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VOL. LXIX? NO. 48
FRANKLIN, N. C, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 24, 2954
TWELVE PAGI
ANNUAL RED
CROSS MEET
IS TUESDAY
Election Slated,
Chairman Reports,
At V. F. W. Home
The election of new oflicers
and reports from committee
chairmen will be chief items
of business at the annual meet- !
ing of the Macon chapter of
the American Red Cross on
Tuesday night at the V. F. W.
building on Palmer Street.
Present officers are Z. Weav
er Shope, chairman; W. R.
Potts, vice-chairman; Mrs.
Elizabeth McCollum, executive
secretary; and J. C. Jacobs,
treasurer.
In announcing the meeting,
which is set for 7:30, the chair
man cited the following work
accomplished by the chapter in
the past year:
Sponsored the Bloodmobile;
sponsored and paid an instruc
tor for water safety and first
aid courses in the summer ?
about 30 beginners learned to
swim; helped about 15 distress
ed travelers passing through
county; gave about $200 to peo
ple whose home and furnish
ings burned; gave clothes to
some families whose children
could not have attended school
otherwise; made loans of $150
to servicemen; spent $240 for
calls for servicemen to get
emergency leaves because of
situations at home; made .regu
lar reports to the Veterans Ad- |
ministration; and assisted vic
tims in hurricanes and other
national emergencies through
the national chapter.
Committee chairmen, who are |
scheduled to make reports on
the past year's activities, in
clude Mrs. Gladys Kinsland,
Junior Red Cross; Mrs. Mae ]
Shope, Home Nursing; Miss Las
sie Kelly, Production; E. J.
Whitmire, Disaster; W. W.
Sloan, First Aid; J. H. Stock
ton, Finance; Mrs. Lester Con
ley, Publicity; and Mrs. Charles
Ferguson, Home Service.
Louisa Chapel
Slates Supper
Saturday Night
A bulldozer Monday broke
ground for the proposed new
Louisa Chapel Methodist Church
as members of the congrega
tion completed plans for hold
ing a boxsupper and Bingo
party Saturday night at Frank
lin High School to raise money
for the new church building.
The fund-raising supper will
be served in the cafeteria at
7:30, and Bingo will follow the
meal, it wa^ said.
As soon as the new Louisa
Chapel is built, the church
plans to sell the old building to
the highest bidder. The new
building will be erected next to
the old one.
New Licenses
Go On Sale
December 1
Automobiles of all vintages
will start displaying North Car
olina's 1955 colors of black and
yellow December 1 when new
license tags go on sale.
The '55 plate ? still only one
? has a black background and
yellow numerals, the reverse of
the 54's, according to Verlon
Swafford, manager of the local
Carolina Motor Club, which sells
the tags.
When announcing the open
ing date this week, Mr. Swaf
ford urged all local motorists
to buy early in order to avoid
the inevitable last-minute rush
that produces long lines and
short tempers.
Adding suhstance to his re
quest, the manager pointed out
that 1954 license sales through
the local office were consider
ably higher than for the pre*
vious year. Through last Thurs
day, the office had sold 6,309
tags, as compared with 4,543
for a corresponding period the
year before.
Pocket registration cards,
which must be presented when
purchasing tags, are being mail
ed this week, he said.
In regard to obtaining truck
license, Mr. Swafford said own
ers must fill out the blanks on
the back of the ? pocket regis
tration card before requesting
a license. Under changes made
by the 1953 legislature, a truck
license is issued on the basis of
the owner's declaration as to
the empty weight and maximum
load of vehicle.
The deadline for purchasing
tags is December 31. However,
as a rule the state grants a
30-day grace period before ar
rests are made.
The local C.M.C. office is sit
uated in the rear of the West
ern Auto Associate Store on
Main Street in F.ranklin.
TANK BIDDER
FROM GEORGIA
Cole Concern Gets
Job; Foundation
Work Begins Soon
R. D. Cole Manufacturing
Company, of Newnan, Ga? was
low bidder with $8,545 for a
153,000-gallon water tank for
south Franklin.
The Georgia concern was one
of five submitting bids, which
were opened by the Franklin
Board of Aldermen in special
session last Thursday night.
\The tank is being erected pri
marily to serve the new Burl
ington Mills hosiery plant,
which is to be built just out
side the city limits on US 23
441, according to town officials.
However, the increased pressure
produced by the new tank will
mean better service to all water
.customers in the area, it has
b'ron pointed out. The town re
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? Staff Phato by J. P. Brady
CHEERING ON Richard Renshaw, probably much more
lustily than others, at the Optimist Bowl in Asheville on Thanks
giving Day will be Miss Nancy Sutton, the speedy Franklin
back's "steady". Above, the two are wrapped up in some pre
game chatter.
Another Panther back, Bobby Womack, was called to Ashe
ville <m Saturday for a berth with the west when a player from
another high school In the area dropped out.
THANKSGIVING, 1954
? Staff Photo by J. P. Brady
Three-year-old Rebecca Carson, daughter of Air. and Mrs. R. IX Carson,
of Franklin, "helps mommy" with a Thanksgiving flyer ? ol' Tom Turkey.
Highlands
Lions Club
Chartered
| Highlands officially became
;the 11,005th Lions Club in the
; world last Thursday night at a
i special charter presentation
I dinner at the Methodist church.
The club, which is headed by
W. Neville Bryson, is the eighth
new one organized in District
31-A in recent months, accord
ing to officers of the Franklin
club, which sponsored High
lands.
Alston Broom, of Asheville,
I district governor, presented the
charter to Mr. Bryson, who, in
accepting, pledged his organiza
! tion to the service of the
Highlartds community and fur
thering Lion work.
The charter event opened
with/ the call to order by' Elbert
Angel, president of the Frank
lin club, who later in the eve
ningpresented a gave! and gong
to Highlands oil behalf of his
club. ? f
Hugh Conipe, of the Haw
Creek Lions Club, introduced
Roy A. Taylor, of Asheville, in
ternational councilor, who serv
ed as toastmaster for the occa
sion,
?Another international council
or, Robert R. Burns, of Candler,
was guest speaker.
Congratulations to the new
club and its members were ex
tended by W. E. Michael, jr.. of
Asheville, cabinet .secretary^
treasurer.
The meal was arranged by
the Young People of the Meth
odist church.
D._ . D1
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Lioiis Speaker
Heinz Rollman, originator of
the "World Construction" plan,
outlined his movement, which
he feels will do much toward
bringing world peace, to the
Franklin Lions club Monday
night at the regular meeting ol
the club.
The basis of^the program out
lined by the speaker, who was
run out of Germany and Hol
land by the Nazis before com
ing to the United States, is that
America furnish an army of
three million men, who would
go to other countries and show
them American "know how"
and impress the American spirit
SEE NO. 3, I- AGE 12
MRS. HASTINGS DEAD
Mrs. Wymer Hastings died
sometime during Monday night
at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. Frank Mason, at Prentiss.
Mrs. Hastings was found dead
yest*fday (Tuesday! morning.
HOOKER GETS
BAPTIST POST
Franklin Man Named
Regional Brotherhood
President At Meeting
W. K. (Ken) Hooker, of
Franklin, is the new regional
president of the Baptist Broth
erhood organization.
He was named to the post at
the state-wide meeting of the
Brotherhood in Charlotte on
November 15.
A member of the First Bap
tist Church, Mr. Hooker is the
Mr. Hooker
immediate past president of his
chiirch Brotherhood.
At. the Charlotte meeting,
which was attended by some 700
from over the state, the Rev.
M. W. Chapman, pastor of the
i-ir.st church here, was guest
speaker.
Others attending from the
Franklin church included W. C.
Burrell. B. B. Scott, J. C. Jac
obs. Gu.i Baldwin, and Curtis
Pearson.
MISSIONARY TO PREACH
The Rev. 1 "ayne MiAffer. n ? ?
iona'. to Bva"il will piep"h
the Cartooueciiaye Church of Go i
Friday evcnifi': at 7 p.m. Church
officials said the public is invited.
INSTALL YULE LIGHTS
Members of the Franklin Vol
unteer Fire Department install
ed Christmas lights along Main
Street early Sunday morning.
However, the lights will not be
turned on for several weeks.
SPONSORING DANCE
The junior class of Highlands
High School has announced
plans for holding a Thanksgiv
ing dance at Helen's Barn at
8:30 p. m. Saturday to raise
money for Its annual trip to
Washington, D. C.
I
Band Fund
Nets $900
From Event
An estimated 2,000 bargain
hunters swarmed through East
Franklin School auditorium Sat
urday night to shout ' bids on
i items for auction at the P.T.A.
i sponsored "harvest sale".
When the din had settled
around the hoarse-voiced auc
tioneers about 11 o'clock, the
school stage ? which had been
| stacked almost ceiling high a
few hours earlier with about
everything imaginable had
been picked clean, but the Ma
con Band Boosters Club was
, $900.14 closer to paying for the
$3,500 worth of instruments re
i cently purchased for the burn
ed-out band.
Mrs.' Frank M. Killian, sale
chairman. Monday deposited the
money to the Boosters' account
at the bank.
Sponsored by both the Frank
lin and East Franklin P.T.A.'s,
the sale went beyond "all ex
pectations". Mrs. Killian said,
particularly expressed her ap
preciation to the parents of
children outside of Franklin,
Who contributed enough food
;md produce to fe?d a sizeable
army.
At the saiie time, officials of
tii" Boosters club offered their
thanks to both associations and
all v ho helped with the sale.
? Impossible" items donated
for the sale pre ? 'lt^d no chal
SEE NO. 4. PAGE 12
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moving On
The last of Macon's old frann1
high schools is drifting into the
panes of history after more
than 45 years' of faithful serv
ice.
Higdonville Hifh School ? un
wanted as an institution of
learning after post-war consoli
dation ? now finds itself giving
way to more p-ogress.
The members of the Higdon
ville Baptist Church, who have
u<cd the old hi^h school as a
church since purchasing it from
the county in 1948, are razing
the old building and erecting
a new church in its place.
Built in 1908, the Higdonville
school was one of the first
high schools in the county. Mrs.
C. W Crawford recalls that it
was founded by the late Pro
fessor Madison, founder and
first president of Western Car
SEE NO. i>, PAGE 12
Services To Mark
Thanksgiving Here
JUDGES EYE j:
COMMUNITY
Holly Springs Is
Visited For Judging
In W. N. C. Contest
Macon's prize-winning Holly
Springs community came under
the scrutiny of the three judges
of the W. N. C. Rural Commun
ity Development Contest last
Thursday.
As the top community in the
county rural contest, Holly
Springs represents Macon in the
rea event.
The area contest judge? are
~)r. E. J. Niederfrank, of Wash
ington, D. C., community de
velopment specialist with the U.
Department of Agriculture,
Miss Lucia Brown, of Birming
ham, Ala., associate home ed
itor of The Progressive Farmer,
and Dr. S. C. Mayo, of Raleigh,
rural sociologist at N. C. State
College.
Morris McGough, head of the
Asheville Agricultural Council,
sponsor of the area contest, ac
companied the judges here.
In 1952, Holly Springs ? then
one of two Macon communities
participating in community de
velopment ? placed fifth in the
W. N. C. event.
McKelvey Gets
District Scout
Position Again
R. E. McKelvey, of Frankliri, 1
was reelected chairman of the
Smoky Mountain Boy Scout Dis- 1
trict at a meeting of adult ;
leaders of the three-county dis- j
trict here Friday night.
Another Franklin leader, H.
H. Gnuse, Jr., was reelected dis-.|
trict commissioner.
Committee chairmanships go- !
ing to Franklin men included
the Rev. S. B. Moss, co-chair
man of advancements; B. L. |
Mr. McKelvey
McGlamcry. finance; Holland
McSwain, organization and e
tension; B. B. Scott, camping;
and J. P. Brady, publicity.
John Edwards, formerly of
'his county, who i, now living
in Gierwiile, w.i.i reelected vice
c'hnitman of the district.
Tiu' me'" ting w* held at the
Nantaha'a i'iW :? and Livht
Company.
SHKRII i' AT S( IIOOL
Macon Sheriff J. Harry Thom
as' attended a special .school for
N'. C. .sheriffs and law enforce
ment oilicers at the Institute of
Government in Chapel Hill
Wet'nestlpy through Saturday.
He was accompanied by A. G.
Cagle, of Franklin.
MRS. CAKE DIES
Mrs. Daisy McPhersOn Cabe,
75. of the Riverside community,
died Monday night at the home
of her son. George Robert Cabe,
Franklin, Route 2. Services are
planned today ' Wednesday i at
Union Methodist Church at 2:30
p. m.
IS SCOUT SECRETARY
Explorer Scout Tommy Gnuse,
of Franklin, was elected secre
tary of the Smoky Mountain
chapter of the Tsali Lodge.
Order of the Arrow, at a meet
i ing here last Thursday night.
The chapter covers Jackson,
i Macon, and Swain counties.
ATTENDS CONFERENCE
] Mrs. Beth Guffey, Macon
elementary supervisor, attended
the state-wide supervisor's con
ference in Southern Pines three
days last week.
Maconians will mark Thanks
giving, 1954, with traditional
church services, turkey dinners
with relatives and friends, and
hunting ? much in the same
manner as their forebearers did
after landing at Plymouth in
1620.
With the exception of a few
service stations, businesses
throughout the county plan to
close Thursday for the holiday.
A number, however, will be open
all day tomorrow (.Wednesday),
PAPER IS EARLY
This week's issue of The
Press is reaching subscribers
a day early ? Wednesday in
stead of Thursday ? because
of Thanksgiving.
This change in schedule is
made each year so rural sub
scribers can receive the news
paper before Friday, since
there is no mail delivery on
the routes o.n the holiday.
instead of closing at noon.
This year's Thanksgiving Day
union service in Franklin is
scheduled for the St. Agnes
Episcopal Church at 8 a. m.,
under the sponsorship of all
churches in town. The Rev.
Bryan Hatchett, Presbyterian
pastor, will preach. A commun
ity choir, composed of voices
from all church choirs, will be
on the program. Mrs. H. W.
Cabe will be organist. Host pas
tor for the service is the Rev.
A. Rufus Morgan.
In Highlands, the community
service will be held at the Bap
tist chtttch at 10 a. m., with
ail pastors participating. ?
A special service also is plan
ned at 10 a. m. at the Iotla
Methodist Cbyrch. yhe pastor,
the Rev. U. J. Hahn, will preach,
using as his subject, "Thankful!
For What?"
Persons of all denominations
are invited to attend the serv
ices.
Thanksgiving also will herald
the opening of several hunting
seasons, particularly quail,
pheasants, and rabbits.
Parker Revival
Drawing Crowds
A one-time pastor of the
First Baptist Church is drawing
large crowds to nightly revivals
at his former church.
He is the Rev. Charles E.
Parker, who is now pastor of
the First church in New Bern.
Mr. Parker opened his week
long revival series Sunday eve
ning and will hold services
nightly at 7:30 through Sunday,
November 28.
While he rp, the guest preach
er is staying at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Stiles.
Mr. Parker was pastor of the
Franklin church before going
to Ne Bern.
As a prelude to the opening
f t lie revival series, the church
eld a work of cottage prayer
meetings throughout Franklin.
Tuesday night, the church
ninth- 1 hood held a father-son
banquet at which the Rev. John
"uoll. pastor o: the Highlands
'mrch. was speaker. Following
'he b.inquet. Mie men and boys
ttem'. u Mr. Parker's service in
a body,
The Weather
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FRANKLIN
Temperatures
High Low Rain
Wed.. Nov. 17 67 45
Thursday 63 49 trace
Friday 65 48 .35
Saturday 59 43
Sunday 56 37
Monday 70 22
HIGHLANDS
Temperatures
High Low Rain
Wed . Nov. 17 54 48 .98
Thursday 54 52 .09
Friday 53 43 .23
Saturday 56 32 .66
Sunday 52 32 trace
Monday 48 24
COWEETA
Temperatures
High Low Rain
Wed., Nov. 17 62 48 .51
Thursday 62 52 trace
Friday 81 51 .33
Saturday 59 37 .44
Sunday 55 31
Monday 55 22
Tuesday 32 28