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COMMUNITY . LIFE , Have you ever wondered at the numerous events and happenings taking place dally even In a relatively small place a a Cherokee county? A glance at your local newspaper revealf many Interesting things. The Polio Fund Drive gets underway and adults and children a. like, pool their efforts to reach a goal. Not to be out done the church as are sponsoring Church Loyalty Attendance Week to stimulate attendance throughout the community. The Home Demonstration dubs are working together in a train ing program designed to make the communities in which they re aide more attractive with proper landscaping by the use of native shrubs, evergreens and trees. The humorous side is attained by a notice that a ' Womanleaa Wedding is slated. A patrolman In our area has been designated for duty in the in auguration of our governor. Getting into the swim of things we find the Swimming Pool Fund steadily Rising but still needing more funds. More talk about the Salk Vaccine and how important it is that people avail themselves of this protection. A man receives a 45 year service pin, a couple celebrates their Golden Anniversary. Yes, wedding announcements and social events they too enter in. Birth announcements, servicemen, deaths, meetings and personal columns add to the many other activities that make up what we call our COMMUNITY LIFE. NMY FIGHT TO WIN All over our great country, hundreds of new businesses are start ed every day. Many of them, most of them in fact, are small ? a one man shoe repair shop, a man and wife hamburger stand, a fill ing station, a bicycle repair shop, an appliance repair and sales store, a grocery and meat market and many others all filling the needs of the American people. Many of them succeed and many fail. Most of those who fail to make the grade lack sufficient capital, some have their shelves / loaded with things for which demand is very slow. In short, those who fail are not able to meet their competition even though they put into their enterprises money, hope, ability, energy and long hours. v Starting in business is an important stepping stone for many, even though they fail. They do not lose their courage. They profit by their mistakes. They gather their resources to make a new start. They are confi dent they will not fail again. Some of their greatest assets are things learned when in business the first time. There are many hazards in business and it is easily understood why many fail. But self confidence, drive and courage, embolden Americans to make their bid for business success. It's in their blftod and many struggle in businesses which earn net profits less than owners would make working for someone else. But they live in hope. They fee! that someday they will hit the jackpot and win independence. It is this willingness to try, this administration to win, that has created the fruitful economy we enjoy today, the greatest in the world. It has brought comfort, security, health to the American people. Freedom to take a chance, to try, to buy or sell, to play the game of business, to take chances, is the most effective defense' we have against alienisms. Its hope for profit and success that makes people "Keep on keeping on " That's the American way. i Backward G1 ance 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, February 13, 1947 Mrs. J. B. Gray and Mrs. Cecil Penland and children spent Wed nesday in Hayesville. Miss Mary Cornwell spent the week-end as the guest of Miss Hel en Higdon in Bryson City. Miss Janice Hall, student at Bes sie Tift College, Forsyth, Ga., spent the week-end here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hall. Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Mattox re turned Wednesday from Mobile, Ala., and New Orleans, La. They visited Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Ward in Mobile and were accompanied to Murphy by Mrs. Ward. Mr. and Mrs. Doug Simpson and children, Jimmie and David, spent the week-end as guests of Mrs. Simpson's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Franklin. Mrs. Pearl Carroll spent the past week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Stalcup. Pfc. Burl Stalcup who has been over seas for several months has returned home. 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, February 11, 19S7 Mrs. John Rogers of Andrews was a visitor in town Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Forsyth, of Andrews were visitors in town Sun day. Mrs. Jo Phaup and Jackie Phaup ?pent the week-end in Atlanta with Mrs. Phaup's sisiter, Mrs. A. S. Clark of Copperhill who is serious ly ill in an Atlanta hospital. Mrs. H. Bueck spent the week end in Raleigh with her parents. Mrs. H. P. Cooper was the over night guest of Mrs. Giles Cover last Friday night. Mrs. Emma Tate of Cumberland, Ky., is visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. L. Hall this week. Mr. J. L. Hall accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Sam Tate to Miami, Fla., Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Leon Fills and Mr. Howard Ellis at Canton, were the week-end guests of their uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Ellis. 30 YEARS AGO Friday, February 11, 1927 Messrs. T. S. Evans and Fred Johnson will go to Asheville the latter part of the week on busi ness. Mrs. Alfred Taylor and children of Savannah, Ga. are visiting re latives. Mayor Frank Hill was in Atlanta Saturday. P. B. Ferebee made a business trip to Highlands on Monday of this week. Kenneth Wright of Topton was in Andrews Sunday afternoon and night. Miss Fannie Odom of Urjaka spent the week-end as the guest of her sister, Mrs. R. F. Piercy. J. W. Walker was in Murphy on business Tuesday of this week. The following enjoyed an inform al dance at the home of Mrs. A. M. Brittain Monday evening: Misses Billy Watson, Mary Roberts, Blanch Howard, Nannie Dixon, Messrs. W. E. Studstill, W. C. Boyce, Edwards Cole. 14 Courses Offered To Oualified Men \nd Women By Army The Southeastern Signal School at Fort Gordon has fourteen cour ses open to qualified young men and women. Recent high school graduates may enlist in the Army and attend one of the courses. Port Gordon is located near Augusta, Georgia. Young men or women entering th e Army from Murphy, N. C. may receive inval uable technical training at this nearby installation which is one of the Army's leading communicat ions training sites. Training at the Southeastern Sig nal School includes Cryptography and teletype Operations. These two courses are open to young women applicants for t he Women's Army Corps. Sergeant Jeffries, the U. S. Aarmy Recruiter in Murphy, N. C. said today that the courses at Fort Gordon are Just a few from among 120 technical school courses which the Army offers. Sergeant Jeffries emphasized the need for a. young man or woman to possess a Righ school diploma if they desire to satisfactorily com plete Army technical training. Full particulars on Army train ing at Fort Gordon may b? obtain ed from Sergeant Jeffries who Is located at Courthouse Building in Murphy, N. C. WORDS OF LIFE By The Bar. t. Kdwta Outer Andrew*, N. O. ? There have been a number of folk In our mountain areas who have met with loss and tragedy be cause of heavy ralnQ and the re cent flood. One wonders what the end remit of auch disaster will be upon people. How will the witness ing of an unusual occurence affect us any beyond the hour of eventful excitement, and what more than material results will anyone ex perience? Are any particular ef fects expected? The other day a man, who had stopped at a service station, was showing a piece of mica, dug from a nearby county where uranium also is reported to have been found. He pointed to one place In the great boulder, a hole black and burned-out in appearance, giving off extreme heat underground. One man upon examining the specimen remarked, "The Bible says some where that the world will not again be destroyed by water but by fire, (a reassuring thought Just now ! !) This makes a fellow realize it could easily happen that way." Maybe he is right, but isn't it more urgent and sensible to work toward a bet ter world than to speculate on how it will end? The prophet Elijah in Israel reached a period of great discour agement over the world's plight because of the unfaithfulness of his own people. As told in the Book of I Kings chapter 9, he went off into a mountain cave to nurse his wounds of disappointment and self pity. God came to him asking why he was there in the cave. He was commanded to come out and to "stand upon the mount before the Lord." A a Elijah stood there a great and strong wind came over turning huge rocks and breaking them in pieces. Then came an ear thquake and' following it & fire, and finally a still small voice. Now Eli jah did not find God for his needs in the great wind, the earthquake or the fire, but in a "sound of a gentle stillness." It may be a bit surprising and even disappointing to learn that our Creator Father reaches us and touches us more deeply in quiet and unspectacular ways than in loud and earth-shaking calamaties. The Scripture states that "God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." ? II Timothy 1: 6-7. It is that He more often gets across His truth and His will to man. Natural disasters as a rule leave ??t2SZSfr&&ZSi*"~ us strangely unmoved, unconvinced of God's pleasure or His displeas ure, neither increased nor dimin ished in faith ? in short from a moral and spiritual standpoint, 1 with an almost neutral effect. To depend upon the "freaks" of nature for great revelations of spiritual truth or for the transformation of lives, would probably be to wait in vain. True, a faintingfepirit may be revived by a dash of cold water, but mere repetitions of that treat ment do not cure anemia. So what we witness in world events and lo cal happenings may be the fore runner of future good, stabbing us awake physically and mentally, but it is when the living Presence speaks that we are really and in wardly affected. "Thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, 'In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and trust shall be your strength." ? Isaiah 30:15 (R .S.V.) We, like Elijah, when the wind and storm clouds have gone, the flood receded, the volcanic scares are past will find the God of our hearts in the miracles of "the eve ry -day": birth, love, and the promise of Spring. | State's Farmers Working To Save More Pigs "County Agents and farmers In eastern North Carolina are doing a good Job with a program to save more pigs per litter," says Jack Kelly, specialist in charge of ani mal husbandry extension at North Carolina State College. Kelly says* hey are working *on a program of 'arrowing house construction, in :luding electric brooders. Kelly reports that L. A. Powell >f Currituck County has been working with his farmers trying to ihow them the importance of sav ng large litters of pigs. Kelly says Carmel Walker of Moyock has a modern house with ;lectric brooders. One section of lis house is used for feeding hogs. ic has installed a feed mixer with {rain bins right in the house so all )f the feed can be ground and mx ?d and stored at such an elevation n the house that each feeder can ie filled from the feed bins with an luger type elevator. Kelly says his system is saving labon for Walker as it takes* him very little time to feed his hogs with this well equipped set-up. ? m e.gardner instate college - UJ *L. J?. UAJtDNER North Carolina Is a moat umiaual state In many respects. For ex ample, let ua briefly oooalder geo graphy. The atate ia over alx hun dred miles from east to west and extends from the surf of the Atlan tic to the highest peak east of the Rockies. This means' that in this broad expanse of Ooastal , Plains, Piedmont, Sandhills, and Moun tain! are to be found varied soil types and climatic conditions which make it possible to grow most of the horticultural crops found in the temperato zone. I point this out to bring into fo cus one of the difficulties encount ered in writing this column. The growing season is longer in the Coastal Plains than in the ? Moun tains, which means that certain cro?s can be planted earlier in the east than in the west. Just remem ber this: that every 1,000 foot rise in elevation accounts for approxi mately one week to 10 days dif ference in the seasons. Last week I suggested that you try, two new Irish potato varieties; Plymouth in the eastern section, and Boone in the Piedmont and Mountains. Other hardy crops that ' *?' - r may be planted early Are radishes, mustard, spinach, turnips, cabb age, anions, lettuce, endive, garden pets, kale, eollards and kohlrabi. Although beets, carrots, broccoli and cauliflower like oool weather, they will not survive free sing tem perature. They should not be plant ed quite as early as the first group mentioned. Use white onion sets for green onions and the yellow sets if you want them to mature. Hie yellow sets store better. Also, try shallots for green onions. Lettuce will not stand hot weath er, but good head lettuce can be produced if planted early enough. Great Lakes Is a good heading type and Salad Bowl a good variety of leaf lettuce. Sow the' leed in the row and thin plants to about six In ches. Cabbage ' plants should be available. Early Jersey Wakefield, Charleston Wakefield, Copenhagen Market and Early Round Dutch are good varieties. Garden peas should be planted in eastern Car | olina now as they are very hardy. Try Freeronia, Laxton's Progress . and Wando. NOTICE KAYES AUTO PARTS Is Starting A New Service. We Caa New Supply Yoi With Structural Steel? Which Includes Angle Iran, Eye Beams And Building Columns, Cut To Your Par ticular Meeds. Prices In Line With Atlan ta, Asheville And Chattanooga. DIAL YE 7-2172 or YE 7-2173 THE CHEROOF S CO I T BaUMiabed , <uv miu Published every Thursday t Murphy, Cherokee County, N. C. GEORGE N. 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