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^..newspapers llMT ARE THE BASIC ADVERTISING MEDIUM Hit CUfrmkff KEEP POSTED ON WHAT IS GOING ON IN YOl'R COUNT! BY READING YOl'R HOME PAPER ,OI I MK ? - TOMB 51 EIGHT PAGES THIS WEEK WNCAC To Meet At Hiwassee Park FFA And 4-H Boys Selected For Ausj. 15 Camp County Forest Warden Burnett ( announces that Vocational Agri cultural Extension leaders are now selecting FFA and 4-H boys to a'.iend the Annual Forestry Train ing Camp held by the Dept. of Conservation and Development 011 Au-'i t 15-20, at Singletary Lake. Filly boys who have carried on outstanding forestry projects on their farms will be chosen for this honor The Seaboard Railroad will also send 20 boys from other Southern States. The camp, sponsored each year by the member mills of the South ern Pulpwood Conservation Asso ciation. will again have a staff of trained foresters to teach the boys IV basic principles of farm fores try management, said County For est Warden Burnett Timber mark ing and estimating, tree identifica tion. pacing, and log bucking are some <rf th ethings boys will learn And on the last day of the camp, contests will be held and valuable prizes will be awarded the win ners County Warden Burnett added that the boys will have plenty of chance for swimming, volleyball. Softball, and horseshoe pitching. Methodist Services Listed Tlit' Sacrament of Holy Com munieri will be observed at the eleven o'clock morning worship service it First Methou.sl churcu Sunday The pastor Rev. W. B Penny will conduct a brief devo tion :il in keeping with the Com munion Service. There will be a Fellowship Sup per for the entire Church mem bership. in the main assembly room of the Church School in the basement of the Church at 6:30 p. m. Tlu* Methodist Youth Fellowship will have their evening service at seven o'clock. The Young People of the Church, will be in charge of the Eight o' clock evening worship service, in the main auditorium of the Church. The Youth Choir will be in charge of the music at all of these services. Gaines To Preach Sunday Evening The Rev. G. A. Gaines of Cony ers. Ga., district superintendent of the Free Methodist Ohureh. will preach at Murphy Free Metho dist Church Sunday evening at 8 j o'clo k. He will be accompanied i here by his wife, the Jolley Four j Quartet of Jolley Orphans Home. I and a 9-year-old solo i sit, who will give special music, announces the ' pastor, the Rev. VV. H. Hampton, j Mrs. Broadus Millsaps and daughter. Sherry Anne spent the j week-end with her sister. Mrs. j Aubrey Revis and family of j Marble. BOXSCORE ON N . C . HIGHWAYS Killed July 1 through July 4 Injured July 1 through July 4 Killed through July 4 this year Killed through July 4, 1948 Injured through July 4 this year Injured through July 4, 194* , From midnight Friday through midnight Monday 12 persons ??re killed in highway accl ?knts and 183 were Injured, the Highway Patrol reported. .o ? I/. 13 173 369 323 4,202 3 477 Western North Carolina Associat ed Communities will hold its third quarterly meeting of the year a' Hiwassee Lake State P.iik on Mon day, July 25. announces W. M I>a\is, president of Murphy Cham ber of Commerce, who was noti fied by President Percy B. IVrebt c and Secretary C. M. Don .la-, of Brevard this week of the date for the meeting. The program has not yet been announced, but it is understood that a meeting of the executive committee will be held at 10 30 a. m., and a luncheon meeting for the general membership at 12:30 p. m. Luncheon will be served in the school cafeteria, and meetings will be held at the administration building of the Park. Several people who expect to attend the meeting are planning to come a day or two ahead and spend the week-end at the Park. Club Meetings Are Listed The Home Demonstration sche dule for the last three weeks of July is announced by the home agent's office as follows: Tuesday. July 12. Bell view. Mrs. Maude Hatehett. at 1:30 o'clock: Wednes day, July 20. Slow Creek. Mrs Raleigh Wilson at 1:30 o'clock; Thursday. July 21. Tomotla. School ? Building, at 1:30 o'clock: Friday. July 22 Murphy, in the Recrea tional Room, with Mrs Vera Gen- i try as hostess, at 8 o'clock Mon- ' day. July 25. Grape Creek. Mrs. Mary Sneed. at 1:30 o'clock; Tues day. July 20. Martin's Creek Mrs J W. Dyer, at 1:30 o'clock; Wed nesday. July 27. Valleytown. Pic nic at Nantahala. at 2 o'clock: Thursday. July 28 Ranger, at the home ol Mrs. Charlie KUpatrick at 1:30 o'clock Patrolmen Arrest 5.450 In May Of 5.450 persons arrested by the State Highway Patrol during May, 4.730 were found guilty of viola tions and sentenced to a total of 189 years. 16 months and five days, the North Carolina Depart ment of Motor Vehicles reports. Arrests on charges of drunken driving numbered 523. Of the total number of persons arrested, 386 were found not guilty. In addition. 5.761 citations were handed out Fines in the amount of $132.112 16. including those turned over to county school funds, and costs in the amount of $61. 448.70. including amounts turned into county general funds, were levied. The Patrol investigated 998 acci dents in which 46 persons were killed and 597 injured In seven cases first aid was rendered and one fire was extinguished. Patrolmen spent 144.970 hours on duty and traveled 1.463.833 miles on patrol. Assistance was rendered in recovery of 61 stolen vehicles, the total value of these vehicles being $48,745. Complaints invsti .rated number ed 9.048 and 13.975 courtesies were rendered. The Paitrol in spected 77.786 vehicles; 29.743 lights were corrected; 567 light tickets, 1.222 equipment tickets and 2.411 warning tickets were issued. A total of 547 vehicles were weighed and 114 were found to be overloaded Highway re venue collected for overload and I improper licenses amounted to 1 $6 630 08. TO ELECT OFFICERS I | The Cherokee County Chapter of American Red Cross will hold a | meeting at Murphy Carnegie Li brary Tuesday afternoon at 2 o' clock for the purpose of electing officers for the fiscal year July 1940-June 1950. announces Miss Addie Mae Cooke, chapter chair man. CORRECTION Through an error in last week's SOOUT it was stated that Mrs. C. L Kelley of Mont Belveiw, Texas, was the former Miss Mary Porter Fain Mrs. Kelley was the former Miss Lee Clayton. PAUL GREENS SYMPHONIC DRAMA THE LOST COLONY" OPENS ? MANTEO? These arc scenes from The Lost Colony. Paul Greens inter nationally famous symphonic drama built up around the greatest mystery of all history. The ninth season opening of the show, which had its premiere j in 1937. was on Saturday night. July 2. in the I Waterside Theatre at Fort near Manteo on Roa-nok^ i Island. There will be shows nigihtly, five days each .week Wednesday through Sunday. There will be mo performances on Monday and Tuesday of each 1 week. There have been a few changes made in the script. A new scenc has been added in Act II. oiw which shows relatives of the colonists, praying for their safety on the high sea which they are sailing across to establish a settlement in the New World A dramatic i novation this year will be The Lost Colony Chorus, under direction of Theos Crank leaving the choir stall to become singing actjrs on the stage in certain scenes. Some of the familiar scenes of the famous production are shown here. At lop the picture shows the gala and colorful En ish court scent where Queen Elizabeth is hos ' ?>> V. Ik -J su< 'nits. >mc of whom are bringing I news of Roanoke Island in a land which she names | Virginia, in honor of herself, the virgin queen. At li^iit is beautiful Barbara Edwards, first North Carolina native to play the female lead of Eleanor Dare. I'ppowoc. the Indian medicine man is !u?wn in one of his sensational dances at left. I' lotos by State Department Conservation and ' I). ^ clopment.i Associational Tent Revival To Start Sunday In Murphy Mt. Valley First I' Half Champions After beating Hackney by a score of 9 to 5 in a previous game 1 1 the TomOtIa nine tackled Mountain j , Valley for the first half champion- , ship. | Though t'hey had been beaten i , by Tomotla before in this half.1 : Mountain Valley shut Tomotla out , I by a 4 to 0 tally. In the first I inning with two men on base R. | V. Coffey tripled to bring in two , runs. Two more runs, one in the fourth and one in the fifth, were enough for Mountain Valley to take over the place of first half champions. j Brasstown 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 ? 4 I Tomotla 0 0 0 0 0 0 0?0 j Students Enroll At Truett-McConnell i Miss Faye Boling attended i Truett-McConnell Junior College. | Cleveland. Ga., during the 1946- , 49 session and is planning to re- i i turn at the beginning of the third j session in September. New students who arc enrolled in the college from this area in clude Miss Juanita Chambers. Classroom and living facilities 1 at the college are being expanded ' during fihe summer to accommodate 1 the increase in enrollment ifor ' next session. 1 Mrs. Chas. E. KunU of New York City spent the week-end as j a guest ot Mr. and Mrs. The ma i Spencer. i One of the bilges! evangelistic campaigns in the history of the association will be conducted July 10-24. when the Western North Carolina Baptist Vssoeiation will sponsor a ten! revival in Murphy. Dr. J. C. Canipc. secretary of Evangelism for the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, will do the preaching, and Q. L. Frye of Canton will lead the singing. The Rev T .Earl Ogg of An drews and officers of the associa tion have been working several weeks making preparation for the revival. A tent is being erected on the vacant lot of W D. Townson. next to First Baptist Church in Murphy. Services will be held each eve ning beginning Sunday. July 10. at 8 o'clock. I'. G. I vie, moderator of the ' association, is ask ::ig that all the churches make an effort to get (heir members to iitend. Trucks will be used by some of the j churches to transport their mem- J frers to the services. The Sunday School revival held | in the association two weeks ago revealed hundreds of unenlisted Baptists and unsaved people above Junior age. and an effort will be . made to enlist them during the | revival. POT LlTCK Sl'PPER The Woman's Society of Chris tian Service of First Methodist Church will have a pot luck sup per at the church Sunday evening ait 6 30 o'clock, to which the en Hire congregation is invited. Paul Padgett has had as his guest for the past three weeks, his nephew. Gerald Padgett, <rf Wash ington, D. C. Local Students On Honor Roll MARS HILL ? The names of two Cherokee County residents appear on the spring semester honor roll just released from the Mars Hill College registrar's offiee. These students are Miss Mildred Iris Hendrix. Murphy, and Howard w . Shields, M.irbie Bolli Miff Hendrix and Mr. Shields were freshmen during the spring semes ter. To be entitled to a place on the honor roll a student must have forty or more quality credits. Of ?the 975 students enrolled at Mars Hill. Ill -attained this rating Mr Shields made the highest number of quality credits out of the 111 honor students Mrs. E. P. Kincaid Taken At Age 83 Mrs. E. P. Kincaid. 83. died at her home at Tomotla at 5 p. m. Tuesday after a long illness. Funeral services were held in the home Wednesday at 3 n m. with the Rev Jack Palmer and the Rev. Alfred Smith officiating. Burial was in the family plot with Tovnson funeral home in charge Mrs. Kincaid was a member of the Baptist Church. Surviving are three daughters. Mrs. A. F. Revels of Eustis. Fla.. Mrs. W. C. Meaders of Cleveland. Ga., and Mrs. C. F. Keener of Tomotla; one son. John B. Kincaid of Tomotla; two sisters. Mrs. Elisha Moore of Chamblee. Ga . and Mrs J. C. Boyd of Dallas, Ga Senator Graham Expected To Speak At Andrews Picnic AN'DHKWS ? In addition to the t regular features of the Farmers Federation picnic which is to be held at Andrews on Saturday. July 9. Dr. James (J. K. McClure an nounces that unless crucial voting matters arise in the U S. Senate, Senator Frank Graham will make an address at the Andrews picnic. Senator Graham is one of the foremost orators and statesmen of th< nation, and Cherokee county will feel honored to have him talk to its citizens. As Dr. McClure phrased it "the chances arc about 75 to 80', that he will be with us on thai day" 'Saturday). Anions those on the program will be: Johnny Rhymer, who will lead the string band; Gaither Robinson, who will lead the ballads: Alex Houston, ventriloquist: Patsy Mes ser, acrobat. Local musician and performers are invited. Trucks will leeave the Farmers Federation warehouse in Murphy at 9 a m Saturday to take anyone who needs transportation to the picnic in Andrews. The program starts there at 10 a. m. Lectures On Crafts Heard At Fontana FONTANA VILLAGE? The first of a series of weekly lectures deal in,' with mountain crafts was pre sented at 4 o'clock Thursday after noon at Fontana Village, mountain lake resort in the Great Smokies of North Carolina, by Gretchen I MrCall. authority on this subject. Mrs McCall spoke informally ! from the iwrrh of the faino i log cabin landmark of 1816. where ! under lease from Government 1 Service. Ine Washington. I) C . she operates the CTieoah Craft Shop. She addressed residents of Fontana Village and guest< of the resort, hailing from points through out the country. Her subject today was "Pottery and Wood Carving." to be followed by weekly talks on weaving and hooking, glass and metal crafts, including silver, cop per. and wrought iron. Beginning her lecture with a brief outline of Cherokee Indian history in this a re a the pioneer settlement of Western North Caro lina. and the eventual building of Fontana Village and Fontana I)am by TV A, the speaker continued w-ith a survey of the surrounding influences affecting this art. She paid special tribute to the John C Campbell Folk School, at Krass [ town, the M Phi Settlement School j in Gatlinburg, Tenn . the Penland | School of Weaving, at Penland I the Alpine Industries in Alpine j Tenn . and the Southern Highlands Handicraft Guild, and others Mrs. McCall outlined the histor ies of individual craftsmen, illu strating their work, and the cvolu ! tion of the art. with pieces of pottery contained in her private ! collections she further illustrated her lecture by showing pieccs of raw clay, tlte process of shaping ' it. the unbaked and baked glazes necessary to the finished pnxluct j She gave special caution to her listeners in the matter of first class and faked products in this indus I try. !? ormerly an associate professor in the International Institute and New College. Columbia University I New York. Mrs McCall was for , some time director of university students studying in foreign coun tries. She had opportunity to study extensively in Iceland. Denmark. Russia. Germany, and England. The j ( hooah Craft Shop at Fontana Village is operated in relation to an over-all educational program in Oraham County. Mrs McCall is the wife of Dr. W A. McCall Professor at Teachers College, at Columbia University, and consul tant to the State Education Com mission in Raleigh. They reside in summer on an island in Lake Santeetlah. Graham County, twenty five miles from Fontana Village. Mrs. R. D. Almond of Marble has been visiting relatives hi Clay County. Cherokee Reaches 98 Per Cent Of Bond Quota Cherokee County has to date at tained 98 percent of its $42,000.00 quota for the U .S. Saving Bonds Opportunity Drive which began April 1 and is to last through July 16. The goal for the state of North Carolina is $12.000,000 00. Through June 30 85.8 percent of the state quota had been reached. E Bond sales in Cherokee County have amounted to $41,193.75. Almond Buys Registered Jersey From E. E. Stiles COLUMBUS. O.? Frank Almond, Murphy. N. C\. has purchased the registered Jersey female. Louisox ford's Emma Mildred. The animal comes from the herd owned by E. E. Stiles Murphy. N. C. The purchase adds to the steadi ly growing number in this area. Dairymen buy Jerseys because of the high quality of the milk they produce. Purebred Jerseys are registered by The American Jersey Cattle Club which has its national head quarters in Columbus. O. Several programs are available through The \merican Jersey Cattle Club to help breeders get the most profit from their yy* Mrs. Nettie Cagle Stricken With Polio Mrs. Nettie Clgle of Ebenezer was stricken this week with polio and taken to Charlotte Memorial Hospital. Charlotte She had been in Pittsburgh. Pa., visiting her husband who is in a veterans' hos pital and became sick on the way homo when she stopped for a short visit in Gastonia. She was sent from there to the Charlotte Hospital for treatment for polio. Mrs Ca?lc is the daughter of M.\ and Mrs. Wiley Dockecy of Ebenezer. Hobart McKeever, chairman of the Cherokee County Chapter of the National Foundation for In fantile Paralysis, states that the chapter has agreed to assume the ' expense of treatment for Mrs. Cagle. This is the first ease of polio reported in this county this year. Mrs. Rov Wells' Brother Dies William Burch Davis, 63, died suddenly at 1 p. m. on Monday, Juno 27 at the homo of his daugh ter. Mrs. C. E Dodson, Jr., in Cherry Polni. Funeral services were held at 10 a m. Wednesday. June 29. at 7. A llovis and Son chapel with the Rev. Charles Shannon, pastor of St John's Methodist church, officiating. Burial was at Sharon Memorial cemetery. Surviving are the widow. Mrs. Olive Norton Davis., three daugh ters. Mrs. Dodson. Mrs. C. C. 1 Bover of Birmingham. Ala . and Mis J Quinn of New York a son. I Tom M. Davis of the University of North Carolina; three grand children. four sisters. Mrs. J. R. Bryson of Cullowhec, Mrs. Bessie Barrett of Sylva. Mrs Roy Wells o( Murphy and Mrs. Lester Han cock of Charlotte, and three | brothers, Ben D. Davis and J. Van Davis, botih of Charlotte, and j D. Robert Davis of Franklin. He was the son of Jar-van Davis, | who died several years ago. He was a member of Central Methodist Church Mr. .Davis helped reopen the ! hank at Murphy, and the banks al4 through Western North Carolina.
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