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The Cherokee Scout
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Volumn 80- Number 7 ?Murphy, N. C. 28906?Second Class Postage Paid at Murphy, N. C.? Thursday, September 30, 1971
Courthouse Repairs
Scaffolding at the front of the
Clay County Courthouse is evidence
of the repair work now underway on
the historic structure. Workmen at
various places on the scaffolding
when this picture was made last week
were Danny Grant, Earl Davenport
Jr., Robert L. Jones, Samuel Morris,
Emerson Davenport, Otis Cothren,
Cliff Dills and Robert Sams.
(Mclnturff Photo)
Courthouse Repaired
By Mrs. Neal R. Kitchens
Staff Writer
L Operation Mainstream is
serving a two-fold purpose in
(Hay County. First it is giving
employment to many
bneinployed; but among the
many worthwhile things that
have been done, the Clay
Courthouse. one the oldest in
the state, has had a complete
face-lifting, inside and out. This
nid building is the hub of the
county. Transactions made
here affect all the people.
According to (hay County
Accountant, Robert C. Sams,
the courthouse was built about
1888. He has asked many older
people about the date, of
construction and they all seem
to agree this is the correct date.
I talked to "Uncle Bud"
Cherry who is 94. He said he
was just a chunk of a boy in
brogan shoes and hand-woven
jeans, when he went to town
with his father to watch the men
lay the bricks. His father told
him the that "Uncle Cap"
Anderson had the contract to
build the new courthouse. He
said about six men were
working on it. He remembers
Andy and Barris Lance were
two of the crew. He also said
there were two brick kilns, one
was located just below
Hayesville and the other one
was at Fort Butler.
The walls of this old
building are about two feet
thick, with high ceilings which
make it cool in the Summer. All
the offices are on the ground
floor and the courtroom is
upstairs. On the outside a lot of
ornamental woodwork was used
under the overhanging eaves
and on the steeple. When the
courthouse was built, each
office had a fire place where
wood was used for heat.
Cuspidors (spitoons) were as
much a fixture as the doors. It
was here that many yams
were told by tobacco-chewing
men.
I can remember when
round rubber mats were used
uider these cuspidors for many
times the man missed his aim
w hen he spat at them. I can also
remember when the cuspidors
w ere completely removed from
the building.
I cannot remember when
the open fireplaces were used
for heat. Wood stoves were
used during the many years I
can remember. Wood was
racked against the outside walls
inhere it could be pulled through
the windows. Most office
holders tried to keepa small
stack of kindling wood in the
corner inside, in the event of
rain or snow. This led to sooty,
smoked walls. Almost five
years ago, oil heat was installed
which made much nicer, more
comfortable working
conditions.
Before the District Court
System was established about
Four years ago, court was held
only twice each year. Parking
space was at a premium. The
sheriff used a large hand bell
with a handle to call the people
into court. The chimes of this
bell rang loud and clear from
the upstairs wfnoow of the
."ourtroom.
From one generation to
mother, the courthouse became
>lder,more neglected and
uglier. The paint was flaked on
the inside walls, and the wood
work on the outside walls had a
smudgy, dirty look.
The cost of labor is a big
tern where a small county like
! lay operates on a tight budget.
This is where Operation
See Qay Courthouse... pg. 2
Fat and Kenneth McDonald
. .. new owners of shoe and clothing store.
McDonalds Buy
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Shopping Center
" Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth
McDonald are the neW owners
cf;Cherokee Shopping Center,
40tere they both had been
cpiployed for several years.
?- ' The McDonalds bought out
Tom Gentry, who sold the
Oierokee Shopping Center but
will continue to operate his
Tom's Foot Store next door,
ftith stores are housed in the
fgDund floor of the old Regal
lintel.
The McDonalds say the
wane honest business dealings
established at Cherokee
Snipping tenter by Gentry will
tMilinue They are celebrating
ttr change in ownership with a
s.ile this week,
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The store offers new and
rebuilt shoes for all members of
the family and clothing for men,
women and children, with the
clothing emphasis in the men's
tine.
Pat had been employed at
Cherokee Shopping Center as
clerk and Ken started working
with Gentry 10 years ago as
.4me repair man. He originally
learned the shoe repair trade
with his uncle Q.W. loudermilk
at the old City Shoe Shop, now
<*it of business.
They arc both natives of
Murphy and live on US-04 West.
il?*v have one child, a daughter
Siaroti, 7 years old.
Baptists
Moving
Murphy's First Baptist
Church, which dates back to the
beginnings of the town and
Cherokee County, will move to a
new location next week.
This coming Sunday will be
the last time for regular
worship services and Sunday
School at the old building on
Peachtree Street, according to
the First Baptist minister, the
Rev. Woodrow Flynn.
There will be no Wednesday
night service next week at the
old church on Peachtree Street,
the Rev. Mr. Flynn said, and the
last church function there is set
for Saturday evening of next
week.
The congregation will
gather at the old church for the
last time at 7 p.m. on Saturday
of next week, he said, and there
will be a brief devotional
service, which in effect will
deconsecrate the old builctine.
Candles will then be
distributed to the members of
the congregation and lighted
and the Baptists will then
march in a sidewalk procession
down the hill and across the
Hiwassee River to the new
church, under construction in
the Bealtown section of
Murphy.
The Rev. Mr. Flynn said a
brief thanksgiving service will
then be held at the new church,
the first regular services at
the new church will be held the
following day, Sunday Oct. 11.
Worship services will be
held in the fellowship hall of the
new church, the minister said,
which will seat 400 people. The
new church sanctuary is not
expected to be completed until
January of next year. Furniture
from the old church will be
moved to the new, he added,
and a full Sunday School
program will begin at the
Bealtown site on Oct. 10.
"We invite anyone in the
area who wants to join us to
make the walk," the Rev. Mr.
Flynn added.
The Peachtree Street
building and lot has been
purchased by
Wachovia Bank as the site for a
new building.
Mayes Behrman, chairman
of the church's History
Committee, says the Baptist
congregation was formed in
Murphy "sometime between
1840 and 1845". The Cherokee
County had been removed via
the "Trail of Tears" in 1838 and
Cherokee County was formed in
1839, carved out of what was
then Macon County.
According to official
records, the county government
in 1845 deeded about four acres
"for the use of the Baptist
denomination for a place of
worship and burying ground" in
Murphy. The original church
was built near the present site
of the Imperial Laundry and it
was a one-room wooden
structure, capable of seating
about 200 people.
Behrman said his research
indicates that the Baptist
church organized in
Murphy with about 28 members
and during the turmoil of the
War Between the States, the
membership is said to have
dropped to one person. It
swelled again after the war and
now is about 600.
The original one-room
church, with several additions,
served until the 1920's. The
impressive brick structure on
Peachtree Street was then
erected and the congregation
moved into it in 1926.
The new First Baptist
Church in Bealtown when
completed, will represen*. an
investment of more than
$500,000.
In addition to the
furnishings moved from the
Peachtree Street church,
members will also be familiar
with the windows - the stained
glass has been removed from
the old church and will be used
in the new buildings.
Governor Appoints
Tri-County Trustees
Gov. Bob Scott this week
announced the appointments oi
four new members to the Board
of Trustees of Tri-County
Technical Institute.
Appointed to serve a two
year term expiring June 30,
1973, was Kyle Beal of
Hayesville. Beal is owner of the
Beal Furniture and Carpet Mart
in Hayesville.
Appointed to a four-year
term expiring June 30,1975, was
Don Gregory of Robbinsville.
Gregory is Deputy Executive
Director of the Four Square
Community Action, Inc. in
Andrews. He directs and
coordinates all projects and
program accounts sponsored
bythis organization.
Appointed to six-year term
expiring June 30, 1977, was Ty
W. Burnette, the Mayor of
Andrews. Burnette is owner and
manager of the Valleytown
Insurance Agency in Andrews.
Appointed to serve an eight
year term expiring June 30,
1979, was Mrs. John B.
Carringer of Murphy. Mrs.
Carringer is a housewife and
substitute high school teacher.
Holland McSwain, who
heads the Peachtree school,
said Tri-Tech was made an
independent unit along with
about 14 other technical schools
by a special act of the North
Carolina Legislature this year.
Before that, it had operated
wder the Cherokee County
Board of Education.
"We'll now handle our own
affairs," McSwain said. "And
this will make us eligible for
federal funds we were not
eligible for before."
He said under the act
passed by the legislature, there
will be 12 trustees, where there
had been eight before. They will
be named by the governor, who
will appoint four, and the county
commissioners and the board of
education, who wil name four
apiece. H.A. Mattox is presently
chairman of the Tri-Tech
trustees.
Presbyterian Anniversary
The Murphy Presbyterian
Church celebrated its 75th
Anniversary with 140 people
attending the celebration.
TheRev. Robert A. Potter, a
former pastor of the church
preached the sermon "God's
CXvn People" at the 11 o'clock
service.
Dr. Hoyt Evans, executive
secretary of the Asheville
Presbytery, returned thanks for
the noon meal held in the
Westminster Building.
The afternoon program
NATIONAL
which began at 1:30 was
conducted by Mrs. Marcella
Shiith. "Uncle Peck" Hyatt
reminisced of the days when his
grandfather, J.D. Abbott, was
building the church sanctuary.
Hyatt, then a young lad of 13
had a rope hitched around his
middle and with the help of a
block and tackle on the roof,
?played like a horse" as he
pulled all the shingles up on the
roof.
Among the many friends
<nd guests attending were the
Rev. Robert A. Radamaucher,
pastor of the St. Williams
Catholic Church and several
nuns from the Providence
Hospital. Many members,
former members and friends
renewed old friendships and
rtvired together in one of the
must exciting and meaningful
(tiys in the life of the church.
Cattle Riders
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two young cmcxens, lost in a sea 01 caiue, iook
refuge on the back of a Black Angus steer on
Monday at the livestock barn in Bealtown. More
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the fourth annual Upper Hiawassee Feeder Calf
Sale. (Staff Photo)
UF Officers
Named, Drive
Starts Soon
The Cherokee County
United Fund, Inc.elected
officers for another year in its
<nnual meeting last week.
H.L. McKeever was re
elected as president and
;?inounced that he will appoint
the 1971-72 Campaign Fund
raising Chairman in the next
few days, as well as chairmen of
regular campaign divisions.
McKeever, a Murphy
attorney, has guided the
Cherokee County United Fund
successfully for the past several
years, including a campaign
two years ago which exceeded
the goal and won the local drive
a trophy for the best United
Fund that year in North
Carolina.
This year's fund - raising
campaign will begin about Oct.
18, McKeever said, with a goal
of about $35,000.
The annual meeting was
held on Thursday afternoon of
last week at the American
Thread Company offices in
Marble. Officers of the non
profit United Fund attended, as
dd its directors and invited
guests.
Ray Pullium, who was
elected as a vice president, was
the only new face on the slate
ofofficers. Horace Cannon was
re-elected as the other vice
president andTom Gentry was
returned to his post as secretary
and John Jordan was re-elected
jb treasurer.
New directors elected were
Earl Johnston, Tom Gentry,
Arthur Hays Jr., Alline Burch,
TV Burnette, Robert Heaton and
William Coe.
The United Fund budget for
1972 was approved at the
meeting, the agencies as
follows:
Boy Scouts, $3,500; Girl
Scouts, $3,000; National Cystic
Fibrosis, $300; Murphy
Combined Recreation, $2,500;
lions Gub White Cane,
$600; Murphy Christmas Cheer,
$800; State of Franklin Health
Council, $1,000; Mental Health
Center, $500; Murphy Kiddie
Park, $840.
Andrews Rescue Squad
$2,500; Andrews Youth
Recreation $800; Andrews
White Cane $350; Andrews
(hristmas Cheer $350; Andrews
Midget & Mite Football $400;
Murphy Day Care Center $500;
Oierokee County Rescue Squad
$2,000; Cherokee County 4-H
Gubs $1,000 Carolina
Sweethearts $700; Cherokee
County Community
Development Council $600;
Andrews little league $600;
American Red Cross $4,000;
Mtrphy High School Band $750;
Cirrlimts United (12 state
iii;iritlcs $2,117.78.
800 Cattle Are Sold;
Prices 'Tickle' Farmers
The fourth annual Upper
Hiawassee Feeder Calf Sale
was held in Murphy on Monday,
with more than 800 bawling beef
cattle brought in for sale by
farmers of Clay, Cherokee and
Graham in North Carolina and
Union, Towns and Fannin
counties in Georgia.
The Murphy Livestock
Auction Co. yard in Bealtown
was bumper-to-bumper with
cattle trucks all day Monday as
the animals were unloaded and
graded.
And more than 1100,000
changed hands that night as
buyers for large out-of-state
cattle companies purchase the
cattle. A few area feedlot
operators bought calves but
the bulk of cattle was
purchased by firms from Ohio,
Mississippi and Georgia.
The steers and heifers had
to weigh a minimum of 300
pounds apiece and animals up
to a year old were accepted for
sale. They were grouped
together according to grade and
weight and sold in lots.
Northwestern Branch
Announced For Andrews
William T. Henson, Vice President of The
Northwestern Bank in Bryson City, announced last
week that Northwestern will open branches in
Andrews and Robbinsville, N.C.
Henson stated that approval had been received
from the State Banking Commission in Raleigh for
these branches. The only remaining action necessary
to initiate the operation is the review by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Commission. Henson went on
to say that these branches will be in operation within
a few days following favorable FDIC review.
Henson explained that this is part of the
continuing expansion program of Northwestern in
this area. Northwestern feels that they can contribute
to the needs of the people in the Southwestern North
Carolina area by providing them with a choice in the
true spirit of competitive operation.
No details concerning location and personnel
have yet been officially disclosed.
County farm agents said
farmers were "tickled to death
with the prices" paid by the
buyers, noting that they were
generally higher than prices
prevailing on the regular
livestock auction markets.
Steers graded good and
choice weighing from 300 to 350
pounds brought prices ranging
from $38.50 to $40 per
hundredweight; those
weighting from 350 to 400
brought $37.25 to $38.00; from
400 to 450, $36.75 to $38.10; from
450 to 500, $36.80 to $37.25; from
500 to 550, $36 to $36.50; from 550
up. $32.25 to $34.60.
Steers in the medium grade
brought slightly lower prices,
ranging from $ 31 per
hundredweight for animals
weighing over 550 to $41 per
hundred for those in the 300 to
350 pound class.
The above prices were paid
for the Angus, Shorthorn,
Hereford, and various crosses.
The Charolais steers, 32 in all,
ranged from 300 to 600 pounds in
weight and were sold for prices
ranging from $33.50 to $39.75 per
hundred.
The heifers in good and
choice grades ranged from 300
to 600 pounds and prices ranged
bom $29 per hundred for the
older, heavier animals to $33
per hundred for the 300
pounders. In the medium grade,
the prices were somewhat
lower.
There were 17 Charolais
heifers, weighing from 350 to 550
pounds. They brought from $20
to $32 per hundredweight.
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FRONT ROW
ROBERT SHAUN HAMPTON
?Mr.BMrs. Robert H. Hampton
ANDREA DAWN PIPES
?Mrv Robert T. Hunsucker
PATRICIA OENISE BETT1S
?Mr.6Mm. joe'E. Bettis
TAMARA LYNN BARTON
?Mm. Mary Francet Huehei
STEVE DOUGLAS LANEY
?Mr.BMr*. Scott Laney
BACK ROW
JEFFREY PAUL STILES
-Mr.lMra. Arnold J. StUea
MICHAEL SHANE STILES
?Mi.SMm. Harry Lee Stile*
PHILLIP EMORY SHIELDS
-Mr.BMn. Randal Shield*
JOHN GARRISON GRIFFIN
?Mm. Beulah Smith Griffin
FREDRICK JAMES SPRUNG
?Mr.a.Mm. jamei R. S prune
GREGORY LEE BRUGH
?Mr.*Mm jama* H. Brueh
JEFFREY DONALD HUGHES
?Mr.kMri Jam** Don Hughe*
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