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Thousands More Jobs Open As Work Begins On Huge Douglas Dam Men Especially Wanted For Clearance Work And Construction Thousands ol brand n ew jobs for ! dam .ind road w orkers were mode available Monday when the TV A I moved in on its latest project ? the ! construction of the Douglas Dam on j the French Broad River. A work deadline has been set. under whiEli j tho LXim must be in pr>xiuction next ( ytMr Tins is uic DniVi uuu ocumvji i McKellar opposed m> bitterly, ind fori a long time, so successfully. The ! Tennessee Senator claimed that the waters would drive hundreds of larin families from rich lands under ir.- I tensive cultivation to supply -van- i neries These farme: ? he said, could not ftnd "and as fertile without nov- . in,: to'> for away to make sales to; C*nnei lea practical. K siuenui 01 the rich valley w.iieli i d m will inundato were solidly' opposed to the dam. and for months ! uie matter lay in committee in Wash ington. with no appropriation made j to start the work. Even President ! Roosevelt's personal nxuiuiucuiia- ! tion of passage was ignoied. Tins opposition of McKellar and the farmers was finally over-ridden last week, when TV A investigators reported six times as much land just as rich and in the same immediate section, as was planted by the can nery farmers. The TVA also promised not only to pay these farmers a fair uric#1 f<-?r their lands and homes, but also ?o help them get relocated in the same territory, at the least possiole ex pense. It was predicted tha.;, far from being injured, the farmers would actually benefit as a result. Trained agricultural workers are to be sent to assist in developing the new farms to the higliest possible point of productivity. The dam will be located "lear Knoxville, 32 miles above the mouth of the French Broad Rive.-. The nearest town is Dandridge. Tenn., 13 miles distant. A five mile railway and a six mile road will be built from the dam-site to the nearest main highway, and construction on these two projects will be rushed as fast as men can be hired to do Che work. An employ ment office was opened within a few hours after Congress passed the appropriation. When completed, the dam will be j 150 feet high and 760 feet long. There also will be ten earth dikes, as aux iliaries. The project will create a reservoir extending upstream 40 miles in the French Broad valley, and about three miles across, at Its widest point. The lake, when filled, will cover about 30,500 acres, and power production will be close to 100.000 kilowatts, available 24 hours a day. Machinery from other dams near- ! ing completion Is already being mov- ' ed to the Douglas site, and more ; than 5,000 men will be employed, j Immediate applications for Jobs are j being sought from men who can do i clearance work, and especially from j those who have had experience In heavy construction work. The fact that a job hunter may already have an appllcatio non file for work at another dam need not stop him from getting a Job at Douglas. T.aborers will be paid 50 cents an hour for a 40 hour week with time and a half for overtime ? of which there will be plenty. Pay for skilled workmen ranges up to $1.75 an hour, with the same work week and the same rate of overtime. It te not necessary to go to the dam to apply for work. Applications may be gotten at any post office, or by writing to the Workmen's Ex amination Section. TVA. Knoxville, Tenn. HIWASSEE DAM The Junior-Senior banquet Is to be held at the Hiwassee Dam HJgh School gymnasium on Tuesday. Feb ruary 10, at 7:30. A very enjoyable evening Is anticipated. The scheduled teachers meeting for Friday has been villcd Off JUL*- , definitely, due to scarcity of rubber. Teachers have been asked 10 as , ist in the resist ration on 16. | Sgt. Wilkes of Police Dept . gave i .1 lecture Monday morning to the | inch school boys on "Highway safe I t> and safety in the home." Bass Carroll, principal is anticipat ing a series of lectures for both the high school boys and girls along the lines of National Defense, hom? de frnse and social defense. He hopes to be able to get a good doctor and a nurse who will donate thei; time in the near future to speak to his The P.-T. A. is soliciting books 'or the school library, everyone who has a good book you wish to donate please contact either Mrs. Oi'bert, president or Mis, Houck. librarian. Misse, Ilenc Hawkins and Jeanne are a isting Miss Johiuon :n compiling adds for the schools first annual, the business men of Ma, hav been very co-oporativc. T Toting People's I.1 .am at Reed" Chapel is assisting Mrs. G hw ;nd in w mding up tlie Red Cross bundle for Britain wh'.c.n they to finish this week. SNOW HILL NEWS Mis.-, Parlee McConal visited Mrs. Allie Elliott one day last week. Mrs. Lum Mull is very sick at this writing. We hope her a speedy re covery. Mrs. Joe Roberson visited Mrs Lum Mull over the week-end. Rev Howard Keasler will preach at SncwhUl Church February 8. 1942 We hope there will be a large crowd out. Mr. and Mrs Jim Evans visiteo Mrs. Fred Baity Sunday afternoon Mrs. Ruby Kaler has been visit ing her friends and relatives in this section this last week. SUNNY POINT NEWi. Mrs. Maltie Whitener and family, and Mrs. Esta Mason ^-pent Sunday of last week with Mr. and Mi's. John Beavers of Violet. Mrs. Jewel Forrister and baby, and Miss Sadie Forrister spent Friday with Mrs. Laura Jones. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Johnson spent Sunday witli Mr. and Mrs. John Brown. Mr. Charley Styles of Gastonia spent a week recently visiting friends and relatives here. Miss Ella Whitener spent a week with her sister. Mrs. Vesta Beavers of Violet. MARTIN'S CREEK Miss Eithial Carter entertained several of her friends last Prida7 night with a birthday party. The eve ning was spent playing games and Miss Carter served cake and hot co coa to the following: Misses Ruth Allen Pauline Elliott, % Wilmer Arrant. Ruby Comwell. Lou- f ise Mann, Elizabeth Mann and Paul- t ine Davis. Messrs. H.-roert Hall. Carl Smith, i Frank Ramsey. Grover Hampton, ; Clifton Elliott, Jr. Hampton, John ! Allen, Cecil and Carl Davis, Hugh ' Elliott and Charles Mann. 1 1 Rev. James Truett will preach at * the Glade church next Sunday, Feb. jj 8 t Mrs. Jack Hall is improving after ; falling and badly spraining her an- 1 kle. Mrs. Prank Ingram and Mrs. Ben | t Mann visited Mrs. Lillle Chastaln ' . last, Friday afternoon. Miss Louise Mann, of Akron, Ohio, j ' is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. | , Ben Mann. Mrs. Elizabeth Ingram is iraprov- 'i ing after spraining her ankle. Mr. John Dockery has been 111 : for the past week. We wish him a - speedy recovery. Miss Helen DockcTy has been out ! of school several days on account of I an attack of the mumps. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Cunningham , ? are the proud parents of a baby ? girl. j I Miss Fay Carringer Is able to be ' back In school again, after having * the Louise and Elizabeth Mann spent | the week -end with Mr. and Mrs. Roy ' Huihn at NoUa Betty Joe Wade spent the week-end ' with Dorothy Ingram. Mrs Leona Carter of Woil Creek I \ isited Mrs. Floyd Clark last S'lnday ; afternoon. Mr. Bradford Hughes was burled ! ; .it the Baptist church at Martins | I Creek last Monday. Mrs V. I. Phillips visited Mr. and ! Mrs. David Phillips one dav Ust | ! week. , Mr Woodford Johnson, of Peach - tree, spent one night last week with I Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Carringer and | family. Mr. and Mrs. Jake Stiles spent last i week with Mrs. Patton Stiles, who | has been sick. KINSEY NEWS Mr. P A. Mauney spent Friday I night with Mr. and Mrs. G W Had- | cliff, of r?wrhl]!. T?S!i Mr. and Mrs. Paschal Hughes and I small daughter spent Friday night | with Mr and Mrs. Charlie Kllpat rick. Mr. Eugene Nichols was a visitor | ii Copperhill. Friday night. Mr. and Mr,; Jimmy Crisp an nounced the bi:th of a son. January 28. Mr. Eugene Nil hols left Saturday ?r Lenoir City. Tenn. where he to transferred with the T. V. A. Mr. George Mauney of Sylva visit ed Mr. and Mrs. Paschal Hughes "tmday. Mi's. W. W. Hall attended the. Food Leaders Meeting" in the Mur pny Library FiiUay arid "7.. W. D. King accompanied her home. Mr John Hyde spent Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. Paschal Hughes. The Mount Liberty Sunday School Association held Its convention at . Rogers Chapel church Sunday Feb ruary 1 . j Mr. John Hyde spent three days in Chattanooga. Tenn. last week. 1 Little Miss Clara June Hughes si>ent Saturday with Louise Hyde. ? o The vegetable garden fills a prom inent place in the farm program, I since it serves the double purpose ? of providing a health Insurance pol- : icy and a savings account for the . family. ? LETITIA NEWS Wr are all sorry to kaov that J. O. Clonu Is very sick at this writing Mrs Vecie Taylor from Gaatowa ?s visiting her father and mother this week. Mr and Mrs. Bill Clonto. Harvey Stiles visited Plez Hedrick of Ranger Sunday. C. B Hedrick of Ranger visited his sister. Mrs. Julia Cearley Sunday. Mr and Mrs. Luther Cearley and daughter. Helen, visited the latter. ?; patents Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Hedrick of Ranger. Prank Taylor who has been em ployed at Gastonia lias returned to His home here. Mr. Julia Cearley and daughter. Helen, visited Mrs. Blanche Clonts Saturday evening. Miss Nora Bell Clonts of Murphy visited her parents Sunday. Mr and Mrs. J. G. Clonts. Mnrma stile;: spent the week end with her parents. Mr. and Mrs McKtnley Stiles. Miss Inez Millsaps of Robbinsville lias been visiting Mrs. Nora Camp bell for a few days. PATRICK NEWS ? M ;ind Mrs. Bonnie Rar and ba- j by. of in."- Tmn were tin- p tests of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Plckiosimer Sunday. I Lee Horion was the dinner guest , of Mr and Mrs Perlie Croft, at I Parner. Tenn. Sunday. George Reid and daughter wen. : tire iruosts of his mother. Mrs. Mar- ] tha Reid Sunday. Miss Carrie Berrong of Tenn. is ' visiting her sister. Mrs. Charlie Bor ing. Mrs. Boring is slowly recovering after a severe illness. Mr. A. L. Kilpatrick and family of Watts Bar Dam are expected to ar- j rive this week at his old home place and start selling goods a^ain. He has been greatly missed and we welcome them bacK. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Cobb and j children were the guests of the lat- j ter's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Reid | Sunday. The whooping cough and mumps j are very bad in this section, there are j a number of cases of each. We hope ttkA epidemic will soon cease John Ptcklesimer was the guest at Mr and Mrs PerUe Croft, at Puur, Tenn . one night last week. Mrs Ada Allen of Pleasant Hill was the guests of her daughter-in law. Mrs. Duel Burgess recently. Mr. <>nd Mrs Hi tell llambv and cWIdren were Murphy visitors Mon day afternoon. Nip Adams Is very ill at this writ ing. Mrs. Eller Adams of Pleasant Hill was the guest of Mrs. Martha Reld and Mrs. Lauretta Williamson re cently. WCLF CREEK NEWS O. O. Simonds made a business tnp to Murphy. Thursday of last week Prof, and Mrs. Byron Laghthall of Postell. N. C made a short visit wiUi friends here Sunday. .1 H Parlr ryf PAnnprhill hax bought O. O. Simonds old home place and will move to it in a few days. Mrs. Josie Oarren is spending a few days with her mother. Mrs. Nan cy Morgan, in Hayesville. who is very ill with a heart attack. K. B O.rren of Ellijay. Ga . was 1 he guest one night last week of Mr. and Mrs. Riley Morgan. Charles Morgan and Wayne Bur i i have been gathering up scrap iron. etc.. and placing it on the mar ket for tiie last several days. Herbert Oarren spent the week-end hero with his father. W. L. Garren. Denis Hyde, Veteran Of World War I, Dies Injuries received In World War 1 caused tlie death, Sunday, of Denis W. Hyde, In the Oteen Veterans' Hospital. AshevlUe He had been a patient there far many weeks. Townson funeral home brought the remains back to the ex -soldi sr"?: old home, in the Culberson section and funeral services were heic Tuesday in the Shady Grove church, with the Rev. Tom Truett officiating. Interment was in the church ceme tery. o Use Classified Ads WANTED ! 10 ACRES WILL BUY OR LEASE FOR A TERN OF YEARS Must be reasonably close to town, but must also be a con siderable distance from dwellings. The land is sought by the Town of Murphy for use as a dumping ground. If you have property that is suitable for this purpose, write stating size, location and price of properly, or see E. 0: CHRISTOPHER Town Clerk, Town of Murphy
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