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stter Murphy ier County Dedicated To Ser?ice For Progress THE LEADING WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN WESTERN NORTH CAR OLINA, COVERING A LARGE AND POTENTIALLY RICH TERRITORY 51 ?NO. 24. MURHPY, N. C.THURSDAY. JAN. 4. 1940. Sc COPY?$1.50 PER YEAR &/r DINING HALL ipel Hill?The University of Carolina's new $210,000 dining replacing old Swain Hall, was 6d Wednesday. The new dining Deludes three separate dining ?, two cafeterias and one lunch tta 3tyle. YOUTH KILLED ?Uifield?Lonnie James Avers, t Four Oaks, Route 1, was acci & killed when a shotgun he was Hng went off after he stumbled ?ell while out hunting with his Ir, Lawrence W. Ayers. CAVALCADE |Ie!gh?A cavalcade of "flivver" tplancs, 149 of them in all, made Wght stop here en route to the H All American Air Maneuvers, ?is the largest such plane con ation this state had ever seen. HENRY M. LONDON |]eigh?Henry Mauger London, yho since 1919 had been legisla Ireference librarian for North lina, died Saturday of chronic t disease after an illiness of two ths. Mr. London was a native of iboro and a one time mayor. Hr. a member of the Legislature in 1 and of the State Senate in 1911. a 1913 to 1919 he held the office bief deputy collector of internal Due. REVENUE GAINS tleigh?With the gasoline, bev ;e and sales taxes leading the way, th Carolina revenue collections for first six months of the 1939-40 fell year increased $2,165,599 over $30,759,561.35 collected the last months of lt?39. Total revenue :tions for the month of December nted to $6,756,131.82 for a gain 26,679.93, or 13.94 per cent over tions for December of last year. CANDIDATE tleigh?Allen J. Maxwell, State enue Commissioner since 1919, nally entered the gubernational paign Monday, bringing to three number of announced candidates. Icwell was a candidate in 1932 but I eliminated in the first primary, announced Monday that he would e a leave of absence from his job revenue commissioner during the ipaign. MURDER MYSTERY ioldsboro?G. Irby Holmes, prop er of a Goldsboro taxi company, i found clubbed to death Sunday ming by the side of his automobile I fonely rotd near the city. Officers Holmes' attacker had left no OPTIMISTIC inston-Salem?Robert M. Hanes Ident of the American Bankers ciation and president of the hovia Bank and Trust Company icts that business in this country Ud average about 10 per cent :er in 1940 as compared with 1939. WOLF REMAINS lhapel Hill?Dean A. W. Hobbs, mn of the University of North rolina Athletis Council, brought news to the Tar 'Heel fans with announcement that Raymond tr) Wolf had declined a coaching from Rico Institute, Houston, and would remain at Chapel ELECT CARMICHAEL ileigh?Trustees of the Univcr of North Carolina met here and imiously elected William D. (Billy) rmichacl of New York and Durham University controller to succeed ? late Charles T. Woolen. He will e up a scat on the New York ick Exchange to tccept the job. FARM AIDE NEAR DEATH WHEN CAR SKIDS OFF ROAD Icy roads came near costing the life of Dale Snodjjrass, Assistant County Farm agent, on Monday. Re turning to Murphy from a week-end trip his car skidded off the road near Bryson City, and turned over twice. Although badly hart, Mr. Snod grass refused all but first aid treat ment in Bryson City, and drove his car back to Murphy, without assist ance. Then he got medical attention; but despite advice to stay in bed, he has returned to his duties at the court house. OLD AGE CHECKS DUE TO BE SENT OUT THIS MONTH $300 In Earnings Since 1936 Must Be Shown In Order To Qualify Changes in the Social Security Act which apply to workers who are near ly 65 and those who have already reached the age of 65 are of special interest to citizens of this community Uuder the amendments, these are the men and women who may receive an r.uitics in the form of old-age insur ance benefits, payable this month, and every month hereafter, for the rest of his or her life. A man or a woman who has held a job in a factory, shop mill, mine, store, hotel, theater, or in other em ployment, covered by the Social Se curity Act, and who has reached 65, is entitled to file claim for payment of monthly old-age insurance benefits' provided he has met a few simple re quirements. In order to receive monthly bene fits in 1940, the claimant must show that he worked in covered employ ment, after 1936, in six different cal endar quarters, for wages that a mounted to $50 or more during each of such quarters. A calendar quarter means a three month period. The first quarter in cludes January, February, March; the sccond quarter?April, May, June; the third quarter?-July, August, Sep. i tember; the fourth quarter?October, ! November, December. j If a 65-year old worker has some, but does not have enough wage credit to qualify for monthly benefits, he may continue working in covered em ployment and build up sufficient credits. It must be remembered that wages earned during 1937 and 1938 count toward old-age insurance bene fits, only if they were earned before the worker's 65th birthday. Since the -law has been changed, wages earned after 1938 count toward bene fits, regardless of the worker's age. Amendments to the Social Security Act provide that the lump-sum pay ment heretofore made to a worker reaching age 65 must stop. Instead, the older worker will have an oppor tunity to get monthly benefit pay ments for life. The amount of the check will depend upon his wage earn ings, since 1936, but if he quilifies it will never be less than $10 per munth. DUCKS GET BREAK Raleigh?It's been fine weather for ducks, according to Game Commis sioner John D. Chalk. The season closed December 29. Chalk estimat ed that the kill was smaller than that of last year, despite a greater num ber of ducks and geese in the state. \ iant Size Turnip Grown n Col. Witherspoon's Farm Col. Don Witherspoon is thinking deserting the law and going into i turnip business. Col Witlierspoon l some fine orchard property on In's Mountain, being tended by A. Tames. Last September Col With poon and Mr. James decided that land should be put to additional i besides the growing of fruit, and turnips were planted. Some of these were dug on New Year's Day and they were so big that is only takes four of them to make a half dozen. A sample, brought to the Scout of f.ce, is as large as a baby's head, and weighs two pounds and two ounc es without the top. The turnips are purple top variety and are believed to set a record for I this section. CHAMBER MEETS TO ELECT HEADS TUESDAY EVENING Contitution Adopted And Body Now Ready To Go Into Action The Murphy Chamber of Com merce will meet Tuesday night at 7 30 at the moat important session of i its brief existence. A board of Direc tors will be elected, who, in turn will nominate regular officers to servo throughout the year. Thus far, the officers serving have been only temporary; irtually with out power to commit the Chamber to any definite program. The regu lar officers are expected to get busy and do something. The real governing power will rest in the Board of Directors. They will nominate not less than two nor more than five candidates from which the chamber as will elect the other offic ers. The Directors also will name a finance committee, from their own number who will pass upon the feasi bility of all projects before they go before the chamber as a whole. Several plans await decision. One deals with a "clean up and paint up" campaign to make Murphy more at tractive to the thousands of visitors certain to come here next summer, so that they will prolong their stay. Another deals with an offei to ad vertise Murphy over the Radio, for only $5 a week. Still another deals with road signs inviting motorists to "come to Murphy", to be placed a long the several highways from At lanta, Xnoxville, Chattanooya and Ashevilc. The Chamber also is expected to get behind the purported plan of the TVA to put a lake, including a bath ing beach, a golf links, and tennis ?ourts at Grape Creek. The Chamber now has several hun dred dollars in the treasury, and a donation of $100 additional has been promised by President Ferehee, of the Citizens Bank and Trust company, as soon as the body gets "really down to business and does something." Several business men of Murphy also have delayed joining the cham ber, declaring they were "waiting to see what is going to be done". The meeting Tuesday evening, w;U therefore, is of such importance that the entire future of the chamber may be at stake. The session will be held in the Court House, at 7 :30 o'clock. No mat ter what previous engagement yon may have made, be there, at least long enough to vote! Farm Folks Get Laugh On Dwellers In Town Farm folks, who sometimes may have regretted the lack of running water in their homes had the laugh 011 town dwellers this week. While most of the latter were without water, be cause of the freeze, the farmers had plenty. Wells don't freeze. The farmer's had another laugli, too. They had no pipes to burst, neces sitating not only a sloppy mess, but al so some hefty plumbing bills. But the old adage "it's an ill wind that blows no good" again was prov en true. The plumbers were tickled pink. One of them said: "Santa Claus was a slow slow in getting around to me?but he sure is here now". I Baby Kennon Ledford Victim Of Pneumonia His brief span of life ended by an attack of pneumonia, baby Kennon, 16 months old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Ledforl was laid to rest Jan.2 in the chureh cemetery at Patrick. The Rev. Edgar Williv officiated at the services. The baby was ill only a few day*. Besides his mother and father, bro ther survives. BROOKS BABY DIES Graveside services were heli in Tomotla cemetery on Jan. 2 for the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Brooks. BASKETEERS OFF FOR TWO GAMES IN ROBBINSVILLE Hoping for the best?but prepared for tho worst, the boys and girls bas kctsball teams of the Murphy High school will go to Robbinsville tomor row (Friday) evening to clash with the two teams of the highschool there. Coach Pitier, of the local boy's quint was undecidcl, as the Scout went to press, as to his exact lint-up. So also was Miss Dot Higdon, girls' coach. Beth coaches have had many candidates out. trying for the teams, but practically all of them art "green." This will be the first game of tho season for both Murphy teams, and for several of the individuals will be the first regular game they have ever played. Both Robbinsville teams, on the other hand, have played several games,?and, have won them all. Prospects for Murphy are definite ly dark. EDNA HASTINGS TAKEN BY DEATH AS SHE SLEEPS Heart Attack Is Fatal To Owner-Manager Of The Henry House Mrs. Edna Patton Hastings, owner proprietress of the Henry House in Murphy, and well known in Andrews, died early Sunday morning as she slept. She was 56 years old. Funeral services were held this (Monday) afternoon at 2:30 oclock, from the Methodist church, of which she had been a member since early girlhood. Active pallbearers were: Fred John soh, Harve Elkins, Charlie Mayfield. B. G. Brumby, Tom Axley and P. C. Hyatt. Honorary pallbearers were: W. M. Fain, Fred Moore, R. C. Mattox, H. A. Mattox, Haze Leatherwood, Fred Dickey, Neil Davidson, Clark McCas lin, E. E. Stiles, George Mauney, F. W. Hubble, .T. A. Richardson, Arthur Akin, John Axley, V. M. Johnson, J. W. Lovingood, and Doctors, J. N. Hill. Bart Meroney. S. C. Heighway and Hurry Miller. After a lifetime singularly free from illness of any sort, Mrs. Hastings was stricken early in the fall with what she thought was a bad attack of asthma. It developed however, that she was the victim of a heart ailment. She went to a sanitarium in Ashe ville for treatment, and returned sev eral weeks ago, apparently on the road to recovery. She still was con fined to her bed, however, and two nurses were kept in constant attend ance. Under their ministrations she seemed steadily to improve. Saturday night she was feeling par ticularly well. About 4 o'clock ir the morning she awakened the nurse, com plaining of pain, but this seemed to to pass, hnd she went to sleep. About seven o'clock she still seemed to be sleeping peacefully. but when the nurse tried to rouse her she failed to Continued on Back Page SECTION STRUCK BY WORST COLD IN TWO DECADES Hiawassee Frozen Over As Mercury Drops 10 Below Zero For the first time in more than a quarter of a century the Hiawassec river was frozen completely over Tnovdav ******* ~ time, probably 75 percent of the homes in Murphy and vicinity wero without running water; the plumbing frozen so tight that it took a strong man even to turn the spigots. Not that turning them did any good? According to several residents who got up during the night to keep fires burning, the thermometer, at 2 A. M. registered 10 degrees below zero. This set a record for many years in this region. In couairy homes, where lone houses stand unprotected, the mci cury very probably dropped at least to 15 degrees below zero, and in some places even lower. The cold wave following close on the heels of the first snow of the sea son, had been forecast over the radio as rushing here from the Northwest. Nevertheless its severity was especial ly hard to bear because of the excep tionally mild winter which this sec tion has been experiencing. Strangely enough, Cherokee was more than a week behind Graham county in experiencing snow this year Just over the county line snow fell in abundance before Christmas. It was a "wet" fall, however, and eventu ally turned to rain. Snow fell in the mountains between Murphy and Andrews, and has been visible on the mountain tops for more than a week. The valley, however, either escaped?or if snow fell, it came down during the night, and soon melted. New Burley Growers Must Get Allotment Any farmer in Cherokee County who plans to grow Burley Tobacco in 1940 should make application at the County Agent's office for an al lotment not later than January 15, 1940. This is the closing date for ac cepting applications toi? new grow ers. If a new grower raises Burley in 1940 without an allotment, a tax of 8 cents per pound will be charged on the normal yield on the tobacco when sold. Certain requirements arc necessary for any farmer who desires to grow tobacco for the first time during 1940 before an allotment can be made. Coanty agent Ketner will be glad to explain, in detail at his office. ARCHAEOLOGIST New Bern?Prentice Duell, Re search Fellow in Eiruscan Art at Har vard University is in New Bern look ing over the original site of Tryon's palace with the expectation of ac cepting an offer to direct the excava tions planned there as a part of the State-wide WPA archaeological pro ject. Home Demonstration Clubs To Concentrate on Foods By ALINE RICHARDSON H Home Demonstration clubs of Cherokee County begin their 1940 work with a new program which will be devoted chiefly to foods. Every member who can possibly attend is urged to be present at the opening meetings, in order to become thor oughly familiar with the now require ments. The work is expected to benefit the entire community, and non-club mem bers also are cordially invited to at tend all meetings. The election of officers has been held by all the clubs and the new heads fill their posts at the January n-.cetings. With the cooperation and interests of officers, leaders, mem '>ers and neighbors we expect to have tiic biggest year yet. The January ' schedule follows: Monday, Jan. 15, Bollevicw (Mrs. Maude Hatchett), at one o'clock p. m. Tuesday, Jan. 16. Suit, (Mrs. Bur tin McNabb) one o'clock p. m. Thursday, Jan. 18, Tomotla (Mrs. Gilbert Stiles), 2 p. m. E. S. T. Friday, Ja. 19, Martin's Creek (School House)), 1 p. m. Monday, Jan. 22, Marbl* (Mrs. Ar nold Bryson), 2 p. m., E. S. T. Tuesday, Jan. 23, Beaver Dam (Mrs. F. W. Radford), 1 p. m. Wednesday, Jan. 24, Andrews (Mrs. Raymonl Andrews) 2 p. m. E. S. T. Thursday, Jan. 25, Peachtrec (School Building) 2 p. m. E. S. T. Friday, Jan. 26, Wolf Creek (Mrs. Noah Cook) 1 p. m.
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