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Wh* JHaconian VOL. LXIX? NO. 14 FRANKLIN, N. C? THl RSDAT, MARCH 25, 1SS4 TWELVE PAGES GROUPS PLAN EXTENSION OF TOURIST YEAR Highlanders Head And Commerce Board Discuss Promotion Extending the tourist season and convincing tourists that "they are missing the best and most colorful part of the year" by leaving for home too early is being tackled by the Frank lin Chamber of Commerce and the Macon County Highlanders. In session last Thursday night, the board of directors of the commerce organization dis cussed this proposal with L. D. Clontz, president of the High landers, and agreed the season .SECRETARY RESIGNS Mrs. luca E. Horsley has retained as secretary of the Franklin Chamber of Com merce, President W.W. Reeves announced Monday. Her suc cessor has not been picked, he said. shouid be lengthened into au tumn. when foliage is at the peat; of its beauty. Most tourists visiting here pack up and head for home early in September, Commerce President W. W. Reeves contends, and therefore are missing nature's biggest show of the year. While no concrete plans were made, both organizations plan to join forces in extending the seascn and selling tourists on the idea of "staying a while longer." "Because of the highway sit uation (new construction)," Mr. Reeves declared, "we've really got a terrific selling Job on our hanc:s for the next couple of years . . ." iroper promotion win .ninge on the success of the C of C membership drive, which is now under way, the president said. Looking to this year's season, the directors voted to bring the local tourist accommodation folder up to date and to re locate thi large sign at the junction of NC 28 and US 19 in Swain County. The sign, erect ed several years ago, directs travelers to Franklin. Prank B. Duncan was reap pointed head of the Macon County Industrial Cbmmittee. DRIVE REPORT PLEA ISSUED Red Cross Workers Urged To Turn In Collections Now A plea to all volunteer Red Cross drive workers to "please turn in progress reports" was voiced this week by Mrs. Eliza beth McCollum. chapter secre tary. At the present time, the an nual fund raising campaign is far from its goal of $3,000. Through Tuesday noon, $1,485.60 had been turned in, the secre tary said. Final reports have been re ceived from only three com munities: Cowee $21.95); Beth el ($41); and Holly Springs (27.50). Mrs. McCollum said she had hopes of closing the campaign today (Thursday i, but added that it will be extended until all collections are reported. Paper Of Merit Goes To Service For Coweeta Film The U. S. Forest Service has received a certificate of merit from the British ambassador for its movie. "Waters of Coweeta", filmed rt the Coweeta Hydro cele Laboratory here. , ' E A Johnson, forester in charge pt Coweeta. said Tues tiav the certificate was pre sented in a snecial ceremony ! Mar^h If) at the U. S. Depart- j merit of Interior. Tne movie, which deals with J. water-land projects under way at the laboratory, was entered in the Edinburgh Film Festival last summer and received high praise. Two-hundred eighty movies from 40 countries were entered in the festival. W. N. Sloan Elected Head Of Rotarians W. N. Sloan is the new pres ident of the Franklin Rotary Club, succeeding the Rev. C. E. Murray. At its annual election of of ficers Wednesday night of last week, the club re-elected Dr. T. O. Nelson secretary. Norman Blaine, W. W. (Bill) Sloan, John W. N. Sloan Ray, and R. E. McKelvey were named directors of the organi zation. As the outgoing president, Mr. Murray automatically became an ex-officlo member of the board of directors. The presi dent and secretary also are members of the board. The new officers will be In stalled the first Wednesday in July. EDUCATORS" MEET MONDAY New Health Program Guide Introduced To School Officials An estimated 50 superinten dents, supervisors, principals, and nurses frotm six counties met Monday afternoon at Frank lin High School to discuss pro motion of the school health program. Introduced to the school of ficials at the session was the new publication, "Health Edu cation in the North Carolina Public Schools", a guide tor promoting health in the schools. Representatives attended from Macon, Clay, Cherokee, Graham, Jaekson, and Swain, according to School Supt. Holland Mc Swain, who described the meet ing as "highly successful and erilightening". The new guide was prepared with the help of school, health department, and college person nel throughout the state, he explained. State Paves 26 Miles In '53 Some 26 miles of paving was put down on Macon roads dur ing 1953, according to a report received from Harry E. Buch anan, 14th Division highway commissioner. Twenty-five miles of roads traveled by school busses also were stabilized during the year. During February, highway crews worked on a number of roads in the county, all 12 feet wide. The following roads, and their lengths, were graded, drained, and surfaced with traffic-bound macadam: Cheeks and Sparkman, 0.5 mile, and Saldeer Mountain Road, 0.3. Little Ellijay Road, 0.5! Hicks Road. 0.8; and Buck Creek Road, 0.9, were strengthened and surfaced with traffic- j bound macadam. Commissioner Buchanan's re- 1 port said 1.8 miles of- roads county-wide were spot patched during the month. Charlotte Pastor "7il! Open Revival The Rev. Roy Liner, pastor fit the Grace Baptist Church, j Charlotte, will open a revival series Sunday night at the Mount Home Baptist Church. . Services will be held nightly at 7:30 o'clock, according to the pastor, the Rev. M. C. Wyatt. POST RENAMES JACKRAGAN COMMANDER V.F.W. Installation Scheduled April 14; Perry Gets Vice Po?t C. Jack Ragan, of Franklin, has been reelected commander of the local Veterans of Foreign Wars post for another year. At the post's annual election Wednesday night of last week, Winton Perry was reelected senior vice-commander; John G. (Speck) Murray, junior vice commander; Robert Pearl, quar termaster; the Rev. R. D. Burn ette, chaplain; Dr. G. R. Mc Sween, reelected surgeon; C. Banks Finger, post advocate; and J. E. Jennings, three-year trustee. Plans are now being made to hold a joint installation of new officers with the post auxiliary, which held Its election recent ly. Mrs. Elizabeth McCollum Is the new auxiliary president. Commander Ragan said the installation ceremony is tenta tively scheduled for April 14 at the post home on Palmer Street. Details of the program will be announced later. The commander said he plans to name the appointive officers of the post this week. 18 Brownies Get Pins At Ceremony Eighteen Brownie Scouts re ceived Brownie pins at an in vestiture Sunday afternoon at the Franklin Presbyterian Church. Mrs. C. N. Dowdle, Girl Scout county chairman, presided. Brownies .receiving pins were Rebecca Grant, Betty Ann Bui-" gin, Judy Byrd, Janice Stewart, Sandra Crownover, Marjorie Jones, Sandra Norton, Linda Sue Henderson, Cheryl Vaughn, Jane Edwards, Kit Gnuse, Jo Evelyn Barnard, Jane Hoilman, Carolyn Shook, Carole Callo way, Julia Ann Shields, Linda Sue Phillips, and Lyn West. .Mrs. Andrew Jones and Mrs. Fred Vaughn, Brownie leaders, made the presentations. Mrs. Gilmer A. Jones, city chairman, welcomed the girls as Troop 5. Color bearers were Jo Evelyn Barnard, Linda Sue Phillips, and Jane Hoilman. A social hour for parents and guests followed the ceremony. CARSON TROOP CHARTER NIGHT New Unit To Get Certificate Monday Night At Church Franklin Troop 6, Boy Scouts of America, (Carson) will re ceive its charter .Monday night at a special ceremony at the Carson Methodist Church. The event is set for 7:30 o'clock. Organization of the new troop by the Carson Rural Commun ity Development Organization puts Macon County well in front of other counties in the Smoky Mountain District, ac cording to Scout officials. Counting the new one, five troops, an Explorer Post, and a Cub Pack are now active in the county. The Carson troop lists 16 charter Scouts. Jim Cunning ham and J. D. Gibson are the leaders. C*r*on Plans Svpper "To Raise Monev Fov Community Building The Carson Rural Commun ity Development Organization ?will <?ivo a supper and party at the Cattoogechaye School Sat urday night at 6:30 o'clock to raise money for the commun <tv building. The supper will be served in the school cafeteria. After the m"ri!. games will be played. The public ir, invited. COMMUNITY S1NC. A community .>ing will be held at the Louisa Chapel Sat urday night at 8 o'clock, it has been announced. All singers are urged to attend and the public | is invited. There'll be no music coming out of the instruments held by Franklin Band Director S. F. Beck (hand on twisted girder) and some members of his band. AU that's left of those instruments is twisted metal, the unkind results of the recent high school fire, which destroyed most of the band's equipment. The band's loss was estimated at $24, MO. Want To Get County Helper Welfare Office Moves Monday To Nantahala Bldg. The Macon County Depart ment of Public Welfare Is now in new quarters on the second floor of the Nantahala Build ing. The department's move from the Ashear Building, where it has been since the mid-1930's, was made Monday. W. E. (Gene i Baldwin, chair man of the board of county commissioners, said the change was made to give the depart ment mtye space. The welfare staff has the use of five rooms at the new location, as com pared with'four in the Ashear Building. At the present time, the de-. partment employs one case worker, a full-time clerical worker, and a part-time clerical worker. Mrs. Eloise G. Potts is super intendent. New 4-H Club Is Organized The 16th 4-H Club In the county was organized Monday night of last week In the Pat ton Community by assistant agents T. H. Fagg and Mrs. Jessie D. Cabe. Birdie Lee Bingham was nam ed president; Virginia Swan son, vice-president; Caroline Reece, secretary-treasurer; Hel en Cochran, reporter; and Nan- i cy Cochran and Mildred Bing- | ham, song leaders. The new club plans to meet the third Monday of each month. Otto Group Slates Square Dance Friday A square dance will be spon- ) sored at the Otto School to morrow (Friday i night by the community development organ ization, it has been announced. Hunter Young's band will play for the dance, which will get under way at 7:30 o'clock. Pro ceeds are earmarked for the ! community. Bids For Center Will Be Opened By Board Today Bids for construction of the ; ffroposed Macon County Health ' Center will be opened today 1 (Thursday i by the Board of : County Commissioners. Estimated cost of the center. 1 to be financed jointly by the county and the Medical Core ' Commission, is S30.000. Should the low bid be approv ed by the commissioners, the one-story center will be cd n strufted on Pnerview Street on ; I nd donated by Dr. Eds;ar j Ahfjel. O . For Tri.> Warmer ??weatho.r m putting local -co-.il c:l the hiking trail;, again. About 20 Scouts of Franklin Troop 1 plan to leave tomorrow 1 (Friday! for a three-day camp- < ing trip at Big Laurel, the sits < of the 1954 Smoky Mountain > District Camporee, which isj< scheduled May 28-29-30. |l With the obtaining of a coun ty band director as its fore most objective, the Franklin Band Boosters Club last Thurs day night kicked off its "work - for - your - money" membership campaign to raise funds to put the band on a county-wide basis. The Boosters are pushing the sale of advance concert tickets to at least four band and vocal concerts within the next year. Those purchasing these advance : tickets automatically became | members of the club. Since organizing last Novem I ber, the principal objective of | the Boosters has been to work I toward obtaining the services of an assistant band director, whose job would be to instruct music in all of the elementary schools in the county. Club members also envision the for mation of a Macon county band composed of elementary chil dren only. Such a plan would prove invaluable to the main high school band in providing a constant supply of young musicians, it was explained, and would stimulate an inter est in music among the young sters. County school officials have assured the Boosters they will "do all in our power" in help ing reach this objective. At Thursday's meeting, the | Boosters mapped plans for vis SEE NO. 4. PAOE 12 Easter Dawn Rite Program Being Made Plans for the annual Easter sunrise service atop mile-high Wayah Bald are now being made, according to the Rev. F. Doyle Freeman, chairman of the program committee. The service, which each year draws large crowds ? many from outside the county ? will again be held at "High Haven", the camp of Mr. and Mrs. Gilmer A. Jones, just below the Bald. Arrangements are being made to have the service broadcast by loud speaker outside the Jones' camp for the benefit of worshippers who wish to remain in their automobiles. The Rev. Bryan Hatchett, pastor of the Franklin Presby terian Church, has been select ed by the program committee to deliver the Easter message. Others serving with Mr. Free man on the committee are the Rev. C. E. .Murray and the Rev. C. T. Taylor. Full details of the sunrise program will be announced lat er, Mr. Freeman said. LOOTERSARE SENTENCED Four To Stand Trial Here In April For Highlands Break-Ins Three of the five Transylvan ia County men arrested in Feb ruary for looting summer homes in seven counties of North and South Carolina received stiff sentences in Brevard Tuesday. But their troubles are just be ginning. Each now faces 12 cases of breaking and entering and lar ceny for their sweep through homes in the Highlands area. They will stand trial at the April term of Superior Court, which opens here the 12th. Herbert Hoover Volrath, 25, and Jimmy Volrath, 21, both were handed five to seven years in prison on three counts of breaking and entering, accord ing to Sheriff J. Harry Thomas, who was a member of the raid ing party when the theft .ring was smashed and appeared as a witness at their trials. Ray SEE NO. S. PAGE 12 Sure Sign Of Spring When yu.t sic a youn^trr hunched over like t'.ddie Tippett lahov-l .vim j.isi about bet your bottom dollar Vlial spring inallv lias an veil. t hose are marbles Kddie is sichtui* over his ?oiled shooting finger. Ills opponent in the game Jnust remain tnonvmous ? he hit the brush when the photographer approach ed, yelling "you're not going to take my picture". Ten-year-old Kdii'ie is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Tippett. GOV. UMSTEAD WRITES ABOUT COURT ISSUE Tells Reeve# Set-Up 'Serious' And Bad Advertising For N. C. Gov. William B. Umstead con siders the inability of some counties in the state, Macon in cluded, to handle minor traffic cases other than through cost ly high courts "a serious ques tion" that is bad advertising for the state. In answer to a letter from. W. W. Reeves, president of the Franklin Chamber of Commerce, (Minting to the inequality of the situation from the stand point of the traveler, the gover nor said: "The subject matter of your letter has been the basis of many complaints to this office, and I consider it a serious question. I hope that the next General Assembly will consider this matter and will arrive at some reasonable solution of the j situation. It is, in my opinion, I causing a great deal of difficul j ty for tourists, which results in bad advertising for the state and particularly for the area in which these incidents occur." Governor Umstead told Mr. svv vo 1 PAGE 12 Bulletins FILE FOR PRIMARY The calm brooding over the political front was broken yes terday (Wednesday i just before press time when two men filed with elections Chairman Lee Barnard for nomination to posts in the May 29 Democratic pri mary. C. Banks Finger, Franklin attorney and native of Catawba County, filed for representative to the state legislature, and C. Jack Ragan for county coroner No others had filed by noon, but rumor says several more will be in the races by next week. J. M. (Jim i Raby, sergeant at-arms at the 1953 legislature, early In February indicated to The Press he would run for rep resentative in the primary. Sheriff J. Harry Thomas and Register of Deeds Lake V. Shope both plan to run for renomina tion, but have not filed as yet. Close friends of Miss Kate McGee say she has changed her plans and will seek renomina tion as Clerk of Superior Court. The clerk recently indicated she would not run again. Other posts to be filled in the "off-year" election are County ?Commissioners (3?, County Board of Education (5i. and Surveyor, on the county level. Outside races are 20th District Solicitor, U. S. Senator and Rep resentative, and 33rd District State Senator. NEW GYMNASIVM County School Supt. Holland McSwain plans to confer today (Thursday i with Lindsay Gudg er, Asheville architect, concern ing plans for a new gymnasium at Franklin High. The superintendent described his planned talk as "just a pre liminary" and said no definite action has been taken to re place the old gymnasium that burned several weeks ago. He did say, however, that papers have been received from the state division of insurance establishing proof of loss. These were filled out and returned to Raleigh immediately, he said. Maximum insurance on the building was $105,000. The Weather Tli** wf?rk'? ?r-nn~'\it<]rc!? *nd rainfaH. *.? recorded in Franklin by \f?nv>n S. wrathcr observer, and at the Coweeta II vdrol itfiC Lfthwrgtorv ? FRANKLIN Temneratures High Low Rain Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday 56 80 70 61 63 6!? 47 48 45 44 44 38 59 .10 .01 .81 .25 CpWKhTn Temperatures High Low Rain Wednesday 54 47 1.38 Thursday 80 48 .18 Friday 70 39 .93 Saturday 50 42 .42 Sunday 61 37 .33 Monday 67 33 V uesda
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