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Active AiSr ?| MURPHY ^ The Leading W Vol. IL.?No. 52. TVA Road ! Work To Cc Twenty Miles of Highway and Bridges To Be Built \ program of highway and railii,;td relocation work in the Hiwassee I; m area estimated to cost $670,011, In been announced by W. L. Sturd? ant. director of information of TVA. Of this amount $667,000 will be ixpeided on the Highway work and 11 on railroad relocation it was reported. Official announcement of the project ?2?? after more than three vears of preliminary surveying work here I 'he highway relocation division x i i under the direction of E. F. MeEifresh at present. According to the figures there will be ;> total of 17.3 miles of highway ix-1 including 10 bridges and 13 bo\ ulverts. Five of the bridges will l? i 100 feet. Nearly five miles of ailroad bridge and tracks will hav? t< he rebuilt. ( r t ruction is expected to start at It is mandatory that the TV A -place all highways and roads wbli equally good road when tuiv- :ig facilities are inundated!\ to the smallness of the area t?? 1m inundated on the Hiwassee Dam proud, this amount of construction i> comparatively small con.pared to other TV A projects. Following is the construction schedule: ? Joe Brown Highway?at Ogreeta -7 iniit ?>f 20-foot highway; at Whitnei .2 miles of 20-foot highway, and at Grape Creek 2.4 miles of 20-foot highway, one bridge over 100 feet and two culverts. Shallow Ford-1 Gr.-.jv Creek road?1 mile of 12 foot j highway. Grape Creek road at Joe Brown highway .6 mile of 12-foot road. Ogreeta cemetery .2 mile of 12.f \ highway and one bridge. V' th Carolina State Highway No., -in .Murphy .1 mile of 33-foot > highway and one culvert; at Cane. * reek, -7 mile of 25-foot highwav. one bridge and one culvert; at ; Kuminger Creek .2 mile of 25-foot Continued on back page this section Local Advertising Discussed By Lions A general discussion, on the advertising of Murphy was held by the Murphy Lions at their regular meeting Tuesday night. The erection of a tourist guide stand a sign giving infoimation on Hiwassee dam, correction of road Mgns at principal highway junctions leading into Murphy and a cooperative drive with surrounding towns to draw tourist trade were outHnt Superior fnnrt To Open Monday Large crowds are expected in M?rPhy next week to attend one of the heaviest sessions of Superior held here in some time. There are a large number of criminal cases on the docket. Judp Felix Alley, of Waynesville, is scheduled to preside over the two*?coks civil and criminal term. Weather Vane Listed below are maximum and Minimum temperatures for the past , week compared with temperature* for the same period last year. TEMPERATURES 1938 1937 21 80 66 85 5'? 22 77 66 88 66 23 74 66 85 62 24 71 65 91 60 25 79 66 87 62 l 26 86 61 g6 66 I 27 R7 #0 85 65 I Rainfall inches 1938 1937 Since July 1 8.97 5.52 I Since January 1 r... 45.15 34.40 K. A gS ft. ifi eekly Newspaper in Western Noith ( Murphj Relocation >st $670,011 Seek Brasstown M innitt <r? i ui 11ICI IVIlSMllg Since July 2 Several small searching: parties have failed to find clues during the past week in connection with the disappearance of Wayne Zimmerman, 34year-old Brasstown farmer, who has been missing since July 2. He was last seen in Murphy. Members of the Cherokee and Clay counties sheriffs' offices have questioned several persons, but no arrest1 have been made and no warrants have been sworn out. Zimmerman, who is five feet, six inches tall, weighs 135 pounds and has blue eyes and dark hair, was wearing blue denim pant . a blue shirt, brown hat and black slippers when last seen. Local officers have contacted police in surrounding towns and cities in an effort to locate him, but no won I has been received. Zimmerman has been married seven years. He has no children. ONE KILLED, THREE INJURED HIT AIT i nniT nr ?nn , m quaiim SLiut Rites For Grayson S. Parker, Of Marble, Are Held Grayson S- Parker, 32, was killed and three Other men were painfully injured in a rock slide at the Hiwassce Dam quarry last Thursday afternoon. The injured men?Elmer Collins, 01 Murphy, Robert A. Cearley, of Culbcison and Charley Langley, of Oakdale, Tenn., were reported to be improving in the TV A infirmary thi: week. The accident occ-Ured about 3:15 o'clock. The men were working or. a ledge at the top of the quarry when it gave away and they we|e j hurled among tons of dirt to the bottom. The three injured men were removed and taken to the infirmary. It took a crew of men about an hour to free Parker's body from the debris. Parker's death marked the second fatility at the dam since operations began there over three years ago. Funeral services for Mr. Parker were held Saturday morning ate 10 o'clock at the Marble Springs Baptist church with the Rev. Alga West, pastor of the Valley River Baptist church at which the rites were held. The deceased was a member of the Marble Springs church and a popular member of the Murphy Male quartette. Special music was fur. nished at the services by the Valley River Quartette. Mr. Parker is survived by hi? widow, the former Miss Cordia Bla jock, iour smau cnnciren; ins momer, Mrs. Alice Parker; five sisters, Misses Pearl, Virginia, and Eva Parker, and Mrs. Ernest Palmer, of Marble, and Mrs. Allen McDonald of Gaindview; and one brother, Murray Continued on back page this section Atlanta Minister To Preach Here , Dr. Charles Currens, of Atlanta, Ga., will preach at the First Bap- 1 1 tist Church of Murphy at the morn. ' ing services Sunday. Dr. Currens is teacher of bible at the William Jennings Bryan uni. versity at Dayton, Tenn., and at the ' Bible institute. Atlanta. Beginning Monday evening he will have a bible class at the home 1 of Mrs. W. M. Lay. Everyone is in- 1 cited to attend. ' Nrnttft Carolina, Covering a Large and PoU N. C. Thursday, July 1 COUNTY-WIDE i TAX RATE OF ei qo iDDDovLh I ?p i.O.; r\ 1 ? uu t oi' I Is Lowered Two Cents Ove- Rate *n Effect Pes! Year Tho Hoard of Commissioners of Cherokee county were advised Wed. nesday by the attoiney general that the tax la'e set for 1938 which was sub ttid to him recentlv V??d approved. The new county-wide rate is set at $1.39 on the hundred dollars evaluation. h is two cents lower than :t wa he past year. The rssessment is based on the following: budget: general expense fund. 15 cents; county home and care of iho aged, two cent-; expense of court and jail, five cents; bonds and sinking fund, 53 cents; schools. 10 e *- ; debt service. 16 cents; j cut rent, expenses, six cents; county's | pat 1 of maintenance of health unit. I fiv? cents; care of blind, dependable chi'dren and c>!?1 aged. 11 cents; fire j pre i ntion control, two cents; An. I dr? ; school bond :. three cents; ap- j pr< :n iatioii for teaching voca'ionalj ulyi ct in Murphy schools, three cert : and blind, pauper burial and h<; lizuCon. eight cents. ' eeuntywide poll tax is set. a' $2. 'lowns'hip tax rates are ..s follows. Murphy township, 40 cents on bonds and $1.20 poll tax; Beaverdam town ship, 70 cents on bonds and $2.10 poll tax; Valley town township, IS cents on bonds and 54 cents poll tax; Shoal Creek township, 70 cents on bonds and $2.10 poll tax; Hot House township. 90 cents on bonds and j $2.70 poll tax, and Notla township, 30 cents on bonds and 90 cents poll Young Democrats To Hold Meeting Monday Night A meeting of the Young Democratic Club of C herokee county will 1 be held in the Murphy court house | Munday night at 7:30 o'clock (CST), I according to an announcement by A. B. Chandler, Jr.. of Andrews, chairman of the club. The meeting will be the first in a series of rallies which will be sponsored by the club. The purpose is to formulate plans for the coming campaign, Mr. Chandler said. A j group of distinguished local and out j of-town speakers is being arranged. | LAWYER GRAY TO RETURN HERE LAST OF AUGUST I i J. B. Gray, Murphy attorney, who | has been confined to the Biack Moun- ( , tain sanitarium for the past eight j months, has improved to the point . ; that he will return home about the | last of August or the first of September, Mrs. Gray reported after | seeing him during the past week-end. Last Thursday Mrs. Grav and > I 1 daughter, Elizabeth, went to Wash. ( ington, D. C., and Baltimore, Md., i to visit Mr. and Mrs. John L. Mason, and returned here Monday. Miss ji Kate Gray visited in Salisbury during the week-end. I TVA Compromises Suit Over Land Here The -Tennessee Valley authority las compromised its suit agaiiiM Lon j 1 S'orvcll and John Hunsuckh.- of ' Cherokee county to establish clear itlo to a tract oi land in Murphy own ship. | ' The TVA had previously purchased 13-14ths of the property, and the Tur?uickles owned the remaining ; i-l-lth- ' i Under terms of the compromise,' i he Hunsuckles will receiv $467 31. jj The property is a part of the TVA ; levelopment in this section. 1 t !?W ?ntially Rich Tern tor* ir This S 28, 1938 Most County rv * * * open ivionda Man Falls 40 Feet On Tracks, Still Lives Night shift workmen riding in From the Hiwanee Dam about midnight Monday reported seeing a man they thought had been struck by an automobile "or else badly beaten up" staggering along the road. So policeman Neil Snccd investigated and this is what he found: The man in a drunken condition had wandered off the road at Ciit" aUu', a ihiic iruin town on the Copperhill highway, and had fallen about 40 feet onto the L & N railroad tracks- At this point the hank goei down about 10 feet at an extremely steep angle and cuts back which meant the man dropped the remaining 30 feet or so straight down on the tracks. He was brought to a hospital in Murphy where several broken bones were set and his badly lacerated head was dressed up. Those who are acquainted with the place where the man took the fall say it is incredible that he could have taken such a tumble and still lived. NO AUXILIARY rv t ** ??**- ? DAM WILL HE BUILT HERE Announcement Is Made By TVA Officials To Inquiries N'o auxiliary dam will bo built bolow Murphy in fcho 11 iwassoo river, it has been announced by W. 1.. j Sturdevant, director <?f informal ion l of the TVA. Some citizen hero have sought ] an auxiliary dan: several miles bo- j low Murphy to "maintain a constant j water level" in Murphy when the TVA's $22,000,000 project Is completed 18 miles downstream. Such a dam would be necessary, they argued, to keep down mosquitoes and eliminate and unsightly shore line where the lake will form around Murphy. Mr. Sturdevant's announcement was: \No auxiliary dam will be built below Murphy. 1 am informed that the engineers gave the matter jnder consideration and found it not feasible." On numerous occasions inquiries had been made by local citizens at Knoxville to determine if a waterlevel control dam would be built near the Lover's Leap site on the river one mile below town, but no definite word was received nere until Mr. Sturdevant made announcement to an inquiry by the Cherokee Scout. Some citizens have expressed belief that such a dam, while it would maintain a constant water level in town, would form marshes and other un.-ightly and unsanitary pools. No definite figures as to the cost r>f the dam or the amount of silt that would back up behind it were ever officially gathered here. Large Rattler Is Killed At Tomotla A Diamond Rack Rattlesnake, measuring 42 inches long and 15 inches in circumference, was killed on the highway between Andrews and Murphy, near Tomotla, Tuesday fternoon by C. A. Swaim and E. A. Wood, of Andrews. The rattler had twelve rattles hnd i button, according to Swaim. Ho i ilso stated that is was the first dia-! nond-back he had seen in twenty j /ears. The rattles were cut off and ; ire now in the possession of John veener, of Tomotla. 1tjf IDEAL VACATION RESORT laic V1.50 YEAR?5c CUrY Schools To iy, August 1 i T^K prs mc/1 _ _... wa m 1WKIVV1 * V/1 ; Practically All Posts In Unit Most, schools in the -Cherokee County unit will open on Monday, A. L?. Martin, superintendent, has announced. Practically a complete list of teachers have been endorsed by the county board. It was declared at the last meeting of the group that August 1 would be the opening day for all schools in the connty unit except those connected by tran^pwitaiou lines wii.ii lire Murphy school. It was also voted to build a new one.teacher school building in the Violet community of Cherokee eoun. ty at a cost of approximately $870. In selecting teachers for the various schools, one of the three teachers at Wolf Creek was added on to [the staff of the one-teacher school at John--on. | Members of the hoard aitciiditg jthe meeting were: P A. Mauney, iFred Martin, J. N. Maur.cy, Mis. T. T. Johnson, \V K. .Minn- and Mrs. Ci. \\\ Covei | Teachers seleeted by the various .committees are as follows: j District No. 1? Kancr, Krsa Mc. Nahb (principal), Geneva Chastain j and Vesta Roberts; Mucadonia, Jim !Evans; Shields, Bertha llogan Car ringer; Culberson, bred Harris and ',Maggie Bell Kissleburg; Wolf Creek, Mrs. Kate Shields (principal) and Evelyn Shields; Wolf Creek "A", Elizabeth Gentry; Sunny Point. Mrs. I Myrtle Moore and Eunice Shieldsr 'Johnson. I.otiolln > ( ami iHllllia Moore. District No. 2 Beech Creek, Mrs. Hazel A be mat by. Distiict No. 3Pcrsinrmon Creek, Olga Glenn. District No. 4?Friend hip, Truman Me iNabh and Ruth MeNabb; District | No. 5?Postell, Pauline Kissleburg 'and Trilby Glenn. District No. (i? Clark, Ruth Hickey. District No. 7 Hill. Willa Lou Wells and Irene Kissleburg: Shearer, Leone Patterson McPfietridge. Distiict No. .v Reeds Chapel. Norman O. Kilpatriek and Annie Lou j Keenuni: Hiwassee J) am (Teachers |not selected). District No. 0?River Hill, R. L. Keenum. Di-trict No. 10. ! ?Lonjr Ridge, Ruby Wells. District |No. 11 ?Bucknob, Lucile Matheson. [Continued on back page this section i Orphan Fund Is Growing Here Thirty Methodist team captains have been working here for the past two weeks raising money for 400 orphan children at Winston-Salem. Contributions and subscriptions are reported to be coming in fast by the group, and the funds added to other collections throughout the state are expected to be a great aid to the children. ^ Green Brothers, Of Ooltewah, Visitors Here 1 Glen and Sheridan Green, former I Cherokee county boys, who are now living at Ooltewah, Tenn., near Chat, tanooga, and are employed in a Clmtlaooga stove foundary, were visiters in Murphy last Friday. They were here in the interest of overseeing the removal of the graves of uelutives in the Hiwassee basin. They are grandsons of W. M. Stiles and lived in the Birch community until about 12 years ago. Meeting At Friendship A meeting is in progress at Friend. |ship Baptist church with the Rev. I Fred Stiles officiating assisted by the Rev. Edgar Willxi. of Andrews. A cordial invitation is extended all person'.
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