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74th Year ? No. 33
Franklin, N. C., Thursday, August 13, 1959
Price 10 Cents
Twenty-four Pages
FRANKLIN POLICE are
clamping down .on speeders in
town. One tried to outrun the
prowi car on Palmer In the
early afternoon but didn't get
far. it cost him though, on a
visit to the justice of the peace.
THOSE ARE the saddest look
ing cross-the-street banners in
the world. They've been that
way for a couple of weeks, al
most since they were put ud bv
the chamber of commerce to
indicate the way to its infor
mation booth. A truck clipped
off the Main Street taanner.
Why one hasn't got the sag
ging banner on Palmer Is a
mystery.
GEORGIANS CAN'T complain
now about getting caught for
speeding on the Georgia high
way. Their old excuse has been
eliminated. That was wailing
that the Georgia speed limit
is 60 and they weren't think
ing when they arrived on the
55 m.p.h. stretch in N. C. Now
they're both 60, which should
produce some new excuses.
THE STAFF of THE PRESS is
pleased with the response
shown last week's tourist sec
tion. We've plenty of extra
copies on hand for distribu
tion where they'll do the most
good.
MACON COUNTY'S annual
folk festival runs tonight
(Thursday) through Saturday.
For five dollars worth of fine
entertainment for just a quar
ter, this event can't be beat.
LAST WEDNESDAY'S garden
club flower show at Franklin
High has been praised as the
finest ever held here. The
quality was exceptional.
'LOST COLVERT now has
curbing and Frogtown Branch
is flowing in a new channel.
The detour road was destroyed
by a shovel Monday afternoon.
SOME SILVER paint on the
brushes of town employes sure
has helped the appearance of
the Iron bar fence along Town
Hill and up Riverview Street.
They also painted the fence on
Iotla Street Tuesday.
BOWER'S Department Store
is still at work on its new face.
The new front of the store
will add to the attractiveness
of Main Street.
BOYS DOWN at the A & P
were sprucing up the front of
the store after working hours
Monday.
WASN'T THE county fair
something this year? There are
a lot of praises due, but it
would be hard to single out any
one individual, it was a team
project and one that everyone
can take pride in.
TOWN HAS been loaded with
lawyers for the last two
weeks with "court a'keepin' "
Andy Jones is up from Raleigh
to represent the state in some
highway right-of-way cases.
HIGHWAY WORK is at full
swing hereabouts. Prisoner*
are clearing along the roads
ana shoulders are being leveled
THAT FALLS picture on Elli
jay THE PRESS ran last weefc
as "Amnions Falls" was wrong
Should have been the Moorf
Falls, so on bended knee wf
ask forgiveness.
CANCEL THAT fbove aboul
the cross-the-street banners
They've now been fixed. How
ever. they droo perli for so long
we'il still complain.
MRS. E. S. PURDOM (left), sweepstakes winner, ana' the tri-coior winner, Mrs. Stephen A.
Bundy, are shown with one of Mrs. Purdom's prize-winning arrangements in last Wednesday's
flower show. (Staff Photo*
AT FRANKLIN HIGH STADIUM -
Folk Festival Opens Tonight
With a wide variety of moun
tain entertainment, from dance
teams to old timey fiddlers,
the annual Macon County Folk
Festival opens tonight (Thurs
day) for a three-night run.
Competition In the Jaycee
sponsored festival is limited to
Maconians, but a number of
out-of-county groups will be on
hand to play "Just for the fun
of it", according to the Rev.
D"in K. Langfitt, chairman.
Performances will begin
nightly at 8 o'clock "under the
stars" in the high school sta
dium.
A 25 cent per person admis
sion will be charged, with most
of the money going for cash
prizes to the winning musical
groups and dance teams.
The festival annually draws
several thousand spectators and
Is considered a highspot on the
tourist calendar.
Entertainers and musicians
wanting to compete in the fes
tival may report to Mr. Lang
fltt each night at the stadium
at 7:30.
Proceeds will be used by the
Jaycees for civic improvement
projects.
DECLARED RUNNER-UP ?
Carson Cloggers Nearly
Made It In Asheville
The greatly-Improved
(through experience) Carson
Cloggers danced their way into
the runner-up spot before some
2,000 spectators Friday and Sat
urday nights in Asheville at
the Mountain Dance and Folk
Festival.
A team from Florida won out
over the doggers in the finals
Saturday night.
As usual, Carson danced to
music furnished by Its own
band, "Cumberland Mountain
eers".
Accompanying the team to
Asheville Friday night were Mr.
SEE NO. X. PAGE 8
FOR ACTIVITIES ?
Peggy Dills, Gregory Boy
Win Top Youth Awards
Winners of the top Hilda Coo'.;
Awa rds are Pogjy Dills, 4-H club
ber. arc*. Wayne Grescry, a Fia :'ik
lir. Fv.tu.e Parmer.
The. cash awards totaling $200
a: /Uit by "Irs. Hilda Cook.
Miami, Fl.t,. a Franklin summer
Sitier.t.; She has stipulated that
( the i-.or.cy. to 'je put up annually.
i:- to be Ji\ .'did equally between
I CfT.te<ts for boys and givls making
, tl'.e asset o'UstaniJii'K contribu
tions in youth activities:
In each contest, first place will
be $50; second, $29; third, $15;
arid fourth. $10.
In addition to Peggy, other win
ders-are Patsy Corbin. second;
Sue Crawford, third; and Suz-.
anne Cunningham. fourth. In the
toys' event. Robert, Enloe _ was
second; Bruce Hedden, third; and
Tommy Fouts. fourth. Tr.e three
.ire 4-H c'uboers.
Petfgy is the daughter of Mr.
?nd Mrs. Turner Dills, of Route 1.
Wayne's parents are Ivlr. and Mrs.
Parker Gregory, of Holly Springs.
MRS. HILDA COOK (right) is shown presenting checks to the top winners of the Hilda
Cook Youth Awards, Wayne Gregory and Peggy Dills. iStaff Photo;
Will The
'Flying Rebels'
Make It?
A pretty day Saturday should
see a number of airplanes descend
upon Franklin from the direction
of Georgia.
The "Plying Rebels" of Georgia
are going to try to hold another
ruby digging fly-In over the week
end; that Is if the weather doesn't
foul up the situation as it did for
the flying club In July.
Arrangements have been made
with the Jaycees to have the
visitors as special guests at the
closing performance of the Macon
County Folk Festival Saturday
night.
Airplanes are expected to start
arriving about 10 o'clock and all
of them should be on the ground
and tied down for the night by
4 o'clock.
Members of the Macoit Search
and Rescue Squad, who. are han
dling arrangements at the airpont.
request spectators to exercise
caution while 011 the airport
grounds and not to bother any
of the airplanes. ?
Wildcats Win
First Game
In Play-Offs
By a score of 6 to 5, the Wild
cats won the first game over the
Jaybirds in the Little League play
offs Monday.
The second game is set for Sat
urday at 3:30 at the Franklin
field. A third game, if there is a
need to break a tie, is scheduled
Wednesday, the 19th. at the same
hour.
Hay's In!
t . J
| Scott Hay, of Franklin and
| . Land of Lakes, Fla., Is now
numbered among golfdom's
great, .and lucky.
lie got a hole-in-one last
I week on the Franklin course.
His million-?n -one ace was
on the 300-yard Number 8.
SINGING TONIGHT
A singing will be held at the
Pleasant Hill Baptist Church to
' night (Thursday. Carl Morgar
will be in charge of the program
which will start at 8 o'clock.
?
Unemployment In County
Lower Than Last Year
Closing Of
F.H.A. Here
Revealed
Lack Of Funds
'Cited; Head
Man Retiring
Because of a reduction in ad
ministrative funds available for
the 1960 fiscal year, the Macon
County office of the Fai'mers
Home Administration Is closing.
After tomorrow i Friday), it will
be a part-time office attached to
the headquarters office In Hayes
ville. Oarland E. Denning, county
supervisor for the Hayesvllle unit,
is being assigned the responsibil
ity of administering the F.H.A.
Program in this county to eligible
farmers.
Ray F. Hemphill, who has been
supervisor of the county office for
the past 17 years, is retiring from
government service after 26 years.
Mrs. Meda Bryson, who has been
county office clerk for the past
five years, is being tranferred to
Rutherfordton as office clerk
there.
Mr. Denning will be in the
county office in the Agricultural
Building two days each week. The
days and office hours will be an
nounced later.
The Farmers Home Admlnstra
tlon Is an agency of the U.S. De
partment of Agriculture that
serves eligible farm operators with
credit and needed technical help
on farming problems. The agency
makes operating loans, farm
ownership loans, soil and water
conservation loans, farm housing
loans, and emergency loans.
MARTIN INSTALLED
J. Frank Martin, Franklin Lion,
was Installed Saturday nlgtit at
Blue Ridge as zone chairman 6f
District 31-A, Lions International.
QUALITY IS HIGH -
County Fair Gets
Bigger And Better
Macon County's '59 county
lair left no doubts that the
event gets better each year.
Held on the Franklin High
School grounds Thursday, Fri
day, and Saturday the fair at
tracted more than 3,000 people,
It Is conservatively estimated by
fair association officials.
Opening night (Thursday),
Agricultural Agent T. H. Fagg
observed the crowd packed In
to the gymnasium to see the
exhibits and decided "you
couldn't stir 'em with a stick."
A total of 354 exhibitors en
tered some 2,000 exhibits, at
testing to the steady growth of
the fair. Also, more Interest
was taken in the livestock
shows this year, with some 100
animals entered.
As for the quality of the fair,
it "definitely was up", the ag
ricultural agent declared.
Considerable Interest was
shown In the booth exhibits
entered by organized commun
ity groups, civic clubs, home
demonstration and 4-H clubs,
and churches. The winners in
these departments are as fol
lows:
Community Development: Cul
lasaja, 1st, $25; Iotla, 2nd, $15;
Holly Springs, 3rd, $10; Patton,
4th, $10; Hlgdonvllle and
Clark's Chapel, tie for 5th, $5
each.
Home Demonstration: Car
toogechaye, 1st, $20; Mulberry,
2nd, $15; Cullasaja, 3rd, $10;
Burnlngtown and Rldgecrest,
tie for 4th, $5 each.
4-H Booths: Carson, 1st, $20;
Holly Springs, 2nd, $15; Liberty,
3rd, $10; Cartoogechaye, Jr.,
4th, $5.
Family Booths: Carlos Rog
ers, Route 3. 1st, $5; Mrs. Ver
non Bryson, Route 5, 2nd, $3.
Church Booths: St. Francis
Catholic Church, St. Agnes
Episcopal Church, and Clark's
Chapel Methodist Church, tie
for 1st, $5 each.
Civic Clubs: Franklin Garden
Club, 1st, $5.
Blue ribbon winners in the
individual departments will be
carried in next week's PRESS.
Fair officials are still working
on the list and It was not
available when the newspaper
went to pi'ess.
Premier Of
Macon Movie
Today i Thursday i and tomor
row. as an added attraction at
Macon Theatre, the new docu
mentary movie, "The Majestic
Nantahalas will be shown.
This Is the premier showing of
the color movie. Financed by the
Franklin Chamber of Commerce,
It covers all phases of life in this
county from farm to factory to
ruby digging. It also threads other
area attractions, like "Unto These
Hills", into the Macon County
story.
Ken Stambaugh, of Demorest,
Oa., who Is widely known in the
field of promotional movies, has
spent most of the summer filming
the 14-minute movie.
Chamber officials plan to have
three copies of the movie In cir
culation over the country and on
television during the next year.
FIRST GAME IN ANDREWS -
Football Practice Is On
Football practice is under way
at Franklin High School this
week and Panther Coach Dick
Stott has started building a
squad to face Andrews High in
the season opener In Andrews
August 28.
Graduation and scholastic
difficulties encountered by
some experienced Panthers have
cut Franklin High's potential
in the Smoky Mountain Con
ference.
With the issuance of uni
forms Monday. howver. Coach
Stott had 42 boys out arid he
expects more.
The Panthers tl' vnf 1 Mon
day to getting . uniforms and
physicals. Practice ?:ifc under
way Tuesday morning. Coach
Stott plans to work the team
out twice dally between now
and the opening of school.
In explaining that some o(
last year's squad would be in
eligible to play this season be
cause of poor grades, the coach
said the nucleus of the '59
team will be composed of
"Butel)" Angel, Clarence "Red"
Seay, Jimmy Williams, and
Tommy Kiser. All of these boys'
saw plenty of action last season.
Coach Stott, ? who Is being as
sisted by C. K < Ike ? Olson and
Grady Corbin, said he will rely
heavily on. members of last
year's Jayvee squad, which
turned in some good grid per
formances.
The Panthers have a 10-game
schedule with one open date. It
Includes five home games and
four away.
A new rivalry - has been set
up this year. This Is with
Bradley County High School, of
Cleveland, Tenn. A home game.
It will close out the regular
season for l!ie Panther3.
Here's the schedule:
August 28, Andrews, away.
Sept. 4. open.
Sept. 11, Clayton, away.
Sept. IK, Cherokee, away.
Sept. 25, llayesville, home.
Oct. 2, Sylva, home.
Oct. 9, Itnhhinsvill'e, home.
Oct. ),<!, Swain, away.
Oct. Murphy, heme.
Oct. l.railley Higfr, home.
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HERE ARE THE TROPHIES FOR MISS ftUBY' CONTEST
Yes girls, here they are ? the trophies being offered by the Florida Air Pilots Association t<
"Miss Kuby" and her court. The beauty contest will be held as a feature of the association'!
i Pilots Ituby Rendezvous here in September. The trophies will soon be on display in a downtowr
store. With the beautiful trophies are (left) J. C. Jacobs, president of the Franklin Chamber o!
Commerce, and V. H. Birt, cruise master of the fry-in. (Staff Photo)
Reports
Job Openings
Available
Unemployment here has been
at its lowest point of the year in
the past few weeks, according to
Sum Colviile. Employment Secur
ity official.
For Macon and Swain counties,
there are about a third less un
employed than for the same period
last year, he explained.
Unemployment generally drops
this time of the year when the
tourist and construction Industries
are at their best.
Mr. Colviile said experienced
workers are needed locally. In
cluding. short order cooks,
waitresses, housekeepers, motel
maids, and salesmen. Over the
state, openings cover accountants,
civil engineers, nurses, salespeople,
machinists, bricklayers, carpen
ters. welders, and sheet metal
workers.
Maconians who can qualify for
any of these jobs may get in touch
with Mr.. Colviile in Franklin each
Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in
the courtroom at the courthouse.
His office is in the Hyatt Building
in Bryson City, telephone 3255.
Bueck Is Named
To Conference
Steering Body
Macon School Supt. H. Bueck
has been elected to the five-mem
ber steering committee at the 18th
annual invitational Conference on
Rural Education at Columbia
University.
He also was picked as moderator
for a panel discussion on Integra
tion at the conference.
Mr. Bueck-ls returning from the
three-week conference this week.
All-Star. Will Play
Hiawassee Sunday
The Franklin All-Stars will
Journey to Hiawassee, Ga., Sun
day afternoon for a game at
2:30.
Last Sunday's game here
with Murphy was cancelled
when the visitors failed to
show up.
Golfers Beat Clayton
Franklin golfers won 18 matches
and last only, two in a meeting
with Clayton, Ga., in Clayton,
Sunday afternoon.
Doug Pulton, of Franklin, carded
a low score of 74 for the after
noon.
WALK AND BINGO
The M.Y.P. of Asbury Method
ist Church will sponsor a cake
walk and Birtuo party at the Otto
School Saturday night. August 15,
beginning at 7:30. Proceeds will
be used tor the M.Y.P. 's 1959 pro
ject of having running water put
in tf church Admission is free
;nd the public is invited to at
tend.
t OURirX TION
In the Winn Dixie advertise
ment in tills. Issue of the FRANK
LIN PRESS Colgate und Gleem
toothpaste are advertised for 49c.
the pure should be 69e
The Weather
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