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Sports Review By Porter Griggs ? The Murphy high school base- j ball team, the first in a good many , years, didn't have such a good I reason but by next year the Bull- j dogs should and will have enough j experience to show their big sister ] schools in the Western Conference iust what baseball is. Coach R. P. j ? Dick) Yow didn't have a thing to , start with but a group of boys will- 1 ing to try this year. With these j boys he molded together a team that won one game while losing j seven. Two of the squad of 18 will ! graduate this year. Hughes and ! Basil Clark are both letterman in ' all three major sports offered at the high school. These boys will probably enter college this fall I With the rest coming back to the | Bulldog Doghouse next y e i r | Coach Yow will have a seasoned i performer in every position. Dock- ' NO HIT OR MISS FACILITIES HERE Modern farming to be profitable, demands adequate buildings, good machinery, suf ficient working capital plus good manage ment. T rying to operate a farm on less is as much of a handicap as riding a lame horse in a race. For many years we have helped farmers to better farming profits. On your next trip to town, stop in and let us tell you how we can help you. CITIZENS BANK and TRUST CO. Complete Banking Services SERVING SOUTHWESTERN NORTH CAROLINA Murphy-Andrews-Robbinsville-Hayesville Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Mountaineers Take 14-0 Victory | Over Marble Nine I A 14 to 0 rout was handed the Marble entry of the Smoky "Moun tain league here Tuesday night by the Murphy semi-pro Mountain eers behind the three hit pitch ing of Beavers and Hughes. Two home runs were polled by ! the Mountaineers, one by Rantin with two on in the first frame and I cry, first; Thompson, second; De wesse, short, Brandon, third; Lovingood. catcher; Bill Clark. Brendle and Pendley all in the outfield are regular starters. Oth ers that saw action this year re turning are Queen, catcher and outfielder; Alexander, Barton. Hemphill. Sherrill and Swain. The mound corps of Brendle and B. Lovingood are both returning. These and the boys coming up from the grammer grades, the Murphy high baseball team will be out to take every game they play, and take it from this corner they will. James (Red) Coffey, the Marble catcher, deserves our salute for the week as he is preparing the small er boys at Marble for a baseball career and to keep the Marble Blues in plenty of material. Some of the boys he has in training look as good as the older boys. Red plans to play regular games this season and any one wanting to play the Junior Blues should get in contact with him. Charles Fowler, Murphy second baseman, is the man to watch in the Mountaineer games this season j and in the future. Fowler not only is hitting like a major but his I fielding is excellent, and he is a | slick base runner. Against Sylva the other night the pride of Cop- 1 perhill made the Sylva catcher look silly with his base stealing. BITS AND ENDS? St. Louis Cardinal scouts were very much impressed with Bill Brandon nt the Cullowhee game. Bill committ- 1 ed no errors and racked up 4 hits i for 5 times at bat. The Softball j picture comes back into the Sports ; highlights this week. Again we say a city league should be form- j ed. and it'll soon be to late to start. I the other by Beavers with none on in the fifth. Fowler and Tipton i.lso paced Murphy at the plate caeh making good on 3 of 4 at I tempt:. ! Beavers had a no-hitter going in to the fourth when Wilkins, J. Coffey and Humphries all hit sing les but Beavers retired the sic'*1 without any trouble. These w?ie the only hits Marble could make. Hughes worked the final three ta rings for the Murphy team and allowed only one hit. Score by inning: Marble 000 000 0?0 3 9 Murphy 510 233 x? 14 10 1 Nations to Coffey; Beavers, Hugh es to Cosmo and Cole Bulldogs Drop 7-6 Loop Tilt To Cullowhee The Cullowhee baseball team ('.owned the Murphy high Bulldogs by a score of 8 to 4 in a Western Conference game at Cullowhee last week. Both sides collected plenty of j hits but the Cullowhee nine got theirs when they paid off in runs. After taking a 2 to 1 first inning lead the Cullowhee lads exploded to send four runs across in the fifth and add two more in the sixth. The Bulldogs scored twice in the sixth and once in the ninth. Bill <Coach) Lovingood was on the mound for the Bulldogs and i went the complete game while j Brandon and Pendley paced the | Murphy team at the plate collect ing 4 for 5 and 2 for 3 respective ly. Cagle went the route for Cul lowhee and Bryson and Taylor sparked the winners at the plate. Score by inning: Murphy 010 002 001?4 10 7 Cullowhee 200 042 OOx? 8 10 2 B. Lovingood to T. Lovingood; Cagle to Bryson. 2bh-Brandon. hr Taylor Schedule This week's schedule for Chero kee county teams is as follows: May 22. Andrews at Marble; Knox ville All-Stars at Murphy; May 23. Andrews at Marble; Knoxville All-Stars at Murphy; May 27. Hazelwood at Murphy. 1 !, . ./IJftJli 0 . II<-rr'8 .l,r ,.? thai', J* In My Merrv Oldsmobile." It's the F\itnrami<* "98," a hrand new model that's leading the way into a new Golden Era of progress and advancement ! * Hydra lint if Drive. white vide wail tirea, optional at extra coat. It's the smash hit of the \ear . . . the big success story of 1945 . . . the car that has all America pinging its praises! Everywhere it goes, the Futuramic ( Mrismohilc goes over in a big way. Watch how people gather 'round to inspect that massive Futuramic front end. . . those flowing Futur amic fenders. . . that smartly tailored Futuramic interior. Then watch the face of the lucky driver. lie's got that "Futuramic Feeling.** It's more than just the smoothness of a coil -cushioned ride. It's more than just the simplicity of "no-clutch, no-shift*" Hydra-Malic Drive*. It's even more than the breath-taking thrill of stepping down on the accelerator and feeling that surge of power as WHIRLAWAY goes into action. That "Futuramic Feel ing" is a combination of all these Oldsmobile features ? topped off with a goodly measure of pride at driving the best looking of all the new cars on the roads today! FUTURAMIC OLDSMOBILE YOUR OLDSMOBILE DEALER Dickey Chevrolet Co. Phone 60 Murphy, N. C. . tw *i WMMMT J. TAYLOR, Uwtl N, i?rt. Uom faff ??d rtUo* < KERR SCOTT | ON X Liquor I Referendum I AND The | Gas Rule J X (Speech Delivered over State Radio Net *:* work April 13, 1948y by Kerr Scott, X Candidate for Governor, subject to | Democratic Primary, May 29th.) My friends all over North Carolina: You have the right to know where all candi dates for public office stand on all questions. I said that when I entered this campaign, and I have repeated it since. I repeat NOW. I do not want anyone to vote for me for Governor who does not know what I stand for, and who doesn't honestly believe that I am the best man they can vote for to be their Governor for the next four years. I shall go even further. I don't think you should vote for any candidate for Governor, or any other public bffice, unless you have good reason to believe that he says what he means. ar.d means what he says. 1 do my utmost to make all my statements straight and to the point. It is never my purpose to conceal anything in fine print or empty phraser. I have always talked straight from the shoul der. I don't know how to talk any other way. I have made very few promises in this cam paign. and 1 don't intend to make a single prom ise that I an* not reasonably certain I can carry out. I promised to talk tonight about liquor. I am a democrat, spelled with both the little d and the big D. As a true Democrat I am against the Gag Kule. As your Governor. 1 would exert* all my influence to abolish the Gag Rule. I am for frequent elections to permit the people to express themselves upon issues oi vital interest to their welfare and their well being. I claim no original distinction in being for thij. The statesmen who wrote the Constitution we live under pronounced this essential democratic doctrine long before I was born. But I have a feeling that in these crowded days ? in these confused times ? that all of us do not pay proper heed to the wisdom of our fun damental law. I will admit that I myself had to refer to the law books to get the exact wording. The Sections pertinent to this discussion are found in Article One, which is the Declaration oi Rights. I shall quote from Section 28 of this Article. This Section is headed: ELECTIONS SHOULD BE FREQUENT. It is a brief Section. It contains only 16 words. I shall read it slowly. Here it is: FOR REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES. AND FOR AMENDING AND STRENGTHENING THE LAWs, ELECTIONS SHOULD BE FREQUENT. Now I shall go on to Section 29 of this same Article embodying our Declaration of Rights. It is headed RECURRENCE TO FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES. This is al^o a very brief Section. It contains only 15 words. I shall also read it slowly. It says: A FRT.VMTFVT RI.'rilPRI.'VrP TO PI VHA MENTAI. PRINCIPLES IS ABSOLUTELY | NECESSARY TO PRESERVE THE BLESSINGS X OF LIBERTY. *!* It is no new idea. then, that the ri?ht of '.he ?j? peop'e to exnress themselves frequently is a !*! right fundamental to our democratic ,*overn X meni. ?{? But to gci back to this liquor question, which ? has been troubling so many of our people so a long. *!* I am a dry. I do not drink liquor, and I do j* NOT serve liquor to my guests ? I wonder if all .j. the other candidates can say that ? and mean it? But as a dry, I respect the right of others to X their own opinions. That is also fundamental democracy, and should you elect me. I wjuld X be governed at all times by the will of the x majority. f X You have already heard me say that I am ?|* against the Gag Rule and will exert all my in X fluence to have it abolished in the next Legisla X ture. and you have heard me say that I favor X frequent elections on vital issues ? and this certainly would include an expression on liquor. X You have also heard other candidates say that X ? although the one who is running at the tax X Payers expense in the State Treasurer's office .}? apparently forgot it so quickly after he said it X that he didn't put it in his published platform. X You also know who this same candidate's managers are. They were the Speakers of the $ House of Representatives in the last two ses X sions, when the Gag Rule was in full force to X prevent expression of the majority will of the people. The twin Gag Rules are managing Mr. Johnson's campaign for him. And also amone his supporters are people who have been identifi ed with the powerful liquor lobby which is active in every campaign. This liquor lobby is an ini quitous thing that should be driven out of Ral eigh. It is flush with money and alcohol. It in fests the capital and spends both money and alcohol to prevent the people from voting on the liquor issue. The air in Raleigh would be sweeter with the highly offensive odor of that liquor lobby forever gone. I tell you this because it is important that you know these things in evaluating the sincer ity behind a political statement. But regardless of that, other conditions may arise which will make a Governor's campaign promise about a liquor referendum not worth the breath it takes to say it. I think you know who I am talking about when I refer to the liquor lobby. Those of you who have been around Raleigh in legislative season do. but I want to make myself doubly clear. I am referring to high-salaried persuad- % ers sent into Raleigh by out-of-state liquor inter ests to use money and liquor in their efforts to influence North Carolina law- makers. I am NOT talking about public spirited citizens who are administering, as members of ABC boards, the law of the State. Let there be no confusion here, liquor is legal in parts of the State, and our best, citizens are needed to control its sale, so long as it is legal by majority vote of the people But this liquor lobby that infests the capitol in Raleigh and spreads its tenacles out into the counties ? this lobbby ought to be suppressed regardless of whether the peop'e vote for liquor or not. I have said that the Gag Rule should be eli minated. In saying this, let me emphasize the fact that North Carolina's law-makers have their own prerogatives. I respect them. As your Governor I snail respect them. The legislature makes its own rules and will continue to make them, regardless of who is Governor. Probably the Gag Rule will be eliminated because of public condemnation, regardless of who be comes Governor Many able members of the house spoke out against it in 1947 and many of them were not drys. 1 want you to remember that three Gover- T nors already have pledged themselves to urge a ? referendum, and the referendum has been* re fused despite their recommndations. I tell you it is necessary for you to send men to the legisla ture who are in favor of letting you express yourself on liquor, if you want a referendum. That is why I am speaking out now before it is too late for candidates to file. You still have time to investigate the position of the men who are asking for your vote. You still have time to get out o;>pe ;t:on to I lie:? with whom you disagree. Candidates for the Legislature may file until April 17th ? that's this Saturday. It is my opinion that our system of government is both fairest and safest when the people are allowed to express themselves on political issues. That moans 1 believe the referendum should be employed with reasonable frequency. It is my conviction that the liquor referendum should be submitted by the 1949 Legislature and 1 expect to so recommend if I become Governor. I will use all the influence at my command to bring about such legislation. Longer frustration of a strong demand of the people to be heard on this issue will be unjust and even politically dangerous. That is my position on the Gag Rule and the referendum. * 1 shall repeat my stand on liquor for the bene fit of any who may have tuned in late. I am a dry. 1 do not drink liquor and I do not serve it to my guests. 1 am against the Gag Rule. As your Governor I would exert all my influence to bring about its repeal in the interest of restoring majority rule I am for frequent elections, and 1 would urge the Legislature to call a referendum on the liquor question in accordance with the admoni tion of our Constitution. These statements constitute my answer to the Allied Church League and to church leaders and 4 citizens all over North Carolina who have asked me to state formally my stand on this subject. This ad sponsored by Hobert Hufhes and other friends of Soott
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