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RED CROSS Qlbernke? ^rnut THE LEADING WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. COVERING A LAROE AND POTENTIALLY RICH TEURITOKY JOIN REDCROSS VOL. .M?NO. i: Ml'RPHY, N. c. Till KSDAY. NOVEMBER 14. l?uo :.t < orv?Jl.io I'l l! VKAH Library Service Continued As Special Ballot is Won Measure is Approved By Majority of 94:? Many Fail to Vote Regional Ubrary Service In this section ? ill be continued. The spec ial election held last Tuesday re sulted in victory by the narrowest of margins. A total of 3,343 votes *-e:c needed. The total gotten was 2 417 ,i majority of 94. Only 1.643 persons in the entire county voted against continuation of the service. This issue came very near being lost, however, because 1,060 registered voters did not cast billots either way. Under the law, every one of these 1.060 was counted as having voted against it. In other words, to carry, the library had to have affirmative votes for more than half of those who were registered. Normal registration in Cherokee County, it was figured, would be aljout 8.000. As a result, last Thurs day, when only three small precincts j from the farthest limits of the coun-, iv were missing, and the votes for the library totaled only 3,245 it was jeareri the issue had been lost. It Tras believed, at that time, that 4.001 votes would be needed, and the three missinu precincts dkj, not include enough ballots?even if all were "for" to do amy good. A final check-up however, showed ttut only 4,686 p -sons had regis-. | totd. This made a majority of one more than half, or 3,347, all that was needed. The missing precincts swell ed the vote to 3,437. Miss Ida Belle Entrekin, Regional Librarian, and practically the en tire teacher personnel of all schools in the county worked long and hard in helping put over the victory. Sup erintendent H. Bueck also played a prominent part in the campaign, writing an editorial on the question which appeared in the Scout and which it is believed, had considerable influence. Prominent members of both political parties also went all ovc- the county urging that all vote for the library. Despite the electioneering, and widespread advertising, many of the smaller communities voted heavily against the proposal. ' Continuation of the library service will mean an additional levy of three cents per $100. It has been figured that the average cost per person will be about 30 cents per year. BLAIR TO ADDRESS WELFARE MEETING Col. William A. Blair of Winston Salem, chairman of the State Board of Charities and Public Welfare for 36 years, will be the luncheon speak er at the Marion meeting of county welfare board members, superinten dents, staff members and county of ficials from the 19 counties of the western district when they gather In the McDowell county seat fof their annual conference November 19. Llnetta Dean, Cherokee welfare superintendent, said she expected the attendance from this county to include the County Commissioners, . County Welfare Board. County Au- , ?"tor. County Attorney. Register of I Deeds. Representative to Legislature, anrl civic leaders. Counties included in the district | ??: Avery, Buncombe. Burke. Che, i- : kee. day. Cleveland. Graham, Hay- | wood. Jackson. Macon. Madl3on. Mc- j Dowel], Mitchell. Polk. Rutherford, j Swain, Transylvania and Yancey. 0 W"ICHARD RECEIVES IIONOR ?ill Whlchard. son of Dr. and Mrs. ! P. Whichtrrd, who Is at Port Mc rrs?n has been notified by Con f^ssman Zcb Weaver that he has prri given second alternate at West Point. i Falling Rock Kills Worker In Tunnel; Another Injured Two men working in the same tun nel of the Nantahala Dam project suffered almost identical injuries at almost the same moment last Friday afternoon. To one the injuries brought instant death. The other, at first thought to be fatally Injur ed. will live. The victims are George Early, of Copperhill. dead, and Her man Ledford. of Murphy, route 2. Early, 28 year old worker was working in a shaft of the Beacher town section of the tunnel, when a rock became dislodged above his struck him on the head and sent him plunging 150 feet to the floor of the tunnel. His skull was frac tured. and nearly every bone in his tody broken. Other workers were learby. among them a brother. Earl, but the victim's life was crushed out. instantly. The dead worker was taken to his home, in Copperhill, for interment. A widow survives. At almost the same instant that Early met death, Herman Ledford, 32 of Murphy Route 2, and also em ployed as a tunnel worker, was struck by another falling rock. Ledford was working at the diversion tunnel project, some five miles distant, and the hock struck him on the neck. Picked up unconscious, he was taken to a hospital in Franklin. N. C., where, at first it was thought his neck was broken, and that he too. would die. More thorough investi gation showed, however, that his in juries were less serious, and he was sufficiently recovered to be able to be taken to his home on Monday. Hatchett Turns Cop; Catches Alleged Thief Harold Hatchett turned cop Thurs day afternoon chasing 17 year old R. L. Phillips from the Murphy Cafe to the Farmers Federation building. The Phillips boy was knocked down, helped up and then locked up. Phillips was carrying a coat, which Hatchett said belonged to him and hsrd been stolen from his cafe. Phil lips said he bought it from a strange boy for ten cents. Goose and 5 Ducks Bagged Near Dam by Mauney arid Mcore There's good hunting art Hiwas see Lake. For proof, ask Alder man-Druggist Walter Mauney or Alderman-auto dealer Ed Moore. The two sportsmen went to the Dam early Tuesday morning, and struck olf along the shore line. They returned that evening, with a bag of five wilt* ducks and one wild goos^. Three of the ducks were Mal lards and two were teals. All were 32 VOLUNTEERS MAKE 1ST CALL FORMALITY HERE Only 94 Needed From Cherokee For Entire Quota Until June 30 Fifty questionnaires were sent out by Wayne Walker, clerk of the Draft Board, in Murphy on Tuesday. They were mailed to the first 50 regis trants whose numbci s wcic drawn in Washington, and more question naires will be sent out. in lots of SO until the entire list of 2,084 has been covered. Records at the Murphy draft office Thursday showed 28 registrants al ready have volunteered to go with the first quota, instead of those who might have been called. Pour others have enlisted in the regular army or navy, and two other young men who had cases in the Superior court were given suspended sentences on con dition that they volunteer. It is believed that enlistments in the regular branches of the service are credited to the drarft list. This would give Cherokee County 30 vol unteers to offset the first call. Lack of housing facilities make it highly improbable that more than that number will be inducted into the service at this time. The full quota for the county ac cording to official announcement from Washington, is 94 men. Some of these, however, will not be called until next spring. The time limit on the quota is June 30. 1941. The sec ond call is expected some time in March, 1941. One man fram Andrews was among those enlisting for services in the regulars. He is James Harvey Swarm, who poined the regular army. Continued on back page Huge Crowds Throng Murphy Square AsTLions S age First Annual Carnival The Murphy Lions club's first "Lions Carnival" was a tremendous success here Friday and Saturday as large crowds packed the high school auditorium for the Amateur show and came in even greater numbers for | the actual carnival Saturday after noon and night. Slightly cool weather failed to halt the crowds seeking entertain ment and the public square was | packed from opening until closing of the carnival concessions. The colder night air of the late hours seemed to lure rather than discourage the dancers as a great circle swung Into an old time square dance immediate ly following the close of the carni val. Hundreds of prizes were given away at the amateur show, at the carnival concessions, and for speci al events. Ben Palmer held the lucky number which won the grand prize of $25.00 in the Lion's clock feature. The number was 8:10. Misses Jewel Carpenter and Caro lyn Head, Peachtree school students, todk first prize money in the ama teur show at the school auditorium, presenting a patriotic number which drew much applause from the full house. First prize was $5.00. The sec ond prize of $3.00 was won by Min nice Capps and brother who gave a vocal solo accompanied by a guitar. Third prize of $2.00 went to Mr. Pitts of Hiwassee Dam. who gave one ol the best performances ever seen here as a blackface comedian. There were 18 entries all of whom received prizes. Happiness reigned in huge amounts around the carnival conces sions. however, as large numbers pressed eagerly to the stands to play the various games of chance from the Rat game to Bingo. Two guys by the name of Harve Elkins and Wade Massey put on a stellar performance at the Bingo stand, outlasting any other game on the grounds The con 'Indian Gets 15 Months In Slaying of Brady Alfred Whitener Dies in Car Plunge: 4 Others Escape Plunged to his death as he do*ed. Alfred Whitener. 28. was killed early Sunday morning when a pick-up truck in which he was reclining lelt the road and somersaulted down an embankment in the factorytown sec tion of Murphy. Funeral sen-ices were held at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon in the Baptist church at Ogreeta. where the deceased lived, with the Rev.. W. M. Young officiating and the Townson Funeral Home in charge of arrange ments. Boyhood friends of the de ceased acted as pallbearers. The tragedy came when Dee Cole man. driving a pick-up truck lost control on a curve and the vehicle plunged down an embankment, turn ing over two or three times. Harmon I Udom and two girls were with Cnle man on the seat, and these were all | thrown clear and escaped wit ha few j cuts and bruises. Whitener. dozing ] in the body of the truck was mashed i and injured internally. ' Rushed to the Petrie hospital, the injured youth insisted he was not badly hurt. His head has received a deep gash and he had other cuts and bruises, but he declared he was not in intense pain. Nevertheless, within half an hour he was dead. Work on Atlanta Road Slated to Start Soon Reports from nearby Georgia state that work of improving the 12 mile stretch of highway from the N. C. State line leading to Blue Ridge and Atlanta is expectcd to get under way shortly after the first of the new year, and will be rushed as much as j possible, wether permitting. I The road is to be regraded. and paved. Contracts were let several weeks ago. and the project is sch eduled to be complete by next June. The improvement will cut nearly an hour from the motoring time be tween Murphy and Atlanta, and is expected to be of considerable bene fit to Murphy merchants, through trade from nearby Georgia. stant harassing of customers by con cession operators brought forth a display of local talent still undiscov ered. and the public enjoyed every minute of it. The greatest difficulty met in the entire fete was at the Rat game. The operators had. for some reason or I other, chosen a bunch of very lazy ! rats?the kind which wouldn't run | into a hole under any circumstances, j This slowed the game considerably. : The biggest trouble, however, was found in the ambitious rats which. . seeking greener pastures, leaped the j barriers and escaped, leaving in their I wake a bunch of screaming women and disgusted men. Observers soon discovered why so manypersons lurked on the outside of the circle for, as soon as the earn!- ! val closed, they came trooping to the front an a good string band be- j gan tuning up for the street dsrnce. | A circle thnrt. covered almost half (Continued on Baek Page) Jackson Pleads Guilty To Manslaughter As Jury Fails to Agree Moving through a m a of nolle pros.-es and c?: i s tried by the .'udpe instead 1 by jury, tin- November term of the Superior Court cumi- to ?i t ?ost m Murphy at noun on Mon day. juape whim wuuoi presided, and although court d:d not convene until lr?t Wednesday because of the I national elections His Honor man | aped to complete the entire docket with the exception of a few cases, the defendants in which had been released on bond. Carried over from the former term, the case against Ed Jackson and Nick Saunooke. full blooded Cherokets char ped with the minder of Clyde Brady, near Topton in 1S37 occupied two days, and then resulted in a mistr.al when the jury wus dead locked with 11 vctinp for conviction on charpcs of manslauphter. and one voting for acquital. Saunooke turned State's evidence, confessed and was used as a Gov ernment witness. At a hearing In 1937 he had sworn that Brad;/ was killed by a hit-run motorist This time he said he had committed per jury. His new story was that Brady was clubbed to death by Jackson when the victim refused to take a drink of liquor from the Indian's bottle. The jury was sent back twice be fore being dismissed, late Saturday ofternoon. Jackson's attorneys then offered to plead guilty to a charge of manslaughter. The offer was accept ed. and Jackson was sentenced to serve 15 months on the roatls;. Sau nooke was freed. Henry Flynn. of Chicago and Basil Burnette. of New Mexico, young co workers on the Nantahala dam pro ject were tried jointly on charges of assault on John Arp. during the recent strike. T'ie trial at first seem ed slated to be postponed, and taken | to another court, when Attorney ! Mallonee. appearing for the defense I brought out the fact that the alleged asault had taken piace in Macon ' county. He claimed lack of jurisdk | tion by the Cherokee court, j Ordered back to jail while Judge . Warlick poundered the amount of bond to be fixed the prisoners declar i ed they preferred to be tried at once and "have it over with". They a I greed to waive a jury trial, and Judge ! Warlick consented. Mr. Arp, aging. and with only one eye. testified that he was ratacked by six men who piled out of an auto mobile while he was on his way homo from work, during the strike. Mr. Arp a foreman, had not gone out with the strikers. He was beaten until he fled into a nearby home. He positively identified the prisoners as two of his attackers. Bumette admitted kicking the ag ing foreman but said he had first asked the voctlm if he didn't think he "had a kicking coming to him", and thart Arp said "yes". Burnctte swore Flynn. owner of the car tho strikers used, had not ioined in tho attack. Flynn also protested his In nocence. admitting he had gotten out of the car and walked back to tho victim, but declaring he walked away a moment, later. Judge Wrrrllck praised unionism, and the effort of men to better their pay and working conditions, but add ed: "although a man has a perfect right- to strike, he has no right to stop any other man from working and supporting himself and family. That, may go elsewhere, but let this ease be a notice to the world. We will not stand for such tactics In North (Continued on Back Page)
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