Support Of W ater Bond
When talk first started about Murphy's Town Council needing
to take steps to improve the water sytsem, several people spoke out
in favor of the move.
Now that Council has voted to ask for a flW.OOO water bond
there seems to be little or no opposition to the bond But the real
feeling about the question might not be fully known until after the
bond election later this summer.
Those people who are in favor of the improved water system
should do more to show their feelings than just voting for the bond.
Those who feel Murphy needs better drinking water should tell their
friends and neighbors how they feel.
In other words, this water bond question is so important that it
deserves the active support of every thinking citizen.
And the best assurance you have that you and your children
will have proper drinking water is to give your active support to the
bond.
Ways To Destroy Home Town!
Here are 1 3 sure ways to ruin your home town 1 hey were com
piled by the Sedalia (Mo.) Democrat. An interesting game is to fig
ure how many of the ways apply to our own lives, or to our fellow
townsmen
Don't pav taxes. Let the other fellow pay his. Vote against tax
es Then fuss because the streets are not kept up.
Never attend any of (he meetings called for the good of the
town If you do. don't have anything to say. Wait until you get out
side and then cuss those who made the suggestion, l-ind fault with
everything that was done.
Get all the city will give you and don't give anything in return.
Write unsigned letters to the editor demanding more for your tax
money
Talk cooperation, but don't do any work for your city unless
you get paid for it And b\ all means refuse to serve unless they
make you chairman.
Never accept an office. It's easier to criticize than to do things.
Accuse anybody who serves in an elected office of being a publicity
seeker. (Or a crook.)
Don't do any more than you have to. When others willingly and
unselfishly give their time to make a town better, howl because that
town is run by a clique.
Don't back your fire department or your police department. If
the firemen work to bring the insurance rates down, tell everybody
That is what they are supposed to do. Don't thank them or the
policemen for endangering their lives that you might have a safer
town in which to live. Demand special treatment; raise cain if any
body expects you to obey traffic and parking laws.
Look at every proposition in a selfish way. If you are not the
one who gets the most good out of it, vote against it. Never consider
what it will do for the town as a whole.
Don't do anything for the youth of the town. Criticize them as
potential delinquents. Keep your feet on them. Encourage them to
move away when they grow up.
If you have good town leaders, don't follow them. Take a jeal
ous attitude and talk down everything they do.
Don't work on any committee. Tell them. "1 m too busy".
Don't say anything good about your town. Be the first to point
up its short -comings. Pretend that if trouble comes your way it will
be residents of some other town who will visit you while you are ill:
bring in their department if your home is burning; comfort vou if
you lose a dear one; stand back of you in disaster.
And don't support your local retail stores and industries. Claim
the prices and service in stores of other towns are better. Claim in
dustry and its payroll hurts the town. But if you need a donation,
ask your local stores and industries for it. Expect them to back you,
but don't back them.
If these 13 steps don't ruin your town, it isn't vour fault.
Black Mountain News
Letter To Mr. Parris
Mr. John Parris, Publicity Director
"Unto These Hills"
Cherokee. N. C.
Dear Mr. Parris:
Last week I was host to some visitors to our state and we attend
ed a performance of "Unto These Hills."
As always the drama was a huge success and my party was
awed at the wonderful spectacle and the story it told.
1 am always proud that the Western Carolina Communities and
Cherokee Historical Association ? made up of my own friends and
neighbors ? had the energy and ambition to establish such an out
standing contribution to our section, our state and our nation.
The business men of Cherokee County, especially those directly
interested in the tourist business appreciate the great contribution
"Unto These Hills" has made to the increase in the tourist trade in
this area.
As you probably know those same people ? and I agree with
them ? think that there is not enough attraction in Cherokee County
to hold visitors as long as we would like.
There has been some talk of establishing a replica of Fort But
ler, a main gatheing point for Cherokees who traveled the "Trail of
Tears." Such a venture seems plausable to me and it would, in a
small way tie in with the drama at Cherokee.
I would appreciate any ideas you or some one on the "Hills"
staff might have on the matter.
Sincerely,
W. V. Costello,
Editor
THE CHEROKEE SCOUT
Established July, 1S89
Published every Thursday et Murphy, Cherokee County, N. C.
WILLIAM V. AND EMILY P. CJ08TELL0? Publishers snd Owners
WILLIAM V. COSTELLO Editor
Cherokee
Chatter j
BY H11J. (XJSTKIJ/J
Always In thla world's progress
a few brave men, dedicated to the
welfare and comfort of their fellow
men, must step forward and take
the lead. They must often times
take drastic steps to assert their
leadership and show their more
timid comrades the way.
And such is the case in Murphy.
Our town boasts two men who,pos-|
sess leadership ability and show
ed it last week when they wore
their Bermuda shorts to work.
FREE SUBSCRIPTIONS
Two men answered the chal
lenge set forth in last week's Chat
ter and showed up for a day's work
in shorts. HARVEY WILSON and
HARRY S. SEAMON have won
themselves free subscriptions to
the Scout for one year. For my
money, they are proven men, true
blue.
JOY RIDE
I admired DAVE TOWNSONS
new Cadillac the other day and he
took mc for a short ride in it. It
was the first time had ever ridden
in a new Cadillac. It is really a
honey of a car.
i atim; oi t
MR. AND MRS. A. Q QUINN
were entertaining some folks the
other night out a Duke's Lodge.
Thye looked like they were enjoy
ing their meal. I also saw DAVE
MOODY chatting at the table of
MR. and MRS. P J. HEN'N. You
jknow I heard the other day that P.
J. won some big motor boat race,
j but I don't know any of the details
I did hear though that a newsreel
showed a good, long picture of P
J. coming in with his winning boat.
Isn't it just like P. J to give a
newsreel the first break on the
I news? I won't blame him too much
though? after all. he's in the busi
| ness !
? LETTER FROM HOME"
MARTHA LEE made me feel
right good the other day when she
told me her sister. ANN WARD,
got a copy of the Scout on board
i her ship and wrote back that "She
was so pleased ... it was like get
ting a letter from home." I'm look
ing forward to Ann's return home
and her report on those last POW's
who changed their minds. (Set
Talk 'O Town).
JACK'S BROTHER
I met JACK BURRUS' brother
last week down at Griffith's Boat
Dock. They had just come in from
an overnight camping trip-without
a single fish.
EX-FROG MAN
A few minutes after Jack and his
brother left. I saw BOB CHENEY
coming down to the landing with a
face mask and swim flippers. Bob
is a former Navy "frogman" and
I suppose he goes down to the lake
once in a while just to keep his
lungs in shape.
BY THE WAY
My ace reporter and right hand
man, WIF STAMEY, just gave me
a hot news tip. He was telling me
a third man deserves a free sub
scription to the Scout, but since he
has not notififed me, I'm withhold
ing the subscription.
Anyway, here's the story. Wif
told me he saw JOE RAY sneak in
the Post Office late one dark night
and he (Joe) was wearing shorts!
My reporter said Joe looked up
and down the street, behind him
and up the side street before he got
out of his car. But Joe got caught
when he left the Post Office be
cause soneone on ED BRUMBY'S
front porch whistled when Joe
started back to his car. Wif didn't
have a stop watch with him, but
he swears Joe made it back to that
car in record time.
thing is really taking hold in Mur
phy?I'm glad to say. I even got a
letter earlier this week directed
to the attention of "Bermuda
Shorts Coetello".
GOLFERS CORNER
I've really enjoyed playing golf
with PRUDEN DAVIDSON my last
two times out. "TOM CASE was tell
ing- me the other day that JERRY
DAVIDSON learned all he knows
about golf from Pruden and that
the real reason Pruden is visiting
Murphy these days is to try to gat
his father's game back in shape.
And if any of you golfers see
Tom fall in behind C. R FREED
every time on the fairway and get
to wondering about It, I can give
you the answer. You see C. R. has
a new. handy gadget that clamps
on the handle at his bag cart. TTie
gadget holds golf balls, a score
card, a pencil aad tees.
But here's the real secret, the
tees fall off the garget on rough
1 terrain and KH only be a matter o<
* i
It's the
TALK 0' THE TOWN
By Emily Costello
llonesly. these men and all their talk about wearing shorts. But
vou might know it would take the women folks to get any action.
Last Friday morning AVIS ll(X)\ ER (Mrs. Bill) entertained
for MARTHA NELL l l'lL SS (Mrs. John) at a Coke party for
which shorts were the apparel of the day.
The above photo, taken on the I loover's terrace shows the
guests all decked out for sheer comfort ? and they look cute. too.
That's J I: AN MAINLY GUI I N (Mrs. Omar) way over to
the left with sunglasses and the pretty legs. And FRANCES RAN
is over at right hiding behind BECKY I IOO\ ER although she has
no reason in the world lo be hiding.
Hostess Avis is stooping down at the left in front opening a
Coke for honoree, Martha Nell who is also in front. Martha Nell
cheated bcause she had a good Florida suntan to go with her violet
shorts and shirt.
Next to Jean, from the left is MARGARET GIBBS (Mrs.
I Jim) (chicken, like Mozelle. Mabel and me for not wearing shorts)
and next toher is RUTH FORSYTH (Mrs. Frank) wearing a dar
ling red and white candy striped middy blouse with her shorts. Be
hind her is MOZELLE PL'ETT (Mrs. Walter), and next is HILDA
OLSON (Mrs. C. K.) in a white outfit and MABEL MASSEY is
peeking out around Hilda's shoulder. And then on the right are
Becky and Frances.
By the way ? that attractive dough tray on legs that the Cokes
are in is an old, old one, dating back to the very beginning of Regal
Hotel history.
Avis had some beautiful heavenly blue morning glories on her
dining table last week. They were in a silver epergne, J.believe. Ruth
Forsyth says they will keep until as late as 2 p. m. if the room is
shaded. They're a lovely flower for a morning party.
On the back terrace, where the party was held the table held an
informal arrangement of petunias in a wooden bowl. As usual, Avis
invited folks to come up and have a Coke and then served every
thing in the book ? hot ham biscuits, open faced sandwiches ? two
kinds, onion and potato chips, and hot ginger bread ? really de
licious.
"UNIU Bk I I r.K I HAN tVhK
We saw "Unto These Hills" again last week. It was the first
time I've seen it for about four years and enjoyed it much better
this time. The performance seems to be smoother and more appeal
ing in every way.
DINNER BRIDGE
KATHLEEN DAVIDSON (Mrs. John) served a delicious din
ner for a summer evening last Friday when she entertained a dinner
followed bv bridge at her home honoring MARTHA NELL
THl'SS (Mrs. John).
Four tables were entertained with guests including OPI E Mc
KEEVFR, (Mrs. H. L. ). MARTHA DREHER, SKEETER BO
COOK (Mrs. Jack). BETSY BOURNE (Mrs. F. C., |r.),( CATH
ERINE BISHOP (Mrs. Harry), FRANCES DICKSON. SIS DAR
NELL ( Mrs Bill), FRANCES RAY (Mrs. Joe). HILDA OLSON
(MRS IKE), EDNA WHITLEY (Mrs. Duke), SARAH PATTON
(Mrs. Glenn), EMILY SWORD, CLARA McCOMBS and LOUISE
BAYLESS, (Mrs. Buster).
Opie won high, Catherine second high and Martha and Betsy
bingo.
Kathleen's house is mighty pretty now ? all redecorated and
very homey and cheerful. She painted her Venetian blinds in the den
a^bright yellow and really did a bang-up job. They look awfully
good against the cocoa walls.
GOING HOME s. COMING HOME
While in Murphy the Thusses staved in Sug Meroney's apart
ment. Now, I believe Sag's apartment has been taken over by BEN
MAYFIELD and wife and seven months old baby. The Mayfields,
you know, have been living abroad for some time, in Austria, Af
rica and other places. They now live in Libson, Portugal, where they
will re(Lrn after a their visit at home.
KfiTURNS WITH TURNCOATS
You can count on ANNE WARD to he in the middle of the acti
vity no matter where she is. And last week she wound up right at the
center of the country's top news story.
Anne, you know, was returning from a cruise which took he'
to Hawaii and point? eS?t on to Hong Kong (the same tour she
made last year and on the same ship). Her ship, the liner President
Cleveland, was the one on which the three "turncoat" U. S. soldiers
returned to this country last week. (The thwe GI's chose to remain in
Communist China after fighting in Korea, and now, after two years
with the Reds have decided they wanted to come home. They face
very serious charges ? charges which could carry the death sen
tence for them.)
Well, the United Press correspondent covering the turcoat
story was at Anne's table on the ship ? and being an old moun
taineer, too ( he's Bill Miller from Waynesville), they found a lot
to talk about.
Through the correspondent Anne went to visit with the "turn
coats" and talked for about two hours with the 22 year old boy from
Dalton, Ga.
Anne phoned home last Friday after getting in to San Francis
co, and talking to MARTHA LEE, she said she felt very sorry for
the boys ? the Dalton boy, she said was "just a child". It seems tfie
boy entered the service at 15 and was a prisoner of war at 16.
Martha related that Anne safd the three boys had only one pair
of pants and a shirt each were "very pitiful". Pictures of the Cleve
land coming into shore were on TV last Friday, along with reels of
the arrests.
By the way, the Dalton Gl is a former employee of L. A. LEE,
formerly of Murphy.
Anne should be home tomorrow. She came by train from Cali
fornia.
MOTORM6 TO CANADA
CLARA McOOMBS. her niece, BENNIE JO DAVIS and a girt
friend, and BMILY SWORD left Monday for a trip by auto to
Canada. I knew they'll have fun. I |oe? it's a final fling befaM
school starts.
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REPORTS FROM
Other Editors
! RKTIKKMEVT ON WOOD
! , In Finland, according to a news
dispatch from that country recent- j
ly, the Finns hesitate to put their 1
money into banks. Instead, they in
vest in wood lots. j
The story concerned a young
man named Pente Lehti, who had
just received an inheritance. He
I immediately plunged the legacy in
l to a 250-acre wood lot. The patch 1
I of woodland, Lehti boasts, will take
care of him for the rest of his life,
if the woodland is correctly cared
for. "I can retire right now," X>ehti .
said. "Inflation cannot touch me."
That incident should be especial
ly interesting to residents of the
United States, where our trees are
a diminishing resource. In Finland,
trees are an ever-growing re>
source. They increase annually in
value as well as in actual numbers.
Their smart forestry practices
have already enabled them to
make up for the loss of 12 per cent
of their trees, which went down ?
the drain when Russia grabbed off
the Karelian pennisula.
The United States is only now be
! ginning to wake up to the fact that I
jits timber resources do not comej
from a perpetual horn of plenty. ?
They must be conserved, and in;
creased, and such countries as Fin- 1
land can show us the way.
Beginnings have already been
made in this direction in Ruther
ford county, Rutherford produced
29,000 cords of pulpwood last year
has an estimated 900,000 acres of
year 380.000 seedlings were put out
in this county. They should produce
pulpwood in six to ten years, tim- '
ber in 20.
The magnitude of the job yet to)
be done is emphasized, however. \
in the fact that Rutherford county]
has an estimated 900,00 acres of
idle land ? Soil that is producing'
neither crops nor timber. That is'
about nine times as much as the
county's timbered acreage. It can
easily be put into wood production
?and solid retirement income a la
Finland's Lethi ? when owners of
the land become convinced of ne
cessity and the advantage of seed- '
ing it In trees.
(The Rutherford County News) I
MAN CAN TAKE MOKE THAN
8TE4K; BUT THERE'S NO
NEED TO THY
So efficient are the human
txxiy's cooling units ? a system at
sweat glands, a network of blooa
vessels and a layer of Insulating
[at ? that a man can survive in
m oven that would rook a steak
placed beside him.
Few of us expect to enter ovens
but all of us can help beat the sum
mer heat by heeding six rules of
lered by experts.
1. Drink ? plenty of liquids.
Don't rely on thirst as a guide for
sometimes it lags behind the act
ual need.
2. Increase salt intake slightly
to replace salt lost in sweating.
3. Relax. Muscular activity is
i primary producer of heat.
4. Use fans, but don't sleep with
a fan aimed directly at your body.
5. Keep your child's head moist
with a wet handkerchief in very
hot weather. The sweat-gland ca
pacity of babies and small children
is limited, therefore they are more
vulnerable to heat exhaustion.
6. Avoid too much exposure to
the sun at one time; it can lead to
sunstroke.
Mother would be saved worry
and physicians unnecessary calls,
the authors state, if clinical ther
mometers were redesigned to nhow
"normal" temperature not as 98.6
degrees but in its broad range of
99 5 degrees.
Humidity is much more exhausting
than heat. Student volunteers per
formed heavy labor for six hours In
dry air, at 122 degrees F., but in
humid air the same work quickly
exhausted them if the mercury
rose above 90 degrees.
Man's ability to withstand ex
treme heat is something amazing.
A kiln technician stated that oc
casionally he has weathered ex
posures to 500 degrees F. A re
search-project volunteer stayed
for 26 minutes in 240 degrees heat.
The experts point out that a club
steak in an oven at 240 degrees will
be ready to eat in M minutes.
(The Observer It News Enterprise) |
A Backward Glance
10 YEARS AGO
Thursday, August t, 1M5
ANDREWS PERSONALS
Lt. Joe Waldroup left this week
after spending a few days with his
father, B. L. Waldrop. Lt Wal
droup reported to the Naval Air
Base at Richmond, Fla., for as
signment.
Mrs. Cleve Almond recently vis-i
ited her daughter-in-law, Mrs. How
ard Almond in Asheville.
Mrs. Henry J. Walker returned
last week from a visit with rela
'tives in Georgia.
Miss Leila Whitaker spent last
week end in Knoxville.
Rev. and Mrs. Will Taylor and
three children of Georgia spent
last week here with Rev. Taylor's
sister, Mrs. Claude Angel.
20 TEARS AGO
Thursday, August 1, 19S5
Messers Joe Miller and Gaines j
Elkins entertained with a prom ;
party at their home last Tuesday
evening honoring their guest, Miss
Ruth Wood.
Rev. H. H. Hancock, pastor of '
the First Methodist Church of
Clearwater, Fla., with Mrs. Han
cock and children, are (pending:
this week at Mr. McMillan'* Tour
ist camps near the LAN depot.
Miss Louise Moss of Fredrick,
Md., is the attractive guest of Miss
Mary Withers poon this week. 8he
and Miss Witherspoon were room
mates at NOCW the psat year.
SO YEARS AGO
Friday, August 7, IMS
Marble's young people enjoyed
a marsh mallow toast one evening
last week near the old water wheel
mill.
The Marble school opened Mon
day, August 3rd. with Prof. W. K.
Johnson. Peachtree, principal,
ably assisted by Prof. J. M. Lovtn
good. Marble, a teacher with forty
years record of successful teach
ing behind him; and lady teach
ers: Mrs. Fry, first grade; Miss
Whitaker; second grade; Mra.
Harbin, third grade; and Miss Jar
vis fourth grade.
Misses Beth and Ruth Mauney of
KnoxviUe, Tenn.. are visiting their
grandmother, Mrs. L. E. Mauney.
Miss Nan Dixon was hosteaa at
her home on Valley River Ave.
Wednesday evening to a dance.
Letters To The Editor j
Editor Cherokee Scout,
Dear Sir :
The title of this article is the
SUCKER because it fits the people
I am talking about better than any
other word in the English lang
uage.
Our little twon like all small
towns stay little largely by rea
son of the character I am about to
1 describe and that is the sucker
[who always sees greener gran
| across the fence regardless of the
greenhouse or lack of it across the |
I fence.
Our merchants need all the busi
ness the people In and around
Murphy have; our butcher, barber,
lawyer, doctor or caadleatlck mak
| er likewise, but by nasou at the
I Sucker a great deal of that
m cm* to make AtlartU, Ml
less. Now what other name could
you use for people who live In this
beautiful town an dwould not live
in any other place who go to the
expense of going over a hundred
miles to spend their money where
they .will never tee it again, when
they could save themselves hard
cash and help our town?
I see them every day run out of
town to a much poorer doctor o^ "? ^
lawyer in grade* and training than
they oould have at home. I see
them run out of town to buy a
dreas or mUt they could get cheap
for the same article than at home A
and believe it or not a MUrphyite ^
?aid they had to go to Asheville
soon to get a hair cut Theae are
the Suckers who keep tke ?all