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VOL. LXIL? NO. 22
FRANKLIN, N. C, THURSDAY, MAT 27, 1954
FOURTEEN PAGES
Macon Contributes
139 To Life Stream
Highlands Schedules
Exercises Tonight;
2 Others Are Over
Macon County's contributions
to the ever-growing stream of
life this year is 140 seniors, all
well equipped to face squarely
the mounting problems and ten
sions of the atomic age.
One hundred twenty-seven of
them already have made the
step and are proud possessors
of the most cherished of all
items ? diplomas. Nantahala
High graduated 12 Monday eve
ning and Franklin High 115 at
exercises Tuesday afternoon at
Macon Theatre.
Tonight (Thursday) High
lands High will award diplo
mas to 13 seniors in the school
auditorium to round out com
mencement exercises in the
county.
Following are candidates for
graduation at Franklin High:
Clara Belle Anderson, Dan
Angel, Kate Marie kngel, Bar
bara Jean Arnold, James And
erson Ayers, Charles Donald
Baldwin, Robert N. Biddle, Har
old Lee Bingham, Etta Jean
Blaine, Mary Sue Blaine, Wil
liam Bradley, Kay Luetta
Browning, Georgia Edwinia B.ry
son, Sue Ann Bsyson, Branch
Harve Buchanan, George David
Buchanan, Harold Edward
Buchanan, James Wilson Buch
anan, Bobbie Jean BUrch, Betty
Ann Cabe, Jack C. Cabe, Perry
Cabe, Clyda Mae Campbell, El
la Vee Campbell, Doyle Preston
Clark. Tommy Clyde Cole, Har
old Richard Compton, Adolph
Conliey, Marvin Douglas Conley,
Sarah Lee Corbin, Thomas Pre
aulo Crawford, Barbara Ann
Crews, Christine Cunningham,
Jeanna Sue Cunningham, An
nette Dalrymple, Carol Lee
Daves, Fred Palmer Deal, Betty
Jane Dehart, Mark LeRoyDeitz,
Annie Elizabeht Dills, Jerry
Fouts Dills, William D. Dinnes,
Charles Hugh Dowdle, Thad R.
Dowdle, Richard L. Dryman,
Barbra Ann Edwards, John Ben
jamin Edwards, Ruth Carolyn
Edwards, Nancy Naomi Elliott,
Dolpha D. Fouts, Frances Mar
lene Fox, Lela Jo Gailey, Jos
eph Richard Gibson, Gene Ken
neth Guffey, Agnes Elizabeth
Guyer. William Lacy Harper, Jr.,
Max Teague Henderson, Betty
Jeanne Henson, Colbert Henson,
Doyle M. B. Henson, Marily
Henson, Marilyn Higdon, Mari
lyn Monteen Hogsed, Jackie
Marshall Hoilman, Max Leon
Holland, Samuel Luther Holl
and, Clyde Houston, Jr., Gareth
Hughes, Martha Beatrice John
son, Mary Caroline Johnson,
Marianne Johnston, Maude
Evelyn Jones, Betty Jane Keen
er, Margie Kimsey, Hattie Sue
Ledford. Raymond Samuel Led
ford,. Harold Wayne Ledford,
Bobby Pickett Marshall, Eu
gene Arthur Mashburn, Jimmie
Sherrill Mashburn, Nancy Jean
McCollum, Carlton Eugene Mc
Donald, Holland McSwain, Jr.,
Freda Katherine .Moore, Mildred
Marie Morgan, Robert Max Mor
gan, Dwight Wilbur Norris, Jos
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Bass-Trout
Restocking
Uncbr Way
Don't break a leg in the rush
to get there, but ? Nantahala
Lake was restocked with 50,009
small mouth bass yesterday
(Wednesday).
And. 50,000 more are due to
arrive soon for Lake Sequoyah
near Highlands, according to
Wildlife Protector James G.
Wright.
Say you don't like bass? How
about trout then?
Protector Wright Tuesday put
900 rainbow and brown trout
in Cull&saja River and Ellijay
Creek (unposted sections) and
1,800 rainbows in other desig
nated trout waters, including
Nantahala River, Jarrett Creek,
?Matlock Creek, Cowee Creek,
and Tessente Creek.
Another load of rainbow will
be dumped in Burnlngtown
Creek next week, he said.
The stocking of trout is being
financed by the special trout li
cense, the protector explained.
Both the trout and bass pro
grams are being handled by the
Wildlife Resources Commission.
Girl Drowns
On Highlands
Class Outing
A 17-year-old Highlands girl,
who would have received her
high school diploma tonight
(Thursday), drowned early
Monday afternoon in a lake at
Oconee (S.C.) State Park in a
tragic end to a gay senior class
outing.
The body of Miss Mary Ann
Edwards, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Daniel G. Edwards, was
recovered nearly six hours after
she disappeared while swimming
with the other 12 members of
her graduating class. She is
believed to have cramped in the
cold water.
Funeral services for the young
girl, who would have celebrated
her 18th birthday June 13, will
be held today at 2 p. m. at the
Highlands Methodist Church.
The Rev, Robert E. Early, pas
tor, and the Rev. J. W. David
son, of Pendleton, S. C? a for
mer pastor, will officiate. Bur
ial will be in the Horse Cove
I Cemetery.
Miss Edwards was a member
of the Highlands Methodist
Church.
In addition to her parents,
she is survived by seven broth
ers, Sgt. Eugene Edwards, of
Briggs Air Force Base, El Paso,
Tex.; James Mack, of Vero
Beach, Fla.; Albert Hugh, U. S.
Navy, Norfolk, Va.; Haze, U. S.
Army, Fort Bragg; Duane, of
Clemson, S. C.; Robert Clark
and Frank Davidson, of the
home; two sisters, Mrs. Sandy
Rogers, of Atlanta, Ga., and
Miss Virginia May Edwards, of
the home; the paternal grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mack D.
Edwards, of Horse Cove; and
the maternal grandmother, Mrs.
Mary Hedden, of Highlands.
Bryant Funeral Home is in
charge of arrangements.
Going To Maeting
Several Macon pastors and
their wives plan to attend the
Southern Baptist Convention
June 2-5 in St. Louis, Mo.
They include the Rev. and
Mrs. M. W. Chapman, of Frank
lin, the Rev. and Mrs. John
Buell, of F'"hlands, the Rov.
Edward G. Altland, of Iotla, the
Rev. Lyman Wilson, of New
man's Chapel, and the Rev. M. |
C. Wyatt, of Mount Hope.
BOY SCOUT
CAMPOREE
SLATED HERE
Three-Day District
Outing To Be Held
At Big Laurel Camp
More than 200 Boy Scouts of
the Smoky Mountain District
will roll into the Big Laurel
campground near Cowee tomor
row (Friday) for the 1954 dis
trict camporee.
Advance arrangements for the
three-day outing are now be
ing made by B. B. Scott1, of
Franklin, district camping
chairman, and Tom Speed, of
Asheville, Scout field executive.
The campground, about two
miles below Cowee Bald, was
selected as this year's camporee
site at a recent meeting of dis
trict Scouters.
A special program on the
final day is being planned for
parents of the Scouts, accord
ing to Mr. Scott.
All parents have been invit
ed to bring a picnic lunch and
visit with their sons and in
spect the camp site.
The gravel road leading to
the campground has been
scraped and will be well mark
ed with signs, the chairman
said. The camp has been clean
ed by members of the local Ex
plorer Post.
Two adu!t meetings are sched
uled also. Saturday afternoon,
the final session of an adult
leadership training course will
be held, and Sunday afternoon
the entire district committee
will meet.
I Shor* Summer
Wasn't It?
Short summer, wasn't it?
Last Thursday it snowed in
Highlands, sleeted at Cartooge
chaye, and temperatures skid
ded to the low 30's. Needless to
say, heat was turned back on
in most homes in the county.
Friday frost was reported in
some sections of the county
when the mercury dipped to an
unseasonable low of 34.
Saturday added insult to in
jury with a low of 30 reported
in Franklin and 28 at the Co
weeta Hydrologic Laboratory.
Sunday wasn't much better
with a low of 35 in Franklin.
But don't despair, things are
looking up. Monday the day's
low was 37 and Tuesday 41.
? hart winter, wasn't it?
MACON P.OAD WORK
State Highway maintenance <
crews pot-patched .7-mile of
i'o -ds in the county during the
month of April, according to a
report received from Division
?Commissioner Marry E. Bueh
man.
2 Road Gang
Escapees Are
Still Loose
The two convicts who escaped
from a road gang near Frank
lin Wednesday morning of last
week are still at large.
One of the men, and possibly
both, may have stolen an auto
mobile from Macon Motor Com
pany the following night and
escaped to Georgia, according
to Chief Deputy Newell Pender
grass.
The automobile, a 1941 Bulck,
was found abandoned near Lake
Rabun in Georgia Friday morn
ing, the gas tank empty, the
deputy said.
"We're satisfied that one of
them at least stole it", he de
clared Monday.
The escapees were identified
as Milton Pete Austin, 23, of
Gastonia, and Jerry Looper, 17,
of Rockingham. Both were serv
ing terms for larceny at the
Macon Prison Camp when they
broke from the road gang on
the River Bend Road.
Deputy Pendergrass and Pas
chal Norton, of Macon Motor,
drove to Georgia Saturday to
bring the stolen car back.
POWER CONCERN
OT? R OFF
Bad Water Year
Blamed For Drop,
President Says
The net income at Nantahala
Power and Light Company here
dropped $103,809 in. 1953 because
of a dry season.
John ,M. Archer, Jr., presi
dent, said Monday the 1953 in
come was $107,935, as compared
with a considerably higher fig
ure, $271,804, in 1952.
The president discounted r\
report in a Raleigh newspaper
that the drop in inocme came
from a decline in sales to the
company's parent organization,
the Aluminum Company of
America.
"We sold them all <the pow
er i we could generate", Mr. '
Archer declared, "and the de- '
eline was due 'entirely to a de
cline in generation . . . every- |
one knows it was a bad water j
year."
ALCOA purchased $807,257
worth of current from Nanta- i
ala in 1952, as compared with
? illy S499.2C7 in 1953.'
SUNDAY SING SLATED
The fifth Sunday sing is
planned for the county "ourt
hous? beginning at 10 a. m.. it
' ben annou nced by Jim
j \ by. ] resident. All singers and
' tirbl r are invited.
ALL YEAR AT UNION SCHOOL the children have been seeing double ? and for food reason.
The school, which has the smallest enrollment in the county (236), has seven sets of twins.
They are (L to R) front row, Floyd and Lloyd Thomas and Eddie and Freddie Roblmon; second
row. Eulah and Beulah Dehart an tf Martha and Margaret Wood; third row, Jean and Gerald
Sanders and Martha and Mary Oabe; back row, Loretta and Barbarette Henson.
Primary Voting Saturday;
Scott -Lennon Race Tops
Contenders For U. S. Senate
W. Kerr Scott
Sen. A. A. Lennon
High Schools Will Welcome
217 Eighth Graders In Fall
Two hundred seventeen eighth
graders in 10 of the county's 11
elementary schools were pro
moted to high school in cere
monies this week.
A list of those promoted was
not available from Highlands.
Ouilasaja led the field in pro
motions with 35 and East
Franklin was second with 32.
Those promoted, by schools,
Were :
FRANKLIN: Rachel Brown,
Joan Burrell, Shirley Cruse.
Joan Cunningham,' Carolyn
Dowdle, Myrtle Dryman, Cath
erine Emory, Patricia Hedden,
Shirley Henson, Helen Holden,
Judy Hubbard, Louise Long,
Susie Mashburn, Doris Shook,
Frances Tallent, Rebecca Tavel,
Dixie Lou Wilson, Billy Alex
ander, Scotty Byrd. Wayne
Gregory, Horace Hurst, Larry
Jones, Gary McKelvey. Frank
lin McSwain, Gene Morrow, Ed- j
ward Palmer, Wiley Rogers. !
Wade Taylor, Wayne Taylor,
and Perry Wiggins.
CULLASAJA: Jimmie Angel,
Gary Clark, Elmer Cook, Leon
Dills, Billy Henry, Steve Hig
don, Bobby Joe Houston, Maur
rice Keener, David McClure, J.
P. Moore, Billy A. Moses, Billy
U. Moses. Harold Phillips. Char
les Pruitt. Billy Stanfield. Har
old Teem. Jeanette Amnions.
Virginia Berry. Evelyn Blanton.
Louise Deal, Willia Mae Early..
Evelvn Estes. Geneva Hedden. j
Shirley Henson. Frances Holl- j
and, Phyllis Holland. Betty.
Houston, Shirley Houston. Bar
bara Jean Keener. Linda Lee
Mashburn, Maxine Moore, Nan
cy Norris. Ninr. Norris. Kath
arine Williams, and Lavern
Young.
UNION: Eobbv Henry Cabe.
Bobby Ray C^be, Paul Cloer,
Bryant Hodgins, Johnny Hod
?>ins, Johnny Johnson, Bruce
Jones, Ralph Sanders. Billy
Shope, Fred Stiles, Gladys De
hart, Epsie Kirkland, Sybel La
Boone, Kaye Ledford, Wanda
Ledford, Lois McConnell, Kath
ryn Medlin. Janice Sanders,
Geraldwin Stockton, and Fran
ces Teague.
EAST FRANKLIN: Sue Bail
ey, Harve Linda Bryant, Co
leen Clouse, Joyce Lee Croom,
June Dills, Patricia Ann Doster,
Inez Guest, Peggy Sue Hodges,
Judy Hooker, Judy Houston,
Edith Leopard, Betty Mashburn,
Judy Mashburn, Dorothy Miller,
Lucille Miller, Marie Sanders,
James Corbin. Dale Dean, Don
ald Dills, Emory Elliott, Gil
mer Henry. Patrick Henry, Har
old Henry, Edward Shatley,
Robert Stephens, Jr.. Bill Tayl
or, Olin Wood, Lou Anne Saw
yer, Willard Browning, Lamar
Mason, and Harold Scott.
OTTO: Jason Anderson, Joe
Deane Beasley, Ray Brown. By
ron Curtis. Neal Long, Wesley
Shope, Lloyd Stamey, Cleveland
Stamey, Louis Vinson , Jean
Brabson, Deloris Cabe, Myrtis
Cabe, Peggy Dowdle, Lucy Hen
ry, Mary Rose Hopper, Fannie
Mae Holden, Joan Holden. Bar
bara Moffitt. Jean Moffitt, and
Mary Ann Peek.
CAKTOOGECHAYE : Doyle
Cloer. Dills. Johnny Dills,
Richard ?sor, Clyde Watts,
Belvia Anderson. Shirley Blaine.
Iva Lee Brookshire, Shirley
Dills. Lorraine Graham. Janet
C-reene. Betty Hawks, Shirley
Hopkin.-?, E :sie Mae LedbPttcr.
Frances McClure Carm-lla
Moses,. Nancy Rowland. Jacklvn
S \nders. and Lou Ellen Welch.
NANTAHALA: Jackie Solesbee.
Max Wi-hon. Joan Solesbee.
Pearly Owenby. Susie Denney.
Fiella Dills. Clifford Evans.
Kate Gretrory. Divce Waters, J.
D. Queen. Reva Morgan. Nancy
SEE NO. 3. PAGE 12
Shops, Forestry Aid At Coweeta,
Gets Service Award In Washington
In a ceremony Tuesday of
last week in Washington, D. C.
Charlie L (Jacki Shopc. for
estry aid at the Coweeta Hydro
loeic Laboratory, received a Su
perior Service Award ? for "skill
and efficiency in obtaining cli
matic and hydrologic data by
overcoming, field difficulties in
the continuous operation of
more than 100 recording instru
ments without failure during
1953".
The Macon native was one
of 83 employees of the U. S.
Department of Agriculture re
ceiving an award. Presentations
were made by Secretary Ezra
Ta't Benson.
Mr. Shope first joined the
staff at Coweeta in 1937 and
remained there until 1941 when
he joined the Army. As a
technical sergeant, he served
in the North African and ItaN
ian campaigns in World War II
and received the Bronze Star
Metal for meritorious service, j
He rejoined the Coweeta staff
following discharge from serv
ice.
His accomplishments, leading
to the award:
1. During the past eight years
he has perfected systematic
procedures for servicing record
ing instruments at field instal
lations. These procedures have
insured high-quality records,
served to detect potential in
struments failures, and have pro
duced data of maximum use
fulness and accuracy. His com
petence is partially indicated by
the practice of other research
centers to detail technicians Tor
training under Mr. Shope in
the servicing of recording in
struments at field installations.
2. He has recognized the need
for having recording instru
ments in perfect operating con
dition at all times. To accom
plish this, he prepared a dust
proof workshop with necessary
equipment for testing and ad
justing all new instruments be
fore placing them in the field,
and. using fine skill, has main
tained every field instrument,
bringing it into the shop twice
each year, thus avoiding instru
ment failures when operated in
the field under adverse mois
ture and temperature condit
ions. Also, he has developed
methods for rebuilding and re
placing worn parts in recording
instruments, and this has re
sulted In considerable savings
In the total costs, for instru
ment expenditures.
3. For the period of Septem
ber 1952 to December 1953 ro
chart records were loat from
Instrument failure ? a remark
able achievement.
Heated Speculation
Ranges From Victory
To Second Primary
Saturday, Macon Democrats
will set their sights on the bal
lot boxes in the county's 12
precincts for the Democratic
primary.
Polls will be open from 6:30
a. m. to 6:30 p. m.
Speculation In the "off-year"
primary is even more heated
than actual politicking, which
has yet to emerge from the
whisper stages. Off-the-cuff
guessing, especially in the U. S.
Senate and 20th District So
licitor races, range from a
walk-away victory for favored
candidates to predictions of a
second primary.
The determining factor ap
pears to be the number of vot
ers going to the polls. Since
this is an "off-year" election,
Elections Board Chairman Lee
Barnard said Tuesday a light
vote is anticipated, although
stepped-up efforts at the last
minute could bring the voters
out.
However, the record shows
the largest primary vote regis
tered in this county was in
"off-year" balloting. This was
in 1950 when a total of 3,237
votes were cast.
Meanwhile, the major fight
seems to be shaping up between
Sen. Alton A. Lennon and for
mer Gov. W. Kerr Scott, al
though five other candidates
are in this center-ring contest
for the U. S. Senate. The other
five are Alvin Wingfield, Jr., of
Charlotte, W. M. Bostick, of
Cary. Henry L. Sprinkle, of
Greensboro, A. E. Turner, of
Palmyra, and OUa Ray Boyd,
of Pinetown. Four of the seven
also are running for a short
term?Mr. Sprinkle, Mr. Scott,
Sen. Lennon, and Mr. Wingfield.
Another contest drawing con
siderable interest locally is for
solicitor of the district. Battling
for the nomination are incum
bent Thad D. Bryson, Jr., of
Bryson City and Franklin, for
mer Solicitor Grover C. Davis,
and Felix E. Alley, Jr., both
Waynesville attorneys.
Two other races are listed on
the state ballot. State Treasur
er Edwin Gill is opposed for
nomination by Joshua S. James.
Raleigh attorney; and Commis
j sioner of Insurance Charles F.
Gold is opposed by John F.
! Fletcher.
j Clay County this year picks
the state senator from the 33rd
Senatorial District, of which
Macon is .a part, under a rota
| tion system. Tom J. Herbert
' and H. M. Moore, both of Hay
e<ville. are seeking the nomi
nation.
The County line-up:
FOR SHERIFF: Sheriff J.
Harry Thomas, incumbent, op
posed by Charlie Curti.-. of
Otto.
FOR REGISTER OF DEEDS:
I.ake V. Shope. incumbent, un
; opposed."
FOR CLERK SUPERIOR
I COURT: Miss Kate McGee, in
cumbent unopposed.
FOR THE STATE HOUSE
! SEAT: G. L. Houk and C.
j Banks Finger, both Franklin at
torneys.
FOR MACON EDUCATION
BOARD: (five-member board'
John E. Smith, Western Caro
lina Telephone Company em
ployee; Frank Plyler. Franklin
businessman: E. B. Duvall, of
Franklin. Route 3: J. C. Sor
rells. of Franklin, incumbent;
Claude W. Cabe, of Otto, in
SEE NO. 4, PAGE 12
The Weather
The week's temperatures and rainfall, at
recorded in Franklin by Man son Stiles,
L\ S. weather observer, and at the Coweeta
Ilvdrologic Laboratory
FRANKLIN
Temperatures
High Low Rain
Wednesday 73 49
Thursday 66 44 .20
Friday ' 67 34
Saturday .74 30
Sunday 77 35
Monday 79 39
Tuesday 83 42
COWEETA
Temperatures
High Low Rain
Wednesday ...... . 73 42 trace
Thursday 57 41 .04
Friday 65 34 .04
Saturday 74 28
Sunday 75 34 ?
Monday 77 87 ?
Tuesday - 80 4l
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