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Dedicated To Service For Progress VOL. M.?NO. 27. (Ehr Our Aim:? A Better Murphy A Finer County THE LEADING WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA COVERING A LARGE AND POTENTIALLY RICH TERRITORY MURPHY, N. C. THURSDAY, J ANI/AR V >t. 1941 5c COPY??1.5* I'KR YEAR fleeing driver TRIES TO WRECK PURSUER-SCAR Lindsey Gets His Man After Extended Chase Which Hits 95 MPH A wild automobile chase, in which pursued and pursers reached a speed of 95 miles an hour started in An drews Sunday, and ended about five miles beyond Murphy on the high way leading to Tennessee. After the chase ended there was a battle. At long last. Burton Brown, for merly of Duck town and Charles Cole of Copperhlll Tenn., were locked In the Cherokee County Jail, in Mur phy. Brown, police say continued to fight even after he had been hand cuffed. State Highway patrolman Lindsey. of Andrews, who started the chase. isys Brown at the wheel nf the fugi tive car, tried several times to wreck him by letting him get close behind, and then suddenly applying tht brakes. Brown was charged with reckless driving, driving while drunk, and with assault on Lindsey with s deadly weapon. Cole was riding with Brown submitted peacefully. Brown was released under $1,000 bail after a hearing held before Jus tice D. M. Reese Tuesday morning. Brown w^ls freed Tuesday night after paying a fine of f5 and cost. When arrested Brown was found to be carrying a huge roll of bills which he declared totaled $700. Police also are interested in the car. an expensive model which Brown says belongs to him. A search of the (Continued on Back Pace) Andrews Recreation Center Is Approved in Washington Office The $18,840 community recreation center recently applied for by the town of Andrews has been approved m Washington according to an an nouncement Tuesday by A. P. Weaver Jr., area supervisor of the WPA. The project is now subject to ap proval by C. C. McGinn is, state WPA director. The recreation center at Andrews calls for the development of an at hetotic field, a stadium, and tennis courts. Work will include clearing, sodding, surfacing, building fences and installing plumbing and electric al facilities. A dressing room is to be built under the staidum, and the athletic field will be floodlighted. DEFENSE POWER ... As industry and government sought more power to make aluminum for planes, work sped forward on Nan lahala, N. C., dam, one of two hydro-olcctric projects building in southeast for Aluminum Company of America, already largest in dustrial customer of TVA and Bonneville. Part of firm's $150,000, 000 defense expansion, project will have highest "head'" cast of Rockies. Geo. B. Hoblitzell Is Taken By Death; Rites Held Sunday Mourning throngs from Cherokee Graham and Clay counties and many from more distant localities joined Sunday in paying ast tncute to Oeorge B. Hoblitzell one of the best loved men in this section. He died Saturday morning in an Ashe ville hospital where he had been rushed from Andrews the night be fore by Mr. Talley, in the latter's car. Death wtrs due to a heart at tack. Mr. Hoblitzell had but recently re turned to his home after undergoing | an operation. Taking up his business I duties before he had throughly re gained his strength, he was unable to fight off the attack which cost his life. The funeral was one of the most impressive ever held in Andrews. Hundreds came to mourn with the bereaved widow and son who survive and the floral offerings, from all over this section filled the big, lovely room where the services were held almost to overflowing. The Rev. G. N. Dulin, Methodist Pastor and the Rev. E. F. Baker joined in conducting the last rites Pall bearers, both active and honor ary were chosen from employes of the Teas Extract Company, of which Mr. Hoblitzell was part owner and General Manager. This was in ttccor (Continued on Back Pace) Civil Court Adjourns Wednesday Afternoon The January term of Cherokee Superior court for civil hearings ad journed Wednesday, closing a docket of fifteen cases and rulings on seven motions. Judge Zeb. V. Nettles pre sided. Jurrors called for the second week by the clerk were notified that they need not appear for service. LOCAL CANNERY TO OPERATE ON FULL SCHEDULE Plant to Function On Different Basis Than I? The Past The local canning factory of the Land 'O the Sky Mutual Canning association will operate on full schedule during the 1941 season, J B. Shields, manager, has announced Operations will be conducted on a ! different basis than in the past, however, due to new larws governing such operations. A special change in this year's operations will be noted in the hand ling of spinach. Mr. Shields said, in that preparations of the plant will oe made by the producer rather than the cannery itself. Suitable adjust ments in the prices to be paid will ! be made in order that the grower I will still receive equal cash value ' for spinach grown and sold to the cannery. Tlie price of spinach will be much j higher than in past seasons but the grower will be ofc-liged to cut his spinach above the ground and de liver it free from roots, dead leaves and grass, and in hampers or baskets ready to go into the washers. In order to equalize the price exchange of preparatory work, the cannery will pay from $28.00 to $30.00 per ton (Continued on Back Page) Actual Construction On NYA Building Is Started Monday Construction of the new NYA building was started Monday on the local school campus with 40 boys em ployed according to Mrs. Willa Belle Posey, district supervisor. Complet ion is expected to require four months time. A crew of boys has already start ed digging foundations for the build ing, which will have a marble foun dation and be of wooden construct ion. Three Forestry Divisions Conducting Big Essay Contest on Fire Prevention A large scale essay is being con ducted among students of all schools in Cherokee, Clay and Graham counties in an effort to stimulate in forest fire prevention, with an ag gregate of 86 prizes being offered winners in various divisions. The contest is sponsored by the North Carolina forest service, the Nsmtaha la National forest service and the TV A forestry division. All students in the schools of the three counties who have passed the sixth grade will be eligible to enter the contest. Students from differ ent counties will not have to com pete against each other as the con gests will be separate for each coun ty. The individual contest of the counties will also be divided so that advanced students will not be com M*in? against ?tudente in lower except tn the finals, a-id give oppo tunity to win individual prizes. The essay writers will all be re quired to write on the subject "Why Prevent Forest Fires in My County'. Each writer may submit on'y one paper, the length of which shall be at least 250 words and not more than 500 words. Judging in the contest will be done first by the teachers in the separate schools, and papers classified \fter this the papers will be turned over to officials of the state forestry department who will be final Judges for winners in all divisions Ideas, rather than the manner in which they are presented in the papers, will bear the most weight In the Judging. | In order that everyone will have an opportunity to win one of the prizes the grades are set up in di visions. The sixth and seventh grades form the first division, the (Conttened on back pace) Bob Scroggs. foremai of the local NYA boys. Is in charge of the work. The entire structure will be built by NYA boys, using no outside labor at all. According to Scroggs. the building will be 96 feet long and 36 feet wide, containing one big work room, a lumber rack 8 by 30 feet, and a fini shing room 12 by 36 feet. There will be three entrances, the main entr ance being in the center and the ot her two on the ends of the building. The structure will be raised at an approximate cost of $5,916.80 spon sored by the county. Materials con tained in the structure are being purchased entirely from local build ing material merchants. The local building is one of the 13 new NYA projects on which work was started this week in various parts of the state. The Murphy pro ject is second largest of the group. Fifty in County Hit By Flu ~ Whichard Second Draft Call Slated for County "After February 17" Sent as a "replacement." 18 year old Claude Edward Jones, of Mur phy lclt by bus at 6:45 Thursday morning for Fort Bragg to Jcln the new Army of defense. He will fill a vacancy in the Cherokee County contingent caused by the rejection of L?ee Gordon Godfrey. ageJ 28. of Letitia. Godfrey was accepted by examin ing physicians in Murphy, but the Army doctors at Camp found traces of an old injury which, they dccidcd. warranted his being sent home. This rejection does not mean that God frey is physically incapacitated for work. It merely means that the new Army demands "perfection-plus." In sending young Jones to Camp. Secretary Wayne Walker, of the County Draft Board, asked the Scout to stress the fact that young men who wish to enter the army, but object to a three year term of duty, may still enlist for only one year. They should apply to Mr. Wal ker. in the Townson Building. Mur phy. "Applicants must be between the ages of 18 and 21," Mr. Walker said "They, must have completed the 7th grade in school, and must be phy sically fit and of good moral charact er." "This offer can be a real oppor tunity for many youths who now are unemplayed. It they wish, they can continue their education in the army, or they can perfect them (Continued on Back Page) O New Law Forbids Use Of Artificial Light In Fishing In This Area A new regulation was passed by the North Carolina Board of Con servation and Development at its semi-annual meeting in Haleiph. January 13-14, forbidding use of ar tificial light in catching small mouth bass and trout in western counties. The regulation specified such lights as flashlight, lantern and bon fires, etc., as artificial and unlawful in the catching of these fish. The law applies specifically to streams in and west of Alleghany. Wilkes. Caldwell. Burke and Rutherford counties. Health Officer Warns Care is Essential to Forestall Epidemic With "Flu" and German measles sweeping most of the Slate. Chero kee and Clay Counties have fared exceptionally well, according to Health Officer Whichard. Graham county, however, lias been fairly hard hit. with 10 per cent of the school children in Robbinsville reported as absent from classes. Plans had been made to close the Robbinsville school, but Dr. Which i ard advised against such a drastic step, declaring he believed the worst of the siege is over. The Health of ficer pointed out that nowhere in this rtUtrirt has either the flu or the German measles reached the epi demic stage. He added that not all the absences from school in Robbin sville were necessarily due to illness. Some 24 or 25 cases of "flu" have been reported from all Cherokee county Dr. Whichard said: these be ing scattered throughout Murphy Andrews. Marble and other localities. Perhaps an equal number of cases on farms and elsewhere were not re ported. according to Dr. Whichard. making the total for the county a bout 50. There were still fewer eas es reported in Clay county. Not one of these cases have re sulted fatally, and it was declared by Dr. Whichard that the present at tacks are much less severe than dur Continued on Editorial Patre C. of C. Meet Called Friday; Election Of Officers Scheduled The Murpliy Chamber of Com merce will holds its first) meeting of the new year Friday night in the courtroom of the courthouse begin ning at V:30 o'clock. Fred Christo pher. secretary has announced. This meeting is being thrown open to the public. Mr. Christopher said, and anyone may attend who is not a member. Several important mat ters are to come before the chamber at this meeting including election of new officers, the recreation project of the town of Murphy, and a pro posal to hire a full-time secretary. The project for recreational deve lopment has almost been worked out (Continued on Back Page) Town of Murphy Mapping Development Of Large Water and Sewerage System Plans for development of new water and sewerage systems in cer- ! tain parts of town are being mapped for presentation as a city project under WPA construction, with town 1 of Murphy sponsorship, according to information released this week. The new developments would do away with fire hazards and provide added sanitary conditions for cer tain sections of the town that have long suffered for such facilities. Although adequate water and sewerage systems have been set up in the new subdivision on Moreland heights when the section developed so rapidly about one year ago. no provision was made for fire pre vention. According to the plans, a line will be built to a fire plag to be set near the W. H. Murray home j suitable location for use in case of ; fire in any of the homes. The major part of the develop ment will be in the Pactorytown sec tion. however, where water, sewer age and fire protection facilities are badly lacking. The erection of many new homes along the street above the Sinclair Oil yards and Mayfield Lumber company, has made neces sary public water and sewerage ser vice. The homes formerly on this street have never had the service 'nd will be included in the project Th? street leading to the old band mill site will be the principal scene of development. Only a few homes have been situated on thir. street up until the past year or so. but now i large number of nice residence? have sprung and sanitary system* are required to serve them. The plans for the entire project are being drawn up by city engineers, in cooperation with officials, and will soon be in shape to present for WPA construction under town sponsorship.
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