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Cherokee County has contributed about a third of its $3,500 goal in the 1953 March of Dimes
campaign, County Chairman John Gill said today.
With the march ending January 31, county citizens have given just a little over $1,000, Mr.
Gill pointed out.
Meanwhile, the Murphy town'
basketball squad will have a bene
fit game tonight In the gym with
the Cherokee Indians. All pro
ceeds from the game will go to
the polio drive, Mr. Gill said.
Saturday night, the junior class
at the Murphy High School ?will
sponsor a square dance in the gym
with receipts going to the drive.
Saturday night, JAi. 31, more
money will come from a square
dance when the Murphy Clvltan
Club sponsors a dance In the gym.
The day before the Civitan
dance, a square dance will he held
at Hiwassee Dam.
The cere of an unprecedented
number of polio victims and the
speedy development of a preven
tive against the disease depend
upon a record 1953 March of
Dimes, Mr. Gill declared.
More than 55,000 children and
adults were victim of polio In
1952, he said. 'Entire famlies were
strick,?n, as many as six brothers
and sisters entering hospitals only
days apart. In one tragic Instance,,
eleven Iowa children, all from one
family, died of bulbar polio in
Milwaukee.
EMERGENCY NOT OVER
'Now the 1952 fpidemic Is over.
But the emergency is not,' Mr
Gill went on There are some 58,
000 polio patients who still need
help In their slew tedious battle
back to health. After last summer
the names of more respiratory
patients than ever before appeared
In chapter files. These, patients
many still in Iron lungs, require
the most expensive treatment. Mi
is not unusual for such cases to
cost as much as $20,000 in one j
year.'
Mr. Gill reported that the
National Foundation for Infan
tile Paralysis has spent $148,
000,999 in meeting the cost of
patient care during the past fif
teen years, in addition to $18,
000,000 invested in scientific re
search aimed primarily at find
ing a preventive for paralytic
polio.
He stressed that completing re
search now in progress is the great
hope for stopping polio's yearly
rampages.
CLOSE TO VICTORY
"The American people,' he said,
'assumed responsibility for knock
ing out this dreadful disease fif
teen years ago. A successful 1953
March of Dimes would be a vital
step forward in discharging this
pledge. We -are too close to final
victory now for us to let down.
Let's hasten polio's end by giv
ing giving generously to the March |
of Dimes '
ANDREWS PRESBYTERIANS
The Andrews Presbyterian Wo
men of the Church will meet at
the home of Mrs. John C. Neville,
Monday, January 26, at 7:30 p. m.
The meeting will be the annual
foreign mission study course.
I'll Walk Alone
Lively ae a cricket la Randy Donoho,
4, who waa atricken by polio,
September, 1951, and atlll recelvea
treatment. March of Dlmea funda
provided by Wayne Count) (De
troit) Chapter of the National Foun
dation for Infantile Paralyala, backed
Randy In hla fight toward recovery.
Civitans To Stage
Square Dance For
March Of Dimes -
John Gill, Cherokee County
March of Dimes Chairman, was
the guest speaker at the regular
meeting of the CiWtan Club last
Monday Evening.
Mr. Gill stated that the cam
paign had about one-third of its
goal and thanked the many peo
ple of different organizations who
have contributed to this cause.
He also stated that within the
next fifteen days there will be
several events taking place for the
purpose of raising money for the
campaign. He urged every one to
help support all of these.
The Club voted to sponsor a
square dance Saturday night
week, January 31, in the Murphy
School Gym. All proceeds will go
dire'Jtly to the Polio Fund. Com
mittees are being appointed by
President Rae Moore. These will
be announced later.
A film on Polio was shown by
John Jordan preceeding Mr. Gill's
talk.
The Club welcomed back into
its membership, John Gibson, who
has been away in the service.
Jerry Zirbes
Dies Suddenly
George W. (Jerry) Zirbes, 59
died suddenly of a heart attack
Saturday morning near his home
on Hiwassee Lake.
Funeral services were held
Monday at 11 a.m. in the chapel
of Townson Funeral Home witji'
the Rev. R. Delbert Byrum offi
ciating.
Burial followed in Lewis Mem
orial Park, Asheville.
Pallbears we r e Bruce Jones,
Hugh Howard, Duke Whitley, C.
D. Thackston of Columbia, S. C.
Jack Brown of Asheville^ Hank
Casby of Atlanta, Ga., and R. L.
Treadway of Concord.
Survivors include the widow,
Mrs. Jessie Zirbes: one brother,
Walter Zirbes of Orchard Park,N.
Y.; two sisters, Dr. Laura Zirbee
of Columbia Ohio and (Miss Dor
thy Zirbes of Staten Island, N. Y.
Mr. Zirbes was born in Sheboy
gan, Winsconsin. He was formerly
with the Smith Welding Company
of Minneapolis, Minn, for 25 years,
serving as salesman with the firm
in Virginia aid North and South
Cairo lina.
He came to Murphy in 1948 to
retire and bought a home on Hiw
assee Lake near Duke's Lodge. But
due to his love for the great out
doors, he opened a boat dock and
store where he sold fishing tackle
soft drinks and other article#, -buil
ding up a small business. He made
many friends here.
Townson Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
Jr. Woman's Club
Hears Gault
Lynn Gault of Chapel Hill and
Brasstown was guest speaker at
the regular meeting of the Murphy
Junior Woman's Club last Thurs
day evening in the assembly'room
of the educational building of the
Presbyterian Church.
Mr. Gault who has established a
pottery shop at the John C. Camp
bell Folk School, Brasstown, spoke
of4 his work there and displayed
specimens of his work, describing ?
them.
Mr. Gault was introduced by
Miss Edna Bishop, Cherokee
County Home Demonstration
agent, who is chairman of the
American Home department of the
cluW
Episcopal Church To Hear
Sewanee Negro Problem
An lame that led to the resig
nation of the entire faculty of the
Seminary School at Sewanee Uni
versity?allowing Negro 1 students
in the school?will be discussed
at the Episcopal Church here Sun
day by Ronald Whltmtre, a semi
nary . senior, the Rev. Rhett Y.
Winters, pastor, gaid today.
The faculty resigned at the sem
inary last summer when the board
of trustees ruled that Negro semi
nary students would not he allow
ed to enter the school.
The faculty resigned but stayed
on until the university could
build ?P its seminary faculty staff.
Mr. Whltmlre will dlecuaa the
Issue at the 11 a. m. service hi
Murphy and at the 9 a. m. service
at the Church of the Holy Com
forter In Andrews.
VISIT IN 8YLVA
Mrs. Elizabeth Hunt and Mrs.
Paul Sims Waited friends in Syl
va and CuHowhee Thursday.
Brazil Missionary To
Speak Presbyterians
The Rev. J. Hoge Smith, Jr.,'
missionary to Brazil will speak on
World Missions on Monday, Janu
ary 26, at 7:30 p. m. in the Pres
byterian Church:
This is Foreign Mission season,
and Mrs: S .C. Burgess, secreta
ry of World Missions of the Wo
men of the Presbyterian Church
announced that this meeting will
take the place of the regular gen
eral meeting of the women for
this month. The public is Invited
to hear this speaker.
1 GARREN SON
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Qerren of
Raleigh announce the birth of a
son. Harold Davis Jr., Dec. 23. Mr.
Garren la the son of Mr. end Mrs
John Garren of Andrews.
Receives Award
BRONZE STAR WINNER?Serjeant First Class Charles G.
Hughes, Murphy, N. C? was recently awarded the Bronze Star Medal,
by Major' John Cook, acting commander of the 194th Tank Battalion
of Camp Rocker's 47th "Viking" Infantry Division. (US Army Photo)
Charles G. Hughes
Gets Bronze Star
CAMP RUCKER, ALA.?Ser-t
geant ( First Class Charles G.
Hughes, Route 1, Murphy, recently
received the Bronze Star Meda!
for his outstanding performance
as a squad leader of "C" Com
pany, 32d Infantry Division in Ko
rea, April IS to July 12, 1952.
Major John Cook, acting com
mander of the 194 Tank Battalion
made the formal presentation of
the award to Sergeant Hughes at
a regularly scheduled retreat pa
rade on January 8, 1953.
The citation reads: "Sergeant
First Class Charles G. Hughes,
as a member of Company C,
32d Infantry, distinguished him
self by meritorious service dur
ing the period 15 April to 12
July 1952. During this period.
Sergeant Hughes performed his
duties as a squad leader in an
exemplary manner."
"Sergeant Hughes' awareness of
the tru? value of his men and
their weapons to the unit and its
varied missions, enabled him to
train and prepare them for any
emergencies which may arise in
combat. His diligent application to !
hi3 duties and his aggressive en- j
thusiasm served to instill confi-1
dc-noe and heighten the morale of
his unit. The meritorous service of
I
Sergeant Hughes reflects great
credit on himself and the military
service."
Sergeant Hughes is now serving
with "A" Company of the 194th
Tank Battalion, a unit of the 47th
"Viking" ihfantry Division.
Ed Hyde Heard By
Andrews Rotariatns
The Andrews Rotary Club had
ts their guest speaker Thursday
noon, Edwin Hyde, of Murphy. Mr
Hyde gave a most informaitive talk
on the preparation of and legality
of wills. He concluded with the
reading of a humorous will.
Verlin Sa?es Killed
As Truck Overturns
Yerlin Sales, 41 year old service station operator of Brass
town was killed instantly about 3 p. m. Monday when a small
truck in which he was a passenger, overturned, pinning and crush
ing him beneath the truck's cab.
Murphy Unit
Teachers In
Study Course
Teachers in the Murphy School
Unit are taking a study course in
techineques for developing units
of learning in the classroom.
The titye of the text to be used
is Freedom To Live and Learn by
Gertrude Noar. The course is di
vided into four panel discussions
and will be completed in two
weeks.
This is the second in a series of
studies to be made this year under
the direction of Mrs. C. K. Olson,
supervisor. The first was an art
course given by a representative
of Binney and Smith Art Com
pany.
The teachers in the Andrews
Unit completed their second in
service training course before
Christmas.
CHEROKEE INDUCTIONS
Ten selectees left Cherokee
County for induction into the
Armed Forces Monday of last
week, the local draft board said.
Seventeen men left the county
on the same day for pre-inductiori
examinations.
State Highway Patrolman R. H.
Ensley of Murphy, who investi
gated the accident with Patrolman
S. W. Sanford, said Sales was
dead when he was removed from
under the cab of the truck.
Mitch Inghran, 52, of Hayesville,
a sawmill operator, and driver of
the truck, lost control of the ve
hicle as the two men were trav
eling east on S 64, about five miles
east of Murphy, Ensley said.
The truck careened to the south
west side of the highway and
overturned down a 20 or 25 foot
embankment, the eofficer said.
Ensley termed the accident, un
avoidable.
Inghran was uninjured.
The investigating officer said
Sales died of a crushed skull and
that no inquest would be held.
The body was taken to Town
son Funeral Home which was in
charge of services.
Funeral services were held Wed
nesday at 10:30 a. m. in Green
Cove (Methodist Church. The Rev.
G. C. Green of Hayesville officiat
ed and burial was in the church
cemetery.
Surviving are the parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Lloyd Sales; two sisters,
Mrst Herman Temple of Lenoir
City, Tenn., and Mrs. Hubert Cof
fey of Marietta, Ga., and a broth
er, Wallace Sales of Brass town
Area Banks Show 16 Per Cent
Increase In 1952 Deposits
Deposits in the Citizens Bank
and Trust Company during 1952
hit $5,274,776.76?a 16.5 per oent
gain over the 1951 deposits of
$4,405,986.97, it was announced at
a recent meeting of the company's
stockholders in Andrews.
Percy B. Ferebee said the $868,
789,79 gain of the four banks in
the system?Murphy. Andrews,
R o b b i n s v ille and Hayesville'?
showed a substantial increase in
deposits and a widening of service
to tihe communities served.
He said loans and discounts in
TWINS BORN
Mr. and Mrs. Lefty Linebarger
of Cramerton announce the birth
of twins, a girl and a boy, June
and Joel, Jan. 7. Mrs. Linebarger
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John Garren of Andrews.
creased over a twelve months per
iod by $231,747.79 The bank's in
vestments in bonds had been in
creased by the amount of $424,
625.00 during the year and cash
on had and in banks was $1,332,
063.21, an increase of $205,105.65
for the year, Mr. Ferebee said.
The stockholders were advised
that the undivided profit account
had been increased by $30,107.67
during the year.
Mr. Ferebee stated that, while
there had been a marked improve
ment in the industrial progress in
the area served by the bank, there
had been also marked agricultural
improvement due to the increased
number of dairy farms, hatching
egg flocks and improved quality
of burley tobacco grown in the
area.
Stockholders reelected the fol
lowing to the board of directors:
E. C. Moore, W. D. Whitatoer, W
Frank Forsyth, J ,S. Howell, W.
T. Forsyth, Z. L. Whitaker, Percy
B. Ferebee and James B. Ferehee,
II.
Chinese Chestnuts In Marble
Abernathy Keeps
Father's Hobby
At his home in Marble, Forrest
Abernathy is enjoying a hobby
handed down to him by his father
?the growing of Chinese Blight
Resistant Chestnuts.
And the shiny hard nuts (they
look something like "buckeyes"),
Abernathy says, are said to be
"the best chestnut you can grow
The chestnuts are medium sized
trees, planted in rows *back of
Aberathy's store. He has 45
grown trees which are about 20
years old having been bought by
Mr. Aberoathy's father and Law
yer Jack Dlllard.
Today the young Abernathy
grows for sale not only the nuts
themselves, but young trees. He
said that the time to plant the
little trees is from December to
the middle of January.
The Wildlife. Commission re
cently purchased ISO of Aberna
thy's trees to plant for stock for
Ihe birds. Mr. Abernathy said that
pheasants come up into Ms or
chard for the nuts, even though
there ire a number of housae
close by.
The nuts grow in fuzzy burrs, ]
about three nuts to the burf, and |
they do not keep well unless Mar
FORREST A
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"The best chestnut
ed in a refrigerator or, as Mr. Ab
ema thy keeps them, in baskets of
leaves.
Abernathy sells the nuts whole
sale at 23 to 35 cents a pound or
retail at 49 cents.
Abernathy la about the only
grower of Chinese chestnuts In
the county, but the tree Is fkst be
coming a popular one.
Abernathy's small tredk sell for
$1.90 and grow better, he said, if
planted near or In cultivated
ground, as at the edge of a gar
den or lawn.
TC? treat must be planted In
group* of at least three to Croat
pollinate each other. A lone tree
will have burrs, but no nuts.
Murphy Will Have Brighter
Lights And Highway Signs
Polio Benefit
Party Set For
Folk School Sat
A March of Dimes benefit party
will be held at the Folk School at
Brabstown Saturday night at 7:30.
This is an open party with 50
cents admission for adults and 25
cents for children (under 12). The
evening will include a program
and directed dances with Lynn
Gault in charge of arrangements
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Light refreshments will be
served.
Murphy will have two needed
improvements in the near future
after Town Council voted to in
crease street lighting and buy four
highway welcome signs for the
town.
The lighting will be improved
by another transformer, authoriz
ed by council, is purchased
The new transformer will
make it possible for the town
electric department to install
a 1 r e a dy purchased brighter
lights on the streets.
Bill Costello, Scout editor, was
authorized by Council to draw up
plans for welcome signs to be
placed at the four main highways
leading into the town.
The motion for the signs was
made by Councilman Cloe Moore.
Size for the welcoming signs was
set by council at five by seven
feet.
Sophomores Stage Polio
Benefit Square Dance
$
The Sophomore Class of the.
Murphy High School sponsored a
square dance for the Polio Fund
on Monday night, in the school
gymnasium.
The "Blue Mountain Boys" de
voted their time and talents to a
worthy cause and provided a good
evening's entertainment.
Paced by the twinkling
of Glenn Ellis, Robert Hampton.
Randal Odum, Don Fan, BUI
Hughes, - and Bobby Thompson
really brought forth some foot
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Between dance*, Don, Fox |
and accompanied himself on the
banjo. Bobby Thompson, Don Fob,
and Robert Hampton ease a very
spirited "Karl's Breakdown", and
other norettiee on the banjo, gui
tar and mandolin.
F. J. Teague and "Chocofeto"
Rogers ware i
The
were Jo Garrett,
Owenda Loe Cole,
Johnson, Shirley Kmian.
tar HaU.