If t(Hfpruker
Established July 1889
Published evety Thursday at Murphy. Cherokee County, N. C
WILLIAM V. AND EMILY P. C05TELL0
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WILLIAM V. COSTELLO Editor x
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Entered in the Post Otfice at Murphy. North Carolina, as second class
matter under the Act of March 3. 1879.
Plans For Electric Dept.
Can Bring Improvements
i Murphy residents are heackd toward the best guarantee possi
ble that they will get better electrical service if the Town Council
I can carry out two projects it now has on the examination docket.
The Council voted Monday night to let the town attorney
draw- up a bill authorizing the appointment of a three-man com
mission to handle the business end of our Electric Department.
The commissioners must be appointed by the North Carolina
General Assembly but Coupcil will recommend to the Assembly
the names of men to be appointed.
If the idea is allowed to run its full course it will mean that
the Murphy Electric Department will be taken out of the hands
of Town Council and put in the hands of three able businessmen.
It is no reflection on our Council to say that a three-man com
mittee can do a far better job of running our Electric Department |
"than the Council can. The latter group has many, many decisions]
to make at each meeting, and of necessity, the $100,000 Electric
Department becomes just one of many problems to be discussed.
An organization involving as much money as the Electric
Department deserves more consideration than Council has time
to give it. And the first groups of people to realize that fact seems
to be the Council itself and the Tennessee Valley Authority.
TVA recommended the committee idea to (Council and the idea
was accepted immediately by Councilmen and by local business
-men quizzed about the system.
One of the best features of the committee system is that it
will take the Elecric Department out of politics. The committee
will be made up of men who accept the positions so that the)'
can serve their community.
They will be businessmen who know how to run business
affairs and they will not let politics rule their decisions. Politics
will, have nothing to offer them and their interests will be centered
only on seeing that Murphy residents get the best of electrical
service.
The other contemplated move is to transfer Town Clerk
'=HBdster" Bayless into the Electric Department and put in another
man to oversee the other general departments.
The same reasoning behind appointing the three-man commit
tee istill holds good for the transfer of a full time foreman to the
Elettric Department.
i Murphy's electric business has long since gone into big time
business and its high time we were treating it as such. The de
partment needs the services of a full time foreman who can con
centrate on the problems of bringing first class electrical service
to this community.
. And the town's general fund will get a relief. The foreman's
salary will come from the electrical fund?which can well afford
to pay the salary.
So, taking the two ideas together tjie customers of Murphy's
?Electric Department will definately profit from the moves if they
are carried out.
Murphy To Place Welcome
Signs On 4 Main Highways
This time last week the Scout was bemoaning the lack of
proper welcoming signs at the entrances of Murphy and Andrews.
It is with a great deal of pleasure that the Scout announces
*it can stop fifty per cent of that moaning. Murphy Town Council
met Monday night and voted to erect four welcoming signs?"no
cheap signs, either"?at the four main entrances to the town.
A penciled design has already been worked out and something
definite should be decided before the end of this week.
The Scout, on behalf of Murphy businessmen and residents
who take pride in their community, offers a big "Thanks" to the
Council for seeing its duty and doing it wthout any "hossing"
around.
Nobody or nothng can wail or moan as loud and as long as
the Scout when the paper is after something for the good of the
community. So it looks as though the crying will have to con
tinge until. Andrews dreams up a first rate sign for its highway
entrances.
, We can afford to give them a little more time, however. Town
Council or the Chamber of Commerce there probably have not
met recently, or?heaven forbid?maybe no one in either of the
two goups read the last editorial of the Scout.
.Or worse still, maybe the folks in those two organization do
not see the need of erecting welcoming signs before the tourist
season starts.
We should want to' show folks we're glad to have 'em and
hqpe they will come back real soon.
1,500 Books Displayed At
Andrews School Last Week
Mm than 1,500 books were dis
plajjed for parents, teachers and
students at the Book Bazaar held
at Andrews School Thursday and
Friday last week.
John E. Rufty, School Superin
tendent, was chairman of the ba
zaar which was open both even
ings from 6:30 to 9 o'clock. A spe
cial feature of the bazaar was a
large exhibit of books for adults'
and their children.
Exhibit committee members
with Mr. Rufty were Charles Fra
zier. grammar school principal and
Miss Ruth Hamilton, librarian.
Mr. Rufty said he thought the
Book Baaaar "the most satis
factory method of selecting
books since it gives opportuni
ty to examine the construction,
print and content of the book
before ordering. It also gives
teockrrs an opportunity to se
wMch they think
class and reference work."
Teachers conducted groups of
children through the library to
view the books and several libra
rians from other area libraries
rlso visited the book^exhibit.
Under the general theme of
' Books Open All Doors" books on
[science and science fiction; aduH
fiction and non-fiction; books for
junior and senior high school boys
and girls; travel, radio, television;
humor, light verse, humorous fic
tion and non-fiction; dictionaries,
encyclopaedias, atlases; vocations,
carers, self-improvement; history,
world affairs, national affairs, gov
ernment; sports, recreation; home
repairs, home shop, cooking, flow
er a t r a ngemants, decorating
starrftp collection, photography;
and books for younger children
were included.
Cherokee
Chatter
BY THE EDITOR
It was a happy day far me when
ARNOLD DSR REBERRY, vice
president of the Andrews Lions
Club called to invite us over for
their football banquet Saturday
night.
The club really put on a good
feed for Coach "PEE WEE" HAM
ILTON'S boys and the team de
served it. Coach Hamilton was
proud of his boys and he told 'em
go at the banquet. I don't blame
him; I'd be proud too. ,
Yep it was a good feed, but I
couldn't keep L. B. NICHOLS out
ol the celary and olives. For you
Andrews folks who might invite
Nichols out to dinner, yoii can
feed him with little cost to you.
JuSt hit him in the mouth with a
stalk of celery when he walks In
and you won't hear from him for
the rest of the night.
MIKE and Mrs. BROWN of Rob
binsville ware there and told us
the Robbinsville Lions are cele
brating their 15th anniversary to
night. Congratulations to you
Lions and best wishes for 15 more
years of success and splendid, un
selfish work.
BILL TEAS, Andrews contribu
tion to Georgia Tech's outstanding
backfield last year, and his team
mate, Glenn Turner, were on hand
for the banquet.
The boys showed pictures of the
Tech-Duke game and some high
lights of other games. It was good
of the boys to help out with the
banquet and I'm sure everyone
appreciated it.
MR. and MRS. RUFTY were
there and he had a couple of nice
things to say about Andrews'
Wildcats.
Sheriff Frank and Mrs. CRAW
FORD eat down the table from us
and they seemed to have as much
fun as we did.
DAVIDSONS RETURN.
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Davidson
have returned to Pensacola Navy
Hospital, Pensacola, Fla., where he
is stationed. They had been visit
ing their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Sam Davidson of Murphy and Mr.
and Mrs. Bill Sparks of Copper
hill, Tenn.
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STOP AND THINK
Got A Dime Mister, Just One Thin Dime?
Children may walk because of you. Let your heart move your
hand toward your pocketbook.
Won't you join in this worthy cause? The person you help may
\
be one of your very own, perhaps even you.
GIVE TODAY WHAT YOU CAN
CITIZENS BANK and TRUST CO.
Murphy ? Andrews ? Robbinsville
m
Hayesville
Serving Southwestern North Carolina
Resources Over Five Million Dollars
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Women And Children First
Our national defense is coming to this?? Here it is folks, the
guaranteed hair curler as advertised in last week's Cherokee Chatter.
Yon see before yon one Lt (ig) H. L. . . . . but let's let the Navy
explain it We quote: "Shown above getting into a Navy Fighter, (it's
probably a Link Trainer) is Lt (jg> H. L. McKeeveri attorney from
Murpby, N. C. Lt McKeever recently completed twb weeks annual
training duty at the Jacksonville Naval Air Reserve Training Unit,
in order to keep in touch with the latest in Naval aviation. His wife
is the former Miss Olive Harters of Gainesville, Ga."
Looking
Over
A Four-H
Clover
By FRANCES PUETT And M. B. WRIGHT
COUNCIL TO MEET SATURDAY prize money furnished by them.
AU officers of the seventeen.
(17) 4-H Clubs will meet Satur
day, January 17th, 9:30, Court
house, Murphy, for their regular
monthly council meeting. Fred
Van HoAi, president, will be in
charge of the meeting. A program
will be given by 4-H members on
"Recreation for the Home", and, a
demonstration will be given by
the agents on "How to Keep a
Long Time Record."
Other club members, parents,
may attend this meeting of the
council.
SIGN CP
This is the month to sign up for
the 4-H Poultry Chain. This chain
is open to both- boys and girls.
Each spring ten (10) boys and girls
are selected to participate accord
ing to interest and ability to man
age the chicks. Each member 'se
lected will receive 100 day old
ohicks to raise according to recom
mendations. When the County
Fair comes each chain member
will take twelve of the best pul
lets to put on show and sale. He
or she will receive prize money
and ribbons. The proceeds from
the sale of the pullets will be used
to continue the, chain for another
year. This Chain is sponsored by
the Farmer's Federation and
TREES! TREES!
This is the month to order trees
to plant. The T. V. A. makes avail
able throughout this area seed
lings for farmgrs and 4-H'ers to
plant. The boys and girls are or
dering trees this month?white
pine, short leaf pine, cedar, locust,
poplar. The sedlings an? set out
1000 to an acre. The smallest num
ber that can be ordered is 500.
This is a wonderful opportunity
for clubsters to carryout a pro
ject.
MARCH OF DIMES
Four-ITers all over the county
are expressing a willingness to do
ail they can to help put over the
March of Dimes drive this month.
Each club has voted to sponsor
this campaign.
DOROTHY SHIELDS
Dorothy speaks this week at the
Murphy Lion's Club on Tuesday
evening an in Andrews, Thursday
?evening, at the Konnaheeta Club
On January 19 she will speak in
Haywood County. Dorothy will
also be scheduled to speak in Gra
ham County before leaving for
Woman's College on the 25th.
Home Blaze At
West Murphy
Willi, m Thomas Raper. 84. and
his 74-year-old wits, Mrs. Dillie
Turner Rapsr. wore burned to
death about 3 a. m Tuesday when
their homo was destroyed by fire
| In West Murphy
Members of the Murphy Fit*
Department said the bodies were
charred almost beyond recogni
tion. Cause of the blaze was un
known late this week.
Fnnerdl services for the vic
tim* were held at 2 p- m. Wed
nesday in Bethany Baptist
Chnreh on the North CareUna
Georgta State line.
Both had been members of Ivy
Log Baptist Church for many
years.
Surviving are five daughters,
Mrs. W. W. Cook and Mrs. Ernest
Decker of Murphy, Mrs. J. W.
Thompson of Lost Hills. Calif..
Mrs. Gar Crisp of Murphy and
fArs Edwin Hensley of Oak Ridge,
Tenn.; four sons, Edgar and Gir
lie of Route 1; Culberson, Gus of
Canton. Ohio, and Arthur of Mur
pfcy. '
Mr. Raper's four sisters. Mrs.
Ellen Roberson, Route t. Mur
phy, Mrs. Lucy Cearley and
Mrs. Iowa Roberson, Culberson
and Mrs. Dora Hawkins, Miner
al Bluff, Ga., and three broth
ers, Jesse and Charlie, Route I.
Culberson, and John of Salis
bury.
1 Mrs. Raper's two sisters, Mrs.
G. B. Henson, Marietta, Ga., and
Mrs Ed Panter of Blue Ridge, Ga.;
' and five grothers, Ed Turner of
Blairsville, Ga., Fred, Manuel and
I Gus Turner all of Marietta, Ga.,
| and Luther of Miami, Fla.
Town son Funeral Home had
charge of arrangements.
Dairy School
(Continued from page 1)
D. D. Brown, Farm Management
i Specialist.
The school will begin at 10:00
I a m. and close at 3:00 p. m. In the
! afternoon session two films will
. be shown. One entitled "No Hand
1 Stripping" shows the most effi
cient practices in milking cows.
The other is called "Dairy Con
veniences" and shows methods of
saving labor in dairy farm opera
tions.
All individuals connected with
the milk producing industry are
urged to attend. Not only herd
owners, but barn labor should at
'tend the school and take part in
the discussion.
welcomes and thanks. Gordon But
ler seems to have topped all re
cords in his generous thank you
letter to Dorothy for presenting
her program to the Andrews Rota
ry Club?wonder if he gives les
sons in letter writing?
Ilk*.
BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN
tssssi sas: lh
lt-lt
Mountain; Valley
tor Iuuwt U. IMS
GENERAL Braxton Bragg was a
hard-working brainy officer;
but there wa* one thing he would
not do. He would not climb ?
mountain to look for himself. One
of the generals in his command.
Nathan Bedford Forrest, had been*
up. From the summit of Lookout
Mountain. Forrest could set with
his own eyes what waa going on,
he could see the enemy's move
ments and what it would taka to
stop them. He pleaded with Gen
eral Bragg to come and look too;
but in vain. General Bragg was
too busy; and so he missed an
opportunity that never came again.
? ? ?
The Rhythm of Life
A Sunday school superintendent
used to boast that he had never
missed a single Sunday in close tc
40 years. An ob
server remarked
that it might have
been a good idea
for him to missaa
few Sundays, to
take some time off
to visit other
schools and see
how they did it. It
is possible to keep
your nose so close Foremall ?
to the grindstone
that you can't really see what you
are doing. It is possible "not to
see the forest for the trees." To
put it in another way: Life has a
rhythm of mountain and valley. In
life we have to do two things:
get up now and again on a moun
tain where we can 'see high and
far; and also to walk in the valley
where we cannot see beyond the
next bend in the dusty road
To put it in still plainer words:
Most of our life consists of every
day duties, of ordinary days, with
their problems, discouragements,
weariness and difficulties. But in
rare moments we- "get a lift" as
< the petty round of the usual routine
| and somehow see life, its mean'.ng
and direction, as we never did be
fore. The mountain-toD exoerien--e
we may call the best of life; but
the valley is the most of life. The
j good life will have both mountain
I and valley'.
i Vision and Service
' These high moments are' rare
but important. We read of one of
the most memorable of these in
the familiar story of the Transfig
uration. and what followed it. There
was the great vision on Mt. Her
mon's snows; and there was the
tough situation down in the valley.
Tough situations were common;
that vision'came only once. It is
the way of life always. Paul's
vision on the Damascus road did
not last long, yet it controlled and
inspired his whole life afterwards.
Moses saw but one burning bush;
yet that day's vision drove him
through many a year of toil and
trouble. It is the high moments
that give power to the low .days.
Life cannot be all vision, yet it
should not be all service. Or as we
should rather say, the vision is
for the sake of the service, and
the service translates the vision
into action. Vision illumines serv
ice; service obeys vision. High
moments come to us in various
ways. We have our high moments
of faith, when doubt drops away
and we rise to a certainty that
never quite leaves us again. We
have high moments of hope, when
the distant dream comes over the
horizon toward us and we see the
"alabaster cities gleam" as if they
were across the street; /and high
moments of love, so certain, so
profound, that ever after, under all
the trivial and troublirg current*
of everyday' necessity the deeper
love flows steady, ever sure.
Trust Your Best Moods
Life has two temptations here.
One is to make the mountain s
vision last without ceasing. We dc
not want the glory to vanish in th*
cloud. But this is a temptation. No*,
even heaven is like that. Thera
will be vision in heaven, more,
glorious than any here; but there
will be service too. and more faith
ful than any here. If there are any
beings whom God has destined for
vision only, and not for service
they are angels. n?t men
The opposite temptation is to
stick at our work, never looking up
to see the stars; plodding in the
valley, too busy to climb the hills
Suppose the disciples had been too
busy to go up to the mountain top
with Jesus? Trust yOTlr best moods
They, do not decpive you. if Dr y
come in his company Down in the
valley, in the tough situation, thry
may seerp to have been ot.\?
dreams; but they are n<jt
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In the U.S. A Released by
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i Rocklnjtovn County won $1,000
' grand prize in the 1031-62 "Coun
| ty o< the Year In Rufal Progress"
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35 2-Bottom Plo^?^??><>{ Flow . 27 lister ? 35
k Cultivator
planter
Rear
toll.
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Wagon V>i4e Harrow ? No. 17
Mounted Off^^Wc HfcM^WWwiwr ? Produce Corrier
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