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MURPHY. NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER ?. 1945
EIGHT PAGES THIS WEEK
Billy W. Mull
In Tokyo Bay
On The USS Oakland in Tokyo
gay _ Billy W. Mull, seaman,
first class. USNR. Route 1, Culber
son. M C. is serving on this cruiser,
which is part of the powerful
pacific fleet completing the first
stapes cf the occupation of Japan.
Under the operational control
of Admiral William F. Halsey,
CSN, the OAKLAND, with 19
other cruisers. 12 battleships. 17
aircraft carriers, six escort carri
ers, and more than 290 other U. S.
ships, is helping take over control
of the Japs' naval bases.
Tractor Tires
Are Released
Tractor and Implement tires
have been released from rationing.
H. N. Wells. Chairman, Cherokee
County AAA committee, announc
ed here today.
' Farmers using truck and pass
enger tires will continue to obtain
thorn through local OPA boards,"
he said. ,
Distribution control of Crawler
tractors was discontinued Au
gust 20. Mr. Wells Chairman,
Cherokee County AAA Committee
announced here today.
"No applications for Crawler
tractors have been approved since
July 28." Wells said, "and all ap
plicati ns that were not approved
v.ill be mailed directly to appli
cants by the War Production
Board."
"All applications in State and
Count r AAA offices will be return
ed to applicants immediately," he
added.
Barnett To Have
Re-assignment
M. ;vi. i, c jsii.v Baruert who
has spent a 30-day leave here with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dennis
Barnett. left Tuesday for Atlanta
for reassignment. Barnett spent
two and a half years overseas on
Russell Islands, New Georgia,
Munda, Guadalcanal, the Solo
mons and Peliliu.
Wades guests of wilsons
The Rev. and Mrs. Joel T.
Wade of Chattanooga, guests of
Mr. unci Mrs. J. H. Wilson for the
week-end. visited the Presbyter
ian Sunday school Sunday morn
ing. Mr. Wade was first presi
dent of Nachooche Institute in
Georgia and Mrs. Wilson taught
with him there. Mrs. Wade, a
missionary to China a number of
years ago, sang several songs in
Chinese for the children.
Miss Moselle Moore left Friday
for Shelby where she will again
supenise music in the schools of
Shelby, a position she has held
lor two or three years.
"Come On In! The Water's Fine!"
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Official Coaat Guard, photo.
No matter where the fortune of war may take the American fighting man,
he finds a way to enjoy the sports he loved back home. This could well
be the "old swimming hole" almost anywhere in the States. Instead,
it's a recreation center at a South Pacific base, where Coast Guardsmen
from an LST enjoy the thrills afforded* by an improvised diving float.
Brown To Go To
Chicago University
Announcement has been made
by J. S. Lynch, President of the
Eoard of Trustees of the North
Carolina Baptist Hospital, of the
resignation of Ray E. Brown as
Administrator. Mr. Brown's resig
nation has been in the hands of
the Board for several weeks and is
to become effective September
1st.
Mr. Lynch said that he is able
at this time to announce the ap
pointment of Mr. Reed Holmes,
at present Assistant Superintend
ent of Duke University Hospital,
as successor to Mr, Brown.
Mr. Brown resigned to accept a
position as Assistant Director of
the University of Chicago Clinics
end Hospitals. He will also be
Assistant Director of the graduate
course in Hospital Administration
which is conducted by the Uni
versity of Chicago.
Mi. Brown is me nusband of
the former Miss M a it Wither
spoon of Murphy.
Baptists Observe
Intermediate
Week Sept 9 - 16
The First Baptist Church is
observing Intermediate Week Sep
tember 9-16. Next Sunday the
Intermediates will have a part in
the Sunday School and Training
Union opening assemblies, morn
ing ad evening worship services.
The parents of Intermediate boys
and girls are urged to attend these
services.
Sunday morning the Intermed
iates will meet in a group at 7:45
a. m. to hear the radio broadcast
for young people on the theme
"Calling-Youth". A cordial invi
tation is extended to the public
for these services.
A Man Without an Airport
? r /
THIS MAY BE
"FREEDOM OF THE AIR"
BUT WHERE IN HECK ^
AM 1 GOING TO LAND?
Officials
Get Copy
New Laws
City and county officials here
and throughout the State are this
week receiving a 60.000-word sum
mary of the new laws passed by
the 1945 General Assembly, pre
pared by the Institute of Govern
ment staff.
The publication, which was is
sued from the Institute's main of
fice at Chapel Hill, was compiled
by the same staff which conduct
ed its daily and weekly legislative
information service for city and
county officials from Raleigh
during the 1945 session.
The purpose, it was explained,
is to supply officials a concise,
handy summary of the new acts
affecting their governmental units
prior to the publication of the ses
sion laws, and also to provide local
officials a guide in their use of the
session laws for the next two
years.
Watson On The
Missouri When
Japs Signed
Aboard the USS Missouri in
Tokyo Bay ? James Maynard
Watson, seaman, second class,
USNR, Marble, N. C? is playing
a role in a momentous event of
American history. Serving on
this mighty battleship, he was
present when the Japanese envoys
came aboard to sign the final sur
render document. General of the
Army Douglas MacArthur, Su
preme Allied Commander; Fleet
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. Com
mander-in-Chief of the Pacific
Fleet, who signed the document
for the United States; and other
famous American military and
naval chiefs were present.
The 45.00-ton MISSOURI, nam
ed for the home state of Presi
dent Truman, is one of the most
powerful warships ever built. It
is now the flagship of Admiral
William F. Halsey, Commander
of the Third Fleet.
MINISTERS TO MEET
All Baptist ministers are urged
to be present at the First Baptist
Church, Monday, September 10,
at 10 o'clock fo rthe purpose of
organizing a Minister's confer
ence.
ON 40-HOUR W EEK
The work hours of the War
Price and Rationing Board em
ployees have been cut to 40 hourr.
per week. Hereafter the Board
office will be closed all day on
Saturdays.
TO PREACH SUNDAY
R. T. L. Liston, Th. M? Ph. D?
president of King Colege, Bristol.
Tenn., will preach at the Presby
terian church here Sunday eve
ning at 7:30 o'clock. Tire public
is invited to attend the service.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Edgar Har
shaw left Monday for their home
in Richmond. Va., after spending
the summer at Harshaw farms
here.
Banks Encourage
Farm Prosperity
In Work With
Youths Of State
North Carolina farmers can
gr.?w any crop that can be produc
ed between northern Florida and
Canada ? and grow ii better, ac
cord ng to P. B. Feiebee, Presi
dent, Citizens Bank and Trust
Co. "We can make that boast with
assurance as the result of more
than 20 years experimentation in
which our farmers have teamed
up with experts from their local
and state schools and with their
home town bankers and business
men," he added.
This 20 years of agricultural
development has been supported
actively by leading bankers of the
state, who long ago saw the neces
sity of freeing farmers from the
disastrous results of depending al
most wholly on tobacco and cot
ton for income and from erosion
and depletion of fertility of large
areas of land.
North Carolina farmers dont
fear a depression which some ex
perts believe will come when the
demand for tobacco and cotton
grows less after the war. Although
land prices have reached levels
:-.bove the 1920 boom peak, the
farmers have been able to lay up
financial rerserves from profi >
from flue cured tobacco, and n
stand a recession. They donU
expect the recession to be so se
vere as it was after World War I.
and with reason.
About 20 years apro 35 banks in
North Carolina became concern
ed over conditions existing in their
heme neighborhoods. They found
that land was going >ut of pro
duction because of erosion and
depletion of the soil, and the loss
of that income affectei the who.e
community. Those rankers de
cided to do something about it.
and today the state has a sturdy
anchor against adversity in the
11,000 boys and girls enrolled in
the Future Farmers of America,
who are learning modern agricul
tural in the schools, and the
27,000 adults in practical farming
classes right in their home com
munities. i
But equally important for the
long term are the interests awak
ened among the 90,000 North
Carolina boys and girls of the
4-H elubs who are earning and
learning as they enjoy the soci
ability of their club activities.
In these constructive activities;
the North Carolina country banker
has always been a key figure.
Working through the agricultural
committee of his state bankers
association, and with the Agricul
tural Commission of the Ameri
can Bankers Association, he has
provided the finances which
bought calves, sheep, hogs, and
poultry, seeds for new varieties of
crops, machinery for working the
soil, and community canning and
processing plants, and above all
he has applied business methods
to these operations with the re
sult that they have become popu
lar because they are profitable
farm operations. These things
have all been over and above the
services tanks normally provide.
One of the first things the
bankers did for their state was
to encourage the growing of beef
and milk cattle on the farms, and
the development of poultry flocks.
The banks put up the money to
buy good grades of stock, and the
animals were placed in the hands
of white and negro farmers and
their children members of the
Future Farmers and 4-H clubs.
T'^en they applied a little of the
old American spirit of competi
tion and provided funds for pre
miums to be distributed a>t the Fat |
Stock and Wool Show, the West- j
em Carolina Fat Stock Show, the
state poultry contests among
Future Farmers, and other events
held annually as a part of a well
coordinated program benefiting
every part of the state. These ac
tivities have not been neglected
even in wartime, despite the fact
that banks have teen short of help
and at the same time have extend
ed their work to include ration
coupon banking. War Loan drives,
and a lot of other necessary tasks
contributing to winning of the
war.
"One Little Indian"
LAKE JUNALUSKA. N C.? Bishop
Clare Purcell of Charlotte. N. C., is
shown as he baptized a three-month
old Choctaw Indian baby here in
mid-August in the presence of nearly
a thousand people. Son and name
sake of the Rev Forbis Pipkin
Durant. Methodist pastor on the
Cherokee reservation, the baby is
here with his parents who are at
tending their denomination's sum
mer assembly
Bishop Purcell. who administers
three of the four Methodist confer
ences in the Carolinas. was assisted
in the baptismal rites by two col
leagues. Retired Bishop Hoyt M.
Dobbs of Birmingham. Ala., and
Bishop Arthur P Wesley of Buenos
Aires. Argentina.
19 Men Leave
For Military
Examination
The following 19 Cherokee coun
ty men left Murphy last Wednes
day morning for Fort Jackson, S.
C., for pre-induction physical
examination:
Hubert Eugene Roberson, lead
er; Buster Emory Laney, assist
ant leader; Glen Henry Johnson,
Harley Joe Coleman, Glen Ware,
Corbon Ware, Winfred Hardin,
Francis Calvin Peak, Charles Han
cock, Homer Leonaid Payne, John
Henry Hodge. Ernest J. E. Satter
field, James Freeman Elliott,
Kendol Lee Dockery. Earl Eliott,
Hairy D. Padgett, Leon Beaver.
Glenn Howard Woody, Homer Lee
Zimmerman.
Court Of Honor
For Scouts Held
Andrews Tuesday
Nantahala district Boy Scout
court of honor was held at An
drews city hall Tuesday evening,
with scouts from Andrews, Rob- 1
binsville, Hayesville, Topton and I
Hiwassee Dam present.
Star scout was awarded to t
Richard Sharpe of Robbinsville j
and Robert Cunningham of Hay
esville, by Gordon L. Butler of |
Topton.
The following boys were in
ducted into scouting as tender
foot by F. V. Smith, Worth and
Roger Davis of Hayesville and
Wilbur and Bobby Fair, Buster
Godfrey and Earl Nelson of Top
ton.
Merit badges were awarded to
tire following Hiwassee Dam
scouts: Billy Flurry, George But
ler and James Brock, by Clarence
Bales.
Tlie court of honor was under
the direction of Frank W. Swan
The district committee met
immediately afterward, with Har
ry Bradshaw presiding.
Mrs. Eddie Lindbergh of Atlan
ta spent the week-end here with
her sister. Mrs. J. N. Hill, Jr.
John E. Forrester,
Survivor Of Houston
Is Now Liberated
James M.Ammons
Near Tokyo Shore
Aboard The USS Essex in The
Pacific ? James M. Amnions. Jr.,
24, machinist's mate, second class,
USN, son f Mr. and Mrs. J. M.
Ammons. Sr.. 204 Hilton St.. Mur
phy, N. C. serves aboard tliis car
rier which steamed close to the
shores of Tokyo with Task Force
38 to launch her planes against the
remaining strength of the enemy
in the final days of the war.
All hands answered reveille
several hours before sunrise that
morning. They had had their
breakfast, and were waiting at
their stations for the first light
of dawn when the deafening roar
of the flight of fighters took off
one by one. followed by the bomb
ers and torpedo planes.
Hundreds of Jap planes were
destroyed on the ground, but few
were sent up to challenge the at
tacks. The few that dared to fly
out to the Task Force never re
turned.
Verlon Carter
At Oglethorpe
Army Ground and Service For
ces Redistribution Station, For:
Oglethorpe. Ga. ? Set. Verlon E.
Carter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chiton
Carter, RFD No. 3, Murphy. N
Car. and husband of Mrs. Clifton
Carter of the same address is cur
rently stationed at the Redistribu
tion Station, where he will spend
two weeks before reporting to his
new assignment in the United
States.
Sergeant Carter was returned
recently to the United States after
having served 9 months in the
European theatre of operations,
where he served as a rifleman in
the 10th Armored Division. He
holds the Good Conduct Ribbon.
C'omba: Infantryman's Badge.
Purple Heart with oak leaf cluster,
and European Theatre of Opeia
t ons Ribbon with two campaign
stars.
Wm. D. Crisp
Dies Aug. 27
William D. Crisp, 54. son of J.
M. Crisp of Murphy, died of a
heart attack at Jacksboro, Tenn..
August 27. Funeral services were
held at Marion, August 30. Burial
was in the Marion cemetery with
Masons in charge.
Mr. Crisp was a veteran of the
first World War. a member of the
American Legion anr a mason.
He had been empk .1 by the
TVA in the engineering depart
ment. building highways.
Survivoi-s are his widow, his
father. J. M. Crisp of Murphy, his
mother, Mrs. Amanda E. Crisp,
two sisters, Mrs. Ethel Crisp and
Mis. Stella Church all of Marion,
and five aunts including Mrs. J.
N. Moody of Murphy who attend- 1
ed the funeral services.
Mr. and Mrs. Homer C. For
rester of Murphy on Saturday re
ceived the following telegram
illative to their son. John Edgar
F .rrester, who had been a prison
er of the Japanese for three years
tnd seven months, having been a
Houston survivor:
"I am pleased to inform you of
the liberation from Japanese cus
tody of your son. John Edgar For
rester, seaman first class, USN,
word has been received that he
has arrived in Calcutta. His con
dition is reported as good. You
are invited to send him free via
this bureau a twenty-five word
message. Every effort to effect de
livery this message before his re
turn to United Startes will be
made. Further details will be furn
ished you promptly when received.
I rejoice with you in this good
news and hope that he will com
municate with you at an early
date. Vice Admiral Randall
Jacobs, the Chief of Naval Per
sonnel."
Herman H. Jones
Awarded Medal
With The Fifth. Army, Italy ?
Staff Sergeant Herman H. Jones
cf Unaka. North Carolina, recent
ly w as awarded the Bronze Star
Medal for meritorious service in
combat in Italy.
He served with the Fifth Army
in Headquarters Company, Third
Battalion, 349th "Krautkiller"
Regiment, 88th "Blue Devil" Di
vision.
His wife, Mrs Lois G Jones,
lives in Unaka.
Johnson Coming
Home After 40
Months Overseas
With the 32nd Infantry Divis
ion In Northern Luzon. P. I. ?
Private First Class Meraill John
son, whose father, lives at 104
Willow Street. Murphy, North
Carolina, is returning home under
the Army's redeployment plan.
Johnson a veteran of 40 mon
ths overseas, was a machine gun
ner in Battery B. 121st Field Ar
tillery Battalion of the 32nd "Red
Arrow" Infantry Division, which
is operating in the Cagayen Valley
of Northern Luzon, Philippine Is
lands.
He entered the Army on Janu
ary 14. 1942. completed his basic
training at Fort Bragg:, North
Carolina, and embarked for over
seas duty. April 22. 1942.
Seeing action at Saidor Aitape,
Biak of the Netherlands East In
dies. Leyte and Luzon in the Philip
pines. Johnson is authorized to
wear the American Defense ribbon,
the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and
Philippines Liberation rittoons
with three battle stars. He was
also awarded the Bronze Arrow
head for participating in the ini
tial landing at Biak. and the Army
Good Conduct Medal.
Before entering the Army,
Johnson was a truck driver in his
father's business.
What the Well-Foliaged Coast Guardsman Is Wearing