VACATION .. ft* Mountain* emit PROMOTING MURPHY AND ANDREWS Visit Our Schools This Week Needs Of County Farit* ~s To Be Studied For Senate VOLUME 62?NUMBER 18 MURPHY. NORTH CAROLINA THUR&, NOVEMBER IS, 1982 J* ??ELVE PAGES THIS WEEK Prizes Totaling Over $1,000 Are Offered Shoppers Over 11,000 in prizes will J>e given away in Murphy during the special Murphy Trade Week starting Monday, Dec. I, and ending Saturday, Dec. 6, when one $500 L'. S. Savings Bond and live $100 bonds are given away plus other gifts, a special commit tee of the Chamber of Commerce announced today. The $900 bond will be the weeks grand pne to be given during the drawing held Saturday. The other bonds will be awarded during daily drawings with one $100 bond being given away each day of the week. Drawings for the prize awards will be made on the Murphy Square. Customers shopping in the town during the special week will get a ticket with each $1 pur chase made in a store cooperating in the Trade Week. ! The tickets will be mixed to gether at the Square each day and the drawings held. The customers will hold stubs of the tickets so that they csn claim their prises. Other awards will include spe cial prizes offered by cooperating stores. The big week here win be kick ed oft with a Santa Ola us Parade Monday, Dec. 1. The parade will include floats, bands and a special section for children and their pets. I PET SECTION The child and pet showing the best combination will receive a prize The award will not be de termined by the breed or type of pet officials said. Three schools in the section. Murphy, Andrews and Hiwaasee Dam, have been offered $10 each to be applied to their floats. \ The Christmas theme will be carried out during the entire week. Stores will be decorated for the Christmas season and the streets will carry holiday trimm ings. I Christmas trees will be erected or the islands of the Square. I Police Dept Has j New Headquarters The Murphy Police Department has moved Into Its new headquar ters on Valley t River St., giving the department a much needed point to operate from, Town Clerk Bu'"?r Bayless said. The new office, between Evans ?V'ltor Oo. and Cherokee Cafe, I s two rooms and is still under --oln.2 Interior repairs. Colore the headquarters was op-ned, the department had only an outside phone on the Square as an operating point. Officers had to park the prowl car wherever they could find a spot. Wi*h the new office, the public w ill know exactly where to locate an officer and the department has Its own parking place marked off, Mr. Baylees pointed out Growers Of Burley Tobacco To Vote In Referendum Growers ot Burley tobacco of Cherokee County who are eligible to vote in the referendum on No vember 22, 1952 on marketing quotas harve been listed by the County FMA Committee The lists are open for inspection here in the County O/floe. The referendum has been called ir, compliance with the Agricultur al Adjustment Act of 1938. The Act provides for quotas on Burley tobacco which will be made effec tive If approved by at least two thirds of the growers voting in the referendum. "The voters", H. B. McNabb said, "will cast ballots on three proposals: (1) in favor of the quo tas for three years, 1953, 1954, and 1955: (2) in favor of the quo tas fo rone year, 1953, but oppas tas for one year, 1953, but oppos <3> opposed to any quotas. Any person who has an interest in the 1952 crop of Buriey tobac co as owner, tenant, or share cropper la eligible to vote in the referendum, but no person may cast more (fran one vote even though he may be engaged in pro ducing Burley tobacoo in two or more communities, counties, or States. Purposes of the marketing quo tas is to provide growers with a method of adjusting supply to de mand and to help them obtain fair prices for the tobacco they pro duce. A favorable vote on marketing quotas also means that price sup port loans will be available to growers at 90 percent of parity on the 1953 crop. If more than one third of the growers voting in the referendum are opposed to quotas, no price support will be available on the 1953 crop. Not withstand ing the outcome of the referen dum, however, loans will be avail able at 90 percent of parity on the 1932 crop as a protection to farmers Presbyterian Women Plan Bake Sale The Women of the Presbyterian Church will hold a bake sale Sat urday in the new Police Station at , the Evans Auto Garage. The sale I will begin at 10 a. m. The public is Invited to come and buy the good things to eat. Agriculture Outlook Meet Be Nov. 20 A farm outlook meeting to atu-h dy agriculture In Cherokee Coun ty and North Carolina for IMS will be held at 10 a. m. Thursday, Nov. 30, in (be Court House bare. Farmers, fans and buaineas leaders and agricultural workers are expected to attend the meet Curtis and Cbnriea Wil liams, extension marketing speci alists. N. C. State College. wlH lead the diecuaaion. The public w 1 netted to, attend and take part In the The portion ai TB Committee Cherokee County resident* will receive their Tubemdoeb Christ mas seals In the mail next week, Mrs. H. Bueck. Chairman of the Tuberculosis Committee, announc ed. They will be mailed Nov. 17. Williams Braswsll of Raleigh, superintendent of the TB Christ mas seel sale In N. C., was pres ent for a meeting of the local com mittee at the Savage Hotel Tues day night. Membera of the committee are Ifrs. Bueck, chairman; Robert leaver,' sec-treas; Mrs. C. W. Savage, Seal Sale chairman; EHsabath Gray, publicity nag; James Osborte, Hi' ?r??k; Harest King, la, Mia Dma Bat J. H. Hampton and his grandson, Paul Smith, son of the Rev. and i Mrs. C. A. Smith, look over part of the flock of Nebraska turkeys be 1 fore holiday buying thinned the group down to Just M gobblers. Mr. Hampton has grown some 400 of the birds this season. The breed was developed In North Piatt, Neb., from a mutation that appeared In a flock of Bronze in 1947. The white undercoat and dark-flecked feath ers bred true and the originator named them Nebraskan. Mr. Hampton said the birds are very much like the Bronxo except they develog plumper bodies earlier and carry the plumpness to maturity. That condition makes them more suitable for use either as fryers or mature birds. Only Thirty Local Grown Gobblers Are Left For Sale Town folks interested in eating Cherokee County grown turkeys i Thanksgiving will be disappointed unless they are one erf about 30 I who will get the last birds J. H. Hampton, only turkey grower In the area, has left. Mr. Hampton said he has some 130 of-the gobblers now but a 100 bird order to be picked up in a few days will leave him only 30 at the holiday favorites. These last turkeys will go to local markets, Mr. Hampton said. Last year Mr. Hampton bought 2.200 birds and lost one third of them when they were small. This year he purchased 480 Nebrask ans, large - hardy white turkeys with dark spots. He still had 400 of the fowls when the Thanksgiv ing buying started. Munphy Christmas dinner tables will have to be spread without a Hampton turkey since the 30 he now has are the last Mr. Hampton will have for sale this season. Be had hoped the turkeys would be grown in time for the holidays, Mr, Hampton said, but the birds got ahead of' time and were full grown several weeks before the season buying started. The grower sold 250 gobblers to a truck from the Fanners Federation In Ashe ville several weeks ago. I Mr. Hampton's farm is located I on the Copperhill Rd. about a . mile from the Square. According to the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, many turkey growers are marketing a large percentage of their birds earlier than usual this year. The department reports that the na tion as a whole is ejqpected to pro duce 59,000,000 turkeys this year as compared with 52,300,000 pro duced in 1951. Miss Snyder Speaks At Peaditree Mon. The Peaetotree PTA will hear Miss Phyllis Snyder, regional li brarian, speak Monday at 7:30 p. OS. at the school Miss Snyder will speak on books in connection with American Education Week. Mrs. Lloyd Hendrix lj presi dent. Olson, To Co-Tutor Team In Senior Bowl Seven Cherokee County Inductees Get Board Call Seven Cherokee County induc tees left yesterday for basic train ing in the Army, the Selective Service Board said. Selectees in the call were Joe Esto Bettls, Hoyet Guinn Watkins and Bobby Allen Brown. Also Bennie Homer Stiles, Leo nard Austin Derreberry, Frank R. Allison and Leon Colbert. Some 29 registrants are still to take physical examinations, the board said. Three White Youths Charged With $100 Looting Of Kephart Store Traffic Light To Be Put Up Soon The fourway traffic problem ai the Square wiH be cleared as soot as a controller for the new traffii light arrives. Town Cleric Bustei Bayless said. Ths new light is ready to be in stalled except for the controller Mr. Bayless said. The missing par has already been shipped and i: expected anytime. The old light that was put u] at the Square will be put back a the School crossing, Mr. Bayiesi said. The two-way light at th< crossing will be taken down. Two White teen-agers are out on $500 bond each and a third is being held in jail after they were charged with (the $100 looting of Frank Kephart's store at Ebe neezer last Saturday night. Chief Deputy Sheriff Buren Grant investigated the case and made the arrest near Grand View. Listed as missing from the building were cash, cigarettes and chewing gum, Deputy Grant said. Part of the missing loot was found on que of the youths at the time of the arrest, the officer said. Entrance to the building was made after the front door was forced open, the investigating of ficer said. Murphy Carnegie Library To Observe Book Week With Interesting Displays Folk School Sets Hobby Nights I A series of lessons in wood carv ing and wood working will be of fered at the Folk School at Brass town beginning next week. These "hobby night classes' will be open two night a week Monday and Thursdays, Nov. 17 Dec. 17, from 7:30 until 9:30 p m. The tuition for seven nights is small, and all who wish may at tend. The items made at the school? animals or trays made from native woods, and small tables, stools bookshelves and other things in the wood working shop?will make ideal Christmas presents. Classes are limited to 15 in wood carving and 8 in woodwork ing shop. Murrtal Martin Is In charge of handicrafts. -? The Murphy Carnegie Library wHI observe open house Tuesday, Nov. 18, from 3 to 5 p. m. and 7 e old HtuuMng wyt the ttMy School 80 points with Ms wanted fixtures and old flooring In the holla. The school loat 30 points on s dressing room when the in spector arrived lust after the foot ball squad had thrown dirty uni fons in a corner to b? collected by the cleaners. Drfn king fountains brought down another 30 points because of a lack of angle jets with guards and properly regulated pressure. However, the school got full souring on eight other points. The Murphy School war*judged up to per on an adequate supply of wat er and adequate pressure; proper sewage and waste dMpoaal; prop er handwashing facilities; clean snd ssnple storage places with the buildings free of rodents and ver min; and both natural and artifi cial lighting adequate. Also, adequate ventilation with windows In good repair; garbage and refuse properly stored in clean metal cans with tight fitt ing lids; and the outside surround ings generally clean and weU kept with no fly or mosquito breeding places. Killian Injured In Road Accident Prizes Offered Communities The Weatern North Carolina Rural Community Development Contest It drawing to ? close and scrapbooks and reports from par ticipant communities are due Sat urday, Nov. IS, Morris L. Mc Gough, manager, AsheadUe Agri cultural Development Council an nounced. For the contest two reports are needed one a acrapbook describ ing improvements in the nity since last Nov. 15, and other the Individual score and the summary sheet. The judging of communities la scheduled to begin the first weak In December and judges wiH vis it each community First prias in the contest is $800; second, $800; third $100; $100; aa nfU be ? John Klllten, 68. at Murphy Rt 1, is being treated in a kxel hoe pi U1 for a broken right aim. brok en cottar bone, fractured rigf shoulder and ? laceration at the 1 band after he erne (truck by a ton and half track about ? p. m. Sat urday en TUgani 19 eome miles from the Square. The truck was driven by Wright, 16, of Murphy. Ho i had Jd, IjiiiMui d.