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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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'.