'v\ riim nptt f itm $6* ISfablairti* 9buwi?n ON THE INSIDE ? WHO'S BEEN WHERE AND FOR WHAT? Stall correspondents of THE PRESS keep the inside pages of this newsaper alive with news about Tour friends and neighbors. Read the inside pages from top to bottom and jrou'U know Macon County. 73rd Year ? No. 51 Franklin, N. C, Thursday, December 18, 19S8 Price 10 Cents Sixteen Pa ges MEANDERING ALONG MAIN STREET WHAT THE town needs (In ad dition to the streets washed) is a battery of guns to be fired In , special salute when a cpmm unity service is rendered. And the first round should go to the Cubs and Explorers who pitched In and cleaned up the Indian Mound Saturday. DON'T THE Christmas lights add something to the town? With the big snow Main Street looked like one of those storied winter wonderlands. JUDGE FARTHING and his hunting party tramped all over Cowee last week and didn't sight the first feather. DID YOU see Santa Claus driv ing through town In his Plymouth station wagon Sunday afternoon? LOCAL PILOTS played "snow birds" Sunday afternoon by flying off the airport in the snow. They report it was smooth as glass, but just a bit chilly around the edges. THAT BELL ringing on Satur day means the Lions Club dime board is in operation. Don't ignore its message. Step up and donate a dime or a dollar to help the needy at Christmas. NEW CALENDARS are be ginning to make their appearance, each with the name of a local .firm consplclously printed there upon. Before long citizens will be .faced with the tough decision of which to keep and which to dis card. EVEN THE old automobiles in .the Junk 'yard looked pretty in the snow. OUTSIDE BEFORE the Sunday afternoon Christmas party .held by .Franklin Hosiery Company, some of the . plant executives couldn't resist the temptation of tossing a few snowballs. LAST THURSDAY It apparent ly snowed everywhere hut In Frankin. Highlands had about .an inch and a half and nearby Otto -was white with the fluffy stuff. Sot 'nary a drop fell on Franklin. A REAL VOTE of thanks is .due men at the local highway dnd for the work they did Sat urday and Sunday keeping the highways open. Most of them missed all of -their shut-eye Sat urday night. MERCHANTS were aghast Fri day when two Santas showed up in the business district. A lot of youngsters started asking ques tions. The real story is that one was Santa and the other was a helper of Jus -who wanted to make sure all the good little boys and girls were vial ted. WOULDN'T IT be a wonderful thing if Franklin had a municipal auditorium? This would mean things like concerts and ice shows and the like. THE POWER company aban doned its Christmas lighting con test two years ago because of a lack of interest an the part of the organized rural communities. Hun tdreds who made a tour of the participating communities an an nual thing wish the communities | would show enough interest to ( ?revive it. W IT KEEPS on growing, -T/Oganvllle" is going to be the ?tain business center ?f Franklin. 1 CHRISTMAS DECORATION S 1 are beginning to sprout all over 1 town. 'Many of them .-are -very 1 clever and most reflect a good Mt ( of' work and thought. s OFFICF.RS of Franklin Garden Club watrt everyone to tarn out f Superior Court in Macon Coun iy A total of 75 cash bonds, called mt at the .August term, were for 'etlted by them at the term lor ion-appearance. Most of the bonds covered traffic violations and most >f the defendants were from out ;ide North Carolina. The term closed officially 8a t irday. However, the court had onducted no business since Tues lay of last week when Judge J. C. rarthlng finished the docket* and ecessed the term Cases disposed of by the Judge deluded : Amos Jones, aiding and abett ng drunk driving, * months *us ended, $100 and costs; Virgil ce Allen, reckless driving. $35 nd coats; Frank Jamison, speed ag. costs; Arthur B. Monroe, ald 3g and abetting drunk driving. 1M Md costs Tommy Andrew tuest, speeding, costs: James t ewer Hampton, no driver's 11 tnse. $35 and corte; Lee Carver, o driver's license. <35 and coats; ee Carver, no driver's license. 25 and costs: Albert Lloyd 8t*w rt, drunk driving. 0 months pus ended. $100 and costa; Howard avid erase, drunk driving, t imths suspended. tlOO and mU: Oordon Taller, fa lung; to ?port an accident, 30 days sus jended, $25 and costs; William ay Bennett, speeding, costs; Ed ln Roy Robinson, speeding. $5 id costs; Henry Reno Tilson. -unk driving. $100 and costs; lchard D. West, drunk driving. [00 and costs; Bryant Hodglns. 'caking and entering, larceny, )1 pros with leave; Lloyd C. Stl Inter, no driver's license. $25 and ists. William Curtlss Be as ley. reck ss driving, speeding. 8 months spended, $100 and costs; James irtis Buchanan, drunk driving nd offense), < months suspend ed, $200 and costs; Robert Henr; Brendle, drunk driving, speeding ?10 and costs, lor speeding. ( months suspended and *100 anc costs for drank driving; Franl Mozelle Rogers, drunk driving, 4 months suspended. $100 and costs; James P. Valentine, no driver') license, $25 and costs; Floyd Max well Flnlcy, drunk driving, reck 8EE NO. 1. PAOE 5 in the crevice, streaked "Old Tome". "Yippee, he'? a free man," yelled "Red". And Lake smiled and patted the hound. Later at the Chastain home. "Old Touse" dolefully appraised the situation "by Rtrtltlnt ' hind the wood stove and casting furtive looks in the direction of a photographer. Luke wasn't around. He's anisscd a lot of work trying to. free the hound and he was out cutting timber. , So that morninr "Old Touse" Just lolled around the house, sitting up and warming himself behind the wood stove with a sad Ilfl-raCher-be-hunting look. "If lie oould Just talk I recon' he omdd Mil a body a lot of Ikho," decided Grandmother OaatakL And' "Old Touse" Just rolled over and warmed the other side. What's Happened To The Rush? The Christmas mailing rush, for note reason, hasn't struck the Franklin Pott Qftice. ' In fact, cancellations are well I below those lor the same period I in 1957. Monday the office can . celled only 14,000 cards and let ! ters. This compares with 22,000 for the same day a year ago. i "The way It lacks now," Post-' - master Zeb Meadows declared : ? Tuesday, "we may not e?en have ] a rush." i City Mail Will Begin January 10 McKay, Cunningham I Are New Carriers For Franklin January 10 is the new date for city mall delivery to begin In Franklin, according to Postmaster Zeb Meadows. House-to-house delivery was scheduled to start in October but was held up because of equipment delays. i Mr. Meadows said the 10th be : gins a new quarter for the post { office department, making it an i ideal time to begin the new de ! livery. j Two new routes have been set ' up. one to be served by a walking carrier and the other by a carrier in a track. Tom McKay will be the walking carrier and John Cunningham will deliver by truck. Yule Gift' | For Schools A "Christmas gift" of several thousand dollars Is going to the Macon County School System. The "Santa Claus" behind the gift Is the December term of Su perior Court. A talley this week by the clerk of court, Mrs. Kate M. Wrinn, shows that $8,295 goes to the schools from fines, forfeitures, solicitor fees, jury tax, and high way patrol fees. Volume-wise the court term, which closed Saturday after two weeks, was the largest ever held in Macon County and the amount going to the schools also is the largest. A breakdown of the total shows $3,891.80 came from fines; $4,300 from forfeitures; $640 from solicitor fees; $324 from Jury tax: and $129.29 from highway patrol fees. Plyler Promoted To Headquarters Of Forest Station Frank Plyler, office manager at Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory. Is being promoted to the South eastern Forest Experiment Station headquarters In Asheville. He assumed his new duties Monday as administrative assist ant in charge of procurement and contracts. Mr. Plyler's family will remain here until the end of the school year. Mrs. Plyler teaches school. A native of Iredell County, he has been with the U.S. Forest Service here for 10 years. For a short period arter the closing of the Nantahala National Forest Headquarters tn Franklin In the early '50s, he was in private busi ness before joining the staff at Coweeta. A. C. Tyslnger has been named to succeed Mr. Plyler as com mander of the Macon Search and Rescue Squad. FOOD SALE Members of the Woman's Socie ty of Christian Service of Mt. Zlon Methodist Church will hold a food sale Friday, December 19, at the Nantahala Power and Light Company building, beginn ing at 9:30 ajn. NIKWASI inn mound marKs she ?L CheroKee towa NiKw?l A council of fed to a treaty. 1730. smemm ?&&&>'. ?-?.v While the first flurries of snow fell on Franklin Saturday afternoon. Scouts of Explorer Post 20 2. a new organization, and Cubs of Pack 4 tackled the hip joh of cleaning up North Carolina's largest remain ing Indian Mound. They used power mowers, swing blades, weed cutters, and large amounts of "elbow grease". The Explorers plan to take the Indian" Mound maintenance as a permanent project. (Staff Photo) Harrison Avenue, A Beautiful Winter Wonderland (Other snow photos inside this issue) (Staff Photo) Business Is Warming To Season Business is beginning to feel the warmth of Christmas. After a slow start (probable cause: unseasonably warm weath er), Christmas shoppers started moving at a rapid clip last week and have been converging on local stores in ever increasing numbers since. . . and it's about time, too," declared one merchant. Afternoon visits Friday and Saturday by Santa Class served to apart downtown atttvUy. at least among the smaHfry. Mer chants made the arrangements to bring Santa here and they also supplied him with a large quanti ty of candy to hand out. Counting today (Thursday*, shoppers Just have six more days - of open stores before Christmas. To accommodate customers, sev eral stores are remaining open Friday night. Church Choirs Plan Christmas Musicale Sunday The combined choirs of the Franklin Methodist church will present a Christmas vesper musi cale at the church at 4:45 p.m. Sunday. The program is under the di rection of Mrs. Hoy F. Cunning ham and Mrs. H. W. Cabe. with the children's, junior, and adult choirs taking part. Mrs. Cabe, as organist, and Mrs. J. L. Neiil and Miss Nancy Siler, palnists. Will assist with the music. Solo parts | will be sung by Miss Nancy Mc Collum, Mrs. Charles Gidney. Miss , Margaret Swann. and Miss Jov ' McCollum. Mrs. R. S. Jones and Steve Brown will serve as readers on the program. t DAMAGE IS LIGHT - Sunday Awakening Revealb Big Snow Maconians awoke Sunday morn- i ing to find a blanket of snow that ranged In depths of 7-8 inches in Highlands to 4-5 Inches -In Frank 'in. One of the largest snows in recent years, it was welcomed by most as a beautiful reminder of the Christmas season. Only minor troubles were ex perienced by Nantahala Power and Light Company and Western Carolina Telephone Company. State highway crews, however, considered the snow the biggest headache of winter. When it be came apparent the snow was go ing to stick ? after light flurries most of Saturday afternoon ? state trucks loaded with sand and equipped with snow plows rumbled out on the highways. From about 1 to 4 ajn. Sunday, snow plows managed to barely "hold their own" as the fall Increased. The Highlands area and Wallace Oap. on the western end, of the county gave them the most trouble. Sunday morning traffic was light and church attendance suffered. A few accidents, all of them minor, were reported. Most of them involved only one vehicle, according to Highway Patrolman H. T. Ferguson, with snow and ice as the contributing factors. Mac Wnitaner, ox Nantahala Power, reported the only major damage in the system in the county was a main line to High lands. The break occur ed n_-ar the Ellijay Road. Scattered minor power (allures were reported over the county. t.t adatd. but all service was re stored by 8 o'clock that night. Western Carolina TeH phone Company had one^ pole snapped by the extra weight of Ice and snow on the wires. This was ne%r lot la Bridge. Get Out Your Ice Skates Macon County's 'Sun Valley",. Highlands, has issued the Ice skating call. Low temperatures the past week have frozen the area's many lakes and the blades are flashing on the feet of young and old. A large migration of Georgians and South Carolinians is expect ed this week end if the tempera' ture holds. CHURCH PARTY The W M.U. of the First Baptist :hurch will hold its annual Christ nas party tonight (Thursday) in ;he church social hall at 7:30. Urs. Don Stewart, church social ?hairman. is in charge of arrange nents. MEETING AT SCHOOL ? Groups To Hear Mattox On State School Finances Tonight (Thursday), H. A. Mat ox. of Murphy, a member of the :ovemor's commission for the tudy of state school finances, rill address a Joint meeting of h Macon County Citizens Com mittee for Better Education and he local unit of the N. C. Edu ation Association. The meeting Is set for 7:30 in le high school cafeteria. Mr. M^'tox will discuss the re ort of the commission on school nances. A question-answer ses on on the subject also is planned. He will be Introduced by Supt. . Bueck. who serves as secretary ' the citizens committee. Mr. Bueck commented this week lat Mr. Mattox's subject is "of tal Interest to all of us, because ,200 Chicks turn In Fire larly Thursday j rhree fire alarms were answered ? s past week by the Franklin ? lunteer Fire Department, with 1 t blaze destroying a chicken ^ use, 3,200 chicks, and Injuring ! owner. V rhahlel N. Klrkland, 43, was 1 med on his face and hands F en the chicken house he leases S m Ralph Bradley In the Patton S nmunlty caught fire and burned V irtly after 4 o'clock last Thurs- T ' morning. Mr. Klrkland was V tplng in the chicken house so ? could tend to the young chicks I he had to go through a por l of the blazing house to reach ' BEE NO. 2. PAGE S " the General Assembly will be faced at Its next session, for the first time since 1932, with the problem of finding new sources of revenue." The Weather Tha wwk'i umptrkUirM u4 rata fait Ma m %rm racorttd in Fnaklia by Mum Silt? > U. S. wmUmt obn?rv?r; in H%M*a4a ta* Tudor N. Hail mm4 W. a Hiwwa. TV A obwrnrt; and at th? G?w?U Laboratory. Raadlnsa in for tin t| hmm Nriod ending at ? a. at. mi Um 4n IMal. Rlfb Law Rain FRANKLIN Wed., 10th SO 20 .00 Thursday 44 SO .00 Friday 44 13 .00 Saturday 38 29 .00 Sunday 40 27 ? Monday 40 9' .00 Tuesday 53 5 00 Wednesday .... 14 .00 COWCTA Wed., 10th 54 23 .00 rhursday 4? 23 ?? . rriday 39 13 .02 Saturday 43 22 00 Sunday 37 20 '".SI Monday 37 8 "uesday 35 9 Wednesday 40 15 HIGHLANDS 7ed., 10th 38 24 "hursday 33 20 tlday 34 14 aturday 37 IS unday 37 28 fonday 37 12 uesday 47 20 redneaday .... 17 *4 Inches snow ?? trace snow '** melted snow '??no record