Jack Love, and ;
Richard Dryman, excellent.
Ratings given in other event : i
Exhibit Division: pencil
sketching, Thomas Higdon, j
third; water coloring. Bob Star.- !
field, second; poster designing
senior class project. <4hird: j
SEE NO. 2, PAGE 12
SENATOR HITS
AT DEAN JP'S
Introduces Bill Friday
To Repeal Section
On Appointees
Sen. J. H. Crawford, of Gra- ,
ham. introduced . a bill Friday
in the Senate repealing the :
section of an act which ap-ji
pointed Macon Rep. Walter ;
Dean's nominees for justices of .
the peace in this county. j ;
Rep. Dean's bill was ratified i
>n April 2.
Previously, the 33rd district
senator had scratched out the j
Republican nominees put in by
Sep. Dean in an omnibus jus- 1 1
ice of the peace bill and sub- I i
stituted his own. As a result, j 1
Sep. Dean pjit through another <
Jill which passed both houses. I i
Sen. Crawford's bill was re- 1 1
'erred to the committee on <
courts and judicial districts. It
CHANCELLOR
SPEAKS HERE
Dr. Edward K. Graham,
chancellor of Woman's College.
University of North Carolina.
Greensboro, addressed Frank
lin High School students here
yesterday < Wednesday i morning
in connection with the. school's
two-day "Career Day" exercises.
Accompanying Dr. Graham
were two members of the Wom
an's College faculty, Miss Cath
erine Taylor, dean of students,
and Miss Julia Barrett, voca
tional guidance counselor.
Today, the three college of
ficials and a number of business
and professional men and wom
en conduct "career classes" ac
the high school for interested
students, giving first hand in
SEE NO. 4, PAGE 12
Negro School
Construction
Under Way
Workmen began preparations
for pouring the footings of the
new Chapel (Negro i School last
Thursday and the $58,000 build
ing is expected to be ready for
occupancy in the fall.
The two-story building will
have three classrooms and a
lunchroom. Originally, plans
called for the structure to be
a one-story affair, with a wing
to house the lunchroom. But,
rising building costs forced
school officials to shift thp
lunchroom into the basement
| of the building.
William B. Dillatd Construc
tion Company, Svlva, is build
! ing the school.
Buy a Broom, Madam?'
! ?I r,i?klw /V, t rhcl
Although members of the Franklin Lions Club aren't plan
ning to sell brooms until the week of April 27-May 2, the town's
official "Clean-l'p Week", President Frank Martin just couldn't
wait to start selling and in the picture above he is applying his
salesmanship on Mrs. Claude H. liolton ? a neat trick, because
.Mrs. Bolton's husband is chairman of the Lions broom
Anglers Get
269 Trout On
Opening Day
A chilling wind didn't laze
the 52 fishermen who took to
the streams in the Wayah Wild
lite Management Area with the
opening of the trout season
Wednesday of last week.
Reiuge Assistant Bryan S t
v r reported the 52 caught 2
'i out the opening day.
For the benefit of anglers
lookin- for new waters to fish. !
the following streams are des- 1
ii-.nated as trout waters in this
enunty :
Little Tennessee River; Culla
saja River, below Cullasaja
Falls and 4.5 miles of forest
service property above the falls.
Cowee Creek, above West's
Mill/ Tesentee Creek, upper six j
miles ; Cartoogechaye Creek, j
two miles above and below
SEE NO. 5, PAGE 12
DEACON'S TO MEET
A county-wide mooting 61 |
Baptist dracons is scheduled :o- 1
light Thursday i a; the Mt
Mope Baptist Church at 7 (
>'clock Verlon Swafford. chair- J
nan, has announced The Rev I
8. S Hensley. of the Scott.
I'reek Baptist Church, will be !
jurst speaker I:
'CLEAN WEEK'
OPENS MONDAY
Lions Plan Broom Sale
During Week; Mayor
Asks Cooperation
A 'spio and span" Frankli:
will begin to emerge Monti iv
as the town's official "Clea :t
Up Work" (April 27 -May -2'.
eets under way.
The I.ions Club has timed a
broom sale to colnrld" with
Clean-Up Week", and some 50
members of the club wilt' >la'"'
knocking on the doors of bu -
ncss houses and- residences to
-ell citizens 'ammunition" ior
the "war on dirt".
With an eye to cleaning up
th" town for the coming tour
i<t season, and to make things
ni ne pleasant for 1 ownspeopte
Mayor W. C Burrell and the
board of aldermen set the week
at the board's April H meeting.
The brooiv.s being sold bv the
SEE NO. 6. PAGE 12
M.I'B WII.L MEET
The Methodist's Men's Club
will meet Tuesday evening at
V:30 o'elock at the Highlands
Methodist Church, Erwin Pat
ton. president, has announced.
The Rev Blake Craft, of Clay
ton. Ga., will be the guest [
speaker.
Board Approves District
Committees Following
Oath Of Office
The new five-man Macon
County Board of Education ? J.
C. Sorrells, John M. Archer, Jr.,
W. N. Bryson, Claude W. Cabe,
and A. A. Siler ? was sworn in
Monday night and immediately
went Into session to select its
chairman.
Mr. Sorrells. the only mem
ber of the outgoing board who
was reelected, received the
chairmanship by a vote of 3 to
2 in a secret balloting. He yas
opposed by Mr. Bryson.
Rehiring County School Su
perintendent Holland McSwain
for another two-year term, as
required by law. was brought
up, but the ne<v board post
poned any decision until its
meeting on May 4 Members
indicated they wanted more
time to familiarize themselves
with the situation
Mr. Archer nominated Mr.
Bryson as chairman, seconded
by . Mr. Siler Mr. Sorrels was
nominated by Mr. Bryson with
Mr. Cabe's second.
Once the chairmanship was
settled, the board moved into
the appointment of district
school committers, which fol
lows :
District 1 i Franklin': George
Byrd. Cowee: Owen Amnions.
East Franklin. Harve L. Bryant,
Franklin. Edwin. Bradley. Iotla:
J E. Cabe. Otto: E. E. Crawford.
Cartoogechaye: Bert Ma^h'nirn.
Cullasaja: and E, M. T ? ? i?.
Vnion.
District 2 iNantahala' : 'board
appointed slate recommended
i)J- Nantahala P T. A.' Luther
Jacobs, Mrs. O C. Hall. John
| Wishon. Cannon Kilputriik. . ud
| Dv.ignt Waters.
District 3 1 Highlands i : C. E.
Mitchell, O r. Summer. and T.
|C. Harbison.
The board voted to hold its
mating:- the li'-st V naay in
?ach nion'h at R p. in.
Mis:- Kat Met" e. elf 1: ??r su
perior cot'i't. administer! .the
oath of .of f i. e s > h" boar :.
The Highland". P' cobyterian
, Church Tuesday was host to
the Ashe, ill' Pr^'ovtery. which
includes churches 11 in coun
t's in Southwestern No: ill Car
olina.
Approximately SO li.inisiers
laymen attended th" meeting.
The moderator's sermon was
delivered by Dr. L. Nelson Bell,
oi Montreat. The Rev. Robert
.V. Hart, pastor ol the High
lands church and the Rev.
Warren F'. Thuston, of Hender
sonville, administered the com
??union service
In addition to various other
'matters of importance to the
church. Dr. 11 E Me'Clure. "xe
cutive .secretary, reported an
nual sifts 01 nearly S400.000.
Annual p-port.-; from the Home
Mission Committee were pre
sented. ind the president of the
j Mountain Or.phanaue nave the
I inane .1 report of that insti
] tution.
In the stat . tieal summary of
the churches Dr McClure's re
port -howed a net increase of
more than four per cent In total
membership, and an additional
member -hip of 600 during the
year. The Sunday School en
rollment, Dr McClure said, has
increased seven per cent with a
total of more than o.OOO In 33
schools, four of which are
classed as "outposts". The be
nevolent contributions passed
the $100,000 mark for the first
'inie in the history of the Pres
ytery. Dr. McClure said.
The Rev. M. R. Williamson, of
'Vaynesvllle, state clerk, had
barge of Tuesday's session
On the arrival of the guests
Tuesday morning, coffee was
rved in the church dining
room by the women of the
church and luncheon was serv
ed at noon. Mrs. Lewis Rice,
president of the women's organ
ization, was general luncheon
chairman. Chairmen of other
committees were Mrs. W. H.
Cobb. Mrs. J D. Harcombe, and
Mrs. Louis Edwards.