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VOLUME 69 ? NUMBER 41 MURPHY, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1960 >0 PAGES THIS WEEK PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Murphy
Calendar
i THURSDAY, Ma; U
3:30 p.m. ? Story Hour {or
? tot year olds at the Public
Library.
7:30 P.M. ? Murphy Chapter No.
10 Order of th? Eastern Star
will meet in the Masonic Hall
7:30 P.M. ? Regular Deacon meet
ing to be held at Presbyterian
Church.
8:00 P.M. - Peachtree PTA will
meet at the Peachtree School.
FRIDAY MAY IS
1:00 P.M. ? AA meeting every
Friday at New Regal Hotel.
SATURDAY, May 14
9:00 A.M. ? Don't forget to attend
the Opportunity Shop near the
New Regal Hotel, sponsored
by the Episcopal Church.
6 P.M. ? Chicken Barbecue sup
per at Little Rock Gym. Spon
sored by the PTA.
7:00 P.M. ? Business and Pro
fessional Club will observe
their second birthday anniver
sary with a supper at the
Elkins and Mrs. W. M. Fain
are chairmen.
SUNDAY MAY IS
2 P.M. ? Cherokee County Third
Singing be held to the Upper
Peach tree Baptist Church. All
singers are invited to attend.
5:30 P.M. ? Methodist and Pres
byterian Pioneer Youth Fel
lowship will be held at the
Presbyterian Church.
MONDAY. May IS
6:30 P.M. ? Rotary Club to
meet at the Family Restaur
ant on Andrews Road.
Civitan Club to meet at New
Regal Hotel.
TUESDAY, May 17
IX A.M. ? Quarterly meeting
of Western North Carolina As
sociated Communities -will
be held at the Power Board
Building, and luncheon at 12:3
will be held in the Regal Hotel
3:00 P.M. ? Circle No. 3 of
the First Methodist Church
will meet in the Men's Bible ,
Class room of the church. Mrs.
Jessie Zirbes as hostess.
6:30 P.M. ? Circle No. 2 of the
First Methodist Church will
have their picnic supper at
the home of Mr. and Mrs.
J. B. Slaughter on Shoal Creek
Road.
2:00 P.M. ? Circle No. 4 of the
First Methodist Church will
meet at the home of Mrs.
R. C. Fuller.
WEDNESDAY MAY 18
6:30 P.M. ? Training Union Coun
cil Supper meeting to be held
?t First Baptist Church.
7:30 P.M. ? Mid-week service at
Presbyterian Church.
Mid-week service at First
Methodist Church.
t:00 P.M. ? Hour of Power First
Baptist Church.
Choir Practice at Presbyterian
Church.
1:30 P.M. ? Choir Practice at
First Methodist Church.
Choir Practice at First Bap
tist Church.
Local Poultryman Invents Handy Labor Saver
Portable Steam Cleaner Cuts Poultry
House Cleaning Job To Four Hours
MURPHY? From a hair dry?".!
a car muffler and a flame throw- f
a, a Murphy poultryman has
fashioned a labor-saving steam
cleaner.
Those are the main parts of
V'erlin Jones' portable machine,
for cleaning his poultry house !
He has cut his time from six!
days to four hours in the clean
up job.
Jones hes a house where he
raises 14.000 broilers at a time.!
He gets five batches a year. Do-!
ing all the work himself, he needs,
every labor-saving device he can!
get."
"I tmnk venin reany nas
something in this steam cleaner,"
says Hugh Abies, assistant agent
in Cherokee County. "He. a poul
tryman named L. M. Gilbertson
and a jusinessman, Doyle Burch
Sr., have a patent pending on
it, and a Chicago firm has ex.
pressed interest in manufactur
ing it."
Jones and Abies feel like the
steam cleaner could have a great,
many more uses than cleaning
poultry houses. U would be a'
big labor saver in dairy barns,
[arrowing houses and pig parlors
?almost any building on the farm
that has to be cleaned and ster
ilized periodically, they believe.
It could be used by industry
and business, too, perhaps. Such
jobs as cleaning car engines,
clearii > lint from textile and oth
er industrial machinery might be
possibilities.
The steam cleaner can easily
be carried by one man. "It's
a big improvement over the one
I ked with an 800-pound compres
sor," says Jones. He totes the
kerosene fuel tank (once a flame
thrower' on his back, and can
handle the rest of the outfit al
most with one hand.
The cleaner part Is hooked up
to a 50-foot water line. Waterl
is through a coil in the muff
ler. A fuel line feeds a thin spray
of kerosene into the muffler. The
burning kerosene heating the coil'
turns the water into steam, which
is fed out of a pipe at the other I
end of the muffler.
The hair dryer Its airflow!
keeps the flame hot, by feeding1
oxygen into the burner.
Water supply is no problem.
Jones simply hooks the 'water
line to spigots which fill his wa
tering troughs throughout the 40
by-300-foot house.
' The big laborsaving advant
age is that I don't have to take
my watering and feeding troughs;
apart to steamclean them,1' says
Jones. "I can clean the whole
house of dust?walls, ceilings and
all? and sterilize it at the same
time."
Cf course, he still has to clean'
out the house with a bulldozer;
about once a year. But the
tlea-n cleaner takes care of'
cleanups between batches of
broilers.
Jones went into the poultry bus
iness full-time this winter. For
tl.ree years, he had been hand
ling his house in his spare time
from a garage job in Murphy.
Jones tried raising broilers on
contract. He's been on his own
for some time now, scouting
around for the best buys in feed
and birds and equipment, hand
ling his own sales to processing
plants in Gainesville. Ga.
There's graphic evidence that
he's a good manager in the fact
that his feed conversion has been
down to 2. IS pounds per pound
of bird, and that he averages
losing only 200 or 300 birds from
each batch. These losses are ab
sorbed by the 280 extra chicks
he gets with each 14,000.
One simple cost-cutting device
which Jones uses is to enclose
his chicks with plastic curtains
in a small area oft be house
during cold weather. That way,
he doesn't have to heat but a
small part of the house.
Jones has about 25 acres on
U. S. 64 just west of Murphy.
He plans to build one or two
more poultry houses the size of
the one he has now.
That's pretty good indication of
his faith in the future of the
poultry business.
Young Minister
To Preach At
First Baptist
Don Bennett, student at Young
Harris who will enter Mercer
University this fall, will bring the
sermon at the First Baptist
Church Sunday Morning at the
11:00 o'clock worship hour.
He w ill speak in the absence of
the Rev. J. Alton Morris, pastor,
who will be attending the South
ern Baptist Convention in Miami
Beach, Florida.
Mr. Bennett was licensed to
preach in the Brookhaven Baptist
Church, Atlanta. Georgia, where
be is a member.
At Young Harris College he has
served the Baptist Student Union
as president and devotional chair
man and is a member of the Min
isterial Conference.
Sunday evening the 4-H Club
of Murphy will present the pro
gram for evening worship hour
at Ihe First Baptist Church. The
service begins at 8:00 o'clock with
Miss Mary Hensley, Asst. Home
Demonstration Agent, in charge.
The Girl's Auxiliary of the
church will bring special music.
~^T' Honor Students At Andrews High School
class ot |
ing clos
' Battle,
? . Graduation
exercises will be held May 26 at 8:00 p.m. at the High
SchoQl Gy?t>. 1 ,
Murphy, Andrews Slate
Graduation Exercises
Man Shoots
Wife, Then
Wounds Self
HA YESVILLE?Cha stain Gallo
way lay critically wounded this
week after allegedly shooting his
wife and then sending a bullet in
to his own head.
Mrs. Galloway is reported in
fair condition in a Gainesville,
Ga., hospital.
Clay County Sheriff Neal R.
Kitchens said that Galloway ap
parently lay in wait for his wife,
then shot her and later turned
the weapon on himself last Sun
day morning.
Their daughters. Joyce, 18. and
Brenda, 15, fled from the house
?some eight miles east of Hayes
ville? before the shooting.
The sheriff said the couple had
been having marital difficulties
and that Galloway had left the
state two months ago under
agreement when Mrs. Galloway
had withdrawn assault charges
against him.
The sheriff said that Galloway
apparently chased his wife
through the swampy grounds
near the house before firing.
A single shot from his .25 cal
iber automatic struck Mrs. Gallo
way just below the heart. She
was found about 500 feet from
the house. He was found about
200 yards further away.
FX Bourne
Is Manager
ForSeawell
I Francis C. Bourne, Jr. has been
named campaign manager for
Malcolm B. Seawell, candidate for
Governor.
Mr. Bourne is an executive
with Hitchcock Corp. in Murphy.
He is also a member of the town
board of commissioners and is
active in civic affairs. Mr. Bourne
is a graduate of Asheville School
and the University o( Penn
sylvania.
Benefit Sale To
Be Held Saturday
The Opportunity Shop, spon
sored by the Youth Choir of the
Episcopal Church of the Messiah,
will have a sale at 9:00 a.m.
May 14. The shop will be opened
next door to the Regal Hotel.
Mrs. Alex Hanson, who is super
vising the shop said "We are
fortunate to have many nice dres
ses, suits and coats at give-away
prices. AU of the merchandise
must be cleaned before we will
accept it."
Money from the sale will go to
the Organ Fund at the Episcopal
Church.
Hot Dogs Sell
Like Newspapers
The 5c Hot Dogs sold in Murphy
during "Old Markets Days" last
week were a big success. Accord
ing to Wally Williams, Murphy
Retail Merchants Association pre
sident, 3.816 hot dogs were sold
during the first two days of the
sales event.
Lots of folks from miles around
came to Murphy last week end
to take advantage of the many
bargains of Old Market Days.
Just another reason why you
should make Murphy your re
gular shopping city.
I ADIT HET
The Loud helps those
who help themselves
and Uncle Sam helps
the others. .
JACQUELAINE McNABB
BETTY JEAN ADAMS
Two Share Class Honors
At Hiwassee Dam School
Miss Jacquelaine McNabb and
Miss Betty Jean Adams will share
co-valedictorian honors for this
spring's graduating class at
Hiwassee Dam.
Miss McNabb is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Truman McNabb of
Suit. North Carolina. She has
maintained a 96 average for a
total of seven semesters in high
school. Miss McNabb is planning
to enroll at Western Carolina Col
lege this fall and fill concentrate
her course of study in the field of
Business Education.
Miss Adams is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Marion Adams of
Liberty, North Carolina. She also
maintained a 96 average covering
seven semesters in high school.
Miss Adams plans to enter West
ern Carolina College this fall in
the field of Education. Mathe
matics and English being her
major subjects.
Graduation exercises will be
? Fridav. May 27. 1960.
County Has High Cancer
Rate; Drive Falls Short
By MRS. PAUL HILL ii
Cancer Drive Chairman j;
Did you know that Cherokee I
County has one of the highest |
cancer rates of any county in I
North Carolina? '
Our goal is to help save lives 1
by bringing men. women and chil- (
dren to their physicians at a
time when cancer is most cur- f
able. (
The cancer education program 1
s conducted by tens of thous
snds of volunteers: physicians
Housewives, teachers, editors
jrogram directors, all those \vh<
lave the time and wish to com
nunicate life saving facts to theii
leighbors.
Won't you please help us fighl
:ancer with your contributions^
We are way behind our goa
or this year. Mail or give youi
contributions to Mrs. Charles
lyatt. Murphy. X. C.
Murphy 8th
Graders To
Hear Forsyth
Murphy and Andrews high
schools will stage graduation ex
ercises the latter part of this
month
Finals will be held May 28 (or
Andrews High. Seniors will re
ceive diplomas May 31 at Mur
phy High School.
the Rev. Doris Smotherman
Jr. will preach the baccalaureate
sermon at Andrews High May 22
at 7:30 p m. The invocation will
be given by the Rev. H. C Led
ford
Andrews honor students are
Betsy Battle. Bill Belvias. Wanda
Phillips and Terry Slagle
Mascots are Johnnie Bristal
and Scott Sheidy.
Graduation exercises will be
staged in Andrews High gym
nasium at 8 p.m. May 26.
Finals tor Murphy High will be
gin at 8 pm. May 31 in the
I gymnasium of the school.
Jay Wilson is valedictorian at
Murphy and Nola Collins is salu
jditorian.
The baccalaureate sermon will
[be preached at 11 a.m. in the
school gym. A total of 106 will
graduate
Marshalls will be Anna Bruce,
Betty Sprung. Eugina Davis, San
dra Lepscier. and Annie Lee Hall.
; Stale Sen. Frank Forsyth will
speak for eighth grade finals at
I Murphy grammar school May 31
i at 11 a.m. Rev. Tom Houts will
(lead the devotion.
Ben Palmer, member of the
school board of trustees, will
j give diplomas.
! Special music will be presented
by Sally Bault. Mona Kisselburg
and Mary Linda Hyatt. The
I seventh grade glee club also will
sing.
I The ceremonies will be staged
in the grammar school auditor
jium.
NOTICE
Saturday
May 14th
LAST DAY
? to?
REGISTER
(Scant Mfts)
DECLAMATION CONTEST PARTICIPANTS
Students who participated in the Declamation Contest at Murphy High School
ore left to right front row; Jerry Henson, John Van Horn, Ronald Kephart, Kenneth
Hawk ond Winston Craig. Bock row: Phil Mottox, Jimmy Timpson, David Alver
son, Ralph Abernathy ond Bobby Weaver.
Ten Murphy High Boys
Take Port In Contest
A \ ? ?? * ? ? * * * ? -
The annual Dadamatioo Con
tort, sponsored by the American
Legion and the Cherokee County
Historical Society, will be pre
sented today at 1:15 p.m. at lfur
phy High School Gym.
TV public speaking contest la
open to high school bey*. The
boy* memoriae speeches made by
famous men ami present them in
the manner to which they thtak
t^wweoi^Ba^ri^jn^
medals at graduation exercises
Last year's winners were Buck)
HOI. first place, and Phil Mattel,
secood
Judges are Ron Russell, F. 0.
Christopher and Lynn Gault.
Participants and their rp<*Hi?>s
are as follows: Jerry Ilmi? ,
"Winston Churchill's Address Be
fore Congress": John Van Horn,
"An Appeal To Anns"; Ranald