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FRAN RUN, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPT. 3, 1953
TEN FAG1
Folk Festival Opens
Tonight In Franklin
me 40 Entertainers
leady To Compete
For Trophies
R t-e than 40 of the county's
R entertainers will step into
1 spotlight tonight (Thurs- j
as the three-night Macon
.nty Folk Festival goes into
i swing at the Franklin High
ovnool Stadium at 8 o'clock.
Frank Plyler, co-chairman of
the festival, which is being
sponsored as a non-profit "good
time" . by the Franklin Jaycees,
said yesterday the field of en
tertainment is a star-studded )
one, and he expects still othen
entertainers to show up tonight.
Contests between entertainers
will move into the semi-finals
tomorrow (Friday) night and
the finals will be conducted
Saturday evening. Starting time
each night will be 8 o'clock.
Emission will be 25 cents for
>se over 14 years of age.
*old trophies will be awarded
e winners in each event, Mr.
yler said.
The chairman said the Jay
es have attempted to cover
le roads and by-ways from
ighlands to Nantahala in an
(fort to uncover some excellent
tlent, and he addeo:
"I think we have succeeded
and I am sure that folks are
going to have the time of their
lives."
Festival competition will in
clude contests between square
dance teams and string bands,
and then the two main features
will be broken down into in
uivHual competition between
dancers, fiddlers, banjo
. ?>, guitar players, and
iug -blowers".
teams already entered
; the Helen's Barn (High
nds) -outfit, led by Charlie
ibson, and a Franklin team,
?d by Dan Angel.
Several string bands, inciud
ng Hunter Young's and Harry
ftoberson's, have registered, the
chairman said. Entertainers
who have not registered with
Mr. Plyler, but who would like
to participate in the festival
are asked to report to the sta
dium by 7:30 o'clock tonight so
they can be assigned a spot in
the show.
The entertainment will be
?onducted on a large platform
n front of the stands at the
tadium. The platform was
rected today by Franklin voca
onal agricultural students,
ide.r the supervision of Wayne
.offitt, vocational agricultural
veacher.
Here's School
Enrollment For
Opening Session
Enrollment with the opening
he 1953-54 school year last
sday in 10 of the county's
j rhools was 3,319 and an
.nated 100 more have en
'*d since then, according to
nty School Supt. Holland
wain.
complete tabulation can
be made until school opens
j lighlands, he said. Because
t ie tourist rush, Highlands
not open until Tuesday,
irollment for the 10 schools
operating: Franklin High
lool, 628; Franklin Elemen
,a.ry, 368; East Franklin, 344;
Cullasaja, 325; Union, 225; Co
wee, 280; Otto, 253; Cartooge
chaye, 279; Iotla, 234; Nanta
hala High School, 94; Nanta
hala Elementary, 217; Chapel
(Negro) School. 72, including
nine high school students.
With the closing of school last
year, enrollment was 3,635.
Red Cross Sends $25
Check To Fire Victims
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Lanich,
whose home in the Highlands
area burned two weeks ago
during a severe electrical storm,
have received a helping hand
from the local Red Cross chap
ter.
Mrs. Elizabeth McCollum,
chapter secretary, said a check
for $25 has been mailed them.
The Lanich home was one of
two to burn during the storm.
Lightning was blamed for set
ting both. Mr. and Mrs. Lanich
were in Ohio for the funeral
of his mother at the time.
Neighbors managed to save
only a few pieces of furniture.
CHURCH VOTES
ON PROPOSALS
Baptists Act Sund ay ;
On Three Building
Resolutions
In conference Sunday, the
congregation of the First Bap
tist Church passed three reso
lutions dealing with the church's
8200,000 building program.
The resolutions were, (1) to
issue bonds not to exceed $100,
000 to complete construction of
the educational plant, using as
security the present church
property, (2) to authorize the
trustees to procure a temporary
loan not to exceed $25,000 from
the lending institution offering
the best terms, the money to
be used for continued construc
tion until bonds can be issued,
and (3 1 to authorize the trus
tees to accept a proposed loan
, offered by the Imperial Life In
surance Company, Asheville, for
S50.000 or less, if the amount is
needed to complete the educa
tional plant.
Construction of the new edu
cational plant ? the first phase
of the building program jot
under way in the spring. Esti
, mated cost of this unit, ex
cluding furnishings, is $140,000.
Future plans call for con
1 struction of an auditorium and
i adult assembly with seven
I classrooms at a cost of approx
imately $60,000, according to
i the pastor, the Rev. M. W.
Chapman.
However, concentration for
the present will be on the edu
cational plant, the pastor said.
Mr. Chapman said the bonds
to be issued by the church will
be at five per cent interest,
payable semi-annually. They
will be of the coupon type,
designated as church improve
ment paper and subject to call
not earlier than January 1,
1958. The pastor said members
of the congregation will have
preference in buying. The
church property being put up
as security is valued at $111,
939.93. he exnlained.
No money will be borrowed
if cash contributions or the
bonds are sufficient to com
plete and furnish the educa
tional building, the pastor add
ed.
As of September 1, Mr. Chap
man said the church building
fund totaled $54,439.93.
Construction on the new unit
has reached the second story
I level and the pastor said the
three-story building should be
completed by next spring.
Purdom Entry
Wins Ribbon
A custom furniture exhibit
by E. S. Purdom and Co., of
Wayah Road, won the sweep
stakes ribbon in the Georgia
Mountain Fair in Hiawassee
August 24-29.
The Macon concern's exhibit
included dining, bedroom, and
occasional pieces of furniture.
As a sidelight of his exhibit,
Mr. Purdom arranged a photo
graphic display of mountain
craftsmen in action and several
scenic pictures. This collection,
numbering about 50 scenes, has
taken Mr. Purdom some 20
years to compile from more
than 1,000 pictures.
AT COLLEGE CONFERENCE |
Miss Mae McCoy, Mrs. Pauline
Love, Mrs. Gladys Kinsland,
and Mrs. J. W. Fouts attended
a conference on reading Aug
ust 25 at Western Carolina Col
lege.
ATTEND CONFERENCE
Mrs. Beth Guffey, supervisor
of Macon schools, and Miss
Amanda Slagle, supervisor in
Jackson County, attended j su
pervisors' conference at Cataw
ba College, Salisbury, August 25,
26, and 27.
OFFICES TO CLOSE
All county offices will close
Monday, Labor Day, it has been
announced. The scheduled Mon
day meeting of the board of
county commissioners has been
moved ahead to the following
Monday.
Operation: 'Beds And Wheel Chairs'
? ? -fuw I i.otc b - ' P. Brady
%
These members of the local Veterans of Foreign Wars post are talking over the post's latest
project, that of Iteming hospital beds and wheel chairs to the sick in the county. Four beds and
two wheel chairs already have been delivered at a cast of about S700. a portion of the money to
i buy them cumin? from the proceeds of the carnival the post recentlv sponsored here. <L to R>
Commander Jack Ragran. Jim Perry, member of the project committee. W. W. Reeves, past post
j commander, a.nd Jim McCoIlum. member of the project committee. Anyone in the county is elig
ible to use the beds and chairs upon making application with Commander Kagan, Mr. Perrv, Mr.
i McCoIlum, or Dick S'lagle. The post plans to hold a rummage sale in the near future to raise
additional funds, for the project.
Di e Anderson
Reelected As
Station Head
Dr. Lewis Anderson, of Duke
University, was reelected presi
dent of the Highlands Biologic
al Station at the annual meet
ing of the station Sunday
afternoon.
Other officers include, Dr. H. j
R. Totten, University cf North
Carolina, vice-president; Miss
Gertrude Harbison, treasurer;
Mrs. W. C. Nail, clerk; and I
William D. McKee, secretary of !
the board of trustees.
Dr. Thelma Howell was re
elected executive director of the
station and Hugh Sargent cur
ator of the museum.
The executive committee of
the board of trustees includes
Dr. Anderson, chairman; Ger
trude Harbison, Mr. McKee,
Mrs. E. M. Thomasson, S. W.
Farnsworth, Judge George Jan
vier, and Dr. Howell.
Mrs. W C. Coker was elected
to the 1952-56 class of trustees.
The 1953-57 class of trustees
elected at the meeting are Dr.
i H. L. Blomquist. Duke Univer
sity, J. E. Potts, Mrs. E. M.
Thomasson, Mrs. Sally Smith,
and Mrs. Malcolm L. Monroe.
SEE NO. 1, PAGE 10
PANTHERS LOOK
TOWARD OPENER
Coach Is Pleased With
Progress; Andrews
Is First Game
The chanting of signals and
the smacking of leather over.
Franklin High School way
means just one thing:
Panthers are on the pre-sea
son practice prowl and are
sharpening their claws for the
season opener on September 11
in Andrews.
The T-formation is the order |
of the day for the squad and
Coach R. A. (Art i Byrd is giv
ing the team heavy doses of the I
same during daily practice ses- I
sions.
Although Coach Byrd has an
abundancy of raw material to
work with this year, yesterday 1
he said he was more than
pleased with the progress the
squad is making.
Several men are turning in
top-flight performances, he said
The Andrews opener will
throw the Panthers into the i
middle of a 10-game schedule '
with Cherokee, Hayesville, Sylva,
Robbinsville, Bdyson City, Mur
phy, Bethel, and Clyde. One
open date, September 18, still : i
has not been filled.
Dairying And
Beef Coming
Up In Macon
Fioot that Macon County is
coming into its own in beef and
dairy lines is found in the pre
liminary 1953 County Farm
Census Summary of 3PE3 crops.
The summary shows that 45
per cent of the county's 134.025
acres of farm land are being
used for hay crops. Running
second with 37 per cent is corn
Other pertinent facts:
Some 9,790 oi Macon's esti
mated population of 16,000 now
live on farms ? an increase of
164 over the 1951-52 farm cen
sus figure.
Excluding hay and coin, other
crops account for only 18 per
cent of the cultivated land.
Improved pastures, in line
with the advance of beef and
dairy herds, continue to in
crease- ? Irom 6.923 acres in
1951-52. to 7.21C for the current
period. Other pasture land und
er use totals 20.414 acres, an in
crease of 1,721 icres over 1951
52
Cows and heifers (two-year
olds i kept mainly far milk have
increased from 3,064 to 3,429;
cows and heifers in the beef
line irom 2,076 to 2.34C.
Out Of The Old ~ Into The New
ilrtfr/!?r f tf\X t hon>
There couldn't have been a happier bunch of school children anywhere in the country last
Thursday morn in* than those at the Chapel (Negro) School here. It was moving day for these
children ? out of the old rickety frame school house and into a new and modern brick $55,000
building with all the conveniences of the modern day educational pl?.nt. Carrying their desks
(left picture) the boys and girls trooped out of the oI<f building and took up residence in the
new one (right picture). The new school is the last one of a building program begun by the
county several years ago. The two-story building contains a lunchroom-cafeteria on the ground
floor, a section of which is temporarily being used as a high school room. On the second floor is
the principal's office and three claawooma In the past, the handful of high school students have
been attending a consolidated school in Jackson County, but provisions have been made this year
for a high school teacher here.
T-F Railroad Mail
Contract Cancelled
NEW PROJECT
LETTING SET
Commission Expected To
Ask Jackson Bids
This Month
The State Highway Commis
sion is scheduled to invite bids
for grading and structures on
US 23 from DUlsboro (Jackson
County i to Cowee Gap some
time this month, according to
local highway officials.
The new project will tie in
with the $618,000 link of US 23
now under construction from
Franklin to Cowee Gap at the
Macon-Jackson county line.
This phase is now in the final
stages of grading.
An allocation of $950,000 has
been set up for the Jackson i
County project. The amount |
includes a $450,000 allocation,
which was shifted to the Jack
son project from a proposed
Franklin-Georgia project (also
a link of US 23 > in June by
Highway Commissioner Harry
E. Buchanan in an effort to
speed-up the opening of a new
highway from Franklin to DilLs
boro. For almost a year, motor
ists traveling f';t have been
detouring through Bryson City
SCHOOLS GET
COURT FUNDS
August Term Brings
$3,426 For Macon
Education
The county school fund re
ceived $3,426 from the August
term of superior court, accord
ing to Miss Kate McGee, clerk
of court.
By law. fines, forfeitures, jury
tax. and solicitor fees are ear
marked for the schools. The
, August term, presided over by
Judge F Donald Phillips, closed
down Wednesday of last week
after all docketed actions were
disposed of in three days. ?
A breakdown of the figure
going to the schools follows:
Fines. $1,950; forfeitures. $1,200:
solicitor fees. $184; and jury
tax. $92.
On the ciosing day of court.
Judge Phillips heard seven di
vorce cases. Ail other civil ac
tions were continued to the De
cember term. Miss McGee said.
Businessmen
Attend Forum
Twenty-two interested busi
nessmen from Franklin yester
day (Wednesday) were in Bry
son City to attend a develop
ment forum sponsored by the
North Carolina Department of
Conservation and Development
to acquaint the people of this
area with methods and ways of
attracting industry.
State Treasurer Edwin Gill
represented Gov. Umstead at
the forum. The program includ
ed talks by several well-known
businessmen from a number of
sections of the state.
Among those attending from
here were William Katenbrink,
Henry W Cabe, Mayor W. C.
Burrell. Frank B Duncan, H. H.
Gnuse. Jr.. C. Banks Finger,
Frank Dean, R. E. McKelvey,
Dan Bryson. Charles Conley,
Norman Blaine. Tom Nelson, J.
L. West, Jr., Andrew Jones. Os
car Ledford, Jack Ragan. Ver
lon Swafford, A. R. Higdon, J.
C. Crisp, Lewis Patton. and T. j
H Callahan.
Choral Group To Sing
At Churches On Sunday
I
The Golden Trumpets, a vocal
group from Ringgold, Ga., will
present two church programs
here Sunday, the Rev. M. A
Hayward has announced.
At 3 p. m., the group will be
at the Pleasant Hill A.M.E. Zlon
Church at Cowee, and at 8 p.
m. at the Ray's Chapel A.M.E.
Zion Church. No admission will
be charged, but a free-will of
fering will be taken, the pastor
said.
Carrying T urned Over
To Star Route Out
Of Cornelia, Ga.
Alter some 45 years service,
the Tallulah Falls Railroad hat
lost its contract to carry Frank
lin's mail.
Tuesday yiiepember 2 ' , the U
S. Post Office Department can
celled the railroads contract
and turned the job oi carrying
the mail over to a star route
running from Cornelia, Ga to
Franklin. A Cornelia man was.
awarded the contract to truck
the mail over the new ioute,
according to port office offici
als.
The cancelling ti the rail
road's contract ii .r iine with a
post office move tc economize
through the use I ! star route;
and the action nas been unoer
consideration lor seme time.
Only one mar each day has
been comin<r .; over the iail
: road, officii.'' explained, and
they .said.fr;'; '.'.angi- will have
little effect on delivery at the
local post The morning
: mail, excluding paicel_ post has
been trucked her? ft-: several
years. .
Mail is r.ov. ci'u trucked in
1 lrom Cornc.la at r 5(' a in. and
3 p. m T.he. outgoing ? ? ule
is 8:55 a. rr.. ; ti 2 :r l ? m.
Both carry parcel pest. c ?;?.-?!
inji to P'-.tma te. Z"-o Meadow;
R. G. Be: . .ear T-F ? nation
master here, said the afternoon
'train will ccr.tir. ?? *?' ?% ?"
, express lor the <i
I this month. Whi.e :? ? c: net
elaborate he h.r.t' " ; :: eduie
| change would te made at an
early date.
One other miner change in
schedule ha: been _'.-:ade at the
Franklin Post Gltice. Mr. Mead
j ows said the Eryscn City star
J route mail now leaves here at
i 2:35 p. m.. instead of 2:45.
Jones Accepts
Teaching; Post
In Chapel Hill
Weimar Jor.t , euitcr cf The
Press, has accepted an Irr. ta
ction to teach in the -'.'hrc. cf
journalism at the Vmvers.ty ol
North Carolina, Chatej H. j. fcr
the 1953-54 school year.
During his abserc? rem
Franklin. Bib ? S^a:), co
publisher cf The Press, will
manage the business, and J. P.
Brady will be news editor
Mr. Jones will continue to
write editorials from Chapel
Hill.
He plar.' tc )ea\e early ?:ext
week.
Mrs. Jones '! r'-.viain .in
Franklin for. the time being.
Blood Unit Visit
Set For October
The American Red Cross
Bloodmobile will pay its first
and only visit cf the year to
Franklin on October 9, Mrs.
Elizabeth McCo.lum, local chap
ter secretary announced this
week.
Macon's quota has been set
at 125 pints she said, and the
entire amoifnt will be earmark
ed for defense purposes, as in
the past.
The mobile blood unit oper
ates from the Regional JJlood
Center in Asheville.
The Weather
The week's temperatures and rainfall, a a
!?*?<??. ?*?!?<! in Franklin by Man son Stiles,
['. S weather observer, and at the Coweeta
ffydfrtfopric Laboratory:
FRANKLIN
Temperatures
High Low Rain
Wednesday 86 55
Thursday 88 51
Friday 89 50
Saturday 88 54
Sunday 89 54
Monday 92 53
Tuesday 93 57
COWBETA
Temperatures
High Low Rain
Wednesday 84 47
Thursday 84.5 48
Friday 85 46
Saturday 85 50
Sunday 85 48
Monday 89.5 47
Tuesday 88 52