T Paid Circulation 2990 Artngc for December 1959 m A' Wb* HjiflW anb^ JHacotnatt ON THE INSIDE ? Staff correspondents of THE PRESS keep the inside pages of this newspaper alive with news about your friends and neighbors Read the inside pages from top to bottom and you'll know Macon County. $ 75th Year ? No. 2 Franklin, N. C., Thursday, January 14, 1960 Price 10 Cent Twelve Pagea THE LATEST Issue of the fly In* magazine, AOPA PILOT, has a familiar face on the front. A ?well-known Franklin summer resi dent and cruise master of two "PUots Ruby Rendezvous" here, Vernoa Burt, is standing on the ?wing of his new Piper Comanche. The photo was taken by another Macon County booster, aviation ?writer-photographer Hans Groen hoff. SPRING ALMOST made a tri umphal return to the mountains Sunday, Convertible tops flipped back, sl go-cart slid around a rough course in East Franklin, and everyone went riding. A NASHVILLE, Kansas, school principal, Vernon D. Stenzel, has succumbed to the Paul Swafford's recent advertisement on spending a vacation in Macon County. He's a rockhound and tells Mr. S he and his family will remain here next summer as long- as the rocks hold out. If that's his gauge for Staying, he'd better move here because Cowee Valley alone has 120 different minerals and gem stones. THE TOWN put the water treat ment to the streets again Monday morning. A couple more sweeps and the streets won't be hud to keep clean. THE BENCHES around the out side of the county courthouse were filled with "sunners" Monday morn filled with "sunners" Monday morning when spring gave all signs of having arrived. "Uncle , John" Justice was shaking hands up and down the street. ANT ONE notice that beautiful blue and purple haze covering the mountains in the late pjn. Satur day? That's why the Blue Ridge Mountains are called blue. SOME SPRUCING up paint, in anOcipatkm of spring, is going on the walls at Belk's and the t store has put up its new peach blossom decorations. MARCH OF DIMES mailers have gone out. Don't forget to send In your contribution at once so your dollars can be put to work on polio, arthritis, and birth defects. THOSE OF you unfamiliar with the excellent work of the Chil ? dren's Home Society in Greens boro will find the January 19 pro gram at the Methodist church an enlightening thing. Check the date on your calendar. < FRANKLIN is one of the places featared iri the "Where Do You Think Vou Are?" quiz appearing in the January 16 issue of THE . SATURDAY EVENING POST. The quiz uses portions of maps to aid in guessing. Iotla, a portion of Wosner Bald, and part of Cartooge chaye can be identified, as well as Franklin. AS A GIFT in memory of his mother, Mrs. G. A. Jones, Weimar Jones has presented the Franklin Library with bourid copies of THE FRANKLIN PRESS covering a 10 year period. FIRST OF the year Inventory projects appear to be in the home stretch In stores along the main drag. Most merchants agree that SEE NO. 1. PAGE 12 Mr. Garrison ? ? ? Chamber Directors Elected A mail election has selected five directors for '60 In the Frank lin Chamber of Commerce and a new president is scheduled to be elected t^iis month to succeed J. C. Jacobs^ . ' V The n^fc, directors are B. L. McGlamery, Bryant McClure, W. W. Reeves, Bob S. Sloan, and Bill Garrison. The first two, Mr. McGlamert and Mr. McClure, will serve two-year terms by virtue of having reibelved the highest num ber of votfcs. The rest were elected for one yea*. Rounding out the ^even-man board of directors are two hold overs from last year's board, J. C. Jacobs atld T. Y. Angel. A meeting is scheduled for Jan uary 21 to elect a president for '60 and to map chamber plans for the tOming tourist season. Under the bv-laws of the chamber, the president comes from the membersmp of' the board of direc tors. ' A general membership banquet will be held later in the year and will feature the presentation of an opentttOB budget and the ap pearance of an outof -county speaker. More Than One Telephone A Day Installed In '59 More than a new telephone a day was installed in Macon County during 1959, according to Western Carolina Telephone Company. Through the Franklin ex change alone, service was pro vided 333 new customers. High lands added 149 more for a total of 482. The year '59 also saw the Franklin exchange converted to dial system. This was accom plished in May and was the final step in a 10-year expansion pro gram undertaken by the com pany in the western area. A $60,000 building to house offices and dial equipment also was opened in Franklin just prior to the conversion. ANNUAL SUPPER The Womans Society of Chris tian Service and the Wesleyan Service Guild of the Franklin. Methodist Church will hold their annual covered dish supper to night (Thursday) at 6:30 at the church. Mrs. J. L. Fesperman will be guest speaker. Ao sayi MR. MACONIAN" Hi-ya Neighbors: Two most important things ? important to the future growth of Franklin and Macon County ? took place this week. One was the election of chamber of commerce directors in Franklin; the other the big step to ward a real county fair with exhibit halls. Five capable, energetic, and progressive business men were elected by the chamber membership. But, effectiveness during the coming year is limited by the cooperation they will receive from the people. Full cooperation means ne Last Thursday, between Highlands and l?ill ?rd. in the Slick Rock Branch section on the south side of Middle Creek, Sheriff J. Ilarrv Thomas and hts deputies destroyed two illegal dis tilleries. The l)i?(nt was a steam bc,4ler outfit. It had turned out two or three runs, the sheriff estimated. Another still, a conventional copper pot type, was located about three quarters of a mile from the steam outfit and probably had been in operation for about two yean. The offic ers poured out about 1,800 gallons of mash and confiscated 17 cases of empty half-gallon Jars. Pictured on the site of the steam unit are (t> to It) Deputy Van Crazier, Sheriff Thomas, and Deputy Newell Pendergrass, who is holding a bag cf dynamite used to blow up the big still. (Osne's Studio Photo) PARKER NEW CHAIRMAN - Fair Buildings Project Started New officers for 1960 were elected Monday night by the Ma con County Fair Association and a definite step was taken to ward building' exhibit halls on the county-owned property on US 23-441 south., Cecil Ptirker, of C.artoogechaye, was elected chairman of the association. Serving with him are Fred Hannah, of Patton com munity, vice-chairman; Jerry Sutton, of Clark's Chapel, secre tary; and Mrs. Grace Tatham, of Cowee, treasurer. Macon County's '60 county fair was tentatively-set toward the last of September. The final decision rests with the signing of a carnival to provide entertain- ? ? merit for fair-goers. Two special committees were appointed at the meeting to be gin work on buildings for the fair ground on land donated recently by the county at the old county home property. A building committee, presently charged with visiting the coun ty home property and selecting suitable building sites, is com posed of Wayne Proffitt, chair man, Charlie Sutton, Bill Hig d'in, Fred Hannah, Judd Tal lent, and Woodrow Gibson. A ways and means committee to decide on methods of raising money for fair buildings is made up of the presidents of' the 10 active rural communities and Gilmer Henson, Elmon Teague, J. S Gray, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Bradley, Verlon Swafford, Wiley Clark, and Mr. and Mrs. Oran Ray. As a means of raising money for the building fund, the idea of awarding ribbons Instead of prize money at the fair for the next few years was discussed. Although the group favors this proposal, It wants the approval and understanding of the fair exhibitors before making a def inite committment. A financial report presented by Miss Marie Jennings, treas urer, listed $672 32 on hand. The meeting was held at the Agricultural Building. MAKES *270 Franklin P.-TA. made #270 with its benefit Sunday dinner in the high school cafeteria, It has been announced. ATTENDS MEETING J. C. Jacobs. Franklin business man and a member of the First Baptist Church, attended the January meeting of North Caro lina Baptist State Convention's general board in Raleigh, Janu ary 11-12. Mr. Jacobs was elected as a general board member at the annual meeting of the state con vention last November. BlIEC'K AT MEET School Supt. H Bueck was In Ashevllle Tuesday for a school planning meeting, one of a series being held In the state under the sponsorship of the School Plann ing Department of the State De partment of Public' Instruction. Thi Saturday he will be in Ra leltih for a meennc oi 1116 NO. Education Association federal re lations. Ritter Lumber Isn't Moving Over Railroad Ritter Lumber Company's mill| in nearby Mountain City. Ga., is contemplating a move for a better| timber supply, not because of the proposed abandonment of the Tal-fl lulah Falls Railway. This was, the word yesterday i Wednesday i from J. W. Stanley J Ritter's division superintendent^ in answer to rumors that the millT was leaving because of the raltfl road situation. "I wish you'd straighten out for us." Mr. Stanley told ' PRESS. "I've had several about it." He said it is possible that Mountain City mill, which been in operation since 1961, * be moved in the next eight 10 months to a better supply i The new location has not picked, he added. The Ritter operation Is one several small industries along line using the freight services the Tallulah Palls. The Weather Th*/w#?k't tpfnpemtuma and rainfall L a rr recorded in Franklin by Manaor. StiW U. 8. whither iihMrvtr; in Highlands L_ Tudor N. Hall and W. C. Newton. TV >9 r?bwy?m: "nd at th? Coweta Laboratory Readtnga ara for the Tt li niM period andintr at 8 a.m. of the da j liatcdH FRANKLIN High Low Wed , 6th 42 34 1 < Thursday 48 3g "Jd Friday 55 22 ofl Saturday 59 18 '?? Sunday 61 27 Monday 7g 37 Xjta Tuesday 56 31 ofl Wednesday 59 o9 COWETA Wed., 8th 40 33 lol Thursday 44 35 PrWay 49 20 Saturday 55 30 Sunday 60 21 Monday 62 40 0J_ Tuesday 66 32 tracfa Wednesday 61 48 ofl highlands ? Wed., 6th 44 32 Thursday 46 36 ?day 48 30 Saturday 60 25 Sunday 54 ? Monday 5^ ^ Tuesday 50 35 Wednesday * a * no record.