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Keep Us Happy, Dogs?Just One More Win!!
The Cherokee Scout
and Clay County Progress
12 Pages 15' per copy
Volume 79 ? Number 17 ? Murphy, North Carolina, 28906 ? Second Class Postage Paid At Murphy, North Carolina ? Wednesday, November 25, 1970
Bulldogs Advance To Championship Game
Bottom Of The Pile
Spruce Pine players, in light helmets, are shown getting up
off a Bulldog back in action Saturday night here on the Murphy
field. The Dogs won the playoff game over the visitors, 24-21, and
advance to the Western AA Championship game, which will be
played Friday night in Asheville against Catawba County's
Bandys High School. (Murphy High School Photo by Ken Cousins)
Padgett To Explain
Regional Jail Plan
A public meeting will be
held at the library in Hayesville
on Wednesday night on the issue
of construction of a regional jail
at Murphy to serve both Clay
and Cherokee counties.
Andy Padgett, chairman of
the Clay County
commissioners, says he will be
present at the meeting to
explain the matter. He has been
criticized by many people in
Clay County who are opposing
the regional jail idea.
"I don't know where they
plan to get the money to build a
separate jail for Clay." he said.
"The least jail we could build to
satisfy the state would cost us
around $100,000, probably a
Tv Burnette
Burnette
Director
.Of Bank
Henry Simmons, city
executive in charge of First
lUnion National's Murphy office,
'has announced the election of
Ty Whit Burnette to the Murphy
Board of Directors of FUNB.
Burnette, principal of
General Insurance Company in
Andrews, attended Western
Carolina University.
He is a member of the
Western North Carolina
Insurance Agents Association,
Secretary of the Andrews
Development Corp., and a
member of the Andrews Town
Council.
He is also past president of
the Andrews Rotai^ Club, a
director of Cherokee Savings
and Loan Co., and a member of
Southwestern N.C. Economic
Development and Planning
Commission.
little more with inflation going
on."
There has been no formal
signed agreement between the
commissioners of 1 the two
counties but Padgett and the
other two Clay commissioners,
O. A. Blankenship and Odell
Shook, have met several times
in the past year with the
Cherokee commissioners to
discuss the jail.
Padgett, Blankenship and
Shook all declined to seek re
election and will be replaced
with three more Republicans on
the first Monday in December.
Much pressure is being brought
against the incoming board to
oppose the regional jail plan.
"We have earmarked the
money we're getting from the
local sales tax for the jail,"
Padgett said. "And we hoped to
get out for the $38,000 or so the
sales tax would raise in one
year."
As planned by the two
boards, the regional jail would
be constructed at Murphy and
overnight lockup would be built
at Hayesville, which Padgett
said would take care of the
great majority of arrests made
in Clay, which are either drunks
or traffic cases.
Padgett said if Clay elects
to build its own jail, it will have
to include special cells for
juveniles and also a place for
the insane, who are sometimes
temporarily held in jails.
"In the four years I've been
in office they've arrested no
juveniles as 1 know of," he said,
"and only one insane person
was locked up. It doesn't make
much sense to me to build a
facility in Clay County just for
them."
Translator
Struggle
Continues
The struggle over the
Asheville television station's
Murphy translator continued
over the past weekend, the
Jaycees getting more names on
petitions supporting the
translator and those against it
insisting that their stand be
clarified.
Margaret Dockery and
Ruby Sims, both of Route 3,
Murphy, brought a copy of their
petition against the translator
to The Scout office and said
their petition does not ask
specifically that the translator
be taken off the air.
They agree that the
matter may boil down to an
order by the Federal
Communications Commission
for the translator to be
disconnected but pointed out
that their petition reads "We,
the undersigned, wish to file a
complaint..." and ends with
"Please advise each of us what
steps to take to restore our lost
service."
They said most of their
signers come from the Hanging
Dog - Unaka area but a few
from Peachtree had also signed
their petition. They said they
sent the FCC petitions
complaining about the
translator with about 600
signatures.
The Murphy Jaycees, who
worked to get the translator in
Murphy, were busy over the
weekend adding more names to
their petitions to the FCC to
allow the translator to continue
in operation. They also have
about 600 names on petitions
sent to the FCC in Washington.
UF Report
?2600 Pledged At Magnavox
me employees ot tne
Magnavox Company in
Andrews have pledged a total of
$2,600 to the 1971 United Fund
Campaign, it was announced by
Virgil Maniago, industrial
relations manager.
The campaign, with a goal
of $32,000.00 is reported going
well. H.L. McKeever, president
of the Cherokee County United
Fund, Inc. reported total
pledges and contributions of
nearly $25,000.
James T. Gentry, head of
the Murphy area drive,
reported his campaign was
approximately 90 percent
complete, while Carl Mixon and
David Glockner. co-chairmen of
the Andrews area campaign
reported their campaign was
nearly 80 percent complete.
Last year the Cherokee
County United Fund campaign
won the top award given in the
State of North Carolina, raising
nearly 109 percent of its goal.
Those who have donated
since the last report was
published are: Edna P. Whitley,
Parkers Drug Store, Harold N.
Wells, Wilma Tate, Beulah B.
Sales. Mattie M. Penland,
Trudy's. Bill Hughes, Christine
P. Ingle. Murphy Supply 4
Company.
Kaye's Auto Parts, Murphy
Florist. Mabel E. Massey,
Kings Auto Parts, Rogers
Electric Company, Jimmy
Foust. Bass U. Hyatt, Murphy
Texaco Service Station, Blaine
Stalcup, Ruby Kate Watson,
Annie Lou Rogers, Willie Lou
Shields. Marie M. Hendrix,
Geraldine Meadows, Ruth M.
Walker, and Mrs. Eric
Town son.
Hembree Steps Down
After 27 Years
New county officeholders
will take over on the first
Monday in December and Noah
Hembree will quietly step down
fromn the post he has held for
the past 27 years.
Fires Creek
Kill Is 25
Die 1970 deer season
opened on a cold and windy
morning Monday and hunters at
the Fires Creek management
area bagged only 25 bucks.
Warden Harley Martin said
the figure, compared to last
year's opening day bag of about
35 was "extra good for it to have
been such a bad hunting day."
Diere were no accidents, he
said, although one town hunter
was charged with killing a doe.
A total of 423 hunters were
processed through the checking
station.
The Scout office will be
closed on Thursday and
Friday this week for
Thanksgiving, to reopen
next Monday for business
as usual.
Murphy merchants
will be closed on Thursday
but will be open as usual on
Friday
Stores in Murphy,
beginning next week, will
be open on Wednesday
afternoons and on Friday
nights until 9 o'clock until
Christmas.
Chairman of the Cherokee
County Board of Education
since 1943, Hembree did not run
for re-election this year. After
more than a quarter-century in
service, he is leaving the county
school board to others.
Hembree operates Murphy
Food Store and says he was
elected chairman of the board
back in 1943 only "because I
was convenient to the office"
and could easily sign checks for
the day business of the school
board.
At that time, he
remembers, there were three
men on the board. B.B. Palmer
of Marble and Lawson Lunsford
of Peachtree were the other two
men. All three were nominated
in a primary and then appointed
to their positions by the
Legislature.
"We were in the process of
consolidation at that time,"
Hembree said. "There were a
number of small, wooden-frame
construction schools scattered
around the county and we were
consolidating them into
larger elementary schools."
There were small schools at
Bates Creek, Ogreeta, Sunny
Point, Wolf Creek, Shields and
other places. Hembree said
they "all had outdoor toilets and
were heated by woodstoves, the
county paying for the wood to be
cut for fuel.
And he also remembers
"that we were always short of
money in those days... had to
float several bond issues."
The most important
changes that have some since
1943, Hembree says, are the
comfortable school buildings
which have been constructed in
place of the drafty old wooden
schoolhouses and also the
raising of standards for teacher
qualifications.
A night student in a
surveying class at County Tech,
Hembree has a special regard
for the Peachtree vocational
school.
"It's bound to grow," he
says. "It's a good thing, offering
all sorts of extension courses for
people, and with its open door
policy they'll take anybody. A
man can go out to that learning
lab and take the test and they
can tell him just what he is short
in. And then they have the
courses there for him, they can
take him just as far as he can
Ro."
To Play For Western Title
In Asheville On Friday
By Red Schuyler
Staff Writer
The Murphy Bulldogs for
the umpteenth time this year
rose to the occasion and sent the
Harris Blue Devils of Spruce
Pine home on the short end of
the score in the semi-finals for
the Double A Western State
Championship playoffs.
By virture of the win
Saturday night on the local
field, the Bulldogs will meet a
team from Bandy High School
this Friday night at
Memorial Stadium in Asheville
for the State Co-Championship
in the Double A division.
The game was played
before a standing room crowd
only and the outcome was in
doubt until the final whistle was
blown. No one was sitting down
and nobody left until it was all
over. It was estimated that over
3,000 fans were on hand for the
semi-final game.
We still can't quite decide
just how good this years edition
of the Bulldogs is. This is the
first time in history that they
have gone this far in playoff
competition The Dogs ha<'e
been bridesmaids many times
before but this is the first time
that they have gotten as far as
the "altar".
Even though Harris High
lost the game they gave the
distinction of scoring on the
Bulldogs in less time than any of
11 other teams that they have
played this year.
Another distinction that
they took home with them, this
one on the negative side, is that
they only handled the ball from
the line of scrimmage three
times in the first quarter and six
times in the second quarter for
a total of nine time in the first
half. Two of these nine were
punts and the others running
plays. They failed to pick up a
single first down in the first
half, other than the last play
from scrimmage just before the
half ended, when Gary Ledford
ran the ball from the Harris
eight yard line to the Harris 48
yard line. Other than that they
had a total of two yards for the
first quarter and nine yards for
the second quarter (plus the 40
yard gallop of Ledford), but the
score was Murphy 16, Harris 7.
If you were not there Saturday
night, you are probably saying
this is impossible. For the
benefit of the fans that missed
it, this is how it happened....
Willie Bush took the initial
kickoff on the Bulldog 30 yard
line, returned it to the 38. Fisher
picked up a yard, Bush 5 on two
plays and Murphy was forced to
kick it out. Fisher was standing
on his 30 yard line ready to kick
it out. The pass from center
wasn't the best I have ever
seen. Anyway two Blue Devils
raced in unmolested and it was
blap". One of the blockers
scooped up the ball, and headed
towards the goal line. The other
blocker threw a "questionable"
block on Mallonee and it was six
points with only two minutes
and 11 seconds expired. The
extra point was good on a kick.
This turned out later to be the
turning point of the game.
On the next kickoff Bush
this time took it on the 25 and
returned it to the 44. Mallonee
and Fisher in three plays picked
up 13 yards and a first down.
Bush lost 1, then Fisher picked
up 15 and another first down. On
the next series Bush and Fisher
on three plays picked up 9 yards
and eleven inches, right it only
liked an inch of being a first
down on the Harris 19. What a
"tough" call to make. No,
seriously, there was only one
call and Mallonee made it. On
the quarterback sneak,
Mallonee picked up the 1st
down. In the next series, on
three running plays Fisher
netted 7 yards. With fourth and
3 and the ball resting on the
Harris 11, Mallonee was faced
this time with really a "tough"
call. Mallonee tossed a pass to
Chris Schuyler at the Harris 6
yard line. This was the first
time that Schuyler had been in a
game since the Robbinsville
game played October 16.
Schuyler received a badly
sprained ankle during practice1
on the 21st of October and
missed the last three regularly
scheduled games plus one
playoff game.
The defender tackled
Schuyler before the ball
reached him and it was ruled
interference. The ball was put
in play on the Harris 5 yard line,
first and goal five yards away.
In three plays Fisher and Bush
picked up four yards. Once
again fourth and one and six
points. Mallonee again made a
good call and executed the play
so cleverly that he went
untouched into the end zone
with 1:54 left in the first
quarter. The pass to Bruce
Coward was good for the two
extra points putting the Dogs
ahead for the first time.
On the ensuing kickoff and
after the first three running
plays that only netted 2 yards
the quarter ended.
After changing goals,
Harris kicked the ball out to the
Murphy 35 with no return.
Fisher, Smith and Bush picked
up 12 yards and a first down. A
pass to Coward was good for23
yards and a first down. Bush
was stopped at the line of
scrimmage. Mallonee tossed a
pass to Schuyler good for 12
yards and a first down. Three
running plays by Fisher picked
up 11 yards and a first down,
placing the ball on the Harris 8.
Fisher lost 2 yards, Mallonee
was stopped at the line of
scrimmage. Fisher picked up
two placing the ball at the
original line of scrimmage on
the eight . Here Mallonee was
faced with another critical
fourth down situation. This time
the first down would amount to
at least six points and a chance
to make it eight points. Again on
a cleverly executed play
Mallonee with the line opening
up a big hole, rose to the
occasion and went again
untouched into the end zone.
The pass to Schuyler was a little
low but "Sticky Fingers"
gathered it in while on his knees
and it was Murphy 16, Harris 7,
with 5:14 left in the first half.
The ensuing kickoff was
returned to the Harris 31. Three
running plays netted nine yards
and Harris kicked to the
Murphy 24. Schuyler picked up
six. Bush lost two, Fisher
picked up 13 and a first down.
Fisher on two running plays
picked up ten and a first down.
An incompleted pass, Mallonees
First one out of six attempts,
fell dead. Two running plays
and Murphy punted it to the
Harris eight yard line. On the
last play of the first half,
Ledford shook off quite a few
Murphy tacklers on a beautiful
run, the longest of the r .ght,
scooted all the way to the
Murphy 50 yard line before
being tackled by Mike Hughes.
In all probability had Ledford
been able to evade Hughes, he
would have gone all the way.
The second half kickoff was
returned to the Harris 36. On
two running plays, Ledford
netted two yards. An
incomplete pass and a punt and
Murphy once again was in
possession of the ball on the
Murphy 36. Three running plays
amounted to a net loss of 4 yards
and Murphy for the second time
was forced to kick it. This time
the kick rolled to the Harris 42.
Gunter picked up seven, Harris
was offsides on the second play
and took a five yard penalty,
Ledford picked up seven
making it third and one.. Gunter
on a quarterback sneak picked
up one giving the visitors their
first down of the night. Young
then lost five and on the next
play Mallonee inter
cepted a pass placing the
ball on the Murphy 25 and
Murphy was assessed a 15 yard
penalty. Bush and Schuyler
with 4 and 6 yard runs picked up
10 yards and a first down. On
the next play Bush picked
up 8 yards, but on another
"questionable" call the Dogs
were assessed a 15 yard
penalty. This writer does not
mean to imply that all the calls
made were questionable", but
the two mentioned in my
opinion were. Opinions are not
worth much and I guess that's
one reason why everybody has
plenty of them. Two running
plays by Schuyler and Bush
netted 10 yards but not enough
for a first down and Murphy
was forced to give it up again.
Harris put the ball in play at
the Murphy 45. Lawson picked
up eight, Ledford on another
beautiful run carried the ball to
the Murphy four yard line, a
pickup of 33 yards and a first
down. Lawson picked up two
and Ledford added two more for
the six points. Dean Gunter
added the two pointer to make It
Murphy 16. Harris 15., with 1:13
left in the third quarter.
On the next kickoff, Murphy
pot the ball in ptay at, the
Murphy 32. Tom Fisher who
was injured just before the 1
half ended returned to the I
See FOOTBALL....
Union
Noah Hem bree....convenient chairman