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75th Year ? No. 36
Franklin, N. C., Thursday, September 8, 1960
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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
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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 <iem
Shop.
She was "crowned" by last
year's queen, Miss Jane Cagle.
Members of Miss Mallonee's
court were Miss Suzanne Cun
ningham, "Miss Amethyst' ; Miss
Linda Ledford, "Miss Tammy
McClendon, "Miss Garnet"; and
Miss Ann McCoy, "Miss Rhodo
lite".
Each girl received a pendant
in her stone fram the Brink
mans
Also featuring the hoe
fcwn was exhibition square
dancing on skates, as well as
?nn foot, by the Promelettes,
public square dancing, and
rock 'n' roll music.
Sunday dawned as a beauti
ful day and with genuine re
gret the visitors boarcled their
airplanes for home.
A cr.jund-to-alr metsaRc to
one of the dev'irUnp pianes
bummed up feelings ii* re
Vou-all Ti.ne again The
wUy- < (\ carpet' ; lv.-ayf rolled
cut I ? tli'- Ilk - of j/iu."
HOLLY SPRINGS CHURCH HOLDS GROUNDBREAKING
Sunday morning following church services, the congregation of the Holly Springs Baptist
Church held a ground break in ?? ceremony for a new church bul'a'.n*. Work on the 40 by 90
foot building is expected to start soon. Pictured (L to K) Robert Corbin, member of building
committee, Lefferts lligdon, treasurer of finance com mt tee, Donald Seigle, finance committee,
the Rev. L. A. Howard, pastor, Karl Justice, chiirin;i:i of deacons, l^ewis Moses, chairman of
building committee, Jim Williamson, B. T. U. director, Charlie Wi.liams, Sunday school superin
tendent, and Mrs. Williams, W. M. U. president, i Staff Photo > ?
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 <? board's monthly meeting
war, switched ahead from Mon
j t ; to F riday since Monday
I s a holiday..
other business conducted at
h meeting included the open
' -:v of bids on a new tractor
. ith back-hoe and loader for
h* :own and bids on a new
! w'sll. in the Baird Cove section.
V.oard members voted to buy
in Allls Chalmers tractor with
! ?' ??. ditching and loading equip
i ni 'iit from 7. J Hyatt, dealer
I cf P y.son City, at a cost of $6,
. -?nl i a
Bids on the new well were all
" r i ??< tect use the board de
' cldel that black iron pipe for
t h ? we'l would be more eco
nomical for the town than the
galvanized pipe first specified
J. n fie plans New bids on the
' well w:U be requested, speclfy
;> 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