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ty hat Can 1 Do ? Telephone Calls On Any self-respected Tar Heel citizen rightful ly conaerned about the traffic menace which claims so many lives and causes such untold suf fering each year will ask: ? "What can I do about traffic accidents?" If there is any emergency in which John Doe V can not only help but one whose solution depends, to a large extent, on his very active participation ? that emergency is the prevention of traffic ac cidents. .Traffic safety is built out of the many con tributions made by the John Does ? by their care ful observation of the first principles of traffic safety: "Know and Obey all traffic laws!" The steadfastness with which every man, woman and child adheres to this cornerstone of traffic safety will help in no small way to solve the perplexing dilemma of modern traffic haz ards. Some doubting Thomasses may claim we're unduly exaggerating the importance of traffic c laws, dismissing them as insignificant in the ov erall picture of traffic hazards. They are inclined 2 to attribute traffic fatalities to other more re- j mote causes ? to the operation of some natural law or even to fate. In answer to the quibbling of these cracker barrell philosophers we can only quote the fol lowing vital statistics from the State Department of Motor Vehicles of what actually happened in traffic accidents in recent years: Nearly 90 per cent of the drivers involved in fatal accidents were violating one or more traffic laws at the time death struck! We don't say that none of these drivers ?would have had accidents if they had not violat ed the law ? but it's safe to assume that a sub stantial number of accidents in which they were involved would not have occurred had these driv ers been observing the traffic laws. But there is another aspect to the problem. The deliberate flouting of any laws ? from those of nature to those of traffic ? is indicative of an unhealthy state of mind, an unwholesome atti tude, which can lead only to disaster. A knowledge of and a profound and healthy respect for our traffic laws is essential not only to the solution of our traffic problem but to ttie sur vival of our whole social structure. Fundamentally, .it's a simple solution. All it calls for is a willingness on the part ? of every driver to accept his responsibility as a citizen and as a human being to learn the traffic laws ? and obey them! You can do something about traffic acci dents ? you can help save lives. 1 A Typical Thursday Editors who are allergic to answering the telephone after the paper has just come out, will enjoy the following description of the dialogue experiences of Norman Lieberman of the Mon terey Park (Calif.) Progressive, on a typical Thursday afternoon! ******* "Hello, is this the editor?" ? Even the telephone couldn't hide the lady's disdain. "See here, last week I gave you an article on the Watch Winders Auxiliary. What do you mean by not putting it in?" "Beggin' your pardon, madam, I believe that appeared. Let me see . . . oh, yes you'll find it on page 1 of section 2." "Zat right? Click! It was a good three minutes before the next J' all. i "This is Mrs. Susan Perfluous. I'm calling j ibout the story I sent in on the visit at my home i ( >y my thy-d cousin from Altadena." j "I believe we ran an item on that "Yes, but you left out so much." "You mean his war record? It's sometimes necessary to leave out a detail or two, even as important as his tour of duty in Texas, for space l reasons. You see . . . " The lady didn't see. ******* Seconds flew before the next call. "Whaddaya mean with the tripe about the flying fish?" I could almost smell the cigar. "Somebody asks the council whether they'd add to the decor of the swimming pool and you make it sound like they're spawning there al ready." "There may be some mistake," I came back feebly. "No such story appeared in the Progress. Are you sure you didn't read it elsewhere?" "Whatzat? Oh yes. Another paper? Har, har!" ******* I barely had time to light a cigarette. "Hello 1 just wanted to tell you that I thought this was a wonderful issue. All the col umns were interesting. There was a wealth of news and very good interpretive articles. I es pecially liked the cartoon and the excellent photo coverage. The editorials were thought-provoking j and well written. The paper was outstanding." I waited until the lady was through. "Thank you," I answered humbly. "What's for dinner tonight, honey?" THE AMERICAN PRESS It Could Happen Here Alleghany County H as Rabies Epidemic )ron^ 9 Chester 8. Da via Salem Journal and Sentinel ; Reprinted with permission from Wildlife in North Carolina Although Alleghany to a small < county, the toil taken by this epi demic already has been frightful. I "The loss in livestock," Dr. Ful cher My 8, "has been heavy. We, lost 15 or 30 head in July alone . . j nine in the past two weeks that il know of. I would say that the total loss so far in livestock has ran < from (30,000 to $35,000. And that ] estimate is on the conservative i side." . i Dr. Martin P. Htnas, State Pub- j lie Health Veterinarian, If. C. State Board of Health, recently < visited the county, hoping to gat photographs at one mad cow. In < a atngle day be had an opportunity i to yHutngiHili U cows dying of 1 rabies . . . five of them on the i 1 farm of Edward Caudill in the Whitehead community. In one case nine head of cattle were lost out of a single herd. So far some 40 persons have either been bitten by rabid ani mals or ap seriously exposed to the virus that they were compell ed to take the Pasteur treatment. One of them was the county san itarian. Late last April Lyle Jones was passing a farm, and he saw a fox come into the yard. The fox stop ped at a com crib and bit at a fence. Recognizing that the ani mal was mad, Jones grabbed his pm (a number of men In the coun ty have gone armed since the epi lemlc broke out) and shot the foot. ' The fox Ml and then Jumped up 1 md scurried under a barn. Jonas < ihot him again and then raked i ilm out As he brought the body t gut from under the bun, the fax l snapped at him and bit him In the ankle. Laboratory tests showed that the fox was mad, and Mr. Jones took the series of anti-rabies shots. On May 11 Mrs. Clifton Edwards started out to the barn to help her husband milk. Her cat, following', leaped on her leg and bit her deep ly a number of times. Mrs. Ed ward* was hospitalised with blood poisoning, and she also took the Pasteur treatment. Tests had indi cated that the cat was mad. There have been no fatalities thus far. But luck and some hard work on the part of Lyle Jones ex plains that good fortune. Awhile back Mr. Jones received i report at some children who had bean Mttan by a stray dog. Ha lo cated the dog, killed It and sent the brain off to Raleigh for a la bora- : tory check. Hie dog was found to i lie rabid. J Words Of Life the second week of lent BY REV. JOSEPH DEAN ST. WILLIAM'S CATHOLIC CHAPEL LETTER TO JOE MURPHY HI Joe, How are you today? Do you real ise that we are in the second week of Lent already? One of the principal Christian works of Lent, Joe is almsgiving. Do you remem ber what the word "alms" means? An alms is money given and dis tributed for the aid of the needy. Now February is a month noted for Its many appeals; you know that all too well. In fact, if we are not careful, some of us just close up after a while, and refuse to give anything. Whenever you get that temptation, Joe think of this eecample, this parable, taken from the countryside of Palestine. In Palestine there are two seas. One is a beautiful sight to behold ?blue, dancing water ? sandy beaches, here and there crowned by rocky crags. Men build their homes about this sea. Birds love to rest along its coasts. Children run and play on its sand much as they romped about the feet of Jesus lenturies ago on this same sand. \11 kinds of animals come to its shores to drink of its pure waters, the river Jordan flows into this sea of Galilee from the broad roll ing plains. It is the sea that Jesus commanded to be still in the midst >f a storm. And it was - on this same sea that Jesus preached to [he people from Peter's fishing boat. Not far from this sea on a rolling plain, our Lord, .fed over 5 thousand with a few loaves and fishes. Yes, even today men love to go to the Sea of Galilee for one can still feel there some of the peace and Joy that came from the voice ' and smile and footstep of the Son of God. But there is yet another ^ sea in Palestine. No man could ever build his home on its shores. No animals ever drink of its wat ers. Never does the shadow of a bird's wing flit across its dull and torpid surface. Travelers avoid it unless they are on urgent busi ness. And why this great differ ence between these two seas in Palestine? It isn't the river Jordan for the river Jordan empties the same clear water into both. It isn't the climate for the same bal my air encircles each! It isn't the country-side for the same rolling hills surrounded both them. But this is the difference: For every drop of water that flows from the river Jordan into this beautiful sea, another drop flows out. The sea of Galilee gives, that it may live. But the other sea is a miser. It hoards all of its Income jealously, letting not one drop of water escape. It takes graspingly, all that it can get ?never giving anything. This sea is called the Dead sea, and all that it touches is dead. Yes, it is true! There are two seas in Palestine. And there are two kinds of people In the world. Tell me, Joe which kind are you? Here's your text for today, Joe. "Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, shall they pour into your lap. For with what measure you meas ure, It shall be measured to you." It comes from St. Luke 6, 38: Sincerely yours in Christ our Lord Editor's note: Correction of last week's column "Words of Life." The column stated "Bill, I am a gainst God's gifts of pleasure and comfort." It should have stated, "Bill, I am NOT against God's gifts of pleasure and comfort, but we have wound ourselves up so much with these gifts that we have lost sight of the giver." Mr. Jones, who has been spend ing 70 per cent of his time working on rabies, patiently tn through the community, trying to discover if others had been bitten. He found one woman who had been chewed badly on both arms. She had not repotred the bites and said, "Pshaw, it was Just an old flest a-playing." Of course, she took the shots. Last month, for example, Grav er Shepherd and his boy moved a cow that had a suckling calf. Four or five weeks ago that calf died. There have been a number of cases where the exposure was In direct Mr. Shepherd didn't suspect ra bies, but Or. Fulcher did. An ex amination of the calf* brain show ed that the doctor was right Graver Shepherd and his boy milked the cow while the calf Both the *??-*? movements of this ( pat* s> II' ? ? THE AMERICAN WAX 1 ... ' . -I 11 I ' 0 0660M IT ? Mtssn mm MAIN/ ^-7/ The Customer Gets It in the Neck (?) Its the TALK 0' THE TOWN By Emily CosteUo It was a very touching coronation ceremony last Thursday night when runner-up L. L. MASON crowned HOBART McKEEVER king of Hearts alter a hilarious election. Junior Woman's Club husbands found out just what their wives thought of them when the girls wrote letters on why they thought their husbands should be King of Hearts. Actually all the girls had pretty persuasive letters, I thought, and it was really a tough decision. The election took place at the club's Men's Night potluck supper and party at the TAC. Judges for the contest were visiting men, and supposedly "disinterested parties" who were the REV. A. L. MAX WELL, RAY JOSEPH and the REV. DEAN HOUK, who with Mrs. Souk were guests of the GEORGE SIZES and are from Griffin, Ga. The letters were read aloud and voted on by applause. The men read the letters ? but not the ones their wives wrote about them ? so It was pretty mixed-up and a lot of fun. And I'd love to print all the let ters for you, but that is is entirely impossible for many reasons. But the winning letter ? a poem which Opie McKeever wrote is here: DEAR GIRLS Make my man king for a special reason, Toi crown another t'would sure be treason. He was born on the 28th dajr of December, A date that all of his friends can remember But -each gift he receives kills two birds with one stone ? "Merry Christmas ! Happy Birthday !" he reads as he moans "Oh fate, oh tolly, no day of my own With gifts to be showered on me alone ! My candles burn low on a cake made of fruit, While others are busy enjoying their loot." But, girls, don't crown him king out of pity. He lends many talents to this fair city. As an athlete he shines ? on the ping-pong court He's an ace ? on the ground ? at any airport. At home he's a genius ? at tuning TV, And playing the uke while singing off-key. He's superb, he's terrific ? please make him your king. Give him this hour ? give him a fling ! Now, how in the world could he keep from being elected after that oble peal? And after the crowning the king opened his shower of gifts which included everything from money for a haircut to a dish towel and soap. About 30 folks attended the party and the food and fun were both very enjoyable. And we remarked that if the teen-agers have half as much fun at the TAC as the adult party did last week, it is surely a huge success. ENJOY TEXAS Mr. R. L. BEAVER gave me a very graphic description of the trip to Texas that he and Mrs. Beaver and their son, Johnny, and grandson, Terry Smith made recently. Mr. Beaver was especially impressed with the summer-like weather they found. And he saw acres and acres of nions, cabbage, water melons ^uid other garden things growing like summertime. He also said the oil wells were as thick as the parking meters on Valley River Ave. and were pumping oil like one thing. BOOTLEG DUMPING The Aaheville Citizen recently has run a series of articles on what they term "Bootleg Dumping". MARGUERITE BIDSTRUP (Mrs. Georg) from out at Brass town came in the other day and was pretty perturbed, as we all should be, about the litter of beer cans and other litter along our highways a:? on private property. And I agree with her hat it is a matter of public opinion and education to get the bootleg dumping stopped. I guess most of us have been guilty at some time or Jiother of throwing trash out the c^r window, but we wouldn't think of littering our own property that way. If enough people started trying o control the dumping problem in a small way, it wouldn't take long or it to be under control in a largeway. Some states ? Virginia, for instance ? have a large fine for dumping litter of any kind along the highways. At WOO a kleenex or tin can there wouldn't be many of us ittering I venture. RECOMMENDED FOR SCHOLARSHIP JOHN PHAUP, a student at Cullowhee, has been recommended for Morgan scholarship at the University of North Carolina, to do grad late work. I'm not sure what his field Is, but whatever It Is, he's a rtiiz in it. MURPHY'S NAME BILL SHARPE, one of the publishers of THE STATE magazine, ast week called our attention to an interesting footnote in the Feb. 11 ssue of his magazine concerning the naming of our town. Here's the lipping: Hiram WUburn of Waynesville scraped around and finally found he letter which originally suggested that the town of Murphy be named or Junaluska. It was written In 1887 to Governor Dudley by 8. F. Pat erson, and dated Ft Butler, Cherokee Nation: I fbi exists hi this part of the on account of the name selected by the I H| his linn for the County Town. Many persons are In tapor of calling It JUNALUSKA, In 1 ef a Cherokee Indian of that hum who now itn* hi the greatly at the Battle ef *0 A. Backward Glance 5 TEARS AGO Thursday, Fe*. St, 1*1 Mr. and Mr*. A. D. Peacock and children attended the funeral of Mr. Peacock's uncle, I. N. Parker son In Eastman, Ga. Thursday. Mrs. Mary Hunt of Young Har ris, Ga., spent the veek end with Mr. and Mr*. W. P. Odom. M. C. Stiles and son, M. L. of P os tell , visited his brother, Her schel and family at Marble Sat urday. Miss Frances Mash burn of Oak Ridge, Tenn., spent the week end with Mrs. Laura C. Mash burn in . Andrews. Pvt. P. J. league of Fort Jack son, S. C. spent the week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Forest Teague. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, Feb. 21, 1846 Mrs. Henry Hyatt, Miss Frances Waldroup and Miss June McCoy spent Saturday ih Bryson City. ? B. C. Moneymaker of Knoxville was in Murphy one day last week. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Dalrympte of Fontana Dam are spending a few days here. J. W. Franklin left Tuesday for Crystal River, Fla., on a ten-day fishing trip as the guest of Judge Wilson Parker, Mr. Cox, Dr. Cochran and Dr. Turner of Atlan ta. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Moore and Misses Marie Price, Mozelle Moore of Shelby and Jane Moore of At lanta spent two weeks in various points in Florida, returning home last Friday. . 20 YEARS AGO Thursday, Feb. 27, 1936 At the regular monthly meeting of the Woman's Club held last Wednesday afternoon officers for the next year were elected as fol lows: Mrs. H. Bueck, president; Mrs. W. A. Barber, vice president; Mrs. A. E. Vestal, corresponding j sect.; Mrs. R. S. Parker, record- ' ing sect.; Mrs. C. W. Savage, treasurer. v Miss Lois Latham has arrived here to make her headquarters. She Is with the Investors Syndi cate. v Mrs. J. M Harrison of Wake Forrest has returned home after a visit to her daughter, Mrs. H. W. Baucom, Jr. Miss Jean Davis, small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Davis, ent ertained a number of her friends at a birthday party at their home on Saturday afternoon. Those invit ed were Carolyn Carter, Doris Bailey, Jayne and Frances Ricks. Mary Frances Shields, Jane Moore Donnie Hampton, Annie Laura Mulkey, Mildred Clouse, Sue Rob erts, Gloria and Jeane Daniels. Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Long attend ed the Colonial party given by the Konnaheeta Club of Andrews at the Riverside Hotel last Friday evening. The affair was given in honor of the Andrews Woman's Club. SO YEARS AGO Friday, Feb. 26.. 1926 One of the biggest events wit nessed by Hayesville and Clay County In quite a while was the pa rade and public speaking of the Knights of the Ku Mux Klan here last night. The speakers were local men and wore masks. J .H. Mintz moved to Marble last Tuesday, and Mr. W. M. Mints moved to his place on the head of Hangindog. Mr. Bob Porter of Andrews was down in Marble last 17th, looking after real estate, we surmsie. Prof, and Mrs. James Lovingood took dinner with Prof, and Mrs. W. K. Johnson last Sunday. Mr. A. K. Dickey of Murphy was in Culberson a few days ago buy ing mules for the Southern mar kets. The Ckerofcee Scant Katabllshed July, 1889 Published every Thursday at Murphy, Cherokee County, It. C. WILLIAM V. AND EMILY COB TELLO ? Publishers and Owners WILLIAM V. C08TELL0? Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Cherokee County: One Tear, 12.80; six Months, *150 Outside Cherokee County: One Tear: tS.00; Six: Months, IL78 Entered in the Port Office at Murphy, North Carolina, aa sec ond class matter under the Act e< Marth 8, 1179. Member c t North Carolina Prrm AmocUHoii
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