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Vol. XLIIL? No. 35. Murphey, N. C? Friday, April 1, 1932 $1.00 YEAR -5c COPY HUGE MARBLE PLANT IS NOW BEING BUILT Town of Marble Scene of Activity A* One of Largest Plants In South Goes Up The huge steel building, which will house the cutting and sawing of the Columbia Marble Company, is rapid ly bring erected at Marble, N. C., nine miles east of Murphy. TTie con crete foundations were completed several days ago, and the huge steel posts and irame wc/rk is now under way. with a crew of laborers and steel workers daily making rapid pro cress. The converse Bridge and Steel company are contractors for the job. The building is 260 feet long by 160 feet wide and will be about fifty feet high. It will be constructed of steel throughout., and it is understood that it will be finished in about forty days. Sixteen carloads of steel have already been placed on the ground. Machinery will then be installed for cutting and sawing and qua'rrying the marble, and will consist of the most complete outlay of the latest marble rutting machinery found in any plant in the south. The Columbia Marble Company is already quarrying and shipping marble blocks from their recently ac quired quarry at Marble, where they have erected a huge fifty-ton dernck. Large blocks of fine marble have been taken from the quarry, and the com pany recently acquired the proper ties of the Carolina Marble Pro ducts Co., and it is on this property that the present building is being erected, a few hundred yards east of the town of Marble proper. The Columbia Marble Company ha? started an extensive advertising campaign, and orders are being re ceived from ail parts of th?* Uni*ed States and Canada for monumental and building work which is being cut and shipped from their plant at Knoxville, Tei;n., As soon as the piant at Marble is completed, this work will be manufactured there. The marble belt running through Cherokee County contains an abun dance of high grade marble which has been pronounced by marble author ities as among the finest quarried anywhere. Cherokee County's cotfrt house is built out of this native mar hie, and it is one of the show places of this section. Mary builders and contractors have visited'this building and inspected it w?th t view to erect ing building elsewhere from the same marble. When this plant at Marble is com pleted, it will mean much to this vection, in wages paid to laborers as well as the realization of the dreams of many for the development of Cherokee County's marble of a large commerical scale. COMMUNITY CLUB ORGANIZED IN TEX AN A The colored people of Texana have r.rpanized a community club in co operation with R. W. Gray, county ? pent, and A. L. Martin, county Sup 'rindent of schools. The club is organized on the same basis as the clubs started in the white commun ities of the county, and they plan to meet twice a month. The club has already been functioning, and it is expected thatmuch good will be done among the colored people through its offices. Will Powell is chairman; Georgia Harshaw, vice-chafrman and Troy Bowman is secretary. The general committee is composed of Walter Bowman, Mrs. James Allen, Mrs. victoria Hall. Mrs. Jennia Allen, and Mrs. Emma Powell. The following compose the pro cram committee: JVTrs. Lula McKinney, Sirs. Maggie ram, Mrs. tiassje Mm monds, A. M. Wiley, and Clarence Kuddtreh. o Poultry Specialist Here C. F. Parrish, poultry extension specialist, of Raleigh, is in the coun ty this week with County Agent R. ?v. Gray, inspecting flocks and hold ing meetings and discussing the gen eral outlook for pioultry raising in the county. A me ling was held with Mrs. P. J. Watkins, of Peachtree, on Wednesday morning, and another ^as held in the afternoon with Mrs. B. Wood, of Andrews. Sales of limestone Have been doubled and sales af ferthzer have Creased in Tyrrell County this spring, according to the County Agent. | WOMAN HURT IN AUTO ACCIDENT I N ANDREWS In an automobile accident here Friday morning. March 25th, .Mrs. C. W. E. Pittman was painfully in jured. Severe cuts about the head an dface were thought to have been caused by the force with which yhc j was thrown against the windshiled. | Medical attention was rendered. 1 Mrs. Pittman was 'riding with Miss I Nell Hall, Andrews teacher, whoso j car, a small sedan, collied with a j car driven by W. F. Turner. The cars were badly damaged. o Organized At Peachtree i Community Club Is On March 3rd County Agent, U. 1 W. Gray called a meeting of the citizens of Peachtree and organized a community club. The officers elected are as fol lows: president, F. .1. Watkins, vice president, R. C. Pipes, secretary, John Donley. Members of the executive com- j mittee are, G. A. Walsh, Lawson Lunsford, Mrs. J. E. Hall, and Mrs. | John Shanks. The program com mittee composed of W. W. Leather wood, Minnie Ferguson, MVs. F. J. Watkins, and Betty Robinson. Mr. Gray pointed out very defin itely ways and means by which community cooperation could make Cherokee bounty self .sufficing. Supt. A. L. Martin also made a very interesting talk relative to the benefits that might be obtained from the people workin together. It is generally understood that the purpose of such organization is to function in connection with the and 1 10 vear Live at Home program of N. C. The first Thursday night of each I month was set for the meeting thit. club. We hope the farme'rs and citi zens of Pcachtrfee will be interested enough to crowd the school auditor ium at that time. We arc inclined to think that the greatest trouble with most of us in the past years is that we have been trying to live too much to ourselves individually and not interested e nough in the welfa're of our com munity at large. So let's get busy and try to find out some of the great needs of our community and county and then co operate to the fullest extent for the betterment oi al. JOHN DONLEY. 0. Sets High Value On Woodlands Miscellaneous sources of income from the forests of North Sarolina return approximately $26,000,000 an nually to landowners, in addition to between $40,000,000 and $50,000,000 in income from the lumber cut, Bry an W. Sipe, statistician of the De partment of Conservation and De velopment, said Monday, March 21, in summarizing some of the services of the forests in connection with the observation of "Carolina Forest Week," during the past sevendays. Other factors which make the for ests vital in the lives of the people include services whose value cannot be measured in terms of finances, but which are nevertheless essential, Mr. Sipe said. These include the creation of natural beauty, places of [ recreation, homes for wild life, pro tection of watersheds, and control of erosion. "Mo're than a hundred thousand cords of pulp wood axe cut each year," said Mr. Sipe, "from our wood lands. Tht price of pulpwood varies, but on the average it brings a return of well ove'r half million dollars an nually to the State. "Wood is practically the only fuel used by the 1,600,000 people living on the farms of the State. Besides cooking and heating, many thousands of cords are used for curing tobacco. The 1030 census shows that two-third? of the larms, 187,519 to be exact, cut non mrds of wood that year. Farmer* also tuVn to the forest for wood for countless other purposes. Nearly a million fenccsposts are re quired annually in repairing old and building new pastures fov farm an imals. "From 150,000 to 200,000 tele phone and telegraph poles and many pieces of piling are supplied yearly by our timber crop." ? Xews and Observer. Mrs. Thelma Dickey Is Appointed Postmaster Mrs. Thelma Dickey has received notice of he* appointment as post maricr for a tern of four years. Mrs. Dickey haa been acting post master since the tisath of her hu? b?"d. A. Dickey, who served as postmaster for Almost two ,nrms. uickey died in August, 1980. | GUN SHOT WOUND FATALTOWORLEY CRAIG ARRESTED Trouble Slid To Have Been Over Wife Of Craig, From Whom He Was Separated Cecil Worley was shot and fatally wounded at the home of William I Craig at Wehutty, about 20 miles i west of Murphy, at 11 o'clock Tues day night, March 22nd. The shot, which struck worley in I the abdomen, is believed by officers j to have been fired from ambush from a Winchester rifle. Worley was re moved to a hospital at Ducktown, Tenn., whe're he died Thursday aft ernoon. the 24th. 'William Craig, charged with the shooting, was arrested about mid i night on the 24th by Deputy Sheriff j Harris and \va- lodged in the Chero | kee county jail early the next day. At a preliminary hea'ring before Jus tice of the Peace Felix Hill, of Suit,. ' was bound over to the next term ?>f superior court which meets here | next week. 'Craig and his wife had been sepa rated about two weeks and officers said they were informed the two men had trouble over her. Worley's home is in Tennessee. Sheriff J. Frank Bristol, being no tified Thursday, March 24th, of the i shooting, took Coroner Dr. S. C. ' Heighway to the scene of the shoot ing, but found that Worley had been j removed to the Ducktown ho-pital in ' Tennessee, and returned to Murphy. 1 REPUBLICANS TO MEET HERE SAT. I ] The Republicans ol Cherokee | | county are scheduled to meet here j Saturday in convention for the pur , pose of selecting delegates to the state convention and the various dis- j trict conventions, electing a county Chairman and transacting such busi ness that may properly come before the convention. Fred Dickcy, of Murphy, has ser ved as county chairman for the past two years. The precinct conventions of the Republicans were held last | Saturday and delegates were selected j to meet at the county convention j here Saturday. The hour of meeting is 1 :30 in the afteVnoon. I FORD BRINGS OUT NEW 8 - CYLINDER IN LOW PRICE CAR New Fords To Be Shown Here Soon ??Price# From $460 to $650 F. O. B. Factory j ^ Thos S. Evans, local authorized ( Ford dealer, received p'rices and ad vertising charts on the new Ford cars this week. He plans to have one of the cars on displav as soon as he ! can secure one. The new cars are V-type eights j and fours. Prices for the eight* , range from ?460 for the roadster to I I $650 for the convertible sedan. The j prices of the new four-cylinder cars we're announced at $50 less than those quoted on the corresponding eight-cylinder body types. The prices of the new 8-cylinder car average about $10 more in each 1 class than the corresponding type of | the 1931 four-cylinder cars, making the fours some $40 cheaper than the 1931 models. The prices of the eight, all f. o. b Detroit, were announced as follows: Roadster $460; deluxe roadster $500 phaeton $495; deluxe phaeton, $545; coupe $490; deluxe coupe $575; sport coupe $535; cabriolet $610; victo'ria $600! tudor sedan $500; deluxe tudor ! erfjon SRRI) j f/yrWr?r ?590: He- i luxe fordor sedan $645; convertible! sedan $650; chasis $370. Community Meet At Pleasant Hill April 4 A community meeting will be held at Pleasant Hill church on Monday night, April 4th. R. W. Gray, coun ty agent, and A. L. Martin, county superintendent of schools, will be present to address the meeting on community affairs. Mr. Knight, district road supervisor, is also ex pected to be present. The public is cordially invited to come out and hear these men. Seed .sweet ototoe s have benn bedded in preparation for the new I crop in Currituck County. MURPHY MAN TO AID REPUBLICANS DRAFT PLATFORM Fred O. Christopher, of Murphy, will be one o t the Republicans ifraft injr the platform of the State Repub licans when the platform committee meets in Charlotte on April 13th. The platform will be tenatively draft ed and presented to the state conven tion the next day, according to an nouncement this week by Thomas ?T. Harkins, of Asheville, who was re cently appointed chai'rman of the j latform committee. Civil Service Exam. Announced for Guard! Th?' United States Civil Service Commission has announced that Apr il 19 it will accept applications lor the position of guard-attendant in ine Medical Hygiene Division of the ? United States Public Health Service, j for duty at Federal prisons through out the United St ates. The entrance salary is $1,620 a year, less $360 a year for quarters, subsistance, and laundry when pro } vided. I For this position the Treasury I Department wishes men. Applicant; must have been grad uated from a recognized school for trained nurses? which requires a re sidence of at least two years in a hospital giving thorough practical and theoretical training, or in lieu of such graduation they must have ser ved at least one three-year enlist ment in the Hospital Corps of the j United States Navy or have had at ' I least three years of active service ! in the Hospital Corp.- of the United ! States Army. I Full information may be obtained I from the Secretary of the United | I St ates Civil Service Board of Ex 1 aminers at the post office in Murphy. o First Fruit Tree Patent Granted By Government If the great horticulturists of the! ? Past ? men who labored without pay j and without protection to improve .fruits ? could now come back for a day ? they would gasp with astonish ment when they learned that the strong arm of the law was now the protector of the toiler in the field of Fruit Tree Improvement. Fo'r truly, an epochal event has just oc <rrrrd; a new day has dawned in the World'.- Fruit Tree History, and no man may now propagate, gVow, sell or otherwise infringe the rights of j the owners of Hal-B'erta (iiant Peach. | Luther Rurhank, the Master Mind ? of all times in things horticultural, , looked forward to this day; begged f?r it; hoped lor it, but despaired that the day of Patent Protection would ever come to Originators and . Inventors of New Fruits. ! The first Fruit Tree in history of the world to be distinguished by a Patent issued by the United States or any other Government, is Hal Berta Giant Peach. The name "Hal-Berta Giant" is a combination of the names "Hale" and "Flbc'rta" ? two of the best known peaches. The new peach is mammoth in size and is a truly mar velous fruit ? rosy cheeked, deli ciuos to eat, and ideal to can. The . experts of the U. S. Department of Agriculture ? after all kinds of tests and study ? decided it was different from any other peach and therefore this first Fruit Tree Patent has of- i ficially been issued to the Starks of Louisiana, Mo., who gove the Deli cious and Golden Delicious Apples to the worid. o MURPHY MAN IS MENTIONED FOR CONGRESS Don Witherspoon. u'rominent law yer, is being mentioned as a probable candidate for CongTess on the Re publican ticket \from the eleventh congressional district, according to news dispatches in the daily press this week, but when asked about it by a Scout representative, Mr. Wither spoon said he was not a candidate for the office. The convention for selecting a congressional candidate will meet at Canton on April 20th. The district comprises the counties of Buncombe, Rutherford, Cherokee, Clay, Gra ham. Swaim, McDowell, Macon, Jackson, Haywood, Henderson, Polk, ar.d Transylvania. English "Round Church" Saint Sepulchre, a church in Cam bridge, England, Ir commonly called the Round church It \n a Norman building dating from 1101. FARM LOANS AVAILABLE TO CHEROKEE S. S. WilHami, District Supervisor), Here Thi? Week ? Headquarters At Andrews Federal farm loan;; are now avail able to the farmers of Cherokee coun ty. according to S. S. Williams, of Asheville, who will supervise the district comprising the counties of Swain, Macon, Cherokee, Graham and Clay. Mr. Williams will make his headquarters at Andrews. The committes named for the dif ferent townships of ChcVokee county are as follows: Murphy Township- ? Fred Davis Grand view, Z. B. Lovingood. Mur phy, Rt. 1, Fred Stiles, JVIuitphy, Rt. 2. Valleytown Township ? G. W. Cover, Andrews, J. M. Lovingood, 'Marble, E. B. King, Topton. Shoal Creek Township ? J. F. Woods, Suit. E. E. Jenkins, Suit, Poky Quinn, Postell. Hothouse Township ? T. M. Cole, Culberson, Rt. 2, E. E. Jenkins, Culberson, Rt. 2., T. T. Johnson, Culberson, Rt. 2. Not! a Township ? Steve Evans, Unaka, U. F. Farmer, Unaka, E. E. Stiles, Murphy, Rt. 3. General County Committee ? W. J. Martin, Murphy, Rt. 3. N. E. Dock et y. Murphy, Rt. 3., A. M. Simonds, Murphy, N. C. "The loans to farmers will be han dled in each county by a special com mittee," Mr. Williams said today, "and 1 will represent the government in checking up on these applications and supervising the expenditure of the money as provided in the act of January 22, 1932, creating the Recon struction Finance corporation. Value To Farmers "I Relieve that ffcis *ATill be of great value to the faVmers of this section," Mr. Williams added. "They will be able to secure loans for fertilizer and seeds to finance their 1932 cron mak ing operations." Under the act the largest amount that can be loaned to one farmer is $400 and the security will be a lien on the crop under production. In the case of a tenant, the total ol' all loans to tenants of any land lord in one county shall not exceed $1,G00, and in each case the land lord must sign the waiver before the tenant can secure the loan. The interest rate on al! >uch loans I shall be five and one-hnii" per cent and the notes will mature November 30, 1932. All applications must be made by April 30th. , Applications blanks have been sent to the various county committees, and can be secured from them, or from the county agent o*r at the office of The Scout. The steps to be made in securing a loan are simple. Application must be filled out in detail, signed and sworn to before an officer authorized to administer oaths. The community committee must then fill out and sign a certificate. The application and other papers are then sent to the county committee for action, after which it is then forwarded to the re gional office. A promissory note for the amount desired must accompany the a ppli cation, and a mortgage lien made up on the crop. In case of a tenant making application for the loan, waivers from the land lord and or the party from whom the land was leased. Full information can be had from any member of the committee or from the places or persons named herein. NEW BOARD OF ELECTION FOR CHEROKEE CO. A new board of elections out and out for the county was named by the state election board which met in Raleigh la?t. week, according to news dispatches from the capital city. The board named for Cherokee follows: Joshua Johnson, Murphy; E. B. Kinjr, Topton ; and B. B. Mor Trow, Murphy. This gives two Dem ocrats and one Republican, which has [been the number of the election boaYd's personnel frem the two part ; ies in the past. The board also ordered that bal lots for State officers and U. S. Senator be consolidated, that is, print ed on the same ticket instead of two as in the last primary election. The congressional ticket remains sep arate. It was alo decided to tfrint the Democratic ballots on white paper and the Republican ballots on pink paper.
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