11 The Iswiinc I Vol. XLV.?No. 32 GRAY GIVES UP COUNTY AGENT WORK ContmiuioDeri To Meet Next Week With District Representative To Elect A New One L. R. Harrill, acting district farm demonstration agent, will meet with the Board Commissioners of Cherokee ccunty cn Tuesday. March 13, for the purpose of appointing otr securing the services of a county agent, according to telegraphic communication received by E. C. Moore, chairman of the. board. Wednesday. R. W. Gray, present county agent, relinquished his duties as farm demonstration agent, alter the commisf-ioero had passed a resolution discontinuing the work Vie first of March. Mr. Gray, who has been engaged in this work in Cherokee for the past nine years, alio holds positions as ?.ount> chairman of the R:d Cross, head of the County relief olfice, and administrator of che CWA. It was understood that Mr. Gtay would be given his choice of relinj ui .ling his duties as county administrator of relief or the county agent work at the meeting of the c~.?mis-| sioners this week. After considering the matter, Mr. Gray told the commissioners tl\.at he thought it best that he give up the county agent work and expressed the desire and wish 'oat it be continued. The older ol the board at the Kbruary meeting discontinuing the ; unty agent work reads as follows: "It was ordcreu by the board and i ndorsed by Fred O. Scroggs and T. T t ?1 - ; - . . , .. *. uoiinsun, commissioners, mat me sc vices of R. W. Gray, county farm demonstration agent for Cherokee county be discontinued March 1,, 1934. Mr. Moore did not agree to' the c:der and stated he \va in favor * f continuing the work and the present countiy agent, too. A canvass ol Ve situation dis-! closed the fact that there was no fight i on the county agent nor the demonstration work, but on a multiplic-. ity of jobs. The various emergency relief duties were wished upon the1 county agent from time to time, as they arose. The duties have been So i heavy and required so much of his lime. Mi. Gray oas not been able to wive much attention to the county Mr. Scroggs and Mr. Johnson both J indicated that they were in favor of continuing the county agent work. However, a large number of people had been complaining to the commissioners that the county agent had too many jobs, and was so engrossed in the relief work that the farm demonstration work was not receiving ?tie attention it required or should get. And these complaints fell upon attentive ears of two of the commissioners. Mr. Scroggs said he was in favor of continuing Vie county agent work and was in favbr of Mr. Gray contin-i uing in that capacity. However, he wanted the county agent work and' office separated fTom the relief of- i fice. He said the county had been paying Mr. Gray a salary as county agent, and he had been engaged almost PT<*1linVPlu in oHminii+orino- Ao I relief work and he '.iought it wouid be better to just call it relief work. Mr. Scroggs said he realized the state of affairs which existed prior to March 1, was detrimental to the county agent work. He also realized that the duties the present county agent was called upon to do as -elief director wore too heavy for him to do much county agent work, ho pointed out many faitn projects whk.i have needed attention have been neglectd and in some instances it is now too late for much to be done about them this year. Other farm projects needed attention, he said, and because the agent's time was so taken up with the administration of relief in the county it was impossible for him to give these farm projects the roper attention. Mr. Scroggs endeavored to have John W. Goodman meet with the county commissioners this week so that the difficulties could be ironed out. Mr. Goodman was reported to be sick and could not be here. Mr. Gray s decision has greatly facilitated the task of the commissioners, and Mr. Harrill. assistant district agent, vnll meet with the commissioners next Tuesday to aid in the selection of a new county agent. In his decision to give up county agent work, Mr. Gray said he would continue on as relief administrator ta.nponily. He plans to see the present CWA projects through, and indicated that after that he would take much needed Mat gad vacation. He >a convalescing form a recent illness at hia home. He said be bad a number of things in irin i he wanted to do bit *? yet had not definitely decided upon anything. tfr-dlfi t- * ', v""mw si n :o the Ag .cultural A.ljustmn dmisitration program. Where j iunty production council has no ?en set up, the applicant will havi give satl-factory evidence that hi cooperating \rfth the ptoducVlor ntrol program of the Acricultuia djustnient Ad.nisitration before hi plication for a loan will be consider Applications for loans from $'25 t 50 may be m&de directly to th lergency crop loan offices provide e applicants do not have sufficien curity to obtain loans eUewhere. A farmer applying for a loan o 50 or more must lirst make appli tion for a loan to the Produetioi redit Association serving ois coun . Rejection of his application by th roduction Credit Association will b inside red sufficient evidgncfe tha her credit is not available and th limer may then make application t e emergency crop loan office. The emeigency crop loans are en rely separate from, and are not t i confused with production credi sociation loans. The Emergenc; rep Loan Fund is an emergency re if measure for this year only, t ake available funds to those wh innot qualify for credit through th gular channels of a production cred association. In announcing the regulations Mi arwood said he could not emphasiz o stiongly that the emergency croj ans are to provide a means of tern >rary relief for this year only, ani at this year s loans probably will b e last of their kind. Farmers who have a source of in me other than farming are not eli ble for emergency crop loans. Ine iund will be used to mak ans not exceeding the cash cost c owing crops during the year 1934 if summer fallowing, and for winte n.^at to be planted ;n 1934 an >r\ested in 1935. An amount fron e fund, not to exceed $1,000.09(1 Fy be used to make loans to pur iase feed for livestock in areas de*i laled by. the Goverprr of the Far;: edit Administration a? drought an! L-rm-stricken. The lund may not b ed to make loans to replace work . 00 and also reterict the amour at may 'be loaned per acre, depenc g on the kind of c*op being growi All funds* will be advanced to th (Con tinned mm page ) >Untially Rich Terri'n^r in Thi* Stall ,1934 FUNERAL FOR HORACE ADAMS , HELD TUESDAY Horace Ivan Adams, 42, brother of j D.\ N. B. Adams, of Murphy, died i Sunday morning at 5 o'clock at the j Mountain View Sanitarium, Nash- ' I lie. Tenn., following an illness of I even momns. Born July 21, 1891, at the old | Adams home place, Graniview Cher-i : okee county, Mr. Adams went to! I Tennessee when a boy. For the past! twenty years he was assistant sup- j nintendent oi the Tennessee Copper. | Company's railroad, Coppe:?iill, Tenn.,] which was opeiated in connection with , jhe development of the copper in-1 I dustry in the Ducktown basin. Fol-j lowing a breakdown of his health, he j cved his family to Mui*phy about a r.ionth ago. c runeiai services were held Tuesday I morning at 10 o'clock at the Hangr ngdog Baptist uiurch by the Kev. . CBntcn Cutts. pastor of the Copper- ] nil! Baptist church, and the Kev. i. F. i * ii 4,gins, pastor of the Murphy Alethcdist churcn. Interment was in the j 1 churchyard. Ccppeihill Undertaking g Co., of Copper.iill, Tenn. in charge of _ funeral arrangements. I Suviving are his wife and four lj children, Junior, Betty, Bobby and Jean; his mcthtr, Mis. S. J. Adams, j c? Grand view; five bt others, Dr. N. j J". and W. 0., of Murphy; \V. A., of Grand view; J. E., Copperhill, and } | Julian, Etowah; two sisters, Mrs. W. > | i5. .\iulkey, Alarole, and .Mrs. J. L. . Alulkey of Grandview. : PUNCH "AND JUDY LEAVE FOLKSCHOOL 0 Sixth Annual Winter Term Closed At Brasstown Institution ' d February 28 t Mi. Frank H. Smith, dramatic and! f recreation leader in the Southern' - Appalachian Mountain region, who) n ha< been spending a month at the j - John C. Campbell Folk School at e Brasstown, left Marc.h 6th for Knox-1 e ville. Mr, Smith, under the auspices J t of the Conference of Southern M Jun-' tain Workeis and the American Assoo ciation for Adult Education, has in recent months visited a number of i- mountain communities and schools in o Kentucky, Virginia and North Carot lina. The Folk School has co-opei ay ted with other schools and agencies i in making '.he project possible, o During his stay at the Folk School, o Mr. Smith has given readings or store es and a "Punch and Judy Show" at - a number of nearby schools, including Murphy, Peachtree, Hayesville, * and Ogden. He has also met with, e local groups at Belleview, Brasstown,' p Martin's Creek, Peachtree, and gave i- "Punch and Judy" at. the Geoigie d Warrington Party at the Murphy Bape t4st Church. The Folk School closed its sixth i- winter term on Wednesday, Februi ary 28th. The parents of the stu-1 dents were guests of the school for e the day. f Mr^. John C. Campbell, the direcl, tor, spoke briefly of the purpose of r the school in ophidine +**i ? the knowledge and spirit which would i n ena'ble them to live better the life! K which they have to live. She referi ed further to the third play of the i- afternoon, "T8?e Way of Attainment," r. which would portray to them the un 1 known possibilities for growth from | e youthful wishes for Power, Riches, j Peace, Love, to the full development of Power as that for healing by the i- physician. Riches as t.hat of the love! t, of a child, Peace as the sympathy of e the nurse. Love as the understanding s heart of the teacher. Miss Margaret t Butler, the Associate Director, spoke o of the relationships of the School to d the Community at large, reporting - on the very encouraging growth of a ihe Creamery and Farmers' Associad trons. ;> . A brief exhibition of Singing B Games was given in the morning. The girls had entire charge of the food n preparations for the dinner. In the afternoon, three plays, "The Old e Game," "Haste to the Wedding," and "The Way of Attainment," were givf en under the direction of Mr. Smith, e The second play, 'Haste to the Wed? ding," was written by Mr. Sbnith this d > winter during his work in the mounK tain communities. J- The student exhibit of handicraft d work at the School included booky ends, animals, boxefc, paperweights, o breadboards, picture frame* in woodit carving, towels, runners, rugs, and I- mat'j in weaving; dresses, aprons, ?. 'vmnasium suits in sewing. Sketches e of water-system layouts for some of (Caaliaaadl mm page > >1.00 YEAR?5c COPY LAST LINK OF UNAKA ROUTE IS FINISHED Advocates Of J se Brown Highway See Dream Come True?CCC It Responsible After almost ten years of tireless effort and "watchful watining", advocates and sponsors of the Joe Brown highway, between Murphy and Tellico Plains, Tenn., by way of Unaka, have seen "their dream of a torter route to Knoxville through the Cherokee National Forest come true. The 12 miles of road in the Cherokee National Forest, the unfinished link connecting the two states on this loute, has at last been graded. It is w being surfaced with gravel to provide an all-weather loute the year round, ana it is expected to ri ceive a macadam binding in the near tuture. And the CCC camps located on the National Forest in that section are | lcsponsible for the realization of this I drta.n. j Back in 1925. when everybody was alking and building roads, the late j Joe Brown, one time highway commissioner of Cherokee county and for whom the road was named, Don Wit.ter.poon, prominent Murphy attorney, and others, visioned this route, and a movement was sta ted to consumate its construction. Ch.rokee countV vntoH u..:i? .. _.J - ana uu.ii me road in North Carolina up to the borders of I the National Forest. Here the highway abruptly broke into a rough mountain trail, with the probability and ossibility of negotiating it depending entirely upon Vie weather. In Tennessee, the same sort of siti uation existed. Time and again of; ficials and road enthusiasts on both ! sides of the line sought to get the I Federal government ? to .appropriate I funds with which to build the road through the Cherokee National Forest hut sought in vain. The Forest Service received funds to build roads, but never any to construct the parti! cular link of the Joe Brown highway between Una'ra and Tellico Plains, 'T enn. This unfinished link was literally ? "thorn in the flesh" of Congressvran Zebulon Weaver for many years. I He wa? placated fmr. both sides for I government money and government action, and he spent considerable time and effort to get this money and this action. However, years went by and nothing availed?until the Citizens Conservation Corps camps moved into the section. Then action was needed and action wa? taken?the government putting up the money in Vie end. Supplies and necessities for the physical comfort and well being of several I hundred men required a road cap| able of meeting the transportation pebkm. And the CCC's built it. The road has been graded 16 feet wide, and an excellent grade maintained over the entire distance. A 12 foot gravel surface is being put down, and all but six miles?between Unaka and Shuler's creek?has been completed. Work is progressing rapidly on this six rmile link and it will be completed within another thirty days. U. S. G. Phillips, Unaka Merchant, said in Murphy this week. "You can tell the worW nioW <* "* .. 'C 5?/v our road at last," Mr. Phillips said with much enthusiasm. The route shortens the distance between Murphy and Knoxville to 78 miles. Besides traversing the Cheroke National forest for 12 miles it ?oes through one of the richest farming sections of Cherokee county, and is destined to become an important artery of traffic between the two states. o Measles Cause Her To Miss School For First Time Little Miss Jane Ricks, 9 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Ricks, had never been absent nor tardy a day in school until the epidemic of measles swept the Murphy school and caused it to close for three weeks. Three weeks ia long enough for anybody to have the measles and get rid of them. However, Jane did not take them until a few days before Softool pened, which was responsible for her being absent from school for the first time in her life. She is in the fourth grade, and her -u?me appears regular^ v on the honor roll. Jane is wondering any it was she had to wait until school opened before taking the measles. But there are some things us grown-ups can't even .rierstahd.