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Ml'RPHV. NORTH CAROLINA Tin rsEay DEC. X. IMS
5? COPY ? $2.10 PER year
Meat Market Grades
Posted By Wichard
Dr M. P. Whichard. District
Health Officer, announces the fol
lowing meat market grades posted
it the Cherokee - Clay - Graliam
Health District. tile grades having
been assigned during recent in
spection by Sanitarians of the Dis
trict Health Department:
Haye&ville:
Tiger's Cash Store Market 88 0
Murphy :
Johnson's Market 92.0
Hemtrces Super Market 91.0
Murphy Supply Store 85.0
Sanitary Market 90.0
Hiwassee Dam:
T V. A. Pood Market 87 0
Dockery's Market 77.0
Andrews:
Higden's Market 88.5
Caldwell's Market 90.5
Robbinsville :
Snider's Market 90.0
J J. Orr's Market 90.5
Snowbird Supply Market 91.0
Pontana Dam:
T. V. A. Pood Market 93.0
AtpAuabetical grades are deter
mined as follows:
90 to 100 ? A. 80 to 89.5? B. 70
to 19 5? C.
A market which fails to make
a grade of 70.0% <C| is not al- j
lowed to operate.
Special Service
Attracts Large
Crowd To Church
Special Sunday evening services J
for groups of workers and organ- '
iza'.ions are being held at Andrews
Baptist church each week. Uie
first one of the series being last
Sunday. Teas Extract Company
employees were special guests, and
more than a hundred of tl^em
M**^?T&sent. ?>a-'o* JL. P. Sdiith
rtat*~ j that the dhurch auditorium
was full, and most of the audience
were men.
Next Sunday evening employees
of Andrews Tanning Company
will be special guests.
Demand For Shoesj
Exceeds Supply
Applications pouring into the
local ration board for supplemen
tary shoe ration coupons are
threatening disruption of the en
tire shoe program, according to
C D Parker, associate rationing
officer of the Charlotte OP A dis
trict Only in cases of extreme
necessity will supplementary shoe
rations be allowed.
The demand for shoes far ex
ceeds the supply, it was explained
by the district rationing official,
and. as is the case with mo;t
products, the Armed Services have
first chance at shoes. Because of
the situation which exists in tlhe
shoe program. Aeroplane stamp
No 1 in ration book three has
been made valid for a period of
six months .as against four
months for previous shoe stamps,
it was announced.
Mr. Parker pointed out that
regular shoe ration stamps are in
terchangeable within the family
and represent a pool for use based
on need of the individual mem
bers. Every individual should use
the stamps available to them
through their ration books to the
best possible advantage so as to
avoid unnecessary complications
In the efforts of the OPA to dis
tribute the supply of sihoes fairly
to everybody.
Have Three Sons
In The Service
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Brooks of
?**konia have three sons in ser
yj**- Pvt. Carl Brooks of Port Dix.
N- J., has recently spent a fifteen
day furlough with his wife, the
former Miss Jewel Sneed.
l*t. Sgt. Chint Brooks of Port
Wood. Mo., has been in
* service almost eight years.
Pv"T' Roy Brooks Is stationed at
Cutter. Mich
Mks Louise Johnson of Knox- j
' ?pent Thanksgiving with her
Mr. and Mrs. V M. John- 1
*m. I
Lodge To Meet
To Elect Officers
All i lit- bri hers of Cherokee
Masonic Lodge No. 146 are asked
to meet at Uie hall on Saturday
ewning. Derer.ibtr 4. The purpose
of the meeting is to elect officers.
Dockery Charged
With Violation
Of Selective
Service Act
Floyd Dockery of Grandviev
section was this week taken into
custody by Slate Highway Patrol
man Pritcliard Smith. Jr., and
turned over to Federal authori
ties for violation of the Selectivi
Sen-ice act. He was given a hear
ing before U. S. Commissionei
Fred Bates and bound over to the
U. S. district court in Bryson City
to be tried in the May term of
court. He was given privilege o!
bond for $2500. but on Wednesday
at -loon had not posted the bond
Dockery is charged with failure
to report for induction, liaving
failed to report on May 6. 1942:
June 4. 1942. Feb 3. 1943. and
March 3. 1943. as ordered by the
Cherokee county draft board
Don't Sell All
Your Sows Now
"Don't sell off all your sows
now and plan to go out of the bog
tysiness bat k^ep your hop pro
gram in line uiih the supply of
feed on the farm and follow good
management practices. ' is the ad
vice of Ellis Vestal. Extension
swine specialist at N. C. State
College.
He suggests a ulling out of Uie
poor sows, the ? se of additional
grazing crops to offset high feed
costs .and other good practices
which will help to put hog produc
tion on ft more profitable and a
more conservative basis.
Under the meat rationing pro
gram he looks forward to the re
turn of a heavy demand for pigs .
and believes that the grower who!
follows sound management prac- ?
tices w ll be in a better position
to take advantage of an upward
trend in the mar.ct.
Hogs have been rushed to mar
ket and a glut has followed. Some
growers have re ently sold hogs
at. relatively low prices but it is
hoped that the floor which lias
now been placer' under hogs will
help to bring about a better price
structure and a more normal mar
keting condition
Vestal suggests that growers !
give their sows careful attention i
and save as many pigs as possible j
at farrowing time. He points out j
that men in the armed forces eat
about 1 1 times as much as they
did when at home. When these
same men are sent overseas, the
food reserve must be three times
as great as v hen they are station
ed in this country.
All of these demands for our
men in the armed forces, phis ,
meat for Lend-lease and freed peo- j
pics, in addition to the heavy de- (
mand from our civilian popula- 1
tion. will call for a large number |
of hogs. ? all that can be produc- ;
fd from the available feed
MAY CUT POINT VALUES
Storekeepers and others in the
food trade may cut the point, val
ues of caned, frozen and dried
foods that might spoil if held in
stock too lone. OPA has announc
ed. b'.it point values may be cut
only if prices are reduced at least
25 percent on these items
SERMON SUBJECTS
The Rev. Ralph Taylor. Min
ister of First Methodist, will
preach Sunday at 11 o'clock on
the theme "Why I do Not Oo to
Church*'. And at 7:30 o'clock on
the subject "Keep Clean".
Roy Liddell of Atlanta spent
the week-end wfcth Dr. and Mrs.
Harry Miller.
To Make Dairy
Survey Here
Jo!in E Floyd district milk
sanitarian. AshnrUlr. *,ii t ? hm
nc xt week to make u survey of all
dairies in Cherokee and Clay
counties, and to assist dairymen
with their problems.
Two Criminals
Make Escape
Nelson Lyons and Joe Tinker
ton of Dayton. Ohio, who %t:re re
cently arrested here for theft of
an automobile and were tried ami
convicted in Federal court in Bry
son City, are giving officers trou
ble again. When they were bcint:
taken to ChiUicothe. Ohio, to serve
a priscn sentence, they made an
? scape from the Pikesville. Ky .
federal prison, where they were
placed to spend a night en route
They and two other convicts saw
ed their way out of Jail and are
said to have stolen a Buick auto
mobile and made their get-away. '
Farmers May
Take Other
Essential Work
Temporarily
Farm workers, subject to mili
tary duty and deferred because
they are engaged in essential agri
culture. under certain conditions,
are permitted to engage in other
essential activities during the off
seasons in farm operations, it is
announced by Dr. J. S. Dorton.
State director for the War Man
power Commission.
Agreement has been readied by
Brigadier General' J. Van *?
MotLs. State director. Selective
Service; G. Tom Scott. State
ohairman. USDA War Board: Dr.
I. O. Schaub. State director. Agri
cultural Extension Service, and
Dr. Dorton. by Which farm work
ers in II-C and III-C classes, when
not needed on the farms, may do
essential work elsewhere.
Such farm worker may apply
for and. if eligible, receive a state
ment from the county farm agent,
as secretary of the county USDA
War Board, that he is not needed
for farm work for a specified pe
riod. have the return date record
ed with his local Selective Service
Board and tJien he may be refer
red by his United States Employ
ment Service office to a job in es
sential industrial, construction or
locally needed activity for that
period.
The local war board and the j
USES have the combined respon- ;
sibility for confining this practice
to those farm workers who can be
spared from agriculture without
in terf erring with agricultural pro
duction. of placing such workers
in essential activities and in re
turning them to the farms at the
designated times. A worker falling
to report at the specified time is
subject to immediate reclassifica
tion and induction by the local
draft board.
Farm workers, under these con
dtions. may engage in acid wood,
pulpwood. logging and lumbering
operations: strategic mica and
other types of essential mining:
processing of food, feed and fiber
products, such as work at cotton
gins, in cotton oil mills and in
fertilizer plants: work at ship
yards. aii-plane plants or other
plants, furnishing materials or
supplies to any war useful plants:
work in practically all types of
textile plants: construction jobs
in support of the war effort: in
public utility and other locally
needed and service industries and
activities: or other activities to
which they may be referred by the
local offices of the U. S. Employ
ment Service.
Negro Principal
To Speak Monday
Miss Elma Rai Dennis, princi
pal of Texana Negro school, will j
speak the monthly meeting of
the Cherokee-Clay counties minis
terial association Monday at 10:30
o'clock, at First Baptist cfriurch.
FRANK HERBERT HENSLEY |
of Murphy, who has been taking ?
his boot training at Bainbridge.
Md.. for the past eight weeks, has
been home on a nine-day leave,
visiting his mother. Mrs. Vesta
Hensley, and his wife, the former
Miss Thclma Rice of Murphy.
Upon returning to Bainbridge
he entered the regular Navy as
machinist mate, second class, and
is ready for active duty.
He is a graduate of Murphy
high school. For the past six years
he r.as been an employee of Uie
TVA. When inducted into the
Navy l\c -was working at Watt"
Bar Dam. located near Spring
City. Tenn.
Local Clubs Have
Opportunity To
Serve Soldiers
The U. S. O. and civic clubs of
Murphy entertained with a dance
Monday evening from seven to ten
o'clock for soldiers passing j
thrown. The dance was held in i
the lunch room on tfie school
campus and was attended by '
about 500. according to announce- J
ment by superintendent H. Bueck.
Refreshments were served by J
members of the Junior Woman's
club and music was furnished by
a public address system.
Couples from the Senior Wo
man's club and the Lions club as
sisted by army officers, served as
chaperones.
Toward the close of the even
ing. the entire group, led by En
sign Jack Houts. sang popular war
songs. A number of men from the
navy who are home on leave were
present.
All during the day .the U. S. O.
made a special effort to entertain
the men who called at the lounge,
serving them coffee, doughnuts
and candy.
Tlie soldiers camped at the fair
grounds and slept in the gymna
sium.
ANNUAL MEETING
The Methodist Women's Society
of Christian Service will meet
Tuesday. Deccmter 7. at 11 o'clock
in the morning. This is the an
nual all-dav meeting. A pot-luck
dinner will be served.
AUXILIARY TO MEET
The Women's auxiliary of the'
Episcopal Church of the Messiah
will meet Thursday, December 9. !
with Mrs. H. S. Webster at the '
Harahaw apartments.
Engineers To
Survey River
F. O. Dogell and A. C. Hubbard,
sanitary cninncers with the Slate
Health department in Raleigh,
will come to Murphy next week to
mal e a survey of the Hiw&ssee
river, in interest of Murphy's wa
ter supply.
Neighborhood
Farm Leaders
Are Needed
Neighborhood farm leaders, both
men and women, will form the ?
shock troops in the "Food For
Freedom" fight on the home front
in 1944. says Dr. L O. Schaub. di- j
rector of the State College Exten- 1
sion Service.
"Every community in the State |
must be reached and farm men |
and women must take the leader I
ship in encouraging their neigh- 1
bors to grow the right kind of food |
and feed crops for the war ef
fort." the Director points out.
He calls attention, however, that
all citizens must cooperate in the
campaign because food conserva
tion. food saving, and support of
rationing are necessary to bring
the fight to a successful conclu
sion.
He reminds farmers that there
will probably be sufficient labor
to plant and cultivate the crops
next year but tliafc harvesting will
be a great problem. No crops
should be lost in 1944 because of
a shortage of labor. Neighbors
should cooperate with neighbors
' in every way possible, just as they
did this year, to bring this about.
In the "Pood Fights For Free
] dom" campaign, seventeen agri
| cultural and allied organizations
are taking part and In every coun
ty in North Carolina there are
definite plans for future work.
"Every farmer should acquaint
himself with the work of the com
mittee in his county and give it
all the aid possible." Schaub says.
Mrs. Solesbee
Dies At Age 77
Funeral services for Mrs. Mar
tha Solesbee, 77. who died at Mor
ganton November 25. were held
Sunday morning at 10 o'clock at
Hanging Dog Baptist church with
the Rev. W. P. Elliott and the Rev.
Mr. Woody officiating. Burial was
! in the church cemetery.
She is survived by four sons.
( Jerry and William Solesbee. of
Hanging Dog community: Charlie
Solesbee. of Topton and Gaston
; Solesbee of Hiwassee Dam: and
two daughters. Mrs. H. D. O'Dell
of Hanging Dog and Mrs. Luther
! Chambers of Andrews.
Funeral arrangements were di
I rected by Ivie funeral home.
COWS TESTED
A total of 512 cows In this dis- 1
trict recently were vaccinated and
' tested for Bangs disease and T. j
B.. by Dr. L. M. Beet on of the U. '
1 S. Department of Agriculture, and
Geo P. Atkinson of the local 1
health department.
Facts On Gasoline Problem
Civilian motorists need not ex- ;
pect to ' drive as usual" as lone
as the war lasts.
This prediction, drawn from
data compiled by five government
agencies. is made plain in a frank
and authoritative summary of
facts on civilian gasoline supply,
and presented by OPA to give the
public a clear and comprehensive I
picture of the gasoline situation.
Because of the need of keeping
certain military secrets, this has
not always been possible in the
past.
For one thing. OPA's summary
disclosed that the sinking of 14
tankers bound for North Africa
was responsible for last winters
fuel oil and gasoline shortage in I
the eastern area. This gasoline ,
was vttal to the Mediterranean !
campaign which had reached a :
critical stage ar<d replacement, had !
to be found and shipped at once j
The only supplies within quick !,
reach were the Atlantic coast j
stocks built up for civilian use.
The government bad the alterna
tive of taking these stocks for im
mediate overseas shipment, and
thereby causing a severe shortage
for civilians .or to seek replace
ments farther afield and to run
grave risk of disaster in North
Africa. It decided on the former
and thus the fuel oil and gas
which eastern motorists did with
out arrived in time to contribute
to victory.
"Such sudden military demand*
and withdrawals will occur again".
OPA's summary declared, "but
facts concerning them can not al
ways be made available to the
public. There may be more U-boat
sinkings and swift adjustments
may have to be made as they were
last winter."
The drain on American gasoline
supplies is increasing, the sum
mary discloses candidly, and the
basic jtfK.rta?e is certain to be
come more acute as ttie war goes
i on.
To Plan Health And
(Safety Program For
Cherokee County
New Dairy Is
Completed By
A. H. Hatchett
A. H. Hatchett at Martins
Creek has just completed a dairy
bam and is now producing Grade |
A milk. He is a wholesaler, and
raw producer to the local market, j
Mr. Hatchett is milking nine cows
at present, and produces an aver
age of 22 gallons daily.
Two Grade A dairies will be
opened soon at Hayesville. by
Cline McClure and Prank Groves.
Deputy Collector
To Be Here To
Assist In Filing
Income Returns
All Taxpayers who have as
many as twenty-five acres of land
I will be required *o file an esti
! mated Income tax return for the
I year 1943, as required by the In
ternal Revenue Code. Anyone who
falls to file will be liable to a se
vere penalty, or fine and impri
sonment. according to the charge.
All persons who transport prop
erty or persons for hire will be
required to register their business
with the Collector of Irwernal Rev
enue. Greensboro, and pay the tax
from the effective date of the law
''Dec. 1st. 1942> to date: there
after making their Monthly re
turns to the Collector.
O. G. Dellinger. deputy collect
or. will be at the following places
on the dates indicated, to assist
people in filing their reports:
Hayesville. December 4-5: Hiwas
see Dam. December 6: Murphy.
Henry House, December 7-8: An
drews. December 9. posit office:
and Robbinsville. December 10.
courthouse.
People With ;
Foreign Holdings
Must File Report j
Citizens of Yellow Creek who ;
own any property in foreign coun- !
tries were notified by Postmaster
Jeffie J. Millsaps today that they j
must file reports of their foreign
holdings with "the Treasury De
partment before December 1 . The
notice was given by means of a
poster placed on display in the i
post offices.
Postmaster Millsaps points out j
that it is necessary for the gov
ernment to have as complete in
formation as possible on the Am
erican stand abroad to assist the '
military authorities and the civil
ian governments on the fighting
fronts and to bring about- sound
solutions of the post-war prob
lems.
Report forms may be obtained
through commercial banks, or
from the nearest Federal Reserve
Bank, the postmaster states. Pen
alties are provided for those who j
wilfully fail to filv. reports.
Mrs. King Dies
At Warne Home
Mrs. Roena Evalinc King. 69.
died at her home at Warne Tues- j
day afternoon at 5 o'clock.
Funeral services were held Wed- '
nesday afternoon at 3 o'clock at ^
Many Forks Baptist church, with j
the Rev. Henry Brown officiating
Burial was in the church cemetery
with the I vie funeral home in ,
charge.
Surviving are two sons. Early ;
King of Warne. and William Ern
est King of Blairsville. Ga.. and (
four daughters. Mrs. Cleo Hender
son of Warne. Mrs. Lola Runion.
of Blairsville. Mrs Fanny Dunn .
and Mrs. Bertha Boyd both of
Marietta. Oa.
The health ;uid safety problems
in Cherokee county and means of
solving them will be tile theme
of the county-wide uochers' meet
inn lo be held in the court room
at the courthouse in Murphy Sat
urday morning beginning at 10 o'
clock Dr. M P. Which and, dis
trict health officer Miss louisa
Eskridse of the U. S. Public Health
service, who is on loan to Pantana
Dam community : and Dr. Arnold
Perry, assistant d hector of the
| State Department of Education,
will take part on the program,
i Dr. Wliichard will speak on
Health and Safety Problems in
Cherokee County". and Miss Esk
J ridge on 1 Wliat Other Oommuni
I lies Have Done to Solve the Prob
lems." Dr. Arnold will participate
in an open forum on the subjects.
This is the second of a series
of workshops the teachers of the
Oiicrokee county Unit of tlhe N.
C. E. A planned earlier in the
year. A committee was appointed
by Supt. Lloyd Hendrix to make
plans for the meetings, and it is
composed of R. L Keen um Hi
wassee Dam; Mrs. Kate Shields.
Ragner; and Mrs. Irene Grant,
j Peach tree. E. S. CX uistenbury was
' asked at the lost meeting to se
cure speakers for the Saturday
meeting. He and Mr. Hendrix
have worked together in making
ai-rangements.
All teachers of the county, in
cluding the Murphy and Andrews
city units, as well as the Cherokee
county unit, are invited to attend
Hayesville Man
Is Badly Hurt
When Struck By
Truck Tuesday
John R. Berg. 84. sustained se
rious injuries when struck by a
truck, in front of his liome near
Hayesville Tuesday afternoon
about 5 o'clock. There were two
fractures of the skull, three breaks
in one leg, four broken ribs on
each side, and was badly lacer
ated and bruised.
The accident occurred when Mi.
Berg started across the highway
and steped in front of a truck
driven ty Gus Puett. who was
coming from Hayesville. He had
waited for a truck to pass on Uie
other side of the highway and did
not notice the Puett truck com
ing in the opposite direction.
Ivie's ambulance, which passed
soon after the accident, brought
Mr. Berg to Murphy General hos
pital for treatment.
A native of Nebraska. Mr. Berg
went into journalistic work in his.
youth. Later he went to Washing
ton. where for forty years he
worked on The Congressional Rec
ord. He retired several years ago.
Mr and Mrs. Berg have made
their home in Hayesville for about*
three years.
A. J. Coleman
Dies On Monday
Funeral services for Andrew
Jackson Coleman. 80. picneer Clay
county resident who died Monday
at his home following a lengthy
illness, were conducted Tuesday
afternoon at the Oak Forest Meth
odist church, the Rev. Carl Benson
off Heating. Burial was In the
churob cemetery with Ivie funeral
home in charge.
Mr. Coleman was a native of
Clay county and was a resident
of this section all of his life. He
was a farmer and was a member
of the Oak Forest ohurch most of
his life.
Surviving are his wife: three*
brothers. Dr. R. T. Coleman of
Young Harris. Oa.. M. L. Co8e
man of Oneita. Tenn.. and Jimmie
Coleman of Hayesville; four sin
ters. Mrs. Maggie Shearer of W1I
laohoche. Oa.. Mrs. Ellenger
Shearer of Rome. Oa . Mrs. Geor
gia Coe of Rayl. Oa.. and Mix.
Cordia Padgett of Haj**vflle