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Published every Thursday at Murphy, N C.
Editor and Owner
Production Manager
Social Editor
SUBSCRIPTION RATKS
Cherokee and surrounding counties :
One Year $2 00 Six Months ... $1.00
Four Months Tie
Outside above territory
Ooc Iwi $2.b0 Sim moiuha $1.25
En:<-red in the Pos; Oi.'ice at Murphy.
N Ca: -na. a.- -i -ond class matter
;:iiit'i it' Act ot Ma eh J. 1897.
MEDITATION
l.iheralitv gt Is into a prett> high class som' times. l.\
a grace, like l?vo and faith and patience and gentleness
It s ,i matl.'i not oi purse and didiar marks. t>ut ?>t spiiit
and heart and touch with (*od I'he poorest man in dullars
ma\ he liberal. The man whose giving takes six figures to
tell ma> be rlose and sting* It's all a matter of the giving
spirit, that is. the Jesus spirit, in the heart.
ADDIE MAE COOKE
ROY A COOKE
MRS C W SAVAGE
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Vital Question
"An officer ought to keep his skirts ciean .
said Judge Zeb \ . Netties, of Ashevi lie. who is
presiding over the August term of superior court
this week when some irregularities in conduct
of the law here came to his attention. He told
the officers that it is their duty to enforce the
law and not bargain with or oppress any prison
ers in their charge. He emphasized that it is the
American way for even a man in jail to have
the proper consideration.
If anyone is going to run a court ? whether
it be the smallest or the largest ? he should do it
right. If not. get somebody else to do it. the
judge declared. "A public officer is a public
servant with a special trust imposed in him.
The judge ended by saying. "1 don't like
such conduct as this".
Citizens of the county like to see the public !
officials keep their skirts clean . When an
officer lives up to the oath he takes when as
suming his duties, the people have no occasion
to criticize.
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The Athenian City oath
Somewhere we ran across a reprint of the
Athenian city oath, and. strangely enough, it
seems about as timely as the civic code of ethics
hanging in the modern business and profession
al man's air-conditioned office. Certainly.
America would be a land of even finer cities'
and towns if we as citizens and officials really
lived up to such a pledge. It is:
"We will never bring disgrace to this our
city by any act of dishonesty or cowardice, nor
ever desert our suffering comrades in the ranks;
we will fight for the ideals and sacred things of
the city, both alone and with many; we will re
vere and obey the city's laws and do our best to j
incite a like respect in those above us who are
prone to annul them or set them at naught; we
will strive unceasingly to quicken the public s
sense of civic duty; thus in all these ways we
will transmit this city not only not less, but
greater and more beautiful than it was trans
mitted to us. Southern City.
Farm Income
Farmers of our county are afforded a mid
season opportunity to increase their farm in
come with quick cash by cutting pulpwood and
lumber during the "lay-by period, when the
burden of agricultural duties is lightest, H. B.
Bcsworth Forester, Timber Production War
Project, points out.
Hundreds of farmers are now aware that it
is both profitable and patriotic to cut saw logs
and pulpwood during slack farm seasons, when
weather conditions do not permit regular agri
cultural work and at odd times between farm
duties. The lay-by' period is an excellent time
for woods work and cutting pulpwood and lum
ber will produce extra revenues to help avert
losses where crops have been damaged by pro
longed dry weather and excessive heat. More
over, these forest products are listed among the
most urgent raw materials for the war effort.
Farmers should arrange for the sale of their
pulpwood and lumber before they cut it and
have their trees marked for cutting in accord
ance with sound forestry practice, thus improv
ing timber stands, assuring more rapid growth
and continuing profitable wood crops.
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
Wavne E. McNallv
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Prepares For
Combat Service
In Invasion
An Air Service Command Sta
? on in England 2nd Lt Wayne '
E McNally the husband of Mrs.
R Olivia McNally of Andrews ;
North Carolina, recently compet
ed an orientation course designed ,
to bridge the gap between train- j
ing in the States and combat |
soldiering against the enemy in j
France.
At this Air Service Command |
Station 2nd Lt. McNally attended |
u seiies of lectures given by bat
tle-wise veterans which included
instructions on chemical warfare
defense and pertinent tips on
staying healthy in a combat the
atre.
His next station will be one
trom which America's fighting
planes cover our liberation of Oc
I rupied Europe.
' Before entering the Army Air
Forces, ne was employed as a
Construction worker by the Utah
Construction Co.. San Francisco.
Calif.
PATRICK
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Allen of
Clinton. Tonn . spen last week
end with Mrs. Allen's mother.
Mrs. Mary Hamb. .
Mrs Lee Horton and children
and John Picklesimmer were the
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lester
Danner of Ducktown last week.
Last Saturday Mrs. Mary Ham
ty visited her daughter. Mrs.
Icy Pierce of Parner. Tenn.. who
is ill.
Mr. and Mrs Grady Williamson
announce the birth of a daughter
on August 3.
I Mr. and Mrs Carl Weaver an
nounce the birth of a daughter on
August 3.
Oscar Blackwell of Fontana
Dam is visiting his wife and chil
dren here this week.
Archie Hamby of Blue Ridge. ]
Ga.. visited Hoover and Roose
\elt Hamby recently. He was ac- ,
i ompanied back to Blue Ridg? I
jy Hoover Hamby for a short j
visit.
Mr. and Mrs. Elder Allen .ad
as their guests Sunday F . and
Mrs. Luther Burgess and chfl
; aren. Mrs. Rose White. Pvt and
Mrs. Duel Binges and children.
Mrs. Oliver PickVsimer and chil- j
| dren of Libert Other guests
i were Mr. and Mrs Paul AUen of
! Clinton Tenn.. and Mrs. Mary
j Hamb\
Polie Hamby and Tom Pickle
simer made a business trip to
Farner Tenn last Saturday
Mrs. Oscar Blackwell and chil
dren were the guests of her moth
1 er. Mrs. Polly Hamby last Satur
| day night.
Mrs. Bonnie Quinn of Vests
j visited her mother, Mrs. Mary
I Hamby. recently.
Belleview
Rev Calvin Thompson of Cali
fornia preached an interesting
sermon at Notla church last Sun
day.
Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Mull and
Mrs Julia Hughes made a busi
ness trip to Bryson City Satur
day
Mr and Mrs. Rufus Mathis of
M jrphy spent last week-end with
Mr. Hughes parents. Mr. and
Mrs. Lige Hughes.
Mrs. Bunion Sknith is 111.
M and Mrs. Galv:n Little o>
Marietta. Ga., spent la.st week
end with Mrs. Lit'.t parents. Mr
and Mrs. Haive Hughes.
Clyde Morris has returned tc?
is home, after having been in
the hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hughes visit
ed Mr. and Mrs Ross Hughes at
Brasstown recently
Sgt. Charlie Roberson is home
on furlough from the Army.
Mrs. Roy Hughes and Mrs. Al
len Hatchett made a business trip
to Murphy last Tuesday.
Farmers May
Get Payment For
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Winter Cover Crop
Farmers of Cheroke County
may earn a practice payment of
$1.50 per acre under the 1945
AAA farm program for establish
ing winter cover from seedings
this fall of wheat, oats, barley,
rye. or mixtures of hese grains,
it was announced today by H.
N. Wells, chairman of the coun
ty AAA Committee.
To qualify for this payment.
Mr. Wells said, a protective white
cover must be provided and the
crop must not be harvested for
grain. However, it may be pas
tured. cut for hay. turned under
as a green manure crop, or left
on the land as a "go down" crop
next spring. The seed bed should
be well prepared and the seed
sown sufficiently early to permit
plants to withstand winter freezes.
"Announcement of this prac
tice was mad' at this time by the
Regional AAA Office in Wash
ington in order that farmers will
have sufficient time to make plans
for fall seedings of winter cover
crops." he sa d. "In addition to
serving as a curb on erosion, the
forage from these crops should be j
especially valuable to farmers
who have increased their livestock
numbers to meet increased war
I Miss Ola Ballew
Completes Her
Basic Training
Ola Ballew. daughter of M:
and Mrs Charles Ballew. of Mur
phy. now a hospital apprentice 1
second clas.> with the Navy's
WAVES, has completed i er basic*;
training and intioduc ion course .
at the Naval T.aining School, Tin
Bronx. New York, and has re
ceived orders to report for further '
instructions as a part of the Hos
pital Corps at the National Naval !
Medical Center, at Metbesda. Md. !
Mis* Ballew. a graduate of Mur
phy high school, was employed
with Roane-Anderson Company, j
Oak Ridge. Tenn.. as a nurse's aid :
before enlisting with the WAVES
A brother. Corporal William Bal
lew. is overseas with the U. S.
Army
Sunday School
Picnic Is Held
Hampton Memorial Church heli
iis annual Sunday School Picnic
r?" th? church recently. A large
crowd was present, and after Sun- '
da. School everyone enjoyed a
big dinner.
Visitors were: Pvt. Hugh Pen
land and Pvt. Millsaps of Camp
Mclellan. Ala.. Miss Hazel Hamp
ton and her guest. Rev. Bill Crow
der. Greensboro. Mrs. Edna Clouse.
Akron. Ohio: Mrs. Cerlin Jones,
Murphy: and Miss Fiances Fisher.
Hanging Dog.
Rogers Qualifies As
Fngineer Specialist
Fvt. Paul W. Rogers, recently
Qualified as an engine specialist
on B-29 super fortress bombers,
was shipped to Dalhart, Tex.:
from Chanute Field. 111., where
he will be assigned to his bomber
squadron. He will be sent to
Nebraska for his overseas training.
Rogers is the son of Mrs. Ber
tha Rogers of Andrews. His wife
and son. Paul. Jr.. are visiting
her parents. Mr. and Mrs. P M
Galloway. Raleigh.
Clingman O'Dell
Gets Promotion
Woid was recently received that
Clingman O'Dell. son of Mr. and
Mrs. Sam J O'Dell of Murphy,
has received a S Sgt. rating,
s Sgt. O'Dell is now serving as a
mechanic in the Air Corps in
Prance. Before going to France
..(? was stationed in England. He
volunteered for service in Novem
ber. 1943. Since this time, he
has been in the European The
atre of war eight months.
S Sgt. O'Dell has two brothers
in the armed forces: Pfc. Lloyd
O'Dell. who has been fighting in
Italy for nine months, and Ern
es: O'Dell. S 2 c. who is at pres.
ent stationed in Florida.
R. B. Slaughter, mayor of Rob
binsville. was in Murphy Tuesday.
rime demands for meat and dairy
products."
Builders of Tomorrow
Youth is a period oi building ... in habits, iaiths . . .
the things that determine his character as a man. the
citizen oi tomorrow.
Juvenile membership campaigns conducted by all Wood
men Camps in luly and August open the door of
character-building opportunity to American boy*.
The Society's Junior units, for boys from birth to 16
years oi age, provide them the same fraternal and social
advantages adult Woodmen enloy . . . wholesome group
entertainment, lessons of thrift and loyalty, self confi
dence. and other qualities on which success in manhood
is founded.
You can choose any type of standard, legal reserve
juvenile life insurance certificate for your boy when
applying for his Woodmen membership. And you and
he will be fully protected against lapse of his insurance
protection for it can be arranged that, should you die or
become totally disabled before he reaches maturity, the
Society will pay the installments until he becomes 21
years old.
Ask your local Woodmen representative to ex
plain the many advantages and benefits your
boy will receive by becoming a Woodman.
WOODMEN % WORLD
Life Insurance Society
OMAHA. NEBRASKA
ASSETS OVER 1141.000.000
V. M. JOHNSON
District Representative
TENNESSEE STREET PHONE 187 MURPHY, N. C.
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Grouting TDith Ql-he liiiitur
CHEWING GUM. I had been
thinking, is hard to find, but this
week, sitting in court mast every
day. I have observed that there
i , an abundance of some kind of
i hewing gum available. Many of
the court attendants had a gen
erous supply.
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IN COURT MONDAY the fol
lowing incident occurred:
Judge Z. V. Nettles, who has
not presided over a court here be
lore for four or five years and is
cne of the most popular judges as
signed to this county, charged j
an offender upon whom he had
just imposed a suspended sen
tence: "Don't come back up here
any more. If you do in two
years, you'll have to serve this 60
day sentence.
The offender replied: I would
n't have come this time if they
ladn't brought me".
A COLONY OF RATTLE
SNAKES .seems to have settled ;r.
the Peachtree section. Last week
w ile Rev. Felix Holloway was j
logging near Charlie Barker's, i
for G. A. Watts, he heard a rattle
snake. In his attempt to kill it.
the snake crawled under a rock.
When the rock was lifted, five
rattle snakes- three yellow and
two black ? were found. Each
was three feet long and about the
size of a mans wrist. Accord.^
to Mr, Watts, these maj ? the
50th rattle snake caught in the
section this summer.
EDGAR HARSHAW who. wi;h
other members of the family
comes to the Harshaw farm for
the summer montlis every year
had a problem in getting a tele
phone installed It was hard to
figure how to get the wires across
Hiwassee river. Several methods
were tried and failed, and lien
he and Ben Brown hit on the idea
of letting Shep Brown lake
it across. Shep is Mr. Brown's
accomplished dog. Mr Harshaw
and Mr. Brown went to the u her
side of the river, via of Murp. y.
Shep was taken to the river Tlie
rcpe to which the wires weir at
tached was tied to Shep collar.
The mas er called, and the dog
swam the river. Mr. Haisiiaw
put S ep in his car and brought
her to Murphy, treating her to
stew beef and ice cream.
ROY COOKE'S chickens vere
disappearing recently, and he be
gan to watch to ascertain the rea
son. One night he found an
opossum and caught it. The three
children in the family, Betty.
Skeeter and Gertrude, were de
lighted when they found nine
small opossums in the mother's
pouch.
NEPHEW MISSING ,
Mrs. C. W. Savage received a
message Tuesday that her nep
hew. Lt. William B. McKay of
Sheltyville. Tenn . is reported
missing in action over Fiance. Lt.
McKay was pilot of a Fighter
plane and arrived in England a j
short time before the invasion. I
SIC Harry Carringer who j
has been spending a furlough
here with his parents, Mr. and j
Mrs. D. V. Carringer. left Tuesday
for Miami. Fla.
Lions Club Has . . .
Continued from page one
Rev. Ralph Taylor made a few I
remarks on LionLsm.
K C. Wright was chairman of
the entertainment. He conducted |
a quiz contest, and later dancing
was enjoyed.
Serving with Mrs. Bueck on the |
supper committee were: J. D El
rod. Mesdames Buel Adams. Al
fred Smith, C. E. Weir. Dale Lee.
E. L. Shields. K. C. Wright. Frank
Ellis. L. Hendrix. Roger Ammons,
Harry Bishop. J. B. Gray. Harry
Webster, and T. W. Kind ley
NOTICE
New bids are now being received
for Tomotla school building Trey
will be opened at the office of the
Board of County Commissioners
of Cherokee County. Murphy, N.
C.. on August 21. 1944. at 10:00
a. m.
Each bid must be accompanied
by certified check in the amount
of $500. as evidence of good faith,
the check to be returned for all
bids rejected and successful bid
der will have his returned on pres
entation of bond and signing of
contract.
For plans and specifications
contact the undersigned.
H. BUECK. Supt.
3-2tc Murphy. N. C.
Henn Theatre
Murphy, N. C.
Saturday, August 12
DOUBLE FEATURE PROGRAM
Johnny Mac Brown - Raymond Hatton
"PARTNERS OF THE TRAIL"
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'THE GHOST THAT WALKS ALONE'
Admission I 2c and 25c
Late Show Saturday 10:45
Gloria Jean - Fay Helm, In ?
"MOONLIGHT IN VERMONT"
Admission I 2c and 35c
Sunday - Monday, August 13-14
D onald O'Connor - Ann Blyth, In ?
"CHlp OFF THE OLD BLOCK"
Also ? NEWS AND COMEDY
Admission 1 2c and 35c
Tuesday - Wednesday, August 15 - 16
Martha Scott - Adolpe Menjou, In?
"HI DIDDLE DIDDLE"
- ? Also ?
"TIGAR WOMAN No. 12"
Admission 1 2c and 20c
Thursday - Friday, August 17 - 18
EDWARD G. ROBINSON, In?
"DESTROYER"
Also PATHE NEWS
Admission 1 2c and 35c