Cherokee County Victory Fair Opens Tues., Oct. 6
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MAMMOTH SCRAP
DRIVE TO GET
STARTED HERE
County School Grounds
To Be Useu As
L/CpUU
To meet the nation's war needs tor
m rap iron and steel and other sal
vage materials, a ner?- intensive drive
was launched in Cherokee county
Thursday morning of this week to
obtain several hundred tons of scrap
materials. The lucal drive b part
fit t.he nationwide drive announced
by Donald M. Nelson, WPB Chair
man. and will continue through
October 21.
Tlie Cherokee county salvage com
mittee met in executive session Wed
nesday night and set up plans for
the drive in the county. Tiie com
mittee is hopeful of a great collec
tion of needed scrap materials from
this county, and asks that farmers
of the county take time off from
their daily toil to collect from the
barn and fields and homes every
picce of metal and rubber that can
be spared, spared even from their
usuable equipment. Likewise the
housewives are called upon to fine
comb their homes and remove from
their rooms and walls and closets
everything that they can possibly
sacrifice.
In addition to scrap iron and steel,
the materials to be collected are
brass and other non-ferrous metals,
lubber, rope and flats.
The general plan for Cherokee
county is as follows:
1. The county school grounds,
?with the exception of Murphy, will
be used as depots for the collection
of scrap. All school teuchers will be
expected U> cooperate 100 percent in
this drive.
2. In the city of Murphy, the va
cant lot next to the county court
house will be used as a collection
depot.
3. The committee recommends
that farmers and others who have
large amounts of scrap materials sell
to local junk dealers in order to fin
ance the cost of bringing it to town.
4. A date will be announced later
when scrap in the city will be col
lected. a truck being furnished for
this purpose.
Lions Club Plans
Attendance Drive
The regular meeting of the Mur
phy Lions Club vas held Tuesday
euning. September 22. in the dinins
?ra of the Methodist church. Dr.
W. A. Hoover, president, presided.
It wits decided to conduct a contest
to increase attendance at the meet
ings. Sides were chosen, Joe E.
Ray headinp the Blues and Frank
Ellis the Reds. At the conclusion of
the contest, the losers will entertain
the winners at a banquet.
following the meeting, members
adjourned to the town hall where a
meeting on civilian defense wa? held.
George Snow, of Mt. Airy, assistant
state director of civilian defense, was
the speaker.
Mr. Snow gave a talk on aspects of
civilian defense. He complimented
the Murphy organization on its work,
stressing the fact that there will be
a great deal more to do in the fu
ture, that blackouts are the least
t?rt of the ?wort:.
Attending the meeting were civil -
ton defense officiate, auxiliary police.
Mr ral d wardens. %nd telephone op
erators.
Cherokee Boy Receives
Navy Hospital Training
Course Certificate
Clyde Charlie Mills, son of Mr
and Mrs. Maynard Mills, ol Mur
phy. route 3. has t*-en awai'dfd a
Navy Training Course Certificate
and has been appointed to the Navy
hcrpital ? , .ipprenticc first
class. ar**nrdtnp tn information re
ceived by his parents from Captain
W J. Riddick. Commanding U. 5.
Naval Hospital, Navy Yard. S. C.
Local Draft Board
Sends 75 Men To
Camp Croft, S. C.
Seventy-five selectees left Murphy
in three special buses Tuesday morn
ing for Camp Croft. S. C.. local draft
i officials have announced here.
Those accepted for military service
al the induction center will be grant
ed 14-day furloughs to return to
their home to wind up their business
affairs before entering the active
sorvice.
John Robert Tatham was appoint
ed leader of the group, with Boyd
Craig Cooper a ? -i Andrew .Jactsen
Hunt assistant leaders.
Those leaving Tuesday morning
were:
Harley Harold Barton. Carl Fred
Ledford. Henry Glaimon Mills. Roy
Pullium. Garland William Ramsey,
Fred Robert Wise, Leonard Wash
ington Standridge. Charlie McDon
ald. Jimmle Edwin Russell, Sheri
dan Wilford Sneed. Fred Dallas
Brooks. Clyde Brown. Sterling Mes
ser, Henry Howard Clayton. Virgil
Harley Clonts. Ralph Lewis Barber.
John S. Clayton. William Robert
ioberson, Arnold Raymond Postell.
Walter Blane Arrant. James Claude
Chambers. Paul Bemell Abe ma thy,
William Ralph Tabor, Clarence Ed
ward Sylvester. Arvil Kilby. Sydney
Frederick Clay. Plez Gentry Hedrick.
Charlie J. Fortner, Verlon C. And
erson.
Wilford Stamey. Frank Derrberry,
Johnnie Newton, William Hadding
ton Palmer. Luther Dail Allen.
Thomas Hancock, Leman Sexton
Carter. Denman James Crisp, Clyde
Gaddis. Jeter Luther Cearley. Everett
Voyles, Carl Brooks. Crawford Kidd,
Miles Henry Palmer. James Lawson
Farmer Charlie Holmes Haigler. Cal
vin Monroe West, Jason Ray Hyatt,
Po'.ey Francis May. Bill William
Cearley. Lawson Crawford West.
Robert. Anderson, Garfield Hudson
| Cl.uk. Earl Oscar Robinson. Lunil
Garrett. Budge Waldcn. Boyd Craig
Cooper. Blaine Donley. John Robert
Tatham. Wade Garnet! Gibson. Ted
Bradley. Benjamin Frank Crisp.
Richard Morrison Moore Jr Roy
Forrest Roberts. Lloyd Jnmes ODell.
John Lee Coffey. Porter Matney
Ledford. Roy Radford. William Ed
ward Strange. Coy Oliver. Andrew
Jackson Hunt, Willard Par Taylor,
Fred Clinton Donaldson. Fred Wal
ton Mashbum. Jr.. Joseph Raymond
Leonard and Bartley Millsaps.
SINGING CONVENTION TO BE
AT CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH
The semi-annual Cherokee County
Singing Convention will meet with
the Calvary Baptist Church In Mur
phy. Sunday, October 11.
The singing will start promptly at
10 a. m. Eastern War Time.
A new loud speaker has been pur
chased by some of the leading sing
ers and will be used.
All quartets, trios, duets and sing
era in general are invited to attend.
Victor M. West, secretary.
School Children's
Junior Army To
Launch Scrap Drive
Junior Army Will Scout
Amcriui for Scrap To .
Keep Mills Operating
The boys and girls of Murphy and
of Cherokee county are part of a ,
National Junior Army which on Oc
tober 5 will begin a great attack.
Tlie attack is against the worst
enemy within our borders today. The
enemy could stop our factories from
making guns and ships and Uiiks
and planes The enemy could pre
vent those weapons from being made
by preventing manufacture of the i
steel out of which parts of those !
weapons are made.
That enemy is starvation of the
steel mills.
But the school pupils of our na
tion. organized in a great Junior
Army, arc going to feed the mills.
They are going to find and bring
together the things out of which
tanks and ships are made -things
like rusty pipe, broken bed springs,
air guns that won't shoot any more.
Around Murphy and Cherokee coun
ty. this is junk, scrap. But after it
lias gone through the mills H is
bombs for the Nazis and bullets for
the Japs.
Commanding General of the North
Carolina Division of the Junior Army
of school boys and girls is Clyde
Erwin, State Superintendent of
schools. The regiment in MunJfty is
headed by Colonel H. Bueck. County
Superintendent Lloyd W. Hendrix is
Colonel of the Cherokee County
Regiment.
Each school principal is Major in
the Junior Army. Under each Major
come the Captains, the teachers.
School boys and girls of each school
room will be the Lieutenants, Ser
geants. Corporals and Privates of the
Junior Army. Those who do well
will be promoted, just like real
soldiers in the fighting Army.
Our fighting Army uses maps and
scouts every foot of ground. Mem
bers of the Junior Army will scout
the same way for the pieces of junk.
From map plans, each will be given
a place to scout. So the Junior
Army will scout all of America, each
street and road, each city block and
country farm, finding junk.
For. so Ions as the junk lies un
sathcred, it is part of the starvation
enemy of our steel mills, our war
factories, and our fighting men. The
, ioys and trlrLs of Murphy and Chero
kee County are soine to find and
lake prisoner all of thai enemy in
this part of our nation
Wlvat If an Buy Wctlt
WAR lil!!Vii!i
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The sixtccn-inch coast gun is the
most powerful of all American guns
and costs about *2.000,000 each. It
will throw a shell weighing up to a
ton many miles. The Coast Guard
also has an eight-inch mobile rail
way gun which will hurl a heavy
projectile about 18 miles.
Driving License
Examination Dates
Are Changed
B B Higgins. driving license ex- J
aminer tonnw-Ud with the high- 1
way safety division, announced here
this week that dates for examma- 1
tions at Andrews will \x clianged
from Tuuioua; aairrnoon to Friday
morning, and that ne wiii br iii
Robbinsvilh' Friday afternoon in
stead of Thursday afternoon as
heretofore.
Navy Recruiting
Officer Visits
Murphy Thursday |
(
Chief William Baskerville from the]
Navy Recruiting Of fit-*- in Asheville j
spenl Tliursdoy in Murphy recruit- !
Inc. giving Navy information to in-1
tercMed persons :md distributing a
new navy book "Men Make The
Navy". While here he stated that
Western North Carolina has again
come to the call of the colors and
Navy volunteers were the heaviest
since the war started, the Asheville
Navy Recruiting Station accepited
325 men and boys to join the Navy
Ficet and do their part U) kcfp "Old
Glory" flying at full mass.
The Navy offers wonderful oppor
tunities to al lapplicants and gives
every man a chance to attend one of
the 48 Navy trade schools. Starting
pay is $50.00 per month with every
thing furnished, plus all dental and
medical care. Your training In the
Navy will afford you a better position
in civilian life after the war.
We of the Navy Recruiting Office
urge you to investigate the many
outstanding offers of the Navy be
fore you enter the arm forces. For
information about the Navy address
your cards or letters to the Navy
Recruiting Station. P. O Bldg..
Asheville. N. C. We will gladly mail
you the new Navy Booklets upon re
quest or call by the Cherokee Scout
office and they will give you a copy.
Cherokee County
Is Allotted 3 New
Cars For October
Cherokee county is allotted th-n e
now automobiles for the mon*.h of
October, according to W. H Hoeflcr
of Raleigh, state rationing officer
for OPA. A !')t?t. of 573 n.'\v pas
senger autos were allotted in the
statf* i'or the month.
Quo! for other Winters: North
Carolina counties are: A' cry 1.
J Burke '.I. Euncombe 111 Clay V O'-a
i ham 1. H wood 5. Henderson 3.
? Jackson 1 Do well 2. Macon 1.
[Madison 1. Mitchell !. Polk I. Ruth
erford 3 Statute 1. Transylvania 1.
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MEl'T. I'KIDKN DAVIDSON
VISITS PARENTS IN MURPHY
Lieut. Edward Pruden Du.vid.son.
EnirinoerinK officer in the Army Air
Corps, visited his parents. Mr. and
Mrs. Jerry W. Davidson, last week.
Lieut. Davidson gaduated from the !
Army Air Forces Technical Train
ing School at Chanute Field. 111., in
September 19, and reiceived his com
mission as second Lieutenant.
It's com in on sense to be
thrifty. If you save you arc
thrifty. War Ponds helj> you
to save sr.d he?p to save
America. Put your ten per
cent every nay day.
GALA OPENING
PLANNED FOR
COUNTY FAIR
Extensive Preparations
Made Fw Ooening
Next Tu?*day
Everything Jrom pickled beets Uj
colored minstrels wiil have its mo
ment when tlie annual Cherokee
County "Victory" Fan opens in
Muprhy next Tuesday mornm*.
October 6.
More comprehensive and more ex
pensive pieparaUoas iiave Uui
made for tlie Pair this year than
ever before, and indications are for
one of the best. Fairs to ever open
its gates to the people of Ch< rokee
county and surrounding territory.
Premium lists have been increas
ed: new and better exhibit, space
has been provided to Sake care of
the many displays that \v 1 ] 1 be shown
to the public; a larger and better
Midway, featuring the Bantiy All
I American Shows, will entertain the
I huge crowds expected during ail of
the week Several sensational free
acts are expected to be included in
th entertainment program.
T? enumerate the prizes here is
loo big a task. but. -a catalog has
? been published which can be ob
I tamed by merely calling at the
county agent's office in the court
| house. It lists all the prizes, which
: amounts to several hundred dollars.
Chief among the displays will be
i the general farm exhibit. Just about
everything that you can grow, raise
or manufacture on the farm or in
the home will be eligible foi some
I prize money.
! The Fair grounds will open each
! morning at 8 o'clock and close each
night at midnight. Tuesday through
Saturday <t
New Photography
Books At Library
Nantaliala Regional Library an
nounces a new seric sof Photography
books of special interest to Photo
graphy fans. The Little Technical
Library includes the following titles
all of which are available in the Mur
phy Library:
Making color prints.
i Portraiture simplified.
Color Movies for the beginner
M.tnual of enlarging.
Miniature camera technique
Photographic lensr - anrl shutters.
Photo tnckf md effects.
Siren: your pictures.
Pr r.niMnr .let ion.
Flash photography.
Inriou: photography.
Competition for rhe amateur.
Movie making for the beginner.
Filters and their uses.
Developing . printing. enlarging.
V' ime: t and how i: works.
Tablet op photography.
D Tkroom. handbook fo formu
lary.
Beginner's book of photography.
Taking pictures at- night.
Child photography.
Color in photography.
Home portraiture and make-up.
Tricks for camera owners.
Outdoors photography.
Lovingood Family To
Hold Reunion Oct. 4
A reunion of the lovingood family
will b" held at. t.he Hangingdog
church on Sunday. October 4. from
10 o'clock in the morning to 4 o'clock
In the afternoon. All members of
the lovingood family are requested
to attend and bring picnic lunch.
City and County Ready For Scrap Metal Clean-Up