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RED CROSS IS
MAKING APPEAL
FOR WORKERS
Women Needed T o Make
Surgical Dressings In
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Tile American Red Cross Is in the
m:dst of its greatest effort in the
CI years of its existance.
The women of America are called
upon and expected to supply 90 per
cent of surgical dressings needed
lor our men in the armed forces.
Tiie manufacturers of these sup
plies can furnish only 10 per cent.
Murphy, playing equally as im
portant a part as town and cities
ten times her size, makes this appeal
to !he women of Cherokee county to
respond to this plea and give sup
port in the promotion of this work.
Even if you can give only one hour
your help is needed.
Tne present month's quota is 30,
006 2-inch sponges. Next month's
material is expected next week.
The work is simple, taking no skill
to fold on a cardboard pattern. Each
worker, however, is required to wear
a freshly laundered cotton dress and
nair covering made of gauze or un
reached domestic cut in triangle.
The Murphy chapter sent Miss
Aridk Leatherwood for a week's
trai ng in Asheville and is now in
structing supervisors in the making
of bandages.
The present Red Cross work room
is in the Mayor's office in the li
brary building, using card tables
furnished by Peyton Ivie for work
tables.
Officers in the local Red Cross
Unit are: Vice-chairman in charge
of training for surgical dressings,
Miss Addie Leatherwood; Vice
Chairman. charge of packing. Mrs.
R. S. Parker; Vice -Char iman charge
cutting, Mrs. M. W. Bell; Vlce
Chaintian charge of recruiting of
?workers, Mrs. W. H. Griffiths, and
Mrs. A. B. Cash; Vice-Chairman
charge of records. Mrs. Harry Mil
ler.
Next week The Scout will an
nounce hours the work rooms will
be open.
Automobile Owners
Warned To Affix
Federal Use Stamp
Attention of automobile owners
has been called to section 557 of the
Revenue Act of 1941 requiring that
a Federal Use stamp be affixed to al"
automobiles and trucks in use on and
after Feb. 1. 1942.
The stamps should have been pur
chased during the period of Febru
ary-July at the post office, and if
this was not done you are required
to purchase stamp from the Collec
tor of Internal Revenue. S. E. Vam
er of Brevard, is the Collector for
Cherokee county, and if you are de
linquent you are requested to pur
chase post office money order, pay
able to Collector of Internal Rev
enue, Greensboro, N. C., and send to
Mr. Varner at Brevard, together
with the name and address of the
person in whose name the car Is
registered and the matter will be
given immediate attention.
Red Cross First Aid
Course To Be Given
A standard Red Cros6 First Aid
course will be given Thursday night
from seven to nine o'clock at the
home of Mrs. Lillie Scroggs at Brass
town. Miss Oayle Isensee. commun
ity nurse, will be the Instructor.
Further particulars may be ob
tained from Mrs. Scroggs, or tho?e
Interested may report to the class on
September S.
STATE WILL USE
TAB-SIZED AUTO
PLATES IN 1943
North Carolina s 1943 automobile
license plate will be a small tab. con
taining only four square inches. T.
Bcddie Ward. Motor Vehicle Com
missioner. has announced.
Automobiles will be equipped with
CIllL* OP" t.Hp tfthc atta/?hoW
rear license plate. The serial num
ber on the tab will not correspond
with the 1942 number. Ward said.
It is estimated that the state
! would save about 200 tons of melal
by substituting the small plate for
! the larger ones now in u se, and
I enouph metal is now on hand from
previous purchases to m&kr enuugh
tabs for next year.
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CHURCH TO HOLD
ADVANCE RALLY
I Gathering Is Scheduled To Be Held
I Monday At Andrew* Presbyterian
Church
A religious education advance
rally, sponsored by the religious edu
cation committee ol Asheville pres
bytery, will be held in the Andrews
Presbyterian church Monday even
ing. August 31, at 7 o'clock.
Tlie meeting will include the
churches of Hayesville, Murphy,
Robbinsville, and Andrews.
Inasmuch as travel is difficult,
other rallies will be held at Asheville,
Franklin. Waynesville and Hender
sonville so that one will be near
every pastorate in the presbytery,
according to an announcement by
the Rev. H. B. Dendy. D. D? of
Weaverville. chairman of the Ashe
ville presbytery committee.
These rallies were planned dur
ing the recent conference of the
presbytery's young people at Man
treat.
The program as planned follows:
Devotional, led by the Rev. H. L.
Paisley, D. D., pastor of the Andrews
church; "The Advance as a Whole",
the Rev. James M. Carr, of Knox
ville. director of religious education.
Synod of Appalachia; "The Advance
and Sunday School Extension," by
Dr. H. W. McLaughlin of Richmond.
Va., director of country church and
Sunday school extension; discussion
of What Can We Do in Asheville
Presbytery?"; led by Dr. Dendy.
Following the meeting, moving
pictures of the young people's con
ference at Montreat will be shown.
Pastors, church officers. Sunday
school teachers and officers, young
people's teachers, leaders in the
auxiliary, parents, and all interested
friends are urged to attedn.
[New Service Ruling Will
Effect Only A Few Here
Instructions Issued last week by
national selective service headquar
ters to the local draft board to place
all but the totally unfit class B-l
registrants in class A-l will not ef
fect very many men in Cherokee
county, the local b ard announced
here this week. Men classified as
B-l are oiose who have heretofore
been deferred because of defects.
This move, effective Immediately,
is taken in order that affected men
ma7 be examined by army doctors
and be either accepted or rejected
so that they may at once know their
status.
Future class for selectees will be
for class 1-A men only. Those tot
ally unfit will be classified In class
4-P.
RECOVERS FROM OPERATION
Mrs. Neva Jlolt, who recently un
derwent an operation for appendi
citis In a Daytona Beach. Fla.. hos
pital. has recovered sufficiently to
leave the hospital and return to her
home.
Mrs. Holt is expected back In
Murphy in the next two weeks.
CHEHOhbE lOliNI Y
SENDS 86 MEN TO
INDUCTION CENTER
Group Left Murphy
Early Saturday
morning
One of the largest groups of se
Jectees to leave Murphy boarded
three special buses at seven o'clock
last Saturday morning lor the Fort
Jackson induction center. The
group was composed of 86 men from
Cherokee county. The list included
the following*
Charles Hannibal Hyatt, leader:
Harold Wayne Hall, assistant lead
er; Hi>mer George Gladson, assist
ant leader; Verlon Thomas Rober
son. Baxter Hatchett, Fred Wash
ington Breedlove, Major Ernest
Church. Carmel John Curtis. Will
iam Hardin Corn well, Lee Walter
Hyde. Ralph Weldon Adams, Nolan
Russell. Clayton Sankey Graham,
William Morgan. James Wilson Con
ley. Herman Alfred Green. Wayne
George Luther, Lowell William Bal
lew. Von William Cook. Francis Hu
bert Aj'p. John Robert Bradley,
Clyde William Lovingood, David
Logan Ownsby, Virgil Allen Fisher,
Wayne C. Roberson, Herbert Hugh
Roberts, Ralph Claude Gibby, Pink
Sherman Evans. Hoyt Houston
Johnson, Willie Rattler. Ed Thomas
Guthrie, Ralph Dockery, John Por
ter Mason, Clyde Henderson, Addi
son Martin, WiUis Lush Ledlord
Pearlic Kephart, Fred Young, Edwtr
Hensley, Walter Lee White, William
Thomas Mallonee, Ralph Clin tor
Hughes, Silas Jack Wilson. Hoyt
Waldroup, Dale Harvey Dockery
Tommie Farmer. James Arnold Stal
cup. Rossie Newton, James Allen
Clayton, Hobbie Whitener, Glenn
Bryant, James Allen Painter. Carl
Columbus Ledford. Leonard Moore,
Ed Garland, Hubert Ray Holloway,
Robert Talmadge Green. Everett*
Anderson Kimsey. Wayne Anderson.
John Arthur Swanson,
Erwin Elijah Carter. John Robert
Wilson, Paul Warren McMahan.
I Haden Glenn Bruce, Lyle Marshall
Robinson, Walter George Hogsed.
Robert Henry Rogers, Robert Edwin
Holland, Roy Louis Patterson, Hoyt
Marion Bryant, Frank Frederick
Wilson, Ag Gibby, Howard Walker,
j Venson Burton Watts, Raburn Bur
gess, James Hicks, James Arthur
Griffith, Willis Buren Loudermilk.
Charlie Wayne Conley. William Earl
Chambers.
The local board reports that the
following men failed to show up for
the scheduled induction trip: Will
iam Richard Gance, Charlie McDon
ald, Bert Russell and William Louis
Brown.
The following men were trans
ferred from other boards and left
with the local contingent:
J. C. Johnson. Ernest Jackson
Anderson. Fred Truell, William
Lowry Whitmore. George Quince
Rogers, Joseph Louis Ingram.
i Occupational Census
Going Forward At
Local Draft Office
The local selective draft board Is
going forward with the task of mak- |
<np an occupational census of all i
Cherokee county men between tho
ages of 18 and 64.
Occupational questionnaires al
ready have been sent to all regis
trants in the first three groups, and
<jVC8tkmn aires are now going out to
group four at a very satisfactory
rate, local draft officials have an
nounced.
The questionnaires axe checked by
the board's questionnaire clefks for
completeness. Then one section goes
into the registrant's draft file, an
other goes to the AshevHle office of
the U. S. Employment service, and a
third to Washington.
HOLLAND BUYS
HALF INTEREST
IN RAILWAY LINE
W. T. Holland, of Andrews, has
purchased half interest 111 the Ten
nessee and North Carolina railroad,
he short line that operates between
Andrews and Huyesville.
Mr. Holland purchased the hall
mtm I.vir. Ozrz en,
Norfolk. Va. Mr. Holland at one
lime owned the railroad. About six
: months ago he sold it to Frank O.
| and Joseph A. Garson. who operated
? i: with Joseph A. Garson as manager
| until last week when Mr. Holland
bought Joseph A. Garson's share.
Now Mr. Holland is manager with
I Prank O. Garson tus his partner
I
Excavation At Dam |
One Fifth Finished
j Excavation for Pontana dam is j
J now onc-fith completed, the TV A ?
announced here this week in a re
I
port on work in the area.
The TV A said 65 percent of the
j excavation at Pontana has been
completed for the diversion tunnels,
w hich will carry the river around the
site while construction work is in
i i progress, and that active tunneling
lias been started at the downstream
portal of the railroad tunnel and ad
i ; vanced about 100 feet. The railroad
1 tunnel will later be a third diversion
, tunnel. The one-fifth figure cover
' ed all excavation necessary in con
i j struction of the huge dam.
1 1 At Apalachia dam. the TVA said
i : 12 of the 31 blocks that will compose
' the dau have been topped off, or
'j completed. The report said con
? j creting at Apalachia is now 95 per
j cent completed for the dam and
! spillway and 86 per cent completed
| for the power house. The tunnel ex
i cavation is now 95 per cent complet
i cd, the report stated.
Jim Carver Injured
By Assailant Near
Hiwassee Dam Home
Jim Carver was found about 9:30
Wednesday night near his home in
, the Hiwassee Dam section in a state
' of collapse. It was founa he was
suffering from knife cuts in the
i back. and had also sustained num
rous bruises about the head and
face. Leonard Standridge. a clerk in
a store at Hiwassee Dam was noti
fied by par; les discovering Carver
: and he brought the injured man to
Murphy.
Carver is being held in the county
I jail pending investigation by of
1 ficers. Nothing has been learned
| by officers from the injured man a>
; to the identity of his attackers 01
^ the motive for the attack.
Folmesbee Will Be
Ordained Priest
, Sunday, August 30, the Rt. Rev.
Robbert E. Gribbin. of the Diocese
of Western North Carolina will ad
vance to the Priesthood the Rev.
Grant Folmsbec. B. D? the Vicar of
the Church of the Messiah, Murphy.
The service will take place in
Grace Episcopal church. Waynes
ville. at 11 a.m. E. S. T. The mem
bers of the congregations served by
Mr. Folmsbee are invited to attend
the ordination .service.
Sunday evening at 7:30 a Prepa
ration Service for the Holy Eucharist
will be held at the Murphy church.
The Eucharist will take place Mon
day morning at 8 a.m., at which
time the newly ordained priest will
give Communion for the first time.
The members at Hiwassee Dam are
urged to attend.
A new schedule of services for
Episcopalians in the county will be
announced nert week.
SCHOOLS IN CITY
GET UNDER WAY
THIS MORNING
Several New Teachers
Are Announced By ,
Supt. Bueck
The schools in the Murphy City
Unit began the fall Itrm today
'Thursday i with chapel programs
lor both elementary and high school
pupils. Registration in the high
school will continue through Friday,
with the full time schedule to begin
Monday.
The opening bell will ling at 8:45
in the mornings, with the lunch per
iod beginning at 12:00 and lasting 45
minutes. Dismissal will be at three
o'clock.
New members ol the faculty for
this year are .is follows:
Miss Ruth Davis Emory of Pigeon
Forge. Tennessee, B. S. in Home
Economics from Maryville College,
MaryviUe. Tennessee.
Miss Mary E. Folger of Nashville.
Tennessee. B. S. at George Peabody
College. Nashville. Tennessee.
\1 1 So MUdrd Hayw^rd Farrow, of
Black Mountain. North Carolina, B.
S. in Library Science. George Pea
body College. Nashville. Tennessee.
Charles Alfred Smith, of Murphy,
North Carolina, B. A. Degree at Un
ion College. Barberville, Kentucky
and graduate work at Emory Uni
versity. Atlanta. Georgia.
Miss Margaret Cur*l of Greenville,
Kentucky. B. A. and Master of Arts,
Peabody College, Nashville, Tennes
see.
Muss Nina De Hart of Bryson City,
North Carolina. B. S. Degree in
Commercial Education. Mount Berry
College.
Mrs. Frances Ray of Murphy.
North Carolina. B. S. in Education
at Western Carolina Teachers Col
lege.
Miss Charlotte Varner of Port
Myers, Florida. A. B. Degree, High
Point College. High Point. North
Carolina.
Mrs. Catherine Wells of Murphy,
North Carolina. B. S. in Education.
Maior in History, Minor in English,
Western Carolina Teachers College.
Cullowhee, North Carolina.
Robert S. Bault of Ashevtlle, Chi
| cago Institute of Technology, Chi
| cago. Illinois.
! Mrs. Pauline Bault of Asheville.
! North Carolina. A. B Major Latin,
- Minor math. Appalachian State
! Teachers College.
? Miss Sadie June Love of Asheville,
| North Carolina, A B. English. Uni
| versity of North Carolina. Chapel
j Hill. North Carolina.
! Miss Mildred Aiken, Murphy, Mur
phy. North Carolina. B. S. in Music
Breneau College. Gainesville, Geor
gia.
Mrs. Margaret LeMay Mauney of
Murphy. A. B. Randolph Macon Col
lege. Lynchburg. Va.
Miss Geraldine Shields, of Mur
phy. North Carolina, B. S. in Edu
cation. Appalachian State Teachers
College.
Mrs. Llyod Hendrix of Murphy.
North Carolina .Mars Hill College.
Mars Hill. North Carolina
Dedicatorial Service At
Ranger Baptist Church
A dedicatorial service will be held
at the Ranger Baptist church Sun
day. September 13.
The following program has been
arranged:
10:00 a. m. ? Devotional service,
led by s. S. Akin.
10:30 a. m. Address by John B
Payne.
11:00 a. m.- Dedicatorial sermon
by the pastor. Rev W T. Truttt
12:00 Noon- -Dinner.
1 00 p m -Songs and devotional.
1 :30 p. m. ? Addresses by visiting
ministers.