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as Jefferson.
72nd Year ? No. 8
Franklin, N. C., Thursday, February 21, 1957
Price 10 Cents
Eighteen Pages
Macon Teams
Eliminated
In Tourneys
Murphy Upsets
Favored Franklin
Girls, 73 To 61
Teams from all three Macon
County high schools have tast
ed defeat in the Smoky Moun
tain Conference tournaments.
The biggest upset of the girls'
.tourney at Swain High in Bry
son City was the one handed
the highly favored Franklin
High sextet by Murphy Friday.
The locals lost 73 to 61. Bonnie
Lee paced .Franklin with 23
points in a futile attempt to
keep her team in the tourna
ment.
Murphy also proved to be the
downfall of the Franklin boys,
handing them a 73 to 55 defeat
Saturday night in the Robbins
ville High gymnasium. Frank
lin's boys last Thursday night
downed Stecoah 45 to 41 to ad
vance a notch in the tourna
ment.
Nantahala's lassies lost out in
the opening round Wednesday
of last week to Swain High. The
score was 76 to 34. The Nanta
hala boys also became first
round victims on Thursday, los
ing to Cullowhee 53 to 42.
Highlands teams were elimi
nated in opening play also. The
girls lost Wednesday of last
week to Robblnsville, 77 to 47,
and the boys on Thursday to
Andrews, 64 to 47.
F. F. A. Team
Places First
A first place has been won
by the parliamentary procedure
team of the Franklin chapter of
Future Farmers of America.
The team won the top spot
in federation competition with
four other teams last week in
Andrews and will represent the
federation in district competi
tion in Asheville in May.
Members of the team are
Frank Nolen, president; Bill
Fouts, vice-president; Riley
Henry, secretary; Richard Set
ser, treasurer; Johnny Killl&n,
reporter; and Bud Shope, sen
tinel.
WINDY GAP SINGING
The Fourth Sunday Sing will
be held Sunday, beginning at
1:30 p. m., at the Windy Gap
Baptist Church. Lon Thompson,
president has announced. All
singers and the public are in
vited.
TUESDAY MORNING, the drilling crew had reached the 120-foot mark in Franklin's second
well and still had not .hit water. The new site is just off the Thomas curve on US 64 east on
lanu given the town by John Higdon. The town recently went 450 feet on another site without
striking water. Officials are more than hopeful that the new site is going to yield a gusher to
boost the town's water supply this summer.
Baseball Season's Coming;
Meeting Called For Tuesday
"Baseball season's closer than
you think," parents of player
age children were advised this
week.
Woodrow Franklin, president
of the parents organization, of
the Little League Association
and newly organized Babe
Ruth Association, asked that
interested parents attend a
meeting Tuesday night at 7:30
in the lunchroom of East
Franklin School.
He said a meeting held Mon
day of this week, at Nantahala
Power and Light Company, was
not as well attended as it
should have been.
The first Little League (ages
8 to 12) game is scheduled May
25, Mr. Franklin said.
Mr. Franklin was elevated to
the presidency of the parents'
group after Doug Simpson re
signed because of the press of
business. Pete Price was elect
ed to Mr. Franklin's old job as
vice-president.
Bob Carpenter is president of
the Little League Association.
In organizing the Babe Ruth
Association (for boys between
the ages of 13 and 15), E. O.
Crawford was chosen president.
Miss Jo Ann Hopkins was nam
ed secretary-treasurer. A vice
president is still to be chosen.
The parents' organization has
been sponsoring projects to get
enough money to tight a field
for the youthful baseball play
ers. The adult group is made
up of parents with children In
either the Little League or Babe
Ruth Associations.
Once A Trailerite . . .
"Once a trallerlte, always a
trailer! te," goes the saying
among the nomad breed of
Americana that likes Its living
in concentrated form.
And although he lon& ago
parked his for good, the Rev.
William C. (Bill) Jollay typifies
this affection a trallerlte holds
for his compact and efficient
home on wheels.
The Cullasaja minister's 25
foot house trailer still is the
center of his home life.
And It's a literal centraliza
tion, because his modern five
room house is built entirely
around the trailer.
It all began back in 1953,
when Mr. Jollay returned to his
native Macon with his trailer
after spending some 19 years
in Michigan and about two and
a half in Florida.
He finally parked his trailer
permanently on a small hillside
with a catching view of Culla
saja farm land and mountains
just off US 64 near the Culla
saja River and in the summer
of 1954 started digging a base
ment to one side of the trailer.
Next came the framework of
a house around the trailer as
the dream of Mr. Jollay and his
invalid wife began materializ
ing. "As a piecemeal thing", a
five-room house with a large
glassed-in porch came into be
ing, along with a basement
study, complete with fireplace,
for Mr. Jollay's use in his work
as pastor of the Cullasaja As
sembly of God Church.
And in all of this building ?
"we've got plenty more to do,"
he explains ? the house trailer
still commands center stage. All
meals originate in Its compact
kitchen.
To create the illusion that it
"belongs where It Is", carpenters
blended the house trailer into
the living room of the house by
removing about half of one side
of the trailer.
But Mr. Jollay's pet of the
whole project has nothing to do
with the trailer.
With a sparkle in his eye, he
explains how he took an old oil
heater and converted It Into a
furnace that pipes heat to all
rooms.
"This," he declares like a true
do-it-yourselfer, "is my pride
and joy of the whole job."
? Pr??a ?UR I'hnw
Mr. Jollay Stands In His Trailer
Legislative
Appointments
Are Announced
Committee Posts
Given Rep. Houk
And Sen. Bennett
Rep. O. L. Houk was named
vice chairman of two General
Assembly committees and ap
pointed to six others at Ral
eigh last week.
Sen. Kelly E. Bennett, whose
33rd district includes this coun
ty, was named fhairman of one
committee, vice chairman of a
second, and appointed to six
more.
Representative Houk is vice
chairman of counties, cities,
and towns, and vice chairman
of federal and Interstate cooper
ation. His other appointments
were to commissions and insti
tutions for blind; finance; in
stitutions for deaf; judiciary
one; mental institutions; and
wildlife resources.
Senator Bennett is chairman
of wildlife and vice chairman
of public health. He Is a mem
ber of appropriations; educa
tion; election laws; interstate
and federal relations; proposi
tions and grievances; and pub
lic welfare.
Group Coming
To See Station
Director Reveals
Plans For Research
Program Increase
, HIGHLANDS. ? A group of
officials is expected here March
2 to inspect the Highlands Bio
logical Station and evaluate its
research potential, according to
Miss Thelma Howell, executive
director.
Miss Howell said the station
trustees plan to Increase its re
search facilities and to inaugu
rate a teaching program on the
graduate level as an answer to
help meet the pressing need for
"more and better qualified
scientists, a major problem fac
ing the nation."
In line with this expansion,
she said the station nowt' has
a proposal before a national
foundation for aid In a building
program.
Biologists and -students from
a number of southern univer
sities spend their summers con
ducting research programs in
the Highlands area, which Is
termed by man as "the great
est biological asset In Eastern
North America". The biological
resources of the Highlands pla
teau cannot be duplicated In
any other equal area In the
southeast.
Franklin Chamber Directors
To Ask For Record Budget
Approve $4,500;
Decision Rests
With Members
To boost its stepped-up tour
ist promotion program, direc
tors oi tr.e Franiiin Chamber
of Commerce have approved a
it,50o budget tor the new year,
by lar the largest expenditure
ever advanced by a chamber
he.e. I
It earmarks $1,500 alone for
tourist promotional work.
Final approval of the budget
rests with the general member
ship and it is to be presented
by Treasurer J. C. Crisp at the
annual chamber baiiquet next
month.
Meeting in regular monthly
session last Thursday night,
President Verlon Swafford and
his directors set March 28 as
the date for the banquet and
the 19a7 membership drive
i'.ick-ofs.
L-tiails of the banquet are be
in^ worked out fcy Dr. G. R.
?\ "Sween and j. P. Brady. Ten
tatively, the event is slated for
the hiih school cafeteria. Ad
\ance ticket sales are to be
pU^>h&d.
Folder Okayed
In advancing some tourist
promotion ideas, the directors
gave preliminary, approval to a
new Franklin folder featuring
? Rubies, Rest, and Relaxation".
Prices lor printing the three
color folder are now being ob
tained and, barring the unfor
seen, the new addition should
be ready for distribution with
in a month and a half.
A revision of the chamber's
More Burley Money Available
Now Through Local Office
Good news came for burley
farmers this week when the U.
S. Department of Agriculture
announced, through the Macon
County A.S.'C. office, that the
county can have all the tobacco
soil bank money It needs.
The county had been allotted
$2,459 for burley acreage re
serve. This was quickly exhaust
ed two weeks ago and more
than a dozen farmers who made
application were turned down
for lack of funds.
Miss Mildred Oorbin, A.S.C.
office manager here, said the
deadline fbr applying for soil
bank tobacco payments is next
Thursday (Feb. 28). No applica
tions can be accepted after that
date, she emphasized.
Farmers who already had
made application, on the hope
that additional money would be
granted the county, will now
have their applications process
ed, Miss Corbln said.
The agriculture department
said that using surplus money
from counties which do not ex
pect to use their full shares
would take care of counties
needing more funds.
Macon Student Is Elected
'Student Teacher At WCC
A pretty brunette from Ma
con County, Miss Shirley Cloer,
has been elected "Miss Student
Teacher for 1957" at Western
Carolina College.
Daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Thad H. Cloer, of Franklin,
Route 2, the five foot three
Inch W. C. C. senior Is present
ly doing her practice teaching
Canton High School In Hay
wood County "and loving every
minute of it".
She was selected for the stu
dent teacher honor by a vote
of the colloge faculty and mem
bership of the Future Teachers
of America organization on the
campus. Points of Judging in
cluded character, personality,
leadership, moral and physical
fitness, and potential effective
ness as a teacher.
Miss Cloer has undertaken a
double major, business and
Spanish, but her first choice is
business and she hopes to get
a teaching job somewhere in
W. N. C. after being graduated
in June.
On campus, she is active in
a variety of things. Consistent
ly on the honor roll and the
dean's list, she is a past secre
tary of Alpha Phi Sigma, na
tional honorary scholastic fra
ternity, and was named in
"Who's Who in American Col
leges and Universities" this
year. She is a member of the
Western Carolina Players, the
Inter-Club Council, Science
Club, Future Teachers, Future
Business Leaders of America,
and the Baptist Student Union.
She also is an assistant to the
director of publicity at the col
lege.
This spring Miss Cloer will
serve as senior representative in
the May Court.
Mi?? Cloer ? . . Teaching
industrial fact sheet also was
approved.
Junk Yards Again
Unsightly junk yards at the
north entrance of town spurred
some action from the directors.
Letters are to go out this week
to highway officials for clarifi
cation of right-of-way at the
yards and also to request the
services of a highway depart
ment landscape engineer. In
connection with the latter, it is
the chamber's idea to purchase
the needed shrubs and trees to
conceal the junk yards.
Groups Approve (
Chamber committees submit
ted the directors by President
Swafford were approved. They
include :
Publicity and Advertising: J.
P. Brady, chairman, Mrs. Lasca
E. Horsley, and John Crawford.
County Fair: W. W. (BUI)
Sloan, chairman, Wayne Prof
fitt, and T. H. Fagg.
Industrial: W. W. Reeves,
chairman, Stephen A. Bundy.
Frank B. Duncan, and H. H.
Gnuse. Jr.
Community Development and
Beautification: Bob S. Sloan, H.
A. Wilhide, Vic Perry, and J. L.
West, Jr.
July 4 Celebration: B. L. Mc
Glamery, chairman. Hall Calla
han, and R. C. (Bob) Carpenter.
Membership: J. C. Crisp,
chairman, Vic Perry, Prelo Dry
man, T. W. Angel, Jr., R. Roy
Cunningham, Jimmy Conley,
Edwin T. Williams, and Dr. G.
R. McSween.
Retail Merchants: Sam Gib
son, chairman, T. Y. Angell, Roy
W. Moore, and Bruce Bryant.
Highways: E. J. Whitmire,
chairman, and W. E. Baldwin.
Highway Signs: Holland Mc
Swain, chairman, Robert J.
Korte, Bill Garrison, Clarence
(Red) Henry, and J. P. Brady.
'Heart Sunday*
Is Coming Up
"Heart Sunday", a one-day
concerted drive for contribu
tions to the Heart Fund, will be
observed locally this Sunday.
Door-to-door solicitations for
donations are to be handled by
the women of the county's
home demonstration clubs and
the V. F. W. Auxiliary between
2 and 4 o'clock.
A number of other volunteers
also will assist, according to R.
V. Hooper and Hall Callahan,
co-chairmen of the drive.
The county has no set quota
for the drive.
Cub Scout* Slate
Banquet On Friday
Tomorrow (Friday) night, the
Cub Scouts of Macon County
will hold a "Blue and Gold"
banquet in the Franklin High
Cafeteria.
The covered dish supper, to
which parents and friends of
the Cubs are invited, is set for
7 o'clock.
A program by the Cub dens
will follow the meal.
The event is being held in
connection with the 47th anni
versary of Scouting this year.
The Weather
The wHi'i temperature* and rainfall below
are regard***! in tVanklin by Hanwn fttilea,
U. S. weather obaerver: in Hitrhlanda by
Tudor N. Hall and W. C. Newton. TV A
observers: and at the Coweta Iftrdroloiric
Laboratory. Readintra are for tha 24-hour
period ending at 8 a.m. of the day listed.
FRANKLIN
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HIGHLANDS
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Thursday 47
Friday 46
Saturday 47
Sunday 51
Monday 50
Tuesday 44
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