Dog Control
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From the looks of activities on the part of clubs and individual
the Cherokee County Board of Commissioners will get a clear-ct
answer from the people about their wishes on stray and rabid do
control.
The Commissioners will meet Monday, April 4, and we believe tha
the demand for a dog warden and dog pound will be so overwhelmin
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that the Commissioners will include appropriations for the control in th
county budget that will be drawn up in June.
And the control can not come any too soon. Summer months wil
mean even a higher rate o! r.ibies than the county now has. And th
people of this county will be a long time living down the fact that thi
death certificate of one of its c!:!er citizens lists rabies as the cause o
death.
Neglect that would let such a thing happen should be the drivinj
force today that will set up the dog control needed.
Petitions circulating in the county for this control are getting favor
able reception and not one blank printed in a recent issue of the Seoul
has been returned against control. Kvery blank filled out has asked
that the control be financed by the dog tax now a state law. Cherokee
County and one other county are exempt from that law.
Today, the people of this ccurrty feel ashamed, and justly so. that
Cherokee County is exempt from lhat law.
Letters To Editor
During the past weeh the Scout has received three unsigned Letters
to the Editor with requests lha'- they be printed.
The policy of the Scout is that no letters he printed that are not
signed and no signatures will be withheld upon request. We know that
some newspapers will withhold signatures on request just so the letter
is signed for their files.
However those same papers claim the right - and we think they
should ? to refuse to withhold signatures in any letters they feel the
? signature should be printed. /
We believe that the job of deciding what signatures should be print
ed and what signatures should not be printed is too difficult for us to
handle. So we say all letters must be signed and all signatures will be
printed.
Brother Graham Too ?
We saw in a news release that Billy Graham took a seat in the rear
of the church at Dowanhill Presbyterian Parish Church last Sunday in
Scotland.
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Now we have heard many a minister preach against that old evil
of filling up the back of the church first.
But can it be that preachers like that back row too?
ODE TO A ROBIV
Little Robin, on the lawn, |
Your work begins at dawn,
I bless thee, little bird so brown!
For being a help in every town,
Faithfully, you march along.
Eating grubs, then making song
Lr?*ms and gardens better grow
When you rid them of their foe.
Boys and girls should honor you
For the good you've known to do.
You pause to watch the moving
turf.
Then pujl, a worm from out the
dirt
How could a human call It furl
To harm you with sling shot or
gun'
You are brave because you come
To our realm ere winters done!
You are patient, for you feel
TTie Master-Mind provides your,
meal!
You are busy all the time
Whether 8outh or Northern clime]
A feathered-friend you are indeed.
Hay Providence guid* and increase
your race, '^1'
SAMPLE FAIR
SET IN ANDREWS
A Sample Kair will be sponsored
by the Konnaheeta club Saturday
at the City Hall at 7 p. m.'
Two hundred tickets are on sale
by members of the club. Refresh
ments will be served and string
music will be furnished by a group
of local boys.
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An ample supply of samples of
various articles will be given a
way. Funds raised will be used for
benefit of hospital drive.
Then teach us to invite you around
our place
Forgive the cruel man or boy '
Who does not find in you a joy !
Man is dumb not to know
That you and God are partners
though
As you stand upon the sod
In you I aee a part of God!
THE CHEROKEE SCOUT
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at Murphy. Cherokee County, W. C.
WUXJAM V. AND DOLT P.
WHJjfMf V. C08TELL0 ?
I Letters To Editor
[To The Editor Of The Cherokee
Scout
There is a killer loose in Cher
okee County! He walks our streeU
! st&lks our backyards and preys
! upon our highways, endangering
the lives of our children, ourselvet
and our livestock, just waiting tc
find his next victim and what art
we doing to protect ourselvei
against him?
g | Last month a man died of rabies,
after being bitten by a rabid dpg.
What a shameful waste of life. Who
will be next, you, me, your child or
mine? Last year some 23 people
of this county were vaccinated in
U | the offices of your local doctors
and hospitals, victims of the langs
of rabid dogs. Little children were
held on examining tables by anx
ious parents to suffer through 14
or more painful shots of vaccine
because we, the people of this
county, failed to vaccinate our
dogs against rabies.
j | Do you want your child to have
this experience? Do you want to ex
perience it yourself Then too, as
in the case of the man that died,
the shots may not help. Have you
ever seen anyone die from rabies?
: ' No. I guess not, but if you could
I I see some of these experiences you
would be doing something to stop
the epidemic that is soon to come
to this county in the hot rgonths
ahead. Yes, there will be more
deaths if the people of this coun
ty don't wake up and help wipe out
this killer.
If Cherokee County were to have j
an epidemic of smallpox, whol
would be to blame? The people, of
course, because there is a preven
tive for such disease which is free
to the public through your local
health department.
Well, what's the difference in
rabies control? We have vaccine
for our dogs. It's not free, but the
orice has to be made so reasonable
that there is no excuse for not vac- 1
! oinating our dogs for our own pro
! tection as well as for the protection
of others.
Last month. convenient clinics
>vere held in your local community
for assisting you in the vaccination
of your dogs. How many of you
took your dogs to these clinics' Ap
parently not too many, or our local
vet., who is giving his services to
this project,^ would not have had
time to read so many tomb
stones in the county.
How many of you are guilty of
taking a dog to the area within
our city dump in Texana and.
hating to destroy the dog, releas
ed it to find food at the homes of
our colored people?
How many of you are guilty of
aking an unwanted dog out to the
farming areas and releasing It to
hunt food, to prey upon our wild
life and the livestock of our farms.
How many of you are guilty of
taking a dog to trade on Tuesdays
at the livestock auction and when
you can't get your price, release
it to hunt for food on the city
streets.
Don't cuss your County Commis
sioners, the local government and
the law enforcement officers. Man
is to blame for this serious prob
lem that confronts us. For he is
responsible for the stray dog prob
lem. We have forced our County
Commissioners to take steps to en
force a control that will take our
hard earned tax money in order to
make you protect yourselves.
This problem cannot be solved
unless you and I cooperate to rid
this county of rabies.
A petition is being; circulated
throughout the county asking the
County Commissioners (or a quar
antine of all dogs and a county
dog warden to enforce it It is a
necessary petition in that it will
show the Commissioners that we
are interested, that we want %
strict control whereby we can re
port a stray dog. Unvaccinated
dogs and other violations of the
rabies law and know that we will
receive immediate action on our
request This petition needs an
additional paragraph, reading ?
and I pledge myself to do my part
to help enforce whatever program
is required to rid my county of
-ablee.
Dorothy S. Mason '
Dear Editor:
. Ha% off to the Junior Woman's
Club. Those girls are up and on
the go, and they are getting things
done as well as contributing to the
welfare of our community, pins,
the fact, they an furnirfilng alee
Dear Editor,
At this glorious season of awak
ening and the return of life to al
about us, we are continually re
| minded of the above heading ant
t i of the end of it: "and only man 1:
r 1 vile."
, I The most beautiful town, tl}<
, most beautiful street, the mos
, beautiful garden in all the worli
, would no longer be beautiful whet
| littered with trash!
, I And Sunaay mornings ? of al
| times!? our alleys, streets, public
i ( buildings, in front of places ol
' business, and church yards seem
! to be In the greatest disorder. What
should be a lovely pilgrimage these
! spring days for those walking to
church becomes an experience
; painful with the awareness ol
man's carelessness.
j Feeling a real responsibility foi
( our Library, when I go there I
take time to pick up ? ice cream
'cups, chewing gum papers, often
I a letter torn into small pieces and
I thrown under the hedge. Here I
must disarrange my hair and get
my fingers in the mud ? even on
Sunday mornings, white gloves
and all, I'm impelled to pick up
papers !
There is no town In North Caro
lina with more natural beauty than
J Andrews, nestling as it does
against the dark hills, with luxur
iant growth all about, it seems like
'a beautifully set gem.
Surely .surely we can be grate
ful enough to the Creator of
Beauty to care for what He has
given us in such profusion.
City Fathers, Church Members,
Our Schools. Club Members, All
Civic Minded Citizens : WHAT CAN
WE DO?
Mrs. R. A. Dewar
Andrews, N. C.
great big, "Thank You", you did
your job perfectly, and Emily Cos
tello talked herself to death adver
tising, giving details and etc.
about our merchandise and I know
every merchant deeply appreciat
es the excellent job she did.
I certainly <Jo.
Mrs. Roy V. Lovingood
| BIRTHS
IN PETRIE HOSPITAL
1 Mr. and Mr*. Howard Grave*,
' I Route 3, Murphy, a daughter,
1 ( March 15.
! | Mr. and Mrs. WUliam Bracken
of Hayesville, a son, March 15. *
? Andrews JWC
)Hears Mrs. Wood
t ! Mrs. Edgar Wood was guest
\ speaker at the meeting of the And
( 1 rews Junior Womani Club held at
, Vencena's Dining Room Thursday
| evening.
> She discussed plans 'for the mass
* X-ray program, planned to be in
Andrews in April. The survey be
ing sponsored by the North Oar
' olina State Board of Health in
cooperation with the District
Health Department.
Mrs. Wood also announced the'
crippled chlldrens Easter seal sale
campaign and outlined the work
of the clinic held in Andrews
which serves Cherokee, Clay. Gra
ham and Macon Counties. '
Mrs. Carl Bamett introduced
the speaker and presided over the*
business period. j
Bowls of jonquills and spirea
centered the tables. Other guests |
included husbands of the mem- '
bers. ' ?
Hostesses were Mrs. J. E. Ruf- (
ty, Mrs. Charles O. Frazie# and j
jMrs. Marvin Pullium.
i Neville Conducts
West Va. Revival .
I The Rev. John C. Nevill, pastor
of the Presbyterian church of An
drews. is conducting a revival this
week in West Virginia, near Blue- !
field.
In the absence of the pastor the
Youth Fellowship Group had I
charge of the services Sunday, i
Mrs. Neville is spending this week |
at their cottage in Montreat and 1 1
will join her husband on the re
turn trip to Andrews Saturday. |<
Cherokee Coimty
Men Held In
Clay Shooting
i E. Z. England. 74, of Hayesville,
Rt. 4, was reported in (airly good
condition yesterday at Petrie Hos
pital where he is being treated for
bullet wounds.
Meanwhile two Cherokee County
men are in the Clay County jail
charged with assault with a dead
ly weapon in the shooting Mon
day about 5:30 p. m.
; The State Highway Patrol r*
ported Chase Tatham, 45, of An
drews, and Case Loveln, about 60,
of Murphy, Rt. 4, were arrested
Tuesday by the Georgia State Po
-lice in Blue Field, Ga. Uhe men
were held by Towns County, Ga..
sheriff's department for N. C.
authorities.
Patrolman Ray Heffner of Mur
phy sair he understood Eng
land and the two men were argu
ing near the front of England's
farm home in the Lance Cove sec
tion when the shooting took place.
England is being treated for a
bullet wound in the left wrist, right
thumb, and third ahd fourth fing
ers. and an injury to the_ right side,
it was reported.
Andrews School
Closes For NCEA
The Andrews school will close
Thursday afternoon (today) and
remain closed through Friday, to
give teachers of the Andrews
school unit opportunity to attend
the NCEA meeting to be held in
Asheville April 24, 25, 26, accord
ing to announcement by Supt. J.
E. Rufty.
PRESBYTERIAN MEET
Mrs. John C. Neville will be
hostess to the Women of the And
rews Presbyterian Church at the
general meeting Monday evening
at the manse.
Mrs . O. A. Reschke will have ' 1
charge of the program.
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Harrill Talks
On Home Planning
C. Gill Harrill, archite<jt-engin
eer, was guest speaker at the
meeting of the Konnaheeta Club
Thursday at the Shell Dining Room
In Andrews.
He was Introduced by Mrs. F. E.
Blalock. chairman of the American
Home committee.
Mrs Ruth Starr Rullium, presid
ent, announced a benefit basket
ball game with Mrs. Edwin Bris
tol. Mrs. Eva Wood, Mrs. Ger
ald Almond and Mrs. H. E. Davis
to serve on the arrangement com-'
mittee. ,
Mrs. John Rodda asked for vol
unteer hostesses and clerks for
the mass X-ray planned for And
rews. April 7, 8. 9, 12 and 13.
Arrangements of spring flowers *
in brass containers with model
homes made in Orville Middleton's
sixth grade centered the long tab
les. The St. Patrick motif was ob
served in appointments.
Hostesses were Mrs. Blalock,
Mrs. Gerald Almond, Mrs. James
Hornbuckle, Mrs. Herman Brauer,
Mrs. L. O. Caldwell, Mrs. S. J.
Gernert and Miss Gladys Christy.
Visitors were : Mrs. Paul, Boring
of Canton, Ga., Mrs. Harrill, Mrs.
Blanche Terefenko, Mrs. Marlon
Bickta, Mrs. Margaret Mamma
rella and Mrs. Frank Ledford.
TB Survey Group
Has Meet Tuesday
A meeting was held with Mrs.
L. V. McMahan at the home of
Mrs. H. Bueck Tuesday afternoon
to complete plans for a house to
house visit in regard to the mass
chest X-ray survey to be conduct
ed in Cherokee, Clay and Graham
Counties beginning April 1.
Bake Sa'e Sat.
The Wesleyan Service Guild of
the First Methodist Church will
sponsor a bake sale Saturday at
9:30 a. m. at Murphy Electrical
Shop.
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