/ Cbe ctierokee *eout KatahUahed July, UN Published every Thursday at Murphy. Cherokee County, N. C. RICHARD GO LEY BILL GALLOWAY Publisher Mechanical Supervisor SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ii Cherokee County: One Year, $2.50; Six Months 115Q. Outside CtWTokev County: One Year $3.00 Six Mouths, *1.75 Paid At Murphy, N. C. FROM THE DESK OF SENATOR W. FRANK FORSYTH '1 Legislature began its first real week of work with U. Gov. Bern hardt naming Senate Committees. Your Senator received some very fine Committee appointments for which I am honored and grateful. They are: Vice Chaffman. Depart ment of Conservation and Develop ment Committee. Banking Commit tee Higher Education. Constitution. Insurance. Public Utilities. Appro priation. Mental Institutions and Propositions and Grievances. Only two Freshmen Senators recetved Vice Chairman of Committees, am pie used an.t honored t.. be the Vice Chairman of .the IVpartment of Coiiservatiou ami Development New UrtTisl-turt that will afleit the citizens of the 33rd District and perhaps one :bo folks will bo most interested in was a bill in troduced in the House setting the minimum wage at T5 cent per hour I believe s o m.e ammend mcnts will be added to this bill and 1 do not feet will be offered tor a vote for sometime. You will hear more about this trom me later on. A flood of local Wis hit the hop per last week. with Leonard Lloyd of Granam having the larg est number. These bills are only affecting the Representatives, Home County and they perhaps will notify their people about them. Mrs. Carl Hower (formerly May B. Walker of Andrews ' and Mrs. Dixie Taylor came by last week to visit with me at the Senate Chamb , er. I enjoyed very much seeing these J Cherokee Cooatians, eltWugh both U these ladies now live fcp Raleigh. 1 also saw Mark Boone who used, to live in Andrews and Mr. Taylor (Frank Taylor's brother). w. E. Michaels and J. D. Lee were visitors in Raleigh last week. We had breakfast with Melville Broughton. Chairman of the North Carolina Highway Commission and talked at length about the proposed road from Murphy to the Tennes see line Broughton promised to have preliminary survey as to the ; best route and cost estimate made, he also promised to set up a meet tag with himself and Engineers from the State Highway Depart ment, together with the Chairman of the Tennessee Highway Commis sion and his Staff. Mr. Michaels went from Raleigh to Washington for a conference with Senator Ke fauver regarding Federal money to help pay part of the cost of this project. I arranged an interview with Gov. Hodges for Mr. Michae.s and myself. We talked to the Gov--, emor about this proposed road and invited bim. informally, to the ??Wagon Train" celebration on July 4 (perhaps we will look a little previous in this as Holland McSwain and Jack Dickey will mail the Gov ernor a formal invitation!. 1 Your Senator had a nice visit with Ralph Moody. Assistant Attorney General, regarding some proposed Legislation. As most of you know Ralph is frwn Murphy and is con sidered one of our State's most abled Lawyers and Student of Law. We are all proud of Ralph and it was good to visit with him. Mrs. Cover, the lady from Chero kee. Lloyd of Graham. Crawford of Swain. Raby of Macon. Herbert of Clay and Your Senator attended a reception held for the members of Legislature by the Clergy of Ral eigh: I. never saw so many Preach ers in my life, but we had a grand time anil enjoyed it very much , Light refreshments were served. Dr. Pou <11 was there and said to l>e sure to remember him to Paul Hyatt anil his other friends of Mur phy. Going Visiting. Legislature took steps last week to make a few trips to faraway places between now and Spring. March 4 we are going to Charlotte, the guest of the City, and hold the regular session of the day there. April 8 at New Bern where Legislature would convene in the classic halls of the restored Tryon's Palace, once the seat of North Carolina Colonial Govenment. Frank Jones, one of the football's great of the Championship And rews Wildcats, now serving as a page in the House. This fine, young man is well liked and a perfect gentleman and we are glad to have him in Raleigh. Frank is the son of Mr. apti Mrs. Sam Jones of AmirewJT - While! am in Raleigh, I am just as far away as your telephone or you can reach me by letters: State Senate, Box 1033. Raleigh. North Carolina or care Sir Walter Hotel. If there is anything I can do, please commend me. Andrews Woman's Husband Finishes Cold Training Army PFC Charles W. Lester, whose wife, Helen Hves in And- i rews, recently completed cold- J weather training conducted by the 50th Infantry in Wildflecken, Ger many. A rifleman in the infantry's Com pany C which is located within 12 miles of the East-West Germany border, Lester was trained to ski, travel on snowshoes and to sur vive under all types of cold-weath er conditions. The 34-year-old soldier, son of Mrs. Geneva C. Beitran, 3212 W. 154 St.. Gardena. Calif., entered the Army in 1943 and was sta tioned at Fort Campbell, Ky., be fore arriving in Europe in August 1957. ? i NOW! CNJOr THE FLORIDA VACATION YOU'VE WANTED BUT COULDN'T AFFORD FLORIDA'S CLAMOROUS 100* Alt CONDITIONED SARASOTA, FiOWOA WINTER SPECIAL ??; '7 NIGHTS DAYS ? WITH MEALS .7 DINNERS l WEAJCf ASI5 $112 Single Occupancy $ 77 Double Occupancy KM SioyU ? M DcwbU % ? 4 Htri'i ywr lap fw*ury MM* $ 99 P?*l? DEC. W to AWL IS jnImI h>HHM alglM h mm tf flw IM Tofl R?ads Had Tlieir (Jps And Dowbs But Now Going Through Golden Era Ever .toce toll rond. vetoed th. wilderness itoWM At present toU roads ?? ' cars speed to *nd fro on n>ore tfcaa 3.000 sweep it* miWsa o I turn pike. compared U> les* mile* a decade a*o A mator*^ can drive from the East to pWcajt? without halting for a sW * mrr 2r\? ^rrotb?T F,4erel program Intended to ?tP vide 40. DM mile* of free, super highways In the next 18 ymr*. After the road-bulldlng ?""?? Empire feB hy the wayside abont \ D 500. roads became a pressing .roblem in Western Europe, National Geographic says. No m* or roads or bridges were built for ,bout five centuries. OM tfKW-gfc" ares became quagmires in winter ind dust bowls to summer. No one raveled for pleasure In England Inhabitants of every >arlsh were supposed to keep up ?heir roads, but it was a very rert problem for them to muster iWP?ld abor and materials. Hence the -oads went from bad to horrible. "Soon after the Restoration 1660 >, this grievance attracted the notice' of Parliament." the English; historian Macaulay wrote, 'and ,n act. the first of our many turn pike acts, was passed. Imposing a ;mall toll on travellers and goods, for the purpose of keeping some arts of this important line ofcM? nunications In good repair. ToU roads spread Hke webs hroughout England in the 18th and 9th centuries. They were not whol v popular. People had got used to he notion of the Kings Highway. , term meaning perpetual right of passage over another's land. Rioters pulled down tollhouses nd .gates. The* American colonies were having road troubles, too. Virginia n 1632 passed the country'* first ?oad act. providing that highways ?shall he layed out" in convenient ilaees. Bough road sy*ems de veloped slowly. - 4 A century and a I*"* H ore Pennsylvania ^ granted the' Philadelphia and Lancaster TtlM^ )ike Company permission In 1792 o build a road between the two ?lties, The ?2-mlle4ong turnpike was jje first good road of national Im portance. It lay 24 feet wide and was sur faced with stone. The backers ex pected to make money and they did Fine stages with silken drap eries racketed along the all-weath er road. U was flanked with 66 taverns, inns, and hostels. The Lancaster Turnpike's enor mous success triggered a boom in turnpikes. Private companies spread networks of such roads ?hroughout New England and the East. New York State alone char tered some 500 turnpike and V>? b ridge companies during the per iod. . , By 1830, the United States had 27,000 miles of surfaced roads, most of them turnpikes stemming out from sizeable towns. Even so 19th-century roads were generally dreadful. The statesman Harrison Gray Otis, writing his wife, described the condition of the Waahington-BaltiMMre road in lgl5: "The Btodensbueg Bun, be fore we came to the bridge, was happily to no place abov* the' home' bellies. As we passed 1 through, the driver pointed out to m Me met right under the wheels whecr the stage horses last year were drowned . . The nation s first golden era of toll toads lasted roughly from 1800 to M30 when canals and railroads -began sounding Us death Knell. SCHOOL AND Y Oil CHILD One-third af college freshmen frequently ml spell these simple words: losing writing dropped Two hundred of each <00 frosh put two . o's in losing, two t's in writing but delete one "p" from i dropped. i Don't laugh, the misspelling is I common from coast to coast. Some professors overtook them, excusing the errors as inadvertent ones or malting believe they don't exist. But not Oralis- Williams of Ap palachian State Teachers College. JBooae. This 29 year veteran of . teaching conducts a formal eight week remedial spelling class for collegians below par. As far as is known, the spelling course is the only one on a cam pus is the nation. Backbone of it is words and rule drilling, just . like march and gun drills. Marine recruits get at Paris island. Few college officials like to ad mit the necessity of teaching spell ing. It should be learned in the grades. Nevertheless, like Hillary's Mi. Everest, the problem "is there," and Williams Is conquer ing it at ASTC. The genial educator worked out a book for the course. The nation's only college speller, it gives all rules, words and exercises neces sary tor one to patch up spelling deficiencies. Williams, defines a non-speller as "one who Just can't spell-no matte^ how hard he tries." This alone dosen't wash a pupil out of college, howeyer. * , t Ifl the non-speller shows ability in ether subject and makes a di ctionary his sweetheart, chances -ace he can pass. Since spelling isn't related to intelligence. Professor Williams explains, a poor speller but other ? wise Ho Mil ta e*Ut#e. ? Th, brilliant Andean aultar Nathaniel Ha^e wjj. ? *+ IQer who couldnt ?t*? oul ** ?*. Yet there". **? ??* one Hawthorne. Expert .WtlUam. finds thU one rule helos a poor spelter more than "1 a?wonls end in silent V drop the *e" to add 'ing'. Not knowing this account* tor one spelling "changing" as 1 chang ^AfUr 11 y?? ln Rrade *h0?! why are there college freshmen not fairing such a simnle ?*? Williams think soelUng is tau<*t incidentally rather tho? for mally in mosv grades. This Is *A equate for one-third the students, be ^vs But .he other two thirds sho uld be taught formally in order to learn. . .. Bv "formally" the means the drill method-writing words over and over again until they became second nature with ""The good soeller is one who can dash off words without thanking how to soell them, he con^nds. Williams pooh-ooohs oral To sti<-k in mind, words must be mastered ffroufh writing. Bright ir ids snel'incr alo?d on TV shows can't correctly write half tM words, the professor states. Williams is not the "c"^nd^!7. 1 type Enalish teacher who 8 to modernize teaching melhodi From Lawrence County in K tueky's Big S*ndv VaUev orte^ llv he's a colorful personality. Can strum a bonk), sing ballads, and once taueht in New Yorit's Boh emian Oreenwhlch Village. Oneyear he snorted a goatee to students, amusement. ... Dr Amos Abrams. now editor of North Carolina Education Maga zine. beean in 1941 Appalachians spelling laboratory. In 1946 Williams took over and has since picked out 400 most fre quently misspelled words by fresh men. Here's a few samples. Chec* for fun how welt your wife (or husband^ and children can do. To pass Williams' course^ nine out of ten must be spelled cor ^Whose. whether, valleys. vMian. ellar. possible. operate. mmar, recommend. I privUege, proceed, restaurant, rhythm. poUB cian. recognize. weather' weC^' sincerely, terrible, tragedy^ tnes. stationary, studying, succeed, sue cesslut. surprise, striking. - respect ing. ? ? piwi Sail Consen^lw NEWS JOHN IMITI Tbrefc Cherokee County farmers have developed complete Soil and Water Conservation Haas tor thsir farms with the assistance of the Soil Conservation Service Tacjim ?