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H!ft (Hfernltfr f^rntrt VOLUME 62?NUMBER 14 MURPHY, NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER IS, 1951 _ ? EIGHT PAGES THIS WfcEL ^ i ? - ? ? ? ? ; ; : : 1 The Duffy Silk to. Date Stone Laying Ceremony Is October 25 Annual Homecoming Game Is October 191 The last home game of the foot-4 ball season will be played on the Murphy football field Friday, Oc tober 10, at 7:30 p. m., with Hayes vtlle. The 19S1 football queen, Miss Louise Hall, who was elected by popular vote from Murphy High School, will be crowned at half time festivities. Miss Anne Dockery will be her maid of honor. The ladles of the court will be Misses Mary Ann Gaddls and Em ma Jean Shields from the senior class; Inez Moore, Barbara Rhodes " end Mildred Taylor from the ju nior class; Sara Posey and Betty Kephart from the sophomore class; Barbara Swain and Nancy Mero ney from the freshman class. The processional will be played by the Murphy High School Band under the direction of Mr. Schley. Leading the procersional will be the following majorettes: Jane Whitley, Becky Jo Ray, Marcla Fay Olson and Becky Hoover. Methodist Seminar Will Meet Monday The Western Zone Seminar for] Methodist Churches will be held in the Andrews Methodist Church on Monday, October 22, beginning at 10 a. m. Representatives from Clay, Gra ham and Cherokee Counties are expected to attend. P.T.A. Officers Are Installed New officers of District No. 1 of the North Carolina Parent Teacher Association were in stalled last Thursday at the con cluding session of 23rd annual con ference held In Hendersonville High School auditorium. 1 The new officers are: Mrs. Wei mar Jones, Franklin, director; Mrs. R. S. Shelton, Hendersonville, as sistant director; Mrs. C. K. Siler, Asheville, secretary; and Mrs. H. Bueck, Murphy, treasurer. Hall Attends Institute J. E. Hall, superintendent of | Cherokee County Prison Camp No. 1003, recently attended a five-day course of. instruction in prison management at the Institute of Government, Chapel Hill. He re ceived a certificate for completion of the course, it being signed by Albert Coates, director of the Institute, and W. M. Cochrane, assistant director. Francis Crisp, steward at the Prison Camp, is attending a course there this week. Girl Scouts Need Troop Leader And Civic Sponsor Special emphasis will be placed on Girl Scout work during the week of October 28-November 3. There are three troops In Murphy at present. The Brownies Troop No. 25, ages 7 to 10, sponsored by Junior Wo man's Club, is well organized and 1 has 12 members. Mrs. John Man they is leader; Mrs. Earl Van Horn and Mrs. Harold Wells, assistant leaders; and Mrs. Bob Easley, Mrs. B. W. Whitfield, and Miss Jose phine Helghway, committee mem bers. Troop No. 9 for girls 10 and 11 years old has 12 members but has no leader. The girls are an enthusi astic group, and are needing a | leader, civic leading and commun ity backing. Financial and moral support also are needed. Troop No. 8 for girls 12, 13, and *14, has no sponsor. Mrs. E. H. Brumby is leader, and Mrs. Duke Whitley, assistant leader. Mrs. Rowland is a member of the com mittee. Anyone interested in leading Troop 9 or being sponsor for Troop 8 is asked to get in touch with Mrs. John Man they. Fred Mashburn's I Article Published I In Hospital Journal i A_ entitled "Let Us Irn An article entitled "Let Us Im I prove Our Collections" written by ! Fred Mashburn has been published I in the October "Hospital Account-1 j ing". It was presented at the 9th Annual Institute on hospital ac countlng, Indiana University I School of Business, Bloomington, Indiana, July 16. | Mr. Mashburn, who Is a junior j member of the American Associa I tion of Hospital Accountants, will qualify as a senior member in Jin-1 uary. Rev.R.D.Bynim Announces Topics The Rev. Delbert Byrum an 'nounces that his topics for Sun 1 day at the First Methodist Church i will be "These Things Need Do ing" and "From Fear To Decay." I Sunday School will meet at 9:45 I a. m., morning worship at 11:00 a. m., youth meeting at .6:00 p. m. and evening worship at 7:30 p. m. CLUB TO MEET Mrs. Bessie Deweese will be hostess to Murphy Regal Club in [her home Friday at 7:30 p. m. J. W. Bailey Dies Suddenly Saturday Funeral services for Joseph Wal ter Bailey, 74, "who died suddenly Saturday afternoon in a Murphy Hospital after a long Illness were held Monday at 4 p. m. In Murphy Presbyterian Church. The Rev. James R. Crook, for mer pastor, officiated, with burial in Sunset Cemetery. Officers of the church, Dr. R. S. Parker, E. H. Brumby, J. Franklin Smith, Mack Patton, Herman Estes, Dr. Harry Miller, Bobby Alexand er, and Frank Forsyth, served as pallbearers. Bailey was for a number of yean connected with Clyde Iron Works In Duluth, Minn., and was engaged in mining operations in Georgia and other states before coming to Murphy in 102& For 15 years he was aasodateo with Binny and Smith of New York City In the operation of the Caro Una Talc Company, Murphy. For the past ten years he had been associated with the Hitch cock Corporation Talc Company, in mining operations. He was an inventive genius, having invented many useful things some of his' inventions having been patented. He was a member and elder of the Murphy Presbyterian Church and active in all phases of church work., Susviving are the widow, Mrs. Lillian Bnrges Bailey; two daughr ters, Mrs. Carolyn Lovingood of Murphy and Mrs. Betty Wilson of Winston-Salem; two sons. Burgess Bailey of Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Joseph Bailey, Jr., of Murphy; eight grandchildren and two ffeat Ivie Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. TVATestFarmers To Meet Oct 23 To Plan For Year I The fourth and last farm plan ning meeting for the unit farmers of the TV A Test Demonstration program will be held October 23 at 10 A. M. In the grand jury room of the court house In Murphy. At this mceUng farm and home plans will be checked, applications for approval of new farms will be filled out, requisitions for phos phate will be taken and a general explanation of the new program will be given. The record books of present active unit farmers will be turned in at this meeting. All farmers who have expressed a desire to get on the program and have been working on their farm and home plans, and all who have been on the program for less than five years and wish to remain ac tive are asked to come and bring their wives. Big Increase In Employment Is Indicated Here Average monthly employment in North Carolina for the first quar ter of 1951 \yas 10 percent above that of a year before, but slightly under the everage for the last quarter of 1950, it Is revealed by Chairman Henry E. Kendall, chair man of toe Employment Security Commission of North Carolina. This Is employment covered by the Employment Security Law. Total average monthly employ ment In January, February and March amounted to 690,022, pulled down some by low employment in January. Average monthly employ ment In March reached the highest 1 point recorded since October 1950, Due to high inventories reached in later months, employment probably [ shows a decline In months since. Payrolls in covered employment in the first quarter of this year amounted to $441,201,318. This gives an average weekly wage of $49.18', which is above the first quarter average for several years, but below the last quarter of 1950. | This is due to the fact that bonuses, commissions and contingent or in centive pay are frequently distrib uted at the end of the year. 1 In major divisions of employ I ment, the .figures on average em ployment, total wages, and aver age weekly wages for the two principal classifications, are as fol lows: construction: average em ployment, 47,341; total wages, $28, 097,279; weekly wage, $45.65.? manufacture: average employment, 428,354; total wages, $227,265,203; weekly wages, $49.79?transpor tation and communication: average employment, 35,096: total wages, $25,153,478?trade: average em ployment, 123,044; total wages, $68,706,853?f i n a n c e, Insurance and real estate: average employ ment, 16,430; total wages, $12, 961,055?service and other: aver age employment, 39,757; total wa ges. $19,117,450. Cherokee County, in the first quarter of 1951, had average em p'oyment ,of 864 covered workers which was a gain of 19.34 percent, as compared with the last quarter of 1950. Total wages paid in this county during the quarter reached $374,736 with an average weeklv wage of $33.36. In the five major divisions of employment, the figures for this county follow: construction: aver age employment, 0; total wages, 0; average weekly wage O?manufac ture: average employment, 456, to tal wages, $198,896; average weekly wage, $32.71?transportation and communication: average employ ment, 14; total wages, $10,912? trade: average employment, 160 total wages, $76,444?finance, In surance and real estate; average employment, 20; total wage. $19, 269?service and other: average employment, 214; total wages, $78. 228. office to be closed Mrs. Frank!# Wilson, clerk, an oubces that the Local Draft Board Office will be closed on October 24. o AIR FORCE FILM BEAUTY P HPS?MA-754 About a yaar 090, Miti Curtiss F. Ward, 20, of Birmingham, Ala., onlistad in Hia WAF. Today, as Corporal Ward, sha is a photographic laboratory technician at Langlay Air Force Base, Va. Above, sha is developing Film From the aerial cameras oF the bombers stationed at her base. WaFs take basic training at Lackland AFB, Tex. Many then go Fa tachnical schools beFora being assigned to duties at Air Force bases. William R. Martin Is Killed In Mass. Funeral services for Staff Sar-i peant William Ray Martin, son of Mr and Mrs. Weldon R. Martin of Andrews were conducted Monday afternoon at 2.30 in the Andrews Baptist Church. The Rev. J. A. Richardson, Jr.. pastor of the church, and the Rev. Win. E. Hall, pastor of St. An drews Lutheran Church, officiated. Martin was found dead in his car at Chicopee Falls, Mass., Thurs day morning. The family was ad vised by army officials that death was caused by carbon monoxide poisoning. He was 29 years of age, having served in the Navy from 1942 until January 1946. In January 1947, he enlisted in the United States Air Corps. He had been serving in a squadron flying the wounded from Korea to Hawaii since the out break of the war and had just re turned from such a mission at the time of his death. In addition to his parents, Mar tin is survived by three brothers. Boyd and Marshall of Fairfield. Fa., and Harold of the home; three sisters, Mrs. M. J. Jordan and Mrs. Ivan Smith of Andrews and Mrs. Kenneth Stover of Martinsville, Va. Pallbearers were; E. O. Bristol, John Tatham, J. A. Watkins, Dock Gibson, Marvin Pullium, Harold Chambers, Jack Ledford and A. B. Chandler, Jr. Ivie Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Training Union Rally Is Friday The Western North Carolina Baptist Associational Training Un ion will hold a rally Friday at 7:30 p. m. at Grape Creek Baptist Church. The Rev. A. G. Brooks, associational missionary, will be the principal speaker. Officers will be elected at this time. Attend Exercises AtWakeForest Among the Murphy people at tending the ground-breaking exer cises of Wake Forest College at Winston-Salem Monday, when President Truman was the princi pal speaker, were: Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Hoover and son, Lonnie, and Patrolmen Lee Lance and Jack Lunsford. The patrolmen were assigned to the airport security. About 300 rrtr.im- and 100 Winston-Salem policemen were on dlity /or the Sermon In Song To Be Given At Baptist Church The Rev. J. Alton Morris will preach Sunday at the First Bap tist Church on "What Then". Sun day School will meet at 9:45 a. m., morning worship at 11 a. m., Train ing Union at 6:45 p. m. and eve ning worship at 7:30 p. m. Services will be held at the Bealtown Mis sion at 2:30 p. m. and at the prison camp at 4 p. m. The evening worship service will donsist of a sermon in song "The Life Beautiful", under the direc tion of Miss Velma Umphfres, educational director. The follow ing will participate: Misses Sally Morris, Rosalind Stalcup, Ann Gladson, Sue Miller, Mrs. Hadley Dickey, members of the adult, junior, and cherub choirs and mem bers of girl's and mixed quartettes. SINGING Cherokee County singing will be held at Bellview Church on Sun day afternoon, October 21. James M. Lovingood Dies At Age Of 86 James Madison Lovingood, 86, of Marble familiarly known as "Prof. Lovingood" died at 9:30 a. m. Tuesday in an Andrews hospital after a brief illness. Funeral services were held at 2 p. m. Wednesday in Marble Bap tist Church, with the Rev. A. B. Lovell and the Rev. Thomas Truett officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery with Masonic rites by members of Marble Springs Lodge, No. 439. Pallbear ers were Lee Hughes, Herman West, Grady Farmer, Forrest Aber nathy, Victor West and Jack Park er. The body lay In state In the church for one hour before the funeral. He was the son of the late Ben jamin Franklin and Clarinda Bates Lovingood, pioneers of this section. 7 " v V Prof. Lovingood was a retired school teacher. He-taught his first school in the Boiling Springs Com munity at the age of It. He taught In the old Murphy Graded School, which was later converted into Pkrie Hospital. He also taught in . . j-.. Ariarble, Andrews, Peachtree, Rang er, Grandview, and Stecoab, and tn HayesviUe High School, where he was a personal friend of the late George Truett. He was one of the first graduates of the University of North Carolina. He had served as chairman of the board of county commission ers, was a member of Marble Springs Masonic Lodge, No. 438; had been Deputy Grand Master for one year, and master of his own lodge for a number of years and honorary member of a num ber of lodges at the time of his death. He was a member of Marble Baptist Church and had been superintendent of tip Sun day School there for a number of years. Survivors Include two daughters, Mrs. Ruby Arrowood at China Grove and Mrs. Clara Ladford af Marble; five sons, Wendell and Ralph of Mart*, Stanley of Angeles, Calif., Harlcy of City, and the Rev. Paul Lovlngood of Falrview; 17 grandchildren and Hodges To Speak, Public Is Invited Forced To Omit News, Features Because or trouble with the hetlim element on THE SCOUT'S linotype machine this week. It Is necessary for us to omit some of the news and regu lar features of the paper, which will be published next week. Congregation To Discuss New Church Building O Plans for the building of thei new Peachtree Methodist church will be discussed at the home of Mrs. Verdie Ledford on Sat., Oct. 20, at 7:30 p. m. The purpose of this meeting is the presentation and discussion of the architect's drawing, and the planning of a work-day in the near future during which it is expected that the site will be made ready for the foundation of the building. All members and friends are urged to be present. Murphy P. T. A. Meets Monday The Murphy P. T. A. will meet at 7:30 p. m. October 22 In the Primary School building. Miss Willie Lovingood of the County Health Department and Dr. J. Jamison, State Dentist, will present a program dealing with the health of school children. All parents and interested people are urged to be present. Singing To Be Held Saturday There will be a singing in Mur phy school auditorium Saturday night, Oct. 27, featuring a number of quartets and special singers, also class singing. The public is invited. No admission will be charged. Ad elsewhere in paper gives details. Capture Still Chief Deputy Buren Grant and Patrolman R. H. Ensley captured a 50-gallon copper still in the Frog Pond section of Peachtree Sunday afternoon. No one was arrested. | There was 600 gallons of mash at the still. Murphy, Cherokee County and the surrounding area will give The Duffy Silk Company a heart wel come on Thursday, October 25, on the occasion of the date stone set ting ceremony ,o te held at 3 p. pi. Prior to thr program arranged by the company, special entertain ment will be furnished. There will be folk dancing, music by a string band and Murphy high school band, and free refreshments. School children will be given an cpportunity to attend. The public is Invited, and Frank Forsyth, chairman of local arrange ments urges that everybody Inter ested in seeing Murphy grow be present. At 12:30 Thursday officials of The Duffy Silk Company, State Treasurer Brandon P. Hodges, who will be guest speaker, and other distinguished guests will be en tertained at a luncheon at New Re gal Hotel. The luncheon will be I sponsored by the community. Charles G. Duffy, Jr., president I of The Duffy Silk Company, will set the stone at the mill. The stone will be Inscribed with the Duffy seal, the name of the firm and the dates, 1892 and 1951, which com memorate the founding of the company at Fort Plain, New York, and the beginning of production in the South at Murphy. The stone will be set with a sterling silver trowel which will be presented to Mr. Duffy by Romeo H. Guest, vice-president of C. M. Guest & Sons, builders of the new mill. Biberstein, Bowles & Meacham, Inc., of Charlotte, leading design ers of mills of this type, are engin eers on the project. Mayor Buel Adams will welcome The Duffy Silk Company to Mur pny on behalf of the Town of Mur phy, and he will offer to the offi cials and their families citizenship in the Town. For the State of North Carolina, Brandon P. Hod ges, State Treasurer, will speak in offering to Duffy the State's" sin cere welcome and well wishes for success in Duffy's initial plant in the South. Walter Harper of the Department of Conservation and Development will be present. Assisting in bringing this firm into North Carolina was Paul Kel ly, administrative assistant, and W. C. Guthrie, industrial representa tive of the Department of Conser vation and Development of the Siatc of North Carolina. Paul Hemmerich, executive vice president of The Duffy Silk Com pany, will speak as will Mr. Duf fy, president. W. Frank Forsyth will serve as Master of Ceremonies and the Rev. Delbert Byrum, pastor of First Methodist Church, and the Rev. J. Alton Morris, pastor, First Baptist Church, will give the invocation and benediction, respectively. Following the ceremony, the public is invited to pass by the aate stone at the corner of the building and view the stone and the trowels which will be on dis play at that time. The officials of the Duffy com pany plan to arrive in Murphy Wednesday afternoon and the fol- / lowing are expected: Mr. and Mrs. George Duffy; Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Duffy, Jr.; Mr. and Mrs. Paul HAimerieh; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hemmerich, Jr.; Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Troup. They win be ac companied by Mr. and Mrs Her bert Peters. Mrs. Peters is the , daughter of Bernard Duffy and is visiting Buffalo with her h,usband from California. George Duffy is the only survi- ' vor of the four Duffy brothers who founded The Duffy Silk Company In 1892 at Fort Plain, New Yost Paul Hemmerich. Jr? plans to be in charge of the Murphy plant dur-V I ing the {list few months of oper ation until the selection or a su I perlntendent has 1 I ert C. Troup is Secretary of I TRurrr TO i The Bee. Wi ; ?
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