Hiwassee State Park
Discussed By Board
The State Board of Conservation
and Development, meeting in Bry
jon City at Fryemont Inn Monday
and Tuesday, studied plans for th?
taking of Hiwassee Dam village
a? a state park. It is proposed to
include funds for maintenance of
the park in the budget to be pre
sented to the Legislature in Janu
ary. for the next two-year period.
There are details to be worked
out with TV A in the leasing of the
property, but the committee inter
sted in this project plans to go
?ward with plans for acquisition
in early date.
group of Cherokee county
j. le interested in the state's
t; g over the site for a park, ap
p d before a special commit
tee the board Monday after
noo edging the support of the
cou ? the project. They were:
W. T. Teas of Andrews; H. Bueck.
C. R Freed, W. D. King, E. I..
Shields a. Miss Addie Mae Cooke
of Murp1 P. B. Ferebee, mem
ber of t?.c ard, presided over the
committe >eting.
Coppe ill Men
Entertai ' At
Lions' Meeting
Murphy Lions cl 'i was enter
tained with a pre m of stunts
conducted by Milla. Finch, Dal
Reynolds and Ed dleton of
Copperhill, Tenn., anc ime songs
by Porter <Smilin' Rei 'aper, ac
companied by Willard g.
The program leader was Harry
Bishop, who presented the guests
from Copperhill. H. Bueck intro
duced Mr. Raper and Mr. King.
James Kelly also was a guest of
Mr. Bueck.
Four-H Club
*r- ** ? _ *
Members Speak
At Club Meetings
During the first week in Octo
ber 4-11 club meetings were held
In the following places: Martin's
Creek. Peachtree, Ranger. Hiwas
see Dam and Murphy elementary
and high schools.
One of the features of these
meetings were talks made by Mil
dred Hendrix, Jerry Hall, Dorothy
Shields. Sherman Hampton, Mary
Farmer. Eddie Graham. Dollie Mar
tin and Carolyn Smith who attend
ed the 4-H Club Short Course in
Raleigh, district dress reviews,
dairy demonstration contests and
dairy shows. The purpose of these
talks was to try to impress upon
the other 4-H club girls and boys
the value of being 4-H club mem
bers and urging every boy and girl
who has become the age of 10 to
get into 4-H club work as soon as i
possible. Lemuel Goode. the 4-H I
club director; Miss Mary Cornwell, I
home agent, and Miss Lena Brown,
assistant home agent, attended
these meetings along with tne
visiting 4-H club members. i
The 4-H club members who have
been attending these meetings with
the agents were selected because
of their outstanding 4-H club work.
They are described as excellent
dub members, and cooperative,
having carried good club projects
and kept outstanding records.
rally day
The Rev. T. G. Tate has a.i
jounced the following services at
"e Presbyterian church Sunday;
Rally Day in the Sunday school
0 o eloek; preaching service ai
o clock on the subject, "The
uty of Self Examination", folio at
l by the communion of the Lords
supper.
h?I?Uns Pe?P,e*' meetings will be
. at w'") Preaching serv
at 7 30 o'clock on the subject
ing '' ^'rnlanenctl of Love's Offer
REVIVAL to begin
c Rfv. Ham Coffee wil begin
cJ?val meeting at Old Martins
. . ' ?hurch, Sunday night, Oc
to *u ,3' Everybody is invitod
10 attend,
Be" at,on<lt'd the meet
tjon? ' e District Dental associa
te Ashevil|e this week. From
he went to Greer, S. C , to
wthk H Rob'nson who returned
w,lh h'm to Murphy.
County Teachers
ToAttendN.C.EA.
Meeting, Ashevilie
More than 1,500 teachers, prin
cipals, and superintendents will
? assemble at the Lee H. Edwards
High School in Ashevilie, on Oc
tober 11, for the 24th Annual Con
vention of the Western District ol
the NCEA. These educational
leaders will represent the follow
ing counties: Avery, Buncombe,
Burke, Cherokee, Clay, Graham.
Haywood, Henderson, Jackson,
Macon, Madison, McDowell, Mitch
ell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Trar.
sjlvania, and Yancey.
Those from here expecting to
attend are: H. Bueck, Carr Hoop
cr, Miss Kate Hayes, and Mis
Buel Adams. Walter Thomas oi
Hiwassee Dam, and all the faculiy
at Andrews are expecting to at
tend.
Thomasine Underwood of the
Lee H. Edwards High School,
president of the Western District
of the NCEA, will preside over the
three general sessions scheduled
for Friday, October 11, at 11 a. m..
2 p. m., and 8 p. m.
Charles W. Phillips of Greens
boro, NCEA President, will ad
dress the morning session. Clyde
A. Erwin, State Superintendent of
Instruction; Nathan Yelton, Sec
retary of Teachers and State Em
ployees of Retirement System; C
C. Marr, Chairman of the State
Federal Aid Committee; and Claua
Grigg of Albemarle, chairman of
the NCEA Legislative Committee;
will be the speakers for the gen
eral session on Friday afternoon.
The Honorable Clyde R. Hoey, past
Governor of North Carolina and
now United States Senator, will I
address the Friday night session at |
8 o'clock. I
The various divisional and de
partmental meetings have been
scheduled during the afternoon
Meeting at 3:15 p. m. will be the
following groups: agriculture teach
ers, audio-visual education teach
ers, Bible teachers, business edu
cation teachers, Council for Social
Studies, Department of Health,
physical education and recreation,
Department of Vocational Guid
ance, district principals, dramatic
art teachers, elementary principals.
English teachers, grammar grade
j teachers, home economics teach
| ers, Latin teachers, mathematics
I teachers, modern language teach
ers, music teachers, primary teach
ers, school librarians, science
teachers, and trades and industrial
education teachers.
j Meeting at 4:15 p. m. will be the
I Division" of United Principals,
Division of Superintendents. Divis
I ion of Higher Education, and the
Division of Classroom Teachers.
A dinner meeting of the local
unit Presidents of the Western
District has been arranged for G
o'clock in the Pine Room of the
S & W Cafeteria. The program for
this meeting will be a discussion
of the work being carried on by
the local units. NCEA President
Charles W. Phillips, will preside
over the meeting.
The District convention will ad
journ at the close of the third gen
eral session Friday night.
General officers for the Western
District are Thomasine Under
wood of Asheville, president:
Henry M. Davis of Hendersonville,
vice president; and Mrs. George
B. Culbreth of Andrews, secretary.
DISTRICT PRESIDENT ? Miss
Thomassine Underwood, president
of the Western District of the
NCEA, who will preside over the
three general sessions scheduled
for Friday, Oct. 11, at the 24th an
nual convention of the district at
Lee H. Edwards high school in
Asheville. Several teachers from
Cherokee county are expected to
attend.
Missionary Union
Meets Tuesday At
Bryson City
Bryson City Division Woman's
Missionary Union, auxiliary to
North Carolina Baptist State Con
vention, will meet at Cherokee
Baptist Church Tuesday, Oct. 15.
This division, which meets an
nually, includes six associations:
Tuckaseegee, Tennessee River,
Macon, Cherokee, Western North
Carolina and West Liberty, and
embraces the following counties:
Macon, Jackson. Clay, Graham.
Cherokee, and Swain.
Mrs. C. M. Warren, superintend
ent, will preside over the session.
She has planned an interesting
program. Speakers include Mrs
David Boyd, southwide represent
ative; Miss Ruth Provence, state
executive secretary; and Mrs. John
Wacaster, state field worker.
Wm. A. Champion
Dies At Age 87
William Albert Champion, 87.
for many years a resident of Mur
phy, died in a Morganton hospital
Saturday morning, October 5, at
9 o'clock.
Born in Fannin county, Ga.. in ,
1859, he moved to Murphy in 1S02. |
leaving here in 1926. He was a 1
member of Murphy Presbyterian j
church.
Funeral services were held Mon
day afternoon at 3 o'clock at |
Townson funeral chapel, with the (
Rev. T. G. Tate officiating. Burial
was in the old Methodist cemetery
Pallbearers were: P. C. Hyatt,
F. E. Stiles, Broaddus Dockery
Hayes Dockery, T. J. Mauney and
Frank Ellis.
Surviving are four daughters:
Mrs. William Garrett and Mrs
Lillian Gheen of Murphy, Mrs
Fred E. Wood of Knoxville, Tenn..
and Mrs. Harry Walker of Los
Angeles, Calif.; four grand chil
dren, Louise Gheen of Murphy,
Fred Wood, Jr.. and Scott Wood of
Knoxville, and Pearlie Ruth
Champion of Detroit, Mich.: and
two great-grandchildren. Margaret
Dailey of Oak Ridge. Tenn., and
Ralph Dailey in service at Oki
nawa.
BOX SUPPER
A box Supper will be held at
Peachtree Methodist church Sat
urday. October 12. at 7:30 P. M.
Everyone is invited to attend.
Fair To Be Operated
For County People
The board of Cherokee county
commissioners at its regular
monthly meeting Monday, voted to
take over, with the Town of Mur
phy the management of the Chero
kee county fair and operate it tcr
the people of the county, the? pro
ceeds to be used for buildings and
repairs to the grounds.
The following fair executive
committee was appointed: Lawson
Lunsford, chairman; Harold Well?.
W. D. Townson, W. S. Dickey, and
Mrs. J. W. Dyer. This committee,
sponsored by the county commiss
ioners and town, will look after
the management of the fairs in fu
ture.
Last year, Murphy Lions club
sponsored the fair, and this year
the Joe Miller Elkins post of the
American Legion.
ATTEND FONTANA MEET
The following from this county
attended the meeting of the West
ern North Carolina Associated com
munities at Fontana Thursday of
last week: Mr. and Mrs. H. Bueck.
C. R. Freed, Miss Addie Mae
Cooke, W. T. Teas, and P. B. Ferc
beo.
Newspaper Essay
Contest To Be
Conducted
In connection with the observ
ance of National Newspaper week,
October 1-8 The Cherokee Scout
and the North Carolina Press As
sociation launched a county and
state-wide essay contest on Lhe
subject, "A Free Press, Voice of
Freedom, Guardian of Liberty."
All high school students in the
county are eligible to enter the
contest. Prizes will be awarded
the county winners, by this paper
Prizes of $5.00 and $3.00 will be
| awarded to the winners of the
first and second places. The first
prize winning essay will be enter
ed in the State contest wher j it
will compete for the first award
ol a $100.00 bond and the second
of $50.00.
The essays should not be over
1,500 words in length, and the
deadline for entering them is De
cember 1. All should be type
written if possible and sent to this
paper before that time.
It was pointed out that there
must be as many as five entries
from the county before county
prizes can be awarded.
Regular Services
Being Held At
Episcopal Church
The Rev. A. Rufus Morgan,
rector, will celebrate the Holy
communion on Sunday, October
27, at 11 a. m., in the Church of
the Messiah, Protestant Episcopal
church in Murphy. Regular week
ly services are being held at the
church at 11 a. m. on Sundays, fol
lowing church school.
Weekly services were begun in
the little gray church across from
Murphy Carnegie Library on Sun
day, September 29. by Mission
Sister Virginia Hetherington of the
Church army.
Sister Hetherington wil conduct
the worship on Sunday, October
13, using a shortened form of the
Order of Daily Morning prayer,
followed by a talk on "The Founda
tion of Our Faith".
On Sunday, October 20, there
will be a special observance of na
tion-wide Youth Sunday. The
people of the community are in
vited to attend these services.
Mrs. J. H. McCall has returned
from a ten days' visit in Ashevillc
with her son, Dr. W. H. McCall and
Mrs. McCall.
Three Groups Form
New Organization
An organization to be known as#
the VV. V. L. Club was completer!
Tuesday evening. The club is to
be comprised of members of
Woodmen of the World, Veterans
of Foreign Wars, and American
Legion.
At a joint meeting of the throe
organizations a week ago a tenta
tive organization was set up, and
a plan was laid for further organi
zation. A committee headed by
I). M. Reese was appointed by
Richard A. Howell, who Haj 'CvS
ed President of the Club/to <iraU
a set of by-laws. The by-laws
were adopted at the latter meet
ing, which provided for a board of
directors, including the president,
first and second vice-presidents
and the treasurer and three other
board members to be elected or
appointed ? one each by each of
the three organizations participat
ing. L. D. Schuyler was elected
first vice-president, W. A. Brooks
second vice-president, and Hugh
Hensley, secrctary-treasurer, and
the three other members of the
board are yet to be selected by the
respective organizations.
The objects and purposes of the
club are to further and promote
the interests and welfare of the I
three organizations, to raise funds |
to meet their expenses of hall rent, {
to provide entertainment and rec
reation for its members and spon- j
sor, promote and coordinate the
activities of the three organizations.
Any member in good standing of
either of the three organizations is
eligible for membership in the
club. They have rented the base
ment formerly occupied by Chero
kee Scout, under Davidson & Mc
I\er's store for their meeting place.
Executive Secretary Harry Cald
well, whose return to North Caro
lina brings back a man with the
unique distinction of having won
recognition as a crusader without
also being tagged a radical. Cald
well, ex-four times master of the
State Grange, resigned this week
a;, secrtary-trcasurer of the Ameri
can Plant Food Council in Wash
ington. IX C., to take over the exe- ,
cutive secretary post of the North |
Carolina Good Health Association
F. F. A. Chapter
Organized At
Murphy School
The Murphy high school Future |
Farmers of America chapter held
its organization meeting on Wed
nesday, October 9, in the scnool
cuditoriuiv. Thirty-two boys were
i a etc nt v v -
The advisor of the chapter is the
agriculture teacher here, Carlyle
Stroud.
The following officers were
elected: President, Donald Mash
burn; vice-president, Jerry Hall;
secretary, Sherman Hampton;
treasurer, Marion Rogers; reporter,
Walter Maxey; watch dog, A. J.
Rowland.
The following committee chair
men were elected: advisory, Hoov
er Mills; athletics, Floyd Arro
v\ood; finance, J. H. Kilpatrick,
and program, James Myers.
C of C Starts
Membership Drive !
Andrews Chamber of Commerce
is now conducting a membership
drive, and to date 50 members have
enrolled. This week only the busi
ness houses have been contacted,
and next week, individuals will be
solicited. The individual member
ships are desired as well as busi
r.es houses.
The membership committee is
composed of the following: Mrs.
W. W. Ashe, chairman. Mrs. Claude
Dorsey, Jack Herbert and Herman
West.
Mrs. T. A. Case, with Mrs. Bon
ner Ray of Waynesville and an
other Waynesville friend, left Mon
day for an extended motor trip
which will include New Orleans,
points in Texas and possibly Cali
fornia.
Rev. R. L. Young New
Methodist Minister
SUNDAY SPEAKER ? Dr. Ben
R. Lacy, Jr.. president of Union
Theological Seminary, Richmond,
Virginia, will be the speaker on the
Presbyterian Hour next Sunday
morning, October 13, at 8:30 A. M.,
E S. T., over an independent net
work of southeastern radio sta
tions.
A North Carolinian by birth, Dr.
Lacy graduated from Davidson
College. Following his graduation
from Davidson College he was a
warded a Rhodes' scholarship and
spent three years at the English
University of Oxford, where he
received a B. A. degree in 1910.
He took his theological training at
Union Theological Seminary, in
Richmond and was awarded the
Hoge Fellowship upon his gradu
ation in 1913. After serving two
churches in North Carolina, Dr.
Lacy became a chaplain in the
United States army in 1917 and
served with distinction in France
throughout the war. After a pas
torate of seven years in the Cen
tral Presbyterian Church, Atlanta,
Georgia, he was called to be presi
dent and professor of homiletics
in Union Theological Seminary in
192C. Duke University awarded
him the degree of Doctor of Di
vinity, and Hampden-Sydney Col
lege gave him the degree of Doctor
of Laws. Dr. Lacy is the author of
"Revival in the Midst of the
Years." The subject of his address
next Sunday morning will be
"Growing a Life."
The program can be heard in
this section over: WWNC Asheville
WPTF, Raleigh; WSJS, Winston
Salem- WSB, Atlanta; WNOX,
Knoxville; and WRVA, Richmond,
at 8:30 a. m. EST.
Attends Agents'
Meeting, Graham
Miss Mary Cornwell attended the
Western District Home Agents' as
sociation which was held at Snow
Bird Lodge in Graham county last
week-end. Miss Ann Denson Priest
president of the association. Miss
Charlotte Mobley of the Duke
Power company, and delegates
from all the western counties were
present.
Miss Helen John Wright of Char
lotte, home agent of Mecklenburg
county, was the principal speaker.
CHURCH MEETING
A called meeting of Hiwassee
church will be held on Saturday.
October 19. at Bates Creek church
All members of Hiwassee church
are requested to be present.
Rotarians Addressed
By Inspector Tibbett
ANDREWS ? The speaker he
fore the Andrews Rotary Club at
its meeting here on Oetober 3.
was Inspector Melvin A. Tibbett
of Miami. Fla. Mr. Tibbett ranks
second in the Miami police depart
ment in which organization he has
been since 1921.
Mr. Tibbett described the meth
ods used by the Miami fire depart
ment in fire prevention. He stated
that the city has a population in
the summer of two hundred and
ten thousand, while the winter
population of greater Miami is
more than one-half million. The
Miami fire department was among
the first in the nation to install the
latest and most modern fire equip
mcnt including two-way radio and
frequency modulation. He de
scribed how a fire engine could be
racing to the scene of a fire at
considerable hazard to the firemen
and the general public when a
radio message would be received
that the fire was under control.
The engine would slow its speed
and return to the fire station.
Mr. Tibbett has been coming to
Andrews for the past five vears
each fall. He was a guest of Wade
A. Rcece as also was Alden Coward
of Murphy. Mr. Coward was at
one time president of the local
Club and was for a considerable
time the local manager of the A
& P store here.
> At the Western North Carolina
Methodist conference held in Ashe
ville last week, the Rev. Raiph
Taylor, who has served Murphy
First Methodist church for the past
four years, was assigned to Cen
tral Methodist church at Canton.
The Rev. R. L. Young, who last
held a pastorate at Hickory Grove
and for several months was an
army chaplain, was assigned to be
come pastor of the local church.
Other assignments in this county
remained the same as last year.
The Rev. C. C. Washam was re
turned to Andrews and the Rev. C
A Smith to Murphy Circuit. The
Rev J. E. Styles was assigned to
Hiawassee.
Mrs. Abernathy
Is Taken By Death
At The Age Of 79
Mrs. Catherine Victoria Aber
nathy, 79, widow of Dr. Jacob F.
Abernathy, died at her home here
at two o'clock Tuesday morning
following a long illness.
Funeral services were held Wed
nesday afternoon at two o'clock
at the First Methodist church of
which she was a member, with
the Rev. Ralph Taylor officiating.
Burial was in Sunset cemetery.
Ivie funeral home was in charge of
arrangements.
Surviving are one son, Boyd
Abernathy of Lenoir; three daugh
ters, Mrs. Josephine Phaup, Mrs.
Coy Johnson, and Mrs. Elizabeth
Adams, all of Murphy; nine grand
children and one great-grandchild
Active pallbearers were: Earl
Abernathy, John Brittain, John
Posey, Jr., W. H. Brandon, Bill
Gentry and Horry Sword.
Honorary pallbearers were: L. E.
Bayless, P. H. Sword, J. M. Hughes,
J. B. Gray, Dr. R. S. Parker, J. D.
Mallonee. Walter O.
Bates, Dr. Harry Miller, J. W.
Davidson, Edwin Winchester, W.
E Studstill, R. C. Mattox, Joe
Axley. Paul Hyatt, Sam Davidson,
C. W. Savage, Morris Moore, Neil
Davidson. Henry Hyatt, Porter
Fain, L. A. Frasch and Sheridan
Dickey.
Overseas Gifts
May Be Mailed
Oct. 15 -Nov, 15
Christmas packages for Army
personnel overseas may be mailed
without request slips between Oc
tober 15 and November 15, Major
George F. Heinz, postal officer of
the Seventh Army announced to
day.
That gives relatives and friends
o4 the GIs a month longer to mail
packages to insure their arrival
overseas by Christmas Day than
was the case during the war. Major
Heinz stated, due to the great re
duction of soldiers in foreign fields
since the shooting stopped.
Only one package may be mailed
by any one person to any individ
ual overseas in any one week dur
ing the mailing period specified.
The weight limit per package is
70 pounds and may measure not
to exceed 100 inches in length and
girth combined.
For Army personnel sent over
seas shortly before or subsequent
to November 15. packages will be
accepted up to December 10, but
the sender must present a change
of address card from the addressee
received subsequent to October 30
and these packages must be mark
ed "Christmas Parcel". Only one
such parcel will be accepted from
any one individual.
A change from the war years is
noted in the fact that parcels may
be insured or registered, but they
must be securely packed or wrap*
ped to be acceptable.
No liquor, matches, combus
tibles, ammunition, revolvers or
other firearms may be mailed and
r.o perishables.
Among those from Murphy at
tending the Western North Caro
lina conference in Asheville last
week were: Mr. and Mrs. H. G.
Elkins, Mrs. J. H. McCall, Miss
Josephine Heigh way, and Mr*. T.
A. Case.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Franklin and
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Richardson
spent Tuesday in Chattanoga.