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70th Year ? ? No. 22
Franklin, N. C., Thursday, June 2, 1955
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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<tr aiiu
a half.
About 60 constituted the
working force Monday morning.
Roughly 80 per cent are Macon
ians. Mr. Bundy said this per
centage probably will climb to
better than 95 per cent when
production levels off.
Concentration at present is
on making the new plant a
self-sufficient unit in all phases
of production ? looper, knit
ting, mending, inspection. Since
the looper training program be
gan in February, hosiery has
been supplied by other plants,
he explained.
"Before very long we will be
doing the entire job right here
in this plant," .Mr. Bundy de
clared.
Finishing Offices
Meanwhile, as production
steps up, construction of of
fice space at the plant is be
ing pushed by Daniels Con
struction Company and work
men are putting the finishing
touches to the grounds and
other jobs.
Mr Bundy said the company's
offices In the Nantahala Build
ing in downtown Franklin prob
ably will be vacated inside of
two weeks.
However, until this move is
made, he said, applications will
continue to be received through
'the downtown offices.
The plant offices and grounds
should be finished within two
weeks, according to J. P. Whitt,
Jr.. superintendent for Daniels.
Big As Average
Commenting on future pro
duction at the plant, Mr. Bundy
said by September ? under the
present expansion program ?
the number of machines and
the payroll here will be as large
as the average mill in the coun
try.'
Prospects 'or an open house
and guided tours of the plant
are not likely until "much
later", possibly next spring, the
superintendent revealed.
? We would prefer to wait and
make u good showing." he said.
Space Hardly I'sed
As things stand now. the 29,
000 square feet of floor space
in the main manufacturing area
is hardly utilized.
KoweVei. the V. F. W. build
ing on Palmer Street has been
vacated by Burlington and the
looper training program also
began Monday in the plant.
"We'll gradually use all of the
space, as our expansion takes
shape," Mr. Bundy said.
The large one-story plant was
started in December. Despite
continuing bad weather most of
the winter, construction of the
building has been "on sched
ule", the construction superin
tendent. Mr. Whitt, said this
week.
Pendergrass Completes
Sound Ranging Course
At Fort Benning, Ga.
Cpl. Urban A. Pendergrass, son
of Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Pender
grass. of Franklin, Route 3, re
cently was graduated from the
sound ranging course at the in
fantry school at Fort Benning,
Ga., the Army Home Town News
Center has announced.
The Weather
The week's temperatures and rainfall,
recorded in Franklin by Manson Stiles,
IT. S. weather observer; ni Highlands by
Tu-lor N Hall an.! \\ 1 T\ \
observer: and at the Cow e eta Hydrologic
Laboratory :
FRANKLIN
Temperatures
High Low Rain
Wed., May 25 81 59 .015
Thursday 86 58
Friday 86 56
Saturday 86 54 trace
Sunday 88 59
Monday 71 45
Tuesday 76 40
HIGHLANDS
Temperatures
High Low Rain
Wed., May 5 81 58
Thursday 82 53 trace
Friday 85 55
Saturday 82 53 .03
Sunday 77 59 trace
Monday 68 46
Tuesday 73 39