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The Cherokee i VOLUME 67 NUMBER ? 46 Dedicated To Promoting Cherokee Com MURPHY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1*58 hlun>hy u. TWELVE PAGt-o PUBLISHED WEKKL Interest Rises In Wagon Train Andrews To Join In Celebration Andrews annual July 4th cele bration has been canceled this year in order to co-operate with Murphy in the county-wide Wagon Train Celebration. Members of Andrews American Legion Post met with delegates from Andrews Rotary and Lions clubs at the Hut Monday night and decided to call off the annual cele bration. Those present agreed that the plan to work with the Murphy civ ic clubs in the Wagon Train Cele bration was sound, and promised a bigger and better celebration in Andews next year. The only events scheduled for Andrews this fourth is a Little League double-header ball game. The times for these games have not been set The delegates at Monday's meet ing decided to name two members from the Lions and Rotary clubs and American Legion to work with the committee in Murphy. Jack Mintz and Capt. Frank Swan a greed to serve for the American Legion. Bill Whitaker organized and pre sided over the meeting and other delegates present included Sam Hartman, Mark Elliott, Harold Gee, Charles Zimmerman and Herman Brauer. Bellview Methodist To Hold Bible School Bellview Methodist Church has announced the beginning of Vaca tion Bible School as June 16. Rev. Hal Finney is minister at Bell view. Children attending the school will study the theme, "Exploring' God's Wonders". Mrs. Hal Finney will be in charge of the School. Teachers are Mrs. Verna Hem bree, nursery Miss Lilly Keasler, beginners, Mrs. Hal Finney pri mary, Mrs. Dan Hughes, junior, and John English and Mrs- Clyde McNabb, intermediate Trustees Plan Friday Meeting The Board of Trustees for Tri State Rock Hounders will meet in their clubhouse at Brasstown Fri day at 7:30 p. m. Little League Auxiliary Meets An organization meeting of the Little League Auxiliary will be held in Andrews Tuesday at 7:30 p. m. in the Hut. Mrs. Sam Hartman of Andrews uges all mothers of Little Leag uers or other interested women to turn out for this meeting. Seeend Baptist To Have Singing The regular third Sunday sing ing will be held at Murphy Second Baptist Church beginning at 2 p. m BIG FAMILY: Leon ?. Unh| of Ceatral Aveaae is ikm hold lag ? mother opoasun he eaaght nnrtty in the Martins Creek ?ecttaa. Mr. Lautaf said the ipiw was carryiif IS baby this large Is a?saal, he said, petattag Mrt that most have orf? three or foor. Big Celebration Planned For 4th Excitement is mounting in Mur phy as the 'countdown' for the Wagon Train Celebration and July 4th festivities gets under way. The puprose of the Wagon Train is to convince highway officials of the need for a road from Tel lico Plains, Tenn., to Murphy The completion of this road would put Murphy on a North South route and bring an estimat ed 200 to 300 thousand visitors and tourists through Murphy and And rews every year. All the civic clubs in Murphy are working for the success of the Wagon Train and other festivities, with the co-operation of clubs in Andrews which called off its an nual progam. The tentative schedule for the 4th calls for watersports and base ball games between Murphy's Junior league team at 10 a. m The Wagon Train is scheduled to arrive at 4 p. m. and there will be a ceremony to welcome the train. The lieutenant governors of North Carolina and Tennessee are sche duled to be present along with top highway officials At 5 p. m. a 2-hour talent con test will start at the fair grounds. A beauty contest is set for 8 p. m. and a fireworks display at 8:30. The day will end with a street dance on the square from 9 on. Dr. George F. Size is in charge* of activities in Murphy and the reception and entertainment of the Wagon Train. Members of the Lions, Civitans, Rotary, Kiwanis and Womens clubs are working on the project. L. D. (Red) Schuyler is working with Dr. Size on the reception committee. P. J. Henn of the Lions club is in charge of publicity, ban ners, and posters, and John Jor dan also of the Lions club is in charge of the talent contest. Mrs. Dot Mason will be in charge of beauty contests. Members of the Rotary club will operate a food stand at the fair grounds on the 4th. County Agent Paul Nave will barbecue 300 chick ens to serve the crowd. Also serving on the reception committee are Paul Ledford and Jim Hughes of the Rotary Club, Jack Dickey and Loren Davis of the Lions Club, John Smith and Jim Green of the American Legion and Mrs. Dot Mason and Mrs. Ben Warner Jr. of the Wom ens Club. Dave Townson, one of Murphy's senior citizens called this Wagon Train and July 4th celebration "the biggest thing that has ever happened to Murphy, and we should all get behind it 100 per cent." To show his interest in the pro ject, Mr. Townson has agreed to furnish hay and corn for all ani mals making the trip. About 25 wagons and 75 horse back riders are expected to make the trip from Tellico Plains. Char les Coleman has entered a 4-wheel, 1-seated buggy- Anyone who wants to enter a wagon or horse in the train may do so by filling out an entry blank available from the Chamber of Commerce in Murphy. The train will be well covered from the publicity angle with pho togaphers and writers from Look and Life magazines. The train will will be given TV coverage as it leaves Tellico Pains and radio coverage along the trail. Several newspapers will cover the event. The wagons will be taken by truck to Tellico Plains and up to the Tellico camp grounds, and will travel to Murphy by way of Davis Creek. The train will leave Tellico Plains at 4 a. m. on July 3rd. Dr. Size said, "It is apparent that we need help. We need money for fireworks and decorations, prizes from merchants for the tal ent and beauty contests, and the earnest help and labor of the people of Murphy and all of Cherokee County to make this project suc cessful." Contributions to the Wagon Train Fund may be mailed to Murphy care of the Cherokee Scout, and checks should be made payable to the Wagon Train Fund. Attoid Convention Mrs. Bob Weaver Mrs. Bud Al verson, and Eliabeth Gray attend ed the convention of the Business ?ad Professional Women's Club in AsheviDe last week end. Mew Murphy Electric Power Board Bnilding | Murphy Power Board To Hold Open House Friday Murphy Electrical Progress Great Since Beginning Use Of TVA Power The doors of Murphy's modern new Electric Power Board Build ing will swing wide on Friday, June 13, to greet more than 1,400 "stockholders," the customers of the Power Board. The occasion is "Open House," which will begin at 10 a. m. and last until 6 p. m. Hosts for the event will be mem bers of the Murphy Electric Power Board and the management and employees of the distribution sys tem, the men and women who work to see that you have elec tricity when and where yau want it merely by flipping a switch. Refreshments will be served during the open house and the first 1,500 visitors will receive 150 watt ever-saver light bulbs. Designed by Gilmar Harrill, Architect from Asheville, N. C., the new Electric Power Board Building was built at a total cost of $112,000, including furnishings and landscaping. General Construc tor was Setzer-Redmon Construc tion company of Asheville. Besides the offices and ware house of the electric distribution system, the new building contain* also the water department and the city clerk's office According to W- Frank Forsyth, Chairman of the Electric Power Board, the building was construct ed with the continued electrical progress of Murphy in mind. "Muphy has made rapid elec trical progress during the past few years," Forsyth explained. "Our old office was not large enough; we needed more space, improved facilities and more modern equip ment if we were going to continue to give the kind of electrical ser vice our consumers were used to. "This new building should help us give better service," Forsyth concluded. "And it's designed to serve our needs for many years." Among the many outstanding features of the new building are year-round electric air condition ing, ample warehouse and gar age space, an all-electric kitchen, an auditorium, plenty of space for the many records required in the operation of the distribution sys tem and the latest office furniture and equipment. Automatic Heating and Cooling Heating and cooling in the new building is furnished by four 5 ton heat pumps, the miracle year round air conditioning units that heat in summer and cool in win ter, automatically. This new equipment doe* both the heating and cooling Job at a much lower yearly cost than convential elec tric heating and air conditioning equipment Extra WarefcMM and Garage Space For the first time, the Power Board can bout of ample ware house and garage space. Construc ted on a two-Hoar level, the ware Electrical progress in the area served by the Murphy Electric Power Board has been great since the city became a distributor of low cost TVA generated electricity on November 8, 1939. Today, for example residential consumers, 32 percent of whom are classified as rural, use more than 7 times as much electricity as they did in 1940, John H. Bay less Power Board Manager point out. "Average residential use in our service area during our first full year of operation was only a little more than 1100 kilowatt-hours a year" Bay less explained. But tod day, our residential consumers use almost 8,200 kwh per year. "That's a terrific increase," Bayless stated. "And the figure alone is empessive. But the real story is in what this electricity does for the people. Our residential consumers are using electricity to day to do jobs they never dreamed electricity could do a few years ago- For example, today almost 27 percent of all our consumers are using electricity to heat their homes" One of the reasons for this phenomenal increase in the use of electricity is the low cost of elec tricity in Murphy. Since the Pow er Board became a distributor of TVA power, there has never been an increase in electric rates in Murphy. The average cost of elec tricity has actually gone down during the past several years. "Residential consumers in our first full years as distributor of TVA generated power paid an average of 2.12 cents for each kilowatt hour of electricity they used in their homes," Bayless said. "Last year the average cost of electricity for home is about 1.04 cents per kilowatt hour. Na tional average cost for electricity used in the home is about 2.5 cents per kwm." "When you remember that the Electric Power Board is a non profit utility and consequently pays no income taxes, you realize that our tax payments are fairly high," Bayless explained. Bayless called attention to the fact that the Electric Power Board is debt free. "We owe no money," Bayless said. "Our new building was fi nanced from our earnings- And we've been able to expand and improve our distribution system during the past few years without (OaaUaie* on back page) McClnre Speaks To Presbyterlau Dr. R. E. McClure, executive secretary of the Asbeville Presby tery, spoke to the men of the First Presbyterian Church on Wednes day, June 4 at a rapper meeting. Ms. McClure accompanied her husb?nd to Murphy. MR. ELKINS . . . First Manager Baptist Vacation Bible School Begins Monday The First Baptist Church will have its Vacation Bible School June 16-27. The school will be held each morning, Monday through Friday, from 9 to 12 a m. Preparation Day will be held on Saturday at 9 a. m. The children will join the other churches in a parade at 10. Ages for the Bible School are three through fourteen years of age. A Picnic and Commencement exercises for the school will be held on Friday, June 27, at the chuch. The list of workers for the two week's school is as follows: Nursery (3 yr) ? Mrs. Gene Par ker. Superintendent; Mrs. Low en Dockery, Mrs. Kenneth God frey, Mrs- Chester Lawson and Mrs- James Israel. Beginner 1 (4 yr)? Mrs. Wilson Palmer, Supt., Mrs. Mildred Hugh es, Miss Ginger Deweese, Miss (Continued on back page) HARVE ELKINS FIRST POWER | BOARD MANAGER i By TODD REECE The story of Murphy's first 27 i years of electric power can be learned from one man ? Harve ] Elkins. Mr- Elkins, who makes his home in Murphy, operated the power system from its beginning in 1919 until 1946, watching over its growth and striving for better sen-ice and lower rates. Mr- Elkins moved to Murphy with his family in 1909 from Rog ersville, Tenn- He served with the Army in World War 1, spending 20 months overseas. In 1919 Mr. Limns married Miss Bessie Mae Woods of Muphy. That same year he took over Murphy's first power dam on Nottley River. As manager Mr- Elkins complet ed an electric distribution center in 1920 and continued to serve in this post until 1925 when the town sold the system to Southern States Power Co if- _i l r c ...4i wir. tuiiib woriteu iur auuiuewi States Power Co. in the same post until 1939 when TVA took over this company's property and elec tric systems. Mr. Elkins was anxious for Mur phy to buy back the power system and made a trip to see the presi dent of Southern States Co. in New York. He persuaded me company to sell the power system back to Muphy and then negotiated a 20 year contract for the TVA tor fur nish power to the town at their low rates Mr. Elkins was named first Manager of the Electric Power Board and kept this post until 1946. When the town took over the system in 1939 there was a bond debt of $76,000 on the books and in seven years Mr. Elkins as man ager had paid off $42,000 of this (Continued On Back Page) Corn Destroying Pests Identified As Unusual Species Of Cut Worm Worms wich have destroyed ov er 400 acres of corn in Cherokee County have been identified as a climbing cut worm, a very un usual species of the cut worm fam ily. These worms were first thought to be army worms, but a specimen sent to N. C- State College by County Agent Paul Nave was iden tified by the head of the Entomol ogy Division, George D. Jones. These cut worms have destroyed soybeans and other crops as well as corn but should mature out of the larvae stage within two weeks and stop the damage The can be killed with tox* pbeoe dust or spray at the rate a I two or three pounds to the acre. Mr. Jones advises farmers whose corn has been wiped out to replant their corn crops since the worms will be matured and gone when the second crop comes up. County Agent Nave warns that the regular cut worm as well as this new climbing species is ruin ing a lot of crops this year and farmers should keep a close watch for this. Reports from Clay County say that these worms are damaging crops in that area also. Mr. Nave says that the danger tram these worms should be over la 10 or tt days for this year. More damage may be experienced next yes*, howeiet . as a result of this year's ARMY DRAFTS SIX CHEROKEE COUNTY MEN j Six registrants were forwardt to Knoxville, Tenn., for inductic into the armed forces. Mrs. Frankie Roberson, seer tary of the draft board listed tl following names: Max Tomn Shields, Onreath Don Watson, Jol Richard Moore, Odes Arvil Hugh( Gene Leonard Murphy and Cha les Dennie Elliott. Fourteen registrants were fo warded for armed forces physic-' examination. Jury List For Civil Superior Court Announced Petit jurors to serve the week < lune 23 during a term of civil Si aerior Court have been announce jy Clerk of Court K- W. Radford They are: Olen Taylor, Murph Route 3; Jess Mashburn Jr., Ha rison Luther, W. W. Ashe, an Howard Gregory all of Andre wt W. V. Taylor, Unaka, Glenn Br; ant, Culberson Route 2; Ea Cillsaps and Loy Lunsford < Murphy Route 1; Keith Wilsoi Andrews Route 1; Carl Stile: Murphy Route 1 and T. H. Littl< Culberson Route 1. Also Ross Moore, W. M. Maune and W. H. Murray, Murphy; Wa :er W. Radford, Murphy Route I Ennis Moore, Copperhill Route J R. Hatchett, Murphy Route 2 Robert Farmer, Marble Route 3 Fred Johnson Sr., Murphy; Claud Fox and and T. G. Little of Cu berson Route 2; Hadley Robersoi Murphy Route 2; and Norma Barton, Murphy Route 1. Also James Bryson Jr., Marble F. C. Bourne Jr., and Lloy Kisselburg, of Murphy; Ralp Thompson, Culberson Route S Wayne Battle Jr., Gilbert Battl and Frank Clark of Andrews; V R. Evans, Murphy Route 1; N. B Hunsucker, Murphy Route 2; Be: Hogan, Brasstown Route 1; Grai ville Radcliff, Murphy; B. I Peek, Murphy Route ? Red Cross Course Teaches Social Welfare Aide A ten-hour Red Cross Soci Welfare Aide Training Course wj held June 3-4 at the Parish Houi , of the Episcopal Church. The course, taught by Anr Mae Biddle of the Red Cro: Southeastern Area, was given preparation for volunteer work the Home Service Departmen Home Service is an aid to tt serviceman and his family and a charter obligation of the R? Cross. Attending the meetings we Mrs. Harve Elkins, chairman Home Service, Mrs. Don Withe spoon, Mrs. Bud Alverson, Mr Ben Warner, Mrs. A- L. Hansa Mrs- Robert Easley, Mrs. Jai Roberts, and Mrs. Francis Boun Jr. The local Home Service operat from Murphy Electrical Shop. Ne office hours will be announced the near future
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