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I Vol. 50.?No. 29.
SURVEY LAND
NEAR HERE FOR
TALC MINING
WPA Labor Appropriation
May Be Made
For Local Project
Prospective talc-mining operations
have been started on the MauneyKinscy
property three miles from
Murphy by Cherokee Minerals incorporated,
of Hickory.
The property is situated along the
Notla river near the famous Carolina
I Talc company mines and is believed to
be a part of the same rich vein ilmt
runs through this section of North
Carolina and into northern Georgia.
J. J. Hudiburg, president and general
manager of the corporation, is
staying here to supervise the operaCnro
drilling operations have
been started under the direction of
Hobert Kivett and J. W. McMillian.
If the initial survey proves the
property worth working extensively
for talc, Mr. Hudiburg hopes to get a
new WPA mineral development project
appropriation in this county. Approximately
$180,000 is being approved
for this type of work in this
state through federal and state funds.
It is understood that several such
projects are being undertaken in the
. three westernmost counties of the
state and it is possible that if an appropriaton
is made for mineral prospective
work that an office will be
located in Murphy to carry on the
work in this area.
H. A. Bryson, state geologist, has
made several trips to this section in
connection with these projects recently.
Cherokee minerals first began their
survey of the famous Mauney-Kinsey
property two weeks ago, but bad
weather has kept them from active
core drilling until this week.
If the property proves as valuable
ns Mr. Hudiburg expect^ it to, nearly
25 men are expected to bo used
on the mining project when it gets
under way.
"The a*ate will study our survey in
connection with our application".
Mr. Hudiburg said. "I understand
tbev furnish the labor on these proj
(World Day of Prayer
To Be Held Feb. 24
The World Day of Prayer will be
observed by the Christian people of
all the churches of Murphy on Friday,
Feb. 24, at the Presbyterian church,
it was announced Thursday by the
Rev. D. H. Paisley, D. D., pastor
of the church.
The program will be led by Dr.
Paisley. Itk will begin at 2 p. m. and
last until 4 p. m. The pastors of the
other churches and members of their
congregations will participate.
"Surely when we consider the conditions
and problems confronting us
in the world today we see the need of
prayer", Dr. Paisley said in making
the announcement.
The public is invited to attend.
Still Is Captured
In Culberson Area
The Cherokee county sheriff's department
reported this week the capture
of a still in the Culberson community
last Friday.
Sheriff J. C. Townson, Deputy
Sheriff Hyatt and Constable Sheridan
Stiles made the capture and destroyed
60 gallons of beer.
MASON TO SHIP CATTLE
L. L. Mason, Cherokee county dealer,
announces that he will .h;? I
| car loads of fine local cattle to the
I Louisville, Ky., market this week-end.
Weather Vane
Listed below are maximum and ,
minimum temperatures for the past ,
V week compared with the temperatures
I for the same period last year.
TEMPERATURES
1939 1938
Feb. 8 66 29 60 26
9 64 44 66 30
10 68 56 68 45
11 65 37 73 43
12 58 22 74 38
13 61 22 71 39
14 63 47 68 51
RAINFALL INCHES 1939 1938
Since Feb. 1 5.04 .181
Since Jan. 1 10.61 3.86
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a WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN WESTI
Murpl
Families Are Moving '
Here Temporarily
Between 5C and 75 families
are expected to arrive in Chero- !
kee county by the end of the J
week as the result of the TVA's
reservoir clearance work.
A number of families have
already arrived in Murphy and
the surrounding community, and
more are coming in every day.
Vacant houses are being rented
and a number of the new
families are living in trailers and
occupying other temporary quarters.
About 250 men will be requir
ed on the Hiwaitee Dam basin j
clearance force. The work will
last approximately four months.
A ! ?; nnmK??r nf Inral m#? n
fcre being hired for this work.
Murphy May Soon
Have An Airport
Murphy may soon have an airport,
it was learned here this week.
It is understood that the TV A
has oftVicd a tract of land near the
Dr. J. N. Hill prope'ty in Murphy foi
use as an airpoil if the ciWi .*ni oi
Murphy can obtain a WPA Dteject to
build it and provide its upkeep.
Tho property was recently purchased
by the TVA from Dr. llill us
part of the Hiwassee Dam ie?ervoir,
but it will not be flooded. The property
is said to be an ideal landing
field.
Local citizens are beginning a move
this week to petition the WI'A foi
rn appropriation to build the airpelt
which would be the only one in
'.his mountainous section of Western
North. Ca? olina.
Mrs. W. G. Odom
Buried Monday
Funeral services for Mrs. W. G
Odom, 83, were conducted from the
Met)]odist church here Monday afternoon
at 2 o'clock with the Rev. Van
B. Harrison, the Rev. J. C. Gentry,
the Rev. .1. C. Amnions and the Rev.
H. L. Paisley, D. D., officiating. Interment.
was in Sunset cemetery. YV.
D. Townson was in charge of funeral
arrangements.
Mrs. Odom died Sunday morning at
Haycsvillc after a short illness. She
was born near Maddisonville, Tcnn..
oij August. 24, 1856, the daughter ol
the late Mr. and Mrs. George Phillips.
At the age of 35 she joined the Moth
odist church in Graham county.
Active pallbearers were: Charles
Odom, Olen Stratton, Bennie MoGlammery,
R. L. McGlammery, Ralph
Ham by and June Penland. Flower
girls were: Edna Mae Han.by, Sadie
June Love, Virginia Ruth Odom.
Claudia and Mary Lou Odom, Alwayne
Stratton and Billie Stratton.
Surviving are: the husband; two
sons, J. W. Odom, of Unaka, and W.
P. Odom, of Murphy; four daughters,
Mrs. R. F. Piercy. of Andrews; Mrs
E. L. Herbert, of Hayesville; Mrs.
Claude L. Love, of Asheville, and
Miss Fannie Odom, of Atlanta, Ga.;
a brother, W. R. Phillips, of Madisonville,
Tenll., 1 1 grandchildren and six
grandchildren.
Lawrence Brendle Is
Injured In Fall
Lawrence Brendle, of Murphy, is
in Petrie hospital suffering from ,
painful but not serious injuries suf- j,
ferecj when he fell off a house being
torn down on ^
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day afternoon.
Mr. Brendle waa taken to the hospital
where it was found he had a
broken arm, bruises and a "severe
shaking". Hospital attendants said
he was improving. ,
Holland's Store Sold
To Watkins at Andrews
The business establishment of W. J
Turner Holland in Andrews has been
sold to J. A. Watkins, also of Andrews,
this week, it has been learned. .
Mr. Holland ran a generai store .
in Andrews handling a full line of
dry goods ai.d groceries. Mr. Watkins
is a son of Lee Watkins, of And- '
rews, who owns a similar business '
establishment adjoining the one purchased
from Mr. Holland.
The transaction is one of the larg- 1
est to be made in this section recent- '
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URN NORTH CAROLINA, COVER1N
tiy, N. C. Thursday, Feb
CANNERY HOLDS '
ANNUAL MEET
HERE SATURDAY
Officers Are Elected;
Business Discussed
By Group
The annual stockholders of the
Mutual Canning Association met in
Murphy Saturday at 10 o'clock.
1 resent at this, meeting was the largest
attendance of representative
farmers ever attending a meeting oi
this sort. Approximately 150 were
present at this meeting, every section
in this area being represented.
Mr. John Parr, administrator of the
TV A, presented the 1939 canning
contract which met with the most enthusiastic
endorsement of any cor.
tract even presented to the farmers.
John Shields, N. T. Cook, representatives
of the PSA, County Agent
I on Hulsey of Union county, and A
Q. Ketner, county agent of Cherokee
County were the officials at this
meeting.
R? K. Beal, whose present term a:
director has just expired, along wit!
li. L. Payne, of Union county, Ga.
were elected for the present term di
rectors. .Mr. Payne succeeds Fran!
Gheringalli as director.
After the meeting the director:
held an executive session to elect of
iicers for the ensuing year. The offi
cers elected were: J. B. (Burt)
Shields, manager; W. M. Fain, president;
J. H. Kills, vice-president; R. R
ileal, secretary and treasurer.
Only routine business was transact
ed at the executive meeting and n<
definite action was taken as a selec
tion of the new site for the cannery
Air. Shields stated to the Board tha
he had received several offers fron
other sections seeking the establish
mcnt oi the cannery if Murphy doe;
not raise sufficient amount of capita
for moving the present building whicl
must be vacated m the near future.
Cherokee County Bills
Passed In Senate
Two Cherokee county bills wert
passed by the sena e Wednesday am
ordered enrolled for
prescribes a lengthy schedule of fees
for the Cherokee sheriff and provide:
that the sheriff receive three peij
cent of first $50,000 of taxes collect
ed and 2 1-2 per cent of excess.
The second measure repeals chap
ter 100 of the 1931 public-local law:
relating to grand and jury juries o:
Cherokee county, and brings Cherokee
under the provisions of the gener
al laws relating to juries.
Home Bill 126, introduced by Rep
resentative Clyde H. Jarrett, of And
lews: repeals the act which provide*
a tax commission for Cherokee coun
ty.
Class Iri Blueprint
Reading To Begin Here
The Training division of the TV/
has arranged with Jack Rubensaal tc
conduct a Class in Blueprint Read
ing and Estimating for Carpenters
The course will include a study o:
plans and material for culverts,
bridges, and some dam construction.
The first class meeting will b?
held Thursday, February 16, at 7 p
m. in the Murphy Elementary schoo
Building. All carpenters, wherevei
employed are invited to attend this
class.
Attendance will be credited on thi
Personnel Record of all empoyees.ol
the Tennessee Valley Authority whe
desire it.
Independent Basketball
Tournament Scheduled
An independent basketbaall tour
nament will bp ?? ** *
- .n inr murpnj
gymnasium oil Thursday, Friday, aru:
Saturday, February 16, 17, 18. The
schedule standing now is as follows:
6:30?Wolf Creek vs Unaka; 7:30?
Robbinsville vs Hayesville; 8:30?
Murphy vs Culberson; 9:30?Peachtree
vs Hiawassee.
The finals will be held on Saturday
night.
fVA EMPLOYEES ARRIVE HERE
Among tho number of TVA people
who have been transferred to Murihy
are Messrs Charles H. Payne, of
Knoxville; L. 11. Clauser, of Knoxrille;
Thomas H. Griffin, of Knox/ille:
and Robert B. Chittenden of
Chattanooga. These men are stopping
it the Regal Hotel.
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G A LARGE AND POTENTIALLY RICH
kJB, 1939 ~5
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Refers Prison Camp I
Suit To TV A Unit 1
Superior Court Judge Zeb V. < J
Nettles, of Asheville, Tuesday
referred to the Public Health /
Division of TV A an action on ' I
the part of a group of Cherokee
county citizens to restrain the
highway department from build- j
ing a new prison camp near
Murphy.
The petitioners, appearing before
the judge in Haywood
county Superior court, stated
that the sewage from the pro- <(
1 posed new $40,000 camp would ^
contaminiiU ?k? -? ? *
?~ w.t naier supply *i | },
Murphy. i r
The highway department recently
purchased between 60 s
and 70 acres of land from Mrs. v.
M. L. Mauney five miles from
Murphy on the Hayesville highway
for the purpose of build- ]
. ! ing a new camp and presumably j,
moving the temporary camps at \ "\
Andrews to the new site. j I
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Hearing For i
i Frazier To Be i
; Held Monday
?/ i
5 Preliminary hearing: for Charlie f
Frazier, of Andrews, who is being i
held in Cherokee county jail for the *
fatal shooting of Kimsey Wyke, 41-1^
. j year-old Andrews policeman who died |
February 8, will be held Monday
morning at 0 o'clock, members ol" the t
1 sheriff's department announced this I
week. I
jitter Frazier had fired a shot gun I
i blast into Officer Wyke's shoulder it; I <
i front of the Frazier home, he gave j ?
- ' himself up to local officers and was |
s | placed in jail. ! 3
1 j Officer Wyke was brought to Pe- j '
i I trie hospital in a critical condition i ?
1'iiday night Feb. 3, and steadily 1 v
giew worse until he sucumbed tv> | '
the injuries. | *
Funeral services were held last i
Thursday at Andrews.
Frazier admitted he and \v ' *
J " ? i I
| who had on his uniform hut was no1 1 1
1 j officially on duty the night of the I
* | shooting, had been together for sev- *
> j eral hours during the evening, and ,
> I that the shooting culminated a quarrel I
r i the two had in front of Frazier's ' c.
- home.
Frazier will he defended by J. N. | 1
- i Moody and J. 1). Mallonce, both of I 1
> Murphy. R. L. Phillips, of Bobbins- s
t ville. will he the proseruting attorney. '
TV A BEGINS WORK !
OF RAISING LEVEL
i OF BASEBALL PARK j*
Preliminary work has been started *
by TVA forces to raise Murphy's *'
combination baseball park and Fair (
grounds above the level of the Hiwassee
river when the Hiwassee Dam 22 '
miles below here is finished in 19-11. }
The ball park would normally be
J flooded by the impounded waters, j \
The TVA decided to raise the level I ^
; of the now unleveitd park above the i *
contour line rather than flood it ana i
provide another site. | 2
Officials state that the work will ; .
begin at once and should be complet- ! *
: ed within two moiuiis. |
It will not be necessary to move:
1 the Cherokee County Fair oui'ding on j
5 the property, it was stated.
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Andrews And Murphy c
Highly Advertised In 1
'Southern' Directory I
A "Directory of Industries" situ- j
ated on the Southern railway line has x
- recently been issued by the railway <
' company and will be distributed in j
I Pullman cars, in hotel rooms and oth- {
; er places where leading: business men of
the nation will have access to them.
Througrh the efforts of the local J
Southern railway station agents, |
much information concerning the
towns along the route in Cherokee
' county have been included in the in- ^
dcxed volume and is expeted to result
in increased business for the towns, j
The book is but part of the expens
ive work the Southern railway is do- j,
ing to advertise the towns along itsj^
route and bring more business into
thus section of Western North Caro- .
lina. *
Mr. Joe Morgan, of Andrews, and 0
Mr. A. N. Hinton, of Murphy, cot up
the information for their towns. I
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Cherokee County
Banquet To Be Held
Here February 28
Arrangements for the annual Cherkec
county dinner to bo sponsored in
turphy by the Lions club was made
t a meeting of the club Tuesday
light.
The date for the annual affair was
et as Tuesday night, Feb. 28. It will
held in the dining ioom of the
'lethodist church.
Committees appointed by Fresident
I. G. Elkins are as follows: Arrangenents.
Chairman W. A. Sherrill, T.
V. Kindley, V. M. Johnson and Jim
'ranklin. Invitations, Chairman K.
\ Wright. Sam Carr, Walter Colenan
and W. A. Adams. Favors, Chairnan
Park Fisher, Frank Ellis and P.
Iletin. Decorations, Chairman
Vhit Carniichael, Peyton G. Ivie,
Vado Massey and the Rev. Van B.
larrison. Reception, Chairman W. W.
lyde. II. Bueck. W. M. Fain and Mr.
'armichael.
The Annual Cherokee county dinner
was inaugurated here eight, years
1 go by the Murphy Lions Club. At
irst it featured all the different varties
of food that could be grown in
Cherokee county. But the number of
'arious articles was so large it soon
ecame impractical to place them on
i table.
Now each annual dinner is devoted
o some phase of work or some industry
in the county and emphasis is
daced on that ono thinp at the dinner,
iist year Cherokee county's riiversiied
mineral deposits featured this
neetinp.
The product that will feature this
ear's dinni r hits not yet been antounced
althoufjh the committees are
roinc ahead to perfect the dinnei
vhirh is . xpectcd to attract about lap
"isons front \Y. stern North Caruina.
I he Rt v. \ an It. Harrison, Murdty's
new Methodist minister. was
eelroined in to the dull as a new
nember.
Discussions of si .v. ?*.! - *
. v.viC pI'OJ'ct
; were held during a business sesion
of the dub.
F. J. Huifiburg, pi s dent and perioral
Manager of Cherokee Mineralsncorporated,
was present at the
necting as a visitor and pave a short
alk on the appropriations in various
states for the investigtion of mineral
>roperties.
lie stated a total of about $180,000
n state and federal funds would be
nade available in North Carolina, anil
idded this was a comparatively small
;um alongside of the amount other
dates were appropriating for this
vork. It is also generally known that
" forth Carolina has one of the largest
md most divirsified mineral deposits
>f any state in the country.
Cherokee Minerals incorporated is
prospecting at present, for talc on
he Mauney-Kinsey property on the
Nlolla river near Murphy, and are
ilanninp soon to use a number of lo al
employees if the prospecting
thows up favorably and a request for
m appropriation is granted by the
tnfp.
\flrs. Tavlor Slirrkti
? ?-s**"y
njured Here Tuesday
Mrs C R. Taylor of Murphy, navowly
escaped serious injury here
'arly Thursday morning:. She was accidentally
struck by a pick-up truck
Iriven by Mr. John Odell. Mr. Odell
ushed her to Petrie hospital where
t was found that her injuries were
>nly slight.
Mrs. Taylor and her husband later
eft for Asheville where Mr. Taylor
vho has been connected w.th the
Shoal Creek-Hiwassee Ds?m roadwork
or the state highway department has
H'l-n transferred.
\rmy Store Begins
21ose-Out of Goods
Th Asheville Army Store will begin;
oday (Friday) selling the bankrupt
tock of goods of the Mallonee and
Davidson store in Murphy.
The stock of goods was purchased
>y the present owners at public aucion
last week.
They announced they will close out
11 of the goods in the store at exeptional
bargain prices, a number
f which are listed elsewhere in this
tsue of the Cherokee Scout.