Consolidated with GRAHAM COUNTY NEWS Serving Southwestern North Carolina ? Cherokee, Clay, and Graham Counties VOLUME 56 ? Nl'MBER 49. Ml'RPHY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY', JUNE 28, 1945. EIGHT PAGES TODAY Elkins Is Chairman Of Lions Club Fair George S. Coble of Lexington spoke briefly on his plans in estab lishing a plant here, at the meet ing of Murphy Lions club at Regal hoiel Tuesday evening. He was presented by Lion President Doyle Burch. Mr. Coble expressed ap preciation for the fine spirit with which the people of the communi ty have greeted him and stated that in coming to Murphy he ex petcs to make his business an asset to the section and a real part of the community. President Burch appointed H. G. Elkira chairman of the agricul tural fair to be held in September, sponsored by the Lions club. Har ry Bishop was appointed to assist him. prank Forsyth announced that iecently 35 pairs of glasses were purchased by the club for people in the county who were examined at the clinic. The club soon will spend $100 for an operation for a man with cataracts. Mayor W. M. Fain urged people to use the park for family picnics on the Fourth of July. Following the suggestion of J. B. Gray, who had investigated the advisability of incorporating the club, it was voted that the club should incorporate. Guests of W. M. Fain were: G. S Coble, Dr. W. M. Roberts of State College; Robert Hunt, Jr., field representative of the Coble Dairy Products Company who will live here; and Eric E. Morgan, of fice manager of the company; guests of A. Q. Ketner were: Dis trict Rami Agent F. R. Farnham of Asheville and C. R. Freed, who ?will be the local manager of the Coble company; a guest of Frank Ellis was Capt. Pat H. Lyddan of Camp Hood, Texas; a guest of Harry Bishop, Capt. J. W. Thomp son, recently returned from Eng land : and a guest of Robert Weav er, Glenn Taylor of Albemarle. Bault Chosen To Attend Sales School R. S. Bault, local representative o! the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company, has received notice from his Home Office of his qualification to attend the Company's first Sales Training 6chool for new Agents to be held at the Home Offifce of the Comp any in Greensboro, N. C? June 26th-29tti. This is not only a privilege, but a distinct honor, for Mr. Bault is one of 25 agents throughout the Company's entire territory in 28 states who have been invited to attend this school. takes examination Morris Miller, who was recently graduated from Emory University Dental college, Atlanta, is in Raleigh this week to take the North Carolina State board exami nation. 46 Men Leave For Examination At Fort Jackson ! The following 46 men left by early bus Wednesday morning for Port Jackson, S. C., for pre-in duction examination: Charles Pinkney Wells, leader; B. B. Comwell. Jr.. assistant lead er; Clyde Burton Raper, Virgil Carl Ashe. John Marion Collins, Edgar Roosevelt -Garren, Wiley Julius Waldi-oup, Dewey Venson Truett, EUvin Monroe Dillard, Clyde Sidney Amos. Dale Palmer. Charles Edward Stalcup. Charles Arthur Burrell, Edgar Glenn Gar rett, William Howard Leather wood, Aeck Kilpatrick, Jr., James Hardin, Eugene Tunney Dockery, Ray Shields, Charles Piercy, Fred Raymond Chastain. Harley Joe Coleman. Jack Stewart Louder milk, James Oscar Roberson. Hoyt Jewel Walker. James Edward Palmer. Fred Bunyan Roberts, Johnnie A. Hyatt ( t) , Calvin Elmo Wright. Roy Garrett. Parks Ray Cook, James Melvin Deaton, James Anderson Lamb, Dillard Mathis, Clifton Charles Bishop. Welzie Clayton Tilson. Luther Aaron Killian. Leonard Milton West, Oliver Henry Kephart, Olen Henry Hughes. Arthur Comwell, Howard Willard Johnson. Lawrence Mash burn. Leslie Junior Graham. Clif ford Floyd Painter, Nandoe Lee Brown it). Masonic Group Meeting To Be Held Robbinsville A Masonic Group meeting is to be held at Robbinsville Lodge No. 072 Saturday, June 30. At 3:00 P. M. 'CWT) Lodge will be open ed and Work and Instruction in the Entered Apprentice degree will be conferred ty the Master and Past Masters of Robbinsville Lodge. Land Marks of Masonary and current subjects pertaining to the Good of the Order will be discussed and reports received from the several lodges of the Forty Third Masonic District of North Carolina. At 5:30 the craft will be called from Labor to Refreshments and an Ole' Fashion picnic will be spread in the banquet hall of the Masonic Building for Master Masons, their families and guests, after which an hour of social and special entertainment will be en joyed. At 8 o'clock the craft will be called to Laibor and the Sublime Degree of Master Mason will be conferred by the Degree Team from Andrews Lodge. All Master Masons and their families who are within travel range, either residing or so-Journ ing therein are invited to attend. County Expects To Top War Loan Goal T^e latest figures on the Seven-1' Ul War Loan for this county, as i ?f June 23, were $152,814, over-all ] and $123,120 in E series. ls is considerably short of the I *o?J of $226,000 over-ell and $126,- 1 00 E bonds, but according to re-i porte from banks and post offices | 84105 have been good this week j ?nd it appears the county wiU be 0Ver top by the end of the week. Gets Two Stars ANDREWS ? H. A. Rogers, ! J ? 8 1/c, is now ln (jjg us Naval hospital. Seattle, Wash. He was ***?tly awarded 2 bronze stars !?le serving with the Armed O"** Oun Crew. ****? E. D. Cline of Hickory is 1W? week to be with her J??' W. H. Orimtl* who *rtou?y Ul at Petrie hospifcU. ?L Fire Damages Natural Springs Tourist Camp Fire of undetermined orijfin de stroyed the pump house at Natur al Springs tourist camp owned by L. M. Shields. Monday morning about 3 o'clock. All the electric heaters for the cabins, the surplus supply of linens and electric motors in the building were completely destroyed. The damage amount ed to about $1,000 Mr. Shields said. Dr. Harry Miller and Mrs. Prank Justice are In Atlanta this week with their mother, Mrs. E. 6. Miller who underwent an opera tion at Btaory University hospital TUMdar. CONDUCTS REVIVAL ? Dr. L. L. Carpenter, editor of Biblical Recorder, Raleigh, who is assisting the Rev, L. P. Smith in a revival meeting at Andi-ews Baptist church this week. Service are being held at 9:15 each morning and 8:00 each evening. Bible School Starts At Local Baptist Church On Next Monday The annual Daily Vacation Bible school directed by the Rev. R. Lane Akins will begin Monday, July 2, at First Baptis; Church. The Bible school, which is for boys and girls ( ! 4 tc 16 years of , James Richard Roberts. Vir gil O'Dell. Hoyt Hicks Beavers. Cigarettes Are Stolen Thieves entered the warehouse of Smith Transfer company Sun day night and stole five cases of Philip Morris cigarettes. Two cases belonged to the H T. Hack ney company .and three cases to Rag land Brothers company. En trance was made through the back door by breaking through a panel and unfastening the door on the inside, it was reported. The door was found open when the robbery was discovered. COLLECTS $775 ANDREWS ? Mrs. D. E. Pull ium, chairman of the Finance Committee of the Recreation pro gram, states that she has collected to date $775. Syvester To Start Stock Sales July 11 R. T. Sylvester will open a stock sale market at Number Six with the first sale being on Wednesday, July 11, according to announce ment in this week's issue of the SCOUT He invites everyone who has livestock for sale to bring them to the market. Buyers from several points are expected to attend. Sales will be held every Wednes day after July 11, all beginning at 1 o'clock. Legion Sponsors Show On Fridav ?> The American Legion will spon sor a show by Esco Hank ins and his Crazy Tennesseans. Friday. June 29. at Murphy Hi school. The show, featuring several popular WROL favorites, will start at 8 P. M. G. W. Clayton, Jr. First To Be Discharged ANDREWS ? G. W. Clayton, Jr.. is the first Andrews service man to be discharged from the armed forces on the basis of the Army's point system. Until June 11 he was T/Sgt. George Clayton, but now he is Mr. Clayton. Hie pi'ice he paid for his recent honor able discharge was 123 points. Mr. Clayton entered the Service in October. 1941. He studied most everything in the Army's catalog, and ended up an aviation radio man. Just for good measure he flew fifty missions over Africa and Europe. No one hereabouts be grudges him his new title and rank of Mister. Mrs. Herman Bryant of Peters burg, Ind., is the guest of Mrs. C E. Weir. TRANSFERRED ? Lt. Margaret Ann Watry, daughter of Mrs. L. O. Caldwell of Andrews, who recently was transferred from Port Des Moines, Iowa, to Charleston, S. C. Lt. Watry is the wife of Lt. E. J. Watry of Port Washington, Wis., who is doing administrative work for the Army Air Corps. She has a sister and two brothers in the service. Her sister, Betty Sue Caldwell .is a cadet nurse, in train ing at York, Pa. Staff Sgt. Leland O. Caldwell, a brother, is an Air Corps gro' nd crew man at San Antonio. Texas; and Staff Sgt. Robert H. Caldwel', marine is in headquarters of the Marine Corps. Wash ington, D. C. Prior to her enlistment in the Women's Army Corps, Lt Watry was employed as a secretary to the manager of Columbia Marble Co. Marble. She is a graduate of Tennessee Wesleyan College, Athens. Tenn. She took officer candidate work at the WAC training center at Ft. Oglethorpe, Oa. She has worked in the personnel section at Dow Field, Maine, and once was secretary to the WAC staff director at Mitchel Field, New York City. HOME AFTER LIBERATION ? Pfc. Ben E. Warner, Jr., who arrived in Murphy Monday to spend a 70-day furlough with his parents and his wife here. Pfc. Warner, who was a prisoner of the Germans last winter, was liberat ed by the Russians on the Elbe River and taken to Czechoslavakia and Poland. He was treated roy ally by the Russians he said and occupied an old castle while in Poland. Pfc. Warner was twice wounded and received the Purple Heart, the bronze star, the good conduct medal and two battle stars. NOTICE The Scout will be published on Tuesday of next week, in order to observe the Fourth as a holiday. Everyone having material for the paper is asked to have it in the oxfice by Monday. Most of the klores ?nd places of busines in Mui-phy will be closed on tie Fourth . " Middlesboro Lions To Play Here On July 1 J. H. Pit ier, former coach of Murphy high school, now coach at M ddlesboro. Ky. hijrh school, will bring the Middlesboro Lions, an independent ball team. to Murphy for a game with the Murphy All Stars, Sund ly, July 1. at 2:30 o' clock, it hts been announced by George Atk nson, manager of the All Stars. Capt. Thompson Here From London Capt. J. W. Thompson. Jr., Mrs. Thompson and their son, Bill Thompson m, arrived in Murphy Tuesday for a visit with Capt. Thompson's mother. Mrs. J. W. Thompson. Cape. Thompson arrived at Camp Kilner, N. J. on the Queen Mary last Wednesday after hav ing spent more Chan two years as chief of the medical corps of the third general dispensary at London. Enpland. Geurge S. Coble of Coble Dairy Products Company of Lexington will establish a plant here for con densing skimmed milk and selling sweet cream, as soon as equipment which already has been shipped, arrives and the building formerly occupied ty Southern Dairies can be renovated and enlarged to meet the requirements. Mr. CoL:e states that he expects to be operat ing within four or five weeks. In the meantime, he is purchasing the milk that local producers offer lor sale and shipping it. Farmers in Cherokee, Clay and Graham counties of North Caro lina, Towns and Union counties of Georgia have pledged the pro duction of a minimum of 4,000 gallons of milk within the next 60 days. Prospects are that produc tion soon will go far beyond that figure, as farmers are expecting to purchase at least 400 more cows as soon as they can find them. C. R. Freed, who has had 10 yeai'S experience as plant super intendent at Biltmore Dairies, Asheviile; and eight years as plant superintendent at Selected Dairies, Winston-Salem, from which place he comes here, wil be the local manager of the Coble Dairy Pro ducts Co. Robert Hunt, Jr.. gradu ate of State College. Raleigh, who has been field representative of the company at Sugar Grove for two years, will live here and do field work with the producers. Mr. Coble, who spent Tuesday and Wednesday here, together with his office manager, Eric Mor gan. Lexington; and Dr. Bill Rob erts, State College, announced to the town council that he expects to pay at least $500,000 to farm ers in this areajp* jrar and x ]!? \es that it will be only a short tune before that figure will be raised to $750,000. The capacity ol the plant now being installed is 10.000 gallons a day, with two shifts. He stated that when he outgrows this plant, he hopes to build one costing $300,000 to $400, 000. County agents and milk produc ers in this territory met at the county agent's office here Tuesday afternoon and heard Mr. Coble outline his plans for this terri tory. F. R. Farnham, district county agent, presided and intro duced Mr. Coble and his co-work ers. He announced that because of their interest in increasing dairying revenue in this section, TVA will cooperate by adding sev eral assistant county agents, whose duty it will be to work ex clusively with milk producers. | OBSERVE LORDS SITPER ANDREWS ? Rev. Leo Smith, | pastor of the Lutheran church here, announces that the Lord's Supper will be observed on Sunday, July 1, at the eleven o'clock ser vice. Lt. Col. Jerry W. Davidson, Jr., Mrs. Davidson and baby. Liane. and Mre. Charles L. Sarrazin have re turned to Baton Rouge, La., after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Davidson and Mrs. Grace Cooper. Wade H. Massey's Funeral Held Today Wade Hampton Massey, 39, died of a heart attack at 9:40 o'clock Wednesday morning at his home here on Mooreland Heights, after an illness of a few weeks. Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon (today) at 4 o'clock at First Methodist church ot which he was a member, with the Rev. Ralph Taylor' offi ciating. Burial followed in Sun set cemetery. Pallbearers were: C. E. Weir, Dr. W. A. Hoover, Harry E. Bis hop, Dr. Rdbert H. Cox, R. W. Easley, Jr., Walter Mauney, Frank Forsyth, H. O. Elkins. Dale Lee, Dr. L. T. Russell, and Jim Glbbs. Bom in Haywood county near Waynesville, Mr. Massey came to Murphy about 20 years ago and was married to Miss Mabel Ellis in 1929. He was a contractor and builder. He was a member of Murphy Lions club, the Business Men's club, an Woodman of the World. Surviving are the widow;" one son, James Ellis Massey; four bro tliers, Zach Massey and Phil Mas sey of Waynesville. George Mas sey of Brevard, and Vernon Mas sey, chief warrant officer in the Pacific; and two sisters, Mrs. OUle Collins of Clyde and Mrs. Tom Mull of Waynesville. Ivie funeral home had charge of arrangements.