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IJH. 31 That'*? MURPHY Tkt Leading I Vol. 11L.?No. 38. Cooper W Graduation I 61 Seniors In School Are I Mrs. E. L, McK.ee Talks At Commencement Exercises Here HONORS AWARDED Gainesville Vicar Is Baccalureate Speaker On Sunday Education begins at birth and end; a; death, Mrs. E. L. McKee, stat< .senator of Sylva. told G1 seniors ir the Murphy high school auditoriuir here Tuesday night which market impressive final exercises for tht graduating students. "It is a mistaken idea that somi parents have that education begins a the age of six in the class room an< lasts for 11 years. Education begin a! home at birth," she declared to thi I largest senior class west of Ashe title and more than GOO visitors whi packed the auditorium capacity. The speaker dwelled at length oi the training a student should get it the home and said that "too man; parents arc prone to put xne jod 01 on teachers/' Mrs. McKee opened her addres with a tribute to Mr. Bueck, superin tendent of the schools of the Murph; unit, and Mrs. Bueck.' She told th students they were experiencing " culminating event in their lives", am advised them at this time to take periodic check-up of themselves b i asking these questions, "Am I sel fish? Am I obedient? And Am lazy?" Mrs. McKee paid tribute to th character of the students by statin they were a product of the communit from which they came and said a the students of Western North Car< lina have an advantage in that "the come from the same, fine Anglo-Sa> son background." Education Begin* at Home "We hear the distressing cry thes days that our jails are filled wit >ouths?that the age of criminal has shifted from middle age to youtl Why is that? With $27,000,000 be ing- spent on our schools annually th answer is that some parents think the can train a child morally and spirit nally and fully educate him by sendinj him to school at the age of six an keeping him there for 11 years' Mrs. McKee said. "The real education docs not com from facts but from the fundaments training of self-control", she adde speaking to the parents, and declare that "you must teach them truth? the only dependable thing in th' world. Parents must respect th' rights of others. Too many put tb job off on the teachers. Education i something that must be practiced it the home every day to bring out al (Continued on back page) Tenni* Courts Are Being Built Here Several tennis courts are beinj built on the vacant lot between the TV A ?J !-. ni:? > -- - ? VMS ?uu Ui'C biftllUS IIVU1V UUI 10 the enterprise of 0. D. Johnson Member of the TVA recreation* division here, and a number of vol unteera. Mr. Johnson said he is planning t< erect more there in the future. o County Education Board Will Meet On Saturday The Board of Education of Cherokee county will meet in Murphy Saturday for the purpose of naming the ruperintendent of the county education and electing committees from al the county school districts. One such meeting was held two weeks ago but due to absence oi P-emberSkof the seven-member board it was postponed until this Saturday. Iff Sfi Weekly Nempmper u> Vesterm North C Mm rithdraws 1 Exercises For Murphy High ield This Week TATTLE SALE WILL BE HELD i AT BRASSTOWN Pure Bred Jersey Calves To Be Offered In Cherokee and Clay ! Nine purebred Jersey calves will be ; offered Clay and Cherokee county 4-H club members next Saturday to help I them develop their calf club work, ' John A. Arey, of State college, has announced. , jn these two counties, Arey said, t club members arc a considerable dis1 Kenodmn nnJiiiuk a Jl'JIII 5?UU U? V,VUI?b s and for this reason they have been ' e handicapped in their endeavors to . raise high quality animals. 0 The nine purebreds, one yearling bull and eight heifers with high milk 1 and butterfat production records, are * all bred from lines of stock that have y nade outstanding records, Arcy conf tinued. "Club members will offer their own s bids," Arey stated, "and will thus be - able to purchase the calves at a lowy er price than they could get the anie mals by going to the farms where a (Continued on Social Page) I Rivers Is Not 1 Available For I Address Here y n Although Gov. E. D. Rivers of y Georgia is expected to visit Murphy c- and Cherokee county within the next month or so, it was definitely learned this week that he would not be ,e available for a public address for h some time. s Answering an invitation from Dr. A dame nn KoKal f nf frho TVfnrnhv Lions club to "speak here some time e in May", Mr. Rivers advised that he y would visit North Carolina within a month or so, being in Murphy 011 p Sunday, May 23. d As it would be impossible for him ', to speak in public on that day the committee in charge of arrangements e will attempt to get him here at anil other date, possibly in the summer, d G. W. Ellis president of the club,1 d has appointed the following commit tee to be in icharge of the affair: J. c B. Gray, chairman; Sam Carr, A. W. e Mclver and Tom Case. e o ? ? T ?. c n - iruui jcason upens; ] License Sales Are Up While the trout season in the western counties of North Carolina opened Thursday, Wednesday saw the ! 'close of the season on all other species. The season on small mouth I bass has been closed since September a 28. a D. M. Birchfield, game warden, said , a record number of fishing: license 1 have been sold in Cherokee county - this year. ' 600 Visit Hiwassee Dam On Last Sunday There were 600 Utters from five states and the District of Columbia at the Hiwassee dam Sunday. . | That was the first date on which officials at the project 22 miles below here had kept figures. This [ was the largest crowd that has attended on a single day, Dave Mulli, gan, head of the police force there, reported. Miss Ruby Rogers,_ of Murphy, was the first name entered. rrufeti aroUna, Covering a Large and Poien rphy, N. C. Thursday, Api Vs Gray, B HEALTH UNIT TO BE SET UP BY JUNE 30TH Milk Sanitation Program To Be First Work Undertaken Here Cherokee county's new health unit will be set up and established by June r 30, according: to a letter received j Tuesday by B. L. Padget, clerk of the Cherokee county commissioners, from n?v fnvl \T MAAaAa _ - . I . . <vc,ViiUIU?, 6Utlt' health officer. Under the plan passed several weeks ago by the county board, the county, the TV A, the state and the Federal government, will cooperate in JL providing funds for the maintenanca of a health unit here. It is expected Cherokee will join with Clay and Graham where health units have already been established. Dr. Reynolds stated in the letter c that work "pertaining to milk sanita- a tionM which he termed as "the most u urgent need" would be started within a few days. d The state boards plan is to place c Cherokee at present under a Dr. Sisk, a district health officer in charge of n the counties of this state, until full- a time district health officers can be sent here. ^ Copies of the letter were sent to ? Dr. E. L. Bishop, director of health ^ of the TV A at Knoxville, and L. B. a Nichols, chairman of the board of county commissioners at Andrews. ?r Dr. Reynolds* letter is as follows: j April 14, 1937. j Mr. B. L. Padget, Clerk, c Board of County Commissioners, <s Murphy, N. C. Dear Mr. Padget; (j "We appreciate your telegram of I April 7th, advising us that the Chero- p kee Board of Commissioners accept- l ed our proposal for a health unit and f milk ordinance, and requesting that the unrlf hp hpmi?" ? r "We appreciate very much the y cooperation of Cherokee county in p I this undertaking, and wish to assure s you and your Board that we will u exert every effort to establish the work immediately." b "In view of the fact that the most c urgent need is that pertaining to t milk sanitation, it is our suggestion that this be the first service inaugurated. We are working out a plan I whereby we hope that this can get under way within a few days. There may be some slight delay in starting the entire program with the health | officer and nurse, but it will be pos- . sible for us to work out arrangements whereby the milk work can be done between now and June .'{Oth, jand we will attempt to give you the entire program before that time if we can find the qualified perI sonnel." "It may be necessary for us to place the direction of the service un- 1 der Dr. Sisk, the district health officer in the other counties embracing the western part of the State, until 1 we can work out the details of the arrangement for providing you with the services in full-time district ' health officer for Cherokee, Clay and f1 Graham counties. We hope to be able to advise you definitely in regard to these arrangements early next c week". r{ "I regret the delay in answering ^ your telegram and writing you in re. gard to plans, but I was out of the g( office all of last week and until yesterday. It will be necessary for us j. to draw up a special contract with your Board of County Commissioners ^ for such period of time as the service is in actual operation. When we ^ find the definite date when we can 0 place the personnel at work, we will prepare this contract and forward it for the signing of the Chairman of your Board". al o * NOTICE bl I am informed that many taxpay- j ers are not listing their property. I | advise that everybody should list and j avoid the penalty for non-listing. 'f*' S. W. Lovingood, t Hhf p Holly Rich Territory in This StaU ril 22, 1937. "$1 oard For Bueck Reelected For Two-Year Term Here H. Bueck, who ha* been superintendent of the schools of the Murphy unit for the past five years, wasc reelected to that position for another two-year term at a meeting of the Murphy Board of Education Wednesday afternoon. The board will name additional teachers in the Murphy unit at an early date, it was announced. 7 nroinriTnrn i inv>iuimiv> BEING BUILT AT COST OF $13,500 s First Marked Building Program Since TV A Came To Murphy A building- program, including the onst ruction of seven residences at n approximate cost of $13,500, is nderway in Murphy at present. E. C. Moore, local automobile ealer, is having four frame houses onstructed on the property known s Moore Heights on Boulevard aveue. The cost of each is estimated t about $1,000. Ed Studstill, L&N railway employe ere, recently purchased a lot at 'ive Points in East Murphy and is aving a frame house erected there ,t a cost of about $2500. Work is going along well on the lew house of Harry Bishop on Moon Ieights adjoining the home of Wad< dassey. Mr. Bishop's home, whei ompleted, will cost approximate^ 13500. T. W. Kindley, local soft drinl istributor, has purchased the formei lutt lot in East Murphy and has be run construction on a brick veneoi >ungalow to cost approximately $3, ?00. Although housing facilities in Mur ihy have been crowded the past tw< ears due to an influx of TVA em tloyes, this is the first marked con truction program that has beer ndertaken here. A number of other homes havt een remodelled and repaired reently. Many have been enlarged o utilize more space for the new omers. Third Mad Dog Epidemic Hits Murphy Lately Three children in Cherokee county were found to have been bitten by a mad dog Wednesday. Upon a report from the state health department it was found that a dog belonging to Gay Johnson, of near Brasstown, was mad. Earlier the dog had bitten three of his children and some of the animals on his farm. The third mad dog epidemic in furphy in the past six months occur. 1 last WOplf wVlor? ? ....... ?V.UJ pUIICL- itpor* :d shooting several dogs which upon camination at Raleigh were found i be affected with rabbies. Saturday Mayor J. B. Gray, on the ^commendation of Dr. J. N. Hill, >unty health officer, ordered all >gs to be tied up for a period of ) days. One dog was shot Sunday, April 1, by Chief of Police Fred Johnson, s head was later examined and the >g was found to have been mad. lie dog was known to have bitten her dogs in town. GOLFERS TO MEET All golf enthusiasts and those who e interested in playing golf are re>ested to meet in the Murphy li ary tonight (Thursday) at 7:30 TAT ION AND BRIDGE PAINTED The L & N station and the trestle anning the Hiwassee have recently en painted. . . it? L*r*?* illili Circulation [ill II Any Paper ^ Ever Published Here. ! .50 YEAR?5c COPY mally File ELECTION TO BE HELD ON TUESDAY, MAY 4 Attorney General Rules Two-Year Term To Begin With Election ??^ What yesterday appeared to he a very complex and heated municipal political campaign, today had absolved itself into the tamest and most op -ofu! of elections affairs. The following events during the n.-t three days have made vast and clarified changes in the Murphy elections situation: 1. Harry P. Cooper withdraws 11 ?jiii me race as a canaiusic lis ilisy* or. 2. Incumbent mayor J. B. Gray files with the members of his board composed of C. D. Mayficld, Noah Lovingood, E. C. Moore, George W. Ellis, W. H. Murray and T. W. Axley. 3. Mr. Cooper reports upon return from a trip to Raleigh that the attorney general has decided definitely that an election is to be held in Murphy this year. Mr. Cooper's announcement of wth'drawal from the race Wednesday is *as follows: "Owing to unforsecn I circumstances over which I have no control and the pressure of business ; affairs I hereby announce my with, drawal from the race of mayor of the town of Murphy. ' "I wish to express appreciation to ? my many friends and supporters and s the many assurances given me of l friendship and support, but I feel at r this time that it would not be fair to me and my many friends and citizens c to make the race." r Mayor Gray and the six candi dates for aldermen formally filed r with E. 0. Christopher, town clerk, . Monday. Messcrs Mayfield, Lovingood and Ellis are incumbent mem. bers of the board. The new candij dates are: E. C. Moore, local auto_ mobile dealer; W. H. Murray who is . connected with th<* ? ?- wvuiucin ivai ii way hero, and T. W. Axley, who is connected with the Cherokee Hard? ware company. All of the men are . well known and are prominent in I business affairs here. Mr. Cooper, who as Cherokee county representative in the legislature introduced the bill extending the term of the mayor and board of aldermen of Murphy to two years, said he talked to A. A. F. Seawell the attorney general, in Raleigh last Wednesday and that he was advised that it was Mr. Seawell's opinion that the bill implied the two-year term would begin with the next election which will be held on. May 4, rather than with passage of the bill. No time was specified in the bill as to when the new term would begin. Registration books will close Saturday for the election, and Saturday, May 1, will be challenge day. Rides Will Be OlUtnOll Aw Pni?' vrpviicu vrn ran Ground Saturday The Mechanic Amusement company, owned and operated by Sam J. Mechanic, will open up its rides to the public on the Murphy Fair grounds Saturday morning. It will last one week. The amusements are being spn9ored by the Murphy Lions club. Rides to featured by the company are those that were at the Cherokee County Fair last fall?Merry-goround, ferris wheel, Whip, Chair-oPlane and Hey Dey. Edward K. Johnson, advertising and booking agent for the company, said the company would go to Sylva when they ended their stand here and would proceed on up through the state. Popular prices will prevail and concessions of refreshments will be operated by the club. Proceeds will go toward charity work.
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