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VOLUME S3 NUMBER IT MURPHY. NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY. IAN. 14. 1954 EIGHT rAGES THIS WEEK
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Cherokee County March Of Dimes Starts This Week
Parking Meter
Poll Is Ordered
Town Council, during a rather
quiet meeting, Monday night took
up four items of business including
a stirring up of the embers of the
parking meter question.
Police Chief Neil Sneed was
ordered by council to poll the
merchants on the main streets to
determine their feelings on the
parking meter question.
Council decided to look into a<
request from a group of citizens
asking for television reception
protection on Fort Butler. The del
egation wanted assurance that
their TV Club would not be forced
out of being in the future.
Council voted to ask for a decfa
Ion from the Attorney General's
office in Baleitfi.
Another group of citizens asked
council to investigate the possibil
ity of a three-way traffic light in
West Murphy at Shields Service
station. A letter to the State High
way Department for recommenda
tions was ordered by council.
The panel heard a report from
field engineers investigating the
Murphy water works. According to
the engineers, the final written re
; port on the conditions of the sys
tem will be ready for the State
Health Department's inspection
tomorrow.
TOURIST ASSOCIATION OFFICERS
MR. SEAMON MISS PALMER MR. PALMER
RE-ELECTED OFFICERS of the Cherokee County Tourist Associa
tion, above talk over new plans for an active year. The aaaociation met
last week with some 12 people present from Murphy and Andrews,
and discussed plana for becoming affiliated with the Western North
Carolina Highlanders in forwarding the tourist business In the coun
ty. Officers, left to right, are Hairy Seaman, dot president. Miss Hat
tie Palmer, secretary-treasurer and Ben
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Nutritionist To Lead HD
And 4-H Training Courses
Mrs. Jewell Feaaenden, exten
sion nutritionist from N. C. State
College, will be in dharge of a
leader training course In Chero
kee County next week.
?Mrs. Fessenden, according to
?Miss Edna Bishop, Cherokee Coun
ty Home Agent, ia an enthusiastic
speaker and is especially quali
fied in her field.
Course sessions will be held
Thursday Jan. 21, at the First
Methodist Church at 1:30 p. m. for |
Adult 4-H leaders and Home Dem-1
onst rait ion foods and nutrition |
ieaders. At 3:30 p. m the training
for 4-H girls interested in the,
dairy foods demonstration contest
*rili be (held.
On Friday, Jan. 22 at 1:30 p. m.
Mrs. Feasenden will bold a train
ing period at the Court House for
lome demonstration health lead
ers and community Home Demon
stration Club presidnets.
MRS. JEWELL FESSENDEN
Mrs.Nunnls
Regal Club Head
taMlMlon of officers featured
the meeting of the Regal dub held
Friday sight, Dec. 8, in the home
of Mrs. Dixie Palmer and Miss
(HeMfe Palmer.
Mrs. Ruby Hill, outgoing presi
dent, presided and Installed Hie
Hollowing officers: Mrs. Johnsie
Norm president., Mrs. Nkm Hubble
aeeralaiy end Miss
wea unable to at
?S'NO JOKE-THIS IS FOR REAL
shuw was still. rALLiNU Monday when the above battle took
place on Peachtree St. In Murphy. Whether Hugh Hensley, right,
threw the flrat snowball or not wasn't disclosed, bnt the three pretty
teen ace misses seem to have him on the ran,, and he was lost before
sayinc "uncle". Two inches of snow fell and stock here between the
hoars of 9:20 a. m. and noon Monday, and yesterday an estimated
one half inch was still on the ground in many spots. Schools turned
out Monday morping so the buses could still get to the outlying areas
to take the children home. Coldest temperatures were recorded in
Murphy by TVA Hydraulic Data Division yesterday when a reading
of eight degrees was made. Tuesday's low was 17 degrees and the
maximum Tuesday was 28 degrees. The girls in the picture, left to
right, are Barbara Swain, Gwen Cole and Jean Reed. (Scout Photo)
Andrews Beats Two
Nantahala T earns
The Andrews Boys end Girls
basketball teams won a twin vic
tory over the Nmtataala basketball
teams Friday night with the girls'
sdore 69-31 and the boys' 59-41.
Sue Crawford of Andrews was
high scorer with 32 points, with
Dorcas McGuire in second place
with 21 points.
Oarolyn Gregory had high score
of 12 points for the Nantahala lass
ies.
In the boys' game Dean Truett
led with high score of 23 points
and Gerald Wheeler was second
?with 12.
Jam my Day was Nantahala's high
1 scorer.
Texana Meets
Franklin Again
Tomorrow Here
The Texana Bearcats continued
their winning streak last week by
defeating Chapel High School of
Franklin 43-2?.
Franklin will play a return game
with the oats in Murphy tomorrow
at 8 p. <n? Friday.
The Bearcats are sparked with
the accurate shooting of John Fair.
Kaxter Baby Dies
In Andrews
Phyllis Debra Raster, six
months-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Max Dennis Raxter, of And
rews died at 10 a. in. Friday in an
Andrews hospital after a brief ill-,
ness.
Funeral services were held Sat- j
urday at 2 p. m. in the Andrews i
Baptist ahureh. The Rev. John |
Corbitt and the Rev. James Horn- !
buckle officiated and burial was ,
in Valleytown Ceimetery.
Surviving, in addition to the par
ents, are the paternal grandparents
Mr. and Mrs. Dillie C. Raxter, and
the maternal grandparents, Mr
and Mrs. Frank T. Oonley of An
drews.
ilvie Funeral Home was in charge
of arrangements.
Miss Axley's Art
Work Be Dislayed
Miss Mary Frances Axley, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Porter Axley of
Murphy, North Carolina, Is having
some of her original art work rep
resented in the student art exhibit
at Wesleyan College January 9
through 16.
The art exhibit a& a whole em
phasizes design as is apparent In
every field. There are life draw
ings, paintings, ceramics, fashions j
and interiors displayed.
Forsyth Named Chairman;
Elliott Heads Andrews
FRANK FORSYTH
DRIVE CHAIRMAN
Mrs. Hendrix Will
Speak To Marble PTA
The Marble Parent-Teachers As
sociation will meet Thursday. Jan.
14 at 7 p. m. in the Marble Elemen
tary auditorium.
Mrs. Lloyd Hendrix of Peach tree
will be speaker. The Rev. A. J.
Lovell, president, will preside.
Cherokee County's 1954 March
of Dimes campaign started this
week with Frank Forsyth as gener
al chairman and Mark Elliott head
ing the drive in Andrews.
This week an initial gifts com
mittee. headed by William H.
Oornwell, will call on stores and
mills with an aim of getting 100
per cent participation from the
concerns.
On the week of Jan. 18, the
schools In the county will be soli
cited with prizes going to the chil
dren bringing in the most filled
March of Dimes Cards.
The Mothers March on Polio will
be held Friday, Jan. 29.
Mr. Comwell, whose wife, Jane
Moore Corn well, died of polio last
month, pointed out that there Is
now a chance through research to
beat polio. He said that with
enough finance polio could be
controlled so that it will no longer
be the dreaded scikness It Is today.
He said the Asbeville Orthope
dic Hospital?where Cherokee.
County patients are sent?"is a
wonderful place." "People would
have to visit the hospital to ap
preciate it,' he added.
Mr. Cornwall pointed out that
the March of Dimes accounts for
every dime it takes in. "There is
no such thing as giving until It
hurts as far as the March of Dimes
is concerned?I don't believe peo
ple can give enough to the organ
ization," he concluded.
.Meanwhile, Mr. Elliott was busy
in Andrews drawing up commit
tees to work his section. And at
the John C. Campbell Fodk School
plans were being drawn up for its
jiwimJ Folk Daon ?
to go 9*he MfcTit Dimes, time
of the dance will be announced
Wter.
Cherokee County goes into its
1954 compnign with a debt of some
$4 500 after spending almoat $10,
000 on 14 polio oases that hit the
county from July to December.
Two of the 14 oases, however, were
covered by insurance, it is believ
ed.
On Jan. 1, 1958, the county or
ganization started the year with
$4,412.35 and $1,690.90 was raised
druing the 1953 campaign. During
the year all the funds were spent
and the $4,500 wag borrowed from
the National Emergency Fund to
help meet 'hospital and doctors'
bills. There are still bills outstand
ing from 1953, Mr. Forsyth said.
Livestock Producers To!
Hear Dr. Grinnells
Dr. C. D. Grinneils, livestock^
peciahat ftwn the iitMMii'm de
MrUnent of N. C. State College,
taleigh will speak to Cherokee
Jouoty livestock producers this
oomlng at 10 o'clock at the Coun
y Courthouse.
Dr. Griimells will apeak on maa
itis control, milking procedures
tnd the prevention and control of
ivestock diseases.
All producers, especially dairy
Ben, are invited to attend.
3rd SUNDAY SINGING
The third Sunday singing will be
leld at Vegeanoe Creek Baptist
3huroh Sunday, Jan. 17.
Boy Scout Honor
Court Held Here
Tthe Nantahala District Court of
Honor for Boy Scouts was held in
the Murphy Courthouse on Jan
uary 5, with Hobart McKeever,
district chairman, presiding.
Tenderfoot awards were made to
Norman Kaye and Tommy Hon
aker of Murphy, Troop No. 2.
James Bristol and Boyoe Math is
of Troop 1, Andrews, received the
second class award from Thomas
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Adventists Conduct Day School Near W ehutty
Six Pupils Are
Enrolled In One
Room School
To the passer-by the white frame
building that houses the Post ell
Seventh Day Adventist Church
might seem as inactive as most
Churches on a week day. But inside
its board the building harbors
six busy school pupils and their I
teacher who are in a regular bee
hive of activity in their private
one room school.
Located in the far western end
of Cherokee County, near Wehutty
the Posteii School, operated in a
separate room of the church, has
been going on intermittently for
9onve 25 years since the organiza
tion of the Postell SDA Church
in 1929. ilt is the county's only
parochial school.
This year there are six pupils In
the. school, taught by Mrs. Joe
Barnes. The pupils who are finan
cially able pay tuition and some
church members who do not have
Children In the school, also help
with the finances. No state funds
are used for the school.
The building used by the church
and school was originally an old
public school and then a Masonic
lodge hail. Whan the Masons own
ed the building, and when the
Seventh Day Adventists purchased
It, there was an upper story. In
1940 the old building wws remodel
ed and the second floor "eye tore"
Mrs. Barnes said, in addition to i
a graded course in Bible for the )
various axe and class levels.
The school is scaled to complete
the eighth grade, on graduation of
wihidh, the pupils enter one of the
SDA academies (high schools).
THE PUPILS
The six pupils at the school at
present are Leah Ruth Collins. 13,
Sharon Collins, 7 and O. P. Collins,
11, all children of Mr. and Mrs.
Oscar Collins of Wehutty; Martha
Loretta (Flossie) Young, 11 daugh
ter of Mrs. Florence Young and
the former Dr. G. M. Young of
Shoal Creek; Alene Baker, 14
daughter of Mr. Will Baker of
Shoal Creek; and Carolyn Marie
Swain. 9. daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Lewig Swain of Shoal Creek.
Two pupils ore In the second
grade, one is in the fifth, one the
sixth and two the seventh.
Mrs. Barnes said she emphasis
es music, handicrafts and art,
and each year the pupils learn
' 50 famous paintings by title and
artists. Records are used in con
nection with music appreciation
classes.
In the seventh and eighth grades
teats are cent by the conference,
so that the pupils from the Pastel!
School will have Standardized edu
cation to be on equal footing with
other pupils at tie academies.
Mrs. Barnes aflao said the visits
each month from the library's book
mobile are very much enjoyed'and
appreciated. She eald the librar
ians always bring them
biographies, nature books
The mills are given I. Q.
A trip to Atlanta ta
LITTLE KNOWN TO MANY Cherokee County residents, a busy one
room school with six pnplls and a teacher operates daily at the Pos
tell Seventh Day Adventist Church near Wehutty, in the far western
section of the county. Pictured above are four of the students and the
teacher, left to rliht, Alene Brown, 7th trade; Flossie Yount , 6th
trade; Mrs. Joe Barnes, teacher, Carolyn Swain, second trade and Leah
Ruth Collins, seventh trade. Two other pupils are O. P. Collins, 5th
trade and Sharon Collins, second trade. (Scout Photo)
excursion. In other years the pup
is have been to Atlanta to the
ioyce Kilmer Forest, the fito
wtohery and other places of inter
sst.
PATRIOTISM
Patriotism la strewed and the
Star Spangled Banner and pledge
to the flag are learned and nepeat
sd often. Mrs. Bar-nee said toe tolls
*r pupils that Seventh Day Ad
rentist school children Should be
Rudy the BMs at waD a* (
hip. <The King Jamas Vs ratal of
he Bible is wed).
decorated with colorful art work
corresponding to the subjects be
ing studied. At present the pupils
are working on a frieze of ao&mals
of Africa. The room is wrfl lighted
by windows along one length of
the room.
Furniture consists of traditional
tables, with chairs to
match, painted light yellow. The
to also light yel
School tests from 8:10 a. m. un
til > p za.
is won boats d with a
of an organization called .the Jun
ior Missionary Volunteers. The or
ganization is graded and includes
everything from tying knots to
cooking, sewing and nature study.
Mrs. Barnes compared the activi
ties of the organization to Boy
Scouts and Girl Scouts.
Mrs. Barnes and her husband
live at the Dr. Young Farm.
?Mr. Barnes is a colporter evange
list.
Alumni of the Postell School
who are now in school elsewhere
are Phyllis Brown, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Brown, at
Emanuel Missionary College. Ber
rin Springs. Mich.; Doris and Har
old Brown, also children of the
Leonard Browns, at Little Creek
Academy, Concord, Tenn.; Joan
Collins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Oscar Collins and Thelma Young,
daughter of Mrs. G. M. Young at
'Fletcher Academy, Fletcher, N. C.
Charles Swain, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Lewis Swain will soon leave
for Southern Missionary College
in CoMegedale, Tenn.
THE CHURCH
The sanctuary, in which the
oburch services are held each Sat
urday (Sabbath), adjoin, the school
room. The Saturday services in
clude Sabbath School at 9:30 a. m.
followed by a mission service. The
worship service is at 11 a. m The
district leeder, Elder C. D. Well
man of Cleveland, Tenn., visits
the church about once a month.
Local elders sre E. R. Swain and
S. D. Horton. Twice a month Stu
dent, from Southern Missionary
OoHege of CoUegcdale, Tenn.,
come to the church for the servic
Dry forces
Start 1955
Assembly Plans
The Citizens Committee for
Good Government affiliated with
the Allied Church League for the
Abolition of Beverage Alcohol, is
already laying plans for the 1955
General Assembly.
Eight district meetings will be
held in the next week, according
to the state chairman, Rev. T. L.
Cashwell of Gasitonia. District 1
includes Cherokee County and this
meeting is scheduled January 15 at
10:00 A. M. in the First Baptist
Church in Bryson City.
Organizational plans call for
representatives from each county
in the district which is composed of
Cherokee. Clay, Macon, Graham,
Swain, and Jackson Counties.
Working closely with .the Allied
Ghurdh League its aim is to elect
men on a county level who are
sympathetic to the dry cause Rev.
Cashwell explained. The League
is supported by a number of lead
ing denominations in the state and
.maintains offices in Shelby and
Raleigh. The Rev. R. M. Hauss of
Shelby is executive director, assist
ed by the Rev. W. P. Biggersfcaff
of Raleigh.
INDUCTED IN AKMT
The following men ware for
warded for induction into the
Array thta weak: Whiter Thomas
Palmer, Harry Grant Rogers, Daw
id Amoa RoUdm, Felix Edward
faanaa Clyde Ha
Robert
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