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Established July 1889
Published every Thursday at Murphy. Cherokee County, N. C
WILLIAM V. AND EMILY P. C05TELL0
Publishers and Owners
WILLIAM V. C05TELL0 _ Editor
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Entered in the Post Office at Murphy, North Carolina, as second daas
matter under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Filter Plant Might
Bring New industry
During its last meeting. .Murphy Town Council faced up to one of
the town's sorest spots, our inadequate water system.
Because of this antiquated water supply, very growth of Mur
phy is limited to such a degree that any large industry Is forced to by
pass us.
A firm whose function calls for a large amount of water would
have to search elsewhere for a new plant site after one look at Mur
phy's water shed.
And the plant's need for water is only one facet of the picture. Dur
ing the discussion at the Council meeting, it was pointed out that the
present supply can service only 500 new families.
There is no one in town who will deny that Murphy Is now on an
upward swing. The swing is slow right now, true, but times are better
than before and indications are that they will improve.
That slightly rasey picture means the water system will have to be
renovated sometime in the future. And in the meantime, we are farced
to forget any industry using large quanties of water that might want to
settle here.
A new filter plant will cost some where in the neighborhood of $100
or $150 thousand. A 20 year bond to raise the money would mean a 25
cent tax ancraese on every $100 and a probable 50 edits a month in
crease per customer on water bills.
The price seems reasonable enough to us. Especially after con
sidering we wtill get a water system that will enable iMurphy to court
big buisness and try to steer some industry our way
Four Polio Cases Are
No Sign Of Epidemic
With four cases of polio in our area, a welcomed note of good news
was injected when Dr. C. O. Van Gorder pointed out that we are far
from an epidemic stage.
It is easy to understand how parents can get anxious when four
cases are reported in the same week, but the count could be much
worse for the population.
Dr. Van Gorder said he is not restricting his own children in any
way. But, he cautioned, he is seeing that they get good nourishment
and that they do not tire themselves.
He advised that all parents follow the same course.
Irvin Greene, director of the summer recreation program, said he
has called off the swimming class at Cane Creek that was drawing some
40 or 50 children per lesson.
He pointed out that the classes were discontinued not because of
any fear of a present polio epidemic but just as a precautionary
measure.
Dr. J. W. R. Norton, North Carolina State Health Officer, said
polio is not abnormal in the state except in two towns, and pointed out
that no one should give up a vacation to North Carolina for fear of polio
With all these reassuring facts, Cherokee County can breath easier
but offer its sympathy to the four children who contracted polio.
Press Association
Selection Is Wise
During a recent meeting of the North Carolina Press Association,
Weimar Jones, editor and co-publisher of the good neighbor Franklin
Press, was elected president of the organization.
The association, made up of Tar Heel dailies and weeklies, could
have searched long an hard and still not found a more capable man to
put at its head. He had been an active member of the assiciation and
had served in other official capacities in the organization.
Mr. Jones has lived North Carolina newspapering, especially in
WNC, probably for more years than he cares to admit.
He is well known and respected in Cherokee County, particularly
in Andrews where he published a weekly 9ome years ago.
The Scout is proud to be a member of an association that has wis
dom enough to select such an outstanding leader.
Mrs. Goodson Dies
Near Andrews
iMra. Chloe Young Goodson died
July 16 in the home of her broth
er, Roe Young near Andrews after
? long illness.
Mrs Goodson was a native of
Cherokee County, the daughter
of the late William T. and Caro
line Rogers Young.
la 1900 she was married to Ben
W. Goodson, and after living a
few years In Andrews, they mov
ed to Camden, S. C? where Good
son was engaged in the lumber
business.
Ttjey later moved near Asheville
where Goodson died in 1945. Since
then, Mrs. Goodson has resided
near Anrews.
She was a member of the And
rews Methodist Church.
Surviving are one son, Harry G.
Goodson of Wilmington; one sister.
Mr. Seamon Loses
Mother In N. J.
Mrs. Emily Meyer Seamon, 69,
'mother of Harry Seamon, died sud
denly at 5 a. m. Thursday, July
16, of a heart attack in Jersey
Shore Hospital, Pennsylvania, ac
cording to a message received
Thursday by Mr. Seamon.
Funeral services were meld Mon
day at 10 a. m. in Christ Episcopal
Church at Wllliamsport, Pa. Bur
ial was in the family plot in Wild
Miss Mary Young of Andrews; and
three brothers, Oscar and Roe of
Andrews and Charlie of Enka.
Funeral services were conducted
at 10:30 a, m. Friday in Valleytown
Funeral Building. The Rev. E, L.
Kirk officiated and burial was in
Valleytown Cemetery With I vie
Funeral Home fan charge.
: Teen-Age Club'
Takes Over Dances
The Andrews Teen-Age Club
this week took over the American
Legion Saturday night square
dances while the Legion post gets
ready for its Labor Day rodeo.
The Teen-Age Club is directed
by Mrs. L. H. Baker. On Labor
Day, the Legion wall sponsor the
Cherokee Rodeo.
Graham Man Dies
In Maryville, Tenn.
Judson W. Myers, 64 died at 2
p. m. Thursday,, July 16 in a
Maryville, Tenn. hospital after a
brief illness. He was a native of
Graham County.
Funeral services were held at 2
p. m. Sautrday in Yellow Creek
Baptist Church of which he was a
member, with the Rev. Paul Myers
officiating. Burial was in the chur
ch cemetery.
Surviving are four sons, Grady
and Everett of Yellow Creek.
Pearley of Hickory, and William C.
of Portsmouth, Va.; tow daughters
'Mrs. Paul Rhinehart of Fort Louis,
Wash., and Mrs. Burlin Millsajjs
of Yellow Creek; two brothers.
Jeff of Yellow Creek and Sherman
of Penrose.
Also three sisters ' Mrs. Randa
Williams of Tapoco. Mrs. Dixie
Crisp of Yellow Creek and Mrs.
Elza Crisp of Robhinsville and 15
grandchildren.
Townson Funeral Home was in
charge.
Hayesville Woman
Dies Here flinr.
Mrs. Mary Ledford at CMy
County, died Thumday July 10 in
a Murphy hospital following a
week's illness.
She was a member at the Hay
esville 'Methodist Church and had
been a Sunday School teacher tor
several years.
Funeral sendees were held Fri
day at 3 p. m. in Truett Memorial
Baptist Church with the Rev. Geo
rge Green, pastor at the Mdthodist
Church and the Rev. Earl Cable
officiating. Burial was in the Pres
byterian Cemetery.
The body lay in state in the
church from 2 to 3 p. m.
Surviving are the husband, H.
Fowler Ledford; five sons, Frank
of Atlanta, Ga., Porter, Hayden
and Elmind all of Hayesville; four
daughters, Mrs. Tim Shook, Mrs.
Dorothy Cox, Miss Ellen Ledford,
all of Hayesville, and Mrs. Leo
Wilson of Elberton, Ga.
Also 17 grandchildren; four
brothers. Bob, Bill and iMark Mc
Clure of Hayesville, and Homer
McClure of Texas; and one sister,
Mrs Alex Hogsed of Shotting
Creek.
Ivie Funeral Home was in
charge.
Mrs. Henson's
Rites Are Held
?Mrs. Harrison Henson, 61, died
in her home near Farner, Tenn. at
S a. m. ii .day July 17. after a
brief illness.
She was the daughter of the
late Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Shad
wick, members of prominent fami
lies of that section.
Funeral services were held at
1:30 p. m. Sunday in Turtletown,
Tenn., Baptist Church, with the
Rev. Mr. Hooker and the Rev.
Mr, Hughes officiating. Burial was
in the church cemetery.
Surviving are the husband; four
daughters Mrs. Castile Hawkins
)f Suit, Mrs. Alice Coleman of
Cullowhee, Mrs. Mildred Bater
;om of Turtletown, and Miss Bird
.e Bell Henson of the home.
Also four sons, Andrew of Bes
semer Citly, Clyde of Turtletown,
i\rzenn of Cleveland, Tenn., and
Wayne of Indianapolis, Ind.; one
sister, Mrs. Julia Bryant of Oak
Ridge. Tenn.; two brothers, Ed
and Irvin Shadwick of Farner;
Three half-sisters, Mrs. Maude
Cragle and Mrs. Cena Taylor bnd
Miss Mamie 9hadwick of Farner;
and one half-brother. Alanza Shad
wick of Detroit, Mich.
Townson Funeral Home was
in charge.
wood Cemetery.
She was a member of the Amer
ican Legion Auxiliany of Garrett
Cock ran Post of Williamsport, and
a member of the Order of Eastern
Star.
Survivors other than Mr. Seaimon
I are a son, Robert G. Seamom of
Salladsburg, Pa. and two daugh
ters, Mrs. William L. Mix of Cogan
Statios, Pa., and Mrs. Paul J. Gil
son of Syracuse, N. Y.
Mrs. Seamon spent several weeks
here with Mr. and Mrs. Seamon
dnring the spring, leaving here for
her home in Williamsport about
June 1.
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against the hazards of personal liabilities
that go with the activities of children, en
engaging in sports, owning a pet, or em
ploying a servant in your home.
The COMPREHENSIVE PERSONAL
LIABILITY POLICY covers the liability of
yourself* your family and even your serv
ants in this field.
The cost is only around a dollar a month
and less in most instances.
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Over Um A. A P.
Murphy Student
Drivers Get Awards
DOTSON
Pvt. Buford L. Dotson of Cul
berson has arrived at Fort Hood
Texas, where he will be assigned
to Combat Command B of the
First Armored Division for basic
training.
Pvt Dotson is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Edd Dotson and he at
tended Murphy High School
where he was active in baseball
Alcoholism Meet
Will Be Held Tue.
An educational meeting on the
"Causes of Alcoholism and How it'
can Best be Treated" will be held
I at the East Franklin School, at 8
p. m. Tuesday, July 28, in Frank
lin, N. C.
The Rev. Alban Richey, former
ohaplin of the alcoholic unit of the
state's Butner Rehabilitation Cen
ter near Durham, will speak.
He will explain how present day
alcoholism is a disease rather than
a crime, he said.
The public is invited. School
Superintendent Holland McSwain
will preside.
BY OR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN
K.
A MILLION years from now you
will (till be a human being. Of
courae you will not be the .same
kind of human being you are now.
If you are a Christian you can
hope to be unimaginably more ad
vanced than you are now. But you
will never be an angel; still less
will you be God. There is room
for only one true God; and be
will not resign in your favor. And
still. It is the Christian faith that
we are destined to be Godlike. He
created each of us in his imagej
that is the same as
saying that if we
follow God's inten
tion we shall be
so much like him
that others can
actually see God
in us. If this seems
too bold a thought,
then remember
that Jesus is called
in the New Testa
ment the "first- Dr Foreman
born of many brethren." Paul
speaks of growing into Christ?
that is, becoming more and more
like Christ. And to become Christ
. like is to become God-like.
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Like Him in Purpose
This is not all something that
happens after death. It is expect
? ed to begin now and here, in this
' life, on this earth. Christian life
! is growing life. Growing "in
Christ" means growing "into
Christ." Life here and life beyond
' death are two chapters in the same
story, for the Christian. One way
we can (and the best Christians
do) grow "into the measure of the
stature of the fullness of Christ"
is by becoming more Christlike in
our basic purpose in living. Why
are we here? is a good question
to think over from time to time.
Some people can't think of any rea
son, and so they conrynlt suicide.
Others, a step removed from that
ulimate despair, cannot see any
good reason for existing, but they
lack the courage to die; so they
draf along from day to miserable
day. unable to find any reason
either for living or for dying. Oth
ers live- for a number of differ
ent and often conflicting reasons,
they live to eat or drink, they live
for fame and their names in the
papers, they live for Saturday
night. Above these are those per
sons who have consuming ambi
tions, purposes to which they ding
to the bitter end; the Napoieons
and Hitlers and Stalins of the
world, who know what they want,
and git it (for a while) but slaugh
ter millions by their own success.
The Christian is one who under
stands more and more of what
Jesus aimed at, and more and
more enters into the spirit of
Jesus.
Ten students from Murphy ?nt
won special Safety Award certifi
cates today for outstanding safety
records as school bus drivers dur
ing the 1952-53 school term,
The winners from the Murphy
ares are:
Jean Sinmnds, Jasper Rhodes,
Furman Anderson. Ben H, Brown,
Juliug E, Robertson, Fred Dalrym
ple. James R. Roberts, Arvil White,
Bailey Coleman and Howard Kil
patrick,
/
Announcement of the awards
was made by the N, C, State Au
tomobile Association, The state
wide motor club and the Highway
Safety Division of the North Car
olina Department of Motor Vehicl
es jointly sponsored the safety
program which culminated in the
awards.
John G, Frazier Jr? president of
the association, congratulated the
winners for being among the best
of some 20,000 students who were
trained last year as school bus
drivers In North Carolina,
'These students deserve thanks
and praise from the entire com
munity" he said. "Day after day
in all kinds of weather, they consis
tently drove carefully, kept their
busses in clean condition and had
no accidents,"
Out of the 20.000 trained in the
state ecah year, less than half are
certified to handle the 7,000 school
busses, The qualified drivers trav
el 220,000 miles daily to haul
427.000 school children, Some
3,000 drivers won certificates.
The winners abided by a set of
rules prepared by the Highway
Safety Division, They had to drive
a minimum of 120 days without
accident: keep their buses clean,
be punctual, and show a good at
titude,.
U, S, cotton exports for the
first months of the 1952-53 crop
year were off 57 per cent from a
year earlier,
INGREDIENT TAGS DONT
TELL THE WHOLE STORY
Three lots of pigs, the same in every way, were fed to 5V4 months
)f age at the Purina Farm. Each lot got com and a supplement. Each
supplement had identical ingredient tags. One ration was a Purina
ration, the other two X and Y.
PURINA
Average for Hogs Fed
Purina
Ready for market at 165
days weighing 225 lbs.
? 62 lbs. more than hogs
on Ration Y
RATION X
RATION Y
Average for Hog* Fed
Ration X
Weighed 207.1 Ibt. at
165 dayt.
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V3
X1
The Purina Ration made a net profit per hog of $6.46 more than
'Ration X. . . $12.71 more than Ration Y! This is proof that ingredient
tags don't tell the whole story. Let the Purina Program work for you. .
it was built by 32.000 hogs at the Research Farm. Come in, see us the
next time you're In town.
Average for Hog* M
Ration Y *
Weighed 163 lb*, at 165
day*.
AT THE STORE WITH THE
CNICRERBOARD SIGN!
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Like Him in Power
The Christian grows more God
like not only in purpose but in
power. The Christian is not al
mighty. To all eternity he will be
far less than almighty. The Bible
gives us no reason to think that
a million years from now you will
be at all nearer to being able to
create even one speck of dust out
of nothing, than you are this mo
ment. You will be no nearer having
the infinite knowledge and wisdom
of the Most High than you are now.
Nevertheless, not in the next life
but in this one, you shbuld be
growing in Godlike power as you
grow into the likeness of your
Elder Brother. You will not be
able to make water run up-hill, to
make ice explode or to teach alli
gators to sing. God does not want
you interfering with his world in
such fantastic ways. But you will
grow in this: You will be more
and more able, by the power of His
living Spirit in you, to live, to
speak, to act, as true sons of the
Most High God. You will be less
and less that wretched creature,
one who knows what is right but
can't begin to do it, and more and
more one who lives by the power
of God.
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Like Him in Personality
If Christ came to your town,
would he be such a strange per
sonality that everyone would be
a little afraid of him, even think
him peculiar enough to need treat
ment in a hospital? This ought not
to be so, if you have some real
Christians there. For there is a
family resemblance between Christ
and all those who grow into his
likeness. Just as he reminded man
of God, so be reminds us of some
Christians. If he lived, in modern
clothes, in your town, working at
cafpentry or teaching ]ust as he
used to do. people who watched
him at work, or. listened to him
talk, would think of persons they
knew and loved.
(BhHl M ?ttllan imrlflt*! by lit
HIvl.lon nf Christian Nb
UmuU OmmII ih? OkarekH ef Cbrtet
Ib thm U.S.A. R?Uu?4 by C?BBntty
Vr? S?rr1??.)
The 1052 world hope crop H
estimated at 141,000,000 pounds,
compared with 154,000,000 pounds
in 1951, down 8.5 per cent