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- _ Our Aim: . A Better Murphy / A Finer County THE LEAD1NC VOL. SO.?NO.49. The Week In Review STATE A " mile highway from Low Gap, on < a:olina-Virginia line to Deep Gap. liiar blowing Rock, M. C. was t.t? without ceremony on July 1. The paving is 20 feet wide on a JO < foot base. : ? Si 'iivh tor the Slate's oldest living 1 Confedei ate veteran has led to the Stat Penitentiary, in Raleigh where j:ii!ed Joe Davenport, of Martin I t: y. aged 95. Also the State s old- ' t st prisoner, he is serving life for ' killing his young wife whom he mar- ' lied when he was a spry young thing < in hi early eighties. He says his < fiist wife "coasted'* after bearing him ! 14 children. He adds that he had " "five head o' young-uns" by the wife he killed but doesn't know where any of them are. Malcolm Wise, 27 year old Burke County farmer has a sow which has ; just given birth to her tenth litter of pig* in four years, for a total of 114 pigs. She had ten litter of nine pigs each, and two of 12, and he savs she them all but two. The State Board of Conservation, Ki i:, I !y 1P. will b-? urtred to change the system of enforcement <>1 fish and game regulations; eliminate "reward and arrest" fees for deputy protectors, and turn all such fees ovtr to the school funds of the counties concerned. A deep slash in the list oi deputy protectors in Western North Carolina also is urged. It is planned t< n tain not more than three in Cherokee, and to pay them only foi time actually worked. The Farm Security Administration has reported that Carolina tenants arecroppers who borrowed gov trnmect money to buy farms of their own are pay;*irr their loui.s in advance of the date due. NATIONAL ! Th?- Federal Government has sign- ' ed agreement with England for J the exchange, on a barter basis, of British rubber for U. S. Cotton, in s the event of war. A Chicago company has just patented a "zipper" sauage. The casing, * made of vegetable parchment, is i equipped with a zipper of the same material. Cook the "dog", yank the ripper, and the sausage plops right out of its skin. The Franklin Institute has perfected a glass which can be heated red hot, and then plunged immediately in ice water without even cracking. It { can be shrunk by heating, and is known as "rubber glass". Supposedly dead and buried by his a family six months ago at Sweetwater Tenn., after his drowned body, supposedly had been taken from a creek, Clarence M. Randall returned home and had a hard time convincing his family that he wasn't an impostor. Ihe true identity of the man buried i has not yet been learned. Medical experts at the University 1 ?i California have announced a new J drugless treatment for angina pectoris. painful and often fatal heart ailment, in the form of a special belt, o ^hicii applies pressure to the abdo- o n'en and thereby increases the flow g of blood to the heai t muscle. e IT B J u Senator Ashurst, of Arizona v ??<1 the upper legislature body that o u,iu.- Caesar had a "ghost writer" nun,. J ?eu Aulus Hirtius; and that some | g I the poetry attributed to Olivei J p I ^oldssaith was really written by Dr. .1 I Samuel JoHinson. Senator Ashurst c I added that there was strong evidence f I that George Washington's immortal i | '^fewell address was written by AlexI ander Hamilton. c I FOREIGN 11 I Sensii^;, perhaps, an opportunity J ft to pui| a one w^i]e England is * I *?">roiled with Japan, Fuehrer Hit- * 1 ann?unced that he will visit a I ?e Free City of Danzig, of which he c?*ets, on July 23. He will arrive on j 1 \ war-ship, and is expected to make I Tw00^ "icittaig speech. Meanwhile | I SHv** authorities report toe city1 c I 5J* with Nazi guns and ammuni- j 1 ed a horde bf Nazis, arm- 1 a I ? ?, bayonets, and posing 1 1 tt?mswherM or "Home guards." J Ihr (El ; WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN WEST M YOUTH RESCUES 4 AFTER THEIR CAR PLUNGES IN RIVER Ernie Young Proves Hero; One of Victims Has Ear Torn Off Too much speed on a curve came i near costing four lives early last Sunlay afternoon when Winston Farmer, '25, of Unaka. who was driving:, was unable to keep on the road, and his jar nlnnrrpil intn Iho Vnllov river illst itbove the end of the Lower Valley, River bridge. Hurtling down the embankment,. the ear turned turtle, and finally ! landed upside down, its top resting on I :he river bed. Trapped inside, in ad- j dition to the driver, were two of the ; iriver's brothers and a sister: Clifton and Lester Farmer, aged 19 and IT, respectively, and Miss Ivy Farmer, aged 21. All probably would have Seen drowned but for the heroic efforts of Ernie Young, aided by Miss VIeanice Payne, young daughter of VIr. and Mrs. C. W. Payne, who live >ear the bridge. Ernie Young crossing the bridge>n his way to town, saw the accident, an down the bank and plunged into he river. Exerting almost Hercuean strength he managed to push he car from its turtle-like position? >vcr on its side, but some of the oc- \ rupants still were unable to get out. Miss Payne seated on her front >orch also saw the accident. Alhough clad only in pajamas, she scof!ed at false modesty, and also ran o the rescue. She too plunged into he river, and together, she and foung managed to right the car, and irlp the occupants oyt. Then Young Climbed the bank, tailed a passing motorist, and sped o town where he notified Mr. Ivie. The latter rushed his ambulance to he scene, and hurried the drenched mu nail drowned occupants of thr :ar to Petrie hospital. Lester Farmer was splattered with >lood, and examination showed that lis right ear had been almost torn 10m his head. The ear was almosi J shredded, and although Dr. Hoover ! ushed him to the operating: room, ! ?nd stitched the shreds together a- j pin, he said he was not certain the | lesh would ever mend. The youth a'* I o is internally injured, and is still | Continued on back page Every Hotel Crowded; Guests Turned Away The old proverb: "it's an ill wind | that blows no good" has again been | proved by the hot weather which has} "burned" down on this section for the past ten days. When it is hoi here, it's a ten to one bet that it'^ unbearable in Atlanta, Chattanooga, and other cities. As a result every hotel in Murphy has been filled, and has ! been forced to turn guests away. Murphy's younger sister, Andrews, ilso is beneftiing. The Terrace Hotel there, long rather a white elephant, is booming, and last week" also had to turn guests away, for the first time in years. Cole Denton, B Lands Two Tro Two fat rainbow trout, one 12, the ^ ther 11 inches long, and both caught ; in one line at the same time, is the ;reatly sought but rarely attained re i ord made by J. Coleman Denton on uly 4th on Little Snow Bird. One i-as caught on the regular hook, the ther on the sinker hook. The catch climaxed two days of flAfinno K,r M- " arty from Murphy and Robbinsville rhey landed 36 rainbows the first lay, and 23 the second, the smallest ish being a little more than nine nclies long. Also, the party found a bee tree ut it down, and took out more than 0 pounds of wild honey, Denton will ake the honey, and snapshots of his rout catch back to his home, in Vashington, D. C. to show his riends. He predicts a lot of visitors rom the National Capital will reult. Mr. Denton, known through all Cherokee and Graham counties as Cole" is a striking" example of the 'Country boy who made good in the ity, in a big way." A world war vet:ran, he went to the national capital hortly after the big struggle to vist Mrs. Nancy E. Olmsted, his cousin, tnd remained to go to work. His first \ icrukrE ERN NORTH CAROLINA, COVERING URPHY, N. C. THURSDAY, JULY ( EC DODSON BITTEN BY "BLACK WIDOW", BUT IS UNHARMED ' Bitten by the supposedly deadly | "Hack widow"* spider, Mr. Ed Dodson of Culberson has proved either thai | scientific findings regarding the insect are all wrong, or that he has a . system which is immune to the spid er's venom. Mr. Dodson was seated on his front porch one evening last week when he felt something crawling on his neck. He reached up to brush it off, aiul as he touched the insect he felt a sharp bite. He slapped at the spot, and the insect fell to the porch floor, dead. On being examined the body of the insect had the unmistakable "death's I nead ' of the "Black Widow". Ignoring the pleas of his family. Mr. Dodson refused to call a physician. and treated the bite with "home remedies". Thus far he has felt only j .1 slight naseau. ! WORK BEGINS SOON ON $35,000 PLANT TO SERVE MURPHY Construction of the new $35,000 sub-station which is to serve Murphy j with electrical current under the new TV A contract is expected to start soon, it was learned yesterday. There probably will be a resultant bcost in employment. The sub-station will be located on a bluff, and in the rear of the Southt rn railway Station, on a lot now understood to be owned by the town. This land will be purchased by the TV A, which also will bear all the expenses of constructing the building. Once the work is started, according to Mr. C. L. Alvcrson, Power Representative of the Department of Operation, TVA, the sub-station can he completed, and put into operation within 30 days. TVA lines already have been extended to within six miles of Murphy. Mr. Alvcrson stressed the fact, however, that while the TVA will uppiy all necessary power, it will NOT be responsible for actual service to residents over the town lines. The latter are the property of the town, and any damage to them, with resultant interruption to service is up to.the municipality. One of the chief needs of these ....v-o, u. nas noon pointod out by a I town official, is the thinning out of trees through which they now run. During storms, the lines often are fouled by branches, and the entire town plunged in darkness. WORKMEN AT DAM FORCED TO TRAVEL TO JOBS IN BOATS It water backed up for six miles, with a depth of 30 feet at the dam. the Hiwassee Project today has graduated from the dream class into actuality. Six men, employed at the giant TV A works now are forced to go to and from home and work by motor boat; the roads they once travelled by motor car, or on foot, now being buried under waters whuth eventually will' make a huge lake. Meanwhile new concrete sections are being rushed to completion at the dam proper. ack On Visit, ut At Once job was with the Washington Railway imj E'ectric Company. He resigned this to become a Washington police- i man, and while off duty, began sell- ing real estate as a side line. Washington found his dry mountain humor refreshing, and was im pressed by his innate honesty. It a wasn't long before he resigned from ' the police force?which paid him $2,000 a year? and devoted all his J time to salesmanship. He rose steadily to his present post as sales manager for one of the Capital' largest c real estate and construction firms. \ specializing in apartment houses and t big office buildings. Every winter Coleman goes hunt- 0 ing, sometimes returning to this sec- ^ tion, and sometimes going to Pennsv- j Ivania to shoot deer. On one of these trips, about five years ago, he me: his bride, Dorothy, who is with him 11 on his present visit here. They have a c small son, Jimmy, aged three, who al- v so is with them. Mr. Denton expects to be here several days. He recently moved into a new home in the most swagger section c of Washington. Plans for which were ii drawn under his personal supervision, c and construction of which cost $25,- t 000. a ' 1 Sroti A LARGE AND POTENTIALLY RIC* i. 1939. Mayor, Stc Study Tom JOHNSON NABS 4 1 AM fU ADfCC AC ui4 uimiuLo vr TIPSY DRIVING Two Of Accused, from Ga. Taken Operating Same Auto The fact that? there are drunk? in -i -i . luipuj. (Ktiiiiifiy js not news. Drunks, like the poor, we have always with us. But drunken drivers are something; else a?ain; a menace from which Murphy happily, has been free for many a moon. Therefore it came as rather a shock even to the Chief of Police Fred .Johnson?he is a hard man to shock, too?that he should have not one case of drunken driving;, but four; and all within 48 hours. More unusual still, two of the cases involved a single motor trip. Both men were arrested for drivings the same car. The two unfortunates, both of whom were given a hearing; before Gray, held for court, and rolqhsed under $200 bo ml each, are Howard Deweese ami Charles Arp. both of Sweet gum. Ga. With two young women as companions they came to Murphy ami their strange driving attracted the attention of the Chief. Hut. at the very same moment that Chief Johnson saw them, they saw him too. and started out highway No 28. hound for home. Johnson folowed, put on speed passed them, and then turned back to block the road. As he passed them he savs. Im-jb ili-ivi"" Seeing the Chief pass. Deweesc probably figured that his friend was, more sober than he. and so gave bin1 j the wheel; for Chief Johnson says | that when he came back, Arp was i driving. ''But both of 'em were high as kites." said the Chief, "so I locked the two of 'em up. The mayor did the rest." The two girls#were allowed to go free. 7. Worth Gurmay, of Blairsville. Ga. was another nabbed on a drunken driving charge, and John Caldwell, of Young Harris, Ga.. who was with ldm was found to be carrying a black-jack, according to the police records, and was charged with carry ing concealed weapons. They too were ordered held for court and released under $200 bonds. They were arrested by Chief Johnson near the L. & N. depot, on their way to town after a too hilarious session at a near by "rest camp". These prisoner too. had young women companions, who also were allowed to go free. The fourth victim to run afoul of the law on a drunken driving charge was Elmer Slague. local photographer, who was arrested while driving the car of Aud Wilson, last Friday night. Saturday morning a dozen customers were at Slague's studio while he languished in the jail house. It was nearly noon before he could make the required $200 bond for his appearance at the next court. Frnoet I 01 * ? v ^wuu^ilimn, uhikui' > companion in the ear, also was locked up on a charge of intoxication. MRS. GRAY FINDS CORPSE IN YARD; BIRD DOG VICTIM Mrs. J. B. Gray, wife of the May>r called His Honor on the phone Wednesday, her voice so choked with ears she could hardly be understood. "There's a corpse hanging in back f our house" she sobbed." I?Idon't now whether it's a suicide or a murler." The Mayor dropped everything and turried home. The body of the orpse swung against the front of the roodhouse of Mr. R. S. "Bun" Alexander. It was Bun's prize setter bird log. ______ Mr. and Mrs. Alexander went otf >n a trip and left the dog chained n the woodhouse. The animal had limbed up and through a window in he front, tried to leap to the ground, rnd hanged himself. ^ Dedicated L>f< T e | I o bervice For Progress i TEMRITORY 5c COPY?Jl.SC PER YEAR ite Aide rn Finance Kef inancing Is Sought To Bring Power Cost To 3 Cents Per K.W.H. I With n base rate of three cents per | kiTruvatt hour for electric current as i the goal, the Hon. Charles M. Johni son Stsite Treasurer c ame to Mur r.hv tonight for an inten?ivo ?t.nriv. ] with Mayer Gray and his Board, of | the Town's tangled financial condition. H A conference was held seeking a way to clear up the muddle without increasing taxation. This last is something that Mayor Gray is dete rmined shall NOT be done. The difficulties are the result of the town's purchase of the plant and linos of the Southern States Power Company. The price paid, according to TV A officials made it. a "good buy'*. Nevertheless that purchase forced the town to shoulder si big debt. Tenative plans were laid last night to meet this debt by issuance of revenue bonds, over a reasonable period of years. The security, it was pointed out. will he better thrin gilt edged and bond purchases will be of joint, benefit to both the buyers and the town. Such ;i plan, it also was pointed out. will speed 5i further reduction in | power rates, already cut from ten to four and one half cents per kilowatt hour. Mr. Harvey Elkins. manager of the plant for the Southern States Power Company, who will continue in that post for the Town, was present at the conference, with a mass of records covering past years, which show ed that purchase of the plant will result in benefit for town, county, and individual with " * , ....... tuv iuiier COI| lecting" first. ! State Treasurer Johnson, Mayor Gray and the Board went over facts and figures in detail, and all were co.i vinccd that a plan can be worked out to ease the situation, without any too great difficulty. Mayor Gray warned that residents should not expect immediate slashing of rates below the four and one half cent base charge. PLAYGROUND LISTS 185 ON ITS ROLLS; DRIVES FOR MORE With all sorts of amusements already provided, and the list to be still further increased, 185 children have been enrolled in the Murphy Playground, on the school grounds, and Supervisor Glade I.ovingood is conducting an intensive one-man drive to make the enrollment include every child in Murphy and its immediate environs. He points out that the playground is also open to children of the entire County, and to the youngsters brought here by tourists. He has asked the Scout to stress the fact that children there are under constant supervision which keeps them from getting hurt, hut in no wise interferes with their pleasure, and that it is a splendid place for parents to leave their youngsters while they are shopping, or of.t on business trips. The children play tennis, soft ball, hand ball, and group games. They pitch horseshoes and they see-saw; and there is a merry go round, and a sand box for the tiny ones. ?l * nt; playground opens daily at 10 o'clock with a flap raising ceremony. It closes at noon, reopens at two o'clock in the afternoon, and closes with flag lowering exercises at 5:30. Richard Mauney's T ale Of A Fish Is Challenged Richard Mauney, home on a visit claims the record catch of the season with a fish he hauled out at Santeetlah Sunday which measured 26% inches in length and weighed five and three quarters pounds. Sceptics, pressing for details, learned that the catch was a cat-fish and promptly ridiculed Richard's alleged championship. One declared his little brother had caught a bigger one with a bent pin. Nevertheless, as Richard points out, a twenty five inch fishT regardless of variety, is no minnow.
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