VOL 51. ? NO 48.
THE LEADING WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN WESTERN NORTH CAR OLINA. COVERING A URGE AND POTENTIALLY RICH TEURITORY
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A Better Murphy
A h iner County
MIRPHY. x. c. THI RSDAY. JIM 16. 15.4,
ir C OPY ? $1.S0 PER YEAR
Jack Dempsey Coming To Murphy
Consumers Asked to Conserve
Electricity as Aid to Defense
Power Consumption
Must Be Reduced
25 Percent Here
Every citiscn in the Tern c! Mur
, r.y has been called upon by the
town electric dep*rtment to conserve
much electric power as possible
Jcr the next four months in an all
c-jt effort to aid the nation's defense
t :.'( ram in the manufacture of alu
minum.
In a communication from J. A
Krug. manager of power for the TVA.
x 25 percent reductioii in power con
; ir.pt ion was urgently requested of
municipal electric department.
Ir. an effort to comply with this re
i jit st the department has passed on
r. psponsibility to every individual
?it of electricity in the cty.
A wire received this week by H
G Elkins, manager of the electric
[.? partment, from Krug is as fol
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C :y of Murphy Electric Dept.:
Your further cooperation amd as
f .'tance is needed in the program of
power construction undertaken at
t.-.e request of the war department
t.-.d the office of production manage
ment. Power users of the south must
. ?nng the next four months, diveri
a: least four hundred million kilo
vatt hours to aluminum production
.'o: national defense. The Tennesset
Valley regions share of this amovnt
-? one hundred and fifty million kilo
watt hours. We are requesting tnere
-(?7t that you join with us to increase
power available for national de
Itnfe by reducing the use of powei
lor non-defense purposes. Our quota
run be reached by a 25 percent re
daction in all residential, commercial,
nr.d non defense industrial uses. We
J '-and ready to cooperate in every
way .n furnishing information ma
'(Tials and personnel to assist you
-'i your program. We knor that the
Tennessee Valley will do its share
J. A. Krug,
Manager of Power
No one will be asked to make a
lor national defense.
.'acrilice, it was stated, but only a
.-e use of power and a reduction
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Posey Boys Called
Back From Murphv
To Dive For "Sob"
Two Murphy boys who made good
in the U. S. Navy came home on
furlough last week, but they didn't
set to stay long. The boys, both
deep sea divers are John Posey and
Paul Posey, sons of Ben Posey, wide
ly known throughout all Cherokef
County.
Hardly had the home-comers had
'?;me to renew old acquaintances
when they were summoned, by tele
gram, to the New England coast
where the V. 8. Submarine 0-9 had
funk with its crew of 34 officers and
men.
Before the Posey boys could reach
1he scene of disaster, all hope of re
scuing the occupants of the undersep
lxia- alive had been abandoned. It
'* n?t known here whether either
'he boys were required to go down
111,0 'he ocean's depths.
Both Posey boys helped in the
work of bringing out victims of the
!n ,a'ed v. 8. Submarine SquaJus
which sank in 1939.
Pamphlet Advertising
Tourist Accomodations
Is Issued by Chamber
A new "Accuxnuuaiions" pminyii
! let has just been published by the
Murphy Chamber of Commerce and
the proprietors of local hostelries
instructing tourists and visitors in
finding lodgings for their visit in
Murphj .
The folder contains pictures of
each tourist home, hotel, tourist
court and boarding house with a full
description of each one underneath.
The front carries a good view of
Hiwassee lake and a fishing boat.
Listed and pictured in the folder
are Ax ley Tourist Home. Cherokee
Hotel, Dixie Tourist Home. Ellis Re
sidence. Gray Tourist Home. Henry
House. Hiawassee Motor Court.
Mauney Residence, Mayfield Tourist
fome, Mimosa Hill, Moorelamd
Heights Tourist Court, The Pines
Regal Hotel and Taylor Tourist
Home.
COUNTYAGENT
URGES SEEDING
OF LATE CROPS
National Food and
Feed Campaign May
Yet Be Completed
Althought the drought seriously
damaged most (arm crops throughout
this area there are still many crops
that may yet be seeded with plenty
of time to mature, according to
county agent, A. Q. Ketner. Ketner
made this statement with chief re
gard to the current "Food and Feed"
campaign now being carried out a)'
over the nation.
"If. at the time the campaign was
begun about the first of April, the !
need was so bad for a controlled >
proceedure in farming." Ketner said,
"the need is now even greater due ]
to the drought."
Stressing the importance of the !
campaign in that it makes the farm
er self-supporting without the neces- |
sity of cash, Ketner asked that strict
attention be given to late crops in
his county in order that the food
and feed program may yet be com
pleted.
The county agent listed the follow
ing crops which may yet be seeded
in time to mature: July ? okra. toma
toes. lima and snap beans, sweet
corn, lettuce, broccoli and cabbage:
August ? mustard, spinach, turnips
'roots), beets, carrots, rarpe and tur
nip salad.
Two Teachers Resign
From Murphy Schools
Two teachers of the Murphy
schools, re-elected for the coming
year heve tendered their resignations,
superintendent H. Bueck announced
today.
Miss Dorothy Lide. science Uacher
in the high school for the past six
years has resigned to accept a place
on the faculty of the Charlotte city
scNols.
Miss Evelyn Brtwn, art Instructor,
has resigned and will teach in 'he
art department of the Greensboro
city elementary schools.
DAMS WILL HIRE
OVER 3,000 MEM
AT PEAK OF JOB
l
j Personnel Office For
Hiring Due to Open in 1
I Murphy Next Week.
| With 40 million dollars "as a start
er," TVA forces h?\* launched into
action on two of the dams to be built
in this section, and soon will get
busy on the others. Surveyors and
contour markers sere already busy
at the site of the Chatuge dam. near
Ha.vewville, and the Nottely Dam.
between Murphy and Blairsville.
The $40,000,000 is intended to cai
ry the work through the fiscal yeai
beginning July 1. At least 11 million
dollars more will be needed to com
plete the projects.
Meanwhile some men have been
hired, and steps will be taken to open
a personnel office in Murphy next
week. Hiring of men will go stead.ly
forward, but TVA officials said it
would be three or four weeks before
the office was thoroughly organized
to hire on a big scale.
It has been estimated that when
the work reaches its peak more than
3.000 men will be use. A TVA offi
cial who asked not to be quoted esti
mated that the number of peak work
men would probably be about 3,500.
After the peak has been reached this
number will be gradually decreased,
until the work is finished. When the
dams have been completed, only a
skeleton crew will te left to do the
work of "cleaning up." such as tear
ing down buildings, removing debris,
and dismantling and shippine
the giant machinery.
Estimates call for completion of
the project within 18 months. Of
ficials of the TVA believe the en
tire project can be completed within
two years, and they hope to be pro
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REV. CASHCALLED
TO PASTORATE OF
BAPTIST CHURCH
The Rev. A. B. Cash, pastor of tht
Baptist church in Adairsville. Ga.
was extended a call to the pastorat<
of the First Baptist church of Mur
phy at a conference held in the
church Sunday.
The Murphy church has been with
out a pastor since the last of April
when the Rev. J. C Ammons. whr
had been pastor for four years, re
signed because of ill health.
A pulpit committee, consisting ol
Mrs. J. W. Davidson, chairman: K
C. Wright, Mrs. H. Bueck. Miss Gillie
Martin. Arden Davis. W. C. Kinney,
John Donley, and Alvin Buchanan
presented the name of Mr. Cash tc
the church and the call was unani
mous.
Mr. Cash, who has been pastor ol
the Adairsville church for II years
recently spent three weeks in Mur
phy recuperating from an illness.
The Weather Vane
Temperatures
June 19
20
21
22
23
24
25
1940 1941
Max. Min. Max. Min
90 63 86 49
83 60 90 54
84 50 88 55
83 50 91 64
85 56 84 65
90 63 83 66
84 58 73 65
Precipitation
Total for week
Total for June
Total for yeer
1940 1941
0.90 1.63
3 42 4.21
23 26 14 01
Champ of Champs to Test
Prowess Against Wily Bass
Too Trusting Deputy
Catches Liquor Car
But Does It Too Late
A certain deputy smr, If awfully
II1KU ?i inuurii. !U>'i ?
Saturday night. in Andrews a ca;
passed rmkinp around 85 miles an
hour. The Deputy took off in pur
iuit and o\ertook the speeding ve
hide. Tlie driver explained that he
had a girl ' in the car .ind wa*
I driving fast because he didn't wan t
anyone to see her
The deputy believed him and i?'
him go.
Immediately the driver rted ofl
at lop speed aga.n. Thfn the de
puty began thinking. 1 brlieve." he
said to himself "that tnere- is liq'ioi
in that car " WliC'.eupon iv started
out on a new chase
Once again he overtook : quarry
th;s time p.rked in front of a house
He searched the car There v.as no
contraband.
Said the deputy: "you had liquor
in this car.''
Said the other: "pio\e it."
"And that's that."
COUNTY DONATING
$200 QUOTA FOR
ITS BOYS IN ARMY
Every Contributor Will
Have Name Published;
? No Gift Too Small!
Headed by Road Commissioner
Ferebee. with Frank Forsyth a.*
chairman of the Murphy committee
an intensive drive was started Tues
day throughout the county to raise
$200.00 as Cherokee's share of t! e
U. S. O. fund to provide whtlescme
recreation for soldiers of our new
i.rmy. The money donated by Chero
kee county probably will go to con
struct a recreation centcr near Fort
Bragg where most of our boys have
been sent. Superintendent of Schools
H. Bueck, is assistant chairman of
the Murphy Committee.
The two hundred dollar quota set
up for Cherokee County is one of tlie
smallest in the Nation, and may be
due to the fact that this county,
thus far has met every call lor men
with volunteers instead of draftees
In Graham County the quota is
$500.00.
Donations for this worthy causf
will be entirely voluntary. Any sum
will be gratefully received. Donations
from the Muiphy section should be
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Valleytown Church Is
Host to Convention of
W. N. C. Sunday Schools
The Western North Carolina Bap
tist Sunday school convention met
Sunday afternoon with the Valley
town church. A number of churches
were represented.
Tlie Rev. W. W. Marr presented
a talk on "The Sunday School as
an Aid in Evangelism." Miss Ruth
Martin discussed Daily Vacation
Bible Schools.
It was decided to put on sm as
sociational-wide Sunday school study
course. The churches agreed to co
operate. The training course will be
gin July 6th and last through July
13.
Coming frcm New York
With Sports Writer
Brother of Brumby
Jack Dempsey is coming tc Mur
phy
A letter to B O Brumby kxal
hosiery m l] owner. from his brother
"Bob who runs a .sport column on
a New >ork City newspaper said:
Jack Dempsey has read about
all those bass. He wants to come
down lor a couple o i days Arrange it
and let me know.'
This letter was turned over to the
Murphy Chamber of Commerce The
chamber .mmediately contacted Mi
Pnston Henn owner of the local
movie tho.itre. to let Dempsey have
his powerful inboard motor boat.
Dempsey does not like fanfare. He
probably will spend most of his time
on the lak? Tlie Chamber of Com
merce. however, will try to persuade
him to hold an informal reception
so the people '1 Murphy may have
the chance to shake his hand 'and
talk to the man who many regard
as the greatest fighter since John
L Sullivan.
The date of Dempsey's coming has
not yet been decided. That will de
pend on his own business engage
mtnts and on the convenience of
?B?mu" Brumby and hif brother Boll.
However. 'Beau'' Brumby said ne
iiad written Bob advising that they
come within the next few weeks, be
cause the bass seem to be ravenous.
"Bob " Brumby is a native ol Ma
tietta, Ga. He began his newspaper
career on the AtKinta Constitution.
He visits in Murphy almost every
Summer.
WINS CASH PR1/.E
Miss Inez Dalton was the Jk,v
winner of the $5.00 cash prize Riven
away at the Hol-Hi miniature golf
course Saturday night, thru a num
ber drawn from ticket? distributed
to players through the entire pre
ceeding week. A similar prize will
be given every Saturday night.
R. L. Anderson, 69,
Prominent Citizen
Of Ogden Is Dead
R. L. Anderson. 09. prominent
merchant and farmer of Ogden. died
in a local hospital at 12 o'clock
Tuesday afternoon.
Mr. Anderson was found uncon
scious where he had fallen from
the porch of his store on the after
noon of June fi. He was brought to
the hospitial here where it was found
that his neck was broken and he
was partially paralyzed. He seemed
to be improving, but Monday night
he developed pneumonia and death
followed.
Funeral services will be held this
afternoon i Thursday) at 1 o'clock
at the Ogden Methodist church. Rev.
A J. Clemmer Jr. will officiate, as
sisted by Prof E. L. Adams of Young
Harris college. Townson funeral
home has charge of arrangements.
Surviving are the widow: four
daughters. Mrs. Allen J. Bell. Mrs.
R. N. Tiger, of Hayesville. Miss
Christine Anderson, of Ogden. I
I Mrs. H. A. Tilley, of Granite Palls':
one son. Robert L. Anderson, Jr. a
tobacco salesman of Winston-Sal
em: three brothers. Ed L. . Early and
j Weaver Anderson, and one sister,
j Mrs. Carrie Johnson, all of Hayes
j vllle, and five grandchildren.