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TRADE AT HOME;! y IT PAYS -WW* pri-pilllil MONEY IN " ;;Xi%" . . , . PROMOTING MURPHY AND ANDREWS KEEP YOUR 1pU7? M-NUIOBii . ? t MURFHY. NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, MARCH 12. 1953 ~~ ~ ~ RIGHT PAGR8 W MURPHY COUNCIL TALKS GARBAGE AT RECENT MEETING Officers Still Investigating Burning Of Dockery's Home State Bureau of Investigation i agents and the county officers to day continued their investigation of , the hunting of Noah Dockery's bouse. The home was horned, to the ground after Docker? was the object of a wide spread aaarct in connection with the shotgun death of Sheriff Frank Crawford. Tues day, March i. Dockery la now being held in Wayaesvflle. Solicitor Tbad Brysoa of Bryaoa City caid he will ask the court Os appoint a lawyer for Doe kery. It Is bettered that a move wfll be mads to have Dockdry tried In ? county other than Cherokee Cou nty. Chief Deputy Buren Grant, who was in Kaleigh when the shooting oceured, gave this story of events leading up to toe death of Sheriff Crawford: Allen Dockery, son of Noah Doc kery, was "charged in a warrant with stealing tires, Grant said. The officer said he went to Noah Doc kery's house to search for the tires and arrested Alien while at Noah's home. Another suspect was arrested but was released, the duply said. Sun day morning before the Tuesday shooting, Noah was at the jail ask ing that his son be released, Grant asserted. Sunday afternoon, an attemp was made to burn down a saw mill belonging to J ess Crouser who was the owner of the al legedly stolen tires, Grant continu ed. On information, the officer said he swore out a warrant against Noah and searched for the suspect Sunday night and Monday. , Grant said he was ordered to go , to Ralei'gh to deliver a person to the state institution there. The dep uty said he put the Noah Dockery arson warrant on file before he left. Apparently, Grant pointed out, Sheriff Crawford saw the warrant 'on file Tuesday afternoon and went out alone to serve it. Had Grant been in town, the sheriff probably would not have been alone when he went to the Dockery Home, the deputy said. Sheriff Crawford was buried at 11 a. m. Thursday with graveside rites conducted in Sunset Cem etery by John Vance of AshevHle, junior grand warden of the Mas onic Grand Lodge. Officating ministers at the First Methodist Church here we're the Rev. Delbert By rum, the Rev. ( Frank Brown, the Rev.. J. Alton Morris and the Rev. Colvin Thomp son. Pallbearers were Walt Mauney, Gordon Butler, Charles Van Gor der, Olin Stratton, Loster Love and Francis Bourne, Sr. New Sheriff M. G. CRAWFORD M. G. Crawford, nephew of the late Sheriff Frank C. Craw ford, was appointed by the County Board of Commissioners and was sworn in as the new sheriff of Cherokee County. The new sheriff is a native of Unaka, is married and has one son. Clay Prisoners Transferred Here; New Jail Planned Prisoners of the Clay County Jail in Murphy were transferred to the Cherokee County Jail in Mur phy recently with the condemnat ion of the Clay Jail by the Public Welfare Department. A new $12,000 structure, includ ing quarters for the jailer and his family will be constructed, accord ing to the C!ay County Board of Commissioners. H. M.' Moore, Clay County rep resentative, will be contacted and asked to seek legislative assistance in financing the new jail. Fines To Start On Parking Law Town police will clamp down for violations of the two hour parking law starting Monday after Town Council called for stricter measures. Over time parkers will be fined $1 by the town cleric. Motorists wanting a trial will have to post bond. The_new clamp down will in clude parking at the 15 minute zones. ? ? Free Film i Showings Set In Andrews Mrs. R. A. Dewar, chairman of the Library Board, has announced the fallowing schedule of free movies tp adultgwfjt ^Children to be shown in the Andrew* Carnegie Library on Monday nights: March 16, "Swiss Family Robin son": March 23, "LUbtd Palestine In Bible Times" and-"Occupations in Bible Times" (These two films are available, on request to church groups from the Regional Libr ary.); March 30, "Enchanted For Charles Frazier, principal of the Elementary School will present the films. The showings -will be at 7:30 p. m. each time. Every (Snow) Cloud Must Have A Silver Lining Maybe someone will feel some good came of the last snow storm we had when city employees get their next checks. Town council last night voted to ? pay double time to all employees 1 who worked day and night to re pair damages done by the storm. Usual pay for over time for town ! employees Is time and a half. PTA Plans Bake Sale Saturday The Murphy PTA will sponsor a Bake Sale Saturday, Mar. 21 at E. i C. Moore's Garage. Proceeds will ( be used to pay for clothes for | needy children at school. Republican Speaker ME. HYDE MR* BALEY James M. Baler, Jr., president of the State Republican Party, told Western North Carolina Republicans here that he believed in an "open door policy" concerning federal appointments. Mr. Baley spoke at a Lincoln Day Dinner in the Regal Hotel last Saturday night, Edwin Hyde, Murphy attorney, introduced the speaker. GOP Chairman Wants "Open Door" On Jobs The Republican Party must keep an "open door policy" in the mat tci; of federal appointments, GOP State Chairman James 0. Baley told Western North Carolina Rep ublicans here Saturday night. Edwin Hyde, Murphy attorney, 'presided at the Lincoln Day din ner in the dining room of Hotel Regal. "No qualified applicant for a federal position must be denied his day in court ... an oppor tunity to have his qualifications considered by the proper ap pointment authorities," Baley said. "The radical left-wing elements of the Democratic Party are driv ing thousands of Democrats out of their party. It has been captured toy a group who do not understand or care about the problems of the South. The chief southern spokes man is our authority for this state ment?Senator Richard Russell? as recently as last Saturday in Raleigh," the Marshall attorney as serted. -Some 125 Republican Party leaders attended from Andrews, Robbinsville, Hayesville and Mur phy. Doyle Burch made the welcom ing address. Mrs. Hadley Dickey led the group in singing of patrio tic songs. Awards Presented At Annual Andrews Basketball Banquet Block letters and miniature members of the Andrews basketbal lin spoke at the dnnual Andrew^ Thursday in the Shell Dining ro< the Andrews Rotary Club and tht Decorations In a basketball motif carried out school colors in red and black streamers with balloon basketballs at each window. Place cards and programs were in the gold basketballs, were presented i II teams and Don-Smith pf Frank High School Basketball banquet >m. The affair was sponsored by : Konnaheeta Club, shape of basketballs. The guest table was centered with two trophies won by the An drews Girls' Team, one for Con ference Tournament runner-up and the other for tie for the annual Championship in conference games for the year. Luke Ellis, Rotary president, and Gordon Butler, master of ceremon. ies, presided. Supt. J. E. Rufty introduced the basketball coaches, Ruth Hamilton, "Skeeter" Hunter, and assistant, (Continued on page 4) New Type Truck Could Mean Better Collection Murphy housewives this week stood a chance of seeing one cf their problems settled when Town Council started investigations ?into the possible purchase of a new garbage truck. The new type power loading truck would mean garbage in Murphy could be picked up twice as quick as the schedule now uafit. Mother, 7 Kids Burned Out Here A mother and her seven chil dren were burned out here around 3:30 p. m. Monday when a house owned by Mrs. Tom Evans and occupied by Mrs. Nellie Mulkey was destroyed by fire. Part of the furnishings were saved but the occupants escaped with just a change of clothing. The youngest child is about sen months old and the oldest youth about 14 years old. The house, on Cherry St. wa partly covered by insurance, the owner said. ? Walter Puett Is New NCEA Head Walter Puett was elected presid ent of the Murphy N. C. E. A. In ? business meeting of the group Monday, March 2, in the High School Library. Other new officers are John Thompson, vice-president Mrs. Frances Ray, secretary; and Mrs. Pauline Bault, treasurer. r If the same $4,000 truck txxfy were purchased by Murphy the collecting schedule could be doubled without haying to put orf another open body vehicle. Another feature In favor of the power loader track is that it not scatter paper and trash its route. Yesterday, a committee front Council went to the city dump <o investigate possible improvements in disposing of the town's age Plans are under now to try covering accumulations of trash with a layer of dirt moved by a bulldozer so that odors eotfld be kept down. If necessary. Council is consider ing moving the dump if the pries; ent location is too rocky for bull dozer work. Copperhill, Tenn., has notified Council that their new power loader trash wagon will travel to Murphy for a trial pick up ran here. The new machines work on a plunger, crushing method that packs garbage dumped into tbq truck. The continuous crushing makes it possible for trucks to pick up well over twice as much as the open type truck handles. A great deal of time and man power is saved in the new system!, Council learned. Farmers Federation Stockholders Meet The annual Farmer's Federation [ Stockholders' meeting for Cher okee Cc-inty will be held Friday, March 13,?at 8 p. m. at the Mur phy Warehouse of the organiza tion, James G. K. McClure, presi dent, announced. The Clay County organization will meet also Friday, 13th, at the Hayesville Warehouse. The Clay meeting will be at 2 p. m. Stockholders of the Farmers Federation in the counties will at tend this annual meeting to elect committeemen and to nominate one director. The director nomi nated in each case will be voted upon at the annual meeting of all stockholders of the organization in the Buncombe County court house March 28. Each director of the Federation is elected for two years. At the meetings Friday music will be furnished by the Farmers Federation String Band and baby chicks will ge awarded as prizes. Refreshments will be seryed. ! In Cherokee County, County Agent. G. H. Farley will report on Agricultural Progress in the county and will discuss achieve^, ments of the 4-H Club Pallet Chain co-sponsored by the State Extension Service and the Farm-' ers Federation. In Hayesvillc, Clay County. Farm Agent, R. G. VkJc will give a like report. ? H Present directors for the Murphy Warehouse are: J. H. Hampton and W. A. Adams. Committeemen are:, W. A. Adams, Dillard McCombe, Wilbur McComhs, Clyde McNabb, B. B. Palmer, J. H. Hampton, Ern est Burnett, Wayne Crisp, Ralph Lovingood, S. H. Roberson, Mrs. Clarence Hendrix, J. H. Hall, Horace Brendle, Mrs. Henry L,.t Carver, J; H. Ellis, Claude Stiles, Coty Hyatt. / ?. Committeemen for Graham ; County are R. O. Sherrill, B. N. ** Hyde and Gwyn Denton. ; i HD SCHOOL IS STUDY OF "MAKE - DO AND PATCH - UP" TVA Dormitories Designed Wrong For Use As School A real story of make-do and the Hiwassee Dam elementary an held in poorly arranged buildings Some $06 students and 18 teai constructed by TVA back in 19 Only two rooms in one building built by TVA to be used as classr PATCH ON PATCH In boHdiags that house those i lean mum new walls and parti were added to make more ms. The torn out holes in ter hoard walk have been and patched again. I patch-up", is lived every day at d high- schools where classes are chers, tolerate buildings that were 37 as dormitories-for workmen, and four rooms in another wei ooms. ings. That means that several of the classrooms have no outside entrances. Students must walk through other classrooms, disturb ing teacher and pupHs. to get to their assigned classes. Hie lease held by Cherokee County for the three buildings ex pires in the spring at 1955. HEATING One of thp buildings is heated with electricity, one by steam and the third is still strqgglidg along with coal stoves placed to each are not exactly cram bat the room they do TMs n>wi| view of one of the Owe* i bnUdlno at HIwihm Dan shows the drab, n< of the school. A stipulation i by TVA when the billdlhn were leased, nukes It impossible for the oonnty to improve or i NO INSPECTIONS Mr. Oaborae Mid ht has no re of tfae HnlMlhf. h?lng ipectod tor Are fcaaarda or aaf ety baxarda In the post km Evan the Meatta of the The -choola ere several mH*s school In tlx buses. Only one bus Vnakcs ? double run. Despite the ? it that would he ? to any er. The Interior at hare be?n painted irnn. Tel tow chalk la type hoard*. A new school would coat about $10,000 par eUaaroom, It has been And an Ideal aKe for the ehructure la owned by the 1.8 miles from Friendship eight mUes from Murphy Civitans Sponsor Hillbilly Show With Grand Ole Oprv Stars Johnny and Jade, with their Tennessee Mountain Boys and Kitty Wells, will be heard in Mur phy at the school auditorium Fri. March 27 in two shows, 7 and 9 p. m. These Grand Ole Opry stars are being sponsored by the Murphy Ciivitan Club Tickets, at 30c and 60c, are now on sale Bran any Cftdtan member and An also be obtained a* Palm er's Sinclair Station, K. C. Moore, Cherokee Cafe and Smoky Mount ain Gee Co. Johnny and Jack and the Mou ntain Boys have become nrrr night favorites on radio, stage and tele vision. Johnny Wright sold Jack Alalia, mho parlayed two golden end a guitar Into a which has beconie one of I loved folk music < their fast-marine. "What About You," "I'm Love You One Mom Time," "1 Cant Tell My Heart That." "Cryto' Heart Rhjea" and many others uAll welcome their moot ] including, "Ashes at Love", Tried To Ruin My Ways at Knowing" and Heart Wb? to addition to Tiling and M, the show wta feature Kitty Wafte Cousin Nimrod, "The OH Heart Throb, ry yokel who has dinoes all over the aad Ua Warren, . _ ?
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