Our Aim:?
A Better Murphy / g
A Finer County
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vol. si.?no. is
^Tf\N" OLMSTED
DIES SUDDENLY
IN WASHINGTON j
Novelist and Musician j
To Rest In Mountains
He Loved So Well
Slank J Olmsted is dead. The eldest
son of Mr. and Mrs. Victor H.
Olmsted and grandson of the late
Dr. J. '.v. I'atton, of Murphy died suddenly
in a Washington D. C. hospital
early Wednesday morning, after havjni
been stricken at the home of his
motn< ! . " Arlington, va.
Funeral services will be held in
Murphy, following cremation of the
body :i Washington. Mrs. Olmsted
is expected to arrive with the ashes
today ?Thursday).
Stanley Olmsted was born in Murphy.
61 years ago. Although he went
to Washington with his parents when 1
a child, and spent many years in New
York City and the great capitals <>i
Euro] he always considered Murphy
his "home". It was his own wish ,
that hi be buried here?if pos sible
. i i Methodist graveyard where
t f his kinsmen sleep. He I
raveyard, as he loved the i
nionntai'. - he came back to so often, j
s Ho was a novelist, a poet, and a j
musician?and he came very close 1
to genius in all three. Three of his '
novels were published; one of them
"Top of Tobin" having life in Murphy
: its theme. This book was
praised by the greatest literary critics
in the land.
Many ?>f his poems also were published
in book form, as were more
than one hundred magazine stories;
tnc lauer invaraoiy appearing in trie
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WHO SAID BEARS j
ARE COWARDS;
MM R ARER
!
Wounded Bruin
Chases Him Miles
Around Big Mountain
If anyone doesn't think that a
bip black bear will come after you ,
just, ask Jim Baker.
Last Wednesday morning A. M.
Simonds gathered in his bear dogs .1
and toj : her with Jim Baker, Bill :
Dockorv. Uley Farmer and others: 1
started f<?r the big mountains. On the | <
way they picked up Garfield Rhodes j
with ihi two bear dogs and headed J
for their ramp, arriving about 6 o'- <
dock in the evening.
The following morning, bright and (
?arly they headed for a bear drive |
and an all day hunt was without avail.?
Next day they headed in another di-j
recticn nod hunted all morning with-1
?ut starting anything. Then, about ; >
one o'clock old Zero gave a few yelps j
and the chase was on. i
bown the mountain and through
tbe laurels they went, while Jim Bak- !
Cn and A. M. Simonds patiently await- I
('d in stands a few yards apart. About j
two o'clock they heard the dogs |
beaded their way and it wasn't long |
until they came near Baker who fired j
down on Mr. Bear and brought him to
? ? ground.
In the meantime the dogs, had separated
and had two bears going at the j
same time. In a short time the party ,
heard the last pack coming and soon
the bear came in sight of Simonds j
n'ho cracked down with his rifle and
inflicted a severe wound.
The bear rushed and started directly
toward .Tim Baker. The latter took
his heels around the mountain? '
*n<l the bear chased him. Simonds
finally got another shot and brought
hlr- Bruin to the ground.
Simonds then fired the dead bear
"flial and all men came in, except
aker. Part of the men started a
^?r ^a^er' tracking him
^ugh the leaves; and finally they
him about two miles away on
Clessee side, perched on a big
Ihe Oil
1 WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN WEST
Superior Court Opens
Here Monday, Nov. 6
TT*e November term of Superior
court for Cherokee county opened
here Monday morning in the Murphy
courthouse with Judge J. Will
Pless presiding. 231 cases are listed
on the docket for this term.
Monday and Tuesday were devoted
to disposing of several small
cases of liquor, drunken and reckless
driving and small assault cases
on the old docket. The grand
jury is still in session and the number
of true bills they will find will
not be available until the end of the
week.
The murder case involving
Charlie Frazier, charged with slaying
Kimsey Wyke, Andrews policeman,
opened Wednesday morning
continued through the day. A special
night session was conducted
Wednesday night for this case.
and due to the rush all evidence
was in at noon Thursday and the
jury retired at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
No verdict had been
brought out when the Scout went
to press.
MINISTERS MEET
MONDAY; BIBLE
STUDY DISCUSSED
Rev. H. L. Paisley
Leads Discussion;
Baker Presides
A large attendance marked the
Minister's Conference conducted in
the First Baptist church here Monday
and an excellent discussion of the current
topic, "The Church's Responsibility
for Weekday Bible Instruction",
was given led by Rev. H. L. Paisley,
pastor of the local Presbyterian
ihurch.
Rev. E. F. Baker. of Andrews,
presided over the meeting- and Rev.
Fred Stiles acted as secretary. Rev.
Paisley, acting in the absence of the
ro;,ram leader Van B. Harrison who
had to be absent, led the discussion,
using the Chattanooga school and
church cooperative movement as a
model.
In discussing the week-day Bible
study in Chattanooga, that program
war explained in detail and discussed
and approved by the conference. In
this program the Chattanooga schools,
both city and county, have entered
elective courses of Bible study open
for all students, and a survey shows
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Local CCC C
Arnprimn I *
?-w* m, ? JUI v
Murphy's new COC ("amp near
Cool Springs put the final touches on
all building and construction work
Tuesday and launched right into a
round of activity.
Although the new camp i* made up
of 183 World War veterans, it would
appear that they were the youth of
the CCC organization in the country.
The entire camp, teeming with activity
and making plans for more, was
a literal beehive after completion of
building.
In completeness the camp now has
more than twenty buildings including
barracks, a welfare building, garages,
officers and technicians quarters, forestry
and army offices, dispensary,
mess hall and recreation building.
Plans for beautifying the site are
well underway. Grass and flower plots
will be set out in a pattern most bene
iiviai IpU uinu^r.
All those and social activities are
under the direction of commanding
officer Oecile P. Hall, and project
superintendent A. M. Diotz. The natural
beauty of the place makes it
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ERN NORTH CAROLINA, COVERING
MURPHY, N. C. THURSDAY, NOV
Loop In Murphy
Street Completed:
Open To Travel
Relocation of part of Tennessee ;
street leading: to the Factorytown sec- ;
lion of Murphy has been completed j
and is now open to traffic with a new {
overhead bridge spanning the south- ;
i n raiiroad at that point and a beautiful
new loop drive, from the over- j
Ihead bridge to the Valley River
bridge has resulted which will be a I
I beauty spot for Murphy after Hiwas- ;
see Dam reservoir is filled.
Certain sections of this street
would have been inundated by the
back waters of the dam and it was
found necessary to rebuild part of the
street. The new stretch of street is
elevated far above any level the waters
will reach extending upward as
high as was necessary for the overhead
bridge. This street is paved with
concrete.
No new bridge was built for th"
river but the old one was reinforced
and moved upstream about thirty
feet. In the process of putting a new
foundation under this bridge it was
raised "eight feet higher than before
so that it would easily clear the lake
waters. The foundations of the railroad
trestle just above this bridge j
were aiso reimoreen ana rip-rapped
against the erosive forces of the lake
waters.
From the river bridge the highway
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last Bites He] d
For D. C. Hall, 69,
At Mt. Pisgah j
Final rites for D. C. Hall, (59, of
Warne, who died Wednesday night a*.
H o'clock were conducted from the
Mt. Pisgah Baptist church Thursday
afternoon at o'clock with the
! Lev. Henry Brown officiating. Intcr
ment was in the church cemetery.
i Townson Funeral home had eh irge of
i
; arrangements.
1 M:\ Ik.11 was probably one of the
| mcst widely known and well-liked
j men in all Chero .ee county, having
' a host of friends all over this entire
section. The Hall family is one of the
oldest in the county.
Surviving are his wife; four daughters,
Mrs. Lucy 'Hawkins, Mi's. Vilirm
; Kimsey and Miss Cordia Hall, all of
I Clay county, and Mrs. Naomi Elliott
! of Franklin; seven sons, Virgil Hall
| of Murphy, Lee Hall, of Winston|
Salem, and Bill, Claude, Albert and
1 Dee Hall, all of Clay county.
limp Hums \
igion Meets \
I unique without improvement in its
majestic site overlooking the Hiawassee
river from a sleep and precipilons
bluff, which will later be a good
view of the Hiwassee Dam lake.
On Saturday last the local post of i
the American Legion held its meeting
at the camp. The meeting was purely
social ana was carried out more in
the form of a reunion than a called
meeting. Some of the local members
found old buddies in the camp; others
reminisced, and the "good oP days"
| were discussed in general.
During this meeting 65 of the CCC
j veterans became members of the local
j legion organization and others exi
pressed the desire to join.
Plans were made at the meeting to |
; hold all meetings in the future at the
j camp and a request was made to th?
district office of the Tusquittee district
of the Nantahala National forest
in Atlanta, from which authorization
must be given before these meetings
in the camp can be affected.
Plans were also made to hold a
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A LARGE AND POTENTIALLY RICH
EMBER 9, 1939
TV A Power
Permanently
SAFE LOOTED IN
HARDWARE STORE
WEDNESDAY NIGHT
The Sheriff said esndt. lpw rf h
Professional .safe-blowers, artists ,
of their trade, successfully opened the j
? tj?i ? 1
here Wednesday night and escaped |
with six dollars in cash and some valuable
documents. An attempt on the
gulf Oil company warehouse failed
when no safe was found to blow.
According to Sheriff Townson.
three men apparently entered the
hardware company building late Wednesday
night, blew the safe and then,
continuing to the Gulf plant and en ?
iing that building made their escape
when they found no safe.
The Sheriff said it was wihtout
doubt the work of exports. A small
hole had been drilled into the working
parts of the combination, the hole
loaded with powder with a fuse leading
out and the opening sealed with
soap. After the explosion, the thieves
took out six dollars in cash and a
steel box containing insurance policies.
notes and other papers. However,
nothing else was touched.
The same thieves, supposedly, successfully
entered the building of the
ulf company, and finding no safe,
concluded that no money was kept
there and continued on their way.
Nothing was missing from the company's
office.
BULLDOGS MEET ,
FRANKLIN HIGH
HERE FRRIDAY
The Murphy Buildups clash with
Franklin High's football eleven here
Friday in what will probably he the
hardest game so far this season or*
the local field, the game starting at
1 o'clock.
The Bulldog's have enjoyed * v r\
so-so season thus far this year and a
win will boost their rating considerably,
Therefore, Coach I'itzer Vuis
been sending his boys through a sCff
workout all week and gave them pro'.tbly
their hardest offensive scrimmage
practice of the entire year on
Wednesday. In other words he intends
to bring home the bacon.
The Franklin team has a reputation
of beinjt very strong and have sever- J
al big scalps under their belt. The
least the Bulldogs can look forward \
I to is the hardest game of their life.
vith Activity;
vith Vets
/TO- i
j uviucu uu.^uig tournament at
camp sometime between the dates of
January 1 and 20. Both this camp and
the local American Legion post will i
cooperate in this move, which will involve
about eight camps in this district.
According to the plan youths
will engage in the tournament and
from these class winners will travel
to Atlanta. Ga. where state and dis!
trict finals will be held.
On Tuesday evening representatives
of ten camps in District No. 3
met at the Murphy camp for the regular
district conference. Also on this
same night the reserve officers from
this district held their regular meeting.
Other activities are being planned
for this camp in the near future. Visitors
from all over the section are
finding the camp to be one of the
town's greatest attractions, and when
beautification is complete in the
spring it will probably be one of the
scenic spots of the county, and certainly
the home of a huge and happy
family.
I
t Dedicated
To Service
For Progress
TERRITORY
Sc COPY?$1.50 PER YEAR
Is 'Cut On'
In Murphy
Switch Thrown At
5:20 Wednesday; Sub
Station Functioning
At exactly 5:20 o'clock Wednesday
afternoon workmen threw the switch
cn the new TV A sub station in Murphy.
illuminating the entire city for
the first time with electricity direct
from the TV A power lines, which is
and will be the permanent source of
power for Murohv.
With the arrival and installment ?>f
the regulator, which will keep the
current at a constant voltage, the
station was in immediate readiness to
supply the. town. II. G. Elkins, manager
of the town's electric department,
said that about one and one
half hours would be required to adjust
the new regulator after the power
had been cut on, after which it would
be continuously and permanently supplied
to the town.
The new power source relieves a
great impropriety in Murphy, the former
source having been insufficient
and erratic. Many times the consumption
was far greater than the supply
and output of the former source, causjmv
the entire town to h- thrown into
darkness on different occasions.
Work on the new sub station was
begun in August of this year and construction
was complete some two
weeks ago. However, officials wetv
unable to cut in on the TV A line until
the regulator had been installed in
order that the power would alwa>>
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FRAUD IS BARED
BY GOVERNMENT
IN WPA CHECKS
Merchants Lose Over
$2,500 As Result of
Forgeries
| Murphy, Andrews and Rolblosville
Me ban especially the first named
two have been victimized out of
I more than $2,500 through frauds
worked through the medium WPA
checks, the Smut learned today.
As a result, the United States Secret
Service has issued, through its
Charlotte office, a special warning to
banks, storekeepers and business men
men in general not to accept any
WPA check unless the person prcsent'
ing it is personally known,
j This warning has been brought
home with added force by a big advertisement
appearing elsewhere in
ibis paper, inset ed by President
Ferebec of the Citizens Rank ami
Trust Company.
M.. Ferebee explained t.? the Smut
reporter that fraud-* with \VnA
checks had been found only too easy.
Merchants, feeling that any 1J. S.
Government check must necessarily
be good, have been eager to cash
them, when the person presenting
them made a small purchase.
' Rut a lot of those checks have
been stolen, and signatures forged'*
Mr. Ferebee explained. "You see ttu>
envelopes in which they com* are
very distinctive. A thief can spot them
without difficulty. Boxes on rural
mail routes are not always gone to x'he
moment the mail carrier arrives; and
it has been a simple matter on many
occasions, for some one to steal envelopes.
forge the name of the proper
payee, and then take the checks to another
town, and cash them in some
store.
Naturally, the Graham Countv
checks that were forged, were passed
mostly in Andrews and Murphy.
Checks stolen in Cherokee County
and forged, were in turn passed over
in Graham.
"I hope the warning we have put
in the Scout will he read?and heeded?for
when a merchant cashes a
forged check, it is the merchant
himself who must make it good.*' j