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I LASS LEA DKRS ? Shown above are the valedictorian and sa 1 n t <>rian of the 1949 Graduating class of Murphy high school. On the !<*ft is Miss Mary Hayes Farmer, valedictorian. and right. Miss Sue Bedford salutatorian. These two students made almost the same average during their four years of high school. Miss Cobb Speaks To Woman's Club Beatrice Cobb, distinguish- i ed Morganton woman, was guest -pwk.-r at the Tuesday evening dinner meeting of Murphy Worn 2n's club in the dining room of First Methodist church She took members of the club, their : husbands and guests present on .r,p around the world through her verbal description of her trip to 20 countries by clipper last fall. ' . ? i ? ? showing of slides o< pic ture> she took as she travelled. M . I'obb. who publishes the 1 Mur:a:ttoon News-llerald. is j : ,m rn-nt in the Democratic party I, [ ^rved as National ( om nv.'.teeweman from North Carolina j tii. -e\ ral years, and is secretary- 1 ,rP?ivr ?f the North Carolina I i res- i>ciation,' was accompani- j td le a round-the-world trip by Mrs i orinne Cook of Texas They travelled wiui the status of I war c ^-respondents and were ! hereby able to visit many places that otherwise would have been dosed U) them. The couple left New York by dip; first stopping in Newfound- . lanu and then London. She told , of h i one prominent English . ,skiHl them to share with | 1 hem an of "Spam which they !?:,.( !, n saving for a special oc ea- ' indicating that even now good mk1 is scarce there She i 1 ? flying the lift to Berlin and the destruction she saw They visied Hitler's retreat and love * ? m the Bavarian Alps, and ? '! showed pictures of the moun ta and the super highways Hi .r built with Jewish labor Shi- was told that probably every it feet of tile highway was the bu: .1 place of a Jew who fell in racks from disease or exhaus t and was buried on the spot n the cement. The Prague was the only place :u re they wenf behind the Iron curtain". Among the other countries of fcumpo they visited were Italy. Greece, and Turkey. They went into Syria, visiting Damascus, and K-jypt., visiting Cairo and along the \':lt In Cairo they found much i n rest. They visa ted Iran and l:ulia. spending sometime in Delhi . nd New Delhi and also visited Calcutta, where they had no desire to tarry. In Siam they spent M>metime in Bangkok. She de scribed Siam as the most charming place she visited and said she hop ed to return there sometime. The Philippines. China. Japan and the Hawaiian Islands were on the itinerary. Following a visit in California, Miss Cobb returned home three months after leaving on the trip. She said that one thing that travel does is to make one appreciate his own country ? its beauty and freedom ? 'and wid ens ones vision of world needs. Miss Cobb was presented by Miss Addie Mae Cooke, in whose ho-me she visited while in Murphy. Miss Cooke also introduced another Kuest, Mrs. John W. Alleyn. sister of Miss Cobb, of Sheffield. Ala. Mrs. L. W. Shields, retiring president, presented new officers for next year: Mrs. Harry Miller, president; Mrs. Joe Hwmttton. sec retary; Mrs. R. S. Bault. vice Prvsident; and Mrs. C. W. Savage, treasurer. The cUrt) voted to cooperate wttli S. L. Kisselburg Is Badly Injured S L. Kisselburg of Culberson was seriously injured Sunday when an unidentified person ran into the back of his car near his home, causing it to run up an em bankment and overturn, throwing him onto the concrete road His head was severely cut. He is re ported to be resting very well at Petrie hospital. Bault Home Is Damaged By Fire 'J he home of Mr. and .Mrs. Rob ert S. Bault was badly damaged by fire which was discovered about 2 p. m. Sunday near the ceiling on the back porch Mrs. Bault and her brother had gone upstairs to the storage room when they noticed smoke. They hurried down stairs, and found flames bursting out on the porch. Due to the efforts of the volun tary fire department the fire was soon under control and the house was saved Damage estimated at $2,000 or more, was confined to the kitchen, dining room, breakfast room and living room. The house is <>i brick veneer, ; and tin* fannh had occupied it only since March 12. There was in surance on the house. Thompson Lists Special Services A decoration service will be held at Antioch Baptist church Antioch. CJa oil Sunday. May 29 Services will last all day and lunch will be sc -ved at noon. The Rev. .1 Alton Morris. pastor J of First liapti -! church. " lurphy. will bring the 11:30 message. At , 2 p. m. the Rev C. C Boington. I pastor of First Baptist church. Blairsville G.i will speak, an nounces the p.i- >?r. !he Rev. ( J Thompson. Homemakers Elect Officers At a recent meeting ot Hiwasscc Dam Future Homemakers the fol lowing officers were elected: Lois ! Allen, president \lma Cole, vice president: J u I i ^ Stiles, secretary: | Betty Jean Verner. treasurer: June Mashburn reporter; Donna Mae Rose, son- leader. DECORATION IWD SINGING Decoration service and a singing will be held at Friendship Baptist : Church No 2 on Sunday. May 22. | announces W H. Collins, who says the public is invited. Miss Mary Corn well spent the ! week -end with her father. Sam J Cornwell . and sister. Muss Ada Corn well in Hartsville. Tenn. I [the town and the Regal club in I sponsoring a clean-up campaign in i Murphy May 23-24. i Monday-Tuesday Are Clean-Up Days Town To Furnish Trucks To Remove Rubbish Collected Next Monday and Tuesday will he clean-up days in Murphy. The Regal club is sponsoring the event with the cooperation of the town and civil- organizations. Mayor .Veil Snectl ias promised the town's .-upport 1) furnishing trucks to pick up tra li and rubbisih from the stores and homes of the commun ity. and ca ng upon the people of the community to keep their pre mises. a '.I Meant lots and public propel !> c an. Murphy Woman's club on Tues- 1 day night voted to cooperate with ' the Regal club and the town in sponsoring the drive. Members of the Regal ,club. of j which Mrs J. H. McCall is presi dent. are urging that all residents in Murphy join them in helping to make Murphy a clean and at tractive town. They request that during the two clean-up days next j week everybody make a special effort to clean up their lawns, back' yards, and vacant lots, cut grass and weeds and remove all unsight ly rubbish. They also ask that the town clean the streets and encourage the citizenship to re frain from throwing paper and trash on the streets and other people's property, and that the county cooperate by making the public property here clean and attractive. In addition to the general clean up campaign the club is urging the citizens of the community to plant flowers to beautify their own homes and premises and to help j make the town as a whole beauti- ^ ful for local people and visitors to . enjoy. They suggest that many . vacant spots in the business dis- J trict could be beautified with a few flowers. Cherokee Gets $1,478,000 For Roads $128,000 For Schools If Issues Pass 1 1 the voters of North Carolina^ pass the road and school bond is ? ues in the election on .June 4. Cherokee county will receive $1. 47 1!. 000 from the road bonds and j $128 843 from the school bonds.) in addition to the $2.^0.000 already i-l>p roved by the state. K \ Wood, chairman of the Cherokee county Board of Com missioners. who is at home now recovering from a heart attack and mumps, says that he hopes Cherokee county will go at least 90 percent for the bonds. "It is the only salvation for school build ings and roads here." he says. Abe Hembree. chairman of the Board of Elections, says that he believes Cherokee county will go at least 75 percent for the bond issues. The road bond bill for the state i for $200 000.000. and the school bond bill for $25,000,000 If ap proved. the $1,478,000 for Chero kee county roads would be spent for secondary and farm-to-market roads and eventually would bring a paved road to within one and a half mile of practically every family in the county. In order to help finance the new road pro gram. an additional tax of one cent a gallon will be put on gaso line. This new tax would start January 1, 1950. From the $25,000,000 appropriat ed by the State legislature for schools. Cherokee county gets $250,000 for general school build ing improvemen' or new buildings and the addition. ' .*i'!8.843 vcould come to tUe co';.& i ^|? iiir ' J me purposes if the bond issue i^ ap proved The latter figure is ar rived at on the per pupi' basis. Andrews Finals Start On Friday ANpREWS ? The commencement * season for the Andrews City schools will be definitely launch ed beginning on Friday night with the presentation of the annual senior play, "Love is Too Much Trouble". It has a cast of five boys jnd nine girls. Miss Jean Christy is director. On Sunday evening. May 22 in the school auditorium, the annual Baccalaureate sermon will be preached by Dr. E .1 Coltrane president of Brevard College. Dr. Coltrane. a well-known educator, and a former district governor of I Kiwanis International, lias never appeared before in Andrews. Final graduating exercises will take place on Friday evening. May 27. when diplomas will bo award ed to thirty-six graduates. Prizes' and awards will be made at that ! time, and short talks will be made' by Howard Holder, class va Iodic- j torian; Gordon Lee Butler, out standing senior, and Betty Ruth Brown, salutatorian. The commencement address will be delivered to the senior class by Senator L .B. Nichols. Senator, Nichols is a former principal of the high school here, and also for several years ho was chairman of the board of trustees of the An drews unit. > I jMcClure To Speak At Maltbv Church i i Tho Rev. Leonard McCIure will preach at Maltby Bai>tist church on Sunday. May 22. at 7 o'clock. There will be with him a Cherokee Indian quartet, who will sing. HIM. IS ILL Thomas J Hill, an attorney formerly of Murphy and Greens boro. is seriously ill in Florida. After Sunday. Miay 22. he will be at the home of has brother-in-law, Bruce Fisher, of Andrews. TO BRING I1ACCALAUREATE SERMON? Ui' K. J. Coltrane who will preach <ho baccalaureate ser mon at Andi\ as high school on Sunday evenin; May 22. at 8 o' clock. Dr. Coltrane is president of Bre\ard col. -ge. ' 3 TO MAKE XDDRESS ? Senator L. B Nichols who will make the oommencemeni address to the graduating class of Andrews high school on Friday evening, May 27, 1 M 8 o'clock in the sdhool audi ' torium. I Distinguished Speakers Are On District Program SPEAKS HERE ? Miss Iris Davenport. woman's editor of Southern Agriculturist, who will be one of the guest speakers at the meeting oi District One of Home Demonstration clubs here at First Methodist church next Wednesday. Late M. F. Weaver Entitled To Many Decorations .Congressman Monroe M. Redden has notified the family of Lieut. Maxwell P. Weaver, who was kill ed in service in World War II. through a letter to Frank Forsyth, that Weaver was entitled to the following decorations: Distinguished Flying Cross. Air Medal and Oak Leaf Cluster to the Air Medal. Purple Heart which already has been sent to his moth er). Good Conduct Medal. Ameri can Campaign Menial. World War 11 Victory Medal. Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal. Distinguished Unit Emblem, and Marksman Badge with 45-ca liber pistol These decorations will be sent to the family First Service Held In Truett Memorial Church The first service was held in the Truett Memorial church in Hayes ville on Sunday with State Baptist Executive Secretary. M A Muggins of Raleigh, .is speaker Following the service a picnic dinner was served. Approximately one hun dred people were bountifully fed by the ladies of the church. The church ;?t this time is far irom complete, and it is esti mated that $25,000.00 more will be re quired to complete the building. The new building is an imposing edifice The Rev. L. V Smith is the pastor. Following the luncheon an in formal meeting was held with several members of the church, the pastor. General Board Members. Rev. J. A Morris of Murphy and I 1. B. Hudson of Andrews, and Pey ton I vie moderator of the Western North Carolina association. The ' purpose of the meeting was to dis cuss further development of the Dr. George Truett homestead as a shrine, and also ways and means ' of securing additional funds for | the Truett Memorial church. | Dr. Huggins w as accompanied by I the Rev. M. O. Alexander who i holds a pastorate in Robeson I county. They were enroute to I Oklahoma City where the South j ern Baptitf convention was schedul , ed to convene May 18 POSTPONED The dedication service of Free Methodist church wtrioh was pre viously announced for "May 29 has been put off indefinitely. '' Miss Iris Davenport, woman's {editor of Southern Agriculturist. Na.'hville. Tenn.. will be a guest speaker .< the annual meeting of District No. One Federation of i Heme Demonstration clubs at i First Methodist ehureh. Murphy I on Wednesday, May 25. Miss j Davenport is an outstanding | careerist 4n Home Economics and j recently was ehosen one of the top seven Southern women. Other outstanding speakers will include the following from Raleigh: ! Miss Ruth Current, state home agent: Mrs. Pauline Hotchkiss , Picrce. district home agent; John W Goodman, assistant director of j the North Carolina Extension Ser- j \ ice; and R. YV Shoffner, district farm agent. Mrs Paul Sudderth of the Peaehtree club, district president, will preside, and Mrs. Verlin Reese of Clay county, district sec retary. will serve in that capacity. The meeting will begin at 10 j o'clock in the morning and will continue through an afternoon | [ session. ' 1 The district is composed of the , 1'jllowing counties: Cherokee, Clay j and Graham, and representatives from each of those counties will j report on 4-11 club and home ! demonstration club work. Mrs. Merle D?vis. Munr' \ ciub, i v ill give i he devotional Mrs. ? Dock Sudderth of Peaehtree will serve as organist for the day. and present a fifteen minute arrange ment of hymns preceding the pro gram Welcome will be extended by Mrs. Clyde .VlcNa-bb. president i of Cherokee County Council: Neil Sneed. Mayor of Murphy, and i Hobart McKeever. attorney, for J Cherokee county: and Mrs. T. A. I Case. District president for Worn- ! an's Clubs, for her organization, j Spec ial music will be featured ; from Clay and Graham counties. J Miss Mary Cornwell. local home demonstration agent, states that all club women and any others interested in home demonstration | club work are invited. A pot luck ! dinner will be served in the church | basement at noon. Miss Davenport's lecture, which j will be in the afternoon, will be j on the topic "Harmony in the ' i, ? I Home . A native of North Carolina. [ Miss Davenport went to Southern ' Agriculturist in 1942 as Associate | Woman's Editor and was made Woman's Editor in January of 1946. A graduate of the Univer sity of Georgia, sfht* earned her Master's degree at Columbia Uni- j ' versity. then continued her studies ' at Paris. France, and at Louisiana State University. Inaugurating her Home Economic work as a teacher, she soon became head of the Home Economics Department at Georgia State Normal, furthered her pro pram with Extension wx>rk in (Continued on Page 5> Request For Wheat Acreage Must Be Made All operators of farms on which wheal was not seeded for harvest in any of the years 1947, 1948 or 1949. but on which wheat will be seeded for harvest in 1950, must request, in terms of a specific acreage, a 1950 wheat allotment, if an allotment subsequently is to be established for such farm. The requested 1950 wheat acre age allotment must be submitted in writing by the owner or opera tor to the County Committee at the AAA office. Lands Committee To Hear Pleas For Park Improvement The Public Lands Committee of the I S. House of Representatives, numbering approrimately 25. will spend three days this week in Western North Carolina, on an inspection trip through the Smoky Mountain National Park and the Blue Ridge Parkway On Saturday morning at 10 o' clock a public hearing will be held at the courthouse in Asheville. for the committee to hear representa tives front ' ij-iy nVrest in this section disi.it-* the r for 'im provements in the Parte and the completion of the Parkway. Details of the trip were arrang ed in Washington by Congressman Monroe M Redden, who is a mem ber of the committee. Plans for the hearing Saturday are being ar ranged by Charles Ray. chairman of the North Carolina Parks Com mission. and Percy B. Ferebee, president of estern North Caro lina Associated Communities. Several people from this county are expected to attend The court house will be closed all day Satur day. as many of the county offi cials will be among those going to Asheville. Taylors Injured In Auto Wreck Mr and Mrs. Edgar Taylor who live near Suit, had their oar crowded off the highway Sunday, and were brought to Petrie hospital, where Mr. Taylor was found to be critically injured, having a fractur ed pelvis and other injuries. Mrs. Taylor was not so severely injur ed. . Baseball Team To Play First Game The Murphy baseball team will have its first game of the season I Sunday. May 22. at 2:30 p. m.. j when they will play Hayeswille on | the Murphy field. "Shag ' Hunt will be on the mound for Murphy. Mrs . Sarah A. Tweed Is 107 Years Old Mrs. Sarah Ann Tweed of Brass ' town, mother of Mrs. B L. Fox o<f ' Murphy was 107 years old last Saturday. She was born May 14. 1842. on Little Pine Creek in Madison County, the daughter of ? John and Mollie YVorley Payne. She was married to Joshua ' Tweed of Marshall and is the ' mother of seven children, five of whom are living. She was very energetic in earlier years, and was an excellent cook. She has been a meimber of Little Pine Creek Baptist Church si race childhood She often relates incidents oC the i War between the States, wliach ^he remembers vividly. I Her children are Lorenzo Tweed of Little Pino Creek, Blueher ; Tweed of Jamestown. R. I., Mrs. | Hannah Farmer of Sandy Mush in Buncombe County. Mrs. Fox of i Murphy, and Zeb Tweed otf Brass | town with whom she has made her home for a number of years. She ! has 23 grandchildren. 30 great grandchildren, 19 great - great | grandchildren, and 13 great ngreat great grandchildren. Mrs. Tweed has been confined to iher bed for the pas* five months. With her on her birthday anniver sary were her daughters. Mrs. Farmer, Mrs. Fox and her son, Zeb.
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