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Wh* l&isiWaflfa' JUacotuan ON THE INSIDE ? WHO'S BEEN WHERE AND FOR WHAT? Staff correspondents of THE HHE3S ket p the inside pages of this newspaper alive with news about your friends and neighbors Read the inside pates from top to bottom and vou 1] know Macon County. 74th Year ? No. 22 Franklin, N. C., Thursday, May 28, 1959 Price 10 Cent went v l aires ?5L & LET'S NOT forget the Babe Ruth and Little League move ments need our support to keep operating. A boy who's kept busy playing- ball hasn't time to get into trouble. NOW, WHO was it that kept wanting rain to fall so their gai den would grow? Certainly not all the farmers who had hay on the ground when it started fall ing before the week end. BRACE YOURSELF, Franklin, The tourist season will start being felt here the last of this week. All it takes is for school to turn out and they start traveling. V. II. BURT, the cruise master for the 2nd annual Pilots Ruby Rendezvous, was here several days last week lining things up for the fly-in in September. He flew in from Miami. THE POWER mowers will be snortin' and hummin' this week after all that rain jerked up the grass and weeds. SPEAKING OF rain, folks sure do cuss that balcony on the Mc Coy Building_that hangs over the sidewalk ? that is, until it starts pouring and it furnishes the only shelter oil that side of the street. REEVES HARDWARE is mov ing from its Main Street building to its new store on Depot Street, next door to its warehouse. Just another move to get away from the congestion in the downtown area. > WFSC HAS donated 200 records to the Franklin Youth Center and plans to make periodic donations to keep the music at the center up-to-date, according to Ed Healy. manager. SURE WOULD be a generous thing for some man to step foi ward and answer Bob Carpenter's "want ad" for someone to organize a minor league for the boys who want to play ball, but weren't quite good enough to make the Little League teams. BABE RUTH L?ague play gets under way Saturday afternoon at the East Franklin field. For some grown-up ball playing, drop by and watch them. HIGH SCHOOL teachers recent ly honored Mrs. T. J. O'Neil at a party. She's retiring after 44 years of teaching. As a gift the teach ers presented her a souptureen. FRANKLIN HIGH'S seniors were wandering around town Mon day at loose ends. They must have felt a little strange with nothing to do. HOPE THOSE fellows building the culvert at the foot of Town Hill are as good at building as they are at breaking the water main. It got to be a habit with them last week. THEY MOWED the new grass on the main runway at the Frank lin Airport over the week end. Plans still call for the runway to be closed until July. IT'S GOOD to see that work ? finally is getting under way down at the city park on the youth cen ter. THAT WAS A mighty good feed the F.F.A. boys and their advisor, Wayne Proffitt, put on Tuesday night of last week. From the en thusiasm they display, it is easy to understand why they're tops in the state. MISS LAURA M. Jones recalls ttere being a telephone in Frank lin long before the one in Green Trotter's store. About 1887, she . recalls going up town with her father to make a call to Webster. The phone was in a store < prob ably Franks' store* ?bout where the Jamison store is now. 10 COUNTY COMMUNTIES ENTER CONTEST This Year's Total In Rural Event Highest Yet Ten Macon County communities have signed up for the 195D W.N.C. Rural Community Develop- , ment Program. ' Leroy H. Feagin, president of the Asheville Agricultural Develop ment Council, which sponsors the | area program in cooperation with the agricultural agencies, reports the 120 communities entered this year is the largest number since the program was started some 10 years ago. Macon communities participat ing are Cowee, Carson, Iotla, Car toogechaye, Patton, Pine Grove, Holly Springs, Cullasaja, Higdon ville and Clark's Chapel. In the area program, winning communities ? will be awarded $2,000 in cash prizes. They are scored on a four-fold basis of com munity projects, youth program, family livihg, and increased in come. In addition, about $10,000 in prize money is being offered in county qontests. Local mer chants generally give about $1,100 in the Macon County contest. Babe Ruth Opening Mayor W. C. Bunnell's pitch ing arm Will open the 1959 Babe Ruth season at the East Frank lin field Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Follpwing the mayor's, first pitch, the opening game will be between J;he Corvettes and the Cardinals'. A second game will be played by the Rexalites and the Yardbirds. Players Called All Babe Ruth playeis are asked to report to the field to morrow (Friday) afternoon at 3:30. Uniforms will be handed out. About 10 openings are still to be filled on the four teams, ac cording to the league president, Pete Penland. Boys 13 through 15 who are interested in play ing may get in touch with the president or any of the team coaches. Weekly Games During regular season . play, Babe Ruth double-headers will be played Wednesdays and Sat urdays, the first gajne begin ning at 2 o'clock. Next Wednesday, the Cardin als will meet the Rexalites and the Yardbirds the Corvettes. Schools Set For Food Handlers About 300 are expected at two foodhandler's schools being sponsored here next week by the district health department. A school for the Franklin area is scheduled Monday at East Franklin school. Another is planned Tuesday for the Highlands area at the casino at Highlands Country Club. Classes will be held at 9:30 a. m. and 2:30 p. m. C. B. Thomas, district senior sanitarian, will be master of ceremonies at the schools. Mrs. Florence S. Sherrill, home ec onomics agent, will have charge of the personal hygiene portion of' the sessions. A film also will be shown. SUNDAY SINGING The fifth Sunday singing con vention will be held Sunday! May 31, at the courthouse, be ginning at~10 a. m. All singers and tl'e public are invited to attend. Carter Henson will be in charge of the program. AO ACIIJ.A "MR. MACONIAN" Hi-ya Neighbors : , Want tp have a word with you graduates this week. A feller name of William Dean How'eils says "An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise." ] i I've yot to explain that to you, vou shouldn't h.ave made it -through hij;h school. So, fjbod luck! and remember that success rules don't work if you don't. And I thank you. Mr. Maconian Don And Jackie Ann '. . . Scholarship Winners (Stnff rhoto) FROM WALDROOP FUND ? Miss Cabe And Ledford Are Scholarship Winners Miss Jackie Ann Cabe and Don Ledford, Franklin High graduates, have been announc ed as the recipients of the first scholarships to Brevard College offered through the R. M. and Hattie L. Waldroop Educational Fund. The late Mrs. Waldroop, of Franklin, left $68,800 In her will for the educational fund, with the stipulation that the money be used to assist deserving boys and girls of Macon and Swain counties. The fund is adminis tered by G. L. Houk and B. L. McGlamery, both of Franklin, through a trust fund at Wacho via Bank and Trust Company. Miss Cabe,, who receives a full $550 scholarship, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jatt Cabe, of Holly Springs com munity. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Ledford, of Route 2, young Mr. Ledford receives a part scholarship of $350. Bre vard College has made arrange ments for the two to supple ment their scholarships by working. Under Mrs. Waldroop's Will, the head of the scholarship committee is the pastor of the First Methodist Church. He at present is the Rev. R. E. Early. IN DILLSBORO ? Mrs. Sherrill To Install Club Officers At Banquet New officers will be installed by the Franklin Junior Woman's Club at its annual banquet to night (Thursday > . The banquet will be held at the Jarrett House in Dillsboro. Mis. Florence S. Sherrill, of Franklin, will install the following officers: Mrs. Harold Corbin, presi dent; Mrs. Kenneth Perry. 1st vice-president; Mrs. Roy Pender grass. 2nd vice-president; M. George Roper. 3rd vice-president: Miss Harriet Murray, secretary; Mrs. Glenn Davis, corresponding secretary; and Miss Mamie Lee Murray, treasurer. Also appearing on the program will be the Melodettes. a local singing group composed of June Wells. Sharon and Shelia Duvall, and Carolyn Myers. AT DUKE UNIVERSITY ? Tommy Gnuse Recipient Of High R.O.T.C. Award Cadet M/Sgt. Thomas Gnuse. of the Duke University Air Force R.O.T.C., was presented the Amer ican Society of Military Engineers Medal at a combined military re view held with the Duke Navy R.O.T.C. May 15. The recipient of the award was selected on the basis of academic standing, demonstrated leadership in extra-curricular activities, and excellence in military subjects. The selection of this award was on a national basis among all R.O.T.C. engineering students. Cadet Gnuse, a junior electrical engineering major at Duke Uni versity, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Gnuse, Jr., of Bethel Park. Penn.. formerly of Franklin. Bloodmobile In Highlands HIGHLANDS ? A bloodmobile from the regional center ' in Asheville will be here today (Thursday) from 2 to 6 p. in.* at the Methodist Church. HOMECOMING SUNDAY Homecoming will be observed Sunday at the Dryman's Chap el Methodist Church. Dinner will be served at noon. The public is invited. AWARDS ARE GIVEN ? Franklin Lions Elect Harry Corbin President Harry C. Corbin, principal of Franklin High School. Monday night was elected president of the Franklin Lions Club for 1959-60. In addition to the election, the club's program featured the presentation of a number of awards to Lions for attendance and service. Another lienor The meeting was' a two-fold honor for Mr. Corbin. Not onjy was h^ named to lead the club for the next year, but he also was the recipient of a "key member" award for sponsoring two new members. F E. Shull, district governor, presented the perfect atten dance and service pins. Five-year perfect attendance pins went to Jack Angel, John Crawford, J. C. Crisp, Roy Cun ningham, Prelo toryman, Wayne Faulkner, J. Frank Martin. B. L. McGlamery? Lake V. Shope, and Verlon Swafford. One-year pins went to T. Y. Angel, Claude Bolton. II. Bueck, Jim Conley, Harry C. Corbin, Dr. J. L. Hill Jr., J. Ward Long and Mac Whltaker. A 25-year service award was awarded to H. Bueck. Verlon Swafford and R. R. Gaines got awards for 20 years. Getting 15-year awards were Claude Bolton, Wiley Brown, Wayne Faulkner, J. Ward Long, B L. McGlamery, arid Mae Whitaker. Eight Lions got 10-year awards, Elbert Angel, Jack Angel, W G. Crawford. John Crawford, Dr. Ben P. Grant, J Frank Martin. Dr. A Rufus Morgan, and Lake V. Shope. Other Officers Other officers elected to serve with Mr Corbin are J. W Good win, 1st vice-president; Prelo Dryman, 2nd vice-president; J C Crisp, 3rd vice-president; Bob Corbin. secretary; Roy Cunningham, treasurer; Lake V Shope, Tail Twister; L. C. How ard, Jr., Lion Tamer; and Jim Conley and Dr. J. L. Hill, Jr. two-year directors. Directors having another year to .serve on the board arc Mac Whitakei and B. L. McGlamery June Installation The new officers will be in stalled a. a meeting June 22 They will officially take olflci i July.t. ^7" ? TWO DOWN, HIGHLANDS STILL LEFT _ F ranlctTn Tf lgh Gives Awards Tuesday At Exercises Two down and one more to go! Which is just another way of Faying that 147 of Macon County's 161 graduating seniors have re ceived their diplomas. Highlands High still has to hon or its 14 graduates. Its commence ment is scheduled tomorrow (Fri day night at 8 o'clock. The bac calaureate sermon was preached Sunday afternoon by the Rev. J. C. Vernon Tuesday night marked Franklin High's commencement exercises in the high school* gymnasium. One hundred and twenty-six diplomas were presented Hby Supt. H. Bueck. The Rev. Donn K. Langfitt. pas tor of the First Presbyterian Church, preacher! the baccalaure ate sermon Sundav night. Students Honored In a departure from the tra-. ditionnl, the top honor students. Miss Rebecca Reeves, valedictor ian. and Miss Barbara Waldroop. salutatoriah, did not sneak. They were pi Rented valedictory and salutatory trophies by Principal Harry C. Corbin. The following awards were made to graduates"-: John Kiillian, Ac tivities. Agriculture. Citizenship. President, Student Council: Larry Rrooks, Basketball: Claude.tte loatherman. Basketball. Citizen ship. Mathematics: Helen Setscr, Basketball; Furman Angel, Jr., Citizenship; Kate Almond. Com mercial: Rebecca Reeves, English. Valedictorian: Don Led ford. Foot ball. School Spirit; Leota Beck, H w F'-onomics: Raymond South-. .*?rd. Journalism. librarian; Bar I >ra Waldroon. S llutatorian :. Frances Alexander, School Spirit: Tommy McNish,, Science; Nancy Siler. 'Science: and Bobby I'oin dexter, Social Science. Music was under the direction of Mrs. H. W. Cabe and Roy M Biddle. Jr.. director of the.-hi.kh school chorus. Nantahala High graduated 21 seniors at exercises May 18. First (Phew) Time, Maybe The Last ... In this week's PRESS is something special. It's an eight- page section featuring the individual pic tures of every graduating sen ior in Macon County. It is something special be cause it has never been done before by THE PRESS. It was highly educational, from a printing standpoint; so much so, the staff is now debating whether to ever .again undertake such a proj ect! Staff members burneii the late night oil for more than a week, either getting the pictures engraved for repro duction, or running the edi tion on the newspaper press; their lingers are sore from mounting the individual "cuts" on wood blocks; the front office boys are dizzy from checking and recheck ing the names and pictures against the school yearbooks to make sure all names and pictures matched; and the wives of these overly ambi tious staff members are still a little cool toward them for working the entire week end. On the surface, the eight page section appears to have been a routine production, However, it was produced over and above the regular news paper. The following man hours, most on overtime, went into its production: Thirteen hours engraving the 161 pictures. Twelve hours of making up the pages and assuring a sat isfactory print. Four hours of type setting names alone. . Eight hours of extra pre.ss running time. Two hours folding the spe cial section. Four hours mounting the individual "cuts". BANK HOLIDAY The Bank of Franklin will be closed Saturday, May 30, in ob servance of Memorial Day. OFFICES CLOSING All county offices in the courthouse will observe Satur - day, Memorial Day, as a lioli . day. The sheriff's department ? however, will have a man -or duty. ? - ? SAFE CRACKERS WORK AT GROCERY STORE IN FRANKLIN S. B. I. Agent P. K. Kitchen, of Waynesvillf, and local officers are investigating a break-in at Baldwin's Market on West Palmer Street that happened? .Monday might or Tuesday morning. Baldwin's safe in the front of the store was broken open (see above) and its contents scattered. W. E. Baldwin, owner, said only a small amount of cash was in the safe and "I'd have been better- off to have left it open." Cigarettes also were taknn. The combination of the safe was battered off and the door was prized open. Knlrafice h;i'l to be gained at three points by the thieves. A screen was tern out on a storage porrh .it the back oJ' the store, then iron bars in a window were bent out of the way to allow th in t-> infer the. main store room. I'rom the store n.-nn, they used a lackffer to climb into the ceil m id then dropped through an exhaust fan port in the ceiling into the ma n store. Stuff Ph.)tc>> ABOUT 60 ARE INVOLVED - Franklin Elementary Pupils Reassigned To Ease Load A.s a means of easing the ever - increasing pupil-teacher load at crowded Franklin Ele mentary School, a pupil reas signment plan has been adopt ed by the board of education for the 1959-60 school year. It involves about 60 children and reassigns them from Franklin Elementary to Car taogechaye. Union,' and Iotla schools. In announcing the plan this week. School Supt. H. Bueck said the plan would not effect children within a mile and a halt of the school who furnish their own transportation. Year's Study He . also stressed that more thun a year's study by both state and' local school author ities has gone into the reassign ment plan for Franklin Elemen tary. "We do not want people to think we just did this thing ,'in the spur of the moment," he declared MRS. O'NEIL RETIRING ? She's Got Many State 'Firsts' In Education A Franklin High teacher with pn.->us', h ."firsts" to. rate a high Hiche in North Carolina educa tional history is retiring this week after 44 years in the' class-, room. A smile on her face, an iris pinned on her dress ("One of the boys nave it to m"", Mrs Katherine M. O Neil sat back and reflected on some of her "great moments". ( ? re.it .Moments ? Winston-Salem was the scene of three of her "moments"; she organized the first public nursery school in the state, tlje first child study (grou;>, and .set up the classroom teachers de partment of the N C. Educa tion Association. Still another occurred during a brief stint away from teach ing. As a home demonstration agent in 1934. she organized home demonstration work in Macon and Clay counties. The high degree of success associa ted with today's home demon stration program In? both coun ' ties attests to the 'strong roots planted by Mrs. O'Nell 23 Years Here < A home economics teacher at Franklin High for 23 years, the Cambridge, Mass , native came here from a teaching job in Asheville Prior to that she taught "all over the state". Mrs. O'Nell cast her lot with North Carolina education in 1915 at Startown (near Newton t, where she taught in a farm life school. From here she went to Jamestown, and then served a period as an "Itinerate teacher" . In the mill villages of Charlotte t and Oastonla, she went with the city schools tn Winston Silrm, where she sn.p"i vised In me economics it was' hen tin' she accomplished the three state "lirsts". Mrs. came t.-< Franklin' Hi 'li in lii'JH. when W. II Fin ley was principal. . ( )l J And New Buck then, she Had her home economics classes all In one hire room. Their equipment ad(Wl up to two oil stoves and . five^snw.iiK machines, all of the ped il variety. Contrast this with t iday's nine sewing nvichitves (seven of them electric i, elec tric stoves, refrigerators, freez ers, and all the other modern hour,' 'keeping conveniences. At one time she had 98 per cent of the girls in the student body taking home economics. Interest l.asls Modern times haven't dulled the interest of giri.s in home economics, Mrs. O Neil says, but they have changed the teach ers approach. ' ' Now we have to do more teaching," she confesses, be cause the girls today don't re ceive the (raining at home that those of years ago did They don't sew as much, for example, because it's too easy to step into a store and find what they want. ~ Culinary art also has suffered and "today's girls don't make as good cooks," she says. This is because of the convenience of packaged and frozen foods and ready-mixed blends for cakes and cookies. "It's really because they have less to do at home today," Mrs. O'Neil explains. Plans for the future? "To do what I want to, when I want to, and how I want to." Franklin Elementary is the oldest building in the school systqrh, has the smallest class rooms, and has the heaviest teacher load of any elementary school, the superintendent ex plained. These factors, plus the heavy concentration of children in the area, forced school of ficials to come up with a solu tion to the problem "Tills will enable us to hold off on a bond Issue for new buildings as long as possible," Mr. Bueck said. Similar Plan A similar plan probably will be adopted next year for East Franklin School, he added. Under the. Franklin Elemen tary reassignment, the follow ing changes are made:. . AREA 1 : Approximately 19 pupils who have te"ii attending Franklin Elementary, who live oil the Pattou Chapel Road from Emory Mill t>> the Jones Ho; (I, will lie transferred to Unioii School. Also in this area, approximately 1 ,i in the vicin i'y west of '.Setter's Store will attend Ortoogechaye school. |RFA 2 About 28 pupils in the vicinity of the prison camp oil NC 28 to Windy Gap Road will b! transferred to lot la SEE NO. 1, PAGE 6 The Weather Th?- - t.-mp. i jttti: iiti<i rainfall below in- i ??<??: ?!? *1 iii i i inklin by Slanwr Stiles, L'. S. ?.!?? rvi-r: ;n by Tu?lor N Hiil1' h ml W. (. N.-wton. TV A nlwrvci's; jiri'l ;?t the Cow. ta HydroloRic Ijibofsitory . R??u<linjfs lire for th?* 24-hour period cudintf it ?< .ii.m. of the dny listed. FRANK UN High Low Rain Wed . 20th 73 63 53 Thursday 77 61 1 07 Friday 82 61 .08 Saturday 84 59 .00 Sunday 83 58 .36 Monday 74 62 .33 Tuesday 69. 61 .79 Wednesday 62 .14 COWETA Wed., 20th 77 62 1.53 Thursday 70 58 2.06 Friday 77 54 .01 Saturday '82 53 .53 Sunday 82 52 .00 Monday 83 61 1.83 Tuesday 68 59 1.35 Wednesday 68 58 .1 HIGHLANDS Wed., 20th 63 58 Thursday 70 58 Friday 74 56 Saturday 76 51 Sunday 76 54 Monday 66 58 Tuesday 61 57 Wednesday 59 * * no record.