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VOLUME M NUMBER ? 42
DEDICATED TO PROMOTING CHER# b 5E COUNTY
MURPHY, N. C. ? THURSDAY, MAY !?, 1M7 ?
TEN PAGES THIS WEEK
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
New Murphy High School Dedication Sunday
Puett And Jordan New
Murphy School Principals
Walter R. Puett
To Head
Murphy Hi School
Walter R. Puett, a native of
Towns County, Georgia, has been
named principal of Murphy High
School.
Mr. Puett has been mathematics
teacher at Murphy High School for
the past ten years. He is married
to the former Mozelle Moore of
Murphy and they have three chil
dren, Terrelle, age 5, Terry, age 4,
and Edward, 3 motnhs.
A graduate of Young Harris Ac
ademy and Young Harris Junior
College, he received his B. S. de
gree in Education from the Univer
sity of Georgia and an M. S. de
gree in Educational Administra
tion and Supervison from Georgia
in 1949. He has done advanced
graduate work beyond Masters'
Degree at both Duke University
and the University of Chicago.
He has served as principal of
the Towns County, Georgia elemen
tary school and taught mathema
tics and science at the Moore
Haven, Florida high school.
Mr. Puett enlisted tn the Army
in 1942 and held every rank from
private to M-Sgt. in one year at
which time he was commissioned.
He received his discharge in 1947
with the rank of Captain.
He is a member of the First
Baptist Church and a former super
intendent of Sunday School and a
Bible class teacher. Mr. Puett is
also a past-president of the Murphy
Civitan Club.
WALTER PUETT
JOHN JORDAN
Cherokee Pomona, Martin's Creek
Granges Hold Joint Meet Wednsday
The Cherokee Pomona Grange
met with Martina Creek Subordi
nate Grange at Martins Creek
school Wednesday night, May 7,
with 66 Juvenile and Grange mem
bers present.
Gwynn Denton, present Pomona
Master of Robbinsville, was in
charge of the meeting.
Albert Winters of Greensboro,
agent of Grange Insurance, was
principal speaker and Jim Adams,
asistant County Agent, showed the
film, "Community Cooperation."
Entertainment was furnished by
Glenn Ellis and his Blue Mountain
Boys, the string band of Martins
Creek Grange and by members of
the Juvenile Grange.
Due to the resignation of the
Pomona Grange lecturer, Albert
Ramsey of Robbinsville, Bryan
Chastaln of Martin's Creek Grange
was elected to fill the post.
Mr. Ramsey who is County
Agent for Graham County, is leav
ing to take up other work.
Mi'. Chastaln was especially re
quested by Mr. Winters, special
State Grange meeting at oFntana
to furnish entertainment tor the
agent Grange insurance services,
Village in October.
Many of those present were
charter, members who met here
5 years before on May 7, 1962 and
began its organization with the
electing of its first officers : James
Osborne,' Master; W. A. (Bill)
Hembree, Lecturer; Mrs. Frank
Battle, Treasurer; A. J. Martin,
Secretary; Miss Geneva Chastaln,
Youth Chairman; and Mrs. Clar
ence Hendrix, Home * Community
Service Chairman. We closed the
Grange on that date with 37
Charter Members. We met soon
after with Marble Grange where
other officers were elected and
more Subordinate Grange mem.
bers came into the Pomona
Grange.
'When Martins Cteek Grange was
organised in April, in, W. A.
Hembree was - elected Worthy
Master, then in May be was elected
Worthy Lecturer of Pomona. He
passed away soon after, this I
vacancy was filled with another
Pomona member; Mrs. Loyd
Hendrix was chosen and became
Worthy Lecturer by unanimous,
vote.
Other officers elected at this
meeting were : Overseer, Bryan
Chaistain ; Steward, R. F. Ander
son; Chaplain, Miss Dale Suddreth;
Gate Keeper, Rev. Lester Stowe;
Asst. Steward, Leroy Gilbert; Lady
Asst. Steward, Mrs. Ben Brown;
Pomona, Mrs. R. F. Anderson;
Flora, Mrs. Frank GhiringhilU.
Executive Committee; Bergen
Moore, Mrs. Bergan Moore and
Loyd Hendrix.
John Jordan New
Elementary
School Principal
John Jordan, a native of Murphy,
has been named principal of the
Murphy Elementary School.
Mr. Jordan, who served for 3Vi
years in the Navy's Hospital Corp,
has been a teacher in the Murphy
school for the past ten years and
is the son of Mrs. J. A. Jordan of
Murphy.
He holds a B. S. degree in Ele
mentary Education from Western
Carolina College and an M. A. de
gree in School Administration from
Columbia University and was list
ed in Who's Who in American Col
lege and Unversitles in Cullowhee.
A member of the Baptist Church
and Superintendent of the Junior
Department, he is married to the
former Mary Katherine Piven of
New York and they have three chil
dren, Jimmy, Mike and Bob.
Mr. Jordan is Scoutmaster of
Murphy Boy Scout Troop 12, a
member of the Civitan Club, and is
on the TAC Committee. He is also
Summer Recreation Director and
is serving his second term on the
Murphy City Board.
Sgt. Fred Hall
Promoted To
Detective Sgt
Sgt. Fred Hall, who was at one
time on the police force of Murphy,
and who has been a member of
the police department of Jackson
ville, N. C. for four years, has been
promoted to Detective Sgt.
Sgt. Hall has just returned from
Winston-Salem where he attended
a meeting of the North Carolina
Association of Identification De
partments. During the two-day
meeting several phases of identi
fication work were stressed, includ
ing fingerprinting, criminal photo
graphy, and general identification
work.
"Thrift Sale"
To Continue
The "Thrift Sale" sponsored by
the Valleytown Garden Club which
was held last Friday and Saturday
in the Rowland Building on Main
Street will be continued and open
again this Saturday.
MARSHALS AT THE NSW HIGH SCHOOL DEDI
CATION SUNDAY ? These girls will serve as
marshals at the dedication service at the new
high school Sunday. Juniors in high school they
are left to right, Betty Weaver, Gloria Bowman,
Ramona Haggard, Christine Gladson and Lois
Allison.
Commencement Exercises
At Andrews Hi Next Week
628 Vehicles Inspected At 3-Day
Safety Check Lane Here Last Week
A *.4.1 MO L:.l enn , . _ .....
a wioi ui 060 vciuuica, aw cars
and 128 trucks were inspected at
the three-day safety check lane
conducted in Murphy on Wednes
day, Thursday and Friday of last
week.
Almost 23 percent, 101 cars and
42 trucks, were rejected because
of mechanical faults. Thirteen were
corrected and later approved.
The safety check lane #t And
rews the previous week inspected
308 vehicles making a total of 934
for the county.
The vehicles rejected in Murphy
and the faults were: brakes ? cars,
Murphy City Board Wrestles
With Street Paving Problem
City Board wrestled with the
street paving problem at their reg
ular meeting at the City Hall Mon
day evening.
Hobart McKeever, city attorney,
said that under the present ar
rangement the city pays one-third
of the cost of paving while the
property owner on either side of
the street each pays one-third.
The problem is, he said, that in
many instances most property own
ers want a street paved, but the
city's hands are tied unless every
one on the street agrees to pay
their share of the cost, which a
mounts to approximately {1.28 per
running foot.
Board agreed that something
should be done about the problem
and discussed the possibility of hir
ing someone to call on property
owners to determine which streets
in Murphy could be paved.
J. P. Garcia and Walter Dia
m ukes of Chamblee, Ga., engineers
for the Murphy water improve
ment program, told Board that the
builder, William Dillard, was "do
ing an excellent job" of construc
tion but that progress was too
slow.
In other business at the meeting,
Lester Powell, from the Factory
Town section appeared before the
Board with the complaint that his
Water supply was not adequate. .
Board instructed the water com
mittee, Francis Bourne, John
Jordan and Ed Brumby, to Investi
gate the situation and do whatever
was necessary to remedy it. They
also suggested that a larger main
might be installed on the street
to serve potential housing.
Ed Hyde of Cherokee Motors,
and Arvil Woods of Murphy Ap
pliance Company asked that some,
thing be done about the high curbs
in front of their establishments.
Mr. Hyde said that bumpers
were scratched on many cars be
cause the curb was too high. Ed
Brumby, Board members, said the
same situation existed on the other
side of the street in front of the
Post Office and that the only way
to correct it was to resurface the
street along the curbs.
Board instructed Charlie John
son, city clerk, to contact the State
Highway Department and And out
who was responsible for the main
tenance of the street.
Bob White of Bob's Service Sta
tion and Virgil O'Dell of Miami
Restaurant, requested that a stop
sign or warning light be put up at
the intersection of Highway 64 and
old U. S. 19. Mr. White said traf
fic waa so fast at the Intersection
that it "is only a matter of time
until someone gets killed."
The street committee waa in
stnicted to do whatever is neces
sary to make the intersection safe.
Harve El kins and Frank Ellis,
residents of Tennessee Street, told
the Board Quit their water supply
waa inadequate. Board instructed ,
Charlie Johnson to do whatever la
necessary to remedy the situation.
13, trucKs 3; front lights? cars 36,
trucks 12; rear lights? cars 29,
trucks 20; steering? cars 17,
trucks 5; tires ? cars 10, trucks 5;
exhaust? cars 9, trucks 1; glass
cars 14, trucks 5; windshield wip
ers ? cars 4, trucks 1; rear view
mirror? cars 2, trucks 0; horn
cars 5, trucks 4.
Several of the cars and trucks
rejected had more than one me
chanical defect.
Frank Ellis was chairman of the
Murphy safey check lane and it
was conducted by members of
local civic clubs. Murphy garages
furnished mechanics for the in
spection of vehicles.
Fourteen Andrews
Teenagers Appear
On T.V. Saturday
Fourteen young people from the
"Kats' Korner" of the Andrews
Recreation Center appeared on the
"Top Ten Dance Party" last Satur
day from 12 to 1 p.m., in Chatta
nooga, Tenn.
"The dance team performed with
much poise and ease, displaying a
smooth performance not only with
standard steps, but also with
original stepa worked into effective
routines which were gracefully
executed", according to Mrs. L
E. Laughter, Chairman of the Rec
reation Center. Mrs. Laughter also
reported that "the teamwork at
the unit was so effective that
station Judges had difficulty in
?electing a winning couple from
the group, however, Terry and Bob (
Slagle received the award for the ,
best all around performance. With
the award, the winners also re
ceived prises from the program
?ponsors.
Mrs. Laughter, made the neces
sary arrangements for the appear
ance of the dance group, mad acted
(Conttned ea back page)
/
Graduation exercises at Andrews
High School will be held Monday
evening at 8 at the school auditor
ium and the Baccalaureate address
will be delivered by the Rev. J.
E. Carter at the First' Methodist
Church Sunday evening at 7:30.
Eighth grade commencement ex
ercises for Andrews Elementary
School will be held Monday at
10:30 a. m. in the high school audi
torium, according to J. E. Rufty
Superintendent of Andrews City
Schools.
William B. Harrill, Dean of West
ern Carolina College, will be the
speaker at the high school gradua
tion exercises.
Honor, students who will speak
are Wayne Battle, Ardith Hay, Jer
ry Pullium, and Carolyn West. Vir
ginia Garner, a member of the
graduating class will be pianist for
the exercises.
"The administration of Andrews
High School found itself in some
what of a dilemna this year," Mr.
Rufty said. "For several years, it
has been the practice at Andrews to
name a valedictorian and a saluta
torian of the graduating class, the
valedictorian being the student
with the highest academic average
for the four years of high school
and the salutatorian being the one
with the next highest average.
This year, Wayne Battle, Jr.,
Jerry Pullium, and the Misses Ar
dith Hay and Carolyn West each
has a four-year academic average
differing from any of the other
three by such an extraordinarily
small fraction of one per cent that
the task of eliminating two of them
seemed to.be not only unfair but
impossible.
Having observed the rapidly in
creasing practice of high schools
throughout our country of naming
several "honor students" in the
graduating class and of giving
each of them equal recognition,
we concluded that this method was
the only fair solution."
"We feel that the above proce
dure is in agreement with the
thinking of and follows the treads
of thought expressed by many of
our leading educators today;" Mr.
Rufty concluded.
Attorney General
Patton
Principal Speaker
George H, Patton, North Carolina
attorney general, will be the prin
cipal speaker at the dedication of
the new Murphy High School at
the school gymnasium next Sunday
afternoon at 3.
H. Bueck will preside at the
ceremony and H. A. Mattox, chair
man of the School Board will make
the welcome address.
Presentation of the building will
be by G. C. Harrill of Andrews,
engineer, and architect, and it will
bt accepted by P. G. Ivie for the
School Board and Mayor L. L.
Mason for the town of Murphy.
The new brick building is lo
cated on a 218-acre site on the
Valley River in East Murphy and
contains 43,100 feet of floor space
which includes a gymnasium,
dressing rooms, showers and 21
classrooms.
It was constructed at a cost of
$258,143 and the site cost $23,000.
The building is triple A fireproof
and toilets, showers and main cor
ridors are finished with glazed tile.
Corridors are 13 feet wide and
each classroom has a lavatory and
drinking fountain. ,
The heating is forced circulation
hot water with automatic controls
and the electrical system provides
an automatic program system and
a complete intercom system. A
sewage disposal and filter system
for 800 students is included in the
contract.
Jane Rush a Murphy High
graduate of 1953 and now an art
student at the Richmond Institute
of Art, selected the interior colors
for the building. The cabinet work
was by Pearley Ch as tain.
Contractors for the sohool were
Liner Con/truction Company, gen
eral contract; C. E. Holder of
Andrews, plumbing; Southern En
gineering and Piping Co., heating;
and Murphy Electrical Shop, elec
trical contract. C. G. Harrill of
Andrews, was the architect and
engineer.
Marshals at the dedication will
be Betty Weaver, Ramona Hag
gard, Gloria Bowman, Lois Allison,
and Christine Gladson.
The wives of School Board mem
bers and members o% the faculty
of the Murphy City Unit will serve
as hostesses.
Poppy Day Set -
Saturday
For Murphy
Mayor L. L. Mason has issued tt
proclamation naming Saturday,
May 26, 1967, as Poppy Day in
Murphy, a day set aside to pay
personal tribute to American wac
dead.
On this day throughout the length
and breadth of the land every
man, woman and child will be
?
wearing a red poppy over his or
her heart in memory of our honor
ed dead and at the same time will
be giving generously to aid the
disabled Veteran and his family.
These little red crepe paper pop.
pies are made by disabled Veter
ans in the hospitals and are bought
by American Liegion Auxiliary
units and sold in memorlam to the
war dead. The money derived from
the poppy sale is used primarily
for the rehabilitation and child wel
fare program for Veterans.
The local American Legion Auxi
liary will observe National Poppy
Day by selling poppies on the
streets in Murphy on Saturday,
May 29. Mrs. Bertha Roberts is
Poppy chairman of the local unit
HmmWx Brothers
Opening Winers
Hadley Plemmons, at Murphy
was the winner of thirty-five silver
dollars given by the Hendrix Bra
then at their grand apraing here
Saturday.
Other winners wen Clyde John
son who won fifteen silver M
lars; Jack Moon, hm
and Wesley Garrett, ofl