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Bi ? HIGGERM No*! % _____ MARCH OF DIMES ' // t/1 n'tu. ?*; Fight 'fhli/y^ai 55/ MARCH OF DIMES VOLUME 64 NUMBER ? 28 PROMOTING MURPHY AND ANDREWS MURPHY NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, "JANUARY 27, 1855 People You Know MURPHY Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Case had a* week end guests, Mr. and Mrs. A | C. Huber of Athens, Tenn., and Mrs. Huber's brothers adn their wives, Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Daly of White Rock, B. C., Canada, and Mr and Mrs. Elmer Daly of Mun son, Alberta, Canada. Miss Elda Queen of Atlanta and Mrs. S N. Bobo and daughter j Sandra of Marietta, Ga , were J week end guests of Mrs. Sallie j Queen and Miss Beulah Queen. | Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Mason and Mrs. J. B. Gray spent the week end with relatives in Asheville. Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Rector of Chattanooga spent the week end | here with relatives and friends. Mrs Otis Arp, Mrs. Jack Booton and Mrs. Bernard Dickey of^Cop perhill. Tenn , and Mrs. W. A. J Hoover were luncheon guests of Mr. and Mrs O W Hendrix last i week . Mrs E. C. Sullivan of Cherry- 1 ville is visiting her son-in-law and daughter. Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Hoover. Lonnie and Becky. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Wood and granddaughter. Leigh Wood, of Montgomery, Ala , are guests this week and Dr. and Mrs. B. W. Whitfield and Mrs. O. K. Erhart. Mrs. Sallie Queen and daughter. Miss Belli ah Oueen had as recent guests. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Klmsey of Chattanooga. Tenn. Miss Sybil Hughes and a friend. Miss Lanell Bettis of Chattanooga, Tenn., spent the week end here with the former's mother, Mrs. Winona Hughes. ANDREWS Mrs. Ben P. Grant returned Tuesday from Asheville with latest reports that Mr. Grant, who is a patient at Mission Memorial Hos is convalescing1 nicely. Mrs. t>ouise Ropers spent several days of last week with her father at the hospital also. Mrs. W. T. Teas and Mrs. Wade Reece left Friday for a trip to Florida where they will visit re latives and friends Mr. and Mrs. Jack Long and children, Leon and Mary Jane of Fairfax, Va., have returned to their home after a weeks stay here as guests of Mr. Long's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Long. Miss Elizabeth Troxler of Haley, Tenn., former teacher in the An drews School, spent the week end here as guest of Mrs. Ruth Starr Pullium. Harry Dewar of Decatur , Ga., spent several days last week here as guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Dewar. The Misses Jean and Gladys Chrristy had as their guests over the week end their sister, Mrs. Kenneth Peters. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Knight of Winston-Salem, James Knight of Asheville and his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs Herbert Kalish, the former Miss Judy Knight, of Washington, D. C. Mrs. John Duffy and Mrs. Car- j rie Schook of Shelbyvilie, Indiana I have returned to their home after a two w<jeks stay at the Valley town Motor Court. Mrs. Charles Delaney spent last ! week in AshevUle with her father, I Ben P. Grant who is a patient at Mission Memorial hospital. Mr. and Mrs. James Ibbereon have as their guests, Mr. and Mrs. Wolfe and children, Annik, Pierre and Harold of Paris, I France for a visit to two weeks. The Wolfe are enroute to Panama. Mr. and Mrs. John Christy, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Jordan and Misses Jean and Gladys Christy fended the marriage of their cousin, ' James T. Knight to Miss Jessie Margaret Jarrett which took place Saturday afternoon in the Haywrfne Methodist church. IM. W. A. Cathey had as her inedtt ?w the week eat her son. j Vance CSathey, and Ms family of Richmond, Va., and her son, Dan, who to a pace In the legislature to Raleigh. ? ' Due to the illness of their father, | Will Luther, Maj. Clinton Luther, I at Fort McPhereon, Ga and Hil ton Luther of AshevUle. spent the latter part of the irvek here. Mr*. Jaflk teyder. the termer Mies County- Wide PolkrEe.. Jit Dance Set Fed. 5 Andrews Mothers March On Polio Set Mondav The Andrers Mothers March on < Polio under the leadership of the Rev. James Hornbuckle will be held Monday, Jan. 31, beginning at 7 p. m. | Mrs. Ruth Starr Pullium and I Mrs. Edgar Wood, co-chairmen are asking for 100 persons to as semble at the city hall at 6:45 to help with solicitations, so that everyone will have an opportunity to contribute something. Residents are asked to have have their porch lights on as an indicatioi for the workers to call i for donations. ? At the beginning of the Mothers j March the town's fire whistle will blow. J. L. SHIELDS AT MEET J. L. bhields of Murphy last week attended a meeting of the Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association in Atlanta, Ga. U. S. Tax Rep. 1 Be Here To Assist in Filing 1 Representatives of the Internal i Revenue Service will be in Chero- 1 kee County to assist taxpayers on six dates in February and March. The representatives will assist taxpayers with the filinsr of their U. S. individual income tax re- 1 turns for 1954. No fees will be charged for the service. The tax representatives will be in Murphy, at the Cherokee Coun ty Courthouse on Feb. 24 and , 25 and Match 24 and 25. They will be in Andrews, at the Post Office on Feb. 9 and Mar. 9 The representatives will also be in Hayesville, at the Post Office on Feb. 18 and Mar. 18. Bank Elects Directors, Advisory Committees Directors and members of ad-4 visory committees were elected during the annual stockholders meeting of the Citizens Bank and Trust Co. last Friday in the And rews office of the bank. Directors elected were E. C. Moore, W. Frank Forsyth and E. Hay Moore, all of Murphy; W. D Whitaker, James B. Ferebee. II, ' W. T. Forsyth, Z. L. Whitaker and Percy B. Ferebee, all of Andrews, and J. Smith Howell of Robbins vi"e ?" Members elected to the advisory committee for the Murphy bank were H. A. Mattox. WJ. Frank Forsyth, Robert Weaver, E. C. Moore, Walter Coleman and E. Rae Moore. Those elected to the advisory committee of the Robbinsvillo , bank were J. J. Snyder, Mr. How ell, J. B. Collins and J. D. Strat ton. Elected to the advisory commit tee of the Hayesville bank were W. A. McClamery, W. G. Mingus, W. K. Crawford, Edgar L. Curtis and J. G. Rutledge, III. t i Mr. Ferebee, president of the, bank, presided over the meeting; and gave the following report : | Total resources of the bank at .the close of business Dec. 31. 1954, were $6,917,674.32, a gain of $841,113 62 over the same date of | 1953. The bank's permanent sur-: plus was increased by $49,000. The bank had a capital on Dec. 31 of $200,000.00, a surplus of $150,000.0 undivided profits of $97,811.50 and a reserve for losses of $46,862.35. J> Date Named For Start Of Meters j Murphy started installation of its parking meters Tuesday and the first day of regulated parking will ' be Thursday, Feb. 3, Mayor L. L. Mason said this week. Bert K. Mixon, engineer for the Park-O-Meter Co.. is in charge of j the installation. Regulated parking will be from j 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. each day except Sunday, Charlie Johnson, town clerk, said. TB Survey Plans Be Made Feb. 9; Dr. Smith Be Here Dr. Willian? A. Smith, chief of the Tuberculosis section of the N. C. State Board of Health, will be here to outline plans for a Chero kee County TB survey. Clvlf and club leaders will at tend a planning meeting that day, to map out plans for the county wide survey. Ben Waldroup Dies In Andrews Funeral services for Benjamin Franklin Waldroup, ("Uncle Ben") 88, a retired farmer who died at 8.25 p. m. Saturday in hia home in Andrews following a long illness, were held at 4 p. m. Sunday in | the home. The Rev. John Corbitt of I ficiated and burial was in Valley town Cemetery. | Pallbearers were Dee Mosteller, | Paul Day, Edwin Bristol, Blaine Blevins, Boyd Cooper and Kellis l Radford. j A native of Macon County, he ] was the son of the late Jacob M. and Paulina Moffitt Waldroup. He married Aunt Octavia Gribble in 1888 and moved to Andrews in 1910. Surviving are five daughters, Mrs. Lelia Piercy, Mrs. Bertha Matheson, and Miss Ruth Wal droup of Andrews, Mrs. Elsie Tay lor of Gibsonville and Mrs. Malde Wat^ins of Concord, Tenn., three sons, \Walter and Frank of And rews and Joe of Bagdad, Fla., one brother, William H. of Atlanta and ons sister. Miss Sallie Waldroup of Franklin. Ivie Funeral Home was in charge. LEGION AUXILIARY H. Bueck will speak on Civil De fense at the meeting of the Amer ican Legion Auxiliary Friday at 8 p. m. at the club room under the Murphy Library. Faculty To Meet First String In Double Header Murphy school facuuy memoers are limbering up find working out for the match next Monday night which will pit them against the first string basketball teams of the high school. The event, a double header with the girls playing women faculty . members and boys playing the j men, will be sponsored by the ju nior class to raise money for the annual junior senior. The game will start at 7:30 p, m. at the gym and admission is 50 cents and 25 cents. Women players will Include Bar bara McConnell, Bernice Brown, Jean Middleton, Emily Miller, Frances Ray, Chrfstine Ingle, Dol lie Smart, Geraldine Meadors, Frankie Martin, Sue Hall and Nancy Wallace. ? | Men players are Ike Olson, Ralph McConnell, Walter Puett, C. D. Puett, Gene Denning, Orville Middleton, Albert Wallace, Glenn Patton, Billy McFalls and Alvin Russell. I Society Sponsors Co. History i Writing By Mrs. C.S. Freel j The dierokee county Historical' Society is sponsoring the writing of a history of the county, by Mrs Margie Walker Freel of Andrews, Mrs. J. W. Davidson, society pre sident, announced this week. The society is interested in se curing the history at the first set tlers of Cherokee County, "Old families", old newspapers, letters, war records, wills and other legal papers, Mrs. Davidson said. ? 9te said the help at cttisans of the cavity is mitii in hi hi Ii^ the information Car flu ?<?/? Anyone whrt tea material the society may aae, or that wiH he de nated to the society, is asked to contact Miss Josephine Heighway, Mrs. Freel, Mrs. lot Ray or Mrs. Davidson as soon as piteftrie. ? ' ' The material wM he place In the mTit'ta^olcuriey u "*v: 'j *? " ".-'iY' f i^; ?/???{J Andrews Methodists Have Study Course The official board meeting of the Andrews Methodist church was held Monday evening following a pot luck supper held at the church. Mrs. John Christy discussed the second chapter of the book, "Un der Three Flags" a mission study of the work in Ceylon, India am) Pakistan. Other chapters of the hook will be discussed next Monday evening and the following week the course win be concluded. brary. Persona who will lend the ma terial win ham It returned after photostatic uofJtes are made, Mrs. Baby Contest Held For Polio Benefit , The Konnaheeta club Is sponsor- ! I lug a baby contest for children up to school age for benefit of the polio drive funds. The contest began Monday, Jan. 24, and will continue through Fefc. 4, according to announcement by Mrs. James Baer, chairman of the ways and means committee. Persona who wish to enter a child's picture are asked to con-! tact Mrs. Baer, Mm. John Rodda or Mrs. J. S. Oeroert. Pictures will be on display In Davis Drug store oa Main Street Wham will be Judged fey number at votes at one cent per vote. &|y ?! ffiS? V SMILING THROUGH alter recent leg operations is Wyndom Roberts, nine year old son of Mr. anj Mrs. Jim Roberts of I'naka, j Wyndom was stricken with polio in December, 1953, and spent five months at the Asheville Orthopedic Hospital. He returned to tfie hospital in late fall 1954 and underwent further operations. He is still a patient at the hospital. Wyndom 's arms, legs and back were affected by the disease. He is just one of several Cherokee County J children who will benefit from the current March of Dimes for polio. Lions Clubs Set Mid- Year Meeting Murphy and Andrews Lions Club i members are planning to partici i pate in the mid-winter convention for Districts 31-A and B scheduled Saturday in the George Vanderbilt Hotel in Asheville. I The Murphy and Andrews clubs are part of Region 1 and Zone 1 of District 31-A for Lions Clubs in ^Western North Carolina. I YV. Mike Brown of Robbinsville , is deputy district governor of j , Region 1 and Herman K. Brauer of j | Andrews is chairman of Zone 1. Other clubs in Zone 1 are Clay County, Fontana Village and Rob binsville. Murphy and Andrews club mem bers will join with fellow Lions from 44 other clubs in 19 mountain ! counties in conducting the all-day mid-winter convention sessions in Asheville. International, state and district Lions leaders will take on the pro gram which will feature discus sions of the 1955 Outlook for com munity service activities and a review of 1954 programs. Edward G. Carry of Little Rock Ark., third international vice presi dent, will deliver the principal ad dress at the banquet session. He will be introt' iced by John L (Jack) Stickley of Charlotte, sec ond international vice president. James C. Farthing of Lenoir, District 31-B Governor, will pre side at the Luncheon session at 1 p. m. and Alston B. Broom of Asheville, District 31-A Governor, will call the banquet to order. Lions Club officials will conduct schools for presidents, secretar ies and club members during the afternoon session. Murphy Has Undefeated Conference Record The Murphy Boys , Basketball squad at the season mid-mark' have an unbeaten conference re cord of five wins. They have play ad three non-conference tilts and lost two of them. | The Murphy team, which Is on' top In the conference, has been led i in scoring by Birder Coffey with at 1T.8 average. Peart- Johnson is second with 14.8 and Bobby StUes is third withaa $.1 average. Other soortng averages are Bd die Joe Elliott, ?.0, Jimmy Mc Ooafct, 5.4; tM VIM Born. M; I Hoyt Mmmerman, U; Bobby PMt ' MKBhBBBOT? Miff wP f'li i i fif \ lips, 1.7; and Austin Coffey, 2.8. The girls, meanwhile have * record of three looses to one win and one tie'. Laura Bailey, a sop homore in her second year at play ing leads the girts scoring with a I l? point average. I Betty Palmer, with 6.1 to second I and other averages art Katrene Gentry, 4.8; Alice Lovingood, 4J; | Joe Qarratt, >.4; Shirley Stiles 1A First string guards are Prances i stiles, Nora Swanaoa. Batty Kate Wilson and Kathrjm Ana*. Otter '8 Piece Band Be At Dance A countywide polio benefit dance will be held at the Murphy gym . Saturday night, Feb. 5 from 8 until midnight. Tickets are now on sale for the dance at $1.50 each and will ad mit one person stag or a couple. Civic organizations are sponsoring the dance. For tickets sold in And rews, the proceeds will go in the Andrews March of Dimes fund. Music will be by tne eight piece band, the Western Carolina Col lege Kats from Cullowhee. Door prizes and special entertainment will be offered during the intermis sion. Meanwhile the drive has gone forward with some $500 in advance gifts and around $500 reported from Mothers March. The Mothers March totals are not complete yet, according to Bob Bault, chair man of the drive. A day's proceeds from each of Smoky Mountain Amusement Com pany's juke boxes will be given to the polio drive, C. L. Alverson, owner of the boxes said. Signs will be up by the juke box es on the day the proceeds go for polio, Mr. Alverson said. Meanwhile, another case of potio was reported in the county last week when David Higdon, nine year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Char les Higdon of Andrews was sent to the Orthopedic Hospital in Asheville. 1 Funds collected in the drive will be used largely to help Cherokee 'County children suffering from j polio, it was reported. Mothers Net $500 On Snowy Night Mothers mothers plodded through Friday night's snow in their march on polio and collected some J522.29 for the March of Dimes drive. Mrs. S. C. Burgess was chairman for the drive, and said the total I report from the march is not quit" completed. The 32 workers in the drive were Mrs. Roy Fuller, Mrs. J. H. Dun can, Mrs. W. V. Costello, Mrs. W. A. Singleton, Mrs. Lewis King, Mrs. J. C. Howse, Mrs. Cloe Moore .Mrs. Francis Bourne, Jr., Mrs. I Jack Bocook, Mrs. Tom Palmer, . Miss Toots Cook, Mrs. John Jor |dan, Mrs. Herman Edwards, Mrs. I John S. Smith, Mrs. Charlie John son, and Mrs. J. B. Hall. j Also Mrs. Walter Coleman, Mrs. , John Carringer, Mrs. W. D. Town son, Jr., Mrs. Glenn Morris, Mrs. Ruby Amos, Mrs. Duke Whitley, Mrs. Asmond Maxwell, Mrs. Neil Millsaps, Mrs. Everett English. Mrs. C. L. Alverson, Mrs. Louise Caldwell, Mrs. Lois Davis, Mrs. H. L. Hinton, Mrs. Rhett Y. Win ters, Jr., Mrs. A. L. Tuchanan, J and Mrs. Roscoe Wilkins. I ? | Game Refuge Planned i For Cherokee County 1 Cherokee County stands a I chance of getting a 10,000 to 16,000 ?ere game refuge, Kenneth CM* vetta of the state Wildlife Com mission said. Mr. Chlavetta, from Aaheville, is in Qierokee County trying to find a location for the refuge. I The refuge would be tor deer, I bear and small game, he eaid. Ar nold Dalrymple, county wOdKftk protector, pointed oat that a re fuge In the county would mean bet ter hunting tor local aa were to charge at the health at the
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