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Wreck Kills Andrfews Mother, Daughter, \?ung Man
Van Horn Is County's
First Eagle Scout
Fifteen yew old Fred Van Horn
next week will oome before a Boy
Scout Court of Honor to become
Cherokee County's first Eagle
Tbe Honor Cowt will be held at
the Courthouse here Tuesday, July
7 at 7:30 p. m.
Von Horn will also receive his
26th merit badge making Mm elig
ible for the bronze palm addition
which be will receive In a later
honor court.
A rising Junior at Murphy High
School, Van Horn is active in
Four-H Club work as well as in
scouting and is the son of Mr.
mid Mrs. Earl Van Horn of Rt. 2,
Murphy.
He has had five years in Scout
ing, beginning aa a member of
Cub Scoot den. At present he is
patrol leader of tbe Wild Boar
Patrol of Murphy, Troop Two.
Earl Van Horn will present the
Eagle award to tads son
Bobby Morris of Murphy will
go before the Court to become
1st Class Scout.
Merit badges will be presented
to the following Murphy Troop
Two Scouts: swimming, John Mor
ris, Harry Duncan and Hubert
Sneed; book binding, Billy Lovtn
FRED VAN HORN
good. Tommy Moore; reading, Bill
Browning.
Also, scholarship, Ed Gibhs;
electricity, Ed Gibbs; public speak
ing, TomAy Moore; home repairs,
Johnny Thuss and Bobby Easley.
It is expected that a number o<
Andrews Scouts will also receive
arwards at Che Court of Honor.
Farmers. Federation
Sets Picnic Soon
The annual farmers federation
picnic for Cherokee County will
be held Saturday, July u at the
Murphy Schoolgrounds. The Clay
County picnic will be Friday, June
10, at the Haywrville High School.
"Pan Handle Pete", the one man
band; Patsy Messer, acrobatic star
from Canton; Alex Houston, Hen
dersonville ventriloquist and
many other acts will be included
in the day long programs.
Acting as Master of Ceremonies
will be James McClure Clarke,
Federation Executive Vice Presi
dent. who will report on the grow
th and progress of the Farmers
Federation during the year.
In addition to the above enter
tainers, the Farmer* Federation
string band and various other lo
cal groups will be on band to fur
nish music throughout the day
AU singers, quartets, choirs, and
other performers are especially In
vited to attend and take part in
the picnic programs.
In addition to the entertain
ment, there will be a number of
stunts and novelty acts to dem
onstrate new farm practices. To
illustrate the Federation Com
merical Err Prorram a man ab
ed hen will lay errs on the plat
form. |
Max M. Roberts, who is in
charge of the picnics, announced
Che schedule of contests at noon
which will include musical chairs,
tug-o-war, roses and balloon blow
ing for Che children. The afternoon
programs will feature singing by
quartets and choirs with prizes a -
warded to the winning groups. The
winning choir will receive a com
plete set of new song books, and
the second place chair will receive
twelve new song books.
In addition there will be con
tests held and prizes awarded
for the oldest and newest marri
ed couples, for the largest truck
load of people, for the baldest
headed man, and for the largest |
family at each picnic.
Lunch hour will be called at 12
o'clockk when 'the crowd will gath
er on the school grounds to eat
their lunches which will be sup
plemented by free watermelon and
lemonade served by the Federa
tion.
The Federaton picnics, which?
were attended by 30,000 people |
last year, are held annually In
counties served by the co-operative j
as a day of getting together and
renewing old acquaintances. The
picnics begin July Fourth and con
tinue through the month of Au
gust.
Mrs. Jack Q^py, Joy
Conley, Dtiild Smith Die
v ?tragic pr^iioiiday auto-track
yestetfay killed Mrs. Jack
Iter 20-year-old daughter,
Joy, bote of Route 1, And
rews, and 15-year-old David How
ard Smite of Gaatonla.
The accident occured
10:00 a. m. some seven miles i
Murphy on the Andrews I
One of Mrs. Conley'a
Peggy Sue,
termed
Vjjtej^r col
dpKtntly
16 dk injured
looSospital as
llttoKThe two i
eorat
were in tee rear seat of
tee car.
The Smite youth and Mrs. Con
ley were both dead on arrival at a
local 'hospital. Joy Conley died at
2:35 p. m. some three hours after
the collision.
The car was completely demol
ished.
The truck, a trailer-tractor, was
driven by Sam Thomas, 41-year
old Negro from East Point, Ga. He
suffered lacerations of the left ear.
Thomas told officials he was driv
ing toward Murphy on U. S. 19
when the 1949 four door Plymouth
with the Conley party headed to
ward the truck on the track's side
of toe white une.
Thomas said he swerved to the
left la an attempt to miss the
anto. Then, Thomas asserted,
the Plymouth eat toward its own
side of the highway The truck
said his vehicle hit the
ith on the right front
*door
Sheriff M. G. Crawford said he
was unable at press time to de
termine who was driving the Ply
mouth. However, he said, both the
Smith boy and Mrs. Conley ap
parently were sitting in the front
seat with the two Conley girls in
the rear.
The Sheriff said he is holding
Thomas pending questioning of the
Conley girl.
Deputy Sheriff Guy Roberts
said the Plymouth came to rest
after the collision on the truck
side of the highway. The trail
er was on the same side of the
road with the car, Deputy Rob
erta said.
Jack Conley, husband of the
dead woman. Is employed by the
State Highway Department.
Officials first bad the dead Gas-!
Air Show Intermission Plans
Told; Air Aces To Perform
Climaxing an Independence Day
celebration - stretching over (he
wuek end, the Fifth Annual Mr
(Show will get under - wgi at An
drews?Murphy Ahgtork at 2:80
P. M. Sunday.
A varied program to broaden
the appeal to the general public
has been scheduled by Richard
Parker, president of the Konna
heeta Flying Club, sponsor of the
show.
Parker stated that in addition to
the thrills and chills of straight
acrobatics, there will be parachute
jumps, a "crazy-Cub" act, a
"dive-bombing" exhibition, and
such educational events as demon
strations of late model single and
twin-engine craft
Finals in the Chamber of Com
merce-sponsored beauty contest
and fashion parade will also be
held during the air show, It was
announced today by Hildred
Ilea ton. The fashion parade is a
new wrinkle In the Fourth of
July festivities.
Top billing in this year's air
spectacle goes to Woody Edmon
i son, of Washington, D. C. Edmon
son will fly a Monoooupe Special
200 through an intricate aerobatlc
routine that hos won him acclaim
everywhere.
He is also the present holder of
ifche world's speed record between
Washington, D. C. and Havana,
Cuba. Edmonson set the record of
slightly over six hours round-trip
BEN HUNTLEY
"Gasits of admiration ...
in a P-51 Mustang fighter.
Ben Huntley of Charlotte in has
Pitts Special 450 brough gasps of
admiration from the crowd last
season, so much so that he has
been booked for a return engage
ment After a 30-minute solo per
formance, executed at low altitude
almost within airport boundaries,
he and Edmonson will team up in
a dual precision aerobatics act.
The traditional air-show 'must'
the parachute jumps, will be
made by Melvin Robinson of
High Point. Robinson will make
two jumps, one each from low
and high altitude. He has not
previously appeared in a show
in this area.
All precautions will be taken
for the safety of participants and
spectators, according to Edgar A. <
Wood Jr., manager of the airport.
Members of the State Highway
Patrol, local city police, and mem
bers of the sponsoring organiza
tion will assist In keeping the
event running smoothly.
Folk School Herd Among Top
12 In State Supervisor Says
Special Square Dance
Set Tomorrow Here
A special Fourth of July eve
Square Dance will be held tomor
row at 8 p. m in the Murphy Gym
nasium. Everyone is invited to at
tend and there will be no admis
tonia youth listed as Charles Bat
tle of Marble.
But Gene Brown of Gastonia.
a Cherokee County native, iden
tified the dead youth as the son
of Claude Smith of Gastonia.
The boy's family still had not
been reached by 1: 30 p. m . yes
terday.
The accident broke Cherokee
County's 11 months record of no
highway deaths.
6ion charge.
However, donations may be giv
en for the Summer Recreation
Program fund.
Music will be by the Peach tree
Camp Band, and a tap dance num
ber will be given by one of the
musicians.
Irvin Greene, director of the
program, said a large crowd lis ex
pected to attend.
J. T. Henson, 95,
Dies At Wolf Creek
Joseph Thomas Hei?on, 95, of
the Wolf Creek Commiunty, died
at the home, June 21. He would
have been 96 July 31.
A retired farmer, Henson had
lived most of bis life in Cherokee
County after coming here as a
young man.
The funeral was held at Wolf
Creek Baptist Church, of which he
was a member, Monday, June 22,
with the Revs.' Foley Helton and
Phillipp Chastetn officiating. Bur
ial followed in the eh arch ceme
tery
Pallbearers were Earnest Hen
son, Ray Hawkins, Winston Haw
kins, Tommy Shields, Jack Si
monds and Frank Taylor.
Finch Funeral Home was in
Charge.
Mr. Henson was a very active for ;
his age until January of this year ,
when he became ill. His condition
grew steadily worse until the time j
of his death.
He was married to the late Delia
Mull Henson who died in 1942.
Survivors include five daughters
Mrs. Andrew Simonds, Mrs. J. H.
Simonds, Mrs. Ollie Verner, Mrs.
Dora McAllister and Mrs. Ameri
ca Burger; one son. Robert, Bob,
Henson.
Mrs. Butler Takes
i
Dress Revue Win
Mrs. G. H. Butler of the Hiwas
see Dam Club took first prize at
the annual County Home Demon
stration Dress Revue last week.
Other winners were Mrs. R. L.
Keenum, Suit Club, second and
Mrs. Tom Graham, Midway Club,
third.
? The John C. Campbell Folk
School'g 31 registered Jerseys, dor
ing May, were among the 12 top
Dairy Herd Improv?nent Associat
ion's herds in the state in butter
fat production.
Some 429 herds, including 13,878
are members of DHIA in North
Carolina.
The Folk School's herd averaged
792 poundg of milk and 41.5 pou
nds of fat.
The May teat climaxed a year of
testing, which saw the avenge cow
in the Folk School herd increase
milk production 1,950 over the
previous year. This milk, worth
about $115, was produced for an
additional feed coot of $20, ac
cording to William P. Walker, sup
ervisor of the Cherokee and Clay
County DHIA.
During the winter, Walker said,
the roughage fed was of about
the same quality as before, but
more care was exercised in the
feeding. More silage was fed and
more bedding used. The grain
mixture was the same, 16 per
cent home mixture of crushed
corn and cotton seed meal with
about the same amount of eom
merical mixture used at certain
periods of each year. Only about
156 pounds of additional grain
I was fed.
Walker noted that the milking
procedure was changed slltfif.ly
and "Managed Milking", as rec
ommended by the machine giami
factuner, was practiced. The racy
nervous cows were given special
J attention, and in some oases were
moved to a different {dace in the
barn Some cows were culled.
The herdsman was given more
I complete authority over all roart
' tsers affecting the herd and farm
than in any previous year, Mr.
Walker said.
Summer and fall pasture was
good, according to the supervis
or, who also said that very little
winter grazing was provided.
This spring's pasture, he said,
has been excellent and has been
managed so that maximnm graz
ing could be obtained.
The Folk School increase was
accomplished with many of the .
same old cows and a few of the
first calf heifers which took the
place of cows culled from the
herd.
Mr. Walker said the level of pro
duction was low in 1951 and a fu
ture rate of increase as great as
the one shown in 1952 is not likely,
he said.
However, better care of young
stock begin to pay off during 1953,
[with freshening heifers averaging
j 100 pounds heavier than previous
ones. He also said the effects of
extensively used artificial breed
ing should also become evident
I this year.
Big Holiday Week End Anticipated In County July 4
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Patrolman Urges
Highway Safety
Cherokee County now holds an
11 months safety record with no
traffic accident deaths. Patrolman
C. H. Long mid here today. He
urged motorists to prolong that
record toy driving carefully part
icularly during the Fourth of July
week end.
year, Long mid 14 i
ware killed to July 4 traffic ac
ctdeotg in North Carolina, and 253
, persona were injured. There were
492 wrecks In the state that day,
c said
h
I
largely by draakan driv
ing, driving an the
of the read,
following too elooe, not having
right of way
The State Hltfmay Patrol hat
alerted all its patrolmen and all
28 Local Lovelies Are Entered
In Bathing Beauty Contest July 4
cancelled until after the week end
of the Fourth. Mr. Long said pat
trohnen will work all day long
and into the (right aa kmg an pos
sible.
Patrolman Long painted out
that in North Carolina Mat Fourth
of July week end there wea a tra
ffic death each elrfit end a half)
hours; one person injured every
84 nrinutes; and one
every 14 minutes
Patrolman Long and Patrolman
L. H. Baker will be an duly in
Cherokee County during the week
end.
'Long reqnaatef the cooperation
of aB motorists to taaur* local
> Approximately 28 fir la from An
drews, Murphy and Hayesville
still vie for honors Saturday and
Sunday at the annual Fourth of
July Celebration in Andrews, it
w? announced here today.
The semi-finalists wHl be select
ed Saturday during the Battling
Beauty Contest at the Andrews
Murphy Air Parte Pool. Fhmltat*
will be chosen Sunday during the
intermission st the Air Show. First
place winner will receive a $25
Bond and an sugiav
bracelet, second and ttdrd
will receive engraved
A fashion shew win be
st2:M?. m. fallayed by
beauty contest.
Sunday during the Air Show in
termission, the faahion show will
be repeated and the beauty win
ners will be chosen.
Murphy fashion show entrants
will rehearse teday, Thursday, at
5 p. m. at Murphy High School.
All contestants,1 Murphy, And
rews and Hayesrille, will rehear
se Friday, at t:H p. u. at the Air
Parte Pool. At the latter rehear
sal eontaatants will ha gtren
tickets te the Air Shaw.
The Fourth of July Celebes tine
parade, at 9:30 a. m? will aaeem
hle at Valley Town Motor Court
and paiwde to tba Gulf Station
where Kiddies wtQ Join in and aH
will paiwda to the Pure
?utpOll Sta
many inercnanis
Close Shops Sat
All Andrews stores will be closed
Saturday, July 4, Chamber of Com
merce President Bob Heaton said
today
Meanwhile, many Murphy e
tabHshments will also be closed.
The courthouse, banks. Post Of
fices, and Town Halls in both to
wns will be closed tor the holiday.
through Main Street again, stop
ping at Chain Grocery.
The 15 floats in the parade are
sponsored by Citizens Bank and
Trust Co, Reece Motor Co., Dick
ey Chevrolet, Kotmaheela Club,
Junior Woman's Club, Lions Club,
American Legion, Boy Scouts, Ro
tary Club. Andmra-Murprhy Air
Park, Teen Age Club, Vocational
Agriculture, Golf
[ bar of Commerce. There will
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50,000 Vacation Maps
Be Distributed Soon
An edition of more than 90,000
new Western North Carolina Vaca
tion Maps is now on the press and
will be widely distributed in the
near future, according to officials
of Western North Carolina High
landers, Inc., the regional pro
motion organisation that embrac
es twelve highland counties.
The Vacation Maps, brought up
to date, have been popular not
only with visitors already stopping
within the area covered by the
map, but also by huiuaiuus trav
awarded the beat float* with $10
far first and $S
Forty-et* I
listoimnte are
the
el agencies, seeking to
the inquiries of prospective vaca
tioners wanting to knowr about
the Interest points and faculties
throughout Western Neath Cam
In connection with the map, list
ing of major accommodations and
tourist fadUttes within each of I
twelve counties are included. SB
that prospective vWtor? I
in advance
istles of say i
plan to ase
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