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VOLUME SI?NUMBER St MURPHY. NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, APRIL S. 1954 TEN PAGES THIS WEEE
?4*lenn Hembree Is
Sheriff Candidate
Glenn Hembree oi Murphy to
day announced his candidacy tor
sheriff of Cherokee County, to turn
in the Democratic Primary May
29, and haa filed with the board of
election*.
A native ot Cherokee County, he
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. M. W.
Hembree of Murphy, and is marr
ied to the former Lorelne Crisp
of Robbinsville. They have two
children. He Attended Murphy!
schools.
Hembree owns and operate*
Hembree's Market here, and be
fore opening his grocery business'
he operated a produce truck serv
ing Murphy, Andrews and Robbins
vUle.
This is his first experience run
ning lor public office.
Frank Forsyth Finishes
UNC Executives'Course!
W. Frank Forsyth, Murphy, Ex
ecutive vice-president. Citizens
Bank and Trust Company has suc
cessfully completed the Business
Executive Program at the Univer-1
sity of North Carolina and is one
of XL candidates to receive a cer
tificate in graduation exercises to
be held in Carroll Hall Friday af
ternoon, April 9, at 4 o'clock.
The business Executive Program
which began at the University last
October is designed for persons al
ready carrying major executive re
sponsibilities.
"Its overall objective is the de
velopment of broad guage senior
management personnel." said Or.
Willard J. Graham, director of the
Program, and professor of account
ing In the University's School of
Business Administration. Dr. Gra
ham came *<> the University faculty
a year ago from the University of
Chicago, where he successfully di
rected a similar program for ten
years.
During the past six months, the
members hava assembled in Chap
el Hill on 12 alternate week ends
for an intensive course of class
room study and discussion.
A week of residence study being
held this week will end with the
finals Friday afternoon.
Two Drown In Lake Here
As Boat Motor Catches Fire
Two occidental drownings Sun
day gave a grim start to the re
creational season on Hiwassee
Oapt Charlton T. Huntley, 39, of
Aberdeen who was stationed at
Fort Mcpherson, Ga., and Gerald
Dean Toney, 8-year-old son of Mrs
Mildred Toney of Atlanta, were
drowned about 1:30 p. m. Sunday
in Hiwassee Lake.
Capt Huntley, Mrs. Toney and
Gerald drove to Murphy from At
lanta early Sunday morning on a
fishing trip. They were in a boat
near where Notia River empties
into the lake when the motor
caught fire.
Mrs. Huntley's clothing became
ignited and she Jumped into the
lake to put out the fire. She then
\ am to shore, a distance of about
feet, she said.
Capt. Huntley and the boy Jump
ed out and tty man apparently was
drowned trying to save the boy.
Capt. Huntley was an excellent
swimmer and Gerald could also
swim, Mrs. Toney said.
Arnold Datrymple, Herb Griff
ith, John Carringer, Frank Mau
ney, J. C. Townson and others
were on the lake and about three
hours after the accident they reeov
ered the body of Capt. Huntley.
It was brought to Townson Funer
al Boom. i
Dr. Harry Miller, coroner, ruled
death occurred from accidental
drowning.
Sheriff Luke Carver and mem
bers of the sheriff? department
and s number of other cKizecsj
searched all night for the body of
Gerald, but were unsuccessful.
Monday morning a fresh crew, in
cluding Jim Ed Hughes, W. D.
Townson and some of the first
crew went out anfr recovered the
body about 10:30 a. m. near the
spot where the accident occurred.
C. A. Huntley, a brother of Gapt.
Huntley, and a member of Powell
Funeral Home of Southern Pines
took the body to Aberdeen where
funeral services were held at 2 p
m. Tuesday with burial in Old
Bethesda Cemetery. Survivers in
clude two brothers.
The child's body was taken to
Turner Funeral Home, Atlanta,
Monday. Funeral arrangements
were incomplete.
Boeck Named
PTA President
MecUone of officers featured the
PTA meeting field at 7:30 p. m.
Monday In the primary auditor
ium.
Supt. H. Bueck was elected pres
ident; Charles Hyatt, vice presid
ent, Mrs. Ottlllie de Calongne, sec
retary, and Dr. A. J. Headrick,
treasurer.
The devotional was given by the
Rev. Frank Brown, and a band con
cert was presented by Edward Rey
no Ids and the school band.
The awards committee announ
ced that pins would be presented
to members of the Senior Band
at commencement.
Miss Clara McCombs' room re
ceived the attendance banner.
1 28 Get Typhoid
Shots h Andrews
Some 828 children received ty
phoid immunizations at Andrews
School Monday and Tuesday when
Mrs. Alice Swaim, assisted by Mrs.
W. H. McKeever, conducted a ty
SHEER ECSTASY la shown on the faces of Murphy first graders in the above picture snapped
as the children were watching a poppet show at the John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, recent
ly. The photo was made by Mrs. Betty Denash of the Folk School.
Andrews Child
Drowns In Creek
Dan Brown, three and a half year
old twin ton of Mr. and Mrs. Car
roll Brown of Andrews, was acci
dentally drowned Friday afternoon
in Jun&luska Creek some 100
yards from his 'home.
The child was riding his tricycle
and rolled off the upper side of a
wooden farm bridge, and fell into
the creek.
Funeral services were held Sun
dap at 2 p. m. at Valleytown Bap
tist Church and interment was in
Valleytown Cemetery, with Ivle
Funeral Home in charge.
Cousins served as pallbearers.
Surviving in addition to the par
ents are the twin brother, Van; an
older brother, Howard and baby
brother, Terry; paternal grand
father, J. E. Brown; maternal'
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B.
Moore of Murphy.
Hughes To Build
RGA Budding
J. M. Hughes and Son, Murphy
contractors, last week were award
ed the contract to build the new
$120 000 Rural Electric Associat
ion building in Young Harris, Ga.
The building will be of solid
brick construction with asphalt
tile over concrete floor, plaster
walls and modern glass front.
Work will begin in about 10 days
and will take some eight months,
Mr. Hughes said.
IS SHERIFF
LUKE CAKVKB
Appointed td fOT out the un
expired term of Sheriff M. G.
Crawford, Luke Carre* of An
drews last week took np the du
ties of the office. Crawford re
signed to accept a State Bureau
of Investigation position. Carver
has already filed for re-election
to the post and will run in the
May 29 Democratic Primary.
(Scoot Photo).
Presbyterian Ladies To
Have Bake Sale Ap. 17
The ladies of the Presbyterian
Church will hold a bake sale Sat
urday, Ap 17. The hour and place
will be announced next week.
Orders are now being taken.
Rabies Clinics
In Andrews Sat
Rabies Clinics will be held in
the Andrews section Saturday, A p.
10, at the following schedule:
1 to 1:30 p. m., Whitaker's Chap
el.
1:30 to 2 p. m., Jim Hicks Place
on Junaluska Road.
2 to 2:30 p. m., Rhodo Church.
2:30 to 3 p. m., Mason's Store
on Toptoa Road.
3 to 6 p. m , Andrews.
Junior-Senior
Be Ap. 24
The Junior Class of Murphy
High School has Issued the follow
ing invitations:
The Junior Class of Murphy
High School invites you to be their
guests Under the Moonlight among
the Roses Saturday night, Ap. 24,
at 7:30 in the gymnasium.
The officers of the class are
Sammy White, president; Geral
din^ Mulkey, vice-president; Hedy
West, secretary; Gordon Bates,
treasurer and Gwinda Cole, repor
ter.
Red Cross Workers
PLEASE!!
Jim Ed Hughes, chairman of the
local Red Cross drive this week
sent out an SOS to all workers in
the current drives to please tun
In their reports.
Salman's Guests Tell Thrilling Tale Of Survival
Family Lives
10 Months In
Hole In Ground
Escaping death by a nawwor mar
gin of hours, and living , all but
buried alive, for 10 months in a
friend's garden,, a merry couple
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Etingin, re
cently retold their thrilling story
of imprisonment in Poland while
visiting friends in Andrews.
The Etlnglns were the house
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Solomon
Salman in Andrews for two weeks
recently. They were friends in
Poland and have known each other
for some 30 years, and had not
seen one another for 14 years.
The Etingins now make their
home in New York, and reflecting
on th^g experience hiding out from
the Germans in the early 1940s,
said 'it all seems like a bad
dream."
The story goes like this:
Etingin was an automobile deal
er in native Poland hi the town of
Vilna when the Ruseo-German war
started in June, 1941. Their home
Was bombed by the Germans on
the first day of the war. Mr. and
Mrs. Etingin and their two sons,
sged 10 and 13, had gone to the
cellar two hours before the bomb
ing began.
"After the bombing it became
very dash', Etingin said, nod one
son was injured slightly, la the
aQ of their clothes and
wishing! war* destroyed.
They want to the home ef friends
to stay. '
Alter two roore days the Ger
mans occupied Vilna, and then the
borrow began. *We had expected H
to be bad," Mr. Etingin said, *but It
was even worse than we expected."
'Every night the Germans came
and get men for slave work. Bat
only an excuse. The
They din
appeared. Later we found out
they were taken into the forest
From June through September
the Jews in Poland lived thus, nev
er knowing which day would be
their last.
GHETTO
In September, 1941, the Etingins
; along with their friends and
some 70,000 other Jewish people
were herded together nto a sec
. tion set apart and called the "Ghet-'
to". Conditions here were so!
crowded, Mr. Etingln said, that!
there was only about three square
feet of space per person.
Their family had a small corner
with a curtain for the only pri
vacy. and other families were in
the same circumstances. They
shared a single toilet with 120
people. Their breod quota for the
day was 1M grams, although oc
casionally they got extra food
from people owtaid? the Ghetto. J
"We were up at 5 a. m., men and
women, and wo were soot out to
work, and returned fat th? evening
Wo had no radios and it wus fflcpal
to read newspapers " Etingln said.
He continued. "Every so often
they (the Germane) would take out!
1,000 persons, at first old people,*
to make them mote comfortable m
THEY LIVED TO TELL THE TALE: Mr. and Mrs. Albert Etinrin.
couple on the left, reeent visitors in Andrews, told a thrilling story of
their survival In Poland during the war. They were the guests of Mr.
and Solomon Salman, right, for two weeks. (Scout Photo)
another place'. They disappeared.
They meant to hill all 70,000, but
it is not so easy to liquidate 70,000
people."
LIQUIDATION
'On Sept. 27, 1943 the Ghetto
was liquidated. At this time, of the
original number of 70,000, only
eight or 9,000 remained. These
were taken to the forest to be
killed"
It was on the morning of Sept
27, only four hours before the en
tire Ghetto was liquidated,
Ktlngtos, and ? few others,
their miraculous escape, thseuuh a
hole to the Ghetto. They ettt the
aid was very thick and tense, and el
so on* knew for sura that
the Liquidation would take place,
it was rumored. They escaped
through the hole at 5 a. m. At 9 a.
m. persons remaining In the Ghet
to were liquidated.
The family (still together), went
in groups of two as they fled
through the streets of the town,
in order to attract less attention,
and to keep from being appre
hended. They were harrying to
get to the home ut friend who
lire on the outskirts of town.
The most frightening part of the
flight through the city woe crossing
a guarded bridge.
Easter Seal \oale For
Crippled Children
Begins AtRotary Club
The 1954 Easter Seal Sale for
' cripple children was kicked off in
j Cherokee County last week at the
I meeting of the Andrews Rotary
I Club.
At the same time chairmen for
the drive were announced.
The Rotary Club sponsors a clin
ic for crippled children and adults,
and a report of the clinic work also
marked the kickoff meet.
W. D. Wihitaker is chairman of
the Crippled Children's League of
Cherokee County and also serves
as chairman for the drive.
Others assisting in the drive are
Mrs. Alice A. Swain and Miss Wil
lie Lovingood of the District
Health Dept. who will work as co
chairmen in Murphy and lower
Cherokee County; S. J. Gernert,
Berkshire Mills, business and in
dustrial groups, corporations; R. L.
Wilkins, Columbia Marble Co-,
organizations; (Mrs. Ben Ray and
Mrs. Amos Harris, Andrews, with
Mrs. W| H. McKeever, Murphy,
mailing chairmen.
Also Mrs. James Baer, Andrews
lily parade chairman and Mrs. W.
H. (McKeever, Murphy lily parade
chairman; Mrs. Harold Katzaman,
chairman, Andrews coin containers
Mrs. Jack Ledford, assistant, An
drews.
Blaine Blevins with Gordon
Butler, chairman business district
contributions; J. E. Rufty, supt.
Andrews Schools, chairman school
appeal, also Marble and colored
school; Mrs. Margaret Ann Watry,
chairman special events; and pub
licity, Mrs. W. V. Costello, Murphy,
and Mrs. Ruth Sursavage, Andrews
Mr. Whitaker introduced Miss
Lovingood, public health nurse,
who presented some facts on the
work done for crippled children
through the Easter Lily Seal iq
this county. She said there were
30 hospital admissions; a total of
513 hospital days; and some 298
patients receiving clinical services
at the Andrews clinic.
Average attendance at the clinic
last year was 50?including chil
dren and adults.
Ty Burnett, Rotary Club presi
dent, introduced Dick Ramsey who
showed a film, 'The Road To 'A
Brighter Future", starring little
Bobby Gibson of Andrews, whose
father, Era est was co-starred. Mr.
Gibson and Bobby were also guests
at the Rotary luncheon meet.
Other guests at the meeting were
Dick Hadden of Asheville, Miss
Lovingood and Mrs. Alice Swaim.
Lovingood, and Mrs. Alice A.
Swaim.
Peachtree Teams
Top In Tourney
Assemby Program
From Shakespeare
A classics program based on
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and
Romeo and Juliet was presented
by the Murphy High School Eng
lish department in the auditorium
this week.
Highlights of the program were
film presentations of scenes from
both plays. A recording of Andy
Griffith's unusual monologue,
"Romeo and Juliet" was offered
to contrast the modem interpre
tation with the traditional.
A1 Wallace, senior English in
structor, served as spokesman for
the department, giving short intro
ductory commentaries.
was raining, and 'didn't pay any
attention to ns as we crossed Ikt
bridge', Etingin said.
They continued on and readied
the home of their Polish friend In
safety.
Tl^ Golden Rule was certainly
lived by the friend to whose house
the Stinging had fled. Several
years prior Mr. Etingin had add
the man some taxis. The man fear
ed he would have to let the taxis
go back when he was unable to
meet his payments. Etingin told
hm to keep the cars and pay for
them when he was able. Now, the
friend was able to repay Etingin's
kindness.)
They arrived at the home of the
friend about three miles from the
Ghetto), and stayed there until
evening. The friend bore the news
that the Ghetto had been liquidat
ed. Thi family spent that night in
the stable back of the friend's'
house.
IN THE GARDEN
The next day the friend and his
father dug a hol0 in the garden.
The hole was about two feet wide
and by five feet long and about two
and a half feet high, and was cov
ered with boards and then sod. The
family of four crawled Into the
hole, wihch was to be their home
for the next 10 months (Sept.
through July).
"There was a small hol? and our
friend came every night to bring
as food and taka away the waste."
Mr. Etingin said. "And we would
take turns at the hole, looking out
or reading by Its light, to keep
from going craxy To pass the time
? The Peach tree boys and girts de
feated Martin's Creek teams Fri
day night to put them on top in the
Cherokee County Elementary
Basketball Tournament
The boys won by a score of 26
18 while the girts' score was 24-16.
In preliminary games Thursday
Unaka girls defeated Murphy girls
Murphy boys defeated .Unaka boys;
Peachtree girls topped Htwassee
Dam girls; and Peachtree boys
downed White Church boy*. Mar
tins Creek girls defeated White
Church girls and Martin's Creels
boys came out over the Hiwassee
Dam boys.
In the second round Thursday
afternoon Peachtree boys defeated
Murphy boys and Peachtree girls
defeated Unaka girls.
Outstanding players of the tour
nament were, boys: Jack Axro
wood, Ed Pace, Jimmy Hendrlx at
Peachtree. John Morris and Clyde
Turner of Murphy; T. J. Logan and
James Berian, Martin's Creek;
Orville Brannon, Unaka; D a p
Amos and Dillard Dockery,
White Church; and Olln Murphy
and Robert Patterson, Hiwassed
Dam,
Outstanding girls were Carolyn
Thomas, Betty Kate Wilson, Shir
ley Stiles and Jearlean Stiles,
Peachtree; Anni^ Merle Murphy
and Margaret Mills, Murphy. Reha
Murphy Leona Hughes, Martin's
Creek; Ruth Pipes, Kathleen Rob
erts, Unaka; Betty Kephart, Jim
mie Lou Dockery, White Church;
and Helen Graham and Marjorie
Reece, Hiwassee Dam.
Hedy West Be In
Mt. Youth Jamboree
Hedy West, junior at Murphy
High School, will be In Ashevile
Friday and Saturday to take part
in the Mountain Youth Jamboree.
She will play the accordion and
sing "The Blind Girl", "the Single
Life". "Lonesome Road'' and "Yal
ler Gal".
Miss West was in Asheville Ap.
1 presiding over the WNC High
Forensic meeting which was held
at Grove Park Inn. Hedy is pres
ident of the group.
Registration For
Town Election
The registration for the Town of
Murphy election wil be open Sat
urday, Ap. 10, Ap. 17 and Ap. 24'
at the front of the Courthouse.
On Saturday, May 1, the hooka
' win he open for challenging.
Mrs. Jenny Le? Sneed wiill hold
the hooka.