IJSL i 28Hj That's- \ MURPHY | ' I "t* Letting I Vol. 11L.?No. 30. SOLONS SPEED 1 TOWARD EARLY ADJOURNMENT i State Seriate Parses Revenue Measure On ' Second Reading 1 Italeigh, Feb. 25.?The general as- J sembiy advanced another step toward sine die adjournment Tuesday when the senate, with but two dissenting votes, passed the revenue bill on second reading and cleared the way for approval of the appropriations measure. All but four sections of the appro- ^ piiations bill, which provides for ' state spending of approximately ( J?145.0OO,(Mt0 during the li?3?-39 bien- ( ilium were adopted in committee-of- t| t he-whole. Leaders said they hoped to pass the i? venue proposal, providing for genoral fund taxes of approximately ,, $76,000,00 during the two-year f period, on third reading by Thursday q and to pass the spending measure ^ through first, second and final read- j, in at that time. It" unchanged by the senate, the ^ appropriations bill automatically would become law. a The tax bill, which has been sub- \ stuntialy altered by the senate will u go to a conference where legislators j, will attempt to iron out differences between the two houses. Principal c changes adopted by the senate would: Principal Changes In Bill ( 1. Place a three per. cent sales tax u on buiding materials, with certain i ' exemptions. 2. Continue the three per cent sales * levy on meals sold at restaurants or hotels. (The house voted to remove 1 the levy, in line with a pledge made v by the Democratic party.) t 3. Levy a $4 tax on all gasoline pumps at filing stations. (Instead of t a graduated tax on chain filling sta- t tions, as recommended by the house.) Forty-one law-makers voted to pass 1 the revenue bill on second reading, with only Senators Brock of Davie j and Long of Halifax casting the only opposing votes. Asserting he would never support a measure 44as damn?bl?> n? this " Qnnot?- * ' ?- W>V??VU| J,lUI?U'Ua 01 Camden declined to ballot. Legislative leaders, anions them Webb of Lenoir, chairman of the sen. ate finance committee said a move would be made in conference committee to remove the three per cent tax on meals. They were not agreed on how many readings the revised revenue bill would have to pass in each house if a conference compromise were effected. Removal of the meals tax was said to be backed by Governor Hoey. DiicuMion Deferred Discussions of appropriations fo* the North Carolina School for the Deaf, the North Carolina and Western North Carolina sanitoria, und mothers' aid was deferred by the senate committee-of-the-whole. Approval of a section providing for appropriation to the highway commission of the $2,100,000 estimated to be raised from a three per cent sales tax on gasoline was defer ? IJ l ed at the request of Senator Hill of I Durham. Hill said he would strike out a lf house-inserted section of the finance t bill providing that highway funds j niay not be diverted until the sur- i plus in the general fund is exhausted. (Continued ob back page) 1 O ? Weather Vane I Following are maximum and minimum temperatures for the past week t compared with temperatures for the i same period last year: ' K TEMPERATURES < 1937 1936 ' Data Max. Min. Max. Mia 16 59 29 61 32 < 17 54 21 56 38 18 51 35 51 15 1 19 49 26 44 13 ! 20 53 40 46 24 < 21 61 40 44 33 1 22 47 27 48 19 1 RAINFALL 1937 1936 ' Since Feb. 1 4.16 in. 8.76 in. ' Since Jan. 1 . 13 88 in 17.24 in. ' [ t dip Weekly fr&spnjier u> Western honk Murphy Two Plays To Be Given 1 At Folk School Friday There will be a program at the John . Campbell Folk School, Friday, tarting at 1:30 (Central Standard "inie). it was announced by officis this week. i Friday will be the closing: of the irinter term at the school and two ilays will be presented. Three Men Hurt In Fights Are | Improving Here" rt Three men were recovering? m lurphy hospitals this week with in- ^ iiriea sustained in recent fights in 1 ^ herokce and Graham counties. Al ged assailants in all three instance re being held by officers pending ^ utcomc of their condition. * While Charlie Bell, of the Unaka ; ction. i. nefokee county was recov- .j ring from a head wound in the Whit- Q ield hospital here, Kay Jump and loldie Dockery, both of Unaka, were y eing held in the Cherokee county f; ail. c The men were arrested Sunday by leputy sheriff John Crowe and Con- c table Mac McDonald after they had ^ Ilegedly assaulted Bell, who. Dr. B. y V. Whitfield said, was suffering with concussion of the brain but was n mproving. n W. 1*. Gregory, who was seriously t] ut. in a street fight in front of his q ome in Andrews Feb. 13, was report- n d much improved by Petrie hospital ^ ttaches Tuesday. Mr- and Mrs. \>sey Thnusher, both of Andrews, are ^ till l>oing held in jail in connection 5 kith the fight. f Ed Waldroup, 20, of the West luffalo section of Graham county, ( vho was shot, through the left lung j >y Alvin Stewart, also of Graham c ounty, Feb. 12, was also reported to t ?e improving by Petrie hospital at- ^ endants. ^ Doctors .*aid that all three "would p ive". I PUPILS AJDED BY LUNCH PROJECTS ec IN THIS COUNTY * c During the past five months 11 ' fomcn with a total income of $399.2 per month have been engaged in. h. 1 A 1 " " -V *v nuKil rcw^s now DeiTlg" OOT1- I [ucted in the schools of Cherokee ounty which serve hot Lunches to 11 un average of 780 students daily, 4 icoording to a signed statement by i t j. B. Nichols, chairman of Cherokee * bounty Board of Commissioners, * nade public Friday. ( At the close of the week ending >b. 12, a total of 24,884 lunches tad been served at a cost of $1062.19, it was reported. ' A close check-up on the health and veight of the children are kept. At he end of January, three months ifter the lunch rooms began operation, weights were checked with >re-hmc4i room records and it was < 'ound that those who had been < icrrved showed a large gain over: < hose who had not been served in t V. I 1- ? tie iujjcii rww. i ne ^auiA rep* c eseated were from one to T5 s >ounds. _ , The record also shows, it was , taied, that the percentage of colds ind influenza among those who have not taken hot lunches in much higher than for those who have. REPORT ON COUNTY 1 SEWING ROOMS IS ' GIVEN WEDNESDAY The Cherokee county sewing rooms 1 o date have made 26.966 garments alucd at $32,3.19.20 according to a loticc made public by L. B. Nichols, nairman of the county board of comnissioners, Wednesday. To make these garments the WPA 'urnished 61,650 yards of material. ' The payroll for the sewing room pro- t -t in this county for one month is I'll,813.65. Although 76 aro employ- 1 :d now there has been as many or, e 135 on the payroll, according to the S eport. E The sponsor's cost, the report con- t; inues is $552.83 including sewing 00m rents, lights, water, fuel ar.d E naterials. P Carolina, Covering m Large and t t N. C. Thursday, Feb. 2 DRY LOSERS SHIFT FIGHT TO COUNTIES It's A Fight To The Finish" Organization President Says Raleigh, F**b. 25.?The United itates Dry Forces, defeated in at?mpts to prevent passage of local opion liquor legislation, shifted their attleground tonight to the 81 counies in which special liquor elections lav be held in April. "It is a fight to the finish?no surender," said Cale K. Burgess of Ra;igh, the organization's vice presient and campaign leader, in a leter to drys throughout the state. "If nd when county elections are called e must fight day and night and deL-at at liquor stores and liauorcrats." The local option bill, ratified Monay night, authorized county boards f commissioners to call special elecions, but no reports of such elections rere received here today. Most couny boards meet the first Monday of ach month. Elections also may be ailed by petitions signed by 15 per ent of the registered voters who par icipaiea in tne last gubernatorial ote. Meanwhile, house judiciary com littee No. 1 appointed a sub-comlittee to redraft a bill to legalize he manufacture of liquor in North Carolina. The United Dry Forces did ot announce what stand they would ake on the measure. The senate Tuesday passed a bill >y Rodman of Beaufort providing for ,000 copies of the option law to be uinted. In his public letter, Burgess de lared the law provides that "a booteggec or any other person can as ften as he might desire, on each oi he 365 days of the year, including Sundays, bring in a gallon of liquor. This can be divided up into quarts, >ints or half-pints and sold by bootegger and no officer of the law can ouch them. Declaring that the wets of the genral assembly had refused to allow ounty commissioners to say whether nne and beer could be sold in their ounties, Burgess charged, 44the wet iquor bill was railroaded through he house without the members even laving a chance to read it." He said 17 counties now having iquor stores under the pasquotank ind New Hanover acts have sold ibout $5,030,000 worth of spirits. Of his amount, he added, $4,000,000 was ent from the state and less than SI,000,000 was "kept to cover exicnses and paper profits. w uauy iNews In Review In making their first announcement President Roosevelt's proposal to 'ither retire all supreme court justices nor 70 or raise the number to 15, he Knoxville Journal carried a small aption over the headlines of the tory to the effect that was one of he monumental moves ever made in \mercian civics or government. They appear to be right in their contention. Although most newspapers do not ieem quite as concerned with thi* information as they do with other news (principally because it hasn't got he appeal and kick other news has) terious thinkers are looking gravely (Continued on page seven) /ICTORY DINNER TO BE SPONSORED BY DEMOCRATS The Cherokee county Victory din. er which will contribute support o the Democratic party, will be held t the Junnluska Terrace in .Andrews 'hursday night, March 4, at 8 o'lock (Eastern Standard Time), Mrs. abra Bailey, vice-chairman of the emocratie party in Cherokee counts announced Wednesday. Tickets will be sold for $1.50 Mrs. lailey said. She expects 100 to be resort. e &rw fotenttailj Rich fernioM tn Ihu 6lo 5,1937. $1 Dance To Be Held I Saturday, March 6 The Charity League of Murphy will sponsor a dance at the gymnasium in Murphy Saturday r.ight, March 6. Miss Sara Rath Posey, announced Wednesday. Music for the dance wiil be fur- / nished by Jimmie Cineiolo of Gainesville, Ga. Fred Baity, 39, Of Ranger, Is j Buried Tuesday, Funeral services for Fred A. v Baity, 39, well-known Murphy jewelry 1 repairman, were held at the Fair- 1 view church in Cherokee countv o Tuesday morning a*. 11 o'clock with the Rev. Johnnie Carper, of Lake Junaluska, fornver Methodist cir- i euit minister here; the Rev. Ja'nes c Starling, and the Rev. Fred Stiles officiating. Interment was in the j v church cemetery. W. I). Townson. j | jof Murphy, was in charge of the] : funeral arangements. Mt. Baity, a cripple for many years, died at his home at Ranger, j five miles from here, Saturday, night at 7 o'clock after several days j illness. Rallbeajners ( were: Will Sneed,; j Claud Sneed, Clingman Johnson, | * Fred Kilpatrick, Charles Kilpatrick j i and Wig Hughes. Mr. Baity, a member of the Bap-1 tist church since 13 years of age, l had been connected with E. C. Moore / Jewelry store here for years. Al- f though badly crippled his genial ; nature had made him a wide circle t of friends. I Surviving are his wife, two small children, and three sisters, Mrs. C. " O. Healon, of Akron, O., Mrs. J. B. Bramlett, of Marietta, Ga., and Mrs. D. C. Patterson, of Burlington, 1 n- c- n ! ; LOCAL PLAY TO j1 ' BE tjlVEN HERE 1 = AGAIN MARCH 4\[ |i A repeat performance of the come-it dy-drama, "Eyes of Love", which jit was presented here Feb. lfi. will be J a given at the school auditorium Thure-.a day night, March 4, it was announced ^ Tuesday by members of the Methodist j j. church circle who sponsored the play. L Although ihe play was largely at- j tended at both afternoon and evening j y performance it is believed that many ^ failed to see the show due to bad i weather. A number of requests have y been made to the ladies of the church < to give the play over. Production is in charge of Mrs. j < Virginia S. Cobb, a member of the ! j Murphy faculty. The play was ad-ij judged one of the -best ever given 1 ? htre. j, Members of the cast are: Martha1,] N'cll Wells, Elbert Mal&onee, Jr., ;j Ralph Smith, Miriam Stilwell, Laura j Overton, Mrs. E. C. Mall once, Mrs. I J. H. McCall, John Jordan and Sam j can-. ' J Misa Catherine Coleman and Miss' i Bill Godfrey will assist in vroduction ! j while 3Iary FYanccs Bell, Mrs. Tom 1 Axley, Dorothy l^ahn and Jack Bar- j j nett will furnish between-the-act en-' j tertainment. Leon Axley and Morris Miller will attend the properties. j; MAN ON DRUNKEN ,1 RAMPAGE SOUGHT j AT WOLF CREEK' i Deputy sheriff Earl Payne was in '' the Wolf Creek section Saturday j looking for Arthur Bell, who, it is, alledged, went on a rampage Friday evening while intoxicated and did ^ some shooting around the home of ^ Rosilla Harris, according to W. L. Gar- ti ten, of Wolf Creek. Bell was given a five-year sentence to the penitientiary six years ago for holding up J. M. Garren with a rifle '' and robbing him, Mr. Garren report-i!" ed. j*J Deputy sheriff Payne failed to locate Bell who, it is said has gone to (' Georgia with his wife and child. o HADLEY WILLIAMSON ILL ! Mr. Hadley Wlliamson, an employee ! of the Scout, is confined with illness ^ this week. * .w Largest I Circulation l|M IM Any Paper ^ Ever Published Here. lie .50 YEAR?5c Cor i LIONS DINNER IS HELD HERE TUESDAY NIGHT Annual Cherokee County Banquet Is Attended By 100 Persons One fjimdred people including numbers of the Murphy Lions club v.d their g.'osts attended the annual *heroke?* county dir.ner sponsored y the club in the Methodist church rue^day night. W. M. Landess, who is connected nth the TV AC at Knoxville, was the he principal speaker of the evening, 'hrough the medium of lighted slides it urged greater diversification of ;<'p> ia farming, protection, of the oil from i rosion and more personal ntercst in the beauty and stability >f nature. Other speakers on tie program ie:*er Prof. Jack Lance, of ^ oung lari s. Ga., Pierce Bask in, president l the Blairsvillc. (Ia.. Lior.s club, nd Mrs. Olive lk Campbell, of the ohn C. 'Campbell School at Braasown. President G. Ellis, juesided over iic- (Ji-UKTKin. r OC?a was llll'llistli'd bjr he ladies of the Methodist, church vho have been arranging the T tons upper for the past year. The program began with the s? .i?r, '.Amen.a", sung by the entire yroup. allowing invocation by Lion Rev. W. Vrthur Barber, Mrs. Glenn Bates ang a solo accompanied by Miss darineli Williamson. A musical >elecion was rendered by Miss Mary vatherine anil Leon and Torn Jr. \xley. Mrs. Bales and Johnny 1'arron ang a duet. After Lion Ellis welcomed the guests, Mr. l.andess delivered his talk. Lioness Ailine Barbet ?nd Miss Lois I ait ham gave lecita ions, arid stunts were performed by Jon Park W. Fisher and H. Bueck. The dining room and tables were ittractively decorated in a red and rellow color scheme featuring a nuni>er of baloons, noise makers and taper huts. Flowers were hung above he table. Tin cans, attractively labeled, were favors. A display of all maniftt; tured products in the county was irranged at the entrance. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. 1. G. Elkns, Mr. and Mrs. Don Withrspoon, T. A. Case, Herman Frankyn, Mrs. Olive D. Campbell, Park W. isher, G. W. Ellis, W. D. Whitaker, dr. and Mrs. Jack Lance, Mr. and Irs. Pierce Bask in, Dr. E. E. Adams, diss Bcttie Kate McCombs, Sam .1 \l Albln. xr.. ?J - - .... ????. iiiiu rnxs. (j. Ui "handler, Mrs. K. G. White, Miss ?is Latham. Mr. and Mrs. A. Q. Cetner, Mr. and Mrs. Ii. B. Wooten, dr. and Mrs. K. K. Thompson, Mrs. L G. Carter, Mr and Mrs Arthur harbor, .Johnny Parron, Mrs. Glenn dates, Mr. and Mrs. V. M. Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Coleman, Mrs. I. 1'. Hampton, Mrs. H. J. Caldwell, Hr. and Mrs. T. W. Axley, B. H. Mil. er, C. C. Hughes, Itichard Mclvcr, A. iV. Mclver, Tom Axley, Jr., Leon Axey, Miss Pearl Hawkins, Mr. and Mrs. IV. M. Fain, W. F. Krickhan, Mrs. H. .. McKInley, Mr. ang which draws educational leaders rom all schools and univresitios in tie country. Her place i? being filled by Miss iOis Latham. GARAGE EQUIPMENT HERE . Several loads of eouivment were eceived at the TV A gn-age which ?s onened up in Murphy near the riawassec rive" hridee this week.