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zx; n. p. c,,,J Y.Vu-r :sov,. ALrasive JMate rials Copper, Timber Precious and Semi -Mica, K?.olm, Aslbcstss, precious Gems Abundance Good L&Lor Ample Transportation Facilities Pure, Clear Water Productive Soils u. . ..i ci: .:b U-is arj-asse-4 Scenery Slile Game Refuge. 17 Peals Over 5.CC3 ' Feet High Ideal Dairy County Creamery, Cannery Excellent Highways Cheap Electric Power for Industries Law-abiding Citizenship 1 r-1 i 6 f 3 ! n VOLUME XLIV FRANKLIN, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1929 NUMBER EIGHT - . ' I ft. t K V i III I fr I LEAD OFFERS TO' LME DEPOSIT Meeting With Town Board '.List Thursday Night Har monious Details of Con tract to be Adjusted. JR.. M.' ' Mead, president of The JupolloT Public Service Company, met with the town board Thursday night of last week and amicably adjusted a slight misunderstanding that had existed between the town board and the Company concerning the terms of the contract on which the pdwer plant was sold to the Mead company. By way of security this contract calls for a deposit of an amount equal to one-fourth of the outstanding power bonds of the town. This sum is now $77,250 which JM r.. M ead offered 'to deposit at once. The contract also states that the banks in w '3this money is" deposited must make depository bonds. Hence, it was agreed to delay the deposits until March first to give the banks time to make the required bonds. It was stated that $25 000 will be deposited in the Citizens Bank and the- re mainder in the Bank of Franklin. " While some citizens of the ' town were apparently becoming uneasy about the deposits, yet at no time did the people as a whole doubt Mr. Mead's financial ability to carry out the terms of the contract. In explaining his delay in reaching Franklin to adjust the matter . of the deposit' Mr. Mead stated that for the - Dast - twa-months- he has been -very busy working out plans ::for tremend-j to offer more encouragement along this line than ever before. He frankly admitted that when he came to Western North Carolina only a few months ago he very much under-. Estimated the possibilities of this section for industrial expansion. Con sequently be has, been compelled to change his plans and to go at the matter on a much larger scale. Mr. Mead referred to the fact that this section has unlimited undeveloped .hydro-electric energy. Ha also stated that two very large industrial enter prises have recently been lost to this section by reason of lack of developed power. From a comparative stands j)oint Mr. Mead, expressed the opinion that the' Southern Applachiait region is now due for a more rapid industrial . expansion than any other section of Eastern 'America. Therefore, he is planning to meet the future power needs of the communities in which liis companies own or may own power plants. ,. . Just before the meeting adjourned Mr. J. Q. Gilkey, a prominent resi dent of Marion who happened to be Jn Franklin on his first trip to the town." voluntarily made a short talk to the town board, stating that the town is fortunate in having a man of Mr. Mead's ability interested in the development of Franklin. He took occassion to compliment Mr .Mead ,very highly and said that within recent months he has had large financial dealings with The Tupollo Public Service Company and that he has ever found . its president ready to meet all issues and obligations fairly and squarely. USE PROPER GRADE TOBACCO CANVASS TO PREVENT BEETLE C. H. BRANNON Extension Entomologist Tobacco growers should insist on tobacco "canvass" (cheese-cloth) hav-. mg 25 strands to the inch. Dealers should be requested now to obtain the proper grade for their customers. . The proper grade of chcese-clotji (or canvass) will cost a little more but it will pay a big profit in - thrifty plants protected from flea bcttle in jury." Poorer grades of cheese-cloth will not give protection from flea beetle injury as the fleat beetles will gain entrance through the poorer grades. 1 This is a warning to grower's to in sist on the proper grade of chcesc rlnth. Werv few dealers last season tianrllrfl cloth of 25 strands to the inch, therefore, growers arc advised now to have their dealers obtain the , proper grade if protection of the , plant bod against flea beetle injury is dc cjred. Use the proper grade of "canvass." It will pay you to do it. New Frigidaire Agency "The Jupollo Public Service company ic now agent for the Frigidaires in Mirnn miintv. Tuesday the new pwncy received a number of Frigid r.ires which arc now on display at the FORMER MACON GIRL HONORED Miss Mattie Will Franks Chosen as "Most Deserv ing Girl" in Newspaper Contest in Indiana. Miss Mattie Franks of Greensburg, Indiana, has been chosen Indiana's Most Deserving Girl in a ' newspaper contest conducted by the Indianapolis News in colloraboration with the Mary Pickford Studios of Hollywood, Calif. Miss Franks was awarded a trip to Hollywood and in company with forty eight other young ladies from 24 states will journey to that city in a special train. She will" be fated and honored in Chicago and other cities along the route. Miss Franks is well known in Franklin, being the grand daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Conley and Mr. and Mrs. E. II. Franks. The Greensburg Daily News of February first had a two column front page article about Miss Franks and her accomplishments. Dairying Now Classed World's Largest Industry Releigh N. C, February. Growing handling and feeding cows and deal ing in their products is now the World's largest industry. ' Quoting Dr. C. W. Larsen, former chief of the dairy r industry bureauat Wa shin rtmJ?rL Hi ,5.ta to. scientific and relatively unimportant. Today the dairy industry of the United States is the largest and most vital in the world. It has a far reaching effect upon health and pros perity. In 1926 says Mr. Haig, the United States produced one hundred and twenty-one billion, pounds of milk. The population of this country, is in creasing at the rate of abdtit one million and a half each year and since 1916. the production and con sumption of dairy products has in creased l51 per cent. The number of dairy cows per thousands consumers has increased only 16 per cent, showing that dairy men are not trying to sec how many cows they can feed but, are getting more milk from less . cows. There is no economy, says Mr. Haig, in keeping 20' cows when ten good ani mals will produce more milk than the 20 low grade ones. In 1916, he finds, the average amount of milk produced per cow in the United States was 3,700 pounds. In 1926, this amount was 4,700 pounds per cow. "Pure milk" says Mr. Haig, "con tains, all food elements in proper proportion, including minerals and vitamins for the growth and health of yound and old. This food is in the most digestible and econoxnical form. ; Every child should have at least one quart of milk each day. There is no substitute for butter; cheese is a real food and ice-cream is delicious and nutritious. A survey made recently showed that 20 per cent of the consumers food dollar was used for dairy products." Win A Ticket To the Show The puzzle last week offering to the first five solving it a free ticket to the Macon. Theatre created so' much interest The Press has decided to present another puzzle. One ( ticket to the great aviation picture which comes here next Monday and Tues day will be given free to each of the first five, who brings or mails to The Press office the solution of -the puzzle. The letters below make a sentence of nine words. All you have to do to get , a free ticket is to chose the nine correct wrds. So lutions must be in not later than Monday noon. , T S A S A R F. F E N O P. H A T N L F N I S A I Y I. E V T F. N T) F G L R O T M R H Interest in Cannery Mr. G' W. Teague who has leased the co-operative cannery for erne vear has announced that the meeting of the truck growers at the court house l?,st Saturday was very encouraging. About forty attended the meeting regardless of the very inclement weather. Mr. Teague states that he will have con tract forms printed in the near future. He is also considering the advisability of . selling seeds and fertilir for THE LAKE DRY DEVELOPiMT IS NO';,' CONSIDERED Mead States That Within Three to Five Weeks He Will Take Qver Property Surrounding the Lake. While here last week R. M. Mead, president of the Jupollo Public Service company, held a conference with the officials of Lake Emory arid stated that he will soon be, in a position to take over and develop the 500 acres of land surrounding the lake. He estimated that the deal can be closed within three to five weeks' time. He is now said to be in the big eastern cities making- arrangements to en large his plans for the. development of the communities in Western North Carolina where his- company owns power plants. Sometime ago Mr. Mead purchased Lake Tahoma from J. Q. Gilkey of Marion. It is under stood here that this property consists of 2,000 acres of land and the lake located at the foot of Mount Mitch ell near Marion. The development of that property, along with that of Lake Emory, is only a small part of the plans Mr. Mead now has in mind for the western part of the state, it was said. 200 MILES OF 1 VIUJU 1 1 tiTULiiJ Now Open to the Public in Nantahala National For est Also 240 Miles of Telephone Lines in Use. Major Evan W. Kelley, district for ester; Mr. Louis King, district fiscal agent, and Mr. J, C. Dort, district engineer, arrived in Franklin on Sun day from the Washington office to confer with the local forest officers concerning the allotments for the Nantahala for the fiscal year 1930. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday were three buy days. The many activities on the forest were considered and the costs for each activity closely scrutinized. It was found that the Nantahala was being operated on a business basis and that public money was not being wasted. Receipts on the forest have more than doubled in the past three years and while the costs of opera tion have increased they have not done so in proportion to receipts. -Several road projects have been car ried out in the period; The comple tion of the road from Nantahala Gap to Aquone, the Nantahala River road, the. Dillard-Highlands road and some minor roads have been improved in North Carolina. In Georgia, the Betty's Creek road is being construct ed by the forest service and will be completed this fiscal year. The Cha tooga Ridge road is a forest service road in South Carolina. The forest has a trail system that reaches the most remote sections of the moun tains. More than, two hundred miles of well constructed trails open to., the public for recreation or any legitimate use. These trails arc in North Caro lina, Georgia and South Carolina, and each year they are used by an in creasing number of people! There are more than two hundred and forty miles of telephone lines now on the forest, connecting the lookout men with resident families in the valleys and coves and with the Franklin, .Highlands and Clayton ex changes of the Western Carolina Tele phone .a- company. .The. - service .-...telephones ami an arrangement has been made with the local telephone com pany for a small exchange fee to he paid when a call is made -over their lines.' Tho f .-rest service, telephone system scrveis many communities where r.e'si'.loti would be completely isolated , so i?.- as teleohonc communi cation is concerned, without, this serv ice. The forest service believes that nl progress is bs ing made in handling the -fire . situation on the Nantahah forest, that procress is being made iii timber sales worlc and in public serv ice generally. , , The Nantahala will get its share oT funds 'available in the district to carry on the many activities. New Quarantine Officer Dr. II. T. Ilorsley is now quarantine officer in place of Dr. W. A. Rogers. It 5 understood that Dr. Rogers will JOINT MEETING ROTARY CLUBS Waynesville, Sylva, Andrews Clubs Guests of Franklin Rotary Club Wednesday Rogers and Goode Speak. The first of four annual joint meet ings of the Rotary clubs in the ex treme western part of the state was held at Franklin Wednesday night when the entire membership of the clubs from Waynesville, Sylva and Andrews met with the Franklin club as host at. the Scott Griffin hotel. The banquet was served on the roof garden of the hotel and was thorough ly enjoyed by all present. Deverux Rice, president of the local club, made the address of welcome. Rev. Floyd Rogers, Rector of Trinity church, Ashevillc, and Dr. John A. Goode, president of the Ashevillc Chamber of Commerce, made the principal talks of the evening. h Southern Pleasure Resorts Help Build Southern Industries By bringing northern capitalists south for their vacations, Southern pleasure resorts are working constant ly in behalf of the South's industrial development. In the March number of Holland's, The Magazine of the South, Arthur Coleman writes, "From Point Isabel to Virginia Beach there 'towiW;- or'" rest mmrtuUsf-r-passing the hitherto-famed French Ri viera in climate, in hcalthfulness, in excellence of beaches, in attractive ness, and in simple cleanliness. It is the Southern Riviera. Along it are a dozen of the world's finest beaches Galveston, Folly, Daytona, Wrights ville, Virginia, Palm Beach, and others too numerous to mention. For there is , an almost unbroken chain of beach es from Norfolk to Miami. The clean hard-packed beaches of the Gulf Coast are coming in for development as never before. Millions of dollars are being spent by municipalities to create water fronts of undeniable beauty and charm. "Contrary to most phases of de velopment, no one instance of such "growth is outstanding, either in point of esthetic value or commercial im portance. For 'this growth of South ern resorts is more concerted, more general, than is any other growth in the United States." In the same ar ticle Mr. Coleman says, "The man of the' South has no need to go else where for his relaxation, for quiet and solitude. For in no other group of states, in no other section of the nation, can such a variety of climate and topography be found. The New South is coming to appreciate this fact. It is coming into a realization of the vastness of its natural play ground resources. More and more are the people demanding that great tracts of forest and mountain land be set aside, protected, reserved for their children and their children's shildren as giant playgrounds of the future. "Largest of these is the proposed Great Smoky Mountains National Park, embracing an initial area of 428,000 acres, and ultimately designed to cover 700,000 acres. For the pur pose of purchasing this initial acreage, the states of North Carolina and Ten nessee, along whose border these mountains lie, have secured by private subscription and bond issues the sum of $5,000,000. This fund has been matched by $5,000,000 from the Rocke feller Foundation. Of a different na ture is the proposed Ouachita Nat'on.d Park, in Southwestern Arkansas. Here the tmrchase of land is unnecessary, for it is asked that the government designattrlM.OOO acres of the present Ouachita National Forest as a park And it is not unlikely that tlm quite just request will be granted. Friend ly mountains, all of these. Unfor bidding. blanketed in forests that wel come and shelter the w?nderod.' The ln'-r by congeniality, by color a'ui natural life." TRADES ASSOCIATION IS NOW PERFECTED 'Motu'pv night members of Macon County Retail Trades ' association met in the .office of Jones & Jones and adopted by-laws., for the association The original name selected fo" the orn.rrufon ws the 'Franklin Ret-'! Merchants Credit association, but lh: rame was changed as 'indicated Mon : day night. Gns Leach was elected president by the board of director The bv-hws of the -association wi1! he p-U'-hol in the near future in INJURED I BIAS' Jesse Thompson Is Hurt On Tunnell Job At Rut land, Mass. Rutland, Mass., Feb. 18. One man was killed today and six ' others in jured, two seriously, by an - explosion of dynamite in, the east heading from shaft 5 of the Coldbrook Wachusett water tunnel. Dead: A. Vieiro oE 141 Baldwin street, Waterbury, Conn. Injured: Alphonseo Palineri, of Tor rington, Conn., severe head injuries possible fracture of the .skull, severe lacerations to face and body ; severe shock. John Pyzow, of Jersey Gty, N. J., compound fracture of jaw, face badly cut, possible injury to sight, body lacerations. Jesse " Thompson, Franklin, N. C, multiple lacerations of f accn sufferings severely from-- shock. Arcade Williams, 167 Whitney street, Leominster, multiple lacerations of face and head, suffering severely from shock, possibly other injuries. Ar mand Pelletier, Uxbridge, numerous lacerations of face and head, severe shock Fred W. Johnson, of Balti more, lacerations of face and some shock. Dischargi from Holden dis trict hospital after injuries were dress ed. The dead and injured were a crew working on a tunnel to drive ' the Ware river- waters - to the "Wachusett other large cities with drinking water. The workers were in a noie seven hundred feet deep when the blast came. Asheville Citizen. CULLOWHEE STUDENTi MAKES FINE RECORD IN FORSYTH COUNTY County Superintendent Wants Mor Teachers Like Him The following letter, which is being published with the permission of Miss Camp, a member of our Teacher Placement Bureau, indicates the splen did work being done by one of oar graduates in Forsyth county. It is indeed gratifying to get this favorable comment about Mr. Hauser of tbe Class of '26 and his success in the field: January 22, 1929. Miss Cordelia Camp, Cullowhee State Normal School, Cullowhee, North Carolina. Dear Miss Camp: I want to express to you my grat itude for the kind act you did in sending us one Mr. Milton Hauser, and also to inquire if you are grow ing any others like him. I think we would be able to use aboat one hundred next year, if we were assured that they were of this type. I was rather surprised that you would pick out a man for grammar grade work, as most of the men who have settled to this level are weak lings. At least, that has been my ex periences with men who were willing to go into elementary work. I could mention several examples on which I expect you and I would agree. I want to pay a visit to Cullowhee a little later in the spring and look over some of your bright prospects for - next '""year."" -.t' -';- With very1 kind wishes for your continued success, I am, Very sincerely yours, T. TT. CASH, County Supt Forsyth County. The Cullowhee Yodel. , Forest Notes Surveyor Harry True has reported for duty with the local forest service. He ha leased the Tom Porter bunga low' near the I'ryson house and Mrs. True is. expected to join him in the near future. Mr. True will have, as aids Louis Meilke and Roane Brad ley who have both reported here. The two former came from thc Shenan-. doah National Forest in Virginia while Bradley conies from the Alleghany National- Forest in Pennsylvania. Mr. True and his . assistants Will first, survey three or four; tracts in Macon county and then go to South Caro lina for similar work. Mrs. W7 R. Paddock has joine I her husband .who is a ranger here. THc Paddocks have leased an apart ment from " Mrs. Wright on West Main street. : , , . . ' . , Ranger Z. B. Byrd has moved lh offices from the Bank of Fronkl'M building to the second floor of !' . r ..,. . .. ,-.: , KsJl C jtivvki- UllK'Ll) V
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