Qur Aim: ? yV Better Murphy A Finer County 2 J? NO. 10 THE LEADING WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. COVERING A LARGE AND POTENTIALLY RICH 1 E ? Rl I tme from Maine to California as lont as their breath holds out. Very few parts of the program would be planned, so as to give pienty of time to informal discuss ion. Everyone interested in form ing such a club should get in touch with his best friend until enough of them get together to organize. Confidentially. Coach Pitzer start ed this whole business. %LFv:s <>?* i. k)l it? . ... ? Uil 1 WILL EMER NEW LOCATION FRIDAY New Factory Will Occupy Buiidirif? With Brumby Mil.! Machinery and equipment for the j ncv.' bcdsprcwd fsctcrv will be sncv~ '? ed here Friday, according to a state- 1 ment by W. M. Kittles, who will op erate the plant. The location is the unoccupied half of the knitting mill building, next to the Brumbv Hos iery mill. Arrangements for setting up the plant with the necessary require ments have been completed, and operations will begin as soon as all I equipment Is in order and workers have been secured. Mr. Kittles said. The management also pointed out that the entire personnel will be chosen locally and all Interested persons are asked to come to the mill for an interview. Those needing jobs most will be given first con sideration. it was said. Space v:as taken in the knitting mill building on the front with enough room to accomodate the ten machines with which operations will start. The management plans to continue back through the building as they expand amd add new mach ines. to reach a maximum of forty I machines within the space of a year's I time. No great production is expected from the plant at first. Mr. Kittles said, in view of the fact that all workers will be new and inexper ienced in spread making. Only a few weeks should see maximum product ion. however, as the machine oper ators learn. The product, known as a crib spread, is smaller than the regular bedspread, and will be made in a large number of designs and coIots. The machines may be changed, it was pointed out. so that large spreads can be produced as easily as the small ones. In the event the demand for larger spreads becomes evident, this plant will probably produce both. JSpeciai County Tax Levied Last Year Is Found Illegal The special tax levy charged by Cherokee County last year, to meet Court and jail expenses, has been declared unconstitutional by the State Supreme Court. No rebate will be possible, how ever. unless the special levy was paid under protest. In ordinary bus iness. money collected illegally may be recovered. No tax payment may ever be recovered, however, unless paid under protest. Legal fight against the special tax was waged by the firm of Gray tmrf Christopher, of Murphy, represent ing the Southern Railway. The rail ray paid, under protest, a special tax of $713.93: and unless the mat ter is taken to the Supreme Court of the United States, the County will have to give this money back. The surplus tax was NOT levied j this year. Passing on the case, the State Supreme Court held that jail and Court outlays "are general expenses recurring regularly" and hence must be met by the County's regular ad valorem tar. which may not exceed ' 15 cents on the $100. The special tax made the xvy 0 cents. FREAK APPLE TREE BLOSSOMS, BEARS AT THE SAME TIME A. k any apple grower, and he'll tell you lhat a tree blossoms: ti'.en the blooms disappear, and then ? sometime later comes the cror But Joe Axlej' can prove this b all wrong. In the yard cf Mr. Axley in East Murphy, there :s an apple tree which is in bloom, and which r laden with :ipe fruit at the sami time. Richard Meroney brought a brand-, from the tree, bearing both a blos ;orr. and a ripe apple, separated by . only a few inches. [ II you don't believe it. go see fcr Applications Pour In On Calhoun Fcr Fort Bragg Jobs ) Announcement in the Scout that 5.700 jobs are soon to be filled r' Fort Bragg caused a busy time for Charlie Calhoun, in charge of the State Employment office, in the County Court House. Mr. Calhoun said about 500 men registered the first two days. The list is still open. The Port Bragg project, part of the National Defense program, will have jobs, within a month for car penters' and helpers; plumbers and helpers: buldosers. bricklayers, crane ? and derrio operators, and common laborers. Mr. Calhoun said most of the applicants want jobs as helpers or scs laborers. "Carpenters, plumbers and men in the other fields seem to be scarce". Mr. Calhoun said, "but the story in the Scout certainly brought quick results. Men came in from all over Evidently the Scout reaches jus' about everybody in the County". A good proportion of the appli cants. Mr. Calhoun added, have a I splendid chance of being hired. The lucky ones will be notified by mail. I MURPHY BULLDOGS 1 OPEN GRID SEASON AT SYLVA FRIDAY The Murphy high Bulldogs will open their football season Friday in a game with the Jackson county high team on the Sylva field. Coach Pitzer's only comment was that he expected to have a fifty fifty chance of defeating the Sylva eleven, despite the fact that his charges have been handicapped all this week by loss of their regular | practice field. Pitzer has been driving the Bull dogs rather hard for the past three ! weeks and. although the team is t light, they are all in good shape and have perfected a very good machine for this early in the season. The probable starting line-up for Friday's game will be: Amos and Campbell, ends: Hall and Akin, tackles: Hill and Lovingood. guards Plott, center; Ramsey. E. Mallonee and J. Mallonee in three of the back field positions, with the fourth pos ition a toss-up between Wilson Dockery and Johnson. Contract to be Let By Georgia Oct. 18 Ea.= Wc; !-. *Vi.V. 5t*it At Cnce i hereafter, Af"d Win be Rushed The DSlkt ol Ions nrcnrdian rl'P'fd dt#t road on the Blue Ridge route to Atlanta l? to tw< prved. c v" ?- r ?? ->f nv:p Ridpe. \< ' V.v In- day. the ' V '?inc ttlopram from Atlanta: "In accordance with request, con tract for bast- and pavinc Biuc Ridfre. Ga. ? Murphy North Carolina high way will be let October 1R Sipncd. W. R . Neel. State High way Commissioner." TV dec >ion frl't ws many yeaTs of complain' s by the people of Chero k~" Cot-n'v. by residents of the Blue Ridpc section and by the Atlanta Chamber cf Commerce. Paving has be*r nromtscd by every Georgia Administration, for several years but ea-b v as hampered by lack of funds. 71." oripinal apreement. wars that if Norih Carolina paved the road to thr Georgia State line. Georgia would do the rest. Carolina did its part, and Georria praded and scraped its own section. Then the money Tan out. Within a year rains and ice had caused ruts and hollows that madp it aronizinp to drive faster than 15 miles an hour. Now. however, paving has been def initely assured. Work of Jar/inn a base will start immediately follow ing the letting of the contract. Winter weather will prevent actual paving until next spring, but this will to started as soon as weather permits: and is almost certain to be completed before the tourist seas on sets under way. The improvement will give Murphy a paved highway to Atlanta, and all intermediate points, and will cut the time of the trip to the Georgia Cap ital half an hour or more. Tourist traffic to Murphy should benefit highly. In addition to visitors from or routing through Atlanta, an all-paved hignway will lead here from Florida and the Gulf of Mex ico on to the South. The letter from Col. Butt to Editor Cobb says: "I wsrs in Atlanta Tuesday (Sep tember 24 ? and worked out the de tails of this matter with the Highway engineer, and the rebuilding of the base will start immediately after the contract is let on October 18. By next spring this eniirr link should be read"' for paving, and the paving completed by mid-summer. "All doubt as to the paving of this road is absolutely removed." o Educational Lectures To Start Here Oct. 3 Sponsored by practically all the organizations of Murphy. arrange ments were completed with Dr. Wil lis Parker, on Wednesday evening, for a uerles of nine weekly lectures in the Murphy Library. The first was set for Thursday. October 3. at 7 P M Murphy school teachers, who get credits for taking the course, signed up 100 per cent. o AIX DAY SINGING There will be an all day singing at Martins Creek school horse the 4th S'inday in October. All singers in Cherokee and adjoining counties are urged to attend