HENN THEATRE Saturday. February !0 LLOYD NOLAN ? DONNA KFFD Apache Trail \(lmix>ion 10?- and !0? !-?!?? show. s.il. 10:10 P M. HORI> K \RLOFF ? in Boogieman Will Get You VdmivMon UK- and 30c sun. ? Mod.. Feb. 21 - 22 rVKONE POWER ? MAUREEN OIIARA Black Swan In Technicolor \dmission 1 Or and 30c Tues. - Wed.. Feb. 23 - 24 JANE FRAZE F ? ti LOK A JEAN Get Hep To Love Extra ? JUNIOR G-MEN OF THE AIR Chapter 3 Admission 10c and 30c Thurs. - Fri.. Feb. 25 - 28 JACK BENNY ? ANN SHERIDAN George Washington Slept Here Admission 10c and 30c CHIC THEATRE Thurs. - Fri.. Feb. 18 - 19 CHARLES BOYER ? OLIVIA OeHAVILLAND Hold Back The Dawn Admission 10c and 20c Saturday. February 26 Double Feature Procram Texas Marshal Stand By All Networks Admission 10c to Everyone Thurs. - Fri.. Feb. 25 - 26 MICKEY ROONEY ? JUDI GARLAND Babes On Broadway Admission ltc and 20c Classified Ads Want Ad Kilo: Our crni per word, with minimum rharre 35c. CASH IN ADVANCE. Card of thanks, mrmoriams. resolutions, onr cent prr word. CASH IN ADVANCE. APPLY ut Veneer Mill East Mur phy for contract to furtuMt soft white and yellow poplar veneer blocks at top ptice for Army Airplanes. 2tp PREE? If tXitss acid causes you pains of Stomach Ulcers. In digestion. Heartburn. Belching. ' VyiMK fin ft Pains, get free sample. Udga. ai Parker Drug Store. 15tp. ONION SKIN Any siz?\ foui grades. Cherokee Scout, on the Square. Births In 1942 ?Continued From page 1? ?p!y wu th. infant mor? tuUty rate in No:th Carolina last year the lowest on record, but the >ame v\as tru.* of the general death rate which was 8.1 There also was a sharp decline in the total number of deaths, which was only 29.613. a^? compared with 32.154. during the preceding year.' Note the two extremes tint ma: krd North Carolina's vital sta tistics for 1942 ? the greatest the lowest death rale. It is in teresting to note that there were 60.443 more births than deaths :e corded. During the year there were only 21 deaths from typhoid fever, a disease which, during the War With Spam m 1898. claimed more ; victims than did Spanish bullets, while the total number of deaths from influenza, which wrought such havoc during ;he First World War. was only 296. as compared \%iui 302 in 1941. There was also an appreciable reduction in the number of deatlis from tuberculosis in all forms, the 1942 total having only 1.578 for the entire State, as compared with 1.769 in 1941. the rate having fallen in a single year from 48 8 to 43 per 100.000 persons. There was a sustained decline in the number of pneumonia deaths, which last year totalled only 1.677. as compared with 1.896 in 1941. bringing the rate down from 52.3 to 45 8 per 100.000 inhabitants. We have considered the low record in infant mortality achiev ed in 1942 ? that is. deaths among children under one year of age. Coupled with this, there was also a sharp decline in deaths from diarrhoea and enteritis among children under two years of age. the 1942 total having been only 464. as compared with 692 AT FIRST ^ SIGN Of A C#?666 666 1'PLET5. S'lVE. NOSE DROPS i FOR SALE Sequoah seed Pota toes $3 per bushel CALL DICKEY HOTEL Telephone 94 THREE ROOM APARTMENT for rent. All modern convenien ces. electric stove and refrigera tor. ono block from Public Square. Call Mrs J N Moody. Phone 21. 28-4tp. FARM FOR SALE 135 acres and some *ood timber. Little Brass town. Pruv $1 000. If interested J. D. Mallunce or Mrs. J. N. Moody. 2; p the pre c ceding Mar. bringing th--. rate from 19.1 to 12.6 in twelve montlis Appreciable decreases were re corded in the numLer of both Miicidt* and homicides, while the number of deaths from what art* :t imed preventable accidents was only i 513. as computed with i.o62 . in 1941 This total was materially I atfected by the downward trend in traffic deaths, which has been very noticeable since rationing be- ^ Ran and since the speed limit has been reduced. Deaths attnbutable to air trans portation accidents, however, in creased from 92 u> 104: from ac cidental burns, from 213 to 220; and from rrni:maM?tm Kv firoovm, from 74 to 91. while the number of , persons accidentally drowned in creased from 143 to 182. It is needless to discuss the causes ol the above effects, as these have not been analyzed. Altogether, last year s vital sta tistics are hastily Krauiyuig aim j show that our people are generally healthy. In this connection, at tention is called to the fact that the number of deaths from pella gra. a nutritional disease, dropped from 139 to 110. Throughout the State, more attention has been paid to nutrition than ever before. Nutrition is a very important sub jec. at this time and the ill-affects of malnutrition cannot be over emphasized. especially in view of increased rationing and prospec tive food shortages. We must learn to utilize advantageously those foodstuffs which are available and. if necessary, to change some of our food habits, to accommo date the necessities of the times. This can be done ? even to our advantage ? if we know how. All the gains we have made can easily be swept away, if we relax our efforts. Even as " eternal vigi lance is the price of liberty"?so it is tne price of health. The fact that we made and held gains throughout the first calendar year of our participation as a belliger ent in the global war. which now seems to be fast moving to a bloody climax, is encouraging. But we must not lose sight of what we actually are fighting for ? the preservation of the United States cf America ? its " way of life"? and the health of its people. Though we win brilliant succes ses on a dozen battlefronts over seas and lose our fight on the home front, we will have lost this war. On the other hand, we must not lose sight of the fact that if we fail in our duty toward those of other lands with whom our men are fighting, we will have failed in our duty to ourselves. Disease knows no national or contiental boundaries. Most of us recall, all too vividly, how. in 1918. what was then known as Spanish In flenza leaped across the seas with lighting rapidity ? and scouraged us. We recall how the platforms of our railroad stations were piled high with caskets of those who had gone down under this scourge ?how it attacked the men in our armed camps, here and overseas, and those who remained around the home fires. We have no influenza epidemic at the present time ? in fact, no epidemic of any kind. But this does not mean that we are im mune. It simply means that, so far, we have been fortunate. Fur thermore. it means that we are reaping the fruits of preventive medicine. Wheeler Funeral Held Wednesday Paul Wheeler, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Wheeler, died at his home in Hiawassee. Ga.. Feb. 17. Burial was February 18 at 10 am. Funeral services were held at the home and intcrinent was at Os borne Cemetery. He is survived by his parents, three brothers and one sister. Townson funeral home was in charge. 46 Horses And Mules Treated According to County Farm Agent A. Q Ketner the horse and mule clinic conducted in Cherokee county on Monday was the most successful ye* held. There were 46 animals treated for round worms. Bolts and teeth floa'ed. The work was dom* by j D; D M. Weston of Ashevtlle. as- ? j sistcd D. C. Snodgrass. am- | I ma' husbandry specialist of Ra leigh. The clinics were held at f ?ju:* places in the county. Robt. C. Anderson A | I/?KnlJ ?11 HCQ1CI 1 1C1U KEESI.ER FIE1.D. Miss Fib 16 i*\>. Robert C. Anderson, son of M. anil Mrs. Lawrincc Ande: son. Routt l Andrews. \\ enrolled as indent this u t k in Kresle. fr .i id'.?, great airplane mechanics , Mhool. .i unit of the Army Air | Forces Technical Training Com mand. Private Anderses has completed hi-; basic training At Keener he will undergo 17 weeks of instruc tion on huge B-J4 "Liberator" bombers, and at the successful completion of the course will be qualified for active line duty serv icing and maintaining these big . lour-cngined ships. His courses of instruction will, include training in aircraft main tenance fundamentals, airplane structures, hydraulic systems, pro pellers. instruments, engine, elec trica' systems, fuel systems, engine | operation and inspection. Baby Daughter Dies From Croup Little Sallie Bell Dills, 2-year-old , daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Prank Dills, died with Croup at her home on Peachtree on February 11. Funeral was held February 12 at] the home with the Rev. Robert Baiker officiating. Interment was in Osborne Cemetery. Hiawassee., Georgia. She is survived by her parents.j one sister. Louise; and two bro- | tliers. Prank and Bobby. Townson ! funeral home was in charge. Funeral For Mrs. McDonald Is Held Friday Morning Mrs. Louisa White McDonald.. 76. of the Hanging Dog section, i died in a Franklin hospital Wed- j nesday after a long illness. Funeral services were held Fri day morning at 10 o'clock at- White j church at Hanging Dog with the Rev. John Mulkey, the Rev. P. El liott. and the Rev. A. B. Cash of ficiating. Burial was in the church i cemetery. Surviving are four sons. How ard and Thomas Clingman. of Murphy. Elgin, of Atlanta, and I Estle McDonald, of Asheville, and ! four daughters. Mrs. J. B. Mulkey and Miss Grace McDonald, of Mu:phy. Mrs. Elsie Whiteheart. of Winston-Salem, and Mrs. Tommy Dockery. of Hiwassce Dam. Pallbears were grandsons and nephews. Ivie Funeral home was in charge. Henry M. Ivester Dies On Sunday Henry Mallew Ivestcr, 46. of the Pinelog community, died at his home February 14. after being ill for several months. Funeral serv ices were held Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Pinelog Methodist church. Th Rev. Ralph Taylor of Murphy and the Rev. Hoyt Shaddcn of Ocoee. Tenn.. officiated. Inter ment was in the church cemetery. He is survived by his wife: one brother. Ulcss Ivestcr. and three sisters. Mrs. Oarrin. Mrs. Kuyken dall. and Mrs. Sherlin. Athens. Tenn. Pallbearers were nephews Ivie funeral home was in charge. Bonnie R. Hawkins Taken By Death Bonnie Ruth Hawkins. 13-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Hawkins of Culberson, died suddenly at her home Feb. 14. She Is survived by her father, step mother: three sisters. Helen Mil dred and Donie: and brother. Wil liam. Funeral services were held at Mount Pleasant Baptist church Tuesday The Rev. Thomas Troitt offlciateed. Townson funeral home was in charge. Rationing Guide SUGAR Stamp No. 11 valid for 3 pound-* lor the period of February I to j March 15th. Stamp No. 10 must be su ren- ' tkred tjr retailer* to their whole- j alers uithin ten days. COFFEE Stamp No. 25 good for 1 pound K-bruary 8 to Match 22. MEETINGS OF C.KOCERS At the present time there have been several met ing* sched uled throughout the State at | which point rationing and p. ice ivill be diM-usscd by representa- | live* of the Charlotte OPA Office. I and opportunity will be given for I the asking of questions. All gro cers should plan to attend one of these mc.:inKH. Our closest mwt in?r will be at Ashcvllle ?t 7 30 1 m. on February 15th. and at. Brysor City on February 16th ?tirne to be announced later*. SUGAR The families of deceased per son* and of those Who leave the e untry for more than thirty days are remind d that the war ration books of such persons should be surrendered to the Board prompt ly. The families of persons induct - ed into the armed forces should al>;- see t ha: he ration :?u ks oi such person, t.r ? turnrd lit. 101 Years Old, Spencer Perry Is Still Active And Interested In Life Spencer Perry. Negro who came to Murphy many years ago. is still active and is seen most every day on the streets, greeting friends with his characteristic profound bow. Always industrious and in terested in life and its activities. "Uncle Spcnce." as everyone calls him. has spent most of his past 75 years working in and around Mur phy. This Negro, who l.as many white as well as colored friends, was born at the Yarborough hotel in Charlotte, his mother being a slave belonging to Mrs. Mary Jones. When still a ycung man, he got into trouble with the law and was put on the chain gang. Sent to this section to work on the Marietta and North Georgia rail road. which was being built from Blue Ridge. Oa.. to Muiphy. "Untie Spence** made his f.rst ac quaintance with Cherokee county. Mrs. Nettie Dickey, then living on a farm in the Ranger section and later operating the Dickey hotel lierc for many years, took this sla\c off tin* chain gang and put him to work on her farm. He lat? i worked for sometime at tin* Hcnnessee house. Leaving there he went to the home of Mr. Mcckc. about two miles from Murphy, the place now owned bv Thas. SDen ccr. For about 50 years he was porter, waiter and general helper at Dickcy hotel, during the life time of the late Mrs. Nettie Dic key. "Uncle Spence" married Han nah Davidson, and they had eight children, most of whom art liv ing in this secuvii. To determine his age. friends of , 'Uncle Spence" figure from his statement that he was 23*4 years ' old at the end of the war between the states, which would make him now 101 years old. A million and a half more acres of soybeans than were called for in the fall have now been request ed by the Government to meet In creasing oil needs. Dehydrated foods now beint, produced are far better in flavor, j appearance, and nutritional value than were those processed during the last World War. I NATIONAL FOREST TIMBER FOR SALE The National Forest Umber de scribed below will be sold by pub lic auction to be held at the office A the Forest Supervisor )l(tcc Building. F.knklui, Noru? Carolina, beginning at 2 pin . on February 27. 1943 Award will be madt' to the one qualified bidder luotmg the h iciest aggregate price for live timber. Any quo a lion of lees than the advert k?x( price will invalidate the entire bkj A!! the live yellow poplar timber marked for cutting and all mer chantable dead yellow poplar tin*, ber located on areas embracing 2.000 acres with in tin* Cowec Coir. pa r t men t. Cowee Creek Wa.cr slicd. Macon County, and Bru-.i Creek Compartment. Alaika Creek Watershed. Swain County. Nunta iutla National Forest. North Caro lina. estimated to bi- 200 M feet, more or less, of yellow poplar No bid of less than $22.00 per M for . ?-?ii k. BBHBi No bids will be considered u.nl ? ? the biddt. agrees to manufacture he timber within Macon and or Cherokee Counties. North Caro lina. Each participant in the bid ding will be required to qualify by having in his possession certi fied or cashier's check in the amount of $2.500.00 made payable to he Treasurer of the Unit* d cimJj. TI.#. SllCCrCSflil wtddCT ?a* be required to deposit with his bid (2.500 00 to be applied on the purchase price, refunded, or re tained in part as liquidated dam ages- according to conditions of sale. The right to reject any an