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75th Year ? No. 31
Franklin, N. C, Thursday, August 4, I960
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IT'LL BE interesting to see
how long It takes motorists to
get used to two-way streets
again.
THAT NEW bowling alley is
beginning to jell. A stock sale
is about ready to begin. The
whole undertaking will run in
the neighborhood of $250,000
before it's over.
YOU HAVENT lived until
you've had some of that good
beef and pork barbecue cooked
up by the F. F. A. boys. So,
extend your life and go to the
barbecue supper Saturday night
at the vocational building at
Franklin High prior to the folk
festival.
THIS IS the season of the
year when waist lines begin
expanding. Why? What else but
all of that food at family re
unions!
THEY'VE COMPLETED some
work on the eave at the back
of the county courthouse. Some
still think the best idea is to
lift the chimneys and slip a
new courthouse under them.
WATER STILL collects in the
culvert at the foot of Town
Hill. A couple of cars stalled
out because of it during a rain
last week.
ONE OF the most rewarding
experiences of the summer will
be attending the flower show next
Wednesday in the high school
cafeteria. Try it and see for your
self.
THE MAOON County Polk Fes
tival is one of the few attractions
left in the country that can be
seen for a quarter. Folks say the
show is worth four times that, at
more, but the Jajrcees keep the
admission low so everyone can get
In.
BOB CARPENTER was assist
ant. coach of the Little League
AltS tars, not coach as we had in
the paper last week. The coach Is
Jim Williamson, and a dandy Job
he has done!
LOT OF ice cream lickin' going
on up and down the street. Must
be the hot weather.
. IF ITS good entertainment
you're after at almost no cost at
all, then the Macon County Folk
Festival this Thursday, Friday,
and Saturday nights is right up
your alley.
Footballers
Attention!
Football practice is scheduled
to get under way at Franklin
High Tuesday.
Coach blck Stott asks mem
bers of the variety squad to re
port Monday at 8 a. m. at the
gymnasium. Freshmen should,
report Monday at 1 p. m.
ip hats
doing?
JAYCEES: First Monday, Zick
graf's Lumber Co.. Third Monday,
Dlllard House, Dlllard, Oa. 7:00
p.m.
ROTARY: Every Thursday, 7
, p. m? Siagle Memorial Building
LIONS: Second and fourth
Mondays, 7 p. m., Slagle Me
morial Building.
JUNIOR WOMAN'S CLUB:
Fourth Monday, 7:30 p. in., Ag
ricultural Building.
V. F. W.: Second and fourth
Wednesdays, 8 p. m, V. F. W.
Post Home on Palmer Street.
V. F. W. Auxiliary: Second
Monday nights, 8 p. m., at post
home.
i AMERCIAN LEGION: Third
Tuesday, 7:30 p. m., Slagle Me
morial BulMlng.
BUSINESS AND PROFESSION
AL WOMEN'S CLUB: Fourth
Tuesday at 7 p.m., at the Nor
mandle.
Tuesday: Football practice
starts at Franklin High.
Tonight (Thursday): Macon
County Folk Festival opens for
three-night run at Franklin
High Stadium, 8 p. m. nightly.
Saturday: "Florida Night"
barbecue, 8:30 to 8 pt m., Frank
lin High vocational building.
Aldermen Junk Town's One- Way Streets
Principals in the dedication of the Patton Methodist Church Sunday were CL to R) the pas
tor, the Rev. Garland Young, the Rev. Frank C. Smathers, district superintendent, Dr. L, B.
Hayes, and Erwin Patton. For details of the program and visitors, see Patton community column
inside this issue. (Staff Photo) ? o
EVENT OPENS TONIGHT -
Folk Festival Goers To Get
A Double Exposure Of Stars
Ttiose attending tne tnree-nigni
Macon County Festival this week
will be treated to a double ex
posure of stars.
Beginning tonight (Thursday)
?t 8 o'clock, the festival will be
held under the stan (first expo
cure) in the Franklin High Sta
dium and a variety of stars (ec
ond exposure) in the local enter
tainment world will be featured.
An informally ran show that
generally attracts then lands of
Maconians and visitors, the festi
val is now tat Ha eighth year and
the sponsoring Jayceeo report the
'60 edithm is stacking up a* the
best yet. Shows will begin each
night at S o'clock.
At least tnree square dance
teams will appear, as well as
string bands and individual coun
try musicians and singers.
Providing music for dance
teams and other specialty acts
will be Hunter Young's "Ruby
Ramblers", a local strong band
that took first place in last year's
Apple Festival in Henderson ville.
In addition to Hunter, who plays
the guitar and sings, members
are Floyd Lamb, fiddler, and
Frank Amnions, mandolin.
Another festival favorite, hot
fiddler Mickey Waldroop, prom
ises to be on hand "if my shoe
strings don't break and the creek
don't rise."
"The Carolina Cutups", a dance
team from the Holly Springs
Square Dance Center, plans to
perform all three nights, giving
exhibitions of both square and
pattern dances.
Square dance teams regis
tered include the Dixie Darl
ings, who are scheduled to
perform tonight; the Ruby
Ramblers, wholl dance Fri
day night; and the Fromefet
tes and the Carson Cloggers, ,
groups trapped for appear
ances Saturday night.
A new string band organized
just for this year's festival Is
made up of banjo picker Todd
Reece, electric guitarist Judd
Anderson, bass player Grady
Anderson, and rhythm guitarist
Hugh Dowdle.
Spoon player Jimmy Smith
and festival regulars Shorty
Kirkland and Hayes Carver,
with their homemade banjos,
also will be on hand.
Several buck dancers and
other entertainers have regis
tered In advance and many
more are expected to show up
before things get rolling to
night.
Another string band, the
Ruby Valley Boys, features Roy
Ramsey, Roy Donaldson, Clifton
Pendergrass, and L. R. Mason.
Silers To Gather
Saturday For Year'#
Family Meeting
Silers from near and far will
gather here Saturday for their
annual ''family meeting".
The oldest continuous reun
ion in Macon County (they've
met for more than 100 years
without break i, this year's gath
ering will be at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Slagle, on
Moore's Creek.
UNDER JUDGE M'LEAN ?
Unusual Judgments Mark
^
Superior Court Session
I August term of Superior Court
In Macon County hu produced
several rather unusual Judg
ments and a new kind of court
conduct under presiding Jifdge
W. O. McLean, a newcomer to
this circuit, in the first two
days of this session, which
opened Monday.
Disposition of cases has mov
ed along rapidly under Judge
McLean and District Solicitor
Glenn W. Brown, with a num
ber of speeding cases Involving
out-of-state offenders, -who
chose not to show up for trial
and have been "called and fail
ed" by Sheriff J. Harry Thom
as, thereby forfeiting their cash
bonds.
Some changes in conduct of
the court under Judge Mc
Lean include requiring all
testifying officers to appear
in regulation uniforms, or'
coat and tie; not allowing
spectators in the courtroom to
leave except during court re
ceases; and the Judge's setting
of fines which inotade court
costs instead of the more
common method of ordering
? fine plus court cnata.
Several Judgments have in
dicated Judge MrTiCan'wriirni.
ed belief that It is better to
render sentences which tend to
rehabilitate offenders than Just
to punish them.
Two such Judgments showed
this: in one case against a
high school student for reck
less driving, the Judge in
spected the student's report
card from last year and then
placed the young man under
a 60 day suspended sentence
with the stipulation that he
observe a 9 o'clock curfew
each night between now and
the next term of court in
December and that he main*
tain a B average in his
school work up to that time.
His fine will be $50 instead
SKE NO. 2. PAOE 8
Baptists Set
57th Meeting
Next Week
First Church And
Ridgecrest Are
'60 Hosts
First Baptist Church and
Ridgecrest Baptist Church will
be hosts to the 57th annual
session of the Macon Baptist
Association next Thursday and
Friday, August 11 and 12.
Thursday's session will be at
First church and Friday's at
Ridgecrest.
The program will consist of
reports on all phases of Bap
tist work .In the 42 churches
of the association and the work
of the state and Southern con
ventions. inspirational messages
will be delivered by both local
and out-of-town speakers.
Delivering the annual sermon
on the opening day will be' the
Rev. Lewis Howard, pastor of
the Holly Springs church and
the association's chairman of
evangelism. The Rev. Paul
Sorrels, pastor of the Ridge
crest church, will bring the
doctrinal message the next day.
day.
Representing the N. C. Bap
tist State Convention on the
opening day will be the Rev.
R. T. Greene, director of the
Southern Baptist Protection
Plan. He will speak at the
morning session.
Among those representing
Baptist institutions In the
state will be Dr. W. K. McGee,
of Baptist Hospital In Wlnston
Salem; Dr. W. A. Poole, Homes
tar Aging, Winston-Salem; J.
Marse Grant, editor of THB
aacraooara tvoptsih
the Rev. W. R. Wagoner, Bap
tist Children's Home. Thomas
vllle; and Claude Oaddy, Coun
cil on Christian Education, Ral
eigh.
J. C Jacobs will be moder
ator at the two-day session.
A Boy's Best
Friend Is His
Turtle . . .
Tommy Crawford took a >
turtle to the National Boy
Scout Jamboree in Colorado
Springs.
He planned to trade the
turtle for Items brought by
other Scouts.
Tommy returned home this
week, bringing the turtle with
him.
He said he didn't meet any
one he felt would give his
turtle a suitable home.
VISITING CLUB
Russell Hanson, governor of
the 767th district of Rotary In
ternational, will make an offi
cial visit to the Franklin Ro
tary Club tonight (Thursday)
a( the club's 7 o'clock dinner
meeting at Sialic Memorial
Building. Mr. llanson is from
Statesville. He will discuss the
local club's projects, how Ro
tary can be more effective in
the community, the part Rotary
can play in individual busi
nesses and professions, and al
so the important need the
Franklin club fills in Rotary's
wast foreign exchange student
program.
Flower Show
Is Scheduled
'One Summer Day" Is the theme
for tbe Franklin Garden Club's
annual flower show next Wednes
day. August 10, In the high school
cftfttorl*.
Show hours will be from 2 to
9 pjn. The general chairman Is
Mrs. Prelo Dryman and Mrs. Will
iam Dlnnes Is co-chairman.
Judging Is scheduled in the
morning by qualified judges. Any
one Is eligible to exhibit In the
show.
Featured In the show will be
the Junior garden club section:
blooming and foliage plants; an
educational exhibit of gesnerlads:
annuals and perennials; flower
arrangements; dahlias, roses, and
llllies; a conservation exhibit; and
native ferns.
CUBA TOPIC
The Women's Society of Chrls
tiarn Service of the Franklin
Methodist Church will meet In
general session Thursday, Aug
ust 11, at 2 p. m. In the fel
lowship hall of the church. Mrs.
Frank L. Tucker will be guest
speaker. Her topic will be
"Cuba".
- HE HAS WRITTEN A BOOK -
Jones Does What Others Dream About
Macon County's Weimar Jones
has done something every news
paperman dreams of. but some
how never quite gets around to
doing.
He has written a book ? one
as entertaining and as colorful
as the author's years in news
papering. Appropriately, it is
entitled "My Affair With a
Weekly". The book goes on sale
Saturday at THE FRANKLIN
PRESS at $2.75 per copy.
Although a collection of person
al columns written by the veteran
newspaperman since he returned
to his native Macon County in
1945 to run the local newspaper,
the book nevertheless weaves a
strong thread of love between
county editor Weimar Jones and
his mountains and people. He re
fers to them as "letters FROM the
editor".
Some of the columns a fe hu
morous. some serious, and all.
the author explains In the fore
ward, "were never written out
of a sense of duty, as a choir,
but always because I wanted to
write them."
Each well-chosen column serves
to bring out a facet of this widely
known country editor's personal
ity.
His honesty with his readers Is
mirrored in one entitled "How
to Write an Editorial ". In It he
recalls the week the editorial page
of THE PRESS appeared blank
devoid of writing save for a single
paragraph of explanation:
"In the course of a number of
years' newspapering. I have read i
many editorials that said nothing 1
and said it beautifully and at
great length. When I came to THE
FRANKLIN PRESS. I resolved to
try to have an editorial column
that said something or to have
an editorial column that said
something or to have none at all.
This week I have nothing to say.
and I am saying it."
Editor Jones taken great de
light in laughing at himself
and his skillful word play of
humor and self-examination
puts the reader right in the
Kditor Jones . . . Book Published
(Suff Photo)
I
middle of each situation with
him. Except for Intimate*, few
realise, that he Is horribly near
sighted. Some of his best pieces
of humor are written about em
barrassing Incidents caused by
his eyesight. In "Adventures in
Myopia", he relates Home of the
strange and amusing thing* that
can happen to a nearsighted
man ? like shaking hands with
his own wife at a university tea;
mistaking U,N.C. President Gor
don Gray for a stranger and
welcoming him to his own
rampus; and indignantly pre
paring to eject a naked man
from his train roomette before
discovering that he was seeing
his own reflection in a mirror!
His love of the mountains and
Its people Is obvious, although he
deals directly with these subjects
in only two or three columns.
But, in all of his columns he man
ages to pick up the heartbeat of
mountain ways and translate it
into everyday language.
(>f people, particularly those
with a streak of the individual
ist running through them, he
says "they're all about us . . .
these people who possess the ele
ments of greatness. There's one
or more in every Macon County
community, perhaps In rural
communities everywhere."
Editor Jones' sense of duty and
obligktion to his readers t.?
fummed up In a statement ht
made in print shortly after tak
Ing over the newspaper:
"I believe the obligation of a
SEE NO. X. PAOE 8
Change To Two-Way Traffic
Will Take Place August 15
In a surprise move Monday night, aldermen voted
to junk Franklin's one way street system and return
to two way streets effective- August 15.
Tlie vote to make the change was unanimous and
came following the appearance of a delegation of
rainier Street merchants wanting Palmer changed
to two way traffic,
Aldermen decided that changing I'altner Street
would work a business hardship on Main Street mer
chants, so they voted to change the whole system.
The motion was made by Dr. J. W. Kahn and was
I seconded by Frank L. Henry, Jr.
Reddys Hold
Playoff Lead
'Cats Eliminated;
Game Scheduled
On Friday
With a 2 to 0 win-lass record
the Reddys are now leading In
the double-elimination playoffs
to pick a Little League cham
pion for the second half of the
season.
Friday, the Thunderbirds beat
the Jaybirds 5 to 1; Saturday,
the Reddys downed the Wild
cats 7 to 1; and Tuesday, the
Reddys beat the Thunderbirds
4 to l and the Jaybirds elimi
nated the Wildcats 11 to 7.
Tomorrow (Friday) the Jay
birds will play the Thunder
birds at 4 p. m. This game will
decide which team will meet
the Reddys for the champion
ship.
Carl Story Gets
More Time For
Raising Money
Country muitc star and disk
jockey Carl Story appeared In
Superior Court here Tuesday to
answer a charge of fraud and
false pretenses by Mrs. Vernon
Prultt.
It was another and perhaps
the next to last chapter In a
long series of court actions
since the original warrant was
drawn In March of 1958.
Mrs. Prultt has charged that
country singer Story borrowed
$8,000 from her' on the pre
tense of building a radio sta
tion here or In Clayton, Ga.
She and Mr. Story also planned
to be married and to be 50-50
partners In the radio station,
she said.
In Superior Court here Tues
day, Mr. Story's lawyers enter
ed a plea of "nolo contendere"
to the charges.
Both Mrs. Prultt and Mr.
Story took the stand and were
questioned by prosecuting and
defense lawyers. Mrs. Prultt's
lawyers produced approximately
500 letters and 60 telegrams
she had received from Mr. Story
since their first meeting In 1956.
Mr. Story told Judge W. K.
McLean that he had paid back
all of the $8,000 except $3,700
and the Judge agreed to con
tinue prayer for Judgment un
til the December term of court
here on the promise that Mr.
Story would have all the mo
ney renaid bv then
Burley Check
Is Completed
Performance work on burley
tobacco farms and farms par
ticipating In the Soil Bank has
been completed for 1960, ac
cording to the local A. S C. of
fice.
The 227 farmers with burley
allotments and the nine farms
In the Soil Bank have been vis
ited by A S. C. officials and
their acreages have been mea
sured and computed.
Of the county burley allot
ment of 70 26 acres, this year's
total romes to 52.08 acres.
Forty-eight farms did not plant
burley. Thirteen of the par
ticipating farms planted In ex
cess of their allotment, but have
requested disposition of the ex
cess in order to be eligible for
government price .support.
The Soil Bank farms were
spot-checked to make sure all
provisions and rules were being
followed. No violations were
noted, the office reports.
Only one street will remain
one-way. This is Patton, the
short street connecting Palmer
and Main from the Franklin
Laundry to the post office. It
was one-way before the change.
A controversial matter since
they were first started on *
trial basis in early 19S7, the
one-way streets nevertheless
Cot an unofficial blessing
from an overwhelming num
ber of Franklin voters during
the '57 biennial election. At
that time, voters were hand
ed .a referendum ballot and
they voted 435 in favor of the
one-way system and 249 a
gainst.
Since then, there have been
periodic grumblings about the
one-way system, particularly
from merchants along Palmer
Street.
Members of the Palmer
Street delegation attending
Monday's meeting included T.
H. Callahan, Ralph Womack,
Grover Jamison, Jr., Roy Cun
ningham, Mrs. Glenn Holt,
and Marshall Pettis.
In other business, the board:'
? Gave final approval to the
1960-61 budget of $171,939.77.
The budget earmarks a total of
$26,000 for improvements and
extensions to the water and
sewer systems. The tax Increase
| voted this year gives $8,897.53
for this and the raise In water
and sewer rates recently voted
provides $10,000 more.
? Approved a motion by Dr.
Kahn to prohibit merchants
placing merchandise on the
sidewalks for display.
?Discussed obtaining T. V. A.
help (spraying by airplane) on
the mosquito problem along the
little Tennessee River.
?Traded Way ah Street to the
State Highway Commission for
Iotla Street. Wayah Is heavily
traveled and Is used by the
state as a truck route for US
23-441. Maintenance on Iotla
will be considerably less.
Mayor W. C. Burrell also re
appointed the same water and
sewer committees for '60- '61. On
the water committee are Alder
men Dryman, Kahn, and Bry
ant. Serving on the sewer com
mittee are Aldermen Cagle,
Shook, and Henry.
HICKMAN REUNION
The annual Rlckman reunion
will be held Sunday, August 7,
at the home ot Mr. and Mrs.
Carr Bryson In the Cowee com
munity. All descendants of Mer
rltt Rlckman are invited to
come and bring a picnic lunch.
IN RALEIGH
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. (Bill) Cox
and family have returned from
Raleigh, where Mr. Co* Attend
ed the 1960 North Carolina Gov
ernor's Conference on Aging.
The Weather
The week's temperature and rainfall I
are recorded in Franklin by Maneon Sktfaa
U. 8. weather observer; in HighkuidaC
T^Jor N. Hail and W. a Nretot. TVA
4 obw-rveni; and at the Cbweta H* *
Laboratory. Reading* are for the
Period ending at 8 a.m. of the day I
FRANKLIN
High Low Rain
i Wed., July 27 85 65 .15
Thursday 78 5# .16
Friday 86 62 27
Saturday 84 60 00
Sunday 88 59 00
Monday 89 60 00
Tuesday 89 65 00
I Wednesday 64 trace
COWETA
Wed , July 27 82 65 1 S3
Thursday 85 59 08
Friday 76 57 00
Saturday 84 55 n
Sunday 81 56 04
Monday 86 58 00
Tuesday 87 60 00
Wednesday 86 59 00
HIGHLANDS
Wed.. July 27 70 84 ?
Thursday 68 80 ?
Friday 76 60 ?
Saturday 80 53 *
Sunday 82 S4 *
Monday 78 81 ,
Tuesday 80 82 ?
?no record