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^ SECTIONS Volume 79 ? Number 42 _ Murphy, North Carolina, 28906 ? Second Class Postage Paid At Murphy, North Carolina ? Thursday, June 3 1971
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Supermarket Expands, Remodels
Murphy's Dr. W.A. Hoover, top, poses in the
new section of the local A&P store, which is holding
Grand Opening this 'week in honor of its
remodeling and expanded floor space. The new
section, which is indicated by the two windows at
left in the bottom photo of the front of the store.
adds 3,200 square feet to the store. Dr. Hoover owns
the building, which is built to A&P specifications
and leased to that firm on a long-term basis. Very
proud of the "new look" store , he says "You won't
find one which looks any better in the state." (Bill
Gray Photos)
A&P Store Has New Look
The A&P store in Murphy
las been expanded and
emodeled throughout and will
re celebrating Grand Opening
his week.
The store has all new
shelving, new meat cases,
roduce and dairy cases and
tas been redecorated with new
signs and aisle markers.
Shooting
Sends One
To Hospital
Cherokee County Sheriff
Blain Stale up is investigating a
shooting which occurred early
last Saturday monring on
Canyon Road between
Peachtree and Marble..
Sheriff Stalcup said Willard
Martin of Tomotla was hit in the
stomach and taken to Hall
County Hospital at Gainesville,
Ga., where he is reported to be
in satisfactory condition. The
officer said the shooting took
place at the home of James
Nations.
Beyond that, details are
sketchy and stories toldby the
participants don't exactly
Sheriff Stalcup said some of
those involved had been
drinking before the shooting
happened about 2 o'clock
Saturday morning and there
was no agreement between
them as to how many weapons
were fired. Martin was struck
by a rifle bullet or a piece of
buckshot horn a shotgun, he
according to T.R. Ledford, the
A&P area supervisor
headquartered in Asheville.
"We're happy and very
proud to be serving the citizens
of Murphy and this area with a
larger store, bright as new,"
said Clyde Sneed, who is
manager of the local
supermarket.
Sneed said the addition to
the handsome brick structure
brings in another 3,200 square
feet of floor space, giving the
store a total of 14,200 square
feet.
He noted also that the
asphalt parking lot has been
resurfaced in the past week and
the lines marking off the
individual parking spaces
repainted.
Sneed was manager of the
local A&P when the store
moved from Peachtree Stree to
its present Valley River Avenue
location in December of 1961
and had been with the store for
15 years prior to that.
The Great Atlantic and
Pacific Tea Company, however,
dates back much further than
that in Murphy.
According to the bound
back issues of the Scout, the
first A&P store openee in
Murphy on Valley . River in
the vicinity of what is now the
Western Auto Store . It opened
for business the middle of
August in 1928, letting
customers know that it was a
"cash and carry" business. It
advertised as the store "where
economy rules."
The first manager was T.S.
Ensley of Clyde and the
store's first advertisement
which appeared in the Scout
came out in the issue of Aug. 17,
1928. It was a modest two
columns in width, announcing
the new store, and offering
A&P's Eight O'clock brand
coffee at 37 cents a pound, sugar
at 61* cents a pound and a 24
pound sack of flour at $1.05.
Massey Killed
In Auto Crash
James Gary Massey, 26,
was killed last Thursday
Thursday night near
Blairsville, Ga. when his car
plunged off the Wolf Pen Gap
Road down the mountainside.
Massey, formerly of
Hayesville, was working in
Atlanta at the time of his death
with the Gulf Oil Travel Card
Center and an Atlanta
companion, 23-year-old Robert
IJoyd Tyler Jr., also died in the
one-car accident.
A graduate of Hayesville
High School, Massey had
attended Young Harris College
and worked for about two and a
half years with Home Credit
Corp. here in Murphy. He
served with the U.S. Army in
Germany.
Surviving, are the widow,
Mrs. Cecelia Anderson Massey;
a daughter, Dana Lynn Massey
of the home; the parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Wayne H. Massey Sr.
of Brasstown; a brother, Wayne
H. Massey Jr. of Fairbanks,
Alaska; and the maternal
grandfather, Herman Floyd of
Dal ton, Ga.
Services were held at 2 p.m.
Sunday in Ivie Funeral Chapel
in HavesviUe.
Gary Massey
...1968 Army photo
The Rev. Harry Hawk
officiated. Burial was in Shady
Grove Baptist Cemetery .
Pallbearers were Vernon
Ford, Clyde Stewart, Thomas
Wimpey, Tommy Davenport,
Terrence Powell and Lloyd
Cash. ?
Ivie Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
Clay Recreation Loan OK'd
A $145,000 loan has been approved
by the Farmers Home Administration
for development of a recreation
center at the Chatuge Shores Golf
Course near Hayesville.
The announcement was made
late last week by James T. Johnson,
state director of the FHA, and by the
Washington office of nth District
Congressman Roy A. Taylor.
The loan is being made to the
Clay County Rural Development
Authority, headed by Hayesville
banker Tom Day, and construction of
a purpose recreation building,
swimming pool, tennis courts and
playground at the golf course is
expected to begin this Summer.
Architects Foy and Lee of
Waynesville are finishing plans for
the recreation center, Day said
Tuesday, adding that "We hope to
open bids on the job sometime in
thelatter part of July. Construction
should start sometime in August."
Day said the main building will be
of a Swiss chalet type of architecture,
designed in keeping with the Alpine
look firmly established at Helen and
other North Georgia tourist
attractions. This will also
harmonize, he said, with the
numerous A-frame cottages already
located around Lake Chatuge.
Day said $6,000 will have to be
raised locally as part of the
arrangement with the federal
officials in getting the loan. The
$145,000 will be paid back over a
period of 30 years at an interest rate
of 3.5 percent.
The group Day heads built the
course with a $250,000 loan from the
Farmers Home Administration,
opening it for play in May of last year.
Other members are Wallace
Crawford, secretary-treasurer; J.W
Stanley, W.G. Mingus and Carroll
McClure.
The Clay Golf course is now
accepting memberships for use of the
yet-to-be -built facilities. Day said.
A non-golfing family will be able
to use the swimming pool, tennis
courts and the recreation center for a
year for $50, he said. A membership
for golfing only costs $120 and the
whole package, to include golfing,
swimming, tennis, and all, will cost
$150 a year per family.
"Recreation projects of this type
boost rural commuinity
development," said state FHA
Director Johnson in making the
approval announcement. "In
addition, these facilities help develop
the type of rural community that
mcourages young people to remain in
?.heir hometown, attracts industry
and promotes tourism."
Bidstrup Buried
Georg Lyster Bidstrup, who
guided the Campbell Folk
School at Brasstown for 42
years, died Tuesday night of
last week in the hospital at
Andrews after a short illness.
Bidstrup, 69, was educated at
a folk school in his native
Denmar Denmark and came to
Brasstown in 1925 as farm
manager of the school, a few
months after it was founded by
Mrs. Bidstrup and Olive Dame
Campbell.
He was named director of
the unique school in 1952 and
served in that capacity until he
retired in 1967. He iniated
purebred dairy cattle
operations at Brasstown and
just before his retirement was
active in promoting the then
new production of trellis
tomatoes in this area.
Since his retirement,
Bidstrup had gone into the
Christmas tree business on his
farm, which adjoins the school
property.
Funeral services were held
on Thursday afternoon of last
week in the Community Room
at the school, with burial
following in Little Brasstown
Cemetery. Dr. Raymond F.
McLain, vice president of the
University of Alabaa,
officiated.
He is survivied by his wife,
Mrs, Marguerite Butler
Bidstrup.
Ivie Funeral Home,
Murphy, was in charge of
arrangements and active
pallbearers were Cecil Tipton,
Wayne Holland, Loren Kramer,
Jackets Fall
To Littlefield
By Red Schuyler
Staff Writer
A very good high school
team from the eastern part of
North Carolina came to the
mountains loaded for bear last
Friday afternoon and at the end
of seven innings it was
Littlefield 8, Hayesville 1.
In regulation play during
the season, the Yellow Jackets
won 15 games while losing only
1. By doing so, theywon the
Smoky Mountain Class A
Championship for the second
year in a row and earned the
right to represent the western
part of the state in
championship playoffs.
In playoff games the
Jackets won three games and
lost one. In the last five games
played, the Jackets scored 66
runs while limiting the
opposition to 1 run each. This
included three playoff games.
In a lot of peoples opinion this
could have contributed to the
downfall of the Jackets in their
semi-final game.
The biggest blockade in
their march to the state
championship was a fellow by
the name of Flowers, the
opposing pitcher. Flowers sent
14 jackets back to the bench by
the strike-out route while
allowing only 1 hit. This in the
third inning when Jim Stewart
hit one over the head of the
centerfielder that could have
been a homerun or a sure triple
but amounted to a double.
Stewart missed tagging
second base on his way to third.
Jack Bracken first base
coach noticed it, the Littlefield
second basemen noticed it and
the umpire was looking right at
it and he noticed it as well as
many more spectators. While
Stewart was standing on third,
the ball was relayed to home.
Bracken, first base coach,
noticed the second basemen
getting ready to call for the ball
and make his appeal, had
Stewart returned to second base
before the second baseman
could get his hands on the ball.
What looked like an inside-the
park home run went for a two
base hit, the only one for
Hayesville for the day.
Stewart drove in Dave
Bracken who had walked for the
only run. Had Stewart tagged
the base, he would have been on
third base with no outs or
possibly home and if not home,
surely on third with no outs and
almost a guarantee of getting
home on the squeeze play which
Hayesville has been successful
all season or possibly a long
ay ball, scoring on a sacrifice
fly. This would have made it
2-1 in favor of the Jackets and
then Littlefield would have had
to play "catch up".
But after all is said and
done, the Jackets were beaten
by a darn good ball team and
have nothing in the world to be
ashamed about. They had a
good season and are the "best in
the West".
Getting bade to this young
man by the name of Flowers. In
all probability he was and is one
of the best lefthanded high
school pitchers that I have ever
seen perform. There were a lot
of the Hayesville fans who made
the same statement and were of
the opinion that he would go
high in the major league high
school draft that will take place
most anytime now.
Flowers could just about
throw the ball anywhere the
catcher directed it, had good
control, plenty of speed, and
had a very good move to first
base. It was so good that the
Hayesville speedsters were
unable to steal a single base all
afternoon.
Buster Young blood took the
loss for Hayesville as he struck
out nine of the Littlefield batters
while walking two, allowing 11
hits. Young blood's teammates
committed four errors.
Congratulations are in
order for the entire Hayesville
team, the coaches and the fans
for once again the second year
in a row bringing excellent high
school baseball to this area.
Georg Bidstrup
Jack Carpenter, Clyde Stalcup
and Burt Smith. Honorary
pallbearers Benton Teems,
Oscar Cantrell, J. Edward
Davis, Herman Monroe Wilson
and Joseph Kiraly.
Men's
Tourney
Slated
Cherokee Hills Golf Course
will hold an 18-hole low ball
tournament for men on
Saturday.
Hie tournament committee
announced the event on
Tuesday, inviting all male
golfers in the area to
participate. Fees will be $2.50
per player and there will be a
drawing to determine the
players in each foursome.
Tee off time is 1 o'clock
Saturday afternoon and players
are urged to register as soon
aspossible at the clubhouse on
HarShaw Road.
Trophies will be presented
to the members of the winning
foursome.
Dockery Dead At 67
Funeral services were held
Saturday afternoon at 2:30 in
First Baptist Church here for
Hayes H. Dockery, Sr.
Dockery died suddenly on
Thursday morning at the office
of his Dockery Monument Co.
on Andrews Highway. He was
67.
He had been prominent in
business activities in Murphy
for about 50years. In addition to
his monument company,
Dockery had been a merchant
and served as a member of the
board of directors of Wachovia
Bank in Murphy.
The Rev. Woodrow Flynn,
pastor of First Baptist,
officiated and burial was in
Sunset Cemetery. Pallbearers
Providence
Holds Rating
Providence Hospital
received word this week that its
accreditation by the Joint
Commission on Accreditation of
Hospitals has been approved for
another two years.
Sister Mary Raphael, the
Providence administrator,
explained that accreditation by
the Joint Commission is the
national yardstick by which
hospitals' individual quality of
patient care is measured.
A doctor and a registered
nurse from Chicago visited
Providence in mid-April, she
said, and inspected all of the
local hospital's physical plant,
its practices, records and staff.
The hospital is in the middle
of a renovation work funded by
a community drive held last
year.
"They were impressed with
the changes
and improvements," Sister
Mary Raphael said. "And as
administrator, I was proud to
show them the hospital."
Providence is a 26-bed
hospital owned and operated by
the Sisters of Providence, a
Catholic: order with
headquarters in Holyoke, Mass.
were R.C. and Doug Radford,
Vincent Stiles, Jack Lovingood,
Willard Allen and Tom
Taylor.
Townson Funeral Home
was in charge of arrangements.
A native of Cherokee
County, Dockery is survived by
his wife, Mrs. Mae McDonald
Dockery; a daughter, Mrs.
Lewis Palmer . of Murphy;
three sons, Hayes Jr. of
Murphy, Eugene of Caryville,
Fla. and Jack Dockery of Hyde
Park, N Y.
Hayes Dockery Sr.
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Softball Schedule
Thursday June 3rd
6:30 Bellview vs Texana
7:454 Levi Straus vs
ProvidenceHospital (Girls)
9:00-1st Baptist vs Martins
Creek.
Friday, June 4th
6:30 - Martins Creek vs
Texana
7:45 Sunshine vs Westco
9:00 - Ga. Boot bs WCVP
Monday June 7th
6:30 Bellview vs Westco
7:45 Am. Thread vs Martins
Creek (Girls)
9:00 - 1st Baptist vs WCVP
Tuesday June 8th
6:30 Ga. Boot vs Wachovia
Bank
7:45 Hospital vs Am.
Thread (Girls)
9:00 - Texana vs WCVP
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