In Cherokee *
THE LEADING
Vol. 50.?No. 28.
Funds Pro1
Complete 1
Over $20,000,000
Will Be spent On 1
Huge Project
The independent offices apprepn-J:
tion bill reported to the house
.lay by the appropriations commjtUse
provides sufficient f^tor th^ ^
res^rwh with closure scheduled for
th KoSrP^heg ftscal'year bee.nnm, July
1 1939 the bill provides an appto
li?,,,'of SG 222,000. The estimated
priation of ?b, . nf TVA in
cost oi tnis impvi ?*??? - - ,
North Carolina to June 30 is placed
at $ 13,418,355. The authority reported
to the committee that only $359,045
additional would be subsequently
needed to complete the 'initial stage'
of its development on the Hiwassee
rive;.
The other large TVA project conU
niplated in North Carolina by the
rl VA is tho Fontana dam on the little
Tennessee river.
Col. T. B. Parker, TVA chief engineer,
told the house committee of
the need for additional dams and he
was asked a specific question by Representative
\Y igglesworth, Massachusetts
Republican, regarding the Fontant
dam.
"Fontana is one of the sites we are
investigating," Col. Parker declared.
"It is on the Little Tennessee, and so
far it appears to be physically the
most promising site. But it is involved
with the present development of
the Aluminum company on that
stream, which somewhat complicates
the matter."
Representative Dirksen, Illinois Republican,
asked the TVA cngineei
about development on the French
Broad river.
"On the French Broad we have had
some difficulty because of the location
of the present railroad," Col.
l'arkcr replied, "and while we have
ene site located in the vicinity of
Dandridge, (Jefferson county,
Tenn.), we have not explored Lha?
sufficiently to be sure that it is satisfactory."
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TWO ARE BOUND
TO COURT ON
ROBBERY CHARGE
Vernon ("Sturby)" Gibson and
Jinimie Hunt, Murphy youths, were
bound over to Superior court and
placed in county jail here today in
lieu of $1,000 bond each on charges
of entering the L* & N depot here
Saturday and taking a quantity of cigarettes
and tobacco.
The boys were arrested Sunday by
Chief of Police Fred Johnson. Trial
was held in Mayor's court here Wed- |
nesday morning.
Officer Johnson also said that Willie
Strange, also of Murphy, was
being held as a state witness in the
case. Strango's bond was set at $500.
Work On New Sinclair
Filling Station Begun
Work was begun here Wednesday
on a new Sinclair filling station to be
erected on Valley River avenue adjoining
the Ilenn theater.
The station is being built by the
firm of Allison and Duncan, local distributing
agents for the Sinclair refining
company.
II. Duncan, who is overseeing the
construction, said the new and modern
filling station would cost around j
$6,000 when completed.
The lot was recently purchased
from E. B. Norvell, Murphy attorney.
Weather Vane
Listed below are maximum and
minimum temperatures for the past
week compared with the temperatures
for the same period last year.
TEMPERATURES
1939 1938
1 48 32 57 23
2 64 45 59 21
3 68 55 57 43
4 54 26 69 42
5 57 27 65 36
6 53 40 71 44
7 62 36 66 38
RAINFALL INCHES 1939 1938
Since Feb. 1 2.39 0.11
Since Jan. 1 8.01 3.79
ft !f
WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN WEST
Murp
vided To
Dam Here
SHOTGUN BLAST
PROVES FATAL
rrA ?rii*r?r?*r "TWT
1UIUMSKY WYKfc
Charlie Frazier, of
Andrews, Gives HimSelf
Up, Held Here
Kimscy Wyke, popular Andrews
policeman, died in Petrie hospital
Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock of
v. gunshot wound in his chest inflicted
by Charlie Frazier, also of Andrews,
in front of the Frazier home
Friday night.
Following the shootitig, Frazier, a
former constable in Valley town
township, gave himself up to the
sheriff's department here and is
being held without privilege of bend.
The shotgun load was fired into
Mr. Wyke's left shoulder at close
range and an operation was performed
lpto Sunday night in an effort to
save his life. He grew steadily worse
Continued on back page
Needy And Dependent
Get Welfare Checks
A total of $2,130.40 in checks to
needy aged and to dependent children
have been distributed for the
month of February by Linnetta Dean,
Cherokee county welfare superintendent.
To 175 residents of the county went
$1,578.40 in old age assistance payments,
while dependent children received
a total of $530 for 130 children
Lower Railroad Rates
In Effect On L & N
Officials of the Lousiville and
.Nashville* railroad have announced
the adoption of coach fares at one
and one-half cents a mile over the
entire system.
The new rates, now in effect, are
about 25 percent cheaper than those
which have been in effect. Practically
all the Southeastern lines have adopted
the same scale, and the area which
benefits from this reduction extends
south from the Ohio and Potomac
Rivers and west as far as the Mississippi:
Mrs. Spencer Buried
At Brooklyn, N. Y.
Mrs. Thomas Spencer, 60-ycar-old
Murphy resident who was klled in an
automobile collision near Delaware,
Ohio, on January 13, was taken to the
home of relatives in Brooklyn, N. Y.,
on January 31 for burial, it was
learned here this week.
Mr. Spencer, her husband, who was
driving the car, is improving at a
Delaware hospital from serious injuries
suffered in the crash.
The couple had lived here the past
10 years. Mr. Spencer, before coming
here, was prominent in British
naval circles.
Allen Ramsey To Open
New Filling Station
Allen Ramsey, of Murphy, has announced
that he will open his new
filling station at the Hiawassee River
bridge near the L & N depot Saturday.
He states that he is equipped to
give first-class service on all cars
and trucks and will handle the Sinclair
line of automobile gasoline and
lubricants. The new station will also
be agents for Goodyear tires, tubes I
and batteries.
Mr. Ramsey says he will have a !
special offer to make the motoring
public for one week beginning with
his opening Saturday.
Mr. Ramsey is well-known here
having been in the corn mill business
1"or many years.
WINS COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP
Hal Leatherwood, son of Mr. and
Mrs. George Leatherwood. formerly
of Murphy, has entered Elon college,
Elon, N. on a scholarship he earned
at. Washington Lee High school at
Arlington, Va.
trpfeti
ERN NORTH CAROL1NA, COVERING
thy, N. C. Thursday, Feb.
T
Murphy
Attack,
r nuniv Unninn
I Willi VI Ll^lliro
Special Court
The Cherokee County Board of
Commissioners decided Monday
rot to ask Governor Clyde R. Hoey
for a special term of Cherokee
County Superior court for the trial
cf Charley Fain, 26-year-old Murphy
Negro, who attacked a nurse
and robbed a patient of $90 at
Whitfield hospital here January
21.
The board was sitting at a regular
"First Monday" meeting when
Mayor J. B. Gray of Murphy, on
behalf of himself and other prominent
citizens of the town, asked
them to request Governor Hoey to
pronounce the special term for
"swift and sure justice."
Board members, however, poirt
i out that it would require 20 days
to arrange for a term of court:
that judge (Zeb V. Nettles, of
Asheville), and the solicitor (John
M. Queen, of Waynesville) will be
busy attending other courts in this
district until that time, and that
the next session of Superior court
here is only seven weeks off.
The Negro will be tried before
Judge Nettles when Superior court
rnr.vpncs here on Monday, Apt il
3. H % will face two death penalty
charges the attack and entering
whe-e people are sleeping after
dark.
Fain will be held in the Asheville
5-.il ?-r?til court convenes. Sheriff
Carl Townson said this week. He
will probably be accompanied here
by state officers and .possibly a detachment
of the ?'*Ate malitia.
"We are hopi^ff that everything
win i?c quinr arn orucriv , 3ner II
Towr?on ?rid. "He's having no picnic
where he is now."
Morphew's Bill
Gets Approval
In Legislature
The house judiciary committee
1 uesday reported favorabl Senatoi
Jack Morphew's bill to extend the
term of office of the Cherokee county
register of deeds and assured its
enactment into law.
Representative Clyde II. Jarre!t
withdrew his opposition to the measure
in view of the large number of
endorsements received from Cherokee j
county residents.
The bill extends the term of the j
regis'or of cieeds to the first Monday I
in Decmber, 1942, and provides for
four-year terms beginning with the
1942 election.
Representative Jarrett Explained
his withdrawal of opposition to tin
committee as follows: "I have publicly
stated through the press I hat I was
opposed to the passage of this bill for
the extension of the term of office of
the register of deeds of Cherokee
county. The people of my county are :
aware of the position I have taken.
My position is based upon the type
of legislation as I do not believe the
legislature should assume to extend
the term of an elective officer beyond
tho term for which he was elected.
This bill has been endoresd by some
of the leading citizens of Cherokee
county and no particular opposition
has been shown. Bowing to the expressed
desires of the people of the county,
I am withdrawing my opposition
to tho passage of this bill."
The house salaries and foes com- !
mittcc gave a favorable report Tues- j
day to Representative Jarrett's bill ;
to regulate the fees of the sheriff and ;
I lax collector of Cherokee county. It !
would prescribe a lengthy schedule of !
| "cs f >1* sheriff and provide that the
I -bov'ff v-oisld receive three per cent,
iof the first $50 000 of taxes collected
and per con* of excess.
A LARGE AND POTENTIALLY RICH TE
9, 1939 5c
Negro A
Robbery
Charley Fair
In Maryville
Charley Fain, a 26-year-old Murphy
jail charged with the attack of a nurse and
of just a few hours at Whitfield hospital
The arrest, made Friday, climaxed si
elusivd "Masked Marauder** by county an
Fain signed a complete confession t
he was placed in jail at Asheville "for sa:
arrested in Maryville, Tenn., earlier in tht
the climes?both of which carry a death pi
the time he was taken to the- Asheville ja
Fain was employed at Moore's gar a
first thrown on him when he failed to shov
following. It was learned he had taken a
wife was taken into custody by officers b
She is now being held in lieu of $5,0(10 bai
to officers and possessing part of the stol
Officers traced the Negro to Blue I;
Mrs. Frank Kilpatrick's (the mother) ring
and later to Atlanta, Ga., where he stave
Wednesday.
Court Asked To
Stop Building
Of Prison Camp
wo
An action "to show cause why the
State Highway and Public Works commissions
should not be restrained" ?tr
from building a prison camp five miles Mi
from Murphy on the llayesvillc high
:.y has been filed with the clerk of Gu
the Superior court in Murphy.
The acton was brought bv John A.
Tahtam, Kimsey Wyke (J. M. Morrow
and A. (i llogan, all of Andrews, and ^'l
K. Mallonee and \V. II.Brandon. l<'
both of Murphy.
. ' ROl
The older was signed by Judge Zeb Wt,
Y? Nettles on January 20 during the ; |?
recent session of superior court. The ' sto
hearing is scheduled it* be held in j
superior court at Waynesville on ' j10,
Tuesday, Feb. 14. xva
Highly acres of land was purchased j I j
in the Peachtree section from Mrs. ba<
M. L. Mauney several weeks ago by w j
he highway department for the pur- pei
pose of erecting a modern prison th<
camp at an approximate cost of $40,- ' I.o
000. It was planned to move the tern- Ha
porary camps which have been locat- an
ed at Andrews for the past six years
to the new site. 11
The petitioners listed the follow- 1 1
ing reasons for filling the action: The nu
new site is not as centrally located j u
in this area as the one at Andrews; wa
the land is not suitable or fertile foi ' W?
glowing vegetables; because it is not st>t
centrally located in this area prison- j
eis could not be hauled to anil from ?
"heir road work jobs economically: o
the site of the new camp would
necessitate disposal of sewage and re- Q
fuse in Hiawassee river from which '
Murphy's water supply is obtained. |
Mr. Brandon said Wednesday con- j \Vh
corning the petition that he had "not
Kliriu d :?nvthirwr " H<. u.. u...: i
- ., t,- "?.u tie Ii?u i
made u statement concerning: the ! Sc
methods of sewage disposal at the ; to
new camp but that "it wasn't any- ! Jar
thin^ that a purifying system of some I
sort such as we have here couldn't i sh?
take care of." by
?
Mallonee And Davidson Pi
Merchandise Is Sold S]
The Mallonee and Davidson stock
of goods was sold at auction hero on 101
Monday. |,a
The Asheville Army store bought (j('
the hulk of the dry goods stock and
are planning to conduct a sale hero ? CQj
next, week end to dispose of them. (;M
The groceries were purchased by
E. A. Browning. ' :>]s
The cash register and other equip- fr<
mont in the store was purchased by 1 foi
Tom Mauney, | rej
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1URITORY
COPY $1.50 YEAR
(knits
Here
t Arrested
On Frirlav
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Negro, is being held in Ashcville
I the robbery of $1)0 from a mother
in Murphy January 2ik
ix^days of intensive starch for the
id state officers.
[i the crimes before officers when
fe keeping*' Friday night. He was
day and had denied knowledge of
enalty in North Carolina?up until
n.
ge in Murphy, and suspicion was
v up for work Monday and the days
taxi to Atlanta last Tuesday. His
ut would not give any information.
1 for giving misleading information
en money.
tidge. Ga., where he gave one of
s to one of his three alleged wives,
d at a rooming house until last
"he confession was as follows:
Statement of Charlie Fair., Februf
3, 1H31I.
"My name is Charlie Fain and I
i 2(1 ye; i i of age and live a; Muiy,
North Carolina.
"1 came here from work Friday
rning and Mr. IV lc Akin asked me
how come my wife didn't come to
rk. asked me this at the drug store,
1 then I went home and found my
fe locked up in the houst with anier
man and I then took my wife.
Mi ??<i . ? ? i. ...? i .i- " ?
.... w? <niu i men asKeu
Idled for a divorce and she said
it she wouldn't give me one and 1
d her that I would get une, 1 bet.
' The next afternoon, Saturday, I
nt home about '? o'clock and took
lit* coal home and then went hack
work ami Mr. F. C. Moore paid me
about ?:1T? and 1 then went and
: my wife where she worked and
got some groceries at the A. and
store and at Virgil Lovingood's
iv and took these groceries home.
"The taxi that took me and Mildred
me at this time waited. The taxi
s driven by Mr. Derreberry, and
?ot back into t^ie taxi and came
ck to town, Murphy and there got
th Jake Blackwell and Jake dropil
me at a dance at Getchell Sou r's
home and there I saw Jimmie
rd and Bessie Fain, my aunt, and
it tie Penland and Alfred Penland
d others.
"I stayed at this dance until about
:30 and just befor f left, at about
o'clock. I sent Gene Powell to get
* a pint of liquor. And I then
Iked home and stopped on the
v home at John Loudermilk's
ice staying there about 10 minutes.
*ing John and his wife iht re, and
Continued on page five
iturday Last Day To
et Free TVA Trees
Saturday will be the last day in
lich the county agent will take apcation
for TVA fruit trees.
These trees were announced in the
out last fall and were to be five
AMimvrs xor planting on abandoned
id.
*A11 farmers who care to get trees
julcl call at county agent's office
Saturday. > ? ':>. u::r\ 11.
ruden Davidson Gets
secial College Award
Pruden Davidson, as managing edi
of the "Technician", weekly newsper
at North Carolina Suite ColRaleigh,
will be one of 33 stun's
at. the -chool receiving gold
vs for meritorious service by the
liege publications board at a banet
Tuesday night. Feb. 21.
Mr. Davidson, junior at State,
* speaks a half hour <;V.. week
>m radio station WPTF. Raeign,
r the state collegiate press buMI.