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VOL. LXIX? NO. 32
FRANKLIN, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1954
FOURTEEN PAGES
BAPTIST MEET
OPENS TODAY
AT LONGVIEW
Session Tomorrow
At Ellijay Church;
Speakers Listed
The 51st annual session of
the Macon Baptist Association
opens this (Thursday i morning
at the Longview church at 10
o'clock with the Rev. m. W.
Chapman, moderator, presiding.
Tomorrow's closing session
will be held at the Ellijay
church beginning at 9:30 o'clock.
Both sessions will be marked
by reports and consideration of
association business. Several
church leaders from over the
state are scheduled to speak on
different phases of the demon
lnatlon's activities, according to
a program made public by Mr.
Chapman.
At today's opening session at
the Longview church, out-of
county speakers will include W.
C. Reed, superintendent of
Baptist orphanages, Dr. W. K.
McGee, of Baptist Hospital in
Winston-Salem, James M.
Hayes, superintendent of the
home for the aged In Winston
Salem, R. m. Hauss, of Shelby,
a representative of the Allied
Church League, Claude P. Gad
dy, of Raleigh, secretary of
Christian Education, 1 C. W.
Bazemore, of Raleigh, represen
tative of the Bibical Recorder,
and J. C. Canipe, of Hender
sonville, superintendent of evan
gelism.
The Rev. Manuel Wyatt, pas
tor of the Mt. Hope church in
this county, will preach the
doctrinal sermon at 11:30
o'clock.
Members of the association
slated to give reports include
the Rev. Lyman Wilson, the
Rev. John Buell, the Rev. Arvll
Swafford, Fred Cortrin, Mr.
Chapman, J. H. Brooks hire, the
the Rev. W. N. Cook, the Rev.
Joe Bishop, and Gordon Talley.
This session will adjourn at
3:30, the moderator said.
Tomorrow's program at Elli
jay includes the missionary
?sermon at 11:30 by the Rev.
John Buell, pastor of the High
lands church. Horace Easom, of
Shelby, Brotherhood secretary,
and Dr. M. A. Huggins, of Ral
eigh, general secretary repre
senting the Baptist State Con
vention, will appear on the pro
gram.
The Rev. R. Ouffie, the Rev.
Jarvls Underwood, Mrs. Vernon
SEE NO. 1, PAGE 10
STATE BOYS HEBE
For a while Monday, Frank
lin looked like a college campus
as students from N. C. State
College arrived for a six weeks'
summer forestry camp at the
?old Wayah Depot at Arrowood.
The college is using the de
pot on a special use permit Is
sued by the Forest Service.
? Franklin Press Photo
FOUR OF THE FIVE SCOUTS slated to be initiated in the Order of the Arrow at Camp
Daniel Boone this week-end are shown talking with Eagle Scout Ben Edwards (left), who is
chief of the district order. ThS Scouts are (L to R) Gary McKelvey, Lewis Cabe, Tommy Gnuse,
and Gilmer Henry. The fifth Scout, Herbert McKelvey, was absent when the picture was taken.
Couple Sees Swain Airplane
Crash - "We Know Its There'
V
"We saw that airplane go down and we intend to stick by
our story", Mrs. Harold Dillard declared emphatically, adding:
"We don't care if they believe it or not ... we know it's
| there."
The airplane Mrs. Dillard and her husband say they saw "on
; fire" and crashing in Swain County July 25 still has not been
found, although an air and ground search of the area has been
made. Neither has any trace been found of the pilot Mr. and
Mrs. Dillard say they saw parachute out of the burning craft.
Nonetheless, the couple, who were on their way here for a
visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Parrish at West's Mill,
when they saw the plane, .refuse to be swayed ? especially Mrs.
Dillard.
"It was real ... a definite fact," she said In a telephone In
terview with The Press this week, "and others In the locality
say they saw It too."
And she thinks she knows why the plane hasn't been located.
She and her husband were In a hurry when they saw the plane,
she explained, and passed the Information on to another auto
mobile of people, who stopped to see what the trouble was.
,'This fellow went on to Bryson City to report It and we went
on (toward Franklin) because we were behind time ... I guess
be was a stranger and gave the wrong directions."
The Dillards, who live In Sylva, were on the Franklin side of
Horse Shoe Bend when they first saw the burning plane and
she says she saw It disappear In the direction of the Needmore
section.
She said she saw the plane first and "yelled to my husband
to look at that big ball of fire ... he saw It too."
Her husband then spotted the falling parachute, she recalled,
and he said "look, there's a parachute". He then stopped the
car beside the road, but by that time had lost sight of it, Mrs.
Dillard said.
"It all happened so quickly we thought It might have been
enemy action or something," the former beauty operator at
Pearl's Beauty Shop in Franklin said. "But my husband was in
Europe In World War II and he knows an airplane when he
sees one."
And she repeated: "We saw that airplane go down ... we
know it's there!"
ORDER CALLS !
5 Borscoms
Five Boy Scouts of Franklin,
Troop 1, have been selected for
initiation into the Order of the
Arrow, a national brotherhood
of Scout honor campers recog
nizing those who best exempli
fy the Scout oath and law in
their daily lives.
The five are Herbert Mc
Kelvey, Tommy Gnuse, Lewis
Cabe, Gary McKelvey, and Gil
mer Henry. They will leave to
morrow (Friday) for Camp Dan
iel Boone where the Induction
ceremony will be held.
Another Franklin Scout, Eagle
Ben Edwards, is chief of the
Order of the Arrow lodge, which
Is made up of the 14 counties
of the Daniel Boone Council in
Western North Carolina.
Agent Wren
On The Job
John Wren reported for duty
here Monday morning u assis
1 tant county agent.
The South Carolina native,
who is a former assistant agent
of Cherokee County, Is staying
at the home of Mrs. S. W. Men
denhalL
When his appointment was
announced earlier in the month,
It was termed "temporary" by
District Farm Agent W. B. Col
lins.
The new assistant agent is
single and Is a veteran of World
War II.
AUGUST 24 |
OPENING SET
FOR SCHOOLS
Shepard Is Appointed
Principal At Chapel;
Hines Going To Badin
back-to-schooi trek for
most of Macon's estimated 3 800
school children will take place
away less than three weeks
An exception will be Hieh
szjsn .which
open until September 7. Coun
fC ?' Supt Holland Mc
flkfwprtSat thls sch(K51 has been
vacation ^ 6X end ,ts summe?
vacation because a large num
rtf.rw ?*udents hol<l down Jobs
during the tourist season, which
runs through Labor Day Tsep
tember 6) in the resort town
However, the lost days will be
made up during the school year
the superintendent said.
cthe opening dates
of the 1954-55 school year in
fnf1 th St?l0n Monday morn
Macon County Board
of Education filled some teach
ing vacancies and appointed a|
new principal. Previously the
fnralth h?d approved teachers
ior the new year.
Mr. McSwain reported three
aPS^1' lXiSt' ?ne
j Highlands, Franklin High
and Chapel. All will be filled
he said. ?P6ning ?f sch001
. ,piacing some teachers, the
anrt iJ??Ve? Mlss Nina Howard
and Miss Veva Howard from
SEE NO. 2, PAGE 10
largecrowds
SEE FESTIVAL
Winners Of 3-Night
Jaycee-Sponsored
Event Announced
FESTIVAL ? With Layout P i
An estimated 4,800 pairs oir
fnM?r and Siting ? took
m three entertainment-packed
nights of the 2nd Annual Ma
cro County Folk Festival at the
Franklin Stadium Thursday
Friday, and Saturday, and set
what is probably a new attend
ance record in the entertain
ment Une here.
The mountain entertainment
line-up was authentic and com
plete ? string bands, square
(over 12); Jay Dowdle, banjo
pickers, clog dancers, singers'
and specialty acts. The dancers
??d ?"?lclans. all local talent,
out the opening night
and then settled down to the
stiff competition for blue rtb
tw^n?gnhtsCMh aWardS the lMt
On the opening night, the
sponsoring Franklin Jaycees re
ported attendance at approxi
SEE NO. 3, PAGE 10
'Serious' Rabies
Problem Is Aired
Farm-Home
Field Day
Next Week
A Farm and Home Field Day
? the "new look" on the Ma
con agricultural front ? is set
for staging next Thursday
(August 12 1 by the Agricultural
Council on the Franklin High
School grounds.
This new idea of a field day j
featuring practical labor saving
devices for the farm and home
is being held this year In place
of the annual farm tour, and if
farm families show enough in- i
terest it probably will be used :
for several years to come, Coun
SEE NO. 4, PAGE 10
Mrs. Long
Sweeps Show
Of Flowers
?
Mrs. J. Ward Long nearly
turned the Franklin Garden
Club's annual flower show into
her personal exhibition Satur
day by winning the sweepstakes
award and one of the two tri
color awards.
The show, held In the high
school cafeteria, drew 46 en
trants this year with 163 en
tries in the three show divis
ions.
Mrs. Long's tri-color award
was in the Arrangements Divis
ion. The other tri-color honor,
in the Horticulture Division,
went to Mrs. T. M. Dec 1c man.
Using the theme of "Country
Gardens", this year's show was
considered one of the most suc
cessful staged by the club.
Judging was by Miss Louise
Ballard, of Lake Junaluska, Mrs.
George Holcomb, also of Lake
Junaluska, Miss Nan Kill lan, of
Waynesvllle, Mrs. A. W. Bot
toms, of Canton, and Mrs. O. E.
Young,, of Highlands. All are
accredited Judges, according to
Mrs. A R. Hlgdon, show chair
man, and the standard Judging
system was used.
During the 11 and a half
hours the show was open to
the public Saturday and Sun
day, more than 250 persons
viewed the exhibits In the cafe
teria, Mrs. Hlgdon reported.
In addition to the top awards
to Mrs. Long and Mrs. Deck
man, the Judges handed out 48
blue ribbons, 29 reds, and 13
whites.
Winners by divisions are as
follows :
HORTICULTURE: Zinnias ?
SEE NO. 5, PAGE 10
Public Not Heeding
Quarantine, Health
Officials Tell Board
A "serious" rabies problem,
heightened by a lackadaisical
public attitude toward the pres
ent quarantine, was dumped
into the lap of the Board of
County Commissioners Monday
morning by health officials and
private citizens.
The two factions agreed only
on one , point:
The public, for the most part,
Is ignoring the 30-day rabies
quarantine imposed July 15 and
dogs are running loose all over
the county.
Appointment of a dog warden
and funds to finance an all
dyit war on stray dogs, which
the health department says are
spreading rabies over the coun
ty, were requested of the com
missioners by Sanitarian H. T.
Collins, Dr. O. H. Burnside, the
Rev. A. Rufus Morgan, and Siler
Slagle.
Officially, the board took no
action on the request, but
Chairman W. E. (Gene* Bald
win suggested a "wait and see"
period to the end of the pres
ent quarantine before deciding
if the situation is serious
enough to warrant action by
the board.
Public Cooperation
"I think we can do the job
by education . . . requesting the
people to cooperate and put up
all dogs", the chairman said. -
Dr. Burnside, county rabies
inspector, took the other side
of this attitude by declaring:
"There is no need to say the
situation doesn't exist ... it Is
serious now and it won't get
any better until we take some
positive action."
At the present time, the Car
toogechaye Community is being
hard hit by an outbreak of
SEE NO. 6, PAGE 10
The Weather
The week's temperatures and rainfall, as
recorded in Franklin by Manson Stiles,
U. S. weather observer, and at the C owe eta
Hydrologic Laboratory:
FRANKLIN
Temperatures
High Low Rain
Wednesday 88 62
Thursday 90 00 .07
Friday 91 84
Saturday 93 00 .07
Sunday 89 02 .93
Monday ?... 93 60 ....
Tuesday 87 03 .00
COWEETA
Temperatures
High Low Rain
Wednesday 85 58
Thursday 86 57
Friday 87 58 trace
Saturday 88 58 .01
Sunday ? 88 59
Monday 86 60 .47
Tuesday 87 69 .29
Here's Panorama Of Macon County Folk Festival At Franklin Stadium
Several thousand persons were on hand for the second
k annual Macon .County Folk Festival at the Franklin stadium
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights. Here are some of
/ the things they saw: (L to R) Hayes Junior Carver picks
out a fast on$ on his home-made banjo ? a 2 by 4 for the
neck, a wormy chestnut box, and ground hog hide; Fiddler
Charlie Crisp saws but .some real old titney notes from his
instrument, while taking in the guitar and singing antics of
Miss Penny Moore, of Asheville, who performed hut did not
compete in the show; the children of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney
Clay, Dianne and Donnie, were sure show-stoppers as they
sang and played their way into the hearts of the audience ;
Fred (Shorty) Kirkland. the "tallest" performer at the festi
val, stoically picks his banjo; "Where's the music", says six
year-old Bobby Ray Carver, whose buck dancing brought
round after round of applause from the audience. Now it's
?3?rrrk?hyJ. P. Brmdy
the gals turn to show how buck (lancing is done ? Misses
Ruth Brown, Beverly Higdon, and Margaret Crawford;
"Been blowing (harmonica) since I was old enough to
blow," comments Frank Cunningham, 74, as he warms up
his audience and gets a smile from Hunter Young, who ac
companies on the guitar; another show-stopper wa$ the
Franklin senior square dance team, shown making an intri
cate maneuver;