Air Tjrt Attractive (ElflL That's? I murphy I Th? Leading Vol. IIIL.?No. 41. Approval Citizens Vote i Assumption Of District Bonde< Majority, 99 to 1 Against Move Piled Up In Special Election Cherokee county citizens Tuesday voted down a move to have the county assume all township and district | bonded indebtedness by a huge ma- j jonty estimated by one public of. ficial at 99 to 1. According to law the county commissioners will canvass the county for resutls in the special election Thursday and present the exact figures. A strong indication of the trend of the vote was given in Murphy r ownsnip wncn tne oou persons tnat had registered, 247 voted against the move and only four voted for it. The figures also show that very little interest was given to the election as 2911 of those registered did not even vote which automatically become a vote against the move. Reports reaching here Wednesday indicated that similar majorities were rolled up in other voting precints. A complete tabulation of the voting will be given next week in this publication. The election was ordered in the last session of the general assembly, and Don Witherspoon, Murphy attorney, and W. A. Adams, chairman of the Cherokee County Board of Commissioners, who sponsored the move, said it woul facilitate in outtin f expenditures and bookkeeping. In some sections of the county, however, principally in Andrews, where bonded indebtedness had been bought up, the citizens felt that this would only be an additional expense in the form of taxation to them. Mason Now Buying Sheep In Cherokee I.. L. Mason, former sheriff, of iVa-htree, who has been sending aj great deal of cattle off all winter lias now turned his attention to sheep. Only recently he has sent off 200 or 300 head of sheep and is now looki around for some more high-class young sheep to ship to out-of-town markets, he said this week. STUDIES ROCK FORMATIONS Dr. Corin, eminent Belgian geolowas in this county Thursday and i V hi iday examining metamorphic rock, HBh'1 *s an authority, in this section. He will be in this country j about six months and will study rock [ formations from here to San Fran. I rienn U? I 1 -? J ^ ?* . xiv nas cumpieieu two liiomns of his American survey already. EXPRESS APPRECIAl FOR HELP IN PR Murphy. N. C. May 13, 1936. To the Editor of the Scout: Many citizens of Murphy, and Cherokee "County have extended to us kind expressions in apreciation of our efforts in aiding the procurement ?f an appropriation for the Fowler Bend Dam, all of which we apprei cjate, but, we do not wish the impression to prevail that the appropriation was procured by us, and believe that due credit should be graven our Congressman, Honorable Zebulon Weaver. It was through the efforts of Mr. "Weaver, ably supported by Senators Bailey and Reynolds, that the appropriation was procured. Tlie morning after our arrival in ^ ashington, when we met Mr. Weav*r? he assured us that he had every hope that the appropriation would be made and never for an instant doubted that the appropriation would be jnade. We found that Mr. Weaver had every detail fully in hand, and oo furnished us with information and < ata verifying his confidence that i* tip Ir?t/y Nncipaper m if rslrrn North Murj Of Dam A \gainst County Township and d Indebtedness TWO NEW MEN j j ELECTED INTO | LIONISM HERE Many Other Matters Brought Before Club Meeting l ues. Night Two now members, the Rev. H. W. Baucom, Jr., and Winslow McIver, were elected to the Murphy Lions club at their regular meeting in the banquet room of the Methodist church Tuesday night. Mr. Baucom is the Baptist minis. tcr of Murphy, and Mr. Mclver is connected with Neil Davidson in the mercantile business here. Dr. E. E. was unanimously elected to asrve as corresponding secretary of the club. At the suggestion of Lion Tom Case the secretary was instructed to wiite Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia, and W. E. Winhourne, chairman of the Georgia highway commission, on behalf of the club in an effort to have a stretch of road extending from the North CarolinaGeorgia state line to Blue Ridge, Ga., paved in the near future. Gov. Talmadge has assured C. W. Continued on page three) DEMOCRATS TO NAME CHAIRMAN HERE SATURDAY A new chairman of the Demoicratic party of the Cherokee county will be named at the party convention to be held in the Murphy court, house Saturday morning at 11 ! o'ciock. By order of Dr. J. X. 11-11, the present chairman, meetings were held in every precinct in the county < last Saturday afternoon to select | precinct committees and the chair-' man of those committees will select the party officers for the coming term. Dr. llill was named to the post a year and a half ago upon the death of Mr. C. 15. Hill, his brother, who was chairman of the party at the : lime of his death. At the recent convention when candidates for the county offices were elected Dr. llill announced his resignation saying he had to devote more of his time to his profession ! than the job wouid allow him. According to the new rules the vice-chairman of every committee must he a woman. ION TO WEAVER OCURING DAM HERE his efforts would be successful. We found, in consultation with i other Congressmen, that no member of Congress stands higher in his character and official duties than Mr. Weaver. Wo wish to quote from a letter written by a member of Con- j giess from North Carolina, on March 25th. of this year. In speaking of Mr. Weaver, he says: "He occupies an unusually strong position here and is so highly respected and regarded by the Membership of the House, generally, that ' he is almost always successful in his efforts, but at the same time we will gladly support him to the limit in anything that he undertakes. We also that Senators Bailey and Reynolds had every detail at hand and gave willingly and active support to Mr. Weaver. We feel that the citizens of Murphy and Cherokee County should ever be grateful to Mr. Weaver, and our Senators. Respectfully, C. D. MAYFIELD, EDMUND B. NORVEI1. mkm Carolina. Covering a Ijargv and P phy, N. C. Thursday, May Lppropriati THOROUGHBRED I1 CATTLE BRINGS BIG PRICE HERE Successful Sale Held Saturday; 400 Attend; 3 Head Kept Here While pure bred Guernsey cattle was selling at an average of $154 per head, 400 Cherokee county farmers met here Saturday and amiably * talked shop" about raising thoroughbreds in the county from now on. The sale was sponsored by the Cherokee County Breeders association in cooperation with the county agent's staff and the state extension department. With ten of the finest head of Guernsey cattle in the state placed on the auction block through the generosity of five of the largest breed- < ing farms in the state, those gather cu at me iair grounds listened to talks from \V. M. Fain, Murphy wholesale merchant; J. A. Arey, dairy cattle specialist with the extension department, and the Rev. Mr. Compton, of the Eliada orphan- j age. Many buyers were her from surrounding counties and districts in Western North Carolina, and in spite of the money that flowed freely during the day, three of the prize Guernseys remained here in ! the county permanently. j1 One heifer calf, Charm's Rosebud. ; of the Eliada farms, was sold to ! Don Withersppon, Murphy attorney. | for $155; another heifer calf, lies-, ter of Garden Creek, from the II. A. j Osborne farm, at Cmton, N. C.. be-j came the property of John Shield.-; for a cold $150 and a pure l?**ed j bull from the Valkyrie farm- at i Ashevilie was auctioned to Burt Shields for $75. The top price paid for a heifer ' (Continued on back page) BETWEEN 10,000 AND RECENTLY HATCb "We'll have chicken and dumplins I when she comes"- with plenty of I chicken. ? , ? I j'ur v^. nriiin , v. ucnnvcv 11ty agon;, says that the county has suddenly become chicken < ns.ious , and between 10,000 and 15,000 little i chicks are now seeking roost in this : territory. I Most of these have recently been \ bought and ave being raised f Uncle Sam's fire-eaters, got paid tff and came to town to do a little , celebrating. He did just that in a big way. In fa'_c he celebrated so much that the *irst time anybody gave him any par- i licular attention last Saturday was vhen he folded up like and ac- !: ordion, got as limp as a jellyfish, and decided the sidewalk was just as jfood ?* mattress as any other. The usual crowd gathered around ind decided tc call a doctor. No, hat wouldn't do at all. They would just cany him to the doctor's office. But Rumford didn't like being moved so well, so he took a few lusty swings at those would-be helpers of his and wandered on off his own It! TODAY It lie ^ 1.50 YEAR?5c CORY cted Soon PRESIDENT AND SENATE YET TO APPROVE FUNDS [f Passed Will Mean Immediate Construction r\ ii- c- -. wi! niawassee oilf A deficiency bill carrying ao ap propriation of $3,337,228 f< : "nn mediate" construction of the H?awasseo dam awaits only the :et?on of the Senate and President I ? t? it becomes law. The bill parsed the House I y a 341 to 38 majority Monday. The funds for the Fowler Rcml project are included in a dc ficiency bill providing $2,3(14,229 fm ?ir? measures which was submitted froFederal approval last week. Leaders forecast a quick tin the bill to the White House sir ?l it is not expected to meet any cpr osi- B tion either in the Senate ..- i three years, had accepted a .(ntj.ct to a; pear hi re on that