n^w' ilaaaad CUm Pommi Paid [at Iteyky, Nank CarolUa la Clay aad Graha N. Cj Taaraa, IMaa Paaada Caaadaa. Oa^ ai I Yaar ? 6 Maauka - *1.79 ALL OTKEA AREAS 1 Yaar - *5.00 * lliiltin - *9.00 Oa aU la Narik Carollaa. Pa I WHY Wonder WHERE your MONEY went YaarCltiiaa'sCback Staks Aad Cancelled ChacksSbow Wbat'sSpaafl CITIZENS BANK & TRUST CO. Mnryby?Andrews ? Robbinsvills HayesvilU Serving Southwestern North Carolina Strawberry Plants Are Available by Jim Stewart Cherokee County Farm Agent A fruit which is a favorite of most families in Cherokee County is strawberries. This fruit is one which is excellent for use both fresh and frozen. The demand for local straw berries has not been adequately met. More straw berries can be sold to tourist 'through roadside stands. To enable more families to have a plentiful supply of strawberries and have some to market, the Cherokee County Agricultrual Agent's office will handle orders for plants. The variety which will be ordered is the Tennessee Beauty. These plants will cost growers eight dollars per thousand. This cost will include delivery cost to Murphy. Grain School To Be Held Monday Night Cherokee citizens who ere Interested In either the pro duction, storage or marketing of corn will have an opportunity to be brought up to date on latest Information on corn. A grain school will be conducted In the Court house in Murphy, Monday, March 12, at 7:30 pjn. ac cordlngto Jim Stewart, Chero kee County Farm Agent, All Cherokee producers, buyers, handlers, feed manu fac turers, dealers, livestock and poultry feedars will find this meeting valuable. The most Important Spies to be discussed, will be corn outlook and price trends, positive ways to Increase corn production and income, earn insect control, better select ion and maintenance of harvesting equipment. A. D. Smart agroc specialist. Everts Nichols grain Msrfcst specialist be* of North Carolina State Col ?d J? Cherokee Comity, Agent, will present the I Meal lnfortrfadon for dm | Five thousand, five hundred plants are required to plant one acre spaced 2 feet by four feet. The time la fast ap proaching to begin pre paration for strawberry plait ing. All growers receiving plants through" the' County Agricultural Agent's office will receive Information on proper care of strawberries maximum yields Since all plants will be to growers at actual cost all ordera must be prepaid. Soiling Springs Ntws Mr. and Mrs. Parry Abernathy and family attended the birthday dinnar of bit father who lived to aaa Ma 83rd birthday. Mr. and Mra. Lloyd (TDall and children vlalted Mr. and Mra. Herbert Gaddia Sunday afternoon. Miea Cleo Mills vial cad Mra. Tina Anna Thuradey. Mr. R. L. Abernathy anrf Wayne Abernathy wee called on the murder trial Jury Wednesday at Sylva, N. C. ? ? ? Mr. Herbert GaddU has Hoyesville Deed Transfers Eddie Lee Lovln to Plato and WUla Mae Salts, 6 acres more or less in Hayesvllle Township J. V. and Eunata Chastain to Robert L, Shook, 10 acres more or less in Hayesvllle Township. R. E. and Glenn Penland to David Hogsed, 19 acres more or less in Shooting Creek Township. Smithdale Industries Inc., to City Industrial Company, 67 1/2 acres more or less in Shooting Creek Township; and 1/4 acre more or less in Hayesvllle Township. Charlie B. and Onelta Hall to Mary M. Brumby, 10 acres more or less In Brasstown Township. Rich are E. Thomas etals to Arnold P. Heavener et al, 40 acres more or less in Sweet water Township. City Industrial Company to A. J. Armstrong Company, Inc., 671/2 acres more or less In Shooting Creek Township; and 1/4 acre mora or less In Hayesvllle Township. Frank and Alice Marr to Glenn W. Ledford and Op alee Ledford 1 1/2 acres more or leas In Hayesvllle Township. renamed home from the Providence Hospital. Mr. Robert McDonald and wife, Hannah of Bbenzer visited hie mother, Mrs. Ella McDonald, Tuesday. V.H. Ball, Brasstown Postal Clerk, Hoaored For Service Victor H. Bail ?n 1 for his forty-one years la the Postal Service at a surprise party glvae by the patrons of the Brassawu Post Office on Tuesday alfht, February 27th at the Bcrhhnfil BttfMag la B rasa town. About sixty-41 we people, re JabaC. Mr. Pied O. Scroggs recalled the day* whan Mr. Bell travel - lmpesslble by automobile aid deecrlbed his adventures when a> drive his first As ? when of appreciation and la anticipation of Mr. Ball's retirement plana for travel, the people of the corn natality prasaumd him with lu|g*B*- Games wars played. The refreshment table was uoeased with a yellow doth a raaaarplai ? of yellow ~ A cake, baked by for dm with Water Heater Explosion Wrecks Murphy Home J?ck of an electric hot ?Mr ot the homo of Mrs. Part V.Rldan Dthal StrMt la at 10:30 pjn. Saturday, February 17. Ad aloe trie wall dock blown from tha wall in Ska Hate waa stopped at Xh30. No ooa waa injurwd although tha ha ana waa occupied at foe Urns of tha explosion by (ha Rldanhour chlldran and Mrs. Lily Roger*, a baby aitaar. Extensive damage a aounttnc a> $3,000 - $4,000 waa incurred by tha dwelling. Tha water heater encloaed in a do eat in tha combination blow, holes in a at tha calling, floor, root, ana outside wall, and 6a inaida wall. Tha picture window at the front of the house eras completely blown out. This window was credited with saving the house from total destruction. Mr. Rldanhour tails the fol io erlng story about the night of the explosion. He and his wife attended a function at 6a First Baptist Church after ho can called a scheduled trip ? Clayton, Georgia. After the church meeting, the R1 den bo urs went to the home of Rev. and Mra. W. J. Thomp son for coffee. The Rlden houra called home to check on their children and to in form the baby sitter of their whereabouts. Mrs. Rogers was watching TV in the kitchen-den when foe phone rang. After the con uereadon with the parents, she remembered that another phone was located at the other end of the bouse. She left the den to make sure the children had not been disturbed by the phone. Chi her way back to the dan, she stopped at the bath It was at this time that the water heater exploded, com pletely wrecking one end of foe house. The photo at the top shows a protion of the back of the house. The center photo shows foe hole in the roof and a teddy bear picked tg> by the ma M>Ml ta d? At bonDm. |C?lto?ci Will Chwnlcal FIrt Atlanta, Ga. ? AWorldWar U Grumman torpedo bomber will r?carta chemical (Ira retardants on poaotlally