VOLI'ME 56 ? NUMBER 24.
Consolidated with GRAHAM COUNTY NEWS
Serving Southwestern North Carolina ? Cherokee, Clay, and Graham Counties
MURPHY. NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. JANUARY 4, 1945
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R. H. Foard, Murphy
[Business Man, Dies
Robert Hubbard Foard. 57.
] -eminent Murphy business man.
aied suddenly of a heart attack
at his home here about 3:30
o'clock Friday morning. H l?ad
been in ill health for viral
months, but at the time >f his
death was apparently feelin well
and !tad returned Wednesday
night from Cleveland where
he and Mrs. Foard had spent
Christmas with relatives.
Born in Salisbury Nov. 1, 1887.
;>1(. son of Robert Hubbarc: and
Annie Steele Foard, he was taken
:n infancy to Cleveland where he
lesided for a number of years.
With his brother, the late Steele I
Foard, he became engaged in the
veneer business a number of
years age They established a ve
il e?r I ?- in Ha esville in 1929
and n . ."' to M.trphy in 1933.
where they -oam. associated with
A. E. Welbori and R. G. Alexan
der to form U Appalachian Ve
jneer company.
At the time his death, Mr.
Foard wa.s vice sklent and gen
eral manager o company, and
was on * of 10 rr ^ers of the war
production txar advisory com
mittee of the \ eer Hardwood
association of tl Unted States.
For 18 months h< .ad made tr ps
tn Washington cv y six weeks in
the latter capacity
Mr. Foard was i .arried in 1918
to Mi; Am ic L< e Kincaid of
Clevelaid !
He took ar ive part in the:
affairs of M y Presbyterian
church in wh: e was an elder,
at the time of death. He was
a veteran of tl..' st World War.
and was list*--' .n "Who's Who
in the fourth edition of Commerce
and Industry in 1944.
Brief funeral services were held
at the home here Saturday morn
ing at 9 o'clock with the r<>"
Ralph Taylor, pastor of First!
Methodist church, officiating
Active pallbeaei s were : J . B. j
Gray. Dale Lee. R. G. Alexander, j
R S. Parker, Dr. W. B Whitfield |
and H. Bueck. 1
Following the service, the body
was taken by Ivic funeral home
-.o Cleveland to the home of his
sister. Mrs. Q. J Scott. Fun
eral services were held at Third
Creek Presbyterian hurch Sun
day afternoon at 3 I'clock. with
the Rev. W. E. Op: ger, pastor,
and the Rev. W. H voodman of
Kannapolis, offioiat
Suriving besides le widow,
ar e three sisters. s. C. H.
Rosebro and Mrs. f of Cleve
land and Mrs. S. 1 oss of Ev
erett Wash.
Those from Mur, attending
the funeral were: J ind Mrs.
P G Alexander anu ,.?;aily, Mr.
and Mrs. J. B Gray, and Mr. and
Mrs. A. H. Eller, ani Mr. and
Mrs. A. E. Welborn of Waynes
b.jro. Ga.
Jas. Carter Is
In Army Hospital
At Daytona Beach
DAYTONA BEACH, FLA.-Pfc.
James H. Carter, who formerly
jived in Murphy, has recently
arrived at Welch Convalescent
hospital, the army's new recon
ditioning center, Daytona Beach.
The carefully planned recondi
tioning program here will speed
his convalescence and assist his
'?'um to the best of health
Tin son of Mr. and Mrs. R
r; r. entered the army June
12 and has since served seven
jrths in the European treatre
f iperations, where he was
warded the Purple Heart.
Tv c Welch soldier also has two
) ers, Sheridan and Jack in
armed forces.
TO PREACH SUNDAY
tev. Robert Barker will preach
'lie First Baptist church Sun
ay at 11 o'clock In the mi ni
ng and at 7:30 in the even.ng.
At the morning service the chur h
will elect three deacons, approve
the budget and elect Sunday
school officers and teachers for
the New Year.
TAKEN BY DEATH ? R. H.
Foard, prominent business man
of this town, who died at his
home on Friday morning.
Hugh Rogers Is
Among Flash And
Sound Observers
SIXTH ARMY GROUP.
PRANCE ? Infantrymen, crawl
ing on their bellies through the
brush and mud at advanced out
posts of the front, sometimes
wonder who the stranger is in
their midst. Besides a doughboy's
equipment, he has a little elec
trical gadget. . . .
tl doesn't take the doughboys
long to find out he's a member
of the 3rd Field Artillery Obser
vation Battalion, and performing
a mighty important job in locat
ing enemy guns, adjusting our
cwn artillery fire, and collecting
important entelligence for the
strategists at headquarters.
When an enemy artillery piece
fires, the American forward ob
server presses a button on his
electrical gadget. With that snap
of a button, a series of concealed
microphones, strung out in a line
a couple miles back, are turned
on.
Since the "mikes" are at vary
ing distances from the enemy gun.
^ they pick up the sound at vary
ing time-intervales of as little as
one- thousandth of a second. From
each microphone are wire lines
leading to another, more-compli
I cated instrument as a central re
I cording point.
! Here the variations in time
intervals are almost instantan
eously photographed as jagged
lines, half-a-dozen lines, half-a
dozen microphones. Transcribed
to a plotting board, these time
intervals become intersecting lines
on a map, with the point of in
| tersection revealing the location
| of the enemy gun.
i"uny ou per cent, or more 01
the men have a knowledge of
geometry, trignometry and other
advanced mathematics. And that
knowledge is needed in computing
temperature, wind and other cor
rections to the data picked up
by the microphones. A meteorol
ogical section of the battalion in
forms the computers of these cor
rections. and also furnishes data
in all artillery units in the XV
Corps, with which the 3rd Field
Artillery Observation Battalion is
row serving.
The battalion uses another sys
tem of locating enemy guns ?
through observation, also by ad
vanced lookouts, of flash or
smoke. Using an instrument like
a telescope on a graduated base,
these "flash" observers report by
phone to a "flash control," where
again mathematicians and plot
ters determine the enemy posi
tion through triangulation.
In Prance, these "flash and
sound" observers have served with
the Pird, Third and Seventh
Armies They have captured pris
oners, taken a few town them
selves. and contributed directly to
the smashing back of the Nazi
forces.
Members of - the Uittallon In
clude Cpl Hugh W. Rogera of
Murphy, route 3.
Pathfinder
Uses Story On
?
Cherokee Boar
Cherokee County's capitol city
aeain comes in for national pub
licity. In the December 25 Path
finder magazine, a column and
a half containing a half column
cut was devoted to "Cherokee
Boar." The Pathfinder story re
cced that their wild boars were
shipped to Murphy in 1912 by
wealthy New York City sports
men. These boars and other
game were carried out to Hooper
Bald at that time. "A special wag
on-cage was used" to transport
these wild hogs. They came from
the Hartz mountains in North
Germany.
Moore To Attend
Plymouth Meeting
E. .C Moore, Murphy Plymouth
dealer, has been invited to con
fer with Plymouth factory execu
tives at a meeting to be held on
Thursday, January 11. at the
Biltmore hotel in Atlanta The in
vitations were issued by Joseph
E. Bayne. general sales manage:
for Plymouth division of Chrys
ler corporation.
Plans and methods of opera
tion vital to America's war and
post-war transportation will be
discussed at the meetin, Bayne
indciated.
The meeting will include W. B
Ri e, Plymouth director of serv
ice. Joseph E. Bayne. general
sales manager, and R. C. Somer
ville and H. B. Heberling, assist
ant general sales managers.
Rice, who has been recently
promoted to his new post, will be
introduced to the dealers at a
luncheon preceding the meeting.
Myrt Padgett Is
Administrative
Specialist
TAMPA, Fla. ? Sgt. Mryt M
Fadgett, 22, of Hayesville, who
demonstrated administrative pro
ficiency at her women's army
corps job at Third Air Force
Headquarters, was reclassified re
cently from clerk typist to ad
ministrative specialist.
Sergeant Padgett, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew F. Padgett,
of Hayesville. enlisted in the WAC
in her seior year at the Women's
College of North Carolina and
reported to Fort Oglethope, Ga.,
for basic training upon her grad
uation in June, 1943.
Assigned to Third Air Force
headquarters here in August.
1943, she was promoted to pri
vate first class a month later, to
corporal in February, 1944 and
to sergeant in August, 1944. At
present she is assigned to the
adjutant general's section.
She holds a bachelor's degree
in music from the Women's Col
lege. where she won a dramatics
medal, played in the college band
and sang in the college choir.
RECLASSIFIED- Sftt. Myrt M.
Padgett of Hayesville. who, be
cause of her administrative pro
ficiency in the WAC has been
reclassified from clerk typist to
administrative specialist.
BOOK REVIEW
The Library Book Review will
be January 11 at 7:30. J. B. Oray
will review U. S. Foreign Policy
t-y Lippman. The public Is in
vited.
G. H. Haigler,
Father Of Mrs.
Tom Mauney, Dies
At Hayesville
G H. Haigler. 89. one of the
county's most promient res, dents,
died Sunday night at his home in
Hayesville. He had been an in
valid for some months.
Funeral services were conduc
ed Tuesday afternoon at 2 o clock
the Mehodist church in Hayes
ville. with the Rev. Clark Ben
son. pastor, the Rev. E. L. Adams
of Young Harris college and he
Kcv. R. Lane Akins. pastor of the
Baptist church, officiating.
Pallbearers were membei s
the Masoni- order and honorary
pallbearers were life-long frien to.
Clay county lodge No. 301 ? ?
P and A. M. conducted graveside
rites. The body lay m state a
the church from noon until
P Born in Cherokee county, Mr.
Haigler moved to Hayesville at an
early age and taught school m
Cay county for a number of
years. He was superintendent of
Clay county schools for nine
vears. ,
" Mr. Haigler was postmaster for
several years and a U^S' c?j"'
missioner for 15 years. He found
ed the Clay County bank, serving
fo: a number of years as its first
cashier. He was also instrumental
in having the Tennessee Railway
constructed.
Master of the Clay county Ma
sonic lodge for 26 years. Mr. Haig_
ltr was the first worthy grand
patron of the Order of the Eastern
Star of North Carolina. Known to
his friends as a deeply religious
person, he was a member of the
Methodist church in H*yes*"
for 61 years, serving most of that
period as steward. He was super
intendent of the Sunday school
of the church for 54 yeai-s.
Married 64 years las'. May. Mr.
Haigler is survived by th? '
eight children. Mrs. Myrtle Rea
p:an of Andrews, Mrs. P. C.
Scroggs of Hayesville. Mrs^ Don
ald Ryder of Pooler. Ga.. Mrs. I.
J. Mauney of Murphy, Mrs. Mark
Weaver of Hayesville, and the
Misses Sue and Louise Haigler of
Hayesville, and B. Neal Haigler o
Lakeland. Fla.; 16 grandchildren,
and four great-grandchildren.
1 Ivie funeral home was in charge
of arrangements.
Murphy To Play
Hayesville High
Friday Night
The Murphy baskeeters will j
open the 1945 season at Robbins
ville tonight (Wed.). Our first I
home game will be against Hayes- 1
ville at the local gym Friday
night at 7 o'coek. Each contest i
will see both boys and girls teams
in action. Back your teams and
make it a successful season.
Harold Bradley
Is Graduated At
Laredo Air Field
Pfc. Harold R. Bradley, son of
Mr. and Mrs. V. B. Bradley of
Andrews, was graduated recently
from the Army Air Forces Flexible
Gunnery school Laredo Army Air
Field, Laredo, Texas, a member
of the AAF Training Command.
He is now qualified to take his
place as a member of a bomber
combat crew.
Along with his diploma, he re
ceived a pair of aerial gunner's
silver wings and a promotion in
grade at brief graduation exer
cises held here.
He was prepared for his place
in America's tepped-up air offen
sive by a comprehensive six weeks
course in every phase of aerial
gunnery warfare. Besides learn
ing to fire every type weapon from
camera guns to the deadly cali
bre .50 Brownings, he studied
turret manipulation, aircraft iden
tififcation, stripping and reas
sembling of machine guns while
blindfolded. He climaxed the
course by air firing on towed
targets.
Baptist Pastors
To Meet Monday
?
In Havesville
The Western N. C. Baptist pas
tors' conference will meet at
Hayesville Baptist church Mon
day, January 8, at 10 o'clo.k.
The theme of the conference will
be. "The Centennial Evangelistic
Crusade." Some of the speakers
are: The Rev. J. F. Marchman
of Franklin. Rev. J. B. Warren of
Sylva, Rev. W. H. Brown of Bry
sc.n City. Rev. L. P. Smith of An- 1
drews. Rev. L. O. Elliott of
Waynesville and Rev. Richard
Kelley of Canton. Some of the
topics for discussion are: "Ad
vantages to local churches in co- j
operating in the Crusade." "The
Challenge to Pastor," "How to j
Prepare and Deliver Expository j
Evangelistic Sermons." "Means of
Pushing the Crusade in the Lo- '
cal Church," and "Conserving j
Results."
The annual election of officers '
will be held Monday by the con
ference, which meets quarterly.
It is composed of all Baptist min- '
isters in the western part of N.
C. who desire to have part in it.
Wm. B. Hornsby
Appointed Cadet
Midshipman
Kings Point. N. Y. ? William
Bamette Homsby, 19, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Albert Guy Hornsby. of
Murphy, N. C., has been appoint
ed a cadet-midshipman for of
ficer training in the United States
Merchant Marine Cadet corps. He
has been assigned to the United
States Merchant Marine academy
here for four months prelimin
ary training after which he will
serve a minimum of six months
as an engine cadet-midshipman
aboard merchant ships carrying
vital war supplies to the far
flung battlefronts. When he com
pletes his sea time he will re
turn to the academy for twelve
months advanced training. Upon
graduation he will be qualified to
serve as a third assistant engi
neering officer in the Merchant
Marine.
Hornsby attended Marlborough
high school, Marlboro, Mass., and
Andrews high school, Andrews.
N. C., and during his school terms
he was active in football, basket
ball, and was vice-president of
the senior class.
Holiday Babies
Dr. Harry Miller's clinic
has the record for holiday
babies. A son was born to
Mr. and Mrs. James Guy Fox
of Ranger on Christmas Day,
and on New Year's Day,
"Miss 1945" was born to Mr.
and Mrs. Charlie McClure of
East Murphy.
Made Captain
ANDREWS? Ml-, and Mrs. Wy
mer Conley have been informed
that their son, Hall, who is in
service in France, has recently
been promoted to Captain. Capt.
Conley and Capt. Robert Brown
met in Prance.
GRADUATES? Pfc. Harold R.
Bradley of Andrews, who was re
cently graduated from the Army
Air Forces Flexible Gunnery
School at Laredo Army Air Field,
Laredo, Texas.
Baptists To Start
Centennial Crusade
Program Next Sunday
BAPTIST HOUR SPEAKER?
IV. Wallace Bassett of Dallas
Tevas, who will speak on the Bap
tist Hour Sunday morning, Janu
ary 7, at 7:30 o'clock <CWT>.
With this broadcast Southern
Baptists will inaugurate the 1945
Baptist Hour and the Centen
nial Crusade probram.
Women Wanted
For Training
As Medical
Technicians
Spiking rumors that recruiting
for the Women's* A'&ty Corps
was discontinued as of the first
cf the year. Sgt. Wm. D. Ashley,
cf the Asheville Army Recruiting
office, in Murphy on Wednesday
said that women to be trained
as medical technicians for duty
'vith the armed fofrces would be
enlisted as long as the war
against Germany and Japan con
tinues.
"Enlistment requirements have
been revised, however." the re
el uiting sergeant said, "and only
those who possess a particular
knowledge or skill which can be
useful to the army, or those who
can qualify for special technical
training, will be eligible for the
entrance into the corps."
"At present," the sergeant con
tinued. "the U. S. Army Nurse
Corps is making an al-out drive
to enlist registered nurses for
assignment to the armed force,.
A number of those seeking enlist
ment with the A.N.C., however,
will not be a eepted for duty with
tt.e nursing corps ? and it is wom
en such as these that we mean
to enlist as WAC medical tech
nicians. Requirements for a med
ical assignment with the Wom
en's Army Corps are not as high
as those for assignment with the
Army Nurse Corps, and many who
fail to meet the standards for
one branch of the service will
find that they are sorely needed
for duty in another phase of the
medical department of the Army."
Expressing the opinion that he
certainly couldn't see how any
woman who reads the casualty
lists in the daily papers needed
very much coaching to impress
upon her just how badly she is
needed ty the medical corps, Sgt.
Ashley announced that new en
listment requirements make it
necessary that the enlistees pos
sess a high school education or
some technical knowledge in the
medical field. "Red Cross nurses
aides and doctor's assistants are
among the women we need." the
sergeant said, and expressed a
desire to contact every one of
these technically trained women
in Murphy.
Announcirtg that a new recruit
ing schedule would plae a Wom
en's Army Corps recruiter in
Murphy every week. Sgt. Ashley
appealed for women who possess
the basic qualifications to con
tact their local postmaster for an
appointment to discuss the pros
pers of enlistment.
Southern Baptists will inaugu
rate the 1945 Baptist Hour to
gether with their Centennial Cru
sade program next Sunday morn
ing, January 7th, 8:30, E.W.T. ?
7:30 C.W.T.. with Dr. Wallace
Bassett of Dallas, Texas, speak
ing on the Baptist hour network,
which covers all the territory
from Maryland to Florida and
westward to include Texas, Ok
lahoma and Missouri, according
to Dr. S. F. Lowe, director of the
Southern Baptist Radio commit
tee. of Atlanta. Ga. The suWecc
for this general series is "Hie
Call of a New Era."
With Southern Baptists seeking
to win 1,000,000 souls to Christ
in 1945, and with millions of
young men from the homes of
the nation in military service, it
is appropriate that Dr. Basseit's
subject should be, as announced
by the Radio Committee, "Prayer
For a Stricken World." Hue
broadcast is a part of the pro
gram of Southern Baptists to help
lead the nation in prayer in the
opening of the crucial year 1945.
Dr. Bassett, the speaker for
that broadcast, has been pastor
of the Cliff Temple Baptist
church of Dallas, Texas for more
than 25 years, and is recognized
as one of the great spiritual
preachers and leaders of our day.
according to Dr. Lowe.
The music this year will again
be by the Baptist Hour Choir
under the direction of John D
Hoffman. The program will ori
ginate from the studios of W6B.
Atlanta, Ga.
Petrie Hospital
Is Provisionally
Approved By ACS
Petrie hospital ol Murphy was
one of the 15 hospitals in West
tin North Carolina approved ful
ly of provisionally by the Ameri
can College of Surgeons for the
year 1944. The local hospital was
provisionally approved.
The listing, it was explained,
indicates hospitals of 25 or more
beds which have complied satis
factorily with the minimum re
quirements that assure the best
care of the sick and injured.
Factors taken into considera
tion in granting or withholding
approval include the hospital
plant, its organization, the gov
erning board, the superintendent,
personnel, medical staff, diagnos
tic and therapeutic facililties,
conferences of administrative and
medical staffs, and "a human
tarian spirit ? the primary con
sideration being the best care
of the patient."
Of the 15 hospitals in this re
gion on the list, seven were given
full approval, and eight, provis
ional approval. Provisional ap
proval. it was explained, was giv
en to those hospitals that are en
deavoring to meet requirements,
"out for acceptable reasons have
not been able to do so in every
detail and were not at time of
survey complying sufficiently to
merit full approval."
Andrew Phillips
At Depot Bomber
Repair Base
AN vm AIR FORCE SERVICE
COMMAND S T A T I ON, ENG
LAND ? Private First Class An
drew J. Phillips, son of Mrs. Mag
gie Phillips, Robbinsville, N. C.,
ir an automotive equipment ope
rator in the transportation divis
ion of this startegic air depot
bomber repair base.
Prior to his entry into the mili
tary service August 18, 1942 at
Fort Croft, South Carolina, he
vas a farmer. Pfc. Phillips has
teen stationed in the European
theatre of operations since Au
gust, 1843.
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