FOR COMPLETE *1 Electric Service and Supplies Phone SC OR SEE J. P. WURST Tellico 4-H Picks Officers By MAX1NE MORGAN (Club Reporter) The Tellico 4-H Club met Friday, December 10, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd TiReiut* ^ ^ C"l666 UQM?MUMifTS-SMM MSTHCUO Ramsey and elected new offic ers for the year. They Include Frank Ramsey, president, Jeasie Lee Morgan, vice-president, Joann Sawyer, secretary, Marine Morgan, re porter, Joyce Cole and Joyce Ramsey, program leaders, and Mrs. Faye Cowan, song leader. A Christmas program also was held. The club sponsored a radio ! program and the funds will be used for the Telllco community development. Average farm ponds cost ap proximately $1,000 per acre of water, according to pond special ists. The gift that fits into everyone's dreams ljooking for a practical gift to place among the youngsters' toys on Christinas morning? Stumped for a gift idea for an out-of-town relative? or for your wife or husband? Then let us suggest a gift that means something personal and precious for tverytne?r U.S. Savings Bond. For Bonds bring people closer to the goals they're saving for? and to the financial security they're longing for. That's why millions of Americans are in cluding Bonds on their gift lists this Christ mas. And Bonds, increasing in value every six months, are a constant and growing reminder of your thoughtfulness long after Other gifts are forgotten. Make our bank one of your shopping stops this year. And while you're here, let us explain how easy it is to give ? savings account as ? gift? and to open a checking account for yourself. Give the gift of security? with United States Savings Bonds X Ac I/. S. CoHrnnnl doet not pay fir Out advertising. The Twinry D? port nnl thank* , far their patriotic donation, the Advertising Council M THE BANK OF FRANKLIN Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Let Us Do Your Christmas Shopping For You: ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS TO LJST THE NAMES, WITH AD DRESSES, OF THOSE TO WHOM YOU WANT TO SEND GIFTS . . . WE'LL DO THE REST. GIVE Subscriptions to THE FRANKLIN PRESS A subscription to The Press makes the Ideal Gift. It's EASY ... no shopping. And it will be enjoyed all the year through. You don't even have to write a card! Come in, write us, or telephone us, giving us your name and the name of the person to whom you want The Press sent. We'll send an attractive Christmas card explaining that you are sending 52 issues of The Press as a Christmas gift. ($2.50 inside Macon County, $3 outside the county.) THE FRANKLIN PRESS Phone 24 CARSON SETS COMMITTEES FOR NEW YEAR Gloup Will Meet Saturday To Work On Yule Display By J. FRED BRYSON (Community Reporter) Plans were made and commit tees appointed for the coming year at Friday night's meeting of the Carson Rural Commun ity Development Organization at the community building. It was decided to finish the interior of the community building, put in the septic tank, and improve the grounds so there will be more adequate space for picnics. A building and grounds improvement com mittee was appointed to make plans and supervise all of this is our main project of the pear. N. A. Waldroop was nam ;d to head this committee and the others on it are Adolph Zoellner, George Conley, J. P. Conley, and Weaver Hurst. Other committees appointed were : Program: Bill Raby, Mrs. B. L. Sherrill, J. Fred Bryson, and Mrs. Ernest Wallace. Scrapbook: Mrs. Fred S. Moore, ] Mrs. J. R. Ray, Mrs. Earl Cabe, and .Mrs. N. A. Waldroop. Religious Activities: stewards; 3f the churches of the com- j munity. Beautification: Ernest Wal lace, Gilmer Waldroop, and Zeb Childers. Agriculture: W. R. Pressley, J. P. Cunningham, and N. A. Wal droop. Recreation: Mrs. J. P. Conley, Mrs. Helen Wallace, and Mrs. W. R. Pressley. Youth: Mrs. J. P. Cunning ham, Mrs. Harry Stoudemire, and Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Wal droop. Health: Mrs. Jeff Enloe, Jr., Mrs. Fred Bryson, and Mrs. Gil mer Waldroop. Ways and Means: Mrs. J. P. Cunningham, Mrs. Dan R. Reynold*, and Mrs. Homer Greene The Christmas scene on the picnic grounds was discussed and It was planned to erect a nativity scene. Several have volunteered to meet Saturday with tools at 1 p. m. and start work on It. Church To Get Higdonville's Prize Money By MRS. HARRY MOSES (Community Reporter i The $50 won by the Higdon ville Rural Community Develop ment Organization in the re cent rural contest will be given to the new church now under construction in the community. This was decided at a meet- i ing of the group last Thursday night at the Cullasaja School. Mrs. Jessie D. Cabe -andJames Flanagan, explained how the GOT COLD MISERIES? 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ALL of the money we collected last year... from ALL of our passenger business . . . amounted to about ONE THIRD of our total TAX BILL! What happened TO all these tax dollars? Many of them never got very "far from home". In fact $14l/2 million ended up in state, county and local tax treasuries along the lines of the Southern. Here they went to work for your community ? helping to pay for schools and their maintenance . . . police and fire protection . . . highways and streets . . . many other vital public services. As a taxpayer, yourself, it is personally important to you that the railroads contribute, through their tax payments, to the support of your community. It also is important to you that the railroads pay all their own costs of doing business, without help from the taxpayers. But the railroads cannot forever continue as taxpaying, self-supporting private enterprises if they must forever continue to compete for business with transportation agencies supported in part by your tax dollars, and ours. No industry can! Prr?