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VOLUME??2 NCMBU U MURPHY, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY MAY 81. 1853 \ EIGHT PAGES THIS
Summer Recreation Program Told
Opening Day
Be June 1
Lrvin Greene, entering Us four
th year as director of the Murphy
Summer Recreation program, to
day released plans for the pro
gram which opens June 1 at 2 p.
m.
Greene will be assisted by Tom
my Gentry as life guard and as
sistant director and Jim Ed Hugh
es, swimming director and lnstruc
tor.
Opening day will feature a
bubble gum contest, sad sack
raoe, prizes other entertainment
and registration.
Activities during the summer
will include swimming?both re
creational and classes at Cane
Creek, developed by the Civitan
Club. A bug will be provded to
take the chldren to the lake.
Volley ball, horse shoes, ping
pong, badminton, softball and
baseball will aslo be played
with lntra-church softball lea
gues and girls softball, as well
as little league basebal and Jun
ior league baseball.
A story hour will be held one
day weekly sponsored by the Mur
phy library and a weekly square
dance will be held, the first to be
Friday, June 9. Instruction will
be offered and a square dance
-team will be organized.
A -three act play will also be di
rected during the summer. The
soap box derby will be held a
round August 1.
Mr Greene said the recra
tion program will assist any
group in planning parties and
will plan games, furnish life
guard for swimming parties.
However, he said, the director
must be notified one week in
advance for each party.
The Murphy Recreation Pro
gram offers a rod and reel to the
person catching the largest game
fish by August 1. Fish caught may
be registered at Western Auto
Associates Store in Murphy.
Mr. Greene predicts a big year
for the recreation program, and
said that an avrage of 50 child
dren a day participated in the
program last year.
Any parent wishing to contri
bute to the recreation program
can send his contribuotion to any
member of the program's steer
ing committee composed of H. L.
McKeever, Joe Ray, Avis Hoover,
Arnold Beerkens, Walter Car
ringer, and Jim Ed Hughes.
Greene is a graduate of Wes
tern Carolina College with a B.
S. in Physical Education. He is a
teacher n the Murphy Schools
and is assistant coach at the high
school here.
Mrs. Akin's Pupils
To Play Fri., Sat
Mrs. Margaret Akin will pre
sent her plane pupils in recital
Friday and Saturday nights at 8
p m. in the auditorium of the
Primary School Building.
The following pupils will play
Friday night: Becky Jo Ray. Car
lene Bates, Rosemary Bates, Jon
ny Snow, Jimmy Kimsey, Becky
Hoover, Glenda Faye Fisher, Su
sie Miller, Ann Gladson, John
Morris, Edith Faye Wilcox and
Margaret Ann Wilcox.
Also Judy Sneed, Rosemary
Burgess, Betty McEhnare, Nancy
Fsh, Neva Jean Bates, Yvonne
Green,' Naimi Lunsford and Ruth
Bates.
The following will play Satur
day night: Ginger Gray, Joan
Crawford, Cordis Padgett and
Weaver Swanson of Hayesvllle;
Irene Roberson, Bobbie Jean
Reeoe and Patsy Mason of Hiwas
see Dam; and from Murphy, Glen
na Ruth Owen by, Betty Byecs,
Wanda West, Sara Hughes, Polly
Ann Stiles. Ramona Haggard,
Carolyn Bates, Annette White,
Patsy Jones, Charlene Dadidson
The three 'puptk who played at
Cullowhee field day and ware
rated u excellent, will repeat
their hiimbers. They are Ginger
Gray, playing Gershwin's "Rhap
sody TnWoe"; Patsy Jones, Rach
maniofTi "Prelude In C Sharp
Minor"; and Irene Roberson in
Zarwenka's "Polish Danes."
Gov. Names Mattox
To Election Board
H. A. Mattox. Murphy business
man and active member of the
Cherokee County Democrat Party,
has been named a member of the
important five-man State Board
of Elections.
Mr. Mattox was chairman of the
Cherokee County Democrat Party
for 10 years and handled Gov.
Umstead's campaign in this county
during the spring elections.
The State Elections Board, made
up of three Democrats and two
Republicans, carries out and inter
prets all legislature on elections.
The panel also meets to hear any
disputes on elections. The group
meets in Raleigh.
Mr. Mattox will be sworn in a
round June 1
H. A. MATTOX
Home Demonstration
Minstrel Be Repeated
The Home Demonstration min
strel show is enjoying the fruits
of success by the demand for
three repeat performances sche
duled next week.
Monday, May 25, the show will
be given at Peachtree School;
Tuesday, May 26," JIiwassee Dam
School; and Thursday, May 28 at
Martin's Creek School. All per
formances will be at 8 p. m.
A rehearsal will be held Friday
at 7:30 p. m. in Murphy school
auditorium.
LEGION AUXILIARY
The American Legion Auxiliary
will meet Friday at 8 p. m. with
Mrs. Paul Sims to make final
preparations for National Poppy
Day, Saturday, May 23
8th Grade To
Graduate 85
InAndrews
Eighth Grade graduation exer
cises at Andrews Elementary
School will be held Friday, May
22, at 10:30 a. m. with the Rev.
John Corbitt, pastor of the And
rews First Baptist Church, as speak
er.
Eighty- five students will re
ceive certificates of promotion to
the high school.
Special music will be presented
by sixth and eighth grade students.
Andrews High Commencement Set
McCall Is Speaker
For Graduates
Author and educator, Dr. Wil
liam A. McCall will give the ad
dress at the graduation exercises
of Andrews High School tomorrow
at 7:30 p. m. in the school audi
torium.
Valedictorian, Janice Barton
and salutatorian, Kate Conley.
will also speak. William Franklin
will sing "I Believe" by Drake.
A group of seniors will present
an Old French Chant, "Forty-Sec
ond Psalm".
The Rev. John C. Corbitt will
give the invocation and Rev,
John C. Neville the benediction.
Dr. McCall lives at Santeelah
Lake and is associated with Co
lumbia Unversity in New York
City as coordinator of Metropo
litan Achievement Tests. He is au
thor of the McCall Speller and a
number of other books.
Members of the graduating
class are L. V. Blaylock, Mable
Almond, Jim Cathey, Lucille An
derson, Lloyd Clark, Janice Bar
ton, Billy Cruse, Mrs. June L.
Brooks. Wallace Davis, Anna Ma
die Butler. William Franklin.
Kate Conley, LeRoy Gilbert, Ann
Crawford, L. B. Hardin, Mrs.
Juanlta C. Kilpartclk, Charles
Hilland, Carolyn Dupree, Brie
Kllpatrick, Dolores Flowers, Ken
Ladd, Cecilia Hollo way.
Also Billy Ray Martin, Helen
Holloway, Frederick Powers,
Louise Nelson. Jack JPullium, Ijfrs.
Christine S. Waldroup. Carlyle
Sharp, Marine Trull, 'Dickie Wal
droup and Wilms Jean West.
Marshals for the sundaes art
hoyt Lunaford, chief, Lillian West
Bobbie Jean Bristol, Dean Truett,
Elizabeth Poatell, Virginia Huf
fman and Zeb Conley.
New Methodist Minister
Family In Parsonage
The Rev. Mr. Asmond Maxwell.
Mrs. Maxwell and the four Httle
Maxwells, Susan, 9; Peter. 7; Jona
than 4,; and David, 3, this week
moved in the parsonage of the
First Methodist Church here, with
Mr. Maxwell assuming his duties
as pastor of the local church.
The parsonage has been vacant
since April 15 when the Rev. R.
Delbert Byrum and Mrs. Byrum
moved to Nashville, Tenn.
Mr. Maxwell came here from
Canton where he was pastor of the
Monring Star Methodist Church
for four and a half years. He is a
native Georgian and Mrs. Maxwell
is from Mexico.
Since the Byrums left, the up
stairs of the parsonage has been
completed and the downstairs has
been painted. .
Mr. Maxwell will preach his first
sermon Sunday here at 11 a. m.
Due to the Mass Evengelistic meet
ing In Ashevllle Sunday afternoon
at four o'clock in which the Mur
phy choir is partlclpatng, there
will he no evening worship service
at the Murphy Methodist Church.
EPISCOPAL SERVICE
I In the absence of the minister
Rev. Rhett Y. Winters, Earl
Van Horn, lay leader, wMl con
duct a lay service ht the register
11 A. M. service Sunday at the
Church of the Useslsh bare. ?
Rev. and Mrs. Winters and lit
tle daughter ere vacationing at
Myrtle Beach, S C.
REV. ASMOND MAXWELL
County Agents At
District Meeting
Miss Edna Bkshop, home agent,
Mrs. Finances Fuett, assistant
home agent, O. H. Farley, county
agent, and L. V. McMahan, aais
tant countf agent are attending
a Joint meeting of Farm and
Home Agents from the Western
and Northwestern Districts at
Fontana Dam this week. They
will rrtcrn on Friday, May 22.
Bible School Plans
The annual Daily Vacation Bi
ble School will be held at the
Hresbyberian Church beginning
May 25. a fid continuing through
June 5.
Sessions will be held from 9 a.
m. till 11 a. m. each day, for chil
dren four to sixteen years of age,
A11 children are invited to attend.
Teachers are: For beginners,
Mrs. J. N. Hill, Bible, Mrs, Frank
Rogers, Mrs. Henry Strange, hand
craft, Mrs, R, H, Foard, music,
Miss Ida Brumby, games.
Primary: Mrs. John Thompson,
Bible leader; Miss Betty Jean
Moore, craft, Mrs. William Fain,
assistant.
Juniors: Mrs. Cloe Moore, Mrs.
Jim Gibbs, Bible leaders; Mrs.
Tommy Gray, Jr., Mrs. Charley
Barrett craft.
Intermediate Girls: Mrs. Frank
Brown, Bible leader; Mrs. E. H,
Brumby, Mrs J. H, Hamrick,
craft.
Intermediate boys: the Rev.
Frank Brown.
Mrs Bruce Gordon is superin
tendent of the Bible School, Mrs.
W. A, Singleton, secretary; Mrs.
Harvey Wilson, Jr, pianist.
Little Brasstown HD
Club Ha* Food Topic
The Little Brasstown Home Dem
onsfcratlon Club met May 11 at the
home of Fannie McLellan in Brass
town - The 10 members who were
present enjoyed a program on
Food?"Its Smart To Be Well Fed."
Farm and Home week In Raleigh
June 8-U and the Home Demon
stration Club Camp June 2, 3, 4,
were emphasised, lite club will
meet June 22 with Mrs. Candas
C wringer
Earwood Death Said
From "Natural Cause"
Leonard Earwood, 48, Andrews
grocery store operator, "died from
natural causes" according to an
autopsy in Aahevllle, Sheriff M. G.
Crawford had said today.
Earwood died about 6 a. m. Sun
day enroute to a Murphy hospital
from the County Jail, Deputy Luke
Carver said.
He had been arrested in Andrews
on charges of drunkenness and dis
orderly conduct.
iFirst reports from the autopsy
said Earwood died of a natural
cause and that a small cut on his
head did not even break a blood
vessel, the sheriff said.
The exact cause of death will be
traced In a final report from the
pathologist, Sheriff Crawford said.
The head cut was received when
Earwood fell to the floor in his
cell, officers said.
Surviving are the widow and
five children. Doris, Lois, Donald
and Ronald of the home and Dale
C. with the U. S. Air Force, sta
tioned in England.
Funeral services were held at
2:30 p. m. yesterday in the Marble
Baptist Church. The Revs. A. B,
Lovell, James Truett and Mathie
Rowland officiated.
Burial was in Moss Cemetery
with Town son Funeral Home in
charge.
County Jail Gets
New Jailor, Repairs
The Cherokee County Jail Is
under new supervision today af
ter Leonard Jones of Liberty took
over Monday.
Mr. Jones is the son of A. Z,
Jones of Liberty and is married
to the former Frances Vemer of
Tennessee.
They have three children; son,
15, and two girls, eight and nine.
The jailor was a deputy under
the late Sheriff Frank Crawford
and was a Murphy town police
man in 1949. He was employed
foj 3even years with TV A and has
just returned from two years em
ployment at the Clark Hill Dam
project.
Meanwhile, some $3,000 or
$4,000 repair work on the jail is
nearing completion. New toilets
and wash basins have been in
stalled in each cell, replacing
worn out plumbing.
Pipes of the new plumbing have
been covered with a protecting
cement and iron plate housing.
All three stories of the building
are slated for an interior paint
job, rounding out the repair york.
Aberdeen-Angus Member
J. Franklin Smith of Peachtree
has been awarded a life-time
membership in the American
Aberdeen-Angus Association, it
was announced here this week.
Smith is breeding registered
Aberdeen-Angus cattle, along
with his fine guernseys. He bou
ght 11 heifers last year in Ken
tucky at an Aberdeen-Angus sale
and now has 20 of the animals.
Although there aire other
breeders in the county growing
the Angus, Smith has the only
life membership into the associa
tion.
Mayor PrZ\faims Poppy
Day Here. 7
On Saturday, May 23, members of the American Legion Auxiliaries
will sell memorial poppies on the streets of Murphy to help finance their
work among disabled veterans.
Headquarters for replenishing the supply of poppies will be in the
tear-shaped traffic island near Mauney Drug Company.
Poppy Day was proclaimed for Saturday by Mayor L. L Mason as
follows:
"Whereas, Three times in the past 35 yean, the young men of our
town have been called upon to be1? turn back a threat to America on
foreign battlefields;
"Whereas, our young men anwsered this call with high courage and
patriotism, some of the finest of them laying down their lives In the
nation's defense; % '
"whereas. The memories of these men and their sacrifices should
live forever in our hearts;
"Whereas, Our memories for our war dead, and the honor in which
we hold them, is individually expressed by the annual wearing of the
memorial poppy;
"Now, therefore, I, L. L. Mason, Mayor of the Town of Murphy,
North Carolina, do hereby proclaim Saturday, May 23. to be Poppy Day
in the Town of Murphy and Cherokee County and do urge all the citi
zens to observe this day toy wearing the poppy."
L.V. McMahan New
Assistant Agent
Lemuel McMahan of Rutherford
County this week took up his du
ties as new Cherokee County as
sistant County Agent, starting out
on his first objective "to get ac
quainted". he said.
McMahan is unmarried, is a vet
eran of World II, and graduated
from N. C. State College February,
1953 in Animal Industry.
His duties include counseling
boys in the Four-H Clubs and be
ing assistant in other activities to
County Agent G. H. Farley.
UNAKA DECORATION
A decoration service will be
held at Unaka Baptist Church
Saturday, May 30, beginning at
9 a. m All singers and speak
ers are invited.
Rev. Luther Swanson is pastor
of the church.
LEMUEL MeMAHAN
"CALL ME MAC"
Prizes Offered For
Top Corn Yields
'Corn is being imported into
Cherokee County daily, G. H. Fax
ley. County Agent said today,
and he expressed hope that the
corn yield here would grow dur
ing the current season.
The Citizens Bank and Trust
Co. has offered prizes totaling
$85 to the three top yields in the
county to be awarded at the end
of the season at a 100 bushel Corn
Club banquet.
The county champion corn
grower will receive a $50 de
fense bond; second phice, $25
bond; and third, $10 cash.
Yields will be checked by a
committee of the USDA Council,
which is comprised of all agricul
tural workers of the county, and
a committee from this group will
certify corn yields according to
the system used throughout the
state.
Farley urged all farmers and
farm boys to try for the 100 bu
shel Corn Club this year.
UNITED WE STAND
From tree to church through united eommunty effort. Above are far
mera of the Boiling Springs Community building a new ohareh from
logs they cut, hauled and "wed themselves. Left to right: Herbert Oad
dts, Claude Mills, Frank Kllllan, Fred Doekery, Wayne Abernathy, J.
T. Davis and Pat O'delL
Area Bankers WU1
Attend Annual Meet
Three Cherokee County bankers,
Percy Ferebee, Bill Whieaker <rf An
drews, end Prank Forsyth of Mur
phy, will attend the 87 Annual
Convention of the North Carolina
Bankers Association at
N. C. May >1 through May H
Mr. ftnyth to chairman tot Mm
will accompany bar I
nmialn i for the mtmttnf will ha
Bishop Arthur J. Moore,
the Collate of Blahop of the I
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