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FIGHT ,NM"T,LE PARALYSIS JOWUARY 14-31 Consolidated with GRAHAM COUNTY NEWS Serving Southwestern North Carolina ? Cherokee, Clay, and Graham Counties VOLUME 56 ? NUMBER 25. MURPHY. NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. JANUARY 11, 1945 EIGHT PAGES TODAY Baptists Adopt New Budget And Elect Deacons, Officers First Baptist church of Murphy ^ on ku>t Sunday morning adopted p. budget of $5,600 for the current ? year. That represents a slight in crease over the previous year. I: includes the following items: Pastor's salary $3000, rent for pa&torium $360. janitor $300, lit erature $200. fuel $200. lights $50. insurance $160. revival $150, pub licity $125, incidentals $100. pas tor's convention expenses $75. re tirement insurance $80. missions and benevolences $600. repairs on buildings $150. and entertainment $50. Three new deacons ? J. W. Dyer, Roger Ammons. and J L. Savage ? were elected Sunday morning. Sunday School officers and teach ers were elected as follows: Gen eral officers, superintendent, C. C. White; associate superintendent. Arden Davis, and secretary. W. C. Kinney; adult department, super intendent, Mrs. H. Bueck; secre tary, Mrs. John Donley; teachers, Mrs. Uoyd Hendrix. Mrs. J. W. Davidson, and Miss Addie Mae Cooke. <a teacher for the men's class has not yet been elected); young people's department, super intendent and teacher, Miss Emma Louise Jenkins, assistant teach er, Miss Susan Beck. Intel-mediate department- sup erintendent. Mrs. J. L. Savage: associate superintendent. R. D. Chandler; secretary. Mrs. P. G. Ivie; teachers. Mrs. C. W. Arnold, Mrs. Lois Davis, A. L. Buchanan, P. G. Ivie, and Mrs. Elizabeth Berry. Junior department ? superin tendent, Mrs. A. L. Buchanan; teachers. Roger Ammons. Steve Williams. Miss Gillie Martin and Mrs. Amue Mae Jones. Primary department ? super intendent. Mrs. Steve Williams; teachers. Mrs. E. L. Shields. Miss Janice Hall. Miss Fiances Ricks, and Miss Marjorie Ammons. Beginners department ? Mrs. Ethel Hamilton and Mrs. W. A. Sherrill; and cradle roll, Mrs. Susie Hembree and Mrs. Ben Palmer. Cox To Preach Here Sunday - Rev. Carlton Cox, pastor of Merrimon Avenue Baptist church in Asheville, will preach at First Baptist church in Murphy Sun day morning and Sunday evening. Services will be at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. The public is invited to heai- him. TO HAVE DANCE A President's birthday ball will be held at Fontana Dam on Tues day, January 30. at the com munity building. IN HAWAII ? Pvt. Junior L. Rcid. who is now stationed in Hawaii, and is working at a gen eral hospital there. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam H. Reid of Patrick, he entered servicle in September, 1943. His training was taken at Camp Barkeley, Texas, and he has been in Hawaii for about a year. Recently he was awarded a good conduct medal. Rev. Fred Horton Preaches Here Rev. Pied R. Horton of Atlanta. Ga., district superintendent of the Free Methodist church, will preach at the Murphy Free Methodist church on Friday and Saturday evenings of this week at 7:30 o'clock and Sunday morning at 11 and in the evening at 7:30. Mr. Horton also will preach in the Free Methodist Sunday school chapel at Longtown. in Andrews, Wednesday. Thursday and Fri day nights. January 17. 18 and 19. at 7 o'clock. He also will preach Sunday morning. January 21. at 11 o'clock and that evening at 7 o'clock, at the chapel. The public is invited to attend these services. CONVALESCING McCloskey General Hospital. Temple. Texas ?Among the North Carolina enlisted men. recently returned from active overseas duty, who are now convalescing at McCloskey General Hospital, Temple. Texas, is Pvt. Frank H. Taylor of the infantry, whose wife is Mrs. Gladys Taylor of Mur phy. N. C. LODGE TO MEET All members of Cherokee Lodge No. 146 are urged to attend a special meeting of great import ance to the craft at 7:30 o'clock Monday night. January 15. Din ner will be served at 8:30. Medford is Speaker At Lions Meeting P. B. Medford of Chattanooga. i regional engineer of the J. B. Mc Crary corporation which is un e'er contract to make a survey of the streets, sewer system and | sidewalks in Murphy that are in line for postwar improvement, was a speaker at Murphy Lions club Tuesday evening:. He was presented by President H. ? A. | Mattox. C. H. Smith of Atlanta and i Don Vandergriff, of Chattanooga. 1 engineers spending some time in i Murphy to do the surveying men- , tioned above, also were guests at the dinner meeting. It was reported that a total of $386.41 was realized from the j dime board operated before Christmas to raise funds for the needy and to buy cigarettes for men in the service. The club mailed out to needy families ap proximately 40 letters of credit, langin* ffrom $3 to $10. A Christ mas check for $5 was mailed to each blind person in the county. Prank Porsyth read two let ters of appreciation for the gifts received from the blind. Bob Bault announced that a president's birthday ball has been planned for the 30th in connec tion with the infantile paralysis drive, and he distributed tickets for the Lions to sell. Dr. W. A. Hoover, county chairman, urged the cooperation of the club in the drive. The club voted to have a class room on the school grounds wired so that the Boy Scouts may use it for a meeting place. Dr. W. A. Hoover reported that a blind clinic was held recently and that a physician is to return to Murphy in the summer to as sist in operations on some of the persons examined. Loren Davis, a new father, had j cigars for the members, but he suggested that the box be auc tinned off to the highest bidder and the money be applied on the polio campaign fund. The cigars were sold to Edward Brumby for $15. Veneer Company Elects Directors The annual meeting of the j I sxckholders of the Appalachian , V< neer Company of Murphy was held Monday. January* 8. at the I office of the company and the I fcliov.intf d. rectors were elected : i Mrs. Steele Foard of Cleveland. I Mis. R. H. Foard. R. G. Aiexan- 1 dei and A. E. Welborn. The direc tors elected officers as follows: A. E. Weltorn, president; Mrs. R.I H. Foard, vice-president, and R. G. Alexander, secretary and treas urer. Palmer Home From Pacific SSgt. H. C. Palmer, returning I'rom 36 months oversea s in the Southwest Pacific area theatre of operations, kith the infantry, was expected to arrive January 5 at Fort Bragg, prior to leaching his home at route 2. Murphy. He will visit his mother, Mrs. Nannie Palmer. PROMOTED ? Mart Hamty who has been promoted from Sea man. second class to Second Class Petty Officer, in the navy, is now stationed with the CommLssa(ry department in Norfolk. He re ceived eight weeks of boot train ins: at Bainbridge. Md. Petty Of ficer Ham by was formerly a mer chant at Hiwassee Dam. He and his family now reside in the navy housing units in Norfolk. Va. Council Allots Space For Buses Murphy's town council on Mon day evening voted to allot the ; space next to Smoky Mountain j bus station, between Tennessee street and Standard Service sta tion to the bus company for loading and unloading passen pers, making sufficient space for a maximum of four buses to park at the same time. Others coming in at the same time will continue to park in the street. The council agreed to have a spaced marked off whereby a driveway into the Standard Serv ice station will be open at all 1 times. Representatives of the Folk school asked the town council to provide a master switch and master meter for their light and power system at the school. It was explained by H. G. Elkins, j head of the electric department. ! that it would be costly to do either, and the school would have to pay the expenses. Fire protection for the school was discussed. At the request of Kitty Hefner, the board agi-eed to have the street, to her house re-opened and the boundaries determined. C. H. Smith, engineer who is LINES ON OLD AGE O. H Haigler. above, who died on De cember 31 at his home in Hayes ville. was a native of Cherokee county. The following on "Old Age" was written by Mr. Haig ler on October 15. 1931. and it was read at his funeral: "I have seen a mighty oak. a giant of the forest, wither and oie; its foliage and all its outer covering drop to the earth and leave the body of the tree stark and bare, apparently out of har mony with all that surrounding forest. Then. I have seen nature in her effort to obliterate or cov er up any defect upon her face. [ send up a little vine and that I little vine sends out its delicate tendrils and clasps the body of that old tree and then twines and intertwines and climbs until it becomes a mass of living green, the most beautiful object in all the forest. The storms of sum mer and the blast of winter pass over it for years without produc surveying some streets in Mur phy. was present and contributed to a discussion of some water problems. John Posey, who has the use of city water but has not until recently been billed for the wa ter, appeared before the board to ascertain whether he owes wa ter rent. He claims that when the city used some of his father's property for a reservior it was agreed that the family should have water free. Mayor W. H. Pain referred the matter to the water committee f r?tudy, to re port at the next meeting. Mayor Fain read a letter from A. D. Rieger concerning the leas ing of lands inside Murphy city limits for pasturing. The board is asking Mr. Rieger not to lease such property for pasturing, oth er than to original owners of the land. ( Tile meeting was attended by five councilmen: Dr. B. W. Whit field. A. L. Martin. J. B. Mulkey. E. P. Hawkins, and Robert Wea | ver; Mayor Fain. Mr. Elkins. J. B. Gray, attorney; Mrs. Winifred , Wells, assistant attorney; Chief 1 of Police Frank Crawford, and ' several other citizens. ing a tremor, and then some still quiet day without a breath of air. astir suddenly the old tree top ples and falls to earth, there to moulder back to earth. "Then. I have seen a strong, robust man in the great forest of men. contending and contesting in the bust marts of trade; the storms of adversity and the blasts of snow, grief and disap pointment only tend to sterngth en his faith and increase his in tegrity. Years come and go. the man reaches maturity and turns down the western slope of time; his steps grow feeble, his eyes I grow dim. his hearing is impaired, his hands are palsied and he real izes that he is an old man,? no longer able to meet the require ments of a busy world, the most trying moment perhaps of his life. "Then it is that friends and loved ones begin to entwine him round about with the silken threads of love and friendship, and the man lives on in peace and quiet and then like the tree suddenly drops to earth, both to moulder back to dust. "But there the simile ends. The spirit, the soul, the immortal pail of the man lives on. God has called it back to himself in that place of eternal bliss prepared for the good? that place where there is no more sorrow, sickness, pain or death, that place where God shall wipe all tears from off all faces.? that place where we shall no more hear the sad mum ble of the clods upon the coffins of our loved ones. That place where there shall be no more fun erals. I "Lo, what consolation !" Cherokee Sells $780,347 In Sixth War Loan Drive; Tops Its E Bond Quota Dora Ruth Parks Resigns To Take State Position In West Virginia Miss Dora Ruth Parks, region al librarian here for the past three and a half years, lias ten dered her resignation to the reg ional board, effective February 15, to become executive secretary of the West Virginia Library Commission. L. B. Nichols, chairman of the Nant&hala regional library boatd. states: "It goes without sayir.g that Miss Parks has done a splen did job in her work in the coun ties of Cherokee. Graham and Clay, as well as with the T. V. A. When I say it will be regretted by all of us, I am sure it is an understatement. Miss Parks will go to a much larger field and have opportunities to continue her growth. I am sure that much greater things will be in store for her." Under the leadership of Miss Parks the regional service has been well established and grown. It is now so organized and estab lished that it is on a permanent basis. Miss Parks' successor is being considered from a group of names. Coming to Murphy from Ashe \ille, where she was WPA train ing technician for 13 Western North Carolina counties. Miss Parks had been well-trarined and had a background of wide ex perience to qualify her for the work here. Prior to working in Asheville she was branch libra rian in Wilkes-Barre, Penna.. county librarian in Greens bore. and high school libra rian in Winston-Salem. She is a graduate of Woman's Col lege. University of North Caro lina. Greensboro, with an A B. in library science. Miss Parks was second vice president of the State Library as sociation from 1941 to 1943. Mass Meeting Held Tuesday At Cullowhee The Rev. Ralph Taylor, with ?i number of members of First Methodist church, attended a mass meeting for the "Crusade J For Christ" for the Waynesville district held at Cullowhee Mon day. A meeting was held in the ! afternoon at the Cullowhee Meth odist church. In the evening, a meeting, in connection with the annual layman's banquet of the Waynesvllle district, was held at Western Carolina Teachers col lege. At this mass meeting Monday evening, the Murphy church was one of two churches in the dis trict that was recognized and commended for its success in raising the fund. Both Murphy and the Junaluska churches have raised their quotas with an over plus. Mrs. T A. Case spoke to the group concerning the way in which the fund was raised here in the first church. In addition to Mr. Taylor, those attending the meeting were W. D King. Sam Davidson. Frank Tay lor. Mrs. Case. Mrs. H. G. Elkins. Mrs. J. H McCall. Miss Josephine Heighway. Miss Ma?y Cornwell and Mrs. E. S. Miller. RED CROSS TO MEET The Cherokee county chapter of the American Red Cross will meet Friday evening at 7:30 at the home of Mrs. W. M. Axley. Officers for this year will be elected, and plans for the war fund drive in March will be made SPEAKS SUNDAY ? Dr. M. E. Dodd. the Baptist Hour speaker for Sunday morning. Jan 14 is lead ing Southern Baptists in an all out southwide crusade to win one million souls to Christ in 1945. the centennial year of Southern Baptists, as announced by S. P. Lowe, of Atlanta, Ga.. director of the radio committee; SBC. The announcement of Mr. Lowe also states that in his message Dr. Dodd will challenge every be liever to join a great army of the Lord in so living and wooing and winning in 1945 as for each to lead one or more to become fol lowers of Christ. Mr. Lowe expressed satisfaction that most Prot??tant groups as well as Baptists are majoring in evangelism as they enter the new post-war era. The program Sunday morning will be featured by several of the abiding spirited evangelistic hymns rendered by the Baptist Hour choir. John D. Hoffman, di rector and George Lee Hamrick. organist. The Baptist Hour is broadcast over an independent Southern network of 36 stations covering the territory, from Washington. D. C. to the far southwest, and can be heard in North Carolina over WBIG. Greensboro, WPTF. Raleigh. WSJS. Winston-Salem and WWNC, Asheville. Pastors Are To Meet On Monday The Western North Carolina Baptist pastors' conference which was announced in last weeks Scout to be held Monday of thi.s week, will be held at the Hayes ville Baptist church. Monday January 15. beginning at 10 o'clock, it has been announced by the Rev. J. F. Marchman. pas tor of the Franklin Baptist church and secretary to the conference. The theme of the meeting will be "The Centennial Evangelistic Crusade." Cherokee county sold 402 j cent of its overall quota in the I Six:h War Loan drive, the final figures fi >m the Federal Reserve giving the county credit for the sale of $780,347.50 and the quota W" onl-v $194,000 Of the total j si 08 697.50 was in E bonds. The | county's E quota was $88,000. the I sale being 164 percent of the goal p B Ferebee. chairman for the county, stated that he sincerely appreciated the cooperation of all who had a part in pushing up the county s total ? those who worked and those who bought. Miss Dora Ruth Parks, chair man of the women's division for Murphy, reports sales by the Mur phy Woman's club of $93,443.50 Mrs E F Arnold had charge of booths in the downtown district. Among the women who worked at tiie bootlis and helped in the drive were: Mesdames W. O. Hoffman J H. Webster. J. H McCall. L. E. Bay Jess. J B, Gray. H. Bueck, c D May field, R. H. Foard, Walter WiM. Ben Vaught. E. F. Arnold. Jim Gibfcs, Albert Morse. Thos. Evans, T. A. Case B. W. Whitfield A Q. Ketner, C. W. Savage F v Taylor. E. S. Miller, R c. Mattox" J H Wilson, and Misses Josephine Heighway, Dora Ruth Parks, and Hattie Axley. The cooperation of others was aooreciated. Mrs. J B Gray is now a member of the Blue Star brigade, having sold at least 10 bends to different peo ple. Mrs. J. w Davidson, chairman of sales in the city schools, reports a total of -00.75 worth of bonds arc! stamps sold in the schools. The high school is cred ited with $12,496.90. and the gram ma. school with $76,793.85. Sales b.v grades were: I Miss McCombs' room $27 - (825: Mrs. Brendle's room ? $25: j Mrs. Patton's room ? $1,250; | ^'s Schaap's room ? $50; Mrs I Shields' room ? $7,675: Miss j Sword's room $4,425; Miss ! Hayes' room ?$100. Miss Leather, j wood's room ? $27,582.50: Mrs. j Davidson's room $3,650: Mrs Adams' room ? $4,875. I Defense stamps bought ? Miss ! McCombs' room $139.40; Mrs Brendle's room ? $2.70; Miss Dickson's room ? $5.35; Mrs. Schaap's room ? $24.10: Mrs. Shields' room ? $36.05; Miss Sword's room ? $114.90; Miss , Shields' room ? $11; Mrs. David ; son's room $40.35: Mrs. Adams room _ $95.65: Miss Leather wood's room. $14.35. Total sales for elementary school ? $76,703.85. | Bonds and stamps sold in high .school: Mrs. Mauney's room ?$52.35: Mrs. Ward's room ? $4,312.30; Mrs. King's room ? $1.20: Mrs Berry's room? $419. j 35, Miss Robbins' room? .50; Miss , Jenkins' room? $2,411.10; Mrs. Miller's room? $3,009.50: Miss Farrows room 40. Miss Mor gan's room ? $805.15: Mrs. Spain hour's room? $1,207.50; Miss FVI mcts room $276.30; Miss By ( Continued -on page four) County Asked For $940 In Polio Drive Cherokee county's quota in the | 1945 infantile paralysis cam paign is $964. according to an nouncement by Dr. W. A Hoover, county chairman. The drive for funds starts on January 14 and ends January 31 In connection with the drive, president's birthday balls will be held January 30 in two or three places in the county and at other towns in this section. A ball is being planned in Murphy ty Bob I Bault and Miss Magdalene Cook, co-chairman representing Lions club and Junior Woman's club, iespectively. It will be held on the 30th at the school luncheon. Tickets already- are on sale. J P Sellers and Walter Thomas of Hiwassee Dam are co-chairmen there and plan a subscription din ner and dance. E. S. Christen bury and Mrs. Ruth Starr Pul lium are co-chairmen in An drews. Plans will be made by the clubs they represent at meetings Thursday. Lloyd Hendrix is chairman of ! the county schools: H. Bueck, Murphy schools, and I. B. Hud [ son, Andrews schools. Theatres ' in the county are plannig to co I operate, as well as the churches and other organizations. The county had a quota of $320 last year and raised $572.31. In 1943 only $228.70 was raised In the county.
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