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tmktt front Let's Work Together to Have a NEW HOSPITAL VOLUME 57 ? NUMBER 30. MURPHY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1947 FIGHT PAGES THIS WEEK Cherokee County Triples Quota In Polio Campaign ** * * * * ? * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * $452,400 To Be Spent On Cherokee County Highways Announced By Highway Commission Cherokee county will get a total I of $452,400 for the construction of 57.2 miles of highways in the county this year, according to fig ures released by the State High way commission in Kalcigh this week. The State Highway commission will spend an estimated $5,806,980 on highway construction in 19 Western North Carolina counties this year. Chairman A. H. Graham says that the 1947 program includes con struction. grading and stabilization of 125 miles in Buncombe county a! an estimated cost of $1,286,550. This includes the construction of 9.1 miles on a county road from near Dix Creek southwest to New found church to beginning of bi tuminous surfacing 1.6 miles east of Canton at a cost of approximate 1\ $300,000. The construction program for other Western North Carolina counties: Haywood. 74 miles $434,000; Hen derson. 63 6 miles $528,500; Chero kee . 57 2 miles. $452,400; Clay. 20 miles. $36,600; Graham. 3.5 miles, $31,500; Jackson. 50 miles, $88,100; Macon, 55 miles, $97,200; Madison, 55 miles. $97,200. Mitchell 24 miles, $44,600; Swain, 34.3 miles, $95,850; Transylvania, 35.6 miles, $100,900; Yancey, 34 8 miles, $350, 300; Polk, 114 2 miles, $170,750; Rutherford, 165.6 miles, $275,500; McDowell, 137.7 miies, $350,750; Burke. 182.05 miLe?, $752,500; Ashe-, 100.6 mile? >333,630 an^ Watauga, (ft 23 miles, $213,200 Morris Announces Sermon Topics The Rev. J. Alton Morris will preach Sunday morning at 1 1 o'clock at First Baptist church on, "The Second Coming of Christ in the *Light of Present Day Events". His subject for Sunday evening at 7:30 will be, "Hired Helpers in God's House". Sunday school begins at 9:45 o'clock and Training Union at 6:30 p. m. At 4 p m. Sunday the pastor will hold services at the prison camp. On Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock the Training Union council will meet The hour of power service will be at 7:30 Wed nesday evening, and the Sunday school preview and choir practices according to the regular schedule. New Sugar Stamp Good For Ten Pounds April 1 To avoid the substantial expense of printing and distributing new sugar ration books, all sugar stamps made valid on or after April 1, 1947, will be good for 10 pounds of sugar, A. D Simpson. Jr., OPA Kegional Sugar Executive, said to day in Atlanta. Spare Stamp No 53, now valid for five pounds of sugar, will ex pire for consumer use at midnight on March 31 and a new stamp, good for 10 pounds of sugar, will be validated on April 1 to cover both home canning and regular home use, Simpson stated. He ad ded that the number of the next valid stamp will be announced at a later date. TO GIVE CONCERT The Guilford College choir will Rive a sacred concert at First Methodist church on Friday, March 28, at 7:30 o'clock. The choir has forty-five voices. Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Mad den and children. Donna and Ned. who were here last week for the marriage of Mrs. Madden's sister. Miss Sarah Witherspoon and Mack Patton, returned Saturday to their fcome la Little Rock. Ark. Hospital Meeting To Be February 21 The speaking on the Good Health ? program, by Dr. I G. Greer of Thomasville and Harry B. Caldwell of Greensboro, planned for Feb. 14. has been postponed until Feb ruary 21, announces Dr. W. A ' Hoover, member of the state coun cil, who is making arrangements 1 for the meeting here. An effort is being made to reach ? every person in the county, with an invitation to attend the meet ing. It is hoped that a large crowd will be present to hear plans for enlarged hospital facilities for the county. Play Changed To Friday Night The presentation of "The Bar gain Bride" by the Beta club of Murphy high school has been changed from Feb. 13 to Feb. 14 The play will be presented in the Murphy school auditorium at 7:30 p. m. Friday evening. Poultry School To Be Held In Hayesville 17th Poultry specialists cf State Col lege Extension service will be in Hayesville Monday, Feb. 17, to conduct a school for pmltrymen in Cherokee. Clay. Graham and Macon counties, begirning at 9:45 a m. C. F. Parrish. head of the Poul try department at Slate College; E. W. Glazener, 1 S. Dearstyne and T. T. Brown, also of the depart ment. will be present to discuss with the poultry producers any problems they have. All the local county farm and home agents will attend the meet ing. and anyone from this county desiring a ride with them should meet at the courthouse in. Murphy at 9 o'clock in the morning. Legislative Activities ! At the close of the fourth full i wetfc, the 1947 session of the Gen ! era) Asembly was still apparently j \a little ahead of its 1945 counter-, jC**' w .~* ect to the volume of I business transacted. At the end of the 27th legislative day. the 1947 Senate had received 109 bills and the House 276. for a total of 385 as against 129 in the Senate and 240 in the House for a total of 369 for the same period in 1945. Ex cept for postponing consideration of an occasional bill for a few days, both bodies have been able so far to keep their calendars cleared , from day to day. and practically all committees seem to be pursu ing their duties with unusual dili gence. All in all. this session ' shows considerable promise of being able to wind up its work within approximately the same number of days consumed by the 194;" session, which would mean an adjournment date somewhat earlier than had been generally pre dicted The 1945 session required 67 legislative days: the same num ber of legislative days would send this Assembly home on March 26 With the major fights still to be decided, however, there is still ample opportunity for "well into Api il" to be realized Helping substantially to swell the total of 385 bills introduced thus far are 188 local bills, some of which are necessary in order to accomplish the purposes of the bills, some of which would appear properly to be the concern of local boards rather than of 170 legisla tors. and some of which are prob ably unconstitutional Although the percentage of local bills so far this session is not as great as the average for the past several sessions (local bills have been aver aging between 60% and 70% of the total), there is considerable feeling that they are still occupy- 1 Pastors To Meet Monday The program for the Baptist pastors' conference to be held Mon day at First Baptist church. Mur phy. at 10 o'clock a. m? will be as follows: Devotional, the Rev. Sim Martin; business session; address. "A Pastor's View of His Relation to Brother Pastors ", the Rev. J. Alton Morris; and benediction, the Rev Calvin Thompson. TO ATTEND CLINIC Miss Mildred Whitfield will spend next week ir High Point in tending the Better Bible Teaching clinic at First Piptiat church ?>i! entirely too much time which I might more profitably be spent I ?P?n important State-wide meas ures Of the 188 local bills, 30 deal with salaries and fees of local officials, 1C concern the sale of wine and /or beer. 7 seek to amend the charters of various municpali ties. 7 others are concerned with the extension of municipal corpo rate limits, while 1 would repeal the charter of two muncipalities which have ceased to function as such. There are 9 which deal with ocal bond issues, 6 each with local flections, domestic relations and recorders courts, jury fees, and <>cal tax levies. Bills dealing with , hunting account for 3. while 5 local bills, in adition to 7 state vide bills on the same subject, seek with varying degrees of complete ness lo prohibit the use of pyro technics. And while thev are technically public bills, there have n introduced so far 10 bills seeking authority to pay varying a mounts of money to individuals in settlement of claims against the ' ' '"''sing froln such causes as wrecks involving school busses, in spite of the fact that legislators have been requested to turn over all of such claims to a sub-commit tee ot the Appropriations Commit tee to be embodied in an omnibus bill designed tp save much time on the part of all concerned. in addition to legislating along State-wide and local lines, the General Assembly has so far enter tamed 4 joint resolutions which ask I he Congress of the United States to take action along lines requested therein. Two have al ready been ratified. HR 75 asks the North Carolina delegation in Congress to lend assistance in ob taining tobacco flue sheets for North Carolina farmers, while SR 88, ratified on Wednesday, asks Congress to make 75,000 tons of commercial nitrogen available to North Carolina farmers within the next 30 or 40 days. Two are still before committees: HR 184 would ask Congress to emancipate the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians by freeing them from the control of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and f.'?*11'?, fu" citizenship, while HR 240 would ask the North Caro ?na delegation to lend its support to federal legislation to provide a public school equalization fund to raise the standards of public school education without imposing federal control. Of the new bills introduced dur P'st we?*. Perhaps the most far-reaching (subject, of course, to its enactment) is HB 229 'Continued on Page 2> Illustrated Lecture To Feature Club Program 19th Collus Johnson, assistant to the chief of the Exposition Unit ot the TVA, will give an illustrated lecture on, "Homemakers* Re sponsibility insponsibility in the Use of Our Natural Resources ', at the meeting of Murphy Woman's elub Wednesday afternoon, Febru ary 1 i>. at 3:15 o'clock in the home economics building. Mr. Johnson will be presented by Miss Velma Beam, assistant home agent of Clay county, who will speak briefly on, "The Home". Mrs. B. W. Whitfield is chairman of the American Home department of club and has charge of the pro gram. Home demonstration club women and others interested in the subject to be discussed are invited to at tend this meeting. Savages To Have Open House Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Savage will hold Open House at their new apartment on Peachtree Street Saturday afternoon from 3 to 5 o'clock. The public is cordially in vited. Tate Announces Sermon Topics The Rev. T. G. Tate has announc ed as his sermon subjects for Sun day at the Presbyterian church. "The Paradox of Religion" at 11 o'clock in the morning, and "Keep Yourselves in the Love of God", for the 5 o'clock vesper service. Youth fellowship meets immedi ately after vespers, and Sunday school at 10 o'clock a. m. Mr. Tate will preach at the Hayesville Presbyterian church at 7:30 o'clock in the evening. Cherokee Men Confer With Secretary Krug Percy B. Ferebee of Andrews, president of Western North Caro lina Associated Communities. Frank Forsyth of Murphy, W. T Teas and H. ,1 Truett of Andrews were members of the Western North Carolina delegation which conferred in Washington last Fri day with Secretary of the Interior Julius A Krug on the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Blue Ridge Parkway development pros pects. They expressed satisfac I tion with the results of the con I ference and foresaw that it would lead ultimately to the improve ments requested. The conference had been arrang ed through the offices of Monroe M Redden, representative of the 12th district, in behalf of the West ern North Carolina Associated Communities organization. Secretary Krug. it was reported, was highly attentive to the pres entation and seemed to be in sym pathy with the position of the delegation. He said that the pro gram proposed for development of the park and the parkway is gen erally in line with what the Na tional Park service has planned and expressed the opinion that any difference between the two could be reconciled satisfactorily. AT TRAINING COURSE ANDREWS ? Mrs. C. C. Wash am. Mrs. Boyd Robinson. Miss Lticile Bell. Miss Vera Moore and Miss Ruth Barnard attended the officer's training course held in Bryson City last Saturday. ASTOUNDED AT ATOM POLICY WHILE WHOLEHEARTEDLY endorsing the nomination o I David EL Li lien - thai as head of the Atomic Energy Commission, Bernard Baruch, ap pearing before the Joint Atomic Committee In Washington, declares he was "astonished" at the policy ol Congress wHcb made It necessary to place atomic energy control in the hands of civilian rather than military leaders. The elder statesman is shown leaning over a table to speak to Sei* Brien McMahon, of Connecticut, and the Committee Chairman, Sen. Bourke B. Hlckenlooper, of Iowa. (International Soundphoto) To Install Heating System In Gymnasium For many months local people ? have been making an effort to have a heating system put in the gym nasium. Through a cooperative effort of the town and county, it now appears that within a few days gas heat will be installed by C. L. Alverson. At the meeting of Murphy town council Monday evening, a com mitter of E. K Stiles, W. D. King and C. 11 Townson were appointed to confer with Mr. Alverson and work out plans for the installation. , 4-H Club Meets | Are Scheduled Following is the 4-11 club sohed- 1 ule for this month: Tuesday. February 18. Ranger. 9:00 o'clock; Tuesday, February 18. Hiwassee Dam, 11:00 o'clock Wed nesday. February 19. Marble, 9:30 o'clock; Wednesday, February 19. Andrews Elementary, 11:00 o'clock; I Wednesday, February 19. Andrews ? High. 12:45 o'clock; Thursday. February 20. Martin's Creek, 9:30 o'clock: Thursday. February 20. . Murphy Elementary. 12:30 o'clock; j Thursday. February 20. Murphy ? High, 1:35 o'clock; Friday, Febru j ary 21. Peachtree, 9:30 o'clock; Fri day. February 21. Wolf Creek, 1:30 I o'clock; Monday. February 24. j Beaverdam, 1:30 o'clock. Free Methodist 1 Services Listed Services at the Free Methodist church are as follows: Sunday ! School 10:00 A M.. preaching by 'the pastor at 11:00 A. M.. subject "God's Presence Attracting"; {young people's services at 7:00 p. m.: the pastor will preach again at 7:30 p m. The prayer band will meet at the home of the pastor Wednesday at 7:30 p m. Prayer meeting at the Church is Thursday at 7:30 p. m. Friday, night Feb. 21st at 7:30 the Rev. G. A. Gaines. District Superintendent, will preach also Saturday night. Sunday morning and Sunday night. The public is invited to attend all these services. SINGING The Third Sunday singing will be held at Maltby Baptist church, near Marble. Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The public is invited. Young Is Speaker At Murphy Lions Club Meeting The Rev. Russell L. Young, pastor of First Methodist church, was guest speaker at the meeting of Murphy Lions club Tuesday eve ning at Henry House. His subject was: "Citizenship, as it Relates to Boy Scouts". Mr. Young was pre sented by the Rev. T. G. Tate, pro gram chairman for the meeting. Tin' club voted to move the in formation booth off the street, since it has been returned to the club by the Town of Murphy. President R S Bault appointed a committee to have the booth mov ed anil repaired. Mi and Mrs. M R. Harrcll ol "'ashinuton. D. C.. were quests ol Miss Addie Mae Cooke; and .). S Lewis was a guest of H. Bueck Deacons And Preachers' Week To Be Held Deacon.4' and Preachers' weel , will be held simultaneously ii ' three churches on this area cover ing the entire association. Febru ary 24-28. announces Miss Mildre< Whitfield. Baptist associations field representative. | Leading the groups will be: Th Rev. Robert Barker, Valley Rive group: the Rev. J. C. Pipes o Ashcville. Hayesville: and the Re\ | J. Alton Morris, Murphy. i Young Announces Sermon Topics The pastor's themes at Fin Methodist church for Sunday, Fcl 16. are: U a m , "On the Insid j Looking Out": 7:30 p m , "Oui I To Use" Feature of the evenin i service will be special organ nun ' bers, anthems by the choir, and i period of congregational singini : lead by the youth choir. Sunday school is at 9:45 a. n j and The Methodist Youth Fellov I ship at 6:30. The public la invite I by the pastor, Rev. Russell 1 Young, to attend Chapter Able To Meet Its Obligations I Cherokee county more than tripled its quota of $1,050 in the 1947 polio campaign, according to announcement this week by W. T. Teas, chairman of the drive, who reported that the final figures soar <?<! to 93.Stt.47. In the past three years, the Cherokee county chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis has spent several thous and dollars for the treatment of polio cases .and the chapter still had an obligation of more than $1,400 and also a contribution to (he Asheville Orthopedic hospital to meet. It was for that reason the chapter would not accept the quota of $1,050 set by the national or ganization. but set out to raise at least $3,000 People throughout the county cooperated heartily in the cam paign, which was conducted as a memorial to the late Dr. Robt. H. Cox. 50 Additional Beds Possible Under Medical Care Plans RALEIGH ? Dr. John A. Fer rell. executive secretary of the Medical Care Commission, says that under present plans of the Commission, the 67 counties to N*rth Carol?/;- with ^dequate _ existing hospital Facilities nury W allocated, on an average, an ad ditional 50 beds each under pro visions of the Good Health Plan. Since publication recently of a map which proposed location of nine new hospitals and 24 rural health centers in the 33 counties of the state which now have no hospital facilities at all, the Medi cal Care Commission has been a target for basts from the 67 other counties in the state which have existing facilities, but which are inadequate to meet present de mands. These counties, Dr. Fcr rell said, have expressed the opin ion thai they were being "left out" of the Commission's plans. Regarding this. Dr. Ferrell said. "The commission's tentative plans, published recently, provide for community clinics, health centers, oi hospitals for the counties of the State now without any hospital I facilities whatever These areas, presumably, would require about 1 400 of the 5.000 beds for which the Commission is planning dur ing the next five-year period. This would leave approximately 3.600 beds to be allocated to the re maining 67 counties of the state which now have some hospital facilities. On an average basis, this would mean more than 50 beds < for alocation to each county, i "When the anticipated appro - priations have been made (federal. - state, and local), the Commission 1 will undertake a thorough study 1 by competent personnel of the situation and needs of hospital e facilities in each county or hospi r tal area: and on the basis of this f study, the Commission wil be plac ? ed in a position to give considera j tion to specific proposals from the 1 various counties or hospital dis | tricts." In the meantime, Dr. Ferrell added, "friends of specific pro grams for additional beds should not become over-anxious for the welfare of their projects." Dr. L T. Russell Attends Clinic Dr. L. T. Russell, Jr., left Sun day for Chicago to attend the Mid winter Clinic at Stevens Hotel this week. From there he will go to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Minn., to take a po*t graduate course in plastic and oral surgery.
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