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Volume 80 ? Number 40 - Murphy, North Carolina, 28906 ? Second Class Postage Paid At Murphy, North Carolina ? Thursday, April 30, 1970
Ready For Play
With flags in place and Congressman Roy Taylor will be the
llarley-Davidson carts waiting, the dedication speaker Sunday afternoon
Cherokee County Golf Course is ready and then play a round on the iirst nine
for Opening of play 011 Sunday, holes. (Staff Photo)
Direct
Dialing
Installed
If you are a Murphy
telephone subscriber. Friday
morning you can dial direct to
your sister in Oregon or your
brother in North Dakota and
get a much lower rate than the
usual long distance call handled
by operators.
For Westco Telephone has
installed 15 trunk lines from
Murphy to automatic ticketing
equipment in the telephone
headquarters at Sylva and on
Friday morning, at one minute
after midnight, these lines will
be open and available for use.
Direct distance dialing has
been in effect for some time in
other telephone systems. It was
installed at Sylva the last of
March and will be available in
Franklin on May 15 and
Highlands on June 15. Other
Westco systems are scheduled
for direct distance dialing
service next year.
The 2,500 Murphy
telephone subscribers join a
nationwide network now,
keyed to three-digit area codes.
To call that sister in Oregon,
for example, you would need
tier number and the Oregon
irea code, which is 503 for the
whole state.
You would then dial 1,
which will connect you with
the equipment in Sylva, then
lial the Oregon area code
number (503) and then finally
lial the home number you are
ailing. If you are on a one or
two party line the call, if
ximpleted, will be recorded
ind you will be billed
lutomatically. If you are on a
narty line of four or more, an
iperator will come on the line
x> ask your number.
In making long distance
alls within the 704 area of
forth Carolina, which includes
Aurphy, just dial 1 and then
he number you are calling,
[lie eastern section of the state
tas an area code of 919;
xinsult the telephone directory
nap for the exact boundaries
>f the two different areas.
The savings on labor, since
here is no operator involved, is
aaaed on to the customer and
kturphy subscribers will get the
?me low rates, according to a
ffastco spokesman. Rates are
ower after five each evening
ind all day on the weekends.
New Golf Course
To Be Dedicated
Congressman Roy Taylor
will be here on Sunday
afternoon to dedicate the new
Cherokee County Golf Course
and officially open the first
nine holes for play.
Winds Wreck
Airplane,
Spare Cow
High winds hit Murphy last
Friday morning, doing several
thousands of dollars in damage
but leaving a cow in the middle
of the storm unhurt.
Bill Wells, of Wells & West
Construction, said what was
evidently a small twister hit the
company's warehouse and
airplane about 9:30 a.m.
located off US-19129 just
north of the town limits.
"It lifted a 60-foot shed off
an old cow," Wells said. "And
didn't hurt her at all. And
when we checked back several
hours later, she was still
standing there, chewing her
cud."
One of the Wells & West
airplanes, a 1946 Luscomb
which was being kept at the
private strip near the
warehouse, was tossed about
150 feet by the storm and then
dropped. The warehouse was
also damaged by the storm, the
high winds ripping off the
front and the roof.
Wells saidthe airplane would
have to have new wings before
it can be flown again and
estimated total damages at
$4,000.
Across the highway from
the Wells & West property, a
Cadillac parked at B&W Motors
had a large timber blown
through its windshield bythe
winds and buildings nearby had
roofing shingles ripped away.
In town the damages
seemed confined to limbs being
blown off trees.
At Peachtree, the Rev. Ham
Coffey reported that high
winds Friday morning wrecked
a canning house to the extent
that it will have to be rebuilt.
He said the wind also moved a
garage roof off its supporting
poles.
The Democratic
representative, seeking
re-election this year, will play
the rolling course on Harshaw
Road in a foursome to include
his district assistant Tom
Mallonee, Joe El-Khouri,
chairman of the Cherokee
County Rural Renewal
Authority and Bill Carter,
authority member.
The dedication begins at 2
p. m. and El-Khouri said
refreshments will be served.
The course was constructed
by the Rural Renewal
Authority with a $250,(XfO
loan from the Farmers Home
Administration. The contractor
for construction of the course
was Wells & West of Murphy.
Robert Bruce, FHA
supervisor of Murphy, will be
present for the dedication with
other FHA officials. Rural
Renewal Authority officials
from Clay and Graham
counties have also been invited
to attend as well as the press.
Town and county officials
from the surrounding area have
been mailed invitations, too.
A number of sturdy
Harley-Davidson golf carts are
available at the course for
rental and will be on hand
Sunday afternoon for play.
Those attending the dedication
are invited to bring their clubs
and play.
Primary Saturday,
? \ m
Town Vote Tuesday
Voters here will go to the polls twice within the next
week, for the state primary on Saturday and the Town
of Murphy election on Tuesday.
The only race in the primary on Saturday is between
two Democratic judges, Harry C. Martin of Asheville
and R.A. (Fred) Hedrick of Statesville, running for the
state Court of Appeals.
"That one race will cost us from three to four
thousand dollars," Glenn Stalcup, chairman of the
Cherokee County Board of Elections said Tuesday. He
predicted a light votein 11 of the county's 17 precincts,
saying "nobody is interested much" in the judges' race.
On Tuesday, voters who live in Murphy will go to the
Courthouseto elect a mayor and six-man Town Board.
Cloe Moore, the Democratic iricumbent is
unopposed for mayor.
Of the six Democrats running for Town Board, five
are incumbents?Ken Godfrey, W.A. (Dub) Singleton,
Francis Bourne Jr., John Carringer and W.T. (Bud)
Brown. Joe Fowler is the sixth candidate, picked by the
town Democratic Convention to replace Town Board
member Jerry Hatchett, who declined to run again for
personal reasons.
The Democrats are challenged by four Republicans
seeking seats on the Town Board. They are Lowen
Dockery, Hayes Dockery, Jr., Harry Lovingood and
Albert Graves. The Republicans did not pick a candidate
for mayor.
Fort Project Is Passed
To Congressman Taylor
A group from Murphy went
to Raleigh and met with
representatives of the state
Department of Archives and
History Monday on the
possibility of reconstructing
Ft. Butler here.
Lake Near
Prelected
May Level
Hiwassee Lake is at the level
it should be for this time of
year, according to TVA
employes.
The TVA engineers set a
curve, ranging from a low point
in winter to full in summer,
which shows a desirable lake
level reading for each day.
"The curve calls for a lake
level of 1490, which is 1490
feet above sea level, on May
1," a spokesman at the dam
said this week. The reading
Wednesday morning was
1489.41 feet, a matter of
inches off the 1490 mark
which should be reached
Friday.
The curve is set according to
normal rainfall Figures, the
TVA officials say, and if
rainfall is not normal, the lake
levels will not reach what they
should.,
The top of the floodgate at
the dam would be a reading of
1526, they say, which mean
much low land around Murphy
would be flooded. For all
practical purposes, 1523 is
considered full and at that
mark the lake will cover the
river bottoms here.
No concrete action was
taken but Mis. Mary Faye
Brumby, chairman of the Ft.
Butler Committee of the
Cherokee County Historical
Society, isaid she felt "some
progress was made."
Congressman Roy Taylor
had met with the committee
here earlier this month on the
matter and advised them that if
federal funds were to be made
available for the project, the
request would have to come
through the proper state
agency.
Dr. H.G. Jones, director of
the Department of Archives
and History, told the Murphy
delegation Monday that he
would make the request of
Taylor and ask the
Congressman to check and see
under what federal programs
the fort project might qualify.
"There are several programs
which we might qualify for,"
Mrs. Brumby explained. "If we
could get enough land for some
picnic table and.nature trails
and things of that nature, we
might be included in some
open-air recreation money."
The fort here was the
gathering point for the removal
of the Cherokees in 1838, the
so-called "Trail of Tears." The
Town of Murphy owns one
acre of the site of the fort and
state officials indicated that an
archaeologist may be sent here
this summer to dig at the site
to determine the boundaries of
the fort and its buildings.
In addition to Mrs. Brumby,
those making the trip to
Raleigh for the meeting were
Joe Ray, Bunch Nugent,
Charlie Johnson, Mrs. John
Bayless and Mr. and Mrs.
Mayes Behrman.
Rocking In The Rotunda
The Murphy High School Senior Prom was held
Saturday night in the Cherokee County Courthouse,
the rotunda lending itself well to the Old South
theme of decoration. (Hugh Carringer Photo)
Valley River Corridor Plan
Explained By State Officials
By Wally Avett
Staff Writer
"Fantastic opportunity...
invaluable asset in your water,
more than you know what to
do with...this valley is so good
we shouldn't even be walking
on it..."
These were comments by
planners and other state
officials here last Thursday to
present a master plan for
spurring development of the
Murphy-Andrews corridor by
installation of valley water and
sewer systems.
The corridor was studied by
the State Planning Task Force
and its assistant coordinator,
Dr. W.C. Bell, led the
delegation of state officials
here.
Bell said the state planners
forsee the most growth in the
mountains of Western North
Carolina in eight corridors, one
of which is the Valley River
Valley. "Development will take
place most rapidly where there
is relatively level land. If you
put in roads, plants and jobs
will follow. But you also need
more than just roads, you need
water and sewer systems."
Bell explained that the
Murphy-Andrews corridor has
been examined for the past
two years by a consulting
engineers firm of Baltimore,
Md., Rummel, Klepper & Kahl.
and a representative of that
firm made the presentation.
The engineers advised
installation of a reservoir on
Junaluska Creek above
Andrews, which would serve
the whole valley, including
Marble and Murphy, with fresh
water by gravity flow. A sewer
system, with a large treatment
plant at Murphy, would also
work by gravity and serve the
whole valley, it was noted that
there was no consideration of
utilities for the Peachtree area.
Jim Prince, of the State
Highway Commission planning
division, reported on the status
of the planned Appalachian
Highway project, which would
see a four-lane road from
Murphy to Andrews. He said
the Appalachian funds are
presently the only federal
assistance which is available for
building the road, which would
tie in with the water and sewer
lines as an asset for
development.
Prince added that there are
several other Appalachian
4-H'ers Set
Talent Show
Cherokee County 4-H Club
Members from Community 4-H
Clubs will be participating in
the Annual 4-H Talent Show
which will be held at the
Martin's Creek School
Saturday night at 7:30 p. m.
The Talent Show committee
composed of Mrs. Maxine
Garley, Mrs. Shirley Hill and
Mrs. Wilma Pope cordially
invites the public to attend the
Annual 4-H Talent Show.
SaftteUt
ScviefocvicC
Monday Night?(Girls)
Brumby Textiles 21, Levi
Strauss 0. (Boys) Peachtree 21,
Peachtree C. Club 11.
Tuesday Night
?(Boys)Martins Creek 5,
Wachovia Bank 3. (Boys)
WCVP 7, Texanna 4.
Schedule
Thursday?(Girls) Martins
Creek vs Clifton. (Boys)
Ranger vs Wachovia Bank.
Frid ay ? ( Boys)Martins
Creek vs Texana. (Boys) WCVP
vs Peachtree.
Monday?(Girls)Ameri can
Thread vs Clifton. (Boys)
Peachtree Community Club vs
Wachovia Bank.
Tuesday?(Boys) Ranger vs
Texana. (Girls) Martins Creek
vs Levi Strauss.
(Boys) Martins Creek vs
WCVP.
projects in North Carolina and
the state only gets $7 million a
year in Appalachian monies for
highways. The new road to
Andrews, he estimated, will
cost about a million dollars a
mile. He said the bypass
around Murphy has been
planned along with the
location of the road up the
valley and around Andrews and
the buying of the right-of-way
could begin, if federal money
was made available.
The road will be built on a
50-50 matching basis, he said,
with federal funds and SHC
highway money. He added that
more Appalachian Highway
money might become available
when the war in Vietnam ends.
Prince, Wells and the other
state officials at the meeting all
emphasized the need for
cooperation between Murphy,
Andrews and Marble in
implementing any or all of the
plan. "The state can't cram
anything down your throats,"
they said. "It's up to you
whether any or all of this plan
?is adopted."
The planners had estimated
a population of 15,000 in the
valley by the year 2000. There
are about 5,600 people living
in it now, they said, and
admitted that their projected
figure might be low, that if a
new highway is built in the
corridor and water and sewer
lines installed, the development
might bring in more than
10,000 people. The valley,
they added, can easily
accomodate more than 15,000.
The state officials repeated
again and again during the
meeting Thursday morning at
the Power Board Building here
that other counties in this
state, desperately seeking
development and industry and
more jobs, do not have the
level land or the abundant
water of the Valley River
Valley.
The Cherokee County
commissioners approved of the
plan at their January meeting
but have taken no official
action on it. Construction of
the water and sewer systems
would be accomplished over a
30-year period, according to
the plan presented, and would
require the passage of several
bond issues.
Officers Nab
Man At Scene
Of Break-In
Murphy police officers
arrested a Tennessee man here
at the scene of a break-in last
Saturday morning and said
others escaped in the darkness.
Officers C.C. Howard and
Lloyd Stroud said they were
alerted by a phone call and
rushed to Dickey Oil
Company's office in the
Factorytown section about 1
o'clock Saturday morning. The
officers said at least two men
rushed from the office and the
policemen fired a warning shot.
Herbert Eugene Boatwright,
32, of Chattanooga was
arrested on the spot and the
other person, or persons,
escaped. Boatwright was
charged with breaking and
entering and inside the office
the policemen found a safe, the
door almost completely peeled
away but still intact.
The police officers also
seized a 1968 Ford pickup
truck at the scene and said
evidence found in it linked it
to a break-in earlier in the
night at the Joe Owens
chainsaw place at Peachtree.
Cherokee County Chief
Deputy Sheriff Glenn
Holloway then charged
Boatwright with burglary by
breaking and entering at the
Owens place. The 13 stolen
chainsaws have not been
found.
Later Saturday morning a
car was stolen from Jack
Lovingood's lot on US-64 west.
It was found, burned, Monday
in Ringgold, Ga. Officers are
investigating to see if the auto
theft was connected to the
break-in.
Boatwright is set for a
preliminary hearing in District
Court here on May 12. Bond
was set at $4,700 for his
appearance here then and he
posted the bond, in cash, over
the weekend and went free.
Fund-Raising
Is Postponed
The Murphy
Authority has
house-to-house
for
of
The
Cadillac at B&W Motors...winds put timber through windshield
Wells & West airplane...tossed by storm, will need new wings