MURPHY ^
The I.ending
Vo. XLV, ?No. 49.
OFFICIALS ARE
IN SYMPATHY
WITH NEW ROAD
Witherspoon Says FFRA
And Highway Commission
Will Cooperate On
Project.
Given insurance of hearty cooperation
"ii the construction of four
miles ni* i"iid from Murphy to the
Tellico v.m nritains> Don Witherspoon.
lu ?1 attorney, and W. B.
Vessels, owner of the Wcssols lumber
company, returned from Raleigh
Sunday where thev had conferred
nith i1!- St ite Highway commission
h?aH? and KKR \ authorities.
p. Last Friday the delegation met
nith I . B. Jeffries, chairman of the
State Hi-jliw t> and Public Works
commission. and Charles B. Ross,
attorney for the commission, for the
purpose oi developing the road that
would bring approximate!) 100
million feet of lumber to Murphy
for aa outlet rather than Tellico
Plains.
"Th commission stated itself as
being in sympathy with the proposal.
Uir. Withe:spoon said. "However, the
ium unmission aro limited
and state funds could not be used altogether,
we learned. The commissi
n realized that the construction of
this road should be an integial part
of the state highway system and it
i; believed a proposition can be
work d out whereby with such instrumentalities,
state highway 'funds
vould tt used under law if working
in conjunction with FERA funds."
J. C. Walker, district engineer at
Asheville, will be instructed to come
to Murphy and work out the situan
>o construction can be started
on the road in the near future. His
first move will be to go over the
route and select the exact location.
.Mr. Witherspoon said S. W. Moss,
head of the FERA, will come to Murphy
next week to oonfer with local
officials anu look into the proposition
himself. Mr. Moss was said to be
impressed and thinks federal aid
should be extended in this direction
to unemployed men and their families.
Mr. Wessels has made a public
statement that he wishes to bring his
lumber here and ship it througn wis
point rather than ship it on the other
side of the mountains. He already
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ANDREWS" CLUB
HAS FEAST FOR
MURPHY LIONS
Annual Get-Together Of
Rotarians And Lions
Held In Andrews Tues.
Members of the Murphy Lions club
*nd their wives were entertainvd a1
* picnic supper by the Andrews
*ry club at Neal Hay's camp grounc
^esday evening from 7 to 9 o'clock
Rotarians were assisted in th<
Preparation and ino* rtf tViA sunnei
1"? the Reparians.
A brief program was carried out it
*fcch there were short addresses by
?. Eneck, president of the Murphj
j club. R. W. Prevost, presi
wot of the Andrews Rotary club, thf
R"- Stewart Long of the Murphy
Ith , D. H. Tillit of the Rotary club
W4 Mercer Fain of the Murphy club
'? Rev. and Mrs. Herbert Baucon
rM Sam Carr of Murphy were intro
RJJM a' guests of the Lions club
In Whitaker, and S. W. Black o
IJ*"," City, and the Rev. Maurici
L of Bullsgap, Team, were In
as Stoats of the Rotary
I.,. Black who is a member o
"e Rotvy club of Bryson City mad<
I J**f talk.
event has for some time beei
lu ^ "ft by the civic clofcs o
UJWry and Andrews and it has be
I ,c a. valuable asset in promotini
lellnwship and cooperation be
" > towns.
Weekly Newspaper in Western North
Murphey, 1
CHEROKEE BOYS
LEAVE FOR CCC
CAMP THURSDAY
Eighteen Cherokee county boys
left yesterday lor an enlistment in
one of Uncle Sam's North Carolina
CCC camps. they are going first
to an army post where they will spend
the first two weeks diilling in regular
army foimation and getting themselves
in shape work of the next
six months.
They are: Buster JViurpny, Violet;
Fred Kephart, Owl Creek; Virgil
Od 1, Boiling Springs; H. C. Palmer,
Notla; Lee Morrow and Snider Jones,
Mutphy; Olin Hughes, Belle view;
Bill Palmer, Tomotla; Wilson Radfield,
Peachtree; Le Beavers, Suit;
Rose op Sneed, Tomotla; P^llis Gutheni,
Ranger; Dan Johnson, Grape Creek;
Lloyd Curtis, Letitia; Fred McFee,
Hothouse; W'aitisell Walker, Ranger;
Olin Jones, Unaka; and Bill Roberts,
Beaverdarr..
SEVEN INJURED
AS CARS CRASH
MONDAY NIGHT
o r->? i-i 1 ^ * T
v,ars uemoushed nut i\o
Sericus Injuries Received
Three Miles From Here.
Seven persons were injured when
two cars ciash* d on No. 10 Highway
about three miles from Murphy Monday
night.
'The injured were A. R. Stalcup, 45
head lacerations; Horace Stalcup, 20,
broken i.Lis; Glenn Stalcup, 21, cut
eye; Lak Stalcup, 13, cut eye and
broken nose; and Charle- Stalcup. 7.
cut eye. Bob Forrester and Paul
Kindrell, of BlairsviMe, Ga., were
slightly cut.
'According to Glenn Stakup, drjv r
of the car in which his father and
thtee brothers were riding, the family
was running about 30 miles per
hour out the highway when they
clashed into the car in which Bob
Forrester and Paul Kindrell were sit
ting on the left side of the road.
St%lcup said the lights were out on
the other car.
'The invoact drove Kindred's Chevtolet
coupe about 30 yards down the
road and turned it over. The Stalcup
Ford Roadster was badly mangled
by the force of the crash.
Frank Ellis brought the Stalcup
family to town where Dr. Hill administered
first aid to the injuries none
of whieh nroved serious. Thev return
ed home.
Sheriff Mason said he went out
end gat the men from Klairsville but
' A. R. Stalcup requested that they be
freed and an attempt would be made
to settle out of court.
COLEMAN SHOALS 1
DAM TOPOGRAP
BY SAM CARR
"To see is to know." So goes the
^ old adage.
What with all the talk in town
lately about the dam, we decided to
see what we could do about supplying
definite information on the sub?
ject. Nobody outside of the Authority
itself knows where the dam will
be. We figured if we could see just
\\vhat was going on down at the Cole*
man Shoals site, we could at least pass
^ on that much authenic information
- *' *-Uo* Jc intor^tpd.
to me puuiic Uiav I. '..v..
' As the old saying goes it might be
built anywhere between hell and Kel5
fast, but we aimed to see and tc
know as much as we could about the
only site we're particularly interest1
ed in. Well, we saw. We don't know
T exactly (we're sorry to say) but we
r have a pretty good idea.
I Minus poles, tripods, compasses.
' and snake anti-toxin, with a heart
. full of hope, a shoe-box full of lunch,
' and a loaded comera, C. W. Failey
' and 1?ie unfortunate writer cranked
10 and lit out for the site.
It's about sixteen miles down there
f z?nd after you turn off the road tc
; Lnaka, the going gets pretty bad
I Big rockg and streams in the roac
j rake them almost unpassable. Much
f of the road right down to the site
B has been built up so the TVA car.*
can pass over them,
ix Suddenly you turn out on the
f south side of the Fowler Bend, ther
- turn west and follow about three
p quarters of a mile back down t?h<
- river toward the west.
'At the Coleman Shoals where the
Carolina, Covering a Ixirgc and F
M. C., Friday, July 6, 19;
NEW UNIT CHIEF
OF TVA ARRIVED
HERE THIS WEEK
J. D. Blagg To Conduct
Sur%'ey Of Coleman
Basin; Shallibo Leaving
J. D. Blagg, unit chief of the engi
n ering service division of the Ten
nessee Valley Authority, arrived it
Murphy Wednesday morning and Ja?'
he would be located nere permanent
J ly to sutv y the basin of the Cole
| man Shoals site that is being con
sidered as possibility for a $13,000,
I (:00 TVA dam.
At the same time it was an.iounc*
j that C. F. Shallibo, unit chief, wh<
has been here for some months -ur
j v ying tne topography of the sit
will leave to take up wovk on th
Pickwick piojecfl at Sheffield. Mi
Shallibo said he may take one or tw
,-C L.V ?:?I- 1-:- ? - ?? '
| vi in> uirmcs wun nun, ou> me nine
I engineers that have been staying her
j will remain.
Mr. Blagg was unable to commen
authoritatively on the ever presen
question, t > he or not to bo, but sai
ht supposed his wotk would take abou
one year for completion. He said h
intended to rent a house here an
:s wife and two children will joi
him later. II has been w aking o
j tber TVA project*:.
George D. Wliitmore, f Knoxvilh
j director of su.vey.? for the Tenne?*e
Vail y authority, is expected in t \v
i again about Friday.
^oik School Holds
Big Annual Meetinj
More than 150 people attended th
annual get-together meeting held 8
the Folk School at Brasstawn Wcc
nesday, according to G. W. Candle!
local merchant.
The annual aff: ir was said to hav
drawn its usual Uuge crowd ol vis
tors from all over the county.
The Women's club of Brasstow
were in charge of the meeting an
gave a dinner to the many peop!
that attended.
Several talks were made in tt
i form af comparison of the school <
uie old days and its uew featuri
i showing the improvement of the p*i
pie in that community and the subs
qu^nt progress the\T have made.
Those speaking on the progra
were: Mrs. John C. Campbell, Fr<
; Scroggs, Julius Martin ancl Mr. Can
ler, ot Murpny.
Mr. Candler reported that tl
; meeting was very delightful and thi
it was enjoyed by everyone.
!S IDEAL SITE FOR
HIC SURVEY SHOWS
local site is being considered, tl
Hiawassee runs a little less than 1(
! yards wide. It is shallow, having
maximum depth of about five fe
i and the bed is piactically all rock.
| Two mountains rise very high ar
steep on either side. Sloping at su(
an angle that it requires a great d*
j -of labor to walk up them (and for
ed in some places to crawl) they ri:
about 400 feet and trie top of tj
mountain is 1690 feet according
the surveyor's stakes. This would I
about 70 feet higher than Murpi
above sea leve. The river in its 3
mile course to Appalachia falls 3<
feet or a little over 11 feet per mil
| j A narrow trail /as been clean
up both mountains irom tne sitt.
" i On the far side of the river at th
point, a drill had been installed, bi
! . apparently no drilling had been star
ed at that time. The drill will 1
- used to study the rock bed of 13
1 iver at that particular locatio
>! While fording the river a long po
r was dragged over the bottom and
I was practically all rock. Howev
there was no way to determine tl
; | depth of the rock.
> ' About a half a mile west and a
proximately 100 yards inland on tl
I ! opposite side of the river, the begi
i! ning of the tunnel, that is to* ri
> | through the mountain to the pfa
i | wriere the river cuts back after
! bends, was located.
, J There is another clearing the
| i that runs for almost a mile over tl
mountain to the power house. T
[ t width and mountainous approach
the river on that side of the bend
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'otentially Rich Territory in This State
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OXFORD ORPHANS A
WILL SING HERE 1
MONDAY EVENING
The appearance < f the singing
, class of the Oxford Masonic Orphanage
next Monday night, July 9th, in
Murphy will be more than rdinary r
inteiest because June Davis, a Murphy
girl, is a member of the class !
I thsi year.
,
r June is S years Id, tfte daughter of
E. E. Davis a former jelerk of superior
court, and a giand daughter of
- 'Mrs. Dixie Palmer. She his buen in the
orphanage for about two veais. ^
Two blethers, Jimine. 13 and Robert, 5
i 10, are also in the orphanage but are (
- not members -of the singing class.
Local Masons are expecting a full I
nous when the class appears at the <
- school auditorium next Monday night,
July 9. The program of solos, duets,
1 quartets and recitations have always
a been inteiesting and entertaining, E.
- J. Palmer, secretary < t the local
e Masonic lodge . aid tni.- week, and adl*
vonce information i- to be .he effect}'
. that this year's class is t'v best evei I
nrsented.
i FOURTH OF JULY
i IS CELEBRATED
5 BY HUGE CROWD
n
I Ma ny Attractions Held
All Over County For
n Holiday Celebrators.
i
Hundreds of people came in to
town Wednesday for the big Fourth
? of July celebration here and attended
the two ball games and the dance
e that was sponsored by the Jo Miller
^ Elkins post of the American Legion.
| Arriving in the early morning, the
festive spirit of the crowd bid fair
' to the dampened by th. storm clouds
that came up later in the day, but
e celebration was spared a dicnching.
1_ After booming in the morning business
came practically to a stand-still
us tiim lor the two baseball games
" tolled around,
le
Everywhere t?iere was evidence of
te a holiday. Everybody was all dress>f
ed up and happy. Some of the local
B9 p'.cple took the day off and headed
o- out for the mountains to iish or pice
nic.
A hugs crowd had assembled at the
m ball ground in time to see the first
?d ' game start at 2 o'clock. Murphy won
d- the first game rather easily from Tellico
Plains 15-2. Lloyd King was th\e
star of the game letting the Tellico
at Plains, team down wifoi five wcllscatteted
hits.
The other game with Aquone at 3:
15 was forfeited in the first half
, of the sixth inning. According to
manager Hiekmar*, Murphy gets
.? credit for the game 9-0 although the
! score was tied up at 2 and 2 at the
a time of forfeiture. J. N. Hill had
et I pitched five innings of good ball and
' weakened. When pitchers were iviang;
ed the visitii\; team forfeited,
id j A big round and square dance was
;*n ; hfld in the New Gym Wednesday
al! night that not only attracted the
c- large crdwd that attended the ball
se games hut n.any ou-of-town frolic:e
' cr> as w 11. The da>.ce lasted late and
to everybody went home tired,
je Prom repoits received almost every
iy town in this part of the country had
I a big affair of some kind on the
>0 Fourth.
e. Marble ieports the biggest event
id ever held there. It was estimated that
well over thre thousand pople attendat
ed the spectacle they provided. A
at series of prize-winning events at t
tracted the crowd. P'oxing matches
be were held.
According to word from Andrews
there was no celebration there on
Wednesday. Although quiet mosj of
. the people were reported to have come
> to Murphy or Marble for the festiviJ
tic s or else gone off to the moun'
tains on hifces, swims, iishing trips,
j or picnics.
The national pres.* said more biff
I Fourth of July celebrations were
1 I held Wednesday all over the counc.?
t try than ever before and the list of
1 fatal accidents had been cut in half.
re As far as fire-works were conhe
cemed, the local communities were
he comparatively free of noise. There
of were no reports of any serious acciis
denfs of a.nv tnture in thic nart of th<conrty.
It
TODAY
1.00 YEAR?5c COPY
MN DIES WITH
BROKEN NECK IN
ACCIDENT HERE
a
Driver And Baby Unhurt
As Truck Smashes Into
Ditch Miie From Here
Sunday.
Thrown from a truck in which he
vas riding, Joe Crow, 49-year-old
Shoal ( reek farmer, died with a hrok'rt
neck en route to the hospital h re
Sunday aftern- n. The acrid' nt happened
about a mile west of Murphy
jn Highway N-. 28.
Bill Crow, son of the \ictim, v
ir:\in- the tru 1' t th timi of the
. ' ' dent. at oJuing invest-tigntors.
a- ir !-ii a baby ii his lap.
nd i- a i t . v? ddenly grabbed
he steering wheel :4nd pulled the
iruck ov r in a ditch. The truck ran
lown th ditch nearly 200 yds. before
Joe Crow and the baby were thrown
.. Ciow's neck was broken, and
1 lhy's 3c : i-'htly injured. Tha
v a not mii? t.
a-!ng CCC truck picked up the
victims arni I r-light tVi m to the
Petri? hospital /ce. Crow was dead
lip n rrival and was conveyed to his
home near Suit.
Sheriff Mason, who invrstipt tod
the icident. said Monday no arrest*
ivoul.i be made.
-Many people ol this section retnem'ber
Crow a- the brother of dim
Ciow, who was chief of police in Murphy
about 15 yearg &K?Funeral
services were held .Monday
afternoon at Shady Grove church,
near Suit. Crow is survived by a
wife and 11 children; BiV, Borate,
Tiny, Ernest, Lorine, Hoyden, Pearl,
Faye, Fiank, Polly and Martha, all
of Suit; his father J. G. Crow, of
Unaka; Two brother?, W. T. Crow,
Madisicnville, Tenn., and J. C. Crow
Unaka; five sisters. Mrs. A. S. Moss,
Mrs. George Crawford and Miss Kate
Crow, Unaka; Mrs. George Moore,
Martins Clerk, and Mrs. A. K. Buirell,
Kennesaw, Ga.
C. B. Hill ,of Murphy, was in charge
of funeral at rangements.
o
Hampton Memorial
Revival To Be Held
On Monday evening, July 0, at 7:
30 o'clock a revival will begin a..
Hampton Memorial M. E. church. The
Rev. C. C. Benton who will assist in
*he services is expected to arrive with
Mrs. Bent n and his son, Paul, o i
Monday. The Rev. Br. Penton is
pastor of the First M. E. church of
Canton where he is in his fourth yea.of
service. He has had wid'.- ex
perience in evangelism, and we are
expecting a genuine revival. Everyone
.s heartily welcomed at all services.
Sunday morning, July 8, at eleven
o'clock the ? W - innnol invfallailAti
of Epworfch League officers will be
held. Plans are under way for an impressive
service, and everyone is in
vited to attend. Those taking office
will be:
Mrs. L. P. Hampton, President;
Margie McDonald, 1st. Vice president,
Ruth Hampton, 2nd, vice-president;
Hazel Hampton, 3rd, vice president,
Ruby Holland, 4;h vice-president;
Juanita Dyer. Secretary ami
Treasurer; Dewey Johnson, Choirter.
Ruby Bailey, Organist, Mis. I,. P.
Hampton, Reporter.
The League has regular meeting'*
each Sunday evening under the direction
of different leaders. It is
hoped that several delegates will at
tend the Epworth League Institute
at Bpworth, Ga. July 30 to August
5.
Mr. W. n_ Tfturr??An
Recovering Rapidly
Mr. W. D. Towns on was up and
; around town Wednesday on the road
to recovery from a recent serious ill|
ness.
j Mr. T* vnson has been sick for the
past fou- weeks and returned only
i several d. ys ago from the Fort Sanders
Hospital in Knoxvillo, Tenn.,
where he was confined for treatment
for 12 days.
NOTICE
The County Commissioner Oierokee
County decided to rtom *he
date of advertising taxe* *rom me
30, 1934, to August 1 1 '