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VOL. 53 ? No. 45. MI'RPIIY. NORTH CAROLINA Tllll[S|>\y II \E t !?>??>
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ISO DRIVE starts;
NEXT TUESDAY
WITH ?1,000 GOAL |
Chairman Ferebee To
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Canvassing Cherokee
Cherokee county will play its !
par: in providing recreation lor |
Unci"' Sam's service men. A national j
campaign to raise $32,000,000 for 1
recreational activities carried on by |
the USO adjacent to military |
ramps, naval stations and defense i
centers throughout the United |
Stit'-s will op<-n next Tuesday and
continue for three weeks ending
June 30.
Tp help further the raising of
funds for this worthy task, this
county has bwn divided into two
districts, P. B. Per?b**, chairman,
announced early in the week. W. A.
Reece will direct the campaign in
Andrews and vicinity, while Prank
Forsyth will have charge of the
Murphy division. Cherokee county
i- asked to contribute $1,000 toward
North Carolina's quota of $420,000.
Prom 30 to 40 canvassers will be ap
pointed by Mr. Ferebee to call upon
citizens of the county for subscrip
tions. Community leaders will be se
lected from Topton, Marble and
other sections.
When men join the colors. Mr.
Ferebee pointed out, they join tile
biggest club in the world ? the USO.
The membership of United Service
Organizations includes every moth
er's son in Che fighting uniform of
Uncle Sam. By the end of this year
there will be 3,600,000 of them.
Built at the very thresholds of
essays uid training stations, USO
clubhouses welcome the off-doty
fighter to tiieir roaring fireside?,
ttteir lounges and social halls.
A tri -color sticker to be pasted on
the glass door of the family car or
the entrance door of the home will
be distributed to each contributor.
A metal emblem of the USO will be
given to each person making a do
nation.
There are 407 clubhouses. With
163 smaller operations, they give
comfort and cheer, recreation and
Test to all who shoulder guns or
make them. These operational units
? 670 in all ? are busy in 269 com
munities of forty-three States. A
chain of sixteen rings the world
from Alaska to Hawaii and thence
to the Canal Zone and bases in the
Caribbean. Prom there the chain
stretches north to end in Bermuda.
Manned by 1112 trained workers,
the many chapter houses of this
greatest, of all fraternities, chalk up
a monthly total of daily peak at
tendance well beyond 1.000,000 vis
itors. according to Ray Johns, di
rector of USO's field operations.
The reason for such patronage is
summarized by Paul V. McNutt.
administrator of, the Federal Se
curity Agency, in the following
words addressed to the Twenty -
f-ixth Congress of the National
R>cieatlon Association:
"All in all, the composite picture
is one of community hospitality that
is spontaneous, open-handed and
genuinely friendly. This Is what
ninety-nine out of a hundred sol
diers want ? for, after all, these
young men are a cross-section of ail
of our people.
"What most of them are looking
for is something to bridge the gap
between the army barracks and the
old home town. What they used to
do of an evening or a Sunday, they
want to do now on leave. They want
< omeone to talk to they want to
meet girls and they want to dance
with them I have even met some
who want to do such unusual taring*
as weeding <a flower bed. or reading
a book.
"In tbocrt. tbey want? uncon
sciously perhaps, but often quite
desperately ? to keep hold at their
COFFEE AND CAKE ON WHEELS
Wh?? tM soldier can't go to UftO, U60 goes to the soldier. Here are Army men, on detached duty at
? post far from ?amp and USO clubhouses, getting coffee and doughnuts from the operator of a USO
aol?H# tfwit. These traveling clubs also bring movies, cigarettes, games, writing materials and reading matter
to Isolated unite of the fighting forces. It Is to carry on the USO clubhouse program and such extra ser
vj>li ae mobile units that the U80 War Fund Campaign for $32,000,000 will be oonducted May 11-July 4.
Murphy P. O Receipts
For May Over $300.00
More Than Year Ago
Business has been excellent in
Murphy this spring. The post office
rceords prove it,, according to Post
master Howard Moody. Stamp sales
during M?y show d a gain of $336.27
over the Sime month a year ago. Re
ceipts last month totaled $1,520.92.
compared with $1.184 65 for May,
1941.
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Chandler Recovers Car
After Two-Day Chase
At least one of Uncle Sun's Arms
men found out that desertion doesn't
pay and that stealing a motor car
to aid in his set away wa* poor
strategy. Private Rooks, of near
Mebane. N. C., who deserted from
the Army last week, spotted A. B.
Chandler's car parked in front, of
the Murphy Qale last Saturday af
ternoon, drove the machine to Lake
Lure, where it was found undamaged
the following day by Corporal Quinn
and patrolman Speed, both of the
State Highway Patrol. Police officer
Pritchard Smith went to Henderson
ville on Monday to recover the car
The car was returned undamaged
after having bee" driven about 140
miles.
! Hiwassee Scenery Is
Marvelous ? Frances Dee
Frances Dec. the colorful screen
star, cave Murphy and vicinity the
once over early in tlv week and was
{"flighted with the charms of our
mountain region. Sh<- arrived at
Ch lokee Inn last Sunday with a
irroup of film artists who arc busy
snapping scenery for a n> w picture.
They were discreetly cileri* about
details concerning their activities,
but left no doubt that Wester"
North Carolina had captivated them
and that they would spend more
time here in the future.
This was Frances Dee's first visit
here, coming from Knoxville. She
told friends here that this section
had more appeal than Tennessee.
She left here last Monday, while the
remainder of the group stayed for
further locale work. Others in the
party included P. Lorentz. Mr. and
Mrs. Dudley Digges. William
Clothier. James B. Starkey, Leo
Green, George F. McGonigle, R. W.
Wiedeman. W. C. Brock. W W Col
lins, Ed Cheek and E. T. Harris.
The movie group have attracted
considerable attention as they mo
tored from the Murphy hotel to thf
scene of operations. In their cars
were carried necessary oostumes and
make-up used in taking their pic
tures.
Lieut Fleming
Is Unaccounted
For On Bataan
News that Lieut. E. Pearce Flem
ing, Jr . son ol Mr. and Mrs. E. P.
Fleming, of Asheville asd former
residents of Murphy, is among
United States soldiers in the Philip
pines unaccounted for since the fail
of Bataan has been received here.
The missing Army man is a grand
son of E. L. Bayless and a nephew of
Mrs J. N. Hill. Th*- Fleming family
moved to Asheville in 1926 and make
their home at 234 Shelbume Road.
Lieut Fleming had been stationed
on the island of Luzon about a year
before the outbreak of the war with
Japan. His mother last heard from
him on November 18. Ten days later
he telephoned his wife in Columbia.
S. C.
Lieut. Fleming's mother said she
believed he either was a prisoner of
war, or was still free on one of the
many islands in the Philippines.
After entering the army in De
cember, 1939. as a second lieutenant j
in the reserve corps, he was selected |
for special training with the 20th
infantry at Fort Jackson, S. C? In
December, 1940. He was promoted
to first lieutenant last November.
Twer.ty-three years old, he at
tended Asheville high school and
v.-as graduated from N. C. State col
lege in 1939 with a degree in indus
trial engineering. While at. State, he
was a member of the R. O. T. C.
and a cadet captain, a member of
Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity, Up
siion Sigma Alpha, national hon
orary military fraternity, and Scab
bard and Blade.
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Firemen And Police
Organize For Defense
A dinner meeting of the Murphy
fir<' department was held at the
Dickey Hotel. Friday evening.
The object of the meetnig was to
organize the auxiliary police and |
firemen for defense. Captain Frank
Swan, of Andrews, gave a ot
Civilian Defense. Mayor E. L.
Shields also talked to the group. It
was decided to send several mem
bers to Asheville to take a special
course, on June 2. 3. and 4.
Those present were : Lester
So hoop. F. G. Ellis. E. L. Shields.
Fred Johnson. Harry Sword, H. G.
Elkins. J. C. OTJell. F W. Swan.
F E. Dickey, J. B. Smith. Fred
Swaim, Wess Garrett, George Town
son, Heiiry Se&bolt. T. W. Klndley,
Loren C. Davis, G. E. Cook and E.
O. Christopher. I
Cherokee County Tops j
Haywood In May Sales
Of U. S. War Bonds
With a May quota of $29,100.00 in
war bonds to shoot at, Cherokee
county came through with a total
ol *34 000 worth of the bonds that
help tc put our armed forces out in
front.
Postmaster Howard Moody was
t-late^ at the result. He said that
Haywood county, with the towns of
Canton and Waynefiville, _ wlr suc
ceeded in absorbing bonds valued
at $28.200 00 He said that this (MM
Cherokee in an extremely favorable
light. Cherokee's quota for June is
$45,800.00. which will require more
extended effort. The Postmaster
stated that war bond sales handled
through the Murphy post office
from January through May of this
year totaled $90,618.75, while the
Myy total for the local post office
was $13,706.35.
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New Auto Drivers
Will Have Weekly
Service In Murphy
E B. Higgins. state driving ]i
c iv.- 1 ? examiner for nine counties
west of Haywood, will be available
each Wednesday to county resi
de" ; applying for motor car di iv
:?! : rscs. He will be found at t!:e
office of D. M. Re<-ce. state Pa'rol
?( q tarrer- he"' In his weekly
lOU'Ti- of Western North ".irolin I
counties. Mr. Higgins is a much
ravel' ri man.
XiivoC . driving li
censes are give" both roat! a"d
vision Nam . ations If they fin
os . nswer the questions fired at,
them, then they 'are give" a manual
of traffic rules to take home and
study.
Mr. Higgins said that he expects i
the next session of the state legisla- .
ture to pass a measure providing for ;
issuing of new driving licenses for !
every motorist in North Carolina '
with provisionmade for reexamina- j
tlon every four or five years. The ,
pre.scnt law went into effect seven
years ago. "There is plenty of time
for a person's vision to change
greatly in that peTiod." Mr. Higgins
pointed out. He told of one ease
where a youth of 17 years was un
able to read clearly a line of type
the size of a newspaper headline at
a distance of 20 fe?t. A pair of
glasses promptly remedied the de
fect.
ELtC i JON SLATES
COMPLETED FOh'
.NOVEMBER EIGHT.
Senator Josiah Bailey
Has Nearly 7.1 Lead
Over Fountain Here
* ' *"* OwciBSG n anar> last Sat
u v ?* hum-drum ..ffHir com
?H:<d *?::?, son* Ciierokee County
election^ ?f ?th. y..ars Although
t-'ie contenders for the Onn.-d states
' * n" ' ' :-n"< "cr :.upp!:!t! mcBt
? the oallyhoo, there Were more
' ,n ,h" *??"?? f?r the Km
member, of the county b<w:<l of edu
cation it drvi loped into su,,:
though horse rare, at a shift of 40
votes would have given the low man
a plan- otl the board The three
winners bunched with r B
Pnimer. lop man. receiving 307 votes
i^'n 1 unsferd runner-up wjth
. and Noah Hembnp iipxt with
8?-' J T Hayes, of Tomotla. finish
??d fourth with 767 votes Palmer.
Lunsford and Hayes are on the
I present board.
Senator Jos, ah Bailey showed his
popularity with Cherokee County
voters by registering a 7 to 1 ver
dict over his opponent. Richard T
Fountain, of Rocky Mount. Bailey"
who will face a third term fight in
November, received 1,643 votes tn
this county as aguiust 237 for
Fountain In four county piecincts.
Fountain did not \r1n a vote.
In the lone Republican contest
Sam J. Morris, of Raleigh, won the
Cherokee county designation over
Stontr W Kluttz, of Hickory, for
the u. 6. Senate, 24 votes to ?
n?? t m tn t solicitor of Die 2CUi
district did not develop the cloaa
proportions expected (by mar.y <*,_
servers. The present solicitor, John
M ?>"?. Of Way oes Vine, ran roi*b
shod over Baxter C. Jon?, of Brroon
City. 1,149 to 295, nearly four to
one.
The only other race in Saturday's
primary developed when J H Strat
um. of Peachtree. sought to displace
I T. P Calhoun, of Murphy, incum
! bent. as a member of the County
j BoaJd of Commissioners represent
j :ng the second distirct. Calhoun won
| the decision with 381 votes to 121.
| The two other Democratic candi
I dates for county commissioner from
, "-he first and third districts lmd no
! opposition.
E B Wliitakcr ran rough shod
i over A L. PenJand in the race for
state senator in the 33rd Senatorial
District with 1,1(19 votes to 30:t This
district comprises Cherokee. Gra
ham. Clay. Ma ' on and Swain coun
ties.
I" addition u the .ibovc names,
lie C. : , see County Democrats will
en:<T ?; c campaign with t,h, follow,
in? ticket: Repre.sc i rati ve ,i the
Genera! Assembly. Mrs. Giles Cover
A drew-. Sheriff. L L. Ma
1 '? ' ? Court .7 Lawrence
Hall: Register of Deeds. B I.. "Bass"
Padgett; .. " ri C"untr Comm:r.':lon'r
of First District, E A Woods.
Tile Republican county slat< in the
November election will include:
Sheriff. Carl Townson, incumbent:
County Commissioners. First Dis
trict. Horace Higdon. of Andrews;
Second District. Ernest, e. Stile?;
Third District. Milt Anderson, in
cumbent. of the Culbertson scetlon:
Clerk of Court. George Phillips;
Register of Deeds. Marion Morrow,
of the Violet section; and State
Representative in the General As
sembly. Clyde Jarrett, of Andrews.
No oandidate for either party has
announced for tile office of coroner.
?virtue tot
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