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YOU ARE THE JL RED CROSS! T Volume 57 ? number 35. Consolidated with GRAHAM COUNTY NEWS MURPHY, NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1946. TWELVE PAGES THIS WEEK Mayor W. M. Fain Asks For Re-Election \\\ M Fain, present mayor and < business man of Murphy, is asking for re-election in the May 7 elec tion for town officials. Mr Fain has been mayor of the town for the past two years, and also served as mayor in 1923-24 and 25 He has been identified with the town government in various ways intervals for the past 25 years, j This incumbent is a merchant ! find dealer in surplus commodities He holds offices in several civic organizations and in the First Methodist church. Mr. Fain is the second candidate , to announce for mayor, Neil Sneed having announced last week. No one has as yet announced for mem ber of the town council. Girl Scouts Are Meeting Weekly On Wednesdays The second meeting of the Girl Scout troop was held Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock in the music room at the school building, with Carolyn Alexander and Shirley Bates serving as hostesses. The first meeting of the troop was held Wednesday afternoon, March 13. at 3 o'clock at the home ci Mrs. C. E. Woody, with Jane Brendle, Sara Jeanne Weir, Ann Shields and Emma Lou Woody act ing as joint hostesses. The troop was divided into patrols, according to age, the older girls forming Patrol 1, which in cludes: Peggy Savage, leader; Phyllis Monteith .assistant leader; Jane Brendle, Mary Helen Hatchett, Barbara Reid, Sara Jeanne Weir, and Emma Lou Woody. Patrol No. 2: Befly Sue Swiiim, leader; Salie Morris, assistant lead er; Carolyn Alexander, Mary Bolan Brumby. Roslyn Stalcup, Ann Shields, Shirley Bates. Ann Taylor was elected scribe, and Emma Lou Woody treasurer. The hostesses served refresh ments and a social hour was held. Prizes Offered In Essay Contest Members of the eleven organized ( 4-H clubs in Cherokee county have | the privilege of participating in an essay contest sponsored by Farmers lederation again this year. A new feature is a preliminary contest to be held in the county, prior to the district contest, and Roger Am nions, local manager of Farmers Federation, is offering prizes for the county winners. Four prizes will be awarded in the county: 30 baby chicks to both the boy and girl winner of first Place, and 20 baby chicks each to the boy and girl winner of second Place. The preliminary contest will be held on April 15, and the district contest in Asheville on May 18. The subject is: "How the Farmers Federation Benefits the Farmer Most". The essay must not be over 350 words long and must be in the hands of Roger Ammons by April 15. Collection Of Canned Food Is Continued Mrs. Frank Ellis, chairman of the overseas food collection which is being sponsored by Wesleyan Guild, announces that the drive will continue through March 30, and urges all who want to have a Part in this cause to make their contributions early. Only a few case of food have been donated "ius far, she states. The Rev. J. Alton Morris an nounced last Sunday from the pul Pit at the First Baptist church that ? is designating next Sunday as canned food" Sunday at that church and requests <11 members brtng cans of food to the church *hen they attend services. Dairy Specialist Is To Speak At Series Of Meetings F. R. Farnham, Extension Dairy ! Specialist, N. C. State College, will be here on Tuesday, Wednesday, <-ind Thursday, March 20, 27, and 28, to conduct a series of meet ings on the "Production of Clean and Wholesome Milk" on farms. These meteings are especially plan- j ned for 4-11 Club boys and girls but will be of interest to farm men J and women. Meetings will be held as follows: Peachtree school 10 o'clock, Tues day, March 26; Martin's Creek school 1:30 o'clock, Tuesday, March 26; Murphy high school 9:15 o' clock, Wednesday, March 27; Mar ble school 11:45 o'clock, Wednes day, March 27; Andrews school 1 o'clock, Wednesday. March 27; Hi wassee Dam school 9:30 o'clock, Thursday, March 28; Ranger school 11 o'clock, Thursday, March 28. Bueck Is Speaker At NCEA Meeting The regular meeting of the Mur phy unit of the North Carolina I-.ducation association was held Tuesday evening at the home eco nomics building. H. Bueck had charge of the pro gram. He discussed the "Merit System", and the "Legislative Pro gram." and a discussion followed. Miss Jane Hill and her classes served refreshments at the con clusion of the meeting. James J. Mintz Is Promoted Aboard the USS Los Angeles. Ilong Kong. China (Delayed) ? James J .Mintz, USNR, has been j advanced to the rate of seaman, first class, aboard the Los Angeles the flag ship for Read Admiral Charles Turner Joy, USN, who is | commander of Task Force 73, a unit j of the Seventh Fleet. Mintz is the son of Benjamin H. Mintz, Marble, N. C. Herbert Building Cleaning Plant Jack Herbert of Andrews has be gun construction of two business buildings on Main street, each 25 feet by 80 feet, of cement and cind ei blocks. Mr. Herbert expects to operate a modern cleaning plant in one building, as he owned and operated a plant for a number of years be fore going into the Army. The other building will be for rent. Play To Be Given April 11 Mark Twain's play, "The Adven tures of Tom Sawyer", will be pre sc-nted at the Murphy school audi torium on April 11, at 3 o'clock P. M. sponsored by the Beta club. Fred Brendle, Jr.. and Sam Stal cup have been chosen for the parts of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. One of the funnist scenes in this play is in the second act. Tom has persuaded Huck and Joe Harper to run away with him to Jackson Island to play pirate. The towns people search for them, even drag ging the river, and give them up for dead. Weary, hungry and homesick, the three youths return for their own funeral services. SERMON SUBJECTS The Rev. T. G. Tate has an nounced his sermon subjects for Sunday as follows: At 11 o'clock in the morning, "Contact With Christ"; and at the 5 o'clock vesper Fervice, "The Strait Gate." The Young people will meet at 5:45. Mr. Tate will preach at the Pres byterian church in Hayesville at 7:30 o'clock Sunday evening. FROM RAGS TO WARM GARMENTS VIA RED CROSS MAIMED, CRIPPLED AND ORPHANED by the war, then caught hungry and cold in its aftermath, children in the city of Linz, Austria, line up to replace their tattered garments with warm clothes made by Red Cross volun tMT* and ihown being distributed by Miss Helen Nixon, Red Cro u worker, of Holyoke, Mass. ( International ) Need For Property Revalution And Decreased Tax Rate Cited The need for a revaluation of | property in Cherokee county and Murphy, with a resulting decreas ed tax rate for the same amount ol income; the present indebtedness of the town; and the reasons for citizens to have little hope for large improvements until the percentage ol indebtedness is decreased was discussed by Dr. Bryan W. Whit iield in an interview this week. Dr. Whitfield is a former town council man and during his terms of office did much for the progress of the town. He commented on the town's af fairs as follows: "Now is the time to do our post war planning for improvements and r.ew projects for our town and county. Some plans for much needed and past due improvements in Murphy have been made. How ever. the realization of the pro jects is dependent upon federal and state aid. if and when it is avail able. and upon raising locally th" necessary funds to match these lunds. ? Recently many of the unim proved streets and sidewalks in Murphy were surveyed and esti mates made for their improvement. We like to visualize a bit and think of our little town with these and many other almost necessary improvements. We want a park with a swimming pool in it. Many have spent their opinions on the reed of a recreation building for the younger citizens ? some place where they can find wholesome entertainment and not spend their time on the streets or elsewhere. There are others which seem al most important. BUT under pres ent conditions we can't expect aid from any source. Federal and state funds will not be available un less we raise our share of the neces sary funds to match the federal and state aid. The Planning Com mission WILL NOT recommend aid to towns where the outstanding in debtedness exceeds 15% of taxable assets. Our town owes more than $180,000. The declared taxable, assets are only a little more than $1,600,000. This means our in- 1 debtedness is about 13% of our assets, or 3% above the ratio on which the Planning Commission will recommend loans for im-, provements. "If all the taxable property in Murphy is asses* "d r,* only $1,600, 000 and assuming this is a correct estimate, then we can't afford im proved streets and sidewalks which wil cost about $800,000 or about one half of the assessed value of all of the property in town. < I understand this value in cludes railroad and all other prop erty within the city limits of Mur phy.) The planning Commission would probably think other pro posed improvements even more im possible. "We have a city tax rate of $1.70. Fighty-five cents, or one half of this must be applied to existing outstanding indebtedness. This must be paid even if we haven't money for salaries, improvements, library, fire and police depart ments, or any other of the highly important needs of the town. One dollar and seventy cents is a high tax rate, but not as high as the county tax rate. Both rates are too high to hope to induce many manufacturers or other industries to locate here to en.ioy our abund ance of labor (and they can't be in duced to locate here by telling them not to list their taxes at full value.) "If now is the time to start mak ing our adjustments for the pros perity we hope is 'just around the corner', it seems reasonable to be lieve it is time to make some changes in our town and county finances, certainly to make changes which would enable us to raise money to match federal and state aid. "If we had a new value on ALL of the property (re.nl, personal, and otherwise), in the county assessed by a qualified and non-partisan board our assets would be increas ed and our tax rate reduced. No tax payer would have to pay any more tax in dollars and cents than he is now paying, as the total amount of taxes paid would be the same. Another way of stating such a proposition would be to get a new valuation on all taxable prop erty, then take the annual budget plus a small additional amount foi j error in under-estimating the bud get. plus the annual payments on outstanding indebtedness, and com pute the tax rate on the estimated new valuation of all property. The budget in this proposal would be the same as it is now and the tax rate on a higher tax value. Very probably the average tax payer Mould pay less taxes than he is now paying because it is very likely that a new survey and assessment would reveal more new tax payers "Now, if the declared taxable assets were increased the percent age of our indebtedness to assets I would go below the 15^ maximum I allowed by the Planning Com mission and we could at least hope to avail ourselves of some of the improvements our town and coun ' t\ need. "Follow taxpayers, what saj you?" Joe Miller Elkins Home From Overseas Joe Miller Elkins. son of Mr 1 md Mrs H. G Elkins. has arrivec i home from overseas, and has re I ceived his discharge. He served ii j the army three years and thro* months, 15 months of which was ir | the European theatre. He was witl i the First Army and the G9th divis ion. H. G. Elkins, Jr., of Abhevilh j spent the week-end with his par I ents here. Hotel To Be Built On Hospital Hill; Forty People Must Move A picturc that is familiar these days is to see people walking the streets in Murphy looking for places to live, and they are not be ing rewarded for all their walking. On March 25 nine families are supposed to vacate the houses on Old Hospital Hill, property form erly owned by Mrs. J. N. Hill and children which was purchased re cently by V. M. Johnson. While these families were told by Mrs. Hill several months ago that she planned to sell the property, they had not found any place, and when definitely told on the 15th of this month that Mr. Johnson would want possession on March 25 they really started searching every "nook and corner" in town. Mr. Johnson was out of town and could not be reached, but it is un derstood that he plans to remodel the old hospital and use it for a hotel, and to build tourist cabins where the house* now stand. The families who have to move Mr. and Mrs. William Fain anc four children. Mr. and Mrs. Free Christopher and three children Mr. and Mrs. Ray Barton and three children, Mr. and Mrs. Will Lancc and one child, Mrs. Edna Flemminj and one child, Mrs. Paul Scroggs Mr. and Mrs. Ed Brand and foui children, Mr. and Mrs Lee Hem bree and two children, and Mr. ant Mrs. Wes Garrett and several chil dren. Case Is President Of Business Men* Club T. A. Case was elected president V ot Murphy Business Men's club at a meeting held Tuesday evening at Henry House. E. H. Brumby was elected first vice-president and C. Iv. Freed, second vice-president. II. G. El kins, C. L. Alverson, Dr. J. R. Bell and R. S. Bault were elected new directors, to serve . three years. J. B. Gray, retiring first vice president. presided over the meet ing in the absence of Dr. W. A Hoover who had been called to' Cherryville on account of the death of his father. The club voted thai lesolutions of respect be sent the family. A. W. Mclvcr stated plans for se curing employment for returned veterans and requested the club's aid in this project. The proposed golf course for Murphy, sponsored by the club, was discussed by various members. It 1 was announced that more than $1,500 has been pledged on the golf course. I l; John Earwoodls Fatally Injured In Auto Accident John A. Earwood, 67, of An drews, was instantly killed about 2:30 o'clock last Friday morning when the automobile in which he was riding left the highway about two miles east of Andrews on U. S. Highway No. 19. Cline 'Tom) Chambers, said by II. H. Parker, night policeman ot Andrews to have been the driver of the automobile is being held in Cherokee county jail in default of [ $8,000 bond on charge of murder in connection with the accident. An inquest into the accident was conducted by Dr. Van Gorder, act ing Cherokee county coroner, at ! ^ndrews Friday afternoon. Officer Parker, who investigated I said the car left the highway, went i for some distance and landed in a | creek. . I Funeral services were held Sun , !day afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at Andrews Baptist church, with the I Lev. T. Earl Ogg, pastor, and the , Rev. J. Alton Morris of Murphy of ficiating. i He is survived by the widow: i one daughter. Mrs. Creek Bates of . Murphy: one son, Willard Earwood > of Struthers, Ohio: three sisters. . Mrs. Andy Luther of Andrews. . Mrs. Ida Queen of Mountain City. C a , and Mrs. Cora Hardin of Rob r binsville :and two brothers. Harlan Earwood of Ashevillo. and Oliver Karwood of Ac-worth. Ca. Mr. Earwood had been in tho lumber business for a number of \ cars, had built several roads and had been employed with the Forest service. Active pallbearers were nephews: flower girls were nieces. Honorary pallbearers were: John . Tatham. Bruce Bristol. Bill Teas, 1 Jess Mashburn. Zeb Conley. Wy - mer Conley. Zed Whitaker. Harve i Whitaker, Bill Whitaker. Lee Wat > kins. John Cooper. Ck"*e Almond, i Henry Hyatt. Fred Bates. Will i Ashe. Luke Ellis. Wilton Newman. - r B. Ferebee. Bob Allison and W. T. Fisher. Forsyth funeral home had charge b ol arrangements. Many Enlist In Regular Army The following Cherokee county men have recently enlisted in the regular army, according to Major Girard Haven: Alfred Lee Raxter, < on of James P. Raxter of General 1 1 Delivery, Andrews: Major Lee 1 1 Adams, son of Mrs Elizabeth Adams of Andrews: Randall J. , Carter, son of Mrs. Edna Carter of , Culberson; Charles L. Crawford, j son of Mrs. Mattie M. Crawford of Andrews; Walter G. Hogsed, broth r er of Miss Lillian Hogsed of An . drews; Max D. Raxter, son of Mrs. 1 D G. Raxter of Andrews: Mickey . W. West, son of Mrs. E. H. West of Andrews. SUNDAY SPEAKER ? Dr. Pat rick D. Miller, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of San An toinio, Texas, who will be the speaker on The Presbyterian Hour next Sunday morning March 24, at 8:30, E. S. T., over an independ ent network of southern radio sta tions. A native of Georgia, Dr. Miller studied for a time at the University of Georgia and was graduated from Davidson College in 1922. After completing his theological training in Union Theological Semi nary in Virginia, he was for a time in home mission work in his native state and later became Educational Secretary of Home Missions for the Southern Presbyterian Church. He became pastor of the First Presby terian Church in Raleigh, and after being there for six years was call ed to the present pastorate in 1941. Dr. Miller for some time was an editor of the "Presbyterian Sur vey" and is the author of "The Imperative of Home Missions". Davidson Cot'.ge conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Di vinity in 1933. The subject of Dr. Miller's ad dress next Sunday morning will be. "A Good Man." The program can be heard in this section over: WWNC. Asheville; WPTF, Raleigh: WSJS, Winston Salem- WSB. Atlanta: VVNOX, Knoxville; and WRVA. Richmond, at 8:30 a. m. Republicans To Hold Meeting A precinct meeting of Republi cans of Murphy will be held at Crisp's studio on Monday evening, March 25. at 7 o'clock. AH Re publicans in both precincts in Mur phy are invited to attend. Miss Elizabeth Gray visited Miss M$rt Padgett at Hayesville over the week-end. Ail' Traveler a! ^7 I FIFTY YEARS AGO, Mrs. Emilia Weaver, 87, of Brooklyn, N. Y? | crossed the Atlantic on a sailing ship to the United States from her native Denmark. The voyage took 21 days. Here she is pictured before she left LaGuardia Field in New York for a 3,518-mile flight to Copenhagen, which will take about SI hours. Mrs. Weaver, great grandmother at 15 children, ii on her way to visit two daughter*, four granddaughters, and lis great grandchildren. (International)
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