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Vol. 1L.?No. 37.
EXERCISES AT
MURPHY HIGH
GET UNDERWAY
Recital To Be Held Friday
Night; Baccalaurate
Sunday Night
Part of the graduation program of j
the class of 1938 in the Murphy High
school wjll be given this week end.
On Friday night the music classes
of Mrs. .1. W. Davidson and Mrs. Margaret
Akin will give a recital in the
Murphy school auditorium.
The Baccalaureate sermon will be
iriven on Siindav eveninir in the* ?rhool
auditorium by the Rev. J. P. Abernathy,
pastor of the First Methodist i
church of Franklin.
Graduating exercises wiij be held j
Friday night, April 22, in the school i
of V/aynesville, making the principal
auditorium with Judge Felix E. Alley, j
address.
Several pages of this edition of the
Scout are turned over to the school j
activities of the Seniors during the :
past week.
The following Class Day exercises ;
wen presented in chapel:
Welcome by Mildred Hill.
Cass song, words by Anna Jean 1
Grant.
Class Poem, written by Ansa Jean
Grant.
Class History by Joe Miller Klkins.
Class Statistics by Billie Jackson.
Class Census by Oscar Taylor.
Prophecy by Beechcr Allen.
Giftorian Gcraldine Shields.
I.ast Will and Testament Richard
Mclver.
Closing Class Song, words written
by Dorothy Lahn.
Officers of the class a'"e! Mildred
Hill president; Billie Jackson. vice.
President, and C. H Townson, secretary
and Treasurer.
Mclver Seeks
Office Of Clerk
Of Court Here
A. W. Mclver, Murphy Merchant
and resigned chairman of the Demo-1
cratic Executive committee, has an- j
nounced his candidacy for the office i
of clerk of superior court of Cherokee j
county.
A former World War veteran, Mr. j
Mclver is a grandson of Winslow I
Davidson, former prominent Cherokee j
county politician who served several ;
times as sheriff and in state Jegisla- j
ture.
Mr. Mclver has not held any public
nffion previously.
His announcement is as follows: j
I am a candidate for Clerk of!
Superior Court for Cherokee County,
subject to the action of the Democratic
Primary on June 4th.
I volunteered for service in the army
shortly after war was declared in
1917, and served two years during the
World War. I was wounded in action
fcy machine gun and was passed?I
have never asked the voters of the
County for any office before?and if
elected I promise to serve the County
faithfully, to the best of my ability.
Your vote and influence will be
appreciated.
Winslow Mclver
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Advises Farmers To
. Plant Greens Soon
Burt Shields, manager of the Mountain
Valley Mutual Canning association,
is advising local farmers (o begin
planting: their spinach and turnip
green crops at this time.
A number of contracts for these
crops have been let with the cannery,
and packing is expected to start soon
as the cannery.
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Miss Adclla Meroney returned Friday
from a visit with her sister, Mrs.
Jimmie Weir, and Mr. Weir, in New
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If ee.klv Newspaper in Western North
Burley Quota
Is Favored By
3-1 Majority
With a vote of three.to-one, Cherokee
county Burley tobacco growers
Saturday lined up with other grower;
in five states to have the government
set a crop-cuiiUui quota timing uitcoming
year.
The Cherokee county vote was: 42
for the measure, and 12 against it,
with one challenge vote cast.
Voting "'as held in the Murphy
court house and the store of Mayor
P. M. Reagan in Andrews.
The national vote on Burley control
was about 85 per cent in favor of
the referendum. Sixty-aix as..!
thirds majority of the votes cast was
necessary for passage.
Likewise the 17 counties ir. North
Carolina that voted on the question,
gave about three-to-one majority roi
the referendum. Neighboring Gra- |
ham county was one of the three in 1
the state which cast a vote against
the control.
Local Burley growers are expected
to soon get their quotas from the j
government.
Similar referendums have been held I
in connection with control of other '
crops in the United States. The pur- i
pose of the voting under the revamp- '
ed AAA federal set-up is to control
acreage of various crops and keep the
price up.
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Robert A. Akin
Candidate For
Deeds Register
itoocrt Arthur Akin announces that
he is a candidate for the office of
Register of Deeds of Cherokee Coun.
i ty, subject to the action of the Denio|
cratic Primary of June 4th. Mr. Akin
| is of long-line Cherokee County ancestry.
His Grandfather was a pioneer
! Citizen of Cherokee County, having
I come from Greenville, S. C., in 184?>
j and settled and lived on Notla river
I near where Ranger is now located.
1 Mr. Akin's father was a Confederate
soldier in the Civil War. He volun.
tcered as a private and was later pro.
moted to Captain. He was wounded
i three times, and was in camp with
I Uncle Bent Tathani, Mr. John Steward
j of Texas, and others, at the time of
| surrender. The camp was near where
j Topton is now located. After the sur1
rendered he taught school at Old Valley
town, near the present location of
I Andrews. He was elected to the office
of Register of Deeds back in 1880. and
was a merchant here for more than
30 years.
j Mr. Akin has served as traveling
| Salesman for the Cherokee Hardware
j Company for the past 24 years, and
j is well known throughout the County
i as well as in the several other Western
North Carolina counties. He is well
known as a citizen and church worker.
He is not a politician, and has never
asked for a public office before . He |
pledges himself to a straightforward I
and upright campaign. His announce-1
ment follows:
I respectfully announce myself a
candidate for the office of Register of
Deeds of Cherokee County, subject to
the action of the Democratic Primary
t.? a+U ** ? 1 ---*
jm nunc iviii uuiiniiaicu ana elected
I will work hard to succeed in the
discharge of my duties in this responsible
office.
I will appreciate your vote and in.
fluence.
Yours respectfully,
ROBERT ARTHUR AKIN.
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Walker Announces For
Township Constable
B. C. Y/alker, constable of the
Murphy Township, has announced his
candidacy tto succeed himself on the
Democratic ticket.
Mr. walker, who is serving the unexpired
term of Henry Hickman, was the
first to file before the board of elections.
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Carolina, Covering a Large and Pi
urphy, N. C. 1 hursday, A
Red Cross Is Given
Certificate Of Merit
i
A certificate of merit has been
awarded the Cherokee county Red
Cross by national officials, \Y. M. j
Fain, local chairman, announced Wednesday.
The certificate, which denotes general
excellence in work done during
the annual roll call drive, was signed
by President Franklin D. Roosevelt
and Cary T. Grayson, secretary.
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New Precinct
Named, Filing
Date Changed
The establishment of a new voting
precinct in Cherokee county and
change of date of expiration ??f filing
for candidates was announced by I'.
O. Bates, chairman of the ( horokee
County Board of Elections, Wednesday.
The new voting precinct will he lo.
cated at Hiwassee Dam village where
several hundred potential voters are
now residing.
The date of filing for legislative,
county and township offices ha. been
changed from the fourth Saturday
before the primary to the sixth Saturday,
Mr. Bates stated. The change
requires that notice of candidacy and
filing fee be in possession of the
board on or before Saturday, April 23.
(Sections 6022 and 6023 of the C. S.,
sections 87 and 88 of the Election Law
pamphlet, and Chapter 165 of the P.
I L. of 1933 as amended by Chaptei
' 364 of the P. L. of 1937).
| The first candidate to file for ofi
fice before the board was B. C. Wal.
1 ker, candidate for constable in Murphy
township on the Democratic ticket
i Mr. Bates stated.
11,000 AcresAre
Condemned By
U. S. Government
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| Seventy-three tracts of land in
Cherokee county comprising approximaetly
11,000 acres have been ordered
. condemned by the United States of
' America "upon the relation and for
! Ihe use of the Tennessee Valley Authority",
and publication was ordered
| Wednesday in the Cherokee Scout by
Judge K. Y. Webb of the United
States district court in Asheville.
I The tracts comprise lands lying
along the Hiwassee river and its
! tributaries and are either owned by
I the Southern States Power company
or the company h;is an interest in
t them. Designated tracts extend
along ihe Hiwassee river basin,
tend along the Hiwassee river basin,
or its tributaries, from the site of the
dam to a point above Murphy.
The petition names about 450 respondents
who are given until May
S to answer it.
Several other tracts have been condemned
by the United States of AmI
erica in relation to the TV A in the
' Hiwassee river area in the past several
weeks.
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First Movies Taken
In Cherokee County
The first 100 feet of movie film
known to have been taken in
Cherokee county were displayed at
Hiwassee Dam by Kenneth Bartlett,
training section employee, Saturday j
afternoon.
Mr. Bartlett recently purchased
the camera and it is believed to I
be the first moving picture machine .
ever operated in Cherokee.
The pictures were taken on the j
scenic Hiwassee Dam.Turtletowr. '
route.
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Mr. and Mrs. E. Aycock, of Sweetwater,
Tenn., are visiting Mrs. Aycock's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M.
Baker.
f $rm
otentiallr Rich Trrt-% to*-v xr This Stn
.pril 14, 1938 i
Frost And Rain i
Cause Damage
In This Vicinitv
Although Cherokee county ex per. !
kneed freezing temperatures, frost,
and its heaviest rainfall in some time
last week, the county agent's office
reported Wednesday that very little
damage had been done to crops although
fruit trees will suffer. a
"We have not been able to make a r
complete survey of the county yet,"
County Agent A. Q. Ketner said. x
"But fruit trees and especially apple
trees were probably pretty hard hit". <
However fruit is not generally looked t
on as ? principal r.ourcc- of income in i
this county, although several large *
orchards are located here. <
Mr. Ketner said lespedeza "was 1
hurt some."
With the temperature dropping
sharply to below freezing on Sunday
and Monday nights, downpours of
rain followed which brought approximately
5 and one-half inches of rain- I
fall to Murphy during the past week. |
The figures were kept by the engineering
data division of the TV A. ;
No property damage had been reported
due to the heavy rains, but it
was learned here that one combination 1
store and home located at Whitestone,
Ga., south of Blue Ridge near the ,
Murphy-Asheville highway, had wash j
ed away killing 13 people. All had not
been found Tuesday night.
Padgett Seeks j
j Reelection To
County Office
B. L. Padjrett, present Cherokee I
ieounty register of deeds, will seek re-'
^ election to the office en the Demo I
cratic ticket.
Formal announcement ..... ' '
.... na.i IllitOf
Monday. ,
Mr. Padgett has long been prominent
in Cherokee county political affairs
and has hold the register of
deeds office on several previous oc- \
casions.
! His announcement is as follows:
I take this occasion to offer myself
as a candidate for re-election to the
* If ice of Register of Deeds for Chero.'
kec County, North Carolina,
j If I receive the nomination in the ,
primary of June 4th. and am successful
in the general election to be held '
in November. I pledge a continuance
of the high standard of service to the
public which I have attempted to render
in the past.
In announcing my candidacy for
this important office, I feel confident
of the loyalty of my many friends who
, have supported me in my previous
campaigns.
B. L. PADGETT
EXHIBIT OF NYA,
YOUTHCRAFT WILL I
J OPEN HERE TODAY
The Cherokee county J^l'A youth- :
I craft exhibit opens in the Cherokee i
i County Bank huildinft in the Regal i
| hotel today (Thursday). Articles of in. i
| terest produced by youths in the coun. j1
ty will be kept on public display'
j Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Mrs. Willabelle Posey, local NYA i1
director, wha arranged the exhibit will j
take the hest articles fe ? ? '
hibit in Marion April 21-2.'l.
Dance To Be Held In
Gym Saturday Night '
' A dance which will feature the mus- 1
ic of the University of Georgia Coi- jl
legians, said to be the second best col. 4
lege orchestra in the South, will be 11
held at the Murphy gym Saturday.'
night. ,
The dance is being sponsored by the
Charity League who will give the proceeds
to charity. Details are being ar- j *
tanged by Richard Mauney, former?
university student. !*
^ Largest
ft Circulation
l[! j.1 Any Paper
^ Ever Published
Here. !
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COURT ENDS UN
MONDAY AFTER
HEAVY SESSION
Defendents In Two Manslaughter
Suits Are
Acquitted of Charges
Superior court adjourned Monday*
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mill hi one <>i tne heaviest crtmial
dockets in the county in the past
four years. Judge John H. Clement
vas 011 the bench.
As a highlight of tin* session, tiiady
1'arringer and Frances Head, prominent
Murphy youths, were acquitted of
charges in the death of Glenn Stiles,
28, who was killed i.. a highway acciJent
two miles from Murphy on the
light jf January 2J.
After the presentation of state's
..evidence. Judge Clement decided the
not sufficient evidence to warrant
further hearing and dismissed
the case with non-suit action.
Carriage! and Miss Head along
with Lewis King and Dorothy Barnes
while riding in a car found stiles in
the road near his home shortly after
dark on the night of the fatal accident.
They advised his relatives of
the accident and Carringer and King
along with members of the Stiles family
brought the victim to the Murphy
hospital where he died enroult.
In another manslaughter trial, Fred
Joines and Homer Ballard, both of
Kannapolis, were acquitted by jury of
the death of Clyde Brady, of Topton,
on the Andrews-Asheville highway
near Topton on the night of September
5, 1937.
Brady was killed when struck by u
car as he walked along the highway
with two companions. His body was
hurled over an embankment by the alleged
hit-and-run driver amt - *
. u..u IIUL
found until the following day.
Leslie Hooper, also of Kannapolis
and formerly of Graham county, recently
told officers he was in a car
with Joines and Hal lard which struck
a body near Topton on the night of
September 5. He said they were
drinking and that they stopped the
car and talked to Brady's companions.
The defense maintained that they
were not in Cherokee count} except
on Tuesday, October 2b. 1037, nearly
two months after the accident happened,
and that Hooper "told the
story" because he had given them a.
check for th?- trip which was no good.
Hooper was taken back to Ivannapolis
with the defendants to face charges
in connection with the $63 check.
Other cases tried were minor offenses,
for the most part, of robi- ay,
assault and various liquor charges.
Trial of the civil calendar began oi
Monday and most of the cases wore
continued over to the next term of
court by Judge Clements when several
of the attornies were ill and it would
have been necessary to face a delay in
their expedition.
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Population At
Hiwassee Dam
i?
is increasing
The population of the camp at Hi.
wassee Dam village is increasing daily,
Jut* to increased employment at the
dam, where many preparations are being
made to pour the first concrete
this month, it is reported.
At the present time, there are 303
ncn living in the dormitories in camp.
When employment at the dam reaches
he peak, it is estimated there will be
180 men living in camp.
There are 98 families in the village,
ind using the average ratio of three
md ofie.hjjJf persons to a family, that
nakes a total of 350 people living in
he village. Only 98 of the 13d houses
are at present occupied, but the
emaining 38 houses will be filled
soon.
When employment at the dam
caches the peak and the dormitories
?nd houses are completely filled, it is
jstimated the combined population of
he camp and village will be around
160.