Bankruptcy Petition Filed by City of Murphy
ACTION IS PART
OF REFUNDING
PLAN OF TOWN
Creditors Notified ;
Hearing Set Aug. 4
In Asheville Court
Notice was piven to the creditors
(.i thf town of Murphy this week
that a petition m bankruptcy to ef
fect i plan for the composition ol >te
t.ebts had been filed with the district
court of the United States May 16.
A hearing upon the merits of the
petition lias been set in Asheville for
August 4 before the U. S. District
t ourt.
The proceeding Involved in the 111
jif of the petition and the court
r earing in August affects the follow
jif creditors '.
< 1 > Judgment creditors, (a) hold
nf judgments in United States dist
rict court, and Cb) holding judg
ments in the superior court of Chero
kee county;
<2) Holders of bonds and accrued
.Merest on bonds of the town except
?lectric light bonds and interest;
<31 Holder of note and accrued
merest on a note of the town.
The petition was filed under the
t*ankruptcy Act of Congress, entitl
ed "An act to establish a uniform
sysum of bankruptcy throughout the
United States." approved July 1,
18S8
The action taken by the town is
* part of the refinancing plan begun
in feoruary far the refunding of the
lawn's bonded indebtedness and a
large note, with interest on both.
With the assent of the creditors,
pr a required percentage of the cre
ditors, the composition of the entire
.r.debtedness could be affected under
the thirty-year plan, a plan accepted
in this proceeding by the town. At
present, however, only 82 percent of
trie creditors have assented to tha
refunding and refinancing plan and
the current proceedings are made
necessary to completely clarify and
promote the plan according to legal
requirements.
Actually a fund has been arranged
by which the entire bonded indebte
dness can be retired, including in
terest. within the required length of
time provided the proposed and ac
tive plan is completed.
In its present standings the town
has better finiancial status than it
has hard in more than twenty years.
Rev. Vaughn Johnson
To Preach Wednesday
Rev. Vaughn Johnson, Baptist
minister of Jefferson City, Tenn..
will preach at the First Baptist
cnurch here Wednesday night. May
28. at. 7:30 o'clock. Tht public is in
vited to attend this service.
Another Fish Story ?
But It Will Make Your
Hair Stand up Straight.
This one happened to Ed Howard
and Mrs. Howard.
As everyone knows Ed Howard is
a great fisherman and, off on one
of his usual lueky hunts for the de
nizens of the deep Friday, he brou
ght in a nice mess of fish which he
promptly turned over to Mrs. Ho
ward to prepare for the table.
Mrs. Howard took the fish down
by the stream near her Peachtree
home and began the task of clean
ing them with only a lantern for
light. While cleaning one of the
finny specimens she felt some
thine urging at it and looked
* see whose stray cat was
^av X at her hi^sbands prize
catch
??t id her eyes fly open when
*he lifted down, for a huge snake
had the fish's head in its mouth
and wa? conducting a private tug- I
?"War- Instinctively using the wea- '
she had? the butcher knife
***h which she cleaned the fish ? |
whacked the snakes head off.
And then dear reader*, she got
J^ted (which was about time)
started wildly yelling for help1
(Ehtrokfp ^>nrat
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Be sure to drop by the Scout Of
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Area NYA Youths
Are Making Good in
Resident Centers
Boys and girls employed by the
NYA in Cherokee county are rapidly
making good at other resident cent
ers to which they have been trans
ferred, Mrs. Will's belle Posey area
supervisor, reported this week.
Ruby Kate Holland of Andrews,
who was assigned to the home scrvice
project in Andrews, has recently been
appointed Home Economics supervi
sor at the NYA center at Hiwassee,
Ga.
Also Hubert Cyle Newton of Mar
ble, who was sent to the Hickory
Grove resident center at Charlotte
last September 15, was one of the
four boys recently transferred to a
lesident center at Camp DeSoto.
Tampa. Fla. Polowing complete phy
sical examination he will be trans
ferred to Maritime Training school
near Boston, Mass., where he will
engage in an intensive training
course for a period of three to six
months.
The following youths have also
been reported as sent to residents
centers from this area within the I
past few weeks:
Dillard Anderson. Andrews, to
Graham center: Leon Kimsey. An
drews. to Raleigh center: Donald
Allen. Murphy, to Raleigh center;,
James Stiles. Murphy, to Raleigh
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The Weather Vane
Listed below are maximum and
minimum temperatures and preci
pitation for the past week compared
with similar data for last year:
Temperatures 1940 1941
Max. Min. Max. Min.
May 15 85 55 78 40
16 72 41 85 43
17 72 38 88 48
18 79 43 84 45
19 91 53 85 41
20 88 55 90 44
21 84 43 92 46
Precipitation 1940 1941
Total for week 0.14 0.06
Total for this month 1.07 0.19
Totel this yef.r 18.56 12.67
COOPERATION IS
SOUGHT AT INFO
HEADQUARTERS
Chamber Asks Aid
In Distribution of
Summer Advertising
Pressed by the early and much
larger influx of tourists, supplement
ed by the arrival of a large number
of TV A representatives who may be
permanent. Mary Joe Dtsvis. propri
etor of the town information booth,
made an urgent plea to all tourist
homes, hotels, tourist courts and oth
er lodging places this week to register
a i tli her in order that these people
could be placed.
Joe Ray, president of the local
chamber of commerce, also voiced a
request that all service stations, ho
tels, cafes and other public places
cooperate in distributing the adver
tising matter prepared to attract vis
itors and tourists to Murphy and
Cherokee county.
Through the cooperation of the
chamber of commerce and the Lions
cl'jb, a great deal of work has been
done and a lot of money lias beer
spent to further advertise the town
r.nd county and to prepare the town
to receive the tourists and other vis
itors.
During the past winter and spring
accomodations for summer visitors
have increased in the town greatly
but very recent developments have
presented a situation not anticipated
and this must be coped with. Miss
Davis explained.
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1941-42 FACULTY
OF MURPHY UNIT
GIVEN BY BUECK
23 Teachers Are
Chosen for Murphy
Schools; 10 Rural
The entire personnel of the Mur- '
phv high and elementary schools '
faculty and the staff for all other
schools in the Murphy unit who will
serve for the year 1941-42 were an
nounced today by H. Bueck. superin
tendent.
Thirteen teachers will be employ
ed in the high school, while the ele
mentary school will have ten. Ten
teachers have also been chosen for
the five rural schools in the unit.
The majority of the teachers elect
ed served last year, with only a few
replacements.
The faculties for the various
schools follow:
Murphy high school ? K. C. Wrigiit.
principal. J. H. Pitzer. Mrs. Virginia
Cobb, Mrs. Virginia B. Hyde. Dorothy
Lidc. Dorothy Higdon. Mrs. Florence
Chambers. Mrs. Nell Meyers. Mrs.
Elizabeth Studstill, Dorothy Crook.
Ann Hill. Evelyn Brown. Louise Fair
cloth. Mrs. Emily Miller. Reid Mal
lonee. Mary Lee Felmet, and C. B.
Chambers.
Murphy elementary school ?Mrs.
Emily Davidson. Mrs. Martha Adams.
Addie Leatherwood. Emily Sword.
Mrs. Dair Shields, Mrs. Evelyn Pat
ton, Clara McCombs Talitha Moore.
Kate Hayes and Stella Mason.
Tomot'.a schooi ? Leila Hayes. Ber
tha Mayfield and Willie Lou Wells.
Bates Creek school - Mrs. Marcella
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$51,000,000 Is Requested
For Building and Lines
MAUNEY RESIGNS
AS COMMISSIONER
TOWN OF MURPHY
Walter M Mauney, serving hit
???econd ternn as Murphy city alder
man. tender#1*! his resignation as
member of the board at its hi?t meet
ins Wednesday night.
Other than to say his business re
quired too much ol his time. Mr.
Mauney made no explanation of iiis
resignation. An appointment to /*
place him nil] be made by the re
maining members of the board.
Mauney. prominent as a druggist
in Murphy for years, was one of the
most popular members of the board
and was always one of the leaders
at the polls at municipal elections.
He only began his second term May
6 when the last general election was
held.
None To Be Taken
In 12th Draft; 423
Classified to Date
Notice was given the local draft
board this week that no men would
be taken from this county in the next
draft call, the twelfth. Cherokee was
skipped over or six out of the twelve
draft calls the 4th, 7th. 8th. 9th. 10th
and 12th.
At present at total of 211 men are
in service from this county. Since the
oeginning of the selective draft there
have been 53 enlistmens for the one
; year period and 11 have joined the
army for the full three-year period.
To date 423 men have teen classi
fied in this county from the some
I ^300 registered. Out of this number
77 have been placed in Class 1-A
ready for immediate service, while
346 are divided into the various othtr
classes. There have been no consci
entious objectors as yet from this
county.
A good numler of the men regis
tered and classified are listed under
Class 1-B. including men fit for lim
ited service, men who have served or
are now serving.
! American Legion Will
! Sponsor Poppy Day
Joe Miller Elkins Post. American
Legion will sponsor the annual sale
of poppies in Murphy Saturday, May
24. Most of the gi- ' offering the
souvenir poppies for sale will be
daughters of Legionaires.
Funds derived from this source will
be used for charitable purposes, in
cluding aid to disabled veterans and
their dependents. The vast majority
of the funds will be used locally,
and the Legionaires urge liberal sup
port of this worthy cause.
o
Vaccination Schedule
For Rabies Announced
Further schedule of dog vaccina- 1
lions for rabies in Cherokee county I
has just been announced. B. C. Walk
er is vaccinator.
All vaccinations on the schedule
are set for Saturday. May 24. begin
ning at. Murphy school house from 8
to 10 o'clock: Ranger post-office at
11 o'clock. Letitla postoffic" at 12:30
o'clock, Payne's store. Suit, at 2
o'clock. Postell postoffice at 3 30
TWO STORAGE,
TWO POWER DAMS
RECOMMENDED
All Four Proposed
Projects Would Be
In Hiwassee Area
Faced with a serious shortage of
electric power for defense industries
in the southeast, the TV A has made
plans for the construction o* four
new dams, two in this section of
North Carolina, one just over Oie
state line ir Tennessee and one in
north Georgia it was learned here
Tuesday.
Tine Office of Production Manage -
! ment has recommended to the Bu
reau of Budget that the TV A be given
$42 000,000 with which to build the
four new dims to produce 225,000
kilowatts of power and $9,000,000 for
transmission lines and substations.
The entire output of electric power
would be used for the production of
aluminum in the plants of this sec
tion of the country. Power is expected
to be available 18 months after con
struction begins.
Two of the proposed dams will be
storage darns, while the other two
will be power dams. The reservoirs of
the two storage dams would be ex
pected to supplement the flow of
streams into power dams during dry
seasons.
A storage dam will be built on the
Hiwassee river in the vicinity of the
Clay-Cherokee count? line, while the
other would be erected on the Nottley
; river in north Georgia.
, One of the power dams would be
constructed in the Appalachia sec
' tion of this county on the Hiwassee
river downstream from Hiwassee
; Dam. This would be a 100-foot con
crete dam with an 8-mile tunnel lead
ing to a powerhouse down the gorge.
The other power dam would be on
the Ocoee river between the Blue
Ridge dam and tile Ocoee dam No 2
in Tennessee. Tnis one would also
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! Even in Time of Stress
Good Americans Don't
Forget Fellow Humans
In times of war and strife, greed
and graft, and world-wide srlfi
shness such as exist today it's
always a great relief to run across
a bright cloud in the storm.
The other day Mr. E. Gibson,
familiarly know to everyone a?
"Elec." came down to the Scout
office all spruced up in a fine look
ing suit and carrying a big pack
age. He really looked good and.
most of all, very happy!
Elec walked straight up to the
editor and said, "\ want you to put
something in the paper for me.'
Mr. Bass Padgett gave me this suit
I'm wearing and Mr. John Donley
gave mc four new shirts and two
neckties. I just want everybody to
^ know what fine men they are and
how much I appreciate these ge
nerous gifts."
Well, everybody knows Mr. Don
ley and Mr. Padgett, and they
know it's not the first time they've
done such things. And. as we said
before, it sure is good to see a
bright cloud occasionally.