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VOLUME M?NUMBER it MURPHY, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY. APRIL 22, 1254 ?- PAGES THIS WEEK
Work Begun On Pump-Turbine At Hiwassee Dam
Filings Closed; 27 Names
On Democratic Primary
Some 27 names will appear on
?the Democratic primary ballots In
Cherokee County May 29, after fil_
inga for nomination were closed
here Saturday.
Meanwhile, 13 Republicans, de
clared nominees by convention, i
have also filed with the County
Board of Elections.
And the Town of Murphy Elec
tion?drawing near with voting
May 4?has a full slate filed by
both Democrats and Republicans.
Candidates for the Democratic
County Primary, as announced to-!
day by Pete Stalcup, chairman of
the board of elections are:
Sheriff, H. Luke Carver, incum
bent. Glenn Hembree, J. L. Hall
and Jake Brown.
Clerk of Superior Court, Arnold
Derreberry, P. Hayes Leatherwood
Jerry O. Hatchett and Nell Sneed.
Earl Van Horn
Files For Surveyor
Earl C. Van Horn, of Martins
Creek Road has filed as candidate
for the office of County Surveyor
in the forthcoming Democratic
Primary elections.
Mr. Van Horn is a native North
Carolinian and a graduate of the
University of North Carolina. He
was employed for 13 years by the
TV A In Engineering Geology and
Mineral Resource, Mapping, com
ing to Murphy in 1937.
He is a member of the American ]
Institute of Mining Engineers and
the North Carolina Society of En-,
gineers, a member of the Murphy |
Episcopal Church, and Master of
Cherokee Masonic Lodge.
Mars Hill Group
To Have Service
Six Mars Hill College students.
will be in charge of the service at
the First Baptist Church here Sun
day in ohservance of Christian Ed
ucation Sunday of the Southern
?Baptist Convention.
The young people will provide
special music, the message and tes
timonies.
They will also be in charge of the
general assembly at Sunday School
The .group will arrive hi Murphy
Saturday afternoon and will be en
tertained in private home* here.
They will be special guest* at the
wedding and reception of Mia Bar
bare Arnold to Frank Alexander.
The students ware in Andrews
week before last
Mattox Named Head
Of DUt. School Com.
Supt H. Bueck. and members of
the Murphy school board, Sheridan
'Dickey, Ben Palmer, E. H. Brumby
H. A. Mattox and Dr. B. W. Whit
field attended the District School
Board meeting at Bryson City
Thursday night Mattox was elect
ed chairman of the Western Dis
trict School Board Association,
succeeding Willis Kilpatrick of
Canton.
Murphy Scout* On
A IHW) of Boy Scout* of TVoop
Mo. X tpOl, Scout Muter. C. K.
for ? week's
Crip *t Ofcefenol
tbo group wore.
Register of Deeds, Kate Padgett,
incumbent and Edwin C. Winches- j
ter.
Representative to the N. C. 1955
Legislature, Richard P. Oiauncy,
incumbent, and Ed H. Brumby.
County Commissioners, District
One. Sam W. Jones, incumbent,
and Clarence Hogan. District Two
Ed Barnett, Roy H. Wells, W. H.
(Bill) Brandon, Frank E. Dickey
and James Clayton.
Coroner, Harry Miller, incum
bent.
County Surveyor, Etrl C. Van
Horn sad J. H. Croft.
Constables: Murphy Township,
Glenn Bates; Notla Township,
H. H. Davidson; Beaverdam,
Albert Kllby; Valleytown Town
ship, Wayne Curtis.
Justice of the Peace, Valleytown.
Township, V. W. Russell.
Declared Republican nominee*
are: Sheriff, Claude Anderson;
clerk of superior court, Kellis W.
Radford; Register of Deeds, J. Ed
Graves; and representative to N. C.
Legislature. Virgil O'Dell.
County- Commissioners, District
One, W. A. Hyde; District Two, E.
L. Townson; District Three, W. B.
'Dockery; coroner J. C. Townson.
Meanwhile the Town of Mur
phy Election will be run off be
tween the following slates: Demo
crat.L. L. Mason, mayor, incum_
bent and commissioners, Cloe
Moore, Harry Bishop, Bob White,
incumbents. W. A. Singleton, Geor
ge L. Dyer and John Jordan.
Republicans, Merle Davis, mayor
and commissioners, Marvin Hamp
ton, Edward Townson, Clifford El
liott, Roy Lovingood, H. E. Dickey
and J. W. Franklin.
Eichelberger Speaks
Today In Andrews
IX. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger,
retired Army officer will speak in
Andrews today at a noon luncheon '
joint meeting of the Lions and Ro-1
tary Clubs at the Shell Dining
Room.
Eichelberger, an expert consul;
Cant on' Fir Eastern affairs to the
secretary of the army since 1949,
was commander of the Eighth
Army in the Pacific and Ja
pan in World War II. He is author |
of "Our Jungle Road To Tokyo", |
which was published in 1950 by the .
Viking Press.
The general retired from active
duty in 1948, and now lives in Ashe
ville. his wife's home town. I
Eichelberger was born in Ur-'
bana, Ohio, and attended Ohio|
State University for a year, but af
ter receiving his appointment to
the U. S. Military Academy at
West Point, transferred to the lat
ter institution and was graduated
and commissioned as second lieu
tenant .He advanced through the
grades to rank ot lieutenant
general and became one of the
youngest men to hold that rank. <
He commanded allied and U. S.
ground forces in Japan Jan. 1
Atfg? 1948. He retired in Dec..
Eichelberger was decorated
1948.
numerous times by the United
States, as well as receiving decor
ations from the Philippine Govern
mere1., Great Brittain, the Nether
i lands, Ecuador, France and Bel
gium.
I He is a member of Phi Gamma 1
I Delia, the Episcopal ..Church, and,
thc masons.
Clubs in which he holds member
bership include Army and Navy
(Washington), Metropolitan (New j
York). Chevy Chase <Md.) Country
Club, Biltmore Forest Country,
Ciub Asheville.
100 Bushel Corn Growers Be
/
Honored At Dinner Today
Andrews To Have
WMU Association
The women of the Western
North Carolina Baptist Association
will meet with the Andrews Baptist
Church Ap. 28 at 10 a. m. All as
sociation officers wfll take part on
the program and Miss Janet Wil
son. state WMU young people's
secretary will speak.
Miss Martha Tanner, missionary
to Nigeria, will give the missionary
message. Pastors are invited to at
tend.
? Br. E. R. Collins, agronomist
from the State College, Raleigh
will be the speaker at a dinner
meeting Thursday (today) at 6:30
p. m. in the Presbyterian Church.
The meeting is sponsored by the
Cherokee County Agricultural
Council and is in honor of the
group In the 100 bushel corn crop.
Prizes will be awarded by the
Citizens Bank and Trust Company,
and certificates for members of the
club will be presented.
? Dinner will be served by the wo
men of the Presbyterian Church.
Clean Up Weeks
Set For Murphy
A two-week clean up period for
Murphy s?--ting April 26 and end
ing May, is announced today by
Mayor L. 'U. Mason.
The "Clean Up Weeks", spon
sored by the Murphy Regal Club,
was organized to encourage resi
dents to beautify and tidy up their
lawns and property.
Mayor Mason said residents can
call the Town Hall any week day
except Saturday for trucks and
men to come by to pick up rubbish
pruned branches and weeds. He
asked that people pile the trash in
a spot that can be reached by the
trucks and men.
He pointed out that the trucks
will wait until several calls for a
section of town are received before
a truck will go to that area. Under
that system, the Mayor said, the
town can save gasoline and time.
Auberry Dies In
Loving, Ga.
Charlie H. Auberry, 74, a retired
farmer, died at 3:30 a. m. Satur
day in his home at Loving, Ga. af
ter a long illness.
Funeral services were held at 11
a. m. Monday in Oak Grove Baptist
Church. The Rev. Gus Hunt and
the Rev. Emanuel Henry officiated
and burial was in the church cem
etery, with graveside rites by the
?Dooley Masonic Lodge of which he
was a member.
Survivors Include one daughter,
Miss Austins Auberry offt* home;
?three sons. Lake of Mineral Bluff,
Ga., Cecil and Frank of Loving;
one brother, Tillman Auberry of.
Jacksonville, Fla.
Also three sisters, Mrs. Cora
Ferrell of Madison, Ga., Mrs. Julia
Turner of Mineral Bluff, and Mrs.
Irene Hunt of Loving; two grand
children ai)d one great-grandchild.
Townson Funeral Home was in
charge.
West Liberty
WMU Meet Sat.
The Annual WMU meeting of
the West Liberty Association will
be held at Liberty Baptist Church
Tuesday, Ap. 27 at 10 a. m., Mrs.
Calvin Thompson, associational
superintendent, said,
f Special speakers will be Mrs.
Christine Corpening, divisional
superintendent, of Robbinsville,
and Miss Martha Tanner, mission
ary to Nigeria, who is Kbme on
furlough.
Pre-Sehool Clinic
Be In Andrews
The Pre-School Clinic for And
rews School will be held today
and tomorrow, Ap. 22-23 at the
school from 10 a. m. until 3 p. m.
County health nurses, assisted
by local doctors will make the ex
aminations.
Hatcherymen Face Many Problems
To the uniformed person, a baby
ohlck it a mystery. Someone, eome
wtiere took a fertile egg and placed
ft either under a ilea or in an incu
bator. That's about all ha knows
about ft. aay* R. 8. Deaaatjlie, but
there ft a groat deal more to the
at pitdtctoc good baby
head of the <bpart
df .ymtoy aaftnce. N. C.
State Crffervmta the i?oo?i Caro
lina poultryman
plexMiaa tathaMMi to
b quantity the type at
Be
way, be alert '
type o#
to bond up i
business, be has acquired ex
perience by working (or a hatch
cry, he's lucky. "There are i
in the path of the
At
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to eMail
The bey So success lor the hateb
asi.hj, sources of
years ago U
#!
?ply floela 1*om that the
has matured and eompetlUoa for
supply flocks b' keen, the pictowe
At present Urn# the
Jfci"
to take on what might be
F llite
hatcheryman in Stabilising his sup-!
ply of eggs.
WIDE SCOPE
The scope of the hatching egg
industry is seen in the fact that in I
19S2, North Carolina hatcheries
produced 40,000,000 baby chicks.
To accomplish this e?*1 H sma nec
essary to set about 7.100,00 doam
hatching eggs. If the estimated
efilck output for 1954, some 70.000
000 baby chicks, ig reached, it will
require about 8*00,000
hatching agar. To supply
acsa from wtthta the sOatpigUl re
quire either re irmaelaa in
number of birds hi tba
supply flocks of UBS or
grams of the various supply flocks
are of the greatest importance. A
mong the fan porta ret inherited fac
tors are: (1) ability to lhfe, 42) fea
ther pattern and early and com
plete feathering. 43) high feed con
version factor, 44) early sexual ma
turity, (5) number and aire of 1
laid, (8) lack of
lane inherited pauses. (7) j
or nod texture, end to-? eeitofct an
te tertor quality of eggs, as*#
(8) hntobaMWy of fertfle eggs.
Unfortunate!* rtgerdlen of 4ka'
breading program, ? well-bred an?,|
poorty-bred <MCk look
when batched: Hear* the
laser It entirely dkpr v' -1
tor results secured on the*
in the flnl
64th Co. Singing
Convention To Be
At Peachtree Sun.
Family Relations
Be Talked Here
Mrs. Corrine J. Grimsley, exten_
slon specialist in family relations,
from Sta^ College, Raleigh, will
train family life Home Demonstra
tion Club leaders here Wednesday,
Ap. 28, at 1:30 p. m. at the court
house.
Her demonstration is entitled,
"Young A* Any Age".
The local leaders will give the
demonstration at their elub meet_
ings in May.
Mrs. Grimsley will speak Wed
nesday night at the First Methodist
Church.
? The 64th Annual Cherokee Coun
ty Singing Convention will be
Sunday, Ap. 25, at the Peacbtree
School auditorium beginning at 10
a. m. 1
Special singing will be by dif
ferent groups, including the Sky
line Quartet of Asheville and Bud
and Hay TSalley of Brevard, "the lit
tie happy two".
Basket lunch will be served on
the grounds. {
Wayne Abernathy of Rt. 3, Mur
phy. is president of the convention.
The Skyline Quartet and the lit.
tie Talley boys will be presented
in a Gospel Song Concert at Mur
phy School auditorium Saturday
night of this week. Admissions for
the concert will be 25 and 50 cents.
5 Injured In Wreck
On Junaluska Road
Buchanan Announces
March Road Work
Harry Buchanan, Commissioner
of the T4th State Highway Divis
ion, this week said that 24.28
miles of roads in his division were
improved during March.
'In Cherokee County Jenks Gap
Road was strengthened with traf
fic-bound macadam for 1.35 miles.
The road is 10 feetwide.
In Clay, State forces strengthen
ed the surfaces of two 10 foot wide
roads with tralfic_bound macaram:
Low Gap Road for 3.2 mites; and
Pounding Mill Road for 0.4 mile. I
Cherokee County
Historical Society
To Be Organized
D. L. Corbitt of Raleigh will be
in Murphy Saturday to assist in
the organization of a Cherokee
County Historical Society. All per
sons interested in local history are
invited to attend the meeting
which will be at the Murphy Li
brary at 2 p. m.
Corbitt is head of the division of
publications of tbe State Depart
ment of Archives and History.
> Five young men were injured?
one seriously?last week in an au
tomobile accident in front of the
Tom Hay residence on Junaluska
Rd. near Andrews.
Carl Hardin,-la, of Toproiv, was
driving his 1943 Ford, four door
sedan, on Junaluska Rd., last
Thursday, heading East when he
came to a slight curve, ran off the
pavement on the right side of the
highway and into a rock wall along
side of the road, investigating of
ficer Charles H Long reported. Hie
car then carreenod over to the left
side of the road a distance of
some 178 feet and hit an oak tree
head on.
Hardin received a fractured leg
and fractured ribs. Other passen
ger were injured as follows:
Wade Dockery, 21, of Rt. 1 And
rews, skull facture, fractured left
leg and seriuos lacerations of the
head.
Fred Cothrcn, 17, of Topton' frac
turcd arm,
J. D. Dockery, 18, Rt. 1 Andrews
lacerations and possible arm frac
ture.
Joe Cameron Sims, 19, Rt 1, An
drews, fracture left jaw.
AH were taken to Rodda Van
Gorder Hospital.
Estimated speed at the moment
of the accident was 60 miles per
hour, according to Long's report.
Hardin has been charged with
driving under the influence.
Murphy Needs $900
To Keep Blood Pro.
(Murphy will lose Its blood pro_1
gram unless $900 is raised by next!
Monday. These e?W facts were pre
sented to the Murphy Red Cross
Chapter Tuesday night, handed
down from the office In Asheville.
Some $638 has been raised thus
far In the Red Cross Drive, drive
nhjirnun .Tim KH TTncSiec ulfi
Miss Ruth Lockman, Red Cross
field worker said Murphy must
have a minimum of $1,300 to re
tain the blood program.
Mr. Hughes asked drive workers
to make their reports not later
than Saturday
Persons who bave not 1
ttcted, Bat who wish to donate, are
Mr.-Hughes or to the
District HD Meet
Be In Httyesrifle
the animal meeting of District
1. Federation of Heme -Demonstra
tion Clnhe will be held Tfcirshay;
April 38^ to 1
Machine Will Be
Largest 0! Kind
Fn World, TV A Says
Work 1ms started on the pump
turbine which is to be installed la'
the Hfoyassee Dam George K.
Leonard, TVA's Chief Construct
ion Engineer, said today.
TKis unique machine, which wilt
be the largest of its kind in the
world, will operate as a conven
tional turbine for the generation
of power during'peak load hours,
and as a pump to return water to
the lake behind the dam, during
off-peak hours, Mr. Leonard said.
Such a cycle is economical, he add
ed, only under conditions where
generating'capacity and energy
have appreciably greater value
during peak load than off-peak
load periods.
Production of power has been
temporarily discontinued at Hi
was see, and the flow of water from
the lake has been stopped, Mr.
Leonard said. This will have the
natural effect of lowering the Ap
alachia Lake, immediately down
stream.
In addition, TV A engineers are
taking advantage of the situation
and will tower Apalachia Lake still
farther fo permit necessary main
tenance work on the Apalachia
1 powerhouse tunnel.
The ?m? Immediately below
i the Htwassee Dam will be ponp.
! ed out and a cofferdam will be
eonsfcmcted. Fellewing complet
ion of the cofferdam, the enclos
ed area will be pumped dry so
that excavation work can begin,
to be followed by concrete plae
taf. It Is estimated that produc
tion of power from Htwassee's
present sinrle generator will be
resumed about 10 days from
now.
Work has been completed on the
concrete-making plant, the car
penter shop, machine shop, ware
house, gas and oil tanks, and ad
ministration building.
The pump-turbine itself is un
der construction at the Allis_ChaI
mers Mfg. Co., in Milwaukee. Mod
el tests have been successfully
passed, and design and construc
tion work is going forward.
The pomp-turbine will be more
than 22 feet in diameter. It will
be capable of generating 59,509
kilowatts, or 80,000 horsepower
at 190-foot head (the bead is the
difference elevation between
the lake level behind the dam,
and the river bed below the
dam). It will be able to pump
3900 cubic feet of water a sec
ond against a bead of 205 feet.
The pumping capacity will be
equivalent to 1,150,000 gallon#
a minute.
It is expected that the unit wfl>
go into operation in October, 1939
Mr. Leonard said.
H. L. Broadfoot will be projet*
manager in Charge of construction.
Mr. Broadfoot was in charge of in
stallation of a third unit at the
Fontana Dam, work on vrfiftfa was
completed recently, and is direct
ing, work on installation of units in
TVA's Chatuge and Nottely Dams.
Mr. and Mrs. Broadfoot ore mak
ing their home tn Murphy at the
P. J. Herni residence.
Bible School
Clinic Be Sat
A Bible School Clinic for West
era North Carolina and Weat Lib
erty Associations win be held at
the First Baptist Cbarch. Andrew*
Saturday, Ap. 24, at 10 o. m.
Persona taking gar* on the gener
al program are th? Rev. John C.
cnrfaat acts* Doootby Bdaarda.
las Abna Jblley and the Re*. t.
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