Two County Girls Be In State Contest Joyce Waldroup. 11, daughter of Mr. and Mr*. Hoyt Waldrouo waa county winner In a Four-H music contest recently. She sang "The Holy City", ac companied at the piano by Betty Postell, 14, daughter if Mr. and Mrs George Postell. The girls also were winners in the district contest in Asheville. On July 23 they will enter the state contest. The winne' in the state. contest will 'enter the national con test In Chicago. Both girls are pupils of Mrs. Tom Axley. THE LCNE RANGER By Fran Striker No wonder this great* 55 Pontiac is setting all-time sales records ! t It's bigger, smarter and mora powerful than any othar ear at anything Ilka tha price / A sales success like Pontiac's starts on the draw ing boards? with engineers and designers who have been schooled for yean in the Pontiac idea of giving more people more car for leas money. With its long 122' or 124* wheel base and extra, big-car heft, Pontiac provides road-hugging com fort / you get in no other car near it in price! Now take this big, roomy car and surround it with the distinction of Twin-Streak styling and Vogue Two-Toning? beauty that obviously is calling the turn on the future-^and you have another reason for Pontiac's phenomenal sales success. That alone would be enough for most can but not for Pontiac! a Pontiac corners the market on value with the most powerful engine within hundreds of dollan of its price. The aeneational 200-horsepower Strato-Streak V-8 with four-barrel carburetor* is the most modem power you can buy. You're on even terms with anything on the road? and you enjoy the greatest economy and dependa bility in Pontiac history. i If by now you're thinking "This is what I've wanted all along!", we suggest you stop in and talk dollars and cents. That's when you'll get the final reason for Pontiac's record popularity ?the fact that you can fit a big, powerful, future-fashioned Pontiac into any new-car budget! You'll never find it easier to get into the fine car diss than right now.' 'Lour extra east option D. & L. PONTIAC CO. Murpfiy, N. C. .* & J ?: V Phone 243 ji 'Andrews Personals R. S. Bell and (laughter, Miss Lucile, spent the week end in Wal halla, S. C., with Mr. Bell's son in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Gene Day. Mr. and Mrs. Grady Reid of Pitt sburg, Pa., have returned to their home after a two weeks stay at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gus Ledford and Miss Fanny Buckner. Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Beck and daughter, Joan and Mrs. Geneva Jenkins have returned after a weeks visit with Mr. and Mrs. Ar thur Hicks in Baltimore, Md. Miss Paula Palmer of Knoxville, Tenn., is visiting her grandpar ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Palmer. Mrs. S. E. Cover has returned after a visit in Virginia with her brother H. E. Bean and family. Mrs. Earl Greenwood has re turned after a visit in Granite Falls, S. C. with her sister, Mrs Edna Seamoch Hudson. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Oe?. and son Walter spent several days of last week in Asheville with Mrs. Gee's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rob erson and Mr. Gee's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Piercy and sons, Mike, Jerry and Tommy of Boston. Mass., are spending a va cation here with Mr. Piercy's par ents, Mr. ind Mrs. Sid Piercy. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Wylie and children, IGlenn and Carol, of Gas tonia spent last week here with Mr. and Mrs. Fred McConnell. Mrs. J. E. Greenwood, Jr. and sons, Johnny, Mike and Bill of Greenville, S. C. spent last week with Mrs. Greenwood's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred McConnell and Mrs. Earl Greenwood. Mr. and Mrs. H. Nations have re turned to their home in Sylva af ter a 10 days stay as guests of their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. ' and Mrs. Grady Garrett. Mr. and Mrs. John Piercy of Bryson City spent the week end here with Mrs. Piercy's sister, Mrs. Glenn Love and Mr. Piercy's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Piercy. Mrs. Norma Lunsford and Mrs. Gordon L. Butler are spending 10 days with Mrs. Butler's son, Gor don Lee, Jr. at Roane Mountain where he is with the Forest Service for the summer months. PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Rankin and children, Diane, Gloria, Jean and Harvey of Swan's Quarter, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Wil liams last week. Mr. Rankin was former assistant supervisor of the Farmer's Home Administration here. Mrs. T. J. Edwards and Miss Elsie Nunn returned Monday to their homes, Whiteville and Win ston-Salem after two weeks' visit with their sister and mother, Mrs. Johnsie Nunn. James R. Go an of Blue Ridge, Ga., who for more than 30 years visited Murphy weekly as sales man for Armour and Company, was mingling with friends here last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Ritch and family of Canton, O., spent a vaca tion recently with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Ritch of Murphy. Miss Carolyn Ritch returned home with them. Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Williamson and daughters, Susie and Lynn, have returned to their home in Raleigh after spending two weeks with Mrs. Williamson's mother, Mrs. Tom Axley. Miss Blanche Hamby and Mrs. John Garrett spent an afternoon at Fontana Village last week. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Morris and daughter, Lois Ann and Mr. and Mrs. Burt Morris and son, Stuart of Asheville were the week end guests of Mrs. Dixie Palmer and Miss Hattie Palmer. (Continued from Page One) Worth, began his reserve career as commander of the reserve training unit at Dobbins AFB in 1940. The following year he joined the re serve training group at Kansas City, Mo. Late in 1948, he became com mander of the 441st Troop Carrier Wing, baaed at Chicago Interna tional Airport. In 1951 he was given a reserve mobilization assignment as inspector general of the 8th Air Force at Carswell AFB In Fort Worth, home of the giant B-St bomber. Following this assignment, he was assigned to the 904th Training Wing at Hensley. His Reserve career followed an active duty span that Included, in World War n, bomber squadron commander and deputy group commander in the European Thea ter. In the summer of lMt, tie served as senior Air Fan* techni cian at the MhM atom If tests la the Pacific. Local Folks Worship With President Jimmy Sursavage of Andrews Sunday was mistaken for President Eisenhower's grandson. The Sursavages, returning home to Andrews after a visit with Mr. , Sursavage 's relatives In Pennsy-! lvania, stopped at Gettysburg, Pa., Presbyterian Church in order for their children to keep up a perfect Sunday School attendance record. They found they were attending the same church with President Eisenhower, his son, Capt. John Eisenhower and grandson, David. The Andrews folks sat just two seats behind the Eisenhower's. In the Sunday School class the teacher of the class), noting that Jimmy Sursavage was a visitor, asked if he were the President's grandson. The Sursavages arrived home Monday night. Little Folk School Final Activity Set Friday night, July 15, The Little Folk School group will have an evening for all people of the com munity as the final activity of the two week session at the John C. Campbell Folk School. The boys will do Sword Danc ing, the girls will do Bacapipes and play a New Zealand stick game, and there will be craft demonstrations beside dancing for everyone. i There will also be an exhibit of the crafts which the children have done during The Little Folk School. The program will begin at 7 :30 and ,end at 9 :00. ALL DAY SINGING Announcement has been made of !the All Day Singing to be held next | Sunday, July 17, at the Beaver Creek church near Andrews. GIANT TROUT j JEFF DEAVERS, above pull ed this (luit brown trout from the Nuitahih River at the duck hole, not far from the D. 8. post office there. Deavers, who Is fishing guide of Gatlin burg, Tenn., was just about to land an eight-inch rainbow when the giant brown stuck, swallowing the rainbow almost at once. Then followed a bat tle lasting over an hour since Jeff was using a four-pound test line at the time. The real secret of the brown's capture was that It was never akle to close Its mouth because of the rainbow's tall in the way. As a result, the big fellow finally drowned. It weighed 9>/2 pounds and measured Si Inches long. (Great Smokies News Bureau) More than two-thirds of the deaths caused by farm machinery involve tractors. Texas leads the nation in beef cattls numbers. CLEARANCE SALE ALL JANTZEN PLAY CLOTHES SUMMER DRESSES REDUCED 20% ALL SUITS & COATS REDUCED 33 1-3% * <dt AT CANDLER'S Protects & W 'A YS ' Pittsburgh SUN-PROOF 0HL t,2. Sa/f-C/efimhg / & Xm I ?tUN-PKOOF Bow hkl b (o?? ?teat! Yean of tiNiain i rTA-/'wHrrS"^ coal ?ota aad Watcrial (M haa. $5.95 A Gallon MURPHY HARDWARE CO

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