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VOL. 53. - No. 41. MI'KPHY. NORTH CAROLINA Till KSDAY. MAY 7. 1??.
5c COPY? *1.5* PER YKAR
"ESKIE" HATCHETT
CRASHES WHILE
ASLEEP AT WHEEL
Young Murphv Officer
Driving to 111 Mother
After 24 Hours Duty
Drtvmg to see his invalid mother
-n a Black Mountain Sanitarium
Leonidas 'Eskimo. Hatchctt. crash
lirad on into a Smith Transfer
.nick ? arly Friday , vening. He is
l uic hospital with a fractured
knee cap and other injury which
may keep him confined for many
T; W??ich will not prove fatal
H poi Ls thai the young Murphv
po u-eman had suffered a fractured
skul] pi oved incorrect.
"Eskimos case got mixed up in
wnw"n"rfSSlp W,,h 'hal of N' ?""?<!
Wilson' hT1" ?f thP SmiU,s tru<*
sk'\?" * SUStaine<l ? fractured
skull in a previous motor crnsn He
was taken to Murphy General Hos
pital. released after one night, but
" returncd f?' r0"' xartlination
The accident was the result of
yoting Hatchett going to sleep at ,?e
n iff hi "h had worked a" Thursday
rest L at" d8y PMday w"hout
rest when at 5:30 he got off duty
to Visit his motlier. Mrs. w m
Hatchett. who has been in the Black
Mountain Sanitarium nearlv three
???S TTE Hatchett P'a"
to enlist ,n the Navy and want
ed to spend the week end with his
bcff?re hiS dePa?um He
a ' ' Scou' he was driving siowly
?' the time of the accident. He be
lieves he wen, to sleep at the wheel
because he has n0 recollection of the
y?sh. -One minute I was driving
a.ong the highway near Beeal ' he
said and "the next ,hlng r kl)ew
= here in Petrie hospital".
In addition to his leg and knee In
juries. young Hatchett also suffered
a deep cut above the left eye and
cuts on his face and arms, but for
tunate.y escaped internal injuries.
The car a 1941 Studebaker. belong
ing to his brother. Harold, was total
ly wrecked.
Henry Hickman Writes
1 elling of Success in
New Home in Indiana
Henry Hickman, for a long time
STyM?"ltablf' a"d aLS0 manager
of the Murphy baseball team, has
written the Scout from Waveland
Indiana renewing his subscription,
and telling about, himself. He
getting aloiijr very well indeed. His
tter follows :
Dead Sir: ? Just a few lines to let
u and the community know that
? the Hickman family? are very
-t-rry to hear about the passing of
-Mr. Charlie Mayfield.
I read in the Scout where the
democrats and Republicans both are
havlng a hard time gcttlng candj.
dates to run for their public offices.
I am sorry that X am not there to
ty 'P put Iife ln the Democratic par
stahJ"!! "P f?T reelecUo'1 for Con
stable here in Waveland. on the
vea^T^rf0 tiCket f0r another 'our
1 wlu be etected by 700
ReDuhit!..*' That's because that the
Republican party has no one run
against me. I am also Town
yearfaani?r,WaVeIaIKi '?r tW0 mor"
water 8 take carc of ,he c,ty
theE^'?Sed find m?ne" order for
he Scout for another year. We
where prtntcd any
"Respectfully,
HENRY H. HICKMAN "
MARK KTKRY
PAT DAT
WAR
BOND DAY
srof tnmmt?SAvi oouak
Ralph Moody J*ils Two
fn Brand New Swindle
Over Jobless Benefits
Ralph Mood:.-. widely known
throughout all this section and now
chief Counsel for the Unemployment
Compensation Commission with of
?ivii ut Mni^ii mi iwu <1 ioi o i
j stranKe expe riences with people try
j ing to "beat the law", but he has
just sent news of a brand new one
that outstrips all the others.
Ralpn was called to Charlotie to
prosecute two negroes who had been
colloecting unemployment insurance
checks while they were serving term*
| in jail. One of them. John Young -
! blood had hePn drawing $3 a week
I for twelve weeks. The other. Cla: -
I ''lie Adams had been draw ing $fi 50
. .i week for fourteen weeks.
I Evidence showed that the negro* s
; were given a day off from jail every
week, for trood behavior. They
would go to the Unemployment of
fice work and available, but unable to
j work an davailabie. but unable to
I finrt ir?h?j
The lesser offender was given 30
; days and the other was given six
months.
I "Missing" Draftee
Writes From Camp;
| In Army 2 Months
iAt the request of the County
Drait Board, the Scout recently
. printed a l'?\ of draftees who had
: not been heard from. That list in
'nuded the "ame of John Lunsford.
! I .ater Use Board announced that
| voung Lunsford was working in
j Maryville. Teiin.. and would coxa
' .< In. never i iv.ed.
Now comes a letter from the youitjr
! man written from Camp Grant. 111..
. where he is already in the army.
Trie Scout Is g'ad to print his letter,
which follows:
"Dear Mr. Olmsted : III regard
to the misunderstanding as to where
I am located. I am no longer work
ing at Maryville. Teiin. I was in
ducted in the armed forces of the
United States, a private in the Medi
cal Corps, on the loth of March 1942.
"If anyone thinks I am dodging
my duties as a citizen, will be glad
to answer any question he or she
has to ask.
"Thanking you for your prompt
ness in sending me the Cherokee
Scout I am.
Yours very truly.
JOHN LUNSFORD.
"Pvt. "C" Company. 4th
platoon. 32nd Bn U. S. M
C."
I O
j Andrews Sends Five
i More to Join Colors
Five more from Andrews have
left within the past few days for
v-.rious posts in the U. S. training
schools.
Elmer Stahlman. a member of the
Andrews faculty, left Monday for
Charlotte, lo ejulei the Air Corp.-i
Training school.
Richard Queen and Ruel Parker,
both members of the 1942 Senior
Class left Sunday for Norfolk. Va?
to enter a Naval Training School.
Gordon Cathey. and Herbert
Home, also members of the class of
42 will leave Thursday for the Mer
chant Marines, stationed somewhere
in Louisiana.
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Retail Beer Licenses
Go to 26 in Cherokee
State and local licenses to sell
beer at retail are due and payable
May 1. There are 26 retail beer
dealcTs in Cherokee county for the
tax year ended April 30.
These dealers pay three or four
different licenses ? 122 to the federal
government. (8 to the state and $25
to the county: In municipalities there
is an additional tax of 10 or $15 for
off-premtees and cm-premises 11
wssss.
People, Spds In ihe Nevs
ARMS FOR WAR Pull
man porters pit a workout fifiii U. S.
soldiers bound for camps or flversras
But in war or peace it's ser ice with a
smile. Last year more than two mil
lion troops travelled Pullman and cur
rently 1,500 Pullman sleeping cars are
assigned exclusively for troop transport.
SCOOTING ALONG?
Motor scooters are a fad
with trusses in Miami.
Fla. Virginia Crawford,
who would like to be a
speed cop, would have lit
tle trouble in making an
arrest.
HOME AGAIN? On hand for exhibition game between Yankees
and Dodgers in New York, Tim Sullivan (left), former Yankees
bat boy, now in Coast Guard, gives pointers to new bat boy, Pat
O'Doherty, while Joe DiMaggio takes one. * >?
HUGE BOND DRIVE
GETS UNDER WAV
| ALL OVER COUNTY
: Voluntary hive?liner.t
Sought with Forced
Levy as Alternative
? ? -
With S26.000 sought for thp month
of May. an "all out" drive to sell war
bonds and war savings stamps start
ed throughout the County on Mon
day and will continue until sales go
"over the top". Every wage earner
in the County will be seen personal
ly. if humanlv jx^iblp. and urged to
invest as mucii as lie can.
Bill Whitakcr of Andrews, is in
chart*- of the drive in the tipper end
' of the County. Frank Forsyth, of
Murphy, is in charge in the lower
end. Both will be aided by a score
or more of lieutenants, both men and
women.
It- is exp'-cted that the sales quota
will be passed with tut little diffi
culty .since purchases throughout
the county, without any special urg
ing already total close to $20,000
per month.
In addition to the drive to "buy
now", however, there also wi]i be a
pledge card campaign in which
every wage earner will be asked to i
promise to set aside a certain por
t'on of his famines every week, for
the purchar." of bond; pt stamps.
Signtis of trier cards will b?
purely voluntary, and the amount,
pledged wtli be kept cor.fidentin'.
The cards vill not cir.stf-.l-: iro.1
clf.d contracts. If a pTxrn finds
(Con tinned oil back pare)
Buddy Mickey Returns
Promoted by Marines
I : r:v. .ed lo Private f i:*> i class and
trie drill instruc tor, with mor^ pro_
no- ^ just ahead. Buddy Dickey.
T.r i hy'.- younges: Marine, came
:rv .(? spend the week end with
..i mother. Mr*- T^lia pirkpv Bud
? ? ''listed January 10th, after run
r.in? away fro msehool te> join the
ervict . He is only 10 years old. His
nether protested vigorously, but an
\( nans'- of letters from Buddy's
commanding offieer, finally :;av?'
hei consent.
The young Marine is stationed,
'emporarily. at Paris Tsland. South
Carolina.
Harmon Orr Cooper
Andrews Navy Boy
Missing in Action
The first casualty lo be listed in
Cherokee county of our soldiers is
that of Harron Orr Cooper. Chief
Petty Officer of the Langley. sunk
I on February 6. Mr. Cooper is listed
by the Navy Department as missing.
The oldest son of Mr. and Mrs R.
A. Cooper, of Andrews, the young of
ficer was well known fo all in this
section. He was 35 years old and
had been in the navy for more than
18 years. Cooper enlisted In the
navy November 1. 1923 and has seen
continual service.
Mr. R A. Cooper said this morn
ing that he had received notice from
the Navy Department that his son
was missing. He said In tJic boy's
last letter he told his Mother that he
OmHtmW an tuk fur
MURPHY ELECTS
E. L SHIELDS AND
MIXED BOARD
New Mayor has Margin
of But 7 Votes Over
Mr. Noah Lovingood
| A brand w administration look
I < harm* of the low? /?f Mu.phy Unlay
?Thursday, follow:'
! wh?ch si .. record ii. -t.?. parti
I ''ulars.
I For Ui!ng ?? was out- of the
>maIkoi turn out of voters the town
'ui.s s' en in many yea s Only 597,
, out. of a normal 750 t<s 800. cast th* ir
ballots and most of these pot to the
! polls. in the Court Hous< at. the pro
| verbial eleventh hour after workers
j iui the >' v- raJ candidates had nu*?r
l out m EHj a?d litfywljy UrHguni
j iSit-m in. The war. rising prices. dif
t ficulties in obtaining competent
; labor and OUiCr troubles kept U :
| 'lst in the election seemingly to a
j minimum.
Another record was set by tho
I closeness of the vote: E. L. Shields,
! the new Mayor ? Democrat! defeated
| Noah Lrovingood (Republican* by
. only seven vote.-: Colonel F B
Norvell, running independently, poll
ed 4(> votes.
The ticket that will serve with
Mayor Shields is mixed Three are
Republicans and three Democrats.
Th?- EX'mocrats: B G. Brumby. Dr.
B. W Whitfield: Robert Weaver will
serve with Republicans. Walter Cole
man; J. W <Jim> Franklin and Ed
win Hyde. Hyde is a formeT State
Representative for the County. The
other ran for office fo- the first time
as, indeed, did Mayor Shields, also.
Robert Weaver, an employee of
Th'* Citizens Bank and Trust Co..
and probably the youngest of the
candidates led the ticket with 524
vnies. Dr B W. Whitfield was
second, with 502. and J. W. Frank
Mn 487. The vote of the ot*v^r suc
cessful candidates for the board was:
B. G. Brumby. 357: Edwin Hyde.
.*88: Walter Coieman 284
Defeated candidate for the board
. were Z. C. Ramsey, former sheriff,
? with 272 votes; Lor? n Davis, with
250 votes and E C. Moore, with 248
votes.
The board will find the town fin
ances in the best shape i? many
years. Thanks largely to the ef
forts of former Mayor J. B. Gray
tin bonds were refunded last year
at considerably better terms. Also
there is about $15,000.00 surplus in
the town treasury.
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Howard S. Whitehart
, Once Murphy Resident
| Dies In Winston Salem
Many old friends of Howard Stacy
Whit.' 'hart, oner familiarly Known
i" this section as "Bub", will loam
with regret ol his recent death In
Winston Salem. Aged 61, he was
buried on Sunday. April 26.
Mr. Whitehart came to Murphy
with the Juruiture lactory once lo
cated in Factorytown. but lone since
burned to the ground. He married
Miss Elsie McDonald, daughter of
the late T. C. McDonald. Sr. and
Mrs McDonald, of Murphy
The d?,ccas"d retired from busi
ness because of failing health, two
years ago. Before that, for 20 yearn,
he tiad bei'n foreman of the shipping
departnvnt of the R. .1. Reynolds
Tobacco Company.
He is survived by his widow, two
sons: Donald and Thomas, and one
daughter. Mrs Melvin Atkins, all of
Winston Salem.
0*r Job If to Savt
Dollars
Buy
War Bonds
Evtry Pcy t'ny