MUaiHI ilBxtA^Y MUxiiBT N C SAMPLE The Cherokee Scout and Clay County Progress Volume 75- Number 40 Murphy, North Carolina .pril 2i>, 1565 12 *cges 'i his >*eek ml r phyASn qkthT camuma Recently we had a news paper rack to disappear from the streets of our fair city, and we trot off down to the police station to report our t misfortune to Chief Stalcup. \ We found the good Chief at ( the coffee table at the Chero- ? kee Restaurant in a big dis cussion, so instead of bother ing him we lent an ear to f the conversation. Come to find J out, somebody had just stolen i good ole Blaine's fishing pole right from under his house. That almost broke me up and 1 I darn near forgot what I < went to see him about in the first place. -J Someone told 4-year old Jackie Ramsey, who was se- t verely burned after a fall in scalding water (See related ' story this page) that his pict- ' ure would be in The Scout this week, and it seemed to cheer him up. If you would like to make his hospital con- ' finement more pleasant, send him a get-well card. His address is: Room 2219, Eggle ston's Children's Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia. -J Fred Stiles, of Murphy, Rt. 4, came by the office Mon day and allowed that his health was improving and would soon be able to pastor a church again. -J Mr. and Mrs. Otto Wood have returned to our midst after spending the winter months in Sarasota, Florida. The Woods will be providing the music and calling for the Friday night dance party at the Folk School. Party time is 8:00 p.m., and if you haven't heard Otto call a square, you have missed a treat. Y all come. -J Lake Winnepesaukah over in Chattanooga will open Sat urday, May 1, for the 1965 season, and we understand that there are many new goodies for the children and adults alike. There is no charge for admission to the park, the use of two large parking areas or a spacious picnic grove with shelters, grills and shaded tables. Seems like a good place to go since Uncle Sam is gonna start making us pay to picnic in these here parts. -J Myrtle T. Anderson sends us the following verse entit led, "Growing Old" and asked that It be dedicated to Mrs. Susie Anderson Barker of Culberson, who recently cele brated her 97th birthday, and to all senior citizens of Cher okee and Clay County. They say that I'm growing old, I've heard them tell it times untold In language plain and bold But I'm not growing old. This frail old shell in which I dwell Is growing old, I know full well, But I'm not growing oldl What if my hair is turning g?y? Gray hair is honorable they say. What if my eyesight's grow ing dim? I can still see to follow Him Who sacrificed His life for me There on the Cross at Cal vary 1 What should I car* if times old plow Has dug Its furrows In my brow? Another house, not made with hands Awaits me, in the Glory Land. My hearing may not be as keen As in die past it might have been Still 1 can hear my Savior say "Come faltering child, this U the Way I" The outward man do what I can To lengthen out this life short span. Stall perish and return to dust, As everything in nature must. But the Inward man, the Scrip ture say Is growing stronger every day I Then how can I be growing old? I'm safe within my Saviors fold. Ere long my soul shall fly away And leave this tenement of clay I This robe of flesh 1*11 drop and rise To seize the everlasting prinl I'll meet you on the streets of gold And prove that I'm not grow ing oldl SEVERAL CAME CLOSE BUT STILL NO WINNER $130 This Week Several entries came close o winning our 1120. PRIZE - tfORD puzzle last week. In act, many missed a perfect solution by only one letter. Our weekly bonus of 910.00 las been added to this week's >uzzle and a perfect solution s worth $130. That much money will go a long way on a shopping spree ir a lot of fun on a vacation, rake time NOW to work this puzzle on Page 3. Kou could be the winner! ACROSS: 1. Without realizing it, a man often reveals in his conversation what he WAS (Has). - What he WAS, the story of his life to date, is natural conversation for a man. Unless he's boastful ar a complete fool, a man seldom inventories his possessions in conversation. 3. The path that we TREAD in life is often really the bes' one for us (Dread). - TREAD is the correct answer. Note often. A path through life that we Dread would seldom, rather than often, be the best for us. 5. Refusal to take risks results in many a man's being retarded by his employers (Rewarded). - Note many a man. Relatively few men, such as bank guards and locomotive enginers, might be Rewarded for ultracautious action. The initiative that pays off In business almost always involves risk-taking. 12. Many soldiers REVEL in war (Rebel). - Many fits best with REVEL, to take great satisfaction in something. Extremely few soldiers Rebel during a state of war, considering the number of men Involved. 13. It's very flattering when our WIT is praised! (Win). - A Win suggests something largely involving chance. Congratulation, rather than praise, would be called for. WIT, a talent for clever expression, is much more apt to be praised. 14.. Overloading TRAYS often results In accidents (Trams). - Jam-packed Trams, streetcars, seldom are involved in accidents. TRAYS loaded with mountains of dishes get dropped In restaurants every day. 15. When we're past our youth we usually spend our PAY more carefully (Day). - Advancing age indicates a mature outlook on handling our resources. Quietly or leisurely would better describe how older people might spend a Day. 16. Children who constantly CRY are indeed exasperating (Pry). - To Pry, to investigate, places and things searchingly, Is the nature of children. The nerve-rasping CRY of a child who yowls constantly fits best with exasperating. DOWN: 2. Tellers of long, drawn-out stories often bore those they SEEK to amuse (Seem). - Note often. It's not often that long-winded persons can find an audience charitable enough to pretend to enjoy their marathon tales. SEEK is much the best. 4. ACE is often the cause of a man losing his job (Ale). - AGE Is best with often. The number of men fired for Ale drinking are very few In number compared to those let out because of ACE. 6. One must have ABILITY to beproficlent at games (Agility). - Note games. Agility would be best In relation to sports. Games Includes such things as chess or bridge, where athletic Aglllty has no application, but where ABILITY is a necessity in order to be proficient. 7. A party hostess usually regards It as a reflection on her when a guest Is in a DOZE (Daze). - If the fellow's so bored that he'U DOZE, it's a reflection on the hostess' party-giving ability. Someone in a Daze might be dazzled by the lavishness of the affair. 8. When one visits the dentist for the first time he is often apt to SHRINK (Shriek). - To SHRINK, to draw back from an expected unpleasant experience, would be natural. To Shriek is hardly to be expected: that first visit to the dentist is usually exploratory and the man does nothing to cause you pain. 9. We can usually soon tell when a HEM has been badly cut (Gem). - It takes an expert to spot a badly cut Gem. Few of us are authorities on precious stones. A sloppy HEM is evident to even the untrained eye. 10. It often makes man self-conscious when he has NEW clothes to wear. (Few). - NEW clothea make a man conspicuous. Many men don't enjoy being the focal point of attention. Few clothes, If they're adequate, are nothing to be self-conscious about. 11. Not many men would willingly marry a woman who Is HUSSY (Fussy). - A Fussy woman might well be a nice person and a desirable mate. A HUSSY Is a worthless woman. Senior Class Play Friday And Saturday "Arsenic and Old Lice, a three-act comedy by Joseph Kesselrlgn.wlll be presented by the senior class of Murphy High School, 7i90 p.m., at the grammer school auditorium, April 90, and May 1. Admission la one dollar for adulta and fifty cents for atudenta. The play, filled with sus pense, features two charitable and dearly-loved, but quite eccentric, old aunts, Martha and Abby Brewster, and their lunatic nephews, Teddy and Jonathan. The cast of the play la aa follows! Abby Brewater, BANK EMPLOYEES (Background) look on as (L-R) Claud D. Crosby, architect, Bill Whlt aker, vice-president of the bank and Percy B. Ferebee, president of Citizens Bank and Trust Company, break ground for a new bank to be constructed in Andrews. New Citizens Bank in Andrews To Feature Drive In Window ANDREWS- Ground break ing ceremonies for a new Citizen Bank and Trust Com pany building were held here Tuesday afternoon, April 27. Percy B. Ferebee, presi dent of the bank, stated that the new facility will feature the latest type drive-in win dow and house all modern equipment including night de pository, new vaults and saf ety deposit boxes. "Construction of the new bank building has been in the planning stage for the past two years. The building pre sently being used by the bank was constructed in 1910 and is inadequate for our needs," Mr. Ferebee said. The new building will be 80 x 160 feet, two-stories high and set back from the street 50 feet. It will be built on the lot now being used for employee parking. Plans call for a terraced and landscaped front lawn. Claud D. Crosby of Char lotte, N. C., is the architect. He was also the architect for the Murphy, Robbinsville, Hayesville and Sylva Citizen Bank and Trust Company buildings.. Completion of the new And rews facility is expected sometime this fall. Hiawassee Dam Launches Fund Campaign For Activity Bus Principal Harest E. King announced today that Hiwassee Oam School is launching an all-out campaign to finance an activity bus and requests the school's many friends' assis tance. This project has been the first item on the agenda for many months since the old activity bus had to be con demned as unsafe for student transportation. All means compatible with scholastic st andards have been used. Pre sently, students are selling chances on a Plymouth station wagon which the Agriculture students have completely re built. Howard Verner did the tune-up job and installed a new transmission. Coach Amos states, "If anyone needs good, durable hunting and fish ing transportation, you might have a look. I think the boys and Howard have done a good Job." Despite hard work and in genuity, the fund is still far short af the needed amount. Station Manager Paul Rledn hour has put WKRK at the disposal of the school and Its patrons from 2 to 3:30 p.m., Tuesday, May 4, to help raise funds. During this period, "Cuz" Bagley, Scout columnist, will M. C. a concerted appeal to the listening public to help Hiwassee Dam push the Act ivity Bus Fund over the top. When interviewed this week, Mr. King enumerated the many urgent reasons for a new bus. "Although the boys' team placed third In the conference tournament," he said, "they did it at great sacrifice of strength, energy and time on their part as well as on the part of Coach Don Amos and the parents who provided transportation in personal car* for all the Away games. Sheliah Sneed; The Rev. Dr. Harper, Luke Nave) Teddy Brewster, Hirry Moore; Officer Brophy , Steve Howell) Officer Klein, Jimmy Morgans Martha Brewster, Mary Smith) Elaine Harper, Becky Farmeri Mortimer Brewster, Roger Kephart) Mr. Glbbs, Sammy Car ringer, Jonathan Brewster, Boo Hill) Dr. Ilnateln, Don Ramsey) Officer O'Hara, Edward Plott) Lieu tenant Rooney, Jimmy Cole; Mr. Wltherspoon, Luke Nave; The Corpee, Too) Reed. Richard M. Bell la the director. THE AUTOMOBILE In which Mr*. Wayne Ladd wu rldlnf wu (town u It Uy in Junaluikj Creek after overturning down an embankment. Mr. King went on to emph asize that even though the athletic department would probably make the greatest use of the bus, transportation is also urgently needed in other phases of the school program. "The physics class recently made a field trip to TCC. A single vehicle would have been more economical, more satis factory, and, perhaps, more beneficial educationally since the students could have par ticipated in a total unit dis cussion while the trip was fresh in their minds and en thusiasms." "The Library Club has long expressed the desire to visit a city library to observe the larger, more complicated operation. The civics classes would like to make field trips to see various political and social agencies in operation. The journalism class has asked for a trip to watch a commercially produced paper American Legion Auxiliary Meeting Set For Thursday MURPHY - The American Legion Auxiliary, Department of North Carolina, Twentieth District Meeting will beheld Thursday, (Today) April 29. The meeting will be a lunch eon meeting at the home of Mrs. Herman Edwards, Boulevard Drive. Mrs. Torn Mauney, Twentieth District President will preside. Registration and Coffee Hour will begin at 9:00-10:00 a.m. at the home of Mayor and Mrs. L. L. Mason on Valley River Avenue. The 20th District repres ents Franklin, Robbinsville, Sylva, Cherokee and Murphy. Car Overturns In Jonalvska Creek ANDREWS - Mrs. Wayne Ladd of Andrews was admitted to District Memorial Hospital, Tuesday afternoon, April 27, following a one-car accident on the new Junaluska road approximately five miles east of Andrews. The automobile went out of control, overturned down an Ombankment and landed in side down in Junaluska Creek. District Memorial Hospital refused to give any In formation Wednesday con corning the condition of Mra. Ladd. Investigating officer for N. C. State Patrol could not bo reached at press time to obtain information as to how the accident occur ed. in the process of production. "College Day participation had to be handled on an in dividual basis this year. We are having to pass up Visiting Day for the Ranger students who will be entering Hiwassee Dam next fall. Teachers would find an activity bus more satisfactory and reliable for attending local and state educational meetings as a unit. You can see the needs are innumerable and urgent," Mr. King said. PTA President Mrs. Harry C. Bagley stated that the local unit was, as always, backing the school 100?fc, "The greater safety to the students is reason enough." "We wish to thank all in terested friends who have helped the school in the past and to request their assistance in this highly urgent campaign," she added. Child Critical After Fall Into Scalding Water MURPHY - A four year old-boy who fell backward Into a tub of scalding water Saturday afternoon on a farm was reported in a critical condition Monday in Egg les ton's Children Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia. He is Jackie Ramsey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Ramsey of Murphy, and nephew of Sheriff and Mrs. Claude And erson and Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Ramsey. He was at the home of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Kirkland near Hiwassee Dam. According to the Sheriff the child was thought to be asleep, wandered out into the yard where his grandparents were preparing to scald some fowl for packaging. He was not seen so nobody knew exactly how he got into the tub, but he fell in backwards up to his armpits, and suffered second degree on upper part of his Jackie Ramsey body and third degree burns on lower part of body. His grandmother was sev erely burned about her feet when she tried to get him out. In a telephone conversation with the boys mother Wednesday, the Scout learned that his condition was listed as critical, however his I'Dctor says there is still a good chance for recovery. Recreation-Conservation Sticker To Go Cn Sale Forest Supervisor, Peter c J. Hanlon, said today that i{ the new Federal Recreation ri Conservation Sticker will go jj on Sale May 10 at the Forest tj Supervisor's Office, 50 South ^ French Broad Avenue and at the llDistrictForestRanger's p Offices in North Carolina. a Stickers may be bought by mail and the order must be accompanied by certified p check or Postal Money Order n for $7.00 payable to the j Forest Service, U.S.D.A. N The annual $7.00 sticker q will entitle all the passen- a gers up to 9 persons in a ? private automobile to enter all National Forest Recreation Areas throughout the United States which qualify and have been designated as charge areas. The sticker will bis good until 4-1-66. Travelling over Forest Service roads and such activities as hunting and fishing are exempt from these charges. The recreation charge was authorized by the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965. Money from the sale of stickers will be used to help states, cities and counties acquire and develop needed recreation areas. It also will be used in acquiring additional Federal Recreation areas. For visitors not purchasing ( the sticker, an entrance fee ticket of $.50 per day or 1 92.50 per season for each person over 16 is available. The seasonal fee ticket is 1 good for the entire 1965 Pets Can Be Predators RALEIGH - Old Blue and Tom may look very innocent and domesticated while lying around the house waiting for a handout and an affectionate pat. But, generally speaking, dogs and cats are, by instinct, vicious and highly efficient predators when it comes to wildlife. Competent wildlife authorities tell us year after year that with all species of game, from quail to deer, these household pets kill more wildlife than all our legal hunters. The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission has worked diligently in all fields of wildlife conservation since its inception. In several areas of fish and game management the Commission has attractec national attention for new pro grams of proven merit. Bui progress has been painfull) slow in one particularly vital area ? namely the control ol stray dogs and cats. Not man) states have really effective pel control programs in the rural areas where most game U produced, and we are no ex ception. The vast majority of biolog ists and most people whohavt given the idea any serioui consideration are convince* that free-roaming dogs an one of the chief limltln| factors in expanding turke; and deer populations. Stra; cats are especially damaging to rabbits and quail becausi of their ability to hunt at night and their vision and steath makes them deadly daytimi hunters. Both of these pet will kill wildlife out of hunge: and when"dumped out" on rural reed, and because o instinct even when sleek an well -fed. i wo commission empl oyees recently observed from * distance two dogs chasing a doe. She was running along a wide mountain valley well ahead of the dogs, but obvi ously getting tired. Suddenly she stopped and stared str aight ahead attentively for a : few moments, then veered sharply to die right and began to labor up the steep side of a mountain. The cause for her actions was quickly obvious. Another pair of dogs, fresh and eager for the kill, had been attracted by the sounds of the chase. They were rap 1 idly closing the gap when the weary deer vanished from sight among the trees, t The Wildlife men were too I far away to do anything but watch. It is doubtful if they are especially vulnerable to - the predatlon of Tom and Old Blue at this time. The Wild life Resources Commission urges all cltixens to control > the activities of their p?u 1 so as to give wildlife a better i opportunity to make a vital I contribution ? sporting and I aesthetic enjoyment for ev f eryone. I Uaoko CoMMsaity * To Sponsor Stpptr * UNAKA- The Unaxa Com I muniiy will have a covered r dish supper Saturday night * 7i00 p.m. in the Unaka School. lf James Stewart, County Ex it tension Chairman, will pre sent 4m program. harge period for all the des jnated National Forest Rec eation areas in North Carol la. Single entry and season ckets may be purchased at le Forest Supervisor's Off :e and at the 11 District orest Ranger's Offices on rid after June 1, 1966. The charge period during )65 for designated National orest Recreation Areas in orth Carolina will be from une 1, to September 104966. lo entrance fee will be re uired during 1965 before or fter this charge period. Pay ment of entrance fee entitles ou to use the camping, licni eking and swimming acillties that are provided >n the area. Nantahala National Forest treas designated and posted is charge areas are: Cliff iide Lake, Van Hook Glade, Standing Indian, Jack Rabbit fountain, Hiwassee Lake, rasli, Cheoah Point, and Santeelah Lake. The local Ranger office innounced that Jack Rabbit fountain campground will not >e open on May 1 as orig nally planned due to mec lanical failures in the water system. An announcement will >e made when the facility jegins operation. lontracts Awarded [o Brumby Textile MURPHY - Edward H. 3rumby, owner of Brumby Textile Mill here announced this week that the company had been awarded two seperate contracts to produce 608,430 undershirts for the Defense Clothing and Textile Center In Philadelphia, Pa. The Center stated that the contracts were awarded by competition after formal advertising, to the lowest res ponsible bidder who con formed with all bid require ments. Of 128 firms solicited, seven submitted bids. Letters To Editor Dear Mr. Editor: I would like very much for you to publish this letter be cause It concerns something everyone should be Interested in. I have noticed in our town, at the Library building, an American flag which has been out for weeks in the rain and weather, day and night. The flag is dirty, torn and ragg ed. We don't know who is supp osed to take care of it, wheth er it is the town, the Cham ber of Commerce, the police of the library staff. Bui this (lag should be done away with because It is a sad thing to see. It Is so neglected. Excapt on holidays, the only other places in our town I've seen a flag Is at the school and Poet Office but they take good care of them. Please print this because morepeople should put up flags and take good care of them. Tours truly, Alan Godfrey (Editor's Notet) We agree, if die flag of oar country is to be dtspl?v?l, it should be better tafcan care of. Alan Is the 12-year old see of Mr. and Mrs. Kara* Godfrey of Murphy.)