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VOLUME ?S?NUMBER 11 MURPHY, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, SEPT. 17. 1*53 EIGHT PAGES THIS WEEK
Cherokee County Fair Attracts 432 Exhibitors Here
Bond Issue Would Not Mean
Tax Increase; Big Vote Asked
The coat of a trip to the voting
polls Saturday, October 3 will
mean thousands of dollars to Cher
okee County School children, with
no increase to the taxpayers if the
special 30 million dollar bond is
sue for school in North Carolina is
passed.
Any person now registered in
the county will be eligible to vote
in the election. Thebooks will be
opened Saturday, Sept. 19, for the
registration before the vote Octo1
ber 3.
The ,bond election, called for by
Gov. Umstead will mean $179,
074.60 to Cherokee County
Schools, but will not change the
tax structure. Interest and tax on
the bonds will be paid from the
North Carolina General Fund.
In addition to the certain $179,-,
000, Cherokee County has what
Rep. Richard Mauney calls, "a bet-'
ter than average" chance part of
the 25 million to be appropriated j
by the State Beard of Educatie i j
on the basis of need and the coun- i
ty's ability to help itself.
However, it was pointed out,
the size of the vote in this coun
ty will help determine the ex
tent of the need and the interest
in the need.
Cherokee County, at present,
needs 54 new classrooms; and 10 |
special type classrooms (Auditor- ]
iums, lunchrooms, etc.)
Immediate needs here call for
completion of the building at Mur- '
phy High School (adding the audi- 1
tdrium and lunchroom); building
of a new school for Sly>al Creek
Township (Hiwassee Dam); and
either a school at Marble or ad
ditional facilities in Andrews.
Passage of the bond issue will
assure meeting of one fifth of
this county's needs, it was said.
Hiwassee Dam School will have
to be replaced at least by 1955'
when the current lease runs out on
the building now being used.
Also Murphy School next year
an increase of two to three teach
ers is already seen and Supt. H.
Bueck said, "there is not a single
room to put them in' All available
space is being utilized."
On completion of the new build
ing at Murphy School, the old
auditorium will be cut into class
rooms. I
Water System Be Discussed
At Open Meet Of Jr. Women
Murphy women will have a
chance to hear first -hand the satut
tion of Murphy's water system
here tonight when F. Rodwell Blais
dell, district engineer of the State
Health Department, speaks at the
opening meeting of the year for
the Murphy Junior Woman's Club,
at 7:00 p. m.
Mr. Blaisdell inspected Mur
phy's water system several weeks
ago and came up with the grim
facts that the system Is outdated,
overloaded, and a threat to the
health of the community.
Because of the civic interest
centered around the topic all wo
men are invited to attend the meet
ing of the club, which will be at
the Primary School Auditorium.
Mrs. John Jordan will be chair J
man of the program -and host
esses are Mrs. C. K. Olson, Mrs.
Bill Waggoner, Mrs. Jordan, Mrs.
Anton Schmitt, Miss Maria Travis,
Mrs. Harold West and Mrs. W.
V. Costello.
Nix Child Hit
By Auto Sat.
Joyce Ann Nix, 11, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Jewell Nix of Marble
was struck by a taxi driven by
Chess Pullium of Andrews, Satur
day aflternoon about 2:00 p. m.
According to Investigating offi
cer (Ptl. L. H. Baker the child dar
ted into the highway from behind
a parked vehicle. The child was
treated art. a Murphy Hospital for
minor Injuries and was returned
home the same day.
Bearpaw Homecoming
Be Sun., Sept. 20
The homecoming at Union
(Bearpaw) Church will be Sept. 20.
Everyone is invited to attend. Es
pecially singers.
Murphy Wins Tilt
W'ith Hayesville
BY
AD1R AKONSON
The Murphy Bulldogs out
fought, out-played, and out-scored
Hayesville 12-0 for their first vic
tory of the season.
'Hayesville threatefried seriously
only once. After Murphy kicked
off to them, they marched forth
in a prolonged 53 yard drive only
to be thwarted by the Murphy de- j
fense in the clutches.
From that point on Murphy drove
for a touch-down; Eddie Joe Elliott
Murphy halfback, drove over for
the tally in the first quarter.
Even though Murphy could not
scpre again in the first half they
ground out 150 yard rushing as
compared to 85 for Hayesville.
All together Murphy gained 198
yards rushing, and Hayesville mas
sed only 107 yards. In the passing
department Murphy gained 53
yards compared to seven for Hay
esville. Eugene Dockery, Murphy's
lanky end, was the receiver for 34
yards of aerial offense.
In the last half Hayesville be
gan to tighten down, and in the
fourth quarter Murphy burdened
by penalties got out of their tight
spot and set up a touchdown. Quar
ter Sammy White threw a pass to
halfback Tommy Gentry, who end
ed up yith a 19 yard gain. .
Two plays later Gentry went
over for a touchdown. Elliott tried
to kick the extra point, but. it was
no good.
Then Hayesville began to roll
with vengeance in mind only to
have a pass intercepted by "Moody'
Elliott However on the next play
a Murphy pass was intercepted.
The whistle ending the game blew
shortly after that Coach Olson said
of the victory, "It was definitely a
team victory and I wouldn't sort
anyone out for individual playing.'
Eddie Elliott maintained a sup
erb 43 yard kicking average.
STAT. MURPHY HAYESVILLE
First downs 14 9
Yds. gained rushing 198 107
Passes attempted 8 7
Passes completed 4 7
Yds. gained passing 53 7
Passes intercepted by 1 1
Yds. gained intercepttion 7 15
Punting Average 43 30
Yds. kicks returned 53 30
Opponents fumbles recov'd
1 1
Yds. Lost penalties 25 20
The line up:
Murphy (12)
Ends-Dockery, Murphy, Pipes,
Adams. Tackles-Swanson, Mc
Combs. Gaddis, Mattox. Guards
Mulkey, Chapman, Almond, Fos
ter. Centers-Hall, Carroll, Mash
; burn. Backs-Elliott, Gentry, White.
I Painter. Van Horn, Cornwell,
Moore, Stiles.
Scoring toUchodwns: Elliott and
Gentry.
iHayesville (0)
Ends-Deitz, Brackens, Anderson,
Tackles-Mclure. Morgan. Guards
Cheeks, Woods. Centers-Ash.
(Backs-Danielson, Barnard, Long,
Teens.
Murphy plays at Sylva next
Friday night.
Hens From 4-H Poultry Chain
Have Record OF 265 Eggs Each
The 4-H Club Poultry Chain and
Its sales at the Cherokee County
Katr has at least one friend for
life in a satisfied customer.
Dallas MsKown of Oak Pork last
fear purchased a flock of 12 War
ren Reds, which since that time and
up through Sept 3 this year, have
averaged 205 eggs?and Mr. Mc
ftown says they are stUl going
strong.
McKown, in a letter of apprecia
tion to the office of the local coun
ty agent said:
This letter is to express my ap
preciation for the 4-H Club Poul
try chain project, by which 4-H
Club members have obtained fine
chkke to raise, and I have obtained
pullets at the Cherokee County
Mr sales for a small family flock.
At the fair in 1051, I bought a
dosen 4-H Club Now Hampshlres.
Thsy
eggs for a year for my own family
'and a neighboring family which
shared the feed costs. The pullets
11 bought ait the 4-H Club sale at
the Fair in September, 1952 were
even better. They were Warren
Reds.
Feed has consisted of laying
mash (in a trough before the chick
ens at all times), and a scratch
feed, poured out in small quanti
ties mottling and evening in a feed
er. We have bought most of the
feed in small amounts, 25 pound
sacks usually; if we had purchased
larger amounts at a time we could i
'probably have made a slight sav
i ing in feed costs. Costa for scratch
teed, mash, and oyster shell has
| come to 36 cents per docen eggs?
and what floe eggsl From the 12
! chickens, we have had for nearly a
year now enough eggs for two (am
llies, and a good many to spare for
sale to a few neighbors and friends,
as well as some for gifts to week
end visitors when they return
home.
The onicKena -nave Deem easily car
ed for?the henhouse and fenced
yard were cleaned and disinfected
two weeks before the pullets were
obtained; a deep Utter of shavings
has been kept in the henhouse.
Clean straw is placed in the nests
occasionally. The chickens get
fresh water dally In two fountains,
and their diet Is varied with vege
table scraps, green vegetable leaves
from the garden, and occasionally
handftils of clover and grass. Lay
era appreciated these Utile atten
tions and Show H in two ways: 1-By
their egg production record; X-by
greeting you at the gate morning
and evening wien much hen oonver
Peachtree Home Demonstration Club members putting together
their $50 price winning educational booth at the Cherokee County
Fair. The first place winner was one of 10 booths set up by Home
Demonstration Clubs in the County.
Above, standing, left to right Mrs. Clarence Hendrix and Mae Sud
derth; and kneeling, Mrs. Oran Witt, place a rainbow arid pot of gold
for their frozen foods exhibit booth. (Scout Photo)
Murphy Will Suffer
Teacher Scarcity
Murphy, in the next few years
will suffer a serious scarcity of
teachers according to figures re
leased today by H. Bueck, super
intendent of Murphy "Schools.
This predicament was revealed
when Mr. Bueck's totals showed
that Murphy elementary pupils are
being schooled by teachers with an
average of 19 years teaching ex
perience. ?
Bueck pointed out, while this ex
perience *s valuable to the chil
dren, it also shows that many
teachers are nearing retirement
while there are no young teachers
moving to replace them.
Murphy Elementary School
teachers have a total of 504 teach
ing years. In the school there are
this year two teachers without pre
vious experience and one teacher
| with only one year's experience.
The other have had from two to
39 years in the teaching field.
Meanwhile, high school teachers
totaling 167 years of experience,
average 12 years experience each
There are two high school teach
ers without previous experience.
Texana teachers have a total of
45 years experience. Supt. Bueck
holds 32 years of experience. *
Enrollment at the school this
year, after the en<^ the second
week of school show 882 pupils at
Murphy Elementary School; 564,
Murphy High School; 64, Tomotla;
and 112, Texana. The total enroll
ment in the Murphy system is
1.622, according to Bueck.
Sinclair Dealers
Hold Meet Here
Over 40 Sincliar dealers were in
Murphy Monday night for the dis
trict's annual winter dinner and
meeting with Allison and Duncan
Oil Co., distributors, as host.
The dealers were from Clay
County, Union County, Ga. Duck
town, Copperhill and Turtletown,
all in Tennessee; and Andrews,
Marble, Brasstown, Hazelwood,
Waynesville and Murphy.
Two company officials from
Charlotte and Hendersonville pre
sented the program to the dealers.
The program announced the win
ter advertising program with the
theme, "Sinclairizing cars for win
ter for safer driving."
The meeting was held at the
Regal Hotel.
Andrews Lions
Give Refrigerator
The Andrews Lions Club this
week is giving away a $299.95 Phil
ci refrigerator the last day of the
Cherokee County Fair.
The 1953 refrigerator was se
cured for the club by the W. T.
Forsyth Furniture Co. of Andrews.
JAMES CARROLL HOLT PALMER
Selected u Murphy's outstanding players la the Mnrphy-Andrewo
pane by Coaeh Olson are Belt Palmer, hard-drtriap fallback, and
James Carroll, stoat line-backer.
"Bull" Palmer ooald always be depended npoa for yardage erery
time he carried the ban Friday night. Palmer OSS lbs.) I* a
and playing his last season.
Carroll <1U lbs.) was outstanding on defense a* hi
ouiMaf Andres
District Junior Dairy
Winners Announced
Some 432 exhibitors, about 100
head of livestock were in Murphy
Monday and Tuesday this week to
stage the 26th Annual Cherokee
County Fair.
Judging of exhibits and the Jun
ior District Dairy Show took place
Tuesday, with the Dairy Cattle
Show set Wednesday at 1:30 p. m.
and the beef cattle judging on the
si ate for today.
Eighty-nine entrants made up
the first District Junior Show to
be held here, with judging on the
Danish system. The show was in
both purebred and grade divisions.
JUNIOR WINNERS
Junior winners for the best fit
ted animals in the purebred show
were: Edna Earle Stroudemire,
Macon County, first; Alda Wald
roup, Macon County, second; and
James Smith, Cherokee County,
third. .
Purebred best showmanship
winners were: James Smith, Ch
erokee County, first; Harry Ar
rowood, Cherokee County, sec
ond; and Bud Shope, Macon
County, third.
The 29 entrants in the Purebred
Show, their classes and awards
were: Sr. Yearling, Jersey, two
blue ibbons; three year old Gue
rnsey, one blue one red; two years
under three years, Guernsey, two
blue, one red; senior yearling Gue
rnsey two blue, three red, one
white; and Junior yearling Guer
nsey, one blue, three red.
SENIOR HEIFER
Also senior heifer, guernsey, two
blue, two red; and junior heifer,
Guernsey, three blue, three red
and two white.
In the grade show winners for
best fitted animals were; Ed
Bradley, Macon County, first;
Eugene Gray, Macon County,
second; and Jerry Sutton, Macon
County, third. Best showman
ship winners, all also of Macon
County were Eugene Gray, first;
Jerry Sutton, second; and Sharon
Swanson, third.
The 50 animals in the grade di
vision won awards as follows;
calves born after Jan. 1, 1953, four
blue, 14 red, 7 white; bred heifers,
four blue, 8 red, 7 white; open hei
LUTHER DOCKERY
President of the Cherokee Coun
ty Mutual Fair Association.
fere four blue, six red. two white;
and cows with more than two cal
ves, two blue, one red and one
white.
Judges for the Junior show
were Marvin Senger of N. C.
State College extension service
and Frank Fitch of the Georgia
Extension Service, Athens, Ga.
F. R. Farnham wgs ring master.
Ten educational booths set up by
Cherokee County Home Demon
stration Clubs, were headed by the
PeaehUee- deb booth as first prize
winner. The Peachtree Club won
$50 on it? frozen foods booth.
Other awards on the HD booths
went to Suit Club, second, $40;
{Martin's Creek Club, third, $30;
Murphy Club, fourth $25; and
Bellview Club, fifth, $15. The
others, Violet, Midway, Hiwaseee
Dam, Tomotla and Ranger, won
honorable mention.
Other educational booths win
ning were the Cherokee County
Four-H Clubs, first; Cherokee
County Schools, second; and Re
gional Library, third. No prizes
were awarded in this class.
The fair will remain open throu
gh Saturday, but all exhibits will
be removed by noon Saturday.
Captains For Murphy
Football Squad Told
! RALPH SWANSON JIMMY MULKEY TOMMY GENTRY
Mrs. McGuire Dies
Here Sunday
Mrs. Mattie Elizabeth McGuire
died early Sunday morning in
her home here.
Funeral services were held at 3
p. m. Monday in the First Metho
dist Church of which she was a
member, with the pastor, the Rev.
Asmond Maxwell and the Rev. J.
Alton Morris, pastor of First Bap
tist Church officiating. Burial
hi Sunset Cemetery. .
Pall bearers were Claud King,
Sam Harding, Mercer Fain, Jim
Hughes, Ed Banted, J. W. Frank
lin, Henry Barton and Walter
Matin ey.
Mrs. McGuire was a native of
Macon County, daughter of the
late C. B. and Laura Reid Mal
lonee. She taught school in Mur
phy and Cherokee County Cor 18
years, and was married to John J.
McGuire hare in 1820 and had
lived here since dwt time.
Surviving am
son, Jack; one
> Jimmy Mulkey, Tommy Gentry,
and Ralph Swanson were voted as
captains of the 1953 Murphy Hi
Bulldogs football teem by their
fellow players Friday afternoon.
All are seniors and have lettered
two years except Gentry who has
lettered three years.
Jimmy Mulkey an outstanding
guard is one of the most popular
players on the team. A likeable
easy-going fellow out of uniform
he turns into a serious dynamo in
a game. This is Mulkey'g third year
playing guard.
Tommy Gentry who is in his
third year of hut standing line duty
was elected co-captain with Ralph
Swanson hard-running back.
Ail threee men have played out
Standing bail and are eapsctad to
play even better ball this, their last
year.
Our sisters, Mines Osrrts, Lydia,
and Bssie Maltonst,
lata