Paid Circulation 3217 Average for August 196* . Wh* Ifriablanfc* Baconian ON" Tin- - Be well lnlumied read THF PKESS trom cover to Cover 75th Year ? No. 36 Franklin, N. C., Thursday, September 8, 1960 Price 10 Cents Twelve WHEW! DON'T get too close to the Little Tennessee as dusk falls. The mosquitoes will carry you off bodily. Didn't the town plan to ask T.V.A. for spraying? HARLEY RAMSEY, of the Tellico section, is now eating peaches from a tree he grew ' from a seed, variety unknown. He brought a nine and a half ounce peach by THE PRESS office so we could sample a product of the tree that Harley grew. ?? MANY LOCAL singers will be on hand Sunday at Glenville High School for the annual Trl State Singing Convention, which starts at 10 a. m. Lon Thomp son, president, says bring lunch and join the crowd. MACON COUNTY'S Ruby Ramblers danced Monday night in Canton during Labor Day festivities there. MONDAY WAS a good pub licity day for Franklin. THE j CHARLOTTE OBSERVER ran three pictures and a story on the "Pilots Ruby Rendezvous". Staff Writer Harry Snook, a flying enthusiast, flew in Sat urday morning with his spouse to join the fun. FRANKLIN'S new chamber of commerce directors have the challenge before them. The '61 season should be the biggest the town and area has ever experi enced if the proper steps are taken to promote the area's many attractions. PAUL JENNINGS has Joined SEE NO. I. PAGE 12 if ip hats | doing? | JAYCEES: First Monday, Zick grafs Lumber Co., Third Monday, Dillard House, Dillard, Ga. 7:00 p.m. ROTARY: Every Thursday, 7 p. m , Slagle Memorial Building. LIONS: Second and fourth Mondays, 7 p. m., Slagle Me morial Building. JUNIOR WOMAN'S CLUB: Fourth Monday, 7:30 p. m., 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. AMERCIAN LEGION: Third Tuesday, 7:30 p. m., Slagle Me morial Building. BUSINESS AND PROFESSION AL WOMENS CLUB: Fourth: Tuesday at 7 p.m., at the Nor mandie Monday: Macon County Asso ciation for Retarded Children, 8 p. m.. Franklin High library. Mondav: Franklin Garden Club, 2:30 p. m., with Mrs. Wil liam Dinnes. Mondav: Boy Scout court of i honor, 7 p. m., Presbyterian church. Chamber Has New Directors Duncan And Coin Top Runners In Election Franklin Chamber of Com merce has a new board of di rectors that will swing into ac tion this month instead of next spring as in the past. Results of the annual mail election give the five director posts to Frank B. Duncan, Bob Coin, Vic Perry, Bob S. Sloan, and R. D. Carson. The two hold-over directors from last year, Bryant McClure and B. L. McGlamery, round out the sev en-man board. As the two high runners in the election, Mr. Duncan and Mr. Coin will serve for two years and the rest only one year. President W. W. Reeves is ex pected to call a meeting of the new directors soon as a new president can be chosen by the board. The new board will go in of fice the 15th and will immedi ately begin planning the cham ber's program for the '61 sea son. In the past, the election and planning hasn't taken place until after the first of the year. In making the change this year, chamber officials felt a more effective program could be mapped if the directors started their terms at the end of the season instead of at the begin ning. Two Shootings Investigated Two shootings were investigated | Monday by the sheriff's depart ment and a husband involved in one of the incidents is in the county Jail. Johnny Moore, of Franklin, was accidentally shot in the hip with a .22 pistol by Ralph Hopkins. The incident occurred Monday afternoon at the boat dock on the Little Tennessee near Mr. Moore's ' home. The injured man was hos pitalized overnight. No charges were preferred. Norman Hollifield is under , $1,500 bond in the county jail charged with assault with a dead- I ly weapon with intent to kill and assault from ambush. Chief Deputy Newell Pendergrass said Mr. Hollifield hid in some bushes ; near the home of Billy Bingham, his wife's father, and fired a shot from a 16 gauge shotgun at his wife, Martha, when she emerged from an automobile and walked toward the house. County Reaches 49.9 Per Cent Of Board Quota Macon County reachcd 49.5 per cent of its 1960 Savings Bond quota in July with total sales of $151,899.75, according to H. W. Cabe. volunteer county chairman. July sales alone came to 515.- j j 607.25. The county's '60 quota is ! < $306,600. 1 I State-wide cumulative sales for j the JanuaryJulv period totaled some $28 million an increase of 2 5 per cent over the sarrie period la*t yea" I A CLAYTON "BAIXERINA" pirouettes in one of many futile attempts to stop the Panthers' five-touchdown piss rump here Friday night. This Panther dropped this one however, and had to do it over correctly a few plays later. (Staff Photo > PASSES DO IT - Panthers Wallop Clayton 40 To 1 2 Franklin High's Panthers un veiled a deadly passing attack in the opening game of the 1960 grid season here Friday night as they swamped Clayton, Ga., High 40 to 12. Both ends and both half backs proved successful targets for quarterback Jim Williams' aerial shots, completing five touchdown passes. Clayton drew first blood1 early in th.e first quarter as Steuart Beck plunged over from the seven yard line for a 6-0 lead. John Floyd miss ed kicking the extra point. Following the kick, Franklin drove down the field to the 15 and quarterback Williams hit halfback Kenneth Hall in the end zone for a touchdown. From this point on. it wa* all Franklin. In the second quarter, end Ronnie Hig>dlon snagged a 63-yard pass from Williams and Teddy Clark ran this extra point to up the Panther's Jead to 13-6. Before the half ended, co captain Jim Franklin gathered in a Clayton punt and scamper ed 65 yards :or the third Pan ther touchdown in the most exciting run of the night. Franklin scored the Panther's only talley by land. Hall ran this extra point. During the half, Clayton's band entertained the jam-pack ed crowd with music and sharp marching formations. In the third period, Wil liams racked up another touchdown pass to Kenneth J halL The Panthers failed to i SEE NO. 2, PAGE 12 J-V GAME OUT Franklin's junior-varsity name scheduled at Cherokee tonight 'Thursday) has been cancelled. Cherokee requested that the game be called off due to a lack of J-v footballers at their school. Balloting ! FV -r A S 0 V. . ? JL Sk v< ?> *> Is Today i Farmers Picking Committeemen For 1961 Macon County farmers are j voting today I Thursday i to se lect A.S.C. community commit 'eem?n for 1960-61. Polls will be open from 7 a. m. to 6 i), in in the following areas: Franklin. Agricultural Building: Millshoal, Holly. Springs Community Cen ter; C'r.rtoogechaye, Huscusson's store: Elliiay. Gregory's service station ; Highlands, Talley's Store; Flats, Scaly Post Office; Suiarfork, Moses' store; Smith Fridge, Parrish's store; Nanta hala, Batsman's store; Burning town. Parrish's store; and Co wee. Riekman's store. Any owner, operator, tenant, or sharecropper on a farm that is eligible to or is par ticipating in any program ad ministered during the current calendar year through the A. S. (... office may vote in the elec tion. Five committeemen will be se lected in each community from a list of 10 nominees. The com mitteemen will take office Oc tober 1 and will be responsible for the local administration of national farm programs of A. S. C. State Official i To Speak Here J Mrs. L. B. Bryant, of Char- 1 lotte, executive secretary of the state association, will be guest speaker Monday night at a meeting of the Macdn County Association for Retarded Chil dren. The meeting is set for 8 o'clock in the library at Frank lin High School. HOMECOMING SET Homecoming will be observed at Sloan's Chapel in East Franklin on Sunday, September ? 11. The public is Invited to at tend. - RUBY RENDEZVOUS A FRANTIC TIME - They Ve Got Rubies, Pleasant Memories With rubies and sapphires as tangible mementos, along with pleasant memories of mountain hospitality, members of the Florida Air Pilots Association winged out of the Franklin Air port Sunday morning for home. Thus ended the third annual "Pilots Ruby Rendezvous", an unusual aerial ruby-hunting jaunt that attracted more than 50 people and 15 airplanes over the Labor Day week end. It was a frantic and mem orable time for the visiting pilots and" their families as they made friends with townspeople, took scenic tours, dug for gems in Cowee Valley, took in the Cherokee drama, "I'nto ? These Hills", an^ were special guests at an old timey mountain hoe down staged in their honor. "I'm completely exhausted." puffed one pilot's wife. "Eut I wouldn't stop for anything . . !his is just wonderful!' And by the same token, it was a fr.intic and memorable t'me fnr T. Y. Ai.^ell, general chairman of the fly-in, and u firer^; of the local chamber of commerce. "B-r-o-t-h-c-r. what a week end," sighed a member of the Macon Search and Rescue Squad as the last airplane dip ped its. wings over the airport and headed south. He and oth er squad members had been re sponsible for handling the air plane traffic on the ground and in the air. This got to be quite a chore as the first airplanes began arriving in the middle of the afternoon Thursday. Squall line through Georgia cancelled the plans for many pilots unfamiliar with moun tain flying to come here. Three > or four from Florida waited un til Friday and good weather to make the trip. The Thursday arrivals sampled mountain hospitality from the start. They were even offered the use of auto mobiles during their stay or were told to rail taxis and charge the trips to the cham ber of commerft Shaking his l*ad in disbelief when the keys to a new car were turned over to him for Mis own use, Charlotte ntwsmai; Harry Snook assured business man J. C. Jacobs, "I wouldn't oifer you my car if you came to Charlotte." Later newsman Snook con fided "I've never seen anything to beat the hospitality of this place . . and I've been a few places." ? A get-acquainted party and buffet supper was held fpr the visitors Thursday night at Way ah Valley Inn. Entertainment included singing and dancing and exhibition square? dancing by the Ruby Ramblers. Friday the visitors spent most of the day at the ruby mines. That night about sev en c.ar loads went to Cherokee for the drama. The rest drop ped into bed exhausted. Saturday saw them taking a hay ride .sightseeing tour to Highlands The more rugged continued to dig for rubies. A new queen was crowned Saturday night at the mountain hoe-down at Kens Roller drome Miss jane Maltonee won the "Miss Kiiby" title over nine litb-r contestants. She receiv -* , ed a trophy from the pilots association and a ruby ring from the Jim Brinkmains, owners u4 Franklin ? TOWN PURCHASES TRACTOR - One- Way Streets 'Status Quo' Pending Commission Help Franklin's one-way street sys tem will remain in effect on a status-quo' basis for an unde cided length of time, most like ly until further Information on thoroughfare plans can be ob tained from the Western North Carolina Planning Commission. The town board met Friday night with vice-mayor A G: Cagie presiding in the absence of Mayor W C. Burrell and no motion was passed to put the planned return to a two-way BUT HE'S NOT ? He Looks Like Any Othe : Teen-Ager In Franklin ... . To meet him cn the street, you'd think he's just another Franklin teen-aifer with a sprint: In his step and a smile on his face. His speech and his name give him away. I Adern Ctial is an ' v-? ?M hi/rh jmIiooI senior from Rr-s.?. Turkey, the second ex< harijr. student in as many years to live in Franklin and all vni l?l*h MCflO'll. I A pleasant youny man who sav "'.cry good" wht^ he Understand? you and shrubs hisshoulc'e s \vh r he. doesn't, Adem is staying.. foi the y:.:ir with the J- hi) B-ilgins He a ! iver" last Friday nivht nftu j a flight from Turkey to N.w Vor1 ; and a bus ride fr>m there to A -he ; ville. M and Mrs Kiilgin met hirr in Asheville Ac-em's ? Erij|?Hi' is v>:nvwh'i , limited and yon have to spea! :low'y even rr ir slow!" t ^ ; th? slowest mo'uitnin drawl, if ?* ever, it won't b long: before he ! SEE NO. 3. PAGE 12 system into effect. If the board does deckle to make the return to two-way streets in the near future, stop 'lnhts and oth-r equipment nec ?s'Vry tor the change has been o cicre.1, according to Town le' ic flay Swafford ? h he h'ack iron pipe ' Paving bids will be requested r ,r 150 feet op Hillcrest Street i runnlm* !r'>m its intersection | ith Porte i Street to the Oeor j in road : fid for 300 feet on ?tton .Street, from the post I fftce to Palmer Street. Both I these st.ee's will be capped | with asahhlt, sim'iar to'ttie job i >ec :'ntly cotipieted by the state I'm Ma.n trp t from the top inr.-n Til!' to the Little Ten ?v. e River bridge. The board also he rd reports ?v t'-:? ( >nt oversial "BIb Betsy" well and dlscusfed the problem I'.i.-t fla';es in the water lines .lifect-IPB "ip quality of water j-ti-'".' re | lo users in a nepr-by ?."lias. | Line1 runn'.n? from this well hv'" b^n Hushed and town '.v:". ; i:Ti",als discovered that t1- " rvst p-ol !cm was a result of tM' . in'! th^ well on and off i "'???]? 'e (lie level in the water tanks. si'it' henl h officials explain ed that t-' . i ? problem would re sult when the flow of water In a " '.veil was changed and that y r 1 p\OE If "Miss Ruby", Miss Jane Cagle, greets a young couple as they climb from their plane on Thursday. Phil Henderson, youngest member of the rescue squad, helps his daddy. Max, at the gasoline pump. ( B?nt backs at the ruby mine* In Cowee Vatley proved the Thjlinj fliers were hunting in earnest. Outgoing "Miss Ruby", Miss Jane Carle, smiles as Dr. Engwl, chief judge, congratulates the new queen, Miss Jane "nllimn