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Town's Tax Rate Is $1.70 For This Year A a recent meeting of the Mur phy town council the tax rate for this fiscal year was again set at $1 .70. the same as last year. The council voted to publish the bud- ! get. after it is approved by the | Lo al Gofernment commission. 1 lie town council soon will in- 1 vrte tlie mayor and councilmen i of Andrews and members of the county board of commissioners to join them in a meeting to discuss the i>ossibilities of an airport. Policemen are requested to at tend all funerals held in the town hereafter, funeral directors being askfd to notify the Town Clerk E L Shields, who in turn will notify the policemen to attend, to direct traffic. I Collecting Old Clothing The Methodist Woman's so ciety of Christian service is sponsoring a campaign to col lect old clothinf for war vic tims in liberated Europe, Octo ber 16-28. Mrs. R. C. Mattox Is chairman, and she announces that clothing will be received by Mrs. J. C. English at Bower's store, every day during the above period from 8 to 5 o'clock. "Clothing ? used or new ? is urgently needed by men. women and child of all ages." Mrs. Mat tox says. "Any usable garment you can spare will help to keep warm this winter some man. woman, or child who has lost . everything." TO PREACH SUNDAY The Rev. Charles Parker of Winston -Salem will preach at the First Baptist church. Murphy, nexi Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. The church invites the public to attend. Dr. G. J. Davis will preach at 7:30 p. m. NO LONGER RATIONED Effective October 15th. All Wood and Coal heating stoves and Wood and Coal cook stoves were released from rationing. Certificates are no longer required for the purchase of these types of stoves. IN SOUTH ATLANTIC ? Leon H. Kimsey. A. O. M. 3/c, is now serving in the South Atlantic with the Naval Air Forces. He volun teered for service October 25. 1942, and took his basic training at Great Lakes. 111., Norman, Okla., and Solomons. Md. He has been serving overseas since Janu ary, 1944. His wife is the former Bonnie Kephart. Garland Ramsev m Awarded Combat Decoration With the Filth Army, Italy ? Private First Class Garland W. Ramsey, whose home is on Route 3. Murphy. North Carolina, has been cited by his regiment of the 85th "Custer" Division and award ed the Combat Infantryman Badge for actual participation in com bat with the enemy on the Fifth Army front in Italy. I Standards for the Badge are j high. The decoration, which was I lecently authorized by the War I Department, is awarded to the in i fantry soldier who has proved his j lighting ability in combat. ? The handsome badge consists of a silver rifle set against a back ground of infantry blue, enclosed in a silver wreath. Mrs. Harvey Wilson. Jr., and son. Harvey m of Gainesville I Ga., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wilson. Hazel Suit Awarded Prize In Stock Show Miss Hazel Suit, Hiwasoee Dam 4-H club member and daughter of ? unit demonstration farmer of the Paste 11 area, entered calves in the fat stock show in Asheville last week. Her best calf was sev enth in a show of 92, and sold ior 25c a pound. All calves brought over 20c per pound. Bryan Hall and Herbert Stiles of Tomotla also fed calves and Put them in the show along with , Miss Hazel Suit. Since the Suits became unit demembration farmers, they have eradually improved their pastures and cattle to the point whereby Hazel can use their home-raised calves for feeders in her baby beef ?ork to a profitable advantage. The limed and phosphated pas tare and meadows on the Suit farm are producing calves of good quality. This year Hazel's record shows that her home-raised calves were more profitable than the one she brought from a purebred herd in Tennessee. Although the home raised calves did not place as high in the show nor did they bring as much per pound as did the pure bred calf, rapid gains made the home-raised calves the most profit able. Her record shows that the | three calves sold for $459.80 plus : $36.28 in prize money, totaling $496.08. After deducting pur chase price of purebred calf and value of home raised calves at the beginning of the project, plus feed purchased, a net labor in come of $311.58 is recorded. Carload Of Produce To Be Shipped To Orphanage Bv WNC Baotist Churches The executive and promotional committees of the Western N. C. fc&ptist association met at Murphy First Baptist church Sunday after noon at 2:30. The Rev. Paul k?vtn<pood, moderator, presided. Plans were made and discussed for U* associational program for the r*xt quarter. The Rev. R. Lane .association worker, report on his schedule for the fall and wiHteT months, with work plan in the Peachtree, Andrews, Murphy First. Calvary. Notla, and v*lleytown churches at present; others to be scheduled. The association will send a car load of produce, in collaboration with the West Liberty association, to the Orphan's Home on Novem ber 20-22. A minimum of 25 bushels of corn and 15 bushels o! potatoes have been sugpested as a gift for each of the churches to make. Contacts with representa tives of the churches in this behalf will be made by Mr. Lovingood, Mr. Akin, Rev. M. L. Hall, and Peyton O. Iviei, vice moderator. A quarterly meeting of the as sociation has been tentatively set for November 30. Plans call for discussions of the Sunday school and training union work. Two Men Are i Injured In Highway Wreck Don Hen&on and Willis Hogsed , ! Hiawasse?. Ga , are in Petrie I hospiial suffering from wounds | received in an automobile accident near Hiawassee Saturday night. Henson was walking along the highway about a mile from Hia wassee. when he was knocked down and run over by a car driven by Elza Nicholson, also of Hia wassee. he said. It was reported that the car also struck Ed Med ley who was standing on the hi^h vvay, and three cars which were parked on the road. In one ol the parked cars were Misses Bes sie and Jessie Ledford, Christoph er Shook and Wayne Berrong. In the car with Nicholson were Willis Hogsed. Bill Parr, Arthur Gibson. Doyle Hunter and a Mr. Penland. it was reoo: ted. Nichol son is in a Franklin hospital. OJiers in the party were not in jured according to reports. All four cars were damaged. Clean-Up Drive May Continue All Next Week The clean-up drive which was announced last week is going: ac cording to schedule, Mayor W. M. Pain said Wednesday. Everyone requested to place trash at a convenient place for trucks to pick up. There are two trucks in service. If the drive is not completed this week, it will be j continued through next week un til the vtown is thoroughly clean, Mr. Pain said. C. R. Ledford Wins Award Staff Sergeant Clarence R. Led ford, 31. son of Mr. and Mrs. Grant , Ledford of Blue Ridge. Ga., has been awarded the first oak leaf I cluster to the air medal, it was an nounced by the Fifteenth Army Air Force. In the words of the citation, the award was made "for meritor ious achievement in arial flight while participating in sustained operational activities against the enemy." A graduate of Blue Ridge high school and a shipfitter at the Navy Yard. Charleston S. C.. Sgt. Ledford entered the service April 7. 1943. He is a Uil turret gun rer on a B-24 Liberator bomber in a group, commanded by Lt. Col. Joseph G. Russell of San Antonio. Texas. The group has over 100 missions against German rail roads. factories, airfields, indust rial centers, and oil installations throughout southern and central Europe. He attended armament school a1 Lower:/ Field, Colo., and arial gunnery school at TVndall Field, Fla.. prior to going overseas to the Italian cafftpaign. i Ashe Taking Advance Course Marine Academy Kings Point, N. Y. ? Cadet Midshipman Ernest Grover Ashe, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs, Ernest Glennard Oshe, of Route 2, Mur phy. N. C? lias completed seven and one-half months sea training as an engine Cadet-Midshipman aboard merchant ships carrying vital war supplies to the far-flung battlefronts and has Just reported to the United States Merchant Ma rine Academy here for nine mon ths advanced training. Upon graduation he will be qualified to serve as a Third Assistant Engi neering Officer in the Merchant Marine. Ashe is a graduate of Murphy high school where he was a mem ber of the Beta Club. He served in the United States Martime Ser vice before his appointmet to the United States Merchant Marine Cadet Corps ten and one-half months ago. He received his basic training of three months at the United States Merchant Marine Cadet Basic School. San Mateo, Calif. WOUNDED IN HOLLAND ? Sgt. Oscar J. McCUire, son of Mr. and Mis. W. M. McClure of Mar ble, was slightly wounded in Hol land Sept. 13. according to infor mation received from the War De partment. Sgt. McClure entered service in 1943 and received his basic training at Port Jackson, S. C.. Camp Blanding. Fla. Camp Forrest. Tenn., and Camp Atter bury. In., before being assigned for overseas duty. Donald Dockery Is Awarded The Purple Heart With The 43rd Division in the l Southwest Pacific ? For wounds 1 received in action, while manning j his machine gun In an attack against the Japs in the battle for Munda airstrip last year. Private first class Donald H. Dockery has been presented the Purple Heart medal. The North Carolina in fantryman is a veteran jungle lighter of 24 months experience in combating the Japs in the | Pacific. He saw ation at Guadal I canal, the New Georgia Islands, the Russells, and has been station ed in New Caledonia and New Zealand in addition to his present base, where he is engaged in clean ing up pockets of Japanese resist ance. For his exemplary service and devoiion to duty in combat, I he has been awarded the Good | Conduct medal and the Combat I Infantryman's Badge Dockery is the son of Mrs. Olivan L. Dockery of route 3. near Murphy. Lions Raise Large Sum WithJJCarnivak Murphy Lions club, combatting a cold wind and other unfavorable I weather conditions, staged the j carnival that had been advertised for Friday and Saturday, and net ted a profit of $880.99 to be use<i for the prevention of blindness : and care of the blind and other ; charitable purposes. The carnival attracted a large crowd of attendants, who played bingo, the penny game, the rat game, the ciarette stand, the milk bottle game, Friday *"ening and Saturday afternoon and evening. Members of the Lions club relin quished their business operations to a large extent and gave the two ; days of their time to put over the carnival in a big way. in order for the club's treasury to be swelled to take care of the projects of the club, suggested above. Committees serving with Co C hair men H. G. Elkins and W. M. Fain were: I Rat board: Harry Bishop, chair man; Dr. L. T. Russell. Jr., and Dr. J. R. Bell; penny boasd: R. W Easley, chairman; Doyle Busch. and Charles Worthen; alarm clock: Bob Bault; drinks and eats: Dutch Kindley, chairman; H. A. Mattox. and W M. Pain; milk bottle game: W. F. Forsytn, chairman; W. W Gudger. and Jim Gibbs: cigarette board: C. E. Wier. chairman; Wade Massey, and Robert Weaver; for tone telling: Joe Hamilton; mer chandise solicit)!*** ?. L. Shields, chairman; Edward Bromby, Roger Ammons. P. G. Ivie, and V. M. Johnson; bingo committee: Dr. W. A. Hoover, chairman; F. G Ellis, and H. G. Elk ins; select your own game: H. Bueck, chair man; Lloyd Hendrix. and S. N. Bubo; publicity: Addie Mae Cooke, chairman; Dale Lee, and Harry ! Webster; penny glass bowl: A. Q. i Ketner, chairman: J. D. Elrod. and P. J. Henn. Cherokee County Honored At Ship Launching For Part In Fifth War Loan Scores of North Carolinians whose home counties among them Cherokee, oversubscribed their Fifth War Loan quotas on Octo ber 12 saw their State's First Lady and the wife of the State War Loan Drive Chairman christen new landing ships medium in a duel launching ceremony at the Char leston Navy Yard. North Carolina's Governor J. Melville Broughton. who was the principal speaker in the cere j monies- accompanied his wife and, j a few minutes earlier, Mrs. Clar ; ence T. Leinbach of Winston | Salem, to the launching platform ARRIVES IN ENGLAND ? Pvt. Horace J. 'Rod) McLelland. husband of Helen McLelland of Murphy, N. C? has arrived In England, according to word receiv ed by his wife. He entered service In March, 1944. and received his basic training at Camp Jannln. Texas. from which they smashed silver mesh encased bottles of cham pagne against the blunt bows of the invasion ships. Each ship slid into the quiet flowing Cooper River bearing, on its prow, a large shield carrying i he names of six North Carolina counties, one of them Cherokee, honored for having surpassed their Fifth War Loan quotas. War Bond chairmen and other cam paign leaders of the honored coun ties cheered lustily as the ships hit the water. Governor Brough ton. beaming proudly, waved both vessels all the way down the ways. Free Methodist Services Listed Services at Free Methodist Church. Rev. L. E. Latham. Pas tor. Sunday will be as follows: 10 a. m., Sunday School; 11 a. m., | sermon subject. "The Saints In heritance"; 7:30 p. m. Sunday eve ning revival sermon subject. "The Worst Sin in Murphy"; Thursday, 7:30 p. m.. midweek preaching ser vice. The pastor says: "We have just closed a gracious revival in which many were saved and others re re wed. Several requests were made for the revival to continue an | other week, but instead we will I have a preaching service each Thursday night in which the reviv al effort will be continued. A good revival spirit prevails, so. come to any or all of our ser vices and enjoy t he old time Re ligion." Mrs. R. W. Petrie of Charlotte is -the guest of Mrs. W. A. Hoover. Two-W eek First Aid Course Begins Here Monday, Oct. 23 EL1.IS FYSAL Mother Of Rev. Ralph Taylor Dies Saturday Charlotte ? Mrs. W. A. Taylor. 74. died in an out-of-town hospi tal at 3 a. m. Saturday. Funeral services were held at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon at Hickory Grove Methodist church. The bcdy remained at Yandle- Weathers funeral home until 1 o'clock Sun day. at which time it was taken to the church, and remained there until the hour of the service. The Rev. J. N. Randall, pastor of the church, officiated and interment was in the church cemetery. Mis. Taylor wLs born in Meck lenburg county May 20, 1870. the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Hipp. She was married to W A. Taylor in 1904. He died in April 1929. Surviving Mrs. Taylor are one son, the Rev. Ralph H. Taylor, pastor of First Methodist church 1 in Murphy; one sister. Mrs. J. E. Primm of the county: one brother. P. L. Hipp of the county: and four grandchildren. I LOUNGE TO CLOSE The U. S. O. Lounge will be closed beginning Oct. 23. People who donated furnishings for the lounge are asked to call for them on Saturday between the hours of 3 and 5. IN ITALY Pvt. Roy M. Woody has arrived safely in Italy acocrding to a tele gram received by his wife. Mrs. Essie Woody, who is making her home in Greenville. Pa., for the duration. The Cherokee county chapter of the American Red Cross will conduct a first aid course here October 23-November 3. with Ellis D. Fysal field representative of first aid. water safety and acci dent prevention for the South eastern Area. Atlanta, as instruc tor. The course will begin at 7 p. m.. Monday, October 23. in the home economics building at the school. Classes will be held two hours nightly for five nights each week. All adults interested in taking the course should get in touch with Miss Addie Leather wood. first aid chairman, or H. Bueck, who is asisting in arrang ing the classes. The chapter is interested in enrolling a large number for this course and urges everyone that is at all interested to see the atove workers and en roll. Mr. Fysal was first associated with the Red Cross in 1927 in the capacity of life saving examiner. When in high school Mr. Fysal gained valuable experience as junior director at Camp Leach, B. S. A., near Washington. North Carolina. Later, attending the University of North Carolina, he was a member of the University life saving corps organized by the Orange County Chapter of the Red Cross. He served as instruc tor at the Red Cross national aquatic school at Brevard. North Carolina, for three years, and taught Red Cross first aid at Elon College, North Carolina. For several summers he trained state park personnel at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in aquatics. He received liis A. B. degree from the university of North Carolina, took additional graduate work, and attended law school. He was student football coach at the University of North Carolina, assistant football coach at Elon College and Wake Forest College, and head boxing and wTestling coach at Elon. Elisha Craig Killed In Italy LET1TIA ? Pfc Elisha Craig 1 was killed in action in Italy on j Sept. 17. according to word re ceived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Craig. Elisha Craig I lias been with the armed forces j for the past twenty-two months, six of which have been served , overseas. He has a brother in the army also. Pvt. Nelson Craig, i stationed in Arkansas. Surviving are the parents, five sisters, and four brothers, all of Letitia. Forsyth Says War Fund Drive Is Lagging Jas. S. Lance At Rogers Field Pvt. James S. Lance. Marble. North Carolina, this week complet ed a four-weeks course in special ized training at the 380th AAF Base Unit 'Military Police Train ing Center*. Barksdale Field. Louisiana, returned to his home station at Will Rogers Field. Okla. * Around $1,000 of Cherokee coun | ty's United War Fund quota of $3,200 has been collected up to this time. Frank Forsyth, county chairman, announcd Wednesday. Reports have not been received from the residential sections which are being worked by zone committees. The business district was canvassed last Monday and Tuesday. The drive is lagging. Mr Forsyth says, and receipts are coming in slowly. Nantahala National Forest Breaks Its Own Timber Production Record The Nantahala National Forest j with headquarters at Franklin, North Carolina, has agrain broken its timber production. During the three months ending: Septem ber 30. 1944. 19 million feet ol timber were cut from the Forest This marks the greatest production for a three-months' period in the history of the Nantahala The cut included sawtimber | veneer stock, pulpwood and shut J tie blocks, all vitally necessary in I satisfaction of the war effort. In I ad it ion, 855 tons of chestnut oak i and hemlock tanbark were moved. During the period the Nantahala made 72 sales. It now has on its i books 275 active sales, ranging in ' size from one tree, suitable for a special product, to millions of feet . of quality sawtimber.
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