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Published every Thursday by B Arp Lowrance and Addle Mae Cooke TDHIK MAK llOOKK Editor ami Manager \. N SHAMBUN Associate Editor KO\ V rOOKK I'roJuvtion Manager >1 RSCRIITION K.VTKS Cherokee and sttrroundinK counties: One YeafS $2 00 Six Months $100 Four Months 75c Outside above territory. One Year $2 50 Six months $1.25 >-or *" , \ Entered in the Post Office at Murphy. i rgisN_\swci^ , North Carolina. ;i> ?>.-v ?? m claas matter under the Act of March 3. 1897. MEDITATION "There urr comparatively lew one talent propl< in the world. To most of us (iud has enen main. many capaci ties. all. of course. in an undeveloped, embryonic state. This live on earth, this uorhl in which we lire, with its rich aiul constantly varying stimulation, is our opportunity lor growth and development. We ma\ In* faithtol to little and become mueh. or we ma v be unfaithful to much and lievome little. ()ur destiny i> not with others, hut wttiiin ourselves." BIG INCREASE North Carolina is well abreast ot the increase in births marking this wartime period. State Board of Health figures show that from Janu ary 1 through May 31, 1 943, there were 39,653 babies born in this Stiite. as compared with 35,141 for the corresponding period last year, or an increase so far of 4.5 I 2. Deaths for the same period totaled 12,844. an increase of 52 over the first five months of 1942. However, there have been just 26,809 more births than deaths in North Carolina this year, exclusive of June figures, which will be available July I 5. Despite the phenomenal increase in the num ber of births through May, there were only 1.919 deaths reported among babies under a year old, as compared with 1,980 the corres ponding months last year, showing a decrease of 61 in favor of 1943. 1 his is highly gratify ing to public health officials, according to Dr. George M. Cooper, Director of the Board of Health's services to mothers and babies. It shows, that the 300 maternal and infancy clinics throughout the State, as well as parents under the care of private practitioners, are doing a good job. It is highly important that infancy and childhood be given every protection, if we are to build up a strong post-war race. Only 1 40 mothers of the 39,653 babies born so far this year died in childbirth or as the result of pregnancy. Doctor Cooper pointed out, as compared with I 35 who died in connection with the birth of 35,141 through May last year, an other record in which the State should take pride. GOOD DRIVERS Driver's licenses were granted to twelve hun dred and ninety-five fifteen year olds during, April and May. According to the records of the Highway Safety Division 1,1 7 3 of this num-' ber were white males, 97 white females, 24 negro males and one male Indian. An interesting fact in the tabulation kept by i the Division is the relatively large number of, young girls licensed. Approximately one out of every I 2 was a I 5 year old girl. The small number of negroes licensed in this age group is also interesting, since only one out of every 54 was in this racial group. The 1943 General Assembly amended the Uniform Driver's License Act authorizing the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue driver's license to persons 1 5 years old. Persons in this age group are restricted to operating vehicles "not over one and one-half (I'/i) tons in weight '. They are also not permitted to op erate vehicles hauling inflammable fluids such as gasoline, kerosene, etc.?nor explosives such as dynamite, etc. Conviction of violation of these restrictions j requires the Department to revoke the driving privilege of the person convicted. Since the question has often been asked re-j garding the operation of a school bus by a li censed 1 5 year old. Mr. Hocutt calls special at tention to the fact that a school bus weighs much more than one and one-half tons, there fore, may not legally be operated by a person only 1 5 years old. Commenting on the driving record to date of this age group, Ronald Hocutt, Director of the Highway Safety vision says: ^ "The Division is maintaining a separate WE FLY THROUGH THE AIR.? FO* 'ZOO VEAttS MEN CXPfiiMENTED WITH BALLOONS.WHICH WENT ONLY WHERE THE WIND Slew them. not until I903.when ORVille ANO WILBUR WRIGHT PERFECTED THEIR AIRPLANE DIP MEW nv WHEG? THCV H/AAJT?0 TOGO ? ANO MODERN AVIATION WAS BORIS). NOW. ONLY 40 YEARS LATER. IT ENCOMPASSES THE WORLD. . . AMERICAN FIGHTING MEN - INVENTORS - MECHANICS-ARE TUNED TO THE AIR...NEW GOALS OF ACHIEVEMENT ARE SET AND PASSED WITH EVER ACCELERATING SPEED. . AMERICAN TRANSPORT" PLANES CARRY MILLIONS OF POUNDS OF CARGO OVER. HUNDREDS OP THOUSANDS OF MILES OF LAND ANO SEA... AMERICAN BOMBERS AND FIGHTERS STRIKE WITH TERRIFIC FORCE ON EVERV FRONT. AMERICAN /HOE/VU/TV /& A\EYEO TO THE *JO& ? US IMMEDIATE OBJECT A MIGHTY DR/l'E - /N AN AlR.-Lf,*JE TO VICTORY. As Others Think CONSERVING A PRIC ELESS ASSET The expenditure in 1941 by the North Carolina Health depart ment of 33 cents per capita?a total of $1,183,900 ? gave the state 26th place among the states, according to a recent issue of U.I S. Public Health reports. This j figure covers all state supported j public ealth activities. Only about 36 per cent of this outlay c ame from state sources as com-i pared with an average of 63.1 forj the nation as a whole. The reports point out that j health department expenditures range from $103.000 in Nevada to i $7.000.000 in New York. But on j a per capita basis six states out-: rank New York. Deleware stand-1 ing first with an outlay of $1.68' per person. Ohio is in the cellar j with an expenditure of only 13 . cents per person. With regard to lull-time per- j sonnel. North Carolina ranks 20th | with 185 people employed. Ten j of these are physicians and tenj are nurses. Thirty of them are j dentists, the largest number em-' ployed by any state and nearly one-fourth of all the public health dentists in the nation. In other classifications, it is pointed out by the University of North Caro lina in commenting on these data, the state ranks below the average for all the states on a per capita basis. It is safe to say that no other government activity has a fuller measure of support on the part of the people than health work. It is especially important in war time. Here in Transylvania coun ty our health unit is doing its part to conserve our quota of this priceless national asset?health. ?Transylvania Times. NEWSPAPERS AN ESSENTIAL FABRIC The nation of today, during a period of war. is depending more than ever on their newspapers. | The many services offered by them are essential to the very existence of the people. Secretary of State Icordell Hull, in a recent speech, said: "From the days of Peter Zenger. i when the cause of liberty was tried and won ... a free press has been, and rightly so. a sacred ! American institution, an essential fabric In our democratic way of I life." So vital arc newspapers to our everyday way of living that R. P. Ashenfelter. director of the OPA. in a recent address said: "The importance of America's free press In government 'of the people, for the people, by the peo ple" has never been more evident than now. Particularly vital and effective has been its work of public education on the price con trol. rent control, and rationing program of the Office of Price Administration, all of which re-1 quire the understanding and co operation of every citizen." So important has the press be come in the conduct of the war that it has been classified as an A-l essential activity. ? Forest City Courier. OPEN FORUM Fish Heads? When I had a market in Mur phy I bought a 14 lb. cat fish: when it was cleaned and ready to put on display, I found I had a head that would weigh around 4 to 5 pounds with a lot of good j meat oi. it. When I started scald ing an< carving that head. Ted was very curious to know what I was going to do with it. It was rather hard for me to tell him. for I was not so sure. However. I took i homo and had it stewed in a small amount of water till the incut would leave the bones easily. We took the meat off and left in the water it was stewed in: then, we added milk or cream ex actly like making oyster stew, and we had a really delicious dish. Try it some time when you have a good big cat. and tell me how much you enjoyed it. Wm. P. Payne. Douglas Is Camp Manager At Dam R. H. DouKlas, who for some time has been with the TV A in Chattanooga. Tenn.. has arrived to be camp manager at Hiwassee Dam. to succeed Ed Watson, who has been transferred to Pontana Dam. Mr. Douklas is married, and the couple have two children. Milk Officials Study Supply Of In Area John E Floyd, district milk sanitarian. A. M. Brown, of Rob binsville. district sanitarian. Harry Webster, field representative of Southern Dairies. H. W. Anderson, chief milk sanitarian of Atlanta. P. L. Douglas. manager of South ern dairies, of Atlanta. L?. M. Clarkson. chief sanitary engi neer. of Georgia. J. E. Jackson, member of the Atlanta city coun jcil. First Lt. J. R. Culp. of the U. js. public health service. Atlanta. | were in Murphy this week in con ference. making a survey of the | milk supply, and discussing means j by which milk can be shipped to I various points in Georgia, from | the milk receiving station which Southern Dairies will open here I in a short time. record file on the 1 5 year olds licensed, and to date no accident report has been received by the Division involving a licensed 1 5 year old. SEVENTY-FIVE young men. | mostly teen age. gathered at the bus station at 6:30 Tuesday morn ing to depart for examination in an army camp. Most of the boys looktd like they were high school J fellows rather than material for military life. Many of them had grim countenances: others cover- ^ ed their heartache at leaving, home, relatives, and friends with an appearance of lighthearted jness. Some of the motners. sis |ters. and sweethearts shed their tears in parked cars nearby un l the busses pullrd out. A small er number stood by the busses to j.-ay final good-byes. DRAFT DODGERS were given ' a "piece of someone's mind" in the following wo ras mat were at tached by some departing soldier i j'<? the door of the bus station Tuesday morning: "We are writing this short letter.; And every word is true; Don't look away, draft dodger. For it's addressed to you. You feel at ease and in no danger. Back in the old home town: You cook up your pitiful story So the draft board will turn ' you down. You never think of ihe real men. ' Who are leaving day by day: You just sit and think of their girl friends. That you get while they're1 away. You sit home and read the paper You jump up anci yell. We'll win'! Just where do you get that We' stuff? This war will be won by men. Just what do you think, draft dodgers. That this free nation would do.' If all the men weVe slackers and i afraid to fight like you? We guess that Ls all. Mr. Slack er. we guess your face is red. America's no place for your kind. ; And we meant just what we said. So we are closing this letter. Remember what we say: I For we are coming back home! some day." CARL WHITESIDE, assistant county agent, tells us that "Uncle" Spence Perry. Texana Negro who is about 103 years old. has a vic tory garden which is large enough and good enough to take care of an average size family. He real ! izes the necessity for having a J good garden in this time of war and has a wide vaiiety of vege tables. He keeps the garden clea.i las a pin. ALL GARDENS in Texana com- i munity arc looking good says the '; agent. Texana is located on an old rough hillside that is very steep: the soil is very thin and under this is found a formation of ; solid rock. In spite of these ad verse conditions the Negroes in Texana have made something out of nothing by the proper use of good fertilizer and other sound practices. All of the forty-five Negro families living in Texana have better gardens than they j have ever had before, and every : single one of these families has a j garden of some kind. "The j Negroes in Cherokee County feel i that they are making a contribu- i tion to the war effort by produc- I ing their own food." the agent j says. NOTICE OF SALE By virtue of the power of sale contained in a deed of trust from F. I. Wiggins and wife Rosettie Wiggins to the undersigned trus tee. dated the 3rd day of April. 1941. and recorded in the Office of Register of Deeds for Cherokee County. North Carolina in Book No. 128 of Deeds of Trust at page 94. and default having been made in the payment of the indebted ness secured by said deed of trust; AKIN NAMED FIELD WORKER The Rev K Lane Akin, pastor of Kayesville Baptist church, has been employed by ilir executive committee and promotion com mittee of the Western North Caro lina Baptist association and the general board of the Baptist State ??onvention to do field work in this association for the remainder of the associational year. He will as sist with daily vacation Bible schools and other work In the in dividual churches. Slide Holds Up Mail Service The heavy downpour of rain Sunday night flooded the streets of Andrea's and vicinity, and sev eral inches of water was found in many basements. I he undersigned trustee will on Monday the 9th day of August. 1943. at One O'clock P M., at the Court House Door in Murphy. Cherokee County. North Carolina, sell at Public auction for cash, to the highest bidder, the following described lands: Described in the following deeds: FIRST TRACT DESCRIBED IN A DEED dated August the 27ttl. 1910 from E. A Battle to J. W. Wooten and F. I. Wiggins and recorded in Book No. 26 at page 159 in the Office of Register of Deeds for Cherokee County. North Carolina. For a More complete description of said lands reference is hereby made to said deed and record. SECOND BOUNDARY. Describ ed in a deed from William L. Wiggins to F. I. Wiggins dated January the 4th. 19 . and filed for recording in the Office of Register of Deeds for Cherokee County, North Carolina, on the 16th day of July. 1913. and re corded in said Office in Book No 27 at page 436. Reference to said deed and record is hereby made j for a more complete description ; of said land. This the 7th day of July. 1943. J. R. LEACH. 50-4t Trustee. A w?sliout of ? piece ol tem. ;>>r*r/ track at Almond ??j , heavy slide betwreen Bryson city and Andrews on llw Southern railway. held up the trains and delayed mall service In t lie couii ty Monday. Tlie tracks were clem id and the damaiie repaired by Monday nlKht. Revival Starts Martin's Creek Revival services will start a' Martin's Creek Methodist church on Sunday. July 11. at 8.00. with the Rev Ballard Wilson pastor, dointc the preaching. The serifs of ! services wilt continue through the week. Scientists in the Agricultural Research Administration report that it Is passible to produce in dustrial alcohol from wheat with out the addition of malt. FOOD CROPS India reduced her cotton acre age from 23.547.000 acres last year to 18.716.000 acres this year, with more acres In food crops And Better Broilers BABY CHICKS At All Times Book Orders With GIBBS HATCHERY Apply At Western Auto Associate Store Murphy, N. C. KEEP YOUR TRUCK AND CAR WELL OILED AND GREASED Friction and wear of valuable parts results when your car or truck is not properly oiJkd and greased. Often these parts cannot be replaced. Keep your car and truck on the road and in smooth running: order by driving: in here for regrular inspection. PALMER'S SINCLAIR STATION Phone 202 Murphy, N. C. BEST SERVICE GREATER CHOICE Meats -Vegetables*- Full Line of Groceries Murphy Sanitary Market Phone 170 Murphy, N. C.
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