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Net Paid CIRCULATION Last Week 2715 ? fftmklin 9m ?? WrilwV* Mmminn \ Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. ? James B. Conant. 71st Year ? No. 48 Franklin, N. C., Thursday, November 29, 1956 Price 10 Cents Eighteen Pages The Plane Circled... / Out of the black, snow-filled sky of Sunday evening it came, a big twin-engine airplane. Apparently in trouble. It started circling over Franklin. Hundreds of ears picked up the low pitch of its engines and then hundreds of pairs of eyes began scanning the snowy blackness for a glimpse of the plane's blinking running lights. As it" continued to circle, a tense drama began unfolding on the ground. Under the supervision of Fire Chief A. C. Tysinger and sever al pilots in the local Civil Air Patrol squadron, preparations got under way for helping the big plane land on the town's small airport along the Little Tennessee River. Lights on bright, automobiles were lined up on the edges of the airport to illuminate the runway. The disaster signal wailed from the fire siren uptown. Telephone operators started alerting people to drive auto mobiles to the airport. An attempt was made to make radio contact with the circling plane with the short wave outfit a local pilot, Grant Zickgraf, operates at his home. Highway patrolmen were busy on their radios too. But, no contact could be made. They reported the C.A.A. did not have any word on a plane ( being in trouble in the area. <~ The highway to the airport was soon jammed with vehicles, an estimated 500. The siren wailed like a banshee. And the big plane continued to circle. Then, as mysteriously as It appeared some 45 minutes ear lier, the plane started climbing up and away from the brightly lit runway and disappeared to the north. Ears strained for a sound of the big engines. Eyes peered In to the falling snow. "There he is, way up there," yelled an excited teen-ager. But it was only a star break ing through the overcast. As the rotating beacon on the fire truck bathed the airport drama in streaks of red, Chief Tysinger called off the emer gency operation. Soon, the nondescript little air field wallowed in blackness once again. And those who turned out to witness the incident sought the warmth of their homes. The peacefulness of a Sunday evening returned. Before long, Chief Tysinger received the official lowdown on the circling plane. A military Beechcraft, it had besn ordered to circle while an other flight of planes cleared the area. The incident, however, was not a complete failure. "It certainly proves that the people of Franklin can rally quickly to any kind of an emer gency," the fire chief declared. GOT 'EM ? Wayne Harrison (r.'-ove, left) got his 175-pouild buck on the opening day in Harrison Core with a 30-30. In his party were Afton Weaver and Norman Seay. At left is J. D. Southard, of Franklin, Route 1, with the 150-pound buck he bagged opening day on Bryson Branch. Among other kills dur ing the week was Franklin De lano Campell's. He got a. 150 pounder Wednesday morning of last week in the .Mill Creek sec tion. Ellis Buchanan was with him. A rundown of bag data for the two-week season in the wildlife areas will appear next week. 4-H AWARDS TO BE MADE 70 Club Members To Receive Them At Annual Event More than 70 awards are to be made to 4-H clubbers Saturday morning at East Franklin School ?>s the main feature of the an nual "4-H Achievement Day". ' Of special significance will be the awarding of Savings Bonds to the most outstanding 4-H boy and girl. The bonds are being presented by the Bank of Frank lin. Ann Pennington, of the Frank lin club, is to be awarded a special leadership award by the Danforth Foundation. Cowee, Mulberry, and Burning town communities also are in line for special recognition for their recreation programs the past year. Registration for "Achievement Day" will begin at 9:30. The awards program will open with a welcome by June Baldwin, of the Iotla club. Miss Margaret Wilson, Methodist youth worker, will give the devotional. Greeting will be extended bv Mrs. George Byrd, president of the county home demonstration council. Carson Community 4-H Club .has charge of program arrange ments, while the Otto and Mul berry clubs are working on the talent feature. Cullasaja Commun ity 4-H Club has charge of the social hour, which will follow the awards program. In addition to making the in dividual member awards, the ex tension agents in charge of 4-H. Mrs. Jessie D. Cabe and Clark Walker, also plan to make an award to the club having the best programs during the past year and to the one having the largest attendance at "Achieve ment Day". Twin Bill To Open Cage Season At Franklin High Two twin-bills this week in the high school gymnasium will toss the Franklin lads and lass ies squarely into the 1956-57 basketball season. A non -conference tilt Is sched uled Saturday night against Clayton (Ga.i High teams. And on Tuesday night, Sylva High will send its boys and girls over the Cowees for a conference game. In all games on the Panth ers' schedule, the girls will lead off at 7:30 and the boys will take to the floor at about 8:30. Meanwhile, practice and more practice Is the order of the day at the high school. Coaches Pat Pattlllo and Mrs. Rose Corbln both report their teams are rounding out nicely. Coach Pattlllo listed his prob able starters as forwards Wll lard Smith and Bruce Houston, guards Dean Long and Harold Elliott, and Mitchell Houston at center. Ouard James Stuart and forwards Frank McSwain and Gary Clark probably will see ac tion, he added. Slated to carry the load for the lassies are guards Jean Phillips, Jean Sutton, and Frances McClure and forwards Bonnie Lee, Mavis Gibson, Lucy Henry, and Carolyn Dowdle, ac cording to Mrs. Corbln Junior varsity squads also are being formed at the high school and they will play a number of games during the season. SANTA CLAUS IS COMING ~ FOR PARADE Event To Signal Opening Of Yule Season In Town Supported by marching bands, festive floats, and streets lined with bright-eyed children and appreciative adults, Santa Glaus will officially bedeck Franklin in Christmas trimmings today (Thursday). On tap tor the official open ing of the Yuletide is a parade through town at 2:30. And old St. Nick himself will be the featured attraction. He is scheduled to arrive at 2 o'clock by airplane at the local airport and from there he will join the parade and ride along the route in a sports car, toss ing out candy and gifts to the children. The parage is a tie-in feature of a merchants' "shop early and avoid the last minute rush" trade promotion. A committee of Jaycees and merchants is handling arrangements. More than 30 floats are be ing entered in the parade by businesses organizations, and communities. At least three bands have been pledged, ac cording to Hall Callahan, Jay cee in charge. The parade will assemble on Depot Street at 2 o'clock. It will move along the one-way "loop"; that Is, up Town Hill and along Main Street and then back to Depot along Palmer Street. Time's Running Out Fo** Contest Time's running out for com munities to enter the annual Christmas lighting contest spon sored by the Nantahala Power and Light Company. Ten or more communities must enter the contest before prize money will be offered. So far, only three have announced their entries. Deadline for noti fying W. W. Sloan at the power company is Monday. Total prize money is the same this year as last ? $100. Awards will be for $10, $15, $20, $25, and $30. The displays must be up dur ing the period Dec. 17 to Dec. 26. During that time, judges will view the displays and choose the winners. Names of the judges will be kept- secret. When the displays are erect ed their locations will be pub lished in The Press. Mr. Sloan said letters have been sent to all community organizations notifying them of the contest. Which State Has The Best? A Macon County product will be the center of a friendly controversy raging down At lanta, G,a., come Saturday morning. It all has to do with a bit of two-state bragging "to prove that the best sausage on earth is made in North Carolina by Tar Heels and not in Georgia by Crackers". Oscar Ledford, of Franklin Frozen Foods, is supplying all the NantaJiala Sausage need ed by North Carolina to sup port its case. In addition to .Mr. Ledford, E. M. McNish, chairman of the N. C. promotion, Mayor W. C. Burrell, and Frank B. Duncan plan to be on hand as "Tar Heel judges" to as sure the Old North .State of victory. Sausage from both states will be served up for consider ation at a breakfast at the Dinkier- Plaza Hotel. Vote Error Noted; Patten Gets More An error in the .official vote tabulation of the Nov. 6 election has been announced by J. Lee Barnard, chairman of the elec tions board. Attorney General George B. Patton polled 3.604 votes to lead the ticket here, Mr. Barnard said. It had been recorded that the attorney general received 100 less than this. The error was made In running up the township totals during the of ficial count-out, according to the chairman. New Well For Town Approved With the idea of heading off pending trouble before it arrives, the Franklin Board of Aldermen has given the go-ahead on sink ing a new well. The board's action, taken in special session Tuesday night of last week, is two-pronged: ( 1 ) Water shortages at intervals last summer pointed up the need for an increased supply before the pressure of the next tourist eeason again works on the town's inadequate supply, and (2) Some work is going to have to be done on the town's largest producing well near the Friend ship Tabernacle. A new well will serve to meet demands while this work is being done. Plans Still On The sinking of the new well does not mean the town is aban doning plans for some day build ing a filtering plant on Cartoose chaye Creek. A survey of this plan is still under way. "Even if we had approved a filtering plant, it would be impossi ble for us to call for a bond election and have the job finish ed by next summer," Mayor W. C. Burrell pointed out at the meeting. "We need this new well to carry us through next summer and to let us work on the big well," he added. At least three sites are now under consideration for the new well. All are in the vicinity of the Franklin Hosiery Plant on US 23-441. Town Clerk C. O. Ramsey esti mates that $5,000 will be neded to drill and equip the well. The work can be done out of current funds, he said. Pumping Mud It was brought out in the meet that the Friendship Tabernacle well is pumping mud into the 6ystem because of a faulty casing. Mayor W. C. Burrell said the firm that dug- it will correct the trouble under terms of its con tract. As the biggest producer of the town's five wells, when it went into production in 1952 its output was 204 gallons per minute. At present, its capacity has dropped to 115 gallons. Eight-Inch Shaft Specifications now being pre pared on the new well are on, the basis of an eight-inch shaft with a maxium depth of 350 feet. The town wil advertise for bids this week. White Way Spreading The "white way" along Frank lin's Main Street is contagious. Aldermen have revealed plans for installing 17 more of the new fluorescent street lighting fix tures. 11 of them on Palmer Street and the remainder at points over the town. Nantahala Power and Light Company buys and installs the fixtures. The cost of the units is retired over a 20-year period in the light bills paid each month by the town. Town Clerk C. O. Ramsey said he has been told by power com pany officials that the addition of the 17 units will raise the town's monthly power bill about $50, or about $2.95 per unit. Just recently the old lighting fixtures along Main were replaced by 22 flourescents. They'll Have Fingers Crossed In Asheville A delegation of about 25 Macon ians will have crossed fingers in Asheville Saturday. This crossing of the digits will be in the hopes that Carson Com munity will be among the top winners of the 1956 W.N.C. Rural Community Development Contest. The names of the winners are to be announced Saturday at the annual contest awards luncheon, to which the locals have been invited as special guests. It will be held at City Auditorium in Ashe ville. County Agent T. H. Fagg said representatives from a number of Macon communities plan to attend the luncheon. County and town officials also have been invited. As winner of the county rural contest. Carson Community auto matically carries Macon's banner of progress into the area event. The contest judges visited the community two weeks ago. Dockets Are Light For Court Term Majority Of Cases Are Violations Of Motor Vehicles Law Judge Zeb V. Nettles, of Asheville, will face light crim inal and civil dockets when he convenes Superior Court here Monday morning at 10 o'clock. Majority of the cases listed for trial on the criminal docket are traffic violations, ranging from permitting a non-licensed person to drive to second of fense drunk driving. Miss Kate M. Wrlnn, clerk of court, estimates criminal ac tions will not consume more than two or three days. Trial of civil matters is scheduled to begin Thursday morning. The docket lists nine civil actions and seven divorces. Cases Listed Following is a list of criminal actions docketed for trial: Claude Martin, non-support; R. L. Anderson, abandonment; E. H Brown, assault; Harville Miller Parks, speeding; Robert Derald Ashe, drunk driving; Robert A. Patton. aiding and abetting drank driving; Willie Wykle, possession of home brew; James Stanfield, non-support of illegitimate child; Bentley Parker, speeding: Ross Ensley, reckless driving, speeding, transporting whiskey, no driver's license; Charles Robert Norris, drunk driving; John Alvin Soles bee, reckless driving; Claude Cow art, possession of whiskey for sale (2 counts) ; Will Singletary, escaping prison; Max Ray Hun sucker, reckless driving, speeding: Charles Denning Woodard. drunk driving (2nd offense); Ralph E. Baldwin, speeding, reckless driv ing. Furmar. Tillman Hedden, drunk driving: Roy Guffey. no driver's license, drunk driving; Joe Hud son Jackson, drunk driving: Rus sell Camp, drunk driving, no driv er's license; Robert Earl Owens, aiding and abetting drunk driving, no driver's license; Newton Pen land, fishing on posted property: Pless Patton Henry, speeding: Lawton Jess Taylor, speeding, reckless driving; Troy Arvil Welch, larceny (2 counts), driving after license revoked; Vernon R. Wil son, drunk and disorderly: Ever ett Lee Hurst, reckless driving, driving after license revoked; Jef ferson Burston, assault on a fe male. Gilmer Lee Hall, assault on a female; Lela Thomas, disturbing the peace: Ralph V. Angel, speed ing; James R. Philpot. drunk driv ing: Jack Reece, drunk driving (2nd offense) ; Franklin D. Forbes, no driver's license; James Robert Ward, speeding; Raymond Boyd Ellis, speeding; Charlie Henry Jones, drunk driving; Earl E. Swa.n, speeding, Leroy B. Gene Wilbanks, speeding, no driver's li cense; Raymond Miller Jackson, speeding; Charles Donald Raby. reckless driving, no driver's li cense; A. L. Allen, reckless driv ing: Fred Newton Byers. speeding: Edwin J. Smith, speeding; James Wesley Hickman, speeding: Mc Kinley Mc. Steverson, no driver's license: James William Talley, reckless driving. Edward Rabun Roberts, reckless driving: Amos Sylvester Mull, driving after li cense revoked: Blaine Jenkins, rape (2 counts i . Doyle Herbert Ward, violating prohibition laws: John Henry Hayatt, reckless driv ihg: William Robert Cabe, drunk driving (2nd offence), improper operator's license. Kenneth M. Dills, non-support; James Dock Tallent. permitting a minor to drive; Elmer James Tayl or, drunk driving (2nd offense), Steve Joseph Sheppard, violating prohibition laws; Fred Browning, speeding, reckless driving; Willie Ray Ledford, drunk driving (2nd offense); William Lee Adcock, speeding: L. D. Keller, drunk driv ing, violation of prohibition laws; Marvin Junior Dean, improper registration, improper driver's li cense; Lloyd Donaldson, drunk driving; Jerry Fouts Dills, drunk driving; Don Laws Henry, drunk driving; Walter Yellock, no driv er's license; Albert Barnes, forc ible trespass; Estes William Ly day, drunk driving; Woodrow Wil son Baker, violating prohibition laws; J. M. Rogers, speeding, Everett Herrin, permitting non-li censed person to drive; James Roy Pennell, speeding; Jesse Sidney Sloan, speeding; Chad Eugene Cook, speeding, reckless driving; James Coleman Passmore, no driv er's license. Ferman Branson Rogers, drunk driving, violating prohibition laws; James Warren Dills, speeding: Warren Harris, no driver's license; Leonard C. Swanson, Jr., assault with a deadly weapon: Ralph M. Henson, speeding: Nelson Eugene Stamey. speeding; Claude Bran don Burnett, speeding: Furman Hendrick Bradley, speeding; Ralph Jones, drunk driving; Ernest Hor ace Brown, driving after license revoked: Lloyd Henry>, Donaldson, drunk driving, drunk and dis orderly, violation of prohibition laws; Robert Webb. Jr.. no driv er's license: Paul William Bagwell, speeding; Fved F. Carlton, speed ing; Roy L. Jackson, no driver's license; Joseph Steven Yasecko, speeding: Hyman O. Watkins. drunk driving: Plumer R. L. Crane, violating prohibition laws; Henry Herbert Bailey, drunk driv ing: Julius Harvey Trice, improp er driver's license. Clyde Crane, drunk driving; Fred Henry Messer, no driver's license; John Charles McGaha, 110 driver's license; David Creed Ay ers, speeding: Thomas Eugene Estes, speeding: Conrad James Henry, speeding; Ralph D. Elders, reckless driving; Howard Gibson. SEE NO. 1, PAGE 8 First Snow Closes Highlands School The first snow of the season fell on the county this week, closing school Tuesday at High lands where about an inch was registered. Elsewhere, the snow was mostly in flurries, with a little sticking Tuesday morning. Low temperatures for the past week include readings of 14 for Fri day and Sunday at Highlands, the same for Coweeta, and a low of 12 yesterday (Wednes day) at both Franklin and Co weeta. It was 18 in Highlands. Ice skating has begun at Highlands. The Weather ? The week's temperature* and rainfall, aa tpcorded in Franklin by St ilea. (T S woather observer: in HijrKlaods by Tudor N. Hall and W. C. Newton. TV A ob--ervpr: *nd at the Coweta Hydrolofric Laboratory. Tues., Nov. 20 60 24 .00 FRANKLIN Hieh Low Rain Wednesday 62 24 .00 58 23 .17 45 28 .00 47 15 .00 42 12 .00 41 27 trace 39 29 trace Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday 12 trace HIGHLANDS Tues.. Nov. 20 56 26 Wednesday 52 46 Thursday 32 16 Friday ' 41 14 Saturday 34 22 Sunday 34 14 Monday 38 19 trace Tuesday 31 21 .03 Wednesday 18 02 Tups., Nov. Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday 26 .00 44 .27 29 .00 14 .00 29 .00 14 .00 26 trace 28 trace 12 trace COWFETA 20 60 65 38 49 47 47 43 / 37 Church Auxiliary Bazaar Set Friday And Saturday The annual Christmas bazaar of the St. Anges Episcopal Auxili ary will be held Friday and Sat urday of this week at the Nanta hala Power and Light Company building. Mrs. William L. Nothstein is chairman of the bake sale. Mrs. Allan Brooks chairman of the needlework table, Mrs. D. D. Whr lan has charge of the grab bag, Mrs. R. O. Lithensteln has charge of the Christmas table. Mrs. Ted Reber. the novelty table,. Mrs. John D. Hewlett, the baby table, and Miss Linda Whelan, the teen age table. Numerous handmade articles suitable for Christmas gifts, as well as baked goods, will be on sale. The bazaar will open at 9 a. m. Friday and close at 5 p. m. and Saturday from 9 a. m. until noon. Proceeds will be used for the lmpryovement of the St. Acnes parish house.