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PROMOTING MURPHY AND ANDREWS
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MIRPHY, NOKTU CAKOLINA THIK.SDAV, A Mi 1ST 5. lt*64
K1GHT FAUKS THIS WEEK
People You Know
MUBFHY
Muss l>ena Duncan, who spent a
week here as the guest of Mr and
Mrs T A < "ase, returned Satur- I
day to he i home in Beaufort.
Mrs. James Howse and Mrs
< i lenn Bates ar e attending a F es
tival of Music at Lake Junaluska 1
this week
Frank Gardner of Chattanooga, |
Tenn , is spending the week with j
Mr and Mrs Bill Cost el lo here
Kni I^?vey Baker of Norfolk.!
Vfa , arrived Monday night to
?pend a vacation with her sister,
Mrs Harry Searnon, ami Mr Sea
mun at the Regal Hotel
Father Laurence Newman of
YVaynesvilie. was the week end
guest of Mr. and Mrs Harry Sea
11101:
Mr and Mrs S S Christopher
have returned to their home in At
lanta after a week's visit here!
with Mrs Christopher's mother.
Mrs. L E Mauney
Richard Mauney of Raleigh is
visiting his grandmother. Mrs L.
E Mauney
ANDREWS
Mr and Mrs Bert Wheeler and
l^iests. Mrs Agnes Humphrey and
son. Frank and Carl Bannerman
all of Burgaw spent Monday in
Chattanooga, Tenn.
..James Wood wno is playing the
part of Jon Ross in the Indian
Drama "Unto These Hills" spent
Monday here at the home of his
parents, Rev. and Mrs J J.
Wood
Mrs J L Rowland had as her
guests last week her brother and
sister-in-law. Mr and Mrs. H A
Shearer her niece and nephew,
Mr and Mrs Elton Yates and
children all of Fellsmere, Fla , al
so her sister Mrs Laura Lyon of
Hayesville
Whittey West of Roanoke Rap- |
ids, spent the week end with his j
parents, Mr and Mrs Herman
West
The Rev John C Neville, Jr of
Columbus, G a filled the pulpit In (
the Presbyterian church Sunday
in the absence of his father, the j
Rev John C Neville. Sr the local
pastor .
Or and Mrs O A Reschke are
spending this week at their cot
tage in Highlands.
M:ss Jane Bristol is spending .
a weeks vacation as guest of her ;
aunt, Mrs Joseph J Stone in I
Ashe vi lie
Co. Schools Op en
August 26; Teachers
Cherokee County Schools will
open the 1954-55 school year Aug
ust 26. Supt IJoyd Hendrix an
nounced Hi is week
The Murphy Oty Schools will
open August 26 Supt H Bueok
taid
Thursday and Friday. August!
26 27 will be half day school days
and the school lunchrooms will '
open Monday. Aug 30
Mr Bueck announced the follow
ing faculty changes from the list
published in the spring Mrs Dair
Shields, thii d grade teacher. Is
retiring after 23 years teaching
in the Murphy I "nit Three addi
tions noted on the faculty; W. H
Mease of Clay County will teach j 1
English and civics in high school;
Mrs Margaret Gibbs of Murphy
will teach fifth grade; and Mrs
Hemic e Carter Brown of Murphy
will teach first grade
High School registration will
take place earlier in the week of
shool opening and exact dates
Mrs Polly Bault. dean, next week
and hours will be announced by
Mr Hendrix also announced the
following faculties for the county
schools :
Ranger James N Hawkins,
Mrs Ruth D Carroll, Mrs Sallie
K White. Mrs Osie S Foster.
Mrs. Myrtle Moore. Mrs Ruby M
Hemphill, Mrs Edith S. Anderson,
John Hogan. Mrs Luella J New
man, Mrs Evangeline S. Johnson.
J ALien Cooke and Miss Maude I
K, Collins
Wolf Creek K L A: r an*, and
Mrs Be u 1 ah H Sales
Hiwassee ham Mil M Hale,
V\ Grady I Davidson. Mrs Marlon
J Wilson, Mrs Joyce M Sampson j
Mrs A! in a B Caddis Mrs Ix>is
H M <Nab b Mrs Maude 1> Had- I
fori! Mrs Kuby W Wilcox. Mrs
Addilee B Brown. Mrs Anrue Lull,
Rogers Mrs Anna Bear! W mdanl,
Walter Anderson James C Kvans,
H I . Keenum and Mrs Vesta
Verner
Friendship Jack I> Raper and
Mrs Montez Kaper
Cnaka George Phillips, Darlene
Chastain. Dorris Hendrix. Mrs .
Lucille M Morrow and Mrs Can
das H Carringer.
White Church: Harest K King '
Mrs. Vev McDonald, Mrs Flor
ence W G entry, Mrs Vesta R I
King. Mrs. Eva Nell Gibson and'
Mrs. Nellie H Morrow
Peachtree: Clarence Hendrix,
Mrs Thelma P. Axlev, Mrs Mar
cella H Smith, Mrs Irene K '
Stowe, Miss Dale Sudderth. Mrs |
Mattie Lou M Penland and Jerry
Hall
Martin's Creek Douglas H
Smith, Mrs. Ruth H Smith. Mrs
Martha Jean Hatchett. Geneva
Chastain. Mrs Violet L Storm. |
Mrs Ruby Kate Watson. James
P. Crisp, Juanita Barnard and i
Vincent Crisp.
Hospital Fund Now
Stands At $68,600.40
District Memorial Hospital fund 4
committeemen this week contin- 1
ued their concentrated efforts to;
collect on pledges made. Bill |
Whitaker. finance chairman, said.
Mr Whitaker pointed out that I
the door-to-door canvas was meet
ing with success with results still
coming in
The fund now has $6* 6110 40 de- '
posited in the bank. Mr Whitaker
said
Some S 4 1 1 was netted for the
the fund by the Negro All Star
baseball game held last week and ?
$71 40 was made during the pot I
hn k supper sponsored by the 1
Chamber <'f Commerce at Birk
shire Cafeteria Mr Whitaker
said
Barkley To Speak
At Historical Meet
Robert E. Barkley of Copper- ,
hill Tenn . will be guest speaker]
the regular meeting of the Chero
kee County Historical Society .
which will be held Monday, August |
9, at S r rn in the Carnegie Li- !
brary The public is invited to at
tend, and new members will be en
rolled at this time
KKIMON POSTPONED
Pue to the illness of W K Der
reberry the Derroberiv reunion
has been postponed until a later
Hunsucker's Body Found,
Funeral Services Sunday
Four Injured In i
Car-True kWreek
1'UUI- prop:.- were injured near
Hraast.jwn in Clay County ai-'nr 1 !
' t fn Tuesday when a 1952
I My rriuuth auto collided with ai
l'*4i* < "he vrolet truck <m a sharp
curve Highway Patrolman I. H
Baker. of Andrews, and I. A Tur i
ner. of Bryson City, said
Injured and hospitalized were!
Ri?)sevelt Mc Millan. 40. of Bald- j
win. Ca , I.ee Cailey. 44 Baldwin; j
Jaek Pavr.e ML' Baldwin; Mrs I
\ iney 1 'ay ne , f>4 Cornelia. Ca. j
All si 'f i head injuries Thevj
were reported in fair- condition |
Wednesday morning at a Murphy
h o > p : ! a !
I'athMii tn Baker said the Plym- |
outh was headed toward Murphy I
and the truck was going toward I
Hayesville. Both vehicle met at j
a sharp curve, colliding head-on, 1
he said.
Baker said Noah Smith, Jr , of
P*t l. Baldwin, driver of the
Plymouth, is being held pending
completion of the investigation.
According to Baker, the Plymouth
was on the wrong side of the road
Driver of the Stale Highway '
and Public Works Commission
truck was listed as Clarence C.
Parker, P?t 1 Hayesville. Nei
ther Parker nor Smith was in
jured, Patrolman Baker said.
The wreck occurred about one
mile east of Coble Dairies plant
Premiums Raised
On Poultry For
'54 County Fair
The poultry dealers of Cherokee '
and Clay Counties, who buy most]
of the hatching eggs of this area,
have decided that the time has
come for them to boost the Fair
Association premiums for hatching
egg type birds i
At a meeting recently, the deal- |
ers were unanimous in their opin
ion of the importance of enlighten
ing the people to the fact that the
hatching egg industry is one of the
largest sources of revenue of any
other enterprise in the counties', j
We have the market for our eggs
a! the present time; holding and
increasing our markets will de
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f Funeral servires for Luther Hun
su< kt* r S3 whose body was found
at 7 40 a ni Sunday. Aug 1,
floating '.?n Hiw tssee 1-ake, were
held at -i j> rn Sunday in (I rape
Creek Baptist Church with the
Kev Wei dun West officiating Bur
ial was in the church cemetery
1'allbearers weir Fletcher Grav
r.s Herb Criftith Hugh Howard.
F ' Crin Albert Cram and
Grove: Whitener
Hunsucker was last seen about
11 3<? a in Tuesday when he left
Jerrys Marine Service dock
where he worked in a boat going
home to lunch
The lake had been dragged since
Wednesday Hev ward Crawford.
Hal Bryson and J C Townson had
spent Saturday night on the lake
with others, when they saw the
body floating on the water about
7 4 0 Sunday morning and brought
it to Townson Funeral Home
IT Harry Miller, coroner, ruled
that evidently Hunsucker had suf
fered a heart attack and had fall
en out of the boat.
The deceased was the sun of the
late Chid and Mary Ann Graves
Hunsucker.
He is survived by the widod.
Mrs. Necie Worley Hunsucker;
two daughters, Coy and Clara Mae i
of the home; four sons, Elmer of
Seattle. Wash , Homer and Clifford i
of Oak Ridge, Ore , and Clyde of I
the home; one brother. WTilliam of
Cramerton . two sisters, Mrs. Bill
Wallace and Mrs. Buford Poindex
ter of Cramerton, and two grand
children
Townson Funeral Home was in
charge
Neville Returns From
Summer Training
The Rev John C Neville. Sr j
returned Monday from Florida |
where he attended a two weeks
summer Camp at Tyndall Air
Force Base near Panama City
Florida Mr. Neville is an officer
and Chaplain in The Reserve Corp
se and participates in active duty
for two weeks each summer
Rev and Mrs Neville will leave
Thursday f t Montreat where they
will attend a conference of the I
Presbv'.erian Church ? I
K n.lMC
Pome to persons attended the]
Andrews Lions ('tub eve clinic in ,
the Citizens Bank and Trust Co. I
building Julv 2*
Smith /V?^Kes Stoves
For Out Door Cooks
JOHN SMITH demonstrates one of his grease drum out door cook
stoves in his back yard. The hamburgers are being cooked right on
the lid of the drum. It takes him about eight hours to build one of
these stoves out of a grease drum or a news Lnk drum. . ?
John Smith, of Murphy, is one
man who believes in taking time
out on< e in a while to cook a meal
out dors, but he doesn't like the
idea of swallowing a lot of wood
smoke and burning his meat
So he got himself a 100-pound
grease drum from a service sta
tion, some gutter pipe. 45 or 50
stove bolts and tools and made an
outdoor cook stove
After eight hours of work he
can make an outdoor cook stove
complete with fire door, draft,
stove pipe and grate. All the tools
he uses are pocketknlfe, hack
saw, hammer, drill, center punch
and screwdriver His product
stands about 24 or 26 inches tall
and about 12 inches in diameter.
And it is light enough (0 carry 1
anywhere .
With. th<* grease drums Mr
Smith founr he h;ui to cut about
one fourth off the top to make it
the desired height. Rut when he
us?is news ink drums h?' does not
have to do any trimming.
Mr Smith takes the top off the,
drum and fits an extra lid with I
holes punched in it about 12 inches
from the top for a grate The
grate is bolted in and the fire door
I with hinges i is ?ut out just above
the grate
The draft door, also with hinges
' is cut below the grate, making the
two doors about two and a half
inches apart Both doors have
latches.
Paint on the other top Is cleaned
off with steel wool and fine sand
paper and serves as the grill. Mr.
Smith flattens the centor of the
top so that it is slightly lower
than the edges and wit*; hold cook
ing grease
A two and a quarter inch hole
is cut in the back to fit in an L
shape spout for the gutter pipe
Mr Smith said the hardest part
of his stove making is cutting the
| L shape spout from hard metal
, Bpt he even has that beat now
after he fashioned a set pattern
for the cutting. Two feet of gut
ter pipe serves as the stove pipe
guiding the smoke high enough
to keep it away from the cook.
The entire stove weighs arouncf
12 pounds when completed. Mr.
Smith said.
He pointed out thai It takes very
little wood to g:'t the grill hot
entHigh for c<H>king. He like* to
build up his fire, then let it bum
down and cook over the wood
coals.
For easy handling Mr. Smith
Continued on page eight
Home Demonstration Club Provides Recreation At Hiwassee Dam
A FAMILY AFFAIR: Recreation is a family affair this slimmer
at Hlwasse Dam Community, after the Hiwasst Dam Homo Dom
iinstration Club took up the problem of summer recreation as IJ.S
health project. Mr. and Mrs. Ixxiis Williams look on as son, War
ren, 16, prepares to send off a shuffleboard disc.
The hot summer months which
send most clubs and their otvlc
minded members underground,
brought out the best In at least one
community group
The Riwaftsee Dam Home
Demonstration Club tackled the
big problem of community recrea
tion for its health project, and has
provided supervised recreation
daily (except Saturday and Sun
day) at the Hiwassee Dam School
MEN, WOMEN. CHILDREN and DOGS have
uassoo Dam Schoolyard. An average of 22 porno
Once a week a card parti is held and once a mon
day's turnout at the sandpile . The Home Demons
equipment and repairing old equipment. The rlu
with Indoor activities when the weather turns eold.
all enjoyed the daily recreation periods at the Hi
ns have attended the recreation program each day.
th a family picnic Is enjoyed. Here a part of one
tration Club collected $39, which they put Into new
b is now figuring on a continuation of the program
(Scout Photos).
yard, with voluntary workers
from the club in charge.
At the beginning of the season,
the families who use the facilities
provided were solicited for funds
and $3$ dollars raised was put into
badminton, repairing the shuffle
board equipment, colors and color
colorbooks, ping pong an dthe sand
pile A croquet set was donated
From 6pm until (lark an
average of 22 community family
members participate in the var
iety of *porta ? badminton, croquet
tennis. shuffleboard, horseshoes,
ping pong sandpiie and toys
Once a month a family picnic is
enjoyed and /aoh week? on Tues- 1
day nights, after dark ends the
outdoor sports, a card party is en- ,
Joyed in me community building ]
COMMITTEE MEMBERS from the club who take care of hand
ling the volunteer helpers at the playground, team up for a friendly
game of badminton. I.eft to right are Mrs. Donald Hickman, Mrs.
Harry Bagley, Mrs. T. C. Walsh, Jr. and Mrs. Clay Ho(?wood, club
president.
*here bridge, canasta and samba
ire played
Club members who are regular
workers at the playground are
Wrs Clay Hopwood, preddant,
Mrs Donald Hickman, Mrs. Cacti
Palmer and Mrs. Harry Bagley.
Also helping with the regular sup
ervision are Mrs Thelma Terry,
Mr*. Forrest Dixaon and Mrs
Louis Williams.