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aHJMI That's- I ^?r MURPHY \rhe Leading We Vol. IHL?No. 27. Ravagii Sweep TVA PETITION FOR LAND HERE IS PUBLISHED Supreme Court Defers Action On TVA Case For Another Week TVA PETITION While locally TVA officials proceeded legally to condemn 906.7 acres of land in the basin of the Hiawassee river in Cherokee county, the Supreme Court at Washington Monday deferred any ruling concerning the TVA's right to sell surplus power to muncipalities for "at least another week". Although the two are supposed to have no effect on each other they have been looked upon with prime importance to inose liueresrea in ino building of the Fowler's Bend dam 18 miles below here. In the condemnation proceedings being published in this issue of the Scout the United States of America in relation and for the use of the Tennessee Valley Authority, named the Southern States Power company; the Mountain Land company; W. T. Rowland, W. T. Rowland, Jr., and John A. Campbell as trustees in the dissolution of the Mountain Land company; the Cherokee Land and Development company; Julius C. Mai-tin, Julius C. Martin, II, and W. V. N. Powleson as Trustees in dissolution of Cherokee Land and Development company; John (1. and Amy L. Matthews; the Standard Trust Comp. any of New York; Garafilia VanDcventer, James VanDeventer, Henrietta VanDeventer, Hugh F, VenDeventer and Louise C. VanDeventer as defendants in the suit. Gives Particulars of Land The advertisement sets out in full the exact location and amounts of land under condemnation, practically all of which is located along the Hiawassee river basin between Murphy and the dam site. The petition was filed at Shelby on January 29 and is signed by Judge E. Y. Webb. Of more interest nationally however was the high courts deferred action. The ruling has been expected for nearly a month and half while usually tne justices hand down a decision in something like three weeks. It was said that nearly 200 persons were present at the high tribunal to hear their decision on the TV A and that they showed signs of disappoint, mcnt when the matter was put off for another indefinite period. In acting on the Authority's right to sell surplus power, the Supreme Court is arguing on a prized New Deal institution and the decision may have monumental consequences if it finds the TVA has no right to sell their surplus power. Since the decision has nothing to do with flood control and martial preparedness, it is expected to have but little if any effect here even if f it is adverse as the Hiawassee dam i? not ^contemplated as a power unit and is being built primarillly for flood control purposes, the Hiawas see being the second largest tributary flowing into the. Tennessee riveer. TV A Malces Report Monday the Tennessee Valley Authority reported to congress its efforts to dispose of surplus power generated at the gigantic development "have been only partially successful, due to strenuous opposition by many interest." The agency's report covered operations for the fiscal year ended June SO. Echoing some of the arguments already made for the agency, the report contended: "Existing privately-owr.ed utilities have been given every consideration consistent with the authority's para mount public obligations. No dop'i """"-tinned on page three* ft ekly Newspaper in Western North Car Mur lg Flood ing Two ; GREGORY G. GROUND SHADOW, KNOW Mr. Gregory G. Groundhog, the ! 1 old weather prophet who has carried on since 1680, who has caused lots t of happiness and many disappoint. < ments, and who probably never told i the truth in his life, duped this great I Ameican country Sunday by poking i his snout out of the ground again, 1 and, seeing no sun there, let it be I officially known that winter would ; be over in just six more weeks. However Gregory, no matter what j his past permances might have been, | seems to have gotten off to a fairly good start. < 1 Where we were, he had to burrow through about six inches of snow to I Ket scared by a sun that wasn't shining. But it really warmed up the next day and began raining with all fury bringing about one of the most diastrous floods this section has ever Miss Hall Clerk At Dickey Hotel Here Miss Margaret Hall, who resigned as a teacher in the Murphy High school Tuesday afternoon has accepted a position with the Dickey Hotel as clerk. MLs Hall has had experience in the hotel business having been connected with a hotel in Kinston, N. C. o MRS. MAUNEY TO HEAD NEW SOCIAL FIF.I n WORK HFRP Mrs. George Mauney has been appointed to direct the new division of field social work in Cherokee county and is daily making assignments in this capacity at her office in the court house in Murphy. The Western North Carolina dis- 1 trict of the state work is being supervised by Miss Victoria Bell of Hickory, who is expected here any day to outline in detail the work to be done '' in Cherokee County. Due to recent liquidation of the ERA, a large fund was earmarked to ' integrate relief activities with the department of public welfare in the 100 ' counties of North Carolina, and Miss 1 Anna Cassatt, of Raleigh, was put J at the head of the division. < The enlarged county units will be 1 responsible for certification of re- 1 lief clients of the WPA, CCC, resettlement and other federal agencies, and those clients eligible to receive s surplus commodities. Reappointments and more parti. ( cular the distribution of commodities ] in this county, however, will only be j made to the most needy cases and \ thnsA that could hnrdlv do , , j them, Mrs. Mauney said. 1 o 1 Local Boy Learning \ To Pilot Airplane } Rae Moore, son of E. C. Moore, * now a member of the Atlanta Air * club, is anxious to have anyone in. a terested in learning to fly at a nom- R inal cost to get in touch with him. j] b Along with a group of Atlanta v students, Mr. Moore has joined in purchasing a neat little plane and instructions are given once a week. <j The most of the complete course, p including regular payments on Hie t plane, is quite small, Rae says, and a Pilot Scarboro who landed his plane a j near here last fall, is the instructor. 0 Rae took his first lesson Sunday, t ! When the pilot got him up 1500 s { feet he asked Rae if he had ever d ; driven a plane before. At the ncga- f tive nod Scarboro said, "you got her, t buddy. Do with her what you like." Mr. Moore is one of this section's ""ost enthusiastic pilots and is inter^<1 in having a plane of his own if v 'd is ever placed in this vicinity, ii vone intere.-ted is asked to get ' with him. n MTflte olina. Covering a Large and Potenti phy, N. C. Thursday, Fel ri s Lause To Deal HOG SF-ES NO , rS NO FEAR?GOODY J tnown. Whether or not Gregory hit it or. he barrel head this time is a matter i >f speculation. Although the sun wasn't shinging here, it might have oeen over across the mountain; which means we are due for nice, balmy iveather while the boys who reside on i he other side of the hill are in for ome more bad weather. Where the lowly groundhog ever ?ot his start is more than most people have ever been able to find out. i But folks all over the universe count I on him to figure out the weather. He is supposed to come out from hibernation the second day of every ; February. If he sees his shadow, the little skunk, he will crawl back in his hole for six more weeks of bad weather. If he sees no sun, he smiles, calls it a day and goes out to hunt something to eat. MANY PRESENT AT PRESIDENT'S BALL THURSDAY NIGHT ?l.i ? 41 cuiu, luniy w earner more than 100 couples, represent!ng every community in this section, attended the President's birthday ball at the Regal hotel here last Thursday night. The dance was under the direction j of Walter Mauney and music was j furnished by John Davidson and his ! Casanoval orchestra. Eighteen dollars was cleared at the j rlance ami will be divided between the I Young Woman's club and national | headquarters for the cure and prevention of infantile paralysis. NEWS PICK-UPS : I The writer once had the good for- i tune to see a water tank catch on i fire and partially burn down?and figured it would be the queerest ( thing he would ever see. But how about Ed Moore's wrecker being tow- < ml in the other day? ) i The WPA workers couldn't get at 1 their projects the other day so they l ivere put to cleaning snow off the i street4?. They did a good hard days 1 work. The fruits of their labor < showed nn admirablv. Then thp rain :anie along and finished the job, free ? gratis for nothin' as the darkies used t :o say, and got credit for it. s t Everyone has his own particular 1 ense of humor. A person will laugh ^ it one thing that another thinks is illy, etc. But we wonder if there 1 ?ver was anyone who didn't get a t a ugh; and a big one at that, at see- * ng someone else slip on the ice and v fall down. One unfortunate young \ ady the other day was passing in i 'ront of a group of men. She was i >urely conscious of the act and was t loing a good job of it until zingo. c ler feet flew up over her head. She a cicked furiously for a moment, and tl hen wham. Every part of her must b tave hit first. Her embarrassment d 'or the moment couldn't have been inv ivnrsp thftn nnrs Rnf wn in ^ o around the corner and burst loose n a good half hour laugh, until some lody caught us in back of the ear nth a snow ball. Most of the boys that used to ped- a lie punchboards have now taken up a '(inching of another sort to idle their b ime away This time it's the noble L rt of fisticuffs and some of them ren't so goo-/ But one fellow the w ther day said he probably threw up cl he best guard in town when he quared off. "You can't", he says ancing away twirling his balled-up ists, "even throw a bucket of water h hrough it." ir o b: - HARVE ELK1NS BETTER fi Mr. H. G. Elkins, his many friends j rill be glad to know, is still improv-' tig at his home here and attendants! o: hink he will soon be able to be out it 9 mm .ally Rich fecitnr-, m This State t>. 6. 1936. Dam To :h In Hi< r i* i r> *i nignways, Kan; Halting Traffi Washed Aw BODIES FOUND WEI The Hiawassee river, calm once week Wednesday afternoon when tl phy, was found four miles below wh ing the flood and left it. Coroner S. C. Heighway was n< Moore is said to have jumped i The bodies of Dewey Johnson Johnson, 58, who were drowned wh? ing Midway dam demolished their found in drifts in the field below th Hiawassee had receded Wednesday Early morning searchers fount catch of driftwood and Mrs. Johnso They were taken to the funerc services will be held Thursday afte orial church. Funeral arrangements for Bla Wednesday night. 125 EMPLOYED IN COUNTY'S SEWING ROOMS Payroll Amounts to More Than $2000 A Week. Superintendent Says The Cherokee county sewing; room project, employing 125 women :hroughout the county, ha? had a ;otal payroll of $5,700.90 up to February 1, Miss Pearl V. Parker, supervisor, announced this week. The sewing room project began in rherokee on Nov. 13. :-i . i- >ia n i muieriaiy consisting ?i .5.J4U yaras >f government commodities and 401) ,*ards of ERA goods are being used n the six sewing rooms throughout he county. Items furnished to the project room from the district office it Asheville contain 30,765 yards of ligh grade cloth and 359 dozen spools >f thread, Miss Parker said. From Nov. 13 to Jan. 1, 2484 garments were made and delivered to he county board of commissioners, ponsors of the project, for distribuion to the needy of Cherokee county. During the past month 1790 garments vere finished, she reported. 'The sewing room project is bene'icial to the people in Cherokee couny in various ways. A payroll of nore than $2,000 a month for 125 vomen who without this project would >robab!y be unable to secure employnent, the improvement in sewing imong the workers, the social securi. y enjoyed by having our own payhecks semi-monthly, and the thous inds of garments that are made and listributed in Cherokee county are mt a few of them," Miss Parker eclared. o fliieves Enter Murphy Supply Company Here Theives entered the Murphy Suply company here late Saturday night nd escaped with clothing and other rticles the value of which could not e accurately determined, Mr. Noah ovingood, the manager, announced. The culprits entered through a rear indow, after the store had been losed, he said. o MRS. SAVAGE IMPROVING Mrs. W. A. Savage, of the Regal otel, is greatly improved after havig suffered several weeks with a rokcn ankle received some time in a >11. A New York housewife sent a loaf f bread back to the store because was not sliced, ,-lthough she need 1 i immediately for supper. nil | 1.50 YEAR?5c COPY Burst iwassee roads Flooded ic, Homes Are ray Into Rivers DNESDAY MORNING ! more, gave up its third body cl tb?le body of Blaine Moore, 22, of Mu ere the stream had cast his body d^-r itified immediately, n the river Sunday night. , 28, and his mother, Mrs. Jn a torrent of water from the bu?rthouse early Tuesday morning-, wer? le house when the flood waters of ;K morning. i Dewey's body hung up in the J it's in the second drift, tl parlor of Peyton G. Ivie. F-uncrsl moon at 2:00 at the Hamptcrj Me line Moore had not been amour it cl Ravaging floods that a-..-* Midway hike dam to burst early T. v- d?y morning washed two bodies ?.to the Hiawassee river making its n.i three lives for the week. Mrs. Blaylock Johnson, C8, and her son, Dewey, 28, disappeaied when a torrent of water demolished ttacr house and Mr. Johnson, another, von, Lawrence, and 16-year-old, Hazel Hampton, Mrs. Johnson's neice, dragged themselves from the wve?k;?y?. The Hiawassee, like every ether stream in the county, had jumped its banks as the result of heavy rams that washed this section's heaviest snowfall into the rivers. The river had backed up tc the Johnson home at midnight Mc mlay when the'6-year-old mud and concrete Jhm gave away. Lawrence, the surviving son, said he was first awakened about three o'clock when the house was. shaking violently. He met his father ar.d saw Dewey, the former Cherokee county deputy sheriff, going toward his mother's room when the house v?f* rt to pieces. The boy and his father we:o v/sv hed into a fence oo yards in back of the house and held fast to it until the torrent had spent itself and could wade out of the water. Three Survive The Hampton girl was at a loss- lo know what had happened. She icceived an injury over the right eye and was first found wandering along the road that joins the house. Wednesday the river was fast receding and the wreckage of the house was being salvaged for the missing bodies. It is believed they might have floated down into one of the fields that was covered completely by turbulent waters from the lake. Dewey's car was found washed into a clump of trees about ICO yards in back of the house and some think it is possible that the bodies might iihvd hppn wackp/1 >" ? 4 i-. ^ ? v. .. ..WUXVU Ilivu Uir lUMIlJIg waters. The river bed is 200 yard? behind the location of the heme. A creek ran from the dam past the Johnson home and it was a quarter of a mile up this stream that tfe* dam burst loose. It carried ton? df ice and large boulders with it ruinitifc everything in its wake. It is believed the terrific weight of the ice and the floods proved too much for the strength of the dam. Houses and Highways Flooded I While occupants of several other houses along the Hiawassee and Valley rivers were forced to vacate them one home, that of Jasper Queen, just above the highway on Valley river was washed away. It belonged to B. C. Moore. As the waters surged against all bridges setting a record for height highways and railroads were washed out and all traffic had to mjspend operation Tuesday. The Hiawassee river claimed anothfCorf >ued on page three)
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