Net PaUl CIRCULATION Last Week 2757 Sfte ffcmMiit if t?? 3%* JIUttmian PRICE 10 Cents 70th Year ? ? No. 22 Franklin, N. C., Thursday, June 2, 1955 Twelve Pages I, t:-* -mmmmmmmm i ? PERSONAL INVITATIONS to help Franklin celebrate its 100th birthday June 16, 17, and 18 were extended to Sen. W. Kerr , Scott (left), and Congressman George A. Shuford by Gen evieve Whitmire, who was in Washington recently as a delegate from Mid.wood School in Charlotte for "National Safety Week". Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Whitmire, of Franklin and Char lotte, she presented "Brushy Brother" badges to the two law makers. Both men said they hope to attend. CENTENNIAL SCENE ? Hodges Confirms Invitation; 'Struttm' Day' Saturday Gov. Luther H. Hodges this week officially accepted Frank lin's invitation to attend and take part in its 100th incor porated birthday June 16. 17. and 18. By telephone Friday the gov ernor discussed Centennial plans with School Supt. Holland McSwain, celebration co-chair man, and told him he would be here the 16th to crown -Miss Centennial" and ded' :.i;e the municipal building. Previously, the state's chief executive had only tentatively accepted the invitation. With the three-da;' celebra tion only two weeks away, the first of two planned "Struttin* Days" will be staged in town all day Saturday to give an ad vance preview of whi\t "Brushy Brothers" and "Belies of the Bustle" will be wearing later on. All "brothers" and "belles" are urged to turn out Saturday in their Centennial finery. Another "Struttin' Day" also will be observed the following Saturday, Juno 11. Registration For Band This SumT^r Is Called Registration for instruction in band this summer has been called for Monday at 9 a. m. at Franklin High School. Director T. A. Orr said this applies to all members of the county band who would like to keep in practice during the summer. He said practice sessions probably will be held three times weekly. Full rehearsals are planned along with march ing instruction and individual instrument coaching. PARADE ON SATURDAY A Baptist associational vaca tion Bible school parade will be held in Franklin on Saturday morning beginning at 10 o'clock. The Macon County Band will lead the parade, which will start at the First Baptist Church. Softball Play To Open Tuesday Softball league play will get under way Tuesday night with a double-header In the Frank lin High Stadium. At o meeting of team man agets Tuesday night, James Hau.r.' >vas sleeted commission er and H. T. Collins chief um pire. Seven teams have signed for the league. They are Jaycees, Cov.?e, Lions. Nantanaia Power and Light. Oilers, Rotary, and V F. W. Double-headers will be played every Tuesday and Friday nights, the first game at 7. the second at 3:30. The Jaycees and Cowee will Ciosh Tuesday 'night in the opening game. The second game will be between the Lions and Nantahala Power. Admission has been set at 10 c^nts for students and 25 for adults. Youth Center Meet Called More planning for a proposed youth center in Franklin is on tap at a special meeting of in terested citizens next Wednes day (June 3 1 at Slagle Memorial Building. The meeting is set for 7:30. The present plan is to build on land donated for the center by A. A. Siler. H. G. Welch, local plumber, has offered free labor for installing all plumb ing at the center. Several fund raising projects are now being readied to fi nance construction of a build ing. Bus To Cullowhee A bus to carry local students to Cullowhee for summer school will leave from the county courthouse Monday morning at 7:45, according to Supt. Holland McSwain. Maconians Are Getting Their Share Of Diplomas And Honors This Year It's commencement time and Maconians are getting their share of college diplomas. Graduating this week with honors from Western Carolina College were James Alfred Blakley. of Highlands, Miss Mary Jane Crawford, of Frank lin. and Miss Barbara Eulalah Oribble. of Franklin. Route 2. Other W. C. C. graduates in cluded Cecil Roy Kinsland, of Franklin, and Misses Luanne Gibson, of Franklin, Barbara Sue Hollhnd, of Franklin, Route 5, and Emma Louise Ramsey, of Franklin, Route 3. Bronce L. Ray, a native Ma conian, was awarded an hon orary doctor of laws degree by W. C. C. An executive of Stan dard Oil Company, he now lives in Summit, N. J. Other graduates from here in clude Miss Freda Siler, of Franklin, cum laude from Salem College, Winston-Salem: Miss Myra Crawford, of Franklin, Route 1, from Brevard College; Eugene Gray, of the Hickory Knoll section, from N. C. State College, Raleigh: Milton Lee Higdon, of Franklin, from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Miss Carolyn Bry son, of Franklin, Route 5, from Woman's College, University of Nor*h Carolina, Greensboro: Conarree Nolen, of Franklin, Route 1, from Catawba College; and Miss Joyce Pearl Baldwin, of Franklin, Route 3, from Mars Hill College, Mars Hill. HIGHLANDS EXERCISE 15 TONIGHT Ends Commencement For '55 In County; New Rector Speaker The awarding of diplomas to 16 Highlands High School sen iors tonight (Thursday) by Supt. Holland McSwain will cap 1955 commencement exercises in this county. Yesterday afternoon at 4:30 at the stadium, 141 Franklin High seniors were graduated. Nantahala High held com mencement exercises for its 13 seniors May 24. At the Highlands exercises tonight, the guest speaker will be Dr. Harold Koepp-Baker, new rector of the Highlands Episcopal Church of the Incar nation. The event is set for 8 o'clock in the school auditor ium. Principal F. N. Shearouse will make awards to outstand ing graduates. The baccalaure ate sermon was preached Sun day evening at the Highlands Methodist Church by the Rev. R. T. Houts, Jr., pastor. The Rev. S. B. Moss, pastor of the Franklin Methodist Church, delivered the baccalau reate sermon to Franklin's graduating class Sunday after noon at the stadium. 4-H REVIEW SCHEDULED Girls Will Model Clothes They Made For Annual Event Some 137 4-H girls are now in the mid-stages of preparing for their annual dress review. The event, which features clothes made by the girls dur ing the year, is set for next Thursday, June 9, in the base ment of the Franklin Metho dist Church. Committees at work include Nantahala 4-H, which is hand ling hospitality arrangements: Iotla 4-H. refreshments: and Otto Senior, decorating. Winners of the review divi sions are to receive ribbons, ac cording to Mrs. Jessie D. Cabo. assistant agent in charge. Both a junior and senior county winner are to be selected. The latter will be eligible to repre sent the county in the state dress review at the 4-H short course in July, Mrs. Cabe said. Divisions include best dress: sports dress: school dress; party dress; and nightwear. Winners Of 4-H Elimination Contest Saturday Listed One-hundred seventeen 4-H boys and girls from over the country competed in a variety of demonstrations and events Saturday morning at East Franklin. It was the first elimination day held here and the winners will advance to the district con test next month in Asheville. Judges included George Hun nicutt, Grady Cabe, Harry Moses, Mrs. Mary B. Justice, Mrs. George Byrd, Mrs. Eva Cunningham , and Mrs. Jack Cansler. A tractor for the tractor event was loaned by Harold En loe. The winners: Demonstrations: Farm and Home Electric, Carol Sue Welch and Sue Hughes, Iotla 4-H; Dairy Management, Ronnie Henson and George Dowdle, Otto 4-H; Forestry (leaf print ing), Eugene Dean, East Frank lin, 4-H. Public Speaking: Ruth Mc Call. Cullasaja, Frances Alex ander, Otto, tie for first place; Peggy Jean Moore, Otto, sec ond; Rubena Gregory, Cowee, third. Recreational Leader: Sharon Swanson, first. Presiding Officers: (clubsi Cullasaja Community Club, first; Otto and Cowee senior clubs, tie for second; Cartooge chaye Junior, third. Best Presiding Officer: Shar on Swanson, Cullasaja Senior, first; Shirley Reynolds, Car toogechaye Junior, first. Best Vice-President: Ann Pennington, Cowee. Best Secretary: Anita Lee Cabe, Otto. Best Reporter, Gwen Raby, Otto. Best Song Leader, Anita Aitl mons, Cowee. Poultry: Anita Amnions, Co wee, Erwin Bur.rell, Iotla, tie for first; Guy Duvall, Iotla. second; Douglas Young, East Franklin, third. Tractor Operator: Wayne Sheffield, Cowee, first; Johnnie Hurt, Nantahala second; Harry C. Ferguson, East Franklin, third. Talent: (vocal > Jane Byrd, Cowee Junior, first; Gwen Raby, Otto, second; Max Mor gan, Cullasaja, third; (duet) Wayne Haire and Mary Lou Cabe, Otto Junior, first; Patsy Neal and Vivian Wood, East Franklin, second; Doris Ann McConnell and Mary June Mc Connell, Cullasaja, third; (quar tet) Nina Cook, Jane Mallonee, Janice Thompson, and Gloria Jean Holland, Cullasaja . Junior, first; (group dancingi Carmen Robinson. Joyce Cabe, Linda Corn! Barbara Carpenter, Anita Lee Cabe, Judy Ann Howard, Brenda Brabson, Jo Ann Gibson. Peggy Jean Moore, Frances Alexander, and Margarette Ruth Davis, Otto, first; (girl's trior Vianne Keener, Ruth Mc Call, and Joanne .MeClure, Cul lasaja Senior, first; (acrobatic* Patsy and Linda Neal, East Franklin, first; (recitation) Phil Roberson, Otto Junior, and Waynette Higdon, East Frank lin, tie for first; (group singing) Jane Mallonee, Janice Thomp SEF NO 2, PAOS 12 Integration Issue Must Be 'Gradual' "It will have to be gradual here," is School Supt. Holland McSwain's feeling about carry ing out the U. S. Supreme Court's ruling this week to end segregation in public schools. Handed down Tuesday, the high court's long awaited rul ing set no deadline and offered no procedure for desegregation other than to end the practice "as soon as practicable". It di rected the federal courts to oversee the job, seeing to a prompt start and its continua tion at a reasonable speed. In a brief statement soon after the announcement, Supt. McSwain said: "I can't make a definite state ment at this time. However, it is my feeling that we must have time to study the situa tion and that desegregation Is going to have to be very grad ual here ... it may be several years before we can make much effort in that line." Superintendent And 'Rat Hole' BIG RATS' THERE ? Prison Brea!; Is Squslched There's been some mighty . scretive digging going on at the Macon County Prison Camp. But, camp officials, who frown on this sort of thing as a pastime for the inmates, have plugged up the proposed escape route. Asst. Supt. John' W. Goings discovered a 22-inch hole in the northwest end of the one-story brick compound Monday of last week, out Kept it under- his hat in hopes of spotting* the men who were chipping away at the masonry with claw hammers from behind some clever camou flage. But the following day they gave up trying to identify them and announced to the prisoners. you can stop digging that hole now", according to Supt. John E. C\:t hall. "It w:> a goo 1 amouflage job." he declared You'd have to know where the hole was to fir.d it." The unidentified diggers work ed behind a sheet of plywood used as a work board for leath er working, he said, and hid broken brick and mortar in pairs of old trousers. Only one layer of bri?k re mained between the prisoners and the outside when guards stepped in and broke up the party. "Of course, we would have been waiting at the other end if they had broken through," Mr. Cutshall assured. "We've sure got mighty big rats out here," quipped an hon or grade prisoner, when the photographer took a picture. CAMPOREE HELD HERE Boy Scouts' Outing Staged Over Week-end At Laurel Campground The Big Laurel campground, near Cowee Bald, was host Fri day. Saturday, and Sunday to a Smoky Mountain District Boy Scout Camporee. Approximately 100 campers made the outing from troops in this county, Bryson City, Sylva, Webster, East LaPorte, and t'ul lowhee. Members of the Franklin and Sylva Explorer Posts were staff members. Tom Speed, of Sylva, district field executive, was in charge of the camporee. Monday Sees Plant Machines Roll Into Production Here Meeting Slated To Organize Farm Bureau A meeting to organize a Farm Bureau unit in this coun ty has been called for tomor row (Friday) night at 8 o'clock at the Agricultural Building. County Agent T. H. Fagg said a Farm Bureau field represen tative, O. L. Yates, of Waynes ville, will explain the program Main speaker at the meeting, to which all farm men and women are invited, will be Clyde R. Greene, of Boone, state A S C. chairman. Knitting machines began turning out seamless hosiery early Monday morning at Burlington Industries new $3,000,000 Frank lin plant as officials pushed for self-sufficiency in its production program within the next two months. Only a set of machines are currently turning out the product, but Stephen A. Bundy, superintendent, said "we'll gradually use up the space" as production moves into high gear. The superintendent repeated his feeling that this latest in Burlington's line of plants will be employing more than 300 per EVANS WINS IN CONTEST Submits Top Article On Olden Times For Centennial Edition E. N Evans, of Bryson City formerly of the Nantahala area nfT J?' ?the flrSt Prize Of S25 offered by The Franklin n f? t ? best art'cle on life here in the old days toNTrs ST?wd ?"Ze ?f $15 goes ~ W iLeona B> Porter th ,fb Cansler is winner of the third prize of $10. tri^Ve? ?Vjfr Prize_winning en tries in the competition also were announced by the judges iu They foil?w: 4th? Mrs^ Mary Lyle Waldroop, 0f Tuckaseigee and Franklin, a Pressyear^hUbAC^Pti?n to The "ess, 5th? Arthur Hicks of Nantahala, a two-year sub ordePrtl?nweth tllrough 10th t Weimer Cochran, of Peek t o ,M" Fred Wo(>d, of ,.s Creek- Ernest A. Rooer "hp R?"?"0, Ga" forrnerly of r!" r-nUrningtoWa area- Mrs w de- r0tt,' a"d Mrs Lexi'-' San-' reh? ? these five will re Tiie pare^se'year subscr'Ption to se^rni W??d' Who subm"ted serial entries, won with her article on travel in the lon? The prizes were offered in connection with the Centennial edition about to be issued by tries ^flf' A1' the contest en tries will appear in that edi S be Power Company Gets Increase In Industrial Charges Nantahala Power and Light Company has been given the go-ahead for raising its Indus! trial rates. Granted by the State Utilities commission Friday. the new Mantm0anS( that 17 "xe nial late customers ? otli than tlle Parent company "1, .. Company of Amer SlTannn Pay aPPro*imateIv S id.000 a year on the basis of o Sl^nC?nSrPtl0n- instead ?t SI59.230 as at present w"ia5:s Court" onythhC State Co' "" the grounds that Al coa was exempted. However when reapplying in February of this year. Alcoa was included along with other industrial cus tomers in the boost. Franklin Takes Extra Innings To Victory Franklin turned three hits ana 21 free passes into seven runs to edge Cherokee 7 to 6 in extra innings May 25 on the local dia mond. Gray Goes To Ashe Eugene Gray, who was gradu ated from N C. State College, Raleigh, this week, yesterday (Wednesday i took over duties of assistant county agent of Ashe County. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Gray, of the Hickory Knoll section. Buy Setser Farm Julian M Maddox. of Kentucky and Anderson, S. C.. has pur chased the Bryan Setser farm in Wayah Valley, and he and Mrs. Maddox and their three children plan to move here from Anderson about July 1. Mr. Setser has bought the Cal vin Huscusson place on Cartoose chaye. HOILMAN ON LEAVE Jackie Hoilman. who is stationed with the U S. Navy in San Die?o. Calif., is spending a 10-day leave with his mother. Mrs R L Jones. "?uun ttic "cai yc