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I A School Board Problem The boards of education m Cherokee County have been handed the problem of carrying out the Supreme Court decision abolishing segrega tion ; and all members of the boards should get the support of Cherokee County citizens ? both white and Negro. As the Observer and News-Enterprise of Newton recently said editorially "North Carolina educational leaders who met at Duke Uni versity ... to consider the legal aspects of integration were told about what they knew within themselves from the first ? that the matter of bringing two races together in the schools is now inevitable. The matter of how this will be done is the only choice left to them, in the face of the Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation last year, and the follow up ruling that gave them "reasonable time" to effect the integration." The Scout, along with many newspapers in the nation, does not agree with the Supreme Court decision. In the first place we believe the decision comes too early for the Negroes to take full advantage of it and too early for the white population to accept it in the way it should be accepted. There would have come a time in the not too distant future when both races could attend the same schools without a feeling of dread that now prevails. We feel that the Negro race has made such advancement in the past few years that if both races were given a little more time, the Negroes could advance even further without a ruling from the Supreme Court. In the second place since the Supreme Court has made the ruling, we believe it is the duty of the court to hand down another ruling as to bow integration is to be effected. Of course, we realize that each sec'ion would have its own particular obstacles to overcome, but the Supreme Court should have laid out some general outline to be followed. It is easy to say a thing must be changed in a reasonable time." but the real problem is how to bring about integration with the least possible confusion and friction. It is a tough problem that has been hanied to our members of the boards of education and once more we call on every citizen of the county to support them to the utmost in their decisions. 1 Investigation heeded In the letters to the Editor column or. this page Mr. Walter R Mar tin charges that his son. Frank was mistreated while at Caswell Train ing School in Kinston. We do not pretend to knew all the facts about the chargft because we have net been in contact with anyone at the school. But we have talked with Mr Martin and the manner in which he presented the facts makes us f eel that an investigation should be started on the charges. The top level administration of the school, we understand, is handl ed by a board appointed by Governor Hodges We do not say. until we have investigated further, that Mr Martin's charges are all true, but we do say that since his charges are as severe as they are, the Governor or his appointed committee should honor Mr Martin's charges with an immediate investigation. Soil Testing Lab At the last meeting of the Western North Carolina Associated Com munities in Cherokee County. C. R. Freed of Murphy was asked to re port on a soil testing laboratory project he heads up. Mr. Freed pointed out in his report that a much needed soil testing] laboratory could be set up at the State Test Farm in Waynesviile And Mr. Freed couldn't have been mope correct when he said the | lab was needed in this section. He went oil to point out that when farm ers in our section wanted soil tested they had to "sweat out" a long wait | before they could find out the results of the tests. It does not seem that it is anyone's fault in particular that better I service is not given the farmers. It is just the old story that there is not I enough equipment to do the job as it should be done. The committee that Mr. Freed heads up is meeting with support al most every where it turns, he reported. But the real test will come later when all the facts are placed before the State Extension Service or be fore the Sate Agricultural Commission. For the sake of WNC farmers we hope both agencies see things the right way. District Hospital It was good news that came this way about th^ District Hospital just j too late to be included in last week's Scout. The news was good from two points ? the hospital plans have been cleared, the lowest bids accepted and construction will start next week. That is enough right there to make everyone who worked for the hospi tal down right happy. But Mr. Fere bee quoted the general contractor as saying he will use local labor as much as possible. That means a good boost In pay rolls for this section for a while. It will take about 16 months to com plete the hospital and that much added payroll for that period of time Is extra good news In anybody's county. THE CHEROKEE SCOUT ? FOKST*Y'UJ.A.^?\ 40CCC CCC AMfff/CA*S Tt?f L the WOODS' H Winter Sraos-. f IK NATIONAL I SKMESBMMK [ , SOMCCFTVBOr' I SK> ttlNSMTHC COUNTRY *wp marrcr am* k&p rmr mmcmmmom mw cuam REPORTS FROM ^ Other Editors TEXTILE INDUSTRY HAS BEEN" LUB ON SACRIFICIAL .ALTAR BY REDI CNG TARRIFF OX GOODS FROM JAPAN Aibemarle ar.d Stanley county prosper in direct proportion to their textile industries. If they operate only part time and at a loss, all business and services establish ments in the county are adversely affected. A government agency hes recent !y taken a step, the effects of which will be felt right here at home before toe many months have passed. It is a textile tariff concession to Japan that will en able that country to flood the Unit ed States with textile products, and thus drastically reduce the de mand for American goods. Albermarle's own A. K. Winget j declared in a speech Saturday that the textile industry has been plac ed on the sacrifical altar, pointing I out that the tariff concessions to Japan are actually more than the the current profit margin of the textile mills. The Japs are using the same machines which Ameri can mills use. but the labor is paid only a few cents a day. which gives them a tremendous advan tage in the market. The textile industry is the most vulnerable to foreign competition, yet the government has chosen it to experiment with the "trade, not. aid program." Since competition is already extremenly keen among "extile concerns in this country, profits have been squeezed down to a Minimum. It is easy to tinder stand why Mr. Winget character izes the outlook as "bleak " It is well for us to recall that the administration only recently pushed up the tariff on Swiss watch movements, thus giving protection to the watch industry. Mr. Winget and other textile leaders are waging a vigorous fight to prevent this sacrifice of such an important industry, and they will need all the moral support which ' ' jthe people in textile areas can . give them. At the same time, it is i cur duty to inform ourselves fully j about what is happening in order ithat we may fight intelligently, j This is not a mere skirmish : so far i as we are concerned, it is a battle for life. i (Stanley Mews and Press' Albermarle, N. C. rxsrxG HEROES j Some of our least known and ap , predated citizens are our Forest , Rangers and their assistants. When we think of a United States . Forest Ranger, we usually think of the men who fight fires in our Nat ional Forest Lands. | That is. of course, on* of their many jobs, but bee which requires ' only a comparatively small a mount of their time. There are oth ' er "un glamorous" jobs such as ' spraying timber to get rid of var ious types of insects, planting trees [ to replace the dead or burned out timber, and numerous other such j jobs. Fire-fighting is a very difficult j and dangerous mission, but there are other things just as hazardous and difficult that the Rangers are called upon to do. For Instance, this past week a group of boy scouts and their as sistant scout master attempted to climb Mount Mitchell from their camp in the Carolina Hemlocks Recreation Area. They became k*t somewhere on the mountain's east ern slope and night fell. When the boy* did not appear at j the top of the mountain as scheul ed. the scoutmaster, who was wait (Continued on Page Nine) | Letters To The Editor | Editor of The Cherokee Scout Murphy. North Carolina. Dear Editor: My son. Frank Martin who is a Neurotic was admitted to Caswell Training School, Klnston. N. C. about six months ago. and I have had letter from the Authorities of this school telling me Prank was doing fine and had given them no trouble at all. On May 18th. my wife and I visited Prank in this and found him in a very bad con dition both physically and mental ly. He bad lost 23 lbs. in height Had many scars and braises on Us : body and one front tooth knocked out and aa ugly scar an his Hp! can? d from the lick. I was so, shocked at Oris treatment of him 1 i did mat know what to do or say. We cum hack home and thought the matter over and I derided Ghat ha1 would not Uve long there under such treats! t and I went back to get htm sad brh? him heme aad to to do to convince yourself is to! come and see him. or see Mrs. Joh.isie Nutji the Chairman of the Welfare Department in this coun ty The boy has gained fifteen lbs. since he has been home in less than a months time. I sincerely trust no other child will be sent to that Mad House from this County. There must be something very shady about our Mental Institu tions of this State. It not why ar en't the Parents of these inmate* permitted to go in aide where their lowed ones have to stay and see the conditions under which these chil dren km to live? No, the Parent is stopped at the door and ssatid in the reception room . and the child is dressed and brought oat to see you. It looks to me like North Carotins has got an bos Curtain In | these Mental Iiatitatioas perhaps Jala. What right has this slats got to collect taxes to pay tar Iks op m+-u-' ?- j* :jjp> . jtSMK ?? Vt ?- V -i-Lkr v It's tbt , TALKO'THETOWN By Emily Costello A certain group of pretty And rews teen-age girls whom I don't even know, have proved themsel ves pretty One in my estimation. As you probably know, all the girls in the July 4th beauty contest at Andrews Monday appeared in evening dresses rather than in bathing suits. Hurriedly, let me state that I think girls in a beauty contest should be judged in bathing suits. After all. it is a contest of beauty of figure as well as face and man ner. Certainly the girls in the contest Monday were attractive, from all standpoints, and they would have been unapologetically as attractive in bathing suits a? they were in their lovely, fluffy evening frocks. Ia most beauty contests, con testants appear in both evening dress and bathing suits. But. usually, when it is a one ap pearance affair, the girts wear bathing suits only. This has been true of the Andrews July 4th contest until this year. This year the Andrews girls, set ting a precedent for entrants from Murphy. Hayesville and Robbins rille. refused to wear bathing suits n the beauty contest. HOW COME? They refused, not because they ' ire prudes, but because they re- ' used to be cheapened by com- 1 nents from the male audience. k>. you might say, you boys just alked yourselves out of a bathing scauty contest The girls entered in the coo test were o< the highest type, and I am sore that next year you will see a return of the bathing suit contest, IF the contestants ran fen at ease about their audience. I think the Andrews girls, es pecially. are to be commended for he high standard they have set for Jie beauty contest, which is a high light in the annual calendar of fvents for Southwestern Worth Carolina. Some 24 Andrews girls; 19 Mur phy girls; nine Hayesvtlle girls; and several I don't know whom nor | how many from Bobbins ville I were entered in the contest. ' t4 beaities The Andrews girls in the contest were Lyla Ferguson, Helen Whi ta ker, Doris Teas, Norma Crawford, June Cruse, Pat Kilpatrtck. Dar lene Powers, Sue Crawford, Peggy Seay. Betty Mulkey, Wilma Crisp and Sallie Buchanan. Bobbie Deaton, Ann Angel, Dor cas McGuire. Carolyn West, Jose phine Derreberry. Rebecca Bab bington, Gladys Pullium. Shirley Matheson, Doris Dockery. Virginia I Huffman, Barbara Barton and Bobbie Conley. MI RPHY GIRLS The 19 Murphy girls entered were Bettie Lou Dockery, Luvene Hinton. Nancy Sales. Ann Maynor. Patsy Jone* Nancy Mills. Linda Palmer, Annette White. Jane Cook. Judy Cook, Charlene Davidson. Ginger Deweese, Linda English. Linda McFarland. Judy Sneed, Mary Jo Postell, Judy Davis, Bet ty Weaver and Judy Fisher. HAYESMLLE ENTRANTS Hayesville girls in the contest were Charlotte Hall. Marlena Bar nard. Joyce Lewis. Lee Ola Robin son, Carolyn Johnston, Mary Ann Johnston. Joan Crawford, Betty . Lou Stalcup and Estella Shook. ' ALL A-TWTTTER SUSIE MILLER is floating a round in more than her usual state of enthusiasm these days, inspite of many shots for cholera, typhoid and the like. Susie is the first alternate for the "Miss Atlanta" show, a company of Atlanta girls and Georgia Tech , boys making up a fine singing group. Susie ? who will be a junior at | Agnes Scott next year? travels to Atlanta each week end to practice with the group which will leave the end of this month on a wonderful tour of the country from Atlanta to A Backward Glance M YEARS AGO Friday, July S. 1KI Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Akin and < Mrs. E. B. Norvel] returned Friday 1 night from a visit to Annapolis, i Md. .aWsihngton. D. C. and points ; in Virginia. They accompanied Mr. 1 Harvey Akin to Annapolis where I, he entered the U. S. Naval Acad- 1 emy. Miss Dot Hensley left Wednes day for Turtletown, Tenn., to be the guest of her aunt. Mrs. J. W. Jones. She will visit other Tennes see points before returning home. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Latt return ed Sunday night from a business trip to Warren. Pa. . Jamestown, N. Y, Detroit. Mich.. ahd other northern and eastern cities. L. P. Beal spent last week end in Etowah and Oopperhill. Tenn. |1 J. C. Slocumb spent two days this week In Asheville. I B. W. Sipe returned Monday j from a ten day visit to friends and relatives in Cherryville and other points in North Carolina. M. W. Bell left Tuesday morning^ for California to join his family . who are visiting relatives in that , state. Miss L. E. Mitchell is visiting re ( latives in Waynesville this week. Mr. and Mrs. G. . Doner and daughters. Misses Mary and Ruth! ^nd Miss Eugenia Holcomb spent | last Saturday in Blairsrille. Ga. '< W. T. Griffiths of Andrews was in town Tuesday of this week. Mrs. A A Fain and Mr. and Mr*. Frank Bill spent several days this week in Atlanta. * YEARS AGO Headlines read "MOlion Dollars Appropriated for Hlwassee Dam".* Hie Murphy Hardware company. . owned by R. C Mattox .was attract tively repainted black and white* during the past waek. Practically every burin? house In the town has bow been repainted adding much to the attractiveness of Mur ,p*r Lovers at basebaH in this section jwiD have the pleasure ef witness Iks towa camca took action Tuesday light to apply tor a PWA loan to enlarge the waterworks pro great to toe ermat toe TVA dam h Mrs. C. C. Lloyd of P.obbinsville eras awarded the new Ford V-8 roach as top prize in the Cherokee Scout-Junaluska Journal sub cription campaign which came to a. successful end Saturday evening, the second prize, a beautiful M point diamond ring, went to Mrs. H. A. Mattox of Murphy. Mrs. Hancock Davis of Andrews won the livig room suite, while the fourth prize, a PhOco radio, was given to Miss Myrt Prater of Hayesville. I* TEAKS AGO Thanday. July 5, IMS Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Hoover and children returned Wednesday from a visit with relatives at Crouse andCherryville. Mrs. Hoover's mother, Mrs. E. C. Sullivan and her niece. Diane Elliott, of Cherry ville returned with them for a visit. Mrs. J. D. El rod of Greenville, S. C. , is spending some time here with her husband. Mrs. J. B. Gray and Mrs. George Stauning spent Saturday in Bryson City with Mrs. Gray's sister, Mrs. B. C. Jones and family and her mother. Mrs. S. J. May. Mrs. Robert F. Wakefield of Greensboro is ivisting Mr. and Mrs. F. V. Taylor. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Wei born of Waynesboro, Ga, arrived Satur day to spend the summer here. Cpl. Richad Mauney of Camp Lee, Va. , arrived here Sunday to spend an eight day furlough with his wife and baby, Kathie Marie, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Mauney. . S TEAKS AGO Thursday, Jnly ?, US* Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Mulkey and Mrs. Mulkey's father, John Smith of Baltimore, Mi, are visit and Mr*. J. B. Mulkey and Mr. and Mrs. Winston Craig and son. Miss Pat Smith of Rome, Ga., and Miss Virginia Johnson of Way lies fine, spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. R- G. Alexander and family. Joyce de Joumette of Athens, Ga.. and Washington, D. C., was J tar, the Rev. aad Mrs. 3. Alton Baffc. of VoaUtmg, wan govts Oris week of Mr. Bulin'i v r* j " ?. .. r ' . Cherokee Chatter BY BOX <X?TELU> You doubting Thomases who still believe that advertising does not pay should talk, to J. H. DUNCAN He was telling me the other night that a man called him from Geor gia and wanted to talk to him about "Duncan ?? '' "Dune" said he got another call from Man Hill about th? new fuel he is now distributing Of course, their axis appeared In other papers in WNC and I don't want anyone to give the 8cout too much credit. NEW YEAR I want to thank JOE RAY fur the new front page "Ear" we are run ning this week on safe driving. Joe has probably noticed that the Scout is going along with Governor Hodges' "Slow Down and [jive" Campaign now underway and he (Joel saved me an envelope he re ceived with a safety slogan stamp ed on it. We will run "Death Driv es Dangerously, Don't Crowd Him" ! for several weeks. I hope all the would be speedesters read and believe. Ml'SIC LOYER8 I saw ED HYDE just long enough the other night to compare notes with him ? musical notes that is. He and I are beginners in the art of playing the piano and I have to quiz him everytime I see him. I don't want him to get ahead of me. However, in spite of all we can do, his daughter, ROSIE, stays ahead of both of us. FLA. TRIP HOWARD LOVINGOOD and wife. MARY LOU, went to Jack sonville. Fla., for a 1-o-n-g July 4th week end. I believe they left Thursday and came back the first of this week. I havent'e seen either of them since they got back, but I'll bet it was rough driving in that hoi iday traffic. Also, the JOHN SMITH family took to the roads for the week end. They left last Saturday for Lincoln ton over the holidays. LIONS BOAR MERLE DAVIS, new president of the Murphy Lions Club, was in the office, and of course we got to talking about Lions. Some Chero kee County Lions are doing right well these days in the organization. HERMAN BRAUER is Deputy Dis trict Governor for District S1A. BOB EASLEY is Zone Chairman for Zone one. That rone includes Hayesville, Andrews. Murphy, Rob binsvllle and Fontana Dam. Her man had the Job before he waa ap pointed deputy governor. H. BUECK is International Counselor after serving as District Governor for 31A. POOR CHICKEN RALPH THOMAS from out at Culberson brought an egg in the of fice that weighs a quarter of a pound, is over three inches long and is two inches in diameter. Now I started out talking to you doubting Thomases so I'll end that way. For those of you who have so little faith in "Cherokee Chatter" as to doubt that story about the egg. we are going to run a picture of it in next week's Scout. I P. S. From last reports, we un i derstand the chicken is not doing TOO well. j California and then even to Ha waii! If one person drops out of the company Susie will be the next in line to go on the tour. Here's hop ing somebody drops dead or some thing, for Susie's sake. She's tak ing the various injections required for going abroad. Just in case. SIX HANKIES I saw mighty few dry eyes com ing out of the theatre last week as we waited to get In to the second ?how of "A Man Called Peter" last week. I was seeing the movie for the second time and must admit I cried Just as good the second time through. I'm not sure whether it was Just that I was completely in sympathy with the entire subject and personalities, or whether It was Just the movie itself that made me enjoy It so much. STORK BOUGHT MWIW I caught CI XT J. BUBCX buying froaen biscuits last week. Ska Mid If a few years ago anybody had ' told her she'd have been sen It ?tore bought btocults. she'd have . fought them. Wen, we all earn* l2?L*ElelW
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