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BIG SAYINGS FOR YOU Our buyers have been working overtime to select your favorite foods from all departments throughout the store. They've slashed the already low prices to give you the greatest food savings in years. The buying power of your dollar at our Store will surprise you. Visit your friendly store in your neighborhood . . . our Anniversary Sale means bigger savings for you! Anniversary Values in Groceries! Anniversary Value! Charmin Soft Colored ... Tissue 6 59 Anniversary Value! F^ncy Short Grain 29 ~ 59* N a p k i n s Anniversary Value! F<^ncy Short Grain Watermaid Anniversary Value! Hudson Satin Ric? 3 * 37 9 4% 50 Ct. ^ m yfeSD Pkgs. beet Juice 46-07. cans OIL 49c ASTOR SHORTENING 3 -69c Anniversary Value! IPS & Beans 1 6-oz. can c Georgia Red Field 25c Peas 'Snaps 3 '-40' DETERGENT . S 19c Anniversary Value! White Arrow Monte apple -2 45c & H Green Stamps Are Given With ery Purchase . . . ree of Extra Cost. More Anniversary Savings for You! Special Value! Red Bird Vienna Sausage 1 0 ? 99' Special Value! Hershey's Special Value! Peter Pan CHOC. SYRUP "r 19c Peanut Butter "r 39c Special Value! Brock's Special Value! Deep South Marshmallows 'tC 19c APPLE JELLY 2 ?; 29c Special Value! Free Glass with Astor TEA , 39c Special Value! Meador's Special Value! Hurst's Orange Slices X 17c PiNTO BEANS 2 19c Special Value! Effective h 'oX iIiEe [ J E 6 0 C i) " 13 G? Special Value! Dixie-! ! ne Fruit CacIitaEl Engine May Have Pulled Abe's Inaugural Train What happened to the stately locomotive that pulled Abraham Lincoln's Inaugural train? If the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's publicity department guesses correctly, the distingu ished woodburner is still run ning and as a matter of fact has just finished portraying another famous old engine in Walt Disney's Civil War spy feature, "The Great Locomotive Chase," starring Fess Parker and Jeffrey Hunter. It would be the "William Ma son," built ju-st a hundred years ago for the B. & O. by William J Mason, of Taunton, Mass., fath er of the modern locomotive. Mr. Disney brought the "Ma son" to North Georgia, the ; Franklin, N. C. area to play the | "General" in a re-enactment of I the incredible Andrews raid for j the CinemaScopo - Technicolor I cameras. The "General" raced the j "Texas" in a daring gamble for I the fate of the Civil War and the Confederacy. Union raiders led by James J. Andrews rode the former and Confederate pursuers the latter in a day long duel over roaring rails in the heart of the hardpressed Confederacy. The two original performers still exist, carefully preserved for an endless audience of ad mirers. The "General" stands in Chattanooga's Union Station, and the "Texas" in Atlanta's Cyclorama. But neither are op erable and doubles were need ed for the Disney story. The "Mason," actor, and a museum piece of considerable Importance too, is exactly the "General's" age ? 100 years, i Both were built in 1856 and 1 both are veterans of the Civil \ t War. The "Mason" fought with | ; Union forces around Martins- j burg and Cumberland, while the i "General" operated on the stra- 1 1 tegically important railroad ffe- 1 tween Atlanta and Chattanooga < where it was stolen by An- 1 i drews and forced into a scheme ' lor destruction that might have t resulted in splitting and defeat- i ing the South. 1 Today the "Mason" holds j '? court with a dozen other an- j j COMING SOON The "Franklin premier" of ' Disney's movie, "The Great Locomotive Chase", filmed in this area last fall, will be June 10-11-12-13. An old balloon-stack engine. "The William Mason", subject ( of this feature article, is still i j vivid in the minds of Ma conians, who for weeks watched the ancient locomo tive puff along the tracks of the Tallulah Falls Railway here ajid in north Georgia. cient beauties in the B. & O.'s Transportation Museum in Bal timore. Together they represent a cross-section of "firsts" In B. & O. Railroading, which is ; a fair picture of all American | railroading, since the B. & O. was the first chartered railroad I In the U. S. and has remained one of the most important. Beside the "Mason" stand | veterans and replicas of famous engines like the "Tom Thumb," | first American-built locomotive to operate on a commercial rail- j Farmers! STOP -LOOK -LISTEN A TRAILOR LOAD OF THE FAMOUS MASSE Y -HARRIS TRACTORS HAS JUST ARRIVED But Come Early as Most of These are Already Sold ? We Have the Finest Stock of Farm Machinery Ever Brought to Franklin Look at These Names and Items ? NEW HOLLAND GRASSLAND I EQUIPMENT | ? MASSEY-H ARRIS FARM TRACTORS AND IMPLEMENTS (Kr~ ? HOMELITE CHAIN SAWS BL There is No Better If you want a used saw we will sell you a Mall, the house is full that we have taken on trade-ins. Because We Appreciate What We Have Sold And Want to Sell More ? We Will Give ABSOLUTELY FREE One Good Used Side Delivery Rake With the Cash Sale of Each New Hay Baler FIRST COME FIRST SERVED As Long as They Last Enloe Tractor and Equipment Co. "We sell the best and service the rest." Phone 665 Franklin, N. C oad, and the "Lafayette," first 3. & O. engine with a horizon al boiler. The "Lafayette" is Uso in the new Disney picture. The "Mason" burns coal now nstead of wood, but is other vise its old self, even to the ack of brakes. In the 1860's :ngines were stopped by revers ng the driving wheels and In The Great Locomotive Chase" he "Mason" will be seen spinning ts wheels one way or another ;o prevent or percipitate djs ister, depending on how the: script and history move old No. 25. But the "Mason" is generally :redited with a still more im portant role than that of an: ron-wheeled soldier. This can not be proved definitely because the locomotive has outlived all records on its earlier years. "However," reports the B. & 0., "we have always liked to believe that this was the loco motive that hauled President Lincoln to Washington for his first inauguration, if it was not No. 25, it was probably one of its sister engines, Numbers 26 or 27." If the "Mason's" inaugural part is uncertain, another role in the story of Lincoln is not. The grand old balloon-stacker hauled the Lincoln funeral train on a recent nationwide telecast, and it was the sort of perfor mance no greenhorn could have turned In. Union Honor Roll Given Union School's honor roll for the final grading period of the year lists the names of 50 pupils . according to Principal R. A. Byrd . By grades, the honor pupils,, are: First : Helen Gribble. Bai bara McClure. Brenda Bclick. Jane Hastings. Diane Dove, Judy Cabe Sarah Mae Mann, and Hardin: Gribble. Second: Sharon Fitzgerald, Lin da Ow'enby. Jean Shields. Thtlmn Sutton, and Dearl Prince. Third: Mavis Dowdle, Tommy Dove, ar.d Glenn Fitzgerald. Fourth: 1 Sue Sanders. Joyce* Clccr. and Charles LaBoor.e Fifth: Bonnie Cheeks. Mary Cab". H.'.v.v.d Johnson, and Phyl lis Svi:;or.. Sixth: Betty Sue Williamson. Shirley Sorrell''. Ethel Sort ells.. ? Hilda rier-.. Barbara Medlin . Sr. '.via tf fore;. Betty Cloer..Dt!ma Ca'ueater. Ana Cabe. Olivia Car p-.nUi'. Ker.r.eth Jones, and John - r.y C. .- . Skver.t!): Pat.: .a Shope. Tht lmu Shope, Patsy Cunnin^.haip. AUcr?; William-on. Ida Mae Ramey. Dorothy Stock'oa. Je;.n Sar/'crs. ar.d J. 3. . Eighth: L o:na . M. J" Henderson. L.:.i'a I., 'it. c tt;. ?Jean Ramey, Virr inir> Gufii; Lana Gribble. and Kathrya An. . Jones. 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