Our Aim ? ^ A Scout In //sg\\ I Every Home /AjpjT I In Cherokee 1^1 the leadin Vol. 50.?No. 38. WORK STARTED ON NEW PRISON CAMP NEAR HERE Conover Firm Gets Contract; Completion Expected in August t 11>1 ruction of a now lOOuuati i pi i imp In he located five miles ' ii Mu; phy on the Havcsy illr high-| .! > Ivrn started 1?\ tNorth j < 'in.i highway department. I lei man-Sipe.s firm, of (".mi- I over. lias iIk- general contract l??; i tl:t i |ion ?'l the camp. \? tuai J < : 111*.*tion <>l tin* buildings under j : ,i I < onlriu i \% 111 cost about I $-|O.(H)0. Hi, temporal \ p:ison camp- thai, h.ivr !'f?ti located at Andrews since I'l'l '? will !> ' moved to the new site on completion. I he eotilraet specifies that the < .'.nip he completed with !.">(> day* fiein April I. hut it is expected now t- l>?* finished sometime in August. The new camp is one of several that, are now in construction throughout North Carolina under a statewide project. It was stated that all labor used on the camp will be hired by the conductors and that somewhere between 70 and bO men will be used on the construction work when it gets in lull swing. At present the workmen are arranging for the foundations and drilling foi a water suply. Among the structures that will be erected within the new camp are: prisoner's quarters, dining hall, laundry, guards quarters, two watch towers, equipment repair shop, a 5,000gallon reservoir for water and various sanitary provisions. At present the well has been drilled to a depth ii 130 teet. Contractors are allowed in go 225 feet. A. Iv. Hell, supervising inspector ll.Mil New Bern. i< Kldinnir iit lh(> k; gal hotel here in connection with the work. The camps will be built on an 80:icre tract recently purchased by the stale highway department from the M. L. Mauney heirs. When announcement of the pur- , chase of land was 'made several months ago, a group of citizens ob- i jected to the removal of the camps I and sought an injunction in the Sup- | erior court. Judge Zeb V. Nettles, of Asheville, j heanl testimony charging, among other things, that the erection of the camps on the new site would pollute the lliawassee river from which Mur- | I hy gets its waiter supply, and overruled the action in a session of court in Haywood county. T. O. Slayton is superintendent of of the camps. The new camp will be similar to i the one now located at Webster, ex- | i 'it the local camp will be built I to provide for 100 men while the camp at Webster is a 75-man camp. J The two will hav$ a similar appear- | il is said. Huge Gantry Crane Purchased By TV A Tennessee Valley Authority i hs announced the award of seven , c?ntra for services and equipment! valued at more than .$222,000. The largest order was a 275-ton ! capacity gantry crane, valued at ; *110,700 for instalation at the Au-j thority's Hiwassee Dam power plant, | I1 r?iT! tho Morgan Engineering Co., ?f Alliance, Ohio. Weather Vane Listed below are maximum and minimum temperatures and rainfall ,nr peat v.cek compared with I similar data for last year. 3 TEMPERATURES I 1939 1938 13 50 25 71 39 '< 63 30 78 41 I E 71 41 78 47 I 76 48 78 48 l" 81 59 76 58 ,s 76 55 68 54 19 68 39 68 51 RAINFALL INCHES 1939 1938 lota) since April 1 2.69 8.87 ff ctfl G WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN WEST Mi Pruden Davidson Is Named Editor of Paper ! Pruden Davidson of Murphy, was elected editor of the "Technician", weekly student publication at North Carolina State college, Raleigh, in campus elections held Monday, he ' advised his parents, Mr. and Mrs. I Jo11 \ Davidson, here Monday night. J Pruden, a junior at the institution, j was also elected president of Delta Sigma Phi fraternity. In receiving these two elections, Pruden becomes one of the outstanding students on the campus as either an conferred only on the most dependable and capable men. Pruden, who graduated with honors from Murphy High School, three years ago, has spent some time reporting for the Scout, and served as managing I editor of the "Technician" during the j j past year. j [Baptist Men of j Hicjipid 1U uiouai iu UICCI I At Bryson City ' i I A great men's rally of laymen and | j ministers of Baptist Churches of Haywood, Jackson. Swain, Graham, Clay, I Macon, and Cherokee Counties will I be held in the Bryson City Baptist; Church on Sunday. April 30th, begin- j ning at 2:00 p. m. Rev. E. F. Baker, pas to j? of the First Baptist church of Audrews will be the principal speak- ! er Rev. Fred Forester of Cullowhee, will conduct the devotionals. A speci- | men Brotherhood program will be put 1 on by the Bryson City Baptist Broth: ei hood. The male quartet of the First i Baptist Church, of Asheville, will be I present and render several selections. I Other singing groups will sing at the ! meeting. This meeting is sponsored I by the Bryson City Baptist Brotherhood. Mr. MeKinley Edwards president of the Brotherhood, will pre- | side. A. L. Smiley, Superintendent . of Sunday Schools of the Tennessee River Baptist Association, will be the i Song Leader. Mr. Lawson Cooke, General Secretary of the Baptist Brotherhood of the South, has been invited to attend, as well as several other State and Regional Baptist ! leaders. An attendance of from 500 to 1000 is expected. Small Child Injured Near Athens Improves ! The condition of the daughter of [ Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Black, of Murphy, who was badly injured when she fell from a moving automobile neai Athens, Tenn., Easter Sunday is said to be improving. The little girl and her mother and Mrs. Mae Brannon and two children were riding in a taxi driven by Cecil Roberts 011 the way to Athens to visit Mrs. Hardy Coker, a sister of Mrs. Black's when the accident occured. The child was riding in the back' seat two miles out of Athens when the car door came open and she fell out. The child was rushed to the Foree hospital in Athens where she was unconscious until Tuesday. The child suffered a very badly fractured skull, and it was feared at first that j she would not live. However, she has I improved sufficiently to be moved to 1 I the home of Mrs. Coker, where she' will remain for treatment from Dr. Edwin Foree for sonic time. GAME PROTECTOR T1 u/un w ac ncLiiwr c/ ?? t ivy T? nu A liJI 11A1VJ kjx If you are' the kind of a person ?man, woman or child over 16, "woman" particularly?who likes to dip worms, put them on the ends of hooks and cast them into the river for any purpose whatever (with no intention of catching any i fish, of course) then you are sincerely and whole-heartedly advised not to try to drown the worms or whatever it is until the fishing season comes in. You don't have to take our word for it. You can have the word of Game and Fish Protector, D. M. Birchfield, that "mean", hard- j working man who lives up at To- : motla. The reason we are passing this : warning on to the public is to save them a lot of embarrassment ] and some money to buy icc cream or whatever you like best with. g ffUllfi ERN NORTH CAROLINA, COVERINt irphy, N. C. Thursday, TEACHERS ARE SELECTED IN MURPHY UNIT Two Resign Frcm Local Faculty, Supt. Bueck States The list of teacners to serve in the school.-* of tin? Murphy unit during the school year of wes announced by 11. Bueck. superintendent, Monday as follows: High school?K. C. Wright, principal; J. 11. i'ltzel*, B. R. Carroll, Mis. Meredith Whiluker, Miss Laura Overton, Mrs. liall 1 ohb, Miss Martnj Wis wall, Mi.-s Virginia Benton, M: I iiu-thw I wi? \l.-- I ? -j . L/ui lllgUlill, * . I'. L'tiambrrs, Miss NVtl .McLaughlin. Airs. Aula Waul. .Mis., Elizabeth Strickland, Mis. \V. E. Stud ill, llall < o'hb. Elementary schools?Mis. Miriam Stillwell Allen, Mis. .lorry Davidson, Mrs. Lelia Axley, Mi-> Addie Leatheiwood, Miss Emily Sword, Miss Dan McCrackeii, Mrs. T II. Patton, MisAlary Noll Williamson, Miss Clara Mc Con.hs, Prank Walsh, Aliss Frances Dickson, Bertha Alayfield, Aliss Lolia llayes, Aliss Willie Lou Wells, Miss Bessie Loora Crain, Mrs. Martha Mayheld Adams, Airs. Richard Meroney J and .1. William Wade (colored and Helen Mae Lowery (colored). Two teachers in the unit have resigned for the coming year. They are: Mrs. L. A. Lee, of Murphy high school faculty, who will move to Dalton, (la., later in the spring, and Clarence Ilendrix, of Peachtree. In announcing the list of teachers Mr. Bueck said: "We regret very much losing Mrs. Lee as a member of our faculty. She has always cooperated with us to the fullest extent, and her absence next year will be keenly ! and widely felt. Since I have been j connected with the Murphy schools she has been one of the outstanding 'members of the faculty." Forestry Movies To Be Shown In Murphy Courthouse April 20 A forestry moving picture on Fire Prevention and related subjects will be shown in the Murphy Courthouse Thursday, April 20 at 7:30 p. m. This picture is one of a series being shown throughout Cherokee and Graham Counties by the Tennessee Valley Authority and the North Carolina State Forest Service, cooperating. scenes taken in tnc forests of the United States show the value of the forests in the light of protecting our watersheds and streamflow and the enormous damage that results when we have forest fires. The program consists of five reels in sound. There is no admission charge and the public is cordially invited to attend. J. P. LEDFORD, 83, OF MURPHY, BURIED FRIDAY Funeral services for John I*. Ledford, 83-year-old resident of near Murphy, were conducted from the residence Friday with the Rev. Fred Stiles officiating. Interment was in the Old Mount Liberty cemetery. Townson Funeral Home was in c harge HINKS HE KNOWS 3ME DAYS AGO For Mr. Birchfield advises us very,very emphatically that somebody?and he thinks it was several women?were seen fishing in the Hiwassee river this week. iou can 11*11 em , uevereaux says, "that the law specifically reads than any man. woman or child over the age of 16 has to have a fishing: license to fish and that the season doesn't open on coarse fish to be caught with a hook and line until May 10. "I am checking up now on some people (he thinks it was some women) who were fishing in the HiwaSsee river last week." The printed word can't express the emphasis Mr. Birchfield placed op. them. So take our advice. If you want to stay out of ***" and save yourself some n.oney, then obey the fishing laws. t ?>m S A LARGE AND POTENTIALLY RICH April 2Q.~93" ! f Graduation I Be Held On F I ' i 1 i1 ** %J. 1 MIS- WWW I ILWCI S KKI.L < \ alrdii toi iau 1 ? ! f| ] 11 11 MRS. \ lOLI/r WUI.RSON Ml LI. S.ilntatoi ian j Lime Available j To Farmers In r Cherokee County Ground agricultural lime is avail able to Cherokee county farmers j the soil conservation program as a I grand of aid, and County Agent A. Q. | Ketner is asking that all farmers J place their orders at once. I Lime will be delivered at the nearest railroad siding, and farmers interested in obtaining it are urged to .get in touch with Mr. Ketner at his office in the court house at once to arrange for the details. Only farmers who have filed their plan of work under the program are j eligible for the lime, but an> of the ! farmers who haven't filed will be elig- J iblo as soon as they do so. Mr. Ketner states that about 600 out of the 1,000 farmers in the county , j have filed their plan of work and are . : eligible. He added that more than i 3,000 tons of lime have been ordered to date. "Most of the soils in this county need lime. This has been shown by the increase in crop yields whei e it j | has been used," Mr. Ketner said. "The use of lime is a recommended ! and also an approved practice under ! i the 1930 Agricultural Conservation ! Program. It can be used on any j cropland or non crop pasture land regardless of what crop you expect j to grow on it this year, and for each ??n in Kiouiiu ii.i:esioiie applied f>efore October 31. 1939 you will re- , reived one unit credit, toward reaching your soil building goal." | i of funeral arrangement.*. 1 Mr. Ledford. a life-long resident of 1 rherokec county died suddenly Thursday. 1 Surviving are: four daughters, Mrs. ' William Whittemore. of Tate, Ga., Mrs. Bai ney Norwood, of Easton, Pa.. ' Mrs. P. Loudcrmilk, of Durham, and 11 Mrs. Benny .Hughes, of Murphy, and h seven sons, 0. K., W. E.. J. A., ' J. C., J. E.. J. M., and S. P. Ledford, ? all of Murphy. ' ^ The Scout 4 Brings You JIji Weekly All The News TERRITORY 5c COPY?$T50 YEAR n r-|-? exercises 1 o riday Night Seventy-two Seniors To Be Given Diplomas At Final Meeting Seventy -two < ;i|?pccl-;!!u!-*ni\vneav farewell f?? Muipli. In* ?.:nioi> will n*\ .1 good man hy, will give the valedictory address. The seniors were given examinaions this week, and the exercises Kriday night will officially end their ivork in high school. "The Lord gave Peter but one key. Hut to all Seniors ho gives three keys !*??? t)l? lin?i..fi? ..r W.. V.-- 1 1 Hid the soul." Professor Elliott told the seniors at the Baccalaureate exercises. A. capacity crowd packed the high school auditorium to attend the first, of the series of graduation ceremonies held during the week. "Each senior is given the key to opportunity for intellectual advancement and development of the mind," he said. The Cullowhee professor described the other two keys as designed for the development of the body and of the soul. He urged the seniors to take advantage of the opportunities given them. The excersises opened with the prelude, Sonota Opus 23, AdagioMozart. by Miss Roberta Carringer. hollowing a hymn by the congregation, the Rev. Van B. Harrison, pastor of the Methodist church here offered prayer. The school glee club rendered a sung, announcements were read and the ltev. .!. (*. Amrnons local Baptist pastor, reed the scripture. Professor Elliott > ,-ermon followed. Two other musical numbers wert Continued on back page THOMAS SPENCER IS ABLE TO LEAVE HOSPITAL IN OHIO Mr. Thomas Spencer well-known Murphy resident, who was severely in jured in an automobile wreck neat Deleware, Ohio, several months ago. has advised friends here that he has been able to leave the hospital where he was confined since the wreck and will reside for a while with relatives ut 532 Cedarwood Terrace, Rochester. N, Y., until he is able to return here. Mrs. Spencer was instantly killed in the same wreck which occurcd when the car driven by Mr. Spencer collided with another on a snow-covered hignsvay near the Ohio town. The couple was enroute to the bedside of i relative who also died several days after the wreck. Mr. Spencer has been confined to the hospital with a severe head injury tnd an injured leg and arm. His many friends here, will be glad o learn of his improvement and will ook forward to his early return here.