Ijrrmfepf S'rinrt Buymore^M??i?w for/^M'seciirity, too! "VOU'ME 55 ? NUMBER 41. MURPHY, NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1944. eight pages this week Family Week To Be Observed With 1 Special Services \ Methodist Church * family Week will te observed throughout the nation from May 7 to 14 The First Methodist Church will promote the observ ance here in sermons, worship themes, conferences and dedica tion of homes in the community. A Certificate of Dedication" will be furnished all homes dedicated. Our local library will provide a tabic of family materials. Such books as: "There's No Pace Like Home" by Ellenwood: "Your Child's Religion" by Eakin and ' Prom Friendship to Marriage" by Burkhart will be on display. Con sult your library for help. "Christ in the Home" will be the theme of the worship service at the First Methodist Church. Sunday evening at 7:45 o'clock. A Conference on Family Life in War Time will be held Wednesday at 7:45 P. M. "Family Night" will tx observed Thursday night at 7 46 And "Youth Night" will be held Friday night in connec tion with the subdistrict meeting of the Methodist Youth Fellowship of Cherokee. Clay and Graham counties. 17,500 Sponges Made During April By Women In The County In the Murphy surgical dress ings room. 65 different women worked a total of 380 hours mak ing 10.000 sponges, during the month of April. The women at Hiwassee Dam and Brasstown sent in 7500 sponges w.ilch helped in making the quota. Mrs. J. H. Wilson, surgical dressings chairman, says, we are still work ing on the second quota and have two more waiting. We are using a method of folding which is more accurate and much easier and faster. Would like more workers, especially at the evening session which open at 7:30. Come and work even if only a few hours, for every hour counts. Those working six hours or more for the month of April are as follows: 31 hours ? Mrs. J. M. Ammons: 24 hours ? Mrs. Allen Howell; 20 hours ? Mrs. C. A. Beatie; 18 hours Mrs. Ted Howell; 17 hours ? Mrs Don Witherspoon; 16 hours ? Mrs. L. E. Bayless; 14 hours ? Mrs. C. D. Mayfield; 12 hours Mrs. R. S. Parker; 11 hours ? Mrs. C. R. English; 10 hours Mrs. Jean Murray; 9 hours? Mrs. C. C. Richardson, Mrs. E. F. Arn old. Mrs. W. C, Kinney, Mrs, H. S. Webster; 8 hours ? Mrs. J. W. Thompson . Mrs. J. B. Mulkey, Mrs. A. B. Cash. Mrs. S. D. Akin: 7 hours? Mrs. L. H. Kent, Mrs. W. M. Axley, Mrs. John Savage: 6 hours ? Miss Parrie Vaughn, Mrs. John Green, Mrs. Buell Adams. FONTANA DAM AT NIGHT The above picture, made ait night, shows the progress being made on Tennessee Valley Authority's huge Fontana Dam on the Little Tennessee river in Graham and Swain i counties. The picture was made recently, which gives an idea of the amount of cement yet to be poured before the dam is completed. Twenty-four hours a day ? workers are speeding the structure to completion on a 24-hour schedule. The Authority plans to close j Fontana late this year and the impounding of the lake will be begun. Power from the dam is needed for war industries. When completed Fontana Dam will be 460 feet high, 60 feet above the high bridge line DR. RALPH McDONALD. Can didate for Governor of North Carolina, who will speak at the courthouse in Murphy, Saturday night. May 6. at 8 o'clock. ATTENDS CONVENTION Dr. M. P. Whichard attended the annual convention of the State Medical society in Pine hurst this week. shown in the picture. It will be 2330 feet long and will impound a lake containing 1.446,100 acre-feet of water, most of which will be used for flood control purpose. The water will reach to the city limits of Bryson City. 29 miles above the dam and will have a surface area of more than 10,000 acres. The shoreline of the lake will be 274 miles long, in Swain and Graham counties. The area of this huge body of fine fishing and boating water, and in the shadow of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, will be the mecca for thousands of tourists when the war is over. ? Picture Courtesy Bryson City Times.) Registration For Canning Sugar To Be Held On May 15-16 Final plans for the canning 1 sugar registration which will be held on Monday and Tuesday, May 15 and 16, have been an- i nounced for Cherokee County by Fred V. Johnson, Chairman of the Local war price and Rationing Board. City and county schools will be used as registration sites and ap plicants must apply for their can ning sugar at one of the schools between the hours of 8:00 and 5:00 on one of the above days,1 according to Mr. Johnson. Hours of course, may differ at each site. Applicants are entitled to apply for a maximum of ten pounds of canning sugar for each member of the family during this registra tion, but War Ration Book No. 4 must be presented with the ap plication. It was stated by the rationing authorities that the ! overall 25-pound limit per persons for canning purposes still stands, but a person needing more than the five pounds provided on sugar stamp number 40 and the ten t pound maximum issuable during this registration, must make an other application to the board after June 15, and show how all previously issued sugar has been used before an additional allot ment will be granted. Mr. Johnson emphasized that the sugar obtained for canning and preserving must be used for this purpose and this purpose only. The commodity is still scarce and applicants should do what they can to preserve it during the criti cal war period ,it was said. Stores To Close On Thursday Afternoons The following stores and places 1 of business in Murphy will close , on Thursday afternoons during tiie months of May, June, July J and August, according to an l nouncement by D. V. Carringer, 1 who contacted the merchants: Carringer's Department Store, j Murphy Supply Co., Davidson and ? Mclver, Candler's Department j Store. A & P Pood Store, Whit | aker's Murphy Hardware Co.. Johnson's Market, Bower's Bar gain-Bilt Store, Lay's 5 & 10c Store. The Man Shop, Cherokee Furniture Co., Parmer's Federa tion, People's Furniture Co., Christopher's Dept. Store, W. M. Fain Five-Point Grocery, Western Auto Store, Ivie Furniture Co., and Cherokee Scout office. The stores wil close each Thurs day at 12 o'clock noon. Purple Heart Given Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Rollin Taylor ' j Murphy, Route 3, have Just re ceived the Purple Heart from the j Navy Department for their son, Lewis H. Taylor. They also have received other mall concerning his bravery. His ship was sunk March 10, 1943. Homer Hughes Is In New Guinea Pfc. Homer C. Hughes, son of Mrs. Lassie Hughes of Murphy, R. P. D. 2, entered the service July 1942 and is now serving somewhere in New Guinea. After completing his basic training at Camp Croft, S. C? he was transferred to Camp Ed wards. Mass., for advanced train ing in the Amphibian Engineers. Later he was sent to Camp Car rabelle, Fla., and then to Port Ord, Calif., where he was sta tioned for six months before go ing overseas. Homer was employed by the T. V. A. at Bristol, Tenn., before entering the service. Susie Roberson Goes To Edenton Private Susie Mae Roberson, a member of the Marine Corps Women's Reserve and the daugh ter of Mrs. Thomas Roberson. Murphy, has completed the six weeks "Boot" training at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Her first asignment is to the Marine Corps Air Station. Edenton. N. C. M. F. Glenn Dies In Asheville Millard Fillmore Glenn, resi dent of Western North Carolina for the past 43 years, died in an Asheville hospital Wednesday at the age of 87 years following a short illness. Mr. Glenn came to Western North Carolina from West Vir ginia, and for a number of years was associated with the tanning business in Andrews. He served as foreman of several tanneries, being .ast connected with the Toxaway tannery near Brevard. Since the death of his wife, the former Miss Jennie Patterson, about 10 years ago, he had made his home with a daughter, Mrs. Mollie Harrison, in Asheville. Mr. Glenn is survived by two daughters. Mrs. C. C. West, of Asheville; and Mrs. Harrison, of Asheville: one son, John T. Glenn, of Asheville; iwo sisters. Miss Julia Glenn of Corona, Calif., and Mrs. Mollie O'Flaherty. of Wash ington, D. C.: one brother. David Glenn of Corona. Calif.: 12 grand children, and five great-grand children. Funeral will be held Friday af ternoon at Lewis Funeral home, and interment will be at Riverside I cemetery. CIRCLE TO MEET The evening circle of the Pres byterian Woman's auxiliary will meet at the church Monday eve ning at 7:30 o'clock. HIWASSEE DAM SPEAKER? The Rev. J. C. Plexico, pastor of West Asheville Presbyterian church, who will preach the bac calaureate sermon at Hiwassee Dam schol on Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. OVERSEAS ? Pvt. Blaine Cook, who is with the Marine Corps, has landed safely overseas. He entered the service September 1943 and took his basic training at Camp Elliott. San Diego. Calif. Before entering the service he was employed with the Consolidated Air-Craft Corp., in Elizabeth City. | WILHIDE IN IinVAII Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Wilhide of , Andrews have received word that their son. Marine Fighter Pilot, Lt. Robert M. Wilhide has arrived in the Hiwaiian area. Lt. Wilhide took training at Pensacola, and Jacksonville. Fla.. and Cherry Point. W. M. Fain Elected Mayor Of Murphy & Cherokee People At Cattle Sales In interest of getting some purebred Guernseys in Cherokee and surrounding counties. J. ?. Elrod. manager of the local plant of Southern Dairies, last week at tended sales at Quail Roost Farm. Rougemont. near Durham; and Lyke's dispersal sale at Hender sonville .the latter also teing t tended by County Agent A. Q. Ketner. At the QUal Roost sale one calf sold for $5,000 and one for $4200. The highest priced cow brought $4,000. Fifty head, averaging $1216, were sold. Mrs. John Shields of Notla , Farms in this county had some ; animals in the Lyke's sale, and she attended. Joe Ray Gets Commendation Pvt. Joe E. Ray. former man ager of the A & P store here, re cently received special commen dation from his comamnding of ficer at A. P. Hill Military Reser vation. Fredericksburg. Va.. which stated: "Private Joe E. Ray. ASN 34894414. has been acting in ca-l pacity of dispatcher during two weeks of field training with this provisional truck company. He has giverf full attention and inter est. to this work with excellent re sults." It was signed by 2nd Lt. David Geddes. Jr.. technical in structor. and Capt. John R. Am brose, commanding officer. SUNDAY'S SERMON "The Church vs. Paganism" , j will be sermon subject of Rev. Ralph Taylor at First Methodist Church Sunday at 11 o'clock. W. M. Pan was elected mayor of Murphy at the election held here Tuesday, defeating his op ponent, J. W. Franklin by 44 votes. A total of 405 votes were cast for Fain and 361 for Frank lin. The winning candidate has served as mayor in previous years and has been a member of the town council numerous times. Franklin was mayor the past term. E P. Hawkins, candidate for councilman, led the entire ticket in the number of votes he receiv ed, 545. Others elected to serve as councilmen were: Robert Weav er. 441 votes; Dr. B. W. Whitfield, 426; T. W. Axley. 415; J. B. Mul key, 396, and A. L. Martin. 393. Defeated candidates for coun cilmen received the following numbers of votes: Noah Lovin good. 385; Walter Coleman. 363; J. W. Dyer. 341: C. C King. 320: W. D. King. 236; and J. W. Mc Millan, 203. The new councilmen take office this week. The first meeting of the new officials will be held soon. Vacation Church School Starts Here On May 8 The Vacation Church school, will begin at First Methodist Church. Monday morning. May 8 at 9 o'clock. Classes for chil dren in the beginner, primary, junior and intermediate depart ments will be conducted each day from Monday through Friday for a period of two weeks. A.11 r Ruby Barker. Culberson. A. E. Nichols, Culberson. Hot House: Registrar. C. C. Forrester, Culberson. R. F. D. No. 2: Judges ? 'D> Jack Gaddis, Culberson, R F. D. No. 2, Homer Davidson. Ranger, Jolin Taylor, Unaka. Grape Creek: Registrar. George Rogers, Murphy R. F. D. No. 3; Judges ? Al bert Kilby, Unaka. (R) Brasstown : Registrar, Voyd Hogan. Brasstown {Judges ? CD) Alex Stalcup, Brasstown, (R) S. M. Hughes, Brasstown. Topton: Resistrar. Mrs. John Nelson, Topton; Judges ? 'D> .... | (R> D. B. Wright. Topton. Liberty: Registrar. Mrs. W. F. Hill. Turtletown, Tenn.; Judges ] ? , (R) W. N. Anderson, Suit. Upper Beaverdam : Registrar, Lawrence Dockery. Unaka; Jud I (continued on page eighit>