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.