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MURPHY
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Vol. II1L.?No. 52~
ARKIVESHERETO
OVERSEE WORK
OF TVA ROADWAY
J. Scott Tolboit Represents
Codell Construction
Company
J. Scott Tolboit arrived here this
week to act as superintendant of the
principal access road construction
work at Fowler Berd dam for the
Codell Construction company, of
Winchester, Ky.
The contract was announced by
the TV A last Wednesday and will
amount to approximately $177,000.
Between 100 and 200 men will be
used on the job.
The contract calls for the clearing
grading, and construction of all
structures for a roadway thirty-one
feet wide from should to shoulder,
extending twelve miles eastward from
the damsite to Turtletown, Tenn. It
is expected that the surfacing of the
highway will be done by the Authori
ty's own forces. The road will follow
a right-of-way varying from 100
to 25o feet in width. The contract
includes also the building of two
steel bridges over Shoal Creek, one
sixty feet long, the other ninety feet.
The contractor received instructions
from the Authority to proceed
with the work at once. Work
on the roadway will be divided into
two sections, the eastern strip between
the damtdte and Shoal Creek
to be finished first. Construction
time on this first section is fixed at
120 days, and on the second section
between Shoal Creek and Turtletown,
on Tennessee Highway 68, at
180 days.
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Regular Picnic
Meet Held Here
Bv Lions Club
?
Tht? Murphy Lions club held its
regular monthly picnic meeting Tuesday
night.
In the absence of President George
Ellis, who is ill, Dr. R. W. Petrie, the
first vice-president presided.
Reports were given that four local
cripples had been carried to the
orthapedic clinic at Rryson City several
weeks ago and that glasses had
been provided for one boy in the
county with defective eye-sight.
A motion was made and carried to
have the club meet at 6:30 hereafter
instead 01 b o'clock as nas Deen tne
practice.
Other routine reports were given
at the meeting.
The picnic dinner was in charge of
Mrs. Quay Ketner, Mrs. Fred O.
Scroggs, Mrs. K. C. Wright and Mrs.
Arthur Barber.
CANNERY WANTS
MORE BERRIES;
ESTABLISH CAMP
In an effort to acquire more berries
for the Murphy cannery, E. R
Thompson, cannery manager, established
a berry-picking camp in th<
lower end of the county tins week.
The Mountain Valley Mutual
Canning association is paying foui
cents per pound cash for berries al
the cannery. Truck routes have
been provided by Mr. Thompson foi
those who can r.o; bring their berries
to the cannery.
One family, the manager said
picked over $6 worth of berries one
morning this week.
''Berries are a source of good in
come right now", Thompson declar
ed, "and we want all that we car
possibly get."
J. N. HILL AT SCHOOL
J. N. Hill, Jr., son of Dr. and Mrs
J- N. Hill, of Murphy, was enrollec
in the first term of the University
of North Carolina Summer school a
Chapel Hill which closed this week
Jt has been announced. The secon<
term will continue through Augus
29.
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g ff eekly Meto % pa per in Vestrm. <Voi
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| FAIR CATALOGS
WILL BE GIVEN
OUT THIS WEEK
First distribution of the catalogs
for the Cherokee County Fair to be
held in Murphy Sept. 22-26 will he
| made this week-end, A. Q. Ketner,
county agent, has announced.
The booklets, just off the press
and describing more than $1000 in
premium - for Cherokee county products,
will be given out free.
Mr. Ketner will distribute them
over the county, and anyone may
obtain a copy by calling at Mr. Ketner
s office in the Murphy court
j house or at the Cherokee Scout office.
TOWN BOARD TO
DISCUSS POOL
| ROOM ELECTION
Will Also Study Parking
Problems At Meet
Thursday Night
The town commissioners will meet
in regular session here Thursday
night, August 6, to officially decide
on the outcome of the pool room election
held here several weeks ago.
Fred Christopher, town attorney,
said Tuesday he would notify the
alderman that although the "details
of the voting" were misunderstood
by the ptople "that the election de
I clares pool rooms legal in Murphy
I under American Legion supervision
by a vote of 178 to 72".
It was commonly believed here
! prior to the election and during the
i period of registration that to regisj
ter was automatically a vote cast a!
gainst pool room operation in Murphy.
However, following the election
in which a total of only 250 votes
had been cast aft?*r a registration
of nearly 500 citizens, Article 7 of
Section 7 of the Constitution of
North Carolina was revealed. It
reads:
"No county, city, town, or other
municipal corporation shall contract
any debt, pledge its faith or
loan its credit, nor shall any tax
be levied or collected by any officer.*
of the same except for the
necessary expenses thereof, unless
by a vote of the majority of the
qualified voters thereon".
It is believed that the board will
order a reelection on the question.
| Also the council will occupy itself
with determining more adequate
parking facilities on the main streets
of Murphy.
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Two Skeletons
Found On Farm
At Bates Creek
, I Messrs. C. B. Hedrick and E. E.
Styles, of the Bates Creek section,
* reported Saturday that they had
found two skeletons on Mr. Hedrick's
farm, the former Bud Yoylcs place
? which is now owned by the Southern
States Power company and they have
' surmised from ornaments and trinkets
found around the bones that they
: were possibly Indians.
They explained that there is an
old road runnngr from Mr. Hedrick'i
home into the highway which ha>
been travelled for the past 25 years.
[ The other day while one of Mr,
Hedrick's sons was dragging a plow
over the road one of the skulls was
unearthed. The other skeleton had
beqn found last May.
From the size of the bones they
estimated that one was a man nearly
six feet tall and that the other \va<
a woman. They were found almost
] side by side laying near and facinp
j the Hiawasse* river and although
t years of exposure had disjointed the
, bones they had not been disturbed
i A number of beads, buttons anc
t other trinkets were found rear the
bodies, it was said.
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urphy, N. C. i hurs., Julj
KHA OFFERS j
AID FOR HOME
CONSTRUCTION
Many Here Expected To !
Avail Themselves of
Building: h unds
1 An announcement made early this
week by Scoti Radcktr, field representative
of the federal housing administration
for Western Noiti. Carolina,
thai there are now funds available
in abundance for finance
construction id" the residences in
Murphy, Andrews and Robbin<vi]le
osting from twelve hundred to three
housand, is expected to be th?
sprint: board that will launch a house
building era in Murphy that wil'
surpass anything of the kind that
has ever happened in the city.
The abnormal demand for new
houses here, arising oat of the pieiiminary
work incidt nt to tl. construction
of the Fowler Bend Dam
coupled with the housing administration
policy of driving for more
residence construction in the belowthree
thousand dollar field are working
together to solve a problem of
housing that is growing more serious
daily in this section.
Through this plan, Mr. Radeker,
pointed out, it is now possible foi
lilt' umit'ia in tuj |)i VJJCI t.> in iiivst."
towns to build new homes under
the insured mortgage plan of the
FHA and have them ready for occupancy
by the time the peak of the
demand arrives.
It is this type of construction, Mr.
Radcker said, that is expected to
take up the slack in the multi-billion
dollar national plan of residential
construction throughout the
United States, which is now well under
way.
He pointed out the fact that too
many are building house; which will
sell, exclusive of land cost, for ubove
three thousand dollars, and too few
are building in the range below three
thousand dollars.
He called attention to the technical
bulletin issued by the FHA under
the title of "Principles of Planning
Small Houses" which i- published
by the government as an effort
of the FHA to direct the thought of
the building industry toward the production
of substantial, -unitary comfortable
houses costing, exclusive ot
the land, less than three thou-and
i dollars.
He said attention to this field of
building had not developed until recently
because of the fact that credit
for financing small homes in this section
had been almost an unknown
quantity in the past, but that it is no
longer a deterrerf. factor in this
tvne of construction in this section
because of the fact that representatives
of lending agencies, operating
on a national scope, are now seeking
investment in FHA insured mortgages
based upon new residence conk
struction of this type in this section
He stated that :he insured mortgage
system of the federal housing
administration enables potential
builders with steady employment "?'
good credit record? *o put in as it ties
twenty per cent of the value r :
the hou: <_* ard lot and apply for 021
insured mortgage loan for he balance
up to as much as 1 :ghty per cent
of the appraised value of the 1
with the fir... ':e l hou.-e
In illustrating ie oper i v - the
FHA plan in a si" nation !i-:e "he one
here he assumed "hat the CO pel
cr-nt down payment "1
represent the va* ;e of the a:: n_:
lot. Construction of the no-.v home,
then, may represent the en*, rc loan,
i or 80 per cent of :he apr:ai .! -.
New houses for the purpose oi
FHA financing must be urban residence
propertv osigned for n^:
more than four family occupancy.
S. G. Owens, who has been liqui:
d&tor for a number of banks in this
1 section for the past few years will as
sist interested applicants in making
out their applications and gathering
1 the necessary dota.
J. B. Gray, is chairman of the
Murphy Better Housing Committee.
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Potentially Rich Territory in This .
r 30, 1936.
BEAN GROWERS TO
GET EXTRA PAY ON
THEIR CONTRACTS
The directors of the Murphy canr.ery
announced Wednesday that "a
su: rtantial revenue not expected"
v.ouid tpaid ?-an contractors thi>
season.
The contracts stipulate a payment
of 4." cent foi Grade 1 and '6 cents
f??r Grade 2 beans. The exact
suppiemenuuy jM.vmcnl; could not
be stated this week.
"That's the {rood thing: a out a
cooperative tannery", K. It. ThompIsun,
cannery manager, said. "All
crop benefits are reflected back to
I the grower."
| The canning of beans as well as
j berries has already started.
COUNTY DISTRICT
LAW CHALLENGED
IN COURT ACTION
Suit Is Appealed To Sup
reme c.ourt W hich
Convenes This Fall
A suit was brought by Lee Watkins,
Dr. Fred Herbert, A. M. Sinionds
and .1. C. Townson on behalf
of themselves and other citizens of
Cherokee County atr* inst Josh Johnson,
W. R. Rockery and W. I'. Odom,
members of the Election Board of
Cherokee County, in which suit
plain.iffs allege that Chapter 52b of
the Public-Local La\y? of 1955 dividing
Cherokee County for the purpose
of nominating and electing one com
missioner from each district wai
unconstitutional. They asked tha
tlie defendants be restrained an<
enjoined from in any manner putting
into effect the provisions of the ae
and secured a temporary restraining
order, returnable before his lloiioj
W. F. Harding, on the 2l)th day o;
July, 1936.
The defendants, ?wosh Johnson ant
W. R. Dockery, for the County Boart
of Elections filed a demurrer to th<
complaint setting out the fact tha
under section 14, Article 7 of th?
Constitution of North Carolina, th<
act was constitutional and that th<
Legislature had a right to enact thi
law.
Upon the hearing of the matt*
before Judge Harding on the 20tl
I the demurrer was sustained and th
restraining order vacated.
The plaintiffs appealed to th<
Supreme Court which appeal will o
heard September 2, 1936.
It is said that one district is pre
. dominately Republican and one dis
, .???.w pi cuuiiiuitticiy r/irmocratic ant
! the other district more evenly divid
' ed.
The plaintiffs were represented b]
Edwards & Leatherwood, Attorney
of Bryson. X. C., and the defendant
J were represented by J. 1). Ma'llox ee
1 Attorney of Murphy, N. C.
Wins Bicycle In
Salesman Contest
!
' Jtinn s Abbott Hyatt was award
' a bN-y cle 1 y 'he Ik.rker Drug comp
any this week for receiving- th<* mc 1
ve J es in : salesmanship contest con
:noted by that firm.
James had SOfo votes. Mag dale
Cook was riven a fountain pen a:
- com: >he 4-~?4j
: votes.
j Others in the contest were: Ker.
I !h-;1i Christopher. Jack Bamett, Ja l
' Crawl"-rd, William Townson. C'arolyi
! Carter. Marian Axley, John Dickey
. } Wade Ricks. J. C. Townson, Dorothy
,' Baker, Jean Daniel, Jack Sharp ant
Mary Frances Bell.
GROWS LARGE CABBAGES
A number of unusually large ant
fine cabbages, weighing betweei
eight and 10 pounds, were sold V
the Fain Grocery Company this weel
by J. Yanbuskirk, of the Warne sec
tion. Mr. W. M. Fain said the cab
bages grown by the former Oregoi
, farmer are the largest and best h<
has ever seen.
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ALUMINUM CO.
WILL SUPPLY
1 POWER TO DAM
Firm Is First Contractor
Of Power Generated
At Norris
T .. :1!1V ?f * ??lfrf
: fii * contractor
I ml - ... ; generated at
> < ?;1?: th?- sjjt: irifr of a eon1
*:?. - bttv.i-: Company ant! the
1 Tc.r.o -c . ' Authority. it has
i been ar. - .r.i"d at TV A offices.
The n i..i . v... . xeeuted as TV A
i bccr.n fir elir.ii . "-'s on the
I hu:: - Xorri generating units.
{ adu.ien t" ti e purchase of in;
<: :strial power, the contract provides
... t! C impure will apply power
j TVA 1. r Chi cor-t?ti i am requirerru
n" Kowler Bend Dam, to be
| t il; by TVA i.n t!ie Hiawassee River.
. The .Authority v- i 1 reimburse the
i Company for construction power by
supplying an equal amount of power
transmitted from Norn.- Dam to
Alcoa, where the Aluminum Company
plant is located.
Two Iran - mis.-ion iir.es will be required.
A l.">4,000-volt ht.e will be
constructed between N err is Dam and
i the Company's plant at Alcoa, near
I *1 :il.. T* \ 1 ii
?uaiy\uiv, i i-iii.. .-* ?? mi .mi win
carry power from Santeetlah, Dam
owned by the Alumirtym C< ::.puny ti
Fowler Bend damsitt. Both ii .?s nri
to be constructed by TV A, am! each
will be about 35 miles in length.
The contract calls for the puuh&si
by the Aluminum Company of Morre
Dam power in blocks not to exceed
20,000 kilowatts demand. Terms ol
t the agreement dispose of a class of
j power which municipalities ar.il other
public agencies could r.or use. it was
explained, since it will he available
only after all ether requirement*
have been met.
The contract describes thi" cla 1
of power as the Authority's "surplus
over navigation and floe d cc ..tn I n
j quire me nts and other loads and con.
mitments."
( The rate for i er . ;?! chased b;
the Company is the rc gular TV A rati
? for transmitted econdaiy jewei.
R June 1. 1037, is given as the date
for initial power delivery ti: the
Company. The contract will be in
, force for a period of four 1< six
1 years, depending upon the construe
tion time for Fowlei Ber.d Dam.
January 1, 1937, is given as the date
for initial delivery ?.f jmwtr tc the
,, Authority at Fowler IJend.
: Paving Of Road
To Blue Ridge
: Is Commenced
Paving of the Mineral Bluff-Blue
Ridge highway was begun Wednesdav
moraine-.
Work on this link < f road which
will provide a paved trunk line from
the East to Atlanta ar.d the South
t which culminates year- cf fi? rt on
the part of ]< al c tizcn> * jiovide
i a nmiu eastern-.-out he i. paved highway
through Murphy, is under the
direction of Ralph Manning.
About do men. f v. Mt tl
j'.rity wii: c i<? al workc:*. will he
needed when t. e . get.- full
sway.
t Old convict earn s t.avt . ? \ tebuiit
in the vieh.i'.y < :' i.' 1
and stone for the project will he
t crushed in the Culberson vicinity,
i The paving^ which > being f .
a need by the state of Georgia, will
. he of macadam finish and will be
i 21 feet wide.
Two years ago North Carolina
completed paving of the new high.
way from Ranger, several miles beI
low here to the Georgia st&to line,
1 ar.d the current paving project will
i complete the route.
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c ATTENDS CONVENTION
Harry P. Cooper, member of the
- Joe Miller Elkins post of the Amerii
can Legion here, wa sin Aaheville
? the first of the week attending the
I annual Legion convention.