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KatahUahed July, UN
Published every Thursday at Murphy. Cherokee County, N. C.
RICHARD GO LEY BILL GALLOWAY
Publisher Mechanical Supervisor
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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
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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 <X CofcwUl America, 0*
,n. h.. Mil 1U uw ?<> 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
?<ans recently. These are Olifl.W.
Led ford of near Liberty, Bay J
Clontz near Culberson, and tjin
ton Mills om Hanging Dog. Asapog
the conservation practices which
will be established on these farms
are conservation rotations, tile
drainage. Woodland management
and pasture seeding.
One man recently had bad hick
with a two acre OeU which he had
set out in pine trees two or three
years ago. During the last snow,
cows got out and finding nothing
else to eat. bit the tops and bran
ches from every tree in this fiald.
It will he necessary for the farmer
to either plow ?r pull- up all- the
trees and re-set the field. Al
though the trees are damaged to
such an extent uiat they will never
grow satisfactorily, they have not
been killed and- will crowd My
other trees that were planted
among them.
What nappened accidentty on this
farm, is occurring en other farms
purposely every day. M*ny farm
ers fence their woods and let their
stock grate over the woodland.
The benefits are very slight and
the damage to young Umber, es
pecially pine and yellow poplar, is
tremendous. No woodland will fur
nish enough grazing to justify the
cost of the wire to fence it.
Farmers who 'want Multiflora
Rose Seedlings for the establish
ment of living fences, or who want
shrub lespedesa seedlings for wild
life borders can still get them for
spring planting. Application blanks
are available from the Soil Con
servation office, the County Agent's
office, or from the Game Warden.
Arnold Dalrymple. Ask us for a
blank if you are interested in ob
fcinmg these free plants from the
Wildlife Resources Commission.
Last week I obtained topographi
cal maps of Cherokee County from
the Tennessee Valley Authority in
Chattanooga which show the eleva
tion above sea' level of any point1
forge Washington's Birthday Marks
Date Politicians Stole His Monipent '
George Washington's birthday is
also the anniversary of the day
when a group of politicians stole
his monument. - - i
The memorial to the Tint presi
dent or Ute U.S. was just a square
stub 1* fcf t high is 1855. The cor
nerstone hid been laid on July 4.
1?0? wm (be sane trowel Wash
iagton had used to lay the corner
atone of the Capitol in MS Bui
construction had come to a stand -
still Im 1854
A group a t aara believed to be
menders of the American Party,
nicknamed "Know Nothings," had
stolen a block of marble donated by
Pope Plus IX from the Temple o(
Concord la Borne.
The public was so shocked by^this
act that contributions for the mon
ument virtually stopped
The Washington National Monu
ment Society, which had been
formed in 1833 to build the memor
ial, appealed to Congress for aid.
The lawmakers agreed to appro
priate WOO, 000 oil Washington's
Birthday, 18(5, to complete the
monument.
But on the night of Feb. 21. Know
Nothings broke into tftp office* Cd
the society. Tfcey seized its record
lield an election t O put -their owl
members in office, and the lie*
day announced themsfelves in poj
bession of the monument. V J?.
Congress gave up its atte^ipfc
to aid the society. With the ap
proach of the Civil War. the pM?M
was abandoned.
Meanwhile, the Know Notjfcnfll
(ell into disrepute, partly becauM
of piracy of the monument, snd
collapsed as a political partyJ *
Congress finally voted to fiaif^
the monument at government ex
pense in 1876. The 555-foot meifr
orial was completed on Dec. S. 1884,
at a total cost of $1,500,000.
When the aluminum pyramid thit
tops the monument was exhibits)
in New York and Washington, vis
itors are said to have asked to
step over it, so they could say iMjfl
had stepped over the top of Was* J
ington monument? at that time,
the tallest sructure In the world.'
Washiagtoa Speaks
(Ed: Note: Following Is a series
of quotations by George Washiag
toa whose birthday is celebrated
Sunday, Fab. 22.)
, Lenity will operate with greater
force In some instances, than rigor
force, therefore, my first wish,
to hive my .whole conduct distin
guished by it.
in the county. I was surprised to
find from these maps that the dif
ference in the elevations of the
highest and lowest points In the
county is nearly three thousand
eight hundred feet. The high point
is Grasay Top, near the junction of
the Cherokee-Grahain-and Tennes
see lines with air elevation of 4,979
feet above sea (evel. The lowest
point is at the State Line below Ap
palaciua Dam with an elevation of
1190 feet. The elevation of the Court
Hpuse in Murphy is 1583 feet. The
center of Marble is 1(86 feet and
the center at Andrews is 1773 feet.
?e highest poii ft crossed b? the
Wagon Train last' July is the Har
shaw Gap with an elevation of
3320 feet. From the State Line on
the Telltco River to Harshaw Gap.
tbe Wagon Train climbed nearly
eight hundred feet.
Labor to keep alive in your bean
! that little spark of celestial
1 called concience. < *1
| ? ? ?[
The consideration that htmuufl
happiness and moral duty are ifi-1
separably connected, will afWafM
continue to prompt me to prtimofal
the former by incalcuating the f ~
tice of the latter.
HI
Friendship is a plant of ^slo
growth, and must undergo ' and!
withstand the shocks of adversiql
before It Is entitled to the appell?!
tlon.
Gambling is the child of avaric^J
the brother of iniquity, and th
father of mischief.
It Is impossible to govern1 ttvJ
world without God. He must bJ
worse than aa infidel that lacka
faith, and more than wicked thtffl
has not gratitude enough to . acfcj
nowledge his obligation.
While just government protect!
all in . their religious rites, tnMl
religion affords government ij|
surest support.
i Check cattle- for lice and
if necessary. .
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