-?r 0^ Our Aim. * A getu: Murphy I 1 \ Finf County THE LEADINC VOL 5. 4 YE^r IRE TRUCK IS I'!! TOGETHER Bl CHIEF SWAIM New Chassis Is Bought Ar;i Old Equipment Is ! xed and Shifted Fir- < * Fred Swaim is walkin? :* himself. If yn?i ji?u-r. you'll hear the words of fas son-.- T v run: W i make it so". truest sonjr ever writion" vnim declares. "For five e been wishing: for a new i'.'k?and finally I've grot on?." BHB i f$9 1 ? >f the Fire Department wac - a hit over-enthusiastic; ictly a new Fire truck that n purchased by the Town, i; hat might be termed a brand new. Seme of .. js r i Some is a mixture o* me is old. But th<- re ?;U]t truck that is nifty as to hat really counts?one tha nted on to function - , itcly was NOT the case wit: . .juipment some thirteen jKirs little red truck, of late v*..ron as temperamental as Gri?' on her sulkiest day. ild purr like a kitten, ib< dy's business. Sometiiws not often. M'?stl would splutter protesting- 1 ly. proa ereakingly, and refuse to buiip m got a good healthy 'how Tr was all right if the going was hoving the engine fin ' ards, and arrived on j al,y si: "I to make the long pull n,. ... 1 i ... my aoout live minutes af-1 all over. T' drew up to a firm park-1 9 injr i n against. the curbing, j 9 Wl waim tried to drivel 9 back Evans* garage, he found' 9 it \\;i of no SOlip. Something I 9 vis < rder, and the engine | 9 would!.'' 4ft. And an up-hill grade I 9 mad. pu a little too much work. 1 9 So f;i i many days the engine staid | 9 neht v it was. Fortunately there I 9 vera ?or it might have been 9 just tr. . id. Fortunately, too, the 9 lire inst i companies didn't hear 9 ibout it -r the rates?already high 9 ' ess knows?would have 9 climbed still higher. H Rut ' ? all over now. The Town I 9 hassis from Ed Moore, 1 9 *bo y is an automobile dealei 9 hit a mber of the Board, and) 9 CLiirma the Finance Committee. 9 ..Id the chasis at 9 Swaim got busy. He 9 1 paralus off the old truck H in. ,i it onto the new chassis. 9 ' I lie retained. Repairs 9 l,! were made. The KSt \\;i t; , . n away I a fire fighting ma ,ln< Chief Swaim declares! i> ahh- '; tckle any blazes that comes I rv?f coursc lt wont last forever" t lie* Swaim explained. "I had hoped I l, t GVerything new and up to the ?jnute but that would have cost I HO more, and the town finances I couldn't, .stand that much outlay. B What wo hav*? m??h ? * ha oerve ior a two mm yr three years. By that time, we hope to buy a completely ne^ outfit, strip the present chassis, and turn it over to the town o use as a truck." mason back with big idea I former Sheriff Loster Mason, just ac^ from Knoxville reports that 18(H) ?*ttle were sold at the Stockyards there on Wednesday. Mr. Mason says * toodly proportion of the stock of came from this section. He won wky thero isn't a stock-yards ill Murphy. Ih? (Eh ; WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN WESTE V HENN TICKETS GO TO MAUDE DICKEY , 2 MORE THIS WEEK j AEDVM KIDC'EY. That's not misprint. It's a name. j Unscramble the letters a'id you'll find they spell Maude Dickey. The owner of that name found it ( all right?hidden in two of the j Scout's ads. As a result she got two tickets to the fine Henr. theater. w?n. tickets are waiting for some lucky reader this week. Sturdy the Scout ads. If you find your name, bring the paper to the Scout office before 5 o'clock Monday afternoon? j ana get your passes. Maybe the name will be scrambled maybe not. "We aint a-sayin* ". o TOWN'S STATION FOR TVA POWER WILL BE RUSHED j Road To Site Graded; Construction Work To Follow At Once Within the next month, according i to Town Clerk "Ef" Christopher, the present electrical power tie-up with the Nantahaln Company will be a thing of the past, and Murphy and its environs will he served from its wn substation of the TVA. The substation, costing between $30,000 and $40,000 is to be built on land recently purchased from Attorney Don Witherspoon, in East Murphy, near the town limits. The big steel and aluminum structure will sit hack about 300 feet off Highway No. 3 19. The lot cost the town $750. The cost of erecting the sub-station will be met by the TVA whose force expect to complete their work in less than 30 days after structural operations have been started. it The location off the highway made I it. necessary for the Town to build j a romi n? me proposed site. Mr. Chris-I topher says workmen have practical-) ly finished the cutting and grading, ? and ?11 that remains to do is cover the j route with crushed rock. "This will be finished early next week" the Town Clerk said." Our rock crusher, near the store of T. P. Calhoun on Highway 19, is ready to go?but it is now hooked up with the Nantahala Company, and we want to change that to a tie-up with our own lines. That wont take long?and the rock will be in place very shortly. "Meanwhile two car-loads of poles have reached Murphy, shipped by the TV A to carry lines to the Grape Creek section. They will be erected immediately, and soon houses that have never known any brighter illumination than that from lamps, will bo blazing with electricity. I o PUMPING STATION I HAS FLOOR LIFTED, | SITE BEAUTIFIED Its flooring elevated several feet to prevent it from being inundated when the TV A dam causes the rivei to rise, the town's pumping station, on Highway 28, is now in operation again. The centrifugal pump, which had to be taken apart, and reassembled was given a test Thursday, and found to be in perfect working order. All the machinery has been given thorough going over, and id in better shape than in years. A water shortage?as has visited the town in times agone?is now regarded as almost impossible. Coincident with the elevation of the flooring of the station, the grounds have been regraded and will be beautified. Fertilizer has been added to the soil in liberal doses, and grass seed planted. Next spring, it is reported, formal flower beds will be laid out and cultivated, making the station a real beauty spot. I WORei RN NORTH CAROLINA, COVERING IURPHY, N. C. THURSDAY AUC I ACTION PLANNED : TO SPEED PAVING OF ATLANTA LINK Federalization Sought As Sole Remedy For Twelve Mile Stretch Stop** art* expected soon to b? tak>i bv a joint committee from Andc ws and Murphy to enlist the aid of nearby Georgia merchants to brine bout Federalization of the 12 mile tretch of unpaved road leading from j m.-> nrciKill <.0 Ai IcirilH Via- jMHI'M'tia. ' Merchants and househpldrrs long the unpaved stretch probably .ill be asked to sitrn a petition. BustLess firms and postmaster of other owns all the way to Atlanta also will e solicitied for aid. Finally cooper- : tion will he sought from both Mariet- . ta and Atlanta. Much freight traffic j to and from Atlanta over this high- j *ay ever day. Andrews is concerned. Naturally as egards freight; but it is even morel rite rested in the increased tourist rade that a completely paved high- I .-ay would inevitably bring. Under present conditions. man\ ourists from Atlanta shun that dusty, umpy 12 mile stretch as they would : pestilence. Instead they take a longr route, which brings them to the treat Smokies lip Bryson City and .ylva way. As a result, they never ee Cherokee County at all. And many of those tourists, who .ever see us. might reasonably he counted on to stay with us a while? nd come hack again if only we could ot them in the first place. For many years, now Georgia has een promising to pave the road. Those promises have meant exactij l ?thing. The general belief hereabouts has been that the State was too roke to do anything. Lack of money is of course, the bas< cause Rul ivi-n -~?wl /ould be paved under the preac nt setlip. The Journal has learned, definitely h&t the chief obstacle lies in the fact hat this particular stretch of highway. for some obscure reason, has ic-ver been Federalized. Therefore no Federal funds are available for mproving it. Were it. Federalized, it could be aved with Georgia paying only half he bill, and the other, half being met by the U. S. Government. As it is Jeorgia would have to pay it all. Naturally, that State choses to spend its highway funds on roads where, hy receiving Federal aid, they can get two dollars worth of work for one. The Marietta highway connects with five Federal roads, and there is no logical reason why it too has not keen Federalized?except that nc such formal request has ever been made, with the proper hacking. All that is necessary, this paper ha.4 been informed, is to get up a petiiton signed by Georgia residents who ust the hghway. and by leading resident* Continued on back page Battle Royal L As Locals Mee Manager Kindley has arranged for a sure 4nuff blood and thunder game for next Sunday. The Cherokee All Stars will crash?and we mean CRASH with the boys from Copperhill. Since these two teams love each other just like Hitler loves a Jew. there should be large doings. The All Stars are confident. "We're gojng to sentd 'em back to the mines, where they belong" quoth Ray Barton demon back-stop and slugger for Our Side. "Those Copperhill guys aint in our class?out we're takin 'cm on, just tc give 'cm a little lesson as to how the game really should be played. "Those poor chaps need lessons. They don't know nothin'. But they'll know plenty when we get through with 'em."" A man from Copperhill heard Bar k ?>rnu A LARGE AND POTENTIALLY RICP IST24.I93D E NOTLA TALC CO. TAKES OVER LAND OF FRANK SILVER The Notla Talc Company, forced from its former holdings by a combination of water and TV A land purchases. has leased 60 acres of land from Frank Silver, near Culberson the Scout learns.?and are nowdrilling to find the best place to sink a shaft. According to Mr. Silver, the land has been leased on a royalty basis, am! under an option. If expectation. uui ?>ui. sir. aiiver nopes to sell outright. taking part payment in cash, and the remainder in permanent royalties. Preliminary tests indicate that the talc is a continuation of the* old vein formerly worked by the Notla Company. Mr. J. W. Bailey, head of this concern savs that sample cores he has brought to the surface have been tested, and found to be almost pure white in color, and of unusually finequality. Present indications are that the big vein lies from 50 to GO feet deep? land that there will be so little water, jat least at the start, that a single small engine will take care of it. Operations also will be aided, and expenses cut down by use of TV A power, bought from the Town of Murphy. FACULTY LISTED BYSUPT.BUECK ASTERMNEARS Meeting Of Teachers Is Called For Monday. Opening Wednesday With the entire list of faculty mem hers named for the coming schoci year, which opens in Murphy nex Wednesday. August 30th. Supcrin tondent H. Bueck has called the firs faculty meeting of the year for Mor pected to prove one of the most pre riuctive in the history of the locj school system. A finer group of tci chers has never been assembled i this county. Superintendent Bueck has annoui ced the completed list, of facult members for the Murphy City uni i as follows: Kenneth Clayton Wright, Principa Mrs. W. E. Studstill, Reid Mallonei ' Mrs. Harry Miller, Mae W. Veal. Lol 1 Brooks, Julian Houston Pitzer. Bascomb R. Carroll, Mcredit Whitaker, I^iura Hugdon Overto Mrs. Virginia S. Cobb, Margaret. Vi , i gina Benton, Dorothy lade, Gene\ Continued on back pan ooms Sunday it Copper Hill J ton speak his piece. The Copperit ' glowered, and spat. "I aint answein' you now," he tol the All Stars Catcher?"because I'i on foreign territory, so to speak. Yo got friends with you?I aint got nc body?not yet. "But I'll have my gang with m Sunday. "We'll lick the tar out o you on the ball field?and then if yoi aint satisfied we'll lick you all ove again, any way you say." From all of which, my hearties,, i would seem that there is going to bi a real ball game. Chambers will be 01 on the mound for Copperhill, am McNally will serve 'em up for th< locals. The game will start at tvf o'clock central time, and the usual admis sion rates will prevail. Be there? maybe you'll see not only a gamebut a Battle Royal. ^ Dedicated To Service 14, For Progress 1 TERRITORY 5c COPY?S1.5C PER YEAR PLANS FOR UNITY TO BOOST COUNTY FEARED DOOMED Merchants Like Idea, But See Defeat By "Old Human Nature" Committees from the various com j inanities of the County will meet at 1 the Court-house in Murphy Friday night. August ffi, LO report on pn vailing sentiment regarding the plan to organize a county-wide chamber of commercePreliminary reports reaching the Scout are to the effect that the county wide plan probably will be defeated. Indications are that efforts will be made to organize a c hamber for Murphy alone. A more than ! () per cent of the business men interviewed in Murphy freely admitted tha the county-wide idead would he the- best?"if it could be worked out." Most of these seemed to feel, however, that unity was domed "because ! of human nature." "Andrews and Murphy can never ' work together in suc h a plan" one prominent Murphy merchant told the Scout. "Murphy wants to call attention to the fact that it has cheap TV*A power; two railroads; and will he close to the TV*A lake and its fine fishing. You can*' expect Andrews to join in advertising those things. Then there is the- question of a meeting plarejal don't believe Andrews would be willing to come to Murphy. Neither would Murphy go 1 *. ; Andrews. 4*If there should be a full time secretary of the Chamber, the question j would ar^se as to where he would j live. Both towns would want him. | "Finally members from Murphy i would outnumber those from And'M lews. Having :i majority, they could * r put their will over - but it would - i mean a row. t j "Altogether. 1 believe that th? ri valry between Murphy ami Andrews has existed too long to he healed in ! a minute. Of course, such rivalry is 1 foolish. Both towns know that something must be done and our aims ' are almost jdentiial. They should get together but human nature being is5 what it is, I don't believe they ever c- will?for any length of time. Better >- not waste time trying, il Advocates of the County wide-idea t- refuse to accept this idea. They insist, n that a county wide chamber could he formed t?? advertise Cherokee Counl ty. without mentioning either town, y The idea would be to get visitors into t, the county and then let them decide of rtheinselves. 1; These advocates point out that the p,! Lions and Rotarians could then work la | as purely local organizations, stirring | their respective towns to a friendly ;h j rivalry in beautification, civic bettern. | ment. etc. r- j Mr. C. VV. Savage and Mr. Walter ra j Maunoy. who with Dr. K. I Holt and I Dr. Bryan Whitfiiled comprise the j committee named to sound out. senti| ment in Murphy, are themselve dividj * ?i on the question of what is best. The answer will he given at the Hireling: Kriday night to which the public is invited. The session will convene at 8 o'clock.