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?iit (Hffwit* t Cherokee County CLOTHED IN NATURE'S SCENIC WONDCBS IS AN IDEAL VACATION SPOT VoU>lE 58 ? NUMBER 16. MURPHY, NORTH CAROLINA THI'RSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1947. EIGHT PAGES THIS WEEK Bobbie Cox Placed In Custody Of Mrs. C. K. Fisher Since the death of Dr. and Mrs.' Robert Cox of Murphy in the Winccoif hotel fire last Deeemher, theii >?n, Bobbie, who survived the fire, has been living with Dr. Cox s sister. Mrs. Clarence K. Fish er, ,i!id her husband, of McDonald, Kan- i^. awaiting a decision of the gup. i 'er Court as to who should fear he child. Both Mrs. Fisher and Mrs Cox's sister, Mrs. Harry Cain of San Antonio, Texas, de sire custody of Bobbie. At a hearing in Superior Court here this week, before Judge Felix Alley, a ruling that he should re main with the Fishers was made. Through her attorneys, Mrs. Cain gave notice of appeal to Supreme Courr Representing the Fishers in the case were Attorneys J. B. Gray and J. C. Penland. Representing Mrs. C jin were Attorneys Edwin C. Hyde and John C. Cain of San Antonio. Accompanying the Fishers here were Bobbie and Mrs. Robert Cox of Mt Vernon, Ky., mother of the late Dr. Cox. With Mrs. Cain were Attorney Cain, Mrs. L. D. Jones of White Pine, Tenn., and Miss Louise Crawford of New York City. In rendering his decision in the case Judge Alley stated that in all his experience as judge he had not been faced with a more diffi cult decision. He highly praised both of the ladies that desire cus tod> of the child, stating that evi dence had proven both to be of fine Christian character. He said that he felt Bobbie was saved for r spei ial purpose in life and thai he felt a keen responsibility in de ciding upon the one to rear him. He >aid the child is one of the most beautiful children he has ever ?ccii. and made special comment on how he sat through a full day ol ' <>urt, quiet and still, not run ning around the courtroom as most children would have done. It was mutually agreed that as sets left the child by his parents be left in trust in this state for hin< * To Have Candle Light Service "The Man of Sorrows" will be the subject of the Rev. T. G. Tate's sermon at 11 o'clock Sunday morn ing at the Presbyterian church. At 7:30 o'clock in the evening, Synod's Youth Night will be ob served by the Youth Fellowship group in a candle light service. This service will take the place of the regular Youth Fellowship at 6:45. This is a public meeting. Sunday school will meet at 10 a. m. Anna Ruth Stiles Is 4-H President The Peachtree 4-H club met Tuesday morning and elected of ficers. Anna Ruth Stiles was elected president; David Hendrix, vice-president; Doretha Fleming, secretary and treasurer; Sallie Belle Ferguson, reporter; Audrey Dockey and Richard Sudderth, song leaders. Miss Mary Cornwell discussed the topic, "Four-H Health Improve ment". Each member was given a record book in which to record their health improvements. Penny's Subjects Are Announced The Rev. Wiilliam B. Penny, pastor of First Methodist church, announces that his sermon subject lor the 11' o'clock preaching serv ice Sunday morning will be. "Who Is On the Lord's Side?" At 7:30 p. m. he will preach on. "Stir Up the Gift of God". Sunday school, with W. D. Kin;* a3 general superintendent, will epen at 9:45 a. m. Methodist Youth Fellowship is at 6:30 p. m. Superior Court Is In Session Judge Felix Alley of Waynes vilU is presiding over the term of Ch< rokee eounty superior court wh < h opened here Monday morn ing Solicitor Dan K. Moore of Sylvn is doing the prosecuting for the- >1ate. T hough Tuesday, the following ea- were disposed of or con tin u d: 1 rank Siler, drunken driving, $5c and costs. Arvel Doekery, drunken driving, ?50 and costs. Joe White, asasult, nol prossed. Mi t Anderson, Melvin Hedden, Pai ot Hedden, fight with deadly weapons: $25 and costs as to An derson: $50 and cost as to Melvin Hedden, and continued as to Par rot Hedden. Clifford H. Stalcup, reckless driving, $25 and costs. Gm;t?e Picklesimer. assault, nol, prossed. Henry Burris, drunken driving, j $50 and costs. Claud Anderson, drunken driv- j in^. $50 and cost. Jess Willard Moore, drunken | driving and driving after license revoked, continued. Garland Allen, marriage con tract continued. Robert L. Taylor, reckless driv- . tog and manslaughter, continued. | Herbert C. Henry, driving drunk , and reckless driving. $50 and costs. John Woody, drunken driving. continued. Luke White, violation prohibi tion laws, continued. Burt Forster, abuse of wife and family, continued. Posey Brown, driving drunk. Jury v'erdict, not guilty. Cecil Stiles, assault, taxed with cost.;. Marshall Allen, reckless driving, ?ontinued on payment of costs. . Lem Smith, reckless driving. $25 and costs. Parks Cook. Gene Robinson, reckless driving; $50 and costs as to Cook, and nol prossed as to Robinson. Jack Hampton. larceny. IP months on roads. E. C. Crowder. reckless driving, $50 and costs. J. W. Shook, reckless driving. $?50 and costs. Jim Olvey, Joel Simonds, Burl ington Simonds, violation of motor vehicle law and drunken driving; nol prossed as to Olvey and $100 and costs, as to each of the Si monds. Dillard B. Orr. drunken driving. $100 and costs. Willard Payne, drunken driving and larceny of car, three years on road*. Melvin Rogers, breaking and entering and larceny. l6 months on roads. Carl E. Palmer, speeding. $25 and costs. Lee R. Lcdford. drunken driv ing. $100 and costs. V. G. Love, speeding, taxed with cosU. T. B. Case, speeding and reck Icss driving. $50 and costs. Fred White, violation of prohibi tion laws. $50 and costs. Mavis Radford, drunken driving. SI 00 and costs. John Ernest Shields, reckless driving, taxed with costs. Earl Morgan, drunken driving. $100 and costs. Victor G. Breedlove. reckless driving, $50 and costs. Cecil E. Owenb.v. drunken driv ing, $100 and costs. Oran Chas. Luther, speeding, $50 and costs. Edmond Mauski, assault and carrying concealed weapon, 18 months on roads. HONOR FORMER CABINET OFFICIAL PRESIDENT AND MRS. TRUMAN are shown with Col. Archibald B. Roose velt, son of the late President Theodore Roo?evelt, at the dedication in Washington of a memorial (background) to the late Oscar S. Straus, Cabinet member and diplomat under four Preildents. The statue is lo cated In Commerce Department Building's Great Plaza. (International) Speaking Contest On Soils Is Open To School Pupils High schol students will again this year have an opportunity to compete for a host of valuable prizes in the Soil Conservation Speaking Contest, it has been an nounced by J. Frank Doggett. in charge of Soil Conservation for the State College Extension Service The contest, which is sponsored by the North Carolina Ranker's Association in cooperation with agricultural workers, will be open to high school students in ev.-ry county of the State, Mr Doggett said. Last year students in only 45 counties were eligible and about 1.500 entered. This year more than 5.000 contestants are expect ed to enter. Rules of the contest, according to Mr. Doggett. are as follows: All high school students, grades 9-12 <boys and girls, rural and urban* are eligible to enter. Each contestant must write his or her speech, but may receive help from anyone or any source. The subject of the speech will he "Soil Conservation and Its Rela tion to the Economy to North Caro lina". The contestant may narrow the subject by replacing the words "Soil Conservation" in the title with a practice most important 'o his or her community. The maximum length of t o speech is 12 minutes. Each con testant must attend a supervised farm tour on a farm where good soil conservation is being pra< tfced. There will be three judges who v/ill judge each speech on the fo - lowing points: general organi'a tion and content of the speech. 50 points: and elements of delivery. 5C points. School contests are suggested for March 5, 1948. county contests lor March 12. and the final contest will be held in Raleigh. March '? Mi'. Doggett said. REVIVAL BEGINS A revival meeting will be i i Sunday night at the Calvary H , tist church, with the Rev Gram Chastine and Rev. E. (I Nichols* preaching. PREACHES SUNDAY The Rev. Taylor Haygood of I Marietta, Ga., will preach at Mac donia Baptist church Sunday morn ing at 1 1:00 a. m. HAS OPERATION Ben Akin underwent an opera tion on his eye by Dr. W. II McCall at Aston Park hospital. Asheville Tuesday. Miss Victoria Bell of Canton, field representative, and Miss Ethel Speas of Raleigh, supervisor of Adoptions of the State Depart ment of Public Welfare, were in Murphy last week on business. ANNOUNCES ? Former Gover nor J. Melville Broughton of Ral eigh. who has formally announced his candidacy for the United States Senate, the seat now hold by Senator W. B. U instead Public Deer Hunt On November 13 The first public deer hunt of the season to be sponsored by the North Carolina Division of For estr> ind Parks will take place at the Bladen Lakes States Forest on Thursday. November 13. Other deer hunts will be conducted No vember 20. 27. Dec. 4. and 18 for bona fide residents of North Caro lina. These hunts, which are to demonstrate wise use of all na tural resources of a state forest, will be limited to two groups of thirty hunters with dogs each day Each person in the hunt- using shot gi us with buckshot only may kill one buck deer and no >ilier game of any kind will be killed or molested on the forest. N > : er son ma- qualify for more than one hunt d'nir.g the sea on. Application forms and in- ruc tions may be had by writ in the State Forester. Dept. of Cor. r\a tion and Development. Ralei \ C. Applications will be re wd from persons desiring to or. ni/.e a hunt for 30 persons, with the ap plicant or a member of his furnishing the deer dogs. A > > li ter's check for $150 payable to t lie N. C. Dept. of Conservation id Development must be sent v. til each application to cover the for each hunting party. Willard Gels Discharge Benjamin Franklin Willard s 2/c, age 22. of Andrews was dis charged from the navy October 23 at the Naval Training Center, at San Diego. Calif. Willard went into the navy October 10. 1942 at Columbia. S. C. He was on the ship USS SC 696 YP 581 and serv ed one yenr overseas. Andrews And Murphy Posts Sponsor Armistice Program Visitation Days Are Nov. 11 -12 The Murphy city school will ob serve American Education Week November 10th through the 15th. Tuesday and Wednesday of that week will be Parents' Visitation Days. They are invited to come to school with the children, go to classes with them and also have lunch with them as guests of the lunch room. Miss Posey Is Taken By Death Miss Elizabeth (Tommie) Posey, native of Murphy and resident of Asheville for the past seven years, died in an Asheville Sanatorium late Sunday following a long ill ness. Miss Posey was the daughter of the late Col. and Mrs. Ben Posey of Murphy and a descendant of Sir Humphrey Posey, noted pioneer minister. She was reared in Mur phy. Survivors include a sister, Mrs. L. O. Rector of Asheville; three brothers, John, Ben, and Garland Posey of Murphy and several nieces and nephews. * Funeral services were conducted Tuesday at 11 o'clock in Bcrryman funeral home with the Rev. Paul N. Gresham and the Rev. H. V. Lofquist officiating. Interment was in Lewis Memorial park. Local Scouts Get Awards At Court Of Honor District Scout Court of Honor was hold at Robbinsville Tuesday night under the direction of \s sistant Scout Executive Avery Means from headquarters of the Daniel Boon Council, Asheville. C. R. Bales of Robbinsville and James Osborne of Hiwassee Dam presided as district committeemen. Six new Scouts were awarded their registration cards as Tender foot Scouts. Four new Scouts were from Troop 4. of Robbinsville, and Jack Deweese and Robert Penny from Troop 2, Murphy. Second Class Scout Billy Penny transferred his membership from High Point to Troop 8. of Murphy. Highest award received was the Second Class Badge to Eddie Reed of Murphy. Eddie was quali fied by the local Board of Review to receive this award. Board of Reviews consisted of Troop Com mitteemen Harry Bishop, Lloyd Hendrix and Dale Lee. Honor for the largest group of Scouts attending the court was to Murphy troop. A District board meeting was held after the Court of Honor. Mrs. M. C. Liddell Dies In Georgia News has been received here of the death of Mrs. M. C. Liddell, wife of the Rev. M. C. Liddell which occurred in Donaldsonville, (la. last Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Liddell lived in Murphy about 25 years ago when he was pastor of the Murphy Pres byterian church. Following is a report in the Atlanta Journal dated. Donaldsonville, Oct. 29: Mrs M C. Liddell. 73. will he buried at Norcross Thursday at 2 ? .'clock, with the Rev. Benson Bar rett officiating. The wife of the Presbyterian minister here died Tuesday eve ning after an illness of two weeks I funeral services were held Wcd I ncsday evening, with all the min I isters of the city taking part. I Klders and deacons of the Pres ' byterian church were pallbearers. The Liddells have served the | church here for eight yearrs. (' Survivors include a daughter, j Mrs Harry W. Reynolds of Atlan ' la; two brothers. E. A. Barrett. Panama City, Fla., and E. L. Bar . rett. Atlanta, and a sister, Mrs. J. I T. Chamblee, Gainesville, X3a. REV. G. A. GAINES Rev. G. A. Gaines To Preach Here Three Days The Rev. Fred R. Horton, pastor of the Free Methodist Church, an nounces that he will have as guest speaker Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday night, at 7:30 and also Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, the Rev. G. A. Gaines, district sup erintendent of the Free Methodist Church. Mr. Gaines has been an outstand ing evangelist for a number of years. He is a former director of the Service Men's Chapel in San Diego, California. He has preach ed in* some of the largest auditor iums in the United States, for the Youth-for-Christ rallies. "He is a fearless dynamic preacher of the gospel", states Mr. Horton. Other services arc: Sunday School at 10 a. m.. Young People's service at 7 p. m.. Prayer meeting. Thursday 7:30 p. m. The evening services are at 7:30. E. A, Wood's Cow, Specktwin, Makes Highest Record F. C. Ghiringhelli. tester, makes the following report on dairy cows checked by him during the month of October: E. A Wood of Andrews has a total of 81 milk cows, and in the last 31 days they have produced a grand total of 39.079 pounds of milk. His highest producing cow. "Specktwin", produced for the ' month a total of 1.233 pounds of I milk, testing 5.3 and thus making j ;? total of 65.3 pounds of butter I fat. The herd ot Randolph Shields. I numbering 42 milk cows, produced j for the month a total of 18.554 1 pounds of milk. His highest, j "Lady", produced for the month 'i total of 920 pounds of milk testing j 3.5 making a total of 32 pound? , of butterfat. The Folk School herd of 40 j cows produced 17.314 pounds oft milk Their highest producer was ' "Christine", with a total of 923 ' pounds of milk testing 4 9 and making 45 pounds of butterfat. I A. Q. Ketner's herd of four cows produced a total of 2.215 pounds of milk. His highest cow was "Annie", producing a total of 806 for the month and testing 3 8. nuk ing a total of 30 pounds of butter fat for the month. ' An Armistice day program, spon sored by the Joe Miller Elkins and Leslie St ill man posts of the Ameri can Legion, will be held here on Text Tuesday, beginning at 2:30 ,j. m. A softball game between veter ans from Murphy and Andrews will >tart the afternoon's activities, and this will be followed by a tag foot ball game and a tug of war. Music will be provided by the Blue Ridge high school band, who will be guests of the Andrews and Murphy American Legion posts. Immedi ately following the games the members from the Andrews and Murphy posts, including the Ladies auxiliaries, who arc to bring bask ets of food, will eat supper in the Murphy gymnasium. All veterans are invited. After supper the group will go to the Murphy school auditorium where an Armistice program will be presented. The Joe Miller Elkins post held a call meeting Monday evening to discuss plans for the celebration. The post now has 219 members. Approximately 75 were present Monday evening. Drivers Reminded To Get License Before Expiration According to R. W. Rector, Jr., local examiner, there still are many people in Cherokee county who have not applied for new motor vehicle operators' license. He calls attention to the law which requires that all persons whose surnames begin with "A" or "B" have their licenses renewed before December 31 of this year, or it will be illegal to operate a motor vehicle over the highways after chat date * >, All North Carolina operators' licenses issued prior to July 1, 1947. expire as follow according to law passed in the last legisla ture: ? a) A license issued to a per son whose last or surname begins with the letter "A" or the letter B ' shall expire at midnight, De cember 31. 1947: <b) A license issued to a person whose last or surname begins with the letter "C" or the letter "D" shall expire at midnight, June 30, 1948: <c> A license issued to a person whose last or surname begins with the letter E. F, or G shall expire at midnight, December 31, 1948; (d> A license issued to a person whose last or surname begins with the letter H. I. J or K shall expire at midnight, June 30. 1949. <c) A license issued to a person whose last or surname begins with the letter "L" or the letter "M** shall expire at midnight. December 31, 1949; if1 A license issued to a person whose last or surname begins with the letter \. O. P. Q shall expire at midnight, June 30, 1950; <g> A license issued to a person whose last or surname begins with the letter R, S or T shall expire at midnight. December 31, 1950; <h> A license issued to a person whose last or surname begins with the letter U. V. W. X, Y or Z shall expire at midnight. June 30, 1951. TRl IITT S SI BJKCTS The Rev. W. T. Truett. pastor of the Ranger Baptist church, will preach on "Precious Blood of Christ" Sunday morning and at Shady Grove church at 2:30 p. m. on The Ordination and Election". Bulldogs, Devils To Meet On Friday The Murphy Bulldogs, still nurs ing injuries but determined to hang on to their lead in the West ern Conference, will journey to Robhinsville to engage the up and down Blue Devils Friday afternoon at 1 o'clock. Coaches Yow and Raper have been drilling the Murphy eleven on the tricky pass and ground of fense that Robbinsville boys have used against their opponents, and pronounced the squad ready. Only a tie game mars the record of the Bulldogs, and a victory over Robbinsville would leave Murphy only two conference games to be played. Murphy has topped both teams ^before this season.
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