BACKWARD GLANCE
1* TEAKS AGO
Thursday, November 2t, 1M7
Mrs- Morell Wakefield left today
(or a visit to Raleigh and Winston
aalem.
Mr*. M. E. Stewart and her
daughter, Racbell, have returned
to their home in Frostproof, Fla.,
after spending the summer here
at their cabin at Ranger
Miss Elizabeth Gray spent the
week-end in Sylva with Miss Mar
tha Barnett
Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Whitaker of
Mars Hill and Asheville were house
guests of Mr- and Mrs- S-S. Wil
liams last week
Mr. and Mrs- Paul Owenby of
Marietta, Ga., spent some time in
Murphy this week
Mrs- John H. Dillard spent sev
eral days in Asheville this week.
Mrs- F. V. Taylor returned Sun
day from a visit with relatives and
friends in Raleigh, Charlotte and
Stanley
Percy B- Ferebec of Andrews
and H- Bueck were business visit
ors in Raleigh a few days last
week.
Mrs. Calvin Lunsford spent Sun
day afternoon at the C. W. Thomas
son's
Fred Brendle spent the week-end
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs
Math Leatherwood.
Miss Vally Moore was the dinner
guest of Eunice Lunsford Sunday.
20 TEARS AGO
Wednesday. November 24, 1937
Mr- and Mrs- Leslie Jones of
Toung Harris, Ga., were visitors
in Murphy Saturday
Wade Massey who is working at
Alcoa, Tenn-, spent the week-end
here with Mrs- Maasey. *
Miss Mary Jo Davis went to
Bryson City Saturday to attend
the clinic being held there. She
was accompanied by her grand
mother, Mrs. Dixie Palmer.
Mrs. Richard Parker of Raleigh
has arrived to spend the Thanks
giving holidays with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Boland Brumby.
Gaines Elklns, a student at North
Georgia Junior College in Dahlon
ega, Ga., spent last week-end here
with his parents. Mr- a.\i Mrs. H
G- Elkins
Miss Annie Mae Townson left
Monday for Chapel Hill to attend
the wedding of Miss Bee Madry of
Scotland Neck, a former school
mate at NCCW.
B. C- Moneymaker of Knoxville,
spent the week-end in Murphy.
Lel&nd F. Grant, who haa been
working in Murphy for the put
week has returned to Chattanooga.'
Mis* Virginia Benton and Robert
Butt, of Blairsville and Mr. and
Mrs. John Davidson were the Sun
day night supper guests of Mr. and
Mrs. H. A. Matto*.
* J. W- Franklin and W- A. Sher
riii spent Tuesday in Atlanta on
business.
Miss WUma Coleman of Young
Harris, Ga., was a visitor in Mur
phy Monday.
Dick Mauncy. a member of the
freshmen class at /*.e University
of Georgia, will arrive Wednesday
night to spent the Thanksgiving
holidays with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Tom Mauney.
30 YEARS AGO
Friday November 25, 1927
Mr- and Mrs. Harry Cooper, Mrs
D- E. Barclay, and Mrs- L. E. Bay
less motored to Gainesville Tues
day.
Mr- and Mrs. A. 11. Brown of this
city will be guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Wayne Brown of Atlanta for a
week
Col- and Mrs- J- N- Moody spent
several days in Asheville last week.
Mrs- Carolyn Harrison Bryson
and Miss Mennice Payne were in
Atlanta the first of the week.
Mrs. Viola Bell Is holding a
Davidson reunion at her home at
Ogden, on Thanksgiving day.
The Baptist Missionary Society
held their regular business ses
sion Tuesday afternoon in the
ladies parlor, which has recently
been completed.
Mr- and Mrs. J. W. Estes of At
lanta and Mrs. Roy T- Campbell
of New Port, Tenn-, will spend
Thanksgiving with their parents,
Mr. and Mrs. A M. Brittain
Mr. and Mrs- C. W. Savage who
have been visiting their son, Birt,
who is in the hospital in Atlanta,
returned a few days ago and re
ported his condition improved
Mrs. J. W. Walker was in Mur
phy Wednesday of this week on
business
Mr. and Mrs. 'Jim Raper and
children of Oak Park, N. C., were
the guests of Mrs. Mary Hamby
and children Sunday.
Mrs- R. A. Dewar attended on
last Friday a meeting in Waynes
ville of the Welfare workers of
Western North Carolina
State HD Agent
Gives Hints
To Homemakers
By RUTH CURRENT
State Home Demonstration Agent
Bread Stuffing the Year 'Round
?Here are some "Stuffing perk
ups" sent to our office from a
borne economist- As a rule, fat
birds such as goosp, require *
tart, fruit stuffing. Mild-flavored
poultry and meats combine well
with simple or highly seasoned
stuffings. Fish requires a slightly
tart stuffing.
For the best taste and appear
ance in bread stuffing, cut or tear
bread into uniform sized pieces.
Crusts and end slices of fresh 01
day-old bread may be used.
Stuffings are best when packed
lightly to give room for expansion
in cooking.
For best and safest results, pre
pare and stuff poultry or meat
just before it goes into the oven. If
stuffing must be prepared inad
vance, place it immediately into
the refrigerator and hold at that
temperature until ready to use- Un
der no circumstances should it be
placed in meat or poultry until just
prior to roasting. With stuffed meat
or poultry, an oven temperature
of 325 degrees should be main
tained until the center of the stuff
ing reaches 180 degrees- To be
certain of this minimum tempera
ture, insert a roasting thermo
meter to the center point of the
stuffing. The length of time thai
poultry or meat should be roasted
depends upon its weight.
Walnut Bread Stuffing for Chicken
. V* Cup butter or shortening
2/3 cup chopped celery
2/3 cup chopped onion
1 cup chopped walnuts
1V4 quarts toasted or dry V4"
bread cubes
1 teaspoon salt
Vi teaspoon pepper
V4 teaspoon thyme
V4 teaspoon sage
1 egg beaten
1 cup milk
Melt butter in a skillet; add
celery and onion and saute until
tender and lightly browned- Poui
over walnuts, toasted bread cubes,
salt, pepper, thyme and sage. Add
beaten egg and milk and mix well.
Yield: 1V4 quarts Walnut Bread
Stuffing. (Sufficient for 6 pound
chicken).
Soil Conservation
NEWS
By
JOHN
SMITH
Recently I overheard * group of
people discussing "The Most Val
uable Commodity"- Some thought
gold was more valuable than any
thing else. Others thought dia
monds could lay claim to the title
Still others thought oil. or steel.
When the discussion was conclud
ed. there was no general agree
ment as to what is the most val
uable thing in the world- None of
the people engaged in this discus
sion were farmers. If any farmer
had been taking part in the talk,
he could have told the others that
SOIL is the most valuable thing.
Without soil, none of the other val
uables would be worth much.
It is time for all of us, city
dweller and farmer alike, to stop
a moment to consider how valu
able to us is the cheapest thing on
earth ? our soil- Whot other com
modity can be bought so cheaply?
Even at $200-00 an acre, the price
of land per ton is only a fraction of
the cost of a pack of cigatettes or
a single gallon of gasoline to carry
us where we should be walking.
One ton of soil at 1200 00 per acre
is worth just nine cents. And that
, is only considering the top foot of
! earth.
I That top foot of soil is what
keeps us alive- When it is gone,
i the land is not much use to us. All
our food, and all the feed for our
livestock comes from that top foot
of soil- The grass in our lawns,
and pastures, and the shrubs
with which we beautify our home
sites are dependent on that top foot
of soil. Of course, trees put down
roots more than one foot deep, and
so do shrubs and grasses, legumes,
and vegetables, but the fact re
mains that none of them could
grow if it weren't for the top soil
giving them a start Yet we let soil
wash and blow away by the hun
dreds of tons, and never raise a
hand to stop it.
! Civilization itself depends on the
top soil. If one looks back at civil
' izations of the world which have
i
rUen and fallen, it can be clearly
seen that one of the main factors
contributing to the downfall la de
pletion of the soil.
Hie Greek and the Roman civil
izations were two of the moat ad
vanced of all times, yet both fell
It is striking to note that both fell
when the top soil washed away, al
though each flourished while the
soil was productive The same has
been true of other great civiliza
tions.
In the time of Julius Caesar, the
Mediterranean Coast of Africa and
Europe was known is the "Bread
basket of the World". Today these
areas have a hard time supporting
their thinly scattered populations.
It has been stated that the direct
cause of the depletion of these
areas was the fact that the Ro
mans cut all the pine trees to use
for ship masts and timbers. When
the trees were cut, the soil washed
away, and even after 2,000 years
the area has not recovered from
the soil erosion that took place in
a few decades. To bring things
closer home, it will be hundreds of
years before the Copper Hills area
will recover from the soil erosion
which has taken place there in the
last hundred years.
Archeologists are still digging
buried cities out from under many
feet of soil which has been washed
and blown in to cover these rem
nants of advanced civilizations that
perished in ages past
We think that we are immune
from the fate that befell the
Greeks, the Romans, and others.
But are we? All of us have seen
abandoned farms, and even towns
that no longer could support hu
man life. In most cases the farms
and towns were abandoned because
their lifeblood, the soil, failed. The
farm or the town then had no
means of supporting its life or
business. The 'Dust Bowl" of the
1930's was a tragic example of
what can happen to a large area
of land when it is mistreated- Any
one who thinks there is no appre
ciable amount of soil erosion tak
ing place in Cherokee County need
only drive around Hiwassee Lake
in the winter and look at the acres
of silt that have washed in to the
lake basin in the few short years
since the dam was built- All that
soil is permanently lost to the
farmers of Cherokee County.
It is time for all people, farmer
and city-dweller alike, to realize
that soil is not a permanent, static
tiling, unless it U properly cared
for- It will take a great effort on
the part of all of us to prevent our
soil from washing away and ruin
ing the civilization of which we
are so proud- None of us is going
to see our civilization fall because
the soil washed away, but our
grandchildren several times re
moved may see it happen if we
don't give them better land than
our forefathers left to us.
The necessary facts and prac
tices for virtually eliminating soil
erosion are already known. The
missing element is either the real
ization that soil erosion is not nec
essary, or the unwillingness to
change our methods of farming for
the sake of future generations.
The residents of most European
countries, England and Germany
in particular, have learned that soil
is not unlimited- They are now cul
tivating land that was under culti
vation 1,000 years ago. Soil erosion
is practically non-existent in most
European countries simply becaue
the people realized long ago that
the land they had was all they
would ever have. Many German
farmen own leu than five acres at
land, yet they make a living from
that land. If a bushel of dirt wash
es out of his field, the German
farmer will go down the UD, get
that bushel of dirt, and carry it
back to his field
Soil erosion has already been
greatly reduced in much of the
United States by using land-saving
practices such as strip cropping,
cover cropping, grassland farming,
better forestry practices, and
many other water and soil conserv
ing practices- Much still remains
to be done before our greatest
enemy, EROSION, has been con
quered.
One of the first steps on the path
to control soil erosion is best
stated in the motto of the Soil
Conservation Service? "Use every
acre of land within its capabilities,
and treat every acre according to
its needs "
When every acre in Cherokee
County is "used within its capabil
ities and treated according to its
need", there will be a different
look on the face of the land.
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