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i\eu> Dog Control Goes Into Force Cherokee County will this month start cor recting one of its most glaring short comings ? the lack of an effective control of stray and mad dogs. The County Commissioners heard reports in favor of the controls from several interested individuals and civic clubs during a meeting ear lier this year and wisely decided it was past time for this county to take definite steps to set up a dog warden system. The General Assembly passed a special law which included Cherokee County in the dog tax statue. It has been a disgrace to the county, we believe that the county has gone this far without being included in the law. The law does mean that dog owners will have to pay a tax every year to license their dogs i That money will go toward the upkeep of the dog warden system. Such a tax is the only just and fair way to establish a dog control system. The money will help finance the picking up of stray dogs, their housing, and their destruction if they are not claimed in a certain period of time. The dog warden system is the only way to stamp out the rabid dog threat that was so bad last summer We would have the same trouble ? probably on a larger scale ? this next summer if the County Commissioners had not acted. Of course, the setting up of a tax on dogs is not what could be called a wise political move. But we call it a wise move for the good of the county and that's what we all want. To those people who own dogs and have nerve enough to object to the small tax being lev ied. we have this to say; it is on your door that part of the blame should be laid for at least one death and the untold pain Cherokee County peo ple have suffered because of rabid dogs allowed to run free. Better Than 1 ou Think Public schools are better than you think." This is the basis for an article by Sloan Wilson in the current Harper's Magazine, and a subject on which we have mused considerably now for several years. Wilson, whose novel "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit" is at the best-seller age, once held an executive position with the National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools and now holds one with the Committee for the White House Conference on Education. Therefore you can take what he has to say either as the voice of an expert who knows what he is talking about, or as the voice of a man who has looked too long on one' side of public school questions. "Here is a field in which uniformed opinions are at a premium," he says. "A truly ignorant man can easily work himself up into a feverish fury about the public schools, and in a brief ar ticle or book can unburden himself of enough righteous indignation to heat a summer hotel in January. "On the other hand, a person who has really learned something about the schools is almost hopelessly crippled when it comes to writing gen uinely dramatic books and articles. He finds he has to qualify his generalities, and all kinds of awkward facts keep getting in the. way of rich, rolling prose and sweeping accusations . . . It's impossible for an informed person to give easy answers to the hard questions besetting the pub lie schools, yet how can hard answers compete in the literary market place with easy ones? "The job of figuring out how righteous in dignation about weakness of the schools (and he admits there are some) can be converted into constructive action will not be done by people who wave their arms while criticizing the schools as though they were fighting bees. It will be done by serious-minded people calmly appraising the schools in their own community. It will be done by people who have learned to be patient of dif fering points of view, and who know how to en large areas of agreement, rather than capitaliz ing on controversy . . . The job of creating schools capable of developing ail the abilities of all American children will never be easy, but without any doubt the American people are in their cfim curious way plodding toward it . . All of us are aware that many more citizens have more interest in their public schools than ever before. This is a healthy sign ? evidenced tmdsxrs and lay ^committees being organized to improve the xhools right her'e in our county. But more and more we are convinced, and Mr. vVilson's words seem to im ply, that <;alm appraisal must be continuous and long range. Schools cannot be overhauled, physi cally, curriculumwise or otherwise overnight. Those who would attempt it do little good to the cause they profess to espouse. ? News of Orange County. Water Bond And P&D Board Connected It seems to us that the Murphy water bond that is to be voted on next month and the pro posed Murphy Planning and Development Board are connected in a very definite way. From the standpoint of getting new indus try, Murphy is limited to a great extent on what it can go after because of its limited ability to process water through the filter plant. The planning and development board that the Murphy Town Council has been asked to set up has received suport from virtually all the civ ic clubs in Murphy. As long as those clubs keep up their support and if others interest in the proposed board give their opinions it is very likely that Murhpy will get a planning and development board. But that board will certainly be hampered in one of its main duties ? the obtaining of suitable industry for Murphy ? if the water bond does not pass. The bond has also received its share of sup port. Many individuals ? especially parents of young children ? have voiced their support of ? a new water system. And one club, the Junior Woman's Club, has passed a resolution in sup port of the bond. If that club and those private citizens who favor the bond realize that the new water system is not won until enough votes are cast in favor of the bond, we are certain to get the bond passed. All of us who realize the need of the new sys tem must give our active support before the polls open and on voting day? We must vote "YES" and we must remind our neighbors to vote "YES". reports from OTHER EDITORS - SAFETY FEATURES SHOULD BE AID It is good to see that automobile manufacturers (most of them at least) have at last begun to take safety seriously. Much credit is due a national mag azine for pounding hard on this theme, and claiming that manufacturers were more Interested in dollars than in lives (which was true). The latest models ? some* of the first 1956 models, that is ? reflect a trend toward safety which will, beyond a doubt, save many lives in the coming year. In the next few years these new safe ty features will undoubtedly save lives by the thou sands and injuries by the hundred thousand. Some of the new safety features are: door locks that stay locked under the impact of a crash This will prevent passengers, and the driver, iron being injured as a result of being thrown throug' an open door after the collision. Another commendable safety feature is the so' dashboard, which was introduced by a few model: in earlier years but which is widely accepted thi year. Seat belts will save as many lives as an other safety Improvement and they are being offer ed widely this year. v All In all, then the 19M cars are probably the safeat offered the motoring public in years. It la a bout time, as everyone now knows, for we Ameri cans were killing each other and ourselves at th< rate of about a hundred a day ? believe it or not. (Dal ton (Ga.) News) GETTING READY FOR f Two groups devoted to the promotion of the tourist business In this area have elected officers for the cominff year, and ara already planning their pnpui for ne*t year. This is looking ahea and getting under wa J before the last minute. Too often promoters fail to see the wisdom o) Planning ahead and allowing enough h?m to get ' ready. It would appear that the W. N. C. Highlanders ?ad the Haywood Highlanders an not going to be !? that position this canine u they Wgta (heir (Wajmesvtne Mountaineer) Cherokee Chatter AY BILL OOOTELLO I m exactly fodr days late writing thla column this week but now I'm glad I was because I can start off with some real good news. I heard that BILLY FORSYTH is now back home and is doing wonderful after his attack of polio. His happy father, FRANK FOR SYTH, said Billy has learned to appreciate Murphy even more than he did before he was sick. (I haven't had polio, Billy, but I ap preciate Murphy too!) I heard that Billy was impressed with the pres ents and well wishes he received wnile things were looking pretty tough for him during those first days of his attack. MORE EQUIPMENT I'm late writing this column this week because I had to spend about three days moving in what I hope is the last piece of equipment we'll be getting in the Scout office for a while. Not only has it broken our pocketbooks, but it has almost broken our backs. We got our lino type machine in operation last week after hauling it from Dalton. Ga., and this week we put in a power paper cutter. We went all the way to High Point for it in a truck. What a ride ! I hope I never have, to do that again. The cutter is really bigger than we need right now but maybe our commercial printing business will grow to it! GOOD JOB As much as I hate to dot it, I'm going to give some free advertis ing. But I really don't mind putt ing in a good word for the Palmer Brothers Trucking Company after the wonderful job BEN PALMER did moving us last week. He and his crew went into our former home, took over, moved us out and moved us in without a single scratch despite some really diffi cult spots and corners. IT'S NO YOLK If a green or red or pink or some other bright colored egg yolk shows up on your breakfast plate these days, you can bet CALVIN STILES had something to do with it. He is running a Purina test down at the store in which he hopes to prove that feed given a hen influences the kind of egg lay er she will be. Calvin gave me a green one and a red ?ne the last time I was down there, and I had some fun one morning after I slip you know, I lost my appetite after ped them in the egg carton. But, looking at that green one in the frying pan. RIBBON WINNER I understand H. C. Bueck took several ribboqp over at Western Carolina College during a recent high school amatuer photo Judging contest. I have seen more of his work and the Scout has used a few of his shots and I'm not at all sur prised that his work were winners. , GOLFERS CORNER 'I really didn't mean to drop all news of the tournament over at Copper Hill out of this column but it can be summed up real quick. All the Murphy players got the pants beat off 'em! That takes care of that. The last couple of times I've been out I have played a terrible game and BOB EASLEY has promised Continued on page 8 I Bible Comment: Allegiance Is Price We Pay ror Salvation l "IT VERY man has his price" is a cynical observance which contains a (rain of truth in that everything that is worth while costs something This is as true of our soul's salvation and of our spiritual life a; it is of worldly things. God so loved the world that Hj gave His Son; Jesus died that we might have l^e and redemption; prophets, priests and saints have made their sacrifice of love for the heritage that we enjoy. The Kingdom of God, which Jesus proclaimed and made the very center at His teaching and the goal of disci pi eship, Jesus as sured us 'is not of this world. Its aims, its standards, its sense of worths iqd values all are dif ferent from thoae of the king doms of earth. But the heavenly kingdom is Uke the kingdoms of earth In this, that it demands the full allegiance of theee who would be its subjects. We shall never see C.. *' ;.!> and Christianity effecting their full conquest over sin and evil, and prrfonaing their most influ - entiai pert In building a better world, until thoae who would be Christians understand this better, and give themselves more fully I to the faith that they profess There is a real cost of dlaciple ship, of allegiance? but the peer! of great price is neMbqr dlalllu ' 'tiling mt Is H dissppalttne ! TALK 0' THE TOWN By Emily CosUllo CATHERINE and HARRY BISHOP set off a chain reaction of moves when they decided to build a home on their farm at Peach tree. Mid this week I can think of nothing else but packing and unpacking. The Bishops sold their hilltop Mooreland Heights home to DODIE and DOC HEAD RICK and we bought the Headrick place in "Booger Holler." The Bishops moved last week over to Be al town to live until their new home is finished. (It's Just been started a week or two). They're in the house that L. V. MsMAHANS lived in until they moved out of town recently. And the Headrlcks move out last week end and we mov ed in this week end. Meanwhile MARY BOLAN (Brumby) and DICK FORREST moved into the Robert Weaver house that we moved out of. Now that's a lot of moving isn't it? And since moving into the house formerly occupied by the veterln ian, I think I'll take an extension couse in veterinary medicine to take care ot Doc's patients that still come looking for him. I've decided it would be as easy to treat ill cattle as it is to tell somebody driving a two ton truck how to get from Booger Holler to Mooreland Heights. These folks aren't the only ones moving around in Murphy these days. The beautiful brick home almost completed on Highway 64 to ward Ranger is being built by LOIS and LEWIS KING. It really is choice site; I think and they have certainly put a pretty place there. I believe it will be almost two months before the interior will be com. pleted, however. Meanwhile the Kings are at the county home. JOHNNIE and JAY PHILLIPS have bought the King's cute stucco home on Hill St. and moved In about two weeks ago. They did live over by the cattle barn in that pretty little house with the red paneling in front. The JACK LUNSFQRDS moved from next door into the form er Phillips house. And don't know from there. The house the Lunsfords lived in belongs to EUNICE SHIELDS, I think, and I don't know who's planning to move in. And the DR. GEORGE DYERS are in their new house ( I think) which is right beside their former home in Mooreland Heights. I have heard a lot about their new home, but haven't seen it. Heard there was some hold up on a special kind of glass they were using in a pic ture window. And OPAL and LOREN DAVIS and family will be getting in their new home on the Andrews highway soon. I think just some interior > work in all that is left to be done. The house is in a wonderful, natural setting with a grove of beautiful mature trees. By the way, that graded lot out just beyond the King's new home on 64 is the lot where MR and MRS. R. M. ADKINS plan to build soon. The new bus station owners, MR. and MRS. BUSA and their four daughters have leased Addie Mae Cook's house just across from the bus station and plan to live in all except one apartment. GRANDFATHER'S CLOCK My grandfather's clock wasn't too large for the shelf, but it wouldn't run. So A. G. SMITH of Martin s Creek is fixing it up for me. Right now Mr. Smith has about a dozen big old clocks and a number of small ones in his fhop now for repairs, and some are ticking away after 60 years of silence. The oldest clock in his shop now is 179 years old and belong to MRS. NORA COBB SPENCER. There is also a 165 years old (or older) clock with all wood works. It belongs to the Stalcupa on Martin's CLAY POET I recently became acquainted with ' MRS. THETA BARNARD of Clay County, who writes poetry for a hobby. A recent poem of hers has an international relations theme and is really very lovely, I think. It was used on an attractive program put on by the Clay Co. Council of Home Demonstration Clubs last month, and will be published in a national magazine sometime soon, I think. Here it la: "HANDS ACROSS THE BORDER" They told me there was a border-line Across it a different race. But when your hand reached mine And I saw your eager face I knew we were much akin No different at the heart Despite the coloring of your skin Lines could not set us apart. We can make one world of nations Establish peace and order Improve International Relations , Just reach hands across the border. Theta Barnard Truly UnteTEfifiSns THE CHEROKEE SCOUT MaHUwi JUr. UN PublWMd n*jr Thunder at Jfnrpby, CharokM Omntgr, H. a WILLIAM V. AND BOLT P. OOSTKLXiO? PublMMn Ud Owmh ? WIULIAJC V. C08TELIX) ? Editor to C3i?rokM County: Om Tear, 0.90; 8tx Italia, flJO Ootatd* Ckarokaa County: Om Y?r 9L?; Mx Month*, ?Ln A Backward Glance ? YEARS AGO Thurwlay, Oct. It, UN ytu Ruth Bagwell to assisting in a Sunday School campaign in tha Burlington aaaociatlon thia week. Grover Mauney spent the week end at Marion with Mr. and Mrs Kenneth Caldwell and family. _ Mr. and Mr*. Luther Kephart and son. Michael of MaryrUl?. Tenn. visited relatives in Murphy bver the week end. Mrs. Butler Ragland of Hunts ville, Ala., was the guest last week of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Vaught and family. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bailey return ed Sunday from a week's trip to various points in Florida. 1* YEARS AGO Thursday, Oct. 18, IMS Mr. and Mrs. Rae Moore return ed from Marietta, Ga., and are oc cupying a cottage on Mooreland Heights. Mrs. H. Bueck attended a meet ing of the War Finance committee in Asheville Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Franklin and Mrs. Joe Fulmer spent last Friday in Knox ville. Mr. and Mrs. Hobert Lovingood and son, Tommy, have returned from Detroit to make their home here. Mrs. Claude Talley and baby, Phyllis, are visiting Capt. Talley's family in Samoa. 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, Oct. 17, 1935 Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Hyde and Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Studstill were visitors in Chattanooga Sunday Morning. Mrs. Helen Burch and Miss Jean ny Mae Gilliam of the Franklin School Faculty spent Sunday with Miss Margaret Hall at the Henry House. Miss Fannie Hathcock, Miss Ruby Courtney and L. A. Lee will attend the Duke-Tech game In At lanta Saturday. Mrs. Nettie Axley, assisted by her daughter. Miss Louise, en tertained at luncheon Sunday for Mr. and Mrs. James Axley. Besid es the honorees were Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Hubbell and Miss Hattie Ax ley. Mi*, and Mrs. T. A. Case and Mr. and Mrs. Don Wltherspoon spent Saturday In Knoxville. Friday, Oct. IS, IKS 90 YEARS AGO Mrs. E. O. Clary left Thursday for Ashevllle to spend about 10 days. Mrs. Robert Barclay and Uttle son of Copperhill are visiting her parents, Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Thompson this week. Prank Herbert of Blalravllle was a business visitor to Murphy Tuesday. W. R. Anderson of Hayesville was a Murphy victtor Tuesday. Ben Goforth spent last week end with friends in Sylya. Letters To | Editor TO THE EDITOR: I am very anxious to get' In touch with the descendents of a distant relative of mine, the late Ham mond Little, whq I think spent his entire life after he was 18 years old in the mountain, regions of North Carolina. This man was born In Pike County, Kentucky, in the year ISM. He left Pike County, Kentucky, January 1873, and enlisted in the regular U. 8. Army under the name of Sherd Crabtree. Ha de serted the U. 8. Army wh)le sta tioned at Columbia, South Caro lina, August 1, 1878. This man was very illiterate, he had gnrwu up in the wooded area of Pike County, Kentucky. He was about ? feet 8 Inches tall, very ?lender to stature. In all probabil ity he sought employment in the mountain regions of North Caro lina as a logger. It is possible, at least the infor mation is that be weal under the name of Drake, hiy information is that he had a sou by the name at Robert Drake who was born aboot the year 1800 in the state at North X would appreciate 1 any at Ms relatives or anyone who might- give ho aity information on at mm I
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