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Murphy Met chants Get Set For The Town's 4th Annual Trade Week For the fourth time in that many years, the merchants of Murphy are getting together to of fer shoppers in this area a special "Christmas Trade Week." This year as in the past, stores will put up the cash necessary to stage the special week and to set up the funds necessary to pur chase U. S. Saving Bonds that will be given as prizes to the holders of lucky tickets. We believe Trade Week at Christmas time is a very necessary event for Murphy. During Piled Leaves Are Traffic Danger Signs Major C. A. Speed, Director of the State Highway Patrol's Safety Division, had a rather unusual precaution for Tar Heel motorists and parents today. The Patrol's ace traffic safety expert had leaves on his mind. He went on to explain: "At this time of year piled up leaves, which line the streets of many North Carolina communities, create an attraction few children can resist. It's fun to bounce and burrow in piles of fallen leaves, and many children do it. But it can be a deadly game." It's dangerous at any time for children to play in the street, and when they are partially or wholly obscured in fallen leaves it becomes doub ly hazardous, the Patrol executive said. The major said there had been no reports of fatalities or injuries, but that if parents permit ted their children to frolic in the leaves it would be "only a matter of time until some child is hurt. At the same time Speed cautioned motorists to be especially wary when traveling streets lined with piled leaves. "Actually," he said, "The bulk of the respon sibility for safeguarding young lives is with the motorist. For children, even though they've been taught not to play in the street, sometimes for get their lessons in the process of simply having a good time." Speed reminded drivers, parents and child ren alike that Autumn leaves would soon be gone. "Until then", he said "we can repeat our advice for drivers to be extra careful on residential streets. "And for you young people," he concluded. "Don't leave your life in a pile of leaves. Play where it's safe." Churches Could Help Form Community Chest We believe that Mr. S. M. McGuire of At lanta, Ga., and a former resident of Murphy, hit upon one way to set up a Community Chest for Murphy in his letter to the editor published in last week's Scout Mr. McGuire suggested, and we agree with his idea, that a Community Fund could be set up through the churches and "a prominent citizen from each church could serve on a committee to disburse the funds equitably and to the advant age of all." "Your school superintendent or a party connected with the schools should also serve on this committee," Mr. McGuire said. He was quick to point out that he does not claim that such an organization will entirely stop all solicitation on the streets. But he believes it will help and prove very beneficial where there are children in need. We think Mr. McGuire's plan has many favorable points and we agree with him that the organization could not completely stop solicita tions, but that it will take a great and unfair load off the business houses on the main streets. One merchant remarked recently that he was asked for donations six times during one day from different organizations. We believe that is going too far and we believe a Community Chest or a United Fund Drive held once each year is the best possible answer. the pre-Christmas season the larger towns are vying for the extra heavy Yule trade, and Mur phy ? with its wide selection of Christmas gifts ?dees right in entering that competition. The Christmas shoppers, we believe, will find prices in Murphy as reasonable, if not in many cases lower, than prices in nearby larger cities. Merchants participating in Trade Week ? and they make up 90 per cent of the business in town ? will give tickets with purchases made during the special week. Trade Week, we believe, is the first leg of a Chamber of Commerce that will take hold and last in Murphy. A I uletide Request The time for Christmas shopping is upon us and Cherokee County merchants will start their Yuletide advertising. There is one request we make. If your advertising space or your window card space does not allow room to spell out Christmas, please do not use "Xmas." The let ter "X" seems a mighty poor substitute for the word "Christ." We might suggest you use words like Yule, Noel, and Season ? all shorter than the word Christmas. reports from OTHER EDITORS SOUND DEALER ORGANIZATION IS NEEDED BY AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY Most 1956 models in the automobile field have already been or will be displayed before the mid dle of the month. Improvements have been made as compared with 1953 models, but there have been no drastic changes. The change-over came without slowing down | production to any great extent, and, at the same ' time, the dealers have done a good job of disposing ' of their 1955 models. Recent reports on this factor in the business have been encouraging. What lies ahead for the industry will be de termined, in a large measure, by how the dealers stand up under the keen competition and the neces sity of cutting prices to move cars. No longer, so we understand, is it possible to sell at list prices. Manufacturers usually get pay for their cars Jjefore the dealers unload them, which means that ! the rough-and-tumble competitive battle of the past year hasfhit the dealer's bank account and not that of the manufacturer. Conditions and practices change rapidly, and we may have seen the last of stable prices in the auto mobile industry. However, we continue to believe that only a sound dealer organization, equipped to provide satisfactory service, can maintain a stable industry. Stanley News and Press GREEN' PLAN IS IMPORTANT TODAY YOUR NEWSPAPER DID not arrive at your front door. You were justly angry, and de cided to write a note of protest. The pencil you searched for was missing, and the pad of notepaper was gone. More important, you suddenly realized that your tables, chairs, rayon drapes and knotty pine-room panelling had been whisked away. Your house, if of frame construction, had crumbled away. Even parts of your automobile had vanished ? part of the upholstery, the tire cord. Science fiction? Not at all. Just a grim descrip tion of what might happen if the results of a forest fire were applied to you suddenly and personally, rather than gradually. All of us know the value of our forests. Un fortunately we know the value abstractly, rather than personally. We seldom associate the death of a forest with our personal discomfort. This, to our mind, is the constructive thing that all of us can do in the county Keep Green Pro gram. We must constantly realize that a distant forest fire destroys the grocery bag in the kitchen and the photographic film In our camera. Keep' Green will then be easy. Safety with campfirea, re porting of wildfire; the deadened cigarette and the dampened match will be secand nature. Dal ton, Ga., Citizen CHEROKEE CHATTER BY BILL COSTE LLOjj WATER BOND fit an effort to clear 19 some misunderstandings that have ap parently come up about the Mur phy water hood election, I'm using this column this week to go into It ? little further. To begin with I feel that there are enough people in Murphy who want to see a healthful water sys tem is the town and who want to see the town grow to pass the wat er bond. But there 4oes seem to be some opposition to )he band springing to be aimed at the fact that the the water bond will pay for need- i ed additions to the system. , THE ADDITIONS Additions that will be purchased with the $190,006 -from the bonds will include another filter bed in stalled beside the present one ? the present one will continue in use, another storage tank that will hold 500,000 gallons of water ? the present one holds only >0,000, and improved filtering and disinfecting will be incorporated into all the system ? both old and neyg. The Pain Mountain reeniUj will < nore demands on the plant than it was built to handle. NEEDED IMPROVEMENT The additions to Murphy's water, system an sorely needed. A rep- 1 resentatlve from the State Health Department has pointed out that1 the amount of water used in Mur-' phy is such a strain on the filter 1 bed that the raw water rushes through gullies and holes in the fil ter sand. The storage tank is too ?mall; therefore,, enough watfer cannot fee stored to take the strain of the system. Murphy needs this Improved water system and I re peat that I better* there ?re e Dough clear- thinking people who Ml out-vote those who oppose the He'll Go Down Fighting Bibb C Jesus* iVf'y God, Was Also Truly Human 'T'HE New Testament is clear in its claims and teaching con cerning the divine character of Jesus of Nazareth. An entire Gospel, the Gospel o i John, is de voted to evidence concerning that divinity as stated in' the prologue | in its first chapter ? the identifi cation of Jesus with the eternal ; Word ? "the Word that was made ' flesh and dwelt among us. | Just when did the conscious j ness of this divine nature and mission come to Jesus? We do not know. Inr what glimpses we have of His life before He began His ministry, we see a boy and young man growing up in Naz areth normally, increasing "in wisdom, and in stature, and in favor with 6od and man." | Jesus himself emphasizes the normal nature of His life. "The Son of Man came eating and drinking." Here on earth He needed rest and sleep. He was, ( , like all mortals, subject to temp- , ( tation. , His own emphasis highlights | : what many people tend to under emphasize? or neglect, in their eagerness To affirm their belief is His divinity. i This is the fact of the true hu manity of Jesus. What so often I is forgotten is that it was as a , man and in the framework of I human life and experience that Jesus embodied the diviqs na I ture and character of God. I t Thus, in Jesus, God and man meet God comes down to man, I and man is lifted up toward God. STRICTLY FRESH ? ^ ^ ? ? YOUTH today is so impatient Young woman in Houston, Tex., bopped hubby on the head with a hammer on morning of their secpnd wedding anniver sary. Grandma waited until the ninth, or pottery, anniversary to bust the old man's crock. ? ? ? Patrolman -in Muscatine, la, ticketed a car three timet before realizing it was his own auto. Dont laugh. Can you remember your own license number with out checking your car's papers? ? ? ? Now that Halloween is past the trick's to treat the kids so that they'll recover from the ef fects of those pouqds and pounds of stale candy. ? ? ? Judging by the size of their sandwiches, the coffee shop around the corner is still slicing away on last Thanksgiving's tur key ? ? ? Fellow across the desk from us says that his wife thinks a "by-line" on one of his stories means both a raise and the green light to oat and buy every thing she Mas in the stores. ? and everyone must register during this period before they can vote In this election. That makes It Just a little harder to wta this water bond election. It means that those who favor the bond and who want a better water system for the sake of health and for the saxe of industrial and trainees growth in Murphy must be sure to register before election Hm The books are open for the last time before election at the Oouri hoose Saturday. Nov.' 13. Eta ring the .week, voters can nglater at ike home of the Regis A. Backward Glance 5 YEARS AGO Thursday,, Nov. 9, 1950 Mrs. J. L. Savage and Mrs. Fred Starr visited Miss Peggy Savage at Mars Hill College a few days this week. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Jordan of Atlanta, Ga., were the week end ?guests of Mr. Jordan's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Jordan. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ellis were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Luke Ellis in Andrews. Robert Wilson of Asheville spent Monday with his mother, Mrs Carrie Wilson tn Andrews. Mr. and Mrs. P. G. Ivie and daughter, Glenda, and Mrs. J. B. | Gray went to Atlanta Tuesday to hear Billy Graham. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, Nov. 8, 1945 .. Miss Jayne Ricks returned Tues day from a week's vacation spent with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Ricks in Akron. O. Mr. , and Mrs. K. C. Wright and son, itenny. of Morganton, spent the week end with friends here. Mr. Wright attended the ball game in Atlanta Saturday. Mrs. A. N. Hinton of Brevard is visiting her son, Hubert Hinton, and family this week. Mrs. R. W. Petrie of Charlotte spent a few days here this week as the guest of Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Hoover. 80 YEARS AGO Thursday, Nov. 14, 1933 Tom Axley, Jr., spent the week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Axley. Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Price will loave this week for an extended visit to friends in Mexico. Mrs. J. N. Moody has as her guest, Mrs. H. J. English of Wash ington, D. C. Miss Sara Ruth Posey of And rews, has accepted a position here with the Citizens Bank It Trust Co. Mrs. Myrtle Moore and Mrs. Neva White of Hayesville were visitors in town Saturday. SO YEARS AGO Friday, Nov. IS, WM) We are having lots of rain at Marble, but our wells remain dry. Waldo Henson made a trip to Gainesville the first part of the week. Frank Ham of Gainesville was a visitor in our town Sunday. Edwin Wells Brown spent Hay loween with Billy Ivey in Ashe ville. Do not fail to have pancakes, syrup, sausage, coffee and des sert for 38 cents in the social rooms of the Methodist Church Frl day night, Nov. 30 beginning at 8 o'clock. The Cherokee Scout Established July, ISM Published every Thursday at Murphy, Cherokee County, If. C. WILLIAM V. AND EMlLY COS TKLLO ? Publishers awl Owners WILLIAM V. OOSTKLLO ? Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES " lit Cherokee County: One Tear, $2.60; six Month*, $1-80 Outside Cherokee County: On* fear: WOO; Six Months. $1.78 Entered In the Post Office at MUrphy, Nfeth Carolina, as sec ond class matter under the Act at March 4. ltTi. . Member North Ouralhm It' s tbe TALK 0' THE TOM By Emily mily Costello I touched two 'coon feet last week, but the 'coons weren't In them. This came about when FRED KILPATRICK, JR. came in the offlc ^ ocking for the wildlife editor, and I was the nearest thing to a wild' ife editor available at the time. Anyhcw, Fred a real outdoorsman If I ever saw one. was telling r.io about an interesting 'coon hunt he and some companions went on last week out about Ranger way. The six hunters took along Fred's fcur 'coon dogs, black and tan hounds, of which two were just pups. And these dogs really turned In a fine night's work and made life easy for the hunters. The way it was explained to me. a 'coon hunt goes something like this: (I realize this Is probably elementary to you men readers) but the hunters take their dogs out at night and turn them loose at the place they want to start the hunt. The dogs then sniff around until they get on a 'coon's trail, and then take off along it. (Don't ask me how they know the difference bet wen a 'coon and a 'possum because both smell loud to me. ). By the howling of ti e uogs, the hunters can tell when they have treed a 'coon and when this happens the hunters take off on a long hike to the tree and shoot the 'coon down. (I hope this is an accurate pic ture. I've only been snipe hunting, myself.) But this hunt Fred and his party were on didn't work out Uke thai. Almost immediately when they turned the dogs loose they got or a 'coon scent and ran through the woods yelping. Soon the dogs were completely out of hearing distance, so the hunters built a fire in the road to keep warm while they waited for the dogs. After a couple of hours the dogs came back Into hearing and their howls got louder and louder, until the dogs were back at the campfire, anc| stopped. The hunters walked over to the tree where the dogs had stopped, and RAY HAWKINS shot out not one, but two great big 'coons weighing about 12 pounds each. The hunting party was made up, beside Fred and Ray, BOBBY HAWKINS, JACK WAT'UNS, TOMMY KILPATRICK, and WAYNE LEFEVERS. I CHILLY WEATHER ' Tho .temperature went down to 20 degrees a couple of mornings ! last week, for the coldest weather we've had so far this year. But they say we've got some colder weather in store and lots of it later an. GOSPEL SINGING The ED HYDES and the PEYTON IVIES went to the all night gos pel singing in Atlanta a couple of weeks ago. I understand Ed is a real I fan of gospel singing ? in fact, he's not a bad singer himself along ^those lines. MOVING SOON I think the DR. GEORGE SIZES are going to move Into the Bran don house on Cherry St. soon. SCARY PARADE If you saw a parade of black cats and witches going through town last week on Monday it was just CLARA McCOMBS' first graders out for a long stroll in the ingenious costumes they made for themselves out of laundry bags painted all orange and black. I RECOMMEND Some books I've rcfkd lately I recommend for quick, light reading: "No Time for Sergeants", "Bonjour Tristesse" and "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit." AN OUTING PEYTON IVIE, superintendent of the young people's Sunday School department at the First Baptist Church Saturday night treated the younp people and their teachers to a dinner at Blue Ridge, Oa. The group was made up of, in addition to the host, Mrs. Ivie, Esth er and Alvin Buchanan, Lucille Watson, Geraldine O'Dell, Alice Lovin good, Sonny Hughes, Roger Baugh, Norris West, Buddy Ramsey and Annette White, and Bill and me. Esther had baked a wonderful cake for dessert, which led us to a discussion of cake baking with Edith and me coming out on the short end of the stick. IDEAL TRIP MARGUERITE BIDSTRUP's description of the nine weeks which she and Georg spent in Denmark and other parts of Europe this sum mer, sounds like an ideal vacation. They took their own car with them and drove from Denmark down through Germany, Austria and Into Italy as far down as Rome, and back up to Denmark, not retracing their steps at all. They had no reservations, no planned tour, just I stopped when they wanted to and never had trouble getting accommo dations. Really sounds like a wonderful way to see European life. The AAUW in a meeting last week, was the first group to hear Mrs. Bidstrup since her return from Europe week before last She had brought quite a display of handmade articles from Europe ? with a big peasant basket almost stealing the show. She also had some fine pottery from Denmark. \a well aa weaving, needlework and jewelry all hand made. A large part of Uteir vacation was spent with Georg' ? brother and other relatives In Denmark, where the children raved over the Bid strap's car ? a Plymouth ? which seemed enormous to them. It seemed unbelievable to the children that the Plymouth was one of the smaller U. 8. model*. SYMPHONY SOLOIST Murphy's WALTER CARRINGER will be soloist with the N. C. Symphony this season, and it would be wonderful If the little symp hony group could play in this county. It would be a boost, not only to our artist, but to the children of our county who would get maybe their only opportunity to hear a live orchestra. I would certainly like to see a concert by this group staged in our county. COMING CP / The Christmas events planned by Murphy's two garden clubs should be marked "must" on your calendar right now. I'm not sure of the date, but I think it will be Saturday afternoon, Dec. 3, when the Cherokee Rose Garden Club stages a coffee Bazaar. They will have a lot of handmade articles for sale to make ideal Christmas gifts. I've already heard about some mighty nifty things, and I'm looking forward to the day. On Sunday, Dec. 11, the Murphy Garden Club will have Its seoond annual holiday house and silv?t tea, this year at the home of Mrs. B. W. Whitfield and Mrs. T. A. Case (right acroM the street from each other). Of course the decorating scheme will be a secret, but I can tell you now, it will be very beautiful, with Mrs. W's house in a modern motif and Mrs. Cafe's In traditional green and red. HQ DEAL FRANKIE MARTIN (promotional secretary kt the Baptist Church) drinks nothing stronger than water ? except for an occasional fling at hot chocolate. Last week, &> making one cup of hot chocolate for herself she dirtied up three mixing .bowls and two stew pans, just trying to follow the directions for hot chocolate on the back of a coca box. Some body should tall her about instant cocoa. NEW MANAGEMENT MR. and MRS. J. L. HALL are the new managers for the Henry Boom, attar Mr*. Corm Deris moved to Andrew*. They will start up their Sunday dinner next ftmday, Nor. IS. Mir. HaB Mid. ATTSACmVX PLACB EDWIN UDAKEV and his sister sAd mother, I believe, are spend ing some time at their bom* near HayesrWe. They hare made the bouse tbemsehree, building it aroond an old mill ? Johnson's Mm ? sad I hire heart that it's moat attractive. Ihegr'r* nioq Mht, too. uuo)t ami i I dropped In on DOLLY SMART'S hfcme ec class one afternoon I last week and found them hard at work on earns wars tor the I band's new drama. The home ec glria come to mighty haadfc > ) sUw for the fames, and other Jaha
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