Our Aim: ? A Better Murphy A Finer County m (?btvo. Dedicate ! T o Servi For Pror ^~s the leading weekly newspaper IN western olina to* i .?ANl> POI tNTlA *, rt <i KKirORV VOL. 53? NO. 18 MIRPHY NOKTII CAROLINA ; i94i so t on? ii.ii pi . ? wt TV A'S CHAIRMAN , EXPLAINS PLANS REGARDING DAMS I Both Douglas, Fontana Are Necessary Says Letter To Savage David E. Lillienthal. chairman of the TV A has wilt ten C. W. Savage, 01 Murphy a letter regarding the IXiuglas and Fontana Dam projects, aj follows: -Dear Mr. Savage: ? The other evening, when I had the pleasure of being In Murphy, you made some mention of the pending proposal for appropriations to build additions to the TV A power supply Including the Fontana Dam in North Carolina and ? _JL iUA TVwdvlaa A a am an wis ^ French Broad River near Dandrldge. Tennessee. There has been a lot of misapprehension as to the FACTS in respect to this matter, and the pur pose of this letter is to bring you up to date concerning it. ? One of the Asheville papers has severely criticized the TVA for rec ommending the Douglas Dam, the point being that, by recommending ;v proposal of what they call 'dubious value', we have endangered authori zation of the Fontana Dam. "This shows a lack of knowledge of the fact that the Douglas Dam, from the defense point of view which is all that matters these days of emergency, far from being of 'dubi ous value'. Is the best project In the United States because of the speed and economy with which the power can be secured. It is for that reason that it was approved by the Federal Power Commission, the Office of Production Management, the Direct or of the Bureau of the Budget and the President of the United States as well as tfae T. V. A. "You will be doing me a favor and yourself and your neighbors a serv ice if you will take the time to read the enclosed letter from the Office of Production Management which carefully analyzes this situation. The fact that there has been opposition by a minority of people in the reser voir affected does not make the pro ject one of "dubious value", especial ly when the great majority of the people in that reservoir feel other wise, and when the national de fense is involved. "X may say that I have discussed this matter in some detail with Con gressman Weaver and he has been exceedingly helpful In the whole sit uation. "It was very pleasant to be in Murphy and to see you and Mrs. Savage again. "Sincerely, David E. Lillienthal, CI' airman.' The letter from the OPM which C man Lillienthal enclosed with i: '. '..tor is too long to print in : . A summary follows: ''The office of Production Man- 1 nt today urged prompt Con- ! onal approval of Douglas Dart' <-n i;e French Broad River In a letter to Representative Clarence Cannon, of Missouri, cliair m n of the House Appropriations Committee, W. L. Batt. Director of the OPM Division of Materials, said i that 'there Is no other source from | which 100,000 kilowatts can be ob tained within the time limit." "Mr. Batt said that the OPM con- i elusions were reached after a re-ex amination of the whole subject and an exploration of all the alternative Projects presented as substitutes for the Douglas Dam. "Construction of other projects in the same budget estimate Is also rec ommended. These include Fontana ^ni on the Little Tennessee and installation of additional units at] Tennessee River dams. All are TVA I Projects." A visiting official of the TVA. in Murphy last week, forecast the rec ommendation of the President and the OPM, and predicted that work on Fontana would start early in the coming year. Woman's Club To Stage 4 Days Cooking School Beginning December 2 A cooking ^ii^i ojjonsored by tli | '/Oman's CI jo will be held In th ? iub room a the Lib: ary on Decern - r 2, 3. 4 and S beginning eac. . ternoou a*. 2:30 o'clock. Tlie school will be conducted bj IUs Grace Williams who is connect- | d with the J. Allen Smith Co. it Cnoxvllle. Tennessee. Several local merchants have co operated by giving a free ticket to the school with the purchase of '?3.00 worth of groceries which In- 1 eludes any size of White Lily Flour. A cook book will be given to every woman who attends. Prizes will also bu awarded. Big New Talc Mine Is Promised Soon I For Factory Town Purchase of 14 acres of land in , the factory town district, and the proposed opening, In the near future, of a talc mine lias Just been made public by H. S. Predmore who re turned to Murphy a few monilis ago after an absence of many years. Mr. Predmore says his plant will be lo cated near the site of the old furni ture factory. "I have all my machinery ready, | and am only waiting for electric j power to start operations" Mr. Pred : more told the Scout.' I have had my application In for power, since last Spring, but so far I haven't been 1 able to get any action. Unless some thing is done pretty soon, I plan put ting in Diesel engines." Mr. Predmore believes he has lo cated a rich deposit of talc, which will not be flooded. He claims many years of experience In prospecting and mining, and says he was one of the original develcpers of the talc mine at Kinsey, which was taken over and closed by the Government after It had been flooded by the TVA. With his associates, the mining man has purchased the old clubhouse on the hill overlooking the one-time furniture factory, and plans to make Murphy his permanent home. o Prefabricated Houses | Now Promised By TVA i Within Next 2 Weeks The Scout has been informed by a I high TVA official in Knoxville that ' the first of the new houses to lie i erected at Bealtown are scheduled to arrive in Murphy on or about Dcc. 15. Prefabricated, and requiring only to be joined together, it is said thai j the houses can be made ready for occupancy at the rate of about four ' a day. These are the same house - ti' ' were expected here more than a month ago. They arc Ik in?r con structed in sections, ai. Muscle Shoals. Alabama, and delivery is said to have been held up by inabili ty to get plumbing and electrical fixtures. Tliis scarcity is now report , ed to have been met. Original plans were to brins; 100 houses here. Whether this number, has been changed could not be learn ed, the TVA official telling the Scout that "as many will be brought as are needed to relieve the shortage." ! Final Reports Sought From Red Cross Aides The annual Red Cross drive comes > a close this week, and Mrs. Cath ? ine Stewart. Field Worker for this j irea will be in Murphy Tuesday to : get a full report on woik done. Mrs. C. W. Savage. General Chair man of the drive, has requested that all workers turn in their collections to her not later than Saturday. It is believed that this year's drive j will set a record for good results. I EATii PENALTY OSSIBLL FOR 3 .N OWENBY CASE ? Trio Held Without Bond After Shooting And Robbing Aging Man Charged with first degree burglary after nightfall, which carries the death penalty, and with assault with a dangerous weapon. Homer Cheat ham, of the Wehutty section, and Bert and T. J. Beasley. twc escaped convicts from Georgia, were held for court without bail by Magistrate D. M. Reese, at a hearing last Satur day. The three are accused of robbing 63 year old Allen Owenby of more than $20 and a rifle after he had been left for dead on the front porch of his lonely cabin in the Liberty section. Owenby, struck in the head with a blast from a single-barrelled shot-gun, lost one eye. and the sight of his other eye has been so serious ly impaired that he sees only with extreme difficulty. Cheatham also is charged with ! stealing the shotgun with which the aging man was shot, and with stal ing an automobile in which the three fled to Tennessee after the alleged robbery and assault. Bert Beasley has admitted doinu the shooting. Tlie stolen car was drowned out in fording a creek jus; across the Tennessee line, and was abandoned there after the windshield and the tires had been shot to pieces by one of the trio, who became enraged at being sailed. Cheatham, who denied all the charges, was convicted largely by the testimony of Sam Voyles whom he expected to use as his own witness. Cheatham referred to Voyles to prove that he never entered the Owenby cabin. Voyles testified, however, that Cheatham went In twice: first to get liquor, and a second time after the victim had been shot. When he came out the second time, Voyles said, Cheatham had the money which Owenby charged had been stolen from him. Owenby said the men took $6.75 from his pockets, as he lay bleeding on the porch floor: took $14 from the kitchen, and finally took a 22 ri fle. Voyles testified that he and a young woman accompanied Cheat ham and the Beasley brothers to Owenby's house, where they bought two pints of liquor, drinking one on the premises. They started to leave without having, he said, and when Owenby came to the door and asked for money. Beasley lifted the sun (Continued on back paset WARN1NGSGIVEN TO ELEVEN MORE BY DRAFT BOARD Four From Andrews On List As Being Tardy In Making Returns Warnings were sounded to eleven young men of Cherokee County by the Draft Board, this week, as a re sult of failure to return question naires. Four of the eleven tardy ones aro from Andrews. In spunding the warnings Capt. Wayne Walker. Secretary of the County Draft Board, again called at tention to the fact that failure to re turn a questionnaire makes the draftee liable to criminal prosecu tion. "Most of the cases of tardiness are due to carelessness, and not from any desire to evade service", Capt. Walker said. "Thus far the county has had only one slacker. That man was one of the first to volunteer. Later he withdrew his enlistment, and when, eventually, his number 1 CIfar? department Seeks Your "Discards" , I ' ?r Use On Christmas W,1-Vrhy?U st*PPed U> think ! ?*; *ill agree that it would f obab,y ' my other day ?Uld * Ju* j >ng to the public for he.fT aPP?!" I There are always toys that chUd rcn huve discardrri f#\? =SS-5W=.S, >o?n??.r . at~? | Why wait another day to s?. if ' yoU|^iave anything which mo? be| Winter coats and clothing otf all i types are also needed. | If you cannot deliver the article ' ? tne Welfare Deparunent *f' cy, and arrangements will be JM. .? ? c?, Oaude DilJard Held ! fn Shotgun Attack j On Edgar Henson i" s-cHx shooting is said to have follrm?H argument over an ?.if ?ll<Wed 411 The shooting Is said to have been ssnjfsssras close range, Dillard's aim was^Lt ?<?* ?f,Iy 9 POrtlon ot the discharge' woun^T HenS?n WSS 0nJy *"*** Cari"^LWaS arrertrd ^ Sheriff ownson and state Highway Patrolman Smith, after a had been sworn out by did not resist JrZ ^,7^ Strt0"5 ^ek W?, rtC?,nUnUance ~ he could He was remanded to Jail under ,5Co bond, pc^, hearing set for this cominTSay Henson told the Sheriff that, he was visiting with a neighbor when D.1 ard came to the house, demand ed immediate payment from Henson and finally used a shotgun. Henson charges that Dillard was drinking. r rtus ?i M,urPhy High taather And Organize ! Alumni Association : A new organization was born on I ? Thursday. Nov. 20 when graduates I of the Murphy in i Sl mct an? . i formed an Alumni A= ? Meet. j ; in?, will be held at oa,.., a -c """ l"-obably will be ,?..rkcd by' a i oancjucc. i Tile new V-snri ??? i ? . , . ?'?'tiatio, promoted ??"rely by Coach p;u< r and Prim-i ' !'al K- * W?, ?***? j to several hundred gradual, invit- ! in8 them to gather in the high school A IarKC nuni!)cr rcspond , Tlie first meeting was presided ov [ er by Coach Pitzer. and was devoted largely to organization. Oscar Davis i now fmP'oyed in Ohio, was elected president: Kenneth Davis (no rcla- ! ti?n> was named First Vice Presl- I dent, and Gwendolyn Ramsey wa.; I chosen Second Vice President Aza- I Ico Price was elected Secretary _ o ' | Former Pupil Honors Memory Of Prof. White Mrs. Norj. C. White has been aa i <1 recently tiiat Margaret 8. E is has made a contribution to th< Vancy Brown Peacc Carillon. Beilr We Detroit. Michigan. In memory \ a-n,h? y mUlC wh0* "amr will be recorded In the Carillon. i?"?rw""onncrpM'>' CLAIM OF VAU OF OLIVINE BE 5 DECLARED "Bl K" Marble Deposit* C led A Far Better So-.rce Of Magnesium Ore Mr. II. S. Predmore. me: illurglst who plans opening a talc .nine In the Factory-town section as ;ion as he can get enough electrk power, came to the Scout office Wi dnestlajr to deny the TV A claim that possible riches lie in this section's de. .'it* of Olivine. He declared the stalem?.it '-hat Olivine could be made to > i Id the magnesium needed in the jranufae ture ol certain kinds of a! lminuin to be "bunk". Ho said the pi ..?cess ol ext. action wouia be too expensive, and the yield too small to bt practi cal. He charged that tlu entire "scheme" was bom In the n ids of promoters who expected to "clean up' and then leave this section "holding the bag". It Is not nccessary to go al r Oli vine to get macne.?-ium. P. cdinore declared, because there is an abund ant source of supply (o be f' m<l In the marble deposits of the ' " mini . " There are thousands of ' ns nf waste marble in plain sight which can be bought for a song" li- aid "There are millions of tons r :>? ly ing close underground. That marble will yield from 32 to 34 p cent magnesium, while Olivine wi.. yield, at best only 18 per cent. "Furthermore, magnesium gotten from Marble is practically pure That gotten from Olivine Is full of Impurities, which must be gotten out at still more expense. And magnes ium must be 100 per cent pure, for aluminum making, or It Is absolute ly useless." Cherokee County is especially fit ted for magnesium industry, Mr. Predmore says, because of the loca tion of the copper mines In nearby Tennessee. The acid which Is a bi product of the mining, he said, Is exactly what is needed to extract magnesium from the marble. Vast quantities of electric power would be needed for such an indus try. Predmore declared, addln;: that he did not believe an industry would be practical In this section until all the new dams. Including Pontana. have been completed, "and then, on ly if they will guarantee tho release of sufficient power to opera' - the plant". Mr. Predmore brought the Scout a letter he wrote, on Nov. 25. to Mi. A. D. MacKay, of New York, whom he described as "one of the leading metallurgists of the world". Tl. let tc." follows: "Dear Mac:- Ti.r Ashevllle ] -rs have been running a s-erte* ol cJes about Oliviin - ? a wta ?>! Ma?.;'., slum Meta!. Th: .s all :-k. You ..now .i . I C ire i.. n >t only a very : 'et .y m: - il. but- 1.'. full of m; trltn ? which -alto it , ly ,o and cican i to sa:-' notiiln;: of t amoi ' ?f magnesium it contains. ?The muAli cli; ; of W ? rn N. C. are a much h, tier sour ? of Ma;:nrMum, as they are a Ma .e:-' um limestone. Tl-.crc are thou nd* of tons of waste marble ft the <fiar rles which can be had for a sor. :. "Why do you not get some ol your chcmical or metallurgical friends to take this matter up, with a vl< v to saving the Government from g( 'i"g into such a racket as this? It ' oks as if promoters had gotten ho'.d of some of these 'doughboy' engineers or chemists, and hoodwinked them into believing that a thing of this kind was possible, and thus get the U. S. (Uncle Sucker) to finance the thine and buy up these wort less properties, without ever caring if It is possible to produce a poun 1 of finished Magnesium. As you know. Magnesium Is a highly technical proposition, ind must, be of extreme purity to bo of any use whatever. Trying to mate (Continued on back page)

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