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The Cherokee Scout
and Clay County Progress
Volume 79 ? Number 44 - Murphy, North Caroline, 28906 ? Second Class Postage Paid At Murphy, North Carolina ? Thursday, June 17, 1971
Annexation,Budget Considered
WELCOME ~lu
NORTH CAROLINA
Mildred, Mini And Maxi
We may still have a few bears in Clay and
herokee but these are not among them. Neither is
iisv as some wit as suggested, the family left
Shind by Smoky the fire-fightin' bear. This is
Hldred, the famous mascot of Grandfather
lountain, and her cubs Mini and Maxi. She still
^kes two appearances daily for shutterbugs at
Irandfather Mountain but the cubs are rather
wvdy and uncooperative and their posing days
ftiy be over. Hugh Morton, who supplied us with
this color photo, says the cubs recently ran off into
the wilderness around Linville and stayed away for
five days before returning home to Mama Mildred.
uhieves Hit
lifinderson \s
Anderson's of Hiawassee,
was hit by well-organized
yes early last Friday
who carried off more
i $12,500 in clothing.
Bob Anderson, who
?tes the department store,
Georgia Bureau of
igation agents are
sting the bold raid,
that the GBI agents
?ted the thieves were
the Hiawassee store no
than 10 minutes.
Anderson and others were
sting this week that
may be the same one
s for two recent thefts
"clothing inside Clay County.
'IMeves forced open the
I door of Palmer's Discount
? US-M recently and made off
ia quanitity of ladies'
Also this month a truck was
"ftym^he parking lot of
^Jlayasville dress plant,
I several hundred
i yards of material. The
i found later burned
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, Ga.
Clay County Sheriff
Hartsell Moore said this week
that it was an interstate case
and the Federal Bureau of
Investigation has been called
into the investigation in Clay
County.
Anderson said GBI agents
told him the clothing is usually
resold through discount outlet
stares. "They were just in the
store a few minutes", he said.
"We found where they dropped
an armload of ladies' dresses
and didn't even bother to pick
them up."
He said the thieves grabbed
the "most expensive, best
selling items" in his store,
including both men's and
women's suits, men's jackets,
plus the fashionable hot pants
far women.
The gang entered by
bursting open the front doors of
the well-lighted store on
Hiawassee's main street,
Anderson said. The town has no
police force, he added,
therefore burglary insurance
was almost impossible to get
and the loss was not covered by
By Wally Avett
Staff Writer
Annexation and the town
budget were the two main items
of business to come before the
Murphy Town Council in its
meeting Monday night.
Town Clerk Charlie
Johnson presented a tentative
budget, which the council
members approved for
publication. It appears in full
on an inside page of this issue.
Johnson said according to
law, the budget has to be
published at least 20 days before
it is adopted in its final form.
Monday night the council
members simply okayed
publishing the tentative budget
and did not discuss the
individual items in it very
much, indicating that it could be
changed some before it is fully
approved.
The tentative budget leaves
last year's tax rate of $1.85
unchanged and also leaves
sewer and water rates at their
present levels. Johnson said the
town will receive some
additional money from the new
county sales tax.
Included in the budget are
$12,000 for drying beds at the
sewage plant, $5,000 for repairs
to the sewage system pumps,
$6,000 for spending on the
landfill and $3,000 for a new
town police car.
Flames Destroy House, Boat
Fires destroyed a house and
a houseboat early this week in
Cherokee County.
On Monday night about 11
o'clock, the Valleytown
volunteers were called to
Rhodo, to the burning house
owned and occupied by the
Terrell Brady family. The
Bradys were in Asheville at the
time of the fire and the alarm
was turned in by a passing
motorists.
The flames had almost
destroyed the wooden house by
the time firemen reached the
scene and there was no chance
of saving it. The house and the
Brady family's possessions
were entirely consumed.
The firemen theorized that
lightning may have started the
fire.
At Murphy, the volunteer
firemen were called out early
Tuesday morning to extinguish
a burning houseboat, tied up on
the backwaters of Hiwassee
Lake, just below the Joe Brown
Highway bridge.
The houseboat, owned by
Charles Mallonee, was
completely destroyed as the fire
burned it down to the water line.
Cause of the fire is not known.
Jaycees Plan
Jamboree
The Murphy Jaycees are
planning a three-day Country
Music Jamboree tor the
weekend of the Fourth of July.
The Jaycees made the
announcement this week,
saying a large tent has been
rented and will be erected on
the Murphy High School
grounds for the event, capable
of seating more than 2,000
people.
The festivities begin on
Thursday night, July 1, with a
stock car race and fireworks at
Tri-County Raceway. Jaycees
say it will be one of the biggest
ever, with a $2,500 purse to be
divided among the winning
drivers.
On the following night,
Friday, there will be a clogging
contest under the big tent at the
high school, with top clog teams
from the area competing.
Plenty of country music is
on tap for Saturday at the tent,
with both an afternoon and
evening show, plus more
fireworks. Jaycees are now in
the process of signing up
performers for the event and
Will register them until noon on
that Saturday.
Sunday afternoon the
Jamboree will close with a big
gospel sing at the tent.
The outboard motorboat
races, a traditional Jaycee
event on the Fourth, will be held
the following weekend, July 11.
The Miss Cherokee County
Beauty Pageant, which has also
been held on the weekend of the
Fourth in the past, has been
rescheduled and will be held
sometime in August, on a yet-to
be announced date.
"This is not just another one
of our Saturday night dances,"
one of the Jaycees commented
on the Jamboree.
"We've gotten a lot of help
from the officials of the Georgia
Mountain Fair at Hiawassee
and have invited dozens of
bands from their listings. It's
the biggest thing we've ever
tackled and we hope the people
of this area will enjoy it."
Dr. K. G. Keenum,
chairman of the town planning
board, presented maps and a
booklet outlining a proposed
annexation, which would take
into the town a strip of land
along US-19-129 about a mile out
from the present town limits.
The proposed annexation
would take in the section along
the highway roughly between
O'Dell's Restaurant and WKRK
Radio station. It would not
include Pleasant Valley nor
would it cross the Valley River
to include Murphy High School.
Dr. Keenum told the Town
Council that under a 1959 act of
the Legislature, annexation of
this type could be done without
a vote of the people involved
and without a petition from
them if the area taken in is
provided with the same services
the town has. He added that the
services have to be provided, or
at least work has to be started
toward providing them, within a
year of annexation.
The area in question
already has town water service,
he pointed out, and it will be no
problem to expand town police
and garbage service to the
strip. The expense will come in
laying sewer lines, which is
estimated at $42,000, and in
putting in street lights,
estimated at another (2,000. town could realize in property
Dr. Keenum said he thought taxes if the strip is annexed,
the town should receive from In other action, the council
$10,000 to $15,000 in property heard a request from the
taxes from the businesses and Murphy Softball Association for
homes involved in the Financial help with the softball
annexation but Mayor Cloe program's electric bills.
Moore and others doubted that Softball action four nights a
figure. week under the lights is running
Mayor Moore also said he up a sizeable bill, the council
was afraid if the town had to was told. The matter was
float a bond issue to finance discussed at length but no
construction of the sewer line, it action was taken,
would be defeated. The town's cable-TV
The council took no action ordinance was amended to
on the annexation proposal, Dr. prohibit a local cable system
Keenum urging members to from originating any television
study the idea for a while. They programs. It was feared that
did instruct Johnson to check the content of a locally
out the tax listings on the produced program could put the
properties involved so they town, which has granted the
could get a more accurate cable-TV franchise to Harold
picture of how much money the Siook, into lawsuit trouble.
Court Docket In Error
Murphy Policeman Lloyd printed with his last name in
Stroud was not charged with place of theirs,
driving drunk, as the court To set the record straight,
docket in last week's issue Officer Stroud arrested the
showed. Staleups, charging Lloyd with
Stroud was the arresting driving under the influence and
officer in a case involving twins Floyd with aiding and abetting.
Floyd and Lloyd Stalcup and Both pleaded guilty, both'were
through an error in the Clerk of fined $100 and lost their driver's
Court's office, the docket was licenses.
Finished Product
Dr. John Ramsay, who heads the
Campbell Folk School, shows jars of
spinach canned in the new
community cannery located at the
school. The pressure cookers in the
background will accomodate 24
quarts at a time, he says, and trial
runs have been made with spinach,
pumpkin and even a mess of poke
salad. The cannery will open July 7
for public use. (Staff Photo)
Cannery To Open Soon
The community cannery at
Brass town, serving both Clay
andCherokee counties, is set to
open for business on July 7.
Dr. John Ramsay, head of
the Campbell Folk School where
the cannery is located, says it
will be open at first on only
Wednesdays and Fridays.
It is hoped that the volume
of do-it-yourself canning will
increase later in the season so
that the cannery will be open
five days a week, he said.
Mrs. Cleve Anderson of
Martins Creek has been hired as
manager and will be on duty
to assist those using the cannery
and Mrs. Virginia Anderson of
Hayesville will also be at the
cannery to advise those who use
it.
Membership fees are $1.25 a
family a year, Ramsay said, or
$5 for a five-year membership.
In addition, a canning fee of a
nickel will be charged for each
quart processed at the cannery.
On entering theself-service
cannery, users will be given a
cart to move their materials
around from one work station to
another. They must bring their
own jars and lids.
There are sinks at which to
wash food before canning, a
sterilizer to steam jars with,
food grinders which reduce
apples to sauce, two large
steam cookers, three smaller
atmospheric cookers which use
no pressure and five steam
pressure cookers.
The pressure cookers are
went from home units,
nsay said, in that they cook
i the Jars completely
nerged in water. Coid water
1 into theveseel after
the cooking is finished, he said,
allowing a canner to cool down
the jars in less than 30 minutes.
The cannery and its
equipment is valued at a total of
$25,000. The equipment, valued
at $7,000, was donated by the
Ball Corp. The Cherokee County
commissioners voted $3,000 in
county money for the project
and the National Welfare
Foundation, a private group,
recently gave the cannery
$5,000.
The rest of the project came
from local donations in money,
material and labor, through the
efforts of Mayes Behrman of
Brasstown and others. Both
individuals and local businesses
contributed to the construction
of the cannery.
Bergan Moore is president
of the cannery organization..
Mrs. Pamela Kramer is vice
president and Mrs. Janice
Carringer is secretary
treasurer.
Cherokee Miss Hurt,
Goes On To Pageant
Miss Cherokee County, Linda McRae,
left for the Miss North Carolina pageant in
Charlotte on Sunday despite injuries she
suffered in a wreck Saturday.
The Volkswagen she was driving went out
of control on the Joe Brown Highway late
Saturday afternoon and rolled over twice as
she was going to get the evening gown she will
be wearing in competition this week.
Taken to Providence Hospital after the
one-car accident, Miss McRae was found to
have suffered various severe bruises and
sprains but declined a doctor's suggestion that
she be admitted.
With one arm in a sling, she left Sunday
for the state pageant, accompanied/By her
chaperone, Mrs. Max Blakemore, '
The finals of the weeklong contest will be
held Saturday night in
Charlotte and will be carried '
television hookup,
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Jamboree Stars
Way bade in the 1920's and '30's, there was a
legendary country fiddler named Gid Tanner and
that's his son above, Gordon Tanner, leading the
Junior Skillet-Lickers, who will be appearing at the
Jaycee Country Music Jambeaat here on Saturday,
July 3. Tanner, who lives at Dacula, Ga., makes his
own fiddles and will be playing one of them in his
Murphy appearance. A number of other
outstanding country music performers, clog teams
and gospel groups have been booked for the three
day Jamboree.