aHvc i M J That's? 1 ^ murphy ' The Leading W Vol. IIIL.?No. 48. All-Day C Construction C Tennessee Lint To Be First T\ $ Building of Camps To Be Next Step On Hiawassee Project By Sa m Carr Possibly the first move toward actual construction on the Fowler's Bend dam will begin next month with the building of a road from Turtletown, Tenn., into the dam site. A letter from the law firm of Witt and Witt at Benton, Tenn.. to Fred Bates ,of Murphy, advises that a 100-foot-right-of-way has been oftained along this route. Bids for contracts on the job will be opened at Knoxville July 10. Although camps and barracks will he built in and around the dam site, if iu Koliovod Mint ) li <> i-nn d will ??.-? practically finished first in order to facilitate the moving of materials for building the temporary buildings into the site. It is estimated that the building can be done at nine-tenths the cost if the construction on the road is finished first. With another three or four million on hand, the TVA has not yet made definite plans regarding the preliminary work on the Hiawassee dam. About 150 or 200 men will be used to start this project and the number will gradually increase in momentum until about 1200 will be useit when it (Continued on back page?This Sec.) SYLVA GADDIS, OF DUCKTOWN, IS IN JAIL HERE Brother Of Polk County Deputy Held For Bond of $ 1 000 Sylva Gaddis, of Ducktown, was still being held in the Murphy jail this week in the absence of a $1000 bond on a charge of "disturbing" North Carolina highway workers near the state line at Isabella. The 35-year-old brother of Emmett Gaddis, former Polk county deputy sheriff who was indictel Monday along with two others on a charge of murder in the slaying of D. W. McFadden, road contractor, five weeks ago, was arrested by Patrolman E. B. Quinn, Jr., last Thursday morning for allegedly threatening members of a highway paving crew at the state line with bodily harm if they did not give him a job. Grover Ramsey, superintendent of the road nroieet. had Fred Bates. local magistrate, issue a peace warrant for the arrest of Gaddis. According to officers Gaddis and another man approached Ramsey last Wcdneesday and demanded a job saying: "I am a Gaddis, and if you do not give me work you had better not come back here". Ramsey told him to appear for work Thursday morning. He then went to another highway official at Andrews who had Quinn arrest Gaddis when he showed up for work. If bail is not made for Gaddis he will remain in the local jail until a term of Cherokee Superior court meets for a criminal session here in August. At the time of Gadds' arrest members of the sheriff's office were hold'ng a warrant against him for simple assault on a female in the lower end ?f the county. Poley Bell, deputy. ?aid the warrant was taken out about 2, weeks ago and that it was compromised and lifted at the time of Gaddis' arrest. The other man that was with Gaddis when he demanded work left when he saw officers at the scene of e job last Thursday. |t dp eekly Netctpaper in ITestrrn SortM M elebration )f Road From 2 To Dam Site /A Move Here I Second Primary Will BE Held On Saturday Cherokee county citizens will again go to the polls Saturday to vote in the second primary. Of prime interest to the voting element is the race for governor between Clyde R. Hoey, of Shelby and Dr. Ralph McDonald of Winston-Salem. In the first primary held June 6 Hoey led the voting by about 4000 majority. Two other candidates for governo^, Sandy GraI ham and John A. McRae, were eliminated in the first ballot. Celebration P 1 a n n p d Rv JL 1 U II II V II JLT J Unaka Folk All the fun-raising in Cherokee county Saturday isn't going to he done ir Murphy?for Unaka is going to have a great big Fourth of July I celebration all of its own. Henry Rose was in town Saturday I preparing for the great spectacle to take place in the lower end of the county. He said the Unaka show will he made up of several fine speeches, | some boxing matches, and a lot of | other entertainment. He says it is beings sponsored for ! the benefit of the church and no admission will be charge. Drinks and dinners will be sold on the grounds "We are going to give away a number of prizes down there", he said, "and we sure want a lot of folks | to come out and help us celebrate". REVIVAL DRAWS LARGE CROWDS EACH EVENING Large crowds have been attending nightly sessions of a revival meeting which is being held in the Fair exhibit hall in Murphy and in which all the church of Murphy are participating. It began Sunday night with a special program which paid homage to the different institutions in the county. It. is being led by the Rev. W. R. England with; the pastors of all the Murphy churches taking turn handling the program on different nights. One feature of the revival is the special singing which is led by a male quartette consisting of C. I. Calhoun, Ernest Hawkins, Homer Ricks and John Donley. o BERRIES NOT RIPE, MURPHY CANNERY GETS SLOW START Because berries have not yet fully ripened generally, very little productive work was done this week at the Murphy cannery which opened up Monday. E. R. Thompson, cannery manager, said that the people were having difficulty in finding good berries and that operations would pick up as they ripened. Meanwhile many improvements and preparatory steps were made for full-capacity running when berries and vegetables become ready for can; ning. o Joins U. S. Navy Mr. Richard Luther Queen, of Murphy, was among 60 apprentice seamen enlisted in the United States navy this month, it was announced at headquarters this week. M Carolina. Covering a Largr and P urphy, N. C. Thursday, . Arrangec BURT ARRANT. 35 KILLED BY HIGH TENSION WIRES Power Co. Employee Electrocuted Here On Wednesday Afternoon Burt Arrant, about 35, an employee of the Southern States I'owei company for the past 10 years, wa> electrocuted here about 4. o'cloc! Wednesday afternoon when he wa: working on a transformer near thi L and N depot. Arrant, witnesses say. had scaled the pole and had started to put tw< wires together when the high-tension line, passing out about (5G0C volts, ran through his body. He hung prostrate across the wire? I aknnt 90 Ut. 11. could be removed. It was said that Arrant was undet the impression the mr.eiit had been cut off, as is the practice, at 4 Vclock when ho climbed the pole. Evidently he began working or: the wires too soon. When removed from the 25-foot pole his body was badly burnt and he was conveyed to the Peyton (I, Ivie funeral home. Funeral arrangements had not been announced Wednesday evening, Surviving are his wife; four sons two daughters; his father, Jim Arrant, of Bellview; u brother, Ed, ol Brasstown; two half-brothers, Bass and Walter, and several half-sisters. REVISES SCHOOL BUS ROUTES FOR COMING SEASON A. L. Martin Says Coun ty Should Own Its Own School Busses In revising school bus routes fo the coming fall term of the publi< schools in Cherokee county, Mr. A. L Martin .superintendent of public n struction in Cherokee county, s.ii Monday he hoped that a county-own ed system of busses could be arranjj ed so that the county could be sa- c about $5000 expenditures along thi line annually. According to Mr. Martin the coun ty, through its bus iine contra :ts must supplement the state approp ia tion by about $5000 per year. Th? State gives 04 per cent of the actua cost of maintaining busses for publi< instruction. If Cherokee county were to buj its own busses, he says, the state appropriation would take care of prac tically all the expense as they woulc furnish all the fuel, all the repair* ana a large part of the driver s salaries. He added that recently tre county I commissioners have taken up the problem and that they are in a:cord with his views. In Mr. Martin's opinion the county will soon operate its own busses. At one time, Mr. Martin declared, the state paid 80 per cent of the costs of school transportation in this county. Later they cut the figure down to a state sandard in this county. L. C. Thorton, of Raleigh a member of the transportation division of (Continued on page five) Urges Citizens To PayTaxes Before August 1 Z. C. Ramsey, Tax Collector of Cherokee County is urginp all taxpayers to pay their 1935 taxes 'jrinpr the month of July in order to- ve the extra cost of advertisements The law forces Mr. Ramsey to t, these steps as he states in his .lk< vertisement elesewhere in the paper. otfntinily fiich Tcrr- ? m This Stoti July 2, 1936 $ I Hcte For Ail-Star Bail G; Pctrade Are F< Program On L. L. MORGAN RM 1 Sunday School Worker Is Here For Convention i L. I.. Morgan, secretary of Baptist Sunday School Work of the State Convention, of Raleigh, was in Mur1 phy Tuesday making final preparas tions for the Sunday school revival in Western North Carolina and West Liberty association. Mr. Morgan came here from Franklin where he has 28 extra Sunday school workers conducting a Sunday school revival in Macon county. I The revival to be held here is the fourth of a series of eight to be conducted between June 13 and August lb. A final check on the churches of Cherokee and Clay counties reveals that itbout 30 churches will partici | ^Continued on back page?This Sec.? r ABOUT HALF OF r! MURPHY VOTERS ARE REGISTERED el i- With only four more days left for registering in Murphy's special pool d room election, it was announced s Tuesday that a few more than half of the town's qualified voters had - registered. Up to Tuesday noon 263 had registered with Dale Lee who has charge j of the books in Candler's Depart- | ment store. It is estimated that about 500 persons in Murphy are qualified to vote on the question of American Legion supervision of pool rooms in Murphy. Saturday sundown is the last time a name can be placed on the books. ; The election will be held Tuesday, July 14. G ALL 4 - H CLUBS IN COUNTY WILL MEET DURING NEXT WEEK A county-wide series of 4-H club meeings has been announced as follows by A. Q. Ketner, Cherokee county agent: Peachtree, Monday night; Suit, Wednesday night; Martin's Creek, Thursday night. Ketner said he was anxious for a full attendance at all meetings as the subject under discussion would be on fair exhibits. o Hampton Infant Dies Funeral services for Richard Bryan Hampton, four months old, were held at the Hickory Stand jMethodist church Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock with the Rev. Mr. Steadman officiating. W. D. Townson was in i charge of funeral arrangements. He ; lied Monday night at 5 o'clock after 1 three weeks illness. net TODAV 1.50 YEAR?5c COPY Saturday ame, Float matures of Big Fourth of JuJy Several Thousand Citizens Expected Tc> Attend Events Murphy expects to play th? congenial host to several tin pl^asuro-bont thrill-seek* : - herB^atut day hy jrovidinjr on*- of the n < >? * xtravapant all-day j>n?cr:an> * ?-v? r had the fionor of offer!.:; F'< ?th el' July c e I e bra t i o n i ?t: s. Last year the town \ ? of some 12500 happy-jro-luekv out for a "whole days Th? year the sponsors ? : tie 1 . ih of July program have taken * -? L-i- ater pains to provide a eiot ir ?4 that is "I-ttrjrer and better ir; tvuy '-ay'. The rlnv'c fVints e the big parade of fl< ats begin- and ' circles the town. A large list of sponsors form Murphy and Andaews have entered attractive float and the first prize will he worth to somebody. Then conies the baby | a ;.?le th? (Continued on back page?This Sn.) bondTet for 3 INDICTED in McFADDEN CASE /N 1 ! ? r?* .1 r-kl -I A Ljaddis tSail Klacc'cl At $1 5,000; Others At $5,000 Each After a brief n-usulta: sor. with defense counsel at Ducktown, Tenn.. Tuesday. Judge J??hn .1. Bla.i bond for Emmett Gadbi.- at $ lb,000 and for Clarence Brooks and lb yd Parton at 85,000 each. The three were indkted by ; fecial grand jury Monday on first i-1 1- * * uui uumi until ine Hearing DCJore Judge Blair Tuesday morning at. o'clock. Under Guard at Home None of the three men had made bond Wednesday morning. Gaddis, at. the request of his former chief. Sheriff Birch Biggs, was permitted to remain at his home at Isabella under guard, and Barton and BrooI